J oS SA CONGON SA Ae Vb GFZ (HO ASC 7 ra IMAGE Sere aS \% eS ACK n 4 M ACG : 5 (A | aol DS = ‘t s G j \ YH CG : S) A) 0 YD —_— <5 Ss Scie nae es Ae we = aR fi AAI SS SSS SSS PARIS GRY) ZG wh == Lg AA es GRAND KAIIDS, \PRIL — é a NO. GO4 cecil et ci, i tt aah ner toh sa. cc (+e “MED. BY. A; A.W..DODGE.- == 3 - 73 South Division Street, GR. AND RAPIDS, MICH./§ = FHESBL ————e | For Sale by all Jobbers of Groceries, Hardware and Woodenware. MARTIN L. SWEET, Proprietor. re AD Sa = rOeHer x; ECIFY DAISY BRAN pu IE BEST A SPECIALTY Wins cash trade and new customers. =NRY D. and FRANK H. IRISH, PV’grs. ae Ou Pla HENRY D. and FRANK H. IRISH, [71 grs Kade: SLO Evie CP ZA ur Steam heat in every rvom, Electric tire alarms throughout the house, Other) - ee LLEVLVUL He ee 7 ee | S: t¢ and enables improvements and decorations will soon make it the best hotel in Michigan. TI rT ft} ca 11] vil it r ol 8 vertising @ ample in wn = es | 1 } ad UY ; Le ; Teahche tag debts Fonts Malas h's Saves worry and loss of sleep. ATTAF TS : [PEN SPECIALTIES, IF NOT SATISFACTORY, YOUR MONEY BACK For THE Bo!ILteR AND ENGINE. ARE THE ae Favorites ' om 000 Pexrertay Artomatic Insectors in use ing pe fe t satisfaction | er ail conditions. Our Jet Pumps, Water Gages aaa) Cups Unequalied. | Sexoron PENBERTHY INJECTOR CO. detroit Absolute ; THE ACKNOWLEDGED LEADER ! T ' : SOLD ONLY 8 WHOLESALE GROCERS ea! : tree SPICE 60. > GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Grand Rapids The old war caying “s0N TO THE FRONT,” is also true of MeGraw & Company's Rubber Business We are at war with old methods of mixing rubbers and shves. Concentration wins and we have become authority on al] mat- ters relating to Rubbers. We sell only best ENIZS Our prices and terms are the best and our stock, to select from, the largest in the country. The boom is just starting I ] We guarantee an ADVANCE in Rubbers before the warm weather is over, so buy now at old prices and MA KE MONEY. We will accept your spring order now, ship the goods IMMEDIATELY, take off 20 per cent. on Bos- pry l I } at { tons, 20 and 12 on Bay States and give you until December Ist to pay for them, OVE R 7 MONTHS. Write us for particulars on Fall Business. See our list of Rubber Salesmen and their addresses on poe page of this journal. A. C. McGRAW & CoO., Exclusive Rubber Department, Detroit MONARCH BICYCLES FIVE MODELS Weight 18 to 25 pounds De twecis the Best that Money Can Produce Lith t STRONG Sr enboy HANDSOME Prices $85 to $100 - i . Send for Catalogue MONARCH CYCLE COMPANY AST ne Bate OPE, tata and tained 5 CHICA GO. Grand Rapids, Mich., Agents, ADAMS & HART, 12 West Bridge St. Detroit Branch, GEO. HILSENDEGEN, Proprietor, 310 Woodward Avenue Your Income Tax On an annual income of $20,000 will be just $400. While you probably have no desire to increase your PASTE THIS IN — eepealion TAX, it is equally probable that you are willing to in- KEEP IT IN YOUR EYE. crease your INCOME, and we want to tell you how to do Why? « is i ns noe is it. Buy the HIGHEST GRADES OF FLUUR, and thus get out of the rut of competition with the common grades. This will insure you a good, healthy profit. Voigt, a & Co. . Pane 8 y eg Ceci yf Wholesale Dry Goods, even where there are price cutters. ul Grand Rapids. “Sunlight,”’’ ‘Michigan,’’ “Daisy” and “Purity”’’ Brands of Flour are unequalled for ° Whiteness, Purity and Spring & Company, Loan IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN We make other grades that are unexcelled for the price. Write us for Prices and Terms. Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Notions, Woolen ae THE WALSH-De ROO MILLING CO hams, Prints and Domestic Cottons. HOLLAND, MICH We invite the Attention of the Trade to our »ymplete and Well Assorted PERKINS & HESS, Stock at Lowest Market Prices. DEALERS IN H | Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, Sprin g & Company js Nos. 122 and 124 Louis Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. z ee a Ss Donen cdenanilil Renate ee a { DY, iL} oO =f NS cK) a nd Me 3 7 mae Ys e ‘cil ANG AY, Ors SMAN GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1895. NO. 604 THE NIGHIGAN TRUST G0, 6. Makes a Specialty of acting,as Executor of Wills, Administrator of Estates, Guardian of [linors and In- competent Persons, Trustee or Agent in the managemeut 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 contain- ing valuable in- formation wil] be sent free by mail, L. V. Moulton, Patent Att’y, Grand Rapids, Mich. “INVENTIVE GENIUS - 4 5AND7 PEARL STREET. COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO. 65 MIONROE ST. Reports on individuals for the retail trade,house renters and professional men. Also local agents for the Furniture Commercial Agency Co.’s‘*Red Book.” Collections handled for members Telephones 166 a:d 1030 Volley City Electro Plating Works, PLATERS IN NICKEL, SILVER, GOLD, COPPER, BRASS and BRONZE. Retinishers of Lamps, Gas Fixtures, Chande- liers, ete. A. W. ANDERSON, Proprietor. Pearl and Front Sts., Grand Rapids. THE FIRE r INS. co. ®ROMPT. CONSERVATIVE, SAra J. W CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBAIN. Sec. Has a FIELD of its own. THAT'S WHY ee Advertisers get RESULTS. THE TRADESMAN THE BACK OFFICE. Written for THE TRADESMAN. There isa tract of country in Venezuela which Great Britain wants and she has made up her mind to take it. Venezuela, although not one of the strongest coun- tries, objects and will fight for her own. When Great Britain declares, as she does now, that she intends to maintain her claim to that part of the Southern repub- lie which she has her hands on, it is in- cumbent upon the United States to re- mind the English government that all such questions are to allintents and pur- poses settled. Years ago, James Monroe, in speaking of the South American re- publics, said: With the governments who have de- clared their independence, and main- tained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration, and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling, in any other manner, their destiny by any Euro- pean power, in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly dis- position towards the United States. Earlier in this trouble the United States offered her good offices to settle whatever misunderstanding exists be- tween the nations; but the reply which England has made is polite but firm in the determination to carry out the idea of possession, with a suggestion that the United States need not feel called upon to interest herself in the matter. The time seems to have come for the settling, once and forever, let us hope, of the principles at the foundation of the Mon- roe doctrine. It is a doctrine which England has never acknowledged and one which this Government cannot afford to give up. Itis to be hoped that wis- dom will preside now if ever at the con- cil board of the nation and that sober second thought will prevail on the part of those most interested in the three countries most concerned. * * + The commercial world is still vexed with the spirit of unrest. Europe is un- easy and America remains unsettled. Dissatisfaction and fault-finding are rife. Those of the same household disagree and the nations of the earth are not look- ing upon one another with too friendly eyes. Everywhere there is a feeling of distrust, and this will continue until cap- ital and labor, employer and employe, dealer and customer, know when they get a@ dollar exactly what that dollar is worth. This condition of things is noth- ing new. So far back as the time of one of the English Richards—the First— there was the same trouble abroad. Money had no fixed value, and what in- creased the evil was the fact that then, as now, no one knew what the coin he held was worth. Some Germans—East- erlings, they were called—who had found their way into England, brought with them money of fixed value, which soon became known and acknowledged as the standard of purity, and, on that account, was called ‘‘sterling,’”’ a word fashioned by dropping the first two letters from Easterling, the men who brought it to England from the East; and the pound sterling of to-day, if fixed in value as it should be, would bring about the same prosperity which attended it in the earlier time. With the value of the dol- lar fixed, the other questions would soon he settled. Moral worth would be quick to respond and its own pure standard would be crowned again by its old-time followers, who are too aften led astray. Honesty is what the world needs most and when that idea becomes again firmly fixed in men’s minds, as it will be, it will not take long for it to gladden their lives—a piece of condensed wisdom which the Back Office offers without money and without price. ~~ = * There is good authority for saying that “there is no room for the professional ‘Cheap John’ in the ranks of the whole- sale grocers.’’ Is there any room in the retail ranks for the same individual? If in the one case his room is better than his company, can anything better be ex- pected of him in the little shop round the corner? It doesn’t seem to me to be especially desirable to have his wagon, bright with flags and banners, at my door, proclaiming the fact that his but- ter is 8 or 10 cents lower than the mar- ket price. I don’t want his half-price potatoes, nor his one-third off cheese: and I’m sure I can get along without his Sugar at thirty pounds for $1. I am not averse to a good bagain and [ do not in- sist on spending $2 where $1 will an- swer; but there is such a thing as buy- ing things too cheap and they are very liable to leave a bad taste in the mouth. As a general thing, a fair article calls for a fair price, and, when there is ex- cess in either direction, there is a good reason to be found for it somewhere. If the market price of eggs is a shilling a dozen, and they are offered to me for 10 cents, is it any wonder that 1 look at them suspiciously and listen attentively as I shake them one by one; and when my dealer thinks so much of me as to charge half-price for butter, is it strange that the butter should be found as un- marketable as the friendship? I have in my mind one or two instances which would illustrate my meaning, but I think it will be safe to say without giving them, that in the rank and file of the re- tail grocer army, there is no room for a single Cheap John. The fact is, for there is no need of making a long story of a short one, there is no room for a Cheap John anywhere. People are find- ing out this fact for themselves more and more; and never more rapidly than during the last year anda half. On the principle that half a loaf is better than no bread, and with the hope that relief will come before the half loaf be gone, they have bought the stuff which Cheap John has had to sell, and as often re- gretted it. The price was low for first- class goods, but excessive when com- pared with the stuff bought. Food, shelter, clothing—it makes no difference what it is, the Cheap John price will be found to be the Cheap John article; and the real dealer—wherever he may be— will be found ready to rise and declare with the grocer, wholesale and retail. that in his ranks there is noroom for the professional Cheap John. RIcwARD MALcom STRONG. ae i —o-—-

Chas. H. Libby informs THe Trapzs- MAN that the firm of Libby & Triel, to which reference was made last week, has not been in existence for some time and that from now on he proposes to devote his entire attention to the produce house of Alden & Libby. wus nihehe vi rsd eaertven i lee + Ms 0 aA oe: ea tena deg ha eH ae s) ~ THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. — Treading on Dangerous Ground. The basis of all business transactions is profit. Traffic which does not involve the element of profit is not business—it is contention, which precludes prosper- ity, induces strife and leads to general demoralization and bankruptcy. I am led to make this observation and the remarks which follow it by noting the disposition of a number of Grand Rapids grocers to advertise so-called leaders in the Evening Press each Fri- day. I do not wish to be understood as discouraging advertising, for I owe what little success I have achieved to the magical influence of printer’s ink; but I feel called upon to utter a warning to my friends of the trade to beware of treading on dangerous ground and not get too near the precipice of price cut- ting. Itisamistaken idea that a sub- stantial business can be built up by a policy of cutting prices. Crawford Bros. tried it twenty years ago—where are they now? Later on Arthur Meigs and Ira Hatch undertook to build up business structures in the same way—it is enough to say that neither of them are in trade at the present time. Dozens of other in- stances could be cited to prove the state- ment that the man who attempts to se- cure a line of customers by cutting prices too frequently ends kis career in the poor house or the insane asylum. Such being the case, I hope none of my friends in the grocery trade harbor the delusion that they can gain any sub- stantial advantage by quoting prices on staple goods below cost. As proof of this statement I have only to refer to the afternoon papers of Detroit last Friday, each of which devoted an entire page to the announcements of retail grocers. On the single item of granulated sugar | find the following diversity in price: H. Atifeltis & Son—4 cents per pound P. McCue & Co.—28 pounds for $1. Palace Grocery—25 pounds for $1. Walch’s Grocery—14 pounds for 50 cents. Lang & Hamlin—30 pounds for #1. Keel’s Grocery—27 pounds for $1. Coon & Walker—15 pounds for 50 cents. R. Downie & Sons—28 pounds for #1 This is, indeed, a sorry showing, as it indicates the reckless manner in which staple articles are sold where price cut ting prevails. In no case is the price quoted above cost and I regret to say that this reprehensible practice is not confined to sugar, but prevails in the sale of dozens of other articles common to the grocery business. The result is that the grocery business of Detroit is in a deplorable condition, many of the smaller traders, even in the suburbs, be- ing imbued with the idea that they must follow the example set by the larger dealers, in consequence of which general demoralization prevails in all parts of the city. The dealer who imagines he can gain any permanent advantage by slashing prices is deceiving himself. It seldom happens that a merchant who makes a cut is not met promptly by a rival, and, in many cases, the rival goes him one better. The inevitable result is that values are unsettled, the consumer is Jed to believe that he pays exorbitant prices when the cutting mania does not prevail, and no one has gained any in- creased trade or good will; on the con- trary. ill willin the trade and distrust among customers is nourished and main- tained. In my opinion a desirable class of customers is not attracted by cutting, a profitable patronage being based largely on mutual confidence existing be- tween dealer and customer, and any in- I nae ' ident which tends to disturb that con- | fectively—and among the mediums he fidence is a permanent injury to both. I believe every retail dealer should ad- vertise—continucusly, judiciously, ef- should use is the daily papers. Season- able goods, special drives, desirable lo- cation, well arranged store, fresh stock, attentive clerks, prompt delivery—all these are features which the merchant can dwell upon with profit to himself and with pleasure to his customers. There is no store worthy the name which cannot present some attraction in these lines, and patronage attracted by such means is much more likely to be perma- nent than the temporary trading secured by the announcement of cut prices on staple articles. If 1 were a retail dealer I would have some sort of an announce- ment in the daily papers as often as once a week, but | would as soon think of cut- ting off my right hand as to quote some article common to the grocery trade at a price below cost or so close to cost as to afford no margin, for by so doing 1 would gain no permanent advantage, but woula create ill feeling and strife among my immediate competitors and inflict a last- ing injury on the trade of the city as a whole. The Retail Grocers’ Association is putting forth its best endeavors to strengthen the bond of confidence exist- ing between competing grocers and be- tween grocers and their customers and 1 violate no confidence in asserting that but for the influence of this organization Grand Rapids would to-day be a pande- monium of price cutting and demoraliza- tion. To those dealers who are inclined to imitate the policy of Ira Hatch, i wish to say: Consider carefully the cost and decide whether, after all, it pays to have the reputation of being a cutter. B. S. Harris and Phil. Graham have both ac- quired comfortable competencies; yet no one ever heard of their inaugurating a campaign of price cutting. E. J. Her- rick did business for years within a few feet of lra Hatch and is in business yet. Where is Ira Hatch? A historical re- view of the grocery trade of Grand Rap- ids, or Detroit, or any other city, will disclose the fact that the men who have conducted business on the plan of the Ishmaelite have long been forgotten in the ignomi: ious ending of tbeir careers. E. A. SToweE. —_——_—____—» -@- — The largest gas engine in the world is said to be that used for driving flour mills, at Piantin, France. The engine is capable of developing 420-horse power. _ >.> Be wise and buy the Signal Five. Ml will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Thursday and Friday, April 25 and 26, with a full line of samples in ready- made ciothing in Men’s, Youths’, Boys’ and Childrens’. Fourteen years with Michael Kolb & Son, Clothing Manufacturers, Rochester, N. Y. i k. G. DUNTON & 60. Will buy all kinds of Lumber—'! Green or Dry. Office and Yards, 7th St.and C. & W. M. R. R. Grand Rapids, Mich. J. Brechting ARCHITECT, 79 Wonderly Bldg. (yicwint comespond Spring Fishing IS NOW IN FULL BLAST AND ° 6 , ”) MAIL ALL ORDERS TO 106 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, and they will receive prompt attention. HEADQUARTERS FOR POULTRY & BROOK TROUT ———IN SEASON — F. J. Dettenthaler, Monroe St., Grand Rapids Sutton & Murphy Co., —_——— MANUFACTURER OF ——— : ONIA ST., Grand Rapids Telephone 738. Office Fixtures, Store Fixtures, etc. GRAND RAPIDS MANUFACTURER OF B I , [ J S i { ] cs GRAND RAPIDS, MICH Our Goods are sold by all Michigan" Jobbing Houses. WANTED. Beans, Potatoes, Onions. If you bave 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. 6 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.. GRAN) RAPIDS, MICH. factory, 20 N. Office Telephone 1055. i asiemeeriienteeenioamessieneaiemenneintenetiaiera teagan at aieiiiat aie oe Storage and S EC U RI TY Transfer Co. Warehouse, 257--259 Ottawa St Main Of*ce, 75 Pearl St. Moving, Packing, Dry Storage. | Expert Packers and Careful, CompetentMovers of Household Furniture. Estiaates Cheerfully Given. Business Strictly Confidential. Baggage Wagon atall hours. F.S. ELSTON, Mer. Barn Telephone 1059. I ' = Ss enero -——- THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. A “Union” Picnic. Deacon in Minneapolis Furniture News. I never was cut out to belong to a un- ion. I mean a union which makes a scale of wages which you must get or strike, and above which you must not go or get struck. I suppose it is the real unselfish thing for the man with two talents to divide with the man who has but one, and he again with the man who has none, and all three with the man who had one and threw it away. I say 1 Suppose it is ideal unselfishness for the three to unite with the fourth and fetch all to a living level of say one-half or three-fourths of a talent. But, all the same, it is grievously tough on the man with two talents. I would not hurriedly condemn the two-talent man if he should grip his talents hard and think long be- fore entering the union. Whether you believe in these unions depends to a degree on your early train- ing. lhad an experience when I was six years old that has made me abnor- mally shy of such things ever since. It was noon time at the little red briek school house where I obtained my early education, when one of three big girls jumped up on a desk with her mouth full of jelly cake and shouted: ‘Save all your dinners for a pienic.” To this the big girls, and after them the little ones, and then the little boys, agreed—myself, my brother and sister with some reluc- tance. Now, our dinner was plain but it was better than many a banquet I have since sat down to. A four quart pailful for two boys and one girl! Ah, mother knew how to fix up a lunch for a fellow! Great generous slices of white bread with prime butter! And the finest chunks of gingerbread a lad ever put his teeth to! People don’t make that kind any more. The whole bucket un- touched was handed to the big girls fora union picnic. It seemed a week before they got through cutting the various lunches into small blocks, spread around on leaves and chips for plates. Our crowd, being young and not very self-asserting, got pushed to the foot of the table. My mem- ory of that meal is as vivid as though it were eaten yesterday. Two stingy little hunks of salt-rising bread, spread with rancid, sun-struck butter, from the pail of some frowzy farm-wife’s frowzy child —that was all that ever I got out of the picnic. Nota smell of the luscious gin- gerbread did I enjoy! Not a crumb! But the three big girls (who are identic- al, in my mind, with the walking dele- gate of to-day) fed fat on cake and never looked at bread and butter the whole meal through. Think of getting two reading lessons, your ‘‘joggerfy’’? and ‘*spellin’,’? through a whole hot summer afternoon, on those two measly morsels, and walking home a mile, bawling with hunger! That experience got rubbed into me so thoroughly that ever since that day when a man has asked me to share my fortunes with his for the common good, I have said: ‘‘My dear sir, you may have the bread and butter, but where is your gin- gercake? Dig up the gingercake and I’m with you.’’ Ten chances to one he couldn’t deliver the ginger-cake. Prof. Ely, in discussing the communist (which is but an aggravated case of labor unionist), quotes an old English rhyme to this effect: ‘What is a Communist? One who has yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.” I like the idea of giving up some indi- vidual rights for the common good. It creates a sentiment of unselfishness, which sentiment is the only thing that will ever make the world better. What I object to is the giving up of every indi- viduality with which the Creator endowed me, because the average man in the union hasn’t that individuality. TB lise sca NERO RGRE A new naptha well, gushing about 15,- 000 tons a day, has been struck near Baku. The flow cannot be controlled and is now running into the Caspian Sea. Vessels in those waters will have to be careful about throwing fire over- board. ere ic eneeeeetaeieeermont Everyone smokes the Signal 5. Rindge, Kalmbach & Co. 12, 14 and 16 m PEARL STREET. RUBBERS FALL PRICES ON RUBBERS, 20 per cent. ON BOSTON, 20 and 12 per cent. on BAY STATE, FREIGHT PREPAID. The above discount allowed on all orders placed and filled before October ist. PRICES FROM OCT. tst,’95,TO MAR. 31st, ’96, both inclusive: BOSTON, BAY STATE, 15 and 12 per cent. 15 per cent., : : : We want your business and will tuke good ‘e) . This Ciga I 1S made care of you. We Carry as large a stock as any- one, and keep all the novelties, such as PICCA- by the best CUBAN lonty ana xeepie rors in Men’s and Women’s. WORKMEN from the Finest and Highest Our salesmen will eall on you in due time. Please reserve your orders for them. Prices and terms guaranteed as good as offered by any firm selling Boston Rubber Shoe Co.'s goods. CYCLE STEP LADDER. HIRTH, KRAUSE & 6O., MICHIGAN STATE AGENTS, for Catalogue. Grade HAVANA TO BACCO, always uni- form and reliable in quality. We ask all our trade and all handlers of Fine Cigars to try a few of the Our Founder, 10c and the Mai Fest, 5c We will guarantee the quality. GUNGRESS Is the Finest Havana Cigar in the world Cigars. Both are Special Brands, made for us. GRAND RAPIDS Send a sample order to any of the following wholesale houses: HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. BALL-BARNHART-PUTMAN CO. OLNEY & JUDSON GROCER CO. LEMON & WHELER CO. MUSSELMAN GROCER CO. WORDEN GROCER CO. I. Ml. CLARK GROCERY CO. PUTNAM CANDY CO. 4 “PUSHES ITSELF ae ad Jae “= = — Lets v HIN Cie Q ER eA mee Uy NS “at AGF SWIG The Big Two! LEU Sheep Dip. Hen Dip. DISINFECTANT == ANTISEPTIC NOT POISONOUS. ANTISEPTIC WALL GLEANER ‘Cleans Wallis Clean.’’ A. E BROOKS & CO. Ask their salesmen to show ONE-THIRD CLEAN PROFIT. you samples. See quotations in Grocery Price Current. THE A. H. ZENNER GO., Honest Goods—Well Advertised—Popular Demand. Do Not Disappoint Your Trade—Keep Both in Stock. Write for particulars and prices. 98 SHELBY STREET Detroit, Mich. Cad iene AROUND THE STATE. MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. Ola—Kinney & Scott succeed C. Kin- | ney in general trade. Holly—J. L. Forrester sueceeds Geo. Laverty in the grocery business. Flushing—Dillon & Passmore succeed Perry Bros. & Co. in general trade. Portland—W. H. Earle succeeds Mec- Roberts Bros. in the meat business. Alpena—John B. Elie is succeeded by C. Asselin & Co. in the grocery business. North Lansing—A. D. Hensel succeeds Stahl & Hensel in the hardware busi- ness. Oak Hill—Borutki & Rodk succeed John Borutki in the boot and shoe busi- ness. Bay City—Chas. D. Rahl succeeds T. W. Davidson in the drug and lumber business. St. Louis—Weeks & Farrough succeed Weeks & Peake in the boot and shoe business. Imlay City—Frank Rothsburg sueceeds EK. E. Palmer in the sewing machine and notion business. Detroit—Chas. L. Carmon has _ pur- chased the grocery and meat business of E. F. Jenks & Son. Herrington—Sevey & Herrington, gen- eral dealers, have dissolved, P. O. Her- ringten succeeding. Reed City—Philo M. Lonsbury suc- ceeds Pierce & Lonsburyin the drug, paint and oil business. Gladstone—Buchanan & Hayes, meat dealers, have dissolved, W. Buchanan continuing the business. St. Louis—Humphrey & Doolittle sue- ceed F. N. Humphrey in the hardware and implement business. Iron Mountain—Alfred Wohl is suec- ceeded by Hallberg & Osterberg in the bakery and grocery business. Bloomer Center—A. Conklin has sold his general stock to Wm. Dunn and will make his home at Butternut in the fu- ture. Muskegon—sS. A. Soderberg has leased the store at5 W. Western avenue for a year and opened the Columbia shoe store. Tustin—H. Rainey has sold his boot and shoe stock to J. H. George. Mr. Rainey retires from trade on account of failing health. Hudson—Will G. Knopf has purchased the shoe stock of F. H. Brown and moved it to the store building formerly occu- pied by E. J. Southworth. Cheshire—Frank Merritield, of Bloom- ingdale, announces his intention of erecting a store building here, in which he will engage in general trade. Albion—G. W. Ragers and D. B. Al- ger have embarked in the agricultural implement and machinery business un- der the style of Rogers & Alger. St. Charles—b. J. Downing has pur- chased the interest of J. H. Hammill in the grocery firm of S. Willis & Co. The new firm will be baie as Willis & Downing. Carson City—A. C. Oyler has sold the remainder of his general stock to W. E. Jones, who has moved it back into the store at Vickeryville and will do busi- bess there. _THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. cupied by the former firm of Thos. ais | & Co., Limited. | Sunfield—Clarence L. Staley has ar- | ranged to purchase a half interest in the ;general stock of W. F. Bricker, May 1 | after which the firm name will be Staley | & Bricker. Port Sanilac—C. M. Oldfield, a pioneer merchant of Sanilac county, has retired, and his general merchandise business will be taken care of by his sons, Harry and William. Allegan—H. M. Dunning has pur- chased the A. E. Calkins flour and feed business and moved his former stock to the Calkins block, where he will com- bine the two. New Lothrop—James Zeigler has pur- chased the interest of Louis Weinzierl in the grocery firm of Zeigler & Weinzierl and will continue the business at the same location. Eaton Rapids—Fred Walton has pur- chased the grocery and crockery stock formerly owned by J. F. Harris & Co. and will continue the business at the same location. Nashville—W. E. Buel has sold his stock of drugs, books and wall paper to J. C. Furniss, who for several years past has occupied the position of prescription clerk in the store. Caledonia — Cornelius Crawford has sold his drug stock to Dr. W. H. An- drews, of Fennville, and Geo. J. Menold, of Luther, who will continue the busi- ness under the style of Andrews & Men- old. Chesaning—Grant Johnson has pur- chased the interest of F. M. Dodge in the meat business of Dudge & Barclay. The new firm will be known as Barclay & Johnson. Stanton—S. I. Briggs, of Cedar Springs, has purchased the C. L. Grace hardware stock, has rented the corner store of the Corey block, lately occupied by T. S. Earle’s grocery, and will open his store there. ithaca—A. G. Jones will open a new grocery store here about May 1. Mr. Jones is a brother-in-law of O. P. De- Witt, the St. Johns grocer, with whom he bas been identified as clerk for the past nine years. Manistee—H. J. Kerby, who has been connected with the Buckley & Douglas Lumber Co. in the capacity of clerk, has severed his connection with that house for the purpose of embarking in the produce and commission business with G. Y. Laugblin. Traverse City—The grocery of Buck & Kyselka has been dissolved by the re- tirement of C. K. Buck, who will devote his entire attention to the management of the Acme Potato Planter Co. The grocery business will be continued at the old stand by Prokup Kyselka. Traverse City—The grocery store and meat market, until recently conducted by Frank M. Daniels, has been attached by creditors on claims as follows: Olney & Judson Grocer Co., $1,095; Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co., $431.35; C. E. Corn- well, $240.11: First National Bank, $255 and $82.20; E. B. Miller & Cu., Chicago, $159.58. Mr. Daniels has left town and report has it that he eloped with a woman not his wife. He was in excel- Northport—Thos. Copp and Dennis Hoxie have formed a copartnership un- | der the style of Copp & Hoxie, and will | open a general store here as soon as nay- | igation opens. The firm has purchased | the store building, including fixtures, oc- | lent credit up to a few months ago, when he is alleged to have become infatuated with the woman in question. Traverse City (Herald)—After forty- five years of partnership the old firm of Hannah, Lay & Co. has been dissolved, ; and the name which has been a familiar word in thousands of Michigan homes will be heard no more. At a meeting held here Tuesday anew company known as tue Hannah & Lay Co. took its place. For several years the business has been tending in this direction, the first change being to the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co. Then the banking business was in- corporated under the name of the Trav- erse City State Bank, and now the flour- ing mill, Park Place Hotel, docks, build- ings, real estate, ete., still remaining have been turned over to a new corpora- tion, with a capital stock of $200,000. The stockholders are Perry Hannah, A. T. Lay, Jas. Morgan, Wm. Morgan, J. T. Hannah and S. Garland. ‘The board of directors includes all except Wm. Mor- gan. The new officers are Perry Han- nah, President and General Manager; A. T. Lay, Vice-President; S. Garland, Secretary; J. T. Hannah, Treasurer. While it is with a pang of regret that the people of this region will see the old name go, still it is a matter of congratu- lation that all the old members, who have done so much to make Traverse City —and,in fact, the entire region—what it is, will remain in the new corporation. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Detroit—The Eagle Grease Co., Lim- ited, succeeds the American Grease Co. New Lothrop—French & Casler, of Flushing, have rented the grist mill here and taken possession. Evart—Cox Bros. have built a small sawmill near this place with a capacity of 10,000 feet of hardwood daily. They have about 750,000 feet of logs on hand. Marquette—The Dead River Mill Co. is putting its men into the woods, and operators generally are watching care- fully for the first signs of a break on the rivers. Detroit—Berry Bros., of this city, manufacturers of varnish, have filed a claim against the United States Govern- ment at Washington, claiming $28,000 rebate on alcohol used in the manufac- ture of their goods. Plainwell—H. F. Woodhams has sold his interest in the Plainwell Lumber Co. to his three partners. The business will be continued by R. and Chas. A. Granger and Chas. A. Bush, under the style of R. Granger & Co. Standish—James Norn has decided to erect a new sawmill on the site of the one recently burned at Standish. The mill will be 40x106 feet, with an engine and boiler house 48x52 feet. Mr. Norn expects to have the mill ready to begin sawing in 60 days. He has logs enough cut to stock the mill nine months. Fife Lake—Emmet Hagadorn thought he had discovered a bonanza in making broom handles, but has about concluded that plain every day lumber is good enough for him. He said that it was supposed that one could get 1,500 handles out of a thousand feet of maple, | which brought $12 a thousand, but when the number was reduced to 1,000 he thought making lumber was an improve- ment on it. Prompt Adjustment of Insurance. The building which has been occupied by the Standard Folding Bed Company on the west bank of Grand River was completely gutted by fire last Sunday morning, but, happily, was insured in the Grand Rapids Fire Insurance Com- pany and the loss was adjusted the next day. It pays to patronize the home com- pany. A Chicago judge has ruled that the man is the head of the family. He is evidently a fossil, or has had little expe- rience in families. __ > <-—— Ask J. P. Visner for Gillies & Co.’s special inducements on early imported teas. PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—31 @ $1.25 per bu., according to quali- ty. The demand is light and the supply is am- ple. Beans—The market is without quotable change, previous quotations being well main tained, although actual transactions are few in number and inferior in amount. Large hand lers predict still higher prices, but do not look for any further advance until potatoes begin to move upward, as they seem bound to do the lat- ter part of the month. Butiter—The market is steady, but there is not much anxiety displayed by buyers. Still, there is a fairly good trade, which enables sellers to keep pretty well cleaned up. without shading prices any. It is expected, however, that re- ceipts will soon begin to increase and this gives the market rather an easy tone, as dealers wish to keep closely sold out, a fact that buyers are disposed to take advantage of. Beets—Dry, 25c¢ per bu. Cabbage—35@50c per doz. Celery—So poor in quality as to be scarcely eatable. Cranberries—83 {3.50 per crate. Eggs—The market is a little weaker thana week ago, although in some cases 1ic is real- ized. More sales are reported at 1@c than at I1c, and, unless all indications fail, the price is like ly to go still lower before the end of the mouth. Early Vegetables—Cucumbers, 81.75 per doz. Green Onions, 15¢c per doz. bunches. Pleplant, 4c per lb. Radishes, 30ec per doz. bunches. Spinach, 75c per bu. Lettuce—12!4¢ per Ib. Onions—Dry stock is considerably lower, on account of the supplies brought in by farmers and the advent of green onions. Dealers now quote fair stock at 50c and choice stock at 60@ 65c. Parsnips—25c per bu. Potatoes—Contrary to expectation, there has been no actual advance during the past week,as there seems to be a disposition on the part of large handlers to work along from hand to mouth until the odds and ends in the hands of small dealers are exhausted. When this occurs, the price is bound to §° up from 10@265c per bushel, and it is not at all unlikely that we may see $1 potatoes before the first week in June. Sweet Potatoes—#1.10 per bu. for kiln dried Lilinois Jerseys. In the line of HEATING Steam, Hot Water or Hot Air PLUMBING In all its parts, and Hl No firm in the State has better facilities or rep- utation. Our WOOD MANTEL GRATE, GAS and ELECTRIC FIXTURE DEPARTTIENT Is Eoenennnnt thee FINEST IN THE COUNTRY, Eastor Wes GRAND RAPIDS. Te TRE TET Pha Wa LURNITURE a VICLI PATENTED i Or hee - rw FV AYE UMA AA GRAND RAPIDS, MICH A) alias H a Dg is ee a eS THE MICHIGAN GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Chas. R. Visner has opened a grocery store at 25 West Leonard street. S. H. Sweet has opened a fruit and confectionery store at 53 South Division street. F. E. Frazier has opened a grocery store at Hart. The Ball-Barnhart-Put- man Co. furnished the stock. Sam Lightstone has opened a grocery store at Mecosta. The stock was fur- nished by the Olney & Judson Grocer Co. Wm. J. Barden has opened a grocery store at Howard City. The stock was furnished by the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. The Grand Rapids Knitting Co. is put- ting in sufficient equipment to enable it to turn out sixty dozen suits daily by May 1. Arthur Manley, formerly. of Hamburg, has purchased the grocery stock of L. L. Launiere & Son, at 418 West Bridge street. C. N. Menold, druggist at Fennville, has added a line of groceries. The Ol- ney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished the stock. A. E. McClellan & Son have opened a grocery store at 154 West Fulton street. The Bali-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. Goodspeed Bros., boot and shoe deal- ers at 88 Monroe street, have purchased the shoe stock of Fred H. Williams, at Charlotte. a John Pierce & Co. will shortly open a grocery store at Traverse City. The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. has the order for the stock. ww. Ee. Stewart. has embarked in the grocery business at East Jordan. The stock was furnished by the Ball-Barn- hart-Putman Co. Edwin Plumley has opened a dry goods and grocery store at Walkerville. The groceries were furnished by the Ball- Barnhart-Putman Co. Roseman & McGowan have opened a geocery store at the corner of Lyon and North Union streets. The Olney & Jud- son Grocer Co. furnished the stock. Thos. R. Regis, formerly engaged in trade at Edmore, has opened a grocery store at Harbor Springs. The Ball-Barn- hart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. C. M. Kingsley & Co., whose grocery stock at Belding was destroyed by fire last Monday, resumed business again Friday, having purchased a new stock in the meantime of the Ball-Barnhart-Put- man Co. D. A. Blodgett & Co. have taken pos- session of the general stock and sawmill of F. A. Clary, at Turtle Lake, and will continue the business until the timber acquired in that vicinity can be con- verted into lumber. T. Blink, grocer at 374 West Leonard street, has formed a copartnership with A. P. Kroeze, for the purpose of manu- facturing a coffee powder to be used as an extract, the process of which is known to themselves only. It was expected that C. G. A. Voigt would be able to supplement his initial talk before the Retail Grocers’ Associa- tion at the regular meeting this evening, but that gentleman informs the Secretary that he has not yet heard from Minneap- . olis, and that his salesman who goes to Buffalo will not reach that place until the end of the week, so that he will be unable to fermulate his ideas on the sub- ject before the next regular meeting on the evening of May 7. O. P. Gordon has purchased an inter- est in the hardware stock of W. H. Nog- gle, at Hopkins Station, and the firm name will hereafter be Noggle & Gordon. The new firm has added a line of gro- ceries, furnished by the Olney & Judson Grocer Co. Gustave Noerenberg has purchased an interest in the baking establishment of M. E. Christenson, 252 and 254 Canal street, and the new firm will be known as the Christenson Baking Co. New ma- chinery will be added to the factory and the capacity of the establishment consid- erably increased. C. C. Bunting has purchased the inter- est of Chas. L. Davis in the produce and commission firm of Bunting & Davis and has formed a copartnership with Chas. B. Metzger to continue the business at 20 and 22 Ottawastreet under the style of Bunting & Co. Mr. Metzger will con- tinue his own business at 3 North Ionia street as before. i a ih Gripsack Brigade. Ezra O. Phillips has leased the Sher- man House, at Allegan, and takes pos- session May 1. He will proceed to fit it with new furniture throughont, making other renovations and adding many con- veniences, The Grand Rapids Packing and Pro- vision Co. has engaged two additional salesmen during the past week—O. Mass- bacher, of Sault Ste. Marie, who will cover the trade of the Upper Peninsula, and D. N. White, formerly engaged in the grocery business at Petoskey, who will visit the trade of Grand Rapids and neighboring towns. A Lawton correspondent writes: The large cards which the Paw Paw business men had printed and posted along public highways and in all adjoining towns sometime ago warning traveling men to patronize the Paw Paw hack and ’bus line or they would sell no goods in that place, is causing quite a little indigna- among traveling men who stop at this place with the intention of driving to other towns. An Indiana traveler read the warning the other day in a hotel here and was so much amused thereat that he wrote out his views on the question and attached them to the threatening notice: “This is a large country and rain falls in Maine as at Paw Paw. Possibly many traveling men have lived and died, never knowing that there was such a place as Paw Paw. We of thetraveling men’s fra- ternity wish you well and may the blessed sunshine continue to shed its soft rays upon you. We will not shadow your dear streets with our presence, or tread your lawns to cause palpitation to your honor.” J. J. Frost, Treasurer of the Michigan Knights of the Grip, was in town a couple of days last week. Mr. Frost has discovered a way by whieh the next con- vention can be postponed until June, 1896. The constitution provides that the annual meeting shall be held on the last Wednesday in December, except when that date falls on a holiday, in which case the time of meeting shall be fixed by the Board of Directors. It so happens that this is one of the years when Christmas falls on the last Wednes- day of the last month; and, as there is a growing sentiment in favor of changing the time of holding the conventions from December to June, Mr. Frost suggests that the Board avail itself of this oppor- tunity to announce the postponement of the next annual meeting until the last week in June of next year. The Board will probably not take such action until satisfied that it meets the approval of a large portion of the membership, but the sentiment for or against such a change can easily be ascertained by the circula- tion of a petition or series of petitions among the members. The suggestion is a pertinent one and worthy of consid- eration. Le nS Bank Notes. The Albion State Bank has been incor- porated by Eugene P. Robertson, David A. Garfield and Mary E. Sheldon with a capital stock of $50,000. J. W. Free & Co. (Gobleville) have sold their banking business to the Monroe family of South Haven. The business will be managed by S. B. Monroe, eldest son of Hon. C. J. Monroe. At a recent meeting of the board of di- rectors of the Home Savings Bank, of Detroit, L. C. Sherwood was appointed assistant cashier and Harry J. Fox, book- keeper, was appointed auditor. Mr. Sherwood is a son of T. C. Sherwood, state banking commissioner. He was employed in the Plymouth Savings Bank for nine years, most of the time as cash- ier. The Kent County Savings Bank (Grand Rapids) has inereased its dividend pay- ments from 10 to 16 per cent., payable 4 per cent. quarterly. This is about half the actual net earnings of the institu- tion. So highly is the stock esteemed by local financiers that a block of $2,500 sold last week at 220, the purchasers being Henry Idema, A. G. Hodenpyl and Hon. TT. J. O' Brien. Frank L. Fuller, who opened the Northern Kent Bank of Cedar Springs in 1888 and has conducted it with signal success, opened a second bank at Rock- ford Monday under the style of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank. The Rockford institution will be under the personal charge of Chas. H. Peck, who has acted as cashier of the Cedar Springs bank for the past four years. The field is a good one and Mr. Fuller will proba- bly achieve the same measure of success he has won at Cedar Springs, 9 Saugatuck Commercial: Quite a rip- ple of excitement was caused here the first of the week by a one night engage- ment of Jerry Boynton, the great rail- road promoter. It took Mr. Boynton about fifteen minutes to develop a scheme for extending the C. J. & M. Rail- way from Allegan to this place, and he was ready to go to New York to raise the money at the drop of the hat—and the receipt of a $1,000 cash retainer fee. The people of this community have demonstrated on more than one occasion their willingness to liberally aid in the construction of a railroad, but they can- not be inveigled into espousing a boom with nothing more tangible behind it than the word and wind of Jerry Boyn- ton. A Gus Spreckels is suing his father Klaus, the sugar king, for slander. He} has a good opinion of the value of his character, for he says that itis damaged $2,000,000 worth, though he is only suing for $300 and vindication. 5 Edward Telfer, formerly the Telfer Spice Co., but now a resident of Detroit and a stockholder in the wholesale grocery house of W. J. Gould & Co., was in town several days last week. manager of Wants Column. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first Insert! ion and one cent a word for each subsequent inse No advertisements taken for less than 25 ce Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES, Ror sa LE OR EXCHANGE—GOOD CLEAN stock of groceries. Address No. 754. care Michigan Tradesman. 754 OR SALE—OLD ESTABLISHED GR OCERY business on best business s treet in Grant 1 Rapids. Stock and fixtures wil on e about $3,000. Exceptional opportunity. Long lease of store, if desired. Stock cle an and we 1 Facies : Address No. 152, care Mich. T radesmat Ss ROR SALE— ONLY” DRUG | per store in good railroad t ticulars address Q. A. Hy ne s. De Fer SALE—A FIRST-CLASS, OLD-ESTAB lished meat market in county seat of 4,000. Central Michigan. Cash trade Vv ill sell half interest or w hole. Address G.B.C., care Michi gan Tradesman. 74¢ WOR SALE—THE MONROE SALOON AND / grocery property; best location in Lexing ton. Apply to Pabst & Wixson, Lexington, Mich. 751 OR SALE—CLEAN GENERAL STOCK, IN voicing abont $4,000. Only store in tow n, with mill regularly employing men. rent building solow that purchaser cannot a ford to buy. Address No. 747, care Michigan Tradesman. 747 — LOCATION FOR A GOOD sawmill, capacity 15 to 20M feet daily, to saw lumber by the M for some responsible firm. For further particulars apply to George English, Pompeii, Mich. Taz ( PPORTUNITY -DOUBLE STORE TO RENT, Will soon be vacant; fine location for gen eral business; never been vacant; town of 1,200; competition anes manufacturing town in midst of fine dairy and agricultural country. AC ddre Ss Box 49), Middle v ille, Mich. 724 \ YANTED—PARTNER TO T AKE HALF IN terest in my 75 bbl. steam roller mill and elevator, situated on railroad ; miller p referred ; good wheat country. Full des scription, price terms and inquiries given promptly by address ing H.C. Herkimer, Maybee, Monroe county, Mich. “11 STOCK OF CLOTHING oe GE NTL or WO furnishing goods, to trade for real estate. Address No. 660, Care ickdean Trad aa 660 l® YOU I SI WANT TO BUY OR SEL iL REAL estate, write me. I can satisfy you. Chas. E. Mercer, Rooms 1 and2 2, Widdicomb we | ae SALE ONLY—A GOOD PAYING RES taurant. Nice locality. Fine trade. A bargain. Winans & Moore, 1 Tower B’lk Grand Rapids, Mich. 445 IGHTY CENTS WILL BUY $1 WORTH | OF a clean stock of grocer inventorying about $5,000. Terms,cash : sales,330,(00 annus? ally ' strictly cash store; good to of 7,40 inhabi tants Address 738, care Mich. Tradesman. 738 MISCELLANEOUS, Ww: ANTED—BUT' TER, | Rees. ~ POULTR ry, potatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, etc, Correspondence solicited. Watkins & Smith, 81-86 South Division St., Grand Rapids. 673 N ADVISABLE SUBSTITUTE FOR THE carving steel is offered to dealers and can vassers and big profits are assured by J. M. Hay- den &Co., Pearl street, Grand Ra pi ids, Mic h.742 ANTED—MEN TO ORDER 2 ON AT -PROV al one of the best “ready to wear’ suits made at $13.50, any style cut. Strahan & Greu lich, 24 Monroe street, Grand Rapi is. 727 OOKING FOR REAL ESTATE INVEST. ments, or have business chances for sale? See Winans & Moore, Room 1, Tower Block, Grand Rapids. 718 N EARLY NEW BAR-LOCK TYPEWRITER for sale at a great reduction from cost Reason for selling, we desire a nother pattern of same make of machine, which we consider the best onthe market. Tradesman Company, 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids. 564 j ANTED—EVERY DRUGGIST JUST starting in business and every one already started to use our system of poison labels. What has cost you $15 you can now get for 84. Four teen labels do the work of 113. Tradesman Company. Grand Rapids OR SALE — TWO COAL STOVES AT $5 apiece. and two at #8 apiece; can be seen at 100 Louis st Tradesman Company, New Blod gett building. wai SITUATIONS WANTED 1... BY YOUNG MAR ried man in grocery or general store, small town preferred. Hight yeavs’ experience in gro cery. Capable of taking charge of books and doing the buying. V = best of references. Ad- dress No. 753, care Michigan Tradesman. Sa Vy JANTED—POSITION AS SALESMAN BY yonng man of seven years’ experience in general merchandise. Good window trimmer and stock keeper. Bestofreferences. Address Box AA, New Haven, Mich 737 ANTED—SITUATION BY REGISTERED pharmacist, Enquire 590 South Division street, Grand Rapids. 734 DE sd, BN na Ne abe Ms nn a THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ADVICE TO SHOPPERS. Written for Taz TRADESMAN. Now, ladies, don’t look or even think cross at the sight of this heading, for these remarks are intended more partic- ularly for someone else—there is another gender that occasionally goes shopping, and that particular gender is the one that is toelaim our attention. (I may add, in passing, that if we have any special virtue it is that we have made a solemn vow never to dispute or quarrel with a lady; and,as a lady asked us to write this, we forthwith proceeded to obey her request. ) And now to the subject in hand. People are usually told what they should not do, and instructed how not to act, when making their purchases, but, as shopping is now reduced to a science, we propose to adopt the opposite plJan and give some advice that can be plainly understood by everyone in regard to ‘‘what to do and how to do it.’ If you are one of the masculine gen- der, and have no particular business to transact when you enter a store—and it is no one’s business if you don’t have— walk straight up to the counter scales— if such there are—and bob them up and down sharply, for a few minutes, to see whether they balance properly. If the weights are brass, knock one against the other sharply, to see whether they are covered or solid. Then seat yourself on top of the counter, knocking over some- thing with the skirtsof yourcoat. Next, reach across the desk and examine the ledger or any open account that may happen to be lying convenient. Should you feel a little drowsy, stretch yourself out at full length on the counter, drag- ging a bolt of cotton cloth or dress goods under your head for a pillow, and, if your boots are not overly clean, you might draw your feet upon the counter— that they may not be in the way of others. If you wish to purchase dry goods where both dry goods and gro- ceries are kept, on entering the store, invariably pass over to the grocery de- partment, and vice versa, to ask for what you want. Itis not only more genteel, but will cause the clerk a few extra steps. Stand staring at the groceries and don’t budge an inch, unless someone pays at- tention to you, even if you have to wait fifteen minutes. Of course, someone is paid to come around and enquire whether you want anything. Walk around be- hind the counter without invitation, and stand or lounge in such position as to fill most of the aisle. Remain in that position, examining the goods or, may- hap, perusing a book you had in your pocket, perfectly oblivious to all around, no matter how many times the clerk may be obliged to crowd by you. It is only a a store, you know, and they expect to be bothered a little by the public. Never forget, whether lady (?) or gentleman (?), to rest both elbows on the show case, as it is an easy position, calculated, if the body be properly thrown forward, to take a part of the weight off the feet. This will rest you. Should you ‘‘acci- dentally’’ go through the plate glass, ex- press deep regret that the thing should have happened, and make the remark, “It must have been very poor glass.” But never, under any circumstances, offer to pay for the breakage—that would be establishing a precedent. Of course, as you spend your money at the store, the merchant would excuse such a trifling matter. Just walk away coolly, as if nothing had happened. If it be a lady who is perusing this ar- ticle, we would just venture the sugges- tion that, before leaving home te go shopping, it would be well to work your- self into an enviable state of mind, by chastising several of the children; and, if you are so unfortunate as to have none handy, talk a little harshly to your big brother, or, by way of variety, give your husband particular fits for something he has or has not done. This always gives courage to talk very plainly to merchants and clerks. It is always a good idea to go shop- ping when one has nothing else to do. No matter whether you desire to pur- chase anything at that particular time— you can, at least, have a little recreation, look over the various stocks and can see and be seen. If you have an elegant purse, carry it in the hand where it can be seen and admired; or, as there are al- ways sneak thieves upon the streets, it might be well to attach a gold chain to it and carelessly fasten it to the belt. When you enter a store, do it in a sort of nonchalant manner, as if to say, “I’m not sure whether I shall purchase any- thing or not, but thought I’d take a look at your stock.”’ Should you purchase a frail article and have the misfortune to break it, soon after, through carelessness, return to the store after the lapse of, say, a couple of weeks, or, better still, a month, and ask him to replace it. If you ask to see a piece of muslin, just as the clerk is placing it on the counter inquire if he has any ginghams, and, while he is showing ginghams, cast your eye enquiringly in the direction of some other article, when he will doubt- less ask if you would not like to examine that. After looking over the goods, and asking the price of each kind and pat- tern, gently acquaint him with the fact that ‘you are going to Grand Rapids to- morrow and, if you cannot purchase those goods there for less money, you will see him again.’ Should any person shopping wish to purchase any small article costing, say, ten cents, enquire of the clerk, with a well-assumed air of astonishment, if the price is not ‘trather high,’? and remark that ‘‘you have often bought it for nine in Grand Rapids.” If he is a gentleman —as, of course, he ought be—he will candidly admit your statement as a fact, and will meekly tell you that ‘‘goods are higher just now on account of the scar- city of gold, etc.” It is a very good scheme, when a mer- chant asks you $1 for an article, to at once offer him seventy-tive cents for it, at the same time informing him that you are Offering its full value. Of course, he will be thankful for the information; he may, however, conclude to wait for a rise in the market. It would please him, no doubt, to have you return within a half hour and tell him that, as,you are obliged to have the article in question, *‘you will be under the necessity of suf- fering the imposition.” If you have no money, just step into the first store, not asking for credit, but select what you want and, after fum- bling in your pocket, if you’re a man—in your handbag, if you belong to the softer sex—take up the goods and leave, se- renely remarking that ‘‘you haven’t any change with you just now, but will hand it in, and that he need make no charge HEMLOCK BARK, WABER, SHINGLES.) RATIES, veo We Pay HIGHEST MARKET PRICES in SPOT CASH and [leasure Bark When Loaded. Correspondence Solicited. Duck __, Kersey Coats Pants We manufacture the best made goods in these lines of any factory in the country, guaranteeing every garment to give entire satisfaction, both in fit and wearing qualities. We are also headquarters for Pants, Overalls and Jackets and solicit correspondence with dealers in towns where goods of our manufacture are not regularly handled. Lansing Pants & Overall Co, LANSING, MICH. A. © MeGRAW & Co. DIUICTUTETS Ot 0S ONC JONDETS Ot RUDUET Gog DETROIT, MICH. ee ee Our interests on the road are looked after by the following competent and experienccd salesmen, for whom we bespeak the courtesy and kind consideration of the trade: . E. Chase, 51 Charles St.,| A. S. Cowing, 403 Woodward ‘Gand Rapids, Mich. Ave., Kalamazoo, Mich. E. P. Waldron, St. Johns,| F. J. Doud, Albion, Mich. Mich. E. J. Mattison, 504 So. Clay H. C. Liddiard, (care P. W.| St., Frankfort, Ind. nd V an Antwerp, Sterling,Mich.|C. V. Cable, New _Philadel- J. H. Fildew, St. Johns, “Mich. | phia, Ohio. W. C. HOPSON H. HAFTENKAMP ROLL CAP Made of Soft Steel Sheets. Cheap as Shingles. LAST FOUR TIMES AS LONG. NS Louis and Compau $3. SSS Send for Catalogue. FOR RENT. and basement factory building, Three-story size 50 x 150 feet. West end Pearl street bridge. Water and Steam Power. Full line of Wood Working Machine ry, Bench- | es, Dry Kilns, ete. | INE Ti BRIGK, FLOUR, FEED, GRAIN, HAY. | turing purposes. Also other property “Sn are r for manufac- - POWERS, “aaa House Block. Thos E. Wykes 45 S. Division St. ? GRAND RAPIDS Wholesale and Retail. «= Telephone 371. NG SM ee sahara q-—— once RNR BEM i i NG SM ee 5 i | 3 t f } : THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. of it.” If the merchant should be so for- getful of politeness as to insinuate that he is not acquainted with you, and de- sires your name, or if he ask any ques- tions, curtly reply that ‘tyou guess you are good for that amount;’’ then, sud- denly recollecting that you have a little money, pay him at once, with the re- mark that ‘‘there are other places where you can trade where people are not so particular.’”? All this tends to give him the idea that you are really something above ‘‘the common herd.” Ten to one, he will offer an apology! If you wish to purchase a liquid, never take a receptacle with you—just ask the merchant to lend you one; he would not be obliged to loan more than twenty or thirty bottles or jugs in a day. If you enter a drug store for afew ounces of a liquid, and the clerk enquires if you have a vial, tell him you didn’t bring any; should he dare charge you for one, sharply tell him that ‘‘you have dozens of them at home.’? Whether you have or not, it will show him that you con- sider it small business charging four cents for a vial in a ten cent trade! Never admit that any man knows more about the goods he is selling than you do—he might interpret it as ignorance. When a merchant tells you that he is selling an article at cost, because it is out of style, faded or otherwise dam- aged, don’t you believe a word of it. Tell him, with a wise look, that you know all about that, and that, generally, merchants do not sell at cost. He will, without doubt, silently applaud your wisdom and regard you as a man of ‘‘gumption.’’ To conclude our budget of advice te shoppers, we would say, always treat mer- chants and their clerks as if they re- quired watching—you and I know most of them require watching—and, in the hurry of business, should a mistake be made in your favor, don’t, for a moment, think of speaking about it, or attempt to rectify it, as you might be branded as green. Finally, never purchase any- thing of a merchant without ‘‘jewing’’ him down a little on the price, if your time will admit. They, of course, al- Ways expect this and ask a few cents extra on purpose; and then, too, itis a sure mark of your being well bred. By following the simple rules we have here laid down, shopping will become a pleas- ant and easy pastime—whatever a few old fogies may say to the contrary. FRANK A. Howia. a i The Money-Making Grocers. From the American Grocer. Their number is large, but smali as compared with the total number of gro- cers. They are located everywhere, thus proving that locality or section does not enter into the question of how to make money selling groceries. These suecess- ful store-keepers have many traits in common, the most prominent of which is their being in love with their calling. They are devoted to their business be- cause their hearts are in their work. They seek diligently to promote its wel- fare and growth. In Southern New York, some years ago, there was a quaint character who manufactured hoes, and whose reputation asa maker was the highest. He pos- sessed a secret in regard to bending the neck, so thatin using the hoe it taxed the strength of the user far less than any other hoe in the market. When asked about the secret of his success, he re- plied: ‘I eat hoe, drink hoe, sleep hoe.”’ The money-making grocer does the same, or, in other words, is absorbed in and enamored with his business. He stead of being mastered by them; goes to the front as a leader; originates methods; sticks to that which is known to be good, rather than makes frequent changes in the character of his stock. He appre- ciates that to have customers familiar with brands and labels and the flavor and texture of articles is of great value in holding patronage, whereas con- Stantly shifting them from one thing to another is to invite dissatisfaction. The money-making grocer keeps his gains in his business and eschews all out- side investments until his capital is more than adequate for its requirements and growth. Thus heisa great hunter after discounts, always buying for close or spot cash, and thus he receives instead of pays interest. Heis alsoina position to extend credit without curtail- ing his power as a buyer, and by so do- ing invites and retains patronage. The customer worthy of credit is, as a rule, a much freer buyer than one who deals for cash, and less critical as to prices and service. Credit imposes a sense of obli- gation which the money-making grocer turns to his advantage. He is also in- clined to be his own landlord, both as re- lates to his store, home and stable, being convinced that unencumbered real es- tate is an asset which keeps credit high. The money-making grocer is economic- al and persevering and values persist- ency. He believes in advertising, al- though his opinion varies as to methods. Some regard a fine wagon service, hand- some windows and attractive packages the best sort of advertising medium. Too few advertise in the local press, but all use various forms of printed matter. In short, the men who believe that the gro- cery business pays are men of one idea, who have discovered that there is no limit to its expansive foree. NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE MERIT! ——THE——_— Rocker Washer Has proved the most satis- fac tory of anyWasherever p'aced upon the market. It is warranted to wash an ordinary family washing of 100 Pieces in One Hour as clean as can be washed on the washboard. Write for Catalogue and Trade Discount ounts. ROKER WASHER GO., Fl. Wayne, Id. §. P. Bennett Fuel &lce Co. Mine Agents and Jobbers for ALk KINDS OF FUEL. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. i Sereda ire ENVELOPES. PLUS TN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. ote a 2 eee Hardware Price Current. Tauose prices are for cash buyers, who Pay pru-iptly aud buy in full packages. studies its needs; masters all details, in- AUGUBS AND BITS. dis. ere | is l 70 es 4... .... 46 Jenulngs’, genuine ..... le cee epee oy Ps) Jennings’, imitation ... eee ewes 50610 AXBa. dis. aS Broo .... i, . Bronze Le ee ae i rae eee 21 00 D.B. Steel... 6 50 BARROWS. 13 00 ae. #12 00 14 00 aeeGem....... 1... eee. . net 30 00 BOLTS, dis, ee oe *0&10 Gana Bowie 1... lls. bee 70&10 oe 40410 Sleigh ae. "5 BUCKETS, wen eee $3 25 BUTTS, CAST. dir. (Cast Loose Fin. figured........ ............. 70 Wrougst Narrow, Drigat Cast joint 40....... 66210 1 Wremgmt teu Pig 40 | Wrouge Tanle 46 | Wrought Inside. Blind... Boe eee ce 4) Wrens Sree 75 Pine Cee Kies TO Blind, Parker’s. .- H&10 Blind, Shepard’s | ey ee 7m BLOCKS, Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... .... 70 CRADLES, Grain ...... aa . . i 50 OROW BARR, Cast Steei oo --perm® 4 CAPR. le - perm 65 Hick’s C. F HH 55 x... s 35 Sires . 60 eee 56 Comme: Ware. ee 25 CHISELS. dis. SOtmcs Parmicr. ....... 8... 75&10 Socket a ee ee eee eee tan mee o GUNS Socket Corner. . ee eee eee eee cy oss ae SOCMCO ee 75&10 Butchers’ Tanged Firmer...... ..... es cOMBS, dis. Curry, Eawronco’s............ eee oe 40 Hote. xi — eee 25 CHALE. White Crayons, per gross.... .....12412% dis. 10 COPPER, Planished, 14 os cut tosize... .. per pound 28 14x52, toeco 14n60.... |. 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60. . _ 2B Cold Rolled, ae... 23 ame ou 2 DRILLA, dis. Morse’s Bit Stocks........... ae 50 Taper and straight Shank........... ooo 50 Mores TaperShank ........._.... ie 50 DRIPPING Fans, Small sizes, ser pound . el 8% Large sixes, er Non : o6 BLBOWS. Com. 4 a. - ee aos. Bet 65 Corrugated . ee, Se 5° OO a: ®, 49810 EXP ANSIVE BITS, dis. Clark’s, small, Sif; large. O6......._....... 20 Ives’, 1, $18: 2, $24; 3,830 .... Loa |. 2B FILEs—New I, Ast. dis, Peselone - 60810-10 ow American... eee ip Nicholson's . ae - -0&10- - ae. Melicrs Hovrae Reape. 5080 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2 and 26; 27 28 List 12 13 14 15 16 17 Discount, 70 . GAUGES. Gin. Stanley Ruie and Level Co.’s..... a 50 KNOBs—New a dis, Door, mineral, jap. trimmings . 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings... : __. 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings i . 55 Door, porceivin, trimmings ....... , 55 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain ... 70 LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s........... Lae 55 oe a 55 were... . 55 MATTOCES. Some Eye... ........... ... 816.00, dis. 60-10 pees mre.................. 1...) a ae aie 66-36 Paes... $18.50, dia. 20.410. MAULA. ais, Sperry & Co.'s, Post, handled.......... .. 5t MILLA. dis. Coffee, Parkers Co.'s. . 40 r.8. & W. Mfg. Co.'s Mallesbion. . Q ‘s Landers, Ferry & Cle ck . 40 - Spiers ........ tet el. 30 MOLASSBS GaTES. dis. Stemnars Petter... ........... : O0& 10 Stebbin’s Genuine...... ' EPAALG Enterpriee, self- -measuring.. 0 NAILS. Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. poate oe... 1 20 Wire wees Gees... i = oe. ...- Base Base oo... a. 10 i... 2 ... 35 -... 45 2. 45 6... 50 60 90 1 20 160 ee... 1 60 Case a 65 ay 8. ee ee. 90 Finish 10. 75 Be ee bue ee cece 90 “ 6 ee 10 OE 7 ay ee ee ee 80 Barrell %.. been eee, fo a 1% PLANES. dis. pre degen 7 toney Sciota Benc. .. 60810 Sandueky ‘Tool Co. ", ‘fancy. eee cee as @50 Bench, first quality.. -... Gee cg Rule and Level Co.’s wood. a p PANS. i . os ae pated a ae dis. RIVETS. dis. ion end Trancg.................... ee ‘60 Comper Rive and Gars.............:...... 50—10 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ‘SA’ Wood's patent planished oy ong 10 20 ‘*B’* Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 26 Broken packs c per pound extra. HAMMERS. pa ate. dis. 26 Eip’a. ee ee sos. . ig. xz Yerkes ‘& Plamo's Lees . Gis. 40&16 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel......- «ses +. -0eG bee 60 Blackamitn’s Solid Cast Steel Handa. -. 806 40&16 HINGES, sate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3 oseeecce,. GI araan State -per r dox. net, 2 Serew Hook and Strap. ‘to 12 in. _ 14 and longer oo 34% tcrew Book sud Bre. - aeuoue. mee ! ae » Oe 8 + ' ' Y BE not OT hia - ' oe es) =o Strap and T : - -Gim, £ HANGERS, dis Saru Door Eidder Mfg. Co., Wood pasa .. 6&0 Champion, anti-friction.. OS Kidder, wood track ee ee ee eee 4/ HCLLOW WARE. Foa.... on : - - BO&1C Kettles. . «+ - -CO&18 Spiders .... --+ OC G10 Gray Cnameiag .. 40&10 HOUSE PUBRNISHING GOODS. Stamped Tin Ware..... -new list? £10 Japanned Tin Ware.. Pa &1 Granite Iron Ware ..... ' \ new lis 40 WIRE GOODS. dis. Biight.. ot ene eed ou eee Screw Eyos Peace . .. 80 ee 80 Gate Hooks and — a. 80 BVELS. Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s. dis.79 OPES. Sisal, % inch and larger Lececteuccecs, | @ eee 9 SQUARES. dis. Steel and Oe 80 a See eee, 66 Mige...... ee ee, a SHEET IRON, Com. a. Com. Nos. 10 to 14.... a #? 50 Hon tstel, |... eee 2 60 hoe iow. a 27 Nos, 22to 24... : Le tees OG 2 80 Nos. 25 to 26 Coe. / > 6 2 90 ee a7 3 00 Ali sheets No. i8 and lighter, ° wide not less than 2-10 extra SANT PAPER. List acct. 19. °6@ . pa Oo 30 “gasa ¢ s0BD. “liver Lake White A. Laas iiat 5a Drab A . ' ' 55 ’ Weems ..... .... ' 50 c ven @.......... ' 55 White C i “ iedecne 10, SASH WRISHYS ' Solid Eyesa...... por ton $20 Saws. dis. ° Hand. See eG, 20 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, .. 7 ' Special Steel Dex X Cuis, per foct... “Special Stee] Dia. X C rerfont.... Mm ‘Champion and Electric Tecth * Cuts, per foot..... eee, . a2 TRAPS, dis. Steel, Game...... | Fea Oneida Community, Newhouse’s |. Oneida — —* & Norion’s..7(-10 10 Mouse, choker.. ..15¢ per dos Mouse, delusion. . He 25 per dos WIRE. dir. Bright Market. ' ' 75410 Annealed Market.. _ ! Hee on Coppered Market....... eee 75 ‘Tinned Market.............._. a 62% Coppered Spring Steel. Le. Lele 50 Barbed Fence, galvanised. Ee palntiea. oC se HORSE NAILS, ae ee di | «(ako Putnam.. eee ee es {s. Northwestern. . et ee 8. 10&10 WRENCHES. dis. Baxier’s Adjustab!e, nickeled. ............ £0 Coe’a Genuine .... iad eee 50 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought, ie . 7 &10 Coe’e Pstent, malleable.. i ~ «+ «S0Unl6 MISCELLANEOUS. Giz, pare Cages .... ae : Rh Pumps, Cistern a . . T5&1( &5 Screwe, New List...... i i a Casters, Bed a d Plate... a 50d 10410 Dampers, American.... .- 4 G16 Forks, hoes, rakes and ail steel goods. a METALS, Pie TIN. Fie Eeege.........__..- Le eee. | oo rae eae 8 eee ee ee, 28¢ ZINC. on pound caems. ........ 5% Per pound...... cece eo... 6 SOLDBE. EE 12% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by ori vate brand vary according to composition. TIN--HELYN GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcosl ed $600 14x20 IC, be ee 6 00 10x14 IX, ee eee eee 7 50 14x20 I be 7 50 Bach additional X on this grade, $1. a TIN---ALLAWAY GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal . a 14x20 IC, ee 5 2 10x14 IX, eee. oo 6 25 14x2 e 6 2 Each additional X on this grade $1.50, ROOFING PLATES ee.) Uhl Den, 14x20 IX, " ' 20x28 IC, ‘ a: 14x20 IC, . Allaway Gr ‘ade. tena 14x20 ae 20x28 IC, . r eee ee maze ik, * ” ee 11 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. 14x56 1X, for No. 8 Bellers l4xeo X, "9 | per pound... Eine eens calie ecluwa PORE AS cobiabeD bd eke 2b. San Hos ES NAS AEA 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. MICHIGANTRADESMAN A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THR Best Interests of Business Men. Pablished at New Blodgett Bldg., Grand Rapids, — BY THE— TRADESMAN COMPANY. One Dollar a Year, Payable in Advance ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLIC#TION, Communications invited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. No paper discontinued, except at the option of the proprietor, until ell arrearages are naid. Sample copies sent free to any address Entered at Grand Rapids post-office as second class matter. Ee" When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in HE MICHIGAN T RA DESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17. THE INCOME TAX LAW. The subject which has engaged public attention to the greatest extent during the past week is the Supreme Court de- cision on the income tax law. Comment has been very extended by the press and surprise has been pretty generally ex- pressed that there was even a remnant of the law left. That there is such a remnant seems to be the result of the ac- cident of sickness in the Court, whic! made the possibility of a tie; and this possibility was realized on account of a decision favorable to the income tax dur- ing the war—such is the judicial awe of precedent ! The result of the decision declaring the tax on interest on bonds and real es- tate, ‘‘rents, issues and profits’? uncon- stitutional, while the tie vote on the rest of the law leaves it in force only on ac- count of the decision of the lower court occuring just as the time was expiring for the filing of reports has mixed mat- ters about as badly as it is possible to imagine. Heavy penalties are incurred by a failure to furnish the report at the time designated and the exception of real estate, ‘rents, issues and profits’ introduces such calculations, questions of the values of terminal properties, rights of way and station buildings, as to make the filing of a correct report by railroad corporations an impossibility. Then the status of the remnant of the law that is left, the strong probability of its being declared unconstitutional when it comes to another hearing, destroys all respect for it, and the compliance in re- ports will be careless and perfunctory. Taken altogether, the situation is so ridiculous as to be almost comical. The communistic principle that urged the en- actment of the law was especially aimed at the ‘‘bloated bondholder and million- aire landlord.’? They are now exempt and the law remains in force on salaries and the proceeds of business. THE TRADESMAN is notin the habit of pre- suming an opinion on the constitution- ality of acts of Congress or prophesying as to court decisions, but when this law was enacted it did venture the assertion that it would not stand the judicial test. The theory of communism in taxing only | the rich is so greatly at variance with the principles underlying the constitu- tion—the principles of absolute equality and responsibility for all—that it seemed impossible that it should stand. The law is based on the theory of communism, but, had it remained in foree, its practi- eal effect would have been vastly differ- ent from what its framers and advocates intended. Nolaw could have been de- vised better (or worse) calculated to place the reins of government in the hands of an aristocracy or oligarchy, simply for the reason that, if the rich pay for the government, the government will belong to the rich. This would be the practical effect, although anarchists might claim the same rights and respon- sibilities, but anarchists are compara- tively few. The sentiment would ob- tain among the great mass of the people that the rich are entitled to what they pay for, and this would tend to increase the influence of an element which is al- ready a matter of coneern—the power of money in politics. It is unfortunate that legislators will be controlled in their actions by the prej- udices of an ignorant element in their constituences and will vote for a meas- ure which is utterly pernicious for dema- gogical effect, hoping it may fail through others or will not stand the test of judicial scrutiny. This element in polities is to be deprecated, but it will be a factor until the education of the peo- ple destroys the effect of such tru- euleney. THE SUGAR SITUATION. Although the shutting down of a num- ber of refineries some days ago, coupled with rather slack trading in refined sugar, created a momentarily dull sugar market, the feeling is gaining ground that sugar, like all other staple produc- tions which enter into general consump- tion, is on the eve of a considerable ad- vance. For months past the market has been depressed by the weight of the enor- mous supply of European beet sugar. It is now announced from Germany that the effect of this supply has been fully discounted, and that much higher prices are actually being asked in Germany than are current in the London market. It appears that the low prices, while stimulating consumption, have helped to absorb a goodly portion of the surplus supply. The practical certainty which now exists that the beet sowings for the next campaign will be materially reduced has served to render the surplus. stocks which are still held much less burden- some to the market than they appeared some time back; hence, as a result, every- thing favors an improved range of prices. It is now certain that the German Reichstag will not pass a bill increasing the bounty on exports of sugar in time to influence the sowings of beets: hence! farmers, not being encouraged by the prospect of larger bounties, will curtail their acreage. Moreover, grain is com- manding much better prices than a year ago; hence the land which was diverted from cereals to sugar is likely to be re- stored to the old crops, which of itself will cause a considerable reduction in the beet sowings. In Cuba the sugar crop has been eurtailed by a number of causes. In the first place, the weather has been unfavorable; second, labor was scarce and very unreliable; third, money was hard to obtain at reasonable rates, and, last, the revolution which has broken out has already interfered in some localities with the plantations, and promises to still further interfere later on. There has, therefore, been a very im- portant dwindling of the prospec- tive supplies. Consumption, on the other hand, has improved, and, as gen- eral trade is now looking up everywhere, it is probable that the consumption will still further increase in the near future. EFFECT OF THE WAR ON COMMERCE. As significant that the war with Japan will have the effect of breaking down Chinese conservatism and self-sufficiency and opening the empire to modern prog- ress, the Emperor of China has issued an edict that in future the loss of a battle is not to be punished by the death of the unfortunate general, and has permitted etiticisms and suggestions on the part of his officials which before the lessons of this war would have been considered little less than blasphemy. Prince Kung has even submitted a memorial, in which he attributes the calamities of the war to mistakes in the government and blind- ness to the progress of other nations. This means simply that China will im- mediately profit by the lesson of the chastisement she has received from Japan. Her doors will be opened for the admission of modern civilization and her progress will be rapid, though probably not so phenomenal as has been the case in Japan. What will be the effect in the com- merce of the world? If the teeming mil- lions of China become consumers, if rail- roads are builtand employed and if the implements of modern civilization—ag- riculture, manufacturing, building, and domestic life—are brought into demand in proportion as they have been in Japan, and if foreign trade is encour- aged by the government, it must become one of the most important factors in the world’s exchange. It is unfortunate for this country that the opportunity finds it in one respect not prepared—the Isihmian canal is not built. The result of this delay must be a tremendous commercial loss. This and the fact that England has so much the start of Eastern commerce are going to rob this country of much of the im- mediate benefit. England will reap the opportunity by furnishing our cotton from her looms and sending us the pro- ducts of the East via her own warehouses and in her own vessels, until we open the eanal and encourage our merchant ma- rine until it takes the position in com- merce to which it is entitled by the mag- nitude of the interests and the natural laws of trade. THE PRICE OF DEFEAT. It is announced as a result of peace negotiations between China and Japan that China is to concede the independence of Corea, the cession of the “earthly paradise,” Formosa, and of Port Arthur and its contiguous territory, the payment of 300,000,000 taels (about $340,000,000) and a treaty opening the interior of China to commerce. While China is very loath to yield up any portion of her territory, it is gener- ally admitted that the demands of Japan are not exorbitant, considering all the circumstances of the case. None of the European powers have protested in any way, hence it may be safely assumed that they all assent to the justice of Japan’s demand. The independence of Corea was the principal cause of the war, which has now lasted nine months, hence it is but right that the recognition of that State’s independence should be the first condition of a peace settlement. The 300,000,000 taels indemnity is not ex- orbitant when it is remembered that Japan has been put to fully that much expense in carrying on the war. The only actual gain, therefore, will be the territory demanded in South Manchuria and in Formosa. This is not certainly too large a prize, considering the extent of the victories won by the Japanese armies. The most important result to the worid at large likely to follow from the war will be the throwing open of the whole of China to foreign trade. Notwith- standing the many impediments a large trade has always been done with China, it may safely be assumed that with the impediments removed the volume of business will be vastly increased. Fears have been expressed—perhaps not without foundation—that the prob- able result of the war in China in bring- ing to the 400,000,000 of her people the opportunity for industrial development will possess elements of danger to the in- dustries of the rest of the world. Their wonderful imitative ingenuity enables them to acquire facility of production, especially in textile manufacture, very quickly, and their willingness to work fourteen to sixteen hours a day on a few handsful of rice for the merest pittance will make the problem of their compe- tition a serious one. England will be the one to suffer most severely. The rapid growth of the cotton manufacture in India has been one of the most serious causes of her recent industrial depres- sion. She will not be able to sustain much Chinese competition. Should China raise her own cotton—and there is no reason why she should not—the con- sequences to that industry in this coun- try would not be trifling. After the first introduction of railway material, ma- chinery and manufacturing implements, the development of China, as a con- sumer, will be very much slower than her develepment as a producer, and the unprotected markets of the world must necessarily suffer. No man has had a wider experience with the modern resources of the nations in mechanical skill; no man has investi- gated more carefully and more practi- cally the conditions under which manu- facturing is carried on in the various countries; no man knows better the rel- ative capacity of the English, the Ameri- can, the French, the German skilled workman than Hiram S. Maxim, the American inventor and experimenter, whom most Englishmen rank as the greatest mechanical expert of the day. The conclusions which Mr. Maxim has drawn from his wide experience in con- tact with the best mechanical skill of all nations—set forth at some length else- where in this week’s paper—are not only mighty interesting, but they will im- press most students of industrial prob- lems as being of vastly greater impor- tance than a great mass of the reports and essays from so-called experts on these subjects. ‘‘Murder will out,’? and murderers stay out of the way, too, as is evident by the fact that last year there were 9,800 mur- ders in the United States and only 132 executions, ¢ q _ A ggggatrneensermereme metromene ual “a = THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9 RUINED BY UNIONISM. Causes of England’s Decline as a Man- ufacturing Nation. There can be no question that England is not only the richest nation in the world to-day, but also the richest that the world has ever seen. Never before in the history of the world has there been so much accumulated capital and wealth as we find in the city of London to-day. This wealth is the accumulation of many hundreds of years, and repre- sents the profits on manufacturing and commerce which have been carried on in these islands. No matter in what coun- try we travel we find that wherever there is an opportunity of employing capital profitably, there is an Englishman look- ing out for an opportunity of placing it. If we go to Spain we find English capital invested in tramways, gas works, and water works, and, to some extent, in the mines of the country. The same is true in Turkey, Italy and Austria. We also find that English capital is largely in- vested in Russia, while in the United States the quantity of British capital in- vested is enormous. Many large manu- facturing concerns in the States at the present time have recently been bought out by English capitalists, and are now being run as limited liability companies. All these foreign investments of Brit- ish capital, of course, give employment to a great number of men, and the reason why these investments are sought abroad is that the English capitalist finds that his money brings him better returns in giving employment to foreign workmen than to his countrymen. Moreover, cap- italists do not like to be bullied by low politicians and vulgar labor agitators. Forty years ago England was by far the greatest manufacturing nation in the world. In America, if any one wanted a good saw, a good plane, a reliable file, or a chisel that could be depended upon, he insisted that it should be made in Eng- land; nothing except of English make would bring a fair price. At the present moment the Americans not only make their own tools, but are exporting large- ly to England. At the time when it was necessary to pay 40 per cent. duty on English steel to get it into the United States, the Americans purchased it, took it to the States, paid the 40 per cent. duty, manufactured it into twist drills and other small articles, paid about one and a half times the daily wage de- manded in England, and sold at a price considerably below what the same work could be produced for in England, a much better article than ever had been made here. Take the Morse twist drills for instance. I have no doubt that these are largely manufactured from English steel on which a duty has been paid. Still, they are very largely sold in Eng- land to-day. In fact, if anybody wants a reliable one they always demand the American drill, made by the Morse Twist Drill Company. A few years ago while in St. Peters- burg I visited a large dealer in hard- ware. I asked him where his tools came from. He said: “Originally we got nearly everything from England. At the present time the very cheap and poor tools are made in Russia, the common tools that we sell to everybody are made in Germany; we get a few articles from France. From Eng- land we only buy a few Stubb’s files, rim- ers, and engraving tools, while our very high-priced instruments of precision, such, for example, as micrometer cali- pers, squares, scales, rules, etc., come from the United States.’’ He told me that the sale of English goods had fallen off lately so much that he was only selling a small fraction of what he originally sold. Some few years ago if anyone in Europe wanted a drill press, a turning lathe, a planer, or shap- ing machine, he was sure to get it from England. When the German Govern- ment decided to make their rifles on the American interchangeable plan they pur- ehased from Pratt & Whitney, of Hart- ford, Conn., about $1,500,000 worth of American tools. These were brought to Germany, and a very enterprising manu« facturer in Berlin, seeing the great ad- vantage of the American style of tools over those of European make, estab- lished a factory and commenced to build them on a very large scale. To-day this enterprising manufacturer has not only practically driven the English tools from the market on the Continent of Europe, but he is also sending tools to England and selling them at prices considerably below those of English tools, and, more- over, as they are close copies of Ameri- can designs, they are found to be much handier and better adapted to the work than tools of English design. In regard to the supposed superiority of English-made tools I would say that when I first went to England, wishing to buy some lathes, I examined alarge num- ber made by different English manufac- turers, and [ was surprised to find how old-fashioned they were. Upon asking why they did not make better lathes, they considered it a good and sufficient answer to say: “Oh, everybody knows that every- thing of English make is very much bet- ter than anything made abroad.’’ Hardly a manufacturer knew of the existence of the new American tools. So when I had to equip some very large fac- tories, | found it much to the advantage of my company to purchase the greater part of the tools from American makers. It is only a few years ago that there was a great deal of shipbuilding on the Thames, and nearly every first-class ship, whether for the Germans or the French, came from England. At the present time the French and Germans are building their own boats. I speak of this only to show that England is losing her relative position as a manufacturing nation. I do not say that there is nota large amount of manufacturing done in England at the present time, but what I do say is that England has not been able to maintain her relative position as a great manufacturing nation. As to the question why so many indus- tries have left England for other coun- tries l would say: Take, for instance, the manufacture of machinery, an in- dustry in which England was at one time ahead of all other nations. Ma- chinery is very largely made of iron, and the designer always aims to have as much of the work as possible done on a lathe. The lathe may then be consid- ered the principal tool employed in the manufacture of machinery. In the orig- inal iron-turning lathes, it was necessary for the person to hold the tool in his hand, and, of course, one man could work only one lathe. The turning lathe was soon improved so that to-day it is quite automatic. Suppose now that a piece of metal has to be turned. It is mounted in a lathe; the tool is set and the lathe is started. The tool is auto- matically fed up and cuts off a uniform chip. As the lathe of necessity has to turn very slowly, it requires a very long time for the lathe to make one cut. In some cases the person does not have to sharpen or adjust a tool more than once a day, and this only requires, we will say, about five minutes. All the rest of the time he has nothing to do but watch the lathe, and in many cases he has all he can do to keep from going to sleep. The trades uuions will not allow the Brit- ish workmap to run more than one lathe, while in Germany and France a man runs from four to six, according to the class of work on which he is employed. And the same is true of planers. A great deal of the work in the Maxim- Nordenfelt factories is done on milling machines. Before they had a strike many of the union men not only objected to work more than one milling machine, but wanted the company to agree not to allow any non-union man to work more than one. Some of the leaders in the strike insisted that none but what they called skilled machanics should work a milling machine. Since the strike they are employing unskilled labor on these machines, and 0Le man runs as many as four. This is, of course, a decided ad- vantage over the state of affairs before the strike, but does not compare very favorably with what they are doing in France. A few days agolI was at Bari- quand & Marre’s factory in Paris, where 1 found a very good-looking young woman running no fewer than fifteen milling machines. I remember some years ago I had a leading trades union FISHING TACK seee FOR ee 4 oa Our new Dis- count Sheet and Catalogue are now ready. If you have not received one, please advise and it will come by first mail. LOSTER, STEVENS & (50. 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On his re- turn to England he attended a meeting of trades unionists, who at that time were seeking some question on which they might strike. He made a speech, in which he pointed out that one of the smaller factories which was then em- ploying about 300 men would only be able to employ about sixty, provided that each man did as much work as the French woman he had seen in Paris. He said it would be complete suicide for the workmen to think of such a thing as working more than one tool. England is not a self-contained coun- try. It would be quite impossible to pro- duce in England one-half of the food re- quired for the people. It is therefore necessary to make something in England which can be sold abroad to enable her to purchase the food which she cannot raise at home. In order to have a sure market for her manufactures abroad, it is necessary that she should either make them cheaper or better than other na- tions are able to do, and I would like to ask how it will be possible for her to do so in the matter of machinery if a Ger- man or a Frenchman will work from four to six tools eleven hours a day and an Englishman will only work one tool about eight or nine hours a day. Sup- pose that | should go to France, find a Frenchman who was working six lathes; that i should purchase three of the lathes and hire the Frenchman and take him to England and set him to work among English workmen; that the Frenchman should do half as much work per hour in England as he had been do- ing in France, namely, run three lathes, what would happen? Would there not be a riot or a strike? Would the English trades unions allow any man to do half a day’s work? When the Maxim-Nordenfeldt works first commenced to make Maxim guns, and before the strike occurred, the un- ionists used to take parts of the gun toa neighboring grog shop, where they held nightly meetings for the purpose of what they called rating the work, that is, de- ciding how wuch time should be con- suméd in doing a certain amount of work on a certain part of the gun. I will only speak of one part, which is called the gib, which weighs about half an ounce. When the Maxim guns were made by ones and twos for experimental purposes these pieces were first forged, then roughed out on a shaping machine, and finally filed into shape. This piece was rated to require a day and a half to make it. When the guns came to be made by the hundred these pieces were milled into shape so that very little had to be done on them. Nevertheless no trades unionist dared to smooth one up with a file after it had been milled in less time than a day and a quarter. If one man was taken off and another put on, it would always require a day and a quarter to do the work. One day a skilful Ger- man mechanic who did not speak Eng- lish applied for a situation and was put onto this job. He did eleven the first day and twelve every day afterward, in- stead of doing one in a day and a quarter. A good many other parts of the gun were rated in about the same proportion. While firing a Maxim gun in the United States one of these gibs was broken, and I went into a local machine shop to have one made. From the time the bar of steel was cut off until the gib was fin- ished and in the gun was exactly two and a half hours. This was making it from a bar of steel. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ° In regard to the question of boards of conciliation and boards of arbitration and so forth, I would say that nothing of this | kind is of the least valne to the manufac- turer. 1 think this can be seen by any- one who will give it a moment’s thought. | Workingmen, and even the trade unions, are not responsible, while the manufac- | turer is. If a manufacturer agrees to anything in writing, he has to live up to it. Itis binding and means something to him, but no agreement amounts to anything with an irresponsible party like a workingman or a trades union, and, moreover, the trades unions have not the least regard fur the truth. | suppose | that, as trades unions go, the Amalgam- ated Society of Engineers might be con- sidered the aristocracy among them. I do not believe any other stands higher. Nevertheless, when the strike at the Maxim-Nordenfeldt works was on the point of collapsing and the firm had hired a lot of French, German and Italian workmen, a circular was issued by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and signed by a considerable number of the members and secretaries, which set forth that the strike at the Maxim-Nord- enfeldt works was caused by the tyranny of Mr. Maxim in greatly increasing the hours of labor and reducing the salaries. This trades union did not seruple to sign a circular which was an absolute false- hood. They perceived that the foreigner could not understand the nice technical point that they were striking on, so they had to invent a reason. In this case, there was no real grievance. The men were paid the highest salaries in Europe, the hours of labor were the same as at all other places. The works had employed a large number of men, and a few pro- fessiona) agitators came among them with a view of geiting them to strike, in order to give notoriety to the professional agi- tators. Many things were brought up as an excuse for striking. When one thing failed, ancther cause was invented, and, finally, the reason why they struck was that the manager would not promise never to allow piece work to be done in the factories. In regard to the industries that have left England, I would say that it would require a considerable time to give any- thing like a full account of them. I can only refertoa few from memory. For instance, machine-made lace used to be manufactured almost exclusively in Eng- land. Factories were established in France, where, | think, there never has been a strike in the lace trade (there were a great number of strikes among the lace hands in England), and at pres- ent the French are making more lace than the English. At one time, England made crape prac- tically for the world, but the number of strikes was so great that the Germans are now making crape not only for the rest of the world but for England as well. At Crayford, a certain concern used to have a specialty in a kind of printed lin- en goeds which very closely resembled woven woollens. This was very largely sold to Mexico, Cuba and South America. They practically had a monopoly of this business. The men were constantly striking. No sooner would a large or- der be obtained, than all would strike for higher pay. The chairman of this com- pany told me that he had taken a large contract, at a very smail margin of profit, but that no sooner had the men learned that he had received this order, than they all struck for higher pay, and he found that if he acceded to their demands he would lose money on the contract. He, therefore, went to France and found a firm there who did the work for him. Upon delivering the goods to his custom- ers, they wrote him that the work was beautifully done, being much neater and cleaner than anything they had ever seen before, and they hdped that all future or- ders that they might give him would be equally well done. When his men came to their senses and were willing to go to work again, he found it was quite im pos- sible to produce anything that would be at all equal to that which had been done in France. Finally, the French printers found out the English process, and at the present time have got the work and the English factory at Crayford has been a AND LOWRER 18 and 19 Widdicomb Bld. a nde N. B. CLARK, Pres, W. D. Wapk, Vice-Pres. C. U. CLARK, Sec’y and Treas. idee aad a Laat We are now ready to make contracts for bark for the sea- son of 1895, Correspondence Solicited. as OF EN Tie I XxX LL AXLE GREASE KEEPS AXLES BRIGHT. KEEPS AXLES COOL. NEVER GUMS. GOLDEN ...... Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction. Tin Boxes. Has No Equal. 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Some of the leading officials, being mem- bers of Parliament, sought to place their orders in England, but found that the British workman was very stiff. He not only demanded a high price for his labor but also sought to limit the output. Meetings were held and the question was discussed. The unionists were told just how much the company could afford to pay for wire, and, as an argument, they said: ‘‘At the present time you are un- employed; we can give you so much. In case you do the work you will certainly be making enough to live on.” But the British workman was unyielding. He would not accept a penny less and, con- sequently, the work went to Germany. The German employer called his men together and told them that if they could produce wire at a certain rate they would receive very large orders from England and that they would run the English completely out of the business. The German workmen not only expressed themselves as willing to accept the terms, but, also, in the future to make terms which would be sure to beat the British workmen and keep the work in Germany. It may be interesting to the British workman to know that the rosy-faced French girl who was working fifteen mill- ing machines at the same time, was en- gaged on a very large order for sheep shearing and clipping machines for the British colonies. The Merchandise Marks act, which was expected to do so much for the Brit- ish workman, turned out as I expected it would, an act to disillusienize the Brit- ish public. Everybody was saying that British goods were much better than any others. Everything that was mean and bad was called German. Nevertheless, now that the goods are marked and the buyers are able to ascertain definitely in what country they are made, they can- not fail to see that gloves made in France, Austria, and Belgium are better than those made in England, while the prices are coniiderable lower. They cannot fail to see that a great many arti- cles made in Germany are equal, if not superior, to those made in England. If a mechanic wants a square that is square he has no choice in the matter, but must of necessity buy one which is made. in the United States because there are no squares that are square made for sale in England. A great many English manufacturers have been in the habit of getting their work done on the Continent and distrib- uting it to their customers from England, the purchasers ip the colonies and in for- eign countries supposing that it was English make, but since the goods have been marked ‘‘Made in Germany,” ‘*Made in France,’’ and so forth, the for- eign and colonial buyers have -been dis- illusioned, and they are now ordering their goods directly from the real makers instead of from those that were supposed to make them in England. So the Eng- lishman has not only lost the making of the goods, but has now lost the handling of them. The Merchandise Marks act has taken away his profession. He is not able to make any profit by buying goods in Germany and distributing them from England. Regarding the comparative skill of mechanicians—American, French, Brit- ish, Spanish, German—it would be im- possible for me to mention one nation that excels in everything. Each nation has its own peculiarities and its own spe- cialties. Sofaras my experience goes, and I have had a great deal of it, I should say that the New Englanders are the finest mechanics in the world. I think any one who has investigated the subject will have to admit this. The tools which are designed and made in New England are incomparably ahead of those made in any other country. There THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. is nothing in Europe that can at all com- pare, for instance, with the tools made by Browne & Sharpe of Providence, R. I., Pratt & Whitney,of Hartford, Conn., and the American Tool Company, of Boston. The Americans also excel in the manu- facture of revolvers and sporting rifles, while for wood-working tools and ma- chinery they are far ahead of all other nations. They are also ahead in auto- matic machinery for working metals and also in boot and shoe machinery, etc. There are, perhaps, about as many great inventions madein the United States as in all the rest of the world. The Eng- lish may be considered the most skillful manufacturers of high-class woolen goods. They are quite equal to any in the manufacture of velvets and plushes. The handmade double-barre!led guns | used for sporting purposes have reached | a higher degree of excellence in England | than in any other country. The Eng- | lish also have a leading position as build- | ers of ships and marine engines. Micro- scopic and photographic apparatus is also very well done in England. As the brightest mechanics in the world are the New Englanders, and as a New Englander is only a modified Eng- lishman, I do not see why the English themselves should not have continued to be the best mechanics in the world, as they were the first in the field, and they might have continued to lead all other nations if the English employers had taken interest in their business, and the workmen had attended to their work in- stead of organizing strikes. I find that the Germans are very good mechanics; they are quick to appreciate the advantages of a new system and to adopt it. The German tool makers have profited very largely by the introduction of American tools. Only a very few such tools, as, for instance, milling machines, ete., are imitated in England, but the Germans imitate every mortal thing of any value made inthe States, and their work is only slightly inferior to that of the Americans. I have purchased and compared genuine American tools with German imitations, and have found that the eastings of the former are sounder and stronger, and that the deviation from truth, though very small, in the German tools, is three or four times as great as in well-made American ma- chines. The Germans excel in all sorts of cheap bronze articles, colored print- ing, etc. While the Austrians are very backward in tool making, they excel in leather work. The Frenchmen are all-round good me- chanics. The imitations of American tools made in France are nearly as accu- rate as the genuine articles themselves, while their instruments of precision are quite as accurate as those made in the States, but they are not made in quanti- ties as is done there, and so the price of the French instruments is four or five times as great as the American. The French are a nation of workers; they seem to like it, and I believe, everything considered, the Frenchman is the best mechanic in Europe. In regard to Spanish mechanics, the number of manufactured articles which the Spaniard excels in is exceedingly small. Steel work inlaid with gold and silver and Damascus steel are their spe- cialties. Some of this is very beautifully executed. and, perhaps, superior to any- thing else that is done in the world; but as all-round mechanics the Spaniards cannot be considered in the same category as Americans, English and French. H1rRAM S. Maxim. > > Springs Not Strong Enough. Little Archie, the 4-year-old son of one of THE TRADESMAN’s subscribers had been warned, repeatedly, not to get in his baby sister’s cab, as “‘the springs were not strong enough to hold him.’’ Some time after, he discovered mamma sitting op papa’s knee and said: Mamma, get up.’’ ‘But why, dear?’’ “Cause the springs in papa ain’t strong enough to hold you!’ I nernnemenne Signal 1, 2, 3, 4, Five. Silent UWeCLmun TRADE MARK 11 Show Cases, Store Fixtures, Etc. BUY PHILLIPS’ CASES. 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It has been pulled down now, to make room for an ugly row of shops and flats, but in my youth it retained a sylvan appearance and many a pleasant memory of Provost Thomas Dalrymple, who built it. He governed ‘‘the good city”’ the close of that wretched period of English history which culminated in 1832, in the passing of the Reform Bill. But, inspite of hard times, lasting for nearly half a century, he had made mon- ey. His official position and his hand- some dwelling showed that; and he had many more proofs of it in fine trading vessels, city property and bank stocks. Of all his wealth his daughter Kate was sole heiress. A very pretty heiress, indeed! Slightly willful and romantic, but, upon the whole, just as good as she was rich and pretty. One evening, as far back as the winter of 1830, she sat chatting with her father, over the walnuts and sherry. She looked unusually handsome, for she was a girl who understood contrasts and effects,and her black satin and white lace and crim- son slippers had been thoughtfully put on. The Provost was pleased and happy, and had just returned from arather mys terious journey, about which Kate was curious. But she was too wise to show her curiosity; her father would be cer- tain to tell her, in his own time and way. toward So the young girl admired her feet, sipped her wine, and waited, and the Provost sat looking inte the fire and thoughtfully stirring the grace-cup of toddy he had just mixed. “Take a thimbleful, Kitty,” he said; ‘I have a great toast for you to drink— one that has na been drunk in this house sin’ the foundation o’ it were laid: Here’s to the Dalrymples 0’ Dairg!”’ Kitty did as she was requested, sup- plementing the new toast with her usual one: ““Here’s to you and me, father! like us?” ‘““he twa are ane, lassie. You'll hae heard o’ the Dalrymples o’ Dairg?” ‘“‘How should I? Has anyone written a book about them?” ‘There hae been many books written for less matter; but, howsome’er, I have just been at Dairg. The laird is dying, and we hae been ill frien’s for twenty- sax years, but we are brithers for a’ that’s come and gane.”’ There were tears in the Provost’s eyes, and Kate drew close to him and took his hand between hers. This proof of sym- pathy was all he needed; indeed, he had much to say to Kate, and was glad to have so early an opportunity to say it. Who’s ““Yes, Fergus and I quarreled twenty- Sax years syne, anent Miss Grace Kirk- connell, and I left Dairg wi’? £50 7? my pouch, thinking to just gae awa’ to some o’ the colonies. But I fell in wi’ luck folks, and met a bonnie English lassie, and just bided i’ St. Mungo’s city, where I hae been blessed i’? basket and i’ store —praise be where praise is due! Twa weeks syne, Fergus sent for me; he is dy- ing now, and there was much to settle anent the affairs o’ the House o’ Dal- rymple, for he is poor, Kate, and I am rich. We made a solemn paction ’tween us twa, and you maun do your share, lassie; for, before a’ ither things, the House o’ Dalrymple must keep its head | ‘It has done nothing for you, father; why should you prop it?” ‘*You’ll never let me hear you speak words like them again. You’ll never forget the brave men and noble women who were your forbears, and gave you your gude name. We must pay our debt to them, though they bedead. You are no true Dalrymple, Kate, if you wouldna gie your right hand for the honor o’ the auld house that crowns the Pentland ecrags.”’ “I would give my right hand to pleas- ure you, father; that is better.’’ ‘Weel, it’s the same. Your uncle and I hae agreed that you are to marry your cousin Sholto, and 1 shall gie youa tocher down o’ twenty thousand pounds. That will lift a’ the mortgages, and you’ll be Lady o’ Dairg, Kate, and [ll be just the proudest man on the Tron- gate planestanes.”’ ‘*Did you see Cousin Sholto?”’ ‘“‘He was awa’ in the Shetlands on a seal-hunt; but 1 heard naught at a’ but gude o’ the lad—an’, at ony rate, he is a Dalrymple.’’ Not much more was said at this time. Kate was hardly ready yet either to op- pose or to circumvent the plan. She was not even sure whether she did not approve it, under conditions, for that in- tense pride of family which lies at the foundation of all Scoteiumen’s affections is not wanting in the women’s hearts, also, and if this young Dalrymple was worthy of her love and tocher, she was not disinclined to give them. Many along talk she had on the sub- ject with Alice Pierson, a young English girl that Kate’s mother had educated and brought up, and who served Kate partly as companion and partly asmaid. But for some months her father said no more on the subject. The laird died, and he went forth to the funeral, and came back more clannish than ever, after mingling with the whole tribe in the solemn feu- dal ceremony of burying the dead chief. It. was the middle of the next summer before she heard any more of her intend- ed bridegroom. Then a letter came, say- ing that he and his foster-brother, Don- ald, would be in Glasgow at the end of July. Kate had been sure this news would come, sooner or later, and was prepared for it. She received it with a smile, and said: ‘‘Very well, father, I will try and like Sholto; only, you must let me learn the lesson in my own way, and Alice and 1 have a little plan which you must help us to carry out. Weare going down to Rothesay, for sea bathing. No one knows us there, and Alice is to be Kate Dalrymple and I am to be Alice Pierson. Sholto will then be at ease with me, and { shall find out his true character. If I can love him, I can win him.” “Pll play no Dalrymple false for any woman’s scheme,” said the Provost, sourly; but, at last, with infinite coax- ing, he was persuaded to stay in Glas- gow and remain passive. Then the young ladies took up their quarters in the lovely village of Rothe- Say, and they were hardly settled before the Highland gentlemen paid them a visit. Both were splendid-looking fellows. Kate at once decided that Donald was the handsomer. Alice dressed and acted the petted heiress to perfection, and Kate put on the modest toilet and rather melan- STIMPSON COMPUTING SCALE IS If NOT A DANDY ? What! You don’t see how it works? Why, it’s so simple you can’t help it. If you'll only step in a minute, we'll show it up. PHONE 540. i M. Hayden & Co 60 Pearl Street *>Grand Rapids DESCRIPTIVE E& J PAMPHLET. i. 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IT DOES NOT PAY to buy Adulterated sS ] ICK You can always get the PURE and the BEST through Jobbers or direct, made by Made in 2 sizes _ drop tail gate 38 in. wide, drop tail gate. Fully Warranted. ee ee oe 440 00 iS OO MEAN MADE EN- WHEN SUGAR IS SO CHEAP. CANDY A. FE. Brookes & Co. wae THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 choly air of a dependent, just as clever- ly. They fished and rode and rambled, and spent six charming weeks; but, somehow, Sholto Dalrymple was always by the side of Alice, the supposed _heir- ess, and Donald with Kate, the poor com- panion. Occasionally, the young men went to Glasgow, for a week or two, but the wooing went merrily on, and all par- ties seemed determined to enjoy the present, without thought of consequences. ‘‘Consequences!” The word, for the first time, troubled Kate at the end of six weeks, and she resolved to run up and see her father and find out what these might be. So, one evening, as they sat again together, after dinner, she said: ‘Father, I am going back to Rothesay to-morrow, and our pleasant little visit there must soon end. But I want to tell you that Sholto has scarcely left Alice’s side. He thinks, of course, she is his cousin. It is humiliating, but he has paid me very little attention, indeed. Now, father, what if Sholto refuses to marry me?”’ ‘*Then he’ll get his sword and a com- mission in the 42nd Highlanders. So much I maun do for him, onyway. But I shall buy the auld place mysel’, and when you do marry, you maun either marry a Dalrymple, or we maun rebap- teeze the lad.” “And suppose I am the disobedient one, father?” ‘*You’ll no daur to be that, Kate. It wad break my heart. ButI should then gie Sholto the twenty thousand pounds to lift the mortgages, an’ you would hae to thole that loss, and, mayhap, mair be- sides, for I’ll never see Dairg Castle shelter stranger heads.’’ So Kate knew the worst now. She might be poor enough with Donald, but, then, how generous and noble and un- selfish he had constantly proved himself tobe. And she loved him. Still, she felt felt that neither for this reason or any other could she so deeply disappoint and grieve her good father. No, no; she had done a very foolish thing in deceiving her cousin, and the thing must be un- done at once. Full of this determination, she was shy and cold*to Donald on her return, and when their usual evening ramble was proposed, refused to joininit. Don- ald went out, but soon returned, and, finding Kate alone, determined to know his fate. He told her how dearly he loved her, and he told his tale with such tenderness and earnestness, and was so handsome withal, that Kate was sorely tempted. “If you knew how! loved you, Alice; if you knew whatI must sacrifice to win you, you would surely give me some hope.” ‘Sacrifice!’ The word nettled Kate in her present mood. ‘‘She could not see how the laird’s foster-brother could sac- rifice anything in marrying her.” *‘Ah! but, Alice, suppose I am the laird! Suppose that I ehanged places with my foster-brother, because | wanted to see in her true colors this cousin of mine to whom I was to be sold? Sup- pose that | love you so well that I would gladly give Dairg and all its lands to win you?”’ ‘Donald! Donald! If, indeed, I could suppose this, I should be the happiest girl in all the world.”’ But she would not yet reveal her true character. She wandered out with him on the moonlit sands and listened with The /lerchant’s Statistical Memorandum ana Cash Book....... 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He ' ’ would give up Dairg to his uncle Thomas; it was mortgaged to its last , * eC eC] acre; and for his part, he was glad so STATE AGENTS FOR ‘i true a Dalrymple was able and willin . 4 to keep oe the old ancestral “a Lycoming Rubber Company, } 3 His uncle was a born noble, and had | keep constantly on hand a / | S, ro VV promised him, at all events, a fine com-| full and complete line of ; pany; and with Alice to love, and a good | these goods made from the Fux k sword to cut his way to fame and for- | purest rubber. They are T h Ee j CSS : tune, he was more than content. good style, good Stters and E Kate had never before been so bewitch- | — ! of any rubber in the mar- ing; she set herself now to charm anew, : ' ket. Our line of Leather and the young laird was proud beyond i i a e : i Boots and Shoes is com- all counting of the weman he had won, ; : plete in every particular, ; although he really believed her to be shin ti Site Bek ote : poor enough, save in love and beauty. Thanking pi ‘ie ue ie eg ae Ve ; Their radiant faces and the joyful confi- | await your further orders. Hoping you ~S ow dence of their manners told their posi-| wiil give our line a careful inspection o~= ~~. Alice said, as soon as they were alone: |W @re BREEDER BROS’. SHOE CO. ‘“‘We have done a very foolish thing, Kate. This young laird is really begin- : : u . ihe Nina eal ile nine Se Is it not a mistake in thinking you -can make the money you 3 Donald’s face and yours, tonight, than : your father will sanction. We have ee ’ | Thousands of Merchants testify that you cannot. ‘We have played wiser than we knew, ¥ Alice. Did it ever strike you that the I Then why not join the majority ? laird of Dalrymple may have played me : : : t back my own card?” J It is not too late Write us. Then Kate told softly over again the 9 laird’s own tale, and the two girls laughed a little and cried a little, and were very pleasantly and happily aston- ished. ‘We must go home now, Alice. I must e tell father at once, and I don’t want, jrst yet, to tell Sholto. Let us see if his love PATON LYON 4 ( will stand a week’s reflection.”’ : . | tion at once to their companions, and} When our representative calls on you, Aer a should, without a perfect system ? i So the party broke up for a week. The young men were to goto Edinburgh until - 20 & 22 Monroe St., they received a summons from Glasgow, GRAND RAPIDS and then return and arrange everything — ea : ? WE WANT pertaining tothe transfer of Dairg, and the marriage of Alice with Mr. Thomas The Provost was highly delighted when Kate told him how completely she had been taken in her own net. ‘It was,” he said, ‘‘Dalrymple again’ Dalrymple, and baith have won;’’ and he kept laughing out merrily, at intervals, for the whole next week, at ‘*Mistress Kate playing sae cannilie into her ain hand.”’ The young laird was a little amazed at the cheerfulness of his uncle’s greeting; but it was Dairg he was wanting, no doubt, he thought, ‘‘and he will care lit- tle enough for me now.” “So you hae fallen i? love wi’ the wrang party, Sholto; but that’s nane o’ my doing, lad, an’ you must not lay it to and will pay highest market price for them. If you haye any stock you wish to dispose of, seek headquarters for an ge outlet. el a | “Not iI, uncle. I get Alice, and you are welcome to Dairg. Iam glad it is Every essential feature of the CHAMPION is fully protected going into such worthy hands.” a aloe morgen teal eigenen “Yes, yes; dootless Vl] look weel to its ; will not be allowed. prosperity, Sholto; but 1 wish—” 0 « “Never mind that, uncle—I am satis- SAVES TIME MERCHANTS DESIRING 'TO INSPECT our Registers are ] fied. If you will have the necessary pa- SAVES MONEY ce an ar : oo we ou cute tee pers made out, Dairg shall be yours SAVES LABOR machine and have its merits explained.$ ; whenever you wish.’’ SAVES PAPER ‘‘The papers are a’ ready, Sholto. But Price of File and Statements: a send your traps up to my house. You No. 1 File and 1,°€0 Blank Statements. ..$2 75 maun stay wi’ me until this commission No. 1 File and 1,000 Printed Statements. 3 25 MANUFACTURED ONLY BY an’ marrying business is over.’’ Price of Statements Only: So the young men removed to the Pro- 1,000 Blank Statements...................$1.95 . vost’s mansion, and when he came down| —_ndex Bonrds pereet cB, for dinner, in all the pomp of his velvet| Im ordering Printed Statements, enclose’ suit and lace ruffles and golden badge, printed card or bill head or note head whenever i ee : : possible, so that no mistake may be made in | he found them waiting for him in the spelling names. drawing-room. a | 4 *‘All alone by yoursel’s, young men?” TRADESMAN COMPANY he said, cheerily;, ‘‘the lassies will be Grand Rapids, Mich. GRAND RAPIDS, «MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 here anon;” and he seemed in such ex- travagant spirits that Sholto Dalrymple could hardly help doing his uncle’s great heart a serious injustice. Presently the door opened, and Sholto rose eagerly to meet his affianced bride. Her magnificent dress and costly jewels startled him, and threw quite into the shade the plain black silk robe of her companion. Before, however, he could identify any single thought but that of admiration and amazement, the Provost advanced to the ladies, and, taking each by the arm, led them toward the laird and his foster-brother. “Gentlemen,” he said, gleefully, ‘‘ye hae gotten your introductions a’ mixed up, so I'll just sort a’ of your names right, afore we get our dinners. Sholto Dalrymple, Laird o’ Dairg, this is Mis- tress Kate Dalrymple;” and Kate, with a loving smile, looked into Sholto’s face and slipped her hand into his. “Alice?” ‘**Kate,’ if you please, Sholto.” “Yes, indeed, Sholto, and dinna ye think, young man, you can play pliskies wi’ a Dalrymple for naught. Ha! Ha! you got paid in your ain coin this time, my laddie! Come awa’, all o’ you; I winna hae my fish cauld to suit your havering; and there I see Donald and bonnie Alice Pierson have been introduc- ing themselves; but ye hae got things right this time.” It was a wonderful dinner, and when, at its close, the Provost brewed his glass of toddy, and handed Kate and Alice their ‘“‘thimbleful,’? they were quite ready to drink the new family toast: “‘Here’s to the Dalrymples of Dairg. Who’s like them?” AmeELIA E. BARR. The Prevailing Craze for So-Called Pure Food Bills. Written for Taz TRADESMAN. What is the matter with our legisla- tors, that they are suddenly seized with a mania for pure food bills? Have they eaten something indigestible? Have they found a hair in the butter, specks in the cream, or purchased, through mis- take, a ‘‘white oak’? cheese? Or, are they to turn an honest penny by obeying the behests of certain monopolies who de- sire to ‘‘own’? the markets in certain places. One might suppose, upon look- ing over late files of Michigan papers, that a few of our legislators had gene daft on this subject. Now, gentlemen, if you will simply confine your food bills to calling everything by its proper name, that will answer the purpose; but do not insult the intelligence urcommon sense of any guest or patron of hotel or eating house, by compelling the host, or waiters, to point out to him, in person, the fact that you have furnished him oleo for butter, or butter in place of butter- ine, or chickory for coffee, at the same time compelling him to placard the walls of his dining room with the same information. Give the guest the credit of personally knowing good butter or any of its substitutes, from bad, and of knowing clean and sweet butter from dirty and rancid stuff, and rest assured that he will seldom be a guest at the same house, unless his food is cleanly, palatable and wholesome. No hotel or eating house will long work against its own best interests by expecting a new class of customers to appear at each meal, which must inevitably be the case, if they attempt deception. One pure food bill proposed is to ‘‘make the sale of buttering unlawful, if of the color of yellow butter, although plain butterine may be used.’? The party who drafted that bill evidently has a very superficial knowledge of the constituents of butter- ine or oleomargarine. As these are prin- cipally made of true butter and beef suet, it is almost impossible to have it other- wise than the varying shades of all true butter. Of course, there are occasionally a few samples of rancid grease thrown together, and called butterine or oleo- margarine, but what merchant has not seen baskets or pails brought in oeca- Sionally from the country containing equally unsavory samples, probably made from cows’ milk entirely? These are the exceptions and call for no legis- lation, as they are soon relegated to the soap factory. Those who will take the trouble to inform themselves will find, also, that the proportion of true butter used in the manufacture of butterine is of the best quality and highest priced in the markets generally. The writer can affirm that the far-famed Elgin creamery is purchased and used in large quantities by manufacturers of oleomargarine. Many persons prefer that their true but- ter should—if white—be colored a light or deep yellow. Why not, then, attempt to prohibit the manufacture and sale of white butter, often made during the win- ter season, by the farmers, from cows’ milk only? Why not prohibit the color- ing of that, also, even with the most harmless substances generally used, as carrots, saffron, annatto, etc.? Do not the framers of these pure food bills know that the infinitesimal quantity of these colorings used may be taken into even the stomach of an infant, without the ieasi injurious result? Verily, one would suppose we had fallen upon very degen- erate times indeed, and that any per- sonal liberty laws the United States may have had are forever repealed. ‘‘A little learning is adangerous thing,” says some and it is may sometime have too much legisiation. The world generally is progressing in the right direction to increase our varie- ties of good food and should ob- structed in producing the various grades in quality, if only its healthfulness is kept prominent; and—as Mr. Johnson’s bill proposes—to pass any bill ‘‘abridg- ing the manufacture, or establishing the size, made from pure milk, from which the eream has been usurpation of power which no legislature can afford to establish for a precedent. The bare pro- posal of such a bill is an imputation upoh the intelligence and judgment of one, quite possible Michigan not be weight, or color of cheese removed’’ is a his constituents. Because one man, ora thousand, do not a full cheese, but would prefer a lower grade beeause it is lower in price, shall its manufacture then be prohibited? desire cream Several years ago, one extensive but- ter factory made its butter exclusively from then cheese was made from the skimmed milk. Their largest market for this cheese was in China—a country where few cows are kept, as the land is too valuable for other purposes. Hundreds of tons were shipped to that country only because its low price—s cents per pound at retail—prought it within reach of a class of people who creain; eould not aiford the more expensive kinds. The writer personally examined several of these cheese at the factory Order the largest quantity you cau use and get the BEST DISCOUNT. FOR SALE BY ALL JOBBERS. 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Also manufacturers of the Crown, Daisy, ES] oe : IN eg RELI S Jott Champion, SR: Magnolia, Challenge ana Dime CONDENSED a MILK, = EVAPORATED «. + Brands of rial -AND coe Borden’s Peerless co Columbian e+ - Brands ot 16 when they Were nearly two years old, and, as many persons may suppose it would be hardly eatable, 1 will say that it contained all the casein (which is analogous to the gluten in flour), most of the sugar of milk and many small globules of oil or butter, well distributed through it, and, aside from its hardness, was sweet, palatable, and digestible, and afforded a fair profit to all who handled it. It would seem as if those who are now clamoring for pure food have either forgotten or ignored one fact which it would be well to think about, and that is an old adage that ‘‘What is one man’s meat is. another man’s poison,” or, in plainer English, ‘‘tastes differ.’”’ A kind of food, also, which agrees well with the system of one man may produce pain and iliness if eaten by another. There are, really, only two qualifications in common neces- sary in regard to all our food—cleanli- ness and healthfulness. All beside these are individual matters of taste and fashion and should never be hampered by legislation. One person is disgusted with, and turns up his nose at, a well- cooked dark steak taken from the loins of a really fat horse—an animal which has no rival for cleanliness, in its high- est sense, on earth; while the same per- son will sit down to a roast guinea hen, which is several shades darker and not half as choice in its food, nor cleanly in its habits. Another person is disgusted if asked to partake of afrog fry; but, if invited to partake of quails’ drumsticks broiled—and they are clandestinely taken from the same dish of frogs—he pronounces them delicious. One person is in ecstasies over roast ground hog or raccoon, while still another dines on skunk! Thus we might enumerate the vagaries of taste and fashion in food; therefore give all the privilege of, select- ing for themselves as to quality and price, while nothing should be allowed on sale which is not cleanly or healthful. FRANK A. Howie. —_ > << Our Banana Trade. The American people consume more bananas than all the other nations of the earth. Last year they managed to do away with nearly eighteen million bunches, or about one bunch of twenty dozen bananas to every four persons. And the trade is still growing. This is only the imported bananas. Florida has begun to raise large quantities of the luscious fruit and would add considera- bly to this total. The exact number im- ported is 17,864,714, of which New Or- leans received about one-third, New York nearly a quarter, Philadelphia a sixth, Boston more than one-ninth, Mobile a tenth, and Baltimore one-eighteenth part, the small remainder being distrib- uted among other receiving points. Al- together, some thirteen hundred ship car- goes of bananas are recorded in the cus- tom kouse reports. The northern ports obtain most of their bananas from the West Indies, Jamaica, and Cuba, while New Orleans chiefly receives from South and Central America. The banana plant is one of the most prolific bearers in the world and requires little or no care. ——— ert There are two calamities we hope to be spared this year—a prolonged drouth and an extra session of Congress. There is more counterfeit manhood than counterfeit money in circulation. The highest form of charity is to put a man in a position to help himself. Collections are getting easier, for which many are truly thankful. lp Springtime finds the Signal Five at the front. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. CHICAGO AND WEsT MICHIGAN R’Y. GOING TO CHICAGO. iby. Ga Raxvids.....-.... ; sm . :25pm *11:30pm Ar. Chicago 6:50pm *7:20am RETURNING PROM "CHICAGO. Nov. 18, 184 Ly, Calpe... .... 8:23am 5:00pm *11:45pm Ar. Ge Kapide......... 3:05pm 10:25pm *6:25am TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:25am 1:25pm 5:30pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... i: 45am 3:05pm 10:25pm TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. Ly.Grand Rapids.. 7:30am 3:15pm Ar, Manistee........ 12:20pm 8:15pm Ar. Traverse,City.. 1:00pm 8:45pm Ar. Charievoix...... 3:15pm 11:10pm Ar. Petoskey..... 3:45pm 11:40pm Trains arrive from north at 1:00 pm and 10:00 pm. PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS. Parlor car leaves for Chicago 1:25pm. Ar- rives from Chicago 10:25pm. Sleeping cars leave for Chicago 11:30pm. Arrive from Chi- cago 6:25am. *Every day. DETROIT LANSING & NORTHERN R. R. GOING TO DETROIT. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm eee 11:40am 5:30pm 10:10pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. iy. Bepek..........,.. 7:40am 1: 10pm206 :00pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... 12: 40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8T. LOUIS. Ly. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:35am 10:45pm TO AND FROM LOWELL. Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm Ar. from Lowell........... 12:40pm 5:20pm ....... THROUGH_CAR SERVICE. Parlor Carson all trains between Grand Rap ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn- ing train. Trains week days ae. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t MICHIGAN CENTRAL Others week days only. Oct. 28, 1894 “‘T 16 Niagara Falls Route.’’ (Taking effect Sunday, May 27,1894.) Arrive. Depart. w2em......- Detroit Express ........ 7 Wam Saeam..... *Atlantic and Pacific..... 11 0Wpm [copm...... New York Express...... 6 00pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex press trains to aud from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00am; re turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20 p m. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains eeat over the Michigan Cen tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) A. ALmguisT, Ticket Agent, Union PassengerStation. ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MIL- WAUKEE Railway. EASTWARD. i\tNo. 14\tNo. 16)TNo. 18;#No. Gd ee, red 6 45am/10 20am) 3 25pm - Tonia . 7 40am/}11 25am : 27pm }1235 St. Johns a 8 25am|1217pm/ 5 20pm 15am Owoasd...... Ar; 900am 1 20pm! 605pim} 3 10am E. Saginaw..Ar /10 50am] 3 45pm| 8 00pm} 6 40am Bay City..... Ar 11 3am 435pm) 8 37pm 7 15am Pam ........ Ar/1005amj 345pm) 7 05pm) 5 4fam Trains Le ve Pt. Huron Ar |1205pm 550pm) 850pm/ 7 30am Pontiac ......Ar|/10538am] 305pm)| 8 25pm| 5 27am Detren...-._- Ar/1} 50am] 405pm) 925pm) 7 0fam WESTWARD. For Grand Haven and Intermediate —... *7:00 &. m, For Grand Haven and Muskegon..... +1:00 p. m. ~~ Mil and Cal. 6 PD. m. +Daily except Sunday. *Dail ly. Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:5( p.m., 5:30 p. m., 10:4 p.m. Trains arrive from the west, 10:10a. m. 3:15 pm and 9:15 p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet car. No. 18 Parlor Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper. Westward— No. 11 ParlorCar. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. Jas. CAMPBELL, City T'cket Agent. Grand Rapids & Indiana. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Leave going North For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw....7:404. m. ed 5:00 p. m. Por Petoskey end Mackinaw................0 5:25 p m. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Leave going South. a ee 7:25 a.m, For Kalamazoo and Ohicago... ...... ....... 2:15 p. m For Fort Wayne and the East................ 2:15 p.m. ee either te tee ene eee "5:40 p.m. For Kalamazoo and Chicago................ "11:40 p.m Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R. Ly Grand Rapids........ 7:25am 2:15pm *11:40pm a Oe... 2:40pm 9:06pm 7:10am 2:15p m train hasthrough Wagner Buffet Parlor Oar and coach. 11:40 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car sagged Ly 6:50a m 3:30 p m 11:30 p m Arr Grand Rapids 2:50pm $15 5m 7:20 m 3:30 pm ine through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car 11:30 p m train daily,through Wagner Sleeping Car Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For on ee From Muskegon—Arrive, 9:50 am . oo be 1:15pm 440 Dm 5:20 p m OC .L. LOOK WOOD‘ General Passenger and Ticket Agent. Eee BLOOD RELATION ALL USE Lily White Flour Or would, at least, if you would keep it in the store so they could get it when they want it. IT SELLS ITSELF And when a sack is sold it IS SOLD. The custom- er doesn’t come back for discounts because of poor flour. HE COMES BACK FOR ANOTHER SACK with a smile on his face, joy in his heart and CON- FIDENCE in YOU. Isn’t that smile and confidence worth something? IT MEANS MORE TRADE. VALLEY GHY MILLING GO. MANUFACTURERS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE STANDARD BARREL TRUCK NO. 1. By the old method, to get a barrel of liquid of a few hundred pounds npon a truck or skid re- quired the combined effort of two or three men, while with the Standard Truck a boy of or- dinary strength will load a pack- age weighing one-fourth of a ton easily—a slight tip of the truck will elevate the barrel so thata faucet may be put in without the loss of a drop of the contents, after which a slight roll by means of the upper wheels will put the faucet in proper position for drawing, the same lad may now wheel it to its proper place without assistance. After the barrel shall be nearly drained it can easily be tipped for- ward so as to entirely empty the barrel and no strength is required to accomplish the object. Write for Catalogue of Handearts and Trucks. LANSING a Lansing, Mich. |. LIKE A BALLOON De The price of LEMONS has an upward tendency. We bought early and therefore can offer the Best Marks of Fancy Grades at what should prove | Attractive Figures! |[>o 3 PUTNAM CANDY CO. ee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 17 REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. W.F. Bricker, the Belding Merchant and Real Estate Operator. Willis F. Bricker was born at Ada, Hardin county, Ohio, May 30, 1854. His antecedents were a combination of Ger- man and Yankee, and the characteristics of both races have predominated in his career. His father was a general mer- chant at Ada, but abandoned storekeep- ing about ten years after the birth of his son to embark in business near Fort Wayne, Ind. A year later he removed to Ionia county, locating on a farm near Saranac, subsequently removing to Otisco township, Ionia county, where he remained on the same farm twenty years. Mr. Bricker attended district W. F. BRICKER. school in the country, afterward going to Belding, where he attended public school in winter and worked in Wilson, Luther & Wilson’s sawmill summers, his associate in both occupations being Sen- ator J. M. Earle, who has lately taken the management of the Lansing Pant & Overall Co., at Lansing. After working five years in the mill, he entered into partnership relations with his father and opened a general store at Belding under the style of J. & W. F. Bricker. Six years later he purchased the interest of his father, since which time the business has been conducted in his own name. Five years ago he ciosed out the grocery and shoe stocks and has since handled lines of clothing and dry goods in a double store building owned by himself. He is the owner of nine store buildings and the Hotel Bricker, which burned two years ago and was immediately re- built. He also owns a half interest in the grocery firm of Cobb & Bricker and has recently purchased the general stock of E. H. Deatsman & Co., at Sunfield. Mr. Bricker has served his city two years as alderman and was the first Dem- ocratic postmaster Belding ever had, having been appointed by President Cleveland during his first term. At the recent municipal election he was elected Mayor of the city, although the place is overwhelmingly Republican, his election being due entirely to his popularity and the reputation he has acquired as an en- terprising citizen. He is a member of the K. of P., Maccabees, Woodmen, Odd- fellows, and has taken the first degree in Masonry. Mr. Bricker was married in 1877 to Miss Martha K. Cain, of Brantford, Ont., who died ten years later, leaving a Two daughter, who is now 12 years old. | /of business exceedingly small, years later Mr. Bricker married Miss Odelia Mehney, of Belding, by whom he has had two children, a boy and a girl. Personally, Mr. Bricker is a genial gentleman whom it is a genuine pleas- ure to meet. He knows no such word as ‘fail’ and his career in Belding is a brilliant example of, what can be accom- | plished by a man who is actuated by an abiding faith in the future of his home and is confident of his own ability to carry-into execution any plan he may formulate which is within the bounds of reason. me 0 The Drug Market. Alcohol—The market for grain is in a more demoralized condition than at any time since the attempted reorganization of the D. & C. F.Co. Efforts to complete a satisfactory arrangement by the vari- ous distillers and distributers seem to have signally failed and competition is keener than ever, with a consequent de- pression of prices. Balsams—The stringency of the mar- ket for Peru has been somewhat relieved by arrivals from Hamburg. Copaiba is steady in price, with an active jobbing demand; two direct arrivals during the week have been taken by dealers. Tolu is quiet and unchanged. There has been a better inquiry for Canada fir. Bicarb Soda—There is a continued ab- sence of important demand, but jobbing orders are absorbing sufficient stock to give the market a steady appearance and values are maintained. Bichromate of Potash—The market continues in an unsettled condition, ow- ing to keen competition between domes- tic and foreign manufacturers, but there is no further change in prices. Blue Vitriol—Is moving moderately, in limited quantities, but supplies are fully equal to the demand and prices show no essential change. Brimstone—The demand ia light, with values easier in sympathy with the Sicily market. Cassia Buds—The demand continues to improve and values are well sus- tained. Cocaine—The markets abroad are cabled easier and prices here have been reduced 25 cents per ounce. Cod Liver Oil—Declined early in the week, but the situation has since im- proved, most of the cheap lots having been taken up, and there is less anxiety to sell. Cubeb Berries—Have_ been active, with prices higher, under the influence of advancing primary markets and concen- tration of stocks. Flowers—The better grades of German chamomile are becoming scarce and com- mand full figures. There is a good de- mand for American saffron and a liberal business is reported. Leaves—Short buchu are meeting with an active demand, altogether for the bet- ter grades, which are in light supply and held firm. Opium—Has continued weak and de- pressed, with a further decline in prices, but without stimulating aetivity, the de- mand having been slow and the volume buyers evidently holding off in view of the un- certain outlook. Quinine—Manufacturers’ agents con- tinue to report a fair business at full prices, but from second hands the de- mand has been less active and the mar- ket closed quiet and featureless, with prices firmly maintained. Seeds—The general market for canary is somewhat depressed, owing to the prevalence of a very light demand in connection with the liberal receipts this week of La Plata seed. Dutch caraway is strong and shows an advancing tend- enecy. Stocks of Russian hemp are nearly exhausted and shipments from the producing country are being delayed by ice in the Baltic. Mustard is a trifie easier and is moving slowly. Coriander is very active. Sponges—The spot market is un- changed, with a continued firm under- tone. Information gathered from vari- ous reliable sources reports that a num- ber of vessels have reached the Rock Is- land and Anclote fishing grounds, but up to a recent date no sponges have been taken. A few lots of key arrived re- cently at Key West and were sold at comparatively high prices. Sa er The Fruit Market. Oranges—The Navels are being cleaned up rapidly. The best sizes are now almost gone and are bringing fancy prices. Two-thirds of the seedlings have been sent forward and they will all have been shipped by May 1. The pros- pects are good for a large crop of Medi- terranean sweets, which will bring much better prices than now ruling. The later varieties, such as St. Michaels and late Valencias, will come forward in due sea- son. The present demand is good and is likely to grow better. Figs, dates and nuts sell steadily ina small way and there is little prospect of a change of any magnitude for some time. Bananas—The demand has increased so rapidly that the importers have not been able to keep up with it, as all the carrying boats are not yetin commission. In consequence, prices are very firm and considerably above those ruling two weeks ago. The stock sent to this mar- ket so far this season has been of superior quality and proven most satisfactory to the trade. Lemons—Tke recent advances have been fully maintained at the sales of last week, and brokers and importers alike are strong in the belief that, owing to limited quantities, further advances are more than probable. The local market is well supplied with the best marks of fancy grades, and prices, as quoted else- where, are reasonable. —— > -- Twenty-five Pounds of Crackers for 25 Cents. Thompson Bros., the Detroit grocers, recently hung out a placard announcing that they would sell eight pounds of crackers for a quarter. Coon & Walker, noting the cut in price, decided to go their competitors one better and hung out a sign announcing that they would sell nine pounds for a quarter. The merry war thus inaugurated continued until both parties to the conflict were selling twenty-five pounds of crackers for 25 cents. No one was the gainer by the cut, but all the consumers in that neighborhood need not be blaimed if they cherish the idea that they are paying long prices for goods when the slashing mania does not prevail. > - <> The Page Fence Giants, who are now here playing ball with the Grand Rapids club, are all enthusiastic bicyclists and ride the Monarch, thinking it to be the best wheel for all around road service. Adams & Hart are local agents for both the celebrated Page Wire Fence and the Monarch wheels. While here the Giants were glad to make their headquarters with Adams & Hart, where they found the finest flavored cigars in abundance. —_ —_ 2 work. co ca kes the dirt your f EE s¢ eS 2 ao 5 aa Faas orf 18 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drug Department. State Board of Pharmacy, One Year—George Gundrum, Ionia. Two Years—C. A Bugbee, Charlevoix. ThreeYears—S. E. Parkhill, Owosso. Four Years—F. W.R Perry, Detroit Five Years—A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. President—Fred’k W .R. Perry, Detroit. &ecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. ‘“reasarer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Ooming Meetings—Detroit (Star Island), June 24; Lansing, Nov 5. “iichigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—A. 8. Parker, Detroit. V‘ce-President—John E. Peck, Detroit. Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit. Secretay—F. C. Thompson. Detroit. Grand Rapids Pharmacentica! Society. President, John E. Peck; Secretary, B. Schrouder. A COUNTRY STORE SYMFOSIUM. Written for THE TRADESMAN. One evening, in the late ‘‘winter of our diseontent,’’ half a dozen persons of va- rious occupations sat in the store of Druggist Hamlin, who had been located for many years ina pleasant village of Central Michigan. Each was intent on enjoying the comfort of furnace warmth and disposed to converse on any subject admitting of argument. Like the West, the night outside was ‘‘wild and woolly,” wind and snow hay- ing already begun a discussion that promised to last until morning, which prevented the usual number of custom- ers seeking their wonted evening rendez- vous. The company consisted of Harry Smiles, a traveler for the firm of Doyce & Gerber, who had dropped in, hoping to at least book a small order for druggists’ sundries; Major Dobbs, dealing in loans and real estate, besides holding down the office of justice of the peace; Farmer Jones, storm-bound, but in no hurry for home; Bedell, a dentist doing a fair busi- ness; Stokes, the village blacksmith, and last, though not least in length. [srael Poppinjay, anew comer, Weary Willie by occupation, hailing from half the states in the Union and claiming intimate knowledge of men and manners in the other half. He had already got on quite familiar terms with the druggist by sampling his plug tobacco, and had made preliminary arrangements to have his name duly entered on daybook and ledger as a regular patron. The hard times had been thoroughly discussed vith unanimity of opinion—so frequent of late—when the Major re- marked: “I think, Hamlin, you have the bulge on the hard times and must feel them less than men in other lines of business. For my part, 1 should feel like taking the world pretty easy if | had your annual profits between me and want.’’ **That’s what I’ve allers noticed,” vol- unteered Poppinjay. ‘‘The drug busi- ness is where the doijlars are raked in, allus. Now, down in Missoury, I knowed aman what made his pile in three years a-sellin’ of ager medicines to pre-emptors on Sallow’s bottoms, ’til he tuck sick hisself with the ager an’ hed ter move back Eas’. I hed once a doggone good no- tion to go inter the scheme myself, but somehow couldn’t raise the spondulicks.” “Perhaps,” suggested Bedell, ‘*vou would find some brains needed, besides capital, if you expected to make money in the drug trade.”’ “I don’t dispute you, Doc. But ’mno slouch uv a hand at merchandizin’, ’ef I do say it that shouldn’t. I know lots by ’spiri’nce ’bout some kin’s uv drugs; an’ I could hire a young clerk with high- toned knowludge to run the dispensatory part uvit. I’ve knowed plenty uv men in Arkinsaw run drug stores that never hed no schoolin’ theirselves, an’ they all made money, every one uv ’em,”’ said Willie, shifting to an easier position and at the same time relieving his mouth of superfiuous tobacco juice. ‘I think,’? said Farmer Jones, ‘that, while the drug men generally make an enormous profit on their goods, the gro- cers and other dealers are still getting more than their share from the public. I used to be a Patron of Husbandry, and I still believe, as they did, that 10 or 12 per cent. profit on sales is enough to pay any dealer for his services and the use of cap- ital. A man who isn’t satisfied with that ought to step down and out and let some one that knows a good thing take his place.” ‘Did any of the Patrons ever make a practical test of the per cent. theory with their own capital?’ asked Harry Smiles. “Well, no, not just that, exactly; but we made contracts with some dealers to sell us goods at special rates, with privi- lege of examining invoices from whole- salers through our finance committee. There were most always several in every town willing to make such contracts, and I reckon we saved many a dollar in that way, as long as we kept up our organiza- tion.’”’ ‘Very likely,’’ replied Smiles, ‘‘your scheme lasted as long as any others of the kind, and few were surprised at the inevitable collapse. Having been set in motion by a blind distrust of all commer- cial honesty, and being fed by prejudices originating in jealousy or discontent, the initial force was hampered by the fric- tion of such discordant elements. Like a Waterbury watch, it soon ran down. ‘If the spring had been stronger, Its life had been longer.’” “I must say you are hard on the Pa- trons. We had some solid and well- posted men among us, and I don’t know as we looked out for ourselves any closer than some other folks. We surely had a right te get our supplies as cheap as pos- sible.” “Granted, my friend,’’ said Smiles; “but you made two serious mistakes: you underrated the cost of selling goods and overrated the advantages to be gained by your special contract system. You claim that 10 per cent. is a fair profit for the average dealer; did you ever know anyone to actually carry on a profitable retail business on that margin?” ‘‘I can’t say for certain; but we found men willing to contract to furnish our supplies on that basis. Of course, we had to buy a good bit at other stores, be- cause the men with whom we had con- tracts did not keep all that we needed. They claimed to do fairly well on the profit we allowed, but the plan fell through by reason of dissension in the order.’’ “It is easily seen, in the light of your admissions, why the plan of forcing deal- ers into a cast-iron contract to sell goods at a certain per cent. above cost for the benefit of a small proportion of consum- ers was so short lived. Many who ear- ried large stocks of back-number goods found it a good opportunity to work them off for cash, without loss, while they se- cured increased sales in staples from the Patrons and some outside trade at regu- lar prices. By the time their old stocks had to be replenished, a general depres- sion in the wholesale market helped to equalize the columns of profit and loss. Meantime, for other kinds of goods not in frequent demand Patrons paid full prices to noncontracting firms, or went without. Thus, like the old pig that crawled through a crooked hollow log to secure a feast of sweet field corn, and found herself in the end on the hungry side of the fence, the Patrons must have found, on summing up things, that they were still at the point from which they started. The question whether a dealer can do a profitable business on a 10 per cent. margin was never practically set- tled, after all.’ “But,” inquired Stokes, ‘‘don’t you believe it possible, by doing a strictly eash to make a 10 per cent. margin a paying one?”’ “Not a bit of it! There may be at long intervals, a special exception, but business, not one dealer in a thousand, unless it be | a Chinaman or adepartment store com- pany that employs help at hardly liy- i" ing wages, can show a balance on the right side of the ledger. I knew a man in a thriving tewn who sold in one year $12,000 worth of goods. He earried full lines of staple and fancy groceries, crockery, glassware and housekeeping notions, besides doing a brisk trade in hay and grain with the local consumers. He took no speculative risks and bought only butter, eggs and small fruits of his country customers. Besides working {Continued on page 22.] HEADACHE r E C K : S POWDERS Pay the best profit. Order from your jobber Seely’s Flavoring Extracts Every dealer should sell them. Extra Fine quality. Lemon, Vanilla, Assorted Flavors. Yearly sales increased by their use. Send trial order. Seely's Lemon, rapped) Joz. Gro. 90 10 20 1 20 12 60 200 22 80 3 00 33 00 I loz. $ 2 oz. 4 oz. 6 oz. 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OE 25 Eupatorium .. , = Lopera......- 25 Majorum ......- 28 Mentha Piperit 23 : Vir. 25 a ........... 20 Tanacetum, V.... 22 ee 7... 25 MAGNESIA. Colcaed, ra... ...... 2 @& Carbonate, Pat . . = Carbonate, K. & M.. 20@ 2 Carbonate, Jennings. 35@ 36 OLEUM. Absinthium. .........2 50@3 00 Amygdalae, Dale... |. 30@ 50 Amydailae. Amarae....8 00@S 25 eS 1 90@2 00 Auranti | sonatas Lee 1 80@2 00 erg: pen cesces ss 6 GORE On Cajip putt Sager ont ee — | = Corvemnwilt ..........- S ar ease | caesar ........... Clemeneemt .... ....... 1 35@1 42 Coeeeee............- @ Commu 2ec.......... 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(po. 80) @ B —-, 1@ ingiber a.. —. to = Zinemer }.......-.... 18@ Ww SEMEN. Anigum, (po. 20). @ i5 Shae ts dee” 14@ 16 a eeea scene 1@ 6 Carui, (po. 18) .. - 10Q 12 Cardamon............. 1 00@1 25 Corimnarum........... 12@ 14 Cannabis Sativa. . 4@ Cvocreums.... ........ Dipterix Odorate ..... 1e Poentcaium......... en me..... &6 72 7 -—Oonm arS Sa @ 6@ eee epee es 3w@ 4 tint, ” (bbl. a). —34@ 4 Lobel 35@ 40 PharlarisCanerian.. 4@ 5 Meee -4%@ 5 sinepis Al — Le aaa _ 7] 8 aie... 11@ 12 SPIRITUB. Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@z 50 D. F.R.....2 0@2 25 - _... 1 25@1 50 Juntperis Co. o.T....1 Gas @ eS ee 1 9@z 10 me Vou Gall........ 1 75@Q6 50 mr Oper ........._. 1 256@2 00 Woe Se............- 1 25@2 00 SPONGES. Florida sacar wool a 2 50@2 75 Nassan Sadar wool Caciege ............ 2 00 Velvet extra sheep’ wool Carriage.. 1 10 Extra yellow aheepe’ ones. _........... 85 Grass sheeps’ wool Car- —— .. ............. 65 Hard for slate use.... 5 Yellow Reef, for slate wee... .......-.:.... 1 40 SYRUPS. OO eee 50 Teese ............:... 50 ee 60 mar ten... _. Sree Ceee.....-........ 50 eee 50 Similax Officinalis.. i : eee .._.............--..- 50 ee... 50 Ose eae 50 aes... ........ Prunus girg........ ae 50 Legs than box 50. Glue, Brown ‘White. a Hydraag Chior Mite.. r : oe ... ‘ Ox Rubrum . Ammoniati.. . Unguentum. = Orareyram ........-. a ee an. a 3 od Liguor Arsen et Hy- arc hee... Liquor Potass —- Magnesia, Sulph (bbl eaeias SF... TINCTURES. Aconitum Napellis R.. 60 . . y.... 50 oe Cl 60 | Sud nvr. 60 ae 50 Asafostida.. in am Trade-marks,the following Syringes which we can recommend to our customers as being made up of the very best materials and sold at lower prices. Bulb Syringes No. 4, Valley City Syringe, pasteboard box, 2 H. R. Pipes. Max Syringe, pasteboard box, 3 H. R. Pipes. Max Syringe, wood box, 3 H. R. Pipes in rack. Crook’s Syringe, pasteboard box, single bulb, 3 metal Pipes. Hlenry Syringe, pasteboard box, 3 metal Pipes. Valley City Syringe, wood box, 4 H. R. Pipes. Fountain Syringes Grand River, pasteboard box, 3 H. R. Pipes. Valley City, pasteboard box, 3 H. R. Pipes, with irrigator. Valley City, wood box, 4 H. R. Pipes. Combination Fountain Syringe and Hot Water Bottle Valley City, wood box, 5 H. R. Pipes. Grand River, pasteboard box, 3 H. R: Pipes. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG GO. MANUFACTURING CHEMISTS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SS genes ae ara SARE A RR tales 8 ag Besa Ss a I LED. Ai AOE a See SEES ME aan ares aA wr Sa Ny gages ee cape ache ge pertains cigey armen ria 20 ‘THE MICHIGAN "TRADESMAN. GROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. As below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. They are prepared just before It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the AXLE GREASE. doz — —.—hClUrtw:tCOS 6 —o...l.lf..,:CU 7 00 Diamond............ 50 5 50 Frazer's °5 9 00 Mica ..... o i129 Paragon a0 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acm® ‘@ 1D. cans. 3 doz = TT 1 60 —_— . .... .-- 10 Arctic. - B® cans6doz case....... & $b o — —. 1 10 [ee 2 00 OO ae 9 00 Red Star, s = cans. = “ =. se Oe Sun Light. lb. cans, 6 duz. case 45 = Ib. a ‘ 85 : Ib. 2a ~ Le Van Anrooy’s Pure. : 14 Ib. cans, 6 doz. case. 90 yy lb. con. ~ . 1 1 [i * Sao ~ 3 30 veifer’s. ‘ “4 =“ _ = . 4 Ib : 1 50 Our | eader, fe .b cans 45 \% ib cans...... iD . thems ... -' 2 BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. EBugilish . Bristol... -. : Domestic i BLUING. Gross arctic, 4 = ovals . = Ss 6 Ce 7 . pints round ....... 9 00 - =. 2, sifting box... 2 _ Be.2, 400 No. 5, ie 8 00 * itesball .- a ie 4 0Z....-. ¢ Mexican Liquic i, : 4 o2.. = BROOMS, ae No. 2 Carpet : = eee c Parlor aan... | Common Whisk........--- 85 Fan . 1 00 Warcnousd........ .---.--.- 2 85 BBUSHES. ee 12 Stove. No. - pag eagaat t Bi si im 8 * pars 1 a Sice Root Sera row... : Rice Root Scrub. 3 row.... : : eatto, COose............ _— GA — Hotel, 40 Ib. bozes.. 10 a. oe” ltt ee 9 Paraffine ..... ~ Wicking 24 DASNHD GOODS, Fish = 1 2 ittle Nock, ee i a . -_...... 1 90 Clam Chowder. enters 5..............- 22 Cove Oysters. ae iS... 80 . a 1 45 Lobsters oo i -........ “ _. 20 0 08 to Sesh Picnic, : _ 21b. ares ae Standard, Ay Ss... >.. Mustard, 2ib.......... Tomato Sauces, 2}b 1 We © ao Souged, 2 - eee Salmo. ‘ ‘olumbia River, — ... io talle 3 «5 Alaska, _ - 1 30 pin ek 1 2h Kinney’s, is 19 Sardines. American ‘6 @i t a @é Imported 4s @9 C me @:3 Mustard Xa i... @7 Boneleas 21 Trou Brook 8. it z Fruits. Apples. 3 lb. standard 9 York State, gallons 2 7 Hamburgh Apricots. iaveosk. ..... . _- 1 40 a 1 40 ae. 150 Overland . 1 40 Blackberries. a 85 = Cherries. Red @1 15 Pitted Bamburgh . i. nee... . 1 40 =" ee ee 16 Dsamsons, Egg Plums and Green Gages ae... . 109 California. .. 1 06 Gooseberries. —..h.Ulr.,C 3 Peaches. ae eo... es... California. . Monitor Oxford oe Pears. aoe. tt. 115 mavomees............_. 1 40 Pineapples. en 1 00@1 30 Johnson’s sliced...... 2 50 ' grated.. 2 75 Booth’s Py oe @? 5) o a 2% Quinces. SE 1 10 Raspberries, a 95 Black Hamburg....... 146 ae tae... 110 Snare Lawrence . i 1s Hamburgh . a. if — : 85 as... gi Whortleberries, Bimeberrics ........ 85 eats. ack heer (Cw... 215 abe |... 2 Potied ham, % _ Lo 1 = eeeecocecroeor ‘ Y tongue, % a" 35 “ 5 ie) chicken, _ 95 Vegetables. Beans. Hamburgh Stringions....... 1s French sty!e..... 2 00 . a... Cl isd Lima, —— ........... 2S oe............... 70 Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 25 Bay State Baked. Ls World’s Fair Baked........ 12 acne... 95 — Hamburgh ... oe Livingston Eden . ee 1 00 Purity oe Hones Dee 123 Morning Glory _ eee % Peas. damburgh mearretet........ 1 36 early June. . 150 e Champion Eng..i 40 _ —— oo... e ancy sifted 1 6 Seeker ....... eh Harris standard io VanCamp’s marrofat lh early June..... 1 3% Archer’s Early Biosxom 1 French. 2Fr Mushrooms. es... Squash. eee i Succotash, amare... Peeeeee 13 Soaked . .. . = Honey Dee is ee... _..ts Tomatoer. Hancoce . — £0 Sxceleicr —— 89 one... ....... . 19 CU 1 30 Gallon oe ee 2 25 CHOCOLATE. Baker’s. German Sweet.. 23 reomtem.... ...... 3 Breakfast Cocoa _. “5 HEESE Amboy 12 Acme 11% Lemawee .... .. : 2 Hiverside .... 2 oe moo... . ae 11 —— 00 ———s... 20 Limburger a @5 Pineapple ...... G24 Roanefort - f @35 : ae 220 8c. weltser, imported @24 domestic oeil4 CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. — pint, 25 bottles us 2% : 4 50 all 1 doz bottles 3 50 Triumph Brand. Half pint, per doz ......__. ix Pint, 25 bottles. . cece se On Quart, por ee... 3 75 CREAM TARTAR. strictly pure.. : Telfer’s Absolute.......... 30 eae. 15@25 CLOTHES PINS, Daisy Brand. 5Sgrossboxes .. .. .... 40@45 COCOA SHELLS, fib Daee.......... i: Less quantity... eee teres @3 Pound packages........ 6%@7 COFFEE. Green, Rie, 2, 18 ae, rs... lids. oe —aw— LULL lee Peaberry oe Santos. Se LLLULULULULULULU.LCU Cle Good. lll Paes 22 as. Mexican and Guatamala. —...... 21 Good 22 ar 24 rs : : i Milled’. eee 24 Java, ae rive Growin... MenGuniee. 28 Mocha, a. a ———. LL 28 Roasted. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add \c. per lb. for ona ing and 15 per cent. for shrin age. kage. ieee XXXX.. £2 30 Bunola .. --. 2. oo Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case... 22 3 xtract. yauer City = RTOBS .. 7d L 176 oe S, foil, gros. ....- 1 65 _ tin . 2 85 — —-.... + oe ted... 7 ce TH KS LINES. Cotion, a ft.. ee r....... e 66 ft.. ° _e....... ” e....... CON’ ENSKI) HULK, 4408 in rage, N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s —— Gail Borden Eagle..... ... Crown - Daw... eae a Magnolia ae... Peerless evaporated cream 5 75 CUUPON BuOKS ‘“Tradesman.’ 8 1 books, per hundred 2 00 8 2 “ee “cs oe ae 2 50 8 3 “ “ aa 3 00 g 5 oe oe oe ee 3 am $10 e oe “ : 4 eT) $20 “ “s oe 5 00 “Superior.” % 1 books, per hundred 2 50 g 2 “ee ‘ee “ 3 00 g s “ec “ “ cn 3 50 8 5 i “ “ an 4 00 810 [ ° - .. 5@ #20 oe oe “ a 6 00 Universal ” 8 1 books, per hundred .. 83 00 82 ae a ss ‘. . 400 85 . a 5 00 oe 6 hCU “ .. 60 820 ir 7 00 Above ities on coupon books are subject to the following quantity discounts: 200 books or over. 500 “ “ 1000 ‘“ “ : 20 “ COUPON PASS BOOKS. [Can be made to represent any denomination from 810 down. | ae. > =... 2. 100 oe 250 “ce 500 — FS OREDIT CHEOKS, 500, any one denom’n..... 88 —_— Cc 5 2000, “ “cc rT 8 . 5 per cent — «© 8 - NIOMWe a83s Ss8Kss Steel punch CRACKERS. utter. SeymourXxz bee eee use Seymour XXX, cartoon Family Xxx.. eae ela nar’ cartoon...... Salted oa Salted xuy, ‘cartoon. aan Keuosha Boston Soda, City. Soda, Duchess... Crystal Wafer........ ae Long Island Wafers ....... b ster, 8. Oyster XX ne City Oyster. XXX............ 5% Pare Oveter...... ....... DRIED FRUITS. Domestic. Apples. 6% Evaporated, 50 Ib. boxes 8 Apricots, California in bags.. ...74%@8% Evaporated in boxes. 9 Blackberries. In boxes.. Nectarines. 70 lb, bags 25 lb. boxes Peaches. Peoted, in boxes........ Cal. eran. * ete eo 9 . ih Seen... 8 Pears, California in bags..... California boxes........ 7% Pitted Cherries, ——. io See... = Fee ee, Prunelles, ib boxes ‘ 9s Raspberries. eee 22 oo sores... 22% -— |... 22% Raisins. Loose Muscatels iu me. 2 crown 3% ce FF Cl 4 4 a 5 Loose Muscatels { in 1 Bags, 2 crown ‘ 3% 3 : 334 Foreign. Currants. rats, Gh... @AK% Vostizzas, 60 lb. cases...... 4% Schuit’s Cleaned pi ws. 5% ( pockeeee == ll... 6% Peel. Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxer 12 Lemon c = . 8 Orange . = ** . 10 Raisins, Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes. @5 Sultana, 20 4@ 8 Vaiencia, 30“ 4% Prunes, California, 100-120 90x1 100 25 Ib, bxs. ed : 80x90 _6 c 7x80“ 6% . 60x70 . 7 ee Silver”, ee eee ree ce 10% ENVELOPES, XX rag, white. Lo! 81 35 No. 2, 6% 119 No. 1, 6 1% a 1 00 Manilla, wales. ee 75 S..., . 70 Coin mee eee. 96 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. i fee 2% Grits. Walsh DeRoo & Co.’s..... 1 95 Hominy. Barrels EE — LL 3% Lima Beane, on. 5% Maccaron! “gy Vermeil Domestic, 12! pee. 10%@1 1 ae ne eo... 3 one... ooose- 2 Peas, ee 110 Split per Ib ei 2% Rolled Oats. Schumacher, mt... #4 65 bbl. ._. eo Monarch, bbl .o- Monarch.: ‘\% bbl.. ._eo Quaker, cases. . 320 oven mekee. |. 33 Sago. Caen. ies 3 ee ae Wheat. oo 3 FISH--Sait. Bloaters. Tee 1 65 Cod. Georges cured............ 4 Georges genuine......... 6 Georges selected......... Boneless, bricks.. ...... 6% Boneless, strips.. ....... 6%@9 Halibut. aoe 11@12 Herring. Holland, white h hoops keg 80 * oe we Dorworas.............._, es 00 Round, bbl 100 Ibs Leer oe 2 55 -— 7 1 30 Semen... 13% Mackerel, mot, wee. 12 00 -o.1ooe..... 5 50 2e.t, he............ 1 35 -rais.... ...... 10 99 a2... 4 30 artes... 115 Family, cr i, - oe... Sardines. Semien, bos, 55 Trout. No. 1, % bbis., 100Ibe. ._..... 4 2 No. 1% bbl, © ibs... ..... 1 95 No. 1. kits, 10 Ibe oe : 56 Me Leth... 48 Whitefish. No.1 family % bbls, = lbs een 86 25 3 56 % coo to 10 Ib. its a oe ‘ih * j Regular Size. Per box... .38¢. a. $3 40 In 5 case lots, per case. 3 30 In 10 case lo 8, percase.... 3 20 “Little Tanglefoot.” Retells, perbox ....... 25 Come, perenes. ......_.._. 1% MATCHES, Globe Match Co.’s none Columbia Parlor. _ > XXX Suiphar.......... Diamond Match Co.’s thine o.9 eeioher........... 1 Anchor parlor.. 1 70 No. 2 home...... 1 10 Export parlor.. 400 FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Souders’. Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the money. Regular Grade Lemon. Regular Vanilla. XX Grade Vanilla, Jennings, Lemon. 2oz regular panel. 75 40s . oe 6 ox C iS ho. S taper........ 1 No. 4 taper........1 60 Northrop’s Lemon. Vanilla. oval taper 75 1 10 oe “ © 202 3 0z 7 20 1 8 12 1 60 2 oO 20z regular ‘‘ 4 Oz a “ GUNPOWDER. Rifie—Dupont’s. cow ‘oe rire ree Sear — 1 1b Cans.. eee eee ~~ oe... 18 Choke ene 8 Kegs. : -4 25 Halt kegs. eee ee es es 2.2 40 aoe oe. i i) cans... + = a Duck—Dupont’s is eee ..11 00 Half —s.... , 5% aereereepe....... ... 3 00 i) eens... ......... 60 HERBS, i. ao 16 oe... eee ee ee 15 INDIGO, Madras, 5 lb. boxes....... 55 8. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib. boxes.. 50 JELLY. oe... @ 37 -_" | ai @ eg @ 70 LICORICE. .........._............, 30 ae... 25 felly 12 ne 1 LYE, Condensed, meen, .......... 1 20 = Oee........., 2 25 MINCE MEAT. Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 75 Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case....2 15 MEASURES. an, oF dozen gallon : 1 7% Heit gallon. wescrse ree 140 —- oe. 70 : 45 Halt Se 40 Wooden, for vinegar, per doz. Roce ec cept 7 00 Half gallon oe 4 75 ee... 3 75 int ‘ . i 2 MOLASSES, ° Blacgstrap Sugar house... 14 Cuba Bakiug Ordinary . 16 Porto tic. : Prime 20 Fancy 30 New Orieaus. ee 18 22 27 32 40 Fancy... oe Half -barrels 3c.extra THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, 21 PICKLES, Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count... @4 00 Half bbis, 600 count.. et Small. Barrels, 2,400 count. 5 % Half bbls, 1,200 count 3 40 PIPES. Clay, No. 2 18 eee 1 70 | D. falceunt........ 70 Gob, Mo. g..-..-.----... ...- 1 20 POTASH, 48 cans in case. Bani... .....-....-.-. 4 00 Penna Salt Co.’s.......... 3 00 RICE. Domestic. c Carolina _ Cag eee eae . BS Be 7... ............ 5 - No. 2 bee sous ct 4% Ce ee 3% Im :ported. Japan, No. : oe 5% maot...... .... 5 POPE... cs 2s ceccucsccses Paina ......._..--- eee 4% SPICES. Whole Sifted. AllspiCe.........-.-000s-e00- 9% Cassia, China in mats...... 9% - Batavia in bund....15 . Saigon in rolls...... 32 Cloves, = a : 22 Zansibar.......--.-- 11% Nut ——, Bee ae eee = utme: SS 3 no. 1 - a 60 ' oe. ..... bia: Sto Pepper, Singapore, blac. ppe gE D9 ait ‘> ' sh -16 Pure - an in Bulk. IOS ooo oe wn on csec scses 15 Cassi a, “Batavia eee 18 and Saigon .25 ’ elem .........+-.- 35 Cloves, —- Seed gees 22 - Sineeer........... = Ginger, ye coe teed ee ec oeeue 1 6 . a Lue wo 22 Mace Batavia..............- 65 Mustard, waa and Trieste. .22 ve ts. p39 Nutmegs, NO. 2 : obit. 8 epper, Singa ~ ac ee ae. 2 e oie i 20 eee...........-.-.---.---.-- 20 Se Absolute™ in Packages. 5 ee Allspice .........+. ia. 155 (iedeaes............. B 1 ——————e 84 155 Ginger, Jamaica...... 84 155 Bivican......-. 4 15 Muster .............. 84 155 Le 84 155 oa... SAL ‘SODA. Granulated, bbls eee cer ae 1% 7lb cases...... 1% Lump, bbls " Tb kees.......-. . 14 SEEDS, eee @13 Canary, Smyrna....... 4 Corawey .......-..-.-. 7 Cardamon, Malabar.. 80 Hemp. Russian Pee ee 4 Mixed Bird........... 4% aan has aces 9 8 4% 30 Kingsford’s Corn. 20 1- -Ib packages ieee esa. ern 7 ........... 6 Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. } 40 1-lb. packages............ 4 6-lb. boxes..... ; oe Common ‘Corn 7h bemee .....-.......... 2. 6 5 © ~—............... 5% Common Gloss. 1-lb packages eee ee a oa 5% 6-lb a |... 534 40 and 50 lb. boxes.......... 3% ace... . .--....-....--.- 3% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders.......-.-. 37 Maccaboy, in eee. ......--.. 35 french oe in _ Lewes 43 Bore... ....... ee 5h = English « eee eee soe 4% ALT. sii Crystal. Cases, 243 lb. boxes...... 81 = Barrels, ao ie... 2°50 C 115 2% lb _— 4 00 _ 605 Ib : 3% _ em «Soe ~~ = = iors......... 65 4lb bags.. - ow . 20 Ib ie 2 50 “_ Sie fel 225 Worcester. = 2%. lb sacks oe .. 8410 3% 30 sb _ 3 50 se (CC... eo is Gee, ol... 2 50 8 1b sacks.. : +: oe linen acks.. i - Common Grades. —. ..-02 10 oC. 1 90 38 10- lb, sacks.. _4¢ Warsaw. 56 lb. dairy in drill bags... 30 ib 6 e . . : Ashton. 56 lb, dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 66 Jb. dairy in linen sacks. 75 Soiar Rock. ik. cee... ...... Common Fine. fares ................ eee... ss SALERATUS, Packed 60 lbs. in box. os ............__... 3 30 COE 3 15 Sree... Ll, 3 30 [ors 3 00 ee a 1 oz. Fe. e 00 doz. $10 20 gro > “ N.S 20 3 4 mts ne” Vanilla. 1 oz. F.SM. 1 50 doz. “ 20 gro +e « 1 oD “ 2° Beso 35 50 ba Rococo—Second Grade. Lemon. 2OS..........08 Oe... Sa * Vanilla, 2 don...... 1 @ doz..... moO SOAP, Laundry. G. R. Soap Works Brands. Concordia, 100 3% 1b. bars...3 50 5 box lots....... 3 35 a 10 box Jots.......3 3 [ 20 box lots.......5 2 Best German Family. ores... 223 Se oo Oe S00 ee 200 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-Ib........ Good Cheer, 601 Ib.......... 3 90 White Borax, 100 %-lb...... 3 65 Proctor & Gamble. Concord.................... 3 45 Ivory, - > ee hee eee sees 6 75 SS 4 Rouge. ook... 3 65 Mottled Germaem........... 3 15 ‘owe Parm................. 33 Dingman Brands. Ainge Dee. .-... |. 3 9% 5 box lots, delivered. |... 3 85 10 box lots, delivered...... 3% Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. American Family, = “d..83 33 pla 9 97 - & wt N. K. Fairbank & Co. ——. Santa ae Le es eee epee 3 9 Cotmeci...... ..- Beereeiiicg........... eee ........ Thompson & Chute Co." 8 Bra nds Silver. -aa Mono 3 Savon Tmproved os 2 50 SomGower ............ 26 orgen |... ........ ee 3 25 eenewee! ............... 2 2 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40 hand, Fa 2 40 SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the lo- eal freight from New York to your shipp:ng point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer ve from the market in which purchases to his shipping point,including 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. Demee,................... #4 si Oe eee 481 Nc ee ec 444 Pomeoree .................. 444 XXXX Powdered. ....2127 4 69 Gravaeted.. .............. 4 06 Fine Granulated........... 406 Extra Fine Granulated... 4 18 Mould A 4 secoaa Confec, NE — Standard A....... SYRUPS. Corn. Barreis...... peceeteccs, 4. ee Hastie... ... 22 Pure Cane. Ss... 15 ese 20 mae... 25 TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’s, farec .....- 475 en... 2 7 Halford, ine ae 3 7 man... 22 Salad Dressing, jeree ..... 455 mnell..... 2 6 TEAS. ne a Se eel. @17 00! a p Choice. -.a. oe Cearcems.......... _.,. 32 @34 ee 10 @l2 SUN CURED wae... @17 Goaa .. -...... @w Cieiee 3... A Ox Cieleem............... 32 @34 ha... 10 @12 BASKET FIRED. Pew ..... 18 @20 (Cmoneo ................ @25 Choicest. . < Extra choice, wire leat @40 GUNPOWDER. Common to fai1....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Choicest fancy........75 @85 OOLONG. @26 Common co fair... ...23 IMPERIAL. Common to fair....... 23 @26 Superior tofine........ 30 @35 YOUNG HYBON. Commor, to fair. ...... 18 @26 Superior to fine.......30 @d40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. Pate... ......... oe Chole. ..,........ oo 4 Bet... TOBACCOS., Cigars. Connie a Invincibles ..-. 880 00 ee 70 00 Perrecios....... ......... 63 08 meques ............ ... ao 08 Fine Cut. P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands. a Ce @25 wicee ... 30 5. Seotten & Co’s Brands. Hiawatha ......... : 60 Cuba. .... Rocket. Spaulding: & Merrick’s Brands, Sires 30 Private een © Bazoo . i D Can Can.. eee cece tc eu as @27 Nettie Hiy............. 24 od Unele Ben............-28 Ga MeGinty......... .- 27 . es NaN 25 a ee 24 Columbia, drums ...... 23 Bang Up.. bee eee 20 Bang up, drums. .. 19 riug. Sorg’s Brands, Sooermeec ............ 39 JOnct ................ | Nobby Twist.........-. 40 Scotten’s Brands. hee. 25 aan eee eee 38 Valley City 34 ae 8 ‘Brands, Old Honesty.......... 4 aay Tar...... .....-- 2 Lorillard’s Brands. Climax (8 0z., 41c).. 39 Green Furtic.......... 30 Three Black Crows... 27 J. G. Butler’s, Brands. Something Good...... 38 Outot Sigmt.......... 24 Wilson & McCaulay’s iia Gold Have............ 43 Happy ee 37 Messmate . 32 a 31 Let Go.. 27 “Smoking. | Catlin’s Brands. Ban Glee............... 17@18 Golden Shower.........._.. 19 Terese «|... .-....--..- a0 Meerschaum .. .......--: American Eagle Co.’s iicuae Murtic Navy... ....--.-..--. 40 oe Le. 30 German .........-........ -15 ne ecw 32 wows a feu..........-. 32 oer Tobacco Co.'s Brands, ape. wn. 16 Banner Cavendish..........36 awe ....... 3u Scotten’s Brands. a 14 Hoses Pow................. 26 SE ———— 30 F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s Brands. Peectess. ..................- Cia tom. .................. 8 Standard.. 22 Globe Tobacco Co.’ 8 Brands. Bandmede........_.__.....- 4u Leidersdorf’s Brands. OE 26 Unele Sam.............-ceaper Hed Clover..........--.. oot Spaulding & Merrick. Tom and Jerry..........-.-- Traveler Cavendish........ Buck — oo. dea os sae Plow Bo < + neen ous ee Corn Ca e. ee eee eres oe VIN EGAR. Der...................- @s oe...... . «........ @9 @1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD, Bulk, per gal ......-. Beer mug, 2 doz in case. 1% WOODENWARE. Tare het... 5 95 Mee... 475 eo vd Pails, No. - two-hoop.. 1 3 No, 1, three-hoop ... 1 35 Bowls, 11 inch... YEAST. Mage... 1... 1 00 Warmers 0. a Weal Woem ............ 2... 1 00 eee ee a 7 Rogal on HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: FURS ink... .... 400 @12 Coen ...... 8... aa G&G Bite. .........- 60 @1 15 Rat Spring...... b €& tb nat, winter..... oc @ Hu as, fall... .... oe @ cs nee For........ 1¢c0 @1 6) Gray Vox.,...... 4 @ 6) Cross Fox....... 300 @5 00 Badger.. _. OF @E@ Cat, wildou.. 00, 5s @ 7% Cat. house. dee 10 @ B® Fisher. . 500 @ 6 00 Ly... 10 @2 50 Martin, derk....£2 00 @ 3 00 Martin, paie, yel 100 @1 50 _ 500 @8 0u wor... 100 @ 200 Beaver ......... 300 @7 00 Bom... ....... 15 00 @25 00 Opossum. ....... nH@G Deer Skin, dry.. 0 @ Deer Skin,green 05 @ 12% HIDES. reese .... 4%@aY Part Cured Leeeee ce. @5 ae 64%@ 7% Pes... 5 @7 ied green ........... 6 @ 5 ' Gorea..... .... -6 @t Calfskins, — ee 84G 8 eee... 8%4@10 Deacon anne een lu @2b No. 2 hides \& off. PELTS. Sheariings............ 5 8 — ..............2 @ wooL Weened......... ... @io Unweened............& @r MISCELLANEOUS. Tee 8... 3%@ 4% Greese butter ........1 @2 Switehoes ..........- -. 1%@ 2 Ginseng a -2 NO@2 25 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS§ WHEAT. No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 53 No. 2 Red (60 1b. test) 53 FLOUR IN SACKS. eo, ee bece, oe Second Patent. ! 2% aaa 2 55 Clear. eee 23% CO eee 2 5 Buckwheat we. = to usual cash dis- co Saar in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad- ditional. MEAL. Powe... 230 Granuiaied,........... 2 $5 FEED AND MILLSTUFFS. St. Car Feed, screened. ..#20 50 St. Car Feed, unscreened. x0 (0 No. | Corn and Oats ..... 19 50 No. 2 Special . ._. oe Unbolted Corn Meal...... 19 WO Winter Wheat Bran ..... 16 U0 Winter Wheat Middlihgs. 17 00 Bereenimgs ...........-.+. 14 v0 CORN. Cor tie... 49 Less than car lots.......... 52 OATS. Cor iis. lCi«‘s#....--...... 8 Less than carlots.......... .38 HAY. No. 1 re car lots....10 06 No. 1 ton lots .....11 00 FISH AND OYSTERS. FRESH FISH. Weteee .........-. @s rome... @8 Black Baas...... . 15 Heeus .............. @1zK% Ciscoes or Herring.... @6 Bieeeen..........-.... @12% Fresh lobster, tise D.. 20 Cod 10 Heddeee @s8 No. 1 Pickerel. : @8 Piece. ........-........ @8 Smoked White.... @s Red Snappers.......0- 13 Columbia River Sal- mee... 12% ee 18@25 Scallieps........-. 1 50 es ............. 12 Ss 1 23 SHELL G0ODB. Oysters, per 100....... 1 25@1 50 Clams. . %%@i 00 OYSTERS—IN CANS. Ed. Seaneen"s 8 ——- Fairhaven Counts.. 33 FR. J. = Selects....... 28 ce ewan. 25 FP. J. . , Standards. . 23 OYSTERS—IN BULK. Oscar Allyn’s Brands. mew Yore Counts. .......-. 4) Pxtea elects. ......... .... 65 eee 30 ix L Standerds ............. Ce 18 Pe 20 CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE LAMP BURNERS. No. 0Sun. 40 No -1 ede eco. 4) RT 65 ‘Takales bee «oa Mee one we ue ' fi Becuruy., Wo. ft ..............,... 60 joe Nes... 86 Nutmeg .. —. . 50 Aree. 1 LAMP CHIMNEYS.—6 dos. {0 box. Fer box oe eee ee __.. 3 20 ee 1 88 No. 2 on 2 70 First quality. No. oe , crimp top, wrapped and labeled... 2 i 9 on No. 2 “c “c “ ‘ “ ts me 35 ll XXX Flint. = : » crimp top, wrapped and labeled. 2 60 No.2 * “ s 6 “ “ = 0 Pearl top. _—. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled oe. 3 70 No. 2 Hinge, - . . ‘ ge Fire — oo — Na i, Sun, p! ain bulb.. 2 @ No. 3, eu ..4 40 be Bastie. =a plain bulb, — a No i ertmp, per. dos.. | 3 No . . 1 60 Rochester. No. 1, Hae (Ge doz)... Ck. . ...2 oo Ne = ime ((edoc). ..... NO. 2, fit (Ge dom). 4 70 Electric. NO > Hee (We dea)... 4 10 No Vimt (edes,. 4 40 Miscellaneous. Doz. talon, HoChenter ............../.... —<_ oO INGtmee ..... ea Illuminator Bases..............-... 1 00 Barrel 1.6. ...—ltCCCdC«Ci‘i(............... 90 7 in. Porcelain Shades.. 1 00 Case lots, 12 doz.. io 90 Mammoth Chimneys for! Store 5 ee i Doz Box No. 3 Rochester, lime........1 50 4 2 No. 3 Rochester, flint. 1 & 4 80 No. 3 Pearl top or Jewel gl’s -1 85 5 25 No. 2 Giobe Incandes. lime...1 75 5 10 No. 2 Giobe Incandes. flint...2 00 5 85 No. 2 Pearl glass.. Le eet ee AO 6 00 OIL CANS. ! Doz i gal tin cans wiih epeut..... ............- 1 60 t Sal Sealy om with spout................ . 300 2 gal galv iron with spout ... Coe nw Oo S gal galy tron with spout................... 4 50 S gal McNutt, with spont. ....... eee ce eee 6 0 > Gal Hiveme with spout. .................-. 6 50 So ga) Mieka with fagcet.................... 7 Ww 5 gal galviron A & W Loucc i... 2 oe 5 gal Tilting Cans, Monarc Ca 10 WO 5 gal galv iron Nacefas.. : . 95) Pump Cans, 2 gal Home Rule... .......... .10 50 5 gal Home Role... oa a2 00 3 gal Goodenough... eee ee 12 00 S Gat Gecgencuien .....1.. |... is ae o fal Pireso Mane... st 10 50 LANTERN GLOBES. No. 0, Tubular, cases 1 doz. each.... i No. 0, iy secre a eaee 45 No. 0, bbls 5 ._: —- . & No. 0 bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each.1 25 LAMP WICKS, lo © per eroee. x0 No. 1, Oe ee No 2, eee eee 3e Mammoth, per doz. eel ee il ee a JELLY TUMBLERS—Tin Top. ‘3 Pints, : doz in box, per box (box 00)... 1 65 Ve 2 "pe, °* Geox (obi) .... 2 Me * " “bem, ~ bex (bex0o).... £ Sb . 18 7 doz (bbl 36)..... 23 STONEWARE—AERON. Butter Cc rocks, 1 to6 gal.. U6 ¥g gal. per r doz. eed eae 60 iia Meet wae. beecee ee 70 Li Seal. perge...... o7 ets on... Ct. 6u ss “ es ee 72 STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED, Butter Crocks, | and 2eal.......... a 6% Milk Pans, % gal. per doz ee 65 ee ese 78 OILS. The Standard Oil Co quotes as follows: BARRELS. ee ee 12 11 Mx W. W. Mich. - Headlight.....+. Naptha.. Stov e Gasoline. Rocene.............. WXX W. W. Mich. Headlicht........... 8 Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle quote as follows: BARRELS. Paseiee. 00 12 Daisy Witenes . . 10 Red Cross, Ww Ww “Headlight. ee aue oe ee ue 9% Naptha...... ee ate ao a Stove Gasoline. cee. ee | FROM TANK WAGON, Palace .........- — Red Cross W W Headlight... ... ELECGROTYPE ENG DUPLICATES OF gen GRAVINGS «”. TYPE FORM TRADESMAN Co., S QuaANTITy oe ere arn se e's BARS rE py oa sp weep a ae ee ee we THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. A COUNTRY STORE SAMPOSIUM. {Concluded from page 18.] more days than the average farmer, he was obliged to employ a head clerk at $10 per week, an assistant at $6 anda man at like wages to drive a delivery wagon. The $12,000 left, at 10 per cent. profit, after paying salaries, would show a dividend of $66 to cover his own year’s service, rent, insurance, taxes and inter- est on capital invested. Nothing short of the power that economized the wid- ow’s cruse of oil and barrel of meal could keep such a dealer out of the jaws of bankruptcy.” “I can very well see,’? the Major re- marked, ‘‘that a trade in groceries and family supplies cannot be carried on without loss at the rate of profit men- tioned. Perhaps twice that rate would not be excessive, considering the risks incurred by a credit system. But, surely, a druggist can afford to lower some of his fancy prices, since most of his goods are sold at from 50 to 100 per cent. profit. Don’t you admit that, Mr. Smiles?” ‘‘Here, Hamlin, wake up and answer that question! I’m not going to cham- pion your cause against the crowd if you keep silent all the time.’’ “Certainly, Harry. That isn’t a diffi- cult task, although it’il take time to prove that druggists’ charges are based on different conditions from those exist- ing in most other branches of business. lt’s easy enough for a man to reach conclusions if he travels only the smooth path of theory and ex parte testimony; but, when the rebutting facts of experi ence stand in the way, comparison is of- ten the surest guide to correct judg- ment. “The profits of any business depend a good deal on how often the capital can be turned over for reinvestment, and this, in turn, depends on the class of goods kept in stoek. The grocer.or gen- eral dealer invests in goods that are in universal demand, the largest portion of which are household necessities. They can be sold within a reasonable time aft- er purchase, with little waste caused by a fluctuating demand. With a fairly ac- tive trade he turns his capital from three to six times ina year. His dead stock— goods kept longer than a year—repre- sents but a small per cent. of his capital. If at any time he wants toclose out, the goods are worth, if in fair condition, little less than invoice price, subject to market changes. “The druggist, on the other hand, in selecting his stock, is compelled to face a different condition. The original in- voice is made from a list that includes every reasonable possibility of a future demand, whether likely to be profitable or not, on the theory that ‘the unex- pected is sure to happen.’ A certain proportion of the druggist’s stock consists of staples that are in usual demand; a part, in sundries that are called for quite frequently; another class, from which is filled the average run of prescriptions; patent medicines absorb a considerable Share of capital, and of these 25 per cent. never ;ay for cost and storage, and, besides, there are the including lists of special preparations that a fitful demand compels him to keep, many of which scarcely pay interest on cost be- fore they become back numbers ia the most hopeless sense. “Every new pharmaceutical product called for by the physician absorbs an ad- ditional investment without increasing aggregate sales, since it does not release one from the necessity of holding over large quantities of prescription stock to meet emergencies, no matter how seldom they occur. Thus, a small portion of drug stock may be replenished several times each year; another, once or twice, while capital invested in the remainder very seldom earns more than simple in- terest on the cost. Taken as a whole, the sales of a drug store in a village no larger than this do not afford over 25 per cent. profit, while the entire stock and fixtures, if offered at cash sale, would hardly bring more than half the first cost. ‘It must also be considered that the druggist is expected to be as lenient with customers as the doctor is with his pa- tients. By night and by day he fur- nishes medicines to those whom the gro- cer would not dream of trusting. He does, on the average, as much free dis- pensing, considering cost of material, as the physician does free prescribing and travel—all from humane motives. It is common to speak disparagingly of both prescriber and dispenser and begrudge them their supposed easily earned wealth; but when the services of either are sought, customer and patient alike waive all complaints and acknowledge value received without regard to percent- age or profit. It is human to both under- rate and overrate what one does not fully understand; and that accounts, naturally, for the exaggerated estimates so fre- quently made of druggists’ enormous profits. Perhaps, in some special loca- tion in a crowded city, where the tide of transient fashionable, gilt-edged cus- tem flows in a perennial stream, profits may be as great as arecommonly attribu- ted to druggists; but not in this burgh, I assure you, gentlemen. And, as the 10 o’clock train is now whistling for the station, 1 suggest that it is timeto end this interesting symposium by adjourn- ing sine die and exeunt omnes. PETER C. MEEK. ———- >-2 a The Signal Five leads, all others fol- low. qo oe Use Tradesman Coupon Books. KENT CO. SAVINGS BANK GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Jno. A. CovopE, Pres. HENRY IpEMa, Vice-Pres. J.A.S. VERDIER, Cash’r. K. Van Hor, Ass’t Cash’r Transacts a General Banking Business. Interest Allowed on Time Deposits. Solicits ~ Accounts of [erchants and Indi- viduals. DrrecTtors—Jno. A. Covode, D. A. Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox, T. J. O’Brien, A. J. Bowne, Henry Idema, Jno. W. Blodgett, A. G. Hodenpy]l, J.A.S. Verdier. DEPOSITS EXCEED ONE MILLION DOLLARS Notice of Receiver’s Sale. In accordance with an order of the Circuit Court for the County of Kent, State of Michigan, made on the 16th day of March, 1895, I shall sell at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, all of the real estate of the late firm of Bentley Bros. & Wilkins, consisting of planing mill, saw mill and foundry, together with all of the ma = used in operating the plant of said late rm. The real estate consists of about five acres of land used in connection with said business, al o . house and lot and office and several vacant ots. In case Ido not receive a cash ‘bid of nine thousand dollars or more for said property, Iam directed by said Court to continue said sale until further order of the Court. The sale will take place at the office of the late firm of Bentley Bros. & Wilkins, April 27th, 1895, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon of said day. W. D. HAYES, Receiver. Dated, Hastings, Mich., March 19th, 1895. nn. —— | naps——-. What is your idea of a “Snap,” any- way? There’s a great difference in opin- ion as to what constitutes a “Snap.” Our idea is that it is an article of real merit, put up ina way that will attract and hold trade, and make money for those who nandle it. But what about the price? Well, that’s a secondary consideration— the guALITY is the main feature. If it will “attract and hold trade,” it follows that the price must be right. But others, good people, too, think that a “snap” consists of something that they can buy and sell at a “two-for-five-freight- paid-chromo-thrown-in” price. Quality cuts no figure, but they rely solely on their ability to undersell their competitors. Now, we must sell both classes, so we handle cheap as well as good goads. For instance, we have a few hundred cases of a good 65 cent Corn, not soaked goods, that we offer, this week only, in 10 ase lots, at 55 cents, They’re just such goods as our neighbors are getting 65 cents for It’s not our idea of a “snap,” how ever The “Golden Niagara” we sell at $1.25, and it’s a“snap” Why? Because it is better value than any other brand on the market. Attractive in appearance and makes customers and holds them every time, and you make money on it. Hand- ling such goods, you build up a permanent and profitable business that stays by you from year to year. That’s wh y we say such goods are “snaps.” On the other goods you “cut and slash,” sell lots of them, and when you come to figure up, at the end of the year, you find you have been trying to climb a greased pole all the y ar, and are just where you started from. And that’s why we say such goods are NOT “snaps.” IS NOT OUR ARGUMENT SOUND? Olney & Judson Grocer Co. ———— a os a os Commercial Aspect of the Bicycle. Written for THE TRADESMAN. Judicious advertising is one of the most potent factors in the success of a cycle dealer, as it is in almost every kind of business. Printer’s ink, properly used, is never wasted, providing, of course, that the article advertised has some merits to recommend it. Most bi- cycles have some specialty or other which is entirely different from anything else on the market, and which can be used as a foundation on which to build an advertisement. Advertising should not be confined to one strain, as differ- ent people are attracted by widely differ- ent things. An advertisement which would arrest one man’s attention would not touch another whose mental make- up was different, and vice versa. Some men like humorous’ advertisements; others like those explaining minute me- chanical details; still others like to read of tests to which a wheel has been sub- jected. Halftones made from photos taken while the test was in progress are very good exponents of the last kind of advertising. A list of races won and records made on certain wheels are con- tinually advertised by some firms—an all-right practice if not followed too far. Such advertisements should always be used in a medium ealculated to reach eyclists who have the racing bee in their bonnets; otherwise, they would not do much good. Such men generally know all the prominent riders by name, if not personally, and have an idea of how much of this latent speed is brought out by the good qualities of a wheel. The general run of wheelmen know that the kind of wheel a racing man rides de- pends upon the size of the salary he re- ceives for riding it, but they do not know the peculiarities of the riders who use it on the path and are, therefore, incapable of judging its merits by the tests to which it is put. The ordinary wheel- man does not know what make of bi- eycle is ridden by any one noted racer. To settle a dispute, last summer, regard- ing the value of advertising the racing men, in connection with wheels, I agreed to inquire of the first ten wheelmen I met what wheel was ridden by Harry Tyler, who had just broken the world’s mile track record. But two out of the ten gave me the correct answer, and they were in the trade and it belonged to their business to know such things, or I doubt if I would have received a single correct answer. One of the most lucrative modes of ad- vertising is a short and crisp way of bringing a new feature to the attention of the public. Too much fine print in an advertisement will cause it to be passed by, while one in large type, ex- plaining, in a few words, some new feature, will be read at a glance and will be appreciated, too. Just the names of the wheels handled, coupled with the statement that they are the best on earth—every maker claims’ this—is money thrown away. Such an adver- tisement is simply glanced at and no further attention paid to it. On the other hand, one which shows a cut of a dust-proof bearing, a new crank axle, a unique pedal or handle-bar, ete., with a few words of explanation, will bring business every time, providing it be placed in a good medium. A humorous advertisement is apt to be read and commented upon by every sub- scriber to the paper in which it is THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. printed. In regard to this, it may be said that there are but few really humor- ous cycle advertisers in the business. There are many who attempt that role but fail. To be valuable, an advertise- ment of this character should con- tain some information which is straight to the point. If not so written, its pur- pose falls flat. In order to write one properly, it is necessary for the adver- tising man of the firm to be thoroughly ac- quainted with the trade and to know the sport in all its branches. When this ac- quaintance and knowledge are combined with a natural talent for humorous writing, interesting and valuable ad- vertisements are the result, and the reader cannot help absorbing the infor- mation contained therein. The most important point in advertis- ing is to get into the proper medium, and this depends altogether upon the branch or branches of the trade repre- sented. The manufacturer may adver- tise in any class of newspapers or mag- azines with good results, though they will be indirect; but the very best me- dium is a trade journal which is mailed weekly to all agents in the country, and especially to jobbers. The jobbershould adopt different tactics. For him a trade paper which circulates largely among business firms who are not agents would be better than one which is confined strictly to cyclists and the cycling trade. The smaller manufacturer (who turns out less than 5,000 wheels a year) would also be more benefited by this medium, for the reason that he can handle his out- put without the assistance of jobbers. He would thus get applications for agencies from business houses desiring to add wheels to their regular lines of goods and who would not be reached by regular cycle journals. The same re- sults would be obtained by the jobber. Neither of these branches of the -+trade should neglect the cycle papers alto- gether, however, as an advertisement in that class of papers always keeps the wheel before the eyes of the cycling fraternity. The exciusive retail dealer will get the best results from local daily papers, or from weekly editions of the same which are circulated among the farmers in the vicinity of the city or town where it is published. He would also do well to patronize a paper which has acirculation among country store- keepers, as those papers are read by every customer who comes into the store. Of course, the advertiser must use his judgment as to the size of the circula- tion of which he is to get the benefit, but he will find that advertising in a paper having a circulation of from 2,000 to 5,000 will yield excellent results, al- though the more the better, certainly. Morris J. WHITE. “FOR SALE AT HALF PRICE. J.C. Mulberry, State Agent for the Smith-Hill slevator Co., Quincy, Il., has received instruc- tions to sell the Celebrated Smith-Hill Steam Pump at less than half-price for a short time, to reduce stock. Catalogues on application to Mr. Mul- berry, Kortlander Building, Grand Rapids. A.B. KNOWLSON, Wholesale Shipper Cement, Lime, Goal, Sewer Pipe, Kte, CARLOTS AND LESS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, 23 NEARLY 100 DEALERS... In the State of Michigan alone are handling our wheels. | These dealers have signed contracts since January Ist, 1895. We have renewed con- i ng ~~ tracts with all our °94 customers. Pee eeeeresereereseeeseees . All our Agents can testify to the Merits of our New Clippers \\dasids a You, as a dealer, cannot af- ford to assist the manufac- turer to experiment. The offer of a large discount means a corresponding reduc- tion in the quality. We handle only wheels that the quality has been proven by long and continued use. Agents wanted in unoccu- pied territory for the RAMBLER FALCON RICHMOND and FEATHERSTONE Wheels 99-101 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids. BICYCLES! In Strictly HIGH GRADE Wheels we have the Monarch Line at $85 and $100. And the Outings At $85. Our SPECIAL ‘Planet Jr.”’ Wheel at $75 beats them all—at that price. Then we have the Featherstones At from $40 to $65. Call and see us. Special attention given to mail orders. ADAMS & HART i2 West Bridge St. GRAND RAPIDS. about April 25. WITH BOOTS, RUBBER OR CORK SOLES. Now is the time to place your orders and be ready for May Ist. We have alarge stock now en route from factory. Also a fine line of Imported Wading Boots which will reach us STUDLEY & BARGLAY, Wholesale Bicycles, Sundries & Sport- ing Goods, NO. 4 MONROE ST., Grand Ropids, Michigan, 24. ‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis- --Index of the Markets. Special Correspondence New York, April 13—The coffee mar- ket has been at almost a complete stand- | still during the past week. There is a lack of unity and neither buyer nor seller | seems to care whether ‘‘school keeps or not.’”? The holiday—Good Friday—lasts over Saturday this week, and thus the time of business is very limited on the Coffee Exchange. Quotations are prac- tically unchanged from last week. The amount of coffee afloat was reported Thursday night at 484,584 bags; last year, 496,415 bags. The market value of No. 7 is 16\4e. Refined sugars have been ‘‘wabbiy’’— up and down. There has been a lack of energy on the part of buyers, although at the moment brokers report an increase of orders. The tea market is dull—decidedly so. The demand is only of the smallest and prices are at all ranges. For the very best grades there is rather more call, but auction goods attract no attention. Rice remains firm at former prices, al though it is said that there are some in- dications of a falling off in demand. The supplies are sufficient and, alto- gether, the trade is very steady. In spices there is a stand off, neither buyer nor seller doing anything. Prices remain pretty much unchanged and stocks are not excessive. There is a good demand for domestic molasses and full rates are firmly ad- hered to. Foreign molasses is selling in a backward manner, Porto Rico being held from 26@33c per gal. Syrups are in smaller demand, but, as supplies are not large, there is a little better feeling on the part of holders. Canned goods remain absolutely with- out interest. Few sales large in amount are recorded, while the demand for ‘‘cheap” goods keeps up. They are plenty. The butter market presents few fea- tures of interest. Sales of best Western are made at 20c, and from this the range is down to 15@17e. Cheese is dull and low. full cream, 614 @7e. Eggs are in better demand, as is usu- ally the case at Easter; and, besides, the high price of fresh beef has stimu- lated demand. Fresh meat has gone up so rapidly that itis hard to keep track of. Eggs, consequently, come to the front as a substitute, and, while supplies are large at the moment, they are not excessive and the demand keeps the commission stcres well cleared. Friday being to some extent a sort of a holiday, and Saturday also, the course of trade in this city has been interrupted, but, on the whole, dealers have very lit- tle reason to complain of the ameunt of business done. This is particularly true of groceries. Your correspondent has also talked with some large dealers in hardware, who report a decided change for the better, as compared with. last year. Some ofthem report the utmost difficulty in having their orders for farm utensils filled. One noticeable feature ‘is the steady decline in price. Take spading forks, for instance: One _ par- ticular make has declined 90 cents per dozen within twelve months, and a like decrease in price is shown with certain steel rakes, ete. in iron—and, consequently, in steel—ac- counts for a large share of the tumble in prices of the manufactured articles. One firm reports that they are, or were a fortnight ago, 20,000 pairs behind in filling their orders for roller skates. The revival is upon us, as the numerous handbills evidence. New State The Grain Market. The demand for wheat is greater than the supply, owing to stocks being held firmly by the dealers, while the re- ceipts from farmers are exceedingly small. Prices have not undergone any radical change during the past week. Cash anc future wheats advanced about le per bushel Monday. The cables were of a_ stronger character Of course, the decline; | in the United Kingdom and also on the | continent. There seems to be a consid- | erable complaint as to the outcome of | wheat in the winter wheat belt. The last Government reports show a decline of a few points from that of last year. | The future prices depend entirely upon | the exports. If they are held firm (and | 1 see no reason why they will not be) there will be quite an advance. Corn, as is usual, followed the wake of wheat, with no special feature. Cash oats and oats for prompt ship- ment were held firm during the past week, while futures are somewhat tame, with a weakening tendency. The receipts were as follows: Wheat only 38 ears; corn, 15 cars, and oats, 4 cars. The visible decrease during the week was very large, being 2,215,000 bushels. The farmers have no objection to a con- tinuance of this tendency, as it will cer- tainly advance the price of wheat. C. G. A. Voter. —_— oo 2 Revision of the Pharmacopceia. ANN Arbor, April 8—A. C. Schumach- er, the newly-appointed member of the State Board of Pharmacy; Ottmar Eber- bach, ex-member of the State Board of Pharmacy, and Julius O. Schlotterbeck, an instructor in the pharmacy depart- ment of the University, have been ap- pointed a research committee of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa- tion, to meet with the national com- mittee to revise the United States Phar- macopeeia, the standard used by all drug- gists of the United States. The book undergoes revision every ten years. The committee, of which Mr. Schumacher is chairman, is all appointed from this city, for convenience in working together, and in order to have the advantages that the university affords. Prof. A. B. Stevens, of the School of Pharmacy, has been ap- pointed by the American Pharmaceutical Association chairman of Committee on Adulterations. 2-2 __—_ From Out of Town. Calls have beer received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: W. E. Greilick, Traverse City. Hiram Munger, Sullivan. M. Vanderven, New Era. Hoggle & Gordon, Hopkins Station. O. P. DeWitt, St. Johns. Frank Hamilton, Traverse City. W. F. Bricker, Belding. ——~> -« => The advocates of silver as currency find a strong argument in the present financial condition of Mexico. Notwith- standing the fact that silver, the stand- ard of Mexican money, is depreciated in value fully one-half, as compared with gold, the finances of tbat country were never in so good condition, and, for the first time in the history of the Republic, the report of the committee on national budget shows an excess over expendi- tures of $100,000. It was feared by Mexican financiers that, when the great decline in the value of silver took place, its results would overwhelm the country. That it not only survived the change, but immediately entered upon an un- precedented era of prosperity in its na- tional finances is not only a surprise to them but affords a suggestion worth con- sideration by students of financial prob- lems elsewhere. eo A movement has been started by Mr. Debbs to change the name of the Ameri- can Railway Union to the American In- dustrial Union. It is suggested that the conduct of a society, as frequently hap- pens with individuals, may make it de- ; Sirable to hide its identity under a new name. The executive committee of the Whole- sale Saddlery Association of America has agreed upon a recommendation advance: | ing prices 121¢ per cent. Members of the Association are instructed to notify their customers that orders will not be filled at the old rates after April 15. It is claimed that the advance will no more than cover the increased cost of manu- facture consequent on the advance in the prices of leather. ———— The white levee strikers at New Or- leans have given up the fight and are ready to work for any employers, whether union or not, or with negroes. The strike, it will be remembered, was caused by disagreement on these points. Several negroes were shot by the union men at the inception of the trouble. PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provisinn Co quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. -. ...... a 12 50 Re ie ie ee ees ee 12 50 Extra clear pig, short cut............. : 14 50 eece Cheer, SOkey. (aoe oc eee. 13 50 Doseon Gear. eeorteut.................- 13 50 Caeer Gck. Sorkems.................... 13 % Standard clear, short cut, best........ . 14.0 SAUSAGE, ro, bose. 7 as 5% ae... 6 eee i. 8% ee 6 eee eee 6 eee 10 ee % LARD. Bee eer... 8 Gaameer .......... 7 ee 5% eee... 5% ae 6% Cotosuet...... ——— 6% 50 lb. Tins, 4c advance, 20 lb. pails, %c C ib. * Si = we e sie * fie ' BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 ibs............. . 650 Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... 6 15 Bomobem, ramp Satie... 1v 00 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Heme, averseoseie... 10 e ' | 10% r cr oni... ee 7 _ someones.) 8% eee 7 Breakfast Bacon boneless.................... 9 ied beet, ham prees.. 11 DRY SALT MEATS. ere Beary... 63g ao, aoe ee PICKLED PI@s’ FEET. Maer Dares... oo erter DArrcls...........-. we be, cue 1 65 ee eee 90 TRIPE. Pe boeyoom 7% ae ee 65 BUTTERINE. Coosmiery, cos. GB . oo 16 Pee, Oe, 12 . ee 11% FAREWELL TO THE OYSTER. We announce the close of the oyster season for the spring of 1895. Wethank our many customers for their patronage and shall hope to have them with us again next fall. In the meantime we beg leave to call their attention to our other seasonable goods, as follows: Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly, made with? boiled cider, very fine: niet. 65 ee ee 50 i Pee ede 45 Sib. pall. ........ See bee eee occa eee cen 40 1 quert Mason Jam, per dox......... ..... 1 40 1 pints Mason Jars, per doz......... occ. we Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the bestmade. Price per case................ 2 40 Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat: eee eee ee 6 eon. 6% 10-1b. pails, per Ib......... 6% 2-1b. Cans, per doz......... 1 40 Bim Came, per Gon. 8. 3 50 Pint Mason Jars, per doz..... _. ~ _o _— amen ars oer Oo 2 2 aple 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-lb pails................ 1 00 EDWIN FALLAS, Grand Rapids,eMich. OANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Cases Bbls. Pails Stamdard. per ip......... 5 7 . - .......... 6 7 . Tet 6 7 monson Creaia............ ov i oe 8 a: MIXED CANDY, Bbls, Palis Poneee... 5 6% eee 5% 6% sole ee ee 6 7% eee a 8 Poe Bock. 7 8% Comer woe 6% 1% peoken raey...... baskets° a Poanuthquares............ oS 8 PecmOn (rose |e. 9 vor Cee... . 12% meee, 3) . Deekeis. 8 Modern, 201b. ‘ a FaNCY—In bulk Pails DOOR ON ' ome COCO PORE 11 Cnocotate Monumontais..................... 12 one 5 eevee TH oe eee 8 oe 9 FaNcy—in 5 ib. boxes, Per Box Se 50 Saiendicae A 50 Poet oom 60 Peco eee. 65 ee 75 ee 35@50 aia. | a B. & comers Peo. ee 60 ” ——— See. le ees... eee ete ee ee ee 55 eee. ee Bend eco Cres 87@90 eee On Pere CON 90 aoe ee 60 Pern. Almonds........ ................ St & Wintorpepen Gertig. CARAMELS, moO. 1, wrapped, Sih. boos. ................ 34 No. 1, ' 3 Ce -. of No. 2, ” 2 qo 7. 2 ORANGES, California Seedlings—126..............cseces 2 50 150, 176, 200, 2a Cec wcn, . 20 Paney avcip-ie 3 2 Tk eee 3 50 1OG, 176, AO... 405 rid toeee 3 % Messina Oranges, 206......-........... wocoe 2 WO LEMONS. cee ae Meera (mower. oee.. ... ............._ 3 50 ee 4 25 ee oe lle eon Cece, Se)... ee 7... 3 75 Extra Fancy, 360, gilt packing.............. 4.00 BANANAS. Dares wanceee. 175 Peas OMRCHON. T5@!I 25 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Pies, fancy lagers 16... 13 i - ee i4 * extra _ ae... 2 ee 6% Daten, Ferd, 100. be... @i7z ' ee @6é " Persian. G. M.50-lb box........ @5 116 Moyuis, Gow... ......... @i *% NUTS. Aimonds, Terragems..................,. q@ 14 voren........ ceca @ California, soft shelled .... @12 eee Oo @i% ee @10 Walnuts, Grenoble . @14 a French.. @ - ee @i2 . poresneled Calif............. @13 aenie Gee, tence... @l1 16 GROG @ 9 Pocams, Tomes, H. P., ......... toes. 8 @ll Cee eee eee ene Hickory Nutsper ba., Mich............ Coceeuie, UtleAOee.... 8. 4 00 Dawcrauee per bi... 8, Diack Walnum, per ti........... ..... PEANUTS. Peney, &. Fo Sa @5% a © eed... 8, 6S 6% wancy, co. ©. Pees. 8... @ 5% = gas soemted........ 6B 6% Chotes, H. P., Extras... .... @ 4% - ' moemeed........ 5@ 6 FRESH MEATS. BEEF. eee =e - 64@ 8% Pere quarters......._..... 5 @6 Hind quarters........... -- 8 @10 Dele 6.3... -11 @14 ee 19 @14 Bowes... 54HG 6% Chucks ..0-e+0 3%@ 5 Cee 34@ 4 PORK. eee 5 @5% ae. a od ae 9 ee 7 Pees Oe. 8 COPCOMA ......... bs.. COO occ, oul. cove ER aareg ey = 9 ae hoo _HEROLD- BERTSCH SHOE CO, The Brownies Our Line for 1895 is IN MICHIGAN. Greater in variety and finer than’ ever attempted before. Every;one of the! old Favorites have been retained. Your inspection s kindly solicited } i j when in the city. Cine ; Our representatives will call on you aN 4 Y i early and will glddly show you through. " SDA % \v | Keep your eye on our Oil Grain line if \\ wl & \\ 1 n ‘Black Bottoms.’’ K i R = K\ ml Ne Headquarters for Wales-Goodyear a aang Mutt Gra ira Rubbers. Always alive to the interests of our many friends and patrons, we have secured the services of Palmer Cox’s famous band of fantastic little peo- 7 ple, and now offer to the Trade DAINTY LITTLE CAKES in the form of “BROWNIES.”’ When you sell goods to the people which give Their richness and delicate flavor commend them for family use, and From the ‘‘POLICEIMAN’’ to the ‘«“‘CHINAIIAN,’’ we have them all. 4 ENT IR Et SA a. ISF AC TION. they will entertain the little ones for hours. As a decided nov elty they No line handled ealls for the judgment and dis are a success and their popularity is rapidly becoming established. ee : J c ‘ Every dealer should order a trial box and receive a package of ‘ crim ation necessary to the successful buying “BROWNIE DOLLS’’ FREE, 5 and selling of F BRUIT. | to give away to his customers. . S ~~ © 2 b. | \ | REMEMBER THE BROWNIES ARE WITH | THE NEW YORK ¢ the embodiment of all the requisites of first-| a. of a le requisite i | BISCUIT Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. PUINAN CANDY Y 60, oo wooo MUskegon Bakery Grackers + ADVERTISE ™ # h i ch 7 _ pao UCM FL ROR oot Sore etre eet Se | Ave Roms weds Soaps BAKERY'S i ‘= WORLD. Muskeaon Branch, CAKES and . IT IS A TWELVE-PAGE PAPER. | Mlik Ly ach, CRACKERS ASEGR OGENVIR PUBLISHED IN CEACO, TBE ENS AMR SODA j soa eeeerOtntttegS oi OF ss PEOPLE OF THAT SECTION THAN ANY ly Inited a ta tes Baking Co. 3 \ s It is in accord with the people of the West both in Politics and Literature. . Please remember that the pric: of The Weekly Inter Ocean is ONLY ONE DOL- LAWRENCE DEPEW, Acting Manager, LAR PER YEAR. Address ; | ‘ THE INTER OCeAS. Chicago. |/Muskegon, i Mich, 4 | — | EADERS a We 3 a Oe Tt “i iw |IO CENTS THE NEW VICTOR \SSORTHENT. Nut Dishes zen Sugar \ h Celery Trays encima yi iy ert ad Travs. : dozen & inch Square Ot g Dishes 5 7 I th Squat I s nS 1 yrie lo Butters. cove n 7 inch Berry Dishes dozen Ce . HAVE AN OPENING AND SELL & GLASSWARE. Any article in these packages can be retailed at Ten Cents. ri Oy “ *h Comports ~ le $s 12 inch Tray hs D g j inch Comport ; Sa rs n 8 inch Jelly. 144 si doz., $9.60. , dozen 9 inch Berry Dish Pky., #1 , dozen & inch Preserve Write us for Large Cuts, Illustrations of Dinner and Toilet Sets, and our new Spring Catalogue. H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids The Dayton Computing Scale It Sells Kecause of Its Money- Making Features! it AN AAA For further information Groep a postal card to ..... HOYT & Company, Warning! The trade are hereby warned against using any Infringements on Weighing 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 United States issued in 1881, 1885, 1 66, 1888, 1°91,1893 and 1894. And we will prosecute all infringers to the ful) extent of the law. The simple using of Scalesthat infringe upon our patents makes the user liable to prosecution and the impor- tance of buying and using any other Comput- ing and Price Scales than those manufactured by us and bearfng our name and date of patents and thereby incurring ability to prosecution is apparent. Respectfully, The Computing Scale Co. See What Users Say: Otfice of CHICAGO LUMBERING CO. Manistique, Mich., Apr. 2, 1895. Messrs. Hoyt & Co., Dayton, O. Gentlemen: We bought three Standard [ar- Ket Scales and two Tea Scales of you, Feb. 11th, for our two stores, and have thrown out a!l our other scales, and had these in constant use ever since. We are very much pleased with them and think THEY HAVE SAVED US ABOUT $5.00 PER DAY, or nearly the cost of them, by this time. Yours truly, THE CHICAGO LUMBERING CO. Per C. S. Hill, Manager. tia OHIO.