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VOL. XII.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1895.

 

Commercial
Credit Co., timites.

Reports on individuals for the retail trade,
house renters and professional men. Also Local
Agents Furn. Com. Agency Co.’s ‘‘Red Book.”
Collections handled for members. Phones 166-1030

65 MONROE ST., GRAND RAPIDS.

Michigan Fire ond Marin

INSURANCE CoO.
Detroit, Mich.

 

Organized
1881

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W. FRED McBAIN, Sec.

 

J. BRECHTING, Axrcurrect,
79 Wonderly Building, Granp Rapips,
Correspond nee solicited from
parties who intend to build

 

SMITH-HILL ELEVATORS

Electric, Steam and Hand Power.

PRICES LOW. MECHANISM SIMPLE,
NOT LIABLE TO GET OUT OF REPAIR.

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

 

 

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRUST GO,, ®2y, Roos

Makes a Specialty of acting as
Executor of Wills,
Administrator of Estates,
Guardian of [linors and In-

competent Persons,

Trustee or Agent

in the management of any business which may

be entrusted to it.

Any information desired will be cheerfully
furnished.

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

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4.9 AND 7 PEARL STREET.

MICHIGAN K. OF G.

 

Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors at Lansing.

At the regular quarterly meeting of
the Board of Directors, Michigan Knights
of the Grip, held at the Hudson House,
at Lansing, June 1, the following gentle-
men were present: Directors Peake,
Wood, Tyler, Hammill; President Jack-
lin and Secretary Owen.

President Owen presented his financial
report for the quarter, showing total re-
ceipts in the general fund of $303.45, all
of which had been turned over to the
Treasurer. In the death fund the re-
ceipts were $334, all of which had been
turned over to the Treasurer. The re-
port was approved by the Finance Com-
mittee and was accepted, adopted and
placed on file.

Treasurer Frost presented his second
quarterly report, as follows:

GENERAL FUND.

Balance on hand March 2.........$432 68
Received from Secretary.......... 296 45
Dota) recelta.........:...... 8786 08
Disbursements, ch’ks Nos. 149-159 $427 30
Balance On hand): |. 5... $801 78
. DEATH FUND.
Balance on hand March?......... $1550 45
teceived from Secretary......... 334 00
cree 11 41
Mosel roceints..... $1895 86
Paid Mrs. Mattie Sheriff .. $500 00
Paid Mrs. Sophia L. Miller 500 00 $1000 00
Bence ouhand.................... ..% 806 96

This report agreed in every particular
with that of the Secretary and took the
same course.

Five proofs of death were presented
and approved as follows: Fred Miller,
Detroit; N. L. Reed, Kalamazoo; Ellen
M. Raleigh, Lansing; N. L. Bouton,
Pentwater; Theo. Schultze, Grand
Rapids.

The claim presented by the heirs of
J. P. Cawley, of Detroit, was disallowed
on the ground that deceased had per-
mitted his insurance to lapse by the non-
payment of assessments No. 1 and 2.
The only director voting in the negative
of this question was President Jacklin,
and that gentleman was requested by the
Board to call on Mrs. Cawley and inform
her of the action of the Board.

John C. Saunders and J. A. Weston,
of Lansing, were accorded a vote of
thanks for their effective work in procur-
ing new members for the Association.

A complaint was filed by A. W. Ryer-
son against the proprietor of the Samp-
son House, at Norway, for conduct un-
becoming a gentleman and a landlord.
Referred to the Hotel Committee.

The Secretary was instructed to issue
notices of assessment No. 3 for 1895
for $2.

The following bills were allowed, on
the recommendation of the Finance Com-
mittee:

Weagcuman Oonipany.... ... |... . .-§28 00
Herald of Commerce Printing Co.......... 6 25
David,Forbes ee ey ee ae 43 35
Geo. F. Owen, salary account............._. 51 45
Geo. F. Owen, express eharges....... ‘ %

R. W. Jacklin, attendance board meetings.
John R. Wood,attendance board meetings.
Geo. F. Owen, attendance board meetings
A. F. Peake, attendance board meetings...
F. M. Tyler, attendance board meetings... 4 85

The Board then adjourned and called
upon Governor Rich, by appointment, to
urge him to sign the Donovan inter-
changeable mileage book bill.

The next meeting of the Board will be
held at the Hudson House, Lansing,
Sept. 6. Gro. F. OwEn, Sec’y.

———s>
The Drug Market.

Acids—Citrie continues seasonably ac-
tive and firm, the firmness being largely
due to the strong position of the article

abroad. Tartaric is also firm under a

CON 92

 

 

similar influence and manufacturers have
further advanced their quotations.

Alcoholk—The market has sustained an
advance of 2c per gal.

Balsams—There have been further ar-
rivals of copaiba, which remain unsold,
and prices from first hands are again
somewhat depressed; in a jobbing way,
however, prices are maintained under a
good consuming demand. Tolu is rather
unsettled and irregular; an increased
demand has had a tendency to strengthen
holders’ views.

Cocaine—Large shipments of crude to
Hamburg have had a depressing effect on
the markets, and circulars have been is-
sued announcing a decline of 50 cents
per ounce.

Cod Liver Oil—Has continued active
during the week with prices steadily
hardening. The markets abroad are de-
cidedly stronger and sellers in Norway
are not inclined to offer further parcels
at present.

Cream Tartar—Is ruling strong owing
to the continued high cost of erude ma-
terial, and manufacturers have further
advanced their quotations.

Cuttle Fish Bone—Is in much better
position, and prime Trieste is steadily
held with an active inquiry from the con-
suming trade.

Dragons Blood—The market is better
supplied with reeds, and prices have de-
elined.

Gums—Asafetida is in fairly good de-
mand, but at easier prices. Camphor is
unsettled; domestic refiners and import-
ers of foreign are selling sparingly, not
desiring to force business, in view of con-
tinued strong advices from abroad. On
the other hand, dealers who are receiy-
ing goods on contracts at the compara-
tively low prices ruling three months
ago are inclined to realize on their sur-
plus stock. The position of the article
is considered to be much stronger than
early in the season, and a further ad-
vance is expected when second hands
have disposed of their offerings. Chicle
has declined, and there is no demand of
consequence and the tone of the market
is easy.

Leaves—Stocks of desirable grades of
short buchu are steadily diminishing, and
prices are ruling strong. Coca continue
to reflect an easier tendency under the
influence of increased prospective re-
ceipts. Medium grades of Tinnevelly
senna continue to harden. Supplies are
not equal to the demand, and extreme
scarcity is anticipated before the new
crop is available.

Morphine—Is quiet at the decline, and
a moderate business is reported in do-
mestic.

Opium—There has been rather more
doing in single cases, but there is no ma-
terial change in tbe general condition of
the market.

Quicksilver—A further advance is
cabled from London. The market here
is correspondingly higher and most sell-
ers have advanced.

Quinine—Firm, owing to higher prices
abroad for both bark and powder.

 

NO. 611

Roots—Shipments of ginger from Ja-
maica have almost ceased, and as the
seasonable demand is very good, prices
show a stronger tendency.

Seeds—The improvement in canary is
maintained and some varieties show a
further advance. Coriander is offering
more freely.

Sponges—Very little has been heard
from the vessels which left the various
ports for the fishing grounds; a few came
in at Key West recently, but brought
only small lots—in all about $500 worth
—and they were quickly disposed of at
very high prices. During the coming
month, more definite reports are ex-
pected.

_ > <p
The Hardware Market.

General trade continues good and buy-
ers are supplying their wants with great
freedom. Itis generally felt that low
prices have been reached and that from
now on, we may look for advances in all
lines of hardware. Jobbers report that
the same condition exists among manu-
facturers. Quotations are being with-
drawn and prices are quoted ‘‘subject to
change without notice.’”’ This indicates
a certain degree of confidence in the sit-
uation, which leads to the belief that,
for the present, prices will not be any
lower.

Wire Nails—The market is very firm
and all mills are working in harmony
on a much higher basis than formerly
prevailed. All quotations are based on
Pittsburg freight. We quote to-day
$1.30 rates f. 0. b. mill and $1.45 from
stock, with every prospect of higher
prices from stock shipments.

Barbed Wire—Firm and advancing.
All mills have withdrawn the low prices
made and are quoting from mill as fol-

lows:

Painted. 1 60
Galvanized. \ $1 95
No. 9, plain. ‘ 12%

No. 9, galvanized 1 60

The advance in raw material, as well
as the advance in all kinds of labor,
gives one confidence that the figures will
be maintained for this season.

Sereen Doors and Windows—lIn great
demand and prices are firm. Stocks in
jobbers hands are yet complete, but will
not remain so long, if the demand keeps
up.

Other lines of hardware have advanced

materially. We quote the present dis-
count and price on a few lines:
Galvaniaed from ................:.. 7 per cent,
Saran and T hinges.............. 65 per cent,
ee en ee 150per bar
Wapoew @iaee ............. c. 85-15 per cent.
Sree 5¢

There has been no change in wire

cloth or poultry netting.
—_—__ ~~

Patent Attorney I. J. Cilley, of 74
Monroe street, answered us: ‘Well,
yes! Business is good. When there is

little to do mechanics must think, and,
thinking, must get their ideas secured,
and Uncle Sam’s patent office is the best
place in the world to do it.”

—__- + >.

A. D. Watson, inventor of the Mil-
waukee frog blocking for railway tracks,
is exhibiting models of his device at the
cigar store of B. J. Reynolds,

 

 

 

2

The Humanizing Influences of Business. |

My theme, ‘‘Some of the Humanizing
Influences of Business,” is one to fill a
volume, for justice cannot be done it
in a short time. It is one to command
the efforts of an orator rather than be
talked at by an amateur. The subject is
one, however, upon which I have pro-
found convictions, for I firmly believe
that the general trend of modern busi-
ness is for good rather than for evil, that
in its various details it is humanizing
rather than the reverse. Humanity has
made great progress in the centuries of
which we have the history, in all that is
civilizing and enlightening and refining,
and in many respects the changes that
have been wrought in the business field
are a most excellent gauge and record.
A single quotation, like a flash of light,
affords a conception of what has been ac-
complished in this regard:

“Once war was business,
business is war.”

Once the only business of the world, if
we may believe what has been written,
was the business of war and pillage.
But out of the more humble arts always
necessary to man’s welfare have grown
great modern industries, while the prin-
cipal war of the present period is the ag-
gressiveness of business interests. Wars
of the other sort, it is true, we sometimes
have as well, but they are much less fre-
quent than formerly and business, in its
collective interests, exercises an ever-in-
creasing restraint. When business pro-
tests against a war nowadays, govern-
ments somehow get along by manage-
ment through the diplomatie bureaus.
It is the exception that proves the rule;
business sometimes demands a war, as
witness many of the smaller wars of
Great Britain. Again, the principal
fruits of wars of late are the commercial
advantages gained, as witness the con-
clusion of the strife between Japan and
China.

Business is a broad term. It means
that which we do. It means occupation.
It means commerce and manufacture. It
includes banking, transportation, insur-
ance, mining, etc. In the sense of oeccu-
pation it is inelusive—but it matters
little for the purpose of our argument in
what particular sense we take it. The
evidences of its elevating influence are
found everywhere.

To humanize has been defined as fol-
lows: To civilize; to subdue disposi-
tions to cruelty; to render susceptible of
kind feelings. Taking the first defini-
tion, ‘‘to civilize,” which really embraces
all the others, we have as the meaning
conveyed by it: to reclaim from a savage
state; to educate; to refine. What we are
seeking, then, when searching fur sume
of the humanizing influences of business,
is evidence of business serving to reclaim
from a lower condition; of business be-
ing an educator, and of business refining
and purifying the world.

We have but to open our eyes, let our
faces be turned which way they may, to
see abundant evidence of the good that
business is doing for humanity. What
are the virtues that it does not promote?
Consider these: industry, thrift, frugal-
ity, temperance, truthfulness, honesty,
integrity, morality, fortitude, prudence,
courage, patience, justice, forbearance,
charity, merey. Each and all of these,
as well as others that will occur to the
thoughtful mind, are constant!y in play
in modern business, and whatever brauch
of business fails to recognize or regard
even the least of these finds no respect in
the community. It is something that is
sure to be replaced in due cour-e by
another on a higher and better plane.

Modern business prides itself upon its
respectability and the esteem with which
it is regarded by the best element in the
community. ‘To be respectable a busi-
ness nowadays must also be the abiding
place of all the virtues.

but now

| not regular features of business.

 

It may be urged by those who see noth- ;
ing in business but the lust of wealth, or |
a meaus to an end, regardless of the}
character of the means, that the virtues |
are simply affected by business as a)
means to an end, and not from devotion |
to a principle. |

We may admit all this, and yet make
our point that business promotes the vir- |

Address by A. O. Kittredge before the Insti
tute of Accounts, April 15, 1895.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

lues lu tle benefit of mankind. Svume-
times good follows from a force put in
motion even though the motive that
started the force did not specially seek |
that good. Examples can be found al-
most without number, but a very few
must suffice. We sometimes regard tem-
perance as merely a moral question hav-
ing no business aspect. We sometimes
go so far as to consider its advocacy the
special work of fanatics and cranks, and
yet, in illustration, remember what has
been done in certain sections of the
South. Stringent temperance laws have
been passed by voters who are not tem-
perance men in the usual acceptation of
the term, but who for busiuess reasons
have sought the regulation of the liquor
traffic by law. They have been influenced
to do this by reason of the menace to all
business interests of an ignorant class at
times inflamed by strong drink. In this
case, then, business has influenced leyis-
lation for the good of the general com-
munity.

Take the case of a large manufactu.-
ing institution which was induced to
move to the neighborhood of a large and
growing city, where exceptional oppor-
tunities and advantages were to be se-
cured. Several hundred men were em-
ployed and a part of the scheme was a
homestead plan by which workmen could
secure houses and garden spots at low
prices and upon very favorable terms.
After every required condition had been
eomplied with by the promoters of the
change, one more stipulation was made,
and that was that restrictions should be
put upon all the property involved, in
the deeds that were to pass, so that no
salvon could ever be established upon it,
nor yet within one-hait mile from its
boundary lines. The men making this
condition were actuated by business rea-
sons solely. They were not temperance
men, so-called, so far, at least, as their
own habits of living werein evidence, but
to get about them and maintain around
them sober men they made the provisions
described.

Business men may employ their funds
in promoting a charity in a way to ad-
verlise their enterprise; still the ben-
eficiaries are helped just the same to the
amount of the dollars subscribed.

But it is not always an unworthy mo-
tive that brings the virtues into business
notice. Men quickened by business in-
terests and brought by business into
sympathetic contact with the world at
large are ever foremost in responses to
calls of distress and suffering. Witness
what the business men of New York have
done in days past, in shiploads of food to
famine stricken Irciand; in vast sums of
mouey for the yellow tever sufferers inp
the South; in liberai subscriptions to re-
lief tuuds fur the victims or forest and
prairie Ores; in relieving distress among
the worthy pvor in the montus following
the panic, and in contributions to organ
ized Charities every where.

Too many of us are prone tu jovk upon
the dars side of business, upon the tricks
aud suares, torgetting that poor human-
ity—full of faults at best—betrays some
of its Weaknesses in whatever it attempts
to dou. We think of banking reflected
irum the character of aShylock. Were-
member the smail berries vr potatoes al-
ways at the bottom of the basket, with
the larger ones On top. Short measures
come to miud; sand in the sugar is men-
tioned; beans in the coffee, and light
weight in the scales are frequently al-
luded to. These, however, are incidents,
These
are the marked exceptions to recognized
business rules—not the practice that is
approved, and the very scorn with which
they are referred to Shows the real con-
ception of business in the public mind.
it is something honorable, nut something
essentialiy tricky.

if he who makes two blades of grass

 

 

grow where but one grew before is a ben-
efactor of his race, then, indeed, is the |
man who establishes a factory, or builds |
a railroad, or opens a mine, thus giving |
employment to those unable to provide |
work for themselves, a benefactor of his |
fellows, and the result of his work is
humanizing. The world is better for|
what he does, although his action is only |
a business enterprise.

Men are always benefited by discipline.

’ .
IMPORTERS AND
JOBBERS OF

MILLINERY

AND

STRAW
GOODS

20-22 N. Division st.,Grand Rapids

 

 

For the month of June, on
Straw Sailors for Children snd Misses
Straw Sailors for Ladies,trimmed and untrimmed
Sun and Garden Hats
White and Black Leg
Cheap Yak and Canton Sailors
Yachting Caps and Tam-o’-Shanters
Flowers, Laces and Ornaments

rhorns

Ribbons

 

S AMORMAN C4HaS E.meece 3

SA MORMAN & CO.
OFFICE {9 LYON ST.
WAREHOUSES COR. WEALTHY & 1ONIA ST

 

Agent for ALSEN’S CEMENT,
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Some men require rigid discipline to
keep them out of mischief and make
good citizens of them. What better dis-
ciplinarian is there than regular employ-
ment in some business pursuit? Many a
boy wild in his habits, and ungovernable
at home, has been made a sober, indus-
trious man, a good neighbor and a
thoughtful citizen simply by the restrain-
ing and tempering influences of business
exercised through an apprenticeship.

Business spreads science and makes its
wonders known where else would be
primitive darkness. Business carries the
useful arts to benighted regions. Busi-
ness is an educator, specifically as well
as in general, as witness the trade
schoois and training schools in many dif-
ferent branches. Business so works
upon the minds of the men who devote
their lives to it, influencing them to do
something for their fellow creatures,
that in many cases they leave their accu-
mulations by will, not to go forward in
business alone, thus continuing the good
begun under their management, but in
part to found schools or libraries, or as
endowments to large undertakings in the
interest of the public weal. Examples
in great numbers could be cited. So
numerous indeed are they that it is the
exception at the present day to hear of a
very wealthy man, in this country at
least, who has not done something of the
kind. Right here in our midst we have,
among other conspicuous examples, the
Astor Library, the Lenox Library, the
Tilden Library, Peter Cooper’s great
monument, the Cooper Union, the New
York Trade Schools founded by Richard
Auchmutty, deceased, and subsequently
endowed by J. Pierpont Morgan, who,
happily, yet lives to witness the good
work his money is doing. There is the
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, the Wharton
School of Finance and Economy, in Phil-
adelphia, the Carnegie Music Hall in
New York, and the Carnegie Libraries in
Pittsburg and other towns, the Lick tel-
escope, and the Stanford University on
the Pacific coast.

The list might be prolonged to include
hundreds of similar instances of good to
the world fiowing from the hearts of
business men, influenced by the love of
humanity which has been fostered by
contact in business pursuits, and made
possible by the fruits of honorable and
successful business careers.

Whatever cheapens asupply in demand
by the people at large benefits and ele-
vates the race. To be exhaustive in ex-
amples would be to cite the whole history
of business. Look at the progress of il-
lumination. The oil lamp and torch of
classic times; the candle; the lamp
burning whale oil; the kerosene lamp;
gas, and electricity: Each of these
steps marks a business epoch, and what-
ever we have to-day better than the an-
cients had is to the credit of business,
for men developed each of these im-
provements while following their busi-
ness callings. Take it in the field of
transportation, restricting our view to
what the present generation has seen:
the sailing vessel and the steamship—
the Atlantic liner; the old stage coach
and the modern express train of Pullman
and Wagner cars; the transferrence of
goods in wagons over country roads and
the freight express on steam cars of the
present day. Takeitin apparel: the old
domestic hand loom and the modern mill
of thousands of spindles; hand sewing
and the sewing machine; shoes clumsy,
heavy, and dear because hand made, and
shoes of to-day, neat, comfortable and
cheap because factories have been called
into play. Take it in the conveyance of
intelligence: the personal messenger of
ancient times and the letter in the Gov-
ernment mail of to-day; a written com-
munication and relays of horses to hurry
the message bearer forward and the tele-
graph and telephone of to-day; the slow
progress of the mails across the ocean,
even with the swiftest boats, and the
submarine cable conveying by the elec-
tric spark. Take it in literature: only a
little while ago the order of the day was
few books and a small number of edu-
cated men; the present is the day of the
printing press, with a library for every
man, and all liberally educated; former-
ly it was town criers and village gossips
for the spread of news among the people;

 

now it is the modern newspaper. Each
and all of these are distinct business
triumphs, and are cited in evidence of
what business has done toward elevating
humanity and advancing the general
good.

If we take it in any other field of nec-
essaries of life we find the same contrast.
Machinery has superseded hand labor to
the advantage of all; the workman of to-
day has more creature comforts than the
king of only a short time ago.

In luxuries and the extreme refine-
ments of life the contrast is the same.
All this advance and the humanizing and
civilizing of the human race are to the
credit of business.

Business has ever been foremost in
discovery, in exploitation, in promoting
inventions and improvements, and in
carrying the benefits of trade—the inter-
change of commodities into new parts of
the world.

Let us consider some of the negative
arguments. When we establish reforma-
tories we straightway begin to teach
trades and occupations. To be an ‘“‘hon-
est” and reputable citizen a man must
have a calling—a business. This is a
tacit admission that business—using the
term now in its broadest sense—is the
conservator of good habits. He is ben-
efited by learning to produce, or to add
the value of labor to some materia), or
by doing something to add comforts to
what, left unaided, would be a cheerless
existence. Business serves a good pur-
pose as a correetor of bad habits, as well
as a conservator of good habits.

Let us think of business for a moment
in a missionary sense. I would not de-
tract one iota from the eredit that is due
the school and the church. I do not
forget the devotion and disinterestedness
of missionaries and other teachers, but lL
feel, as a student of business, that busi-
ness as a force for good often has less
credit in comparison than is its just due.

Business as a means to the end, the
elevation of mankind, is in constant re-
quirement by the teacher and the mis-
sionary. No preacher ever sent to con-
vert the heathen has succeeded in mak-
ing consistent Christians out of them un-
til he has instructed them slightly at
least in the arts of civilization. Along
with the bible—anc sometimes as an in-
troductory primer to the good book—he
teaches the savage the trade of a house
builder, or of a clothier, or of a farmer,
or perhaps a little of each, and enjoins
upon him a proper respect for the rights
of his fellowmen. He is to buy what he
needs beyond his own ability to produce,
aud not to steal. Heis to sell his sur-
plus for the benefit of his fellows, and
not to hoard or squander. In short, his
first lessons in the virtues are business
lessons.

The home missionary on the East Side
in this city begins by giving his pupils
proper business lessons. They are
taught to read and write, to be carpen-
ters and seamstresses, to earn money, to
expend it wisely, to husband their sav-
ings, and to get into honorable business
connections. Business is the best means
by which to attain the end in view—good
citizenship.

There is very little in the world after
all save business. The occupations open
to a young man to-day inelude the pro-
fessions—law, medicine and the minis-
try. Beyond these are the army, litera-
ture, teaching. About all the rest, in the
estimation of the average man, is em-
braced in one great class—business. Us-
ing the term in its broadest meaning,
however, and working backward in the
list, we find it is all business, for cer
tainly there is the business of teaching,
the business of literature, the business
of the law, and the business of medicine,
because the professional or literary man
who has not business tact and judgment
is ata great disadvantage in this busi-
ness world. in which he is required to
live.

Without disrespect we may even talk
of the business of the ministry, and go a
step further and say, with all reverence,
that no church ever accomplishes the
greatest possible good unless its affairs
are administered upon business princi-
ples.

It would seem then that business per-

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Of all the past and by-gone advertising fakes, none hold

their own with the ever-present

risrune CARD.

Other “fakes” come and go, and their whiskers sprout, turn
gray and fall out, but the picture card ever bobs up serenely, and
when it comes to a

PICTURE CARD and
FAN COMBINED,

The children want them,
The old folks want them—for the children,
Grandma wants oue,
The fat man needs one,
‘The dude has to have one.
Aud, remember, all these people are advertising the man who

gives away the fans.
SUT THEY COST!
WEit. i SHOULD SAY NOT |!

Just see our late samples and lead the procession with an adver-

ising fan on circus day.

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GRAND RAPIDS

 

PERKINS & HESS,

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

Nos. 122 and 124 Louis Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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AROUND THE STATE.

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Clio—R. B. Parmelee succeeds G. M.
Long in the grocery business.

Ridgeway — Simon Gould
Chas. H. Gould in general trade.

Evart—H. D. Johnson succeeds Robert
Ponsford in the grocery business

Otter Lake—Paul Fitzgerald has sold
his drug stock to W. T. Cummings.

St. Louis—J. O. Hilton succeeds Hil-
ton & Wise in the lumber business.

Bay City—The Youngs Grocery Co.
succeeds Opperman & Co. at this place.

Calumet—J. A. Cruse succeeds Cruse
& Louden in the tea and coffee business.

Clifford—Chas. H. Secor has removed
his jewelry and drug stock to Hudson,
ind.

Marcellus—E. P. Castner succeeds
Mohney & Castner in the grocery busi-
ness.

Concord—J. H. Dart succeeds Dart &
Bigelow in the lumber and lime busi-
ness.

Jackson—Pickles & Platts succeed
Chas. Platts in the tish and poultry busi-
ness.

North Muskegon—M. P.
ceeds John Doherty in the grocery busi-
ness,

Middieton—A. B. Armstrong is suc-
ceeded by J. A. Park & Son in general
trade.

Constantine—Beecher Dentler has pur-
chased the grocery business of A. A.
Redfern.

3attle Creek—Zang Bros. are. suc-
ceeded by G. F. Zang & Son in the gro-
cery business.

Saginaw—E. _E.
Johnson Bros. in
lime business.

Charlotte—Gibbard & Whitford suc-
ceed Jos. T. Strother in the boot and
shoe business.

Hillsdale—E. M. Washburn & Co. sue-
ceed the estate of Jas. Smith in the ice
and coal business.

Flint—The boot and shoe stock of E.
M. (Mrs. R. H.) Weller has been closed
on chattel mortgage.

Kalamazoo—Lewis Bros. have sold
their men’s furnishing goods business to
L. B. Silverman & Co.

Mancelona—Theo. F. Scattergood has
removed his jewelry business from Mt.
Pleasant to this place.

New Haven—Schuck & Achney, meat
dealers, have dissolved, Henry Schuck
continuing the business.

Honor—Lewis F. Lane has removed
his grocery and provision stock from
Lake Ann ts this place.

Elwell—E. L. & J. S. Gee have moved
their drug stock to a four corners 2%
miles south of Lakeview.

Elsie—P. W. Holland has purchased
the hardware stock of E. L. Mort and
will continue the business.

Jasper—Perdue & Patterson, general
dealers, have dissolved partnership, the
former continuing the business.

Vulcan—Henry Hastings & Co., meat
dealers, have dissolved. The business
will be continued by Otto Marinelli.

Shelby—Van Wickle, Munson & Co.,
produce dealers, have dissolved, each
partner continuing in the same line.

Morley—C. W. Crimmins has_ pur-
chased the clothing and furnishing goods
stock formerly owned by W. J. Pike.

Flint—Saunders & Terbush, grocers,
produce and meat dealers, have dis-
solved, David H. Saunders succeeding.

Nelson suc-

succeeds
wood and

Johnson
the coal,

Sherman—Wilson & Foster, hardware

‘and implement dealers, have dissolved,
| Thos. Wilson continuing the business.

; his stock of dry goods,
succeeds |

Central Lake—E. Davis has removed
clothing and

men’s furnishing goods to Washburn,

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Charlevoix—Sarah Mullen succeeds
the estate of J. H. Mullen in the cloth-
busi-
ness.

Sparta—Geo. W. French will remove
his jewelry stock from Belding to this

place, consolidating it with his stock
here.
Eau Clair—N. V. Lovell & Co. suc-

ceed B. G. Watson & Co. in the drug
business at this place and also at St.
Joseph.

Ludington—B. J. Goodsell & Co. have
merged their business into a stock com-
pany under the style of the Goodsell
Hardware Co.

Kalamazoo—J. W. Patterson, formerly
engaged in the drug business at Elkhart,
has purchased the Roberts & Hillhouse
drug and stationery stock.

Shelby—The H. L. Andrus general
stock is being inventoried, and it is all
but settled that Jesse Chapman will take
a half interest in the same.

Cadillac—J. L. Felton, general dealer
at Burnip’s Corners, has removed bis
stock to a point near this city, where he
expects to establish a post office.

Charlevoix—W. E. Clark has pur-
chased his partner’s interest in the firm
of Clark & Mudge and will continue the
grocery business at the same location un-
der the style of W. E. Clark.

Saranac—E. T. White has purchased
the interests of his partners in the cloth-
ing stock of Allen, Gamble & White and
will continue the business at the same
location under his own name.

Jackson—Wm. H. Oathoudt has pur-
chased the stock and fixtures of the Park-
er & Fleming Co.’s_ branch grocery
store and will continue the business at
the old location in the Library building.

Lake Odessa—McKelvey & Townsend
have bought two lots on Fourth avenue
and will begin at once the erection of the
largest double store in the county. It
will be built of stone and brick and oe-
cupied by their hardware stock.

Holland—Work has begun on the new
store of Boot & Kramer, the contract
having been awarded to D. Strovenjans
and John Hoek. It will be 26x80 feet in
dimensions, two stories and basement,
with Waverly stone front. The building
will be completed by Sept 1.

St. Louis—The boot and shoe and
clothing store of D. M. Gardner has been
closed by the clothing firm of Robert
Butler & Co., of Utica, N. Y. Gardner
has been in business here for the past
five years, coming to this place from
Stanton. It is claimed that the liabilities
will exceed the assets. The stock is now
being inventoried.

Howard City—L. R. Gates, who was
arrested at the instance of the I. M.
Clark Grocery Co. on a charge of embez-
ziing goods upon which there was achat-
tel mortgage, was discharged by the jus-
tice before whom he was arraigned on
the ground that the evidence presented
was insufficient to warrant his being
bound over for trial in the Circuit Court.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.
Chelsea—Jas. S. Gorman succeeds J.
A. Eisenmann & Co. in the cigar manu-
facturing business.

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Blisstield—The Kiverside Milling Co.
has incorporated its business under the
style of the Blissfield Milling Co.

Dundee—The Dundee cheese factory
resumed operations June 1, having re-
buiit their plant since being burnt out
some four weeks azo.

Ludington—The Pere Marquette Can-
nery has merged its business into a stock
company under the style of the Pere
Marquette Cannery Co.

Greenville—E. J. Gordon has sold his
interest in the Gordon Hollow Blast
Grate Co., also his interest in the Eureka
Potato Planter Co., to R. F. Sprague, L.
W. Sprague and Paul Van Deinse.

Detroit—The Spaulding Lumber Co.
has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $5,000, all paid in. The stock
is held by Bell R. Spaulding, 484 shares;
Ray C. Spaulding, 15, and Dewitt C.
Spaulding, 1

Detroit—The Detroit Salt Co. has been
incorporated by J. M. Mulkey, W. F.
Mulkey, and O. W. Mulkey, with a capital
stock of $100,000 of which $10,000 is paid
in. All of the stockholders reside at
Hutchinson, Kansas.

Sullivan—A. B. Clise, who has been
lumbering here for several years, has
completed his operations and shut down
his mill. This is the first time in nearly
eight years that the mill has been idle,
with no prospects for its being put in
operation at an early date. He has
shipped out his steck and is winding up
his business.

Detroit—Don A. Lochbihler & Co. is
the style of a new corporation organized
last week for the purpose of manufactur-
ing hats and caps. The capital stock is
$5,000, of which $1,000 is paid in. The
stock is held by Margaret I. Lochbihler,
98 shares, and Don A. Lochbibler and
Thomas E. Moran each 1.

Menominee—Wm. MePherson & Co.
were the highest bidders for stray logs
picked up this year by the stray log com-
mittee of the Menominee River Boom
Company. This year the logs will be
sold at the rate of $7.60 a thousand.
Last year the highest bid was $8, and
611,000 were picked up.

Bellaire—Thomas Tindle & Co. have
petitioned the board of supervisors of
Antrim county for permission to build a
dam across Intermediate River at this
point, the dam to be 10 feet high, witha
log chute 10 feet wide, with sufticient
depth to supply three feet of water. The
company manufactures hoops and staves,
and the dam is wanted to increase the
water power for themill. Richard & Co.
object to the dam, on the ground that it
will cut off their power, and the matter
is in the air.

Manistee—The promoters of the tan-
nery have been in the city and around
the woods for a week or so and acknowl-
edge that this is the best location they
have yet seen. With 300,000 cords of
bark in sight readily available by team
and rail, and with the best location in
the country for shipment, either by rail
or water, Manistee offers ideal facilities
for location of an enterprise of that na-
ture. The promoters have gone to Ash-
land, Wis., to see what they have to of-
fer for another plant, and Traverse City
has made them an offer to establish a
plant in that neighborhood, but none of
them can guarantee over 100,000 cords,
while Manistee has easily three times

that quantity.
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Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

 

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK CANDY.

 

Cases Bbls. Pails

Standard, per Ib. ‘ 5 9

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Boston Croam............ 8%

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MIXED CANDY.
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Nobby ee 7 ' 3”

English Rock.. eb oe ede cee 8%

ON ee eee 6% 7%

Bronem Teey..........,..5 —.

POanus squares... ........ 8

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Valley Creams.. ... a. 12%

Midget, 30 Ib. baskets... Lees

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Lozenges, plain.. ee
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Chocolate Momusientais..................... 12

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Moss Drops........... eee be ee ia 7%

Sour Drops.. Pe tetedpceteass ae... 1. 6

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Peppermint Drops.. eee peleaes face acu 60

Chocolate Drops.......... a

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Gum Dro ee 35@50

Licorice rops.. tee eet cee cecpcee i.e

A. B. Licorice Drops... oe Laos ole

Lozenges, plain..... .. i a ee 60

. — ol 65

Imperials.. bis eeet seme eaee 6 eu 60

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Molasses Bar.. bl eee 50

Hand Made Creams... “se -80@90

Pisin Creams.......... eke ae -60@80

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Burnt Almonds...... -- 90@1 25

Wintergreen Berries............. 1.1...

CARAMELS.

No. 1, wrapped, 2 ta boxes. . ee 34

No. 1, ee ete, 51

No. 2 " ; - see eee ee

ORANGES,

California Seedlings—150,176,290,216 ey

moetnn Oramees, 6. ..1-..............,. 3 66

Meds. Sweete—I26............... <a, oo

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LEMONS.

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Meee Panes, OO ................. 1... .... 6B)

Extra Choice, 20 ......... wae

Fancy, 36u.. Ee

Extra Fancy, 360, ‘gilt packing ii etdoucee. Oe

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Pigs, fancy layers 16m ................ 13
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Dates, Fard, 10- lb. box ide ede ae hae deee @ 7%,
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NUTS.

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Brasiis, new. . @8

Filberts .. .... oe @lv

Walnuts, Grenoble ............. * @l4

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Tabie Nuts, fancy.. @il
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Pecans, Texas, H. B,. ee ee

Chestnuts. . aoa

Hickory Nuts per ‘bu.., ' pe NS

Conceenues, Call Oneness, ......... ..... 3 65

Daceras, Oe OE .............e-

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Fancy, H. P., ae @ 5%

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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

C. W. Hearn has opened a grocery store
at Benzonia. The Worden Grocer Co.
furnished the stock.

The Grand “Rapids Mantel and Interior
Finish Co. will open for business June 7
at 47 Fountain street.

Lamb & Tyler have embarked in the
grocery business at Ligonier, Ind. The
stock was furnished by the Worden Gro-
cer Co.

D 2; Yerden “has opened a grocery
store at 317 Plainfield avenue. The Ol-
ney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished the
stock.

A. A. Flery has resumed the meat
business at his former location on Jeffer-
son avenue, near the corner of Pleasant
street.

Hoekzema & Brommel have opened a

grocery store at 377 East street. The
Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished
the stock.

M. Garvin will shortly. open a grocery
store at the corner of Straight and Wat-
son streets. The Olney & Judson Grocer
Co. has the order for the stock.

 

Chas. E. Green has sold his grocery
stock at 1166 Wealthy avenue to Wm.
Barth and removed to Lakeview, where
he has embarked in the dry goods and
boot and shoe business.

Henry and William Siek i" ~~ of To-
ledo, have purchased the plant and busi-
ness of the Grand Rapids Steam Bakery,
at the corner of South Division street
and Fifth avenue, and will continue the
business under the style of Siek Bros.

Hesseltine & Russell, dealersin picture
frames and gasoline stove repairs at 201
South Division street, have dissolved
partnership. H. E. Hesseltine will con-
tinue the picture frame business at the
old location and F. S. Russell will con-
tinue the stove repairing business at 40
Fountain street.

 

The plant of fixtures of the Sweet
Electric and Manufacturing Co. were
sold at trustee’s sale last Friday, having
been bid in by the Old National Bank in
the interest of Chas. C. Kritzer, who pro-
poses to organize a company at Newaygo
for the purpose of acquiring the assets
of the defunct company and continuing
the manufacture of the appliances placed
on the market by that corporation.

The latest move in the Plainwell
Church Furniture Co. matter is the ap-
pointment of a receiver, so that some
fresh money can be put into the business
for the purpose of completing the manu-
facture of the goods partially manufac-
tured. Judge Hatch, as attorney for the
Peninsular Trust Co., is drawing up a
petition which he will present before the
Allegan Circuit Court to-day or to-mor-
row, asking for the appointment of
Henry Richardi as receiver, with ade-
quate authority to conduct the business
under the direction and with the co-oper-
ation of the Peninsular Trust Co., as
trustee of the general creditors of the
corporation. The gentleman proposed
for receiver is a young man of excellent
business judgment and will, undoubtedly,
do much to straighten out the tangled
condition which the affairs of the in-
stitution have, unfortunately, assumed.

ee
A. W. Weeks, the Lowell dry goods
merchant, was in town Tuesday.

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—Indications point to higher
prices and, unless all signs fail, a higher
level of values will shortly be witnessed.

Bananas—There is likely to be a great
deal of complaint concerning this item of
fruit, as the weather has been so ex-
tremely warm during the past week that
fruit that is shipped in a half-ripe condi-
tion is liable to reach its destination
over-ripe. The trade outside must un-
derstand the condition of things and
make allowances. There are several
carloads coming inte this market every
week, but not over 100 buncies out of
each car are suitable for reshipping, ow-
ing to ripeness. Prices are liable to
range a little lower fora while, as straw-
berries and other domestic fruits curtail
the demand for bananas.

Lemons—We are now having genuine,
old-fashioned lemon weather, and prices
are advancing with a hop, skip and
jump. Prices to-day will not rule to-
morrow. New York auctions are fully $1
higher than they were Friday, and, if the
weather dees not grow cooler very soon,
the retail trade of Michigan will be pay-
ing anywhere from $8 to $10 per box for
stock needed during July. As stated be-
fore in these columns, none of the West-
ern dealers have any great amount on
hand, for which fact they are probably
now finding fault with themselves. It
will be well for the retail trade to lay in
from five to twenty-five boxes at present
prices, as everything seems to indicate
that to-day’s prices will look cheap in ten
days.

Oranges—Are about the only variety
of fruit which is not advancing in price.
Domestic fruits and vegetables curtail
the demand to a certain extent, and, as
there are yet a good many California
varieties to come, such as Mediterranean
Sweets, Bloods and St. Michaels, the
growers want to dispose of them, and
find it necessary to reduce prices a trifle
in order to keep them going. Messina
fruit is also considerably cheaper in
New York, butit is not as safe to buy as
California stock, as the hot weather
seems to affect it more, and the fruit
melts down rapidly. There is likely to
bea good demand for Fourth of July
wants, and we do not believe prices will
be lower than are quoted elsewhere in this
paper to-day.

Figs, dates and foreign nuts go very
slowly at present, and prices are decided-

ly low.
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The Grain Market.

The price of wheat had its ups and
downs during the past week. It was
really a weather market, but the close
was fully as much as theopening. Spec-
ulation is not as fierce as it has been.
The country element has, seemingly,
withdrawn, being satisfied with their
gains. So they quit leaving the local
speculators to work alone.

The millers in the State are compelled
to pay way up for wheat in order to get
it. We hear of some millers who are
paying Detroit prices in order to get
wheat, especially as many farmers have
set their stake at $1 per bushel. Perhaps
they will get it, but the export of wheat
and flour will have to be more than at
present in order to elevate prices to that
point. The decrease will not be as large
this week as it has been in previous
weeks. This hot and dry weather is not
exactly what farmers wish to see and
| has a tendency to force the growing crop

 

 

and make the harvest somewhat earlier
than usual.

Corn holds its own fairly well in price.
Although the receipts are large, the de-
mand absorbs it all.

The strongest on the list is oats. The
extra hot weather is not favorable to the
growing crop, and many predict higher
prices for that cereal. The visible shows
2,000,000 bushels decrease, which leaves
the visible at 52,244,000, against about
60,000,000 bushels for the corresponding
week last year.

The receipts during the week were:
wheat, 44 cars; corn, 15 cars and but one
car of oats. The receipts of wheat were
rather less than the usual amount, but
above the average of corn, while the
amount of oats is hardly worth mention-
ing, as it is the smallest number of cars
received for some time, probably the
least ina _ C. G. A. Voier.

_ <> —
They Are the Friends of the Peddler.

At the meeting of the Common Coun-
cil, held on the evening of May 27, the
friends of the peddler made a determined
effort to secure a reconsideration of the
license schedule, with a view to reducing
the annual license fee from $30 to $20.
The following is the official record on
the subject:

Ald. Johnston moved that the vote of Council
at last session fixing license schedule be recon-
sidered.

Lost.

Yeas — Ald. Forbes, Johnston,
Shaw, Slocum, Verkerke.

Nays—Ald. Ball, Bissell, Campbell, Clark, De-
Graaf, Dodge, Emmer, Hilton, Hosken, Logie,
Pearl. Saunders, Tate, Teachout, Watson, A.
Wurzburg, F. Wurzburg.

The vote discloses that, on a ‘‘show
down,” six aldermen were willing to
place themselves on record as_ the
enemies of legitimate methods in mer-
chandising by according peddlers valu-
able privileges for a nominal considera-
tion. Reputable merchants would do
well to paste the names of these worthies
in their hats, for future reference, to the
end that their present terms as aldermen
may be their last. By their votes and
their espousal of the cause of the huck-
ster they have shown themselves un-
worthy of the trust reposed in them by

the business portion of the community.
= 2 a
Dissolution Notice.
GRAND Rapips, Mich., June 1, 1895.
Notice is hereby given that the co-
partnership of Failing & LeRoy, dealers
in hardware, doing business at 503-505
South Division street, in the city of
Grand Rapids, is this day dissolved by
mutual consent. Said business will be
continued by the senior partner, Joseph
K. Failing, who will collect all accounts
and pay all debts of the firm, the junior
member, Frank J. LeRoy, retiring from
the firm.

Matheson,

JOSEPH K. FAILING,
FRANK J. LERoy.

Mr. Joseph K. Failing started the
above business in 1883 under the well-
known name of J. K. Failing & Co. with
a very small capital and, by his shrewd
business management, strict attention to
details and honorable dealing, has at-
tained a phenominal success and is now
entire owner of the business. ‘The stock
comprises general hardware, house fur-
nishing goods, builders’ supplies, paint-
ers’ materials, etc., and has grown to oc-
cupy a two-story double store building
at the corner of South Division street and
Fifth avenue. A host of business acquaint-
ances join THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
in congratulations to Mr. Failing and in
wishing for a continuation of his success.

a te

Ask J. P. Visner for Edwin J. Gillies
& Co.’s special inducements on early im-
port teas for June shipment.

_ OOo
Rubber and waterproof canvas thresher
belts. Studley & Barclay, Grand Rapids.

Standard Brands of Cigars.

Mr. B. J. Reynolds’ store, corner of
Monroe and Division streets, is head-
quarters for all the leading factory

brands of imported, Key West and do-
mestic cigars. Among the brands for
which he has the agency are the ‘‘Gen-
eral Arthur,’’ ‘‘Hoffman House,” ‘Rob-
ert Mantell,” ‘‘Hotel Brunswick” in do-
mestie goods.

In Key West and New York clear Ha-
vana goods, Julius Ellinger & Co., M.
Stachelberg & Co., Eugene Vallens & Co.
and various other equally popular manu-
facturers are represented. He has the
largest assortment of nickel goods in
Grand Rapids. Some of the big sellers
are the ‘‘Key,’’ ‘“Spana Cuba,’’ ‘‘Nine-
teenth Century,” ‘‘Mantilla,’’ ‘“‘B. J. R.
Perfectos,” ‘Little Trooper’? and ‘:Hor-
net’s Nest.’’

The trade is supplied at lowest possi-
ble prices.

 

 

Wants Column.

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

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES,

re: SALE — ONE HALF INTEREST IN A
general store in a hustling town of 3,000
population. Will inventory about $,(00. Only
cash offer considered. Obliged to sell on ac
count of poor health. Address No. 778, care
Michigan Tradesman. 178
\OOD OPENING FOR BARBER SHOP, AND
I residence to rent cheap. Address No. 779,
care Michigan Tradesman. 7
OR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES:
corner location; stock in good condition
and business paying. Good reasons for selling.
Address Dr. Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo, Mich.776

YOR SALE OR EXCHANGE— A FIRST-CLASS
nearly new steam evaporator, with all at-
tachments; seventy-five bushels capacity. Ad
dress W. H. N., care Michigan Tradesman. 773
OR SALE OR RENT—THE SAUGATUCK
basket factory, fully equipped with machin
ery. Enquire of John T. Strahan, Grand Rap
ids. 774
OOD OPENING FOR DRY GOODS DEALER
with $2,000 to $5,000 capital,in a town of
1,000 inhabitants. For particulars address No.
75, care Michigan Tradesman. 1%

Fok SALE—DRUG STOCK, CONSISTING OF
staple drugs, patent medicines, stationery,
blank books, wall paper, etc.. inventorying about
$4,000, for one half cash and two years’ time on
balance. Cash sales last year, #8,000. Store has
steam heat, electric lights, hot and cold water—
everything in first-class shape—and is situated
in best town in Upper Peninsula, in mining dis-

 

 

 
  
 

 

 

 

 

 

trict. Reasons for selling, ill health, necessitat-
ing a removal toa warm climate. Address No.
769. care Michigan Tradesman. 769

 

OR SALE—GUOD STOCK CLOTHING, DRY
goods and boots and shoes, at 60 cents on the
dollar. Best stock ever offered; fine location;
will invoice about 5,000. Address No. 770, care
Michigan Tradesman 770
y JANTED—PARTNER TO TAKE HALF IN-
terestin my 75 bbl. steam a mill and
elevator, situated on railroad; miller preferred ;
good wheat country. Full description, price,
terms and inquiries giyen promptly by eaieeaa
ine H.C. Herkimer, Maybee, Monroe county,
Mich. a

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS,
ANTED—SALESMEN TO SELL BOSTON
Rubber Shoe Co.’s. rubbers in Michigan
Salary or commission. Address No. 783, care
Michigan Tradesman. a | 783
OR SALE CHEAP—COMPLETE SET TIN.
¥ —" tools. Address P. W. Holland, =
fich

OR RENT—B. V. STORE, 523 SOUTH a
sion street. Splendid location for furniture,
bouse furnishing, crockery or gentlemen’s fur-
nishing goods. Apply to John C. Dunton, 57 Lyon
street. 781
OR RENT—DOUBLE STORE BUILDING
for furniture and house furnishings. Only
one in city of 3,500. Chance of a lifetime. Ad
dress Lock Box 869, Belding, Mich. 782
Bearer sis AND MARBLE MONUMENTS,
markers and all cemetery work. Largest
stock. Write us about what you want and we
will quote prices. Grand Rapids ne Co.,
818 South Division. 761
MEX TO SELL BAKING POWDER 10 + HE
grocery trade. Steady employment, experi-
ence unnecessary. $75 monthly salary and ex
penses or com. ‘If offer satisfactory, address at
onee, with particulars concerning yourself, JU. Ss.
Chemical Works, Chicago. 757
ANTED—POULTRY,VEAL, LAMBS, BUT-
ter and eggs on consignment. Ask for
quotations. F. J. Dettenthaler, Grand Rapids,
760

 

 

 

 

 

Mich.
ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY,
potatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, etc,
Correspondence solicited. Watkins & Smith,

84-86 South Division St., Grand Rapids. 673
Po peda ge WANTED — REGISTERED AS-

sistant pharmacist; first-class references;
graduate in pharmacy and chemistry. Address
| No. 780, care Michigan Tradesman. 780

 

 

 

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

The Humanizing Influences of Business.
(Concluded from Page 8.)

meates every division and part of life—
that it is the handmaiden in every work

of charity, of love, of benevolence, and the |

helper in every missionary or school en-
terprise, and that without business in '

one sense or another we Have nothing |

whatever in this world thatis worth hav-
ing. Surely then, if this be true, busi-

ness is doing more for humanity than |

many have supposed.

We can for the moment afford to over-
look the sins committed in the name of
business and to shut our eyes to the mis-
takes of business men.

Said a gentleman to me some time
ago, in a conversation bearing some-
what upon this subject:

‘I regard business as the most potent
civilizing and educating force that the
world has ever seen or ever will see.
Properly regarded, business is the path-
finder for schools and churches, the road-
maker for the arts, the standard bearer
for economic science, the bodyguard of
liberty, the balance wheel of modern
politics, the ever present reason for gov-
ernment, the active incentive to research
and invention, the promoter of virtue,
the discourager of vice, and the conser-
vator of ailthat makes men better and
happier.”

These are strong terms to use, but if
these assertions are not true, how are we
to regard history, for man has advanced
as business has grown? How are we to
content ourselves with our lives? Are
we mere money getters? Or are we ad-
vancing the cause of humanity while
pursuing our business careers? For
what are we working?

1 have no sympathy with those who re-
gard all business as degrading—who
stoop to trade as a necessity, feeling
that they are contaminated by commer-
cial contact and defiled by monetary
transactions, nor do I regard with favor
those who pretend a belief in primitive
simplicity and assert that everything be-
yond gathering the fruit of the soil is de-
basing—who hold themselves aloof from
their fellows and affect a life of contem-
plation—who refrain from an active part
in the work of the world because they
are better than the world. From per-
sonal contact with a few such I am dis-
posed to substitute for ‘‘convictions,’’
which they so loudly vaunt, the more
homely word, *‘laziness.”

With the poet 1 am sometimes able to
find ‘‘sermons in stones,’”’ but as no poet
has yet written, so far as I know, I can
also find living sermons in railway trains
and hear precept upon precept in the
hum of factories. A steamship is to me
a revelation and a bank a storehouse of
winnowed wisdom.

In closing let me leave with you one
or two thoughts from eminent writers
and speakers who have been able to re-
gard business from a view point above
rather than below, and who have had
conceptions of the humanizing influences
of business. Speaking of the advance-
ment of the race, Beecher said:

‘‘Next to the pastoral came the agri-
cultural life. When you add to that
the manufacturing phase of develop-
ment, society begins to fill out and needs
but wings to fly, and commerce is its
wings.”’

Charles Sumner, in speaking of busi-
ness, asserted:

‘The age of chivalry has gone; the age
of humanity has come.”’

Garfield, in eulogizing business, said:

‘‘Commerce links all mankind in one
common brotherhood of mutual depend-
ence and interest.’’

Addison, apostrophizing busines men,
said:

‘There are no more useful members in
the commonwealth than merchants.
They knit mankind together in a mutual
intercourse of good offices, distribute
the gifts of nature, find work for the
poor and wealth to the rich and magnifi-
cence to the great.”

, of life, which not only gives a grateful
| smack to it, but dries up those crudities
| that would offend, preserves from putre-
| faction, and drives off all those blowing
flies that would corrupt it.’’
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The Bicycle and Health.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
| Going the rounds of the bicycle press
| are some comments of a French physi-
cian on the dangers of the bicycle in
eases of old age, heart weakness or other
infirmities, ending with the astonishing
advice that no one should ride a bicycle
without first consulting a physician.

Ever since the wheel came into use
there has been a prejudice against it on
the score of danger to health which ex-
perience shows is not warranted by the
facts. That reputable wheel journals
should continue to foster this prejudice
by publishing such statements without
comment is certainly inexplicable.

It does not need the advice of a physi-
cian to inform any one suffering from
heart disease, or a person of old age or
other infirmity that disqualifies from
exercise, that it would not be prudent to
learn to ride the wheel, and the idea that
a physician should be consulted in the
matter by anyone in ordinary health is
too absurd te consider.

The fact of the matter is the wheel is
not the best friend of the physician’s
avocation, and, while it should not be
intimated that that fact ever influences
his advice, the temptation is, neverthe-
less, one that should not be placed in his
way by any who may have been contrib-
utors to his support on account of in-
firmities resulting from laziness. Any
one who hasn’t common sense enough to
know whether it is good for him to ride
the wheel without ‘tasking the doctor’’
would do well to quietly stay under his
advice.

The exercise of riding the wheel mod-
erately, yet rapidly enough for enjoy-
ment and for all ordinary requirements
of transportation, in the case of one who
is accustomed to it, is of no more danger
to a person having heart disease than
any other exercise that could be named.

Immoderate exercise with the wheel is
not physically good for any one, any
more than any other immoderate exer-
cise, but, where one suffers from an over-
dose of the wheel asa tonic, hundreds
are moping their lives away in inactivity
and weakness, from which the wheel
would offer speedy redemption.

Ww. o. F.

> <>____——

When a young man is reported short
in his accounts he is put down as a de-
faulter. If he is long in his accounts he
is thought to be a bad book-keeper.

 

 

 

Now is the Time

TO ORDER PLANTS. THEY ARE
CHEAP. YOU CAN MAKE MON-
EY ON THEM. I OFFER YOU

Cabbage and Tomato Plants, 200 in box, box 6c
Sweet Potatoes and Celery Plants, 200 in box 80e

Common Green Onions, ee doz. en
Seed Onions, per doz.... ..
Radishes, long or round, ve ery ‘fine, per doz -10¢
Asparag us, per doz.. a
Cucumbers, per ee ae
Spinach, new, per bu... oe
Pie Plant, per bu ee ee ee i 40¢

Bananas, per bunch.. .$1.50@2.00

 

Wax Beans, Peas, Green Beans, Beets, Carrots
and Strawberries at lowest market prices.

Wearea Mail Order Fruit and Produce House.
Ai certain I can save you money. Send me your
mail orders and you will always get GOOD
FRESH GOODs.

 

 

 

CHAS.A.MORRILL & Co

Importers and Jobbers of

o> TEAS<

21 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, ILL.

A Dead Shot
In Tea

 

 

We offer 47 1-
& Co.’s packing, 1894 Japan Teas, weight

2 chests Morilyan, Heimann

58 lhs., at 25 cents per Ib.

We also offer 92 1-2 chests Hellyer & Co.’s
packing, 1594 Japan Teas, weight 80 lbs.,
at 18 cents per Ib.

Less 6 per cent. cash with order.
These Teas are elegant value. Send for

samples and try them.

 

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EAST SAGINAW, MIGH.

 

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KISSED THE BRIDE.

 

A Chicago Drummer’s Adventure With
& Cowboy.

A Chicago drummer grew confidential
as he was talking with a party of friends
in his club one day last week. He esti-
mates the expense of his chatting at sev-
eral hundred dollars already, and the
account is growing.

‘I was down in Raton, N. M., about
ten years ago,’’? he said, ‘‘and the first
thing I did after I had secured my room
in the excellent botel at the station was
to go down and see an old acquaintance
of mine who had come up from the
mines and opened a combination liquor
saloon, gambling house and dance hall.
We talked over old times until it was al-
most time for dinner, and I started back
for the hotel.

‘I had gotten within plain view of the
crowd silting out on the broad veranda
waiting for the dinner bell toring, when
I became conscious of the approach of a
little blonde, weazen-faced cowboy es-
corting a stout, bleary-looking woman.
As we were about to meet, 1 said, in my
best manner:

‘***Pleasant day, partner.’

‘**Betcher life it’s a pleasant day,’ he
answered, with some effusion; ‘’smy
weddin’ day.’ Then, with an air of evi-
dent pride at the new-found partner of
his joys and sorrows, ‘’Smy wife. Pretty,
ain’t she?’

‘I saw no reason why I should insult
a bridegroom by telling him the truth, so
I answered that she was very pretty.
Without any more conversation he
changed the subject with startling
abruptness.

“* *Kiss ’er,’ he said. ‘Kiss a bride.’

‘‘Now, I didn’t want to kiss anybody
at that time, and least of all this silent
woman who stood rocking dreamily on
the arm of my new acquaintance. I be-
thought me of my old friend as a refuge
in affliction and said:

‘***Let’s go down to Bill’s place and
drink her health.’

‘**Kiss ’er first,’ he replied, uncom-
promisingly.

‘**Well,’ IL said, ‘supposing you take a
dollar and go down there and drink to
her health.’

‘**Gimme dollar,’ he said.

“{ produced the dollar cheerfully,
thinking it mighty cheap under the cir-
cumstances, when he interrupted my
thoughts of self-gratulation with:

** ‘Now kiss ’er!’

‘*You all know I’m a bachelor and an
honest, truth-telling man. [am ashamed
to say that in my desperation I lied
shamefully.

‘““*‘My wife is right up there on the
hotel porch,’ I begged, ‘and what will
she say when she sees me kiss a stran-
ger?’

‘**Tha’s alright,’ he responded cheer-
fully. ‘You kissa girl an’ I'll go up an’
kisshure wife.’

“IT had played my last card and could
distinctly see, in spite of my mortifica-
tion, that he was fingering his weapons,
a perfect arsenal of guns and knives that
pervaded his whole miserable front.
There was only one thing to do and I did
it like aman. I put both arms around
that frowzy woman, in front of the crowd
on the veranda, and kissed her good and
loud.

‘“*Thank you,’ he said, and our ac-
quaintance ceased from that moment.

‘‘When I reached the hotel the crowd
rose as one man and followed me into the
bar. My business made it absolutely
necessary for me to stay in Raton several
days. During all that time men I never
saw before and hope never to see again
would come up to me and whisper,
‘Kisser.’ The amount of money it cost
me was fabulous.”’

et =
Fire Caused by Incandescent ‘Lamps.

An investigation into the cause of a
fire in a Winter street dry goods store,
in Boston, recently, resulted in demon-
strating that an incandescent electric
lamp will generate sufficient heat to set
inflammable material into a blaze. The
fire in question, for which a still alarm
was given, was caused by allowing an
incandescent lamp to remain for a few
moments on a pile of cotton cloth in the

packing room. The person in charge,

 

left the room for a few moments, not
dreaming but that it was safe to leave
the lamp on the cloth. When he re-
turned the cloth was blazing. The fire
was soon put out, and not much damage
was done.

This case recalls one reported from
Louisville, Ky., a few months ago, which
demonstrates the same thing. The fire
started while the window dresser was
preparing a Christmas snow scene.
The window was lighted with incandes-
cent lights, which it appears had not
been changed for a year, except when
made necessary by accidental breakage.
The earbon in an ineandescent globe has
a life of 600 hours, and as it wears out

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. .

 

the carbon loop offers increasingly less
resistance to the current, and, therefore,
increasingly more heat is thrown off upon
the glass bulb and even upon the metal
stems to which the globes are affixed.
When a new light is attached the globe
becomes only warm under continuous
use, but after it gets old the globes are
hot and the stems attain burning heat.
The dresser was filling the floor of the
window with loose cotton upon cheese-
cloth, to represent snow. This was
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A VIGOROUS FOREIGN POLICY.

The death of Secretary Gresham, ne-
cessitating, as it does, the appointment of
a new Secretary of State, should cer-
tainly furnish the administration with
an opportunity to remodel its foreign
policy. It cannot be denied that the ad-
ministration of the foreign affairs of this
country by the State Department for
some years past has been unsatisfactory
to the people, whether Democrats or Re-
publicans. itis but justice to the mem-
ory of the late Seeretary to say that he
Was not personally responsible for the un-
popular course of his department, the
attitude of the Government on foreign
affairs having been the result of the pol-
icy mapped out by the full Cabinet. The
administration should recognize that its
course has not met with popular approval,
and, as a new head must be appointed to
the State Department, a fitting opportu-
nity is offered to make a radical change in
its attitude with respect to our foreign
relations and to selecta man whose views
as to a foreign policy coincide more
closely with the popular demand for
more vigor and firmness in our relations
with other countries.

Every thinking man must admit that
for the present the country is not pre-
pared to wage a successful war with any
of the first-class powers of Europe, ow-
ing to an insufficient naval force: hence,
however able we may be to defend our-
selves at home, we are not in a position
to compel absolute compliance with our
demands where the interests of distant
nations are concerned. The difficulty of
successfully attacking the United States,
however, and the wealth and resources
of the country, give the protests of our
Government much weight in interna-
tional affairs, and were the State Depart-
ment managed by an able diplomat, im-
bued with the belief in the necessity of

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the interference of European powers in
American affairs have been ignored or
;}evaded. As a result of our failure to
| make good our pretensions, the pro-
| tection accorded American citizens re-
siding abroad has ceased to be effective,
owing to the contempt in which our
power has come to be held through our
uniformly weak and vacillating course
| in international disputes.

The policy of isolation, which was
good enough half a century ago, has
ceased to serve onr purpose at the pres-
ent time and should be laid aside as ob-
solete. The people demand a vigorous
treatment of all international affairs and
the maintenance of the country’s honor
and rights at every cost. A Secretary of
State who would have the courage to in-
augurate such a policy would unques-
tionably win great popularity, and he
would, moreover, redeem the country
from the rather undignified position it
now holds in the estimation of other
countries.

THE IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE.

The events of the past month have
demonstrated very clearly that the coun-
try has entered upon a period of decided-
ly better trade. There has been a phe-
nominal advance in prices of nearly all
the leading staples of the country, and
minor productions, manufactures and, in
fact, nearly every article of merchandise
entering extensively into consumption
have materially improved in value.

While it must be admitted that much
of the late advance in prices has been
speculative, nevertheless the causes un-
derlying the improvement are real and
substantial, and the general character of
the speculative movement indicates a
complete return of confidence, which ex-
tends to every section of the country.

There are many persons who predict
that wheat will advance to $1 a bushel,
but it must be admitted that such a limit
appears entirely improbable at the pres-
ent moment. When, however, one re-
flects that the great cereal has advanced
from a point close to 50 cents a bushel to
as high as 82 cents, it seems unreasona-
ble to fix a limit to the possible improve-
ment. The advance in wheat has caused
a correspondingly large improvement in
flour, that article being about $1.50 per
barrel dearer than it was some months
ago. Although corn has not attracted
the attention which wheat has com-
manded during the past month, it has,
nevertheless, advanced greatly, with a
probability of still higher prices.

With such a phenomenal advance in its
leading producis, the West cannot fail to
experience a great improvement in busi-
ness, and, should the present advance
hold, Michigan farmers will enjoy a sea-
son of prosperity greater than they have
experienced in many years. One such
reason would suffice to remove a great
percentage of the distress which existed
in the West until recently, and it may

 

rigorously upholding American rights
and commanding respect for the national |
flag, our prestige abroad would be much |
greater and our power more formidable
than they have been considered of late |
years by our neighbors.

It is a fact which no one can dispute |
that our citizens residing or traveling in|
foreign countries have suffered injury
and outrage without proper reparation |
having been exacted therefor by our Gov- |
ernment. It is also well known and ad-

confidently be expected that the political
unrest and discontent which have pre-
vailed in the country, owing to the un-
favorable trade conditions and agricul-
tural depression, will give place to a
more healthful state of things.

 

 

A late decision in a Chicago court says
that merchants in that city have the
right to use three feet of the sidewalk
before their stores for the display of
their goods, or to lease the space tv

mitted that our demands with respect to others. '

WASTE OF PUBLIC LANDS.

By the operation of the homestead
laws the opening of the Indian lands for
settlement places them at the disposal
of the first comers, who have the privi-
lege of taking them up in homestead
claims. Many of these lands are valua-
ble, and in proportion to their value do
swarms of people wait on their borders,
sometimes for years, cherishing the hope
of obtaining this value for nothing.
When the lands are finally opened, the
race for claims, with its attendant suf-
fering, hardship and, perhaps, blood-
shed, occurs, in which the professional
claim jumper and homestead speculator
usually get the valuable lands, while the
weaker and more honest home seekers
must return from the race. often broken
in spirit, to become tenants of poor-
houses or dependants on public charity.

The operation of the homestead law is,
no doubt, of great good in the settle-
ment of new regions being gradually
opened up by railways and public im-
provements; but the sudden opening, by
public proclamation, of extensive regions
comprising valuable lands, surrounded
by settlement, is a perversion of the in-
tent of those laws and a reckless waste
of the public domain without any re-
turn. The emigrant who goes into the
advance of civilization and improvement
to make himself a home adds to the tax
and revenue values of the region and so
of the country; but it is ridiculous that
lands which have been kept from ocecu-
pation until improvement has gone far
beyond them and left them as islands in
the sea of civilization must be turned
over to the unscrupulous land grabber.
A suitable value should be placed upon
such lands and they should be put into
the market.

If the Oklahoma, Cherokee, Kickapoo
and other such tracts had been treated as
belonging to the Government and thus
sold, those regions would have been
settled by a much more orderly and
thrifty class and many millions would
have been turned into the treasury
of the Government—enough to material-
ly affect the deficit question.

This is a matter that should receive
attention from the new Congress before
any more of the public domain is worse
than thrown away.

 

 

FALSE FRIENDS OF LABOR.

As might be expected, the leaders of
labor organizations are loud in their con-
demnation of the action of the Supreme
Court in denying the appeal of Eugene
VY. Debs for release from the sentence of
the lower court. The Amalgamated As-
sociation of Iron and Steel Workers
passed resclutions of sympathy for Debs
at its session in Cleveland recently, in
which the statements were made that the
‘‘pleasures of the court are the extent of
our liberties,’ and ‘“‘thus is the issuing of
injunction further encouraged and the
commen people’s rights further endan-
gered,”’ and ‘‘that we regard the denial
of his petition by the Supreme Court asa
denial of simple justice.”

It would be hard to imagine a more
flagrant contempt of the federal judicial
authority or one with more serious con-
sequences in the violation of law causing
interference in the transmission of mails,
with riot, bloodshed and vast destruction
of property, than the one for which these
criminals were sentenced. They dragged
the cloak of labor in the mire of treason

 

and sedition in thus using it to protect

themselves in violating the expressed
eommands of the court. No one has
shown, or tried toshow, that they are not
guilty of that contempt, or that they are
not directly responsible for the terrible
consequences. The only defense was
that the corporations at which their
blows were aimed were responsible for
them.

This man Debs and his associates
stand convicted of the most flagrant con-
tempt of judicial authority. The Su-
preme Court has denied the petition ask-
ing that the outlaw—his acts made him
such—should be released from the sen-
tence of the Court whose authority he
had defied, a petition that no effrontery
would have been sufficient to obtain se-
rious consideration had it not been pro-
tected by the cloak of labor. The degree
of liberty that would satisfy the authors
of these resolutions could be nothing less
than anarchy. In no country without
the widest liberty amountiong to license
could the publication of such resolutions
in sympathy with such a criminal and
in condemnation of the highest courts in
the land, whose authority he had out-
raged, go unrebuked and unpunished.

 

Newfoundland was fully expected to
enter the Canadian Dominion under the
pressure of her financial necessities.
The terms were discussed at Ottawa, and
the deputies from the Island agreed to
them. But the Provincial Legislature
voted a flat refusal, and in view of the
hisses with which the delegation was
sent on its way, it is impossible to doubt
that the Legislature expresses the real
feeling of the people. Canada has been
so unhappy in her relations with her sea-
board provinces that no one can wonder
if Newfoundland refuses to be added to
their number. More than once Nova
Scotia has begun the legal steps required
to take her out of the Dominion, and the
other two are far from satisfied. In fact,
they are sundered from the main body of
the Dominion by a long stretch of deso-
late country which cannot be settled.
They have little intercourse with the
central provinces and no industrial in-
terests in common. It would be far bet-
ter if they were to detach themselves and
form a confederation of their own, in-
cluding New Foundland. That would
possess a common government really in-
terested in the fisheries and shipping,
which interest all four; and under the
egis of England it might grow strong
enough to make itself respected by all its
neighbors.

 

The New York Tribune devotes consid-
erable space to an enumeration of the
various ‘‘crazes” now and recently prev-
alent in this country. Among them it
classes the bicycle, comparing it to the
roller-skating craze of a few years ago
and predicting its early termination in
the same manner. Perhaps it would be
more absurd to class the telephone as a
craze and predict its dying out. Regard-
less of its use in the way of pastime, the
wheel is rapidly assuming a position of
great economic value. Its availability
and readinessfor purposes of transporta-
tion make it almost a necessity te every-
one having occasion to move quickly
from place to place. In many cases it
supersedes the use of a horse, to which
it is superior and far less troublesome
for most purposes. Of course, the atten-
tion given the wheel, owing to its nov-
elty, will diminish, but this will be ac-
companied by a siill further lowering of
prices, and soon the two-wheeled carriage
will be no more an object of notice than
its four-wheeled competitor—it is scaree-

 

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THE DEBS DECISION.

One of the most important decisions
ever uttered by the Supreme Court was
that handed down last week in the Debs
case, affirming the power of the United
States to issue injunctions against
strikers who are obstructing the opera-
tions of interstate commerce.

The circumstances of the case are of
so recent a date that they are still famil-
iar to the reading public. They grew
out of the great railway employes’ strike
at Chicago, in April, 1894. The asso-
ciated railway managers of Chicago,
fearing a strike of their yardmen and
switchmen, applied to Judge Wood, of
the United States Circuit Court, for an
injunction to prevent interference by
outside parties with their employes.
This injunction was issued and served
on Eugene V. Debs, President, and others
who were also officers, of the American
Railway Union, and it forbade any of
those persons from inciting railway
hands to leave the service of their em-
ployers.

Shortly afterwards, Debs ordered a
strike of the members of the American
Railway Union, which order was obeyed.
The great strike of 1894 has gone into
history. Everybody knows how great a
matter that strike was, and how it was
put down by the military power of the
United States. But, in the meantime,
Debs and his principal associates were
brought before the courts, charged with
having committed a contempt, and wefe
ordered to imprisonment for six months.

Debs then sued out a writ of habeas
corpus to have the question of contempt
reviewed by the Supreme Court of the
United States, and it is this matter which
has just been decided. That tribunal
declared that Debs was in contempt of
the United States Circuit Court and that
this court had a right toimprison him for
contempt, in addition to the further
right to try him under certain statutes
for having engaged in a conspiracy to
obstruct interstate commerce and the
mails.

The effect of this decision is very far-
reaching. It declares the right of the
United States to intervene, without re-
gard to state rights and state laws, to
brush aside all obstacles to the transpor-
tation of the mails and the conduct of
interstate commerce. It holds that,
while under the dual system of state and
National Government each has its pow-
ers and province, the Federal Govern-
ment is a government of enumerated
powers; yet within the limits of such
enumeration it has all the attributes of
sovereignty, and, in the exercise of those
enumerated powers, acts directly upon
the citizen, and not through the inter-
mediate agency of the state, but is fully
authorized te employ force to execute
the laws of the United States, or the
mandates of the United States courts,
without waiting for or consulting the
action of the state government.

The Court declares that it would have
been puerile and ridiculous to have at-
tempted to stop Lee’s army by a writ
from a judicial tribunal, and if the in-
habitants of a single state, or a great
body of them, should combine to ob-
struct interstate commerce or the trans-
portation of the mails, prosecution for
such offenses would be doomed in ad-
vance to failure. And if the certainty
of such failure were known, and the Na-
tional Government had no other way to
enforce the freedom of interstate com-

 

merce and the transportation of the
mails than by prosecution and punish-
ment for such offenses, the whole inter-
ests of the Nation in these respects
would be at the absolute mercy of the
inhabitants of a single state.

‘But,’ says the Court, ‘‘there is no
such impotency in the National Govern-
ment. The entire strength of the na-
tion may be used in any part of the land
for the full and free exercise of all na-
tional powers and the security of all
rights intrusted by the constitution to
its care. The strong arm of the National
Government may be put forward to
brush away all obstructions to the free-
dom of interstate commerce or the trans-
portation of the mails. If the emergency
arises, the army of the nation, with its
militia, is at the service of the nation
to compel obedience to its laws.

But the right to use foree dees not
preclude the right to use judicial pro-
ceedings, and these may be properly em-
ployed where there is no urgent emer-
gency.

The position of the Federal Govern-
ment as to its right to restrain and to
punish railroad employes, and any other
persons who may combine to prevent
the moving of interstate commerce, is
thus plainly affirmed, and, as it is certain
that this applies to the movement
of such commerce by water as well as by
land, necessarily it embraces interna-
tional commerce as well as that between
the states. Therefore, men who in-
terfere with the loading of ships are as
much subject to the effects of this judg-
ment as are railway strikers and mobs,
and no discriminations can be made in
any case. The Court has fully declared
the right of the United States tribunals
to prevent strikes as well as to crush
them out, on the ground that they are
unlawful and that those who participate
in them are violating the fundamental
laws of the land.

The bill for the building of a second
bridge across East River from New York
to Brooklyn has passed the New York
Legislature and has been approved by
the councils of the two cities and only
awaits the signature of Governor Morton
to become law. The first Brooklyn
bridge cost $15,000,000, when opened,
and subsequent expenditures brought
the entire cost up to $20,000,000. It is
thought that, on account of improved
methods and cheaper materials, the cost
of the new one can be so reduced as not
to exceed $12,000,000. Of the expense of
the first bridge Brooklyn paid two-thirds
and New York one-third. As the cities
are so nearly one now, it is proposed to
have them share equally in the expense
of the new venture.

 

 

The movement inaugurated and car-
ried on in favor of good roads by the
disciples of the wheel is developing an
importance that is being recognized by
other interests. The requirement of a
suitable highway for wheelmen and the
persistence with which they have set
about securing such highways have
drawn attention to the subject and have
led to the formation of organizations in
its interest until the movement is spread-
ing over the entire country. Thus the
country merchant, the one who is most
directly benefited by the movement—
next, perhaps, to the farmer—is laid un-
der an obligation to the frisky wheel
which he scarcely recognizes.

 

REDISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION.

The Worcester, Mass., Spy, comment-
ing on the fact that the greatest num-
bers of the unemployed people are in
cities, proposes a redistribution of popu-
lation, so that people can be sent
where they are needed.

The Spy argues that the trouble arises
from no excess of population, but from
the excessive crowding of people in
cities, and it expresses the belief that
the excess of city population ought to be
colonized on farming lands, and finds in
the South a proper field for this sort of
thing. Says the Worcester paper:

What are needed are land and immi-
gration companies, organized by North-
ern capital, to purchase suitable areas in
the South, lay them out in small farms
and sell them to settlers on the install-
ment plan, and then select desirable set-
tlers from among the worthy and
industrious poor families of large cities,
and aid them to establish themselves in
their new homes. One-fifth of the
money worse than wasted on miscealled
charities every hard winter in great
cities, if employed in such practical
philanthropies as these suggested cor-
porations would be, would do much to
relieve communities of their burdens,
while enabling thousands of worthy
families that unaided cannot escape
from the bondage of their environments
to become owners of their homes
and independent, self-respecting and
prosperous citizens.

This is excellent in theory, but in
practice such a policy will entirely fail.
The remarkable growth of the cities in
the United States, and for that matter in
Europe, demonstrates that country peo-
ple are constantly flocking to the cities
while there is no corresponding flow
from the cities to the country. The
social nature of human beings impels
them to gather in crowds. They tire of
the monotony and loneliness of country
life and are attracted by the glare and
bustle of the cities, and, having once
tasted city life, no matter how serious
its hardships and how severe its require-
ments, there are few who are willing to
go back to the country.

The people who are referred to in the
article quoted above are those who live
in the slums and poor quarters of the
great cities. It would seem to be most
desirable if the gloomy and pestilential
tenement houses of such cities, crowded
with people who live by precarious
means and often by vice and crime,
could be emptied into the country with
its pure air and bright sunshine: but in
practice it could not well be done. The
great masses of these people would be
unfitted for country life, and not a few
of them would consider the transfer to a
farm where they would be forced to
work, asa sort of penal servitude. It
should be remembered that Coxey’s army
did not start from a great city to march
to the country, but from the country to
march to a great city, where deluded
men hoped to gain free benefits from a
paternal government.

The rich lands and genial climate of
the South offer excellent opportunity to
industrious and thrifty people who are
willing to till the ground and know how
to do it, and these great attractions are
already drawing people from the North-
ern and Western States. But these peo-
ple do not come from the slums of great
cities, but from the country. They are
leaving Northern farms for Southern
farms because they find more favorable
conditions. City people do not willingly
remove to the country except for short

 

 

periods of recreation and change of air.
But the people who do this are not the
poor and unemployed. They are not the
people for whom farm colonies would be
desirable. It would be a great thing ifa
redistribution of the population were
possible, but it does not appear to be in
any way practicable.

 

WORK THEM ON ROADS.

Massachusetts has recently been giv-
ing much attention to the tramp problem.
A commission has been appointed for its
consideration and the only solution it
has been able to offer is compulsory
work. One of its recommendations is
that every town shall provide lodging
for tramps and exact work in payment.

In this line the State has undertaken
the experiment on a large scale, by the
purchase of a farm of 2,000 acres of
cheap, rocky and marshy land, capable
of improvement, to which it is proposed
to sentence the worst vagrants for two
years and others for a less period. The
experiment promises something of value
if it shall demonstrate the practicability
of compelling these idle vagabonds to
work, but it would seem a great waste
to use their labor for the improving of a
few acres of worthless land—compara-
tively worthless even after it is im-
proved—when there is such a erying
need for this labor on the roads of every
country parish or road district in the
State.

If such experiments could be made in
the way of devising a practical scheme
for the permanent improvement of the
highways and using the labor of these
criminals—for they are criminals—as
well as others ordinarily sent to houses
of detention or penitentiaries, the exper-
iments would be in the direction of a
positive advance. The time must come
when convict labor shall be used on pub-
lic works, instead of being used in com-
petition with free labor in manufactur-
ing, and any experiments in the direction
of using vagabond labor in the same way
are worthy of attention.

There are no public works so univer-
sally with us where the need is so con-
Stantly crying as the public highways.
Any scheme for the permanent improve-
ment of these will involve the prepara-
tion of material and other preparatory
work, which will make the season in
which this labor can be used extend over
as much of the year as it would ona
farm.

The political economist who will pros-
ecute experiments in this direction will
be doing the work of a true philanthro-
pist, and every day’s work thus applied
will be adding a positive value to the
sum total of the wealth of the commu-
nity.

enn

Some time ago a little girl in Brooklyn
was run down bya trolley car and lost
both her feet. She sued for damages,
and got a verdict for $13,268.68. The
money was deposited with a trust com-
pany, and the court has now ordered the
company to pay the girl’s lawyer, as his
share of the cash, $7244.85, leaving for
the cripple but $6023.83. Probably the
division is according to law, but it would
be hard to convince the average lay
mind that itisafair thing. The jury,
no doubt, thought that the cash was go-
ing to the cripple, and had no idea that
the lawyer, who appealed to them so
strongly, was coming in for the lion’s
share.

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THE MICHIGAN

   

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JIM JACKSON’S STORE.

Written for the Tradesman.

“You couldn’t give me work enough, |

could you, to pay for a pairo’ shoes? I’ve
a considerable walk before me and these
don’t look as if they’d hold out much
longer. Look a’ there!’ And a foot be-
longing to that period of youth when the
feet get ahead of the rest of the body in

development was put up on the veranda |

where Jim Jackson, the village store-
keeper, sat looking over the morning
paper while waiting for his breakfast.

It was a bad time to ask for a favor in
that quarter. The fire in the kitchen
wouldn’t burn, and the breakfast was
jate. Jim was hungry, and there wasn’t
any news in the paper; and, if there was
anything in the world he ‘‘abominated,”’
it was “this everlasting begging,’”’ and,
by the time the big foot came down with
a thump on the floor of the veranda, Jim
was looking over his spectacles with a
scowl at the young tramp.

‘‘D’ yer want ter jar the house down?
Work for a pair o’ shoes! Anybody ’d
think, ter hear yer talk, ’t yer could do
itin half anhour. No. I hain’t got no
work fer yer. One boy’s more’n I kin
git along with, an’ ef yer’d git outo’ here
lively an’ take ’im ’long with yer, ’d be
tempted ter gin yer a new pair!”

‘| didn’t mean to work in the store.
Haven’t you any wood to cut, or garden
to make, or back yard to clean up—any-
thing, 1 don’t care what it is, if itll
bring me a pair of shoes. I don’t care if
they’ve been worn if I can get my feet
into them. I need them so.’? And the
boy looked ruefully at his foot covering,
which had long passed that period where
any hopes of relief were to be looked for
from the cobbler.

“Come in ter breakfast, Jim. Who
yer got out here?’? And Mrs. Jackson,
comfertable in figure and face, appeared
in the doorway.

“1 hain’t got any ol’ shoes, hev 1?
This feller wants to earn a pair. I
hain’t got anything fer ’im ter do, but
I’m willin’ he sh’d have anything ’t I’ve
got through with, ef there is anything.’’

‘What yer want ter do, boy? An’
where’d yer come frum?”’

“Anything; and 1 came from home—up
in the Spring Grove neighborhood.’’

‘‘Land alive! Yer don’t tell me ’t
yer’ve walked ten miles this mornin’!
What’s yer name?”’

“John Steadman. If you know any-
thing about Spring Grove, I live the
second house after you come to the red
schoolhouse, where the road forks.’’

“IT hain’t much acquainted ’n that part
the country, but ye’re hungry ’nough fer
another breakfast b’ this time, an’ I'll
jes’ look an’ see ’f there’s any ol’ shoes
layin’ round loose ’t yer kin hev. Come
ter breakfast ’fore everything gits stun
cold. Set right down here an’ Ill git
yeraplate. Jes’ help yerse’f. A feller
*t walks ten mile ’fore six o’clock ’s hun-
gry er I miss my guess. Where’d yer
say yer’d started fer?”’

‘Over to Green River. I have an
uncle over there, and I’m in hopes to
find that he has something that I can
do.”

‘*Much ’f a fambly ter hum?”’

“Yes, ma’am; there are nine of us and
I’m the oldest. After father died, about
two years ago,’’ (a shade passed over his
face) ‘‘things haven’t been goingon very
well, so I thought IV’d go over to my
uncle’s and see if I could get something

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| sometimes, you know.”

|ing hungry and, while Melindy and the
| boy talked, he listened and siudied him.

over fifteen—shoulders

hair inclined to curl.
all, he was a good-looking boy.
poorly clad but neat as a pin.

so he watched and listened.

‘‘What does yer uncle do fer a livin

“Oh, he lives on a farm; and I don’t
expect he will want to keep me any
longer than till I can finda place where 1
can work and help them at home. l’ve
got to find something, you see.”’

“Yer two ’ve ben talkin’ so much ’t
ye hain’t et anything yit an’ I can’t wait.
Arter yer git through, ef yer’1] come over
t’? the store, I'll give yer a job o’ cleanin’
out that back store. It’s ben needin’
on’t fer er long time. Do that well, an’
V’ll gin yer a pair o’ shoes right outen the
store, ef there hain’t nuthin’ ter find
round the house. Jes’ open the back
door from the yard an’ go to work.
Yerll find ’nough ter do—lI’ll tell yer
that b’forehan’.’’

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when he heard the back door fly open.

in two days deserves as good a pair ’f
shoes as there is in the house; an’ he
shall hev’em. 1 wouldn’t undertake it
fer twice their wuth.”’

John Steadman stopped at the open
door and looked upon as fine a sample of
dirt and confusion as his eyes had ever
beheld. His first difficulty was to getin.
Broken boxes and barrels piled to the
ceiling barred the doorway. The sun,
shining upon an eastern window, re-
vealed the fact that the choked doorway
was only the condition of the whole
room, and the boy was wondering where
he should begin, when Jim, calling
through a back window, asked what he
thought about it.

“I’m afraid | shall have to litter up
your dooryard,’’ he said, ‘‘but do you
care, if I leave it all right?’’ i

“Care? No, I don’t care. What I’m
‘thinkin’ on is that yer’ve bit off a bigger
piece ’n yer kin chew!”’

“Oh, that’s ali right, and as soon as I
can geta foothold in there, the rest’
take care of itself.”

So Jim went to the front of the store
and young Archimedes went on with the
search of where to locate his lever to
move this new world he had gotinto. It
was no easy task. Every board was as
immovable as if vise held, and the boxes
and barrels, full or empty, were as firm
in place as if they had grown there. He
went around and entered the back store
from the front; but, aside from a few
feet of space, the refuse was as tightly
wedged in there as at the back.

‘“‘How do you manage to use this back
room for anything, Mr. Jackson?”

“I don’t manage. It jes’ sorter got
filled up an’ | don’t use it—that’s how
’tis. Goin’ ter gin it up?’’

‘“‘Why, you want it put in shape, don’t
you?”

“That’s what I said.’’

‘Well, then, I’m going to doit.” And
a few minutes later, there was

“The sound of hammer blow on blow,”
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Jim had hardly reached the front store |

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By this time Jim had gotten over be- |

He saw a lad, large for his age—Mrs. |
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around to the back, Jim found the boy
plying an axe, might and main, upon
whatever opposed him at the back door.
That settled it. A dozen strokes, and
the place for the lever was made; and,
when they were called in to dinner, the
back store was what a back store ought
to be, and there wasn’t a splinter in the
back yard to tell of the stirring events of
the morning.

‘‘I don’t s’pose yer care ter tackle the
cellar, do yer? I don’t b’lieve I want
yer ter do it, enyway, to-day. There
was a good day’s work in what yer’ve
done this mornin’, an’ ef yer say so, yer
might cum inter the front store an’ keep
yerse’f busy. Ever do up any bundles
er packages er anything o’ that sort?”

*‘No, but I should like to try. Mother
always makes such a fuss if things are
not just so, that 1 think I could do that
kind of work fairly well.’

So the afternoon went by, and the boy
showed a deftness that surprised and
pleased the store-keeper, who, busy with
his books, could see, without seeming to
watch, whatever was going on in the
store. Once, when Tom, the clerk, was
busy, a customer came in, and John,
making an interrogation point with his
eyebrows, looked at Jim, who nodded
and the boy-waited on the customer.

The next day the cellar was looked
after. That was a long tiresome job and
neither the first day nor the second saw
the end of it. After that, there were the
rooms upstairs to be seen to, and by that
time Jim Jackson had made up his mind
that one of two things was going to be
done, and the sooner the better—he
would either keep store and do it
properly, or he’d sell out and be done
with it. One of the first things to be
done was to have a talk with John.

“ve ben watchin’ yer, John, ever
sence yer’ve ben here, an’ I’ve ’bout
made up my mind ter keep yer right
long, ef yer’ll stay. What d’ yer say?’’

‘I can’t tell vou how much I want to
stay, Mr. Jackson, but I’m afraid that
you won’t like me.”’

‘Not like yer! Why not, I sh’d like
ter know?”

“Oh, because I can’t live where things
are not shipshape, and, after I had
straightened them out once, to have
them thrown again into confusion would
make me crazy. Tom never puts any-
thing back, and, begging your pardon,
Mr. Jackson, I think you sometimes for-
get to do it.’’

The man threw his head back and
laughed.

“That’s right, boy; an’ that’s why I
want yer. Ef I hire yer ter foller me
’round an’ keep things where they
b’long, yer can’t complain.’’

“‘No; but I don’t want to do that kind
of work. I couldn’t doit, Mr. Jackson;
but, if you are willing to try the other
way, I shall be glad to stay as long as
you want me.”’

It was a bargain and John Steadman
went to work. There was trouble the
first thing, for Tom, the clerk, liked the
old way of dropping a thing where it was
used last and leaving it there, and, when
brought up short for it, he just ‘‘struck.”
Then, with ‘‘none to molest or make him
afraid,’ the new clerk inaugurated a
new order of things in that long-neg-
lected store. Jackson thought he was
up early, but the new clerk was an hour
ahead of him, and he wasn’t obliged to
put on his spectacles to see what had
been going op.

 

The front windows had been the first
point of attack. The curtains, not put
up properly in the first place, not only
had always insisted upon hanging awry,
but had finally made up their minds that
they would not be raised or lowered and,
left to themselves, had accumulated
their share of the dust of the ages. In
spite of a brave resistance, they were
forced to surrender, and the tattered
banners were taken to the back yard
where they were promptly burned. The
startled spiders, without standing on the
order of their going, went at once.
Their dusty, fly-decorated abodes fol-
lowed, and, when Jackson came in to see
what was going on, he found that the
clerk had a squirt-gun, made out of a
piece of lead pipe, and was playing a
vigorous stream upon the glass and win-
dow casing outside. That done, the
windows were thoroughly washed and
dried, inside and out, and, when the new
curtains were put up and so hung as to
do the work expected of them, the
‘‘That’s a mighty good job!” from Jack-
son made the boy feel well paid for the
extra work, aside from the gratification
which always comes from doing a thing
as it ought to be done.

You ought to have seen Jackson when
that part of the job was finished. He
stood in the middle of the store and
looked around. He went first to one
window and then to the other. He
pulled the curtains down and rolled them
up. He rubbed his finger on the glass
and looked at it. Then he went outside
and did the same thing. After that, he
went across the street and walked back
and forth two or three times with his
eyes on his own store windows and then,
with a ‘‘Wall, | swan!’’ went to break-
fast.

When he came back, he got a pail of
water and took it into that corner of the
store where the desk was located. Put-
ting the books aside and whatever else
was liable to be injured, he took the
squirt-gun and went to work. The ef-
fect was greater than that produced by
the cleaning of the front windows, for
that part of the store supposed to be
lighted by the rear window was far back,
and, when the light came pouring in
through the clear glass, it brightened
things at once; but it also showed a con-
dition of things hardly to be imagined.
That was all right—John would take
care of that when he got to it; but that
corner—the office corner—he proposed to
take care of himself. And he did.
Never since the erection of the building
had anything like it taken place inside
of that railing, and, when the work was
done, it was well done. Then, when
water had done its work, there was such
a clearing out of old papers and arrang-
ing of them as had never occurred there
before, and it was followed by a looking
up of accounts that resulted in opening
wide Jim Jackson’s eyes and in ‘‘prop-
ping back the lids.’’

““Wall, I swan!’ he ejaculated for the
second time; and when John asked,
‘“‘What’s up now?’’ the only answer was,
“Oh, ve jes’ found out what a near
neighbor Business is to Foolishness.
Humph!’’

It began to be noticed that a change
had taken place in the store. Of course,
when the new hand ‘‘took hold,” he was
like the new broom he used—he swept
clean. A week was the time given to
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what’s ter pay?”’ They found out at the
first of the month ‘‘what was ter pay,’
when they looked over the big bill Jim
Jackson haa had “‘the imperdence” to send
in. One would have thought the world
was coming toan end. Old Joe Ripley
looked over his and swore. Ma Ripley
put on her specs and the very first item
“set her agoin’.”” ‘That there calico
hed ben paid fer a dozen times—course
it hed! Jes’ as ef they would let sech
an account run fer five years!’’ So it
went on to the end and wound up with
Joe hitching up ‘‘old Bess’? and he and
Merindy ‘‘walkin’ inter Jim Jackson.”

Well, Joe was but one of many, and,
after it was all over and quiet reigned
again in the store, Jim took the squirt-
gun, tied a piece of blue ribbon on each
end and hung it up over his desk, where
it hangs to this day; and, if you want to
hear a good story, drop in there some
rainy day, ‘‘when ther’s little ’r nuthin’
adewin’,” and ask Jim to tell about the
lively times he had just before he made
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The Evolution of the Trade Journal.
From Tin and Terne.

The evolution of the trade journal
from the feebleness of infancy to its
present position of influence is a most
interesting study. The pidneers in this
now important branch of the American
press were generally men of limited
means and limited newspaper experience.
Conditions were not altogether favorable
to attract the best talent. The possibili-
ties of the field were not seen, and the
facilities for gathering legitimate trade
news were very meager. ‘Trade journals
were looked upon as a luxury, not as a
necessity, and their early promoters re-
lied for support upon some one or more
leading houses, with the understanding
that exclusive favors were to be shown
these sponsors in return for advertising.
Facts were suppressed and long-winded
write-ups, like two grains of. wheat in
two bushels of chaff, took their place.
Consequently, these early publications
were little more than house organs,
whose columns were filled with fulsome
panegyrics of this or that line of wares,
and the makers and venders thereof.
The houses so flattered were content to
pay well for it, without looking very
critically into the extent of circulation, or
thinking what effect these commercia!
p#ons might have on intelligent readers.
It was cheaper to print a journal by
proxy, they thought.

As time went on, however, these
favored ones could not but lose respect
for such venal sheets, and the publishers
themselves learned that servility never

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MEN OF MARK.

William H. Strong, of the Firm of
Strong, Lee & Co., Detroit.

W. H. Strong was born at Hartford,
Conn., in 1851, and when old enough to
go to school, attended the public schools
of that city, including the high school,
until he was 16 years of age, when he
entered the employ of a wholesale and
retail dry goods house as clerk. He re-
mained with that establishment nine
years, rising gradually by degrees to the
position of commercial traveler, which
pursuit he followed for the last two
years he was with the house. Desiring
to broaden his field of operations, he
sought a location in the West, debating
for some time as to whether he would
locate in Minneapolis or Detroit. De-
ciding in favor of the latter city, he ac-
cepted a position tendered him in the
then wholesale dry goods house of Chas.
Root & Co. Several years of faithful
service as office man caused him to be
taken into partnership in the firm, and
on the reorganization of the firm as
toot, Strong & Co. his fidelity to the
house was rewarded by his name appear-
ing in the firm name. On the death of
Mr. Root and a further reorganization of
the house, the firm name became Strong,
Lee & Co., which is its present style.
Mr. Strong was for many years the credit
man of the house, but now delegates the
detail work connected with that position
to other hands, reserving to himself the
general supervision of the financial part
of the business.

in addition to his interest in the dry
goods business, Mr. Strong is Vice-Presi-
dent of the Marine City Stave Co., of
Marine City; the Huron Lumber Co., of
Alpena, and the John Davis Co., of De-
troit. He is also a director in the Leland
& Faulconer Too! Co., of Detroit.

Mr. Strong has been a member of the
Congregational church ever since he was
a young man, and ever since he came to
Detroit he has been identified somewhat
prominently with the First Congrega-
tional church. For the past five years
he has been Superintendent of the Sun-
day school of that church, comprising
about 800 scholars. He is also President
of the Michigan Christian Endeavor Un-

lion, having been re-elected to that posi-

has a higher mission than to be the|
mouthpiece of any house or combination |

of houses. Always to praise and never

to blame or criticise foredooms to fail- |
ure, and to abuse the weak and flatter}

the strong is the habit of the sycophant. |

Publishers of trade journals gradually
came into touch with the entire trades
they represented, and as their horizon
widened they saw clearly that the value
of a trade journal depends upon its bona
fide circulation, and to obtain this pro-
gressiveness, fearlessness and independ
ence must characterize its policy. They
became leaders and organizers in the
trades among which they cireulated,cham-
pion of the right, chastisers of the
wrong.

Such are the foremost trade journals
in the land to-day. They have made for
themselves a place which no other me-
diums ean fill. The brightest young
men in the mercantile world to-day are
those who early learned the value of the
trade journal, and from its pages
gleaned the information and caught the
ambition that is responsible for their
advancement. ‘Too often managers and
heads of houses neglect opportunities
which the underlings take advantage of.

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3ay City.

Mr. Strong traces his Yankee lineage
back to 1630, during which year his
antecedents on his father’s side came
over from England, and possesses, to a
marked degree, the distinguishing char-
acteristics of the Puritan—strong religi-
ous sentiment, uprightness in business
and faithfulness to convictions. Mr.
Strong is a man of pronounced personal-
ity, with strong likes and dislikes, quick
to form an opinion, which almost uni-
versally proves to be correct. He has
only one hobby, which is the acquirement
of a library—now comprising 4,000 vol-
umes—and which is constantly receiving
valuable accessions. His collection is
especially rich in sociology, which is a
subject he has given much thought and
study for nearly a quarter of a century.
His library is located in his beautiful
home on Edmund Place, where it occu-
pies two rooms. Retiring in disposition,
energetic in business, faithful to his con-
victions, loyal to his friends, Mr. Strong’s
career presents a striking example of the
self-made man, of which Michigan has
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From Good to Bad and from Bad to
Good Again.

The financial panic of 1893, with the
resulting industrial depression, turning
many honest and faithful workers out of
employment and producing widesprgad
distress, necessarily caused a profound
feeling of dissatisfaction and discontent
among many classes of the people.

When the working masses were forced
to accept reduced wages, and many peo-
ple who had been generally employed in
good situations were driven to idleness,
the retail dealers, who live chiefly on the
wages of the working classes, were
among the first, besides the workers
themselves, to experience trouble. Their
business was most seriously cut down.
Next, the wholesale merchants, who sell
to the retailers, were the sufferers.
Their sales were heavily reduced. Next
in point of time among the sufferers by
the depression were the manufacturers.
Anticipating trouble, they had stopped
their factories, or were working with re-
duced force short hours; but, never-
theless, those who had accumulated
stock hoped to sell it off readily, so as to
be ready for the reaction when it should
come. Their sales were to the wholesale
merchants; but these, finding their busi-
ness most seriously cut down, ceased
buying from the manufacturers, or they
purchased with caution and frugality
only what they were certain of being
able to sell, so that the manufacturers
who were the first to inaugurate meas-
ures to meet the depression were the last
to suffer; but when the blow came to
them it proved to be heavy enough,
fully as heavy as that which had stricken
all the other classes.

From this it will be seen that the bulk
of the business of the country is based on
the earnings of the working classes, so
that, when their wages are reduced or
stopped, all branches of commercial and
manufacturing business feel the blow.
There are not less than 15,000,000 people
in the United States who live on wages.
These include all the workers, from the
day laborers to those employes who work
for a weekly or monthly stipend, or for a
yearly salary.

These 15,000,000 workers earn an aver-
age of, probably, $1.50 per day each, ora
vast gross amount of $22,500,000 daily.
They support more than 60,000,000 peo-
ple, and it is plain from these facts that
the business of this country, of every
country, is based on the wages of the
working masses. Now when, by reason
of an industrial depression, any consid-
erable numbers of these 15,000,000 work-
ers are forced to suffer, it is natural that
they should become seriously dissatisfied
with their condition,and should vent their
ill-humor on all who come in their way.
When people suffer, they are not particu-
lar as to the cause, and are quite as likely
to attribute their misfortunes to the
wrong source as to the right. They be-
come irritated and angry, and angry peo-
ple in such cases are usually unreasona-
ble in a great degree.

When, however, the depression begins
to pass away and better times are expe-
rienced, the causes of the general dis-
content disappear, and with them the
discontent itself. With the return of
financial confidence, manufacturing, min-
ing and other sueh’productive industries
are started upfandsall the wheels begin
to turn. Labor, {of all sorts, is in de-
mand; the people..begin again to earn
wages and to;,pay their debts to the gro-

 

cer, the butcher, the baker and to ali
other classes of merchants who furnish
the necessaries of life. Mercantile busi-
ness, in every branch, revives and pros-
perity is restored. No one any longer
wishes to quarrel with fortune or to de-
nounce the imaginary causes of past mis-
fortunes. Inthe opinion of many men
of varied experience, we are rapidly ap-
proaching a period of higher values,
which will bring about a resumption of
the prosperous times which existed prior

to the panic. RADIX.
—_—- > eo <-> —
A Plea for Better Roads.

Everyone’s income is divided into
two parts. One of these he is compelled
to make use of in supporting existence;
the second part is disposed of in the way
which his judgment tells him will be
best. This leads tothe inquiry whether
our surplus is judiciously spent. Are
we buying the greatest amount of com
fort and permanent good with the por-
tion left at our disposal? Would not
model roads be of greater benefit than
our tobacco, liquor, etc.? Would they
not more than balance the good times we
have hauling our produce through rough
miles of mud, at such fearful cost in
extra labor, repairs, horses, oats, and in
wear and tear of conscience and damages
to character?

It is certain that bad roads make
weak, struggling churches and poor, illy
attended, lifeless schools. They neces-
sitate a life of seclusion, which walls the
path of social progress.

To sum up, a perfect highway is a
thing of beauty and a joy forever. It
blesses every home by which it passes.
It brings into pleasant communion peo-
ple who otherwise would have remained
at a perpetual distance. It awakens
emulation, cements friendship and adds
new charm to social life. It makes the
region it traverses more attractive, the
residences more delightful. It stimu-
lates a spirit of general improvement.
Fields begin to look tidier, shabby fences
disappear, gardens show fewer weeds,
lawns are better kept, the houses seem
cosier, trees are planted along its bor-
ders, birds fill the air with music, the
world seems brighter, the atmosphere
purer. The country is awake, patriotism
revives, philanthropy blossoms as sel-
fishness fades and slinks from view.
The sehoolhouse and the church feel the
magic influence—the wand of progress
has touched even them—the old are
young again, the young see something
now to live for, and to all life seems
worth the living. The daily mail
reaches each home. The rural cosmo-
politan ‘‘feels the daily pulse of the
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GETTING THE PEOPLE.

 

Art of Reaching and Holding Trade by
Advertising.

Seme more experienced than [|
differ with me when I say that footwear
is one of the most satisfactory lines there
is in trade to-day. It is so easy to keep
the shelves looking nicely; the packages
are so neat, clean and symmetrical;
there’s such a vast fund of entertainment
in studying the various phases of human
nature engaged in selecting a fit for the
pet corns; and, lastly, but not ‘‘leastly,”
by any means, are the abundant oppor-
tunities and material for advertising. I
would prefer, any day, to have the pleas-
ure of ‘‘Getting the People’”’ through the
medium of a new and original plan of
advertising, than to eat a square meai
when I’m hungry, and in boots and shoes
there are all sorts of opportunities for
both newspaper talk and ‘window
catchers.’’

Just now, at the beginning of the
“‘sticky season,’’ I think I should try and
make arun on ‘“‘yaller brogans.’’ I am
led to believe there’s a pretty profit in
the goods, they are attractive for window
display and therefore the proper thing
to act as a porous plaster in ‘‘drawin’”
trade.

lf you, Mr. Shoe Vender, needed some
‘leather to fit feet,” would you read
this ad.?

Corns Fitted
While You Wait!

Perfect ease of sole and a clear conscience
ire tO be obtained by wearing our %3

“YALLER BROGANS”’

Perfect in Fit, Perfect in Style, Perfect in
Quality.
BONIUN & TOOFEET,
Expert Sole Fitters

There’s nothing in the world appeals
so strongly to the ‘‘tenderness’’ of men
and women as an easy pair of shoes.
Anything, therefore, which will convey
the idea to the prospective buyer that
the shoes you have to sell him will never
cause the wearer a moment’s pain or in-
convenience, will act as a powerful mag-
net in drawing the dollars of the great
public.

If I had a nice line of ladies’ fine shoes
and wished to attract the attention of the
“world’s fair’ to my store, I
‘‘promulgate’’ something after this fash-
ion:

would

The Crowning Beauty
Of Lovely Woman,

To utter a paradox, lies in

Well Booted Feet

Ask ten men what portion of a woman's
“gear” they see first, and nine will answer,
“The Lady's Shoes

MORAL—Our 33.50 Ladies’ Fine Shoes are madt
all widths and of the best materials. They

wear well and will fit any foot perfectly

BUTTON & LACE,

Stylish Footgear

In the way of window display, so

many ideas for ‘‘pausing pedestrians”
in their daily rush come into mind, I
hardly know what to use here as illus-
trations. | imagine, however, that if
I were possessed of a quantity of rub-
bers, and wanted to ‘‘push them along’’
to my fellow men and women in ex
change for a neat profit, I would try this
scheme for a day or so, in my window:
Ingredients—An old vash-tub, a wash-
board, and the dummy of a woman.
Place the tub on a bench, with the
washboard inside, as well as some water,
suds and a few clothes. Rig up a
“dummy,” putting an old calico dress
upon it, get as ill-looking a false face as
possible, and make the whole figure out-

may |

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

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landish in the extreme. Put “Madame |
| Dummy” before the bench, in the atti-
| tude and act of ‘rubbing out’’ the
Place a string of the rubbers!
; to be around her neck, allowing
them to hang nearly to the floor of the
window. Also, you can decorate the
tub with them, and arrange them in any
other fantastic way you may see fit, or
novelty suggests. Now, go to the
printer or the painter—it’s only the dif-
ference of an ‘ta’? and ‘‘r’? between the
two—and get him to make for you this
on a large sheet of white card

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LADY RUBBER |
The only Genuine Specimen outside of |
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All new stock. |

Just captured.

durable goods

Hang this upon the dummy, being
careful to give the public a side view of
the latter. Will you stop to read it?
You can wager your last share of stock
in asummer resort that you will, and
that others will—people with money in
their pockets and wet feet—they’re the
ones you want.

Attention is one of the most difficult
things in the world to obtain. People
are so busy they will stop for nothing
short of a ‘‘mental earthquake.’’ This,
then, is the ‘‘medicine” you must use in
your advertising. Explode something in
the pnblic ear every day. Keep the
drum sounding. Don’t hesitate or slacken
in the effort to devise some new means
of ‘Getting the People.’’ If you do, your
neighbor will get them and their dollars,
as well. In the business world there is
a constant rush for ‘‘first place” in the
thoughts of the buying people. There is
a ‘“‘first place’? for every locality and
every line of goods in that locality. You
will hold it, if you will advertise ‘‘dar-
ingly, truthfully, steadily and origin-
ally.’’

it seems to me that a line of slippers
would make a nice ‘ad. stock.’ Ar-
range a large number tastefully in the
window, in form of a circle. Running
from one siae, at the floor of the window,
to about four feet high on the side wall,
place a toboggan slide, made of light
framework and covered with white cot-
ton. Also, scatter cotton in the window,
to represent snow. This will help dis-
play the slippers nicely. On the tobog-
gan slide place a small sled or toboggan
—either will do—near the middle, with
a large doll, dressed for winter, seated
thereon. Standing below, will be placed
a card like this:

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Summer Slippers for the Ladies, “Dad's |
Slipper,” to use on bad boys, and

all kinds of Slippers. Prices |
Down—Values Up.

in my observation, anything which
will attract the children will draw the
old folks. This toboggan slide and
*‘dollie”’ will surely catch the sharp eyes
of the little misses at once. Then if
*‘Mamma’’ does not see the window, the
little girl says, when she reaches home:
“Ob, mamma, you ought to see Mr.
Glovecalf’s windows. He’s got the pret-
tiest little toboggan slide, with just the
loveliest dollie on a sled, and oh, such
beautiful slippers all around it. And
say, Mamma, my old slippers look awful
shabby. Won’t you get me some new
ones?”’

So you see the ‘‘feelosofy?”’
natur’’’—human ‘‘natur.”’

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We Pay HIGHEST

  

MARKET PRICES in SPOT CASH and [Measure Bark
When Loaded. Correspondence Solicited.

 

BOSTON
RUBBER SHOE

GOMPANY’S

Goods are

found at

McGraw’s
DETROIT

We have the Greatest Variety of the Freshest Goods, and the Largest Stock

of any house in the United States.

 

A. HERGLD,

F. E, WALTHER,

A. G. WETZEL

SAM H. SIMMONS

ARE HUSTLING THESE DAYS FOR ORDERS ON

WALES-GOODYEAR RUBBERS

 

THE BEST WEARING BRAND ON EARTH, for the

Herold-Bertsch Shoe

Co.,

5 and 7 Pearl St., Grand Rapids.

P.S. Write us care the house

 

Reeder Bros.
Shoe Co.

State Agents for Lycoming Rubber Co.

LYCOMINGS are our FIRST QUALITY
KEYSTONES are our Second Quality

Nine years ago these goods were not known in
Michigan, and to-day they stand second to none
and are as well known as any. A great many of
the best retail merchants in Michigan and Indi-
ana think they are the best goods made. being
made from the Purest Rubber and on the best
style lasts, and are the best fitting goods in the
market. Our trade for the past nine years on
these goods has steadily increased.

OUR LEATHER LINE is full and complete:
also an elegant line of FELT BOOTS and SOX
for fall.

See our salesmen—it will pay you to examine
samples.

REEDER BROS. SHOE CO.

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

Bonus
Offered::::::
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The citizens of the village of VANDERBILT
will pay a liberal bonus for a Hardwood
Factory that will employ seventy-five
men or more.
We have the choicest of Maple, Birch and
Basswood Timber.
Correspondence solicited.

Arthur L. Morse
VANDERBILT
Otsego Co., Michigan

 

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15

 

  

THE DESERTED VILLAGE.

 

Effect of Mechanical Progress on the
Home Life of the Nation.

The village life of old times has been
the basis of many an idyl in prose or
verse. A village represents the center
of the isolated community, made isolated
by difficulties of transportation both of
freight and person. Before the days of
MacAdam every mile of bowlder-in-
fested, sandy and muddy roads exhausted
man and beast alike who were concerned
in the transfer of wagons over it. In
England where, owing to the very large
proportional population, traveling was
extensively indulged in, the matter had
become very serious in the last century.
The great lumbering stage coaches would
be dragged over roads which in the con-
temporary literature are described as ab-
solutely terror inspiring. But London
was not then the absolute metropolis of
the country. All through the land there
were prosperous villages, whose inhab-
itants led cultured lives and very rarely
journeyed to the large cities.

Then MacAdam evolved his plan of
making roads with broken stone, formu-
lating the curious precept that no stone
must be used which was too large to go
into the mouth. He would take a piece
of road filled with bowlders, and, break-
ing them to fragments, would make the
road supply all or a great part of the ma-
terial required for its own construction.
William Cobbett, at the beginning of this
century, representing the agriculturist,
inveighs against the use of the broad tires
imposed by the authorities upon those
who traveled upon the new roads which
then began to traverse England in all di-
rections. These roads enabled stage

 

coaches to make ten miles an hour, and
the population began at once to central-
ize more than before, and we find Cob-
bett again lamenting the growth of the
‘‘Wenn,”’ as he termed London.

When the railroad replaced the stage
coach, the growth of London and of the
great cities began in earnest. Mean-
while, in this country, the New England
States had become filled with villages.
The white-painted gable houses with
green blinds, the village green, with
town hall, public school and church fac-
ing it, had become characteristic features
of these settlements.

For the better intellectual develop-
ment of the natives or inhabitants of the
villages, lyceums were founded, which
arranged for courses of lectures to be
given on various subjects. The life
seemed, to a certain extent, ideal.
There isin humanity a theoretical de-
sire for repose and absence of strife, a
desire which in many cases is purely
theoretical, and whose exponent was
found in the New England villages and
in communities of the same type in other
states. The intellectual element of these
places was responsive to the life of the
day, and it is surprising how many of our
greatest men came from the villages.

To-day the change is complete. The
villages are being rapidly deserted.
When factories began to be built of the
large scale, they were placed in villages,
but centralization has affected them also.
They have left the villages, and Lynn,
Fall River and similar cities have become
great manufacturing centers, each repre-
senting enough industry to maintain all
the villages in a state.

Some years ago the deserted farms of

 

New England were made the subject of
investigation by the Government. Farms,
which long ago were the objects of care-
ful cultivation, and which seemed to the
owners to represent the acme of progress,
have been thrown upon the market at
ruinous prices. They are gradually be-
ing taken up in part by French Cana-
dians, who seem to bring with them
some of the frugal and industrious traits
of the Old Country French farmer. Now,
the deserted village takes the place of
the deserted farm as an object of interest
and of solicitude. The young people
used to want to leave the farm, and did
it. Now they want to leave the village,
and are doing it. Steam railroads, sup-
plemented by the electric road, cause
that which is really an immense area to
be subsidiary to each large city.

Mechanical progress affects all classes,
and the inventor touches the life of every
class. The farmer and villager, at first
sight, would seem relatively little affect-
ed by modern machinery. But improved
tools made farming more effective; steam
was applied to its processes, cheapening
them greatly; the railroads took the crude
or raw products to steam mills, ending
the work of the country grist mills. And
now the railroad and trolley have taken
the personnel of the farm and village in
hand and have transported them to the
city, and village life, such as it was even
thirty years ago, is ended by the progress
of mechanical art. The story of Con-
cord, in Massachusetts, with its authors,
Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau and the
Alcotts, will hardly ever be told of any
future village.
inventor have settled the question for-|
ever.

It would be hard to find a better in-
stance of the effect of mechanica! pro-
gress upon the home life of a nation. It
may even have an effect upon its litera-
ture, for the quality of books is certainly
affected by environment, and the invent-
or, scientist and mechanic have deter-
mined a new environment for the active
portion of humanity.

—_—
Vertical Writing.

From the Journal o

f Education.

Vertical writing is a renaissance. For
many years, especially in English-speak-
ing countries, it isa notable fact that it
has been steadily on the _ increase,
though little taught in the schools.
Wherever absolute legibility is required
in National and State capitals, in govern-
mental departments, in offices where
valuable records are kept and must be
accurately and legibly transcribed, in
England and our own country, it is be-
ing more and more insisted on that the
handwriting shall be vertical. In banks,
in the offices of the great railway, in-
surance, and commercial corporations, in
telegraph offices, where actions at law
are founded on errors in transmitting
and receiving important messages due to
slovenly writing, in“ all the chirograph-
ical centers, vertical writing has been
gradually shaping and changing the
handwriting of men who have for many
years been writing the old way. In
many, many instances the question of
preference as between two applicants
for the same place has been determined
in favor of the vertical writer, and upon
that sole acquisition.

_
He Had Change.

Tramp—Have you change for half a
dollar?

Gentleman— Yes.
dollar? >

Tramp—lI haven’t any, but I thought

Where’s the half

 

The mechanic and the |

if you had change for a half dollar you
might have a dime or two for a poor man
what’s seen better days. Ali the gents I
| have asked for help said they hadn’t any
| change.

 

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14 and 16 PEARL STREET,

GRAND

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f¥APIDS

AGENTS FOR BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO.

 

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16

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Commercial Aspect of the Bicycle.
Written for THz TRADESMAN.

Prices on the various lines of low
grade wheels are now higher than dur-
ing the past two months. This is caused
by the enormous demand for this class
of wheels. Not being of standard qual-
ity and reputation, they have no stand-
ard prices to be adhered to, and, there-
fore, sell according to the call for them.
Doubtless, one of the causes which led
to such a demand as now exists is the
fact that this class of wheels could be
purchased so cheaply earlier in the sea-
son. At the two National ’cycle shows,
the agents for these manufacturers al-
most fell over each other in their efforts
to dispose of the output of the respec-
tive houses. One line was quoted as low
as $31.75 to jobbers. These orders were
filled without difficulty during the first
three months of the selling season, at the
end of which time the demand com-
menced to exceed the capacity of the
factories and an increase in prices has
been found advisable. Another reason
is the embarassment caused the manu-
facturers through inability to secure ma-
terial for their workmen, which has
necessitated the withdrawal of one or
two models from the market. The very
large portion of this class of wheels,
which is always made very early in the
season, enabled all dealers to fill their
orders promptly during the first three
months of the rush.

The number of low grade wheels
which are selling at high grade prices
this season is astonishing. The natural
increase of ’eycling has been so stimu-
lated by the $100 list that many manu-
facturers who entertained no thought of
entering high grade competition have
been able to dispose of their output at
fancy figures, considering the grade of
wheels offered. The demand not being
so great for mediums as for high and low
grades, the manufacturers of the former
have been enabled to fill their orders
with reasonable promptness; and, for
this reason, the agents for high grade
wheels have lost a large number of sales
which they could have made, had not
their customers become disgusted with
the delay in the delivery of their ma-
chines and countermanded the orders.
These sales are not entirely lost to the
high grade dealers, however, as the own-
ership and use of a cheap wheel simply
whets the appetite of the rider for the
best, and numbers of them have already
been investigating the cost of an ex-
change for good machines. But very
few sales are altogether lost, because
when a person once gets the ‘‘feVer,’’
nothing will! satisfy him but a bicycle.

All this activity in the ’eycle trade, in
the face of the abominable condition of
our average country roads, leads one to
wonder what would be the case were the
roads in as good shape as those of Eu-
rope. ’Cycling on the other side of the
‘big water’ is also enjoying a great
boom; but itis not up to the American
standard. The fine streets and boule-
vards of European countries should tend
to a remarkable growth of cycling in
those localities, but, of course, America
is always ahead of every other ‘country.
We will have the good roads some day.
A majority of the roads in Europe were
built before the discovery of America.
Some of the Eastern States of the Union
are provided with fairly good thorough-
fares; due, mainly, to the efforts of the
Eastern divisions of the League of Amer-
ican Wheelmen. The League was or-
ganized in the East, and there its largest
membership still exists. The founders
of the organization incorporated into
their constitution a provision for a
Roads Improvement Bureau, and imme-
diately set to work to secure a better-
ment of the public highways in America.
The result of their work is shown in
some very fine roads along the Atlantic
coast. In the West, wheelmen were not
sO numerous as in Massachusetts and
New York and, for this reason, not much
has been done in ‘‘good roads’’ agitation
in the Western States. At this time,
however, there is no exeuse for small L.
A. W. memberships, as there are thou-
sands of wheelmen in every Western
State.

Some of the largest manufacturers of
bieycles in the East long ago recognized

the value of good roads to their business,
and have donated money and time to as-
sist the L. A. W. in its work in the inter-
ests of ’cycledom. That the liberality of
these manufacturers is appreciated is
shown in the almost exclusive occupancy
of the Eastern States by their trade.
The present condition of the bicycle busi-
ness, however, does not warrant any
more methods of that sort to stimulate it,
no matter how badly the roads need im-
proving. While the Eastern manufac-
turers were turning their attention to
improvement of the roads, their Western
brethren were attending to the matter of
improving their output. The West un-
doubtedly took the lead in this direction,
and forced the Eastern trade to follow
them or Jose their market. The first real
light wheels of standard repntation were
made in Chicago. Their invasion of
Eastern territory compelled the makers
in that section of the country to ‘follow
suit or pass.’? They preferred to follow
suit and all but one are now turning out
wheels which are models of lightness and
Strength. To do this, and doit properly,
an immense amount of capital must be
invested. This being the case, the loss
of so many sales, which might have been
theirs but for the deplorable lack of ma-
terial which has handicapped them in
their efforts to supply their customers, is
to be regretted. They have the capital
invested and have spent thousands of
dollars in building up a business which
is recognized as one of the leading indus-
tries of the country, and ought to have
the legitimate results of their work. But
the force of the present circumstances
deprive them of it and the profit is en-
joyed by men who have not one-quarter
of the capital invested, and who have,
heretofore, done nothing to advance the
interests of ’cycling. In fact, there are
men enjoying a good trade in bicycles to-
day who have, in the past, done their ut-
most to place the industry “hors de com-
bat.”” While all monopolies should be
discouraged, it is but fair that men who
have built up a trade should reap the
benefits of their labor and not have them
thrown at the feet of others, who are
making a cheap grade of goods and re-
ceiving as much for them as the man
who spends twice as much money in pro-
ducing a first-class article.

The manufacturers of low grade
wheels do not compete in the least with
those making the high grade machines.
They occupy an altogether different field.
In fact, they help rather than hinder
them. They sell bicycles without claim-
ing them to be high grade, and they sell
them at a price which enables people,
who think they cannot afford a high
priced wheel, to become wheelmen.
They are satisfied with the article, for
they have never had anything better.
They ride the low grade machine until
they chance to try the running qualities
of a high-grade wheel owned by some
friend, and, nine times out of ten, this
means a sure sale for some dealer in
high grades. If the buyer could really
not afford to pay the price of the best,
he would not become a wheelman at all.
Thus, the fact of his buying a cheap
whee! does not compete with the maker
of high grades.

One manufacturer of actually high
grade wheels, only, also makes amedium
line. Formerly, this firm was two sep-
arate institutions, one making high and
the other medium grade goods. The
same people, owning a majority of stock
in each concern, made a consolidation
possible, which was effected in con-
formity with the wishes of the aforesaid
majority. All other high grade manu-
facturers make but one grade of wheels.
It is generally understood by them to be
best for the trade not to mingle the two
lines of business, which, as mentioned
above, occupy entirely different fields.

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One Experience That of Many.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
‘‘Did you ever realize that, of the vast

army of retailers, the percentage of suc-
cessful ones is very small?’? asked a
friend of mine a few days ago.

“Yes, I have noticed that fact,’ was
my reply, ‘‘and I have also noticed that
each who contemplates embarking in the
same business imagines he sees precisely
how and where the others failed, and he
says to himself, ‘I know just the way to
avoid all those pitfalls.’ ’’

“It is amusing to observe,” continued
my friend, ‘‘how wise(?) the uninitiated
in business are and with what contempt
they view the struggles to succeed of
those already engaged in trade. But
those who possess years of experience
can afford to remain silent at such exhi-
bitions of false wisdom, knowing full
well that ‘Ignorance is the evil and
knowledge the remedy.’ Of all persons
who venture into the whirlpool of mer-
eantile business and are lost sight of in
the quickest time, those who have pre-
viously been day laborers or farmers of
small means disappear first. I had a
neighbor, a Mr. Perley, who was quite
comfortable on a farm of only thirty
acres; that is, he easily made a good
living for his family of six persons, kept
out of debt and always had a few dollars
—say $25—in his purse. He had often
expressed a wish that he had just $250 in
cash to invest in fruit trees, in addition
to those he had bearing, as he felt cer-
tain that would place him on the high-
road tocompetence. To accumulate that
sum, as he was then situated, seemed im-
possible. Atlengtb, fortune seemed to
favor him. A distant relative died and
bequeathed him $650—more than twice

 

the sum he had wished for. I supposed,
then, that his farm would receive an im-
petus it had never yet felt. But, alas!
To my neighbor whose purse had never
contained more than a paltry dollars,
this sum looked inexhaustible. The
farm life, with its daily round of feeding
the stock, cultivating and gathering the
small fruits, marketing the poultry and
their products, the honey, etc., became
distasteful and unbearable, and one day
he leased his farm, rented a store in the
suburbs of a city and purchased a stock
of groceries.

“I dropped in to see Mr. Perley soon
after he commenced business. His fam-
ily was living in the second story of the
building. In the conversation that fol-
lowed he admitted that he had much to
learn about the business. He had dis-
covered that he was too far from the
center of trade, but, still, he thought
that other things were in his favor. He
congratulated himself in saving all clerk
hire, andthe rent was low—only $20 a
month for the entire building. His
sales, howéver, were proportionately
small. Mr. Perley remained in that
building only eight months, his sales be-
ing too light to continue longer.

‘*When next I heard from him, he had
removed toa small village some miles
distant. His stock of goods had wasted
away, until he had no assortment left,
and neither money nor credit with which
to stock up. He was then endeavoring
to make some arrangement with his
tenant whereby he could get back on his
farm once more. He had carefully

avoided giving credit, which, in his case,
was certainly in the line of wisdom, but,
owing to close competition all around

 

him, and to his entire ignorance of the
business, the small profits would barely
allow him to live and pay current ex-
penses. He was simply consuming his
legacy as fast as possible, while receiv-
ing absolutely nothing for his own labor.

‘“‘Again I went to pay a visit to my old
friend and neighbor. He seemed much
discouraged with the outlook, and in-
formed me that, as his tenant’s lease of
the farm would not expire before another
year, he would be obliged to go on with
the business, but might make one more
change of locality. Desiring todo him a
good turn, I told him of a crossroads set-
tlement in arieh agricultural neighbor-
hood fourteen miles distant from any vil-
lage, where there was already a school-
house, a church and a blacksmith shop.
Having been there in person, I knew that
the farmers for miles around. wanted a
general store at that place, and would
not only aid the right man in the erection
of a proper building, but would donate
a lot forit fronting two roads. But Mr.
Perley had started out with more lofty
ideas than to run a county store. He
would listen to no argument, and my
well-meant counsel was, therefore, lost.
Long afterward, he acknowledged that
he ought to have acted upon my advice,
for he had seen the prosperity of another
who availed himself of that opportunity
and is now a highly prosperous merchant
and, besides, has the post office in his
store.

‘“‘At the present writing, Mr. Perley is
again my neighbor on his own thirty
acres of land. Financially, he is in a
little better condition than he was before
his windfall of $650; he admits having

ever, by his venture—wisdom. But he
finds true happiness for himself and
family on the old farm—to which, by the
way, he has added a score of broad acres
—and will never again leave it to engage
in a business about which he knows
nothing.”’

In drawing a moral from this recital,
which as truly pictures the condition of
many a one to-day, a few suggestions to
those who are about to embark in mer-
cantile business might not be out of
place. Competition never was greater,
nor would a dollar ever purchase more
than it will to-day. That means that
there are fewer dollars to spend in the
pockets of the small and most numerous
customers. The old maxim, ‘'The large
fish eat up the little ones,” is particular-
ly applicable to merchants in times of
depression. Such being the fact, those
now commencing business, more espe-
cially those with limited capital, should
avoid the competition of the larger busi-
ness centers, and should locate in either
small manufacturing communities or in
isolated settlements. The outlook in
such places is more hopeful than in the
large trade centers, and they contain
more possibilities of success for the
dealer with small capital.

In conclusion, let me say that it is the
opinion of most that the commercial con-
dition of the United States has reached
its lowest limit and is surely tending up-
ward. FRANK A. Howie.

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CHICORY AS A BEVERAGE.

 

Its Cheapness Must Eventually Rec-
ommend Its Use.

The history of public opinion concern-
ing some of the most ordinary matters of
life is not less curious than interesting.
How much some of our favorite articles
of diet and drink were at their first intro-
duction condemned and ridiculed, we
are apt to forget in the daily employ-
ment which we now make of them.
Shortly after 1650, both tea and coffee
were for the first time employed in Eng-
land; not until many years afterward,
had they become sufficiently appreciated
to merit the title of popularity. During
this period of novelty, both these now
most common drinks suffered the oppo-
sition of scientists and the invectives of
popular condemnation. Only after long
and persistent efforts, were their advo-
cates successful in demonstrating the
folly of these ungrounded prejudices
and securing a fair trial for tea and cof-
fee. Such reminiscences form only a
single illustration. How frequently,
for want of knowledge or by force of
prevailing false ideas, the introduction
and employment of many of nature’s
gifts are retarded! The people of this
age, however, are more disposed than
their ancestors to investigate and to de-
liberate before forming a decisive judg-

ment. The more this spirit of impar-
tiality is maintained, the less we are
likely to formulate false decisions,

which, in a later generation, are sure to
be reversed. We must, however, in the
cousideration of any new question, divest
ourselves of any earlier formed predis-
position; especially is this freedom of
thought necessary where the object is
suffering from the disadvantage of an ill
name or misuse.

Until the present time chicory has been
peculiarly unfortunate in this respect.
By reason of its use in the United States
as an adulterative ingredient by unscru-
pulous dealers, the American public has
condemned it without apparently realiz-
ing its natural properties, its legitimate
uses, and its claims to public considera-
tion. Not only has chicory, without
doubt, been employed as an adulterant
for coffee and sold under that name, but
even other vegetable products, undoubt-
edly injurious to health, have been con-
founded with the chicory root. A for-
mer article of mine upon this subject
called forth a criticism in a leading Ameri-
can magazine, where once more expres-
sion was given to the common error that
chicery is only fit for an adulterant and
it was classed with mixtures of ‘bran,
flour, molasses, and even sawdust.’’ It
might be interesting to know that the
most common adulterants of chicory in
Belgium are beet roots aud acorns. In-
deed, last year, there were shipments of
acorns from this consulate to the United
States; probably for a purpose very
readily guessed.

It must, however, be observed that the
Belgian government considers chicory a
perfectly legitimate drink, on an equal-
ity with coffee and chocolate, for the
adulteration of coffee, chocolate, and
chicory and the sale of such adulterated
articles are equally forbidden and se-
verely punished by law.

The purport of this report, therefore,
is not to advocate the misuse of chicory,
but only to fairly consider its legitimate
employment. The object is not in the
least to urge its substitution in the place
of tea or coffee, but rather to show the
harmlessness of its use, where tea and
coffee may not for any reason be drunk,
or where the economy of any less ex-
pensive drink would give it an advan-
tage. This last consideration is espe-
cially strong among the poorer classes of
Belgium and might recommend it to
some in our own country. Another
thought—that of its cultivation-in the
coast regions of the middle Eastern
States—has also been suggested by a cor-
respondent.

According to Junien, the chicory plant
is to be classed with the Dicotyiedones
monopetales, a family of the vegetable
kingdom. From his analysis, it appears
that chicory constitutes quite an inter-
esting species of the family of the
liguliflores or chicoraeces. All its vari-
eties are indigenous to the European

 

continent, and can, as we have seen, be
traced back to the chicoree sauvage and
the chicoree endive. The former, com-
moaly called small chicory, is especially
cultivated for its leaves, which make an
excellent salad. This wild chicory, so
called, is a very common perennial plant
in Belgium, and is frequently cultivated
in gardens. It has a fusiform and tap
root; its stalk grows 3 feet or more in
height. It is abundant along the roads
and in the pasture lands of this country.
In the gardens, it develops much more,
the height of its stalk often exceeding 6
feet and its leaves are larger. Very in-
different to the nature of the soil, this
plant, however, prefers new and shaded
ground. It is sown in the spring, some-
times in beds, but more often along the
borders. It only requires watering and
ordinary tillage and weeding. The green
leaves only are ordinarily employed in
medicine and domestic economy. For
this purpose, it is necessary to cut them
from time to time, thus indusing new
and more tender leaves to shoot forth;
the stalk, too, must be frequently cut in
order to delay as much as possible the
florescence. After the buds have ap
peared, the leaves are no longer eatable.
Wild chicory is also an excellent fodder
plant. Its most valuable property is its
ability to grow in the worst soils, even
such as are barren, chalky, or clayey.
Thanks to its long taproots, it can resist
dryness in light soils, but it prefers deep
soils, rich in caicareous matter and of an
average consistence. If given reasona-
ble care, the first crop can be gathered
in early autumn, and, generally, two
later harvests can be cut. Although
cattle may be pastured on this plant, it
is generally preferable to cut it for con-
sumption in the stable, where it may be
mixed with other fodder and thus avoid
the risk of imparting to the milk and
butter a bitter taste. Almost all cattle
eagerly hunt the plant; cows, which at
first dislike it, rapidly become aceus-
tomed to its taste. By reasun of its bit-
terness, it acts as a tonic, and animals
which feed upon it are much less exposed
to cutaneous diseases. Swine are espe-
cially fond of the roots.

Among the varieties of wild chicory
just described, the most important is
chicory with large roots, known com-
monly as coffeechicory. It is a peren-
nial plant, whose bulky tap and fusiform
root by torrefaction acquires a bitter fla-
vor and an aroma which is not unlike
that of sugar converted into carameis.
This is the variety that is daily increas-
ing in commercial and industrial impor-
tance. In Belgium, it largely replaces
coffee in the lower ranks of society.
West Flanders, in the districts around
Courtrai_ and Roulers, is its principal
home. The method of its cultivation
greatly resembles that of the beet. From
information kindly furnished me by the
principal exporters to the United States,
I am enabled to give the various stages,
from the seed to the prepared condition
of the root ready for export ,or even to
the completed manufacture of the granu-
lated chicory.

The seeds, which are very small, are
sown by a hand drill, three rows ata
time, during the months of April and
May. They must be sown at a distance
of about 15 inches apart. The amount
of seed required per acre is from 334 to
4}¢ pounds. There are several varieties,
or, rather, subdivisions, of this variety.
The chief two are known as_ the
wide-leaved chicory and the eel-headed
chicory, of which the latter is considered
the better. The seed is obtained by re-
planting in the month of March, the old
stalks being dug out during the preced-
ing autumn. In the course of a few
weeks, these go to seed; each plant gives
about 300 grains of seed: another esti-
mate gives 530 pounds of seed per acre.
The normal price of seed is 23 to 27 cents
per pound, although it is generally very
difficult to obtaig unless ordered long in
advance, as each cultivator is in the
habit of selling all his roots except just
sufficient to reproduce seed for his own
private use. A temperate climate is re
quired. A vigorous soil, even slightly
clayey, produces the best chicory, with
the heaviest roots. Sandy soils also are
good, but the roots are generally lighter.
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advance. In case of adry season, great
care must be taken. As soon as the
plant appears, weeds must be diligently
removed.

About 60,000 plants are raised per acre.
A crop of from 11 to 14 tons of green
roots is produced per acre. The harvest
takes place in October and November.
The roots must be immediately washed
and dried, and then may be preserved
for fifteen to eighteen months. The
seeds, if put in a dry place, may be kept
for seven years. The plant has no
known diseases. but is subject to the at-
tack of a worm, which eats the roots.
His plan of operations, however, is very
regular, as he proceeds from one root to
the next ina straight line. The leaves
immediately wilt, and, by this eircum-
stance, the enemy may be readily dis-
covered and exterminated. The leaves
of the plant generally grow in a small
tuft, are narrow, and do not exceed 10
or 12 inches in lenght. The roots are
earrot shaped, slightly larger, dark gray
in color on the exterior and nearly dead
white in the interior. The roots are
dried on perforated racks in kilns by
means of coke fires, and then are cut by
machines into pieces of about one cubic
inch. They are known in common as
cossettes, and chicory is generally ex-
ported to America in this form. After-
ward, it is ground and sold in powder
under the name of granulated chicory.
Almost all the grinding and preparation
from the cossettes is now done in the
United States.

The expenses connected with tke cul-
tivation of the plant are very moderate.
Field iaborers here earn 2 to 2}¢ cents
per hour. One of my informants places
the eost, without rent or fertilizers, at
$22 to $24 per acre. Another states that
the selling price of the crop from one
acre, after washing and preparing for
drying, including profits, amounts to $60
to $64 per acre. Still a third gentleman
gives me the following statement: An
acre produces an average of 12 tons of
raw chicory roots, worth $5 per ton, or a
total value of $60 per acre. The ex-
penses he gives per acre are, seed, pre-
paration of the soil and cleaning, $17.50;
fertilizers, $17.50; weeding, warehousing
and washing, $8.75; rent of land and
taxes, $8.75; total, $52.50, leaving an aver-
age profit of $7.50 per aere to the cultiva-
tor. The amount of this profit, however,
varies according to rent, price of labor,
and fertilizers. In America, of course,
it would be much less than in Europe.
The average cost price to the person who
dries and cuts the roots into cossettes, as
we observe, is $60 per acre—that is, he
pays $60 for 12 tons of raw roots; in dry-
ing, this weight is reduced to one-fourth,
or 3 tons. These, after cutting into
cossettes, he sells at an average price of
$31.50 per ton, or a total of $94.50, real-
izing apn increase to cover expenses and
profit of $34.50 on the produce of an acre,
or $11.50 profit per ton.

Reverting again to the history of this
plant, we learn that it was first employed
as a drink on the European continent
during the great blockade of Napoleonic
times, when tea and coffee could not be
easily procuced. Its use seems to have
originated in Holland, and to have spread
from there to other nations. After the
restoration of peace, it continued to be
used by many in preference to coffee, al-
though a mixture of two-thirds coffee
and one-third chicory is generally pre-
ferred. The ordinary price of granulated
chicory in this market is 3 cents per
pound, or about one-ninth of the price of
coffee, which sells here at 28 cents per
pound for an average quality. It does
not possess the aroma or exciting quali-
ties of coffee, but when drunk with milk
makes a very patatable beverage. It
cannot be said to have any injurious
effects, while many advocate its use as a
positive remedy for dyspepsia and indi-
gestion.

It must again be repeated that in all
continental countries chicory is sold as
chicory, and is protected by law against
adulteration and fraud. Only recently,
a royal decree was promulgated in
Belgium declaring the essential qualities
of.pure chicory, requiring all packages
to be legibly marked with the name, and
forbidding, under heavy penalties, the
sale of any adulteration as the genuine

article. A similar law exists respecting
coffee. If such legislation existed in the
United States, the prejudice against
chicory would soon disappear, and when
people realized that they received what
they thought they were buying.

Forty years ago, chicory was little
known in France; at present, it is in
general use. Once the real use of the ar-
ticle in its purity is known in the United
States, the consumption will, without
doubt, increase in the same proportion
as it has done during this century in
Europe. Its cheapness, without the inter-
vention of any deleterious effects, must
eventually recommend it to our use.
We only need to consider its large em-
ployment abroad, the method of its cul-
tivation and preparation, to enable us to
determine that there is no substantial
reason for the unfounded prejudice
which has heretofore existed in our
country against chicory.

HENRY C. MorRRIs,
U. S. Consul at Ghent, Belgium.
a
Remarkable Memory.
From the Stoves and Hardware Reporter.

An Official of one of the largest hard-
ware jobbing houses in St. Louis has the
most remarkable memory for names and
figures I ever saw or heard of in mortal
man. He has charge of the finances, in-
cluding credits and collections, and I
verily believe that he can call off from
recollection the exact condition of each
account on the books. As these accounts
run up into thousands in number, you
can readily see what a photograph gal-
lery, figuratively speaking, his thinkery
must be, 1 had been told of his prowess
in this way but wasn’t altogether pre-
pared to believe what was told me. It
seemed incredible. But now I am pre-
pared to apologize for doubting him. I
was in the office the other day, talking
with the head of the house, and some-
thing was said about the financial man
being able to tell from memory what
each debtor owed and when his bill be-
came due. Right there I remarked that
1 would like to witness a test of this re-
markable ability to look into a book
without opening it, and—well, I was
gratified. I happened to know a number
of the company’s customers and I put
their names, fourteen in all, on a piece
of paper. Then the financial man was
called in and was asked to give each ac-
count as the name was called off to him,
He did this without a moment’s hesita-
tion and then I was given an opportu-
nity, as 1 theught, to see how badly he
had been mixed up. But he wasn’t
mixed up a little bit. He had the
amount exactly right in each case and
the only difference between his memo-
rized memorandum and the books was the
mistake of one day in the date of pay-
ment for one account. How is that for
mental arithmetic and memory in a time
when so much work is done by machin-
ery? He assured me afterward that he
thought he could go through all the ac-
counts and be as comparatively free from
error.

— >> <_<
Questionable Business Methods.

Goopine, May 31—We are interested
in finding remedies for the ills that busi-
ness is liable to. The thing especially
on my wind now is the cutting of prices
way below cost on some of our staple ar-
ticles as a bait. It may be legal, and
still it may be pure fraud. What caused
me just at this time to think of it more
especially was an advertisement I saw in
the Detroit Free Press of May 21, headed
‘A Big Drop in Sugar,” in which Sears,
Roebuck & Co., of Chicago, offered forty
pounds of the very best granulated sugar
for $1, and other groceries at proportion-
ately low prices. The mail is just now
flooded with their circulars and many re-
spond by sending money to them which
is rightly due the home dealer. This
causes a good many to feel dissatisfied
with those doing a straight business, de-
void of such baits. With the well-in-
formed man such things cut no figure,
but the patronage of the larger element
is what we dealers need and deserve.

Mrs. J. R. HARRISON.
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Graphic Description of the Mammoth
Hotel Fiasco at Put-in-Bay.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

Three years ago, a little earlier in the
season than this, while the summer plans
of the vacation-world were formulating,
a special announcement appeared in the
columns of the daily press to the effect
that, on June 29, 1892, the Hotel Vic-
tory, on Put-in-Bay Island, would throw
open its doors for business. To those
living in the basin of the Great Lakes
the announcement was no surprise. For
years the islands of Put-in-Bay had been
known as one of the favored spots of the
earth, where tired humanity could come
and rest; and there was great rejoicing
when it was known that the plans of the
Put-in-Bay Hotel Company had at last
matured, and that the summer life there
would soon begin.

The place itself has long been known
to fame. It was here that Perry, in 1812,
gathered his ships and lay in wait for
the British fleet. Here he fought the
great naval battle of Lake Erie and,
when it was over, reported the result in
the famous sentence: ‘‘We have met the
enemy and they are ours.’ This may,
at first, have drawn the crowds of sum-
mer pleasure-seekers to visit the place,
but, when interest in the historical inci-
dent had been satisfied, surprised and
delighted with their surroundings, they
stayed to enjoy themlonger. In scenery
they found the best that land and water
eando. The air was pure and bracing,
and the limpid waters of the lake told
pleasant stories of what lay in store for
devotees of the hook and line, while
those who like the bath heard something
to catch their attention in the ripples
playing upon the sandy beach. Year
after year, this went on and, finally, the
question came: ‘‘Why not turn all these
delightful things to some practical ac-
count?”? Then reason went to work.
He called for a map of Put-in-Bay and
the surrounding country. He found
that the islands were sixty miles from
Detroit, forty from Toledo, twenty-three
from Sandusky, sixty from Cleveland—
what a location for a halfway house!—
with Buffalo at the other end of the lake
and growing towns, some of them al-
ready thrifty cities, on both shores of
this great inland sea. These cities were
already connected by lines of steamers
and these lines were only links joining
the network of railroads centering at the
cities. The map-study was a short one,
and the fact was announced that these
islands were ‘‘at the very door of over
8,000,000 people, to whom it is the most
convenient and natural pleasure resort
and resting place.”’

That wasenough. Imagination strolled
over to Sunset Rocks and dreamed
his dream. The windows of the west
were all aflame, and, while the dreamer
watched the fading light,

“Anon out of the earth a fabric huge

Rose like an exhalation, with the sound

Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet,

Built like a temple, where pilasters round
Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid
With golden architrave.”

When those interested finally ‘‘got
down to business,’’ it was decided to
build one of the largest and most mag-
nificent summer hotels on the American
continent! There should be an exten-

sive and attractive park for the free use
of the guests of the hotel; a system of
waterworks would supply the hotel and
the cottages; all the streets in Victory

Park were to be improved, without cost
to the owner; sewers and pipes were
to be put through all the streets, free of
charge. An arc electric light was to be
maintained at every street intersection,
without cost to lot owners or cottagers;
the hotel—Hotel Victory—located at
some distance from the dock, was to be
reached by means of an electric railroad,
a train of three cars starting from each
end of the road every five minutes; and,
during the winter, all the cottages were
to be watched and taken care of without
expense to the owner.

When the scheme had proceeded so far
as to be considered practical, the next
step was the formation of a company,
and, this having been done, an archi-
tect was called in and commissioned ‘‘to
make plans for a hotel that would be
second to none in the world in size and
magnificence!” I don’t suppose that the
poet had in mind anything but Venice
when he said he

“Saw from out the wave her structures rise

As from the stroke of the enchanter’s wand.”
But these things come to the mind of the
visitor as he approaches the island, and

 

SMAN.

 

 

Hotel Victory certainly answers the de-
scription, for

“She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean

Rising, with her tiara of proud towers

At airy distance, with majestic motion,

A ruler of the waters and their powers.”

The building is 600 feet wide by 400
feet deep and covers almost six acres of
ground. It has a dining room 155x85
feet, which can seat 1,000 persons. There
are 600 guest chambers; grand parlors,
with numerous private parlors and re-
ception rooms; a large amusement hall
with stage; a library, a reading room,
and a billiard room for ladies, and those
ten thousand and one comforts, con-
veniences and luxuries which modern
hotel life demands. The building is lo-
cated on the highest point of the island,
eighty feet above the lake level, upon a
tract of land comprising ninety-seven
acres, twenty-one of which were to be
turned into Victory Park.

It was easy to see that the building of
such a hoiel with such surroundings
would create a demand for building lots,
and the company, with commendable
forethought, after setting aside the
grounds for public use, platted the rest

of Victory Park into 475 villa lots, about
every one of which they were wont to re-
mark: “It can be truthfully said that
every iot is a@ good one, and no mistake
can be made in selection.” The prices
of these lots ranged from $375 to $650.
it should be said, in this connection,
that the company stated: ‘‘Every lot
could be sold in Cincinnati or Cleveland
alone, but we desire, in the interests of
the future hotel patronage, to distribute
these lots among as many towns as pos-
sible.’’

So the plans were made and the work-
men were set to work. ‘‘The fabric
huge rose,’’ and, if not “like an exhala-
tion,’’ it was near enough like it for all
practical purposes, and in due time the
grand ideal was supposed to be sufficient-
ly realized, and tbe 8,000,000 were in-
vited to select their rooms. They were
not all taken—to be exact about it, they
were not all finished, and, for some rea-
son or other, the United States marshal
had charge of the hotel before the first
season was over. Two months or so
ago, the property was sold, and, if Cin-
cinnati and Cleveland still cling to their

 

 

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complained of, and that the said

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that which is Complainant’s

false or misleading manner.

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ROWLAND COX,

 

resident

of the United States of America,

New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the
it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United
of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to be relieved touching the matters therein

said

To

HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, ager_s,
satlesmem and workmen, and all tlaiming or
holding through or under you,

ENOCH

may fall upon you and each of

absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word “ SAPOLIO.” or any word or
substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection

with

manufacture, and from

this 16th day of December, in

use of the designation ‘*SAPOL

you

the
soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly,

in any way using

Whereas, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of

MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that

States for the District

ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS COMPANY,

Complainant, is entitled to the exclusive

IO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap.

Mow, Cherefore, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY

KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you,
which

in case of disobedience, that you do

words

manufacture or sale of any scouring

By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as
“SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO”

is asked for,

the word ‘‘SAPOLIO” in any

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avituess, The honorable MELVILLE W. FuLier, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States of America, at the City of
Jersey,
eight hundred and ninety-two,

of New

thousand,

Trenton, in said District

the year of our Lord, one

[SIGNED]

Complainant's Solicitor.

Ss. D. OLIPHANT,
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original idea, it is barely possible that
they can have all the lots they want—it
may be at reduced rates.

If, now, the question is asked, ‘‘What
is the real reason why ‘the cloud-capped
towers, the gorgeous palace, like an un-
substantial pageant faded?” the answer
is found in the brief statement, ‘‘It was
built on expectation.’’ Reason did its
work—good judgment is found all
through the scheme; but this and other
agents quite as important needed money
to carry out the plans. This, as I
understand, the Hotel Victory never
had. It sprang from hope, it was built
on hope; and, when the time came to
pay the bills, that kind of currency
wouldn’t go.

Whether, from what has already been
done, a company with money to work
with will carry out the original design
remains to be seen. The location is all
right, what has so far been done is well
enough in its way, and, now, if the right
hands get hold of it, there is still a
chance for the island of Put-in-Bay to
have ‘‘a hotel that will be second to none
in the world in size and magnificence.”

RicHARD MALcoM STRONG.
_
CURRENT COMMENT.

The bitter fight between the old sugar
millionaire, Claus Spreckels, and his two
sons, Rudolph and ‘‘Gus,’’ promises to
have sensationai results. These sons
have done many things recently to worry
their father. They have badgered him
with lawsuits, and recently in a suit by
“‘“Gus’’ seandalous exposures were made
of Spreckel’s deal with the Sugar Trust
over his Philadelphia refinery. Old
Claus was dragged into the witness-
stand, but he declined to answer a long
list of questions propounded by his son’s
attorney. This suit was for slander, and
now the father has opened fire on his two
sons. He has asked the courts to com-
pel Rudolph to return 500 shares of the
Paahua Plantation stock in Hawaii, worth
half a million, which was given him by
his father several years ago. Claus asks
its return under the California law,
which does not permit alienation of com-
munity property without consent of the
wife, and Mrs. Spreckels did not sign re-
lease of this stock. This suit cuts off
Rudolph’s income of $5,000 monthly.
The father also demands the return of
the revenue of this stock for two years.
The father will also soon begin suit
against ‘‘Gus” to cut off his income. The
object of these suits is to impoverish the
sons, so that they may not have means to
carry on the legal warfare against their
father. This family battle in the courts
is one of the most repulsive sights the
country has seen in many years.

* * +

It is claimed, on apparently good
grounds, that the Alaska canneries can
supply the world with all the salmon it
wants. The latest report of Governor
Sheakley, recently published, gives a
list of twenty-two canneries which mar-
ket together nearly 700,000 cases of
salmon a year. Their combined product
in 1891 reached almost 800,000 cases,
‘‘which was more than the world
wanted,” says the Governor in his report.
“The market declined, and since then
the canneries have pursued a more con-
servative course and have endeavored
not to overstock the market.’ Besides

 

this great canning industry, Alaska has
twenty-four companies engaged in salt-
ing and shipping salmon, with an annual

 

output of 21,000 barrels; and another
company markets 1,000 barrels of salt
herring, 400,000 gallons of herring oil
and 1,000 tons of fertilizing material
every year. The Governor reports the
codfish banks of that Territory inex"
haustible and halibut “in great num-
bers;”’ also that about a hundred other
species of edible fish are to be found in
Alaskan waters. From all this he natu-
rally concludes that ‘‘Alaska’s food fishes

will be a source of wealth for all time.”
* * *

Feed must be bad in the Chicago
hotels, when the rats undertake to make
a meal of the guests. The people in the
Rossmore were awakened from their
slumbers by the loud cries of ‘‘*murder”
and ‘‘help’’ in a shrill feminine voice.
Men in various sorts of night clothes,
with pistols in their hands, rushed into
the corridors, and women screamed and
fainted. It was soon found that the
cries came from the roum of Miss Mary
Sullivan. The door was burst open by a
big guest with a revolver, and the cause
of the trouble ran out. It was a small
rat, which had jumped up on the bed
and bitten Miss Sullivan on the end of
the nose. The wound was trifling, but
the doctor was sent for, and he cauter-

ized it. The guests then went back to
their slumbers, after searching their
rooms for rats.

* 1 *

A Cincinnati penny-in-the-slot concern
concluded that Anderson, Ind., would be
a good place to carry on business in, so
they located there a dozen machines,
loaded with candies and chocolates. A
few days ago their agent visited Ander-
son to collect the nickels and replace the
absorbed sweets. He was agreeably sur-
prised to find the machines had been
doing an enormous business and were all
empty of merehandise; but, upon open-
ing them, expecting to find some $15 in
each machine, he was very disagreeably
surprised to find, instead of nickels,
nothing but round bits of iron of about

the same size and weight.
-— = *

‘‘Carbide of calcium,’’ which can now
be produced by the ton, is a combination
of coal (carbon) and lime. The combi-
nation takes place when the two sub-
stances are heated together. If water is
dropped on the compound so produced
and a match applied, the resultant gas
will burn until the water is exhausted.
It is feared by some and hoped by others
that the discovery is revolutionary, as
the gas burns with a flame ‘‘which makes
an electric light look a dull yellow,” and
its cost is low.

* * *

A large fieet of excursion steamers
flocked to Chicago to compete for the
business attending the World’s Fair.
Most of these remained last season and,
as aresult, the excursion business was
most disastrous. This season a large
number of them are scattering to points
where there is any show for trade and, as
@ consequence, the excursion business
wil) suffer every where.

*% * *

A committee of the House of Commons
of the British House of Parliament ap-
pointed for the purpose of investigating
the matter has reported that asuccession
to the peerage disqualifies the suecessor
from membership in the House of Com-
mons.

* * *

The old-fashioned agricultural fairs in
California have become so unpopular
that they are likely to be discontinued
and their place taken by flower carni-
vals and fruit exhibitions.

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THE BACK OFFICE.
Written for THz TRADESMAN.

There isan idea too much abroad in
the land that, after an organization is
well officered, all that remains for the
other members of the organization to do
is to go quietly about their business,
with never a peep from them until the
time for complaint comes, when they
present themselves, loaded to the muzzle,
and proceed to fire at once.

During the few hot days when the
windows were opened, this came floating
in on the prematurely heated air: ‘‘They
just elect the officers and leave them to
do all —” The rest of the sentence
never reached me, but it is easy to guess
what it was. The ladies were on their
way home after a stormy session, it was
to be inferred, of some church society,
where these muzzle-loaded guns had
been discharged, and were evidently de-
ploring the fact—which is so common a
one—that the few do all the work and
share all the credit, when there is any,
and take all the blame when the attempt
—whatever it be—does not turn out a
howling success. .

Of course, in church matters, ‘‘where
a lot of women run things,’’ nothing else
is to be expected; and yet the trouble is
not confined to them. Last summer, ina
certain corner of the globe, the retail
grocers met and unanimously voted to
close early. When the appointed time
came, they all waited for the other fellow
to lead off, the result being that the
stores were still kept open until eight or
nine o’clock in the eyening. Everybody
was to blame, and, in the quarrel which
followed, it came out that they all be-
lieved it was an attempt to cheat a few
grocers out of the trade after six o’clock
which belonged to them.

Over in Crosstown, the traders got to-
gether and voted to have apicnie. There
was much enthusiasm. Officers were ap-
pointed and committees were selected
and the meeting broke up with general
goodwill. Then there came a_ lull,
and, after a while, when one man more
courageous than the rest spoke his piece,
it come out that the President of the As-
sociation was to do all the work and ad-
vance money to pay all the bills, and he
just didn’t propose to doit. The picnic
didn’t come off and the young lady friends
of the clerks, for weeks after that,
couldn’t speak of the affair without call-
ing that President ‘‘a mean, stingy thing
—so there!’

I don’t know but the great trouble
with all these organizations gotten up
for the general benefit lies in the irre-
sponsibility of the membership. ‘You
are the chairman of this committee, and
what do you purpose to do about it?” is
a common question, and, ‘*You’ll have to
go to headquarters, for 1 don’t know
anything about it,” is the answer equally
common. When the headquarters are
reached and the authorities are appealed
to, they have been ‘‘too busy to attend to
it, but the proper committee is the one
to see;’’? and so the affair zigzags from
headquarters to committee and from
committee to headquarters, until the
thing is disgustedly pronounced a fail-
ure.

Franklin’s old fable—if it be Frank-
lin’s—is too often forgotten to-day. Or-
ganization means something, and, if the
members understand that they, individ-
ually, have their particular function to
perform, and if they perform it to the
best of their ability, the rest will take

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

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eare of itself. The stomach will never
get mixed up with the brains, nor the
toes with the fingers; but each part,
working harmoniously with the other
parts, will strive so eagerly to do that
part well as never to think of shirking
and throwing upon another the work or
the responsibility belonging thereto.
Brains think, hands execute, feet sup-
port; and the feet that would rush to
the other extremity will be found mighty
poor material for any organization, irre-
spective of locality. Pope’s famous
couplet has a thought which the mem-
bers of organizations should bear con-
stantly in mind:

“Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part. There all the honor lies,”

* * *

It seems that the merchants of Buffalo,
in hiring clerks, take a country boy, if
they can get one, every time; and the
Enquirer wants to know if they do it
with the idea of controlling trade.

1 don’t think this is a peculiarity con-
fined to Buffalo, and I have an idea that,
in general, it will be found that the mer-
chant is tired of the kind of material
with whick the city too often supplies
the clerk department. If a messenger
boy or a package deliverer is wanted, the
city lad is desirable, because he is famil-
iar with the streets—more so, at least,
than the boy fresh from the farm; but
there the superiority ceases. Of course,
the boy comes in with his hair full of
hayseed and with the dust an inch thick
on his cowhide shoes; but those shoes,
big as they are, have brought in, along
with the boy’s clumsiness, certain quali-
ties which ought not to be confined to
potato patch and hay field, but which,
the merchants all over the country are
beginning to think, are found there, if
anywhere.

The fact is that city training, however
considered, is narrowing. There is much
to be said about the excellent schools
and about the boys learning early the
ways of the world; but, after all, there
is little, if any, of that early throwing of
the young fellow on his own resources
which means so much to him in after
life. From his own door to that of the
schoolhouse, with nothing at either end
of the walk but books and lessons, is the
city boy’s world. He gets into the
limited round, stays there and has no
idea of getting out of it. His lessons are

mapped out for him; fine apparatus in
the hands of a skillful teacher explains
what he does not understand, and, when
the road happens to get too rough, he is
lifted bodily over the difficulty and goes
on his way rejoicing.

Not so with the farm boy. If he wants
a sled, he can make it or go without. If
he wants his hair cut, and wants Clip-
pers at the village to do the job, he can
take the quarter he earned and have it
done. He can make the most of the win-
ter school, but he’ll have “them there
chores” to do just the same, and his jack-
knife is the only assistant he will ever
have in the way of apparatus. The least
said about his reading, the better, and
his writing is something terrific; but,
when his school days are over, there is a
practical something that has made him
ready for the emergencies of life,
whether he goes on with the farm, or
walks to the city some morning to be
made fun of by the dapper young eity
chap who, twenty-five years from then,
will be clerking for this same country
boy whom he so thcroughly despises.

So, if the Buffalo merchants are reach-
ing out inte the country for their clerks,
I don’t believe it is with the idea of con-
trolling trade. A better reason is behind
the movement and it is one which city
parents would do well to consider.

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Moral Responsibility of Employer for
Employe.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
WANTED-—Salesgirls. teferences required.
Salary, $3 per week. Call between the
hours of 9and 10 o’clock, Monday morning next.

Does this sound familiar to any of you?
A little investigation on this subject
lately, and I had what the Quakers call
“‘a concern laid upon me.”’

How can a girl live upon $3 a week?
Board, laundry, ete., soon make sad
havoc with that amount, and no great
luxury either, and where is the necessary
neat apparel to come from? Merchants
do not want slovenly dressed help about
them, neither do customers want that
sort to wait upon them; but clothes cost
money, no matter how many of the little
makeshifts with which we are all more
or less familiar are brought in.

Deplore the fact as we may, a fact it
still remains that girls will work in
stores and offices and endure almost any
kind of hardship rather than go out to
domestic service. The question of re-
sponsibility for this state of things is too
great a to deal with here, and,
whether the mistresses or the maids are
to blame—it is probably true that both
are—we will take the fact as we find it
and endeavor to deal with another phase
of the subject.

Answering this advertisement came
scores of girls, some living at home and
wanting the money for the pretty little
articles of dress which “father can’t af-
ford,” others—alas too many !—needing
it for their daily bread.

You employers who have daughters
should think how far $38 a week goes to-
ward their expenses, to say nothing of
board; and, unfortunately, perhaps, the
poor girl loves pretty trifles as well as
the rich man’s daughter, with not always
the good sense as to their importance as
a factor of happiness which long famil-
iarity with them brings. Handling such
goods day after day; seeing the many
buy whom she knows will only throw
them away after once weariug, and the
careless display of money which so many
women seem to consider a mark of
wealth; seeing ladies paying for the fads
of the hour a sum far greater than
her whole week of patient work will
bring—having this daily thrust upon
her, I say, what wonder that, when Sat-
urday night comes and her “envelope” is
handed her, the amount inside looks
pitiably small, and that the tempter finds
in her desperate little heart ready ground
for the seeds of wrongdoing? Once
started on the downhill path, it is so
much easier to go on than to turn back;
and, if she falls and the time comes—as
it nearly always does—when she is dis-
covered taking something which with
greater wages she could easily have
bought, and disgrace follows, where is
any sympathy to found for the
once innocent girl?

Employers, your responsibility does
not-end with the paying of the week’s
wages and the closing of the doors Sat
urday night. Your force of help is
somewhat of the nature of a family, and
only in a lesser degree are you respon-
sible for their moral lives. Most busi-
ness people—men and women alike—
look upon the help employed in an estab-
lishment somewhat in the way they do the
elevator, the electric light, the cash
earrier, etc.—only as a means to fur-
ther their individual interests, I

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

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do nut believe this matter suggests
itself to people in business as much
as it ought. Employers are not the
hard-hearted individuals some would
have us believe, but they are too busy,
in many cases, to give this the thought it
deserves; but a business man who has
success in sight has learned to listen to
suggestions, if he does not always fol-
low them.

Now and then a large donation to
some college, or a newsboys’ dinner
seems to be some people’s sole idea of
doing good in the world and then they
think they have discharged their whole
duty. Noble, these gifts, indeed, in their
way, and would there were more of
them; but, you who have the three-dol-
lars-a-week clerks, did you never think it
was the clerks who gave this money in-
stead of you? A little more a week in
wages might necessitate a lopping off of
some of the Christmas charities, which
sound so excellently well in print, but
your clerks would be enabled to live
honestly where, perhaps, they are now
tempted to do otherwise. And think
you not the recording angel would deem
that the better deed of the two?

Do not hide behind the “law of supply
and demand.”’ It is true that there are
plenty to take the places of those who
are there, and for the same money, too,
(more’s the pity!); but, because that is a
fact, does it follow that you are justified
in hiring clerks for less than they can
live on honestly and decently, and then
giving to charity once a year to ease your
conscience?

If the theorist is right—and we hope
he is—the time will eome when crime
and misdemeanor will be treated as dis-
eases, instead of being punished and
bringing disgrace. And the employer
who places a sure temptation in the way
of his employe will be no more excusable
than he who puts contagion in his store
with the hope that the help will not be
contaminated.

In the recent closing of the Grand Pa-
cific Hote! in Chicago, great prominence
was given by the papers to the fact that
many of the employes, from the chef
down to the chambermaids, had been in
the same capacity in the house for
periods varying from fifteen to twenty
years. If the men and women employed
were not faithful, they were immediately
sent adrift; but, when they were, appre-
ciation must have been freely bestowed
to have kept a force loyal to one house
80 long. Whatever the secret of Mr.
Drake’s suceess with his help, it would
pay others, it would seem, to learn it.

I have in mind one place here in the
city which I have heard spoken of in this
manner: ‘‘Mr. ’s help are all so loyal
to the house that it inspires one with
confidence in his goods,”’ Now, there is
a reason for this, be it what it may, and
it proves that clerks are grateful when
they have the incentive to be so. Of
course, a merchant with a large force
must, of necessity, occasionally get those
who are unworthy, but they are soon
dropped out and their places filled by
those who can be trusted. Almost any
clerk will work for the interest of her
employer if she feels that he appreciates
her efforts, and the profits will surely be
greater when all are working for the
common good.

We deplore ill luck, but there is not
much in it after all. Cause and effect
form the basis of all things, no matter
how much we would like to think other-

 

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Spring & Company,

Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Notions,
Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear,
Woolens, Filannels, Blankets, Ging-
hams, Prints and Domestic Cottons,

We invite the Attention of the Trade to our Complete and Well Assorted
Stock at Lowest Market Prices.

Spring & Company.

 

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Yes, we’ve got ’em!
Novelties and Staples in Dry Goods.
Everything in Notions.
Big Line of Gents’ Furnishings.
All that can be desired in Yarns.

We are Headquarters for

Hoor Ui Cloths and Linoleums

Have you ever done business with us? If not,
let’s get our heads together and see what we
can do

VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & 60

Wholesale Dry Goods,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

Duck Kersey
Coats Pants

We manufacture the best made goods in these lines of
any factory in the country, guaranteeing every garment to
give entire satisfaction, both in fit and Wearing qualities. We
are also headquarters for Pants, Overalls and Jackets and
solicit correspondence with dealers in towns where goods of
our manufacture are not regularly handled.

Lansing Pants & Overall Co.,

LANSING, ICH.

 

Office Telephone 1055.
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SECURITY

Warehouse, 257--259 Ottawa St.

Moving, Packing,

Expert Packers and Careful,
Given. Business Strictly

Barn Telephone 1059.
LCA REE Se Uy sl RRR

Storage and
Transfer Co.

Main Of*ce, '75 Pearl St.

Dry Storage.

Estimates Cheerfully
F. S. ELSTON, Mer.

Grand Rapids Brush Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Competent Movers of Household Furniture.
Confidential. Baggage Wagon at all hours.

 

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Our Goods are sold by all Michigan*Jobbing"Houses, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

wise. An employer whose help is loyal
to him has done something to make them
so, and vice versa. Pay living wages and
demand good return; both sides will then
have the sense of justice which renders
easy tasks which might otherwise be
onerous.

It will not sound as large in the papers,
of course, as would the annual Christ-
mas gift, but you will find yourself more
in favor with your own conscience, if I
am not mistaken, though not so ‘‘great
before men.’’ Misfortune may come to
you as it has to others, and even your
daughter may be placed in like position.
Searcely can you imagine that: but take
the matter home to your heart and keep
in mind the ‘‘Do unto others.”

‘“‘Impractical,’? you say? Ina smaller
way, perhaps, than your business this
has been tried, and it works well; sol
may be excused for being a little sure of
my position. JACQUELINE.

a —

A point of interest to salesmen may be
found in a late decision of the Minnesota
Supreme Court wherein it was ruled that
a firm receiving orders from salesmen
and accepting same without further com-
ment, become liable for the full commis-
sions on the sales to salesmen; that if
orders are rejected, the firm should at
once notify salesmen and not leave the
matter open to final settlement, as is fre-

quently done.
——>_4

The regular monthly meeting of Post
E will be held at Elk’s Hall, Saturday
evening, June 8. Chairman Lawton de-
sires to meet every member of the Post
on that occasion, as he has something of
unusual importance to impart to the
membership.

WE CARRY A LARGE STOCK OF

Summer Goods

Challies, aw ns,
Organdies,
Dimities,
Prints,
Crepes,
Ginghams, Sateens.

 

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Bank Notes.

Edward C. Dayton, for several years
Cashier of the City National Bank of
Kalamazoo, has been elected President,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
his father, Hon. C. S. Dayton. W. R.
Beebe, who has served the bank for a
number of years, was elected Cashier.

H. R. Wagar has sold _ his banking
business at Stanton, together with his
stone front bank building and all fix-
tures and furniture complete, to Charies
W. French, of Pontiac, and Josiah E.
Just, of Ionia, who will continue the
banking business there under the firm
name of C. W. French & Co. The new
firm has also purchased the furniture
and fixtures of the Chapin bank and
rented the Chapin building and will
move their bank to that building, believ-
ing it to be a more desirable location.

 

Allegan, Mich.
Thoroughly renovated, repaired and refur-
nished from kitchen to garret. It is the inten
tion of the landlord; whois an old traveling man)
to make the house a veritable home of comfort

and good cheer to the traveling publie

E. 0. PHILLIPS, Prop
FOR RENT.

Manufacturing Property with Power,

One Store and several fine Offices.
APPLY TO

WM. T. POWERS or J.W. SPOONER

Room 34, Powers’ Opera House Bloek.

 

 

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Samples.

WE GIVE
MAIL ORDERS

If you cannot wait for our
traveling men, write us for

  

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BATON, LYON & GD

20 & 22 Monroe S$

GRAND RAPIDS.

Everything for the
Field and Garden

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

Headquarters for Egg Cases and

Fillers.

 

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128 to 132 W. Bridge St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

The Ideal
- Clothing Co.

Are Leaders in their Li They manufacture
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CHEAP AND MEDIUM PRICED PANTS,

The Best Quality in all grades. As a result of this, they have justly earned the reputatio te
Good, Honest Work, Perfect in Fit Their

Shirts and Overalias ““°¢r ea! eve
Duck Coats and ie sieicsas aaa a.”

You should see their WATERPROOF HUNTER’S DUCK COAT, No. 909. It is a gen meets
the requirements of all Sportsmen.

Their Fall and Winter line for 9% and “96 is now complete and ready for the inspection of the
close buyer. We sell direct to dealers.

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26 and 28 LOUIS ST. GRAND RAPIDS

At
Right

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PROMPT

AND CAREFUL
ATTENTION.

P. Steketee & Sons

W holesale Dry Goods

 

GRAND RAPIDS, - -

Summer Underwear

Overskirts, Corsets,
Straw Hats,

Outing

AND A GENERAL

WELL ASSORTED STOCK

OF SUCH GOODS USED IN

THE STATE.

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State Board of Pharmacy,

One Year—George Gundrum, Ionia.

Two Years—C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix.
ThreeYears—S. E. Parkhill, Owosso.

Four Years—F. W.R Perry, Detroit

Five Years—A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor.
President—Fred’k W .R. Perry, Detroit.

£ ecretary—Stanley E. Parkili, Owosso.
Yreasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

Coming Meetings—Detroit (Star Island),
Lansing, Nov 5.

June 24;

 

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

Secreta y—F. C. Thompson. Detroit.

 

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutica) Society.
Presideat, John E. Peck; Secretary, B. Schrouder.

 

 

THE DRUGGIST’S OPPORTUNITY.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

It is more than twelve years since a
few enterprising pharmacists of this
State organized an association for mutual
improvement in the line of their pro-
fession, and also for mutual commercial
benefit. Up to the present time, out of
nearly 3,500 registered pharmacists and
assistants throughout the State, less than
one-seventh are sustaining active mem-
bership in the Assveciation, and of this
small number less than one-third attend
its annual gatherings. There must
surely be a reason for this apparent lack
of interest, and it would seem that away
might be devised io awaken the enthu-
siasm of this class of useful citizens
(who have been so long employed in
serving the public within narrow limits
that they have forgotten their relative
duties to each other) and for the ad-
vancement of the interests of pharmacy
as a profession. Quite a large propor-
tion of druggists are located permanently
outside of the large cities. Routine
work has occupied their attention, and
it has given but little opportunity to be-
come acquainted with the progressive
developments in pharmacology that im-
mediately concern them, and with theim-
provements in methods obtained through
organized effort to protect their eom-
mercial interests.

Many druggists read trade journals,
thus keeping somewhat in touch with
the progress of events in the outside
world; but there are too many who rest
on their oars, floating quietly down the
stream of time, content to let their men-
tal and social horizon be bounded by the
territorial limits of their own local trade.
Were it not for the fact that the travel-
ing salesman comes along occasionally
to’ enliven the monotony of existence,
they might be as those living “‘out of the
world and by the world forgot.”

It is not because they lack mental cul-
ture, Social disposition or commercial en-
terprise that so many who might become
efficient members of the State Associa-
tion refrain from active participation in
efforts to benefit the interests of phar-
macy. They are public spirited in their
own localities, being liberal in contribu-
tions to local enterprises; and they are
prompt to serve the public with the new-
est products in the line of medicine.
What they need is an impulse that shall
lift them out of the plodding daily round
into a fresher and more exhilarating at-
mosphere, where are the men who meet
to exchange the experience acquired in
spheres of larger activities, and where,
also, they can inspect new manufactur-
ing processes, view displays of finished
products, receive information that books
and trade journals cannot supply and,
lastly, acquire the solid benefits only to
be gained by personal contact and com-

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

parison with earnest, active, practical |
business men in larger lines of trade.

Let acountry druggist break loose, |
for atime, from the dull details of his |
home business, mix socially with the
men who control the greater of the
world’s exchanges—let him, I say, en-
joy the exhilarating effect of an annual
meeting of the State Association, and he
will find this experience a better reason
for future active co operation than all
the arguments that can be offered in
print in favor of general organized effort.

It may be that some, in various parts
of the State, feel indisposed to join the
Association because of an idea that it is!
controlled by a certain few to further
their own commercial purposes. 1 have
heard opinions that hinted in this di-
rection but am sure they can have no
foundation in fact. So far asI can see,
there has been no discrimination either
practiced or intended to advance any in-
terests but those of the whole member-
ship. No one is debarred from a free
expression of opinion on any subject
that comes up for discussion, and every
facility is extended to enlarge one’s cir-
cle of acquaintance, both commercially
and socially.

As to the location of the annual meet-
ings, each part of the State has, in turn,
opportunity to try to secure the privi-
lege of enjoying this advantage, if it be
an advantage. Detroit’s hospitality is
always offered, but in deference to the
wishes of any other city. Other places
may freely divide the honors, if so dis-
posed and a wish is expressed by their
representatives.

The meeting in Detroit this year, be-
ginning with July 15, if attended as it
should be by druggists from all parts of
the State, will more than repay all who
will take the interest to attend. New
features of entertainment and instruction
will be furnished in the Auditorium, be-
sides the usual discussions, reports and
papers in the various sessions.

I appeal to all druggists who have
pride in their work, especially to eoun-
try druggists who, like myself, have too
long been satisfied with the quiet per-
formance of home duties, to make a new
departure for once. Leave the dreary,
weary monotony of selling and dispens-
ing and spend at least a part of one week
in freshening the mental faculties by
mingling with bright minds, and where
all may give and receive the best there is
in them, and return to their homes bet-
ter and wiser for the opportunities there

enjoyed. S. P. WHITMARSH.
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Grape Fruit as a Tonic.
From the Popular Science News.

This fruit is an admirable tonic, as
well as a most appetizing breakfast or
luncheon relish. <A doctor Says that the
sharp stimulus of fruit is the best thing
te set the digestive organs in order for
the day, and the peculiar properties of
grape fruit give it marked medicinal]
value.

When eaten at luncheon it is prepared
in a different way than for breakfast sery-
ice. For the second meal the contents
of two halves should be scraped out, the
seeds and tough cone of dividing skin
taken out and the pulp and juice thus
obtained used to fill one of the halves,
which it will just about do. A table-
spoonful of sugar and one of rum or
sherry mixed with the juicy pulp adds
the perfecting flavor. At breakfast,
with the long pointed orange spoon, the
meat is eaten out as is that of an
orange, and very little sugar is used

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WHEREVER SOLD.

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

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WFLLAER &HOFEHANN

MILWAUKEE, WIS.
Wholesale Distributors.

J. A. GONZALEZ,

Michigan Representative

 

 

Fireworks

We have a complete
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made, besides many

Novelties which sell themselves, aud which no other house has.

Send forour Catalogue and Price List.

Prices NEVER so low before.

A. FE. BROOKS & CO.

5 and 7 South Ionia St., Grand Rapids.

 

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S Send for catalogue of net

prices.

Fishing Tsckle and Sporting Goods.

A Full Line of INSECTICIDES, such as Paris Green, London Purple, Blue Vitriol, Ete.

The A. H. Lyman Co., -

Manistee, [lich.

 

 

 

COMRADE

Is one of the few

| ED. W. RUHE,

Good 5 cent brands, which | +... 3st

All smokers will

Realize by giving them a trial.

| 523 John st.
| Kalamazoo

 

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

 

ol Turkish Bread

DETROIT POP CORN NOVELTY C0.

ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.

Are Tip Top Sellers.

41 JEFFERSON AVENUE
Detroit, (ich.

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

"'iieeeene Prine Cuts aink,

Advanced—Cod Liver Oil, Cream Tartar, Gambier, Salaci
__Declined—Balsum Peru, Gum Kino, Cocaine, Senex. a

ACIDUM,
Aoeeoues .....- «..--
Benzoicum Germar.
Ce ee
Carbolicum .....
Citricum .....
Hydrochior
Hisrocum ~=.....-..--
Oxalicum ... ie
Phosphorium a
Salicylicum .. nee
Sulphuricum... eo ;
"aeomee.........-.-
Wertarieum..........-

AMMONIA.
Aq jue, 6 oe.......-.
2% de
Calne cies een on
Cherie ......---.-
ANILINE,

Yellow
BACOAE.

Cubese ny ™
Juni
Xant yee.

BALSAMUM.

seni. Canada
Tolutan

CORTEX.
Abies, Canadian
Cassiae ..

Cinchona Flava ce Le

Euonymus atropurp..
Myrica Cerifera, po...
Prunus Virgini.......-
Quillaia, grd......-...
Sassafras

Ulmus Po {Ground 15)..

EXTRACTUE.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra..
0.

Haematox, Ba Ib. box.
nt so i oie
PERRU

Carbonate Precip......
Citrate and —
Citrate Solubie..
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut Chloride
Sulphate, com’l..

“ pure

FLORA.

Ce
Anthomis ......-.....--
Matricaria _—_-:--:

Basen ......---.-:-
Cm *,cuiifol, Tin-
nivelly seteae ceuaees
Salvia officinalis, =
end 168........----;-
Ga Uee .....---.--..

GUMMI.
Acacia, ist picked....
" 2d ~

ot 8d “ i

' sifted sorte

Aloe, Barb, Gos 60) .
“ ‘ape,

—.....
Ammoniae . aa
Assafcetida, (po: 40)
Bensolnuum.. Lo.
Camphorsg.........----
Eu Sorbiam oud cross
Galbanum. oe .
Gamboge, po......----
Guaiacum, (po age
Kino, (po 2 50)....--
ony ieee

Myrrh, (po. 45 “a
out (pe 3 10@3 30) .
Saas. .-.-------

' bleached .

Tragacanth ..

BSRBA—In ounce packages.

Absinthium ...
Eupatorium ..
—,* CD tacck=s
Majoru

Mentha  Biperita,

Ru
Tanacetum, Pe

  
 

4m 6
@ 8
12@ 14
12@ 14

2 WE@2 25

80@1 00
45Q 50

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20 25
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MAGNESIA
Caicined, Pat.. 55@> Gv
Carbonate, Pat... VN wz
Carbonate, K. & M.. DW@ 3
Carbonate, Jennings. 35QG 36
OLEUM.

Absinthium. .........2 50@3 00
Amygdalae, Duic... .. 30@ 50
Amydalae. Amarac....8 00@S 25
Anisi on -s OO @
Auranti ‘Cortex... 1 80@2 00
Bergamii ............-3 00@3 20
ee 60@ 65
Caryophylli........... 7%@ 80
WO sae ice soe ee 3@
Chenopodii ........... @1 60
Cinnamonil... ..... .1 40@1 50
CA ik vee sees a 45
Conium Mac.......... 65
OCOPRIDE, ... 0265 sserce 80B 90

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

Cumerae............. 1 Ogi @
Exechthitos....... i cont 30 eet
Erigeron ...... _.....1 oe Aconitum Napellis ...... @
Gaultheria . .-1 50@1 66 yhOu
Geranium, ounces. @ % es 60
Gossipii, Sem. o. . of aw “and peewee... 4... ck. 60
Hedeoma dt oo a See ee ee. 50
Juniperi............... 50@2 00 | Asafostida................... 0
teveacws ............ 2 90 | Atrope Belladonna.......... 60
a 1 3001 50 i. 60
Mentha Piper. ........1 &5@3 00 Hf GO... .. ssn one 50
Mentha Verid. .......1 80@2 00 ee TS 50
Morrhuae, gal. ......1 @@1 75 Ce 50
My ei eanes... ..... @ 60} Cantharides................. vis]
Oliv 90@3 00 | Capsicum ..............-.... 50
Picts Liquida, (gal. 35) 10@ 12|Ca damon... ............... %
Lo 88@ 96 c oe %
eee oo ee. 100
Rosae, ounce. ........6 50@8 50 we a 50
aoe. 40@ 45 | Cinchona ................... 50
Sabina ...... a 1 00 i Ce oe
—S ee nay a COMA 0... l,l... 50
lll 55 | Conium oS
Sin apie, ¢ ess, onnce. @ 65} Cubeba 50
Tigli Ve @1 00 | Digitalis .............. ..... 50
ae hoes eevee 40@ 60] Ergot........---..... esse eee 50
a . @1 60 | Gentian ..................... 50
Theohromes........... 6 @ e a ce... _......-...._..- 60
oI usicg.......... 50
/ ne oT 60
BeCeren................ Ie 10) tmgipes .... |... be bese cu 50
pacnromais ..........- 1g i) Byescyawm................ 50
— lcuechesecaues se Sie... vt]
eee... y 15 e Coleriees...... ..-.-- 5
Chlorate (po. i7@19).. 16@ 18] Ferri Chloridum............ 35
Crenaee............... 5 oe . =
Todide..... 2 Clg OOD Robelia 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure... 24@ 26)| Myrrh 50
Potassa, Bitart, com. 15} Nux Vomica 50
Potass Nitras, opt .... 10 | Opi ...........-0-2ee wee eees 85
Potase Nitras......... 7 9 ¢ .. 50
Proeete ws... 25@ 23] “ Deodor.. Se
Sulphate po..... --. OO i ‘cei 50
RADIX. eee 50
Sais i... 25 eet ee 50
a... 2Q  .. 50
nana... 12@ 15 | Cassia Beutel... ....-. ... 50
Sram Ue.............. ss... lL eee. 50
Colm. 20@ 40| Serpentaria ................. 50
Gentiana (po. 12)..... 10 | Stromonium................. 60
Glychrrhiza, (py. 15).. 16@ 18 orgee ....-....-..- 60
Hydrastis Canaden, Verewian ........... oe
Ne a0)... C @ Veratrum Veride............ BD
a Ala, PO... = = MISCELLANEOUS.
Ipecac, po............ 1 30@1 40] Atther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 35@ 38
Iris plox (po. 35@38).. 35@ 40 ' _ © 4y.. som «
eee Oe... anes 40@ 45] Alumen 2u@
Maranta, ‘8.. @ 3
an po.. io St é(7).......... 3 4
a -.. (oan. OFT Aunatio..... 40@ 50
o an eects te eee @i 7% Antimoni, po 4@ C5
ci Lm eee eee nn et PotassT. 55@ 60
peers 6... 35Q 38 —— eve cate eres e @1 40
Sanguinarta, (po — @ Wi Antifewria............- @ B
—— 50X@ 55] Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 53
nega Soa Gi Areonicum............ os 7
Similax, Officinalis. # @ 40} Balm Gilead Bud.... 38@ 40
@ | Biamuth & N......... 1 2@1 20
Scillae, (po. 35). 10@ 12] Calcium —— 1s, (48
Symplocarpus, Fott- 10: \a, 14).......-
Gos vO... @ 5 caninariaes Russian,
Valeriana, — (po. ” = = po. @1 00
yerman.
en 13@ W Capsict Fructus, af... = i
Eiseroeer }.......:. 18s@ Ww “ @
SEMEN. caryophyllar, - Pos) 1 2
Anisum, (po. 20) @ 15| Carmine, No. 40....... 4
Apium (graveleons).. 14@ 16 | Cers Alba, 8. & F....- 50@ 56
ecco oe sic Flava......-.-..- = =
Carul, (oe, 16) .....-- as ei
ae 1 00@1 25 Cassia. Practas........ @
Corlandrum..........- 12Q 14 Comseerim.........,.... @ 10
Cannabis Sativa....... 4D 5 A EE S@ #0
c dontam.... a i 00 Chloroform bene amet oe S
eno um i: 2
Dipterix Odorate .....1 20@2 00 Chloral 1 Hya rat weet 1 15@1 30
Feenteulum ee @ Cho: ndrus eee serene enee 25
Foenugreex, po....... 6@ . Cinchonidiag, Pr. & = 15Q W
a ........... |... 3 4 German 3%@ 12
Lint, grd. (bbl. 34). - 34@ q | Cocaine.............. 5 30@5 50
Lobelia 49 | Corka, list, dis. per
Pharlaris Canarian .. ce 65
oe... @ 3%
Sinapis Albu......... 2
‘ ee 5
SPIRITUS @ =
Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@z 50 55
PF. R.....2 OQ@2 B 24
cies 1 25@1 50 Gupri  suiph 5 6
Janiperts Co. O.T....1 65@2 00] Dextrine...... --. foo i
|. 1 7%5@3 50} Ether Sulph........... TD@ 90
Saacharum N. cA 1 90@2 10 Emery, nuinbers.. @2@ 8
Spt. Vini Galli........ ee ee ee ae 6
Vini Oper ..........- 1 25@2 00 | Ergota .) 40 : 30o 35
Wint Ale............- 1 25@2 00 | Flake ite . me
Gallia ........-- : @ BB
SPONGES. Gambier. . .@€@9
Florida sheeps’ oe Gelatin Cooper. . 60
carriage.. 2K | ‘“* French........ 308 50
Naseau aheeps’ “wool Glassware flint, by box 80.
earriage ...........- 2 00 | Less than box 70.
Velvet extra sheeps’ Glue, Brown... 15
wool carriage....... 110 White... 25
Extra yellow sheep’ Glycerina..... 20
Sarriage ...........-- 85 | Grana Par 6 22
Grase ae woo! Car- Peoeeee....-....-....
SS 65 | Hydraag Chlor Mite 19
Hard. cc glate use. 15 - €9
Yellow Reef, for slate ’ Ox Rubrum 89
He ec 1 40 : cee 99
nguentum. 45@ 55
SYBUPS. Hydrargyrum......... @ 6
Accacia ................--.-- 50| I2hthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50
ee 50/1 -- wa
Ipecac. . cece e eee ceee
Ferri ee 50
Acrantt ao phaeeee
meee Avee.....--..-- -<--+- 50
Similax ‘Ofticinalie: Geeee =
BANOO oc cov ee cs dere vnse aces 50 g I
pike es cae iesen ean 50 Liquor PPotass Arsinitis 10@ 12
ee 50| Magnesia, Sulph (bbl
cic eeeans Ot. 156).......... Secs 2
Pranas ¢irg.........--++: . 60' Mannia, 8. F.......... 63

 

 

 

 

saya) 8. _ & W. a 00 | Snuff, Maccaboy, De PAINTS. bbl.

. N.Y. Q. & Weee @ 324] Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3
s oe... 1 65@1 90] Snuff,Scotch,De. Voes @ 34 Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4

oschus Canton...... @ 40} Soda ‘Boras, (po. 6%-9)64@Q@ 9 Ber... 1% 2@3
Myristica, No1..... 65@ 70| Soda et Potass Tart... 24@ 25/ Putty, commercial. --23q 2%G3
Nux Vomica, (po 20)... @ 10|SodaCarb............ 1%@ 2 " = pure.....24 24%@3
Oe Seat 15@ 18} Soda, Bi-Carb......... 3@ 5 | Vermilion Prime Amer-

Pe = Saac, H. & P. D. Soda Ant. 3B%@ 4|_fcan................ 13@15
ee @2 00| Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2] Vermilion, cine ara

Sets Liq, N.wC., % gal Spts. "Ether Co ........ 50@ 55| Green, Paris.. " 20%@27

Oe 00} “ Myrcia Dom..... @2 00| Green, Peninsular... . 13@16
Picis Liq., quarts ..... @1 00} “ MyrcialImp... .. @2 50 | Lead, se .-. 54@6
oe pints -- @ 8]  Vini Rect. bbl... 257) “white ........... - oo

1 Hydrarg, (po. 80)... @ 50 “ “ “bbl. 2 62| Whiting, watieé an. @70
— Nigra, (po. a. @ 1 | “ {0 gal, 2 65 White 8 Gilders’..... @%
a Alba, a $5). @ 3 ss “ “© 65 gal. 2 67 | White, Paris American 1
- = Bureon.......... a ¢ Less 5c gal., cash ten days. whiting, Paris Eng.

lumbi ‘Acet. a 10@ 12] Strychnia Crystal 1 40@) 45 iff .........--.---..- 1 4¢
Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 | Su phur, Bab 2u@ 3 Universal Prepared ..1 00@1 15
Pyrcinem boca Me Rem 2 @2% VARNISHES.

&P.D. Co., doz..... @1 25 | Tamarind -... 8@ 10| No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
Pyrethrum, pv........ 20 30 Terebenth Ventce. a 30 Extra Tur ee 70
SS a &@ 10| Theobromae . i Coach Body.. - -2 T5@3 00

uinia, 8. P. & W.....34%4@30% | Vanilla... 2... 9 vogie mo No. 1 Turp Furn......1 00@1 10

8S. German.... 27@ 37] Zinci Sulph.. ....... Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 OILS. Japan Dryer, No. 1
Saccharum Lactispv. _18@ 20 Bbl. Gal UTP......-..-.. 70@75
Fees ea 2 50@2 = ta winter. ...... 70 7

oa 0@ ard, extra..  & 6

" tiaiips : 49@ 14| Lard; No. 1. 0: 99 Ǥ| THE TRADESMAN

Ts = 3 oe pt aw LL oe as OCCUPIES

ee ns 0 4

Selditts Mixture... - @ 20| Neat’s oe . . ITS OWN FIELD.
Sinapis ee. @ 18| strained. 65 7 | Its Columns Bring RETURNS

Se @ 30|SpiritsTurpentine.... 35 40 TO ADVERTISERS.

 

 

 

HARRY
ROOT
BEER

 

One Bottle Makes
Five Gallons.
Retail Price is Only
10 Cents.

 

 

 

HAZELTINE
& PERKINS DRUG
CO.

PROPRIETORS,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

  
 

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‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

» .
going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.

below are given as representing average

those who have poor cr
greatest possible use to

The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only,

edit.

prices for average conditions of purchase. TS
Subscribers are earnestly requested to pomt out any errors or omiss10ns,

in such quantities as are usually
It is impossible to give quotations
Cash buyers

purchased

 

 

AXLE ——

Oz ——
aon... 6
a... 6 7 00
Diamond ........-.-- 50 5 50
Wreser’s.....------- 7 9 00
—-. .......---. oe 750
Paragon .. -------- 55 6 00

BAKING POWDER.

acme. a
— *
i_. = ‘.
RIK. mee ee ee

Arctic. as
; cans 6'doz case...-.-- 5!
tb « dédcc “ -++ 110
(a ¢ 2a 2 00
5 b ‘coe 9 00
Red Star, 4  cans..------ 40
> ” K--- 75
. CS 1 40
Sun Light.
ig Ib. cans, 6 @oz. Case. .... 45
rh “« ta. — ----- 85
+i “* 2doz. “ .---- 160
Van Anrooy’s Pure. :
4 Ib. cans, 6 doz. case..... 8
ci fo .. 165
i. “~ teen ‘ 3 =
T ‘s, 1¢ lb. cans, dos. 5
Teifer's 4D “a se a 85
' - ia
Our Leader, 4 -b cans. ..- 45
- \% ib CADB..--.- iD
. Sibeens --. - ? 50

BATH BRICK.
2 dozen in case.

Ruaglish : 4
ee ee =
Womeetic.....----------- -*
BLUING, Gross
arctic, 40s ovals...--- 3 60
eae
si ints, round.......- 9 00
« No. 2, sifting box... 2 75
“No. 3, r ...
= e.5, a . se
ine ee ~_o
iquid, 4 0z...---
— ua f-..... 6 80
BROOMS,
a. 1 90
or =: Te 2 00
a 5
— . 250
ParlorGem_ .... -----+-**"- 2 50
Common Whisk .-...---- 85
Fancy Ce 1 00
Warehouse .. --.---:- 2 85
BRUSHES,
i. 1 25
Stove, 7s - - o>
' - we... i
Rios Root Scrub, 2 row.--- 8h
Rice Ract Scrub, 3 row.... : =
imetto, goose ae
_— CANDLES.
Hotel, 49 lb. boxes ... ---- 10
Star, 4 ’ 2
Para™ine ....- 16
Wicking .-.--  ------°°"- 24
VARNED GOODS.
Fish.
Ciams
Little Neck, 1 ib 1 20
~ o........,... 1 90
Clam Chowder.
ota ce. ............225
Cove Oysters.
Standard, 11b.. ee
- LLU 145
Lobsters.
ao | D........ : 2 45
a ek. 8 50
Picnic, i lb......-- 200
' 2. ..... -._.... oa
Mackerel.
standard, 1 Ib...............1 10
ri :........-....- 2 10
ae 25.......... ....2 ao
Tomato Sauce, 21b.........2 25
Gensel, 2 .......... . 2.
Salmon.
Coiumbia River, flat ... ... 1 29
“se “ talle ae 1 65

Alaska, Red
~ a eee
Kinney’s, flats..............

Sardines.
American %...........- @4
' —.... .. ae
Imported '48......-....... @29
- -— @13
Mustard Ke .............. @7
Boneless : ce 21
Troat.
Ee 250
Fraita.
Apples.
3lb. standard .. ..... 90
York State, gallons ... 3 00
Hamburgh,
Apricots.
iveoosk,...... .. cnn

      

  

   

   

  

  

 

dealers.

Cherries.
ee @i 15
White . 1
—........--...----- if
Damsons, Beg Plums and Green

ages

ae... ce 1 00

eS ee 1 6

Gooseberries.
ane ........._. is

Peaches.
ES 1 00
owe ..........-... i 40
ee 1 40
(aitorsia.........-... @1 55
a
Cl

Pears.
ee 10°

eeeeo..............- 12

Pineapples.
aan. 1 1 30
Johnson’s sliced...... 250

Y eee... .. 2%
Booth’s eliced........ @2 5)
" prated........ 2%

Quinces.

— os... 110
Raspberries.
mean... 95
Black Hamburg....... 146
=e, Seok... 110
Strawberries.
oe ............. 12
Hamburgh ..... iz
———...... 85
a... ......_... 80
Whortleberries.
Binmeberrics ........ 85

eats.

Cemel bent ........... 2

a Ee

Potted ham, % Ib...........1B

% a 7
e tonguo, %& Ib.........1 3
ee He ae yt)
. chicken, ¥ Ib....... 95
Vegetables.
Beans.

Hamburgb stringless....... 1 15
oC French atyle..... 2 00

a ee tee Q
a oe... 115
- aaee............ 70

Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 2

Bay State Baked............ 123

World’s Fair Baked...... ok

ae... ..........

orn.

Pores... .....,....-... 1

Livingston Eden ........... 1 00

Pee .- »

— a .......,--. =

Morning Glory .... i

Seenee ............ eee ee %

Peas,

Hamburgh marrofat........ 1 30
4 early June . ...1 50
Champion Eng..1 40
C - oo....... 1 40
ancy sifted....1 65

ae... 95

Borrs taneers............- 1

VanCamp’s marrofet....... a

” a June..... 1 30

Archer’s Early Blossom....1 25

an... lll UL

ei Mushrooms.
ent. CT

Pumpkin.
8 ~—scovcscosess SD

Squash.

Bubbard ...... ee rene dee 115
Succotash.
Bombere.......... weoccoccooh OD
RE niece nce cene 80
Honey Dew.......... cccccceld OD
a ee 1 3
Tomatoes.
eT 80
ee 80

-1
ee ee =
CHOCOLATE.

Baker’s.

German Sweet.. .......-.- 28

EE 37

Breakfast Cocoa.... ..... 5

CHEESE.
—————————e 8

8
“a 8

ieeeee............-- 8

Riverside &K

ie eee... 5

aim .... 5@6

ae. =... 11

—————a— 1 00

ian .... -.... 20

Limbarger @15

Pineapple @24

Roguefort

Sap Sago .. @i8

Schweitser, !mported. @24

domeatic @i4

CATSUP.

Blue Latel Brand.

Half pint, 25 bottles....... 2%

Pint / a 4 50

Quart 1 dos bottles ......... 3 50

Triumph Brand.

Halt eint, per Gos.......... 35

Pint, 25 bottles.... 450

Quart per doz .............8 ©

CREAM TARTAR

Strictly ao.....-...-.-..-

Telfer’s Absolute.......-..- 30

a 15@25
CLOTHES PINS.

Daisy Brand.

5 grossboxes .. .. .... 40@45
COCOA SHELLS.

ib beme.......... .

Less quantity ... ....- @3

Pound packages ...... 6%@7

COFFEE.

Green.

Rie,
Fair.. ae 18
Good. 12
cae... 2
ee, 21
Peaberry .- «2d

Santos.

Fair... Lo eee 19
—...... 20
as... .. 22
——s.................. 23
Mexican and Guatamala,
— 21
ao... 22
as... 24

Maracaibo.
See. 23
se 24

Java.
Pieriee ...........- a
Private Growtn.............27
Mandehiing ..........-.

Mocha,
ee... C.. e
——.................. 28

Roasted.

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

Package.
McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 21 3%
Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case.... 21 30
aa. 21. 30
a ....... 21 30

Extract.

Valley City % gross —-
Felix _ 1 15
Hummel’s, foil, gross 1 65
ow n oe 2 85
CHICORY.
a...
Red 7

Cotton, 46 1t.......per dos. 1 B
o oa... = 14
se oe... . 1 60
- i....... “s 1 7%
o o....... os 198
Jute et... “ 8
os ra “s 1 00

CONPENSED MILK.
4 dos. in case.

 

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gail Borden Eagle. 77

  

Peerless evaporated cream 5 75
COUPON BOOKS.

 

‘Tradesman.’
8 1 books, per hundred ... 2 00
8 2 “ “ te ae 2 50
t 3 “c “oe ou in 3 00
3 5 a“ “ “ i 3 00
$10 o “ “ MI 4 OU
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“Superior.”
8 1 books, per hundred 250
8 2 se it “ec nn 3 06
83 . _ . _.- =o
8 5 ee “ “ : 4 00
810 = - . .. 6a
820 ae “ “u a 6 00

Universal.”’
8 1 books, per hundred 83 00
$2 = “ : 3 50
$3 - ‘ 400
25 : 5 00
_ “ 6 00
820 ts “ 7%

Above prices on coupon books
are subject to the following
quantity discounts:

200 books or over.. 5 per cent

1000 “ “ i 20 ii}
COUPON PASS BOOKS.
{Can be made to represent any
denomination from 810 down. |

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CRACKERS.
Butter.
gt
Seymour XXX, cartoon.....
Family XXX
Family XXX, cartoon
Salted XXX
Salted XXX, cartoon
eae. te. .....

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Seer See .......... ...
Soda.

aa i
Soda, Duchess.......
Crystal Wafer........
Long Island Wafers

—
S Oe BEA...
Cay Ora. 2 EE............
Farina Oyster...... os

CEM ETS

Major’s, per gro.

7 % oz size...812 00

1 ozeize... 18 0

 

   
  
  
 

Liq.Glue,loz 9 60

Leather Cement
1 ogesize... 12:0
2 ozsize... 18 (0

Rubber Cement
32 oz size... 12 00

DRIED FRUITS.
Domestic.
Apples.
Sneeen....._.... 6
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 7

Apricots.

California in bags.. .. 74@8
Evaporated in boxes. .. 8
Blackberries.

SS

Nectarines.

ee

a5 wanes... .....-..... 9
Peaches,

Peeled, in boxes........ 14

CalLevap. ” ae eewics 9

- ae 8
Pears.

California in bags..... 6%
California boxes........ i%
Pitted Cherries.

ee es
om bee .............
= ace ie ac
Prunelles,
Rib. boxes oh 94
Raspberrier,
————————— 22
aoe =... s.... 52%
SS 22%
sing,
Loose Muscatels in Boxes.
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ss eee ewww eee ee wee *
a. 5

Loose Muscatels in Bags.
tone.
Ce 334

Foreign.

Currants.
rink tk... ....... ee
Vostizzas, 50 lb. cases ..... 2%

Schuit’s Cleaned.
ee es 4
i ib. packages ............ 4%
Peei

Citron, Leghorn, 25 1b. boxes 12
Lemon . a 8
Orange “ 25 “ “ 10

 

 

by retail dealers.

They are prepared just before

suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those

    
   

Per case of 10 boxes....... 3 40
DWARF 81ZE.
25 double sheets in box,

COMBINATION CASE.
5 boxes Large Decoy / B3 49

 

o ett
Case of 10 bexes........... 1 2 :
Cues ore Soeee........... 2 30

or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
as it is our aim to make this feature of the

 

    

 

Raisins. FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes.. @ 6 Souders’.
Sultana,20 ‘ -- 64@ 8 Oval Bottle, with corkscrew.
Vatencis. 30 on” Best in the world for the mone
Prunes. ney.
California, 100-120.......... 3%
. 90x100 25 Ib. bxs. 544 Regular
80x90 ce Grade
a — . 6% Lemon.
. ae Ue ra
Saver ...........- . wr 20s ....8 %
DISINFECTANT. Os - 18
— cae 1... .... : =
Zenoleum, qts........------ Reg
Zenoleum, % gal........--- 72 —
Zenoleum, £al.............12 E Bice
FISH--Salt a.....a =
Bloaters. -aen..... 2 40
Yarmouth.....-.....-
Cod. XX Grade
Georges cured..........-- 4 Lemon.
Georges genuine.....-..- 5 coc. 81 50
Georges selected......... 5% tx... 3 00
eet — oe ee Sees
Boneless, strips.. ....... 6%
Haliput. ——
Smoked ee : 11@12 pine 81 7
erring. ede :
Holland, white hoops keg _—-80 40z..... 3 50
- ig < te wtO Jennings.
Norwegian........ ee 11 00 Lemon. Vanilla
Round, % bb! 100 Ibs...... 255]2osregularpanel. 75 1 20
Tl “40 “ ...... 130] 40x “ i 2 00
ae... 13% 160s “ ...2 00 3 00
Mackerel. No. 3 taper........ 1 35 2 00
Ma. lt. Oeiee...-....... -.-. 12 00 No. 4 taper........1 © 2 50
No. 1, 40 lbs........ a 5 50 :
Mot Wie 1 35 Northrop’s
No. 3, 160 lbs..... ..-...... 10 9% Lemon. Vanilla.
a = 60 e.........-...... 43%|20z ovaltaper 75 1 10
wet ee... 1 15} 302 ' - 12 1°%5
Family, ee ce 2 oz regular “6 85 12
‘a B cescsersesce oe 2 25
Sardines.
Reian, heee.............- 55 GUNPOWDER.
Trout. Rifle—Dupont’s.
No. 1, % bblis., 1001bs........ 425] rags 3 25
No. 1 % bbl, 40 Ibs.......... ieee
Gar keos...................5 oe
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.......... 56 Quarter kegs 1 10
No 1,81 Kits. ee Give cam ee
a oo :
No. 1 family i i eee...
a bhis, 100 ibe........ 87 25 2 50 Choke Bore—Dupont’s
a tinea 5) ee 4.25
10 Ib. Kits........-- -- 63 40) walt keees.. ..2 40
SIb. “ee eee eeee 73 35] Quarter kegs.. ........ -. 135
FLY PAPER. tibcams ...... . ' —
i By Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
ee oes
Half kegs i.
Quarter kegs....... ....... 3 @
1 come. .._-......-.....- 60
HERBS,
Regular Size. ee oe c eewc ange 15
Per pecan =a ne a0) How............ Lee eeee aa 15
In 5 case lots, per case.... 3 30
In 10 case lo‘s, percase.... 3 20 INDIGO.
“Little Tanglefoot.” Madras, 5 Ib. boxes reese . 5
Moeteile, perbox........ ... 2 8. F., 2, 3 and 5 Ib. boxes.. 56
Costs, per COSC. ........-c0% is JELLY.
1S tb. pells........--- @ 3
yw * Ce @ 45
oe ae
LICORICE,
ee ee te ee 80
ZZ a :
MARK Se 10
LYE,
LARGE SIZE. 5
Sab. din eben ehs.§ BLO Le 2 oe

MINCE MEAT.

   

  
 

 

12 boxes Dwarf Decoy {
FARINACEOUS GOODS,
Farina,
115 lb, Kegs............- 2%
Grits.
Walsh DeRoo & Co.’s..... 1 95 ie
Hominy. Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 75
Barrels .-....-.s0...--- . 2%] Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case....2 <5
SG eas 3%
Lima Beans. MATCHES.
Deied........-.-.. oe 5% | Globe Match Co.’s Brands.
Maccaroni and Vermicelli. | Columbia Parlor...........81 25
Domestic, 12 Ib. box... XXX Sulphur.............. 1.00
SNPOCTNE + 2 non n-—- 10%@11 | Diamond Match Co.’s Brands.
Pear! Barley. MoS aulpiiur |... -... 22 1 65
Donne ean so en 3% | Anchor parlor...........--- 170
Pm nneh ines nen vtet 246 | Wo, Shome.................2 10
a Mes 1 19 | Seoert Poster _—
Split per Ib a ees 2% MEASURES,
Rolled Oats. a :
Schumacher, bbl.......... 84 75 =, cee -
“ a: 2 5¢ | 1 gallom........-.--+--+0+ .%
Monarch, bi ......-....... 4 00 | Halt gallon...-.-.-----++- =
oe se bhi... ess BIB —- Sees dees et le =
eke, CANO. ...<..-c..,. 2 Oe ee el ae ne :
cieen Baked. 3225 | Half pint........--------- 40
Sago. Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
GETMAN ......sccccceceseees 3 |igallon.........---- Leaen 7 00
East India.............-.... 3% | Half gallon.............. 47%
eat. MORE .ccnce eens Leip eee dane 3 7
CRACKS... .00....cccce ccoees 8 Ee eee es gl GE

 

 

 

 

 

THE M ICHIGAN 3 RADHESMAN.

 

MOLASSES,
Blackstrap.

Sugar house...........-..- 4
Cuba Baking.
, _. 6
Porto Rice.

Paes |... 20
Wee ew; nu es 30

New Orleans.
eee 18

cbeecebeneeeene sebe ee 2%
Extra good eeseeeee 2
sous. eel a eee necey 32
ae. Ck. ee, peas 40
Half. ‘barrels 8c.extra
PICKLES,
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count... @4 00
Half bbis, 600 count.. 2 50
Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count. 5 50
Half bbls, 1,200 count 3 25
PIPES.

Gn mo 2e................ 1 70

D. fullcount........ 70
Cob, No. —s ' _.. oo
POTASH,

48 cans in case.
Manoir ......2.......... 4 00
Penna Sait Co.’s.........- 3 00

RICK,
Domestic.
Carolina — eee cs 5%

 

Aves... ........-..----. 9%
Guia, China in mats...... 9%
Batavia in bund....15
. Saigon in — ate 32

Cloves, Amboyna... ce
Zemsipar...........- 14
Mace Batavia....... ....... qu
— fancy.. bas
No. : Cece nets ee 60
. ey 55
Pepper, Singapore, black....10
white... .20
. ae 16
— anual in Bulk.
ee 15
Cass ia, “Batavia. eee oe =
nd Saigon.2
. cin eae eee 35
Cloves, Amboyna. . ets. oee
Eeeereer..-...-...- 18
Ginger, African ese ot seus 16
Cochin.. coos
. Jaan Lee 2
Mace Batavia...............
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. ‘3
i ‘Trieste Sides ees oe
es black Te
epper, Singa _ ac
— es ae 24
. Gia Ceaeewe see 20

Pe cc
“Absolute” in Packages.
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ALIBRIS .... one - cs 00 1 55
Cmnamon............- 84 1 55
Ceeeen.......-......... 84 155
Ginger, Jamaica...... 84 155
Ariean........ 4 15
eee & 155
ae 84 155
Sage. ..... 84
STARCH.
Kingsford’s Corn.

20 1-lb packages ede cn 6%
ae: ol CC. 64
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 1-Ib. packages............ 6%
Gib, DOMES. .1...-. --- -2s-s T%
Common ‘Corn
20-Ib HOKES.............--.. 5%
ane oe
Common Gloss

1-Ib packages..........----+- 5
3-lb ee cad, 5
6-Ib ee 53
40 and 50 Ib. boxes.. 354
Barrels. . 3%
“SODA,
ee Shy
on ee 4%
SALT.
Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 243 lb. boxes...... $1 60
Barrels, 7 Oe a ae 2 50
15 2% ™ 7. 400
al 005 ‘ 3%
Y 30 10 ib _ 3 50
Butter, Se i) Daee.....-..- 65
20 141b a. i 50
*« 280ib bbls - 2 50
_ 2 25
Worcester.
115 og -lb sacks Dou coe dele 84 €0
ce ee. 3%
30 1Olb eee weneee aes 3 50
eg 3 30
eo eee... 2 50
Oi) GO0n8... ............ Game
Hen eens... ck 60
comeeens Grades.
100 3-lb. SACKS... 2 10
Ot ~*~ ....-........ 90
1 7%

28 10-Ib. rseni
56 lb. dairy in drill” bags. oe
28 lb, oe a “ec il

Ashton.

56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75
Higgins.

56 1b. dairy in linen sacks 7

Solar Rock.
oh oes... lt... 22
ee pebicceal
oo - Cec aewees cs 90
Manistee 90

  

 

SEEDS.
OO @13
Canary, Smyrna.......
Carawer .............
Cardamon, Malabar..
Hemp Russian...
Mixed Bird. A
Mustard, white ......
Povey 2...
CO
Cuttle bone..

SN UFF.
Scotch, In bladders......... By
Maccaboy et 35
french Rappee, in Jars..... 43

SALERATUS,
Packed 60 lbs. In box.
Church’s
DeLand’s
Dwight’s.
Taylor's...
SEELY’S EXTRACTS.

Lemon.
loz. F.M.8 90doz. 810 20 gro
=" oe foe oy
-* Pete“

BeaomaS-r—
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14 4 “*
Vanilla,
loz. F; M. 1 50 doz. ” 20 gro
2-8. 20 * oa
2° 2M Se * oo
Rococo—Second Grade.
Lemon.

2o8.. 0. 75 Goz..... 800 *
Vanilla,
2eek,..... 1 @den..... 19 50 “
SOAP.

Laundry.

G. R. Soap Works Brands.
Concordia, 100 % lb. bars. . = 50

 

 

5 box ioe... 3 35

. 10 box lots. mek

' 20 box lots...... 3 20

Best oe ow
60 1-lb, bars.. : 2 2
So bOx lete........ oie
25,box}lots.. -2 00
‘Allen B. W risley’ 6 Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-lb 20
Good Cheer, 601 1b.. ioe
White Borax, 100 ¥- RL 3 65
Proctor & Gamble.
Cones 3 45
hyvory, 1 os... ....... -. 6
= Coe ......... 0. 4
Lenex. ..- oo
Mottled German 000001) 3 15
Town Tam........-....-. -383
Dingman Brands.

Simeie bom... .............. 3 9
5 oo lots, delivered....... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered...... 3%

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands,
American Family, wr e 83 33
pla

227

N. K. Fairbank & Co. ‘Brands,
Santa Claus..............-- 3 90

  
 
  

Brown, 60 bars......
80 bars ..

Lautz Bros. &,Co.’s Brands.
Acme... .... 3 65
Cotten Gy...... ... . 6 00
Mareciiies........... ace £00
Meee ......-.............. 400
Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

 

i le 3 65
ete ee 3 30
Savon. Tmproved.... ee eeeee 2 50
Ee 2 80
Gaeee .................. 3 25
Economical.. ccc eties =
Seema:
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40
hand, 3 doa . 240
SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the lo-
cal freight from New York to
your shipp:ng point, giving
you credit on the invoice for
the amount of freight buyer

ays from the market in which
Ee purchases to his shipping
point,including 20 pounds for
the weight of the barrel.

ae $5 3)
CE ae § 31
WO cle ee 4 94
ee, eee 5 00
xxxXx Powdered. is teep es; 5 18
Grane. .....---- 1... 4 62
Fine Granulated........... 4 62
Extra Fine Granulated... 4 75
ee 4 94
Diamond Confec, A....... 4 62

Confec. Standard A....... 4 5°
1

 

i ee ae 3 94
Me Te ee. 3 87
Mo 18. se. 3%
MG SE ee eas cus ae

56

 

 

  

SAL SODA,
Granulated, ere... 1%
7lb caseg...... 1%
Eee Ce | 14
1451p kegs... || . 1%
SYRUPS.

Corn.
Darrem......._........-... 22
Hee oeie 2

Pure Cane.

15
Coles... 25

TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’ S, —. . 46
mall..... 2%
Halford, — - .3%
SS aan
Salad Dressing, lorwe . ... 4
small 2 85

TEAS.

JaPan—Regular.
Pee... @17
Le, @20
tree... - 2% G26
RGM .00....-. 2.) 32 @34
Pee s,s. 10 @i2

SUN OURED.
ae... @i7
Gaoe.. .... @x0
Se 24 @2ze
Cees... 32 @34
a... Le 10 @12

BASKET FIRED.
Mele... .. 18 @20
Choice. . eee eee @25
Choicest. . @35
Extra choice, ‘wire leat @40

GUNPOWLER.
Common to fatr....... 25 @3b
Extra fine to finest....50 @65
Choicest fancy........ 7 @8s

OOLONe. @26
Common to fair... ...23 @30
IMPERIAL.
“ommon to fair....... 23
Superior tofine..
youUNG HYSON.
Commor, to fair....... 18 @
Superior to fine....... 30 @d40
ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
Pate ........... seseee. ae
Cheree. ........... wow UM OB
eee 40 @50
TOBACCOS.,
Cigars.

Conenent nee
Invincibles ... .... .. 880 00
— a . 7 00
Porflectos ........«««-.-.. = 00
Boquets 5 00

Edw. W. ‘Ruhe's Brands,
Signal Five.. co 35 10
ee aaa 35 00
Mr. Thomas. ... oc

G. J. Johnson’s Brand.

seu

Ss. C. W.
Fine C —
P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands,
vee Mmueset........-. @25
jeer... .........-----

®. Secotten & Co’s Brands.
Hiawatha . '
CMe... 6... onetns 32
Rocket . 30
Spaulding & Merrick’s —,
Sterling .
Priv ate Brands,

Cherry 32
BOR oo ecg cin wean wi
Can Can,.... veces.
Nellie Bly.........-..- 24 @s
Unele Ben,.........--- 2 G2
MeGinty.....-... -.-- 27

“ % bbis.....-. 25
Comenie .............-.. 24
Columbia, drums.. / 23
Bang Up..........-..-.. 20
Bang up, drums........ 19

Plag.

Sorg’s Brands,
— eae 39
Joker ..............-.. 37
Nobby (Paee..-.....-..- 40

Scotten’s Brands.
Bvie.......-......... 25
Hiawatha,.........--- 38
Valley City ........--- 34

Finzer’s Brands,

Old Honesty......-.-- 4
Jolly Tar...... ...-..- 32

Loriliara’ s Brands.
Climax (8 0z., 41C).. 39
Groen Turtle.......... 30
Three Black Crows... 7

J. G. Butler’s, Brands.
Something Good...... =
Out of Sight.

Wilson:& McCaulay’ 8 ena
Gold Hope.........-..- 43
Happy Thought....... 37
eee ............- 32
Naver........'....... 31
bet Go.......-...--... 27

Smoking.

Catlin’s Brands,

Elio dciod.........::....- —
Golden Shower.............
Musto ................ 2
Meerschaum .. ........-- 29@30

American Eagle Co.’s Brands,
Myrtle Navy.........-....--. 40
ae i 30
Ce 15
Frog . icc eeceen 4
Java, 68 foe 32

Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
eS ee 16
Banner a Deets cou ce 36
Gad Gee ........ 4... 30

 

 

 

 

Smoking—Contiuued.
Scotten’s Brands.

Warpath... 5. 14
Hoses Pew. ..3 5... 26
Galt Bice... 30

F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s

Brands.

Pecrrees ........ 2... 26
Cre Fou...............-.. 18
eee 22

Globe Tobacco Co,’s —
Herndmade..............
Leidersdorf’s Brands.

neon ioe 26
Unele Gee. ...... 28@32
Hee Craver... 32
Spaulding & Merrick.
Tom and Jerry..........+.+. 25
Traveler elas Lisaee ee 38
Buck Horn.. ele sie aca
Pow Poe... ........ 30@32
Conn Came.................
VINEGAR.
ye
ee @9

$1 for barrel.
WET MUSTARD,

Bek, pet eel ....... ....- 30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case. 1%
YEAST.
Ce 7
Eureke..... 10
Move. ..... .... ado oe
Does Creee............---. 1 00
Woes woem |... ............ 1 00
WOODEN WARE.
> 1. ........,....... oo
1 a ee . £6
Wa. 8)... ...0..... . 400
Pails, 7 1, two-hoop.. 1%

No. 1, three-hoop ... 1 35
Bowls, 11 inch.. pes ccuecee ac

a .......... 90

a fee 2 1 26

= 2 ..... 1 80

HIDES PELTS and FURS

Perkins & Hess pay as fol-
lows:

HIDES
Gress ............- .- 6 Gi
Pet Cored. .......... @i%
oe 8 @9
oe. 64@ 8%
Kips, aceon ........... 5s @eé
- Gaeoe,........... 7%O 9
Calfskin, no Looe 7*%™@ Y
mred...... 11 @13
eisai ae 10 @25
No. 2 hides \& off.
PELTS.
Sheartings.............5 @& WW
ee a
Gia Wool. ........ 40 @ 15
WOOL
Weehea.. ........... 8 @14
Unwashed _ 5 G@i2z
MISCELLANEOUS.
Wamow ........... 8... 3@4
Grease butter ........1 @2
Secees.............. 1%@ 2
|. ........... 2 WE@2 25

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

WHEAT.
No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 8)

No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 80
FLOUR IN SACK8,
Petenie........ 15... cous. 490
Second Patent........-... 4 <U
Siete... 4 00
ICO ce, enc oe 3 70
WETTER. 65 oe on os enn oe. 4 v0
Bockwnest ............ . 4
Rye.. 4 (0

*Subject ‘to usual cash dis-
count.

Flour in bbis., 25¢c per bbl. ad
ditional.

MEAL,
eee 2 50
Granulated. . ne 275

FEED AND MILLSTUFFS.
St. Car Feed, screened. ..#23 06
St. Car Feed, unscreened. 22 50
No. 1 Corn and Oats...... 22 00

No. 2 Special . 20 50

Unbolted Corn Meal...... 21 50

Winter Wheat Bran ..... 15 00

Winter Wheat Middlings. 16 00

BEVCCHINGR «2.5... wes ce 14 v0
CORN.

Cae iggt 55%

Less than car lots......-.-... 60
OATS.

Car lots... a

Less than car = a

No. 1 Timothy, a lots....10 50
No.1 on iota ..... 11 50

 

FISH AND OYSTERS.
PRESH FISH.

Wetteeek ............ 8

‘out Oe ees cae 7%
Black Bass. i 12%@15
eee... 18g2)
Ciscoes or Herring. . @6
Bluefish... @12%
Fresh lobster, per I 1b. 16
Cc eats 10
Haadoee @s
No. 1 Piemerel........ @8
Pree... 2... ts. -.... @i
Smoked White @7
Red Snappers... ..... 14
Columbia River Sal-

wae... .:.... Sa ag gi
eae 18@25
Shrimps, per gal...... 12

SHELL G00D8

Oysters, per 100....... 1 7 50
Clams. 1 00

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

Fairhaven Counts.... 40
¥F.J.D. Selects..... “ 35

 

 

CKUCKERY AND GLASSWAKK
LAMP BURNERS.

or ee le

No. 1 TN z
Ty Le
Tubuiar.. ae
Security. No. 1. i L1 | éo
securuy, N6.2........... eee oe eee. . =
Oe nh 50
TT (Luss

LAMP CHIMNEYS8.—6 dos. in box.

  
 

   

 

No. 0 Sun eee on ce.
No.1 “ 2a
No.2 “
First quality.
= 7er , crimp top, wrapped and labeled.. 210
No. 2 “ “ oe se “ i ne os
XXX Flint,

— : Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. 2 60
No. 2 “i “ te oy “ee “a 2s
Pear! top.

a 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.. ee
No. im - hey . stones on
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
noe’ Sun, plain bulb Se 3 40
No Lee 4 40

La Bastie.
ae 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. a
No. 1 crimp, per dos eae oc, oe ‘te
OE 1
Rochester.
IG. E TEMe (6G GE 3 50
IG. BSS COG GOR ee
No. 2, Mint (60e das)....................... 47
Electric.

No.2, lime (70e doz) ...... ae . 4
MO. 2 find (le das) ............_............. 440
Miscellaneous.

Junior, Rochester ..... ee. a
Nutmeg..... ie
Toa oe NE NH 1 00
EE 90
7 in. Porcelain Shades............... 0.2... -1 00
Case tits Iedae 5... 90
Mammoth Chimneys for Store Lamps.
| Doz. Box
No. 3 Rochester, lime........1 50 4 2
No. 3 Rochester, flint. 1c 4 80
No. 3 Pearl top or Jewel gl’s.1 85 5 25
No. 2 Globe Incandes. lime...1 75 5 10
No. 2 Glebe Incandes. flint...2 U0 5 85
We. 2 Fearictass. ...........2 10 6 00
OIL CANS.

I gal tin Cams with apout..... ............ “=
i gal ealy iron, with spout................ . 3 08
= a) gaily rom with spout .................. 3 %
3 ga: paly irom with apout................... 4 56
Seal Mewutt. with epedt.,.................. 6 66
> gal Hureka, with spout.................... 6 50
5 gal Eureka with faucet.. 7 OO
5 gal galviron A & W . «
5 gal Tilting Cans, Monarch................10 50
5 gal caly iron Nacefas..... ........ 9 00
Pump Cans,

3 gal Home Rule... .......... . 10 50
5 gal Home Koile........... a
3 gal Goodenougnh............ ee ea
S gal Goedenguan oe ee aa
G gal Pirate Hie ll oe
LANTERN GLOBES.

No. 0, Tubular, cases 1 doz. éach..... aces 45
No. 0, [ c Deepest eee. ae
No. 0, i bbla5 - 4U
Na, 6, ‘ bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each.1 25
LAMP WICKS,
me GC oer arom... ................ oe 26
No. 1, ‘ ee ee ew co eT : 23
se Ty ee
ae = doz.. od i.
LLY TUMBLE ana—Tin Ten.

44 Pints, é a in box, per box (box 00)... 1 60
% =" — be  dox Gl s......
” 6 * ‘ box, box (exw 0®).... 1 50
i. * i§ * * bo, des (bel 3)..... 22
STONEWARE—AKEKON.
Sutter C rocks, 1 to 6 gal.. i 2
% gal. per doz..  -
Jugs, % gal., per doz.. Ve
“ sio4 gal., per gal. Cee ead a .
Miik Pans, % gal. » per dos. me eas bu
de ee cee. 72
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.
Butter Crocks, § and 2eal................. 6%
Milk Pans, i gall. per doz a 65
eee 78
FRUIT JARS.
Mason—old style, — eee cee cee ee. [3S
Gere aoe 7%
half = aaa 97%
Mason—! doz. in case, pints.. a
quarts.

half — a
Dandy—glass cover, pints.. i

quarts Cee
half gallons

 

OILS.
The Standard O11 Co. quotes as follows:
BARRELS,

  

Meeeee cat 10
xxx W. W. Mich. Headlight... —. 8%
Naptha.. _ _. @ 94
Ne EN ee, @ii%
Cerndee @38
Mere ee ae re @21
Black, winter...................-.-. Sh
Hisce seipmer. |... 8%
FROM TANK WAGON.
Moeeee 8%
xxx W. W. Mich. Headlight. . ae 64
Scotield, Shurmer & Teagle anes as follows:
BARRELS.
eee il
Daisy White......csesccscccessssseceerseeee os 10
Red Cross, W WwW Headlight. ss ie 8%
Naptha....... ..0.--........ “cece
Gisee GhemeliaG...-...-.......--.-..... Jie nu- 11%
FROM TANK WAGON,
Palatine 0... ecccesces OG
Red Cross W W Headlight.... .... ......:. -. 8%

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

IS MAN DEGENERATING?
Is the human race, that portion of it
which has reached the highest point of

civilization, degenerating, physically,
intellectually, morally?
It is so claimed, and a somewhat re-

tmmarkable book by a German psycho-phy-
siologist, Max Nordau, has recently been
written to prove the assertion. It is not
intended here to attempt a review of this
book, but to make some brief examina-
tion of the conditions upon which the
charge of degeneration is based.

Man is an animal above all. Heis an
intellectual and moral being, which all
other animals are not, and he has a ca-
pacity for progress and enjoyment in
many intellectual and spiritual exercises.
All literature, all art and all science are
the results of the exertion of his intel-
lectual faculties, and all religion and the
entire code of morality are the expres-
sions of his spiritual nature.

Nevertheless, with all these lofty en-
dowments, man does not forget that heis
an animal and, despite many individual
exceptions, it must not be lost sight of
that the chief care of mankind is for the
promotion of bodily comfort and enjoy-
ment. Every discovery in science is val-
ued only in proportion as it can be used
to increase the facilities for the enjoy-
ment of physical life. The electrician
who creates his wonderful appliances for
the transmission of news, for the illumi-
nation of our houses and cities, for med-
ical purposes, and for the many other
economic uses of the subtile and poten-
tial agent with which he deals, derives
his importance and his pecuniary rewards
from the fact that he ministers chiefly to
the comfort and enlargement of bodily
enjoyment.

The engineer who supplies the means
of rapid travel, and who by draining and
sewering cities improves their sanitary
condition, contributes largely to the life
and health of the body, which he relieves
from laborious locomotion and rescues
from the poisonous influences of filth and
damp. All the sciences of medicine and
surgery are devoted wholly to benefiting
the physical condition of man, while the
labors of the astronomer in the celestial
regions of space are valued only as they
produce the almanac by which the ordi-
nary business of the days may be regu-
lated, and the means by which ships
carrying cargo for the use of the body
may be navigated upon the trackless
seas,

Nearly all the triumphs of mechanical |

genius are devoted to the manufacture of
fabrics in which to clothe and adorn the
body, or to the preparation of food for
its nourishment. True,
and great pains are expended in provid-
ing for and promoting the intellectual
and spiritual needs of civilized people;
but mind and spirit do not get the bene-
fit of a tithe of the intellectual and ma-
terial wealth thatis expended upon the
conditions of bodily existence. It is,
then, upon the basis of these facts that
it must be acknowledged that man’s
animality and physical nature weigh
heavily upon him.

There are two classes of the human
race that are particularly borne down by
their animal functions. The first of
these is the savage and primitive type of
man. He knows little beyond his phys-
ical faculties, and the facts of animal life
make up the greater part of his exist-
ence. He lives to eat and drink, and to
fight the enemies of his tribe. His mor-

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the centuries from Babylon to Rome.

 

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is, to a large extent, kept from bodily ex-
cesses by the hardships of his mode of
existence.

The struggle among savage peoples for
the means of feeding and clothing the
body is so intense that it consumes the
physical energies and leaves little sur-
plus strength to be devoted to the indul-
gences of material life. Itis only when
to idleness and wealth is conjoined the
highest civilization, creating the condi-
tions known as luxury, that the other ex-
treme of physical indulgence, which
amounts to debauchery, is_ possible.
Thus it comes about that the lowest sav-
agery and the highest civilization are ea-
pable of producing the lowest stages of
morality.

The present, as has been shown, is es-
sentially an age of luxury. The rapid
creation of great fortunes through spec-
ulation and by the aid of laws which
specially favor the organization of com-
binations of capital and financial monop-
olies has brought into existence a
wealthy class above all necessity for
work or for taking thought for the mor-
row. Here are wealth and idleness
closely associated with all that civiliza-
tion can contribute to heighten enjoy-
ment, and apparently with no object
save to enjoy, and this enjoyment is
chiefly bodily indulgence. Under these
conditions there is no limit to this in-
dulgence, save that imposed by the con-
dition of bodily vigor.

There have been in the history of the
world many periods when luxury and
vice rose to the height of a surging tide
which swallowed up the social and po-
litical power of nations. Vivid pictures
have been painted by both sacred and
profane historians of the floods of de-
bauchery in which the imperial power of
Babylon and Nineveh went down. Later
came the extinction of the Roman power,
which had for more than a thousand
years dominated the world and stood at
the head of the nations of the earth.

It is a law of human nature that when
the highest gifts of civilization are en-
tirely subordinated to mere bodily uses,
there supervenes afever of iuxury that
carries off all upon whom it seizes, and
thus human society reaches its highest
point only to totter to a swift fall and be
succeeded by rugged and vigorous bar-
barism. The glory of the Chaldees’ ex-
cellency fell before the fierce hordes of
the Medes and Persians. The arts and
sciences, the high culture and depraved
abominations of Rome at the crest of
civilization, were swept away as by the
wind before the tremendous manhood of
the northern Barbarians.

But the decay of men now is vastly more
swift and deadly than ever it was in all
In
that enormous lapse of time there were
not Known in all the civilized world any
of the potent and baneful drugs that to-
day are used to destroy nervous force
and break down the human constitution.
Men from early times had fermented
beverages, but never alcohol or distilled
liquors. The wines and beers of the an-
cients had an intoxicating element of
from 3 to 10 per cent. of their volume.
The whisky, brandy, gin and rum of to-
day carry 40 to 50 per cent. of al-
cohol, not to speak of adulterations
which aggravate its power. Then there
are all the wonderful opiates and anzs-
thetics which chemistry has evoked.
They are numbered by the score, and

   
 

 

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THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN.

35

 

science has so cheapened their production
that they are in reach of the poorest.
They are all nerve poisons, which are
the daily resort of those who desire to
drown sorrow, ease pain, soothe nervous
irritation, and transform misery into
pleasure or insensibility.

The ancients who adopted the motto of
Sardanapalus, ‘‘Eat, drink and love; the
rest’s not worth a fillip,” did not have
to contend against the insidious and re-
sistless forces of alcohol,stobacco, opium,
eocaine, the chloroforms and ethers, a
terrible array of nerve destroyers, the
underminers of minds and morals, the
powerful allies of decay and death.

Human endurance to-day is fighting
against odds which the ancients never
knew. In antique times the gradual
blight of death fell on all, men and
women alike. It was reserved for this
modern age to create causes which de-
stroy the men first and leave the women
to rule, a destiny more humiliating than
was ever imposed on men before. The
vast masculine energies that might have
been potential for good have been con-
sumed by drink and drugs and will! never
be computed; but the amount can be reck-
oned up in the fact that the weak and
nerveless hand of the once king of earth
is relaxing its grasp upon the scepter of
dominion, and to woman is control to be
resigned. The time to the consumma-
tion will not be long. Man’s surrender
is woman’s opportunity.

FRANK STOWELL.
~— oe li — ilo
CURRENT COMMENT.

One of the latest novelties abroad is a
cigar or cirarette holder for non-smok-
ers. This eurious article is made as
much for a joke as for those who, while
not smokers themselves, associate with
inveterate consumers of the weed and
don’t lite to refuse a cigar from their
friends. The makers also advertise it
for the use of ladies when on the stage
in scenes where they are called upon to
smoke, even if ihe taste and odor are
disagreeable to them. The holder is so
constructed that a valve inserted be-
tween the tube of the holder proper and
the mouthpiece will actuate a feathering
membrane. While the inhaling of air
through the mouthpiece will set the
cigar glowing and actually withdraw
smoke from the cigar, this smoke will
only go as far as the membrane; no taste
of the smoke permeating the latter. As
soon as the action ceases, the little mem-
brane resumes its first position, and the
smoke is forced out through the vaive
without ever having reached the mouth
of the apparent smoker. The greatest
fun derived from this holder is the pre-
senting of it to a smoker not aware of
the nature of the gift. The antics of
such a victim attempting to get his
smoke out of one of these holders are

truly sidesplitting.
* * *

An unusual line of business furnishes
a living for a man in Washington. He
owns a large number of bulldogs, which
he rents to owners of houses who go
away in the summer. Each dog
chained in the back yard and intruders
are given a very cordial reception. The
dogs are effective guardians of the prem-
ises intrusted to their care. The rent of
the dog is but $3 a month, and the
owner, who is known as Bulldog Doug-
lass, goes the rounds each day and feeds
the animals. Up to the present time no
better way of protecting property has

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been discovered. Private and special
policemen cut no figure in the city where
politicians live.

- «< *

“‘A distinguished specialist,” says the
American Practitioner, bas carefully
noted the difference between twelve
families of drinkers and twelve families
of temperate persons during twelve years,
with the result that he found the twelve
drinking families produced in those
years fifty-seven children, while the tem-
perate ones were accountable for sixty-
one. Of the drinkers twenty-five chil-
dren died in the first week of life, as
against six on the other side. The lat-
ter deaths were from weakness, while
the former were attributable to weak-
ness, convulsive attacks, or oedema of
the brain and membranes. To this
cheerful record is added five who were
idiots; five were so stunted in growth as
really to be dwarfs; five when older be-
came epileptics; one, a boy, had grave
chorea, ending in idiocy; five more were
diseased and deformed, and two of the
epileptics became, by inheritance,
drinkers. Ten only of the fifty-seven
showed during life normal disposition
and development of body and mind.
Fifty of the childrer of the temperate

families were normal in every way.
# * *

The growing of tobacco in California
has gone beyond the experimental stage
and the weed will undoubtedly become
one of the great staples of that State.

* * *

A Paris police court, the other day, was
filled to overflowing by the admirers who
crowded there to hear Sarah Bernhardt
take an oath. An action for recovery of
a debt alleged to be due was brought
against her by a horse dealer, who had
petitioned that she might be put upon
oath. The judge asked her whether she
could swear that she had paid the bill.
The great tragedienne, raising her hand,
according to French custom, replied, ‘1
swear it.’? Admirers say that she was
never more natural. Judgment was ac-
cordingly given in her favor.

* * *

It is said there is a cat in Boston that
has learned to be extremely tidy. She
lives in an office, and when meat or
bread or any food is given to her to eat,
it is usually spread out on a piece of
paper. When she has finished or eaten
all she cares to, she carefully and pa-
tiently folds the paper into a package,
skillfully using her paws and her mouth
to accomplish it. When she has made
this into as neat a package as she can,
she carries it to some out-of-the-way
nook, where she puts it away till she
wants to finishit. It is only in Boston
that such intelligence could come to a

  

 

cat.
* & #

it has remained for a Chicago physi-
cian and nerve specialist to make the
discovery that a diet of prunes tends to
the conservation of morals and acts as a
preventive of crime. The discovery is
one that will not only gladden the heart
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WALTER BAKER & CO,

The Largest Manufacturers of

PURE, HIGH GRADE

COCOAS anpb
CHOCOLATES

on this continent,
have received

HIGHEST AWARDS

from the great

Pil Industrial and Foe

EXPOSITIONS
IN
Kurope and America.

Unlike the Dutch Process
no Alkalies or other Chemicals or Dyes
are used in any of their preparations.
‘Their 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.

Chas. A. Coye

MANUFACTURER OF

  
 
 
  

 

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HORSE, WAGON and
BINDER COVERS.

11 PEARL STREET,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

CYCLE
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but also will be' &

welcomed by all whose efforts are being | | —

directed toward the establishment of a aS

better order of things. |
——_—_-- > |
A Brooklyn woman fell out of al
fourth-story window the other day. She |
was not much hurt and her first question
when she recovered her breath was
whether her bonnet was on straight.
That was no new woman, but one of the
dear old kind.

 

 

 

HIRTH, KRAUSE & 60,

MICHIGAN STATE AGENTS,
for Catalogue.

 

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fence
AND WEsT MICHIGAN R’Y.
“GOING TO CHICAGO.

Ly. Gd Hapids......... 7:15am 1:25pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago......_.... 1:23pm 6:50pm *7:2am
RETURNING FROM CHICAGO.

Ly. Chicago ...... .....8:25am 5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. GG Kapidsa ...._.. 3:05pm 10:25pm *6:25am
TO AND FROM MUSKEGON,

Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:25am 1:25pm 5:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids..... 11:45am 3:05pm ‘0:25pm
TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY.

Ly.Grand Rapids... 7:30am 3:15pm

Ar. Manistee.......- 12:20pm 8:15pm
Ar. Traverse City.... 1:00pm 8:45pm
Ar. Charievoix...... 3:15pm 11:10pm
Ar. Petoskey.... 3:45pm 11:40pm

Trains arrive from north at 1:00 pm and 10:00
pm.
PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS.

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

*Every day Others week days only.

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LANSING & NORTHERN R, R,.

 

 

GOING TO DETROIT.
y. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. Detroit... ..........11:40am 6:30pm 10:ipm
RETUKNING FROM DETROIT.

Ly. Detrott............. 7: ~isl@pm 6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids......12:40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm
TO AND PROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND BT, LOUIS,
Lv. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:35am 10:45pm

TO AND FROM LOWELL.

Lv. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell.......... 12:4 G2 .......-
THROUGH CAR SERVICE.

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

Trains week days only.

GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

MICHIGAN CENTRAL

“Tre Niagara Falls Route.”

(Taking effect Sunday,; May 27, 1894.)

 

Arrive. Depart.
wee m....... Detroit Express ........7 Wam
5 Dam........*Nignt Hapress........11 pm
tt 2 am... New York Express...... 6 0pm
*Daily. Ail others daily, except Sunday.

Sleeping cars run on all night trains to and
from Detroit.

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

Direct communication made at Detroit with
all through trains eest over the Michigan Cen-
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)

A. ALmquisT, Ticket Agent,
Union PassengerStation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & M11
WAUKEE Railway.
EASTWARD.

Trains L:ave tNo. 14;tNo. 1lojtNY. 18)*No.
G@’d Rapids, Lv| 6 45am/10 20am} 325pm/11 00pm
Ionia ........ Ar| 7 40am/1125am| 4 27pm|1235am
St. Johns....Ar| 8 25am/12 17pm 5 20pm) 13am
Owoss)...... Ar| 900am]| 120pm 6 05pin) 3 10am
E, Saginaw..Ar|1u 50am} 3 45pm) 8 00pm) 6 40am
Bay City.....Arj11 30am} 435pm) 6 37pm} 7 15am
Pins ......-- Ar}10 05am} 345pm/ 7 65pm} 54 am
Pt. Huron...Ar}!205pm] 550pm)| 850pm) 7 30am
Pontiac ......Ar 9 53amj| 305pm| 8 25pm] 5 27am
Detroit....... Arjii50am] 405pmj 925pm} 7 06am

WESTWARD.
For Grand Haven and Intermediate
} i ee a *8:40 a. mm.
: For Grand Haven and Muskegon.....tl::¢ p.m

ss - ° sc Mil. and Chi. ..+5:35 p. m.

For Grand Haven, Mil. and Chi..... *7:40 p. ma

For Grand Haven and Milwaukee....t10:05 p

+Daily except Sunday. *Daily.

Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:60
p.m., 5:30 p.m., 10:v0 p.m,

Trains arrive from the west, 6:40 a, m. 5:15
4, m. 10:10a. m. 3:15 pm and7:05 p. m.

Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buifet
No. 18 Parlor Car. No.82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward — No. 11 ParlorCar. No. 15 Wagrer
*arlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

Jas. CAMPBELL, City T*cket Agent.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Leave coli g
North

For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw....7:40a. 7

For Saginaw .......-. cee eee eer eeweceees seeeeees §:00pr *

For Petoskey and Mackinaw............++++ 5:26) m.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

Leave going
South.
For Oincinmati.........ceceeeeceeceseceserseens 7:25a.m,
tor Kalamazoc and Chicago... ...... .......¥%:lo p m.
For Fort Wayne anc the East.......... .--.- 2:15 p.m.
For Cincin nati .......cccccccccccev ccc ere teres "6 40 p.m.
For Kalamazoo and Chicago.............-.. 11:40 p.m
Chicago via G. R. & I. KR. RK.

Lv Grand Rapide........ 7:26am 2:15pm 11:40) m
Are Chicage...........-. 2:40pm 9:05pm 70am
2:15p m train hasthrough Wagner Buffet Parlor

Car and coach.
11:40 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car
and Coach.
Lv Chicago 6:50a m 3:30pm 11:30p m
Arr Grand Rapids 2:50pm 9:15pm 7:20am
330 pm has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car
11:30 p m train daily,through Wagner Sleeping Car
Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive,
7:25 am 9:50 am
1:15pm

6:20pm
© .L. LOOK WOOD‘
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

1:00pm
4:40 Dm

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

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

New York, June 1—When a holiday
in this town comes on Friday or even
Thursday, trade takes the rest of the
week off, as a matter of course. This
week the weather lends an additional
item to make trade dull and, altogether,
the week has been very much broken up.
The one item of any importance in gro-
cery circles has been the better feeling
in canned goods—poor, despised canned
goods which have been under the ban
for lo, these many months. The season
is certainly backward, so far as regards
peas and tomatoes—nearly a fortnight
late, in fact. Tomatoes appear to be
tending upward, but they are an uncer-
tain plant. Just when you think there are
none, the vine has grown as high as a
house, and the fruit is measured by the
bushel on each. Stocks seem ample,
but there is an excellent demand and, by
the time new stock arrives, the carry-
over will be much smaller than last
year, in all probability.

Newton Dexter, of whom we have all
heard, and who is now an alleged ‘‘attor-
ney,’’ has been making some important
discoveries about the fineness of the sil-
verware sold at the department stores.
He made over thirty purchases, and had
the stuff analyzed at the U. S. Assay of-
fice, finding it below the State require-
ment. Among the firms who have been
selling such ware are R. H. Macy & Co.,
Hilton, Hughes & Co., Ehrichs, Stern
Bros., ete. The question is whether the
manufacturers or the merchants are the
guilty parties. If one thing found in
the department stores is ‘‘below the
standard,’’ may not the same be true of
ten thousand other things? Dexter has
always been an ardent champion of the
retail grocer—for revenue only—and we
hope he will place the blame exactly
where it belongs.

Extensive frauds have been shown to
have occurred in the fruit trade sales, as
sample boxes exhibited as fair specimens
of the whole cargoes seem to have been
selected from the very choicest and the
best ‘‘put on top,’’ like the strawberry
humbug. This is nothing new, but it
seems to bea little worse than usual and
the matter has caused a great rowdedow
between importers and buyers. The
California fruit men, too, have been havy-
ing some angry words and war seemed
inevitable between two auction houses
when it was all found to be a misunder-
standing, and matters have resumed their
normal condition.

The coffee market shows very little
change. The demand is slack and buy-
ers have not been here in great numbers.
Jobbers have done very little, owing to
lhe intervening holiday, and there is
searcely a decent sized sale to record.
Mild sorts are in light request. Rio No.
7 coffee is worth at the moment 154 @
1é6c. There are afloat 562,894 bags,
against 305,117 bags last year.

The sugar market has been so dull as
to cause some comment. The demand is
light and all orders are promptly filled.
It was thought that trade on Tuesday
and Wednesday would be good, in antici-
pation of a closed market Thursday, but
orders were few and far between. There
has been no change in quotations during
the week.

The molasses market has been steadily
improving for a month and it is now a
very hard matter to find any first-class
open kettle goods. Foreign molasses,
too, is very firmly held, and dealers feel
much encouragement. Prime New Or-
leans is worth 30c.

Syrups are in comparatively
stock and quotations
changed rates.

Rice is firm and steady. The market
shows no signs of a break, either for do-
mestic or foreign. Holders are confident
of a good market all the season and are
not inclined to make any concessions.

The spice market is scarcely as active
as previously reported and the demand
from grinders has fallen off somewhat.

There has been a falling off in the de-
mand for butter since last week, and
this, together with the extremely warm
weather, has depressed prices. For best

light
are firm at un-

 

Elgin 183¢c is the very top and it is alto-
gether likely that this will hold but a
short time.

Cheese is in better position than last
week and the outlook is not quite so dis-
couraging, although there is very little
profit in present quotations. There is
something of a scarcity in small size full
cream, which bring for fancy 7c.

Western eggs are worth 13)¢¢c and for
fresh stock the demand is good.

Foreign green fruits are meeting with
excellent inquiry and the dealers are in-
clined to feel quite encouraged. The de-
mand has not extended very far from the
city, but local trade has kept supplies
from greatly accumulating.

New potatoes are arriving more freely
and the market for old has gone to
pieces. It is said that in Maine potatoes
are selling at 40c per barrel which were
fetching $1.50 three weeks ago.
~ Beans and peas are in better position
than a week ago, and holders are firmly
clinging to quotations which have pre-
vailed for ten days.

The gay and festive fire cracker is
with us again and the demand grows by
what it feeds on. The rush for fireworks
and ‘‘anything which will make a noise’’
is large and, within a fortnight, prom-
ises to be such that it will take great en-
deavors to meet it.

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Death of a Pioneer Merchant and Lum-
berman.
From the Pentwater News.

Chas. Mears, whose name is familiar
to everyone in this part of Michigan,
passed away at his home in Chicago last
Thursday at the ripe old age of 81 years.

Mr. Mears was one of the early pio-
neers of this shore, coming to Michigan
from Middlesex, Mass. In 1838, when
Muskegon was scarcely a hamlet and all
north of it a wilderness, Mr. Mears
pushed his way up the shore to where
Whitehall now is, and began business
fifty-seven years ago by establishing a
small waterpower sawmill about a mile
from the present site of Whitehall. A
town was laid out later and called Mears,
under which name it flourished for years.
The good people of the town, however,
later decided to change the name to
Whitehall.

Although coming to Michigan practi-
cally without means, Mr. Mears was suc-
eessful in business from the very start.
Whenever he could he bought pine lands,
and it was not many years until he had,
aside from the one at Whitehall, a mill
at Duek Lake, Muskegon county, two
mills at Pentwater, a big steam mill at
Hamlin, Mason county, and a sawmill
and grist mill at Lincoln, just above
where Ludington now stands, besides
the one at Mears station, this county,
which is still running.

It was in the ’50s that Mr. Mears be-
gan operations in Pentwater, putting in
two sawmills, a store and a boarding
house on the grounds now occupied by
the furniture factory and vicinity. A
town was platted and called Middlesex,
and for years a big business was done in
lumbering, long before Pentwater had a
railroad or even a channel into the har-
bor, the lumber being loaded outside
from bridge piers, some of the piles of
which may still be seen in the water
north of the north pier.

Some eleven years ago Mr. Mears be-
came interested in the brick and tile in-
dustry at this place and began operations
in thatline with a company under the
firm name of The Middlesex Brick & Tile
Co., which gave promise, at one time, of
becoming an industry of immense pro-
portions.

Nine years ago Mr. Mears again em-
barked in the mercantile business in the
Hodgson building, afterward buying the
briek biock now occupied by S. E. Russell
in conducting the business.

Although having been quite feeble for
a number of years, Mr. Mears, while
physically unable to transact a great
deal of business, apparently retained his
faculties to the very last, and was a close
reader and thoroughly conversant with
general affairs.

 

—————~—. -2
A. M. LeBaron, city representative of
the Commercial Credit Co., Ltd., has re-
turned from a four weeks’ visit to Lever-
ing, where he was engaged in general
trade for several years.

 

 

 

Dangerous Electric Wiring.

The many recent fires caused by care-
less and defective placing of electric
wires are making property owners more
careful in selecting the most responsible
and careful people to do the wiring.
The Fox building, the Widdicomb build-
ing, N. A. Fletcher’s residence, and, in
fact, the majority of the new buildings
are being wired by the Grand Rapids
Electric Company, whose office is at 9
South Division street. This company
also carries a very complete line of elec-
tric supplies and makes a specialty of
electric fans, of which there is a wonder-
ful variety to meet the needs of all peo-
ple and purposes.

 

 

PROVISIONS

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

 

  

pom,. ....... oo Lee 13 00
OE a 12 25
Extra clear pig, short cut............. : 14 00
eee ee ee 13 00
Benson clear seertcut.................. 13 50
Clear back, short cut. . 13 50
Standard clear, short cut, best.. 13 50
SAUSAGE,
sf 7%
Bologna....... Ve — 5%
i... ... 6
ee 8%
oe ......... 6
Bond Cheese .......... +. 6
Summer...... 10
Prankfars.......... eee eee ee 7%
LARD.
Bee Donec... 7%
ee oo.
ae 5%
ee 54
ee -.-- O68
CIEE ccc wce coe eee uno ne one Q 6%
50 lb. Tins, 4c advance,
20 lb. pails, we
10 lb, se %e “
—_— ~~ me e
c- * te ie
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. . 700}
Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... 7 v0
Seo, oe... 10 00
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plaix.
Hams, average a 934
ee 10
' ' 12 to 14 lbs.. it oe
' a ce ee D4
‘best boneless. . 9
Saeeeeoe.. 8 eee. 7
Breakfast Bacon bonelem....................9
Dried beef, ham prices....... Lede eee
DRY SALT MEATS.

Long Clears, heavy.. i
Briskets, medium........ ae ete Oe
PICKLED PIGS’ FEET.
ceil ose i ee 3 00
— PON ok, a ol se ce 1 65
ee 90
TRIPE.
coe eee %
eee 65
BUTTERINE.

Creamery, as 16

ee...
Dairy, rolls.. See
: tubs.. =

 

 

k. G. DUNTON & 60.

Will buy all kinds of Lumber—
Green or Dry.
Office and Yards, 7th St.and C.&W.M.R.R.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

PRODUCE lARKET.

Asparagus—25e per doz. bunches.

Beans—The improvement reported last week
has continued. The increased demand from
jobbers and the continued light receipts have
resulted in higher prices, the market for marrow
beans, imported medium and pea beans being
about 5¢ higher. There is also a generally bet
ter feeling throughout the interior of the State

and the trade seems inclined to look upon higher
price: as one of the probabilities of the near
future.
Butter-
dairy. .
Beets—New, $1.25 per crate of 2 to 3 doz.
Caubbage— Missouri stock commands $1.50 per
crate. .
Cauliflower—#1.50 per doz.
Cucumbers—Home grown are now in ample
supply, commanding 35@40e per doz.
Eggs—Handlers pay t0e and hold at lle in a
regular jobbing way.
Onions—10¢ per doz. for green stock.
Potatoes—Old stock is weak and lower, selling
in small quantities to the retail trade at 45@50e
per bu. New stock is coming in freely from
California and the South, commanding $1.25@
1.50 per bn.
Pieplant-
Radishes
Spinach
Strawberries—Baltimores, 10e:
lic; Michigan, 12@l4c.
prices will go lower,

In ample supply at 12@15e for choice

40c for 75 lb. basket.
Round or Long, 10¢ per doz.
35¢e per bu.
Cincinnati,
In the event of rain,
If the hot weather con
tinues, prices will probably go higher.

 

Use Tradesman Coupon Books,

BUTTER 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:

 

 

   

were pele... 70
ee ee ee 50
Pe oe Sd a 45
rm Oe 40
1 quart Mason Jars, per doz 1 65
1 pint Mason Jars, per doz oe
erceoe 2 aon tm case... 3 60
Mrs. Withey’ s Condensed Mince Meat, the

best made. Price per case ............... 2 40
Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat:
re. eee ee ee 6
ee, Oe OPE el. 6%4
12 1b. aa see... 6%

iO, GAM, BO OE, 0.5.5. ethno nns | oe
5 Ib. men ber OOe. |... . 350
Pint Mason Jars, per SE 1 25
Quart Mason Jars, per doz .............. .. 2 00
Pure Sweet Cider, in bbis., per gal.......... 12%
Pure Sweet C ider, in less quantities, per gal 14
Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per doz 1 40
Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per ae. . 28
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz...... 9 00
Peach Marmalade, eee. 1 00
Peach Marmalade in pt. Mason jars, rds.. 1 2
No 1 Egg Crate Fillers, best in market, 10

sets in case, No. 1 Case included.......... 1 2
No. 1 Egg Crates with fillers complete...... 33

Special prices made on 1(€0 Crate lots,
I make Syrups and quote you Refiners’ prices:

White Sugar Drips, 4 bbls.. .--2 per gal 32
land % ‘gal. pails ‘ . =

Honey Drips, i OE eeu =
nd % gal. pails...... * =

EDWIN FALLAS(“"sar"""

 

WHOLESALE

Rubber Footwear

EXCLUSIVELY

bk. WEAVER & 80.

161-163 Jefferson Avenue,
DETROIT, MICH.

WOONSOCKETS
RHODE ISLANDS
Wide Toe, Medium Toe, Narrow Toe,

Piccadilly Toe.

 

   
  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

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GOODS GUARANTEED Mail Orders Solicited

 

 

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Every day you use your old scale.
Can you afford it these hard times?
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THE COMPUTING SCALE Co., Dayton, O.

A SAMPLE SEY OF OUR FINE GOODS

Porcelain Toilet Sets Haviland’ s Best China

 

 

 

  

COLUMBIA DEGORATED TOILET SET. et _—
Each piece in this lovely pattern is a model of grace and beauty. We NO. ¢ 0967 7 PATTERN AVILA ID 3 (0.3 FINE FRENCH CHINA.

have a variety of decorations, namely: White and Gold, Assorted Colors,
Pearl, Brown and Green, and Enameled and Gold [luminated, at the fol-

Rich decorations, delicate spray of Lavender and Yellow Flowers in
scattered style, Gold Stippled Handles (Platters and Bakers new oval shape).

 

lowing prices for 12 piece sets:
C umbi a, white and gold, . $12 00 LIST PRICE PER SET 098 PIECES, $56.00.
Columt ria Trium ip »h, assorted colors, gol ai mid. 13 00 au , He a i
C. a . rit imph, nameled roses, old “11 mt da. 14 00 I nese goods can be had in any quantities desired. AS easily matched
Co ia Primela, enameled floral, at illmtd. 14 00 as common white ware.

List Prices Subject to rt. ee for Prices.

H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids

 

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