GRAND  R A PID S,  W EDNESDAY,  AUGUST  13,  1890.
A   W N I N G

LIFE  OF  A  CITY  CLERK.

AN 

TENTS.

VOL.  7.
Allen D e m i. 

A. D. Leavenworth.

A lle n   D u rfee  &  Co.,
FUNERAL  DIRECTORS,
Go,,
Raion,  Lyon 

103 O ttaw a St..  G rand Rapids.

Flags, Horae and  Wagon  Covers.  Seat  Shades,  Large 
Umbrellas,  Oiled  Clothing,  Wide  Cotton  Ducks, etc 
CHAS.  A.  COVE,  11  Pearl  Street.

Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue.

T e le   »hone  IQS.

Playing Garda

WE  m   HEADQUARTERS

SEND  FOR  PRICE  LIST.

Daniel  Lunch.

19  So. Ionia  St.,  Grand Rapids.

SEEDS!

It in want of Clover or Timothy, 
Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top, 
or,  in  fact,  Any  Kind  of  Seed, 
send or  write to the

71  Canal  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.
W.T. LAMORE AUX.

A.  SHELET.

W. C. WILLIAMS. 

A. S.  BROOKS.
WILLIAMS,

SHELBY

& BROOKS
Successors to

FARRAND,  WILLIAMS  &  CO., 

Wholesale  Druggists,

AT  THE  OLD  STAND.

Corner  Bate»  and  Larned  Street«, Detroit.
H o w   to  K eep   a  S tore.
By  Samuel  H.  Terry.  A  book  of  400  pages 
written from the experience and  observation  of 
an old merchant.  It treats of Selection  of Bust 
ness,  Location,  Buying,  Selling, Credit, Adver­
tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships,  etc.  Of 
great interest to every one in trade.  $1.50. 
THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

G rand  Rapide.

Olir Fall Line Now Ready

E A T O N , L Y O N   &  CO ,

30 and 33 Monroe St.. Grand  Hapids.

Gook  X  Bergthold,
SHOW  BASES.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Prices  Lower  than  those  of 
any competitor.  Write for cata­
logue and  prices.

67 Canal S t,  GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

REMPIS &  GALLMEYER,
B O U N D E R S

General Jobbers and Manufacturers of 

Settees,  Lawn  Vases,  Roof  Crestings,  Carriage 

Steps, Hitching Posts and Stair Steps. 

54-56 N. F ront St. 
Grand Rapids, Mich.
MAGNETO  FIRE  ALARM
ABSOLUTE  RELIABILITY!

FOR  TOWNS  AND  CITIES. 

NO  BATTERIES  USED!

ENTIkELY  NEW! 
Write for Particulars.

Low Price. 

PENINSULAR  CO..  State  Agents, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

SEEDS!

Write  for  jobbing  prices  on 
Mammoth, Medium,  Alsyke  and 
Alfalfa Clover, Timothy, Orchard 
Grass,  Red  Top,  Blue  Grass, 
Field Peas,  Beans,

APPLES
POTATOES.

C.  A in s w o r th ,

76 So. Division St., Grand Rapids.

“I’m only a city clerk;
Salary, five hundred a year,
The worst of my labors I shirk,
And the airs 1 put on—oh dear!
“I take my dinner at Blank  street,
Where there’s no one thirsting for ’fray, 
And when on the street my tailor I meet, 
My hair, why, it almost turns gray.

“I put on the airs of a banker,
Except at my boarding house;
For doing it there I don't hanker,
For I’m not as much there as a mouse.

“The reason. I owe my landlady 
For board of five weeks or more.
Her name, they call her Sadie,
And she'll soon fire me out of the door.
“For two years I had been a farm hand.
On a farm it is dreadfully slow,
And now I belong to a brass baud,
I’m a dude from the word ‘go.’

“My name was August Smith 
When first to the city I came.
Now it’s Gustus De Smythe,
But truly, what's in a name?

“And when all my creditors troublesome get, 
And send notices—‘Please for to pay,’
I’ll ‘get up and get’ on the quiet, you bet, 
And quietly go faraway.”
Mikey Ph illips.

Owosso, August, 1890.

Count the  Cost.

It is a curious fact that the pharmacist 
is frequently called  upon to  answer  the 
question :  “ Would you advise me to have 
my son learn the  drug  business?” 
It is 
much to be regretted that parents should 
have  so  little  knowledge of  a son’s dis­
position, or tendency,  as  to  feel  the ne­
cessity of  seeking  advice from the phar­
macist whose opinion in  the  matter must 
be  in a great  measure  governed  by the 
general  appearance  and make-up of  the 
boy.
In  the  eyes  of  the  pharmacist,  as  a 
rule,  a bright,  intelligent  face,  together 
with  neatness of  person,  is  sufficient  to 
recommend  him  at  once as a promising 
follower of Esculapius, and he is entered 
upon a life  of  drudgery,  the  disadvan­
tages of  which he realizes too late.
Taken at an age  before an aptitude for 
any  particular  vocation  has  developed 
itself, he is sacrificed by prevailing ideas, 
which  are  as erroneous as they are com­
mon, to a business for which he may pos­
sess as little fitness as he has liking for it; 
once  in,  however,  there he is destined to 
to remain.  Should  he  in  the  course of 
time  express  an  aversion  for it,  this is 
willfully attributed to iudolence,  aud  he 
is either  compelled  to  remain, or  is in­
duced  to  do  so,  by an  assurance of  the 
brilliant future that awaits  him,  and the 
fabulous profits that  will  be his when he 
becomes  a  proprietor.  Stimulated  by 
these  and  other  similar  delusions,  he 
goes on  from  apprentice to clerk,  and it 
is in this  capacity,  condemned  to  work 
from  fourteen  to  sixteen  hours  a  day, 
that the injustice under  which  he  must 
labor  is  made  more  fully  apparent  to 
him.  He is debarred  from  social pleas­
ures, and  becomes  in  consequence mor­
bid and irritable;  this  constant  applica­
tion to business, however,  is  considered 
by  his  friends  as  an  advantage  rather 
than a detriment,  as  he  is  thereby pre­
vented  from  spending  his  evenings  at 
questionable  places  of  amusement,  and 
is enabled to save the money that  would 
be  spent  had  he  more  time  at his dis­
posal.  The  few  leisure  moments  that 
fall to his lot during the day must not be 
wasted in the  perusal  of  some  pleasing 
literature,  but  are 
the  golden  oppor­
tunities  that  must be utilized in  prepar­
ing himself  for  examination  before  the 
Board  of  Pharmacy.  He  is,  however, 
permitted one evening a week  in  which 
to  discharge  his  social  obligations,  at­
tend  to  his  religions  duties,  visit  his 
friends,  and  otherwise  enjoy  himself; 
and  so  it  goes  from  oue  year’s  end to 
another,  until  he  succeeds  in  starting 
business for  himself, only to find that he 
is  more  than  ever a slave;  as before he

NO.  300.

served  but  one  master,  now  he  serves 
many—he is a slave to the public.
Is this an  exaggerated  view of  the av­
erage  pharmacist’s  life?  I  think  not. 
How  many men,  who  have  spent  their 
years  in  the  drug  business,  have  not 
wished many times they had been placed 
at  something  else  when  they  were too 
young to  decide  for  themselves ?  How 
often has his soul cried out against a fate 
that  compels the sacrifice of  his own in­
terests  to  shield  some  blundering phy­
sician from public condemnation ?  How 
often in  his heart has he rebelled against 
the injustice of  an exacting  public,  that 
shows  him  neither  consideration  or 
mercy,  only to realize  that he must stifle 
these natural  impulses,  the  utterance of 
which would  be  his  ruin,  until,  broken 
down  in  health  and  cowed in spirit,  he 
thanks God  that he is permitted to live?
In  view  of  this,  let  the  pharmacist 
hesitate 
in  giving advice  which  fre­
quently  results  in  such  disastrous con­
sequences. 

Geo.  L.  Funneli..

He  W asn’t  Extravagant.

From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Cautious  people  are  sometimes  too 
cautious.  The story of  a  man who con­
sidered  seriously for a week  whether  it 
would be  wise for  him to pay  $500 for a 
lot, and,  after deciding in the affirmative, 
learned from  the  real  estate  man  in  a 
more  careful  conversation  that  it  was 
•9500 per front foot,  is a case in point.
A few  days ago a stranger  while  pas­
sing a haber-dasher’s store  was attracted 
by a display of shirts,  which were further 
distinguished by a placard on  which was 
printed  the  legend: 
“These  are  75 
cents.” 
It happened  that  in  the  same 
case  were  a few  silk  unbreilas,  which 
command about  $6  each  on  a  pleasant 
day,  with  a  slight  tendency  to  rise  if 
clouds  gather.  The  pedestrian  gazed 
long and earnestly into the window; then 
he  wandered  away,  only to return  soon 
and gaze again.  This was repeated  sev­
eral times.  Finally he entered  the store 
and asked to look at the umbrellas.  One 
was brought out and he  opened  and  ex­
amined  it  with 
It 
seemed to suit him exactly and he turned 
to the proprietor  and  remarked : 
“ I’ll 
give you an even sixty cents for it.”  The 
proprietor  evidently didn’t  think he un­
derstood  aright,  for  he  leaned  foward 
and said :  “What ?”  The stranger again 
informed  him,  “I’ll  give  you  an  even 
sixty cents for  the umbrella.”  The pro­
prietor  was  dazed.  The he began to re­
cover.
“How much do  you  think  it  costs?” 
he inquired.
“Seventy-five cents.”
“And  you  have been debating all  this 
that 

time  whether  you  would  give 
amount for a silk umbrella ?”

the  utmost  care. 

The stranger said he had.
The  proprietor  led  him  gently  but 
firmly to the door.  “My friend,”  he said 
tenderly,  “you are too far from home and 
you’d better  scoot  before  some  hungry 
car-horse  gets a chance to nibble at  you 
and makes a funeral  of  you  before  the 
mistake is discovered.”
Perfection  Sc ale.

The  Latest  Im proved  and  Best.

Does  Not  Repire  Dow  Weipt.

Will Soon Save  Its  Cost on any Counter. 

For  sale  by  leading  wholesale grocers.

2

A  TRAGEDY  OF  ERRORS.

It was after Mrs. Jeffries, still a young 
and pretty woman,  was  dressed for din­
ner,  and sitting at the window  with her 
embroidery,  that  she  saw  a  messenger- 
boy crawl up the  street,  stop to throw a 
stone  at  another  boy,  and  finally  ring 
her  door-bell.
A moment after this,  Bella,\the  “up­
stairs girl,”  brought her a note. 
It was 
from her friend Edwina Jones, familiarly 
Ned,  who had come from afar to pay her 
a visit,  and,  being  timorous, had decided 
to wait at the  depot  until  she  came  to 
meet her.  There  was  no  time  to  lose. 
Mrs. Jeffries gave a few directions to her 
cook, and hurried away.
Half an hour after she  had  gone,  Mr. 
Jeffries returned home and let himself in 
with  his  latch-key,  wondering  that  Lis 
wife did not come to meet him.
Mr.  Jeffries  had been  a  very  jealous 
man before he married.  He confessed it. 
He  would not permit  any one to pay the 
least attention to his Emma Jane.  Even 
cousins of  the first degree made him suf­
fer pangs of  grief  unknown,  when they 
called  on  Sunday  afternoons,  and  an 
uncle,  who was unusually young for that 
relationship,  while as  yet unknown,  had 
driven him to the most  serious  thoughts 
of  suicide;  for  Emma  Jane  had  kissed 
him in the front hall.
“Do you really think, Jefferson Jeffries, 
that  I  can  endure  such  conduct?”  his 
Emma  Jane  had  remarked.  “Is it pos­
sible that any one can put up  with being 
followed around like  that,  and stared at 
like that ?  Do  you think  1  will ?”  and 
then she had  given  him  back  his  ring, 
and he had ground it under foot.
However,  he bought  her  another in a 
month  or  so,  and  they made it up  and 
married;  and Mr. Jeffries,  warned by the 
past,  had behaved himself  very well,  in­
deed,  and he had never  yet been  jealous 
of  his  wife,  when  one  afternoon 
in 
August  he  came  home early to  dinner, 
and found her “gone out.”
“Bella,  did she say  where  she was go­
ing ?”  asked Mr. Jeffries.
“No,  sir,”  said  Bella.  “She gave out 
the things for dessert,  and went out in a 
hurry loike,  in her best things, just after 
she  got  a  note  loike,  brought by a boy 
dressed like a tallygraph.”
“A h!” said Mr.  Jeffries.  “I trust her 
mother  is  not  ill. 
It  really  seems  as 
though something must have happened.”
He  went  upstairs  when  he  had  said 
this,  aud looked about him for  the mes­
sage,  which,  doubtless, she had left lying 
somewhere.  He  could  see  none.  He 
opened the drawer in which Emma  Jane 
kept her trities  of  lace  and  ribbon and 
quilled  muslin,  and  still  saw  nothing. 
But glancing into  the  waste-paper  bas­
ket,  he discovered a twisted  paper,  and, 
as  it  was  the  last  of  the  little  heap, 
picked it out and unfolded it.
Spreading out the wrinkles,  he put his 
glasses on his nose,  and  read.  And  as 
he read, his  cheek  grew  pale, for  these 
were the words:
“ De a r est  E mma  J a n e—Meet  me on 
the  New  York  side  of  Twenty-third 
I  long to see you,  after our 
street ferry. 
long parting.  Yours  very,  very fondly,
Ne d.”
Jeffries; 
“ ‘Ned !’ ”  He  ground  his  teeth  and 
clenched  his  fists.  He  could  have 
howled  with rage,  but for the proprieties 
which  we generally observe in our great­
est agonies.  This was the end of  it  all, 
then;  Emma  Jane  had  gone to meet her 
old beau.  Old or  new,  who  could tell ? 
A lover,  anyhow.  He  tried to be calm; 
but  he  could  not  believe  himself  mis­
taken.  He knew her brother and cousins 
and uncles well.  They were Peter, Paul, 
William,  Elias, Samuel and James.  Even 
her father, who would not have signed his 
first name,  was Adoniram.  There was no 
way out of it.
“ No end but one,”  thought  Mr.  Jeff­
ries,  as he sought for the pistol generally 
kept on hand for  possible  burglars.  “I 
must follow them,  find them,  shoot  him 
first,  her next,  and myself  last.  No one 
shall know  why;  but  the  traitress  will 
know as she dies !”
in  his  pocket, 
crowded his bat over his eyes, and rushed 
out  of  the door.  A Twenty-third street 
car was passing;  he  jumped  into it and 
retired into a corner,  folding his arms. 

“ ‘Ned !’ ”  ejaculated  Mr. 

the  pistol 

He  put 

'

 

 

“ 
“ 

“  
“  

1 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

La Bastic.

“   

“ 
“ 

6 doz. In box.

“ 
“ 
1  “ 

LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box.

“ 
STONEWARE—AKRON.

First quality.
“ 
“ 

XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

“ 
“  2  “ 
“ 
Mason’s, Boyd’s or Rowley’s caps.

C ro ek ery  & G la ssw a r e
LAMP  BURNERS.
No. 0 Sun.........................................................  40
No. 1  “  ...................................... 
45
No. 2  “  .........................................................   60
Tubular...........................................................  75

No. 0 Sun.......................................................   1 75
No. 1  “  .........................................................1  88
No. 2  “  .........................................................2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.......................................2 25
No. 1 
2 40
No. 2 
3 40
No. 0 Sun, crimp top...................................... 2 60
No. 1  “ 
.......................................2 80
No. 2 
“ 
3 80
Pearl top.
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
No. 2  “ 
...................4 70
“ 
.................... 4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.......................1  25
No. 2  “ 
....................... 1  50
No. 1 crimp, per doz........................................1  35
No. 2  “ 
........................................1  60
Butter Crocks, per gal.....................................  06 %
Jugs, % gal., per doz....................................  75
....................................  00
..................................  1 80
Milk Pans, H gal., per doz.  (glazed 66c)....  65 
“ 
“  90c).  ..  78

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
“Fare !” cried the driver.  Mr.  Jeffries 
mechanically deposited  something in the 
box,  and  sank  into  his seat and a black 
study again.  A  volley  of  shocking  re­
proaches from  the  driver  aroused  him. 
He found the passengers  glaring at him.
“I’ve had  this  trick  played on me be­
fore,”  cried the driver through the door. 
“You’re a nice  one,  ain’t  you,  at  your 
age,  to put a coat-button  into  the box!”
Mr.  Jeffries received the remark with­
out an answer, and  repaired his error by 
putting a quarter  into the same aperture 
into which he had dropped  the button.
“My belief is you are crazy,” remarked 
the driver.
“Ach, yes!”  responded an old Hebrew 
lady,  shaking her head.
Mr.  Jeffries  only groaned.  What was 
silver to him?  He rode on, the object of 
much  comment.
Shortly after, a friend entered the car. 
He was a man of  jovial disposition,  and, 
he  said,  fond  of  his  joke.  After 
nodding  and  smiling  in  vain,  he  be­
thought  himself to poke  Mr.  Jeffries in 
the ribs  with  the  immense knob on the 
handle  of  his  umbrella.  Taking  the 
passengers 
into  his  confidence  by  a 
knowing wink,  he stole forward and per­
petrated his joke.
The  “punch”  was a hard one;  the re­
sult an explosion. 
If  any one  had tried 
to fire the pistol in that manner he would 
have failed.  Accidentally, Mr.  Joblings 
had done it.
Mr. Jeffries  gave a groan,  started  up, 
and fell forward on his face,  blood trick­
ling  over  his  stocking.  The  car  was 
stopped, and  policemen  carried Mr. Jef­
fries  into  a  drug  store.  The  penitent 
Joblings  was  in  custody,  having volun­
tarily delivered  himself  over  to  justice. 
The wound  was  not,  perhaps,  a danger­
ous  one,  but  Jeffries  remained  uncon­
scious.  Joblings accompanied him to his 
home in a cab.  and  having  told the tale 
in a court of  justice, was permitted to go 
free on  his  own  bail.  And  just as Jef­
ferson Jeffries opened his eyes, his Emma 
Jane arrived at her  door in a cab,  with a 
trunk 
fastened  on  behind  marked 
“E. J.,”  and  a  young  lady  within  in  a 
plum-colored cloth traveling suit.
“My  dear, dear  Jeffy h u rt!”  cried the 
poor wife,  as Bella  told  the  tale.  “Oh, 
let me go to him !”
Away she rushed up the  stairs  to  the 
bed-room above  and  bent  over her hus­
band’s pillow.
“Jeffy,  dear!”  she  sobbed;  but, to her 
consternation, Jefferson  opened his eyes, 
looked at her,  and  said:
“Leave me,  woman!”
“It  isn’t  a  woman. 

Trunks u l Traveling Bags,

Trunk  Factory.

G ro sk o p f B ro s.,

A ll  Styles  of  Trunks  Made  to  Order. 

Pints.......................................................... #750
Quarts.......................................................   800
Half-gallons 
11  00

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

Theatrical  Trunks  a  Specialty. 

Repairing Neatly Done.

POCKET  BOOKS,  ETC.

Above quotations are f. o. b.

It  is  your  own

( 
FRUIT JARS.

- 

MICH.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

89 and 91  CANAL  STREET, 

Furniture

-AT-

F I T   F O R

A M m i 's
Table:

All  goods bearing the 

name  of

THUBBEK, WHYLAND  & CO., 

OB

ALEXIS  GODILLOT, JB.

Grocers visiting New  York  are  cordially Invited 
to  call and  see  us, and if they  wish, have  their 
correspondence addressed in our care.  We shall 
be glad to be of use  to  them in any way.  Write 
us about anything you wish to know.

THtJBBEE, WHYLAND  &  00.,

West Broadway, Be,a;le & Hudson Streets.

Nnw v,-rV CHtr.

[.Established  1780.]

“ LA  BELLS  CHOCQLATIÌr E.”

W. BAKER A CO.’S  Registered  Trade-Mark.
No Chemicals are  used in 
any of Walter Baker & Co.’s 
Chocolate and Cocoa Prep­
arations.
These  preparations  have 
stood  the test of public ap­
proval  for  more  than  one 
hundred years, and are  the 
acknowledged  standard  oi 
purity and  excellence.

HIRTH 

\KRAUSE,

Emmy,”  sighed Mrs. Jeffries.

“Take her away !”  said Jefferson.
“ Is he delirious,  doctor ?”  asked  poor 
Emma Jane, trembling.
“No,  madam!”  replied  that  gentle­
man, gravely.
“Then,  what  does this mean ?”  asked 
the poor  woman.
the 
“Madam,”  replied 
most solemn  of  his  profession,  which is 
saying much.  “Madam, I have no  desire 
to pry into  your domestic difficulties.”
I  never 
bad  any.  Oh, dear, dear Jeffy,  speak to 
your Emmy,” sobbed Mrs. Jeffries.
But  her  Jefferson only replied by say­
ing,  in deep chest notes:

“My  domestic  difficulties ? 

the  doctor, 

“ Crocodile!  Take  her  away.  The 
sight of her is madness.  Will no one rid 
me of  her presence ?”
“Oh,  Mr.  Joblings,  tell  me  what  he 
means.”
“Beg  pardon,  madam,  1 must  request 
you  to  retire,”  answered  Mr.  Joblings, 
all his  nature apparently turned to gall. 
“You,  alone,  know the meaning of  those 
awful words.”
Poor Emma Jane!  She  rushed  down­
stairs  when  the  door of  her  own  room 
had  actually been  closed  upon her,  and 
told her incoherent story to her friend.

“I’ve  seen  him  jealous  before,”  she 
said,  “but  not  like  this.  What  can  it 
mean ?”
“ What  did  you  do?  Whom  is  he 
jealous of ?”  asked the other woman.
“Oh,  Ned,  1  don’t  know,”  sobbed 
Emma Jaue.
And  Edwina  Jones  concluded,  very 
naturally, that Emma  had  been  flirting 
terribly with several individuals.
Thus, wronged  by  all, even  her  girl-

Nelson,

M atter

Co.'s

S ty le s   N e w ,  C heap, 
M ed iu m   a n d   E x p e n ­
sive.

Large  Variety. 

Prices Low.

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

Porpoise  Shoe  Laces  in  light,  medium 
and  heavy.  Parisian  Leather Reviver, 
Glycerine Leather Reviver,  “Rubberine” 
a  waterproof  dressing.  We  carry  13 
distinct  shoe  dressings  and  a complete 
line  of  Shoe  Store  Supplies. 
Send us 
your orders.

DO  YOU  NEED  AN

Engraving of Yoiir Store

In  advertising  your  business ? 
If  so,  The 
Tradesman Company Is glad to send samples and 
quote prices.

TTTK  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

3

hood’s  friend,  Mrs.  Jeffries  abandoned 
herself  to despair.
A bullet in the  calf  seldom  kills;  and 
as it was extracted  promptly, the wound 
healed and Jefferson Jeffries began to re­
cover;  but  he  still  refused  to  see  his 
wife.  And  on  the  first  day of  his con­
valescence,  summoned  his  lawyer,  and 
sent  him  to Emma  Jane  empowered  to 
effect a separation.
“This  letter  is  my  reason,” he  said, 
with  a  dreadful  groan, 
thrusting  the 
crumpled note into his hand.  “1 was on 
my way to  shoot  the  fellow  when  Job- 
lings  managed  to  shoot  me.  She shall 
keep  the  house if  she likes,  but I never 
wish to see her again.”
With this  message,  the lawyer  sought 
the  unhappy lady, and,  in  the  presence 
of  Edwina Jones, interviewed her.
“One  comfort,  at  least,  I  shall  get 
from  this,” said  Mrs. Jeffries, with dig­
nity.  “1 shall know my crime.”
“Mr. Jeffries opines that  this  will ex­
plain,” said  the  lawyer,  presenting her 
with the crumpled letter, which,  with its 
signature, 
suggested  very  dreadful 
things, indeed.
Emma Jane took it in her hand, looked 
at it,  and then handed it to her  friend.
"My  letter!”  cried  Edwina,  dumb­
founded.
The puzzled lawyer lifted his eyebrows. 
“I  am  called  ‘Ned,’  at  heme,”  said 
Miss Jones.  “Surely, Mr. Jeffries  knew 
that.  Oh,  Emma  Jane,  how  I  have 
wronged  you in  my heart!”

words,  is the clearing-house of the valley 
of  Possey.
After the debts are  paid, contracts are 
entered  into  for  the  next  year.  Labor 
engages itself,  and the farmers’ crops are 
often bargained for in advance.
If  any  debtor  fails  to  appear  at  the 
bridge  and  meet  his  dues  on  this 
“squaring-up” day,  he is  practically cut 
off  from  further  dealings with the other 
inhabitants  of  the  valley.  No  more 
credit  is  allowed  him,  and  he  is  gen­
erally fain to re-establish  himself  in the 
good-will of  his  fellows  by  paying  his 
debts as soon as he possibly can.  To be 
able to hold up  one’s  head on the bridge 
is the test of  solvency and honor.
There is a tradition  in  the  Tyrol that 
once,  a  long  time  ago,  after  a  year of 
scarcity and  disaster,  the  inhabitants of 
the valley of Possey met at St.  Leonard’s 
bridge.  Each one  owed  some  one  else, 
and each one was owed by some one else. 
Consequently, each depended upon being 
paid by his neighbor  who  owed  him  in 
order  to  be  able  to  pay  his  neighbor 
whom he owed.
But  as  no  one  appeared  to have any 
money, no one’s debt could be paid.  The 
people stood about in despair, until pres­
ently a well-to-do miller, who was known 
to have money, arrived.
the 
tailor.  “Here  is  Wilhelm  Gutpfennig. 
He will start the ball rolling.  “ Whom do 
you owe, Wilhelm ?”

Good!”  said  Hans  Melchior, 

HOGLE  OIL  CO,

Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in  Oils 

and Mahers of Fine Lubricants•

OFFICE—19 and 21 Waterloo St. 

The largest and most complete oil  line in Michigan. 

I WORKS—On C  & W. M. and G. R. & I.R. E.,one
Telephone No. 319. | mile north of Junction.  Telephone No. 611-JR
Jobbers  of all kinds of 
Cylinder Oils, Engine Oils, W. Ya.  Oils,  Lard  Oils,  Neatsfoot  Oils,  Harness  Oil, 
Signal Oil, Axle Grease,  Boiler Purger,  Kerosene  Oils.  Naptha,  Turpentine,  Lin­
seed Oils, Castor Oil, Cooking Oils, Axle  Oils,  Machinery  Grease,  Cotton  Waste, 
Etc. 

See Quotations.

W e Manufacture
Everything in the line of

C andy

Correspondence  solic­
ited  and  prices  quot­
ed with pleasure. 

Write  us.

W M .  S E A R S   &   C O .,

Gradier  Manilfadilrers,

3 7 ,  3 9   an d   41  K en t St.,  G rand  R ap id s.

Explanations followed.
The lawyer, choking down  his  laugh­
ter,  returned to Mr.  Jeffries’  apartment, 
and  gave  them  to  that gentleman with 
dramatic  effect.  Never  had  he  more 
trouble in preserving  the  grave  dignity 
proper to his  position, than when Jeffer­
son Jeffries, clasping  his hands together, 
ejaculated:
“ ‘Edwina  Jones !’  Of  course, I knew. 
But I forgot  her  very existence.  How I 
have  wronged  my wife!  Wretch  that I 
am,  can she ever forgive me ?”
“Never!”  Emma Jane decided.  “You 
have disgraced  me  before  your  friends, 
before  strangers,  cast  suspicion  on me, 
and insulted  me  by  word  and  deed. 
I 
demand a separation.”
Then she went  home  to  her  parents, 
and Jefferson  Jeffries  was  left  alone to 
reflect  on  his  ridiculous  conduct.  He 
was  obliged  to explain to the doctors,  to 
Joblings,  to  everybody,  and  he suffered 
agonies  of  shame.  He  longed  for  his 
Emma, whom he loved  more  than  ever, 
and he writhed under  the  reproaches of 
her mother and father  and  the  menaces 
of  her big brothers.  When  he was able, 
he used to go alone at midnight and stare 
up  at  his  wife’s  window,  and,  by day, 
haunt her  steps,  unseen, when  she went 
out walking.  At last he  followed her to 
church, one  Sunday.  She  was  alone in 
her pew.  He entered  and  sat down be­
side  her.  When  the  hymn  was  given 
out, he offered her his hymn-book.  Over 
it their heads met.
“Oh, Jefferson,  how  could  you ?”  she 
whispered;  but  that  evening  she  went 
She  felt  that  Mr. 
back  home  again. 
Jeffries  had  had  his  lesson,  and would 
profit by it for the  rest of  his  existence.
Ned says they are the  happiest couple 
she knows. 

Maby  Ky le  Da lla s.

On the  Bridge of Debts.

From the Youth’s Companion.
The “credit system,”  as it is ordinarily 
known  nowadays,  appears  to  belong to 
an  advanced  state  of  society,  and to be 
impracticable under simple conditions of 
life,  but  it  is  in  use,  nevertheless,  in 
some  very  primitive  communities. 
In 
the  valley  of  Possey,  in  the  Austrian 
Tyrol,  where the Alpine inhabitants lead 
a simple life,  practically all  business and 
work is conducted  on  credit, subject  to 
an annual  settlement.  On a certain day 
in  winter  the  inhabitants of  the valley 
meet  at  the  bridge  of  St.  Leonard’s, a 
place  which is convenient to all,  and the 
day is devoted to balancing accounts.
The  first  business  in  order  at  these 
meetings is the payment of  debts.  Every 
one pays what he owes: some depend upon 
what they collect to meet  debts  owed to 
others, but the  inhabitants of  Possey are 
thrifty and  honest, and  there is usually 
money enough to go around.
The  bridge of  St. Leonard’s, in  other

“ No one!”
“So?  Well,  will  you  lend  me  forty 
gold thalers until noon ?”
The miller  thought  the  matter over a 
moment.
“Yes,”  he  said,  “I  believe  you  are 
honest,  Hans  Melchior. 
I will lend  you 
the money.”
He  advanced  forty  thalers  to  Hans, 
who used it to pay his debt to Pieter,  the 
weaver, and Pieter, the weaver,  passed it 
on to discharge his  obligation to another 
citizen,  and  so  it  went  from  hand  to 
hand,  discharging  the  very  moderate 
debts of  the  Possey inhabitants  until  it 
came to the  last  man.  who  happened to 
owe  Hans  Melchior  just  forty  thalers. 
He paid it, of  course,  and  with  it  Mel­
chior  at  once  settled  his  debt  to  Gut- 
pfennig,  the  miller.
Now,  since the miller had paid himself 
out of  the  grists as he  went  along,  and 
was  owed  by  nobody,  his 
forty  gold 
thalers had paid all the debts  in  Possey, 
and though every one  else  had  come  to 
the  bridge  in  the  morning  moneyless, 
every one  went  home  in  the  afternoon 
solvent and happy.

Interesting and  Useful  Books.

Several  years ago the writer, traveling 
abroad,  visited a monastery,  and  among 
other curiosities  shown him  was a series 
of  bound  volumes,  the  sides  of  which 
were made of  polished  boards  from  the 
forests of the country, showing the grain 
of  the woods.
At  first  sight  the  volumes  presented 
the  aspect  of  bundles  of  wood.  But 
after a more  careful  examination it was 
found  that  they contained a detailed ac­
count  of  the  trees  that  they represent. 
On the back the bark has  been  detached 
in order to describe  the title of  the book- 
by its scientific and its common names.
One of  the pages is formed by a broken 
piece of  the  wood  of  the  tree, showing 
its fibers and natural fractures; the other 
shows  the  wood  when  it  has been  pol­
ished  and  varnished.  At  one  of  the 
ends  the  fibers  are  seen  as they remain 
after the  passage of  the  saw,  and at the 
other,  the  wood  finely polished.  Upon 
opening  the  book,  the  fruit,  the  grain, 
the leafage and other  productions of  the 
tree, the moss  which generally grows on 
the trunk,  and the  insects which live  on 
its  different  parts  are  seen.  Added to 
this is a well  printed  description of  the 
habits of  the  tree,  the  places  where  it 
grows, and its method of  growth.

When the average man or woman comes 
to be fitted with the first  pair of  glasses, 
some  curious  discoveries  are  made. 
Seven out of  ten  have  stronger  sight in 
one eye than the other. 
In two cases out 
of  five, one  eye  is  out of  line.  Nearly 
one-half  of  the people are  color-blind to 
some  extent,  and  only one  pair of  eyes 
out of  every fifteen is all  right in all  re­
spects.

We  A.re  Headquarters,  as  Usual,  for 

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Bruits 

and  Produce  Generally.

GRAM RAPIDS FRRIT ARfl  PROROCE  CO.,

C. B. MBTZGBR,  Proprietor.
M OSELEY  BROS.,

3  NO.  IONIA  ST., GRAND  RAPIDS. 

________

F r u its, S eed s, O ysters § Produ<

----- WHOLESALE-----

All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed,  Beans or  Potatoes,  wii  t ■ 

pleased to hear from you.

20,28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.f

GRAND RAPI  l

C.  N .  R A P P   &  CO.,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

9  No. IONIA  ST., GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Mr  C  N  Rapp was  for  two  years  partner  and general manager of Geo.  E. 
Howes & Co. and for the past year has been the senior partner and general manager 

Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits.
of the Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce Co.fi.  J.  BROWN,
Fruits and Seeds.
California  O r a n g e s = E
=M e8sina  Lemons.

BAJVAJVAS.
When in  want  of  large  lots  of  California  Oranges, we are prepared to make you 
16  and 18  North Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, send tor Price ust, issued weekly

Wholesale  dealer  in  Foreign,  Tropical  and 

low prices from fresh cars.

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

Direct Receivers of

---- AND----

Domestic

4

AMONG THE  TRADE.

ABOUND THE STATE.

Dimondale—F.  E.  Abrams  has opened 

a drug and grocery store.

Cadmus—Edgar Furman succeeds J.  R. 

Potts in the meat business.

Traverse  City—Cook  Bros,  succeed 

James Craig in the harness business.

Thompsonville—Jos. Provost will open 
a cigar and  confectionery establishment.
Muskegon—G. W.  Griffin  succeeds  G. 
W. Griffin & Co. in the  grocery business.
Mancelona—L.  W.  Stewart  has  pur­
chased  the  stock  of  notions  of  John 
Haynes.

Negaunee—Joseph  Marcotte  has  sold 
his  confectionery  business to Hocking & 
Dunstan.

Traverse  City—W. J.  and  A.  B. Cook 
have purchased  the  harness business of 
J.  H. Craig.

THE  MICITia^JSr  TRADESMAN,
Allegan—The  Spiral  Spring  Cart  Co. 
j recently uttered mortgages to home <fedi- 
| tors to the amount of 87,000, when Kelly,
| Maus  &  Co.,  of  Chicago,  closed 
the 
I factory on an attachment.

handles,  the  business  men of  the town 
having  raised 8500 as partial  compensa­
tion for his recent  loss by fire.

Nashville—S.  L.  Hicks  has  removed 
his stock of  farm implements from Iron- 
ton to this  place,  w here  he  purchased a 
i half interest  in  the  wagon  and  carriage 
factory of  B. F.  Reynolds.

Maple  Rapids—O.  E.  White  has  sold 
his  drug  stock  to  L.  Chambers,  who 
formerly conducted a drug and hardware 
store  at  Eureka.  Mr. White  has  gone 
West on a prospecting tour.

Cheboygan — E.  Flora  writes  The 
T r a d e s m a n ,  anent  the  Barnes  failure, 
that the  shoes were not taken out of  the 
cartoons  and  piled in heaps  on the  floor 
and counters,  as stated last week.

Manistee—There is considerable  hard­
wood  being  shipped  from  here  to  the 
lower  lakes. 
The  schooner  Samana 
went out from here last week with a full 
cargo of maple for Tonawanda.

Detroit  —  Conrad  Clippert,  Edward 
Stange,  Louis  Schmidt,  Gustav Fetters. 
Geo.  J.  Sexauer  and  Wm.  Zimmerman 
have 
incorporated  as  the  Exposition 
Brewing  Co.  with  $30,000  capital,  of 
which  $3,000 is paid up.

Saginaw—C.  K. Eddy &  Son have sold 
all their dry  lumber and have their docks 
well filled with new stock.  They do not 
sell  green  stock,  however.  They  have 
not  started  their  gang  this season,  but 
are averaging 85,000  feet daily with two 
band saws which  give excellent satisfac­
tion.

Detroit—Geo. T. Smith, of  the  Geo.  T. 
Smith Middlings  Purifier Co.,  petitioned 
the  Circuit  Court  on  the  8th  that  an 
order  be  made  directing  the receivers, 
Rufus H.  Emerson and  Zenus C.  Eldred, 
to turn  over  to  him  certain  books and 
papers which he avers are  private  prop­
erty.  Judge Brevoort gave an  order for 
the  defendants  to  show  cause  why  the 
petition should not be granted.

Manistee  —  The  Manistee  &  Grand 
Rapids  Railway,  having  got  through 
with  its  condemnation  suits,  has  now 
right of  way enough to keep it going for 
awhile,  and  has a strong force  at  work 
on construction.  The  steel  which  has 
been delayed for some  time has  come to 
hand,  and the  tracks  are  laid  into  the 
mill  yards at the upper end of  the lake. 
A number  of  flat cars are on the ground 
here,  and the first locomotive, named the 
Louis Sands,  arrived last week,  and ap­
parently bears  the  same  relation  to or­
dinary locomotives  (if  size is any criter­
ion)  as Mr. Sands does to most  mortals.
Manistee—Shingles  are  holding  their 
own  pretty well,  and  although  there is 
not the vigor  in  the trade that one could 
wish,  still all that we can  make is going 
off  at fair  figures,  and  there  is no accu­
mulation  on "the  docks  such  as is com­
plained of  at other  places.  Cedar  shin­
gles do not seem to be in as good demand 
as  are  pine,  and  while all that we have 
made so far have gone off,  in  most  cases 
the prices  have  had to be shaded a little 
to make them move.  Should the present 
weakness  continue,  there  will  not  be 
much done in the cedar  line  from  here, 
as at present  figures  the  manufacturers 
claim  that  they  can  hardly  come  out 
whole,  let alone any margin of  profit.

INDIANA  ITEMS.

Emma—Geo. Gohn has sold his general 

stock to Abram L.  Kauffman.

Ft.  Wayne — Fred  Fehling  succeeds 
Freeze  &  Fehling  in  the  grocery busi­
ness.

Terre Haute—The Keys Buggy Co. has 
sold out to the Terre Haute Carriage and 
Buggy Co.

Farmersburg — Geo.  Heap  succeeds 
Parish & Baldridge in the drug and hard­
ware business.

South Bend—Singler & Probst succeed 
Singler Bros.  & Probst in  the  wholesale 
meat and provision business.

Elkhart—G. A.  Doremus,  formerly en­
gaged  in  the  grocery  business  here,  is 
now engaged in trade at Missouri Valley, 
Iowa.

Shipshewanna — Junod  &  Truesdell 
have engaged in general trade.  Mr. Junod 
was formerly engaged  in  trade  at  Van 
Buren.

The  Michigan  Bankers’  Association 
will  convene  at  Saginaw  on  Sept.  10, 
holding the  second  day’s session in Bay 
City.  On the evening  of  the 11th, Hon. 
S. O.  Fisher  will  give  the  visitors a re­
ception at his residence.

VISITING  BUYERS.

a. Rockford 

John Graves, Wayland
John Gunstra, Lamont 
L M Wolf, HudsonvUle
J H Williams, Leroy 
L M Wolf, Hudson vUle
Sisson A Lilly  Lomber  Co, L Perrigo A Co  Paw Paw
--------- —, L Perrigo A Co, Paw Ps
Lilly  Bmallegan A Plckaard. 
Neal McMillan,
Forest Gro
Forest Grove 
E E Hewitt, Rockford 
G Ten Hoor.  Forest  Grove 
Geo A Sage, Rockford 
M L Steele, Ionia 
Eli Runnels, Corning 
I A Woodard, Ashland 
D O Watson, Coopersville 
8 Cooper, Jamestown 
J B Watson, Coopersville
L A L  Jenison, JenisonvUle 
P W Travis. Otsego 
___________ ____
Geo Hlrschborg, Bailey
Mrs E Scott,  DunnlngvUle W 8 Root, fiümàdge 
E S Botstord. Dorr 
O F Sears, Rockforil
Mrs A H Barber. Saranac
S T Colson, Alaska 
O W Messenger, Spring Lk Walling Bros., Lamont 
H Thompson. Canada  Con
C W Armstrong, 
Bowen’s Mills  A Purchase. So Blendon 
Jno Farrowe. So Blendon
^ 9 w ï'.Baner 
Baas River 
H Van Noord,  Jamestown
v â S eeïiwi  B£adi‘7  
Homing A Hart, Wood ville
F W Joslln, Big Rapids 
H J Schaberg.
Jas Lynch, Blanchard 
R Richards, Allegan 
WatrouBÄ Baaeford.WTroy

Bear Lake—Win. llogmire & Son  have |

Harriette—Gee & Harrison are putting 
up a new building which will  be used as 
a meat market.

Big Rapids—Putnam & Verity, bakers, 
have dissolved,  Mr.  Putnam  continuing 
the business.

Detroit—Mark  Ardis  was  a merchant 
at Evart,  and  on  January  20,  1887,  he 
leased his store to  David Redman,  a rel­
ative.  A  traveling  man  from  Edson, 
Moore & Co.’s called there.  Ardis  told 
him that the lease  was for one year,  but 
re-engaged in the  restaurant  business at | that  he  was  to  retain his control,  Red-
the old stand.
man drawing nothing  from the proceeds 
except to  pay for  stock.  Redman then 
bought stock of  the traveling man to the 
value of  84,176.  April 26, the lease was
Saginaw—H.  B.  Nease, Son  &  Co.  are
cancelled and  Redman  turned  the  stock  negotiating for the purchase of  the Hoyt 
over to Ardis.  Both refused  to  pay  for  planing  mill,  which  has  been  idle  the
the stock.  Edson,  Moore & Co.  then filed 
past  year,  and,  if  the  deal  is  consum­
a bill in chancery against Ardis and Red­
mated,  they  will  resume  business  in  a 
man,  asking  that  Ardis  be  declared a 
few days.  The Hoyt mill is in good con­
trustee  for  Redman  in order  that  they 
dition,  and one  of  the  most  convenient 
could recover from Ardis.  Judge  Reilly 
and extensive plants on the river.
dismissed  the  bill  on  the  4th,  holding 
that they must look to Redman for  their 
pay.

Muskegon—L.  B.  Howard  has severed 
his connection with  the real  estate  firm 
of Misner & Howard and taken a position 
with  the  Kelly Bros.  Manufacturing Co. 
as book-keeper,  succeeding  Charles Cun­
ningham, who takes the position of book­
keeper  for 
the  Sargent  Manufactur­
ing Co.

Fife  Lake—W.  W.  Brower  purchased 
the  grocery stock of  Wagner & Ward  at 
chattel mortgage sale.

St.  ignace—Edson,  Moore & Co.,  have 
foreclosed their mortgage on the  general 
stock of F. G. Truscott.

Kalamazoo—G.  W.  Williams  &  Co., 
dealers in  groceries  and  fruit,  are  suc­
ceeded by Williams & B jden.

Britton—Will  Babcock,  formerly  of 
Tecumseb,  has  purchased  the  drug and 
grocery stock of  J.  B. Collar.

Whitehall—Anderson  &  Sonden,  gro­
cers,  have dissolved.  Chas.  E.  Ander­
son will continue the business.

Sturgis—Pope & Co.  succeed  Mrs.  P. 
Keim in the grocery business.  The  lat­
ter contemplates locating in the West.

Petoskey—Hankey & Rigg,  millers and 
grain dealers,  have  dissolved.  The bus­
iness  will be  continued by C.  F.  Hankey.
Mancelon »—Bailey & Beach  have sold 
their  stock  of  men’s  furnishing  goods, 
and will  now  coniine  themselves exclu­
sively to boots and shoes.

Lake Odessa—C.  F.  Jameson has pur­
chased the interest of  F.  E.  Houghtalin 
in  the  grocery  firm  of  Houghtalin  & 
Jameson,  and will continue the business.
Watervliet—A.  M.  Hulsen  has  retired 
from the firm  of  A.  N.  Woodruff & Co., 
dealers in  agricultural  implements.  The 
business  will  be  continued  by  A.  N. 
Woodruff.

St.  Louis—C.  I).  Stevens  &  Son—not 
A. Stevens & Son,  as  stated  last week— 
is the style of  the firm succeeding G.  W. 
Wayman  in  the  hardware  and  farm 
implement business.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Watson—Facit & Babcock will  put  up 

a cider mill here.

Ionia—The  Ionia  Furniture  Co.  will 

start its factory about September 1.

Trufant—Wm.  Barhite will rebuild his 
shingle mill which was  burned recently.
Bellaire—Arthur  and Chas.  York have 
purchased  the sawmill of  Milton Stover.
Allegan—Baldwin Bros,  succeed  Fair- 
field  &  Gibson  in  the  manufacture  of 
cigars.

Peach  Belt— The  Fidelity  Knitting 
Works  is  now  running  its factory with 
steam power.

Eaton  Rapids—Deaniger & Irish  have 
taken possession of the Island City roller 
flouring mills.

Muskegon—The Collin &  Parker Lum­
ber Co.  has beeu organized  with a capital 
stock of  $20,000,  all paid  up.

Tawas—The  Winona  Lumber  Co.’s 
sawmill  will  receive 4,000,000 feet of logs 
from the Upper Peninsula this week.

Bay City—Miller  Bros,  have  been  at 
work several days, cutting  5,000,000 feet 
of Canada logs for R.  G.  Peters & Co.

Manistee—Our dredge has begun opera­
tions and w’ill take out all the bars which 
have been  bothering  the vessel men dur­
ing the summer.  This  is a private  ven­
ture of the mill men  at  this  point,  who 
have become tired of waiting  for  Uncle 
Sam,  who has  been  promising  us for so 
I long a time,  but  whose  promises do not 
appear to materialize.

Manistee—Brown  &  Ryan  have  con­
tracted  with  James  Patterson,  E.  F. 
Gould,  Sample & Co., and  Eaton, Potter 
& Co.,  to cut their logs—about 14,000,000 
feet—and  all  four  mills  are  at  work. 
Brown  &  Ryan  will  probably  erect  a 
$25,000  mill  on  the  site  of  the  one 
burned,  and  have it ready to begin  saw­
ing early in the winter.

Saginaw—Hollister  Bros.  &  Co. have 
begun putting in 3,500,000 feet  of  pine, 
four miles east of  Bagley, on the Macki­
naw  division  of  the  Michigan  Central. 
The timber suitable for spars  and  deck­
ing has been sold  to Wheeler & Co., ship 
builders, at Bay City.  The  rest  will  be 
cut into lumber and  shipped to Hollister 
Bros.’  yard at Tonawanda.

Manistee—Water  shipments from  this 
port  during  July aggregated  29,000,000 
feet of  lumber, 3,000,000 lath, 35,000,000 
shingles, 2,500 cords  of  bark and 147,000 
barrels  of  salt.  The  bark  industry is 
getting to be of  much importance at this 
point,  and  as it is mostly all labor,  and 
takes a good deal of  handling, the labor­
ing men get a good share out of  it in the 
way of wages.-

Tawas—C.  D.  Bennett,  who operates a 
Howard City—J.  C. Collins has retired 
shingle mill here,  has several  camps es­
from the  general  firm of  J. C.  Collins &
tablished,  getting  out  shingle  timber 
Bro.  The  business will be continued by I along the line  of  the Bay City & Alpena
J.  A.  and Will Collins under  the style of j 
J.  A. Collins &  Bro.

road.

Marion—Jas.  Desmond  and Tom  Alex- j 
ander succeed  Desmond Bros,  in the dry ! 
goods  and  grocery  business.  F.  C.  Des- j 
mond will  hereafter turn  his attention  to 
the charcoal  business.

Lawrence—Wm.  Cornwell  has  closed 
out his grocery stock and,  in conjunction ! 
with  Arthur  Conklin,  will  manage  the j 
general  business of Hiram Cornwell,  who 
has removed to Kalamazoo  for  the  pur­
pose of  educating his family.

„  
Marquette-John  C.  Brown  has  pur-  iness  there 

Piper—Jacob Phillips & Co.  are  oper­
ating a saw  and  shingle  mill  near  this 
place.  They are cutting  45,000 shingles 
and 20,000 feet of lumber daily. 
It is all 
hafldled by rail.
„ 

Copemish—Babcock’s  hoop  factory is 
doing  good  work, 
there  is 
trouble  in  getting  logs to the factory as
fast as wanted. 
In all new lines of  bus-
is  something  new  to  be 
chased  a large  body of  pine  timber near  learned, and the hoop  m  kers  have  dis- 
Michigamme and  will  immediately start  covered  that  it  is  necessary to cut  the 
his  camps  and  put  in a large part of  it  *°SS  at  least a foot  longer  than  it  was 
this coming winter. 
when they went into the water,  as  lying
._„ ____ .  _ 
in the sun and air makes the ends  brash.
to“  Frank Rose  has  resumed the  and consequently a good many  hoops are 

although 

* 

, 

. 

manufacture  of  brick  and  cant  hook I spoiled.

THE  MICHIGAN  TTIAJDESM A

P.  of  I.  Gossip.

A  Hart  correspondent  writes:  “Our 
P.  of  I.  store is supplied  by W.  M.  Hoyt 
& Co., of  Chicago,  too.  Prices  are  not 
right or something else is  the  matter,  as 
the Patrons desire another place to trade 
than R.  & L.”

Detroit  News:  “The  Shiawassee  Pat­
rons  met  at  Owosso  yesterday,  locked 
themselves  into a room and then fought. 
They couldn’t  decide  what they wanted 
to do politically. 
In  the  midst  of  the 
muddle they adjourned.”

Detroit  Journal:  “The  Patrons  of 
Shiawassee  county are  already  quarrel­
ing over the spoils  of  office  before they 
have any chance to get them,  and at  yes­
terday’s convention in Owosso had a gen­
eral all around  jawing  match,  and then 
adjourned without nominating  anybody. 
The meeting was secret, but it has leaked 
out  that  the  Patrons  will  support  the 
members  of  their  own order  regardless 
who nominates them.”

Detroit  News: 

“  ‘Hon.’  Azariah  S. 
Partridge  says  it’s  costing the  Patrons 
too much  to die,  and that  he  is  figuring 
with a coffin  factory to  furnish  caskets 
on the 10 per cent,  profit plan,  and hopes 
soon to announce an  official state  under­
taker.  There  may  also  be  an  official 
state grave  digger,  official  state  mourn­
ers,  official  state  hearse,  official  state

5
preacher and official state epitaph writer 
and monument builder.  People about to 
die  will  save  money  by  waiting a few 
days.”

Microbes in  Cheese.

Mr.  Adametz has  just made  some  mi­
croscopic  researches  upon  the  micro­
scopic  organisms  that  inhabit  cheese. 
From  an  examination  of  Emmenthal,  a 
soft  variety of  Gruyere  cheese,  he  has 
obtained the  following  results, reported 
in  La Nature:  In  each  gramme  of  the 
cheese,  when fresh, from 90,000 to 140,000 
microbes  are  found.  This  number  in­
creases  with  time.  Thus a cheese  sev­
enty-one days  old  contains  800,000 bac­
teria per gramme.  The  population of  a 
soft  cheese  twenty-five  days  old  and 
much  denser  than 
the  preceding  is 
1,200,000,  and that of  a cheese  forty-five 
days  old 
is  2,000,000  microbes  per 
gramme.  But the population of a cheese 
is not everywhere  distributed  the  same 
in it.  The center  is  but  moderately in­
habited  with  respect to the exterior por­
tion.  The  population  of  a soft  cheese, 
near  the  periphery,  is from  3,600,000 to 
5,600,000  microbes.  According,  to  the 
mean of  these  two  figures, there  are as 
many  living  organisms  in 360 grammes 
of  such a cheese as there are people upon 
the earth.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

Gordon Beall,  druggist,  Hast  Jordan:  “Am 

pleased with the paper.”

Andrus & Son, grocers, Cedar Springs:  “It  is 
a good paper and is well worth the price of sub 
scription.”

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Geo.  Hickox has purchased the confec­
tionery  and  ice  cream business  at  133 
South Division street.

It is estimated that Grand Rapids deal­
twenty-five  carloads  of 

ers  handled 
watermelons last week.

The Gunn  Hardware Co.  has secured a 
$2,700  mortgage  on  the hardware stock 
of  L. W. Gannon, at Ravenna.

Adam  Newell  will add a line of  drugs 
to his general  stock at Burnip’s Corners. 
The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  is 
putting up the stock.

A. P.  Sriver is  fitting up a store build­
ing  at  South  Grand  Rapids  and  will 
shortly remove his drug  stock from Bur- 
nip’s Corners to that place.

The  Michigan  Can  Manufacturing Co 
has  removed  its  office  and  factory from 
75 South  Division  street  to  19 Waterloo 
street,  where 
for  an 
facilities 
increased  output are obtainable.

the 

Christian  Bertsch  has  purchased  the 
tract of  land  at  the  corner of  Park and 
Ransom streets  and  will  cover the same 
with a series of  flats.  The purchase has 
a frontage of  135 feet  on  Ransom street 
and 127 feet on  Park  street.  The plans 
of 
the  buildings  have  not  yet  been 
adopted,  but the architectural  effect will 
be in thorough keeping with the locality.

Purely  Personal.

□ R. Richards, the Allegan general dealer, 
was in town Monday.

F.  W. Joslin, the  Big Rapids  clothier, 

was in town Sunday.

J.  H. Williams,  the  Leroy grocer,  is in 
town for a few  weeks,  undergoing  med­
ical treatment.

C.  M. Norton  left  Sunday  night  for a 
fortnight’s  visit  with  his  parents  at 
Springfield,  Mass.

W.  H.  Hicks,  the  Morley druggist,  has 
gone to the G. A. R. encampment at Bos­
ton.  He is accompanied by his wife.

L.  E.  Hawkins is visiting  his father at 
Providence,  R. L, where,  as a barefooted 
boy, he peddled apples  and  pop-corn on 
the streets.

Dave Holmes, buyer far the West Mich­
igan  Lumber  Co., at Woodville,  came to 
town  Sunday with the Ottawa Beach ex­
cursionists.

Heman  G.  Barlow  leaves  Wednesday 
for a fortnight’s  recreation  at  Traverse 
Point.  Mrs. Barlow  has  been at the re­
sort for several days.

R. Mott, of  the  firm  of  Mott & Acker­
man,  Lansing,  has  been  appointed man­
ager  of  the  Massachusetts  Benefit  Life 
Insurance Co. of  Boston.

Henry J. Yinkemulder, of  the  firm  of 
H. J. Yinkemulder & Bro.,  has  returned 
from a fortnight’s trip through  the prin­
cipal towns of  Northern Michigan.

G. J. Yan Duren, of  the  boot and shoe 
firm of Yan Duren Bros.,  at Holland, was 
in town  last  Friday.  Mr.  Van Duren is 
Secretary of an Improvement Committee, 
recently  organized  among  the  business 
men of  the  place,  and  is  sanguine  that 
the prospects of  Holland becoming a city 
of  importance are excellent.

Good  Record as  a Receiver.

The  Dixon  Crucible  Works of  Jersey 
City has  been  taken  from  the  hands  of 
the  receiver  and  restored  to  the  stock­
holders.  Under the  receivership of  Ed­
ward F.  C. Young,  President of the First 
National Bank of  Jersey City,  the heavy 
mortgage  against  the  works  was  wiped 
out and a profitable  business established,

the profits  last year  being  $126,000.  So 
satisfactory  was  Mr.  Young’s  manage­
ment that  the court  made his  compensa­
tion $10,000  per  year,  instead of  $7,500, 
as  first  fixed,  for  the  nine  years of  his 
service.  The company is to be re-organ- 
ized,  probably  with  Mr.  Young  as  its 
President.  The  company failed in  1881 
with  liabilities  of  over  $1,000,000,  its 
misfortunes  due  to  reckless  endorse­
ments by Orestes  Cleveland,  then  Presi­
dent,  and  whose  mismanagement  of 
affairs under direction of the receiver led 
to  his  withdrawal.  He  is  the  present 
Mayor  of  Jersey  City, one of  the  worst 
governed in the United States.

Questionable  Methods.

The  Colchester  Rubber  Co.  evidently 
labors  under  the  impression 
that  the 
boot and shoe dealers of Michigan do not 
know enough to  buy their rubber goods, 
as  it  has  lately consigned goods to sev­
eral hundred merchants in this  State,  at 
the  same  time  notifying  the consignee 
that an advertisement  has been  inserted 
in his local paper,  asking  purchasers  to 
enquire for the goods at his store.

T he T radesman  notes  that  factories 
which make  good  goods  do not have  to 
take  such a course  to  find a m arket  for 
their product.  The inference is obvious.

Profit in Peanuts.

From the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch.

The  price  usually  paid  by  the  con­
sumer  or  peanut  eater  is  ten to fifteen 
cents a pound  for  the  best  grade.  As 
the  farmer 
receives  but  three  to  five 
cents  per  pound,  there  seems  to  be  a 
wide margin  of  profit for somebody,  but 
as a matter  of  fact  the  dirt  which  the 
farmer is careful  to  leave  on  the  nuts 
often makes up 20 or 30 per cent,  of  the 
whole  weight.  After  allowing for this 
loss  of  weight in the  cleaning  process, 
and the expenses involved in getting  the 
nuts ready for the market,  the  profit  is 
perhaps  not  so  enormous,  though  it is 
still high enough to stimulate the dealers 
to considerable activity.

FOR SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

77

Fo e  sale — gro cery  stock  and  fix tu r es,
either by inventory  or  by  bulk;  good  trade  for 
cash customer.  No. 85, care Michigan Tradesman.  85
F o r  sale—25  p e r   cent,  b elo w   cost,  only
hardware stock in Baldwin, lively town on line of 
two railways;  ill health  compels  sale;  store  building 
81
cheap.  Joseph H. Cobb, Baldwin, Mich. 
F OR SALE—MACHINE  SHOP  PART OF OUR Busi­
ness;  a rare  chance.  The  Castree-Mallery  com­
82
pany, Flint, Mich. 
F or sale—stock o f  fu r n it u r e  and  under- 
taking goods in one of  the  best  towns  ih  Michi­
gan;  stock  will  invoice  about  $3,000;  terms  cash; 
reason for selling, are engaged  in  the  Manufacturing 
business.  Address No. 81, care Michigan Tradesman
81

FOR  8ALE—GROCERY  STOCK,  VALUED  AT  BE 

tween $1,500 and $2,000;  good light and  commodi­
ous store;  lighted with gas and  connected  with water 
works;  situated in the lively agricultural town  of  St. 
Johns.  Address C. A. Putt, St. Johns, Mich. 
OR  SALE—FIRST-CLASS  DRUG  STOCK:  INVEN- 
tory $2,000; also  real  estate;  a  good  chance for 
young  physician.  Address  P.  M.  Cleveland  Sc  Son, 
Nunica. Mich. 
■
 JOB  OF  CONTRACT  SAWING  FOR  SOME  RE- 
sponsible  party;  Michigan  preferred.  Address 
Holley Sc Bullen, North Aurelius, Mich. 
OR BALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES AND FIXTURES^ 
splendid location;  good reasons for  selling.  For 
58
particulars, address No. 58, care Tradesman. 
W ANTED—I HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  PAY  FOR  A 
general  or  grocery stock;  must be bheap.  Ad 
dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman._________ 26
WANTED—A  NO.  1 EXPERIEN  -ED  RETAIL  SHOE 
clerk;  must  be  a  hustler  and  bring  reference 
for salesmanship and honesty;  man  25  to  30  years of 
age  preferred.  Address  J.  F.  MufHey,  Kalamazoo, 
Mich.  ____________________________________ 80

HELP  WANTED.

SITUATIONS  WANTED.
position;  three  years  experience; 

ANTED—DRUG CLERK  WANTS  XTERMANENT 
registered 
assistant:  best  references  furnished.  Address  P.  O. 
Box 423, Ovid, Mich. 
WANTED—SITUATION BY A REGISTERED PHARM- 
acist,  8  years’  experience;  good  references 
given.  Address No. 83. care Michigan Tradesman.  83

75

79

05

MISC EEL. A NEOUS.

A  BOLISH THE PASS BOOK AND  SUBSTITUTE THE 
_£_L  Tradesman  Coupon,  which is now in use by over 
5,000  Michigan  merchants—all  of  whom are  warm in 
praise  of  its  effectiveness.  Send  for  sample  order, 
which  will  be  sent  prepaid  on  receipt  of  $1.  The 
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.
Sam ples o f tw o  kinds  o f  coupons  fo r  r e-
tailers  will  be  sent free  to  any dealer  who  will 
write for them to  the  Sutliff  Coupon  Pass  Book  Co., 
Albany, N.Y. 
664

House and Store Shades Made toIOrder.

Wall  Paper  and Window  Shades.
NELSON  BROS. &  CO.,
Piltnam  Candy  Go.

68  MONROE  STREET.

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

OHJLNGES,

LEMONS,

BA N A N A S, 
F ig s,  Dates,  Nuts,  etc•

C U R T I S S   &  co.,

WHOLESALE

Paper  Warehouse.

FLOUR  SACKS,  GROCERY  BAGS,  TWINE  AND  WOODEN  WAKE.

Houseman  Block, 

- 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

We are now ready to make contracts for the season of  1890.

81  SOUTH  DIVISION  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Correspondence solicited. 

8

THTH  MICHIGASr  TRADESMAN

“ 
“ 

Andover  ................1164 
Everett, blue..----- 12  j
brown...... 12  j

DEM IKS.
I Amoskeag..............l2)4|Jaffi
9oz......14*4|Lan(
brown .13  -Law
*

r m u c a i s  corroas.
...........7  Clifton C C C............
...........gag’ 
.6  
......... 6V  “  LL 
...........55k Pall Yard Wide........   6)4
.  71a Honest Width.........  6k
45£ Hartford A  ............   Mi
fik Madras cheese cloth 6k 
Noibe R..................55*
7  Our Level  Best
7J£ Oxford  B  ..............  664
35k Pequot....................  764
664
7 
76» i Warwick  ..............  864 Essex........................464
7% ’Top of the  Heap

• -1164
r ........... .1264
i, 9oz — ..1864
No. 220.
No. 250.. .1164
No. 280.. .1064
sasEuu. 
!
Glenarren.............. 66k'Lancaster,  staple...  66k  j
Lancashire.............  664) 
“ 
fancies ...  7
“  Normandie  8
Normandie.............  764 
Renfrew Dress.......  764 Westbrook..............  8
ToilduNord...  10@1064i 
..............«?
Amoskeag..............  66k I York......................... 614 |
AFC........1064 -Hampton................. 664
Persian 
...........   864'Winaermeer........... 5
Bates.......................66k | Cumberland............. 5

so lar.........

.13

“ 

“ 

Peerless, white.......1864¡Peerless  colored.

.21

CARPET  WARP.

Dry  Goods•

P r ic e s  C urrent.

.10

One  of the Meanest.

Salem. DL, eorrespoodenee S t Looie Republic.

pany.

Reorganizing  the  Coats' 

“  Arrow Brand  55k
“  World Wide.. 7
.............5

T h re a d   Com- AHasne A ............
H............
“ 
Subscriptions to the stock  of the re-or­
-  
P .............
D............
“ 
ganized  J.  <fc  P-  Coats  Co.  will  be 
“  LL............
opened  simultaneously in various places 
Araory...................
in  England,  Scotland.  Canada  and  the 
Archery  Bunting  . 
Bearer Dun  A A  . 
United States on Aug.  12. 
In  New York 
Blackstone O. 32.  .
the Bank of the Manhattan Company has 
Blac-k  Bock  .........
been  authorized to receive subscriptions 
BocO, AL...............
Chapman cheese el
for about two-thirds of  the share capital 
Comet....................
of  about  S2S.000.000.  Of  the  strictly 
Dwight Star..........
share capital,  there  are  two  classes  at 
£10 each, of which 200.000 shares are pre­
Amsborg.................7  ¡Glen Mills...............   7
Blackstone A A___ S  -Gold Medal.  ...........   TM
ferred to the extent of  6  per cent,  divi­
Beats All.................464 Green  Ticket........... 864
dends. and  175,000  shares  are  common 
Cleveland . . . . . . _  7  Great Fails.............   664
stock.  The  debenture  stock,  which  is 
Cabot......................  764 Hope.......................764
Cabot,  k .................  S3£(Jnst  O ut......  43£@ 5
secured  by  mortgage  at  4>4  per  cent, 
Dwight Anehor......  9  King  Phillip  .........   714
makes the total capitalization  £5,750,090 
64 
aborts.  8%
or  S27.0S3.333.  The  company has been 
1064 
Edwards.................6  "
Empire...................   7  Lonsdale.
formed  to  work  the  well-known  Coats 
& 864
@ 5
Harwell...................744 Middlesex.
thread  works, at Paisley.  Scotland,  and 
1  764
Fruit of the  Loom  .  844 No Name..
at Pawtucket.  R.  L  The  business  was 
.  6
Fitchvllle  .............7*4 Oak View
-  564
Pirn Prize..............  664 Our Own .
founded  in  1830,  and 
the  American 
Pride of the West  .. 12
Fruit of the Loom X-  8
branch in  1842.  Six  years  ago  it  was 
464 Rosalind.................764
Fainnoont..............
converted into a private company,  which 
644 Sunlight..............  464
Pull Vaine.
864;Viny«rd..................  864
it is now  proposed to change  into a cor-  Geo. Washington 
poration  under the limited liabilities law 
of England.  The vendors Lave taken  all j Cabot 
the  shares in the new  company that the 
English law permits.

HALF BLEACHED COTTOKB.

764 Dwight Anchor...... 864

Lonsdale Cambric

B iZ A C H E D   CO TTO NS.

OP.

Farwell.................. 744
UNBLEACHED CASTOS TVASSEZ.
TremontN..............  564(Middlesex No.  1
Hamilton N............   664; 
2
3
L............ 7 
Middlesex  AT........8 
7
X...........  9 
8
No. 25  ...  9  J
BLEACHED CASTOS PLAKSEL.
Hamilton N............   764 Middlesex A A..
Middlesex P T ........8 
2..
A O..
A T........9  ! 
X A........9 
«..
X F .........10641 
5..

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“
“

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

1 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

1064 

“ 
“ 

PRISTS.

Hamilton

CORSET  TRASS.

Berlin solids..........  564  “  “ 

...  664 
long cloth B.1064 
“ 
century cloth  7 
gold seal.......1064  “ 

One of  the  most  remarkable  cases of 
close-fisted stinginess ever known  in  this 
section has  just  been  brought  to  light 
11 
12 
“ 
It  is  unnecessary to  name  the  parties, 
“ 
1864 
but the story,  as  vouched  for by several 
1764 
“ 
citizens of  this place, is as follows:
16
“ 
A  farmer  residing  near  here,  worth 
DRESS  600Dg.
...  8 [Nameless...................20
from 55,000 to 510,000, not long since had 
...  9 
“ 
.................25
a brother  in  the  neighborhood who was
 
«64
“ 
very sick.  The  attending  physician re-  GG Cashmere...... 21
.................30
................. 3264
quested that the sick man be given small  Nameless..............16
..............  35
quantities  of  lemonade.  The  wealthy 
brother  was  dispatched  to  town  to get 
some  lemons.  He  came  to  a  leading 
grocery store here  and  purchased  three 
for  ten  cents.  That  night  the  sick 
brother died,  and only one of  the lemons 
bad been used.
The day after the  funeral  the wealthy 
brother brought the two  remaining  lem­
ons back to the merchant and  said  as bis 
brother  had  died  before  using  all  of 
them,  be  bad  no  further  use for them, 
and he demanded  six  cents  for  the two 
returned.  The merchant refused to take 
the lemons  back and the miserly old  fel­
low went away  mad.

fancy...........5(4 ! 
robes...........5  ¡Pacific fancy............6
American  fancy—   6  ! 
American indigo__&3k Portsmouth robes...  6
American shirtings. 
Arnold 

Blddeford...............  6  ¡Naumkeag satieen..  764
Brunswick..............  664'Rockport...................664
Allen, staple...........  564 Merrim'ckshirtings.  464
Repp furn .  864
robes..............664
¡Simpson mourning.. 664
greys........664
“ 
solid black.  664
“ 
“  C.  864iWashington indigo.  6
“ 
|  “  Turkey robes..  764
“ 
India robes  ... 764
“  Turkey red. .1064  “  plain Tky X 6k 864
“  X...10
“  oil blue........  664  “  Ottoman  Tur-
“ 
“  green__  664  key red..............  6
Cocheco fancy........  6  ¡Martha Washington
“  madders...  6 
Turkey red %........764
Eddystone fancy...  6  (Martha Washington
Hamilton fancy.  ...  664  Turkey red.......... 964
staple....  564 Biverpointrobes....  5
Manchester fancy..  6  j Windsor fancy........664
new era.  664 
Merrimack D fancy.  6641  indigo blue......... 1064
Amoskeag A C A.... 13  !AC  A.....................1264
Hamilton N............   764 Pemberton AAA.... 16
D............   864 York........................1064
Awning..11  Swift River............   764
...............8  Pearl  River...............1264

From the Window Dresser.
How often have  you heard it stated by 
your customers that they had  seen in the 
show windows of some of the large cities 
a certain  line of  goods  marked  in  plain 
figures a good  deal  less  than  you  could 
buy the same goods for ?  Of  coursft, you I 
are  well  aware  that  it  was  on  one of j  Farmer—  
their special  sale days that such bargains j Pirst PrIz^ 
were offered.  But has it occurred to you  Atitntf  p 
that  you might make  your show window j  B o o t...!........ ” 11 6Jki  “ 
just as attractive for the  people of  your j 
community as these  large  retail  dealers 
in  the  large  cities do ? 
It is not neces­
sary for  you  to mark a line of  goods less 
than  they  cost,  and  place  them  in  the | 
window as a great  bargain,  but  you can, j 
each  week, make a nice  window  display j 
and  place a certain line of  goods in  your 
window  and,  by  means  of  neat  price 
cards,  give the people to understand that 
you are up and doing,  and not  afraid  to 
let  your competitors across the street see 
your prices.  By paying a little attention 
to trimming  your  window  you will,  in  a 
short  time,  notice  that  your  trade  is 
picking  up,  and  your  window  displays 
will  be the means of  a great deal of  free 
advertising for  you.

1164iWarren...................14
r
7
.10
Clifton, K............... 7
Simpson..................20  ¡Imperial..................1064
.................18  Black.................9® 964
......................1064
.................16 

Hints to  Retailers.

Coechco..................10641

“ 
TICKINGS.

JF\ 

c<miiv'St«kL 

gold  ticket

~  
“ 

SA TIX ES.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

D r y   G o o d s

Manufacturers of

Shirts,  Pants,  Overalls,  Etc.

Complete Spring  Stock  now ready for 
inspection.  Chicago and  Detroit  prices 
guaranteed.

48, SO and 52 Ottawa St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

-  MICH

AVOID  THE

B Y   USING

“TRADESMAN”

“SUPERIOR” Goilpoo Books

OB

Manufactured by

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Grand  Rapids.

See quotations In  Grocery Price Current.

B E A C H ’S

New  York  goffee  R ooms.

61  Pearl  Street.

Five  Cents  Each  for  all  dishes  served 

from bill of fare.

Steaks,  Chops  and  All  Kinds  of  Order 

Cooking  a  Specialty.

FRANK  M.  BEACH,  Prop.

J.&P.COATS’

GRAIN RAGS.
.  .1764 (Valley City.............17
...17 
¡Georgia.................17
..  21 
(Pacific..................1*64
...17641

(Barbours..............88
¡Marshall’s.............88

Amoskeag. 
Harmony..
I Stark........
American.
THREADS.
45 
Clark's Mile End..
45 
Coats'. J. A P.....
Holyoke..................2264
knitting  cotton
Colored.
38 No.  14
39
40
41
CAMBRICS.

White. 
..  ..33
6
ft .......34
10 .......35
12 .......36

No.

White. 
.......37
“  16 .......38
“  18 .......39
“  20 .......40

Colored
42
43
44
45

 

“ 
“ 

BED  FLANNEL.

MIXED  FLANNEL.

DOMET  FLANNEL.
8  @ 9641 
864@10  I 

Slater  .....................  45k[Washington............
White Star............   45k Red Cross................. 464
Kid Glove...............  45k Lockwood..............
Newmarket............   45k W oods................  4%
Edwards.................  43k (Brunswick.............
Fireman.................3264IT W.......................... 2264
Creedmore............. 2764 F T... .......................®*6i
Talbot XXX...........30  J R F, XXX..............35
Nameless  .............. 2764)Buckeye.................. 3264
Red & Blue,  plaid. .40  ¡Grey S R W............ 1764
Union R.................2264 Western W  ..............1864
Windsor.................1864(b R P ....................... 1854
6 oz Western..........21  ¡Flushing XXX......... 2364
Union  B................2264!Manitoba..................2364
......   9  @1064
Nameless.
 
«64
CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
Brown.  Black.¡Slate.  Brown.  Black.
13
964 
15
1064 
1164 
17
1264 
20

Slate
964
1064
1164
1264
Severen, 8 oz..........   964'West  Point, 8 oz..  .1064
May land, 8 oz.........1064 
10 oz— 1264
“ 
Greenwood,764 oz..  964¡Raven, lOoz............1364
Greenwood, 8 oz — 1164 ¡Stark 
............ 15
WADDINGS.
White, doz............  25  ¡Per bale, 40 doz— 37 00
Colored,  doz.......... 20 
Slater, Iron Crass...  8 

|
| Pawtucket............. 1064
“  Red Cross....  9  Dundie...................  9
“  Best  ............10641 Bedford................... 1064
“  Best A A 1264iV alley  City............. 1(*64
Coraline................39 50|Wonderful............34 75
Schilling's............   9 (»¡Brighton......... ...  4 75
Cortieelli, doz........ 75  [Corticelli  knitting,

95kjl3 
1064 15 
H6417 
1264120 
DUCKS.

SEWING  SILK.

corsets.

8ILE8IA8.

13 
15 
17 
20 

..12 
“ 8 
..12  1 “  10 

twist, dOz. .3764  per 64oz  ball........30
50 yd, doz..37641
HOOKS AND EVES—PER GROSS.
“ 
“ 

No  1 Bl’k & Whlte..lO  No  4 Bl’k & White.,15 
“ 
..20
“ 
..25
No 2—20, M C......... 50  ¡No 4—15, F  364........ 40
‘  3-18, S C...........45 
No  2 White 4 Bl’k.. 12  ¡No  8 White 4 Bl’kJM 
.23
“ 
“ 
..26
No 2........................28  |No3..........................36

COTTON  TAPE.
..15 
“ 10 
..18 
| “  12 
SAPETT  PINS.

FINS.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

2 
3 

“ 
“ 

4 
6 

“ 

|

I

NEEDLES—PER  X.

. A. James................1  50{Steamboat................  40
j Crowely’s............... 1  35 Gold  Eyed....................1 50
j Marshall's..............1 00|
I 5—4.... 2 25  6—4.. .3 25]5—4 
i  “ ....2 10 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“ 

1  95  6—4.  2 95

...3 10|

S T E K E T E E  «fe  S O N S ,

WHOLESALE

Dry  Goods  and  Notions.

An  Advantageous Position.

Advertiser—I wish this  advertisement
placed  in  some part of  the paper where 
people  will be sure to see  i t  
Editor—Yes,  sir—yes, sir. 

it right  alongside of  an  editorial if  you 
wisD. 

| 

Advertiser  —  Hem! 

alongside of  the base  ball news.

Please  put  it j Valley  City.

„  
New  Line  of  Simpsons  Prints  in  Satine  and Delaine Fnish,  and Zephyrs in

,  _.  ,  . 

_  .  . 

,  _ 

,  _ 

. 

,

I  can  put j Blacks, Silver Gray and Fancies—All  New Designs.

___ 
GRAIN  BAGS—Stark,  American,  Amoskeag,  Harmony,  Park, Georgia  and

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

,  _

„  

_ 

, 

. 

. 

Kingsley—Burn Stinson  and  Ira  Lin­
ton  have  formed  a  copartnership  and 
put in  a P.  of I. store.

Monroe  and  10,12,  14,16  1  18  Fountain  Sts.,  GRAND  RÄPID8.

WADDINGS,  BURLAP, TWINE,  BATTS  and  COMFORTS.

IN

SIX-CORD

Spool  Cotton

FOR

WHITE,  BUCK  AM)  COLORS,
Hand and Machine Usa
P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS

FOR  SALE  BY

THE  mCHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
dls.
dls.

P r ic e s  C urren t.

knobs—New List. 

LEVELS. 

7

AXES.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dls.
Snell’s......................  
60
40
Cook’s .......................................  
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’,  Imitation............... 
50&10

augubs and bits. 
 

 

“ 
“ 
“ 

First Quality, S. B. Bronze...........................• 8 50
D.  B. Bronze..........................  12 50
S. B. S. Steel...........................  9 50
D. B. Steel..............................  14 00
Railroad......................................................1 14 00
Garden.................................................. net  30 00

BARBOV8. 

dlS.

bolts. 

dls.

Stove.  ........................................................... 50410
Carriage new list.......................................... 
70
Plow.............................................................. 40410
Sleigh shoe  ... v  ........................................  
70

BUCKETS.

Well,  plain................................................... I 3 50
Well, swivel......................................................  4 00

BUTTS, CAST. 

dls.
Advance over base: 
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................704
WroughtNarrow,bright5astjoint..............60410  50i" ! ” !” ."."."".'.” "...." 1 
Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60410
Wrought Table.............................................60410
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60410
Wrought Brass....................................  
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70410
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70410
Blind, Shepard’s .........................................  
70

 

dls.

dlS.

NAILS

MATTOCKS.

Steel.
.Base
Base

LOCKS—DOOR. 

mauls. 
MILLS. 

MOLASSES OATES. 

Stanley Rnle and Level  Co.’s ................. 
70
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
55
Drawer  and  Shatter, porcelain..................  
70
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
 
Mallory, Wheeler 4   Co.’s...................  
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s .................................... 
 
 
55
Adze Bye......................................... 116.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye 
.....................................  115.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s...................................... 118.50, dis. 20410.
dls.
Sperry 4 Co.’s, Post,  handled......... .........  . 
50
dlS.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
“  P.S.&W . Mfg. Co.’s  Malléables.... 
40
“  Landers,  Ferry 4  Clr. k’s................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
.................................. 
25
Stebbin’s Pattern..........................................60410
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60410
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
26
Steel nails, base...................................................2 10
.2 60 
Wire nails, base.
Wire. 
Base 
60.
10 
20 
20 30 
35 
35 
.......................................... 
15
40 
..........................................  20
25
50 
65 
: 4 6 .
. 40
90
4.......................................................   60
1  50
3.............................................................1 00
2.............................................................1 50
2  00
Fine 3....................................................1 50
2  0090
Case  10.............................................  60
  75
1  00
1  25
90
Finish 10..........................................   85
1  00
1  25
8........................................ 1 00
1  50 
6  ........................................1  15
75 
Clinch 10..........................................  85
90
8........................................ 1  00
6.............................................1 15
1  002 50 
Barrell %...............................................1 75
dls.
@4l
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy..........................
Sciota Bench................................................  @60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  @40
Bench, first quality......................................   @60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood...........  410
Fry,  Acme............................................ dis.60—10
70
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
dls.
Iron and  Tinned.........................................  
40
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 

8..................................  
6....... 

patent planished iron.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
* 

PLANES.

Broken packs Vic per pound extra.

rivets. 

PAMS.

!

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

 

 

ROPES.

 

 

16
dls.

sqUAREs. 

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, Vi inch and larger.............................   12V4
Manilla........................ 
Steel and Iron..............................................  
Try and Bevels............................................. 
Mitre............................................................ 

75
60
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

Nos. 10 to 14......................................84 20 
Nos. 15 to 17 .....................................  4  20 
Nos.  18 to 21.....................................   4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4  20 
Nos. 25to26 .....................................  4 40 
No. 27 ...............................................   4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86...................................... dls. 40410

3 40
3 50
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

SAND PAPER.

83 10
3 20
3 20
3 30

SASH CORD.

Silver Lake, White A..............................list 
Drab A.................................  “ 
White  B..............................  “ 
Drab B..................................  “ 
White C.............................  

50
55
50
55
“  35

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dis.

saws. 

wire. 

TRAPS. 

Hand........................................  

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton 825
“ 
20
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__ 
70
50 
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot....  30 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  foot.......................................  

30
dls.
Steel, Game.............................................. 60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ........... 
35
...  70
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton's 
Mouse,  choker.................. . .............. 18c per doz.
Mouse, delusion........................... .81.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market  ............................................   65
Annealed Market......................................... 7C—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market........................................  62Vi

d Fence, galvanized...............................  3 60
“ 

Sred  Spring  Steel..........................       50

painted......... .......................  3 60
Au Sable...............................dis. 25410@25410405
dls. 06
Putnam..........................................  
Northwestern................................ 
dls. 10410
dls.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75410
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Bird Cages................................  
 
50
Pumps, Cistern..................... 
75
50
Screws, New List.........................................  
Casters, Bed  and  Plate...........................50410410
Dampers, American.................................. 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.......  
65

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

dis.

 

 

 

METALS.
PIG TIN.

 

 

ZINC.

26c
28c

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2V4c per pound.
660 pound  casks........................................... 
7J4
Per pound......................................... 
7V4
SOLDER.
V4@Vi.................................................................. 16
Extra W iping..................... 
13V4
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
Cookson....................................... per  pound  16
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MELYN GRADS.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................• 6 60
14x20 IC,
6 60 
10x14 IX, 
8 35 
14x20 IX, 
8 35

...................................
................................
Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
10x14 IC,  Charcoal..................................
14x20 IC, 
...................................
10x14 IX, 
...................................
14x20 IX, 
................................
Each additional X on this grade 81.50.

“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

.8  6  006 no 
.  7 50
7  50

“ 

 

“ 
“ 
“ 

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
00x28 IC, 
20x28 IX,
14x28  IX. 
14x31  TX.
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers. I 
14x60 Tx!  "  “  9 

ROOFING PLATES
Worcester............................  6 00
.........................  7  50
12 50
 
Allaway Grade....................  5 25
 
11  00 
14 00
SIS 
.14  50
9*

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

^
^per pound 

 
 

« 

“ 

H ARDW JLRB.

Arranging  Hardware  Artistically. 
From the American Merchant.
It is rarely that one  sees  the  aesthetic 
element  entering  into  the  arrangement 
of  a hardware store, the  only prompting 
to which the retailer  listens in  the  bulk 
of  cases is that  of  utility.  And  yet one 
of  the  most  important  facts in the suc­
cessful  working  of  the  machinery of  a 
retail business is artistic  arrangement of 
the store. 
It is a subject which properly 
demands  a  large  proportion  of  the  re­
tailer’s attention, but one  which  is  fre­
quently  disregarded,  if  not  entirely ig­
nored.  A retailer  may  have  his  estab­
lishment  equipped  with  every  novel 
appointment  under  the  sun;  he  may 
carry a stock  of  the  choicest  and  com- 
pletest  character;  his  salesmen  may be 
of  perfection  in  the  matter  of  ability, 
yet, in  one  particular, the  retailer may 
fail;  his establishment may be badly and 
inartistically  arranged. 
It  is  not  at­
tractive to a purchaser to  be  confronted 
by a bewildering  miscellany  of  articles, 
all  glaringly labeled,  with a view  to in­
duce  him to  purchase  against  his  will. 
The store should  not  present the unsys­
tematic  condition  of  an  old  curiosity 
shop, where  no  one  knows  the place of 
an article but  the  owner,  and he but im­
perfectly.  The  appearance  of  each  ar­
ticle should  be  carefully comprehended, 
and the best locality in the store selected, 
so as to  show  the  article  to  advantage. 
Some classes of  goods  produce a discord 
in the mind of a purchaser  when  placed 
approximate  to  others.  A  lawn-mower 
or  a  carpet-sweeper,  in  all  the  garish 
gayety  of  green  and  red  paint,  placed 
against a case  containing  pearl-handled 
dessert  cutlery  causes  a  shock,  and an 
unpleasant  one  at  that.  Everything 
should be regarded in its relation  to oth­
ers, just  as  the  chords on a harpsichord 
harmonize or are discordant, so is it with 
goods.
In the large  cities of  this  country and 
Europe there is a competition which acts 
as a tonic or accelerant to the  retailer to 
study the fitness of  things.  This compe­
tition  has,  in  that  respect,  a  salutary 
value;  hence  the  desire  for  attractive­
ness  observable  in  those  places.  Yet, 
for  one  artistically  and  properly  ar­
ranged establishment there exist ten that 
are not so.
Let every part of  your  place intended 
for  inspection  be  properly  capable  of 
such  inspection.  Look  well  to  your 
lighting.  Avoid 
those  dark  corners 
where the customer  loses  what good im­
pression  he  may  have  formed  of  your 
store.  Consider  well  the  arrangement 
of  the  light.  What  will  enhance  the 
value of  a britannia metal coffee pot will 
take 50 per cent, off  the coffee grinder.
Let  your  store  be a  place  where  the 
customer  can  flit,  in proper  and  orderly 
succession,  from  the  first  thing  you 
show him,  through all  yon  have to show 
him,  to the last thing at the door.  Please 
him  with a variety;  do  not  satiate  him 
with profusion. 
In  this  vein  it  should 
be  remembered  that  one  attractive  ar­
ticle alone is often  more  attractive than 
twenty of  such articles together.

A Lady’s Invention.

A lady of West  Chester,  Pa.,  has  in­
vented and patented a potato masher and 
heater which will be found very suitable 
for hotels,  restaurants or  large families. 
Steel wire  rods  are  secured  to  a  shaft 
running through the jacketed pot,  which 
is revolved by a small crank  on  the out­
side.  On the cover  are dependent wires 
from the  inside,  acting  in  conjunction 
with  the  wires on crankshaft.  The de­
vice may be securely clamped to stove or 
table.

An Impossible Episode.

First  Truckman  (after  the  crash)— 
Excuse  me,  sir;  it  was  my  clumsiness 
that caused  this  most  unfortunate acci­
dent.

Second Truckman—Pardon me for con­
tradicting  you,  but it was more my fault 
than  yours,  and I hope  you  will accept 
my hearty apology.

BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85...............  
40
Grain.......................................................dls. 50402

CRADLES.
CROW BARS.

Cast Steel.............................................per lb  5
Bly’sl-10.............................................. perm  65
60
Hick’s C. F .............................................  “ 
G. D .......................................................   “ 
35
Musket................................................... 
“ 
60

CAPS.

CARTRIDGES.

Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire...........................................dls. 

50
25

chisels. 

dls.

Socket Firm er............................................. 70410
Socket Framing............................................70410
Socket Comer...............................................70410
Socket Slicks...............................................70410
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer..................  
40
Curry,  Lawrence’s ......................................  
40
Hotchkiss..................................................... 
25

combs. 

 
dls.

 

CHALK.
COPPER.

“ 

White Crayons, per  gross..............12@12Vi dls. 10
31
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
14x52, 14x56,14x60....................... 
29
28
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48............... ........................ 
28
Bottoms.............. 
. 
30
dis.

50
Morse’s Bit  Stocks....................................... 
Taper and straight Shank............................ 
50
50
Morse’s Taper Shank.................................... 
Small sizes, ser pound................................  
07
Large sizes, per pound................................  6Vi

DRIPPING PAMS.

drills. 

 

 

elbows.

Com. 4  piece, 6 in ............................ doz. net 
75
Corrugated.......................................................dls. 20410410
Adjustable.............................................dls. 40410
30
Clark’s, small, 818; large, 826....................... 
Ives’, 1, 818; 2,124; 3, #30............................ 
25

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dls.

files—New List. 

dis.

Dlsston’s ...................................................... 60410
New American.............................................60410
Nicholson’s ..................................................60410
Heller’s ...,................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................................... 
50

GALVANIZED IRON

13 
GAUGES. 
HAMMERS.

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
List 
15 
dlS.

Discount, 60

14 

12 

28
18

0
C

S

i
i

50

HINGES.

Vi...........
X.............
X...........
* .............
HANGERS. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................... 
Maydole  4 Co.’s...............................................dls. 25
KipB................................................  ..  .dls. 
25
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s............................................ dis. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand__30c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ............................... dls.60410
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 In. 4V4  14  and
...........net
...........net
...........net
...........net
......... dls.

8V4
7V4
7V4
70
Strap and T ----
Bara Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50410
Champion,  anti-friction.............................   60410
40
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
60
Pots...............................................................  
Kettles........................................................... 
60
Spiders................................................................. 60
Gray enameled..............................................40410
Stamped  Tin Ware.........................new list 70410
Japanned Tin Ware..........................................—  25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33X410
wire goods. 
Bright........  ............................................70410410
Screw  Eyes............................ 
 
70410410
Hook’s .....................................................70410410
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70410410

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

HOLLOW WARE

dis.

dis.

6 75

F ri 
Presses I

2 Quart Japanned 

List—$3.

4 Quart Japanned 

List—$5.

8 Quart Japanned 

List-$6.

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.,

Write  for  Discount.

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

GRAND

33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis St., 

RAPIDS,  MIOH.

The Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. 

8

A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTE»  TO  THE

Retail  Trade  of the Wolilerine State.
Tradesman  Company,  Proprietor.

Subscription Price, One  Dollar per year, payable 
Advertising Rates made known on application. 

strictly in advance.

Publication  Office,  100 Louis St.

Entered at  the  Grand  Rapids  Post  Office.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  13,  1890.

A  year ago The Tradesman  asserted 
that the grocers’  picnic had come to stay. 
This  year  the same remark  can  be em­
phasized still stronger,  as  the  crowd of 
last  year  was  agumented  fully  50  per 
cent.  “Grocers’ Day”  has evidently be­
come part of  the business life  of  Grand 
Rapids,  the same  as  Christmas  and  the 
Fourth of July.

Words of  the  Wisdom by The  Trades­

man’s  Philosopher.

Don’t be honest  because it is good pol­
icy.  Be  honest for  honesty’s own  sake.
A  promissory  note  is  like  fru it;  it 

*  *  *

should be taken care of at maturity.

Upon  the  foundations  laid  in  youth 
will rise the  structure of  the future life.

*   *   *

*  * *

N. G.  attached to a person’s  name  has 

a double meaning:  no grit, no gain.

*   *   *

Lubricate  the  wheels of  life  with  the 
oil of  courtesy  rather  than  the  sand  of 
impoliteness.

*   *   *

Earn  money  honestly  and  spend  it 
judiciously,  and  yon  are a long  way on 
the road to prosperity.
*  * *

A mortgage  is  an  excellent  thing  to 
kindle a fire with. 
If  you  have one out­
standing.  call  it  in  as  soon  as possible 
and try the experiment.

*   *   *

A counterfeit  bill is  one  without  the 
value behind  it  for  its  redemption.  A 
counterfeit  man is one  who is  not  pro­
vided with the safeguard of a good moral 
character.

*   *   *

A golden rule  of  life is always do just 
a little better  than  you agree to.  Work 
over-hours  instead  of  under.  Pay  your 
note  before  maturity rather  than after. 
Give over-measure rather than  under.

*  *  *

Preparation  without  action  is  like  a 
boy standing under a tree bolding his bat 
to catch  an  apple  that is about to drop. 
Preparation with action is like a boy with 
a satchel  on  his  shoulder  climbing the 
tree to get the choicest fruit

Gripsack Brigade.

F. J. Cox will  call on city trade for W. 

R.  Keeler for the next year.

W.  A.  McWilliams,  city  salesman  for 
W.  R.  Keeler, has been taking a ten day’s 
vacation.

Wm. Jones is spending his summer va­
cation  with  friends  in  Chicago.  His 
family is with him.

Edwin  S.  Rosenbaum  has  taken  a 
position  as  traveling  salesman  for  the 
Kalamazoo Overall Co.

Jas.  A.  Massie  now  recalls  the  time 
when he was a bachelor.  His  wife  and 
babies  are  spending  the  summer  with 
friends at Ingersell, Ont.

more for their  cheese now.  The fault is 
with the  unimformed  salesman.  They 
could probably get K to 1 cent per pound 
more for their cheese all through the fall 
if  they asked it, and they were informed 
well enough  to  know  what  they were 
doing.  You are not a dealer or salesman 
and  you are  just the man  to  punch  up 
the factory salesmen  and  urge  them  to 
get information from all  outside  points. 
Have a New  York commission man send 
his semi-weekly price current;  subscribe 
for  the  Utica  Herald,  the  Wellington, 
Ohio,  Enterprise  and  Chicago  daily re­
ports* 
including  Cheboygan,  Wis.  and 
Gosvenor,  Ont.  Five  dollars  will  pay 
the bill for a year.
The  uninformed  factory  salesman  is 
too common and he prevents  prices from 
advancing  when  they  should,  as  I  have 
shown  you,  and  groans  loudly when  he 
thinks  some  other  local  State  point  is 
forcing him  down.  He does  not  realize 
but  that spring  prices could  be  held all 
summer  and  when  he  is  down  at  the 
bottom  he  seems  to  think  there  is  no 
remedy and that he must sell  a few more 
at the old price.

Yonrs truly,

Geo.  B.  Horton.

T he  Tradesman  is  inclined  to  the 
opinion  that  Mr.  Horton  is  more  than 
half right.  The Lenawee county dealers 
keep  posted  and  their  victims  do  not. 
An ignorant man  is  never a match  for a 
man  who  understands  himself  and  his 
business and improves every opportunity 
to  keep  himself  posted  regarding  the 
condition of his business.

After Hardwood Now.

David Ward,  the timber king of Michi­
gan,  is purchasing hardwood timber land 
now with as much avidity as he formerly 
exercised in  the  purchase  of  pine. 
In­
side of  a  dozen  years  it  will  be found 
that  Ward  owns  whole  townships  of 
cedar,  hemlock and hardwood land.

complete  stock  of  seeds 

to the fact that  we  carry the most 
in 
Western  Michigan.  Send

B We  respectfully  call your  attentino 
K for  onr  wholesale  price 
before  buyingE   Clover,

Timothi,
Red  Top,

catalogue 

and 

list 

In  fact,  everything 
in  our  line  at  lowest 
market  values.

Brown's  SbbiI  Store,^

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Bicycles, 
TriGples, 
Velocipedes
General Sporting Goods

AND

I  Agents for A. G. Spalding & Bro.’s 
I  Sporting  and  Athletic  Goods  and 
I  American Powder Co.’s Powder.

We have on hand a complete line of Columbia. 
Victor and other  cheaper  bicycles, also a splen­
did assortment of  Misses’  Tricycles,  Children’s 
Velocipedes and small  Safety Bicycles.
E. 6. Studlev,

4  Monroe  St.,

GRAND RAPIDS

Call and  see  them
or  send  for  large, 
I llu s tr a te d   cata
logue.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
J.  G.  Klinger  has gone on the road for 
the Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce  Co.
Jas.  D.  Wadsworth  is  rejoicing  over 
the  advent  of  a  new  daughter  at  his 
house.

IGNORANT  SALESMEN.

President  Horton’s  Diagnosis  of  the 

Cheese  Situation.

M.  Kerns,  the  immaculate  cigar sales­
man  from  Pittsburg, is expected  to  put 
in an appearance this week.

Dave Haugh is on the  warpath  again, 
having  spent  a  two  weeks’  vacation 
among  friends  in  Barry,  Calhoun  and 
Kalamazoo  counties.  His  family  re­
turned with him.

M.  Whiteman, of  the  general  firm  of 
Cummings  &  Whiteman,  at  Lawrence, 
has  gone  on  the  road for the American 
Overall Co.  His  territory comprises the 
trade of  Southern Michigan  and  North­
ern Indiana.

The  funeral  of  the  late L.  L.  Loomis 
was  held  at  the  family  residence  on 
Ottawa  street  early  Tuesday  morning, 
the interment having  been  made at Bat­
tle Creek the  same  afternoon.  The  de­
ceased left no insurance.

The  traveling  men  are  saying a good 
many harsh things about  Moore’s Hotel, 
at Shelby.  They claim that  the  accom­
modations  are  growing  poorer  every 
month  and  are  by  no  means  commen­
surate with the  price charged.

Dave  Smith  promised  to  attend  the 
grocers’ picnic last Thursday and deliver 
an  address  on  “What  I  know  about 
steamboats.”  As he failed to put  in  an 
appearance, and  has  not  yet  made any 
explanation  of  his  absence,  it is fair to 
presume that  he  was  investigating  an­
other  branch  of  marine 
locomotion— 
schooners.

Byron S.  Davenport  has  gotten  up  a 
base ball nine and  challenged H.  S.  Rob­
ertson’s  nine  to  play a match  game  at 
Alger  Park  next  Saturday  afternoon. 
Happy  Hi.  has  accepted  the  challenge 
and  invites  his  war-scarred veterans to 
meet at Sweet’s  Hotel at 2 o’clock.  Ad­
mission to the  game  will  be free and all 
are invited.

“Traveling  men  have  to  take a back 
seat for summer tourists now,” observed 
A. S. Doak,  Saturday.  “The  fast trains 
will  stop  at  any cross-roads  to let off  a 
man with a fish-pole, but a traveling man 
who  could  sell  a  ton of  freight  to  the 
cross-roads merchant must go on to a reg­
ular  station  and walk back. 
It is about 
the same  with the  hotels.  Regular trav­
elers who keep the hotels  going the year 
round  at  the  rate  of  $2 a day are  com­
pelled to sleep on cots  and  eat at second 
table,  in order  that  tourists  who  get  a 
weekly  rate  may  l>e  accommodated. 
I 
have to chew  gum  about  half  the  time 
now to keep from swearing.”

“Trade is only moderate  in  Northern 
Indiana,”  remarked D.  E.  McVean a day 
or  two  ago. 
“Wheat  was a good  crop 
and oats turned out  to be a fair average, 
but corn cannot be over 50  per  cent,  of 
an  average  crop, owing to the  drought. 
The leaves are  already  killed  clear  up 
to the ears  and  all  the  rain we can get 
from this on  will  come  too  late to help 
the  crop. 
It is the same  with potatoes, 
which are so scarce  that  merchants  are 
paying $1 a bushel for  them.  There  is 
no fruit of any kind, apples being a com­
plete failure.  The farmers  are  shoving 
off  the  grass  hogs  as  fast  as possible, 
realizing that  they will  not have enough 
corn to fatten more than  half  the  usual 
| number.  Taken  as  a  whole,  the  pros­
pects for a lively fall trade  in  that  sec- 
I tion are far from flattering.”

There is constant  ill-will  between the 
cheese  manufacturers  of  the  Northern 
and Central portions of the State and the 
cheese 
jobbers  of  Lenawee  county, 
owing to the  questionable  methods pur­
sued by the latter  in  endeavoring to un­
dersell the former in their own territory. 
So flagrant have these  abuses  become of 
late that The Tradesman  has  felt  im­
pelled to condemn  the  gorilla  policy of 
the Adrian  jobbers,  in  hopes  that  such 
criticism  would  bring  about a reforma­
tion and enable all the  cheese  producers 
to reap the reward honestly due them.

To  some of  The  Tradesman’s  state­
ments  exceptions  have  been  taken  by 
Geo.  B.  Horton,  President  of  the  Mich­
igan  Dairymen’s  Association  and  the 
owner  of  five  cheese  factories  in  Len­
awee county,  who  writes  as follows,  un­
der date of  Aug. 5:

I wish  to  correct  what  seems  to be a 
misunderstanding in  your statements re­
garding  the  prices  of  cheese. 
In  the 
spring,  when  prices  fall  off,  we  follow 
the outside markets wholly and  must  do 
so if  we sell any cheese.  Our trade goes 
over Ohio  and  Indiana  and part of  Illi­
nois,  as well as Michigan.  You  will see 
that w-e are thrown in direct  competition 
with other cheese centers and are  forced 
to follow  their  prices.  We do not make 
the price, as some  suppose.  We are not 
so  near  the  head  as that.  We quote to 
meet what we are compelled  to  compete 
with, and the  price is made the same all 
over  the  territory. 
If  your  people  re­
ceived their information  from  the  same 
source as we do,  then they would be with 
us  all  the time,  and not be dragging be­
hind two  or  three  weeks. 
If  they wait 
to hear from us,  it will  always appear to 
them that we make the price.  New York 
City,  Little  Falls,  Utica,  Wellington, 
Chicago and  other  great  cheese  centers 
make  the  price,  and  if  every  factory 
salesman would arrange to get weekly or 
semi-weekly reports from those points he 
would  not  have  any reason to complain 
of  us.  The  factories  up  there  cannot 
hold prices up in the  spring  when at all 
the  points  I  have  named  the  price  is 
down low.  They must  follow  the  tide, 
and if  they wait to  hear  from  Lenawee 
it gives  the  appearance  of  our  making 
prices.  At the present  time  the  north­
ern and  interior  factories,  which do not 
keep  informed,  are  a complete  block  in 
the way of  better  prices.  To illustrate: 
About  ten  days  ago  I,  as  a  represent­
ative of  several  factories and  anxious to 
get all I could  for  my patrons,  thought 
prices ought to be,  from  outside  indica­
tions, fully one  cent  higher. 
I wrote to 
and  afterward  went  to  see  the Adrian 
jobbers  and  they said,  “No;  we can buy 
all  the  cheese we want of  northern fac­
tories for 6@6K cents and  we  will  hold 
prices where they are so long  as  we can 
do that.”
Now, can  you not see that it would be 
for the interest  of  the patrons  if  those 
salesmen had been informed, so that they 
could and would ask more for their stock? 
Then  prices  would  have  gone  up  and 
their patrons would receive  more money 
for their milk.  The  patrons’  interest is 
what you and I should work for,  and our 
interest should cover the whole  State,  as 
we represent a  State  institution and not 
a local one. 
I  believe  if  you  will  join 
me in the effort to have  all  local factory 
salesmen take  steps to be  well informed 
from  headquarters  (the  points  1  have 
named),  it  will  stop  all  this  cause  of 
complaint and the patrons of factories in 
our State will receive thousands  of  dol­
lars more for the labor.  One point must 
be  understood  and  that  is,  we  cannot 
hold up  prices in the  spring  above  the 
leading  markets  and at a time  when we 
make a cheese  that  will  not  keep,  but 
must be sold to save  it,  and that we can 
force prices  up  in the fall and late sum­
mer when our  cheese  will  keep  longer 
and we are not obliged to sell so close.
It is not the fault of the Adrian jobber 
that  those  interior  salesmen do not ask

TETE  MICHIQAJST  TRADESMAN

9

Shining'  Shoes  by  Electricity.

From the Chicago News.
Chicago has a most entertaining citizen 
in a man located in a basement on  Clark 
street,  near Randolph,  who has started a 
scheme  never  before  practiced  in  Chi­
cago, or for that  matter anywhere else— 
shining shoes  by electricity.
So  entirely  novel  is  the  idea  that it 
requires a policeman  to  keep the crowd 
of spectators from  blocking up the side­
walk.  When the customer  is  seated  in 
the chair the fun begins.  The bootblack 
grasps  what  looks  like  a  rubber  hose 
with a brush attached to one end, touches 
it to the foot, and the shoe is shined.
“I have the only plant in the country,” 
said  the  proprietor,  “but, 
like  every 
other  new  thiug,  it will be  used  every­
where inside of a year.  The  patent  was 
obtained about three weeks ago, and this 
shop  has  not  been  in  existence  that 
long.”
“Are  you  meeting  with  much  suc­
cess?”
I have  barely got 
“I should think so. 
settled, and yet  already I am shining the 
shoes of seven  hundred or eight hundred 
people every day.  That  looks like busi­
ness, don’t  it? 
It’s  knocking  the  old- 
fashioned way  of  shining shoes right in 
the head,  and I prophesy  that  inside  of 
a year you will find  a  number  of  these 
shops in every  part  of  the  city.  The 
modus operandi  is  very simple;  but  let 
me explain:
“I have six chairs here, and in front of 
each one  you notice there is a box where 
the person wishing his shoes shined puts 
his  foot. 
In  that  box  is  a  one-eighth 
horse-power  electric  motor.  Connected 
with it is a spiral  wire  that is contained 
in  the  hose  you see.  At  the  end is the 
brush,  and  when the customer sits down 
all 1 have to do is to press this button on 
the floor with my foot, and the electricity 
is turned on.  The brush is put in motion 
and  skims  over  the  foot  at the rate of 
220 revolutions a minute.  Consequently, 
we  get  up  a  friction 
that  cannot  be 
equalled by hand.  Then,  too,  shoes  can 
be  shined  much  quicker than in the or­
dinary  way.  With  this  method  I  can 
give a patent  leather  shine  in a minute 
and a quarter.  That  feature  alone will 
be a drawing  card with the Chicago bus­
iness man.  There  is  one  class  of  cus­
tomers  who  will  look  upon  us as their 
best friends—the  people  with  corns  or 
sore feet.  By getting their  shoes shined 
by electricity there is no pounding of the 
feet by careless  bootblacks,  but a  pleas­
ant rub  all  round,  and the work is done.
“The bootblacks are awfully jealous of 
the  new  scheme,  and  declare  that they 
are ruined.”

have  been sent out to the  retail  dealers 
in silverware  all  over  the  country,  ad­
vising them of  this advance.  The circu­
lar says that hereafter sterling silverware 
will be sold  to  the  trade  for  81.40  per 
ounce.  Prices for  other  goods in which 
silver is used will  be  advanced  in  pro­
portion.  This  increase  in  price  will 
make a material  difference in the cost of 
silver dinner sets, but in articles of silver 
jewelry  will  be  hardly  noticeable.  A 
silversmith said yesterday:
“We have been selling silver forks and 
spoons for less than their  actual cost for 
two months past.  There never  has been 
much profit on these  goods,  and this in­
crease of  15 cents an ounce is not in pro­
portion to the  advance  in  the  price  of 
silver  bullion.  There  may be  another 
advance if silver continues to go up.” 
Tiffany & Co.  do  not  sell any goods at 
wholesale,  and have not as  yet advanced 
their prices.  One of the members of that 
firm said  yesterday that they were going 
to  mark  up  their  silverware,  although 
their advance in prices will be independ­
ent of that made by the wholesale dealers.
There are  about  twenty wholesale sil­
versmiths  in  the city, but  of  these  the 
largest firms  interested in the movement 
are Dominick & Haff,  the Whiting Manu­
facturing  Co.,  and the Gorham Manufac­
turing Co.

An  Aged Pair of Shoes.

“ I  was  in  the  store  of  Wellington 
Lawton, at Berlin,  a few days ago,”  said 
Manley  Jones,  last  Saturday,  “ when  an 
old gentleman  came in who  immediately 
attracted  my  attention.  Entering  into 
conversation with  him,  I found  that  his 
name was  John  Wallace, that  he  was 88 
years  of  age  and,  strangest  of  all,  that 
he  wore  a  pair  of  shoes  which  he  pur­
chased  in  Detroit  in  1848 — forty-two 
years ago.  He has  worn the  shoes only 
at occasional  intervals  in  the  meantime 
and  they  are  still  in  a  good  state  of 
preservation.  At  the time he purchased 
the shoes he was in the employ of  a man 
named  Newbold,  who  then  conducted a 
hardware  store.  His  superior  in  the 
establishment  was  Mr.  Ducharme,  who 
became  very  wealthy  from  the  pursuit 
of  the  hardware  business  and  retired  a 
few  years  ago.  The old  gentleman  was 
as  bright  as  a dollar  and  I  could  have 
enjoyed  a  half  day’s  talk with  him had 
time permitted.”

A World of Wrenches.

The sale of  wrenches  in  this  country 
is  one  of  large  proportions,  and  the 
rivalry among  manufacturers to  put the 
best article  in  the  market is severe, the 
Patent  Office  weekly  recording  several 
efforts in this  direction.  There are sev­
eral  grades  with  corresponding  varia­
tions  in  prices.  Cheaper  wrenches  are 
made of  forged or  malleable  iron,  while 
the  superior  class is made of  steel forg­
ings, the  sliding  jaw being of  malleable 
iron.  The trade  is, however, calling for 
the  better  grade  of  wrenches.  Very 
good combination  wrenches  are  now on 
the market, one of which is an engineer’s 
wrench,  in which  the  pawl  carries a re­
volving wheel which is used to cut round 
iron as well as pipe.  This  wheel can  be 
removed,  and  leaves  the  tool  in  such 
shape  that  it  can  be  used  as  a  pipe 
wrench.  All the parts  are  interchange­
able,  and it is  very  durable.  The  pawl 
has a wide bearing, so it does  not  crush 
the pipe,  while  at the same  time it has a 
strong grip.  Another  combination  tool 
can  be  used as a screw, pipe  or  pocket 
wrench,  a  hammer,  nail-claw,  screw­
driver,  or  bit-handle.  As such a tool is 
very handy for  the  farm,  the  house  or 
workshop, its sale is very large.
Silverware Marked Up.

From the New York Son, Aug. 5.
The wholesale silversmiths in this city 
have advanced the price of silver spoons, 
forks and  solid  silverware  15  cents  an 
ounce.  This is the result  of  the  recent 
rise in the price  of  silver  bullion  since 
the  Silver  bill  was  passed.  Circulars

Worn-Out  Shoes Have their  Uses.
From the Manufacturers* Gazette.
Worn-out  shoes have their uses.  The 
Italian scavenger who rakes up  your ash 
barrel and sends the dust flying over your 
doorstep knows this well,  and  his  black 
eyes glisten at the  sight  of  old  leather. 
If  the shoes are  not  worn to shreds,  he 
sells  them  to a second-hand  dealer  and 
they are patched  up  and  resoled;  but if 
they are  past  mending,  he  takes  them 
home  to  his  cellar  and  rips  them  all 
apart,  or his  wife and children do.  The 
pieces he sells to a manufacturer.  From 
the larger pieces  after  being soaked till 
soft, the uppers  of  children’s  shoes are 
cu t  The soles are cut into  small pieces 
to make up  the  layers  of  the  heels  of 
other shoes,  the iron  pegs  that  are  not 
bent can  be  used  over  again,  and  the 
little scraps that  are  left  after  all  this 
are subjected to a treatment  that  makes 
them all one pliable mass,  from  which a 
kind  of  artistic  leather  is  rolled  out. 
This is used for covering  chairs,  books, 
trunks,  boxes, etc.  Many fancy patterns 
are stamped on It,  and the  trade  in  this 
kind of “embossed” leather in the United 
States is a well-established one.

Leased a Hotel at Boyne  City.

B o yne  Fa l l s,  Aug. 8.—W.  A. Davoll, 
dealer in general merchandise, has rented 
the  Commercial  House,  at  Boyne City, 
but he will continue his  mercantile  bus­
iness  at  the  Falls  just  the  same.  Al. 
invites the patronage of  the  commercial 
trade.  He will  entertain the Knights of 
the Grip  and  their wives at least once a 
year without charge.

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

— FROM 

' 
' 
J.  HEERINCA,

' 

......

G EN E R A L  M ER C H A N T,

find  dealer  In  Butter, Eggs. Seeds  &  Grain,

EAST  SAUCATUCK, 

-  M ICHIG AN.

W e   q u o te  th e  fo llo w in g   p rices  on  N o   4 
ta g s,  d e liv e r ed   to a n y  e x p r e ss office or jo b b in g  
h o u se  in  th is  city:
1 .0 0 0  
2 . 0 0 0  
5 .0 0 0  

$1 BO
2 . B O
4 .BO

- 
-  
-  

W e   c a rr y   a ll  o th er  sizes  o f  ta g s  an d   ca n   fill 

o rd ers  on  sh o rt  notice,

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

BROW N  &  SEH LER,

Dealers in ENGINES, BOILERS and MILL MACHINERY, Farm Machinery, 

Agricultural  Implements, Wagons  and  Carriages.

H E S T E R   do  F O X ,

Manufacturera’ Agents for

SAW  AND G HIST MILL MACHINERY.

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery, 

Saws, Belting and  Oils.

And  Dodge’s  Patent Wood Split Pulley.  Large stock  kept  on hand.  Send for Sample 

Pulley  and become convinced of their  superiority.

W rite for Prices. 

44, 46 and 48 So. D ivision St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS* MICH.

DEALERS IN

NOS.  122  and  124  LOUIS STREET. GRAND  R A PID S. MICHIGAN. 

______________ W~E CARRY  A  8TOCK  OF  CAKK TALLOW  FOR MILL  USB-_________

P E R K I N S   &  H E S S
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
M uskegon Cracker Co
LARGEST VARIETY IN TEE STATE
457  459  461,  463  W.  WESTERN  AVENUE, 
MUSKEGON,  MICH.

No  C oiectii  fit!  Any  C rate  M

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PA ID   TO  MAIL  ORDERS.

CHECKERS,  BISCUITS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

- 

IO
D r u g s  f££ M e d i c i n e  s .

State  Board  of  Pharm acy.

Meetings  during  1890—Marquette,  Aug.  IS  and  U; 
‘Kichigan  State  Pharm aceutical  An ’d. 

One Year—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Two Year»—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Three Years—Jacob Jess on,  Muskegon.
Four  Years—James Tern or, Detroit.
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor 
President—Jadbb  Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—-Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo.  McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Lansing, Hot. 5 and 6.
President— Frank Inglis.  Detroit.
First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing.
Sec’d Vice-President— Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs, 
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit 
Executive Committee—-C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan;  E. T. 
Webb, Jackson;  D. E. Prall,  East Saginaw;  Geo. Mc­
Donald. Kalamazoo; J. J. Crowley. Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Saginaw, beginning third Tuesday  j
of September,  1890._____________________________  
j
Grand  Rapid a  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President. J. W. Hay ward,  Secretary, Frank H. Escott. 
G ran d  Rapids  Drug: Clerks* A ssociation, 
President, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith._______
President, J. W. Allen;  Secretary, W, F. Jackman.
President. C. 8. Koon;  Secretary, J. W. Hoyt.
The  Druggist’s Night-Bell.

Muskegon  Drug Clerks'  Association. 

D e tro it  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  S ociety 

i

From the Pharmaceutical Record.
The druggist  must  answer  the  night- 
bell  promptly,  and  in  this  connection 
there is nothing  so  valuable as a speak­
ing tube.  With  it  he  can  inquire  who 
rings  the bell, and  what is wanted.  He 
can  recognize the voice of  his customer, 
and  besides  ascertain  if  the  call is ur­
gent,  without  leaving  his  bedroom  or 
exposing  himself  to cold by hoisting the 
window and  looking out.  By the speak­
ing  tube  he  can  avoid  the  everlasting 
ting-a-ling by the impatient customer till 
he reaches the  store  door.  Some  drug­
gists get  up for  prescriptions  only;  oth­
ers  for  these  and  important medicines, 
such as  laudanum,  paregoric,  morphine, 
etc.;  but I think the matter  best decided 
on its merits for each  individual case. 
I 
once  accommodated a man in  the middle 
of  the  night  with a  gallon  of  coal  oil, 
which  was  a  very  great  necessity,  his 
wife  having  been  taken  suddenly sick, 
and  there  was  not  enough  oil  in 
the 
house to burn till morning.  This man, a 
stranger in the  neighborhood,  afterward 
became a very good  customer.  While it 
hardly  pays  to  lose  one’s  rest  for  the 
paltry sum of  thirty-five  or  forty cents, 
yet  the  prescription  filled  in  the night 
may require to be refilled many times. 
I 
call to mind one that has  been refilled at 
intervals  for  the  past seven  years,  and 
has proven to be the most  profitable one 
on the books.  A  man  can  never  know 
what  he  loses  by not  attending  to  the 
night-bell.

Paid off in His  Own Coin.
From the Boeton Saturday Evening Gazette.
A remarkable  case  of  ‘‘diamond  cut 
diamond” occurred  in  Boston  recently, 
not  far  from  the  Providence  Railroad 
station.  A druggist had  fitted  up a neat 
corner  store  and had established at once 
a fine trade.  One  day another  druggist 
entered his store and said :
“I want  to  buy  you out.  How  much 
will  you  take?”
“I  do  not  want  to  sell,”  was the re­
ply.
‘‘I expected that answer,” said the en­
croaching  person,  “and  I  am  prepared 
for it.  Now, if  you don’t sell out to me, 
1  will open a drug  store in opposition  on 
the opposite corner.  How much will you 
take ?”
The  druggist, offended at this  species 
of  browbeating,  said  he  would sleep on 
it and report the  next  morning.  At the 
appointed hour  the  aspirant  was in the 
store and a large price  was named.  The 
bargain was bound.  The  druggist  who 
had  been 
thus  ousted  from  a  corner 
which  he  had  fitted  up  with  a view to 
years  of  peace  and  profit,  sought  the 
owners of  the opposite corner which had 
been held out to  him as a threat, secured 
from them a long lease, worked night and 
day,  and  now  has a drug store in which 
any  community  might  take  satisfaction 
and  repose  confidence.  What  is  more, 
he is doing a better  business than he did 
in the former locality.

We should  rule  ourselves  with a firm 
hand.  Being  our  own  master  means 
often  that  we  are  at  liberty to  be  the 
slaves  of  our own follies,  caprices  and 
passions.  Generally  speaking,  a  man 
cannot  have a worse or  more tyrannical 
master than himself.

j 

seemingly 

j How  to  Detect  Adulterated  Turpen- j 

tine from the  Genuine  Article.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAJST.
several sets of  officials  where one is suf­
ficient — these 
overgrown 
butcher shops are to be doubled up.  One 
industrial  machine will take the place of 
several.
This is the  march of  capitalism.  And 
it is the march of  death  to  the small en­
terprise  backed by small  capital, run by 
men  of  small  experience.  The  day  of 
small industries is swiftly passing  away. 
It is only those  who,  with  the  power to 
command  great  ability, have the capital 
to overcome the natural and artificial ob­
stacles  to  success  that  can hope to live 
and prosper.  The great middle class are 
feeling this, even  more  than  the  wage­
receiving  class,  and  it  is  because they 
feel  this  that so large a number are fol­
lowing  the  ignus fatuus created by Bel­
lamy in  his “Looking  Backward”—this 
socialistic state where the  great corpora­
tions are to be swallowed up by a greater, 
the state itself,  and where  individualism 
is to be suppressed and governmentalism 
crowned king.
What is to be  done ?  What  will  stop 
the march of  capitalism ?

Just now there is a good deal of  cheap I 
manipulated turpentine  on  the  market 
This  turpentine  is  worth  considerably j 
less per gallon than the pure article,  and j 
is sure  to  ruin  all  jobs of  painting, be- 
cause it will not dry.  Kerosene will not | 
dry.  no  more  will  this,  for it is adulter- I 
ated by the  producers in the South,  who I 
mix with the crude  material  in the stills ! 
a large  percentage of  petroleum, distill- I 
ing the two together.  The following is a j 
purely mechanical  test  and  can  be suc­
cessfully tried by anyone:
Drop on a clear glass  surface one drop j 
of" pure  spirits  of  turpentine.  Near  it 
put a drop of  the suspected  article, and, | 
with the light properly reflected from the 
surface,  watch the effect as it evaporates, i 
If  pure, the drop will dry off  almost like 
water and no color  will  be reflected. 
If | 
the drop contains  as  much as 5 per cent, 
of  oil  or  benzine,  the  surface  with  the 
light properly thrown on it,  will  exhibit 
an  irridescent  purple  similar  to  that 
thrown off  from  the  surface of  water on 
which oil has been  dropped.

The  March of Capitalism.

From the Detroit News.

the 

It  is  no  different  in 

Big birds prey on  little  birds, and big 
fish eat little fish.  The strong  overcome 
the weak,  and the large absorb the little. 
The cunning kill the simple, for cunning 
represents  strength,  while  simplicity is 
weakness.  That  is  the  way matters go 
in the physical  world.
industrial 
world. 
In  almost  every  occupation  in 
the United States,  in fact  in all civilized 
lands,  the  number of  corporations, firms 
and  individuals  engaged  in  any  single 
occupation  is  shown  to  be  rapidly de­
creasing  in  proportion to the number to 
be served.  Business  is growing,  but the 
number  of  employers  of  labor  engaged 
therein is diminishing.  Trade is concen­
trating  into fewer  hands.  The captains 
of industry are steadily controlling larger 
and more far-reaching enterprises.  They 
are becoming  more  capable of  handling 
immense  masses of  materials  and  men. 
The  waste of  the  raw  product,  and  of 
manual  labor, and  even of  brain  work, 
is  being  reduced  to  a  minimum.  The 
finished goods are passing through fewer 
and  fewer  concerns  before  they  are 
banded  to  the  consumer.  The  propor­
tion  of  middlemen  to  buyers  for  con­
sumption  steadily  decreases.  All  the 
industries of  the  country—all the indus­
tries of  the  world will soon  be in a com­
paratively few hands.
That  is  what  is  going  on in  Detroit. 
That  is  what  is  going  on in Michigan. 
That is what  is  going  on in the  United 
States.  That  is  what is going on in the 
whole world.
The small  dealers  everywhere  are be­
ing  crushed  out  of  existence.  Look at 
Detroit.  The number of businesses have 
not kept  pace  with  population.  There 
are to-day seen on our main avenues huge 
concerns run by the  same  corporation— 
the same  corporation  dealing in articles 
that a few  years  ago  would  have  occu­
pied the attention of a dozen firms.  Look 
at the great stove works.  One establish­
ment in this city to-day is equal to thirty 
average  stove  manufactories  of  a  few 
years ago.  And, as in stoves  and  cloth­
ing and  the numberless  articles  sold  in 
fairs and bazaars, so it is in almost every 
other  department  of 
industry.  The 
small manufactories cannot compete with 
the large ones.  They  cannot  be  run  so 
economically;  their wares cannot be sold 
so  cheaply;  and so they cannot  success­
fully compete  for  trade.  They die;  the 
larger stores  and  manufacturers get the 
trade,  and  the  ranks  of  the  wage-re­
ceiving  class  are  enlarged,  while  the 
ranks of  the employing class diminish.
Chicago  just  now  furnishes  another 
example  of  this  concentration,  in  the 
absorption by one  corporation of  a num­
ber of  her stock  yards.  There  were big 
slaughter  houses  there,  but  they  were 
not  large  enough  for the ideas of  some 
who  wish  to  engage  in  the industry of 
killing  and  cooking  and  pickling  the 
animals that furnish  us  food.  So,  in or­
der to be able to make large profits while 
furnishing  cheaper  meat—in  order  to 
save the waste that  now consumes a por­
tion of  the  profits  by  reason  of  having

It was a  Surprise.

A guest at one  of  the  Petoskey resort 
hotels  who  was  charged  10  cents for a 
glass  of  lemonade  made  a  prompt and 
vigorous kick, saying:
“This is nothing short of highway rob- 
| bery,  and 1 won’t submit to it.”
“My friend,”  said one  of  the  clerks, 
who had  been  called  on  to  adjust  the 
matter,  “what do you suppose our object 
is in keeping this hotel ?”
“To  accommodate 
the  public,  of 
course.”
“Exactly,  but  that’s not all.  We  in­
tend to  make money at the  same  time.” 
“You do?”
“Of  course we do.  We  must  have  a 
profit, even on our beer.”
“Then I’ll pay my bill and  go! 
I like 
to see everybody get along,  but when the 
clothing  store in my town  sells a suit of 
clothes for  half  off  I’m  not going away 
from home  to  pay somebody full figures 
and a little more on top of them.”

Where to Carry Cigars.

A young  man  who purchased a dozen 
very good cigars was thrusting them into 
his vest pockets, when  the  cigar  dealer 
advised him  to  put  them  in  his  outer 
coat pocket,  and this was the  reason  the 
dealer gave;

“If you put  those  cigars  in your vest 
pocket,  you’ll come  back  here  and  tell 
me they  were not  good.  A  cigar  has  a 
j  wonderful capacity  for  absorption,  and 
if you carry a  good  cigar  in  your  vest 
pocket  any length  of  time  during  this 
hot  weather  it  will  taste  as  rank as a 
stogie when you light it.  Cigars  should 
be carried in a pocket  where  they  may 
be kept dry  and  free  from  any oppor­
tunity  to  absorb  the odor  of  perspira­
tion.”

Better  than  a  String.

I he entered a drug store,  the other day. 

“1 want  something,” said a farmer  as 
“Well, what is it?”
“1 didn’t tie a string around my finger, 
but I guess I can  get  around  it  all  the 
same.  What’s the  name of  the  lake be­
low  ns?”

there?”

bay which the boats run to ?” 

“Lake  Erie.”
“Exactly.  What’s  the  name  of  the 
“Put-in-Bay.”
“Correct.  Now, 
“Perry.”
“Straight  as  a  string. 

I  want  ten 
cents’  worth  of  perygoric.  My  old 
woman said I’d be sure  to  forget  It,  but 
here’s the proof  that I didn’t.”

then,  who  put  in 

The Drug Market.

Opium  is a trifle  lower.  Morphia  is 
unchanged.  Quinine  is  steady.  Alco­
hol  has  advanced.  The price is now as 
follows:  barrels,  82.25;  half-barrels, 
$2.30; 
ten  gallons,  $2.33;  five  gallons, 
$2.35—less five cents per  gallon  for cash 
I in ten days.  Castor oil has advanced.

GX2TSEXTG  HOOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address 

p r n i r   D D r iQ   W holesale  Druggists, 
r i l U A   D i l U o . ,  

GRAND  RAPIDS.

T h e  m o s t  r e l i a b l e  p o o f t
F o r Infants and Invalids. 
Used  everywhere,  with  unqualified 
success.  Not a medicine, but a steam- 
cooked  food,  suited  to  the  weakest 
stomach.  Take  no  other.  Sold  by 
dru exists.  In cans. 85c. and upward.
WooLBiCH A Co. on every labeL

1 )GES

food

Embossed  Cards,

Pictiire Advertising Cards, 

Advertising  Folders.

Having  a  lot  of  the  above goods, 
consisting  of  several 
thousand  of 
different  designs, we offer the  cards 
much less than our usual prices.

The  Tradesman  Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS.
SUSPENDED I

B m
g l
ST®O  co
J E T T I N E .

Warranted  not  to  Thicken,  Sour  or  Mold It 
any climate.  Quality Guaranteed Against Injun 
by Freezing.  All  others  worthless  after frees 
ing.  See quotation.  MARTEL.L BLACKING 
CO.,  Sole Manufacturers,  Chicago, 111.
Do  You  Observe  the  Law ?

If not, send SI to

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

For their combined

LIQUOR i POISON REGORD.

“THE  WEAR  IS  THE  TRUE  TEST 

OF  VALU E."

We still have in stock  the well-known brand

P io n e e r

P rep a red

P a in t.

MIXED  READY  FOR  USE.

Having sold  same  to  our  trade  for  over  ten 
years, we  can  say it  has  fulfilled the manufac­
turer's guarantee.  Write  for  sample  card  and 
prices before making yonr spring purchases.
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,

GRAND  R APIDS,  MICH.

SOLS  AGENTS

P O L I S H  I N A THB| ^ m i R B

FODBTB NATIONAL B ill

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bowse, President.

Ge o . C. P ie r c e ,  Vice President.

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

Transacts a general banking business.

M ake a Specialty o f Collections.  Accounts 

o f Country M erchants Solicited.

THE  MICITIQAJSr  TRADESMAN

Wholesale Price  Current•

Advanced—Alcohol, Castor Oil, Cuttle Bone.

“ 

K 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W .. .2 85©3 10 
C. Co.......................2 85@3 10
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myrlstica,  No. 1.........   70®  75
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  30®  35
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co...  ......................  @200
Picis Liq, N. C., M gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Picis Liq., quarts......   @1 00
pints.........   @  70
Pll Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 18
Piper Alba, (po g5)__   @  35
Pix  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbi A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......  @1  35
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®  35
Quassiae....................  8®  10
Quinia, S. P. & W  ....  39®  44
S.  German__  27®  35
Rubia  Tinctorum......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactis pv..  @  39
Salacin.......................1  80@2 00
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Santonine  .................  @4 50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
,r  M.......................  8®  10
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

"Vogs 

Seidlitz  Mixture.......   @  25
Sinapls.......................   @  18
“  opt..................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
^   35
.........  
Snuff, ;Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 13).  .  12®  13 
Soda  et PotasB Tart...  30®  33
Soda Carb.................  1M@  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash.................... 3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas............  @  2
Spts. Ether C o..........   50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......  @2 00
“  Myrcia Imp........  @2 50
‘  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
2 25).........................  @2 35
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal......  @1  10
Sulphur, Subl............ 2M@  3M
Tamarinds...................  
8® 10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae..............  50®  55
Vanilla......................9 00@16 00
Zlnci  Sulph..................  7®  8

Roll..............  2M@3

“ 

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   55 
Lard, No.  1...............   45 
Linseed, pure raw__  62 

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
56
65

“ 

paints. 

11
68
Lindseed,  boiled  __  65 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.................  50 
69
Spirits Turpentine__  47M  53
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian.............lj£  2©3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__IX  2@4
“ 
Ber........lx   2@3
Putty,  commercial....2M  2M@3
“  strictly  pure......2M  2X®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
80@82
Green,  Peninsular......  70@75
Lead,  red....................  @7M
“  w hite...............   @7M
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’........  @90
1  00
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
l  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
EutraTurk Damar__1  55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turn.........................  70®  75

LhXZBLTINB

Si  P E R K IN S  
D R U G

CO.

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

--D R U G S --

Chemicals  and  Druggists’  Sundries.
Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils. Varnishes.

Sole  Agents  for  the  Celebrated  Pioneer  Prepared  Paints.

Dealers in

We  are  Sole  Proprietors of

WEATHERLY’S  MICHIGAN  CATARRH  REMEDY

We have in stock and offer a fall line of

W hiskies,  Brandies,

Gins,  W ines,  Buma.

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

Henderson County, Hand Made  Sour Mash 

W hisky and Druggists’ Favorite 

Rye  W hisky.

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

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

flaieltine 4 Perkins  Drug  Do,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

ACIDUM.

AceUcum........  ............ 
8© 10
Benzoicum  German..  80@1  00
Boracic 
....................  
30
Carbolicum................
Citricum....................   60®  55
Hydrochlor................  3®  ®
Nltrocum 
«
.................  
Oxalicum —  - • -........  1
J"
Phosphorium dll........
®
Salicyllcum................1 
Sulphurlcum............ 
»
Tannicum............... 1 
60
Tartaricum...................  40® 42

Aqua; 16 deg............  6®
* 
20  deg..............  J@
Carbonas  ................... 
Chloridum................. 

??
la@  14

aniline.
................... 2  00@2 25
..............2  5o@3oo
baccab.

H, . ek 

Cubeae (po. 1  50.......... 1 60®1  {¡j
f i S S S i s : : — :::  *  «
coMibft 
m> ■
P e r a .  
...........  @!  30
Terabin, Canada  ......   35®  *
Tolutan......................  ^
  40

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian...................  J®
Cassiae  .................................... 
i a
Cinchona P la v a.................   ¿2
Euonymus  atropurp............
Myrlca  Cerifera, po..............  ~
Pronus Vlrginl....................  “
QuiUaia,  ................................ 
i i
Sassafras  .......... •••"<..........  10
Ulmus Po (Ground  12).........  10

EXTRACTUM.

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  M g  »
Haematox, 15 lb. box 
l j g   «
m   »
..............  16©  1«

“ 
•• 

fbbrum.

Carbonate Preclp........ 
© ,  *5
Citrate and Oulnia....  @3 “
Citrate  S o l u b l e S  
@  50 
Ferrocyanidum Sol
15
Solut  Chloride  -------
Sulphate,  com’l .......... l»W
@  7

pore...

flora.

A rnica.......................  J4©  IS
Anthemls................   “9®  5
Matricaria.................  26©  40
Barosma  ...... ■■•••-••  12@  20
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-
nlvellv....................  25®  28
A,x  3^   50
m veuy...K 

FOLIA.

75@1 

Cubebae.................. 14 00®14 50
Exechthltos................  90®1  00
Erigeron.....................1  20@1  30
Gaultheria................. 2 10@2 20
Geranium,  ounce......  @  75
Gossipil, Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  .................. 1  75@1  80
Juniper!......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Llmonis......................1 50@1  80
Mentha Piper.............. 2 40@3 50
Mentha Verld.............2 50@2 60
Morrhuae, gal............   80@1 00
Myrcia, ounce............   ®  50
Olive...........................1  00@2 75
Plci8 Liquida, (gal. .35) 
10® 12
Ricini......................... 1 28©1 36
Rosmarin!....... 
00
Rosae, ounce..............  ®6 00
Succini.......................   40®  45
Sabina.......................  90@1  00
Santa!  ....................... 3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  45®  50
Sinapls, ess, ounce—  
@ 65
TiguT:.......................  @i so
Thyme.......................   40®  50
opt  ................  @  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20
Bl Carb.......................  15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide.................... 
37®  40
Carb............................  13®  15
Chlorate, (po. 18)........  16®  18
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..............................2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure.. 
3<@ 33
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @  15
Potass Nltras, opt----   8®  10
Potass Nltras.............. 
7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po................  15®  18

POTASSIUM.

“ 

RADIX.

Aconitum..................   20®  25
Althae.........................  25®  30
Anchusa....................   15®  20
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  50
Gentiana, (po. 15)......   10®  12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 
16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 40)....................   ®  35
Hellebore,  Ala,  po—  
15® 20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po....................... 2 25®2 35
Iris plox (po. 20®22).. 
18® 20
Jalapa,  pr...................  40®  45
Maranta,  34s ..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei  ..  ......................  75®1  00
“  cut......................  @i  55
“  pv.......................   75@1  35
SpigeUa ......................  48®  53
Sanguinaria, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  40®  45
Senega.......................  45®  50
Similax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40
M  ©  20
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
dus,  po....................  @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
Zingiber a ...................  10©  15
Zingiber  j ....... 
25

22® 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Anlsum,  (po.  20). 
@  15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  15®  18
Bird, Is.................... 
4®  6
Carol, (po. 18)............   8®  12
Cardamon.................. 1  00@1  25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Sativa......... 3M@ 
4
Cydonium..................   75®1  00
Cnenopodium  ...........  10®  12
Dlpterix Odorate......... 2 00®2 25
Foeniculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L in i............................4  © 4M
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 4  )...  4M® 4M
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Pharlaris Canarian —   3M@ 4M
Rapa...........................  6®  7
Sinapls,  Albu............   8®  9
Nigra...........  11®  12

« 

» 
«> 

SPIRITUB.
Frumenti, W.,D.  Co. .2 00@2 50
D. F. R ...... 1  75®2 00
 
Junlperis  Co. O. T — 1  75@1  T
Saacharam  N.  E ........1  75®2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............1 
Vini Oporto.................1 
Vini  Alba....................1 

75@6 50
25@2 00
25®2 00

10@1 50

1 

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 25@2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  .................
2 00 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
1  10
wool  carriage.........
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage..................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .......................
Hard for  slate  use —
Yellow Reef, for  slate

1  40

u se.

SYRUPS.

“ 

GUM M l.

and  Ms....................   40®  “

Salvia  officinalis,  14s
XJra TJrsL................—  ®®
Acacia, 1st picked....  @1  00
2d 
« 
__   @  80
“  3d 
©  *
sifted sorts...  © 6 5
•• 
po ......  .. • • •  75©1 00
** 
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  @  12
“  Socotri. (po.  60).  @ 50
Catechu, is, (Ms, 14 ¡4«.
16)..........................  
©  4
Ammoniac.................  25©  30
Assafeetlda, (po. 30)...  ©  1»
Benzolnum.................  ¿0®  00
Camphor®................... 
~~
Kuphorbium  p o ........  35®  10
Galbanum...................
Gamboge, p o ...... ••••  86®  j*
Gualacum, (po.60)  ...  @ 55
Kino,  (po.  2 $ ............   ®  20
Mastic......... .............  @  80
Myrrh, (po  45)...........  ©  40
OpS;7pc. 5 40)...........4  ir@4 25
Shellac  .. 
................  2*j®  35
bleached........  27®  35
Tragacanth................  30®  75

“ 
hxbba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  j®
Bupatorium.........................  ¿8
Lobelia................................   ®
Maiorum.............................
Mentha  Piperita.................   23
“  V lr.........................  »
Kue............ .........................   S
j"
Tanacetum, V...................... 
Thymus,  V..........................   •*
Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  P a t.........   20®  22
Carbonate, K. & M —   20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36 

MAGNESIA.

OLEUM.

Absinthium................ 5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 00@8 25
A nlsl.... .....................1  90@2 00
Aurantl  Cortex.........   @2 50
Bergamli '....................3 25@4 00
Cajlputi......................  90@1  00
Caryophylli.................1  25@1 30
Cedar  .......................   35®  65
Chenopodii................  ®1  75
Cinnamon!!................ 1  40@1 50
CltronellaL................  @  75
Conlum  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba  .....................1 20@1  30

TINCTURES.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Aconitum Napellis R.........   60
F .........   50
Aloes...................................   60
and myrrh.................  60
A rnica................................   50
Asafcetida............................  0
A trope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
“  Co..........................   50
Sanguinaria 
...................   50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharides.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Cardamon............................  75
Co......................  75
Castor..................................1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona............................  50
Co......................  60
Columba.........r......   .........   50
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba................................   50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian...............................  50
“  Co............................  60
Guaica................................  50
ammon..................  60
“ 
Zingiber.............................  50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..................................  75
Colorless.................  75
Ferri  Chloridum...............   35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................  50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opii.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany  .........   .................  50
Rbei.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolntan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVeride.................  50

“ 

“ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

« 

‘ 
“ 

“  prep.

r‘ 
ground,  (po.

A5ther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  26®  28
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alumen......................2M® 3M
7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  56®  60
Antlmoni, po..............  4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrin...................1  35® 1  40
Antifebrin..................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  ©  75
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N................. 2 10®2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
11;  Ms,  12)..............
@
Cantharides  Russian,
@1  75 
po............................
@  22 
Capsici  Fructus, af.  .
@  16 
®  14 
rp o  -;
15®  18 
Caryophyllus,  (po.  20)
@3 75
Carmine,  No. 40.........
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......  50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus  .....................   @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  20
Centraria....................  @  10
Cetaceum...................  ®  45
Chloroform...............   50®
squibbs..  @1  00
Chloral Hyd erst........ 1  50@1
Chondros..................   20®  25
Clnchonidlne, P.  &  W  15®  20
German 
4®  10
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
@  60 
cent  .......................
@  50 
Creasotum.................
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........
@  2 
5®
8®  10
;ubra...............   @  8
Crocus.......................  35®  38
Cudbear......................  ©  24
Cupri Sulph...............   8®  9
Dextrine....................  10®  12
Ether Sulph...............   68®  70
Emery,  ail  numbers..  @
po  .................   ©
Ergota, (po.)  60 .........   50®  55
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................  @  23
Gambler......................  8  @9
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  90
French...........  40®  60
“ 
Glassware  flint,  70 per cent, 
by box 60 less
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White................  13®  25
Glycerina...................19M@  25
Grana Paradisl...........  @  22
Humnlus....................  25®  40
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @1  00 
“  Cor ... 
@ 88
Ox Rubrum  @1  10
Ammoniati.  @1  20 
Unguentum.  47®  57
Hydrargyrum............  @  85
Jjhthyobolla, Am......1  25®1  50
Indigo........................   75@1  00
Iodine,  Resubl.......... 3 7£®3 85
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin.....................   85@1 00
Lycopodium..............  55@  60
Macis.........................  80®  86
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
drarg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arsinltls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl 
..............  m   3

-------
i

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

Accacia...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac............................  ■  60
Ferri Iod...... .......................  50
Aurantl  Cortes....................  56
Rhel  Arom..........................   50
Similax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega....................  
50
Soillae..................................  50
«  Co........................   -•  50
T o ln tan ............................  80 
Pronus vlrg.........................  50 I Mannia,  S. F .....................  45® 50

.
iM)  - 

“ 

“ 

 

 

12

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

G R O C E R I E S .

Wool W ithout  Change-Hides in Small 

Demand—Tallow Unchanged.

Wools have sold more freely, especially 
Western,  but  prices  are  no  higher;  in 
fact,  are lower and more in favor of man­
ufacturers.  There  are no speculators in 
the  market, 
future. 
Abroad,  wools have declined fully 10  per 
cent.  Our  markets  are  dull  and  low, 
with fleece firmly held,  as present  prices 
are a loss to the holder.

taking 

the 

for 

Hides  are  not  selling  so freely at the 
advance.  They are  too high in price for 
the tanner to get his money back and the 
leather  market  will  not  respond to aid 
him.  Therefore,  they curtail  the work­
ing  in,  knowing  the  accumulation  will 
drop the price,  and especially so as some 
tanners  who were  over-anxious have be­
come  loaded.  Heavy  hides  are  plenty 
and have  not  advanced.  The  kill West 
is some 10,000 per day over one year ago, 
principally in branded or No. 2 cattle.

Tallow  is  well  picked  up,  but  prices 
are  no  better.  Only the  best  sorts  of 
oleomargarine  are  saleable  at  any price 
and this increases the tallow output.

Sugar Consumption of the United States 

and Great Britian.

From the New York Shipping List.
The average consumption  of  sugar  in 
this country in 53 pounds per capita  and 
in the  United  Kingdom  73  pounds  per 
capita. 
The  consumption  in  Great 
Britian  is  increased  by  a  considerable 
quantity  of 
low  grade  sugar  fed  to 
live  stock  and  a  considerable  quantity 
used in the manufacture of  jams, jellies, 
fruit preserves, etc.  The consumption of 
molasses,  foreign and domestic,  sorghum 
syrup,  corn  syrup  and  glucose is prac­
tically unknown in Great  Britian,  while 
in this countrythe yearly consumption of 
these liquid sweets is roughly estimated at 
at not less than 90,000,000, gal. a fact that 
goes  a  long  way  towards  making  the 
actual consumption in this country much 
greater  than  is  apparent,  and  if 
the 
quantity of  these liquid  sweets could be 
reduced to a sugar equivalent they would 
undoubtedly  bring  the  per  capita  con' 
sumption  nearly  up  to  that  of  Great 
Britain.

Increasing  Business.

On account of  his fast increasing busi­
ness, W. B. Keeler  has  concluded to put 
another  salesman  on  the  city  trade, 
thereby  giving  him  more  time  on  his 
outside  trade, which  he  will  cover him­
self,  adding  a  great  deal  of  new  terri­
tory to what he  already has.

The  Profit on  Some  Sauerkraut.
L. Winternitz  fairly outdid  himself on 
the occasion of  the grocers’ picnic.  Not 
content  with  contributing  5,000  pro­
grammes, he  also  furnished  1,000  hand­
some  ribbon  badges.  The  grocers  very 
generally vote Winternitz a brick.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar  is a little firmer  and  granulated 
and  confectioner’s  are  a  trifle  higher. 
Oatmeal  has  been  advanced.  Canned 
and dried  fruits are  firmer,  if  anything, 
than a week ago.

For the finest coffees in the world,  high 
grade teas,  spices, etc.,  see  J. P.  Visner, 
17 Hermitage block, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Agent for E. J.  Gillies & Co.,  New  York 
City. 

_____  

352tf

Persia  pays  about  §700,000  for  tea, 
most of which comes from  China,  being 
transported on camels at  great  expense, 
besides being subject to a  tax  levied  by 
the countries through  which the caravan 
passes.

The  Sale  Was  Off.

From the Kansas City Times.

Mr.  Hillard,  a 

tea  salesman  from 
Boston,  told  a pretty good  story at  the 
Coates  House the other  night. 
“There 
was  an  old  chap  from  away  back  in 
Vermont,”  he  said,  “ who  came  up  to 
town  the  other  day to make  some  pur­
chases, chief among which was a big bill 
of  goods  from  my  house.  He  bought 
about  §300  worth  of  oolongs,  young 
hysons,  English  breakfasts, etc.  While 
the goods were being put up I undertook 
to show him through the  house,  and  in 
the course of  our wanderings he came to 
a speaking  tube.  This  was a marvel to 
Mr.  Vermonter,  and I had to explain  to 
him how it was  we could speak from the 
sixth floor,  on  which  we  were  at  that 
time  to  a  man  on  the first  floor.  To 
illustrate my words I called up our  ship­
ping clerk and asked him :
“ Have  you put those goods up for Mr. 
Vermonter?”  and  with  this  I  slipped 
from the tube and  put  it  to  the  ear  of 
my customer.  The  result  was not what 
I anticipated.
“ ‘Much  obliged,  sir;  you  can  cancel 
my order,’ said he to me.
“ ‘What’s the matter,’  says I.
“ ‘Oh,  nuthin’,’  says  he  and  off  he 
started for the elevator.
“ ‘What did you say just now?’  I asked 
the shipping clerk in baste.
“ ‘I  said I am  waiting for  an  answer 
on  Bradstreet’s on him;  I understand he 
is a slippery old cuss  and  needs  watch­
ing.’ ”

The Grocers’  Picnic.

The annual picnic of the Grand Rapids 
grocers,  which  was held at  Reed’s Lake 
last  Thursday, eclipsed  anything of  the 
kind ever undertaken  in  this  State,  the 
crowd attending being fully 15,000 strong. 
Everything  passed  off  pleasantly,  noth­
ing occurring to mar the pleasure of any­
one.  The ball game  resulted in the vic­
tory of  the  nine  pitted  against the gro­
cers.  The  foot  race,  sack  race, wheel­
barrow race and greased pole and greased 
pig contests were all spirited  and  added 
greatly to the enjoyment of  the occasion. 
The same is  true of  the  exhibition drills 
given by Custer  Guard and  the  Knights 
of  Pythias.  The  supper 
served  by 
Caterer Swetland,  the  toasts  which  fol­
lowed, the dancing,  boating  and bathing 
were  all  enjoyable  and  rounded  out  a 
day of  unalloyed pleasure.  Much credit 
is due  the  officers  and  committees  for 
preparing the  programme  and  carrying 
it out so successfully.

Card  of  Thanks.

To  the  traveling salesmen  and  others 
who so generously extended their sympa­
thy  and  assistance  during  the  recent 
illness  and  death of  my  husband  Loyal 
L.  Loomis, I  wish  herewith  to  offer  my 
heartfelt thanks.

Mrs.  L.  L.  Loomis.

Open for a Bonus.

The Warren Featherbone Co., of Three 
Oaks, is ready to receive offers of  a cash 
bonus for locating elsewhere.

Co-operative  distribution  seems  to be 
prospering  in  some  parts  of  New Eng­
land.  The  Sovereign  Co-operative Gro­
cery  Association  of  Worcester,  Mass., 
has  declared a dividend  on  its  last  six 
months’  business of  6 per cent, on  mem­
bers’  trade  and 3 per  cent,  on  that  of 
non-members.  A branch  store  is  to  be 
opened  soon  at  South  Worcester.  At 
Plymouth,  Mass.,  the  Plymouth  Rock 
Co-operative  Grocery  Co.  has  declared 
dividends of  4 per cent,  to  stockholders, 
and 6 per cent,  on purchases, on the bus­
iness of  the  past  six  months,  both now 
payable.

Association Notes.

Allegan  Gazette:  A  special meeting  of  the 
Business Men's Association  was  held  Tuesday 
evening to consider the feasibility of organizing 
a canning factory here. 
J. B. Dumont laid  the 
facts  before  the  meeting.  He  thought  fully

825.000 would  be  required  to  start  the factory, 
with additional departments  for  pickling, cider 
making, evaporating and  cold  storage.  But  a 
beginning  could  be  made  with  $10,000.  The 
cold storage feature was particularly applauded. 
Mr. Dumont  thought a frame  building  to  hold
10.000  barrels could be erected and  ice  supplied 
for $3,000.  After some discussion It was resolved 
to  leave  the  whole  matter  as  it  was  until  a 
larger meeting could be called,  Mr.  Dumont  to 
sound  the  people  on  the  subject in the mean­
time.  M. T. Ryan  informed  the  meeting  that 
Mrs. Fisk would give the land  formerly used by 
the defunct  oil  well  association, together with 
the well itself, to any factory that  would  locate 
here and employ at least twenty-five men.  E. T. 
Van Ostrand, J. B. Dumont and I. F. Clapp were 
appointed a committee to complain to the village 
board regarding the unhealthy condition  of the 
pond and river during low water.

25c.

PRODUCE  MARKET.
for evaporated.  The market  is- strong.
$1 per bu.
now held at (2@$2.15 for city hand-picked.

Apples—Dried,  7@8c for sun-dried  and  ll@12c 
Apples—Green,  early  harvest  stock is held at 
Beans—Dry stock continues to get firmer, being 
Beets—New, 50@60c per bu.
Butter—Dairy begins to find moderate  sale  at 
14c.
Blackberries—Wild, 6c  per  qt;  Lawton,  $1.40 
for 16 qt. case.
Cabbages—Home  grown  stock,  $3  per  two 
bbl crate.
Carrots—15c per doz.
Cooperage—Pork barrels,$1.25;  produce barrels 
Cucumbers—10c per doz.
Eggs—The market is steady.  Dealers pay  14c 
Field  Seeds—Clover, mammoth,  $3.75  per  bu.: 
Green Beans—Wax or string, 7oc per bu.  About 
Green Corn—10c per doz.
Maple  Sugar — 8@10c  per  lb.,  according  to 
Maple Syrup—175@85c per gal.
Musk Melons—Home grown, $1.25 per crate.
Onions—Green,  15c  per  doz.  Southern  are 
a little higher,  being  now  held  at  $3.25@$3.t0 
per bbl.

and  hold  at  16c.
medium, $3.60.  Timothy, $1.75 per bu.
out of market.

Pop Corn—4c per lb.
Potatoes—Home grown stock is coming in very 
slowly,  present quotations being  $2.25@$2.50 per 
bbl.

Pears—California, $3 per case.
Peaches—California  $2 per crate.
Plums—California, $2 per crate.
Tomatoes—Home  grown  command  $2.50  per 
bu.  but will be considerably cheaper before the 
end of the week.

Turnips—50©60c per bu.
Watermelons—Indiana stock is coming in very 
Whortleberries—$3 per bu.

plentifully, being held at 18@20c apiece.

quality.

PROVISIONS.

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

quotes as follows;
Mess,  new....................................................   n   25
Shortcut.....................................................   11  00
Extra clear pig, short cut............................
Extra clear,  heavy.......................................
Clear, fat  back.............................................  12 00
Boston clear, short cut................................   12 50
Clear back, short cut...................................   12 50
Standard clear, short cut. best....................  12 50
Pork Sausage.....................................................7
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage............................................ .  9
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................  8
Blood Sausage.................................................   5
Bologna, straight............................................   5
Bologna,  thick................................................  5
Head Cheese....................................................   5
Tierces............................................................ ...
Tubs...................................................................73£
501b.  Tins......................................................... 734
Tfprnps 
a
30 and 50lb. Tubs...................................... ”  gu
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case....................................  7
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case......................  
¿34
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case.......................................6$£
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case.....................................  gu
50 lb. Cans......................................................... 6J4
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.....................   7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................  7 00
Boneless, rump butts.....................................  9 so

lard—Kettle Rendered.

BEEP  IN  BARBELS.

lard—Family.

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Hams, average 20 lbs....................................... 1054
16 lbs....................................... lov
12 to 14 lbs...............................
picnic.....................................................8
best boneless..........................................8
Shoulders........................................................  7
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..........................   .  ¿54
Dried beef, ham prices....................................10
Long Clears, heavy.........................................   6
Briskets,  medium...........................................   6
6

light........................  

.. 

PISH and  OYSTERS.

“ 

FRESH  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows;
Whitefish................................................
smoked....................................
Trout......................................................
Halibut...................................................
Ciscoes 
................................................
Flounders.............................................
Bluefish  ................................................
Mackerel............................................
Cod  .......................................................
California salmon.................................
Fairhaven  Counts.................................

oysters—Cans.

FRESH  MEATS.

“ 

Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beef, carcass..........................................
hindquarters...............................
“ 
...............................
“ 
fore 
*• 
loins, No. 3..................................
ribs............................................
“ 
“ 
rounds........................................
“ 
tongues.......................................
Hogs........................................................
Bologna..................................................
Pork loins..............................................
“  shoulders.......................................
Sausage, blood  or head..............   ........
liver.........................................
Frankfort................................
Mutton...................................................
Veal........................................................

“ 
“ 

@ 8 

@ 754 
@754 @15 
@ 4 
@ 9 
@10 
@25 
@10 
@20
@35

454@ 6 
6  @ 654 
3  @ 3% 
@  9 
@ 754 
@ 8 
@ 6 
@10 
®
@ 5 
@6 
@  5 @5 
@ 754 @
@

CANDIES,  FRUITS and  NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDY.

 

 

MIXED  CANDY.

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

“  H. H...... ............................ 
“ 

Standard,  per  lb..................................... 854@ 9
854© 9
T w ist........................................854@ 9
Cut  Loaf..........................................................10
Assorted  Cream  ............................................. 12
Extra H. H.......................................................11
Standard, per lb...............................................834
Leader.............................................................   854
Royal...............................................................   9
Extra.......................... 
10
English  Rock..................................................10
Conserves.........................................................10
Broken................................... 
9
Cut Loaf...........................................................10
French Creams................................................ 12
Valley  Creams................................................ 13
Lemon Drops....................................................12
Sour Drops.......................................................13
Peppermint DropB............................................14
Chocolate Drops...............................................14
H. M. ChocolateoDrops....................................18
Gum Drops...................................................... 10
Licorice Drops..................................................18
A. B. Licorice  Drops....................................... 14
Lozenges, plain................................................ 14
printed............................................15
Imperials..........................................................14
Mottoes.............................................................15
Cream Bar..................................................... ].u
Molasses Bar................................................... 13
Caramels...................................................16@18
Hand Made  Creams.........................................18
Plain Creams................................................ ’ .15
Decorated Creams............................................20
String  Rock.....................................................15
Burnt Almonds................................................ 22
Wintergreen  Berries....................................... 14
Lozenges, plain, in  pails.................................12
printed, in pails..............................13
Chocolate Drops, in pails.................................12
Gum Drops, in pails.......................................... g
Moss Drops, in pails........................................ 10
Sour Drops, in pails.........................................12
Imperials, in pails....................... 
12
Rodi, choice, 200...................................   @7 50

fancy—In bulk.

ORANGES.

300....................................  @

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

 

LEMONS.

 

“ 

“ 

“ 

choice  “ 

Messina, choice, 360.............................   @ 750
300.............................  @ 8 00
,   “ 
fancy, 360.............................  @ 8 00
“ 
300.............................8 50@  9 00
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy  layers..........  @14

Dates, frails, 50 lb.................................. 

.......  @
“  choice, 7 lb....................................  @
S
“  M frails, 50 lb..............................  @
“ 
«¿10
“ 
..........................   @ 8
“ 
NUTS.

Fard, 10-lb.  box....................... 
Persian, 50-lb.  box......................{ ¡ d

“  50-lb.  “ 

Almonds, Tarragona.............................   @1654

a ig
Ivaca.....................................  
California.............................   @
Brazils....................................................  
S is
Walnuts, Grenoble................................   @1654
California..............................   @
Pecans, Texas, H. P ...............................13  @15
Cocoanuts.............................................. 4 oo@4 50
Fancy, H. P., Suns................................   @10
“  Roasted  ...................  @12
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Game Cocks....................  @10
Roasted........  @1154
Fancy, H. P., Stags................................  @934
“  Roasted  ..................  @1154
Choice, H. P., S tars.............................   @ 91^
“  Roasted...................  @11
Fancy, H. P., Steamboats......................  @  934
Roasted.........   @11

PEANUTS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

REMOVAL Already  and  within  a  year’s  time,  our 

business  has  grown  to  such proportions as 
to demand  larger  quarters,  which we have
secured at 46 Ottawa St.,  where we shall be pleased to see our friends in the future. 
Net weights and fine goods tell the tale.  Be sure to give them a trial.

A .  E .  B R O O K S   &  CO.

t h e   M IC H IG A N   TItAIXE SMA1ST.

13

W h o le s a le   P r i c e   C u r r e n t •

The  (quotations  given  below  a/re  such  as ore ordinarily offered cosh buyers who 

pay promptly and buy in fu ll packages.

 

 

 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

APPLE  BUTTER.
AXLE GREASE.

X lb.  “ 
lib.  “ 

“ 
bluing. 

21b.  “ 
 

CANDLES
“ 

canned goods—Fish.

Acme, X lb. cans, 3 doz__ 

Hlb.  “ 
lib. 
“ 
141b.  “ 
lib .  “ 
BATH BRICK.

B. J. Mason & Co.’s goods..  6
Frazer’s...................................12 40
Aurora...................................... 1 75
Diamond................................... 1 80
BAKTNO POWDER.
Thepure, 10c packages.  .. .81  20
1  66
 
X lb. 
2  28
 
6 oz. 
“ 
2 76
 
“  X lb. 
 
12 oz. 
“ 
4 20
5 40
“ 
lib. 
 
.....26 00
“ 
61b. 
Less 20 per cent, to retailers. 
Absolute, X lb. cans, 100s. .11  76 
50s..10 00
50s..18  75
75
“  m b .  “ 
2  “  ....  1 50
1  ‘‘ ....3  00
lib .  “ 
“ 
“ 
bulk.........................  20
Our Leader, Klb.  cans......  
45
......  
90
......   1  60
Telfer’s,  X lb. cans, doz..  45
“  .. 
85
“ ..1 5 0
English, 2 doz. in case...... 
80
Bristol,  2  “ 
75
......  
American. 2 doz. in case...  70
Dozen
Mexican,  4oz..................  
30
8 oz................... 
60
16 oz.................  
90
BROOKS.
No. 2 Hurl..........................  1  75
.......................... 2 00
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet....................... 2 25
No. 1 
“ 
....................... 2 50
Parlor Gem.........................2 75
Common Whisk................. 
90
Fancy 
.................  1  20
M ill................................... 3 25
Warehouse.........................2 75
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes................10
Star,  40 
9H
Paraffine..............................11
Wicking............................... 25
Clams. 1 lb. Little Neck...... 1  10
Clam Chowder, 3 lb............ 2 10
Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stand__1  if)
....2 00
“ 
Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic...........1  75
“ 
2  lb.  “ 
2 65
“ 
1 lb.  Star................2 25
“ 
2 lb. Star................3 65
Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.2 00
“ 
1 lb.  stand........... 1  20
“ 
2 lb. 
2 00
“ 
3 lb. in Mustard.. .2 85
“ 
31b.  soused......... 2 85
Salmon,1 lb. Columbia 1  50@1  90 
lib.  Alaska  . 1  25@1  60
“ 
Sardines, domestic  Ms........DK
“ 
Ms........® 9
“  Mustard Ms.........  @1«)
“  imported  Mb --10M@16
“ 
Trout, 3 Id. brook........... 
2 60
CANNED GOODS—Fruits.
Apples, gallons, stand.  ___3 50
Blackberries,  stand............ 1  10
Cherries,red standard 1  10@1  20
“  pitted.......................1 40
Damsons............................. 1  15
Egg Plums, stand......1  15@l  35
Gooseberries.......................1  00
Grapes.................................
Green  Gages.............. 1  15@1  35
Peaches, yellow, Btand  @2 25
seconds.........   @2 00
“ 
“  Pie............................1 60
Pears....................................1  25
Pineapples,  common.. 1  10@1  50 
Johnson’s.2 50@2 75
Quinces............................... 1  10
Raspberries,  extra.............. 1  75
red...................1 40
Strawberries.............. 1  15@l  35
Whortleberries....................  75
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay........
Beans, Lima,  stand............   80
  @1  35
“  Green  Limas 
“  Strings................  @  80
“  Stringless,  Erie.........   80
“  Lewis’Boston Baked.. 1  40
Com, Archer’s Trophy........  90
“  Morn’g Glory.  90
“ 
“ 
Early Golden.  90
“ 
Peas, French........................1  68
“  extramarrofat...  @125
“  soaked.........................  80
“  June, stand................. 140
“  sifted......... 1  65@l  85
“ 
“  French, extra fine...  .150
Mushrooms, extra fine........2 15
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden  @150
Succotash,  standard__90@1  40
Squash.................................1  10
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat..  @1  00 
Good Enough  @1 00 
BenHar  ...  @1  10
stand br....  @1  00
CATSUP.
Snider’s, M pint................... 1  35
pint....................... 2 30
quart......................3 50
Fancy Full  Cream  ...  8M@ 9 
Good 
....  7M@ 8
Part Skimmed............  @ 6
Sap Sago....................19  @20
E dam ........................   @1  00
Swiss, Imported........  24@  25
domestic  __  15@  16
CHEWING GUX.
200  “ 

Rubber, 100 lumps................30
40
Spruce, 200 pieces................40
Bulk.......................................6
Red...................................... 7M

spiced,  Ms.................... 10

CHEESE.
“ 

CHICORT.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“  

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

1 

 

coffee—Green.

23
35
38
40
37
@4M

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
German Sweet............  ...
Premium..........................
Pure..................................
Breakfast Cocoa..............
Broma...............................
COCOA  SHELLS.
Bulk.............................4
Pound  packages...........
COFFEE EXTRACT.
Valley City........................   80
Felix..................................  1  10
Rio, fair......................  @21
“  good......................21 @22
“  mime..................  @23
“  fancy,  washed...  @24
“  golden...................23 @24
Santos.........................22
Mexican & Guatemala 23
@24
Java,  Interior.............24
@26
“  Mandheling__ 27
@30
Peaberry.................... 22
@24
Mocha, genuine......  26  ,,__
@28
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Me. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
coffees—Package.
Bunola............................... 24M
in cabinets.............. 25M
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX__25M
Lion....................................25M
in cabinets................ 26
Durham........  .................... 25
Cotton,  40 ft.........per doz.  1  35
1  50
1  75
2  00 
2 25
90 
1  10
7 50
Eagle.
Anglo-Swiss...............6 00@  7  60

CLOTHES  LINES.
50 ft.
60 ft.
“
70 ft.........  
“
80 ft.........  
60 ft........ 
“
7 2 ff........ 
“
CONDENSED MILK.

“ 

“ 

coupons.
“Superior.”

 

 

“
"

38
25

evaporated.

CREAM TARTAR.

 
10 
............. 20 
CRACKERS.
“ 

“  “ 
“  “ 
“  “ 
“  “ 
“Tradesman.”
“  “ 
“  “ 
“  “ 
“  “ 

$  1, per hundred.................  2  50
8 2, 
...............   3 00
* 5. 
.................  4 00
*10, 
.................500
*20, 
..................   6 00
*  1, per  hundred.................2 00
.................  2 50
* 2, 
................. 3 00
* 5, 
•10, 
.................4 00
*20, 
.................5 00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
count»:
200 or over.................5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 
Kenosha Butter...................  7M
Seymour 
5M
B utter....................................... 5M
“  family...........................  5M
“  biscuit.........................   6M
Boston.....................................  7M
City Soda................................  7M
Soda........................................   6
S. O yster................................   5M
City Oyster, XXX...................  5M
Shell....................................... 6
Strictly  pure..........................  
Grocers’................................... 
dried fruits—Domestic.
Apples, sun-dried.......  @
@13
“ 
Apricots, 
“
@
Blackberries “
@
Nectarines  “
Peaches 
“ 
..............
Plums 
“ 
...............
Raspberries  “ 
...............
dried fruits—Prunes.
Turkey.........................   @  6M
Bosnia............................ 7M@  1%
California................... 10  @11
18
Lemon........................... 
Orange.......................... 
18
In drum ........................  @18
Inboxes.......................  @20
Zante, in  barrels........   @  6 X
in less quantity  6%@  6M 
Valencias........................   @ 9
Ondaras........................  @11M
Sultanas...........................  @10
London  Layers,  Cali­
fornia.......................  2 75@3 00
London Layers, for’n.  @ 
Muscatels. California.2 00@2 35
K egs....................................... 5 25
Half  kegs....................................2 88
Farina, 100 lb.  kegs.............   04
Hominy,  per  bbl........................3 00
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box__   60
@10M 
Pearl  Barley..............
@ 3 
Peas, green.................
@1  10 
“  split....................
@ 3 
Sago,  German............
©  6 
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’r l...
!@ 7 
Wheat,  cracked.........
@ 5 
Vermicelli,  import__
@10 M 
domestic...
@60
FISH—SALT.
Cod, whole.................5  @ 6
“  boneless................6M@ 8
H alibut....................   @
Herring,  round, M bbl.. 
“ 
“  Holland,  bbls.. 
“ 
“ 

2 90
2 75
12 00 
...  @ 60
20
Mack,  sh’s, No. 2, M  bbl  12 00 
“  12  lb kit..130
4   20
“  IQ 

“  kegs, 
Scaled.........  @ 
“ 
« 

dried fruits—Currants.

DRIED FRUITS—Raisins.

dried  fruits—Citron.

FARINACEOUS GOODS.

DRIED  FRUITS—Peel.

gibbed................  

GUN  FOWDER.

imported

" 
“ 

« 

“ 

“ 

Trout,  M bbls............   @5 25
“  10  lb.  kits.................  75
White,  No. 1, M bbls..  @5 50
“ 
121b. kits...... 100
10 lb. kits......  80
“ 
Family,  M bbls....... 3 00
“ 
kits.............   65

“ 
“ 
“ 

HERBS.

30

JELLIES.

LICORICE.

LAMP WICKS.

Sage.................................. 9
Hops................................... 14
E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 6
Chicago  goods................   5
No.  ... 
............  
No. 1...............................  
40
No. 2............................... 
50
Pure................................  30
Calabria......................... 
25
Sicily...............................  18
Condensed, 2 doz...............1  25
No. 9  sulphur...................2 00
Anchor parlor..................1 70
No. 2 home.......................1  10
Export  parlor.................. 4 00
20
Black  Strap................... 
Cuba Baking.................  
24
Porto  Rico....................  
30
New Orleans, good........... 
24
choice........ 
30
fancy.........  
42
One-half barrels. 3c extra

MOLASSES.

MATCHES.

LYE.

ROLLED OATS

OATMEAL.
Muscatine, Barrels..........6 00
Half barrels......3 25
Cases.......2 15@2 25
Muscatine, Barrels__  @6 00
Halfbbis..  @3 25
Cases....... 2  15@2 25
Michigan  Test....................  9M
Water White.....................10M
Medium............................
M b b l....................
Small,  bbl..........................
'  M  bbl.........................

PICKLES.

OIL.

“ 
“ 

‘1 

PIPES.

RICE.

PRESERVES.

Clay, No.  216.......................1  75
T. D. full count...........  75
Cob, No.  3......................... 1 25
E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods..  8
Carolina head....................... 7
No. 1........................6M
No. 2............... 6  @
No. 3.......................
Japan, No. 1.........................7
No. 2......................... 6
Scotch, in  bladders...........37
Maccaboy, in jars..............35
French Rappee, in Jars......43

SNUFF.

SOAP.

3  “ 

Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands.

SAL  SODA.

spices—Whole.

SAPOLIO.
“ 
SOUPS.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Superior.............................3 30
Queen  Anne.......................3 85
German  Family..................
Mottled  German............ 
.3 00
Old German...................... 2 70
TJ. S. Big Bargain..............2 00
Frost, Floater....................3 75
Cocoa  Castile  ....................3 00
Cocoa Castile, Fancy.........3 36
Happy Family,  75..............2 95
Old Country, 80..................3 30
Una, 100..............................3 66
Bouncer, 100.......................3 15
Kegs.................................  
1M
Granulated,  boxes..............2
Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box......  2 50
Hand 
...... 2 50
Snider’s  Tomato................2 40
AUspice..............................10
Cassia, China in mats........  8
“  Batavia in bund__ 15
Saigon in rolls........ 35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“ 
Zanzibar..................16
Mace  Batavia.....................80
Nutmegs, fancy..................80
“  No.  1......................75
“  No.  2......................65
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 16
“ 
“  white...  .26
shot........................20
“ 
spices—Ground—In Bulk.
Allspice..............................15
Cassia,  Batavia..................20
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon................... 42
Cloves,  Amboyna................26
“ 
Zanzibar................20
Ginger, African..................12M
“  Cochin................... 15
Jam aica................18
“ 
Mace  Batavia.....................90
Mustard,  English................22
“ 
and Trie..25
“  Trieste................... 27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ..................80
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 18
“  white.......30
Cayenne................25
SUGARS.
Cut  Loaf....................  @7
Cubes.........................  @ 6M
Powdered...................  @ 6$>
Standard  Granulated.  @6.31
Fine...........  @6.31
Confectioners’ A........  @ 6M
White Extra  C ..........  @ 5J£
Extra  C......................  @ 5M
C .................................  @ 5
Tellow ................. 

  4*@

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

SEEDS.

 

SALT

Mixed bird.................4M@ 6
Caraway...............................  9
Canary................................   3M
Hemp.....................................3M
Anise....................................8
Rape...................................   6
Mustard.................................7K
Common Fine per bbl......90@95
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks......   27
28 pocket............................  .1 90
«0 
“ 
............................. 2  00
100  “ 
Ashton bu. bags.................  75
Higgins  “ 
.................  75
Warsaw “ 
.................  35
.................  20
Diamond  Crystal,  cases__1  50
28-lb sacks  25
50
60  pocket.2  25
.2  10
barrels ..  .1  75
Church’s, Arm & Hammer.. ,5M
Dwight’s Com........................5M
Taylor’s.................................5J4
DeLand’s Cap  Sheaf______ 5M
pure.........................5M
Our Leader........................   5
Corn, barrels....................@30
one-half barrels__@32
Pure  Sugar, bbl................26@35
“ 

« 
“ 
“  M bu  “ 
“ 
“  56-lb 
“ 
“  28 
“ 

SALERATUS.

SYRUPS.

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

half barrel.
SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps..............
Sugar  Creams............
Frosted  Creams.........
Graham  Crackers......
Oatmeal  Crackers__
SHOE  POLISH.
Jettine, 1 doz. in  box..

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SUN CURED.

BASKET  FIRED.

F a ir............................14  @16
Good............................18  @22
Choice..........................24  @29
Choicest.......................32  ©38
F a ir.............................14  @15
Good............................16  @20
Choice..........................24  @28
Choicest.......................30  @33
F air............................  @20
Choice........................   @25
Choicest......................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to fair...........25  @35
Extra fine to finest___ 50  @65
Choicest fancy.............75  @85
Common to fair...........20 @35
Superior to fine............ 40 @50

GUNPOWDER.

IMPERIAL.

YOUNG HYSON.

Common to fair........... 18 @26
Superior to  fine........... 30 @40

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

F air..............................25 @30
Choice.......................... 30 @35
Best..............................55 @65
Tea Dust........................8 @10
Common to fair........... 25 @30
Superior to  fine........... 30 @50
Fine to choicest........... 55 @65

OOLONG.

SODA.

Boxes....................................5M
Kegs, English....................... 44i

tobaccos—Fine Cut.

D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands.

Hiawatha................... 
Sweet  Cuba...............  
Our Leader................ 
tobaccos—Plug.

63
36
35

Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good.................... 38
Double Pedro.........................35
Peach  Pie  ..............................36
Wedding Cake, blk................35
“Tobacco” ..............................37

2 25

tobacco—Shorts.

Our  Leader.............................15

tobaccos—Smoking.
 

Our  Leader.........................16
Hector..................... 
17
Plow Boy, 2  oz.................... 32
4 oz.................... 31
16 oz.....................32

“ 
“ 
40 gr. 
50 gr.
PA PER & WOODENWARE

PAPER.

Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol 

lows:
Straw....................................150
“  Light  Weight.............. 200
Sugar....................................180
Hardware..............................2M
Bakers.................................. 2M
Dry  Goods...........................6
Jute  Manilla........................ 8
Red  Express 
No. 
No. 2............... 4
TWINES.
48 Cotton............................  25
Cotton, No. 1...................... 22
“  2...................... 18
Sea  Island, assorted......... 40
No. 5 Hemp........................18
No. 6  “ ................................17
Wool..................................   8

“ 

“ 

WOODENWARE.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Tubs,No. 1.........................  800
“  No. 2.........................  7 00
“  No. 3.........................6 00
1  50
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“ 
.No. 1,  three-hoop__  1  75
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes__ 
55
Bowls, 11 inch...................   1  00
13  “ 
....................  1  25
....................2 00
15  “ 
.................... 2 75
17  “ 
assorted, 17s and  19s 2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s 2 75
Baskets, market....................  40
bushel.................  1  50
“  with covers 1  90 
willow cl’ths, No.l  5 75
“  No.2 6 25
“ 
“  No.3 7 25
“ 
“  No.l 3 50
•' 
“  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 5 00
“ 
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
W hite........................  
85
Red............................ 
87
All wheat bought on 60 lb. test. 
Coarse............................. 
1  10
Bolted...............................  1  30
Granulated.......................  1  7o

splint 

WHEAT.

heal.

FLOUR.

S
S
8
S

RYE.

MILLSTUFFS.

“ 
“ 
No. 1

Straight, in  sacks.............  4
“  barrels...........   5
Patent  “  sacks.............  5
“  barrels...........  6
5(
Bran..................................  15
Ships.................................  15
Screenings.......................  13
Middlings.........................  16
Mixed Feed....................... 21
Coarse meal........................21
Small  lots........................   58
Car 
Small  lots..........................48
“  ..........................  44
Car 

CORN.

OATS.

“  .........................  55M

g
g
S
S
S
S

 

BARLEY.

.....................................   116
No. 2.................................   1  10
No. 1..................................  10 00
No. 2.................................   9 00

HAY.

HIDES.

HIDES,  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 
lows:
Green.........................  5  @ 6M
Part Cured.................  6M@7
Full 
7  @8
Dry..............................  6 @8
Kips, g reen ...............   @6
“  cured.................   7 @ 7*
Calfskins,  green........   5 @ 7
cured.......... 6 @ 8M
Deacon skins...............10 @25

“ 
1.5

“ 

 

 

No. 2 hides X off.
PELTS.

Shearlings..................10  @25
Estimated wool, per lb 20  @28
Washed............................20@28
Unwashed.......................10@20

WOOL.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow.........................3  @4
Grease  butter  .............1  @2
Switches....................  IK© 2
Ginseng.....................2 00@3 00

LUBRICATING  OILS. 
The  Hogle  Oil  Co.  quote  as 

follows:
Extra W S Lard Oil.. .53  @58
“  N o .l...................45  @50
“  No. 2...................35  @40
PureNeatsfoot...........52  @60
Harness Oil................40  @50
W Va  Summer.............7H@12
“  Medium  Winter.  8  @12
15 Cold Test...............   9  @13
Zero............................ 10  @14
Old Reliable  Cylinder  @65 
“ 
600 Mecca 
@50
Anti-monopoly  “ 
..35  @40
Corliss Engine Oil__  @40
Golden Machine Oil.. 18  @25 
Mower and Reaper Oil25  @30 
Castor Machine Oil... 25  @30 
Boiled Linseed Oil.  ..63  @66
Michigan W W...........  @10
Turpenti ne.................46  @51
Naptha.......................  8  @12
Gasoline.....................  9K@14
Castor Oil,  Pure......*1  26@1 30
“  Mineral__30  @35
“  Distilled ..*1  10@1  25

R E M E M B E R
B U N O L A

T HA  T

C O F F E E .

Is  better  and.  costs  less  than\  m o st 

package  coffees.

IOO-POUND  CASES,  24  3-4; 

lOO-CABINETS,  25  1-4.

FOR SALE  BY  ALL  GRAND  RAPIDS  JOBBERS

NO  REMOVAL. We manufacture  all  of  our 

goods,  occupy 
space  of 
floors,  employ  a 
eighteen 
targe  force of  help, buy our 
We are at the old stand,  13,  15 and 
material  in car-load lots,  and pay  spot  cash 
don’t have to move.”  Our  output  is
17 So.  Ionia St., with an immense stock,  and 
something  wonderful.  Call  when in town and see for yourself,  you will have no 
trouble in finding us.  We are near the big Union Depot.
PUTNAM CANDY CO., Grand Rapids.

t h e   m c h i g a n   t r a d e s m a n .

would be run by a salaried manager with 
no further  interest in it than  the  reten­
tion of  his position  and  the  regular re­
ceipt of  his income.
The  Bulletin  desires  to  add  to  this 
comment  that  if  the  farmers  of  the 
Northwest will take  better  care of  their 
machinery,  and  spend a little  money to 
secure a cover  for  it  from  storms, they 
will  have  saved  more  money than they 
can through  the  agency of  manufactur­
ing in a series of  years.

GRAND RAPIDS  C T C IB   COMPANY

Manufacturers of the “YENUS” and “CLIPPER*  Safeties.

a

a®
®*sH 85
g b

14:

T he  F arm ers’  F o o lish   M ove.

P ro m  t h e  C o m m e rc ia l B u lle tin .
The fanner is often  his  worst  enemy.
He  is  doubtless  imposed  upon  in  very 
many  instances  by  being  compelled  to 
pay more than a reasonable  price for the 
goods he buys,  but he should  investigate 
closely  before  he  decides  that  he  is 
always made the victim of manufacturers 
and merchants.
He  imagines  that  the  manufacturers 
are  all  getting  rich  at his expense,  and 
he, therefore,  has  about  decided to try a 
hand at the manufacturing  business. 
It 
is safe to predict  complete  failure if  at­
tempted.  The  farmer  is  not a business 
man  in  the  full  sense of  the word, and 
would be at a great disadvantage on that 
ground  alone,  admitting  that  he  could 
make  farm  implements  as  cheaply  as 
they are  now  made.  But the admission 
would not hold good.
Some excellent  suggestions  are  made 
on  this  matter  by  the  Metal  Worker 
Factories  for  the  production of  binding 
twine  are  projected  at  various  points 
throughout  the  West,  it says,  and an in­
road is also to be made on the plow trade, 
The  farmers of  Illinois,  acting  in  con 
junction with the Knights of Labor, have 
worked  up a scheme  for  the  establish 
ment of  a plow  factory at some  point in 
the State, to be  started  with a capital of 
$500,000,  and  to  be  run entirely in  the 
interests  of  farmers.  The  announce 
ment has been  made by the projectors of 
the  works  that  they  intend  to  have 
plow  factory large enough to supply the 
farmers  of  Illinois  with  all  the  plow 
they  can  use,  and  that  they  will  sav 
from 40 to 50 per cent, of the  price which 
they are now  obliged to pay.  The farm 
ers doubtless have in view the huge plo 
factories which  they have  seen grow up 
in  their midst,  and believe that enormous 
profits  must be realized  from  the  man­
ufacture  of  plows,  or  else  such  estab­
lishments could  not be maintained.  They 
also  probably  believe  that  it  is a very 
easy  matter  to  conduct a plow  factory, 
and that if  they can  only erect a plant it 
will run itself.  The manufacturing bus­
iness always seems such a simple  matter 
to outsiders,  who envy  the  owners their 
possession of  the apparent bonanza.
This feeling  among  farmers that they 
have  been  compelled  to  pay exorbitant 
prices for supplies  has  almost taken the 
form of  a craze,  which  will  have to run 
its course and be cured by natural causes. 
All  staple  articles  such  as farmers use 
are  now  sold  by manufacturers  at very 
close prices,  and are distributed  by mer­
chants whose  margins  are not narrowed 
by the great  competition they meet with 
on  every  side. 
If  they  reduce  prices 
still lower,  in consequence of  the clamor 
of  the farmers, it would  appear  at  once 
that the latter were  justified in their  de­
mands,  and  they would  probably  insist 
on still further reductions.  As long as a 
manufacturer  or  merchant  would  con­
tinue  in  business it would  be  apparent 
that he was making some sort of  a profit, 
and this  the farmers do not seem  willing 
to allow.  To  yield to them means bank­
ruptcy. 
It means a better  policy not  to 
yield  and  to  risk  the  chances of  bank­
ruptcy  through  the  competition  which 
they  threaten  to  establish.  The  only 
lines in  which very large profits are made 
to-day are in the manufacture and sale of 
specialties  controlled  by  patents  or  of 
such a  nature  that  their  production  is 
restricted.  The farmers do  not  propose 
to compete  in  these  lines,  but in staple 
goods,  such as they are constantly using, 
and  the  manufacture  of  which  is open 
to all.
The absurdity of  their  position in this 
matter  is  probably  more  clearly  man­
ifested with regard to the plow trade than 
anything else.  Plow manufacturers have 
latterly  enjoyed  a  moderate  degree  of 
prosperity  and  are  able  to  make a fair 
profit  on  their  operations;  but  for sev­
eral  weary  years  they endured a season 
of  adversity as severe as that  which has 
latterly  afflicted  the  Western  farmers. 
Some  large  concerns were unable to en­
dure  the  strain,  but  were  forced  into 
bankruptcy. 
If  experienced  manufac­
turers were not able at that time to make 
both  ends  meet,  how  could  a  farmers’ 
factory  have  sustained  itself  without 
assessing its stockholders to cover  losses 
and meet liabilities ?  A farmers’ factory

Trade  Signs.

the  magnified  horseshoe, 

The various  signs  which  are  exposed 
along  the  business  streets of  our  cities 
came  into  use  long  before  the  streets 
themselves  were  named  or  the  houses 
were  distinguished  by  numbers.  At  a 
time when people  generally were unable 
to read,  these rude  but  striking appeals 
to the eye had  their  use. 
In the rivalry 
of  business  enterprise,  they  easily  be­
came  more  or  less of  an  obstruction to 
travel.  That  the  shop-keepers  of  Lon­
don  might  retain  the  privilege  of  dis­
playing  their  well-known  symbols  of 
trade, Charles I. gave,  by letters  patent, 
express  permission  to  the  citizens  “to 
expose  and hang in and over the streets, 
and ways,  and alleys of  the said city and 
suburbs of  the same,  signs  and  posts of 
signs, affixed to their  houses  and shops, 
arts  and  occupations,  without  imped­
iment, molestation or interruption of  his 
heirs or successors.”
As education  spread,  and as architect­
ural effects  began to  be  prized, the  old 
method,  and,  so  far  as  we  know,  the 
original one, of  indicating  the “arts and 
occupations”  went out of  fashion.  The 
traditional  mortar and pestle, the gilded 
boot, 
the 
painted effigy of  the Indian chief and the 
triple-pronged tooth  did  not  harmonize 
with  fluted  columns  and  foliated  cap­
itals.  There was ground  for  hope  that 
all such barbaric  symbols  would  disap­
pear.
But the increasing  pressure of  compe­
tition  in  business  has  driven men back 
again upon the  custom of  illiterate ages, 
lu  show  windows and at shop doors the 
Indian with his tomahawk or with a bun­
dle of  cigars  startles  the  passer-by into 
the idea of trade, the bear  with  the pole 
suggests to the  lady who  approaches the 
comfort of  furs, and  so  on  through  all 
the needs of  life  and  the  desires of  the 
heart.
It is a  curious  circumstance  that  the 
law of  copyright has been made to apply 
to some of  these  designs for frightening 
a timid  public  into a  proper  sentiment 
toward trade, just as this  law  applies to 
trade-marks.  Twenty-five  years  ago, i 
case of  this  kind  was  tried in  the Can­
adian Court of  Chancery.
It seems that  an  artist of  local  celeb 
rity in one of  the  cities of  the Dominion 
had  been  employed  by a  trader  of  the 
town  to  carve  in  wood  the  figure of 
lion,  and to  paint  it  the  tawny color of 
that  animal.  The  work  of  art  was 
placed  by  the  entrance  to a dry  goods 
shop.  A rival  trader  saw  at  once how 
well  calculated  this  was  to  arrest  the 
train  of  shoppers.  He,  therefore,  ap 
plied to the artist for a lion to lie in wait 
at his own  door.  A copy of  the  animal 
already  executed  in  the  interest of  the 
trade was forthcoming.
into  the 
courts.  An order was  asked  for  to  en 
join the  junior  lion  from  enticing  pur­
chasers  to  his  owner’s  shop. 
Photo­
graphs of  the pair were taken  and  were 
offered in evidence.  The  court was con 
vinced,  upon  close  examination, 
that 
“one, from  the  sorrowful  expression of 
its  countenance,  seemed  more  resigned 
to  its  position  than  the  other.” 
If 
either animal was to be removed, human 
ity prompted  that  the  less  resigned  be 
relieved,  and a decree was issued accord 
ingly.  ___ ia 

And  now  the  matter  got 

____
Met His Match.

A  fellow,  thinking  to  appear  smart 
entered a notion store the  other day,  and 
said  to  one  of  the  salesladies:  “Ever 
have any call for husbands here ?”
“Oh, yes, occasionally.  Are  you look­
ing for a market ?”
“ Yes,” said Smarty.
“All right.  Step right up on  the  ten- 

cent counter.”

L B M O N   &  P B T B R S ,

IMPORTING  AND

Wholesale  Grocers.

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

McGinty’s Bine Cut Tobacco,
Bautz Bros*  &  Co.’s   Soaps,
Niagara  Starch,
A cm e Cheese—Herkimer Co*, N* Y* 
Castor Oil A.xle Grease*

G R A N D   r a p i o s .

flaiie  Some  Style  About  Yoil!

The  dealer  who  has no printed letter heads on which to ask for circu­
lars, catalogues and prices,  and  conduct  his  general  correspondence 
with,  suffers  more  every  mouth  for  want of them than a five  years’ 
supply  would  cost.  He  economizes byusing postal cards, or cheap, 
and,  to his shame, often dirty scraps of paper,  and  whether  he  states 
so or not he expects the lowest prices, the best trade.  He may be  ever 
so  good  for  his  purchases,  may  even  offer  to pay cash,  but there is 
something  so  careless,  shiftless  and  slovenly  about his letter that it 
excites  suspicion,  because  not  in keeping with well recognized,  good 
business principles.  When such an enquiry comes to a manufacturer 
or a jobber,  it goes through a most searching examination as to charac­
ter, means and credibility, half condemned to begin with. 
It would be 
examined  anyhow,  even  if  handsomely  printed, but the difference to 
begin with,  would be about equal to that of introducing a tramp  and  a 
gentleman on a witness stand in court.  Besides, the printed  heading 
would answer the question as to whether the enquirer was a dealer and 
at the same time indicate his special line of  trade.  Bad penmanship, 
bad  spelling  and  bad grammar are pardonable, because many unedu­
cated men have been and are now  very  successful  in  business.  But 
even those are less  objectionable  when  appearing  with  evidences  of 
care, neatness and prosperity.

Please write us for estimates.

The Tradesman Company,

GRAND

RAPIDS,  SUCH

The  P.  of I.  D ealers.

Smith, F. H. Goodby.

& Co., Mrs. Turk, J. K. Sharp, A. Markson. 

not cancelled their contracts at  last accounts: 

The following are the P. of I. dealers who had 
Ada—L. Burns.
Adrian—Powers  &  Burnham,  Anton  Wehle, 
L. T. Lochner, Burleigh  Bros.
Allegan—Chas. Spear.
Allendale—Henry Dolman.
Almira—J. J. Gray.
Almont—Colerick & Martin.
Altona—Ell Lyons.
Armada—C. J. Cudworth.
Assyria—J. W. Abbey.
Banileld—Andrew Brezee.
Bay City—Frank  Rosman & Co.
Belding—Lightstone Bros., Weter & Wise. 
Bellevue—John Evans.
Big Rapids—A. V.  Young,  E.  P.  Shank weiler 
Blissfield—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr.
Bowen's Mills—Chas. W. Armstrong.
Brice—J. B. Gardner.
Burnside—John G. Bruce & Son.
Caldwell—C. L. Moses.
Capac—H. C. Sigel.
Carson City—A. B. Loomis, A. Y. Sessions. 
Cedar  Springs—John  Bencus,  B.  A.  Fish, B.
Charlotte — John  J.  Richardson,  Daron  & 
Chippewa Lake—G. A. Goodsell & Co. 
Clio-John W. Hurd.
Coldwater—J. D. Benjamin.
Conklin—Wilson McWilliams.
Cook's Corners—W. H. Hanks.
Coral—J. S. Newell & Co.
Dansvllle—Levi  Geer.
Deerfield—Henry W. Burghardt.
Dorr—Frank  Sommer.
Dowling—Rice & Webster.
Eaton  Rapids—H. Kositchek & Bro.
Evart—Mark Ardis, E. F. Shaw, John C. Devitt. 
Fenwick—Thompson Bros., S. H. Rinker.
Flint—John B. Wilson, Geo. Stuart & son, Bar­
Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark.
Forester—E. Smith.
Freeport—C.  Y. Riegler.
Gladwin—John Graham,  J.  D.  Sanford,  Jas. 
Gowan—Rasmus Nellson.
Grand Haven—N. J. Braudry & Co.
Grand Junction—Adam Crouse.
Grand Ledge—Geo.  Coryell.
Grand  Rapids—Joseph  Berles,  A.  Wilzinski, 
Brown & Senler, Houseman, Donnally  &  Jones, 
Ed Struensee, Wasson & Lamb, Chas.  Pettersch, 
Morse & Co., Famous Shoe Store, Harvey & Hey- 
stek, Mrs. E. J. Reynolds, B. Burkhardt. 

ney Granite and Marble Works.

Croskery.

E.  Covel.
Pelton.

Buck, E. E. Palmer.

Greenville—Jacobson & Netzorg.
Hart—Rhodes & Leonard,  W.  Weidman,  Mrs. 
Howard City—O. J. Knapp, Herold  Bros., C. E. 
Hubbardston—M. H. Cahalan.
Hudson—Henry C. Hall.
Imlav City—Cohn  Bros., Wyckoff  &  Co., C. J. 
Ionia—H. Silver.
Jackson—Hall & Rowan.
Jenisonville—L. & L. Jenison (mill only). 
Jones—R. C. Sloan.
Kalamo—L. R. Cessna.
Kent City—M. L. Whitney.
Kewadin—A.  Anderson 
Kingsley—J. E. Winchcomb.
Lacey—Wm. Thompson.
Laingsburg—D. Lebar.
Lake City—Sam. B. Ardis.
Lake  Odessa—Christian  Haller  &  Co.,  E.  F. 
Colwell & Son, Fred Miller.
Lakevlew—H.  C.  Thompson,  Andrew  All  & 
Bro.
Langston—F  D.  Briggs.
Lanking—R. A. Bailey, Etta (Mrs. Israel) Glic- 
Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jennings. 
Lowell—Patrick Kelly.
McBain—Sam. B.  Ardis.
McBride’s—J. McCrae.
Mancelona—J. L. Farnham.
Manton—Mrs. E. Liddle.
Maple City—A. & O. Brow.
Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lepper & Son. 
Mason—Marcus Gregory.
Mecosta—J. Netzorg.
Mecosta—Robert D. Parks.
Milan—C. C.  (Mrs. H. S.) Knight, Chas. Gaunt­
lett, James Gauntlett, Jr.
Millbrook—Bendelson.
Millington—Chas. H. Valentine.
MInden City—I. Springer & Co.
Monroe Center—Geo. H. Wightman.
Morley—Henry Strope.
Mt. Morris—F. H. Cowles.
Mt. Pleasant—Thos. McNamara.
Nashville—H. M. Lee.
Nottawa—Dudley Cutler.
Ogden—A. J.  Pence.
Olivet—F.  H.  Gage.
Onondaga—John Silllk.
Orange—Tew & Son.
Orono—C. A. Warren.
Oviatt—H. C. Pettingill.
Pearle—Geo. H. Smith.
Remus—C. V.  Hane.
Richmond—A.oW. Reed.
Riverdale—J. B. Adams.
Rockford—B. A. Fish.
Sand  Lake—Frank  E.  Shattuck,  Br&man  & 
Sebewa—J ohn Bradley.
Shelbyville—Samuel  Wolcott.
Shepherd—H.  O. Bigelow.
Sheridan—M. Gray.
Shultz—Fred Otis.
Spencer Creek—M. M. Elder.
Spring Lake—Geo. Schwab, A. Bitz. 
Springport—Powers  &  Johnson, Wellington & 
Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter.
Traverse  City—John  Wilhelm,  S.  C. Darrow, 
Vassar—McHose & Gage.
Wheeler—Louise  (Mrs.  A.)  Johnson,  H.  C. 
White Cloud—J. C. Townsend, N. W. Wiley. 
Whitehall—Geo. Nelson, John Haverkate. 
Williamsburg—Mrs. Dr. White.
Woodbury—Henry Van  Houten, Chas. Lapo. 
Williams ton—Thos. Horton.
Woodland—Carpenter & Son. 
ank  Springs—T. Thurston.

Hammond, Elmer Peters.

Breckenridge

D. D. Paine.

Blanchard.

man.

Arrive. 

GOING WEST.

GOING  SOUTH.

In effect Jane 88,1890.
TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Grand  Rapids  & Indiana.

TIME  TABLES.

O. L. Lockwood. Gen'l Pass. Agent.
Detroit, Grand Haven A Milwaukee,

Leave.
0:65 am
7:85 am
11:30 a m
4:10 pm
10:30 pm
Train  leaving  at  10:30 p m,  runs  daily,  Sunday  in­

Mugkegon, Grand Rapids A  Indiana. 
Arrive.
Leave 
11:20 am ..............................................................  0:16pm
7:00 am ..............................................................10:10 am
5:10pm..............................................................  0:16 pm
Leaving time at  Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. 
Through tickets and full  information can be had by 
calling upon  A.  Almqnist,  ticket  agent  at  depot, or 
Geo. W. Munson, Union  Ticket  Agent,  67  Monroe  St., 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Arrives.
tMornlng Express......................... 12:50 p m
tThroogn Mail................................ 4:10 p m
tGrand Rapids Express................10:25  p m
"Night Express.............................. 0:40 a m
tMlxed...........................................
GOING BAST.
tDetroit Express...........................0:45  am
tThrough Mail...............................10:10 a m
fEvening Express...........................3:35 p m
"Night Express..............................9 .50 p m

Leaves 
1:00 p m 
6:15 p  m 
10:30 p m 
8:45 a m 
7:30 am
0:50 a m 
10:20 a m 
3:45 p m 
10:66 p m
fDaily, Sundays excepted.  "Dally.
Detroit Express  leaving 6:50 a m has Wagner parlor 
and buffet car attached, and Evening  Express leaving 
3:45 p m has parlor car  attached.  These trains make 
direct connection in Detroit for all points East.
Express leaving at 10:55  p  m  has  Wagner  sleeping 
car to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a m.
Steamboat  Express  makes  direct  connection  a 
Grand Haven with steamboat for Milwaukee, 
sleeping 
secured  at 
tickets  and 
D., G. H. A M .R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot.
J a s. C a m p b e l l . City Passenger Agent. 

B ig Rapids A Saginaw...................... 
Traverse City A  Mackinaw...........  0 50am 
Traverse City A   Mackinaw......... 9:15 a m 
Traverse City A  Saginaw................ 2:15 pm  
Mackinaw City................................. 8:50 pm  
cluded.  Other trains daily except Sunday.
Cincinnati  Express.......................... 0:00 a m 
6.30 a m
10:85 am
Port Wayne & Chicago.................10:15 am  
Cincinnati  Express.......................5:40 p m 
6:00 p ro
11 :S0 p m
Sturgis A  Chicago.........................10:50 pm  
From Big Rapids & Saginaw........11:50  am
Train  leaving  for  Cincinnati  at  Op.  m.  runs daily, 
Sundays included.  Other trains daily except Sunday.
Sleeping and Parlor Car  Service:  North—7:85 a.m . 
and 10:30 p. m. trains have Wagner sleeping and parlor 
cars to Petoskey  and  Mackinaw City.  11:30 a m train 
parlor chair cars to  Mackinaw  City.  South—0:30am 
train  has  parlor  chair  car and 0 p. m. train  sleeping 
car for Cincinnati;  11:30 p  m  train, Wagner  sleeping 
car for Chicago via. Kalamazoo.

T H E   M IC E T IG A JS r  T E A D T ü R M A IS T .
One  W ay  to  Astonish the  Natives.
A  drummer  for  a  large  wholesale 
house in New York has a trick  which he 
says  saves  him a great  deal  of  money. 
He  has  to  go  around  with  retailers in 
small  country  towns  a great  deal.  He 
finds  that  an amount of  display and ex­
travagance is necessary in order  to  con­
vince them of  the standing and generous 
dealing of  his  house.  This  used to cost 
him a great  deal  of  money in  traveling 
expenses.  He  was  expected  to  bear  a 
great part of  the  expenses  of  entertain­
ing the men to whom  he  sold  goods;  he 
had to buy them  drinks  and  cigars  and 
take them around. 
In the course of  this 
he  drank a good  deal  himself.  He  no­
ticed that it was not so much the amount 
of  money that he  spent,  but the show he 
made with it which  impressed them, and 
that it was more  important to seem care­
less and generous  than  really to spend a 
great deal of  money.
One  night  he  was  with  some  retail 
clothiers and their friends, drinking.  He 
had several small bills in his pocket.  He 
had  been  drinking a good deal  himself, 
and  in a reckless  way  pulled  out a bill 
and lit a cigar  with  it.  Without  think­
ing,  he put out the  light  and  stuck  the 
burned remnant in his  waistcoat pocket. 
He  noticed  how  it  impressed  the  man 
with  whom  he  was.  The  bill  did  not 
amount to any more  than  the price of  a 
round of  drinks  or  cigars,  but  it made 
the eyes of  his  customers  open to think 
that a man  should  use  money in such a 
reckless  way.  The  next  day,  when  he 
sobered up, he  found  the  burned bill in 
his pocket;  only one end of  it  had  been 
burned.  He thought that he had made a 
fool  out  of  himself  by  throwing  away 
good money.  The idea  occurred to him, 
however,  that possibly he  could take the 
bill around to the  Sub-Treasury and  get 
a new bill for it.  So  the  next  time  he 
was in town he took  the  burned  bill  to 
the Sub-Treasury, where  it  was  readily 
exchanged for a new one.  The  bill  had 
not been destroyed;  it was plain what its 
denomination,  number  and  issue  were, 
and  he  had  no  trouble in  having it re­
placed.
The idea  became  strong  in  his  mind 
that  he  might  do  the  ostentatious and 
reckless act without having to pay for it. 
So the next time he was  out with several 
of  his customers he bought a few rounds 
of  drinks, and  then  began, in a reckless 
and careless way,  to burn up one and two 
dollar bills.  He took  pains  to  put  the 
bills back in his  pocket,  and not to burn 
up enough of  any one bill  to  destroy its 
redeemable qualities.  He  also  told  his 
customers extravagant  stories  about the 
percentages  his  house  was paying him, 
how cheap it was  selling,  and  what  lib­
eral concessions  he  was  making  to  get 
rid of  the stock which  his  house had on 
hand.  He  found  the  trick  worked  ex­
cellently.  He  has  been  carrying  it  on 
ever since to a greater or less extent.
Increase In  the  Number of Postofflces.
The number  of  new  postoflices  estab­
lished during the last fiscal  year was the 
largest in any  year in  the  history of  the 
country.  At  the  close  of  the  year  the 
total was 62,400, as  against  58,999 at its 
beginning.  Pennsylvania  got  more  of 
the  new  offices  than  any  other  State. 
After Pennsylvania, the  South  comes in 
for a good  share of  the  increase, Texas, 
Virginia,  Kentucky,  Alabama 
and 
Georgia  following  in  order. 
If  the in­
crease of  postoffices  is  an index of  gen­
eral prosperity and  sound  growth in the 
right  direction—as  it  undoubtedly  is— 
the South is making  gratifying advance­
ment.

/CHICAGO  & WEST  MICHIGAN.
V 7  
Mail and Express for Big Rapids. Lud- 
ington,  Manistee & Traverse City..  *7:30 a  m 
Express for Chicago and  Muskegon..  +9:00 a  m
Fast Mail for Chicago.......................+1 :00  p  m
Express for Muskegon and H a rt......  +5:4> p m
Night Express for  Chicago 
...........  *11:35 p m
Night Express for  Indianapolis 
11:35 p  m
Mail  for  Big  Rapids,  Manistee  and
Traverse C ity ............... ’.................+5:05 p m
Ex. for Grand Haven &  Muskegon...  +8:40 p m
Night Express from Chicago............*6:30 a  m
Night Express from Indianapolis 
...  +6:30  a m 
Ex. from Muskegon, Hart & Pentwater+10:45 a  m 
Express  from  Big  Rapids,  Baldwin
and Traverse  City........................... +12:35 p  m
Mail from Chicago and Muskegon 
+3:55  p  m
Express from Grand Haven...............  +5:50  p m
Fast Express from  Chicago 
.........+10:15 p  m
Ex. from  Muskegon and Pentwater..t 5:50  p m 
Ex. from Baldwin and Traverse City.  +1:50  p m
Express from Traverse City  ........ 
*11:30 pm
»Daily.  +Dailv except Sunday.  1 Daily except 
Saturday.  +Daily except Monday.
Through chair car  for  Chicago  on  9:00  a  m 
train;  no extra charge for seats.  Trains leaving 
Grand  Rapids  at  1:00  p  m  and 11:35 p  m  run 
through to  Chicago  solid.  Through  sleeping 
cars  between  Grand  Rapids  and  Chicago  on 
night  express  trains.  Through  combination 
sleeping and chair  car  between  Grand  Rapids 
and Indianapolis on night express trains.
Through sleeper between  Chicago  and  Trav­
erse City;  leaves Chicago 4:10 p m,  except  Sun­
day;  Grand Rapids, 11:30 p m;  arrives  in  Trav­
erse City at 6 a m.  Leaves Traverse City at 6:15 
p m. except Saturday;  arrives in  Grand  Rapids 
at li :30 p m;  Chicago 7:05 a m.
Rail and water  route  between  Grand  Rapids 
and Chicago via St. Joseph  and Graham & Mor­
ton’s new palace steamers, City  of  Chicago and 
Puritan.
Leave Grand  Rapids  1:00  p  m. arrive in Chi­
cago 8:30 pm.  Leave Chicago 9:00  p  m,  arrive 
Grand Rapids 6:30 a m.  The 5:05 p m train has 
through parlor car from Detroit to Manistee.

For Toledo and all points South and Bast, take 
the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North  Michigan  Rail­
way from Owosso Junction.  Sure  connections 
at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and 
connections at Toledo  with  evening  trains  for 
Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus,  Dayton,  Cincin­
nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville  and  all  promi­
nent points on connecting lines.

Toledo, Ann Arbor A Northern.

A. J. P aisley, Gen’l Pass.  Agent

J n o . W. L o u d , Traffic Manager, Detroit.

car  berths 

D EPA B T.

A R R IV E.

 

W JLNTBD.

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

I f you  have  any  o f  the  above  goods to 
ship, or  anything  in  the  Produce  line,  let 
us hear  from  you.  Liberal  cash  advances 
made  w hen  desired.

E A R L   BROS.,

C om m ission M er c h a n ts

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  First  National  Bank,  Chicago. 
Michigan Tradesman. Grand Rapids.

A R R IV E.

D E PA R T .

Detroit, lansing & northern.

Express for Saginaw and Bay City —   +6:55 a  m 
Mail for Lansing, Detroit  and East...  +7:25 a m 
Express for Lansing, Detroit and East +1:00 p m 
Mall for Alma, St. Louis and Saginaw  +4:10 p m 
Fast Ex. for Detroit, New York, Boston*6:25  p m 
Mail from Saginaw and  Bay City.  ... +11:50 a in 
Mail from Lansing, Detroit and  East. +12:05 a  m 
Fast Express from Lansing and East.  *5:< 5 p m  
Express from Lansing  and Detroit...  +9:50 p m 
Ex. from Saginaw, St. Louis and Alma+10:50  p m 
•Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
The shortest line to Detroit and the  East.  Elegant 
parlor cars between Detroit and Grand Rapids. 
GRAND  RAPIDS  AND  REED’S  LAKE  TIME TABLE.
Daily trains leave Union depot at 9,10. 11 a m,  1, 2,3. 
4,*8, 6, 7.8, 9,10 p m.  Sundays only—1:30, 2:30,3:30, 4:30, 
5  5:30 p  m.  Daily  trains  leave  Reed’s  Lake  (Alger 
Park) at 9:30,10:30.11:30  a  m. 1:30, 2:30, 3 30, 4:30,6:30, 
7:30, 3:30. 9:30.10:30 p m.  Sunday trains—2, 3, 4,6,5:30, 
6 pm .  For tickets and information.

WM.  A. UAVETT, Acting Gen. Pass. Agt.

15
Michigan PTentrat,

“  The Niagara Falls Route.”

Detroit Express................................   7
Mixed  ................................................ 0
Day  Express....................................11
I  "Atlantic A  Pacific Express.............11
New York Express..............................5

DEPART.  ARRIVE
10:00 P m 
6:00 p m 
65 a m  10:00 a m 
15 pm   0:00 am  
40 p m  1:25 p m

trains to and from Detroit.
Express to and  from  Detroit.

"Daily.
All other daily except Sunday.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic and  Pacific  Express 
Parlor cars run on  Day  Express  and Grand Rapid 
F rkd M. Brig g s, G en'l A g en t, 85 M onroe St.
G. S. H a w k in s, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Gko. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 07 Monroe St.
O. W. Rugglks, G. P.  A  T. Agent., Chicago.
CUTS for BOOM  EDITIONS

-----OR-----

P A M P H L E T S

For the best work, at  reasonable  prices, addres» 

TH E   TR A D E SM A N   COMPANY,

__________ Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

THE  GREAT

EDMUNDB.DIKEMHN
Watch JKIaker 

§ Jeweler,
Grand Rapids  -  Jflicli.

44 GÄNRL 8Y„
DRINK

y Z & w N 's
r  Or  PATENT 
.  ”   IVlAN I PO LO -
¿SHIPPING
^ B i A N K S . Ä V
»-SAMPLE SHEEYjriiiPRICES*1
BARIDW BR0S.6RAND RAP»S,MICH

3EFORE  BUYING  GRATES %
get  Circular and Testimonials.  S e n t   i  r c t   5 
Economical,  Sanitary,  Cleanly  and  Artistic.  5 
ALPINE  FIRE  PLACE,  GRAND RAPID-,  MICH. 1

L I O N
COFFEE

A True Combination  of  MOCHA, 
Picture  Card  Given
W ith every pound  package.  For 
Sale everywhere. Vooboo Spice Co,Toledo, 0.

JAVA and RIO.

'JT - 

tfCTRotVPCRr

A y — _ .

A   .  

PJ\© t© &  2 j5\c
>ko leads 
..
Bojru/  W o 6 o l m £ t a i'Tü r NITuRE
M a PlE °  ES«! GRAND RAPIDS M lC H i

brass; f^idc 

TTTK  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

first, 

B e a d y   B ep lies  to  P ertin en t  Q uestions.
Hawkins,  Aug. 9,1890—I take pleasure 
in making  the  following  replies  to the 
questions propounded  in  Tiie  Trades­
man of July 30,  under the head of “Mer­
chants, Wake Up” :
1.  Do 1 give credit?  Yes  sir,  to a cer­
tain extent.
2.  What is your extent?  To men who 
are cash.
3.  What do you mean  by  saying  men 
who are cash?  1 mean men who can pay 
me  any  day  if  I  tell  them that I must 
have the cash.
4.  What do you answer  those who ask 
for credit whom  you  consider not good? 
I answer them  that 1 am obliged to have 
the money for all goods sold, in order for 
me to replace  them.
•  5.  What does  your  customer  do after
being refused?  He  simply  gets  along 
without the goods.
6.  Do you lose  his  trade  by so doing? 
1  most  certainly  do,  if  he  hasn’t  the 
money to pay for them.
7.  Does he come back  to you for goods 
when he has money? 
In  most  cases he 
does,  for how could he blame me for try­
ing to keep  what  I  might lose by other­
wise  doing.
8.  Don’t you think  you use partiality? 
No sir,  1 do not. 
I  give  in  return  just 
what they pay for. 
I give  credit  to  no 
one except those I  positively  know  can 
and will  pay  me  the  cash any day,  if 1 
require them to get it at  such  a  period. 
If all of  our  merchants  looked  out  for 
buying  their  own  shoes 
there 
wouldn’t be quite so many merchants  go 
barefoot.
9.  Do you keep a full set of books?  In 
a cash business,  I  answer,  books are not 
needed.
10.  Do you pay cash for your goods, or 
do you buy on time?  As near as possible 
1 would advise all buy­
I pay the cash. 
ers to pay cash down,  or not buy.
11.  Do  you  advertise  in  the  papers? 
No,  sir,  1 do not.
12.  Why is it  you  do  not advertise in 
the  papers?  Because  1  consider  the 
newspaper proprietors to  be the gainers 
and the merchant the loser.
13.  Explain to me  why  the  merchant 
is the loser. 
Simply  because  he  pays 
out  his  money  and  receives  no return. 
If a merchant  should  pay  out  SI,000 to 
print  a  whole  newspaper,  the  people, 
most likely,  would  read  it,  simply  be­
cause there is nothing else there for them 
to read;  but  does  the  reading  of  their 
advertisement by  the  people  pay  back 
the merchant his  SI.000? 
I  answer  no. 
If  you  have  something that you cannot 
sell,  and wish to give  it  away,  perhaps 
you might induce the people to come and 
see you through advertising.
14.  Do  you  buy  your  goods  through 
salesmen?  No,  sir;  I  send  my  orders 
direct to the house I buy from.
15.  Don’t you think the jobber sets his 
own  price  in  such  a  way  of  buying? 
This depends upon yourself and the kind 
of firm you deal with.
16.  Do  you  put a cost  mark  on  goods 
and,  if so,  what is your reason  for so do­
ing?  No,  sir;  I  do  not  have  any  cost 
mark  around  me. 
I  consider  if  a  man 
hasn't mind  enough  to  remember  what 
his goods  cost him  without having  them 
covered  with  cost  marks,  that  it  would 
not  be  much  of  a trick to fool  him  half 
blind.
17.  Do  you  display your  goods?  Yes, 
sir;  I think it a paying  policy to display 
goods.
18.  Do you  believe  in,  or do  you, ban­
ter? 
It  depends upon  the  disposition of 
your  customer. 
I  find  it  to be the  case 
with a good  many  people,  to  try  to  buy 
things for nothing,  if the merchant offers 
it  to  the  consumer  at  half  price.  For 
such  consumers,  I leave it to my brother 
merchant to decide for  himself in regard 
to bantering.
Hoping to hear  from  my  brother  mer­
chants on  subjects  pertinent  to  trade,  I 
am 

Yours Truly,

Delmobe  Hawkins.

W orse  Than  a  W reck.

Inquisitive Citizen—What’s the matter 
with  the  man ?  Been  run  over  by  a 
railroad  train?
Ambulance Surgeon—Worse than that. 
He  was  caught  among  the  women in a 
bargain rush at Seller’s.

The  B usin ess  W om an.

*

From the New York Press. 
The typical  business woman of  to-day 
is an object of  admiration  to men and of 
wonder to members of  her own sex.  Men 
would not marry her, but they enjoy hob­
nobbing  with  her  and  drawing out her 
ideas,  which  are  generally  novel. 
If 
they are not  always  thought practical it 
is  because  other  women,  who  have not 
been real business  women, have  created 
a  lack  of  confidence  in  the  minds  of 
men.
The typical business woman likes men, 
and talks to them  like  brothers.  When 
she is talking, if he happens to be seated, 
she turns sideways on  the  chair, crosses 
her leg t, and  places  one  arm akimbo on 
the back;  when standing,  she crooks her 
elbows,  and  with  a  quick  little  move­
ment of  her thumbs  she  places  them in 
the  imaginary  arm-holes  of  her  imag­
inary waistcoat.  She  is  almost  always 
good-hearted,  has ready sympathies,  and, 
if  she  acquires  money, puts her hand in 
her pocket to help the  needy with  more 
than manly alacrity.

R ep en tan ce  Colum n.

The following are some of  the merchants who 
have been under contract  with the P. of I.,  but 
have found the level  profit  plan a delusion and 
a snare:

& Pearson.

Kotvis, John Cordes, Huntley Russell.

Anrelius—John D. Swart.
Belding—L. S. Roell.
Bellaire—Schoolcraft & Nash.
Big Rapids—Verity & Co.
Blanchard—L. D. Wait.
Bridgeton—Geo. H. Rainouard.
Carlton Center—J. N. Covert.
Casnovia—John E. Parcel!.
Cedar Springs—L. A. Gardiner.
Chapin—J. I. Vanderhoof.
Charlotte—C. P. Lock.
Chester—B. C. Smith.
Clam River—Andrew Anderson.
Clio—Nixon & Hubbell.
Cloverdale—Geo. Mosher.
Coopersville—W. D. Reynolds & Co.
Dimondale—Elias Underhill.
Dushville—G. O. Adams.
Eaton Rapids—E. F. Knapp, G. W. Webster.
Fork Center—D. Palmer & Co.
Fremont—J. B. Ketchum,  W.  Harmon,  Boone 
Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted  & Son, F. O. Lord.
Grand Rapids—F. W. Wurzburg, Van Driele & 
Harvard—Ward Bros.
Hastings—J  G. Runyan.
Hersey—John Finkbeiner.
Hesperia—B. Cohen.
Howard City—Henry Henkel.
Ionia—E.  S. Welch,  Wm. Wing.
Irving—J. T. Pierson.
Kent City—R.  McKinnon.
Lake Odessa—McCartney Bros., Fred. Miller.
Lowell—Charles  McCarty.
Manton—A. Curtis.
Maple Rapids—L. S. Aldrich.
Marshall—John Fletcher, John  Butler,Charles 
Millbrook—T. O.  (or J. W.) Pattison.
Millington—Forester & Clough.
Minden  City—W.  A.  Soules,  F.  O.  Hetfield 
Mt.  Morris—H.  E.  Lamb,  J. Vermett &  Son.
Nashville—Powers & Stringham.
Newaygo—W. Harmon.
New Era—Peter Rankin.
North Dorr—John Homrich.
Olivet—F. H. Gage.
Otisco—G. V. Snyder & Co.
Potterville—F. D. Lamb & Co.
Ravenna—R. D. Wheeler.
Reed City—J. M. Cadzow.
Richmond—Knight & Cudworth.
Rockford—H. Colby & Co.
St. Louis—Mary A. Brice.
Sand Lake—C. O  Cain.
Sebewa—P. F. Knapp
Sparta—Wood! n & Van Wickle, Dole* Haynes.
St ringport—Cortright  & Griffin.
Stanton—Fairbanks & Co., Sterling & Co.
Sumner—J. B. Tucker.
Wayland—Pickett Bros.
Williamston—Michael Bowerman.

Fletcher.

& Son.

( Form erly Shriver, W eatherly A Co.)

CONTRACTORS  FO R

Galiianhefl Iron  Cornice, 

PlUmting i Heating Work,
Pumps,  Pipes,  Etc.,  Mantels 

Dealers in

and  Grates.

Weatherly  &  Pulte,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

.  

MICH.

S.  K.  BOLLES.

E.  B.  DIKEMAN.

S .  K .  H o lie s  &   Co.,

77  CANAL  ST..  GRAND  R APID8.  MICH.

W h o le s a le   C igar  D ealers.

“T O S S   U P ! ”

The  “ TOSS  U P”  Cigar  is  not a competitor 
against  any  other 5c brands, but all 10c brands, 
because  it  is  equal  to  any  10c  cigar  on  the 
market.

SEND FOR  PRICE  LIST.

H o ld fa s t s
An appliance  to prevent Ladies’ 
and Misses’  Rubbers from slipping 
off from the shoe.  The neatest and 
best device ever  invented  for  the 
purpose.  Do  not  fail  to  try the 
men’s  Lycoming,  Pa.,  Stocking 
Rubber. 
It  is  the  King  of  all 
Stocking  Rubbers  made.  Both 
only manufactured by  the  Lycom­
ing Rubber  Co.  For sale by 
Q.  H.  REEDER,  Grand  Rapids.
R IN D G B , B B R T S C H  &   CO.,
TO  THE  TRADE:
Ask  our salesman to show 
you our factory line of Wom­
en’s  Shoes,  at  the  reduced 
price,in Milwaukee Oil Graiu 
and Satin Calf—the best shoe 
on  earth  for  wear—to  sell 
for  $2.  We  also make the 
same  lines  in  Misses’  and 
Children’s, at  prices in pro­
portion.  And  see  onr  new 
lines  of  Boys’  and  Youths’ 
shoes;  they  are  corkers  for 
the money.

We  also  solicit  your  fall 
order  for  Boston  and  Bay 
State rubber goods, and guar­
antee  prices  and  terms  as 
low as  any house selling the 
same brand.
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

12,  14  AND  16  PEARL  ST

EL  Puritano  Cigar.
The FinestlO Gent Gigar

ON  EARTH

MANUFACTURED  BY

DILWORTH  BROTHERS,

PITTSBURGH.

TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY

I.  M.  CLARK  &  SON,

Grand Rapids. 
BRADD0CK, BATEMAN  & CO., 
Bay  City.
-  Detroit
T. E. BREY00RT, 

WM.  Pt.  KEELER,

W h o lesale Confectioner

AND  JOBBER  IN  FOREIGN  AND  DOMESTIC  FRUITS.

412  SOUTH  DIVISION  ST. 

TELEPHONE  93-3R.

I am  Sole  Agent  for  Rueckheim  Bros.’ Penny  Goods,  which  are Absolutely the 

Best Goods ofthe kindon the market.

