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Sheet M etal Work

NO FIRM IN THE STAT= HAS BETTER FACILITIES OR REPUTATION. OUR

WOOD MANTEL GRATE, G4S AND E iL ECTRIC FIXTURE DEPARTMENT
Is pronounced the FINEST IN THE COUNTRY, East or West. Absol ute

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customers. Steam heat in every room. Electric fire alarms throughout the house. Other
IF NOT SATISFACIORY. YOUR MONEY BACK. | improvements and decorations will soon make it the best hotel in Michigan.

 

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GRAND RAPIDS —
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BRUSHES .

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SPECIAL AND ORDER FURNITURE

Factory, 99 A. IONIA ST. Grand Rapids

Telephone 738.

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INSURANCE Co.
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i881 Detroit, Mich.
Geo. W. Stowitts

REPRESENTING
DIBBLE & WARNER, Mfrs. Fine Suspenders
and Braces, East Hampton, Mass.
GRAND RAPIDS NECKWEAR CO., [lirs. of
Fine Neckwear, Grand Rapids.
I shall be pleased to call on dealers in need of
inything in either of above lines.
155 Thomas st., Grand Rapids.

COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO.

65 TIONROE ST.
Reports on individuals for the retail trade,house
renters and professional men. Also local agents
for the Furniture Commercial Agency Co.’s‘‘Red
Book.” Collections handled for members,
Telephones 166 and 1030

Volley Gily Electro Plating Works,

PLATERS IN
NICKEL, SILVER, GOLD, COPPER,
BRASS and BRONZE.

Retinishers of Lamps, Gas Fixtures, Chande-

 

 

 

 

 

liers, ete. A. W. ANDERSON, Proprietor.
Pear! and Front Sts., Grand Rapids.
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PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAPE.

J. W. CHAMPLIN, Pres.
W. FRED McBAIN, Sec.

Dissolution ond New Goporinership

 

GRAND Rapips, Micu., April 25, 1895.
By mutual consent the firm of Leppink & Co.
has this day been dissolved. All accounts due
to above firm and all indebtedness will be paid
to and by the new firm of Leppink & Co.
H. LEPPINK,
FRED P. HINEs.

A copartnership has this day been entered in-
to by H. Leppink and John Hulst, underthe firm
name of Leppink & Co.

H. LEPPINK,
JOHN Hust.

 

Nd Rapids,

Mich.

THE NIGHIGHN TRUST, ©

Makes a Specialty of acting as
Executor of Wills,
Administrator of Estates,
Guardian of [linors and In-
competent Persons,
Trustee or Agent

in the management of any business which may
be entrusted to it.

Any information desired will be cheerfully
furnished.

Lewis H. Withey, Pres.
Anton G. Hodenpyl, Sec’y.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

|.5.AND7 PEARL STREET.

 

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS.
A few years ago the building of rail-
roads in the new and hitherto unde-
veloped portions of the Western regions
of this country was wonderfully profit-
able. For a number of seasons the
crops of Europe were bad and the defi-
ciency in food supplies thus occasioned
could, it was discovered, be most readily
filled out of our surplus. Consequently,
our agricultural industry was greatly
stimulated; much new and fertile land
was taken up by settlers: our Western
grazing plains were covered with cattle,
and, ocean freights being cheap, the
transportation of grain and provisions to
the seaboard commanded highly remu-
nerative rates. The effect of this pros-
perity showed itself in the prices paid in
Wall Street not only for the bonds but
for the stocks of Western railroads.
They soared to figures which now look
to us as unattainable as the snowy
peaks of the Himalayas. Of the reac-
tion that was coming the Stock Ex-
change gave no warning, yet, now that
it has occurred, it is easy to see that it
was inevitable from the circumstances of
the case. We  overdid railroad
building and agriculture and cattle
ranching, and, besides suffering from
competition among ourselves, we pro-
voked that of distant countries. Grain
fell, beef fell, railroad rates fell, and
thus the prices of railroad securities fell,
and have not yet recovered from the fall.
The original capitals of maby compa-
nies have disappeared, and have been re-
placed either by bonds converted into
shares, or by cash assessments; while
upon the bonds which still retain their
original form the interest has been cut
down to a small fraction of its stipulated
rate. Eventually, the forces now at
work to produce a recovery from this
depression will have their effect, but in
the meanwhile the depression continues.

On the other hand, the immense revo-
lution in the sugar industry, caused by
the discovery of an improved process of
making sugar from beets, has made, so
far as can be known, no impression in
Wall Street excepting as it has affected
the profits of the American Sugar Refin-
ing Company, but to the world at large
it has been of the greatest importance.
For years and years France, Germany
and Austria strove unsuccessfully to ex-
tract from beets a sugar which in price
and in quality could compete with that
yielded by the sugar cane, but finally
they triumphed. The consequence has
been a reduction of profits to the Cuban,
Louisianian and East Indian sugar
planters, amounting in many cases to
ruin and a reduction in price to con-
Sumers equal to millions of dollars a
year. Contributory to the same result
has been the invention of glucose made
from Indian corn, which takes the place
of sugar for certain purposes and thus
practically increases the supply of it.

Whether a revolution as great as that
in the production of sugar, and to us as
disastrous, may not be impending in the
petroleum industry, does not yet appear.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1895.

 

The discovery of the Pennsylvania oil
fields put an end to the distillation of
kerosene oil from coal, and added to our
natural wealth merchantable commod-
ities worth from $75,000,000 to $100, 0¢ 0,-
000 a year. So now the exhaustion of
those same fields, if it did not compel a
resort to other sources of artificial light,
might lead to the importation instead of
the exportation of petroleum. Previous
alarms on this account have proved to
be fallacious, but this time the wolf may
really be in the sheepfold, and if he is,
the havoc he will make will be wide-
spread. Not only will the consumers of
oilin lamps be affected, but countless
others. The gas companies, for ex-
ample, who now employ the naphtha
yielded by petroleum distillation to en-
rich their product, may be compelled to
return to the old-fashioned cecal process,
at a greatly increased expense, and new
lubricants for machinery will be re-
quired in place of those now used.

The partial transference of cotton
manufacturing from Europe to Asia,
which has so alarmed the Manchester
mill owners that they are clamoring for
the adoption of the silver standard as a
means of arresting its further progress,
may also be the beginning of an indus-
trial revolution which, for extent and
importance, can be compared only to
those caused by the discovery of Amer-
ica and by the invention of the steam en-
gine. The abundance and the cheapness
of human labor in Asiatie countries have
long been proverbial, but they have not,
until lately, availed to counterbalance
the superior energy and skill of Eu-
ropean artisans and the greater pro-
ductiveness of European machinery.
Within a few years, however, the fall of
silver, relatively to gold, has greatly re-
duced the wages paid in the East in sil-
ver as compared with the wages still
paid in Europe in gold, or, to state the
fact in another way, wages in Europe
have practically risen, while wages in
Asia have remained stationary. The
Hindoo laborer gets no more rupees than
he did twenty years ago, the Chinese no
more dollars, the Japanese no more yen,
but the European laborer gets as many
shillings or frances or marks as he did,
and even more, so that, while the goods
the Asiatic makes sell at the same nom-

 

 

NO. 606
duction in the amount of money paid.
In the meantime the Asiatics are every
day enlarging their manufacturing en-
terprises and fixing them upon a firmer
basis, so that very soon in will be impos-
sible to overthrow them, if, indeed, it is
not impossible already. Appetite grows
by what it feeds on, and, now that a few
thousand of Hindoos, Chinese, and Jap-
anese have tasted of the profits of these
new employments, they will not meekly
renounce them. The result of the recent
triumph of Japan over China cannot fail
to be a vastly freer admission into China
of modern ideas and modern improve-
ments than has hitherto been permitted,
and, when to 300,000,000 Hindoos, ac-
customed to earn ten cents a day and
less, shall be added 400,000,000 Chinese,
whose notions of compensation are
equally meager, they will constitute a
new mine of human labor as extensive
and as valuable as were the fertile lands
of America when it was first discovered,
or the gold tields of California and of
Australia. European talent will not be
wanting, if native skill proves inadequate
to teach those myriads of hands how to
employ themselves to the best advantage,
and the ruin that has overtaken Assyria,
Babylonia, Persia, Egypt and Turkey,
from the transference of their industrial,
commercial and military supremacy to
otber countries, may yet be shared by
Europe. Years, and probably cen-
turies, must yet elapse before this ca-
tastrophe arrives, and unforeseen causes
may avert it altogether; but it is not a
chimera to be waved aside as impossible.
MATTHEW MARSHALL.

— >_> >>
THE PERFECT WHEEL.

Now that bicycle riding has become so
universal, it is feared that the result of
the craze will be a race of hunchbacks.
The position the rider is compelled to as-
sume on these noiseless steeds is not one
of grace and ease by any means, and the
inventor who has inventive genius
enough to bring out a machine that will
combine grace of position, such as is ac-
quired by the best and skilled
equestrians, with easy movement, will
prove a benefactor of his race. It is
claimed that this cannot be done without
a corresponding loss in speed. It was
once claimed that men could not propel

most

inal price as European goods of a similar| themselves on single wheels, but the
i

character, they actually cost only about millions of wh

half as much. Hence, cotton mills are
springing up in India, China and Japan
which are taking the market away from
the mills of Europe, and the same stim-
ulus is bringing into activity works for
the production of iron and coal.
Obviously, the way for Europe to meet
this competition is either to improve its
machinery or toreduce the wages it pays;
but the Oriental, now that he has started
in the business, can improve his machin-
ery as fast as the European can his, and
the only thing left is the reduction of
wages. Against this reduction, however,
the labor unions of Europe will stand as
an impassable barrier so long as the at-
tempt to effeet it takes the shape of a re-

 

eels now circling every
highway and byway the world over bear
testimony to the fact that they can.
There is a fortune awaiting the man who
builds a perfect wheel, one that will go
around swiftly without making the rider
hump himself.
—_—_—_— i —o-<--—————
The Dry Goods Market.
Owing to the advance in printing
cloths, all makes of cottons and prints
are held firm.

Raw cotton has advanced 1c per
pound, making brown and bleached cot-
tons very firm, as well as drills, sateens
and cotton flannels.

Cambrics are still held at 8%@4e.
Merrimac shirting prints command 4c,

 

 

 

 

2

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Honest Men with Idle Hands.

The unemployed in this and every
other country are the helpless factors of
as grave a problem as is now perplexing
the mind of man and throwing its ink
spot on the page of modern civilization.
Apart from all economic considerations
as to causes, and of special apprehension
as to consequences, the situation is not
witbout its peculiar pathos. Itincludes,
in its inert and helpless mass, the hon-
est, the manful, the industrious, the
thrifty, with those who have an idle
taint in their blood and not enough bhon-
esty and manhood left in their skins to
keep their hands from theft and their
souls from the devil’s tuuch. For these
debased and pauperized parasites on the
social body, the pity of the human heart
has never yet been frozen. Men and
women have consecrated time, talents
and self-sacrificing service to this foul
drift of humanity, and what bas been
left unquenched of the divine spark in
moral rottenness has been sought out
with faithfulness and untiring kindness.
It is just this kind of salt that has kept
men from putrefaction and the
The man in the mud seeking for the lost
piece of silver is the man that has kept
the old earth from holding its nose and
from making its shadow on the moon an
emetic for that silent queen of the night.
To such as these we lift our hat as
among the noblest and best of human
kind.

There is, however, a work yet to be
done, and this is among that class of un-
fortunates who, helpless as the straws in
a mill race, have drifted into the great
pond where the white pebble and the
unctuous mud are thrown together.
These are idle without their choice,
ragged or but poorly clad in spite of
their decency, and are hungry though
their hands are ready to earn the bread
an empty stomach craves. For such as
these society must wake from its sleep
and hang up its nightcap. They are
here, there and everywhere. The crowd
increases, the problem deepens, and such
tragedies as are only to be found where
men are hungry and women in despair,
and children are but so many misfor-
tunes, needing clothes for their backs
and calves for the bones of their legs.
are daily casting grim shadows on the
canvas of life.

The primeval causes of these condi-
tions are not always to be found tnder
the vest of the sufferer. He may not
have been guilty of luxurious living, in
eating two red herrings at a meal and
eating potatoes with their skins off. He
may have laid by his nickels for a rainy
day, have been his own dentist and have

flies.

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had no doctor bills to pay for whooping
cough, measles or croup in his family. |
All this is possible, and yet a few weeks
without work may see his pocket as bare |
of dollars as an eggshell is of feathers.
Itisthis industrious and unpauperized |
class that have been overlooked. They |
will not beg, they do not whimper; but, |
for reason of using soap and looking de-
cent, they are left in the cold. It is, |
however, one of the better signs of the |
times that this particularly cold fact in |
the problem of the unemployed is being |
tackled with both hands. We note an/
experiment about to be made in a small
but model republic of Switzerland. It is |
nothing less than a system of insurance,
by which the insured are provided for
when out of employment. This insur-
anee is to be compulsory and includes

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factories, in the building
trades and general laborers. Employers
and the State contribute to the funds.
Fraud and imposition are prevented by
proof being demanded as to the cause of
being out of employment. If from in-
excusablé or culpable causes, the appli
cant forfeits his claim to the assistance
he seeks. This experiment, as a pre-
liminary step, is to be limited to one can-
ton in the State, and, if successful, their
scope will be extended. The result will
be watched with interest, and it may
possibly be a wedge in the huge block
now obstructing the progress and pros-
perity of the nations.
FRED Wooprow.
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The Garner idea of monkey language
and general human-like intelligence is to
be given a thorough test at Calcutta. At
that place a college for the cultivation of
the higher senses of precocious monkeys
has been established, and some wonder-
ful results are confidently anticipated.
The ‘‘school” is the result of an agitation
on the part of some very advanced eyo-
lutionists and naturalists, who know
enough concerning the monkey’s charac-
teristics to firmly believe tnat he can be
taught to ‘“‘talk’” in a way, enough, at
least, to express wants. - The method to
be employed is known by the name of the
‘“‘letter-block system.’’ A block alpha-
bet in which the letters are all highly
colored is arranged before the monkey
student. With these he will be taught
to arrange some simple word, such as
‘*pie,” and as soon as the word is com-
pleted he will be given a piece of pie as
a prize. The promoters of the scheme
are confident of success.

———>_4——_—_-

Springtime finds the Signal Five at the

front.

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN MINING SCHUUL fp atsror:
A high-grade technical school. Practical work.
Elective system. Summer courses. Gives degrees ot
8. Be, E. M.,and Ph. D.L aboratories, shops, mill.
etc... well equipped. Catalogues free. Address
Secretary Michigan Mining Schoal Honehton. Mici

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Pop Corn Goods

 

 

 

Our Balls

are the Sweetest and Best in the market.
200 in Box or 600 in Barrel.

 

 

 

Penny Ground Corn Cakes in

Molasses

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DETROIT POP CORN NOVELTY Gu.

ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.

Are Tip Top Sellers.

41 JEFFERSON AVENUE
Detroit, [ich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTISTIC GRILLES of any de-

sign made to order.

Mirs. of Window
Cresting, Wire and Iron Fences, Bank and Office
Ralling, Stable Fixtures, Fire

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DETROIT, MICH.

Guards, Weather Roof

V anes,

Escapes, ete.

State your wants and send for Catalogue.

PHONE 1285-2 r

 

Bear in mind that it’s

sell it. Good
second-class stuff.

Seedling Oranges

the QUALITY of our

fruit that we talk about—not how cheap we can
goods aly

ways bring more than

Putnam Candy Co.

 

 

 

HEROLD- BERTSCH SHOE CO.,

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

Grealer in variety and finer than
ever attempted before. Every one 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
Rubbers.

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Commercial Aspect of the Bicycle.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

That the limit of improvement along
the present lines of bicycle construction
has about been reached, is pretty con-
clusively shown by the actual and ser-
viceable changes in the 1895 models in
comparison with the 94 wheels. The
limit in weight has been reached—and
in some instances passed—as already
some of the manufacturers who have
gone too far are having trouble with
their lightest roadsters. One or two of
the more cautious makers have taken
cognizance of this, and have commenced
to run their lightest models slightly over-
weight to avoid any unforeseen difficul-
ties. A return to slightly heavier wheels
is one of the possibilities of next season,
although the probabilities are that
weights will remain about as they are
now; not that American makers cannot
solve the problem of making still lighter
wheels than any of them have yet
turned out, but because the craze for
featherweights has about blown over.
The demand for excessively light
wheels was caused partly by the
fact that the lighter a wheel is the
easier it is handled, and partly by the de-
sire of riders to see how light a wheel
they could ride ‘‘over anything” without
breaking it. Their desire has been grat-
ified, so far as the present principles of
construction are concerned. It has been
proved to the satisfaction—and sorrow—
of some that an eighteen or twenty pound
wheel needs to be carefully handled on
rough roads, or it will be almost worth-
less at the end of six months’ use. Their
delicate mechanism is not strong enough
to stand the strains to which it is sub-
jected. The reaction will be caused by
the fact that a 25 or 26 pound wheel is
much more comfortable for use on rough
roads than a 20 pound one. It is very
much steadier, a lighter one receiving and
transferring tothe rider double the amount
of vibration. For riding in cities with
well-paved streets, light wheels will al-
ways have the preference, for there will
be little or no vibration for them to sus-
tain. This will, also, be the case in
states where the most of the country
roads are good, but for the average coun-
try road the heavier wheel will be used
more often for many years tocome. The
principal disadvantage of a heavy wheel
is in hill climbing. Various devices have
been put upon the market which were
designed to render hill climbing easy,
but they have all been given a fair trial
and been discarded. The changeable gear
is apparently the more feasible, if it were
only perfected and made more practical
than it appears in its present form. It
is, as yet, in a rather crude form and
costs altogether too much to permit of a
very extensive sale. There are two or
three varieties, none of which have
gained any degree of prominence on the
market. They were introduced about
the time the light weight fad appeared
upon the horizon and this, in addition to
their price, prevented their coming very
extensively into use. By the majority of
wheelmen, they are regarded as of not
much use, the argument being that when
a bicycle can be geared to 68 and 70 and
still run as easily as the present wheels
do, there is no necessity for a device for
lowering the gear when a particularly
difficult piece of riding becomes neces-
sary. They forget, however, that each
year the bicycle is being used for things
which have not before been attempted by
it, and there are times when the means
of making it run easier would save quite
a walk. Upon a smooth, level pave-
ment, an 1895 wheel would not run too
hard for practical use, if it were geared
as high as 90; but the minute a hill of
any consequence is encountered, a dis-
mount is inevitable. If a practical gear
can be invented, it will be widely used.

Inventors are, of late, turning their
attention to ideas for doing away with
the chain. The present chain gears are
in as advanced a state as it is possible to
bring them to, but there is still too much
friction in their work. Different me-
chanical devices are being patented every
year, but nothing has as yet appeared
which is superior to the chain. Some of
the new ideas have merit, if they were
rightly applied, and the indications are

that, in the future, we will be riding!

 

wheels geared to over a hundred with as
little effort as we now ride those geared
to 63.

There will be no radical changes in
construction in 1896. The principal dif-
ference to be noticed will be the large
tubing which willbe used by all makers
next season, The lines of the frames
will undergo no—or, at least, very slight
—changes; in fact, there is no room for
improvement in this line. One of the
main faults of the old-style bicycles was
their ineonvenient, spread-eagle lines.
In 1892 and ’93 the saddle was set away
back of the crank-axle, the tread was
eight or ten inches wide and the handle-
bars were about thirty inches wide. This
necessitated a very uncomfortable posi-
tion to be assumed by the rider. The
latter did not notice it then, as he was
used to it, and had never bad anything
better, so he was satisfied. This year
the saddle is in such a position as to
bring the rider directly over his work,
thus increasing his power considerably.
The tread has been reduced to an aver-
age of 51¢ inches and the average handle-
bar is 17 inches wide. This gives the
rider a very compact and comfortable
position and makes him present a much
better appearance than he did under
former conditions.

Riding a bicycle is such exhilarating
sport that it matters not to the novice
what position he assumes—he is always
enjoying himself. Neither does it mat-
ter how poor a wheel he rides, provided
he has never tried a better one. The
poorest wheels manufactured this season
run better than the best made three
years ago; vet every devotee of the sport
then thought there was nothing like it.
This has a great deal to do with the
enormous sales of cheap wheeis. The
average man thinks he ought to pay
about $30 for a high-grade bicyele. Con-
sequently, when one of the low grades is
offered him for $40 or $50, not being able
to distinguish between a good whee! and
a poor one, he buys the poor one and
rides it. Should he chance to ride a
good one a few miles, he recognizes the
difference and remembers his experience
when he makes his next purchase. The!
writer was compelled, through an un-|
avoidable accident, recently, to ride a)
medium-grade wheel for a few days. At
first it was almost unbearable, butin two
or three days the difference went un-
noticed. A cycle proverb might be in-
serted here quite appropriately: “If you
value your peace of mind, never sample
the riding qualities of a good bicycle un-
less you have the price of one.”’

The manufacturers who insisted upon
a low discount last winter are now vin-
dicated by the condition of trade. Those
who made contracts calling for a large
discount did so with the idea that there
would be an overproduction this season.
The demand has been so much greater
than was expected that no manufac-
turer in the country has been able to keep
up with his orders and there is no diffi-
culty in agents holding strictly to the
list prices. One of the worst features of
the retail trade this year is the time
which has to be wasted in trying to con-
vince men who have a wheel of the vint-
age of 1891 or thereabouts that it is not
worth more than a new wheel of this
year’s manufacture. They think that,
because they paid $135 for it four years
ago, the agent ought to allow them
$75 or $80 for it for the privilege of trad-
ing them a new model of up-to-date pat-
tern. Almost any man spoken to on the
subject will say he cannot see $25 differ-
ence in the running of thetwo bicycles. A
’94 wheel, costing $125 when new, sells for
just $60 now. A’93 wheel in good cen-
dition, costing $150 when new, will
bring $45 on the open market to-day. A
792 model sells for $25 and those of any
previous year are marked anywhere from
$5 to $20. Yet, while knowing this,
men are constantly endeavoring to dis-
pose of their old mounts to-agents for an
equivalent of from $50 to$80. Happily,
the bicycle agent is treading on velvet
this season and can quote his own price.
If it is not satisfactory the agent does
not care, as he can sell every wheel he
can get his hands on.

Firms dealing in agricultural imple-
ments are making a success of selling

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especially those near the larger cities, |
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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

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AROUND THE STATE.

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Clyde—Davison
Johnson Bros. in general trade.

Albion—Wilder & Son succeed Keep &
Wilder in the lumber business.

Cadillac—C. E. Auer succeeds Edwin
R. Smith in the clothing business.

Manistique—Sheppard Bros.
C. H. Girvin in the baking business.

Vestaburgh—Thos. Caris succeeds
Caris Bros. in the grocery business.

Rockford—David L. Reynolds has seld
his cigar business to Wm. Maynard.

Dimondale—W. H. Whitmore succeeds
D. H. Shipp in the harness business.

Freeport—Elbridge White has removed
his general stock from Lee to this place.

Sturgis—Leonard Valentine has pur-
chased the grocery stock of Wait & Up-
ham.

Flint—F. H. Thompson
Harris & Thompson in the drug _ busi-
ness.

Clio—Long & Johnson, grocers, have
dissolved, G. M. Long continuing the
business.

Battle Creek—J. W. Henry succeeds
Crane & Henry in the merchant tailoring
business.

Hersey—I. (Mrs. W. H.) Drake has re-
moved her grocery stock from Big Rapids
to this place.

Weidman—H. C. Thompson has _ re-
moved his grocery stock from Lakeview
to this place.

Chase—Knevels & Messenger succeed
K. (Mrs. J. H.) Knevels in the boot and
shoe business.

Coldwater—Bert Dewey succeeds L.
Dewey, his father, in the grocery and
meat business.

Saginaw—McCormick Bros.,
dealers, have dissolved, C. W. MeCor-
mick succeeding.

Constantine—Beecher Dentler = sue-
ceeds A. Redfern in the grocery and
bakery business.

Blissfield—Holt & Wilcox succeed W.
R. Wilcox in the vehicle and agricultural
implement business.

Lansing—The Potter-Cowles Co., not
incorporated, succeeds Cowles Bros. in
the furniture business.

Jackson—Lake & Lowry, coal and
lime dealers, have dissolved, Robt. Lake
continuing the business.

Jackson—J. L. Lee, the Lansing attor-
ney, has purchased the clothing stock of
the Chas. Broas Clothing Co.

Bessemer—Norberg & Jones, jewelers,
have dissolved. The business will be
continued by L. A. Norberg.

Maple Ridge—Simon Campagne has re-
moved his grocery stock to Prescott,
where he will resume business.

Detroit—Marymont & Pureell, whole-
sale and retail liquor dealers, have dis-
solved, Rosa Marymont succeeding.

Wacousta—Robert G. Mason, general
dealer, has sold his dry goods stock to a
gentleman by the name of Spaulding.

Corunna—Fox & Mason are succeeded
by the Mason & Fox Furniture Co. in
the furniture manufacturing business.

Reeding—North & Cartright, boot and
shoe dealers, have dissolved. The busi-
ness will be continued by W. M. North.

Kingsley—Dr. M. S. Brownson has
opened a grocery and drug stock in his
Sanitarium building. Phelps, Brace &
Co. furnished the groceries and Williams,
Davis, Brooks & Co. supplied the drugs.

Detroit—E. H. Richardson, who has
been dealing in bankrupt stocks of shoes,

succeeds

lumber

& Hastings succeed

succeed |

| is now remodeling his store on Monroe
| avenue and will hereafter conduct a re-
| tail shoe business without the bankrupt
goods.
Sturgis—John Clapp and Fred Bills-
borrow have opened a hardware store un-
| der the firm name of Clapp & Billsbor-
| row.
|

Archie—C. E. Clapp has sold his gen-
eral stock here and removed to Traverse
City, where he will re-engage in busi-
ness.

Ludington—E. H. Day and Chas. For-
slind have been admitted to partnership
with F. E. Gray in the shoe ard clothing
business.

Elwell—Phelps Bros. have sold their
general stock to Taylor & Meigs, who
will continue the business at the same
location.

Westwood—W. H. Potter has disposed
of his stock of groceries to W. H. Smith,
who will add dry goods, shoes and fur-
nishings.

Greenville—P. Keech has sold his meat
market to Johnson & Case, who will con-
tinue the business at the former location
of D. Cooper.

Detroit—Macdonald, Jameson & Co.
dealers in proprietary medicines, have
werged their business into a corporation
under the same style.

Ceresco —Frank Reed, formerly in gen-
eral trade at Marengo, has purchased the
general stock of Herman Andre and will
continue the business.

Saginaw—John G. Beer is erecting a
store on Court street, adjoining Gross-
man’s drug store, into which he will
move his stock of hardware.

Pompeii—Mr. Payne, formerly of the
firm of Henderson & Payne, has opened
a new grocery stock. C. Elliott & Co.
(Detroit) furnished the stock.

Traverse City—Perry W. Nichols, who
sold his meat market a short time ago to
R. R. Robinson & Co., has bought the
Daniels market and will open it in a few
days.

Detroit—J. J. Cochrane, special part-
ner in the wholesale grocery firm of
Ward L. Andrus & Co., has withdrawn
his $10,000 interest and will shortly open
a grocery store at Romeo.

Cadillae—L. E. Finn and Louis R. Finn
have formed a copartnership under the
style of L. E. Finn & Co. and purchased
the drug stock ef G. A. Dillenbeck, who
was recently adjudged insane.

Belding—H. P. Whipple has sold his
mercantile business in Midland and re-
turned to Belding to reside. He will
shortly re-engage in business here, but
has not yet fully matured his plans.

Grawn—D. E. Crandall has sold his
stock of general merchandise to A. W.
Monroe & Co., who will conduct the busi-
ness hereafter. Mr. Crandall will give
his entire time to his milling interests.

Shelley—A change will shortly take
place in the produce firm of VanWickle,
Munson & Co. Mr. Munson will retire
from the firm, and perhaps Mr. Chapman.
They are taking inventory,and looking up
books, accounts, ete.

Belding—Cobb & Day have sold their
drug stock to Fisk Bangs, of Grand
Ledge. Mr. Day will remain with Mr.
Bangs for a time as prescription clerk.
Mr. Cobb is yet undecided as to what
business he will embark in.

Traverse City—Mrs. E. M. Daniels has
| Made arrangements by which the Frank
| Daniels grocery business will be con-
| tinued in her own name. A trust mort-
| gage has been filed with J. T. Beadle as

 

| has sold the meat market in connection
| with the store and will confine her atten-

 

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trustee. An inventory showed stock on |
hand to the amount of $6,000, while the
indebtedness is only about $3,000. She

tion to the grocery business, conducting
it, as hitherto, on a cash basis.

Traverse City (Herald)—B. J. Morgan
shipped the last of his potatoes a few
days ago. He put in storage, last fall,
7,160 bushels. They came through the
winter nicely, the shrinkage being only
85 bushels on the entire lot, and the
7,075 bushels were sold at 55 cents, af-
fording a handsome margin of profit.

Detroit—Wallace, Bell & Co. is the
name of a new grocery firm which
opened its doors for business at 105 Wood-
ward avenue April 29. The firm com-
prises David Wallace, who has con-
ducted the grocery business at 119 Wood-
ward avenue for the past fifteen years;
John Bell, who has been employed by
G. & R. MeMillan for the past twenty-
nine years, and A. Van Bianchi, who
has been general salesman in the same
establishment fer twenty-three years.

Detroit—Williams, Davis, Brooks &
Co. have filed a bill for an accounting
against Wm. H. Hill, Fred Slocum and
the Home Life Publishing Co., limited,
of Caro. They aver that Hill, a local
dealer in patent medicines, induced them
on March 24, 1894, to form the Home
Life Publishing Co., with a capital stock
of $1,500, the complainants and Hill each
to put in $500, and Fred Slocum the
plant of his paper, Home Life, a monthly
journal. The purpose of the combina-
tion was the advertising in the papers of
the respective goods handled by the com-
plainants and Hill, who, in addition to
the capital of $500 each, were to make ad-
vertising contracts in the sum of $1,200
per year each. The paper was to be is-
sued in not less than 600,000 copies per
year. It is shown that complainants
paid in their stock of $500 and more than
$1,500 for advertising, but it is charged
that Hill’s contribution of $500 was
divided between Hill and Slocum, and
that the latter paid back to Hill all the
sums paid for advertising, amounting in
all to $1,032.45. Complainants demand
an accounting and that the defendants
be compelled to restore to them the
amount found due.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Lake City—J. N. Arbuckle succeeds
Arbuckle Bros. in the saw and shingle
mill business.

Clare—William Gorr has purchased a
one-fourth interest in the Gorr & Arrand
planing mill and sash and door factory.

Saginaw—s. W. Tyler & Son expect to
Start their shingle mill in about three
weeks. A large marine boiler is being
put into the mill plant.

Hudson—C. W. Bruce and O. W. Glea-
son have formed a copartnership under
the style of C. W. Bruce & Co. and em-
barked in the manufacture of brooms.

Grand Ledge—Francis Rawson has sold
his interest in Pearsall’s Marble Works
to his partners who will continue the
business under the style of V. N. & R. A.
Pearsall.

Meredith—The John Davis shingle
mill, 10 miles north of this place, which
has been idle for some time, will be run
full capacity during the season. It is
located on timber owned by J. Boyce,
and the product will be shipped out on
the Michigan logging road running into

 

his pine.

Bay City—The Hall shingle mill, at
Essexville, went into commission last
week. The output of shingles this sea-
son will probably be no Jarger than that
of last season.

Owosso—Both of the Estey furniture
factories are running full time and are
crowded with orders. The sawmill is
cutting 225,000 feet of hardwood lumber
a week, which is mostly consumed in the
factories,

Caseville—Mr. Curran has retired from
the firm of Curran, Flach & Conley, man-
ufacturers of lumber, staves, heading
and salt and dealers in general merehan-
dise. The remaining partners will con-
tinue the business under the style of
Flach & Conley.

Estey— William Brown’s shingle mill,
which has been operated all the winter,
has shut down and has been removed
to the opposite side of the track to make
room for a large mill now being erected
for the manufacture of heading and
staves by H. Sawyer & Co., Limited.

Detroit—Williams, Davis, Brooks &
Co have filed a claim with the Court of
Claims, at Washington, for $3,534 rebate
upon free alcohol used by them in their
manufactures since the Wilson law went
into effect. Frederick F. Ingram & Co.
have filed a similar claim for $2,027.

Owosso—James F. Yeats & Son are
erecting a building on the corner of Main
and Elm streets in which cigar boxes will
be manufactured. This industry has
been carried on in Owosso for years by
various firms and individuals and an at-
tempt will be made to increase the busi-
ness.

Manistee—R. G. Peters says that his
sawmill plant at this point will not be a
very long lived one unless he can pur-
chase some more timber soon. He is
negotiating for some good sized tracts.
When asked his opinion as to the market
conditions he said that present prices did
not suit him and that stumpage costs too
much to donate it to the yard men; that
unless hemlock and cedar materially im-
prove in price before long they would
shut down their night run and store
some of the logs up in the river near the
mill where they have boomage capacity
for a number of millions. In pine the
price, while low, is still somewhat better
than that offered for cedar and hemlock.

>_> :
Yearns for the Days of Honesty in
Bushel Baskets.

KALAMAZOO, April 25—It did me good
to read THE TRADESMAN’s comments on
bastard bushel baskets in the issue of
April 24. It carried me back to the
days when a bushel of potatoes was
really a bushel and a quart of berries
was a quart in reality as well as inname.
I know no reason why we cannot bring
about a return to the days of honesty
and fair dealing, providing we agitate
the matter constantly and actively. Sure-
ly we merchants cannot lose anything by
assisting in the reform, for the only
class which is benefited by the deception
is the growers, who find it Somewhat
profitable to be able to sell seven-eighths
of a bushel for a bushel. They are
clearly in the wrong in fathering bastard
measures of this character, as by so do-
ing they are rendering themselves liable
to prosecution under the statutes for
cheating, and | am of the opinion that a
little missionary work on the part of the
officers of the law would bring the grow-
ers to their senses and result in their
reaching the conclusion that honesty is
by all means the best policy.

I hope THE TRADESMAN will keep the
ball rolling until the abuse is effectually

abated. MERCHANT.
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Ask J. P. Visner for Edwin J. Gillies &
Co.’s special inducements on early import
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THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN.

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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

 

Mrs. Kate Howard succeeds Wm. Kar-
reman in the grocery business at 206
Plainfield avenue.

 

Chas. L. Rusco is sueeeeded by Mrs.
Albertie Richards in the grocery busi-
ness at 95 Fremont street.

a 2 Arnold has opened a grocery
store at Otsego. The stock was fur-
nished by the Musselman Grocer Co.

J. Warren Boynton, formerly of the
firm of Lyon & Boynton, has opened a
grocery store at 3 Robinson avenue.

Peter A. Gabriel has removed his gro-
cery stock from the corner of West Ful-
ton and Gold streets to 144 West Fulton
street.

Hartman & Metzger have embarked in
the grocery business on Stocking street.
The stock was furnished by the Mussel-
man Grocer Co.

The Michigan Barrel Co. has put in
machinery for the manufacture of bas-
kets and will be in a position to supply
the local market this season.

Jobn N. Loucks has re-opened his gro-
cery store at Ottawa Beach for the sea-
son. The stock was furnished by the
Lemon & Wheeler Company.

John M. Smith, formerly grocery
clerk for John Killean & Son, has pur-
chased the grocery stock of John M.
Robinson at 220 Plainfield avenue.

 

 

Graham & Wilson, formerly engaged
in the drug business at Detroit, have
opened a drug store at Mishawaka, Ind.
The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. fur-
nished the stock.

Lowell Lambkin, whose general stock
at Good Hart was recently destroyed by
fire, has re-engaged in the grocery busi-
ness. The Lemon & Wheeler Company
furnished the stock.

Geo. E. Stahlnecker has recovered from
a long siege of typhoid fever, which
came very near taking him into the land
of the hereafter, and has purchased the
grocery stock of D. Marlatt, at 95 Broad-
ius oi TE Sure eT ae

N. Bouma, formerly engaged in gen-
eral trade at Fisher Station, has em-
barked in the grocery business at Jeni-
son. The stock was furnished by the
Lemon & Wheeler Company and the
Musselman Grocer Co.

Lloyd V. Hudson and H. A. Hudson
have formed a copartnership under the
style of L. V. Hudson & Co. and opened
a grocery store at tbe corner of East and
Sherman streets. ThelI. M. Clark Gro-
cery Co. furnished the stock.

The Ideal Clothing Co. has leased the
fourth floor of the Reid block, in addi-
tion to its quarters on the second and
third floors, and will occupy the added
space with its cutting tables and as
storage for piece goods. The enlarge-
ment will give the company room for
thirty more machines, which will be
added as the business of the corporation

increases.
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Gripsack Brigade.

Geo. W. Stowitts has signed with two
houses for the remainder of the season—
Dibble & Warner, manufacturers of sus-
penders at East Hampton, Mass., and the
Grand Rapids Neckware Co. He will
cover the same territory he has visited
in the past, which includes nearly the
entire State.

 

J. H. McKelvey has taken the position
of Secretary and Treasurer of the Michi-
gan Commercial Travelers’ Accident As-

sociation—not Michigan Commercial
Travelers’ Association, as stated last
week.

The second annual convention; of the
Grand Council of Michigan, United Com-
mercial Travelers of America, will be
held at Flint, May 17 and 18, convening
at 10:30 a. m. of the day first named.
Those who attend will be the guests of
Flint Council, No. 29, which will tender
a banquet to the visitors on the evening
of May 17. THe TRADESMAN returns
thanks for a cordial invitation to the con-
vention and banquet.

The traveling men of the city are
working like beavers to secure the ap-
pointment of Stephen A. Sears asa mem-
ber of the Board of Police and Fire Com-
missioners. Mr. Sears was for many
years an honored member of the frater-
nity and the boys will always hold him
in high respect for the dignity with
which he invariably maintained the rep-
utation of the fraternity and the broad
charity which characterized his career
while an active worker in the ranks.

Ex- President Waldron was in town last
Friday, on his way home (St. Johns) from
Lansing, where he argued the merits of
Donovan’s bill providing for interchange-
able mileage tickets before the Commit-
tee on Railroads of the House. It has
been urged as an argument against the
measure that irresponsible railroad com-
panies would issue the books, and that
railroads accepting the mileage would be
greatly vexed and annoyed in making
collections for mileage received by them.
The Donovan bill, however, provides for
a general office of issuance, where the
mileage will be returned and credited to
the various roads accepting it, and the
strongest argument against the bill has
thus been overcome. An objection was
also made to the bill on the ground that
it was unconstitutional, but Mr. Waldron
obtained an opinion from Attorney-Gen-
eral Maynard, pronouncing the objection
fallacious. Mr. Waldron was much
pleased with his reception by the Com-
mittee and confidently looks for a favor-
able report.

Saginaw Evening News: Council No.
43, United Commercial Travelers of
America, essayed its first annual ball
Friday evening at Masonic temple.
There is an old tradition that the
knights of the grip are very jovial,
wholesouled and happy fellows who
thoroughly enjoy the pleasures of this
life and allow the cares and sorrows to
step by them into oblivion, and their first
annual social party went a long way to-
wards demonstrating the correctness of
the story. The person who cast a casual
glance over the assembly would not fora
moment have imagined that there was
such a thing in existence as care and busi-
ness. Everything of that nature was
thrown to the winds and only the imme-
diate pleasure at hand was given any at-
tention. The attendance was not as large
as expected, possibly owing to the
fact that many of the tourists found it
impossible to reach the city before Sat-
urday, their routes having been laid out
for them long before the party was an-
nounced. However, the sixty couples or
more made up, inactivity and thorough
enjoyment, anything that might have
been lacking in numbers. The party
was a most informal one. The commer-
cial men themselves are very informal.

 

That’s the way they make a success of |
life on the road and they are not the peo- |
ple to do things in ‘‘company”’ that they
do not practice in everyday life. No re-|
freshments were served and at a season-
able hour the party was brought to a
close, everybody having had an excellent |
time and voting the commercial men the |
best of entertainers.

—_— 9

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—An advance of a sixpence all
along the line occurred Monday and the
price is still strong, the general opinion
being that values will move up fully ‘/e
during the next month.

Fruit Jars—Another advance has been
promulgated by the manufacturers.
Those who have not yet purchased their
season’s supplies would do well to do so
before further advances occur.

Bananas—The demand still continues
greater than the supply and prices are,
in consequeuce, very firm at advanced
figures. Up to the present time stock
has carried very nicely, hardly a bunch
being too ripe on arrival, but with hot
weather nearly upon us it will soon be
different, as the fruit ripens very fast
when the mercury stands in the nineties.
It is safe to assert that prices will be
more in favor of the buyer very soon.

Oranges—Seedlings are getting so ripe
that wholesalers are reluctant to order
in excess of actual needs, as the fruit de-
cays so rapidly. Navels are nearly gone
and the balance of them are, practi-
cally, in the hands of the trade. Some
have placed a few cars in cold storage,
but, while they will come out fairly
sound, it will not be safe to order more
than a three days’ supply at a time, as
they will melt down like froth on a pail
of milk as soon as they leave the refrig-
erator.

Lemons—Arrivals at the Eastern ports
continue to be light in volume and
prices, as advanced two weeks ago, are
fully maintained. About 60,000 boxes
will be sold in New York this week, and.
while prices may weaken a trifle, the
chances are that they will not go low
enough to make any great difference in
the net total. Two steamers will be sold
in Montreal on May 2 and 8, and, as
their cargoes consist of some fine marks
of choice November cuttings, it is
thought good prices will be obtained—es-
pecially as the fruit purchased at that
port usnally keeps well.

Foreign Nuts—Move . slowly,
there is no change in prices. The de-
mand is always light at this season of
the year, and prices donot cut much of a
figure, in view of which deep cuts are
not made.

Figs and Dates—Sell in a moderate
way at regular prices. Dates are held

easy, while figs are a little firmer.
>e> =. -

The Grain Market.

During the past week the wheat mar-
ket has experienced one of its old-time
booms. To sum it up short, it has been
a boom week. Price on wheat scored an
advance of fully 5e¢ per bushel and the
chronic bears brought all the influence to
bear they could to depress the market;
but large clearances from all the ports
and the milling demand in wheat centers,
as the country elevators seem to be bare
of wheat and farmers are unwilling to
sell, caused an advance. Another factor
in the advance is the extreme drought in
the winter wheat belt. We are of the!
opinion that farmers who fed wheat to
their stock, claiming it was worth noth-

and

 

ing, will wish they had it in their gran-
aries, for, should the present dry weather
continue much longer, wheat certainly
will be a very short crop this harvest.
European demand seems to keep up and
our visible is decreasing as fast as, if not
faster than, was anticipated.

Corn advanced also, while oats re-
mained stationary but firm.

Receipts of

wheat the

was

during
which
he usual amount.

past
rather
There were 14
cars of corn and 11 cars of oats received.
Wheat took another jump to-day. Mil-
lers are paying 15c per bushel above low
points. C. G. A. Vorer.

week were 75 ears,

above

Wants Column.

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first insertion and
one cent a word for each subsequent insertion.
No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents,
Advance payment.

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

| SALE, NO TRADE—ONE OF THE FIN
est drug stores in Grand Rapids Clean

stock, hardwood fixtures, everything first-class,

ata bargain. Stock and fixtures invoice about

$1,000. Reason for selling, other business, Ad

dress No. 759, care Michigan Tradesman 759

Ss I—A GOOD LOCATION FOR FUR

nishing and notfon store in town of from
2,00@ to 4,00, Southwestern Michigan preferred.
Will purcbase small stock if at a bargain. Ad.
dress 758, care M'chigan Tradesman 758

 

OR SALE—SMALL DRUG STOCK IN LO-

cal option county and only stock in town. A
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, C Mich. 735
{OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—GOOD CLEAN
stock of groceries. Address No. 754. care
Michigan Tradesman. 75%

  
 

OR SALE—OLD ESTABLISHED GROCERY
business on best business street in Grand
tapids Stock and fixtures will invoice about
$3,000. Exceptional opportunity. Long lease of
store, if desired. Stock clean and well selected
Address No care Mich. Tradesman.

      
  

re SALE—A FIRST-CLASS, OLD-ESTAB
lished meat market in county seat of 4,000.
Central Michigan. Cash trade. Will scll half
interest or whole. Address G.B.C., care Michi
gan Tradesman. 749
{OR SALE—THE MONROE SALOON AND
grocery property; best location in Lexing-
ton. Apply to Pabst & Wixson, Lexington,
Mich. 751
VOR 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
ford to buy. Address No. 747, care Michigan
Tradesman. 747
\ JANTED—PARTNER TO TAKE HALF IN.
terestin my 75 bbl. steam roller mill and
elevator, situated on railroad: miller preferred;
good wheat country. Full description i
terms and inquiries given promptly by address
ing H.C. Herkimer, Maybee, Monroe county,
Mich. {
J? XO WANT TO BUY OR SELL REAL
- estate, write me. I can satisfy you. Chas,
E. Mercer, Rooms 1 and 2, Widdiecomb building,
653
IGHTY CENTS WILL BUY $1 WORTH OF
-4a clean stock of groceries inventorying
about $5,000. Terms,cash; sales,#30,000 annua
strictly cash store; good town of °
@ Mich. "

 

 

  

 

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tants Address 738, ¢

 

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MISCELLANEOUS.
NV EN TO SELL BAKING POWDER 10 THE
ak grocery trade. Steady employment, ex peri-
ence unnecessary. $75 monthly salary and ex
penses orcom. If offer satisfactory, address at
once, with particulars concerning yourself, U.S.
Chemical Works, Chicago. 7

 

 

\ 7 ANTED—POULTRY, VEAL, LAMBS, BUT.
ter and eggs on consignment. Ask for

quotations. F. J. Dettenthaler, Grand Rapids,

Mich. ee . | 760

y YANTED—BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY,
potatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, etc,

Correspondence solicited. Watkins & Smith,
84-86 South Division St., Grand Rapids, 673
\ FANTED—MEN TU ORDER ON APPROV

al oue of the best “ready to wear’ suits
made at $13.50, any stylecut. Strahan & Gren
lich, 24 Monroe street, Grand Rapi 727
V ANTED—EVERY DRUGG fT JUST

starting in business and every one already
started to use our system of poison labels. What
has cost you $15 you can now get for 84. Four
teen labels do the work of 113. Tradesman
Company. Grand Rapids.

 

 
   
 

 

 

 

 

 

SITUATIONS WANTED,

| fp ntliphgelducin BY YOUNG MAR
ried man in grocery or general store, smal]
town preferred. Kight years’ experience in gro
cery. Capable of taking charge of books and
doing the buying. Very best of references. Ad

dress No. 753, care Michigan Tradesman. 53

WV ANTED-SITUATION BY REGISTERED
v pharmacist, Enquire 590 South Division

street, Grand Rapids. 734

 

 

 

 

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THE

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

THE BACK OFFICE.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

The American Grocer, in speaking of
the death of Mr. Stone, said that it was
a matter of pride with him that during
the four and forty years of his connec-
tion with the Journal of Commerce, he
had never taken a vacation. The St.
Louis Dry Goods Repurter thinks that
there isn’t anything to be proud of in
such slavery as that; that the editor’s
death at seventy-seven should be looked
upon as a warning, and that ‘those who
don’t know enough to take a rest should
be compelled to do so!”’

I have read the item and the comment
and am inclined to think that the Re-
porter is a little ‘‘off.”’ It depends so
much upon the man—this taking a vaca-
tion—and with Mr. Stone’s idea of work
and his evident fondness for it, it may
be safe to assume that, if the Reporter's
heroic treatment had been acted upon,
the editor of the Jowrnal of Commerce,
instead of living until he was seventy-
seven, would, years ago, have gone from
his work to his reward.

There is no use of a vacation to a man
who doesn’t know what a vacation is
made for. l’ve no desire to be the trav-
eling companion of a man who takes his
business with him wherever he goes, and
it doesn’t make any difference what that
business is. It may be no end of fun to
camp out, forexample, with a man whose
mind is so intent upon the market that
he isn’t willing to get beyond the reach
of the telegraph wire, and who would
just as soon think of going to sleep with-
out knowing how the market stands as
he would of admitting that somebody
else in the party shot the biggest deer or
caught the biggest fish, HowI should
enjoy a sea voyage with a man who
couldn’t see a vessel under full sail—and
what a beautiful sight it is!—without cal-
culating how much per cent.the man made
who furnished the canvas for the sails;
or, what is quite as bad, worrying all the
time lest the steamer may not reach her
dock exactly on time, and so prevent that
interview the minute he strikes Liver-
pool! Think of a trip up the lakes, a
jaunt to the White Mountains or asojourn
at Newport with an editor who didn’t
want to go anyway, and whose tab is al-
ways on his knee and who, if he isn’t
writing something for the paper, is grind-
ing out in his mind an editorial on the
sights and sounds about him, and who,
in reply to some attraction pointed out,
wonders if that foel of a foreman will
know enough to set up that copy with-
out compromising everybody in the es-
tablishment!

One of the greatest attractions to draw
such a fellow from “‘life’s dull round’’
is his old home ‘‘up in.the country.”’
The good wife, seeing, or thinking she
sees, that John is simply wearing him-
self out in that office, finally accom-
plishes her purpose and they all start for
the farm. Worse than that, they get
there; and then the fun begins. After
he has been kissed all around and after
he has been to the barn, and seen the
pigs, and heard the rooster crow once or
twice, and heard Jerry and Jedediah
wonder over and over again why Cy Huz-
zington isn’t willing to tell what he’s
been offered for his turkeys; after he has
looked the farm all over, and let the bars
down just as he used to years ago, he
saunters back to the house to look over
his exchanges. From that time on he
has what in common parlance is called

 

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

STICK CANDY.
Cases Bbls. Pails.

Standard, per ib......... 2 7
ss ae... 6 7
. oe. .......... 6 7

Boston Groam............ 8%

oo , 8

Exim H........ _ -. oa.

MIXED CANDY. :
Bbis, Palis

eee 5 6%
eee 5% 6%
a 6 7
eee 8
een eek : 8%
nee 6% i”
peoxen any. baskets” 7
Peanut Squares............ - 2 S|
PremOn Crome 9 |
Valley Creams.. : |

Midget, 30 Ib. baskets.
Modern.30lb. “ ..

 

ranoy—In bulk

 
 

  
   

Pails
hemcnpes, Pie 8%
” — ee ee eee eee ce 9%
commend a EEE 1
Chocolate Monamentals..................... 2
Gum Drops. 5
Moss Drops. Th
Sour Drops. 8
Imperials..... 9
Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box
een re 50
catimd coee -  cE 50
Popo rene 60
eee 65
im. M Choecolate Drops... %5
on eee 35@50
Licorice Drops.. ........
A. B. Licorice Drops.. E
Lozenges, plain..... .. oe
o printed.... —. -
eee ..60
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ee bees ee 50
med Meade Creams... | 8C@90
eee 60@80
Pecerect tron 90
a ee
Pm ate 90@1 25
menscrotvoen Berioe 60
CABAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 Ib. boxes................. 34
No. 1, c 3 Ce 51
No. 2, . 2 cs oo. 28
ORANGES,

California Seedlings—126, 150, 176, 200, 216. - 2 75
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Fancy Navels—112.......
————— 3 50
150, 176, 200 3 7
Messina Oranges, 200......-... 3 66
LEMONS.
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pereteee Se 4 0U
Sere tenes ee 4 50
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Serer we hl 3 75
ee ee 4 00
Extra Fancy, 360, gilt packing............. 4 60
BANANAS.

Large bunches.... . oe 1 75@2 50
ee 1 25@1 50
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.

Pica, fancy layers 160._............._.. 13
be . eS
“~ exit = we... oe
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Dae, Pa ee be... @ 75
“ ae ee @5_
- Persian, G. M.50-Ib box. ...... @ 42
NUTS,
Almois, Terres... @ 14
aD @
California, soft shelled .... 12
asa. Sec @s
apg @10
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S French ...._. @
e Cat Mol ..... @12
i Soft Shelled Calif. @13
Tame Nuts, fancy.......... @l1
" eee. @?
cocens. tomes OP 8 @ll
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Hickory Nutsper bu., Mich...........
Cenemnm, falleegis...... 3 65
Deecrnms por bu... oe cs
foack Welneia persa.....
PEANUTS.
Pane, &. ©. Sa... 5
wot" a" Roasted... Pr ee
Pemey,. P., Fiegs........... @ 5%
si ce oe... 6@ 6%
Chetes, &. P., Extra... po @ 4%
- ' " Meemee.. 5@ 6
FRESH MEATS,

BEEF.
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Pore Guareers............... Cccrcee nace. 5 @6
Hind quarters........... acco----._..... § GIO
Loe es -11 @14
= a ee e 19 @14

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PORK,

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cee 8%
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Leaf Lard..... oe a 8
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SECURITY

MANUFACTURER OF

Crackers

AND FULL LINE OF

« Sweet Goods
252 and 254 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS

PERKINS & HESS,

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow.

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

 

 

It is not necessary to go

T r >
( Or ‘O at es to New York, Boston,
Chicago, or any other re-

mote place, for a fine line
of Chocolates or Candy. We have as Fine Goods as any house
in the country and at popular prices. Don’t forget us Wher 2

A. EF. Brooks & Co

Office Telephone 1055.

 

 

5 and 7 South Ionia St.
GRAND RAPIDS, Iich.

 

Barn Telephone 1059.
ASSOLE NE NN i EN AMT AT AE INE

Storage and
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. Esti:ates Cheerfully
Given. Business Strictly Confidential, Baggage Wagon et all hours. F. S. ELSTON, Mer.

Chocolates!

HAND MADE CREAMS, FRENCH MIXED
and STANDARD MIXTURES.

OUR GOODS ARE WINNERS FROM START TO FINISH.

Putnam Candy Co.
LEMON & WHEELER (50.

WHOLESALE GROCERS

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grand Rapids

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

Our Founder, 10c

Mai Fest, 5c

 

 

 

and the

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN. 7

 

a vacation. He eats, and he rides, and
he visits, and he goes afishing along the
same old stream that blessed his boyhood
and that greets him now with the same
ripples of laughter as in the olden time,
and he makes believe that there never
was another such a vacation taken as
that(!); and then he shakes hands with
them all some happy morning, and, with
a joy he doesn’t try to hide, gets home
just as soon as he can, where his wife,
with that plainness of speech sometimes
assumed by her sex, declares that that is
the last vacation that she shall ever urge
John to make. He made his own life
wretched and everybody else’s who came
anywhere near him. No more vacation

for him!
* * *

A New York salesman, who claims to
know what he is talking about, says that
his sales are increasing and that it is due
to the fact that people want pure goods.
Of course, this particular salesman never
has anything but pure goods to sell, be-
cause the house he travels for never
handles anything else—a condition of
things which cannot be too much com-
mended. Admitting that to be true,
what I want to say is that no brighter
sign of returning prosperity has, so far,
appeared than that the people are want-
ing pure goods. It means that they are
coming to their senses. It means that
they have, at last, found out that cheap
goods are cheap because they are not
good for anything; that they have got
tired of this, and are willing to pay what
goods are worth for the sake of having
them good and ‘‘pure.”’

Now that the tide has turned, whatever
enters into the wants and wishes of men
will be of the same stamp. ‘I want
something that will wear.I want it all wool
and I wantit to be just what it appears
—good, clearthrough.’? The pure food
question is taking good care of itself. It
is going to be quite a while before the real
coffee berry takes the place of the chic-
ory and the bean, but it will come in
time; and who knows but that one of these
days when honesty gets to be more and
more what the people want, they
may be brave enough to ask for oleomar-
garine, no matter what its color may be,
and refuse to buy fresh farm butter that
has been dyed the color of the butter-
cup?

The desire for the good and the pure
will not stop here. When itis distinctly
understood what the people are not only
wanting but are determined to have, the
reform will set in in good earnest. I
can imagine that the time is not far off
when aman will detest a filled watch-
case as he detests a filled cheese! What
a glorious world to live in it will be
when the eall for pinchbeck jewelry is
over and all the acid is left out of the
molasses! Think of the sweat-shop clos-
ing its doors because the business and
all that belongs to the debasing idea is
to be tolerated no longer! And who
would doubt the dawn of the Golden Age
if ‘‘the people’’ should turn their backs
upon those in purple and fine linen and
upon those not so clad who get gain by
cheating and exultingly flaunt the result
of their shrewdness upon the world!
“People want pure goods.’’

most cheering sign yet of the good times
coming, and the surest, for when the
people begin to call for the best—because
it is the best, on the principle that like
seeks like—it indicates a wholesomeness
and a healthiness of the body politic
which has not existed before for many a
day. RICHARD MALCOM STRONG.

It is the!

 

Advantages of the Cash System.

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

Why is it that a merchant will give
great amounts of merchandise to a per-
s9n with absolutely no security? This
same merchant might not lend a friend
$50 without security of some kind, even
if that friend were possessed of real es-
tate to the amount of thousands of dol-
lars, but, when a stranger comes along

and says, in a plausible manner, that }

he needs a little time on a bill of
goods, the merchant gives him the
goods at once. Why should he do this?
The reason is simply this: The mer-
chant’s anxiety to do business  over-
comes his better judgment, or else he
is located in a community where every-
one gives credit. To overcome the
former fault lies, of course, with the
individual, who needs training; to over-
come the latter needs organization—no
halfway organization, but complete
unity of all merchants in that line of
goods. The retail grocers, for instance

—there is no class of merchants who
give credit so promiscuously as do they.
And why? If they were thoroughly or-
ganized, they would not be compelled to
give credit, simply because the person
who applied for it and was refused could
not get it at any of the retail groceries
whieh the community might contain. It
only one grocer gave credit it would be
an easy matter to overcome his objec-
tions after three months’ time. If thor-
oughly organized, what trade you might
lose by refusing credit would be counter-
acted by those your neighbor loses who
now come to you.

Now, if you were doing business on a
strietly cash basis, see what the advan
tage would be. You would be able to
discount all your bills, besides being
able to get a better bargain from the
wholesaler, who knew his money was
forthcoming; you would, consequently,
make larger profits, as you would be buy-
ing your goods cheaper, and there would
be no loss to be deducted from *your
profits, as there is now when you have
given credit to some of these plausible-
talking dead-beats with which the coun-
try abounds. E. ALPHONSE CLOONAN.

St. Louis, Mo.

 

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shipping. Take very little room in store. Han
dies easily attached. Every one guaranteed.
Send for prices.

PENINSULAR
BROOM CO,

92 LARNED ST. W.

 

DETROIT.
NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE MERIT!

Rocker Washer

Has proved the most satis-
factory of any Washerever
Bs paced upon the market.
It is warranted to wash an
Z oidinary family washing
moot

100 Pieces in One Hour
as clean as can be washed
on the washboard.

Write for Catalogue and
Trade Discounts.

ROGKER WASHER GF Way

 

 

The
Favorite
Churn

 

POINTS OF EXCELLENCE.

t is made of thoroughly seasoned material It is finished
smooth inside as well as outside. The iron ring head is strong
and net liable to break. The bails are fastened to the iron
ring, where they need to be fastened. It issimple in construe-
tion and co venient to operate. No other churn is so nearly

rq x . * .
perf ct as The Favorite. Don’t buy a counterfeit.
SIZES AND PRICES.

no. 6 5 gal... to churn 2 gals > & 00)| No. $0 wal. toe n oe . 1 OW)
No. 1--10 gal., to churn 4 gals $50; No. 4—% gal h t2gals 12 00
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ProsTen TEVENS
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AGENTS FOR WESTERN MICHIGAN.

Brown & Sehler

Carriages Wagons,
Harnesses, Harrows,
Fows, Culivators:

AND A FULL LINE OF SMALL IIPLEMENTS AND REPAIRS.

 

 

 

Prompt attention to Mail and Telegraph Orders. Prices right.
Write for Catalogues. TELEPHONE 104.

BROWN & SEHLER

GRAND RAPIDS, [1ICH.

 

  
 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

ways been engaged in this mystery, and
it is hard to believe that its falsity was
not apparent to these whose duty it was

' neu
MicricanTRapesman

 

re WEEKLY JOURNAL P-RVOTED TO THA
Best Interests of Business Men.

Published at
New Blodgett Bldg., Grand Rapids,
— BY THE —

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ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLIC#TION,

 

Communications invited frum practical busi-
ness men.

Correspondents must give their full name and
address, not necessarily for publication, but as

“a guarantee of good faith.

Subscribers may have the mailing address of
their papers changed as often as desired.

No paper discontinued, except at the option of
the proprietor, until ell arrearages are paid.

Sample copies sent free to any address

Entered at Grand Rapids post-office as second
class matter.

we When writing to any of our advertisers,
please say that you saw their advertisement in
HE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

E, A. STOWE, Editor.

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1.

 

 

JOURNALISTIC FAKES.

The American system of news gather-
ing for the press is, perhaps, as practical
as any that can be devised and it is prob-
able that it will progress on substantially
its present lines until it reaches a high
degree of efficiency. Its prestige and
usefulness are greatly impaired, how-
ever, by the fact that so great a percent-
age of the most sensational of its gather-
ings is baseless fabrication.

Of course, it is impossible to prevent
the gathering and use of much, based on
rumor or with no foundation, that is not
entitled to credence, by any system pay-
ing for the space occupied and employ-
ing correspondents of all grades of re-
liability; but there may, and should be,
an exercise of scrutiny and judgment on
the part of the officials of the associa-
tions or editors that will greatly reduce
the quantity of such literature now cur-
rent. In much of this the falsity is so
manifest that it causes a suspicion of
eollusion on the part of those who
“pass’’ it.

Recently there seems to have been an
epidemic of *‘fakes’’ and all degrees of
ingenuity are resorted toin giving them
plausibility or inventing localities and
surroundings, making it impossible to
detect their falsity. Thus, we have a
series of thrilling accounts, such as a
combat between a lion and a grizzly bear
from an inaccessible locality in Northern
Mexico; stories of long imprisonment of
American citizens in the Mexican moun-
tains, without trial, although accused of
crime; the enslaving of negroes in Mex-
ico—Mexico seems a favorite location for
fakes. Occasionally, there is more au-
dacity in the location and surroundings,
as in the case of some great mystery of
crime which has long engaged public at-
tention. Thus, we have the solution of
the mystery of the White Chapel mur-
ders in a long and circumstantial ac-
count, said to have been given at a pri-
vate banquet of medical men in some
Western city, reciting that the crimes
were committed by a mad physician in
London, since confined in an asylum,
and that these facts had been known,
ever since the occurrence, to the London
detectives. The impossibility of this

 

to pass upon it.

It seems as though the temporary gain
resulting from such sensations would be
more than counteracted by the loss of re-
liability and respect among intelligent
people, but, evidently, this is not the
opinion of the news conservators. This
feature of daily journalism is becoming
too prominent, however, and unless a
halt is called in this direction the public
will soon manifest an interest and an
ability in discriminating between record
of fact and that invented to pander to de-
praved taste, and will learn to place a
just estimate on the value of journals
which resort to such methods to enlarge
the cirele of their readers.

 

ENGLAND AND NICARAGDA.

Perhaps no act of this administration
has been so widely criticised as the ap-
parent indifference it has shown in al-
lowing the British Government to land
troops in Nicaragua. Itis claimed that
it amounts, practically, to an abandon-
ment of the Monroe doctrine, permitting
its provisions to be flagrantly violated
without even a protest. The criticism
has greatly exceeded that caused by the
refusal of the administration to accept
the proposition of annexation from
Hawaii, and the responsibility for the in-
difference is charged to the same lack of
‘Americanism’ that was manifested in
that instance.

It is probable, however, that the ad-
ministration is governed by the belief that
Great Britain has a real grievance and that
it would be as great a perversion of the
intent of the Monroe doctrine to inter-
fere with the enforcement of her claims
as it would be to allow any of the Amer-
ican republics to use it as a protection
in disregarding the rights of European
nations. There seems, unfortunately, to
be sufficient precedent for England’s
action in the manner in which the
United States has treated her weaker
sister republics, like Paraguay, Chili and
others.

Of course, the principal interest in the
matter is on account of the Nicaragua
Canal. It has been suggested that the
British occupation of Corinto is with
reference to a permanent station giving
the control over, or a large interest in,
the affairs of the canal. If such were
the case, and if the English Government
should proceed to dig the canal, it would
serve this country right for her indiffer-
ence and procrastination in regard to it;
but there is no probability of any such
eccurrence. The continued occupation
of Corinto would only serve to keep the
canal project in abeyance. If the United
States has any active part in the con-
struction of the canal, England will
scarcely attempt any authority in it on
account of military occupation of the lo-
cality. She will depend on amicable
treaty for any advantages she may claim.
That England should take possession of
Nicaragua and open the canal on her own
responsibility, in defiance of the wishes
of this country, is a contingency hardly
to be imagined.

 

China is having some difliculty in con-
vinecing her government officials that she
is whipped and tbat an acceptance of the
treaty of peace offered by Japan is ad-
visable. It is to be hoped that their ob-

becomes apparent when one remembers /| tuseness on these points will not lead to

to what an extent public enquiry has al- |

the administering of another drubbing.

THE WAR CLOUD IN EUROPE.

That a great war is approaching in
Europe is the impression of nearly all
intelligent on-lookers. In what quarter it
will break out first is quite uncertain.
The relations of the great powers are so
entangled, especially through their rela-
tions to the smaller ones, and to their
own dependencies in Africa and Asia,
that a chance for a collision offers itself
, whichever way one may turn. A few
weeks ago it seemed not impossible that
France and England might come to blows
because of French aggressions on the
Upper Nile. The materials for such a
conflagration are always present at the
mouth of the river. TbeChittralise war
is a distinct menace to Russia, and gives
that nation a chance to stir up the
Afghans against the English advance,
and so on.

At present the storm center is Norway.
The struggle for greater independence
of Sweden, which has gone on for more
than a generation, has become suddenly
acute. The Norwegian Storthing has
made it simply impossible to form a
Ministry acceptable to King Oscar. Its
leaders talk of impeaching the Conserva-
tives if they take office. They them-
selves will serve only if the King con-
cedes the country a separate staff of
consuls. This is a matter of more im-
portance than appears on the surface,
as Norway is more largely engaged in
shipping business than any other coun-
try in proportion to its population, and
the Norwegians think that the Swedish
consuls are less zealous for their inter-
ests than consuls of their own would be.

As Russia has a common frontier with
both countries, and has good reason for
using the hatred the Norwegians in com-
mon with the Danes feel toward Ger-
many, it is natural that there should be
reports of a Russian intervention in their
behalf. Natural also that reports
should spread that the German Emperor
has assured his support in that case to
Sweden, whose abstention in the Schles-
wig war of 1864 was so useful to Ger-
many. But whether all this is diplo-
matic romancing or sober fact is too
early to say.

There is considerable interest among
the retail grocers as to the probable atti-
tude of the new city administration in
the matter of peddlers’ licenses, as the
time approaches for the consideration of
that subject. The inconsiderate tender-
heartedness of Mayor Fisher, which
prompted him to actually exceed his au-
thority in the granting of permits to the
poor and unfortunate, to those who came
with the endorsement of that most excel-
lent organization, the Charity Organiza-
tion Society, so thoroughly demoralized
the license system that all concerned
have became thoroughly disgusted and
disheartened. The demoralization has
not only caused a contemptuous disre-
gard of the ordinance by the peddlers,
but it has so thoroughly disgusted the of-
ficers whose duty it is to see it enforced
to have that enforcement so constantly
frustrated by the flourish of a mayor’s
permit, that it has become little more
than a dead letter. There is strong hope
that matters will be improved by the in-
coming administration. They cannot be
made worse. At all events the gentle-
manly(?) chairman of the Committee on
Licenses, Mr. Shaw, will probably be
superseded by a man who will not go

 

 

out of his way to give the grocers the

 

polite designation of swine, and it is
probable that the Mayor will not take the
care of paupers from the poor depart-
ment, where it belongs, to saddle it on
the grocers and other classes of trades-
men. As the time approaches it be-
hooves the grocers to use diligence, that
their rights in this matter may be prop-
erly presented to the incoming Council,
and it will be unfortunate if they allow
the discouragement caused by last year’s
failures and mistakes to jeopardize their
interests this year.

 

The friends of S. A. Sears (New York
Biscuit Co.)—and they are legion—are
urging his appointment as a member of
the Board of Police and Fire Commis-
sioners and the indications are that
Mayor-elect Stebbins will honor himself
and the city by naming Mr. Sears for
that responsible position. The friends
of the other candidates are pressing their
claims, mainly on grounds of political
expediency, the only argument used
against Mr. Sears being that he is not a
member of ‘‘de gang” which assumes the
right to control the appointments of the
incoming Mayor. Mr. Sears is not an
active politician, albeit he has always
been a liberal contributor to Democratic
campaign funds and—in common with
most Democrats—invariably votes his
ticket straight. The argument that he
is not a professional politician ought to
have no. infiuence with Mayor-elect
Stebbins, for the office of Police and
Fire Commissioner is not a _ political
office, in any sense of the word, but
should be occupied by a man who is
actuated solely by adesire to serve the
best interests of the city, irrespective of
the dictates of party. The appointment
of Mr. Sears would ensure that the city’s
business be kept out of the mire of party
politics, and Tuk TRADESMAN urges Mr.
Stebbins to consider the matter solely
from a business standpoint and bestow
the honor on a man whose ability and
energy and character are such as to en-
able him to discharge the difficult duties
of the position with credit to himself,
with honor to the city and with profit to
the people.

The rehearing of the income tax ques-
tion before the entire bench of the Su-
preme Court, to begin May 6, will be
watched with greater interest than even
the first hearing occasioned. It seems to
be taken for granted by many that the
burden of the decision will rest on Jus-
tice Jackson, who was sick during the
first trial, and there is considerable con-
jecture as to his position op the question
to be considered and his personal inter-
ests and prejudices. It is generally
thought that, on account of being a
Southerner, he will be in favor of the
law, although his large interests in real
estate will tend to make him satisfied
with the decisions as they stand. The
Government, however, expects to make
a more thorough presentation of its ease
and it will not be strange if the position
of other justices be changed by the argu-
ments on one side or the other.

 

 

The World’s Fair diplomas are to be
ready for delivery from the bureau of
engraving and printing in about sixty
days. They will be elaborately en-
graved and printed on Japan paper and
will contain the name of the exhibitor,
the article exhibited and the comment
made thereon. The number issued will
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THE COLOR STANDARD.
The good people of New York City
have for some time been entertained,
if not edified, by exhibitions of human
statuary under the denomination of
living pictures.

First, the figures of men and women
partially nude, but decently draped,
were shown upon the stage. Itappears
that there was too much drapery to
please the public taste, and, in order
to meet popular requirement, the drap-
ing was curtailed as much as possible.
But, since the law forbade the public ex-
hibition of figures without some cover-
ing, the models were clad in the thinnest
possible tight fleshings, and so presented
for popular delectation.

The tights, however, proved to be too
much covering for those who wanted the
real, undisguised truth, and so the de-
vice was resorted to of gilding or bronz-
ing the naked bodies of the actors, and
so giving them to the admiring specta-
tors. This process consists of coating
the skin with a light sizing of varnish,
and then rubbing on bronze powder.
Any white persons so treated would pre-
sent the effect of nude mulattoes, with
nothing between them and the rest of
the world save a coat of varnish.

The police could see nothing but un-
lawful exposure in the bronzed per-
formers and arrested them. The matter
thus being brought into court, a test
case was tried in the Court of General
Sessions by Police Judges Feitner: Hogan
and Meade. The models, Bessie Stan-
ton, Pearl Nahlen and Otto Kohler, were
on hand as defendants, with their man-
ager. The court, after gravely consider-
ing the case and hearing testimony, de-
cided that a coat of varnish on the naked
body is less suggestive and indecent
than isa suit of tights, and dismissed
the case.

Thus it has been judicially decided
that no clothing is a more moral and
edifying condition of the human form
than isa complete covering of silk or
cotton, and this settles the matter so far
as morals are concerned. A varnished
skin would certainly give a person so
treated an appearance of being highly
polished; but polish and refinement do
not always imply morality and purity of
character. Nevertheless, in New York
law, varnish satisfies all the require-
ments of judicial modesty and decency.

But the relation of this external polish
to art is quite another thing. The beauty
of the nude human form resides, next to
its symmetry and pose, in the whiteness
of the skin. Figures in clothes should
be cast in bronze; but the nude form,
particularly of a woman, should be in
white marble. Whiteness is an essential
to the idea of beauty and purity in a
woman, and if there be only beauty and
no purity, at any rate the charm should
be preserved by an exhibition of white-
ness.

If, then, varnish can cover, in the eye
of the law, all the immoral suggestions
of nudity, why not use white varnish?
That would obliterate all the stains and
discolorations of birthmarks, and show
up a beautiful figure in perfect white-
ness. It is to be hoped, in the interest
of art, that bronze has not been judi-
cially set up as the color of allowable
and legal nudity. There should bea lat-
itude in the coloring, and, if so, let the
living pictures be whitewashed with an
honest brush, as well as by the sentence
of a bench of judges, who may, indeed,

 

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prejudice when they preferred a coat of
paint to clothing as an expression of de-
cency and morality.

 

The modern juryman is likely to have
a very severe strain laid upon his power
of judgment, if hypnotism is to be ac-
cepted as a plea of defense. He already
was sufliciently embarrassed by the plea
of ‘‘emotional insanity,’’ which was sup-
posed to convert murder into an act of
virtue. Butif every weak and muddle-
headed fellow who, under the influence
of a stronger will than his own, may
plead that he had no responsibility for his
acts, itisnot the juryman only who will
be perplexed by the consequences. Yet
a Kansas jury has acquitted the man who
actually committed a murder, and a
second has found the alleged hypnotizer
guilty; and this verdict has been con-
firmed by the Supreme Court. In this
ease the ‘‘hypnotizer’’ had strong rea-
sons for wishing to have the murder
committed, and this fact weighed with
the jury. On the other hand, the actual
murderer was not a passive instrument,
as he had been roused to active resent-
ment against his victim by statements
made with regard to his own wife. The
case for mere hypnotic suggestion, there-
fore, was not the strongest possible.
And while hypnotizers and snakelike
fascinators may be dangerous persons,
they are neither so common nor so dan-
gerous as the weaklings who would
throw the responsibility of their acts up-
on other men’s wills.

Razors are very slow of sale in Ja-
maica, where the natives, instead of
them, are accustomed to use a bit of
broken glass. The soap in common use
is made of cocoanut oil and homemade
lye, and a delightful soap itis. When a
native Jamaican wants to shave, he takes
his cocoanut shell of soap, a donkey-tail
brush and an old bottle, of which there
are myriads scattered everywhere, and
goes to a convenient pool, which supplies
him with water and serves as a mirror.
He breaks his bottle on a stone, selects a
good, sharp piece and proceeds to busi-
ness. It is said that a good piece of
glass works quite as well as a razor, and
the user rarely cuts himself.

One of the most ——_ of the
many discoveries in science which have
been made during the last few years is
the fact that a ray of light produces
sound. A beam of sunlight is caused to
pass through a prism, so as to produce
what is called the solar spectrum, or
rainbow. A disk having slits in it is
revolved swiftly, and the colored light
of the rainbow is made to break
through it. Place the ear to a vessel
containing silk, wool or other colored
material. As the colored lights of the
spectrum fall upon it sounds will be
given by different parts of the spectrum,
and there will be silence in other parts.

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poisoning is the disorganization of the
fiber of the arteries. The action of
ptomaines is often very rapid.

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THE CANNELTON STRIKE.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

‘“‘The men have struck, father. I just
came by the shaft house, and there must
have been fifty of them, all shouting and
hurrahing for ‘Forrester and more
wages!’ ”’

The speaker was a blonde slip of a
lass, about eighteen or twenty years of
age, pretty and sparkling all over with
the freshness of early womanhood.
Such was Leckie Harding. Her father
was the proprietor of Cannelton’s largest
store—the only general store, in fact. of
which the little mining town, nestling
among the mountains of Pennsylvania,
boasted.

To make clear the significance of the
news conveyed in the girl’s sudden an-
nouncement as she entered her father’s
store, we must go back alittle. A year
previous to the time of which we write,
the miners of Cannelton Mine had struck
for more wages, but, through the wise
counsel of a few cool-headed among their
number, had compromised on an agree-
ment by the company to pay the existing
seale for one year and then grant the ad-
vance. The time had now arrived
when this promise was to be made
good. The company, owing to hard
times and a serious accident in the
mine, causing the loss of many thou-
sands of dollars, notified the men that
the existing wages could not be _ in-
creased; that if the men still insisted,
the mines would have to shut down for
the present.

Wise counselors were scarce among the
miners this time, and Leckie’s announce-
ment to her father shows the state of af-
fairs at the opening of this narrative.

“The idiots! I knew it would come to
that, finally, but I still hoped something
might happen to stave it off.”

Robert Harding was a man of iron
resolution. He had lived and dealt with
the miners in Cannelton for many years.
He was marshal of the place and many a
struggle had he had with the drunken
and quarrelsome men in preserving or-
der. Yet, in spite of his authority, he
was very popular among them, for the
roughest and most brutal respect fear-
lessness and stubborn honesty in their
associates or superiors, and these quali-
ties Robert Harding possessed to a
marked degree.

He had bat one genuine enemy
among the whole mining population, and
this existed in the person of Raiph For-
rester, a man whom he had placed under
arrest, during the trouble among the
men the year before, for inciting a riot.
Forrester was an English miner—one of
the foremen—who, to judge from his
conversation and appearance, was born
far above the low estate of a common
coal miner. He wasa strong handsome
man of about thirty years and had al-
ways been a leader among his fellows.
His greatest redeeming trait was the love
and reverence he bore his mother, who
was feeble with age and quite an invalid.
His care for her comfort and happiness
was a proverb in the community, and his
cottage contained many luxuries and
evidences of refinement lacking in the
homes of his rougher companions. For-
rester was a total abstainer, and this
partly explained his leadership among
the men—his head was always clear.

‘You take care of the store fora while,
Leckie,” said Harding; ‘‘I’m going down
to see what’s going on.”

When he arrived at the mine, he found

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

Forrester haranguing the men. Harding,
could not get near enough to hear what}
was going on, but he could see, from the |
excited faces and violent gesticulations |
of the men, that their leader’s words |
were entirely to their liking.

By the time Forrester got through,
Harding had crowded up to him.

‘Ralph, are you urging these poor |
devils into another strike, with winter |
facing them? I supposed you a man of
more sense and humanity. Don’t you
know they will starve, along with their
wives and children? Yes, and your old
mother will suffer with the rest. Stop it,
Ralph! You ean do it, if you will.”

Forrester winced a little at the men-
tion of his mother; but his English obsti-
nacy stood in the way and he answered,
“You mind your own business, Robert
Harding. These men are being starved
by slow degrees by the bosses, and” (in
an undertone) ‘‘they might as well die
soon as later.’?’ And he turned away
with the men, who were dispersing.

* rg *

The miners of Cannelton were little
short of absolute starvation. True to
their word, the owners of the mine had
shut down. There was no employment
of any nature and, therefore, no revenue
with which to fill the hungry mouths and
clothe the little ones against the rigors of
a Pennsylvania winter. In nearly every
home could be seen the ravages of hun-
ger. Thin, drawr faces, shrunken bod-
ies, clothing in rags, and very little even
of those, spoke mutely but most pathetic-
ally of the suffering thrust upon the in-
nocent dependants by their misguided
and stubborn breadwinners. It was piti-
ful, indeed, to see the children huddling
around their bit of a fire, or delving
among the refuse heaps for fuel with
which to keep life in their puny bodies.

The mining company now refused to
allow the miners coal to burn and were
threatening to evict them to make room
for other tenants. They had decided to
open the mines with outside workmen.
And all this wretchedness was the direct
result of the criminal stubbornness and
lack of common sense on the part of the
miners! Led on to the belief that capital
was their natural enemy, they had sacri-
ficed everything in their blind struggle
against it and dragged down, in the gen-
eral ruin, those dependent on them.

The men were desperate. Harding
had long since refused them credit. How
they eked out an existence no one could
tell. Even Forrester’s gray-haired old
mother was in need of the necessities of
life, and she an invalid. This threat of
bringing ip new men acted like a blow,
stunning some of them into apathy; but
only for the moment. The men began to
wear a more gloomy and determined
look; the women to appear even more
miserable, and the little children—well,
let that pass.

+ *

“Leckie, you are the one responsible
for all this misery. If you had said)
‘yes’ a year and a half ago, when I asked
you to marry me, we would have had a
happy home and I would never have!
urged the men on to strike.”

It was Ralph Forrester who spoke.
He had met Leckie as she left her
father’s store and had roughly—almost |
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yielded to his will—with great wisdom,
as it now appeared.

‘*You do well to accuse me of all this
suffering, Ralph Forrester! . You, and
you only, are to blame for it. Your
word is Jaw with the men. You might
have saved all this, and then—per-
haps—”

The girl’s voice faltered and she
turned as if to leave him.

“Perhaps what, Leckie?”
asked Forrester.

‘*Perhaps,” her eyes flashed and her
voice had regained its accustomed firm-
ness, ‘‘perhaps there might have been
some chance for your future salvation;
but for the misery you have caused you
will suffer as long as you live, and when
you die—Ralph Forrester, I hate you!
Let me pass!” He had stretched a de-
taining arm across her path.

‘Just a word, Leckie! If you’ll say
you’ll marry me sometime, even if I
have to wait a year or more, I give you
my word that I will stop all this trou-
ble and get the men to return to work,
for they will do just what I tell them to.
The company is going to bring in new
men next week, and. if we don’t go back
to our old places before they get here,
there’ll be worse trouble than we've had
yet. Say you will, Leckie, for I love
you!’’

‘*You had my answer a long time ago,
Mr. Forrester, and you have done noth-
ing to make me change my mind. Now,
let me go!”’

His hand dropped to his side and his
face worked with strong emotion, as he
watched her graceful figure out of sight.

The good angel of Ralph Forrester un-
furled her pinions and took flight when
Leckie left him. The bad all came to
the surface then, and even his mother
was forgotten.

eagerly

* *

The new miners had arrived. The
company had served eviction notices on
its former employes. The newcomers
were all single men, and lived in shanties
until better accommodations could be se-
cured by the evictions. The mines and
property of the company were guarded
by armed men, whoalso served as a body-
guard to the new arrivals; still, there
had been several collisions between
them and the old men, and serious
trouble would undoubtedly ensue upon
the eviction of the miners’ families.

Through all this Ralph Forrester had
been the leading spirit. His word was
law among the men, and, had he so de-
sired and advised, they would have re-
turned to work long before matters had
arrived at this crisis—surely a serious
responsibility for a man to take upon
himself.

A dozen of the old miners were con-
gregated, late in the afternoon of the
day the eviction notices were served, in
an isolated shanty far up the mountain.
They conversed in low tones—it could
hardly be said they conversed, for Ralph
Forrester did most of the talking—and a
desperate purpose showed in the hard-
ened lines of each countenance.

‘“‘Can you manage that part of it, Mil-
ler?” asked Ralph of the swarthy heavy-
browed fellow nearest him, after giving
certain instructions. The man took his
hand from his pocket and exhibited, with
an ominous gesture, a large stick of dy-
namite.

‘“‘That’ll fix th’ shanties where the
new fellers are,’’ he leered, ‘‘an’ here’s
another fer ter fix old Hardin’ an’ his

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ° | 11

 

old store! I ain’t forgot how he |
refused ter give my ol’ ’oman a bit 0’ |

flour, an’ her an’ th’ kids astarvin’, curse |

‘‘Well, then, we’ll attend to the mines, |
and I’ll warrant Cannelton’l! get a shak-
ing up it won’t forget in a jiffy!” |

As he spoke, Ralph Forrester arose |
and the miners filed out into the wintry |
night and scattered to the abodes of |
misery which, on the morrow, they could |

not name as home.

They had determined to destroy not |

only the mines, but all the company’s |

property, as well as Robert Harding’s |
store. This last piece of business
troubled Ralph Forrester, but Leckie’s |
rejection of his suit had hardened him,
and he smothered his conscience.

* * *

Twenty-four hours later, Ralph For-
rester left his house and took his way
down the mountain side toward the meet-
ing place decided upon by the miners.
He was early at the rendezvous. Some-
thing seemed to weigh him down as he
thought of the awful thing about to be
perpetrated, and for which he was mor-}
ally—if not in all ways—responsible.
He must see his dear old mother again
before he went on with this business.
He might be killed, and he wanted to
feel her hand upon his head ina mother’s
blessing once more, as when a boy he had
knelt in innocence at her knee.
God, she’ll never know,” he thought, as
he retraced his steps up the mountain.
**And Leckie * as the thought of
the girl he loved came into his mind, the
girl whose father would be ruined
through him before to-morrow, he de-
termined to pass her home and catch, if |
he could, a glimpse of her.

 

Entering his home, he thought he heard
voices as he passed through the shed at
the rear. Stepping cautiously to a win-
dow, where he could see and hear with-
out discovery, a sight met his eyes which
completely unnerved him. On the table
stood a basket containing delicacies such
as invalids like; and there sat Leckie
Harding, while near her was his gray-
haired mother in the attitude of prayer.
And she was praying for him! ‘‘Dear
Father in heaven, bless my boy to-night,
and keep him from all evil.” These were
the words that fell on Ralph Forrester’s
ear, as he gazed through the little win-
dow at the scene. Then all his love for
the dear old mother strove with him and
arrested the evil in hisheart. His mother
arose to her feet. Leckie came to her
and, putting her pretty young face on
Mrs. Forrester’s shoulder, sobbed, ‘‘Dear-
est, I love your boy, and, if I had told
him so, this terrible trouble would not
have come upon us all. Will you for-
give me and tell him this when he
comes? ’’

Ralph Forrester waited to hear no
more. He must stop this murderous
work going on down the mountain! The
horror of it all came over him like a
flash. It had never seemed so hideous to
him before. Would he be too late? He
had tarried on the mountain longer than
he dreamed, listening to the revelations
which had awakened him to a realiz-
ing sense of the awful crime he had un-
dertaken. He flew, rather than ran,
down the mountain side, never stopping
for the path in his mad rush. The
bushes and rocks tore his clothes and
bruised him cruelly, but he heeded them
not. To save his comrades from the

 

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Here’s Another?

 

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Biggest Seller on record. NICKEL BONE-
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‘trank| And Rruit Jars.

Get your order in quick. Ship later---say
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warm weather comes on. Impossible to
handle “em then without their leaking all
over everything. You remember what a
time you had getting *em in last summer
---some of you had to de without entirely
and lost lots of sales. And the prices!
Why, they are simply ridiculous. We
have “em from 10 cents up. They never
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crime he had planned and they were
about to commit, was his only idea.

The gang detailed for the destruction
of the company’s buildings had left, ex-
pecting to find him at the mine. The
man named Miller and his crowd were
already on their way to destroy the new
minérs’ shanties. Ah, just God! He was
too late, and worse than a murderer!
But there was one chance. The men
were to approach the mine by a way
known only to themselves—a deserted
shaft. If he could notify the guard in
time, they could stop them, and he might
yet be in time to save the shanties and
the store from destruction.

His story was told to the guard ina
breath, and then he started back on a
run to stop the other party. As he came
in sight of the shanties, he found all
quiet—no signs of the dynamite party.
Miller had determined to destroy Hard-
ing’s store first and attend to the shanties
afterwards. This must be the case.
Forrester’s limbs almost refused their
office, as he realized that he must be too
late. With a determined effort, however.
he gathered all his strength and started
for the store. Harding was on the steps
with a rifle in his hands, while the crowd
stood still in hesitation. As Forrester
came up, Miller threw something past
Harding into the open door of the store
and the miners crowded back away from
the building. It was a stick of dynamite
with a burning fuse attached!

With a gasping cry, Ralph Forrester
rushed up the steps, past Harding, who
fired at him ashecame out. Forrester
staggered a little, but kept on to the
edge of a deep ravine, where he cast
something which blazed like a will-o’-
the-wisp far down the hollow. Forrester
fell as he cast the burning fuse away.
There was a deafening explosion, which
shook the very foundations of the moun-
tain; and then Robert Harding knew he
had shot the man who had saved him and
his property!

The suddenness of the events unnerved
the miners and no further attempt was
made on the store. Picking Forrester
up, they carried him into the store and
found that he had an ugly hole through
his shoulder, a serious and perhaps fatal
wound.

For days and weeks Forrester’s life
hung in the balance; but the magic of
Leckie’s untiring nursing finally brought
him back to life, which now seemed to
him to be worth the living.

The guard was enabled, by his timely
warning, to stop the men before they
could reach the mine; and the only one
injured was Ralph. The men, brought
to their senses when the magnitude of
the crime they were about to attempt
dawned on them, and also by Forrester’s
calamity, made overtures and were once
more taken into the service of the com-
pany. Realizing that, if it was Ralph
Forrester who intended to lead the men
in théir expedition against the mine, it
was also he who had saved their property,
the company, on his recovery, tendered
him a more responsible position, believ-
ing him, through his terrible experience,
to be much more trustworthy than be-
fore. And his future life showed their
confidence not to have been misplaced.
From one responsible position to another
he was advanced, until, to-day, Ralph
Forrester is one of the principal owners
of the Cannelton Mine and a high author-
ity in the community.

To Mrs. Leckie he said: ‘‘My mother’s

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

prayer and your words saved me that
awful night and gave youtome. Iowe
my life in all ways to you, through Prov-
idence.’’ Foc. FosTER FULLER.
—-- > +o —_———
Not Always Wise To Harp on Low
Prices of Goods.

From the Dry Goods Chronicle.

A great many advertisement writers
are now making the mistake of using the
price of an article as the sole inducement
for its purchase. Some advertisements
which we read in the daily papers of the
large cities are continually harping on
the prices being so wonderfully low.
Nearly every item which is quoted is
said to be either half price, or one-third
price, or at least some marvelous reduc-
tion from the figures at which the goods
ought to sell. Now this reduction busi-
ness is all very well upon some occasions
where it can be truthfully said about the
goods for sale; but it is manifestly im-
possible for any firm to be continually
selling goods at half their value and ex-
ist in business for any length of time.
Therefore, the great amount of this im-
mense reduction must simply exist on
paper, and not in fact.

There are other things which could be
dwelt upsn with much better results,
without compromising one’s truthful-
ness, as it is frequently necessary to do
where nothing but prices are talked
about. There are, of course, many per-
sons who think only of the price of an
article in buying; still, there is an
equally large class who like to know
something about the style and the beauty,
or the quality of the goods which are
offered, and while we would not have an
advertiser forget the fact that the price
of an article is often the greatest induce-
ment that can be offered, stil] it is some-
times better to talk of the quality and
the beauty of the goods, and then let the
price speak for itself, without it being
necessary to say what a reduced value
it is.

Where 2 firm is continually dwelling
upon the fact that they sell goods so
cheapiy, their customers frequently get
into the idea that they must expect
everything in the store at half price,
and, therefore, when you really have
first-class goods to offer that are neces-
sarily sold at a legitimate profit, they are
inclined to turn up their noses unless
you can convince them that it is a re-
duced price at which you are selling the
goods. This leads to more lying, and
the clerk is expected to say to the cus-
tomer that these goods were just reduced
to this price, although they may have
never before been sold for anything
higher.

Merchants, as we have said before,
must necessarily sometimes dwell upon
low prices, and can always dosoina
general way; but there are features about
their business which can better be talked
up by praising the goods, and showing
the quality, so as to make them look cheap
at the price, rather than to make the
price appear little by saying that the
goods have been reduced from some
higher value.

 

> <—__—

For the past eighteen years George W.
Keller, of Philadelphia, has been con-
fined to his bed with a disease that the
doctors have been able to do nothing
with. By slow degrees he is becoming
ossified. The first symptoms were mani-
fest in 1873. The case was diagnosed as
rheumatoid anthritis. He has lain on
one side for the last thirteen years. He
retains a slight motion of the neck and
left shoulder. His muscles have become
rigid and stiffened. His claw-like fingers
have turned inward with such per-
sistency that it has become necessary to
pry them open and place cotton in the
palms of the hands to prevent them from
piercing through. Notwithstanding Kel-
ler’s suffering and living death, he is
cheerful and even buoyant, and spends
most of his time smoking a briar-root

pipe.
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Signal 1, 2, 3, 4, Five.

 

 

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20 & 29 Monroe St.,

GRAND RAPIDS.

CUT BIOS. one

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

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everything for the

Field and Garden

Clover, Medium or Mammoth, AI-
syke, Alialfa and Crimson, Timo-
thy, Hungarian Millet, Peas and
Spring Rye. Garden Seeds in
bulk and Garden Tools.

Headquarters for Egg Cases and
Fillers.

z 6 ‘
128 to 132 W. Bridge St.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

SAVES TIME

SAVES MONEY
SAVES’ LABOR
SAVES PAPER

Price of File and Statements:

No. 1;File and 1,/(0 Blank Statements. ..#2 7
No. 1 File and 1,000 Printed Statements.. 3 25

 

Price of Statements Only:

1,600 Biank Statements.................. Bi &
1oee Primted Statements................. 1%
inaex Boards, peraet.................... 25

In ordering Printed Statements, enclose
printed card or bill head or note head whenever

possible, so that no mistake may be made in
spelling names.

TRADESMAN COMPANY
Grand Rapids, Mich,

 

Nov. 18, 1894

CHICAGO

AND WEsT MICHIGAN R’yY.,

“GOING TO CHICAGO.
Ly. G’d Rapids... ..... : —— = 25pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicas ...... 6:50pm *7:20am
RETUR ‘ING ‘enon "CHICAGO
Ly. Chleaso...... 8:25am 5:00pm *11 :45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids. . co 3: 05pm 10:25pm *6:25am
TO AND PROM MUSKEGON.

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

= Grand Rapids... 7 7:30am 3:15pm
Manwice........ 2:20pm 8:15pm
ies . 1:00pm 8:45pm
Ar. Charieyoix...... 3:15pm 11:10pm
Ar. Petoskey..... 3:45pm 11:40pm
Trains arrive from north at 1:00 pm and 10;00
pm.

 

 

 

PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS.

Parlor car leaves for Chicago 1:25pm. Ar-
rives from Chicago 10:25pm. Sleeping cars
leave for Chicago 11:30pm. Arrive from Chi-
cago 6:25am.

*Every day. Others week days only.

DETROIT Oct. 28, 1894
LANSING & NORTHERN R, R,
GOING TO DETROIT.

 

 

Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar Deira... ......... 11:40am 5:30pm 10:10pm
RETURNING FROM DETROIT.
iy. Desret............. 7:40am 1:10pmc06:00pm

Ar. Grand Rapids......12:40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm
TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND BT, LOUIS,
Lv. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:35am 10:45pm

TO AND FROM LOWELL.
Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell.......... 12: pm G2Sypm .......

THROUGH CAR SERVICE.

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

Trains week days onl ¥

GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

MIGHIGAN CENTRAL

 

“‘ Tie Niagara Falis Route.”
(Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.)
Arrive. Depart.
1 70em........ Detroit Express ........ 70am
Sam... *Atlantic and Pacific..... 11 20pm
1 a oo New York Express...... 60pm
aily. All others daily, except Sunday.

Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex
press trains to aud from Detroit.

Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00am; re
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand
Rapids 10:20 pm

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.

 

ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MIL-
WAUKEE Railway.

EASTWARD.
tNo. 14|tNo. 16;TNO. 18;*No.

 

rains Le ve

 

G’d Rapids, ix 6 45axp| 10 20am} 3 25pm |11 00pm
: 7 40am)11 25am) 4 27pm /1235am
st. Johuos | 8 25am 12 17pm] 5 20pm | 125am
Owens) ..... Ar, 900am 1 20pm | 605pm)| 3 10am
E. Saginaw..Ar 10 50am] 3 45pm) 8 00pm| 6 40am
Bay City.....Arj113am| 435pm/ & 37pm| 715am
Ar/10 05am} 345pm)} 7 65pm) 5 4am
Art |12 05pin 5 50pm} 8 50pm 7 30am

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Detroit......-. Ar}|1150am 4 05pm| 925pm)} 7 00am
WESTWARD.

For Grand Haven and Intermediate
ae... *7:00 &. m.
For Grand Haven and ae << :00 P. m.
fil. and Chi...+5:35 P. m,.

+Daily except ie *Daily.

Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:
p.m., 5:30 p. m., 10:00 p.m

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

enens ae 14 has Wagner Parlor Buffet
ear. No.18 Parlor Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.

Westward — No. 11 ParlorCar. No. 15 Wagner
Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

Jas. CAMPBELL, City T’cket Agent.

Grand Rapids & Indiana,

TRAINS GOING NORTH.

 

Leave going
North
For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw... us = r,s
OF BARE ooo o cove sn ceccccceswcccsteccenees 00 p- .
For Petoskey and Mackinaw...........c000.- 256 m.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Leave going
Sout.
CN nn oon ee eee sons sees 7: eee m.
For Kalamazoo and Chicago a 2:15 p. m.
For Fort Wayne and the East................ ae = > >
Per Cimclm MASE. ....... ccvecccccvesccceccsecees
For Kalamazoo and Chicago...,...........- oI fo ». ‘=
Chicago via G. R. & 1. R. R.
Ly Grand Rapids........ gota 2:15pm 11:40pm
ee Coc ese cnce m 9:05pm 7:l0am

40 p
2:15p m train apiioeeale Wagner Buffet Parlor
Oar and coach.

11:40 p = train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car

and Coac
Ly ee = oe 11:30p m
Arr Grand Rapids 7:20am

9:15pm
3:30 p m has through a Buffet Parlor Car
11:30 p m train daily,through Wagner Sleeping Oar
Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
For Muskegon—Leave, From —————
am

1:00pm 1:15pm
— 1. rock wODB:

General pasion a Ticket Agent.

«

«

Advantages of the Cash System.

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

The evils of the credit system and ben-
efits of the cash system of selling goods,
considered from the narrow standpoint
of the parsimonious retail dealer who is
in the business merely for the money he
ean make out of it, are so apparent that
they would not require the profound in-
telligence of Darwin’s ancestors to com-
prehend them; but, when we look upon
it in all its length and breadth and
height, and take into account all the
opportunities it offers for the develop-
ment of character, from the lowest to
the highest type, it becomes a questicn
of no small importance. In considering
it from this point of view I shall find it
necessary to reverse the proposition and
mention, first, some of the benefits of the

 

CONGRESS

 

 
 

Order the’largest/quantity you can use and get the

PEST DISCOTINT.

FOR SALE BY ALL JOBBERS.

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. |

eredit system. To the ee
or, to be more explicit, the man who has
in his heart a desire to spend the best ef-
forts of his life and a large share of his
income ir helping to bring ease and com-
fort to the masses of the people—the
credit system affords an unlimited field
for labor, for there are vast numbers
who go without the comforts and lux-
uries, and sometimes even the necessi-
ties, of life just because they have no
credit with which to buy.

The man whose greatest ambition is to
do a large volume of business has a fine
opportunity to excel all his more con-
servative competitors by doing a general
credit business. He boasts of the thou-
sands of dollars of goods sold in a given
time, in which his brother dealers sell
only hundreds. It is a great boon, also,
to clerks, book-keepers and collectors, as

 

 

it gives caida to many who would
otherwise find nothing to do. Even the
courts and lawyers get their share of the
benefits, in the suits that are brought
against delinquent debtors.

If the cash system were adopted, the
goods of these merchants, instead of go-
ing out to bless the hearts and homes of
the masses, might stay on the shelves
until they became dust covered, moth-
eaten and worthless.

If, perchance, there is a man who is
doing business for the purpose of money-
making, the cash system, strictly en-
forced by wholesaler and retailer alike,
would possess for him innumerable ad-
vantages. It would greatly reduce ex-
penses, as it would not require the large
clerical force necessary to a credit busi-
ness; and there would be no losses from
bad debts. There would be no sleepless

 

13

nights nor worrisome days over the prob-
lem of how or when he would pay his
bills, for he would make no bills, and
when his goods were sold he would have
money with which to buy more. He
would buy goods as low as his compet-
itors, and so be able to sell as cheap as
they without sacrificing all his profits.
He would feel it a pleasure to do busi-
ness and not an everlasting horrible
grind. ©. W. Perrre.

Grand —— Mich

ll — lle

The emigration from Ireland last year
is the lowest recorded since the collec-
tion of returns that were commenced
in 1851.

0

The Signal Five leads,

low.

all others fol-

i

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

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sample order to any of the following Jobbers:

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Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.
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Putnam Candy Co.

Tanglefoot

 

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CONDENSED MILK to its customers.

== sell. The majority cali for it, and won’t take any other brand.

No, I guess not;

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14 ;

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

GREELEY’S HANDWRITING.

Amusing Incident in the Career of the
Great Editor.

 

(Hayden Carruth in Harper’s Magazine
1895 and reprinted by permis
Bros.

i had never kuown

Copyrighted
on. of Harper &

a tramp printer of
sufficient age who had nut worked on the
New York Tribune in the Greeley days,
and whu did not, cunsequently, have
reminiscences of the great editor’s copy.
With this fact in mind one evening, when
oid Mark Wallis, my compositor, was
sober, and, therefore, in
mood, I gently led up to the subject.

**Yes,”’ he said,
dence, ‘‘l was on the Tribune for a year
in the early sixties. I never

a colloquial |
with the utmost confi- |

saw much |

of Greeley’s copy, as that was set mostly |

by one
nism,
corn

who smoked a cob pipe
still on it. He boasted

man—a hoary-headed anachro- |
with the}
that he!

could read Greeley’s copy at three yards |

with one eye shut.
as it was, it was said to be really less
difficult to read when taken in

Tangled and terrible |

detail |

than you might suppose, much of its bad |
reputation having sprung from the hor-/}
ror inspired in surveying a page of it as}

a whole.
there were few errors made in setting it.

But, whether difficuit or not, |

1 never knew of an instance in the Trib- |

met with in a

where the editor

une Office like the one I
small Ohio town,
one week ob!
after his second and
printed: ‘Erratum: For
in the foreign editorial on our inside,
read *‘Prince of Wales.” ’

“This man of the agricultural
who was named Larkway, and

third
**Price of Nails,”

was |
iged to put on his first page, |
had been}

  
   
  
   
         
 
  

 

 

 

"BARREL SWINGS.

This is a convenience no grocer can
afford to be without. It keeps sugar and
other stuff under the counter out of the
way and free from dust and dirt, and
saves eovers. It will swing a barrel of
sugar with perfect ease. Telegraph
name, Swing. Price, each, $1

LANSING WHEELBARR@W 60.,

Lansing, Mich.

 

PURE LIME ROCK

pipe, |
who, 1}

hope, in the interest of archaeology, has |
been preserved in some museum, was so!
much given to bragging about his ability |

to read Greeley’s copy that he was a bur- |

den to the office. There came to be a
tacit understanding that an attempt
must be made to humble him; but when
the attempt was made it was practically
a failure.

““Mr. Greeley was constantly receiving
offerings of the products of the earth
from rural admirers, as if he were a sort
of modern Ceres and the Tribune office
his temple. Sometimes it would bea big
melon; again a prize squash; on another
occasion a champion pumpkin. From
the choice ears of corn which he got,
Larkway used to make his pipes. Often
he would not even remove the husks,
and on one occasion these caught fire, as
he was studying an obscure’ word,
and gained considerable headway before
he noticed it. Sometimes an aspiring
country boy would send Mr. Greeley a
whistle made out of a pig’s tail, just to
show that it could be done, despite the
popular belief to the contrary; and Lark-
way would take one of these, bore a hole
through it, and use it for a stem to his
pipe, thus getting, in a crude form, along
with his tobacco, that Southern staple,
hog and hominy.

“One day a worshiper in Herkimer
county sacrificed on the Greeley altar two
young roosters, alive. They were of a
new-strain, originated by the man, and
he had named it the ‘Go-West’ breed.
Mr. Greeley was much interested in the
new fowls, and gave the man a good
notice in the agricultural department,
and cooped them under his desk, bestow-
ing upon them an old straw hat for their
nightly abode, since they were not large
enough to roost.

‘In fact, the man, in his eagerness to
pour out his feathery libation, had sent
these cockerels when they could not have
been over a month old. They were so
young that they required soft food, so
Greeley used to bring down corn meal and
mix it up with water forthem. This
pabulum, together with the cockroaches,
which they soon learned to run to earth,
constituted their diet, and they pros-
pered and grew But they had not been
in the office a fortnight before they de-
veloped a trick which brought them into
disfavor. They learned to eat the paste.
They would hop on the owner’s desk and
gorge themselves from the paste pot as
regularly as he went out, seldom leaving
enough to stick a gumless postage stamp.
It was a favorite plan of Greeley to
clip an item from a loathed contempo-
rary, pasteiton the top of a sheet of copy
paper, and then proceed to tear the ua-

 

 

 

 

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from limb, beginning with the truculent |

‘You lie, you villian, you lie? and encing |
with the crushing ‘We don’t want to |
hear from you again.’ Several times,
when boiling with rage at something he
had just clipped, he started to dab it on
a piece of paper, and found the paste
pot polished out like a lamp chimney,
and saw those two roosters standing
about in a calm attitude almost ready to
burst. He sent for the foreman, and
said to him:

***Do you see those two confounded
young roosters? They’ve eaten up my
paste. They’re full of it. They’re wait-
ing for me to get some more. I want
you to take ’em upstairs, and never let
me see ’em again!’

‘The foreman tucked a rooster under
either arm and did as he was told; and
thus they came to make their home in
the composing room.

‘‘Here they continued to prosper, get- |
ting plenty of cockroaches and corn meal,
with an occasional snatch at the fore- |
man’s paste pot; and once in a while the |
galley-boy used to give them a mouthful
of news ink on the end of a column rule,
which seemed to agree with them, al-
though this, or sometning else, had a}
bad effect on their tempers, and they be- |
gan to fight each other a good deal. They | |
constantly grew more combative, until it |
seemed that, instead of being called the |
Go-Wests, a more appropriate name |
would have been the On-to-Richmonds.

“After they had been with us a couple |
of weeks the boy one day left the ink
roller of the proof press on the floor.
One of the roosters walked over it, and
then across a piece of white paper. The
foreman saw him, and a great light burst
upon his mind which nearly stunned |
him. He slapped his leg with his hand |
hard enough to break it and shut his |
jaws together like a vise to keep from
breaking out in a volcano of laughter.
He walked to his desk as if in a trance,
keeping his eye on Larkway. Before he
went home he spoke to the proof reader
and one or two others, and they frac-
tured their legs with their hands; and
then they all went off to the hospital for
the night.

“The next afternoon they were back at
the office two hours before the usual
time. The foreman caught one rooster
and the proof reader the other, and they
took them over in the corner behind the
imposing stones. They had previously
sent the devil down to Mr. Greeley’s
room to get a dozen sheets of the paper |
he always wrote on. These were spread
on the floor in the form of a square.
Then they carefully inked the feet
of the fowls and set them to fighting
on the copy paper. They had
just had a meal of cockroaches,
and they went at each other savagely.
Every two or three minutes the men
would take them off, ink the bottoms of
their feet and tess them into the ring
again. At the end of twenty minutes
every sheet of the paper was covered
with their tracks, and the foreman
gathered up the pages, numbered them
and scrawled a head on the first one, ‘The
Plain Duty of Congress,’ in imitation of
Greeley’s hand, marked the whole ‘Bre-
vier—Double Lead,’and hung it on the
copy hook.

“Pretty soon the men began to drop
in, but they all heard of the game that
was on and picked around the article.
After a while Larkway came lumbering
in. He had just made a new pipe out of
the biggest ear of corn ever raised in
Cayuga county, and a particularly
crooked pig’s tail from Brattleborough,
Vermont, and seemed unusually pert. He
started the conflagation in his pipe, put
on his spectacles and walked to the
book.

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way, didn’t you? Well, that’s all right;
llike it. You dome a favor when you
leave it for me.’

‘*He took it, walked over and slammed
it down on his case, planted a handful of
leads on the bottom of it and picked up
his stick. Every manin the room held

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sil flabbergasted; but, by the Goddess of
Truth, he began to set it!

‘Yes, Larkway started to setit. At
the end of the second line he began to
look a little troubled, laid down his
stick, and we thought our moment of
victory had come; but he only sworea
little, knocked the ashes out of his pipe,
refilled it, lit it with a husk stripped
from the outside, picked up his stick
and went on, and never looked up again
until he got almost to the bottom of the
last page. Here he stuck on a place where
one of the roosters had slapped down
the edge of his wing, also inky. Lark
way studied over it fora long time, then
he said to the foreman:

‘* ‘Darn it, the best of us get hung up
on a word once ina while. What’s that,
down there?’

“Don’t ask me,’ said the foreman.
‘You know I can’t read the stuff. Go
down and ask the old man himself.’

‘“‘Larkway shuifled out with along face,
carrying his pipe in one hand and the
copy in the other. He went to the chief’s
room, and said in a low tone: ‘Mr.
Greeley, ’mstuck. What is that word?’

“Greeley snatched the sheet from his
hand impatiently, studied it a moment,
and then squeaked, in his highest voice:

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hoshaphat! it seems to me sometimes as
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graduates, even after l’ve given the jani-
tor strict orders not to allow one of ’em
in the building! ”’

———-<—-_—_——
Advantages of the Cash System.

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

The practice of people obtaining goods
from one another and paying for them at
different intervals, commonly called
credit, has become so common, nowa-
days, that some people do business on
credit almost entirely.

The credit system has became so mo-
notonous that the average business man
of to-day is trying more and more to
bring his business to a cash basis, which
is the most successful mode of conduct-
ing business, with the consumer as well
as the dealer. The advantages that the
eash system affords to the consumer are
worthy of attention. It allows him to
go to the stores as often as he pleases, to
select his goods from the large assort-
ments and to lay in such quantities as he
daily requires, thereby getting fresh and
wholesome goods. If the consumer is
around the different business houses, he
can watch the bargains that are thrown
out by the cash merchants and can take
in one as he desires. In regard to the
eonsumer, if he should go into a store in
which he has been trading for some time,
and should see something inviting to the
eye, he has not the same hankering for
it as when he gets credit; and, should he
be approached by a salesman and be
urged to purchase something, he can
simply say that he has no money to in-
vest in merchandise to-day, whereas, if
he were obtaining credit, he would be
apt to make a purchase to get rid of the
salesman’s pertinacity. The consumer
who pays cash has no accounts—large or
small—eonfronting him on pay day, and,
through his system of buying for cash
and taking advantage of markets and
bargains, soon becomes in shape to have
money to carry on a successful career.
And he avoids all annoyance likely to
arise from disputed accounts.

Again, the retail dealer, by selling
goods for cash, has no accounts to look
after or keep in memory, nor does he
have to spend valuable time figuring how
he is going to get even with tardy delin-
quents. He is net troubled over worth-
less accounts contracted by the well-
dressed dead-beats, who are continually
leoking for the generous merchants;

 

 

neither has he to worry as to how he is
going to make both ends meet, nor how
he is going to continue his career, nor
does he have any fear of coming to the |
mercy of his creditors. If he sells for |
cash he can go anywhere without the
least fear of meeting enemies who have
business grievances that have long stood
between them. If a merchani sells goods
even in small amounts for cash, he is in
better position to buy at the lowest living
prices and get the best discounts thrown
out by the jobbing houses.

The cash system gives a merchant an
advantage over his competitors doing
business by the credit system. If the
jobber has a rare bargain to offer, he in-
variably gives the inside chance to the
merchant who is selling for cash, because
he knows he can make a quick sale with-
out having to extend credit.

The jobber, too, rejoices over the ad-
vantages of the cash system. He does
not have to wait for merchants who are
plodding along in the old way; neither
must he transfer the amounts of bills to
the different books that constitute a job-
ber’s office.

The advantages of the cash system are,
in fact, too numerous to mention; they
would make a very large volume.

I think that Tore TRADESMAN’S many
readers will all unite with me in saying
that the cash system is the only way to
do business—from the smallest store at
the most obscure ‘‘four corners” to
the largest establishments of our metro-
politan cities. It isto be hoped the agi-
tation of the subject will come to a focus
soon, and that some day in the next
generation its advent will be an event
commemorated.

Tuos. HOUGHTON.

Jackson, Micb.

 

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Oursalesmen will call on you in due time.
Please reserve your orders for them. Prices and

 

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Appeal

To the Gommon Sense of the Clerks as well as the Mer-
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which person in the store is making mistakes, ‘Therefore,
they are not blamed*for the faults of others.

 

 

 

 

 

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with lid open, exposing interior view, showing accounts as

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The careless person IMPLICATES only HIM-

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and NOT everybody

with other registering systems.

Every essential feature of the CHAMPION

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trolled by the Champion Cash
pany. Users will be protected
ments will not be allowed.

tegister Com
and infringe-

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(= Merchants desiring to inspect our Registers
are requested to drop us a card, so that one of

our agents can call when in the dealer's vicinity.
It will cost nothing to see the machine and have

| its merits explained.

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

‘THE MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN.

7

 

 

The Future of Pacific Commerce.
Written for THE TRADESMAN,

In a recent number of the North Amer-
ican Review an instructive article ap-
pears from the pen of ex-Minister Thurs-
ton, of Hawaii, on the development of
Pacific countries. The writer first gives
an interesting review of the condition
of Pacific trade forty years ago and of
the state of development of the countries
commercially tributary to it. Commer-
cial statistics are not given, for the rea-
son that on account of the chaotic condi-
tion of trade and intercourse there were
none. In this country there were no
railroads in the western half. San
Francisco was a crude frontier town and
the settlement of California consisted of
a string of mining camps depending on
the importation of provisions from the
East at fabulous prices. From Oregon,
Washington and British Columbia there
were practically no exports, excepting
furs. The southern and western islands
of the Pacific were mostly unclaimed,
inhabitated only by savages and canni-
bals. Australian colonies were just be-
ginning their career and China had only
just been forced to reluctantly opena
few of her ports to foreign commerce,
while Japan was a sealed mystery, for-
eigners being rigorously excluded, and
for a native to leave the country was a
capital crime. Alaska, or Russian Amer-
ica, and Siberia contributed a few furs
obtained from the natives in exchange
for fire-water and trinkets by adventur-
ous traders.

In his review of the contrasting condi
tions obtaining now in those regions his
statistics are too bewildering to cite in
an article like this. The Pacific Coast is
one of the world’s chief sources of grain
and lumber supply and its fruits go to
all the world. It is not necessary to men-
tion its mining wealth. It is significant
that while the shipping owned in the
Atlantic and Gulf States decreased 710
in number and 135,000 in tonnage during
the ten years ending 1894, the increase
during the same time on the Pacific
Coast was 499 in number and 121,690 in
tonnage.

British Columbia, since the completion
of the Canadian Pacific Railway, has ad-
vanced from the position of an obscure
British colony to the port of entry of a
great international commerce, and is the
center of a continental railway and tele-
graph system, with numerous lines radiat-
ing east and south. Its population grew
from 56,000 in 1881 to 98,000 in 1891.
The population of its capital, Victoria,
increased from 5,000 in 1881 to 17,000 in
1891. Vancouver was forest in 1881; in
1891 it was acity of 14,000 people and the
port of entry of four lines of trans Pacific
steamers. It is the site of a powerfully
fortified and fully equipped British
naval station, with dry docks and repair
shops, and is the base of operations for
the Canadian Pacific steamship service.

It is not necessary to more than hint at
the importance of Australia in the Pa-
cific trade. Its wonderful development
is familiar to every one; yet her com-
merce is in its infaney and the island
continent is possessed of boundless re-
sources yet untouched.

There is not space to more than glance
at Siberia, the largest country in the
world. Its southern limit is the latitude
of Chicago. The longest single railroad
in the world will soon be completed from
St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, on the
Pacific, 6,000 miles apart, at a cost of i

 

 

$175,000,000. The present Emperor, be-
fore his accession, was at the head of the
Commission having this in charge and |
devoted most of his time to that work. |
His Government is pushing the coloniza-
tion of Eastern Siberia and Vladivostok
is already a city of 20,000, with dry docks
of the largest capacity and fortifications
which make it impregnable. Siberia
produces, already, one-sixth of the
world’s annual output of gold and the
railway is opening vast deposits of coal,
iron, lead and silver. Her forests and
agricultural lands will soon compete in
the lumber and grain markets of the
world. With the Emperor for a patron,
backed by the imperial treasury, the de-
velopment of Pacific Siberia will proceed
with the rapidity of a transformation
scene.

The conjectured advantage accorded to
Russia, in the settlement of the eastern
war, of a more southern outlet through
Corea gives added significance to Mr.
Thurston’s prediction of the the impor-
tance of Eastern Siberia in the immediate
future. This will afford an outlet dur-
ing the months when the more northern
harbors are closed by ice and will con-
tribute in no small degree to the opening
of the whole of Northeastern Asia.

The ending of the Eastern war since
Mr. Thurston’s article was written gives
added importance to China and Japan as
factors in the future Pacific trade. The
conjecture that the conservatism of
China will be broken down becomes a
certainty and the importance of Japanese
commercial development can be hardly
estimated. The war itself has greatly
increased the intercourse of the belliger-
ents with other nations in the purchase
of munitions and supplies and opened a
trade that will not be discontinued but
will be turned into other lines. The at-
tention of the world has been attracted
to these nations in a manner to give them
the widest commercial advertising, and
this fact will not fail to make commer-
cial development an immediate result of
the war.

Mr. Thurston indulges the prophesy, in
closing, that within ten or fifteen years
the Siberian railroads will have been
completed, and Vladivostok will be the
port of entry for lines of steamships to
Vancouver, San Franciseo, the Nicara-
gua Canal and the Southern colonies.
The railroad system of North America
will have been extended to Alaska on the
north and to Chili on the south. The
Nicaragua Canal will have been con-
structed and will have diverted a large

proportion of the enormous commerce
whieh now pours through the Suez
Canal. Honolulu will be the center of a

cable system radiating to Tahiti, Aus-
tralia, Japan, Vancouver and San Fran-
cisco; and between the main ports of the
Pacific will be in use steamships of the
speed and size of those now plying be-
tween New York and Europe.
W.
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Low water in the Fox River, Wis., is
seriously interfering both with naviga-
tion and the paper manufacture depend-
ent on it—an unusual condition for the
spring months.
ll — elm
It is stated that the farmers of South
Dakota are using the wires of their
fences for a telephone system. The
statement suggests a possibility in that
direction.

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Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Ass’n.
President—E. WHITE.
Secretary—K, A. Stowe.
Treasurer—J. Geo. LEHMAN.
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18

THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

Drug Departm ent.

 

State Board of Pharmacy,

One Year—George Gundrum, Ionia.

Two Years—C. A Bugbee, Charlevoix.

ThreeYears—S. E. Parkhill, Owosso.

Four Years—F. W.R Perry, Detroit

Five Years—A.C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor.
President—Fred’k W .R. Perry, Detroit.
Secretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Vreasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

Coming Meetings—Detroit (Star Island), June 24;
Lansing, Nev 5.

 

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

Secretav—F.C. Thompson. Detroit.

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

 

 

 

 

Chances for Enterprising Druggists.

Because the druggist must surrender a
part of what was formerly his, it by no
means follows that the loss irre-
trievable or that he is without means of
effective retaliation against his de-
spoilers. The process of merchandise
distribution undergoing incessant
change and readjustment. Every branch
of retail trade must expect some losses,
but to the enterprising and alert there
are usually corresponding gains. If per-
fumes must go, why not supplant them
with school books and school supplies
generally? If toilet articles, why not
introduce a select line of artists’ mate-
rials, engravings, etchings, frames, and
related supplies? Anything of cleanly
and ornamental character, if adapted to
the space limitations of a drug store,
and particularly if its advantageous sale
be largely dependent upon the informa-
tion and personal judgment and reliabil-
ity of the merchant, will find an espe-
cially appropriate place in the druggist’s
Steck. To this class belong also lamps,
glassware, fine wall paper, watches,
clocks, the better class of jewelry, fine
cutlery, and a variety of other articles
quite as germane to the drug business as
soda water and cigars, and quite as dig-
nified and profitable. Optical supplies
are peculiarly appropriate, provided the
druggist be familiar with the art of fit-
ting glasses; the same is true of trusses
and similar goods. In short, anything
that will not detract from the dignity of
the store and that is associated with edu-
cation, home decoration, popular sanita-
tion, and physical comfort, and that can
be made to scl/, merits the consideration
of every druggist to the limit of his fa-
cilities. Insurance agencies, carefully
chosen agencies for bicycles (with one or
more samples to keep the soda fountain
company), agencies for society engray-
ing, comprising specimens of styles and
facilities for prompt estimates and exe-
cution of orders—all these can be made
to contribute generously to the store rev-
enues and to fill in most agreeably and
profitably many a leisure moment of the
proprietor or clerk. We mention these
additions not as desirable accessions to
the ‘‘practice of pharmacy,” but as

proper extensions of the retail drug busi-
ness in localities where an exclusively
prescription or medicine trade would
fail of adequate returns for all of the
druggist’s time and bis incidental ex-
penses.

is

is

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Detroit Travelers Ready To Cross Bats.
DETROIT, April 24—The Detroit tray-
eling men’s base ball club organized last
evening, with the following officers:

President—John McLean.

Vice-President—Thos. L. Hilton.

Sec’y and Treas.—Chas. L. Morgan.

Manager—Wnm. H. Baier.

Captain—E. W. Reynolds.

We would like to have the Grand Rap-
ids boys organize, so that we may come
there some time during the summer and
play with them.

Wm. H. Baier, Manager.

 

in Northern Michigan’s
Early Days.

Written for THE TRADESMAN.
At the time of which | speak, the

county line road running north to Char-
levoix lay in a sparsely settled portion of
the Grand Traverse region. It wound
about the forest in a vain search for
more level ground, through swamps
which were at times nearly impassible,
skirted steeps hills or plunged into the
dense growth of water maples and black
ash in the low-lying valleys.

Traveling this road on horseback, oue
afternoon, my ride was uneventful until
about four o’clock, when a voice from
the bushes just ahead sang out:

‘*Throw up yer han’s an’ surrender!”’

The muzzle of a gun protruded from
the brush and I could hardly do
less than comply with the polite request.

“Git offen that horse!”’

‘“‘What for?”

“Climb down, will yer?’? came the
swift reply, winged with the harsh em-
phasis of a cocking gun. I dismounted.

‘*Hol’ yer han’s over yer head an’
don’t yer move. Billy, you go an’ take
away his shootin’ irons.”

After a short consultation and some
hesitancy ‘‘Billy” appeared. He was not
more than ten years old and seemed
badly scared.

“Go on, Billy,’’ said the voice. ‘Take
away his weepins. The’s nine buckshot
an’ two slugs in Aunt Hanner. an’ ef he
moves a hair he gits plunked.”

Billy found nothing more formidable
than a pocketknife, and when he had se-
cured that the Joint owner of the voice
and musket came out of the thicket.

He was a boy of about fifteen, long
haired, barefooted and arrayed in the
scantiest possible attire consistent with
Northern ideas of propriety.

**Yo’ go on ahead, an’ don’t you wig-
gle a ninch outen line or I’ll shoot yo’!”’

As I moved on [I could not help won-
dering what that boy might do with his
gun.

‘‘Where are you taking me?’’ I asked.

‘*To our place.’’

‘‘What for?”

‘Show yo’ to dad.”’

‘“What does he want of me?”’

**VYow'll fin’ out!’

We soon reached a little clearing, in
the middle of which stood a small log
shanty, and the larger of the boys began
to eall:

“Dad! Dad! We got ’im.”’

““‘Dad,’? who had been mowing his
back yard, came from behind the bouse,
carrying a scythe. Considerably to my
relief he called me by name and said:

“Why, jess come in an’ take a set

Experience

down. Supper’ll be ready right away.
Jim, yo’ stan’ the little hoss in the
stable.’’

‘Really,’ said I, “I haven’t the time
to stay; but I seem to be the prisoner of
this young man. If you could get him
to point his gun some other way and tell
me what it’s all about, perhaps I could
explain matters and be allowed to go
on.”

‘‘What yo’ ben adoin’ of, Jim?” asked
the old man, sharply.

The boy looked as though there might,
after all, be some mistake, but he held
up stoutly and said:

‘“‘Why, dad, yo’ know Pete Duffy’s
mules was stole?”

 

Ves,”

“An’ Dud Hodges’s three-ye’r-olds is
amissin’?”

*‘Walt?”?

‘“‘An’ Cy Hollenbeck hain’t saw his
mooly heifer fer two weeks?”

‘‘What of it?”

“‘Wall, when Billy an’ me seen this fel-
ler acomin’ along down ther road ahorse-
back, we suspicioned him o’ bein th’ gent
what’s been astealin’ of ’em, so we jess
hel’ ’im up like—like—er—er—like Ben
Burbank, the boy detective o’ Roarin’
Gulch, did th—”’

But Jim never finished that sentence.
**Dad’’ seized him by his flowing locks
with a jerk that lifted him clear of the!
ground and sent the musket spinning off
into a neighboring brush fence. Then he
sat down on a convenient log, laid the |
now shrieking youth across his stalwart
knees and, as I mounted to ride away,
was diversifying an instructive discourse
with the conclusive arguments contained
in several feet of hemlock lumber.

ery, low down yap!
woodpile with
ready.
cows
Termorrer, take th’ mules an’ dime novel
th’ foller with th’ two-shovel cultivator.
Ef ye’r boun’ ter be a public character,
what yo’ want is eddicatin’ an’ l’arnin’,
an’ yer ol’ dad ’!1 give ’em ter yo’, ef he
haster buy a sawmill ter cut th’ lumber
ter baste yo’ with!”’

‘“‘Chaw terbacker an’ swear in meetin’!”
Whackety thump!

‘*B’en readin’ dime novels, eh?”’
Thumpety whack!

‘Fight Injins an’ ketch hoss thieves,

will yo’?”’

Buard broke!

“Git out, yo’ mis’ble, no ’count, orn-

Go an’ fight that

Dad’s ax ’til supper’s
Arter that, yo’ kin detect th’

outen th’ woods an’ milk ’em.

GEORGE L. THURSTON.
Central Lake, Mich.
<<
Be wise and buy the Signal Five.

 

 

 

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Whack! r E C K S POWDERS
‘‘Wanter be a bad man!”’ Pay the best profit. Order from your jobber
Thump!

‘‘Kat raw meat an’ driak coal ile, eh?”’

Thump! whack!

‘“‘Pulverize widders
young uns, would yo’?”’

Thump! whack! thump!

‘‘Bad man f’m Arizony, you be!”’

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but none so good as the

SIGNALS,

“SIGNAL FIVE”

A Fine Havana Filler Cigar for 5 cents.

Maker,

ED. W. RUHE

CHICAGO.

F. E. BUSHIMAN, Agent,
523 John St., KALAMAZOO

 

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Best 5 cent
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Sold by all Wholesale
Druggists, Confection=
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and the Manufacturer,

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WHEREVER SOLD.

THE BEST 5c, CIGAR
EVER PUT IN A BOX!

~WELLAUER & HOFFMANN CO.

MILWAUKEE, WIS.

Wholesale Distributors.

J. A. GONZALEZ,
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pet scat Myristica, No 1... ... 65@ 70 = accaboy, De “ SpiritsTurpentine.... 35 40
Pr servignas a Cubebae........... vod Gog! ps TINCTURES. Nux Vomica, (po 20) .. @ = gnuf, ‘Sassda Wa Wane $ 35 PAINTS. bbl. Ib.
Benzoicum German.. ¢5@ 75 | Erigeron. ..... -....-1 20@1 30 | Aconitum Napellis R.. go | Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Pol Le ca” sak | Omen calee i i
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Carbolicum .......... 21@ 31) Geranium, ounce..... @ 7 i 60 Picts = NaC. 4 gal Soda, BLCarb en ~—* Ber...... 1% 2@3
pala |... ra 4i@ 14| Gossipt!, Sem. gal... 60@ 70 ana myrrh 60 | ., doz @2 00 | Soda’ A oe Cee eae 3@ 5 Putty, commercial... 2 2%@3
Hydrocbior ........... 3@ OD Hedeoma totes eeee sees 1 25@1 40 | Arnica . tonceseeeee SL Liq., quarts... eaten. “= ; at Ene 2% G3
SMGeEe ...... ace 10g 12|JUmIpert.... ee. 50@2 00 Aedteoaa 0 penta @ 85 Spts. oO @ _2| Vermilion Prime Aimer.
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Salicylicum ........... 70@ 75 |MenthaPiper. ....... 1 &5@3 00 CC ee 50 | Piper Alba, (Po ¢5).. @ 3 Vint « SS ee
Sulphuricum.......... 1%@ 5 Mentha Vertd Meee 1 80@2 00 ROMNAete 50 Piix Burgun.. @ 7 ni Rect. bbl. Lead, red. cocceee OO
Tannicum..........-.. 1 dems 09 | Merreuee, eal. ...... 1 25@1 3)| Barosma .... o.oo 50 | Plumbi Acet 2... “a Wl tmeek aetne tej .-. 54@6
Tartaricum........... 30@ 33 | Myrcia, ounce. LT al sa CACHE Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 2 § ash ten days. ” | Whiting, white 8 an. @70
a 90ees 00 | Capsicum ...... 2... 3 | pyrethrum, eto a 0@1 20 | Strychnia sabe oe 1 =. 45 | wees Gilders’...... @%
AMMONIA, Pieis ® Liquida, (gal. 8) 10@ 12 Ca damon... 22.002 220.000. 75 | _&P. D. Co., doz..... @1 25 we 8 -« ee eee oe i
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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
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Aurora... . oo | Con Oe i 40
Jastor Ol] . 2 (ee... 115
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Paragon : 55 6 00 ne ee 1 05
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BAKING POWDER. Common _____. i =
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% 1D. sans. 3 dos... NN isis conc 1 00
% -b Loa a A 160) Maxwell ............. 1 40
1 Ib. 1 10 | Shepard’s ............ 1 40
Bulk...... oe California... .... @: 35
ig b cans 6 doz case o Oxfora.
%b “* 4d0z i= 7 .
ib * 2dox -- 2 001 nomestic sane 10
5b * idor * -...--- 900) piverside.............. 125
Red Star, 4 : = _ Pineapples,
a ee 1 4¢ | Common.............. 1 00@1 30
" ad as” Johnson's sileed i 2 50
5 ' i" ” erated..... 2%
iq Ib. cans, : - case = Booth’s sliced @2 5)
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: 1b 2 doz. - 160 eae =
Van Anrooy’s Pure. eee 1 10
M4 - cans, _— case. : Raspberries. ‘
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‘veifer’s, 3 - cans, dos 3p | Erie. black .... 1 10
> ibn! 7 ae 4 Strawberries.
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“ 1 Ibcans 1 50 Terrapin | ao
BATH BRICK. Whortleberries,
2 dozen in case. Blueberries one 85
ipa r eats.
Eaglish cn 70 | Corned beef . _... Le iS
Bristol. - --. _1) 69 | Roast beef =
Dom*stic. ia se Gants Potted ham, %4 Ib. — — =
gow eg 7
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ParlorGem.......... 2 Bebe 1 15
Common Whiek . "100 —- eae... 1 00
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— a 2 85 ioney Pew... 125
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Stove, No. 1 ee eee i= oa aC 7
A Sa 1 7% | Hamburgh marrotat pel 1 30
rub, 3 row. 85 c carly June . ...1 50
fice Hoot Sorab, Stow... ta] |, Champion Eng 1 40
Palmetto, goose. —- 5. ------ 1 ool fancy sifted....1 65
i ae A 85
Hotel, . unt gungeeenenet s Harris standard............. %
inn .. 19 | VanCamp’s marrofat....... 1 10
mee oe ies early June..... 1 30
Wicking : i Archer’s Early Secumen 3s
OANNED ¢ GOODS. French.. 2 15
Fish Mushrcoms.
en veench....----_-_-------
‘umpkin
Little Neck, : = tener ee 1 = eae cela |
Clam Chowder. 2 25 | Hubbard Esc - i 15
Standard, 3 Cove Orsters oe 25 fi Succotash.
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Standard, rs ae 80
"ioe Dow............., e+-1 30
ae 135
Tomatoes.
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Mackerel. ee eee 1s
Standard, e “Ln EGA 1 — “4 25
Mustard, am Ce i CHOCOLATE.
Tomato Sauce, 21b......... 2 PE. coat a
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Soused, ~ ene ale 81
Columbia River, a. 1 ey | Breakfast a. ee 45
“falls .....1 65 Amboy , 10
Almera, Rod a : - Acme 10%
Kinney’s, flats.. es ce Ba 94
Sardines. Rin. 11
American = es : Gold Medal . ec 10%
i | ae ae 7
Imported se nee oe $3 Saeko iH Fi
Mustard 8 — CU
Boneless ree 21! Limburger ... 1.) 77) @i5
eek dee 2 50 omen =... @24
oquefort i O35
Fraits. Sap Sago.... 3
ee aa i a oe
8 : ‘ ng omeatic
York State, gallons ... 3 Ou UP. ”
Hamburgh. “* Blue Label Brand.
a. . “Apricots, - — pint, 25 bottles. ....... 2%
oo o....... ‘ “ n een oe
a... |. 1 40 | Quart 1 doz bottles ... .....3 50
Tk 150 Triumph Brand.
og 1 Belt pint. per dox.......... 135
Biackberries, Pint. co Gouies...... 4 50
awe... Geert pee Ge 3 75

 

CREAM TARTAR.

Strictly oe... ..... . =

Telfer’s Absolute.......... 30

ee 15@25
CLOTHES PINS,

Daisy Brand.
5 gross boxes - 40@45
COCOA SH ELLS.

pe he... i. . a
Less quantity........... Q3%
Pound packages........ 6%@7
COFFEE.
Green,

Rie.
— 18
— le
ae 2
nL le
ay...

Santos,
Se ao
Good. -20
ERIN: 22
Peaberry : 2s

Mexican and Guatamaia,
eS 21
oon... ol 22
Fancy . 24
Maracaibo.
Prime _-—
a 2

Java.
a... —
Private Growth.........._ 97
Mandehling . a

“Mocha.

Imitation . |
Arabian. --28

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

age.

Package.
McLaughlin’s XXXX..
Bunola ... 2 36
Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. ‘case... 21 80

xtract.

Valley City % gross.......
*elix . . 1 15
Hummel’s, foil, gross 1 65
- in 2 85
CHICORY.
om
=... ,
CLOTHES LINES.
Coton, 2%....... per dos. 1 25
" —....... ne 1 40
» =n... - tee
. =e... .... ' 1 %
oe... - is
Jute 60 tt . 85
' —.. .... r i=
CON “ENSED. MILK.
4 Gus. in case.

 

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co ’s brands

Gail Borden Kagie..... ... 7
tia ee TE 6
ae 5 75
an CL.
ar 43
— LL le

 

Peerless evaporated cream 5 75
COUPON BUOKS.

 

 

——
8 1 books, per hundred ... 2 00
82 wa ' - + 2 oe
g 3 “ ay ee i 3 00
$5 ss “ ss --. 800
810 “se “ “ a 4 aw
820 he “ ay wi 5 00

 

 

   

“Superior.”
$ 1 books, per hundred .. 2 50
g 2 se ‘“ “ . 3 00
s 3 “ec “ “ 3 50
85 ss “ - 7
810 “ ‘6 “ . 00
820 c “a “ 6 00

niversal.’ r
8 1 books, per hundred 83 00
& 2 “i “ | 3 50
83 " " -. -_-
85 ' . . o@
810 e - . sa
820 . - 7 00
Above prices on coupon books

are subject to the following
quantity discounts:

200 books or over.
500 “a “

{000 ia on = “
COUPON PASS BOOKS,
{Can be made to represent any
denomination from 810 down. |

5 per cent
10

oor... 8100
ee 2 00
—_— ......... 3 00
— 6 25
—  ~....... Lee 10 00
— ls 7 50

CREDIT CHECKS,
= any one denom’ mL. 83 00

 

— «hl lUcermrmCUm ES Ce 5 00

—" ee 8 00

Steel punch. ‘ 75
CRACK ERS.

Butter.
Soreerene.............
Seymour XXX, cartoon.....
art... Cl .
Family XXX, cartoon......
aon tes...
Salted XXX, cartoon ......
—a |
aa
Denter biscuit... ..........

Soda
woe. SEK i... 5%
Seda, City...... | ™
es oe 8%
Cryeal Were... 10%
Long Island Wafers ...... 11

_-

o oemeer RTe.............. 5%
City Oyster, XXX....... ou. By
Perma Ovsier......._
DRIED FRUITS,
Domestic,

Apples.
CN uae oe 6%
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 8

Apricots,

California in bags.. ... THOS

Evaporated in boxes. ..
Blackberries,

in bore...
Nectarines.

oie bees...

moon. Ween... 9

Peaches,

Peeled, in boxes........ 14
orn lw 9
e e in bags 8
Pears.

Malifarnia in bage..... 66
California boxes... 7%
Pitted Cherries.
se  .
oem Deies ........
= qg

Prunelies,

3) lb. poxes 94
Raspberries.
et EE 22
oom. Somes. ............. 22
a 22
Raisins.

Loose Muse — in Boxes.

2 crown 3h
3 ee 4
a. Ceeee eee. oe
Loose Muscatels in Bags,
ee... 3%
3 ee ee
Foreign.

Currants.
ee @4%q
Vostizzas, 50 lb. Cases...... 4%
Schuit’s Cleaned
oo. Oe. ee
1 Ib. packages a
Peel.

Citron, Leghorn, a> boxes 12
Lemon 8
Orange “e = “oe “ee 10
Raisins.

Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes. g 6
Sultana, 20 - 64O 8

Valencia, 30 ‘ :
Prunes,
California, a .....,-... 33
90x100 25 Ib, bxs. Bla
_ 80x90 _s
_ 70x80 . 6%
° 60x70 . 7
ee.
ee 7@10

 

FARINACEOUS GOODS.

Farina,
15. See. ............ 2%
Grits.
Walsh DeRoo’& Co.’s..... 1 95
Hominy.

I eit tccee tess OL
ie 3%
Lima Beans,
a. 5%
Maccaroni and eee.

Domestic, 12 lb. box
OO 10%@11
ee Barley.
ne, an 3
i cooe.. 3%
Peas,

room, On... ... ts... 110
Spi periph ....... ms 2%

Rolled Oats.

 

Se humacher, bbl. . . #4 65
*¥ bbl... . 250

Monarch, bb] . . 400

Monarch, bbl.. .ee

Quaker, cases. oo

ven Hamed... _......... 3°
Sago.

Crean ......+-- a 3
eine 3%
Wheat.

ee. 8
FISH--Salt.
Bloaters.
CO 1 6
Cod.

Georges cured........... 4
Georges genuine......... 6
Georges selected......... 7
Boneless, bricks.. ...... 6%
Boneless, strips.. ....... 6%@9
Halibut.
Smoked ..... oe : 11@12
Herring.
Holland, white hoops ke 80
~ bh wero
Rorworen.............._. 11 00
Round, ~ bbl 100 Ibs... 2 55
— hl,
ae 13%
Mackerel,
2-1 oe... 12 00
mo. 1, @iee.............. 5 50
Bo woe........... .. 25
mo. © te es... :......: 10 99
a 2 i... 430
mere ........... 135
Family, oes...
ime...
Sardines.
aenen, Kees... 55

 

  
  

No. 1, kits, 10 lbs... . 56
Gl 48
Whitefish.

No.1 family

% bbls, keg ede 86 25 3 15
eee 280 168

78 48

10 Ib. kits oe
8 Ib.

Regular Size.

Per box....38c. Percase..#3 40
In 5 case lots, per Case... : 30
In 10 case lo's, percase.... 3 20
“Little T anglefoot.” °
Reteiis, perbox ....... =
Come, per Cee. ............ is

 

LARGE SIZE
25 dbl. shts. in box, pr. bx. $ 38

Per case of 10 boxes
DWARF BIZE,

3 40

25 double sheets in nem

Case of 10 boxes.... . 1.2

Case of 20 boxes.... 2 30
MATCHES,

Globe Match Co.'s ———.
Columbia Parlor. a =
ARK Supine... ..

Diamond Match Co.’ 8 ieee

 

 

 

=e.) eee... 1 65
Anchor parior...... seseea 170
ae eeee..... 1 10
Pers POrler...............8

FLAVORING EXTRACTS,
Souders

Oval Bottle, with covknceow.
Best in the world for the money.

Regular
Grade
Lemon,

Regular
Vanilla.

Lemon,

Vanilla,

Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla
2ozregularpanel. 75 1
40s ' 5 oe
6 ox . oe
to, S taper........ 1 35 =
No. 4 taper........ 1 50 2
Northrop’s

Lemon. ’
20z oval taper tn
s Oz ee “

1
2oz regular ‘ % 1
402 . " 12 2

GUNPOWDER.

Rifle—Dupont’s.
com......

Vanilla.
11

1
Quarter ~—- Ss 1
1 1b cans.. Seer.
ame...

Choke _— 8

eee 4
ae fee... a)
Quarter kegs. . _ af
ih cams ......

Eagle Duck— —Dupont’s,
8 ‘
Halt a

oe CG
[eo

HERBS,

.
.
«
.
iar

WOH
SSAS KKRES

INDIGO.
oe. 5 lb, boxes..
&. F.,2, — 5 lb. boxes..
ELLY.
2% Ib. pails” Cadastre e

s 66

   

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case
Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case... .‘

MEASURES,
Tin, per dosen.
—e...............,. $1 75
Half galion. 1 40
oe " 7
int . 45
Half pint . 40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
[oe ............. 7 00
oe Soe ........... ... 4 75
mene .....,. 3 75
— Ja a. 2
MOLASSES,
Blackstrap.
pues Bee... . 34
Cuba aging.
Ordinary ...... Le 16
Porto Rics.
ee... 26
eo ...... 30
New Orleans.
ee 18
a 22
eee eod............,... 27
reese oes... -- >

Fancy... cs
Half -barrels 3c.extra

 

 

eine

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

   

 

 

 

PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count.. @4 00
Half bbls, 600 p count. . > 50
Barrels, 2, oo count. 5 50
Half bbis, 1, on count sz
PIPES,
Clay, _ 2... .....-...... 17
T. D. fullcount........ 70
Cm we 4............ .... 1 20
POTASH,
48 cans in Case.

Dee .......-+.----.-- 4 00
Penne Sait Co,’s.......... 3 00
RICE,

Domestic.

Carolina noe... 5%

ma s.......,.-......

. TA 4%
ie, 81. eee, 3%
Imported.

Japan, No. : ee ee aa oH
mee... ....,.....
—_ ee et see ce ee oeccccecece 5
eae eae
SPICES.

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

. Batavia in bund....15

' Saigon in rolls...... . 32

Cloves, AwapeyOR.......--.- 22

Zanzi -- ieee aeae ee 11k

Mace a" Secee =

Nutme _2e...........,. 6!

" No. 1. Hee 60

OP Be ee ne cn ee eee 55

Pepper, dim apore, black....10

ieee ae

™ i 16
Pure Santi in Bulk.

ee 15

Cassi a, Batavia tee ewe ae 18

and Saigon.25

: Saigon ........-.-.- 35
Cloves, Amboyna....... ;

Zansibar.. :
Ginger, African bedi ee, 16

ere. ........... 20

r Jd a Leen ee 22
Maco Batayia..........-..-- 65
Mustard, a. and Trieste. .22
etpeteL. 25
—— No. oF i ok —
epper, Singa Ss a
pper Singapore black... 24
[ omen ee 20
oe 20
‘Absolute’ in Packages.
148 AB
Aligpiee .... .- 25-2000 - = 1
aeen............. & Te
ie... ...------- 84 155
Ginger, Jamaica...... 4 155
Aiicen........ @ to
Masieea......----.-.--.- 8&4 1 55
Pepper ..........-.---- 84 155
Sage......
SAL ‘SODA.
Granulated, e........... 1%
751D CABCR.....- 1%
Lome, bps ..........--.-.- ig
- 1208 coee........ . 1
SEEDS.
re on ee ee @i3
Canary, Smyrna....... 4
Caraway ...........--. :
Cardamon, Malabar.. 80
Hemp — a 4
Mixed Bird...... | 4%
Mustard, eo ae :
—— Sete ee bese ce.
Ee 4%
Cuttle oom oe 30
STARCH.
Kinestor® 8 ——

20 1-lb packages...... 644
40 1-lb 1h 64%
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 1-lb. packages............ 6%
Gin. boxes.........-.......- 7%
Common ‘Corn.
ee Cae. 5%
ET oe
Common Gloss.

e Ib packages oe ee eee ae 5
is. hl; 5
6-Ib eC . 5%
40 and 50 lb. boxes.. _. on
Barrels.. 1...
"SN UFF.

Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Maccaboy, in jars..........-. 35
french Rappee, in Jars..... 43
SODA,
ne cease Sh
on English. eee eee 4%
SALT.
Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 243 lb. boxes......8 1 60
Barren Se e.........-.. 250
o 115 2% lb bags.... 4 00
ag oO
‘ 3010 lb “* - 20.
— = Tp ipeee.......-- 65
iMib pees......... 3 50
. 380 Ib OES ..oencce Oe
~ ere... 2 2
Worcester.
=~ lb sacks eee 8410
oer ee 3%
30 101b ete cee ae
re oto, 3 30
oe... 2 60
Gm eee... .--......... 32%
_ en Oeee........... 60
ee ee
100 3-lb. sacks... .--02 10
oom - 4... 1 90
28 10-lb. cack. oe
arsaw.
56 lb. dairy in drill bags. ZZ
28 lb. ; 16
Ashton.
56 1b, dairy in inensacks.. 75
Higgins.

ge
66 1b, dairy in linen sacke 75
Soiar Rock.
6 lk. GOORS......
Common Fine.
Saginaw .. 90
eee. ee 90

 

SALERATUS,
Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Sees gece este, 3 30

Church’s

 

ee —

1®z. F. M. 2 90 doz.
© “ N. Ss. 1 2

#10 20 gro
12 60“

, em Le 14.46 “*
Vanilla,
1oz. F.'M. 1 50doz. 16 20 gro
2" 3.5820 * = oe
>” Fee 20 50 -*
Rococo—Second Grade.
i Lemon.
Soe... 1... 70 Goa... 8a *
Vanilla,
2Gos...... 1 GO dos..... 050 *
SOAP.
Laundry.

G. R. Soap Works Brands.

  

Concordia, 100 % lb. bars...3 50
5 box lots tenes 3 35
° 10 box lots.......3
e 20 Gox lois.......3 2
Best German Family.
COtin ter............. |... 235
5 box lots.. Le eek cee ee oo
Po hex ieee. 200
Allen B. Wrisley’ ’s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-Ib........ 3
Good Cheer, 601 ib oo 3 90
White Borax, me 4 1p...... 3 65
Proctor & Gamble.
Concord..
Ivory, oe 6
6 oz.
Lenox. ... R
Mottled German........... 3 15
Town Tak.............._.. 32
Dingman Brands.
Demet box. . .............. 3 95
5 box lots, delivered....... 3
10 box lots, delivered...... 3%

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands.

American Family, wrp d..#3 33
plain... 3 27

N. K. Fairbank & Co. ———

Sante Ciaus................ 3 90
Brown, oars... ... 2 10
Oo bare ..... "3 10

Lautz Bros. &Co.’s Brands.
POM ce. we 3 65

Cen on...... .......... 08
Paneiicn.................. 2
eee ................ 1... 400

Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

SILVER

~~

SOAP.

 

MEVOE..,..........--.-- _.. oto
Mono .... etc ee. e
Savon Improved oa 2 50
eee 2 80
Golece .................... 3 25
Economical ..... ne
Scouring,
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40
hand, 3 dae. 2 40
SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the lo-
cal freight from New York to
your shipp:ng 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.

Domo. ................ . Oe
Cre RT 4387
a 4 50
I ois acces en nn 460

  

   

  

XXXX Powdered..

GrengieieG . .............. 2
Fine Granulated........... 412
Extra Fine Granulated... 4 25
More A... nse 4 50
Diamond Confec, A....... 4 12
Confec. Standard A....... 4 06
eee 3 94
ho 2... ............... os
(a 3 94
ee 3 04
a S.. .. 3 87
me 8... 3 81
mo Ft. ac
ae 3 69
ae 3 62
me ee 3 56
tee eee ee 3 50
ee ee ee 3 44
Mo i ...............--..- oan
Re od... 318

SYRUPS.

Corn,
Barreis......-- ee scce sae
eee 22

Pure Cane.
ee ee ee 15
ee 20
Cuetee.......-............... 25

TABLE SAUCES,
Lea & Perrin’ 8, — oe ue 475
moall..... 2%
Halford, psn 24 Leueue. 22

iat. ....- - 25
Salad Dressing, ‘large aoaes OO

gmall..... 2 65

TEAS,
JAPAN—Regular.
roe @i7
EE @x0
Choice. ... --24 @26
Choicest.. 382 Qe
Pee 10 @12
SUN CURED
oe... @it
oe. ............... @w
Coere.............. 24 @xe
Cmoieems............... 32 @34
az .. ...CCd. 10 @l2
BASKET FIRED.
—.... 18 @2v
Choice. . Lele @25
Choicest. . @35
Extra choice, wire leaf @40
GUNPOWLER,
Common to fah....... 25

@35
Extra fine to finest....50 @65
Choicest fancy........75 @85

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Huseet.......... @25
co 30
D. Seotten & Co’s Brands.
Hiawoita ...........- 60
a 32
Rocket. 30
Spaulding & Merrick’s Brauds,
Sterling . 30
Private Brands.

 

 

Jao ........-. - a7

 

 

Banner Tobacco Co. “gs Brands.

     

 

 

se. Ce 16
Banner Cavendish.. oo 30
osc ......... .3U
Scotten’s Brands,
Warpath . . ae
Honey Be 26
etd Bieck............. 2. 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.'s
Brands.
Peerless... a
Old Tom.. eet cade eecea aes 18
Staudard.. oe
Globe Tobac c oC o.’s Brands.
Menmeede.................. 40
Leidersdorf’s Brands.
Mom Moe............... 020
Uncle Sam.. ae 32
Med Clover... 1s + cae a
Spaulding & Merrick,
Tom and Jerry.............- 25
Traveler Cavendish...... 38
oe. ..............,. 30
Pian foe...... ....-.... 30@3:
Com Came ....... 2.
VINEGAR

ar ....... 1... 8
oO gf..... @9

81 for barrel.
WET MUSTARD,

Beer mug, 2
WOODENWARE.

Bowls, 7 inch

 

OOLONG. @26
Common to fair... ... 23 @320
IMPERIAL.
Common to fair....... 23 @26
Superiortofine........ 30 @35
YOUNG HYSON.
Commor. to fair....... 18 @26
Superior to fine....... 30 @40
ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
Parr .............. cocaete Gee
Cieice............. oo 24 G28
eee 40 @50
TOBACCOS,
Cigars.

Congress —
Invincibles -....400 OO
Poperts......... ..-... 70 00
Perrccoe ...... ......... 6) 00
Beauew ............. 55 00

Fine Cut.

Beasoe .................
Can Can... ‘
Nellie Bly.... 2
Une en............- ‘
McGinty _ . 27
ce ee... . 25
Colmmniea..........._.- 24
Columbia, drums....... 23
Bang Up.... . 20
Bang up, drums ...... 19
Plug.
Sorg’s Brands,
Spearhead . 39

Nobby Twist. 40
Se otten’ 8 Brands.
ive. |... 25
minwetha,........-... 33
Valley City ....-....-- 34
Finzer’s Brands,
Old Honesty.......... 4
soly var.............. 32
Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8 0z., 41¢). 39
Green Turtie.......... 30
Three Black Crows. Pi
J. G. Butler’ s Brands.
Something Good...... 38
Out of Sight. 24
Wilson & Mc¢ ‘aulay’s s Brands.
Cont Mepe............ 43
Happy T hought. co. 37
ee eae ee 32
NoTax. Le 31
Let Go.. " 27
“Smoking.
Catlin’s Brands,
iin Giged ............... 17 gis
Golden Shower.............
Huntress ..... oe “28
Reoecaae .. .......... 29@30
American _— Co.'s Brands,
Myrtie Navy. 4
ore... as
Cae
i
Java, ‘8 foil... i

Bulk, per gal a " 30
2 doz tn case. 1%

Tye et... 5 75
= me 2................ 4 75
~ me 4g................. 4 00

Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 25

© s«CNo. 1, three hoop.... 1 36

 

 

YEAST.
eure... es. 1 00
Woriees ........._.......... &@
Mees Vewm ................ 1 00

Diamond..... —..
Rogal :

HIDES PELTS and FURS
Perkins & Hess pay as fol-

 
 

FURS.
Mine............ 400 @12
Coon ,...... . Do 8 G&G
Saunt... 60 @115
Hat Smring...... bb @ 18
Hat, winiter..... oe @ iil
Batfal...... Ge ce
Red Wox.... ... 100 @16)
Cm ro.,...... © &@ EG
Crogs Fox... .. 300 @5 00
pageer........ Ht @i@
Cal wild........ Oo @ &
Cat, bouse..... W@ 2
Vieper...........60@ @é6é@
A 10 @250
Martin, detk....42 00 @ 3 00
Martin, a, yel 100 @1 50
Otter a. 500 @8 Ou
Wolf -100 @ 200
Beaver .- 30 @i@®
Beer ....... ---15 00 @2 00
Opoceam........ wea 2
Deer Skin, dry.. nea
Deer Skin,green U5 @ 12%

HIDES
Green ..........-.-... 4% @5%
Part Cured ee ees @6'
Pee hee ue... 6'46@ 74
Dry.. trace ceeees © GG
Kips, green Meee taancs 5 @6

Gured............ 6128 74
Calfskins, green... . 6%@ 8
eGured...... 8%@10
nadie ekine.......-.. 10 @25
No. 2 hides & off.

PELTS.
Shosrings............ 5 fo
aaa 25 @

WooL
Washed. ..... 12 @i5
Unwashed..... .... & @i2

MISCELLANEOUS.
oo ee 3%@ 4%
Grease butter ........1 @ 2
Swirehoes.............. 1g 2
Ginseng --«-.2 WOG@e 25
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

WHEAT.

No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 63
No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 63
FLOUR IN SACKS.
*Fatente.... 2... 1... eee. 4 00
Seeond Patent............ 3 5)
Straicnt....... Sete lccese, @ ate
eee
"rane... ............. 5 a0
Buckwheat . 4 50
Rye.. a“ 3 50
*Subject ‘to. ‘usual “cash dis

count.
Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
ditional.
MEAL.

Beale. ..-............-.... 2 36
Granuleted............ 2 ou
FEED AND MILLSTUFPS.

St. Car Feed, screened. ..?21 00
St. Car Feed, unscreened. x0 50

No. 1 Corn and Oats ..... 20 0

No. 2 Special . 19 Su

Unbolted Corn Meal.. 19 50

Winter Wheat Bran ..... 16 00

Winter Wheat Middlih hgs 17 OO

Screenings .... : 14 uv
CORN,

Car lots. eo oe
Less than Car ‘lots... a
OATS.

Car lots ... ‘a

Less than Car ae
HAY.

No. 1 Timothy, car lote....11 Ov

No. 1 [ ton lots .....12

 

FISH AND OYSTERS.
FRESH FISH.
— yee e sees @3

 

roe. e. se. @&s
Black Bass.. : 15
Eelreas, .... -__...._... @1zK%
Ciscoes or ‘Herring i @6
Migemes. ...... @lz
Fresh lobster, _ lb 18
Cod . oo 10
ee @B8
No. 3 Pickerel. @s
Pe Gi
Saaekel White... @7
Red Snappers........ 14
Columbia River Sal.

I hee a 12%
eee rer .............- 18@25
Mostope......... ese
io ............ 1%
Coe. _...........

SHELL @00Ds,
Oysters, per 100....... 1 25@1 50
Clams | - %@i 00

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

Fairhaven Counts... 40
F.J.D. Selects. . 35
ey 1... _ 30

vy. J. D, , Standards. . 25

OYSTERS—IN BULK,
Oscar Allyn’s Brands.

New York Counts............ 40
murs Select. ................
PO eee 35
1d & Standards. ............. 30
Sramdande.. 1.0... 4.8... 25

 

CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE
LAMP BUBNEBRS.

 

BOG {
Nad LL. a
Ree ct... -oe-.. 65
Tanmiinr....... 56
Security. No. 1 i. 60
oe Ee
Nutmeg... pete eee | 50
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OO 175
No. 1 gE 1 88
—. |... ............. 2 70
First : quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, w rapped and labeled... 210
No.1 2 2%
No. - ae iy ‘se ‘ a “ 3 25
XXX Flint.
No. ¢ Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. 2 €0
No 1 . “ec “ “ “ee “ 2 QU
No. = “i ce ee sé ot oe 3 8O
i Pear] top.
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.... ..2 70
No. 2 te “ee oc “ee 4 70
No. 2 Hinge, ‘ . . 4 88
L Fire Proof—Plain Top.
No. 1, Sun, plain bulb a 3 40
Ras “ eee a 4 40
La Bastle,
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, prerades. ............ 12
No. 2 ' . 1 50
No “1 ertmp, per dos. eee
Re Cnn 1 60
tochester.
ING. 1. lime (656 daz) .........._.. .3 50
No. 2, lime (70e doz) ........ 4 00
No. 2, Hint (0c doz).............. _ <6
i Electric.
INO.2 lime (0e doz)... ) 1.8... 4 10
No. 2 flint (Se doz) ..... 4
Miscellaneous.
Doz.
oumien, HOCMONIOF 50
Nutmeg .... cet ecu ec oume el pccee, | AG
Uluminator Bases... es ee eee see a ica
Barrel CO 90
7 in. Porcelain Shades. 1 00
Case lots, 12 doz.. .. 90
Mammoth C himneys fox Store ‘Lampe
: Doz. Box
No. 3 Rochester, lime ......_1 50 4 20
No. 3 Rochester, flint. 1 @ 4 80
No. 3 Pearl top or Jewel gl’s.1 85 5 25
No. 2 Globe Incandes. lime...1 75 > 16
No. 2 Giebe Incandes. flint...2 00 5 85
No. 2 Pearleings = |... 2 16 6 00
OIL CANS,
: Doz
f ea) tin Cans with apout..... ...._,. 1 60
1 gal galy iron, with spout..... 2 00
2 gal galv iron with spout _ . soo
© @al faly iron with spout. ........... 4 50
5 gal Me Nutt, with spout 6 60
> gal Eureka, with spout 6 50
5 gal Eureka with faucet.. 7 00
5 gal galviron A & W 7 50
5 gal Til ting Cans, Monarch. 10 WO
9 gal galv iron Nacefas. . . oop
Pump Cans,
@ gal Home Hule.... ...... : .. 1 oO
5 ar Home Role. i. ..12 0
3 gal Goodenough........ 2 00
& gal Goodenough ......... . 13 50
2 oes Pirate Hine ..................... . 10 Ww
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0, Tubular, cz 1ses 1 Goa, caeh...... .
No. 0, C C oo 45
No. 0, : bblsh * ' 40
No. 0, . bull’s eye, cases i doz each.1 25
LAMP WICKS,
No. 0, per grogs........ . ra
No. 1, v a 2s
No 2, ECO oe 3d
NO. 3, : a a a alo oe cl 65
M ah, per dee “1. ii
JELLY TUMBL Ti in Top.
14 Pints, 6 doz in box, per box (box 00). 1 60
4 =a 6 lc, 6 Com Con ._ 2
% v oS * “pox, ~ box er)... 1 su
6 6 “ ~ Be, “ doe (bbiao)..... 22
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Bi Ltter Cc roc me, [tog eal... 6
44 gal. per doz. 60
Juss, 44 wal, perdes............ <o.. 7
' SiO 2gel. perpal........... U7
Miik Pans, % gai., per dos... |. bu
. . :* CS 72
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.
Butter Crocka, | and 2eal.............. 6%
Milk Pa as, yy gal. per em... 65
i . 78
OILS,

The Standard O11 Co quotes as follows:
BARRELS.
eee 12%

XXX W. W. Mic! . Headlight eee 11
Naptha.... ee i @lt%
Stove Gasoline @11%
CyuuGger.......... @39
eee. 13 @24
Biack, winter 11%
Black, summer 9
FROM TANK WAGON.
Eocene. \ Me cece 10
XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight. (0/00) 0.1) 8

Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle quo
BARRELS.

 

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Palacine. .... Ee
Daisy White........ ie
Red Cross, W W ifeadlight. ee ees 11
Naptia....... .. — 11%
Stove Gasol line. . See ceo ee ae 11%
PROM TANK WAGON,
Paiacing,.......... Les aoa ee
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DUPLICATES OF =

SINGLY ql Pn AVINGS =: “oT YPE “

TRADESMAN Co.,

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THE MICHIGAN

 

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Advantages of the Cash System.

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

The grocers of Grand Rapids deserve
credit for the spirit of enterprise and
progressiveness evinced in offering a sub-
Stantial reward for the best written
essay concerning the advantages result-
ant upon the adoption of the cash system.
It shows that the Retail Grocers’ Asso-
ciation of Grand Rapids is a live factor
in the upbuilding and maintaining of the
reputation for push with which the big
furniture town is everywhere credited.

Cash and Credit are twin brothers.
They are as old as commerce itself.
Cash, or ‘‘Ready Pay,’’ was strong and
popular from the very start, while Credit
was timid and had few friends. When
Civilization advanced and commerce
grew, men felt more and more inclined
to place confidence in each other: hence,
Credit gradually came to the front, and
has been gaining strength in the commer-
cial world ever since. Confidence, or a
more generous faith in mankind, is one
of the most glorious results of our mod-
ern Christianized civilization. The ef-
fect of this is a stronger tendency to give
credit; but, as modern civilization has
also evolved a reckless spirit of specula-
tion and a senseless, insatiate greed for
wealth, Credit has outgrown its swad-
dling clothes. To drop the metaphor,
it is this abnormal over-extension of
credit, resulting, as it does, from a gross
Violation of the ‘‘live and let live’’ rule,
that is the direct cause of nine-tenths of
all the evils growing out of the credit
system. To know when, where and to
what extent to give credit is a simple
but highly essential bit of knowledge
which the average retailer fails to ac-
quire. His only aim, apparently, is to
scatter his goods and keep his book-
keeper and collector busy, under the
fatal delusion that he is ‘doing busi-
ness.” He tears off, weighs out, delivers
and charges, trusting not to reason, of
course, but to blind chanee, for remuner-
ative returns in due time. That ‘due
time’’ never arrives, as countless thou-
sands know to their sorrow.

Credit is said to be the foundation of
business in all civilized countries, and
to do away with it would diminish
the volume of business to an unneces-
Sary and alarming extent. The truth of
this statement no man in his right mind
will deny; but it is made in a general
way, having reference to the compli-
cated conditions that govern operations
in the great world of industry and ex-
change, and has no bearing whatever on
the feasibility or desirability of adopting
the cash system in the retailing of mer-
chandise.

That a new business can be safely
launched on a cash basis: that even an
old, long-established credit business can
be satisfactorily converted into a cash
business, and that there are advantages
to be gained by adopting a cash system
are facts clearly demonstrated in every
trade center in the country. The num-
ber of cash stores is increasing daily, and
the universal testimony of all who have
given it a fair trial is that the cash sys-
tem is far more satisfactory than the old
system. Now, let us look, fora moment,
at the advantages claimed by those who
have adopted the cash system. The
reader may accept what follows as a di-
gest of opinions gleaned from interviews
with practical men who are working out
the problem, and not as mere imaginary
ideas of the writer:

 

The selling of goods on indiscriminate
credit is an act utterly devoid of sound |
business principles. ‘‘But we do dis-
criminate,”’ say the credit dealers. Well,
if you do, all I have to say is that your
powers of discrimination, judging from
the general result of their application,
are abnormally undeveloped. The fact
is that a safe discrimination in a retail
grocery store is well-nigh impracticable.
The men who smile at us so blandly from
behind flour-laden and moisture-stained
counters are as brave and courageous as
any other class of men; but, when they
attempt to play the discrimination act,
they find that their spinal columns are
nothing but tow strings.

 

Business is a warfare; the man who
engages in it is commander in chief, and
the capital dollars invested are the only
available forces at his command. Com-
mon sense should teach him that victory
can be won only by good generalship in
the preservation and proper manipula-
tion of these metallic forces. The aver-
age retailer is not encumbered witha
surplus of capital. If he could command
more, he could use it to advantage a
good share of the time, in replenishing
stock, in taking advantage of the mar-
ket and in discounting his bills. It
stands to reason, therefore, that every
dollar invested should be kept constantly
in sight—that is, available for use as
the’ exigencies of the business may re-
quire. Every dollar of working capital
—the only capital the average retailer
possesses—that passes beyond the con-
trol of the retailer imperils the solvency
of the business to just that extent. It is
no longer a vital force in the business:
and, although it may return—a mere
matter of chance—it is dead and utterly
unavailable for use in the business.
Suppose A invests $2,000 in the grocery
business. At the start, his working capi-
tal consists of $2,000, every dollar of
which, if properly invested, represents a
live factor in the business. At the close
of the first year, he takes an inventory,
with the following result: Merchandise,
$1,500; personal accounts, $1,000. As-
suming cash on hand sufficient to cover
all liabilities, A is well pleased with the
result. He is new in the business and
fancies he has lived out of it, paid all
expenses and cleared $500. Fatal delu-
sion! This is the ignis fatuus of the
credit system. The beginner always
counts those perpetually increasing
personal accounts as_ available as-
sets, but, when his experience
ripens, he learns that the ledger is
a mocker in time of calamity and that
only from 50 to 60 per cent. of its con-
tents are even realizable. To the re-
tailer operating with a limited capital,
there is a vast difference between an
available resource and a realizable re-
source; the former is a goods-purchasing,
bill-discounting and debt- paying factor,
ready to be drawn upon in a time of
emergency, while the latter lacks these
properties, becoming available at a fu-
ture and uncertain time and never when
most needed. But, assuming that all of
A’s personal accounts in the case sup-
posed are realizable, the fact remains
that he commences his second year with
25 per cent. less vital force, or working
capital, than he began with. His busi-
ness must be kept up, although his avail-
able resources have been cut down one-
fourth. This weakens him and, instead
of being able to discount bills, he is
forced to ask for renewals. To follow A

 

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GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH.

18 and 19 Widdicomb Bld.
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in his struggles to keep up business,
from year to year, with a too limited
capital, a considerable portion of which
is kept in a sink hole where it is un-

available for use, and where, at least 40 |

per cent. of it has passed out of sight
forever—lI say, to follow A in his strug-

gles and to note his frantic efforts to keep |

his head above water as he appeals again
and again to that hateful misleading
ledger for relief that never comes; to
listen to the wrangling over disputed ac-
counts; to mark the ill will caused by
desperate attempts to realize on ‘‘charge
it’s,’? and to gather up all the false prom-
ises, broken pledges, bitter disappoint-
ments, degrading subterfuges, sleepless
nights, heartburnings and headburstings
—all this would be an object lesson in
the true inwardness of the credit system.

lam not overdrawing the picture in
the least. I place A among the little
flock that finally succeed in overcoming
the ‘‘world, the flesh and the devil,’’ in
spite of the disadvantages of the credit
system. If I were desirous of present-
ing my readers with a picture that would
wither the rose on a marble tombstone, I
would depict the sickening career of the
mighty majority who are floundering in

the quicksands of credit. Is it any won-

der that these men, on being extricated |

from this horror, with nothing left but
misspent lives and the clothes on their
backs, should curse the system that
robbed them of their capital, deprived
them of their commercial freedom,
cheated them out of life’s best opportu-
nities, destroyed their happiness and
blasted their faith in mankind?

But enough has been said to show the
disadvantages of the credit system. Be-
tween the lines may be read the reverse
side—the advantages of the cash system.
Safe business can be conducted only on
sound business principles. Every ele-
ment entering into a business should be
either a resource or a liability. Re-
sources are of two kinds—commodities
and evidences of debt—and both should
possess a present value, capable of ad-
justment and ever available for use
when needed. The difference between
these two classes of resources is that,
whereas a commodity possesses a market
value subject to fluctuation, an evidence
of debt should possess a fixity of value
as immutable as the coin of the realm. I
say ‘‘should possess,” for if it does not, it

eannot be a resource aceording to sound ,

business principles, which demand cer-
tain present values in order that the
manager of a business may at all times
keep his finger on the financial pulse of
his affairs.

With these simple propositions
mind, let any grocer who is contemplat-
ing achange from credit to cash open
his ledger in quest of resources. He will
find evidences of debt amounting, proba-
bly, to thousands of dollars; but, inas-
much as he cannot, of his own free will,
make use of a single one of them for
meeting current expenses, for liquidating
a matured bill, for discounting at the
bank, or for any other business purpose,
they are not resources at all and are
worse than dead stock. What are they?
Simply a bundle of uncertainties, a mill-
stone around the neck of their owner,
the great nightmare of the credit system,
whose only use is to worry their unfor-
tunate possessor into an untimely grave.

The cash system, or that system which
demands value for value in all ex-
changes, is the only safe, sound, satis-

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accompany enquirer to dozens of local users of |
our elevators. J. C. MULBERRY, Agent.

| factory system of aa business. mn
jitand henceforth you are a free man.
| No longer will you chafe under the gall-
‘ing yoke of the jobber; you will be at
liberty to buy where you please, and you
| will be able to do business with less cap-
ital, for every dollar will be at your com-
mand. Your profits will be greater, for
| you will be ina position to secure bot-
| tom prices and discount your bills. Then
jthe demons that keep you tossing at
| night on your pillow will take their de-

| parture; your appetite will return, and

| life will present you with pleasures
never dreamed of before. The dead-beat
will cease to harass you, and your

brother man will no longer be the totally
, depraved thing he now appears to be. If
| for no other reason, adopt the eash sys-
tem for the sake of your customers. It
will make them more industrious, more
economical, more truthful and better
citizens in more ways than one.
E. A. OWEN.

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Full line of Wood Working
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Also other property with power for manufac-
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Grand Rarids, Mich.

A.B. KNOWLSON,

Wholesale Shipper

Cement, Lime, Goal, Sewer Pipe, Kte,
CARLOTS AND LESS
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

KKENT CO.
SAVINGS BANK

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

Jno. A. Covone, Pres. Henn ¥ Ipema. Vice-Pres
J.A.S. VERD1IER, Cash’r. K. VAN Hor, Ass't Cash’'r

Transacts a General Banking Business.

Interest Allowed on Time Deposits.

Solicits the Accounts of [Merchants and Indi-
viduals.

Jno. A. Covade, D. A. Blodge

O Brien, a J. Bow! 1c

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Pe ECTORS
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Henry Idema, Jno. W. Blodgett, A
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120 24 bags in a barrel, $3.00
75 t se ae 66 2.79
40 a iam - sy 2.50
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24

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

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

New York, April 27—The past week
has been a fairly satisfaetory one in job-
bing circles in almost all lines. If any
one department is better than another
we should say it was hardware. The
utmost activity is displayed and the side-
walks are almost barricaded with the
great piles of farm implements going to
every quarter of the Union. ‘The gro-
cery trade has been good, too, and, with
the arrival of some genuine warm
weather, the town begins to receive
new life. Many buyers are here and
those who do not come in person are
sending in excellent reports and orders
for goods. The Food Exposition is in
full blast and the attendance has been
very satisfactory. The most notable ex-
position in this part of the country, how-
ever, promises to be held at Asbury
Park, N. J., in August. The location is
so desirable that the attendance is sure
to be ‘‘simply immense,” and your cor-
respondent thinks that Michigan food
manufacturers will do well to take ad-
vantage of this exhibition and send a
good representation.

The coffee market remains “funny.”
Really desirable sorts of Brazils are said
to be hard to find. Buyers are not over-
anxious, and quotations are nominal.
There are afloat 465,505 bags, against
488,218 at the same time last year. Mild
sorts of coffee are firm and the bulk
seems to be going to Europe. Sales not
large and there has not been a fractional
change in quotations.

Ne change has been made in the quota-
tions on refined sugar, the demand for
which has been somewhat disappointing.
Higher rates were anticipated and are
looked for at any time, although this has
not been any incentive, apparently, for
buyers to purchase ahead of everyday
legitimate wants.

A little more activity has been dis-
played in the tea market during the past
few days and a good many mail orders
have come to hand; but they are for
smal! lots and there is not much expec-
tation of any higher prices.

Syrups and molasses are dull and ir-
regular. The market seems to be under
the influence of a ‘thot wave’’ and quota-
tions are nominally unchanged.

Even the poor despised tin can of eata-
bles feels the thrill of better times, at
last, and there isa perceptibly better de-
mand, while prices on many articles have
materially advanced. It has beena long
time coming. New goods will soon be
here, and whether the improvement will
continue or not remains to be seen.

Butter has met with a backset in the
shape of hot weather. Thereis a falling
off in demand and quotations cannot be
maintained with any degree of firmness.

Large size new cheese has met with
considerable export demand at a rate
varying from 7@8c. Old cheese is sell-
ing moderately well at 10@11<e.

Eggs are worth 13}e for both best
Western and N. Y. State. The demand
is pretty good and accumulations are not
excessive.

Lemons are meeting with an excellent
demand. Orders come from every sec-
tion and, if rates are not much higher
than a week ago, the feeling is one of
continued strength and this is likely to
remain. Pineapples, oranges, bananas,
etc., are all doing well.

The National Retail Grocers’ Associa-
tion met and abjourned to meet at Min-
neapolis, April 24, 1897. Resolutions
against department stores were passed
and some profitable discussions ensued.
The attendance was fair.

Retail trade is good and dealers are
congratulating themselves upon the fact
that they are gradually “getting out of
the woods,” with no presidential election
in sight for eighteen months. ‘‘Peace and
prosperity is the motto from now on!’

The Drug Market.
Acids—Aside from an advance of 1c in
prices of carbolic, there are no new fea-
tures of consequence and nothing to re-
port beyond a steady, active movement
of seasonable varieties.

 

 

 

Balsams—Copaiba is active in a job-
bing way, and Peru is meeting with less
inquiry, but prices for both are un-
changed. Tolu is in better demand, with
the undertone firmer, the improvement
being due to depleted stocks, absence of
arrivals and a decided upward tendency
abroad.

Bichromate of Potash—The condition
of the market has not improved and pur-
chases are limited to current wants of
consumers.

Brimstone—The market remains quiet,
with quotations unchanged and steady.

Caffeine—Is unchanged in price, small
lots being obtainable at $8 and larger
quantities $10.

Cocaine—The anticipated reduction re-
ferred to in our last issue was realized on
Tuesday last by the announcement of a
further decline of 25e per ounce, but
there isno improvement in demand and
the market remains quiet; the easier tend-
ency is wholly due to the better outlook
for obtaining fresh supplies of crude
from primary sources.

Gums—There is a continued good de-
mand for assafcetida, and a better feeling
has developed, owing to higher prices
having been realized at the last auction
sale in London. Kino is firm.

Leaves—Continued activity is noted in
short buchu and prices are firm. The
demand for intermediate grades of Tin-
nevelly senna is also active and the tend-
ency of values is upward. Coca are
quiet, with the tone easy, and there is no
further change in quotations.

Mercurial Preparations—The upward
movement in quicksilver has imparted a
stronger tone to the market and manu-
facturers have advanced their quotations
2c per Ib. on the leading varieties and 1c
on minor preparations.

Naphthaline—Manufacturers are over-
sold and only able to make deliveries on
contracts. The result is a firmer market
with stocks light, and prices have been
advanced.

Quicksilver—Cable advices from Lon-
don of an advance of 5s. by Rothschild
have had a tendency to stiffen the market
here; the flask price is $1.50 higher and
the quotation by the pound has been ad-
vanced.

Roots—Jalap remains quiet and easy.
Ipecac is dull and featureless. Jamaica
ginger is arriving freely, but it is all
finding buyers for either home consump-
tion or export, and a good business has
transpired at steady prices.

Seeds—Canary is depressed and is
tending lower. Celery is without ma-
terial change. Millet is decidedly firm
and an early advance is considered prob-
able. Poppy has advanced, caused by
an improved condition in Europe. Sun-
flower has declined to the lowest point

on record.
2

Large sums of money have turned up
in odd places, but $1,000,000 in a warm-
ing pan isa little unique. An old lady
of 88 named Tanies recently died at her
country home in France, leaving all her
fortune, which she said amounted to
5,000,000 frances, to the city of Paris.
The house was carefully searched, as
well as her flat in Paris, but nothing
could be found. She was not known to

have any banker, and the authorities of |

Paris were beginning to think that they
were victims of an old woman’s self-de-
lusion, when some one peered into an
old warming pan without a handle,
which was stowed under a sink. The
pan contained the whole sum in gold,
bank notes and bonds.

 

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Big as the elephant is, he needs a
.friend. A number of friends of the
African elephant in Berlin have banded
| themselves into a society for his defense.
| The fact that between 50,000 and 60,000
| elephants are killed annually in Africa
| has moved them to do all that in them
lies to prevent the animal’s total extine-
tion. The society does not mean to leave
the elephant undisturbed in the enjoy-
ment of his natural freedom, nor are its
motives purely humanitarian. At pres-
ent the commercial value of the elephant
is about £1,000,000 a year. If, instead of
being killed for his ivory, he were tamed
and employed for transport purposes, his
value would be increased tenfold in a
country like Africa. The poor elephant
is proud of his ivory and does not know
enough to keep it in histrunk. For that
he is slaughtered.
——- >

A curious case is reported as occurring
recently in the Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, recently, where a_ copper-
smith died whose hair and beard were
distinctly green. His skin also showed a
faint tinge of the same color. The physi-
cian states that the reason for the phenom-
enon, which is very rare, was that the
patient did not use the precaution com-
monly taken by copper workers of daily
bathing with a strong alkaline solution.
The coloration was caused by a fine dust
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mand at $2.50 per bu. Green stock is meeting a

large demand, which is amply supplied by local
growers, at 7@9e per doz. bunches.
Pieplant—114¢ per Ib.
Potatoes—Outside markets are stronger and

the price is gradually moving upward, local
handlers paying 60@65e and holding at 65@70c.
Bermuda stock has reached the market in limit-
ed quantities, but the price is so high as to be
practically prohibitive.

Spinach—S0e per bu.

Strawberries—

 

 

 

Tennessee stock Commands 20@
20c per qt. box.

ket, but few sales, even at the very favorable
price of $1.25 per bu.

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| Sweet Potatoes—Plenty of choice stock in mar-
}

Beans—The market is firm, but no higherthan

a week ago. Handlers who have stocks of any |
| consequence refuse to make concessions, claim-}

|ing that the price will go still higher before
midsummer.

lungs, producing a distressing cough,
and finally death.

PRODUCE MARKET.
Apples—Slow sale at $1 per bu.
Asparagus--600 73¢ per doz. bunehes
Biatter--A litthe weaker than a week azo, with

every indication of a Continuation of the weak?
ness. Choice dairy brings 13@.16e, with no es
tablished price for low grades. Creamery, 200
m2

Beets— Dry, 25e per bu.

Cabbage—Home grown is about out of market
California stock is beginning to arrive. com
manding $ per erate of 4 doz.

Caulitlower—? per doz.

Celery—California stoek has put in an uppear
ance and finds limited sale at $1 per doz. The
stock is large and presents a fine appearance.
but (like everything else grown in California)
it is utterly devoid of flavor. Loeal growers
claim they will have a limited amount of eel ry
in the course of a month.

Cranberries—If any of THE TRADESMAN’S read
ers Can use any choice stock, they can be in-
formed, on application, of a place where they
can procure a large amount of stock at wny price
they wre inclined to offer. A local dealer Has a
large quantity of the fruit in his cellar, but the
demand has entirely ceased.

Cucumbers—$1.50 per doz

kges—The market is a little higher than a
week ago, short arrivals and unprecedented de-
miund having forced the price up to Ie a eouple
of days last week. Eleven eents is about the
ruling figure this weak, but the high price of
meat is holding the price of eggs very firmly and
may precipitate a slightly higher quotation un
less the supply increases soon.

Onions—Home grown dry stoek is dull and
about played out, occasional sales being made at
aaa be per bu. Bermuda stock is in better de-

 

Will Canfield, house salesman for the
Olney & Judson Grocer Co., is slowly re-
covering from a three months’ seige with
nervous prostration.

 

 

PROVISIONS
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS.

  

 

     

—a. 12 50
aor... 12 50
xtra Clear pig, short out............. 14 50
eae Oe aes.
rae. LL 13 50
Bosuon Gear, seortcnt............... 13 50
Caoee Gece Sheree... 13 75
Standard clear, short cut, best........ . 14 10
SAUSAGE,
Por Bee 7
Pee Ceesenee esse 5%
ae... 6
ee. 8%
paso! .......... 6
Head cheese ... ——— 6
ee 10
Pree 7%
LARD.
Ronee Ree 8
eee - 7.
5%
ee 5%
ee 8 6%
ORO 644
50 Ib, Tins, 4c advance.
20 1b. pails, 4c a
bib “ Xe .
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BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. . 6 60
Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... 6 75
OE , 10 00
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain,
em Syeraeom ie... 10
_ See 10%
: . et ee ee
e eee 7
| eee 9
eters. a 7
Breakfast Bacon boneless.................... 9
Driea Geek Saris... 11
DRY SALT MEATS.

Pees eee... 61g
| 6%
PICKLED PIGS’ FEET.

a ore 3 00
Muerter barrels... oo - ....
Se eee ee 90
TRIPE.

Se emer... 75
Poe Poe. 85
BUTTERINE.

Creamery, POs... ee

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Eggs Wanted !

Prices quoted on application.

NOTE LOW PRICES

On following goods:

 

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

 
 
   

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. quart Mason Jars, per dozr......... ..... 1 40
i pints Mason Jars, per doz:...... ....... 1 60
Per ease, Sdon, in case... ae
Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the
bestmade. Price per Case................ 2 40
Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat:
aim. pail. per ib.....,... | Seka. 6
ae eerie 6%
a2-1b. pais, per ib........ .
‘kisim, sade, AO
Peres ee LLL
Fame Meron dara, per dee........ _.. ....,, 1 3
eet enon Jaen, ber Gos... 2 00
Pure Sweet Cider, in bbls., —o.......... 12%
Pure Sweet Cider, in less quantities, per gal 14
Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per doz. 1 40
Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per doz.... 2 25
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz...... 9 00
Peach Marmalade, 20-lb pails.... ........... 100
Peach Marmalade in pt Mason jars, pedz.. 12
No 1 Egg Crate Fillers, best in market, 10
sets in case, No. 1 Case included.......... 1 25
No. 1 Egg Crates with fillers complete...... 33

Special prices made on 100 Crate lots,

EDWIN FALLAS,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Michael Kolb
& Son
W holesale Clothiers
Rochester, N. Y.

 

WILLIAM CONNOR,

of Marshall, Mich., will be

Our representative,
pleased to call
upon the Trade and show you samples, if
you will favor him with a line.

Mail orders promptly attended to.

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Absolutely the
Best that Money
Can Produce

LIGHT
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SPEEDY.

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MODELS
Weight

F | 18 to 28 pounds
h Prices

$85 to $100

Send for Catalogue

 

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MONARCH CYCLE COMPANY

FACTORY AND [IAIN OFFICE, Lake and Halstead Sts,
RETAIL SALESROOM, 280 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO.

 

Grand Rapids, [lich., Agents, ADATIS & HART, 12 West Bridge St.

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UPERIOR
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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

The New York Biscuit Co.,

Successors to WM. SEARS & CO.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Detroit Branch, GEO. HILSENDEGEN, Proprietor, 310 Woodward Avenue

| Muskegon Bakery Grachers.

(United States Baking Co.)
Are Perfect Health Food.

There area great many Butter Crackers on the Market—only
one can be best—-that is the original

Muskegon
Bakery
Butter
Gracker.

Pure, Crisp, Tender, Nothing Like it for Flavor.» Daintiest,
Most Beneficial Cracker you can get for coustant table use.

Muskegon Toast, ALWAYS

Nine

Ro.al Fruit Bis:uit, | ASK

| Muskegon Frosted Honey, YOUR
Other | Ieed Cocoa Honey Jumbles, GROCER
Great | Jelly Turnovers, FOR
Specialties | Ginger Snaps, MUSKEGON
Are | Home-Made Snaps, BAKERY’S

Muskegon Branch, CAKES and

| Mlik Li neh, CRACKERS

United States Baking Co.

LAWRENCE DEPEW, Acting Manager,

 

Muskegon, - Mich.

 

  

 

 

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NEW IDEAL SHAPE. Original Assorted Crates. ‘“‘SUMMERTIME,”’ English Dec. Semi-Porcelain
PENCIL OR BROWN COLOR
NO. 141910, IDEAL SHAPE NO. 15108, IDEAL SHAPE NO. 13136, ‘“SUMMERTIME”’
Orig. Asstd. Cte., Alfred Meakins’ White Granite. Original Assorted Crate, Alfred Meakins’ White Granite Ware. Assorted Crate.
6doz5inch P . a. 2 #2 Se < be a 1) Plates ' 2 £10 Zonly Teapots, 24s 3 00 yO 4doz>in Plates S 51 $3 O04 doz Sauce Boats 1 80 90
ww doz 7 I =t ‘ [o 2 Suga fs 2 3 S41 9 doz in Plates.. 62 124 doz Pickles is 6
—.o Plates e 0 4 0 555 «1 43. | 12doz7 in Plates..... 73 876 1doz Covd Dishes.. 5 49 5 50
MF i 65 >. i 31 2 doz 8 in Plates... 64 168 doz B.& B. Plates. 150 60
be 4 h s 2 ts 1 18 % | 6 doz4in Fruits.... 34 204 % doz Cov'd Butters 40 2 03
ap na 6 ei 7 " 6} doz Ind. Butters 1 38 doz 24 Sugars 304 152
> 1 ) 3 28 ls. vis 14 doz 9in Dishes... 1 35 OS > doz Cream 1 2 63
S 1 50 0 1 69 85 y 3b é.. ae = . , doz 10 in Dishes 203 101 18doz Teas 90 16 20
} 4 1 2 ea 112 60nly prs. 9s Ewers & Basins 7 18 ag : ‘ > Pi 5; =
: 21 70 Gonly Covered Chambers 9. 450 225 | 2s @oz 12 in Dishes 113 2 doz Coffees. 105 2 10
tit 6u \4 3 iM 49 13 only Uneoy’d Chambers 9s. 3.00 3 00 | 1-6doz 14 in Dishes 19 «=3doz30Oyst'r Bowls 90 2 70
sa oS jh m 66 10 “oe De I Te Teas 3014 3 = 2 do® 3 in Bakers... 70 158 Crate and Cartage 2 50
‘ 4 } 5 Sw 1046 did. Daisy Teas ae > . : nc 2 eee
¢ pr ¢ ‘ MW { nhdld. St.Denis Teas 31 6 62 doz 7 in Bakers.... 15 _ $63 79
~ Mg t i is iit Crate and Cartage 2 50 | 44 doz 8 in Bakers _20 68 —
fait EE Ses oa ie 1a g|taceneae is open eee
an ( 6 ) [a5 od is rota 451 99 a ; : E
s 13 5 ; lishes 3 94 66 1, doz 7 in Seallops iz 67 '
1 5 shes 4 3) 75 doz &in Seallops.. 2 03 1 02 () | $6 5
¢ Si 1 50 25 doz 12 Jugs. 20 to pen lock, '
( i yea ee doz 24 Jugs........138 7
\ DOG s4 ao0z2 30 Jums........,1 23 67
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All these goods in Open Stock at slight advance.

H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids

 

 

The Dayton Computing Scale!
It Sells
Khecause of
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, 16, 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 liability to prosecution is
apparent. Respectfully, < - .« B=

The Computing Scale Co.

 
    
 

 

 

 

 

 

See What Users Say:

Otfice of CHICAGO LUMBERING CO.
Manistique, Mich., Apr. 2, 1895.
Messrs. Hoyt & Co., Dayton, O.

Gentlemen: We bought three Standard (ar-
ket Scales and two Tea:Scales of you, Feb. 11th,
for our,two stores, and have thrown out all our
other scales, and had these in constant use ever
since.

We are very much’ pleasedjwith 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.

 

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

HOYT & Company, Sales Agents, Dayton, Ohio.

 

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