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CAPTAIN  STANLEY’S  BODY-GUARD.
“Well,  yes,”  said  my  host,  Captain 
Stanley,  as  brave a soldier as  ever  drew 
a saber,  “I  have  seen  some  hard  times 
since I have  been  out  here,  and so  have 
we  all.  A  man  in our  profession  can’t 
pass  five  years of  his  life on the  plains 
without  getting some  hard knocks, I tell 
you.”

We had just finished a late supper, and 
having  drawn our  chairs about  the wide 
fire-place, had  filled  our  pipes  prepara­
tory  to  indulging  in  a  social  smoke. 
There  were  a  dozen of  us  in the  room, 
all  except  myself  wearing  Uncle  Sam’s 
“honored blue.”  I was at that  time cor­
respondent  for  an  Eastern  paper,  and 
had been ordered to the frontier to  “write 
up”  the  campaign  which General  Crook 
was  about  to  undertake  against 
the 
Cheyennes  who  had  broken  away  from 
their  reservation.  Finding  that  a  de­
tachment  led  by  Captain  Stanley,  the 
commander of  old  Fort  Frazier,  was ex­
pected to bear the  brunt of  the  work,  I 
joined  my fortunes with it,  accompanied 
it on a perilous scout of fourteen hundred 
miles,  and we  had  but  just returned  to 
the fort.  We  had got  back,  too,  just  in 
time to escape  what  western  men call  a 
“blizzard.”  And  what is that? 
It is an 
old-fashioned  New England  snow  storm 
a  dozen  times  intensified.  The  wind 
blows  as  if  it  would  sweep  everything 
before it,  the  cold is so piercing that one 
shivers over  the hottest  fire,  and  the air 
is  filled, not  with  snow,  but  with sharp 
needles of  ice, which  seem  to  threaten 
destruction to every living thing exposed 
to its fury.  We were all  snugly housed, 
our  jaded  horses  were  munching  their 
barley in their warm stables, the sentries 
were  standing grim  and  silent  in  their 
boxes, and  those of  us  who were  fortu­
nate  enough to have  no  duty  to  call  us 
out  into  the  storm,  spread  our  hands 
over the  cheerful wood  fire and  congrat­
ulated  ourselves  on  the  safe  ending of 
our tedious  scout.

I  said there  were a dozen of  us  in  the 
room;  but 1 must  not  forget  to  mention 
Captain  Stanley’s body-guard,  four mag­
nificent  Scotch  deerhounds,  which  lay 
stretched out  in  front of  the fire.  They 
were large shaggy animals, with immense 
bone and muscle, and bore on their bodies 
numerous  evidences  of 
the  battles 
through  which  they had  passed.  They 
were terrible  fighters,  and  the ease  with 
which they could overtake and pull down 
an  antelope  was  surprising.  They  ac­
companied us on  the  scout,  and  I  could 
not  imagine  why it was  that  they were 
treated  with so much  kindness  and  con­
sideration by every  member of  the  com­
mand.  On this particular night I was to 
find out.

“How  the  wind  blows!”  exclaimed  a 
young  lieutenant, from  his  seat  in  the 
chimney  corner.  “I declare  it  will tear 
the stockade up by the roots.”

“Yes,  it is a wild  night;  and  I  hadn’t 
been  on  the  plains as long  as  you have, 
Jack,”  said  the captain, addressing him­
self  to  the  lieutenant,  “before  I  was 
called  upon to face  just  such a storm as 
this without  shelter of  any  kind,  except

NO.  406

what  was  to  be  found in  the  hills,  and 
under circumstances that were calculated 
to  freeze  the  blood in  the  veins  of  the 
bravest  man who  ever  stepped.  Those 
hours  of  horror  turned  my  hair  white 
as you  see  it  now,  and made  me  an old 
a,man  before  my  time. 
I  cannot  recall 
them without shuddering.”

The  captain  puffed  vigorously  at  his 
weil-blackened  brier  root  for  a  few 
minutes,  andf  after  making  sure  that  it 
was well lighted continued:

“I  always  was  fond  of  horses,  dogs 
and  guns,  and  I can  scarcely  remember 
the time when 1 did not own some of  the 
very  best.  My  pointers  could  not  be 
beaten,  my  pony would  take a fence al­
most  as well as  any of  my father’s thor­
oughbreds,  and  my  little  fowling-piece 
was  sure  death to any  bird  that  got up 
within any reasonable distance.  When I 
left  home  to  go  to  West Point it almost 
broke  my  heart  to  part  from  my pets; 
but my uncle,  who  was an ardent sports­
man,  assured  me that  if I would  pass  a 
creditable  examination at the end of  my 
school term,  he would present  me with a 
pack of  dogs that would  more than  take 
the  place of  the  one  I  left  behind;  my 
father,  a veteran of the Mexican war and 
a great  admirer of  the  cavalry,  told  me 
that if  I  would  fit  myself to enter  that 
branch of  the service,  he would  give  me 
the  finest  horse  in  his  stable,  and  my 
mother said  she would  give me  another. 
Encouraged  by these  promises,  and  am­
bitious  to  distinguish  myself 
in  my 
chosen  profession,  1  worked  hard  and 
stood among  the  first  five at the  end  of 
the course.  Here are  the dogs  my uncle 
gave  me,”  said  the  captain,  his  stern 
face softening as he gazed almost loving­
ly  at  the  splendid  animals  before  him, 
“and  the  horses—well,  one  was  killed 
during  a  fight  on  the  Sweetwater,  and 
the  other—poor  Gypsy! 
She  was  my 
mother’s gift.

“As soon as I received  my commission 
I was  ordered to report to the  command­
ing  offier  of  Fort  Scott  for  duty.  The 
officers  were all  lovers of  the chase,  and 
at  the  sight of  my  horses  and  hounds 
they  received  me  with  open  arms. 
In 
company with the neighboring ranchmen 
we  hunted almost  constantly;  there was 
little scouting to be done, for the Indians 
were quietly settled on their reservation, 
and when winter came and the first snow 
covered  the  ground,  the  sport  we  had 
in coursing antelope was simply magnifi­
cent.

“Early  one  morning,  while  I  was  re­
turning to the post  with a freshly  killed 
antelope  slung  across  my  saddle, 
I 
noticed  that  my  eyes  burned  and  that 
the surface of  the  snow,  from which the 
bright rays of the sun were reflected with 
almost dazzling  brilliancy, seemed  to  be 
covered  with floating  specks.  Now  and 
then  something that looked  like  a  chain 
danced  across  the  range  of  my  vision, 
and this would be followed by multitudes 
of miniature pin-wheels and  sky-rockets.
I  knew  that the glare of  the  sun on the 
snow had affected  my eyes,  but I thought 
nothing of  it,  for I was foolish  enough to 
believe that it would wear off  in time.

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TH E  MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

“When I reached the fort I found there 
was a runner from the Bed Eagle Agency 
who had brought information  which ren­
dered  it necessary  that a courier  should 
be  sent  with  dispatches  to  Fort Morris. 
ready  and  the 
The  dispatches  were 
colonel  was waiting  for  me. 
I  changed 
horses,  received  my instructions  and  set 
out at once with  my Henry rifle  slung at 
my back,  and  my hounds  trotting  along 
before me.  For  two or three  days I  had 
noticed a suspicious bank of clouds hang­
ing  in  the  northern  horizon,  and  the 
colonel had warned me to make haste for 
a  storm was  brewing.  Acting  upon his 
advice I  pushed  ahead as rapidly as pos­
sible,  shading my  burning  eyes with my 
hand,  and  now  and  then  calling  to  my 
dogs which seemed inclined to turn about 
and  give  battle  to a pack  of  gaunt  and 
hungry wolves  that was  following along 
behind me. 
I  saw with no  little uneasi­
ness  that although  the  south wind  was 
blowing  strongly,  that  threatening bank 
of  clouds in the north was rising rapidly 
against  it.  The  Arctic  King  was  com­
ing  in  his  might,  and  I  knew  that  the 
storm  would  overtake  me long  before  1 
could  reach  my destination. 
I  began to 
feel timid. 
I did not like the persistency 
with which the famine  breeders hung on 
my trail.  There was something ominous 
in it.

“Just before  dark I reached  my camp­
ing  ground. 
It  was  a  sheltered  nook 
among the hills,  bare of  snow,  and there 
was  a  spring  of  good  water  close  by. 
After  putting  the blankets  on  the mare 
and feeding  her and making  her as com­
fortable  as 1 could for the  night,  I  built 
a fire  under the  lee of  a  rock and  with 
my dogs  around  me sat  down to eat  my 
supper.  Just  then  the war of  the  ele­
ments  began.  With a  roar  and  a  rush 
that  were  terrific,  the  advance  guard of 
the  Arctic forces  struck  the south  wind 
and  drove  it  back.  Then  there  was a 
lull, such  as  sometimes occurs  in  battle 
when  the opposing  forces  are  gathering 
themselves for a decisive effort,  and with 
another mighty  roar the  final  onslaught 
was  made.  The  blizzard  was  in  full 
blast.  The  air was  literally  filled  with 
ice. 
It  grew colder  and  colder  every 
minute and my fire seemed to give out no 
heat. 
I  could not  look at the  blaze  for 
the  pain in  my eyes had increased  until 
it  was  almost  unbearable.  Finally  1 
wrapped  my  blankets  around  me  and 
lay down to sleep.

“How long I slumbered I do not know. 
I  was  awakened  by  one  of  my  dogs, 
which  came  up  and  licked  my face. 
I 
started  up  and  threw  off  the  blankets. 
It was pitch dark.  The blizzard was still 
raging  fearfully,  and  the  wolves  had 
approached  so close  to  my  camp that  1 
could hear the patter of their feet as they 
ran about among the  scrub oaks,  and my 
faithful  dogs now  and then gave a growl 
to warn  them  off.  A  stamping  among 
the  brutes  told  me  that  my mare  was 
rendered  uneasy by their presence,  and 1 
thought I would go out and speak to her. 
I looked  toward the  place where  my fire 
had  been  kindled  but  could  not  see  a 
single  coal. 
It  had  burned  itself  com­
pletely  out.  Groping  my  way  on  my 
hands and knees to the pile of  fuel I had 
gathered  before  going to sleep,  I  picked 
up a stick  and  began  poking  around for 
the  coals.  Presently  a  sharp  stinging 
sensation in my hand told me I had found 
one. 
I  could  feel  the pain  but I could 
not  see  the  coal, and  yet  it must  have 
been a live  one or else it could  not have

burned me.  With  trembling  hands  and 
a terrible  sinking at my heart I took  out 
a match and lighted it. 
I could distinct­
ly  hear  it  burning, but I could  not  see 
the  blaze,  although  I  held  the  match 
until  my fingers  were scorched.  Then I 
dropped  it,  and  with a scream  of  terror 
jumped to my feet.  Great heaven!  I was 
snow-blind.

“With  the  experience  I  now  have  I 
know that my situation would  have been 
desperate if I had been  in  full possession 
of  my sight;  as it was I gave  myself up 
for  lost. 
I  was  paralyzed  with  horror, 
and  for a time  I  could  not  move.  The 
actions of  one of  my dogs  aroused  me. 
He bounded forward and began a terrible 
battle with one of  the wolves.  With an­
other cry of terror I groped my way back 
to my  bed,  and catching  up my rifle suc­
ceeded  after  a  desperate  scramble  in 
placing  myself  on  the  top of  the  rock. 
By this time  the battle  between my dogs 
and the wolves was in full  progress,  and 
a fierce one it was, too. 
I fired shot after 
shot into the  air in the hope of  frighten­
ing  the  famine-breeders, but  they  were 
rendered too desperate by hunger to fear 
the smell of  gunpowder.  How earnestly 
I prayed  that my noble  dogs might  suc­
ceed in fighting off  their  savage foes! 
I 
shouted to them words of encouragement 
to  which  they  had  hever  failed  to  re­
spond  during a hunt,  and  finally I knew 
that they were gaining the victory.  They 
drove the wolves  away from me, but  the 
ravenous animals were not to be cheated. 
They turned their  attention to my horse.
I  fairly cried  as  I  stood  there sightless 
and  helpless on  my rock and  listened to 
the  struggles of  the frightened  beast  as 
she strove with desperate energy to break 
her  fastenings.  To  my  great  joy  she 
succeeded,  and  with  a  shrill  neigh  of 
terror set off up  the valley.  1 heard  her 
hoofs  clattering  over  the  bare  ground 
and the  snarls  and  yelps of  the  savage 
pack  as  it  followed  close  at  her  heels, 
and  then  all  was  still. 
I  called  to my 
faithful  guardians  and  each  one  an­
swered to his  name by a  joyful  bark,  all 
except  Major,  whose  response  was  a 
mournful whine.  Poor  fellow!  He  had 
been severely handled.

“I did not delude myself with the hope 
that I had seen the last of the wolves. 
I 
knew that  my steed,  fleet  and  enduring 
as  she  was,  would  in  the  end  be over­
taken  and  torn in pieces by her  tireless 
pursuers, and that  having whetted  their 
appetites they would return  in  sufficient 
numbers  to  overpower  my  guards  and 
make an end of me. 
I had always prayed 
for  a  soldier’s  death,  and  the  thought 
that I must  give up my life in this horri­
ble way was agonizing.

“I cannot tell  how long  I  stood  there 
waiting for the  wolves to come back  and 
put me out of my misery, for I was dazed 
with terror. 
I  fell  into a sort of  stupor 
from which I was aroused by a bark from 
one of  my  hounds,  and  (I  know  every 
note  uttered by these  animals as well  as 
I  know  the  sound  of  my own  voice)  it 
was a bark of  welcome.  Help was near. 
My first  feeling  was  one of  amazement, 
and  before  I  had  recovered  from  it  I 
heard a rifle  shot  and  then  another  and 
another.  The whole pack broke out into 
a joyous  baying. 
I  cocked my rifle with 
my  benumbed  hands  and  fired  all  the 
remaining  cartridges  into  the  air. 
I 
tried  to  shout  but  could  not  utter  a 
sound.  My head  reeled  and I fell  from 
the rock.

“I remained a full  month  at  Mr.  But-

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ler’s hospitable rancho  before I was able 
to return to the post.  He and two of his 
neighbors  had been  out after  black-tails 
and  were  caught  in  the  blizzard*  but 
knowing  that  they must  reach  home or 
run  the  risk of  being  snowed  up in the 
hills,  they  boldly  faced  it, and  a  fortu­
nate thing it was for me that they did so. 
They saw the wolves devouring my mare 
and took  the back trail  expecting to find 
my  mangled  body.  When 
they  dis­
covered me  lying there  behind that  rock 
surrounded  by  my  bleeding  hounds  no 
words  could express their  astonishment. 
Close  by there  were  seven  dead  wolves 
and three disabled  ones that were trying 
to  crawl  off.  These  they  shot.  That 
these dead and wounded members of  the 
pack  were  not  devoured  by  their com­
rades  was  owing  to  the fierceness  with 
which my brave dogs fought them.  They 
were badly cut  up, but they received the 
same  kind  nursing  that I did,  and  here 
they are as ready for a fight as they  ever 
were.  Do you know now why everybody 
in the  fort thinks  so  much of  my  body­
guard, Harry?”

I  thought I did.

Good-Bye  to  the Credit Business—How 

It  Works.

The following  letters are self-explana­
tory:
Sherw ood,  Feb.  38—We want  all  our 
customers to  read  our  new  plan,  as it is 
to their  interest as  well  as ours  that we 
make it.  We propose to mark  our goods 
down to rock-bottom  prices  and  sell  for 
cash only.  We have many customers we 
would  be  glad to sell on time,  but if  we 
sell  for  cash  we  will  be  compelled  to 
refuse credit to our best friend or nearest 
relative.  So don’t think hard of us if we 
refuse you.  We have tried since we came 
here  to be  very careful  in  giving credit; 
still we have a great  many accounts that 
we  would  sell  for  twenty-five  cents  on 
the  dollar,  and of  course we  had  to  ask 
more  for  our  goods  in  order to  try and 
balance our  losses.  We have  been  sell­
ing  goods  on  credit  for  nearly  twelve 
years,  and  in  all  that  time  have  never 
seen the day but what we had rather have 
the goods on the shelves than to have the 
accounts  on  our  books,  be  they ever  so 
good.  After April  12, our books will be 
laid  aside  so  far  as  giving  any  more 
credit,  and  not a dollar’s  worth of  goods 
will go out of  our store without the cash 
or its  equivalent.  We  also must  refuse 
to  allow  any goods to leave the  store on 
trial  without  the  payment  thereof,  and 
when  taken  back  the  money  will  be 
cheerfully  refunded.  We  must  adopt 
this  plan  to  protect  ourselves,  as  some 
people  take  the goods  from the  store on 
trial and  never return  or  pay for  them; 
and if  we refuse one  we must  refuse all 
—so don’t ask us.
We  shall  buy for  cash  and  must  sell 
for cash.  You must admit that if we pay 
cash  down  for  our  goods  we  can  buy 
cheaper  than  others  who  do not  do so. 
As we will have no more interest charges 
and  have no  bad  accounts we  certainly 
can  sell goods  at  the very lowest  possi­
ble prices.  Call  and  see what  bargains 
we  can  offer  you  for  cash,  and  be con­
vinced  that our method is the  only  true 
way of doing a successful business.
Trusting  that  you  will  fully  under­
stand  our  position, and  help  us,  we  are 
very truly yours.  W.  R.  Mandigo & Co.

Sherwood March 20,—Again we  come 
to tell you of the  decision we have made 
in changing our manner of doing business 
from a credit system to a ready pay.  Our 
reason for  doing  this is self  protection. 
.We have done  business  here for  nearly 
twelve  yeasrs  and  have  been  getting 
harder  up every  year and  we  cannot in 
justice to ourselves and families continue 
the  credit  business  any  longer.  Many 
have  been unable  to pay their  accounts 
promptly  which  has  compelled  us  to 
borrow  and  borrow  until  we can  do so 
no  more.  What  we  have  said  about 
inhability to pay does  not apply to all of 
our  customers.  Nor do  we speak  com-

plaingly  but  rather  apologetically  for 
changing  our  manner  of  doing  busi­
ness.  There are many  of our customers 
who  have been  very  prompt  in making 
settlements and whom we would still  like 
to accomodate but it will be impossible for 
usto  do  so.  We will  try  and arrange to 
have  your  present  account  carried  a 
while if you put it  into a  note but all ac­
counts  must  be  settled by cash  or  note 
and  all  notes  paid  or renewed.  This is 
no hasty move but one on which we have 
put much thought and we have concluded 
that we would  rather do business  with­
out a dollar’s  profit for  cash than  to try 
and do business another year on the credit 
plan  as we have for  twelve  years.  You 
will find it  full as easy  to pay cash as to 
pay bills of from three to twelve months.
Hoping  you  will all  take  this  in  the 
business  light in  which it is meant  and 
thanking  you  one  and  all  for past  pat­
ronage  and  trusting  that  we  shall  not 
miss one of our old customers but on the 
contrary attract  many new  ones  we  re­
main, 

Yours truly,

W.  R.  Mandigo  &  Co.

Sherw ood,  June 20—In reply to  your 
enquiry,  I will say that I  have  only  one 
regret—that  I  did  not  make  the  move 
years  ago. 
I have  yet  to  learn  of  the 
first  person  offended  by  the  move  and 
many tell  me  it is  just  the  thing  to  do 
and that I have taken the opportune time. 
I have not cut my  prices  at  all.  “Good 
goods and honest service on the C. O. D.,” 
is my plan,  and it is satisfactory.

Yours truly,

the 

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entire  product  of 

W.  R.  Ma n d ig o.
Quay on the Commercial Traveler.
Hon.  M.  S.  Quay, U.  S.  Senator from 
Pennsylvania,  in presenting  his amend­
ment to the Inter-State  Commerce  Law, 
permitting  the  granting by railroads  of 
special and reduced rates  of travel to all 
bona  fide  commercial 
travelers,  thus 
graphically  and  forcibly  described  the 
status  and importance  of those messen­
gers of  trade:
“The  broad  assertion  may  be  made, 
the  truth  of  which  will be  recognized 
by  every one,  that commercial  travelers 
market 
the 
manufacturing  industries  of the United 
States.  Between  the  loom,  the  spindle 
the machine  shop,  the vat,  the foundry, 
and  other  primary  sources  of  manu­
factured  goods, 
inter­
mediaries  for  the  retail  merchant  and 
his  customers.  Their  mission  is  com­
mercial,  but  it  is  also  instructive.  To 
the  small  towns  of  the  interior  these 
agents  bring  products  entirely  new  to 
the  eyes  of  their  inhabitants,  whether 
merchants or customers.  More than this, 
they bring to the small manufacturer the 
visible  results  of 
the  enterprise,  in­
vestigation,  and  accumulated  capital of 
the larger  manufacturer. 
I wish also to 
emphasize  the  fact 
that  the  traveling 
commercial agent does not bring to these 
interior  towns  the  fruits  of  American 
invention  a  d 
ingenuity  alone.  They 
present also the  finished  products  of all 
the nations of the earth.
“Every  commercial  traveler  has  his 
mission to  bring  before  the  people the 
special products  of trade in  which he is 
expertly  interested,  Upon  that  partic­
ular  branch  of  product 
the  very  re­
quirements of his duty  compel him to be 
thoroughly  informed;  so  that  as  these 
180,000 bright  eyed,  quick witted,  alert 
men move over  the land they  present  to 
its people a professional bazaar which  is 
almost equivalent to an international ex­
position  of 
the  manufactures  of  the 
world.
“The commercial traveler also markets 
the  products  of  agriculture. 
It  is  he 
who  places  within  reach  of the  manu­
facturer  the  raw material  which  feeds 
his mill.  The commercial traveler places 
within  reach  of  the  manufacturer  the 
wool of  the ranches and of the  uplands, 
the lumber of the forest,  the grain of the 
Northwest, and  the corn of  the prairies; 
the oil,  the coal,  and the precious ores of 
mother earth. 
It is in  this phase  of his 
work that he does  most  effective' service 
in sustaining in our favor  our balance of 
trade  with  foreign  nations,  through his 
constantly  seeking  a market  abroad for 
all of the  resources of our country.”

Use  Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

Winter 8t.p between  Sliawmilt ine.  and  W.  Pittton St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

General  Warehousemen  and  Transfer  Agents.

COLD  STORAGE  FOR  BUTTER,  EGGS,  CHEESE,  FRUITS,  AND 

ALL  KINDS  OF  PERISHABLES.

Dealers and  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.

Telephone  No.  945. 

J.  Y.  F.  BLAKE,  Sup’t.

GRAD  RAPIDS  CYCLE  COMPANY.

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OF  7-8  INCH  RIMS.

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Clipper Safeties,  [solid tire]  List price,  $90,00

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

GRAND  RAPIDS  CYCLE  CO.,

E r ie  st., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Sm A for  Collogue. 

11-Inch STATEMENTS.

For the  benefit of merchants  who  have  not  yet 
adopted our  Coupon System, we have  purchased a 
quantity  of  11-inch  Statements,  5-l>  inches  wide, 
and  ruled  both  sides, giving 63 lines  for  itemizing 
accounts—just  the  thing  for  weekly  or  monthly 
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

AMONG THE  TRADE.
▲BOUND THE STATE.

Elva —J.  Spears &  Co.  have  removed 

their grocery stock to Owosso.

Adrian—Roderick  Marsh,  of  the flour 

mill firm  of Marsh  Bros.,  is  dead.

Bessemer—Jos.  Pecard  succeeds  Jos. 
Pecard  & Co.  in the hardware  business.
Detroit—T. W. Goodale succeeds Frauk 
Holman  in  the  grocery  and  meat  busi­
ness.

Lake  City—A.  B.  McIntyre  succeeds 
McIntyre  & Smith  in  the grocery  busi­
ness.

Saginaw—Beuj  L.  Tripp 

succeeds 
Tripp & Brooks in the grocery and  meat 
business.

Sherwood— W.  R.  Mandigo  succeeds 
W.  R.  Mandigo  &  Co.  in  the  drug  and 
stationery  business.

Butternut—Cross & Isham have opened 
a grocery store in  connection  with  their 
cheese  factory.  They  will  shortly  add 
lines of dry goods and boots and shoes.

Marshall—E.  A.  Turner  has  sold  his 
bakery and stock of  confectionery  to  A. 
Palmer,  formery  of  Marengo.  Mr. 
Turner  leaves  soon  for  Grand  Rapids, 
where he has a position offered  him in  a 
large wholesale house.

Big Rapids—J.  L. Barker  has removed 
his  grocery  and  hardware  stock  from 
Paris  to  this  city,  where  he  has  pur­
chased the  wood  yard of  G. C.  Gardner 
and  will  conduct  same 
in  connection 
with his mecantile business.

from Harrison into Greenwood township, 
Clare  county, to reach a lot of  timber,  a 
considerable portion of it hardwood.

Boon—J. E.  Root  has sold  his  shingle 
mill,  two  miles  north  of  this  place,  to 
Mark Stewart,  who will  manufacture for 
J.  Matevia  the  timber  recently  bought 
by him  of  Cobbs & Mitchell. 
It  is  esti­
mated  that  there  will  be  about a year’s 
run for the mill.

Saginaw—John  G.  Owen  is  running 
his mill at Owendale on day  and a  quar­
ter time.  He  owns  over  6,000  acres  of 
land in that section,  and has  timber suf­
ficient to stock his mill four or five years 
yet. 
In connection he has  a farm of 350 
acres under  cultivation.

Alpena—The  Pack  &  Fletcher  camps 
at Hubbard lake  have  closed  operations 
for the season,  having  put  in  24,000,000 
feet  of  logs.  There  is  10,000,000  feet 
standing to be cut next season, which will 
wind  up  operations  there,  and  the  log 
railroad will  be  removed  to  some  other 
point.

skipped, 

Grand  Ledge—Albert  Smith,  of  the 
firm  of Chapman  &  Smith, cigar  manu­
facturers,  has 
leaving  his 
partner in the lurch.  He  also left a wife 
and  five  children,  and  from  Chicago 
wrote  a letter  that  he was  off  for  Cal­
ifornia  and did not  want to see  anyone 
in Grand  Ledge  again  unless  it  was his 
baby.  Grand  Ledge  people are  divided 
as to Smith’s sanity.

MEDITATIONS  OF  A  PESSIMIST.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.
is 

Monroe—Chas.  G.  Johnson 

suc­
ceeded by  John Plerves  in  the  flouring 
mill business.

Six Lakes—Wilbur  Merchant  has  re­
moved his shingle mill  to  Harrison,  and 
expects to have it running in thirty days.
Detroit—The  Detroit  Combination 
Tool  Co.  has  been  organized  with  a 
capital  stock of  $25,000,  one  half  paid 
in.

Bay Mills—Hall & Munson have bought 
of  General Alger  1,500,000  feet of  logs, 
which  will  be  manufactured  for  their 
box factory at this place.

Saginaw—Smith & Adams have started 
a camp  near McCormack  lake,  Montmor­
ency  county,  where  they  will  cut  and 
drag-haul 1,000,000 feet of pine.

Lansing—  The  Harrison  Hose  Sup- 
porter Co.,  a garter  manufacturing  con­
cern,  now  of  Chicago,  will  locate 
in 
Lansing and  make  garters  of all  kinds.
Marquette — The  Michigan  Polygonal 
Turning  Co.  has  some of  its  lathes  in 
operation. 
It  has  a  large  number  of | 
orders  ahead  and  seems destined  to  a 
prosperous career.

Bay City—Bousfield  &  Co.  are  operat- | 
ing their stave mill on  a  day  a  quarter | 
running time,  and  will cut 3,000,000 feet 
of pine  into  staves,  pail  and  tub  bot­
toms during the season.

Detroit—Frank  B.  and  Emerson  W. 
Trout, of Detroit,  and  Charles  Steel and 
William  Campbell,  of  Wyandotte,  have 1 
incorporated the Columbia Chemical Co., 
with  $10,000  capital, 
to  manufacture' 
chemicals.
Beiding — The  flouring  mill  firm  of j 
Knott,  Rutan & Co.  has  been  dissolved, j 
E   Rutan and E. Chappie  purchasing the j 
interest  of  W.  A.  Knott.  The  business 
will be  continued  under  the  firm  name 
of E. Rutan & Co.

Saginaw—The  general  officers  of  the 
Flint & Pere Marquette Railway are con­
sidering the project of  running a branch

SECOND  PAPER.

Written for T h e  Tradesman.

Having  confessed  in  my introductory 
article  to  being a pessimist  (not strictly 
according  to  Webster,  but  as  generally 
understood),  I  presume  you  take it  for 
granted  that I  must be mortally diseased 
and  are prepared to see me take  a  mole­
hill  and  convert it into an  insurmounta­
ble  mountain of  adamantine rock.  And 
you  will,  no  doubt,  expect  me  to  cry 
“wolf”  where  that  greedy  quadruped 
was never heard of  and create imaginary 
wants out of thin air.

ingenuity 

So  far as  this  article is concerned,  in­
stead  of  creating  imaginary wants  my­
self,  I shall  charge  the  business  world 
with  having created  many fictitious  and 
imaginary  wants — wants  which  have 
been conceived  in greed and fostered and 
developed  in  sordid  selfishness;  wants 
which detract from human happiness and 
add  to  the burdens  and  worries of  life. 
American 
is  the  author  of 
more  artificial wants  than all the  rest of 
the  world  combined,  hence we  are  said 
to be the  most extravagant  people in the 
world and  according to the  popular idea 
we  ought  to  be  the  happiest  people in 
the world.  But  are  we?  A  happy peo­
ple are,  and  must of  necessity be,  a con­
tented  people.  Are we a contented  peo­
ple?  Is  it  not a matter of  history  that 
we are the most impatient, the most rest­
less,  the  most  insatiable  and  the  most 
discontented  people  on  the  face of  the 
| earth?  No  spot on earth  is  more abun- 
! dantly  able to supply every  natural  and 
j necessary  want  requisite  to  insure  the 
| highest  possible degree of  human happi- 
i ness  than  our  own  favored  land,  and 
j were we content with these, fewer of our 
brothers and sisters would be driven into 
I mad  houses  and  suicides’  graves  and 
crime  and  poverty would  be  greatly di- 
I minished.  These  innumerable  artificial 
I wants are conceived in greed.  Moralists 
may croak  and  high-salaried  gentlemen 
I of  the  cloth  may  preach,  but  the  cold

hard fact stands out in bold relief  never­
theless, that  success in human  existence 
is measured and weighed by the standard 
of  the Almighty Dollar.  We  are  living 
in  an  intensely  speculative  age.  Men 
everywhere  are  continuously  racking 
their brains in a feverish  effort to invent 
some worthless novelty that can  be  suc­
cessfully  palmed  off  on  a  discontented 
people  as  a  long-felt  want,  and,  when 
the effort proves successsful, one or more 
examples of  success  in  life  are  chroni­
cled  at  the  expense  of  the  struggling 
masses  whose  burdens  have  been  pro­
portionately increased.  For the last two 
or three  years the farmer has  been sing­
ing  “Listen  to  my  tale  of  woe,”  and 
charging the  government  and  the  retail 
grocer who, he thinks,  is getting rich too 
fast on his  margins  on coffee  and sugar, 
with being the cause of all his agony.  If 
he would  take a careful inventory of  all 
his personal  effects in the  house,  in  the 
barn and  scattered all  over his  farm,  he 
would find many things which are rapidly 
depreciating in value on  account of .rust 
and  exposure  to  the  elements—some of 
which  are  not  yet  paid  for—which  he 
never  really  .wanted, and  had  no  more 
urgent use  for,  than -a church  organ has 
for  an  umbrella.  But  because  some 
neighbor  who  was  abundantly  able  to 
indulge in these  things,  or because  some 
itinerant  automatic  talking  machine got 
him  into a corner and assumed  to  know 
more about the farmer’s private business 
than  the  farmer  did  himself  and made 
him  believe  that he must  buy and  keep 
up with the  times or be swallowed up  in 
the gulf of old fogyism, he took a tumble 
in  a weak  moment and  signed  his  name 
to a note,  trusting  that  the  Lord  would 
in some miraculous way, unknown to the 
farmer,  provide ways and  means for  its 
redemption.

I have  “been there” and know whereof 
I  speak.  During  my life  I  have  made 
two  attempts to pay for a farm, but  was 
knocked  out both times by these imagin­
ary wants. 
I worked early and  late and 
studied the requirements of  my  business 
and  thought 1 knew  what  I  wanted and 
what I did not want.  No  doubt  success 
would  have  crowned  my  efforts,  had  it 
not  been  for the  fact that I occasionally 
fell a victim to that  arch  fiend of  human 
progress,  the itinerant  automatic talking 
machine.  He  would always swoop down 
upon  me  without  a  moment’s  warning 
and  before  I  had  a  chance  to  escape. 
During the attack 1 would be under some 
strange hallucination and after it was all 
over I would have a dim remembrance of 
having given a mortgage on my wife and 
children for the  purpose of  swelling the 
treasury of  some  bloated  manufacturing 
corporation and that 1 had taken a receipt 
in the  shape of  an ornament  for one  of 
my  fence  corners. 
If  some  old  farmer 
should  read  this,  he,  no  doubt,  would 
call  me  a fool,  but I would  remind  him 
that I was  too small a fool  to  charge the 
government or the  retail grocer with my 
failure.

These  fancied wants are  the skeletons 
of our homes.  Their demands are always 
in excess of  our means to supply.  They 
torment  us at every  turn.  They rob  us 
of  all  enjoyment when our  friends visit 
us,  because,  perchance,  the  furniture is 
old-fashioned or the  crockery  is ancient. 
They keep us away  from society  gather­
ings for lack of regulation attire.  They 
pierce  us  with  arrows  of  mortification 
and  shame as we sit in our church pews, 
for  our  neglect  or inability  to  provide I

ourselves  with  the  new  spring  bonnet. 
Sometimes  they  taunt  us  with  looking 
like a fright  and  shut us up  in our  own 
rooms Jo bewail our miserable lot.  They 
waste  our  energies  and  incapacitate  us 
from doing our duty in life’s work.  They 
plunge us hopelessly  in  debt, crush  our 
spirits  and  drive  us  into  despondent 
moods  and  dark  corners.  They  allure 
our children into forbidden  paths;  burst 
asunder the martial bonds;  break up and 
destroy  homes,  and  rob  life  of  most of 
its  sweets  and  joys. 
I  asked a clothier 
in our  city,  a few  days  ago, how he was 
finding  business in his  line  and  with  a 
dissatisfied  look on  his  face,  he replied, 
“Oh,  slow,  decidedly  slow.  You  see, 
these  cold  Junes  are  corkers. 
It  has 
always  been  my  experience  that  when 
we  have  no  hot weather  until after  the 
middle  of  June,  the  season’s  trade  in 
light goods will  be  greatly diminished.” 
I  enquired  if  the  people  bought  more 
substantial  goods  in  their  stead.  “Oh, 
no,” he replied,  “they get along with the 
old or go without.” 
I thought to myself, 
“Thank  providence for cool  Junes,”  for 
the  people  are so much the better off, at 
any rate,  and nature is gently reminding 
them  that  they  can  enjoy  more of  the 
real comforts of  life if  they  will  turn a 
deaf  ear  to  many  of  these  imaginary 
wants in the  shape of  expensive,  flimsy, 
useless gew-gaws  that come  and go with 
the  seasons,  reminding  us of  the  vanity 
of  all things,  and  are no more  necessary 
for our  comfort  and  happiness than  the 
vile  mixture  that the long-haired  street 
fakir holds aloft on the street corner.  On 
the  other  hand,  they  are  positively in­
jurious,  if  indulged  in,  and  add  to  the 
worries of  life  by making  incessant  de­
mands upon us and wasting our energies, 
thereby  disqualifying  us  for  the  more 
noble work of life.

I  will  close  this  article by suggesting 
a sure and specific remedy for all the ills 
that disgruntled, clamoring advocates for 
a more  even  distribution  of  wealth  are 
afflicted  with. 
In  fact,  the  remedy is  a 
general  tonic  and  easy  of  application, 
and would prove beneficial  to  the strug­
gling masses  generally and  especially to 
that  portion  who  are  seeking  through 
legislation a means of  checking  corpora­
tion  greed  and of  curtailing  the  money 
power.  Take  all  these unnecessary and 
imaginary wants  that  do  not  contribute 
to your comfort or make life easier, more 
desirable, or happier,  and tie  them up in 
a bundle and fire them  back at the heads 
of  their  progenitors.  You  will  find  it 
more efficacious than  dynamite and more 
practical than the ballot.  In other words, 
stop buying  what you  don’t  want,  for in 
no  other  way can  you escape  from  the 
bondage of debt and become the free and 
independent  proprietor of  a vine  and fig 
tree of your own. 

E.  A.  Owen.

F rom   a   V alu ed  C on trib u to r.

Cen t r a l L a k e,  June 26—I note  with 
pleasure  the  continued  excellence  of 
T h e  T radesm an  in all department,  and 
my  best  wishes  are  with 
it,  and  its 
enterprising editor.
In  the  opinion of  my  father  and my­
self, no better selection could be made as 
a successor to the late Smith  Barnes,  as 
Manager of the Hannah & Lay Mercantile. 
Co.,  than Herbert  Montague.  We  hope 
he will get  it.
The Chicago & West Michigan Railway 
is in process of construction through this 
village now,  and it makes  hustling times 
for us all. 
I cherish  the  hope  of doing 
more writing for you  in the near future.

Yours  truly,

Geo.  L.  Thurston.

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

C. J. Whitney, the veteran music dealer 
• of Detroit,  is arranging to open a branch 
store here soon.

Wagner & Son have  opened  a  grocery 
store at Belding.  Hawkins  &  Company 
furnished the stock.

Cook Bros,  have opened a grocery store 
at  the  corner  of  Madison  avenue  and 
Griggs  street.  The  Ball-Barnhart-Put- 
man Co.  furnished the stock.

Cross & Isham,  who conduct  a cheese 
factory  at  Butternut,  have  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  that  place.  The  Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
the 
stock.

furnished 

H.  W.  Worden,  who has been engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  at  Boon  for 
some time past has, removed to  this city 
and  embarked  in 
the  grocery business 
at  811  Fifth  avenue.

H.  Leonard & Son received the follow­
ing goods through the custom  house  last 
week:  One case house furnishing  goods 
from London,  duty $3.15;  two cases Roy­
al Dresden China from Berlin,  duty  $09; 
fourteen  cases  glassware  from  Boden- 
bach,  Austria,  duty  $106.10;  24  cases 
China  and  dolls  from  Sonneberg,  Ger­
many, duty  $291.45.

Fred Kieldsen, who conducted the lead­
ing  mercantile  business at  Cadillac  for 
several  years  previous to  1883,  and  who 
resumed  the  grocery  business 
there  in 
the spring of 1887, has practically retired 
from  business,  having  turned  over  his 
stock to Rollin A.  Keys, of Chicage, on a 
bill of sale.  Mr.  Keys represents Frank­
lin  MacVeigh  &  Co.,  the  largest  mer­
chandise  creditors,  and has been  in  pos­
session  of  the  stock  several  days.  The 
accounts  have  been  assigned  to  an  at­
torney named  McIntyre to secure certain 
creditors  named in the  document,  while 
his real  estate,  mortgages  and  land con­
tracts have  been turned  over to his wife 
and  D.  A.  Blodgett  &  Co. 
It  is  not 
thought that the unsecured creditors will 
receive a cent,  unless  Mr.  Kieldsen  con­
cludes  to  oifer  them  something  in  the 
form of  a  compromise.  Mr.  Kieldsen  is 
a  reckless  business  man  and  was  not 
generally considered a desirable risk, but 
confidence  in  his  integrity  and  energy 
imp'elled many jobbers to sell him, against 
their better  judgment.  All  will  regret 
that he has been  compelled to capitulate 
and  T he  Tradesman joins with  his nu­
merous friends in the trade in expressing 
the hope  that he may be able to pay dol­
lar for dollar and resume business again.

GrlpBacfc  Brigade

O.  C.  Shults,  formerly  with Curtiss & 
Co.,  but now  on the road for the  United 
Indurated  Fibre Co., of Chicago,  was in 
town several  days  last  week.

B.  F.  Winch,  formerly engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Bangor,  but  more 
recently on the  road  for  the  Alabastine 
Co.,  has  gone  on  the  road  for  Wm.  H. 
Downs.

Dave Haugh and Chas.  M.‘Falls  had  a 
little misunderstanding on Monroe street 
Saturday and  report  has  it  that  pistols 
and coifee  will  be  in  order  when  they 
next  meet on the road.

J.  W.  Palmer,  who  has  represented 
the  Central  City Soap  Co.  for ten  years 
past,  has  purchased  an interest  in  the 
Jackson  Grocery  Co.  and  goes  on  the 
road for his  new connection  July 1.

N. B.  Sherwood  has  severed  his  con-

Inection  with  the  Whipple  Harrow  Co., 
of St.  Johns,  and has taken a similar po­
sition with  the  S. S.  Freeman  Mfg. Co., 
of Racine, Wis.  His territory will com­
prise the entire  State.

Frank E.  Chase  requests T he  Trades­
man to deny the  report  that he proposes 
to  spend  the  summer  on  Cape  Cod. 
He  will  send  his 
family  there,  but 
will remain  in Michigan and continue on 
the  warpath for fall orders.

Albert C.  Antrim, who has been spend 
ing  five  and a half  months in  New  En­
gland  and  the  Eastern  States  for  the 
Alabastine  Co.,  returned home  last  Fri­
day and will put in a month or six  weeks 
in the city and on a tour of the Northern 
resorts.

injuries 

traveling 

Aaron  B.  Gates, 

repre­
sentative  for  the  LustigCigar  Co.,  suf 
fered  severe 
by  a  fall  at 
Charlevoix,  last Monday,  from  the  con­
sequences of which he will  be laid up for 
some time.  His route  will  be covered in 
the  meantime  by  Geo.  A.  Sage, 
the 
whilom  Rockford  grocer.

The  Tradesman received a brief visit, 
last  week,  from  J.  E.  Taylor,  Secretary 
of the  Patrons’  Commercial  Union,  and 
D.  Conklin,  Assistant  Manager  of  the 
same institution.  Both gentlemen  were 
enthusiastic  over  the  efficiency  and  ef­
fectiveness  of  their  selling  agency  and 
predict an increased membership.

The  base  ball  contest  between  Hi. 
Robertson’s force  of  traveling  men  and 
“Had” Beecher’s  professionals  resulted 
in a score of 19 to 0 in favor of the latter. 
Byron Davenport  claims to  be  the  only 
member of  Hi’s  crowd  who  hit the  ball 
for bases,  having  recorded a double  and 
a  single.  The  game  will  probably not 
be repeated—at least, not this season.

It is a well-known fact that hotel keep­
ers  are  more  anixous  for  commercial 
trade,  otherwise drummers,  than for any 
other  class  of bnsiness.  The  drummer 
always  wants  the  best  that  the  house 
affords.  He  is  a  liberal  patron of  the 
bar,  cigar  store  and  billiard  room,  at­
tracts many callers  on business or  plea­
sure, and  spreads the  reputation of  the 
hotel  all over  the  country.  The  result 
is that  shrewd  landlords  are careful  to
provide  for  this  desirable class  of cus­
tomers,  and  even  when  a convention  is 
in  progress,  the  town full  of  strangers 
and the  capacity  of the hotels  taxed  to 
the  uttermost, people  are  often  turned 
away,  although  the clerk  knows  he has 
several  unoccupied 
rooms.  He  would 
rather  take  the  chance  of  haviug  the 
rooms  remain  vacant  than the  terrible 
alternative of having some drummer  who 
always stops  at the  house  turned  away 
because the rooms are ail full.  Yerily,  in 
this as in many other ways, the  drummer 
“never  gets  left.”  On the  other  hand, 
the least desirable of all hotel  customers 
are 
leading 
hotels  refuse  to accept them  at  all,  and 
some will only receive  the managers and 
leading people, the others being relegated 
to the cheaper houses.  The common run 
of  actors  are  the  direct  opposites  of 
drummers.  They want midnight lunches, 
and  bother the housekeepers by sleeping 
late  in the  morning.  They  are  always 
kicking,  spend  as  little  money  around 
the  house  as possible,  and have an 
in­
satiable  yearning  for  special  rates. 
It 
is even  asserted that  drummers  have  a 
more  or  less  pronounced  aversion  for 
theatrical people,  and the proprietors of 
one leading Detroit hotel decline to make 
special  rates 
to  theatrical  companies 
because  they  say 
it  hurts  their  com­
mercial trade.—Detroit  News.

theatrical  people.  Many 

P u re ly   P erso n al.

Heman G.  Barlow is  back  to  his  desk 
again—happy  and  hearty,  brown  and— 
busted.

F.  H.  Preston,  formerly with the Union 
School  Furniture  Co.,  at  Battle  Creek, 
has  been elected Treasurer of the  Mani­
towoc  School  Furniture Co.,  at  Manito­
woc, Wis.

James Hancock,  the Grand Haven cele­
ry  grower  and  florist,  has  originated 
several  new  varieties  of  carnations, 
which  are  pronounced,  by  experts  the 
finest produced anywhere in the country.
Nelson  F.  Miller,  the  Lisbon  general 
dealer,  has captured the  hand and  heart 
of Miss Clara B. Gilson,  of Sparta.  T he 
Tradesman  joins  with  Mr.  Miller’s 
many friends in tending congratulations.
Adam  Wagner  and  Chas.  A.  Wagner 
were in town a couple of days last week, 
purchasing  stock  for  the  new  grocery 
store they will  open  at  Belding.  They 
have secured a  desirable location in that 
busy manufacturing town and anticipate 
a prosperous outcome  for  the  new  ven­
ture.

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Q uarts.................................................... .
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Rubbers...................................................
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Butter Crocks, per gal.............................
Jugs, H gal., per doz................................
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Milk Pans, % gal., per doz.  (glazed 75cj. 
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Cherries.  Strawberries, Vegetables,  flew  Southern  Potatoes
We look for liberal receipts Ibis week.

ONIONS,  CABBAGES,  ETC.

MOSELEY  BEOS.,

26, 28, 30 and 32  Ottawa St., 
GRAND  RAPIDS*
P E R K I N S  
H E S S
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  123  and  124  LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN. 

_______________WE CARRY  A  8TOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

H olts  W anted t

I  want  500 to 1,000  cords of  Poplar  Excel­

sior  Bolts,  18, 36 and 54  inches long.

I  also  want  Basswood  Bolts, same  lengths 

as above.  For particulars address

J.  W . FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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the strike  is ended, 
differences are mended 

N  all  is serene,

everything is clean, 

jN «gars will take a boom 
W  your dealer has not the
J|  ask  him
N  he  will  have  them.

THE LUSTIG CIGAR CO.

J ,   LUSTIG,  State Agent.

GOLD MEDAL,  PAMS,  1378.

I .  Baker &  Co.’s
Breakfast 
Cocoa

from which the excess of 
oil has been removed,
I s  Absolutely P u re 

|\\V\  and it is Soluble,

™   No Chemicals

are used in its prepare 
ation. 
It  has  more 
than  three  times  the 
\strength  o f  C ocoa 
mixed  with  Starch, 
rrowroot  or  Sugar,  and  is  therefore  far 
lore economical, costing less than one cent a 
up. 
It is  delicious,  nourishing, strengthen- 
lg,  e a s il y   d ig e s t e d , and admirably adapted 
>r invalids as well as for persons in health.
11 BAKER &  CO., DORCHESTER} MASS.

Sold  by Grocers everywhere.

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S ecrets o f th e   B arg ain   C ounter.

From  th e C hicago Tribune.
A salesman for one of the large auction 
houses,  who  knows  intimately the  lead­
ing bargain house managers,  says:
I happened into a State street establish­
ment the other day and was being shown 
some  of  the  special  bargains  offered  to 
the  public.  Among- other  things was  a 
considerable quantity of black gros grain 
silk,  which  would  have  retailed for  not 
less  than §1.50  per yard,  and which was 
being sold all  over the counter  at  sixty- 
five  cents. 
It was  cut  up into  patterns 
of  twenty yards  each,  and no more  than 
one  pattern was  sold  to  any  purchaser. 
The writer  noticed  among  the shoppers 
who  stood  about the  counter  a  number 
of  young  women  he  knew belonged  in 
another place further down the street.
A little  later I dropped  in  on a friend 
at the rival establishment and mentioned 
the fact  that I had  seen  some of  his girl 
clerks  buying  at  the  other  place,  and 
commented on the fact that they must be 
paid  pretty fair  salaries to enable  them 
to  sport  gros  grain  silk  dresses.  The 
friend winked  in an  expressive  way and 
remarked  as  he  led  the  way to the rear 
of  the store:  “We know our  business.” 
Then he pointed out a stock of gros grain 
silk  which  was  being  rapidly  increased 
by young women, each of  whom brought 
in  a  package, which  was  carefully  un­
rolled and added to the pile.  A salesman 
was  busily engaged preparing  a  placard 
which read:
“As  advertised,  seventy-five  cents  a 
yard, worth two dollars.”
“You  see  how  nice  and  easy  it  is,” 
said  my  acquaintance.  “ Blank  &  Co. 
advertise  a  specialty  and  we  send  our 
girls down  there to buy all  they can  get 
hold  of  at  their  price, put  it  into  our 
stock  and sell  it at an  advance of  about 
15 per cent.”
“Great scheme.  Do you work it often?”
“Oh, yes, we  work  it  right along,  and 
I  suppose  the  other  fellows  work  us. 
We shall advertise  this lot of  silk in the 
papers  to-morrow  and  make  a  great 
spread on  i t   They  may come  and  buy 
it back  from  us  to  use  in  some  future 
sale  at  another  advance,  but  there  is a 
profit  in it to  us,  and  we  find  the same 
tactics in  all  lines,  whether it be  silks, 
underclothing,  notions  or  sundries, pay 
us very well.”

A  D efense  o f  S hoddy.

From   th e T extile  Record  o f A m erica.
There is not  much room  for doubt re­
specting  the  influence upon wool  manu­
facture  and  wool  prices  of  the  use of 
shoddy.  That  the  employment  of  this 
substance operates to put down the price 
of  wool  can  hardly  be  questioned  by 
anyone  who  will  examine  the  subject. 
The  use  of  both wool  and  shoddy  rep­
resents the  supply  of  a  demand  which 
could not  be supplied,  in the absence of 
shoddy,  without  larger consumption  of 
wool,  and thus  the lessened  demand for 
wool acts  to keep down  the price.  The 
notion  that  imposition  of  duties  upon 
wool is responsible  for the  employment 
of  shoddy  in  this  country  is  probably 
erroneous.  Shoddy  was  first  produced 
in  England,  under  conditions  of  free 
wool, and it  is a safe assertion  that two 
pounds are used there for one pound that 
is  used here.  Shoddy  is  a  valuable com­
represents  value 
modity. 
It 
rescued 
from waste.  When 
it  is  not  employed 
fradulently, 
its  employment  wrongs 
nobody. By mixing it with wool in fair pro­
portions,  manufacturers  are  able 
to 
supply 
serviceable 
material for clothing at a low price; and, 
so long as the world contains poor people, 
so  long  will  it  be  desirable  that  such 
materials shall be manufactured.  With­
drawal of  shoddy  from  industry  would 
certainly  advance  the  price  of wool for 
everybody,  and  would  place  wollen 
clothing  out of reach of persons  of  very 
small  means.  Shoddy  obtained  a  bad 
name during our civil war,  and the odium 
which  then attached  to  it still  inclines 
ignorant  persons  to regard  it with dis­
favor;  but  mankind  has  gained  much 
from its use, as  is always  the case when 
science and the improvement of processes 
rescue  from waste a  substance which  is 
susceptible of profitable employment.

comfortable  and 

Use ''Tradesman” Coupons

TTTR  M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
Dry Goods Price Current.

DEMINS.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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“  Arrow Brand  5*
Adriatic................. 7
“  World Wide..  7
Argyle  ................... 6*
“  LL............ ..  5
Atlanta AA............ 6*
Atlantic A.............. 7 Full Yard Wide... ..  6*
H.............. 6* Georgia  A........... ..  6*
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Amory..................... 7 King A  A............ ..  6*
Archery  Bunting... 4 K ing E C.............. ..  5
Beaver Dam  A A .. 6* Lawrence  L L — ..  5 *
Blackstone O, 32__ 5 Madras cheese cloth 6*
Black Crow........... 6* Newmarket  G__ ..  6
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B  ... ..  5*
Black  Rock  .........
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Boot, AL................ 7*
DD.
Capital  A.............. 5*
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5*| 
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Cavanat V............
Chapman cheese cl 3*{Nolbe R.............
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Clifton  C R ...........• 5* Our Level  Best..
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Comet.................... 7 Oxford  R ...........
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7* Pequot................
Dwight Star..........
6* Isolar...................
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Clifton CCC.........
jTop of the Heap.
7*
Geo. Washington...  8
A B C .  ...................8*
Glen Mills.............  7
Amazon....................8
Gold Medal.......... 7*
Amsburg.................. 7
Green  Ticket....... 8*
Art  Cambric..........10
Great Falls..........   6*
Blackstone A A......8
Hope.....................7*
Beats All..................4*
Just  Out........  414® 5
Boston................... 12
King  Phillip.........714
Cabot........................7*
OP......7*
Cabot,  X..................   6X
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10*
Charter  Oak............5*
Lonsdale...........  @  8*
Conway W............... 7*
Middlesex........   @5
Cleveland................7
No Name.............. 7*
Dwight Anchor........  814
shorts.  814
Oak View...............6
Our Own.............   5*
Edwards...................  6
Pride of the West.. .12
Empire.....................7
Rosalind...............7*
Farwell....................714
Sunlight...............  4*
Fruit of the  Loom.  7li
Utica  Mills...... . 
FitcbvUle  ............. 7
First Prize...............6*
“  Nonpareil ..11
Vlnyard...............  8*
Fruit of the Loom X.
White Horse..........6
Falrmount............... 4*
“  Rock........    8*
Full Value...............654
Cabot....................... 7141 Dwight Anchor.......9
Farwell....................8  |
TremontN..............5*
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X.........   9
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BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

Middlesex No.  1....10
2....11
3....12
7....18
8....19

UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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COSSETS.

DBESB  WOODS.

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Hamilton N ............ 7*|Middlesex A A.......... 11
Middlesex P T .. ....  8 '
2 .........12
A T .. ....  9
A O........ 13*
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X A.
4........ 17*
X F .. ....10*
5..*...16
CA BPET
Peerless, white. ....18  .
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colored__20* White Star.............. 18*
colored.. 21
Integrity.................18* |
Hamilton................ 8
Nameless................20
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G G  Cashmere........21
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Nameless..............16
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Coraline................89 50|Wonderful........... 84 50
Schilling’s ............   9 00, Brighton...............4 75
Armory..................   654|Naumkeagsatteen..  7*
Androscoggin.........7* I Rock port.................... 6*
Blddeford...............  6  Conestoga.................614
Brunswick..............6*|Walworth................   614
Berwick fancies....  *
Allen turkey  reds..  5?4 
Clyde Robes...........  5
robes...........5*
Eink a purple 6*
Charter Oak fancies 4* 
Del M arine cashm’s.  6 
u ffs...........  6
mourn’g  6 
pink checks.  5*
Eddy stone  fancy...  6 
staples........5*
chocolat  6 
shirtings...  4* 
rober  ...  6 
American  fancy—   514 
sateens..  6 
American indigo—   534 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6 
American shirtings.  4* 
staple....  5* 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Manchester fancy..  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  414
new era.  6 
Arnold 
6*
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Arnold  Merino......  6
Merrlm’ck shirtings. 4* 
long cloth B. 10* 
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century cloth 7
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Pacific fancy..........6
“  gold seal......10*
robes..............6*
“  green seal TRIO* 
Portsmouth robes...  6 
“  yellow seal..10*
Simpson mourning..  6
greys........6
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serge.............11*
solid black.  6 
“  Turkey red.. 10* 
Ballou solid black..  5 
Washington Indigo.  6 
“  Turkey robes..  7*
“  colors.  5*
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Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange  ..  5*
“  plain T ’k y  X 34 8* 
Berlin solids...........  5*
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“  Ottoman  Tur­
“  oil blue....... 6*
key red................ 6
“  green —   6*
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Martha Washington
Turkeyred 34........7*
red 34...........7
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Windsor fancy........6*
Cocheco fancy........  6
madders...  6
madders...  6 
XX twills ..6*1  Indigo blue......... 10*
solids........5*1
Amoskeag A C A.... 13
Hamilton N............   7*1
D............ 8*
Awning..11
Farmer....................8
First Prize..............11*
Lenox M ills.......... 18
Atlanta,  D..............  63£|Stark  A
Boot.........................  634 No  Name —
Clifton, K................7*|Topof Heap
Simpson..................20
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Coechco................. 10*

AC A.....................12*
Pemberton AAA — 16
York.......................10*
Swift River............7*
Pearl  River............12*
Warren...................14

Imperial..................10*
Black................ 9® 9*
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9 oz...... 14*
brown .18
Andover................ 11 %
Beaver Creek A A... 10 
BB...  9
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“  d a twist  10* 
Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.19

Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue.......... 12
brown.......12
Haymaker blue...... 71£
brown...  75£
Jeffrey.....................11*
Lancaster................12*
Lawrence, 9oz........13*
No. 220....13 
No. 250....11* 
No. 280....10*

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fancies___ 7
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Lancashire............... 6*
Manchester............   534
Monogram..............  6*
Normandie............... 7*
Persian..................... 8*
Renfrew Dress........7*
Rosemont................. 6*
Slatersville.............. 6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma.................   7*
Toil  duNord......... 10*
Wabash.................... 7*
seersucker..  7*
Warwick...............   8*
Whittenden............   634
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  6*
Westbrook..............8
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Windermeer........... 5
York..........................6*

Amoskeag................ 7*
“  Persian dress 8*
Canton ..  8*
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Arlington staple—   6*
Arasapha  fancy__  4*
Bates Warwick dres 8*
staples.  6*
Centennial.............  10*
Criterion................ 10*
Cumberland  Btaple.  5*
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4*
Elfin.......................   7*
Everett classics......8*
Exposition............... 7*
Glenarie.................  6*
Glenarven.............63(
Glenwood.................7*
Hampton...................6*
Johnson Chalon ol 
*
indigo blue 9*
zephyrs.... 16 
Lancaster,  staple...  6*
Amoskeag..............16*|Valley City...............15*
Stark......................20  Georgia....................15*
A m erican....;.......16*!Pacific.....................14*

GRAIN  BAGS.

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THREADS.

No.

KNITTING  COTTON.

..33
6  .
8... ....34
10... ....35
...36
12...

Clark’s Mile End... .45  IBarbour's................88
Coats’, J. & P ........ 45  Marshall’s ................88
Holyoke.................22*1
White.  Colored.
White.  Colored.
42
38 No.  14... ....37
43
“  16... ....38
39
44
“  18... ....39
40
“  20... ....40
46
41
CAM BRICS.
Washington...  . ....  3*
Red Cross......... ....  3*
Lockwood........ ....  4
Wood’s ............. ...  4
Brunswick....... ...  4
TW..................... 22*
F T .............  
32*
JR F.X X X ............ 35
Buckeye................. 32*

Slater.........
White Star. 
Kid Glove.
Newmarket.......—   4
Edwards...... 4
Fireman................. 32*
Creedmore..............27*
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless................27*

BED  FLANNEL.

MIXED  FLANNEL.

Grey SR W.............17*
Western W  .............18*
DR P ............. 
18*
Flushing XXX........ 23*
Manitoba................ 23*

Red ¿¡‘Blue,  plaid. .40
Union R..................22*
Windsor.................. 18*
6 oz Western........... 21
Union^B................. 22*
Nameless...... 8  ® 9*1 
......8 *@10  I 

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DOMET  FLANNEL.

“ 
“ 

.......9  @10*
...... 
12*
Slate.  Brown.  Black. I Slate.  Brown.  Black. 
9* 
10* 
11* 
12* 

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
13 
9* 
15 
10* 
17 
11* 
12* 
20 

9*13 
10*15 
11*17 
12* 20 

13
15
17
20

Severen, 8oz.......... 9*
May land, 8 oz......... 10*
Greenwood, 7* oz..  9* 
Greenwood, 8 oz. ...11*

West  Point, 8 oz__ 10*
10O Z....12*
“ 
Raven, lOoz.............13*
 
13*
Stark 
WADDINGS.

“ 

IPer bale, 40 doz__87.50

White, doz............. 25
Colored, doz..........20
Slater, Iron Cross...  8  I Pawtucket.............. 10*
“ Red Cross....  9  Dundie..........................  9
Best.............10* Bedford...................10*
“ 
« 
Best AA......12*1 Valley  City............. 10*

SILESIAB.

SEWING  SILK.

“ 
“ 

-.12 
..12 

Corticelli, doz........ 75  [Corticelll  knitting,

twist,doz..37*  per *oz  ball........30
50 yd, doz. .37*1
HOOKS AND EVES—FEB GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k & White.. 10  INo  4 Bl’k & Whlte..l5 
..20
“  2 
“  3 
..25
No 2—20, M  C.........50  INo 4—15  F  3 * .........40
‘  3-18, S C ..........45  I
No  2 White & Bl’k..l2  INo  8 White & Bl’k..20 
“  4 
.23
“  6 
..26
No2....................... 28 
|N o3......................... 36

COTTON  TAPE.
..15 
“  10 
..18  I “  12 
SAFETY  PINS.

“ 8 
| “  10 

PINS.

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NEEDLES—PEB  M.

A. James.................1 SOI Steamboat....  ........  40
Crowely’s...............1  35 Gold 
Marshall’s..............1 00|
5—4. ...2 25  6—4...3 2515—4....1  95  6—4...2 95

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“  ...3 101

“ ....2 10 

Eyed 

COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine.. 28
Crown...................12
Domestic.............. 18*
Anchor................. 16
Bristol.................. 13
Cherry  Valley.......15
I X L......................13
Alabama...................6*
Alamance...............  6*
Augusta!.................7*
Ansapha...............   6
Georgia..................   6*
Granite..................  5*
Haw  River............   5
Haw ,J ....................6

Nashua...................18
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
3-ply....17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7* 
Powhattan.............18

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Mount  Pleasant__ 6*
Oneida....................5
Pyrm ont................  5*
Randelman............ 6
Rlversids................5*
Sibley A ...................6*
Toledo....................  6

PLAID  OSNABUBGS.

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Uniform  Bill of Lading.

in 

force 

commerce.

|  of articles.  | 

The  New  York  Board  of  Trade  and 
Transportation  has  adopted  the  bill  of 
the  National 
lading  put  forward  by 
Transportation Association at  its  recent 
meeting at Chicago,  the  text of which  is 
as follows:
Official uniform bill of lading  for  interstate 
................................... R. R.  Co.
.............. ............ jgg
Received for transportation from  . . . . . . . . . . . .
in  apparent  good  order,  except  as  noted,  the 
property  described  below 
(vaine  unknown), 
marked and consigned as  indicated  below  and 
subject to carriers’  liabilities  as  laid  down  by 
the  common  law 
in  the  various 
States, Territories,  provinces  or  foreign  coun- 
*rîii? tllroui>h which the property must pass.
The rate of  freight upon  the  propertv  herein
described shall not exceed..............per..............
Marks and con-1  Description  I Weights subject
to correction.
signments. 
It is  intended  to  submit  this  bill  to 
Congress at its next session,  with the re­
quest  that  such  measures  be  taken  as 
shall be deemed advisable to compel  the 
carriers of the United  States  to  furnish 
all shippers with bills uniform  with it or 
with a similar one in which the  common 
law liability only of said  carrier shall be 
expressed,  and  also  the  early establish­
ment  of  a  uniform  classification, 
the 
rules  and  conditions  of  which  shall  be 
just and reasonable.
The  work  is to be pushed  forward  by 
the National Transportation Association, 
which  is  composed  of  delegates  from 
various  business organizations  through­
out the United States. 
It  has sent to all 
the  commercial  organizations  of  the 
country a circular letter urging  immedi­
ate action on their  part.
Representing the most influential busi­
ness organization of  the  country,  and  a 
membership of more than 20,000 business 
men, this Association insists that in fram­
ing a bill of lading  the merchant should, 
at least,  be consulted; nay,  more,  that he 
should  have  an  equal  voice  in  its  con­
struction.  Railroads  are  made  for  the 
public,  and  not  the  public  for  the  rail­
roads.  An  early  opportunity  will  be 
given by the  Interstate  Commerce  Com­
mission  to  hear  all  parties 
interested 
upon this subject of  vital interest to  the 
business concerns of  the  several  States.
The subject of a  uniform classification 
is likewise an important  one,  and is con­
ceded  by  the  transportation line  on  the 
one hand and  merchants  on the  other to 
be imperatively demanded.

No Charge  for Laces.

From  th e  New York  Recorder.
“We  don’t charge  for a single  pair of 
shoe lacings.”
The speaker  was a clerk in a  fashion­
able Broadway  shoe  store uptown.  His 
customer  was  nonplused.
“That is a strange  way of  doing busi­
ness,  isn’t  it?”  said  he.  “How  many 
pairs can  I take so  as to  be able to  pay 
for them?  I don’t  want to go round beg­
ging for shoe  lacings.”
4  “But  you  can’t  pay  for  any  in  this 
store,”  was  the  reply.  “We haven’t sold 
a  pair  of  shoe  lacings  for  years.  We 
only give  them away,  and we  have dis­
posed of several thousand pairs annually 
in that way.”
It  appears  that  this  is  not  the only 
shoe store that resorts to  such devices to 
attract customers.  Shoe lacings,  button 
hooks and other little odds  and  ends are 
given  away.  It  makes  no  difference 
whether the caller is a customer  or  not. 
The cost of the  little things is  not great 
and  it goes into  the general  account  for 
running expenses,  where, in the sum total 
for the year, it is scarcely noticeable.

Co-operation of the  Wife.

A  man  seldom  prospers  in  the  world 
without the co-operation of his  wife. 
If 
she  unites  in  mutual  endeavors  or  re­
wards  his 
labors  with  an  endearing 
smile,  with  what confiidence will  he  re­
sort to his  merchandise  or  his  farm,  fly 
over the  land, sail  upon seas,  meet  diffi­
culty and encounter  danger,  if he knows 
he is not spending his  strength  in  vain, 
but that  his  labor  will  be  rewarded  by 
the sweets of  home!  Solicitude and dis­
appointment enter  the  history  of  every 
man’s life,  and  he  is  but  half  provided 
for his voyage who finds but an associate 
for happy hours,  while for his months of 
darkness  and  distress  no  sympathizing 
partner is prepared.

TH E  MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.
Hardware Price Current.

HAMMERS.

ROPES.

 

SHEET IRON.

 
SQUARES. 

Sisal, % inch and la rg e r................................ 
Manilla....................... 
Steel and  Iron................................................... 
Try and Bevels................................................. 
M itre.................................................................. 

g
11^
dls.
75
60
«0
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

8 50
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

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 
HO.HT.......... 
...................................   4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86..........................................dis. 
Sliver Lake, White  A .................................list 
Drab A ....................................  “ 
White  B .................................   11 
D rabB .....................................  •• 
White C.................................... “ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
50
55
35

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$3 10
3 20
3 20
3 80
3 40

Discount, 10.

dls.

saws. 

TRAPS. 

H and............................................ 

“ 
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__  
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot................................................. 

Solid Eyes................................................ per ton $26
20
Sliver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,_______ 70
60
30 
30
Steel, Game........................................................60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ........................35
Oneida Community, Hawley a 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

wire. 

dls.

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SASH WEIGHTS.

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

Au Sable..................................dls. 25A10@25A10406
dls.  08
Putnam .............................................. 
N orth west era...................................  
dls. 10410
dlS.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
30
Coe’s  G enuine................................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........”  
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable..................................75410
Bird Cages........................................................ 
50
Pumps, Cistern............................................ 
75
Screws, New List............................................. 70410
Casters, Bed  a  d Plate............................ 50410410
Dampers, American........................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods......... 
65

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dls.

METALS.

PIG TIN.

ZINC.

260
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.........................................................  
Pig Bars............................................................. 
Duty:  Sheet, 2)4c per pound.
660 pound  casks...............................................  
6M
Per  pound.........................................................  
7
K@)4..........................................................................
Extra W iping......................................................  J5
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
Cookson............................................per  pound  16
HaUett’s .......................................... 
13
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal............................................$ 7 pn
............................................  7 60
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
............................................  9 25
14x20 IX, 
 
926

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—ALLAWAY GRADE.
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ROOFING PLATES

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“  Worcester..............................   6  50
“ 
.............................  8  50
“ 
...........................  13  50
“  Allaway  Grade..................  
575
7 ¿5
“ 
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12  00
“ 
15 00
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
14x28  IX ..................................................................$14 00
14x31  IX...............................................................16
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I
10
14x60 IX.  “ 

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BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

T h ese  p rices  are  fo r cash  buyers,  w ho 
p ay   p ro m p tly   an d   b u y  in   fu ll  p ackages.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

Snell’s ................................................................  
go
Cook’s .......... ........................................................... 4Q
Jennings’, genuine.................................................25
Jennings’,  Im itation.......................................50&10

dls.

AXES.

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barrows. 

First Quality, S. B. Bronze.............................I 7 50
D.  B. Bronze.........................12 00
S. B. S. Steel..............................  8 50
D. B. Steel..................................  13 50
Railroad.......................................................   1 14 00
Garden....................................................... net  30 00
dl8.
50&10
75
............................................................«>410
70

Stove.  ............. 
Carriage new list.............................................. 
Sleigh shoe.......................................................  

BOLTS. 

dls.

 

BUCKETS.

Well,  plain........................................................1350
Well, swivel.....................................................     400

BUTTS, CAST. 

dlS.
Cast Loose Pin, figured....................................704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint................60410
Wrought Loose Pin...........................................60410
Wrought  Table................................................. 60410
Wrought Inside Blind......................................60410
Wrought  Brass................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...................................................70410
Blind,  Parker’s ................................................. 70410
Blind, Shepard’s .............................................. 
70

 

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

40

Grain.......................................................... dls. 50402

Cast Steel................................................ per lb 
Ely's 110................................................ per m 
Hick’s  C. F .............................................  
“ 
G. D .........................................................  
•• 
M usket....................................................   « 

5
65
60
35
60

CABTRIDOES.

Rim  F ire..........   .............................................. 
Central  Fire.......... .....................................dls. 

chisels. 

dls.
Socket F irm er..................................................70410
Socket Framing.............................. 
70410
Socket Corner................................................... 70410
Socket Slloks....................................................70410
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................... 
40

 

58
25

Curry,  Lawrence’s ..........................................  
40
25
H otchkiss.......................................................... 
White Crayons, per  gross............... 12©12H dls. 10

dls.

COMBS. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

“ 

Planished, 14 oz cut to size........ per pound 
14x52,14x56,14x60 .......................... 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................... 
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................................ 
Bottom s............................................................. 
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks........................................  
Taper and straight Shank............................... 
Morse's Taper Shank....................................... 

DRILLS. 

dls.

DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser p o u n d .................................... 
Large sizes, per  pound...................................  

30
28
25
25
27
50
50
50

07
6H

ELBOWS.

dlB.

dls.

Com. 4  piece, 6 in .............................. do*, net 
75
Corrugated......................................... dls. 20410410
Adjustable.................................................dls.  40410

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, 118; large, 126.........................  
Ives’, 1,118;  2,124;  3, fe e ..............................  

30
25

piles—New List. 

Disston’s ........................................................... 60410
New  American................................................. 60410
Nicholson’s  ...................................................... 60410
Heller’s ..............................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................... 
50

GALVANIZED IRON

Nos.  16  to  20;u22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
List 
15 

12 

14 

Discount, 60

13 
GAUGES. 

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

28
18

50

dl8.

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dls.

“ 
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HINGES.

dls.
dls.

levels. 

HANGERS. 

MATTOCKS.

WIRE GOODS. 

locks—door. 

HOLLOW WARE.

knobs—New List. 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Maydole  4  Co.’s ........................................ dls. 
25
Kip’s ............................................................ dls. 
25
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s ......................................dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, H and__ 30c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ................................. dls.60410
State............................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4)4  14  and
3*4
longer............................................................. 
Screw Hook and  Bye, H ..........................net 
10
94.......................... net  8)4
............................net  7)4
\
* ............................net  7)4
Strap and T ................................................ dls. 
50
dls.
Bara Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50410
Champion,  antl-frlction................................  60410
40
Kidder, wood tra c k ......................................... 
Pots..................................................................... 
60
Kettles................................................................  
60
Spiders  .............................................................. 
60
Gray enameled..................................................40410
Stamped  TlnW are..................................new list 70
Japanned Tin W are........................................  
25
Granite Iron W are.................... new list 33)4410
dls.
Bright........................................................... 70410410
Screw  Eyes................................................. 70410410
Hook’s ..........................................................70410410
70410410
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................ 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s .......................  
70
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings...................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................... 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings...............  
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................... 
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain....................  
70
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l i s t ..................... 55
55
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s ..............................  
55
Branford’s ........................................................ 
Norwalk’s ........................................................ 
55
Adze Eye.............................................116.00, dls. 60
Hunt Eye.  .........................................$15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ..........................................118.50, dis. 20410.
dls.
so
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
40
“  P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry 4  Cleik’s ................... 
40
“  Enterprise 
......................................... 
25
Stebbln’s Pattern..............................................60410
Stebbln’s Genuine............................................ 60410
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
25
Steel nails, base........................................................ 1 85
Wire nails, base........................................................2 20
Steel.  Wire.
Base 
Base
60.................................................. 
10
50...........................................................Base 
40 .........................................................  
20
05 
20
10 
30..........................................................  
30
15 
20........... 
35
16..........................................................  
15 
35
12..........................................................  
15 
40
10 ...........................................................  20 
8 ............................................................   25 
50
7 4 6 .......................................................   40 
65
4 .............................................................  60 
90
3..............................................................1  00 
1 50
2 00
2.............................................................1  50 
Fine 3.................................................... 1  50 
2 00
90
Case  10..................................................  60 
1 00
8.................................................  75 
1 25
6.................................................  90 
Finish 10..............................................   85 
1 00
8................................................ 1  00 
1 25
6................................................ 1  15 
1 50
Clinch; 10...............................................  85 
75
90
8............................................ 1  00 
6...............................................1  15 
1 00
Barrell %...............................................1  75 
2 50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ...................................   @40
Sclota Bench....................................................  @60
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................   040
Bench, first quality..........................................  @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood............  410
Fry,  Acme.................................................dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................... dls. 
70
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 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

Advance over base: 

MOLASSES GATES. 

mauls. 
mills. 

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rLANES. 

rivets. 

N A ILS

FANS.

dls.

dls.

dls.

Broken packs He per pound extra.

 

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M ichigan Tradesm an

Official Organ o f M ichigan B usiness Men*»  A ssociation.

▲  W EEK LY   JO U RN A L  DEVOTED  TO  T H E

Retail Trade  of the Wolilerine State.

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E.  A.  STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY.  JULY  1,  1891.

forefathers  built 

fireplaces  were  generous. 

THE  HOME  AS  A  SYMPHONY.
In the days of the brass-handle and the 
claw-foot a  house was  a  place in  which 
people  lived,  and  each  man  built  and 
furnished  with  a  care  for  his  position 
and his comfort.  A dwelling  was never 
copied from a church nor a  shop  from  a 
diary.  They thought  of  the  climate  in 
those days,  and  in the North  there  were 
thick  walls  and  double  windows,  and 
each  room  could be  heated  as its  occu­
pant desired. 
In  the  South  there  were 
piazzas and  shady,  wide  halls,  while  in 
these “temperate”  regions,  where in less 
than six  months we  rush  from  freezing 
to  boiling,  with  how  much  good  sense 
our 
their  houses! 
The  thick  walls  kept  out  both  heat 
and  cold,  and  if  the  halls  were  wide 
the 
In­
stead  of  a  mansard  roof,  which  makes 
the  room  it  covers  intolerable  in  the 
summer,  a loft ran over the whole of  the 
house.  The  windows,  the  open  “trap­
door,”  ventilated  the  whole  dwelling, 
and in the winter the  body  of  warm  air 
had  its  effect. 
If  the  roof  leaked  the 
bed-room  paper  was  not  spoiled,  and 
what a place it  was for trunks and herbs 
and  discarded  furniture!  The  house­
keeper of to-day has  nothing among  her 
modern  conveniences  that  compensates 
her for  the  lost  loft.  As  the  furniture 
car had not been invented.no one thought 
of an  annual  moving,  and  the  children 
had  treasure  trove  among  the  storage. 
In  those  days,  if  a  house  represented  a 
home no one yearned to  make it a “sym­
phony.”  But  this  is  now  our  fondest 
wish,  and to do it what  foreign  tones  do 
we  not  introduce!  We  have  quarter 
tones,  and  our  hearts’  yearning  puts  a 
“ diminished  seventh,”  which  is  never 
“ resolved,”  into  color,  and  so  express j 
our views  of life.  More  sensitive  than 
Mozart and Mendelssohn,  we can yet  en-1 
dure a ‘‘succession of fifths,” if they will 
but begin at the tiles  at  the  front  door, 
and lead on to  a  satisfying  tonic  in  the 
drawing-room.  We  take 
from  Italy 
what is common there,  and the  mere act 
of  transplanting  gives  it  a  soul.  The 
rug which in Turkey  was a  covering for 
floor  or  divan,  in  America  becomes  “a 
suggestion,”  and  only 
the  collector 
knows  the  repose  a  Spanish  water-jug 
can give to the sad eyes which fall upon it. 
When  Mrs.  Haweis said  in  her “Beauti­
ful Houses”  that  “fine color comes  like 
food,  like joyful news,  like fresh  air  to 
fainting lungs,”  and  when in the hall  of 
a dwelling she found “an  imperial state­
liness and strength of  flavor  and  the  si­
lence  like  a  throne,”  we  could  under­
stand  the feeling with  which  the  devo­
tees of the  decorative  approach  a  guest 
chamber “made of fire and flowers.” 
In 
this room  the  bed  and  tables, the  cabi­
nets  and  window  shuters  were  all  of 
gold.  The  golden  wash-stand  is  inlaid 
with  precious  stones,  and  crystals  en-

close recesses for  aged  and  shimmering 
tooth-powder  boxes. 
From  a  bronze 
bull’s  head  the  water  gushes,  and  the 
spigot  is a bronze  tortoise,  who  forever 
is trying to creep away.  Everywhere color 
“arouses” and form “rests.”  Each room 
is a “study”  and a  “suggestion,”  and  no 
house is perfect unless  it  at  once  takes 
the mind away and  suggests  some  other 
place.

Of  all  these  inspirations  our  grand­
fathers knew little, and it never occurred 
to  them  that  a  polyglot  house  was  an 
achievement.  They  cared  nothing  for 
rooms  that made the  visitor feel  that  he 
was  in  Algiers,  and  for  his  summer­
house  he  would  as  soon  have  copied  a 
wigwam as St.  Peters’s.  And yet he had 
ideas.  We  do  not  scorn  his  tables  nor 
his chairs, nor do we  see without a pang 
his fine old house,with its wide halls and 
spacious stairways,  turned into  a  stock­
ing factory. 
It was true  that  American 
houses  looked  like  America  and,  per­
haps,  echoed  England,  and  there  were 
worries that blue did not soothe,  and dis­
appointments that  had  nothing  opaline 
about them.  Yet  there  was  something 
of  character  about  them,  something  no 
architect could give,  no ready writer  de­
scribe.  A home  could not then be  made 
to  order  by  a  decorative  artist,  and  on 
the native maple  no one sought  to  graft 
the Eastern olive.

The telegraph, though it is  the soul of 
brevity,  and  as  swift  in  the  dissemina­
tion  of  news  as  anything  can  be  until 
some  process  is  discovered  of  turning 
back the hands of time, is nevertheless a 
sadly potent  agent for spoiling the effect. 
This  is  never  so  evident  as  when  the 
wires are loaded down with a  succession 
of dispatches in the nature of  correspon­
dence.  Happy are those readers of news­
papers  whose individual interests are  in 
Corea,  Patagonia or  Kerguelen Land,  or 
in  any of  the  very  few localities  which 
are not as yet connected by wire with the 
great centers of  civilization.  For  them 
the letters of correspondents have all the 
freshness of news.  The pith has not yet 
been  taken  out  of  them  by  telegrams. 
The recent  revolution  in Brazil is on  its 
way now to join the  forgotten  events  of 
the past, but, as it is the  latest  instance 
in  point,  it  may  be  referred  to  here. 
Every one remembers, for instance,  how 
enthusiastic telegraphers told all sorts of 
lies about the  events  of  the  day  at  the 
outbreak of  hostilities. 
It took nearly a 
month  for the  correct  version  to  reach 
England and America, and  by  that  time 
most people had filed away in their mem­
ories the substance of the first dispatches, 
much  to  the  discredit of all  concerned. 
It is impossible, of course, to suspend the 
use of the telegraph  in  case  of  wars  or 
other great events of public interest,  but 
the  editors  of  daily  newspapers  would 
serve  their readers  better  if  they  could 
agree to limit the use of telegraphic mat­
ter. 
In  the  scramble  of  twenty correa 
pondents for the use of the cable,there re­
sults a  confusion  of  messages,  untrust- 
worthy in detail,  unsatisfactory  in mass.
I Yet there is in them a foundation of fact 
sufficient  to  take  the  heart  out  of  the 
regular letters, however well done,which 
follows  by  the  next  mails.  The  time 
seems  to  have  passed  when  letters  by 
mail can contain news  fresh  in  spite  of 
the telegraph and readable as were those 
of other days.

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

Business  men will  breathe  freer, now 
that  the  Legislature  of  1891  is  in  the 
throes  of  dissolution.  Although  a  ma­
jority of  the  members were  elected on a 
distinct  pledge  that  business was  to  be 
expedited  and a final adjournment taken 
within ninety  days, the session  has been 
one of  the  longest in the  history of  the 
State  and the  amount of  vicious and un­
necessary legislation  originated  and  en­
acted  is  beyond  all  precedent.  About 
the  only thing to be thankful  for is that 
the  scourge  will  not  occur  again  until 
1893. 

________________

BEADY  FOB  BUSINESS.

The  Elliott  Button  Fastener  Co.  Now 

in the  Maraet.

The Elliott Button Fastener Co., which 
was organized over a year ago by a num­
ber of  representative  business  men  and 
capitalists,  is now prepared  to  place  its 
machines  on  the  market,  but  so  many 
orders have been booked  from shoe deal­
ers all over the country who  have  heard 
of the machine from  traveling  men  who 
have seen it in operation in Grand Rapids 
that it will be two or  three weeks before 
any  further  demands  for  machines  can 
be  honored. 
The  advantage  of  the 
Elliott machine over the present  method 
of threading  the  staples  in  the  buttons 
will  be  readily  manifest,  as  it  works 
automatically,  taking the buttons from a 
hopper and the wire from a  spool,  mak­
ing its own  fasteners  and  attaching  the 
buttons  to  the  shoe  in  one  operation. 
The economy  in  time  over  the  method 
now in vogue will  amount to a saving  of 
hundreds of dollars a year to large dealers 
and  a  proportionate  saving  to  smaller 
dealers.

On the  organization  of  the  company, 
fourteen months  ago,  a  factory  was  es­
tablished  in the Leitelt  building on Erie 
street, the necessary machinery was pur­
chased  and  put  in  operation  and  the 
work of manufacture was actively begun. 
Not being  hampered  by  any  pecuniary 
difficulty,  most  of the  time  during the 
past year has been devoted to the  manu­
facture of special tools  and  patterns,  so 
that every piece in the machine might be 
made  interchangeable  and  no  difficulty 
experienced in supplying  articles  which 
may  become worn or broken.  Expert me­
chanics who have inspected the tools and 
patterns  of  the  company  claim  that  it 
has the  finest  outfit  of  the  kind  in  the 
State, if not in the entire West.

The value of the several patents owned 
by Geo. W.  McGill, of New York, having 
been  apparent  to the  company  from  its 
inception,  negotiations were entered into 
with that  gentleman,  culminating in the 
purchase of the entire series last  month. 
On the  strength of  this  acquisition,  the 
company  claims  to  be  supreme  in  the 
field and has  already  begun  suit  in  the 
United States Court for the Western Dis­
trict of Michigan against a local  user  of 
the Peninsular machine  to  test  the  pat­
ents  of  the  Heaton-Peninsular  Button 
Fastener Co.  v

Backed by  ample capital  and  fortified 
by  a machine which will  be  a  necessity 
in every  shoe store as soon as  its  merits 
are once known,  there is every reason to 
predict  a  remarkable  success  for  the 
Elliott company.

The  Grocery Market.

Sugar  is  higher  and  is  bound  to  go 
higher  still,  as  the  market  is  excited. 
Currents are 
lower.  Rolled oats and 
oat meal are weaker and lower.

COUNTING  UPON  THE  CBOPS.
It is refreshing to  me  to observe  how, 
after all the talk which has gone on late­
ly  about  the  cure  of  poverty  by  silver 
legislation, currency tinkering and finan­
cial jugglery in  general,  people  turn  to 
the  contempation of  the incoming  crops 
as the surest and safest  means  of  relief 
from  their  money 
troubles.  Common 
sense prevails over imagination,  and  the 
eternal  truth  that  human  labor  is  the 
only  real  source  of riches  asserts  itself 
against fine-spun theories.  Wheat, corn, 
cotton  and  tobacco, which  are  gathered 
from the  surface  of  the  earth,  as  coal, 
iron,  copper, petroleum, and minerals  of 
all kinds are extracted  from  its  bowels, 
are perceived  to  have  a  value  indepen­
dent of acts  of Congress,  and one  which 
can neither be unmade  nor made by syn­
dicates and combinations.

Our crops this year receive  special  at­
tention,  because  of  the  recent  gold  ex­
ports and of  the  expected  bad  harvests 
of Europe.  Great Britain and France, it 
is supposed, will require more than their 
usual supply of food  from  us,  and  Ger­
many is already suffering from a scarcity 
which has created much popular  discon­
tent,  and incited a  clamor for the  repeal 
of the duties upon grain and meats which 
keep out supplies from foreign countries 
for the benefit of native producers.  Evi­
dently,  if  the  local  crops  in  Germany 
should prove to be  insufficient  for  local 
needs,  the  retention  of  the  duties  will 
not be a permanently effectual bar to im­
ports.  People  must  live,  and  if  they 
cannot  get  food  at  home  they  must 
bring it in from abroad, so that the ques­
tion of duties becomes one  of  secondary 
importance.

If  our  expectations  are  fulfilled,  and 
our harvests prove to be abundant, while 
those of Europe  are scanty, we shall,  in­
deed,  have food  to sell,  and  Europe  will 
have to buy it.  Upon this fact I observe 
great hopes are built of the return  to  us 
in  the fall of some portion at  least of the 
$60,000,000 of gold which  we  have  been 
exporting  since  Jan.  1,  and  of  a  conse­
quent renewal of activity in stock specu­
lation.  I very much fear that these hopes 
will be  disappointed. 
I can  see  plainly 
enough that if Europe has  to  buy  of  us 
an unusual amount of food  she will have 
to pay us an unusual  amount for  it,  but 
that she will pay the  amount  in  gold  is 
not  so  clear. 
If  the  demand  for  our 
breadstuffs  and  provisions  shall  be  as 
great as it is expected to be, it will cause 
a  rise of  prices,  and  high prices  always 
bring  about  diminished  consumption. 
Then,  too,  it  must  be  remembered  that 
Europe is not  going it  import  its  whole 
year’s  supplies in  one,  two, or  even  six 
months. 
She  will  live  from  hand  to 
mouth,  as it were,  and take from us only 
so much as she needs  for immediate con­
sumption.  Meanwhile our  consumption 
of imported goods  will be  going on,  and 
be stimulated by the high prices we shall 
get for the products of our own industry, 
so that the  balance in our  favor  will  be 
considerably less on  that  account.  Add 
to  this  the  summer  expenditures  of 
Americans  traveling  abroad,  which  will 
have  to  be  met  much  sooner  than  ex­
ports of food  can  do  it, and  we  have  a 
further reason for not  expecting  an  im­
mediate return flow of gold to this  coun­
try.
Another  thing,  too,  must be borne  in 
mind in calculating the  effect  upon  this 
country of good crops here and bad crops 
abroad. 
It is the  practical unity, or,  as

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Kossuth years ago expressed it,  the  soli­
darity  of  human  interests  all  over  the 
world.  The effect of both calamities and 
benefits tends to diffuse itself,  and an in­
jury to one portion  of the human race  is 
measurably felt by the whole.  All com­
merce is the  interchange  of  products  of 
labor,  and when the products of  one sec­
tion are small all the sections  which  ex­
change with it get less from it.  Thus, if 
Europe,  by  reason  of  bad  harvests,  is 
obliged to take more food  from  us  than 
she otherwise would,  she  can  take  from 
us less  cotton,  tobacco,  petroleum,  and 
other  materials.  The  more  men  are 
obliged to spend for  food,  the  less  they 
can spend for  clothing,  fuel,  light,  and 
other comforts,  not to mention  luxuries. 
I  remember  very  well,  in  my  clerking 
days, how it used to be an axiom that when 
breadstuffs  went  up cotton  went  down, 
for  the  reason  that  dear  food  meant  a 
diminished consumption of clothing,  and 
I  see  at  this  very  moment  that  while 
wheat is rising  cotton  is  declining,  and 
has touched the lowest  point it has  been 
at for forty years.  What is true  of  cot­
ton is still more decidedly true of  tobac­
co,  whisky,  and  even  beef  and  pork. 
People who,  by reason of  diminished in­
comes,  are obliged to  retrench  their  ex­
penditures,  begin  with  the  least  indis­
pensable articles,  and  follow  on  down. 
If bread  is  dear  there  will be  not  only 
so  much  less  spent  on  smoking  and 
drinking,  but on butcher’s meat likewise, 
and thus the market for this sort of food 
will be very considerably lessened.

Furthermore, not only will  the  people 
of Europe be restricted, by the failure of 
their crops,  in their  purchases  of  cloth­
ing and  luxuries,  but  their  surplus  for 
investment  will  be  correspondingly  de­
creased,  and thus the  operation  of  what 
has long been an important factor in our 
prosperity will be temporarily  impaired. 
Every country,  and the world as a whole, 
can grow richer, it is  plain,  only  so  far 
and so fast  as  it  produces  more  wealth 
than  it  consumes.  The  secret  of  the 
enormous  fortunes of  Great Britain,  for 
example,  is  the energy  and  the  skill  of 
her citizens in  drawing  from  her  mines 
and  from  her  factories  supplies  of  de­
sirable  commodities  sufficient  not  only 
for  home consumption but for  export  to 
other parts  of  the  globe.  British  capi­
tal has  thus  been  distributed  wherever 
promising  investments  for  it  could  be 
found,  and we,  from our affinity  in  race 
and  our  community  of  language,  have 
come in for a large  share  of  it. 
If  this 
year  the  surplus  of  British  production 
over British consumption shall be reduced 
by reason  of  crop  failures,  the  amount 
left for investment here  will  be  reduced 
also. 
It  is  true  that  the  loss  will  be 
somewhat  compensated  by  the  receipt 
of goods exported hither to pay for food, 
but  these  will  represent  only  our  own 
surplus earnings and not those of British 
capitalists. 
that 
those who count upon  a influx of British 
money for  investment  among us  will  be 
disappointed.  We  shall  have  to  rely 
pretty much upon our own resources  for 
means to  engage  in  new  enterprises  as 
well  as  to  complete  those  which  have 
been already undertaken.

therefore, 

I  think, 

Behind all this  lies  the  fact,  to  which 
I am  almost  tired  of  calling  attention, 
that our recent gold  exports,  so far from 
being,  as many  people assert they  are,  a 
loan of  capital to  Europe,  are really  the 
return of borrowed money which we had 
been using  so long that  we had  come  to

look upon it  as our  own.  We  have  re­
paid our  creditors  in  gold,  because,  by 
our  peculiar  financial  management,  we 
have made a great  deal of gold  superflu­
ous for currency purposes here, and thus 
have rendered it the cheapest commodity 
which foreigners can take  from us.  We 
first locked up millions of dollars of it in 
our Treasury by a revenue system which 
gave the Government  an  enormous  sur­
plus of  receipts  over  expenditures,  and 
then we  poured  those  millions  out  into 
the  circulation  of  the  country,  besides 
adding to that circulation  $4,500,000  per 
month  by  the  issue  of  silver  bullion 
notes. 
It  was  inevitable  that  some  of 
this excessive volume of currency should 
overflow  our  national  boundaries,  and 
find its way abroad,  even without the ex­
traordinary demand  for  it  arising  from 
unexpected financial troubles there.  Now 
that it has gone  it will stay, because as it 
was the cheapest thing to buy it will also 
be the least desirable  thing  to  sell,  and 
whatever remittances  may be  needed  to 
pay us for food  supplies can be more ad­
vantageously  made in other commodities, 
even under the new tariff.  Besides,  I am 
disposed now  to  allow  more  than  ever 
for  the  growing  distrust  abroad  of  our 
ability  to  maintain  the  gold  standard, 
and a  hesitation on  the  part  of  foreign 
capitalists  on  that  account  to 
invest 
money  here  until  they  can  see  more 
clearly than they do what kind of money 
they are going to get back.  The distress 
of  the  national  Treasury,  which  I  dis­
cussed not long ago, and the  intimations 
that  come  from  headquarters  of  an  in­
tention to relieve it by an addition to the 
currency  of  the  difference  between  the 
bullion  value  and  the  coining  value  of 
the  4,500,000  ounces  silver  purchased 
each month under the act  of  July,  1890, 
are calculated to make  foreigners  pause 
and reflect before they send us money on 
a gold basis at  the risk  of  being  repaid 
on  a basis  of  more  or  less  depreciated 
silver.  At least,  we  are  doing  nothing 
to reassure  them, and  it  is  but  natural 
that they should be alarmed.

Still,  good crops  are  not  going  to  fail 
of producing for us  some  good  financial 
results.  They are,  as I said,  real riches, 
and not phantoms of the imagination.  In 
their  transportation,  also,  and  in  their 
conversion  into  manufactured  products 
the millions of our citizens not  tillers  of 
the soil will find  profitable  employment. 
The  stimulus thus given to our  industry 
ought to  content  us,  without  the  addi­
tion of that caused by the  influx  of  for­
eign capital,  whether  that capital  comes 
in the shape  of  gold  or  only  in  that  of 
goods. 

Matthew  Marshall.

Bank  Notes.

The East  Saginaw National  Bank  has 
decided to go into liquidation.  The Bank 
is solvent and  has  $150,000  capital,  but 
the directors are  split in a factional  row 
and this was the only means out of it.

Leon Chichester and Geo. J.  Robinson, 
of  Allegan,  have  organized  the  First 
State Bank of  Fetoskey,  with  a  capital 
of $50,000.  The  gentlemen  named  own 
a  controling  interest,  the  remainder  of 
the stock having been  subscribed by  the 
business men of Petoskey.

St.  Johns  business  men  have  about 
completed  arrangments  for  starting  a 
State  Bank  at  Durand,  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $25,000.  Durand  parties  will 
take part of the stock.  Frank  Conn,  of 
St.  Johns,  will be cashier.

FISHING TACKLE

JL 

•—H AND h—•

SPORTING G00DO

HEADQUARTERS.

SPALDING  X  GO,
L. S. HILL &CO.

SUCCESSORS TO

Importers,  Manufacturers 

and  Jobbers of

Sportim  &  Athletic  Goods.

10D Monroe  St.,

40,42 *441 Ionia St.

Grand  Rapids, Mich.,  April 8, ’91.
Having  sold  to  Foster, 
Stevens & 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  past  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,

SPALDING  &  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.

IosterXtevens

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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.
HEADQUARTERS  FOR

Flags, Lanterns,

Toy  Pistols, Paper  Caps, Fire  Crackers, 

Torpedoes, and all

4 t l i o ’M i|

Goods and Exhibitions

Supplied on  short  notice.  Send  for  price  list. 

The most complete assortment in Michigan.
FRED  BRUNDAGE,

21, 23,  25 & 27 Terrace St., 

- 

- 

- 

MUSKEGON, 

GENERAL

MICH.
A. D. SPANGLER & CO.,
Gommission  Merchants
Fruits and  Produce

And Wholesale  Dealers  in

We solicit correspondence with both buy­
ers and sellers of all kinds of  fruits, ber­
ries and produce.

SAGINAW,  E.  Side,  MICH.
Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit, Mieh.
$500,000  TO  INVEST  IN  BONDS
Issued  b j  cities, counties,  tow ns  and  school  districts 
o f  Michigan.  Officers  o f  th ese  m u n icip alities  about 
to  issue  bonds w ill  find it  to  th eir  advantage to  apply 
to  th is bank.  Blank bonds and blanks fo r proceedings 
supplied  w ith ou t  charge.  All  com m unications  and 
enquiries w ill h ave prom pt a tten tion.  This bank pays 
4 per  cent, on  d eposits, com pounded sem i-annually. 
8.  D. EL WOOD, Treasurer.

May, 1891. 

prevent the  consummation  of  the  inde- 
| pendent  movement  it  would  have  been 
consigned  to  the  demnition  bow-wows 
long ago.  As the matter stands, there is 
quite as much probability of the  jobbers 
and  rectifiers  carrying  out  their  defen­
sive move as there  is  of  the  fulfillment 
of any other  business  scheme,  although 
much  doubtless  depends  on  the  future 
actions  or  indications  of  action  on  the 
part of  the  Trust  itself.  Many  jobbers 
and  rectifiers  are  suspicious  enough  of 
what  that  monopoly  would  do  if  given 
half a chance to take any risk of pressure 
by waiting  longer  to  see  what  is  to be 
done.  These people would start the new 
company at  once rather  than  lose  time, 
but the more conservative feel that if the 
Trust will fully realize how earnest they 
are in this  matter  and  keep  prices  at  a 
fair  level  in  consequence, 
they 
would  prefer  this  easy  solution  of  the 
difficulty to the bother of a distillery and 
the  customary commercial  warfare  such 
competition would entail.

that 

An Explosive  Mixture.

Dr.  John Grant  writes  to  the  Lancet 
as follows:
Having occasion to make a disinfectant 
fluid to apply  to an offensive  surface on 
ex­
a  body  awaiting  post  mortem 
amination,  1 chanced to select permanga­
nate  of potash.  Thinking  the  solution 
might  dry too  quickly  and  inefficiently 
deodorize  the part, it  occured  to me  to 
add  glycerine  on account  of its hygros­
copic  powers.  Putting  a  drachm of the 
crystals into a three ounce bottle, I added 
two ounces of water and one of glycerine, 
and agitated the  mixture.  To  my great 
surprise the cork and part of the contents 
were violently ejected, and the remaining 
portion developed great heat.  Every one 
is  familiar  with  the  danger  of  mixing 
glycerine  and  nitric  acid;  I  have  not, 
however,  seen  any  mention  of  a  com­
bination  of  it  and  permanganate  of 
potash. 
I observed the mixture  became 
brown,  losing  its  purple  color 
like  a 
deoxidized solution of the salt; and as  no 
effervescence  took  place,  it is  probable 
that  the  glycerine  combined  with  the 
oyxgen liberated by decomposition of the 
salt,  and  that,  further,  it possesses  by 
some  affinity  of its  own  the  power  of 
producing  rapid  decomposition  of  the 
permanganate.  Perhaps  some  chemist 
will kindly explain.

Cost of a Visit.

From the  New York  Times.

A party of  ladies and  gentlemen were 
shown through  a large carpet  establish­
ment in Broadway a  few days ago.  They 
were permitted  to look  into every  nook 
and  corner of  the  building except  one. 
At the bottom of the  stairway leading to 
the  top floor  they  came  upon  a  closed 
door,  upon which  were the  words “Pos­
itively No  Admittance.”  The  curiosity 
of  the  ladies  was  awakened  at  once. 
“What is up there?” inquired one eagerly, 
“That  is our  workship,” explained  the 
representative  of  the  firm.  “We  have 
150 women on that floor sewing carpets.”
“Oh,  I  should so  like to  see them  at 
work,”  said the  fair  questioner  with  a 
playfully beseeching look.
“I am sorry that I cannot  take you up 
there,”  replied the firm’s representative, 
“but  the rules  are very  strict.  Really, 
there is  nothing  worth  looking  at,  and 
there  are  no  trade  secrets  there.  The 
reason why the  firm interdicts visitors is 
because the presence  of strangers in  the 
room causes every sewing woman to look 
up  and take  her  attention off  her  work 
from one to five minutes.  Suppose  each 
woman loses  an average of two minutes. 
With 150 women that means a loss to the 
firm of 300 minutes, or five hours of time. 
That  is too much  time to lose  when  we 
are working  under a full  head of steam, 
as we are now.”

The  Drug Market.

There  are  no  important  changes  to 
note.  Opium is dull and  lower in price. 
Morphia is unchanged.  Quinine  has de­
clined.  Oil  anise  has  advanced.  Lin­
seed oil is lower.  Nitrate silver is high­
er.  Turpentine is lower.

Detroit—The  Sherman  Steel Lock Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital  of 
$100,000, of which $80,000 is paid in.

IO
D rugs  Medicines*

State  Board of Pharmacy.

One Tear—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Two  Tears—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Three  Tears—James Ternor, Detroit.
Four Tears—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor 
Five Tears—George Gundrum, Ionia.
President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  Ternor, Detroit.
Treasurer—S. E. Parkill,  Owosso.
(Detroit) Jufy 7;  Houghton. Sept. 1;  Lansing  Nov. i.
M ic liig iiu   S ta te   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  A a s’n . 

Meetings  for  1891—Ann  Arbor,  Hay  5;  Star  Island 

President—D. E. Prall, Saginaw.
Tirst Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. 
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor. 
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Treasurer—W m Dupont, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in  October, 1891.________
Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical Society. 
President. W. R. Jewett,  Secretary,  Frank H. Escott 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March,  j 

June, September and December.
Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association. 
resident, F. D. Kipp ;  Secretary, W. Ç, Smith.______

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. 

President, F. Rohnert;  Secretary,  J. P. Rheinfrank.
Muskegon  Drug Clerks’  Association. 

P resident  C. S. Koon;  Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.

Doctor  Koch.

Here is the man who's known to all,
Both rich and poor and great and small 
And yet in spite of all his fame,
I cannot learn what is his name;
I’m told by one to take no stock 
In all that's claimed by Doctor Koch; 
Another thinks it’s all a joke 
About the lymph and Doctor Koch:
A sick friend says he’ll try his luck 
With medicine from Doctor Koch.
Though someone tells him its all bosh 
To spend his cash on Doctor Koch.
And when I speak the subject o’er 
With  those well versed in physic lore,
One warns me with a knowing look 
To keep away from Doctor Koch;
Another says that I shall watch 
The good results of Doctor Koch;
While number three does much reproach 
The enemies of Doctor Koch.
And when successes I relate 
Of this scientific potentate,
My German friend exclaims:  “ Was noch 
Von diesem groszen Doctor Koch?"

Cliffo r d H ow ard.

The  Drug  Store  Coward.

“Once  in a while  one  comes  across  a 
man  who is said to be too  mean to live,” 
said a bright  little  woman  to a reporter 
the  other  day.  “But  there are  degrees 
and  degrees of  meanness,  and I heard of 
one 
the  other  day  that  overtopped, 
totally eclipsed, anything in my previous 
experience.

“I  went to the  druggist’s to  get a pre­
scription  put  up  and  sat  down to wait 
for it,  meanwhile reading one of the new 
magazines.  My attention  was  attracted 
from my book  by the entrance of  a well- 
dressed  man,  who was  eagerly asking of 
the clerk if  there was any really reliable 
remedy yet discovered  for  neuralgia. 
I 
have neuralgia myself sometimes, and any 
thing  on  that  subject  interests  me  at 
once. 
I  looked  up  and recognized  the 
man as the husband of  one of my school­
mates, a  young  lady  of  whom  I  was 
specially  fond.  She  had  married—her 
people  said,  beneath  her—at  all  events 
no one seemed very enthusiastic over her 
selection,  and, as a consequence,  she had 
of  late  years  rather  dropped  out  of 
society.  Still  all  of  us  girls  know  all 
about her,  and we know  the fellow when 
we  see  him,  although  he  possibly  may 
not recognize us.

“Before  I  had  time to think  much,  I 
heard him say:  ‘Well, I don’t know what 
to do.  My wife has one of her old attacks 
of neuralgia worse than  usual  this time, 
and I don’t know  what  I  am going to do. 
I’m completely  discouraged.  Give  me a 
quarter’s  worth  of  quinine  and—well, 
I  suppose the  old remedy,  some of  your 
best whisky.  A quart bottle. 
I tell you 
it’s awful to have to resort to such reme­
dies, and the consequences are something 
to dread. 
I  sometimes  think  I’ll—here,

give  it  to  me  quick,  there  is  just  the 
change—I  can’t  see  her  suffer  so,  but, 
oh  Lord,  it’s awful!’  and  he  turned and 
rushed out of the store.

“The clerk  looked after  him for a mo­
ment  with  an  expression  of  profound 
pity on his face.  Then  turned to an  old 
gentleman  who  was  waiting,  and  burst 
out:

“ ‘ I don’t  know what  we are  all com­
ing to.  There  is  that man—nice fellow 
seems  to  be—has  been coming  here  for 
three  years  buying  liquor for  his wife. 
Under  pretense of  neuralgia  she  drinks 
from  three  to six  bottles a month  from 
here;  goodness  knows  how  much  from 
other places.  And  this man  is  only one 
of  half a dozen who regularly buy liquor 
for  their wives  or  daughters  or  some of 
the  women of  their  family. 
I  tell  you, 
the increase in the use of  liquor in fami­
lies is something dreadful.  I really don’t 
know what will be the end of it.’

“Well, you  can  just  imagine  I  was a 
I  sprang 
raging fiery  furnace  within. 
from my chair in a way that startled both 
of  the men.  The clerk  said: 
‘Oh, mad­
am!’  The old  gentleman  hastily put  on 
his  glasses  and  exclaimed: 
‘Bless  my 
soul,  what is the  matter?’

“Well,  I was  just  that  excited  that  I 
could  only gasp  for a minute;  then  I re­
flected  that these  men  would  think  me 
an  escaped  lunatic, so I calmed  down  a 
little  and  had  my  say. 
I  told  them— 
well, you  can  imagine what  when  1  tell 
you  that  that  man’s wife  never had  an 
attack of  neuralgia in her life.  She  has 
the most superb  health,  and besides,  she 
is  an  actual  crank  on  the  subject  of 
liquors. 
I don’t believe she would drink 
a drop of  whisky  to  save her  life.  She 
would  think  her  existence  not  worth 
having if  she  purchased it through  such 
means.  And  this wretch  has  for  years 
past been buying whisky and  drinking it 
on  the  sly,  meanwhile  besmirching  his 
wife’s  reputation  by  representing  that 
she consumes it.

“I  gave the  druggist  this  man’s name 
and address.  He  has a friend  living  in 
the same  street, and  knows  people who 
do  business in the  same  block. 
If  that 
man’s vileness isn’t blazoned on the door­
posts  then I am no  judge of  human  na­
ture, and he richly deserves  all that  can 
be said of him.

“I  have  made a little  careful  inquiry 
and  am satisfied  that  almost every  drug 
store  has  customers  of  this  sort;  men 
who  pose  as  ‘goody-goods’  and  will  not 
enter a saloon or drink at a bar, but who 
go to  the drug  store and  buy whisky  by 
the bottle, ostensibly for the use of  their 
wives or families,  but in reality for their 
own  private  use  at the  office  or  in  the 
society of boon companions. 
In this par­
ticular  case  the  liquor  goes  to  a  quiet 
little  room in a house a few  blocks away 
from  home,  and  is  used  up  in  social 
drinking,  over  games  of  chance,  or  be­
tween good stories and questionable jokes. 
And  one of  the  most  honorable  women 
in the world is dishonored  and disgraced 
by such a coward. 
I  wish  she  knew  it.
I think I’ll risk  losing her friendship for 
the  sake of  telling  her. 
I’ll go 
there this very evening!”

I  will. 

And she did.

Status  of  the  Independent  Distillery 

Project.

The  Whisky  Trust  people  are  trying 
their  best  to  belittle  the  efforts  of  the 
wholesale  dealers  and  rectifiers to form 
a company which will erect  an  indepen­
dent distillery,  and if  words alone  could

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .

Wholesale P rice  Current*

Advanced—Oil anise, nitrate  silver.  Declined—Opium, opium po., quinine, linseed oil.

“ 

s  

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W .. .2 05®2 30 
C. Co.......................1  95@2 20
Moschus Canton........  ®  40
Myrlstlca, No. 1.........   70®  75
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia....................  28®  30
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls Liq, N.  C., M gal
doz  .........................  ®2 00
Plcls Liq., quarts......   ®1 00
pints.........   @  85
PH Hydrarg,’(po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__   ®  3
Plx  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumb! A cet..............  14®  15
50
Pulvis Ipecac et opll. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®  35
Quasslae....................  8®  10
Quinla, S. P. & W......  33®  36
S.  German....23  @  30
Bubia  Tinctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv.  @ 33
Salacln.......................1  80@1  85
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Santonine.................  @4 50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
,r  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

SeidUtz  Mixture........  @  25
Slnapis........................  @  18
“  opt...................  @  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 13).  .  12®  13 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  30®  33
Soda Carb.................  1)4®  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash.................... 3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether Co...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......   @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
••  Vlni  Beet.  bbl.
2 27)........................   @2 37
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Stiychnia Crystal......   @1  30
Sulphur, Subl............ 3  @4
“  Boll..............2M@  3)4
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae..............  45®  50
Vanilla......................9 00@16 00
Zincl  Sulph...............   7®  8

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   55 
Lard, No.  1...............   45 
Linseed, pure raw__  47 

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
50
50

“ 

faints. 

Llndseed,  boiled  ....  50 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   50 
Spirits Turpentine__  43 

11
53
60
60
bbl.  lb.
Bed  Venetian............. 1M  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__1M  2@4
“ 
Ber........1M  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2M  2)4®3
“  strictly  pure..... 2)4  2£@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
70®75
Green,  Peninsular......  70@75
Lead,  red....................  @7M
“  w hite................  @7M
Whiting, white Span  ..  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’........  @90
1  00
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
Cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1 4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
Paints.....................1 00@1  20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................166@1  70
Coach  Body...............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn....... 1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar.... 1  55®1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp.........................  70®  75

H A Z B B T IN B

&  P B R K I N S

85

D R U G   CO.

Importers and Jobbers of

CHEMICALS  AND

P A T P N T   M P T Y T n T N T F S  
r  A l J j l N l  
I V I i j J J l v j l l N JÙIJ,

DEALERS  ZM

Paints, Oils ^  Varnishes.

■alo Agents for the O drim tal

SWISS  VILLI  PREPARED  P O U T S

60

M   Line of Staile  DrnM  Sundries.

We are Sole  Proprietors o f

Weatterly'8  JUiclipn  Catarrh  Remedy.

We Base in Stock and Otter a  Fan line et

WHISKIES, 

B R A N D IE S ,
GINS,  WINES, RUMS.

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

trial order.JtaBltine l Perkins Dnlg Bo.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

a c id u m .

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

Acetlcum...................  8®  10
Benzoicum  German..  80@1  oo
Boracic 
30
Carbolicum...............   23®  35
Cltrlcum....................   58®  60
Hydrocnior...............   3®  5
Nltrocum 
.................   10®  12
Oxalicum...................  11®  13
Fbosphorlum dil........ 
20
Salicylicum.................1 
Sulphurlcum__ 
..  12£@  5
Tannicum....................1 
Tartarlcum.................  40®  42

3G®1 70
40@1 60

AMMONIA.

" 

Aqua, 16  deg................3M@  5
20  deg..............  5)4®  7
Carbonas  ...................  12®  14
Chlorldum.................  13®  14

ANILINE.

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

50®3 00

RACCAK.

Cubeae (po.  90)........  90@1  10
Juniperus...................  8®  10
Xantnoxylum.............  25®  30

BALSAMTJM.

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

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian— ...........   18
Casslae  ...............................  11
Cinchona P lav a.................   18
Buonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrica  Cerlfera, po.............  20
Primus Vlrglnl....................  12
Quillala,  grd.......................   14
Sassafras  ............................  «
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)........  10

EXTRACTUM.

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24®  25
po...........  33®  35
“ 
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12
Is..............  13®  14
“ 
“  Ms............   14®  15
¿ 8 ............   16®  17
“ 
FERRUM.

Carbonate Preclp........  ®  13
Citrate and Quinla.... 
Citrate  Soluble...........  @  80
Ferrocy anidum Sol—   @  50
Solut  Chloride...........  @  15
Sulphate,  com’l......... 1)4®  2
pure............   ®  7

•• 

Arnica.......................  18®  20
Anthemls..................   20®  25
Matricaria 
25®  30

 

FLORA.

 
FOLIA.

@3 50

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

...................  20®  38
nivelly........  .........   25®  28
Alx.  35®  50
Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
and  V4b....................  12®  15
lira Ural......................  8®  10

“ 

“ 

o u m m i.

^  

“ 
“  

« 
“ 
“ 
« 

Acacia,  1st picked—  

®1 00
2d 
....  ®  90
80
3d 
  ® 
sifted sorts...  ®  65
po........   75@1 
00
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
“  Socotrl. (po.  60).  @ 50
.
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Ms. 
16)............................  @  1
Ammonlae.................  30®  35
Assafcatlda, (po. 30)...  @  20
Benzolnum.................  50®  55
Camphors...................  52®  55
Buphorblum  po  ........  35®  10
Galbanum..........   @3 
00
Gamboge, po..............  80®  95
Guaiacum, (po  30)  ...  ®  25
Kino,  (po.  25)............   ®  20
Mastic ... 
................  @  90
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
Opll.  (po. 3 20).......... 2 00@2 10
Shellac  ......................  23®  30
bleached........  28®  33
Tragacanth...............   30®  75

“ 
herba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majorum.............................   *8
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
“  V lr.........................  25
Hue......................................   *)
Tanacetum, V......................  22
Thymus, Y..........................   25

MAGNESIA.

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

OLBUM.

Absinthium.............. 5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarae___8 00@8 25
A nisl............................1 80®1 90
AurantI  Cortex...........3 00@3 50
Bergamli  ...................3  75@4 00
Cajlputl....................  70®  80
no
Caryophylll.......   90@1 
C edar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodll.......   @2 
00
Clnnamonll.................1 15® 1 20
Cltronella..................   ®  45
Conlum  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba.......................1-20@1

Cubebae......................  ® 7 50
Exechthitos...............   90@1  00
Erlgeron.........................2 35®2 50
Gaultheria......................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......   @  75
Gossip!!,  Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................1 85®2 00
Junlperl......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
LImonis.......................... 2 50©3 10
Mentha Piper...................2 90@3 00
Mentha Verid.................2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal..................1  00®1 10
Myrcla, ounce............   @  50
Olive ...........................1  00®2  75
Plcls Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
Rlcinl..............................1  04@1 20
Rosmarlnl............  
75@1  00
Bosae, ounce..............  ®6 00
Succini.......................  40®  45
Sabina.......................  90@1  00
Santal  ....................... 3 50®7 00
Sassafras....................  45®  50
Slnapis, ess, ounce__  ®  65
Tlglii..........................  @1  50
Thyme.......................   40®  50
opt  ...............   @  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

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POTASSIUM.

BiCarb.......................  15®  18
Bichromate...............    13®  14
Bromide.....................   35®  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 Ultras..............  7®  9
Prusslate....................  30®  33
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

RADIX.

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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
Hydrastis  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..................   40®  45
Maranta,  Ms ..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Bhei............................  75@1 00
“  cut......................  @1  75
“  pv.......................  75@1  35
Splgella.....................   48®  53
Sangulnaria, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentarla.................  40®  45
Senega.......................  50®  55
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40
M  ®  20
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
dus,  po....................  @ 35
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a ..................   10®  15
22®  25
Zingiber  j ...............  
SEMEN.
..  @ 15
Anisum,  (po. 20).. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  22®  25
Bird, Is....................... 
4®  6
Carul, (po. 18)............   8®  12
Cardamon........................1  00®1 25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Satlva......... 4M® 
5
Cydonlum..................   75® 1  00
Chenopodlum  ...........  10®  12
Dlpterlx Odorate........2 00@2 25
Foenlculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L inl............................4  @ 4M
Llni, grd,  (bbl. 3V4)---  4  @ 4)4
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Fharlarls Canarian__3)4®  4)4
Rapa..........................   6®  7
Slnapis,  Albu............   8®  9
,r  Nigra...........  11®  12

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SPIRITUS.

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Frumentl, W., D.  Co..2 00®2 50
D. F. B.......1  75®2 00
1  10®1  50
Junlperls  Co. O. T __ 1  75®1  75
.............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  E ........ 1  75@2 00
Spt.  Vlni  Galll........... 1  75©6 50
Vlni Oporto.....................1  25®2 00
Vlni  A lba..:................... 1 25@2 00

SPONGES.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage....................... 2 25@2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ................. 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage................... 
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage .......................  
Hard for  slate  use —  
Yellow Beef, for  slate 
u se.......................... 

2 00
1  10
85
65
75
1  40

SYRUPS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................  50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferrl Iod.............................  50
AurantI Cortes....................  50
Bhei  Arom..........................  50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Scillae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunus  v l r g . ..........  50

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TINCTURES.
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Aconitum Napellls B .........   60
Eft
Aloes.....................................  60
and myrrh..................   60
A rnica..................................  50
Asafoetlda............................  o
Atrope Belladonna...............   60
Benzoin.................................  60
“  Co............................  50
Sangulnaria....................... 
Barosma...............................  50
Cantharides..........................   75
Capsicum.............................   50
Ua damon..............................  75
Co.....................   75
Castor................................... 1 00
Catechu.................................  50
Cinchona.............................   50
Co......................  60
Columba...............................  50
Conlum................................   50
Cubeba..................................  50
Digitalis...............................  50
Ergot.....................................  50
Gentian................................   50
“  Co.............................   60
Gualca..................................  50
nmmon.................   60
“ 
Zingiber...............................  50
Hyoscyamus........................  50
Iodine....................................  75
Colorless................  75
Ferrl  Chlorldum...............  35
K ino.....................................  50
Lobelia..................................  50
Myrrh....................................  50
Nux  Vomica.........................  50
Opll................................. 
 
“  Camphorated.................  50
“  Deodor..........................2 00
AurantI Cortex......................  50
Quassia.................................  50
K hatany...............................  50
Bhei.......................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol....................   50
Co................  50
Serpentarla..........................   50
Stramonium..........................   60
Tolutan................................   60
Valerian...............................  50
Veratrum Veride...................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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Aäther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  26®  28 
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alumen....................... 2M® 3

“ 
ground,  (po.

“ et Potass T.  55®  60

cent  ............................. 

7).............................  3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antimonl, po..............  4®  5
Antipyrin..................   @1  40
Antlfebrin..................  ®  25
Argentl  Nitras, ounce  @  68
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......   38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, ()4s
11;  Ms,  12)..............  @  9
Cantharides  Busslan,
po............................  @1  20
Capslcl  Fructus, af...  ®  20
“  po-----   ®  25
@  20
“  B po. 
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  12®  13
Carmine,  No. 40.........  @3 75
Cera  Alba, 8. & F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  20
Centrarla....................  @  10
Cetaceum..................   ®  42
Chloroform...............   60®  63
squlbbs..  @1  10
Chloral H ydCnt....... 1  50® 1  70
Chondrus..................   20®  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  &  W  15®  20 
German 3M®  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
Creasotum...............  
®  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  @  2
“  prep................ 
  5®  5
“  preclp............... 
9®  11
“  Rubra................   @  S
Crocus.......................  28®  30
Cudbear......................  @  24
Cuprl Sulph...............   6®  7
Dextrine....................  10®  12
Ether Sulph...............   68®  70
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po..................   @  6
Ergota, (po.)  60 .........   50®  55
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................  @  23
Gambler.....................   7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
French...........  40®  60
“ 
Glassware  flint,  70 and 10. 
by box60and 10
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White...............   13©  25
Glycerins..................17  ®  25
Grana Paradisi...........  @  22
Humulus....................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ®  90
“  C or....  @  80
Ox  Bubrum  @1  CO
Ammoniatl..  @1  10 
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  70
Tcnthyobolla, Am..  ..1 25®1 50
Indigo........................   75@1 00
Iodine, Besubl..........3 75@3 85
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin.....................   35©  40
Lycopodium..............  45®  43
Macis.........................  80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltis  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1)4)..........................   2®  3
Mannla,  9. F ............   50®  60

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GROCERIES.

Nominal.

Wools  Slow—Hides Dull—Tallow 
Wools  move  slowly  East  and  West. 
Prices are not satisfactory to  either buy­
er or seller,  East  or  West.  Nor  is  the 
condition what it  should  be, or  as  good 
as expected.  Prices  are  low  East,  with 
a  reluctance  among  manufacturers  to 
buy—in  fact,  they  will  not  buy only  as 
their small  necessities  require.  Prices 
in  the country vary from day to  day, de­
pending  on  the  anxiety  of  the  buyers’ 
agent.  One  after another gets  wild one 
day,  to be  taken  out  of  the  market  the 
next.  When  they  get  through,  all  are 
liable  to  have high  cost  wool they  can 
grumble over all the rest of the year.

Hides are dull,  in light supply and ex­
tremely  light  demand.  The  supply  is 
ample for alll wants.

Tallow  is  nominal. 

Prices  are  un­

changed and demands moderate.

Status of the  Freight  Struggle.

The Transportation  Committee  of  the 
Board of Trade,  which  recently demand­
ed  a  re-rating  of  Grand  Rapids  at  the 
hands  of the lines leading from the  sea­
board,  putting this market  on  the  basis 
of  90 per cent,  of  the  Chicago  rate,  has 
received  the  ultimatum  of  the “powers 
that be,” conceding  that  Grand  Rapids 
is entitled to 96 per cent, of  the  Chicago 
rate.  This  preposition  was  considered 
at a  meeting  of  the  largest  shippers  of 
the city and  was  unanimously  rejected, 
and  the  Committee  was  authorized  to 
contract  with one  line  to  transport  all 
freight  shipped  by  parties  to the  con­
tract  to and  from  the  seaboard,  with  a 
view of bringing the other lines to terms.

 

 

Another Advance in  Fruit Jars.
Fruit jars  have  sustained  another  ad­
vance of  §1.50 per gross,  the  price being 
now as follows:
Pints.....................  
111.50
Quarts........................... 
12.00
Half gallons................................................... 15.00
The  recent advances  are  due  entirely 
to the unprecedented demand  incident to 
a large fruit season and  to the  fact  that 
stocks  are  already  exhausted  at  all  the 
factories.

The retail  merchants  of  this  city  are 

selling them as  follows:
Pints............. .................................. II. 15 per doz.
Q uarts......  ............................... 
1.25 
54 gallon..........................................   1.50 

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Anticipation  versus  Realization.
Expectant heir (before the will is read): 
Uncle’s  death  was  a  sad  and  untimely 
one.  To think  that but a short time ago 
that noble old man trod the earth in per­
fect  health;  to-day  bis  voice  is  forever 
hushed in the song of eternity!  Ah,  me!
Expectant Heir (after the will is read): 
That will  can  be  broken on  the  ground 
of insanity.  The old fossil  was crazy for 
twenty  years.

The  large  shippers  are 

terribly  in 
earnest in their fight for a  lower  rate  to 
and  from 
the  seaboard,  having  placed 
their  ultimatum  at  90  per  cent,  of  the 
Chicago  rate  and  agreed  among  them­
selves not to  take  anything  less.  The 
lines in  interest  have  agreed  to  reduce 
the rate to  96  per  cent, of  the  Chicago 
basis,  but this proposition is spurned  by 
the Grand Rapids men,  whose  motto  ap­
pears  to be  “90  per  cent, or  nothing.” 
The method adopted to  bring  the  trans­
portation lines to time is giving the local 
railway officials considerable uneasiness.
Stetson—W.  J.  Lake,  who  had  ar­
ranged to engage in the grocery business 
when his new building  was destroyed  in 
the recent conflagration here,  has erected 
a new  building  and  is  now  opening  up 
his stock.

THE  MICHia^LlSr  TRADESMAN,
FOB  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Advertisements will be Inserted  under  this  head for 
two  cents  a  word  the  first  Insertion  and  one cent a 
word  tor  each  subsequent  Insertion.  No  advertise­
ment taken for less than 23 cents.  Advance  payment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

274 

1X)R  RENT—LELAKD  HOTEL.  NO.  522  SOUTH  DI- 
vision street; steam-lieate<i throughout; has bath 
rootr s, closets, gas, etc., on each floor;  the  right  loca­
tion for a  good paying business.  Ed. E. Mohl, 91 Mon­
roe  street.
A  SNAP  FOR  SOMEONE—THE  BANKRUPT  STOCK 
-ljl  of  hardware of  W. B. Smith, “Banker'' together 
with a three  years' lease of  building in the  best town 
in Northern Michigan.  Stock  new,  clean and complete 
in  every  respect.  Must  be  sold.  For  terms  address 
J. L. Morrice. Trustee, Harbor Springs, Mich. 
264
tal pay  yon  110  per cent, profit?  If  not, you can 
invest it where  it  will do so.  We  have a new  article 
of  manufacture in the iron  line.  Would  ask  you  to 
investigate  for  yourself.  Correspondence  solicited. 
Address No. 274. care Michigan  Tradesman. 
1X)R SALE—THE  DRY GOODS AND  GROCERY  BUSl- 
Jl  ness  of  Rhodes  A   Leonard  at  Hart,  Mich.  Sale 
compulsory on account of the death of one of  the firm 
and  the poor  health of  the  other  member.  Splendid 
chanoe.  Inventory  about  $1,500.  Address  Rhodes  & 
Leonard, Hart, Mich.

1?OR  SALE—THE  ONLY  DRUG  STORE  IN  A  TOWN 

1  of  700 inhabitants  with  a  rich  farming  country 
around it.  Three physicians.  Nearest oposition  nine 
miles.  Daily  sales,  $14,  stock,  $2,200.  Will  sell  at 
inventory  No  trade.  Address  Box  120,  Belleville, 
Mich. 
YX>R  SALE-NICE  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS 
JL  and  boots  and  shoes  in  the  village  of  Alma, 
Gratiot  Co..  Mich.  Good  cash  business  established. 
Invoice $7,000.  Address  A E Putnam, Milan, Mich.  265

DRUG STOCK—NEAT AND ATTRACTIVE, AND NEW 

hardwood  fixtures.  Excellent  location  on  best 
retail street  in  Grand  Rapids.  Expenses  very  light 
and  trade  steadily  increasing.  Low  inventory,  just 
completed, $2,600.  On account  of  failing  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

267

IlOR  SALE —CLEAN  GROCERY  STOCK  INVEN- 

1 
torying $2.500 to $3,000;  located in a lively city in 
Northern Michigan.  Annual  sales,  $30,000.  Good rea­
sons  for  selling.  Address  No.  259,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
259
U O R   SA L E  — G R O C E R Y   A N D   C R O C K E R Y   STO CK

268

269

of groceries, SO horse power sawmill, almost new, 
located in finest hardwood belt  in Northern Michigan. 
Address W. A. Partridge, Rondo. Mich. 

170R   SALE  OR  EXCHANGE — FOR  CLEAN  STOCK 
I TOR  SALE —STORE  BUILDING  AND  GENERAL 

stock.  Inventory  about  $3,000.  Will  sell  build­
ing  alone if  preferred.  Industries:  sawmill,  shingle 
mill  and  lumbering.  Reason  for  selling, other busi­
ness to attend to.  Address F. J. Hargrave A Co., Ewen, 
Ontonagon county, Mich. 

ITCR  SALE — WELL  ASSORTED  DRUG  STOCK  ON 

one of the best streets in Grand Rapids.  Will in­
voice $1,400.  Reason for  selling, poor health  demand 
ing change of climate.  An  excellent  opening for  the 
right man.  Address  Pharmacist,  care  of  carrier No. 
15, Grand Rapids. Mich. 

FOR  SALE—WELL-SELECTED  DRUG  STOCK.  IN- 

ventorying about $1,200,  situated  in  good  coun­
try town of 500 people.  Reason for selling, proprietor 
has other  business.  Address  No.  173,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

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

FOR SALE-A  COMPLETE  DRUG STOCK  AND  F ix ­
1TLOURING  MILL  FOR  SALE — THE  ISLAND  CITY 

flouring  mill and  feed mill  and the  entire Eaton 
Rapids  water  power  will  be  sold  on  the 14th  day of 
July,  at  noon,  at  chancery  sale,  on  first  mortgage. 
For  full  particulars  and  terms  inquire  of  John  M. 
Corbin, Eaton  Rapids.  Mich. 
TTTANTED—I  HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  PAY  FOR  A 
VV  general  or  grocery stock ;  mast be cheap.  Ad­
dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 

273

173

261

124

26

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

TTTANTED—  BY YOUNG  MAN. SITUATION AS BOOK- 
VY  keeper,  assistant  book-keeper  or  collector 
Rest  of  references. Address  E. care  Michigan Trades­
man. 

243

MISCELLANEOUS.

263

FX)R SALE—OR  WILL  EXCHANGE  FOR  8TOCK  OF 

general  merchandise of  not over  $2,000  value,  a 
nice  large  dwelling,  large  lot, horse  barn, all neces­
sary out buildings, etc.  Lot well  located, with  plenty 
of  large  shade  trees, good  side walk, and  situated in 
one of  the  liveliest towns  in  Western  Michigan  Ad­
dress “Mac," Coopersville, Mich. 

f|N>R  SALE-CHEAP  ENOUGH  FOR  AN  INVE8T- 

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. 

IX)R  SALE  OR  RENT—CORNER  LOT  AND  5-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 

power hay press.  Nearly new.  Will sell for cash 
or exchange for  hay.  Write  to  Kingsley A  Gardiner, 
Lather, Mich. 

IX>R  SALE  - WHITMAN S  HALF  CIRCLE  HORSE 
FiOR  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. 
T70R  SALE—CHEAP FOR CASH—ONE CHEESE SAFE 
x   a set o f black walnut  drawers,  cased and  labeled 
fit  for  any  drug  store;  oil  tanks  with  faucet; small 
stock of jewelry and trays.  W. R. Mandigo, Sherwood, 
Mich. 

187.

272

266

258

187

E N G R A V I N G

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.

Asparagus—40c per doz. bu.
Beans—Dry beans are  firm  and  In  strong  de­
mand at 13 per bu. for choice hand picked.  Wax 
commands  $1.25@$1.50  per  bu.  String is In  fair 
demand at ll@S1.25 per bu.
Butter—The market is full all around,  dealers 
purchasing only for  immediate wants at 10@15c.
Cabbages—New stock is In fair demand at $1.50 
@$2 per crate, according to size.
Cherries—$1.50@$1.75 per bu., for red or white.
Cucumbers—50c per doz.
Eggs—The market is steady.  Dealers pay  1334 
14® and hold at 15@1534c.
Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb.
Lettuce—5c for Grand Rapids Forcing.
Onions—Green  command 10@15c. per doz., ac­
cording to size.  Southern  command 84 per  bbl
Potatoes — The market for old  stock  is about 
at an end, owing to large  quantity of  new stock 
on the market.  California Rose commands $2.50 
per 2 bu.  sack.  Tennessee  Triumph  and  Early 
Ohio are held at S3.25 per bbl.

Pieplant—2c per lb.
Peas—75c per  bu.
Plants—Cabbage or tomato, 75c per box of  200. 
in  about  ten  days.  The  crop is  reported  the 
largest ever known.

Radishes—10@12c per dozen bunches.
Raspberries—10@l5c per qt., according to qual­
Strawberries—About out of market.
Tomatoes—$¿.50  for  4  basket  crate  of  fancy 
Watermelons—Stock  is  in plentiful supply  at

ity.

Acme.
$3 per dozen.

PROVISIONS.

 

 

The Grand RapidB  Packing  and Provision Co. 

FOBS IN  BARBELS.

lar d—Kettle Rendered.

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

quotes as follows:
Mess,  new..........................................................   11 25
Short c u t ...........................................................   ll 50
Extra clear pig, short cu t....................... 
 
Extra clear,  heavy..........................................
Clear, fat back..................................................  13 25
Boston clear, short cu t....................................   13 50
Clear back, short cut........................................  13 50
Standard clear, short cut. best..................... 
13 75
Pork Sausage..........................................................7
Ham Sausage.......................................................   g
Tongue Sausage.................................  
9
Frankfort  Sausage  ............................................  s
Blood Sausage......................................................  5
Bologna, straight................................................   5
Bologna,  thick.......................................  ..........   5
Headcheese.........................................................   5
Tierces..................................................................  s
Tubs.........................................................................gu
501b.  Tins...............................................................8)4
Com-
pound.
634
6?£
714
714
6%
6%
6%

Tierces......................................... 634 
0 and  50 lb. Tubs.......................62£ 
31b. Pails, 20 in a  case.............. 734 
5 lb. Palls, 12 In a case................7% 
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case................7 >4 
20 lb. Palls, 4 in a  case.............. 7 
501b. Cans.................................... 6J£ 
BEEF  IN  BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs.............................  9 25
Extra Mess, Chicago packing..............................   9 25
Boneless, rump butts........................................
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs..........................................  914
16 lbs..........................................  9M
12 to 14 lbs..................................10
picnic..........................................................7u
best boneless...........................................
Shoulders.............................................................  514
Breakfast Bacon, boneless................................  834
Dried beef, ham prices.......................................1034
Long Clears, heavy............................................... 634
Briskets,  medium..............................................   ejj
lig h t....................................................   6J4

Famlly. 

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FRESH  MEATS.

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Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beef, carcass.........................................   554@ 7
“  hindquarters...............................   7  @ §
“ 
fore 
....................... ....... 4  @5
“ 
loins, No. 3..................................  @1014
ribs..............................................  834®  9
“ 
rounds..........................................  6  @ 7
“ 
“ 
tongues.................   ...................  @
Bologna.................................................   @ 5
Pork loins..............................................   @ 814
“  shoulders......................................   @ 6%
Sausage, blood  or head.........................  @ 5
liver.........................................  @ 5
Frankfort................................   @714
Mutton...................................................  @8
Veal.......................................................  

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FISH and  OYSTERS.

F. 

J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

FRESH  FISH.

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

 

 

oysters—Cans.

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1  50
100

SHELL  GOODS.

Falrhaven  Counts................................   @40
Oysters, per  100..................................... 
Clams, 
..................................... 
How to  Keep  a  Store.
By  Samuel  H.  Terry.  A  book  of  400  pages 
written from the experience and  observation  of 
an old merchant.  It treats of Selection  of Bust 
ness,  Location,  Buying,  Selling, Credit, Adver­
tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships,  etc.  Of 
great interest to every one In trade.  $1.60.
THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

Grand  Rapids.

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

STICK  CANDY.
Full  Weight. 
Standard,  per  lb ...............................  634
..............................  634
Twist  ................................ 634
..............................734
..............................734
MIXED  CANDY.
Full Weight.

“  H .H ....
“ 
Boston  Cream  ..
Cut  Loaf.  ........
Extra H. H........

Bbl8. Palls.
734
734
734
934
834
834

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8348

Palls.
734
734

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Bbls.
Standard........... .......................... 634
Leader............
..........................634
Special..........................................7
Royal............................................ 7
Nobby...... .................................... 734
Broken..........................................734
English  Rock.............................. 734
Conserves.................................... 7
Broken Taffy................................734
Peanut Squares.............................
Extra...........................................
French Creams..............................
Valley  Creams.............................
fancy—In bulk.
Full Weight.

834
834
8349
10
1034
1334
Bbls.
Palls.
Lozenges, plain................................ 1034
1134
.1034
1234
printed............................. 11
.11
Chocolate Drops.................... .
123414
Chocolate Monumentals........
.  5
Gum Drops.......................................... 5
634
9
..  8
Moss Drops....................................... 8
934
Sour Drops...........................................834
..  834
1134
.1034
Imperials............................................1034
Per Box
P
Lemon Drops................................................... 55
Sour Drops.......................................................55
Peppermint Drops...........................  
.65
Chocolate Drops...............................................70
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................90
13 50
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops............................................... 1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops....................................... 80
Lozenges, plain................................................ 65
printed............................................70
Imperials..........................................................65
Mottoes.............................................................75
Cream B ar...................................................... 60
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made Creams...................................85@95
Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams.........................................1  00
String  Rock.....................................................70
Burnt Almonds.... .........................................1  00
Wintergreen  Berries.......................................65
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb. boxes..........................  34
51
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
28
No. 3, 
42
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes....................................1  10
California, Med.  Sweets 128s................ 
150-176s.......... 

CARAMELS.
 
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ORANGES.

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2 
3 

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4 50
5 00

LEMONS.

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Messina, choice, 360..................................  5 25@5 50
fancy, 360.................................   5 75@6 00
choice 300.
fancy 300........... ..................
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, Smyrna, new,  fancy  layers__
....

choice 

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“  50-lb.  “ 

Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................
..........................
Persian. 50-lb.  box......................4
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.............................
Ivaca......................................
California..............................
Brazils, new...........................................
Filberts..................................................
Walnuts, Grenoble................................
“  Marbot.....................................
Chili.........................................
“ 
Table Nuts, No. 1..................................
No. 2..................................
Pecans, Texas, H. P .......................
Cocoannts, full sacks...................
Fancy, H.  P., Suns.........................
“  Roasted.............
Fancy, H.  P., Flags.......................
“  Roasted............
Choice, H. P.,  Extras....................
“  Roasted.........

PEANUTS.

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5 50
6  00
18@19 
@16 
@R¡34 
@10 

@ 8 
@  6

@17 
@1634 
@17 
@ 734 
@11 
@1134 
@12 
@@14
@13
15@17 
@4 00
@ 534 
@  734 
@  534 
@ 734 
@ 434 @634

HIDES, FELTS  and  FURS.

Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  follows:

HIDES.

“ 

Green.................................................... 4  @5
Part Cured.............................................  @ 5
Full 
.............................................5  @ 534
Dry..................................................  ....  6  @ 7
Kips, g reen..............................................4 @434
“  cored..............................................  5 @5
Calfskins,  green....................................   4 @5
cured....................................  5 @6
Deacon skins........  ................................10 @30

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No. 2 hides % off.

FELTS.

WOOL.

Shearlings............................................... 10 @25
Estimated wool, per 1b....................— 20  @25
Washed....................................................... 20@30
Unwashed.............................................. 
10@20
Tallow...................................................  334® 4
Grease butter  .......................................  1  @ 2
Switches................................................  134@ 2
Ginseng.......................... :...................   2 0032 50

MISCELLANEOUS.

OILS.

The Standard Oil  Co. quotes as follows :

Water White..........................................  @ 8M
Special White........................................   @83?
Michigan Test.......................................  @834
Naptha.............................   ...................  @73?
Gasoline.................................................  @ 8M
Cylinder............................................... 27  @36
E ngine.................................................13  @21
Black,  Summer 

..................................  @934

Whortleberries.

Strawberries.
Lawrence..................
1
Hamburg....................
Erie............................
1  65
Common....................
1  40
F. &  W.......................
1  25
Blueberries...............
1  30
Corned  beef,  Libby’s...... ..2 10
Roastbeef,  Armour’s__ -.1  75
Potted  ham, *  lb.......... ..1  50
..1  00
-.1  10
.  95
95

“  *  lb............
tongue, *  lb.........
*  lb...  .
chicken, *  lb......

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VEG ETA BLES.

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M EATS.

Beans.

“ 

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Peas

Corn.

Hamburg  stringless........
..1  25
.  2 25
French style...
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 ................................
Purity.............................
..1  10
E rie.................................. .1   15
Hamburgh marrofat__

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

early June..........1  50
Champion Eng...
Hamburgh  petit  p o is........ 1 75
fancy  sifted.......1  90
Soaked................................  65
Harris  standard.............
75
Van Camp’s Marrofat
.1  10
.. 1  30
Early June...
Archer’s  Early Blossom. ... 1  35
French........................... ...1  80
French............................ ■17@18
Erie................................ ...  90
Hubbard......................... ...1  30
Hamburg....................... ...1  40
Honey  Dew.................... ...1 60
Van  Camp’s.................... ...1  10
No. Collins..................... ...1  10
Hamburg....................... ...1  30
Hancock......................... ...1  05
Gallon............................
German Sweet................
22
34
Premium.........................
38
Pure.............................  .
40
Breakfast Cocoa...........
CH EESE.
©10*
Norway.....................
N. Y. or.Lenawee 
@10 
Allegan
@ 9 
© 8 
Skim__
Sap  Sago 
@22 @1 00
Edam  ...
Swiss, imported........  24@  25
domestic  __  15®  16
Limburger................... —  
15
Rubber, 100 lumps................35
40
Spruce,"200 pieces................40
Snider’s, *  pint...................1  35
pint....................... 2 30
quart......................3 50
CLOTHES P IN S .

CHEW IN O   GUM.
200  “ 

 
CATSUP.

CHOCOLATE— B A K E R ’S.

Tomatoes.

5 gross boxes  ......................40
Bulk..............................  @4
Pound  packages...........  @7

COCOA  8 H ELLS.

COFFEE.
G REEN .Rio.

Santos.

Maracaibo.

Mexican and Guatamala.

Pair......................................20*
Good.................................... 21
Prime.................................. 21*
Golden.................................22*
Peaberry............................. 23
Fair..................................... 20*
Good....................................21
Prime.................................. 21*
Peaberry  ............................ 22*
Pair..................................... 22
Good.................................... 23
Fancy...................................25
Prime..............................   ..22*
M illed.................................23*
Interior............................... 26
Private Growth................... 28
Mandehling........................29
Imitation............................ 25
Arabian............................... 28*
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add *c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent,  for shrink­
age.
McLaughlin's  XXXX....24*

Mocha.

PA CKAGE. 

BO A STED .

Java.

“ 

Lion.................................... 2i*
in cabinets  ............... 25*
Durham..............................24*
Valley City.........................  75
Felix..............................1 15

EX TRA CT.

80
2  40
2  00
1  00
75

60
1  75
6  00

50
1  50
5  50

90

45
85
1  60
10
45
85
1  50
60
1  20
2  (10
9  60
40
80
1  50

.  90
.  70
.  60
irosa
4  007 oo
10  50
2  75
4   00
8 00
4  50
1  75a oo
a  25
2   50
2  75
90
1  20
3   25
2   75

.5   00

.4   50

10*
1 0 *
12
25

.1  10
.1  90

.2  30
.1  10
2  10
.2  45
.3  45
.2  00
.3  00
.1  20
.2  00
.3  00
.3  00
.3   00

.1  85
.1  65
.1  35
.2  10
5 ®   6
7@  8
1@12
1@14©1')
.2   50

3   50

2  25
2  50
2   35

93
1 20
1  75
1  60
1  30
freen
U  60
1  10
%\  75
2   25

$2  75

1  25
2   25

1  30
2  60
2  85
1  10
1  30
1  50
1  40

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Bulk....................................
Red.................................... .
Cotton,  40 ft.........per doz.

Hummel’s, foil...................  l  50
tin ....................2 50
CHICO BT.
4*
7
1  25 
1  40 
1  60 
1  75 
1  90 
90 
1  OO
7 40
6 50
8 CO
7 00

CLOTHES  LOTES.
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50 ft........... 
60 ft........... 
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70 ft........... 
80 ft........... 
“
60 ft..........  
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72 f f ......... 
“
CONDENSED M ILK .

Ragle.................................
Crown................................
Genuine  Swiss...................
American Swiss...............

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COUPONS.

“Tradesman.”
 
 

(  1, per  hundred...............   2 00
2 50
$ 2, 
“  “ 
3 00
“  “ 
$ 3, 
“ 
*5, 
3 00
“ 
810, 
4 00
“ 
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820,  “ 
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“Superior.”
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$  1. per hundred...............   2 50
3 00
$2, 
8 5, 
4 00
810, 
5 00
820, 
....................  6 00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts:
200 or over............   5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 

10 
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............ 20 
CRACK ERS.
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Kenosha Butter.................... 7*
Seymour 
5*
Butter....................................5*
“  family...........................5*
“  biscuit.........................6*
Boston....................................7*
City Soda............................... 7*
Soda.....................................6
S. Oyster............................... 5*
City Oyster. XXX.................  5*
Strictly  pure......................  30
Telfer’s  Absolute..............  35
Grocers’............................ 10@15

CREAM TA R TA R .

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Apples.

P E E L .

PR U N E S.

California Evaporated.

Sundried....................  @10
Evaporated............... 13  @14
Apricots...................... 
14
Blackberries..............  
6*
Nectarines................. 
13
Peaches!....................  
12
Pears,  sliced.............. 
15
Plums.........................12  @19
Prunes,  sweet. 
10
Turkey.......................  @ 8
Bosnia........................   @ 9
Freach.......................  @10
Lemon....................   . 
18
Orange...........  
18
In drum......................  @18
Inboxes.....................  @20
Zante, in  barrels........  @ 5
in  *-bbls........  @ 5*
in less quantity  @  5* 
r a isin s —California. 
2 00
London Layers,  2 cr’n 
2 10
“ 
3  “ 
2 25
“ 
fancy. 
1  60
Muscatels,2crown  ... 
1  75
.... 
Valencias................... 
6*
Ondaras......................  7  @ 7*
Sultanas....................16  @17

3  “ 
Foreign.

CURRANTS.

CITRON.

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farinaceo us  goods. 

Farina.
Hominy.

4

Maccaroni and Vermicelli. 

100 lb. kegs................... 
Barrels.................................3 75
G rits..................................
Lima  Beans.
Dried............................ 
5*
Domestic, 12 lb. box—  
60
Imported...................... 
11
Pearl Barley.
Kegs............................... 3*@3*
Green,  bu.............................1 20
Split, bbl.............................. 6 50
German.............................  
5
5
East India.......................... 

Sago.

Peas.

Wheat.

FISH —-Salt. 

Bloaters.
Yarmouth..............
Cod.
Whole....................  
_
@6V
Bricks............................  8@8*
Strips.............................   8@8*
Halibut.
Smoked......................
10*
Herring.
Scaled........................
24
11 00
Holland,  bbls............
kegs.............
■ 
Round shore, *  bbl...
“ 
*   bbl..
Mackerel.
No. 1, *  bbls. 90lbs...
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs........
Family, *  bbls., 90 lbs

1  50
9 50 
1  20

“ 
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kits, 10  lbs...........

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Whitefish.

Pollock.
Sardines.
Trout.

“ 
FLA V O RIN G  EXTRA CTS.

Fancy.......................   3 50@4 00
Russian, kegs....................
No. 1, *  bbls., 90 lbs...........5 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   80
No. 1, *  bbls., 90 lbs...........7 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................1  00
Family, *  bbls., 90 lbs........3 00
bits. 10  lbs............   50
Jennings’ D C.
Lemon. Yanilla
..  75
1  25
2 oz folding box.
1  50
.1  00
“
3 oz 
2 IK)
..1  50
“
4 oz 
..2 00
3 00
“
6 oz 
4 CO
8  oz 
.  3 00
“
GUN  PO W D ER . 
Kegs............................... ...5 50
...3 00
Half  kegs..........
Sage..................................... 15
Hops.....................................25
Chicago  goods................  @4
No.  ... 
30
No. 1....................................  40
No. 2...................................  50
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

LA M P W ICK S.
 

LICO RICE.  «

MATCHES.

JE L L IE S .

H E R B S.

LY E.

 

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MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house....................  
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary.................. 
Porto Rico.
Prim e............................... 
Fancy............................... 
Fair..................................  
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 00
Half barrels 100.................... @3 13
Half  bbls 90..............  @3 13
Barrels  180.................  @6 50

RO LLED   OATS.

P IC K L E S.
Medium.

Small.

Barrels, 1,200 count.......... $6 50
Half  barrels, 600 count —   3 50 
Barrels, 2.400 co u n t.........  7 50
naif barrels, 1,200 count...  4 00
Clay, No.  216............................ 1 75
Cob, No. 3.................................1 25

“  T. D. full count...........  75

P IP E S .

R IC E.

Domestic.

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

Broken...............................
Japan, No. 1.........................6*
“  No. 2.........................5*
Java...................................   5
Patna..................................  5

Imported.

BOOT  B E E R .

Williams’ Extract.

25 cent size...............................1 75
3 dozen.............................$ 5 CO

SAPOLIO.
“ 
SO UPS.

Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box......  2 60
Hand 
2 50
Snider’s  Tomato......................2 65

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SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

Allspice...............................10
Cassia, China in mats........  7*
“  Batavia in bund — 15
“ 
Saigon in rolls.........35
Cloves, Amboyna................. 22
“  Zanzibar.................. 13
Mace  Batavia..................... 80
Nutmegs, fancy.................. 80
“  No.  1....................... 75
“  No.  2....................... 65
Pepper, Singapore, black — 15 
“  white...  .25
shot..........................19
Allspice.............................. 17
Cassia,  Batavia..................20
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon.....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna...............30
“  Zanzibar..................20

“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.

“ 

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Ginger, African..................
Cochin..................
Jam aica...............
Mace  Batavia.....................
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste..
Trieste..................
Nutmegs, No. 2 ..................
Pepper, Singapore, black —
“  white......
Cayenne...............
“ 
Sage........•............................
“Absolute” in Packages.Ms
Allspice................ 
  84
Cinnamon...................  84
Cloves.........................  84
Ginger, Jam ...............   84
A t...................  84
Mustard......................  84
Pepper.......................  84
Sage.............................  84

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*8 
1  55 
1  55 I 
1  55 ! 
1  55 ¡ 
1  55 
1  55

SUGAR.

Cut  Loaf...
Cubes........
Powdered.. 
Granulated. 
Confectioners’ A
Soft A  ...........
White Extra  C 
Extra  C.........
Yellow
Less than 100 lbs. *c advance

© 5*
@ 4%
@ *%
..........@  4 * -.5 6
@ 4*-.44 
@4.31 @4*1 
@  4
3*@ 3^ 
3*@ 3* 

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STARCH.
Corn.

 

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SOAP.

S N U FF.

20-lb  boxes.........................  6*
40-lb 
6*
Gloss.
1-lb packages  ......................  6
3-lb 
.......................6
6-lb 
6*
 
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.

Old Country, 80............... ...3 30
...3 50
lino, 100..........................
Bouncer, 100................... . ..3 00
Boxes............................. ....5*
Kegs, English.................
Kegs................................ ■  1M
Granulated,  boxes......... . . .   2
Mixed bird.................. 4*@  6
Caraway.................................10
C anary...................................   3*
Hemp........................................4*
Anise...................................... 13
R ape.......................................6
Mustard....................................7*

SAL  SODA.

BEEDS.

SODA.

 
 

 
 

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SALT

Warsaw.

Diamond Crystal.

1
1]
100 3-lb. sacks............................*2 40
1
2  25
60 5-lb 
“ 
2810-lb.  sacks.................... 2  15
Ì
2 00
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases.............................  1 50
50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
281b. 
.. 
25
35
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
18
281b. 
.. 
561b. dairy  bags................. 
75
56 lb. dairy  bags................. 
75
56 lb.  sacks.........................  
27
Saginaw and Manistee. 
Common Fine  per bbl....... 
90
Church’s, Arm & Hammer.. .5*
Dwight’sCow.......................... 5*
Taylor’s ....................................5*
DeLand’sCap  Sheaf..............5*
pure........................... 5*
Golden Harvest..  ................. 5

Ashton.
Higgins.

Solar Rock.

SALEKATUS.

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Pure Cane.

SYRUPS.
Corn.
Barrels................ 
28
Half bbls.................................30
Am ber............................23 
5
Fancy drips...................28  @30
SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps...............  
7
Sugar  Creams.............. 
8*
Frosted  Creams..........  
8
Graham  Crackers....... 
8
Oatmeal  Crackers----- 
8
SHOE  POLISH.
Jettine, 1 doz. in  box..............75

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

BUN CURED.

BASKET  FIRED.

F a ir..............................   @17
Good.............................  @20
Choice......................  -.24  @26
Choicest.........................32  @34
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GUNPOWDER.

YOUNG  HYSON.

IM PE R IA L .

OOLONG.

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OLD  MAN  SLIM.

Troubles  and  Trials  of  a  Canadian!

Merchant.

Qu ee n’s H ollow, Ont., June 23—Ever 
since  that drummer congratulated me on 
my  youthful  and  fresh  appearance,  1 
have been haunted  with  an  idea.  The 
more I try  to  get  rid  of  it,  the  farther 
It  sticks  to  me 
into  my head  it  gets. 
closer than the sheep  ticks used to when 
1 was on the farm. 
It tags around  after 
me all day,  keeps me  awake nights,  and, 
when I do get  to  sleep,  it  fills  my  head 
full  of  awfully funny dreams. 
It drove 
the  sciatica  out of my left  hind  leg  the 
first day and the next  morning it had me 
standing up before  a looking  glass,  tak­
ing  an  inventory  of  myself. 
I  com­
menced by  taking  a  careful  survey  of 
my head,  for I  had a  solemn  impression 
that  a  head  that  could  safely  contain 
such  an  idea  must  be  an  uncommon 
specimen of  a  head  and one that  would 
bear the closest inspection. 
It  was  not 
a case  of  love  at  first  sight,  for  it  re­
minded  me  of the weather beaten  ruins 
of some  old  castle  with  the sides,  main 
entrance and  everything tumbled in  and 
gone to decay except the roof,  which had 
been  worn  bare, smooth and glossy  with 
the peltings of the elements during many 
centuries. 
I  felt  a  sickening  sensation 
creeping  up  my  vertebral  column  and 
was about to  retreat  when  I caught  the 
eye which,  they  say,  is  the  window  of 
the  soul,  and  slyly  winked  at  myself, 
which had the effect of assuring  me that 
the idea that inhabited that old ruin was 
game and knew what it was about.  My 
next impression was that  the  top  of  my 
head resembled the apex  of  old  Mt. Ta­
coma—bare,  bald, glistening  and  tower­
ing  away  above  the  timber  line.  The 
timber belt  skirting  the  foot  hills  was 
not  so  truthful a  resemblance as it  was 
light and scraggy and  a  kind  of  muddy 
white instead of evergreen. 
I knew that 
the apex of  Mt.  Tacoma  had  seen  many 
winters and would withstand the  storms 
of many more and this thought prompted 
me to pursue the topography of my face. 
When I arrived at my  mouth, I  gave  up 
in despair.  That mouth  that  had  been 
the pride of  Izik’s  mother  for  so  many 
years had caved  in  and  over  the  cavity 
old Father Time had constructed a bridge 
of sighs out of nose and  chin, so  perfect 
that  a  midnight  bug  could  pass  over 
without  the  least  danger  of 
falling 
through  into  the  puckered  aud  sunken 
abyss beneath.  Oh!  shade  of  departed 
glory! well may you weep trickling rivu­
lets of plug  tobacco  juice,  for  you  are, 
indeed, a sad relic of bygone days.  But 
the idea prompted another  wink  and  as­
sured me that a set of  artificial teeth  all 
around  would  restore  my  cheek, resur­
rect  my  mouth  and  destroy  the  bridge 
of sighs.  This saved  the  looking  glass 
and  1  went down stairs to  open  up  and 
sweep out the store.

It  beats  all  what  trouble  that  con­
founded idea has caused me. 
It has tied 
me up  in  a  horrid  scandal  and  caused 
every old woman in the Hollow to call on 
every other  old  woman  in  the  Hollow 
and  ask her  if  she  heard  all  about  old 
Slim’s  going  home  with  old  mother 
Tubbs  from  prayer  meeting  and  how 
Tillie  is  takin’  on  awful  about  it  and 
how Izik told  the Elder  that the old man 
was gettin’ childish and actin’  like a fool 
lately and how that he had  gone and  or­
dered a bran new  set  of store  teeth  and 
how that  Miss  Jinks’  little  Sammy  had 
seen him buy a bottle of  whisker  dye  in 
the drug store and how  that he is  acting 
like all possessed  and  who  would  have 
thought it.  That’s the kind of talk that’s 
been going around  and it  is a shame,  for 
sister Tubbs is a real  nice person, if  she 
has got a bad breath and  a  mole  on  the 
end of  her  nose.  She  can’t  help  that, 
and Tillie ought  to  be  ashamed  of  her­
self,  and I’ll let her  know that I am  not 
going to fool away  all my  time  monkey­
ing with her baby  while Izik  is away  to 
the lodge and  one  place  another.  And 
if Izik  says  beans, I’ll  tell  him  that  he j 
wasn’t consulted  when I first  went home 
with  his  mother  from  spelling  school 
and I’ll be Jim Petered  if I need his  ad­
vice now.  And if I get my  Slim temper 
up once, I’ll make the fur  fly  and  show 
every old woman in  Queen’s Hollow that
its none of their dam business whether 1

TETE  ISOCTÏIGLAJST  TR A D ESM A N .

go home with sister  Tubbs  from  prayer 
meeting or not.  Things have come to  a 
pretty  pass, 
if  a  Christian  gentleman 
can’t walk along the road with an unpro­
tected female to keep off the dogs, or de­
liver a dozen oranges and  half  a  pound 
of gum  drops  at  the  home  of  a  lonely 
widow after dark  without  kicking  up  a 
regular pow wow all  over  the  neighbor­
hood.  1 never say bad words, only when 
I get my dander up,  so I’ll just  go  right 
along about my businesss  and maybe I’ll 
outgrow the infernal scandal.
John Monday,  the man  who owns  and 
runs the cheese factory,  used  to  be  one 
of Old Cronk’s best  customers.  Monday 
is a pretty smart fellow,  is  secretary  of 
the  dairymen’s  association  and  don’t 
like to be  barked  at  while  standing  on 
his own door  step.  One evening he  was 
in  Cronk’s  store  and  was  setting  forth 
the great advantages  that the farmers  of 
Ontario had derived from the cheese fac­
tory system.  He said it was  a  fact  that 
since the dawn of the cheese factory era, 
our farms had  increased  25  per  cent, in 
fertility,  while  our  farmers  have  been 
making more money and life on the farm 
has been made easier and much more de­
sirable.  He  said  that  the  amount  of 
manual  labor  required  on  a  farm  con- 
tributary  to a  factory,  to  place  $100  on 
deposit in a savings  bank,  has  been  re­
duced to a minimum,  as  compared  with 
that required  under  the  old  hum-drum 
routine.  He  cited  numerous  instances 
to  prove  that  any  man  with  ordinary 
intelligence who owned a  good team and 
the necessary  tools and implements with 
twelve good  cows  free  and  clear  from 
debt, and say $2,000 in  cash,  can  buy  a 
100 acre farm  in  Ontario  for  $6,000,  as 
good  as  the  sun  ever  »hone  upon, and, 
with judicious management and ordinary 
luck, can pay for  it  with the  greatest  of 
ease.  Our  mortgage  indebtedness,  he 
said,  had become greatly  reduced  under 
this system,  and another great advantage 
was,  that our farmers,  instead  of  being 
compelled to wait, as formerly,  until  af­
ter threshing time to realize  any  money 
—now draw their  cash  about  every  two 
weeks  all  through  the  season,  thereby

keeping the money in circulation and en­
abling them to pay their help  and  settle 
their supply bills  promptly.  Old  Cronk 
being  an old  fogy,  has  always  opposed 
the cheese factory as  a  new-fangled  in­
novation, not  because  he  has  one  good 
valid reason for doing  so, but simply  on 
general principles; and so it would never 
do to  let  Monday,  whom  he  considered 
nothing but a young  addle-pated upstart 
of a Grit,  have it all his own way.  So he 
interrupted him with:
“I say,  Monday,  any  one  to  hear  you 
talk would suppose that the  farmers  all 
around here must  have had a deuce  of  a 
time to keep their  souls  from  deserting 
their bodies before you  built  that  sweet 
smelling  factory  of  your’s  over  there. 
You talk  as  though  I  and  Bob.  Youse 
there  on  the  nail  keg  weren’t  around 
these  part  quite  a  number of  years  be­
fore you were  born.  With  all  due  re­
spect to your learning aud  tweedle  dum 
Yankee notions, I want to say right here 
—and  Bob.  Youse  and  Bill  Smike  will 
bear  me  out  in it—that  I consider  your 
factory  a  humbug.  We  used  to  have 
healthy children  and  raise  nice  heifers 
and steers,  but  now  every  young  one’s 
digestive apparatus is  ruined  by  eating 
your confounded  curd and every  calf  in 
the country  is  whey  fed,  knock-kneed, 
ewe-necked and pot-bellied.”
When  Monday  ventured  the  remark 
that any  one  with  common  sense  knew 
better than that,  Old Cronk fairly roared: 
“What!  do  you  pretend  to  say  that 
isn’t so?  What kind of a  calf,  for  mer­
cy’s  sake,  do  you  call  that  calf  across 
there in Bill Jones’  lot,  if it  ain’t  a  pot­
bellied calf?  And  look  here,”  he  con­
tinued,  as he leaned over the counter and 
shook his fist at Monday.  “If the widow 
Spriggot  hasn’t  got  a  pot-bellied  calf 
down there in that field this  side  of  the 
barn,  then I’ll  be doggoned if  you  ain’t 
a  pot-bellied  calf  yourself  and  1  don’t 
care who knows  it.”
Monday replied that no man who called 
him  a  pot-bellied  calf  would  ever  get 
another dollar of his  money  and  he  has 
traded  with  us  ever  since. 
Izik  says 
Cronk’s farm  is too poor to support  cows

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.

F0DBT5 NATIONAL BAM

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  B o w n ’ e ,  P resid en t.

D. A.  <»  (‘Dsitt, Vice-President.

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

Transacts a general banking business.

Make a   Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.
T H O S .  E .  W Y K E S ,

WHOLESALE

Marblehead  and  Ohio  White  Lime, 

Buffalo, Louisville and Portland 

Cements, Eire Brick & Clay.

Agent  for  the “Dyckerhoff ” Imported  Portland 
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.

W A REH O U SE  AND  M AIN  O F F IC E :

Cor. Wealthy Ave. and  Ionia on M. C. K. R. 

BRA N CH  O F F IC E :

Builder«’  Exchange.

R E V O L U T IO N   IN   B U T T O N   F A S T E N E R S !

THE  NEW  WAY  AND  THE  OLD.

The  Elliott  Automatic  Button  flttachinq  Machine,  which  feeds  the buttons from a hopper  and the  wire  from  a
---------------------------------------------------— - 2-J---------- \  spool,  making  its  own  fasteners  and  attaching  them at one
operation,  is now ready for the  market.  No charge is made for  the use of  the machine, which  can  remain  in the possession 
of the dealer as long as he uses it on wire  furnished by the  company or its agents.  Price of spool of wire for one great  gross 
fasteners,  $1.  First order must include at least 25 spools of wire to secure use of machine.

HIRTH  &  KRAUSE,  AGENTS,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN
THE  CONDITION  OF  LABOR.

1 5

RUILY  FDR  BUSINESS!

side — a  perfect 

in 
type  of 

and if he ever discovers a way to convert 
sorrel  and  mullein  stalks  into  milk  it 
would remove  all  antipithy  to  a  cheese 
factory.
A man by the name of Harvey, who  is 
engaged  in the grocery and bakery  busi­
ness in a little town somewhere south  of 
Grand Rapids, was here on a visit a short 
time ago.  He was  born  in  this  county 
and went away to Michigan when he was 
quite young and has never been back un­
til this time.  He is a nice fellow and by 
dint of hard work,  the use  of  honorable, 
methods  and  close  application  to  busi­
ness,  has made  some money  over  there; 
but he appeared to be somewhat surprised 
to learn  that  a  good many other fellows 
who  stuck  to  the  old  sod  have  done 
equally well.  He wanted to see how the 
old house where he was born would look, 
with the  roof all  caved  in  and  clammy 
lizards crawling all over  the  spot  where 
used to stand his  little home-made  trun­
dle bed.  He longed to sit once  more  on 
the old pine stump down  by  the  spring, 
where he used to sit in times of yore and 
watch the frogs go “ker-plunk” into  the 
spring,  and dream  of  future  riches  and 
honors  to be won in the land of the  free 
and the home of  the  brave.  He  would 
like to stroll once more  through  the  old 
pine grove and pick wintergreens; but he 
was doomed  to  disappointment,  for,  in­
stead  of  the  old  house,  there  stood  a 
modern brick mansion with an extensive 
green lawn  in  front  and  a  high-fenced, 
well-kept  vegetable  garden 
the 
rear  and  a 
large  apple  orchard  on 
one 
a 
prosperous  Ontario  rural  home.  The 
former site  of  the  stump  and  even  the 
old  spring  could  not  be  located.  The 
old pine  grove was  gone and  occupying 
its place were the depot buildings,  a  ho­
tel,  a  large  three-story  brick  canning 
factory, two stores and  several  dwelling 
houses,  the  whole  forming  an  extended 
addition to the town of Loyaltown.  Izik 
drove him  over  and,  instead  of  picking 
wintergreens,  they  spent  two  hours  in 
looking through the factory. 
Izik is one 
of  the  stockholders  and  he  spared  no 
pains in showing it  up  to  the  best  ad­
vantage. 
It  was  right  in  strawberry 
time and  Harvey  said  he  never  saw  so 
many strawberries at one time in his life. 
He came  home  with  Izik  and  remained 
over night  with  us.  Tillie  thinks  that 
Harvey must be  an  awful  nice  man  for 
he refused to drink a  glass  of  Carling’s 
ale with Izik; but I think  he  smokes  ci­
gars enough to make up for it.  A Canuck 
can  hold  more  “ ’alf  and  ’alf”  than  a 
Yankee  can by six pints,  but  a  Yankee 
can smoke an average Canadian cold and 
stiff  in  half  a  day. 
The  Yankee  has 
the  advantage,  however,  for  when  he 
visits us he can indulge in his air pollut­
ing habit to his heart’s  satisfaction;  but 
when the  Canuck  returns  his  visit,  he 
must forego his favorite  refreshment  or 
indulge in slop that is only one degree less 
fatal  than  Grand  Rapids  water. 
Izik 
and  Harvey sat  and talked and  smoked 
until  Harvey  was  lighting  his  seven­
teenth cigar,  when Izik  fell off the chair 
and  rolled  under  the  table  in  a  dead 
faint.  Tillie had gone to bed  and  when 
she heard  Izik fall  she  jumped  out  and 
tried to peek through the  keyhole,  but it 
was  no  use  for  even  the  keyhole  was 
plugged full  of tobacco smoke.  Harvey 
said we  could  leave  the  light  burning 
and he would go out  into the  back  yard 
and  smoke  a  cigar  before  he  retired. 
During the evening  they  had  discussed 
matters  and  things  from  a  Michigan 
standpoint  and from  an  Ontario  stand­
point and I took down a good many notes 
which  will  be  the  subject  of  my  next 
letter. 

Old Man Slim.

Increase of Capital Stock.

Saginaw,  June 24—At the  meeting of 
stockholders of the Home National Bank, 
held  this morning, over  80  per cent,  of 
the stock  was represented  and the  vote 
was unanimous in favor of increasing the 
capital  from  $300,000 
to  $400,000,  the 
same  to go into effect July I.  This Bank, 
before  the  increase,  was 
the  heaviest 
capitated  institution  in the  Valley,  and 
is now still further  strengthened  by the 
increase.

F rem o n t— W m .  H arm o n   has  rem oved

his general  stock to  Otsego.

With  much  of what the  Pope says  in 
his Encyclical on the Condition of Labor, 
I  have  been  both  edified  and  pleased. 
His arguments  in behalf  of the right  of 
private  property  and  against  socialism 
are clear and convincing, and his sanction 
of laborers’ associations for their common 
benefit is  a gratifying sign of the  times. 
Indeed, 
the  document 
throughout  is so  kind and  affectionate, 
as  well  as 
that  not  only 
Catholics but  Protestants  will assent to 
its general  purport.  I regret  only to ob­
serve that, through that very benevolence 
and  kindness of heart  which  make  his 
utterances so charming,  his Holiness has 
adopted  a current  fallacy  which  needs 
correction.

intelligent, 

tone  of 

the 

Like thousands of other men living out 
of  direct  contact  with  the  world,  the 
Pope  begins  by  assuming  that the  con­
dition of the laborer of the present day, if 
it is not worse than it has been at any pre­
vious time in history,  is still so  bad as to 
demand vigorous  and thorough measures 
for  its 
improvement.  The  very  first 
paragraph  of  his  discourse  puts  forth 
the familiar commonplaces of  “the  enor­
mous  fortunes  of 
individuals  and  the 
poverty of  the masses,”  “general  moral 
deterioration,”  and 
“the  momentous 
seriousness of the present state of things.” 
In the third  paragraph  he declares  that 
“all  agree  and there can be no  question 
whatever  that  some 
remedy  must  be 
I found for  the misery  and  wretchedness 
which press so heavily at this moment on 
the large majority of the  very poor,” and 
he further  asserts that “a  small number 
of rich men  have  been able  to lay upon 
the very  poor  a yoke  little  better than 
slavery itself.”

Of  the 

importance  of  justice  in the 
treatment of laborers by their employers, 
and the desirability of banishing suffering 
and  misery  from the world,  there is no 
doubt,  but  that  either of  them are  any 
more  important  or  desirable  now  than 
they  have  been  at  any  former  period, 
or that  they any more  urgently  demand 
attention, is not true.  The Pope  cannot 
be ignorant  of the  complaints  made  by 
the writers of  the most  ancient books of 
the  Bible,  that  in  their  day  the  poor 
suffered from the  oppression of the rich, 
and  that  their  wrongs  called  for  ven­
geance  from  heaven. 
In  ancient Egypt 
the tillers  of the soil  were  the slaves of 
their monarch.  One rich Roman, Crassus, 
held  thousands of  his poorer  fellow cit­
izens  in the  grasp  of  usurious  debts to 
him.  For  centuries after  the establish­
ment of  Christianity in  Europe the com­
mon people  were mere  serfs, occupying 
their little dwellings and patches of land 
at  the  will  of  their  feudal  superiors, 
and  as  soon  as  commerce  began 
to 
flourish  a 
Italian  and 
German  merchants  amassed  enormous 
fortunes  at  the  expense of  the  public. 
Ever since then the number  of rich  men 
in  the  world  and  the  extent  of  their 
possessions  have been  the theme  of dis­
cussion  by philosophers  and  reformers, 
and of  denunciation  by moralists. 
It is 
the same  in regard  to the  wretchedness 
of the  lot of the  poor.  For  ages  poets 
and  preachers  have  been  descanting 
upon  it,  and so  far from  its being spec­
ially intense  at this  moment,  all my ob­
servation  leads me to  believe that it has 
been  greatly alleviated  by the  progress 
of  civilization,  and  is  every  year  be­
coming less and less p a in fu l.

few  wealthy 

In  so far  as  the  unhappiness  of  the

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 witli the times and adopt either the

Tradesman  or  Superior  GoUpons.

COUPON  BOOK  vs. PASS  BOOK.

We beg leave to call  your  attention to 
our coupon book and ask you to carefully 
It takes  the  place 
consider  its  merits. 
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 had  their  worth  in 
goods, there is  no  grumbling  or  suspi­
cion of wrong  dealing. 
In  fact,  by the 
use of the coupon book, yon 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  prima  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  accomplished  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

I,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

THE  MICHIGAN  TEADESM AN.

poor consists in the necessity of working 
for a living,  that certainly  is no greater 
now than  it always has been and always 
will be.  Not  even the  rich  are exempt 
from  labor  of  some  kind.  There  is  a 
wild idea  prevalent,  I  know,  that  their 
money  comes to them by no other  effort 
than  a sort  of  incantation,  which  they 
practice  sitting  in their  offices or  their 
parlors;  but no  intelligent  person  con­
versant  with  real 
life  entertains  it. 
Capital,  to be  productive,  must be  em­
ployed  skillfully,  and  the  greater  the 
mass of it the  greater the  skill and  the 
exertion  it demands.  The  anxiety that 
attends its management,  and the nervous 
strain that  it involves,  are  also quite as 
wearing and as fatiguing as any mechan­
ical employment,  if they are not more so. 
When the  laborer,  whose  only capital is 
his  strength  and  his knowledge  of  his 
trade, has to work for his living, he suffers 
no  more than his  employer,  who has to 
furnish him the raw material,  direct him 
how to work it up,  and find a market for 
the product.  He is  much  better  off, at 
any  rate, than  the fowls  of the air,  the 
beasts of  the field,  and  the fishes of the 
sea.  They also are  driven on by hunger 
to a struggle for  existence which  makes 
them in many cases prey upon each other, 
and they hold their lives  at the mercy of 
their  stronger  or  more  cunning  com­
petitors.  The  mere  necessity  for labor 
to support life cannot, therefore, be reck­
oned as an element of the  misery weigh­
ing upon the poor specially  deserving of 
attention  at this  time,  or as susceptible 
of relief by  human  effort.

What 1 suppose the Pope  has in mind, 
as have those  whose  ideas he repeats,  is 
that,  as a result either  of injustice  or of 
faulty  economic  methods,  the  laborer 
does not get for his labor  a reward suffi­
cient to  enable him to live in  reasonable 
comfort,  and that this condition of things 
should  be remedied  and  can  be.  Here, 
again, I think a vague general  impression 
is accepted in place  of clear  knowledge. 
Unless  I  am  completely  wrong  in  my 
observations,  the laborer  at the  present 
day gets  more for his  labor,  not only  in 
money,  but  in  that  which  money  will 
buy,  then  he  ever  did  before;  that he 
never has been so  thoroughly able  as he 
is now to  protect himself  against  fraud 
and oppression,  nor  has he  done it with 
so much ease and so  much  success.

As  to  the  money  scale  of wages,  at 
this moment  it is  so  notoriously  higher 
than  it ever  has  been,  that  1 need  not 
recapitulate  the  figures.  What  is  less 
apparent,  and  yet  what  deserves  more 
consideration,  is the  fact that the  work­
man of to-day can procure with his wages, 
when he spends them, far  more  comfort 
and far  more  luxury  than  he  did, and 
therefore that his  share  of the products 
of  his  labor  is  greater.  He 
lives  in 
cleaner,  airier rooms,  if indeed he  does 
not have a  whole house  of his  own;  he 
has a  greater variety  of  food; his cloth­
ing and that of his wife and children are 
better,  and his  means of  recreation  and 
amusement  are  more 
extensive  and 
varied.  He  is  carried  to  and  from his 
work  in  vehicles the  like of  which  fifty 
years  ago were  not at  the  command  of 
kings. 
If he desires pleasure excursions, 
the same kind of conveyances carries him 
in a few minutes to the country or to the 
lakes  hore.  His childrenreceive gratis as 
good an education as money can procure. 
Various religious denominations contend 
for  his  patronage.  Medical  attendance 
and hospital  care are  at  his service for |

the asking.  What  is true here is true in 
a  measure all over the  world,  and in the 
face of it to say that the lot of the modern 
laborer  is  so  radically  wretched  as  to 
demand  prompt  and vigorous  measures 
for  its  amelioration  seems 
to  me  an 
exaggeration if not an absurdity.

I  do not deny that in the  vast army of 
human  beings  compelled  to  toil  for  a 
subsistence  there  are  many  who suffer 
from want  of employment,  from  scanty 
payment  when  they  are employed,  and 
from  injustice  on the part  of those who 
employ them.  The  remedy  of this  evil 
if  a  laudable  object  of  philanthropic 
study  and  effort,  but  that  it  demands 
just  now  in  special 
study  and  effort 
measure I cannot admit. 
In the struggle 
for  existence,  from  which  men  are no 
more  exempt  than  animals  and  plants, 
the weaker must -suffer, and  if  they  did 
not  suffer,  they  would  soon  outnumber 
the strong.  Yet  every humane mind de­
sires to reduce this suffering to as narrow 
limits  as  possible,  and  the  Pope’s  ex­
hortation will find  unanimous  response. 
What  I desire to  protest  against  is  his 
groundless condemnation of  the  present 
and his implied  praise of  the  past.  He 
has  yielded  to  a  delusion  which  Lord 
Macaulay,  in  his 
famous  “History  of 
England,” graphically  describes thus:

In  truth  we  are  under  a  deception 
similar to that  which misleads  the trav­
eler in the Arabian  desert.  Beneath the 
caravan  all is  dry  and bare;  but far in 
advance  and  far in the  rear is the sem­
blance  of  refreshing  waters.  The  pil­
grims  hasten  forward and  find  nothing 
but sand,  where an hour before  they had 
seen  a  lake.  They  turn their eyes  and 
see  a lake  where  an  hour  before  they 
were  toiling  through  sand.  A  similar 
illusion seems  to haunt  nations through 
every  stage  of  the long  progress  from 
poverty  and  barbarism  to  the  highest 
degrees  of  opulence  and  civilization. 
But  if  we resolutely  chase  the  mirage 
backward we  shall find it  recede  before 
us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. 
It is now the fashion  to place  the golden 
age of England in times  when noblemen 
were destitute  of  comforts  the most of 
which would be  intolerable to  a modern 
footman,  when farmers and  shopkeepers 
breakfasted on  loaves the  very sight  of 
which  would  raise  a  riot  in a  modern 
workhouse,  when  men died  faster in the 
purest country air  than they  now die  in 
the most  pestilential lanes  of our towns, 
and  when men  died faster  in the  lanes 
of  our towns  than they now  die on  the 
coast  of Guiana.  We,  too, shall  in our 
turn be  outstripped  and in  our turn  be 
envied.

All this  is  so true  that I  wonder  the 
Pope did not think of it,  and I  commend 
it to the attention of every  one who,  like 
him,  believes  that  these  are the  worst 
days that the world  has ever seen.

Matthew Marshall.

For the finest coffees in the world, high 
grade teas,  spices, etc.,  see  J.  P.  Visner, 
304  North  Ionia  street,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich., general  representative  for  E.  J. 
Gillies & Co.,  New  York City.

Grand  Rapids  Electrotype  Co.,

6  and  8  Erie  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’*

M i c h i g a n  (T e n t r a l
DIPAR1.  ABUTS
Detroit Express. 
............................ 7:20 a m   10:00 pm
Mixed  ................... ............................... 6:90 am   6:00 pm
Day  Express............ ...................12:00a m   10:00am
"Atlantic ft Pacific Express.  ...........11:16 p m  6:00 a m
New York Express...............................6:10pm  
1:16 pm

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

•Daily.
All other daily except Sunday.
Sleeping can  ran  on  Atlantic and  Pacific Express 
Parlor cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand Rapid 
Fred M. B r ig g s , Gen'l Agent, 85 Monroe St.
G. 8. H aw k ins, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Gko. W. Mu n s o n , Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. 
O. W. Ruggles, G . P.  ft  T. Arent., Chicago.

Detroit

■GRAND HAVEN TIMR  TABLE

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

EA STW ARD.

T ra in s  L eave

G’d   R ap id s,  L v
I o n i a ..............A r
St.  J o h n s   ...A r
O w o sso ..........A r
E.  S a g in a w ..A r
Bay C ity ........A r
F l i n t ..............A r
P t.  H u r o n ... A r
P o n tia c ..........A r
D etro it............A r

T ra in s  L e av e
G’d  R ap id s,  Lv 
G’d H av en ,  A r 
M ilw ’k e e S tr  “ 
C h icag o  S tr.  “

tN o .  14 tN o .  16 tN o .  18 ♦No.  28
10 55pm 
6 50am
12 37am 
7 45am
1 55am 
8 28am 
3 15am
9 15am
11 05am 
11  55am 
1 1 10am 
305pm
10 57am
11 55am

I ’ 20am
II  25am 
12 17am
1  20pm 
3 00pm
3 45pm 
340pm  
6 00pm 
305pm
4 05pm

3 45pm
4 52pm
5 40pm
6 40pm
8 45pm
9 35pm 
8 00pm
1030pm 
8 55pm 
950pm

5 40am 
735am  
5 50am 
7  0am

W ESTW A RD .

♦N o. 81 tN o .  11 tN o .  13 tN o . 15
1030pm 
7  05am
11 30pm 
8 50am
6 45am

1  00pm
2  15pm

5  10pm
6  15pm 
6  45am 
ß  00am

♦Dally.  tDaily except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east,6:40 a. m., 12:50 p. m., 
5:00 p. m. and 10:25 p. m.
Trains  arrive from  the west, 6:45 a.  m.,  10:10 
a. m., 3:35 p.m. and 9:50 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parltr  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward—No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
J o h n  W. L o u d , Traffic Manager.
B e n   F l e t c h b b , Trav. Pass. Agent.
J a s .  C a m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

CHICAGO 

JÜNW89,.
&  WEST  MICHIGAN  RY.

D E PA R T  FO R

P . M.
♦11:35 
11:35 
♦11:35 
*11:35 
*11:30 
t  5:40

go.  No extra charge for seats.

A . M.  1  P .  M.
t!0:00  tl:15 
110:00  11:15 
tl0:00  tl:l5 
tlu:00  tl:15 
t7:25|  t5:25 
t9:00  tl:15 
t7:25  t5:25 
t7:25|  t5:25 
t7:25  t5:25 
t9:00  tl:15

Chicago......................
Indianapolis..............
Benton Harbor...........
Traverse  City............
Muskegon..................
Manistee  ..................
Ludington.................
Big Rapids.................
Ottawa Beach............
t  5:40
tWeek Days.  »Daily.  §Except Saturday.
110:00 A. M. has through chair car to Chica­
1.1  Ft  P. M.  runs  through to Chicago  solid 
.  A tl  with Wagner buffet car;  sea s 50 cts.
5,O C   P. M. has  through free  chair  car  to 
.AJtl  Manistee,  via M.  & N. E. R. R.
n .O C   P. M. is solid train  with Wagner pal- 
••J u   ace sleeping  car  through to Chicago, 
and sleeper  to  Indianapolis via Ben­
ton Harbor.
U .Q A   P.  M.  has  Wagner  Sleeping  Car  to 
•O U   Traverse City.
6.Q A   P.  M.  connects  at  St.  Joseph  with 
•tri/  Graham & Morion’s steamers for Chi­
J<,N11!!1’1W1-
Lansing & Northern R R

cago.
¡DETROIT, 

P . M.

D E PA R T   FO R

lor car;  seats 25  cents.

A .  M.
P .  M.
Detroit...................................
t6:50 tl :00 *6:25
Lansing................................
t6:50 tl :00 *6:25
t6:50 tl :00 *6:25
Howell...................................
Lowell....................................
tC:50 tl :(0 *6:25
t7:05 t4:30
Alma......................................
t7:05 t4:30
St.  Louis  ............................
t7:05 t4:30 • * v *
Saginaw  City.........................
6*FtA  A  M. runs through to Detroit with par- 
1«AA P. M.  Has  through  Parlor  car  to  De- 
• W r  troit.  Seats, 25 cents.
P. M. runs through to Detroit  with par 
lor  car, seats  25  cents.
7  «AFT  A. M. has parlor  ear  to  Saginaw, seats 
I  •  • C u   25 cents.
For  tickets  and  Information  apply  at Union 
Ticket Office, 67 Monroe  street, or Union station.
Geo. De Haven, Gen. Pass'r Agt.
CUTS for BOOM  EDITIONS

---- OR----

PAMPHLETS

For the best work, at  reasonable prices, address 

THE  TRADESMAN COMPANY.

Grand  Rapids A Indiana.

In effect Jane 21,1891.
TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Booth. 

Arrive from  Leave going 
North.
For Saginaw & Big Rapids.........  
7:05  a m
For Traverse City A Mackinaw  6:50am 
7:30  a m
For Traverse  City A Mackinaw  9:15 a m 
11:80 a m
For Saginaw.................................... 
4:80 p m
For Traverse City..........................   2:15 p m  
6:05 p m
For Mackinaw City.........................  7:45 pm  
10:80 pm
From  Chicago A  Kalam azoo...  8:45 pm  
Train  arriving at 6:50  dally;  all  other trains  daily 
except Sunday.

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

Arrive from  Leave going 

South.
7:00  am
10:80  am
2:00 p m
0:00 pm
10:80 p m
Train  leaving  for  Cincinnati  and  Chicago  at  10:30 

North. 
For  Cincinnati..............................  0:00 a m  
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago...  10:20am 
From Big Rapids A Saginaw....   11:60 a m
For Fort Wayne and the  East.. 
For Kalamazoo................................  5:25 p m  
For Cincinnati and Chicago___10:00 p m  
From Saginaw............................... 10:40 p m
p m gaily;  all other trains daily except Sunday.

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids A  Indiana.
7:00  a m  
12:46 p m 
6:30 pm  

From Muskegon—Arrive.
10:10 a m
10:16 pm

6:16 p m

SLEEPING  ft  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

NORTH—6:30  am  train.—Sleeping and  parlor 
chair  car.  Grand  Rapids to Maokinaw City. 
Parlor  chair car  Grand  Rapids to Traverse 
Oity.
11:30 a m train.—Parlor chair car  G’d 
Rapids to Mackinaw.
10:30 p  m  train.—Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey.  Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids to  Mackinaw City.
SOUTH—7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Chicago.
10:30 a m   train.—Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
10:30  p m train.—Sleeping  Car Grand 
Rapids  to  Chicago.  Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.

Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R.

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

10:30 a m  
3:55 p m  

2:09 pm  
9:00 p m  

10:30 pm

6:50 am

11:30 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.
10:30 p m train daily, through Wagner  Sleeping Car. 
10:10pm
6:50 a|m
3:10  p  m  through  Wagner  Parlor  Car.  10:10  p  m 

3:10p m  
Lv  ChicaBo 
Arr Grand Rapids 
8:45 p m  
train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

7:06am 
2:15 pm  

Through tickets and full information  can  be had by 
calling upon A. Almquist,  ticket  agent  at  Union Sta­
tion,  or  George  W.  Munson,  Union  Ticket  Agent, 87 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD.

Toledo,  Ann  Arbor & North  Michigan 

Railway.

In  connection  with  the  Detroit,. Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Mil wank  e 
offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  betwe  n 
Grand Rapids and Toledo.
Lv. Grand Rapids at...... 7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t ............... 1:10 p.m. and 11:00 p. m.

v i a  d .,  l .  a   n .

V IA  D .,  O.  H .  A  M.

Lv. Grand Rapids at......6:50 a. m. and 3:45 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t................1:10 p.m. and 11:00 p. m.

Return connections equally as good.

W.  H.  B e n n e t t , General Pass. Agent, 
Toledo, Ohio.

THE  GREAT

EDMUND B.DIKEMAJi
Watch ]Uaker 
a Jeweler,
U   CANAL  8T„
Grand Rapids,  ■  JIM .

W A N T E D .

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

If you  have any  of  the  above  good, to 
ship, or anything  In  the Produce  line,  let 
ui hear  from yon.  Liberal  cash advance, 
made  when desired.

E A R L   B R O S . ,

C o m m issio n M e r c h a n t s
Reference:  First National  Bank.  Chicago. 
Michigan Tk iDBSMAN, Grand Raplda.

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

