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WW rN ities Of all the past and i ua by-gone advertising fakes, none hold : : } For Sale by all Jobbers of Groceries, Hardware and W vodenware t ar wh wit the ever- SEY - v [ in tn their own with the ever present ! i PICtTiIIne CARD. Other “fakes” come and go, and their whiskers spr ut, turn gray and fall out, but the picture card ever bobs up serenely, and For THE Boren AND ENGINE. Are THE E s' Fa am AAA; ce iS when it comes to a Sone ee NBERTHY it INJECTOR CO. veTRoIT, PICTURE CARD and co Caratoaue. ranch Fa a oer ee, FAN COMBINED as : Absolute : THE ACKNOWLEDGED LEADER | a The children want them, : SOLD The old folks want them—for the children. ! & © Grandma wants one, & : TELFER SPIGE (() s9 ca * Phe fat man needs one, a : ll ° GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. lhe dude has to have one. And, remember, all these people are advertising the man who - O Pp died i 25, Vieni Ba CP rat fi} ur lan gives away the fans. GLC HIE 3A oN - “EBs o-=, dvertisin sing @ Hh [ae Lb : ese : in ent : erty: ae Saves disputes and enables (fof you to discount your bills. hj x! Saves book charges and bad wn” debts. i pf Saves worry and loss of sleep. PITAL Wins cash trade and new ; customers. IF NOT SATISFACTORY, YOUR MONEY BACK. BUT THEY CoOsT! WELL, I SHOULD SAY NOT! Just see our late samples and lead the procession with an adver- tising fan on cireus day. IN THE LINE OF Heating =* - Plumbing 4 Padestvan| —- i Work NO FIRM IN THE STATE HAS BETTER FACILITIES OR REPUTATION. OUR WOOD MANTEL GRATE, GAS AND ELECTRIC FIXTURE DEPARTMENT WEATHERLY & PULTE. i QN GRAND RAPIDS GRAND RAPIDS. 5 and 7 Pearl St., Our Line for 1895 is HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO., Greater in variety and finer than ever attempted before. Every one of the old Favorites haye 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 ‘n ‘*Black Bottoms.”’ Headquarters for Wales-Goodyear It ibbers. Favorite Churn H. WAr ee ROLL CAP Made of Soft Steel Sheets. Cheap as Shingles. LAST FOUR TIMES AS LONG. ea VC HOPSON 4 C0 NEON Louis and Gamay Ss. Send for Catalogue. There are thousands of SIGNALS, but none so good as the POINTS OF EXCELLENCE. It is made of thoroughly seasoned material It is finished | : .S | G NA g F I V E . ~ smooth inside as well as outside. The iron ring head is strong | A Fine Havana Filler Cigar for 5 cents. and net Hable to break. The bails are fastened to the iron } R Maker, F. E. BUSH IAN, Agent, ring, where they need to be fastened. It is simple in coustrue- FE). WwW : UH : CHICAGO. 523 John St., KALAMAZOO tion and coiuvenient to operate. No other churn is so nearly perfct as The Favorite. Don't buy a counterfeit. SIZES AND PRICES. \ > 2 i. N ry t mi . 5 50; N 125 val..t hurn 12 gals 12 frosten TEVENS & C: ’ ‘ST S AGENTS FOR WESTERN MICHIGAN. It wouid make a horse laugh To see how some merchants persist in hanging to the pass-book and other antiquated charging systems when the adoption of the Coupon Book System will curtail their losses, lessen the time devoied to credit transac- tions, enable them to avoid the annoyances incident to credit dealings and place their business on practically a cash basis. Over 5,000 Michigan merchants are now using our Coupon Books. We want 5,000 more cus- tomers in the same field. Are you willing to receive Catalogue and Price List? A postal card will bring them. GRAND RAPIDS BRUSH GOMP'Y, MANUFACTURER OF BRUSH ES GRAND RAPIDS, MICH TRADESIAN COMPANY Our Goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. agp 8 ——— tthe. a! ~ Bank Notes. Ernest Ackenhausen deposited $1,000 in the People’s Saving Bank of Detroit, gave his bankbook to Joseph Lange, and then went to Cleveland. Lange drew out the money, sent $500 to Ackenhausen and disappeared with the rest of it. Ackenhausen claimed that his signature upon the withdrawing check is a forgery, and sued the Bank. He acknowledged that Lange had sent him $500, and a jury in the Wayne Circuit Court gave him a verdict for the other $500. The Bank will appeal. Hon. Edwin C. Nichols succeeds V. P. Collier as President of the National Bank of Battle Creek. OS Ose Tradesman Coupon Books. ; See ceo ee ee relates RA ee Ne Dis st eth on oe 2 ENGLAND’S DECLINE. America Taking the World’s Markets Away from Her. From present indications America will, in the near future, dominate all the mar- kets of the world in the production of manufactured goods. The old-time su- premacy of England is on tbe wane, and even in England itself many grades of American goods, particularly cotton goods, manufactured leather and iron are, sold more cheaply than the native prod- uct. America has need of this new ex- port business because her export of food products has declined, and she has not been getting as much money from other countries as she has been giving to them. Tke enormous increase in wheat pro- duction in the Argentine Republic and the large surplus of that commodity for export at low prices has resulted in a de- crease in the exportation of American wheat. This Argentine competition is not a temporary one, but is growing, and is becoming more important every year. In addition to the decrease in the expor- tation of American wheat, the exporta- tion of other food products has been seriously affected. At the same time, there is a decrease in the exportation of raw materials. While it is true that there is practically no change in the value of manufactured goods exported, it is estimated that the average decline in the price of the goods included under this head was not less than 15 per cent.. indicating, of course, a considerable in- crease in volume, although on a lower basis of value. In view of the decrease in the exportation of food products and raw materials, it will be seen that any increase in the exportation of manufac- tured goods becomes a matter of great importance, as assisting the United States to maintain in their favor the an- nual balance of trade. The increase in the number of articles exported indicates that American manu- facturers are beginning to realize the im- portance of an export outlet for their goods, and they have found themselves able to compete with England and Euro- pean countries ina great many lines of manufacture which have not heretofore been exported. ‘The principal articies of export which are now largely export- ed from this country in competition with European manufacturers, and which were not exported to any extent five years ago, may be enumerated as follows: Iron, barb wire fence, wire nails, steel rails, locomotives, armor plate, agricultural implements, shoes, tools, steel, dry goods, paper, carpets, all sorts of cotton fabrics, and chemicals like sulphate of copper, acid, ete. in eertain classes of tools and hard- ware Americans, owing to the greater use of machinery and larger output, have long stood pre-eminent. Australian and South African doors are furnished with American locks and knobs, and we fur nish as well the doors themselves. An infinite variety of hardware used in the construction of dwellings is also shipped abroad in great quantities, and you may be surprised to know that one of the very best markets we have is England itself. Of the new articies of export, take barb wire fence, for instance. Five years ago the cheaper labor of England, Ger- many and Belgium made it impossible for American manufacturers to compete with those countries in supplying this article. in these five years the superior genius and industry of the American workmen have revolutionized the business of manufacturing wire in this conntry, and enables us to supply the whole world with it. We have beaten Eng- land, Germany and Belgium in theirown markets. We have driven their own manufacturers out of the export busi- ness. Take the next article mentioned, wire nails. For years German and Bel- gian manufacturers have defied compe- tition. They have undersold the Eng- lishmen and controlled the English mar- ket, but we’ve learned how to make wire nails. Our inventors have given us ma- ehinery superior to any possessed in either Germany or Belgium, and wire nails are now being shipped from here to every part of the world in ever-in- ereasing quantities. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. I know of an order for 20,000 kegs of , those nails. We landed them in England cheaper than they could be made there and cheaper than they could be imported from Continental countries. Now look at the steel business. We are to-day ex- porting American steel rails to Cuba in competition with German and English manufacturers, and our manufacturers are extending their inquiries for busi- ness to South American countries. In this commodity tonnage is the principal question. The more we make, the cheaper we can make. ‘The more we in- crease our output, the more dangerous competitors we become to Eugland and Germany. It is only a matter of time when we shall control a large portion of the markets of the world in this line. We export locomotives. American loco- motives have been shipped to Brazil, to Argentina, and even to Australia. We manufacture them here and ship them to thease countries and deliver them to the purchaser there set up on the rails in running order, at prices very much lower than the English or Continental manu- facturers can name. Armor plate is an- other thing that we have begun to ex- port. You know, of course, that this is now being supplied by one of the great American iron works to the Russian Gov- ernment, the order having been taken in competition with the most celebrated English and European makers. Our business in the manufacture of armor plate also depends considerably upon the question of tonnage, and as we continue to manufacture, the business is bound to increase. We are particularly successful in the exportation of agricultural implements, such as harvesters, mowers and headers. We are shipping these articles in great quantities to Russia and to South Amer- ica, and our orders are constantly in- creasing. It is only necessary, in order to demonstrate the fact that our great competitors, the British, fully appreciate the competition which this country is now giving them, to quote from an ar- ticle in the London Times. I don’t re- member the exact date, but | made a memorandum of the exact words. They were as follows: ‘Speaking at a meeting of the Council of the London Chamber of Commerce last week, Mr. Bindloss made rather startling reference to the divers- ion of the British iron and steel trade to other countries. Of late years the United States had developed their own resources, and by a heavy tariff had so stimulated production that they could not only supply themselves, but severely interfere with England in foreign mar- kets, and he would not be surprised if by and by they threatened competion even in this country.” The competition referred to by Mr. Bindloss has come to pass, as great quan- tities of American iron have been shipped to England itself, and contracts are made to-day by which American manufacturers undertake to lay down gas, steam and water pipes in English warehouses at lower prices than the Eng- lishmen can meet. Mind you, 1 say lay down in English warehouses. in the great gold and diamond mines of South Africa all of the iron pipe used is produced in America. Why, within a few weeks a single consignment of a train load of twenty cars was shipped to Africa. Nearly all of the gold-mining machinery of the great mines of the Transvaal is made in Chicago, and not many months ago asteamer was loaded at New Orleans with machinery for Af- rica. It was shipped down the Mississ- ippi River to that point. ‘lake bar iron as another example; that is the iron for blacksmiths’ use. We are shipping that to Japan and China and other Eastern countries. A very recent shipment con- sisted of 450 tons. We are shipping cot- ton ties and hoop iron to bombay and Caleutta. So much for the iron busi- ness. Sulphate of copper is another article which is very largely exported to France and Italy, and smal! shipments have been made to South Africa. Not only is the American sulphate of copper much cheaper than the European or English product, but it is of infinitely better quality, and promises to control the mar- kets of the world. S cheap. lower. “Tole You So!” W hat did we tell you about Sugar? Clear ease of “tole you so.” Many of our friends acted onouradviceand have made nice money on their purchases. We believe it’s a good time to buy yet-Sugar cheap to-day, very But....Fruit Jars! Well, they are “out of sight.” acted on our suggestions have reason to be advice 1s, pleased. Those who did now, and our They are too high—believe they will be Those who not better do so DON’T BUY. BE PBR HP eee ee eee eee gg! Olney & Judson Grocer “Ceresota”’ “GOOD THING--PUSH IT ALONG.”’ i B ye PARR REEF eo can se a PARR REEF eo can conc ae en Eee se i © repress a (Att teennstteaamenstanis! There was another article in the Lon- don Times recently which pointed out that the United States had practically overtaken the United Kingdom as a coal- producing country. Just take the fig- ures a moment. You will see that in 1870 the United States produced only one-third as much coal as Great Britain; at the end of the next eleven years, that is, in 1881, you will find that the product had increased to one-half that of Great Britain. To-day the two countries have practically come abreast of each other, and the result has been that everywhere Great Britain has ceased to command the Supremacy which she formerly enjoyed as the chief coal-producing country of the world. Ithink it will be a matter of some surprise to people to know that reg- ular shipments of coal in cargoes are make to Liverpool for gas making pur- poses. The United States produces the finest coal in the world for making gas. The Englishmen have learned that, and they purchase it in preference to their own product. The Spanish and English West Indies are supplied with coal from the United States as far down as Gren- ada, one of the most southerly of the Windward group of islands in the West Indies. The mineral statistics show that the average value of the coal output of the United Kingdom in 1892 was 7 shillings and 3 pence, and in 1894, 6 shillings and 9 pence per ton. In the United States the reported value of the output of bituminous coal for several years past has not averaged much over 4 shillings and 3 pence per ton, and in some states the average has been about 3 shillings and 6 pence. Hundreds of eargoes of coal are ordered from Eng- land at prices considerably in excess of those at which the same coal could be bought in the United States, the main reason being the fact that with free trade they are able to secure lower freights for coal-shipping, because such ves- sels can obtain return cargoes. The American workman is more intel- ligent, more industrious and much more productive. He is also much more in- ventive than the workmen of any other country. Why, you go into a factory to-day and you will see something being done by hand, and you go in the factory next week and you will find that some workman in the factory has invented a machine to do the work. The machinery in American factories is largely the in- vention of the American werkman, and the improvements on the original ma- chine are of his invention. He will go to work at his machine and in a day or a week he will think of something that will make that work just a bit easier, or that will make it possible tu run his machine at a higher speed, and to get more out of it. He will set himself to thinking, and shortly he has an improvement that maybe doubles his producing capacity. It is true, too, that he is not seriously hampered by trades unions, as is the case in England. I know itis generally understood that the relations between capital and labor in this country are strained. The newspapers talk about it and the Socialists and Anarchists talk about it, and the dissatisfied of the pop- ulation lecture on it, and try to drum it into the ears of their fellow workmen, but the relations of the employer and employed here are infinitely better than they are in Great Britain. Why, here was a case the other day in Fall River, where the manufacturers, without even a demand being made upon them, re- stored the rate of wages paid last Au- gust. They did this without anybody asking them to. If there had been any strained relations it is not likely they would have done it. England is actually cursed by trades unionism. - - Edward Tucker, a prominent merchant of Port Tampa, Fla., got a dose of his own medicine the other night. It was not given according to law, but, from all accuunts, he got his deserts. He has been used to getting drunk and going home to abuse his wife. He received several anonymous warnings, but paid little at- tention to them. A few nights ago his wife was heard screaming. In a few minutes a number of men entered the house, and dragged Tucker to the out- skirts of the town. Here some women dressed in white caps took him in hand, bared his back, bound him to a tree, and thrashed him with rawhides until his back was raw. It is said that some of Tampa’s most prominent women held the whips. Five large flour milling plants of Mil- nation, or trust, with the object of reduc- ing expenses by doing away with Eastern representatives and traveling agents. Only two plants are left out of the com- bination. It is stated that the output of the mills will be regulated by the re- quirements of the trade. a It is of interest to this country that a probable result of British aggression in Venezuela and Nicaragua will be the boycotting of English trade by all the Central American republics. Such a movement would be to the advantage of American trade. >.> John D. Rockefeller announces that the great ambition of his life is to acecu- mulate a fortune of $500,000,000. The rest of us can now be easy. It looked as though he wanted the earth. ee _ 2 <- — Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Ass’n. President—E,. WuHiTe. Secretary—E. A. STOWE. Treasurer—J. Gro. LEHMAN, SUGAR CARD—GRANULATED. 514 cents per pound, 415 pounds for 25 cents. 10 pounds for 50 cents. 20 pounds for $1, Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association. President—Paut W. HAEFNER. Secretary—W. H. Porter. Treasurer—J. F. HELMER. SUGAR CARD—GRANULATED. 5 cents per pound. 5 pounds for 25 cents. 11 pounds for 5v cents. 22 pounds for #1. Ask J. P. Visner for Edwin J. Gillies & Co.’s special inducements on early im- port teas for June shipment. PRODUCE MARKET. Asparagus—25e per doz. bunches, Beans—Quiet and dull, the market having slumped off 2!,e, with possibility of a furthe decline. Butter—Not quite so plenty as a week ago, al though the fresh grass is sure to increase the supply ina few days. Choice dairy brings ba l6c, with no established price for low grades Creamery, 18@19c. Beets—Dry, 25c per bu. Cabbages — California stock is beginning to arrive, commanding $1.50 per doz, Caulitlower—#1.50 per doz. Celery—California stock, $1 per doz. Cucumbers—#1 per doz. Eggs—l@ize per doz. Onions —Home grown dry stoek is dull and about pluyed out, occasional sales being made at axe0e per bu. Bermuda stock is in better de mand at $2.25 per bu. Green stock is mecting a large demand, which is amply supplied by local growers, at $@10e per doz. bunches. Pieplant-—le per Ib. Potatoes—The market is siek, owing to the cessation in the demand at the principal con suming centers, due to the faet that the farmers in Ohio and Indiana are now marketing the stock they have been holding for #1. Fearing they will not realize their anticipations, they are dumping their stocks at any price they ca: get, which has caused a temporary break in the market. Whether the ground lost will be re- gained and the price resume its former position, no one is qualified to prediet with any degree of aceuracy. The hot weather is causing stock to sprout considerably and from now on the shrinkage will be heavy, so that even though the market should revive the enhanced price will only partially make up the loss. Spinach—35e per bu. Strawberries—The indications are that Ten nessee stock will be sold very low before the end of the week. The warm weatheris pushing the crop on the market very rapidly and all r ports agree in the statement that the yield will be unusually large. Handlers offered choice stock Monday at 12@15¢ and it is possible the price will go to 8@ 10e before the week is over. Thos. E. Wykes LIME, SEWER PIPE, FLOUR, FEED, Etc. Any quantities, Wholesale and Retail. Write for prices. 45 5. Diviston St., Grand Rapids. ane TNE. — Saeehaalaet-bchs ae ee ie ron: La SRN REAR NSC sth ete TAN tate Fo AM _- Praesent? —% Shawano 2 ee etna = Ln SIRI eR BIS det er CAI: FT SAUM_o Pesaran sth > THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 5 GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Peter Braam succeeds Braam & Smith in the meat business at 699 South Divis- ion street. W. M. Griffith succeeds M. A. (Mrs. I. F.) Griffith in the boot aud shoe business at 40 Monroe street. Mrs. Ada Benedict has” purchased the millinery stock of Mrs. M. B. Keeler at 450 South Division street. J. H. Lowell & Co. have removed their hardware stock from Wacousta to this city, locating at 477 East street. M. J. Butler, undaunted by fire, has resumed the grocery business at Sand Lake. The Musselman Grocer Co. fur- nished the stock. Frank E. Shattuck and G. A. Goul, whose general stocks were burned in the recent fire at Sand Lake, have re en- gaged in the grocery business at that place. The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished both stocks. Chas. W. Shedd, who has been engaged in the manufacture of pickles and pre- serves for several years, has removed to Norfolk, Va., where he has made ar- rangements to embark in the pickle busi- ness on a somewhat extensive scale. The Commercial Credit Co. finds it ne- cessary to use more floor space than is available in its present location and has made arrangements for more commodious offices on the fifth floor of the Widdicomb building. The change of location will oecur about Sept. 1. John M. Smith and John *Viergever have purchased the grocery stock of James M. Robinson at 220 Plainfield avenue, and will continue the business under the style of Smith & Vuiergever. Mr. Robinson has purchased the grocery stock of Wm. Z. Hazlett at the corner of Sweet street and Coit avenue. Robt. Gleason, Edward J. Jackoboise and A. H. Waterson, proprietors of the Grand Rapids Machine Works, at 36 Mill street, have purchased the West Side Iron Works of Jos. Jackoboise, leased his building and will continue the busi- ness under the style of the West Side Iron Works. The consolidation gives the new concern the benefit of larger quarters and more machinery, which will enable it to increase its capacity very materially. —--- —~< -8- <> Purely Personal. Will Berner, son of the late John F. Berner, the Luther grocer, was in town over Sunday, the guest of Jimmy Brad- ford. W. F. Bricker, general dealer at Beld- ing and Sunfield, was in town last week and placed orders for two Champion cash registers—one for each store. W. H. Porter, Secretary of the Jack- son Retail Grocers’ Asssociation, was in town Saturday, for the purpose of inves- tigating the working plans of the Com- mercial Credit Co., having established a similar organization under the style of the Jackson Commercial Agency. J. H. Lowell, who has removed his hardware stock from Wacousta to this city, was engaged in trade at the former place twelve years, having lived in the same township fifty-five years. So well was he regarded by his friends and neigh- bors that they presented him with a beau- tiful gold-headed cane on the occasion of his removal from the place. H. B. Fairchild (Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.) went fishing on the Pere Mar- quette River May 1, all the preliminaries —except fish—having been arranged be- forehand by Thos. Heffernan, the Bald- win druggist. Not meeting with extraor- dinary success Mr. Fairchild attem ted to buy some trout of a man whom he found guarding a large box of live fish on the bank of the River. The sentinel disregarded his entreaties and it after- wards transpired that the refractory in- dividual was a Fish Commissioner, who was seining trout for breeding purposes. Since then it has been a standing joke around town that Mr. Fairchild tried to bribe the Fish Commissioner to sell him some fish and the story is told, with vari- ations, gaining in scope and improbabil- ity each time itis re. eated. a es The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market is strong and ex- cited, two advances having occured Mon- day, aggregating 3-16c. With the ad- vance of last week the market is now 5-16e higher than a week ago and the general opinion among the trade appears to be that still higher prices may be ex- pected, some predicting that the New York market will reach a 5c basis by Jnnel. Other believe that prices will slump off during June, but regain the ground lost by Aug. 1. Cheesse—The manufacturers and job- bers are holding the price of new goods down to a low level for the purpose of inducing the retailers to put the price down to a shilling or 12c, on which basis it is believed the people will consume large quantities of cheese, especially in view of the high price of meat. Canned Goods—Chas. W. Shedd, the pickle manufacturer, was in Baltimore last week and called on a number of vegetable canners. He found the can- ners, as a class, very despondent, owing to the glutted condition of the market and the gloomy prospects ahead. One canner told him he had 10,000 cases of tomatoes which he could have sold last fall for 70c, but for which he is now of- fered only 57c. A large number of fac- tories have gone into liquidation and many more will not open their doors for business during the season of 1895, ow- ing to the large amount of goods yet on hand from the pack of 1894. Bananas—-The market has been bare of good fruit for the past two weeks and prices have been extremely high, al- though at the same time our local whole- salers have made but very little profit, as all the fruit was bought at the im- porters’ sales. Friday and Saturday four cars came intothis market, and, as the weather was extremely warm, it ripened the fruit very fast. During the present week there will be plenty of good fruit to ship out, and, as a great deal of it is ripe, prices will be consider- ably lower. Outside dealers, in sending in orders from now op, should instruct the shippers to send them fruit which is somewhat green; otherwise it will be liable to reach them in an over-ripe con- dition, in which event they would lose some of the profit they might otherwise enjoy. Lemons—During the past ten days the different auctions in New York, Boston and New Orleans have been getting much better prices. The warm weather throughout the country has stimulated the demand wonderfully, and, as usual, everybody wants to stock up, and, when there are lots of orders, prices advance. The prices realized at the Montreal sales last week were not extremely high, but, withal, there was a good stiff feeling. The Freemona, with 37,000 boxes of lemons, is scheduled to sell in Montreal this week, and, as arrivals are light at the other ports, it is expected that the vari- ous Western cities will be well repre- sented and good prices will brobably be realized, especially if the warm weather ruling at present continues during the week. There is considerable complaint that auction offerings do not average sound, a great many lines showing more or less weakness. A perusal of the local market reports on another page will show that our dealers have advanced their prices fully 50e per box all around. All fruit now going out to the retailers will be repacked, and be perfectly sound, and as prices are still reasonable, con- sidering everything, it will be safe to place fairly liberal orders. Oranges—California oranges are get- ting so ripe that they do not stand up in a satisfactory manner. Most of the fruit has to come forward in ived refrig- erators, and it takes but a few days’ ex- posure to the warm air before they melt down very rapidly. In consequence, Messinas, which stand up better, are bringing higher prices. Figs, Dates and Nuts—Remain steady, the demand being moderate. Any dealer who evinees a desire to buy in liberal quantities will be able to get current prices shaded considerably. Candy—All manufacturers report a steadily increasing volume of business and that the factories are running full time. The price of sugar has been slowly advancing a sixpence at a time, until confectioners have been obliged to tack 1¢c per pound to all staple mixtures and pan-work, and it is possible that an additional advance may be made before the month is out. It all depends on the fluctuations of sugar. or 8 Gripsack Brigade. Geo. T. William, formerly with the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co., has taken the position of general salesman for Mose- ley Bros. J. P. Visner, city salesman for Edwin J. Gillies & Co., has removed from the Eagle Hotel to the corner of Bates and Dolbee streets. D. G. Crotty, the Muskegon salesman, has engaged to travel in this State for the R. W. Bell Manufacturing Co., man- ufacturers of soap at Buffalo. Geo. J. Heinzelman, traveling repre- sentative for Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., is rejoicing over the advent of a new girl, who arrived at his house last week to gladden the hearts of her parents. The Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association offers $185 in cash prizes to the members securing the largest number of applications for new members before July 1—$100 to the person securing the largest number and $50, $25 and $10, respectively, to the persons securing the next largest num- bers. - >.<. --_— What Do You Say? J. Boyer, boots and shoes; Peoples’ Credit Clothing Co.; Geo. A. Powell, real estate; Thompson & Co., grocers; and others say that Shaw’s Name File Book for keeping acceunts is unsurpassed. For particulars address J. C. Shaw, 29 Canal street, Grand Rapids. Wants Column. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents, Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. OUSE AND LOT AND VACANT LOT IN Grand Rapids for sale cheap or exchange for grocery stock. Address Box 101, Leslie. Mich. 765 WILL PURCHASE GOOD, LARGE MER cantile business, if offered cheap, for cash. General stock or boots and shoes preferred. Ad dress Box 70v, Stanton, Mich. 764 ELL- ESTABLISHED DRUG STAND IN Grand Rapids to exchange for a drug stock to move. Will bear inspection. Address No. 763, care Michigan Tradesman. “63 OR 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 oS GOOD LOCATION FOR FUR nishing and notlon store in town of from 2,006 to 4,00, Southwestern Michigan preferred. Will purchase small stock if at a bargain. Ad dress 758, care Michigan Tradesman. 758 OR SALE—SMALL DRUG STOCK IN LO cal option county and only stock in town A snap for the right _. teasons for selling, other business. Address Ipecac, care Michigan Tradesman. 756 OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—HOTEL PROP erty. Good location. For particulars ad dress J. C. Tracy, Custer, Mich. 755 OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—GOOD CLEAN stock of groceries. Address No. 754. care Michigan Tradesman. 754 OR SALE—OLD ESTABLISHED GROCERY business on best business street in Grand Rapids. Stock and fixtures will invoice about $3,000. Exceptional opportunity. Long lease of store, if desired. Stock clean and well selected. Address No. 752, care Mich. Tradesman. 752 OR 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. i \ ANTED—PARTNER TO TAKE HALF IN terestin my 75 bb]. steam roller mill and elevator, situated on railroad; miller preferred: good wheat country. Full description, price, terms and inquiries giyen promptly by address- ing H.C. Herkimer, Maybee, Monroe county, Mich. 711 Y YOU WANT TO BUY OR SELL REAL estate, write me. I can satisfy you. Chas, E. Mercer, Rooms 1 and 2, Widdicomb building. 653 IGHTY CENTS WILL BUY #1 WORTH OF -4 a clean stock of groceries inyventorying about $5,000. Terms,cash; sales,830,000 annually : strictly cash store; good town of 7,0CO0 inhabi tants. Address 738, care Mich. Tradesman. 738 MISCELLANEOUS, ANTED — PAIR PLATFORM SCALES, standard make, capacity not less than 1,090 pounds. Large platform preferred. Address No 768, care Michigan Tradesman. 768 OR SALE—NO. 3 DETAIL NATIONAL Cash Register. suitable for merchant, prac tically as good as new, for #100 cash. Address Rogan, care Michigan Tradesman. 766 OR SALE—PECK’S LATEST CASH REGIS- ters. Cost $25. Will sell for $10 cash f.o.b. Grand Rapids Address Grover, care Michigan Tradesman. 767 NRANITE AND MARBLE MONUMENTS, 3 markers and all cemetery work. Largest stock. Write us about what you want and we will quote prices. Grand Rapids Monument Co., 813 South Division. 761 NEN TO SELL BAKING POWDER 10 THE 4VE grocery trade. Steady employment, experi- ence unnecessary. $75 monthly salary and ex penses orcom. If offer satisfactory, address at once, with particulars concerning yourself, U.S, Chemical Works, Chicago. W57 Se LAMBS, BUT- ter and eggs on consignment. Ask for quotations. F. J. Dettenthaler, Grand Rapids, Mich. 760 ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, potatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, ete. Correspondence solicited. Watkins & Smith, 81-86 South Division St., Grand Rapids. 673 dorm rrr” TO ORDER ON APPROV al one of the best ‘‘ready to wear” suits made at $13.50, any stylecut. Strahan & Greu- lich, 24 Monroe street, Grand Rapids. 727 ANTED—EVERY DRUGGIST JUST starting in business and every one already started to use our system of poison labels. What has cost you $15 you can now get for 84. Four teen labels do the work of 113. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. SITUATIONS WANTED, ANTED— SITUATION BY ASSISTANT pharmacist. Good references. Address No. 762, care Michigan Tradesman. 762 ANTED—POSITION BY YOUNG MAR ried man in grocery or general store, small town preferred. Hight 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. 153 tiptoe, $ _ saaiihdle Baath SEROMA us ENGLAND’S DECLINE. [CONCLUDED FROM PAGE THREE. } prices of American mannfactured goods with those of other countries make it clear that the door of our export trade is only ajar, but American enterprise and American intelligence and push will un- doubtedly throw the portal wide open and give to the United States the su- premacy in the manufacture of nearly all classes of merchandise for shipment to non-manufacturing countries. We have practically driven Englaud out of Canada. Canada purchases her manufactured goods fromus. Take iron products. We can manufacture them here, and, despite a very heavy duty, which is meant to keep them out of Canada, we can lay them down in the Canadian market for less money than they can be manufactured for anywhere else in the world. Recently a public in- stitution was erected in Montreal, and the municipality wanted to put in steam heat. They purchased their apparatus from a Chicago firm. The prospect of America was never so bright as now, and manufacturers have not been slow to see their opportunity. Merchants in New York who are engaged in the export trade are daily in receipt of inquiries as to the possibility of exporta- tion of new lines of goods. The manu- facturers are asking the cost of similar goods in other countries, and are showing every desire to establish an export out- let. With a good export trade manufac- turers become more independent of the conditions of trade in this country, as, when trade is bad here, they can always turn to their foreign market and be sure of sufficient work to keep their factories going, while in good times the increased output required to care for the foreign market reduces the cost of manufacture of the whole product, it being well known that the larger the output the less the cost of the article manufactured— the tonnage question again. Curiously enough, our high tariff hada great deal to do with the development of the American export trade. It fostered our American industries. It enabled large profits on goods. ‘The profits were so large that manufactories sprang up all over the country. Competition was something tremendous. Then followed the combinations of business, which were inevitable. Some people call them trusts and denounce them, but I say they are inevitable. Our manufacturers got to- gether and they regulated the output. In one line of business, for example, they closed up thirty per cent. of the mills. With the other seventy per cent. they manufactured tons and tons of goods more than the country itself would consume. The logic of the situa- tion would have been for them to make still further reduction in the production the following year. That would mean the closing down of more factories. In that dilemma they turned to the exporter. They said to him: ‘Here we have so many thousand tons of goods that the country cannot consume. We can afford to sell those goods at exactly what they cost us. We have already made our profit. See what you can do for us.”’ The exporter went into the foreign mar- kets. He put those goods down at cost price, and he undersold the foreign maker every time. Well, the result was that the manufacturers saw in this ex- port trade a safety valve, and they fos- tered it. Then it suddenly dawned upon them that there was a great possibility of profit in it, too. It was chiefly a ques- tion of tonnage with them. They could run their mills and their factories at their full capacity, and the more they could make the less they could make things for. Thatis to say, the average cost of production was reduced, so that they could put their oversupply in the foreign markets and sell it at what would have been actual cost with a smaller production and make a profit. And they have done it. They are con- tinuing to doit, and are doing it more and more. It is because of this that we are destined to dominate the markets of the world. T. A. Eppy. A The suceessful business man is the one who is honest in all his transactions in the commercial world. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Ginseng Culture in Corea. The following interesting item from a gentleman who had traveled in Corea was published in the Boston Herald: At about eight miles out of Phajre Il arrived at a little village on the Imjin River, where I first came close enough to a ginseng garden to inspect it. Ginseng is a drug grown in large quantities in Corea for medical use chiefly. It is, in fact, the national production. It is rather hard to gruw, and takes six years to arrive at a stage of perfection. It is very valuable, therefore, and has to be continually watched. A ginseng garden is a peculiar looking contrivance of a number of low sheds and a high plat- form, well roofed over with straw, on which watchmen are placed to guard the drug plantations. The watchman is given a pipe and kept supplied with all the smoking material he desires, but if he is caught sleeping while on duty he is put to death at once. The seed of the ginseng plant is sown in March, and the seedlings are planted out in beds raised a foot above the level of the surrounding soil, bordered with upright slats and covered or protected from the sun and rain by sheds of reeds three or four feet high. These sheds are well closed in ex- cept on the north side, where they are left more or less open according to the weather. They are built in rows, allow- ing just enough room for one person to walk between them. In the first and second years the ginseng plant obtains only two or three inches in growth and acquires only two leaves. It is trans- piauted frequently during this period of its progress. By the fourth year the stem obtains about six inches of growth, and in the fifth year a strong, healthy plant has reached maturity. It is not, however, unusual to leave it in the ground another year after this. The cul- tivation of the plant is entirely in the hands of a few privileged farmers, licensed by the King, whose privy purse is largely dependent upon the monopoly of this drug. In 1891 the revenue from this source was estimated by a very com- petent authority to be over 468,000,000 cash, or about $500,000. Professional Recognition of Pharma- cists in the Army and Navy. In the army of the United States there are three ranks only for the pharmacist: that of private in the hospital corps at $13 a month, acting hospital steward at $25 a month, and hospital steward at $50. Hospital steward ranks only as high as ordnance sergeant. In contrast to this, veterinary surgeons get $100 a month, stune-cutters and carpenters $3.50 a day, chaplains $125 to $175 a month, assistant surgeons $165 a month, and surgeons from $250 to $625 a month. In the navy, the apothecary ranks only as a petty of- ficer at $60 a month, and the carpenters, sail-makers and gunners even outrank him and get from $100 to $150 a month. in charming comparison to this is the high professiona! position of pharmacists in European countries. In the Austrian army the pharmacists rank with the sur- geons and assistant surgeons, running from the rank of lieutenant to senior lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant- colonel, up to full colonel. In the Ger- man army, the service is arranged in a very similar manner, as is also that of Hungary. In the Italian army the rank is from second lieutenant through the various grades up to full colonel. In both the French and Russian armies, the ranking is still higher, the highest rank Of the apothecary in each of them being that of major-general. What a contrast does our own service of the United States present! In the civilized world the dila- tory action of the United States is only equaled by that of China and England. in the Japanese army the pharmacists re- ceive the same pay and rank as second lieutenants, first lieutenants and cap- tains, the ranks being divided into three grades. They besides receive additional pay for special duty. Are the lives of sick American soldiers less valuable than those of foreign countries? OANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Cases Bbis. Pails. Standard, per ib......... 5 . ae... 6 c —e........... 6 Baas Boston Cream.. a EC eee pera f........ - «. Soe MIXED CANDY. Bbls. Pails eC. 5 6% ae. 54% 6% Ss. _ 7% hoes. 7 8 English Rock.. a | 8% re 6% 7% Reeken veey.............. —. 7 PeanutSquares............ 8 Pee eee... 9 Valley Creams.. ... Lee - Midget, 30 Ib. baskets. . Modern, 30 lb. ranocy—In bulk Pails Lozenges, el 8% oe... 9% (eee... 11 Chocolate Monumontals....................- 12 oe, 5 Oe Th ee ae 9 Pancy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box i ee cece ee ee 50 eee 50 Peppermint Drop po eeee -60 Chocolate Drops. . -65 H. M. Chocolate Drops 75 pum Drees... ......... .35@50 Licorice Drops. . : A. B. Licorice Drops Losenges, plain..... printed .. ieperials......... Plain Creams....... Lecorated _— String Roc burnt Almonds. ee eee 0@I % Wintergreen Ne eT CARAMELS. 34 No. 1, wrapped, : lb. boxes. . oe in No. 1, 51 reer ie ies 28 ORANGES, California Seedlings— 126, _ 176, shai 26. - 2% el. 3% Rowims Oranees, 20... 3 66 i LEMONS. Choice, 300. ee eee ee eee eee oe Extra Choice, ie eben teeters oo eeee A ee ltt... 4 SU Choice, 360 .. ee eee ee cee se Extra Choice, 360 . ee ee 4 00 aa... - 42 Extra Fancy, 300, gilt packing............. 4 60 BANANAS. LareoOUnOhes.. 8... ee Os Paani Dee... .. 1 25@! 50 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Figs, fancy — - eee eee eae 13 “ extra‘ — Oo ee 6% Dates, Pard, 10-1b. ‘box. eee @ 74 - ~——tssena “~ Be NUTS. Almonds, ew eee ress case oe qq 14 ee @ Calffornia, soft shelled S12 a ee @8 Filberts . +4 > Springtime finds the Signal Five at the front. | ————-- > -¢ Use Tradesman Coupon Books, } We Pays HIGHEST MARKET PRICES in SPOT CASH and Pleasure Bark When Loaded. Correspondence Solicited. WRITE FOR PRICES ON ANY SHOWCASE NEEDED 55> 57; 59, 61 Canal St. GRAND RAPIDS Show Cases, Store Fixtures, Etc. BUY PHILLIPS’ SHOW CASES. J. PHILLIPS & CO., Detroit, Mich. Established 1864. GHAS.A. MORRILL & Co Importers and Jobbers ot ny ai rl + “TEA 21 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, ILL. a. LEMON & WHEELER (So. WHOLESALE GROCERS Grand Rapids THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 LIABILITY OF RAILWAYS. How Far They Must Protect Passen- | gers Against Injury. From the Boot and Shoe Recorder. The totai number of persons carried annually by the railroads of this country | is greatly in excess of the population, but we are aware that while many travel frequently and far, there are many also who never stir from their own market town, or who even passa lifetime on their nativeteath. The liabilities of carriers of passengers for personal injuries, while of general interest to the public, is of special importance to those engaged in commercial and industrial pursuits. The almost universal liability to injury is best shown by the vast number of acci- dent policies issued in this country year- ly; and it also shows that many do not care to trust the usual course of litiga- tion for a recompense, but prefer to rely upon an express contract with an insur- ance company, thanonan implied contract with the railroad company. The legal remedy against a railroad company for personal injuries is but a development of principles existing at common law anterior to the building of extensive systems of passenger traffic; and there is much in common between this right and that of recovery for per- sonal injuries under ordinary circum- stances, varying mainly in the degree of care requisite on both sides, and the fact that the relation between the carrier and customer is only temporary, while it is continuous between employer and em- ploye. The mercantile world is, how- ever, more interested in the liability un- der the former classification, and to this we will confine our review of the subject in the present article. Though not insurers of life and limb, such carriers are yet bound to the utmost eare and diligence. They must omit no precaution which may conduce to the passenger’s safety. In consideration of the payment of fare, the owners of the vehicle are bound to transport the pas- sengers to the place of contemplated des- tination safely. Having in all the emer- gencies the conduct of the journey, the owners rest under every obligation for care, skill and general capacity, and if from defect of any of these requisites in- jury is done to the passenger, the per- sons employed are liable. In case of in- jury carriers must show that their whole duty was performed, and that the acci- dent was unavoidable by any human foresight. They must satisfy the jury on every point that touches the passen- ger’s safety—roads, carriages, engines, and management. Whatever human foresight can secure in reference to the mode of conveyance—the inevitable risks of which, of course, the passenger takes —they are responsible for, supposing, of course, that there is no fault on the part of the passenger. Though a earrier is not responsible for interior and hidden defects which a thorough and careful examination could not disclose, and which could not be guarded against by the exercise of sound judgment, yet it is not enough that this vigilance be exer- cised after the car or other appliance has come into the carrier’s possession. It must be shown that the materials were tested at the shop before they were used. The company must account to the pas- senger, and it may look to the maker. The carrier is bound to the most exact care and diligence not only in the man- agement of the trains and cars, but also in the structure and care of the track, and in all subsidiary arrangements nec- essary to the safety of the passengers. The road must be well built, with rails at once strong, well laid and well fastened. Its viaducts, drawbridges and switches must be ofa good kind and of the most improved inventions. The company must employ for the purpose not only engineers of competent skill and science, but those engineers must adopt the best methods and the best materials. The road should be protected, either by fences or by the company’s servants, in some way, from danger from those ob- structions which prudence should sug- gest as likely to get upon it, and it must have tracks sufficiently numerous to pre- vent those accidents likely to arise from | railway travel is speed, and certain dan- ' gers are inseparable in procuring this. There are fundamental risks, inseparable from the use of this sort of road. But it is the duty of the company to reduce | these to the smallest possible number. The highest considerations of public policy, says the Supreme Court of Iowa, demand that there be no relaxation of the common law responsibilities of com- mon carriers. The experience of past generations, and the trying experience of the immensely extended commerce and trade of the present day, demonstrate the necessity and wisdom of firmly ad- hering to common law _ regulations. Those in charge of railways should be steadily admonished of the high moral and legal obligations resting upon them. Appalling losses occur with alarming frequency, and are traced to the want of due diligence; public preservation ren- ders it necessary to attach heavy penal- ties to the carrier for the result of every act of negligence or want of diligence. Such is the tendency of the best courts at the present day. or A curious settlement of curious people has been discovered in the mountains near Delhi, N. Y. There are about 200 of them. They are called ‘‘Rushers,’’ and live on a brapch of the Delaware river called the Popple, which has its rise in the mountians not far from Delhi. The colony has no communication with the outside world, and far up the steep and rocky mountain sides, it is so en- trenched that its existence has been al- most forgotten. Nearly all of these peo- ple are aftlicted with some deformity caused by intermarriage for many gener- ations and lack of self-preservation or care. Their hair is unkempt and their faces are a deep yellow in color. They possess instinct rather than intelligence, and even the faculty of speech is lack- ing. The history of this strange tribe is said toextend back to 1700. It is said that a man named Shannon settled in the wilderness of Sullivan county. He had three daughters, one of whom lived with an Indian hunter named Jacobs. Shan- non was killed, and his two remaining daughters joined the elder sister and be- came polygamous consorts of her pro- tector. They raised a large family, and these ‘‘Rushers’”’ are supposed to be their descendants. (pie It is said that at one of the suburban stations along the line of the Reading Railroad an enterprising soap manufae- turer has erected a factory and ware- house. Facing the railroad is the large back window of the main salesroom. In this window one day, a few weeks ago, there appeared to the riders on the early morning trains a very pretty girl, who appeared to have paused in the midst of her labor of washing the window to flirt with the travelers. Nearly every male rider who saw her proceeded to flirt with her, and the male riders on all the trains that passed during the day did the same. In fact, she has been flirted with ever since, although most of the regular riders have long since learned that the beautiful young girl in the window is but a waxen figure. The wax woman was all right for the average drummer to flirt with, when passing by; but the smart chap who suddenly recollected that he had business in that village, and waited around the factory for her royal waxness to come out, is not done kicking bimself yet. >> Italy proposes to make a trial of 5-cent telegrams, and is trying to make an ar rangement with other European coun- having but one track. One object of tries for a general reduction of rates. We do not hold out our prices as JN INDUCEMENT —_ To secure the orders we waut, but WE DO pride ourselves on the of goods bearing our TRADE QUALITY MARK. Every intelligent dealer realizes that price is not every- thing, and that there is pleasure and profit in handling stand- ard goods. Do business with us and enjoy both. PUTNAM CANDY CoO. A. ©. Mean AW & CO. IMUNOCTUFETS Ct HOGS ONC JODNEAS Ot RUNDET Goods DETROIT, MICH. Our interests on the road are looked after by the following competent and experienccd salesmen, for whom we bespeak the courtesy and kind consideration of the trade: F. E. Chase, 51 Charles St.,| A. S. Cowing, 403 Woodward Grand Rapids, Mich. | Ave., Kalamazoo, Mich. E. P. Waldron, St. Johns,|F. J. Doud, Albion, Mich. Mich. |. J. Mattison, 504 So. Clay H. C. Liddiard, (care P. W.) St., Frankfort, Ind. VanAntwerp, Sterling,Mich.|C. V. Cable, New Philadel- J. H. Fildew, St. Johns, Mich. | phia, Ohio. SEEDS = Potatoes = Reans E>) We handle all kinds FIELD SEEDS, Clover, Timothy. Hungarian, Millet, Buck wheat, Field Peas, Spring Rye, Barley, Etc. Buy and Sell Potatoes, Beans, Seeds. Eggs, Ete. Car lots or less. EGG CRATES and EGG CRATE FILLERS. If you wish to buy or sell write us. ; -“~— . _-26-28-30-32 OTTAWA STREET Moseley Bros. Grand Rapids, Mich. Jobbers SEEDS, BEANS, POTATOES, FRUITS. A FULL ASSORTMENT OF Cc HH f. iz S e DOMESTIC and IMPORTED IP DL gp RE Wap PIE Ni i i OME, BNE YOUR ORDERS SOLICITED. It is not necessary to 20 117-119 MONROE STREET, F. J. Dettenthaler, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. to New York, Boston, Chicago, or any other re- Chocolate 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 Sheri need A. BE. Brooks & Co. isi Ries sign “Tir. Thomas” IS NOT A MUSICIAN, BUT—— ee 14 IN THE SLUMS, “Slumming’’? has come to be a choice diversion of certain sorts of pure minded and particularly pious persons. Having all their lives contemplated things only that were virtuous, chaste and perfectly lovely. they become impressed with a de- sire to visit the haunts of sin and to in- spect vice wholly naked and unnamable, and to behold human misery and degra- dation in their most revolting and shock- ing aspects. It is difficult to understand how those who delight in regarding beauty can ever desire to look upon sights that are hid- eous and horrifying, and quite as diffi- cult is it to believe that persons whose chief happiness is in the practice of moral purity and virtue can love to get into an atmosphere of moral vileness and corruption and take delight in witness- ing exhibitions of unrestrained and un- disguised salacity. It would be as ex- traordinary and unreasonable as to sup- pose that the angels would wish to quit heaven for pericdic excursions through the dreadful abodes of damned spirits. However, slumming has been practiced not a little by self-appointed upholders of piety and purity, and itis possible that it is one of the peculiar manifesta- tions of modern virtue. But the wretched people of the slums should not be wholly neglected, and they require chiefest of all the attention of the sanitarian, the statesman and the philanthropist. The term ‘‘slum” is from the argot, the siang of thieves, and it means a low and vile place where peo- ple resort. Most words of criminal no- menclature are derived from old, and even from primitive, languages. Those words of the argot which are not San- skrit and Gypsy, are from the old forms of the European tongues, such as Gothic, Anglo-Saxon and the like. Slum is doubtless from the Anglo-Saxon ‘‘slim,” which is slime—a slippery, glutinous filth found in cellars, sinks and sewers, places familiar to the criminal classes of every age. The slums of a city are where the poorest people live. The inhabitants of such places are not wholly of the vicious and criminal classes. In many cases they are honest and virtuous working people who suffer from the terrible curse of poverty. Being poor, they must crawl into the cheapest shelter they can find, and, being there, they must not quarrel with their near neighbors, driven to the same cover by their necessities. When crime and vice are rich, as often they are, they need not hide themselves from the law. They can defy it, and so they live in fine houses, on fashionable streets, and roll in luxury. Only the criminals who are ‘‘out of luck,’’ and the wretched courtesans, who drink only the dregs of profligacy, broken down by de- bauchery and disease, are forced to the degradation of the slums. They are, then, not places for fashionable and prosperous piety to seek diversion in; but besides that of the police, they need the attention of the city’s health officer and the profound consideration of states- manship and philanthropy. The sanitarian must clean up the nox- ious slime and purify the foul air which pervade those regions, while the states- man and philanthropist must inquire why it is that honest poverty and crimi- nal poverty are forced to herd together and to seek the same shelter. Why are the worthy and the good driven into THE MICHTI GAN TRADESMAN: ais: where they must encounter the ‘infection of vice, as well as the bacteria of bodily disease? Can the innocent, forced to consort with the guilty, and to effluvia of moral putridity, long escape the contamination of such influences? What is to be the lot of the children of the honest poor, brought up with the off- spring of thieves and drabs? If a prison is a college of crime, so much the more are the slums of a great city hotbeds of every moral abomination. At last, statesmanship is taking up the slums. It is high time. At first they were left wholly to the police; more lately the public health officers took them in charge, and now they have got into Congress. The Fifty-second Con- gress enacted a bill which provides that the Commissioner of Labor shall make 4 full investigation relative to what is habitants and over, as shown by the eleventh census (of 1890). The investi- gation shall relate to the occupations, earnings, sanitary surroundings and other essential facts necessary to show the condition of such localities, etc. The sum of $20,000 was appropriated to pay the expenses of the service, and the act was approved July 20, 1892. The United States Commissioner of Labor has just issued his first report un- der the requirements of this act. Itis a volume of 600 pages, bound in the con- ventional and unattractive style common to Government publications. Its con- tents are mostly tables of statistical figures, with none of the sensational nar- ratives that would ordinarily be written about the slums of great cities. Never- theless, some startling facts can be ex- tracted from the prosy array of figures with which the book is crowded. There are tables of statistics showing the proportions of the sexes and of the children and adults found in the slums of the great cities of the Union. There are set forth in the same condensed form the crimes and criminal facts concerning these people; the numbers of them that are crowded into the tenement houses and into each room; the lack of water supply, of baths and of closets; the condi- tion of filth in the halls and the squalor in the rooms, and then there are chemic- al analyses of the poisoned atmosphere and catalogues of the various sorts of bacteria discovered in the places where the wretched people live. All that is required is to invest the skeleton tables of figures with human life; endow them with poverty; picture all the men, women and children of the same family, or of several families, sleeping in the same room, and clothe them all with misery and inspire them with desperation, to get a realistic idea of how people live in the degraded quarters of cities. No imagination is required to fill up the picture; but all that is neces- sary is to translate figures into words, and let them tell their own story. The cities embraced in the scope of the act of Congress are, taken alphabetic- ally: Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco and Washing- ton, sixteen in all, with an ag- gregate population of more than 8,000,- 000, or nearly one-eighth of the people of the Union. The estimate made by the investigations shows that the popula- inhale an atmosphere charged with the}; know as the slums of cities of 200,000 in- | J UST THINK of the ECONOMY! 25 cents buys enough (one box) ag ANTISEPTIC i | Wall Paper Gleaner To clean and disinfect the walls and ceilings of a room and make it look as though newly papered. Comes ready for use. Makes no dirt. Cleans Window Shades and Kalsomine. For Drug- gist, Dry Goods, Hardware and Grocery trade. = = fiat THE GREATEST DISINFECTANT— ZENOLEUM | ' \ Sheep Dip, Hen Dip, Vermicide. Is not poison / ous-—but is safe. Ask for prices and details. = ‘a For sale by al | Jobbers. eel) \\ 3s Te AH. Zenner Co. 98 Shelby St., Detroit, Mich. AND LUMBER C0, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 18 and 19 Widdicomb Bld. ; _N. B. CLARK, Pres. a W.D. Wave, Vice-Pres. C. U. CLARK, Sec’y and Treas. We are now ready to make contracts for bark for the sea- son of 1895. Correspondence Solicited. Kersey Pants We manufacture the best made goods in these lines of any factory in the country, guaranteeing every garment to give entire satisfaction, both in fit and wearing qualities. We are also headquarters for Pants, Overalls and Jackets and solicit correspondence with dealers in towns where goods of our manufacture are not regularly handled. Lansing Pants & Overall Co., LANSING, [ICH. Duck Coats nd Office Telephone 1055. Barn Telephone 1059. ALLIANT NOEL ATE DL ENTE BE CA TTT Storage and S ECU RI TY Transfer Co. Warehouse, 257--259 Ottawa St. Main Of?ce, '75 Pearl St. Moving, Packing, Dry Storage. Expert Packers and Careful, CompetentMovers of ‘Household Furniture. Esti.nates Cheerfully Given. Business Strictly Confidential. Baggage Wagon atall hours. F. S.ELSTON, Mgr 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. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 tion of the slums of those sixteen cities by the last census was about 800,000, or one-tenth of that of the cities them- selves. The appropriation of $20,000 was not sufficient to secure the slum sta- tistics of all the cities, and only those of the largest were attempted. New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore are the cities chosen for the commencement of the work. The slum population of Baltimore is given at 25,000; of Chicago, at 162,000; of New York, at 360,000; of Philadelphia, at 35,000. In New York there was a barroom to each 200 persons; jn Philadelphia, 1 to 870; in Baltimore, 1 to 229 persons; in Chicage, 1 to 200 people. In the slums the proportion of barrooms was much greater than in the other districts. The Statistics of crime show that, for the whole population of each city there was, in Baltimore, 1 arrest to each 14 persons; in Chicago, 1 to each 11 persons; in New York, 1 arrest to every 18 peo- ple, and in Philadelphia the proportion was 1 to 18 also. There were districts in Chicago where the arrests were 1 to every 4 people, and in New York 1 to every 6 people. Many pages of curious facts could be extracted from this Government book on the slums, but what has been given is enough for the present. The most im- portant thing is that these facts concern- ing a large proportion of the population have been put in an official form and placed in possession of Congress and of the public. They need the attention of a Wise and beneficent statesmanship. FRANK STOWELL. —_ >_ Dr. W. O. Wilcox, of a San Francisco medical college, had an exciting time the other day with a morphine fiend. He was alone in his office, when a wild-eyed man came in and demanded that the doc- tor should give him a ‘‘shot’’ of mor- phine. The doctor saw at once that the man was a slave of the drug and ordered him to leave the office. The madman grabbed up a surgical knife from the ta- ble, and threatened to cut the doctor’s heart out unless his demand was com- plied with. Dr. Wilcox caught up a bot- tle of chloroform from the table, and in- stantly the madman sprang at him with the knife uplifted. The doctor caught his arm and succeeded in holding him until he was stupefied with the chloro- form, when, as the easiest way of getting rid of him, he gave him an injection of morphine. When he came to himself, the fellow was perfectly rational and dis- claimed all knowledge of his assault on the ductor, for which he begged a thou- sand pardons, and took his departure. The doctor escaped with only a scratch from the knife and a badly cut coat. NE Isaac Pitman, the fatber of phonogra- phy, died recently at the ripe age of 82. He was the original inventor of the idea of writing with the simplest possible characters, strictly according to sound. His first treatise on the subject was pub- lished in 1837, and the value of his ideas was at once widely recognized. He opened an institute in Bath, Me., for teaching the art, and published many subsequent works. His system was greatly improved in the later editions of his book, largely as the result of sugges- tions made by members of a correspond- ence society, which he organized. Other phonographic systems have since been invented, but there has been small im- provement upon the original Pitman. Raising Small Potatoes. Small potatoes count for little either in or out of their jackets. They may have absorbed the rains of spring and the sunshine of summer, and made the same demands on the perspiration and shoe leather of the culiivator as tubers that would fill a teacup and sell at a premium. They may have developed considerable top and given the farmer a lively hope that when he marketed the crop he could pay off an old mortgage or purchase a new team. Alas for his faith and his mortgage and the con- tinued vacancy in his pocket! The small potato ruins them all. Now, there is a kind of so-called ‘‘small potato” that is causing nota little trouble and disappointment, nowadays, to their foolish or unfortunate growers. We allude to that rapidly increasing class of modern gentry who are being dumped out of our schools and acade- mies with the profound conviction that the object of education is to escape per- spiration, secure a soft snap with a sal- ary, and keep the old ideain flannel that mechanics and artisans are unfortunate necessities. There are thousands of these fools at large. You may find them loafing around boarding houses, where the pie they eat is got on credit and their laundry bills are eaten by mice before they are paid. They hold up the tele- phone pole with their backs, wear out the seats of chairs, and hang round the post office for a letter from home in which a fond parent may have inclosed a $5 bill. So long as they are the own- ers of a stomach it must be fed, and, while the idea that the object of educa- tion is to escape toil has lodgings under the hat, the hands decline the plows handle or the hammer. In this matter-of-fact world such ideas are as likely to freeze as a shorn lamb would be at the North Pole, and in the stern task of hewing out a living in the quarry of life they fail as a feather would in squaring a block of granite. These unfortunates are not necessarily vicious, or lazy, or in need of lye to clean their morals. They would like to better their condition—if they could do so with- out having to ‘‘come down’’ to manual or even to skilled labor. Who is to blame for this state of things? In nine cases out of ten society is the culprit. It is accepted as sound gospel that work must be shunned, if possible, and that the primary object of education is not so much to carve out a brave, honorable and useful life, as to secure a good position where the salary exceeds the sweating. Fed from this suckling bottle and nursed in this flannel, the result is simply logical—such a cow, such a calf. Go where you will in this broad land and you will find some farmer regretting that, as soon as his boy has graduated and raised a mustache, he has an aversion to the wood pile, ob- jects to bending his back under a bag of corn and keeps from a plow handle as a matter of conscience. The same may be observed in all places and in all trades, the school being used as a step- ladder to get out of the hole where the majority of mankind have to make boots and shoes, spin cotton and perspire at forges and in founderies. We believe in education, but not in the kind that spoils its scholars and results in that big pile ot ‘small potatoes’? where whatever of verdure there may be in the top has precious little of what is sound and good at the bottom. The modern aversion to work is in line with what I have said be- fore—that a man ashamed of a bucksaw despises the man who uses it. Frep Wooprow. The Shen Draws Water From all parts of the world without apparent effort. You Can Draw Trade From all directions almost as easily if you handle our Famous Brands of Spring and Winter Wheat Flour, our Celebrated Feed and our well-known Specialties. J IT PAYS to buy where you can get EVERYTHING you need. IT PAYS TO BUY OF US. BECAUSE our goods are continually advertised all over the State. BECAUSE people KNOW them. BECAUSE people WANT them. want they BUY. VALLE! CITY MILLING vd 1 scsi ‘clair ae What people Ae SURE THING 2°. Is what the average dealer is looking for. When he sells a customer goods he wants the fact ot realizing a profit and getting a duplicate of the order to be a “sure thing” In selling goods of our manufacture, you take no chances—they are well and favorably known, and while not always the lowest in price, they are ever of standard quality and always satis- ~ PUTNAM GANDY C0 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 Squares ad Turkish Bread Are Tip Top Sellers. DETROIT POP CORN NOVELTY C0, * "'cetroe,nicn. Detroit, (ich. ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS. 16 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Design for Suburban Cottage. small door between this closet and kitch- PpP TOTS Ost Fr rE SO pee Tn tert PTT te se veneers org | PeFenrere rrr TH cues erin res EeT The perspective and. foor plans pre-e, large “pantry, which is provided | © @@O.O,O.O.O.O.O.©.O.O.O.0.O.0.0.0.0.O sented herewith will doubtless appeal to| With cupboards, flour bins, etc. The| 7~ ei those ef our readers who are interested | Kitchen is 11-6x14 in size, and has, be- in cottages which can be built at a mod-| Sides the large pantry, a small one for erate cost. This design is of a character | tinware and stove utensils. There are which renders it suitable for erection on | Cellar stairs, also rear stairs to the sec- a suburban lot. The house contains ali|°"d floor which can be dispensed with, the essentials of a home for a small fam-| 0d by taking out lavatory the cellar stairs can be put under the main stairs. The outside entrance to the kitchen is ine Trae \ | through a lobby or vestibule. Across al- 3 most entire back part aseven foot porch | {is provided. On second floor we have four chambers 12x16.6, 10x10.6, 15.6x16 and 9x14. All have plenty of closets. The bath room is 5x14. Stairs are pro- vided to go into the attic and one or two rooms can be finished off or a large hall can be made of the same to be used for parties, etc. To those who would want an extra room on first floor, a change could be made, so that by taking out passage, rear stairs, pantry and closets, a dining-room could be made of present kitchen, the pantry, etc., could be placed where porch and lobby is now anda kitch- —— en back of this. If wanted a chamber could be placed back of present dining- room which, under the change suggested, would be the sitting-room. On second floor another chamber could be provided for by adopting these changes. The ex- terior is sided first story, and shingles : / : a second story, which if preferred could be ily, the rooms being of a fair size and | entire sided or shingled. ©.© ©.© © © © © © © © © © © ‘©: . e “a. v Paaair&h——t i - 1 iy +79 oo Fa ner , 4 my email 4 ae wee ¥ Sal tte live qenenananenmen =e ty a q , 4 7 a ” a L y rh t % Ay . © . . . . © © © © © © © © A (lcm od | art oe 3) ees )) © © © © © . . # i ° . © © © © © © well arranged for their use. The en- EO to Durin the ast ten years, man “a trance from porch is through a vestibule Cheap Bread at Rochester. © g P y ' y © into the hall which has a nook, a fire- eee vw a) y ’ s m sers place in the center and seats on both Three is eebeleheg: He precinnorest © © of the readers of THE TRADES- sides, the start of the stairs is four feet | bread in the city of Rochester. Owing wide and has a large landing with seat|to a fight between large grocers, who in bay, under stairs is a lavatory. From | have branch stores throughout the town, se rag CT a a a agro OF | the price of bread has been reduced from ugh two doors to kitchen or dining |= cents to 1 cent per loaf at retail. Ona recent morning the price opened at 24¢ cents, but before sundown the bottom figure had been reached. It is not un- likely that bread will be sold at ten loaves for a nickel before long. The bakers’ price at wholesale has been 2}¢ cents per loaf. rll ' . : iii a a dee: has impressed itself upon their © © © © MAN have read our advertise- © © ments to the effect that we do all © © © ©: kinds of Engraving, and the fact © © © © © © © © minds to their benefit and our © —— If you intend ©.© profit. Many others have read © ; | . e.« to build, © . © call! © our advertisements’'and have, as © © © or write me yet, failed to be impressed with © © for I will © © the fact--many of those interested © © = be pleased to make . . ° . © © in lines of business requiring En- . . . . suggestions, etc., © © room. A largeopening is provided for between parlor and hall which has fret work overhead. The parlor is 15x16 which is to serve as a general living | = of furnishing plans. room, there is also nook with seat al- lowed. Between parlor and dining-room we nt i. have sliding doors. The dining-room is Sketches Free with the view gravings--thus illustrating the ne- © © © © cessity of continuous advertising. © © © © Some will be impressed by this © © © advertisement who have never ' r © to parties © © = placing their orders i Neror ™ e . noticed its predecessors. © © © © © © © © Tradesman Company © © © © Grand Rapids © © * 7 == for plans with me Serr | ARCHITECT, | e | 4 14x18 in size and it has a fire place i | ae end and a bufet at ide ena ne’s guile 19 Wonderly Bldg. Grand Rapids © © ©.O OKO) ©:O:©.O:O:O.©.O'O:O.O.O'O.O.O'O':O.O..9. zs zs Horseless Carriages in France. From the London Queen. Two innovations are likely to revolu- tionize road tours. The first is the horseless earriage and the second the motor cycle. Already for the first in France prizes are offered, and more than one great eompetition has taken place for speed on long distance runs, such as from Paris to Rouen. The Count de Dion is the aristocratic patron of the ‘“Voiture Automobile,” as it is called, and he now has scores of adherents. No law in France denies the right of driving a locomotive over any highway, and no danger flag precedes even the traction engine of the steam roller. The firm of Les Fils de Peugeot Freres, one of the largest firms of carriage and cycle construetors in France, has its hands full of orders, and without any doubt a tremendous popularity is in store for this easy and cheap mode of locomotion. Ina few words I will endeavor to de- scribe this carriage. It is built of tubes, which are encased in a light framework, and therefore not seen. These tubes are the tanks to sup- ply the water—not for the boiler, for a boiler there is not—but for the cylinders direct. Thatis to say, the water is con- ducted into two little tubes with closed ends over petroleum oil lighted wicks no larger than those of a duplex lamp. These supply steam for the cylinders sufficient to drive a carriage for four peo- ple, weighing about 1,300 pounds, at the rate of fifteen miles an hour over level ground, and three or four miles an hour up gradients of an ordinary road charac- ter. ‘The engine and all apparatus are practically out of sight, but easy of ac- cess for lubrication. The wicks are in- closed in a little box with doors behind, and only need very occasional trimming —say once a day. A few minutes suf- fices to get up full steam. The conducting or driving is regulated by a lever at the right hand of the ‘‘coach- man.’’ The brakes are to the right of driver and left of driver’s companion, and another, like that on an omnibus, applied by the driver’s foot. Steering is much the same as a cycle, both hands holding upright handles. The wheels are fitted with cycle spokes and have solid, vulcanite tires. The fit- tings of the interiors of those I have seen differ in nowise from an ordinary horse carriage, but at present the seats are generally facing each other, which is a mistake, I think, as it only induces the occupants of the first seat to constantly turn around to see where they are going, besides qualifying them for a stiff neck. But others with differently arranged seats also exist. The price of these carriages so far is very high. It will come down after the novelty is worn off. For a carriage to seat two, £172 is asked; for the carriage just described, £224 to £236; for a Vic- toria for four, £244; for a phaeton for four, £240; and for a break, £252. Then one has to pay more for the hood and for all kinds of other extras. But after all is said that can be said, even at these prices the cost is less than a horse and carriage, with the same accommodation. For, after the first outlay, there is little else to pay for. One half-penny per mile is all the cost of the best refined petroleum, and the wear and tear of the whole affair, comprising even the tires, is estimated at not more than the same amount per mile. a Oo — The Aleutian Indians are not affected in the cost of illuminating their huts by the advance in kerosene. They catch a fish, about the size of a herring, which swims in countless millions in the waters about their islands. These fish the In- dians hang up by their tails, and they be- come stiff and hard by the exposure to the weather. Then through the long winter the fish are used as candles. When an Aleutian Indian wants to il- luminate his cabin he sticks one of these fish into a crack in a board and touches a light to the nose. Then the fish begins to burn with a bright and steady light. These natural candles burn right down a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. V7 L. & DUNYON & GO. A. Hi. KNOWLSON, Wholesale Shipper Cement, hime, Coal, Sewer Pipe, Ete, CARLOTS AND LESS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. to the tail, and bones and scales are all consumed. In the rude churches where these Indians perform their religious} Will buy all kinds of Lumber— ceremonies these fish may be seen stick- Green or Dry. ni - ss rows before the services| ogce and Yards, 7th St.and C. &W. M.R.R. yegin, and then they are lighted by the : : medicine man and burn with a ae oe Se, glimmer. >_< —————_ MANUFACTURERS OF One of the most extraordinary mechan- ical wonders of the world is a clock built BUGGIES SLEIGHS h WAGONS 9 * , ‘ by a Russian Pole named Goldfadon. He was at work upon it 2,000days. The clock represents a railway station, with all of its appointments and details care- fully carried out. On the central tower is a dial which shows the time at New York, London, Warsaw and Pekin. Every quarter of an hour the station be- gins to bustle, telegraph operators click their machines, the stationmaster and his assistants appear, porters bustle about with luggage, and a miniature train dashes out of a tunnel on one side of the platform. All the routine of a railway station is gone through, after which the train disappears into another tunnel, to reappear at the next quarter of an hour. ESTABLISHED 1865, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. THE GROCER’S SAFETY. MADE IN 2 SIZES ONLY. FULLY WARRANTED. Body7 ft. long, 36 in. wide, drop tail gate HO OO Body 914 ft. long, 38 in. wide, drop tail gate 18 0) Belknap, Baker & Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Vehicles of All Grades. 88-90-92 S. DIVISION ST. GRAND RAPIDS IS IT NOT A BEAUTY? This Leader’ with us and we are selling lots of them. Of course, we have larger and better Delivery Wagons for more money S378 &” be “ ‘arriages, Harness, Pumps Mills, Plows, Harrows, Wheel Cultivators, Grain Drills, WE CARRY A FULL LINE == fees re BicvcLee and other things too numerous to mention. Prices right. ADAMS & HART, 12 W. Bridge St. 18 The Demoralizing Bargain Counter. Ww. H. Maher in Hardware. The ruling spirit in the mercantile world in these, the last days of the Nine- teenth Century, since Christ came to pro- claim the brotherhood of man, is Cheap- ness, and his throne is upon the Bargain Counter. Before this tyrant every interest must bow. He exacts tribute from manufac- turer, merchant, miner, planter, farmer, salaried official and wage earner. He has even become the controlling influ- ence in national politics and governs every school of political economy. Campaigns are lost or won upona mere question of figures, and parties vie with each other in promising the voter cheaper products at special bargain counters. It is not surprising that the wage workers of the whole world arein a state of unrest bordering upon anarchy. They see that the steady tendency of the age is to lessen the cost of production. They are taught that all costs have a limit be- yond which they may not go, except the cost of flesh and blood as paid for in wages. These must deciine to meet the prevailing cry for cheaper products, but there is no milestone to mark the place where they may say ‘“‘thus far and no farther.”’ There was a time when consumers de- manded good goods and at reasonable prices. Employers could then pay fair wages for a fair day’s work, and wer- chants paid tribute to quality, knowing that price was but one factor in a sale. But, less than a generation ago, there eame into trade’ circles a new class of manufacturers, whose sole idea of gain- ing and holding trade was by undersell- ing all competitors. They ignored every question as to quality and harped solely upon their prices. If the buyer pointed to the inferior finish, the poor workman- ship, the doubtful quality, he was met with but one answer—‘‘Look at the price!”’ Two classes of dealers welcomed these new producers, those who saw greater profit in selling inferior goods at old prices, and another class who was able to foresee that ‘‘cheapness” would become the gospel of trade. Both classes found the venture a paying one. In one place the careless or confiding customer ac- cepted the poorer goods at the same prices he had been paying for better wares. The other stores were plastered over with notices of ‘‘bargains,’’ and people hastened there to do their buying. The advent of the ‘‘Cheap John” man- ufacturer, and the eagerness of people for bargains, compelled other producers to reduce their prices in order to hold trade. As the campaign proceeded, they cheapened the material, they slighted the workmanship and they reduced wages. Trade in every line became a keen hunt for something lower priced, in order that to-morrow’s announcement might be lower than to-day’s. This spirit has per- meated every branch of commerce, and ‘‘bargains’’ are the one lodestone that at- tracts all sorts and conditions of men as well as women. Wherever the bargain counter has a home, it has monopolized the talent and brains of all concerned in itS manage- ment. But where can one go and not meet it? It has its special organs in the great Sunday papers, and its glaring in- vitations to those who worship cheap- ness are the controlling influence in Mon- day’s shopping. Who shall be so foolish as to rail against economy? Isit not the crown- ing Christian virtue? Why shall not the workingman’s wife make her few dollars go to the farthest possible length in her purchases? The answer is ready: Be- cause her keen scent after bargains is the controlling influence in reducing the wages of her husband and sons and daughters. If she must have cheaper goods, these others must do their share towards it by working for less wages, so that the wares may be offered at less price than before; and of what value is it that the wage earners form unions to keep wages at a higher level, when their own households are searching the col- umns of the Sunday paper for lower priced goods? When one reads the piteous and heart- THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. rending stories of starving sewing women, do not the loud announcements of the dealers, ‘*Finished Garments At Less Than the Cost of the Cloth,’’ at once appear before the eyes? Is not one the complement of the other? There is nothing on earth so cheap as flesh and blood, for it never touches a limit of cost of production; everything else does. How can there be perennial bargains if wages and material are not perpetually scrimped? And, asa bargain ceases to be a bargain to-morrow if not at less price than to-day, so must wages drop lower and lower, to meet the demand for cheaper wares. In the political economy of the next generation there will be one axiom made more prominent than all others—‘'Cheap goods make cheap men.” Satan must surely rejoice when he sees the whole world uniting in the one cry, ‘Cheap! Cheap! Cheap!” One operator in coal wants the best customer of another operator. Every other inducement failing, he cuts the price. Then the other retaliates. The fight goes on and coal is sold at a loss. The wages of the miners are reduced, as they are told, in obedience to the laws of trade, and the cutting in prices goes merrily on its way. Is it any wonder, then, that the miner and his fellows get together and demand that the laws of trade shall so adjust themselves that a scant living, at least, is assured to work- men? Why shall one dealer, whose busi- ness ability is measured by his readiness to undersell his competitors, make a standard of wages that means a lack of the common comforts of life in one hun- dred thousand homes? When adry goods dealer advertises a garment a few cents under the price of his neighbor, is there a single woman who stops for a moment to consider her sister in the garret who has to work for less in order that this thing may be done? Is the saving made by the buyer a matter of actual concern to her? It very rarely is. But, to produce the article so that it could be sold at this lower price, women went hungry to their wretched beds. If one did not know that every bargain offered meant sorrow to wage workers somewhere in this wide, wide world, if not at his very doors, he might rejoice that so much could be bought for so lit- tle money. But any article is sold too low when the man or woman who made it was not paid living wages. And, when the wage earner’s purchasing power is reduced, every other interest raust, nec- essarily, suffer. The gauge of the times is the condition of the wage earner. Give him fair wages, increase his power to supply himself with the comforts and even the luxuries of life, and his demands for these will accelerate the wheels of business in every line and bring prosperous times for all interests. But the bargain counter must have chea er goods. It encourages bank- ruptey. It offers a premium for inferior- ity, but it increases its advertising space. Nothing is out of its line, from summer silks to mess pork, from cooking ranges to slate pencils, from pianos to liver pills. But, O ye bargain hunters, how can ye close your ears and hearts tothe despair- ing cries of men and women who work from dawn till midnight and barely keep themselves in bread, though bread is now so cheap! Is it nothing to you that these toilers are without joy, without hope? Only despair is theirs—only a dark to- day followed by a darker and more hid- eous to-morrow. They are the slaves of the modern Moloch, the Bargain Counter, that monster who knows no mercy and serves no God but Cheap John. _ _ > <> Co-education is likely to have a seri- ous setback at Mount Union College, Al- liance, Ohio. Courting has become so prevalent among the students that the president says: ‘‘It is said that matches are made in heaven, but I think a branch office has been opened at Mount Union College.”’ >.> The Signal Five leads, all others fol- low. WALTER BAKER & CO. The Largest Manufacturers of 2 RE, HIGH GRADE oh PURE, COCOAS anv CHOCOLATES on this continent, have received A WIgHEST. AWARDS from the great Industrial and rood EXPOSITIONS Europe and America. Unlike the Dutch Process no Alkalies or other Chemicals or Dyes are used in any of their preparations. ‘fheir delicious BREAKFAST COCOA is absolutely pure and soluble, and costs less than one cent a cup. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER & CO. DORCHESTER, MASS. IK HOOKS, , 4 a EATON, LYON & G0. 20 & 22 Monroe St, GRAND RAPIDS. CHICAGO AND WEsT MICHIGAN R’Y. GOING TO ‘CHICAGO Ga Rapids. ........ 7:15am 1: -25pm *11:30pm . Chicago . - 1:25pm 6:50pm *7:20am RETUE NING FROM os La. Caio... 8:25am 5:00pm *11:45pm Ar. Gé Rapids ..... 3:05pm 10:25pm *6§ 7:25am TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:25am 1:25pm 5:30pm . Grand Rapids...... 11:45am 3:05pm 10:25pm TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. Ly. Grand Rapids.. am 3:15pm Ar. Manistee.......- 12:20pm = 8:15pm Ar. Traverse City.... 1:00pm 8:45pm Ar. Charieveix...... 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 Chicagy 11:30pm. Arrive from Chi- cago 6:25am. *Every day. Others week days only. DETROIT, LANSING & NORTHERN R, R. Oct. 28, 1894 GOING TO DETROIT. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm Ar. Detroit .............11:40mm 6:30jm 10:16om RETURNING FROM DETROIT. Lv. Detroit. 1. 7:40am 1:10pm5c6:00pm Ar, Grand Rapids. Lee 12: 40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8T, LOUIS. Ly. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:35am 10:45pm TO AND FROM LOWELL. Ly. Grand HRapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm Ar. frou Lowell.......... 12:40pm 6:20pm ....... THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor Carson ali trains between Grand Rap- ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn- ing train. Trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. MIGHIGAN CENTRAL “ T1e Niagara Falls Route.’’ (Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.) Arrive. Depart. mao m....... Detroit Express ........ 7 Wam 5 Mam.....*Atlanticand Pacific..... 11 20pm 1 3oem.....-: New York Express...... 6 0OOpm —- All others daily, except Sunday.” Peta cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex press trains to aud from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00am; re turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20 p m. Direct communication made at Detroit with allthrough trains eest over the Michigan Cen- tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) A. ALmguisT, Ticket Agent, Union PassengerStation. ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MIL- WAUKEE Railway. EASTWARD. itNo. 14)tNo. 16)+NO. ee Trains Le ve Everything for the Field and Garden Clover, Medium or Mammoth, Al- 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. ® ® ® 128 to 132 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Michael Kolb & Son Wholesale Clothiers Rochester, N. Y. Our representative, of Marshall, Mich., upon the WILLIAM CONNOR, will be pleased to call Trade and show you samples, if you will favor him with a line. Mail orders promptly attended to. G’d Rapids, Lv| 6 45am}10 20am) : 25pm) — ns ...... Ar! 740am/11 25am) 4 27pm /1235 St. Johns ...Ar)| 8 25am/}12 17pm} 520pm 125m Owoass ...... Ar| 900am 1 20pm) 6 95pm) 3 10am E. Saginaw..Ar |10 50am 3 45pm| 8 00pm 6 40am Bay City.....Arj11 30am} 435pm) § 37pm 71i5am . ........ Ar}10 05am a e 7 05pm| 5 40am Pt. Huron...Ar/1205pm] 550pm) 850pm) 7 30am Pontiac ......Ar/1053am| 305pm) 8 25pm) 5 37am Detok....... Arj11 50am} 405pm) 925pm) 7 00am WESTWARD. For Grand Haven and Intermediate Pera ............... *7:00 @. m. For Grand Haven and Muskegon.....+1:00 P. m. Mil. and Chi.. +5.35 P. m. +Dally except Sunday. *Daily. Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:60 p.m., 5:30 p. m., 10:0 p.m. Trains arrive from the west, 10:10a. m. 3:15 pm. and 9:15 p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet car. No. 18 Parlor Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper. Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. Jag. CAMPBELL, City T’cket Agent. Grand Rapids & Indians. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Leave going North For Traverse City, Petoskey and eae 40a. m- ee ..5:00 p- 7 For Petoskey and Mackinaw. . 5:25 bm, TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Leave going South. a eee 7:25 a.m, For Kalamazoo and Ohicago... ...... ....... 2:15 p. m. For Fort Wayneand the East................ aif: 15 p.m. Por Cincim mats. .... ... 0.0 cecees cceccecee "BMD P.M For Kalamazoo and Chicago,............... an 40 p.m Chicago via G. R. & 1. R. R. Ly Grand — EEN a3 =o 2:15pm *11:40pm hor Cee 2:40pm 9:05pm 7:10am 2:15 p m oo hasthrough Wagner Buffet Parlor Car and coach. 11:40 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car - Coach. Lv Chicago 6:50a m 3:30pm 11:30 p m ae ids 2:50pm 9:15pm 7:20am 330 pm ma through waneie Buffet Parlor Car 11 30 p m train daily through Wagner Sleeping Car Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For oe —Leave. From eee Sere. 25am aoe cars 3 m . LOCK WOOD* OL. General iii and Ticket Agent. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 19 Advantages of the Cash System. {Entered in competition for prizes offered by Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association. | In discussing the advantages of a cash system of business it is well to name them before proceeding to the discussion. The most important are the following: Absence of bad accounts, the very much more simple requirements of book-keep- ing, the ability to dispense with a col- lector’s services, the much greater vol- ume of money handled, the great amount of time saved and the holding of a cer- tain amount of trade which every house must lose occasionally through disputed accounts. Bad accounts are a natural conse- quence of the credit system of doing business. They are absolutely unavoid- able, for the reason that regular custom- ers who have always paid promptly oc- casionally find themselves unable to pay immediately for something they get, and so ask for credit or a short extension of time. It is doubtful if there is a man in any business who would refuse credit under such circumstances, and especially as business is everywhere done on credit. Small accounts started innocently in this way are bound, in a few cases at least, to accumulate, and, if they are not ulti- mately disputed, payment is deferred until the debtor either thinks his cred- itor can as well afford to lose the amount as he can to pay it; or, he becomes un- able to pay it. Either way it is a case of creditor ‘‘whistling.’? When a business man calculates the profit he should make upon his goods in order to yield a fair return upon the money invested, he al- lows for possible losses of this kind when he fixes the prices of his goods. A narrow margin will not suffice either, as, where a credit business is done at all, it must be dcne on a more or less large seale, according to the size of the busi- ness in question. This makes the price of everything higher to everybody and practically makes the honest portion of the community pay for the support of, and the luxuries enjoyed by, the dead- beats, as the former pay the prices which enable the dealer to make a profit after deducting an approximate percent- age of loss to be sustained through the dead-beats; the latter pay nothing—if they can help it. With a cash system of doing business any one could do the book-keeping. The principal things to be kept would bea stuck book and a bank book (checks al- ways being regarded as cash.) No charg- ing a man up with what he gets, and have him say, the next time you see him, that you charged it wrong; no mak- ing out statements or bills every week or month; no wasting of $$ and $$ in sta- tionery and stamps every day in drum- ming up bad accounts; no use for com- mercial credit companies, thus saving membership dues and commissions on accounts which you have put into their hands for collection; no use for receipts or bills, and no use for a collector to collect the same. If such a system were already in vogue, no change from a credit system being required, just as much business would be done, and every commodity would be cheaper. At the same time, salaries in every branch of business would be higher, for a greater volume of money would necessarily be required to do business; with money easy, salaries are always good. No business house exists (unless it be a@ very new one) which has not had the experience of losing custom through dis- puted accounts or through pressing debtors too hard. ‘The trade lost in this way sometimes amounts to thousands of dollars in the aggregate. Such losses cannot be looked upon with indifference by the wealthiest business houses. But one class of companies is exempt from these losses, and they are the ones who have a monopoly. With them it is, ‘“‘Pay, or you can’t have something you can’t get along without.” With no dis- puted accounts, much less money would be wasted in attorneys’ fees, fewer ‘justices of the peace’’ would be sponging on business men for a living, all the time wasted in discussion over accounts could be more profitably used, and the expression, ‘‘I wouldn’t buy of that firm if they were the last house on earth,’? would be an obsolete expression. With everyone paying cash for every- thing, there would be no hoarding of gold to force bond issues by the Government, because the hoarding would not result as desired. There is not enough gold in the world to supply the demands of trade, and that metal could not possibly be used as a unit. With silver as a unit, money could not be made scarce— there is too much of it. With money plenty, the manufacturer could pay good wages, for he would have the means with which to do so. His employes paying cash for what they bought would enable retailers to do like- wise with the wholesale houses. In short, if all paid cash, money would be kept flying, and business would be lively; lively business makes profits large, large profits make the money fly, and thus we have the complete circle. From this point of view the cash system is certainly most desirable. Morris J. WHITE. —_—— >>> — Is the Honest Farmer a Delusion? Granp Rapips, May 3—I have been much amused at the articles which have recently appeared in your paper relative to the illegality of the so-called ‘‘St. Joe’’ basket, whichis the common meas- ure used by both growers and dealers in the handling of fruits and vegetables. I aim to do the fair thing at all times and under all circumstances, but [ have been unable to use anything but bastard bushel baskets since the short measure baskets came into general use. The rea- son for this is that the growers have adopted as their standard the basket con- taining seven-eights of a bushel and, so long as the dealers and consumers put up with such imposition and dishonesty, the growers will find it very convenient to continue their present policy of de- ception and cheating. I have had many years’ experience in dealing with farm- ers and fruit growers and I am frank to admit that a more dishonest class of men never existed. They appear to imagine that all men are trying to ‘‘do” them, and that any subterfuges they can resort to for the purpose of adding to their in- comes are legitimate—a sort of ‘‘dog eat dog” theory. I know of preachers even who buy bastard baskets for the purpose of marketing their products, yet the same men would brand as dishonest the dealer who advertised to give 24 pounds of sugar for $1 and actually gave 21 pounds, Yet there is no difference between the grocer who sells 24 pounds and delivers 21 and the grower who sells a bushel and delivers seven-eights of a bushel! It is all very well to talk about the necessity of this referm, but lam willing to stake my reputation as a prophet on the state- ment that, instead of increasing the size of the bushel basket, the growers will gradually reduce the size to three-quar- ters of a bushel! NEMO. 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Many psychologists contend that char- acter pre-eminently hereditary; but our observation has been to the contrary —environment is by far the mostimport- ant factor in developing the mind into what constitutes character. Environ- ment is virtually all. You may take the most perfectly developed acorn, sprout it, and transplant it in the dry, compact earth of a public highway, to be run over and trampled down by hundreds of vehicles, and none are too simple to kuow the result; but, if the same sprout be planted in rich, loose and fertile soil, and carefully protected from destructive influences while inits tenderness, it will, in due course, develop into the mighty monarch of the forest, unfolding its huge green boughs to the balmy breezes and defying the trivial influences that at one time, under different circumstances, would have crushed it in its insignifi- eance. So it is with the human mind. The Spartans, at one time, caused their slaves to be made intoxicated that their youths might learn from observation (environment) the degradation to which inebriety drags the human being, and profit by the example. How far they were successful we can better know from the fact that, only a few centuries later, Grecian wisdom, Grecian arts and Grecian civilization shone forth in all-re- is splendent beauty, spreading its bril- liancy over the then entire civilized world, and standing out to-day with such perfectness as to cause even us of this gloriously progressive and intellectual nineteenth century to contemplate them with admiration and reverence. The de- velopment of the mind depends entirely on the training and information it re- ceives, be the mind mediocre or of great innate ability. The acquisition and use of information constitute mental de- velopment. Now, if this acquisition and use of information be of arefining and elevating nature, so will the matured mind, fed in its immaturity in this man- ner, be refined and elevated. If the in- formation imparted to the tender, un- formed mind be of a degrading influence, it will degrade it, no matter what may be its inborn capacity. Did not the English immediately fall slaves to the use of tobacco? How much more quickly is an evil work accomplished when brought to bear upon immature—nay, tender, uninformed minds, having no knowledge of actions themselves, much less of the consequences of actions? Would our boy learn the use of profanity if he never had occasion to hear it? Hardly. Would he learn the use of to- bacco if he never saw anybody smoke? Hardly. Would he sit around bare- footed, filthy and idle, if all with whom he was thrown in contact were neat, in- dustrious and refined, and he furnished with the necessaries to be like them? Again, we are constrained to answer— hardly. We find examples of boys from the most refined families—refinement and in- tellect in both parents—bright and prom- ising boys, fall into bad environments and are carried down by their evil in- fluences. How much stronger is this principle when applied to the tender, wholly undeveloped mind, to the boy of 2 or 3 years of age? He may have the innate ability to learn mathematics, but if taught to plow and hoe from early childhood until 18 or 20 he is very likely to continue plowing and hoeing to the end of the chapter. He may haveinnate refinement, but, if you teach him coarse- ness and untidiness, by example and pre- cept, from tenderest babyhood until tolerably well matured, he is more than likely to continue just as you have trained him. Wehave a most striking and familiar example in the hardy, sys- tematic, methodical and upright pilgrim fathers, whose sons developed into the able, determined and patriotic heroes of the revolution, as contrasted with our present political and social leaders. So we see very plainly and conclusively that environment is the all-potent factor in developing the tender mind and matur- ing it into character; and that the possi- bilities of our boys depend entirely upon their babyhood and boyhood training and surroundings. The home should be a home—not a prison, nor a rendezvous for all the harum-scarum, unprincipled boys of the neighborhood. And _ right here is where the mother steps in and holds the fate of the nation in her hands! On her—and what there nobler, worthier and more inspiring than a loy- ing, devoted mother, whose gray head is bowed with age, and worn by the trials and efforts so generously lavished upon the object of her devotion?—on her de- volves the regeneration of our twentieth is century manhood. In her hands lie the reins with which she may guide the na- tion to a higher, nobler plane, or sink it into the deepest vice and final destruc- tion. When she draws a rigid line of demarkation between the present social superficialities and true home _ life— teaching her daughters the enervating in- fluences of society, and its shallowness, as contrasted with a pure, industrious and devoted home-life, and molding them into that lovely and useful type of womanhood, of which the praises of all poets could express but a faint idea of the admirable qualities flowing through their entire being; teaching her boys that success is obtained only by the proper application, and not by standing around idly ‘‘waiting for something to turn up”’—then the period of regenera- tion will bud into its dawn. Now, I do not want to be construed as meaning that girls are to become mere household drudges—not one bit of it; but 1 do mean that they should be taught the truer and higher ends of life, that they may not cater to whimsical social regulations, spending their time, energy and money— aye, their whole lives—trying to keep ‘in touch with society,’? but that they may turn scornfully from its vast empti- ness and make noble women; then our boys will have an additional stimulus to- wards developing into worthier manhood. The home should be a home, pervaded throughout by system, method and re- finement, and ruled by love and tender- ness, yet determination. Let the boy learn that he has a shelter and protector at home as long as the generous heart of his dear old mother sends brightness and tenderness through her precious cheeks; 2 Bo eee eee ates ns ee OO OO or It Has No Equal | 7 : 4 We know it because we sell more each year. / SS a The Jobber sells more ! ¢ ! 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Let nothing at home be too sacred for him, nothing in the wide world too good for him; give him all the sugar he can eat, rather than develop one falsehood in his tender and fertile mind, remembering that whatsoever you sow, or cause to be sewed thereon, is likely to produce until the end. Raise him thus, mother, and he will not be a burden and source of constant anxiety to you in old age, but, on the contrary, a pride and everlasting joy. The mem- ory of the sweet and dear old home days will go down with him as fresh in the sixties as in his most joyous boyhood hours; his home ever as a model for him to aspire to, and the word ‘‘mother’’ will follow him, with all its precious rela- tions, through his entire life. in her absence it will swell his bosom with that warm and true filial devotion that lends such strength anc purity to character; in times of adversity and temptation it will be his deepest inspiration, causing to surge through his veins the noble res- olution that he would rather die than bring the slightest touch of worry or shame to her dear, old, loving heart, and in the days to come, when you are no more, it will lend a halo and a sweetness to his life, when its memories at twi- light bud forth in all their freshness, an inspiration that will lead him up the rugged pathway of success, even to the very pinnacle, there to stand forth peer to any, surpassing many, as a model of perfect manhood, gracing your name, a pride to his family and an honor to his country. 5S. F. READ. > 2 The Advantages of the Cash System. {Entered in competition for prizes offered by Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association.] The advantages ef the cash system over those of the credit are numerous; in fact, | do not believe, after long expe- rience in both lines, that the credit sys- tem has the advantage over the cash in a single instance. Start at the beginning: Mr. X., the eash man, intends going into the retail grocery business. His stock is to be purchased. He goes to the jobber and tells him he wishes to purchase a bill of goods for which he has the cash to pay; that, unless he makes very close figures, some other jobber will get the bill. My word for it, he buys a bill of goods very cheap. On the other hand, take Mr. Y., who wishes to buy his open- ing bill but can pay only one-half in cash. He is, therefore, compelled to ask an accommodation of the wholesaler of thirty, sixty or ninety days, as the case may be. He will surely pay more for his goods than did Mr. X. As ‘‘Goods well bought are half sold,” Mr. X. opens his business with an advantage. He be- gins business by announcing: ‘‘I have only one way of doing business. My terms are spot cash to one and all. I make no exceptions. My reasons for de- manding cash are several and will result in saving money both for you and me. In the first place, if you pay me cash, there is no charge to be made and, con- equently, I do not have to employ a book-keeper. | make no bad accounts THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. and, therefore, do not have to make my good customers pay for what I lose on the bad. I can afford to make you a close price, for, when you pay me the cash, I can pay likewise for all my pur- chases and secure the same advantages I offer you. Having sold nothing on credit, I cannot forget to charge an ar- ticle. This amounts to a great deal more than is at first apparent.”’ Another thing: Mr. X. refuses to credit Mr. A. in the presence of Mr. B., Mr. C. and Mr. D. Mr. A. is worth $100,000 and is as ‘‘good as gold.’’ Messrs. B., C. and D. are men whom Mr. X. is desirous of selling for cash but would not be willing to extend credit. Had he sold Mr. A. on credit, the others would be likely to ask for a similar ac- commodation. Upon arefusal from him, they would more than likely take offense and spend their money elsewhere. Hay- ing seen that he refuses Mr. A., they do not even ask him for credit, but spend all their cash with him, knowing full well that he is in a position to offer them cheaper prices than his competitors. Again, the wholesale grocer or manu- facturer has a certain salable article that can be handled satisfactorily by only one man ina locality. It is one that bears a good profit to the retailer and is desira- ble. The best man with whom to place it is naturally sought. The two men— cash and credit—both possessing the same business ability, are taken into con- sideration. The cash man will invaria- bly be given the preference, because the jobber knows that he buys and sells for cash and will pay for the goods as soon as they are delivered. All business men have more confidence in him. The banker points him out as the man who never borrows but always has money in the bank to his credit. Mr. X. sells, to-day, $50 worth of goods. At night he has the $50 to put in goods for to-morrow’s business. Mr. Y. sells and ‘‘puts in on the books.” He must needs have more capital than Mr. X., or buy more goods on credit. What is more, Mr. X. has the advantage of Mr. Y. in the peace of mind he enjoys. He goes home at night with no business cares on his mind. He owes no one, no one owes him. If the mill closes down, or the operatives go out onastrike, not one of them owes him a cent. They must eat. They owe the credit man around the corner. They have a little cash laid by for arainy day. If they go to the credit man to spend it, he will surely want them to pay something on account. This they cannot afford to do; therefore, they will go to the man whom they owe nothing. If crops fail, the same thing. The credit man has all the worry and does all the losing; the cash man gets all the cash afloat. The first sixty days after having been in business, let the cash grocer take an inventory. Knowing how many goods he has bought, how much cash he has taken in and the quantity of goods re- maining unsold, he can easily tell the per cent. he has made. Trying this every sixty days for awhile, he soon finds the average gain on sales. At night he counts his cash and knows the result of the day’s business. If he finds he is doing a losing business, he must cut down expenses or close his shop, for, if he cannot make money on busi-' ness conducted hopelessly lost under the credit system. Monroe, La. Wma. B. 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PER GALLON, | BY THE BARREL. m covers 750 juare feet ron Rooting ae ee uiare Board Roofing vit “oe Stacks, ete i with a white d Fire Proof j ¢ ad or me w roofs in 6 One gallo Ty n Tip or! Shingle or et Of Scofield, Shurmer Se a for Pamphlet of Testimoni GRAND RAPIDS MICH. ' & Teagle, ul t SHE USES CONCORD! SOAP SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. Mauufactured by See TRADESMAN’S Quotations, ication @ Murphy Co., —— MANUFACTURER OF ——— Mi ND ORD il Office Fixtures, Store Fixtures, etc. -— Foclony, 92 N.TONIA ST, Grand ple Telephone 738. MANUFACTURER OF Crackers AND FULL LINE OF » Sweet Goods 252 and 254 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS THE MICHIGAN ree aes TRADESMAN. REDUCED THE LICENSES. Saginaw Grocers Suffer Through Lack of Organization. rom the Saginaw Evening News, April 30. Peddlers, grocerymen, sundried fruits and rotten pickles, all tumbled into a ‘Trilby”? mixture, made last evening’s Council meeting interesting and peculiar and composed the salient feature of the doings of the aldermen. Everything in the Council chamber ran like newly oiled machinery until a communication from the Committee on Ordinances was read, recommending a reduction of the annual license fees for peddlers to $10 for foot artists, $15 for one horse and 355 for each additional horse, as against $10, 225 and $30, the price last year. Alder- man Lee opened the ball by explaining all points about the change without mak- ing an argument. Then came Alderman Laird, with about the same argument he used last year relative to the hard time the peddlers have to get along and make a living. Aldermen Smart and Fordney took him up on some of the statements made and argued in favor of the grocerymen, making capital invested and taxes paid cut quite a big figure. C. F. Alderton, representing the retail grocers, was heard and he gave the gro- cers’ side of the story, telling how they get first pick at the supplies from the commission merchants and the peddlers have to take the leavings to palm off on the public.. Then a peddler named Ran- dail spoke and said that the peddlers, as a rule, buy the best goods obtainable and pay the same prices the retailers do. Then, after telling that $1 per day was the average profit of a peddler, he told how he purchased some pickles recently of a certain wholesaler within reach of his voice; how the wholesaler demanded cash payment; and how, when the peddler found one barrel rotten and had to throw it into the river, any reduction in the price was refused. Alderman Smart took the fioor and said that the pickles referred to were purchased at his establishment and that he informed Randall when he purchased them that they were old, second-class pickles and could not be sold to the re- tail trade. Aldermen Lemcke’s eyes grew as big as saucers when that state- ment came out and, gaining the floor, he said he thought it time to quit watching the peddlers and throw a searchlight on the wholesale dealers who would sell such rotten stuff knowingly to peddlers. He made himself ridiculous by advanc- ing the idea that grocers should be licensed to compel them to sell good stuff to peddlers, so that the people would have nocause to complain of re- ceiving poor goods. After Aldermen Krapf and Stingel had exchanged a few love taps about meat wagon peddling outside the city Alderman Biesterfeld said that peddlers had forced undesir- able goods on the people at his home. Alderman Weale’s eyes twinkled when he informed the Council that he hada strong-minded woman at his home and was not afraid of any forcing business at his place. Then a vote was taken and the amount of license fee reduced to cor- respond with the report of the Commit- tee by vote of 15 to14. Subsequently the amended ordinance was passed un- animously and the ;eddlers triumphed. . oo ~— Laziness the Enemy of Trade. Written for THE TRADESMAN. It is curious that we know the least about many things which are most fa- miliar to us. For instance, ask anyone with faculty in drawing to make a repre- sentation of a hand and, unless especially artistic study has been made of that sub- ject, the result will be a pronounced failure. Yet the hand is about as fre- quent an object of consideration as any- thing we can mention. It is so in the moral, or immoral, qualities of character. It with the quality of laziness. There is, perhaps, no other quality so familiar to us in the frequency with which it is brought to our notice, yet we really know less of it than of most other qualities. Perhaps our lack of knowl- is so edge is partly caused by the fact that it is not a pleasant subject to contemplate and that we instinctively choose to let our minds dwell on pleasanter ones. Whatever the cause it may be well to oc- casionally have the subject brought to our attention. The ravages of this arch enemy of in- dustry are potent in every walk of life, but, perhaps, in no other is its presence so frequently a determining factor in the problem of success or failure as in the pursuit of trade; and, perhaps, in no other its approach more insidious. The clerk who can go through the usual apprenticeship of a varying trade with- out unconsciously contracting the habit of loitering or consulting his indolent ease has in him the elements that, guided by honesty, will insure his success in any mercantile career. In the industrial or manufacturing trades or in the pro- fession there is the constant opportu- nity for personal effort and push and, when there is a suspension of this effort, there an immediate and positive knowledge of the sin on the part of the sinner. Unfortunately, in trade there is the element of chance which, at times, must be waited upon. The customer may come at any moment and the clerk or merchant must be ready for him, must be waiting for him, and it is a most difficult matter to be thus waiting with- out acquiring the waiting habit. ‘This is the stumbling block which wrecks many mercantile ambitions. What is laziness? The common an- swer is a disinclination to work. With the ordinary meaning given the term ‘‘work,” this answer insufficient. Laziness is a disinelination to effort, es- pecially to disagreeable effort, and it is in this last attribute—the tendency to avoid the disagreeable—that another pe- culiar danger. to the mercantile Greer manifests itself. Such manifestations are liable in a hundred different direc- tions. Thus, there is the tendency to delegate duties because they are disa- greeable. This is laziness. The mer- chant whose clerks know that he is ready to do anything he requires of any of them commands a respect and obedi- ence which go far to insure success. There are varying degrees of agree- ableness on the part of customers. There is, consequently, the temptation to give personal attention to the most agreeable, who may, commercially, be of the least worth, while the rougher customers, who are perhaps those of most intrinsic worth, are turned over to subordinates. Thisis laziness. In the matter of collections and settlement of disagreeable accounts, whose existence usually to be charged to this same sin, there is a special temptation to shirk or procrasti- nate, which is also laziness. In the light of these facts, it is fair to assert that laziness is peculiarly the enemy of trade. RADIX. is is is is ————__—<>_2—<>——___— There is a fellow somewhere in the country who represents himseif as an agent of the Mexican government for disposing of 600,000 acres of fine land belonging to that government. The Mexican Minister at Washington, Senor Romero, has been asked about the busi- ness, and he says that the man is and must be a fraud, as his government has not authorized anybody to sell lands in the United States, or in any other coun- try. —_—__—~->———— Signal 1, 2, 3, 4, Five. OG I, At Prices Ranging From $15 Upwards. The Styles shown in this cut $30.00 Which includes Seamless Brass Scoop. For advertisement showing our World Famous Standard Counter and Standard Market Dayton Computing Scales See last page of cover in this issue. THE COMPUTING SCALESCO, - I Uot DAYTON, OHIO Do you i The. oali- tals ate salt iis" The general publie are recognizing more and more every day the desirability of pure salt. The result is a largely increased demand for Diamond Crystal Sait. Of course you aim to handle the best goods in every branch of the trade. Why notin sait? Diamond Crystal Salt is now packed so the grocer can handle it at a profit equal to that made on inferior goods. Note these greatly reduced prices : 120 75> 4 40 97 ss 2.50 For other sizes in proportion see price current on another page. Diamond Crystal is much lighter than common salt, and the 24, 4, and 7 Ib. bags are about the same size as 3, 5, and 10 Ib. bags of the ordinary product. Diamond Crystal is purer, stronger, and goes farther. The bags are handsome, and made of the very best material—saving waste from broken bags. DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO., ST. CLAIR, MICH. 214 bags in a barrel, @ $3.00 “ “6 66 ‘“ @ 275 se 66 “cc le ScGeeeseEeEeEsonosoasaEsnS SUG S359 SSCS SH SHS Nearly every woman dreads ‘‘wash day” with C its drudgery and discamfort. Some women have as found out that there is one great aid that helps | RE i ARN Rly AE PRR li Fe AA AN ON PN AON free. to make /ighfer the work of washing clothes. GOWANS & SONS, Buffalo, N. Y. ‘That is Ce Ee Se Ce ae eae a a Oe QAK-LEAF SOAP. il l It takes the d7r/ out without excessive rubbing— leaves the clothes c/ean and whife,without injury. You can well afford to give 74atrial. Get it at your dealers. A catalogue of beautiful pictures RI GG BE Se Se a ae a ea th te Ch hh Cette et td AMERICA’S GREATEST RELISH! lie Only Endorsed by medical fraternity. ble use their delicious, creamy flavor never forgotten. gestion, Sick Headache, Sweeten the breath. In handsomely Retail at 20 cents each. Ask Jobber fora sample order, or For ta- is Cure Dyspepsia, Indi- Nervousness. Sold by all dealers. lithographed cartons. American Pepsin Cracker Co.3+8 Grant River Ave. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 25 MAJOR’S CEMENT ESTABLISHED 1876. KEGISTERED TRADE MARK NO. 17,570. TWO MEDALS AWARDED at the World's Columbian Exposition, UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED t0 be THE BEST AND STRONGEST PREPARATION ever offered to the public For Repairing China, Glassware, Furni- ture, Meerschaum, Vases, Books, Leather Belting, Tipping : : a Billiard Cues, etc i TRADE MARK. ; if MAUOR'S CEMENT i ; mo Ae 23 Nb q a aN 2 A. MAJOR. An ordinary plate broken in two and mended with MAJOR’S CEMENT held a stone weighing 300 pounds during the World's Cn Columbian Exhibition at Chicago, 1898 <4 | i mn ae S > es That catches a the wird knocks se ttle t 4 I | I | es Glee Seem Fe Fisca scorer ana pe ons conduc tie ise ; M a | 4 ; Then you can eat, sleep, work and wash your hands.” This bandage protects and allow the sore to heal rapidly FOR OBSTINATE RUNNING SORES, tse a bandage with absorbent cotton 1 Ce S— PRICE LisT. /— es ee eS eee Major’s Cement, - 4 02. size, 15 cents, $12.00 per gro. Major’s Cement, 1 oz. size, 25 cents, 18.00 per gro. = - 6 Major’s Best Liq Glue, 1 02. size, 10 cents, 9.60 per gro. be es udu ce eee oie to a a oe Major’s Leather Cem't, 1 02. gme, IG comin, 1200 persre. Porte You can use a piece of ola oe a bottle, and with it “invisible” patches can be Major’s Leather Cem’t, 2 oz. size, 20 cents, 18.00 per gro i mid ae oe hake Yon Gee poet agpe a RNAS — hie Ou Major’s Rubber Cem’t, 2 07. size, 15 cents, 12.00 per gro. se Handled by Wholesale Druggists. The above Cements for sale by dealers all around the earth, or by mail at the same price. a AR a FEE aa ae 0 SR a a NEW YORK ClTY A. MAJOR CEMEN 7 CO. 461 Pearl St., near Park Row ‘> ~ 4 ee arnan eSNG THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. THE BACK OFFICE. Written for THz TRADESMAN. There are always two sides to every question, and, after listening attentively to what I think are strong objections to the department store, it seems but meet and right to hear something from the other side. I didn’t care to call on the proprietor of ‘‘the largest establishment in the United States,” and hear him tell me that the business world is thinking and that new ideas, the result, are at work, because I don’t think that the idea is new at all. Vve bought too many gro- ceries on one side of the country store and too many dry goods on the other side to be told, at this late day, that the idea is something new. I have heard, until lam tired of it, that the depart- ment store is a fad to draw custom, and that the cheap groceries—almost given away—are not good for anything else, because I know, in the first place, that goods that are good for nothing are the worst thing in the world for advertising, and I know, too, that the scramble after the Almighty Dollar is too eager to be wasted upon a fad. So, when I met, not long ago, an intelligent customer fresh from her trade with the department store, I asked her if she thought she gained much in busing groceries at such a place, and whetie. she thought it just the thing to desert her grocer with whom she had traded for years, for the sake of encouraging the new trade octopus that is fairly devouring the small dealer. ‘‘Well,” she reasoned, ‘‘the gain is a matter of dollars and cents, and this is the way the question stands with me: I’ve been wanting some codfish for weeks. My grocer has some for ten cents a pound, dirty and black and with the skin on. He says it’s the best in the market. I ordered some to-day, no bone, no skin, and neatly packed in a box. There are three pounds and I paid 22 cents for three pounds—just about the amount I wanted. Now, strange as it may seem, | rather pay 22 cents than 30. Another instance: We are very fond of pineapple, but don’t feel like having it very often because it costs so much; but, now that I can get it at $2.06 a dozen by the can, we can have all we want. And so I might go on, but the substance of it all would be this: I have come home with two dollars more than I should have, had I bought my groceries at the eorner. This isn’t the first time that I have bought goods at the department store, and my experience has been that I have always got there goods that are first class. I have never seen anything that looks like a low-grade article, and, so leng as I can purchase better goods there at a less price than I can get them for at the corner, the ‘oetopus’ you talk about is going to have my trade. So much for the quality and the price—now for something else. It may seem a mat- ter of no importance to you, but, after a lady has got through with dress goods and things of that sort, it’s rather nice to step inte another part of the store, and, without taking off her gloves or be- ing obliged to look out for her gown, see all these fine groceries, and not be waited on by someone who should, that very minute, be putting on clean clothes. Now, careful attention is paid to all these things in the one store and they are not looked after in the other; and, if the grocer doesn’t want the ‘octopus’ to feed on him, all he has to do is to fight the ‘octopus’ with his own weapons. { ‘Just take this one little instance for il- lustration. I had seen in the down town stores these little boxes of codfish, and always supposed that, if we pay ten cents a pound for the whole fish, dirt and skin and fins thrown in, those neat boxes of clean white fish would, of necessity, be much more. I have tried, more than once, to get that corner grocer to keep it in stock, but he has always put me oif. The fact is that he gets his big black dirty fish for almost nothing and sells it for all he dares ask for it. I think it would be a good plan for the ‘octopus’ to squeeze him a little here and teach him a thing or two which he evidently doesn’t know.” It is only a straw; but, if the depart- ment store has been watching this and so found out which way the trade-winds are blowing, the rest of the trading world must do the same, or suffer the consequences. RIcHARD MALcom STRONG. —@onr--0 a CURRENT COMMENT. A canary bird, which is as good as a watchdog, lives in a little store on Fifth avenue, New York. It is one of the class of petty stores where the wife keeps house in the rear rooms and watches the counter in the front room, while the husband goes out to work at his trade. Asarule, the customer does not find her behind the counter. He gives a loud cough, or rap, and she comes in from her cooking, wiping her hands on her apron to receive his penny or his nickel. In this particular a do not need to cough or rap. As soon as you put foot across the threshold the bird sets up a loud, shrill twitter, and keeps piping until his mistress comes. This wise canary is 11 years old. He was silent for eight years—noteless, twitterless; then he began to sing like four and twenty blackbirds, and he has been sounding his warning ever since. * A story comes from Montreal to the ef- fect that a young lady organist in a church was captivated with the young pastor of a church in the next street, and was delighted to hear one week that by exchange he was to preach the next Sunday in her own church. The organ was pumped by an obstreperous old sex- ton, who would often stop when he thought the organ voluntary had lasted long enough. This day the organist was anxious that all should go well, and as the service was about to begin she wrote a note intended solely for the sexten’s eye. He took it, and, in spite of her agonized beckonings, carried it straight to the preacher. What was that gentle- man’s astonishment when he read: “Oblige me this morning by blowing * * away till I give you the signal to stop.” The note was signed ‘*Miss Allen.” ~- 2 A scientific publication recommends a COMRADE Is one of the few ED W. RUHE, Good 5 cent brands, which | FE a All smokers will Kalamazoo Realize by giving them a trial. ARTISTIC GRILLES of any Me) | DETROIT, MICH. 4 Mfrs. of Window Guards, Weather Vanes, Roof / Cresting, Wire and Iron Fences, Bank “al Office al | Ralling, Stable Fixtures, Fire Escapes, ete. de- State your wants and send for Catalogue. sign mee to order. PHONE 1285-2 r ‘ . FIVE DOZEN CRATES COMPLETE WITH FILLERS with CUrMMER MFG. Co. OMPTY” FOLDING bub GATE RETAILS AT 25 CENTS EACH, COMPLETE. A couvenient 3 bu. fruit package when fillers are removed. = $10.00 your Ad. neatly printed on each cme, delivered * your railroad station for MANUFACTURED BY Cadillac, Michigan. SMOKE CAM ee ee ead The Best 8 Cent Cigar On Earth solution of sugar of lead and alum in an! improved process for making cotton goods waterproof, but, according to au- thorities of physiological chemistry, such goods should never be worn next to the! skin, as the salts of lead are absorbed with ease and are nearly all very poison- ous. . «= The hog killing industry of the coun- try for the year ending March 1 reached an aggregate of 21,610,000 hogs, for whieh were paid $332,000,000. a Use Tradesman Coupon Books. * VW orden (Grocer Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. oe iw ® MICH. E. OF G. Fifty-one New Members Received Dur- ing April. GRAND RApips, May 3—1 beg leave to report the addition of fifty-one members of our list during the month of April, as follows: M. B. Divine, Belding. E. McDonald, Chicago. Clarence Tuxbury, Grand Rapids. H. F. Nickerson, Ishpeming. W.S. Shoaf, Manistee. Cc. H. Hinman, Battle Creek. John M. Fay, Grand Rapids. Eugene W. Cramer, Ludington. John Corrigan, Mackinac Island. Geo. H. Haskall, Detroit. Frank L. Palmer, Fort Wayne, Ind. Horace b. Rose, Grand Rapids. Sydney E. Slater, Chicago. John A. Cline, Ludington. Frank Bassett, Milwaukee. Cc. E. Hewitt, Detroit. Wm. M. Tice, Kalamazoo. B. J. Robertson, Breedsville. Charles E. Morgan, Fremont. H. W. Wolcott, Jackson. Peter Baum, Saginaw. Fred D. Folley, Lafayette, Ind. Louis Archer, Detroit. Uriah Hoffmaster, Traverse City. John J. Closs, Detroit. A. B. Scotten, Indianapolis. W. D. Bennett, Union City. H. Earl Lanford, Bay City. Otho W. Riebel, Toledo. Clarence B. Osgood, Chicago. S. L. Mead, Detroit. Eugene W. Crane, Adrian. John Tripp, Charlotte. J. S. Hirth, Grand Rapids. H. B. Fournier, Chicago. J. J. Sullivan, Chicago. W. E. Anthony, Detroit. Frank P. Dodge, Toledo. Harry Mercer, Detroit. Wm. E. Cartier, Ludington. Abe Sant, Menominee. H. F. Harbeck, Grand Haven. John Coleman, Detroit. James N,. Riley, Ann Arbor. Edwin R. Johnson, Quincy, Lil. Alvin L. Greenwood, Newton High- lands, Mass. W. A. Stowe, Milwaukee. U. Grant Hamlin, Muskegon. Frank J. Shively, Traverse City. Andrew A. French, Baltimore, Md. G. E. Stewart, Fairgrove. In addition te the above active mem- bers, we have received one additional honorary member—C. C. Gilbert, of Fre- mont. I have prepared and had printed a new form of application for honorary members which simplifies the work of securing honorary applications very materially. I shall be glad to send packages of these blanks to any member who will interest himself in the matter. : I propose to inaugurate an aggressive campaign against delinquent members, with a view to bringing them back into the fold, and during the next month l shali send every delinquent a statement of his account, with an urgent appeal that he pay up, sign a health certificate and again take advantage of the death indemnity guaranteed to members in good standing. The next meeting of the Board of Di- rectors will be held at the Hudson House, Lansing, the first Saturday in June. Ansther $2 death assessment will probably be ordered at that time. Gro. F. OwEn, Sec’y. ——— ++ <> Valuable Contributions to the Litera- ture of the Cash System. At the regular meeting of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, held March 19, the following recommendation of the special Committee on Essays was unanimously adopted: We recommend that three cash prizes of $5, $3 and $2 be offered for the best three essays on ‘‘Advantages of the Cash System;” that no limitation be made as to the length of the articles, and that competition be open to the world; that the articles be published in THE TRADESMAN as they are sent in; that en- tries close May 1; and that the decision of the Committee be announced at the regular meeting of the Association on May 21. Respectfully submitted, J. J. WAGNER, PETER SCHUIT, HENRY J. VINKEMULDER, Committee on Essays. Up to May 1, twelve contributions competing for the prizes were received by Secretary Stowe, as follows: 1. Mrs. Anna McKee, Mt. Morris. 2. Geo. Sehlinger, Saginaw, W. S. 3. Frank T, Lawrence, Grand Rapids. 4. E. Alphonse Cloonan, St. Louis, Mo. 5. O. W. Pettit, Grand Rapids. . Thos. Houghton, Jackson. 7. E. A. Owen, Vittoria, Ont. 8. Morris J. White, Grand Rapids. 9. Wm. B. Reily, Monroe, La. 10. R. R. Case, Lansing. 11. Simon Lieffers, Eastmanville. 12. W. M. Gibbs, Fredonia, N. Y. All but the eleventh and twelfth con- tributions have appeared in Tur TRADEs- MAN and these will be published in the issue of next week. A peculiar feature of the contest isthe wide extent of territory covered by the contributors—eight being from Michigan and one each from New York, Missouri, Louisiana and Ontario. So far as THE TRADESMAN’S informa- tion goes, this is the most complete and valuable collection of contributions on this subject ever published, and the Retail Grocers’ Assoclation is to be con- gratulated on its enterprise in securing so much interesting information on so important a topic. Employer and Employes. From the Street Railway Journal. in the disputes concerning wages or management, which sometimes arise, in even the best regulated companies, be- tween officers and employes, the sym- pathies of the public are nearly always with the men. There is evidently a tendency to regard a corporation, par- ticularly a railway corporation, in the light of a public enemy which is always in the wrong in its public and internal affairs. The same feeling is exemplified in legal actions before a jury where a railway corporation is one of the con- tending parties, and appears to be one of the peculiarities of human nature or of our modern civilization. When a num- ber of men become associated for the purpose of performing a public service they seem, in the popular mind, to lose their identity, together with some of their rights of property and liberty of action, and are often compelled to for- feit many privileges which each, as an individual, certainly possesses. They are thenceforth considered, not as in- dividuals, but as a greedy corporation. In the treatment of corporations, espec- ially as regards the right to hire labor in the cheapest market, the stockholder seems to have disappeared. The expression coined by a well-known economist to cover another ease, ‘‘the forgotten man,’’ seems to suit him exact- ly. The newspapers, politicians and boards of arbitration, who govern their own affairs according to their own judg- ment, try to coerce the railway company in the management of their own business. The rights ef A, B and C, who compose the company, are not considered. They may be upright, law-abiding citizens, Perhaps their entire property is invested in the railway, and they are dependent upon its earnings for support. All this makes no difference. Tiueir existence is as completely lost sight of as if they had lived in a prehistoric age, and the aver- age juryman or other citizen, who might have some qualms about sand-bagging and robbing them as they walk the streets as individuals, has no objection to ‘administering a rebuke’’ to ‘‘a rich and grasping corporation.’’ Until ‘‘the forgotten man’’ is occasionally remem- bered in our legislatures and halls of jus- tice, we are forced to be skeptical of his rights under our laws, even though his existence cannot be wholly overlooked. A et Frank Wixom succeeds E. Henry as traveling representative for the Bancroft Cigar Co. Che President of the United States of America, GREETING: To HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, ager satesmniem and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you, Whereas, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United of New Jersey, against you, the said complained of, and that the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to be MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that States for the District relieved touching the matters therein ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap. Mow Cl cre ore we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY J J KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you , 2 ’ i ’ é = Ss , under the pains and penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, that you do absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ‘“‘SAPOLIO,” or any word or words substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly, By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as “SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for, that which is not Complainant’s said manufacture, and false or misleading manner. from in any way using the word SAPOLIO” in any a ° avitness, The honorable MELVILLE W. FuLLerR, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, at the City Jersey, this 16th day of December, in eight hundred and ninety-two, [seat] ROWLAND COX, of Trenton, in said the year of our Lord, onc District of New thousand, [sIGNED] Complainant's Solicitor. S. Db. OLIPHANYT, Cler’ ¥ = Sep SRO RTE OER SA NO sero LAE Ses ea hah Py oo Sager meat nchtie un ge tea 4 ¢ de THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drug Department. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—George Gundrum, Ionia. Two Years—C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix. ThreeYears—S. E. Parkhill, Owosso. Four Years—F. W. R Perry, Detroit Five Years—A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arber. President— Fred’k W .R. Perry, Detroit. &ecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, — Yreasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Io Coming Meetings—Detroit oer Island), Lansing, Nov 5. June 24; Michigaao State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President— A. 8. Parker, Detroit. Vice-President—John E. Peck, Detroit. Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit. Secretay—F. C. Thompson, Detroit. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutica!) Society. President, John E. Peck; Secretary, B. Schrouder. Why Should a Drug Store Be Loafers’ Headquarters? It is a sad state of affairs, but never- theless true, that in most small towns, or even in some stores in cities, these uni- versal pests seem to exist. Now the question arises, how do they (some of them) manage to attend to any business of their own, for many of them you do not miss from your place of business from early morn till late at night? Ap- parently they feel in duty bound to en- tertain each visitor who enters the store, whether or not they have ever seen him before. Now, there is a difference be- tween the loafer and the friends who come in to make a purchase and stop to exchange a few social remarks; but if the latter come too often without purchas- ing and stay too long, it will not be very long ere they are considered loaf- ers in the estimation of the public. Most people do not consider it loafing if they stop to spend a few hours in the front part of your store to watch the passers-by, and it would not be if it were not frequent. Presently comes another and then another, conversation is entered into, and sometimes heated discussions are the result (in fact, that is what they come for, never coming to buy, for should they want anything in the drug line they will go to the next store), and soon the place is crowded. In a country town there always seem to be some chronic loafers, who think people, both customers and_ proprie tor, never get tired of seeing their faces and hearing their gossip, which is any- thing else than entertaining or instruc- tive. so Ofttimes men who have business places of their own will leave these places to spend several hours with some kind friend (druggist friend, of course), so termed by themselves, but never consid- ering how much they cause him to lose from customers who come to the doors and pass on, because of so many loafers; and, more than that, not once in ten thousand times do these(so-called friends) loafers buy where they loaf. And sel- dom, if ever, will ladies enter a store (es- pecially a drug store) when there is a raft of men sitting around, like skillpots around a pool on a warm spring day. Often they are boisterous, chewing to- bacco, spitting and smoking, all which is very unpleasant to ladies. People never think of loafing in a doc- tor’s or a lawyer’s office. They transact their business in those places and go on their way rejoicing, to impose on some kind friend who has a drug store and is dependent upon the patronage of the pub- lic for support, and not upon a few indi- viduals, as most of the loafers suppose. Of all professional men, the druggist is the most consistent, and most generally receives less thanks and gets no credit for his patience and consistency. Peo- ple think you ere under obligations to obey every whim and call; if a doctor is called in the night he charges for a night visit, and nothing thought of it; but let a druggist charge 25 cents for a night call for an ounce of syrup of ipecac, when the customer has been having the bottle filled for five cents, ten chances to one, if you raise the price because you have been called out of your nice, warm bed, and perhaps walked three or four squares, that man will never put his foot in your store. Consistency, sympathy, charity, leniency and many other good qualities too nu- merous to mention, are very requisite for the druggist to beat his way in this world of trials and tribulations, and if he is pretty shrewd he will get there, if he can only find some exterminator which will eradicate the loafer, the druggist’s greatest enemy from a busi- ness standpoint. Hire WATSON. Soe A Pharmaceutical Romance. From the Pharmaceutical Era. It was evening in San Francisco. The mellow glow of the tinted shades fell over an interior of tasteful magnificence. The house was that of Jacob Grogram, the well-known stock operator. In a costly fauteuil, before the fire, sat Clarissa Grogram, the idolized only daughter of the stern old speculator. Before the fire in a costly fauteuil also sat young Herbert MeSwiggen, M. D., one of the young physicians turned loose upon the community among the last batch from the Toland College. The slender waist of Clarissa was encircled by his strong right arm, and occasion- ally she was shifted to the other knee. They were gazing thoughtfully into the fire, which cracked cheerfully in its un- assuming way. Why didit crackle? Ah, who can tell? There are problems in this world which, far reaching in their intensity, evoke from the depth of the inner soul doubts—vague, terrifying doubts, which But we digress. Suddenly Herbert tightened his clasp. Clarissa sighed. ‘Oh, Herbert,’? she sighed, ‘you mustn’t. What would my paw say?” and she hid her blushing face amid the re- cesses of his ear. ‘‘Nay, dearest,’”’ said he, soothingly, ‘*he would say naught. Was he not once young himself? And what if he has a house on Van Ness avenue, and 4 per cent. bonds and things, I am not un- worthy to claim the hand of Jacob Gro- gram’s child.” ‘But he calls you a—a——”’ ‘“‘A what?” indignantly Herbert McSwiggen, gazing deep, dark, soulful eyes. **A sawbones,’’ reluctantly replied the lovely girl. ‘*Ha!l” shouted Herbert McSwiggen, ‘‘a sawbones! Oh, wouJd that he were here —would that I might confront him and ” demanded into her At this moment the sound of Jacob Grogram’s footfalls without was heard, then the fumbling of the paternal latch- key. Herbert rose hastily, but not un- gracefully, throwing Clarissa over the back of the chair as he did so, and, grab- bing his ulster from the hatrack, got a running start for the back door. Clar- issa heard his agitated footsteps as her father pursued him through the hall, then the whiz of the heavy boot, then the sound of her lover’s descent as he lightly fell on the other side of the back fence. The poor girl with a sigh of relief mur- mured, ‘Saved! saved!’ and fainted away on the coal scuttle. Let us leave her there. Two years have passed away. Twice has the earth in its accustomed pathway swung round the orb of day. Twice has the world had a head on it the day after New Years. Twice has it swore off. Twice has it fallen down. Twice—Dbut we digress. Fortune had smiled on Jacob Gro- gram. The fickle goddess danced lightly before him, beckoning him ever onward with her golden wand. Deeper, deeper into the wilderness she went on. At last she led him into the tangled thick- ets. Jaceb got short on a steck that he couldn’t fill, beeause it was all in, and because he hadn’t any money if it hadn’t been in. Jacob Grogram failed to keep up with the procession. He was ruined. “If you please, give mea box of Mc- Swiggen’s Liver Pills.’’ It was the voice of a young sirl. Her- bert MeSwiggen looked forth from his office at the rear of the gorgeous phar- macy. He wasrich now, was Herbert, and famous. ‘‘MeSwiggen’s World Fa- mous Blood and Liver Pills’? had brought him wealth and fame. But, alas! they had not brought him Clarissa. However, it seemed that she had come at last. “Clarissa,’’ said he, advancing toward her. The fair girl looked upon him. ‘““?Tis he!’ she cried. It another moment the lovers were in each other’s arms, but the box of pills was all broke up. They were married. Life flew on golden wings for the MceSwiggenses. The vista of the years opened out before them, radiant, golden, peaceful and pharmaceutical. But a single cloud dimmed the sky of their existence. One morning Jacob Grogram did not come to breakfast. Re- peated knocks at his door failed to bring him forth. The door was forced. There lay the cold form of what was once Jacob Grogram. Herbert approached. lying on the table and examined it. shook his head. Jacob Grogram had taken a box of a s pills. —_>—~—~e1> --— He saw a box He What about the Michigan peach crop? Isn’t it nearly time to hear that it has failed? HEADACHE PECK’S *fowprrs Pay the best profit. Order from your jobber CL; i La Sul Rotel HRCA peTTeF ethic as a 2 lfomrrt sn ENVELOPES, LOSS h ae Ue RAND RAPIOS. COUNTER BILLS. SAVES TIME SAVES MONEY SAVES LABOR SAVES PAPER Price of File and Statements: No. 1 File and 1,0 Blank Statements. ..#2 75 No. 1 File and 1,000 Printed Statements.. 3 25 Price of Statements Only: 1.0 Blank Stetements................. $1 25 LO Printed Sintements................. 1 7 foiiek Boerds, per eet... LL. 2S In ordering Printed Statements, enclose printed card or till head or note head whenever so that no mistake may be made in names. TRADESMAN COMPANY Grand Rapids, Mich. possible, spelling IT I1S--2-es2-220 Making a Name =====- WHEREVER SOLD. Lee x 5c, CIGAR es THE BEST 7] EVER PUT IN A BOX! ie WELLAUER 5 HMA oi) .| MILWAUKEE, WIS. -3} Wholesale Distributors. J. A. GONZALEZ, ‘Michigan Representative WHEN DEAF MUTES WANT THE 3.6. W. CIGAR "» DO THIS Best 5 cent CIGAR Sold by all Wholesale Druggists, Confection- ers and Grocers travel- ing from Grand Rapids, and the Manufacturer, IN GRAND RAPIDS. ° * Fireworks A Full Line. Send for catalogue of net prices. Fishing Tackle and Sporting Goods. A Full Line of INSECTICIDES, such as Paris Green, London Purple, The A. H. Lyman Co., Blue Vitriol, Ete. Manistee, [lich. aa THE MICHIGA N- TRA DESMA N. De RF ae Relea. .... 63 Ww f l Pri Mor aan S.P.&W. 185@2 10] Sefdlitzs Mixture...... @ 20} Linseed, holes © ce Punts, oe LY. *, —_e ~_. ee . S = — Foot, winter “ me ............. inet = an... ....... @& Mi Mateed........... 65 ials i P siate Potash, B Moschus Canton...... @ 4 = Ta: De SpiritsTurpentine.... 35 40 Advanced—Balsam Tolu, Mercurials. Declined—Prussiate Potash, Borax. Myristica, No1.. ... : oe b De. Voe = = i rasT® = Ib. 7 N ica, (po 20 10 snuff, cotch,De. Voes | Red Venetian.......... 2@3 ACIDUM Cubebae....... -1 60@1 70 TINCTURES. hae bol — 1S 18 | Soda Boras, (po. 7-9).. 7 9 Ochre, yellow Mare. "4% 24 ; 0 | Exechthitos : 20@1 30 nie Pepsin Sac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 24@ 25| OCeT OOw Mars... i Aceticum woo a bo Erigeron ... 1 20@1 30 | Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 Lee 00| Soda Garb ; Thee sete atoags ——— erman.. 15 | Gaulthertia . 1g 60 aia. a Picts Liq, N.wC., % gal 1 — — eee oun : 2 strictly pure... .2 2 2K@3 ace ee Ge y 2; | Geranium, ounce. 7 . we seeeceee a a a oda, ce ermi Carbolicum .......... as = Goss! pil, aaa - eal 60@ 70 Antett myer = Piet Ligq., ee . @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... 2 fans 13@18 arene — aa | Hedeoma ... 1 25@1 40 oa eo a... @ 85| Spts.’Bther Co... 7 Vermilon, ugiish ia Eeparoeeer ........... 3 2 | Juntpert.. 50@2 00 a a ite Pil Hydrarg, th 80) .. @ 50 Myrcia Dom... @2 Ca tak ee Nitrocum __..... oo = Pavendiis | 2 00 Bengal eliadonna... 60 Piper Nigra, (po. 2) @ 1 ‘tie... @2 50 | Green’ oa raei6 Phoephortusa aii... 1° ap] Lamonia,---..00.".1 gop) go | BOREOM Gos ve veces 8) Piper Alba, (P09). @ S| glint Rect. Pel. sae 55 | Meads Ted... ---. 2+. 4@s selleyiicam *..0!. 70 13 | Menthe ‘Verla. 1 seeps oo | Samgutnartas sooo. 50) Plumb Acet 12| _iess Se gal., cash ien days. | whiting wali Span...” “70 Sulphuricum....... 4 iat © Morrhuae, gal. . %5@1 30 a a rr ents = Pulvis Ipecac et opit A jog! 20 Strychnis. Cr stal.....1 a Whiting, Gilder’... @% eee 30@ 33 Myrcia, ounce.. @ 0 oe 50 | Pyrethrum, a eee aa By @ 3 White, Paris American 1 ‘Tertaricum........... Olive Bicuia iis) 90g 00 fae, ee 75| &P.D. Co., doz. @1 25 wir . a 6 Whiting, Paris Eng. oo Cc 2 , : oC Se el el q AMMONIA. i Ricini iquida, (gal. & Bo 96]! Ge Pyrethrum, py........ 20 = Seashentie Venice a MM 20] yetecumni Hrepaed i eal & - @—o 6 wp CeMOr 100 | Quassiae .............. 8@ s 48 Aqua, 16 deg........ Rosmarini........ 190} aan . ae gee . -— so exes ce | Catoene 88 eIor: 50 | Quinia, 8. P. & W..... “aang a he gi ee be : ae ee 12@ 14] CnAes | ee nee 40@ 45 | Cinchona ................... 50 S. German.... 27@ ane bs a. wae pide — oo 90@1 00 Se . 60| Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 4 Extra Turp.... 3 . oo ~un- d t a oF oe o9 | Columba ..................... 50] Saccharum Lactispv. 16@ 18 oie No ores Pc seeeee goat 10 wanes u Saseafras.”.. selena 50D 55 nae a 30 oa Draconis... . O 50 Bbl. Gal Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 2 2 2 ’ , he al a ed lil eh nguis Uraconis..... Di. S IGOR... +. ..-+.++-0++-2 OO@? 35 | Siaite, ene, orice. a, i. 120 14] Whale, winter........ 70 70/ Japan Dryer, No.1 om aa 50 — Beirne sone ne ge = Ergot - _ 10@ 12| Lard, extra........... = : oo 15 a i ae ea Oe r i. : — eT ae a lle UC bog ee — SReeeny........... I 50 a)... 20@ 2% POTASSIUM. ae a 60 a west Juniperte = ao S@ 0 BiCarn.......... +54 | SRD SE amen 50 — Xanthoxylum.. 25@ 30] Bichromate ........... lie i Byosevames................ se. 40@ 43 Iodine lL . 75 eens 5@_ 50 | Chior 17@i' i). 16 -iod cee 35 p peta en bese sees ‘ Chlorate O. 7@15 6 § ri C Lead eae ewes — @, 2 | Chlorate (p a2. CO oa eC a] SO Nn a e. Terabin. Canada .... = . Iodide a “s 3 oe 00 — : 30 'C. ceeeece doueuees otassa, ar pure. 2 A Bes fe pec come ee a —" Potassa, Bitart, com. @ i) Nox Voulcs................ 50 CORTEX. 18 Potass — ont... .. _ = 7 a Sata ross - , Canadian..........-- Potass Nitvag.......... 2 9| ‘ Camphorated........... _. ae a nee ae ae Le %@ 23 Deegan. seg e Cinchona Flava ............ 18) Sulphate po...... .... 15@ 18] aurantiCortex...... ....... 50 x Euonymus atropurp........ 30 RADIX. a 50 Myrica Cerifera, po........- 20 Aconitum . 20@ 2% a 50 SS a. aa. co teeseaseee 50 a al 12q 15) Cassia Acutifol 0.0... 30 Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 | Arum, po..........-++. an ] Seepentarig ee 4 assent 7) i cia 60 is r e e nN EXTRACTUM. Gentiana (po. 12). 8@ 10 aa cs a re hisa Glabra... 2%4@ 25 | Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 ae cc ae | ] ST pow... 3D %|Hydrastis Cansden, | yee verider sc 1 ie 30 | Veratrum Veride...... Tamegien. 5 Ib. box. ig 14 Hellebore, Ala, po.... 15@ 2 MISCELLANEOUS. r le t AB. sees eee 14m i5iiadle, po... 15@ 2 i i O O I ) | | - een 16@ 17} Ipecac, po 30@1 40} Ather, Spts Nit, 3 F.. %@ 38 l } iE Iris plox (po. 3538). 30 40] ¢ 4F.. 38@ 40 FEBRU ox Jalapa, pr. = = Alun a ae 4@ Yarbonate Precip...... . Maranta, Ke... e d Citrate and ee 7 _ Podophyllum, Ho 15@ 18 Soe “ i 1] re ‘) YA7 qd re Citrate Soluble........ hi ce Annatto...... : / Ferrocyanidum Sol. . @ = : i Antimoni, ne “a 2 Salut Chioride........ @ va — ite Hel e O re —" 3 te aa i). @ 20) Antbeorin @ % ‘ Sint Serpentaria. shpat 50@ 55|Argenti Nitras, ounce Ss = ' Seg) +4 Araenicum............ ; i soi 2 14 aon inalis. H " 40 | Balm yg Bud.. 38@ 40 a 12@ = Similax, Officinalis. Z @ &| Bismuth 3 100) 30 B e l r l O oe SED > 109 3 | Calcium Chior, is, Gés a ee a oe ae. 11 re ' "aus, a @ 35|Cantharfdes Russian, Barosma ...........-- 14@ 30 Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) @ 25 eo. @1 00 BE R Cassia "Acutifol, Tin- o German... 16@ 2 Capsici Fructus,af... @ 15 nivelly ....-. --..--. a ot weer... 13@ 2 0. @ 15 i fm ss ite xa 2@ : Piegmor j.....-.-...- 18@ WwW ‘ “ — , = | Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75 10 | Anisum, (po. 20). @ 15) Gora Alba, S&F... 55 re OTT AEH ticebian su 1g] Core Bl, 8 8 F.-" sog op LifY) Sarr or ricco ) | Bird. 1 SS oe. @ 0 Acacia, os picked... : = Carn}, (po. 18). = 2 poe gah aa @ 3 7 ch go | Cardamon. 25 | Centraria.............. 10 c h “os. @ 8) Goriandram.. 12@ 14 paren Su NAN S 0 a r a O 7 iy Mifted worte--- gogo | Cannabis Sativa... 721 00 | Chloroform .... |: CoD 68 ] mY) cy ae sone. --- ------ ; uibbs.. @1 25 Aloe, Bard, (p0. gS {2 | Chenopodinia ...... 100 1? | Chloral 1 ya Gt oo. “1 251 50 Cape, (1 Pies i - oa Dipterix Odorate .....1 £02 00| Grondras. 20 35 . eras oco Woemiculam.......... eawi 20 Catechu, is, (48, 14 8, , Foonugree®, po a2 . 8 Cinchoaldine Pll oon 2 é p p ae moniae ....... Se Wiss ca na -: oe q | Corks, list, dis. per rate, (it HQ 40 Lint. gra. (bbl. 8%). “Be 2 es. 65 Assafctida, isis peers ese Sie os Benszolnum.. -- 3@ 55 PharlarisGaiarian 41@ 5 2 Camphorm...........-- 44@ 50) pape ot im soo 7). =: a r © l cc Cc ] Euphorbium po. seers HD = sinepis se... 8 “ recip a 9@ 11 G — ieee Se - igra.. oak 16 Bi a. @ 3 i ; Gamboge, po.......--- SU RItUS. Guaiacum. (po, 35) .. @ 30 — Co. 2 o0gs 80 | CTOCUE «oe --oos ++ 0D 55 Chloride | ime Kino, - se... .... @3 = Frament han tae —_ ae as Eseh, Ge @)......- od eos Sa 8D a 0g 3s eta . - a 1 Opli " 313 50).. cog 10 Juniperts Co. 0. T....1 65@2 = Ether Sulph.. 15Q , - ee 1 75@3 & Emery, a all nambers.. @ i | on nee nbd. @ 15 | Sancharam N. iB... 1 706 50 54000 Bf] We have a full stock and solicit you Catt ........ 7 aaa, cei >: | Sxsqeenets ee 50@ 80] Spt. Vini +t aes oo fi — i 2 1 led I a manna-—-In euncepactages. Vint UUs @ B orders at Best M: bsluthium ..............--- = 0 7 @8 nen Oo nace eesacs 20 SPONGES. Gelatin, Cooper @ 60 SS 25 Florida sheeps’ wool a a . or 30D F Majorum .....-..----.--+++- 28 carriage. 2 50@2 75 | Glassware flint, by box 80. Mentha Piperita. a “3 Naseau sheeps” ‘wool Less than box 70. = 30 | _ omtriage ? 00 | gine, Brown.......... 9 15 NN ie oe ee ee es a Velvet extra. ‘sheeps” . one | 13 25 ag aaa 25 | Wome Suertons.-.--. * ee... 13 20 We Boren tneer | Extra yellow sheepr’ o5 | Grana Paradiai........ @ 2 a rags sheeps’ wool Car. Humulus......... i) 88 - I N Calcined, Pat.......... 55@ 60 | Gress sheeps’ woo! car 65 | Hydraeg Chior Mite.. @ 77 A F j Scare Ks me, 208 25 Hard’ for ong ener i ” “ Ox Rubcum @ 87 - ae eT ; or slate a Carbonate, JenningS.. 35@ 36 —— _— eee 140 . — ‘ 2 % OLEUM. UPS. Hi, drargyrum......... @ 6 DR UG Absinthium. ......... 2 50@3 06 nai i chihy alan. Am. 111 25@1 50 Amygdalae, Dulc...... 30@ 50| Accacia ..................-+- = 7) eal 00 Amydalae. Amarae.. - ae _ — eee eee es = saan ~ aS Ee Sse ee = Auranti Cortex....... 1 80@2 00 Ce = == Dees ........-.4.- 3 00@3 20 _—st Coe... .. = Be CO ee eae la 60@ 65 ef Arom........... :.-.-- & 7 earyophyi ae ciara = = Similax Officinalis. . conus . 70@ %5 a eicieeieteere: WOME et ad i Chenopodil See eee ee @i 60/ Senegsa ...............-..... = Eeconenanmniiaiatiie 1 03 13 Coumeent ........... 1 35@1 2 Seillse Bote woes eee tk css fe Sulph ool . " Citromellg esc... See ee a4, Grand Rapids, Mich. Copaiba........ ...... 80@090! Pronus ¢irg..........-.-. i) ae i } : saaee Sec tate aR ee Rl EE et - Hi MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN. GROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. below are greatest possible use to dealers. AXLE GREASE, doz oe 5! 6 00 Aurora... - " 5 U ter OF1.....----- 60 Diamond.........--- 3 Pio e......------ 75 a 65 Paragon ..- - . = sakine POWDER. — ig 1D. calls. 3 dos. % ib. ceases . 1 lb. 1 ern oo... es . cans 6'doz case. : a 4 doz “ 1 ? > ag jefe ee 2 5 } 1 doz = d Star, t¢ tb cans ” . [> ” -- oe 1 b sc ui oe 1 Sun Light. %@ Ib. cans, 6 doz. case ch = & doz 1 Ib 2doz. Van Anrooy’s 7 ure. 1, lb. cans, 6 doz case is ib “ 46 Geox. - ib “ 2een. i Teifer’s, cans, dos “es 1 . “ ‘Lb. — i. der, 4% -D cans...-- oa ge Ye “ib cune....-- sal 1 lb cans BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in Case. Eoglish CL Grictel......------- -- eeeetic.....----------- --" BLUING. Arctic, 4 - ovals eee eee a - ints, omeil + 2 _ No.2 2, sifting bex... 2 “ Nog .. +2 * Fo. 5, ' Lae 8 00 s = yosball .... pose Mexican Liquid, - oz os 3 eee As. 2 Hurl eee ee one i oe eee eee nes 2 No.2 carpet. : ff - ; 2 Parlor Gem....------+-+++*° Common Whisk - eres Warehouse LL 2 BRUSHES. 1 Stove, No. i... « —..........--.. 1 ‘ a 1 Rise Root Scrub, 2 row..--- Rice Rest Scrub, 3 row.... : 2 io, poese......------ aimett ‘EN ae Hotel, - Ib. poxes ee eeeen . ee ee ee 2 ae me commie toi Se Wicking .--------- 2 CGARKNED GOODS. Fish. Clams / Little Neck, ; = Lies eetee ees 120 Clam \ cnauaiine. Standard, 3 lb Cove Oysters. Standard, : - hoe ee . eee 1 45 eae. Star, : ib........... CO Macterel. Standard, He . aoe 1 10 Mustard, 2lb... a Tomato Sauce, ne Soused, 2 ib.......... _ os Salmon. Columbia River, _ oo oes : Abee Boe. .............. 1 30 ee 1 20 Kinnoys, Geis... -.....-.- 1 Sa rdines. American —. w4 ae imported ee @ ¢ — ee Mustard %{s...........-... @ Seem ...-..--.. .-..- Troat. Brook 8, ib — 2 Fruits. Apples. 3lb. standard . ! ( York State, gallons ... 3 Hamburgh, — — iiveonk....... .. — 1 Sante Crms........ ... 1 OS 1 a 1 Blackberries. AIO nawrn g yrS Gross 60 RSRSSRSE SRRASR It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the Cherries. R bee pecs eee cone @i 15 lp eae 1 40 Erie . i6 Damsons, Erg Plume and Green ages ——...... oo 1 00 aeons |... 1 05 Gooseberries. Common .. oe 1 10 Peaches. oe 109 Maxwell ee 1 40 Peer... 24... 1 40 Caltfornia....... : @1 55 Monitor uae Oxford.... | i. Pears. ee 10 ee ee. se ne. 12 Pineapples. een 00@1 30 Johnson’s sliced...... 2 50 C ereted...... 2% Booth’s sliced......... @2 5) ' e........ @2 7 Quinces. (een ........ 116 Raspberries. oe 95 Black Hamburg....... 14 Erie, black .. ‘ 1% Strawberries. Lawrence . a 13 Hamburgh . ie ‘= =. . 85 Terrapin ... : ge Whortleberr fers. Blueberries ........ ‘ 85 Meats. mes beer CC 215 ee 22 Potted ham, + jp eee ee ee 13 oe 70 c tongue, 7 7" oe — F-olUule.. > ° chicken, < ib oe 95 Vegetables. Beans. Hamburgh etring!ess.......1 15 French style..... 2 00 a Limas a ron, orccn...._... ....... 1. . ae. 7 Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 2 Bay Siete Baked............1 World’s Fair Baked........ 13 Poe reaee................ 95 Corn Pees .............. 115 Livingston Eden . oe 2 9D co pew ........ .--..-... i 25 — ee Peas. Hamburgh marrofat........1 30 ' early Jnre 150 ' Champion Eng..1 40 ' peilt pois... 2 . fancy sifted ....1 65 aC gd perremeeearn............. 75 VanCamp’s marrofat ..... 110 early June.....1 30 Archer’s Early Blossom ...1 2 French .- ‘ Mushrooxs. French...... ecvcccoscces col MDZ Pumpkin. oe... oe —- & Squasn —_—_———— is Succotash. ae... —e | | Soaked ..... ee 89 — ae... 1 30 ee 1s Tomatoes. es... £0 Excelsior. ... ae Hamburg...... oo Gallon . CHOCOLATE, Baker's. Gorman Bwect.. .......... 23 ee... #7 Breakfast Cocoa.... ..... “b CHEESE. ee is 9 .... ...... | 9 ocrmey..... ae 9 Lonawee....... 9 ceo... 9% Geng Medel ....... 9 BR oo... use cso eaeae ei ee 11 _ 1 00 Le 20 Laer 8. @15 Pineapple @24 a ‘ort @35 Sago.. 218 Sel weltxer, imported. 2 domestic gil4 CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. — pint, 25 bottles ee 2 % ieee 4 50 ome 1 doz ee a on Triumph Brand. Heit pint, per dox........_. f 35 Pant, = belies... ..... 4 50 Quart per Gee .......... 3% Peerless evaporated cream 5 75 COUPON BOOKS. ‘Tradesman.’ books, per hundred ... “ a ia oe oe “ee oy oe se ia] a “ i ue “ “a orm ce 602040 esses CREAM TA ae “Superior.” Strictly pure.. 8 1 books, per hundred 2 50 Telfer's Absolute.......... 30} 82 - - = --- «oo aoa 15@25| 8 3 i : i . 350 CLOTHES PINS. © 6 - 3a Vaisy Brand. 0 -— «= “ 600 5 gross boxes .-.. 95 i COCOA SHELLS. 25> Deee.......... c= Less —- - G3% Poun packages .. _.. ‘6K@7 Saas corre. : ; books, per hundred . &3 00 e 9 ae “ Rio, ss “ 4 Fair.. Dees 85 “ “ 5 00 ae... 810 “ “ lee Pane es . “ “ of. aaa et eteeeten an one Above prices on coupon books vim are subject to the following ies Santos, quantity discounts: Good 22000000 | 0 books of over... 5 per cent —... . so . “cc -10 ‘“ Peaberry .... 1000 - 20 Mexican and Guniainaia, COUPON PASS BOOKS. SLL iCan be made to represent any aoe. --. denomination from 810 down. | ae... Maracaibo, ae 23 ee 25 Java, 00 ogsmigionaet tee en 50 crveee Growin.........._.- CREDIT CHEOKS. Mandehiing .._.._. ’ ocha. 500, any one denom’n..... 83 00 — " = ae 5 00 a... 2000, 6s ehh Sst... .hLlLUmLLhmUmUmULU 8 00 Roasted. Steel punch.. : % To ascertain cost of roasted CRACKERS. coffee, add ce. per lb. for roast- Butter. ing and 15 per cent. forshrink-j SeymourXXx............... age. toa —?—" cartoon..... Package. eaiy AAR... bees McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 21 80 ee XXX, cartoon...... Bunoia.._.__ .. 21 36] Salted XxXx.. oe Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. Case.... 21 80 ~ sae cartoon ...... Extract. ee = City & STOBB........ eee . Bier biecah... .......... Hammel’s, foil, gross. . Soda ‘tin _.. 2 — a eee .. : oda ee Ray sulk CHICORY. 5 Soa, Deche.. 8% oo - Crystal ——........ 10% CLOTE ES LINES Long Island Wafers ....... 11 : : r. Cotton, —— dos. i = 8. Oyster xxe OE 5% = on City Oyster. XXX............ 5% . . eee. : . Parina Ovsier.............. § “ §0ft...... 190] DRIED FRUITS, — Se... * 85 haa” > * “ i. we. .--. a 6K CONDENSED. MILE. ——— 7% 4 dos. in caxe, pricote. California in bags.. ... 7K@8 ———— boxes. .. 8 mare Blackberries, n boxes ‘Nectarines. —o hoe 25 Ib. an Se 9 Peaches. Peeled, in boxes........ 14 Cal. —- * =« .. 9 e =e ewe 8 ‘ears. California in bage.. 6 sous boxes : a 7% tted Che cL N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s ~~ Berroa... .... % ce i Gail Borden Eagle..... ... 40 Oth bese ............,. Sees CGE 25 - ae... Prunelles. Champion.. soc beeee...... . ..... 94 — : Raspberries, MC...... --.-2.--. im Werre............ cae 22 So mp. Oocees.............. 22% —— .. 22% Raisins. Loose Muscatels in Boxes. 2 crown ee 3% OoKOO== : 4 “ Loose Muscatels t in 1 Bags. 2 crown... _... _ aoe. Oe ees nC RE 334 Foreign. Currants. rates bbe... |. @4 Vostizzas, 50 lb. cases...... 435 Schuit’s Cleaned a 5 Lie pices |. OSG Peel. Citron, Leghorn, 25 1b, boxes 12 Lemon = *° 8 Orange _ a ” 10 Raisins. Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes.. @5 Sultana, 20 - 64S 8 Valencia, = * : Prunes, California, Se ......... 4 90x1 00 25 Ib, bxs. 5% sag 80x90 . a _ 70x80 . " 6% ao _ ' 7 Turkey .. i. arr .......... | Te FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina, oe 2% Grits. Walsh DeRoo & Co.’s..... 1 §5 Hominy. os .. .... ee 3% Lima Beans. ae... 5% Maccaron! and [See Domestic, 12 Ib. b eres... 10%@1 1 Ponsl Barley. Meaoere....... 3 oe... a Peas. ae ee 8. 110 meee peri ..........- 2% Rolled Oats. Schumacher, bbl....... . 84 65 ° ——.. .. 2 monereh, bet 4 00 os ec ee.lCi«;#ti«jCj§#NSCCW osmer, Clnes........,.... 3 20 Oven Baked.......... ae. Sago. coe esas 3 Meet teeia............-..... 3% Wheat. Caen. _ = FISH --Salt. Bloaterr. as... a te Cod. eerees Cared............ 4 Georges genuine.........5 Georges selected......... 6 Boneless, bricks.. ...... 6% Boneless, strips.. ....... 64%@8 Halibut. Smoked . ae 11@12 Holland, white h aoe ke 80 = te we Rorworen................ 11 00 Round, % bbl » Ibs Coes ee 255 1 30 D TBE cece oc. cccee Sardines, Ruasian, bees... 55 Trout. 1, % bbis., 100lbs........4 25 1% oe ee Wo. 1, Rita, 10 the.......... 56 Ro t, lp kits............ 48 Whitefish. No.1 family % bbls, i” _- beans 86 25 3 15 ...2e in 10 Ib. kits os ie i. “* 5 Regular Size. Per box....38¢. Per case..$3 40 In 5 case lots, per case.... 3 30 In 10 case lo 8, percase.... 3 20 “Little Tanglefoot.” Hetails, perbox ........... 25 COs, Sercee. ............ i i LARGE SIZE, 25 dbl. shts. in box, -~ bx. ec 38 Per case of 10 boxes... . 3 40 DWARF BIZE. 25 double sheets in box, (Case of 10 bowes........... 13 Case of 20 boxes.. rot So MATCHES, * Globe Match Co.’s Brands. Columbia Parior........... . = ZUs Sulpeue.............. Diamond Match Co.’s inane ey eeee............ -1 65 Anchor parlor...... : --1 70 we. 2hewe........ .. 17 Export parlor...... acseed OD FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Souders’. Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the money. 40z..... 150 Regular Vanilla. Vanilla. Jennings. Lemon. Vanilla 2oz regularpanel. 75 120 40% . -ook OO 2 00 6 os ' ---2 3 00 No.3 taper........ 1 35 2 00 eo. £ te... 150 2 50 Northrop’s Lemon.’ vor. 20z oval taper 75 3 0z 1 20 i e 2 oz regular ‘‘ 85 1 20 ‘oc °° " 22 2 25 GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s. —_— ee 25 ae. 1 90 oe Zeoue............... 1 10 a... 30 i) Come................... 18 ea meee SNES bee ces --423 Half kegs.. -.2 40 Quarter kegs. ol i= iibeans...... 34 __ eke. ee sy Half ee 5 % Vereen ROGS....... ......- 3 00 Oe 60 _—_ Sage.. : avon ccc ae Hops... eet cee Ce “INDIGO. Madras, 5 1b. boxes....... 55 S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 50 JELLY. 2 Ib. pails Deets ee @ 3 co a e = LICORICE, WA. 30 ae 25 oe. ee. 12 a... hl -_ = Condensed, — ee 1 20 < Goe...... scicu ao MINCE MEAT, Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 75 Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case....2 <5 MEASURES, Tin, = oe on. eos . z Hair ee. eo dea ck cates: 1 40 — eo ae 70 ee a eos ce . 45 cer peat ...........-.... 40 oe en, for vinegar, per dor. Seeiem ...... o.oo. 7 00 Hat walion ........... ... 475 eee 3 75 me. ee na gg a a NOL oo. see ee eceeee eee eee Lae Domestic. 2 N.S 200 " g160°" | Choice. — Skunk 220207 60 @ 115 dh Carolina bh head. aM 5 oon Med ena 0 Chotcest. . @35 one ogo: a 1b @ 18 : First quality. CC LS ond Grade. Extrachoice, wireleat @40 tat, winter..... 08 @ 11 No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled...2 10 “ a : a a 4% eS Lemon. GUNPOWDER. Rat, fall......... 03 @. 68 nal ‘6 “ “ ‘ “ a on i akan, 3% Soe... — fe goo * Common is Ge. 25 @35 a —— .. 160 @1 6) No.2 * “ ‘“ ‘ ca ce 4 waned anilla, Extra fine to finest. ...50 @65 sine lleaaRD 40 @ ae XXX Flint. ee eines 5% 2 doz...... 1 00 doz..... 1050 * Choicest fancy........ 7% @S85 oun OX....-.- 300 @5 0 No. ¢ Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. 2 60 eT 5 SOAP. OOLoNe. @26 gs a a 50 @ 100 eet “ “ ‘“ “290 ve os Laundry. Common to fair... ...23 @30 car (ono aos = e vo No.2 * ‘ “ “ ul L =e = 4% G. R. Soap Works Brands. IMPERIAL, re er a oa Pearl to a SPICES, Concordia, 100 % Ib, bars.. “3 50 “ommon to fore. ...... 23 @26 Fisher. ....-...-- 500 @ 6 pee No. 1 Sun, wrapped and | el d 7 § { ye 108 @2 50 I abeled.............. 3 70 Whole Sifted. 5 box lota.......3 35 uperior tofine........ 50 Martin, derk....£2 00 @ 3 00 No.2 ‘ te 47 ee nes es 9% “ 10 box lots.......3 30 i YOUNG HY8ON. Martin, pale, eli 00 @ 150 No. 2 Hinge, “ Te ee Pr Guana, China in mats...... 9% “ 20 box lots.......3 20 Commor. to fair.......18 @26 Otter, y' ca ae . i as a ‘“ Batavia in bund....15 Best German n Family. Superior to fine....... 30 @40 Walt. — a i @ 3 90 io 4 Tal ; ib —Plain Top. . Saigon in rolls...... 32 OOEie bare. .......... 22 ShGLisH passe? Beaver... 3 o0 Birt No.2, ‘ Vere cr rts pe Cloves, Amboyna........--- 22 5 box lote........ Le Fai siugeereeeeee 1S Gee Boge as 00 oe i pares ene Zansibar............ 11% MIN oe ce be oc ss 2 00 Chote. Meee 24 QR aon. - . = ae La Bastie. Mace Batawia....-.. ..- 1... zo ‘Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Bent . aaa 0 @50 aids. ee S Noa See er ae centre waite 5 22 85 Old Country, 80 1-lb........ 3 20 “ TORACCOS. Deer skin”green 05 @ 123 No i { A el omen yp saree a Good Cheer, 6011b.......... 3 90 Cigars. i ee ee ee ae . eee White Borax, 100 ¥-lb...... 3 65 Congress Brand. Gicns simaesuamsh a a tevtertereeeses eed BO Pepper, singapore, —_-- Proctor & Tnvincibies ... ..-. B80 00 abel gh ak 5¥G6%4 tochester. octor & Gamble. eneriai......... -« 777 T"90 00 Part Cured...... oo Gb No. 1, lime (Ge dos) .......-. 3 50 ee a a Concord EE 3 45 Pactoie - 6) 00 — ee eee oe 7 @8 ae ae eee Pure anil in Bulk. vory, 10 02... .... 67 Bonnets ... BD OO . werecessoe. Oveds O72 No. 2, flint (€0¢ doz)............. eT Allspi a bie geese - cae thy Bewcececvcccsccece : = Fine Cut. Kips, green oe mi $ 8 - Electric Cass! 2, ee ado se _P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands. Caifskins, green... b%@ 8 No.2, lime (70€ €02) «0.0... 000eeeeeceeeeee cers 4 10 li a ain 35 Town rare Te 325 i Russet......-.-. = ured...... 9 G10% en oe Oe as th nes 1 40 a - eee ele Deacon ski: —. « 25 iscellaneous, Cloves, ——_ ee eae 22 Dingman Brands. D. Scotten & Co’s Brands. No.2 aaaen 1K off @ Doz Zangibar......-.--- 18 Singie Dow.) 10.40. 3 9% Hiawatha 60 le : i Junior, Rochester ...... 50 Ginger, African Bea ees tee a= = 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 Con 32 ' PELTS. i Nutmeg .... ee a “ sca EN 22 10 box lots, delivered...... 3 75 Rocket 30 —— nn 2. Mluminator Bases..............- ena a, ge = = Jen. S. Mist & Cas Beane Spaulding & Merrick’s Brauds, ee ea ene dea clng van lots, 5 po es i i sh a } ‘ ’ore ns S., r Mustard, A and Trieste. . = American Family, =—" 88 33 eames ‘te Brands. ™ Washed .. pine .8 @: Case lots aa ' a a eee s plain... 2 2 Rass ...... @30 Unwashed 5 ait M: iW mn 2 oy Nutmegs, oy ee ee 5 N. K. Fairbank & Co.’s Brands, Gaui Gan rtd heen ammoth Chimney for Store ‘Lamp oe Pepper, "Singapore, bis nooo = Sante Clima e, 3 90 Nellie Bly............. _ @25 al 3%4@ 4% No. 3 Rochester, lime ...... 150 4 20 r eas ‘ Brown, 60 bars...........-. 2 10 Unele Ben.......-. @25 Grease butter 1 ae No. 3 Rochester, flint Le 5 cnn. Lee a 20 80 bars is 10 McGint oe cutie 7. No. 3 Pearl “ veal alta - 4 80 Sage. 2s the oeeeee «Se eicisek ee 20 7. oe ia ‘c y i bbis a 35 witches . --- 14@ 2 ie 3 cone ee Jew be gl’s.1 85 > 25 “Absolute” in Packages. autz Bros, &,Co.’s Brands, oo " Ginseng... --- 2 OO@2 2 No.2 ee soot en 1 7% 5 10 4s 4a Oe ws... 8... $65 | oanibia drums |... 2: 3 [EK } Gees — a 7 3 oe —“. a 155 Cotton Oil... ee drums ...... a GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS No. 2 Peurl glass... .........-.2 10 6 00 Chinamon............- 84 155 Mareeilles.. Bang up, drums ...... 19 plrmgrgi imine (liawes 84 155 ee 4 no gig | No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 63 1 gal tin cans with spout _ SS Loeeas 2 ; = Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands Sorg’s Brauds, No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 3 1 gal galy iron, with spout. Es 00 oe Spearhead .........--- 39 FLOUR IN SACKS. ~ gal galvy iron with spout ee Mustard........------- 84 1 55 Rae us 37 wa Soak cake en oe SPOUL .-.. 0s. eevee eeeee BMS — deee erie oo a 2 { Nobby Twist..........- 40 = ee cn z ~ 5 gal MeNutt, with co STA AN é 00 Age.--- aL SODA. SILVER Kyl Scotten’s Brands. eT 3 30 a a: Hi osceind ea a Granulated, ols rs is | (S \ Kyle... --- = Clear. a 3 10 : = — . “ae a a a... “ . Co : “ Le ag Pear g- ; A Se eee aes a a 7 30 Lump, DbIs ...-.-..+- 2-2-5 14 | ! — ae 8 Brands. 7 — i 2 5 = pe ee — agenesis 1451b a oe - 1% oat or oo . eee ae 4 *Subject to usual cash a Pump Cans, my eed Ante ..........------ @13 SOAP Hainan? aie. a count. i 3 gal Home Rule.... .......... ee oe Canary, Smyrna....... 4 (hia oe an, dlc) TT oo bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- : gal oem oe ee, 12 00 Caraway .......-.---+: $ Gieen Turtie.......... 30 oe a a sap Nough.....+++...... veseeeess 12 00 Cardamon, —-- 80 Silver 65 Three Black Crows... 27 ee See ere ren eateries rine asin Hemp, Russian.. 4 - ors A ‘ 3 30 J. G. Butler’s Brands. BO 2 46 5 gal Pirate King .......-.... ee eres eee 10 50 Mixed Bird.. _. 6 tf eae. 6. lll : Something Good... 38 Granulated,.......... 2 6 LANTERN GLOBES Mustard, white. 9 Savon Improved........... 2 50 22 emi mo No. 0,. Tut oh white .....- Seer 2 30 Out of Sight... ..°... 24 FEED AND 4ILLSTUFFS. No. 0,. Tubular, cases 1 doz. each.....-.....- 45 ape - Golde 3 25 a. & McCaulay’s Brands. St. Car Feed, screened. ..#22 00 — : “ bbls ‘ eadiesreseet ae Economical . 1S oe Gold Hope. 1... . 7... 43 St. ¢ sd. weaned. 21 5 wey a ee i _ = aa | Scouring. Metso ees 37 No. 1 Corn and Oats a a: bull's eye, eases 1 doz each 1 2 i . : Mes a uae s 32 N 20 5 LAMP WICKS, Kingsford’s Corn. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40 NoTax. a 31 U steals 2enealee Meal. s : : Ha. @, per grossa... 6.1... [ : ss 20 =; e = ee 6% hand, 3 doz....... 2 40 Let Go.. 2 Winter Wheat Bran 15 0 Not | CT 28 et 4 Roki i Fl wo a ee Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. SUGAR. Catlin’s ing. oe Mid _— 16 00 No.3. z poeta | nee 38 40 1-lb. packages........-..- 634 Below are given New York Hila Grid 1... 17@18 aac aT eR uti ee 7A Gib, towes........ --....-. 74 prices on sugars, to which the Golden Shower.............19 CORN iy ea ARH Common Corn wholesale dealer adds the lo Huntress .... oe Car lots.. BQ ue Pj euiy ToMmLERs—Tin Top. 20-lb boxes...........-.---- 5% cal freight from New York to Moarschanm .. ... "1 29@30 Y das dian one lok. a 1; Pints, 6 doz in box, per box (box 00),... 1 60 : a : our shipp’n int, ee oe oe ° . ” ‘ a “bo. ~~ Gon (hi w).. 2 eee --- By y pp:ng po giving American Eagle Co.’s Brands Pe dee a ).--.-. 20 Common Glows you credit on the invoice for Myrtle Navy. o Oats. * i ey box, bex (box 0)).... 1 80 1-Ib packages... oo. the amount of freight buyer Se a Ww Car lots .. oe 34 ol 18 bbl, “* doz (bbl 35)..... 23 Ee LN 5 pays from the market in which a, Less than car lots ......... 36 age sn ar ya RR : ib ce 5% e purchases to his shipping a 2 ie Butter Cc roe ka, 1 tog gal...... oo 40 and 50 Ib. boxes...-...-- 3% point, including 20 pounds for oo ee 32 ei 4 haan ee ann ae Oe ae prea *) 8% the weight of the barrel. aoe cee ia a ee a. 1 mot ry, car lots....11 00 Jugs, 4 gal., per dee ee 70 “SNUFF. Banner 6. No. 1 ' ton lots......12 00 oT Pana Sy deter dot. oe | oo Scotch, in bladders......-.-. 37 Banner 6 vavendish.... ae “— oe aoe, Ge Ly “ Maccaboy. in jars........--- 35 : FISH AND OYSTERS. ’ ‘ ' 2 Gold C oe french mane. 5 -~ _ +48 ered ‘sonuann 8 Brands, FRESH FISH. STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED. XXKX Powdered.......... 5 (6 Ree 14 Whitefish @7% Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 gal.....- -- - 6% Re ade Sha Ce 4 44 Hanes Dew 26 eae oT ak Fane, 4 aol. poy Ces---- --- re Kegs, =, Bugis ee eee eae 4% Fine Granulated........... 44 Gold Bioek........-......_- 30 Black Bass... Co 1246@i5 ' sci ' 73 “ nap wid —— Granulated... 4 6 5 F. F, Adams Tobacco Co.’s or a nile 4 OILS amond Crystal. Mogia Ao... i... 4 81 Brands, * a i 6 The S Rds aes Cases, 243 Ib. — oe $1 60 Diamond Confec, A......- 4 44 Peerless........---+--++--+++- 26 Clacoes o He rring.. e° een . po Seen erent: Barrels, 320 lbs........... 2 50 Confec. Standard A....... 4 37 Old Tomi... 18 Fresh ‘ol ster, per ib. oie Eocene. NRG wl z4ib bags.... 4 00 MO. Boo... .... coesee esse 4: Standard.. . 22 oe ay UU vo XXX W.W. Mich. ' He eadlight...... Agu " “ tak me ; ho : | —— Tobace co Co.’s Brands. Haddock......... ee Naptha. oe ite LS Bes Aner a eee | - stove Gasoline.. ee Butter, 56 : a bape ........ 65 No. ao Leidersdorf’s Brands, ond Pickerel.. g ” ae — 3 Gis “201 biage......... 3 0 ma Se. nop Hey ........_.-.-_..___ 26 Smoked wie a @ 7 Rapine Hee tee @ a 230 Ib bbis 2 50 Me 6........-.--.--.,-.... Uncle Sam..........--- + 28Q32 Red Snap pease 14 Biack, Le nN 7 mu 224 lb 22% mo. 7.. OO ——————aaaaee eae Columbia River Sal- Black summer........... a : Q iy Worcester. Ne. §.. Spaulding & Merrick. mon 12% a 115 3% 24-1 BACKS......---. -. “ 40 No TE "Vom and Jerry. ......--..-.. 25 aco 13@25 iio a S waae oe baee es = No. ..........2...... Traveler Gavendiah ee 38 er ct pete aa ong 82 90 10.1 Ca eeni at a) oe. ume MMNe coc esa 30 a et Headlight. 6% z = ~ eae 4 = 2 Plow Boy LL. S032 Pie [ Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle quote as ‘follows: ieee } Lk ee ae eee ae eee Jorn Me BARRELS. oe se Ne. iM... NEGAR SHELL GOODS. Peiseige. 000 i Common Gyades. ee acdeeetetacscencen as @s > socom per 100....... 1 5@1 50 =, roe W i igh ay 11 100 3-Ib. sacks ee 8 10 Baeeela BT... eee wee eee ee . . T5@Q1 00 . eudliowi ..... 1s... 9% penser RE oot a nt 1 90 Half bbis.. on oe segs teaneap OYSTERS—IN CANS. s ee ns ae 114 28 10-1b. sacks... i. os re al : ee WET MUSTARD, ee ee tove Gasoline... rape rg han 11% Warsaw. Pure Cane. Bulk peegel 30 Watrnay reagents er’s Brands. Palne FLOM TANK WAGON, cathe... © | Be—.--...........-... 15 | Beertmug,2doz incase. 175 | jy". Selecta... Fs a oe 16 Good . LE 2 WOODEN WARE. MMR cscs cscs 3) —— _—__ . Te ee ee 572 , Standard: a oF 7 - 56 Ib. dairy in linensacks.. 75 i eo 4 2 Tne i AT Ge ao -| Higgins. TABLE SAUCES. ee 4 U0 OYSTERS—IN BULK. Frees Oo aye : 56 Ih, dairy in linen sacks 7 Lea & Perrin’s, large ...... 47 Pails, No. _ two-hoop.. 1s Osear Allyn’s Brands. : ee Soiar Rock : mall..... 275 «© "No. 1, three-hoop ... 1 35 New York Counts.. 40 — b. SACKB...... a Halford, large ............- 3 %5 Bowls, 11 aa Extra Selects. . ia ENG DUPLICATES OF Common Fine. eee. 2 2 oc ow ee Selects a. — GRAVIN 4 FOR RMS gegins ce 90 Salad Dressing, large cc 4 5B —-.* XL a Le 30 SINGLY OR jy GS: ‘oT YPE QuaANTITY a : Moereeereeeees 12560 | IX L Standards. ............. 3 anis 6 | Mw Standards......... ..... iain TRADESMAN CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Bi eA DOES SLT ES DEPARTMENT STORES. Why They Are Driving Smaller Trad- ers Out of Business. A committee of the Illinois Legislature is investigating the department stores of that State on the following points: 1. That, by reason of the operation of large stores under one management and offering for sale and selling all kinds of merchandise under one roof, other prop- erty-owners and tradesmen are greatly injured and the value of property de- preciated. 2. That in such stores many minors are employed, thereby preventing adult persons from being employed in the usual and proper occupation for which adults should be employed. 3. That the managing and conducting of large stores is injurious to public mo- rality and causes general and widespread injury in various ways. Frank H. Cooper, of Siegel, Cooper & Co., of Chicago, was recently summoned before the committee to answer such questions as might be put tohim. He refused tO answer any questions, but produced a written statement, setting forth the department store side of the question, which he was permitted to read. The paper was as follows: If | may be permitted to express my views on the resolution known as Senate resolution No. 43, under which this in- vestigation is now being held, 1 would say that it is well known to all the mem- bers of the Senate that all stores con- ducted in towns and villages and small cities carry a miscellaneous stock of merchandise suited to the wants of their community and have stocks of merchan- dise on hand comprising groceries, dry goods, clothing, hardware, boots and shoes, hats and caps, fancy goods and all such other articles as the proprietor of such a store may desire to deal in. The department stores in large cities are eonducted on the same principle of keeping a miscellaneous stock of mer- chandise on hand suitable to the wants of that community in which they conduct their business and endeavor to acquire trade by offering the greatest induce- ments to the public in selling goods at the lowest possible prices. It is almost axiomatic that every man’s success is made by overcoming others in the same business. Success is simply a process of eliminating others from the contest. Whether it be a merchant, a lawyer, a physician or artist, success fol- lows those who have the ability, the knowledge and judgment and give close attention to their work and follow it out to its logical end. Every business man strives to succeed, and the world is full of failures simply because the many in their endeavors fail to exercise that as- siduity of purpose, closeness of attention or ability to conduct a business which their more successful competitors have brought to bear. Siegel, Cooper & Co., froma humble beginning, have worked their way up to the standard of success, and the field is free to every merchant to reach that standard by close attention to business, fair dealing and giving the best goods for the least money. When I came to America, at the age of 22, I started to work at $5 a week. With- out friend or favor I have fought my way to the top, and so have Messrs. Siegel, Keim and Brennan, who all started as cash-boys. The same way is open to all, and will remain open unless our lawmakers should see fit to crush en- terprise, perseverance and all that which commends success. Siegel, Cooper & Co., who conduct a large business under one roof and occupy the largest floor space of any one retail house in the world, are enabled to un- dersell the smaller dealers, for the fol- lowing reasons: 1. Having large available resources, they can and do buy their merchandise for cash in large lots. 2. Buying for cash enables them to take advantage of all the discounts, also of the forced sales which occur from time to time. 3. The entire business being con- ducted under one management eliminates humerous expenses in various ways which fall upon the smaller retailer. 4. By selling goods for cash only no bad debts are made, and the money, be- ing taken in daily, is being turned over again and again. 5. In this way the stuck of Siegel, Cooper & Co. is turned over from ten to twelve times a year, thus preventing the accumulation of bad stock, shopworn or out-of-style goods, while the smaller merchant often turns his stock but once a year and thus accumulates lots of bad stock. 6. By turning over stocks often a small profit on each transaction is sufficient to show profitable results at the end of the year, and by so doing both the consum- ers and the community at large, as well as the house conducting the business, are benefited. It is well known to all of you that the smaller the business the larger must be the percentage of profit necessary to de- fray the expenses. We claim that the so-called department store in a city as large as Chicago is an absolute necessity, for without it the customer living in the suburbs, wishing to buy, say, a dozen different articles, would be obliged to chase all over tewn to twelve different stores, perhaps located on twelve differ- ent streets, the one several blocks away from the other, so that such a customer, who can now secure these twelve various items in an hour or two, would require maybe two days todo the same thing. This would entail loss of time, a great deal of worry and a waste of shoe leather, We admit readily that on account of having to compete with large department stores the smaller specialty houses can- not secure as large a percentage of profits as they formerly did, and in so far these stores suffer by said competi- tion. Butis not the public at large the gainer? To illustrate: The committee read to me the complaint of thirty-nine photog- raphers, who state that they cannot turn out the same class of work at the same price as Siegel, Cooper & Co. These thirty-nine photographers are therefore sufferers to the extent of having to compete with superior work at a reduced price, but is not the community at large the great gainer? In one word, we in- crease the buying capacity of a dollar, and hence lay claim to being public bene- factors. It cannot be successfully maintained that Siegel, Cooper & Co. have in any manner in the management of their busi- ness injured Owners or tradesmen or in- jured or depreciated the value of prop- erty. On the contrary, the establish- ment of the store of Siegel, Cooper & Co. has greatly enhanced the value of the property in its immediate neighborhood and enabled the city, county and state to derive a larger amount of taxes than heretofore. Norcan it be successfully contended that the establishment of such a store prevents adults from being em- ployed, for it is a fact that with the ex- ception of cash-girls and wrappers, who constitute but a minor portion of the help of the store, nearly all the rest of the employes are of age. l regard the institution of large stores supplying a good article at a low price as a more genuine philanthropy than en- dewments inspired through fear of death to secure a select corner in Heaven. - > > ____— Women Have Rights in Chicago. Miss Lotto Ott, a Chicago young woman, was called into Judge Hanecy’s court, the other morning, as a juror, her name having been drawn from the poll lists. Miss Ott said she knew she would not be accepted as a juror, as she had read about other women being called in, as she was, and discharged; but when the court excused her, she demanded the fee which is paid to men who are called as jurors and for any reason are excused from service. This was $2, representing one day’s pay and mileage from her home to the court and back again. Judge Hanecy said she was entitled to pay the same as men, and she received the money and went away prepared to do a little shopping before she returned home. She was just as happy as a man who es- eapes from jury duty and gets pay for it. ' OMITH-HILL ELEVATORS Electric, Steam and Hand Power. PRICES LOW. MECHANISM SIMPLE. NOT LIABLE TO GET OUT OF REPAIR. Calland see me or telephone 1120 and I will accompany enquirer to dozens of local users of our elevators. J. C. MULBERRY, Agent. Kortlander Building, Grand Rapids, Mieh. §. P. Bennett Fuel lee Co Mine Agents and Jobbers for ALL KINDS OF FUEL. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MICHIGAN MINING SCHUUL, 35:4, atewort. A high-grade technical school. * Practical work. Elective system. Summer courses. Gives degrees o 5. Be, E. M.. and Ph. D. Laboratories, shops. mil! etc., well equipped. Catalogues free. Addres- Secretary Michigan Mining School. Honghton. Mi : ; Ts LURNITUPE acne” eae PATENTEO lke vEF Pn ee Rita MeL EDA GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. & VON POSSO SOOO FMFOOOS4L HOSES SOOOOE A Pillow eve OV~ry wee “#9? Owes usual t ine with children, tw 'bovs vali Le ft al but the durability of the cloth, of which the pillows and sheets are made, is an important item to all housekeepers. Dwight Anchor Sheetings Are of extraordinary durability, are readily washed and retain their clear white color. For sale everywhere. MINOT, HOOPER & CO. BR NEw ISTON AND ¥ YORE PEPOSS FOOSE SOHO OF SO OOOOOO OOOOO” * < BESESS 5 9OOOF 599 OOF G SOF COG 6 0SO6SEOOSOF DWIGHT ANCHOR COPTONS ARE FOR SALE AT P. STEKETEE 4 SONS AS WELL AS TWENTY OTHER POPULAR BRANDS ALL AT LOWEST MARKET PRICES 81 MONROE ST. 10 to 18 FOUNTAIN ST. 00606400609 F9OOUO FEOF OE H99OOO 94995950040 90F 9900000600000 FO 9090 Grand Rapids, Mich. Spring & Company, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS iN Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ging- hams, Prints and Domestic Cottons. We invite the Attention of the T Stock at Lowest Market Prices. Spring & ‘rade to our Complete and Weill Assorted Company. “GET OFF THE EARTH” That's the way some people talk. Others make you feel that way. DO YOU SELL DRY GOODS? If so, you have a mission to perform. at the sume time do yourself a good turn. CAN IT BE } We say yes, and have the goods that will do the business. The late the kind that makes buyers every time. That is , to keep people good-natured and satisfied, and DONE? st always on hand and of PRICES—DON’T MENTION IT! We are way down to BED ROCK. None can beat us on that seore Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. Wholesale Dry Goods, Grand Rapids, Mich. erreur Ty wg een Pitas ; f 5 erreur Ty wg een Pitas THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Commercial Aspect of the Bicycle. Written for THE TRADESMAN. One of the most necessary features of a good selling bicycle is a good, prac- ticable tire. A good machine with a poor tire will not run easily, or else the owner will be continually having trou- ble with his tire—one or the other. In the former case the disadvantage will be the result of a heavy, sluggish tire. Some tire makers still manufacture tires with thick treads. No reason is appar- ent unless the fabric used is not of good enough quality to permit of a light con- struction. Still others make and put upon the market, year after year, a tire which is not able to stand two months’ usage. These tires are made of no bet- ter stuff than those with the sluggish running qualities and generally have to be replaced after being ridden a short time. In judging of the merits of a tire by the wearing qualities, a road tire should never be compared with a racing tire. Racing tires are always made of the best material at the command of the bicycle manufacturer, although the ma- terial used depends largely upon who the latter is. A racing tire will wear well if put to the use for which it is in- tended, but if used on the road it is sub- jected to many abuses which its delicate fabric was not intended to withstand. Many racing tires are used on the road by careful riders with no bad results, but the percentage of those which do not suffer from this riding is very small, when compared with the whole. A road tire is always made stronger than the racing tire of the same pattern, in order to withstand the rough roads with which it will be brought in contact, although it is not made of any better goods. It is made very light, as a general rule, its weight being measured by the ounce, in- stead of the pound, although the lightest ones are, necessarily, those made of the very best material. The greater width of the road tire also adds materi- ally to its wearing qualities, as there is more surface to bear the weight of the rider. The question of whieh is the most serviceable pattern of tire, the single tube or double tube, has been pretty thoroughly decided by the demand for the two styles. Nine-tenths of all the wheels put upon the market are fitted with double tube tires. These are al- most all of the ‘‘clincher’’ pattern, though one or two of them are laced or cemented. The preference is due to the ease with which a permanent repair can be made on a double tube tire. The inner tube is the one which has to be patched and, when the repairs are com- pleted, it is invisible and at the same time the tire is just as good as it was be- fore it was damaged. A single tube tire is very easily repaired, if the damage is small; but, in case of a large cut, it is impossible to fix it on the road. As a general thing, it is impossible to fix it at all if a cut an inch or more is made, as the only way to repair such a cut is to cement a large piece of canvas on the in- side of the aperture. As single tube tires are necessarily made endless and seamless, they cannot be opened up for the purpose of inserting such a patch. But one manufacturer of bicycles bas ever used the single tube tire exclusively on his wheels, although one other is this year supplying a single tube tire of su- perior make when ordered. The firm which at first supplied only asingle tube is now fitting a double tube clincher tire to its wheels when so ordered. One man- ufacturer of tires only confines his prod- uct solely to the single tube variety. An- other makes onl¥ a double tube tire, but the remainder all make any kind of tire wanted by any bicycle manufacturer. The demand for double tube tires is greater this year than ever before. When the wood rim came into favor, it was thought that the single tube tires would gain the ascendancy over the other variety, because no feasible plan was known for using a clincher tire on that kind of a rim. The cemented and laced inner tube tires are at a disadvan- tage, wben compared with the clinchers, for the reason that in removing the inner tube of this kind of tires itis liable to stick to the canvas casing which lines the rubber tire proper. In removing a tube when it is in this condition, it is liable to be torn or damaged beyond repair. In case of a clincher tire, the inner tube may be carefully pulled outafter the tire is taken off the rim and opened up. Various devices have been brought into use, however, which have made the clincher tire a success with the wood rim. and wires, by making the point of con- nection very near the center of the rim, or by making a double clinching ar- rangement, thus distributing the strain upon the rim, instead of bringing it all on one portion. The latter two are the least bungling and make the neatest con- nections. i For racing wheels, the single tube tire is undoubtedly the favorite among the ‘‘Crack-a-Jacks,”’ as the flyers are called. it can be made the lightest and most re- silient, and at the same time sufficiently strong to answer all purposes. When one of them gives out, the manufacturer whose wheel itis on, or the tire manu- facturer, will replace it without charge to the rider, so it makes no difference to him anyway. This kind of light tires should never be placed on a wheel which is to be used on the road. Some of the single tube tires are made self-healing. The ideas are good, but, as yet, they are in a very imperfect state | of development. A small puncture will heal readily, with the kind of material used in one of the tires, but a large one will not. A cut invariably means a new tire. Several puncture-proof tires and self-healing tires have been put upon the market, butnone of them have yet shown enough merit to make them ex- tensively used. A puncture-proof tire has the same objections as the old style thick tread ones, and has no advantages sufficient to repay the rider for the loss of resiliency. Several of them were on the market last year, but they have all been retired. The question of a non-slipping tire has been considered at length, as one of the greatest evils a cyclist has to contend with is wet, slippery pavements in a city. No effective antidote for slipping has yet been introduced, although the corrugated tire has some merit. It re- duces the danger of slipping very much, although it is by no means a sure safe- guard. A corrugated tire has, also, the advantage of a smaller wearing surface, and, consequently, less friction. It also throws less mud when being used on wet pavements. The one and one-half inch tire is al- most exclusively used this season on all kinds of wheels. It helps to reduce weight, but it has to beinflated so hard, to prevent the rim from touching the ground when any slight inequalities are passed over, that it is very uncomfortable for rough riding. On a very hard road itis the best, if the road is perfectly smooth, for it presents less wearing sur- face. Onasoft road, however, the inch and three-fourths tire is immeasurably superior. It rides over a sandy piece of road instead of plowing through it. It can be ridden a little soft without injur- ing it, and without allowing the rim to touch the ground. It will absorb twice the vibration of a small tire, which is one of the main points of comfort. The original purpose of the pneumatic tire was to absorb vibration. Prior to its in- troduction, spring frames, spring forks, saddles, and other various kinds of ‘springs’? were in use, making it nec- essary to build heavy, awkward wheels. It was the vibration in the small wheels of the safety bicycle that kept the ordi- nary in favor so long after its introduc- tion. Large numbers of the best riders in the country never rode a solid tired safety at all, prefering the old ordinary to the excessive vibration in the small wheeled vehicle. permitted the discarding of so many un- necessary parts of the bicycle, thus giv- ing the present light, enjoyable means of locomotion. Morris J. WHITE. —_— >> —— Cairo, Egypt, is to have an electric street railway next year, and bids have been made for a trolley line from that city to the pyramids. A Frenchman proposed to build an elevator to the top of the great pyramid, but his proposition was not considered. They are attached with buttons | The air tire was what | } Business Is Business, An interesting insight into the ways of the ultra new woman was furnished by the testimony in a London court of Mrs. Beauclerk, a stock broker. Mrs. Beau- clerk testified that she employed her hus- band in her office, but that she dismissed {him from her employ last August, be- cause of certain derelictions of duty. Whenever she went out she used to lock the door of her private office. ‘*Do you mean to say.’? asked the solicitor-gen- eral, ‘‘that if you saw the man you had sworn to honor and obey writing in your private room you would be so hard- hearted as to say: ‘Out you ger” ‘I should, certainly,’? wasthe answer. ‘‘If a wife has a perfectly no-account hus- band to support, she should have the right to put him out.”’ Unfortunate Affair for Port Druggists. A drug rate war has been inaugurated in Port Huron and patent medicines are being sold at less than actual cost at The reason for this is that a grocer added a patent medicine depart- ment to his business and made great cuts in prices on everything in that line. To offset this every druggist in Port Huron made a still greater cut, and are now selling many medicines at less than half the former price. Huron wholesale. —__ — <> Massachusetts cotton manufacturers have restored wages to the seale existing before the reduction in August of last year. 9 NEW Drake’s vrociss Is an All-Wheat Flour, which send for sample and prices. O. DRAKE & SON, PROPRIETORS ARMADA ROLLER MILLS. Graham Flour is claimed by all who have used it to be a DEALERS—If you want a Graham Flour that will superior article make customers out of all who buy it, Manufactured only by Armada, Mich. West Michigan Agents | GANDEE KUBBER GOUDS Large Stock Prompt Shipment Vy ZOz PON Also a Full Line of Wading Pants and Boots. HOSE BELTING PACKING Everything in Rubber 4 MONROE ST. Grand Rapids, [lich. yet parts, PATENTp, Bea ll ao du, a BOSTON PATENT BICYCLE PANTS. BICYCLE CLOTHING Of all deseriptions We are Exclusive Agents for Boston Patent Pants Co. BICYCLE SUNDRIES BASE BALL and TENNIS GOODS ar Ri 97-99-101 Oliavd St GRAND RAPIDS, NIGH Freun 6 Gand PoprsQeg Thee. New Clipper Business Bicycle. as Mr. Business [an You may be thinking of a bieyele: you inay want some out-door exercise i ’ 2 You’re the fellow Who has worked yourself almost to death in an office, and live too far from business to enjoy walking, * We are laying for You. We can suggest a remedy that will be valuable to you. Baya i FILES THE BILL. PR SR Apgar tanner me THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index of the Markets. Special Correspondence NEw YorK, May 4—J. H. Mohlman & Co. have the sympathy of the trade in the destruction of the new building they had just occupied. They moved in Fri- day and on Monday night the whole building collapsed and took fire. The insurance companies deny any liability, claiming that the building took fire after the fall and that it was to the fall alone that the fire was due. A long lawsuit over the matter is in order. The loss amounts to some $200,000. The coffee market seems to have a streak of ‘‘upwardness” this week and holders are wighty firm. While quota- tions are not exactly higher, they give every evidence of soon going up a peg, and those who are here to buy are not waiting. The invoice value of No. 7 Rio coffee to-day is 16c, at which price it is freely taken. Mild coffees are in about the same position as a week ago, but there is, certainly, a firmer feeling—per- haps due to the general impression that everything is tending upward. Refined sugar has had a tremendous impulse given it during the week and sales have been larger than for a long time. There is a lull at the moment, but buyers are still sending in excellent or- ders and the refiners have their hands full to meet the demand without loss of time. Teas show no animation whatever. Any sort of taste can be suited at any sort of price. Trade is iight and the market presents no new features. Syrups show amuch firmer tone, owing, probably, in some degree, to the feeling in sugar, and buyer are taking a good deal of interest in the situation. This is for best grades. Lower qualities are not wanted and are hard to dispose of. Molasses shows more animation, also, and buyers are taking hold with a will for this season of the year. Prime to choice New Orleans molasses is worth frem 22@31le for centrifugal and 29@32¢ for open kettle. The canned goods market remains in about the same condition that has char- acterized it for some time. There is no particular change to chronicle in prices. Tomatoes show a slight improvement. Some quite large parcels of cheap peaches have been moved. Not much is doing in the way of future contracts. Some offers of goods are reported to have been made which show no profit what- ever to the packers. It is strange that they will go on doing this sort of busi- ness. It is simply dishonest. New York State gallon apples are worth $2.50 (@2.60; standard tomatoes, 6214 ¢; peaches, $1.15@1.2214 for standard all yellow. Prospects are excellent for big crops of everything in this part of the country. Receipts of really first-class butter have not been large, nor has the de- mand been active. The trade is of an everyday character. Nineteen cents is the top price for either Elgin or New York. For new cheese the feeling is one of suspended animation. Nothing worthy of mentioning is being transacted. Quo- tations are very low, 8c being the ex- treme. The lemon market has been one of ac- tivity all the week. Although rates at the moment are a shade lower it is not thought they will remain so long, and every indication is toward higher prices for foreign fruits of all descriptions. : There is a slow trade is bean and peas. Choice pea beans, 1894 crop, are worth $2@2.05. Marrow, $2.50@2.55. _ OS OS The Grain Market. Wheat has held very firm during the week. Receipts in the winter wheat markets have been extremely smali—so small that the country elevators would not sell or make any offers, because there is no wheat moving; so they pro- pose to hold on for higher prices. The spring wheat movement has been quite liberal; in fact, above the corresponding time last year, but nowhere near the cor- responding time two years ago; but it is all absorbed by the Northwestern mill- ers. Some which has been purchased at low ebb is being moved out. Our ex- ports are about the same as last season, but hardly up to what they were two years ago, and foreigners are still of the opinion that they will be able to get American wheat at less than ruling prices. May be they will, but the condi- tion does not favor that conclusion. The visible is about 1,000,000 bushels less than last year at this time and it will de- crease faster, as the decrease in receipts is large. Detroit has only one-third the amount she had last year, or only 524,000 bushels against 1,824,000 bushels last season, which shows the scarcity of win- ter wheat. Corn has been weak, so has oats, and we look for lower prices,in these cereals. Receipts the past week here were wheat, 79 cars; cern, 24 cars: and oats, 1 car, which is more than the average amount received of wheat and corn, and a very small amount of oats. C. G. A. Vorer. > —__—_ The D. & M. Change Time. The summer time card of the D., G. H. & M. Railway is now in effect. Trains to and from the East run on the usual time. Two trains have been added to the Grand Haven service and trains de- part for the West at 8:40 a. m., 1 p. m., 0:30 Pp. m., 7:40 p. m. and 10:05 p. m. This is the best route to take for Mil- waukee and Chicago. Berths on steam- ers are assigned passengers at the city office, 23 Monroe street. JAS. CAMPBELL, City Ag’t. >.> Simple Method of Testing Milk for Water Adulteration. A very simple process for testing the amount of water in milk is to mix 1 eunce of plaster paris with enough milk to form a stiff paste and then allow it to stand. With milk of 1.030 specific grav- ity and a temperature of 60 deg. F., it will harden in ten hours; if 25 per cent. of water is present, in two hours; if 50 per cent., in one and one-half hours; if 75 per cent., in 30 minutes. Heat should not be applied. J. DEBOE. SS a Grand Rapids Boys to Play Ball. GRAND Rapips, May 4—Noting in Tue TRADESMAN of this weék that the De- troit traveling men have organized a base ball club, it occurs to me that we must not be outdone by our Detroit brethren and I hereby call a meeting of all Grand Rapids traveling men, without regard to their ability as ball players, to beheld at the parlors of the New Livingston, Sat- urday, May 11, at 10:30 a.m. Come one, come all! J. HENRY DAWLEY. ee One Way to Increase Trade. A live Pennsylvania retailer enlists the services of all the boys in his region by offering a $75 bicycle to the boy who sends to his store customers whose pat- ronage aggregates the most in two months. Blanks are provided the young- sters and persons buying in each one’s favor has the amount of the purchases punched out by the clerk and by him also signed. This is a bright scheme and ought to be a trade winner from start to finish. _— oO From Out of Town. Calis have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: P. M. Cleveland & Son, Nunica. P. B. Sharp, Byron Center. O. R. Johnson, Allegan. W. H. Porter, Jackson. Crandall & Gregg, Luther. Frank Hamilton, Traverse City. Sid V. Bullock, Trufant. The population of France would re- main about stationary if it were not that there is a considerable immigration from the adjoining countries. PROVISIONS The Grand Rapids Packing and Provisinn Co quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. es, . ....... oe 12 50 eee 22 Extra Clear pig, short out............. . 14 00 OE EE | a ee 13 25 Boston clear, short cus.................. 13 50 Coon back. seerem.................... 13 50 Standard clear, short cut, best........ : 13 75 SAUSAGE. ee 7 ee Peace 5% Liver.... ea a 6 wom... ........ 4... 8% aoa... oa 6 Head cheese ....... 6 Summer...... 10 Frankfurts... 7% oe 8 Granger Se - 7 amily Lie epi ti li Ug Gk ie 5%, ee ————————— 544 ome. 6% Cotosuet.. 6% 50 Ib. Tins, Ke. advance, 20 Ib. pails, - lb. “a 5 lb. se xe “ac ce “ te ak BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. . 6 50 Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... 6 75 orien rip UIE... .... ....... 1d 00 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plair. Hams, average ee 1 a ee ee 10% . _ cea... ........ —_— - ae... - eer... 9 ee. 7 Breakfast Bacon boneless.................... 9 ea | DRY SALT MEATS. Lome (seers, hoery.................... oo Briskets, medium. ie PICKLED Pies’ ‘FEET. Has a FIELD of its own. TALS Why Advertisers get RESULTS. | | THE TRADESMAN | Eggs Wanted Prices quoted on application. NOTE LOW PRICES On following goods: Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly, made with boiled cider, very fine. Assortment con- sists of Apple, Blackberry, Strawberry, Raspberry and Currant: ie oe €0 Me OO, beeen 45 oe oe. 40 15-Ib. pail. . / ees | ae 1 quart Mason Jars, per “doz... - 140 1 pints Mason Jars, per doz. — on Per case, 3 doz. In case....... = oo Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, “the best made. Price per case ............... 2 40 Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat: i>. pall per ............ deg! eo at 6% 22 PAU, DOr 64% 2 1p. Cine, per aoe 1 40 5 Ib. came Scr Gat... ................., ..., 2 oe Pint Mason Jars, per ey oc Quart Mason Jars, ‘per aos ... oo Pure Sweet Cider, in bbls., per gal... 2 Pure Sweet Cider, in less quantities, per gal 14 Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per doz. Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per doz.. o~ oS 1 _o2 Half barrels..........................+..-+...8 0" Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz...... 9 00 — as... tC. 1 65] Peach Marmalade, 20-1b pails ... 1 00 ee 90} Peach Marmalade in pt Mason jars, prdz.. 120 TRIPE. No 1 Egg C rate Fillers, best in market, 10 Kits, honeycomb........_.................... 75] sets in case, No. 1 Case included.......... 1 25 Kits, premium ....... ........0002.. seeeeee. BS No. 1 Egg Crates with fillers complete...... 33 BUTTERINE. il Special prices made on 1€0 Crate lots. Creamery, rolls.. ae — LLL CU EDWIN FALLAS, Dairy, rolls.. ee ee Grand Rapids, Mich. A. T. BLISS, Pres’t. MAX HEAVENRICH, Treas. DUNCAN Y. STEWART, Sec’y. e LIMITED. SAGINAW, E. S. Japan Teas for 1895. Advices from Japan are to the effect that early picked Teas open up at an advance of four cents per pound over last season, and that indications all point to higher prices on all grades over former years. We have on hand 1200 3 chests Japan Teas, near- ly all of our own importation, which we offer to the retailers of Michigan at prices that will move them rapidly, if the matter r tion. ecelves their earnest considera: Samples and prices cheerfully mailed. Values=-14 c. up to 35c. re Se iieameeteal et ——— —— Ee EP oe a eer &. —_— se ol cece ie Ran ent acacia eanemme ——- a0 ” - eg Muskegon Bakery Crackers (United States Baking Co.) Are Perfect Health Food. There are a great inany 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 constant table use. Muskegon Toast, ALWAYS Nine Royal Fruit Biscuit, ASK Other Muskegon Frosted Honey, YOUR Iced Cocoa Honey Jumbles, GROCER Great : Jelly Turnovers, FOR Specialties | Ginger Snaps, MUSKEGON Are Home-Made Snaps, BAKERY’S Muskegon Branch, CAKES and Mlik Li.neh CRACKERS - United States Baking Co. LAWRENCE DEPEW, Acting Manager, Muskegon, ~— - Mich. DID YOU NOTICE ON YOUR CRACKERS? EARS’ UPERIOR EYMOUR That is what it means-- “THE ACKNOWLEDGED LEADER OF CRACKERS!”’ THEY Originated in MICHIGAN Are Made in MICHIGAN Are Sold in MICHIGAN And all over the World. Manufactured by The New York Biscuit Co.., Successors to WM. SEARS & CO., Grand Rapids, [lich. MONARCH Absolutely the Best that Money Can Produce LIGHT STRONG SPEEDY HANDSOME FACTORY AND [IAIN OFFICE, Lake and RETAIL SALESROOM, 280 Wabash Avenue, BICYCLES! FIVE MODELS Weight 18 to 25 pounds Prices $85 to $100 Send for Catalogue i -MONARCH CYCLE COMPANY Halstead Sts, CHICAGO. Grand Rapids, Mich., Agents, ADAIIS & HART, 12 West Bridge St. Detroit Branch, GEO. -HILSENDEGEN, Proprietor, 310 Woodward Avenue The Dayton t Sells ecause ofr ts Money- Taking Features! For further information drop a postal card- to Warning! The trade are hereby warned against using any infringements on Weighing and Price Scales and Computing and Price Scales, as we will protect our rights and the rights of our general =» agents under Letters Patent of the United States issued in 1881, 1885, 1-26, 1888, 1891,1893 and 1534. And we will prosecute all infringers to the ful) extent of the law. The simple using of Sealesthat 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, The Computing Scale Co. —se See What Users Say: Office of CHICAGO LUMBERING CO. Manistique, Mich., Apr. 2, 1895. Messrs. Hoyt & Co., Dayton, O. Gentiemen: We bought three Standard Mar- ket Scales and two Tea Scales of you, Feb. 1th, fur our two stores, and have thrown out all our other scales, and had these in constant use ever since. Weare very much pleased with them and think THEY HAVE SAVED. US ABOUT. $5.00 PER DAY, or nearly the cost of them, by this time. Yours truly, THE CHICAGO LUMBERING CO. Per C. S. Hill, Manager. The COMPUTING SCALE CO., Dayton, Ohio THE BEST ON EARTH NEW IDEAL SHAPE. NO. 1419010, IDEAL SHAPE Orig. Asstd. Cte., Alfred Meakins’ White Granite. MEAKINS: WHITE GRANITE WARE Original Assorted Crates. NO. 15168, IDEAL SHAPE Original Assorted Crate, Alfred Meakins’ White Granite Ware. REDUGED PRICES mR ‘““SUMMERTIME,”’ English Dec. Semi-Porcelain PENCIL OR BROWN COLOR NO. 13116, ‘“‘SUMMERTIME”’ Assorted Crate. 6doz> Plates 2 @ 825 5 dozd inch P . $ 42 #10 2only Teapots, 24s... 3 00 DO | m Fidtes...., $ 51 #804 1% doz Sauce Boats 1 x0 W ~ s } > + “7 1 . , } >> 1 j 4 j ’ * , 17 - “o 2 doz7ineh Plates ; 6. 2® 2 b . = 1G i in Plates... om 12 % doz Pickles. ....... 1 35 6s 2 dor 8 Plates 70 1 4 2 7 ineh Plates 61 é oe o 1 ae a : \ i ja a - ar ' 4 1 ns “Epi m~() 10 13 in Plates is 87 1 doz Cov'd Dishes... 5 40 5 30 rs. 59 KS 2 doz7 in P s Si 1 2 33 nm Piates..... 84 168 \ doz B. & B. Plates. 1 80 60 $ 17 t 4in sau s 8 ts o4 i” 6 doz 4 in Fruits..... 4 204 » doz Coy'd Butters 405 2 03 ——. a a S 4 s 4 +4 i i i cil an “a 2 i 04 1¢ G4 4 6 doz Ind. Butters 2s 138 % doz 24 Sugars......3 64 1 52 S Oo OK } ‘ ; 28 v6) 3 > doz Yin Dishes... 1 35 68 1, doz Creamers 1 26 53 € 2 2 2d 6 bers 4 50 eo 0 i 4 8 =. | doz 10 in Dishes... 203 101 9 16 20 S 4 j h Dishes ie sta ; it : aa ae ps h Dishes. 70 $50 2 2: doz 12 in Dishes... 3 38 1 13 eee. Ee aoe ae i : h Dishes 4 1o> 3 00 | 1-6doz 14in Dishes... 4 73 79 trBowls % 27 t Sane s 2 h Scollops 66 3i72 3% | 2doz3inBakers.... 79 158 Cartage 2 50 I ) 6 "ale ¥s aS 3714 3 94 i : : ai : a ei : ; & @2 doz 7 in Bakers.... 1 25 5 a D> s s 2 « bh sco ~ Mt +4 ¢ 5 ) Ue Mi : i 2 7 oe ie aes : 63 »sSecOo s : ( ‘ g > 50 13 doz 8 in Bakers.... 2 03 BS ve D ‘ 5 ms s ’ 3 aig » doz Gin Scallops.. 1 13 BY | v 1 ‘ doz7in Seallops.. 1 35 67 ILU ’ 60 D ~ S B At — oz 12 Jugs. 270 135 Open l0C 00, go ) = es 15 s . a “ | Cac i ma pr 224 Jugs... ie a j Re Cas M5 84 [20 Sues rs | Be All these goods in Open Stock at slight advance. H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids in MA AL nase sie Saeko es