MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN ■

VOL.  8._________________GRAND  R A PID S,  WEDIVESDAY,  JU N E   3,  1891.__________________NO.  402
PEOPLE’S  SAVINGS  BANK.
Capital, $100,000. 
Lability, $100,000. 

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY
R . G. D u n   &  Co.

Cor. Monroe and Ionia Sts.,

NC13—THE  OPERATOR’S  STORY. 
One afternoen last  September,  at  the 
Glen Mountain House, at  Watkins Glen, 
New York, a telegraphic friend  told  me 
how he won great success  in his  profes­
sion, as follows:

Depositors’ Security, $200,000.

Reference Books Issued  quarterly.  Collections 

ESTABLISHED  1841.

attended to throughout United States 

OFFICERS.
Thomas Hefferan, President.
Henry F. Hastings, Vice-President.
Charles M. Heald, 2d Vice-President.
Charles B. Kelsey, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.

D. D. Cody 
S. A.  Morman 
Jas. G. MacBride 
Wm. McMullen 
D. E. Waters 
Jno. Patton, Jr. 
Wm. Alden Smith 

H. C. Russell 
John Murray 
J. H. Gibbs 
C. B. Judd 
H. F. Hastings 
C. M. Heald 
Don J. Leathers 

Thomas  Hefferan.

Four per cent, interest paid on time certificates 
and  savings  deposits.  Collections  promptly 
made  at  lowest  rates.  Exchange  sold  on New 
York, Chicago, Detroit and all foreign countries. 
Money transferred by mail or  telegraph.  Muni­
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counts of mercantile firms  as  well as banks and 
bankers solicited
We  invite  correspondence  or  personal  inter­
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76 So. Division St.  GRAND  RAPIDS.

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Fruits and Produce.

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SAGINAW, E. Side, MICH.
HARVEY  & HEYSTEK,

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mercial  operator,  I  had  handled  many 
cipher  messages.  To  amuse  myself  I 
tried to solve these. 
In them  a  leading 
expression had been:  “The soup is late.” 
Now the raps said:  “The soup is getting 
hot.”  I was more  than  ever  convinced 
there was a plot somewhere about  some­
thing.  These  conversations  being  dis­
guised were in themselves suspicious. 
I 
thought I had made out some of the  key 
to the cipher.

As the night was pleasant I went down­
stairs and took  a  stroll.  A  few  stars 
peeped out.  The  wind  sighed  through 
the famous gorge close by. 
I  sauntered 
along, cautiously, however,  as  the adja­
cent chasm would have  been  a  conven­
ient place for a footpad to  dispose of his 
victim without exciting alarm.

Suddenly I saw a  light  flash  out  and 
disappear above the glen.  Almost with­
out any reason,I turned my head and saw 
a light flash from  the  upper  portion  of 
the hotel. The moonless night swallowed 
up both lights.  Perhaps the light in the 
hotel was accidental.  Maybe my excited 
senses  were  deceived  about  the  gleam 
over  the  glen.  Nobody  of  flesh  and 
blood  could  flash  a  light  one  hundred 
and  fifty  feet  above  the  little  stream 
whose voice was lost in the  black depths 
below.  Perhaps it  was a firefly  flashing 
its tiny lamp out in that  emptiness near­
ly five hundred feet from  bank  to  bank 
at that point.

I  stepped  close  to  a  large  tree,  and 
thought  for  some  time  about  the  un­
known  ingredients  of  that  “soup.”  I 
hugged the friendly  pine  tree  as  some­
body walked  cautiously  past,  going  to­
wards the hotel.  A few  minutes after I 
determined to investigate one theory.

Cautiously  I  sought  the track  of  the 
railway.  Carefully  I  crept  along  the 
ties and went out over the abyss. 
I esti­
mated the distance where the light flashed 
and  earnestly  groped  for  something,  I 
knew not what.  You  may  think  I  was 
foolish.

I  was about  to  go  back  to  the  hotel 
when  my  right  hand,  beside  a  rail, 
touched a fine wire. 
I  struck  a  match 
and, shielding the blaze, I perceived that 
the  copper wire  ran  into  a  pasteboard 
cuff-box,  tied  securely  under  a  cross- 
timber.  The  wire  led  off  into  the  air 
towards the hotel.

The  brief  light  was  out. 

There  I 
clung,  held up by  the  structure  which, 
for all its  stone, iron and  wood,  seemed 
to  almost  sway  in  the  gale  sweeping 
down the canyon.  Taking out my  pock­
et-knife, I grasped the wire  on  the  out­
side of the rail with my  left  hand,  and, 
with  my  right,  closed  over  it  the  big 
knife-blade.  The  outer  severed  end  I 
fastened around a rail.

You may  be  sure  1  carefully  untied 
that box.  I was tempted to heave it into 
the  gorge,  but  recollected  that  such  a 
course would frustrate my plan to detect 
and  convict  those  dynamiters.  As  if 
treading a path among eggs,  I started  to 
return. 
I left that mysterious box  in  a 
summer house to guard against  any  spy 
noting it in the hotel.

By  urgent  request, 

the  night  clerk

Almost three years ago  I  first  visited 
this famous  watering-place.  1 had been 
“working  a  circuit”  in  various  cities, 
and stopped off here  for  a  little  recrea­
tion.

One evening, in the dining room, amid 
the  clatter  of  dishes  and  knives  and 
forks, my trained ear caught  a  meaning 
from the idle drumming on the  table  of 
knives in the hands  of two  well-dressed 
men  opposite  me.  To  the  crowd,  if 
noticed at  all,  these  sounds  only  indi­
cated impatience at the hurrying, yet de­
layed waiters.

If it had bee*  commonplace  conversa­
tion I should not have  heeded their com­
munication,  except,  perhaps,  for  sport 
to “call” them.  They ticked off a phrase 
or  two at  intervals  during  their  meal. 
Once the head-waiter noticed  the  clink­
ing of a spoon upon a cup, and  enquired 
if either of them wanted  anything.  For 
an instant they were confused,  then  one 
said he  wanted  more  coffee.  A  waiter 
replenished his nearly  full  cup.  After 
that the  ticks  were  less- frequent.  Of 
course, it was none of my  business,  but 
I could not  help  hearing  the  tick-talk, 
and the conversation was so curious that 
it greatly interested me.

from 

tidings 

That very evening, while  I  was  read­
ing in the office,  the  two  conversers  in 
lighting-lingo  at the table  came  in  and 
lit fresh cigars.  Occasionally  the  hotel 
“sounder”  clicked 
the 
world  in  the  surrounding  night.  The 
death of a man  of  national  prominence 
was  heralded  by  the  instrument.  Be­
fore the hotel operator informed the  by­
standers of that important  news  one  of 
the stranger operators said to  the  other: 
“He’s dead at last.”

“Hush!” whispered the other.
Nobody seemed to notice the betraying 

observation or its  rejoinder.

As I wondered at the object in view of 
that pair of mysterious  conversers I  did 
not  reveal my  identity, but  determined 
to heed any signs.  Whenever  they were 
in the dining-room  first  I  thought  best 
not to sit near  them, and, therefore,  did 
not then obtain any peculiar information.
After  a  steamboat  ride  on  beautiful 
Senaca,  I visited Ithaca, to  inspect  Cor­
nell  University.  When  I  returned  to 
Watkins, the  landlord  told  me  he  was 
sorry  he could not  give  me  my  former 
room, because of  an  extra  large  excur­
sion party.  He could, however, give me 
one as good, which I thankfully accepted.
That night 1 was far from  being sorry 
for the change of room,  as I  heard  mys­
terious raps on the wall.  Somebody was 
signalling to someone  in  another  room. 
If  the  message  had  been  ordinary  I 
should have signalled that I  was an  un­
intentional listener.

It was the same old  jargon of unmean­
ing words and phrases.  From  the  fre­
quent repetition of some of them,  a  few 
had become familiar to  me.  As  a  com­

BRUSHES.

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

W.  T.  LAMQREAUX  i  GO.,

We pay the  highest  price for Eggs, at 
all  times.  We  sell  Egg  Cases  No. 1 at 
35c, Egg  case fillers, 10  sets  in a case at 
$1.25 a case.

We  carry the  largest line  in  field and 
garden seeds  of  any  house in  the  State 
west of Detroit, such as Clover, Timothy, 
Hungarian,  Millet,  Red  Top;  all  kinds 
of Seed  Corn, Barley,  Peas, in  fact any­
thing you need in seeds.

\ \ r n l l   P a p e r
Picture Frame Mouldings.
Also  a  complete  line  of  PAINTS,  OILS  and 
Correspondence Solicited.
W arehouse, 81 & 83  Campan St.
74*76 Ottawa St., GRIND RAPIDS.
W O O L .
C. HENRI & CO.
Allen Durfee & Co., Fine  Millinery!
FUNERAL  DIRECTORS,!
Wholesale  and  Retail.

Consignments of  wool solicited.  Parties 
shipping us wool  can  depend on  all  the 
market  will  allow.  Our  facilities  for 
grading and handling  are  the very  best. 
Wool  will  be promptly graded  and  paid 
for on arrival.

GRAND RAPIDS.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

128,130, 132 W. Bridge St.,

S. F. A sfxnwaxx, Pres’fc. 

P R O M P T ,  C O N S E R V A T IV E .  S A F E .

W. F r e d  M cB a in, Sec'y.

A . D. L eavenw orth

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---- OR----

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For the best work, at  reasonable  prices, addrest 

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

LACE,  LEGHORN  A N D  FANCY  STRAW  HATS 

&  BONNETS  IN  A LL  L A TE ST’STYLES.

M AIL  ORDERS  ATTENDED  TO  PROMPTLY'.

A d a t n s   &   C o . ,

90  Monroe St.,  Opp. Morton House.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

cautiously admitted me  to  the  room  of 
the proprietor.  With due  precaution,  I 
confided in him.  He went out  and  gave 
the  clerk  some  instructions  in  a  low 
tone, and handed me a pass-key. 
I slyly 
went to my room.

The  house was still.  Suddenly  there 
rang out an alarm  of  fire.  Soon  confu­
sion reigned.  Guests were rudely awak­
ened.  They hurried  out  of windows  or 
down the stairs. 
In a  few  minutes  ev­
erybody  returned,  pale,  trembling,  and 
nervous.  The fire had been put out with 
not very heavy  damage,  strange  to  say. 
Nobody,  fortunately,  was hurt.  Every­
body congratulated everybody on narrow 
escapes.  To this day  there are, I under­
stand,  only  three  persons  who  have 
known the origin of that fire alarm,  cn
To any outsider would it not have been 
surprising that the  occupants  of  rooms 
adjoining mine  were  more  dressed than 
any others of the fleeing guests?  Furth­
ermore, my neighbors had scarcely disap­
peared downstairs till my  pass-key  fur­
nished by the  proprietor  was  used. 
If 
ever  an  intrusion  was  justifiable  that 
was, for a quick glance,  before  a  hasty 
exit, showed me a lighted  bull’s-eye lan­
tern set on  the  carpet,  and  near  it  an 
open valise.  That valise held an electric 
battery. 
Its wires led to  another  valise 
which contained a reel  from  which led a 
wire  running  through  a  space  beneath 
the  partially-raised  lower sash out  into 
the darkness  toward the railway bridge.
Scarcely had the fire-alarm  commotion 
subsided  when  there  was  a  rumbling 
and a roar in the quiet  night.  The New 
York night express was nearing Watkins j 
Glen  Station.  The  bridge  watchman 
came from his shanty, and signaled: “Go 
ahead!”  To what?  The ponderous train 
crept  over  the  bridge. 
I  shuddered, 
thinking of what might have happened.

The conspirators were hushed.  I could 
imagine  one,  whose  room  gave  him  a 
a view of the  bridge,  peering  out  anx­
iously as  the  train’s  light  flashed  onto 
the  doomed  bridge.  Did  any  remorse I 
seize him for the dastardly  deed  of  try­
ing to hurl that unwarned  train  to  cer­
tain death and ruin?  He seized the  reel 
with one hand  to  quickly  draw  in  the j 
evidence of  his crime.  With  the  other 
he pressed the electric button and speed- j 
ed the fatal spark to the end of the wire. 
The deviliih contrivance  did  not  work. 
Before  the  fiend could  recover from his 
astonishment the train had passed safely 
across the bridge.

With an oath the  villain turned as the 
door was flung  open, and  revolvers held 
him prisoner.  The tarantula,  when cor­
nered,  stings itself.  The  train-wrecker 
pushed his right hand into a side-pocket, 
and withdrew it, not  holding a revolver, 
but something which he  swollowed.  He 
staggered and  fell—dead.  Prussic acid, 
carried for years,  had rescued him  from 
earthly punishment.  His  partner, next 
door,  was  captured  by  surprise.  He, 
too, was fully  dressed,  but  stoutly  de­
nied his complicity in any crime.

The electric  wire,  infernal  apparatus, 
machine,  and  my  testimony  convicted 
him.  He is now visiting  Auburn,  to  be 
entertained by  the  state  for  ten  years. 
He turned  traitor to the rest of the gang, 
and  tried  to  turn  state’s  evidence.  A 
number of rascals had planned to  wreck 
that train.  Several stationed themselves 
in the glen below to  plunder  the  debris 
and  bodies.

My good luck in  frustrating  the  mur­
derous design commended me to the rail-

road company, and I was given  a  lucra­
tive position as some  of  my  reward  for 
preventing what  would  have  proven  a 
calamity almost unparalled in the  histo­
ry of railroads. That cutf-box box is kept 
among  the  archives  of  the  company. 
Come out north of  here  to-morrow,  and 
I will show you a hole like  a  cellar  dug 
by the explosion of its contents. 
It con­
tained enough dynamite  and  NC13—ter- 
chloride of nitrogen—to have more  than 
accomplished its villainous  purpose.

T. G. La. MoiLiiE.

Decadence of the Poorhouae.

to 

know 

ought 

One of the most terrible phantoms that 
used to stalk in the  pathway of the poor 
man a generation ago, was the dread that 
after all his life of toil he might  come to 
the poorhouse at last.  Or, if he wasfor- 
I tunate enough to die  in his  own  bed  at 
home, he might after  all be  indebted  to 
the  parish for a coffin,  and  find  a grave 
in the Potter’s field. 
It  was  no  use  to 
tell him that poverty was  no  disgrace— 
disgrace or no disgrace,  the  dread  of  it 
was strong enough to sadden all his days, 
and  disturb  his  nights  with  unquiet 
dreams.  He knew very well that people 
who 
better, 
would  look  askance  at  his  children  if 
their  father  died  in  the  poorhouse,  or 
was  buried  by  the  parish.  Of  course, 
very much of this  was  mere  sentiment. 
But  sentiment  is  often  very  powerful. 
The shame of the poor,  who are  poor by 
misfortune and not by fault, is much more 
poignant than  the  shame  of those  who, 
by idleness and unthrift,  have kept poor 
in spite  of  many  opportunities  to  pro­
vide ampler means.  We  cannot  shake 
ourselves wholly  free  of  the  power  of 
mere sentiment.  No  doubt some  of  the 
best men on earth have  been  very  poor. 
But apart altogether from  its  inconven­
ience,  we have all a strong,  inborn senti­
ment against poverty.  And  this  dread 
of the poorhouse  and  parish  coffin  that 
disturbed  poor  men  thirty  years  ago 
commands our pity at the least.  A great 
change has happily  taken  place  in  the 
last ten or  twenty  years.  We hear very 
little of  the  poorhouse  now.  Men  are 
now complaining  that all they  can do  is 
just to make ends meet, and  they  count 
themselves very lucky if they can put by 
a little for a rainy  day.  Men  say,  and 
justly, too, that life is not  worth  living,
I if all one’s conscious hours and  energies 
I are to be absorbed  in  merely  supplying 
the animal wants;  home,  food,  clothing 
j  and a very small  medicum  of  the  com- 
{ forts of life.  All this  is  true.  And  it 
{ would be a bad sign if men sat  down  in 
I thorough  contentment  in  such  circum­
stances.  To leave home at  7  o’clock  in 
j  the morning and not return till 7- o’clock 
! in the evening, for ten, twenty,  or  forty 
years and  at  the  end  of  all  that  long 
servitude  find that with care and  thrift,
I with industry and sobriety,  all  that  has 
| been done has been  j ust to meet the  aet- 
I ual needs of life; this is not an encourag- 
I ing conclusion to long years of toil.  But 
i there  is  much  cause  for  thankfulness 
j  and hope.  We have got away  from  the 
| poorhouse, and the parish  coffin and  the 
I pauper’s grave. 
In this free country the 
j  word “pauper” will soon  have no  mean- 
I  ing at  all.  The  toiler  who  asks  with 
j  some bitterness and discontent,  “Is  life 
| worth living?” will probably find that he 
| is walking a much easier  path  than  bis 
j fathers trod, and he  should  be  rejoiced 
j at  the  assurance  that  there  will  be  a 
much more pleasant  path  for  the  foot­
steps  of his  children and his  children’s 
I children. 

V h td ex.

CUMMER  WASH  GOODS:

CANTON  CLOTH,
BRANDENBURG  CLOTH,
B.  C.  SATINE,
EXPORT  SATINE,
SERGE  SATINE,
CASHMERE  SATINE,
A.  F.  C.  GINGHAM,
SONORA  GINGHAM,
AMOSKEAG  GINGHAM,

OUTING  FLANNELS,
PRINTS,
WIDE  BLUES,
SHIRTING,
LYON  SERGE,
ARMENIAN  SERGE,
SEERSUCKERS,
CHALLI,
LAWNS.
PANTS,  HAMMOCKS,

OUTING  SHIRTS,  SUMMER  UNDERWEAR

STRAW  HATS.

P.  STEKETEE  & SONS,

WHOLESALE  DRY  GOODS.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

No  6

t-T R IT E   us for  Samples and  Prices. 
* *  Possibly  we  can 
save  you
money.  W e  have  a  good  white  en­
velope (our 154) which we se ll:

Size 3>ixß
$1.40
2.40
2.15
1.75
1 60

No  6y*
Size
500
$1.50
1,000
2.50
2,000
2.25
5,000
1.85
10,000
1.70
Special  prices  on  larger  quantities. 
This  is  not a cheap  stock,  but  good 
fair envelope.  We  have  cheaper and 
have  better:  grades,  but  can  recom­
mend this one.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
-Above Prices Include Printing!

, 

HUTCHENS  &  POTTEB,

TRADE

1 8 9 1  

See  our 

Line

This season

MARK.

GLOVE, 

J o h n s to w n ,

MA,

] 7 ir e  crack ers
r   IRE  WORKS 
1  LAGS

Toy  Pistols,  Paper  Caps,  Etc.
Glimax  Chocolate  Drops-Latest and  Best.

A .   B .   B R O O K S & CO.,
Confectioners, 46 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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C I G A R .

Dealers who once had a strong demand for the celebrated “ WHEN” cigar will 
be  pleased  to  learn  that  the  brand  is again in the  market  and  can  be  obtained 

through theLUSTIG  CIGAR  GO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mieli.
S O M E T H IN G   N E W !

Our Folding Basket Back.

OLD  MAN  SLIM.

Breezy Epistle f!rom  a  Canadian  Mer­

chant.

Qu een’s  H ollow,  Ont.,  May  16 — I 
wish  you  would  publish  this  letter  in 
your  paper,  as  I  want  to  convince  my 
son, Izik, that he is  not so  alfired  smart 
as he thinks he is.  Tou see it has taken 
me about two weeks to write it and when 
Izik was in the store I  would  hide  it  in 
the cracker barrel.  One  day he found it 
and  you ought to have seen him  cut  up. 
He danced around  the store and laughed 
till the stovepipe fell a-straddle  of seven 
rolls of butter and gave each a black eye. 
Then he got mad and  said  he  knew  my 
days  of  usefulness  had  long  since  de­
parted but that  he  never  dreamed  that 
I was such an incomprehensible ass  as to 
expect that a great paper like T he  Mich­
ig a n  T radesm an  would  publish  such 
rot as that.  I said I didn’t care a cent if 
it was a great paper, for  you  once  pub­
lished some letters that a Mr. Snooks sent 
you, and that 1 was a  better spellar than 
Mr. Snooks and that 1 didn’t believe that 
Cant  Hook  Corners,  where Mr.  Snooks 
lived,  was  any  more  of  a  place  than 
Queen’s  Hollow.  You  see  my  Ann  by 
my  first  wife  lives  in  a  village  called 
Saginaw, somewhere  in  your  State,  and 
her husband, who runs  a  grocery  store, 
takes your paper,  and one time she came 
home on a  visit with her  lunch wrapped 
up in your  paper and that’s  how I  came 
to see Mr. Snooks’ letter.
I have told Izik, time  and time  again, 
that I was  several  years  older  than  he, 
but  he  don’t appear to place  any  confi­
dence in what  I  say.  Shortly  after  his 
mother died a sort of  a chronic tiredness 
seemed to spread all over him and he got 
too  infernal lazy to turn  the  grindstone 
or  watch  the  gap. 
Izik  said  it  was  a 
sure  symptom of greatness and it  was  a 
shame to waste such  fine commercial tal­
ents on a little farm. 
I thought it would 
be a greater shame  to waste  the farm (if 
it was small and  pimpled  all  over  with 
pine stumps)  with such talents  as Izik’s, 
so 1 traded it off  for a  store down in  the 
Hollow. 
I  always  said  that  a boy  that 
was too blamed modest to hoe corn would 
never  earn  his  salt  selling  codfish  and 
soap, but Elder Sipes said,  “Give the boy 
a chance,” so we left the farm.  The first 
trouble we  had  was  about  the  sign. 
I 
wanted  it  painted,  “Old Slim & Young 
Slim,”  but  Izik  wanted  his  name first. 
We  finally  compromised  by  making  it 
“Slim & Slim, General Store.”  Izik said 
I could remain  “Old  Slim,” if  I  wanted 
to,  and  he  would  be  “Slim,  Junior.” 
Izik  married  the  Elder’s  daughter  and 
she has made quite a man of him.
Bight across the concession line on the 
opposite corner,  Old Cronk,  our  disrep­
utable competitor, keeps a sort of variety 
shop, a little of everything and not much 
of anything.  He owns a big  farm  down 
the creek that used  to have a sawmill on 
it before the pine timber was all used up. 
Old Cronk  is  the  meanest  Tory  in  the 
Hollow.  He is a magistrate  and is post­
master of the Hollow and probably will be 
till old Sir John A.  dies,  unless  we  be­
come annexed to the  States  before  that 
event  happens.  Old  Cronk  consumes 
British grog, shaves notes and skins fleas 
and mixes the skins with  his pepper and 
sells it to his farm  hands  for  five  cents 
per pound more than we get for our pure 
pepper.  Cronk is a wide-mouthed loyal­
ist,  but  awful  stingy.  He  was  never 
known  to  plow for a  neighbor  for  fear 
that the neighbor’s  chickens  might  fol­
low and pick up the  grubs.  During  the 
late political campaign  he  worked  him­
self up to a point  bordering  on  insanity 
and declared he would  defeat unrestrict­
ed  reciprocity with the Yankees  or  bust 
a tug. 
In  his  recklessness  he  actually 
gave away free gratis a  quart and a half 
of old cider that was  spoiled for making 
vinegar to  one of his  farmer  hands  and 
he  promised  a  cheap  chromo  of  the 
Queen to a  mill hand up the creek, if  he 
would vote the Tory ticket, but Izik says 
Cronk  refused  to  give  it  to  him  after 
election,  because  the  man’s  wife  had 
named her new baby Jim Blain.
Old Cronk made a speech in the school- 
house the night before  the election.  He 
was full of British grog and  so was  Bill 
Smike, the Tory blacksmith  of  the Hol­
low.  Bill was made chairman and when

he stood upon  a bench to  open the meet­
ing,  he  inflated  himself  to  about  five 
times his everyday size, hung his hat up­
on the blackboard, rolled up his wampus 
sleeves, swallowed his  Prince  of  Wales 
quid of plug tobacco and said that if any 
disloyal  traitor  of  a  Yankee  son  of  a 
blue-livered advocate of annexation with 
the  States  ventured  to  open  his  clam 
shell during the  proceedings,  he  would
pulverized and-------just at  this pont  in
Bill’s  remarks  a  desk  in the rear end of
the room went to grass  with its superflu­
ous weight and  a  little  red-headed  boy 
tumbled  off  the  top  of  the  door  and 
dropped into the water  pail.  When  or­
der again  prevailed,  Bill  had  subsided 
and  Old Cronk had  struck an  imposing 
attitude.  He said  it  was  the  proudest 
moment of his life to stand  there in that 
temple erected  to  knowledge  and  dedi­
cated to the fostering of  British  institu­
tions  and  the  enlightenment  of  Her 
Majesty’s  subjects,  and  point  out  the 
highway 
to  his  fellow  countrymen 
that leads to true  British  loyalty.  Dur­
ing all his public career as a  postmaster 
and magistrate, he  would defy  the  face 
of clay  to  say that  he had ever  uttered 
one single word of respect for the blasted 
Yankees.  This reciprocity was simply a 
foul conspiracy on  the part of  the  Yan­
kees and  their disloyal  sympathizers  to 
snatch this fair Dominion from  the Brit­
ish crown  and  unhorse  that  grand  old 
Roman, Sir J-o-h-n!  He then  threw  the 
throttle  wide  open  and  yelled: 
“Can 
there be a man so base,  within the sound 
of my voice, that will march to the poles 
to-morrow and,  without a  blush  on  his 
face, take his ballot in his hand and stab |
his  Queen-----”  Cronk  was  cut  shor
here by Bill Smike,  who,  while  asleep 
fell off the  bench and knocked  over  the 
map  of  North  America.  Some  of  the 
boys,  supposing  that  the  meeting  was 
over and  remembering  Cronk’s  last  re­
mark,  began  to  shout,  “God  save  the 
Queen,” after  which  they  adjourned  to 
the tavern.
When I got back to the store,  Izik was 
explaining to a drummer from a  grocery 
house in London how  the  McKinley  bill 
had ruined our egg business.  The drum­
mer said it was done to  protect the great 
American hen and  the  Canadian  people 
could never prosper until they  went into 
the same  breed of  fowls.  Our  commer­
cial travelers are  mighty  smart  fellows. 
They are  not  so  cheeky  as  yours,  but 
they  can  drink  more  whisky  and  tell 
more stories than yours.
Izik is a grit and voted for reciprocity. 
He says Toryism has been  the  curse  of 
Canada ever since the  U. E.  loyalists de­
serted  the  American  colonies  in  their 
struggle for liberty  and, gathering  their 
scarlet robes about them and shaking the 
sacred dust from  their  shoes,  wandered 
off and fastened their  poisonous fangs in 
the very life-blood of the  new  Canadian 
provinces. 
I think Izik is  a  little  jeal­
ous  because  the  Tories  trade  with  Old 
Cronk and, besides, Izik wants the  post- 
office awful bad. 
It beats  all what lofty 
ideas Izik’s  wife  has  put into  his  head 
lately.
Now,  Mr.  Editor,  if  your  folks  in 
Michigan  would care  to  know  how  we 
run things and do business  over  here  in 
Ontario, I might write you a letter every 
week.  You see, if you  publish  the first 
one, I will not have to hide anymore, for 
Izik will  only  be  too  glad  to  have  me 
write to a  Yankee  paper,  just  to  spite 
Old Cronk.  You may  call me what I am 
known by all around the Hollow,

Old  Man Slim.

[T h e  T radesm an  is  quite  sure  that 
its  readers  will  be  glad  to  hear  more 
from Mr.  Slim.)

How it Looks  in  Minnesota.

From  the Northwest  Trade.

T h e  Mic h ig a n T radesm an, of  Grand 
Rapids, comes to hand in much improved 
form  and in new dress with taffy colored 
cover.  T h e T radesm an is esteemed  as 
a valuable  exchange  and  a  meritorious 
representative of the trade,  its  columns 
being  fresh and  original,  without  that 
ultra  dependence  upon  other 
journals 
which  more pretentious  contemporaries 
often evince.  We congratulate  it on  its 
improved appearance.

The  two  main  objections  to  other 
racks  now  in  use, are  first, they  are 
not  strong  enough, and  second, they 
take up too  much  room  when  not in 
use.
Our racks  will  support a weight of 
several  hundred  pounds,  and  when 
closed  are  but  three  inches  square, 
and yet cost less than  others.
They  will  hold  baskets  level,  or 
tipped at  any angle  desired, and will 
stand solidly on uneven floors.
They  are  made  in  three  heights, 
viz., 10, 23 and 28 inches.

Price per doz.  $2.

: GRAND  RAPIDS  HAND  SCREW  CO.. Grand
Grand R a is Storage & Transfer Co.,

Winter  8t.( between  Siiawmdt lire,  and  W.  Fdlton St.,

Rapids.
Limited.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

General  Warehousemen  and  Transfer  Agents.

COLD  STORAGE  FOR  BUTTER,  EGGS,  CHEESE,  FRUITS, 

ALL  KINDS  OF  PERISHABLES.

AND

Dealers ani  Jobbers in Mowers,  Binders  Twine,  Threshers,  En­

gines, Straw Stackers, Drills, Rakes, Tedders, Cultivators, 

Plows, Pumps, Carts,  Wagons, Buggies,  Wind Mills 

and Machine and Plow repairs, Etc.

J.  Y.  F.  BLAKE,  Sup’t.

Telephone  No.  945.

GRAND  RAPIDS  CYCLE  COMPANY.

ADAPTED  TO  ANY  W HEEL

SECTIONAL  VIEW   OF  OUR  CUSHION  TIRE,  A8 
OF  7-8  INCH  RIMS

A  GREAT  SUCCESS
Behind  on

Are  Continually 
orders foi

Solid  Tired

CLIPPERS

(M ion'Tired Clippers.
Clipper Safeties, [solid tire]  List price,  $ 0 0 . 0 0

On  H and  for  Im m ediate 

Shipment.

Cushion Tire. $10 extra.  Clipper Saddles, $5.

GRAND  RAPIDS  CYCLE  CO.,

Erie St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Send for  catalogue. 
P E R K I N S   Sc  H E S S
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  12*  and  124  LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

WE CABBY A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOB MILL  USE.

THE  MICEnGAN  TRADESMAN,
FOR SALE,  WANTED,  ETO. 

C rockery & G lassw are

6 doz. In box.

LAMP  BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun.........................................................   45
No. 1  “  .........................................................   50
No. 2  “  .........................................................   75
Tubular...........................................................  75

lamp chimneys.—Per box.

First quality.
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XYY Flint.
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No. 0 Sun........................................................1  75
No. 1  “  ......................................................... 1 88
No. 2  “  ......................................................... 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top......................................2  25
No. 1  “ 
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No. 2  “ 
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No. 0 Sun, crimp top......................................2  60
No. 1  “ 
“  .......................................2 80
No. 2  “ 
“  .......................................3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
...................4 70
No. 2  “ 
“ 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4 70
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.........................1 25
No. 2  “ 
....................... 150
No. 1 crimp, per doz.......................................1 35
No. 2  “ 
........................................1  60

La Bastlc.

Pearl top.

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FRUIT JARS.

Mason’s or  Lightning.

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STONEWARE—AKRON.

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Pints...............................................................87 50
Q uarts...........................................................8(0
Half gallons....................................................10 50
Rubbers.........................................................   55
Caps  only......................................................  3 50
Butter Crocks, per gal................................   06)4
Jugs, H gal., per doz....................................  75
....................................  90
1  “ 
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Milk Pans, % gal., per doz.  (glazed 75c) —   65 
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Wayne Connty Savings Bank, Detroit, Mieh.
$500,000  TO  INVEST  IN   BONDS
Issued  by  cities, counties,  towns  and  school  districts 
of  Michigan.  Officers  of  these  municipalities  about 
to issue  bonds will  find it to their  advantage to  apply 
to this hank.  Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings 
supplied  without  charge.  All  communications  and 
enquiries will have prompt attention.  This hank pays 
4 per cent, on  deposits, compounded semi-annually. 
8.  D. EL WOOD. Treasurer.

May, 1891. 

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H ow   to  K eep  a  Store.
By  Samuel  II.  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.

retail street  in  Grand  Rapids.  Expenses  very  light 

^AdverSSementifwiinieti^^
two  cents  a  word  the  first  insertion  and  one cent a 
word  for  each  subsequent  Insertion.  No  advertise­
ment taken for less than 85 cents.  Advance payment. 

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

dress  J.  A.  Scollay, Reed  City.  Mich.______ 255

■ N  ESTABLISHED  GROCERY  FCR  SALE.  AD 
{TOR  SALE — I  HAVE  A  STOCK  OP  DRUGS  AND 
Dr u g  stock—n e a t  a nd a t t r a c t iv e, a nd n e w  

.  books to the amount of $1,500, situated in the best 
little town in Michigan,  which I oner for sale for cash 
or  its equivalent.  W.  R. Mandigo, Sherwood, Mich.218

hardwood  fixtures.  Excellent  location  on  best 
and  trade  steadily  increasing.  Low  inventory,  just 
completed, $2,690.  On account  of  falling  health,  will 
sell  at  Invoice  or  for  $2,400  cash,  if  sold  by  March 
15.  Otherwise will hold it as an  investment.  A  genu­
ine  bargain.  Personal  investigation  solicited.  Ad­
dress “F.,” care Hazeltine Perkins Drug Co.  City. 197

Fo r  sa l e  —  a   f ir s t - c la ss,  w e l l - asso rted

stock of  hardware and building  material, situat­
ed at Port Huron.  Did a business of  $68,000 last  year. 
No old  stock or rubbish.  Will  invoice  about  $20,000. 
Proprietor  sick in  bed  and  unable  to  attend  to  the 
business.  Address Geo. M. Dayton, Lansing, Mich.  228
town.  Capital 
necessary,  about  $1,200.  address  No.  241, care  Mich­
igan Tradesman._____________________________841

tX)R  SALE—HALF  INTEREST  IN  A  GENERAL 
IX)R SALE—GROCERY  STOCK.  DESIRABLE LOOA- 
JiOR  SALE—WELL-SELECTED  DRUG  STOCK.  IN- 

ventorylng about $1,200,  situated  in  good  coun­
try town of 500 people.  Reason for selling, proprietor 
has other  business.  Address jNo.  173,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman._________________________________   173

cer,  care  Michigan Tradesman._________________ 246

tion.  A bonanza to the right man.  Address Gro­

tures;  stock well  assorted  can  be  bought  at  a 
bargain.  Address for  particulars  8. P. Hicks,  Lowell, 
Mich._________________________________________ 124

FOR SALE-A  COMPLETE  DRUG  STOCK  AND  F ix ­
WANTED—I  HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  PAY  FOR  A 

general  or  grocery stock;  must be cheap.  Ad- 

dress No. 25, care Michigan Tradesman.___________ 25

In  a  thriving 

located 

stock 

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

YTTANTED—  BY YOUNG MAN, SITUATION AS BOOK- 
VY  keeper,  assistant  book-keeper  or  collector 
Rest  of  references. Address  E. care  Michigan  Trades­
man.________________________________________ 243
YYTANTED— POSITION  BY  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
cist.  Best of  references and no bad  liabits, Ad- 
VV 
dress  No.  861 care  Michigan  Tradesman.______ 251

MISCELLANEOUS.

249

A  GENTS  WANTED—FOR  A  NEW  ARTICLE  JUST 
J.jl  out.  Most  wonderful  advertising  device  ever 
known.  Sells to  every  merchant  and  Mfr.  Splendid 
employment.  Big 
pay.  Steady  work.  Enclose 
stamp.  Arc Mt.  Mfg  Co ,  Racine,  Wis. 
/BANNING  WORK8  WANTED—WILL  GIVE A BONUS 
to right parties.  Address Box 45,  Sheridan, Mich.
V  
250

.  ment.  Corner  lot  and 5-room  house  on  North 
Lafayette  St.,  cellar,  brick  foundation,  soft  water 
in  kitchen.  $1,200.  Terms  to  suit.  Address No.  187, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

I TOR  SALE—CHEAP  ENOUGH  FOR  AN  INVE8T- 
FOR SALE—TWELVE TO TWENTY ACRES  OF LAND 

for summer  home.  Seven  miles  north  of Trav­
erse  City  on  the  East  Arm  of Traverse  Bay on the 
Peninsula  ready  fitted  for  building.  C.  E.  Clapp, 
Archie, Mich. 

I TOR  SALE  OR  RENT—CORNER  LOT  AND 6-ROOM 

house on North  Lafayette st., cellar, brick found­
suit.  Cheap enough  for  an  investment.  Address  No 
187, care Michigan Tradesman. 

ation  and  soft  water  in  kitchen.  $1,200.  Terms  to 

187.

238

187

258

257

H o r se f o r  sa l e—ir o n g r e y  g e l d in g,  st an ds
16)4)  hands  high.  Weight,  1,650.  Suitable  for 
heavy  work.  F.  Goodman  A  Co.,  Burnlps  Corners, 
Mich. 
I TOR  SALE —STORE  AND  DWELLING  COMBINED, 

also good barn.  All  in  good  repair.  Located  in 
one of the best towns in Michigan of  1,000 inhabitants. 
Will trade for stock of goods.  For particulars address 
No. 258, care Michigan Tradesman. 
TTTANTED—FIVE  SALESMEN  BY  THE  GEORGE  D. 
VV  Hawkins  Medicine  Co.  (Manufacturers  and 
wholesale  dealers  in  Hawkins  Great Specific Cures) 
to represent them on  the  road.  Commencing on  July 
10th.  No  one  but  first-class  experienced  salesmen 
need  apply.  Good  positions  guaranteed  to  good 
salesmen.  Write  for  terms  to  George  D.  Hawkins
Medielne  Oempany,  Hawkins.  Mich.__________2*4
\\T ANTED—SALESMAN FOR GENERAL 8TORE.  ONE 
who is capable  of  taking care of  the dry goods 
and shoe department.  Address  No. 254, care Michigan
Tradesman.___________________________________254
X \fANTED—SALES 4EN  ON  SALARY  OR  COMMIS- 
sion  to  handle  the  New  Patent  Chemical  Ink 
VV 
Erasing  Pencil.  The  greatest  selling  novelty  ever 
produced.  Erases ink  thoroughly in two seconds;  no 
abrasion of  paper,  200  to  600  per  cent,  profit.  One 
agent's sales  amounted to  $620  in  six  days;  another 
$32  In  tWo  hours.  We  want  one  energetic  general 
agent  for  each  state and  territory.  For  terms  and 
fall particulars,  address  The  Monroe  Eraser Mfg. Co., 
La Crosse,  Wis. 

255

TENNIS SHOES

4

AMONG THE TRADE.
ABOUND THE STATE.

Clayton—I.  R.  Waterman  has opened 

Farmington—S.  II.  Adams has opened 

a grocery  store.

a meat  market.

Morenci—P. S. Lee is succeeded by  S. 

S. Beatty in general trade.

Clio—F.  N.  Foote  is  closing  out  his 

grocery and feed business.

Saugatuck—K. S.  Jones  has  removed 

his jewelry stock to Holland.

Lowell—A. E. Parks succeeds the Low- 
ell Grocery Co. in the "grocery  business.
Bauer—Gus Begeman  is succeeded  by 
Begeman & Otto in the grocery business.
Detroit—Edward  W.  Smith  succeeds 
Smith & Hilderscheid in  the  fruit  busi­
ness.

Jackson—Munro  Bros,  are  succeeded 
by  Harrington & Sous  in  the  hardware 
business.

Manistee—J.  E.  Somerville  has  pur­
chased the wall paper  stock  of  Johnson 
& Gillhooley.

Sand  Lake—Thos.  J.  Blanchard  has 
sold his sawmill  to  Chas.  E.  Petrie,  the 
Pierson lumberman.

Maple Rapids—O. Bullishas purchased 
the drug stock of L.  Chambers  and  con­
solidated it with his own.

Detroit—Frederick  F.  Ingram  &  Co. 
succeed Williamson, Ingram &  Griggs as 
manufacturing  pharmacists.

Chippewa Lake—H. C. Ward has  pur­
chased the G. A.  Goodsell  grocery  stock 
and consolidated it with his ewn.

Jackson—The  Warner  Hardware  Co. 
succeeds Warner & Dodge in  the  whole­
sale and retail hardware business.

Maple Rapids — Aldrich  &  VanSickle 
have  purchased  the  hardware  stock  of 
Brunck &  Sessions  and  consolidated  it 
with his own.

Crystal—W.  E.  Worden  has  removed 
to  this  place  from  Big  Rapids and pur­
chased  an  interest  in  the  general stock 
of C. De Young.

Rockford—Geo. A. Sage,  who has con­
ducted the grocery  business  here for fif­
teen  years,  has  sold  out  to  Seymour 
Hunting and Frank O.  Kelsey,  who  will 
continue the business under the style  of 
Hunting & Kelsey.

Petoskey — Alex.  Rosenthal  has  pur­
chased the Huntley &  Furtney  boot  and 
shee  stock  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness.  He  has  removed  his  dry  goods 
stock from Shipshewana,  Ind.,  and  will 
close same out as fast as possible.

Muskegon—The  Magoon  &  Kimball 
Co. has been formed in this city, with an 
authorized capital of  §10,000  and  §6,000 
paid  in.  The  stockholders  are  Geo. A. 
Magoon, Geo.  C.  Kimball  and  Chas.  II. 
Kimball, their respective positions in the 
company being  that  of  President,  Vice- 
President, and  Secretary  and Treasurer. 
The new company will  handle  wood, ice 
and  oils,  and  do  a  general  forwarding 
and commission business.  C. 11.  Kimball 
will at once move  here from Springfield, 
Mass.  He  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the 
Michigan Washing Machine Co.

M ANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Ainsworth  &  Alex­
ander  have  agreed  to  erect  a  sawmill 
here, a §5,000 bonus being  the incentive.
Oscoda—The H. M. Loud & Sons Lum­
ber  Co.  has  rebuilt  its  tramways,  re­
cently destroyed by fire,  and  the  mill  is 
running day and night.

Ionia—The  Michigan  Overall  Co.  has 
increased its  capital  stock  from  §25,000 
to  $50,000,  the  new  stock  having  been j

taken mostly by the former stockholders.
Boyne City—Wm.  H. White will  build 
and operate a band sawmill, north of his 
present site, this fall.  The  capacity  of 
the new mill will be 30,000 hardwood per 
day.

Bay  City — Ross,  Bradley  &  Co.  are 
putting  a  large  patent  shavings  press 
into their plant, and  have booked orders 
already for several  carloads  of  shavings 
to be shipped to other cities.

Ionia—The  Ionia  Preserving  Co.  has 
been organized with  a  capital  stock  of 
$5,000, equally divided  among  Dr. J.  J. 
Defendorf, O. Scott Wood, Homer Strong 
and n. R. Wagar.  The corporation  will 
can vegetables and put up pickles.
Ludington—The Haskell & Barnell Co. 
has  been  organized  for  the  purpose  of 
manufacturing  articles  of  wood  and 
ganeral  planing  mill  work,  by  Haman 
Barnell,  George  T.  Haskell  and  Henry 
L.  Haskell.  Capital stock, $10,000.

in  Hayes 

St.  Helen — Henry  Stevens  &  Co.  re­
cently purchased of David  Ward  a  tract 
of  pine 
township,  Otsego 
county, estimated to cut  50,000,000  feet,
and expect to build  a  spur  track  which 
will enable  hauling  the  timber  to  their 
mills.

Horton’s Bay—The Horton Bay Milling 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock of $7,000  for  the  purpose of erect­
ing  and  operating  a  flour  mill.  The 
officers  of  the  new  corporation  are  as 
follows :  President,  Franklin  Coleman ; 
Secretary,  Levi  Lewis;  Treasurer,  Jas. 
Dilworth.

Tawas—The mill of  the  Winona  Salt 
& Lumber Co. is in operation,  starting a 
month later than usual, as the dock  was 
full of  lumber.  The  mill  will  cut  for 
the  owners  5,000,000  feet,  and  also  a 
number of million feet  for other parties. 
Last season the  mill  cut  9,000,000  feet; 
mostly out of small  norway,  running  20 
to the thousand. 
It is expected  the  cut 
will be larger this season, as  the stock is 
of better quality.

Lake Odessa— The  Columbian  Safety 
Cart Co.  has been organized here  to  em­
bark in the  manufacture  of  road  carts. 
The capital  stock  is  $10,000,  of  which 
$4,000  is  paid  in.  Geo.  W.  Irish,  of 
Grand  Ledge,  holds  300  shares  of  $10 
each,  and the remainder of stock is  held 
by  Lake  Odessa  residents,  as  follows: 
Frank W. Clark 50 shares,  W. S Hart 50, 
S. O. Hosford 50,  Lincoln Cass 50, W.  R. 
Aldru 50, W. J. Percival 10,  S.  Blair  20, 
Clyde  W.  Francis 10,  E.  Townsend  5, 
Geo. B. Yost 10, Frank  Winchell 5, S. II. 
Mallory 10,Arthur TolleslO, F.B.NimslO, 
J. J. Teeple 10, M. F. Armour 5,  W.  W. 
Carter 5, Jas. S. Scheidt 5, W. A.  Shafer

Detroit—James  D.  May,  receiver  for 
the  Anchor  Manufacturing  Co.,  which 
failed  last  fall,  appeared  before  Judge 
Reilly and asked that Wm.  M. McKellar, 
President  of  the  defunct  company, and 
Moore  &  Moore,  attorneys  representing 
the stockholders,  be  ordered  to produce 
the stock  book,  showing  the  holders  of 
stocks numbered from 1 to 150.  Another 
order was asked for  against  W. F. Linn, 
Secretary,  that  he  produce  the  cash 
hook.  Receiver  May  claims  the  stock 
book  is  being  withheld  to  prevent  the 
enforcement  of  the  payment  of  an  as­
sessment  on  it  which  is  due,  and  that 
the  Secretary  is  clinging  to  the  cash 
hook  because  he  claims  that  there  is 
money due him.

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

RootBeerExtract

It Is a pare, concentrated  E xtract of Roots 
It makes a refreshing, healthful  summer  bever 

and  Herbs.

age at a moderate cost, for family use.

Every dozen  is  packed  in  a  SHOW  STAND, 
which  greatly increases the  sale, as it is  always 
in sight.

25-cent size only $1.75 per doz.

3 dozen for $5.

For  sale  by  all  jobbers.  Order  a  supply from 
your  wholesale  house.  Show cards  and  adver 
Using matter are packed in each dozen.

H. F. HASTINGS,

Manufacturers’ Agent,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

OXFORDS.

Men’s, 40 cents net,

Boys’, 37 cents,

Youths’, 34 cents.

G. R. MAYHEW,

Grand  Rapids•

THE  MICŒÏIGA.lSr  TRADESMAN
She  Asked No More  Questions.
A man  boarded  a train  the other  day 
and took a seat in front of a woman  who 
was  very  curious  about  the  country. 
She  asked  about  the  crops,  about  the 
price  of  land,  the  characteristics of  the 
people,  the  climate  and  many  other 
things.  To all her inquiries the stranger 
returned  a  respectful  “1  don’t  know, 
ma’am, 1 really  don’t  know.”

ÄNNOUNGEMENw

consent. 

J .  i

The firm of  Williams, Slieley & Brooks  is this  day dissolved by mutual 

WILLIAM  C.  WILLIAMS,
ALANSON  SHELEY,
ALANSON  S.  BROOKS.

“Is  this  as  good  a  climate  as  New 

Detroit, May  27, 1891. 

5

Purely Personal.

M.  M.  Whitney,  Jackson  representa­
tive for Fleischman  & Co., was  in  town 
several days last week.

A.  H.  Wiggins,  of  the  firm  of  J.  F. 
Barrows & Co.,  druggists  at  Lawrence, 
spent Sunday in the city.

W.  D.  Brainerd,  of  the  drug  firm of 
W.  D.  Brainerd &Co., druggist at Eaton 
liapids, was in town last Wednesday.

Wm. T. Lamoreaux left Saturday night 
for Boston,  where  he  will  spend a week 
in  the  pursuit  of  pointers  on  the  wool 
market.

Cyrus Prince,  grocer  at Yermontviile, 
and H.  H.  Church,  book  and  stationery 
dealer  at  the  same  place,  were  in  the 
Grand Bapids market  last week.

Lee Deuel, the Bradley general dealer, 
surprised  his  friends  and  patrons  last 
week by introducing  a  bran new wife to 
his home.  The  bride  is an Indiana lady 
and is a worthy  associate  of  one  of  the 
best of men.

D.  H.  Palmer,  formerly  book-keeper 
for Swift & Company, left  Saturday  for 
New  York, whence  he  sails  for  Liver­
pool on the  3rd  on  the  Teutonia.  He 
will spend the summer  in  England  and 
France, returning to Grand Rapids in the 
fall to begin the study of law.

Geo. A. Sage who has sold his stock af­
ter a career of fifteen years as a grocer at 
Rockford, paid his  parting  compliments 
to the jobbing trade  at  this market  last 
week.  Mr. Sage has always been  a wel­
come  visitor  and  his  retirement  from 
trade is a matter of general regret.

Gripsack Brigade

Frank E. Edmunds, formerly connected 
with  the  Auditor’s  office  of  the G.  R.  & 
L, has engaged to travel  for  J.  L.  Stre- 
litsky.  He is a brother of Tatty Bill.

Louis Immegart has purchased  an  in­
terest in the grocery stock of S.  W.  Per­
kins, at Traverse  City.  The  new  firm 
will be known as S. W. Perkins & Co.

Frank E. Chase says that  the new pro­
prietors  of  the  Northern  Hotel,  at  Big 
Rapids,  run  a  better  house  at  $3  than 
the  cranky  and  crazy  Sid.  did  at  the 
$3.50 rate.
J.  H. Bennett, traveling representative 
for the Grand  Rapids  Refrigerator  Co., 
has removed his family from Minneapolis 
to this city, having purchased a handsome 
residence  on  Paris  avenue.

The Muskegon Cracker Co.  has  re-en­
gaged its four traveling salesmen—L.  C. 
Bradford,  I. W.  Feighner,  A. S.  McWil­
liams and  O.  Rasmus.  The  re-engage­
ment indicates that the boys  have  given 
good satisfaction during  the past year.

Chas.  E  Watson,  who has  represented 
S.  A.  Maxwell & Co.  for the  past  eight 
years,  has  engaged  to 
travel  for  the 
Burrows  Brothers  Company,  of  Cleve­
land.  He will  cover the Saginaw valley, 
the Lake Huron towns, the Upper Penin­
sula  as  far  as  Duluth  and  his  former 
customers  in  the  Western  part  of  the 
State.
Geo. H. Seymour  received  the  second 
prize of 35100 cash in the J. G. Butler To­
bacco Co.’s distribution, while  the  third 
prize of $50 cash went to  Jas.  N.  Brad­
ford.  The four retailers’ prizes, $50, $35, 
$15 and $10, went to the  following  deal­
ers  in  the  order  named:  S.  Fox,  Eck- 
ford; S. Phelps, Ceresco;  E. A.  Jackson, 
Roxana; S. E.  Phillips,  Hastings.

John  Allgier,  grocer  at the  corner of 
Clancy and Fairbanks  streets, has added 
a line of  boots and  shoes.

York?”

say.”

tented?”

“I think so, ma’am, but really I cannot 

“Do  the  people  seem  to  be well con­

“I don’t know.”
“Whom  do  they seem  to prefer  as  a 

presidential  candidate?”

“I can’t say, ma’am.
“Are the farmers low-spirited over the 

decline  in. wheat?”

“They may be, but i have no means of 

knowing.”

“Should you say this was a good  state 

for a young man to  begin life in?”

“I shouldn’t like to  give  an opinion.” 
His  non-committal  answers  annoyed 
the woman.  She  was  silent  for  half  a 
minute, and then began again:

“Have you been  in Michigan long?” 

“Three  years,  ma’am.”

“And  yet  you  don’t seem  to be  very 
well informed about matters and things?” 
“Well,  ma’am,  to  tell you the truth,” 
he  replied,  as  he  turned  about,  “I’m 
a resident of Ohio. 
I came  up here  and 
stole a horse,  and was  sent to the  Ionia 
prison for  three  years. 
I  haven’t been 
out more than two hours yet.”

low Lower.

His questioner rose and took the fourth 
seat back,  “in  a way  to make  the  dust 
tty,” as  the  reporter  expressed  it,  and 
did not^open  her  mouth  again,  even to 
the  conductor,  until  the train was  run­
ning into  Detroit.
Wools  Dull—Hides  Unchanged—Tal­
Wools  are  dull  and  slow,  with  no 
activity in cloths.  Prices  in  the  coun­
try are higher than on the seaboard. 
In 
fact,a lot of unwashed was sold in Boston, 
shipped into the country and sold  for  3c 
per pound profit  to  the  country  buyer. 
Australian is in good demand to manufac­
turers who are running  on  short  orders 
with many in part or wholly  shut  down. 
Stocks are small for this time of the year, 
except in Michigan fleece,  on which con­
cessions have to be made to  effect sales.
Hides have somewhat recovered in  de­
mand, but remain at the  declined  price, 
with no sales worthy of note.  They  are 
held higher  West  than  East,  and  it  is 
only a question of necessity  that  brings 
buyers and sellers together.

Tallow is in good supply  and  fair  de­
mand at  lower  priees.  The  matter  of 
shrinkage during warm weather prevents 
shipments, only as they have margins  to 
cover, which is ditlicult to obtain.

• 

Edison’s Dream.

It  becomes  more  and  more  evident 
that the greater successes of the  electric 
telephone  and  phonograph 
telegraph, 
have not exhausted  the inventive  genius 
of  Thomas  A.  Edison.  When 
that 
gentleman arrived in  Chicago a few days 
ago he was asked  what  electric  novelty 
he  had  in  store  for  the  World’s  Fair. 
He  replied  that  he  had  something  in 
view, but he  was  not  prepared  to give 
details just at present.  His  intention is 
to “have  such  a  happy  combination  of 
photography and  electricity  that  a man 
can sit in his own parlor and see depicted 
upon a curtain the forms of  the  players 
in opera upon  a  distant stage  and hear 
the  voices  of  the  singers.”

consent. 

The  firm  of  James  E.  Davis & Co.  is this  day  dissolved  by  mutual 
Detroit, May  27,  1891. 

JAMES  E.  DAYIS,
GEO.  W.  BISSELL.

Referring  to  the  above  announcements, we  beg  to  state  that  as  suc­
cessor to the firms of  W il l ia m s,  S h e l e y   tfc  B r o o k s and J a m es  E.  D a v is  & 
Co., we shall  endeavor to execute all orders  with  which we are  entrusted 
in  a  manner  which  shall  prove  satisfactory  to  all  customers  in  every 
respect.  Our  main  aim  shall  be to make  prompt  shipments and to give 
lowest possible prices.  We wish to state to those who have done business 
with Williams, Sheley & Brooks, that all orders  received  by us will  have 
the personal  attention of  a  member of that firm-,  and that orders  received 
from  customers of  James E.  Davis & Co.  will  receive  the  personal atten­
tion of  our Mr. James E.  Davis.  With kind  regards, and  hoping that  we 
shall hear from you frequently, we remain,

Yours very  truly,

Williams, Davis, Brooks  I  Go.,

11,13,15 & 17 Larned Street East.

THE  OLD  STAND.

William C. Williams.  James E. Davis.  Alanson Sheley.  Alanson S. Brooks.

To  ClothiBg  and  General  Store  Mer­

chants:

If your stock is running  low or out  of 
sizes  we  have  still a fair  line of  spring 
and summer suitings to select  from, also 
Overcoats, Pants, etc., and if you require 
samples  to  select  from,  send  us  word 
about the style and  price and  they shall 
be expressed to you, or, if  you write  our 
Michigan  representative,  W il l ia m   Co n­
n o r,  who resides  at  Marshall, Mich., he 
will  be  pleased  to  call  upon  you.  All 
mail orders promptly attended  to. 
It is 
wonderful the number of  mail orders we 
receive  for  our  elegant  diagonal,  also 
cork  screw worsted  Prince  Albert  coat 
and  vests  and  three  button  cut  away, 
frock and sack suitings of  same material 
and the many congratulations we receive from the merchants of  our perfect fit and 
satisfactory prices, and

W ILLIAM  CONNOR,

M arshall,  Mich,

Box 346, 

Please R e m e m b e r

| That  no  manufacturers  sell  more  ready-made  clothing in Michigan, and  that we 
catered for the Michigan trade for thirty years and knows their wants.

Our Fall and Winter line will be up to the usual standard.

MICHAEL  KOLB  &  SON,

ROCHESTER,  N.  Y.

William Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel on Thursday, Friday and Saturday June 
II, 13  and  13, to close  out  balance of  present  season’s  clothing at  less  than  first 
cost and will also have full  line of  samples  for the fall  trade and  respectfully so­
licits an Inspection of  new styles of overcoats and suitings in men’s, youths’, boys’ 
and children’s sizes.

'i’tTw  micthgajst  t r a d e s m a n .
Dry Goods Price Current.

D EM IN S.

J.&P.GOATS’

TOTE,  BLACK  ASB  COLOSS,

FOR

Hand and Machine Usa
P.  STEKETIE &

FOR  SALE  BY

Spring  Season 1891.

I f  You  desire to  sell

Garpets  by  Sample

Send for

Circular  and  Price  List.

QUAND  RAPIDS.

Voigt, M éëbt & GO.,

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

DRY GOODS,

NOTIONS,

OARPETS,

OURTAINS.
Shirts,  Pants,  Overalls,  Etc.

Manufacturers of

Elegant  Spring  Line  of  Prints, Ging­
hams,  Toile  Du  Nord,  Challies,  White 
and  Black  Goods,  Percales,  Satteens, 
Serges,  Pants  Cloth,  Cottonades  and 
Hosiery now ready for inspection.
Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed.

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St. 

GRAND RAPIDS, 

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-  MICH.

A W N I N  G S

A N D   TENTS.

N .   D   C a r p e n t e r , C a r n e g i e , P h i p p s * C o . ,  
P. M. Childs, Fairbanks,  Morse  & Co.,  g^pson...............20  ¡Imperial...............1034
.................18  ¡Black...................9® 934
I 
• 1034
W. H.  Gardner,  McCormick Harvester 

s a t i r e s

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Coechco..................10341

Flags, Horse and  Wagon  Covers.  Seat  Shades,  Largs 
Umbrellas,  Oiled  Clothing,  Wide  Cotton  Ducks, etc. 
CHAS.  A.  COYE,  11  Pearl  Street.

Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogne.

Téléphona  106.

6

BOGUS  BARGAINS.

A s Illustrated in the so-called Bankrupt 

Sales.

is  solely 

J o h n   N .  M o c k e tt  in   T o le d o  B la d e .
Don’t you think  the  merchants  of the 
city  are  entitled 
to  some  protection, 
from  the  press,  against  the  migratory 
class of dealers who drop into our  midst 
every season  and  announce,  in  glaring 
six-foot letters,  some  “bankrupt  sale,” 
“assignee  sale,”  or  some  other  quest­
ionable  “sale” ?  During 
the  past  few 
years this catch-penny method of gulling 
the  credulous  has  assumed  gigantic 
proportions.  There  is  hardly a  branch 
of  trade  but  feels  the  effects  of  this 
pernicious  system  of  doing  business. 
The jeweler, the  clothier,  the  boot  and 
shoe  dealer,  and  others,  all  have  the 
same complaint  to  make.  Let the daily 
papers consider the advertisements  they 
carry  of  their 
local  merchants;  they 
amount  to considerable every year.  Yet 
they will  publish  the improbable stories 
of these traveling montebanks whose aim 
and  business 
to  fleece  the 
credulous  and  unwary.
The press has it in  its power  to  crush 
this evil which encroaches upon the trade 
of the local  merchants.  Public opinion, 
once aroused upon this matter, the  state 
will make such laws as will force disreput­
able  and  worthless  schemers  from  the 
field.  The  merchants  of  the  city,  who 
have  settled  places  of  doing  business, 
must  bear  their  portion of  the  burdens 
of  taxation.  Every tax collector knows 
where  to  find  these  men.  The  peddler 
however,  has  no  settled  locality,  but 
goes  from  place  to  place  selling  his 
wares  without  sharing  any  of  the mu­
nicipal  expenses  which the  local  mer­
chant has to bear.
He may palm  off  absolutely  worthless 
goods upon  an  unsuspecting  public  at 
prices honest goods could be  bought  for 
from reputable dealers.  He can  rob his 
customers,  and  they  have  no  redress; 
for,  being but a  bird of  passage, he  can 
easily make his  escape  should  anybody 
return  to  demand  justice. 
It  is  in  the 
interest of  the consumers of the  city, as 
well as the merchants,  that this class  of 
persons  should  be  placed  before  the 
community  in  their 
true  light.  They 
should, at least,  be made to pay a proper 
license fee for carrying on their business. 
Start out one  of your reporters to  inter­
view the local merchants on this subject, 
and  you will  realize,  as  you  never have 
before, the curse of the nefarious system. 
It is not the intelligent buyer who suffers 
at the hands  of these  wanderers, but the 
poor and ignorant classes, who are led to 
believe 
the  glittering  promises,  so 
ingeniously made by these sharpers; it is 
these who  are  invariably  the  dupes  of 
the great  sham “Bankrupt,”  “Fire” and 
assignee sales.  And they, being citizens, 
should  have  these “fake” concerns  pre­
sented  to them  through  the  columns  of 
the press in their true light.

Tennyson  Sells  Milk.

A New York daily states  that  Tenny­
son adds a pretty penny to his income by 
selling milk from the  cows on his Isle of 
Wight estate.  More than this, he actual­
ly has the name of Alfred,  Lord  Tenny­
son,painted on the side of his milk-carts. 
This will give finical  aristocratic  admir­
ers of England’s laureate a shock.  Sen­
sible  folks  will  be  unable  to  see  any 
harm in it.  Milk  is  a  good  deal  more 
necessary to human existence (especially 
in its  early  stages)  than  poetry. 
It  is 
refreshing to  the  democratic  American 
mind to know that the  poet  laureate  of 
England  has  entered  the  commercial 
world;  and there is no  reason  why  this 
turn to business affairs  should  affect,  in 
the least,  the dignity of the exalted posi­
tion the  poet holds, so  long as  his  milk 
does not  become  as  thin  as  his  recent 
poetry.

Additions  of the  List.

The following additions to  the  list  of 
traveling  men  published  a  couple  of 
weeks  ago have be  handed in:
Limited, Pittsburg. 
Chicago. 
Co., Chicago.

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U N BLEA CH ED   COTTONS.

Arrow Brand  534 

C om et...............
D w igh t S ta r .. 
Clifton CCC.

Adriatic.................7
Argyle  ..  ..............   634
Atlanta AA.............  634
Atlantic A..............7
H..............  6*
“ 
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P ..............6
D..............  6*
“ 
“  LL..............  53£
Amory....................   7
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  5% 
Blackstone O, 33
Black Crow.............. 634
Black  Bock  ...........7
Boot, AL................  7*4
Capital  A................. 534
C avanat  V ................. 5341

“  World Wide.. 7
“  LL...............   5
Pull Yard Wide...... 634
Georgia  A................614
Honest Width......... 6%
Hartford A ............ 5
Indian Head...........  714
King A  A..................614
King E C .................5
Lawrence  L L ........  514
Madras cheese cloth 614 
Newmarket  G........  6
“
B  ...
.  53*
•«
.  634
N ....
“
DD..
.  534
*«
.  7
X  ...
.  5
Noibe R.
Our Level Best...
.  634
Oxford  R
■  614
Pequot__
•  734
Solar........
.  634
Top of the  Heap.. •  734
BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.
Geo. Washington...  8
A B C ......................814
Glen Mills...........  7
Amazon...................8
Gold Medal.........714
Amsburg.................7
Green  Ticket......834
Art  Cambric..........10
Great Falls.........  634
Blackstone A A......  8
TToYkP 
.....  7^
Beats All.................. 414
ju s? b u t:::..  '434® 5
Boston...................12
King  Phillip.......714
Cabot........................ 714
OP......714
Cabot,  X.................  6%
Lonsdale Cambric.. 1014
Charter  Oak...........514
Lonsdale...........  @  814
Conway W..............  734
Middlesex........   @ 5
Cleveland.............. 7
No Name............  714
Dwight Anchor......814
Oak View............  6
shorts.  814
Our Own............  514
Edwards................. 6
Pride of the West... 12
Empire....................7
Rosalind............   714
Farwell...................714
Sunlight.............  414
Fruit of the  Loom.  734
Utica  Mills.........814
Fitchville  ............. 7
“  Nonpareil  . .11
First Prize..............614
Vinyard.............   814
Fruit of the Loom %.
White Horse.......   6
Falrmount................434
“  Bock........ 834
Full Value..............  624
Cabot......................  7141 Dwight Anchor...... 9
Farwell...................8  I
Middlesex No. 1— 10
TremontN..............514
“  2....11
Hamilton N............   654
L............ 7
3 ....1 2
“ 
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7....18
Middlesex  AT........8
V 
0
“ 
8....19
no. a..::  9
B LEA CH ED   CANTON  FL A N N EL.
Hamilton N ............ 714 Middlesex A A
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2
Middlesex P T... ...  8
A O
A T ... ...  9
X A ... ...  9
X F ... ...1034
C A R PET

.11
.12
.1314
.1714
.16
Integrity, colored.. .21
colored__2034jWhite Star.............. 1834
“  colored..21
Nameless................20
...........25
.........2714
...........30
..............3234
......... 35
Corallne................$9 SOlWonderful............*4 50
Schilling’s ............  9 00 Brighton............... 4 75
Armory..................   624|Naumkeag satteen.. 734
Androscoggin......... 7J4 ¡Rock port....................634
Biddeford...............  6  Conestoga.................624
Brunswick..............  634|Walworth................ 624
Allen turkey  reds..  5241 Berwick fancies—   34

Peerless, white... ...18
Integrity................. 18341 
Hamilton  ...............  8

 
G G  Cashmere........21
N a m e le s s .................. 16
...............18

U N BLEA C H ED   CANTON  FL A N N EL.

H A L F  BLEA CH ED   COTTONS.

CORSET  JE A N S.

DBESB  GOODS.

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CORSETS.

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1014

“ 
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P R IN T S .

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“ solid black. 

“ 
“  C.  834 
gold seal...... 1034 

Cink * purple  634 Charter Oak fancies 434

robes...........  534 Clyde  Robes...........  5
u ffs...........  6  DelMarine cashm’s. 6
moum’g  6
pink  checks.  534 
staples........  534 Eddystone fancy...  6
shirtings ...  4341 
chocolat  6
rober—   6
American  fancy—   5241 
American indigo—   524 
sateens..  6
American shirtings.  434¡Hamilton fancy.  •••  6 
staple—   534
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  424 Manchester  fancy..  6 
....  634 
Arnold 
new era.  6
...  6  Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Arnold  Merino 
long cloth B. 1034 Merrtm'ck shirtings.  434 
“ 
Reppfum .  834
“ 
“  century cloth 7  ¡Pacific fancy..........6
robes............  634
“ 
“  green seal TR1034¡Portsmouth robes...  6 
“  yellow seal. .1034 Simpson mourning..  6
serge............ 1134 
“ 
greys .......... 6
“  Turkey  red.. 1034 
6
Ballou solid black..  5  ¡Washington Indigo.  6 
“  colors.  534  “  Turkey robes..  734
“ 
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  India robes—   734 
red and  orange  ..  534  “  plain T’ky X 24  834
Berlin solids...........   534  “ 
“ X...10
“  oil blue........   634  “  Ottoman  Tur-
“ “  green—   634 
“  Foulards__  534 Martha Washington
“ 
“ 
“  X  .......  934¡Martha Washington
“  “  4 4............10 
“  “ 3-4XXXX12  Rlrerpointrobes....  5
“ 
gold  ticket
“ XX twills..  6341 
“ 

key red..................  6
red a .......... 7  I  Turkey red 24........ 734
Turkey red........... 934
Cocheco fancy........  6  ¡Windsorfancy.........  634
indigo blue............... 1034
TIC K IN G S.A C A......................1234
Pemberton AAA— 16
York........................1034
Swift River............   734
Pearl  River.............1234
Warren...................14

madders...  6 I 
solids.......5341
Amoskeag AC A ....13
Hamilton N............734
D............834
Awning.. 11
Farmer................... 8
First Prize............. 1134
Lenox M ills.......... 18
COTTON  D R IL L .
Atlanta,  D..............634 ¡Stark  A 

.............8

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Amoskeag.............. 1214
9 oz...... 1434
brown .13
Andover..................1114
Beaver Creek AA... 10 
BB...  9
“ 
cc....
(i 
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
blue  814 
“ 
“  d a twist 1014 
Columbian XXX br.10 
“ 
XXX  bl.19

“ 

; Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue..........12
brown...... 12
Haymaker blue...... 714
hmnrn  7V
brown
Jaffrey....................1114
Lancaster............... 1214
Lawrence, 9 oz........1314
No. 220 
13
No. 250 — 1114
No. 280.... 1014

“ 
« 
“ 

“ 

OINOHAM S.
“ 
fancies....  7
“  Normandie  8

Amoskeag..,..........734
“  Persian dress 814 
Canton ..  814
“ 
“ 
AFC......1234
Arlington staple... ^ 634 
Arasapha  fancy... V 424 
Bates Warwick dreg 834 
staples.  614
Centennial............   1014
Criterion................ 1014
Cumberland staple.  514
Cumberland.......... 5
Essex........................414
Elfin.......................   754
Everett classics......814
Exposition................734
Glenarie.................   634
Glenarven................ 624
"I
Glenwood.........  
Hampton...................614
Johnson Chalon cl 
34 
indigo blue 934
zephyrs__16
Lancaster,  staple...  624
Amoskeag.............. 16341 Valley City.............. 1514
Stark.......................20  ¡Georgia...................1514
American...............16341 Pacific  .....................1*34

Lancashire.............   654
Manchester............   524
Monogram..............  634
Normandie............... 714
Persian...................   814
Renfrew Dress........734
Rosemont................. 634
Slatersville.............. 6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  ...................734
Toil  du Nord......... 1014
Wabash...................  714
seersucker..  714
Warwick...............   834
Whittenden............   624
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  624
Westbrook..............  8
.........................10
Windermeer........... 5
York..........................624

G RA IN   BAGS.

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“ 

“  

THREADS.

K N IT T IN G   COTTON.

Clark’s Mile End....45  I Barbour’s............... 88
Coats’. J. A P .........45  Marshall’s............... 88
Holyoke..................22141
White.
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14 .......37
“  16 .......38
39
*•  18 .......39
40
“  20 .......40
41
CAM BRICS.

No.  6  ..
“ 
8...
“  10...
“  12...
Slater......................  434|Washlngton............324
White Star............   434 Red Cross................. 324
Kid Glove...............  434 Lockwood...............
Newmarket............   434 Wood’s . . . . ............ 
jJ4
Edwards.................434¡Brunswick.............

..33
...34
...35
...36

B ED   F L A N N E L .

Fireman.................3234
Creedmore............. 2734
Talbot XXX...........30
Nameless............... 2734

T W ........................2214
F T .............  
3214
JR F , XXX............35
Buckeye.................3214

M IX ED   FL A N N E L .

Red &'Blue,  plaid. .40  IGrey S R W............ 1734
Union R.................2234  Western W  ............. 1834
Windsor.................1834  D K P .......................1834
6 ozWestern..........21  Flushing XXX........ £34
Union  B................2234lMaHltoba..................2334

DOM ET  FL A N N EL.

Nameless...... 8  @ 9341 
......   834010  I 

“ 

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“ 

...... 9  @1034
....... 
1234

Slate  Brown.  Black. I Slate.  Brown.  Black. 
934 
1034 
1134 
1234 

CANVASS  AND  PA D D IN G .
»34 
1034 
H34 
1234 

13 
15 
17 
20 

13
15
17
20

»3413 
103415 
1134 17 
1234)20 
D U CK S.

“ 

Severen, 8 oz..........   934 [West Point, 8 oz.... 1034
Maylana, 8oz......... 1034 
lOoz— 1234
“ 
Greenwood, 734 oz..  934 Raven, lOoz............ 1334
Greenwood, 8 oz —  1134lStark 
............ 1334
W ADDINGS.

White, doz............ 25  IPer bale, 40 doz— 87_50
Colored,  doz...........20  I
Slater, Iron Cross...  8  lPawtucket.............1034
«  Red Cross....  9  Dundie....................9
“  Best..............1034 Bedford..................1034
“  Best  AA......12341Valley  City.............1034

B iL B S iA s.

SEW IN G   S IL K .

2 
3 

“ 
“ 

.12 
..12 

CorUcelli, doz.........75  (Cortlcelll  knitting,

twist,doz..3734  per 34oz  ball........30
50 yd, doz. .37341
HOOKS  AND  EV ES— P E R  GROSS.
“ 
“ 

No  1 Bl’k A White..l0  INo  4 Bl’k A Whlte.,15
•• 
.20
•< 
.  25
No 2—20, M  C.........50  INo 4—15  F  334.........40
•’  3—18, S C.......... 45  I
No  2 White & Bl’k..l2  INo  8 White A Bl’k.,20 
“  4 
.23
«*  6 
..26
No 2........................28  INo 3..  ......................36

COTTON  T A P E .
..15 
“  10 
-.18 
I  “  12 
SA FETY   P IN S .

“  8 
I  “  10 

PIN S .

“ 
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“ 
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N E E D L E S— P E R   M.

A. James.................1  501 Steamboat...............   40
Crowely’s............... 1  35 Gold  Eyed.....................1 50
Marshall's..............1 00
5—4....2 25  6—4..3  2515—4....1  95  6—4. ..2 96 

TA B L E   O IL  CLOTH.
“ 

...3 10|
COTTON TW IN E S.

‘‘ ....2 10 

“ 

Nashua................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply — 17 
3-ply....17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 ply 1734 
Powhattan.............18

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............1834
Anchor..................16
Bristol...................13
Cherry  Valley........15
I X L...................... 13
Alabama.................  6% I Mount  Pleasant—   634
Alamance.................  634 Oneida.....................5
A u gusta)......................  734 Pyrmont....................   53£
An sapha...............   6  Randelman.............6
Georgia...................  634 Riversids................534
G ranite..................   534 Sibley  A...................634
Haw  River.............6  Toledo....................   6
Haw ,J.................... 6 

P L A ID   OSNABUROS.

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The  Axe  Trust in  Trouble.

From  the  New  York Post.
The American Ax and Tool Co., which 
undertook  to  monopolize  the  business, 
did not succeed in getting  all  the  facto­
ries  consolidated,  but  it  made  an  ar­
rangement with the  outside  concerns by 
which  uniformity  of  prices  should  be 
be maintained.  Then  it  made  a  heavy 
advance in the price of axes and went on 
swimmingly  until  a  lot of  old factories 
that  had  been  closed  in  the  previous 
struggle  of the  “survival of the  fittest” 
were encouraged  to reopen.  -This led to 
negotiations  to  bring  in  the  ousiders, 
who were nothing loath.  While  the ne­
gotiations were in progress the trust sent 
out its agents  to  make  secret  contracts 
with the trade,  ottering  a  heavy  rebate 
on  the former agreed price if the jobbers 
would agree  to buy exclusively from the 
trust.  But the jobbers were  too  smart. 
They refused to make such contracts,and 
then the double dealing of the  trust  be­
came  manifest to the  amazement of  the 
outside  manufacturers.  An  old-fash­
ioned fight ensued and is still going on to 
the joy of the  jobbers  and  the  consum­
ers, who are now  paying for  axes  what 
they can  be  produced  for  by  the  most 
skillful and best equipped concerns.
Carrying  Home  a  Stovepipe.

From the Buffalo Commercial.
“ Well,  I never expected  to  see  that,” 
said a Buffalo gentleman, walking up the 
avenue on a recent  pleasant  sunny  day, 
as  he  called  attention  to  a  man  on  a 
bicycle.  The man was at once recognized 
as  a  young  married  man  who lived out 
some  two  miles  or  more.  He  had  tied 
across his back a length of stovepipe and 
was thus enabled to  carry  his  stovepipe 
and handle his bicycle freely at the same 
time.  “ There was not money enough in 
the business to  have  hired  that  man  to 
ride the length of  Delaware  avenue  five 
years  ago  with  a  length  of  stovepipe 
strapped  to  his  back.  Now  he  is  a 
bicyclist, and  1  believe  he  would  carry 
market  supplies  on  his  head  if  the bi­
cycle customs favored it.  Anything that 
he can do to prove to himself and friends 
how  mighty  useful  such  a  machine  is, 
even  for  well-to-do  householders  like 
himself,  he  is  ready  for.  Surely  the 
‘tyrant customer’ is  a  powerful  leveler 
of  superficial  distinctions,  especially  in 
bicycling.”

Detroit—F. R. Ulrich is  succeeded  by 

J. C. Schenk in the hardware business.

H’HW  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay  prom ptly  and  buy  in  full  packages.
diS.

60
Snell’s ........................................................... 
Cook’s ..........................................................  
40
25
J e linings’, genuine......................................  
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................50&10

AUGURS AND BITS. 

AXES.

First Quality, S. B. Bronze...........................I 7 50
D.  B. Bronze.......................... 12 00
S.B.S. Steel................................  8 50
D. B. Steel.....................................13 50

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barro w s. 

dls.

Railroad..................................................... * 14 00
Garden...................................................net  30 00
Stove.  .......................................................... 50&10
Carriage new list.  .......................................
Plow..............................................................40*10
Sleigh shoe............................................... 
70

BOUTS. 

dls.

 

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST. 

Well,  plain................................................... I 3 50
 
Well, swivel...........................................  
 
dlS.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 60*10
Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60*10
Wrought Table.............................................60*10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60*10
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s ...............................................70&10
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70&10
Blind, Shepard’s .........................................  
70

Ordinary Tackle, list April 17,’85...............  

40

Grain......................................................dls. 50*02

Cast Steel............................................ per lb  5
Ely’s 1-10............................................ perm  65
60
“ 
Hick’s C. F .......................................... 
G. D ....................................................   “ 
35
Musket................................................ 
“ 
60

CARTRIDGES.

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

50
25

chisels. 

dls.

Socket Firmer...............................................70&10
Socket Framing............................................ 70*10
Socket Comer................................................ 70*10
Socket Slicks................................................ 70*10
40
Butchers’Tanged Firmer............................ 
40
........................... 
..........................  
25

Curry,  Lawrence’s ..................................
Hotchkiss................................................

combs. 

dls.

White Crayons, per  gross..............12@12*4 dls. 10

CH A LK .

C O PPE R .

“ 

Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
30
28
14x52,14x56,14x60 .......................  
25
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................  
25
Cold Rolled, 14x48........................................  
Bottoms....................................................   • 
27
drills. 
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks............. 
50
50
Taper and straight Shank............................ 
50
Morse’s Taper Shank.................................... 
Small sizes, ser pound................................  
07
Large sizes, per  pound................................   OH

D R IP P IN G  PA N S.

dls.

 

ELBOW S.

Com. 4  piece, 6 In........................... do*, net 
75
Corrugated..................................... dls. 20*10*10
Adjustable.............................................dls. 40*10
dls.

EX PA N SIV E  B ITS. 

piles—New List. 

Clark’s, small, 618; large, 126....................... 
30
Ives’, 1,118; 2,124;  3, *30............................ 
25
Disston's...................................................... 60*10
New  American.............................................60*10
Nicholson’s .  ...............................................60*10
Heller’s ......................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps...................................  
50

dls.

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

12 

14 

Discount, 60

13 
GAUGES. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................... 

28
18

50

dls.

HAMMERS.

 

dls.

dls.

“ 
“ 
“ 

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

HOUSE FURNISHING  GOODS.

Maydole  *  Co.’s.......................................dls.  25
Kip’s......................................................... dls.  25
Yerkes & Plumb’s..................................dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand— 30c 40*10 
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ..............................dls.60&10
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 4*4  14  and
longer.......................................................   3*4
Screw Hook and  Eye, 54..........................net 
10
“ 
net  8*4
“  %.................  
X..........................net  7*4
“ 
“ 
“  %..........................net  7*4
“ 
Strap and T ..............................................dls. 
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track —  50*10
Champion,  anti friction.............................  60*10
40
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
HOLLOW WARE.
Pots..........................................  
60
Kettles..........................................................  
60
Spiders  ........................................................  
60
Gray enameled.............................................40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware................................... new list 70
25
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
Granite Iron W are..................... new list33*4*10
4 00
wire goods. 
Bright......................................................70*10*10
Screw  Eyes............................. 
70*10*10
Hook’s..  ................................................ 70*10*10
70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s  ..................  
70
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
55
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..................  
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s...........................  
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s ................................................... 
55
Adze Eye.............................................. *16.00, dls. 60
Hunt Eye.............................................. *15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s    .................... 
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ................................... 
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Clt>. k’s................. 
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  

...........*18.50, dls. 20*10.
50
40
40
40
25
Stebbin’s Pattern—   .................................. 60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Steel nails, base....................................................1 85
Wire nails, base...................................................2 25
60......................................................Base 
50......................................................Base 

Steel.  Wire.
Base
10

Advance over base: 

knobs—New List. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

LOCKS—DOOR. 

MATTOCKS.

dlS.
dls.

levels. 

NAILS

dls.
dls.

dls.

dls.

 

 

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“ 
“ 

8.................................. 
 

3 ....................................................... 1 00
2 .............................................. 1 50
Fine 3................................................1 50
Case  10.............................................  60
“ 
  75
  go
ic  g 
Finish 10. . . . ..7.7.7........................   85
8 ........................................................................1 00
6.........................................1 15
Clinch; 10..........................................  85
8...................................1 00 
mi
1 00
6.........................................1  15 
Barrell %...........................................1  75 
2 50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   @40
Sciota Bench................................................  @60
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy.........................  @40
Beuch, first quality......................................   @60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood.........  *10
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
70
dls.
40
Iron and  Tinned................................... 
 
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................  
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27. -.  9 20 

PA T E N T  P L A N ISH E D   IRON.

rivets. 

Broken packs *4c per pound extra.

PL A N E S. 

PA N S.

d lS .

ROPES.

 

SQUARES. 

SHEET IRON.

8
dlS.
 

Sisal, *4 Inch and larger............................. 
Manilla.........................................................  11*4
Steel and Iron.............................................. 
75
Try and Bevels...................................  
60
20
Mitre............................................................ 
Com. 
*3 10 
3 20 
3 20 
3 30 
3 40 
3 50
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Com.  Smooth.
Nos. 10 to  14.....................................*4 20
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................4 20
Nos.  18 to 21.....................................4 20
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4 20
Nos. 25 to 26.....................................4 40
No. 27 ...............................................   4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86......................................dls.
Silver Lake, White A............................. list
“ 
Drab A..................................  “ 
“  White  B...............................   “ 
“ 
Drab B..................................   “ 
“  White C.................................  “ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
as
50
56
35

Discount, 10.

BASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

s a w s . 

TRAPS. 

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton *25
“ 
20
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__ 
70
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__ 
50
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot__ 
30
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot.............................................  30
Steel, Game.................................................. 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s —  
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion...............................*1.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market......................................... 70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market.............................................  62*4
Coppered Spring  Steel................................ 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  3 40
painted...................................   2 85

w i r e . 

dls.

“ 

h o r s e   n a i l s .

w r e n c h e s . 

Au Sable...............................dls. 25*10@25&10*05
Putnam.......................................... 
dls. 06
Northwestern................................  
dls. 10*10
dls.
Baxter's  Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe's  Patent, malleable............................... 75*10
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Birdcages.................................. 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................ 
"5
Screws, New I 'st..........................................70*10
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50*10*10
Dampers, American..................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........ 
65

dls.

 

 

METALS.
PIG TIN.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

6*4
7

ZINC.

26c
280

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2*4c per pound.
600 pound  casks........................................... 
Per  pound.................................................... 
*4@*4...................................................................J6
Extra W iping.................................................   15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market Indicated by nrlvate brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................per  pound  16
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MJCI.YN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.........................................*7 50
7  50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
9 25
14x20 IX, 
9 25

 
Each additional X on this grade, *1.75.

10x14 IC, Charcoal...................................... * 6 50
6 50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
8 00
14x20 IX, 
00

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

TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

Each additional X on this grade *1.50.

Allaway Grade.................  

ROOFING PLATES
Worcester..........................  6  50
14x20 IC,
...........................  8 10
14x20 IX,
.........................   13  50
20x28  IC,
5  75
14x20 IC,
7 25
14x20 IX,
20x28 IC, 
.................   12 00
20x28 EX, 
...............   15 00
14x28  IX....................................................   *14 CO
14x31  IX.........................................................15
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I per  poun<j 
io
14XOÜ12L, 

“ 
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BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

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GEO.  M.  SMITH  SAFE  GO,,

DEALERS IN

FIRE  AND  BURGLAR  PROOF

- S A F E S  -

Vault  and  Bank  W ork  a  Specialty.  Locks 

Cleaned  and  A d ju s te d .  E xpert  W ork 

Done.  Second hand safes 

in  stock.

Send for Quotations.

W I.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS

PENBERTHY  INJECTORS.

Manufacturers of and Jobbers In

Pieced  ami  stam ped Tinw are,  Rags,

M etals. Iron.  * ubber and W iping  Rags 

204 So.  Ionia St..  GRAND  RAPIDS. 

Telephone 64<;.

Grani  R. jilts  Electrotype  Co.,

ELECTROTYPERS

AND

STEREOTYPERS,

SIMPLE

RELIABLE

SSI

&

And Manufacturers of

Leads,  Sltip,  Brass  Rille,  Wood  and

Jielal  Pilrnitilre.

6 and 8  Erie St., GRAND  RAPIDS.

The Most  Perfect Automatic  Injector 

Made.

42,000  in  actual  operation.  Manufactured by

PENBERTHY  INJECTOR  CO.,

* 

DETROIT,  MICH.

F IR E   PRO O F 
STEAM   PRO O F 

B U RG LA R   PRO O F 

W A TER   PRO O F

Movers and Raisers of wood and brick build­

ings, safes, boilers and smoke stacks.

OFFICE  A N D   SALESROOM  :

157 and 1B0  Ottawa 81. 

Tel. 1173. 

G R A N D   R A P ID S .

8

Michigan Tradesman] o
Official Organ of Michigan Bosinew Men’a Association. 
Retail  Trade  of the Wolilerine State.
The  Tradesman  Company, Proprietor.

A.  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

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 0> •*.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY.  JUNE  3,  1891.

THE  FRUITS  OF  UNIONISM.
The street railway strike has ceased to 
cut any figure, so  far  as  any  difference 
between the company and its former em­
ployes is concerned, as the compauy  has 
supplied the  places  of  all  the  strikers 
and  is running  cars  on  all  its  lines  as 
regularly as ever.  Having  failed  to  ac­
complish  the  object  for  which 
they 
struck—three quarters of  the  men  hav­
ing no grievance but  going  out  because 
ordered  to  do  so  by  their  nnion—the 
strikers are now endeavoring  to  prevent 
people  riding  on  the  cars  by  intimida­
tion,  coercion,  boycotting,  stone throw­
ing, clubbing  the employes  of  the  road 
and  destroying  the  boarding  houses 
which harbor them. 
In this, the strikers 
and  their union friends have  been  par­
tially successful, but the spirit of Ameri­
canism is beginning to  assert  itself  and 
the patronage of the  street  cars  is daily 
increasing.

But  for the  encouragement  of  public 
officials  and  shyster  merchants, 
the 
strike  would  not  have  lasted  a  week. 
Most of those who sympathized  with the 
strike at  its  inception now  revolt at the 
pillage and destruction  which  have  en­
sued and  are  beginning  to  take  strong 
grounds on the side of law and order,  as 
they realize that the fruits of oath-bound 
unionism are riot, anarchy and murder— 
that the men who  belong  to  the  unions 
and cater to  their ideas bow their  heads 
to  a tyranny  ten  times more oppressive 
than that of the Czar of Russia.

At  a meeting  of  representative  busi­
ness  men, held  at  the  Board  of  Trade 
rooms Saturday  afternoon,  the  conduct 
of the  Mayor,  Common  Council,  Prose­
cuting Attorney and acting  Police Judge 
were  denounced  in  unmeasured  terms 
and  they were given to  understand  that 
the law must  be enforced and  order  re­
stored.  Unless  the demagogic public of­
ficials now do  their  duty  and  suppress 
the rioting  which  has  been  allowed  to 
continue under  the  name  of  unionism, 
the people will  rise  en manse  and  com­
pelí the enforcement ot the  law.

SHOULD  BE  DETERMINED.

One of the evils  of  the  bonus  method 

is thus set forth by the Detroit News:
It is intimated that the Cochrane roller 
mill making plant, which the city of  Es- 
canaba  secured  by  paying  a  generous 
bonus,  is  about  to  move  to  Virginia, 
probably for another bonus, and as many 
another Michigan  town  has  been  plun­
dered in the same way,  this would  be  a 
good time to see what the courts can do for 
the protection  of  bonus  paying  people. 
There has been one lower court  decision 
in  Michigan  to  the  effect  that  a  town 
which pays a price for a  factory  has  an 
interest in it, and must be  paid for  it  if 
the factory leaves.  The people of  Esca- 
naba  should  serve  an  injunction  upon 
the  Cochrane  institution,  aud  take  the 
matter to the Supreme Court  before they 
stop.

T he T radesman joins with  the  News 
in advising  the  people  of  Escanaba  to

make a test case of the matter, to the end 
that the exact status  of  bonused  indus­
tries may be established.

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing 
has  the  plates  of  the  new $2 certificate 
nearly  ready  for  the  printers.  There 
will not be so much lathe  work  on  it  as 
there is on the old series of §2  bills,  and 
much more of the white background will 
be visible.  There will  be  a  vignette  of 
the late Secretary Windom  in  the center 
of  the  certificate,  and  a  bright carmine 
seal  will  be  substituted  for  the  brown 
seal  which  appears  on  the  old  notes. 
This seal will  be  put  in  the right lower 
quarter  of  the  bill.  About  $40,000,000 
of the old $3 certificates are outstanding, 
and  as  fast  as  they  are  received  at the 
Treasury  they  will  be  marked  for  de­
struction.  _______________

At this lime, when America  is  paying 
the penalty of opening her  doors  to  the 
poor and oppressed—and criminal classes 
—of all nations,  any fact connected  with 
the importation  problem  is  of  interest. 
Sweden  recently  instituted  an  enquiry 
into the  effect  upon  the  population  of 
that country of the great volume of  emi­
gration to America,  resulting in the con­
clusion that the country is  being  almost 
denuded  of  young  men,  that  young 
women for  domestic  service  are  becom­
ing scarce, that the wages  demanded  by 
servants have risen to  double the figures 
of a few  years  ago,  that  the  supply  of 
conscripts is running short, and  general­
ly the country is being stripped of its ef­
fective population.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
argument that money  may  as  righteous­
ly be paid for the hire  of  money  as  for 
the  hire  of  any other kind of property, 
by denouncing  him as a  devil  and a vil­
lain  In the course of the  discussion the 
word “interest” is employed by both par­
ties as synonymous with  “usury,”  with­
out a suggestion of  the  modern  distinc­
tion between the two, showing  that they 
had in Shakespeare’s day the same mean- 
ing.
The religious condemnation of the tak­
ing of hire for money, which, during the 
early ages  of  Christianity,  owing to  the 
limited extent  of  trade  and  commerce, 
produced little inconvenience, proved  to 
be  very injurious, so  soon  the  advance 
of civilization and  the  developoment  of 
the world’s wealth made  it profitable for 
men to borrow capital  for  the  carrying 
out of their business undertakings.  Bor­
rowers were  compelled  to  either  resort 
to Jews like Shylock, who  had  no  scru­
ples  of  conscience  to  prevent 
their 
exacting the highest rates they could get, 
or else  to  equally  unscrupulous  Chris­
tians.  Both required payment,  as  mod­
ern usurers  do, not  only  of  what  their 
loans were  reasoiably worth, but  of  an 
additional  amount to  compensate  them 
for  the  odium  they  incurred  by  their 
transactions.  This,  at  length,  set  the 
ecclesiastical authorities  to  scrutinizing 
the doctrine on the subject,  with a  view 
to  discovering  a  method  by  which 
good  Christians  might  conscientiously 
compete in money lending with the Jews 
and  with  Christian  extortioners.  The 
conclusion they came to was, that,  while 
payment for the hire of money ought not 
to be exacted, the lender  was  justly  en­
titled to compensation  for  the profits  he 
might have made by using it himself and 
which  he lost  by lending it.  The  bor­
rower  was,  therefore, 
in  conscience 
bound to pay, not  use  or  usury  for  the 
loan made to him, but damages for keep­
ing the money out of the owner’s  hands. 
The law term for such  damages  was  id 
quod interest,  or, as it is  still  expressed 
in the  French  law,  “interest  damages” 
(domages-interets).  Hence 
came  by 
abréviation our modern “interest,’’which 
has entirely supplanted the old “usury,” 
leaving still attached to the  latter  word 
the odium which once attended all inter­
est.  The rates of hire  for  money  were 
therefore  fixed by law, and  “usury”  ul­
timately  denoted  only  the  exaction  of 
more than  legal  interest,  as  it  does  to 
this  day.  But,  though,  when  Shakes­
peare wrote  the  “Merchant of Venice,” 
the taking of  interest  had  been  lawful 
for half a century, the ancient  prejudice 
against  it  had, as  we  see, not yet  died 
out, and a certain obloquy followed those 
who practiced it.  More than this, it was 
many years before the courts could bring 
themselves  to  allow  interest  in  cases 
where it had  not  been  expressly  prom­
ised, aud then they did it only  upon  the 
same theory as that  upon  which  it  was 
first  conceded,  namely,  as  damages  for 
the wrong done to the owner of the prin­
cipal for not paying it  to  him on the day 
when it was due.

.Shellac is practically  cornered,  all  of 
the available stocks  in  Calcutta,  except 
of  one  grade,  having  been  shipped  to 
London and the United States,  and  pro­
ducers  refuse  to  sell  their  output  at 
prices  ruling  at  the  export  markets. 
Manufacturers declare that  they  cannot 
produce shellac  at  the  old  prices,  and 
that  a  readjustment  of  values  must  be 
made.  Part  of  the  advance  that  has 
been  made  in  London  and  the  United 
States must therefore be regarded as per­
manent.

Judge Champlin is out with  a  card  to 
the effect that the Judges of the Supreme 
Court work  sixteen  hours  a  day on  the 
average. 
If  the  Judges  are  not  more 
discreet.they will find their tribunal boy­
cotted by  the  labor  unions  for  permit­
ting the Judges to put in so many  hours.

Origin of the Word  “Interest." 

Careful enquiry  into  the  subject  has 
led me to the very curious origin  of  the 
word  “interest” itself,  as signifying  the 
compensation paid for the use of money. 
Anciently the term employed  was “use” 
or “usury,” meaning not unlawful or ex­
cessive interest, but  any  interest  what­
ever.  Indeed, until a very recent period, 
notes were drawn in  New England, and, 
for all that I know, in  other parts of the 
country also, payable “with use” instead 
of “with interest”  Now,  this taking of 
usury, or accepting money for the use of 
money,  was  strictly  forbidden  to  the 
Jews by the Mosaic  law  in  transactions 
between themselves, and it was only per­
mitted in dealings with strangers.  Chris­
tianity  retained  the  prohibition  and 
taught that it was a sin for a man  to  ac­
cept any kind  of  reward  for  a  loan  of 
money.  In  the  “Merchant  of  Venice” 
Shakespeare makes  the  Christian  Anto­
nio, vilify the taking  of  interest  to  the 
Jew, Shylock,  and  meet  his  reasonable

Canadian Sugar to Compete w ith Ours.
An  Ottawa  dispatch  to  the  Phila­
delphia Press says that “ it is understood 
that the government has decided to grant 
a  rebate  on  all  sugars  manufactured  in 
Canada for  export,  which  will place the 
Canadian refiner in  the  same position as 
the American refiner, to  trade in foreign 
markets.  Canadian  refiners  are  now 
pressing  for  a  rebate  on  sugar  manu­
factured for domestic purposes.”

Ma tth ew   Ma r sh a ll.

We  were  going to fill  this  space 
with a description of  our  new  place 
of business, but  a  representative  of 
one of  Detroit’s  largest  houses  re­
marked, after  being  shown  through 
the establishment:

“ You have the  largest and by 
far the  most  convenient  whole­
sale grocery  house  in  the state, 
and  the  cost  of  handling  your 
goods so reduced  by having cars 
run directly  into your store and 
other  conveniences,  it  would 
seem  an  easy thing  for  you  to 
undersell any of them.”

So, being  too  crowded  with  busi­
ness  to  write  an  article to  fill  the 
space,  we  will  simply  quote 
the 
truthful  statement  of  the  Detroit 
business man.

OLJiEY  l 
JUDSOJi 
GROßER  60.

P.  S.—As  we  write  this  article, 
we  count  fourteen  retail  delivery 
wagons in front of  our store waiting 
to be loaded.  Stop where you see 
the most  business going on.

Nos.  34-36-38  Ottawa  St.,  anil 

94-96  Loais St.

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9

of  the  national  banking  system  as  the 
only hope of the West  and  South.  The 
geography of  the one hundred and  four 
new  banks  established  during  the  last 
half year is therefore  all the  more inter­
esting.  Texas is credited  with  thirteen 
of these, and the new  state of  Washing­
ton with ten, as against twelve for Penn­
sylvania and seven  for  the  “gold bug” 
state of New York. 
Illinois,  where  the 
Farmers’Alliance has made itself apoliti­
cal power, and one of the chief  demands 
of  which  is  the abolition of  the  entire 
national banking system,  has  taken  out 
seven new bank  charters, with an aggre­
gate  capital  of  $1,450,000,  while  New 
York,  with  double  the  population  of 
Illinois,  has  taken  out  only  the  same 
number,  with  an  aggregate  capital  of 
only $500,000.  These figures  are  a  sig­
nificant commentary on the opposition to 
the  system,  and  show  how  thoroughly 
demagogic and superficial  it  is. 
In  no 
part of the country is  the system  so  es­
sential  to  growth  and  development  as 
where the greatest  opposition  has  been 
made to it.  The facts are all against the 
cranky agitators.

Good  W ords  Unsolicited.

B.  Zevalkink,  grocer,  Grand  Rapids: 

“We 
missed T h e  T r a d e sm a n this week.  Please mail 
us another copy, as we can’t  be  a  single  week 
without it.”

Albert Retan, dry goods, St. Johns:  “Send It 
along.  We  consider  The Tradesman the bus­
iness man’s  best  friend,  and  am  unwilling  to 
miss a single number.”
Geo. II. Spencer,general dealer, Pomona: “You 
must have fallen to receive the last $11 sent you, 
but as T he T radesm an is well  worth  $2  a  year 
to me, I enclose herewith another $1,  trusting It 
will reach you all right.”

Geo. B. Caldwell, State Accountant,  Lansing: 
“I must congratulate you  on  the  improved  ap­
pearance of T he T rad esm a n  this  week. 
It  is 
not only a credit to  the  Second  City,  but  indi­
cates that same progressive  spirit  on  your  part 
which  has  made  your  paper  valuable  to  the 
trade in particular and to those not now in trade 
who desire to know what the busy world  Is  do­
ing.”

M uskegon  N otes.

Charpentier  &  Charpentier,  whose 
grocery  store  on  Pine  street  was  des­
troyed in the fire, have engaged a store in 
the  brick  block  at  44  South  Terrace 
street, and have put in a stock of groceries.
E.  P.  Watson has removed his grocery 
stock  from  the  old location on  Terrace 
street to 5 East Western avenue.

C.  M.  Philabaum  has  taken  the store 
vacated by Mr.  Watson and resumed  the 
grocery business  under  the former style 
of  the  “Bee  Hive.”  The  stock  was 
furnished by the  Olney & Judson Grocer 
Co.  and Franklin MacVeagh  & Co.

FISHING TACKLE

-A- 

A N D

SPORTING G00DÛ

H E E ^ . I D Q T J - A . R . T E R . S .

8PRLD1NG  X  CO,

SUCCESSORS  TO

L.  S.  H IL L   «Sc CO.
Importers,  Manufacturers 

and  Jobbers of

Sportimi  &  Athletic  Goods.
40, 42 1 44 K. Ionia St.

100  Monroe  8h,

Grand  Rapids, Mich., April 8, ’91.
Having  sold  to  Foster, 
Stevens «fe Co., of this city, 
our  entire  stock of  sport­
ing  goods  consisting  of 
guns,  ammunition,  fishing 
tackle,  bicycles,  etc.,  we 
would  bespeak  for  them 
the same generous patron­
age  we  have  enjoyed  for 
the  p a st. ten  years,  and 
trust with their facility for 
carrying  on  the  sporting 
goods business our patrons 
will  find  their 
interests 
will  be  well  protected  in 
their hands.

Very truly yours,

SPA LDIN G  &  CO.

Having purchased  the  above stock  of  goods and  added to it 
very  largely,  and  placed  it  in  charge  of  William  Wood- 
worth,  who  for  many  years  was  with  L.  S.  Hill  & Co.,  and 
then  Spalding & Co., we  think we are  now in excellent shape 
to supply the trade of Western  Michigan.

Good  A dvice  to  W ool  Growers  and 

Written for The Tradesman.

Buyers.

The  day has come  when  parties  put­
ting up fleece wool, regardless  of  condi­
tion,  must  stop  or  accept  such  price 
at a lower rate  as  can  be  coaxed  from 
purchasers.

The indiscriminate stuffing of tags and 
unwashed wool and clippings with sweep­
ings from the  shearing  floor  inside  the 
fleece, both washed and unwashed, reverts 
back on the grower and dealer alike.

the  kind,  will  affect 

Again, an excess of twine (over 10 feet 
is an excess), the large size  of  same,  as 
well 
the 
price.  As to kind, a sisal or jute should 
not be used (binder twine of this  mater­
ial), as the small particles  come  off  and 
adhere  to  the  fleece.  The  cards will 
not remove it, nor will it  take  the  dyes 
to correspond with fibers  of  wool,  leav­
ing a spot on the cloth, giving it aspecky 
appearance.  The cost of  smaller or bet­
ter hemp or linen  twine  cuts  no  figure, 
even if 20 feet is used, but 20  to  30  feet 
of  regular wool twine does.  It should be 
glazed and less of it  used.

as 

For  all  this  disparagement  in  our 
fleece wools the grower is first to  blame, 
and the buyer next for taking  it  in  any 
such condition.  They are all now forced 
to look to it, or submit  to  the  deprecia­
tion.  Buyers may take it  from  the  far­
mer, but he  certainly  will  find  another 
disastrous year like the  past four,  if  he 
does.

All this  is  brought  about  by  foreign 
countries (especially  Australia)  putting 
up their fleece with care and light twine. 
They take off the  skirts of the fleece and 
sell each separately, tied  with  5  feet  of 
light  twine,  while  our  growers  don’t 
take off the skirting but stuff  in all they 
tagged off  from  sheep  in  spring.  The 
difference  to  manufacturers  is,  twelve 
times the cost  to  grade  for carding,  or 
twelve  men  to  grade  fleece,  with  tags 
left to be scoured,  against  one  man  on 
Australian and  no  tags.  Buyers  must 
see to it, and growers pay for past years’ 
negligence.

Better not wash this year.

Wm. T. Hess.

The national banking statistics for the 
last six months present some curious and 
interesting  features.  The  opposition to 
the  national  banks  has  always  been 
largely sectional in  its  character,  being 
confined,  for the most part,  to  the West 
and  South,  and  the  representatives  of 
these sections have denounced the East as 
being in the grasp of bankers and money 
kings,  and  have demanded  the abolition

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

Wall  Paper  and Window  Shades.
N E L S O N   B R O S. &  CO.,
T R IP  
Pipe  Wreneii
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Made  of Forged Steel and Interchangeable in all It» Part».  Sold by

HESTER  &  FOX, 

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THE  MICHia^JSr  TEADESMAN,

IO
Drugs ^M edicines.

State  Board  of Pharm acy.

One  Year—Stanley EL Parkill, Owosso.
Two  Years—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Three  Years—James Yernor, Detroit.
Four Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor 
Five Years—George G and rum, Ionia.
President—Jacob  lesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  Yernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—8- E. Parkill,  Owosso.
Meetings  for  1891—Ann  Arbor,  May  5:  Star  Island 
(Detroit) July 7;  Houghton, Sept. 1;  Lansing  Nov. A.
Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n, 

President—D. E. Pr&ll, Saginaw.
T int Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. 
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor. 
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vemor, Detroit.
Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in  October, 1891.

| G ran d   R a p id s   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty , 
President. W. R. Jewett,  Secretary,  Frank H. Escott 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March,  j 

June, September and December.
Grand Rapid» D rug Clerks* Association. 
resident, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith.________I

D e t r o it   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty . 

President» F. W. R. Perry-,  Secretary,  E.  8.  Anderson.

Muskegon  D rug  Clerks*  Association.

tisers.

President  C.  S. Koon ;  Secretary. A. T.  W h e e le r.
Success  and  Failure  Among  Adver­
Recent  statistics,  according  to  Brad- 
street’s Commercial Directory, show that 
in all lines of  industrial  life  more  than 
four-fifths, or over  eighty-two  per  cent, 
of  all  who  failed  in  business  in  the 
United States last year  were  brought  to 
that condition primarily because of  lack 
of equipment, either natural or acquired, 
mental or financial,  or  through  lack  of 
special  education  in  their  respective 
lines of trade.
It  is  clear  and  plainly  evident  that 
poor and superficial preparation for busi­
ness life is  the  one  great  weakness  of 
our  present 
training—the 
broadest of all  avenues  leading  to  fail­
ure. 
It is this lack of proper equipment 
which causes certain advertisers  to  fail, 
while others gradually work their way to 
eminent success and great wealth.  The 
great study  with  the  advertiser,  there­
fore, should be how to  start  right,  how 
to go on  right,  how  to  constantly  keep 
fully equipped.

industrial 

»  

*  

*

Advertising is a science.  What would 
be thought of a young man or youth who 
developed a genius for mathematics, who 
said, “I will not study arithmetic,  or  al­
gebra, or geometry. 
I will not give time 
to the teaching of the  professors or mas­
ters of the great  science, but 1 will work 
out  all  for  myself,  arriving  at  better 
methods, through the power of  my  own 
intellect  and  genius.”  However  great 
his natural ability he could not  progress 
far in a lifetime.  But if he availed him­
self  of  the  knowledge  left  to  all  as a 
heritage—treasure accumulated by thou­
sands of great  minds  in  the  years  and 
ages past—then might  he  become  great 
in the profound science, and possibly re­
nowned  through  some  advance  or  im­
provement or simplifying of methods.
The same holds true in  the  science  of 
advertising; the  man who becomes  great 
in it  must  possess  genius  of  a  certain 
description; and be must ever  be  a  stu­
dent—first, to secure the  wisdom  of  the 
past and present; second,  to keep in  the 
van, to be a leader in  the rapid march of 
progress.
As the  ordinary  youth  readily  learns 
enough  of  mathematics  to  very  well 
serve the purposes of  ordinary  business 
life, so may the ordinary advertiser  suc­
ceed moderately well with the same  half 
careless study and the same lack of  gen- 
ins.
Hard, patient work accomplishes much. 
In one sense industry  and  research  are 
the parents of genius.  Thus,  advertisers 
without  much  genius,  who  study  the 
science moderately, succeed fairly, while 
those who have natural genius in a  high 
degree, but who will not  work  to  learn | 
from others, almost invariably fail.  But 
great success is the  result of  the  happy i 
union of natural genius und  careful, pa­
tient study and investigation.

*  

*  

*

P r in ters’ Ink,  published  weekly  at  S3
a year, by Geo. P. Rowell  &  Co.,  New
York.
This little magazine is an  educator;  it 
teaches the science of advertising.  From 
an  editorial  standpoint  it  is  able. 
Its 
contributors are, in the  main,  the  most 
successful  advertisers  and  advertising

experts. 
Its  advertisers  are very large­
ly  the  ablest  advertising  agencies  and 
the liveliest and most valuable  advertis­
ing medium. 
Its proprietor, the  strong, 
leading agency,  of  whom  that  progres­
sive, thoughtful student  and  teacher  of 
the science of advertising,  Mr. George P. 
Rowell, is the head.  The  reader  is cer­
tainly brought in  contact  with  many of 
the brightest and  ablest  minds  who  are 
interested  in  advertising.  Such  inter­
change of  thought  means  constant  pro­
gress.
It is an exchange for the  promotion of 
the science of advertising through bring­
ing together, in free discussion, the ablest 
minds.  As a  publication  calculated  to 
successfully  educate  and  develop  the 
advertiser, it stands  entirely  unequaled 
and unrivaled in this or any other country. 
Issued weekly, its teaching and influence 
are  continuous  on  the reader;  thus  are 
men guided and  developed  almost with­
out realizing it.  This continuous educa­
tion  means  continuous  progress  for 
the  great  field  of  advertisers.  Do  not 
understand me as saying that all wisdom 
in the art is to be found in this magazine, 
but  1 do  say  that  more  is  to  be found 
there than  in  any  other  single channel 
in the world.  The chart is a little thing, 
but  on  it  much  of  the  saftey  of  the 
mariner  depends.  P r in ters’  I nk  is the 
chart  or guide to whom many advertisers 
already  owe  much  of  their  saftey  and 
success.
For  twenty  years  I  have  constantly 
advertised.  Successful  at 
the  start, 
through the value of an original, popular 
idea, I was weak  enough  to  fancy that I 
knew something about advertising.  The 
loss of  over one  hundred  thousand  dol­
lars in 1873 made a profound  impression 
on me, to the effect that 1  knew  nothing 
about it.  1 went to work to try to  learn 
the art,  and, by  constant  endeavor  and 
study, I have been able to  hold  a  place 
in the ranks of success.
Could  I  have  had  at  th a t  tim e  such  a 
magazine,  such  au  exchange of thought, 
such  a  teacher and educator as P bin tebs’ 
Ink,  1  think  1  should  have  saved  over 
one hundred  thousand  dollars  in 1S72. 
I 
also  believe  I  should  have  m ade  more 
money,  and  w ith  less  worry  and  care,  as 
the years  rolled by.
that  I 
would pay  a  high  price  for  P b in te b s’ 
1  would  pay  one 
Ink  if  necessary. 
thousand dollars a year  for it,  if it could 
not be secured for  less,  simply  because 
I believe it to be  worth  more  than  that 
sum to me in my business.

The  reader  doubtless  infers 

*  #  #

The successful lawyer studies the Law 
Reporter,  the  successful  physician  and 
surgeon  the  Medical  and  Surgical  Re­
view,  and  the  successful  advertiser 
Printers'  Ink.

*  

*  

*

Mistake  uot,  reader.  This  article  is 
not intended to flatter and does  not  flat­
ter.  Flattery imitates as nearly  as  pos­
sible the form of honest,  deserved merit, 
and the one is only too frequently  taken 
for the other.  Happy  are  those  whose 
keen perceptions enable them  to  clearly 
distinguish  the 
true  and  substantial 
from the false and hollow.

E.  C.  A llen.

Call for a Half  Cent.

is 

lost  because  there 

The A  cent has become  a necessity  in 
American trade, and the American News­
dealers’  Association  will  petition  Con­
gress to establish a % cent  coinage.  On 
1 cent papers the dealers’  profit  is  only 
%  cent,  and  in  many  instances  the  A  
cent 
is  no 
coin of this value.  Au  appreciable  loss 
| arises from this source in the course of a 
year. 
It is a favorable way  in  marking 
retail goods of all kinds to  rate  them  in 
such a way that the A  comes in,  and  in 
every case goes to the  dealer.  This  odd 
cent in  a  large  establishment  certainly 
amounts to several dollars  daily,  which 
the buyer loses and the  seller  gains  for 
the want of a A  cent  coin.  The  infini- 
tessimal division of  industry  and  retail 
supply long ago made  these  coins  a  ne­
cessity in Europe.  A centime istheoue- 
fifth  of  a  cent. 
Switzerland  has  a 
centime  piece,  Belgium  a  3  centime 
| piece, Germany  has  the  pfennig,  equal 
I to one-fourth of a cent.

BUSINESS  LAW.

Last  Resort.

CU PIED .”

Summarized  Decisions  from  Courts of 

INSURANCE— “ VACANT  A N D  

UNOC­

According to the  decision  of  the  Su­
preme  Court  of  Illinois,  in  the  case  of 
Rockford  Insurance  Co.  vs.  Storig, the 
question  what  is  meant  by  the  term 
“vacant and  unoccupied” in  a policy  of 
insurance is  a question  of law,  but  the 
question whether a building  was  at the 
time of a loss “vacant  and  unoccupied” 
within  the  meaning  of  the  policy  is a 
question  of  fact.

BANK —  PAYMENT—  DECEIT —  RECOVERY.
A  nank which ignorantly  pays  money 
to  the holder of  an  instrument  upon the 
faith of a  third person’s  statement  that 
he  knows  the  holder  to  be  the  payee, 
and is afterwards  compelled  to  pay the 
amount  to the  true  payee, may  recover 
the  sum  from  the 
third  person  in  an 
action of deceit, according to the decision 
of the Surpreme Court of Colorado  in the 
case of Lahy vs.  City  National  Bank of 
Denver.

In 

STATE  TAXATION— TELEGRAPH  COMPANY.
the  case  of  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts 
vs.  Western  Union 
Telegraph  Co.,  the  validity  was  ques­
tioned of  a law  of Massachusetts  which 
taxed the buildings, machinery and other 
property  of  the  company  within 
the 
State, first ascertaining and deducting the 
amount  of  property  of  the  company 
already assessed by  municipal  or  other 
local authority.  The  Supreme  Court of 
the United States  upheld  the validity of 
the  law,  but  directed  certain  modifi­
cations to be made in the judgment of the 
State  Court.

LANDLORD AN D  TENA NT— SALE  OF  GRAIN.
A  party  engaged  in  the  business  of 
buying and  selling  grain  in  Illinois  in 
August  and  December  bought 
in  the 
regular course of business  oats  and  coru 
of  a  tenant  amounting  to  $327,  which 
was  paid for at the time.  The  purchase 
was in the  ordinary course  of  business, 
without any notice  that the  vendor  was 
a tenant,  or  that  the  grain was  raised 
upon rented  premises,  and  there  were 
no facts or circumstances  shown  to  put 
the purchaser  on  inquiry.  The  tenant 
being indebted for the  rent, his  landlord 
sued  the  purchaser  personally  for  the 
value of the  grain, and it was stipulated 
that any  proof  showing  a  right  of  re­
covery in any form of  action  should  be 
admitted.  The Supreme Court of Illinois 
held, in the case of Finney  vs.  Harding, 
that the plaintiff could not  maintain  the 
action.  The court  said  that a bona fide 
purchaser of grain from a tenant without 
notice of  the landlord’s  lien  thereon for 
unpaid rent, or of facts  sufficient  to put 
him on inquiry,  will  uot be liable to the 
landlord  for  its  value  in  a  personal 
action, but  the  landlord  may  still  levy 
his  distress warrant  on  the  grain  if  it 
can be found and  identified.
Large  Umbrella.

The biggest umbrella iu the  world has 
been made for  the use of a West African 
king.  The  umbrella,  which  can  be 
closed in  the  usual  manner,  is  twenty- 
one feet in  diameter,  and is  affixed  to a 
polished  mahogany  staff  of  the  same 
length.  The  canopy  is  made  of  India 
straw,  lined with cardinal and white,  has 
a score  of straw tassels  and  a border  of 
crimson  satin.  On  the  top  is  a  pine­
shaped  straw  ornament  which 
ter­
minates in a glided cone.  When  iu  use 
the umbrella is fixed in the  ground,  and 
under 
its  shelter  the  king  is  able  to 
entertain  thirty  guests  at  dinner.

She  W as  Shopping.

Friend (noticing the confusion of goods 
of every description scattered  promiscu­
ously around  the  store)—Hello!  what’s 
happened?  Been  taking  an  inventory, 
had a fire, or are you going  to move out?
Merchant—That shows how  little  you 
know  about  storekeeping.  We  have 
merely been waiting on a lady who drop­
ped in for a paper of pins.

Gossip  A bout  Detroit  D ruggists.
D e t r o i t ,  June  1 — The  next  meeting 
of the Detroit Pharmceutical Society will 
be the  annual  meeting,  when  new  offi­
cers will be elected.
Don’t say a  word  about  it,  but  Fred 
Stevens, the hustling, genial and  highly 
respected druggist, a leader in the  drug­
gist base ball nine,  is  now  standing  on 
the brink  of  the  precipice  and  early  in 
June will leap into  matrimony.  Fred’s 
brother druggists all wish him joy.
The drug  business  is  quiet,  but  new 
stores are being opened in  all  directions 
by  young men who think  they  see  mil­
lions  in  it.  They  better  leave  their 
money  in  the  bank  at  4  per  cent, and 
work on a salary.
A genuine surprise was  sprung on our 
druggists by the consolidation of the bus­
iness of  Williams, Sheley & Brooks  and 
Jas. E. Davis & Co. 
It makes  a  strong 
combination and,  with  Jas.  E.  Davis  as 
general  manager,  things  are  likely  to 
hum.  Jas.  E.  is  built  that  way.  He 
can’t help it.
We are beginning  to  think  of  taking 
our  summer vacations, but  will  uot  de­
cide where to  go  until  we  know  which 
road affords the best walking.
Fred Perry,  the  retiring  President  of 
the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  has  filled 
the position to the  satisfaction  of  every 
member.  There is no  man  in  the  busi­
ness who stands higher in  the estimation 
of  those  in  the  drug business than  Mr. 
Perry.
There is  a  great  deal  of  curiosity  to 
know how  the  officers  of  the  Board  of 
Pharmacy will be  dealt  out.  The  next 
meeting will tell the story. 
A  Strong  Team.

***

The drug houses  of  Williams,  Sheley 
& Brooks and James E.  Davis & Co. have 
decided  to  amalgamate  as  Williams, 
Davis,  Brooks & Co.,  with a capital stock
of $300,000.  Mr.  Davis will  be  general 
manager and executive head.  Mr.  Wil­
liams will have  charge  of  the  finances. 
Mr. Brooks will  be  the  buyer  and  Mr. 
Sheley will be a plain partner with noth­
ing to do but share in  the  profits.  The 
new firm will occupy  the  present  quar­
ters of Williams, Sheley & Brooks.  The 
consolidation  makes  the  new  house  a 
strong one.

Test for Purity of  W ax.

The best method  to  ascertain  whether 
your beeswax contains Japan wax, resin, 
stearic acid, etc., or not,  is the following: 
Add one  gramme of  the beeswax to a so­
lution of  three grammes  sodium  carbon­
ate  in  ten  o. c.  water,  and  heat  to  the 
boiling  point.  Pure  wax,  on  cooling, 
separates  completely  from  the  liquid, 
which  assumes a very faint  opalescence. 
If  there  are  present  any of  the  above- 
named adulterants the liquid will become 
turbid and  milky.

The  Drug  M arket.

Opium is dull and lower.  Morphine i 
unchanged.  Quinine is weak.  Oil orange 
is higher.  Oil cloves  has  declined.  Oil 
cubebs  is  lower.  Lupulin has  declined. 
Strychnia has  advanced.  Linseed  oil  is 
lower.  Lycopodium has advanced.

Detroit—Wm.  H. Burke has purchased 
the drug stock of  the  S.  A.  Dupont  es­
tate.

Drng; Store for Sale at a Bariain

On  long  time  if  desired, or  will  exchange  for 
part  productive real  estate.  ¡Stock  clean  and 
well assorted.  Location the best ill the cliy. 
I wish to retire  permanently from  the drug  bus 
iness.

C.  L   BRUNDAGE,

Opp. New Post Office. 

117 W. Western Ave. 

Muskegon,  Mich.

G X X T S B X T G   R O O T .

We pay the highest price for it.  Address

DI?nir  DDnQ  Wholesale  Druggists, 
tTlUA  -DliUO.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Wholesale P rice  Current•

Advanced—Oil orange, strychnia, lycopodium.
Declined—Gum opium, oil cloves, oil cubeb, lupulin,  linseed oil.

ACIDUM .

8@  10
Acetlcum................... 
Benzolcum  German..  80@1  00
Boraclc 
..................... 
30
Carbolicum...............   23®  35
Citricum....................   58®  60
Hydrochlor...............   3®  5
Nitrocum 
.................  10®  12
Oxalicum...................  11®  13
Phosphorium dll........ 
20
Salicy Ileum............... 1  40©1  80
Sulpnuricum..............  134®  5
Tannieum.................. 1  40@1  60
Tartarlcum.................  40®  42

AMMONIA.

“ 

Aqua, 16  deg..............  354©  5
20  deg................554®  7
Carbonas  ...................  12®  14
Chlorldum.................  12®  14

A N IL IN E .

Black..........................2 00@2  25
Brown.........................  80@1  00
Bed.............................   45®  50
Yellow.......................2 50@3  00

BACCAE.

Cubeae (po.  90)........  90@1  10
Ju nlperis..................   8®  10
Xanthoxylum..............  25®  30

BALSAM UM .

Copaiba......................  55®  60
Peru............................  @1  75
Terabin, Canada  ......  35®  40
Tolutan......................  35®  50

CORTEX .

Abies,  Canadian— ...........  18
Cassias  ...............................
Cinchona F la v a .................   Ip
Huonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca  Cerifera, po............   20
Primus Yirglni....................  12
Qulllala,  grd.......................  14
Sassafras  ............................  14
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)........  10

24®  25 
33®  35 
11®   12 
13®  14 
14®  15 
16®  17

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

BXTRACTTJM.
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra..
p o .......
Haematox, 15 lb. box.
Is............
)4s........
J48........
f e k b u m .
Carbonate Precip......
Citrate and Quinla...
Citrate  Soluble.........
Perrocyanidum Sol...
Solut  Chloride.........   „  _
Sulphate,  com’l ......... 154®
pure............  @

“ 

®  15 
®3 50 
®  80 
®  50 
@  15 
“  2 
7

FLO R A .

Arnica..............   18® 
Anthemls..........  20® 
Matricaria 

20
25
...   25®  30

FO LIA .

“ 

«< 

“ 
“ 

OUMMl.

...................  20®  38
28
Alx.  35®  50
;■>
10

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-
nivelly...........   25® 
Salvia  officinalis,  54s
and  54®...........  12® 
Vra Ursl............   8® 
Acacia, 1st  picked....  @1  00
....  @ 90
....  @  80
sifted sorts...  @  65
po.................  75®1  00
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60)...  50®  60
“  Cape, 
(po. 20)...  ®  12
“  Socotrl, (po.  60).  @ 50
16).

“  2d 
“  3d 
“ 
“ 

Catechu, Is, (54s, 14 54s,
Ammonlae.................  25®  30
Assafoetlda, (po. 30)...  @ 20
Benzolnum.................  50®  55
Camphor®..................   52®  55
Euphorblum  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum..................   @3 00
Gamboge,  po..............  80®  95
Gualacum, (po  40)  ...  @ 35
Kino,  (po.  25)............  @  20
Mastic.......................  ®  90
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
Opll,  (po. 3 40)............ 2 20@2 23
Shellac 
....................  23®  30
bleached........  28®  33
Tragacanth...............   30®  75

« 
hbrba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia................................   ®
Majorum.............................   *
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
“  Y lr.........................  25
Hue......................................   89
Tanacetum, V......................
Thymus,  V..........................   25

MAGNESIA.

Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. & M —   20®  25
Carbonate, Jennlng5..  35®  36

O LEUM .

Absinthium................ 5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 00@8 25
A nlsl............................1  70@1 80
Aurantl  Cortex...........3 00®3 50
Bergamll  ...................3 75®4 00
Cajlputi.................... 
70®  80
Caryophyill.................1 00@1 10
Cedar  .........................  35®  65
Chenopodil...............  @2 00
Clnnamonll.................1  15®1 20
Cltronella».................   @  45
Conlum  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba  ....................1-20@1  80

Cubebae..................   .  @ 8 85
Bxechthitos...............   90@1  00
Brigeron.....................1  90@2 00
Gaultheria..................2 00®2 10
Geranium,  ounce......   ©  75
Gosslpil, Sem. gal......   50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................1  85@2 00
Jnniperi......................  50®2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonis...................... 2 50@3 10
Mentha PI per...............2 90®3 00
Mentha Verid.............2 50@2 60
Morrhuae, gal..............1  00@1 10
Myrcia, ounce............   @ 50
Olive........................... 1  00@2 75
Plcis Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
Ricini.......................... 1 04@1 20
Rosmarini............  
75@1  00
Rosae, ounce..............  @6 00
Succlnl.......................  40®  45
Sabina.......................  90@1  00
San tal  ....................... 3 50@7 00
Sassafras.  .................   45®  50
Sinapls, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tigli!..........................  @1  50
Thyi
m e.......................  40®  50
opt  ...............   @  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

POTASSIUM.

BICarb.......................  15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide......................  37®  40
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate, (po. 16)........  14®  16
Cyanide.....................   50®  55
Iodide......................... 2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  30®  33 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  ®  15
Potass  NItras, opt......   8®  10
Potass Nltras..............  7®  9
Prusslate....................  30®  33
Sulphate  po...............  15®  18

r a d i x .

“ 

“ 

Aconitum..................   20®  25
Althae.........................  25®  30
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  50
Gentiana, (po. 15)......   10®  12
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Uydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 40)..................   @  35
Hellebore,  Ala, po__  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po................... 2 40@2 50
Iris plox (po. 35@38) ..  32®  35
Jalapa,  pr..................   35®  40
Maranta,  )4s..............  ®  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei............................  75@1  00
“  cut.....................   @1  75
“  pv.......................   75@1  35
Spigelia.....................   48®  53
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentarla.................  40®  45
Senega.......................  50©  55
Similax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40 
M  @ 20
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Fcsti-
dus,  po....................  @  35
Yalerlana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
Inglber a ..................   10®  15
22®  25
Zingiber  j ...............  
SEMEM.
..  @ 15
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  22®  25
Bird, Is.....................  
4®  6
Carui, (po. 18)............   8®  12
Cardamon.................... 1 
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Sativa......... 4)4® 
5
Cydonlum..................   75@1  00
Chenopodium  ...........  10®  12
Dlpterlx Odorate.........2 00@2 25
Foenlculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po......   .  6®  8
L ini............................4  @4)4
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 3)4)...  4  @ 4)4
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Pharlarls Canarian—   3)4® 4)4
Rapa..........................   6®  7
Sinapls,  Albu............   8®  9
tf  Nigra...........  11®  12
SP IR IT U S .
Frumenti, W., D.  Co. .2 00@2 50
D. F. R.......1  75@2 00
 
Junlperis  Co. O. T —  1  75@1  75
“ 
.............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  B.........1 75®2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............1 75@6 50
Vini Oporto................ 1 
Vini  Alba................... 1 

“ 
“ 
“ 

1 

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 25@2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
2 00
carriage  ................. 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage..................  
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage ....................... 
65
Hard for  slate  use—  
75
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se.......................... 
1  40

SY R U PS.

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  ..'..........................   50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferrl Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................  50
Rhei  Aram..........................  50
Similax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................  50
Sclllae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
PrunBS  vlrg.........................  50

“ 

“ 

00@1 25

10@1 50

25@2 00
25@2 00

TIN CTU RES.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Aconltum Napellis R. 
F.
Aloes..........................
and myrrh........
Arnica.......................
Asafcetlda..................
Atrope Belladonna__
Benzoin.....................
“  Co.................
Sanguin aria...............
Barosma.........   ........
Can t harides...............
Capsicum..................
Ca damon..................
Co...............
Castor........................
Catechu....................
Cinchona  ..................
Co...............
Columba....................
Conium.....................
Cubeba.......................
Digitalis....................
Ergot..........................
Gentian.....................
‘  Co..................
Guaica.......................
ammon...........
" 
Zingiber....................
Hyoscyamus..............
Iodine.......................
“  Colorless..........
Ferrl Chlorldum........
K ino..........................
Lobelia.......................
Myrrh.........................
Nux  Vomica..............
Opll............................
“  Camphorated......
“  Deodor...............
Aurantl Cortex...........
Quassia......................
Rhatany....................
Rhei............................
Cassia  Acutifol.........
Co....
Serpentarla...............
Stramonium...............
Tolutan....................
Valerian....................
Veratrum Verlde........

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

i°po.

‘ 
“ 

Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  26®  28 
“  4 P ..  30®  32
Alumen....................... 2%@ 3

“ 
ground,  (po.

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antimoni, po..............  4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrin..................   @1 40
Antifebrln..................  @  25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  66
Arsenicum.................  5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......   38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, ()4s
11;  lis,  12)..............  @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
po ............................  @1  40
Capslcl  Fructus, a f...  @  20
@  20
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  12®  13
Carmine, No. 40.........  @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  20
Centrarla....................  ©  10
Cetaceum..................   @  42
Chloroform...............   60®  63
squlbbs ..  @1  10
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  50@1  70
Chondrus..................   20®  25
Cinchonldlne, P. &  W  15®  20
German 3)4®  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
60
cent  ......................
Creasotum............... @ 50
Creta, (bbl. 75)........... @ 2
5® 5
“  prep..................
“  precip..............
9®
11
“  Rubra...............
8
@
28® 30
Crocus  .......................
@ 24
Cudbear.....................
Cupri Sulpb...............
6® 7
Dextrine.....................  10® 12
68® 70
Ether Sulph...............
Emery,  all  numbers.. 
@
@ 8
po..................
.  50® 65
Ergota, (po.)  60.........
.  12® 15
Flake  White..............
@ 23
Galla.........................
Gambler.................... .  7  @ 8
@ 70
Gelatin,  Cooper........
French...........  40®  60
Glassware  flint,  70 and 10. 
hy box60and 10
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White...............   13®  25
Glyceilna.................. 17  @  25
Grana Paradlsl...........  @  22
Humulus....................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  90
“  Cor....  @  80
Ox Ruhrum  @1  CO
Ammonlati..  @1  10
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  70
.1 25®1  50
TchthyoboUa, Am.. 
Indigo........................   75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl.......... 3 75®3 85
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin......................  33©  40
Lycopodium____f....  4P®  43
Macis.........................  80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
IK). ...I.....  .........   2®  3
Manilla,  S. F ............   50®  60

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

TETE  MTCmO^LlSr  TTC A B E  RIMAIT.

“ 

K 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W .. .2 20@2 45 
C. Co...................... 2 10@2 35
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myrlsüca, No. 1.........   70®  75
Nux Vomica, (po20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia....................  33®  38
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co ... • ......................  @2 00
Plcis  Liq, N.  C., Vt gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcis Liq., quarts......  @1  00
pints.........   @  85
Pil Hydrarg,'(po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__   @  3
Plx  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumb! A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opil. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®  35
Quasslae....................  8@  10
Qulnia, S. P. & W......  33®  36
S.  German__24  @  30
Rubia  Tinctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv.  @ 33
Salacin.......................1  80@1  S5
Sanguis  Draconis......  40®  50
Santonine  .................  @4 50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
,f  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture........ @  25
@  18
Sinapls.......................
@  30
“  opt..................
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
©  85
Voes.......................
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 13).  . 12®  13
Soda  et Potass Tart... 30®  33
Soda Carb................. 1)4®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............ @  5
Soda,  Ash.................. 3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............ @  2
Spts. Ether C o........... 50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom...... @2 25
@3 00
“  Myrcia Imp........
Vinl  Rect.  bbl.
2 27)......................... @2 37
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal...... @1  30
3  @ 4
Sulphur, Subl............
2?4@ 3)4
“  Roll..............
8®  10
Tamarinds.................
Terebenth Venice...... 28®  30
Theobromae.............. 45®  50
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
7®  8
Zlncl  Sulph...............

FAINTS. 

11
58
Llndseed,  boiled  ....  55 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   50 
69
Spirits Turpentine__  43)4  50
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian..............134  2@3
Ochre, yellow Mars__ 134  2@4
“ 
Ber........134  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2)4  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure.....2)4  234@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
70@75
Green,  Peninsular...... 
70®75
Lead,  red.............  @7)4
“  w hite........  @7m
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders*.......   @96
1  00 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
Cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl 20@1 4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints......................1 00@1  20
VARNISHES.
.1  10®1  20
No. 1 Turp  Coach..
Extra Turp.............. .. 160®1  70
Bbl. Gal Coach  Body............ . .2 75@3 00
70 No. 1 Turp  Furn__ . .1  00@1  10
60 Eutra Turk Damar....1  55@1  60
50 Japan  Dryer,  No. 1
55
Turp...................... ..  70®  75

Whale, winter......... .  70
Lard,  extra.............. .  56
Lard, No.  1.............. .  45
52
Linseed, pure raw  ..

OILS.

H A Z B L T IN B

&  n s a  K I N S

D R U G   CO.

Im porters and Jobbers o f

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT  MEDICINES,
Paints,  Oils  Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sale Agents for th e  Celebrated

SWISS  1/ILLA  PREPARED  PUITS.

Fi  liie of H o  Druggists' Sites.

W e a re  Sole  Proprietor» at

Weatherly's  f/Iichigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

We B ave In Stock and Offer a F ell U m  et

WHISKIES, BRANDIES,

GINS,  WINES, RUMS.

We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
We give oar Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction.
All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day ws receive them.  Send in  a 

trial order.Jtaeltine i  Perkins Drily Go.,

GRAND  RAPIDS. MICH.

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T E T E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

GROCBRIB&.

Pearl  Barley.

To  pearl  barley  means  to  gradually 
wear off the rough  outer  coating or hull. 
Unlike other kinds of grain, the hull has 
a wonderful  faculty  of sticking and  the 
only way to get it off is to wear it off.
Oats are  easily  hulled  by  drying and 
afterward  passing  them through  or  be- | 
tween two gritty sandstones  dressed for 
this purpose.  Rice  and  buckwheat  are 
also easily  hulled,  but  with barley  it is 
altogether  a  different  matter,  and  the 
only  way  to  get  rid  of  the  hull  is to i 
place  the  kernels  between  two  sub­
stances, generally  stone  on one side and | 
steel bars  on  the  other,  and  hold them j 
there until the  hull  is worn away.  The 
stone revolves  rapidly  in  one  direction 
while the  steel  bars  revolve  in the  op-1 
posite  direction  at  considerably 
less 
speed, usually  in the proportion of four- j 
teen  to one,  or  while  the  stone  makes 
450  revolutions  the  bars  make  thirty. 
This  opposite  movement  of  the  stone 
and  bars  has  a  tendency  to  keep  the 
barley rolling, and as  it comes into  con- | 
tact with the  stone on one  hand and  the 
bars  on  the other  the  outside  coating is i 
worn off.
The simplest  possible  way of  making | 
pearl  barley  is to  put  it  into  a  barley j 
mill and  hold it  there  until  the hull is 
worn  off;  this  usually  requires  about 
ten minutes’  time,  but, of  course, much j 
depends upon the kind  of machine used; j 
whatever is  used,  the  principle  is  the 
same.  It is  to  gradually  wear  off  the 
hull without breaking the berry.
Since rolled  wheat has  become such a j 
favorite dish it has  become  necessary to 
hull the rough outer bran, and especially 
the  fuzzy  ends of  the  kernels,  before 
steaming and rolling.  The  barley  mill ] 
is  especially  well  adapted  to  do  this 
work,  but  speed  must  be  reduced 
considerably  so  as  not 
to  break 
the 
kernels.  It  also  requires  much  less 
In j 
time.  The same  is  true  of  wheat. 
the  manufacture  of  whole  wheat Hour, 
first pearl the  rough bran and  fuzz, then 
grind the balance  into flour.
As before  stated, the  simplest process 
of  making  pearl  barley 
is  with  one 
machine.  By this process  the hulls and 
flour from the barley are  mixed together 
and disposed of as  feed.  To  get a close 
yield  and  a  fine  quality  of  goods, 
several machines should be used, together 
with a full  line  of  separating,  grading 
and  cleaning  machinery.  The  Martin 
barley  pearling machine was  first intro­
duced  into 
the  United  States  at  the 
Centennial Exposition, and  is  now used 
in several  of  the  leading  mills  in this 
country. 
to 
automatically  feed  and  empty  the  pro­
duct, and  requires  very  little  attention. 
It is  very  light  running,  and  requires 
only  a five-inch belt to run it.  About 50 
per  cent,  of  pearl  barley  can  be  had 
from good clean grain.  The offal is very 
valuable  for  feed,  and  always  meets 
with  a  ready  sale  at  good prices.  The 
demand for  pearl  barley  is  increasing, 
but  the  consumption  of  it  is  largely 
confined  to  foreigners.  The  Yankees 
are  beginning  to  eat  barley  soup,  and 
find it  not  so  bad  after  all. 
It  is now j 
being used  largely  as  a  rolled  product 
like  rolled  oats  and wheat.
is  very 
carefully prepared; all the different sizes 
of wire and  perforated  metal are given. 
First  the  barley  is  passed  through  a 
grader  clothed  with  5-64x>£  inch  for 
small seeds and offal, then through 9-64x 
% inch  for  medium  barley,  the  coarse 
parley  passing  out  at 
the  end  to  be 
afterward passed to the pearling machine. 
From the first  pearler the material  goes 
to the scalper clothed  with  l-16x% inch 
perforated metal, then to aspirator where 
the hulls are  drawn  off, then  to  second 
pearler, and again to scalper  with 1-16-x 
% inch perforated metal, and to aspirator, 
then  to  No.  3  pearler  and  a  scalper 
clothed with  20x20  wire  for taking  out 
flour, next to  No. 4  pearler, and then  to 
polishing  machine  clothed  with  22x22 
wire;  then  to  aspirator  and to  grader, 
where the finished product is graded into 
six  different  grades.  By  this  process 
seventy-five  kegs  of  very  choice  pearl 
barley can  be made per day.

The  flow  sheet  here  given 

It  is  so  constructed  as 

W hen  W ar-Songs  M eant  Som ething.
A veteran of the Civil War,  in  speak­
ing of the  effect  of  war-songs,  recently 
said:
“I have been with the column,  march­
ing along roads which were muddy,when 
the men looked like anything but human 
beings as  they  crawled  along  splashed 
from head to foot with dirt,  their  cloth­
ing disarranged,  their pantaloons tucked 
in their stockings, and  their  heavy  bro- 
gans  laden  with  mud.  Some  strong- 
lunged fellow way up at the head of  the 
column would strike  up a  war-song. 
It 
might be  4 Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,’ or  it 
might be  John Brown’s Body.’  In an in­
stant he would be joined by  others,  and 
soon, away down the long road  as far  as 
the column  stretched,  a  mighty  chorus 
would be going up,  while the men would 
brace up, their eyes  brighten  and  their 
footsteps lose the weary movement as they 
kept  step  to  the  music.  Twenty-five 
thousand  or 
thousand  men 
stretched  out  over  a  long  distance  in 
marching, and you can imagine the effect 
of such a chorus of male voices.  Perhaps 
away off on some parallel  road, a mile or 
two away, another column  would be  ad­
vancing, and  this,  too,  would  take  up 
the refrain,  and the effect be  heightened 
two-fold.  Those  were  the  days  when 
war-song  meant  something  to  the  men 
who sang them.”

thirty 

Tack  It  on  the  W all.

quickly.

The  elder  Baron  Rothschild  had  the
walls of his bauk placarded with the fol­
lowing curious  maxims:
Carefully examiue every detail of your 
business.
Be prompt in everything.
Take time to consider and  then decide 
Dare to go  forward.
Bear troubles  patiently.
Be brave in the struggle of life.
Maintain  your  integrity  as  a  sacred 
Never tell business lies.
Make no useless acquaintances.
Never try  to  appear  something  more 
Pay you debts promptly.
Learn how to risk  your  money  at  the 
Shun strong liquor.
Then work hard and you  will  be  cer­

right moment.

than you are.

thing.

tain to  succeed.

B usiness  C h anges  a t  L eroy.

L eroy,  June  1.— H.  M.  Patrick,  who 
has been engaged  in  general  trade  here 
for the past  dozen  years,  has  concluded 
to remove his  stock  to  Cadillac  and  has 
| already taken steps in that direction.
Geo.  W.  Kellogg,  who has clerked for 
the H. M. Patrick Co.  for  several  years, 
has formed a  copartnership  with  M.  E. 
VanDusen, under the style of  Kellogg & 
VanDusen, aud  will  embark  in  the gro­
cery,  hardware  and  undertaking  busi­
ness.  The new firm purchased the hard­
ware and undertaking stock of the H.  M. 
Patrick Co.

Love  A t  F irst  S ight.

From  the  New  York  Weekly.
Friend—So yours was a case of  love at 
fiirst sight ?
j  Mrs.  Getthere — Yes,  indeed. 
I  fell 
desperately in love with my dear husband 
the moment 1 set  eyes  upon  him. 
I  re­
member  it  as  distinctly  as  if  it  were 
yesterday. 
I was walking  with  papa on 
the beach at Long Branch,  when sudden­
ly  papa  stopped,  and  pointing him out, 
said:  ‘‘There,  my  dear, is a man worth 
ten millions.”

Country Callers.

Calls  have  been  received  at  The
| T radesm an office during  the  past  week 
I from  the  following  gentleman  in  trade: 

W. D.  Brainerd, Eaton Rapids.
Hunting & Kelsey, Rockford.
T. Armock, Wright.
J. H. Manning,  Lake.

I 

A s  Seen  by  Canadian  Eyes.

From the Toronto Merchant.
T h e  Mic h ig a n  T radesm an  has  re­
cently  made 
in  a 
bright  new  cover. 
T h e  T radesm an 
1 always contains a valuable stock of read­
ing matter, and is  a  welcome  visitor  to 
I our exchange  table.

its  appearance 

Thos.  Reid  succeeds  Mr.  Hawkes  as 
local  manager  for  Swift  &  Company. 
Mr.  Reid  hails  from  Chicago  and  W. 
Hawkes will return to that place.

For the finest coffees in the world, high 
grade teas, spices, etc., see  J. P. Yisner, 
304  North  Ionia  street,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich., general  representative  for  E.  J. 
Gillies & Co.,  New  York City.
p r o d u c e :  m a k k k t .

Asparagus—40c per doz. bu.
Beans—No  change  in  dry.  Wax  commands 
$2.25 per bu.  String is  in  fair  demand  at  $1.50 
per bu.
Butter—The usual summer  glut  begins  to  be 
foreshadowed.  Dealers  now  pay  12@13c  and 
hold at 14c.  Creamery  is  in  moderate  demand 
at I5@16c.
Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand at $3.50 
per crate.
Carrots—20@25e per bu.
Cucumbers—65c per doz.
Eggs—The market  is  steady.  Dealers  pay  14 
@15c and hold at 15@16c.
Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb.
Lettuce—Sc for Grand Rapids Forcing
New Potatoes—Early  arrivals  have  sold  at 
$5.75@$6 per bu.
Onions—Green  command 10@15e. per doz., ac­
cording to Bize.  Bermudas bring $2.00 per crate.
Parsnips—40c per bushel.
steady.  Local 
Potatoes — The  market 
Pieplant—2c per lb.
Peas—Si.15 per  bu. crate.
Radishes—20c per dozen bunches.
Strawberries—The  market  is  well  supplied at 
Tomatoes—Not enough in market to quote.

is 
handlers pay 98c and hold at $1.

$1.75@$2  per  24  qt. case.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co.

PO R K   IN   B A R R ELS.

sattsaoe—Fresh and Smoked.

quotes as follows:
Mess,  new....................................................   II  50
Short c u t.....................................................   12 00
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  14 00
Extra clear, heavy......................................
Clear, fat back.............................................  13 50
Boston clear, short cut................................   13 75
Clear back, short cut...................................   13 50
Standard clear, short cut. best................. 
14 00
Pork Sausage...................................................7
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage.............................................. 9
Frankfort Sausage  ........................................  8
Blood Sausage.................................................  5
Bologna, straight............................................   5
Bologna,  thick.............  ...............................  5
Headcheese....................................................   5
Tierces............................................................8*4
Tubs.................................................................8*4
501b. Tins....................................................... 8*4
Com­
pound.
6*4
6«
7*4
7*4
6*4
6*4
654

Family.
Tierces .............................
....6*4
0 and 50 lb. Tubs............... ....62£
3 lb. Palls, 20 in a  case........ ....7*4
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case.........
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a  case........
50 lb. Cans...........................

lard—Kettle Rendered.

...69i
B E E P   IN  B A R B ELS.

LARD.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.....................   9 25
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................  9 25
Boneless, rump butts.....................................
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

Whltefish...............................................   @8
Trout......................................................  @8
Halibut..................................................   @15
Ciscoes...................................................  @5
Flounders..............................................   @ 9
Bluefish.................................................   @10
Mackerel................................................  @25
Cod.........................................................  @12
California salmon.................................   @20

o y s t e r s —Cans.

Fairhaven  Counts................................   @40

SH E L L   GOODS.

Oysters, per  100..................................... 
Clams, 
..................................... 

44 

1  50
100

10*4 11*4

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

STIC K   CANDY.
Full  Weight.

Standard,  per  lb................................. 6*4 
44  H.H....................................... 6*4 
Twist  .................................   6*4 
44 
Boston Cream  .................................. 
Cut  Loaf..............................................7*4 
Extra H. H.......................................... 7*4 

Bbls.  Pails.
7*4
7*4
7*4
9*4
8*4
8*4

M IX ED   CANDY.
Full Weight.

 

44 

44 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

fancy—In bulk.
Full Weight. 

Pails.
Bbls. 
7*4
Standard.......................................6*4 
Leader.......................................... 6*4 
7*4
Special.......................................... 7 
8
8
Royal............................................ 7 
Nobby...........................................7*4 
8*4
8*4
Broken..........................................7*4 
English  Rock.............................. 7*4 
8*4
8
Conserves.................................... 7 
8*4
Broken Taffy................................7*4 
Peanut Squares................................................. 9
10
Extra............................................. 
French Creams.............................  
10*4
Valley  Creams.............................  
13*4
Bbls.  Pails.
11*4
12*4
12*4
14
6*4
9
9*4

Lozenges, plain................................10*4 
printed.............................11 
Chocolate Drops................................  
Chocolate Mouumentals................... 
Gum Drops........................................ 5 
Moss Drops........................................ 8 
Sour Drops........................................   8*4 
Imperials................................ 
 
Per Box
Lemon Drops................................................... 55
Sour Drops......   ..............................................55
Peppermint Drops............................................65
Chocolate Drops...............................................70
H. M. Chocolate  Drops....................................90
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops..............................................1  00
A. B. Licorice  Drops....................................... 80
Lozenges, plain......................... 
65
printed............................................70
Imperials..........................................................65
Mottoes.............................................................75
Cream Bar.........................................  
60
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Caramels................................................... 15@17
Hand Made  Creams.................................. 85@95
Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams..................................— 1  00
String  Rock.....................................................70
Burnt Almonds............................................1 00
Wintergreen  Berries.......................................65
California,  128....................................... 
150....................................... 
176-2 0-226.......................... 

Fard, 10-lb.  box........J................
..........................
Persian, 50-lb.  box......................4
N U TS.

3 00
3 50
3 50
Messina, choice, 360.............................  5 25@5 50
fancy, 360.............................  3 75@6 00
' 
 
5 50
choice 300.
6 00
fancy 360..............................
O T H E R   F O R E IG N   F R U IT S .
18@19 
Figs, Smyrna, new,  fancy  layers__
@16 
@12*4 
@10 
@ 8 
@  6
@17 
@16*4 
@17 
@11 
@194 
@12 
@ @14 
@13 
15@17 
@4 00
@ 5*4 
@  7*4 
@ 5*4 
@ 7*4 
@ 4*4 
@ 6*4

Almonds, Tarragona.............................
Ivaca......................................
California..............................
Brazils, new...........................................
Filberts..................................................
Walnuts, Grenoble.  ..............................
44  Marbot....................................
Chili........................................
44 
Table  Nuts, No. 1..................................
No. 2..................................
Pecans, Texas, H. P .......................
Cocoanuts, full sacks...................
Fancy, H.  P., Suns.........................
44  Roasted............
Fancy, H.  P„ Flags.......................
44  Roasted............
Choice, H. P., Extras....................
44  Roasted.........

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

@ 8 

44  50-lb.  44 

choice  44

44 
44 
44 

44 
44 
44 

......... 

P E A N U T S.

ORANGES.

LEM ONS.

44 
44 

44 
44 

44 
44 

44 

44 

44 

“ 

OILS.

The Standard Oil  Co. quotes as follows :

Water White..........................................
Special White........................................
Michigan Test...  .................................
Naptha...................................................
Gasoline................................................
Cylinder................................................27
E ngine................................................. 13
Black,  Summer.....................................

@ 9 
@ 8* 
@8*4 
@ 7*4 @ 9*4 
@36 
@21 
@ 9*4

HIDES, PELTS  and  FURS. 

Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fo'lows: 

Hinxs.

Green..................................................................... ............   4 @ 5
Part Cured.........................................................
@ 5
......................................................... ............   5 @   6
Full  44 
Dry............................................................................
.............  6 @   7
..........  4 @  5
Kips, green  ..................................
............   5 @ 6
44  cured.........................................................
Calfskins,  green.......................................... ............   5 @ «
cured.......................................... ............   6 @ 8
.............10 @30
Deacon skins....................................................

44 

No. 2 hides H off.

FE L T S .

W OOL.

............10 @25
Shearlings...........................................................
Estimated wool, per lb ........................... . . • • 2 0 @28
Washed.. 
.................................................. 20@28
Unwashed............................  ....................  10@20
3*4® 4 
Tallow.........
1  @  2 
Grease  butter
1*4® 2 
Switches......
2 50@3 00
Ginseng
E N G R A V I N G

M ISCELLANEOUS.

It paysto Illustrate your  business.  Portraits, 
Cuts  of  Business  Blocks,  Hotels,  Factories, 
Machinery,  etc.,  made  to  order  from  photo­
graphs.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

44 
44 

44 
44 
44 
44 

Hams, average 20 lbs.........
16 lbs...........
12 to 14 lbs..
picnic.....................
best boneless..........
Shoulders..  ......................
Breakfast Bacon, boneless
Dried beef, ham prices......
Long Clears, heavy...........
Briskets,  medium..............
light..................

„ 

FRESH  MEATS.

44 

Swift and Company quote as follows:
44 
44 
'• 
44 
44 
44 

Beef, carcass.................
hindquarters___
fore 
___
loins, No. 3.........
ribs....................
rounds..............
tongues..............
Bologna.........................
Pork loins....................
44  shoulders............
Sausage, blood  or head.
liver..............
Frankfort...... .
Mutton..........................
Veal....................   ........

44 
44 

FISH and OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows :

FRESH  FISH.

9*4 
10 10*4 
■  7*4 
.  8*4 
614 
8*4 
10*4 
.  6*4 
6*4 
6*4

6*,<a8  @ 8*4 

4*4® 5 
@12 
11*4®
@ 8 
@12*4@ 5 
@10 
@ 7*4 
@  5*4
@ 7w 
@ 8* 
@

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

APPLE  BUTTER.

Chicago goods.................7H@8

AXLE GREASE. 
Frazer’s.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

.......................  
Aurora.

Wood boxes,  per doz  ...... 

Wood boxes, per  doz.......  

80
“  3 doz. case...  2  40
“  per gross........  >1 00
25 lb. pails..........................  1 oo
75
151b.  “ 
Wood boxes,  per  doz........  60
“  3 doz. case...  1  75
“  per  gross___6  00
Diamond.
50
“  3 doz. case...  1  50
“  per  gross___5  50
25 lb. palls......................... 
90
BAKING  POWDER.
Acme, H lb. cans, 3 doz  ...  45
85
*4 lb.  “ 
2  “  .... 
1  “  ....  1  10
lib .  “ 
io
bulk......................... 
Teller’s,  & lb.cans, doz..  45 
“  .. 
85
“  ..  1  50
Arctic, «  ft can s..............  60
 

14 lb.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 

Peerless.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“  H ft “ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

1 
ft 
5 
ft 
Red Star, 
a »   “ 
1 ft  “ 
BATH BRICK.

40
ft  cans........... 
........... 
eo
............  1  50

 
“  
“  

2 dozen in case.

 

 

“ 

“ 
“ 

8 oz 

bluing. 

English...............................  90
Bristol..................................  70
Domestic.............................   60
dross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals...................  4 00

BROOMS.
............................2 00

“ 
“  pints,  round........... 10 50
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
“  No. 3, 
...  4 00
“  No. 5, 
...8  00
“  1 oz b a ll........................4 50
No. 2 Hurl...............................  1 75
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet...........................   2 25
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem...............................2 75
Common Whisk................. 
Fancy 
M ill........................................  3 25
Warehouse...............................2 75
BUCKWHEAT  FLOUR.
Rising Sun...............................5 00
York State..........................
Self Rising............................... 4 50
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes................10*4
Star,  40 
1014
Paraffine..............................12
Wicking.............................  25

90
.................  1  20

CANDLES
“ 
 

“ 

 

 

 

CANNED  GOODS.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

PISH.
Clams.
Little Neck,  1 lb................. 1  10
2 lb................. 1  90
Standard, 3 lb.....................2 30
Standard,  1 lb..........................1 10
21b......................... 2 10
Lobsters.

“ 
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Star,  1  lb..........................2 50
2  lb..........................3 50
Picnic, 1 lb..........................2 OO
21b.......................... 3 00
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb...................... 1  20
2  lb.....................2 00
Mustard,  31b......................3 00
Tomato Sauce, 3 lb..............3 00
Soused,3 lb ......................3 00
olumbia River, flat........... 1  85
tails........... 1 60
Alaska, 1  lb..............................1 35
21b..........................2  10
Sardines.
American  5£s....................  5® 6
Hs.................... 7© 8
Imported  jis.....................11@12
14s.....................13@14
Mustard  « s ......................  @10
Brook, 3 lb............................2 50

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
“ 

Trout.

“ 
“ 

“ 

FRUITS.
Apples.

2 25
2 50
2 35

1  75

1  10

3 75

Gages.

Cherries.

Gooseberries.

York State, gallons__ 
Hamburgh,  “  —
Apricots.
Santa Cruz...................... 
Lusk’s.............................. 
Overland........................ 
Blackberries.
F. &  W....................... 
1 20
Red.................................. 
Pitted Hamburg.........  
W hite.............................. 
1 60
1 30
E rie................................. 
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
E rie............................  @1  60
Common......................... 
P ie.............................1  60@1  75
Maxwell...................'. 
2 25
Shepard’s .......................  
California..................2 60@2 75
Domestic......................... 
Riverside......................... 
Pineapples.
Common.......................... 
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
grated........ 
Quinces.
Common......................... 
Raspberries.
Red.................................. 
Black  Hamburg.........  
Erie, black...................... 

Peaches.

2 60
2 85

Pears.

1 10
1 30
1 40

1 25
2 25
1 30

1  60

2 25

1 10

“ 

Whortleberries.

Strawberries.
Lawrence...................
1
Hamburg....................
2 25
Erie............................
1  65
Common.................
1  40
F. &  W..............
Blueberries..............
1  30
Corned  beef.  Libbv’s...... -.2  10
Roast beef,  Armour’s...... ...1  75
Potted  ham, J4 lb............ ..1  10
tongue, 44 lb__
. .1  10
chicken, «  lb........ ..  95

“  H lb..............
a  lb........

“ 
VEGETA BLES.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

MEATS.

Beaus.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

2 50

Peas

Corn.

2 00
9 60
“ 
“ 
“ 

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Hamburg  stringless........ ..1  25
French style... . .2 25
Limas............. ..1  40
Lima, green..................... . .1 30
soaked.................. ..  90
Lewis Boston  Baked........ ..1  35
Bay State  Baked.............. ..1  35
World’s  Fair.................... .1   35
Hamburgh....................... ..1  25
Tiger)................................ ..1 OO
Purity.............................. ..1  10
1 20
E rie.................................. ..1  15
 
 
Hamburgh marrofat........
early June..........1  50
Champion Eng...
Hamburgh  petit  pois..........175
fancy  sifted
1  90 
Soaked............... ........
65
Harris  standard......... .
.1  io
Van Camp's Marrofat 
Early June.........130
Archer’s  Early Blossom__1  35
French...............................l  80
7 00
French..............................17©18
Erie.....................................   90
Hubbard............................ 1  30
Hamburg...........................1  40
Soaked................................   85
Honey  Dew........................1  60
Hamburg.............................
Van  Camp's........................1  10
No. Collins..........................1  10
Hamburg........................... 1  30
Hancock.............................1  05
Gallon................................ 2 75
German Sweet........
34
Premium................
Pure........................
38
40
Breakfast  Cocoa__
C H EESE.
N. Y. or Lenawee...
©11 @10*4 
Allegan  .................
Ordinary cream......
@10 
Skim.......................
© 8 
Sap Sago.................
©22 
E dam .....................
@1  00 
24©  25 
Swiss, imported  ....
15®  16
domestic  .. 
_
Llmburger..........................   15
CHEW IN G   GUM.
Rubber, 100 lumps...............35
............... 40
200 
Spruce,1200 pieces............... 40
Snider’s, 14 pint.................. 1  35
“  pint........................2 30
quart...................... 3 50
“ 
CLOTHES  P IN S .
5 gross boxes...............
.40
COCOA  SH ELLS.
Bulk............................
Pound  packages.........
COFFEE.
G R EEN .
RiO.

CHOCOLATE— B A K E R ’ B.

Tomatoes.

ft A TflTTP

@7

“ 

“ 

“ 

Santos.

.21 
• 2154

Maracaibo.

Fair..............................
Good............................
Prime..........................
Golden.........................
Peaberry............................23
Fair.................................... 2054
Good...................................21
Prime.................................2154
Peaberry  ............................2254
Mexican and Guatamala.
Fair.................................... 22
Good...................................23
Fancy.................................25
Prime.................................2254
M illed............................... 2354
Interior..............................26
Private Growth..................28
Mandehling...................... 29
Imitation...........................25
Arabian..............................2854
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent,  for shrink­
age.
McLaughlin’S  XXXX....25«

Mocha.

PACKAGE.

RO A STED .

Java.

Lion.....................................25«
“  in cabinets.................26
Durham.............................. 2554
Valley City........................  
75
Felix............................. 1 15

EX TRA CT.

“ 

Hummel’s, foil..................   1  50
tin ....................2 60
CHICORY.
gnlk.................................... 454
Red......................................  7
Cotton,  40 ft......... per doz.  1  25
1 40
1 60
1 75
1 90
90
1 00
Eagle.................................   7 40
C row n............................6 50
Genuine  Swiss.................. 8 CO
American Swiss.................7 00

CLOTHES  LIN E S.
50ft........... 
“ 
“ 
60 ft........... 
“ 
70 ft........... 
80 ft........... 
“ 
60 ft..........  
“ 
7 2 ff......... 
“ 
CONDENSED MILK.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Jute 
“ 

COUPONS.

111111

¡EMhr
“Tradesman.”
 
 

I  1, per  hundred...............   2 00
2 50
*2, 
3 00
*3, 
3 00
»5, 
810, 
4  00
820, 
5 00

“  “ 
“  “ 
“  “ 
“  “ 
“  “.... 

 
 
 
 

 

Cracked.

Wheat.

FISH—Salt. 

Bloaters.

“ 

“ 
“ 

6  @654

Yarmouth..........................
Cod.
Whole............... 
Bricks............................. 6 @8
Strips...............................8 @9
Halibut.
Smoked ......................
Herring.
Scaled.........................
Holland,  bbls............
kegs............
Round shore,  Yt bbl...
“ 
«   bbl.. 
Mackerel.

10V4
24
11  00
75
2 75
1  50
No. 1,54 bbls. 90 lbs...........12 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...............   1  25
Family, 54 bbls., 90 lbs......
kits, 10  lbs...........

Whitefish.

Pollock.
Sardines.
Trout.

Fancy.......................   3 50@4 00
Russian, kegs....................
No. 1, 54 bbls., 90 lbs...........5 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   80
No. 1,54 bbls., 90 lbs...........7 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   80
Family, 54 bbls., 90 lbs........3 00
kits, 10  lbs.............  50
Jennings’ D C.

“ 
FLAVORING EX TRACTS.

...2  00

*f
1  00 
...1  50
“ 
...3 00
“ 
GUN  PO W D ER .

Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding box
1  25
3 oz 
1  50
4 oz 
2  003 00
6 oz 
8 oz
4 00
Kegs
.5 50
Half  kegs............................3 00
Sage......................................15
Hops.....................................25
Chicago  goods............   454@5

JE L L IE S .

H ER B S.

“ 

LA M P  W ICKS.

.............10 
...  ...... 20 
CRACK ERS.
“ 

 

“Superior.”

“ 
“  • 

___
....
_____

8  1. per hundred...............   2 50
8 2,  “
3 00
8 5 , “ 
4 00
5 00
810,  “ 
$20,  “  “ 
6 00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts :
200 or over............  5 per cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 

“
“

Kenosha Butter..................   754
Seymour 
554
Butter....................................554
“  family...........................554
“  biscuit.........................654
Boston....................................754
City Soda............................... 754
Soda.....................................6
S. Oyster............................... 554
City Oyster. XXX.................  554
Strictly  pure......................  30
Telfer’s  Absolute..............  35
Grocers’............................ 10@15

CREAM  TA R TA R .

DRIED  FRUITS. 

CaliforniajEvaporated.

Apples.
Sundried 
.................  @10
Evaporated................13  @14
19 
Apricots.
10 
Blackberries...........
18
Nectarines..............
Peaches*..................
2017 
Pears,  sliced............
19 
Plums......................
13
Prunes,  sweet.........
PR U N E S.
Turkey....................
@  9 
Bosnia.....................
@10 
French ....................
@11
P E E L .
18 
Lemon.....................
18
Orange....................
CITRON.
@18
In drum...................
In boxes..................
@20
CURRANTS.
Zaute, in  barrels........ @ 5V4
in  14-bbls........ @ 5%
in less quantity 
@  5«
r a i s i n s  —California
Bags.................« .......7
London Layers,  2 cr’n 
3  “
fancy.
Muscatels,2crown  ...

2 10
2 20
2 35
1  60
1  75
Valencias...................
7?,i
Ondaras......................  8 @ SV4
Sultanas..................... 16 @17

3  “
Foreign.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

FARIN A CEO U S  GOODS.

Farina.
Hominy.

4

100 lb. kegs...................
Barrels............................ ..  3 75
Grits..................................
Lima  Beans.
6
Dried............................ 
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
60
Imported...................... 
11
Pearl Barley.
Kegs............................... 354@3J£
Green,  bu...........................1  20
Split,  Dbl.............................6 50
German.............................  
5
East India..........................  
5

Sago.

Peas.

LICORICE.

LY E.

Pure.....................................   30
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  18
Condensed, 2 doz................ 1 25
No. 9  sulphur.......................1 65
Anchor parlor...............— 1  70
No. 2 home............................1 10
Export  parlor...................... 4 25

M ATCHES.

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house....................  
Ordinary..........................  
Prime............................... 
Fancy............................... 
F air..................................  
Good................................. 
Extra good.......................  
Choice.............................. 
Fancy...............................  
One-half barrels, 3c extra 

New Orleans.

16
19
19
23
17
20
26
30
36

OATM EAL.

Barrels 200.................  @6 75
Half barrels  100................@3 50
RO LLED   OATS.
@3 50 
Half  bbls 90..............
Barrels  180.................
@6  75
PIC K L E S.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........86 75
Half  barrels, 600 count__3 88
Barrels, 2.400 count  .........   9 00
Half barrels, 1,200 count...  5 00
Clay, No.  216........................1  75
“  T. D. full count...........  75
Cob, No. 3............................ 1  25

Small.

P IP E S .

R IC E .

Domestic.

Carolina head....................... 7
“  No. 1........................6
“  No. 2...............   @5

Broken...............................
Japan, No. 1..........................65»
“  No. 2...........................554
Java....................................
Patna..................................

Imported.

ROOT  B E E R .

Williams' Extract.

25 cent size................................1 75
3 dozen.................................. $5 OO
Kitchen,3 doz.  inbox......   2 50
Hand 
...... 2 50
Snider’s  Tomato......................2 40

SA PO LIO .
“ 
s o u p s .

3  “ 

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Allspice................................10
Cassia, China in mats........  754
Batavia in bund__ 15
Saigon in rolls........35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
Zanzibar..................13
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
“  No.  1.......................75
“  No. 2.......................66
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 15
“ 
“  white...  .25
shot.........................19
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Allspice............................... 17
Cassia,  Batavia...................20
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................30
“  Zanzibar.................20

“ 

“ 

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“ 

Ginger, African..................
Cochin..................
Jamaica................
Mace  Batavia.....................
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste..
Trieste..................
Nutmegs, No. 2 ..................
Pepper, Singapore, black__
2030
“  white......
“ 
25
“  Cayenne.................
Sage.....................................
20
“Absolute” in Packages.
54s 
14s
Allspice......................  84
1  55 
Cinnamon..................   84
1  55 
1  55 
Cloves........................   84
Ginger, Jam ...............   84
1  55 
1  55 
“  Af..................   81
Mustard......................  84
1  55
Pepper.......................  84  155
Sage.............................  84

SUGAR.

Cut  Loaf....................  @  55£
Cubes.........................  @476
Powdered..................   @5
Granulated.................@ 4.44-54
Confectioners’  A....... @ 4.31-56
White Extra  C...........  © 454
Extra  C......................  @4
C ................................   @ 3«
Yellow.......................  @ 354
Less than 100 lbs.  54c advance

STARCH.
Corn.
20-lb  boxes...............
40-lb 
..............
Gloss.
1-lb packages.......................  6
.......................6
3-lb 
6-lb 
 
654
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  4«
Barrels.................................. 4«
Scotch, in  bladders.............37
Maccaboy, in jars................35
French Rappee, in Jars......43
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

SN U F F .

SOAP.

654

“ 
“ 

“ 

 

SODA.

Old Country, 80................... 3 20
Uno,100...............................3 50
Bouncer, 100....................... 3 00
Boxes....................................554
I Kegs, English........................4«
SAL  SODA.
 
Kegs..................... 
1«
Granulated,  boxes................2
ft ic 1C Tin
Mixed bird...........’....  454® 6
Caraway.............................. 10
Canary.................................. 354
Hemp..................................... 454
Anise................................... 13
Rape...................................   6
Mustard................................ 754

 

SALT

Diamond Crystal.

 
 

 
 

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“ 

“ 

“ 

Warsaw.

100 3-lb. sacks..................... 82 40
2 25'
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb.  sacks.................. 2  15
2 00
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases.......................  1 50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
50
25
28 lb.  “ 
.. 
35
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
28 lb.  “ 
.. 
18
56 lb. dairy  bags...............  
75
66 lb. dairy  bags...............   75
56 lb.  sacks.......................  27
Saginaw and Manistee. 
Common Fine  per bbl...... 
90
Church’s, Arm A Hammer.. .554
Dwight’s Cow.......................554
Taylor’s ................................5«
DeLand’sCap  Sheaf............554
pure........................554
Golden Harvest....................5

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.

8A LER A TU 8.

" 

SYRUPS.
Corn.

Pure Cane.

Barrels................................30
Half bbls.............................32
Amber.......................23  @25
Fancy drips...............28  @30
SW EET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps.............. 
7
Sugar Creams............  
854
Frosted  Creams.........  
8
Graham  Crackers...... 
8
Oatmeal Crackers...... 
8
SHOE  P O L ISH .
Jettlne, 1 doz. in  box............ 75

TEAS.

j a p a n — Regular.

F air...........................
Good..........................
Choice.........................24
Choicest......................32
D ust........................... 10
SUN C U RED .
F air............................
Good..........................
Choice.........................24
Choicest......................32
Dust............................10
B A SK ET  F IR E D .
F air............................ 18
Choice........................
Choicest.....................
Extra choice, wire leaf
GUNPO W D ER.
Common to 
fair....... i
Extra fine to finest__ !
Choicest fancy........... ’
Common to 
fair....... 23
Superior to 
fine....... 28
Fine to choicest..........45
Common to  fair........23
Superior to fine...........30
Common to  fair........18
Superior to 
fine....... 30

YOUNG  HYSON.

IM PE R IA L .

OOLONG.

@17
@20@26
@34
@12
@17
@ 2 0@26
@34
@ 12
@ 20@25
@35
@40
@35
@65
@85
@26
@30
@55
@26
@35
@26
@40

18

EN G LISH   BR EA K FA ST.

F air............................18  @22
Choice.........................24  @28
Best............................40  @50

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

“ 

“ 

Plug.

Pails unless otherwise noted.
60
Hiawatha................... 
34
Sweet Cuba................ 
McGintv....................  
24
54 bbls.........  
22
Little  Darling........... 
22
54 bbl.. 
20
1791............................ 
20
19
1891, 54  bbls................ 
Valley  City................ 
33
Dandy Jim...... .......... 
27
Searhead.................... 
40
Joker......................... 
24
Zero............................ 
22
26
L. & W.......................  
28
Here  It Is................... 
Old Style....................  
31
Old  Honesty......... 
4»
33
Jolly Tar....................  
Hiawatha...................  
37
Valley City...............  
34
Jas. G.  Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good.................... 37
Toss Up.................................. 26
Out of Sight........................... 24
Boss....................................  1254
Colonel’s Choice..................13
W arpath..............................14
Banner................................14
King Bee..............................20
Kiln D ried......................... 17
Nigger Head........................23
noney  Dew.........................24
Gold  Block................  
  28
Peerless............................... 24
Rob  Roy..............................25
Uncle  Sam...........................28
Tom and Jerrp.....................25
Brier Pipe............................30
Yum  Yum...........................32
Red Clover...........................30
Navy....................................32
Handmade...........................40
F rog....................................33
V IN EG A R.
40 gr.......................................8
50 gr........................ 
9

Smoking.

$1 for barrel. 

tsast—Compressed.

“ 

“ 

P A P E R .

TW IN ES.

Tin foil cakes, per doz........... 15
Baker’s, per  lb........................30
PA PER A WOODEN WARE 
Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol­
lows:
Straw 
................................. 1«
Rockfalls..............................2
Rag sugar..............................254
Hardware............................. 254
Bakers.................................. 254
Dry  Goods...................  554@6
Jute  Manilla...............   654@8
Red  Express  No. 1.............. 5
No. 2.............. 4
48 Cotton............................  25
Cotton, No. 1....................... 22
“  2........................18
Sea  Island, assorted......... 40
No. 5 Hemp......................... 18
No. 6  “ .................................17
Wool...................................   7
Tubs, No. 1.........................  7 00
“  No. 2.........................  6 00
“  No. 3...........................5 00
1  50
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  1  75
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes__ 
60
Bowls, 11 inch.....................  1 00
.....................   1 25
13  “ 
15  “ 
......................2 00
17  “ 
.....................  2 75
assorted, 17s and  19s 2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s 2 75
Baskets, market.................   35
bushel..................  1 50
5 75

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“ willow Cl’ths, No.l 

W OODENW ARB.

splint 

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

“  No.2 
“  No.3 
“  No.l 3 50
“  No.2 
“  No.3 

6 25
7 25
4 25
5 00

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M EAL.

FL O U R .

W H EA T.

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS 
W hite.............................  
1 04
Red..................................  
1 04
All wheat bought on 601b. test.
Bolted.................................  1 50
Granulated.........................  1 60
Straight, in sacks.............  5 60
“  barrels...........   5 80
“ 
Patent 
“  sacks.............   6 60
“  barrels............  6 80
“ 
Graham  “  sacks...........  2 60
...........  2 50
Rye 
“ 
M IL L ST U FFS.
Bran..................................  17 00
Screenings.......................  17 60
Middlings.........................21  00
Mixed Feed......................  25 00
Coarse meal......................  24 60
Milling................................   80
F eed...................................   60
Brewers, per  100  lbs........... 1  25
Feed, per  bu.......................  60
Small  lots.........................  65
Car 
“  .........................  60
Small  lots............................55
Car 
“  ............................ 50
No. 1..................................  13 00
No. 2.................................   12 00

BA R LEY .

CORN.

OATS.

H AY.

R Y E.

PARROTS  GIVEN AWAY!

know at once the number required.

Our agent is now securing  them  and it is important  that we 
■AST year  we  secured  1,000  Live  Parrots 

for our  customers,  but  the demand  far  ex­
ceeded our expectations and  we were unable to 
furnish  birds  to  all who  desired  them.  This 
year we shall endeavor to secure a larger supply, 
so that  every one of  our customers  who  so  de­
sires may have

A Real Live Parrot  FREE.

The best variety of talking parrots are secured 
on  the  Isle of  Pines,  about  50  miles  south  of 
Cuba.  They  are  beautiful  birds,  with  green 
plumage  and  red  breast,  easily  cared  for  and 
intelligent.  If  captured when  young and  well 
cared  for, a Pine Island  Parrot  n e v e r   p a i l s  t o  
b e c o m e   a   g o o d   t a l k e r .  Our  birds  are  all  se­
cured by O ur  Own  Agent,  lie  is a competent 
man of  fifty years’  experience, and will  secure 
only  healthy,  selected  young  birds.  He  lias 
now  sailed  for  the  island,  and  in  order  to 
araange for the number required, we wish every 
dealer

Let as  know soon  if he wants  a  Bird.

These parrots  are  given to our customers who 
handle  our  “PRETT Y  POLLY”  cigars,  and 
there is no better 5 cent cigar in the market. The 
trade is strictly net.3&5 per l,000(with or without 
a  parrot).  They  give  satisfaction  to  smokers, 
and the parrots increase your sales.
With  an  order  for  600 “Pretty Polly” cigars, 
* we will give ONE parrot free.
With an  order  for  700 “Pretty Polly” cigars, 
we give ONE parrot in a handsom e  w ire  cage.

OUR  GUARANTEE

To any responsible dealer who don’t know the 
goods, we will express prepaid 200 of the “Pretty 
Polly” cigars for e x a m i n a t i o n ,  to be returned if 
not satisfactory.  If the cigars suit, the balance, 
400 or  500,  can  be  shipped  with  the  parrot  or 
sooner if desired.
With sample order we will refer you to respon­
sible dealers  throughout the  United  States who 
had our parrots Iasi season.

_

STATE OF MICHIGAN. 

County of Wayne. 

) „„
S 

' 

James  B.  Wilkinson,  of  21  Grand  River avenne, De­
troit,  Michigan,  being  duly sworn,  deposes  and  says 
that he has In his  possession and  owns a  parrot of the 
Cuban or Pine  Island variety;  that he has  owned said 
parrot  5 years;  that when  said  parrot  was 3  years of 
age  this  deponent  was  offered  one  hundred  dollars 
(3100)  for said  parrot;  that he refused  said  offer  and 
would not  take live hundred dollars for  said parrot at 
the present time, and further deponent saith not.

jambs B. Wilkinson.

Subscribed and sworn  to  before me  this 12th  day of 

Notary Public in and for Wayne Co., Mich.

Eugene S. Clabkson,

June  1890. 

DETROIT  TOBACCO  CO.,

Griswold  St. 

D etroit, Mich.

GOLD MEDAL, PAEIS,  1878.

I. B a e r  & Co.’S
Breakfast 
Cocoa
from which the excess of 
oil has been removed,
IsAbsolutely Pure 
and it is Soluble.
No Chemicals

are used in its prepar- ] 
ation.  It  has  more 
than  three  times  the 
of  Cocoa 
mixed  with  Starch, 
rrowroot  o rl& g a r,  and  is  therefore  far 
»ore economical, costing less than one cent a 
ip.  It is  delicious, nourishing, strengthen- 
Ig, EASILY  d ig ested, and adm irably adapted 
>r invalids as well as for persons in health. 

Sold  by C rocers everywhere.

/. BAKER & CO., DORCHESTER, MASS.

Playing Cards

WE  ARE  HEBDQUBRTER8

SEND  FOR  PRICE  LIST.

Daniel  Lynch,

19  So.  Ionia  St., Orand Rapids.

14
RUNNING  A  DRY  GOODS  STORE.

Item s  of  Expense  F ew   Persons  Think 

o f W hen  They  Estim ate  Profits.
From the New York News.
To operate a  big dry goods concern  of 
the present day a large amount of expen­
sive machinery is required.  This is not 
apparent to the casual shopper who pass­
es leisurely from counter to  counter, but 
to  anyone  possessing  a  knowledge  of 
mechanics it is obvious.  The  elevators, 
steam-heaters, ventilators and pneumatic 
tubes  are  all  regulated  by  machinery, 
and necessitate the employment of  pow­
erful engines.
Let  us  make  a  tour  of  inspection 
through  one  of  these  establishments, 
having the superintendent for our guide.
He conducts us  tirst to  the  basement  of 
the building, far below the sidewalk.
“Down here,” he explains,  “is located 
the power  that  puts  in  motion  every­
thing in the store  above.  Here  are  the 
.boilers,  four  in  number,  which  supply 
"steam to the different engines.  They are 
heated by two furnaces consuming about 
three tons  of coal per day.  To run these 
engines, an  engineer,  an  assistant engi­
neer, and a fireman are employed.  Here 
to the right,  attached to one  of the  boil­
ers, is  the  steam  generator,  which  sup­
plies steam heat to  the  entire  building. 
We have over  a mile of  steam  pipes  al­
together.
“Yonder is the  fire  engine,  which  is 
also connected to one of  the boilers, and 
can be put  into  motion  at  a  moment’s 
notice. 
It is modeled after  the  engines 
used by the New York Fire  Department, 
and can throw several powerful streams. 
There  is little danger  of  a  fire  gaining 
the mastery here during the daytime. Op­
posite the fire engine  is  the  ventilating 
engine, which has direct  communication 
with a boiler  and can be  used  when  re­
quired. 
It operates by forcing  a  strong 
current of  air  through  the  nozzle  of  a 
pipe,  thereby  creating  a  draft  which 
draws air from  the  outside,  and  circu­
lates it  through the store.
“At the other end  of  the  basement  is 
located  the  hoisting  engine,  which  is 
used daily in raising and  lowering pack­
ing-boxes  to  and  from  the  sidewalk. 
Speaking of the  ventilating  engine, it is 
a  curious  fact  that  the  inventor,  who 
went to London to  introduce his appara 
tus to the London  underground systems, 
died  suddenly,  while  traveling  in  the 
very tunnels he proposed  to  ventilate.
“We come now to the pride of  the  es 
tablishmeut—the pneumatic  engine, 
it 
operates seventy-eight  distinct pneumat­
ic  tubes.  You  can  see  them  running 
along the  ceiling  overhead. 
In  simple 
words, the engine is  a  pump  which  ex 
hausts the air from the tubes, thus creat 
ing a vacuum.  Come with me  up-stairs 
to the store,  where we can see  the  appa­
ratus in  operation.  Here  is  a  station 
where is located a dispatching  tube  and 
a receiving tube.  When a purchase  has 
been made at a counter near  by, the  bill 
and the money are sent  here, where  the 
operator places them in a circular  leath 
er box made to fit the tube.
“The air is  then  exhausted  from  the 
tube and the box  is  forced  through  the 
vacuum to the cashier's room in  another 
part of the building.  When the  cashier 
has compared  the  bill  with  the  money 
received  and  taken  out 
the  correct 
amount, the box is returned  through the 
receiving tube, and  falls  out  upon  the 
operator’s table,  where it is opened  and 
the change  returned  to  the  purchaser. 
There are,  in all,  thirty-nine stations  in 
the  store  from which the tubes converge 
into  the cashier’s department.  We wiil 
visit that room next.
“You see,  here everything is systemat­
ically  arranged.  There  are  between 
twenty-five and thirty girls, you observe, 
each  with  her  money-box  divided  into 
compartments  for  change,  placed  upon 
the table before her.  The notion depart- 
partment is  busy to-day,  as  you can see 
for  yourself.  The  boxes  fall from  the 
tubes faster than the girls can make  the 
change.  The woolen department  is  ap­
parently dull,  for  but  few  boxes  come 
from that quarter.  During  the  Christ­
mas holidays the  thud  of  those  leather 
cylinders is  incessant.  The  noise  they 
make in falling upon the  table  and  the 
clink  of  small  coin  used  in  making

THE  MICHiaA.lSr  TEADESMAN.

CUTS  FOR  ADVERTISING. Women’s Button Newports in Dongola, Grain and Glove Grain.

“ 
“ 

Lace or Tie Dongola  Newport in plain or patent tip.
Russet Lace Newport in plain or patent  tip.
Misses’ and Child’s Newport  Ties in Black or Russet.
A Nice Line of Ladies’ Fancy and House Slippers.
Men’s, Boys’ and Youths’ Canvas Bals.
Bay  State  Tennis  Shoes,  the  best  line  for  the  money  in  the  market.  We 
keep them  in  stock  in  Men’s  and  Boys’  Bals  and in Men’s,  Boys , Youths 
Women’s, Misses’ and Child’s Oxfords.

We would be pleased to show them to you or quote you prices.

RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Send  us a photograph of  your  store  and 

we will  make  you a

Column Cut for $6.

2-Column Cut for $10.

Send  a  satisfactory photograph of  your­
self aud we will make a column

Portrait for $4.

THK  TRIDESM 1N  COUPJNY,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON,

Tar anti  Gravel  Roofers,

And  dealers  in  Tarred  Felt,  Building  Paper. 
Pitch,  Coal  Tar,  Asphaltum,  Rosin,  Mineral 
Wool, Ktc.

Corner Louis and Campan Sts., 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1891.

Correspondence solicited. 

81  SOUTH DIVISION  ST..  ORAND  RAPIDS.

THE  MTCTTTOAlSr  TRADESMAN.

15

Use ‘ '■Tradesman”  Coupons

EATON,  LYON  i  CO.,

JOBBERS OF

A Complete  Line of

HAMMOCKS,

FISHING  TACKLE,

MARBLES,
 BASE  BALL  GOODS = =
=
Our new sporting goods catalogue will  be  ready 

R uilt  for  BUSINESS !

Do you want to do your customers justice?
Do you want to increase your trade in a safe way?
Do you want the confidence of all who trade with you?
Would  you  like to rid  yourself  of  the  bother of  “posting” your  books  and 
“patching up” pass-book accounts?
Do you  not  want  pay for all  the  small  items  that go  out of  your  store, which 
yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge?
Did you  ever have a pass-book  account  foot up and  balance  with the  corres­
ponding ledger account without having  to  "doctor” it?
Do  not  many of  your  customers  complain that  they have  been  charged  for 
items they never had, and is not your  memory a little  clouded  as  to whether they 
have or not?
Then  why  not  adopt a system of  crediting  that will  abolish  all  these  and a 
hundred other objectionable features of  the old  method, and  one  that  establishes 
a CASH  BASIS  of  crediting?
A new era  dawns, and  with it new  commodities for its  new demands;  and  all 
enterprising merchants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the

Tradesman  or  Superior  Godpons,

COUPON  BOOK vs. PASS  BOOK.

We beg leave to call  your  attention to 
our coupon book and ask you to carftully 
consider  its  merits. 
It takes  the  place 
of  the  pass  book  which  you  now hand 
your customer and ask him to bring each 
time  he  buys  anything,  that  you  may 
enter  the  article  and  price  in  it.  You 
know  from  experience that  many times 
the  customer  does  not  bring the  book, 
and,  as  a  result,  you  have  to  charge 
many  items  on  your  book  that  do  not 
appear on the customer’s pass book. This 
is sometimes  the  cause of  much ill  feel­
ing  when  bills  are  presented.  Many 
times the pass  book is lost, thus  causing 
considerable 
trouble  when  settlement 
day  comes.  But  probably  the  most  se­
rious objection to the passbook system is 
that many  times while  busy  waiting  on 
customers  you  neglect  to  make  some 
charges, thus  losing  many  a  dollar;  or, 
if  you  stop to make  those  entries, it  is 
done when  you can  illy afford  the time, 
as  you  keep  customers waiting  when it 
might be avoided.  The aggregate amount 
of  time consumed in a month  in  making 
these small  entries  is  no inconsiderable 
thing,  but,  by  the  use  of  the  coupon 
system, it is avoided.
Now as to the use of the  coupon book: 
Instead of giving your customer the pass 
book, you hand him a coupon  book,  say 
of the denomination  of  $10,  taking  his 
note  for  the  amount.  When  he  buys 
anything,  he  hands  you  or  your  clerk 
the  book,  from  which  you  tear  out 
coupons for the amount purchased, be  it 
1 cent, 12 cents,  75  cents  or  any  other 
sum.  As the book never  passes  out  of 
your customer’s hands,  except when you 
tear off the coupons,it is just like so much 
money to him, and when the coupons are 
all gone, and he has bad  their  worth  in 
goods, there is  no  grumbling  or  suspi­
cion of wrong  dealing. 
In  fact,  by the 
use of the coupon book, you have all  the 
advantages of both  the  cash  and  credit 
systems and none  of  the  disadvantages 
of either.  The coupons  taken  in, being 
put into the cash drawer,  the  aggregate 
amount of them, together with the  cash, 
shows at once  the  day’s  business.  The 
notes, which are  perforated  at  one  end 
so that they can be readily detached from 
the book,  can  be  kept  in  the  safe  or 
money drawer until the  time has arrived

for the makers to  pay  them.  This  ren­
ders unnecessary the keeping of accounts 
with each customer and  enables  a  mer­
chant to avoid the friction  and  ill  feel­
ing incident to the use of the pass  book. 
As the notes bear interest after a certain 
date,  they  are  much  easier  to  collect 
than book  accounts,  being  jyrima  facie 
evidence of indebtedness  in any court of 
law or equity.
One of the strong points of the coupon 
system is  the  ease  with  which  a  mer­
chant is enabled  to  hold  his  customers 
down to a certain limit of  credit.  Give 
some men a pass book and a line  of  $10, 
and they will  overrun  the  limit  before 
you discover it.  Give them a ten  dollar 
coupon book,  however,  and  they  must 
necessarily stop when they have obtained 
goods to that amount.  It  then rests with 
the merchant to determine whether he will 
issue  another  book  before  the  one  al­
ready used is paid for.
In many localities  merchants  are  sell­
ing  coupon  books  for  cash  in  advance, 
giving a discount of from 2 to 5 per cent, 
for advance payment.  This is especially 
pleasing  to  the  cash  customer,  because 
it gives him an advantage over the patron 
who  runs  a  book  account  or  buys  on 
credit.  The cash man  ought to have  an 
advantage  over the credit  customer, and 
this  is easily  accoiflplished  in  this  way 
without making  any actual  difference in 
the  prices of  goods—a  thing which  will 
always create dissatisfaction and loss.
Briefly stated,the coupon system is pref­
erable to the pass book method because it 
(1) saves the time consumed in recording 
the  sales on  the pass  book  and  copying 
same in blotter, day book and  ledger; (2) 
prevents  the  disputing  of  accounts; (3) 
puts the obligation in the form of a note, 
which is prima facie evidence of  indebt­
edness; (4) enables  the  merchant to col­
lect  interest on overdue notes,  which  he 
is unable to do with ledger  accounts;  (5) 
holds  the customer  down to the  limit of 
credit established  by the  merchant, as it 
is almost  impossible to do  with the  pass 
book.
Are  not  the  advantages  above  enu­
merated sufficient to warrant a trial of the 
coupon  system?  If  so, order  from  the 
largest  manufacturers of  coupons in the 
country and address your letters to

how our outstauding accounts  will  turn 
out. 
It is safe to  calculate  upon  thou­
sands of  dollars  in  bad  accounts  each 
year.  The man who  can  invent  a  ma­
chine that will detect the  honesty or dis­
honesty of a person,  will  become  many 
times a  millionaire.  Yet  even  in  this 
respect there is a machinery in trade.
“There  are  mercantile  ageucies  and 
protective  associations  which  keep  a 
record  of  all  those who  are  known  to 
evade  the  payment of  their  debts.  By 
applying to them,  we can often ascertain 
the credit of a  purchaser.  However,  in 
establishments of  this  description,  vis­
ited by thousands each day,  it is  impos­
sible to keep track of  all  who  purchase 
on credit.  We have a  plant  of  machin­
ery  here, as  you  have  seen,  which  is 
valued at about $75,000. 
It is safe to say 
that it saves us from  $15,000  to  $‘20,000 
each year.”

about February 10th.

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

20 and 22 Monroe  St.

B E A C H ’S

New  York  goffee  Rooms.

61  Pearl  Street.

Five  Cents  Each  for  all  dishes  served 

from bill of fare.

Steaks, Chops, Oysters and All  Kinds  of 

Order  Cooking  a  Specialty. 
FRANK  M.  BEACH,  Prop.

F01TH NATIONAL BUI

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A.  J.  Bownb, President.

D. A. 

.  « d o e t t, Vice-President.

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

Transacts a general banking business.

¡Hake a Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.
THOS.  E.  WYKES,

W H OLESALE

Marblehead  and  Ohio  White  lame, 

Buffalo, Louisville and Portland 

Cements, Eire Brick & Clay.

change, can be distinctly heard upon the 
floor below.
“The  advantages  of  the  pneumatic 
tube system are many. 
In the first place 
there  is  a  great saving of time, and cus­
tomers  are  not  kept  waiting  for  their 
change. 
In the  second place  there is an 
appreciable economy in wages, as we can 
do  with  less  than  half  the  number  of 
cash girls.  Again, it facilitates business 
to have the cashiers congregated  in  one 
room, under the  direction of a chief who 
has immediate  supervision  over  the  re­
ceipts of the house.
“The basket  railway  system is  far in­
ferior to it, although at the  time  it  was 
introduced it was  thought to  be  a  won­
derful  advance  over  the  old  methods. 
There are very few stores now  in  which 
the shrill cry of ‘cash! cash!’ is heard and 
this is appreciated by the public.  Shop­
ping has become  an  exact  science,  and 
the  ingenuity  of  inventors  has  been 
brought into play to render it so.
“Besides the mechanical  machinery in 
our  store,  we  employ  a  considerable 
amount of human machinery, if the term 
may be  allowed.  We  will  now  visit 
the packing  room, and  the  delivery  de­
partment  adjoining  it.  This  brings  us 
once  again  to  the basement.  You see, 
here, twenty  or  thirty  young  men  and 
boys,  busily  engaged  in  wrapping  up 
and  addressing  packages,  according  to 
the directions  given  by  the  clerks  up­
stairs.  These packages will next go into 
the sorting department.  There  are sev­
eral men employed here,  whose  duty  it 
is to separate bundles  destined  for  city 
delivery from  those  to  be  sent  out  of 
town.
“As  the city delivery  is  divided  into 
wagon  routes, which we serve  with  our 
own wagons, another division of the par­
cels is necessary in order that each wagon 
may receive its proper  parcels.  Here  is 
a schedule embracing those towns within 
a hundred miles of New  York, to  which 
we  deliver  merchandise  to  purchasers 
free of charge.  We  are  enabled  to  do 
this by contract which we have  with the 
different express companies.  We do not 
undertake, however, to deliver merchan­
dise valued at less than one dollar to any 
point outside of New York. 
In order  to 
render the work of  forwarding packages 
easy for our  employes,  the  name  of  an 
express company is printed opposite  the 
name  of each town where it has an office. 
You can  see,  therefore,  that  the  work 
done here is  largely  mechanical, and we 
consider it a part of the running machin­
ery of our establishment.
“People who visit this department fre­
quently ask us if we are not  afraid  that 
a  conflagration  might  be  started  here 
where there is so much  inflammable ma­
terial.  The long wooden tables, the  pine 
board partitions,  the quantities of wrap­
ping paper,  straw  and other stuff used in 
packing are suggestive of danger, but we 
have taken a precaution which, we thiuk, 
will insure safety.  Here  is  a  hogshead 
of  kalsomine,  or  fire-proof  paint.  We 
spread a thick  coating  of  this  over  the 
woodwork, and although we are not sure 
that it will  prevent burning,  it certainly 
will retard the progress of a  fire. 
I will 
show 
I  dip 
it  works. 
this piece of paper in  the  kalsomine,  so 
that one-half is saturated while  the  oth­
er half remains dry.
“Now, I put it in the  blaze of this gas 
jet.  The  dry  half  bursts  into  flame, 
whereas, the half  saturated  with  kalso­
mine refuses to ignite.  We  argue  that 
if a fire should  break  out  in  the  straw 
and other packing  materials,  the  kalso­
mine would prevent its  rapid  spreading 
until the  fire  engine  could  be  brought 
into play.  Supposing,  however,  that  a 
fire should break  out  on  the  top  floor, 
how is  word  to  reach  the  engineer  so 
that he may start  up his fire engine?  On 
every story there is an electric bell, lead­
ing directly to the engine-room, by means 
of which an immediate alarm can be sent 
to the engineer.  We have taken precau­
tions enough to insure  against  fire,  and 
only  wish  we  were  as  well  protected 
against  losses in trade.
“The  ordinary shopper, and those who I 
pay cash for whatever they buy, have no 
idea of the enormous expense entailed in 
running a big store like ours.  Although 
machinery may save wages, and  precau­
tions prevent lossses, we  can  never  tell |

you  how 

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cement, the best  cement in the  market  for side­
walks.  Also buy and sell  Grain. Hay, Feed, Oil 
Meal, Wood, Etc., Clover and Timothy Seed.

WAREHOUSE AND MAIN OFFICE :

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G R A N D   R A P I D S .

THE LABOR  QUESTION.

FIRST  PA PER .

Written to r  Th e T radesman.

I  have no desire to become an alarmist 
or an  agitator of  the public  mind, but a 
little  sober  thought  devoted  to this  all- 
absorbing  and  perplexing  question  will 
convince  any candid  business  man  that 
there  are  some  knotty  problems  along 
this  line,  materially  affecting  the  com­
mercial  world, which  have not  yet  been 
solved, but  must  be  sooner  or  later, if 
the business of the country is to preserve 
its equilibrium.  At  present a vague  ap­
prehension of uncertainty pervades every­
thing.  Men hesitate to invest their money 
in  new  enterprises for  the  same  reason 
that  men  hesitate to erect  costly edifices 
in  a  section  of  country  subject  to  de­
structive tornadoes and cyclones.  There 
is in each case an element of uncertainty 
The man who  invests  his money in man 
ufacturing,  merchandizing,  mining  01 
railroading, does  so  knowing  full  well 
that  he  will  be subject to reprisals  and 
demands  which, owing  to  the  condition 
of his  business, it  may be impossible for 
him to comply with.  No branch of  bus­
iness  is  free  from  this  uncertainty, for 
no  man  knoweth  the  day  or  the  hour 
when the strike  cometh. 
It cometh  like 
a thief in the night,  when, lo! the wheel 
stopeth short like grandfather’s clock and 
refuseth to go.  If the victim should hap 
pen  to  be a street  car  company and  the 
thunderbolt  should  happen  to  drop  in 
the “wee sma’ hours” of a Sunday morn 
ing, it would be all the same in its general 
effect  upon the  community.  Little chil 
dren  are  kept  away  from their  Sunday 
school classes;  the church bells may ring 
as  usual, but  many  a  familiar  face 
missed  from  his or her  accustomed pew

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

the workingman  must lay down  the  im­
plements of  his  labor  and  his  business 
of  bread-winning  must  stop  until  the 
embargo  is  removed;  business  is  seized 
ith  a  paralytic  stroke  and  no  man, 
oman  or  child  in the  city  escapes  the 
pernicious effects.  Many  of  these  com­
mercial cyclones  leave numerous  wrecks 
in their  wake and  thousands are injured 
so  badly  that  it  takes  them  months to 
recover.  Every business man is familiar 
with  these  disturbances,  is  in  constant 
dread of  them  and  is  anxiously waiting 
and  watching for some certain  means of 
bridging  over  the  difficulty.  We  have 
certainly very little  light on the  subject 
at present.  A glance at the true state of 
affairs  all  over  the  civilized  world  will 
convince  any  fair-minded  man  that  so 
far  as  a  proper  solution  of  the  labor 
question  is  concerned, all  is  chaotic ob­
scurity.  Capital is composed of  two ele­
ments,  money,  or  its  equivalent,  and 
labor.  When  these  two  elements  are 
roperly  and  harmoniously  combined, 
each  receiving its  just  share, then  will 
capital  be  productive  and  strikes  un­
known.  A  man’s capital  may consist of

money or  its  equivalent  exclusively;  or 
it may be brains;  or,  perhaps, brawn;  or 
all three  combined;  but whatever it may 
consist of,  it is his  duty to protect it and 
invest  it  to  the  best  advantage.  If  he 
combine with others, he will  be  entitled 
to his just share and no more.

In  my next letter  I  may venture a lit­
tle  further  in  this  direction,  but  will 
close this by touching  upon a few  rights 
and  a  few  wrongs  which  are  floating 
around  in  such  a  conspicuous  manner 
that  it  strikes me  forcibly  that  anyone 
with  half  an  eye  can  see  them. 
It is 
right for employes to strike,  if they wish 
to, provided they are  not under  contract 
or  obligation  to  remain  or  give  notice 
but it may  be  inexpedient and  very  un 
wise  to  do  so. 
It  is  positively wrong, 
morally and  legally, for  strikers  to  pre­
vent  others, either  by force or  intimida­
tion,  directly or  indirectly,  from  taking 
their places, if they wish to.  It is wrong, 
first, last  and  all  the  time,  for  strikers 
to  boycott  a  business  man, thereby  in­
juring  him,  because  he  would  not  ne­
glect  his own  business  for the  sake  of 
spiting  the other  party. 
It is right  and

proper  for  workmen  to  organize them­
selves together for the purpose of mutual 
benefit  and  protection;  in  fact,  it  is  a 
duty which  they owe to their  families to 
thus  associate  themselves  together, but 
they  should  be  governed  by  righteous 
principles. 
It is wrong  and  subversive 
of liberty for strikers to demand  the dis­
charge of  workmen  who  remain at their 
post of duty;  or to demand the discharge 
of  non-union  men;  and,  finally,  it  is 
wrong  and  smacks of  the  dark  ages for 
employers of  labor to prohibit  their  em­
ployes from  identifying  themselves with 
a  labor  organization.  Some  claim they 
have  this  right  and, if  you do  not  like 
the  terms,  you  are  under  no  obligation 
to serve them.  Let  us look  at this a lit­
tle:  Now, if  any employer of  labor has 
this  right,  then  all  employers  of  labor 
have  the  right,  and  suppose  all  should 
exercise it, what would become of labor? 
Simply  reduced to starvation or slavery. 
I  say  fearlessly  that  any  employer  of 
labor in free  America, be  that  employer 
an  individual  or  a  corporation, who  in­
sults  American  labor in this  way, richly 
deserves  to  be  heavily  sat  down  upen 
by  a  liberty  loving  American  public, 
until such  employer is willing and ready 
to treat  those  in  his employ  as  citizens 
of a free republic. 

E. A. Owen.

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th e   p a s t . ”—P A T R IC K   H E N R Y .

IISTORY  repeats itself. 

In  making a forecast of  the probable future of  any district or city of  the United  States  there is 
no safer  rule to follow than to  judge  tiie  future  by  the  past.  The past  shows that navigation  has had  more to do 
with  the  upbuilding of  great  cities than  any one  advantage, or in  fact,  all  other  advantages  combined.  You  will  find 

an inland county has yet reached  82,000 population.

an  inland county of the state has yet reached  a population  of 60,000.

something striking in the examples of the effects that navigation  produces  as shown in the following:
I L L I N O I S  has in  1890 a population  of  3,818,536.  Cook  County,  located  on  Lake  Michigan,  has  1,189,259,  while  not 
W I S C O N S I N   has a population  of  1,683,697.  Milwaukee  County,  located  on  Lake Michigan, has  235,737, while not 
3,693,216,  with navigation  on 
O H I O   has a population of
the extreme south.  Cuyahoga 
the extreme north  and  on 
Hamilton county on the south, 
county  on  the  north  and 
have  respectively  in  popula- 
each  having  navigation, 
while not an inland county of 
tion  309,970 and  374,573 
reached  125,000  population, 
this  old  state  has  yet 
that  they  have  natural  gas, 
notwithstanding  the  fact
leum  at their  very door.
coal, iron  ore  and  petro- 

If  you read the foregoing carefully and get  your  thinking cap  on you will say that  Michigan  will  not be  an  exception  to 
the  rule which  prevails,  not  only in the  states  we have  cited,  but in  New  York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and in fact all 
of  the  others having navigable waters, and you  are forced to the conclusion that the  largest city in  Western  Michigan  [a dis­
trict of  greater  area than  Mass.  Rhode  Island  and  Connecticut  combined]  will  be one of  the port cities of Lake Michigan. 
That city will  be  MUSKEGON.  No city of  the United  States of  equal  size  [25,000]  is  making such rapid  progress.  Has 
a fine location on  a splendid inside harbor.  Twenty-one  large factories have been  secured in  the last  eighteen  months.  One 
hundred  and  fourteen  miles from  Chicago,  eighty-five miles from  Milwaukee and  directly opposite.  A ll the  conveniences of 
large cities.  No  c it y  in  the  country  affords such  opportunity for safe investments.

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