The  Michigan  Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY 20,  1889.

THE  GREAT

EDMUND B.DIKEMSN
WatBh flaker 
s Jeweler,
44  GÄNRL  SY„
(lieh.
Grand Rapids,  - 
2 0 0 0   C ig a rs  F r e e /

On o r about April 1st, 188». we  propose p u ttin g  a  new 
brand of cigars on th e m ark et w hich  we  shall  sell  to 
th e  tra d e  a t $33 00 p er thousand.  Now we w ant a  name 
fo r th is cigar, and w ant it badly.  Hence we  m ake th e 
above  offer  of  1000 of these cigars  (the first thousand 
made) to v n y w holesale o r reta il dealer  who  will send 
us an  original nau.e th a t will be acceptable, subject  to 
th e  follow ing conditions, v iz.:
1st.  The name m ust be one  th a t h as n ev er been used 
fo r  a   c ig ar  and  one  upon  w hich  we can g et a  trad e­
m ark  p aten t.
2nd.  The  nam e  m ust  to  us  upon a  le tte r head, bill 
head or card of the firm o r m em ber of th e firm  sending 
it.  The firm m ust be a   bona  fide  re ta il  o r  wholesale 
dealer  in  cigars.  Names  from   all  o th ers  w ill  be re-
^  3rd.  This nam e m ust n o t reach  us la te r  th a n   March 
15th, 1889, as th e  aw ard w ill be m ade  on M arch  31st,  or 
as soon th ere a fte r as possible.
4th.  The aw ard or salection of th e  nam e  will be left 
to  a  com m ittee of th ree (3) consisting of th e  editors of 
th e follow ing papers published in th is «ity :  The  F lin t 
E vening  Journal,  The  W olverine  Citizen,  The  Flint 
Globe.  W e 
selected 
by th is com m ittee, and if  upon  investigation, we  find 
it has never been used  as a   cig ar  b rand,  we  will  fo r­
w ard to th e  w inner  one  thousand  cigars  by  express, 
charges prepaid. 
5th.  Should th e com m ittee select a   nam e,  th a t  had 
been sent to us t*y m ore  th an   one  firm   o r  dealer, the 
thousand  cigars  will  go  to   th e   first  firm  o r  dealer 
sending it, as all names will  be  num bered  in  ro tatio n  
as received.  No firm  o r dealer will be allowed  to   send 
m ore th an  one name. 
A postal card containing th e  aw ard  o r  selection  by 
th e  com m ittee will be m ailed to  a ll contestants.
Address, GEO. T. WARREN & CO.,
Mfrs. H igh Grade C igars. 
G.  M.  MUNGER  &  CO.,
Successors to Allen’s Laundry.
Mail and Express orders  attended  to with 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

______ Flint, Midi.

piomptness.  Nice Work, Quick Time 

accept 

nam e 

shall 

tn e 

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Satisfaction Guaranteed.

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W. E. HALL,, Jr., 
  Manager.
I i f l   l i n o   Try  sample  order  in  14 dozen 
Uu  U   I ttl  \   packages.  Prices, $1,  $2, $3, $4, 
I I   l l   I  r O   fc to 
per doz.  For terms ad- 
* 1  1 1 1 1   w   dress  G raham   Roys,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich.

J. V. Welton’s Commercial CoUep

This College offers th e m ost extensive course o f study 
in business  college  branches  a t  th e   m ost  reasonable 
term s.  Do n o t fail to  send fo r  a   forty-page catalogue 
giving full in fo rm atio n  in  reg ard  to course,tuition,etc.
AddressWelton’s Commercial College,
23 Eountain St.,  _________ Grand Rapids, Mich.

DANIEL L Y P

Successor to  FRED  D. YALE & CO.,

Manufacturer of

F la v o rin g  E x tra c ts , 

B a k in g   P o w d e r, 
B luing*  Etc.

And Jobber of

Call and inspect  our  uew  establishment 

when in the city.

19  S.  IONIA  ST.

WALES  -  GOODYEAR

and  Connecticut Rubbers.

Spring Heels.

in  Ladies’,  Misses’  and  Children’s,  Heels  and 

T u n   P A R A G O N
G.  R.  M ayhew ,
86 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.

pliers, Attention

W e are making  a  Middlings 
Purifier and Flour Dresser that 
will save you their cost at least 
three times each year.
They  are  guaranteed  to  do 
more  work in less  space (with 
less  power  and  less  waste) 
than  any  other  machines  of 
their  class.
Send  for  descriptive  cata­
logue with testimonials.
Martin’s  Middlings  P orto  Co.

G R IP  RAPIDS,  HIGH.

If you  have  any 
to offer  send 
samples

A

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and
amount  and 
will try to buy them
W.  T.  LAMOREAUX,

71  Canal  Street.

ROLLED

OATS

IF  YOU WANT
THE  BEST!

CREOLE  STRAIGHT  CUT,

To all Merchan's Handling Cigarettes:
A new era has been reached whereby all dealers 
selling cigarettes may now make  a  larger  profit 
than heretofore on any other brand.  The

CREOLE STRAIGHT GUT.

Which  has  recently  been  introduced  into  the 
State is becoming very popular, it being the only 
straight cut sold for five  cents,  thus  giving  the 
dealer a cigarette with which he may  please  all 
classes of cigarette smokers.  The same are nicely 
put up in packages of ten  and  packed  with  ac­
tresses’ photos.  There is also a variety of  other 
inducements, a notice of which  is  contained  in 
each package.
Give the  CREOLE a  trial  and  you  will 
find it a big  seller.
Sold by all Grand Rapids  jobbers,  and  mann 
factored by

S.  F.  HESS  &  CO.

ROCHESTER, N. Y. 

Manufrs of High Grade Cigarettes.

THE GRAND  RAPIDS

PAPER  BOX  FACTORY,

W.  W.  HUELSTER,  Proprietor,

Formerly  located at 11 Pearl St., has been 
removed to
81 & 8 3  C a m p a u  St.
Cor. Louis, where I shall have more room 
and far  „etter facilities for  the manufac­
ture of Paper  Boxes.
All work  guaranteed  first  class and at 
the lowest rates.  Write or  call  for  esti­
mates.  Telephone 850.

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B E A N S

And all dealers are invited to  send  sam­
ples and write for  prices  that can be ob­
tained in this market.
We  do  a  COMMISSION  BUSINESS 
and our aim is to obtain the  highest mar­
ket price for all goods sent us.  Not only

n n ANS
but  also  A LL  KINDS  OF PRODUCE 
We can sell as well as  anyone.

We invite correspondence.

BARNETT BROS.,

159 So.  Water St., CHICAGO.

SAFES !

Anyone  in  want of  a  first-class  Fire or 
Burglar Proof Safe of  the  Cincinnati  Safe 
and  Lock  Co.  manufacture  will  find  it to 
his advantage to write or  call  on  us.  We 
have light expenses, and are able to sell low­
er than  any  other  house representing first- 
class  work.  Second-hand  safes always on 
hand.

C. M. GOODRICH & CO.,

With  Safety Deposit  Co., Basement  ol Wid- 

dicomb Blk.

Y O L .  6.
BLANK BOOKS

OUR  NEW  LINE  OF

TABLETS, STEEL PENS,

S ta tio n e ry ,
IN K S .
lialentine  Samples
Eaton, Lyon i Go.,
Voigt, iTOOlsMir & Co.,
Dry Goods

20 and 22 Monroe St.

are ready for inspection.

Importers and Jobbers of

STAPLE  and  FANCY.

O v e ralls,  P a n ts ,  Etc.,

OUR OWN  MAKE.

A  COMPLETE  LINE  OF

Fancy  Grockery  and

Fancy  Woodenwara

OUR  OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection  Solicited.  Chicago  and  De­

troit  prices  guaranteed.

F.  J.  DETTENTHALER,

JOBBER  OF

roy„

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Mail orders receive prompt attention.

A n d   S a lt  F ish .
See quotations in another column. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

CASH  SALE  CHECKS.

Encourasre your trade to pay cash instead of 
running- book  accounts  by  using  Cash  Sab- 
Checks.  For sale at 50 cents per  100 by  F. A. 
STOWE & BRO.. Grand Rapids.

am  SDN  BUM BE«

MlLUSr

Guaranteed  Absolutely  Pure.  Orders  from Re 
N e w a y g o   R o lle r  M ills

tail Trade solicited.

NEWAYGO, MICH

FODETE NATIONAL BAM

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J. Bowne, President.

Geo.  C.  P ierce,  Vice President.

H. W. Nash,  Cashier
»   CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general hanking business.

Make a  Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

DO YOD WANT A SHOWCASE?

a n

SPECIAL. O F F E R —This sty le of oval case;  best 
q u ality ;  all  glass,  heavy  double 
th ick ;  panel  or 
sliding doors;  fu ll length  m irro rs  and  sp rin g   hinges; 
solid c h erry  o r w alnut fram e, w ith   o r  w ith o u t  m etal 
trim m ings 
corners, 
•  feet long,  28  inches  wide,  15  inches  high.  Price 
811, net cash. 
„   . 
1 m ake th e sam e style  of  case  as  above,  17  inches 
high, from  w alnut, ch erry , oak o r ash,  fo r $2 p er foot.
Boxing and c artag e free.

e x tra   heavy  base; 

silv e tta  

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D.  D.  COO K,

21 Scribner St.,  Grand Rapids, Mich,
A C T U A L   B U S IN E S S
D P   A  r'"T TP'IT'  at  the  Grand  Rapids 
~  f ’-Ii-'-/ A  lVvH»  Business College.  Ed­
ucates pupils to transact and  record  business as 
it is done Dy our best  business  houses.  It  pays 
to go to  the  best.  Shorthand  and  Typewriting 
also thoroughly taught.  Send for circular.  Ad 
dress A. 8. PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens 
berg.

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N O .  283.

WHO  IS  TO  BLAME?

“ THE  KING’S  BUSINESS.”

Slowly and aimlessly out of the village 
wandered  poor,  half-witted  Nat  that 
pleasant  summer afternoon.  He had no 
particular  destination,  “only goin’ some­
where”—his  reply  always  to  any ques­
tion in regard to his movements.  During 
the  morning  he  had  been parading the 
illage  street,  his  hat 
trimmed  lux­
uriantly with feathers, while he  sounded 
forth his own praise through the medium' 
of  a  tin  horn.  Of  course,  he  had  at­
tracted  attention.  A  small  army of  ur­
chins  had  surrounded  him,  front  and 
rear,  and he had taken  their  shouts and 
teasing remarks for applause  and  admi­
ration.  But now his grandeur was gone. 
One by one  his  followers  had  forsaken 
him, until at last  he  was “left  alone in 
his glory,”  and  with  poor  Nat, like the 
est  of  us, what  does  glory  amount  Jo 
when there are none to witness ?
And so he moved  onward  in his drift­
ing,  uncertain  way across  the  creek at 
the edge of  the  village,  up  the  hill, un­
til his  stalwart  form  stood  out  against 
the  sky—for  Nat  was  strong  in  body 
though  weak  in  mind;  then  he  passed 
down on the other side to where the road 
entered  a  forest  which  stretched  for 
miles  away. 
It  was  here  quiet  and 
lonely,  but  Nat  fancied  this.  He occa- 
ionally  liked  to  escape  from  human 
voices  and  human  habitations,  to  get 
away by himself and  talk with the birds, 
the  trees  and  the  flowers.  Here in the 
wood  the  wild  vagaries  of  his  brain 
found full play.  Here  no  one  disputed 
his claims to greatness, no one denied his 
being a noted general, a gifted  orator  or 
musician, when  the  fancy seized  him to 
be such.  In fact, Nat always had “great­
ness thrust upon him;”  he was  never an 
ordinary man in his own  estimation,  and 
he was not now.
But ou  this  occasion a new  fancy had 
taken possession of  him—he was ou bus­
iness for the King.  What  King, or what 
was  the  particular  business  he did not 
precisely know,  but  he  had  derived his 
idea from various sermons he  had  heard 
at the village church and  Sunday-school, 
which he attended with scrupulous punc­
tuality  through  all  weathers,  and  al­
though  he  understood  but  little  of  the 
proceedings,  yet  chance  sentences  had 
fastened  themselves  on  his 
sluggish 
brain.
“I’m  on  business  for  the  King,”  he 
muttered, reaching  up  his  great  strong 
hand and wrenching a huge overhanging 
branch from its place  and  speedily con­
verting  it  into a walking  stick.  “Yes, 
I’m on business for the King, the King of 
all around here, the  birds, the trees, the 
flowers  and  the  bumblebees.  He  sent 
me, He did.  Parson said so  t’other Sun­
day.  He said the King  sent out liis mes­
sengers  to  do  his  work.  He  sent  out 
twelve  ou  ’em  onc’t, an’  they wasn’t to 
take no money in their purse  nor nothin’ 
to eat.  Guess He sent me, ’cause I hain’t 
got  no  money an’ hain’t  had  nothin’  to 
eat all day.”
He  strode  onward,  murmuring  his 
thoughts  as  he  went,  until  after  a 
time he came  upon a public  road  which 
ran through  the  wood.  A placard  fast­
ened to a tree  by the  roadside  attracted 
his attention, and  he  paused to consider 
it.  He could not  read, but  as  his  eyes 
were  fixed  upon  the  printed characters 
the tinkle of  a cow-bell  was heard down 
the road, and  presently a cow  came into 
view,  followed  by the  short, sturdy fig­
ure and round,  freckled  face of  Tommy 
Brock.  Tommy  was  flourishing a large 
stick  and  shouting  at  the  cow  in his 
efforts to keep her in a proper homeward 
direction.  As he  came up, he exclaimed:
“Hello,  N at!  What  are  you  doin’ 
here ?”
“I’m  on  business  for  the  King,” re­
plied Nat,  with  dignity.
“On  business  for  —  who?” 
asked 
Tommy, in surprise.
“For  the  King.  He  sent  me,”  said 
Nat  again.  “That’s  his orders  there, I 
take it,” pointing to the  placard.  What 
is it, Tommy ?”
“That?  Why,  that’s  only  an  adver­
tisement,”  answered  Tommy,  his  eyes 
“It 
opening wider in his astonishment. 
says,  ‘Go  to  Tracey’s  Half-Way House 
for a square meal.’ ”
“Yes, I  know’d i t !  I  know’d  i t !” ex­
claimed  Nat,  exultingly. 
“The  King 
said  take  no  money nor  nothin’ to eat, 
an’  He’d  take  keer  of  me.  He  says, 
‘Go,’ an’ I’ll obey orders,”  and  instantly 
his tall figure was  moving  swiftly down 
the road.
Tommy gazed  after  him  a  minute  in 
bewildered  silence,  and  then exclaimed, 
emphatically,  as he turned away:

“My!  but ain’t he cracked !”
With rapid steps Nat hurried  foiward, 
swinging  his  huge  stick  and talkiug to 
himself.  He had  taken  the placard as a 
veritable command to go to Tracey’s, and 
thitherward he directed his steps.  It was 
not the first time he had  been there.  On 
previous occasions when  he  had  passed 
that way he  had  been  kindly treated by 
Mrs. Tracey, and perhaps that had some­
thing to do with the alacrity of  his move­
ment, and he hastened down the road till 
it brought him to a small  stream, on  the 
bank  of  which  stood  a  sawmill.  Mr. 
Tracey,  the  owner  of 
the  Half-Way 
House,  was  engaged  at  work  here,  and 
he turned aside to speak to him.
“I’m on business for the King, and I’m 
goin’  to  your  house,”  he  announced, 
with the dignified gravity  that  belonged 
to his royal commission.
“On business for  the  King, and  goin’ 
to my house, eh ?”  answered  the  person 
addressed,  a good-natured smile  crossing 
his kindly face.  Well, I reckon  tjjat’s a 
high  honor  to  me.  You’ve got a tramp 
afore  you,  though,  Nat—a  good  seven 
miles.”
“I  must  obey  orders,”  replied  Nat, 
simply.
“That’s  right—obey  orders.  Well,  if 
you do go, tell  Mrs. Tracey  I’ll be home 
to-morrow night.  Tell her, too, not to be 
uneasy  about  that  money  bein’  in  the 
house, ’cause I’ll see to it when I come.”
“What money’s that ?”  asked a fellow- 
workman as Nat  turned away.

till 

though, 

“My pension.  My claim  was  allowed 
last  week, and  I  got my money—$500— 
I was foolish  not to put it in 
yesterday. 
the  bank  right off, but I didn’t,  and as I 
didn’t have time to go to town  yesterday 
I had  to  leave it at home. 
I  reckon it’s 
safe  enough, 
to-morrow 
night, and then—”
“H ist!”  interrupted  his  companion, 
suddenly.  “What’s that?”
Tracey paused to listen.
“I didn’t hear anything,” he said.
“I  thought  I  heard  some  one  over 
there,” pursued  the  other, pointing to a 
large,  high pile of  boards a few  feet dis­
tant—the boards being piled in form of a 
square,  with a large cavity in the center. 
“Most likely it was rats, though.”
“More likely to be rats  than  anything 
else,  there’s  so  many  about  here,” an­
swered  Tracey.  Then  he  added,  joc­
ularly:  “Maybe, though, it’s  them  bur­
glars that’s been playin’ mischief  ’round 
these  parts  for  the  last  week  or  so— 
maybe  they’re  stowed  away in that pile 
of  lumber.  My!  if  I  really  believed 
that, I’d be uneasy myself, for the chaps 
would  have  heard  all  I  said  about my 
pension.”
“What burglars is that ?”  inquired the 
other.
“What  burglars?  Why,  man,  don’t 
you read the papers?  Why, only yester­
day, the Sheriff  and his deputies rode by 
my  house  on  the  hunt  for  ’em.  Last 
Saturday night  they broke  into  Lawyer 
Burke’s house, iu the village, and carried 
off  about a hundred  dollars, and then on 
Sunday night they got  into  the  railroad 
station, broke  open  the  safe, and  made 
off  with  about  three  hundred  more. 
That’s the biggest of  their hauls,  though 
they’ve entered several other places.”
The  conversation  was  continued  on 
this  topic  for a few  minutes,  and  then 
dropped.  Neither of  the men  thought it 
worth while  to  investigate  the  cause of 
the noise, and  they pursued  their  work 
for a short  time,  and  were  then  called 
over to the other ‘ side of  the  mill.  Just 
as  they  disappeared a face  peered  over 
the top of  the board-pile from the inside, 
another  followed  a  moment  later,  and 
presently  two  rough,  villainous-looking 
men  came  into  view,  and  seeing  they 
were  unobserved, sprang  quickly to the | 
ground and hastened into the  forest.
“Close shave, that, as  bein’  as we was 
hid there all last  night  and  all  day till 
now,” said one as he pushed through the 
underbrush. 
“Yes;  I  thought  as  once  them  mill 
chaps was a cornin’  to  look,” responded 
the other.  “Good for ’em as they didn’t, 
an’ took us for rats;  ’cause  the  p’lice be 
on the look-out now  au’  we  don’t  want 
to use no shootin’ irons  an’ make  things 
too hot.  We must move  out  li/elyfrom 
’ere, Bill.”
“Not  till  we  get  that ’ere  pension,” 
answered  Bill, significantly.  “That lay­
out were as good as  pitched  at us,  an’  it 
’d be a pity  not  to  take  it.  • ’Sides, the 
gov’meut owes me a pension  for  all  the 
time  I’ve  lost  in  jails  and prisons,  an’ 
»this  ’ere’s  a  good  chance  to  get it. 
I 
knows  where  the  crib  is,  ’cause  we 
stopped there last  week for somethin’ to 
eat,  don’t  you  mind?  This  feller  that 
owns it was there at  the  time.  There is 
nobody but a woman  an’ two  little ’uns, 
an’ they’re easy  fixed, an’ there  ain’t no 
other house nigh.”
“But  there’s  that  ’ere  other  chap as 
said he was agoin’ there ?”
“Him?  He’s  craiy,  an’  if  he  goes 
there at all he’ll only stop a bit an’ move 
on.  A tap on the head’ll settle him, any­
way, if  he’s there—but  then he won’t be 
there.”
During  this  time  Nat  was  not  idle. 
His  tall  form,  with  long  and  steady 
stride, was hastening  forward  “on  bus­
iness for the King.” 
It did not occur to 
him what he  should do when he reached 
Tracey’s  and  had  been  supplied  with 
food.  At present  he  was  “obeying  or­
ders”—and beyond that  his  thought did 
not go.  It was, indeed, a long walk he had 
undertaken, and it was just at dusk  that 
he  reached  his  destination.  The Half- 
Way  House  was  a  lonely  hostelry,  sit­
uated  at  the  intersection of  two  roads, 
with no other  house  in  sight,  and was a 
common stopping-place for persons pass­
ing  to and  from  the  city.  Nat stepped 
boldly upon  the  broad  piazza  in front, 
and with full  consciousness  of  his right 
walked unhesitatingly into  the  pleasant 
sitting-room.  Mrs. Tracey came forward 
to meet him.

,

“Why, Nat, is that  you?”
“Yes’m,”  he  answered,  gravely.  “I 
was  told  to  come  here  an’ get a square 
meal.  The King sent me.”
“The  King  sent  you ?  Well, I  guess 
I’ll  have  to  give  you  a supper,  then,” 
said  she.  “And,  by the  way,  Nat, did 
you see my husband on your way here ?” 
“Yes’m;  and he said for me to tell you 
he’d  be  home  to-morrer  night,  an’ for 
you not to be uneasy ’bout that  money.” 
“Oh, dear!  I  did  so  hope  he’d  come 
this evening,” she sighecL 
She  was,  indeed,  uneasy  on  account 
of  the  money  in  the  house.  She  had 
slept but  little  the  preceding  night for 
thinking of  it, and had  worried  about it 
all  through  the  day, and  now  another 
lonly night  was before her.  As she was 
preparing  supper for her  guest, another 
thought came to her.  Could  she  not in­
duce  Nat  to  stop  there  for  the night? 
His notion of  wandering  made  it an un­
certain request, and even if he r  mained, 
with  his  beclouded  intellect,  he  could 
not be depended  on  in  case  of  trouble. 
Still, he would be company,  and perhaps 
he might aid her—she prayed  for  that— 
if  she needed help.
“Nat,” she  said,  as  she  poured  out a 
glass of  milk  for  him,  “won’t  you  stay 
here to-night?”
“I don’t know  whether  it be  orders,” 
he answered  uncertainly.  “Parson said 
the  King  sent  out  his  messengers,  an’ 
they wasn’t to take no money nor nothin’ 
to eat,  an’ I don’t  know  if  it be right to 
stop.”
“Oh, yes,  it  is,” replied  Mrs. Tracey, 
catching at once an idea of  his thoughts. 
too.
“I  heard  what  the  parson  said, 

When  the  King’s  messenger  entered  a 
house  he  was to abide  there—that is,  to 
stop.  Don’t  you remember ?”

Nat considered the proposition.
“ Yes’m, that’s his orders. 
I’ll  stop,” 
he said.
“And,  Nat,”  pursued  the  lady,  ren­
dered eager by her  success,  ‘ there’s  an­
other thing the King  said—you  heard it 
at Sunday-school.  He  said,  ‘Suffer  lit­
tle children to  come  unto  me’—that  is, 
such  little  children  as  mine,  there,” 
pointing  to  them  as  they stood  at  her 
side.  “And  the  King  said,  too,  ‘Who­
soever  shall  offend  one  of  these  little 
ones it is better for  him  that a millstone 
were hanged about his neck, and he were 
cast  into  the  sea.’  The  King  doesn’t 
wish any haim to come to his  little ones, 
in any way—you remember that ?” 
“Yes’m,” replied  Nat,  absently.
“Well, then,”  continued  Mrs. Tracey, 
driving the concluding nail  into  her  ar­
gument,  ‘ if  any bad, wicked men should 
come here to-night,  and try to hurt me or 
these little ones that  belong to the King, 
you would help us,  wouldn’t  you?”

She  waited  anxiously  for  the  reply. 
Nat looked at her vaguely  for a moment, 
and  then  his  eyes  wandered  aimlessly 
around the room, and  then  back to  her. 
Finally he said, quietly :
“The King sent me.  I’ll obey orders.” 
How  far  he  understood  she  did  not 
know,  and all her  effort  could  draw out 
no more definite reply,  and  with that she 
was obliged to be content.  As  the even­
ing  grew  late  she  provided  her  guest 
with  a  sleeping-place  in  an  adjoining 
room,  by  throwing a few  quilts  on  the 
floor—for  Nat  would  sleep  nowhere 
else—and  then  she  lay  dewn,  without 
undressing, on a bed beside her children. 
But  it  was a long  time  before  slumber 
visited her troubled spirit.
As  for  Nat,  no  thought  of  worry or 
anxiety for the future was on  his  mind, 
and he “slept the sleep of  the  just”  and 
his dreams  were  peaceful.  But  after a 
time those dreams became  disturbed and 
discordant—a voice  seemed to be calling 
to him from  his  King, and  presently he 
awakened with a start.
“N at!  help!  Nat,  the  King  wants 
you I”  came in smothered tones from the 
other room.
In an instant he  sprang  lightly to  his 
feet,  and  grasping  his  stick  he  strode 
forward and opened the door.  A fearful 
struggle met his view as he entered.  Two 
rough, evil-looking men were  there—one 
holding Mrs. Tracey, the  other  the chil­
dren—and  the  villains  were  evidently 
trying to bind and gag their victims.  As 
Nat  witnessed  the  scene  his  tall  form 
seemed to tower yet higher, and a strange, 
fierce  light  to  gleamed  from  his  eyes. 
“I belong to the King !” he thundered. 
How dare  you  offend his  little ones ?” 
At  this  unexpected  intrusion,  one of 
the  burglars  released  his  hold  of  Mrs. 
Tracy and sprang  forward  with an oath 
to meet him.  But it was  in  vain.  The 
great stick was  whirled  in  the  air, and 
then came down with fearful force on the 
head of  the  villain, and  he  sank  sense­
less to the floor.  The remaining burglar 
hastened to his comrade’s assistance,  but 
he  was  like a child  in  the  hands  of  a 
giant,  and  in  a  moment  he,  too,  was 
helpless  and  motionless.  Nat  stooped 
and  drew  the  two  insensible  forms to­
ward him.
“Now bring them ropes, and  I’ll  hang 
a—”   He  paused  aud  left  the  sentence 
unfinished.  “But  there  ain’t  no  mill­
stones  ’bout  here  to  hang ’round  their 
necks!”  he  added,  looking  up  bewil­
dered.  “Do  you  b’lieve  a  big  rock 
would do ?  1 must obey orders.”
“No, I don’t believe a rock would da,” 
replied  Mrs. Tracey, smiling  in  spite of 
her alarm.  “But  they will be coming to 
presently;  I  would  just tie  their  hands 
and feet and  leave them until morning.” 
“Yes’m, so I will.  The  King  said tie 
em  hand  and  foot—that’s  his  orders. 
They  won’t  offend  his  little  ones  any 
more,”  and  in a few  minutes  Nat  had 
them safely secured.
I need not tell  of  the  night  that  fol­
lowed, of  how Nat kept  sleepless  guard 
over  his  captives,  and  of  how,  when 
morning came and help came with it, the 
burglars were safely lodged in the county 
jail.  All  that  is  easily surmised.  But 
at last Nat  was a hero—not  only  in  his 
own eyes, but in  the  eyes of  all  others. 
He bore his honors meekly and  with dig­
nity, as a right  belonging to a servant of 
the  King.  He  accepted  the  numerous 
congratulations  and hand-shakings, won­
dering,  perhaps  what  it  all meant,  and 
replying to  the  questions  heaped  upon 
him with the  simple  statement:  “I  just 
obeyed  orders.”  Nothing,  however, 
could  induce  him to  accept  any reward 
for  his  services.  The  royal  command 
was  to  take  no  bread, no  money in his 
purse,  and he would  not.
But Nat  did not lack for friends  after 
that.  He  still  continued his wandering, 
and,  as  the  story  spread,  homes  and 
hearts  were  open  to  him  everywhere. 
But it was at Tracey’s  that  he was more 
especially  welcomed,  and  as  the  years 
came and  went it was  noticed  that  his 
visits  became  more  frequent  and  his 
stays more prolonged.  Indeed,  as Tracey 
expresses it :
“He’ll get his orders to come  here  an’ 
die  yet,  I  reckon;  an’  he’s  welcome  to 
all the  care we can give him.  An’ I just 
believe that away up in that  other world 
we read about,  he’ll  be  as  clear-headed 
as anybody,  and in genuine  earnest  will 
forever be ‘on business  for  the  King.’ ” 

E r sk in e  M.  H a m ilto n.

W hen  H e  C eased  Talking.

Customer—What  an  incessant  talker 
Merchant—Yes—but he’s always ready 

that sandy-haired clerk of  yours is !
to shut up at night.

The  interest  on  the  public debt now 
amounts to sixty-nine  cents  per head of 
our population per  annum.  Taking  the 
average  family  to  be  five  persons, this 
makes a total annual charge on each head 
of  a household of  S3.45.

A d van tages 

and  D isad van tages  o f 

Bazaar Stores.

From  th e A m erican A nalyst.

There has been a tendency in our large 
cities, of  recent  years,  to  the  establish­
ment  of  large  retail  stores  in  which 
various  branches of  retail trade, hereto­
fore  confined  to  separate  stores,  have 
been united under one roof  and  manage­
ment, though, perhaps,  divided  into  de­
partments.  There can  be  no  doubt  of 
the  couvenience  of  such  an  establish­
ment so  far as  it  obviates  the  necessity 
of visiting many stores in search of  a list 
of articles one  wishes to purchase, but it 
does  not  really save  time, because  each 
purchase  in  such a store  occupies  fully 
as  much  time  as  it  would  in  several 
stores.  The only question we propose to 
consider, however,  is  that  two-fold  one 
in  which  the  consumer  is  interested— 
quality and price.  Both of  these  points 
open  a wide  field for  consideration  and 
lead  on  to  other  connected,  though at 
first  sight  apparently  irrelevant,  sub­
jects.  As to quality much depends upon 
the  knowledge  and  experience  of  the 
buyer for each particular department and 
upon  the  consideration  given  to  main­
taining  the  reputation of  the house  for 
keeping the  best  goods.  Unfortunately, 
the public has  been  taught to look  upon 
these bazaars as places where everything 
can  be  bought  very cheap;  and as  some 
goods that are really of  superior  quality 
cannot  be  bought  at  less  than  regular 
prices,  this  public  expectation  compels 
the proprietor of  the  bazaar to lower the 
quality  of  his  goods.  As  the  price  at 
which they are sold is so closely connect­
ed with the question of  quality and puri­
ty, we  must  stop for a moment and  look 
into some of the methods of  these  stores 
and  their  effect  upon  the  methods  of 
other  establishments  in  similar  busi­
ness. 
It will  be  seen  at  once  tnat  the 
most  powerful  lever of  trade,  competi­
tion,  largely  influences  here, not  only in 
the business of other bazaars,  but also in 
all stores  selling  any goods  dealt in  by 
the  bazaars.  The  general  idea held  out 
to the  public is  that as  the  bazaars  are 
large buyers and  make  rapid sales  they 
can  manage  to  pay their  enormous  ex­
penses by the  large  aggregate of  small 
profits.  This, however,  is only  true to a 
limited  extent.  There  are  many staple 
goods  on  which  the  profit, even  to  the 
heaviest  purchasers, is  very  small,  and 
as no one  can afford to retail goods with­
out  profit,  it  goes  without  saying  that 
there must  be  some  way out  of  such  a 
dilemma.  This  is  accomplished  by  an 
ingenious system of  making a paying ad­
vertisement out of what otherwise would 
be a heavy  loss.  Goods, with  the  prices 
of  which the public  generally is perfect­
ly  familiar,  are  sold  at a loss,  but  this 
loss  is  carefully limited.  For  instance, 
a certain  magazine can  be bought in one 
of  these bazaars at three  cents  less  per 
copy  than its  cost at  the best  trade dis­
count.  Here the  loss is  limited  by the 
firm selling only five hundred copies, and 
thus  losing only fifteen  dollars.  After 
these five hundrsd copies are sold,  though 
thousands more might  be disposed of,  no 
more are offered, but tbe  reason for this, 
though  obvious, is  not  explained to  the 
customer. 
Iu  this  way  the  firm  at  a 
trilling  cost of  fifteen  dollars  has  im­
pressed  the  public with  the  idea  that 
owing to the  magnitude of  the  business 
done they can undersell every other store 
by 10 per  cent.  As  this  does  not  pay 
when  done very often,  and as the  lesson 
to  be effective  has to be  repeated  daily, 
other  means  must  be  resorted  to, and 
here is  precisely where  the  consumer is 
innocently helping to injure himself.  Job 
lots  and  auction  goods  aid  to a limited 
extent to fill the gap, but where this can­
not be done resort must be had to inferior 
goods, which frequently look just as well, 
if not better than the superior goods.  On 
such  goods  as  these  the  bazaar  makes 
enormous profits and the consumer meets 
with a corresponding loss.  Again,  while 
the inuocent purchasers have been taught 
that these bazaars sell  goods cheap, they 
will  sooner or later  learn  that on goods, 
the prices of  which are  not so  generally 
known, or  where the  value  is  concealed 
or  depends  upon  the  reliability  and 
honesty  of  the  house  selling  him,  this 
apparent  cheapness  is  a  myth and  the 
goods  seld  are  really very dear.  There 
is  also  a  further  evil  consequent  upon 
this  system, the  effect  on  other  dealers 
in the  same  line,  who,  in  order  to  hold 
their  customers, have  to  cheapen  their 
goods, which, as  the  manufacturer  will 
not permit himself to  be  r loser, invaria­
bly reacts on the  consumer.  A  good ex­
ample  of  this  injurious  result  may  be 
seen in the brush business.  Only a short 
time  ago the  brushes  sold  in house  fur­
nishing  stores  and  bazaars  were  well 
made by well  paid  free  labor, now, it is 
impossible for a manufacturer employing 
free labor to sell to these retailers.  Only 
prison-made brushes can compete for this 
custom.  Thus a large number of  honest 
working  people  are  seriously  injured. 
Another  evil  effect of  the  bazaars  that 
may be referred to here  has  shown itself 
in  the collar  business.  Sharp  competi­
tion  has so depressed  this  industry that 
those firms who  dealt in imported collars 
were  compelled  to  withdraw,  and  only 
domestic  manufacturers  who  dealt  in 
inferior  goods, collars  made with  linen 
outside,  filled with  muslin,  could  main­
tain  themselves.  As  soon  as  they  had 
ridden  themselves  of  the  competition, 
they  immediately resorted  to a combina­
tion of  the  few manufacturers  left  and 
put up  prices,  secure in  refusing to  sell 
goods to any retailer who would  not sign 
an  iniquitous  agreement  to  sell  these 
goods  at  the  highest prices.  Of  course 
this will  last only until a better  grade of 
collar can  be  imported  again, but  until 
then the consumer is ma<Je to suffer.  No 
doubt this trouble extends to many other 
branches of trade.
What is the best remedy?  Is centraliza­
tion alone  to  blame?  How  much  blame 
rests on the  consumer?

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

IN  “ STATU  QUO.”

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

Williams & Woodburn have established 
a branch  clothing  and  furnishing goods 
store at Manistee under the  management 
of  John Y.  Yansyckle.

II.  E.  and  H. R. Lattin, who  recently 
purchased the general stock of J. Welch, 
at  Scottville,  have  added a line*of  hard­
ware.  Foster,  Stevens &  Co.  furnished 
the stock, A. D. Baker placing the order.

AROUND THE  STATE.

Newago—E. D. Dempster is elosin 

out

his  grocery stock.

a line of  dry goods.

Nunica—Jubb & Needham  have added 

In  Other  W ords,  It  is  R eady  for  the 

Grave.

A  reporter of  T i ie   T r a d e s m a n ,  while 
tarrying  at  the wholesale  grocery  house 
of  Lemon,  Hoops  & Peters  last evening, 
accosted Mr.  Lemon as  follows:

“Mr.  Lemon, there  are  many  conflict­
ing rumors relative  to the present condi­
tion of  the  Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ 
Association.  Will  you  be  kind  enough 
to  tell  me  something  of 
its  present 
status?”

“The Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ As­
sociation is to-day in statu (juo, the active 
operation of same being postponed some­
what indefinitely.”

“What  causes  have  lead  to this  post­

Wakelee—J. E. DeCue  has engaged  in 

ponement?”

TheMichiganTradesman

the  country,  have  nothing  so  much  to 
fear as censure which may reach his ears.

Ostinai Orgran of M ichigan Business Men’s  Association.

A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Retail Trade of the Woliferine State.

E. A. STOWE  &  BRO.,  P roprietors.

Subt cription Price, One Dollar per year. 
Advertising Rates made known on application.

Entered  at  the  Grand  Rapids  Post  Office.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1889.

SAVING  THE  SEAL  FISHERIES.
The correspondence  with  the  British 
government  about  the  rights  of  Can­
adians  to  take  seals  in Alaskan waters 
lias been transmitted to the Senate by the 
State  Department.  Although it extends 
over several  years,  it shows no  progress 
toward a settlement  of  the  question,  the 
Department merely showing a reasonable 
desire to avoid irritating severities in the 
enforcement of  our rights, while waiting 
for a decision of  the case  from the court 
to which the cases  had  been  taken. 
In 
one  respect  there  has  been  progress. 
Acting upon a suggestion made by Joseph 
Wharton, Mr. Bayard  has  opened  nego­
tiations  for  an  international agreement 
to establish  a  close  season  in  the  seal 
fisheries everywhere, so that  the  mother 
seals  may not  be  killed  at  the  time of 
gestation  and  suckling  their  young. 
Only  the  governments  of  Sweden  and 
Norway have  shown  any  reluctance  to 
enter  into 
this  agreement,  which  is 
needed to  prevent  the  entire  extinction 
of  the seal and of  the polar  people, who 
depend on it for food and clothing.  The 
terras of  the compact are still  under dis­
cussion, and there is some reason to hope 
that the fairness of  the  proposal and the 
general  assent  of  civilized  nations to it 
will  secure  the  adhesion  even  of  the 
Scandinavian  countries.'

In  the  course of  the  correspondence, 
England  recalls the fact that the United 
States in 1822  refused  to  assent  to  the 
Russian  claim  that  Behring’s Sea was a 
land-locked  body of  water,  from  which 
the ships of  other  nationalities might be 
excluded.  But  this  ground  was  not 
maintained  consistently  by later  Secre­
taries of State,  and when the sovereignty 
of  Alaska  passed  to  us, Russia  was  as 
effectively  in  possession  of  the  control 
of  Behring’s  Sea  as  of  the  White  Sea. 
Nor would our  concession of  a Canadian 
right  to  fish  for  cod  and  mackerel  in 
those waters carry with it a right to take 
seals.  The  seal  is  not a fish,  although 
we  speak of  seal  fisheries. 
It is an am­
phibious mammal which  has  its  habitat 
on  the  land,  and  resorts  to  the  water 
only to find its food.  So little is it dom­
iciled  in  the  water  that  the  young  of 
many  species  have  to be driven to it by 
their  parents,  and  taught  to  swim  by 
them.  These  seals in  Behring’s Sea be­
long to the adjacent  coasts  and  islands, 
which are United States  territory.  And 
while  the  natives of  those  northern  re­
gions are able to take them  in  the  open 
sea by harpooning, the white fishermen— 
Canadian  and  American—take and  kill 
them either on land or on  ice-floes, more 
commonly on  the  former. 
In  fact,  the 
business  could  not  be carried on to any 
advantage by the Canadians if  they were 
bound not to land on  our  territory or to 
come  within  the  three-mile  limit;  and 
their  presence  in  Behring’s  Sea is pre­
sumptive evidence that they are poachers

JAPANESE  PROGRESSION.

Japan at last is to have a constitutional 
government. 
It  is  true  that  the  new 
Constitution,  proclaimed  last week,  like 
the French Charter of  1814, is purely the 
apt of  the reigning  sovereign,  and might 
be revoked by the same  authority at any 
time.  But it is valuable  as  the  expres­
sion of  a wish to bring  the  empire  still 
more  directly into  conformity  with  the 
methods of Western civilization,  and  to 
take his people into  council  with him a 
regards  the  needs  of  the  country.  Of 
course,  the  Mikado  has  nothing to fear 
from  any  change  of  governmental 
method.  The  attachment of  his  people 
to his person and his rule  is  too  deeply 
rooted for that.  But it is uncertain  how 
it will affect  the  fortunes of  the  power­
ful bureaucracy, which has controlled the 
country ever since the  retirement of  the 
Shogun and the disbanding of  the Clans 
1« many  respects  this  bureaucracy  has 
managed affairs badly, and of  late  year 
there  has  been a growing  alienation  of 
the educated  classes  in  consequence  of 
this.  Severe  and  repressive  measures 
have been taken to coerce its critics  into 
silence, and more than  one  sincere  and 
patriotic Japanese  has seen the inside of 
a prison  because  he  would  not  keep 
silence.  With  a  freely  chosen  Parlia­
ment meeting in Tokio, and  the  right of 
free speech and of  the press guaranteed, 
this discontent  is  sure to find utterance. 
It is true  that  the  new  Parliament will 
not  hold  the  strings  of  the  national 
purse, and the  ministry will  not  be  re­
sponsible to it for their  policy.  But the 
moral effect of  free discussion cannot but 
be  felt  in  government  circles, however 
careful  the  bureaucracy may be to min­
imize the expression of  discontent.  And 
then  the  ministers  of  a  despotic  sov­
ereign,  when they fail to do their duty by

REQUIESCAT  IN  PACE.

The interview with Samuel M. Lemon, 
published  in  another  column,  clearly 
sets  forth  the  status  of  the  Michigan 
Wholesale Grocers’ Association. 
It is as 
dead  as  though  it  had  been  buried a 
dozen  years and  no  amount of  agitation 
will be able to bring it to life  again.  On 
some accounts,  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  regrets 
its  early  demise,  as  the  organization 
could  have  been  made  the  vehicle  of 
great good to  the  retail, as  well  as  the 
wholesale, trade.  As it was constituted, 
however,  it could never  have succeeded, 
as it possessed conflicting elements which 
could  never  have  been  reconciled,  but 
would have  been a perpetual  menace  to 
the well being of  the retail trade.  These 
shortcomings  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   forcibly 
pointed out  last  December, and sounded 
the  alarm  in time for the Association to 
have eliminated the evil  features.-  That 
they did not  act  on  T h e   T r a d e s m a n ’s 
friendly advice, is due the non-success of 
their undertaking.

NOW  IS THE ACCEPTED  TIME.
The  business  men  of  Michigan  have 
claimed  for  5rears  that  they  have  been 
paying too high rates of insurance, satis­
factory proof  of  which  is  shown by the 
annual  reports  of  the  companies  to the 
Insurance  Commissioner.  The business 
men now have  an  opportunity to consti­
tute  themselves  their  own  insurers, by 
organizing a company of  their  own, car­
rying their own risks and dividing among 
themselves the profits annually disbursed 
to  the  capitalists of  the  Eastern  States 
and  Europe. 
If  the  business  men  are 
sincere  in  their  professions,  they  will 
embrace the plan  proposed  and  carry it 
nto  successful  operation. 
they  do 
not improve the opportunity, they should 
forever  after  hold  their  peace and pay 
any  rates  the  companies  may  impose 
without a murmur.

If 

In Maryland  the  White  Cap  business 
seems  to  have  degenerated  into  a  Ku- 
Klux organization to annoy and terrorize 
the colored  people of  the  eastern  coun­
ties of  the  State.  This is  just  the  out­
come we might have  expected  from this 
mischievous  and  quite  unnecessary  at­
tempt  to  supplement  the  courts by pri­
vate and irresponsible organizations.

P urely  Personal.

O. A. Ball struck  Grand  Rapids twen­

ty-five  years ago to-day.

H. F. Miner and wife, of  Lake Odessa, 
attended the annual ball of  the traveling 
men  last Friday evening.

C.  H.  Little,  of  the  Michigan  Dairy 
Salt Co., at East Saginaw, was  in  town a 
couple of  days last week.

W. X. Fuller, President  of  the  Fuller 
&  Stowe  Company, has  been  called  to 
Buffalo by the death of  his mother.

The  handsome  member of  the  firm of 
Brown Bros., the Charlotte  clothiers,  at­
tended the traveling men’s ball  last  Fri­
day evening.

Walter  and  Geo. Keeney,  formerly of 
this  city, have closed  out  their  grocery 
business at San Diego, Cal., and  gone  to 
Seattle, Wash.  Ter.

J. R. Harrison  has  closed  out his bus­
iness here and  taken the management of 
the  Converse  general  store—formerly 
known as the Clay store—at Newaygo.

C. C.  Philbrick, of  the firm of  Foster, 
Stevens  &  Co., leaves  to-day  for a visit 
to  New York and Washington  and a trip 
through  the  South.  He expects  to  be 
absent about six weeks.

Thos. S. Freeman  received  a  proposi­
tion  from  an  alleged  dealer in counter­
feit money, one  day last week.  The ad­
dress  given  by the  rogue—who is prob 
ably  a  “saw-dust  swindler”—is  F.  B. 
Fowler, Broadalbin, Fulton county, N. Y.
Geo. P. Gifford, Jr., for the  past  three 
years  manager of  the  provision  depart­
ment  of  Hawkins  & Perry, has  severed 
his connection  with that house to accept 
a  position  as  travelsng  salesman  for 
Armour & Co.  He will  cover  the  trade 
of  Western  Michigan,  while  F. E. Hig­
gins  will  confine  his  attention  to  the 
trade of the Eastern portion of the State.

The Fifth Annual Ball.

The  fifth  annual  social  party  of  the 
Grand Rapids  Traveling  Men’s Associa­
tion, which was held at the  Ionia  street 
armory last  Friday evening, was well at­
tended and proved to be  one of  the most 
pleasant  events—some  asserted  that  it 
eclipsed  all  previous  attempts  of  the 
kind—ever  given under  the  auspices of 
th3 traveling  men.  Supper  was  served 
in Elks’ hall, directly under  the dancing 
hall, which  was a decided  improvement 
over  putting  on  outside  garments  and 
going a block or two for refreshments.

RECEIPTS.  *

Like  most  of  the  winter  entertain­
ments  of  the  boys,  the  party- failed  to 
quite pay expenses, the financial showing 
being as follows :
Admission  tickets............................. .........$ 81.00
Supper tickets.................................... .........  88.30
Total.............................................. .........1169.50
Rent of Armorv hall......................... ........9 25.00
Music................................................... .........  24.00
Printing"............................................. .........  24.00
Rent Elk’s  hall................................... ........  10.00
Servant................................................ ........  2.00
Postage...............   .............................. ........  5.00
Woman’s Exchange........................... ........  93.00
Total.............................................. ........*183.00
Deficit..........................................
........* 13.50

DISBURSEMENTS.

the harness business.

Croswell—Howard  &  West  have  as­

signed their drug stock.

Goodrich—D. M. Scriver  has  sold  his 

general stock to Milton Hill.

Plymouth—J. R.  Rauch succeeds H. C. 

Bennett in the  grocery business.

Jackson—E. G. Greene succeeds Greene 

& Rulison in the clothing business.

Albion—Joseph W. Clark, of  the  mill­

ing firm of  Amsden & Clark, is dead.

Paw Paw—Shepard & Buskirk succeed 

Aaron Thompson in the meat business.

Sault Ste. Marie—P. Cameron succeeds 
Cameron & Gardner in the meat business
Jonesville—W. J. Baxter  is  succeeded 
in the clothing  business by E. B.  Thorp.
Cadillac—Klinge  &  McCartney  have 
opened  a  merchant  tailoring  establish­
ment.

Battle  Creek—Pease  &  Mix  succeed 
E. Pfander in the bakery and  restaurant 
business.

Saranac—Wm.  Mercer  succeeds  Wm. 
Mercer & Son in the  banking  and  grain 
business.

Jackson—Gallup,  Luther  &  Co.  suc­
ceeded Gallup  &  Luther in the furniture 
business.

Colon—J.  E.  Chi vers  &  Co. 
signed their  drug  and  jewelry 
Joseph Farrand.

have  as- 
stock  to

Way land—John  C.  Branch  succeeds 
Branch  &  Albright  in  the  grocery- and 
crockery business.

East Jordan—S.  B.  Calkins  has  pur­
chased Martin’s interest in the drug store 
of  F. C. Warne & Co.

Freeport—John  Yarger  gave  chattel 
mortgages on his  general  stock,  and  as­
signed to Will Moore.

Paw Paw—H. W. Showerman succeeds 
H.  Oppenheim in the boot  and  shoe and 
furnishing goods business.
Constantine—C.  H. Felt has sold a half 
interest in his drug stock to Geo. II. Felt, 
late of Washington, D. C.

Blissfield—J.  Gauntlett,  Jr.,  has  re­
tired  from  the  general  merchandising 
firm of  J. Gauntlett «Si Son.

Fostoria—The  elevator  of  Foster  & 
Borsen  burned  last  Wednesday  night. 
Loss, $6,000;  insured  for §3,500.

Overisel—Dangremond  &  Nyerk  are 
moving their branch hardware store from 
Hamilton to their main  store here.

Gilbert—Andrew Carlson, formerly en­
gaged in general  trade  here, will  open  a 
grocery store  at  Manistee about  April 1.
East Saugatuck—Mrs. G. F. Gretzinger 
has  concluded  to  close  out  the general 
stock  left  on  her hands by the death of 
her husband.

Harbor Springs—W. B. Smith has pur­
chased a  half  interest  in  the  hardware 
stock of  C. H. Eaton.  The new firm will 
be known as C. H. Eaton «& Co.

Edwardsburg—C.  N.  Lewis,  formerly 
engaged in the  harness  business at Pok- 
agon, has engaged in  the  same  business 
here.  His son  continues the business at 
Pokagon.

Muskegon—C. C. Moulton has removed 
his  produce and  commission  business to 
the  corner of  Western and  Terrace  ave­
nues, using  the  store  formerly occupied 
by the Van Buren Furniture Co.

Laingsburg—Samuel  Steers  has  sold 
his  interest  in  the  hardware  firm  of 
Steers  &  Lee  to  his  partner, J. F. Lee, 
who will continue the business at the old 
stand.  Mr. Steers will  go  South for his 
health.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Muskegon  —  Gray  Brothers  succeed 
F. G. Gray in the planing  mill  business.
Traverse City—Caselberg & Milloy, late 
of  Reed City, have opened a cigar factory 
here.

Muskegon—J»W. Strong succeeds F. H. 
Holbrook <fc Co.  in the coal, wood  and oil 
business.

INDIANA  ITEMS.

Wolcottville—Corwin F. Miller has en­
gaged in the  drug  business,  purchasing 
his stock in Chicago.

Advance—J. H. Sublette & Co. succeed 

J.  H. McGee inthe drug business.

Bicknell—J.  M.  Freeman  has  bought 
the drug  stock  belonging  to the McLinn 
estate.

Greenfield—The  American  Manufac­
turing Co. has been  incorporated,  with a 
capital stock of  $100,000.

Lafayette—Myron  E.  Sears  succeeds 
Beardsley & Sears in  the  hardware bus­
iness.

Chas. D. Richardson takes the place on 
the road with Hugo Schneider & Co. made 
vacant  by  the  resignation  of  Fred  W. 
Powers.  He  will  cover  the  same  ter­
ritory as Mr. Powers.

and I,  personally, feel sorry that we were 
not allowed  time to prove the  beneficent 
results of the organization.”

“Would it not have been better for the 
movement if  you had  let the retail trade 
more into  your confidence ?”

“I have uo  doubt it would  have  been 
better, and I am sure  the  wholesale gro­
cers of  Michigan  had  no  secrets  which 
they desired withheld  from the retailers, 
and had both  organizations  met in  joint 
session from time  to time, better  results 
might have been accomplished.”

Artemas  Ward  and  John  T. Burgess 
have incorporated the  Philadelphia  Gro­
cer  and  the  Market  Journal  in a single 
paper,  under  the  title  of  the  National 
Grocer.  The  new  paper  is issued from 
New  York  and is an improvement  over 
its predecessors, good as they were.  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  expects to see  the  National 
Grocer 
take  a  commanding  position 
amon_, trade  journals.

Jno.  R.  Dougherty  & Co.  have placed a 

new safe in their bank at Lyons.

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED,  ETC.

A dvertisem ents w ill be inserted  under  th is  head for 
tw o  cents  a   word  th e  first  insertion  an d   one cent a 
word  fo r  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
m ent tak en  fo r less th an  25 cents.  Advance  paym ent.

FO R SALE.

379

a  good business;  no  com petition;  stock  an d   fix­
tu res w ill  invoice  $2.000;  p ro p rieto r  h as  o th er  busi­
ness.  Addresss, C. E. Blakely, M ancelona, Mich. 

f 'O R   SALE—DRUG-  STORE  IN  FIFE  LAKE  DOING 
■   GOOD  CHANCE  TO  GO  INTO  TRADE—FOR 

sale, a t a   bargain,  a   stock  of  boots,  shoes  and 
gent’s furn ish in g  goods, and good w ill of  th e  business, 
a t 505 South D ivision St.  Enquire  of  Kindge,  Bertsch 
& Co., 12,14 and 16 Pearl St., G rand Rapids._______382

Fo r   s a l e —a t  a  b a r g a in ,  t h e   o l d e s t   a n d

best established m eat m arke  in th e city,  cen tral­
ly  located  and  doing  a   good  pay in g   business,  w ith 
slau g h ter house, utensils, etc.  Also one new and  com­
plete set of  b utcher’s  tools,  cheap,  if  sold  inside  of 
th irty  days.  F or term s and p articu lars apply to   Wm. 
H enry & Son, 8 W W estern ave.,M uskegon, Mich.  362

F o r  s a l e —a   w e l l -s e l e c t e d   s t o c k   o f   g r o -

ceries, doing a  good business.  One of th e  best  lo­
cations in th e  city.  Owner wishes to retire  from  trade. 
W ill lease store fo r term   of  years.  Address  No.  364, 
care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

_____________364

 

373

376

381

lOOD  CHANCE—FOR  SALE—THE  ENTIRE  STOCK 
\JT  of goods of a  well-established business.  The store 
to   ren t,  also  th e  house;  well  adapted  fo r  hetel,  if 
desired;  a  creditable  custom   has been enjeyed by the 
ow ner, w ho will be pleased to  im p a rt fu rth e r inform a­
tio n  a t th e place, 137 W est Bridge street. G rand Rapids, 
Mich.  M. Bootz. 

IX)R SALE—A GENERAL STOCK OF  MERCHANDISE;

1  will invoice $ 10.000. including fixtures;  business of 
1888 was over $40,000;  located  in  th riv in g  tow n o f 1,500 
in  C entral  M ichigan;  buildings  fo r  sale  o r  ren t;  to 
p arties  purchasing,  we  will  give  our  trad e,  w hich 
am ounts to  from  $600 to $1,000 p er m onth;  reasons for 
selling,  o th er  business.  Address  M,  care  M ichigan 
Tradesm an. 

th e  m ost p leasan t streets “ on  th e   hill.”  W ill ex 
change for stock in any good in stitu tio n .  Address 286 
care Mich gan  Tradesm an. 

FOR  SALE—GOOD  RESIDENCE  LOT  ON  ONE  OF 
Fo r   s a l e —f u l l   s e t   o f   t in n e r s ’  t o o l s,  s a f e

show  cases  an d   hardw are  fixtures—all  in   good 

condition and cheap fo r cash.  W ill sell one o r all. 
V ander Veen, 122 Monroe street, G rand  Rapids. 
XTOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  CLOTHING  AND  GENTS 
r
furn ish in g  goods, located in a  good  tow n  of  1,300 
people in southern M ichigan.  B ut one  o th er  place  in 
tow n handles clothing  F o r p articu lars address  “ C &■ 
T,” care M ichigan  Tradesm an.  _________________ 367

______________286

Fo r   s a l *—s t o c k   o f   d r y   g o o d s,  c l o t h in g ,

boots and shoes, in live tow n in C entral M ichigan ; 
will  invoice  ab o u t  $7,500,  fixtures  included;  trad e of 
1888 ab o u t $22.000;  will ren t o r  sell building;  o u r trad e 
will be  given  to   buyer;  reasons,  too  m uch  business. 
Address B. care M ichigan  Tradesm an.__________ 377
A  GRAND  OPPORTUNITY  AT  A  GREAT  BARGAIN 
J .A   —The stock,  store,  residence,  w arehouse,  grain 
and coal, a t Moscow, is offered fo r sale; th ere is m oney 
to be m ad e; one p a rtn e r has to go west and  th e   o th er 
lives eleawhere.  Address  E.  Childs  &  Co.,  H anover, 
Mich. 

Fo r   s a l e  — t h e   f l u s h in g   f o u n d r y ,  w it h

steam  power, w ithin e ig h t  rods  of  side  tra c k   of 
Toledo, Saginaw  & M ackinaw  R ailroad.  Splendid  lo­
cation, no incum brance.  Stock, plows and castings in­
cluded w ith shop and lots.  Reason fo r selling, age and 
ill health.  Jam es Sam m er, Flushing. Mich. 

kets; one in N orth M uskegon and one in Muskegon 
City.  Both in b est locations, and  doing  good  paying 
business.  W ill sell one o r both.  52  W estern  avenue, 
Muskegon. Mich. 

Fo r   s a l e   c h e a p —t w o   f ir s t  c l a s s  m e a t m a r -
Fo r  s a l e —b r i g h t , c l e a n  s t o c k  o f  g r o c e r ie s ,

crockery and glass-w are, in grow ing town  of  over 
1,200;  stock  and  fixtures  will  invoice  about  $2,500; 
business averages  $1,500 p er m onth;  store  building is 
one of th e finest  in  th e   S tate  fo r business and w ill be 
rented o r sold; reasons, o th er business needs o u r a tte n ­
tion.  Address A, care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

_______________  

363

375

374

378

WANT».

383

371

Mich. 

__________ 380

tw elve y ears’  ex­

8alesm anby a  young m an  of 

ticu lars address Adam Newell, B urnip’sC orners, 

WrANTED—REGISTERED  PHARMACIST.  FOR PAR- 
WANTED—POSITION  AS  MANAGER  OF  STORE  OR 

perience.  Address. A. R obertson. M artin, Mich. 
TXT ANTED—SITUATION  BY  DRUG CLERK 19 YEARS 
▼ ▼ 
old,  who  has  had  tw o  years7  experience;  can 
give best  of  referencs.  Address  380,  care  M ichigan 
Tradesm an, G rand  Rapids. 
XTTANTED—TO  EXCHANGE — PRODUCTIVE  REAL 
V f  estate in the  th riv in g  village o f Bailey on th e  C. 
& W. M. R ailw ay fo r house  and  lot  in  G rand  Rapids, 
w orth  ab o u t  $1,500.  Address,  D.  B.  Galen tine.  Cas- 
novia, Mich. 

is  open  fo r  engagem ent.  L arge  acquaintance 
w ith  g rocery  tra d e   in  M ichigan.  Address  Jackson, 
care M ichigan  Tradesm an. 

SITUATION WANTED—A  COMMERCIAL  TRAVELER 
WANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  READS 

th is  paper  to   give  th e  Sutliff coupon system  a 
tria l.  I t  will abolish yo u r pass  books,  do  aw ay  w ith 
all y o u r book-keeping, in  m any instances save you the 
expense o f one clerk, will b rin g  y o u r business down to 
a  cash basis and  save  you  a ll  th e   w orry and trouble 
th a t usually go w ith th e pass-book plan.  S ta rt th e 1st 
of th e m onth w ith th e  new  system  and  you  wjll never 
reg re t it.  H aving  tw o kinds, both  kinds  will be  sent 
by  addressing  (m entioning  th is  paper)  J.  H.  Sutliff, 
Albany, N. Y. 

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372

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Q A A   CASH  BUYS  MANUFACTURING  BU8I- 
$ 1
Z U v   ness p ay in g  100  p er  cent.  Best o f rea ­
so n s7 fo r  selling.  Address  Chas.  Kynoch,  St. Ignace, 
Mich. 
W" ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR 

Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System .  Send for 

sam ples.  E. A. Stowe &  Bro., G rand Rapids. 

214

228

NEW DEPARTURE.

We  take  pleasure 

in  announcing  to  the

trad e th a t w e have p u t in a full line of 

*

S y ru p s a n d

M olasses •

Which  we  offer at Bottom Prices.

Ml  Goods  Guaranteed  lo 

Give  Satisfaction.

N o  C h a rg e   for 

C a rta g e .

Telfer Spice 
7*. 
D ry   G oods I N otions,

STEKETEE&

JOBBERS  IN

.

83 Monroe  81.  and 10,12,14, IB 118 Fountain  8t.,

Grand. Rapids,  A fich»

S p rin g   L in e   of  P rin ts ,  S e e rs u c k e rs , 
T oile D u  N o rd ,  G in g h a m s,  H o sie ry  a n d  
W h ite   G oods J u s t  R eceiv ed .

STARK  A,

FRANKLIN VILLE  A. 

AMERICAN  A,
HOOKER,

GEORGIA  &  MARSAC, 

BURLAP,

P e e rto   Warp

------ AND-------

Geese  Feathers.

Product of Our F actory a t Fon du Lac, W is.

You can buy a better $3 Men’s Calf Shoe and other  grades  made  by  C.  M.  HENDERSON 
& CO. near your own door  than  other  manufacturers  can  offer,  and  this is true of our Cadies' 
Fine Don go la and Goat $3.50  Shoe  and  our  $3  Henderson  Frcneli  h id,  and  other  grades 
made  at  our  Dixon  Factory,  where  our  celebrate«!  “Red School Douse” shoes are produced. 
We have special advantages for manufacturing them and make them all on the theory of merit anil 
style.  “The proof of  the  pudding  is  in  chewing  the  siring," and if you will test them we shall 
highly appreciate it and  are sure it  will  prove  to  your  advantage.  Our heavier grades of goods 
made at our third factory  are also acknowledged to be une«iualed.

C.  M.  HENDERSON  &  CO.,  Chicago.

Fon du  Lae, Wis

F a c to rie s:
Divon,  111.

W illa r d   H. Ja m e s,
Salesman  for  the  I ower  .Peninsula. 

P. o.  MiUiress.

Chicago,  Hi. 

|Morton  House,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

W e  furnish  electrotypes  of  our  Specialties  to  Customers.  #

BLIVBN  &  A L IA N ,

Sole A gents for th e

The devil, Jack!  We’ve got a 

Shark.  He’ll do for

Bliven & Allyn.

“The success  of  any organization  de­
pends  largely,  in  my  estimation,  upon 
the  genuine  ability,  strength  and  un­
swerving courage of the executive.  And 
I  regret to say that the  Michigan Whole­
sale Grocers’ Association was lacking,  in 
a very-  large  measure,  in this  particular. 
In  perfecting  the  organization,  it  was 
deemed  prudent to  give  to  Detroit  the 
presidency,  that  city-  being  the  oldest 
and one of the two largest jobbing points 
in the  State,  and as  Mr. W. J. Gould  at­
tended  the first  meeting at Lansing,  and 
was  apparently  very much  interested  in 
the  movement,  the  honor  of  president 
was  conferred  upon  him;  but,  alas! we 
had  not  gone  far until  we  discovered 
our mistake—when it  was too late—real­
izing  most  unmistakably  that our  presi­
dent was wholly- unacquainted with even 
rudimentary  parliamentary-  rules;  and 
wholly unable,  for several  good  reasons 
unnecessary  to  mention, to  perform  the 
functions  peculiar  to  his  office.  He 
lacked  push  and  stamina;  he  was  too 
vacillating; apparently too insincere; and, 
fact,  did  not  possess  the  necessary! 
moral  courage;  nor  even  the  ability-  to 
inspire and  retain  confidence  among  his 
own  neighbors—the  jobbors  of  Detroit. 
This was the  character of  our executive, 
and  this was  the one  great reason  why 
the Association has not  been as  success- j 
ful as might have been desired.”

“What  action,  if  any,  will  probably 

next be taken?”

able to answer.”

“That question, for  my part, I am  un­

“Will it ever  be possible for  Michigan 

jobbers to secure cartage?”

“Most decidedly  so.  Nearly  all  large 
jobbing  points  throughout  the  country- 
make  a  charge  for  cartage and boxing, 
and  in  purchasing  goods  at  New York, 
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago 
and  other  points, we  have  invariably to 
pay cartage and consider it a just charge, 
always  adding  the  cartage  and  freight 
together as apart of the cost of the goods; 
and,  in  my  estimation,  retail  dealers 
ought to so look upon this, adding freight 
and cartage  together as a portion of  the 
common cost of their purchases.”

“What  other  points did  you  hope  to 

secure through your organization?”

“We hoped  by  honest  and  continued 
effort, well  directed,  to  weed  out  of  the 
retail  trade of  Michigan  many  irrespon­
sible,  illegitimate  and  dishonest  dealers 
and thus improve, in general, the  morale 
of the retail grocer of  the State;  because 
the  honest  retailers of  Michigan  would 
thereby  have been  placed  on  an  equal 
footing with  other  honest  men, who  in­
tend  to—and  in  fact  do—pay 100  cents 
on the dollar, and who  are in business to 
stay^not  by cutting  prices, nor  by  fail­
ing  in  business, nor  by changing  names 
of firms, nor by selling out to their wives 
and their  wives’  uncles and  aunts  every 
six  or  twelve  months.  We  say  such 
honest  merchants  who pay-  100 cents  on 
the dollar would have been allowed to do 
business legitimately and with profit and 
pleasure.  We, therefore, claim  that  the 
results of the workings of  the Wholesale 
Grocers’  Association would have been to 
good  legitimate  grocers  a  lasting  good

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WRITE  FOR  DISCOUNT.

F op  S a le   by

SAMUEL LYON.

DEALER IN

B eltin g
Hill Supplies

------AND------

Grand Rapids, M ich.

C e le b ra te d   “BIG  F .”  B ra n d   of O y ste rs
n Cans and  Bulk,  and  Large  Handlers  of  OCEAN  FISH ,  SHELL  CL A MS and  OYSTERS.
We make a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time.
We solicit consignments of all kinds of  Wild  Game,  such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, etc.
II. M. BLIVBN,  Manager. 

63 PEHRL 8TREET.  *

Ä8S0CIÄTIQN  DEPARTMENT.

Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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P resid en t—F rank W ells, L ansing.
F irst V ice-President—H. Cham bers, Cheboygan.
Second Vice-President—C. Strong, K alamazoo. 
Secretary—B. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids.
Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.
Executive Board—P resident; C. L. W hitney, M uskegon; 
F ran k   H am ilton, T raverse C ity;  N. B. Blain, Lowell; 
Chas. T. Bridgm an, F lin t;  H iram   DeLano,  A llegan; 
S ecretary 
Com m ittee  on  Insurance—Geo.  B.  Caldwell,  G reen­
ville;  W .S. Pow ers. Nashville;  Oren  Stone, Flint.
J *   Com m ittee on L egislation—S.  E-  P ark ill,  Owosso;  H. 
w   A. H ydorn, G rand Rapids;  H. H. Pope, Allegan.
Com m ittee on T rade Interests—Sm ith Barnes, Traverse 
C ity:  Geo. R. H oyt, E ast Saginaw ;  H. B. Fargo, Mus-
Com m ittee on T ransportation—Jam es Osborn,Owosso; 
O.  F.  Conklin,  Grand  Rapids;  C.  F.  Bock,  B attle
Com m ittee on B uilding and Loan Associations—Chaun- 
cey Strong, Kalamazoo; W ill E m m ert, E aton R apids; 
W . E. C rotty, Lansing.
Local S ecretary—P. J. Connell,  M uskegec.
Official Organ—Thk Michigan Tradesman.____________
The following- auxiliary associations  are op­
erating under  charters  granted by the Michi­
gan Business Men’s Association:

A  

No. 1—Traverse City B. M. A.

President, J. W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. H astings.

President, N. B. B lain; S ecretary. F ran k  T. King.

No. 2—Lowell  B. M. A. 
No. 3—Sturgis B .  M. A. 

P resident. H. S. Chn rc h ; Secreta ry , Wm. Jorn.
No. 4—Grand  Rapids  M.  A. 
P resident. E. J. H errick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
No.  5—Muskegon B. M. A. 

President, John A. Miller;  S ecretary. C. L. W hitney.

P resident. F. W. Bloat; Secretary. P. T. Baldwin. 

No. 6—Alba B. M. A. 

D   P resident, T. M. Sloan; Secreta ry , N. H. W idger.______

President, F. H. Thn rsto n ; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.

No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A.
No. 8—Eastport B. M. A.
-Lawrence B. M. A.
No. 9 - ________

President, H. M. M arshaU; S ecretary, J. H. Kelly.
No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M. A. 
P resident, W. J. C lark; Secretary. A. L. Thompson.

President. H. P. W hipple: Secretary. D. E.  W ynkoop. 
" 
P resident, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon._______

No. 11—Kingsley B. M. A.
No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
No. 13—Sherman B. M. A. 
P resident, H. B. S tnrtevant:  Secretary, W.  I

No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A. 
P resident, S. A. Howey: S ecretary, G. C. Havens.
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary , F. M. Chase.

No. 15- Boyne City B. M. A. 
No. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A. 
President, J. V. Crandall ;  S ecretary, W. Rasco.
No. 17—Plainwell B. M. A. 
President, E. A.  Owen, S ecretary, J. A. Sidle.
No  18—Owosso B. M. A. 

President, A lbert Todd; Secretary, S. Lam from .
' 
President, D. F. W atson; S ecretary, E. E. Chapel.

No.  1»—Ada B. M. A.

President, John F. H enry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.

No. 20—Aaugaknck B. ML A. 
No. 21—Way la* ft B. M. A. 

P resident, C. H. W harton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.
No. 22—Grand  Ledge B. M. A. 
No  23—Carson City B. ML A, 

P resident, A. B. Schum acher; Secretary, W.  R.  Clarke.

P resident, F. A. Rockafellow; S ecretary, C. G. Bailey.

No. 24—Morley  B. M. A.
No. 25—Palo B  M. A,

President, J. E. Thurkow ;  Secretary, W. H. Richm ond. 
— 
P resident. H. D. Pew; S ecretary, Chas. B. Johnson.

No. 26—Greenville  B. M. A. 

P resident. S. R. Stevens; S ecretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.

P resident, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L- N. Fisher.

No  27—Dorr B. M.  A.

President, A. J. Paddock ;  S ecretary, H. G. Dozer.

No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A 
No. 29—Freeport B. M. A.
N o .  3 0 —O c e a n a   B. M .  A .

P resident, W in. Moore;  S ecretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.

P resident, A. G. Avery;  Secretary, E. S. H onghtaling.

President, Thos. J. Green;  Secretary, A. G. Fleury.

N o . 3 1 —C h a r l o t t e   B .  M . A . 
No. 32—Coopersvilie B. M. A. 
N o .  3 3 —C h a r l e v o i x   B. M . A . 

President, W. G. Barnes;  Secretary, J. B. W atson.

P resident,  L.  D.  Bartholom ew ;  S ecretary. R. W. Kane.

N o .  3 4 —S a r a n a c   B. M . A .

P resident, H. T. Johnson;  Secretary , P . T. W illiam s.

N o .  3 5 —B e ï l a i r e   B . M . A .

*Gresident, H. M. H em street; S ecretary,C. E. Pensm ore.

P resident, O. F. Jackson;  S ecretary, John  M. Everden.

N o . 3 6 — I t h a c a   B .  M . A .

N o . 3 7 —B a t t l e  C r e e k   B . M . A . 

P resident,  Chas. F- Bock;  S ecretary,  E. W, Moore.

No. 3 8—Scott vi He B. M. A. 

P resident, H. E. Svmons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins.

N o .  3 9   B u r r  O a k   B . M . A . 

P resident, W. S. W ilier; S ecretary,  F. W. Sheldon.

P resident, C. T. H artson ; Secretary, W ill Em m ert.

N o .  4 0 —K a tu n   R a p i d s   B . M . A . 
No. 41—Breckenridge  B. M. A. 
P resid en t.C   H. Howd;  Secretary. L. W aggoner.

P resident. Jos. G erber:  Secretary  C. J. Rathbun.

N o .  * 2 — F r e m o n t  B. M .  A . 
No. 43—Tnstin B. M. A.

President, F rank J. Luick;  Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom.

P resident, E. B. M artin; Secretary, W. H. Sm ith.

P resident, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Hallad ay.

No. 44—Reed City H. M. A. 
No. 45—Hoytville B. M.  A.
No. 46—Leslie B. M. A. 
No. 47—Flint M. U.

President, Wm. H utchins; Secretary, B. M. Gonld. 

P resident, W. C. Pierce;  Secretary, W. H. Graham .

No. 48—Hubbard s ton B. M. A. 
President, Boyd R edner; Secretary, W, J. Tabor.

President,  A.  W enzell ; Secretary. F rank Smith.

No. 49—Leroy  B  M. A. 
No. 50—Manistee B. M. A. 

P resident, A. O. W heeler; Secretary,C.  Grannie.
No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M.  A. 
No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A. 

President. L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.

President, F rank Phelps; Secretary, John H. York.

President, C. F. H ankey; Secretary. A. C. Bowman.

President, A. S. Kedzie;  Secretary, F. D. Vos.
No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A. 
No. 54—Douglas B. M. A.
No.  55—Peteskey  B. M. A. 
No. 56—Bangor  B.  M.  A. 
>o. 57—Rockford  B. M. A. 
No. 58—Fife Lake B. M. A. 
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A. 

P resident. L. S- W alter; S ecretali ,C.<Ì  Blakely.

President, Wm. G. Tefft: Secretary. E. B. Lapham.

P resident, N. W. D rake;  Secretary, Geo. Chapm an.

P resident F. S. Raym ond : S ecretary, A. J. Capen.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A. 
President, H. E. Hogan ; S ecretary, S. E. N eihardt.

President, V. E. Manley ; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.

No. 61—Hartford  B. M. A. 
No  62—East Saginaw M. A. 

P resident, Thom as B. b u tch er;  Secretary, C. B. W aller.

P resident, Jas. H  .Moore;  S ecretary,  O. W.  M ulholand.

P resident, O. W. Robertson ; Secretary. Wm. H orton.

No. 63—Fvart B. M. A. 
P resident, O. V. P riest; Secretary, C. E. Bell.
No, 64—Merrill B. M. A. 
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A. 
P resident, Alt. G. Drake; Secretary, C. S. Blom.
No. 66—Lansing B. M. A, 
P resident, F ran k  W ells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.
No. 67—Watervliet B. M. A. 
P resident. Geo. P arsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.
N o .  6 8 —A l l e g a n   B . M . A , , 

P resid en t, H.  H.  Pope;  Secretary, E. T, YanO strand. 

N o . 6 9 —S c o t ti  a n d   C lim a x   B . M . A . 
P resident, Lym an C lark; Secretary, F. S. W illison.

No. 70—Nashville B. M. A, 
P resident, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers.
Ño. 71—Ashley  B.  M. A,
Ño. 72—Edmore B. M. A.
No. 73—Belding B. M. A. 

P resident, M. Netzorg;  Secretary,  Geo. E. Clutterbuck.

y o. 7 4 — Davison  M.  IJ. 

P resident, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. W ebster.
President. J. F. C artw right;  Secretary.  L. Gifford.
P resident, Osear P. Bills;  S ecretary, F. Rosacrans.

No. 75—Teonmseh  B.  M. A. 
No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A. 
No.  77—South  Haven  B.  M.  A.

^President. 8. 8. McOamly ;  S ecretary,  Channcey Strong.
■ 
P resident—L. S. Monroe;  S ecretary, 8. YanO strand.

N o . 7 8 — C a l e d o n ia   B .  M .  A . 

P resident. C. F. W illiam s;  S ecretary, J. W. Saunders, 
N o .  7 9 —K » k t J o r d a n  a n d   S o   A r m   B   M , A , 
P resident, Chas. F. Dixon;  S ecretary, L. C. Madison. 
N o .  8 0 —B a y  C ity  a n d  W.  H a y   C i ty   It. mTX. 
P resident,F . L. H arrison;  Secretary. Geo. Craig.

4 k  

P resident. L.

N o   8 1 — F l u - h i n g   B .  M .  A .

‘  Vickery;  Secretary, A  E. Ransom.

P resident, B. S. W ebb;  Secretary. M. E  Pollasky.

N o .  8 2 —A l m a   B   W .  A . 
No  83—Sherwood B. M. A. 

^ P r e s id e n t, L. P. W ilcox;  Secretary. W. R. Mandigo.

Onekama  business  men  have  formed a B. M. 
A., officered  as  follows:  President,  S.  Little; 
Vice-President, C. D.  Stanley;  Secretary,Geo. A. 
Barstow;  Treasurer, J. J. Barnes.

A ssociation  N otes.

John E. Thurkow, President  of  the Morley B. 

M. A., was in town Monday.

The Michigan Business  Men’s Association has 
been  invited  to  send 
five  delegates  to  the 
National convention of  business men to be held 
at St. Louis on the 28th to frame an equitable and 
acceptable bankrupt law.

Cheboygan  Tribune:  At  the  meeting  of  the 
Cheboygan. Business Men's Association, Monday 
evening, a communication was read from  E.  A. 
Stowe,  Secretary  of  the  State  Association,  in 
which he stated that a letter from  the  Secretary 
of the Cheboygan  Association  was six weeks on 
the road  before  reaching  him  and  he  thought 
this demonstrated  the  necessity  of  direct  rail­
road  connection  between  Grand  Rapids  and 
Cheboygan.

The Detroit Free Press correspondent at Green­
ville notes the following:  The  second  annual 
banquet of the  Greenville  Business Men'« Asso­
ciation occurred Friday evening at Hotel Phelpi 
About  100  couples  were  present,  it  being  the 
largest social gathering held here yet this winter. 
The  programme  consisted  of  supper,  speaking 
and dancing, and reflects  credit upon the organ 
ization.  There are no flies  on  Greenville  busi 
ness men when they have  anything  of  a  social 
nature on hand.

Charlotte  Republican:  The  Business  Men 
Association held a special meeting at the council 
rooms, Tuesday evening, and elected the follow 
ing officers:  C. M.  Jennings,  President;  C.  A. 
Lamb,  Vice-President;  Geo.  M.  Fenn,  Secre 
tary;  Executive Board, D. B. Ainger, E. S. Lacey 
and George  Huggett.  An  effort will be made to 
build up the organization and  aid  the  business 
and manufacturing interests of the city in every 
possible way and we  hope  the  Association may 
meet with success.

Cheboygan Tribune:  A  meeting  of  the Che 
boygan Business Men’s Association was  held  in 
the council room  Monday  evening  to  consider 
the question  of  the  Business  Men’s  Insurance 
Co.  The  attendance  was  not  very  large, only 
ten  being  present.  The  Insurance  Committee 
was instructed to  proceed  at once to solicit sub 
scriptions  to  the  stock  among  the  members 
One-fifth of the amount expected to be  taken  in 
Cheboygan was subscribed  among those present 
j  and  several  more  shares  were  promised  to be 
taken.
Holland  City  News:  The  last  issue  of  the 
Allegan Gazette contained a report of the second 
annual meeting of the  Business  Men’s  Associa 
tion of that  place.  From this we learn that our 
neighboring  village has a wideawake  organiza 
tion of business men, who are constantly watch 
ing for  chances  to  secure  new  enterprises  for 
their  town.  Not  only  this, but they have suc­
ceeded  in  doing  excellent  service  during  the 
past year, and start  their  work in 1889 with sev­
eral  prospective  industries  “on  the  string.” 
Holland needs  something  of  this kind, at once, 
if we expect to continue its growth.

A Greenville correspondent of the Detroit Free 
Press  writes  as  follows:  Greenville  business 
men are asked  to  take  $2,500  stock  in  the new 
stock mutual fire insurance  company now being 
organized by the State Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion.  They  will  no  doubt  willingly do this, as 
their  demand  for  better  rates  and  some  con­
sideration for  new  water  works  and a reduced 
moral and material hazard has gone entirely un­
heeded.  Our rates are the same as five years ago, 
when we were told by the  insurance  companies 
that if we had the fire  protection  we  now  have 
i  it would be less.  We now  have  the  protection, 
but are told  by  our  district  inspector  that  our 
; rates were too low before.

Traverse  City  Herald:  The  Business  Men’s 
Association met on Tuesday  evening.  Dr. B. D. 
Ashton and Wm. Beitner were admitted to mem­
bership. 
Incorporation matters were discussed, 
and it seemed to be the sense of the meeting that 
it was advisable to change our charter to that  of 
a city, and  Dr.  Kneeland  was appointed a com­
mittee  to  draw  a bill  for  introduction  in  the 
Legislature.  Details  will  be  perfected  later, 
when it will be submitted to the people for  their 
decision,  by  vote.  The  special  committee  on 
Internal Improvements  also  reported  and  their 
report was discussed and certain powers granted 
them.  The meeting was well attended, consider­
ing the stormy weather.

Allegan Gazette:  Here's a chance for another 
boom.  President  Pope,  of  the Business Men’s 
Association, has a letter,  sent by parties in Ohio, 
asking for the prices of coal and iron in Allegan, 
and what inducements the  town  will  make  for 
establishment here of a stove foundry employing 
fifty to sixty  men.  Offers  have  been  made by 
other  towns,  and  intimation  is  made  that  the 
highest bidder will win the prize.  Inducements, 
indeed?  Why,  if  those  gentlemen  will  only 
come and look at the  town they will never leave 
it.  We have had not a little of this sort of  work 
to do,  the  past  year,  but  if  the  enterprise can 
exhibit substantial  qualities  there  is  no  doubt 
but Allegan's  liberal  and  lively  business  men 
will do whatever is necessary to secure it.

A  Q uestion  o f  M em bership.

A l m a , Feb. 18,1889.

E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids:
Dear  Sir—We have,  as  applications for mem­
bership in our  Association,  three  professors  of 
the college and we are  not certain whether they 
can be  admitted  or  not.  Will  you  kindly  in­
form  us.
Also, would you  advise  us, for the strength of 
the Association, to take doctors and attorneys? 
We are prospering and doing well.
Very respectfully, 
C. F. Brown, Sec’v.
It has been the custom of many of the associa­
tions to admit doctors, lawyers and  professional 
men generally, and The  Tradesman  has  yet  to 
hear  of a single  cause  of  complaint  from  this 
source.  Such  men  are  not  generally attracted 
by the benefits of  the collection department, but 
they are interested in  the growth and prosperity 
of their town and wish  to aid the B.  M. A. in all 
endeavors in that direction.

The  F a cts  in  a  N utshell.

From  th e  Cheboygan  Tribune.
The  annual  report  of  the  Commissioner  of 
Insurance  shows  that  for  the  year 1888 the 107 
insurance  companies  organized' in  other  states 
received in  premiums  from  the  citizens of this 
State $2,352,035, while for losses  in the State they 
only paid  $1,135,484,  an  excess  of  receipts oyer 
losses paid  of  $1,216,541.  The  Business  Men’s 
Association  believes that  it  would  be  better  to 
keep  the  profits  of  insurance in our own State, 
and at its  annual  meeting  in Cheboygan a com­
mittee was appointed to devise a plan for a State 
Business Men’s  Insurance  Co.  The  committee 
completed its work and  a  plan was approved by 
the Executive  Committee  of  the  State Associa­
tion and also by most of the local associations in 
the State.  Subscriptions to the  stock  are  being 
solicited and every indication is  that  the  stock 
will be speedily  taken.  The  design  is  to give 
property-holders reliable insurance  at  the  least 
possible  cost. 
It  is  not  proposed to cut insur- 
ance  rates but to divide profits each year  among 
the policy  holders.

Good Report from   South H aven.

South H av en, Feb. 18,1889.

E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids:
De a ir  Sir—At  our  regular  meeting,  Feb. 12, 
the insurance  matter,  with  subscription  paper 
sent us, was brought before the meeting and the 
chairman of the  Insurance  Committee  directed 
to canvass and see what he could do.  We are all 
in favor of the scheme, but  the fact that a large 
part of the insurance  has  been  placed  for  this 
year and that money is close makes it  somewhat 
hard to predict its success here.
We are doing  well  as  an  Association.  Three 
new names were sent in at the last meeting.
Our collection department  is a success.

S.  Van Ostrand, Sec’y.

Yours, 

KNIGHTS  OF  THE  GRIP.

The  O bjects  o f  the  O rganization  Sue 

cin ctly S et Forth,

To th e com m ercial trav elers of  M ichigan:
We have laid the foundation of  an association 
in Michigan on  which  we  have hopes of build 
ing  a  grand  organization  and  to  which  every 
commercial  man  in  the  State ought to lend his 
help.  The  cost  of  50  cents  per year is so low 
that all can afford to belong.  It shall be the aim 
of the officers  and  Board  of  Directors  that the 
affairs  shall  be  conducted  on  a  strictly  cash 
basis.  “Pay as we go,” will be our motto.  W 
welcome all respectable commercial  travelers 
come into our Association.  Do  not  come in 
drones, but come in and do-your  part.  Remem 
ber your officers can not do  all the work, as they 
have  their  work  to  do  as well as you, and you 
are not asked to pay any salaries.  Every member 
who will add one  or  more  will be helping to do 
his  part,  and  we  ask  all  who  may  have  any 
grievances  against  the  management  to  kindly 
make it known, in the proper way, and I am sure 
it will be promptly adjusted.
To the Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Associ 
tion we extend our hand in good fellowship and 
ask that the feeling existing between them andthe 
T. P. A. be laid  away,  always remembering that 
we are all Michigan traveling men,  and  that  b 
combining  our  efforts  we  may  do good for all 
Our aim is to aid you and  give  our  influence  in 
your favor regarding matters of  insurance, 
return, we ask only that  “you do unto us as you 
would like to be done by.”
To  all  commercial  travelers’  associations  i 
the United States, we  send greeting and will co 
operate with you on all matters appertaining to* 
national character and  directly interesting com 
mercial men.  We start out with a charter mem 
bership  of  over  300  representative  commercial 
men and at the  rate  the applications are coming 
in March first will find 1,000 names enrolled upon 
our list.
The  first  and  most  important  object  to  be 
attained is an amendment to the inter-state  com­
merce  law  and  a  resolution  to  that effect was 
passed  at  Lansing  and  a  copy ordered  sent  to 
each Congressman  of  Michigan, asking his sup­
port.  When that is accomplished, we can be free 
to ask anything reasonable of Michigan railway; 
without being confronted with an ugly law.
It is the intention of this Association  to make 
the  Relief  Committee a prominent  part  of  our 
work and its chairman will appoint a member in 
each town of importance in  the State, who shall 
be known to  the  hotels  of  said  town,  and  the 
hotels are requested to notify the member of any 
unfortunate traveler who  shall become sick and 
it shall  be  the  duty  of  the  committeeman  to 
attend promptly  and  furnish  any  personal aid, 
such as watchers, and see  that they are properly 
cared for.
Our Employment  Committee  has  as  its chair 
man  Geo.  C.  Cooper,  of  Lansing,  who  will 
endeavor  to  furnish  a  position  to any member 
in good standing  and  who  can answer satisfac 
torily  the  questions  that  will  be  required to 
insure our indorsement.  Arrangements  will  be 
made with manufacturers  and wholesale houses 
to aid and give our members a preference.
These are  some  of  our  objects, but the social 
part of being a member only is worth the amount 
you pay.
With  this  statement  before  you,  we  trui 
it
will meet your hearty approval and support.
Knights  of the  Grip,
A. F. Peake,  Pres.

A nnual  B anquet  o f  the  Greenville 

B.  M.  A.
Greenville,  Feb. 16,1889.

E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids:
Dear  Sir—Our  second  annual  banquet  sur 
passed anything in  the  social line held here yet 
this season.  “Hotel Phelps” did all in its  power 
to satisfy us, but was not prepared  for  so  many 
and gave  out  in  the  second  round.  The  pro 
gramme consisted of  eating, speech making and 
dancing—principally the first and last.
The occasion was twice the importance of  our 
effort one year ago.  Everybody  enjoyed  them 
selves and the occasion reflects  credit  upon  our 
Association, and particularly  on  the  committee 
in charge.
We apparently stand  well  with  all except thè 
dead-beat. 

Yours,

Geo. B. Caldwell, See’

They  W ere  Short  on  Sizes.

From  th e B oot and Shoe Recorder.

‘725 cases best quality ladies’ rubber 
19 cents per pair.”  This is the sign that 
attracted  attention  from  a  Washington 
treet dry goods store the past week.  To 
any person who knew the  price at which 
rubbers  are  sold  wholesale  this was  a 
remarkable  bargain. 
In  fact,  it  would 
pay any of  our rubber companies to step 
in and  buy up  the whole 725  cases;  they 
could make  money by it.  How  could  it 
be  done?  The  writer  stepped  in  the 
store  and  passed to  the  rubber  depart­
ment.
‘A  pair  of  ladies’  rubbers,  if  yov 
please,” he asked of a elerk.
“What  size?”
“Three and a half.”
A pair of first quality shoes was passed 
and  accepted, the  clerk  wrapped  them 
up  in a  paper  and  passed them  to  the 
writer,  who  in  turn  gave  the  clerk  s 
quarter.

“Fifty cents, if you please.”
“How so?”
“That’s the price.”
“I thought you were selling first quali 
ty of rubbers for 19 cents.”
“Oh, if  you  want  those  rubbers, here 
they  are,” was  the  clerk’s  reply,  as  he 
took up a pair from another lot.

“They will do.”
“What size did you say?”
“Three and a half.”
“We have only twos and sevens in this 
lot at that price.”
Tableau—Writer goes out without rub 
bers.  Clerk  wonders  how  long  he  ha: 
got to work at this swindling game.

A rt  in  W indow s.
From  th e New York Mail an d  Express.

“Let me dress my window, and I don’t 
care who writes my advertisements.”
Thus observed a shrewd  Sixth  avenue 
merchant,  recently.  Whether  he  was 
correct in his view  of  the  importance of 
window  dressing  or  not,  a glance at the 
steady stream  of  humanity that  stopped 
for  a minute  or  more  to  gaze  into  his 
well-filled window, and only moved on in 
obedience  to  the  policeman’s  orders, 
seemed to give the  color of  truth  to  his 
observation.  The show  window has  be­
come  an  important  factor  in  the retail 
trade,  and  the  merchant  who  fails  to 
grasp  the  point  with  both  hands,  as it 
were,  is  sure  to  realize  his  blunder 
sooner or later.
In this big town window  dressing  has 
become  an  art, and a high  art, too, and 
like  all  arts  it  takes its particular fea­
tures  from  its  surroundings.  For  in­
stance,  the  window  of  Eighth  avenue, 
beyond which  meridian this art becomes 
a mere  travesty  unworthy of  the  name, 
differs  as much  from  the  display made 
on upper Broadway as the  gaudy canvas 
of  an  auction  shop  differs  from  the 
chaste production of  a European master. 
The same diversity is noted  between the 
hodge-podge windows in Kleine Deutsch­
land,  at  the  other end of  the shoppers’ 
continent  along  the  eastern  borders  of 
Tompkins square,  and the  artistic  exhi­
bitions  made  by the  wealthy  dealers of 
Fifth avenue.
Between these longitudinal  limits  this 
art has as many phases as the  people for 
whose tastes it is  pursued.  The skillful 
window  dresser,  true  artist  that  he is, 
seldom errs  in  suiting  his  wares to his 
customers. 
It  would  not  be  profitable 
for him to blunder,  and  his  is  not  the 
only case where  artists’  lines  have been 
drawn by golden rules.

C arnegie’s  A dvice  to   Y oung  Men.
You  are about  to start in  life and it is 
well that  young men should  begin at the 
beginning  and  occupy  the  most  subor­
dinate  positions.  Many of  the business 
men of  Pittsburg had a serious  responsi­
bility thrust upon them at the very thresh­
old  of  their  career.  They  were  intro­
duced  to  the  broom and  spent the  first 
hours  of  their  business  lives  sweeping 
out the office.
I  was a  sweeper  myself  and who  do 
you  suppose  were  my fellow  sweepers? 
David  McCargo, now  Superintendent  of 
the  Allegheny  Valley  Railroad;  Robert 
Pitcairn, Superintendent of  the Pennsyl­
vania  Railroad;  and  Mr. Moreland, City 
Attorney of Pittsburg.
Begin at the  beginning,  but  aim high. 
I would  not give a fig for the  young man 
who  does  not  already  see  himself  the 
partner  or the  head of  some  important 
firm.
There  are three  dangers in your  path. 
The first is the  drinking of  liquor.  The 
second  is  speculation,  and  the  third  is 
“indorsing.”
When  I  was  a  telegraph  operator  in 
Pittsburg I knew all  the men who specu­
lated.  They  were  not  our  citizens  of 
first  repute.  They  were  regarded  with 
suspicion. 
I  have  lived to see  all  of 
them  ruined,  bankrupt  in  money  and 
bankrupt in character.  There is scarcely 
an  instance of  a  man who  has  made a 
fortune by speculation and kept it.  The 
man  who  grasps  the  morning  paper  to 
see  how  his  speculative  ventures  are 
likely  to  result unfits  himself  for  the 
calm  consideration and  proper  solution 
of  business  problems with  which  he has 
to  deal  later  in  the  day, and  saps  the 
sources  of  that  persistent  and  concen­
trated  energy  upon  which  depend  the 
permanent  success  and  often  the  very 
safety of his main business.  The thorough 
man of business knows that only by years 
of patient, unremitting attention to affairs 
can  he  earn  his  reward,  which  is  the 
esult not of  chance, but of  well-devised 
means for the attainment of ends.
Nothing  is  more  essential  to  young 
business  men  than  untarnished  credit 
and  nothing kills  credit sooner  than  the 
knowledge in any bank board that a man 
engages in  speculation.  How can a man 
be credited whose resources may be swept 
away  in  one  hour  by  a  panic  among 
gamesters?  Resolve  to be business men, 
but speculators never.
The third danger is the  perilous  habit 
of  indorsing  notes. 
It  appeals  to  your 
generous  instincts  and  you  say,  “How 
can I refuse to lend my name  only to as- 
ist a friend ?”  It is because  there is so 
much  that  is  true  and commendable in 
that view that  the  practice is so danger­
ous. 
If  you owe anything,  all  your cap­
ital  and  all  your  effects  are  a  solemn 
trust in  your  hands  to  be held inviolate 
for the security of those who have trusted 
ou.  When a man  in  debt  indorses for 
another,  it is not  his  own  credit  or  his 
own  capital  that  he  risks. 
It  is  the 
money of  his  own  creditors.  Therefore 
say that if  you are ever  called upon to 
indorse,  never  do  It  unless  you  have 
cash  means  not  required for  your  own | 
debts,  and  never  indorse  beyond  those j 
means.
Assuming that  you  are  safe in regard 
to these, your gravest dangers—drinking, 
speculating  and  indorsing—the question 
is, how to  rise ?  The  rising  man  must 
do something exceptional and beyond the 
range  of  his  special  department.  He 
must attract attention.  A shipping clerk 
may do so  by discovering  in  an  invoice 
an error with which he  has  had  nothing 
to do and which  has  escaped  the  atten­
tion of  the  proper  person. 
If  a weigh­
ing  clerk, he may save  for  the  firm  by 
doubting  the  adjustment  of  the  scales 
and  having  them  corrected.  Your em­
ployer must find  out  that he  has not got 
mere hireling in his service, but a man. 
Not one who is content  to  give  so many 
hours of  work for so  many dollars in re­
turn, but one who devotes his spare hours 
and constant thoughts to the business.
Our  young partners in Carnegie Bros.’ 
have won their spurs by showing that we 
did  not  know  half  as  well  what  was 
ranted as they did.
There is one  sure  mark of  the coming 
millionaite—his revenues  always exceed 
his expenditures.  He begins  to  save as 
soon  as  he  begins  to  earn.  For every 
•3100  you  can  produce  as  the  result  of 
hard-won  savings, Midas, in  search of  a 
partner, will  lend  on  credit  31,000;  for 
every 31,000, $50,000.
It is not  capital  your  seniors  require, 
is the man who  has  proved he has the 
business habits which make capital.  Be­
gin  at  once  to  lay  up something. 
It is 
the  first  hundred  dollars  saved  which 
tells.
And here is the prime condition of  suc­
cess, the  great  secret;  concentrate  your 
energy, thought and  capital  exclusively 
upon the business in which  you  are  en­
gaged.  Having  begun  in  one  line,  re­
solve to fight it out on  that  line;  to lead 
in it;  adopt every improvement, have the ! 
best  machinery  and  know  the  most I 
about it.
Finally,  do  not  be  impatient,  for, as 
Emerson  says,  “No  one  can  cheat  you 
out  of  the  ultimate  success  but  your­
selves.”

peculations  far  exceeded  his resources. 
He  found  himself  st  last  in  imminent 
danger  of  exposure  and  disgrace.  He 
made a desperate  endeavor  to  raise  the 
amount of  his  shortage  by borrowing of 
his friends, but they failed  to respond 
he did  not  have  the  requisite  security 
At  last  he  found  further  concealment 
impossible,  and,  taking  a large  snm 
money he  decamped.  His employers are 
anxiously  looking  for  him,  and 
the 
American  Security Company, w'ho  went 
upon  his  bond,  are  making  strenuous 
efforts to put their  hands upon him;  and 
as they never compromise  any cases, the 
likelihood is that  the  young  man’s  life 
will be hopelessly blighted by a sentence 
to the  penitentiary. 
In speaking of thi 
young  man,  one  of  his  employers  said 
that he has 3,000 or  4,000  men in his de 
partment, and that if  he had  been asked 
to choose the most faithful and honest of 
all,  he  would  have  selected  this  young 
man  who  proved to be  a defaulter.  He 
further stated that  there was a big moral 
in  this  defalcation.  That  he  believed 
the  young  man to be  inherently honest, 
but that  he had attempted to live beyond 
his income;  and  that  the  failure  young 
men make in trying to spend more money 
than  they  earn,  is  the  cause of  ninety 
per cent, of  the embezzlements  and  rob 
beries  of  employers.  Keep  your  ex 
penses within  your  income and  you will 
always be happy,  and the time will never 
come when  your heart will  stop  beating 
at  the  approach of an  officer, and when 
you dare not  make  new  friends for fear 
of  cultivating  the  acquaintance of  a de 
tective.

The  A ttack   on  D ressed  M eats.

From  th «  Chicago Maws,

The  Pennsylvania  legislature has  fol 
lowed the example of that of Ohio in kill 
ing the ridiculous meat inspection bill by 
which  the  butchers  and  cattle-raisers 
hoped to exclude Chicago  dressed meats. 
This  plan to make  meat  dear  has  been 
roundly  denounced  from  Colorado  to 
New  York  in  nearly  every  prominent 
newspaper,  as  well  as  by  meat  con 
sumers who  have tested  the quality  and 
the price of Chicago meats.
There  are  a  number  of  legislatures 
which have yet to struggle with the meat 
inspection  sham  as  expressed  in  bills 
which  solemnly  claim  to  protect  the 
health  of  consumers when  in  fact  they 
are  only  trying to  swell  the  gains of 
It  is not  likely that such 
few butchers. 
a  foolish  and  indefensible  bill will  be 
come a law in any state. 
If  it should do 
so the  courts would  knock  down  its un 
derpinning in short  order.

HAJtDWJLKB.
P ric e s   C u rre n t.

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AUGURS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages
d is.
Ives’, old style..............................................   &
Snell’s........................................................g(
Cook’s ........................................................*”  
40
Jennings’, genuine................
...... 
25
Jennings’,  imitation.............
........50&10
AXES.
First Quality, S. B. Bronze... 
........$ 7 00
D.  B. Bronze...
........   11  00
S. B. S. Steel...
........   8 50
D.  B. Steel......
........   13 00
BALANCES.

Spring  ...........
..........  40
Railroad..........
.......$ 14 00
Garden.............
.net  33 00 
Hand................
60&10&10
Cow .................
Call  ................
...... 3Ò&1
Gong..............
........ 
25
Door, Sargent..
........60&10
dis.
..... $
Stove...........................................
Carriage new  list........................
........70&10
P lo w ...........................................
50
........ 
Sleigh shoe.................................
60
Wrought Barrel  Bolts...................................  
Cast Barrel  Bolts..................................................40
Cast Barrell, brass  knobs..................... !!..!! 
40
Cast Square Spring.......................................*' 
60
Cast C hain..................................................... ’ 
40
Wrought  Barrel, brass knob...............................60
Wrought Square ........................................... 
60
Wrought Sunk  Flush..........................................60
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob F lush.. .60&10 
Ives’ Door........................................................ 60*10
Barber..............................................  
40
Backus.....................................................■.'."50&10
Spofford.......................................................... 
50
Ain. B all.............................................................net
Well,  plain  ...................................................$ 3 M
Well, swivel...................................................  4 00
dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured..................................70&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed....................70&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.............  60<fe
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint...............60&10
Wrought Loose Pin........................................ 60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.......................60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned..................... 60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped.60&05
Wrought  Table...............................................60&10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................’ [60&10
Wrought Brass............................................... 
75
Blind,  Clark’s.............................................  70&10
Blind,  Parker’s............................................. !to&10
Blind, Shepard’s ..................................................70
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85................  
40
CARPET  SWEEPERS.
Bissell  No. 5.................................... per doz.$17 00
Bissell No. 7, new drop p a n ........ 
19 so
Bissell, G rand.............. .................  
£  qo
Grand Rapids...................... ............ 
24 00
Magic................................................ 
15 00
GraIn ........................................................dis. 50&02
Cast Steel........................................................ p e r»  04
Iron, Steel Points..................'...........  

CRADLES.
CROW BARS.

BUTTS, cast. 

BUCKETS.

BRACES. 

BLOCKS.

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Living Too Fast.

A great cause of  disaster in the careers 
many bright  young  mep  is  an unfor­
tunate propensity fbr living too fast. 
In 
the majority of  cases  where  young  men 
turn out to be defaulters and embezzlers, 
e find that they were, led  into their evil 
ays  by a  passion  upon  their  part  to 
dress well, live well  and  stand well in a 
social  way.  Their  legitimate  incomes 
being  insufficient  to  meet the necessary 
expenses of  such a life,  they draw  upon 
the funds of  their  employers,  sometimes 
with  the 
intention  ®f  repaying  the 
amounts  taken,  but  in  most  instances 
this good  intention  upon  their  part be­
comes  impossible.  A  young  man  in 
Philadelphia, holding a  high and  impor­
tant position of  trust and  in receipt of  a 
alary of $1,800 a  year,  has  just  turned 
out  to  be  a defaulter  for  over  311,000. 
He had been  with  his  employers  many 
ears  and  was  implicitly trusted,  hun­
dreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  having 
passed through his hands. 
It seems that 
he fell in love with and  wanted to marry 
a most estimable  young  lady,  and  in or­
der  to  keep  up  a  show  of  prosperity 
which he thought would  recommend him 
to  her  favorable  consideration,  he took 
various sums  from  time to time, expect­
ing to replace them  when  pay-day came. 
He soon found to his amazement that his

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CHISELS. 

|®y!® 1'fO - -...........................................per m
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g. d . ........................................... ;;;;;; 
Musket.................................... 
*<
CARTRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list  .
Rim Fire, United States........................dis
Central  Fire..................................... 
.dis.
dis
Socket Firm er................................................ 70&10
Socket Framing.......................... 
70*m
Socket Corner .7.........................................*7; 'to&IO
Socket Slicks..................................................70&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer.................                40
Barton’s Socket Firmers..............  
an
com....................... 
net
 
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Curry,  Lawrence’s  ...................................  40&10
Hotchkiss.............................................................25
White Crayons, per gross...............12@1254 dis. 10
Brass,  Racking’s.................................  
60
Bibb’s ................................................................... 60
5eer ........................................ .  .  .
Fenns’
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per ponnd 
33
14x52,14x56,14x60..............  
31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..............  
29
29
Cold Rolled, 14x48.....................................' 
Bottoms................................................................go
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DRILLS. 
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks.............  
 
40
Paper and straight Shank.............[ [' ’ ........  
40
Morse’s Taper Shank..................... 
40

COMBS. 

CHALK.

COPPER.

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DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser ponnd................................  
(y7
Large sizes, per pound.......................................6)4
Com. 4  piece, 6 in ............................doz. net 
75
Corrugated...................................... dis. 20410410
Adjustable..............................................dis.

ELBOWS.

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Office  of

F o ster,  S te v e n s  &  Co.,
WHOLESALE  HARDWARE.

The fiber from which Sisal  and  Manilla  Rope  is made is now 
cornered ”  and  very  high.  The  price  of rope in New York to­

Grand Rapids,  Mich.,  Jan. 29,  1889.

day is,

Sisal,  12  1-2 cents per ponnd.
Manilla,  15  cents per ponnd.
Onr  price  in  Grand Rapids  is  ONE  CENT  ABOVE  THESE 

PRICES.  We hare in stock a new rope called
NEW  P R O C E SS.

Its  superiority  to  Sisal  in  every  respect  is now universally ad­
mitted, and where it has  been  snbstitnted  for Manilla, favorably 
impresses  the  purchaser  with  confidence  in  its  utility  and suc­
cess.  It is  manufactured  in  all  sizes,  the  smaller  coils  being 
made njp in a  ball  cord  shape,  thus  avoiding  the  necessity  of “a 
reel.  We  keep  in  stock  “ New  Process”  from  1-4  up  to  5-8 
inclusive, and our price to-day  is  only  9  1 2   cents  a  ponnd  for 
®*8 ond larger, and 10  cents  for  1*4.  This price, however«  will 
not hold and must go higher  if Sisal and Manilla keep advancing. 
A  trial  coil  will  convince  you  the  days  of  Sisal  rope  are
numbered.

FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO.

10 and 12 Monroe-St., 33,  35,  37  39  and  41  Louia-St.

45<&4545

45

d is.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

p il e s —New List. 

_  
Clark’s, small, $18; large, $26........................ 
30
Ives’, 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30............................. 
25
American File Association List....................60410
Disston’s ........................................................ 60410
New  American...............................................60410
Nicholson’s  — ............................................. 60410
Heller’s .
50
....................... 
Heller’s Horse Rasps...
50
....................... 
2
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
15 
List 
1

GALVANIZED IRON.

dis.

12 

14 

Discount, 60

dis.

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s......................  
50
Naydole  4  Co.’s........................................dis. 
25
25
Kip’s.......................................................... ¿¡a. 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s..................................... dis. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel......................... 30c list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, H and... .30c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ................................. dis. 
60
State.............................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 454  14  and
3 y.
longer.......................................................... 
Screw Hook and  Eye, 54........................... net 
10
\ ...........................net  85
'4...........................net  7%
# ..........................net  714

HINGES.

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c. 

13 
gauges. 
HAMMERS.

HANGERS. 

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Bam Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50410
Champion,  anti-friction..............................   60410
Kidder, wood track ....................................... 
40

HOLLOW WARE

Pots  ................................................................ 60410
Kettles..........................................................-..60410
Spiders  ... 
60410
Gray enameled...................... 
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HOUSE FURNISHING  GOODS.

Stamped  TinW are......................... new list 70410
Japanned Tin Ware
Granite Iron W are..............................  
25

dis

LOCKS—DOOR.

k n o b s—New List. 

...... $11, dis. 60
. ..$11.50, dis. 60 
........$12, dis. 60
HORSE NAILS.
................dis. 25410@25410410
..........dis.  541042144214
................  dis. 1041045
55

Grub  1__
Grub 2 __
Grub 3 __
Au Sable......
Putnam.................
Northwestern......
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..................... 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings......
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings...
Door,  porcelain, trimmings..............
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain......  
70
Picture, H. L. Judd  4   Co.’s ..........................40410
Hemacite............................................
45
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s..................
Branford’s ......................................
Norwalk’s .................................
LEVELS. 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ......................  
70
MATTOCKS.
Adze Eye............................................$16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye............................................$15.00, dis. 60
“ " i t ’s.......................................$18.50, dis. 20410.
dis.
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled......................  
50
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ..................................... 
40
P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleabies". . 
40
Landers,  Ferry 4  Clark’s.................. 
40
Enterprise.................... 
25
Stebbin’s Pattern........................................... 60410
Stebbin’s Genuine.....................................[] \60410
Enterprise, self-measuring........ 
25

mauls. 
mills. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

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NAILS
Advance above 12d nails.

SAND FAFEK.
SASH CORD.

■ 
List acct. 19, ’86........................................dis. 
40
__ 
list  50
Silver Lake, White A ...........................  
DrabA................................... «• 
55
» 
White  B .............................. 
50
D rabB...................................  «, 
55
White C............................ 
**,  35

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Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

.......... 

,  SAUSAGE SUUFFEBS OR FILLERS. 

Solid Eyes.............................................. per ton $25
„ „  
>
Miles  Challenge” ... .per doz. $20, dis. 50^50405
Perry...................per doz. No. 1, $15;  Naff;
..........................$21;  dis. 50@5045
Draw Cut No  4 ...........................each, $30, dis’30
Enterprise Mfg. Co...........................dis. 20410@30
Silver s................................................... dis.  40419
Disston’s  Circular............................ 

gross Cut...................... .
H and................... ..................... £S5|§25&5
Atkins’  Circular................................................ dis. 9
70
50
30 
28

«Extras sometimes given by jobbers.
“  Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__  
Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__  
Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot... 
‘  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  foot.............................................. 

SAWS. 

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TACKS. 

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traps. 

m
American, all kinds.................. 
en
Steel, all  kinds................................ 
Swedes, all kinds.................... 
go
Gimp and Lace...................... 
 
an
gn
Cigar Box Nails...................... . .7 
Finishing  Nails............................ 
gg
Common and  Patent  Brads.........................  
50
Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks.. 
50
gn
Trank and Clout Nails.........................  
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails................................ 
Leathered Carpet Tacks.................  
35
Steel, Game__
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ..... 
Oneida  Community, Hawley & Norton’s
Hotchkiss’..................
P .S .4 W ,  Mfg.co.’s
...........
Mouse,  choker...................
Mouse, delusion..................
WIRE.
Bright Market.....................
Annealed Market................
Coppered Market..............
Extra Bailing....................
Tinned Market...................
Tinned  Broom...................
Tinned Mattress.................
Coppered  Spring  Steel......
Tinned  Spring Steel...........
Plain Fence.........................
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.
Copper..............................................
Brass....................................
Bright...............................................
Screw  Eyes................
Hook’s ..............................
Gate Hooks and Eyes................
WRENCHES.

dis.
60410 
35 
70 
70
............... 
70
... 18c per doz.
. .$1.50 per doz. 
..............   67J4
...............70410
..............   6214
..............  
56
..............  C2J4
.. per ponnd 09 
. per ponnd 854
.............. 
50
...............40410
.. per ponnd 03
............... $3 75
.............. 3 00
;3W  list net

.70410410 
..70410410 
.70410410 
.70410410

painted.....................

WIRE GOODS.

disw

dis.

“ 

Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled......
Coe’s  Genuine...................................
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,! 
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.....................

MISCELLANEOUS. 
Bird Cages..................................... 
Pumps, Cistern............................. * * *.......... 
Screws, New List........................ 
Casters, Bed  and  Plate................’..‘.’.50410410
Dampers, American........................  
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods......  66K
Copper Bottoms...................................  36c

40

 

dis.

30 
50 
75
.75410 
dis.
„ „
'gp
75
70406

METALS.
PIG TIN.

B»rs................................................... .

COPPER.

FINE BLUED.

CASTING AND BOX.

Lake......
Anchor” Brand..

Duty:  Pig, Bar  and  Ingot,  4c;  Old  Copper  3c 
Manufactured  (including all articles ofwbieh 
Copper is a component of  chief  value),®  per 
cent  ad valorem.  For large lots  the following 
quotations are shaded:

FENCE  AND  BRADS.
50d to 60d...................................I
lOd.....................................................
8d and 9d......................................... " *"
6d and7d.........................................
4d and 5d.............................
3d........................................... 
........
2d ..............................................  ...........

25 
10 
25 
40 
60 
1  00 
1  50
1  00
1  50
2 00
12d to 30d.........................................  
m
iod.............................................................¿o
8d to 9d  ................................................ 
75
6 d to 7 d ..............................................  
on
4d to 5d 
, 
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3d....................................................................   1 »¡N ew ark.......................I" ' *" "  I:!!!"!!!!!!

...........................................................  1  101 American  ............................. 

Duty:  Sheet, 254c per pound.
600 pound  casks........................ 
654
Per pound........................................”  "  "  " 7%7yx
Duty:  Pig, $2 per 100 pounds.  Old  Lead, 2c per
. Pound-  Mpe and Sheets 3c per pound.
<55,5
B ar. 
...6
Sheet.
.............................................8c, dis. 20
16
54@54...............................................................  
Extra W iping..................................................53»/
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market indicated by private Sands 
vary according to composition.

154 and  lj£ inch..............°H' .........................  1  33
“ 
~ and  2?4 
j  ,g
4 an d 2$£  “ 
1  go
inch.............................................................. 
gg
354 and 454  inch...........................
Each half keg 10 cents extra.

" 
...................  
....................... ............ 

COMMON BARREL.

■1854 
.  .18

SOLDER.

inch.

LEAD.

ZINC.

25

 
 

 

OILERS. 

dlS

PLANES. 

Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent............................604i0
Zinc, with brass bottom................................ 
50
Brass or Copper........................................’  _ 
go
Reaper  ....................................... per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .....................................................50410
dis.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy..................................40@10
Sciota  Bench.......................................... 
  @60
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy..........................40@10
Bench, first quality.....................................       @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood...  ... .20410
Fry,  Acme..............................................dis. 50410
Common,  polished.................................dis. 60410
go
Iron and  Tinned........................................... 
Copper Rivets and Burs......................... . . . \ 
50
A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 
Broken packs 54 c per pound extra.

PATENT FLANISHED IRON.

rivets. 

PANS.

dis.

ROPES.

squares. 

Sisal, 54 inch and larger..............................   13
Manilla.................................... •.................... 
i6
dis.
Steel and  Iron................................................70410
Try and Bevels 
60
Mitre
20
Com. 
$3 00 
3 00 
3 10 
3  15 
3 35 
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

SHEET IRON.
Com.  Smooth.
.............................$4 20
...............................4 20
........ ......................4 20
.............................. 4 20
.............................. 4  40
..  4 60

Nos. 10 to  14... 
Nos. 15to 17 ... 
Nos.  18 to 21... 
Nos. 22 to 24 ... 
Nos. 25 to 26 ... 
No.!
wide not less than 2-10 extra

Cookson.
Hallett’s.

TIN—MELYN GRADE.

.per  pound  1-454 
1154
... $ 6 0©
........................................'  gg©
.....................................10S
...................
.......  ........  
...................
....................8 00
.....................

10xi4 IC, Charcoal............................. 
14x20 IC, 
14x14 IC, 
10x2810’, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20IX, 
M i l ’ 
20x28ix, 
Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.

................ 7  7n

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

.................

«

TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 

10x14 IC,  Charcoal.................  
14x20IC, 
12x12 IC,
14x14 IC,
29x2810',
10x14 IX,
14x20 IX,
12x12 IX,
14x14 IX,
20x28 IX,

Each additional X on this grade $1.50

ROOFING PLATES
“ 

14x20IC, Terne  M. F .........
20x28 IC, 
“ 
..........
14x20 IC, 
“  Worcester.
14x20 IX,
29x28 IC,
14X20IC,
14x20 IX,
20x28 IC,
20x28 IX,

Allaway  Grade

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

.................... .................................... S12 00
14x31  IX.........................................................  13 gn
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers,} 
14x60 IX.  “ 
09

’ ( Per pound......  

“  9 

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BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief  Digests  of  Recent  Decisions 

Courts of Last Resort.

in

1TUSBAND  A N D   W IF E — C R ED ITO R S.

The Kentucky Court of  Appeals  held, 
in the  recent  case of  Dixon vs.  Lyne  et 
al., that  a conveyance  by  a  husband to 
his wife’s brother in trust for the wife in 
consideration  of  money advanced  by the 
brother from  time to  time to the  grantor 
and  his wife  is supported  by a valuable 
consideration,  and 
the  land  conveyed 
cannot  be  subjected  bv  the  husband’s 
creditors.
I*R( >MISSOKY  N O TE— JU D G M E N T — IN D O RS­

E R .

Where the  payee of  a promissory  note 
obtains  judgment  thereon  against  the 
maker,  which  becomes a lien  upon  real 
estate, and  which  he assigns, he  cannot 
afterward  maintain  an  action  on  the 
note  against an accommodation indorser, 
according to the decision of  the Supreme 
Court of Indiana in the case of  Moorman 
vs. Wood.

Our Coffee and Where It  Comes  From.
The United  States is the  greatest con- 
mmer  of  coffee  in  the  world.  More  is 
required for  our  consumption  than  for 
the  consumption  of  all  the  inhabitants 
of  Austria-Hungary,  France,  Germany 
and the United Kingdom combined.  The 
total  imports  in  1887  were  526,109,170 
pounds,  an average of  over  nine  pounds 
of  coffee per inhabitant.  Two  countries 
of  Europe,  the  Netherlands  and  Bel­
gium,  show  a  larger  consumption  per 
capita  than  this,  the  former of  twenty 
pounds  and  the  latter  of  ten  pounds. 
This is explainable  by the  circumstance 
that the consumption here shown is more 
apparent than real, and the figures given 
do not  really indicate the local consump­
tion,  but  include  imports  of  coffee  in 
transit  which  are  consumed  in  other 
countries.  The largest coffee markets of 
Europe are situated in the countries men­
tioned.  These and other facts regarding 
coffee supply and  consumption  are  pre­
sented in the October volume of  consular 
reports  issued by the  State  Department 
at Washington.
The bulk of the coffee consumed in the 
United States is obtained  from American 
sources.  A  little  ovef  four  per  cent, 
comes  from the Dutch  East  Indies  and 
the Netherlands.  Brazil  is  by  far  the 
most  important  single  shipper of  coffee 
to  this  country.  The  following  table 
gives  the  aggregate  quantity of  the im­
ports  in  the  fiscal  year  1887, the  coun­
tries  from which exported  and  the  per­
centage of  quantity furnished bj  each of 
the countries named and the approximate 
price per pound of  the  coffee  exported :
Per Cent
of Total. 
Countries.
69.0

3.0

1.0.8

Brazil.........................
Venezuela................
Dutch East Indies...
Guatemala...............
Mexico.......................
U. S. of Colombia—
Costa Rica.................
San Salvador............
Hayti.........................
Netherlands..............
British  West Indies.

Pounds. 
.. .362,928,304 
...  59,463,487 
...  18.099,536 
...  15,645,848 
...  14,567,005 
...  13,595,678 
...  7,211,833 
...  6,813,774 
...  5,745,198 
...  5,187,837 
...  4,551,959
97.2
Total above sources....... 513,810,459
Total all imports............526,109,110 
100.0
Brazil, it wTill  be  noted,  sends  us  69 
per cent, of  the total  quantity imported. 
That country and Venezuela send us over 
four-fifths of  the total quantity.  In 1887,
93 per cent, of  our imports  were derived 
from  American  sources.  The  eleven 
countries  above  given  sent  us  over  97 
per  cent,  of  our  total  imports.  Little 
change  is  to  be  noted  in the coffee im­
ports  into  this  country over a period of 
ten  years  as  regards  countries  furnish­
ing  it. 
In  1878,  93  per  cent,  of  the 
coffee  imported  came  from  American 
countries, or about the  same  proportion 
as in 1887. 
In 1883, 88  per  cent, of  our 
total coffee imports  came from American 
sources.  Hayti  and  Venezuela  send us 
less  coffee  proportionately than in 1878. 
Brazil, besides being the largest exporter 
of  coffee to the United  States, is also the 
heaviest coffee producing  country,  grow­
ing as it does  an  annual  crop  of  about 
half  that of  the total world’s  production 
(1.430,000,000  pounds).  The  exports in 
1885 (fiscal  year) were  in  excess of  this 
average, 
they  aggregating  748,694,160 
pounds. 
In 1884-85,  coffee  represented 
over two-thirds of  the total  value of  the 
exports from Brazil.
Much uncertainty exists  as to the  size 
and  area  of  the  coffee  production  of 
Brazil.  The largest  producing  sections 
are the  provinces of  Rio de  Janeiro, Sao 
Paulo, Menas Geraes, Pernambuco, Para, 
Bahia and Rio  Grande do Sul.  Of  these 
the  production  seems  to  be steadily in­
creasing in Para  and  Sao  Paulo,  and to 
be  either stationary or steadily declining 
in  the  remainder.  There  is  plenty  of 
room  for  the  extension  of  the  culture 
Improved  transportation  facilities  are 
constantlv  opening  up  new  districts. 
The province of  Sao  Paulo  (Santos  the 
chief  port)  appears  to  be 
the  best 
adapted  to  the  culture,  as  statistics  of 
production  in  the  past note a larger in­
crease  in  area  and  yield  than  in  any 
other  province.  The  taxation  of  coffee 
by means of  an  export  duty  brings in a 
large revenue.  The history of  this tax­
ation is an interesting one, but space for­
bids  details.  Efforts  to  reduce  the ex­
port tax have  not  been  very successful, 
but some progress has  been  made.  The 
export  taxes  levied  are  of  two  kinds. 
The imperial tax is now  seven  per cent, 
(reduced to this  from  nine  per  cent,  in 
1882).  There  are  in  addition  duties 
levied by the various  provinces  ranging 
from four per cent, in Rio de Janeiro and 
Santos  to  seven  per  cent,  in Bahia and 
Ceara.
Venezuela is, next to  Brazil, the  larg­
est  exporter of  coffee  to  the  American 
markets.  The room for the  extension of 
this industry is very large, but it is ham­
pered  by  the  small  quantity  of  labor 
available.  Caracas and  Valencia are the 
centers  of  the  coffee-growing  industry, 
while  Maracaibo,  Laguayra  and Puerto 
Cabello are the chief  ports.
Guatemala, Mexico and  United  States 
of  Colombia  are  of  about  equal  impor­
tance  as regards  their  shipments to the 
United  States,  but  Guatemala  coffee 
ranks  highest  in  price.  Most  of  this 
coffee  is  sent  to  Europe.  The coffee of 
Mexico  is  grown  chiefly in the  State of 
Vera  Cruz,  from  the  port of  which  the 
bulk of  the  crop  is  sent  to  the United 
States.  The  want of  capital  and  labor 
in sufficient  quantities  is  said  to be the 
only bar to an almost unlimited extension 
of  the Mexican  coffee-growing  industry. 
The coffee crop of  Costa Rica, chiefly ex­
ported from  Punta  Arenas, bears no ex­
port  duty,  the  2s. duty  formerly  levied 
being  removed  in  1882.  Most  of  it  is 
sent  to  England.  Of  the  West  Indies, 
Hayti  sends  the  largest  quantity to the 
United States, 5,745,198 pounds  in  1887, 
against 16,023,221 pounds in  1886.  Hay- 
tian coffee exports to this country reached 
their  height  in  1881,  when  31,908,074 
pounds  were  sent.  The  British  West 
Indies  in  1887  sent  4,551,959  pounds, 
against  2,917,248  pounds  in  1886.  Ex­
ports  from  other  islands  were of  insig­
nificant  proportions  in 1887.  Hayti lev­
ies a very  heavy  export  duty on  coffee, 
$3 per 100 pounds being  the  rate.  This 
duty, added to the  low  price  ruling, ac­
counts for the decline noted in 1887 from 
previous  years. 
In nearly all the  coun­
tries and islands mentioned  the room for 
further  extension  is  large.  Progress is 
hampered in  many cases by one  or more 
causes, such  as want of  labor, improved 
machinery  for  cleaning  and  preparing 
the product, and high export duties.

ST A T U T E   O F  F R A U D S — A C C E P T A N C E .
In  order  to  be effectual  to  avoid  the 
effect of  the  statute of  frauds  as to oral 
agreements for  personal  property an  ac­
ceptance  must  be  more  than the  mere 
receipt of  the goods delivered,  according 
to the  decision of  the Supreme  Court  of 
Minnesota  in the  case of  Fontaine et  al. 
vs. Bush  et  al. 
In  this  case  the  court 
held  that  where the  buyer, not  yet hav­
ing accepted the goods, designated a com­
mon  carrier to whom  the  seller  was  to 
deliver the goods  for transportation, and 
the  goods  were  so  transported  and  de­
livered  to  the  buyer, the  circumstances 
did not show an acceptance.

HANK— L IA B IL IT Y   ON  U N P A ID   STOCK.
The  Supreme  Court  of  Georgia  ren­
dered  an important  decision in the  case 
of  Hill  et  al.  vs.  Stockholders  of  the 
Citizens’  Bank.  This  was  a  case  in 
which suit was brought against the stock­
holders of  the bank, which had made  an 
assignment, to  hold them liable  on  their 
unpaid stock.  The stockholders, in pur­
suance  of  regular  calls, paid  in 50  per 
cent, on  their  subscribed  stock,  and  the 
bank  afterward  passed  a  resolution  re­
ducing  the  capital  stock  and  all  sub­
scriptions  to  the  amount  actually  paid 
in.  The question was whether this reso­
lution  was valid  as to subsequent  credi­
tors  of the  bank.  The  Supreme  Court 
decided that it was, thus terminating the 
litigation,  which  has  been  in  progress 
several  years,  in  favor  of  the  stock­
holders.

Derived.

CO RPO RA TIO N— SU B SC R IPTIO N — CONTRACT
Where a person subscribes to the stock 
of  a  proposed  corporation and  delivers 
the  subscription to a promoter  soliciting 
such  subscriptions,  and  other  persons, 
without  notice of  any oral  condition at­
tached to  such a delivery,  also  subscribe 
to  the stock  and pay the  same in,  and in 
reliance on the  subscriptions the  corpor­
ation  is  organized, engages  in  its  busi­
ness, expends  large  sums of  money and 
contracts liabilities therein, such person, 
when  sued  for installments  due on  his 
stock  subscriptions, will  not  be allowed 
to  defeat a reco- ery  by showing  that he 
attached  a  secret  oral  condition  to  the 
delivery of  his  subscription  to the  pro­
moter.  So held by the Supreme Court of 
Minnesota  in  the  case  of  Minneapolis 
Threshing  Machine  Company  vs. Dairs.
The  Sources from which Pigments  are 
The following embodies  some interest­
ing  information  regarding  the  sources 
from  which  the  colors  one  finds  in  a 
paint box are derived.  Every quarter of 
the globe is ransacked for the material— 
animal, vegetable and mineral—employed 
in their  manufacture:
From the cochineal insects are obtained 
the  gorgeous  carmine,  as  well  as  the 
crimson,  scarlet,  carmine  and  purple 
lakes.
Sepia  is  the  inky fluid  discharged by 
the cuttle fish to render the water opaque 
for its concealment when attacked.
Indian  yellow is from the camel.
Ivory black and bone  black  are  made 
out of  ivory chips.
The exquisite  Prussian  blue is got by 
fusing  horses’  hoofs  and  other  refuse 
animal  matter  with  impure  potassium 
carbonate. 
It was discovered by an acci­
dent.
In the vegetable  kingdom are included 
the lakes, derived  from  roots, barks and 
gums.
Blue-black  is  from  charcoal  of  the 
vine stalk.
Lampblack is  soot  from  certain resin 
ous substances.
From  the  madder  plant, which grows 
in  Hindostán,  is  manufactured  Turkey 
red.
Gamboge  comes  from  the  yellow sap 
of  a  tree,  which  the  natives  of  Siam 
catch in cocoanut shells.
Raw sienna is the  natural  earth  from 
the neighborhood of  Sienna, Italy.
Raw  umber is an earth  from  Umbria, 
and is also burned.
To these vegetable pigments may prob­
ably be added India  ink, which is said to 
be  made  from  burnt  camphor.  The 
Chinese, who  alone  produce it, will  not 
reveal the secret of  its composition.
Mastic—the  base  of  the  varnish  so 
called—is  from  the  gum  of  the  mastic 
tree,  indigenous  to  the  Grecian  archi­
pelago.

Bistree is the soot of  wood ashes.
Of  real  ultramarine but little is found 
in the  market. 
It is obtained  from  the 
precious  lapis  lazuli,  and  commands  a 
fabulous price.
Chinese white is zinc, scarlet  is iodine 
of  mercury,  and  cinnabar, or native ver­
milion,  is from quicksilver ore.

Merchant (to  collector)—John, are the 
Slimkinses going to receive to-day ?
Collector—I  saw  their  card  in 
the 
papers to that effect.
Merchant—Well, take our bill for Sep­
tember  and  go  up.  You  haven’t  been 
able  to  get  in  the  last  twenty-five  or 
thirty  times  you  have  called,  but  you 
can get  there  to-day.  1  tell  you, John, 
society  is a great  blessing,  if  you  only 
look at it right.

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the  territory. 
The Northern  Pacific  owns  and  operates  621 
miles, er 56 per cent of  the  railroad  mileage  of 
Washington, its main  line  extending  from  the 
Idaho line via Spokane Falls,  Cheney,  Sprague, 
Yakima and Ellensburg, through  the  center  of 
the Territory to Tacoma  and  Seattle,  and  from 
Tacoma to Portland.  No other trans continental 
through rail line reaches any  portion  of  Wash­
ington Territory.  Ten days stop over  privileges 
are given on Northern Pacific second class tickets 
at Spokane Falls and all points West, thus afford­
ing intending settlers  an  excellent  opportunity 
to see the entire Territory without incurring  the 
expense of paying local fares from point to point.
The Northern Pacific is the shortest route from 
St  Paul to Tacoma by 207 miles: to Seattle by 177 
miles, and to Portland by 324 miles—time  corres 
pondingly shorter, varying from one to two days 
according to destination.  No other line from St. 
Paul  or  Minneapolis  runs  through  passenger 
cars of any kind into Idaho, Oregon or Washmg-
t0Iii addition to being the only rail  line  to  Spo 
kane Falls, Tacoma  and  Seattle,  the  Northern 
Pacific reaches  all the principal points in North 
ern  Minnesota  and  Dakota,  Montana,  Idaho, 
Oregon and Washington.  Bear in mind that the 
Northern Pacific and Shasta line  is  the  famous 
scenic route to all points in California.
Send for illustrated pamphlets, maps and book 
giving you valuable information in reference  to 
the country traversed by this great line from  St. 
Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and Ashland to  Port 
land  Oregon,  and  Tacoma  and  Seattle,  Wash 
ington Territory, and enclose stamps for the new 
1889 Rand McNally County  Map  of  Washington 
Territory, printed in colors.
Address your nearest ticket agent, or  Chas.  b. 
Fee, General  Passenger  and  Ticket  Agent,  St. 
Paul,  Minn. 
_____________  I

Dissolution  Notice.

Notice is hereby  given  that  the copartnership 
formerly existing between F. J. Immen and L. E. 
Best under the style of the Champion Baking Co. 
was dissolved on Sept. 24,1888, by the withdrawal 
of L. E. Best.  The  business  is continued under 
the same style bv the remaining partner.

F. J. Immex,
L. E. Best.

SILVER  8YÄR8

No  Equal in tlio  Stato*

Wherever Introftncei it is aStaner!

TO  TH E  TRA D E:

I  guarantee “SILVER STARS” to be a long, 
straig h t filler, w ith Sum atra w rapper, m ade 
by union labor, and to give  com plete  satis­
faction.

jdais ,
.a.,  s. 
70 Canal St„ GRAND RBPIDS.

Sole  M anufacturer,

WANTED.

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

If you  have  any  of  the  above  goods  to 
ship, or anything  in  »he  Produce  line, let 
us hear  from  you.  Liberal  cash advanees 
made  when  desired.

E A R L   B R O S . ,

C o m m is s io n   M e r c h a n t s

i

South  'A/ater St.,  CH ICA G O

K ef 6r6D C 6!  F i RST  NATIONAL  HANK,  G hiCHgO.
Michigan T haoknman, <*rand  KapidE.

C ra n b e rrie s,

i -22

S w e e t  P o ta to e sQ  
a n d   G rap es.
Bananas,  Oilr  Specialty.
GRAND  RAPIDS, 

16 and 18 No. Division St..

-  MICH.

Lot

,30-30

Size

« Í  Fri"

Every  garment  bearing  the  above  ticket  is 
WARRANTED  NOT TO  RIP, and,  if  not as re­
presented, you are requested  to  return  it to the 
Merchant of whom it was purchased and receive 
a new garment.
S T A N T O N ,   S A M P S O N   &  CO.

M anufacturers,  D etroit,  Mich.

'best  bag  truck

M A D E .

Amos S. Mussten & Co.
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

S O L E   A G E N T S ,

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VÍTORES
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old in CMÍSt¡H§)fl

ABSOLUTELY 
I 
¡TRIPLE STRENNGTOjlj

PURE 

W eigh s o n ly   1 6  lb s.;  alw a y s stan d s up 
alone  w h en   n o t  in   use.  Send  $ 3 .5 0  
and  I  w ill send  y o u   one, ch arges  paid. 
W arranted to  suit.
W.  T.  LAMOREAUX,

THESE GOODS ARE "PAR EX0ELLEN0E”
Pure, H ealth fu l an d  Beliable, w arran ted   to  give satis- 
faction in every p articu lar.  F or sale by w holesale and 
retail grocers th ro u g h o u t th t United  States,  vou win 
B r o s ., M anufacturers, Cleveland and Chicago.

138-140 Jefferson five., 34-36  Woodbridge St„ Detroit.
ATTENTION,  RETAIL  M ERCH AN TS!

MAIL  ORDERS sent in care L.  W. ATKINS will receive  PROMPT ATTENTION

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

71  Canal Street,

Increase  y o u r   Cigar T rade  by  selling  the

B .   1S/L.  -A -

Michigan

Named in  Compliment to  the

B u sin ess  M en’s  

,

And  especially adapted,  both  in  Quality  and  Price,  to  the  requirements  of  the

RETAIL  GROCERY  TRADE.

ÄtisoliJtßly  THE  BEST  §  Cent  Cigar  on  Earth!.

PRICE,  $30 PER  THOUSAND.

T h e   T elfer  Sp ice  C om p an y,

M ANUFACTURERS’  AGENTS,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

To  the  Merchants  or  Michigan —We  offer 

Marble and Granite

Monuments

at a closer margin of profit than  any  concern in 
the State.  Write for estimates on Building Stone 
or cemetery work.  First class material and work 
manship only.

SBM'L  MOFFETT,  Manager.

u e T i w y p c f t t

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A T   T H I S

COAL!—COKE! — W00D!
Office under Nat’l City Bail.

W holesale  A.  HIMES. •  and  Retail

Shaw mut Avenue, Winter and 

Yards,
The  Best  Fitting  Stock­

W. Division Sts.

Telephone  Call 4-90-2.  CAR LOTS A  SPECIALTY.

ing Rubber  in the 

Market.

«

Geo.  H.  Reeder
Mich
Grand  Rapids,

Sole Agents,

CORUSSl-LANE&BUULtf GO
u u n u o u   i :  
F N G IN E S

a u t o m a t i c   c u t   o f f

U n rivalled for STRENGTH 

DURABILITY  A N D 

K z  

— ^ C L O S E   R E G U L A T I O N
2   t o   4 8   J O H N   S T R E E T

TMLâMf &

for th e

S o le  A g e n ts  for W e s te r n   M ic h ig a n  

H .L E 0N R R D B 0N 8
Q u i c k m e o l
THE SUCCESS OF THE

G A S O L I N E   S T O \ rE.

Has  eight separate  and important improvements for 1889 
Now is the  time to  arrange  for the  selling  agency for yonr 
town,  and  we  invite  correspondence  from  previous  agents 
and  from  those  who  would  like  the  agency for the  coming 
season.  Discount,  terms  of  delivery  and  dating  of  invoice 
given  on  application.  Catalogue for  1889  now readv.

H.  Leonard  &  Sons,
Jobbers  of CrockBry.Tinware and  Lamp Goods.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

B E L K N A P

WAGON  i SLEIGH GO

Manufacturers of

BBLKMP’S PAT. SLEIGHS

Business and Pleasure Sleighs, 
Farm Sleighs, Logging Sleighs, 
Lumbermen’s and River Tools.

e carry a large stock of material  and  have ev­
ery facility for  making  first-class  Sleighs  of all 
kinds.
Cor. Front and First Sts..

Grand Rapids.

SHOP,

W e also manufacture a  full  line  of Sweet 

Goods.  Write  for  quotations 

and  samples.

JACKSON
•I MICH.

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TUBO.  B .  GOOSSEN,

P ro d u c e C o m m issio n   M e rc h a n t,

WHOLESALE

BROKER  IN  LUMBER.

Orders  for  Potatoes,  Cabbage  and  Apples,  iu Car Lots, solicited. 

Butter and Eggs, Oranges Lemons  and Bananas a specialty.

33;OTTAWAoSTEET, 

Telephone 269.

GRIND  RÄPID8,  MICH.

Oranges, Lemons and Bananas!
geohow bucT

H e a d q u a rte rs

MESSINA  FRUIT.
SPECIAL  PRICES  TO  JOBBERS.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  -  -  MICH.

No. 3 Ionia Street, 

FOR

Q o
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MOSELEY  BROS,

Fruits,  Seeds, Oysters | Produce.

-WHOLESALE------

All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed,  Beans or  Potatoes,  will be 

pleased to hear from you.

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

W M. SEARS & CO.,

Bracker  MamlfacWrers,

A G E N TS  BOR  A M B O Y

37, 3 9  a n d  41 K e n t St., G ra n d   R a p id s.

COLBY,  CBAIGr &  00.

MANUFACTURE

THE  BEST  DELIVERY  WAGON  ON  EARTH.

We Manufacture to Order  Hose and Police Patrol Wagons, Peddlers, Rakers, Creamery, 

Dairy, Furniture, Builders, Dry Goods, Laundry,  and Undertakers Wagons.

R e p a irin g   in  a ll  its  B ra n c h e s.

CO LBY ,  C R A IG   &  CO.,

W est End Fulton St  Bridge.  Telephone No. 867.

climax, Deacon Crossgrain  has  declared 
open war  against  us because I wouldn’t 
deliver  fifty  pounds  of  salt  after  10 
o’clock the other night.”

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The saying that “revolutions  never go 
backward”  is  commonly regarded  as an 
exceptionally truthful one,  and undoubt­
edly the revolution that has thrown upon 
the dealer and his  assistants—biped and 
quadruped—the muscular exertions once 
cheerfully assumed by the customer,  will 
prove  no  exception. 
In  fact, from  the 
present outlook, there is a strong  indica­
tion that this particular  revolution is far 
from  having  accomplished  its  mission, 
and will not  have  accomplished its mis­
sion  until  science  and  discovery  shall 
have,  let us say, enabled  the  apothecary 
to  purge  and  blister  his  customers  by 
the  remedies  on  his  own person;  when 
the grocer shall deliver  his commodities, 
hot,  and prepared for the stomach;  when 
the  boot and  shoe  dealer  shall  be  pro­
vided  with  automatons  to  wear,  break 
and  fit  goods  for  any  foot;  when  the 
hardware man shall furnish a motor with 
every machine and implement sold; when 
the vender of  dry goods shall furnish his 
fabrics, made up,  at the  cost  of  the  ma­
terial, and so on to the  end  of  the chap­
ter of  the variou s trades and pursuits.
Where Our Lemons Come From.
From  th e  New Y ork  Post.
A  well-known  fruit  dealer  in  Yesey 
street was  applied  to  by a  reporter  the 
other day for some information in regard 
to the lemon  trade in this city. 
In reply 
he said:  “Most of  the  lemons we get  in 
this market come from  Naples,  Sorrento, 
Rodi and  Messina.  From each  of  these 
ports  they are shipped by way of  Liver­
pool.  Some  are sent  in  sailing  vessels, 
but  not  many,  as  such  are  not  apt  to 
arrive  in  good  condition.  Steamers, on 
account  of  their  superior  speed,  carry 
most of  the foreign  fruits.  Great  quan­
tities of lemons are sold  here by auction, 
the sales of a single day often amounting 
to forty thousand or fifty thousand boxes. 
The  price  they  bring  depends  entirely 
upon  their  quality and  the  quantity in 
the market.  Sometimes they are ‘a drug’ 
and  scarcely  bring  enough  to  pay  the 
freight  on  them,  and  again  $14 to $16 a 
box  is  not  an  unusual  price.  Dealers 
here  do not  keep  regular  agents at the 
points  of  shipment,  but  the  fruit  is 
shipped  on  speculation.  An ordinarily 
good  price is  $6 a box.  The  season  for 
the  gathering of  Italian lemons is  at its 
height  between  February  and  March. 
Some lemons will  not keep over a month 
at the outside,  while others  that are firm 
and  hard will  remain in  good  condition 
for four  months.  The  Messinas are the 
best  Italian  lemons  and  will  keep  the 
longest.  The Palermos rank next, while 
the  poorest,  as  a  general  thing,  come 
from  Naples.  There  is,  however,  no 
rule by which one can be sure that lemons 
from  one place will  uniformly be  better 
than those from another.  Naples lemons 
have  been  known  to  bring  more  than 
those  shipped  from  Messina.  Dealers 
know' no special  varieties of  lemons, but 
simply  lump  them  under the  names  of 
the places from which they come.  Some 
people  have  an  idea  that  lemons  are 
colored  and  ripened  by  sulphur  fumes 
and  artificial  heat.  Such  notions  are 
entirely wrong.  Lemons, when they are 
sent from home, are as green and hard as 
an  infant  apple,  but ripen  during  the 
voyage,  so  that  when  they arrive  they 
are as soft  and  juicy as if  they had  ma­
tured upon the tree.
“The best lemons we get in  New York 
come from  Florida.  They are  naturally 
of  a prime quality, and then the distance 
they have to be sent  is  not  great.  The 
possibilities before  the  Florida  growers 
are  extensive,  and,  if  care  is  taken  by 
them in sorting and picking, they may in 
tine  run  the  Italian produce out of  the 
market.  The Florida  lemons are packed 
in boxes holding about 250 to  300 apiece 
They begin to  come  in  November.  W< 
get  very  few  South  American  lemons 
because they are  too  tender to stand the 
voyage.  Small  quantities  are sent from 
Jamaica,  but  the  lirqes  shipped  from 
here are growing in popularity constantl; 
and are a much more  important  produc 
of  that island  than  the  lemons.  Limes 
must be packed  tightly in barrels to pre 
vent  bruising. 
I  suppose  there  are 
twenty-five barrels of  limes shipped now 
where  there  were  three  ten  years ago 
In a general  way it  may perhaps be said 
that better lemons  grow on  high ground 
than  on  low, but, as I said  before,  each 
season, place and  individual  tree  seems 
to be a law  unto  itself.  We  can  never 
tell in advance  where  we  are to get the 
best fruit.”

W A R R A N T E D   T O   B B T H i :

FINEST and LARGEST SMOKE
F or th e  m oney In th e  U. 8.  ® " P n t u p  BO in  a  box.  Ask 
JO H N  E .  K E N N I N G  St  C O ., G r a n d  R a p i d s .  

y o u r d ealer fo r them .  M anufactured only by 

Send fo r price».W.  H.  BERBJi

WHOLESALE DEALER  IX

GRAIN,

SEEDS,

BALED HAY,

MILL FEED

and PRODUCE.

BALED HAY A SPECIALTY.

HOLLAND,  -  MICH.
A   W K I N G S

AND  TENTS.

Horse and W agon  Covers,  W ater  Proof  Coats, Buggy 
Aprons. Wide C otton  Ducks, etc.  Send fo r  Illu strated

C atalogue.Clias. A.  Cove,

Telephone 106. 

Over 73 Canal S t

MAGIC COFFEE  ROASTER
The  m ost p ractical 
h and  R o aster  in  the 
world.  Thousands in 
use—g m u g   satisfac 
tion.  They a re sim pu 
durable an d  econom 
ical. 
grocer 
should  be  w ithout 
one.  R oasts  coffee 
and  pea-nuts to   per 
fection.

No 

Address  fo r  C ata 

logue and prices.

Roht.  8. West

48-30 Long St 

Cleveland, Ohio.

Why you should send us your orders.  We handle 
nothing but BEST and CHOICEST BRANDS; 
Seuat Manufacturers' and Importers* Prices; 
Ship at ONE DAY *S NOTICk, enabling 
you to receive  goods day following; 
Fill  orders  for  a LL  KINDS ol
G L A . S S,

mported ^ 
and American 
Polished PLATE,
Rough  and  Ribbed 
“   nch  Window,  Ameri­
can  Window,  English  26 c_.
Enamelled,  Cut and  Embossed.
Rolled Cathedral, Venetian, Muffled, #
Frosted  Bohemian,  German  Looking 
Glass  Plates,  French  Mirror  Plates.
The quality, variety and quantity of our stocs 
is exceeded by no  house in  the United States.

W M .  R E I D ,

73 &75  Lamed  Street West, DETROIT,  MICH. 
Grand  Rapids Store,  61  Waterloo  Street,

W A N T E D !
We want stocks of goods in exchange 
for $100,000 worth of productive  real 
estate in Lansing city property and im­
proved farms.
Real  Estate Brokers 
Lansing Mich.
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E, A.  CLARK & CO.

LAMP  BURNERS.

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.

6 doz. in box.
No. 0 Sun................................................ ........  1  <10•> on
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No  2  “
First quality.
No. 0 Sun. crimp  Lop............................. _____ 2  15
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Pearl top.

La Bastic.

No. 1 .................................................... ..........2 80
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No. 2  “ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled......... ..........3 70
.......... ........4 70
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No. 2 Hinge.  “ 
No. 1 Sun, plain b ulb......
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No. 2  “ 
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No. 1 crimp........................
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Butter Crocks, per gal......
.  65 
Jugs, 14 gal., per doz........
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.1  80
Meat Tubs , 10 gal., each. 
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.2 25 
.  60 
.  78

Milk Pans, J4 gal., per doz.  (glazed 66c)... 
“  90c).  .

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The Michigan Tradesman

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY  «0,  1889.

LEISURE HOUR  JOTTINGS.

W ritten tor Thk  Tradesman.

B Y   A   CO UN TRY  M ERC H A N T.

1 hardly think there is among those deal­
ers affected a general and enthusiastic de­
sire  to  erect a memorial  of  gratitude to 
the individual  who  first  introduced  the 
free delivery system.  Even in  localities 
where  custom  and  surroundings  have 
made  it  practically  indispensable  it  is 
not “pointed to  with  pride” by a major­
ity of  those who are  forced  to make it a 
conspicuous feature of  their trade, while 
in the country towns there is, among  the 
merchants who have adopted the custom, 
an almost  unanimous  conclusion  that it 
is an unreasonable  and unnecessary load 
upon an already overburdened  business.
And  the  country grocer, for  instance, 
after sufficiently anathematizing his own 
folly,  and  that  of  his  competitors, nat­
urally takes a mental  inventory of  what 
modern  progression  has  done  for  his 
line in trade,  since  he faced his first cus 
tomer  from  behind a counter, and, if  he 
is at  all  old-fogyish  in  his  habits  and 
■disposition,  he  undoubtedly  ranks  the 
aggregation  of  labor  saving machinery, 
which has  gradually accumulated on his 
hands, with the free d.elivery system.

A  few  years  ago  some  half  a  dozen 
parties  were  handling  groceries  in  the
small  village of  X-----.  They  were  all
of  them, perhaps, a little countrified and 
unprogressive in  their  habits, but  they 
had all the goods  which  their  trad r de­
manded;  good credit, and the  reputation 
of  doing a small, but safe business.  The 
people  of  the  section  rather  preferred 
roasting  and  grinding  their  own coffee, 
shaving their dried  beef, etc., and carry­
ing home  their own  goods.  They didn’t 
care whether  their  tea  came  from a $10 
gilded can, or the  original  chest.  They 
wanted  honest  weight, but  didn’t insist 
on bronze  and marble  scales.  They put 
up  their  own  “sass,”  and  the  canned 
goods  trade wras decidedly an “infant in­
dustry.”

But a sudden and  disastrous  calamity
overtook the local grocery trade of X-----.
The  son  of  a  wealthy  resident  of  a 
neighboring  town  was  peremptorily in­
formed by “the  old  man ’ that the  time 
had  arrived  to “fish  or  cut  bait,” and 
unfortunately, decided  to  open  a  high- 
toned  grocery in  the  village.  The best 
and largest store in town  was leased, the 
insides  torn  out, and  made  new and re­
splendent  by  the  decorator’s  art.  Tliej 
most elaborate  and  expensive  store fix­
tures  were  purchased;  a  glittering  de­
livery  wagon put on the  streets, and the 
room  filled  to  overflowing  with  almost 
every article known to the trade.

But  the  worst  feature  of  the  whole 
matter was that the  young  fellow,  in his 
total  ignorance  of  business  methods, 
commenced a reckless  cutting and slash­
ing in prices,  and gave  credit  almost in­
discriminately.  By  these  means  he 
speedily secured  the  bulk of  the  trade. 
But the usual results of  incapacity,  reck­
lessness  and  extravagance 
followed, 
and the “Palace Grocery”  went  into  the 
hands  of  a  receiver;  was  started  up 
again by the “old  man;”  collapsed  more 
disastrously than  before,  and,  in  about 
two  years from  the  time of  opening was 
emptied by the sheriff  and the holders of 
sundry chattel mortgages.

Unfortunately,  the  folly of  the  “Pal­
ace” man  had, in  the  meantime,  innoc- 
ulated  liis  neighbors. 
Imagining  that 
the  only way  for  anything  like  compe­
tition was to imitate  his  methods,  deliv­
ery wagons were put on the road, unreas­
onable investments  made in fixtures, the 
shelves filled  with  showy but  unsalable 
goods,  the  profits  cut  down  to  a mini­
mum,  and  credit  customers encouraged.
Since the “Palace” closed  up  the gro­
cery  trade  of  X-----  has  had  a  large
amount of  experience with  modern mer­
cantile  progression.  Bankrupt  stocks 
have  antagonized  the 
regular  trade; 
nearly all  salable  articles  have  become 
“leaders;” expenses are materially larger 
than of  old, and  there  is  no  indication 
that all the  allurements  and  seductions 
of  “new methods” can ever  increase the 
volume of  trade in any degree.

“The  delivery  system,”  said  Smith’s 
clerk and driver,  “has considerable effect 
in bringing out an  individual’s  careless­
ness,  selfishness  and  laziness.  There, 
for instance, is old  Crickett,  who  comes 
in  once  a  week,  buys  a gallon  of  ker­
osene,  and  gets  it  and  himself  carried 
home a mile on a two-cent  profit.  Then 
there’s Dusenberry, who  comes in on the 
muddiest,  rainiest  day  of  the  month; 
grumbles for half  an  hour over the price 
of  sugar;  buys a dollar’s  worth, and  in­
sists on my hitching up expressly to take 
it home.  A workingman,  who  lives  out 
about  three-quarters of  a mile, is a good 
customer, and  good  pay, but if  his fam­
ily buy seventeen  articles  in  two  days, 
I’ve got to make  exactly seventeen trips.
Mrs.  s-----’s  half-pound  of  tea,  or
ounce  of  nutmegs,  have  to  be  trucked 
home  as  much as if  they  weighed  forty 
pounds,  and I couldn’t find her a postage 
stamp,  yesterday,  because  I  knew  I’d 
have to deliver it.  And  then, to chp the

How to Guard Your Credit.

3. 

4. 

2.  When  the  monthly  statement 

The Canada Booh and Notion gives the 
following good advice:
If you have any claims for shortage 
1. 
or  damages, send  them  on  the  day  the 
goods are checked.
rendered  check  it, and  if  wrong,  write 
about  the error at once.
If you cannot remit when asked to. 
drop a  line  when you  reasonably  expect 
to be able to do so.
If  you  are  notified  that  you will 
after a lapse of  time, be drawn  upon, at 
See 
tend  to  the  matter  immediately. 
that  the amount  and  terms are  correct 
and that  your bill  book will  permit  you 
to accept the draft. 
If not, write exactly 
what you want.  Let it be your ambition 
for  the  coming  year  never  to  refuse 
draft.
If  you  cannot  meet a draft at  ma­
5. 
turity  write or  telegraph  in time to save 
protest cost.  A little  care in  these mat 
ters will save much trouble.
The Biggest Pair  of  Shoes  ever  Made 
A shoemaker of Atlanta,  Ga., has  just 
finished  the  largest pair  of  shoes  ever 
made for  actual use. 
It  took  a  piece of 
leather  containing  1,040  square  inches 
to  make  the  uppers, and  1,960 to  make 
the  soles.  That  is  3,000  square  inches 
altogether. 
If that leather were cut into 
two strips an eighth of an inch wide, and 
made  into  one  long  string, the  string 
would  be 24,000  inches  long.  The soles 
weigh 
inches long, 5% wide and 8% inches deep. 
That doesn’t count the heel, which would 
add another  inch to the depth.

pounds.  The  soles  are 

TIME  TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.
Arrive«. 
Traverse C ity A  M ackinaw................ 
Traverse City A  M ackinaw................ 9:06 a m  
From  C incinnati....................................7:30 p m
F o r Petoskey A  Mackinaw C ity........3^55 p m  
Saginaw Express..................................11:30 a m  

OOINO NORTH.

Leaves
7:00 a m
11:30 a
5:00 p m
7:20 a

 

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10:30 
Saginaw express runs th ro u g h  solid.
7:00 a. m. tra m  has c h air car to Traverse City.
11:30 a. m . tra in  h as ch air c a r fo r Petoskey and Mack­
5:00 p.  m, tra in   has  sleeping  c a r  fo r  Petoskey  and 

inaw  City.
Mackinaw C ity.
GOING  SOUTH.
Cincinnati  Express........................... 
F o rt W ayne Express...........................10:30 a  m  
Cincinnati  Express..............................4:40 p m  
From  Traverse C ity........................... 10:40 p m

7:15 a m
11:45 a
5:00 p m
7:15 a m  tra in   has  p a rlo r  ch air  c a r  fo r  Cincinnati, 
5:00 p m  tra in  h as W oodruff sleeper fo r C incinnati. 
5:00 p.  m. tra in  connects  w ith M. C. R. R. a t K alam a­
zoo fo r B attle Creek,  Jackson,  D etroit  and  Canadian 
points, arriv in g  in D etroit a t 10:45 p. m.
Sleeping c a r rate s—$1.50  to   P etoskey  o r  Mackinaw 
City;  $2 to  C incinnati.
All Trains daily except Sunday.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. 

Arrive.
Leave. 
7  05 a m ...................................... 
10:45 a m
11:15 a  ..........................................................................   4:45 p m
4:80 p m .......................................................................  7:45 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge s tre e t  depot 7 m inutes later.
C. L. L ockwood; GenT Pass. Agent.
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

 

GOING WEST.

Leaves 
1:10 p m  
5:10 p m

Arrives.
fM om ing Express...............................1:05 p m
tT hrough M ail.....................................4:55 p m
tG rand Rapids Express...................10:40 p m
•N ight E xpress....................................6:40 a m
t  Mixed..................................................
GOING BAST.
tD etroit  Express..............................
tT hrough M ail...................................10:20 a  m
tE veningE xpress..........................  3:40pm
•Lim ited Express.............................. 10:30 p m

6:50 a  m 
10:30 a  
3:50 p m 
10:55 p m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
D etroit  Express  has p arlo r  c a r  to D etroit,  m aking 
direct connections fo r a ll points  East, a rriv in g  in New 
Y ork 10:10 a. m. n ex t day.  Lim ited  Express,  E ast, has 
th ro u g h   sleeper  G rand  Rapids  to  N iagara  Falls, 
connecting  a t  M ilwaukee 
th ro u g h  
sleeper to  Toronto.
Through tickets and  sleeping  car  b erth s secured a t 
B., G. H. A M .R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and a t th e  depot.

Ju n ctio n   w ith  

J as. Campbell, C ity P assenger Agent.

p m . 4:10 p

LEMON, HOOPS i  PETERS,

W holesale

Grocers

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IMPORTERS.

All  Grocers  sell  SANTA  CLAUS  SOAP. 

Made  by  N.  K.  FAIRBANK  &  CO., Chicago, XU:

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

VALUED  INSURANCE POLICY.

An  Attempt  to  Pass Such a  Measure 

Before the Legislature.
L an sin g  Correspondence D etroit Journal.
The  insurance  situation  is  becoming 
interesting.  On the 26th of  last  Decem­
ber  the  Policy  Commission,  appointed 
under the act of  1S81 to adopt a standard 
fire insurance policy for  the  State, com­
pleted their work, and  last  week  Insur­
ance Commissioner Raymond notified the 
companies  that  the  new form of  policy 
will take effect  on  the  first  day of  next 
July.  Senator  Wisner  recently  intro­
duced  a  sweeping  insurance  measure 
which—if  it  become  a law—will  repeal 
all conflicting  acts.  The  new  standard 
policy  does  conflict  very  emphatically 
with the most vital  point of  the  Wisner 
act, and can never go  into  operation un­
less the antagonistic bill is defeated.
The first clause of  the  standard policy 
says:
The company shall  not  be  liable  beyond  the 
actual cash value of  the property at the time any 
loss or damage occurs, and  the  loss  or  damage 
shall be  ascertained  or  estimated  according  to 
such actual cash value,  with  proper  deduction 
for  depreciation, however  caused, and  shall in 
no event exceed what it  would  then cost the in­
sured  to  repair  or replace  the  same  with  ma­
terial of like  kind  and  quality;  said  ascertain­
ment  or  estimate  shall  be made by the insured 
and  this  company, or if they differ, then by ap­
praisers.
Right here Mr. Wisner’s  bill  takes  is­
It  requires  that  in  case  of  -total 
sue. 
loss  the  full  face  value  of  the  policy 
shall be paid. 
It specifies  that in recov­
ering  for  fire  losses  by legal action the 
amount of  damages shall be  the  amount 
expressed in the policy or contract as the 
amount insured,  “and no other  evidence 
shall be admitted as  to  the  value of  the 
property insured.”  Whenever there is a 
partial loss the company shall pay a sum 
equal to the damage. 
In  estimating  the 
loss, the foundation  shall  not  be taken 
into  account  or  treated as a part of  the 
building.  Nothing in  the  act, however, 
is to be construed as  preventing  the  ad­
mission of  testimony to prove  fraud and 
deception.
This  portion  of  the  bill  is  modeled 
closely  after  the  New  Hampshire  law. 
the  foreign  companies 
Nearly  all  of 
pulled out of  the State after  its passage, 
but recently they have  commenced to re­
establish  agencies  there.  The  Wisner 
bill  has  another  radical  feature  in  an 
anti-compact clause, which its sponsor is 
confident  the  companies  cannot  avoid. 
It provides that in case  any company en­
ters into  any compact or combination for 
the  purpose  of  controlling  the  rates 
charged for  fire  insurance, the Commis­
sioner  shall  revoke  the  license  of  the 
compaay to do  business in Michigan and 
no  renewal  shall  be  granted  for  three 
years.  The  bill  ignores  the  Insurance 
Policy Commission and  directs  that  the 
Insurance Commissioner  shall  prepare a 
standard  policy in  conformity with  the 
leading features of  the bill.
Senator  Wisner  will  push  his  bill 
earnestly,  but  the  insurance  men  will 
fight it with  equal  vigor  and  emphasis. 
They assert that the  payment of  the full 
face  value  of  the  policy  will  give  an 
opening for unlimited fraud between dis 
honest local agents and  the insured,  as it 
will give them  opportunities to insure at 
exorbitant figures and then add the crime 
of  arson to the fraud without fear of  de­
tection.
The act of  1881  provides that the stan­
dard  policy provision  should  not  apply 
to farmers’ mutual insurance companies, 
that  insure  farm  property  exclusively. 
Senator  Holbrook  has prepared a bill to 
so amend the act that the  provision  will 
not  apply to the  farmers’  mutual  com 
panies that are insuring city property.

No Cartage for Them.

Ma n to n, Feb.  14,  1889.

E. ▲. Stowe, G rand R apids:
D e a r   Sir—Enclosed  find  copy  of  an 
agreement  made by the  business  men of 
Manton.  Will  you  be kind  enough  to 
publish  the  same  in  your  paper  and 
oblige the retailers of Manton?
Yours respectfully,

F.  L.  R oberts. 
Ma x to x,  Feb.  14, 1889.

To the Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Association: 
We, the undersigned merchants of this 
place,  hereby  pledge  ourselves  to  trade 
with no firm charging  cartage or boxing.
F. A. Jenison, Frank  Weaver, A. Curtis, 
Northrup  &  Williams,  Ira  E.  Kibbe, 
KTohn  &  Alvin,  E.  W.  Hubbell,  J.  C. 
Bostick,  M.  F.  White,  Rinaldo  Fuller, 
Meyer  Hardware  Co.,  F.  L.  Roberts, F. 
R. Danberry, C. B. Bailey.

The Condition of Trade.

From  the New York Shipping List.
The  new  week  opens  more  favorable 
auspices with  respect to the general con­
dition  of  commercial  affairs  than  have 
prevailed for some time, the continuation 
of  a lower temperature and more season­
able  winter weather  in  nearly  all  parts 
of  the  country  having  been  a  material 
factor  in  stimulating  business  in  many 
localities, while  the  improved  temper of 
a number of  the speculative markets and 
a  general  display  of  confidence  in  the 
future  has  had a beneficial  influence  in 
expanding the volume of legitimate trade 
as well as speculation.  The usual guide- 
posts that  are accepted as  affording a re­
liable  basis  for  estimating  the  volume 
and  direction of  trade all  point to favor­
able  results, the  clearing house  returns 
last week  having  shown  a  considerable 
increase in the  volume of  business  pass­
ing through  the banks as compared  with 
the  week  previous and  the  correspond­
ing week last year,  and the railroad earn­
ings  are  likewise  showing 
important 
gains in the gross earnings reported from 
week  to week.  Then,  again, the  money 
market has continued in good shape,  and 
there has been a considerable  increase in 
the foreign trade movement, both imports 
and exports  being in excess of  last  year. 
The depression that  hangs over  the  iron 
industry is an unfavorable feature of the 
industrial  situation, especially  as  there 
does  not  seem  to  be  any chance of  im­
mediate  improvement,  and  prices  are 
drifting  downward  instead  of  upward, 
while the  failure of  a large  business en­
terprise  in  Boston  caused  a momentary 
feeling of hesitation in speculative circles, 
but  there  is a  growing  feeling of  confi­
dence  in  the stock  market which  seems 
to be  imparting  a  more  cheerful temper 
to commercial  affairs generally.  During 
a  period of  quietude  and dullness, such 
as has been  experienced  during the  past

six  weeks  in  nearly  all  departments of 
business  activity, Wall  street  is closely 
watched  for  the  first  evidences  of  im­
provement, and  the  steady  growth  of  a 
bullish  sentiment  during  the  past week 
or ten  days  has  no doubt  been  reflected 
in  the  more  cheerful  feeling  that  has 
recently  come  to the  surface in commer­
cial  circles.  The  money  market  has 
likewise  given  evidence  of  increased 
activity in  the  better  demand  for  loan 
able  funds and the  higher rates of  inter 
est  that have  been obtainable for  call as 
well  as time loans.  The  hardening  ten 
dency  developed  last week  is  likely  to 
result in a closer money market from this 
time forward,  but the supply of  loanable 
funds will  nevertheless be ample  for  all 
requirements especially as the large pur 
chase of bonds last week by the Treasury 
Department  indicates  a  willingness  on 
the part of  the Secretary to prevent  any 
further  accumulation  of  funds.  There 
has  been important  change in the  grain 
market.  Wheat has  continued  to fluctu 
ate  under  the  influence  of  speculative 
manipulation, which  just now shows the 
preponderance  of  a  bullish  sentiment, 
and  hence  a  higher  level of  prices  has 
been  maintained;  but the  most  material 
factor  respecting  the  future is the dull­
ness of  foreign  markets, the  heavy sup 
plies that are being carried abroad and the 
relatively higher prices that prevail  here 
and  that  preclude  any  thought  of  ex­
ports  except upon a much  lower level of 
values.  The  sharp advance caused  five 
loads to be  taken on  Monday for Lisbon, 
but they were offered again yesterday for 
sale in order to realize the profits shown 
There  is  as  yet  no  evidence  that  the 
world’s  supply is  short of  the  total  re 
quirements  for  the  current  cereal  year 
and  hence bull  arguments  lose  much of 
their force.

A Glut of Eggs.

From  th e  M erchants’ Review.
If  there is any truth in the theory held 
by some  people  that  a  hen  lays only a 
certain  number  of  eggs in a  year, there 
is  likelihood  of  a  shortage  in  the  egg 
crop  next  summer  and  fall.  The poor 
creatures  have  been  laying  at  a warm 
weather rate  during the past month, the 
unusual  mildness  of  the  season  having 
apparently  deluded  them  in  the notion 
that winter  is over.  The  receipts  from 
all points at this market  have been enor­
mous and there  is  no  prospect of  a fall­
ing off  in the arrivals  unless the temper­
ature  takes  a  sudden  drop.  For  the 
month of  January the  average  daily re­
ceipts  have  been  about  70,000  dozen 
above  those  of  January,  1888,  and  the 
price has fallen lower  than  for  twenty- 
five  years  at  this  date.  The  following 
table  gives  the  price of  fresh-laid  eggs 
on  January 30, 1889,  and  same  date  in 
the previous eight  years:
1889............................................... Per Doz
1888...............................................
1887...............................................  
1886...............................................
1885...............................................
1884...............................................
1893...............................................
1882...............................................
1881................................................

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East  Saginaw  Jottings.

W. F. Twelvetrees  has purchased Frye 
& Wieklein’s  stationery  and  wall  paper 
stock.  He takes possession at once.  Mr. 
Gibbs will have charge of the news stand 
in the postoftice which  Mr.  T.  also owns.
There has been some talk of one of our 
leading  dry goods  houses  purchasing  or 
renting  and  enlarging and  refitting  the 
corner where  O’Brien’s liquor  store now 
is, owned  by the Germania society, for  a 
dry goods store.

G. W. Stevens, of  the  firm of  Stevens 
&  LaDue, will  move  to  Ashland, Wis., 
his future home, next May or June.  Mr. 
Stevens goes there to look after  the lum­
bering  interests of  the  firm,  who  own 
200,000,000 of  pine near Ashland.  They 
expect that it will take  ten years to lum­
ber this tract.  Mr. LaDue will look after 
their mill business.

Gripsack Brigade.

A.  F.  Peake,  President  of  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip,  was  in  town  last 
Friday to attend the traveling men’s ball.
Fred W. Powers,  for  three  years  past 
traveling representative for Hugo Schnei­
der  &  Co.,  has  engaged  to  travel  for 
the Widdicomb Furniture Co., taking the 
retail trade of  Michigan, Ohio and  Indi­
ana.

“Traveler”  sends  T h e  T r a d e sm a n a 
poetical  effusion  without  enclosing  his 
everyday  name. 
It  has  long  been  the 
policy  of  all  well-regulated  newspaper 
offices to decline to publish any commun­
ication  without  knowing  the  name  of 
the writer, and T h e T r a desm a n sees no 
reason for making  an  exception  in  this 
case.

Sharp Advance in Furs.

The wool market  shows a weaker feel­
ing,  with  little  doing.  Small  stocks, 
small wants.

Hides  are  in  ftir  demand  at  the ex­
treme  low  prices.  Tanners  feel  some 
better, as  leather  is  selling  at  the low 
prices, which helps to clean up stocks on 
hand and make an opening for  that  com-

g  out of  vats.
Tallow is in fair demand and steady.
Furs are in good  demand for export in 
time for March sales.  We advance prices 
15 per cent,  above  list  for  all  goods re­
ceived on or before March 1.

Excursion  to  Washington.

All persons who go to Washington with 
the  Traveling  Men’s  excursion can  use 
the  sleepers  while  there,  as  side  track 
privileges have been secured  for ten (10) 
Wagner sleeping cars.  Those  intending 
to join us  please drop  me a card, care of 
F.  M.  Briggs,  General  Agent  Michigan 
Central railroad, 95 Monroe street, Grand 
Rapids.  Telephone 788.

Geo.  F.  Ow en.

The Paw Paw National  Bank  recently 
paid a draft for $40 which  was  issued to 
a New York man six  years ago.

CLERKS  AND  THEIR  WORK.

Advertising in Season.

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—Some  of  Their Difficulties.

It is also observable that employes j 

An unidentified writer  on  advertising 
Their  Community  of  Interest  Limited 
a retail  business  has  written a few  pat 
words on the time to advertise:
“To  speak of  clerks  in a general  way 
“There  is  nothing  on  earth  so  mys­
as  though  there were  much of  anything 
teriously funny as a newspaper or period­
in common among them in point of work, 
ical  advertisement.  The  prime,  first, 
requirements, 
interests,  and  the  like, 
last and all-the-time  object of  an  adver­
would  be  utterly  wrong,”  said  one of  a 
tisement  is  to  draw  custom. 
It is not, 
number  of  employes,  representing  dif­
was  not  and  never will  be designed  for 
ferent  kinds  of  establishments,  when 
any other human purpose.  So  the  mer­
questioned  about  their  calling. 
“The 
chant waits until the busy season comes, 
members  of  the  various  crafts  have  a 
and the store is so full of  customers that 
much  greater  equality of  work,  a  much 
he  cannot  get  his  hat  off, and  then he 
stronger bond of  union, and less striking 
rushes to the business  office  and puts in 
differences  of  social  standing  than  we. 
his advertisement.  When  the  dull  sea­
The  most  casual  observer  can  readily 
son  comes  along,  and  there  is no trade, 
understand  that, when the kind of  goods 
and  he  wants  to  sell goods so badly he 
handled  vary from  jewelry to  hardware, 
can’t  pay his  rent,  he  discontinues  his 
from books  to  junk supplies, from  silks 
advertisement.  That  is,  some  of  them 
and laces to meat and groceries,  and that
do,  but  occasionally a level-headed  man
different  types  of  character, dress,  and 
manners  are  practically  necessitated  by  Pu^s >n a bigger one and scoops in all the 
different kinds of  business, there can  be | trade,  while  his  neighbors  are  making 
no unanimity of interest  among  us  save I mortgages to raise  money to  pay the gas 
only the  dollars and  cents we  get out  of j MU*  There are times when you couldn’t 
our work.  We  have a calling  merely  in | S^°P people from buying  everything  you 
the  sense  that  we  are  instruments  of i have  for  sale  if  you  planted  a  cannon 
transfer  between widely different classes i behind  the  door,  and  right  then is the 
of  proprietors  and  patrons.  Hence  our I time  some  business  men  send their ad- 
cliques,  in  so  far  as  we  have  any,  are  vertisement out on  its  holy mission. 
It 
mostly of personal friendships and limit- I makes  light  and  easy work  for  the ad- 
ed to the employes of a single store. 
vertisement, for  a chalk sign on the side- 
“A peculiar feature of clerk life is that j walb could do all  that  was  needed,  and 
we  naturally  grade off  by steps,  accord- j have half  a holiday six days in the week; 
ing  to the  kind of  store we  a r e   i n ,  f r o m   but who wants to favor an advertisement? 
easy,  semi-professional  positions  to  the  They are  built  to  do  hard  work,  and 
positions  of  ordinary  laborers.  Apart  should  be  relentlessly  sent  out  in  the 
from  a  few stores  where  some  special i duH  days,  when  a  customer  has  to be 
skill or aptitude is necessary I think that j  struck between the eyes  with hard facts, 
the  annoyances  incident  upon  clerking j  kicked  insensible  with  startling  bank- 
lessen  and the  pay improves as the work j ruPt reductions, and  dragged in and laid 
required  becomes more laborious.  This, | on the counter with irresistible slaughter 
of  course, is  easily  explainable.  The j 
prices  before he  will  spend a cent or 
annoyances spring  largely from  people’s \ hoy a saw.  This is the sole end and aim 
uncertainties  and whims, and  these crop j °t  an  advertisement,  and  if  you  ever 
out  more  in  matters of  taste, dress, and i °Pen a concern  to  manufacture  milling 
the  luxuries of  life  than in the  necessi- j supplies and  wood  working,  don’t try to 
ties. 
customers  to  come  when  they  are 
gravitate  toward  easy places  and  thus j already sticking out of  the windows, but 
lessen the demand in that direction. 
j Sive them your advertisement as a square 
“People  rarely  go  into  a  grocery,  a  j knock-down right in the dull season, and 
hardware  store  or  a  wholesale  house j  thereby  you  will  wax  rich  and  own 
without wanting to buy, and they usually  Froctor Knott or some kindred fast horse 
know what  they want.  The  work  done j to  enable  you to throw  dust  from  your 
by the employes of such stores is usually ; wheels  on  your  less  sensible  neighbors 
hard, but  it almost  invariably results  in  an<t win shekels thereby,  and  perhaps be 
a sale  and is not attended  by the endless  able to smoke a good cigar on the Fourth 
answering of  questions and  taking down  of  July and Christmas.  Now, just write 
of  goods  so  noticeable  in  some  other  this  down  where  you  will  fall  over  it 
kinds  of  stores. 
In  other  words,  the  every  day.  The  time  to  look  for  and 
work  all  counts,  and  when  nothing  is  draw  business  is  when  you  want  bus- 
actually wanted the clerk is not needless-  iness,  and  not  when  you  already have 
ly kept  busy. 
In  many stores, like  dry- : more business than  you can  attend  to.”
goods, millinery,  and  fancy goods  estab- ! 
lishments,  probably  nine-tenths  of  the 1 Cultivation of Nutmegs in New Guinea.
*Qto a little cove, says  C»p,.
they want and the clerk has to help them 
John Strachan, on the  south  side of  the 
decide,  and  probably half  of  those  who 
bay, we  landed  beside  a clear,  rippling 
pester the clerks don’t want to buy at all. 
stream,  and,  having ordered the whole of 
Still  they  cause  as  much  trouble  and 
the men to march  in  Indian file in front, 
work and  consume as much  time as cus­
we  started  by a little  rugged  path  into 
tomers  who  buy  freely  and  thus  help
the  mountains, with  my interpreter  im
salesmen to  make a good  record  for  effi-  mediately behind me and the  Rajah  just 
ciency. 
foot  of  the  journey, 
a furniture  store  or a carpet  house  and  which was laborious in  the extreme, dis- 
kiH  tune  simply from  the  desire to  see  closed fresh scenes of  verdure  and  t
pretty  things  they can t and  don’t mean  ical splendor.  winding  along  the sides
to purchase.
of  deep ravines, sometimes dragging our­
Then again,  in  some  kinds  of  stores 
selves  up  by  the  creepers  and  under- 
there is less chance for  trouble  and  an-
growth,  we  ultimately attained  an  alti-
noyanceto clerks from people’s bringing  tude of  about 1,000  feet  above  the  sea, 
back goods soiled and otherwise damaged  and  then  entered  the  nutmeg  country 
and asserting that they were so when de-  Here we halted  and  rested.  7rfa 
lew   people,  perhaps  realize  pulled  some  o£  the  lmtmegs,  and  Jex. 
livered. 
the amount of confusion  and  trouble  to  plained  how  far  they ffereKf  oD1  being 
us resulting from these practices  of  im-  L 
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position on the part of the curious or un- | 
rested  sufficiently,  we  again 
scrupulous, and I should advise those in­
started  forward,  and  after  scrambling 
tending to take up clerking as a business 
along for about an hour, we gained a fine 
to shun the stores  of  pretty  things  and 
piece of  table land, over  which  we trav­
nice surroundings and choose  the  stores 
eled  for  about  another  half  an  hour, 
where necessaries  of  life  are  sold  and 
when we reached three  houses erected in 
people who come in mean  business.
the very heart of  the forest.  These were 
“Class of patronage, too, makes all the 
used by the natives  for  drying  the  nut­
difference in  the  world  with  us.  The 
megs.  The  country  was  everywhere 
more  transient  the  custom  the  more 
magnificent, and the  aroma of  the spice­
trouble we experience.  There are  many 
laden air  delicious.  Nutmeg  and  other 
stores which certain families always pat­
equally valuable trees  were  everywhere 
ronize.  The  clerks  soon  become  ac­
growing  in great  profusion.  The  fruit 
quainted with them,  know  their  whims 
of  the nutmeg in appearance resembles a 
or tastes, and how to please them.  Then 
pear, and, when ripe, opens and displays 
the worst part of  our experience is over.
the  nut  covered  with  a  beautiful  red 
The same old course of feeling one’s way, 
coating  of  mace.  The  nuts  are  then 
of catering  to  foibles,  of  making  mis­
picked from  the  tree,  put  into  baskets 
takes, and the like has to be gone through 
and taken to the  houses,  where  they are 
with almost every  purchaser  at  a  store 
husked and placed on shelves.  They are 
whose trade is largely  transient.
then  partially  roasted  over  a  slow  fire 
Much has been said and written about 
until all the moisture is extracted.  After 
the in appropriateness  of  certain  clerks 
this they are cooled and  carried  down to 
in certain places—a gentleman at a glove 
the village  in  nets  ready to be bartered 
counter, for instance, or a lady behind  a 
to the  Bugis, Arabs,  and  other  traders 
cigar-case of a  resturant.  Now  let  me 
who  frequent  the  Gulf  in  their  small 
tell you that  those  things regulate them­
prows or  junkos at the proper season.
selves better than is generally  supposed. 
The one thing that a clerk wants to accom- i 
plish is to create a reputation in point of !  Why  They Walk on Their Heels, 
large sales.  Sex helps in this to an appre- i From the chlcago Tribune, 
“Stand  here  a  moment  and  watch,’
oiable extent.  One sex prefers to be wait-! 
ed upon by the other,  and as a  rule  you said  an  observer  of  human  oddities  at
will find an  obliging  gentleman  behind  Clark and Madison streets yesterday.  He
was peering intently at the  procession of 
the glove or silk counter of a  store  more 
feet through the slush of the crossing.
valuable  to  his  employer  than  a  first- 
“Notice the men first.”  His «ompanion 
class lady clerk. 
In the same way many 
did so.
of  the  incongruities  of  clerking  are 
“How do they tackle the soup?”  asked 
readily explained.  Our heads  are  more 
the observer presently.
level than some  people  would  suppose, 
“Nine  out of  ten,”  answered  the com-
to see us in our  surroundings.  What  is
rnore, store-keeper are just as well aware  Pan'on>  “come across on their toes.  The
tenth plunges ahead  in a devil-may-care, 
of this natural or sexual fitness  of  sales­
flat-footed style.”
people to special places  as  we  are. 
It 
would be well for those  who  are  not  to 
post themselves on the subject.
“The  next  thing,  from  our  point  of 
view, to a place  where  there  is  lots  of 
work and little trouble is a  place  where 
by some element of natural fitness we can 
make the  annoyance  subserve  personal 
success in the matter of sales.”
The  Grocery  Market.

“Now watch  the women.”
A puzzled look of  surprise spread over 
the face of  the novice as he followed  the 
movements of the smaller set of feet. 

I  have known people to  go into  iu  front.  E 

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The anomaly in the  sugar  market, re­
ferred to under  this  head  last week and 
week before,  still  continues.  The pros­
pect of  an oil war grows more imminent.

VISITING BUYERS.

Burnip’s Corner’s J  P  Degan, C annonsburg 

Dr Van N M iller,  F rem ont 
W  A Sw arts & Son.Fennvile 
Adam Newell,Burnip’s Core 
W O Lake.  Mo>ley 
W olcott & H ill, Freeport 
L Cook, B auer 
H C Me Parian, Manton 
Gils Begrman, B auer
W alling B ros,Lam ont
H A Dailey.  Lum berton 
S McNiti & Co.ByronCenter

G H Rem ington. Bangor 
A Purchase, So Blendon 
L M W olf, Huds  nville 
J  S Toland, Ross Station 
H Van Noord. Jam estow n 
H Dalmon, Allendale 
G S Putnam . F ru itp o rt 
FG oo  m an & Co,
J  T Pierson, Irv in g  
E zra Brown, Englishville  T M S proat,  Leroy 
Sm allegan & Pickaard, 
F orest Grove  J S B arker. Morley 
D enH erder & Tanis 
G Ten Hoor,  F orest  Grove J  Raym ond. Berlin 
R G Lam oreaux,  F ru itp o rt 
W McWilliams, Conklin 
John DeVries, Jam estow n  C H H unt, M anistee 
A C Barkley, Crosby 
S J  M artin, Sullivan
Co- verse Mfg Co, Newaygo  W N H utchinson, G rant 
M Heyboer & Bro,  D renthe C S Comstock, Pierson 
John Sm ith, Ada 
C  H Loomis,  S p arta
T H Condra. Lisbon 
Teachout & Roedel,
John D am stra,  Gitchell 
H M eijering, Jam estow n  A Stebetee,  H olland
C M Shaw, S p arta 
J C Benbow,  Cannonsburg Pere M arquette LumberCo, 
Dr H C Peck ham ,  F reep o rt 
C F W illiams, C aledonia 
E S B otsford, Dorr

Vrieslant!  R T P arrish , G randville 

P aton & A ndrus, Shelby

E J  Roys, Lake George 

W hite Cloud

Ludington

“Well?” asked the observer.
“Why,”  was  the  response,  “they  all 
come  across oh  their  heels—even  when 
they wear  rubbers, as most of them  do.” 
“Now,” said  the  observer,  “you  have 
seen  the  best  possible, because  uncon­
scious,  illustration  of  the  leading  dif­
ferences  between the  sexes.  The  men 
follow  the  natural  promptings  of  the 
muscles  and  walk  over  in  the  way  to 
throw  them  least  in  the  slush.  The 
women  come  across  on  their  heels  to 
preserve the  appearance of  the front  of 
their  shoes or rubbers.”

A  Maine  grocer,  who  has  just  “ex­
perienced  religion,”  acknowledged 
in 
meeting that he  had  been a hard sinner, 
cheating  customers  by  adulterating  his 
goods, etc.,  but, being  converted,  would 
repay  any  one  he  had  wronged.  Late 
that night he was  awakened by a ring at 
his  door  bell.  Looking  out,  he  saw a 
man.  “Who are  you, and  what  do  you 
want?”  he  asked.  “I’m  Bill  Jones. 
You said to-night  you would repay those 
you  had  cheated.  Give  me  that  $100 
you’ve  owed  me  so-long.”  “Can’t  you 
wait till  morning?”  “No,  I ain’t going 
to  wait  till  then  and  stand  in line all 
day.”  He was paid.

p r o d u c e :  m a r k e t .

*

Apples—In poor demand at $1.25©$1.50 per bbl. 
Beans—Handlers are paying about 81.25 for un­
picked and getting 81.65@8l.75  for  hand-picked.
Butter—Creamery is in fair  supply  at  25@26c. 
Dairy is in good demand at  18@21c, according to 
quality.
Cabbages—Home giown command 83@85 per 100 
Celery—18@20c per doz.
Cider—8@10c per gal. 
Cooperage—Pork barrels, 81.25;  produce barrels 
25c.
Cranberries—86.50 for Bell and Cherry and $7.25 
for Bell and  Bugle.
Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried 
at 454@5c and evaporated at 6@654c.
Eggs—The market is still  uncertain,  handlers 
not daring to pay above 13c, for fear of a further 
downward movement.
Honey—More  plenty,  being  easy  at  15c@17c 
per lb.
Onions—Buyers pay 18@20c for good stock, and 
hold at  25@30c per bu.
Pop Corn—254c per lb.
Potatoes—The market is remarkably quiet, few 
shipments being made—and those at ho  particu­
lar  profit.

Squash—Hubbard, lc per lb.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln-dried  Jersevs,  83.50  per 
Turnips—25c per bu.

bbl.

PROVISIONS.

and Provi-

T he G rand  R apids  Packing 

sion Co.  quotes  as follow s:
PORK  IN  BARRELS.
Mess, new........................................
..  12 50 
Short cut Morgan.............................
..  13 00 
Extra clear pig, short  cut..............
..  14 50 
Extra clear,  heavy..........................
..  14  50 
Clear quill, short cut......................
..  14 50 
Boston clear, short cut...... ................
14 50
Clear back, short cut.....................................  14 50
Standard clear, short cut, best.....................  14 50
Hams, average 20 lbs........................................  9%
16 lbs........................................1054
12 to 14 lbs...............................10%

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smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

picnic......................................................... 8 54

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Shoulders......................................................... 7%
boneless..........................................¿54
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.............................10
Dried Beef, extra..............................................7
ham prices....................................   9
Long Clears, heavy...........................................7
Briskets,  medium.............................................  7
lig h t..................................................  7
lard—Kettle Rendered.
Tierces............................................ 
8
Tubs...................................................................  8
501b.  Tins..........................................................  8
Tierces................................................................  7
30 and 50 lb. Tubs.............................................  7
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case..................................... '7
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case......................................   7
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case......................................   7
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case......................................  7
50 lb. Cans........................................................... 7
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs......................   6
Extra Mess, Chicago packing........................  7 00
Plate................................................................. 7 25
Extra Plate...................................... , ..............7 75
Boneless, rump butts...................... ...............  9 25
“  54 bbl.............................5 50

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sausage—Fresh and Smoked.
Pork Sausage............................................
Ham Sausage.............................................
Tongue Sausage........................................
Frankfort  Sausage...................................
Blood Sausage...........................................
Bologna, straight......................................
Bologna,  thick.........................................
Head Cheese..............................................
pigs’ feet.
In half barrels...................................................3 50
In quarter  barrels...................
In half  barrels__
In quarter barrels. 
In kits...................

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

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FRESH   MEATS.
......................................   5  @ 6
hindquarters................................  6  @ 65
354@ 4
fore 
Hogs.........................................................   @ 6
Pork loins................................................  @ 8
Bologna...................................................   @ 5
Frankfort  sausage.................................   @ 8
Blood, liver and bead sausage..............   @ 5
Mutton....................................................   654@

shoulders........................................  @  654

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OYSTERS an d   FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follow:

OYSTERS IN CANS.
Standards......................................
Anchors.........................................
Selects.............................................
Fairhaven Counts..........................
OYSTERS IN BULK.

@16 
@18 
@27 
@35

.21

Standards........................................................  1  00
Selects..............................................................   1  40
Clams...............................................................  1  25

FRESH  FISH.

Black  Bass..............................................   @1254
Trout........................................................  @854
Whitefish.................................................   @854
Smoked Finnin  Haddie..........................  @ 8
Perch........................................................  @ 6

CANDIES,  FRUITS and  NUTS. 

P u tn a m   & B rooks  quote  as  fo il  w s:

 

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25 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf, 25 

STICK.
9
 
914
...................................... 10
MIXED.

Royal, 25 lb. paiis ............................................  9
2001b.  bbls...........................................854
Extra, 25 lb.  pails............................................. 10
2001b.  bbls.........................................  9
French Cream, 25 lb.  pails...........................   H54
Cnt Loaf, 25 lb. cases.........................................10
Broken, 40 lb. Bask...........................................  914
200 lb. bbls.........................................  9

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Lemon Drops..................................................... 13
Sour Drops........................................................ 14
Peppermint Drops............................................. 14
Chocolate Drops........... ....................................15
H. M. Chocolate Drops..................................... 18
Gum Drops.......................................................10
Licorice Drops....................................................18
A. B. Licorice  Drops........................................ 12
Lozenges, plain..................................................14
printed............................................. 15
Imperials............................................................14
Mottoes..............................................................15
Cream Bar........................................................ 13
Molasses Bar..................................................... 13
Caramels........................................................... 19
Hand Made  Creams..........................................19
Plain Creams..................................................... 16
Decorated Creams........... ........ ....................... 20
String  Rock..................................................... 14
Burnt Almonds.................................................22
Wintergreen  Berries...................... ................ 14

f a n c y —In bulk.

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in bbls................................... 11

printed, in pails.............................. 1254
inbbls.................................1154

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Chocolate Drops, in pails.................................. 12
Gum Drops, in pails.........................................   6
inbbls...............  
5
Moss Drops, in pails..........................................10
inbbls...........................................  9
Sour Drops, in pails.......................................... 11
Imperials, in pails............................................. 1154
inbbls............................................... 1054

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FRUITS.

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Oranges, Floridas,.................................   @

Messina  200s............................ 2 75@2 85
220s..........................   @2 75
300s..........................   @3 00
00...........................  @2 75
Lemons, choice.........................................2 75@3 00
fancy.........................................3 00@3 50
Figs, layers, new.....................................  10@15
@ 6 
Bags, 50 lb.
Dates, frails, 50 lb..............
@ 454 
54 frails, 50 lb ..........
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@ 554
“  Fard, 10-lb.  box........
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Persian, 50-lb.  box..
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NUTS.

“  50-lb.  “ 

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Almonds, Tarragona.  .....................

@17
Ivaca.......................................   @15
California...............................   14@16
Brazils........................................................7  @754
Filberts,  Sicily.....................................................11 @1154
Walnuts, Grenoble.................................   @1254
French................................  @1054
Pecans, Texas, H. P .............  ................  8  @12
Cocoanuts, per 100................................... 4 25@4 50
Chestnuts................................................  @2 50
Electric Lights...........................................  @854
Peacocks...................... .......... ..................  @754
Storks.........................................................   @754
Extra...........................................................  @554
Y acht.........................................................   @6

PEANUTS.

Wholesale Price  Current,

The  quotations  given  below  are  such  ns are ordinarily offered cash buyers who 

pay promptly and buy in fu ll packages.

BAKING  POWDER.

| 10c cans.. 
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|M lb .  “  
16 oz.
. 
154 lb. “ 
112 oz. “ 
lllb .  “ 
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[2541b.“ 
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lib .  “ 
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541b. 
lib . 
'  51b. 

Arctic, 54 lb. cans, 6  doz.. 
“  4  “  ..
1  40
“  2  “  ..
2 40 
“  2  “  ..
“  1  “  ..
12  00 
Absolute, 54 lb. cans, 100s. 
11 
50s.
10  00
50s.. 18
Telfer’s,  54 lb. cans, 6doz.  2 

54 lb. 
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“  3  “  . 2 55
54 lb. 
“  1  “  . 1  50
1 lb. 
Acme, 54 lb. cans, 3 doz__
54 lb.  “ 
2  “  ....
1  “  ....
lib .  “ 
bulk.........................
Red Star, 54 lb. cans, 12 doz 
6  “
4  “
English, 2 doz. in case......
Bristol,  2  “ 
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American. 2 doz. in case...
Gross
Arctic Liq,  4-oz.................  3 60
“  54 pt..................   7 00
1 pt.................  10 80
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“  8-oz  paper bot  7 20
Pepper  Box  No.  2 
3 00
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4 00 
9 00

54 lb.  “ 
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BROOMS.
f No. 2 Hurl.........................
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No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet......................
No. 1 
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Parlor Gem........................... 3 00
Common Whisk.................. 
90
Fancy 
..................  1 00
M ill.....................................  3  50
Warehouse.........................   3 00
Kings 100 lb.  cases..............5 0(
“  80 lb.  cases..............4 2J
15
rolls............................   U
1:
l<

Dairy, solid  packed........... 
Creamery, solid packed__  

BUCKWHEAT.

BUTTERINE

rolls....................  
CANDLES.
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CANNED GOODS—Fish.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes...............  105:
Star,  40 
9%
is
Paraffine................................ 
Wicking................................. 
2t
Clams, 1 lb, Little Neck...... 1  21
Clam Chowder, 3 lb.............3 00
Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stand__ 1  00
....1   60
“ 
Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic........... 1  50
2  lb.  “ 
2 65
1 lb.  Star.................1  90
2 lb. Star................ 2  90
1 lb.  stand..............1 25
2  lb. 
2 00
3 lb. in Mustard.. .3  00
3 lb.  soused........... 3 00
Salmon, 1 lb.  Columbia...... 2 00
2 lb. 
3 25
1 lb. Sacramento.. .1  70
21b. 
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Sardines, domestic  54s........
54s........@

Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce

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CANNED VEGETABLES.

seconds................... 1

Corn, Archer’s Trophy___

“  Mustard 54s..........  @10
“ 
imported  54s........ 10@11
“ 
spiced,  54s ........... 10@12
Trout, 3 lb. brook.............
CANNED GOODS—Fruits.
Apples, gallons,  stand........2 00
Blackberries,  stand............. 1  00
Cherries, red standard........2 50
pitted...................... 2 60
Damsons...............................1  00
Egg Plums, stand.................1  20
Gooseberries.........................1  40
Grapes..................................  90
Green  Gages........................ 1  40
Peaches, all  yellow, stand.. 1  45
“ 
“  H e ........................... 100
Pears..................................... 1  30
Hneapples.................1  10@1
Quinces................................ 1  50
Raspberries,  extra...............1
red................... 2
Strawberries..............1  10@1
Whortleberries..............* ...l   20
Asparagus, Oyster Bay........1  80
Beans, Lima,  stand............. 1  00
“  Green  Limas__   @1  16
“ 
String..............   @  95
“  Stringlesg,  Erie.........  90
“  Lewis’Boston Baked.. 1 45
“  Morn’g Glory. 1  10
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Early  G old...l  10
Peas, French........................ 1  25
“ 
extram arrofat...  @ 110
soaked.....................  70
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“  June, stand....... 1  40@J  50
“ 
“  sifted....................1  55
“  French, extra fine...  14 00
Mushrooms, extra fine...... 18 00
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden........  85
Succotash,  standard__   @  85
Squash..................................1  25
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat..  @1  10
Good Enough___ 110
BenHar................ 1  10
stand br___ 1 05@1  10
Michigan Full Cream 1254@13 
Sap Sago.....................  16@17
CHOCOLATE.
Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet  22
“  Premium......   33
“  Horn-Cocoa...
“  Breakfast___  48
CHEWING  GUM.
200.  “ 

Rubber, 100 lumps................ 25
35
Spruce...................................30
Balk........................................6
Red.......................................   754
Rio, fair...................... 17  @18
good.....................1854@19
prime...................   @20
fancy,  washed... 19  @21
golden................. 20  @22
Santos......................... 17  @21
Mexican & Guatemala 19  @22
Peaberry.....................20  @22
Java,  Interior.............20  @24
Mandheling--- 26  @28
Mocha, genuine..........25  @26
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.

coffee—Green.

chicory.

CHEESE.

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coffees—Package.

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30 lbs 60 lbs

100 lbs
Lion..................................... 2254
in cabinets.................. 2354
Dilworth’s ........................... 2254
Magnolia.........................^. .2254
Acme................. 21%  21%  22
German................................ 22*4
b in s....................... 23
McLaughlin’s  XXXX..........22%
Honey Bee........................... 2454
Nox  All  ...............................2354
O  B...................................... 2254
Tiger.....................................2254
Valley City.........................  
75
Felix...................................   1  10

COFFEE EXTRACT.

1 
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1 
Jute 

Cotton,  40 ft......... per doz.  1  25
150
1  60
2 00
2 25
1  00
1  15

CLOTHES  LINES.
50 f t...........  
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80ft...........  
60 ft........... 
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CONDENSED MILK.

Eagle..................................   7 60
Anglo-Swiss.......................   6 00

CRACKERS.
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Kenosha Butter...................  8
654
Seymour 
Butter.....................................654
family.........................   654
biscuit........................  7
Boston...................................  8
City Soda..............................   8
Soda......................................   654
S. Oyster................................ 654
City Oyster, XXX..................  654
Picnic..................................... 654

CREAM TARTAR.

SYRUPS.

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24

TEAS.

SUN CURED.

imperial.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Imperial........  @ 6

@15
@16
@28
@33
@15-
@20
@28

x   X X X
914
954
914
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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Corn,  barrels..................... 24@25
one-half  barrels....26@ 27
kegs........................ 
j  a®
Pure  Sugar, bbl................ 25@32
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dried  fruits—Foreign.
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F air-............................
Good......................
Choice................. 
 
..24
Choicest.................    .30
F a ir......................  
u
Good............................ifi
Choice..........................24
Choicest.................................30 @33-
BASKET  FIRED.
F a ir.........................
Choice.................
Choicest..............
Extra choice, wire leaf 
GUNPOWDER.

SWEET GOODS.
G inger S naps................ 9 
Sugar  Creams............ 9 
Frosted  Creams.......... 
Graham  Crackers......  
Oatmeal  Crackers......  
tobaccos—Plug.
Climax  ............................. 39@41
Corner Stone............................39
Double  Pedro................... . 
40
Peach  H e..............................” 4$
Wedding  Cake,  bik........! .!  40
Something  Good..................... 4p
“Tobacco” ...................  
4ft

Strictly  pure......................  
Grocers’..............................  
dried fruits—Domestic.
Apples, snn-dried......   554@ 6
evaporated__ 7  @ 754
“ 
Apricots, 
“ 
16
Blackberries “ 
7
Nectarines  “ 
14
Peaches 
“ 
14
Plums 
“ 
Raspberries  “ 
24
Citron, in  drum.........   @23
inboxes..........  @25
Currants......................   @ 5
Lemon  Peel..................... 
14
Orange Peel..................... 
14
Prunes,  Turkey.........   @ 494
“ 
Raisins, Valencias__ 754  @ 854
“  Ondaras..................  8%
“  Domestic Layers.. .2 40 
“ 
Loose Californias.. 1  90
Farina, 100 lb. kegs.............  04
Hominy,  per  bbl.......................4 00
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box__   60
imported.
@10 
Pearl  Barley...........
@ 3 
Peas, green.*.....5...
@1  40 
“  split..................
@  354 
Sago,  German..........
@ 654 
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’rl.
@ 654 
@20@25-
Wheat,  cracked.......
@ 654 
Vermicelli,  import.. 
@10 
@35
domestic.
@60
@40“
Jennings’
Lemon Vanills
@35
2 oz. Panel, doz
35
«0
35 I Extra fine to finest..! [50
@65-
“ 1  10
4 oz. 
“ 
2 25
Choicest fancy............75
@85
“ 2  >5
6 oz. 
“ 
3 25
No.  3,  “
1  -0
1  60
Common to  fair.......... 20
@35-
“ 2  .5
No.  8,  “ 
4 00
Superior to fine...... !! . 40
@50
No.10,  “ 
“ 4  50
6 00
TOUNG HYSON.
No.  4, Taper,  “ 1  60
2 50
Common to  fair.......... 18
@26
54 pt,  Round, “ 4  25
7 50
Superior to  fine..........30
@40'
1  “
8  50
15 00
Common to fair.......... 25
FISH—
Cod, whole...... SALT.
@30
@59,
Superior to  fine..........30
@50
“  boneless...
Fine to choicest.......... 55
@65
@7^4
H alibut.......................... 
1254
ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
2  75
Herring,  round, 54 bbl.. 
Fair. .............................. 25  @30
54  bbl-- 
1  50
ghcace........................... 30  @35
10 00
Holland,  bbls.. 
Se8t-n............................  @65-
Holland, kegs..  @80
.....................  8  @10
Tea 
Scaled 
 
30
Mack,  sh’s, No. 1, 54  bbl__ 9 50
Sweet Pippin..............  
go.
12  lb kit. .1  4c
go
Five ana  Seven.......... 
“ 
Hiawatha..............."  
68.
Trout,  54  bbls__
Sweet  Cuba............*’* 
@5 50
45
“  10  lb.  kits...........
Petoskey Chief......  
...  80
55
White,  No. 1, 54 bbls....
...6  00
Sweet Russet........ 
40
Thistle.....................
121b. kits.
“ 
...1  15
Florida.................  
10 lb. kits.
“ 
cr.
...1   00
“ 
Family,  54  bbls..
Rose  Leaf........... ^
.  .3 00
kits........
.55ffò65
Red Domino...............  
38
Swamp Angel............. 
40
GUN  POWDER.
K egs......................
...5 25
TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS.
Half  kegs......................
$ 2, per  hundred................  2 59
...2  88
L5*  “ 
................  3 00
No. 0................................
30
.. 
................4 00
I™’  „ 
No. 1................................
40
No. 2..............................
50
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts :
LICORICE.
Pure.............................
...  30
200 or over.............5  per cent.
Calabria........................
500 
Sicily..............................
1000  “ 
...  18
MINCE MEAT
Buckets..............................   654
30gr....................................  9
Half bbls.............................  6
40 gr.......................................jo
50 gr...................................... ..
Black  Strap.......................16@17
Cuba Baking..................... 22@25
Porto  Rico........................ 24@35
New Orleans, good............25@30
choice........ 33@40
fancy..........45@48

MISCELLANEOUS.
Cocoa Shells,  bulk.............  3%
Jelly, 30-lb.  pails...........  
4%
Sage................................... ; 
jg
PA PEK ,  W OODENW ARE.
C u rtiss  &  Co.  quote  as 

Muscatine, Barrels..................6 00

One-half barrels, 3c extra.

tobaccos—Fine Cot.

 
VINEGAR.

81 for barrel.

LAMP WICKS.

MOLASSES.

OOLONG.

PAPER.

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FIFES.

“ 
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Muscatine. Barrels....................6 00

OATMEAL.
Half barrels........3 15
Cases......... 2 25@2 35
ROLLED OATS
Half barrels........3 15
Cases......... 2 25@2 35
Michigan  Test.....................  954
Water White........................ 10%
4  50
Medium.......................... 
Small,  bbl................... 
5  go
...3 25

“ 
“  54  bbl............  

54 b b l...........................2 75

PICKLES.

OIL.

“ 
“ 

SALT

RICE.

SALERATUS.

’lay, No.  216............................. 1 60
“  T. D. full count...........  75
?ob. No.  3.............................  40
’arolina head........................ 654
“  No. 1........................ 594
“  No. 2................. 5}4@
“  No. 3........................ 5
Jap an .................................... 514
DeLand’s,  pure..................... 554
Church's, Cap Sheaf.............. 5
Dwight’s ................................5
Taylor’s.................................. 5
Common Fine per bbl..........  89
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks......   25
28 pocket...............................2 or,
60 
.............................. 2 15
.............................. 2 25
100 
Ashton bu. bags..................  75
Higgins  “ 
..................  75
Warsaw “ 
..................  37
Kegs......................................  154
Granulated,  boxes..............   1%
Kitchen, 3 doz. in box........ 2 35
Hand,  3  “ 
2 35
Silver Thread, 30 gal............3 50
40  “  .............4 50
SEEDS.
Mixed bird.............................454
faraway................................ 10
Canary.................................   4
Hemp......................................454
Anise.....................................  854
Rape.....................................  454
Mustard..................................754
Scotch, in  bladders............. 37
Maccabw, in jars.................35
French Rappee, in Jars.......43

SAUERKRAUT.
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SAL  SODA.

SAPOLIO.
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SNUFF. 

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SOAP.

Dingman,  100  bars............... 4 00
Don’t  Anti-Washboard....... 4 75
Jax o n ....................................3 75
Queen  Anne.............. 
3@
German family..................... 2 40
Big Bargain..........................1  87
Boxes.....................................554
Kegs, English.............................4% | Wl

SODA.

 

spices—Whole.

 

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Allspice................................ 10
Cassia, China in mats............754
' ‘  Batavia in bund__ 11
Saigon in rolls........ 42
Cloves,  Amboyna................ 30
Zanzibar..................24
Mace  Batavia...................... 70
Nutmegs, fancy....................70
“  No.  1............... 
“  No.  2.......................60
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 1854
white.......28.
“ 
“ 
shot........................ 21
spices—Ground- -In Bulk.
Allspice................................ 15
Cassia,  Batavia....................20
and  Saigon.25
’* 
“ 
Saigon....... .............42
Cloves,  Amboyna................ 35
’*  Zanzibar................. 28
Ginger, African....................1254
Cochin....................15
Jam aica................. 18
Mace  Batavia.......................80
Mustard,  English................ 22
‘ 
and Trie..25
*  Trieste.................... 27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ....................70
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 22
“  white...... 30
‘  Cayenne..................25

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STARCH.

Mystic, 1 lb.  pkgs................  7
barrels.....................6

SUGARS.

“ 

Cut  Loaf.....................  @ 8%
Cubes..........................  @7%
Powdered...................   @7%
Granulated, H.&E.’s..  @754
Knight’s..7 06@
Confectionery  A........  @ 7
Standard  A................6%@  6%
o. 1, White Extra C..  @ 6%
No. 2 Extra  C.............  @ 654
No. 3 C, golden...........   @ 6»4
~~o. 4 C, dark...............  @ 6
o. 5  C........................  @594

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follow s:
S traw ........................
“  Light  Weight..
S ugar........................
Rag  Sugar................
Hardware.................
Bakers......................
Dry  Goods.............. ]
Jute  Manilla.............
Red  Express, No. 1..
TWINES.

“ 

FLOUR.

WHEAT.

“ 
“ 

splint 

WOODENWARE.

Baskets, market.................. 

Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes 
Bowls, 11 inch................ 

No. 2.............. 4
48 Cotton.............................  23
Cotton, No. 2.............. .. '.. '..20
“  3....................... 18
Sea  Island, assorted..........40
No. 5 Hemp...................  
tg
No. 8 B...  ............... 
17
w ool................................;; ;  ^
Tubs, No. 1.........................   7 73,
“  No. 2...................... . .  6 7&
No. 3..........................  5 75
160
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__   1  75
 
60
1 00
.....................  1 35
13  “ 
15  “ 
.....................2  00
17  “ 
....................   2 75
assorted, 17s and  17s 2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s 2 75
40
bushel..................  1  60
“  with covers  1  90 
willow cl’ths, No.l  5 50 
“  No.2 6 00
“ 
“  No.3 7 00
“ 
“  No.l  3 50
“ 
**  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 5 OO
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GRAINS and PEEDSTUFFS
W hite................................  1  0O
Red.....................................
Straight, in sacks..............  5 00
“ 
“  barrels............  5 20
Patent 
“  sacks..............  6 00
“  barrels............  6  20
“ 
Bolted................................  2  50
Granulated........................  3 00
Bran...................................  14 <x>
Ships..................................  15  50
Screenings........................  14 00
Middlings..........................  17 00
Mixed Feed........................ 17 75
Small 
3&
34
Car 
Small 
30
Car 
28
No. 1, per 100 lb s...............  2 00
*  No. 1..................................   130
No-2. ..................................  110
HAY.
No. 1.................... 
14 00
No.2.
.......................  13 OO
H ID ES, PEI/T8  an d   FURS.
P e rk in s  &  H ess  pay  a s  
follow s:
65
g re?a ■•••:.......  
4  @ 454
Part  Cured................   @454
Full 
454@  5J4
Dry................................  5 @ 6
Dry  K ip s........ ...........  5 @ 6
Calfskins,  green........3  @ 4
cured........45£@ 5
Deacon skins................ 10 @20

lots........................ 
“  ......................... 
lots........................ 
“  ......................... 

MILLSTUFFS.

BARLEY.

HIDES.

MEAL.

CORN.

OATS.

RYE.

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54 off for No. 2.

Shearlings...................10  @30
Estimated wool, per B> 20  @28

PELTS.

FURS.

5@1 00
M ink.............................. 
Coon...............................  
5@I 10
5@1 20
Skunk............................  
Muskrat.........................  
1@ 25
5@1 50
Fox, red......................... 
“  cross.....................  50@5 00
“  grey.......................  
5@l 00
Cat, house.....................   5@ 25
“  wild.......................  
5@ 50
Fisher..........................1  00@6 00
Lynx..............................  50@5 00
Martin,  dark................   25@4 00
pale..................  1C@1 60
O tter.............................   50@9 75
Wolf..............................   50@4 00
Bear..............................  50@30 00
Beaver..........................  50@8 00
Badger........................... 
5@1 00
Deerskins, per lb........ 
5@  40
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Tallow..........................  4 @456
Grease  butter..............   5 @ 854  „
Switches......................   2 @ 254
Ginseng.....................2 00@2  10

Wholesale Price  Current*
___________  

Declined—Opium.

Druss S  Medicines.

Stale  Board of Pharmacy.

One Y ear—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor.
Two Y ears—Geo. McDonald. Kalamazoo.
Three Y ears—Stanley E.  Park ill, Owosso.
F o u r  Years—^Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Five Y ears—Jam es  Vernor, D etroit.
P resid en t—Geo. McDonald 
S ecretary—Jacob Jesson.
T reasu rer—Jas. Vernor.
Next M eeting—At th e lecture room  of H artm an ’s  Hall, 
G rand Rapids, Tuesday and W ednesday, M arch 5 and 6.

Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Asa’n. 

P resid en t—Geo. Gundrum , Ionia.
F irst Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing.
Second Vice-President—H. M. Dean, Niles.
T h ird  Vice-President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
S ecretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
T reasurer—Wm D upont, Detroit.
Executive Com mittee—A. H. Lym an,  M anistee;  A. Bas­
sett,  D etroit; F. J.  W urzburg,  G rand Rapids;  W.  A. 
H all, G reenville;  E. T.  Webb, Jackson.

Local Secretary—A. B assett, D etroit.

Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
P resident. J. W. H ayw ard,  S ecretary, F ran k  H. Escott.

I w  r r o i t   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   M o ciety  

P resident. J.  W. Caldwell.  S ecretary, B. W. P atterson.

A iu H K eg o n   D r u g   C l e r k » ’  A s s o c ia tio n . 
P resident, Geo.  L,  LeFevre.  Secretary, G. W. Hoye.

The Apothecary.

D avid T. J. F uller in  P harm aceutical Era.
The majority outside of the retail drug 
business have a very erroneous idea of it. 
They  behold a store  full of  handsomely 
gilt labeled  bottles and  large  show cases 
containing  beautiful  fancy  goods, toilet 
articles  of  all  kinds,  such  as  cut  glass 
bottles, p ungents, ivory  sets,  and a  hun­
dred  other  things  that  please  the  eye, 
with  the  neat,  gentlemanly  and  often 
handsome  clerk  to  wait  on  them,  and 
think,  “well,  what  more  could  one  ask 
in  the  retail  business?” 
“Then,  the 
profits,” they  say,  “why  you  buy goods 
for  a  dollar  and sell  them  for  two  or 
three  hundred  per  cent,  more,  not  to 
speak  of  prescriptions which  are  nearly 
all profit.”  That is how it looks to most 
outsiders, but  to  those within  the  circle 
how very different!
In  the first  place it  is  now almost  as 
difficult  to  become  an  apothecary  in  a 
city as to be a physician.  The would-be- 
apothecary  must  go  through  a  regular 
course of study, pass his examination and 
obtain  his  diploma, just  as in  any other 
profession, and to do this requires a good 
preliminary  education,  part  of  which 
must  be  actual  experience  in  a  drug 
store.  Then, after  his college  course  is 
ended,  and  he  procures  a  situation  he 
finds  himself  in  a  business  where  the 
greatest  care,  most  assiduous  attention 
and longest hours are exacted, and at the 
same  time  the  smallest  salary is  paid, 
sometimes  so  small  as te barely furnish 
the  necessities of  life,  and  putting  out 
•of  the  question  entirely  the  chance  of 
ever getting married if  he has to support 
the wife.
Promotion  is  very  slow,  and  usually 
amounts  to but  little except  an increase 
I  have known a clerk 
of  responsibility. 
with wife and  family, live on ten dollars 
a week, but after  buying his own clothes 
(for  the  clerk  mast  always  look  neat, 
even nice), the  family were compelled to 
live very poorly.
Now,  of course,  if  the business was  as 
profitable as many suppose the proprietor, 
for  his own  sake, would  pay  his  clerks 
better,  for  most  proprietors  have  been 
clerks  and  know how  it  is  themselves. 
But  it  does  not  pay  well,  and  I  know 
many owners of drug stores who keep up 
a  little  show of  good  living  and  even 
style,  just  “by the  skin of  their  teeth,” 
and find it very hard to “keep their heads 
above water.”
There  are  many reasons for  this:  To 
begin  with, they have large  rents to pay. 
They want their stores as conspicuous as 
possible for  they depend largely on tran­
sient trade. 
In  order to accomplish  this 
they try to get a store  on some  good cor­
ner, and  they  need a showy  front, some­
thing  to  attract  the  passer  by.  Every 
one  knows stores of  that kind  command 
the largest  rents.  Then  the fixtures  are 
a very great item,  and it takes the profits 
often of more than a year, yes, sometimes 
of  two  or  three  to  pay  that,  and  the 
patent  medicines  and  fancy  goods  are 
sold  in so  many places  other than  drug 
stores,  and  at  such  low  prices that  the 
profits are cut  down to, in some  cases, a 
mere nothing.
In  prescriptions  there  is a very  good 
profit, not as  much, though,  as many im­
agine.  There are about  700  apothecary 
shops in New York  City, and only a very 
few of  them do a large  prescription bus­
iness,  the  balance  is  divided among so 
many as to give  to  none  enough  to  get 
rich on.
Suppose  a  store  puts  up  twenty-five 
new prescriptions a day (and that is more 
than  most  of  them  do),  and  gets  fifty 
•cents each for  them (that is a large aver­
age, tod),  the  amount  realized  is $12.50, 
make it very large,  and  say 150 per cent, 
of  that is profit, $9.38 it is not much of  a 
sum, say the sales*of  everything  amount 
to $40 (and this is placing  it  high) a day, 
•deduct  rent, gas, fuel,  the  wages of  two 
clerks' one boy, and a porter,  interest on 
money  invested  in  fixtures  and  dead 
stock,  and  you will have  very little left.
The store  that  manufactures  proprie­
tary  articles  naturally  makes  the  most 
money, for the  salesman  can  often  sell 
them when other things for the same pur­
pose are asked for,  and he has no middle­
man’s profit to pay on  them.  Generali}’, 
I would  rather  take a nostrum prepared 
by the apothecary than  those that are so 
largely  advertised,  for  the  former  are 
made by  more  skillful  persons  and in a 
more careful manner.
I always  feel  profoundly  sorry  for  a 
young man who chooses the profession of 
apothecary.  The, hours  are  so  contin­
uous that he has hardly any time that he 
can call his  own. 
In  many cases in the 
•city  he  has  absolutely  no  time,  for  he 
sleeps  in  the  store, and  is  liable to be 
rung  out  of  his  bed  any  hour  of  the 
aiight, but even when not so, his hours are 
from 8 in the morning  until  half-past 10 
or 11 o’clock at night;  what  time,  pray, 
for recreation in the  intervening hours ? 
As  he  increases in  years,  he  is  almost 
sure to become narrow minced  and  cyn­
ical and  has  little  ambition  beyond his 
■daily  routine. 
If,  when  a  young  man 
first  enters  the  business, he  discloses a 
taste for chemistry,  it is promptly nipped 
in the bud  by his  employer  for  fear he 
may waste drugs in gratifying that taste.
Certainly,  the  business  has its bright 
side,  what has not ?  The strangest char­
acters  are  always  dropping  in,  and the 
remarkable  tales  from  old  women  and 
young damsels poured into the ear of the 
sympathetic  clerk  give  the  student  of 
human  nature a good  chance  to  study. 
But  sometimes  after  he  has  heard the 
most woeful  tale, he is almost  willing to 
exchange  life  with  them, for an  apoth­
ecary’s life as a general  thing  is  neither 
•a pleasant nor remunerative one.

A Word of  Caution.

From  th e  D ruggists’ Bulletin.
We  have  authentic  advices  that  the 
country  is  shortly to  be  flooded  with  a 
supply of spurious cascara sagrada bark 
gathered at an unfavorable season. 
It is 
unfortunate that the well established and 
enviable  reputation  of  this,  one of  the 
foremost  drugs  in  the  materia  medica, 
should be menaced by such a danger,  and 
it is therefore but just that the matter be 
directed to the attention of every thought­
ful pharmacist.
The fact that those manufacturers who 
are dependent  upon the  open market for 
their  supplies  of  the  drug  are  now 
seriously  embarrassed owing to the  scar­
city of  it,  is  well  evidenced  by the  in­
crease  in  the  price of  the fluid  extract 
which  they have  recently  made.  Their 
endeavors to obtain  supplies have stimu­
lated  inexperienced  collectors  on  the 
Pacific  coast,  and  this  inferior  bark  is 
foisted  upon the  drug  trade  as a  conse­
quence.  Those who  are instrumental  in 
procuring  the  drug,  do  not  hesitate  to 
say that it has been peeled from the trees 
since  the sap  accumulated  in  the  roots. 
Now as the remedy is generally supposed 
to be  to a great  extent,  dependent for its 
action  upon  a  glucoside,  even  if  these 
supplies  were from  the  true  purshiana, 
they would  lack this  principle, for most 
of  it  will  remain  stored  in  the  roots 
either  as such, or in a nascent condition, 
until  the sap again  begins to flow.  Fur­
thermore, cascara  sagrada  should  never 
be  used  within  one or  two  years  after 
gathering,  for  like other  representatives 
of  the  rhamnus  family,  objectionable 
and griping effects result from the use of 
the  fresh  drug.  This fact  has  been es­
tablished  beyond  a  peradventure,  and 
pharmacists and physicians should there­
fore  look well  to the  brand of  fluid  ex­
tract which  they hereafter  purchase else 
disappointment will certainly result from 
its administration.

Sophistiscation  o f  Gums.

Referring  to sophistication  in gums,  a 
contributor to the columns of an exchange 
has the following:
The  distinction  between  gum  Arabic 
and  Senegal is difficult  and  chiefly made 
by the  eye.  When  gum  Arabic is  pow­
dered  and  mixed with  starch,  the latter 
is  detected  by adding  a  drop of  iodine, 
which  then  produces  a  blackish-blue 
color.  Senegal  Arabic,  which  is  sub­
classified  as  Turkey  gum,  Indian  gum, 
etc.,  is more apt to turn sour in solution, 
and the  inferior  gums form  ropy masses 
instead  of  a  smooth,  uniform  mucilage. 
Cherry  gum  is  used to  sophisticate  the 
more  valuable  kinds.  It  clots  and dis­
solves  slowly  and  imperfectly.  Traga- 
canth  possesses  the  peculiar  property 
that  it  is  only made  imperfectly  turbid 
by  the  addition  of  alcohol,  in  which  it 
differs from  the true  gums.  If a sample 
is  dissolved  in hot water,  and  adultera­
tion with gum  Senegal or  Arabic  is sus­
pected,  tincture of  guaiacum  produces a 
blue  color.  Gum  Mezquite,  the  product 
of Western Texas and New Mexico, seems 
to  be  looked  upon with  favor  by  some 
authorities;  but  surely it cannot  now be 
classed  as  “the  product of  an  unknown 
tree.”  Yellow gum,  it seems, has almost 
entirely  dissapeared  from  the  London 
market, where it was  known as  “Botany 
Bay resin,”  and  largely  used in  making 
varnishes.  It was also used to make pic­
ric  acid from, but  those yellow  crystals 
are  now  mostly produced  from  carbolic 
acid,  which  is  cheaper  for  the  purpose 
that  silk  waste,  leather  clippings,  and 
crude coal tar.

Kauri  Gum.

The workers in the Kauri gum fields of 
New Zealand  use a spear in  their  opera­
tions  in  order  to  ascertain  if  gum  be 
present.  It is in  the form of  a steel rod 
with a wooden handle.  The rod is thrust 
into the ground, and if gum is discovered 
the whole  spot is dug  over until  the find 
is  exhausted.  The gum usually occurs in 
rough  pieces of  the size of  a hen’s  egg, 
looking  like a piece of  very rough  clay. 
This,  when  the outside  is  scraped off,  is 
the Kauri  gum usually met with in trade 
and  worth 35 cents per  hundred  weight 
on the spot.  The smaller pieces are only 
washed and dried and do not bring nearly 
such  a  good  price.  The  scrapings  are 
used  for  making  fire 
lighters  and  are 
worth 20 cents  for a large  sackful.  The 
gum  fusing  and  burning  soon  sets  the 
sticks  and  logs on  fire,  and  gives  off  a 
white smoke and  aromatic smell.  Some­
times  lucky  finds  are  made  of  pieces 
weighing  a hundred  weight or  more,  of 
transparent  and  almost  colorless  gum. 
They  are  generally found  near  the  de­
cayed  roots of  a tree,  probably the  gum 
of the original tree.  This is worked into 
ornaments for personal adornment.  It is 
easily  worked  into  shape with  a  knife, 
and polished with a soft rag and kerosene 
oil.  Large  masses of  the  gum  are  at 
times  found  exuding  from  the 
living 
trees,  but this is  not so  good for varnish 
making  as the  fossil  gum.  The  Kauri 
gum  industry gives  employment to three 
or  four thousand  men,  who  earn in dis­
tricts  where  the  gum  is fairly plentiful 
$8 to $10 per week.

Unwarranted  Delay.

T h e  T ra d esm a n agrees with the Phar­
maceutical Era in the following criticism 
of  the  Secretary  of  the  State  Pharma­
ceutical Association :
Five months have passed  since the an­
nual meeting of  this  Association,  and as 
yet the proceedings have not been issued. 
In this vicinity  considerable  speculation 
is being indulged in anent  the reason for 
the delay.  If  the Association  wishes to 
hold its own with other similar bodie3,  it 
must not delay its  reports  so  long  that 
they become of  no  value, fit only for the 
waste-basket.

T he D ru g   M a rk et.

“Who 

Chlorate potash has  declined  and  the 
tendency is still  lower.  Shellacs are ad­
vancing.  Opium  is  easier.  Quinine, 
foreign  brands,  have  declined.  Cassia 
buds are advancing.
is  your 

family  physician, 
Freddy?”  asked  Mrs.  Hendricks  of  the 
Brown boy.  “We ain’t  got  none,”  said 
the  boy.  “Pa’s  a  homeopath,  ma’s  an 
allopath,  sister Jane is a Christian Scien­
tist, grandma  and  grandpa  buys all the 
quack  medicines going,  Uncle James be­
lieves  in massage,  and  brother  Bill is a 
horse doctor.

Science in a Nutshell.

to 

easy 

The  movement of  glaciers in  summer 
is  found to  be four  times  that made  i 
the winter.
One ton of  coal is  capable of  yieldin 
an amount of  force  equivalent to that of 
six and two-thirds men.
The preservation of  rails in  use is due 
to the  formation of  magnetic  oxide  pro 
duced by the compression of  the  rust on 
the metal.
In testing forty-two boys between nine 
and sixteen years of  age for color  blind 
ness, not  one  made an error in matching 
the colors.
Cryolite for making  candles is brought 
from  Greenland,  where  important  and 
little  known mining  operations are  car 
ried on.
Experiments  carried  on  at  Astrakan 
show  that the  culture of  the silk  worm 
could  be  carried  on as  far north  as  the 
mouth of the Volga.
Recent  researches show  that the  elec 
trical organs  are  really modified  muscu 
lar organs of the terminations of nervous 
structures in muscles.
The vegetable matter  in the sea  to the 
westward of  the  Azores has  been found 
to  contain  a  large  amount  of  fish  and 
other life-sustaining  substances.
The  New  England  Meteorological  So­
ciety  proposes  a  loan exhibition of  me 
teorological apparatus, photographs, etc., 
in connection with its fourteenth regular 
meeting in Boston.
The danger from  gases only in connec­
tion  with house  drainage are  said  to  be 
comparatively 
avoid, 
the 
main  consideration  being  a  continuou 
thorough  ventilation of the pipes.
There  are  propositions  in  France  to 
construct  canals  from  Bordeaux  to the 
seaboard of  the Atlantic  and  from  Nar- 
bonne to the Mediterranean;  total length, 
330 miles;  cost, $130,000,000.
To the changed  condition of  a vessel’s 
magnetism by induction during a lengthy 
voyage  may  be  attributed  the  loss  of 
more  vessels  than  is usually thought to 
be the case among maritime men.
Dr. Rutgers, of  England,  after  an ex­
tensive  series  of  dietetic  experiments, 
declares that a vegetable  diet  can easily 
be  lived  on, and that vegetable albumen 
is, weight  for  weight,  equal  to  animal 
albumen.
Professor Geddis calls  attention to two 
tendencies in organic evolution—the veg­
etative and the reproductive—and asserts 
that evolution  is  the  result  of  the uni­
versal  subordination  of  the  former  to 
the latter.
In  the  new  process  of  metal  plating 
the  inventor  does  away  with  batteries 
and dynamos and depends upon a doable 
electrical composition;  in copper  plating 
cast  iron  an  alkaline  bath  is  used  in 
place of  an acidulated one.
One of  the chief  features of  the use of 
paper fabric  for building purposes is the 
ease  with  which it can  be  worked  into 
heets of any required width or thickness 
that  will  not  be  affected  by changes of 
temperature or humidity.
At a recent meeting of  the Academy of 
Sciences,  the  Prince of  Monaco  road  a 
paper  demonstrating  the  possibility  of 
shipwrecked  people, who have  taken  to 
the  boats  and  are  without  provisions, 
being able to sustain life with what  they 
could catch in a drag  net  trailing  over­
board over night.

ACIDUM.
Aceticum..................
Benzoicum,  German.
Boracic 
...................
Carbolicum..............
Citricum...................
Hydrochlor..............
N itrocum ..................
Oxalicum..................
Phosphorium  dii......
Salicylicum..............
Sulpnuricum.............
Tannicum..................
Tartaricum................
AMMONIA.

“  

Aqua, 16  deg.
18  deg.
Carbonas  —  
Chloridum  ...

55©
3©
10©
13©

8©   10 
80@1  00 
30 
45 
60
12 
14 
20
1  40@1  80 
1M ©   5 
1  40@1  60 
45©  50

3©  5
4©  6
11©  13 
12©  14

ANILINE.

Black...........................2 00@2 25
Brown.........................   80@1  00
Red..............................   45©  50
Yellow........................2 50@3 00

Cubeae (po. 1  60.........l  85©2 00
Juniperus...................  
Xanthoxylum............ ‘  25©  30

§©

BALSAM I’M.
Copaiba......................   70©  75
P e r u .....................................  
@1  oO
Terabin, Canada  ......   50©  55
Tolutan......................   45©  50

COBTEX.
Abies,  Canadian......
Cassiae  ......................
Cinchona F la v a ......
Euonymus  atropurp. 
Myrica  Cerifera, po...
Prunus Virgini...........
Quillaia,  grd..............
Sassafras  ..................
Ùlmus Po (Ground  12J
EXTBACTUM. 
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra..
po.........
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is.............
54s................
J i s .................
FERKUM
©  15 
Carbonate Precip...
@3 50 
Citrate and Quinia.
©  80 
Citrate  Soluble......
©  50 
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
©  15
Solut  Chloride........... 
_
Sulphate,  com’l..........  114©  ~
pure.............  @  *

24©
33©
11©
13©
14®
16©

“ 
“ 
“ 
“  

F L O R A .

A rnica........................  14©  16
Anthem is...................   30©  35
M atricaria..................  30©  35

FOLIA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

...................   10©  12
nivelly,.....................  25©  28
“  Alx.  35©  50
.....................  10©  12
3© 10

Salvia  officinalis,  (is
Ura Ursi......................... 

“ 
and 

GUMMI.

“ 
“ 

@ 12
© 50

@1 00
© 90
@ 80

Acacia,  1st  picked—  
.... 
.... 

2d 
3d 
sifted sorts...  © 6 5
p o ...................   75@1 00
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60)...  50©  60

Cape, (po.  20)... 
Socotri, (po.  60). 
Catechu, is, (Vis, 14 J£s,
16)................................  @ 13
Ammoniae.................   25©  30
Assafcetida, 'po. 30)... 
Benzoinum 
..............   50©  55
Jamphorae 
...............  35©  38
Euphorbiu 
po.........   35©  10
jlalbanum......................   @ 30
Gamboge,  po..............  80©  95
Guaiacum,  (po. 45)—  
@ 40
Kino,  (po.  25;................  @ 20
M astic...........................   @1 00
Myrrh,  (po  45)..............   @ 40
Opii,  (pc. 4 75;...........3 20©3 30
Shellac  ......................   30©  35
bleached........  28©  30
Tragacanth................   30©  75

© 15

herba—In ounce packages.

The  Claims of Competition.

From  Scribner’s Magazine.
Nothing  is  clearer  than  that  rivalry 
and  competition  are  not  merely actual 
but  inevitable  elements of  human  life. 
And,  therefore, is it  our  wisdom  not to 
pretend that they do  not exist,  and  even 
less to pretend that there is something so 
naughty in them  that  they ought  not to 
exist,  and,  least  of  all,  to  pretend  that 
though they are naughty,  they are never­
theless  necessary,  and we must  compete 
and strive and struggle to excel  and out­
wit our neighbor  just as  hard as we can, 
only taking  care  not  to let anybody see 
what  we  are  doing, or suspect in us the 
competitive  spirit.  In  a  word  this  is 
just one of  those questions  which wants 
to be ventilated  with a stiong  breeze  of 
candid  and  courageous  common  sense, 
and there could  be no  litter  moment for 
opening the windows and  letting  such a 
breeze blow through than  just now.  Let 
us understand,  then,  that competition—a 
strife to excel, nay, if  you choose,  down­
right  rivalry—has  a  just  and  rightful 
place in the plan of  any human  life.  A 
prize light is probably the  most  disgust­
ing  spectacle  on  earth,  but  it has in it 
just one moment  which  very  nearly ap­
proaches  the  sublime;  and that is when 
the  combatants  shake  hands  with each 
other and exchange that salutation as old 
as the classic arena,  “May the  best  man 
win.”  It is the equitable  thing that the 
best man  should win.  When we turn to 
the  most  august  and  eventful  conflict 
which human  history  records, we find it 
described as the  winning  of  a prize, the 
reaching  of  a goal,  thq  conquest  of  an 
adversary.  Of  course,  it  is  possible to 
suppose  such a thing  as  a  life  without 
rivalries  and  competitions,  and  to  look 
forward to a time when,  amid  other con­
ditions,  they will be at once  needless and 
incongruous,  but  in such  a life as ours is 
now—in a life, that  is  to  say. which  so 
plainly has  discipline and  education for 
its end—to take all  rivalry and competi­
tion out of  it would be to rob it of  one of 
the mightiest and most  wholesome agen­
cies  for  the  ennobling of  human  char­
acter.

Salicylic  acid is used in  certain  parts 
of  France  to  preserve  eggs, 
it  being 
claimed  not  to  penetrate  the shell, but 
simply to act as an  antiseptic on the egg 
surroundings.  It has been  proven, how­
ever,  that it does penetrate  the shell and 
soon permeates the  albumen and yolk of 
the  egg.  In  the  white  it  jnay  be  de­
tected  by  beating  the  albumen  with  a 
little water,  the  liquid  afterward  being 
acidulated and  shaken  with ether,  when 
the  acid  may  easily be identified by the 
usual  tests.  The  yolk  should  first  be 
coagulated by heat,  when the  same  pro­
cess may be employed.

C ouldn’t  A ttend to Everything-.

an office  boy to his employer.

“I’ve  got  a  complaint  to  make,”  said 
“What is it?”
“The  bookkeeper  kicked  me,  sir. 
I 
don’t  want no  bookkeeper  to kick’me.”
“Of course he kicked  you!  You  don’t 
expect  me  to  attend  to  everything,  do 
you?  I can’t look  after all the  little de­
tails of the business myself.”

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RADIX.

SEMEN.

©
10©
©@
15©
10©22©

5©
8@
Nigra...........  11©

Anisum,  (po.  20)........  @  15
Apium  (graveleons)..  10©  12
Bird, Is.......................  
4©  6
Carui, (po. 18) .............  12@  15
Cardamon...................1  00@1  25
Corlandrum................  10©  12
Cannabis Sativa..........3(4© 
4
Cydonium...................   75@1  00
Chenopodium  ...........  10@  12
Dipterix Odorate........1  75@1 85
Foeniculum................  @  15
Foenugreek,  po.......... 
6©  8
L in i......................... 4  @4(4
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 4 ) ...  4(4@ 4(4
Lobelia........................  35®  40
Pharlaris Canarian__ 3(4© 4(4
R apa...........................  
Sinapis,  Albu............. 

20©
Aconitum 
25 
Althae.
25©
30 
A nchusa.....................  15©
20 25 
©
Arum,  po
20©
Calamus.....................
50 
Gentiana, (po. 15;__
10©
12 
16©
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15;. 
18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 65;.....................  @
60 
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__   15©
20 
Inula,  po.....................  15@
20 
Ipecac,  po................... 2 40©
50 
Iris  plox (po. 20@22;.. 
IS©
20 
Jalapa,  p r...................   25©
30 
Maranta,  (4s....... .......  ©
35 
Podophyllum, po........  1
18
Rhei.............................  75@1  00
“  cut......................   @1  75
“  pv........................  75@1 35
Spigelia........................  48© 53
Sanguinaria,  (po  25;..  © 2 0
Serpentaria...................   30© 35
Senega..........................  75@ 80
Similax, Officinalis,  H  @ 4 0
M  ©  20
Scillae,  (po. 35)...........  10©  12
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
a-»
dus,  po.....................
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30;
German...
Zingiber a ...................
Zingiber  j ...................

Carb........................... .  12© 15 Antipvrin................... 1  35@1 40
Chlorate,  (po. 20)...... .  18© 20 Argenti  Nitras, ounce © 68
Cyanide..................... .  50© 55 Arsenicum..................
5© 7
Iodide?....................... .2 85@3 00 Balm Gilead  Bud......
38© 40
Potassa, Bitart,  pure. .  28© 30 Bismuth  S.  N ............. 2 15@2
Potassa, Bitart, com.. -  % 15 Calcium Chlor, Is,  K4s
© 9
Potass  Nitras, opt__
8@ 10
11;  Ms,  12)..............
7@ 9 Cantharides  Kussian,
Potass Nitras.............
Prussiate................... .  25© 28
PO............................. @1 75
Sulphate  po.............. .  15© 18 Capsici  Fructus, a f...
© 18
16
po.... 
14
B b o ..
Caryophyllus, (po.  30;  25©  28
Carmine,  No. 40..........  ©3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......   50©  55
Cera Flava.................   28©  30
Coccus........................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  ©  15
Centraria.....................  ©  10
Cetaceum...................   @  35
Chloroform................  50©  55
squibbs ..  @1  00
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  50@1  75
Chondrus...................   10@  12
Cinchonidine, P.  &  W  15©  20
German 
5©  12
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
©©
cent  ........................
Creasotum..................
Creta,  (bbl. 75;...........
©5©
prep.
precip................ 
8©
Rubra
©
Crocus ..................
30©
Cudbear.................
©7©
Cupri Sulph...........
Dextrine...............
10©
Ether Sulph...........
68©@
Emery,  all  numbers 
„  “  Po...............
@40©
Ergota, (po.)  45.....
Flake  White..........
12©©
Galla.....................
Gambier.................
7©
Gelatin,  Cooper......
@40©
“  French.......
Glassware  flint, 75 per cent 
by box 66%, less
Glue,  Brown.............  9©
“  White..............  13©
Glycerina.................  18©
Grana Paradisi..........  ©
Humulus..................
25©  40 
Hydraag Chlor Mite..
@  85 
“ 
“  Cor....
©  75 
“ 
Ox Rubrum 
©  90 
“  Ammoniati..
@1  10 
“  Unguentum.
45©  55 
Hydrargyrum...........
@  65
Ichthyobolla, Am......1 25@1 50
Indigo...........................  75@1 00
Iodine, Resubl..........4 00@4 10
Iodoform..................   @5 15
Lupulin........................  85@1 00
Lycopodium..................   55© 60
Macis......../..............  80©  85
Liquor  Arsch  et  Hy-
ararg Iod...............
@  27 
Liquor Potass Arsiuitis 
10©   12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
2©  3
l it) ...........................
Mannia, S. F............
90@1  00
Morphia, S. P. & W.. .2 55@2 80 
S. N.  Y.  Q. &
C. Co.....................2 55@2 70
Moschus Canton.......  ©  40
Myristica, No. 1........   60©  70
Nux Vomica, (po20)..  ©  10
Os.  Sepia..................   27@
29
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co.........................
© 2  00
Picis Liq, N. C., (4 gal
doz  ......................
@2 70 @1 00 
Picis Liq., quarts......
pints........
@  70 
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)..
©  50 
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..
I  18 
Piper Alba, (po g5;__
35©©14© 15
Pix Burgun..............
_
Plumbi Acet............. 
Pulvis Ipecac et opii. .1  10@1 20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  II
& P. D.  Co., doz.....
@1  25 
Pyrethrum,  pv..........
.  55©  60 
Quassiae..................
8©   10 
Quinia, S. P. & W......
.  45©  50 
S.  German__
.  31©  40 
Rubia Tinctorum......
.  12©  14 
Saccharum Lactis pv
@  35 
Salacin..................
.2 50@2 75 
Sanguis  Draeouis...
.  40©  50 
Santonine  ...............
@4 50 
Sapo,  W...................
.  12©  14 
“  M.....................
8©   10 
G.....................
©  15 
Seidlitz  Mixture.......
@  28 
Sinapis.....................
@  18 
“  opt.................
©  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.....................
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes 
Soda Boras, (po. 12).
Soda et Potass Tart...
Soda Carb.................
Soda, Bi-Carb...........
Soda, Ash.................
Soda, Sulphas...........
Spts. Ether Co..........
“  Myrcia  Dorn.....
“  Myrcia Imp.......
“  Yini  Reet.  bbl.
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.........................2 25®2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  .................. 
Yelvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.......... 
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage...................  
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ........................ 
Hard for  slate  use__  
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se...........................

SPIKITUS.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R ....... 1  75@2 00
1  10@1  50
 
Juni peris  Co. O. T __ 1  75@1  75
“  ' ..............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  E .........1  75@2 00
Spt.  Yini  Galli............1  7o@6 50
Vini Oporto..................... 1  2o@2 00
Vini  Alba........................ 1  25@2 00

Aceaeiii......................
Zingiber  ....................
Ipecac...... ...................
Ferri  Iod.....................
Auranti  Cortes...........
Rhei  Arom.................
Similax  Officinalis__
Co
Senega ........................
Scillae.........................
“  Co.....................
Tolutan......................
Prunus  virg.............. .
TINCTURES.

@  35 
il@  12 
33©  35 
2©   2(4 
4©  5
3©  4
©  
2 
50©  55 
@2  00 
@2 50
@ 2   11
Strychnia Crystal......  @1 10
Sulphur, Subl.............2?4© 3(4
“  Roll.............. 2(4© 3
Tamarinds...............   8©  10
Terebenth Venice......  28©  30
Theobromae............   50©  55
Vanilla....................9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph..............  7®  8

2 00
1  10
85
65
75
1  40

SPONGES.

SYRV’PS.

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able dealers from all parts of the country.  This 
trade  is  about  equally  divided  between  drug­
gists, general dealers and grocers.  A good trade 
for one insures a satisfactory trade for the other. 
Order at once, save freight and commence  turn­
ing your money every thirty or  sixty  days, at 71 
per cent, profit.

MANUFACTURERS:

The  G erm   Meiicne  Company,

Minneapolis, Minn.

FOR  SALE  TO  THE  TRADE  BY

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug  Co.,  Wholesale Drug­
gists;  Hawkins  &  Perry,  Wholesale  Grocers, 
Grand  Rapids;  McCausland  &  Co.,  Wholesale 
Grocers, E. Saginaw;  W. J. Gould & Co., Whole 
sale  Grocers,  Detroit;  B.  Desenberg  &  Co., 
Wholesale Grocers, Kalamazoo.

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CURES

hiver and 

Kidney 'Troubles 
Blood Diseases 

Constipation

---- AND----

F e m a l e

Complaints
Being composed entirely of  HERBS, it 
is the only perfectly harmless  remedy on 
the market and  is  recommended  by  all 
who use it.

Retail Druggists  will find it to 
their  interest  to  keep  the DIA­
MOND  TEA, as it fulfills all that 
is claimed,  making  it one of the 
very best selling articles handled.

Place your order v itb  our  Wholesale 

House.Diamond  (Jedicine  Go,,

PROPRIETORS,

DETROIT, 

-  MICH.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,

WHOLESALE  AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

WHITE  LEAD 

& COLOR WORKS 

MANUFACTURERS OF

D E T R O I T ,
LATEST
ARTISTIC
SHADES

DECORATION 
F J .  WURZBURG, Wholesale Agent,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

HAZELTINE

&  P E R K IN S

DRUG  CO.

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

- D R U G S - -

Chemicals  and  Druggists’  Sundries.

Dealers  in

Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes.

We  are  Sole  Proprietors  of

WEATHERLY’S  MICHIGAN  CATARRH  REMEDY.

Absinthium ..,.....................  25
Eupatorium..........................  20
Lobelia.................................   25
Majorum..............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................   23
Y ir..........................  25
R ue......................................   30
‘anacetum, V......................   22
Thymus,  V...........................  25

55©  60 
20©.  22 
20©   25 
35©  36

MAGNESIA.
Calcined, Pat...........
larbonate,  Pat  ......
Carbonate, K. &  M .
,’arbonate, Jenning."
OLEUM.
absinthium ............
00©5  50 
45©  75 
\mygdalae. Dale —
25@7 50 
Amydalae, Amarae.
\n is i.......................
U0@2  10 
@2 50 
iuranti  Cortex......
50@3 00
Bergamii
..  90@1  00
Cajiputi..................
@2 00
Carvophvlli...........
..  35©  65
Cedar  ....................
Chenopodii  ...........
©1  75
..  95@1 00
Cinnamonii...........
©  75
Citronella..............
..  35©  65
Coniurn  Mac..........
..  90@1  00
Copaiba.................
C'ubebae.................. 15'50@16 00
..  90@1  00
Exechthitos...........
..1  20@1  30
Erigeron................
..2:25@2 35
Gaultheria.............
©  75
Geranium,  ounce..
..  50©  75
Gossipii,  Sem. gal..
.. 1  15@1  25
Hedeöma  ..............
..  50@2 00
Juniperi..................
..  90@2 00
Lavendula.............
.. 1  60@2 00
Limonis..................
Mentha Piper.........
. .3 00@3 25
Mentha Yerid........
Morrhuae, gal.............  80®1  00
Myrcia, ounce.............  ©  50
Olive.......................... 1  00©2 75
Picis Liquida,  (gal. 35;  10©  12
R icini..........................  96@1  10
Rosmarini...................  75@1  60
Rosae,  ounce..............   ©6 00
Succini........................  40©  45
Sabina........................  90@1  00
Sàn tal  .......................3 50©7 00
Sassafras.....................  55©  60
Sinapis, ess, ounce__   ©  65
Tiglii...........................  @1  50
Thym e........................  40©  50
“ 
opt  ................  ©  60
heobromas................  15©  20
Bi Carb................
15©  18 
15©  16 
Bichromate........
37©  40
Bromide..............

POTASSIUM.

“ 

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“ 

“ 

Aeonitum  XapellisR. 
F.
Aloes...........................
and  myrrh........
A rnica................... i..
Asaf oetida...................
Atrope Belladonna__
Benzoin......................
Co.................
Sanguinaria................
Barosma.....................
Cantharides................
Capsicum...................
Cardamon...................
Castor.........................
Catechu......................
Cinchona  ...................
Columba..............................   50
Coniurn................................  50
Cubeba.................................   50
D igitalis..............................   50
Ergot.....................................  50
G entian................................  50
Co.............................  60
G uaica.................................   50
ammoii.....................  60
Zingiber..............................   50
Hyoscyamus........................  50
Iodine...................................   75
“  Colorless...................   75
Ferri  Chloridum..................  35
K in o .....................................  50
Lobelia.................................   50
Myrrh...................................   50
Nux  Vomica........................  50
O pii......................................   85
Camphorated................  50
Deodor......................... 2 00
Auranti Cortex.....................  50
Quassia................................  50
Rhatany  ..............................   50
Rhei......................................   50
Cassia  Acutifol...................   50
Co..............   50
Serpentaria.........................   50
Stramonium..........................  60
Tolutan................................  60
V alerian..............................   50
Veratrum Yeride..................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.
Ether, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  26©  28
“  4 F ..  30©  32
“ 
* 
Alumen........................2(4© 3(4
“ 
ground,  (po.
) ..............................  
3©  4
Aunatto......................   55©  60
4©  5
Antimoni, po.............. 
et Potass T.  55©  60

“ 

7086 G al

“ 

70
90

Bbl.

paints. 

OILS.
Whale, winter__
Lard,  extra.........
Lard, No.  1.........
Linseed, pure raw __   58
Lindseed,  boiled.......  61
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained..................  50
69
Spirits Turpentine__   52
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian...............1%  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ 1%  2@4
“ 
Ber........1%  2@3
Putty,  commercial__ 2(4  2(4@3
“  strictly  pure.......2(4  2%@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ...........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English__________ 70@75
Green,  Peninsular..................... 70@75
Lead,  red.....................  6%©7^
“  w h ite..................6£@7(4
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’....................... @90
1 00
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff........................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints............................1  00@1 20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach.......1  10@1  20
Extra Turp.......................1  60@1 70
Coach  Body.....................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.........1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__ 1  55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T u rp ........................  70©  75

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P  O F IS H IN Æ

[TRADE  MARK  REGISTERED.]

CUBAN.HAND MADE. HAVANA,Cl GARS 

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_„e FROM ALL ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR ufó

EVERY  CIGAR  BRANDED.

‘Los Doctores”!Is free  from  AR 

TIFICIAL  FLA- 
ORING, is  a ci­
gar that will hold 
fire, contains one-third more pure Havana tobac­
co than any teu-eent Key West or two for 25 cents 
imported cigar vou can get.

FREE  SMOKING,  MILD  AND  RICH.

For  Sale  by  20,000  Druggists  throughout  the

Hazeltiue & Perkins Dmi Co.,
W holesale Agts., Grand Rapids
GZ2TSB2TG  HOOT.
We pay the highest price fo r it.  Address 

■DUflTT  -D-D H O   W holesale  D ruggists, 
r l l U A   -D A U O ., 

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Organs  and  Hard Woods.

c' ean  al*d  easy 

D ill  RUIM1T  win remove grease and dirt, and 
r U u lO tllI l/l  will  add  a  luster  which 
for 
beauty and durability cannot  be excelled.
Dill  iRUIMH 
to  use,  as 
rU U lO n iJiJl  full directions  accompany each 
bottle.
D ill 
Put UP ' R Large Bottles and is
r  U LUOfllll fi  sold  at  the  moderate  price  of 
Twenty-five cents.
Dill  IQUINil  is  the best  Furniture  Finish  in 
r U U l O jl l li f l  the market.  Try  it,  and  make 
your old furniture look fresh and new.
Dill  IKUIMIT  is t°r sale by all  Druggists, Fur- 
r U l i iO j li J if l  uiture  Dealers,  Grocery  and 
Hardware Stores.

J3?“Beware of imitations.

TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY  THE

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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We have in stock and offer a fall line of

W hinkies.  Brandies,

Gins,  W ines,  Rums.

We are  Sole  Agents  in  Michigan  for  W. D. & Co. 

Henderson County, Hand Made  Sour Mash 

WTiisky and Druggists’ Favorite 

Rye  Whisky.

W e sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
W e give our Personal Attention to Mail  Orders  and  G uar­
All orders are Shipped and  Invoiced  the  same  day  w e re­

antee Satisfaction.
ceive them.  Send in a trial order.

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before  purchasing 
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A

The MichiffanTradesman

Tlie Ideal  Clerk.

C.  F. G arrison  In th e  A m erican Storekeeper.

“Yes. 

“Hello, Briggs!”
“Hello,  Watson!”
“Have  you  seen  Wilder’s  new  clerk, 
Briggs?”
“No. 
I hope he is an  improvement on 
his old clerk, Slacky.  What’s his name?” 
“Fred  Beatem.  He’s  a  very  fine  ap­
pearing and  sprucely dressed  young  fel­
low.  The girls all pronouce him a daisy. 
Wilder accepted him on the recommenda­
tion  of  old  Sharpe  up at Beaver  Falls.
He is Sharpe’s nephew.”
“Well,  Sharpe  is  a  sharper;  hut  the 
young  man  may  be all  right.  By  the 
way, new  clerks  are  getting  to be quite 
numerous. 
I  saw a new boy in at Hals­
brook* s last night.”
I  saw some green looking chap 
there myself.  Halsbrook  hasn’t got  the 
faculty of  catching  on to  anything  new 
and taking,  as Wilder has.”
“Well,  Watson, the  old  fellow’s  head 
is generally level, if he is slow and easy.’ 
The  two citizens  parted  after  having 
been  kind  enough  to  introduce  to  the 
reader  two  new arrivals  in  the  town of 
Pike,  which  supported,  among  others, 
the  two  above mentioned  general  stores 
of  Wilder and  Halsbrook.  The “green­
looking  chap” referred  to in  the forego­
ing  dialogue  was  a  young  man  named 
George  Winman.  He  was  a  poor  lad 
whose  widowed mother had toiled  early 
and late to educate him and to make him 
respectable, and now that he had secured 
a  paying situation  in a store, the mother 
and son were righteously happy. 
It was 
at this  time that  George Winman  regis 
tered a solemn, secret  vow to  exert  him­
self  to  the  utmost to  advance  himself, 
and  by so  doing  to  repay  his  mother. 
He  thus had  an aim in  life,  an incentive 
to  work,  an  object  in  living and  doing 
right, which is the pivotal point whereon 
turns  the success  or  failure  of  many 
young life.
The Sunday after George and Fred had 
arrived  in 
town,  they  both  attended 
church,  and,  after  services,  they  were 
introduced to prominent  members of  the 
church, and  also  to each  other.  George 
smilingly greeted  each one who was  pre­
sented to him, while Fred appeared bored, 
and as soon as an opportunity offered,  he 
left  his  new acquaintances, and went off 
with a group of giggling girls, with whom 
he  seemed  to  have  a  ready  faculty  of 
getting  acquainted.  Right  here George 
gained a point over Fred;  for each happy 
smile, pleasant word  and  friendly grasp 
of  the hand  secured  to  him  a  friend; 
while Fred  displeased  all who  observed 
his manner of leaving the church.
Time went on, and all traces of “green­
ness” and awkwardness left George as he 
became familiarized with his new duties. 

He used his brain.
He  studied.
During  business hours  he  studied  the 
business and the characters and peculiar­
ities of the customers.
If  Mr.  Halsbrook  wanted  to  know 
about  the  condition  or  amount  of  stock 
on hand, he asked George. 
If he wanted 
to  know  how  cinnamon,  citron,  coffee, 
cork,  sponges or bananas  grew, or  how 
sugar,  queensware,  alapaca,  or  rat-tail 
files  were  made,  he  knew  that  George 
If  he wanted  to  know 
could  tell  him. 
the  forgotten  price of  an article, he  in­
quired of  George. 
If a question arose as 
to  the most approved method of  packin 
butter  or  preserving eggs, he  consulted 
George as conclusive authority.
The  time  that  George  could  call  his 
own, he  spent  at  home  in  reading  or 
study.  He took and read a trade journal, 
an innovation in the policy of doing busi 
ness  in  Pike which all  but shocked  old 
Halsbrook.  His taste in arranging stock 
and  his appitude for  keeping everything 
clean  and  neat, was  such that  remark 
were  passed  to  the  effect that  “Hals- 
brook’s  store  didn’t  look  like the  same 
place.”  He  studied  the  wants  of  cus­
tomers.  He  liked  to accommodate  peo 
pie whether  they were  customers or not. 
People  liked to trade with  him an 
;ef 
the store with a peculiarly combined feel­
ing of  regret  and  satisfaction,  such 
one feels upon  leaving an enjoyable  din­
ner.
Mr. Halsbrook  marked  a  considerable 
increase in  his  daily  sales, and, being 
broad-minded  man, although  a  little  pe­
culiar in  his  ways, he  was not  blind  to 
the  cause. 
In  fact, he  so much  appre 
eiated the energetic services and pushing 
disposition of  Winman,  and  felt  so  in­
competent to do longer without him, that 
he steadily advanced his wages to a fabu­
lous amount  for a clerk in a small  town 
George  Winman  knew  that  he 
“King of the clerks of Pike.”
What did Fred Beatem do in the mean­
time?
He studied gallanty, fashion-plates and 
deviltry, he  studied  to shirk  work  onto 
the  other  clerks.  He  studied  to  read 
novels during business hours without de 
tection.  He was usually seen in front of 
the  store, or  leaning  over  the  counter 
chatting  and  laughing,  and  talking non 
sense to a bevy of  girls. 
Indeed, he was 
quite  popular  with  a  good  many giddy 
young ladies;  but, be it said, giddy young 
ladies  don’t  usually do  the  buying  for 
the afflicted households to which thejr be­
long.  He  spent  his evenings  at  parties 
and balls, or at^ards and  billiards. 
In­
crease  in salary did  not  come  to  him. 
His  expenses, in  order  to  keep  up  ap­
pearances, were considerable.

*

*

*

*

Wilder’s sales did not augment.
They diminished.
He could not meet his payments! 
*
*
“Hello, Briggs!’
“Hello,  Watson!”
“Heard the news, Briggs?”
“No.  What is it?”
“ Wilder’s  failed,  and  has  had  young 
Beatem arrested for embezzlement.” 
“Don’t  surprise  me  much. 
I  should 
think Wilde" would  have seen it coming. 
Others did.”
“Yes.  He  ought to have known  more 
than  to  hire  this  insipid  fellow,” said 
this  disciple  of  public  opinion. 
“But 
then Wilder is a poor judge of character. 
Old  man Halsbrook  has  the clerk  who’s 
got the stuff in him.”
“Yes, you are right.  They say the old 
man  has  offered Winman  an equal  part­
nership.”

“Good enough for Halsbrook.”
Again  our  two  friends  parted,  and 
we  are  obliged  to  them;  this  time  for 
drawing the curtain on the closing scenes 
of the clerical life of George Winman and 
Fred Beatem.

EMPLOYER AND  CLERK.

How the Merchant  Should Endeavor to 

Direct the Lives of His  Help.

From  th e  Chicago News.
The relations that should exist between 
clerks and  their  employers  is a question 
of  vital  importance  and  one  which, in 
practice if not in theory,  finds many con­
flicting answers.  The  crowded walks  of 
city  life,  in  which  good,  bad, and  in­
different are  jostled together;  the scram­
ble  for  gain;  the  temptations  that  are 
offered  for wrong  doing;  the  long  hours 
and  distractions  that  militate  against 
self-improvement,  and  a  thousand  and 
one  other  considerations, enter  into  the 
matter to make  the  average clerk’s  posi­
tion  one of  danger. 
Is  the relation  be­
tween  employers  and  employes  merely 
one of  dollars  and cents—so  much  work 
for so much pay?  Should the employer’s 
supervision and interests end at the store 
door?  Do  not his  own welfare and  that 
of  his employes  require something  fur­
ther—a  general  supervision  of  morals, 
manner  of  life,  family, education,  asso­
ciates,  and  the like?  Is  it  not  possible 
for employers, while they jealously guard 
their  own  interests, to  render the  most 
substantial  service  to  their  help  in  di­
recting,  guiding  and  stimulating  their 
ives?  These  are  but a few of  the ques­
tions  that  are  suggested as showing  the 
importance of the subject.
It  is,  I  think,  a  self-evident  fact,” 
said  S. L. MacLeish of  the firm of  Chas. 
Gossage & Co.,  “that  whatever  tends  to 
stimulate  an  employe’s  interest,  sober 
his  habits, or inform his mind will  ulti­
mately  be  no  less  a benefit  to  his  em­
ployer  than to him.  Most  business men 
realize  this and  are only  too  glad to  do 
what  they can  to  uplift  the  moral  and 
intellectual status of  those they  employ. 
The  question  is, however,  how  can  this 
supervision  and  influence  best  be  ex­
tended beyond business hours?
Personally,  I  don’t  see  how  clerks 
will  be materially benefited  by organiza­
tions,  associations,  gymnasia,  and  that 
sort  of  institutions,  even  though  they 
were  provided  especially for  their  use. 
There  are now institutions of  that char­
acter  which  clerks  could  patronize  did 
they  choose to.  The  fact  is  that when 
business  hours  are closed  employes  are 
only  too glad to get out  and  enjoy what 
may  be  called  a  little  abandon,  and  I 
apprehend  that  were  a  clerks’  associa­
tion or library or gymnasium  provided it 
would be well  patronized for a time,  and 
then almost forgotten.
What  is more, that which  has proved 
serviceable in  one place will not work in 
another.  The  conditions  are  different. 
In England there  are many boarding and 
lodging places and  well-stocked libraries 
connected  with  business  houses,  but 
there it is the  custom to board and lodge 
in the  stores,  a  custom  that  probably 
grew out of  the long hours of  service re­
quired.  The  plan  would  be  a  failure 
here if  instituted  for the  clerks’ benefit, 
and  it  is  scarcely  practicable  to  take 
English  customs  as  suggestions 
for 
American enterprise.
“In France  they hive  something  akin 
to profit-sharing  as a stimulus  to  clerks. 
The difficulty with that plan is that clerks 
become  too  aggressive  and  officious  to 
patrons,  and  for  the  sake  of  currying 
favor and making a good reputation with 
proprietors  they become  so  solicitous  as 
to  give  offense  and  drive  away custom. 
Most  store-keepers  in this  city, I think, 
would  find it cheaper to  give a minimum 
salary  plus  a  liberal  commission  on 
actual  sales, but  as  applied  to  clerks 1 
am  satisfied  that  the scheme would  de 
velop  zeal  and faithfulness  and  at  the 
same time kill trade.
“As I  regard  the  matter I see  practi 
cally  only one  way for  employers  to ex 
ert  a  salutary influence  on  the  body of 
clerks under  them. 
I  mean to set  good 
examples and be  rigid in requiring those 
examples  to  be  followed.  That  many 
proprietors, superintendents  and  mana­
gers are  slack in this regard  I  believe to 
be a fact.  Efficiency as  a  salesman or 
saleswoman  is too often  made an  excuse 
for  brooking  moral  del nquencies,  and 
the  inevitable  result of  bad example  i 
overlooked.
“I  have  been in business long enough 
to  know that a  single  black  sheep in  a 
great  business house  is  enough  to  con 
taminate  and  lower  the moral  tone  of 
many employes. 
If  a proprietor or  floor 
manager  is known to  gamble, speculate 
visit  questionable  places,  or  otherwise 
deport  himself  as he  should  not it will 
inevitably produce  a  demoralizing  effect 
on  the  force of  clerks. 
I’ve  seen it ex­
emplified  time and  again,  and  I  know 1 
am  right in saying  that the  most promi­
nent  lever a storekeeper  can  use to ele­
vate the moral tone of  his employes is  to 
have none but men and women of known 
honor,  integrity,  and fair  judgment  as 
superintendents or managers.
“Then, I think store-keepers should be 
careful to  ascertain  as much as  possible 
of 
the  abode,  the 
methods of life,  and the  associates of hi 
help.  The common allegation that there 
are male  and female  clerks of  doubtful 
morals  in the  employ of  business  estab 
lishments  doubtless  has some  ground of 
truth, and  it  behooves  every  reputable 
house  to  weed  out  remorselessly  every 
employe  whose  life is known or  reason 
ably supposed  to  be  off  color. 
It  is  \ 
duty he  owes to  himself, and  especially 
to the honest  clerks in his employ. 
It is 
his  right to interfere with the  life of  his 
clerks in so far as they are not calculated 
to cast credit on the store or to be health 
ful to the morals of his force.
deprecate, and  that is  systematic espion­
age. 
It is not  necessary to resort to this 
to  know the practices and resorts of  em­
ployes.  They are  bound to crop  out  in 
one  form or  another.  / A single  case  of 
peculation,  untruthfulness, gambling, or 
moral  delinquency  summarily  disposed 
of—and you  may be sure  that when  this 
is done, if  the fault be not  made  known 
in  the  store,  the  other  employes  will 
make  shrewd  guesses — will  be  more 
effective  as  a  deterrent  and  corrective 
measure  than  any other  plan that  could 
be  followed to  keep a force of  clerks as 
straight of life as they should be.  Clerks 
should  feel  that  they  are  trusted—not 
watched, but  put on their  honor.  They 
should  feel,  too,  that  superior  intelli­
gence  and  efficiency are  recognized  and 
appreciated  and  that  faithfulness  com­
bined with honesty and capability will be 
rewarded.  This  is no  ideal  scheme  at 
all,  but  one  now  in  practice  in  more 
stores  than one in Chicago, and I believe 
it is the only practicable course for store­

“There  is  one  thing, however, that 

the  antecedents, 

keepers  to  follow ii  they  want  to  exer­
cise  any  decisive  salutary  influence  on 
clerks as a body.
“Philanthropy  is  often  shorn  of  its 
best results, and  there are more effective 
means  to  employ.  Public  opinion  is  a 
factor  that  should  be  made  potent  in 
every  establishment.  Grades of  intelli­
gence  and  ability of  will  always exist, 
but  the  bait  of  example  and  personal 
advancement  will  come  into  play  with 
It  ought not to be  possible 
good result. 
for men and women of questionable lives 
to  find  employment  where 
they  will 
necessarily  be  thrown  in  contact  with 
those  who are  better  and  more  honest. 
If  store-keepers would  look  up  records, 
keep  track of  their  clerks’ friends  and 
associates, take a frank, friendly intere 
in  them,  and make  the weight of  social 
ostracism be felt harshly when necessary 
it would  be  a  salutary influence  second 
to no other that could be used.
“As a matter of  fact, I think  clerk life 
in  all  lines of  business  is  much  above 
what it  used to  be.  The  moral  tone  is 
higher;  clerks  are  better  informed  and 
more cultured. 
I am sure that all reput­
able store-keepers would gladly welcome 
any  scheme  calculated  to  better  their 
help, but  we  now  have  too  many asso­
ciations and  orders  and  societies, and ] 
doubt if the thing is to  be worked out on 
that line.”
Among  several  others who  expressed 
opinions  as to  the  relations that  should 
exist between employers and their clerks 
was  Mr.  Selfridge, with  Marshall  Field 
& Co.  After sanctioning what  Mr. Mac 
Leish had said, he added:
“That employers  are  in a measure  re 
sponsible  to  their  respective  forces  for 
whom they take on and  retain is certain 
That  they should  seek to  exert a health 
ful  influence  over  those whom  they as 
semble  to  serve them  is  reasonable and 
right.  Still  the  matter  is  much  mor 
difficult than is generally supposed.  An; 
movement  or  attempt, other  than  that 
sketched  by  Mr. MacLeish,  looking  to- 
ward  the  betterment  of  clerks  would 
prove abortive, partly from  its  apparent 
officiousness  and  partly  from  the  wide 
differences  observable in the intelligence 
and social standing of clerks themselves.
notice  that  clerks who  have  risen  to 
the heads of  departments feel their posi­
tion  and do not  like  to be  classed  with 
clerks.  There is no uniform social level, 
no  unanimity of  tastes  or  desires.  The 
only way in  which a permanent and last­
ing good can  be done is to lend a hand to 
competition, making  merit and efficiency 
count,  and  inefficiency and  moral weak­
ness not  o’nly.a bar to progress  but a bar 
against  employment.  This  means is in 
the  store-keeper’s  power and  he should 
feel morally bound to use it.”
The  Trade-Mark a  Commercial  Signa­
the  Druggists’ 
Circular  discusses 
tendency  of 
manufacturers of  medicine  of  the  pres­
ent day to make  trade-marks  do duty as 
commercial patents.
It very  justly says  that it is somewhat 
questionable  whether  any  invention  in 
medicine  should be the subject of  a pat­
ent,  for  while  once  in a long  period  a 
really  meritorious 
remedy  may  be 
brought to notice  through  efforts which, 
but for the  prospect of  a preliminary re­
ward,  would not have been made, and for 
which the  investigator really  deserves a 
reward, 
the  general  tendency  of  such 
protection  is  to  flood  the  market  with 
humbugs  of  every  guise.  But  as  the 
subject is still debatable, patents in med 
ieine  will  continue  to  be granted until 
more definite  ideas  prevail as to the rel­
ative rights of  inventors and the  public, 
Articles that claim  protection,  however, 
as original  inventions, should at once be 
brought wholly under the patent law.
The trade-mark, as has  been  well  ar 
gued in articles  contributed  to  previou 
numbers  of  this  journal,  is  simply  a 
commercial  signature. 
Its  proper func 
tion is  to  indicate  that  Mr.  Smith  has 
made  the  article  on  which it appears- 
not  to  secure  to  Mr. Smith,  “his  heir 
and  assigns  forever,” the  sold  right to 
make  and  sell  that  article. 
If  the cir 
cumstawces are  such that the patentable 
invention  wrould  not  be  perfectly  pro 
tected if  its descriptive  name  should be 
free to other  inventors, there  would ap 
pear to be no  just  objection to including 
the  name  in  the  patent.  The patentee 
has an undoubted  claim  to  protection in 
every  particular  during  the  term  for 
which his patent  is  granted;  the  manu 
facturer  has  an  equal  right to ask that 
he  shall  be  secured  against  the use of 
his  signature  by  unauthorized  persons 
without  regard  to  limit  of  time.  Not 
one iota of  infringement  should  be  tol­
erated.  Both  these  rights  will  be  re 
spected  and  fully supported by all hon 
est  men, but  confusing  the  latter right 
with the former  will  excite  disapproba 
tion wherever understood.

In  an  able  editorial, 
the 

ture.

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories here pay as follows for 
dry  stock,  measured  merchantable,  mill  culls 
out:
Basswood, log-run................................... 13 00@15 00
Birch,  log-run........................................... 15 00@16 00
Bireh, Nos. 1 and 2..............................  @22 00
Black Ash, log-run................................... 14 00@16 00
Cherry, log-run..........................................25 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2................................ 50 00@60 00
Cherry, Cull.........................................   @12 00
Maple, log-run..........................................12 00@14 00
Maple,  soft, log-run..................................11 00@13 00
@20 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2.............................. 
Maple,  clear, flooring.........................   @25 00
Maple,  white, selected........................ 
@25 00
Red Oak, log-run.......................................18 00@20 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2.............................. 24 00@25 00
Red Oak, H sawed, 8 inch and upw’d.40 00@45 00
Red Oak, U sawed, regular...................... 30 00(335 00
Red Oak, No. 1, step plank.................   @25 00
Walnut, log ru n ...................................  @55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2...........................  @75 00
Walnuts, cull 
  @25 00
Grey Elm, log-run.....................................12 00@13 05
White Aso, log-run................................... 14 00@16 00
Whitewood, log-run..................................20 00@22 00
White Oak, log-run................................... 17 00@18 00

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Notice of Limited  Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that  Frederic A. Wurz 
burg,  William  M.  Wurzburg  and  William  F 
Wurzburg, as  general  partners, and  Zachary T. 
Aldrich, as special partner, all of  Grand Rapids 
Michigan, have  this  day  formed a limited  part 
nership  in  pursuance of  chapter  78  Howell’! 
Annotated  Statutes, for  the  purpose of carrying 
on the business of jobbers of dry goods, notions 
and similar  articles, at Grand Rapids, Michigan 
under the  firm name and  style of “F.  W.  Wurz 
burg’s  Sons & Co.,” and  that the amount of cap 
ital  stock  which  said  special  partner  has con- 
tribted  to  the  common  stock,  is  twenty-seven 
hundred and fifty dollars, and that  said partner­
ship  is to  commence  January  28,1889, and  ter 
minate .January 28.1891.

FREDERIC  A.  WURZBURG.
WILLIAM  M.  WURZBURG.
WILLIAM F.  WURZBURG,
ZACHARY  T.  ALDRICH.
Dated, Grand Rapid?, Jan. 28*1889.

General Partners.
Special Partner.

When making Orders, Mention the Above  Well Known Brands. 

SEE  QUOTATIONS.

O. E. BROW N

MIELING  CO.

Boston  R u b b e r  Shoe  Co.,

12, 14  & 16  P e a rl  S tre e t,  G ra n d   R a p id s,  M ich.

A G EN TS  F O R   T H E

W .  STEEUE 

Packing and.  Provision Co.

GRAND  BA 1‘IDS,  MICH.

W H O L E S A L E   D E A L E R S   IN

Fresh and Salt Beef, Fresh and Salt Pork, Pork Loins, Dry Salt 

Pork, Bams,  Shoulders,  Bacon, Boneless Bam, Sausage 

of  all  Kinds,  Dried  Beef  for  Slicing. 

B A R D

strictly Pnre and Warranted, in tierces, barrels, half-bbls., 501b. cans, 20 lb. cans, 3, 5 and 101b. pails

Rickled Rigs9 Beet, Tripe, Btc.

Our prices for first-class goods are very low and all  goods  are  warranted  first-class  in every in­
stance.  When in Grand Rapids, give us a  call  and  look  over  our  establishment.  Write  us  for 
prices.

J.  H.  THOMPSON  &  C O .,

-S P E C IA L T IE S

IM P O R T E R S  A N D   JO B B E R S

r

s

T E A S ,

C O F F E E S

Our Bunkum  Coffee 

Princess Bkg. Powder 
Early Riser Bkg. Pdr.

S P IC E S B Boney Bee  Coffee
  B M ILLS
and manufacturers of E BEE  Mills  Gd.  Spices 

SPICE GRINDERS
BEE  Mills  Extracts. 
BEE  Mills  BirdSeed. 
POWDERS.
BAKING 
BEE  Mills  Starch.
BEE  Chop  Japan  Tea.
SO Jefferson Ave.,  DETROIT,  MICH.

i C

E

SW IFT’S

Choice Chicago

Brown’s  Patent 
Brown’s  Standard

Every Barrel and Sack guaranteed. 

Correspondence Solicited.

Onr Lead’i

 Brands.
G ra n d   R a p id s, M ich.

Onr Baker’s 
Vienna Straight

C u r t is s   & Co.,

Successors to CURTISS &  DUNTON.

W H O L E S A L E

P a p e r   W a r e h o u s e,

Houseman Building,  Cor.  Pearl & Ottawa Sts.,

Dressed Beef

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,

M IC H IG A N .

—A N D  M U T T O N —
Gan be found at all  times  in  full  supply  and at 
popular prices at the branch houses in all the larg- 
ger cities and is retailed by all first-class  butchers.
The trade of all marke'men  and  meat  dealers  is 
solicited.  Our W holesale Braoch Bouse, L. F. Swift 
&Co., located at Grand Rapid-*, always has on hand 
a full supply of our Beef, Mutton and Provisions,and 
the public may rest assured that in  purchasing our 
meats from dealers they w ill always receive the best.
Swift and Company,

Union  Stock  Yards, 

CHICAGO.

WHO  UHGES  YOU

T O   X v H i r P

THE  IPTTBI-iIO!

By splendid and expensive advertising  the  manufacturers ere 
ate  a  demand,  and  only  ask  the  trade  to  keep the goods in 
stock so as to supply the orders sent to  them.  W ithout effort 
on the grocer’s part the goods  sell themselves,  bring  purchas­
ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.
ANY JOBBER  W ILL BE GLAD  TO  FILL YOUR ORDERS.
We  carry  the  Largest  Line 
and  make  Special  Prices  on 

Oranges T

PUTNAM  &  BROORS,

Grand Rapids.

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