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THE KEY TO SUCCESS.

 

Summarized Opinions of Eighty-three
Leading Business Men.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

I wonder if most of the boys who read
this article have not said to themselves,
as they have heard their teachers talk to
them about industry and energy and dili-
gence in study, and as they have heard
their pastors preach about purity and
truthfulness, ‘‘Yes, that’s all very good
—we expect itfrom them. That’s what
teachers and ministers are for—to talk
about such things; but, after all, we
never hear practical men in real life say
much about these things. And we
rather think that good luck and sharp-
ness and brass have about as much to do
with success in life as anything else.’’

I have no doubt but that a good many
boys—and girls, too, for that matter—
have had such thoughts as these come
into their heads, whether they have
spoken them out or not; and, so, the
homely moralizings of the teacher and
the minister, and of the father and the
mother, about true success in life, have
done them very little good.

Now, with just such young folks in
mind, and hoping to help them, I have
asked a hundred staunch, practical busi-
ness men of Grand Rapids—men who
stand high in the community—what
principles, in their opinion, would make
a boy successful in life, and what dan-
gers he must look out for in these days.

In Grand Rapids, asin most cities of
its size, there are a good many success-
ful business men who have made their
own way in the world, and who had,
when they began life, as little money to
jingle in their pockets as any boy who
reads THE TRADESMAN. These are men
into whose places any of you would like
to step; and if you all become as much
respected and bonored and as truly suc-
cessful as they, there will be many more
men in the world for which it will have
abundant cause to be thankful.

This was the substance of the letter [
sent to each of these men in your be-
half:

Dear Sir:

As I am desirous of finding out, from our bus-
iness men, the principles of action which shall
be of real value to our boys and young men, will
you not assist me by answering the following
questions:

1. What has experienee taught you to be the
most essential conditions of true business suc-
cess, at the present day?

2. What especial dangers, from a practical
business man’s point of view, threaten the young
men of to-day?

I shall be particularly glad of helpful items
from your own experience.

Of these 100 business men to whom I
sent this letter, eighty-three replied,
many of them sending me answers of
eight, ten or a dozen pages; and you may
safely believe that the interest taken by
the business men of Grand Rapids, in
helping business boys on in life, is felt
by all sterling business men everywhere.

As these letters came, I drew off, on a
long roll of paper, the suggestions of
each, setting down the different ‘‘virtues”
and ‘‘vices’’ under the names of those

 

who mentioned them, until I had several
yards of good advice for you. Did you
ever hear of measuring good advice by
the yard? Well, this advice measures a
good deal, and it weighs a good deal, as
well.

To prove that it does, I will give you
one of the letters just as it came to me:
DeEaR SIR:

Replying, I may say with pleasure, to your
inquiries, I should answer question first, ‘‘ What
are the most essential elements of true business
success?’ as follows:

atient, persistent dig, dig,
dig; at it every minute.

§ Reputation (founded on
30 percent.< fact) for honest dealing,
every time.

,, ) Luck and fortunate circum-
*{ stance, caught on the fly.

20 per cent. { Snap.
10 per cent. { More persistent dig.

100 per cent. { SUCCESS.

To the second inquiry, ‘‘What especial dan-
gers threaten the young men and boys of to-
day?’ I would reply:

1. Theaters—those not first-class — whether
nasty or veneered, and glucose literature, un
settle young men for character-building.

2. Cigarettes.

3. Slovenly morals of employers, and of many
of our public men. The spongy minds of youth
absorb the impurities of those in high places, re-
jecting the better part.

4. Too much coddling and too few hard
thumps make young men like dough—they show
a dimple for each touch of sin.

. But we should not be very wise if we

did not stop a moment to ask what true
success is. Many of my correspondents
have something to say about this at the
beginning of their letters. Every rich
man is not, by any means, truly success-
ful; every poor man is not, by any
means, unsuccessful.

30 per cent. ; P

10 per cen

‘“*You may win in one way and lose in
another,’? says Cunningham Geikie,
whose book for young men I wish you
would all buy and read; ‘‘and, if the loss
is greater, the balance, after all, is on
the wrong side. I take it that the only
success worth the name is when a man
gains a living, or a competence, or
wealth, without paying too dear for it.

‘“*You may buy gold too dear. If you
give health for it, you make a poor bar-
gain; if you sell your faculties for it, and
think of nothiug but gaining weaith, you
give pearls for a bauble; if you give
your soul for it, your self-respect, your
character, your conscience, your peace,
your hope, what will you think of the
exchange when you come to feel what it
means? True success is when a fair
share of this world does not cost either
moral, or intellectual, or physical health
or life.’’

And, in this connection, he quotes
from Izaac Walton. The boys all havea
fellow-feeling for Ike Walton, I know,
because he used to like to go a-fishing,
just as they do, and he has written some
delightful things about this sport. So
they will listen to what he says on an-
other subject:

‘“T have arich neighbor who is always
so busy that he has no leisure to laugh;
the whole business of his life is to get
money and more money. We see but the
outside of the happiness of some rich
men; few consider them to be like the

 

silkworm who, when she seems to play,
is, atthe very same time, spinning her
own bowels and consuming herself. And
this many rich men do, loading them-
selves with corroding cares to keep what
they have. Let us, therefore, be thank-
ful for health and a competence.”

And now to the letters again. Says
one business man of Grand Rapids, who,
we all think, has been remarkably suc-
cessful all through his life: ‘“‘A young
man, I believe, should give a fair portion
of his time to reading and study. He
should never devote his life wholly to
money-getting. I have devoted certain
hours strictly to business; but, upon
leaving my office, I have dropped it from
my mind, and I have discouraged men
with whom I have had business rela-
tions from obtruding it upon me outside
of business hours. I am sure that I am
much better off, in every way, for hav-
ing pursued this course.”

I shall take it for granted that you
have some true idea of what real success
means, and go on to tell you that the
business men of Grand Rapids unite in
saying, in the first place: ‘‘Try to find
out that for which you are best adapted,
and stick to that one thing.” Almost all
of them say this in some form or other.

“Carefully determine what business
you are fitted for, and then never be sat-
isfied except by advancing,’’ says one.

“A young man should have a real love,
amounting to a passion, for his calling,’’
says another.

‘“‘Business life means more to-day than
it ever did before,’’ says another, ‘‘and
business integrity is achieved under
greater temptation and is, therefore, sig-
nificant of greater virtue.’’ Then he
speaks of the ways of buying and selling
goods which were in vogue fifty years
ago; of the constantly fluctuating mar-
kets; of the keen-edged composition that
cuts down profits, and then adds, ‘‘Busi-
ness men, to succeed, must keep up with
the times.”

One of the ways to keep up with the
times and to make yourself felt, is to
take up one branch and make yourself a
specialist in this sense—that you can do
at least one thing better than most other
people can doit. The field is too large,
in these days, and competition is too
sharp for a man to do many things well.
The good poet is not usually a good
painter, too; the fine musician is not
generally a great architect; the success-
ful merchant cannot carry on the law
business and do a little doctoring at the
same time. In the old days, the country
minister used to carry on a farm, and en-
tertain most of the strangers who came
to his village, and make his own boots
sometimes, and be his own butcher and
baker and candle—if not candlestick—
maker; but, now, the pastor of the small-
est village church usually finds enough
to do without either farming it or keep-
ing a free hotel. So you will find it,
boys, whatever business you engage in;
and, if you attempt to spread out over
too much ground you will find yourself
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pilli—very thin and very inadequate to
hide the bitter dose which life has in
store foryou. ‘This one thing I do,”’ is
a good motto for any boy, and all the
better because it is found in the Bible.

When you have discovered what you
are best fitted for, and have decided to
make that one thing your life work,
“‘then,’”’ all these business men of Grand
Rapids say, ‘twork hard at it?’ Every
one of themis decided upon this point
—that hard work is the price of true
success.

“There is a very wide disposition
throughout the country to obtain a live-
libood or to get rich without work. The
young should be taught that man, to ful-
fill his calling, must produce something,”
says one.

Another says: ‘‘Too many young men
seek soft places, and they go behind the
counter when they ought to go into the
field or machine shop.’’

“Let a young man go to work at some-
thing, with little regard to immediate
compensation,” says a third.

“Young men often say that the world
owes them a living and that they are
bound to have it. Now, the world owes
them nothing but what they earn, and it
does not owe them fine clothes, or fast
horses, or the thousand and one luxuries
they desire,’’ says a fourth.

“The wish for a ‘genteel occupation’ is
ruinous,’ says a fifth.

“We want fewer lightening calcula-
tors and more thoroughgoing, earnest,
hard-working men,’’ says a sixth.

Another quotes, approvingly, Judson’s
motto. When asked how he had accom-
plished such vast results, the heroic mis-
sionary replied: ‘I have no plan, ex-
cept that, when I have anything to do, I
go and do it.’’

If I could borrow the ear of each one
of the boys who has just gone into a
store, or is just going into one, | should
whisper to him, “If you want to succeed
in business, make yourself indispensable
to your employer,’’ for this is one im-
portant secret I have learned from these
letters. Over and over again this same
form of words occurs—‘‘Let him make
himself indispensable to his employer”’—
and yet not one of my correspondents
knew what another was going to write
me. “By hard work, by thorough
knowledge of detaii, by fidelity in little
things, make such a place for yourself
that your employer cannot get along
without you.’’

I think, if L had asked any successful
man in any city, instead of the mer-
chants of Grand Rapids alone, the an-
swer would have been, in each case, that
hard work and continuous work was to
be reckoned among the elements of their
success; for a great many others have
said the same thing inthe past, and the
advice is all the more weighty because it
is so old and has been so often repeated.

1 have no doubt many boys have
envied Thomas Edison, who spent some
of his boyhood days in Port Huron,
whose boyish but thoughtful face they
have seen looking out at them from the
magazines and illustrated papers, and
have wished that they, tov, might be
great inventors. There isn’t much use
in yourjenvying Mr. Edison, but there is
a deal of use in your following his ad-
vice. He says:

‘“‘Ifa man would succeed, there must
be continuity of work. When you set
out to do anything, never let anything
disturb you from doing that one thing.

 

This power of putting the thought on
one particular thing, and keeping it
there for hours at a time, takes practice,
and it takes a long time to get into the
habit.

‘| remember that, a long time ago, I
could think only ten minutes on a given
subject before something else would
come into my mind; but, after long prac-
tice, I can keep my mind for hours upon
one topic, without being distracted with
thoughts of other matters.”’

“The great thing for the business boy
to do is tothrow himself into something,’
says a wise New York merchant. ‘I!
should not be particular what, so that it
gave hima chance to begin; and I should
make him understand that he must make
his way from that point. Go-at-it-ive-
ness is the first condition of success;
stick-to-it-ive-ness, the second.”’

I hardly think you will find ‘‘go-at-it-
ive-ness’”? and ‘‘stick-to-it-ive-ness’’ in
Webster, but they are easy words to re-
member and contain ideas which, if put
into practice, are worth a great deal to
you and to everyone.

Again, these eighty-three business men
all insist on one other quality which must
go with hard work in winning true suc-
cess—honesty. The letters vary in many
ways, but they all agree in this. Ke-
member, it isn’t ome person alone who
says that you must be honest if you
would be truly prosperous. If I said it,
you might suspect that I was in league
with your fathers and teachers and your
ministers; but eighty-three business men,

men like those for whom you work, and

like those whese places you expect to
fill some day, say to you, ‘‘The prime re-
quisite of true success in business is
honesty.’? These men have kept their
eyes wide open during long and prosper-
ous business careers, and they know the
difference between true success and
seeming success, which latter is a very
false and hollow affair. They are not
blinded by the temporary dust and straws
which blow about the commercial streets.
They have watched many boys from
their cradles; they have seen the first
slight temptations to dishonesty yielded
to or resisted; they are speaking, not of
theories, but of what they know, when
they say to you, ‘‘You must be true, if
you would succeed.”’

‘*Al] my success in forty-three years of
business life has depended on this prin-
ciple,’’ says one wealthy man.

‘*‘] care not what respectable business,
or occupation, or trade, a young man en-
gages in; if he knows his business, has
any brains and sticks to it, he will suc-
ceed, provided he is honest. The foun-
dation of the structure is truth. I con-
sider this the most essential of all virtues,
for it aids all the others,’’ says another.

‘*T have always been just as careful to
pay a debt of fifty cents as of $50,’’ says
another prosperous man.

‘*] have never known dishonesty to be
suecessful in the long run,” says anoth-
er, who has, by strict integrity and close
application, built up an enormous busi-
ness.

**} have watched the career of many
tricky but apparently successful men,
who have had wide experience; but the
bottom of a dishonest fortune always
drops out, sooner or later,’’ says still an-
other, of whom you all have heard, and
who stands at the head of his specialty.

Many of those who have written to me
have given much more good advice,
which I would like to reproduce, but it
ean all be condensed into the following:

Find out what you are fitted for; work
hard at that one thing, and | eep an hon-
est heart. x. T. BE.

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| in. Fay Combination, with counter shaft; 1 No.
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Engine: 17x7in. Engine: 1 Hyatt & Smith Hot
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A Hint to Embryo Business Men.

LANSING, April 20—It is an undis
puted fact that there is more than one
way of doing business. There is, how-
ever, but one way to carry it on success-
fully. The days when our grandfathers
were making money which many of us
are spending to-day are gone. With
them have also disappeared many of the
principles which brought them success.
The minds of the modern generation
have been broadened by the newer
methods of living and the advancement
and cultivation of our entire surround-
ings. While it is a fact that a dollar will
buy more provisions to-day than before
the war of ’61-64, it is true that more
dollars are expended on what are now
considered the necessaries of life than in-
those ante bellum days.

Not long ago, this state of affairs was
forcibly impressed upon the mind of the
writer by a prominent citizen of this
State who was an early settler of Ingham
county, and has followed many different
pursuits in his long and eventful career,
from driving the plow to assisting in
managing the political affairs of the
State. He related to me an anecdote of
his boyhood days which might both in-
terest and, if accepted as a guidepost to
success, benefit many of the merchants
of to-day.

‘‘When about 15 years of age,”’ he said,
‘“‘I was clerking in the grocery store of
Mr. , earning $12 a month, and
having, too, from my savings, money to
loan. It was my duty to get to the store
by 5:30 in the morning, build the fires,
sweep out and have everything in order
when the proprietor came down, which
was at six usually. One morning I had
gotten everything in shape and was
blacking my boots, when my employer
came in and noticed with his eagle eye,
as he looked around to see if everything
was properly tended to, the occupation
in which I was engaged. ‘What are you
doin’? he demanded. ‘Blackin’ my
boots,’ I replied, in my subservient way.
‘Whose blackin’ you usin’?? ‘Why, it be-
longs to the store,’ said I. ‘No, it don’t
belong to the store,’ he fairly yelled at
me. ‘Young man, this store don’t own
no blackin’. If you want your boots
blacked you'll find plenty of blackin’ on
the shelves. It will cost you just 10
cents a box. We’re not givin’ goods
away here. We got ’um here to sell.’”
Here the narrator’s face assumed a re-
flective expression and he doubtless
thought that, notwithstanding its harsh-
ness, it was just such discipline and the
tutorage of such employers that had
made him what he is to-day. R. R.C.

2

It is said the lives lived by the Moors
are—without, perhaps, any exception—
the most precarious and miserable that
can be imagined. The poor man is
thrown into prison for sums he never

possessed and can never pay; the rich to

 

,be squeezed of all he possesses; while

those only can hope to escape who are
members of families sufficiently power-
ful to arouse the fears of the local gov-
ernor, should he attempt extortion, and
not sufficiently powerful to stir up the
jealousy and avarice of the Sultan. Even
the governors of the provinces suffer
themselves as they make others suffer,
for, just as they squeeze the agricultur-
ist and the peasant, so they are in turn
squeezed by the Sultan and his viziers,
and, should they fail by constant pres-
ents to maintain a good opinion at the
court, they can expect only imprison-
ment and often death. There is no live
and let live policy among those who rule
and rob the Moors.
+9

A movement is projected for the im-
provement of the upper course of the
Mississippi, for the purpose of making it
navigable, especially with a view to
transporting Mesaba iron ores to St.
Louis to be smelted with the harder ores
of that section.

Everyone smokes the Signal 5.

 

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

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English —- ee 8%
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PosuutSquarcs............ 8
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Midget, 30 Ib. SE TIN 8
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CARAMELS.

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OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
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NUTS.
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Cocoanuts, full sacks........... aa. 3 65
Betermaee, er DG... ...
Biack Walnuts, por bu........... ......
PEANUTS.
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‘ Roasted...... 6B 6%
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Choice, H. P, Bees. ................. @ 4%
Moses 5@ 6
FRESH MEATS.
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orders.

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Biggest Seller on record.
LESS CODFISH,
handsome paper label.
Packed 2 doz. in a hinge top box, at 45
cents per doz.

you can get another lot in.

10 Boxes “STAR” Soap, 100 bars each, at
$3.70 and ONE BOX FREE. Or

5 Boxes at}$3.85 and ONE-HALF BOX
FREE, Freight paid.
This offer is good until M:
You all know the goods.

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Just the right

buy Seap, too. Chuck in your

Here’s Another’?

NICKEL BONE-
vrapped in cloth with
Retails at 5 cents.

Don’t order less than 4 or
If you do, you will be out before
Fact.

And Fruit Jars.

Get your order in quick.
some time in June.
we are ashamed to name them, Dut the
boys will whisper ’em to you and you will
save money by ordering NOW!

Ship later---say
Prices are so low that

Molasses.

Order NOW and get your stock in before
warm weather comes on.
handle °em then without their leaking all
over everything.
time you had getting ‘em in last summer
---some of you had to de without entirely
and lost lots of sales.
Why, they
have “em from 10 cents up.
were so cheap and Dr.
running a saloon before they

OIney &
Judson

Impossible to

You remember what a

And the prices!
ridiculous. We
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Parkhurst will be
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AROUND THE STATE.

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Ellis—John Keifer has sold his general
stock to J. C. Goodrich.

lronwood—John Kiuck succeeds Kluck
Bros. in the meat business.

Evart—Bush & Gamet succeed O. M.
Bush inthe grocery business.

Central Lake—E. Davis is removing
his dry goods stock to Washburn, Wis.

Menominee—H. J. Neville has pur-
chased the drug stock of C. L. Fostier.

Thompsonville—J. P. Winters has
sold his hardware stock to William
Peck.

Lansing—John Eichle is closing out
his stock of groceries and expects to go
South.

Cadillac—The Newark & Drury Co. is
succeeded by the Drury & Kelly Hard-
ware Co.

Greenwood—Richard M. Moore suc-
ceeds Moore & Edwards in the grocery
business.

Ann Arbor—Muehlig & Schmid suc-
ceed Andrew Muehlig in the hardware
business.

Newberry—Frank A. Park succeeds
Amos Jones in the grocery and meat
business.

Hancock—Olivier & Jacques, grocers,
have dissolved, O. Olivier continuing the
business.

Otter Lake—John S. Harris succeeds
John S. Harris & Co. in the hardware
business. i

Ovid—G. D. Briggs & Son succeed W.
B. Parker in the agricultural implement
business.

Sturgis—Z. H. Wallace, of the firm of
H. E. Wallace & Co., boot and shoe deal-
ers, is dead.

Baldwin—Albert F. Goehrend is suc-
ceeded by L. S. (Mrs. R. J.) Matthews in
general trade.

Eaton Rapids—Albert Wilson has re-
moved his grocery stock from Petoskey
to this place.

Gaylord—Thos. B. McArthur has re-
moved his hardware stock from Gladwin
to this place.

Holland— The boot and shoe stock of
Peter DeKraker has been closed on chat-
tel mortgage.

Mancelona—M. F. White & Son suc-
ceed M. F. White & Sons in the hard-
ware business.

Cadillac—J. Leslie has opened a dry
goods and fancy goods stock at 321 North
Mitchell street.

Leonidas—J. C. Arnold is closing out
his confectionery stock and will remove
to Toledo, Ohio.

Saranac—Geo. Allured & Son have
opened a furniture store and undertak-
ing establishment.

Jackson—Lake & Lowery,
lime dealers, have dissolved,
Lake continuing the business.

Belding—A. H. Weed has sold his
stock and fixtures to Lamb Bros. and re-
tired from the bakery business.

Munith—Holmes, Dancer & Co. have

coal and
Robert

removed their general stock to North-
ville where they will continue busi-
ness.

Benton Harbor—H. G. Graves & Bro.
have purchased the hardware stock of
the Benton Harbor Hardware Co.,
Limited.

Harrisville—Morris Marks has sold bis
stock of dry goods, clothing, furnishing
goods and boots and shoes to Dora and
Bertha Stern. This is the same stock
formerly owned by Stern & Son, and bid

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

| in at sheriff’s sale by Marks. The pur-
chasers gave a chattel mortgage to
Marks for $2,100. The new firm will be
known as D. & B. Stern.

Caseville—Curran, Floch & Conley,

|general dealers and manufacturers of

salt and lumber, have dissolved, Floch &
Conley succeeding.

Big Rapids—John Arnold has pur-
chased the Goss interest in the meat mar-
ket firm of Rouch & Goss. The new firm
will be Known as Rouch & Arnold.

McBain—S. A. Howey has purchased
the hardware stock heretofore conducted
here by the Drury & Kelly Hardware Co.
and will consolidate it with his own
stock.

Evart—S. Stephens has sold the stock
and fixtures connected with the City
bakery to E. J. Weaver, of Waldron, who
will continue the business at the same
location.

Carson City—W. A. Gardner and Isaac
Kipp have purchased the N. W. Daggett
general stock and will conduct the busi-
ness in the future under the firm name
of Gardner & Kipp.

Lansing—John Robson, the wholesale
grocer, has purchased the Broas clothing
stock of J. L. Hudson, trustee. Mr.
Broas has been East making purchases
for the spring trade.

Freeport—Geo. Northrup has uttered
three chattel mortgages on his drug stock
—one for $174 to a Hastings bank, one
for $236 to the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug
Co. and a third for $90 to D. M. Amberg
& Bro.

Manistee—John Crawford, who has
been in the employ of J. E. Somerville
for the past ten years, has purchased an
interest in Somerville & Wood’s branch
book and stationery store in the Engel-
mann block and the business will be con-
tinued under the firm name of John
Crawford & Co.

Kalamazoo—The Roberts & Hillhouse
drug and stationery stock was bid in at
mortgage sale by local bank creditors,
leaving the merchandise creditors out in
the cold. The business will be contin-
ued for the present by David Fisher as
agent for the banks. It is generally con-
ceded that both Messrs. Roberts and Hill-
house are in the same position as the
merchandise creditors, having saved
nothing from the wreck.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Flint—C. G. Burroughs & Co. succeed
J. E. Burroughs & Co. in the fiouring
mill business.

Pontiac—W. J. Beaudett has purchased
the carriage body manufacturing busi-
ness of W. F. Stewart & Co.

Bay City—The Cousins & Groves
shingle mill will be overhauled and put
into commission sometime ®# May. F,
P. R. Groves will manage the plant this
season.

Au Gres—James Hamilton, a Canadian
maker of experience, is starting a new
factory here for the purpose of making
export cheese, seeking an outlet through
Montreal.

Marquette—The Dead River Mill Co.
started its sawmill last week and will
run two saws at night and all four of its
saws during the day, making an output
of about 240,000 feet a day.

Waterford—The prospects for a cheese
factory here are said to be excellent. A
responsible party has agreed to build
and operate it at his own expense for 2
cents a pound on all cheese sold, on a

 

guarantee of 300 cows.

 

ie
Boon—The charcoal plant formerly

conducted by E. W. Matevia & Co. has
been purchased by Henry W. Worden,
who will continue the business on a
larger scale than ever before.

Alma—Arrangements have been com-
pleted by which the necessary apparatus
for the manufacture of cheese will be put
in the Alma creamery. The material
will be in position in about 30 days, and
the manufacture of cheese will begin
about May 15.

Plainwell—The Plainwell Church Fur-
niture Co. has assigned to Henry Rich-
ardi, son of Robert Richardi, the princi-
pal owner of the enterprise. The com-
pany had a good many orders, but has
been hampered from the start by lack of
capital.

Evart—Davy & Co. and M. McDougall
have purchased the Mark Hooker saw-
mill and, as soon as it can be refitted,
will begin the manufacture of shingles.
It is their purpose to purchase cedar tim-
ber of all kinds and, later on, add ma-
chinery for the manufacture of ties.

Muskegon—The Sanford shingle mill
is being refitted and remodeled for the
season’s run, Mr. Sanford expecting to
have it in readiness by May 1. He
has nearly logs enough on hand for
the summer and more coming. He ex-
pects to operate tbe mill for several sea-
sons.

Muskegon—Hovey & McCracken haye
decided not to run either of their saw-
mills this season, as they had formerly
intended, and will place them on the
market. They have a quantity of stand-
ing timber in the Upper Peninsula, but
not enough to pay for moving one of
their mills up there.

Samaria—D. A. Jenkins has rented the
Raisinville cheese factory and has al-
ready begun operations. He has taken
Mr. Dunbar as partner at the Samaria
factory, and will buy the milk paying
monthly. The veteran cheesemaker,
David Baker, will stir curd at Samaria.
The factories are about ten miles apart
and it will make plenty of business for
all engaged.

Bay City—The sawmills here are now
nearly all in operation, but it is not like-
ly that much, if any, lumber will be
shipped by water before May 1. Log
rafting from Canada will depend consid-
erably upon weather conditions. Should
May come on warm and Pleasant, an
early start will be made, as mill owners
depending upon Canada logs will be
anxious to get them as soon as possible.

Muskegon—Mathew Wilson, for years
one of the prominent lumbermen of Mus-
kegon, has sold to H. J. Dudley, of Fre-
mont, the last lumber owned by him in
dividually. There is, altogether, 1,700,-
000 feet in the deal. The lumber is all
hemlock. This closes Mr. Wilson’s ca-
reer as a lumberman unless he should
see fit sometime to embark in it again,
but he probably will not do that. The
stock purchased by Mr. Dudley is on the
Tillotson docks and will be yarded from
here by him.

22a

The Strictly Pure Lime Rock Asphalt
Paint made by H. M. Reynolds & Son, of
Grand Rapids, is an article which every
user of paints should try. Messrs, Rey-
nolds & Son are experienced asphalt
men and positively guarantee their

goods.
+>

——-

Ask J. P. Visner for Edwin J. Gillies &
Co.’s special inducements on early import
teas.

 

 

 

The Grain Market,

As usual, the unexpected happens.
While the general opinion was that
wheat had advanced about what it would
bear at present, the market got excited
and prices climved and did not stop un-
til the price reached about 7c higher
than on previous week, and with no one
willing to sell at the advance. Farmers
are pretty busy doing their spring work
and while prices are going up they do
not care*to stop to haul wheat, preferring
to wait and see if prices will go up more,
while elevator men will not sell, as they
see no wheat coming in to replace their
holdings. Taking everything into con-
sideration the situation is certainly very
strong, and we should not be surprised
to see a further advance in the near fu-
ture.

Corn followed wheat and is very firm,
while oats advanced some, although not
in the same ratio as wheat. As all com-
modities are on the gain we find that
business men generally begin to think
prices have seen the lowest points and
that a reaction for a higher level is in
order.

Receipts during the week were forty-
three cars of wheat, twelve cars of corn,
and three cars of oats.

C. G. A. Voie.

 

 

PRODUCE MARKET.

Apples—75@#1.25 per bu., according to quali-
ty. There is an entire absence of shipping de
mand and the local demand is almost altogether
from fruit stands.

Asparagus—82 per doz. bunches.

Beans—Trade continues quiet with a slight
decline all around on realization sales. The re
ceipts continue moderate and advices from in
terior points still report a scarcity of stock, with
a feeling that is 1elatively stronger than is
shown in this market.

Butter—A little stronger than a week ago, but
the strength is expected to develop into weak-
ness before many days elapse. Dealers get 13@
l6e for choice dairy and 20g22c for factory
creamery. All indications lead to the belief that
butter will rule low all through the summer.

Be. ts—Dry, 25¢ per bu.

Cabbage—Home grown is about out of market
California stock is beginning to arrive, com
manding &5 per crate of 4 doz.

Cauliflower—%2 per doz.

Celery—There is a little improvement in the
stock now on the market and the price has
jogged up a notch, present quotations being 25
@3.c.

Cranberries—The market is dull, albeit some
dealers have full stocks, The main source of
demand at present is from bakers, and the price
hovers around $3 per crate, although considera-
ble concession in price would be made a buyer
who could use a number of crates.

Cucumbers—#1.50 per doz.

Eggs—The market is about thesame as a week
ago, although the demand has been unprece-
dented—probably on account of the high price
of meat. Local handlers pay 9c and hold at I0c
per doz.

Lettuce—In ample supply and lower, com-
manding 10@12c per Ib.

Onions—Home grown dry stock is dull and
about played out, occasional sal-s being made at
60@65c per bu. Bermuda stock is in better de-
mand at $2.50 per bu. Green stock is meeting a
large demand, which is amply supplied by local
growers, at 10@12c per doz. bunches.

Parsnips—Dull and lower, dealers being glad
to get rid of their stocks at 15@20c per bu.

Pieplant—8c per lb.

Potatoes—The ground lost has been about re-
gained and dealers are again handling carlots
with some degree of confidence in an upward
tendency of the market. Local handlers are
paying 60@65c per bu., both here and elsewhere,
and from now a gradual upward movement will
probably prevail.

Spinach—6ic per bu.

Strawberries—20Q25c per qt. box. Louisiana
stock has been in the market so far, but Tennes-
see stock is expected to begin to arrive this
week.

Sweet Potatoes—Plenty of choice stock in mar-
ket, but few sales,even at the very favorable
price of $1@1.10 per bu.

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN.

 

5

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

H. D. Clark has opened a grocery
store at Cheshire. The Musselman Gro-
eer Co. furnished the stock.

Powers & Abell have opened a grocery
store at Lake Odessa. The Worden Gro-
cer Co. furnished the stock.

F. A. Mann has opened a grocery store
at Lima, Ind. The stock was furnished
by the Musselman Grocer Co.

Utter & Clover have opened a grocery
store at South Boardman. The Lemon
& Wheeler Company furnished the stock.

 

Homer Klap, grocer at 300 West Ful-
ton street, has leased the store adjoining
him on the east and put in a line of flour
and feed.

John Moll, baker at 42 West Leonard
street, has added a line of groceries.
The Musselman Grocer Co. furnished
the stock.

 

Henry Schiebel, meat dealer at Lud-
ington, has added a line of groceries.
The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. fur-
nished the stock.

Wm. Bixby, meat dealer at 802 South
Division street, has added a line of gro-
ceries. The Musselman Grocer Co. fur-
nished the stock.

S. D. Upham has opened a general
store at Saugatuck. Voigt, Herpol-
sheimer & Co. furnished the dry goods
and the Musselman Grocer Co. supplied
the groceries.

Bender & Ragan, grocers at the corner
of Spring and Oaks streets, have a
branch store at 265 South Ionia street.
The stock was furnished by the Mussel-
man Grocer Co.

Rindge, Kalmbach & Co. bid in the
boot and shoe stock of P. DeKraker, at
Holland, at the chattel mortgage sale
last week, their bid being $2,025. The
purchasers will conduct the business
through the medium of an agent until
the stock can be soid in a lump.

The Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ As-
sociation yearns for a return to the good
old times when a bushel basket held a
bushel of fruit or vegetables, instead of
three-quarters or seven-eighths of a
bushel, as is the case with the packages
of many manufacturers. Based on the
theory of deception, the ‘‘St. Joe basket’’
has come to be recognized as the com-
mercial standard by fruit growers and
produce dealers, although everyone who
handles it or uses it knows he is violat-
ing the law of the land, which prescribes
the number of cubic inches each meas-
ure shall contain. Stimulated by the suc-
cess of the St. Joseph manufacturers in
turning out bastard measures, other
manufacturers have eagerly followed in
their footsteps, so that at the present
time the basket maker who refuses to
listen to the siren voice of duplicity
stands small show of success, for the rea-
son that his products are sidetracked
for those of manufacturers who do not
permit their consciences or their fear
of the moral or statutory law to in-
terfere with the dictates of avarice.

— _—__—_—_——
The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The refineries which recently
closed down are working again, with the
exception of the Franklin of Philadelphia
and the Jersey City refinery, which are
elosed for a short time for repairs. The
impression prevails that, in the event of
a continuation of the strong demand

;rule and the cases

which characterized last week’s trading,
prices will advance all along theline.
Currants — Another decline has oc-
curred, but the demand is next to noth-
ing, buyers taking only the smallest
quantities and duplicating orders if ne-
cessity compels them to.
Prunes—California prunes are quiet
and the market shows weaker tendencies.
The stock is larger than it was supposed
to be, and with a good supply on the
Coast, and the crop prospects fair, the
reason for the weaker feeling is ex-
plained. Sultana prunes are rather
scarce and values are well maintained.
French are firm and in small demand.

Raisins—The demand for raisins con-
tinues of moderate proportions. In Cal-
ifornia goods the market is firm on de-
sirable varieties, but the existence of
considerable stock known to be not up to
the standard has a tendency to depress
the market. Valencia and Sultana are
quiet, and on Valencia layers values are
lower.

Bananas—The demand is unprece-
dented for this time of the year and im-
porters are very stiff in their prices.
Straight sales from the dock are the
are exceptional
where the fruit is sent on consignment.
All of the brokers have a handful of
orders for fruit from each vessel long
before she reaches the wharf, and, know-
ing that every bunch is sure of being
taken, the receiving agents will not even
name a price until the cargo has been
inspected. Every condition at present
goes to show that prices will be still
higher, as apples are very high and
the cry for bananas continues to grow
in volume. For the past two or three
years everything has been in favor of
the consumer and the fruit has been
sold at prices which, on an average for
the season’s business, have not enabled
the importer and wholesaler to real-
ize enough on their profits to pay the
actual expense of handling the fruit.
This has been caused, in part, by the
fierce rush and scramble to do business.
A great many commission men jumped
at the conclusion that there must be
money in the business because a few
pioneers in handling them had sue-
ceeded in pulling through. They, there-
fore, ordered carloads right and left and
local markets were glutted three-fourths
of the time—to the delight of peddlers
and to the dismay of the men who cwned
the fruit and sent it forward in the ex-
pectation of getting fair prices. This
policy, however, died out with the close
of last season, and now only about half
as many houses are ordering in carlots,
and those who do have an eye onthe
profits and do not order recklessly. This
method will insure steady and more uni-
form prices. The prospect for the pres-
ent week is that thesupply will be equal
to the demand, as the cars will be taken
in by local wholesalers. Prices are firm
and the retailer may be obliged to ad-
vance the selling price.

Lemons—The wholesalers who bought
large stocks a month ago are, for policy,
talking high prices and endeavoring to
create the impression that the retail
trade must buy now to save the profit
they will be forced to pay if buying is
deferred. Other distributing agents who
did not load heavily are keeping quiet
and express a belief that present prices
will not be advanced for some time yet
and that there are grounds for believing

 

there are fresher cuttings of the same

goods which can be secured for less
money between the ist and the 15th of
May. Local dealers are well supplied
and will be pleased to name rock bottom
prices to liberal buyers.

Oranges—The crop of California Seed-
lings is nearing the finish. What still re-
mains is getting very ripe, and, while
the quality and flavor are nearly perfect,
the keeping quality is not so good and
all of the boxes show quite a percentage
of decay. There will be but little of the
crop left in the groves by May 1, as the
low prices made by all exchanges last
week will cause liberal orders to be sent
in. The Navels are nearly cleaned up,
also, the best sizes being practically
gone. The extreme large sizes which
are left sell slowly and, as the season ad-
vances, will grow more spongy and un-
desirable. The Mediterranean Sweets
will be in the market by another week,
and, as they are fairly good keepers,
will bring better prices than the Seed-
lings. Tbey will probably last until the
first of June and there will then be quite
a period in which the Messinas will have
a clear field.

Dates—The recent advance has not
materially increased the demand. The
quality of the stock is considerably ‘‘off”
this year and, for that reason, specula-
tive buying has not been brisk.

Figs—Seli steadily, as the wants of the
trade require, which is equivalent to
saying that there is no boom or unusual

demand.
Purely Personal.

Dr. W. A. Burdick, the Galesburg
druggist, was in town over Sunday, visit-
ing his daughter, who is a teacher in the
Fountain street school.

Amos S. Musselman (Musselman Gro-
cer Co.) made a flying trip to New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore last week.

Edwin Fallas has returned from Cali-
fornia, where he spent a couple of
months in search of health and recrea-
tion. Mr. Fallas spent a week at Salt
Lake City and nearly as long at Manitou
Springs on his way home.

A. W. Newark, Manager of the Wex-
ford Lumber Co., at Cadillac, was in
town a couple of days last week. He
was accompanied by his wife, who im-
proved the opportunity to purchase new
furniture, carpets and curtains for the
family residence.

Frank Hamilton, the Traverse City
clothier, came to the city Saturday to
spend Sunday with his wife, who will
remain here until the weather is warm
enough for them to take possession of
their summer cottage on Hamilton
Heights, across, the bay from Traverse
City.

The Milano Il Sole thus refers to the
retirement of Dr. Chas. S. Hazeltine
from the consulate of Milan, Italy: *‘We
are truly sorry to learn that the estimable
Dr. Hazeltine, United States Consul in our
city, will leave Milan permanently, and
will return to private life. The great
intelligence, wide culture, gentle and ener-
getic character and, withal, the friendly
regard he entertains for Italy, cause us to
receive this decision with sadness. We
are joined in this sentiment by all our
citizens. The consulate will be left in
eapable hands in charge of our fellow

citizen, Guiseppe Dassi.”
—__—~-

A poorly written signature on a check |

looks much better than an elaborately
flourished autograph on an apology for

 

non-payment, or on a note that is classi- | W

fied as n. g.

 

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Ass’n.
President—E. Wuite.

Secretary—K, A. STowE.

Treasurer—J. Geo. LEHMAN,

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5 pounds for 25 cents.

11 pounds for 50 cents.

22 pounds for #1.

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Wants Column.

Advertisements will be inserted under this
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one cent a word for each subsequent insertion,
No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents.
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BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

OR SALE—SMALL DRUG STOCK IN LO-

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snap for the right party. Reasons for selling,
other business. Address Ipecac, care Michigan
Tradesman. 756

OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—HOTEL PROP
erty Good location. For particulars ad
dress J. C. Tracy, Custer, Mich. 755

OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—GOOD CLEAN
stock of groceries. Address No. 754, care
Michigan Tradesman. 751

OR SALE—OLD ESTABLISHED GROCERY
business on best business street in Grand
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$3,000. Exceptional opportunity. Long lease of
store, if desired. Stock clean and well selected.
Address No. 152, care Mich. Tradesman. 752
OR SALE—A FIRST-CLASS, OLD ESTAB-
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interest or whole. Address G.B.C., care Michi-
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OR SALE—THE MONROE SALOON AND
grocery property; best location in Lexing-
ton. Apply to Pabst & Wixson, Lexington,
Mich. Gol
OR SALE—CLEAN GENERAL STOCK, IN-
voicing about $4,000. Only store in town,
with mill regularly employing fifty men. Will
rent building so low that purchaser cannot af-
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747

 

Tradesman.
jag tear Athy TO TAKE HALF IN-
terestin my 75 bbl. steam roller mill and
elevator, situated on railroad; miller preferred;
good wheat country. Full description, price,
terms and inquiries giyen promptly by address-
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Mich. 711
YF YOU WANT TO BUY OR SELL REAL
estate, write me. I can satisfy you. Chas.
E. Mercer, Rooms 1 and 2, Widdicomb building.
653
WOR SALE ONLY—A GOOD PAYING RES
taurant. Nice locality. Fine trade. A
bargain. Winans & Moore, 1 Tower B’lk
Grand Rapids, Mich. 145

IGHTY CENTS WILL BUY $1 WORTH OF
a clean stock of groceries inventorying
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potatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, ete,
Correspondence solicited. Watkins & Smith,
81-86 South Division St., Grand Rapids. 673
N ADVISABLE SUBSTITUTE FOR THE
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FANTED—MEN TO ORDER ON APPROYV-
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OOKING FOR REAL ESTATE INVEST-
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6

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Commercial Aspect of the Bicycle.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

The shortage in bicycles which retail
dealers feared would severely hamper
the trade this season has arrived, and
good wheels of every kind are scarce in
the market. Several manufacturers
have called in their traveling men for
the season. Cheap wheels are also be-
coming scarce and _ prices on low
grades are rapidly stiffening. Jobbers
having their orders only partly filled
from the factories cannot get goods for
their customers, and every maker of high-
grade wheels in the country is from 100
to 2,500 wheels behind orders. An im-
mense quantity of European tubing is
being imported, for which a good price
is being paid. The Ameriban mills are
running day and night in order to fill
manufacturers’ orders. They are suc-
ceeding fairly well, which enables the
cycle factories to also run both day and
night in order to fill their own orders
from agents and jobbers.

A peculiar feature of the bicycle trade
makes itself manifest here. If a man
orders a wheel and has to wait for it, he
makes life a burden to the agent by en-
quiring after it every day. Men having
good wheels, and with which they are
satisfied and are riding daily, immediately
become monomaniacs upon the subject

of new wheels when they have
ordered one, continually telephoning or
calling to see if it has arrived. As a

usual thing, it takes but three or four
days to get a wheel here from the fac-
tory, but the present distress makes it
nearer four weeks before one arrives.

It is expected that the worst of the
rush will be over by the middle of May,
though dealers will probably be very
busy all summer. The trade this spring
presents the unprecedented spectacle of
the public seeking the bicycle agent, in-
stead of the agent seeking the public. It
is this totally unexpected phase which
makes it so hard to fill orders. The old
manufacturers last year, almost to a
unit, made preparations to double their
output for 1895, but the additions made
to their capacity were, in every case, en-
tirely inadequate to meet the require-
ments of the present season. The Grand
Rapids dealers say they have already
sold more than half as many wheeis as
they sold during the entire year of 1894;
yet the season kas but fairly opened.
The low prices which prevailed a month
ago have been abandoned, as have also,
to some extent, the extremely easy terms
upon which wheels had hitherto been
sold in this city.

Several unforeseen circumstances have
combined to produce the present condi-
tion of affairs: First, the price of high-
grades was cut from $125 to $100 by an
Eastern firm, for the purpose of freezing
out a Western manufacturer who was
invading the East with a better wheel,
and also for the purpose of deterring the
entrance of new men into the field of
cycle manufacturing. But the Western
maker immediately met the $100 price,
and, with characteristic Western enter-
prise, made a still better wheel for that
money. All other firms immediately
dropped into line and $100 was made the
standard price of a bicycle for the year.
Then commenced a seramble for trade.
At the Chicago and New York cycle

shows, in the mad desire to do business |

whether any money was made or not,
wheels were sold at figures hitherto un-
dreamed of. Following this were the

 

immense orders for tubing which the |
larger factories placed with the tube mills.
This material was used as fast as it was
delivered, and, consequently, the smaller |
makers could get nothing for the con- |
struction of their frames, though other |
parts were plenty. Some of the latter |

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factories actually laid off men in the |
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busiest part of the season through lack |
of material for them to work upon. In|
addition to this, one large factory was |
completely burned up at the beginning |
of the season, hundreds of wheels and an |
immense amount of tubing being de-
stroyed, making the available material
just so much the less. Again, one of the
largest makers delayed the beginning of
the season’s work unnecessarily, thus
making a shortage of several thousand
wheels, which was felt heavily when the
rush began. The large number of spe-
cial wheels ordered also contributed its
mite to the general confusion, the con-
struction of such wheels being necessa- |
rily slow; and last, but not least, the gen- |
eral public has decided that the bicycle
is the swiftest, the safest, the easiest,
the cheapest, the most serviceable, and, |
withal, the most enjoyable, mode of |
locomotion extant, which, taken in con- |
junction with the very low prices and
easy terms prevailing at the commence-
ment of the season, capped the climax of
the combination of circumstances men-
tioned.

Some makers lament the lowering of
prices, saying that they could sell more
than they could make at the former
price; others claim that the lowering of
the price is almost entirely responsible
for the immense demand. Certain it is
that prices will not be again cut for 1896;
it is equally true that they will not re-
turn to the higher standard of 1894, and
it is also almost certain that such im-
mense preparations for the trade of 96
will be made next winter that an over-
production will be the result, as next
year the present causes of great stimula-
tion will be nearly reversed.

Morris J. WHITE.

—— ee

The latest mint report gives the value
of coined gold in France as $825,000,000
and silver as $492,200,000. The ratio be-
tween the two metals is 1 to 154g. From
1865 until 1874 the coinage of silver was
restricted to a certain amount, and since
the latter date has been discontinued en-
tirely. The result of this restriction and
suspension has been to keep coined sil-
ver above market value in that country.

>_>. > ent

Be wise oa buy the Signal Five.

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Improved and Copyrighted by
Cc. D. STEVENS.

 

 

 

 

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account, and you need no other. It does not
make an extra book in your set, but does aw ay
with many small books. It will go with eithera
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business by the month and year as any other
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ADAMS & HART

 

WOODBINE, IOWA.

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 & BARCLAY,

Wholesale Bicycles, Sundries & Sport-

ing Goods,

NO. 4 MONROE ST., Grand Ropids, Michigan

 

If you can get

 

A

One of our Bicyeles, from our

customers, or can find

New Clipper

any pattern,

 

 

In stock anywhere for sale, you won't be sorry
that you boughtit. If any dealer offers you
one at a cut price

You’d better take it!

 

 

“Bakaake
by

We can't make enough of ‘em: we’ve delivered
a lot,and they are NOT coming back. They
bring better prices in trade than othe Ts. An-
other year we may be able to make all the bi
cycles our friends want.

Lads ARIAS ek,

 

BICYCLES!

 

In Strictly HIGH GRADE Wheels we have the
Famous |

Monarch

Line at $85 and $100.
Outings
At $85. Our SPECIAL

‘Planet Jr.”’

Wheel at $75 beats them all—at that price.
Then we hav e the

Featherstones

At from $40 to $65. Call and see us.
attention given to mail orders.

And the

 

 

 

Special

12 West Bridge St.
GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

Of well-known reputation.
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.

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

   

 

7

 

Advantages of the Cash System.

[Entered in competition for prizes offered by

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association. ]
There are really but few mercantile
houses in this country which do business
on the cash system, yet it is one of the
commonest things to hear all merchants
denouncing the credit system, and in the
plainest language speaking in favor of
selling for cash. There is not a merchant
in this country who is not in favor of the
cash system, and who would not, on the
morrow, be much better off if such a sys-
tem were in vogue. Any man can do a
cash business if he sells at cash prices,
but no man can sell for cash on credit
prices. The man who sells for cash has
no bad bills; he does not have to wait for
his money; he can afford to give bargains
which will pay customers to come to him.
The increased expense of doing a credit
business, on account of book-keeping and
collectors, the amount of inevitable less-
es every year, on account of bad debts
(which will occur, notwithstanding the
most careful discrimination) and the loss
of interest in having a large amount of
capital tied up in book accounts all ren-
der necessary a larger margin of profit,
which has to be considered as business
expenses, and to be paid for by the cash
buyers. Besides this, the bad feelings
constantly occurring because credit is
given to one customer and refused an-
other and the disagreeable necessity of
being obliged to dun customers for past
due accounts are good reasons for selling
for cash. In these times of close compe-
tition, cash buyers expect, and are enti-
tled to, the very lowest prices, and should
not be required to pay the losses incident
to a credit business. Groceries in hand
are better for the retail grocer than gro-
ceries in possession of customers who
will never pay for them. There never
was acredit grocer who changed to the
cash plan who ever regretted it or went
back to credit. The better prices which
a cash grocer is enabled to offer the pub-
lic bring customers to him and he does
not have to sit up nights over a lot of
credit accounts, trying to make out
whether or not such and such customers
will pay up in time for him to meet some
promissory note maturing in a few days,
the money for which he has not in hand.
The cash grocer has the money and knows
it. No midnight musings for him.
There is only one way to run astrictly
cash business and the principles of that
system are embodied in a short, plain
sentence: ‘*No credit to anybody under
_any circumstances.” Just so long as you
“stick to this you can run acash store.
ig The minute you deviate the breadth of a
§ hair you have gone back to credit. There
are many pleasant things connected with
conducting a store upon this principle.
There is no hesitation in making any sale,
for you know that the cash is forthcom-
ing when the package is tied up. You
have no accounts to collect of and none to
keep with customers. At night the cash
isin the till for all the goods which have
left your shelves. If you are moderate
in expenditures, and do not overbuy,
you wili always be able to pay your bills
before maturity. The cash customer
has many advantages and when he goes
into market he is offered the best goods
and the !owest prices. He buys for cash
and bis trade is vot only worth
but seeking, and the = mer-
chant who has such a trade uses every
means iv his power to keepit. Thecash
customer is independent, asks no favors,

having,
worth

 

and can buy where he pleases. No man
owns his trade. Cashis powerful. Try
it and you will see that such is the case.
Sell fer cash and you will have the mon-
ey to buy for cash; but if you buy on
credit and sell on credit you runa risk
which a cash buyer and cash seller does
not, need not and will not.
GEORGE SEXLINGER.

Saginaw, W.S., Mich.
io — pel
Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso-

ciation.

The reguiar meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association was
held at the office of THE MICHIGAN

 

 

TRADESMAN on Tuesday evening, April

16, President White presiding.

In view of the rapid advance in kero-
sene, it was decided to request the Com-
mittee on Trade Interests to include on
the next sugar card a recommendation
as to the proper prices at which oil
should be retailed.

J. Geo. Lehman introduced the subject
of short market baskets,
Grand Rapids probably had the largest
assortment of job lot measures of any
city in the country, the little box factory
here being the only onein the country,
so far as his knowledge goes, which
manufactures full bushels. The St. Joe
basket, which is the favorite package
here, is never put up full measure. Such
a method of cheating is an imposition
on both grocer and consumer and some
plan of action should be adopted looking
toward the abolition of the nuisance.

H. J. Vinkemulder stated that growers
were sharp enough to take nothing but
St. Joe baskets when buying new pack-
ages.

Julius J. Wagner called attention to
one basket where the bottom comes up
so close to the top that it holds but three-
quarters of a bushel.

Mr. Lehman moved that the Secretary
write the other associations in the State,
soliciting their assistance in securing the

adoption of honest bushel packages.
Adopted.
Mr. Vinkemulder stated that Chicago

commission merchants were kicking on
the new style of package from Fennville,
containing one-fifth of a bushel instead
of one-half of a bushel, as heretofore.

John H. Goss said he always discrim-
inated against the bogus measures by
paying more for vegetables purchased in
full measure packages. When a grower
brings potatoes, for instance, in short
baskets he pays 60 cents a bushel by
weight or 55 cents by the basket.

On motion of Mr. Vinkemulder, the
special subject for discussion at the next
meeting will be ‘*‘Cash vs. Credit,” in-
eluding the reading of the various arti-
cles entered for prizes in the meantime.

There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24.

 

 

CUBA AND HER DEBT.

lt is impossible for any free people not
to sympathize with the oppressed Cubans
now desperately battling for independ-
ence; but the certainty, if defeated, of
being delivered up to the bloody ven-
geance of the Spaniards will deter most
Americans from all active participation
in the revolution.

From the slaughter of Colonel Critten-
den, of Kentucky, and his Americans,
who were taking part in the revolution
under Lopez, in 1851, down to that of
fifty-three of the American passengers
and crew of the American steamer Vir
ginius, in 1871, in the revolution under
Cisneros, when Captain Fry, command-
ing the steamer, and General Ryan, of
New York, were massacred, the record
has always been one of murderous
cruelty visited on citizens of the United
States.

In joining any enterprise with the ob-
ject of securing independence and self-
government for Cuba, citizens of the
United States have the certainty of being
abandoned by their country and Govern-
ment, and, if they are not victorious,
must expect certain death if they should
fall into the hands of the Spaniards.

It is not strange, under these circum-
stances, that Americans are extremely
cautious either of joining the Cuban
cause or of assisting to land arms or
men there. The lack of arms and war
stores has always been the greatest dif-
ficulty in the way of Cuban independence,
and in all probability will continue to
operate against the revolutionists.

But it would seem that now the
Cubans are driven to desperation by the
enormous debt with which they are sad-
died. According to an editorial article
published in the Havana newspaper, El
Diario dela Marina, of Feb. 15, 1895,
and incorporated in a report made to the
State Department at Washington, by the
Consul general at Havana, Ramon O.
Williams, the debt now loaded upon the
Island is quite $200,000,000.

The Cubans are literally taxed to the
point of wholesale confiscation of prop-
erty. They are required to raise a year-
ly tribute of between $25,000,000 and
$30,000,000 of revenue, one-half of which
goes to Spain outright, while, in addi-
tion to the expenses of their Govern-

 

ment, they are forced to pay for the
maintenance of a Spanish army to op-
press them.

The article referred to shows that,
with the enormous and terrible taxes im-
posed upon the people, the revenue is
always less than the demand made upon
it, and in the past nine years—that is,
from 1884-85 to 1893-94—the deficiency
amounts to $42,700,000, while the debt
for which the people have to provide,
and upon which they pay interest, is not
less than $200,000,000.

Cuba has, perhaps, 1,500,000 popula-
tion, and, with a debt of $200,000,000,
each head of the population is burdened
with a government debt of $133, in addi-
tion to taxes and private debts. How
the people are to endure such burdens,
burdens which are constantly increasing,
is one of the tremendous problems which
confronts them. If Spain should suc-
ceed in bringing the Island again under
subjection, the financial situation must
continue to grow more serious, until its
ultimate fate may be determined by its
passing into the hands of its creditors.

 

ENGLAND AND NICARAGUA.

The time is now near at hand when
the limit allowed Nicaragua by Great
Britain for the payment of the indem-
nity demanded, because of the forcible
expulsion of Consular Agent Hatch
from the Mosquito reservation, will be
reached. So far Nicaragua has shown
no evidence of an intention to comply
with the British ultimatum, hence the
question naturally arises, What would
happen should Nicaragua neglect or re-
fuse to pay the indemnity by the time
specified?

The amount demanded for the expul-
sion of Consul Hatch in itself is net
large; but, should an equal sum be de-
manded for all those expelled, Nicara-
gua would be seriously embarrassed to
meet the claims. As to whether or not
Great Britain will force payment there
need be little doubt. Already the flag-
ship of the Pacific station, the Royal
Arthur, and a cruiser are at Panama,
and will proceed to Corinto, Nicaragua,
in a few days. It is possible that a
seizure of the customhouse may be
contemplated, the idea being to collect
the taxes until the claim is met.

If the United States proposes to in-
terfere in any way, preparations should
be made at once. If a protest is to be
filed to any high-handed act, American
warships should be on the scene to see
that the protest is respected. The Mon-
terey, on the Pacific coast, has been
started south, with instructions to stop
at Corinto. The Olympia, of the Pa-
cific squadron, has also been ordered to
the scene.

On the Gulf side of Nicaragua there
are no American vessels at present; but
Admiral Meade’s squadron is near at
hand, and one or more ships could be
readily detached and dispatched to Blue-
fields or Greytown at short notice.
Great Britain has disclaimed any inten-
tion of appropriating territory in Nicara-
gua; but there is no question that the
attempt to forcibly collect the revenues
at one or more ports would come under
the scope of the Monroe doctrine as held
and defined in this country.

In considering these subjects it seems
to be taken for granted that the Monroe
doctrine has an acceptance in Europe.
As a matter of fact, it is established only
on the persistent assertion of the coun-

 

tries claiming its benefits. Commenting
on this the St. James Gazette says: ‘‘The
Monroe doctrine has been a doctrine for
sixty-two years and has not been acted
upon yet. When Great Britain has
serious differences to settle with South
American republics, it will not be pre-
vented from doing so by anything but
settled international law.”’

 

AN INTERESTING FIGHT.

The sensations in the affairs of the
Whisky Trust reached a climax at the
stockholders’ meeting held Wednesday.
It was expected that the result of the ex-
amination of the books of the Trust,
showing misappropriations of vast sums
and general crookedness in the manage-
ment of its affairs, would be sufficient to
prevent any active demonstrations on the
part of ex-President Greenhut, and that
he would be ready to quietly surrender
his position as director. On the con-
trary, he not only refused to resign, but
stoutly asserted that the books were cor-
rect, and not only accused the re-organi-
zation committee of falsification and
slander, but instituted eleven suits for
$50,000 each for libel against the mem-
bers of the committee and the receiver,
John McMulta, and the three experts
who examined the books.

In the ex-President’s report, Mr.
Greenhut accuses the receivership of
gross mismanagement, which is proving
disasterous to the company. He makes
the assertion that the receiver maintained
prices and held the goods of the com-
pany, while its competitors unloaded at
a profit, so that now the company must
sell at the lower prices, while the com-
petitors will probably store their prod-
uct. He accuses the re-organization
committee of trumping up the charges of
mismanagement for the sake of carrying
out their scheme of ousting the old man-
agement.

Mr. Greenhut’s report was received by
a motion requesting him to resign as di-
rector, which was carried by all the
votes of the thirty directors present ex-
cept the ex-President and his son. On
his refusal to comply with the request, a
resolution was promptly passed remov-
ing him, peremptorily, as director and
reiterating the charges against him. This
action he declares illegal and asserts his
intention to fight the directors to the last
minute.

The defendants in the libel suits pro-
fess to be much amused and consider the
action childish. The Greenhuts appear
to depend on the $1,000,000 of bonds is-
sued to redeem rebate vouchers, but
when these were authorized provision
was made for the issue of $8,000,000 in
all; and, although they claim to control
the $1,000,000 issued, the new manage-
ment proposes.to issue enough of the
others to keep the control.

 

THE ADVANCE IN PRICES.

During the past week there has been a
general and sharp advance in the value
of the leading products of the country.
Cotton gained $6 per bale from the low-
est point reached. Wheat advanced
several cents per bushel during the past
few days. Petroleum went up with
lightning rapidity, creating a profound
sensation throughout the oil district.
The value of pork and beef advanced
materially, and there has also been a
general improvement in ail textile fab-
rics, as well as in iron.

It may be alleged that speculation has

| been in a great measure responsible for

 

this state of things, but even speculation
is a sign of revived confidence and re-
turning prosperity, as the absence of
speculation is always the concomitant of
poor trade and distrust. The advance
is, however, based upon something much
more substantial than speculation.
Whether cotton, wheat, oil or meats are
considered, there has been an enormous
expansion of consumption, and it is this,
more than speculation or any other in-
fluence, that has produced the improve-
ment.

The advance in staple preducts is but
the culmination of the gradual improve-
ment which has been taking plaee for
some time back in general trade. In all
jobbirg lines involving the distribution
of supplies, such as dry goods, hardware,
foodstuffs, and manufactures generally,
there has been a gradual expansion of
demand. This improvement in jobbing
trade is indicative of returning prosper-
ity among the masses, and active specu-
lation and the sharp advance in staples
have followed as a natural consequence.

As liquidation following the depres-
sion of the past two years has been
thorough, there is every prospect that
the improvement now becoming general
will be permanent and substantial. The
next meeting of Congress is still more
than six months off, so that business will
have an opportunity of thoroughly re-
covering its vitality before it is again
harassed by the doubts and uncertain-
ties of threatened legislation. °

 

THE CUBAN INSURRECTION.

When it is remembered that all the
news, except rumors through irregular
channels, from the Cuban insurrection is
subject to Spanish censorship, the prob-
ability becomes apparant that the actual
condition of affairs is not entirely what
the dispatches indicate. When the Span-
ish General, Campos, landed on the Is-
land and was hailed as the peacemaker,
it is probabie that he had little idea of
the magnitude of the task he had under-
taken. The first military movements
were announced as likely to be decisive,
and at the first skirmish, when a few of
the insurgents were killed or captured, a
great victory was announced and the
claim made that among those captured
were many of the most prominent lead-
ers. Later information shows this report
to be exaggerated, if not actually un-
founded. Passengers on steamers from
Cuban ports bring information indicat-
ing that all is not so serene as the Span-
ish dispatches would imply. They re-
port arecent battle in which a force of
750 Cubans repulsed, by means of an am-
bush, 4,500 Spainards and attempted the
capture of the town of Guantanamo; and
the Spanish authorities ask that the force
of 6,000 now in that city be inereased to
10,000 for its.defense against the Cubans.
Itis reported that the insurgents have
entire control of Santiago, except the
largest cities. Of course, it is impossible
to form any idea of the real situation
and it is probable that little will be
known of it for a considerable time to
come. It is evident, however, that the
rebellion is of considerable magnitude
and that those engaged init are desper-
ately in earnest.

 

Annual Meeting of T. P. A.
Granp Rarips, April 20—-The annual
meeting of Michigan Division, T. P. A.,
will be held at the office of the Trades-
man Company, New Blodgett building,
at 12 o’clock noon, May 5. A full attend-
ance is desired. J. B. McInnes, Sec’y.

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

EXTERMINATING GAME ANIMALS.

The recklessness with which wild
game animals have been slaughtered in
America, having been pushed to the ex-
tremes of extermination, astonishes all
foreigners who learn the fact.

The buffalo, one of the most magnifi-
cent animals of the bos or ox species,
once covered the vast plains of this coun-
ty to the number of millions, but within
a very recent period has been so entirely
killed off that the few which survive
are only found in menageries and private
collections. In this way game animals
which would have afforded important
supplies of food have been exterminated,
and, doubtless, all the others will be.
The time will not be long before the
American elk or, wapiti, which once
abounded throughout the entire country,
will cease to exist in this land, and be
found only in Europe, where it has been
propagated in parks and preserves. This
magnificent animal, which often attains
the weight of 800 to 900 pounds, is al-
ready well known among the game ani-
mals in foreign parks and as venison on
the tables of the Europeans.

The prospect is that the day is not far
distant when venison will no longer be
known in the United States, and, in this
connection, the following statement by
Charles de Kay, United States Consul at
Berlin, is striking. He declares that the
abundance and excellence of venison can-
not fail to strike the attention of those
who live in German cities. It is a com-
mon dish practically all the year round;
its price is so moderate that only the
poorest classes fail to taste it now and
then. The reason for this is the high
eultivation of forestry and the care with
which deer are bred, fed and protected
from poachers. Considering the excel-
lence of venison as food, and the small
eost of rearing herds of deer under
proper protection, it is in America es-
pecially that steps to form practical deer
parks might be easy and of profit.

Nothing would be easier than the pre-
serving of such fine game animals; but
so few people take any interest in the
matter while there are any wild ani-
mals to destroy, that the likelihood is
that venison will have to be imported
from Europe for the tables of the
wealthy, and the poorer classes will
have no notion of what it is. But this
is the necessary result of the reckless
slaughter of game in this country.

 

THE DAIRY IN IRELAND.

The adoption of modern methods in
Irish dairy farming has greatly changed
the condition of the agriculturists of the
Emerald Isle, and, in connection with

lish market of a uniform, excellent
quality.

It is said by experts that the pasture
lands of Central and Southern Ireland are
equal to any in the world. The soil is
of uniform fertility, and summer rains
can be relied upon to keep a constant
supply of the most wholesome butter-
making grasses.

The agricultural depression attending
the more serious phases of the Irish
problem and the unsettled conditions re-
sulting from the agitation against land-
lordism have brought the lands into mar-
ket, either for lease or sale, at compara-
tively low prices. Great numbers of the
more enterprising and thrifty have taken
advantage of the provisions of the act
enabling them to acquire holdings by
purchase, and the steady income from
the creameries enables them to meet the
payments, while supporting their fam-
ilies in comparative luxury and giving
their children the advantages of schools.
While thus occupied they have no time
or inclination to affiliate with the agita-
tors, as they were doing during the more
unsettled conditions a few years ago.
Thus, in an indirect way, improved
methods of dairying are deing much to-
ward the settlement of this vexed ques-
tion.

The proposition to pension public
school teachers has been made in New
York. It rests on the ground that they
are public servants, but it seems to im-
ply something more than this, for, if
there is any good reason for the step, it
must be that they are public servants
who are inadequately paid. Possibly
this is the case in some_ instances.
Teachers are like clergymen in this re-
spect. If they are fortunate enough to
have employment in cities they obtain
good salaries, butin poorer places their
compensation is small. There ought to
be good salaries for them in the cities,
and in our own city we have beard no
complaint of inadequate compensation.
Here is the place to bring reform, if any
is needed, rather than in the providing
of pensions. The school teacher’s life
is one of the more desirable in the pro-
fessions for some reasons that should not
be forgotten. It employs less hours in
the day than almost any others, and in
the matter of vacation it gives two long
months in the summer, which journalists
at least may well envy. It seldom breaks
a man down mentally, and it does not al-
together preclude the opportunity to
make money outside of the salaries re-
ceived.

 

 

The last report of the Treasury De-
partment shows that immigration for the

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THE TRADIN’ BOAT.

Uncle Marcellus Brandon sat in his big
armchair on one side of the lofty door-
way that led into the hall from the
veranda, and Tante swung herself softly
to and fro in her low rocker on the other.

Uncle Marcellus was a Virginia Bran-
don. In the dashing and gallant days of
his early manhood he had adventured—
with a gigantic black body servant at his
elbow and the proceeds of an unusually
fine tobacco crop in his pocket—down to
New Orleans, for the avowed purpose of
dancing at one of the then famous cordon
bleu bails. He had it in mind to scatter
broadcast seeds of a certain unfenced
crop which fashion at that time per-
mitted the youth of his class to sow open-
ly and aboveboard.

Passing down Rue Bourbon on his way
to his first revel, however, he encoun-
tered the dark and lustrous eyes of Mile.
Elise Joubert. Her pretty head was en-
veloped in fleecy laces, her white gown
was garlanded with roses, her softly
rounded cheeks had the velvety white-
ness of a magnolia leaf. She was trip-
ping demurely along behind her short
fat mamma and her shorter lean papa,
near the entrance to the old Theatre
d’Orleans.

The cordon bleu, with its dreams of
voluptuous octoroon sirens, instantly
vanished from his mental vision. He
abandoned, like one under a spell, his
mocking companions and elbowed a pas-
sage, with a fierceness quite unnecessary,
through the good-natured, chattering
erowd lounging about the controle.

The curtain was already up when he
entered the fine old salle, and a soft hiss
pursued him, as he marched with an un-
consciously eager and determined step
along down the narrow aisles. But he
heeded this no more than he heeded the
faint ripple of amusement that stirred
across the high-bred assembly when he
stood stock still before the loge grillee
where she sat, and stared at her with all
his heart in his eyes.

The wooing was hasty and impetuous,
though the wooer knew not one word of
French, and la belle Louisianaise had at
her command but the merest scrap of
English—and that fragment but convent
English, withal.

When duly informed of his demand for
her hand by her mother, to whom, much
to his disgust, Marcellus Brandon found
himself obliged first to submit it, Made-
moiselle Elise consented meekly,and with
down-dropped eyelids, to be transported
to Wheatfield, the Brandon estate, Albe-
marie county, Virginia; and then, with
eyes uprolled, vowed sweetly that she
would at the instant make to herself
cette belle langue Anglaise.

But that was when she was Made-
moiselle Joubert. When she became
Madame Marcellus Brandon, she placidly
but firmly refused to do either, and Un-
cle Marcellus was fain to transfer him-
self and his 100 odd ‘‘hands’? from
Wheatfield, Albemarle county, Virginia,
to St. Denys, Rapides parish, Louisiana,
which ample plantation was a part of his
wife’s dot, and to begin his lifelong
struggle with French verbs.

His forehead, knotted by years of this
combat, gradually smoothed as Marcellus
and Joseph-Marie, his twin sons, grew
to manhood. French came to them with
their mother’s milk, as Pere Joubert
proudly observed, but, by the time they
were fairly in trousers, they had learned
to twist their soft tongues to English

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

whenever they addressed their father.
In the meantime, Uncle Marcellus used
often to be seen hanging over the garden
gate, his face aglow with pleasure as he
listened to the familiar Jeems River ver-
nacular of Unk’ Billy, an old Brandon
retainer. And then there was Bedford,
his own solemn old body servant.

But all that was in the halcyon days
‘“‘befo’ de wah.’’ Unk’ Billy and Bed-
ford had been gathered to the dust these
mapy years; the twins were long ago
gone out into the world, and Uncle Mar-
cellus, who was growing old, and had
been ‘‘Uncle” Marcellus to half the par-
ish for two generations at least, had re-
signed himself to an unbroken tete-a-tete
with Madame Marcellus, who had become
‘‘Tante’’ alike to relatives and friends.

Therefore, it was worth something to
see the smile on his round face, nowa-
days, when Cecile Joubert, Tante’s
orphaned niece, who had come to live at
St. Denys, entered the breakfast-room
with a kiss and ‘‘Bon jour’ for Tante,
and—oh, the dear old English with the
quaint little flavor of accent upon it—
‘Good morning’’ and a kiss for Uncle
Marcellus.

It was Cecile who came along the hall
now and stood in the doorway between
them. She had, it appeared, brought a
shawl for Tante, for the evening was
drawing on, and she had fetched Uncle
Marcellus his pipe. When she had
wrapped the shawl about the one and
had lighted a taper for the other, she
came down the steps and paced back and
forth along the shelled walks of her rose-
garden, humming a gay little chanson-
ette, and glancing now and again toward
the gate and up the lane that led to La
Ferme aux Ifs, whose distant chimneys
showed slender and dark against the
face of a great yellow moon slowly ris-
ing into view.

Uncie Marcellus remarked to Tante in
his painfully acquired and laborious
French that Cecile seemed to grow pret-
tier every day. Tante nodded a pleased
assent.

Now, truly, Uncle Marcellus had never
in all his life loved any woman but
Tante. Her eyes, which remained the
same large, soft and shining wells of
light that had lured him into the Theatre
d’Orieans fifty years ago—her form,
alack, had long since broadened to shape-
lessness—had been the only eyes in the
whole world for him. Yet, somehow, as
he sat looking at Cecile, with her tender
blue eyes and her rose-tinted cheeks and
her fair wavy hair, his heart stirred
strangely within him, and he was minded
of the slim little fourth or fifth cousin
who came down to the gate to bid him
good-by the day he went away on that
first roystering journey to New Orleans,
and who, when he looked back, was gaz-
ing so wistfully after him. She had the
same name, too, though at Wheatfield
they called her Cis’ly and sometimes Cis.
But she had been dead these forty years
and more—dear, dear!

The old man coughed and Tante got
up and went over and stood beside him,
patting him on the back with affection-
ate solicitude. Just then the clatter of
horses’ hoofs sounded in the lane and
presently the gate opened and shut.

“Tis but Octave,’’ said Tante, reseat-
ing herself, and she smiled significantly.
She spoke, as always, in her own soft-
syllabled native tongue. ‘“‘It is thy
wish,’’ she went on, after a short pause,

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riage for themselves, and it is, perhaps,
best for them. Thou and I were not
permitted this curious American custom.
But then, we had no need of it, eh, Mar-
ezay-lous!?’ No combination of letters
could hope to convey an idea of the
music of Tante’s rare utterance of her
husband’s name.

Uncle Marcellus smiled back at her
through the gathering dusk—he had al-
ready forgotten the slim little cousin,
Cicely Brandon.

Meantime, Tante’s favorite scheme
was not prospering out in the rose-gar-
den, although aided and abetted by
Uncle Marcellus’s odd American notions
of liberty. ‘‘The children’’ had taken a
turn or two about the violet-bordered
walks and had now come to a seat under
the old magnolia tree, whose great white
bells were filling all the dewy air with
their rich and pungent perfume. ‘‘Ce-
eile,” he had said, laying his hand upon
hers where it rested on the back of the
rustic bench, “I have come—again—
for my answer.”

‘Tam sorry, Octave,’’ Cecile had re-
plied gently, ‘‘but it always the
same.’’

“And always for the same reason?’’
Octave had demanded, in a slightly ban-
tering tone.

**Ves,’’ she exclaimed, with some heat,
at the very moment when kindly, shrewd
old Tante was congratulating herself
that La Ferme aux Ifs (for was not Oc-
tave Gaston the sole and only heir of the
good bachelor uncle, Joseph-Marie Gas-
ton?) and Bord du Bois, Cecile’s almost
princely inheritance, were at last about
to be reunited. ‘‘Yes, always the same
reason! I will not marry any man who
does nothing with himself all the day
long, and every day, but lounge about
rose-gardens—”’

‘“‘Garden—the St. Denys rose-garden,”
corrected Octave. ‘‘Be at least just,
Cecile.’’

“And sing—though you sing well, Oc-
tave, I admit that—”

“f only warble accompaniments to
Mademoiselle Cecile Joubert’s chansons,”
murmured Octave, humbly.

‘And fish and smoke cigarettes, and
ride about the country with a pack of
hounds at his horse’s heels! The old
times have passed, Octave,’’ she went on
earnestly, and a trifle dramatically;
‘‘a man has no right to be idle like that
—no right! He should be standing
shoulder to shoulder with the world’s
workers. He should—”’

“But, Cecile,” remonstrated Octave,
lightly, and apparently unimpressed by
this very magnificent flow of words, with
which, itis true, he was already toler-
ably familiar, ‘‘the good uncle, Joseph-
Marie—”’

“Oh, the good uncle!” she interrupted
scornfully.  ‘‘’'d rather be—Michel
Bares on the Tradin’ Boat, if I were a
man, than to be dependent on an uncle,
or a father—or a wife!”

A flush rose to the young man’s dark
cheek and he sprang hastily to his feet.

“Oh, Octave!’ she cried in dismay.
She had, for the moment, forgotten the
personal nature of the discussion, and,
as for her own vast fortune, she had a
habit of not remembering that at all-
‘‘Please forgive me, I did not intend to
be so—so rude. But, at the American
school where I have been, you know,
they have such different ideas from—’’

“Oh, yes, I know.’’ And he growled
a savage imprecation, under his breath,

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where Cecile had imbibed her demo-
cratic, not to say, communistic, notions.

‘‘Never mind, Cecile,’? he added, with
a sudden return of his ordinary light and
airy tone. ‘I have my answer, true;
but we are still friends?”’

‘“‘Why, of course,” she assented, sur-
prised, and, it must be admitted, se-
cretly wounded by his ready acquiescence
in her decision. Hitherto, he had
pleaded his suit with such passionate
warmth, and, after each final and em-
phatic ‘‘No,” had gone off declaring
gayly that he would return again—and
again—and again, until he should at last
have conquered. Ah, well, he had come
—and gone—a good many times already,
and, if he had at last learned wisdom,
so much the better for him, she thought,
as she sat on the steps in the moonlight
and listened to his light chat, now in
one tongue, now in the other, with Uncle
Marcellus and Tante. Tante, rocking
softly too and froin her low chair, was
as yet, happily unaware that Ferme aux
Ifs and Bord du Bois, divided more than
half a century ago by the perverseness
of a foolish young woman, were likely,
by the perverseness of another, to re-
main asunder.

The next morning, M. Paul Joubert’s
huge old family carriage came lumber-
ing up the lane and stopped with a great
flourish at the front steps. Out bundled
Cousins Laure and Jeanne, bag, baggage
and bonne. ‘‘For a whole week, Ce-
cile!” they cried, in the midst of the
joyous clatter that welcomed them.
‘*And, oh, do hurry up with the rose
leaves for Tante’s spice jars, and go get
dressed. The Tradin’ Boat is at the
landing.”

An hour or so later, the three girls,
followed by Valentine, Cecile’s high-tur-
baned mahogany-colored bonne, came
fluttering into Tante’s morning-room.
Their cool-looking white gowns were
belted with dainty ribbons about their
slim young waists and wide straw hats
shaded their fresh young faces.

What did Tante want from the Tradin’
Boat, and what could they bring Uncle
Marcellus? they demanded, with many

airy gestures and pretty birdlike ca-
resses.
Uncle Marcellus would like some

perique tobacco. Tante’s list was not a
long one; it included some spices and
pepper, cotton thread, a paper of tacks,
some jeans for Angelique’s twin picka-
ninnies, a garden hoe and a watering
pot.

It was a good mile and more down to
the river, but a soft breeze came in from
the moss-hung swamp at the back of the
plantation, and the way lay along the
wide pleasant lane that ran between St.
Denys and Ferme aux Ifs. The Cherokee
rose-hedges on either side were all white
with long slim buds and big-petaled
blossoms, and the dewy grass fringing
the road was odorous with the tiny pur-

ple and yellow balls of the sensitive
plant.
‘“‘Already we're. here!’’ exclaimed

Jeanne, when they came to the first low
vine-hung cabin of the straggling little
village under the high levee. Here they
encountered an acquaintance. He took
off his slouch hat at sight of them and
stopped, grinning foolishly.

Michel Bares, a slight, dark and rather
good-looking young fellow muttered
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having had a frisson, and his nanaan
was going to make him atisane of gera-
nium leaves.

“I do not believe a word you say,
Michel,” interrupted Ceeile; ‘‘that is
just what you said the last time when
you stopped off and got drunk and beat
your wife so awfully, and Captain Tar-
ver had to come himself and fetch you
back to the boat.”

Michel explained that Captain Tarver
had a new clerk on board, ‘‘h’an, for
myse’f,’’ said he, ‘h’’m tiahd h’an wan’
to res’ a while.”

“You are not telling me the truth, Mi-
chel,” said his monitress, inexorably;
‘cand, mind, I shall certainly tell Father
Kenyon if you behave as you did the
last time.’’

Michel took his scolding in very good
part and looked after them with a cun-
ning smile as they walked on toward the
landing.

The river was low and they had to pick
their way carefully down the steep side
of the levee. A noisy crowd, mostly of
negroes, stood aside to let them pass, re-
turning their greetings with loud but
respectful salutations.

A wide gang plank led from the slip-
pery bluff to the Tradin’ Boat. The
Tradin’ Boat was a small sidewheel
steamboat with a single deck, at the
front end of which was a cabin with a
low flat roof, surmounted by a tiny pilot
house. Such was the floating store. The
snug space behind the cabin was occu-
pied by a rusty engine and a couple of
dilapidated pumps. The rear deck con-
tained a smoke-stained tent, behind
whose scanty flaps a bed, a cook stove
and a deal table, piled with dishes, were
more or less visible.

Above the wide doorway which gave
entrance into the store, a freshly-painted
sign bore on its expansive surface, in
large letters, the legend:

JACKSON TARVER.
DEALER IN DRY GOODS, HARDWARE AND
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.

Within, a counter ran along one side.
The wall behind it was lined with shelves
containing Captain Tarver’s stock in
trade—a miscellaneous assortment of
ealicoes, cheap woolens, candles, can-
dies, spices, medicines, stationery, etc.
On the other side were ranged boxes and
barrels, jars, buckets, washboards, a
plow or two, a secondhand sewing ma-
chine and various other nondescript arti-
cles. Overhead, from the squatty ceil-
ing, depended hams and pieces of bacon,
bunches of trace chains, whips, cowbells
and ox yokes, while here and there hung
a ready-made dress and arufiled gingham
sunbonnet.

The dingy little place was thronged
with buyers, all waiting their turn to be
served, for Captain Tarver’s new clerk
was busily engaged, attending to the
wants of old Betty-Rose, one of the St.
Denys negroes.

When Cecile and her cousins entered,
he was reaching up to one of the highest
shelves for a piece of flamboyant red cal-
ico, so they could not see his face. When
he turned, however, a torrent of sur-
prised exclamations burst from Jeanne
and Laure. Michel Bares’s successor was
no other than Octave Gaston! He was in
his shirt sleeves, and his dark curls were
tossed in unwonted eonfusion about his
white forehead; but he looked undenia-
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‘*Yes,” he said, with easy grace, in an-
swer to Laure’s amazed questioning, ‘‘I
have taken Michel Bares’s place. How
many yards did you say, Aunt Betty-
Rose?”

‘“‘Lawd-a-muhsy, neb’ min’ me, Marse
Octave!’’ said Aunt Betty-Rose, hurried-
ly backing away from the counter.
‘‘ Jes’ wait on Miss Cecile. Well, den, if
yer don’ wan’ nuttin’, Miss Cecile, honey,
do’ 1 is pow’ful ’shame’ ter hav’ Marse
Octave waitin’ on er ole nigger lak ez ef
he wuz po’ white trash, den | takes eight
yahds er dat tu’ky-red, Marse Octave.”’

‘*michel Bares’s place,” continued Oc-
tave, placidly, measuring off the gaudy
stuff with deft and graceful fingers;
‘true, it is not a very lucrative position
—what else, Aunt Betty-Rose? Oh, ap-
ples—” (Here he dived under the counter
and reappeared with a scoopful of dried
apples, which he placed upon the fly-
specked scales). ‘*You see, Laure, 1
have grown tired of being idle. I have
made up my mind to stand alone,’’ (this
with a furtive glance at Cecile’s com-
pressed lips and angry eyes, and stum-
bling a bitin his speech). ‘‘I mean I am
going to try and make my own living.”’

“But, Octave,” began Laure.

“IT took the first thing that offered,” he
went on, gravely; ‘‘really a fortunate
thing for me—Michel’s frisson. Bacon,
Aunt Betty-Rose? How much?”

He came around the counter and dex-
terously unhooked a piece of bacon from
the ceiling. ‘‘Five pounds, eh? That
was better than being idle.’?’ He was
weighing the greasy stuff, now, and
wrapping it in a piece of brown paper.

Cecile, up to this moment, had not
spoken. Shehad been standing apart,
now pale with scorn, now red with some
feeling she dared not define, her blazing
eyes following Octave’s movements.
Suddenly, her face softened and a half
pleading, half imperious light came into
her eyes. She took a step forward and
her lips opened as if to speak. Just
then, a little door in the rear of the
cabin opened and a girl camein. She
was about Cecile’s own age. She had a
pretty round face, dusted with brown
freckles and lighted by a pair of wide-
open gray eyes. A mass of yellow curls
nestled against her neck and crowned
her forehead. The sleeves of her blue
eotton gown were rolled up to the elbow,
displaying a pair of white well-rounded
arms. She came forward, smiling and
smoothing her check apron with plump
floury hands.

“Mr. Gaston,” she said in a soft drawl-
ing voice, ‘‘Captain Tarver, he says fer
yer to come in ter the tent ter dinner,
I'll ’ten’ the sto’ tell you’re done eatin’.”’

‘‘Dinner?”’ said Octave, staring at her
a moment in bewilderment, while a vi-
sion rose before him of the round table at
Ferme aux Ifs, with its array of crystal
and silver; Uncle Joseph-Marie at one
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at the other, and the open windows, with |
the sunset streaming in, and away over |
the tops of the trees the steep roofs of |
St. Denys, where Cecile—

“Dinner! Oh, certainly,” he cried,
coming suddenly to himself and smiling
down into the pretty face lifted to his,
‘fas soon as I shall have served these
ladies—’’

But the ladies were gone. Cecile was.
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blue eyes.

Michel Bares, standing in the narrow
pathway at the top of the levee, beat a
hasty retreat at sight of her, dodging in-
to his little cabin, where he betook him-
self to bed and shook with a real frisson
until she was well along the rose-bor-
dered lane.

But Cecile had not even seen him. She
sped on, blind and speechless, followed
by her protesting, wondering cousins and
the grumbling old bonne.

‘“‘What in the world does it mean, Ce-
cile?”’ cried Laure, at last catching up
with her and laying a hand on her arm.
‘“‘And isn’t it too funny!”’

‘I don’t know what it means,”’ replied
Cecile, hotly, ‘‘and I think it is perfectly
disgusting.”

It was hard enough to bear the persist-
ent questions and the amazed comments
of Tante and Uncle Marcellus and the
knowing silence of Laure and Jeanne.
But, in the evening, when Joseph Marie
Gaston, the small, dark, shrivelled, chol-
ericold Frenchman, the lifelong friend
and neighbor, came over to scold and
gesticulate and groan, and to launch
scarcely-veiled reproaches at herself,
poor Cecile was angry indeed and very
wretched.

“The Tradin’ Boat has gone on to the
next landing, six or seven miles down
the river, and Octave has gone with it,
sir! I commanded, I even begged him,
to come home, but he swore he would
not! And whois going to keep my ac-
counts and look aft the place for me?”
wailed the good uncle. ‘‘There never
was such a head as Octave’s for business.
These three years he has managed every-
thing. And, now that these newfangled
boilers—’’

But nothing of this last plaint reached
Cecile’s ears. She had tempestuously
rushed up to her own room at the men-
tion of the departure of the ‘Tradin’
Boat. She did not care—of course, she
did not care—where he went or what he
did! she said to herself, fiercely. Why,
indeed, should she be held responsible
for the foolish escapades of Octave
Gaston? Perhaps, after all—here alittle
chilly sensation crept over her, as a vi-
sion of apretty plump girl in a blue calico
gown arose unbidden to her mind and
she remembered, with a start, the smile
in Octave’s eyes when he looked down
into that fair freckled face! At this
point, like many another heroine before
her, she sat down on the edge of her bed
and cried, and then stood up, wrathfully
brushing the tears from her eyes.

She tossed feverishly from side to side
in her little white bed for a long time
and thought she would never get to sleep.
Bat sleep is very friendly to ail young
creatures, and long before midnight the
soft fringed lids had closed over the red-
dened eyes, and she was dreaming that
Octave was wrapping a bit of bacon in
that long-coveted white China-crape
shawl in Tante’s big armoir, when——

Did anything happen? She found her-
self standing in the middle of the room,
shaking from head to foot. The white
moonlight streamed in through the win-
dow across her little bare feet, and the
wind fluttered the folds of her snowy
nightdress. What was it? Her heart
was beating violently and she could
hardly restrain an outcry. But the house
was perfectly still and in the honey-
suckle vines outside the window a mock-
ing vird was trilling softly.

 

After a time, she crept back to bed,
with her rosary on her wrist, and lay
there, still trembling, and counting her
beads. A long time after—she never
could tell how long—there was a sudden
tumult out in the lane, a rush up the
avenue, a banging of doors, hurried steps
about the halls, voices in excited interro-
gations and exclamations. She sprang
up again, as Laure burst into the room,
followed by Jeanne, who shrieked, ‘‘Ce-
cile, Cecile, the Tradin’ Boat has blown
up and Octave is killed!’’

“Oh, Jeanne, how thoughtless of you!”’
cried Laure, reproacbfully, as they bent
together to lift a little white senseless
heap from the flour; for Cecile had
fainted. Butit was only for a moment
and she presently begged them to leave
her; she would rather be alone, she said.

She listened quietly when another
messenger came in to tell how Octave
had been seen perfectly safe, or, at all
events, alive, after the explosion, and
how he had afterward lost his life en-
deavoring to rescue a young woman who
was employed on the boat. From her
window she saw Uncle Marcellus, in the
soft mellow moonlight, swing himself
into the saddle, with many puffs and
groans, for it had been twenty years
since he had mounted a horse, and ride
away. A little later, she felt, rather
than heard, Mr. Joseph-Marie gallop
down the lane from Ferme aux Ifs. And
then the hours wore slowly and silently
away, the yellow moonlight faded, the
gray dawn came creeping on. Will she
ever forget, 1 wonder, how she felt as
she stood before her mirror in the wan,
uncertain morning, fastening one of
Laure’s black dresses about her throat,
for she hated the sight of black, poor
child, and had none in her own wardrobe,
and smoothing straight the rebellious
little curls that wanted to frolic as usual
on her forehead? It was a white drawn
face which looked back at her out of the
mirror, a face from which all the beauty
and brightness had suddenly fled.

And then she went slowly down the
wide stairway, and across the veranda,
and down to the rose-garden gate, where
all the household was anxiously await-
ing Uncle Marcellus’s return. They took
her silently among them as she ap-
proached. Even Tante, who yearned so
over her, found no words to offer to her
strange, dry-eyed sorrow.

All at once, there was a noise and a
dust and a scurry in the lane, and there
was Uncle Marcellus dismounting from
his horse with wonderful spryness and
turning his cheerful red face toward
them and shouting:

“It’s all a d—n lie! He’s no more
dead than 1 am! The boat was blown up,
my love.’’ he added in French to Tante,
who could not help showing, however,
that she perfectly understood his initial
remark: ‘“‘the boat was blown up, but
Octave was not hurt by the explosion, or
by his dive in the river after the girl.”

There was no time for further explana-
tion, for here was Octave himself gallop-
ing up to the gate and flinging himself
from his horse. He wore Michel Bares’s
Sunday suit of blue flannel and his wide
Cajan hat and looked remarkably bright
and handsome as he came smiling toward
the excited group. And then—then—a
little limp black-clad figure lay helpless
and sobbing in his arms!

Tante’s fine tact was proverbial, but
on this occasion no tact was needed to
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white, into the house or behind it.
the wide-eyed copper-colored pickaninny
twins, Joseph-Marie and Marcellus, so
named in honor of the twin sons of the
house, scuttled siiently after their
mother and disappeared without even so
much as a backward glance, so that. by
the time Octave had half-led, half-car-
ried Cecile to the bench under the mag-
nolia and thrown himself on his knees
before her, holding her hands in his, the
rose-garden, over which the first long
level rays of the morning sun were be-
ginning to stretch, was as still and de-
serted as a lover’s tryst.

“For me! This for me! Oh, my dear!
my dear!’ he cried, with a sob in his
voice, lifting a fold of her black dress
and kissing it reverently.

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really no danger. I went up in the aira
little way, it is true, and came down in
the water; and then I saw her close by,
struggling, poor child ——”’

She drew avay ever so slightly, but he
went on.

“Old Jackson Tarver’s
Tradin’ Boat,
brought her
us the worse for a little wetting.
those blundering idiots
brought up such a piece of news I can’t
conceive. But then, he added, with a

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smile, ‘I, at least, ought not to com- |

plain.”’

“Do you know, Cecile,” he went on
more gravely, ‘‘that I am horribly afraid
that it is lwho am responsible for the
explosion? I was very tired after meas-
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‘‘Poor boy,” she murmured, sympa-
thetically.

‘“‘And when I sat down to smoke and
dream of somebody’s rose-garden and
somebody, perhaps even then walking |
there, I lighted my cigarette and tossed
the match over among the kegs and boxes,
and the next thing that I knew the roof
was open, and | was going skyward.”

**O, Octave, Octave!’ And she nestled
against him, shivering again at the mere
thought of his past danger.

“Uncle Joseph-Marie is down at the

young wife,
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landing now, settling up with Jackson |
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gain by the damage done to the Tradin’ |
Boat; and, by Jove, I had quite forgot |
the $30 I owe Michel Bares for lending |
me his place fora month! But I am go-
ing to be more careful next time, Cecile.
I mean to go away and find something to
do—now that I know that you love me—
something in real earnest.”’

She clung to him _ hysterically.
‘“‘Never!”? she cried. ‘‘You are never to
leave me again, Octave. Ob, how can
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enough for us? And, even if that
should fail, is there not always the good
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if

MICH.

 

 

Show

BUY on

 

Cases,

Store Fixtures,
Etc.

PHILLIPS’ SHOW CASES.

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

 

PERKINS & HESS,

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow.

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

 

Nov. 18, 1894

CHICAGO

AND WEST MICHIGAN R’Y.
GOING TO CHICAGO.
Lv. Ga Rapids... ..... : :15am . 25pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago 25pm 6:50pm *7:20am
: RETURNING FROM CHICAGO.
by. Citeepe.... 2... 8:25am 5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. Gd Rapids... --.-3:05pm 10:25pm *6:25am
TO AND FROM MUSKEGON,

Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:25am 1:25pm 5:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids......11:45am 3:05pm 10:25pm
TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY.

Ly. Grand Rapids... 7:30am 3:15pm
Ar. Manistec........ 12:20pm 8:15pm
Ar. Traverse City. 1:00pm 8:45pm
Ar. Charlevoix...... 3:15pm 11:10pm
Ar. Petoskey... . 3:45pm 11:40pm
Trains arrive from north at 1:00 pm and 10;00
pin,

 

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. Others week days only.

DETROIT
LANSING & NORTHERN R, KR,
GOING TO DETROIT.

Ly. Grand ae ---- 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm

Ar. Detroit.............11:40am 5:30pm 10:10pm

RETUKNING FROM DETROIT.

Ly. Detroit. . |... con 1: 10pm°06 :00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids 12: 40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm
TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST, LOUIS,
Ly. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:35am 10:45pm

 

Oct. 28, 1894

 

 

TO AND FROM LOWELL,

Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. trom Lowell_......... 12:d0pen 6:20pm .......
THROUGH CAR SERVICE,

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

ing train.

Trains week days only

GEO. DEHAV EN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t

MICHIGAN CENTRAL

 

“Tue Niagara Falls Route.’

(Taking effect Sunday, May 27,1894.)
Arrive. Depart.
wee m. . Detroit @xpress........ 7 am

5 30am.....*Atlantic and Pacific..... 11 20pm
is0pm... New York Express...... 6 00pm
*Daily. “All others daily, except Sunday.

Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacifie 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. ALMQUIsT, Ticket Agent,
Union PassengerStation.

 

p=. GRAND HAVEN & MIL-

WAUKEE Railway.
EASTWARD.
tNo. 14)tNo. 16)tNo. 18/*No.

 

rrains Le ve

@’d Rapids, ed
a

 

6 45am} 16 20am |
7 40am} 11 25am|

325pm/| |1100pm
4 27pm |1235am

y

 

St. Johns an 8 25amj12 17pm) 520pm/ 1 25am
Owes ...... Ar; 900am)/ 1 20pm) 3 05pm 3 10am
, Saginaw..Ar 10 50am] 3 45pm; 8 00pm} 6 40am
Bay City.....Arj11 30am] 435pm| § 37pm) 715am
rat... Ar|10 05am} 345pm/ 7 05pm} 5 4Cam
Pt. Huron...Ar/|1205pm] 550pm| 850pm| 7 30am
Pontiac ......Ar}1053am| 305pm} § 25pm] 5 27am
Detroit.......Arj1150am]| 405pm| 925pm] 7 00am
WESTWARD.

For Grand Haven and Intermediate
ae... *7:00 &. m.
For Grand Hay en aud Muskegon. +1:60 DP. m.
“ Mil. and Chi. +5.35 Pp. m

tDaily except Sunday. *Daily.
Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:50

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

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

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

Westward — No.1] ParlorCar. No. 15 Wagner
Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

Jas. CAMPBELL, City T'cket Agent.

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana
TBAINS GOING NORTH.
Leave going
North

For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw... - = ar

 
 

-atiytie on yoy eee lS 00 p- *
For Petoskey and Mackinaw................. 8: 25 m,
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

Leave going

South.
ree 7:25 a.m,
For Kalamazoo and Chicago... ...... ....... 2:15 p. m
For Fort Wayneand the East................ 2:15 p.m.
Dor Camctmmast ......... ke «oo OS DB. mm.
For Kalamazoo and Chicago................ \ 11:40 P.m
Chicago via G. R. & 1. R. RB.

Ly Grand Rapids........ 7:25am 2: oe ~ 40pm
are Ceteaee.............. 2:40pm 9:05p 7:10am

2:15p m train has Page Wagner FRuffet Parlor
Car and coach.
11:40 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car
and Coach.
Lv Chicago 6:50a m 3:30pm 11:30pm
== Grand Rapids 2:50pm 9:15 pm 7:20am
30 pm has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car
ll Pm traindaily,through Wagner Sleeping ‘Car
Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
For an Tere. From ee
7:25 760 a m

1: oe
8:40 Dm

1:15pm
5:20p m
0 .L. LOOKWOOD*
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

  

15

 

 

 

The Advantages of the Cash System.

[Entered in competition for prizes offered by
Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association.]

Mrs. McBrides—John, dear, why are some gro-
cers Called green grocers?

Mr. McBrides—To distinguish them from cash
grocers, darling.

Probably the man who penned the
above did not stop to realize what a
thrust he was giving the man who buys
and sells, who makes his living from his
shrewdness and good judgment in buy-
ing large quantities of goods and resell-
ing in smaller lots, and, from the modi-
cum of profit on each transaction, pro-
vides the comforts of life and the means
of educating his children.

That the advantages of the cash sys-
tem are many admits of no argument.
There are hosts of them that can be put
forth, although a very few of them ought
to suffice, ought to convince any think-
ing man that such a system is the great
desideratum. Its adoption would bring
sunshine to the home of the average
business man and would add to the num-
ber of his years on earth.

Those of us who have been, and now
are, engaged in trade of any kind know
from hard experience that three-fourths
of our worry and trouble comes from the
fact of having a goodly share of the cap-
ital invested in our business carried
around in the pockets of those whom we
have trusted; and the majority of these
people whom we have accommodated
will, in a great many cases, take the
very money that should be paid for the
necessities and luxuries they have en-
joyed—our money, in fact—and use it in
procuring the gratification resulting from
excursion trips, operas, balls and kindred
amusements, while the grocer—the man
who has hustled to serve them and to

 

furnish them the best in the market, and
that, too, at but a small advance over ac-
tual cost—is asked to wait until it suits
their convenience to pay. If that time
does not roll around until the patience
of the grocer becomes exhausted, or the
importuning of jobbers makes it impera-
tive, they are politely requested to settle;
and the chances are that they will be-
come indignant at being ‘‘dunned,” as
they express it, no matter how courte-
ously the request may be made, and will
use it as an excuse to still longer defer
the time of settlement.

Every grocer who reads this will re-
call just such episodes in his career, and
his ledger will show many an account in
arrears, the aggregate of which repre-
sents, in many cases, a sum sufficient to
clear up all outstanding indebtedness to
the wholesaler.

But a recital of the annoyance ineident
to the credit system was not what we
started out to portray. When goods are
bought of any wholesale house, there is
a certain discount allowed for cash, and,
if the retailer has ready funds with
which to take advantage of the allow-
ance, the amount thus saved will, to the
average grocer, represent a sum suffi-
cient to pay, or equal the amount paid,
for his store building. The fact of his
being able to discount bills and having
the reputation of doing so will make him
stand high in the esteem of the entire
wholesale trade. It will enable him to
be, in a measure, master of the situation,
for, if the price asked seems too high, he
may decline to buy and try elsewhere.
When he turns to go, if the price named
ean possibly be shaded, it will be done,
even to a point very close to cost, rather

 

than to lose a sale. His competitor who
follows after and always takes all the
time allowed, and who usually pays ‘‘on
account” and is proverbially slow, does
not get the concession or discount,
which two items may represent a snug
sum and weigh down quite heavily on
the profit side of a year’s business.

The dealer who buys for cash may be
cranky, he may kick, he may insist on
the observance of all the technical points
which incline to his advantage; but,
withal, the wholesale houses who want
to supply him will not forsake him. It
is the cash dealer whom they will first
inform of new goods to come in; of any
“snaps”? they may have to offer; whom
they will accord the most liberal dis-
counts, and in whose good graces they
will take every pains to keep, so long as
his conduct is along the lines of fairness
and observance of business ethics.

All of these favors are to the dealer
who buys for cash or is noted for prompt
pay; but, to successfully carry out these
things, the grocer must sell for cash, he
must keep constantly turning his goods
into the coin that lubricates the wheels
of commerce, rather than into ‘‘prom-
ises to pay.” One says: ‘tA customer
trading on a book gives me al! of his
business, and buys more during the
month than he would if forced to go
down into his pocket every time a pur-
chase is made.’’ Admitted, but $10 paid
for goods affords a profit which you get,
besides relieving you of worry as to what
may happen to prevent that customer
paying for the goods. Another says:
‘When a customer pays cash, I am
likely to get only a portion of his trade.”
That, my dear sir, depends largely upon

 

yourself. The average buyer of supplies
—man, woman or child—is not insen-
sible to bargains and will go out of the
way to take up such when offered.
Realizing this, the successful pusher for
trade will be alert, progressive and up to
the times. His store will be noted for
its neatness, its cleanliness and his clerks
for their courtesy and desire to please.
To keep trade with him, the grocer
will always be studying different ways
to keep in the public eye; new goods
will be found at his place first, and he
will have reaped a good profit from their
sale by the time his slow-going compet-
itor who sells to book trade, and who
knows he will get just so much business
without extra effort, has concluded to
keep them in stock. By keeping just
what the people want, and by selling it
for cash, be can name prices which his
competitor cannot meet, and, by con-
stantly turning goods over, they will al-
ways be possessed of that newness that
is so dear to the hearts of all housewives.
Some narrow-minded person may now
and then refuse to patronize you because
you insist on having cash at the time of
delivering the goods; but all they may
say willnot keep people away from your
store, if your goods are right and prices
below your rival, even if you do insist
on spot pay for what goes over the
counter.

One of the peculiar features of the
people who run an account with their
grocer or baker from week to week, or
month to month, as their custom of pay-
ing may be, is that, after paying prompt-
ly long enough to get the confidence of
the dealer, they begin to leave a balance
each time, which, in the majority of

 

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DOES

 
 

 

Order the largest quantity you2can use and get the

& * BESTZDISCOUNT.

FORuSALE BY_ALL,JOBBERS.

iT PAY?

 

a, 3¢ *

I take no chances.

.. antees the

sell.

that the

CERTAINLY IT DOES.~empe

The
* York Condensed Milk Co. is a very responsible concern, and

quality is of the very best.

guar

Gail Borden Eagle Brand

CONDENSED MILK to its customers.
The majority call for it, and won’t take any other brand.
I don’t keep it my customers will get it elsewhere.
No, I guess not; have tried both ways, and found that it pays to}
sell only the “ BEST.’ It has been demonstrated to my satisfaction &

GAIL BORDEN EAGLE BRAND—~——

T’renared by the New York Condensed Milk Co.

 

Per Box.......

 

oo 38 cents
In 5 Case lots, per case...... $3 30

40
20

Fer Case... $3
In 10 Case lots, per case..... o

If you are particular about your STICKY FLY
PAPER, specify

TANGLEFOOT

The New

Besides, it is no trouble tof
If}
Smaller profit !f

HAS NO EQUAL.

t" For Quotations SEE PRICE COLUMNS.

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SECCEUN CEES EEUU EUVY UYU N YY

Tanglefoot

SEALED STIGKY FLY PAPER

YOUR CUSTOMERS WILL ALL PREFER IT.
i cl
PRICES FOR THE REGULAR SIZE.

bl

dl4 x 9 inches

Particularly adapted for Show Win-
dows and Fine Rooms.

25 Double Sheets in a Box, 15 Boxes in
a case.

Retails for 25 cents a box.

Costs $1.75 per case.

Profit nearly 115 per cent.
Will be a Good Seller.

 

 

   

THE MICHIGAN, TRADESMAN.

 

cases, grows larger instead of smaller, | We ARF MAKING A LARGE LINE F |

until the time comes when, as a matter

of self-protection. further credit must be
denied. What is the result? In nine} ( A PS 1:
eeeee

cases out of ten, the customer puts on an |

   

air of injured dignity, assuming an utter

     
 

 

disregard of the fact that he has been | For GIRLS, BOYS and | SEND :

favored by being allowed to have his | MEN, FOR ee + oso 4,
goods charged, and carrying himself in a | at prices ranging from $1.73 to $4.50 per doz., also ‘ i SS =F
manner that would indicate that the | ' DESCRIPTIVE i ~
dealer should consider it an hener to be | / PAMPHLET. ' hy, ane

privileged to sell him. The next day, 3 } Z 43 bs eel
and many following, he will pay cash cf Stump before a Blast. | Fragments after a Blast.

elsewhere, if he cannot secure credit, in- | at #6 and $6.50 per dozen.
stead of giving the benefit of such trade
to the one who, according to fairness and
equity, is most entitled to it.

5 Every merchant who reads this knows
that these statements are not overdrawn,
and it should strengthen him in the re-
solve to endeavor to unite all his co-

{

7 x - STRONGEST AND SAFEST FxPLOSiVE

= POWDER, FUSE, CAPS.

- Electric Mining Suan,
HERCULES, AND ALL TOOLS FOR STUMP BLASTING,

orkers sh s ig ‘HE GREAT STUMP AND ROCK ae ee eee
workers under the cash standard, and, | “aia HERCULES POWDER CO A ’
by harmonious unity of action, rid the AN ' Cuyahoga Building,

community of these blighting parasites.

There is any amount of evidence that
may be easily procured and submitted in
confirmation of the statement that the
eash system is the true one—of benefit

CLEVELAND, Omi.

 

Hercules Powder is carried in stock by all of the following jobbers:

 

alike to dealer and customer. This life- Foster, a . Co., Grand coe ee ce
F “— a. i | A. Austin, 98 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, uechner &Co., Kalamazoo,
; Riel —— — _ _ tT ll ' J. J. Post & Co., Cheboygan, Seavey Hardware Co., Ft. Wayne,
| cerned in any transaction to take advan- | THE BATUS, No. 13. Popp & Wolf, Saginaw, Camper & Steadman, South Bend.

tage of countless opportunities for say-

The above cuts are new shapes and are fast
ing and for self-betterment; and the |

| sellers. Write for samples.
sooner the grocers, as a whole, adopt it, Our Line of STRAW GOODS is complete D
just so much the quicker will the foree | Men's. Women’s and Chi dren‘s—at low prices. O you

of example become the means of spread- |

|
ing to other lines of trade the benetit to | S | | S a p
be derived. e O —a
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The writer of this article is one of the
many whose cummercial bark has foun-
dered in the sea of injudicious credit. He
has since been able to locate the hidden Grand Rapids.
rocks, and he would now erect lighthouses
thereon for the guidance of others still
tossing in its tempestuous and treacher-
ous waters.

In conclusion, the man who buys and
sells for cash is happy, free trom worry
and successful. Ali hail the dawn of
the incoming era of cash.

IF YOU DO, WE CAN INTEREST YOU.

 

Will Increase
Your Sales

 

’

Frank T. LAWRENCE.
ogame , Grdce from Your Jobber
ineaiaie Beans in His Stomach.
A case of true inwardness recently de-
veloped in the National capital, where
bugs known as Mexican beans figured
largely. It seems that a good citizen in
the northwestern section of the city has
been through an exciting experience.
Being a dyspeptic, the gentleman visitea
his physician. A prescription was
3 written tour him, which the druggist filled.
F The result was a smail box of capsules,
which he took home and placea upon the
sideboard, with the remembrance of the

instructions to take two every hour in

the evening after eating until bedtime. ;

These were obeyed implicitly. It was 20 & 29 Monroe St.,
dark iu the dining room, and the gentle-
man went for his medicine the first even- GRAND RAPIDS.
ing without the precauti n of a light,
and administered to himself three doses

' ’

of two capsules each before retiring. He

was awakened sume hours afterward by

a strange seusa ivn. For aught the man ui *y

could tell, he seemed within to be a a ae

mammoth penuchie board on which a — Son
million little objects were dancing. He|The Lycoming Rubber Company,
could distinguish kicks aud jumps so
vividly that it was in vain for his wife to

OR

Grand Rapids Soap Works.

MICHIGAN BARK AND LUMBER GO,

GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH

 

 

 

 

 

Ce:

  
  
 

18 and 19 Widdicomb Bld.

 

N. &. CLARK, Pres.
. WADE, Vice-Pres.

. CLARK, Sec’y and Treas.

We are now ready to make
contracts for bark for the sea-

keep constantly on hand a son of 1895.

‘ try to convince him that he was dream- full and complete line of
ing. She suggested the doctor, and the these goods made from the ’
i servant was dispatched in hot haste. Be- purest rubber. They are

a : : oO a -e Solici \
fore he arrived, the sick man asked for Senrenpetanan eter

more of the eapsules, which were a ee ;
brought to his bedside. When the cover aFve the Senkyentintnies

was removed there were Mexican beans of any rubber in the mar- Is = a eS
instead of capsules, the kernels bound- ket. Our line of Leather OCO a * New York, Boston,
ing as merrily as spring lambs. The box > : : i

of capsules had been misplaced accident- panes snd Sees eee Chie: ago, Or any other re-

good style, good fitters and

 

 

 

is te thee oee and dle aed Soe plete in every particular, | mote place, for a fine line
beans put in its place. The doctor does also Felt Boots, Sox, ete.
not say what kind of medicine he finds Thanking you for past favors we now
useful in such cases, but it is certain await your further orders. Hoping you |
that a man who does not know beans| wiil give our line a careful inspection |

should never take his medicine in the|when our representative calls on you, FEF. 5 and 7 South lonia St.
dark. weare REEDER BROS’. SHOE CO. a Brooks & Co GRAND RAPIDS, [lich.

of Chocolates or Candy. We have as Fine Goods as any house
in the country and at popular prices. Don’t forget us Wo"

need.

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

NOTES ON THE INCOME TAX.

The effect of the decision in the income
tax law continues to be a matter engag-
ing much attention. Those in favor of
the law and who have charge of its col-
lection make as favorable conjectures of
the amount of the receipts as possible.
Commissioner Miller, of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, informs Secretary Car-
lisle that the receipts from the source
will be about $14,000,000, whereas they
would have been fully $30,000,000 but
for the adverse decision of the Supreme
Court. The number making returns sub-
ject to taxation is much less than was ex-
pected—110,000. It was anticipated the
number would be from 200,000 to 300,-
000. It is supposed that many have
withheld their reports on account of the
attitude of the Supreme Court and their

consequent lack of respect for the law.
* * *

There is much speculation as to the at-
titude the collectors will take in regard
to the inquisition features of the law. In
defining their powers and duties the reg-
ulations are very arbitrary. In their
late instructions, however, they are cau-
tioned to be extremely careful. The
sudden and tremendous boom which has
been given to real estate wherever rents
enter as a factor in profits tends to great-

ly complicate the collectors’ duties.
= = «<

The more the law is studied, especially
in its mutilated condition, the more ap-
parent become its gross unfairness and
discrimination in taxation. For instance,
the same spirit of populism—another
name for communism—which is respon-
sible for the enactment made it especial-
ly severe on corporations. This severity
was based on the popular prejudice
against corporations, that is so rapidly
giving way before education. By its
provisions there is no exemption in their
profits of $4,000, as in the case of an in-
dividual. In recent movements for the
amelioration of labor by profit sharing,
co-operative corporations, and for various
reasons, many thousands of workmen
have acquired small holdings of stock in
the concerns employing them. Such a
workman, earning, perhaps, $800 a year,
may receive, say, $500 as his share of
profits. His tax on his income of $1,300
is the same as the business or profes-

sional man who has an income of $4,500.
= <¢ *

It is a peculiar situation that the high-
est tribunal in the land should be evenly
divided on Such a question by personal
or political characteristics and that in
case of a rehearing the power of final
decision will probably rest with a single

individual.
* * *

Attorney-general Olney has submitted
to the Supreme Court a memorandum
urging a rehearing on the question of
the power of the Government to tax
rents, dividends and interest from all
kinds of investments, claiming that there
has never been a hearing on this part of
the question. He urges the impor-
tance of a rehearing on the ground that
if that part of the act is unconstitutional
the Government is in possession of many
millions collected on incomes during the
war which must be refunded and that it
will be impossible to impose a tax which
shall not be ‘‘grossly and flagrantly” un-

equal.
merrell cnn

Gripsack Brigade.
B. Frank Parmenter has removed to
his fruit farm at Saugatuck for the sum-
mer.

 

J. W. Simmons, formerly city sales-
man for the Champion Cash Register Co.,
has engaged to travel for the Worden
Grocer Co. His territory has not yet
been definitely assigned.

J. H. McKelvey has returned from De-
troit to take the position of Secretary
and Treasurer of the Michigan Commer-
cial Travelers’ Association, which now
has its office in the Michigan Trust Co.
building.

Another death has occurred in the
ranks of the Michigan Knights of the
Grip—Mrs. E. M. Raleith, of Lansing,
who passed into the Hereafter on Friday
of last week. Deceased had been a mem-
ber since 1891 and was in good standing
at the time of her death. The benefi-
ciaries are her husband and daughter.

Geo. W. Cofren, traveling representa-
tive for B. J. Kendall & Co., of Enos-
burgh Falls, Vt., who was taken ill with
pneumonia at the Livingston Hotel two
weeks ago Tuesday, and has since been
in a critical condition at the U. B. A.
Home, is convalescent. H. B. Fairchild
(Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.) has been
unremitting in his attentions to the suf-
ferer and is greatly rejoiced over the
prospective recovery of the patient. Al-
though unable to speak above a whisper,
the patient is saying all manner of pretty
things to his nurse in the hope that she
will give him more things to eat than are
prescribed by his physician.

a
Bank Notes.

The failure of the Northern National
Bank and the consolidation of the Big
Rapids National and Mecosta County
Savings Banks leave Big Rapids with
but one banking house. The Herald, of
that place, asserts that, in all probability,
a second banking establishment will be
launched there before snow flies.

The Freeport Banking Co. has pur-
chased the fixtures of B. E. Quick & Co.,
at Freeport, and will continue the busi-
ness at the same location. The new in-
stitution is a copartnership, composed of
Job Cheesebrough, Abram _ Steckle,
Henry Ekert, Jas. Cool, C. A. Curtiss,
Wm. Moore, Alb. Gosch and R. Wolcott,
of Freeport; Geo. Coppens and Geo.
Simpson, of Bowne, and Hale Kenyon,
of Hastings. The officers of the bank
are as follows: President—Wm. Moore;
Vice-President—R. Wolcott; Cashier—
Hale Kenyon; Directors—Chas. Coppens,
Job Cheesebrough, Wm. Moore, Jas. D
Cool, Henry Ekert, Hale Kenyon, R.
Wolcott.

 

os

It is amusing to note the conjectures
of the daily press since the signing of the
peace articles between Japan and China
as to the political plans and schemes of
those countries. One authority asserts
that a ‘‘dreibund’’ is to be formed, in-
cluding Siam, which shall be to the East
what the Holy Alliance is to Europe.
Another sagely discusses the duty of the
United States in case Japan should con-
elude to annex the Hawaiian Islands.
The absurdity of such reports as to the
intentions of these Governments becomes
apparent when we consider that their
political ambitions are fully occupied—
both of them—in the recovery from an
exhausting war. The idea of a trip-
artite alliance with Siam as a member
is rediculous, as there is no possibility of
Siam’s advancing in political prestige
sufficiently to figure in such a combina-
tion for many years. Sueh conjectures
make interesting reading, which proba-
bly accounts for their existence.

 

 

Canning Delicacies at Sea.

A new departure in the canning indus-
try has been inaugurated by the fitting
out of a schooner at New York for the
Southern fish and fruit trade, with appara-
tus and provisions for canning and pre-
serving all kinds of perishable delicacies,
thus enabling her to carry on her cruise
at her leisure and to the best advantage
until she is ready to return with a full
cargo.

It has always been a serious problem
how to preserve these most perishable of
all products until they could be trans-
ported to some point on shore, prefera-
bly in this ccuntry on account of the
duty, where they could be preserved and
prepared for market. The most ap-
proved schemes of refrigeration are cost-
ly and at the best the ‘‘catch” would
have greatly deteriorated before it could
be ‘‘processed.’’ It is strange that so
simple a solution of the difficulty should
not have been in use long ago for the
preservation of other marine products
than whales.

The vessel is provided with a complete
outfit, including a large steam boiler,
copper cauldrons, cast-iron ‘‘process ket-
tle’? and all apparatus necessary. She
carries six canners and a chef, besides
her skipper, and a crew of several men.
She has aboard 150,000 empty cans,
which will, it is expected, be filled with
turtle, pompano, guava jelly, and fish
and game and fruit of many kinds before
she returns to this port in the fall. The
turtles will be caught in the West Indies
and off the Florida coast. Some may be
acquired by exchanging for them cheap
manufactured articles which form part
of the schooner’s cargo.

The chef will superintend the prepara-
tion of the meats and the fish, and will
make guavas into jelly after the most ap-
proved recipe. There is a duty on jelly,
but not on guavas, but by manufactur-
ing the jelly aboard an American vessel
the projectors of the seagoing cannery
expect to be able to escape the duty and
to sell the jelly cheaper than it is sold
now in America. Much of the canned
goods will be brought back on the
schooner; some will be landed, and sent
by steamship or railroad to the North
from the Southern ports at which the
schooner will touch.

The outcome of this enterprise will be
watched with much interest, though
the practicability of the idea is so ev-
ident, there is no doubt a large fleet will
be fitted out without waiting for the re-
sult of this as an experiment.

A at
The Dry Goods Market.

Cotton goods of all kinds have ad-
vanced 4%@%se per yard. Jobbers are
holding all goods firm, but the advance
is not yet felt by retailers.

Kid cambries are up 4c, jobbers now
asking 3%(c, and are firm at that price.

Prints remain unchanged, although
the mills talk higher prices.
Cashmeres are scarce; also serges.

Certain colors are in good demand, but
cannot be procured at old prices.

Atlantic F’s are held firm at 15c.

Demins are slow in delivery, more
money being asked on all grades except
Everett blue and browns, which are held
at 10}¢e.

Harmony prints in good dark styles
are now being quoted at 3c net.

American shirting prints are held at
3ige and American indigo prints at 41¢c¢.

2

The best pine now being cut in the
Upper Peninsulais for export to Eng-
land, to be used for interior finish. The
logs are taken on barges to Quebec,
where they are counter hewed and then
shipped. It is said that in two years all
the timber available for this purpose

will be exhausted.
a te
The University of Chicago is wonder-
ing how many hundred thousand Mr.
Rockefeller is going to be able to give it
from the recent spurtin oil. He is said
to have his hand on the spigot.

 

 

The Governor of Bolivia has reduced
his own salary, to save money for the
State. He is a wonder, and should be
worshiped. The reduction of his own
pay reduces the pay of nineteen other
State officers, and enables him to dis-
charge as superfluous thirteen officers
who have been drawing pay and making
him weary. The Governor of Bolivia is
a trump; but heis the only one of his
kind. A preacher once reduced his own
salary to a figure that a business man
pronounced absurdly small. ‘‘Perhaps
it is,’ said the good preacher, ‘‘but it is
more than I can eollect! Let it go at
that.”

—_— 7

The rails of the street ear tracks on
State street, Chicago, are being welded
into one continuous piece by a blast
furnace on wheels, which passes over the
line and stops for its work at the end of
each rail. The difference in the smooth-
ness of running and consequent lessen-
ing of wear and tear to running gears
furnish sufficient motive for the innova-
tion.

— -2- <p

Anent the talk of photo processes kill-
ing the art of wood engraving, a Paris
art journal says that the world has now
more high-class wood
ever before, and more thane
lar and profitable employment.

Chas. A.Coye

MANUFACTURER OF

cS, AWTS,

HORSE,WAGON and
BINDER COVERS.

engravers than
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Transacts a General Banking Business.

Interest Allowed on Time Deposits.

Solicits the Accounts of [Merchants and Indi-
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DIRECTORS
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Drug Department.

State Board of Pkarmacy,.
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.
éecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Coming Meetings— Detroit (Star Island),
Lansing, Nov 5.

June 24;

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Aass’n.
President— A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
Vice-President-—John E. Peck, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.

8ecretay—F. C Thompson. Detroit.

 

 

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutica! Society.
President, John E. Peck; Secretary, B. Schrouder.

Side of Substitution.
From certain quarters a fearful hue
and cry are being raised about the terrible
evil of substitution on the part of the
pharmacist. This plan of advertising is
new in this branch of the business; but
if treated by the profession in the man-
ner it should be, it cannot fail to have an
effect the very opposite of the one de-
sired. It is an old trick for an actress,
when she finds her popularity waning,
to be robbed of her diamonds; and this
sudden outburst seems to be on the same
plan. That there is substituting going
on cannot be denied; but that the evil
is any greater now than formerly can
be seriously questioned. The writer has
no wish to defend substitution and no
patience with the substituter, but it does
seem ridiculous for the proprietors of
special preparations to resort to this
method of ‘‘catch thief’’ advertising.

Only yesterday the writer’s attention
was called to a new synthetical prepara-
tion, or rather compourd. The first
claim made was that the active principle
of a plant growing in the mountains of
British India had been combined with a
certain coal tar product with an unpro-
nounceable name, and that the resulting
compound was an antiseptic, antiferment,
and antirheumatic par excellence. As
the writer had never heard of this re-
markable plant before, he looked it up
carefully—and found no mention of it in
any standard work of reference. And
this is only one instance.

Is the pharmacist substituting—is he
doing any wrong—when he goes to the
physician, shows him preparations of his
own make, and succeeds in getting the
consent of the physician to have them
used in his prescriptions? This whole
special remedy business is getting to be
a buisance, and, more than that, a very
expensive one to the pharmacist. He
must in self-preservation combat it with
every honorable weapon in his posses-
sion. Every true pharmacist is the friend
of progress and scientific investigation,
but these fake discoveries are calculated
to give him that ‘‘tired feeling.”

The interests of pharmacy and medi-
cine are common. Working together
they can accomplish much that: neither
alone could accomplish. And _ this at-
tempt on the part of certain people to
create the impression that the pharma-
cist is not acting honestly by the physi-
cian, is simply done to curry favor with
the latter. Some time ago the writer’s
attention was directed to an advertise-
ment in which it was stated in flaring
headlines that the agent of a certain
preparation had gone to eight drug
stores with a prescription for his special
preparation, and in each case substitu-
tion was practiced—the ninth druggist
(the one whose name was very prominent
in the article)supplied the preparation.
In other words, this druggist was the
“only honest man in town,” except per-

The Pharmacist’s

 

haps the agent—if be lived there. The
paper did not say how many gross the
said druggist had to buy in order to have
his honesty publicly certified to by the
firm this agent represented.

How long will the pharmaceutical
profession stand this before they com-
mence a war which can have, if properly
conducted, but one result? How long
are members of the learned and honored
profession of medicine, a profession al-
ways famous fer its conservatism, going
to allow themselves to be made the
avenue by which these goods are sold?

It is amusing to note the ingenuity
these ‘‘specials” show in selecting a
name. Artemus Ward advised Abraham
Lincoln to fill bis cabinet with show-
men, saying that ‘‘showmen had no prin-
ciples, but if you doubt their literary
ability just consult their small bills.”
And the last part of this statement could
be made safely of some of the firms who
are to-day seeking to advertise their
wares by impugning the honesty of the
pharmacist.

Both medicine and pharmacy are ad-

vancing rapidly, and none who seek the!

good of these professions can fail to be
proud of such advancement. Every in-
vestigation, every scientific experiment,
every advance made, is being watched
with deep interest by the pharmacist,
and its success hailed with delight. But
is it unfair to expect the physician to
look into the claims made, and examine
for himself, before he asks the patient to
buy these ‘‘specials’’ and the pharmacist
to keep them in stock?

We are all familiar with the notices
sent out, warning pharmacists against
using a certain preparation of bismuth
unless sold under a certain fanciful
name and made by a certain firm. There
must be something radically wrong with
our patent laws when a process for a
simple chemical compound (known long
before the patent was granted or even
asked for) can be monopolized. Most of
the leading houses have quit manufac-
turing the bismuth preparation under its
proper name, and are to-day furnishing
the patented article. They claim that
while they have a perfect right to manu-
facture the product, there is not enough
profit in the amount that would be sold
to justify defending a lawsuit. One of
the manufacturers, however, did not see
it in that light, and will fight it out,
profit or no profit.

This is but an illustration. Goods that
are sold in Germany (some syntheticals)
for 20 cents an ounce, when brought here,
are sold by the agents for $1 an ounce.
And still the pharmacist must not retal-
iate, but must sit quietly by while some
agent comes along and unfolds to suscep-
tible physicians a story of wonderful en-
terprise and discovery—how a member
of his firm, becoming thoroughly satis-
fied of the curative virtues of moonlight,
has, after years of experiment, sueceeded
in condensing said moonlight by means
of a peculiar kind of glass known only
to his firm, and extracting the active
principle by means of anhydrous gly-
cerin, and is now offering it in permanent
solution under the name of Moonene.
This, you say, is absurd? So it is, but is
it any more so than the claims put forth
in behalf of certain animal extracts?
The agent claimed that his preparation
was pure concentrated moonshine; and

it would be difficult to find a more ap-
propriate name for many preparations
now being thrust upon the market.

PRACTICAL PHARMACIST.

 

 

 

Porous glass is a late novelty in the
Paris market. The holes are so small
that neither dust nor draft follow its
use and yet the ventilation is said to be
excellent.

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The shah of Pr ersia sielees: a pipe worth
$320,000.

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Lemon, Vanilla, Assorted Flavors.
Yearly sales increased by their use.
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2oz 120 12 60
40x. 200 22 380
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20z. 200 21 60
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Advanced—Gum Kino, Oil Cubebs.

Morphia, Alcohol.

Declined—Gum Assafcetida, Gum Opium, Oil Lemon,

 

 
  

 

 

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Aootioum ...... .....- 8@ 10
Benzoicum German.. 65@ 75
ee ae ass. 15
Carbelioum .......... 21@ 31
Cee ............. 41@ 44
Meerocuior ............ ss &
Wirocum ............. 10@ 12
Carers ............. 10@ 12
Phosphorium dil...... 20
Sallevicum ........... 7@ 7
Sulphuricum.. 1%@ 5
Seeeeeene............. sy 40@1 60
Warterows............ 30@ 33
AMMONIA,
Aqua, = o.......... 4@ 6
' 2 deg.. : 6@ C8
meee ..... 12@ 14
toridum ...... 122@ 14
ANILINE.
ieee... 2 00@2 25
— ede ss saeteaee OT
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BACCAE.
Cubeae (po 25)...... 20@ 25
Jemioere ..-.........- 8@ 10
Xanthoxylum.. 25Q 30
BALSAMUM, -
— SS ae 5@ BO
a @3 25
Terabin. Canada .... 45@ 50
Wales ...........-.-. 3@ 50
CORTEX.
Abies, Canadian............ 18
Cease ............-...---.. 12
Ciacnens Fave ..........:.
Euonymus atropurp........ 20
Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20
Pronwe Virgini.....-........- 3
=. ee... 6... 10
—_—_—_————— 2
Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15
EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra... =
Haematox, 1p 1b. box. . 11@ 12
ees eee 13@ 14
. ue Cees 14@ 15
. _<s... .... Foe fe
FEERU
Carbonate Precip...... @ 15
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50
Citrate Soluble.... @ 80
Ferrocyanidum Sol @
Solut Chioride........ @ 15
Sulphate, com’l....... -3@ 2
r pure.. oe 7
FLORA.
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Anthemis .........
Matricaria sist ws ss
FOIA
Baremaa ..........-.- @ 8
coe *,cutifol, Tin-
nivelly oot deat eee 8@ 2%
' Alx. @ 30
Salvia officinalis, 148
ooe i4.............. 2Q@ 20
aum .........--.. 10
@UMMI.
Acacia, ist picked.... @ 60
she a @ 4
" YL. @ 30
‘“ «6 sifted sorta... @ 20
- 2 ...... 2... 00@ 80
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60
Cape, (po. — @ 12
Socotri, (po. 60 @ Ww
we is, (Ke, 14 xe ai
aa Se 55@ 40
Assafctida, (po. 40} 35@ 40
Bensoinum..........-- 30@ 55
Camphorm............- 44@ 50
= phorotom po. 35@ 10
ae @2 50
Gamboue, —... 4... 80
Guaiacum. (po 35).... @ 30
Kino, (po 3 00)...... @3 00
eee .

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Opi (pe 3003 30) ..2 CO@2 10
Shellac 40@ 60

‘se bleached 4°@ 45
Tragacanth ..........- 50@ 80
HERBA—In ounce packages.
Pe ES ee 25
Mapetortam ................. 20
a 25
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Mentha Piperita............ 23

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Oe a 22
Ce 25

MAGNESIA.
Colemeed, Pat.......-..
Carbonate, Pat........ 0@ 2
Carbonate, K.& M.. 20@ 2%
Carbonate, JenningS.. 35@ 36

OLEUK.

Abello. ........- 2 50@3 00
Amygdalae, Dulc...... 30@ 50
Amydalae. Amarae....8 00@8 25

aS a 1 99@2 60
on Comiex....... 1 80@2 00
Dersane .....---....- 3 00@3 20
—_ — 60@ 65

yophyii 7@ 80
C er eeew ue 35@ 65
Ghencpodii eee e @1 60
Cinmeeett .... 2.1... 1 35@1 49
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Exechthitos ......... 1 20@1 30
mean... i 20@1 30
Ganiltheria ........ .-1 50@1 66
Geranium, ounce..... @ 7
— Sem. gal..... 60@ 70
Hesoesa ......... 1 25@1 40
eomeger............... 50@2 00
Lavendula . . 90@2
Reeeeeee i? 30D! 50
monn rier. ....... 1 &5@3 00
Mentha Verid. ....... 80@2 00
Morrhuae, = Lo 1 25@1 30
oa ounce. i" @ 3
Picts s Liquid, (gal. _ 10@ 12
+ saa ae eek
Rosae, ounce. _< 50@8 eo
Becems. ........... 40@ 45
peor ................ 90@1
Che 2 50@7 00
Sassafras.. 50@ 55
ae ORB, ‘ounce.. @ 6
Ms ee ee @1 00
Thyme Reet ee ee eee 40@ 50
Om... @1 60
‘’heobromas.. 15@
POTASSIUM.
etere... |... 15@ 18
Bighromate ........... 11@ 13
omeee 40@
Carb.. 12@ 15
Chlorate (po. 17@19).. 16@ 18
Cyereee ........ 50@
radide. Dee oe 2 96@3 00
Potassa, Bitart, =. 23Q@ B
Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15
Potass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10
Potass Nitrag.......... 7
Pewee... ...... 28Q
Sapna 7O........... 15@ 18
BADIX.
Aeomitem .........-... 20@ 25
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Arenees .............. 12@ 15
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Coreee...........-... 20@ 40
Gentiana (po. 12)..... 8@ 10
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18
Hydrastis Canaden,
ss .-. oo... @ 3
Heliebore, Ala, po 15@ 2
Inula, = Se 15@ 2
meee ua_.........-. 1 30@1 40
tite plox ae 35@38).. 35@ 40
aerene, Pr...........-- 40@ 45
Merete, Ms.........- @ 35
Podophyllum, po...... 15@ 18
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' = ee eae odo ee 75@1 35
Seles ........,.....- 3@ 38
Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ Ww
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poe... .......... 5 60
Similax, Officinalis. H @ 4
M 25
Scillae, (po. %)........ 12

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Binge }........... 1 2
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Anisum, (po. 20).. @ 15
Apium (graveleons).. 14@ 16
Ce 4@
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SE 1 00@1 25
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Cannabis Sativa....... <a 5
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Tope... B@ 40
Pharlarie Canarian. 4@ 5
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Sinspie Bie... 7@ 8
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aacharum N. E...... 1 90@2 10
Spt Vit Gaig........ 1 75@6 50
Vil Oporto ........... 1 25@2 00
Vini Bie... 1 25@2 00
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Florida sheeps’ wool
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velvet as sheeps’
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Sees 50
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Crenoms .................. 50
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Treen 50
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Cassia Acutifol ete suese wee 50
cee 50
Sarraneeres .... 50
peemeetam ............,... 60
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Veratrum Veride............ 50
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ATMMOON oo... 24@ 3
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Antimoni, —......... @ 5
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Antipyrin .. @1 40
Anmgitomrin............. @
Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 58
Areenicum ............ os 7
Balm Gilead Bud.... 38@ 40
Damen & M.....:... 1 20@1 30
Calcium Chlor, 1s, (4s
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Cantharides Russian,
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Capsici Fructus, af... @ 15
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Caryophylius, _ Pos) 10@ 12
Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75
Cera Alba, 8. & F..... 50@ 55
Core Peeve............ 400@ 4
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Cumin Mractus........ @
comer. ll... @ 10
Ceemoet ............- @ 4
Chigrefarm ........... 60@ 63
- squibbe . @i1 2
Chicral Hyd ‘Gent Lee -1 251 50
Chondrus...... 2@ 22
Cinchonidize, r& W 15@ 2
German 3%@ 12
— list, dis. per .
ee use ewee uaa 5
nme eee ae Q %
Creta, boo a... e 2:
.. 5@ 5
‘precip. ae 9@ ili
. wbra.... @ &
Croces .......... 50@ 55
Canmear........ Q 2%
Cupri Sulph 5@ 6
a 10@ 12
ee Ts@ 90
mery, = numbers. . $ :
Brgota, (po. Pe 30@ 35
Flake ae. ......... 2@® 15
eeee 8. s..ee. S B
Gaseer.... 6... 7 @8s
Gelatin, Cooper.. 60
wregen....-...

Glassware flint, by box 60.
Less than box 50.

Glue, eewe.........-
White. .

   

9@ 15
18@ 25
13@ 20
2B 5
55
a @ %
oe @ 65
' Ox Rubrum @ 85
. Ammoniati.. @ %
' Unguentum. 45@ 55
[ehthyobolle, An oes sees @ &
thyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50
ee eae wees 75@1 00
ae Romibl.... 2... 3 80@3 90
oe @4 70
—- ee eiceseaa ces @2 25
agama See eae. 60@ 65
SGM ..........2.....- 70@ %5
i 2 Arsen et Hy-
si @
kanes Coaecin hain 10@ 12
—— Sulph (bbl
SE 2%@ 4
Mannia, &. F........ . 0@

 

Morphia, 8. ay &W. 185@2 10
—" ~. ¥. &

1 75@2 00
@ 40

Myristica, No 1

 

  
 

 

 

Nux Vomica, os 20).. @ 10
Os. Sepia. . 156@ 18
Pe - Saac, H.
eee oes 00
Picis Liq, N
“ae @2 00
Picis Liq., — @1 00
a @ 8
Pil ae (po. 80) .. @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22).. @t
con Alba, (po ¢5).... @ +
Piix B urgun. ba : @
Pian eee... 10@ 12
Pulvis Ipecac et opfi..1 10@1 20
——o boxes H
& PF. D. Co., dos..... @1 2
Pyrethrum, pv........ WQ =
guinte, Secs 8&@
uinia, 5S. P. & W..... “aang
S. German.. 27]
Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 4
Saccharum Lactispv. 16@ 18
Ce 2 30@2 50
Sanguis Draconis..... 0@ 50
Sapo, y........ 122@ 14
7 oe... 10@ 12
- €. ...... @ 15

 

 
  

 

 

 

Seidlits Mixture...... @ 20| Linseed, boiled.. .... 62 65
_—. De poe @ 18 “—— a winter
= eee eens @ ®# emegued ........ 70

— accaboy, De sate enpouian.” 36 40
a @ 35

snuff, “Scotch, De. Voes @ 35 PaINTs. bbl. Ib.

Soda Boras, (po.9-16). 8@ 10] Red Venéetian.......... 1% 2@38

Soda et Potass Tart... 24@ 25 Ochre, yellow — 1% 2@4

Soda Carb 1%@ 2 Ber......1% 2@8
oda, Bi-Carb . 8@ 5] Putty, commercial....24% 2%@3

Soda, Ash -8%@ 4 “ strictly pure..... 2% 24@3

Soda, Sulphas.. @ iV — ime Amer-

Spts. Ether Co ... _ te Sl wee... 13@15
“ Myrcia Dom..... @2 00 Vermilion, English. . 68Q74
. «iat ela Imp... .. @2 50 | Green, Peninsular.....

ini Rect. bbl. cee Wea...
a 2 45@2 ‘white... ...... See
i 5c gal., cash ten —. ” | Whiting, white Span... @70
Strychnia Crystal..... 40@1 45 «| wee Gildera’...... Q%
Sulphur, Subl.. : . 3 | White, Paris American 1
Roll Whiting, Paris Eng.

wemertiae... |... aie. 1 40

Terepenth Venice..... 30 | Universal Prepared ..1 CO@1 15

—— See eee is 48 VARNISHES,
anilla............... 00@16 00 | No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20

Zinc Sulph.......... = tua. me

Coden Body........._- 2 75@3 00
OILs. No. 1 Turp Furn......1 00@1 10
Bbl. Gal | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60

Whale, winter....... 7 70 “i. — No. 1

Dara, Gira. .......... 60 65 70@75

lord, Wa. f........... 40 45

Linseed, pureraw.... 59 82

 

 

 

Seasonable!

 

 

Pure Paris Green
London Furple

Pure Powdered
Hellebore

Blue Vitriol
PLY TrAren
Gum Camphor
‘Tar Gampnor

Copperas

Carvolic Acid
Chloride Lime

We have a full stock and solicit your

orders

at Best Market Prices.

 

 

 

HAZELTINE
& PERKINS DRUG

CO.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

‘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. They are prepared just before

going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.

greatest possible use to dealers.

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

 

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AXLE GREASE,

 

doz gross

Aurora... .......... 55 & 00

Jastor Ol. i 7 00

TE 50 5 50

 .........--.. 7 9 0

Mica lee 7 50

Paragon oo 55 6 00
BAKING POWDER.

AC

: cans 6 doz case...... 55

. “ iédoz i 1 :
r > _ 2. |. eee 2

so ~*~ ian “ ..... 3m

Red Star, ha > cans.......- >

Sas 7

“ * ~ o i 4c

Sun Light.

iq Ib. cans, 6 doz.case..... 45

4 1b 4 doz. " Looe S5

1 1b. - 2.2% 1 60

Van Anrooy’s Pure. ;

yy, Ib. cans, 6 doz. case..... 90

y% Ib. saoc. “ --. 1%

1b des. * 3 30

Ceifer’s, 1g lb. cans, dos 45
cay * lb, oe ae i

. im .. 1%
Our Leader, 4% .b cans..... 45

s

% Ib cans...... %
“ 1ibeans ... .150

BATH BRICK.

 

2 dozen in case.
Euglish .. oa
Bristol. . a a
Domestic... oe

BLUING. Gross

Arctic, 402 ovals ee 3 60
ewes 6 %
C = round ........ —
. 2, sifting box... 2 75
' Ne. 3, 1. 4.00
“= e.5, ° .. 8 00
o 1 ox ball . ca . 48
Mexican Liquid, 3 oF “ : =
cialis:
ee 1 90
As. -< _ apeee =
No. 2 Carpet. 2 15
eee =
arlor Gem...
aaa wk 85
‘ancy OOO 1 00
Waerenowse........ --------- 2 85
BRUSHES,
ee 12
<a ae
‘ - =... 1 4
ce Root Scrub, 2 row..--
fice Root Scrub, 3tow.... 1 =
Pa. metts, —, tits. _2
Hoiel, 40 Ib. boxes. _B
TT Oe : a
omine ....-
Wexine oe eee 24
OAANSEYD GOODS.
Fish
- 5 aa
is Bore, Te..........
” aE 9
Chowder. a
Standard, ssa eee
, 8 — a
vt
—" 2 ib. cee cee ee 1 45
anaes ”
~~... :
= 2 “EL LT a 50
eS f
——. >
ackerel
Standsrd, . - oe : 10
ecesee ss eseves at
Mvretard, : - econ 223
Tomato Sauce. 2b 2 &
Soused, 2 ib. 2 2

Salmon.

t ‘olumbia River, flat 1 20
‘nile >

Alneka, ne 1 30
SO iokees concen 1 20
Kinney’s, fiute ... es

Sardines. “6
American 43 ....

a. 4 a» . ... i : $

Imported ‘94...... : ¢

“ ... @'3

Mustard &¥s ... ... @7

Bence ........ . 21
out.

Brook 3, Ib Cece ae
Fruits.

—

3 ip. standard 90
York State, gslions - te 3 00
Hamburgh. *

Apricots
a 1 40
a o........ _.. 1 40
Ce 150
Ovecmena............. 11

Blackberries
awe 85

Cherries.
ee ee kee ae @1 15
“nao Hamburgh .....
eae 1 40
— eee eee 16
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green
=
a... ... : 100
Sane o 1 05
Gooseberries.

Common . ' 1d
Peaches.
SL 1 10
ee ; 50
See | 1 50
oeeernee........ 160@1 75

as...
mae
Pears.
aaa 115
_vomees.. 1 40
Pineapples.
Come 1 00@1 30
Johnson's sliced...... 2 50
— 2%
Booth’s tised. @2 5)
. cee... @2 %
Quinces.
ae 1 10
Raspberries.
ee ee lee 95
Black on — 14
oe 110
Strawberries,
Laan. 13
— ee. i=
ee 85
aoe eee oe SO
Whortleberries,
Blueberries ........ 85
eats.
med beet . CU...
ane 25
Potted ham, % Ib........... 15
. See 70
congas, 4 F......... 135
: -.... . 75
” chicken, ¥ Ib....... 95
Vegetables.
Beans.
Hamburgh stringless....... 115
French style..... 200
. ie... 135
ie oon 115
- ae... 7
Lewis Sonien —, 1 25
Bay State Baked............ 12
World’s Fair Baked........ 1 25
ee 95
Corn.
een 115
Livingston Eden ........... 100
ee 90
er eee if 25
orsane Gisey .... .......
ee 5
Peas,
Hamburgh menrrefat........ 1 30
early June . 150
e Champion Eng..1 40
. —— oe... . 1 4
ase ancy —- re
3oaked....... ee
ere stenderd vt]
VanCamp” = merrofat....... 110
- early June..... 1 30
Archer’s Early Blossom 13
French Ml —_ . 28
Mushrooms. 1992
PE eee ee eew ee 1
Pumpkin.
ee... cocccces §
Squash.
eee 115
Su ccotash.
oar... botesipeues 13)
0 ene ee
— a ARNE: -1 30
ee 1 35
Tomatoes
ee R0
oor. 80
ae 2 %5
Ts 1:0
es fee 2 25
CREOCOLATE.
Baker's.
Pn Sees... ......_... 23
ee 37
Breakfast Cooos.... ..... sb
CHEESE,
Amboy ee 11y
acme . oe 11%
a 12
tiverside . : 12
Goid Medal. et
a @9
Cn te 11
eee 00
ee
Limbuarger .
tees Se
Roguefort
Sap Sago .
Set weitzer, imported.
domestic
CATSUP.

Blue Labei ne.
— pint, 25 bottles.

Quart 1 doz bottles ..
Triumph Brand.
Half pint, per dos..........

 

 

 

1
Pint ee Denenee.... 5... 4
Quart oer Oe 3

 

CREAM eee.

Strictly pure.. ret S
Telfer's Absolute..........
See ison

CLOTHES PINS.
Daisy Brand.
5 gross boxes .. .. . 40@45
COCOA SHELLS.
i> ba... ......
Less quantity Cee oui 3 Q3%
Pound packages........ 6%@7
COFFEE.
Green.
Rie.
Fair.. ae 18
ae 12
ee 21
cae eee Ce 21
ees el
Santos
Se LLL 19
Good.
eee 22
Peaberry ... 23
Mexioas and Guatamala.
ee 21
ee 22
ae 24
Maracaibo.
ae
ee 24
Java.
eee ae
Private Growth......_.._._. 27
Mendon 28
Mocha,
ae Lh 25
Pree 28

Roas
To ascertain cost. of roasted

coffee, add c. per Ib. for roast-
— and 15 per cent. for shrink-
ackag

Sickanghiine XXKX. = 80

ae 1 36

Lion, 60 or 100 lb. case.... 3 80

Extract.

— City & STOBS . .... 75

- 1

Hummer’, foil, BTOSS ..... 1 65

tin -., oo

CHICORY.
ae 5
Sa 7
CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, or....... per dos. 1 2

eer... 14

_ ....... _ 1 6

. —....... 1%

o ...., = if

Jute ou ty . 85

- 72 ft ' 1 00

OONPENSED_MILKE,.
4 dos. in Case,

 

   
 

 

 

 

“Superior.”
books, per hundred

1
2
3 “ “i “
5 ‘
0

 

Universal. Y
1 books, per hundred ..
: ‘“ se co
5 “
0

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S8sSSSs

Above prices on coupon books
are subject to the following

quantity discounts:
200 books or over..
500 cr “

1000 ts 7)

5 per cent
10

COUPON PASS BOOKS.
ic van be made to represent any
enomination from 810 down. |

20 books ee 8100
ee 2 00
— le. 3 00
eS 6 25
eS 10 00
ee 17 50
CREDIT CHEOKS.
500, any one denom’n..... 83 00
— = a. 5 00
; “ sc - |. 8 00
Soon. 5
CRACKERS,
Butter.
Seymour eee...
Seymour XXX, cartoon.....
ne aT
Family XXX, cartoon......
Salted XXXx.. ae
Salted = cartoon oo.
Kenosha poke
eee
Beweor Meo...
Soda, XXX 5%
ee ee TH
Bods, Dacha... ......,.. 8%
io Were... 10%
Long Island Wafers........ il

_ ster.
oer Cee. 5%
en SS 5%
Perina Oveicr....... 6

DRIED FRUITS.
Domestic.

Apples.
Pie 6%
Evaporated, 50 Ib. —— 8
Californi A = 4@8

ornia in age. Ce aie 7 %
a in boxes...

Blackberries.

Oe
Nectarines.

om bee...

ain. bees... .......... 9

Peaches,

Peeled, in boxes ae ce 4
— a -—— (...... 9
° - in bags...... 8
Pears,

California in bags..... 6%
California boxes........ 7%

Pitted Cherries.

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s — a
Gail Borden Eagle... 7 - boxes .
— —— 6 | ee
Ee —- Sa Prunelies,
Champion...... - 450] gy ip. boxea 9s
Magnolia .... 4°25 Raspberries,
eee 3 35) In parrela............... 22
eee... 22%
ee Cd. 22%
Raisins,
Loose Muscatels. in shane:
2 crown Lo 3
Ge ;
. LLL
— re - Bags.
2 crow . 8%
. 3%
Wereign.
Currants,
Patras, bils........... @4%
Vostizzas, 50 lb. cases...... 4%
Schuit’s Cleaned
Peerless evaporated cream 5 75 Sih tence 5%
OOUPON BOOKS. 1 1b —. Sean 6%
Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxes 12
Lemon . 2 . 8
GOrenge ‘* 2‘ » 10
Raisins,
Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes.. @é6
Sultana, 20 64@ 8
Vatencia,30 ‘
t Prunes,
“Trad n.’ { California, 100-120..........
$ 1 books, per hundred ... 2 00 90100 25 Ib, bxs. Bi
$2 ae e ii oe ” 80x'
8 3 “a “ oe an 3 00 “ 70x80 “ ” 6%
85 nie . . -- 800 . 60x70 - z
810 . - - «. 2 Pee
$20 i - ss -. oe vee... 7@10

 

   

 

 

 

  
  

 

ENVELOPES, FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
XX rag, white. Souders’,
a $1 35} Oval Bottle, with corkscrew.
No. 2 6% 1 10 i world for the money.
oe. tel oe
No. 2, 6 Le oo mina
gular
Manilla, white Grade
6% Si Me mig ig ‘cae ag Lemon,
ie dos
Coin 208 ....8 7%
ee ee eS 40s..... 150
FARINACEOUS GOODS. Regular
Vanilla.

Farina, doz

HS th, Bega. 2% 2 0Z.....81 20

Grits. ~ 2 40

Walsh DeRoo’& Co.’s..... 1 35 XX Grade
Hominy. emon,
Pees... 5 2% Pen... $1 50
OE eek 3% oi... 3 00
Line Beans.
eee! 5% XX Grade
Maccaroni and | Vermi celli. 2 en 9%
ee 40z..... 350
tee -10%@11 aniiian,
a tar panuemon- Vanilla
a. ee a we raed . o regular as
eee eoor.. 2% “2 50 ; =

Peas. ic [ +. 3 00
rene, Be 1 10 No.3 caper. ....... 1 35 2 00
oes OOP 9 | No. 4 taper........ 150 2 50

Rolled Oats. Northrop’s
Schumacher, bbl........... 84 65 Lemon.’ —
nm. 2 50 | 202 oval taper 75
Monarch, Dbl 2.2.02... 4 00 | 302 Ba ln 1 7
Monarch,% bbl... .... .. 213|20zregular * = 85 1 20
Quaker, cases............, 3 20} 402 1 60 2 25
Oren Sateen. 3°25 GUNPOWDER.

Sago. Rifle—Dupont’s.
ee 3 ? Spttetee tees cece seer sees 3 25
eee et eee RO i 90

Wa t. uereer Rees... ........... 1 10
es ea
Cracked.................... C ii ee 18
FISH--Salt. - Choke nr eee oi
Bloaters. ee iscas coll. iia
. mor bees... -.2 @
ee 1 65 Quarter kegs. ah 1 4

Cod. bcans...... 34
Georges cured............ 4 i!
Georges genuine......... 6 Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
Georges selected......... 7 com isc terecaccni ee eee 11 00
Boneless, bricks.. ...... 6% Quarter Fess ee ee tes -
ee crepe tens “ae.

Halibut. ERBS,
Suneked ..<. 20... c+... ee 15
Hops.. 5
Holland white hoops keg 80 _ INDIGO. ”
eo bbe 10 (9 | Madras, 5 lb. boxes....... 55
Norwegian................ 11 00] 8. F., 2, — boxes.. 50
Round, % bbl 100 Ibs ices 2 55 ELLY.
a 130] 15 Ib. pails ee a @ 37
Scaled ees EE 13% Ww fee oe
Mackerel sa @ 7
No.1, 100IDB...--.. oo. oo 12001 Pore... LICORICE. -
oe. t, Co
ee RR 135] Sieg =
eS Oe e..... -....., 10 99 Root a) alia nara a aagiaia 4 10
Pease oe... ea —_
— Ag . ee 1315 Condensed, : in 1 20
a oo 4 dos. 2222222222
Sardines. MINCE MEAT.
een, See... 55
Trout.
No. 1, % bbls., 100]bs........ 4 25
No. 1 bbl, 40 ee... 1 95
=e. 1, Been, Pe ee...........
Be Lem S............ 48
Whitefish.
No.1 family
46 bbls, a a neces 6 = : a
iS ’
ib wn. — q 48 | Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 75
cm 6 5 Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case....2 75
MEASURES,
Tin, per dozen.
ae... $1 75
Halt a 1 40
a 70
Be ited ca ae hae 45
Pee Oe
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
F OO ce. 7 00
Regular Size. Half ae. “eae Soe
Per box....38¢. Percase..$3 40} Quart .. crebetacst cl ae
In 5 case lots, per case.... 330] Pint . ............. -- 2
In 10 case lo's, percase.... 3 20 MOLASSES,
“Little Tanglefoot.” Biackstrap.
Meteila, porbox........ ... 25 | Sugar house......... . 14
ets, Der COSS............. Cuba Baking
Costs, per case 1 % Ordinary reece ey 16
orto c.2.
oupneeaptemmn: eee 8c iis ces 20
Globe Match Co.’s Brands. Peaty ....... Cie 30
Columbia Perior............ $1 2 New Orleans,
cae Seer... os... RN oe dae ieee ns cusses 18
Sheen Match Co.'s Brands. | Good ...............-.00.. 22
me.) Oe 6. et eS BONG oo ones coc. ss 27
or parlor...... eae 1 70 ON ickcweuine neues. 32
es, See. 3. se 1 10! Fancy... ole oo cee 40
Se Perera. 400 Half -barrels 3c.extra

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

PICKLES,
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count.. @
Half bbis, 600 p count. @t 50

 

 

  

Barrels, 2, 100 count. 5%
Half bbls, 1 = count 3 40
PES.
Clay, N a6. eee ie sane 1 70
7. 0. full count. ....... 70
Cob, No. 3.. oc oc ae
POTASH,
48 cans in case.

oo ee 4 00
Penna'Salt Co.’s.......... 8 00
RICE,

Domestic.

Carolina — poco eeue see .. 5%

me fi 5
. No. 2 Cone ecta ec cere 4%
MORON occ coon. 5 ceo ss 3%
Imported.
Japan, ie 1.:.. ..... se 5%
Mee... i.e
a casecceces Oo
ee 4%
SPICES.
Whole Sifted.
‘= Es 9%
a, China in mats...... -

. Batavia in bund..

- Saigon In rolls...... “2
Cloves, Amboyna.......-.--

° Beeetper.. 2... 2... 4: 1%
Mace Batavia....... ...-.-- 7
~~ ES a =

- L Basan aes
Pepper, guy apore, bla 1
PRer SI POT ta
or ae
Pure Ground in puik.
Du oo on eg icec cw oes 15
Cassel &, Batavia ee eee 18
and Saigon.25
. Saigon ........-.-.. 35
Cloves, Amboyna. .........- 22
Zansibear.......-... 18
Ginger, African Led gee sce eas 16
—_——_ a 20
. Semeeiea ........ .-
Mace Batavia.............--. 65
Mustard, a! and Trieste. .22
Wiese 25
Nutmerg, No-2 so; black. 2116
epper, Singapore,
Pre — weiss. .... 24
- Cayenne..........-
BORO. oo ice ewe sae eee oe 20
“Absolute” in Packages.
ys “ss
Allspice.. eases 1 55
Cinnamon... eter eo eae & 155
Cee: ce... 84 155
Ginger, Jamaica...... 84 155
Ariean........ 4 13%
estes. eee ee 4 155
Pee oi. os. os oe or 1
Sage...... 84
SAL ‘SODA.
Granulated, i__.-.......
lb cases.....-. 1%
144
1%
@13
4
way ‘
Cardamon, Malabar.. 80
Hemp. Russian cue 4
eee ee. ....-----. 4%
Mustard, wedi buceaee :
ie eee cet es
ee 4%
Cuttle bone..........- 30
STARCH.
Kingsford’s Corn.
20 1-lb packages. ...... oeeses =
40 1-lb ed aes
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. }
40 1-lb. packages............ 6%
6-1. DORGE..2. . «4. ---0550- 74
Common Corn
20-1b boxes Dees ccc ee noes ee 5%
Si * ook... 5%
oe an gg —. pe
3-lb SS 4%
6-lb ee 5%
40 and 50 lb. boxes.......... 3%
Bae. os. 3%
SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders. a
Maccaboy. in jars....... 3
french wEee. in Jars..... 43
ODA,
= Mans anasenseses EON Sn
vo nr
SALT.
Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 243 lb. boxes...... $160
Barrels, 300 Ibe.......-... 2,50

. 115 2% lb bags.... 4 00

" ss om”... Se

. 3010 Ib * 3 50
Butter, 56 = oS 65

20 14lb bags......... 350

‘© 280 1b bbis . ._ =

oO 22

Worcester.

= a6: -lb sacks a 8410
cues cae cewk 3%
Sob eae 3 50
ee 3 30
et 2 50
Sh meee... 32%

linen S0ne.... .2:....

Common Grades.

= > > sacks eee ede oa . -
8 Sob. ian de eos 1%

Wars
= ~ dairy in drill bags.. y

x
:. 6
Ashton.
56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75

ggins.
56 Ih. —_ in linen sacks 7

Soiar Rock.
oe OO ke...
Cabins Fine.
Sagin: codec cans epe.

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SALERATUS,
Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
MO ooo oc ee oes cs 30
eg EE ae: 315

Deen... oss. 3
Taylor’s aw
SEELY’S EXTRACTS.
Lem
loz. F = : 90 doz. $10 20 gro
“NLS. 120 260 “
° e F, M. 1 40 “ 14 40 “
Vanilla.
1 os. FSM. oe 16 20 gro
= * §. 8, 4 ae
=" 2S . 25 50 -
Roco ces Grade.
Lemon.
2 Oe... .. 6... 00 Ge... 800 ‘
Vanilla,
2daea.. |... ms *

1 00 doz....
SOAP,
Laundry.
G. R. Soap Works —
Concordia, 100 % Ih, bars...3 50

5 Dos loge....... 3 35
’ 10 box lota.......3 80
. 20 box lots... ... 3 20
Best German arene
60 1-lb, bars. .
Sooc ile... . 215
25_boxjlots.. -2 00
Ailen B. Wrisley! s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-Ib........
Good Cheer, 691 ib Peaeccsee 3 90
White Borax, 100 %&-ID...... 3 65
Proctor & Gamble.
Comers... ....... 8, 3 45
Every, OS... ............ 6 75
Cm..... 1. 4 00
Lenox Coiceueus Bae
Mottled German........... 3 15
Tows Tar................. 33
Dingman Brands.
pee Boe. 3 %
5 box lots, delivered oe 3 85
10 box lots, delivered...... 3%

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands.

American Family, wrp d. .83 33
plain... 2 27

K. Fairbank & Co. ———
a aes... ..........

Brown, Oo heas...........: 3 10
‘eo Bare 3 10

Lautz Bros. &Co.’s Brands.
ee 3 65
coon Gn..... . .......... 6a
Ce 4 00
eee ........c 400

Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

Cy ae
\ SOAP
See 5... —--. e
ae 3 30
Savon Improved Lee ucu eee a 2 50
Bemnewer ... 2... 2 80
meee 2. .s. 3 25
Becnomiee: ............... 2a
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40
hand, 3 age 240
SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the lo-
cal freight from New York to
your shipping point, giving
you credit on the invoice for
the amount of freight buyer
pays from the market in which
he purchases to his shipping
point, including 20 pounds for
the weight of the barrel.

  
  

( #4 Si
Cut Loaf 451
CURES ...... 4 44
Powdered ........ ne . 444
aZix Powdered...... {oe
MPMI. ee se oy oon 4 06
Fine Granulated........... 4 06
Extra Fine Granulated... 4 18
Meee Bc. 4 44
Diamond Confec. A....... 4 06
Confec. Standard A.. .... 4 00

Moa, ee edad 3 87
MO ee coe recon ese 3 87
Be Sa 3 37
me. 4 oe 38
Ce 3 85
me 6.................... 37
Be Fc LC, 3 69
ee ee 3 62
Pe Bieiee ss eek eue, ves . 856
ee eas aes 8 £0
ee Wh ce. 3 44
me 3 37
2 3 25
Do Me... 3 12

SYRUPS.

Corn.
ee
Par pelea 22

Pure Cane.

ME oe ice ed a 15
cud 20
Oynee 8 5. ae ue .. _

TABLE SAUCES,
Lea & Perrin’s, tone ...... 7
ae 75

Halford, — Se

 

 

 

T

aie ei,
eee @17
MO co ll, @20
Cnaheg. cs, - 4 @26
Lo i 32 @34
pase...
rar. ................

Geen. ........7.
Choice
Choicest
oe... ..
Chol :
a 2
Cugseom...... ..... *
Extra choice, wire leaf @40
GUNPOWDER,
Common to fai1....... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest....50 @65
Choicest fancy........ 7% @85
OOLONGE. @26
Common to fair... ...23 @30
IMPERIAL.
“Gommon to fair.......23 @26
Superior tofine........ 30 @a5
LOUNGE HYSON.
Commor. to fair....... 18 @26
Superior to fine....... 30 @40
ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
Par... ........ cousae 00
— bi ace ce eeeoce oo 4 GB
beseech es cue 40 @50
TOBACCOS.
Cigars.

Congres Brand,
Tivineibies ... ..--......080 OF
BG periais...<. 8. see... . 1D

m Porects....... «........ 6)
Baquers ........ ..., . 55 00
Fine Cut.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweoes unset... ........ @25
on ec we 30

D. Scotten & Co’s Brands.
Miers ............. 60
Cuba. 32
Rocket 30

Spaulding & Merrick’s Brands.
Sicetae 5... 30
Private Brands,

eee a @30
Can Cam..............- @2i
Nellie Biy ae oe 24 @2
Uncie fen. ...........24 @2
Co 27

“ eae. 25
Commmeie. 66, 5...7.. 24
Columbia, drums....... 23
ere Up... 20
Bang up, drums ...... 19

Plug.

Sorg’s Brands.
Soearnese ...-........ 39
Jonker... .........-..- 27
Novuny Twist.....-..:.- 40

Seotten’s Brands.
Revie... 25
Hiawatha,........ .... 38
Valley City ........... 34

Finzer’s Brands.

Old Honesty.........- 4)
eouy Tal.............. 2

Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8 02., 41¢).. 39
Green Turtie.......... 30
Three Black Crows... 27

J. G. Butler’s, Brands.
Something Good......
OGutot Sight.........-

Wilson .& McCaulay’s sean
Gold Ro 43

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Happy oe bowcy 37
Messmate . i. 32
Mover........ 2... 31
le Ge................ 27
Smoking.
Catlin’s Brands,

Nile drige............_... 17@18
Golden Ghower ............ 19
Bano ..... 2...
Mececosum .. .......-.-

American Eagle Co.’s Brands,
Maric Magy... -.......-...
—.. . 3
ee 15
PN ken ow een es a
Java, %s foil..... =

Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
i 36
Banner Cavendish oo 36
Gold Cut .. _- +00

Scotten’ 8 ‘Brands.
Ce ee
Honey Dew.....
Gale Bicek...-........ -...- 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s
ames
Poaiee. ........5........... 26
Coe vom.................... 18
Standard.. 22
Globe Tobacco Co.’ 8 Brands.
ee 4u
Leidersdorf’s Brands.
oe Bow... 5. ce 26
Unele Saim.......,.....- 28
Mad Clever... ke eee 32
Spaulding & Merrick.
Tom and Jerry............
Traveler Cavendish........ "38
Buck — eee leee cee 3u
Plow Bo
Corn Ca a.
VIN EGAR.

ee... @8
ae! @9

$1 for barrel.
WET MUSTARD,

Bok pera ....... ..... 2
Beer mug, 2 doz incase... 1 75
WOODEN WARE.
Tube Not 5 75

We ee 475
~ Bae... 4 00
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 25
No. mM three- —-- io
Bowls, 11 inch.. ne
13 he 90
deeb enes es eck ae
UE aera cede e eae 1 80

 

YEAST.
Mee ies... 1 00
Warner’s GL ie ccaccacuca) OMe
Yeast —— oes 1 00
Poe. 7
Rogal oe

HIDES PELTS and FURS

Perkins & Hess pay as fol-
lows:

  

FURS.
ak... 400 @12
Com. 28
Sean... 60 @115
Hat Spring...... bb @ 18
Rat, winter..... ee
Rat. fall......... 03 @ cs
Red Fox........ 1¢O @1 6)
Gray Fox.,.....- © @ 6)
Cross Fox. ...... 300 @5 0)
Badeer........ 32 @ 10
Cas, wild........ 10 @ %
Cat, house...... 0 @ &

nener 8... 500 @ 600
Even... ce 1®@ @250
Martin, derk....42 00 @ 3 00
Martin, paie, yel 1 00 @ 1 50
ree... 500 @8 0u
Wolf -100 @200
Beaver .. 300 @7 00
..... ..15 00 @2%5 00
Opossum. ....... moe 2
Deer Skin, dry.. 10 @ 2%
Deer Skin,green 0 @ 12%

HIDES
Grae 4I%@a's
Part Cured eee Coes @5

ae 64@ 7%
re 3... 5 @7
Kips, green ec 4@5

Gured...........- 6 @T
Calfskins, — oe 64%@ 8
yee... 8%@i10

Deacon man Edeecoess lu @z5

No. 2 hides 3¢ off.

PELTS.
Shieagiings............. so
Lae 6 @

WOOL
waeed.............. 2 Ge
Unwashod ............& Gr

MISCELLANEOUS.
aa 3%@ 4%
Grease butter ........ I @2
Septpeaee .............- 14@ 2

%
Ginseng .........-....2 Gs 2
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8

WHEAT.
No. 1 White (58 1b. test) 58
No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 53
FLOUR IN SACKS.
*Patents..........-«++- secs. oo
Second Patent...........- 33
irae... 3 05
ie ee ees, wot ameee ae 2 8
*Grahan . oo, 2S
Buckwheat . _. £0
3 35

ye.

*Subject ‘to’ usual cash dis-
count.
on in bbls., 25¢c per bbl. ad-
ditional.

MEAL,
CS 2 35
Grenuiated,........... 2 60

FEED AND MILLSTUFFS.

St. Car Feed, screened. ..#21 00
St. Car Feed, unscreened. «0 50

No. | Corn and Oats ..... 20 00
No. 2Specm ... ...._.-. 19 5u
Unbolted Corn Meal...... 19 50
Winter Wheat Bran ..... 16 UO
Winter Wheat Middlihgs. 17 00
Bereenines ............... 14
CORN.
Cor . ol
Less than car lots...... ...53
OaTs.
Oar lois .... oe
Less than car lots a,
HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots....11 Ou
No.1 o ton lots .....12 00

 

FISH AND OYSTERS
PRESH FISH.

 

Wasco ............ @s
ree @8
Black Bass...... / 15
ae... @1iz%
Ciscoes or Herring. ... 6
eee... 8. @iz%
Fresh lobster, von Ib.. 20
Cod : 10
Haddock........ a @8s
No. 1 Plegerel........ @s8
Pie... et... @7
Smoked White.... ... @s
Red Snappers io 14
Columbia River Sal-
vee a noe — 12%
ee 18@25
ee
Shrimps . 1
Cae
SHELL 6G0ODs.
pny pee @e....... 1 25@1 50
Clams. - %@1 00

OYSTERS—IN CANS.

F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands.
Fairnaven Counts 35

ze. = Selects....... 30
aa Se se 28
¥. &. °°. Standards... . 25
OYSTERS—IN BULK.
Oscar Allyn’s Brands.
New Yor Counts... .......-. 40
Extra Selects.. conse... Oo
WUC i 6 alee oy ice ae 30
32} SeemGards, .............. 25
Seemeerded.......... ... Si coca mee
pe eee 20

 

CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE
LAMP BURNERS,

    

pe ee 40
al ee 4)
CO
Wee 5A
Security. (AE EE aE Naa Daa a 60
i ey Pisdcecceueecc...0. on
Nutmeg .. eee oo eee ee cee.
ee 1 25
LAMP CHIMNEYS.—6 dos. in box.
Per box
0.0 Sun a ee 75
A reece ar « Sagecommmneeiamieas “25
First quality.
7 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled... 2
: 9 On
No. : “ “ “ ‘ ‘“ i Cs 35
XXX Flint,
= . Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. 2 ¢0
i : ‘ “ “ “ 9
No. 2 oe ss se oe “ce sé a 5
Pearl top.
ie 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled eee. a7
No. 2 Hinge, ‘ “ « toe "9m
Fire — Top.

No. : Sun, plain bulb a 1. @
ee ee 4 40
La Bastie.

No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. hee ceaecys. 2 ae
ee 1 50
No.1 crimp, per doz.. ae
OO oO 1 60
Rochester.

No. 1, ime _ so na Roe Se seetee ee -ocee Oe
No. 2) lime (70¢ doz) . ee
No. 2, flint (80¢ doz).. cee e eeeccn Ae
Electric.

Ie@.c, tame (le Gon) Leucee ssn oo
Io. 2 iitet (Ge doe)... 4 40
Miscellaneous.

Doz.
oumeor, BOCHCRtEY ................ 5... dene 50
Nutmeg..... i
Eiimemiator Mase 8... 1 00
Dotre: Mae Sage ....--.. 8. 99
7 in. Porcelain Shades... oe
Case lots, 12 doz. ....... .

Mammoth Chimneys ice ia

Box
No. 3 Rochester, lime........ 1 50 4 20
No. 3 Rochester, flint. 2 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.. <------.---2 io 6 00

OIL CANS.

Doz
1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 60
1 gal galv iron, with spout.. oe. . 2
2 gal galv iron with spout Ee
a gat caly tron with spont................... 4 50
ORAL MCMUM, Wilhspegt ..............._. 6 LO
# gut Hureka, with spout.................... 6 50
5 gal Eureka with faucet.. ee
5 gal galviron A & W ee
5 gal Tilting Cans, Monareh 0) owe ae OG
& gal galy ivon Nacefas...  _........ 95)

Pump Cans,

& a@al Home Rule... .......... ee  ,
5 gal ome Enie.............._.. oo
3 gal ee tas tee ee ee oo
5 gal oa Se
5 gal Pirate King. cis Voveue 16. OOo

LANTERN GLOBES.

No. 0, Tubular, cases i doz. eaech............ 45
No. 0, c om ec ae
No. 0, r bbisS “ a 40
No. 0, ’ bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each.1 25
LAMP WICKS,
No. ¢ » POF BTOSS.-.-...-. 2. eee ee eae. 2... 26
ae ew a 2
No 2 ee 3x
No. 3, ea.
te per doz.. oe Lo. a

JELLY TU wninas—Tin Top,

z Pints, ag i in box, per box (box 00)... 1 60

 

Da, ~“ doe (obi S)...... BD

— * 6 * * box, Dex (fen @@).... 1 oo

—. S “ *~bee “ dow (bbl )..... 23

STONEWARE—AERON.
Butter Cc rocks, 1 to6 gal.. oe
M% gal. = doz. ee eens 60
Jugs, % gal., per doz.. i...
* 1t04 gal., per gal. Cane eae eee ce 7
Miik Pans, % gal., per dans... ..... - . &
" bie [ SS 72
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED,

Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 gal...... Sees eee oe 6%
Mime Pause, 6 cel. per doz.... ... ......... &
ae 1 “ 7

OILS.

The Standard Oi] Co quotes as follows:
BARRELS.
Se a 12%
aX W. W. Mich. Headlight.. oo. os 11

eee 4
Stove Gasoline eae
Cymneer

En

Biack, winter.
Black, summer.

Mocene.... ..........

 
 

ee wh

FROM TANK WAGON.

XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight....... ie 8
Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle quote as follows:

BARRELS.

 

eee. ee 3
WAG WG see 12
Red Cross, Ww WwW ifeadiight. fe ye eae u es 11
Naptha sees a ‘
Stove Gasoline... SS
FROM TANK lacerma

Polscine .......... Seleeeds suena vooee
Red Cross W W Headlight. ee ed ee cage mee 814

 

 

 

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DUPLICATES OF S

ENG SRAVINGS “TYPE FO RM

TRADESMAN Co.

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

 

  

22

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

PORTER TO PARTNERSHIP.

 

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

I arrived home in the evening and
found our store draped in black. To my
mind it was the funeral of all my hopes
as well as of the head of the firm. Mrs.
Ely met me as if I were her son. Usu-
ally, she was a woman of reserved dig-
nity, who kept all but her cwn relatives
at a quiet distance, but sorrow is a
leveler of pride and pierces through any
thin covering to the real person below.

I sat with Mrs. Ely all that night. My
ewn troubles were nothing compared
with hers. I had been mouruing over
the loss of business prospects, but when
I saw. her in the presence of her dead |
was ashamed of myself. The refrain of
&@ great many songs and prayers is mere-
ly ‘‘money,’’ but when the hand of God
falls on a loved one, all the wealth of the
world would be gladly given to bring him
back.

After the funeral Fisher and I met
Mrs. Ely’s brother. There was a will
and the affairs were left in good shape,
but the questien was, What would we do?
I had no money, consequently, I had
nothing to say. Fisher spoke first.

‘‘Must de shtore shut up?”

‘“‘What do you propose?” asked the dd-
ministrator.

‘“Nodings.
up?”

‘“*That is for us to decide.”

‘*Vhat you say, Marks?”’

“If I had any money in it I would say
a good deal, but the money is all yours
and Mr. Ely’s.”

‘‘But ist de pusiness not yours yust so
much as ours?”

“‘The business is all over; there must
be a new start.”

“Vell, ve vill shtart him.’

‘‘What do you propose to do in behalf
of Mrs. Ely ?’”’ I asked the administrator.

‘‘My wish would be to go on with the
business just as it is and make no
change.” '

I began to brighten up.
feel safe to do that?”

‘Yes; Mr. Ely suggested it among the
last directions he gave. Do you feel
able to take his place?” :

No, 1 did not, but I said I would do
my best.

**Marks ist all right,” said Fisher, en-
thusiastically; ‘‘any Yankee dot can
shpeak de Yarman ist all right. No foo)
ean learn dot langwitch.”’

We all laughed at Fisher’s standard
for a smart man, but went to work ar-
ranging matters and soon had every thing
satisfactorily shaped. The old signs
were to swing over the door and the old
name would still be ours.

It seemed to me as if I had never done
any work before, I was so eager to be do-
ing something now.

“It all depends on you,’ said Mrs.
Ely, when I told her what we had de-
cided to do; and I felt that she was right.
But 1 knew | could pull through. My
Own opinion is that it is never well to
flourish a ‘‘new broom” too much, no
matter if it does sweep clean. Weare a
people of to-days and to-morrows; yet,
after all, we pride ourselves on our yes-
terdays. I like to see on billheads and
letterheads, ‘‘Founded 1850,” or ‘“‘Organ-
ized 1840,” because I think it but proper
pride to show the world. that the house
has stood a storm or two, and is still go-
ing.

1 had changes to make but I made
them without any flourish perceptible to
outsiders. 1 organized our two stores
into good working trim. They were just
far enough apart so that the trade of one
did not interfere with the other. I
flooded the country with handbills and I
represented our goods exactly as they
were. The ordinary handbili is not a
very elaborate affair, nor is there much
thought wasted on it. As I pick them
up in country stores, I am astonished
that so little care is taken with the
printed matter sent out by retail dealers.
Like almost everything else, if worth do-
ing at all itis worth doing well. I gave
as much thought to a handbill that I was
going to throw around the streets as l
would if there were to be but one printed,

But must de shtore shut

“Will you

 

  

The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency.

The Bradstreet Company, Props.

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

CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres,

Offices n ad ag ge cities of the United
States, Canada, the European continent,
Australia, and in Lendon, England.

Grand Rapids ‘Office, Room 4, Widdieomb Bldg.

HENRY ROYCE. Sapt.
W/

will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids,
Thursday and Friday, April 25 and 26,
with a full line of samples in ready-
made clothing in Men’s, Youths’, Boys’
and Childrens’. Fourteen years with

Michael Kolb & Son,
Clothing Manufacturers,
Rochester, N. Y.

FRE BRICK, FLOUR, FEED, GRAIN, HAY.
Thos. E. W ykes, GRAND Bacies

Wholesale and a

Telephone 371.

- 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.

 

 

 

 

# THE ACTIVE POWERS #

~@- INVENTIVE GENIUS -

WALTER BAKER & 68.

The Largest Manufacturers of

PURE, HIGH GRADE

COCOAS anp
CHOCOLATES

on this continent,
have received

| \ HIGHEST AWARDS

from the great

ads and Fe

EXPOSITIONS
IN
Europe and America.

Unlike the Dutch Process

no Alkalies or other Chemicals or Dyes
are used in any of their preparations.
Their delicious

SREAKFAST COCOA

is absolutely pure and soluble, and
costs less than one cent a cup,

SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE,
WALTER BAKER & GO. DORCHESTER, MASS.

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NEW
Departure in

BROOMS

THE NEW

Socket
Broom

Neatly packed in cases. Do not get sy
Take very little room in store.
Every one guaranteed.

 

iled in shipping.
Handles easily attached.
Send for prices.

 

92 Larned St., W.,
DETROIT

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.

 

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HEADQUARTERS FOR

POULTRY ( BROOK ] ROUT

SeAson

Pr. J. Dettenthaler, Monroe St., Grand Rapids

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Spring
Fishing

IS NOW IN FULL
BLAST AND

 

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~ MAIL ALL ORDERS TO 106 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS,

and they will receive prompt attention.

Office Telephone 1055. Barn Telephone 1059.
ich ceneresiatlenelmetlinendtiatemetmemennereeeetnenenren mins aden ENA LT RUE A ER APRS

Storage and

S ECU 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. Estimates Cheerfully
Given. Business Strictly Confidential. Baggage W agon at all hours. F.S.ELSTON, Mer.

A.B. KNOWLSON.

it >) i. G. DUNYON & 60.

. : Will buy all kinds of Lumber—
Cement, Lime, Coal, Sewer Pipe, Ets, Green or Dry.

CARLOTS AND LESS Office and Yards, 7th St.and C.&W.M.R.R.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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and that one going to the nicest lady in
the land.

It is unnecessary, perhaps, to say that
we prospered; no one working as we did
could help but prosper. We made new
friends daily. Our goods were always
just what we said they were; our prices
were reasonable and the same to every-
one alike, and we took special pains to
be accommodating. The times were
good; new railroads sprang up every-
year, and our town was a center for
shops and workmen. Following the
railroads came manufacturing enter-
prises, and almost in a night our coun-
try town turned into a sprightly city,
with smaller towns tributary to it all
around us. We scarcely noticed the be-
ginning of it, but we had a good whole-
sale trade under way before we ever
thought of wholesaling. By little and
little we worked into a steady trade with
the small towns around us, and began to
buy goods in large quantities. One rul-
ing principle had guided us from the
start, and that was that our profits should
lay in the business year by year. We
built no palatial residences, we owned
no fast horses, we devoted our time and
our money, a8 we made it, to our vusi-
ness.

I began to feel the effects of close
work, and so one day put up a little va-
lise of samples and started on the road as
adrummer. My success was fully up to
my expectations. I had a younger
brother whom I saw I could work into a
salesman for the road, sol began to lay
my plans that way. We had to divide
our retail and wholesale trade the fol-
lowing year, and we thought it about
time to divide up the business. Fisher
took the Germantown store, Mrs. Ely’s
brother and myself our retail store, and
my brother and I the wholesale trade. I
continued to buy the goods for the three
stores, and my brother did the travel-
ing.

“Did we succeed?’ do you ask? Did
you ever know a man who worked hard,
sold goods at a profit and lived within
his-income, to fail? Not many such, |
venture to say. Yes, we succeeded. The
rules that are good at retail are just as
sure to win at wholesale. We builtupa
substantial trade and increased it yearly.
When the war came, we were in the field
with a good stock of goods, and we made
money as everyone else madeit. We are
still pegging away, and, when you come
our way, whether you are buying or sell-
ing, give us a call, and we promise to
give you a hearty welcome. If you are
a clerk striving for a foothold, take cour-
age, and be sure that no man who ever
deserved it failed to succeed.

-: _- o>

A French technical paper, the Jour-
nal de Vv Horlogerie, declares that a new
amalgam has heen discovered which is a
wonderful substitute for gold. It ¢on-
sists of 94 parts of copper to 6 parts of
antimony. The copper is meltedand the
antimony is then added. Once the two
metals are sufficiently fused together, a
little magnesium and carbonate of lime
are added to increase the density of the
material. The product can be drawn,
wrought and soldered just like gold,
which it almost exactly resembles on be-
ing polished. Even when exposed to the
action of ammoniacal salts of nitrous va-
pors it preserves its color. The cost of
making it is about a shilling a pound
avoirdupois. China should get onto this
when she pays Japan $250,000,000 in gold
for licking her.

—————> +

Eight of the leaders of the Great North-
ern Railway strike last summer have
pleaded guilty in the United States
Court of obstructing the mails and are
fined $100 each. The judge gave as a
reason for imposing so light a sentence
that the offense was committed during a
time of great excitement—as though that

were any palliation.
————__—~_.-.<—————

Springtime finds the Signal Five at the
front.

 

THE MICHIGAN

 

 

!

 

This Cigar is made
by the best CUBAN
WORKMEN from the
Finest and Highest
Grade HAVANA TO
BACCO, always uni-
form and reliable in

quality.

GONGRESS

Is the Finest Havana

 

 

Cigar in the world

 

Send a sample order to any
of the
houses:

HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO.
BALL-BARNHART=PUTMAN CO.
OLNEY & JUDSON GROCER CO.
LEMON & WHELER CO.
MUSSELMAN GROCER CO.
WORDEN GROCER CO.

I. M1. CLARK GROCERY CO.
PUTNAM CANDY CO.

A. E BROOKS & CO.

Ask their salesmen to show
See quotations

following wholesale

you samples.
in Grocery Price Current.

 

bONgress
bigars

Watch for Next Week's Ad.

TRADESMAN.

DID YOU NOTICE

 

 

|
|

. ON YOUR CRACKERS?

EARS’
UPERIOR
EYMOUR

That is what it means--

“THE ACKNOWLEDGED LEADER
OF CRACKERS!”

 

THEY

Originated in MICHIGAN
Are Made in MICHIGAN
Are Sold in MICHIGAN

And all over the World.

 

 

Manufactured by “ ave

The New York Biscuit Co.,

Successors to WM. SEARS & CO.,

Grand Rapids, [lich.

 

We ask all our trade and allfhandlers
of Fine Cigars to try a few of the

Our Founder, 10c

 

 

and the

Mai Fest, 5c

 

 

Cigats.
Both are Special Brands, made for us.
We will guarantee the quality.

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS

| EMON & WHEELER (50.

WHOLESALE GROCERS

 

 

 

 

 

MANUFACTURER OF

Grand Rapids
Crackers |

\ » Sweet Goods

| 252 and 254 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS

 

    

  

  

24

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN -

 

 

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

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

NEw York, April 20—The coffee mar-
Ket during the week has been practically
at a standstill. Both buyers and sellers
are at a standstill, and neither seems at
all anxious to make any advances. No
large transactions have taken place.
The amount of Brazilian coffee afloat is
considerably less than at the same time
last year. Mild coffees are dull in sym-
pathy, and it looks as though there would
have to be some substantial concessions
made before intending purchasers negoti-
ate for more than everyday wants. Ma-
lang Java, 21(@22¢; Padang Interior, 2614
@27ce; Mexican, 1814 @21e.

A little more activity prevails for
black and green teas of first-class sorts,
but, in a general way, the market lacks
animation; in fact, it is never a lively
market, nor do the complications in the
East seem to make any appreciable dif-
ference, one way or the other.

Refined sugar is firmly held at the
same prices prevailing last week. The
market is not particularly active, but the
legitimate everyday wants are keeping
up well.

Holders of rice are full of confidence
and are holding out for ‘‘all the traffic
will bear.”’ While trading is not partic-
ularly active, there is a normal demand,
which prevents any accumulation, and
both foreign and domestic are well
cleaned up.

Spices remain well held at full rates.
The demand is very satisfactory for the
time of year.

Molasses of really fine grade is hard to
find and those who are seeking such
goods must pay full rates. Plenty of in-
ferior stock is to be found. Syrups, too,
are selling quite freely and the market is
well held.

The canned goods market is not es-
pecially active and the prevailing de-
mand, as has been the ease for some
time past, isfor something cheap. Bal-
timore brokers report quite an active
market, but some of their statements are
to be taken with a grain of salt.

The market for lemons is good, and
at the auction houses the bidding is ac-
tive and the fruit taken at onee and
placed ‘where it will do the most good.”
Oranges are more active, as are pineap-
ples, which are in limited supply. Bananas
are selling at good prices and the outlook
is for still higher rates. Upon the
whole, the foreign fruit trade is in a
more satisfactory condition than has
been the case for a long time.

Butter is steady. Receipts of first-
class stock are not large and the demand
prevents any accumulation. At 20e the
top seems to be reached—this for the
very best Western or State and Pennsy]-
vania extras; for inferior grades—and
there are plenty—the market is not ac-
tive.

Receipts of new cheese are not large,
arrivals bringing from 7@8e for fair to
choice full cream. Old cheese are quiet,
within the range of 9144@11/e.

Eggs are decidedly firmer. Lighter re-
ceipts and better demand have tended to
keep the market well sustained and the
outlook is good—for the present at least.
Michigan, Ohio and Indiana are worth
12144 @13¢.

Dried fruits are rather dull, although
dealers seem to be more hopeful and au-
ticipate no further reductions at least.

A. E. Whyland, formerly of the Thur-
ber, Whyland Co., with W. Fietcher and
J. C. Bouton, have established a retail
grocery on 42d street. Whyland is a
pusher and Bouton a good “‘figurer” and
Fletcher an ‘‘old hand at the business,’’
and, with the reputation they possess,
they will probably soon rank with Park
& Tilford and Acker, Merrall & Condit.

The National Convention of Retailers.
to be held on Wednesday, promises to
be an interesting gathering.

-_———>-oS___
The Drug Market.

Acids—Citric continues seasonably ae-
tive at steady prices and other descrip-
tions are finding a fair consuming outlet,

character and the general market has de-
veloped no new feature.

Alcohol—There is no improvement to
note in the condition of the market for
grain; competition between Western dis-
tillers continues very keen, and the out-
look is not very encouraging to an early
settlement of existing difficulties.

Balsams—The recent direct arrivals of
Peru are held firm, but the Hamburg

quality is not quite so steady and sellers Ly

are disposed to shade quoted figures.
Copaiba is selling freely in a jobbing
way at unchanged prices. Tolu is in
better demand for consumption and the
tone of the market is firmer. Canada fir
is again dull and featureless.

Bichromate of Potash—Continued keen
competition between domestic and for-
eign manufacturers keeps the market in
an unsettled condition.

Blue Vitriol—There is a continued
strong market, with a good export de-
mand and a fair inquiry from consumers,
but former prices are still current.

Caffeine—Continues in light supply;
single pounds may be had at $8 but for
lots of 5 lbs. $10 is the lowest quotation.
There is none offering from second
hands in London for delivery before
August. The second largest manufac-
turer is said to have disposed of the en-
tire output for the current year on a con-
tract.

Cassia Buds—Are in good demand. Re-
cent arrivals of ‘‘sweated’’ goods are of-
fering at less than the inside figure.

Cocaine—Has ruled quiet at the de-
cline noted in our last issue and the tone
of the market is easier, with a further
reduction anticipated in view of the
more settled condition of affairs at pri-
mary sources of supply.

Cod Liver Oil—The active consuming
season is practically over and a some-
what quieter feeling has pervaded the
market, but quotations are unchanged.

Cuttle Fish Bone—Is in active demand
for consumption. Recent arrivals from
China and Japan are unsalable owing
to quality, being coarse and unsightly.

Essential Oils—Strictly prime cassia is
very searce and holders are indifferent
sellers. Camphor is moving moderately.
Advices recently received indicate a
falling off in the export from Japan,
which is attributed to a largely increased
home consumption by the Japanese, who
are said to have discovered several new
methods for utilizing the article.

Guarana—Is easier in price, but there
is no demand of consequence.

Gums—There have been further ar-
rivals of asafetida, and the market is
abundantly supplied with a> very
fine assortment; the tone is easy and
prices favor buyers. Guiae is very
Scaree, particularly the better grades,
which are almost out of market. Cam-
phor continues firm.

Leaves—Short buchu continue in good
demand at steady prices. Coca are easier
in tone, under the influence of a better
outlook for fresh supplies from Peru.
Tinnevelly Senna are active and prices
are firmer for medium grades, which are
becoming scarce.

Manna—Large flake is quiet but
steady; small flake has declined.

Opium—The market continues weak
and depressed, with values still tending
in buyers’ favor, but there is no activity
and transactions are wholly in accord-
ance with the light current wants of

 

but transactions are chiefly of a jobbing

consumers,

 

 

 

 

Menthol—Is higher in sympathy with
primary and European markets. The
outlook is favorable to still higher
prices.

Quinine—Has met with an unusually
active demand and fully 170,000 ounces
have been taken from second hands, with
values firmly maintained. Manufactur-
ers and agents of foreign makers report
moderate sales at full prices. London
Statistics show a material decrease in
stocks.

Roots—There is very little that is new
or interesting in this department, and
aside from a lower range for serpentaria,
there is no important change in prices,
and the sales reported are almost wholly
of the retail order.

Seeds—Canary is without new features
of interest. The current movement is
founded wholly upon very light jobbing
requirements. Of the recent arrivals of
South American seed no sales are yet re-
ported. Several hundred bags of Russian
hemp were landed last week, which has
relieved the market and brought about a
somewhat easier tone. Prices, however,
are unchanged. A slightly stronger feel-
ing has developed in the mustard seed
situation and quotations on California
yellow and brown have been restored.
This is due to an advance in overland
freight rates. Yellowis said to be scarce
on the Coast. Theinquiry for California
brown has been active during the past
few days and business aggregating 400
bags is reported, of which 300 bags was
second grade. German rape is firm but
quiet. Celery has developed considera-
ble interest; quite a buying movement
set in early in the week, stimulated by
cable advices from France of damage to
the growing crop, first by frost and more
recently by prolonged wet weather. The
principal holder has withdrawn, but
others are offering sparingly. The stock
carried over from last year is the largest
ever known, being estimated at 800 bags,
and there is an additional 200 bags afloat
for this port, but if the crop reports are
true a continued firm market may be ex-
pected.

——j.3+ 24
The Hardware Market.

General trade continues very good and
with the warm weather everybody is be-
ginning to be busy. That makes buying,
which gives encouragement to the local
dealer, who immediately commences to
fill up his stock. These conditions are
now prevailing in the hardware line.
Manufacturers report in most lines a
good demand for goods, ahd in many in-
stances are behind their orders. Several
changes have taken place in two leading
lines—tacks of all kinds and wrought
butts. New lists have been adopted by
the manufacturers, which means new
discounts. The new lists are now in the
hands of the jobbers, who will be glad
to supply them to any regular dealer and
name him discounts.

Barbed Wire—The demand is good and
in some cases manufacturers find it diffi-
cult to keep up with orders. They
claim, however, that the demand this
spring is falling behind last year, which,
undoubtedly, will prevent any advance
in the price and may result in a slight
weakness. We quote painted barbed
at $1.55 from mill and $1.80 from stock,
and galvanized barbed at $1.90 from mill
and $2.20 from stock. For good orders,
these prices could, no doubt, be shaded.

Wire Nails—Demand is brisk, as much
building is going on. Stocks are light.

 

The mills all report a good lot of orders
on hand, but, notwithstanding this fact,
prices are not firm and the recent ad-
vance will be hard to hold. The market
is 95@90c from mill and $1.20@1.15
from stock.

Bar Iron—At a recent meeting of the
manufacturers, the price was advanced
$3 per ton and a new card is soon to be
issued.

Fishing Tackle—There is no limit to
the demand for this line of goods and of
many of the articles it seems impossible
to get a sufficient supply. One large im-
porter of hooks says that his order was
placed in England last September and
that his invoice is not yet received. The
greatest scarcity seems to be in hooks
and flies.

 

 

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing and Provisinn Co
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS,

ae. 12 50
eee 12 50
Extra clear pig, short cut............. : 14 50
Re cloer, weeee

cooee fee Seek 13 50

Howton Citar, saertent.................. 13 50
(acer BOOK. SROrtcus............5....... 13 75

 
 
 
  
 

Standard clear, short cut, best........ . 14.0
SAUSAGE.

reas... ¢
ee 5%
lee 6
eee «te . e 8%

ee 6
aoee COO 6
8. 10
oe ee a“ 7%

LARD.

Bette Henaered.................. 8
ee _
Ce 5%
ene 54
Cottolene.. 6%
OCotesues.......-..... Suede eee dewe ccc. 6%
50 lb. Tins, 4c advance,
20 lb. pails, 4c ig
wib * xe '

2. “* Be .

oh: * te '

BEEF IN BARRELS.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. - 6 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 64
ee 10 00

SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plair.
Hams, average 20 lbs...

 
  

 

  

bs..
" . 12 to 14 1b 3
- oa ia
' est boneless. 9
Shouleers............ 7
Breakfast Bacon boneless.................... 9
Dried beef, ham prices..... ee
DRY SALT MEATS.

OO EE EE 6
eee, PC 6%
PICKLED PI@s’ FEET.
eat bere 3 00
bo teateti tered, J 1 65
a ee ceo. Pee bs on 90
TRIPE.

Boe, womevenmD. 5
Pe Ce 65

BUTTERINE. il

i A le. 17

Y oo a a a =

Peiry, roost. _
= ee 11%

 

Eggs Wanted!

Prices quoted on application.

NOTE LOW PRICES

_ On following goods:

 

Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly, made with
boiled cider, se fine. Assortment con-
sists of Apple, Blackberry, Strawberry,
Raspberry and Currant:

ee ee ee eo
ee fi)
re wee ol. 40
i 37

i quart Mason Jara, pet Ges............... 1 40

2 pants Mason Jars, per dos. .......cenes.. 1 00
Per Cane, S dos, i Gage...... 1... 2 85
Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the

best made. Price per case..............0. 2

Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat:
oa we we 6
ee Cee pore... 6%
ee, palle, Ber MD... .. Celera lae oe 6%
1. Came, per dos. ............< a
Di Cee oer Gee
Piet Meson Jere, pet doe...) .... 6... 1...
Quart Mason Jars, per doz............... .. 2 00
Pure Sweet Cider, in bbls., per gal.......... 124%

~

Pure Sweet Cider, in less quantities, per gal 1
Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per doz.
Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per doz....
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz......
Peach Marmalade, 20-lb pails. bie cee tae ts
Peach Marmalade in pt. Mason jars, pr dz..
No 1 Egg Crate Fillers, best in market, 10
sets in case, No. 1 Case included.......... 1
No. 1 Egg Crates with fillers complete......
Special prices made on 100 Crate lots.

EDWIN FALLAS,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

bot et CODD
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Muskegon Bakery Grackers

(United States Baking Co.)

Are Perfect Health Food.

There area great many Butter Crackres on the Market—only |

one can be best--that is the original
Muskegon
Bakery
Butter
Gracker.

Pure, Crisp, 7 Nothing Like it for
Most Beneficial Cracker you can get for constant table use.

‘ender, Flavor.

Muskegon,Toast, ALWAYS
Nine Royal Fruit Biscuit, ASK
Muskegon Frosted Honey, YOUR
Other Iced Cocoa Honey Jumbles, GROCER
Great i Jelly Turnovers, FOR
Specialties Ginger Snaps, MUSKEGON
Are Home-Made Snaps, BAKERY’S
Muskegon Branch, CAKES and
Mlik Lo neh, CRACKERS

Daintiest, |

   

 

    

  

 

GRanip Karips Went,

 

ROLL CAP

iWe Pay HIGHEST MARKET PRICES in SPOT CASH and [Measure Bark
When Loaded. Correspondence Solicited.
lw. c. HOPSON H. HAFTENKAMP

 

* WC HOPSON& C0.

Namny
ous nd bil dU ss

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ae “nS SEG LESS

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United States Baking Co.| ~alition. & Murphy Co.

LAWRENCE DEPEW, Acting Manager,

Muskegon, - Mich.

 

THE REYNOLDS IMPROVED TRUCK.

 

 

This truck will on found especially adapted to the wants of Merchants. We

make them to fit elevators or scales, and thus do away with transfering from truck
to elevator or scales, and vice versa.
Cc The front wheels being casters, the truck will turn in its own length and can
be run on elevator or scales from any angle. The wheels are so large in diameter,
and so much of the weight of the load comes directly over them, that one man can
carry twice as much on it as upon any other truck made; and instead of the ordi-
nary rigid rest in front, there are two caster wheels, the operator can turn truck in
any direction withgreatease. 22 sizes in stock.

LANSING WHEELBARROW CO., Lansing, Mich.
HEROLD- BERTSCH SHOE CO,,

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

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

Your inspection s kindly solicited
when in the city.

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

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

Headquarters for
Lubbers.

 

Wales-Goodyear

 

 

Use Tradesman W ants Column
IT REACHES THE PEOPLE.

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FACTURER O1

SFGLAND-ORDER FURR

Factory, $0 WN. VONIA ST. Gtond Rapias

Telephone 738.

Office Fixtures,
Store Fixtures, etc.

GRAND RAPIDS
BRUSH COMP'Y,

MANUFACTURER OF B I } \ S } i } nS 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.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

    
 

 

 

26 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.,

 

~ SEE QUOTATIONS.

SOE TCHES FREE

Wonderly
Building
GRAND
RAPIDS

Plans with me. I will furnish

J. BRECH TING

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

The Dayton Computing Scale!

It Sells
because o
Its Money-
Making
Features!

 

 

 

 

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, 1-86, 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 bearing our name and date of patents
and thereby incurring lfability to prosecution is
apparent. Respectfully,

The Computing Scale Co.

 
    
 
   

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See What Users Say:

Otfice of CHICAGO LUMBERING CO.
Manistique, Mich., Apr. 2, 1805.
Messrs. Hoyt & Co., Dayton, 0.

Gentlemen: We bought three Standard Mar-
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.

 

Weare 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.

HOYT & Company, Sales Agents, Dayton, Ohio.

svi MERKING Walle GRANITE WARE, cs"

For further information
drop a postal card to .....

   

NEW IDEAL

 

SHAPE. Original Assorted Crates. ‘“‘SUMMERTIME,”’’ English Dec. Semi-Porcelain
PENCIL OR BROWN COLOR

  

      
    

 

   

          

 

NO. 141910, IDEAL SHAPE NO. 15108, IDEAL SHAPE NO. 13116, ‘‘SUMMERTIME’’
Orig. Asstd. Cte., Alfred Meakins’ White Granite. Original Assorted Crate, Alfred Meakins’ White Granite Ware. Assorted Crate.
1oz 5 ni < st 2a 4 doz 5 inch $ 2 £10 2Zontiy Teapots, 74s5.. : 3700 0 4 doz 5 in Piates.....6 51% 04 + doz Sauce Boats... 1 80 00
2 tes 61 12 20 a2 104 = donly 2 53 S4| 2 doz6in Plates.. 62 124 14 doz Pickles........135 68
o a : : 2 8d . nt ee ) : = i
ri 1 40 1 12 | $2 doz 7 in Pilates... .- 3 876 1€0% Cov’d Dishes.. 549 5 50
: us nD i> 33 | 2 doz 8 in Plates.... 84 168 *dozB. & B. Plates. 1 80 60
ee z Ts ci > | 6doz4in Fruits..... 34 204 1% doz Cov'd Butters 46 203
! ; é 7 Y 3 ~ | 6doz itters 93 3 10z * ugrars 1 59
RB ‘ te “4 16 6only: 47 | 6 doz Ind. Butter 23 138 % doz 2 Sugars.. 3 04 1 2
, ‘ ce or M) 13 8s 18 only 3 co 7 113 1% doz 9im Dishes... 1 25 6s doz Creamers to 63
Covered ( yhers 1 iM 2 1 69 85 12 only 36s Bowls...... ra : | '¢ doz 10 in Dishes... 208 101 1s doz Teas 90 16 20
I ( ~ | 2% 1% Gonily prs. 9s Ewers & Basins 7 . qos a LL 2 nai ce
e 3 Ds] 70 «6 only Covered Chambers 9s. 450 2 25 1; doz 12 in Dishes 37) (i Bane Conees,...... 18 2
64 1 Dishes 3 44 99 13 only Uneov'd Chambers 9s 3 00 | 1-6doz 14 in Dishes... 4 73 19 3doz300yst'r Bowls 90 2 70
t Saucers S = Scollops ob 66 10% set hdld. St. Deni 39% | 2doz3inBakers.... 79 158 Crate and Cartage 2 50
I Butters Seollops i i yaisy TEAS...» - 947 | 14 doz 7 in Bakers 12% ti
1) i Seollops Ml I t.Denis Teas 31% : oe ye c #63 79
: rer S 13 13 Crate and Cartage ‘ if doz 8 in Bakers.... 2 03 6S
st. De ee a 3 een old lio 114 doz6in Seallops..113 5% 100 PIECE DINNER SEI
v B io y admit ge le gel em " 144 doz7in Seallops.. 135 67 ,
rs B s 4 ch Ce Dishes 3 94 OG co
) s ‘ ered Dishes 4 50 %5 ¢ doz 8 in Sealloy 202 1% (pen Stock $6 5
‘ , S s Boats 1 50 = > doz 12 Jugs.. —. 2 1 1 oo ' 0 .
> 3 ee i mig
¢ : a doz 24 Jugs.. 1 38
h Cass aU 5
r 8 h Cusseroles 5 06 84 i, doz a0 Jugs........ L 35 67
+N — } I t « Quy AG

All these goods in Open Stock at slight advance.

H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids