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“That’s a smart little fellow of yours,” 
said  a  gentleman  named  Winslow  to  a 
laboring  man,  who  was  called  in  occa­
sionally  to  do  work  about  the  store. 
“Does he go to school?”
“Not now, sir,” replied the poor  man. 
“ Why  not,  Davis?  He  looks  like  a 
bright lad.”
“He’s  got  good  parts,  sir,”  returned 
the father,  “but—”
“But  what?”  asked  the  gentleman, 
seeing that the man  hesitated.
“Times are  rather hard  now,  sir,  and 
I  have  a  large  family. 
It’s  about  as 
much  as I  can  do  to  keep  hunger  and 
cold away.  Ned reads very well,  writes 
a  tolerably  fair  hand,  considering  all 
thing, and can figure a little.  And that’s 
about all I can  do  for  him.  The  other 
children  are  coming  forward,  and 
I 
reckon  he  will  have  to  go  to  a  trade 
middling soon.”
“How old is Ned?’, inquired Mr. Wins­
low.
“He’s turned of eleven.”
“You  won’t put him  to a trade  before 
he’s thirteen or fourteen?”
“Can’t keep him at home  idling  about 
all  that time,  Mr.  Winslow. 
It  would 
It’s  young  to  go  out 
be his  ruination. 
from  home,  I  know,  to  rough  it  and 
tough it among  strangers,”  there  was  a 
slight  unsteadiness  in  the  poor  man’s 
voice,  “but it’s  better  than  doing  noth­
ing.”
“Ned ought to go  to  school  a year or 
two  longer,  Davis,”  said  Mr.  Winslow, 
with some interest in his manner.  “And 
as you  are not able  to  pay  the  quarter 
bills, I guess I will have  to do it.  What 
say you?  If I pay  for  Ned’s  schooling 
can  you  keep him  at home  some two  or 
three years longer?”

“I  did  not  expect  that  of  you,  Mr. 
Winslow,”  said  the  poor  man,  and  his 
voice now trembled.  He  uncovered  his 
his head as he  spoke,  almost  reverently. 
“You ain’t  bound  to  pay  for  schooling 
my boy.  Ah,  sir!”
“But  you  havn’t  answered  my  ques­
tion, Davis.  What say you?”
“Oh,  sir, if you are really in  earnest!” 
“I am in earnest.  Ned  ought to go  to 
school. 
If  you  can  keep  him  home  a 
few years  longer.  I will pay  for his edu­
cation  during  the  time.  Ned,”  Mr. 
Winslow  spoke  to  the  boy,  “ what  say 
you?  Would  you  like  to  go  to  school 
again?”
“Yes,  indeed,  sir,”  quickly  answered 
the boy, while his bright young face was 
lit up  with a gleam of intelligence.
“Then  you  shall  go,  my  fine  fellow. 
There’s the right kind of  stuff in you,  or 
I’m mistaken.  We’ll give you a  trial  at 
any rate.”
Mr.  Winslow  was  as  good  as  his 
word.  Ned was immediately  entered  at 
an excellent school.  The  boy,  young as 
he was,  appreciated the  kind  act  of  his 
benefactor,  and resolved  to  profit  by  it 
to the full extent.
“I made an investment  of  ten  dollars 
to-day,”  said  Mr. Winslow,  jestingly,  to 
a  mercantile  friend, some  three  months 
after  the  occurrence  just  related  took 
place,  “and here’s the certificate.”
He held up a small  piece  of  paper  as 
he spoke.
“Ten dollars?  A  large  operation—in 
what  fund?
“A charity fund.”
“Oh!”  And  the  friend  shrugged  his 
shoulders.  “Don’t do  much in that  way 
myself.  No great faith  in  the  security. 
What dividend do you expect to receive?” 
“Don’t know;  rather  think  it  will  be 
larger.”
“Better take some more of the stock if 
you think it so good.  There is plenty in 
the market to be bought below par.”
Mr. Winslow smiled,  and  said  that  in 
all  probability  he  would  invest  a  few 
more such sums in the same way and see

NO.  409

of dividends?”

how it would turn out.  The little piece 
of paper which he  called a certificate  of 
stock,  was  the first  quarter  bill  he  had 
paid for Ned’s schooling.  For four years 
these bills were regularly paid,  and then 
Ned,  who had well improved  the  oppor­
tunities  so generously  afforded him,  was 
taken,  on  the  recommendation  of  Mr. 
Winslow,  into a large  importing  house. 
He was at the time in his sixteenth year. 
Before the lad could  enter upon this em­
ployment, however,  Mr.  Winslow had to 
make  another investment  in his charity 
fund.  Ned’s father was  too poor to give 
him an outfit of  clothing such as was  re­
quired in  the new  position  to  which he 
was  to  be  elevated.  Knowing  this,  the 
generous  merchant  came  forward  and 
furnished the needful supper.
As no wages was  receivea by  Ned  for 
the  first  two  years,  Mr.  Winslow  con­
tinued  to  buy  his  clothing,  while  his 
father  still  gave  him  his  board.  On 
reaching the age of eighteen,  Ned’s  em­
ployers,  who were much pleased with his 
industry,  intelligence  and  attention  to 
business,  put  him  on  a  salary  of  three 
hundred  dollars.  This  made  him  at 
once  independent.  He  could  pay  his 
own boarding  and find  his  own  clothes, 
and  proud did  he feel on  the  day  when 
advanced to so desirable a position.
“How  comes  on  your  investment?” 
asked Mr.  Winslow’s  mercantile  friend 
about this time.  He spoke jestingly.
“It promises very well,”  was the smil­
ing reply.
“It is rising in the market then?” 
“Yes.”
“Any dividends  yet?”
“Oh, certainly.  Large dividends.” 
“Ah!  You  surprise  me.  What  kind 
“More than a hundred per cent.” 
“Indeed!  Not in money?”
“Oh,  no.  But  in  something  better 
than money.  The satisfaction that flows 
from an act of benevolence wisely done.” 
“Ob, that’s  all.”  The  friend  spoke 
with ill-concealed contempt.
“Don’t you call that something?” asked 
Mr. Winslow.
too  unsubstantial  for 
“It’s  entirely 
me,” replied the other. 
“I go in  for re­
turns  of  a  more  tangible  character. 
Those you speak of won’t pay my notes.” 
Mr.  Winslow  smiled  pleasantly,  and 
bade his friend good  morning.
“He knows nothing,”  said  he  to  him­
self as he mused on the subject,  “of  the 
pleasure  of  doing  good,  and  the loss is 
on his side. 
If  we  have  the  ability  to 
secure  investments  of  this  kind,  they 
are among the best we can  make, and all 
are  able to put  at least  some  money  in 
the fund of good  works,  let it be ever  so 
small an amount.  Have  1  suffered  the 
abridgement of a single comfort by what 
I have  done?  No.  Have  I  gained  in 
pleasant  thoughts  and  feelings  by  the 
act?  Largely. 
It  has been  a  source  of 
perennial enjoyment. 
I would not  have 
believed that,  at so  small a cost, I would 
have secured  so  much  pleasure.  And 
how great the goood may flow from what 
I  have  done. 
Instead  of  a  mere  day 
laborer,  whose  work  in  the  world  goes 
not beyond  the handling of  boxes,  bales 
and barrels,  or the  manufacture of some 
article  in  common  use,  Edward  Davis, 
advanced by  education,  takes  a position 
of more extended usefulness,  and by his 
higher ability and more intelligent action 
in society,  will be  able,  if he rightly use 
the power in  his  hands,  to  advance  the 
world’s  onward movement  in a most im­
portant degree.”
Thus  thought  Mr.  Winslow,  and  his 
heart  grew  warm  within  him.  Time 
proved  that he had not erred in affording 
the lad  an  opportunity  for  obtaining  a 
good,  education.  His  quick  mind  ac­
quired,  in the position in  which  he  was 
placed,  accurate  ideas  of  business,  and 
industry  and  force  of  character  made 
these ideas thoroughly practical.  Every

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2
year his employers  advauced his  salary, 
and  on  attaining  his  majority  it  was 
further advanced to the sum of one thou­
sand dollars per annum.  With every in­
crease  the  young  man  had  devoted  a 
larger  portion of his  income to  improv­
ing the  condition of  his father’s  family, 
and when  it was  raised to  the  sum  last 
mentioned,  he took  a  neat,  comfortable 
new  house, much larger than  the family 
had  before lived in,  and paid the  whole 
rent himself.  Moreover,  through his ac­
quaintance and  influence,  he was able to 
get a place for  his father  at  lighter  em­
ployment than  he  had  heretofore  been 
engaged in,  and at a  higher rate of  com­
pensation.
“Any more dividends on  your  charity 
investments?”  said Mr.  Winslow’s friend 
about this time.  He spoke  with the  old 
manner and from the old feelings.
“ Yes.  Got  a  dividend  to-day.  The 
largest yet  received,”  replied  the  mer­
chant,  smiling.
“Did you?  Hope it  does  you  a  great 
deal of good.”
“I realize your wish,  my friend. 
It is 
doing me a great deal of good,”  returned 
Mr.  Winslow.

plain.”

Let  me  ex­

“No cash,  I presume?”
“Something  far  better. 
“Do so,  if you please.”
“You know the particulars  of this  in­
vestment?”  said Mr.  Winslow.
His friend shook his head and  replied: 
“No.  The fact is,  I  never  felt  interest 
enough  in  the  matter,  to  enquire  par­
ticulars.”
“Oh,  well.  Then  I  must  give  you  a 
little history.  You  know old Davis, who 
has been working about our store for the 
last ten or fifteen years?”

“Yes.”
“My investment  was in  the  education 
of his son.”
“ Indeed!”
“His  father  took  him  from  school 
when  he  was  only  eleven  years  old, 
because  he  could  not  afford  to  send 
him  any  longer,  and  was  about  put­
ting  the  little 
fellow  out  to  learn  a 
trade. 
Something  interested me in  the 
child,  who  was  a  bright  lad,  and  act­
ing from a  good impulse  that came over 
me  at  that moment,  I  proposed  to  his 
farther  to send him  to school  for  three 
or  four  years,  if  he  would  board  and 
clothe him during  the time.  To  this he 
readily  agreed.  So 
for  Ned’s 
schooling  until  he was  in  his sixteenth 
year,  and  then  got  him  into  Webb  & 
Waldron’s store,  where he has been ever 
since.”
“Webb &  Waldron’s!” said the friend, 
evincing  some  surprise.  “I  know  all 
their clerks very  well,  for we  do a great 
deal of business with them.  Which is the 
son of old Mr. Davis?”

I  paid 

tall, 

fine-looking  young 

two clerks in the store.”

“The one they call Edward?”
“Not  that 
man, their leading  salesman?”
“The  same.”
“Is it  possible!  Why, he is  worth any 
“I know he is.”
“For his age there is not a better sales­
man  in the  city.”
“So  I  believe,”  said  Mr.  Winslow: 
“nor,” he added,  “a better man.”
“I  know  little  of  his  psersonal  char­
acter but,  unless his  face deceives me,  it 
cannot but be good.”
“It is  good.  Let me say  a word about 
him.  The  moment  his  salary  increased 
beyond  what was absolutely  required  to 
pay his board  and  find such  clothing as 
his  position  made  if necessary  for  him 
to wear, he devoted the entire surplus  to 
rendering  his father’s  family more com­
fortable.”
“ Highly praiseworthy,” said the friend. 
“I had already received many dividends 
on my investment,” continued Mr.  Wins­
low,  “ but  when  that  fact  came  to  my 
knowledge my dividend  exceeded all the 
other dividends put together.”
The  mercantile  friend  was  silent.  If 
ever in his life he had envied the reward 
of a good deed,  it  was at  that moment.
“Today,”  went  on  Mr.  Winslow.  “I 
have  received  a  still  larger  dividend.  I 
was  passing  along  Buttonwood  street, 
when I met old  Mr.  Davis  coming out of 
a house,  the rent of  which,  from its ap­
pearance,  was not less thah  two hundred 
and fifty  dollars. 
‘You  don’t live here,

“I understood  him  perfectly. 

of  course,’  said  I,  for  I  knew the  old 
man’s income to be small, not over six or 
seven dollars a  week.  ‘Oh,  yes  I do,’  he 
I turned and 
made answer with a smile. 
looked  at the  house again.  ‘How  comes 
this?’  I  asked. 
‘You  must  be  getting 
better off  in the  world.’ 
‘So I am,’,’was 
the reply.  ‘Has  anyone left  you  a little 
fortune?’  I inquired.  ‘No,  but you have 
helped  me  to  one,’  said  he.  ‘I  don’t 
understand  you,  Mr.  Davis,’  I  made 
answer.  ‘Edward rents the  house for us,’ 
said  the  old  man.  ‘Do you  understand 
now?’
It  was 
then that I received the  largest dividend 
on  my  investment  which has  yet  come 
into my hands. 
If they go on increasing 
at this  rate I shall  soon be  rich.”
“Rather unsubstantial kind of riches.” 
was remarked by the friend.
“That which elevates and  delights the 
mind can hardly be called unsubstantial,” 
replied  Mr.  Winslow.  “Gold  will  not 
always do this.”
The  friend sighed  involuntarily.  The 
remarks of Mr. Winslow caused thoughts 
to  flit over his mind  that were far  from 
being  agreeable.
A year or  two more went by,  and then 
an addition was made to the firm of Webb 
& Waldron.  Edward Davis  received the 
offer of an interest in the business,  which 
he  unhesitatingly  accepted.  From  that 
day he was on the road to fortune.  Three 
years afterward one of the partners died, 
when his interest was increased.
Twenty-five  years from  the  time  Mr. 
Winslow,  acting  from a  benevolent im­
pulse,  proposed  to send young  Davis to 
school,  have passed.
One day,  about this  period,  Mr, Wins­
low,  who had met with  a  number  of re­
verses in his business,  was sitting  in his 
countingroom  with  a  troubled  look  on 
his face,  when the  mercantile friend be­
fore mentioned came in. His countenance 
was pale and  distubed.
“We are ruined! ruined!”  said he with 
much agitation.
Mr.  Winslow started  to his feet.
“Speak!”  he  exclaimed.  “ What  new 
disaster is about to sweep over me?”
“The  house  of Toledo  &  Co., in Rio, 
has  suspended.”
Mr. Winslow struck his hauds together 
and  sank down into the chair from which 
he had arisen.
“Then  it is  all  over,”  he  mumured. 
“All  over!”
“ It is all over with me, “ said the other. 
“A  longer  struggle  would be  fruitless. 
But for this  I might  have weathered the 
storm.  Twenty 
thousand  dollars  of 
drafts  drawn against  my last  shipment 
back  protested,  and  will  be  presented 
tomorrow.  I  cannot  lift  them.  So  ends 
this matter.  So closes  a business  life of 
forty years, in  commercial dishonor and 
personal  ruin!”
“ Are  you  certain  they  have failed?” 
asked Mr.  Winslow,  with  something like 
hope in his  tone of  voice.
“It is too true,”  was the answer.  “The 
Celeste  arrived  this  morning  and  her 
letter bag was delivered at the post office 
half  an  hour ago.  Have  you  received 
nothing by her?”
“I was not aware  of her arrival;  but I 
will send immediately  for my letters.”
Too true was the information communi­
cated  by  the  friend.  The  large  com­
mission house of Toledo & Co. had failed, 
and protested  drafts had  been  returned 
to a very  heavy  amount.  Mr.  Winslow 
was  among  the sufferers,  and to an  ex­
tent that was equivalent to ruin; because 
it threw back upon  him the  necessity of 
lifting  over  fifteen  thousand  dollars of 
protested  paper,  when  his  line  of  pay­
ments was  already full  up to his  utmost 
ability.
For  nearly five  years  everything  had 
seemed to go against Mr. Winslow.  At the 
begining  of  that  period a  son whom he 
had set  up in business  failed, involving 
him in a  heavy  lost.  Then  one  disaster 
after  another  had  followed,  until  he 
found  himself  in 
imminent  danger  of 
failure.  From  this  time  he  turned his 
mind  to the  consideration of his  affairs 
with  more  earnestness  than  ever,  and 
made every transaction with  a degree of 
prudence  and  foresight  that seemed  to 
guarantee  success  in  whatever  he  at­
tempted.  A  deficient  supply  of  flour 
caused him  to venture a  large shipment

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In sight.

25-cent size only $1.75 per doz.

3 dozen for $5.

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

H. F. HASTINGS,

to  Bio.  The sale  was at  a  handsomely 
remunerative  profit,  but the  failure  of 
his consignees before  the payment of his 
drafts  for  proceeds  entirely  prostrated 
him.
So hopeless did the  merchant consider 
his  case  that he  did not even  make  an 
effort  to  get  temporary  aid  in  his  ex­
tremity.
When the friend of Mr.  Winslow came 
with the  information  that  the  house of 
Toledo & Go,  had failed,  the latter  was 
searching  about  in  his  mind 
for  the 
thousand 
means  of  lifting  about  five 
dollars’  worth  of  paper  which fell due 
on  that  day.  He  had  two 
thousand 
dollars in  bank; the  balance of the  sum 
would have  to  be raised  by  borrowing. 
He had partly  fixed upon  the  resources 
from  which this was  to  come,  when the 
news of his  ill-fortune arrived.
Yes,  it was  ruin.  Mr.  Winslow  saw 
that  in a  moment,  and  his  hands  fell 
powerless  by  his  side.  He  made  no 
further  effort to lift his notes, but, after 
his  mind had a little  recovered from  its 
shock,  he left  his  store  and  retired  to 
his home to seek in its quiet the calmness 
and  fortitude  of  which  he  stood  so 
greatly in  need. 
In  this home were his 
wife  and two  daughters,  who  all  their 
lives  had  enjoyed 
the  many  external 
comforts and elegancies  that  wealth can 
procure.  The  heart of  the  father ached 
as his eyes rested  upon his  children and 
he 
thought  of  the  sad  reverses  that 
awaited  them.
On entering his dwelling Mr.  Winslow 
sought  the partner of his  life and  com­
municated  to  her  without  reserve  the 
painful  intelligence  of  his  approaching 
failure.
“Is it indeed  so hopeless?”  she asked, 
tears filling her  eyes.
“I  am  utterly  prostrated,”  was  the 
reply,  in a voice that was full of anguish. 
And in the bitterness of  the moment the 
unfortunate merchant  wrung his  hands.
To Mrs.  Winslow the  shock,  so unex­
pected, was very severe,  and ^  was some 
time before her mind, after her husband’s 
announcement,  acquired  any  degree  of 
calmness.
About half an hour after Mr. Winslow’s 
return  home,  and  while  both  his  own 
heart and that of his wife were quivering 
with  pain,  a  servant came  and said that 
a  gentleman  had called  and  wished  to 
see  him.
“ Who  is  it?”  asked  the  merchant. 
“What  name did  he give?”
“I  did  not  understand  his  name,” 
replied the  servant.
Mr.  Winslow  forced  as much external 
composure as  was possible and then  de­
scended to the  parlor.

“Mr.  Davis,”  he said on entering.
“Mr. Winslow,” returned  the  visitor, 
taking  the  merchant’s  hand grasping it 
warmly.
As  the men sat down together,  the one 
addressed as Mr.  Davis said:
“I was  sorry  to  learn  a  little  while 
ago that you  will lose  by this  failure in 
Rio.”
“Heavily.  It  has ruined  me,” replied 
Mr.  Winslow.”
“Not so bad as that,  I hope,”  said Mr. 
Davis.
It  has  removed  the  last prop 
“Yes. 
that  I  leaned  on,  Mr.  Davis—the  very 
last  one—and now  the worst must come 
to the worst. 
It is impossible  for me to 
take up  fifteen  thousand  dollars’  worth 
of returned drafts.”

“Fifteen  thousand is  the amount?”
“ Yes,”
Mr.  Davis smiled encouragingly.
“If that  is all,”  said he,  “there  is no 
I  can easily  get 
difficulty  in  the way. 
you the money.”
Mr.  Winslow stared,  and a warm flush 
went over his face.
“Why didn’t  you come to  me?” asked 
Mr.  Davis,  “the  moment  you  found 
yourself  in  such  a  difficulty.  Surely!” 
and his voice slightly  trembled,  “surely, 
you  did  not  think it  possible  for me to 
forget 
the  past!  Do  not  I  owe  you 
everything?—and  would not I be one  of 
the  basest  of men  if 1  forgot  my  obli­
gation?  If your need  were twice fifteen 
thousand, and it required the division of 
my last  dollar, not  a hair  of your  head 
should be injured. 
I  did not  know that 
it was  possible for  you  to  get  into  an 
extremity like this until I heard  it whis­
pered a little while ago.”

So  unexpected  a  turn 

in  his  affairs 
completely  unmanned Mr. Winslow.  He 
covered his face and  wept for some time 
the  uncontrollable  passion  of  a 
with 
child.
“Ah! sir,”  he said at  last in a  broken 
voice,  “1 did not expect this, Mr.  Davis.”
“You  had a  right  to expect  it,” said 
the young man.  “ Were I to do less than 
too 
sustain  you 
great for my ability I would  be unworthy 
the name of man.  And  now,  Mr.  Wins­
low,  be at rest.  You need not fall under 
this  blow.  Your  drafts  will  probably 
come back to you tomorrow.”

in  an  extremity  not 

“Yes.  To-morrow at the latest.”
“Very  well. 

I will  see  that  you are 
provided with the means to lift them.  In 
the meantime,  if you are  in  want  of any 
sums  towards your  payments  of  today, 
just  let  me  know.”
“I can probably get through to-day  by 
my own efforts,” said Mr.  Winslow.
•  “Probably?  How much do  you want?” 
asked Mr. Davis.
“In the neighborhood of three thousand 
dollars.”
“I  will  send  you  round  a check  for 
that  sum  immediately,”  promptly  re­
turned the young man, rising as he spoke 
and  drawing forth  his watch.
“It  is  nearly  two  o’clock  now,”  he 
added,  “So I  will  bid you good  day.  In 
fifteen  minutes  yon will find a  check at 
your store.”

it  more 
for 

thanks  to 
the  command  of 

And with  this, Davis  retired.
All this,  which  passed in a brief space 
like  a  dream  to  Mr. 
of  time,  seemed 
Winslow.  He  could  hardly  realize  its 
truth.  But it was a reality,  and he com­
fully  when,  on 
prehended 
reaching  his  store,  he found  there  the 
promised  check 
three 
thousand 
dollars.
On  the next  day  the protested  drafts 
came  in,  but 
the  grateful 
kindness of  Mr.  Davis, now a  merchant 
large  money 
with 
facilities, he  was  able to  take them up. 
The  friend  before 
introduced was  less 
fortunate.  There  was  no  one  to  step 
forward and save him from  ruin,  and he 
sank  under  the  sudden  pressure  that 
came upon him.
A  few  days  after  his failure  he  met 
Mr.  Winslow.
“How is this?” said he.  “How  did you 
weather the storm that drove  me under? 
I thought  your  condition  as hopeless as 
mine.”
“So  did  I,”  answered  Mr.  Winslow. 
“But I had forgotten a  small investment 
I  have spoken of it  to 
made years ago. 
you before.”

The other looked slightly puzzled.
“Have you  forgotten  that  investment 
in the  charity  fund which  you  thought 
money thrown away.”
“Oh!”  Light  broke  in upon his  mind. 
“You educated Davis.  I  remember well, 
now.”
“And Davis,  hearing  of my extremity, 
stepped  forward  and  saved  me.  That 
was the best investment  I ever made.”
The  friend  dropped  his  eyes  to  the 
pavement,  stood  for  a  moment  or  two 
then 
without  speaking,  sighed,  and 
moved on.  How  many opportunities for 
making  similar  investments  had he not 
neglected! 

T.  S.  A r th u r.

Her Wants.

He—First  a  woman  wants a husband.
She—Yes.
He—Then she wants him to get rich.
She—Yes.
He—Then  she  has  but  one wish  left, 
She—Oh, no; she has still another wish.
He—What is it?
She—She wants another husband.

and that is for him to die.

A  grateful  and  nourishing  drink  for 
the hot  weather consists  simply  of  cold 
water with a little oat-meal  added  to  it. 
If you must  have the taste  of something 
else, throw in  a little ginger  and  sugar. 
If you havn’t a  cool place to  set thff ves­
sel containing  it,  wrap  several  folds  of 
cloth  around it  and  see  that  it  is  kept 
wet.

Tecumsch—Avory  &  Ellis,  grocers, 
have dissolved  partnership,  the  former 
succeeding.

WILLIAMS’

RootBeer Extract

M anufacturers’ Agent, 

n r O F   D D flC !  W holesale  D ruggists, 
r i l U A   D liU lO t, 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

PUTfMM  C U P  
(JO,
Candy, Oranges,  Lemons, 

WHOLESALE

Bananas, Nuts, Etc.
Yarns, Blankets, Comforts
Dross  Binghams,  Prints,  Batts
Hod  a  New  Line of  Floor Oil G ill  in  5-4,6-4,8-4. 
W.  S T E K E T E E   &   S O N S

Ouershirts,  Dress  Goods,

A M ,  W E IG H TS

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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T H E   M IC H IG A N   T E A D E 8 M A K

AMONG  THE  TRADE.
ABOUND THE STATE.

Walkerville—H.  Wiley  has  sold  his 

drug stock to Sherlock & Bogue.

Ironwood—Lars Hanson, dealer in lime 
and cement,  has removed to  Little Falls, 
Minn.

Morley—John McDonald  is  succeeded 
by M. B.  Lewis  in  the  restaurant  busi­
ness.

Farwell—Murray  & Tanning  are  suc­
ceeded  by  A.  Leonard  in  the  grocery 
business.

Saginaw—Otto  Steinhart 

succeeds 
Steinhart  &  Luelleman  in  the  grocery 
business.

Ann  Arbor—Mrs.  E.  L.  Munyon  has 
removed  her  millinery and  fancy goods 
stock to Detroit.

Saginaw—R.  J.  Clark  &  Co.  are  suc­
ceeded  by  Bromrigg  &  Jochen  in  the 
hardware business.

Lowell—The  grocery  business  of the 
late John Giles will  be  continued  under 
the same name  and style.

Palms—Wagner Bros,  have  sold  their 
dry  goods,  grocery  and  boot  and  shoe 
stock to L.  W. Thompson.

Kalamazoo—Barnett,  Bryant  &  Bab­
cock  succeed  A.  A.  Hazard  &  Son  in 
the boot  and  shoe  business.

Lapeer—L.  J.  Haddrill  succeeds L. J. 
retail 

Haddrill  in  the  wholesale  and 
grocery and  provision  business.

Fenwick—R.  P.  Robotham & Son have 
bought the hardware stock of Geo.  Eitel- 
buss and will continue the business.

Montague—W.  A.  Austin  has  pur­
chased Henry  Warnick’s  entire  interest 
in the old firm of Austin & Waruick.

Leroy—M.  Olson  &  Co.  have  bought 
P.  E.  Peterson’s  stock  of groceries  and 
men’s  furnishing  goods  and  will  add  a 
line of boots and shoes.

Traverse City—Louis J.  Immegart has 
purchased the  interest  of his partner in 
the grocery firm of S.  W.  Perkins & Co., 
and will continue  the business under his 
own  name.

Cross Village—M. C.  Crandall  has  re­
tired from the general  firm of Crandall & 
Burger.  The business  will hereafter  be 
conducted under  the  style  of  Burger  & 
Swartout.

Hudson—George  Wenzel  has  bought 
out his  father’s  interest  in  the  firm  of 
Wenzel & Son,  and  after  this  the  busi­
ness  will  be  conducted  by  Frank  and 
George Wenzel.

Traverse City—F.  Kroupa  has opened 
a  store  in  the  old  Hamden  building, 
corner of Front  and Wellington  streets, 
and  will  carry  groceries,  provisions, 
feed,  hardware, etc.

Alpine—I.  F.  Sleesman  is  putting  in 
the foundation  for a new store  building, 
24x50 feet in dimensions.  He will occupy 
the  lower  floor with  his general  stock, 
using the upper floor for a hall.

Owosso—A.  S.  Parsons  has  sold  his 
interest in the clothing firm  of Dibble & 
Parsons to Mr.  Dibble who  will continue 
the business.  Mr.  Parsons  has removed 
to Detroit and  taken a  clerkship  in  the 
clothing house of J.  L.  Hudson.

formed  a 

Montague — Mrs.  Welch  and  Miss 
Jennie  Wilson  have 
co­
partnership  under  the style of  Welch & 
Wilson  and  embarked  in  the  grocery, 
crockery  and  hardware  business.  Mrs. 
Welch  has 
the  mercantile 
business  several years in other places.

followed 

Marshall—Thos.  Rollinson, who was in 
town Wednesday,  said the announcement

that he had purchased  the H. C.  Ransom 
furniture stock and  business in  Jackson 
was  somewhat  premature,  although  he 
had no doubt the trade would be consum- 
ated  and  he  become  a  resident  of  the 
Central City.

Mancelona—The  Herald says:  “W. M. 
Simmons,  of  Greenville,  was  in  town 
i last week looking the  place over  with a 
view  of  establishing a  shoe store  here, 
j We  learn that  he  is well  pleased  with 
! Mancelona and  that as  soon as  Clark & 
! Mathewson vacate their present quarters, 
he  will  occupy  the  store  with  an  ex­
clusive stock of boots and  shoes.” 

Detroit—Having failed to secure a sat­
isfactory settlement  with  the  creditors, 
Miller & Co.  have  given  Geo.  Yerkes  a 
trust mortgage on their grocery stock for 
§6,000.  The mortgage was given subject 
to five mortgages held by  Carl H.  Mitch­
ell,  Phelps, Brace  &  Co.,  A.  R.  Linn, 
Gilbert  W.  Lee  and  the  Peter  Henkle 
Company,  whose  claims  are  as  follows: 
Carl H.  Mitchell, $5,000; A.  R.  Linn,  $1,- 
208.92;  Gilbert W.  Lee,  $817.12;  Plelps, 
Brace & Co.,  $276.59;  the  Peter  Henkle 
Company,  $250.86.  The  assets  of  the 
firm are estimated at  $15,000 and the lia­
bilities $22,000.  One  of  the  preferred 
creditors who will  be  paid  in  full  says 
that  the  other  creditors  will  probably 
realize from 80 to 40 cents on the  dollar.

M AN U FA C T U BIN 6  MATTERS.

Detroit—The  Eagle  Iron  Works  has 
closed its shops,  and Manager O’Hara  is 
looking after the tedious details of wind­
ing up the business.

West Bay City—Capt.  James  Davidson 
has  on  hand  in  his  shipyard  $100,000 
worth of oak timber,  and is  still  operat­
ing  for more  near  S t  Charles,  Saginaw 
county.  There is no  doubt  he  will  find 
use for it all.

Saginaw—Bliss & Van Auken still have 
4,000,000 feet  of logs  on  Molasses river, 
of  which  2,000,000  feet  have  not  been 
broken from the rollways into the stream 
for lack of space,  as the drive, by reason 
of low water,  has moved  slowly.

Jackson—The  stock  of  the  Standard 
Gig and Saddle Co.  was  sold  at  auction 
to A.  B.  Robinson  for  Alonzo  Bennett 
and the Union Bank  to  satisfy  a  mort­
gage of $10,000.  Other  mortgages  make 
a total indebtedness of over $27,000.

Gladwin—F.  Neff,  who  has  been  ex­
tensively engaged in  the shingle business 
in Gladwin county  the  past  two  years, 
has  acquired  large  timber  interests  in 
Houghton  county,  and  will  organize  a 
company to build a saw  and shingle mill 
there.

Detroit—The  affairs  of  the  Winslow 
Planing  Mill  Co.,  organized  in  March, 
1889,  with a  capital  stock  of $5,000,  are 
disturbed  by  internal  dissensions.  C. 
Bokstal,  who put in $2,000,  has asked for 
a dissolution of the  corporation  and  the 
appointment of a receiver.

Detroit—The  Beals  &  Selkirk Trunk 
Co.  has  purchased  a tract  of  land  ad­
joining the  Michigan  Central  and  Lake 
Shore  depots,  in  Wyandotte,  on  which 
it will erect a trunk  factory, to equal  in 
size  any  similar  factory  in  the  West. 
The  company’s  salesrooms  will  remain 
at 260 and 262 Woodward  avenue.

Detroit—Judge Brevoort has confirmed 
the sale of the Potts railway and the mill 
j at Alpena for $170,000 to the H. M.  Loud 
& Son  Lumber  Co.  in  accordance  with 
the petition of the receivers.  The  rail- 
I way will  be  operated  by  the  Au  Sable

& Northwestern Railway Company, which 
is owned principally by the Louds.

West Bay  City—The  Crump  Manufac­
turing Co. has completed its new planing 
mill and  box  factory.  The  main  build­
ing is 145x60 feet and  three stories high. 
There  is a brick  boiler  house  attached 
50x50.  A battery of four boilers and two 
engines  furnish  the  motive  power.  A 
dry kiln  and  storage  house  two  stories 
high  and  36x70  feet  is  located  50  feet 
from the main building.  The new works 
will employ 100 hands.

Detroit—The  Universal  Package  Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital  of 
$200,000,  for  the manufacture  of  wood­
en ware by a  process invented by  James 
Tomlinson.  This  invention  will  do 
away with hoops for firkins and  barrels., 
The company has  not yet secured a loca­
tion for  its proposed  plant.  W.  A.  El- 
dredge is  president  and  manager, C. W. 
D. Lowrie, vice president, John  L.  Dex­
ter,  secretary,  and  W.  G.  Woodworth, 
treasurer.

Kalamazoo—The  Warren  Featherbone 
Co.  has offered to remove  its  corset  fac­
tory from Three Oaks to this  city  condi­
tional on  our business  men  subscribing 
for $75,000 in  stock.  The present stock­
holders agree to put in  $50,000  more,  to 
employ  150  women  and  girls,  and do  a 
business of  $10,000  a  month.  Wm.  G. 
Howard,  John  Gilmore  and  Chas.  A. 
Peck have been  selected to  examine  the 
industry and report on  its possible value 
to Kalamazoo  and  to  that  end  went  to 
Three Oaks on the 20th.

Manistee — The  Manistee  &  Grand 
Rapids  Railroad is pushing  matters  in a 
lively manner  at  present.  The  owners 
of  logs along that line are anxious to get 
to  work  hauling  them  in,  as  some  of 
those  who  own  stumpage  along  that 
route  are  getting  short,  and  have  been 
depending  on  those  logs to fill  out  the 
deficiency.  The  railway  company  has 
recently made a large addition to its roll­
ing  stock,  and is in a position  to handle 
anything that may offer. 
It has just been 
extended  to a tract  of  timber  owned by 
John  Canfield, and he has  two  camps in 
operation on the group, which  is of about 
100,000,000, and will  probably be sent  to 
market at a rapid rate before long.

T raverse  C ity  o n   a B oom — C h an ges  a t 

th e   M ercantile  Co.

Traverse  City,  July  18 — Traverse 
City has never invited a  business  boom, 
but  the  boom is  “on,”  nevertheless, the 
building operations for  1891  largely  ex­
ceeding those  of any  previous season in 
the  history of  the  town,  while  the  in­
crease  in  population  and  the  enlarge­
ment of  numerous  business  enterprises 
are both surprisingly large. 
In all prob­
ability the year 1891  will witness  an  ac­
cession of at least 1,00  souls to  the  pop­
ulation of the place.
The re-arrangement of  matters  at  the 
Mercantile Co.’s store,  consequent  upon 
the death  of  General  Manager  Barnes, 
has been  fully  decided  upon,  but  will 
not be officially  ratified until  a  meeting 
of the directors is held in  August.  The 
title of General Manager  will not  be  re­
vived,  although  H.  Montague  becomes 
Secretary of the corporation and assumes 
the financial management of the  institu­
tion, in addition to looking after his gro­
cery department.  Mr.  Wilhelm,  in addi­
tion to his duties as the head  of  the  dry 
goods  department,  will  also  supervise 
the  furniture  and  carpet  departments 
and assumes the office of Treasurer.  Mr. 
Atwood  will  continue  at the head of  the 
shoe  department, assuming  the  general 
supervision of the hardware department. 
It is understood  that the  general  policy 
of the corporation  will  be  more  aggres­
sive in the future than it has been in the 
past and that strong  efforts will be made

in the direction of a  considerable  exten­
sion of its jobbing trade.
Frank Hamilton  took  his  usual  sum­
mer outing  last week,  spending a portion 
of the time at Traverse  Point—of  which 
resort he is really the father—and the re­
mainder on the bass  fishing  grounds  on 
Carp Lake.
J.  G.  Johnson  is  contemplating  the 
erection of a handsome  three-story brick 
building  on his  vacant  lot  between  the 
hardware store of  Despres  &  Montague 
and the Mercantile Co.
Consolidated  with 

the  Baking  Com­
The  Muskegon  Cracker  Co.’s factory 
has been transferred to the United States 
Baking Co., the negotiationshaving been 
closed  last Friday.  No  change  will  be 
made  in the  character  of the  business, 
and  it is  understood that  Manager  Fox 
will  remain at the  helm, the  same as in 
the past.

pany.

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

Advertisements will be inserted  under  this  head for 
two  cents  a  word  the  first  insertion  and  one cent a 
word  for  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
ment taken for less than 85 cents.  Advance  payment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

277

275

sale after Sept. 1st.  Address B, Carrier 23, City.

.  wood fixtures.  Inventory  about  $1,000.  Not  for 

1?OR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  IN  CITY.  NEW  HARD- 
I ¡NOR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK — INVENTORY  $2,000.— 
IX)R  RENT—LELAND HOTEL.  NO.  582  SOUTH  DI- 

'  Good town of 1,000.  Good location.  Good bargain. 
Cash  sales  last  year,  $25  per  day.  Address  No. 277, 
Michigan Tradesman. 

vision street; steam-heated throughout; has bath 
rooms, closets, gas, etc., on each floor;  the  right  loca­
tion for a  good paying business.  Ed. E. Mohl, 91 Mon­
roe  street. 

_____________________________ 276

I  NOR BALE—THE“ DRYGOODS AND  GROCERY Busi­

ness  of  Rhodes  A   Leonard  at  Hart,  Mich.  Sale 
compulsory on account o f the death of one of  the firm 
and  the poor  health of  the  other  member.  Splendid 
chance.  Inventory  about  $1,500.  Address  Rhodes  & 
Leonard, Hart, Mich. 

FOR  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 connty, Mich._____________________ 268
OR SALE—A COMPLETE  DRUG STOCK  AND  FIX- 
tures;  stock well  assorted  can  be  bought  at  a 
bargain.  Address for  particulars  S. P. Hicks,  Lowell, 
Mich.___________ ______________________________ 121

I  NOR  SALE— AT  ONCE  A  STOCK  OF  CLOTHING, 

hats  and  gent’s  furnishing  goods,  located  in  a 
No. 1 town of 2000 population.  Only exclusive clothing 
store  in  town.  Stock  almost  new.  Will  sell  for 75 
cents on dollar  invoice  price.  Must be spot cash  and 
no trading.  Stock invoices  $1000.  Good  reasons  for 
selling.  Address No. 281, care Michigan Tradsman.  281
bargain.  Will  sell  all or part,  as  desired.  Also 
one  standard  guage  Shay 
locomotive  in  first-class 
«working condition.  Apply  to  W. A. D. Rose, Big Rap- 
ds, M ich.___________________________________ 282

Fo r   sa l e—a co m plete  l o g g in g  o u t fit  a t a
fNOR  SALE-A  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  DRUGS,  8UN- 

dries  and  fixtures.  Store  in  good  location  and 
doing a nice  paying  business.  Rent  low.  Good  rea­
sons  for  selling.  Terms cash.  Address  B.  C., Muske- 
gon, Mich. 

_____________ _____________________287

I  NOR SALE—ON  ACCOUNT OF ILL  HEALTH. I WISH 

1 
prising dry goods, clothing,  hats  and caps, boots  and 

to  sell  my  stock of  general  merchandise,  com­
shoes, and men’s furnishing  goods.  This is one of the 
best  stocks in Northern  Michigan, as there is nothing 
but good salable goods, and no dead stock.  Sales, last 
year, $18,000.  A splendid chance for some one looking 
for  an opportunity to better  his  condition.  For  par- 
ticulars, address W. E. Watson, Mancelona, Mich.  288 
ANTED—I  HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  PAY  FUR  A 
general  or  grocery stock;  must be cheap.  Ad- 

dresa No. 20, care Michigan Tradesman. 

26

SITUATIONS WANTED.

T ¥7 ANTED—POSITION  IN  A  STORE  BY  A  WOMAN 
\V   with  nearly  twelve  years’  experience  in  one 
general  store.  Satisfactory ^ reference.  No.  279, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

279

' 

MISCELLANEOUS.

I NOR  SALE—CHEAP  ENOUGH  FOR  AN  INVE8T- 

1  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. 

187

187.

FOR  SALE  OR  RENT—CORNER  LOT  AND  5-ROOM 

house on North  Lafayette st., cellar, brick found­
ation  and  soft  water  in  kitchen.  $1,200.  Terms  to 
suit.  Oheap enough  for  an  investment.  Address  No 
187, care Michigan Tradesman. 

power hay press.  Nearly new.  Will sell for cash 
or exchange*for  hay.  Write  to  Kingsley A  Gardiner, 
Luther, Mich.________________________________272

I NOR  BALE -  WHITMAN’S  HALF  CIRCLE  HORSE 
H a v e  y o u   a n y  id e a   o f  o p e n in g  a c lo th in g

and men’s furnishing goods store!  If  so, I have 
a new  store to rent  for that  purpose in the  best loca­
tion in the city of Grand Rapids.  Address B. 8. Harris, 
525 and 527 So. Division street, Grand  Rapids. 
286 
T   WILL  PAY  ABOUT 60 CENT8  ON  THE  DOLLAR. 
X   more  or less, spot  cash,  for  dry  goods,  clothing, 
ladies’ and  men’s furnishing  goods, etc.  J. Levinson, 
Petoskey,  Mich. 
TXT ANTED—A YOUNG  TINNER WITH  SOME  HARD- 
f f   ware  experience.  Correspond  at  once  with E. 
Vanderveen, Holland, Mich.  Give good reference.  284

285

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

S. G. Burleigh,  meat  dealer  on South 

Madison avenue,  has sold  out.

Lehmann  Bros.,  meat  dealers  at  90 
Canal street, have closed  out their stock 
and  retired  from  business.

Hawkins & Co.  have  obtained  a  judg­
ment  in  the  Muskegon  Circuit  Court
against Holt & Co., for $328.87.
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Frank O. Lord has removed his grocery 
stock  from  the  corner  of Fountain  and 
Ionia streets to 705  Wealthy avenue.

The Hardware  Supply  Co.  has  opened 
an office in the store of the Ives Mattress 
Co , corner Canal and Huron streets.

J. Leif, drygoods dealer  at 115  Broad­
way, has added  a line of  groceries.  The 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.  furnished the 
stock.

C.  H.  Chadwick  has 

removed  his 
grocery stock  from 699  Broadway to 146 
West Fulton street, where he is very plea­
santly situated.

Frank M.  Wood,  of the former grocery 
firm of Wood & Rowland,  has  purchased 
the grocery stock of J.  C.  Wellington,  at 
33 West Bridge street.

Dr.  L.  E.  Phelps  has  sold  his  drug 
stock to Frank P.  Merrill,  who  removed 
it to Ithaca  and  consolidated it with the 
stock of Merrill & McNall.

It is reported that the annual report of 
the  Phoenix  Furniture  Co.  showed  net 
earnings of $118,000.  As large blocks of 
stock were gobbled up by “Uncle Jimmy” 
Converse and his  henchmen about a year 
ago at from 25 to 50 cents  on the  dollar, 
the present showing  and  a  10  per  cent, 
cash  dividend  cause  smiles  of  satisfac­
tion to illumine  the  faces  of  those  who 
were not caught on  Mr.  Converse’s hook.

Purely Personal.

L.  J.  Law,  the  Cadillac  clothier,  has 
rented  a cottage  at  Traverse Point  for 
the  summer.

Wm.  Judson has returned from a  fort­
the  Soo,  Mackinac 

night’s  respite  at 
Island and  Bay View.

O.  A. Ball  came down  from  his  Bear 
the 

Lake 
funeral of  the late N.  A.  Earle.

resort  Monday 

to  attend 

Mrs. John F.  Berner  and  Miss  Sophia 
Berner,  wife and daughter of the Luther 
grocer,  were in  town last  Saturday.

Miss  Kettie  Jenison,  daughter  of the 
veteran  Manton merchant,  is spending a 
couple  of  weeks in  the  city,  the  guest 
of Geo.  F.  Owen’s  family.

Ben.  W.  Putman 

leaves  Wednesday 
for Warwick,  Mass., where he will spend 
a week or  ten days among  the scenes  of 
his childhood.  He  will put in a  couple 
of weeks with friends at Brattleboro, Vt., 
before returning.

Richard  Warner,  Jr.,  has  taken  the 
position  of  billing  clerk for the  Telfer 
Spice Co., the  veteran Dick  having con­
cluded to educate  his son  in the  whole­
sale  grocery  business.  Another 
son, 
Ferd.,  has  taken  a  clerkship  with  the 
Grand Rapids Music Co.

Status of  the  Stanton Failure.

St a n t o n ,  July  18—E.  Curtiss,  who re­
cently assigned  his  grocery stock  to  E. 
D.  Childs,  shows  assets  of  $1,200  and 
liabilities  of  $1,750.  The  largest credi­
tors are the  l.  M. Clark  Grocery Co.  and 
Johnson  &  Wheeler.  The stock  is  ad­
vertised to be sold at auction J uly 23.
W.  C. Burns.

G rip sack   B rigad e

returned 

A.  S.  Doak  has 

from 
Coaticook,  Quebec,  where  he  attended 
the death bed and funeral  of his  father.
is  building  a  $3,100 
residence  at 296  South  College  avenue. 
He  expects  to  be able  to  occupy it  by 
Oct,  1.

M.  M.  Mallory 

I.  W.  Snyder,  general traveling  rep­
resentative for  the Owl  Cigar Co.  New 
York,  was  in  town  several  days  last 
week.

Wm.  Connor  is  spending  a couple  of 
weeks in Wisconsin and Minnesota, when 
he will return to the  bosom of his many 
Michigan  Friends.

O. B.  Pickett,  of  Leroy,  was  recently 
married  to  a  young  lady of  that  place, 
the ceremony occurring at Windsor, Ont. 
The happy couple have gone  to  the  sea­
shore to spend their honeymoon.

All  arrangements  have been consum- 
ated  for  the  entertainment of the visit­
ing traveling men from Detroit on Satur­
day.  A  meeting  will  be  held at  Elk’s 
Hall at  2 o’clock  and a  banquet  will  be 
tendered the guests  at  Sweet’s  Hotel  in 
the evening.

John  Fell has  received  a  letter  from 
the captain of the traveling men’s club of 
Cleveland, challenging the Grand Rapids 
nine  to a  match  game  of  base  ball  at 
Cleveland  some  Saturday  in  August. 
The acceptance of the  challenge has not 
yet been  decided  upon.

Three  death  benefits  have  been  paid 
by the  Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’ 
Association during  July—J.  Lindsay,  S. 
Fechheimer  and  Andrew  Elliott,  all  of 
Detroit.  The two former were paid from 
the  reserve fund,  the  latter  being  pro­
vided for by a regular $5 assessment.

The Tan Bark Market.

“Hemlock  bark  is  off  $1  a  cord 

in 
Chicago  and Milwaukee,”  remarked  N. 
B.  Clark,  the other day,  “but  Michigan 
handlers are still paying  within 50 cents 
a cord of  spring prices.  More bark has 
been  peeled this season than in any pre­
vious  year  in the  history  of  the State. 
The large peel is due to  two causes—the 
high price  ruling  in the spring  and  the 
great amount of timber land  run over by 
the  fire, compelling  the  owners to  take 
off the bark in order to save  it.”

B ank  N o tes.

The selection of Hon. Thos. W.  Palmer 
as  President  of  the  Preston  National 
Bank of  Detroit is considered  a  master­
stroke on the part of the directors of that 
institution.

J.  A. Weller, Cashier of  the First  Na­
tional  Bank  of  St.  Louis,  has  resigned 
and will engage in other business.  Until 
his  successor  is  chosen  Hon.  A B. Dar- 
ragh will be acting cashier.

Country Callers.

Calls  have  been 

received  at  T h e 
T radesm an office during  the  past  week 
from  the  following  gentleman  in  trade:

H. Bakker & Son, Drenthe.
Edson Roberts, Sparta.
I.  F.  Sleesman, Alpine.

TRT A NTTFD  All  kinds  of  Poultry, 
yy m i  x . u u ~   live  or  dressed<  Con_
signments  solicited.

F. J. DETTENTHALER,

117  Monroe  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

“TRADESMAN”
"SUPBRIOR”

OB

Coupon Books

To Clothing and General Store Merchants—

It  will  pay  you  well to see  our  line of  fall  and  winter 
clothing, especially our elegant line of  the real  genuine “Tre- 
voli  Mills” all wool  fast  colors.  Kersey  overcoats  at  $8.50 
and  $9, silk  faced, single  and  double  breasted.  Also  our 
Melton  overcoats  and  one of  the nicest  line of  Ulsters in  all 
shades, grades  and  material in the  market.  Our  Chinchillas 
are up to the equal standard, the  whole  selected from  the best 
foreign and domestic goods.

S U I T I N G S .

We have an excellent  assortment in fine worsted, cheviot j 
pequay, meltona, cassimere and other famous mills.  We have 
a  reputation of  over 30 years  standing  established for selling 
excellent  made  and  fine  fitting  clothing  at  such  reasonable 
prices  as  enables  merchants  to  cater  for  all  classes.  Our 
Prince Alberts  have got a world fame popularity and our line 
of pants is most attractive.
William  Connor,  for  nine  years  our  representative  in 
Michigan, will  be at Sweet’s  Hotel in Grand  Rapids  on  Fri­
day and Saturday, July 31  and August  1, and will be pleased 
to show our  line.  Expenses  paid for customers  meeting  him 
there, or he will  wait upon you if  you  drop  him a line to his 
address at Marshall, Mich., or we will send samples.

M IC H A E L   K O L B   &  SON, 

W holesale Clothiers,

Rochester, N. Y.

William  Connor  also  calls  attention to his  nice  line of 
Boys’ and Children’s Clothing of every description for fall  and 
winter  trade.

UNSOLICITED  TESTIMONIAL.

H a r v a r d ,  July 6,  1891. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:
D ear Sir—We began  trading with  Rindge, 
Bertsch <fc Co. three  years  ago the  22d  day of 
time  we  have  bought 
June,  during  which 
$3,719.54  worth of  goods, for  which  we  have 
paid cash, and  but one pair of  shoes have been 
brought  back, and  those  were not  their  own 
make.
We  are  the  only  firm  handling  Rindge, 
Bertsch  Co.’s goods at this place, and  would 
as  soon  think of  going  out of  business  as ex­
changing their line for that of  any other house.

G r is w o l d   B r o s .

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

No. 47  OTTAWA  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS

Is  the  only  place in Michigan where  you can  buy  ALKUMA.

ALKUMA 
CLIMAX  CHOC.  ASS’D  BRANDY 

COFFEE  CHOC.  CORDIAL

“

Try  a Few  Boxes!

STRAITON & STORM’S CIGARS.

Having  been  appointed  distributing  agents  in Grand  Rapids  for  the  OWL 
CIGAR COMPANY  (formerly Straiton & Storm), of New York and Florida,  we are 
prepared to supply the trade with the celebrated OWL BRANDS OF HIGH GRADE 
CIGARS,  also  their  SUPERIOR  NICKEL  GOODS,  and a complete assortment of 
KEY  WEST  CIGARS,  manufactured  by the above well  known  firm at their  fac­
tories  in  New York  and Florida.  The  Owl  Cigar  Company do not  manufacture 
low  grade  cigars,  and  their products are guaranteed  free from  drugs or adultera­
tions of any kind.  We solicit a trial order.

I. M. CLARK GROCERY CO., Grand Rapids.

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A lw a y s  th e   S am e  R eason .

From the Dry Goods Economist.
In the strict use  of the term, the  pro­
posed combination  of the duck  mills  of 
the country is not  of the  trust order,  as 
it is not intended that  there shall be any 
pooling of earnings or  a  pro rato distri­
bution of  profits.  The  object is  rather 
to form  one  combination  with  a  single 
set  of officers,  and  thereby  reduce  the 
general  expenses  and  at the same  time 
provide  for  the  apportionment  to  each 
mill of that kind of ducks which it is the 
best adapted to manufacturer,  instead of 
letting  each mill  go  on making  a large 
variety of qualities,  as  is now the  case. 
By this method the cost of manufacturing 
ducks  would  be reduced to a  minimum.
This movement  originates  in the con­
dition of the  trade.  For  some time  the 
manufacture  of  heavy  ducks  has  been 
done at merely a  nominal profit.  The re­
cent  combination  to  hold  up  prices, 
though it failed,  was felt to be a  step in 
the right  direction. 
It  is now  proposed 
this  movement  with  a 
to  follow  up 
stronger  hand.  But one  warning at the 
start.  Any  agreement 
that  embodies 
discounts as a basis of  sales is certain to 
breed discord and disruption,  because of 
the many  contrary  constructions  which 
sellers give to this matter of discount al­
lowances. 
If  this  stumbling  block  is 
avoided,  modifications can be made with­
out much trouble, though if the minimun 
cost of production is honestly sought the 
agreement  to be  effective  must be iron­
clad.

T he  S u p rem a cy   o f th e   Individ ual.
This is not a good year for labor organ 
izations.  The  last circular  of  the  Sec- 
cretary  of  the  Michigan  Federation  of 
Labor shows only ten  affiliated bodies in 
Is  it not  possible  that 
good  standing. 
the labor  organization  must look  about 
them  for new  methods? 
Is it  not  pos­
sible  that the  principle of  organization 
itself  is faulty,  and  that  the  secret  of 
social  harmony  and  welfare  is  in  dis 
union,  in the  disconnection  of  interests 
instead  of 
their  consolidation?  But, 
then, it is almost heresy to  suggest such 
a thing.  The actual fact,  however,  that 
is  developing,  not  only  in the  field  of 
labor, but in all phases of human activity, 
is that  there is a  growing  tendency  to 
wards smaller  subdivisions,  a  tendency 
towards  individualism,  in  spite  of  the 
popular trend towards  communism. The 
individual  may  for  a  time  dream  of a 
communal millenium, but when he comes 
to  experience 
dividual into the mass  he learns that the 
individual  will  not  sink  quiescently 
The world and its  good things,  after all 
are  made 
individual.  The 
individual  is  the pivot  ’round which the 
world revolves,  and at whose feet it lay 
its treasures.

the  sinking  of  the 

the 

for 

T he  L inen  T rade.

While the linen trade is not one that is 
given to violent changes or  fluctuations 
yet there is a certain amount of difference 
in some of the kinds  of goods which  are 
used from one season to another. Notably 
is it the case with linen sheetings,  which 
are now called  for in much larger  quan 
tities and which will be found mentioned 
frequently in the daily advertisements of 
the  great  retail  houses,  says 
the  Dry 
Goods  Economist.  Another variety  of 
goods are  linen sheets  and  pillow cases 
with hemstitched borders, which are now 
becoming very  popular  and are kept  in 
stock  by all  the  prominent  retail  linen 
houses.  Stamped  goods  in  plain  linen, 
satin damask and momie  cloths are  also 
offered in various designs, both delineated 
and  colored  for  embroidering,  and  in 
these goods  the  trade has  begun to  im­
prove and  is likely to  be a large one the 
comming fall and  winter.

Dry Goods Price Current.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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Arrow Brand 5)4 

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic.................7
“  World Wide..  7
Argyle  ...................  6)4
“  LL...............   6
Atlanta AA.............  6V4
Pull Yard Wide...... 6)4
Atlantic A..............7
Oeorgia  A................6)4
H................6*
“ 
Honest Width......... 634
“ 
P ..............6
Hartford A ............ 5
D..............6%
•• 
Indian Head...........  7)4
“  LL..............  534
King A  A..................6)4
Amory.....................7
KingEC.................5
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Lawrence  L L ........5)4
Beaver Bam  A A ..  5)4 
Madras cheese cloth 634
Blackstone O, 32—   5 
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Newmarket  G........6
Black Crow.............6)4
B  ......... 5)4
Black Rock  ...........7
N.........6)4
Boot, AL................  7*
DD....  6)4
Capital  A............... 514
X ........ 7
Cavanat V..............5)4
Noibe R..................5
Chapman cheese cl.  334,
Clifton  C R ............ 514 Our Level  Best...... 6)4
Comet..................... 7  Oxford  R.................   614
Dwight Star............  7)4 Pequot....................   7)4
CliftonCCC...........6K S o lar.......................6)4
¡Top of the Heap___7)4
ABC.....................8)4
Geo. Washington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
Amazo n ........................8
Gold Medal.............. 7)4
A ms burg...................7
Green  Ticket......... 834
Art  Cambric........... 10
Great Palls.............   6)4
Blackstone A A......8
Hope......................... 7)4
Beats All.................. 4)4
Just  Out........  434® 5
Boston.....................12
King Phillip...........734
Cabot......................   7)4
OP......  7)4
2ahot,  %.................  634
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10)4
Charter  Oak...........5)4
Lonsdale...........  ® 8)4
Conway W..............  734
Middlesex.......  ® 5
Cleveland...............7
No Name.................. 7)4
Dwight Anchor......834
shorts.  834 Oak View............... 6
Edwards................. 6  Our Own.................... 5)4
Empire....................7  Pride of the West... 12
Parwell...................  734 Rosalind................... 7)4
Fruit of the  Loom.  7341Sunlight.................   4)4
Fitchvllle  ............. 7  ¡Utica  Mills................ 8)4
Nonpareil  ..11
First Prize................634
Vinyard..................  8)4
Fruit of the Loom X.
White Horse...........  6
Fairmount..............  4)4
“  Rock............  8)4
Full Value................634
Cabot......................   734 ¡Dwight Anchor...... 9
Farwell...................8  I
Middlesex No.  1— 10
TremontN................5)4
“  2....11
Hamilton N.............  6)4
“  3....12
L............ 7
“ 
7....18
Middlesex  AT........8
Y 
Q
“ 
8....19
No.'25 . ’.!! 9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
Hamilton N ............ 7)4
Middlesex P T..........8
A T........  9
X A........  9
X F ........ 10)4

Middlesex A A........11
2 .............12
A O........13)4
4....... 17)4
5....... 16
Peerless, white.......18  ¡Integrity, colored.. .21
colored....20)4 White Star..............18)4
Integrity.................18)4l 
“  colored..21
Nameless................20
Hamilton  ...............8
...........25
.................9
...........27)4
...........30
G G  Cashmere........21
...........32)4
Nameless..............16
......... 35
................18

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UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

DRESS  OOODS.

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CORSETS.

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CORSET  JEANS.

Coralino................89 50|Wonderful  ......... 84 50
Schilling’s ............  9 00¡Brighton................4 75
N aumke&g satteen..  7)4
Armory...................634
Rockport...................6)4
Androscoggin.........7)4
Conestoga.................634
Biddefora..............   6
Walworth................ 634
Brunswick..............6)4
FRI]
ITS.Berwick fancies.... 
)4
Allen turkey  reds..  534
Clyde Robes...........  5
robes...........5)4
Charter Oak fancies 4)4 
pink a purple 6)4
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
buffs...........  6
mourn’g  6 
pink  checks.  5)4
Eddy stone  fancy...  6 
staples........5)4
chocolat  6 
shirtings...  4)4 
rober....  6 
American fancy—   534 
sateens..  6 
American indigo—   534 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6 
American shirtings.  4)4 
staple....  5)4 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Manchester fancy..  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  434 
new era.  6 
....  6)4
Arnold 
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Arnold  Merino 
...  6
long cloth B .10)4 Merrim’ck shirtings.  4)4
“  Reppfurn.  8)4
“  C.  8)4 
century cloth 7  ¡Pacific fancy..........6
“ 
robes............  6)4
gold seal...... 10)4 
green seal TR 10)4 Portsmouth robes...  6 
yellow seal..10)4 Simpson mourning.. 6
serge.............11)4 
“ 
greys........6
“ 
Turkey red.. 10)4 
solid black.  6
Ballou solid black..  5  ¡Washington indigo.  6
Turkey robes..  7)4
colon.  5)4 
India robes__7)4
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  plain Tky X 34  8)4 
red and  orange...  5)4
“  X...10
“ 
Berlin solids...........  5)4
“  Ottoman  Tur­
11  oil blue....... 6)4
key red................ 6
“  “  green ....  6)4
5)4 Martha Washington 
“  Foulards 
7  ¡  Turkeyred 34...... 7)4
“ 
red 34
%  .........   9)4 Martha Washington
“  4 4..........10 
“ 
Turkeyred.......... 9)4
“ 
“ 3-4XXXX12  Riverpointrobes....  5
Cocheco fancy........6  Wlndsorfancy..........6)4
“  madders...  6  I 
indigo blue..........10)4
“  XXtwills..  6)4 
solids........ 5)41
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gold  ticket

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TICKINGS.

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in  th e   Suburbs. 
Is that the best  you can do?” 

S h o p k e e p in g  
Suburban  Customer—“Eight  cents  a 
Suburban  Merchant—“It  is,  ma’am. 
Suburban  Customer—“I  won’t pay it. 

yard! 
Cost me 7J<  cents.”
I can  get exactly 
city for 7  cents.”
indignantly,  spends  20 
cents for  car fare,  sacrifices  half a day, 
and saves 14  cents on the  purchase of  a 
roll of  calico.]

Amoskeag AC A. ...13
Hamilton N ............ 7)4
D............ 8)4
Awning.. 11
Farmer....................8
First Prize..............11)4
Lenox M ills...........18
COTTON  DRILL.
, Atlanta,  D..............634|8tark  A 
.............  8
the  same  thing  in  the | Boot...    ............... 63£ No  Name................. 7)4
Clifton, K...............   7)4¡Top of Heap...........10
Simpson..................20  llmperia'................... 10)4
.................18  Black.................9® 9)4
.................16 
......................10)4
Coechco.................10)4!

AC A.....................12)4
Pemberton AAA— 16
York.......................10)4
Swift River............7)4
Pearl  River............12)4
Warren...................14

[Goes  away 

sa tir es.

“ 
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“ 

DEMINS.

“ 

Amoskeag.

..............12)4
9oz......14)4
brown .13
Andover.................11)4
Beaver Creek A A... 10
BB...  9
C C -...
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 

“ 
M 
“ 
blue  8)4 
“  d a  twist 10)4 
Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

“ 
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Columbian brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12
brown....... 12
Haymaker blue........ 734
brown...  734
Jeffrey.....................11)4
Lancaster................12)4
Lawrence, 9 os........ 13)4
No. 220....13
No. 250....11)4
No. 280.... 10)4

“ 
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“ 

GINGHAMS.
fancies__7
“ 
"  Normandie  8

Amoskeag................ 7)4
“  Persian dress 8)4 
Canton ..  8)4
“ 
“ 
AFC........12)4
Arlington staple....  6)4 
Arasapha  fancy—   434 
Bates Warwick dres 8)4 
staples.  6)4
Centennial............   10)4
Criterion............  10)4
Cumberland  staple.  5)4
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin.......................   7)4
Everett classics......8)4
Exposition............... 7)4
Glenarie.................  6)4
Glenarven................ 634
Glenwood.................7)4
Hampton...................6)4
Johnson Uhalon cl 
34 
indigo blue 9)4 
zephyrs....16 
Lancaster,  staple...  634
Amoskeag.............. 16)4| Valley City.............15)4
Stark.......................20  Georgia...................15)4
American...............l634lPacific....................w)4

Lancashire............... 6)4
Manchester.............. 534
Monogram................6)4
Normandie...............7)4
Persian.....................8)4
Renfrew Dress........7)4
Rosemont................. 6)4
Slatersville.............. 6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  ...................7)4
Toil  duNord......... 10)4
Wabash.....................7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Warwick...............   8)4
Whittenden............ 634
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook..............8
..............10
Windermeer........... 5
York..........................634

SRAIN  BASS.

“ 
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“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

THREADS.

KNITTING  COTTON.

..33
No.  6  .
8... ....34
« 
“  10... ...35
...38
“  12...

Clark’s Mile End....45  ¡Barbour s ................88
Coats’, J. & P .........45  Marshall’s............... 88
Holyoke..................22)41
White.
White. Colored.
38 No.  14 .......37
“  16 .......38
39
“  18 .......39
40
“  20 .......40
41
Washington..............3)4
Red Cross............... 3)4
Lockwood...............4
Wood’s..................   4
Brunswick............  4

42
43
44
45

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

T W ........................ 22)4
F T ............ ............. 32)4
JR F .X X X ............35
Buckeye.................32)4

RED  FLANNEL.

NIXED  FLANNEL.

Red <fe Blue,  plaid..40
Union R.................22)4
Windsor.................18)4
6 oz Western.......... 21
Union  B ......... ....... 22)4

Grey S R W.............17)4
Western W .............18)4
D R P ............. 
18)4
Flushing XXX........ 23)4
Manitoba................ 23)4

DO MET  FLANNEL.

Nameless...... 8  ® 9)41 
...... 8)4@10  I 

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@10)4
12)4
Black.
13
15
17
20

Brown.

Brown.
9) 4
10) 4
11) 4
12) 4

Slate.
Black.
13
93410) 4
15
17
11) 4
12) 4
20
DUCKS.

CANVASS  AND  PADDING,
13
15
17
20

Slate.
9) 4
10) 4
11) 4
12) 4
Severen, 8oz.......... 9)4
May land, 8 oz.........10)4
Greenwood, 7)4 oz..  9)4 
Greenwood, 8 oz... .11)4
White, doz..............25  [ Per bale, 40 doz.... 17.50
Colored, doz.......... 20 

West  Point, 8 oz— 10)4 
10 oz  ...12)4
“ 
Raven, lOoz............ 13)4
Stark 
............13)4
WADDINGS.

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SILKBIAS.

Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
“  Red Cross....  9
“  Best...............10)4
«  Best AA........12)4

Pawtucket............. 10)4
Dundle...................  9
Bedford..................10)4
Valley  City............10)4

SEWING  SILK.

Cortlcelll, doz.........75  (Corticelll  knitting,

twist,doz..37)4  per )4oz  ball........80
50 yd, doz. .37)41
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.

2  
8 

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PINS.

|No  4 Bl’k & White..l5
. 2 0
“
..25
¡NO 4-15 F  3)4.......... 40
|

No  1 Bl’k & White..10 
..12 
8 
•• 
..12  I “  10 
« 
No 2—20, M  C........50 
‘  3-18, S C ..........45 
No  2 White & Bl’k..l2  ¡No  8 White *  Bl’k..20 
“ 
.28
« 
..26
No 2....................... 28 
INoS..........................36

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

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6 

NEEDLES—PER  H.

A. James................ 1  60] Steamboat................  40
Crowely’s...............1 85 Gold Eyed......................1 50
Marshall’s .............. 1 00|
5—4....2 25  6—4...3 »¡5—4....1  95  6—4...2 95

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“  ...8 10|

“ ....2 10 

COTTON TWINES.

“ 

Nashua................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply— 17 
3ply....l7
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 ply 17)4 
Powhattan.............18

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............18)4
Anchor..................16
Bristol...................13
Cherry  Valley........16
I X L.......................13
Alabama.................654| Mount  Pleasant
Alamance...............  6)4
Augusta)...................7)4
Arisapha................  6
Georgia.....................6)4
G ranite..................  534
Haw  River............ 5
H a w |J ....................... 5

6)4
Oneida....................  5
Pyrm ont................  534
Randelman.............6
Riverside...............   534
Sibley A...................634
Toledo....................  6

PLAID  OSNABDRQS.

'PT-TTH  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .

Carpets,---- AND----
-  Curtains.
Floor  Oil  Glottis

Write  for  our  Prices on

---- AND----

Oil  Gloih  Bindings.

SMITH  &  SANFORD.

J.&P.COATS’

SIX-CORD

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IN

Spool Cotton
WHITE,  BLACK  AND  COLORS,
Hand and Machine Usa
P.  STEKETEE  & SONS.

FOR  SALE  BY

FOR

Voigt,  imolsbeiir & Go.,
DRY GOODS,

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

NOTIONS,

CARPETS,

CURTAINS.
Shirts,  Pants,  Overalls,  Ete.

Manufacturers of

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

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

-  MICH.

A . W N I N  G S

AND  TENTS.

Flags, Horse and  Wagon  Covers,  Bea*  B n a a ^ o n n w  
Umbrellas,  Oiled  Clothing,  Wide  Cotton  Dock»,  etc. 
CUAS.  A.  COYE,  11  Pearl  Street.

Bend  for  Illustrated  Catalogne.

Telephone  1O0.

THE  V A LLEY   SINGER.

He was not a mighty singer;
His voice was all too weak 
To reach the ear of the pilgrims 
Who climbed  toward the mountain's peak, 
But it echoed thro’ the  valley 
Like the voice of wind or bird,
And something in the singing 
Made glad the hearts that heard.
The dwellers among the lowlands 
Hal wearisome burdens to bear,
Their lives are lives of labor,
Of want, and woe, and care;
But when the song of the singer 
Was heard in the weariest day 
It seemed like a wind in storm-time,
That blows the clouds away.

It was sweet with a faith as steadfast 
As the hills  they might  not climb,
In the love that sets things even 
In its own good way and time.
It lifted the hearts that sorrowed 
Above their woe and pain,
And made the restless, patient,
With  the music of its strain.

He was only a valley singer;
His song was not strong nor grand,
But it  touched the hearts that heard it 
And they could understand.
Better to sing for the many 
A song that is Bweet  with cheer 
And with help for the time of trial,
Than to sing what few can hear.

Yes:  his was a grander mission 
Than that singer’s is whose song 
Is sung for the few on the mountains;
For he made so many strong.
And when the grass shall grow over 
His grave in the lower land,
His song will not be forgotten,
Though it was not  counted grand.

Eben  E. R exfobd.

w riter.

F rom   th e   . S ta n d p oin t  o f  th e   T yp e­
“I am almost ashamed  to tell people  1 
belong  to  the  profession,”  remarked  a 
lady stenographer, the other day, “because 
there has been so much  said  and written 
about the ‘fair typewriters.’  The  comic 
papers  make  pictures  of  them,  and  in 
newspapers  nearly  every  day  there  ap­
pears  some  squib  reflecting  on  women 
who get their living as stenographers and 
typewriters.  From  my  experience,  and 
1 have had  considerable,  most of  this  is 
mere trash.  Men who  hire  stenograph­
ers usually  have plenty for  them  to  do, 
and  I have  never  seen  a  man  yet  who 
brought any woman  nonsense in  conflict 
with his business. 
I know quite a  num­
ber of girls who are doing this work,  and 
their experience is just like mine.

“I  once  lost  a  good  job  because  the 
wife of a  man  who  wanted  a  stenogra­
pher had made him promise he would not 
employ a  lady.  She  had  been  reading 
all  this  in 
the  newspapers,  and  had 
naturally come to the conclusion that we 
formed  a  dangerous  class.  A  woman 
with a  husband like  that ought to  chain 
him up  so  she  will  know where  he is. 
Men  in  active  business  life,  as  a  rule, 
subordinate everything else to their busi­
ness.  Any  disposition  of  a  female  em­
ploye to encourage flirtation on  the  part 
of  himself or his clerks, or even his office 
boy,  would  meet  with  a  pretty  prompt 
dismissal.  On the other hand,  a  woman 
who  works  hard  and  earns  whatever 
salary she  gets  is  usually  too  indepen­
dent to  tolerate  any  familiarity  on  the 
part of those  with  whom  she  is  thrown 
in business contact.”

A   G ood M an F or a F riend.

“I can always tell  a dealer that appre­
ciates the traveling salesman the moment 
I  enter  his  store,”  said  a  well-known 
traveling  man  the  other  day.  “His 
greeting  is cordial,  even  to  a stranger, 
and he soon  gets  all the  information he 
wants about trade in general. 
If he  has 
already  placed  his  order,  he  says  so 
frankly,  yet  will  cheerfully  go  to  the 
hotel and look over  samples,  and all the 
time is  getting  valuable pointers  which 
he  appreciates.  Such  a  wide-awake 
dealer  looks  upon the  drummer  as  his 
best  friend  and uses  him  as such,  and 
the next trip the drummer  is pretty sure 
of getting  a good  order.  The store and 
stock  of such  a dealer is  certain  to  be 
clean,  and in nice  order.  On the  other

T H E   M ICTTIG^Isr  T H ^ D E S M ^ lTST.

hand,  and sometimes  in the same  town, 
there is a dealer  who  always looks upon 
the drummer as his enemy.  His  store is 
dirty  and his  stock  is piled  around  in 
confussion,  and his  greeting  shows the 
drummer  at once  that he  is unfriendly, 
and  under  no circumstances  will he ac­
cept 
friendly  advances.  He  answers 
questions  gruffly  in monosylables,  does 
not  want to  buy  anything,  will  not go 
to the hotel to  look at  samples, will not 
look at the  small case  the drummer has 
in his hand, and acts in such a way that, 
to  avoid  being kicked  out of his  store, 
one must walk out.  I am glad to say this 
class of  dealers  are  not numerous,  but 
I met one of them on my  last trip.”

H is B est W ork.

It  is  very  common  for young  men,  I 
think,  to determine  the  quality of their 
work by the price  they are paid  for it.  I 
only get, says  such a  one,  five dollars a 
week,  and 1  am  sure  that 1  am  giving 
five dollars’  worth  of service;  if my em-

ployer  wants better  let him give  better 
wages.

This is  specious  reasoning,  but  it  is 
false;  and it  is  destructive  to the  best 
work,  and therefore to the best manhood. 
No man  can  afford  to do  anything  less 
well 
than  his  best.  He  who  always 
strives  to do his  best work,  in the very 
process of striving,  will grow better  and 
better. Not only will he grow more skillful 
in that particular  workmanship,  but he 
will be better  equipped for other  work­
manship.  This is an absolute  universal 
law It  is  the  absolutely universal  road 
to promotion.

The man who is careful to give nothing 
more than he gets,  rarely gets more  than 
he gives.  The  man  who works  for  his 
own sake,  who puts the best  part of him­
self into every blow that  he strikes, who 
mixes  all his  work with  brain  and con­
science,  who studies to render the largest 
possible  service  regardless  of the  com­
pensation  which it  brings,  will  find his 
way on and up.

7

S lig h tly   M ixed.

“I’m in a hurry,” he said, rushing into 
the  hardware  store,  “just  got  time  to 
catch a  train.  Give  me  a  corn-popper, 
quick!”
“All right, sir!” replied the clerk.  “Do 
you want a large pop-corner?”
“No, just a medium-sized—an ordinary 
porn-copper!”
“ How will this cop-porner do?”
“Is that a  pon-corper?
“Yes.  But you’re  getting twisted.  You 
mean a corn-porper—no,  a  porn-copper! 
No,  a -----”

and be quick!

“I mean a con  porper!”
“Oh,  yes,  a pon-copper!”
“Yes, he quick!  Gimme a pup-cooner, 
“All right!  Here’s  your pun-cooper.”
For the finest coffees in the world, high 
grade teas, spices, etc.,  see  J. P. Yisner, 
304  North  Ionia  street,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich., general  representative  for  E.  J. 
Gillies & Co.,  New  York City.

Hardware Price Carrent.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who
pay prom ptly  and  buy  in  fu ll  packages.
dlS.

60
Snell’s........................................................... 
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
25
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
Jennings’,  imitation....................................50*10

AUGURS AND BITS. 

AXES.

,T 
“ 
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BARBOWS. 

First Quality, S. B. Bronze.......................... I 7 50
D.  B. Bronze............................   12 00
S. B. S. Steel.......................... 
D.  B. Steel..............................   13 50
Railroad......................................................C 14 00
Garden................................................... net  30 00
dls.
Stove.............................................................50*10
Carriage new list.......................................... 
75
Plow............................................................. 40*10
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70

 
dlS.

bolts. 

8 50

BUCKETS.

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

BUTTS, CAST. 

dls.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. tifl&lO
Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60*10
Wrought Table.............................................60*10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60*10
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70*10
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70*10
Blind, Shepard’s .......................................... 
70

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

40

BLOCKS.

CBADLBS.

CROW BABS.

HAMMERS.

ROPES.

dls.

dls.

dls.

“ 
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dls.
dls.

HINGES.

levels. 

hangers. 

MATTOCKS.

locks—door. 

HOLLOW WARE.

Maydole  *  Co.’s...............................................dls. 25
Kip’s.................................................................dls. 25
Yerkes *  Plumb’s.................................dls. 40*16
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................80c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand__30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 ...............................dls.60&10
State...........................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 496  14  and
longer........................................................  396
Screw Hook and  Eye, bi.................................. net 10
“ 
96......................... net  896
“ 
“ 
96......................... net  796
“ 
“  %......................... net  796
“ 

mauls. 
mills. 

knobs—New List. 

HOUSE BURNISHING  GOODS.

Strap and T ...................................................... dls. 50
Bam Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50*10
Champion,  antl-frlctlon...............................60*10
40
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
Pots............................................................... 
60
Kettles.................. '....................................... 
60
Spiders  ........................................................  
60
Gray enameled..............................................40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware...............................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 3396*10
wire goods. 
Bright......................................................70*10*10
Screw  Eyes............................. 
70*10*10
Hook’s .....................................................70*10*10
70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ....... ............ 
70
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..................  
70
56
Russell * Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
Mallory, Wheeler *  Co.’s............................ 
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s ................................................... 
55
Adze Eye...........................................116.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye.......................................... 115.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s...................................... 118.50, dls. 20*10.
dls.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post, handled...................... 
50
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cl? ik’s................. 
40
.....................................  
25
“  Enterprise 
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring.......................... 
26
Steel nails,  base.................................................1 85
Wire nails,  base...................................  
 
Steel.  Wire.
60.................. 
Base 
Base
10
50......................................................Base 
40.......................................  
05 
20
30.....................................................   10 
20
30
20.....................................................  15 
16.....................................................   15 
35
12.....................................................   15 
35
40
10 ......................................................  20 
8 .......................................................   25 
50
7 * 6 .................................................   40 
65
4 .......................................................   60 
90
3.......................................................... 1 00 
1  50
2.......................................................... 1 50 
2 00
2 00
Fine 3................................................. 1 50 
Case  10.............................................   60 
90
8..............................................  75 
1 00
6..............................................  90 
1 25
Finish 10...........................................  85 
100
1  25
8........................................... 1 00. 
6 ........................................... 115 
150
Clinch! 10..........................................   85 
75
90
8..........................................1 00 
6........................................... 1 15 
1  00
Barrell  %...........................................1 75 
2 50
dlS.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   @40
Sclota Bench................................................  @60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  @40
Bench, first quality......................................   @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood...........  *10
Fry,  Acme............................................dls.60—10
70
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
dls.
40
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................  
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

Advance over base: 

MOLASSES GATES. 

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BLANKS. 

rivets. 

NAILS

FANS.

Broken packs 96c per pound extra.

dls.

 

 

 

 

8
dls.

squARES. 

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, 96 Inch and larger............................. 
Manilla.........................................................  1196
Steel and  Iron............................................  
75
60
Try and Bevels............................................. 
20
Mitre............................................................ 
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
13 10
3 20
3 20
3 30
3 40
8 50
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14...................................... 64 20 
Nos. 15 to 17 .....................................  4 20 
Nos.  18 to 21......................................  4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4 20 
Nos. 25 to 26 .....................................  4 40 
No. 27 ...............................................   4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86...... '...............................dls. 
Silver Lake, White A............................. list 
Drab A................................   “ 
White  B..............................  “ 
Drab B.................................  “ 
White C................................ “ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
50
55
35

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Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

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

Solid Eyes............................................per ton 125
20
“ 
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__ 
70
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__ 
50
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot__ 
30
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  root.............................................  30
Steel, Game...................................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s __ 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion...............................61.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market......................................... 70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market.............................................  6296
Coppered  Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  3 40
painted....................................  2 85

wire. 

dls.

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

 

dls.

WRENCHES. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

MKTAL8,
PIG TIN.

Au Sable...............................dls. 25*10@2S*10*06
dlB. 06
Putnam.......................................... 
Northwestern................................ 
dls. 10*10
dlS.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75*10
Bird Cages.......................  
 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
75
Screws, New List..........................................70*10
Casters, Bed a  d Plate....................50*10*10
40
Dampers, American..................................... 
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.......  
65
2 20
Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars................................................  
 
Duty:  Sheet, 296c per pound.
680 pound  casks........................................... 
Per pound.................................................... 
96@96.................................................................. 16
Extra Wiping.................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder fn the market Indicated by nHvate  brands
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................per  pound  16
Hallett's......................................  
13
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................ 6750
7 50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 EX, 
9 25
14x20 IX, 
9 25

 
Each additional X on this grade, 61.75.

BOLDER.

260
28c

ZINC.

696
7

“ 

 
 
 

 

 
 
 

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLA WAT GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

 
 
 

 

10xl4IC,  Charcoal...................................... 6 6  50
6  50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
8 00
14x20 IX, 
00

Each additional X on this grade 61.50.

 
 

BOOPING PLATES

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“  Worcester............................  6 50
14x20 IC, 
“ 
............................   8  50
14x20 IX, 
“ 
...........................  13 50
20x28 IC, 
“  Allaway Grade................   5  75
14x2010, 
7 25
“ 
14x20 IX, 
“ 
12 00
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
“ 
15 00
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
14x28  IX........................................................ 614 06
14x31  IX......................................................... 15
ISeo H: f“r 
io

• 6 Bo,•1•er,, \ PS' 

“ 
“ 
“ 

 
 
 

 
 
 

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

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

CABTBIDOES.

ohisels. 

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

50
25

Socket Firmer..............................................70*10
Socket Framing............................................70*16
Socket Corner............................................... 70*10
Socket Slicks...............................................70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

dls.

dls.

combs. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per gross..............12@1296 dls. 10

“ 

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

 
DRILLS. 

30
28
25
25
27
50
50
50

DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser pound................................  
07
Large sizes, per pound................................   696

dlS.

dls.

75
Com. 4  piece, 6 in............................dos. net 
Corrugated......................................dls. 20*10*10
Adjustable............................................ die. 40*10

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, 118; large, 126.......................  
Ives’, 1,118; 2,124; 3,130............................ 

30
25

piles—New List. 

Dlsston’s ...................................................... 60*16
New American.............................................60*10
Nicholson’s ..................................................60*10
50
Heller’s......................................................... 
Heller’s Horse Rasps...................................  
50

GALVANIZED IRON

12 

Noe.  16  to  20;o 22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
15 
List 
dls.

13 
GAUGES. 

Discount, 60

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

14 

28
18

60

ELBOWS.

8

MichiganTradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men*»  Agsociation.

▲  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Retail  Trade  of the Wolderine State.
The  Tradesman  Company, Proprietor.

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

strictly in advance.

Publication  Office,  100 Louis St-

Entered at the Grand Rapid» Poet Op. .*«

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY.  JULY  22,  1891.

The  Grocer«’  Criterion  is  worrying 
over  the  quandry,  “Can  a  man  be  a 
storekeeper and a  Christian?”  As  soon 
as a satisfactory solution of this weighty 
problem  is  effected,  T h e  T radesm an 
suggests  that the  Criterion take up  and 
discuss  the  query,  “Can  a man be  his 
own mother-in-law?”

_____________

One of the most senseless things in the 
world is to  speak of  “gent’s”  furnishing 
goods,  “gent’s”  shoes,  etc.,  when  so 
good  an  Anglo-Saxon word  as  “men’s” 
is  always  at hand  to  express  the  same 
meaning. 
W o o l  an d   H id es  U n ch a n g ed — T allow  
The wool market is in no better  shape 
than  for  previous  weeks.  New  wools 
have gone forward freely,  but  manufac­
turers will not buy  except as  necessities 
require or a concession is made in  price. 
The goods market is dull  and  low,  with 
no  orders  coming 
to  manufacturers. 
Prices East will not afford a profit on the 
season’s purchase.

Firm .

Hides  are  more  enquired  after,  but 
prices do not  move  up.  Leather  has  a 
slight advance,  which is likely to be well 
sustained,  as the  output is  one-half less 
than previous  years.  Hides  are  scarce 
and 1 ikely to be some time  to  come,  yet 
equal to present needs.

Tallow is  firm  and  in  good  demand, 
with  ample  supplies  for  all  present 
wants.

C loth ing F ailu re  a t  M arshall.

Ma r sh a ll, July 18 —Wednesday morn­
ing chattel mortgages for SO,480 and $500, 
covering the stock of Timothy Shanahan, 
clothier  and  merchant  tailor,  were  filed 
by  Mrs.  Shanahan  and  John  Monk, re­
spectively.  Soon  after the  doors of  the 
store were  closed,  and it was  announced 
that Mr.  Shanahan  had made  an  assign 
ment  and  named  Chas. J. Cronin as his 
assignee.  His liabilities are,  besides the 
above, $3,500 to the  National  City Bank 
something  over  $1,600 to  Michael  Kolb 
& Son,  of Rochester,  and  various  small 
amounts to firms  in  New York, Chicago, 
etc.,  making a total of $13,150.  Chas.  T. 
Fletcher and John  Butler are engaged in 
taking an inventory  and  making  an  ap­
praisement of the stock and accounts,  on 
the completion of  which some sort of  an 
offer will probably be made the creditors.

Written for T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

LIFE  BEHIND  THE  COUNTER.
Life  behind the counter is a  deceptive 
one.  Thousands  are  attracted  to  it  on 
account of its  apparent  ease.  The  far­
mer comes to town these hot days with  a 
load of  wood or  a load of  hay  and after 
tramping about for an hour or two he dis­
poses of it.  After paying the horseshoer 
for the setting of a new  shoe  to  replace 
the  one  lost  off  coming  in,  and  a  new 
neckyoke  to  replace  the  one  he  broke 
trying to back his load into  an  alley,  he 
starts for home.  As he  jolts along  over 
the  cobble  stones  astride  of  his  boom 
pole, covered  with dust,  and the  muddy 
sweat dropping from the end of his nose, 
he  occasionally  passes  a  grocery  store. 
He peeps in under the heavy awning and 
catches a  glimpse of  the smiling face  of 
the grocer as he stands in the open door­
way,  in his nice clean white shirt sleeves 
with a pencil  over his right  ear and sur­
rounded with a most temptingly arranged 
display of  green  fruits  and  vegetables.
It looks so  cool, cosy  and  pleasant  that 
it reminds the farmer of an oasis in ades 
ert and he soliloquizes,  “Now that Jones 
only  had  $600  when  he  went  into  the 
grocery  business. 
He  worked  Tom 
Brown’s farm on shares  and didn’t know 
any more about the  business  than  I  do. 
My little farm is worth  $3,000 and  yet  I 
am  compelled  to  keep  my  nose  on  the 
grindstone  from morning  till  night  and 
work  like  a  confounded  slave  and  be 
baked  in  the  sun,  smothered  with  dirt 
and  dust,  and  be  dubbed a  dolt  and  a 
fool by every young upstart  in  town. 
I 
am  subjected to  all this  simply  for  the 
sake of keeping soul  and body  together, 
while Jones,  with a capital of only  $600, 
can  live  like  a  gentleman,  wear  fine 
clothes, smoke  cigars,  go  to the theatre, 
live  on  top  shelf  and  make  money  be­
side.”  And  so  the  farmer  goes  home 
with a flea in his ear and  resolves to sell 
his little farm  and  embark  in  the  mer­
cantile business and join the  great army 
of men who live behind the counter. 
In 
my  travels 1  come  across  many  a  man 
who had been thus lured away from safe 
moorings  and  had  become  stranded  on 
the rock of merchandising.  We say life 
behind the  counter  is  a  deceptive  one. 
The  seeming  ease  that  appears  on  the 
surface  is a  fraud  and  a  delusion.  No 
man who  choses a life  behind the  coun­
ter,  for the sake of comfort and ease,and 
finds it,  will ever  succeed. 
It  is a great 
mistake  (and a very common one too)  to 
suppose that a  man can dress up  and sit 
down in  an easy chair  behind the  coun­
ter and smoke and read and make money. 
Thousands  have  made  this  mistake  to 
their  sorrow  and  thousands  more  are 
making it to-day but  will  not  make  the 
discovery until it is too late,

N o  O u tlet  for  P aris  G reen.

When  men learn  the  fact  that  a  life 
behind  the  counter  requires  a  careful 
preparation  and  that  certain  qualifica­
tions are  absolutely necessary  to  insure 
From the hew York  Shipping List.
The paris green manufacturers are sad 
success, 
then  will  fewer  mistakes  be 
because there  are no potato  bugs to kill.
made.  No  farmer  is  stupid  enough  to 
The  absence of  the festive  bug this  sea­
son is one of  the unexplained  mysteries.
suppose for an instant that he could sue
While the farmers are  rejoicing over the I cee(j at ^he bench,  build a house or make
p o ll*   fro p s ^ w U h o u rin v S ig ^ i/th e   a watch without  some previous training, 
bug  destroyer,  the  paris  green  dealers  yet large  numbers of them  are just fool- 
are  experiencing au unprofitable  season  jSh  enough  to  suppose  that  no  special 
after  going  to the  trouble of  having  an i qualifications are  necessary to conduct  a 
understanding  on  prices  and  otherwise 
greasing the machinery for a harmonious  successful  mercantile business.  Did you
and successful onslaught  on  the  enemy,  ever go behind  the counter and  look un­
I shall never forget the first time I
it  cannot be that  the  growers are  using  der? 
a substitute  for  paris  green?  No! 
the 
went behind the counter. 
I was a little 
scarcity of  bugs  is  the  cause,  but  next 
fellow and  lived on a  farm.  One  day  I 
year  they  will  likely  make  up  for  lost 
was  in  the  village^store  and  the  mer­
time.

TA. ,

... 

. 

. 

'I’HB!  M IC H ÏG .A N   T R A D E S M A N ,

chant,  who was busy  at the  rear  end  of 
the store, sent me behind the counter for 
a  box  of  old  nails  and  the  hatchet. 
I 
had  always held a  highly  exalted  opin­
ion  of  the  counter. 
It  was  so  nicely 
painted and  finished and  I  had  seen  so 
much money pass  over it and drop  with 
a “chink”  into some mysterious recepta­
cle, and then the man who  stood  behind 
the counter  was  a  very  important  per­
sonage  in  my  childish  estimation,  and 
my  highest  ambition  was  to  become  a 
great man just like he was when I got to 
be  a  man.  But  when  I  looked  under 
that counter and  saw its skeleton, I  was 
frightened. 
I saw its rough frame work 
braced in every  direction with dusty old 
cob-webs. 
I saw  the ruined  remains  of 
what had once been quite  a collection  of 
useful  articles  and  I  was  afraid  to  ex­
plore  for  the  nail  box  for  fear  that  I 
might  discover the remains of  some  hu­
man being.
Since  that  early  event  in  my  life  I 
have  passed  through many  experiences, 
some  of  which  have  been  bitter  ones, 
and  have learned a  great  many  things. 
To-day when I look under the counter,  I 
see in  my imagination  the  dust-covered 
bones  of thousands of  farmers,  and, me­
chanics,  and young  men with money but 
nothing else,  who made the fatal mistake 
already referred to,  and  were  sacrificed 
on the  altar  of  ignorance and  incompe­
tency.  Every day I meet more or less of 
these men  and when  circumstances  per­
mit I converse with them and learn their 
pitiful  stories. 
I called at one  of  these 
wrecked  homes  the  other  day  and  was 
met  at  the  door  by  a  little  blue-eyed, 
sweet-faced  but care-worn  lady  of  mid­
dle life who politely informed me that Mr. 
Blank was  at home and kindly asked me 
to be seated, in a  voice that bespoke  the 
lady.  She said  that Mr.  Blank  was  not 
feeling very well but she would call him. 
Hejcame in with his hands pressed firmly 
over his temples and sat down beside me. 
His  haggard  face  told  a  story  of  hard 
work,  disappointment and  trouble,  yet 
every line and feature clearly and strong­
ly  proclaimed  the  gentleman.  The  ex­
pression  of his  eye told  me that  he  had 
come out of the conflict with untarnished 
soul and  with clean  hands.  Four  years 
had passed away  since he had been com­
pelled  to  give  up  his  life  behind  the 
counter yet  it was  the  uppermost  thing 
in  his mind  and  the  principal  topic  of 
his  conversation. 
It  was  the  old,  old 
story. 
He  had  exchanged  a  good 
home  on  the  farm  for  a  stock  of  dry 
goods in the city without the least previ­
ous experience  either in  city or  mercan­
tile  life, and  a  few  short  years was  all 
that  was  necessary  to  place  his  bones 
among  the cob-webs  under the  counter. 
The bitter pangs of  disappointment  fol­
lowing  in  the  wake  was  more  than  he 
could  stand up  under  and  his  constitu­
tion  gave away  and  he  became  all  un­
strung and unfit  for  any  kind  of  work. 
The house was small  and a rented one at 
that and the floors were devoid of carpets 
yet  something  strongly  impressed  me 
with the fact that I was in the home  of  a 
genuine lady and gentleman.  This man 
knew  all  about  a  farm  but  he  didn’t 
know anything about the dry goods busi­
ness.  Now, is it  not strange that  an in­
telligent  man  (for  he  is  an  intelligent 
man)  should wilfully stop doing what he 
knows  how to  do,  and  undertake  to  do 
what he does not know how to do?  Still 
he  did it  and  thousands  are  doing  this 
very same thing to-day and they are men

who  think  that  they  know  enough  to 
come in  when it rains or  keep out of the 
fire too.

I was in the  business  office  of  one  of 
the  leading  men  of  the  city  of  Grand 
Rapids a short time since,  when the gen­
tleman,  who had  been discussing the  la­
bor  question  with  a  friend,  made  this 
rather forcible remark,  “I  say  that  any 
young man  who goes out  into the  world 
without  a  trade  or  profession  of  some
kind,  is  a  d-----fool,”  and  appealed  to
me for a corroboration  of his  statement.
I replied that I would  not put it quite so 
strong as I  believed  that  a  great  many 
young men had been  prevented from  ac­
quiring a trade  or profession by  circum­
stances over  which  they  had no  control 
whatever.  He said that cut no figure as 
every young man became his own master 
when  he became  of age and  then it  was 
not  too  late  to  learn  some  trade.  He 
would  not  modify  his  statement,  but 
made it stronger  by repeating  it  in  this 
shape:  “Any  man,  regardless  of  age, 
who either gets  married or goes  out into 
the  world in  quest  of  some  life  work, 
without  a  trade  or  profession  of  some 
kind,  is a d-----fool pure and unadulter­
ated.”  He  said  any  quantity  of  these 
fellows  could  be  seen  hanging  around 
the  saloons  and  street  corners  howling 
for something to  do and growling at  the 
times  and  threatening that  if  the  mer­
chants  and  manufacturers  do  not  take 
them in and pension them for life,  some­
thing  terrible  will happen  one  of  these 
days.  He  said  that  he  had  wasted  all 
the forenoon trying to  find a man to do a 
little mechanical job of work at the house 
but he could find no one competent to do 
the work who  had  time  to  attend  to  it. 
He said that during his  search  he  could 
have hired a hundred  men of all ages  to 
scare the birds out  of the cherry trees or 
sweep out the office but he had no avenue 
of labor of that kind open  for  them  and 
he was  forced  to  leave  them  muttering 
on the street  corners.  Competency  and 
business integrity  was  never  in  greater 
demand than  to-day,  and  in  no  depart­
ment  of  human  activity  are  they  more 
absolutely  essential to  success than in  a 
life behind the counter.  E.  A.  Ow e n.

In  a  Hardware  Store.

Do  you  make keys  here?”  asked  a 
locksmith’s 

woman  as  she  entered  a 
shop.

“ Yes’m.”
“Well, I want one.”
“What sort of a key, ma’am?”
“One for the front  door.”
“Have you a  duplicate?”
“No.”
“Bring the  lock?”
“No.”
“What sort of a key is it?”
“I—I  don’t remember.”
“But  how  am I  to  guess?  There  are 
“H’m.  I didn’t know  that.”
“Is it a night key?”
“Yes,  yes.  That’s 
6“But that’s also very  indefinite.” 
“Well, my  husband  sometimes  comes 
home  at  midnight and unlocks  the door 
with his pocket knife or  button hook, or 
anything  else  that  comes  handy,  and 
you ought to  know  about what sort of  a 
key would fit such  a lock.”

about 40,000  different kinds  of keys.” 

It’s  a  night

it. 

But he didn’t, strange to  say.

Good W ords  Unsolicited.

Mrs. H. M. Buchanan, general  dealer, Ensley: 
Could not get  along without  your paper.  Sue 
Bess to The  Tradesman.”

Albert  Kent,  general  dealer,  Kentville: 

“I 
have  neglected  to  forward  my subscription  to 
you  through  being  very  busy,  not  from  any 
thought of  being  able to do without  your valu­
able paper.”

T H E   M IC 3 H G A N   T R A D E S M A N ,

9

One Phase  of Human Nature.

Written for The Tradesman.

Moses and  Jake are  the  two  Hebrews 
who  most  frequently  infest  our  town. 
They are good natured Israelites and,  as 
their  line  of  trade  ranges  all  the  way 
from “ole clo’s” and  cast  off  rubbers  to 
“try koots,  vatches unt Yangee notions,” 
they are making money.

“Yhy ton’t you  ko to some  pig  blaces 
mit  your  shtore,  vhere  you  can  mage 
more moneys?  1 vould likge to haf your 
shtocg  of  goots. 
I vould mofe  it  some- 
vheres pooty kveek.”

“Why couldn’t you and I go into  part­
nership?  I furnish the  capital  and  you 
the experience,” I answered to the  elder 
of these gentlemen.  “We  would  call  it 
Winklestein & Co.”

You should have seen  his eyes snap. 
“Ye vould gall it  New  York  Shtore,” 

said he very decidedly.

“Good,”  said I.
“Yes, I tink I haf  de  ogsberience,” he 
continued.  “Ve  voult hustle  pees’ness, 
mine friendt, pooty hardt.”

Another time:
“Vhy  ton’t  you  haf  a  closink  owet 

sale?  I vould zell owet if I vas you.” 

“What do you suppose we  want to sell 

out for?”
“Vy,  to  makge  folks  pelief  dot  dey 
puy pooty sheap.  Puy  for less  as  gost.
I vouldt  zell owet  pooty  kveek  if  I  vas 
you.”

Again:
“Mist.  Schmidt,  vhy  ton’t  you  mage 

some assignments?”

“Shades  of  Abraham!  What  should 

we assign  for?”

“To mage some moneys.  Dot vas goot 
pees’ness.  You  puy  lots  of  goots  on 
vone mont, two mont,  tree mont,  maybe 
zix mont  time.  Den  you  gan’t  bay,  so 
you mage assignments  in name of  zome- 
pody.  Den you zettle for maype dwenty 
zents  on vone tollar.  Dere vas dot Ikey 
Eisenbaum vot  failed py  Draverse  Zity. 
He failed  for  feefteen,  zixteen  tousant 
tollars.  He zell shears vot gost  zefenty- 
fife zents,  for  halluf a  tollar,  unt  bants 
vor vone  tollar vot gost  dwenty-dwo tol­
lar tozen.  He haf left  not  more as  four 
hundert  tollers  of  shtocg,  unt  de  pal- 
lance  koes  in  his  bockedt.  Mine 
kr-r-r-racious! pudt  he vos vone shmardt 
fellers! 
I  dell  you,  dot’s  vhat  I  galls 
pees’ness!”

“Then, if that’s your  idea of business, 
I suppose  you  will  keep  your  creditors 
on the jump when you get a store of your 
own?”

“O,  veil,  I  knows  goot  pees’ness. 
tink I not fail more as dwice a year.”

I

*  *  *

Once  upon  a  time  these  two  sons  of 
Isaac happened to get stuck on an uncom 
monly  rocky  lot  of  bankrupt  goods. 
They hired a room  and held forth with a 
“grand auction sale”  which  lasted  until 
the major part of their plunder had been 
disposed of.

“Mine vriendts,”  said  Jake,  after  ob­
taining  a  prominent  position  on 
the 
counter,  “I  vill  now  hotter  you  dees 
lofely,  all  wool  gap.  How  mooch  ah  I 
hoffered  for  dees  elegant  gap?  Mate 
from  de fery  finest  vool,  unt  varranted 
not to fate.”

Some one named ten cents as a bid.
“Den zents!  Den  zents  am I hoffered 
for dees pee-ootiful gap.  Shentlemens,” 
he continued solemnly,  “I  voult  cut  off 
my handt pefore I vouldt zell dot fine all 
vool gap for  den  zents.  Ofe  you  gome 
de  pack  room  in,  I  vill  show  you.de

sheep dot grew de voll  of which dot  gap 
is mate.  Somepoty zay vone tollar.”

But  no  one  raised  the  bid,  so,  after 
some further comments upon the quality 
and appearance of  the  cap,  he  knocked 
it off to the first bidder with  the  remark 
that:

“Shentlemens,  I vill zell dees vone for 
den zents;  pudt  I gife you solemn  varn- 
ink dot I cannot  long standt  such  pees’­
ness.  My prutter  in New York  he puys 
dose gaps for me,  unt dhey gost more  as 
heighty zents apiece.”

After he had  disposed of the whole lot 
for a dime each, he told me in confidence 
that they stood him  in  just  two  dollars 
per gross.

One of the boys  got  to  bantering  him 
for a pair  of  pants; but  a  sale  did  not 
seem to be readily forthcoming,  so  Jake 
at last held up the garment to the admir­
ing gaze of the bargainer and exclaimed: 
“Mine  young  vriendt, I dell you  vhat 
I do mit you.  You gife  me feefty zents, 
unt I zell you dose bants.”

The money was quickly handed out. 
“Dank you,”  said Jake,  as he pocketed 
the coin,  “unt  now  I  vouldt lige  to  zell 
you dose bants.”

The gentile was a little inclined to  get 
mad; but the boys  guyed him  so that  he 
took the  trousers at  the Hebrew’s  price, 
less  the  fifty  cents  which  he  had  been 
buncoed out of, and hastily left the room.

One day  I  was  in  the telephone office 
of  a neighboring  town,  when who should 
make  their  appearance  but  Mose  arid 
Jake.  There seemed to be something in 
the  wind,  and  Jake  in  particular  was 
greatly agitated.

“Moses,”  said  he,  “ you  ko  dot  dele- 
phone py, unt dalk a leetle dot hoperator 
mit.”

Traverse City was  rung  up  at  Moses’ 
earnest  entreaty,  and the  following  mo­
nologue ensued:

“Hello!  Hello!  Hello Drav Zity!  Hel­
lo  Drav  Zity!  Hey?  Vhat’s dot?  Vas 
It  vas  eh?  Veil,  vas 
dot  Drav  Zity? 
Shake’s  vife  dere? 
I  zay,  vas  Shake’s 
vlfe  dere?  Vas  Shake’s  vife  in  Drav 
Zity?  Vas  Shake’s  vife  in  Drav  Zityi 
Vas Shake’s vife in  D-r-a-v  Z-i-t-y?  O, 
I  say,  vas  Shake’s 
mine  krrrrracious! 
vife in  Drav  Zity? 
If  be vas, Shake he 
vant to  know.  Say,  you  feller,  if  you 
ton’t  shbeak  more  bolite,  I  vill  preak 
your headt mit you.”

At this juncture the  operator  came  to 
his  aid.  He  told  Traverse  to  send  a 
messenger  to  Hebrew  headquarters  for 
an interpreter. 
In a short  time  a  dia­
logue  of  Asiatic  gutturals  passed  over 
the wire  which  settled  the  vexed  ques­
tion,  and must have taxed to  the  utmost 
the strength  of  this  great  invention  of 
Mr.  Bell.

Jake’s wife was in Traverse City.
He had  not seen  her  for six  or  seven 

years.

“Kootnesss!”  said he. 

“It vass pooty 
okgbensif pees’ness. 
I tink it gost more 
as  tirty-five  tollar  for  dickeds  for  bas- 
sage,  unt for hadts  unt  clodes  unt  rail- 
roats unt eferytinks.  I tink I vas aboudt 
ready to mage some assignments.”

And  Jake  walked  about  forty  miles 
between that  and  the  next  morning  to 
see “dot vife vhat vos dot  Drav  Zity  in, 
unt gost more as tirty-fife tollar.

Geo.  L.  T hurston.

Jackson—Frank  F.a Huns  succeeds 
Muns  &  Advey  in  the  manufacture  of 
buggies and cart bodies.

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SPALDING  S  GO.

SUCCESSORS TO

L .  S.  H I L L / &  CO.
Im porters,  M anufacturers 

and  Jobbers of

Sportmi  &  Athletic  Goods.

100  Monroe  St„

40, 42 i 44 N. Ionia 8t.  □
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.

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State Board of Pharmacy.

One  Year—Stanley E. Parklll, Owosso.
Two  Years—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Three  Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Four Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor 
Five Years—George Gundrurn. Ionia.
President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Meetings  for  1891 — Houghton,  Sept.  1;  Lansing 
H o t . A_________________________________________ ____ ________
Michigan  State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. 

President—D. E. Prall. Saginaw.
Ttrst 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.
K elt Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in  October, 1891.________
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. 
President. W. R. Jewett,  Secretary,  Frank H. Escort  _ 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March 
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. 

President  N. Miller;  Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.

T he  R elation s  o f th e   P h arm acist  to  th e 

M anufacturer. *

pharmacist  or  else 

The relation  of the  pharmacist  to the 
manufacturer is not what it should  be.
Cropping out occasionally  in conversa­
tion and in print,  we become aware  of a 
feeling akin to distrust, coupled,  with an 
expression that he is merely  a merchant 
and to be regarded entirely as such in all 
transactions.
Why this  feeling  should exist is  hard 
to define, because both are  in reality pro­
ducers  or  manufacturers,  and  the  dif­
ference  existing  between  them  is  only 
one  of  degree  and  facilities,  not  of 
aspiration or desire.
The manufacturer  is just as  earnestly 
a scientist as his  brother,  the  dispenser, 
and mast needs be such.
By  concentrating  his  energies  and 
efforts in the one direction of production, 
result  that  success 
it  must  naturally 
often is  attained which  is denied to  the 
retail 
greatly 
delayed.
It  must  not  be  forgotten  that  from 
engaging in the same occupation,  provid­
ing for,  and even  anticipating  the wants 
of the  physician,  he  is  an  ally,  a  co­
worker,  equally  a  pharmacist,  and,  as 
such,  a  scientist  with  the  same  as­
pirations,  the  same  honor and pride  in 
his  profession,  as  if  his  activity  were 
circumscribed by conventional  hounds.
The formation and pronounced healthy 
work of pharmaceutical  associations all 
over the country has done much to bring 
the manufacturer in  sympathy  with the 
dispenser,  and establish cordial  relations 
between  these two  branches of  pharma­
ceutical occupation.
It will be found that the manufacturing 
pharmacist  of  America  will  bear  a 
critical investigation,  and even courts it, 
as well  with  regard  to  his methods,  as 
his accomplisnments  and products.
The interests of the retailer are identi­
cal with  his  own,  and  there is no reason 
for the  existence of  any except the  most 
friendly relations, with  a dismissal of all 
feelings  savoring  of  envy,  distrust  or 
antagonism.
Tradition  has much  to do  with the in­
disposition  shown  by physicians  to  con­
sider and  acknowledge what  the modern 
pharmacist  has  accomplished  and  what 
his capabilities are.
If  the  physician would  but  recognize 
the  constancy of  effort and  study  given 
to anticipating  and  realizing,  as  well  as 
providing  for  his  wants,  it would  pro­
voke on  his  part a cordial  acknowledge­
ment  and  approval,  which  must  give  a 
decided impetus to the progress of  phar­
macy.
It should  be realized  by the  physician 
that  the  manufacturer,  in  common with 
the  dispenser,  has  higher  interests  at 
heart than the  mere acquisition of  trade 
or money.  Obligations,  just as binding, 
are laid upon him to discharge faithfully 
the  trust he has  assumed,  which  makes 
him,  in a degree,  the  conservator of  the 
interests of prescriber and dispenser.
These remarks may be well pointed by 
an appeal on behalf of  the manufacturer 
for  a  hearty,  unreserved  co-operation 
from  both,  in  the  true  interests  of  the
"Paper  read  by C.  E. Worden  before  the  California 
Pharm aceutical  Association.  Reprinted  from  the 
Pacific D ruggist.

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

healing art, for a more friendly approach, 
a more  frequent  intercourse,  and, conse­
quently,  a  better  understanding  of  one 
another.
There .exist  grand  possibilities of  use­
fulness in this direction for the California 
Pharmaceutical Society.  Let us, as mem­
bers,  take a lively  interest in the  affairs 
of  the society  and  the  welfare of  phar­
macy in general.
Let us  be  faithful  in  our attendance, 
liberal  in our  contributions to  its litera­
ture,  and  urgent in  our  appeals for  all 
pharmacists  in  the  State to be  enrolled 
in its ranks.
It is to be  hoped in the near future we 
may have  joint conventions  of  pharma­
cists and  physicians.  Such  conventions 
are  really  necessary, because  there  are 
evils to he remedied  which are  patent to 
all observers, reforms to be accomplished 
needing  concerted  action,  and  questions 
of a professional and ethical nature press­
ing  for a solution.  Such a result of  our 
efforts  would  certainly be  a consumma­
tion full of promise for the future.
It  was  a  matter of  congratulation  to 
witness  the  invitation  extended  by  the 
American  Medical  Association  meeting 
in  May,  1891,  at  Washington, 
to  the 
American  Pharmaceutical Association to 
send delegates to that body.
Twenty-five were  selected to represent 
pharmacy.  Let  us  go  and  do  likewise. 
If  we  invite  delegates  from  the  State 
Medical Association to our next meeting, 
we may be sure  the  action will  be recip­
rocated and good results will follow.

T he  D ru g g ist  a s  a   B u sin ess  M an. 

From  the  Pharmaceutical  Era.
Our  great  English  contemporary,  the 
Chemist and Druggist,  in  a  recent  issue 
speaks wise words of  caution and advice 
under the caption “Chemists’ Book-keep­
ing.”  The information  embodied in this 
article is  of a  nature to  command  very 
careful thought from the druggist. 
It is 
shown that  statistics  of  failure  demon­
strate insolvencies  of druggists  to  aver­
age between one-half  and  one  per  cent, 
of the number engaged in  business, and, 
while this seems  a small proportion,  yet 
when it is  multiplied by  the  number  of 
years  which  may  be  found  to  be  the 
average  period  of the  druggist’s  career 
in business it is very large.  Thus, if the 
average  period is  twenty-five  years  and 
the average  failures  during  the  annum 
are three-fourths of one per  cent.,  there 
is a  showing  of  nearly 19  per  cent,  of 
failures among those  who  go  into  busi­
ness.  Tabulated  records  of  the  bank­
ruptcy  courts,  so  far  as  they  relate  to 
chemists  and  druggists,  are  presented, 
and  the  significant  statement  is  made 
that in dealing with the bankrupt estates 
of  chemists  and  druggists  it  is  almost 
invariably found that the debtor had not 
kept books to disclose his financial condi­
tion.
If  the  druggist  does  not  keep  close 
track of his  business,  his  expenditures, 
sales, and the  many little  items  making 
up the aggregate,  it is  not at all surpris­
ing that he becomes involved in financial 
difficulties.  Too many place all the cash 
received 
the  money 
drawer  and from this pay  their  bills  as 
they are brought in, without keeping any 
special account  of these  business  trans­
actions, and at  the end  of  the  year  the 
balance is often found on the wrong side 
of  the  book. 
Insolvent  druggists  are 
very naturally  the  ones  who  have  not 
kept proper accounts,  and our contempo­
rary argues  that there is  a  natural  ten­
dency on  the part of  tradesmen  to  lose 
their  interest  in  book-keeping  when 
things  go wrong with them,  and  that  it 
requires an exceptional  courage  to  con­
tinue year after  year  the  strict  records 
of a declining estate.  Book-keeping is a 
pleasant duty if  favorable  balances  are 
growing  and a  most  discouraging  duty 
when  the  ledger  shows  only  accounts 
which cannot be paid and expenses which 
can never be recouped.  Lax  book-keep­
ing is a  serious  injury  and  one  of  the 
causes of financial embarrassment, but is 
no doubt as  frequently  the  consequence 
as the monetary cquse of difficulties.
The  conditions  governing  the  drug 
trade in this  country  vary  considerably 
from those existing in England, yet every 
business  should be  watched  in  its  tak­
ings and outgoings closely and systemati­

from  sales 

into 

cally,  and he who pays strictest attention 
to these details is  he who  knows  at  any 
day just  where he  stands  and  can  plan 
and  work  and  scheme  for  the  future. 
Just  what  method  of  book-keeping  is 
best available in the  drug store  we  can 
not advise,  but  we surely have  the  sup­
port of the successful men  in  the  trade 
in our  advice  that  the  business side  of 
the drug store should be closely watched 
and conducted in  a business manner.

A   Q uinine  D iscu ssio n .

From the New York Shipping List.
The managers of  two  German  quinine 
factories  have  been  divulging  secrets 
concerning  the efforts  made last  winter 
to  establish  an agreement among  all the 
manufacturers,  and  the  London Chemist 
and Druggist  devotes considerable space 
to  what  is  styled a “confession’’ on  the 
part of  one of  the  leaders in the  move­
ment.  According  to  this  narrative,  it 
was the purpose to limit production, and 
to  establish  the  wholesale  price  at  50 
marks per kilo.
It was  argued that  the profit of  30 per 
cent,  to  manufacturers  could  be  main­
tained, put  the  problem of  how  to  dis­
pose of  the  accumulating  surplus  bark, 
as  a  consequence of  decreased manufac­
ture of  quinine,  was a serious stumbling 
block  and  remains  unsolved.  One  Ger­
man  factory is said  to  have  withdrawn 
from  the  negotiations because  the  bark 
growers  would  suffer  from such  an  ar­
rangement. 
It  was  certainly  very  kind 
and humane  treatment of  the planters if 
the tale is true,  but we heard at the time 
from very good authority that the factory 
withdrew because  the  allotment was not 
satisfactory—in  other  words, because  it 
was not  allowed more  than certain com­
petitors,  like a boy  demanding  a  larger 
slice  of  cake. 
It  is  well  enough to at­
tribute  some  other  motive as prompting 
the  action,  provided  there  is  ground 
enough 
to  stand  upon,  but  the  truth 
would have been  more acceptable in this 
case.
The so-called  “confession” will not re­
dound  to the  credit of  those  engaged in 
it.  The  American  representatives  who 
participated in the negotiations acted the 
part of  honorable  gentlemen in refusing 
to talk on the  subject  after their return. 
No amount of questioning could influence 
them  to  say a word of  what  transpired, 
and  they  still  maintain  a strict  silence. 
Two  other  delegates,  however,  through 
a  desire  for  cheap  notoriety,  probably, 
give  publicity  to  matters  which  were 
considered  confidential  from  being  dis­
cussed at private meetings of the quinine 
manufacturers.  Of  course, no  harm can 
be done by the unimportant developments 
as  the  market  has  undergone a change 
since  November,  and  there  are no  pros­
pects  of  an agreement  ever being  made 
between  competitors  on the  other  side, 
but it is the principle of divulging secrets 
which  should  be  condemned.  When  a 
man  is  taken  into  the  confidence  of 
others,  with the understanding that what 
he  hears  is  not to be discussed  outside, 
he  should  hold  sacred  every word  and 
action until given permission to do other­
wise.

P oin ts  for  C le r k s/

In these days of  septiraental labor dis­
cussions and  false  estimates  of  values 
the great danger is, says the Boston Her­
ald, that the world will  lose  the  sturdy 
strength of body, mind  and  morals  that 
has been its  firm  support,  especially  in 
the life of this country. 
In place of  re­
garding work as a friend, the majority of 
the people regard it as an enemy, and the 
attitude that the average man and woman 
takes is that  the world owes  him or  her 
a living,  and has to give  it with as  little 
return as possible. 
In the old  time  the 
idea prevailed that  what was  worth hav­
ing was worth working for,  quite  a  dif­
ferent way of looking  at it from that  by 
which it is  regarded by the present  gen­
eration.
Almost daily one sees typified  in  busi­
ness life the old  parable  of  the  talents. 
He who  knows what to  do with the  one 
so  that it  increases  and  comes  back  to 
him double,  is the  one  who  makes  the 
success,  rather than he who having more, 
buries it to keep  it safe,  so  that  neither 
he nor  the world  is  any  better  for  his 
possession  of  so  much  that  might  be 
made of real value.

The story  of  the  early  beginnings  of 
one  of  Boston’s  prominent  business 
men may be interesting  as showing  that 
one  mast  pay  for  what  he  has  in  this 
world,  as a rule,  by hard work and sacri­
fice.
Like  so  many  other  strong  business 
men,  he  was  a  farmer’s  boy,  and  his 
early life  was that  of  so  many  another 
boy of the same class.  But, like so many 
another,  his ambitions  ran away beyond 
the boundary  alike of the  farm  and  the 
little town which  he knew as home,  and 
he longed  to  go  ont  into  the big  world 
and try his luck at mastering it.  He felt 
that destiny had something larger in store 
for him than he could obtain in the little 
world which was all he had  known,  and, 
with  the pluck and perseverance that has 
always been characteristic of him,  he set 
out to compel  fortune.  He was  then  15 
years of age.  He went to Worcester into 
the employ of  a  small  clothing,dealer, 
receiving for  his  compensation  the  first 
year, his board.  Most  young men of the 
present day would  turn  up their foolish 
noses  at  working  a  year  on  “board 
wages,”  but they might  easily  afford  to 
do so if their  future could be as  assured 
as was that of  the plucky  farmer’s  boy. 
The second year he  received,  in addition 
to his board, $1  per week,  a very munifi­
cent sum to  the  16-year-old  fellow  who 
had actually been  without pocket money 
for a year. 
It was while  he was serving 
as a boy in  this house  that  he  met  and
knew  Mr.  M-----,  the  partner  of  the
present house.  Their acquaintance soon 
grew  into  genuine  esteem  and  regard, 
and from this friendship grew  the  pres­
ent  business  association.  Mr.  M-----
opened a store  in  Worcester,  and  made 
his young friend perfectly happy by ask­
ing him to become his  assistant  at  what 
seemed the  magnificent salary of  $300  a 
year. 
It seemed  then  to this  boy  of  17 
as though fortune  had  opened  wide  her 
door to him and bade him enter.  He wasn’t 
at all  slow  in  accepting  the  invitation, 
and so kindly a  guest  was  he  that  new 
favors were showered upon  him,  and he 
showed that he merited them  all.  This 
beginning  was the first  step  toward  the 
foundation of  the  present house,  and  it 
owes its  prosperity  very  greatly  to  the 
courage,  the  patience,  the  perseverence 
and the far-seeing wisdom of  this young 
man.

S h a ll  W e  H a v e  a n   1891  M eeting?
Traverse City, July 10—As the usual 
time  for the  annual  gathering  of  busi­
ness men is approaching, I  would like to 
know whether there has  been  any  move 
made  in the direction of time  and  place 
of hold it.  The date of our  last meeting 
was an  unfortunate one,  and  the fact  of 
our not being able  to  accept  the  hospi­
tality  of our  Saginaw  friends  at  a  time 
when they  desired,  operated  against  us, 
I believe,  by  scattering our  forces to the 
four winds.  It is true, nodoubt, that some 
of the  local  bodies  have  forfeited  their 
right to  a  charter,  and  in  conversation 
with some they ask if it is wise to hold a 
meeting this year.  Does  this  condition 
in some quarters warrant  us in  continu­
ing silent? 
Is there not a manifest  dis­
position  on  the  part  of  all  to  continue 
these annual meetings,even though there 
is no apparent demand for action in a par­
ticular  direction?  The  good  that  has 
been done lives  to-day in  many  a  town. 
Many  good  things  trace  their  origin  to 
the association  of  business men,  and the 
pleasant  acquaintances  we  all  made  so 
recently  stimulate my  thought, and  oth­
ers no doubt, to another meeting, such as 
was  held  in  Muskegon,  Flint,  Cheboy­
gan  and  Grand  Rapids.  Will  you  not 
throw the  subject of  a  meeting  open in 
The  Tradesman, 
inviting  correspon­
dence?  Let  us  see 
the  disposition 
toward it and ask for some expression.  I 
could name  a  hundred  I  would  like  to 
hear  from,  but  would,  however,  much 
rather see them.
Our local association  is all  right,  with 
over 100 paying members.

Frank Hamilton.

T he  D ru g  M arket.

Gum opium is  dull,  but  not  quotably 
changed.  Morphia  is  steady.  Quinine 
is weak. 
Oil  erigeron  has  advanced. 
Oil fireweed is higher.  Linseed  oil  has 
declined.

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

W h o le s a le   P r ic e   C u r r e n t•
Advanced | Oil fireweed, oil erigeron.  "Declined—Linseed oil.

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

Aceticum.....................   8® 10
Benzoicnm  German..  80@1 oo
Boracic 
Carbolicum.................   23® 35
d tric u m ......................  58® 60
Hydrocnior..................  3®  5
Nitrocum 
...................  10® 12
Oxallcum....................   11®  13
Phosphorium dii........ 
20
Salicyllcum............... 1 30@1  70
Sulpburicum................  Ili®  0
Tannicum.................. 1  40®1  60
Tartarlcnm...................  40® 42

Aqua, 16 deg..............3J4@ 
5
“  20  deg................5M@  7
Carbonas  ....................   12® M
Cbloridum...................  12® 14

ANILINE.

Black......................... 2 00®2 25
Brown.........................  80@lg0
Yellow.......................2 S0@3 00

BACCAK.

Cubeae (po.  80)..........  80@1 10
iSSSSi™:::::::::  Z   »
b a l s a m u m .
Copaiba.......................  S5®,
Pern............................
Terabin, Canada......  35®  40
Tolutan.......................   35@ Ö0

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Cassiae  ...............................
Cinchona Flava.................  w
Buonymus  atropurp............  30
Myrlca Cerifera, po.............  M
Prunus Vlrglni....................  12
Quillala, grd.......................  14
Sassafras  ........... •••••.........  }*
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)........  1«

EXTRACTUM .

“ 
“ 
.< 

po.  33@ 

Glycyrrhiza Glabra...  24®  25
do
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12 
is..............  13®  14
2*............   1®®  17
VERBUM .
Carbonate Precip........  @  1®
Citrate and Q ulnla....  @3 50
Citrate Soluble........  @  80
Ferrocyanidum Sol....  &   ju
Solut  Chloride..........  @  I5
Sulphate,  com’l......... 1M©

w 

pure....  ®

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fOLlA.

nivelly ........ 

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Arnica.......................  18®  |0
Anthemls...................  20®  25
 
Matricaria 
®
Barosma 
20®  70
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-  ___
  25®  28
35©  50
Salvia  officinalis,  M*
and  Ms....................  12®  1»
UraXJrn......................  8®  10
Acacia, let  picked....  @1  00 
....  @  *0
2d 
« 
•• 
3d 
....  ©   80
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,
\Q  1
............  
Ammoniac........••••••
Assaf oetlda, (po. 30)...  _@  20
Benzolnum.................  ¿0®  j®
Camphor»...................  62®  55
Euphorbium po  ........  35®  10
Galbanum...................  @3^
Gamboge,  p o ......—   80®  95
Gualacum, (po 30)....  @  25
Kino, (po. 25)............   @  20
Mastic......................  @  00
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
0$L  6». 3 20)...........2 0^2 10
<•  bleached........  28®  33
Tragacanth................  30®  75
herba—In ounce packages.
Absinthium...........................   ®
Eupatorlum.........................
Lobelia................................   j®
Majorum...... ......................  "
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
...........................  ®
Rue...^....^-......................  *
Tanacetum, V......................  "
Thymus,  .............................  25
Calcined, Pat..............  ®@  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. & M....  20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36
Absinthium................ 6 00@5 50
Amygdalae.Dulc........  45®  75
a mydalae, Amarae— 8  00®8 25
Anul............................1 80® 1 90
Aurantl  Cortex...........3 40®3 50
Bergamll  ...................3  75@4 00
Caliputi....................  70®  80
Caryophylll...............   90@1 no
Chenopodll...............  @2 00
Clnnamonll...............1 15@1 20
Cltronella...................  _ @  45
Conlum Mac..............  35®  65
Oopalba  .................... 1  20®1 30

MAGNESIA.

OLEUM.

“ 

Cubebae...................  .  @750
Exechthitos..............  2  50®2 75
Erigeron.....................2  50@2 75
Gaultheria..................2  00®2 10
Geranium,  ounce......   @  75
Go8sipii,  Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................1  85®2 00
Juniperl......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonis..................... 2 50@3 10
Mentha Piper..............2 90®3 00
Mentha Yerid............ 2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal............ 1  00®1  10
Myrcia, ounce............   @  50
OUve..........................   80@2  75
Plcls Liquida, (gal. .35)  10®  12
Ricini..........................1  04@1 20
Rosmarinl............  
75®1  00
Rosae, ounce..............  @6 00
Succlnl.......................  40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
Santal  .......................3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................   45®  50
Sinapis, ess, ounce—   @  65
Tiglfi..........................  @100
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, Bltart,  pure..  28®  30 
Potassa, Bltart, com...  @  15
Potass Nitras, opt......   8®  10
Potass Nitras..............  7®  9
Prussiate....................  30®  33
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

RADIX.

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,  Mb..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei............................  75@1  00
cut......................  ©1
pv.......................  75@1  35
Spigella......................  48®  53
Sangninarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  40®  45
Senega.......................  50®  55
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40 
M  @  20
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Fcetl-
dus,  po....................  @ 35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
ingiber a ...................  10®  15
Zingiber  j ...............  
22®  25
SEMEN.
..  @ 15
Anisum,  (po.  20).. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  22®  25
Bird, Is....................... 
4 
'
s®  12
Carol, (po. 18)............  
Cardamon.................. 1  00® 1  25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Satlva.........  
4@4M
Cydonlum...................  75@1  00
Cnenopodlum  ...........  10®  IP
Dlpterfx Odorate....... 2 00®2 25
Foenlculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po...... 
L ini............................4  @ 4M
Llnl, grd,  (bbl. 3M)...  4  @ 4M
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
PharlarisCanarian....  3M® 4M
R apa..........................   6®
'  Albu.............  8®

Nigra...........  11®  12

6®

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Frumenti, W..D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R ......1  75@2 00
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T — 1  75@1  75
Saacharum  N.  B........1  75®2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............1 75@6 50
Vini Oporto................ 1 
Vini  Alba....................1 

25@2 00
25@2 00

10®1 50

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

STRUTS.

Accacia...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................  50
Rhei  Arom..........................   50
Simllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Sdllae.............................. 
  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Pranas  flrg........................   50

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Aconitum Napellis R.........   60
F .........   50
Aloes.....................................  60
and myrrh...................  60
Arnica..................................  50
  0
Asafoetlda...................  
Atrope Belladonna................  60
Benzoin.................................  60
Co............................  50
Sanguinaria..........................   50
Barosma...............................  50
Cantharides..........................   75
Capsicum......... :................   50
Ca damon.............................   75
Co..........................   75
Castor.................................1 00
Catechu.................................  50
Cinchona.............................   50
Co..........................   60
Columba...............................  50
Conium................................   50
Cubeba..................................  50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian......................  
50
Co............................  60
Gualca................................   50
ammon...................     60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Iodine..................................   75
Colorless...................  75
Ferri Chloridum.................  35
K ino....................................  50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................   50
Nux  Vomica.......................   50
..........................   85
Camphorated...............   50
Deodor....................... 2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia ...............................   50
StMtany.............................   50
Rhei.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
Veratrum Veride.................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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

ground,  (po.

‘ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“  Bpo. 

7).............................   3®
4®

Annatto.......................   55® 60
Antlmonl, po.............. 
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrln..................   @1  40
Antifebrin..................  @  25
Argentl  Nitras, ounce  @  68
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............ 2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
11;  Ms,  12)..............  @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
po............................  @1  20
Capslcl  Fructus, af...  @  20
po—   @  25
@  20
CaryophylluB, (po.  15)  12®  13
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera Alba, S. & F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  20
Centrarla....................  ©  10
Cetaceum...................  @  42
Chloroform...............   60®  63
squibbs..  @1  10
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  50® 1  70
Chondros..................   20®  25
Cinchonidlne, P.  A  W  15®  20 
German 3M®  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
60
cent  ...................... 
Creasotum...............   @  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  @  2
“  prep............ . 
5®  6
“  precip.............. 
9®  11
“  Rubra................  @  8
Crocus.......................  28®  30
Cudbear......................  @  24
Cuprl Sulph...............   5 ®   6
Dextrine....................  10®  12
Ether Sulph...............   68®  70
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po..................   @  6
Ergota. (po.)  60..........  50®  55
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................  @  23
Gambier..................... 7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
French...........  40®  60
“ 
Glassware  flint,  70 and 10. 
bybox60and 10
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White...............   13®  25
Gly cerina..................17  @  25
Grana Paradlsl...........  @  22
Humulus....................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  90
“  Cor ....  @  80
Ox Rubrum  @1  CO
Ammoniati..  @1  10
Unguentum.  4E@  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  70
lihthyobolla,  Am.. 
.1  25®1  50
Indigo........................   75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl..........3 75®3 85
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin......................  35®  40
Lycopodium..............  45®  43
Macis.........................  80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass ArsinitiB  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1M)..........................   2®  3
Mannia,  8. F ............   50®  60

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Morphia,  S. P. & W .. .2 05@2 SO 
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.
doTi.........................  @2 00
Picis  Llq, N.  C., M gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Picis Liq., quarts......   @1 00
pints.........   @  85
Pii Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)___  @  3
Pix  Burgun................   @  7
Plumbi A cet...............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opti.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
&P. D.  Co., doz......   @125
Pyrethrum,  pv............  30®  35
Quassiae.....................  8®  10
Quinta, 8. P. & W.......   33®  36
S.  German___22  @  30
Rubia  Tlnctorum.......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactis pv.  @ 33
Salacln.......................1  80@1  85
Sanguis  Draconls.......   40®  50
Santonine  .................... 
4 50
Sapo,  W......................   12®  14
M........................  10®  12
G........................  @  15

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Seldlitz  Mixture........  @  25
Sinapis.......................   @  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.................  1M@  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Soda,  Ash..................   3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcia Imp........  @3 00
•"  vlni  Rect.  bbl.
2 27).........................  @2 37
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal......   @1  30
Sulphur, Subl............ 3  @4
“  Roll..............  2M@ 3M
Tamarinds.................  8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae..............  46®  50
Vanilla......................9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph...............   7®  8

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   55 
Lard, No.  1...............   45 
Linseed, pure raw —   42 

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
50
45

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paints. 

Llndseed,  boiled  ___   45 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
Spirits Turpentine....  42 

11
48
strained..................  50  60
50
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian.............. 13£  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ 13£  2@4
Ber........1M  2@3
“ 
Putty,  commercial__2M  2M@3
“.  strictly  pure......2M  2M®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English—   70@75
Green,  Peninsular......   70®75
Lead,  red......................7  @7M
“  w hite.................7  @7M
Whiting, white Span...  @70
@90 1 00
Whiting,  Gilders'........
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
1  40
cliff..........................
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1 4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints..................... 1 00@1  20

VARNISHES.

No. lTurp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp.................160©1 70
Coach  Body............... 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Fum ........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

&  F B R 1 Í I N S  

D R U G CO.

Im porters and Jobbers off

CHEMICALS  AMD

PATENT MEDICINES.
Paints, Oils is? Varnishes.

DEALERS  n r

i A gents for th e

S E »   UILLB  PREPARED  PINTS.

lie of He  Drissti Mies.

W e ore Sole  Proprietor» at

Weatterly’8  JVlicliigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

W e H ave la  Stock and Offer a  M l
W H IS K IE S ,  B R A K D U S S ,

GINS,WINES,  R U M S .

We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. 
We Rive oar Personal Attention to Mail Order» and Guarantee Satlsfaottop.
¿ 1  orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive them.  Sena m   •  

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trial order.Jtaeltine i Perkins Drill Go.,

g r a n d   RAPIDS. MICH.

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

through 

S h o rt-w eig h t  C odfish.

G R O C E R IE S .

the quality  of the steel  and  the  temper 
of the tool by this process.  Be very care­
ful to have your  hardware  in  the  driest 
portion  of  your  store.  Locate  it  so  it 
will get the least beat in  the winter  and 
have the sunlight  in  summer.  Keep  it 
far removed from the  salt and  dairy  at­
mosphere of  your butter  or salt  fish  de­
partment.  The fancy articles which you 
keep in this line for  show  case  display, 
watch  very  carefully.  Keep  a  flannel 
cloth’ where it can  be  reached  handily, 
and after showing a  customer a knife  or 
razor wipe the same immediately perfect­
ly  dry  before  putting  it  in  its  case. 
Never  display rubber goods  in the  same 
case with cutlery.  They  will cause rust 
nearly as quickly as  water. 
I refer par­
ticularly  to  soft  rubber  goods  and  not 
vulcanized  goods,  such  as  combs,  pins 
and the like.
The stock of hats and  caps needs to be 
watched very closely.  Sizes will become 
broken  and goods  accumulate  dust  and 
become grey unless  constant attention is 
given to them.  Each fall and spring the 
styles change,  and  it requires one  to  be 
constantly on  the alert to  prevent  large 
losses by mere neglect.  The same tactics 
can be  used  in  disposing  of  unsalable 
hats that I  have  outlined  for  shoes  and 
dry  goods.  The  spare  moments  in  a 
store cannot  be used by  the merchant of 
to-day in  sitting  idly around  only  wait­
ing  for  the  trade.  Every  moment  not 
used in  attending  to  the  trade  must  be 
spent  in  preventing  waste  and  decay. 
The price of success  in mercantile life is 
the same as in the  professional, namely, 
“eternal  vigilance.”

F resh   S to ck .
“ Store Crank” in American Grocer.
To  achieve  the  greatest  measure  of 
success in this age of active  competition 
and push,  the general stock must be kept 
fresh.  We are living in  a  fast  age  and 
the store-keeper who,  when his customer 
wants a yard of calico  to  match  a  dress 
bought the year before  finds he has it on 
his shelves,  had better get out of the bus­
iness at once for  he is  fast  waning  into 
innocuous  desuetude,  and will  ere many 
years  have  the  sorrow  of  hearing  the 
sheriff say, over the  last  remains  of  his 
stock,  “going,  going—gone!”  A  live
merchant has no  excuse  for  having  un­
salable  goods on his  shelves, 
lie  may, 
and doubtless will, err many times in the 
selection of  some portions  of  his  stock, 
but it takes  but a few  days  or  weeks at 
the farthest  to find out  whether  he  has 
struck the  popular chord in  their  selec­
tion, and as  soon as he  finds he has  not, 
at once  bring them  into  prominence  by 
extra effort  and dispose of  them at a  re­
duced  price,  below  cost,  if  necessary. 
When  a loss  seems  to  be  inevitable, do 
not prolong the agony,  but put the knife 
in and slaughter it. 
It is a comparative­
ly  easy thing  to  keep  a  grocery  stock 
fresh,  because  the  articles  of  food  are 
comparatively  few  that  are  considered 
necessities, and being in  active demand, 
do not have the  opportunities for deteri­
oration that the dry goods,  hardware,  or 
shoe  stock  would  have. 
If  you  have 
ginghams,  calicoes, 
lawns  or  other 
goods which move  slowly  tear  them  up 
into remnants of patterns  of from five to 
fifteen yards.  Roll  up  into  neat  rolls 
and  label  “ten  yards  60  cents,”  “five 
yards 30 cents,” etc., and pile up  neatly 
on  the  counter.  What  in  full  pieces 
would  stay on  your shelves  until  moth 
eaten,  will  go  off  very  rapidly  if  this 
method is adopted.  1 have torn up thou­
sands of yards of dress goods in this way 
and found a  very  ready  sale  for  them. 
Laces and  ribbons can be  disposed of  in 
the same manner.  By attending to  this 
matter frequently, you  will be surprised 
how often your stock  changes,  and inde­
pendent  of  the  satisfaction  which  you 
will receive yourself  you  will  have  the 
congratulations  of  your  trade  on  the 
changed  appearance  of  your  stock  as 
they visit you from time to time.
The shoe stock is  another  department 
that must be heroically treated occasional­
ly.  The styles are so  varied and the de­
mand for particular goods very exacting, 
especially by the female contingents who 
are decided in their opinions of just what 
they want on  their  dainty  little  (or big 
as the case may be)  pedal extremities.
Never  argue  with  a  lady  about  her 
footgear.  She has her own opinion as to 
the style, quality  and fit, and you  might 
just as well  try and remove  the  Chinese 
wall with your breath as  to  spend  it  in 
trying to convince  a woman  against  her 
idea as to the  proper thing for  her  feet. 
In constant  handling  and  trying  on  of 
goods they become  soiled.  At least once 
a month gather the  various lines  togeth­
er, select fifty pair, more or less,  and put 
in  some  attractive  place  in  the  store, 
placarding them at a  reduced  price. 
If 
and  of  the  goods  are  particularly  fine 
and merely soiled,  it will pay to return to 
the  manufacturers  for  refinishing  both 
sole and uppers.
Your  hardware  stock  will  not  suffer 
from changes of style as much as  it  will 
from rust accumulating  on it,  caused  by 
frequent handling.  The  polished  blade 
of a knife, chisel or plane  will  rust  im­
mediately if  not at  once  wiped  off  dry. 
The rustic from the  backwoods when  he 
selects a  razor  or  knife,  feels  in  duty 
bound to  expend all  his  lung  power  in 
blowing his  breath on the  blade  to  find 
out how quickly it will dry off or vanish. 
He has a  sort of  natural  philosophy  of 
his own which enables  him to determine
P E R K I N S   <&  H E S S
Hides, Furs, W o o l &  Tallow,

Bradley, July 18—I would like to en­
quire 
the  columns  of  The 
Tradesman  whether  any of  my brother 
merchants  have  been  bothered  with 
short-weight  codfish.  1 have  purchased 
codfish  of  several  different  houses  and 
have  never  found it to come  up  to  the 
billed  weight,  the  last  lot  being  seven 
pounds  short.
T h e  T radesm an  did  the retail  trade 
of  the State a good  service in putting an 
end to short-count pickles, some time ago, 
and I suggest that it now throw the weight 
of  its  influence  on  the codfish question, 
to the end  that we may get  what we pay 
for. 

Pints................................................................... 11 50
Q uarts................................................................12 50
Half gallons...... .........  
Rubbers.........................................................  
Caps  only.............................................................4 50
Butter Crocks, per gal..................................  06)4
Jugs, V4 gal., per doz....................................  75
....................................  90
................................... 1 80
Milk Pans, H gal., per doz.  (glazed 75c)....  65 
“ 
“  90c).  ..  78

No. 0 Sun.........................................................   45
No. 1  “  .........................................................   50
No. 2  “  .............................................  
75
Tubular...................................... 
75
lamp chimneys.—Per box.

First quality.
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XXX Flint.
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No. 0 Sun....................................................... 175
No. 1  “  ......................................................... 1  88
, No. 2  “  ......................................................... 2 70
I No. 0 Sun, crimp  top..........................................2 25
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top..........................................2 60
2 SO
No. 1  “ 
I No. 2  “ 
3 86
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
.................... 4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
.................... 4 70
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.............................l 25
No. 2  “ 
No. 1 crimp, per doz.............................................1 35
No. 2  “ 

....................... 150
........................................1  60

Brown & Ensign in general trade.
C ro ck ery   & G la ssw a r e

Bannister—E.  C.  Brown 

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“  2  “ 
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Mason’s or  Lightning.

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STONEWABE—AKRON.

DEALERS in

L e e De u e l.

6 doz. In box.

succeeds

La Bag tic.

LA M P  B U R N ER S.

Pearl top.

FRUIT JABS.

16 00
55

2 40
3 40

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NOS.  122 and  124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

WE CARET A  STOCK OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR MTLL  USE.

PRODUCE MARKET,

Apples—Green, 50c per box.
Beans—Dry beans are  firm  and  In  strong  de­
mand at $2 per bu. for choice hand picked.  Wax 
and string command 75c per bn.
Beets—Green, 10@15c per doz.
Butter—The market is full all around,  dealers 
purchasing only for  immediate wants at 10@15c.
Blackberries—S@10c per qt.
Celery—25c per doz. bunches.
Cabbages—New stock is In fair demand at 81.50 
@¡52 per crate, according to size.
Cherries—81.50@81.75  per bu.t for  red or black.
Cucumbers—35c per doz.
Eggs—The  market  is  without change.  Deal­
ers pay  15 and hold at 16c.
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  is plentifully  supplied 
with home grown which is held at 50@60c per bu.
Pieplant—2c per lb.
Peas—5C@75c per bu.
Radishes—In  plentiful  supply, but  little  call 
for stock.
Raspberries—Black, 8c per qt.,  Red, 10@12)4c 
per qt.
Tomatoes—81.25  for  4  basket  crate  of  fancy 
Acme.
Watermelons— The  market  is  glutted  with 
poor stock, which sells as low as 10c.  Fair stock 
is in moderate demand at 12@15c.

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as follows for live weight:
Spring  chickens.....................................13  @15
Fall  chickens........................................  7)4® 8
Turkeys.................................................... 9  @10
Spring ducks...........................................10  @12
Fall  ducks................................................8  @ 9
Geese  ...................................................... 8  @9

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARBELS.

 

 

sacsaoe—Fresh and Smoked.

Mess, new............................... 
11  25
Short c u t.....................................................   11  25
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  13 25
Extra clear, heavy.......................................
Clear, fat  back.............................................  12 75
Boston clear, short cut................................   13 00
Clear back, short cut...................................   13 00
Standard clear, short cut. best................. 
13 00
Pork Sausage................................................... 7
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage.............................................. 9
Frankfort Sausage 
.......................................  8
Blood Sausage.................................................   5
Bologna, straight............................................ 5
Bologna,  thick..............  ...............................  5
Headcheese....................................................   5
Tierces..............................................................734
Tubs.................................................................gu
561b.  Tins....................................................... 854
Com­
Family.
pound.
TMpri'PH
...6)4
6
Oand  50ib! Tubs!".'.'
654
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case..............7)4
5 lb. Palls, 12 In a case............... 794 
754
10 lb. Palls, 6 In a case...............7)4 
6
20 lb. Palls, 4 In a  case..............7 
6
501b. Cans..................................6J£ 
6)4
BEEP  IN  BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.....................   8 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................  8 50
Boneless, rump butts.....................................
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs......................................   9%

lard—Kettle Rendered.

16 lbs.......................................10
12 to 14 lbs............................... 10
picnic...................................................7)4
best boneless........................................  8)4
Shoulders........................................................  6)4
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.............................85l£
Dried beef, ham prices.............................. .  11
Long Clears, heavy......................................... 6?£
Briskets,  medium..........................................   7
light.................................................  7

LABD.

„ 

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FRESH MEATS.

Swift and Company quote as follows:

 

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Beef, carcass..........................................5  @
“  hindquarters................................  6S£@
fore 
“ 
3)4®
loins, No.  3..................................   @
“ 
ribs..............................................  8  @
“ 
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rounds..........................................6  @
“ 
tongues................... 
@
Bologna.................................................   @
Pork loins..............................................   A
“  shoulders.......................................  A
Sausage, blood or head.........................  @
liver.........................................  @
Frankfort................................   A
Mutton...................................................  7  @
Veal........................................................  A

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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
Bluefish.................................................   @10
Mackerel................................................  @25
Cod.........................................................  @12
California salmon.................................   @20
Fairhaven  Counts................................   @40
Oysters, per  100..................................... 
Clams, 
.....................................  

oysters—Cans.

SHELL  600D B .

“ 

1  50
1  00

CANDIES. FRUITS and NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDY.
Full  Weight. 

Standard,  per  lb................................  6)4 
“  H.H......................................  6)4 
Twist  ..................................  654 
“ 
Boston Cream  ..................................  
Cut  Loaf.............................................7)4 
Extra H. H ..........................................7)4 

Bbls.  Pails.
7)4
7)4
7)4
9)4
8)4
8)4

MIXED  CANDY.
Full Weight.

Bbls. 
Standard.......................................654 
Leader.......................................... 6)4 
Special..........................................7 
Royal............................................7 
Nobby...........................................7)4 
Broken.........................................7)4 
English  Rock.............................. 7)4 
Conserves.................................... 7 
Broken Taffy................................7)4 
Peanut Squares.............................  
Extra............................................. 
French Creams.............................. 
Valley  Creams.............................. 

Pails.
7)4
7)4
8
8
8)4
8)4
8)4
8
8)4
9
10
10)4
13)4

fancy—In hulk.
Full Weight. 

 

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fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Bbls.  Pails.
11)4
Lozenges, plain................................1054 
12)4
printed.............................11 
12)4
Chocolate Drops................................. 
Chocolate Monumentals................... 
14
6)4
Gum Drops........................................ 5 
Moss Drops........................................ 8 
9
954
Sour Drops........................................   854 
Imperials............................................10)4 
11)4
Per Box.
Lemon Drops................................................... 55
Sour Drops...................................................... 55
Peppermint Drops............................................65
Chocolate Drops...............................................70
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................90
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops................................................ 1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops....................................... 80
Lozenges, plain......................... 
65
printed............................................70
Imperials..........................................................65
Mottoes.............................................................75
Cream Bar........................................................ 60
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams:................................ 85®95
Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams..........................................1 00
String  Rock.....................................................70
Burnt Almonds.............................................. 1 00
Wlntergreen  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.......... 

4 25
5 00
Messina, choice, 360.............................  @5 00
fancy, 360.............................   @5 50
5 00
choice 300.............................. 
fancy 300..............................  
5  50

CARAMELS.
 
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OBANSES.

LEMONS.

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3 
2 
3 

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choice 

“  50-lb.  “ 

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, Smyrna, new,  fancy  layers...

18@19
@16
@12)4
Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................
@10
..........................
Persian, 50-lb.  box.....................4
@ 6
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.............................
@17 
Ivaca.....................................
@16)4 
California.............................
@17 
Brazils, new...........................................
@ 7)4 
Filberts..................................................
@11)4 
Walnuts, Grenoble................................
@14)4 
“  M&rbot.....................................
@12 
Chill........................................
“ 
@ @14 
Table  Nuts, No. 1..................................
__
No. 2.................................. 
@13
Pecans, Texas, H. P ...............................  15@1
Cocoannts, full sackB
@4 00
Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................
@ 5)4 
“  Roasted.....................7
@  7)4 
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............................
@ 5)4 
“  Roasted....... ............7
@  7)4 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras............................
@ 4)4 
“  Roasted.................
@ 6)4
HIDES, PELTS  and  FURS.

PEANUTS.

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Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  follows:

HIDES.

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Green.................................................... 4  @5
Part Cured.............................................  @ 5
Pali 
Dry............................................................6 @ 7
Kips, green........................................ 
4 
Calfskins,  green...................................... 4 @ 5
cured....................................   5 @ 6
Deacon skins...........................................10 @30

“  cured..............................................  5 @ 5)4

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No. 2 hides M off.

WOOL.

Shearlings...............................................10 @25
Lambs..............................................  
Washed........................................................20@30
Unwashed............................. .....................  10@20
Tallow...................................................  3)4@ 454
Grease butter  .........................................1  @2
Switches................................................  l!4@ 2
Ginseng................................................. 2 50@3 00

MISCELLANEOUS.

PELTS.

OILS.

The  Standard  Oil Co.  quotes  as  follows,  i 

barrels, f. o. b. Grand Rapids :
Water White..........................................  @ 8)4
Special White........................................   @ 8)4
Michigan Test.......................................  @714
Naptha...................................................  @7)4
Gasoline.................................................  @  8)4
Cylinder................................................27  @36
Engine  .................................................13  @21
Black,  Sommer.....................................   @ 8

5 
@4)4

@5)4

20  @60

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

APPLE  BUTTER.

Chicago goods..................734@8

AXLE GREASE.
Frazer’s.

 

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

80
3 doz. case...  2 40
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per gross  ___9  00
“ 
25 lb. pails..........................  i 00
75
151b.  “ 
 
A urora.
Wood boxes,  per  doz........ 
60
3 doz. case...  1 75
per  gross___6  00
50
3 doz. case...  1 50
per  gross___5  50

Wood boxes,  per doz  ......  

Diamond.

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Peerless.

Teller’s,  !4 lb. cans, doz. 

25 lb. pails......................... 
Acme, 14 lb. cans, 3 doz  ... 

90
BAKING  POWDER.
45
34 lb.  “ 
2  “  ....  85
1  “  ....  1 00
lib .  “ 
balk.........................  10
45 
“  ..  85
“  ..  1  50
60
..............  1 20
..............2  00
..............  9 60
40
Red Star, 14 ft  cans........... 
........... 
80
...........  1  50

34 lb  “ 
1  ft  “ 
5ft  “ 
34 ft  “ 
1ft  “ 
BATH BRICK.

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Arctic, 14 lb cans.............. 

34 lb.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 

2 dozen in case.

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8 oz 

bluing. 

English...............................  90
Bristol..................................  70
Domestic.............................   60
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals................4 00
“ 
..............  7 00
“  pints,  round........... 10 50
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
“  No. 3, 
...  4 00
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
“  1 oz ball  .................  4 50
BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl..........................  1 75
No. 1  “ 
.......................... 2 00
No. 2 Carpet.......................  2 25
.......................  2 50
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem.......................... 2 75
Common Whisk................. 
90
Fancy 
.................  1 20
M ill....................................  3 25
Warehouse...........................2 75
BUCKWHEAT  FLOUR.
Rising Sun......................... 5 00
York State..........................
Self Rising...........................4 50
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes..............   1034
Star,  40 
1014
Paraffine............................ 12
Wicking..........................  25

CANDLES
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CANNED  GOODS.

FISH.

“ 

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Little Neck,  1 lb..................1  10
“  2  lb..................1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb.....................2 30
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb.....................1  10

21b..........................2 10
Lobsters.

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Star,  1  lb............................ 2 45
“  2  lb............................ 3 45
Picnic, l i b ...........................2 00
21b...........................3 00
“ 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb...................... 1 20
2  lb.....................2 00
Mustard,  31b......................3 00
Tomato Sauce,  31b.............3 00
Soused, 3 lb.........................3 00
Columbia River, flat........... 1  85
Alaska, 1  lb......................... 1  20
21b...........................1  90
Sardines.
American  14s.................... 5® 6
14s.....................7© 8
Imported  148.....................11@12
34b.....................13@14
Mustard  3£s......................  @10
Brook, 3 lb............................... 2 50

tails................ 1 65

Salmon.
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Trout.

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FRUITS.
Apples.

Gages.

Cherries.

Apricots.

3 25
York State, gallons.... 
90
Hamburgh,  “  —  
Santa  Cruz................. 
2  25
2 50
Lusk’s......................... 
2 35
Overland..................  
Blackberries.
F. &  W....................... 
»0
Red............................. 
1  20
175
Pitted Hamburg.........  
W hite......................... 
1  60
E rie............................ 
1  30
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Erie ............................  @1  60
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  10
P ie............................. 1  60@1  75
Maxwell.................... 
2 25
Shepard’s ................... 
225
California.................. 2 60@2 75
1  25
Domestic....................  
Riverside.................... 
2 25
Pineapples.
Common..................... 
1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
2 60
grated........ 
2 85
Quinces.
Common.................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
Red..............: . ...........  
130
Black  Hamburg.........  
1 50
Erie, black................. 
1  40

Peaches.

Pears.

“ 

Strawberries.

Whortleberries.

Lawrence.......................  
l *'
Hamburg......................... 
2 25
1 65
Erie................................. 
Common......................... 
1 40
1 25
F. &  W...........................  
Blueberries.................... 
1 30
Corned  beef,  Libby’s..........2  10
Roast beef,  Armour’s..........1  75
Potted  ham, 34 lb............... 1  50
341b .................100
tongue, 34 lb............. 1 1 0
34  lb..........  95
95

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VEGETABLES.

lb.......... 

MEATS.

Beans.

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Peas

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Corn.

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Hamburg  stringless........... 1  25
French style...... 2 25
Limas................. 1  40
Lima, green......................... 1  30
soaked......................  90
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1  35
Bay State  Baked...................... 1 35
World’s  Fair............................ 1 35
Hamburgh...........................1  25
Tiger ...................................
Purity..................................1  10
E rie..................................... 1  15
Hamburgh marrofat...........
early June..........1  50
Champion Eng...
Hamburgh  petit  pois..........1 75
fancy  sifted.......1  90
Soaked................................   65
Harris  standard.................   75
Van Camp’s Marrofat 
.1  10
Early June........1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__1  35
French................................ 1  80
French..............................17® 18
Erie.....................................   90
Hubbard.............................1  30
Hamburg  ........................... 1  40
Soaked................................   85
Honey  Dew......................... 1  60
Van  Camp’s......................... 1  10
No. Collins...........................1  10
Hamburg.............................1  30
Hancock..............................1 05
Gallon................................ 2 75
CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
22
German Sweet.. 
............  
34
Premium........................... 
Pure.................................. 
38
Breakfast  Cocoa.............. 
40
Norway......................  @934
N. Y. or Lenawee......  @934
Allegan  .......................  @9
Skim..........................  6  @ 8
Sap Sago....................  @22
E dam ...........................   @1 00
Swiss, imported........  24®  25
domestic  __  15@  16
Limburger....................... 
  11
Rubber, 100 lumps................35
Spruce, 200 pieces................40
Snider’s, 34 pint...................1  35

CHEWING  GUM.
200  “ 

Tomatoes.

CHEESE.

CATSUP.

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pint............................2 30
quart.......................... 3 50
CLOTHES FINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

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COFFEE.
GREEN.Rio.

Santos.

Maracaibo.

Mexican and Guatamala.

Fair......................................2034
Good....................................21
Prime...................................2134
Golden.................................2234
Peaberry  ............................23
Fair..................................... 2034
Good....................................21
Prime.................................. 2134
Peaberry  ............................ 2234
Fair......................................22
Good.................................... 23
Fancy.................................. 25
Prime.................................. 2234
M illed.................................2334
Interior................................26
Private Growth...................28
Mandehling........................29
Imitation............................ 25
Arabian............................... 2834
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 34c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent  for shrink­
age.
McLaughlin’s  XXXX....243li

Mocha.

PACKAGE.

ROASTED.

Java.

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Lion....................................Six
in cabinets  ............... 2534
Durham..............................2434
VaUey City........................   75
Felix.....  ..........................1  15

EXTRACT.

Hummel’s, foil. 
tin ..
CHICORT.

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

CLOTHES  LINES.
50 ft........... 
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60 ft........... 
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.  70 ft......... 
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80 ft........... 
60 ft..........  
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72 ft-......... 
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CONDENSED MILK.

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Jute 
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Eagle.................................
Crow n.............................
Genuine  Swiss..................
American Swiss.................
COUPON  BOOKS.

1  50
2 50
-  434 
.  7
1  25 
1  40 
1  60 
1  75 
1  90 
90 
1  00
7 40
6 50
8 CO
7 00

 
 
 
 
 

“Tradesman.”
 

per hundred............... 2 00
2 50
“ 
3 00
“ 
3 on
“ 
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4 00
“ 
5 00
per hundred...............   2 50
“ 
3 00
“ 
4 00
5 00
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“Universal.” 
$2 50
$ 1, per hundred.........
3 00
4 00
$ 3,
5 OO
6  00 
$10,
7 00
$20,
Bulk orders for above coupon 
books are subject to the follow­
ing  discounts:
200 or over..............5  per cent
500  “ 
1000  “ 

10 “
20 “

 
 

 

CRACKERS.
“ 

Kenosha Butter..................   734
Seymour 
534
Butter....................................534
“  family...........................534
“  biscuit.........................634
Boston....................................734
City Soda............................... 734
Soaa.......................................6
40
S. Oyster ............ 
534
City Oyster. XXX.................  534
Strictly  pure...................... 
30
Telfer’s  Absolute..............  35
Grocers’............................ 10@15

CREAM TARTAR.

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Apples.

PEEL.

PRUNES.

California Evaporated.

Sundried....................   @8
Evaporated................  @11
14
Apricots...............................
Blackberries..............
634
13
Nectarines.................
12
Peaches  ....................
Pears,  sliced..............
Plums.........................
10
Prunes,  sweet............
Turkey....................... @ 7
Bosnia........................ @ 8
French....................... @  9
18
Lemon..................................
18
Orange.................................
In drum.............................. @18
In boxes............................. @20
CURRANTS.
@   5
Zante, in  barrels...........
in  34-bbls...........
@   534
In less quantity @ 534
r a is in s —California
2 00
2 10
“ 
2 25
“ 
1  60
1  75
634

London Layers, 2 cr’n 
3  “
fancy.
Muscatels,2crown  . . .
3  “ 
. . . .
Foreign.
Valencias...........................
Oxidaras..............................
@   7
Sultanas......................  @15

CITRON.

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FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Farina.
Hominy.

 

4

Lima  Beans.

Maccaronl and Vermicelli.

100 lb. kegs................... 
Barrels..................................... 3 75
G rits..................................
53»
Dried............... 
 
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
60
Imported...................... 
11
Pearl Barley.
Kegs............................... 334@3&
Green,  bu.................................1 20
Split, bbl.................................. 6 50
Sago.
German.............  
 
East India..........................  

Peas.

5
5

 

Wheat.

Cracked.........................
FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

5

“ 

Cod.

Whitefish.

Pollock.
Sardines.
Trout.

“ 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

No. 1, 34 bbls. 90 lbs.......
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...........
Family, 34 bbls., 100 lbs. 
kits, 10  lbs......

Yarmouth......................
Whole............................ @634
Bricks............................ 8@834
8@9
Strips.............................
nalibut.
Smoked ......................
Herring.
Scaled.........................
Holland,  bbls............
kegs............
«»•  “ 
Round shore, 34 bbl...
“ 
“ 
34  bbl..
Mackerel.

1034
24
11  00
75
2 75
1  50
..  9 50
..  1  20
..  3 50
..  45
Fancy.......................   3 50@4 00
Russian,  kegs................
No. 1, 34 bbls., 90 lbs__ ...5 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...........
...  80
...7  00
No. 1, 34 bbls., 90 lbs....
...1  00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...........
Family, 34 bbls., 90 lbs..
...3 00
kits. 10  lbs......
...  50
Jennings’ D C.
Lemon. Vanilla
1  25
75 1 00 
2 oz folding box
1  50 I
3 oz 
“
...1 50
“ 
4 oz 
“
2  00
3 00
6 oz 
“
...2   00
“  
4 00
...3 00
“ 
8 oz 
“
GUN  POWDER.
.5 50
Kegs
Half  kegs............................3 00
Sage......................................15
Hops............................  
25
Chicago  goods...........  @4
LAMP WICKS.
No..............
No. 1..........................
No. 2..........................
LICORICE.
Pure..........................
Calabria....................
Sicily.........................
Condensed, 2 doz.................1 25
No. 9  sulphur.......................1 65
Anchor parlor...................... 1 70
No. 2 home........................... 1 10
Export  parlor...................... 4 25

MATCHES.

JELLIES.

HERBS.

LYE.

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

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

New Orleans.

16
19
19
23
17
20
26
30
36

OATMEAL.

Barrels 200.................  @5  50
Half barrels 100....................@2 88
ROLLED  OATS.
Half  bbls 90..............  @2  88
Barrels  180............... 
  @5  50
PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count..........$6 50
Half  barrels, 600 count—   3 50 
Barrels, 2.400 count  .........  7 50
Half barrels, 1,200 count...  4 OO
Clay, No.  216............................ 1 75
Cob, No. 3.................................1 25

“  T. D. full count...........  75

Small.

PIPES.

RICE.

Domestic.

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

Imported.

Broken...............................
Japan, No. 1..........................63»
“  No. 2...........................534
Java....................................  5
Patna..................................   5

ROOT BEER.

Williams' Extract.

25 cent size............................... 1 75
3 dozen..............................$500

SAPOLIO.
“ 
SOUPS.

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

3  “ 

 

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

Allspice............................... 10
Cassia, China in mats........  734
“  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
white...  .25
shot......................... 19
Allspice............................... 15
Cassia,  Batavia...................20
and  Saigon .25
“ 
“  Saigon.................... 35
Cloves,  Amboyna................30
“  Zanzibar..................20

“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.

» re,____

“ 

Ginger, African...................15
“  Cochin....................18
Jam aica.................20
“ 
Mace Batavia...................... 80
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste..25
“  Trieste....................27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black— 20
™ 
white...... 30
“  Cayenne................. 25
Sage..................................... 20
“Absolute” in Packages,
Ms
Allspice......................  84
Cinnamon...................  84
Cloves.........................  84
Ginger, Jam...............   84
“  Af...................  84
Mustard......................  84
Pepper.......................   84
Sage.............................  84

34s
1  55 
1  55

1  55 
1  55 
1  55

SUGAR.

Cut  Loaf....................  @534
Cubes........................   @ 4fc
Powdered..................   @5
Granulated.................   43»@4.r6
Confectioners’ A------  4?S@4.44
Soft A  .......................  @4.31
White Extra  C...........  @434
Extra  C......................  3%@ 4
C ................................  334® 3?a
Yellow  .....................   334@ 3?a
Less than 100 lbs.  %c advance

STARCH.
Corn.

 

 

 

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SOAP.

SNUFF.

20-lb  boxes..........................  634
40-lb 
634
Gloss.
1-lb packages  ......................  6
3-lb 
.......................6
6-lb 
634
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  434
Barrels................................   434
Scotch, in  bladders.............37
Maccaboy, in jars................35
French Rappee, in Jars......43
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 80....................320
Uno, 100.......................•...... 3 50
Bouncer, 100.........................3 00
Boxes....................................53a
Kegs, English....................... 434
Kegs.............................. 134
Granulated,  boxes................2
Mixed bird.................  434© 6
Caraway............................... 10
Canary.................................. 334
Hemp....................................434
Anise....................................13
Rape...................................   6
Mustard................................ 734

SAL  SODA.

SEEDS.

SODA.

Diamond Crystal.

 

 
 

“ 

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“ 

“ 

Warsaw.

100 3-lb. sacks..................... $2 40
2 25
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb. sacks.....................2 15
2 00
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases......................   1 50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
50
25
281b.  “ 
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
35
18
281b.  “ 
56 lb. dairy  bags...............  
75
56 lb. dairy  bags...............  
75
56 lb.  sacks.......................   27
Saginaw and Manistee. 
Common Fine  per bbl...... 
90
Church’s, Arm & Hammer.. .534
Dwight’s Cow........................534
Taylor’s................................ 534
DeLand’sCap  Sheaf............ 534
pure........................ 534
Golden Harvest....................5

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.

8ALERATU8.

“ 

SALT

SYRUPS.
Corn.

Pure Cane.

Barrels................................28
Half bbls.............................30
Amber.......................23 
5
Fancy drips...............28  @30
SWEET GOODS.
7
Ginger Snaps.............. 
Sugar Creams............  
834
Frosted Creams.........  
8
Graham Crackers......  
8
Oatmeal Crackers......  
8
SHOE  POLISH.
Jettlne, 1 doz. in  box............ 75

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

 

SUN CURED.

BASKET  FIRED.

F air............................  @17
Good............... 
  @20
Choice...........................24 @26
Choicest....................... 32 @34
D ust............................. 10 @12
F air............................  @17
Good..........................   @20
Choice...........................24 @26
Choicest....................... 32 @34
Dust............................. 10 @12
F air..............................18 @20
Choice.........................  @25
Choicest.................  
@35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40 
Common to fair........... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest— 50  @65
Choicest fancy............ 75  @85
Common to fair...........23  @26
Superior to  fine...........28  @30
Fine to choicest...........45  @55
@26
Commonto  fair..........23
@35
Superior to fine...........30
YOUNG HYSON.
@26
Commonto fair..........18
@40
Superior to  fine..........30

GUNPOWDER.

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG.

18

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

. 

_ 

“ 

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Plug.

Pails unless otherwise noted.
60
Hiawatha................... 
Sweet Cuba...............  
34
McGinty....................  
24
34 bbls.........  
22
Little  Darling........... 
22
34 bbl.. 
20
1791............................ 
20
19
1891, 34  bbls...............  
Valley  City................ 
33
Dandy Jim.................  
27
_ 
40
Searhead.................... 
Joker......................... 
24
Zero............................ 
22
L. & W........................ 
26
28
Here It Is................... 
Old Style....................  
31
Old  Honesty.............  
40
33
Jolly Tar....................  
Hiawatha...................  
37
Valley City................ 
34
Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.'s  Brands.
Something Good.................... 38
Toss Up.................................. 26
Out of Sight........................... 25
Boss....................................  1234
Colonel’s Choice..................13
Warpath..............................14
Banner................................14
King Bee..............................20
Kiln Dried...........................17
Nigger Head........................23
Honey Dew.........................24
Gold  Block......................... 28
Peerless............................... 24
Rob  Roy..............................24
Uncle Sam................  
28
Tom and Jerry.....................25
Brier Pipe............................ 30
Yum  Yum...........................32
Red Clover...........................32
Navy....................................32
Handmade...........................40
Frog....................................33
40 gr.......................................8
50  gr.....................................

Smoking.

VINEGAR.

 

SI for barrel.
WET  MUSTARD.

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PAPER.

TWINES.

“  2  Tt

Bulk, per gal  ................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  175 
teast—Compressed.
Tin foil cakes, per doz...........15
Baker’s, per  lb....................... 30
PA PER *  WOODEN WA RE
Straw 
..........................
Rock falls.......................
Rag sugar.............................234
Hardware....................... ....234
Bakers............................ ....234
Dry  Goods..................
@6
Jute Manilla............... @6
Red  Express  N o .l........
No. 2........
48 Cotton......................... , .
Cotton, No. 1.................. ...20
...18
Sea  Island, assorted.........  35
...18
No. 5 Hemp...................
No. 6  “ ............................
...17
WOODENWARE.
Tubs, No. 1..................... ..  7 00
“  No. 2..................... ...  6 00
“  No. 3..................... ...  5 00
1  50
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop..
No. 1,  three-hoop—   1  75 
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes —  
50
Bowls, 11 inch...................   1  00
....................  1  25
13  “ 
“ 
15  “ 
......................2 00
“ 
17  “  ...........  
“ 
2 75
assorted, 17s and  19s 2 50 
“ 
“  15s, 17b and 19s 2 75
“ 
Baskets, market.................   35
“ 
shipping  bushel..  1  15 
..  1  25
“ 
full  hoop  “ 
“  bushel...................   1  50
“ willow cl’ths, No.l 
5 75
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“  No.2 
“  N0.3 
“  No.l 3 50
“  No.2 
“  No.3 

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

splint 

6 25
7 25
4 25
5 00

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MEAL.

PLOUR.

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
92
No. 1 White (58 lb. test)
92
No. 1 Red (601b. test)
Bolted......................................... .  1  75
Granulated..................... .  2 00
Straight, In  sacks.......... .  5 20
.  5 40
“  barrels........
“ 
.  6 20
Patent 
“  sacks.........
.  6 40
“  barrels........
“ 
.  2 40
Graham  “  sacks........
......... .  2 40
Rye 
“ 
MILLSTUFFS.
Bran................................ .  17 00
Screenings....................
Middlings....................... .  19 00
.  24 00
Mixed F~eed..................
.  24 50
Coarse meal..........................
. . .   80
Milling.....................................
F eed ...........................................
Brewers, per  100  lbs — ...1  25
. . .   65
Feed, per  bu........................
.  65
Small  lots..............................
.  63
Car 
“  ...............................
Small  lots..............................
.  ..4 6
...44
Car 
No. 1........................................... . .   16 OQ
NO.2.................................   14 00

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BARLEY.

CORN.

OATS.

HAY.

RYE.

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

BUTS  FOR  ADVERTISING.

THE  A  B  C  OF  MONEY.

BT  ANDBEW  CARNEGIE.

[CONTINUED  FROM  LAST  WEEK.l

Although  one  would  think  that  in 
coined metal  pieces we had  reached per­
fection,  and  that  with  these the  masses 
of the people could not be cheated out of 
what  is  so  essential to their  well-being, 
—“ honest  money,”—yet  one  way  was 
fonnd to defraud  the  people  even  when 
such  coin  was  used.  The  coins  have 
sometimes been “debased” by needy gov­
ernments after  exhausting wars or pesti­
lence,  when  countries  were  really  too 
poor  or  too  weak  to  recover  from their 
misfortunes.  A  coin  is  called  a  “de­
based”  coin  when  it  does  not  possess 
metal  enough to bring  in  the open  mar­
ket  the sum  stamped upon  the coin  by 
the  government.  There  is  nothing new 
about this  practice,  which always cheats 
the masses. 
It  is  very,  very  old.  Five 
hundred  and  seventy-four  years  before 
Christ the Greeks  debased their  coinage. 
The Roman emperors debased theirs often 
when  in  desperate  straits.  England de­
based her’s in the year 1,300.  The Scotch 
coin was once so debased that one  dollar 
was worth only twelve cents.  The Irish, 
the French,  German and Spanish govern­
ments  have ail  tried  debased  coin when 
they could  wring no more  taxes directly 
out of  their people,  and had  therefore to 
get more money from  them indirectly.  It 
was always the last resort to “debase” the 
coinage.  These instances happened long 
ago.  Nations  of  the  first  rank  in  our 
day do  not  fall so low. 
I  must pause to 
make one exception to this statement.  1 
bow  my head in shame as 1 write it—the 
republic of the United States.  Every one 
of  its silver  dollars is a “debased coin.” 
When  a  government  issues  “ debased 
coin,”  it takes leave of all that experience I 
has  proved  to  be  sound  in  regard  to 
money.  Sound finance  requires the gov­
ernment  only to certify to the real  value 
possessed  by each  coin  issued  from  its 
mints,  so  that  the  people  may  not  be 
cheated.  Every  time  the  government 
stamps  the  words  “One  Dollar”  upon 
371K  grains  of  silver,  it  stamps  a  lie; 
disgraceful,  but  alas!  too  true,  for  the 
silver  in it is worth  to-day  not a dollar, 
but only seventy-eight cents.

Another  delusion  about  money  has 
often  led  nations  into  trouble—the idea 
that a government  could “make  money” 
simply by stamping  certain  words  upon 
pieces of  paper,  just as  any of  you  can 
“make  money” by writing  a  note prom­
ising to pay  one  hundred  dollars  on de­
mand.  But you  know that when  you do 
that, you  are  not  making  “money” but 
making  a “debt” ;  so is  any  government 
that issues its promise to pay.  And there 
is this about  both the individual  and the 
government  who  take  to  issuing  such 
notes  upon a large  scale: 
they  seldom 
pay them.  The  French  did this  during 
their  Revolution, and  more  recently the 
Confederate  States “made  money” at  a 
great  pace,  and  issued  bonds which  are 
now  scarcely worth  the  paper  they are 
printed upon.  Every experiment of  this 
kind  has  proved  that  there  can  be  no 
money  “made”  where  there is not  value 
behind it.  Our own country issued bonds 
and the  people of  other  nations  bought 
them  for  forty  cents  upon  the  dollar, 
although  they  bore and  paid  interest at 
6 per cent,  in gold,  so great  was the  fear 
that even the bonds of this country would 
not  prove an exception to the usual  fate 
of  such  securities  issued  during  trying 
times.  Only  because  the  government 
kept  strict  faith  and  paid  the  interest 
and principal of these bonds in gold,  and 
never in silver or in any depreciated cur­
rency,  has  the  value  of  its  bonds  ad­
vanced,  and  the  credit  of  the  United 
States  become the highest  in  the world, 
exceeding  that  even  of  Great  Britain. 
There  has  never  been  a better  illustra­
tion  of  the  truth  that  in  dealing  with 
“money,” as in everything else,  “honesty 
is the best policy.”  Our government also 
issued  some  notes  known  as  “green­
backs.”  But the wise  men who did this 
took care  to  provide a fund of  one  hun­
dred  millions of  dollars  in  gold  to  re­
deem  them,  so  that  any  man  having  a 
greenback can march to the treasury and 
receive for it one dollar in gold.
But I am now to tell you another qual­
ity which  this basis  article of  metal has

proved  itself  to  possess,  which  you will 
find  it  very  difficult  to  believe.  The 
whole world  has  such  confidence  in  its 
fixity of  value that  there has  been built 
upon  it,  as  upon  a  sure  foundation,  a 
tower of  “credit”  so  high,  so  vast, that 
all  the  silver  and  gold  in  the  United 
States,  and all  the greenbacks and  notes 
issued  by the  government, only  perform 
8  per  cent,  of  the  exchanges  of  the 
country.  Go  into any  bank, trust  com­
pany,  mill,  factory, store,  place of  busi­
ness, and you will find that for every one 
hundred  thousand  dollars  of  business 
transacted,  only  about  eight  thousand 
dollars of “money*’ is used, and this only 
for  petty  purchases  and  payments. 
Ninety-two  per  cent,  of  the  business  is 
done  with  little  bits  of  paper—checks, 
drafts.  Upon this  basis also rest all the 
government  bonds,  all  State, county and 
city bonds, and the thousands of millions 
of  bonds the  sale of  which  has  enabled 
our  great  railway  systems  to  be  built, 
and also the thousands of millions of the 
earnings of  the masses  deposited in  sav­
ings  banks,  which  have  been  lent  by 
these banks to various parties, and which 
must  be  returned  in  “good  money”  or 
the poor  depositors’ savings will  be par­
tially or wholly lost.
The  business  and  exchanges  of  the 
country, 
therefore,  are  not  done  now 
with  “money”—with  the  article  itself. 
Just as in former  days the articles them­
selves  ceased  to  be  exchanged,  and  a 
metal  called “money”  was  used to effect 
the exchanges, so to-day the  metal  itself 
—the  “money” —is no longer used.  The 
check  or  draft  of  the  buyer of  articles 
upon a store of  gold  deposited in a bank 
—a little bit of  paper—is all that  passes 
between the buyer and the  seller.  Why 
is this bit of  paper taken by the seller or 
the  one  to  whom  there  is  a debt  due? 
Because the  taker is confident that if  he 
really needed  the  article  itself  that  it 
calls for—the gold—he  could get it.  He 
is  confident  also  that  he will  not  need 
the article itself, and why?  Because for 
what  he wishes to buy  the  seller or any 
man  whom he owes  will take  his check, 
a  similar  little  bit  of  paper,  instead of 
gold  itself;  and  then,  most  vital of  all, 
every  one  is  confident  that  the  basis- 
article  cannot  change  in  value. 
For 
remember it would be almost as bad if  it 
rose  in value  as if  it  fell;  steadiness  bf 
value  being  one  essential  quality 
in 
“money” for  the  masses of  the  people.
therefore,  people  clamor  for 
more  “money”  to be put in circulation— 
that is,  for  more of  the article which we 
use  to  effect  an  exchange  of  articles— 
you  see  that  more  “money”  is  not  so 
much  what is needed.  Nobody who  has 
had  wheat  or  tobacco or any  article  to 
sell has ever found  any trouble for want 
of  “money” in the hands of  the buyer to 
effect  the  exchange.  We  had  a  very 
severe financial disturbance in this coun­
try only three months  ago.  “Money,” it 
was said;  could  not be had  for  business 
purposes;  but it was  not the metal itself 
that  was  lacking,  but  “credit,”  confi­
dence,  for  upon  that,  as you  have seen, 
all  business  is  done  except small  pur­
chases and  payments which can scarcely 
be  called “ business”  at  all.  To-day the 
business  man  cannot  walk  the  street 
without being approached by people beg­
ging  him  to  take  this “credit”  at  very 
low  rates of  interest;  at 2 per  cent, per 
annum  “money”  (credit)  can be had day 
by day.  There has been no considerable 
difference in  the  amount of  “money”  in 
existence during the ninety days.  There 
was about  as  much  money  in  the coun­
try in January as there is  in  March. 
It 
was not  the  want  of  money,  then,  that 
caused the trouble.  The foundation had 
been shaken  upon which stood  the nine­
ty-two  thousand  of  every  one  hundred 
thousand dollars of business.  The metal 
itself  and  notes—real  “money,”  as  we 
have seen—only apply  to the eight thou­
sand dollars.  Here comes the gravest of 
all dangers in  tampering with the  basis. 
You shake  directly the foundation  upon 
which  rests 92  per cent, of  all the  busi­
ness  exchanges  of  the  country—confi­
dence, credit—and  indirectly the trifling 
8 per  cent  as  well  which  is  transacted 
by the exchange of the metal itself or by 
government notes; for the  standard arti, 
cle is the foundation  of every  exchange- 
both  the  ninety-two  thousand  and  the

When, 

eight thousand dollars.  So,  you  see,  if 
that be  undermined,  the vast  structure, 
comprising  all  business,  built  upon  it, 
must totter.
I have finished telling you about “mon­
ey.”  We come now to apply the facts to 
the present  situation, and here we  enter 
at once  upon  the  silver  question;  and  I 
am  sure you  are  all  attention, for  it  is 
the  most pressing  of  all  questions  now 
before you.  You see that the race,  in its 
progress,  has  used  various  articles  as 
“ money,”  and  discarded  them  when 
better  articles  were  found,  and  that  it 
has finally reached coined pieces  of  val­
uable metal as  the  most  perfect article. 
Only  two  metals  are  used  among  civi­
lized  nations  as  the  standard  metal— 
gold in some countries,  silver in  others. 
No  country  can  have  two  standards. 
Centuries ago silver  was adopted  as  the 
standard in China,  India  and Japan,  and 
more recently in the  South American re­
publics;  and  it  still  is  the  standard  in 
these countries.  When  adopted it was a 
wise  choice;  silver  had  nearly  doubled 
its present value,  and  was  then  steady, 
and it answered all the needs  of  a  rural 
people.
The  principle  nations  of  Europe  and 
our own country,  being further advanced 
and having much  greater business trans­
actions,  found the  necessity for using as 
a standard  a  more  valuable  metal  than 
silver,  and gold was  adopted;  but as  sil­
ver was used as money  in many parts  of 
the world as  the  standard,  and  used  in 
these  gold-basis  countries  for  “small 
change,” it  was  advisable for  these  na­
tions  to  agree  upon  the  value  in  gold 
which would be accorded  to  silver,  and 
this  was  fixed  at  fifteen  and  one-half 
ounces of silver  to one  of  gold.  Please 
note that this was then as nearly as possi­
ble the market  value of silver as a metal 
compared with gold as a metal.  The na­
tions  did  not  attempt  to  give  to  silver 
any fictitious  value,  but only  its own in­
herent value.  And,  more than this, each 
of these nations  agreed,  when the agree­
ment came  to  an  end,  to redeem all  the 
silver coin it  had  issued  in  gold  at  the 
value fixed.  Everything  went  well  un­
der  this  arrangement  for  a  long  time. 
The more  advanced  nations  were  upon 
a  gold basis,  the  less  advanced  nations 
upon a silver basis,  and both were equal­
ly well served.
What, then,  has raised this silver ques­
tion  which  everybody 
is  discussing? 
Just this fact: that while the supply, and 
therefore  the  value,  of  gold  remained 
about the same, great  deposits  of  silver 
were  discovered,  wonderful 
improve­
ments  made  in  mining  machinery,  and 
still  more  wonderful  in  the  machinery 
for  refining  silver ore; and  as more  and 
more silver was produced at less cost, its 
value naturally fell  more and more;  one 
ounce  of  it,  worth $1.33  in  1872, being 
worth  to-day  only  $1.04. 
It  has  fallen 
as  low  as  93  cents. 
It  has  danced  up 
and down; it has lost fixity of value.  To 
all  countries  upon  a  silver  basis  there 
have come confusion and disaster in con­
sequence.  The  question  in  India,  with 
its two hundred and  eighty-five  millions 
of people,  is  most  serious;  and  you  see 
how our  South  American  republics  are 
troubled  from  this  fall in  the  value  of 
their basis-article,  by which all other ar­
ticles are measured.  Even the European 
nations which are upon a gold  basis  are 
troubled  by  this  “silver  question,”  for 
under 
to  rate  fifteen 
and a half ounces of  silver  as  worth  an 
ounce  of  gold  some  of  these  nations 
have  had  enormous  amounts  of  silver 
thrust upon them.  Most  of  them  saw 
what was  coming  many  years  ago,  and 
ceased to increase their silver; some  dis­
posed of a great deal of  what  they  had, 
and placed themselves strictly  upon  the 
gold basis;  but  there  are  still  in  Euro­
pean  countries  eleven  hundred millions 
of dollars of silver legal-tender coins, not 
counting  the  amount  of  “token”  silver 
money  used for small change. 
It  is  not 
safe  to  say  that  less  than  twenty-five 
ounces of it would be found equal to one 
ounce  of gold if  put in  the  market,  in­
stead  of  the  fifteen-and-a-half  ounce 
basis  upon  which  these  countries  have 
obtained it.
All European countries have been, and 
are still, trying hard to escape  from  sil­
those  comprising  the
ver. 

the  agreement 

In  1878, 

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J, LUSTIG, State Agent.

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15

RUILT  FOR  BUSINESS !

silver. 

legal-tender 

Latin  Union,  which  fixed  the  price  of 
silver—France,  Belgium,  Italy,  Switzer­
land  and  Greece—finally  closed 
their 
mints  to 
Nor­
way,  Sweden and  Denmark  in  1873  and 
1875 ran out from  under  the  silver  ava­
lanche,  and  now  stand  firmly  upon  a 
gold basis.  Holland  also,  in  1875,  took 
its  stand  practically  upon  gold.  Aus­
tria-Hungary  has not coined silver since 
1879, except a small amount  of  ‘‘Levant 
silver thalers”  for  a  special  trade  pur­
pose.  Even  half-civilized  Russia  took 
the alarm,  and ran as  fast  as  she  could 
out of  the silver danger,  for in  1876  she 
shut her mints  to the further coinage  of 
the  dangerous metal, except  such  small 
amounts as China wished to take prompt­
ly  from  her.  So you  see  that all  those 
countries that have tried silver and found 
out  the evils  which it  produces, and  its 
dangers,  have been,  and are  now,  using 
every means to rid themselves of it.  For 
thirteen  years  it  has  been  cast  out  of 
their  mints, for during this  long  period 
no  full  legal-tender  silver  coins  have 
been issued in  Europe.  Only our repub­
lic,  among  nations,  is  boldly  plunging 
deeper and  deeper  into  the  dangers  of 
silver coinage.  When we  have  had  the 
experience of  older nations as  to its  op­
erations,  we  may  and,  1  think,  surely 
will wish, like them to retrace  our steps 
when it is too late.  So,  you see, there is 
trouble  wherever there is silver.  What 
to do with  their silver,  which has  fallen 
so low in value,  is a  serious  problem  in 
all these countries. 
It hangs like a dark 
cloud over their future.
So much has silver fallen  in  all  parts 
of  the  world and  disturbed  everything 
that several conferences have been called 
by  the nations  in recent  years, to which 
the  United  States  has  sent  delegates. 
The object of these was to see whether the 
chief  commercial nations could not agree 
again  upon a  new gold value  for  silver. 
But the conclusion has always been  that 
it was  too dangerous  to attempt to  fix  a 
new  value  for  silver  until  it  could  be 
more clearly seen what the future was to 
show  about  its  supply  and  value,  for 
perhaps it might fall so low that twenty- 
five or thirty  ounces  of it  would  not  be 
worth  more than  an  ounce  of  gold;  no 
one can tell.  As our country has already 
gone so  far  into  the  danger  as  to  have 
four hundred and eighty-two  millions of 
dollars in  depreciated silver,  we  had  to 
confer with our neighbors in misfortune, 
and  appear as  creditors  have to  appear 
at  meetings  held  to  try  to  support  the 
bad business of a  failing debtor.
Perhaps  you  are  asking  yourselves 
why,  when I  spoke  of all the  European 
countries in  relation to silver,  I did not 
state the amount of silver held in reserve 
by  our  principal  rival,  Great  Britain 
Listen  one  moment,  and  then  ponder 
over the  reply.  Not one  dollar. France 
has no  less than  six  hundred  and  fifty 
millions of dollars in  silver in her bank 
but every dollar of Britain’s reserves are 
in the  one  steady,  unchangeable  basis- 
article—gold.  Wise  old  bird,  the  dear 
mother-land  sits  upon  her  perch,  whis­
tling  away  out of  all  danger  from this 
silver trouble.  She has made London the 
financial  center  of  the  world. 
If  any­
thing be bought or sold  in foreign lands, 
a  draft upon  London is  demanded;  be­
cause  every one  knows that,  come what 
may, it  will be  paid in the  best  article 
which  cannot  fall  in  value—gold.  No 
draft upon Paris or Vienna or New York 
for  wise  men.  Why?  Because 
the 
nations represented by  these  cities have 
become involved in  great possible losses 
by their  huge  piles  of silver,  and  may 
attempt  by  legislation  to  make  drafts 
payable  in that  metal,  which  fluctuates 
so in value.
I wish the people of  the United States 
would  watch  Britain  carefully.  She 
is keeping  her own counsel; she is treat­
ing the  silver-loaded  nations  with cool 
politeness in  the conferences,  which she 
graciously  condescends 
to  attend  only 
because  India,  over  which she  rules, is 
unfortunately  upon  a  silver  basis; if it 
were  not for  that, she  would  probably 
politely decline.  When they talk  about 
fixing a gold value upon  silver,  she says 
that she really does  not know  what she 
will  decide  upon in the  matter.  What 
she  is  praying  for  is  that  the  United 
States  will  continue to  go  deeper  and

deeper  into  silver  until  retreat  is  im­
possible,  and  she  will  keep  her  old 
policy,  which  has made  her  supreme in 
finance.  Her  only possible  rival is  not 
to be  found in  Europe,  but  here in  the 
United States.  What  a grand  thing for 
Britain if  our country  could be brought 
down  to  a  silver  basis—forced  to  re­
linquish  the  one  standard  which  can 
alone give  a -nation  front  rank  in  the 
financial world!  Silver  for the  republic, 
Gold  for  the  monarchy:  this  is  what 
Great Britain is hoping may come to pass, 
and what every American should resolve 
never shall. Governments may pass what 
laws they please about  silver: the  world 
heeds  them  not.  Every  business  tran­
saction  between  nations continues  to be 
based on gold  exclusively—nothing  but 
gold—and  will  so 
continue.  Britain 
knows this and acts accordingly.
1  think  I hear  you  ask  indignantly: 
How  came  our  country  to have  three 
hundred  and  twelve  millions of  silver 
dollars in its vaults, like France,  instead 
of having  its reserves  in  the sure  gold, 
like  our  rival,  Britain,  when,  like 
Britain,  we  have  gold  as  our  basis?” 
That  is  a  question  every  farmer  and 
every toiler should  ask,  and demand an 
answer  to,  from  his  representative  in 
Congress.  The  reason  is  easily  given. 
Here is the  history.  Silver, as  we have 
seen,  had fallen  in value,  and was likely 
to  fall  still  more.  European  nations 
were loaded  down  with many  hundreds 
of millions of dollars,  and all anxious to 
get  rid  of  it;  owners  of  silver  and  of 
silver mines were alarmed;  what was  to 
be done  to prop  the falling  metal?  Evi­
dently  the  government  was  the  only 
power  which could  undertake the  task; 
and  towards  that  end all  the  influence 
and  resources of  the silver  power  were 
bent—alas!  with  eminent  success;  for 
the masses of the people were represented 
as in favor of silver. 
If true,  they were 
going with the  speculators against their 
own  interests,  in  the  most  direct  way 
possible.
The first  act which aimed  to  give  by 
legislation  a value to silver  was  passed 
It required  our government  to 
in 1878. 
buy at least two million  ounces of silver 
every  month,  while  all  other  govern­
ments had stopped  coining it,  because it 
had become dangerously erratic in value.
The silver men insisted that these pur­
chases would  raise  its  value;  but  were 
It did not  advance  in 
they  right?  No. 
price.  What  was  to  be  done  then? 
“Ah!” said these silver-tongued  specula­
tors,  “the trouble is the  government has 
not gone  far  enough;  only  increase  the 
amount; let the government buy four and 
a half  million ounces per  month  of  our 
silver instead of  two million per  month, 
and this will  take all that the  country’s 
mines yield, and more, too, and so  silver 
must  advance  in  value.”  They  were 
right in stating that four  and a half mil­
lions per month  are more than  the total 
yield of the United  States  silver  mines; 
and then eight  to ten  millions  of  silver 
are taken and  used every year  for  other 
purposes 
into  “money,” 
leaving not more than, say, four millions 
per  month  for  coinage.  Many  people 
were persuaded that  if  the  government 
bought  so  much  silver  per  month  the 
value of silver must advance.  The price 
did advance,  for many  of these mistaken 
people bought it upon speculation before 
the bill passed.  Silver  rose  from  96  to 
121—almost to its old rate in  gold.
But what has been the result since the 
passage of the new bill?  The answer is 
found in the  quotation for silver  to-day, 
It is back  from  121  to  97,  and  here  we 
are  again.  So,  instead  of  being  free 
from the silver trouble, as Britain is and 
we  should have  been,  these  men  have 
succeeded in unloading upon the govern 
ment already three  hundred  and  ninety 
million of dollars of  their silver,  and we 
are getting almost as badly off as France 
but  with  this  difference:  France  and 
other nations  prudently  stopped  adding 
to their burdens  of silver  thirteen  years 
ago, while our  government  is  adding  to 
its  store  four  and  one-half  millions  of 
ounces  every  month,  costing  a  little 
more than that amount  of  dollars.  The 
United  States  is  trying  to  ignore  the 
changed position  of silver,  and  make  it 
equal to  gold,  against  the  judgment  of 
all other first-class nations.  To succeed, 
we shall have to buy not only what our own

than  coining 

«

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 
Do you  not  want  pay for all  the  small  items  that go  out of  your  store,  which 

“patching up” pass-book accounts?
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?
enterprising merchants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the

A new era  dawns, and  with it new  commodities for its  new demands;  and  all 

Tradesman  or  Superior  Coupons,

COUPON  BOOK  vs. PASS  BOOK.

We beg leave to call  your  attention to 
our coupon book and ask you to carefully 
consider  its  merits. 
It takes  the  place 
of  the  pass  book  which  you  now hand 
your customer and ask him to bring each 
time  he  buys  anything,  that  you  may 
enter  the  article  and  price  in  it.  You 
know  from  experience that  many times 
the  customer  does  not  bring the  book, 
and,  as  a  result,  you  have  to  eharge 
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,  you have all  the 
advantages of both  the  cash  and  credit 
systems and none  of  the  disadvantages 
of either.  The coupons  taken  in. being 
put in t o   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

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

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

mines produce,  but a great  deal of  what 
all  other mines produce  throughout  the 
world, 
the  total  yield  of  silver  being 
enough  to make one  hundred and  sixty- 
eight millions of our  silver dollars every 
year; and then  we must, in  addition,  be 
prepared to buy the  eleven hundred mil­
lions of dollars’  worth  with which Euro­
pean governments  are now loaded down, 
and which they are so anxious to sell.
So far from the government  purchases 
of silver having raised its value, the gov­
ernment could  not to-day  sell  the  three 
hundred and thirteen millions of dollars’ 
worth in its  vaults without  losing  some 
millions  upon the price  it  has  paid  the 
silver-owners for it.  You will  scarcely 
believe that the accounts of the  treasury 
state that  the government  has  made,  so 
far, sixty-seven  millions  of  profit  upon 
its silver purchases.  This is claimed be­
cause for the  amount  of  silver put  in  a 
dollar it has paid only about eighty cents.
All this “profit” is fictitious.  You see, 
the nation has been led into very  foolish 
purchases  of  silver.  Four  and  a  half 
millions  of  your  earnings  are 
taken 
through  taxes every month, not  for  the 
constitutional  purposes  of  government, 
but in an effort to bolster  up a  metal  by 
paying  prices  for  it  far  higher  than  it 
otherwise  would  command.  Your  gov­
ernment is being used as a tool to  enrich 
the  owners  of  silver  and  silver mines. 
This  is  bad,  indeed,  but  hardly  worth 
mentioning compared  with the danger of 
panic  and  disaster  it  brings  with  it 
through the  probable banishment  of  the 
steady gold basis and the introduction of 
the unsteady basis of silver.
The  republic  had  the  disgrace  of 
slavery,  and  abolished  it.  Until  this 
year it was disgraced  in the  eyes  of  the 
world because it  had  no  law  which  se­
cured to others than  its own citizens the 
right to their literary productions.  That 
disgrace has  passed away also; but there 
has come upon it the disgrace of “debased 
coinage.”  The great republic issues dis­
honest coin,  and it  is the only  nation  in 
the world which does so, except  Mexico, 
which  still  coins  a  little  silver.  But 
while the disgrace  is upon  us,  the finan­
cial evils  of  “debased”  coinage  are  yet 
to  come;  for,  although  the  government 
issues debased  coin,  it agrees  to  receive 
it as  worth a dollar in payment of duties 
and taxes,  and makes it legal tender, and 
so it passes  from  hand to  hand  for  the 
present as  worth  dollars. 
In  this  way 
the government  has been  able  so  far  to 
prevent  its  depreciation.  How  long  it 
can continue issuing four and a half mil­
lions more of these notes or  coins  every 
month and keep  them equal  to  gold  no­
body can tell.  But  one  thing  is  clear: 
ultimately  the  load  must  become  too 
heavy,  and,  unless silver rises  in  value, 
or enough is put  into the dollars  to  rep­
resent  their  value  in  gold,  or  the  pur­
chase  of  silver  by  the  government  is 
stopped,  we  must  sooner  or  later  fall 
from the  gold  basis  to  the  condition of 
the Argentine and other South American 
republics.
This is  how  these  silver  dollars  will 
act which have  not metal  enough to  sell 
for dollars when the world begins to lose 
confidence in the  ability  of  the  govern­
ments issuing them to  pay gold for them 
when asked.  Suppose a number  of  you 
had decided to carry a huge log from the 
woods, and you all got under,  and bend­
ing  your  necks,  took  its  weight  upon 
your shoulders,  and  then  some  doubted 
whether you really could  stagger on  un­
der the load; and  suppose  two  or  three 
of  you,  after  casting  timid  glances  at 
each other, concluded you had better  get 
from under: what would  be  the  result? 
The  lack of  confidence  would  probably 
result in killing those  who  were  foolish 
enough  to remain. 
It  is  just  so  with 
this delicate  question of the  measure  of 
values.  A  few  speculators  or  “gold- 
bugs” will resolve that,  come what may, 
they will make themselves  safe  and  get 
from under.

[to be continued.]

A n  O bliging  E m ployer.

Applicant—Of course  I don’t ask for a 
partnership yet,  but  give  me a  position 
in which I will  be sure  of an  early  rise.
Employer—All  right;  I’ll  make  you 
janitor of the  building.  You  will  open 
the doors at 4 a.  m.

THE “ EQUALITY” PLA N .

A   N e w  W rinkle in   th e  H and ling  o f R e­

fin ed S u gar.

From the New York Daily Commercial Bulletin.

The latest wrinkle in the handling of re­
fined  sugars is  the  adoption  of what is 
termed the “equality”  plan by wholesale 
grocers at all  prominent  points in  New 
York  State 
and  New  Jersey.  The 
“equality”  plan is nothing more  or less 
than the  rebate system that  has been in 
force in this city and  immediate vicinity 
for some time past.  The arrangement as 
to  prices  is 
identical;  so  are  the  re­
gulations  as 
to  the  rebate  of  Jgc  per 
pound to jobbers  who adhere  faithfully 
to  the provisions of the  agreement.  The 
regular  freight  charge has  to  be added 
to  the  jobbers’  selling  prices, so  that 
there is  practically  no  competition  ex­
cept on even terms.  Hence the adoption 
of  “equality” as the term designating the 
new  agreement.  The  plan  went  into 
effect on  the 6th  instant  in  Clinton,  Es­
sex,  Warren,  Saratoga,  Washington, 
Albany,  Rensselaer,  Green,  Columbia, 
Sullivan, Ulster,  Dutchess,  Orange, Put­
nam,  Rockland,  Westchester and  Rich­
mond  counties  in  New  York;  Sussex, 
Passaic,  Bergen,  Morris,  Essex,  Hudson, 
Union  and  Somerset  counties  in  New 
Jersey.  All sugar  is sold  and  billed to 
the  respective  points  by the  American 
Sugar  Refining  Company at list  prices, 
plus freight,  and to each bill is  attached 
a certificate which  enables the  bearer to 
secure  the 
the 
official  prices have  not been cut.  Sales­
men  are  furnished with  a  schedule  of 
rates of freight to all the  various points, 
and in taking orders  make  precisely the 
same price  that  is fixed  by the  refiners 
for  the  various  localities. 
It is  under­
stood  that efforts  are making  to extend 
the system over a wider territory in time.

rebate  providing 

T w o L etters w h ich  E xn lain  T h em selves. 
Secretary  Matthews,  of  the  Michigan j
Commercial  Travelers’  Association,  has 
lately  received  the  following  letters  of 
acknowledgment:
Detroit, July 13—I am  instructed  by 
the widow of my brother, Sigmund Fech- 
heimer,  to acknowledge  receipt  of  your 
favor of the Gth instant,  enclosing check 
for §2,500  in  payment  of life  insurance, 
for  which,  in  behalf  of  the  widow  as 
well  as myself,  I beg to tender  you  and 
our  esteemed  Association  our  heartfelt 
thanks.
It  is  useless  for  me  to  make  special 
mention of the  many benefits derived  by 
the  existence  of 
the  members  since 
our Association,  which is naturally more 
appreciated  at the  time  of  death,  espe­
cially by those who derive its benefits.
My brother was one  of  the  first  mem­
bers,  having  joined  March  7,  1874,  up­
wards of seventeen years ago.  On look­
ing up the  records  and  receipts  for  as­
sessments  paid  by  him during his mem­
bership, I was  surprised that  the  entire 
amount paid was  only §337  in all, or  an 
average  of about  §19.80 per  year.  This 
I believe must  be acknowledged  by  any 
one to be the cheapest insurance that can 
possibly be expected and I would suggest 
to you,  as well as the Board of Trustees, 
to make known these excellent  statistics 
to all commercial travelers  and  business 
men within your  reach,  thereby  largely 
increasing its membership.

H. C. Fechheimer.

FROM  EDSON,  MOORE  &   CO.

D e t r o i t ,  July  14 — Enclosed  we  beg 
leave  to  hand  you  receipt  of  Mary  C. 
Elliot for §2,500,  covering the amouut of 
her claim against the Association as ben­
eficiary of Andrew Elliot, deceased.
We take this opportunity of commend­
ing the prompt and business-like methods 
of the Association, and,  in behalf of Mrs. 
Elliot,  we thank you personally for your 
in 
assistance  and  courteous  attention 
preparing the  proofs  and  looking  after 
the  other  details  required  under 
the 
rules of the Association.
Trusting that the Association may con­
tinue to enjoy the prosperity it justly de­
serves, we are 

Yours truly,

Edson,  Moore & Co.
Use Tradesman xo Superior Coupons.

Michigan (Tentral

“  The Niagara Falls Route.”

DEPART.  ABRITE
Detroit Express....................................6:30 am   10:00 p m
Mixed  ....................................................6:40 Am  4:30  pm
Day  Express........................................12:40 am   10:00 am
•Atlantic A  Pacific Express............. 11:16 pm   6:00 am
New York Express..............................6:40 p m 
1.20 p m
"uaucr.
All other daily except Sunday.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Express 
trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand Rapid 
Express to  and  from  Detroit.
Fred M. Briggs, Gen'l Agent, 86 Monroe St.
G. S. Hawkins, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Geo. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. 
O. W .Rugglbs.G. P.  &   T. Agent., Chicago.

t w m r m
Milwaukee
.^ railway

TIME  TABLE

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave  itNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 -No.  28
10 55pm
G’d  Rapids,  Lv  6 50am 1120am 3 45pm
12 37am
4 52pm
Tonia............Ar|  7 45am 11 25am
St.  Johns  . ..A r 1  8 28am 12 17am 5 40pm 1 55am
Owosso........ At |  915am 1 20pm 6 40pm 3 15am
E.  Saginaw.. Ar |1105am 3 00pm 8 45pm
Bay City...... A rili 55am 3 45pm 9 35pm
F li n t............A r|ll 10am 3 40pm 8 00pm 5 40am
Pt.  H uron...A r  3 05pm 6 00pm 10 30pm 7 35am
P ontiac........Ar  10 57am 305pm 8 55pm 5 50am
Detroit..........Ar 111 55am 4 05pm 9 50pm 7  0am

WESTWARD.

Trains Leave  ¡-No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13 tNo. 15
G’d Rapids,  Lv |  7 On am 1  00pm 5  10pm 10 30pm
G’d Haven,  Ar |  8 50am 2  15pm 6 15pm 11 30pm
6  45am G 45am
............
Milw’keeStr  “ 
1 6 00am
Chicago Str.  “  |  ..........

♦Daily. 

tDaily except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 p. in., 
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  Parler  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 ohn W. L o u d , Traffic Manager.
Ben F l e t c h e r , Trav. Pass. Agent.
J as.  Ca m p b e l l, City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

DEPART FOR

CHICAGO

JUNE  21,1891.
&  WEST  MICHIGAN  RY.
A. M. P.  M.  I  P. M. P.M.
tl0:00 tl:15 *11:35
Chicago.......................
tlO:00 tl:15  11:35
Indianapolis...............
tl0:0U tl:l5  *11:35 §6:30
Benton Harbor............
tl0:00 tl :15 *11:35 §6:30
St. Joseph....................
Traverse  City.............. +7:25 t5:25 *11:30
t9:00 tl:15|t  5:40 t6:30
Muskegon....................
t7:25 t5:25  ........
Manistee  ....................
t7:25
Ludington..................
t7:25 t5:25  .......
Big  Rapids..................
t9:00 tl :15 t   5:40 t6:30
Ottawa Beach..............
tWeek Days.  -Daily.  §Except Saturday.
1  A ,A A   A. M. has through chair car to Chlca- 
l v . w   go.  No extra charge for seats.
1.1   FT  P. M.  runs  through to Chicago  solid 
.
wi t h Wagner buffet car;  sea s  50 ets.
5 .O pr  P. M. has  through free  chair  car  to 
» ¿ id   Manistee,  via M.  & N. E. R. R.
■ .O pr  P. M. is solid  train  with Wagner pal- 
■ •Q A   P.  M.  has  Wagner  Sleeping  Car  to 
•O U   Traverse City.
6. 0 A   P.  M.  connects  at  St.  Joseph  with 
•DU  Graham & Morton’s steamers for Chi­

• O tl  ace sleeping  car  through to Chicago, 
and sleeper  to  Indianapolis via Ben­
ton Harbor.

cago.

DEPART  FOR

DETROIT,

JUNE  21,  1891.
Lansing & Northern R R
A. M. P. M. P. M.
t6:50 t l  :00 *6:25
t6:50 tl:00 *6:25
t6:50 tl :00 *6:25
t6:50 +1:00 *6:25
t7:05 t4:30
t7:05 t4:30
t7:05 t4:30

Detroit.......................................
Lansing...................................
Howell.......................................
Lowell.......................................
Alma. -  -,  ............ 
............
St.  Louis  ..................................
Saginaw  City......................
6«FTA  A  M. runs through to Detroit with par- 
»«Jv/  lor car;  scats 25  cents.
1.A A   P. M.  Has  through  Parlor  car  to  De- 
troit.  Seats, 25 cents.
-
6.QPC  P. M. runs through to Detroit  with par 
lor  car, seats  25  cents.
r 7 .A p r  A. M. has parlor  car  to  Saginaw, seats 
•  .v/eJ  25 cents.
For  tickets  and  information  apply  at  Union 
Ticket Office, 67 Monroe  street, or Union station.

Geo. DeHaven, Gen. Pass’r Agt.

«

CUTS for BOOM  EDITIONS

----OR----

PAMPHLETS

For the best work, at  reasonable prices, address 

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

G rand  Rapids  St Indiana.

In effect  July It, 1891.
TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

South. 

Arrive from  Leave going 
North.
7:06  am
7:30 a m
11:30 a m
4:30 p m
5:05  p m
10:30 p m
Train  arriving at 6:60  daily;  all  other  trains  dally 

For Saginaw A  Big Rapids......... 
For Traverse City A  Mackinaw  6:60 a m  
For  Traverse  City & Mackinaw  9:15 a m  
For Saginaw,......... ....................... 
For Traverse City........................   2:15 p m 
Fo ^Mackinaw City.......................  8:45 p m 
except Sunday.

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

Arrive from  Leave going 
South.
7:00 am
10:30 a m
2:00  p m
6:00 p m
10:30 p m
Train  leaving  for Cincinnati  and  Chicago  at  10:30 

North. 
For  Cincinnati.............................   6:00 a m  
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago...  10:20 a m 
From Big Rapids A  Saginaw....  11 -.50 a m
For Fort Wayne and the  E ast.. 
For  Ft. Wayne..............................  6:25 p m 
For Cincinnati and Chicago....  10:00 p m 
From Saginaw.................................10:40 p m
p m daily;  all other trains daily except Sunday.

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
7:00  am  
12:45 pm  
6:30  pm

From Muskegon—Arrive.

10:10 a m

SLEEPING  &  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

N O R T H —7 : 3 0   a m   t r a in .—Sleeping and  parlor 
chair  car.  Grand  Rapids to Mackinaw City. 
Parlor  chair car  Grand  Rapids to Traverse 
Olty.
1 1 : 3 0   a  m  t r a in .—Parlor chair  car  G’d 
Rapids to Mackinaw.
1 0 : 3 0   p   m   t r a in .—Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey.  Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids to  Mackinaw City.
S O U T H —7 : 0 0  a m  t r a in .—Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
1 0 : 3 0   a m   t r a in .—Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
1 0 : 3 0   p m   t r a in .—Sleeping  Car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Chicago.  Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.

C h icago v ia  G. R.  & I. R.  R.

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

10:30 a m  
3:55 p m  

2:00 pm  
9:00 p m  

10:30pm
6:50&m

10:30 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.
10:30 p m train daily, through Wagner  Sleeping Car. 

3:10pm  
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
8 50 p m 
train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

3.10  p m   through  Wagner  Parlor  Car.  10:10  p  m 

7:05&m 
2:15 p m 

10:10 pm
6:50 a|m

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, 67 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

C. L. LOCKWOOD,

T oledo,  A nn  A rbor  St  N orth  M ichigan 

R a ilw a y .

In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk  e 
offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  betwe  n 
Grand Rapids and Toledo.

VIA d ., l.  & K.

Lv. Grand Rapids a t.......7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t .................1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m.

VIA D., G. H.  A II.

Lv. Grand Rapids a t.......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 en n et t, General Pass. Agent, 
Toledo, Ohio.

EDMUND B .D im fi

THE  GREAT

44  GÄNÄL  ST.,

Grand Rapids,  ■  (lieh.
WA.JVTBO.

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

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

EARL  BROS.,

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

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  F ir s t   National  Bank,  Ohloago. 
Michigan Th adesman, Grand Rapids.

