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NO.  413

THE  PHANTOM  CAMP.

Idaho Territory during the sixties  was 
one of the most lawless regions on earth. 
The courts were  corrupt,  partisan,  use­
less for the ends of justice.  Murder and 
robbery went unpunished. 
In  a  single 
county  sixty  homicides  had  been  com­
mitted,  and not  one conviction had  been 
had.  The inevitable  result of this  state
of  things  was  the evolution of the  vig­
ilance committee.  The limit of popular 
patience  once  reached,  retribution  be­
gan,  and  was  pushed  with  a  firmness 
that intimidated the assassins and thieves 
who  had been  permitted  to  do  as  they 
pleased so long. 
It  was  in  the  fall  of 
1864 that a  packer named  Benton Jones, 
who had been  from Lewiston  to  Virgin­
ia,  Montana,  with  a  train-load  of  mer­
chandise,  and  had disposed of his  goods
at a satisfactory profit,  made  his  prepa­
rations for  the  return  journey,  having 
sold  some  of  his  pack-mules,  and  dis­
charged all  but two  of  his  men,  as  the 
train  was  going  home  unloaded,  save 
with 
the  gold-dust  which  represented 
the outward cargo.  It was the beginning 
of  October  when  Jones  set  out  on  his 
long journey, and in the mountains some 
snew  had already  fallen.  The  packer 
took a tent with him,  for the nights were 
getting  cold,  and  there  was  no  reason 
why he should expose himself more than 
was  unavoidable.  His  business  indeed 
was full of danger  and hardships,  but  it 
paid well,  and  he had  so  comfortable  a 
bank  account  that  he  was  justified  in 
some little luxury of travel.

The  little  party  proceeded  by  easy 
stages,  for  the  roads  were bad,  and  be­
came  worse  as  they  entered  the  Bitter 
Root  Mountains.  Nothing  of  interest 
occurred until  they had been  a week  on 
the  trail,  but  the  seventh day out  they 
overtook  a party  of three  men  with  six 
mules,  who appeared  to be bound in  the 
same direction  as themselves.  The  free 
masonry of the road soon  put  both  par­
ties in  possession of  salient  facts.  The 
strangers  were  miners  who  had  spent 
the summer in Montana, and, after doing 
fairly  well,  were  now  on  their  way  to 
Lewiston  to  winter and arrange  for  the 
spring campaign.  The  times were  such 
that  no man  could  gauge  the  character 
or  purpose  of  any  stranger.  Neither 
dress, demeanor,  language nor any of the 
conventional 
indications  held  good  in 
that wild  country.  The  roughest  man 
both  in  appearance  and  manner  might 
be  honest  as  the  day.  The  most  pol­
ished and  best-dressed  man  might  be  a 
highwayman,  gambler  or  murderer. 
It 
was  just  as  likely,  moreover,  that  the 
ruffianly  looking stranger would  not be­
lie his  appearance,  and,  in  short,  there 
was no way  by which any  one’s  charac­
ter  could  be  conjectured  in  advance  of 
actual  experience.  This,  however,  did 
not affect intercourse  appreciably.  The 
people  of Idaho in  those  days  were  ac­
customed,  as  they  would  have  said,  to 
“ take big chances;” and  they commonly 
took  hostages  of  Fortune  by  carrying 
navy revolvers at their belts,  so disposed 
that  they  could  be  grasped  and  used 
quickly,  for the one crowning argument,

then,  was  “getting  the  drop” on  an  op­
ponent.

Now the three miners who joined Ben­
ton Jones were neither better  nor  worse 
looking than their fellows,  nor was there 
anything  about them to  throw suspicion 
upon their story.  So Jones easily agreed 
to their  suggestion that  the  two  parties 
should  thenceforth  camp  and  inarch  to­
gether,  and  when  a  likely  camping- 
ground was reached  that afternoon, they 
all  halted, put  up  their  tents—for  the 
miners  also  had  one—lighted  one  big 
fire,  cooked  and  ate  their  supper,  and 
then sat sociably smoking  around it, and 
“swapping  yarns” until  it  was  time  to 
turn into  their blankets.  The  next  day 
was the  eighth out,  and  they  were  now 
well  in  the  mountains,  and  a  hundred 
and fifty miles from any settlement.  All 
day they climbed,  and the air was sharp. 
During  the  afternoon  they  entered  the 
region  where snow had fallen and lay on 
the  ground,  and  when  they  halted  for 
night it was upon a small plateau having 
a steep  precipice on its  left,  and  which 
was surrounded  on the other three  sides 
by higher and rocky  ground,  which shel­
tered it from the prevailing wind.  They 
were west of the divide and between  the 
Clearwater and  Bitter Root rivers.  The 
tents were  pitched near one of the rocky 
walls of the  plateau,  and after  a  hearty 
meal all hands  gathered about the  great 
fire,  upon  which  half  a  tree  had  been 
piled,  and began the usual indolent chat. 
When  they  halted  for  the  night 
the 
weather had  been fine and the sky clear, 
and  as they  prepared  supper  the  stars 
twinkled brightly  above them,  with that 
sharp glitter that betokens frost.  While 
they  smoked their  pipes,  however,  they 
became  aware  that  the  stars  could  no 
longer be seen;  that  the  sky had become 
rapidly overcast;  that darkness quite re­
markable for  its opacity  was- closing  in 
around  the little  circle  illuminated  by 
the fire.

Circumstances,  as  will  be  seen  later, 
so befell  that only  three  witneses  were 
to remain of what  happened during  this 
memorable night,  and of those three only 
Benton Jones,  the packer,  could  give  a 
perfectly  clear  and  connected  account. 
His  two  assistants,  however,  put  their 
hands  to an  affidavit  reciting  the  main 
facts,  and  though  in  the  nature  of  the 
case  no  instrument  of  the  kind  could 
have any  legal  value,  it  at least  demon­
strated the readiness of the men to affirm 
their belief  in what  they  thus  attested. 
The six  men in  Jones’  camp  were  scat­
tered about the fire,  some sitting on their 
saddles,  some  lounging  on blankets  and 
horse cloths. 
It was time to turn in,  but 
nobody  had  yet  done  so,  and  all  who 
compared  notes the next  day  agreed  in 
saying that a curious feeling as of expec­
tation affected every man at this stage of 
the dark  and  still  night.  Conversation 
had ceased somehow.  There  was  some­
thing  exciting  and  disturbing  in  the 
heavy air; something that made them  all 
thoughtful  and  mysteriously  uneasy. 
Neither Jones nor  his men could say  af­
terward  how  long  this  objectless  vigil 
lasted.  The only conclusion to be drawn

from their  statements would seem  to  be 
that  they fell  asleep,  or  at  least  dozed, 
for  when 
they  became  couscious  once 
more a great and  inexplicable change  in 
the scene  had taken  place.  The  night, 
indeed, did not seem  to  have grown  any 
lighter.  The  same  palpable  blackness 
seemed to enfold and almost press  down 
upon the camp.  The  fire behind  which 
they were sitting,  too,  had  burned down 
to a bed of glowing embers without flame. 
But right in  front of the  fire, and  about 
a hundred yards  away,  toward the other 
side of  the  plateau,  could  be  distinctly 
seen another camp,  also  with two  tents, 
and  also with  a great  fire in  front of it, 
while on the  outskirts could  be seen  the 
dark forms of the  stock,  and  about  the 
tents and the lire  the  figures  of  several 
men moved.

Still 

Benton Jones and those who were with 
him looked long at this  unexpected  and 
in many  ways this  extraordinary specta­
cle,  but  oddly  enough,  nobody  spoke, 
and nobody  offered to  do  what  in  such 
cases was always the first  thing thought 
of—namely,  to  step  over  to 
the  new 
camp and exchange  greetings  and  ques­
tions.  How it came to be borne in  upon 
them  none  could  say,  but  the  feeling 
was  there,  and  recognized,  that  some­
how this was not an ordinary scene upon 
which  they were looking.  The  idea  of 
anything  mysterious  did  not  occur  to 
them,  for they were all  intensely practi­
cal,  and even stolid men,  possessing  lit­
erally  no imagination  and  amenable  to 
no  superstitions. 
they  did  not 
speak to one another,  and by general but 
unconscious movement they had all risen 
from their seats and stood gazing  at  the 
camp opposite them.  And now a strange 
thing was  observed.  Though  it  was  so 
dark all about their  own fire that a  man 
who withdrew  two  yards  from  it  van­
ished, every  movement  of  those  in  the 
new camp could be perceived quite clear­
ly.  As the action  proceeded,  in  fact,  it 
almost appeared as though this  singular 
camp had an atmosphere  of  its  own—a 
lurid kind of atmosphere, which invested 
everything  with a  subdued  glare.  But 
if this was noticed, it was not commented 
upon.  The  spectators  were  too  deeply 
engrossed  to  exchange  remarks,  and  it 
was afterward  recalled  that  during  the 
whole  of  what  followed  no  word  was 
spoken in Benton Jones’ camp.

What  they  now  saw  was  this:  Two 
men approached  one another by the fire, 
and evidently talked for  some moments. 
Then one  picked up a  shot-gun  and  the 
other an ax,  and  they  walked  away  to 
where the stock  were  gathered.  Now, 
naturally,  these men should  have  disap­
peared  as  they  receded  from  the  fire­
light; but to the  surprise of  the  observ­
ers,  they remained in  full view; it  might 
almost  be  said  that  they  carried  their 
own light with  them,  for a  faint  bluish 
luminosity outlined ther forms.  As they 
drew near the  rocky wall of the plateau, 
the man with the gun  stooped low,  as  if 
to  examine  something.  As  he  did  so, 
the man with the ax stepped behind him, 
swung  his  weapon  high,  and  the  next 
moment all could hear  the peculiar sick-

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ening  crash  of  steel  against  flesh  and 
bone.  They were  witnessing  a murder, 
and yet no impulse  to rush forward  and 
prevent or revenge it fell upon them.  A 
shudder passed through  them,  and  they 
stood  motionless  and  silent  as  before. 
While they watched,  a  second man  with 
an ax crept  out of  the  brushwood  near 
where the man with the gun  had  fallen, 
and struck  the  prostrate  form  another 
heavy  blow.  Then  the  two  assassins, 
moving  softly, entered one  of the  tents. 
As they did so,  the walls of the  tent  be­
came,  in some unaccountable way, trans­
parent,  for two  sleeping figures could be 
seen upon the  ground  inside.  The  in­
truders took  their stations, one  by  each 
of the  sleepers,  raised  their  axes,  and 
two smashing sounds announced the suc­
cess of their dreadful work.  They  pro­
ceeded to the other  tent, inside of which 
could  now be  seen yet  two  more  sleep­
ers.  These, also,  were to be  killed,  but 
an  ax  slipped,  and  one  awoke  with  a 
scream  of pain  and  terror,  upon  which 
the bungling  murderer  dropped  his  ax, 
drew his  pistol,  and  shot his victim  and 
the fifth  man,  who, aroused  by his  com­
panion’s cry,  had tried to  rise.

The curious  unnatural light continued 
to expose  every  movement  of  the  mur­
derers, of whom it was  by this time  evi­
dent there were  four,  though three  only 
took  an  active  part  in  the  assassina­
tions,  and the  fourth seemed greatly agi­
tated  and  much  in  fear  of  his  bolder 
companions.  All the  living  men in  the 
doomed camp having  been thus disposed 
of, the  criminals  dragged the bodies  to­
gether,  stripped them  carefully of what­
ever  might  help  to  identification,. and 
then  rolling  them  in  gunny-sacks  and 
pieces of  canvass, carried  them,  one  by 
one,  to the  precipitous side  of  the  plat­
eau and threw them over the edge.  This 
done,  the murderers built a huge fire and 
into it  they  piled  all  the  evidences  of 
their crime.  The tents, the clothing  the 
victims,  their  saddles,  harness,  equip­
ments of every kind were burned; and so 
careful  were 
the  operators  that  they 
raked the ashes for every scrap of metal, 
put all  these relics  into  a  bag  and  hid 
the receptacle under  a log on the  moun­
tain-side,  far  from  the  camp. 
In  all 
they did, however,  their every movement 
could  be  followed  by  those  who  were 
watching them:  and  in  the  precise  and 
mechanical  way  in  which  every  detail 
was gone through, perhaps more sophisti­
cated observers would have  been  struck 
with the  strange  suggestion  of  a  stage 
representation  by  actors  who  had  so 
often  repeated the  same piece as to  per­
form it almost unconsciously.

How long this weird  spectacle  contin­
ued  neither Benton Jones  nor  his  com­
panions  could  ever  determine,  for  it 
ended,  so far  as they were concerned,  in 
as singular a  manner  as  it  had  begun. 
At  one  moment  they  saw  before  them 
the  huge  fire,  canopied  with  clouds  of 
black smoke and the sharply outlined dark 
figures  of  the  murderers  flitting  about 
it, throwing  on fresh fuel and  thrusting 
into  the heart of  the  blaze  the  various 
articles  they  were  bent  upon  destroy­
ing  wholly.  Then  suddenly  the  scene 
vanished; the pitch-black night closed  in 
upon  them all  around as if a heavy  cur­
tain had been drawn, and simultaneously 
a sense of exhaustion  and an overpower­
ing drowsiness  caused them one  and  all 
to  drop where  they  had  been  standing 
and to sink  into a  profound,  dreamless 
sleep.  Benton  Jones  was,  as  he  then

their 

thought, the  first  to  awake;  but  to  his 
surprise,  when  he  opened  his  eyes  the 
sun was already two  hours high,  the day 
was bright and  clear,  and the  camp-fire, 
which  had  burned  down ‘when  he  last 
noticed  it,  had  been  freshly  made  up. 
Rubbing  his  still  heavy  eyelids,  he 
looked around,  and  then  first  perceived 
that his  own  tent  alone  was  standing. 
He roused his men,  and  investigation  at 
once showed that the three  miners  were 
gone.  They  had  struck 
tent, 
packed their  mules,  made  up  the  fire, 
cooked their breakfast  and then  silently 
and secretly taken  themselves off.  This 
event would  have been  puzzling enough 
had  not  the  memory  of  the  past  night 
overshadowed  ail  minor  incidents.  Of 
the  second  camp,  whose  terrible  drama 
they had witnessed so vividly,  not  a ves­
tige or  token could be  seen.  The  snow 
lay  over  the  whole  plateau  some  two 
inches deep,  and save where  Jones’  own 
stock  had  trodden  it,  the  surface  was 
still virgin.  Not an indication was to be 
seen of any other  human  presence  than 
their own.  No  dark  patch  on  the  un­
sullied covering of the earth marked  the 
site of  the  great  fire  or  the  position  of 
the two tents.  No stain on rock or shrub 
chronicled the  awful  crimes  which  had 
been committed  under  their  eyes  but  a 
few  hours  before.  Strange  as  all  this 
was,  however,  it did not greatly  impress 
the men,  for they had  been sensibleTrom 
the beginning  that what  they  had  seen 
was in  some way out  of the common  or­
der, and nothing showed this more clear­
ly  than  the  absence  of  any  disposition 
among  them to  interfere  in  the  tragedy 
while it  was being enacted.

Of course,  they  talked of nothing  else 
all the rest of the way to  Lewiston,  and, 
of course,  when they  arrived there  they 
were not slow  in  relating  their  experi­
ence.  They were telling that story in  a 
saloon  to  an  interested  crowd,  when  a 
veteran  packer  asked  what  day  of  the 
month and at what part of the route they 
had  seen  these things.  They  told  him. 
The date  was  the  eleventh  of  October, 
and the  place they  described,  giving  its 
bearings as well as they could.

“Just as I thought!”  muttered  the  old 
man  half  to himself.  Then,  raising  his 
voice,  he  said,  solemnly:  “Boys,  one 
year  ago  on  the  eleventh  of  October, 
1863,  Floyd  Magruder  and  four  other 
men  were  murdered  on  that  very  plat­
eau,  and  you  all  remember  how 
last 
March Doc Howard,  Lavery  and  Romain 
were hanged for  that murder right  here 
in this town.”

And so it was.  The  murder  of  Floyd 
Magruder was  one  of the most atrocious 
crimes  ever  perpetrated  in  the  region. 
Magruder was a packer  and  trader  who 
had accumulated fourteen thousand  dol­
lars  in  gold-dust,  and  was  returning 
with  it  to  Lewiston.  Doc  Howard,  an 
educated  scoundrel,  learned of this,  and 
devised  a plot  to  obtain  the  gold.  He 
and  his  accomplices,  Lavery,  Romain 
and a man  named  Page,  wormed  them­
selves into Magruder’s confidence so suc­
cessfully that  he took them  into his  em­
ploy, and on his homeward journey  they 
accompanied  him  as  trusted  assistants. 
Two missionaries joined  the train on the 
way back, and these also were murdered. 
The  details  of  the  butchery  was  after­
ward  made  known  through  the  con­
fession of Page,  who turned  State’s  evi­
dence to save his own neck.  Had  it  de­
pended  upon the  Territorial  authorities 
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they had succeeded in  getting  as  far  as 
San Francisco before  the crime was  dis­
covered; but Hill Besely,  the state-agent, 
a  most  determined  and  energetic  man, 
had  been  a  friend  of  Floyd  Magruder, 
and he took  up  the  pursuit,  traced  the 
criminals,  caused 
their  arrest  iu  San 
Francisco,  had 
them  brought  back  to 
Lewiston,  and  never  paused  until  they 
had  been  duly  executed.  The  traitor, 
Page, did not  enjoy  his  immunity  long, 
having been killed in  a brawl only a  few 
months after having regained his liberty.
And  now,  what  was  it  that  Benton 
Jones and  those who were  with him saw 
that  October  night  in  the  Bitter  Root 
Mountains?  That  is  a  question  which 
was debated  by the  people  of  Lewiston 
for a long time without any one reaching 
a  solution.  There  are,  indeed,  certain 
theories held  by  queer  thinkers  to  the 
effect  that  the  agents  of  great  crimes, 
when  they  enter  the  spirit  world,  are 
doomed to haunt the  scene  of  their  vil­
lainy,  and to  re-enact  it  in  a  kind  of  a 
ghastly  dumb  show.  But  the  case  of 
Benton Jones  is  not  quite  finished,  and 
what remains to be  told seems to have  a 
bearing upon  the spectacle of 'the  phan­
tom camp:  Two years after that episode, 
the  vigilance  committee  arrested,  con­
victed and  sentenced to  instant  death  a 
notorious evil-doer.  Before  he  died  he 
made a  general  confession,  and  among 
other things he stated that  he  had  been 
one  of  three men who joined themselves 
to the  train of  a  packer  named  Jones, 
with the intention of  watching their  op­
portunity, rising in the night and killing 
him and his men for the sake of his gold. 
The fearful scene of the eleventh  of  Oc­
tober,  however,  had  so  completely  un­
nerved and  terrified  the  intending  mur­
derers  that  they  had  then  and  there 
abandoned the  undertaking,  and had de­
camped  stealthily  the  next  morning  to 
avoid  awkward  questions. 
the 
time of that disclosure Benton Jones and 
his men entertained a very  positive  and 
well-defined theory as to  the significance 
of the appearance herein described.

From 

Philosopher.

G. F.  P arsons.
Observations by "The  Tradesman’s” 
Do  good  deeds  to-day and  evil  deeds 
to-morrow.
If you value a good name in the world, 
you have only to make it.
A money-made  man  is  usnally as cold 
and hard as the coin that made him.
Don’t give the able  bodied  tramp who 
refuses to work a cold bite.  Let the dog 
do it.
The proper time to get married is when 
a  man  needs a wife  and  is able  to  sup­
port her.
The worst mistake in addition is  when 
a  man  adds to his  wealth  by  dishonest 
practices.
If  you live rightly and  deal  uprightly 
with  your  fellow  men, the  lawyer  and 
doctor will not know your given name.
If  you  know  a  good  thing,  share  it 
with the world.  Hoarded wisdom is like 
hoarded money.  It benefits nobody while 
it remains hidden.
When I so far  forgot  myself  as to call 
a hog the  biped who  deluges the  floor of 
a public  place with  tobacco  juice,  1 feel 
it  my duty to apologize—to the  first  hog 
I meet.
To go into business without a business 
education and trust  to  luck  to  succeed, 
is like jumping into a river  before learn­
ing  to  swim  and  trusting to the  chance 
of some floating log to help you out.
Spectacles do not create objects.  They 
only  enable  you to perceive  them  more 
clearly.  Education  does  not  create  op­
portunities, but it enables  the  possessor 
to discover and utilize them.

Use Tradesman  or  Superior  Coupons.

OLD  MAN  SLIM.

Troubles  and  Trials  of  a  Canadian 

Merchant.

Qu een’s  H ollow,  Ont.,  Aug.  15—If, 
at the  time  of  writing  my  first  letter, 
some prophet  had predicted that  within 
three short months the Cronk store would 
pass into the hands  of  a  stranger;  that 
the old stock  would be  pretty  much  all 
worked  off;  that  a  large  new  general 
stock  would  be  put  in  and  a 
trade 
worked up that would exceed that of any 
one  concern  in  the  county,  we  would 
have  looked  upon  the  prophet  as  the 
craziest crank  outside of  the walls  of  a 
lunatic asylum.  Yet  all  this  has  been 
accomplished within the time mentioned. 
Yerily, 
truth  is  stranger  than  fiction. 
Many farmers, eight  and  ten  miles  dis­
tant,  actually  pass  through  Loyaltown 
and come to the  Hollow with  their  but­
ter and eggs  and do  their trading at  the 
“New  American  Store.”  The  people 
somehow  have  become  charmed  with 
Gobdarn  and  his  unique  methods  and 
novel advertising freaks  and  they  come 
from far and near to patronize him.  His 
rapidly increasing popularity has aroused 
the  ire  and  jealous  indignation  of  “a 
business man” of  Loyaltown,  as  the fol­
lowing article published this week  in the 
Loyaltown Times will show:

BEWARE  OF  YANKEE  SHARPERS!!

The  Western  cowboy  who  instituted 
the big lottery  scheme over in  the  quiet 
little hamlet of  Queen’s Hollow  did  not 
“reckon on his host”  when he  concocted 
his diabolical plot for  roping in  our  or­
derly  and  law-abiding  citizens. 
The 
strong arm of  Canadian  law  has  nipped 
his little scheme in the bud,  but it shows 
our people that this Wild  West greaser is 
inclined to  be lawless and  tricky,  and  1 
would hereby  warn  the  general  public 
and more especially the farming commu­
nity to beware  of him  or  they  will  rue 
the  day  when  they  gave  heed  to  his 
blandishments. 

A  B usiness  Ma n.

Did it make Jo. mad?  Well,  I  should 
say not.  When Izik went  into  the store 
for some  postage  stamps, Jo.  was  read­
ing it  to a  crowd of  people  and  having 
lots of  fun  over  it.  Almost  any  other 
man would have  given  one  wild  snort, 
seized his tomahawk and struck the war­
path on a still  hunt for  the  galoot  who 
penned the article.  But  Jo.  was happy, 
and the following article which appeared 
in next  morning’s  paper  explains  what 
it was that pleased  him:
GREAT  EXCITEMENT AT  QUEEN-’S HOLLOW!

THE  COWBOY  STILL AT  LARGE!

If the  gentleman who  gave  us  a  free 
puff in yesterday morning’s  paper under 
the head  of  “Beware of Yankee  Sharp­
ers!”  will  call  at  the  “New  American 
Store,”  Queen’s  Hollow,  and  identify 
himself,  we will suitably reward him for 
the very kind services  he  has  rendered 
us. 
In view of the valuable  and  volun­
tary assistance he  has  given  us,  we  are 
pained to  notice  that  he  so  far  forgot 
himself as to intimate  that  the  farming 
community in this  portion of Her Majes­
ty’s  Dominion has  not  yet  cut  its  wis­
dom  teeth and that  the  farmers  do  not 
know enough to approach strangers with 
any  degree  of  safety  to 
themselves. 
Trusting  that  my  farm  patrons  will 
kindly forgive my nameless but valuable 
friend  for his  long-eared  ejaculations, I 
remain, 

Respectfully yours,

J oseph  Gobdarn,

The Cowboy of Queen’s Hollow.

This shows the character  of  the  man. 
He turns everything to  his  own  advan­
tage  and  every  attempt  to  thwart  him 
ends in disaster to the  aggressive  party. 
William  Peter  Noodles  has  lost  fully 
one-half  of  his  custom  on  account  of 
what he did and Izik  says the people are 
bewitched;  that  Gobdarn  can  keep  his 
store open all day Sunday if he wants to, 
and that he will  preserve  a  strict  neu­
trality in the future.
Many of  our  old customers  who  have 
stood by us  ever since  we  have  been  in 
business, and to whom  we  have  always 
extended more or  less credit, now call at 
our  place  first 
(for  old  acquaintance 
sake, I suppose), kindly ask  us what we 
are paying for  butter and  eggs and  how 
many pounds  of  Coffee  A sugar  we  are 
selling for a dollar.  They  then  enquire

inspection  of 
During  this  inspection 

as  to  the  price  of  factory  cotton  and I 
“calicoes”  at  the  same 
time  prose­
cuting  a  minute 
the 
goods. 
they 
entertain  us  and  encourage  us  with  re­
hearsals of  the wonderful  bargains  that 
the  people  are  getting at the new  store 
and  wind  up  by asking us “how  in  the 
world  he  can do it,” and  vouchsafing an 
explanation  of  the  wonderful  mystery 
themselves  by intimating that  no  doubt 
Mr. Gobdarn  has  some way known  only 
to himself by which  he is enabled  to  ob­
tain  goods  at  greatly  reduced  prices. 
This  voluntary explanation of  affairs  so 
impresses  them  with  the  consciousness 
of having rendered us kindly service that 
they  wipe  the  dirt, dust  and  sweat  of 
their hands on the  loose ends of  our cot­
ton  bolts and  depart  with  a  casual  re­
mark  about  the  drought  and  a  vague 
intimation that they may return later on. 
Of course they cross  the street and enter 
the  “New  American  Store,”  and  less 
than a  majority  of  them  return  to  us. 
Sometimes  out  of  pure  respect  for  us 
they  call  iu  to  show us  the  marvelous 
bargains they have secured.
This forenoon a Mrs.  Snivley  called to 
show us what a bargain she had in a pair 
of shoes.  Her  daughter is to be married 
next  week  and  these  shoes  are  to  do 
honor to the occasion as the bridal  shoes. 
She  said  the  clerk  told  her  they  were 
regular genuine American shoes and they 
let  her have  them  for $2.  “Only think 
of it,” she said, “genuine American shoes 
and only $2!  My!  Won’t Becky be proud 
of  them  American  shoes!”  And 
then 
they ’lowed  me a cent  more  for my  but­
ter than I could get in  Loyaltown.”  Izik 
answered  Mrs.  Snivley  that  they  were 
no doubt  genuine American  shoes  made 
of the skin of some patriarchal  old sheep 
that had died in  Australia of the foot rot; 
that  the  inner  sole  was  paper  and  the 
outer  sole  was  nothing  but  paste  and 
shoddy;  that  the heels  were stuffed  and 
the buttons even were  nothing but putty 
dried  hard  and  dipped  in  black  stain, 
and  that  the  manufacturer’s price  was 
probably 65  or  70  cents.  “Oh, yes,” re­
peated  Izik  “they  are no doubt  genuine 
American  shoes.”  This  description was 
so  ludicrously  overdrawn  according  to 
Mrs.  Snivley’s  ideas,  that  she  took  it 
simply as a childish outburst of wounded 
feelings strongly tinctured with jealousy, 
and  it  actually touched  her  sympathy. 
She said she felt  sorry for us and  all the 
other storekeepers.  Of course,  we never 
had  the  advantages of  learning  how  to 
run  “a regular genuine  American store” 
and of  course we  couldn’t help  it,  but it 
must be “awful hard on us.”
Now  this is the  condition of  things at 
present  and we look blue and feel  black 
in the face.  Tillie  grieves  about it and 
says that if matters continue much longer 
in  this  shape,  “Father  Slim”  will  kill 
himself chewing tobacco. 
I always chew 
in  proportion to the amount of  thinking 
I  have  to  do  and  lately my  occupation 
has  consisted  pretty much  altogether of 
“thiukin’  and  chawin’-”  The elder who 
once  lived  two  years in  Kansas tells  us 
not to get  discouraged  for  he would  not 
be surprised if Queen’s Hollow witnessed 
some  startling  developments  within the 
next  three or  four  months. 
I’m  afraid 
the “developments”  will not be favorable 
to Slim & Slim. 

Old Man Slim.

The 

total  population  of  the  United 
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001,018  are  credited  to  England  and 
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Ireland,  and 147,870 to the islands in the 
British seas.  Expressing  the  result  by 
percentages the  population  of  England 
and Wales forms  nearly  73  per  cent,  of 
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Ireland forms about 133^ per cent,  of the 
whole. 
Ireland’s proportion of the total 
population of the Kingdom has  declined 
greatly  during  the  last  sixty  years,  in 
the course of  which  its  population  has 
fallen  from  one-third  to  one-eighth  of 
the whole.

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this  year,  scattered  over 
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T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

AMONG THE TRADE.
AROUND THE STATE.

Bradley—Frank Burlington has opened 

a meat market.

Belding—A.  M.  Kenyon  has  sold  his 

bazaar stock to Chas. Baker.

Camden—S.  C.  Smith  &  Co.  succeed 

Jones & Son in general trade.

Bay  City—Van  Auken  Bros,  succeed 

Rose & Lewis in general trade.

Muskegon—Wm.  E. Coutchie will open  j 

a grocery store at 54 Pine street.

Galesburg—Isaac Rogers  has  engaged 

in the cigar and tobacco business.

Alma—E.  L. Drake  is  succeeded  by J. 

C.  Lindsay in the grocery  business.

Battle Creek—W. W. Shepard has sold 
his boot and shoe stock  to P.  S.  Kellogg.
Reed City—Frank Allen  has  arranged 
to open a cigar factory  on a  small  scale.
Williamston—Mrs.  A.  Griggs  has  sold 
her  grocery  stock  to  Wm.  R.  Hause & 
Son.

Newaygo—R. W. Husband is succeeded 
by  J. A.  McKinlay  in  the  harness  busi­
ness.

Carson City—Lane  &  Hamilton  have 
sold their general stock to  F.  E.  Prestel 
& Co.

Plainwell—Homer  J.  Brown  has  sold I 
the  People’s  meat  market  to  Stearns & 
Crispe.
Dushville—M. H. Hillyard is succeeded j 
by  Hillyard  &  Emmanuel  in  the  drug | 
business.

Saginaw — Youmans &  Gallagher  are 
succeeded by E.  W. Gallagher in the drug 
business.

Grattan—Brooks & Whitten succeed C. 
Eddy & Son  in the  general  merchandise 
business.
Manistee—B.  B.  Austin  is  succeeded 
by Austin & Hudson in  the flour and feed j 
business.
Portland—Geo.  W.  Allen succeeds  the j 
former  firm  of  Allen  &  White  in  the j 
clothing business.
Northville—Slater & Best is succeeded j 
by  Henry Best  in  the  bakery  and  con- I 
fectionery  business.

Clio—Fred  L.  Mark  &  Co.  have  sold I 
their elevators  at  this  place  and  Birch 
Run to Geo.  H. Cary.

Reed City—J. A.  Seolley  has  removed 
his grocery stock to  Gano, 111., where he i 
will resume business.

Manistee—P.  N. Cardozo is closing out j 
his clothing stock  and  will  enlarge  his j 
dry goods department.

Battle Creek—Gardner  &  Gleason  are 
succeeded by Gleason &  Weickgenant in j 
the dry goods business.
Woodland—David  Aspinwall  has  sold j 
his interest  in the meat market of C.  As­
pinwall  & Co.  to Wm.  Miller.

St. Charles—V.  L.  Parsons  has  sold I 
his stock  of general  merchandise  to  his 
son and  son-in-law,  E.  V.  Parsons  and ! 
A. E.  Hall.

Hastings—E.  Y.  Uogle  has  removed 
his stock of boots and  shoes  from Lowell 
to this city and  added them to  his  stock 
of goods here.
Sutton’s Bay—H.  Deuster has removed j 
his  store  building  from  a  quarter of  a 
mile north of town into the village, where 
he will continue the general merchandise 
business.

Marcellus—S.  F.  Caldwell  has  pur­
chased  a  stock  of  groceries  in  Battle 
Creek and  will  soon  take  charge  of  it 
there.  His brother,  Frank Caldwell,  will 
run the store here as he  has  been  doing 
the past year.

Interlochen—T. J.  Courtney  and  Geo. 
Cook  have  formed  a  copartnership  and

will engage  in  the  meat  business  here. 
Both  parties  hail  from  White  Cloud, 
where  they  have  been  engaged  in  the 
meat business several years.

Muskegon—John  Riordan,  dry  goods 
merchant of  this city,  will  make a  new 
venture in the dry goods line by opening 
a branch store at  Springfield,  111.,  Sept. 
10.  John Voigt,  who has  been  with Mr. 
Riordan  for  the  past  seven  or  eight 
years,  will 
take  charge  of  affairs  at 
Springfield.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Kent City—B. L.  Hall  is  building  his 

canning factory.

Luther—H.  T. Sherman has bought the 

cigar factory of C.  W.  Rickard.

Reed City—H.  H.  Freedman  will  re­
move his  cigar factory  from this  city  to 
Lansing.

Gaylord—Frank  Harding will  locate  a 
sawmill  in  Hayes  township.  He  hails 
from  Wetzell.

Charlotte—Geo.  Steele  has  purchased 
a  harness  shop in Sunfield  and will  re­
move there soon.

Kalamazoo—The  Fuller  Bros.  Manu­
facturing  Co.  has  shipped  over  40,000 
washboards since January  1.

Detroit—The  Tuite  &  Rein  Manufac­
turing  Co.  is  succeeded  by  the  Tuite- 
Rein Co.  in the  range and gas  stove bus­
iness.

Bentley—E.  M.  Burlingame  has  pur­
chased  a  half  interest in the  sawmill of 
Bentley  &  Co.  The  new  firm  will  be 
styled Bentley  & Burlingame.

Beaverton—Ross  Bros.,  who  are oper­
ating a saw and  shingle mill,  as  well  as 
a cedar  paving block  mill,  are  shipping 
three car loads of their product daily.

Rodney—Ketchum  &  Babcock  have 
purchased 3,000  acres of  second  cutting 
timber land in Iron  county and  will  im­
mediately  remove  their  shingle  mill  to 
that  location.

Saginaw—The  A.  W.  Wright  Lumber 
Co.  has  nearly  completed  extensions  to 
the logging road of the company in Clare 
and Gladwin counties, and will  soon start 
the work of cutting and skidding logs.

Muskegon—At the  annual  meeting  of 
the Michigan Washing  Machine  Co., the 
capital  stock was  increased  to  820,000. 
James  Bayne  was  re elected  President 
and  F.  Hall,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and 
Manager.

Reed City—H.  M.  Lowell  is erecting  a 
stave and  heading  factory.  There  will 
be  five  buildings  in  the  plant,  40x75, 
40x80, 35x45,22x26, and a store room 30x00 
feet. 
It is expected that the factory will 
be in operation in October.

Bay City—McKeon & Glover  are  start­
ing  five  camps on the  nine  mile  branch 
of the Gladwin road,  and will  grade four 
miles of  railroad,  having  24,000,000  feet 
of logs to put in the coming fall  and win­
ter.

Muskegon—At a meeting of the  stock­
holders of the Thayer  Lumber  Co.,  held 
j at Boston on Aug.  13,  it  was  decided  to 
| shrink the capital from $650,000 to $325,- 
000.  Formal  notice  to  that  effect  was 
filed with the County Clerk Saturday.

Bay  City—The  Sanborn  sawmill  at 
I Osineke,  was  sold  last  week  to  Alger,
| Smith & Co,,  for $1,145.  Sanborn & Son 
I operated  the  mill  many years,  but  be- 
| came financially  involved,  and what was 
! once a valuable  property was sold under 
i order of the court for a song.

Cheboygan—It is  reported that  Little- 
i john  Bros.,  of Saginaw,  has  leased  the 
I Smith & Galbraith sawmill for a number

of  years,  and  will  put  in  machinery 
for  the  manufacture  of  shingles.  But 
little attention has been paid to the man­
ufacture  of shingles on  the Lake  Huron 
shore in the past.

Marquette—The  Bay  Shore Company, 
which  has been  logging  six  miles north 
of Sidnaw, on  the  Ontonagon  branch  of 
the  Milwaukee & Northern,  shipping  by 
rail  to  Menominee,  has  about  finished 
cutting  and,  unless  other  timber  for 
which it is negotiating is purchased,  will 
break up camp shortly.

Plainwell— The  business  men  here 
have raised about  $1,500,  enough  to  in­
duce H.  H.  McCall,  of  Howard  City,  to 
buy the plant of the Ives factory and be­
gin  the  manufacture  of furniture.  Mr. 
McCall  agrees  to  run  the  factory  five 
years and to employ twenty  hands.  The 
factory is to start inside of  ninety  days.
Saginaw—The George T. Cross Lumber 
Co.  has about 3,000,000 feet of lumber on 
hand.  When this  is  disposed  of, it will 
close out its  business  here,  and its oper­
ations  will  be  confined  to  Ford,  Ky., 
where Mr.  Cross  and  others of  the com­
pany are operating  their  sawmills and  a 
planing  mill,  and are  doing a very pros­
perous business.

Saginaw— Several  creditor  of  E.  R. 
Phinney,  having  claims  amounting  to 
$14,000,  have pooled  their  interests  and 
attached the  lumber  in  the  yard  here, 
which is held  by  Pack,  Wood  &  Co.,  of 
Cleveland,  on  chattel  mortgage.  They 
believe  there is a  fighting chance  to  set 
aside the mortgage,  and propose to spend 
a  little  money  in  litigation,  as  on  the 
other hand they  would  lose all.

Morenci—The Morenci roller mill prop­
erty has been  owned for  some  years  by 
Nelson  Bros.  They  placed  upon  it  a 
mortgage  of  $7,800.  This  was  fore­
closed,  and  last  Saturday  the  property 
was  disposed  of for  $5,000,  going  to  J. 
Henry  Cochrane,  of  Williamsport,  Pa., 
one  of  the  mortgagees.  The  mill  will 
continue to be run by Kellogg & Buck.

Alabaster—The  Western  Plaster  Co., 
whose  plant  was  recently  partially  de­
stroyed  by fire,  is building a plaster mill 
in South  Chicago which  will  be the larg­
est  institution of  the kind  in  the world. 
It will  be  completed  by  January  1,  and 
will  begin  running at  once  on the  con­
tract for the world’s fair buildings.  The 
company will also rebuild a mill  here on 
the site of the burned building.

Marquette—John  C.  Brome,  the  Sagi­
naw  jobber who  has been  operating ex­
tensively  in  this  region  for  two  years, 
has begun work on a big tract  just north 
of Lake Gogebic.  The tract is estimated 
at 60,000,000  feet,  and of  this  25,000.000 
will  be put in the  coming winter,  fifteen 
camps being operated.  The logs will  be 
driven  down  the  Iron River,  and  proba­
bly  towed  from  there to Saginaw  River 
points for manufacture.

Big Rapids—Ever since the destruction 
of  Clark,  Farnam  &  Co.’s  lumber  and 
shingle  mills  at  Ewen,  Mr.  Clark  has 
been  busy with preparations for rebuild­
ing.  He purchased a  lumber  mill  from 
the Me El wee Manufacturing  Co., of  this 
city,  and started it  northward,  and  then 
hurried to Grand Rapids for  shingle ma­
chinery.  Mr.  Clark  thinks the firm  will 
be  ready  to  resume  operations  within 
sixty days from the date of the fire.

Nasthville----J.  Lentz  &  Sons  have
merged their business into  a  stock  com­
pany under the style of the  Lentz  Table 
Co.,  with a capital stock of $40,000,  one- 
half of  which  is to  be  paid  in  at  once.

The factory proper  will  consist  of  two 
buildings,  each  50x100, and  two  stories 
high,  with engine  and  boiler  room  and 
dry kilns  separate,  and it is expected  to 
have the  establishment  shipping  tables 
again inside  of  ninety  days,  with  from 
thirty to fifty men at work.

Rockford—The Rockford  Veneer Man­
ufacturing Co.  has  been  organized  with 
a capital stock of $25,000,  $5,000 of which 
is paid in.  The stockholders,  and num­
ber of shares held by each are as follows: 
A.  D. Plumb,  250; E. L.  Piper, 150; Hess- 
ler Bros.,  25;  E.  W.  Johnson,  25;  Neal 
McMillan, 20; C.  F.  Sears, 20;  C.  O Cain, 
25; C.  Post,  20;  I).  Wellbrook,  10;  S.  E. 
Wells,  10; G.  A.  Sage, 5.  The following 
officers have been elected:  A. D. Plumb, 
President;  W.  F.  Hessler,  Vice-Presi­
dent;  E. L.  Piper,  Secretary  and  Treas­
urer: and these  three  officers  with  Neal 
McMillan and  E.  W.  Johnson  constitute 
the  board  of  directors.  This  company 
was organized for the purpose  of  manu­
facturing  veneers  and  the  mill,  which 
was formerly located at Pierson, is to  be 
moved  here  and  will occupy  a  part  of 
Allen &  Rykert’s building  for  the  pres­
ent.

The  Hardware  Market.

Iron and nails remain in a demoralized 
condition.  Barbed wire has firmed upsw ­
ing to the  organization  of the Columbia 
Patent  Co.,  which has acquired substan­
tially  all the  patents  pertaining  to  the 
barbed wire business.  Although about 90 
per cent, of the manufacturers of barbed 
wire  are  included  in  the  combination, 
the management announce  that  no radi­
cal advance in  price will  be made.  Shot 
has  advanced  to  $1.50  in  Chicago  and 
$1.55 in the Grand  Rapids market.  Ma­
nilla and  sisal  rope  both continue to  de­
cline.

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

293

298

D e sir a b le  o pen in g  fo r  dry  goods,  boots
and  shoes  and  furnishing  goods  business.  Ad­
dress 298, care Michigan Tradesman. 
FJOR SALE—CLEAN STOCK  OF  DRY GOODS, BOOTS.
shoes and groceries.  Comparatively  new.  Good 
trade in one of the best towns in the State.  Good rea­
sons for selling.  Address Kester & Arnold, Marcellus, 
Mich. 
17*OR SALE—$6,000  stock  clothing,  dry  goods,  hats, 
caps, boots,  shoes  and  groceries in live growing 
town  located  in  excellent  farming  section  most  of 
stock  bought  within  last  12  months.  Also two good 
store buildings.  Sell  all  cheap and take in part  pay­
ment good farm property.  Best of reasons for selling. 
J. A. L., care Tradesman. 
17K)R 8ALE—DRUG STOCK  IN  THRIVING  SUMMER 
resort town.  Will inventory about  $1,200.  Rare 
opportunity.  Address Lock Box 87, Crystal, Mich. 299
ON ACCOUNT OF FAILING HEALTH, I OFFER FOR 
sale my stock of  confectionery,  ice cream,  bak­
ery goods, cigars, tobaccos, etc.,  situated  at  the  cor­
ner of Cherry and  Packard  streets.  Neatest store  in 
the  city. 
Inspection  solicited.  G.  H.  Gifford,  559 
Cherry street, Grand Rapids. 

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

FOR SALE—A  COMPLETE  DRUG STOCK AND F ix ­
I|H)R  SALE—A COMPLETE  LOGGING  OUTFIT  AT A 

bargain.  Will  sell  all or part,  as  desired.  Also 
one  standard  guage  Shay  locomotive  in  first-class 
iworking condition.  Apply  to W. A. D. Rose, Big Rap- 
ds, Mich. 
WANTED—I HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  PAY  FOR  A 
general  or  grocery stock;  must be cheap.  Ad­
26
dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 

300

282

124

SOI

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

SITUATION  WANTED—AFTER  SEPT.  1, BY  A  REG- 
istered pharmacist of 12 years' experience.  First- 
class references.  No. 296, care Michigan Tradesman.

MISCELLANEOUS.

IiH)R  SALE—CHEAP  ENOUGH  FOR  AN  INVE8T- 
ment.  Corner  lot  and 5-room  house  on  North 
Lafayette  St.,  cellar,  brick  foundation,  soft  water 
in  kitchen.  $1,200.  Terms  to  suit.  Address No.  187, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
187
IX)R 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.  Cheap enough  for  an  investment.  Address No 
187, care Michigan Tradesman. 
187.
rpHE  MORTGAGE  ON  BLANOHARD  A  PRINGLE’S 
JL  stock, at Sand Lake, has been paid and discharged, 
leaving their stock of  about $3,50§ free and  clear, and 
the firm is now in good circumstances. 

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

A Model  Meat  Market.

________________ 

Arthur  Watkins &  Co.  have  opened  a 
meat market at  86 South Division street.

market at  the corner  of Hall  street  and 
Madison avenue.

W.  T.  Lamoreaux  purchased  37,000 
pounds of wool of Sutphin & Co., at Alle­
gan,  last week.

It is located  in one of  the  new  towns 
on the  line of a  comparatively new  rail-
It  occupies  a  roughly  boarded
road. 
Frank  Henderson  has  opened  a  meat  building about 16x24  feet in dimensions,
the  refrigerator  being  about  four  feet 
square,  containing less  than 200  pounds 
of meat.  This,  with a few slices of anti­
quated bacon  and a few  links of bologna 
as  dry as  chips,  constitute  the  stock  in 
trade. 
In  the  line of tools and  fixtures, 
the  owner  is  even  less  prodigal,  two 
small  blocks,  three  knives,  a  cleaver,  a 
saw,  a  steel, a  pair  of  platform  scales 
and  a  single  sheet  of  wrapping  paper 
comprising the entire  paraphernalia.  A 
borrowed  wagon and a horse which  looks 
as  though  he was an  utter stranger to the 
oat bin  enables the  dealer  to  cultivate 
the meat trade of two neighboring towns. 
The slaughter  house  comprises  a  stick 
across two trees in  the woods in the rear 
of the market,  the  leaves  and sky being 
the sole covering of the structure.

Geo.  Van  Every has  concluded  to  em­
bark in  the grocery  business on the West 
Side,  having  purchased  the  stock  in  De­
troit.

Evert  Boersma  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  the  corner  of  Kalama/.oo  and 
Humboldt  streets.  The  Bal 1-Barn hart- 
Putmau Co.  furnished the stock.

E.  H.  Manley  will  shortly  remove  his 
grocery stock from 400 East  street to the 
corner of East and Sherman streets.

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.  have  concluded 
to  remove  their  sporting  goods  stock 
from the upper floors to the north side of 
the  ground  floor  in  the  rear  of  the 
building,  having  put  in 
the  necessa­
ry shelving for that purpose.

Notwitstanding the dearth of facilities 
and lack of capital, the  owner of the  es­
tablishment 
is  apparautly  contented 
with his condition and  jubilant over  his 
prospects for future trade.
L ist of  C red ito rs  in  th e   H olden  &  H ire 

M atter.

Assignee Colgrove favors T h e T ra d es­
man  w ith  a  list  of  the  creditors  in  the 
Holden  &  H ire  failure,  at  H astings,  as 
follows:
H. S. Robinson & Co.,  Detroit..............  $1,970 13
Henry A. Newland & Co.,  Detroit.........  878 21
Meier & Schuknecht,  Detroit................. 
74 20
Daniels & Ives, Detroit..........................  553 38
T. J. Shay & Co.. Chicago.......................  316 50
Locke, Hulcatt & Co.,  Chicago............  
11173
13  50
Sweet, Demster & Co., Chicago.............. 
M. A.  Eiseman & Bros., Chicago............  
11  48
J. B  G. Scott & Co.,  Chicago................. 
42  95
C. H. Fargo & Co.,  Chicago  ..................  
18  25
Guthmann, Carpenter & Telling, Chicago  22 95
Spring & Company. Grand Rapids.........   122 06
80  93
Geo. H. Reeder & Co., Grand Rapids__ 
Hirth & Krause, Grand  Rapids............. 
  11  05
Brooks  Bros., Rochester  ....................... 
72 00
Dunkirk  Shirt Co., Dunkirk..................   218 38
R. H. Lane & Co.,  Toledo...................... 
62 00
C. B. Cones & Son Mfg. Co., Indianapolis  135  50
Mrs.  II. F. Holden,  Bellevue.................  100 00
Geo. W. Hire,  Bellevue..........................  400 00
Hastings City Bank, Hastings.................  100 00
Cook Bros., Hastings............................... 
30 00
Total  ..............................................  *3,345 30

C o u n try  C allers.

Calls  have  been 

received  a t  T h e 
T radesm an office during  the  past  week 
from   the  follow ing  gentlem an  in  trade:

H am ilton  & M illiken,  T raverse City.
H.  C.  A uer,  Cadillac.
S.  C.  Sibole,  Breedsville.
J.  A.  Scolley,  Reed City.
C.  F.  W alker,  Glen A rbor.
Ezra Brown,  B allards.
N.  B.  Blain,  Lowell.
D.  W ellbrook,  Rockford.
C.  Gregory,  Fennville.
Nelson  F.  M iller,  Lisbon.

C a p tu red   b y   th e   C ordage  C om bina 

tion.

The  N ational  Cordage  Company  ha: 
purchased  the  Boston Cordage Company 
which  was  formed  by  a  consolidation  of 
E astern  m ills  and  was  the  largest  and 
strongest  com petitor  of 
the  N ational 
Company. 

______

_ 

S hould  S end for D evine,  o f Belding
Ma n ist e e,  Aug.  17—A  m eeting of the 
prom inent farm ers of  this county,  about 
forty  in  num ber,  assembled  in Onekama 
Friday  afternoon and  organized  a  Farm  
ers’  Co-operative  Co., 
through  which 
they  hope to dispose  of  th eir  farm   pro 
ducts  at  better  prices  than  they  have 
heretofore  been  able  to  obtain  through 
the  m iddlem en  and retail  dealers.

Must Come  to  It.

Customer (with little boy)—Have  you 
good thick  sole leather  that a  boy  can’ 
wear through in a week?
Cobble—The very best.  Do  you  want 
me to make a pair shoes for your boy?
Customer—No,  I  want  you  to  make 
him a pair of pants.

Purely  Personal.

C.  F.  Walker,  general  dealer  at  Glen 

Arbor,  is in town for a week.

Lester J. Rindge and family have gone 
to  Nantucket,  Mass.,  where  they  will 
spend three or four weeks.

Wm.  T.  Hess and  wife  have  returned 
from. Cascade,  where  they  spent  three 
weeks.  They  will put in the remainder 
of the heated term at Alma.

Henry C. Auer,  the  Cadillac  clothier, 
was in town  last Saturday on his  way to 
Gotham,  where  he  will  spend a week or 
ten days in search of bargains.

D.  Wellbrook,  the Rockford meat deal­
er,  was in town Monday.  Mr.  Wellbrook 
seldom comes to market, but  he is a wel­
come visitor when he does come.

W.  T.  Lamoreaux  has  purchased  the 
handsome James residence,  at 357  Foun­
tain street,  and  will  take  possession  of 
same about Sept.  1.  The purchase price 
was $8,000.

Frank Hamilton,  of the  firm of Hamil­
ton &  Milliken,  dry  goods and  clothing 
dealers at Traverse  City,  was in  town  a 
couple  of days last  week,  on his  way  to 
New York City.

The  trip  of Geo.  B.  Caulfield  to Alas­
ka is not the first time he has set his face 
westward.  He  started  West  when  a 
small boy to  fight  the  Indians,  but  got 
no  further  than  Moline,  when  he  was 
stricken with remorse and returned home
Geo.  P.  Gifford,  for  several  years  s 
resident of  this city  while  State  repre­
sentative  for  Armour  &  Co.  and  con­
nected with the former firm of  Hawkins, 
Perry & Co., has engaged  in  the  whole­
sale  provision  business on  his  own  ac­
count at 137  Grand  avenue,  Milwaukee. 
Geo.  is a capital  fellow and his legion of 
friends will join with T he T radesm an in 
wishing him the success he deserves,

Retired  Agriculturists.

Stranger—Your farm has a prosperous 
look.
Farmer— Wall,  I  ain’t  complainin’. 
I’ve worked  this ’ere farm  night an’ day 
fer nigh unto  forty  years,  an’ now  I’ve 
’bout made up my mind  to let ’er  out  on 
shares an’ retire from  business. 
I’ve got 
money saveu up.”
Stranger—Retire,  eh?  What will  you 
do with yourself then?
Farmer—Same as they all do. 
I’ll  be­
come a weather prophet.

9

R IN D G E ,  B E R T S C H   &  CO.,

Manufacturers  and Jobbers of  Boots  and Shoes.

Our  fall  lines  are 
now complete in every 
department.
Our  line  of  Men’s 
and  Boys’  boots  are 
the best we ever made 
or  handled.
For  durability  try 
our own  manufacture 
men’s,  boys’,  youths’, 
women’s,  misses’  and 
children’s shoes.
We  have the  finest 
lines  of  slippers  and 
warm  goods  we  ever 
carried.
We  handle all  the lead 
ing lines of felt boots and 
socks.
We solicit  your  inspec­
tion before purchasing.
“Agents  for  the Boston 
Rubber Shoe Co.”

Possibly  we  can 

X - f  RITE  us for  Samples and  Prices.
save  you 
money.  W e  have  a  good  white  en­
velope (our 154) which we se ll:

No 6
Size 3*4x6
$1.40
2.25
2.00
1.75
160

No  6^
Size 3ÿ,x6V4
$1.50
500
2.40
1,000
2.10
2,000
1.85
5,000
1.70
10,000
Special  prices  on  larger  quantities. 
This  is  not a cheap  stock,  but  good 
fair envelope.  We  have  cheaper and 
have  better  grades,  but  can  recom­
mend this one.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY

G RA ND  RA PID S,  M ICH.
A b o v e   Prices Include Printing!

M onday's a n d  S a tu rd a y ’s  D e tro it  Evening'  N ew s 

for fu rth e r  P a rtic u la rs.

S 100 GIVEN  AWAY

To  tiao Sm oker*  of the

PRINCE  RUDOLPH  CIGARS.

Te  the  pereoa  guessing  the  nearest  to  the  number  of  Imps  that  will 
appear in  a  series of  cuts in  the  Evening  News,  cuts  not  t«>  exceed  100. 
1st  Cash  Prize.  $50;  2d.  $25;  3d,  15;  4t h.  $10.  Guess slips to b**  had  with 
e»ery  25c  worth o f  PRINCE  RUDOLPH  CIGARS  Sold Everywhere 
!  p to tht’.e there has* been published 23cuts, with a total of  303  Imps

DANIEL  LYNCH,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich., Wholesale Agt.

G o m d u n ,  D e t r o i t ,

A L r l C X .

M l o i i .

M A N U F A C T U R E D   BY

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

DEMINS.

“ 
“ 

Amoskeag...............1254
9 oz...... 1454
brown .13
Andover................. 1154
Beaver Creek AA... 10 
BB...  9
nQ   i<(
Boston Mfg Co. br..  7 

“ 
it 
“ 
blue  854 
“  d a  twist 1054 
Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

“ 
“ 

Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12
brown....... 12
Haymaker blue........ 754
brown...  734
Jeffrey.....................1154
Lancaster  ...............1254
Lawrence, 9 oz........1354
No. 220....13
No. 250.... 1154
No. 280.... 1054

“ 
“ 
“ 

GINGHAMS.
fancies___7
“ 
“  Normandie  8

“ 

Amoskeag................ 754
“  Persian dress 854 
Canton ..  854
“ 
“ 
AFC........1254
Arlington staple —   634
Arasapha  fancy__  434
Bates Warwick dres 854 
staples.  654
Centennial............   1054
Criterion..............  1054
Cumberland  Btaple.  554
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................454
Elfin.......................  754
Everett classics......854
Exposition............... 734
Glenarie.................  634
Glenarven................ 634
Glenwood.................754
Hampton...................654
Johnson Chalon cl 
54 
Indigo blue 954
zephyrs__16
Lancaster,  staple...  654

“ 
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Lancashire.............   654
Manchester............   554
Monogram..............  654
Normandie...............754
Persian...................   854
Renfrew Dress........754
Rosemont................. 654
Slatersville.............. 6
Somerset.........   ....  7
Tacoma  ...................754
Toil  duNord......... 1054
Wabash...................  754
seersucker..  754
Warwick...............   854
Whittenden............   65
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  654
Westbrook....... •....  8
..............10
Windermeer........... 5
York..........................654

“ 
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“ 

“ 

GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag............  .16341Valley City............. 15V4
Stark......................20  Georgia....................1554
American.............. 16341 Pacific.....................1*54

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End.... 45  I Barbour" s ............... 8f
Coats’, J. & P ........ 45  Marshall’s ................8f
Holyoke.................22541
KNITTING  COTTON.
White.  Colored.
...37
38 No.  14...
39
...38
“  16...
...39
*•  18...
40
»  20... ....40
41
CAMBRICS.

White.  Colored.
42
43
44
45

No.  6  ..
“ 
8...
“  10
»•  12...

..33
...34
35
..36

Slater......................  4
White Star............   4
Kid Glove  .............   4
Newmarket............ 4
Edwards.................  4

Washington............334
Red Cross............... 334
Lockwood...............4
Wood’s.................   4
Brunswick...........   4

RED  FLANNEL.

MIXED  FLANNEL.

T W ............
F T ..............
J R F , XXX. 
Buckeye__

Fireman.................3254
Creedmore............. 2754
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless............... 2754

-2254
.3254
.35
3254
Red &"Blue,  plaid..40  ¡Grey SR W............ 1754
Union R .................2254 Western W  ..............1854
Windsor................. 1854 D R P ....................... 1854
6 oz Western..........21  Flushing XXX.........2334
Union  B................ 2254IMaHitoba................. 2354
9 @1054
Nameless......8  @ 9541
......   854@10  I
1254
Black.13
Black.
Slate. 
13 
934
15 
15
1054
17
17
11541254 20
20

Brown.
1315
17
20

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.

DOMET  FLANNEL.

“ 

Brown.
»54
1054
1154
1254

Slate.
»54
1054
1154
1254
Severen, 8 oz..........   954
Mayland, 8 oz......... 1054
Greenwood, 754 oz..  »54 
Greenwood, 8 oz — 1154

West  Point, 8 oz.
-1054
10 oz
“ 
-1254
Raven, lOoz............ 1354
Stark 
............ 1354
WADDINGS.

“ 

White, doz..............25  I Per bale, 40 doz 
Colored, doz...........20 

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SILESIAS.

Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
“  Red Cross....  9
“  Best............ 1054
“  Best AA......1254

Pawtucket...............1054
Dundle....................  9
Bedford...................1054
Valley  City.............1054

SEWING  SILK.

2 
3 

“ 
“ 

Cortlcelll, doz........ 75  [Corticelli  knitting,

..12  “ 8 
..12 I  “  10 

twist, doz. .3754  per 54oz  ball........30
50 yd, doz. .3754)
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
“ 
“ 

No  1 Bl’k & White..10  INo  4 Bl’k & White..l5
“ 
..20
“ 
..25
No 2-20, M C.........50  INo 4—15  F  354........40
‘  3—18, S C.......... 45  I
|No  8 White & Bl’k..20 
No  2 White & Bl’k.. 12 
.23
“ 
..26
“ 
No 2........................28  INo 3.........................36

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

PINS.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

4 
6 

NEEDLES—PER  M.

A. James................ 1  S0| Steamboat................  40
Crowely’s............... 1 35 Gold  Eyed..............1  50
Marshall’s ..............1 00]
5—4....2 25  6—4...3 25|5—4 

1  95  6-4...2 95

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“ 

...3 10|
COTTON TWINES.

“ ....2 10 

Nashua...................18
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
3-ply.... 17
North Star..............20
Wool Standard 4 ply 1754 
Powhattan  .............18

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............1854
Anchor..................16
Bristol....................13
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL....................... 13
Alabama.................  6% I Mount  Pleasant.
Alamance.............654
Augusta...............754
An sapha...............   6
Georgia...................634
Granite....................534
Haw  River............ 5
i Haw [J....................5

654
Oneida....................  5
Pyrmont..............  534
Randelman............ 6
Rlversids................  534
Sibley  A ...................634
Toledo....................  6

PLAID  OSNABURG8.

Voigt, M sieim er & Go.,

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

DRY GOODS,

NOTIONS,

OARPETS,

CURTAINS.
Shirts,  Pants,  Overalls,  Ete.

Manufacturers of

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

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

-  MICH.

---- AND----

Carpets,  Rilp,
-
 Gilrtains,«
Floor  Oil  Glotfis

W rite  for  o n r  Prices  on

---- AND----

Oil  Glolii  Bindings.

SMITH  &  SANFORD.

A  W N I N  G S

A N D   T E N T S .

Flags, Hors* and Wagon  Covers,  Beat  Shades,  Large 
Umbrellas,  OUed  Clothing,  Wide  Cotton  Ducks, etc. 
CHAS.  A .  COVE,  11  Pearl  Street

Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue.

Telephone  106.

EÄT0N,  LYON  &  GO.,

JOBBERS OE

A  Complete  Line of

HAMMOCKS,

FISHING  TACKLE,

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

about February 10th.

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

20 and 22  Monroe  St.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON,

Tar and Gravel  Roofers,

And  dealers  In  Tarred  Felt,  Building  Paper. 
Pitch,  Coal  Tar,  Asphaltum.  Rosin,  Mineral 
Wool, Etc.

Corner Louis and Campau Sts., 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

The  M agic  o f Details.

From the American Grocer.
To most men  details  are  irksome  and 
that is  probably  the chief cause  for  the 
failure  of the  many  and  the  success  of 
the  few.  The  mastery  of  any  subject, 
profession  or calling is impossible  with­
out  a  thorough  grasp  of  details.  The 
want of a  shadow  may  spoil  a  picture 
otherwise perfect; failure to know a road, 
or to  post a  sentinel  may  lose  a  battle; 
that  twice one  are two  must be  learned 
before  difficult  mathematical  problems 
can be solved.  And  yet  how  we  rebell 
against  the  application  and  energy  de­
manded in the  acquisition  of  rudiments 
and  details!  Now  and  then  we  meet  a 
man  who is called a  “ born genius,”  and 
yet  the  world’s  history  and our  experi­
ence teaches that the  so-called genius  is 
master by dint of hard work and applica­
tion.  For instance, Edison.
Plain as  is  the  fact, conscious  as  we 
are  of its  truth,  we  are  painfully  con­
scious of an inward  rebellion against de­
tail. 
It  is easier  to jump  at  a  conclu­
sion than to reach it by  reasoning.  We 
aim to “ get rich in a hurry,” rather than 
patiently  work,  save and  acquire.  And 
all the time there is before us the practi­
cal demonstration  that the leaders  in all 
the walks of life  have won  their  honors 
by dint of  patient toil,  slow  but  steady 
growth.  Successful  merchants  are  not 
born great,  but have  acquired  greatness 
because  of  their  mastery  of  the  little 
things,  the  obnoxious,  wearisome,  wor­
rying, incessant,  provoking details.
Unfortunately  there  are  many  who 
think  they can  become merchants  with­
out previous training.  They  claim  that 
“ any one can sell goods,”  utterly oblivi­
ous that  buying as  well as  selling is  an 
art;  that  experience  is  a  school,  that 
training  is  discipline,  that  there  is  a 
business alphabet  to be acquired, failing 
which there can  be no  progress, no  suc­
cess.  Such  soon  come  to  grief, 
their 
numbers  swelling,  far  to  fast,  the  long 
list of  bankrupts.
There is  another  class, and  we  regret 
their large numbers; those who have had 
their early training  and experience,  and 
still  neglect—details.  They  work,  and 
work  hard,  year  itt' and  year  out,  and 
never forge ahead.  We recall those who 
have been in  business in one location for 
ten, twenty, and  even  forty  years,  and 
are no better off, if  as  well  conditioned, 
as  when  they  started.  They  have  ig­
nored  details.  Year  after  year  rolls 
away and no inventory is taken.  Goods 
are  bought  and  received  without  the 
thought of checking  them off  by  the  in­
voice to see if all  that  is to  be  paid  for 
has come to hand, or whether  the  count, 
weight,  measure  or  guage  is  correct. 
They  are utterly oblivious of  what  mar­
gin they  are getting; the  relation  of  the 
expense account to gross profits; the pro­
portion of the  sale of any  one  article  to 
all the goods in stock.  Kailway  charges 
and classifications  are  not  examined  to 
see  if  freights  are  properly  adjusted. 
There is  no well-defined system  of keep­
ing  accounts.  The  stock  is  poorly  ar­
ranged and  no means  adopted to  check 
the accumulation  of  old  stock  or  avoid 
being  overstocked.  There are  leaks  in­
numerable,  for there  is  no  check  upon 
the cash,nor upon  goods sold upon credit 
to see if they are  properly  charged;  the 
clerks are unrestrained,  and there is  pil­
fering and waste  at  every  turn  and  all 
the time.
The oqly remedy  for  these  ever-pres­
ent evils is  in a thorough mastery of  de­
tail.  That  it is  possible to  cover  every 
feature of a business by a  thorough  sys­
tem  has  been  practically  demonstrated 
over and over again.  Next week we will 
present  the  history  of  a  large  general 
store,  where  there  is  an  almost  perfect 
supervision of details carried so far as to 
keep  an  account  with  each  of  nearly 
1,200 articles  kept in stock,  besides ana­
lyzing  the  class  of  customers  served.
Unless a man  is master of his own  bus­
iness the business will  master him.  Ruin 
and  mortification are  the rewards  of  in­
attention to the minutse of  life’s work.

Do not enter a  vocation  that  by  tem­
perament or lack of ability  you  are  un­
fitted for. 
If  you have joined the caval­
ry and cannot  ride with  the  procession, 
dismount and join the infantry.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic
“  Arrow Brand 554 
“  World Wide..  7
Argyle  ..................   654
Atlanta AA............   6%
“  LL...............   5
Atlantic A..............7
Pull Yard Wide...... 654
Georgia  A..............654
H..............6*
“ 
Honest Width......... 654
“ 
P ..............  6
Hartford A  ............ 5
D..............  6*
“ 
Indian Head...........  754
“  LL..............  534
Amory.....................  7
King A  A................. 654
KingEC...............5
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  554
Lawrence  L L ........  554
Blackstone O, 32__5
Madras cheese cloth 654
Black Crow............   654
Newmarket  G........6
Black Rock  ...........7
B  ........ 554
Boot, AL................  7J4
N........654
Capital  A................554
DD....  554
Cavanat V ..............  554 
X ...... 7
Chapman cheese cl.  354 Nolbe R..................  5
Clifton  C R ............ 554 Our Level  Best...... 654
Comet..................... 7  Oxford  R ................  654
Dwight Star............  734 Pequot....................   754
Clifton CCC...........  654 Solar.......................   654
I Top of the Heap___754
Geo.  Washington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold Medal............   754
Green  Ticket......... 854
Great Falls.............   654
Hope....................... 754
Just  Out....  434® 5
King  Phillip...........734
OP.....  754
Lonsdale Cambric.. 1054
Lonsdale...........  ® 854
Middlesex........   @5
No Name................   754
Oak View............... 6
Our Own.................  554
Pride of the West.. .12
Rosalind.................754
Sunlight.................   454
Utica  Mills............ 854
Nonpareil ..11
Vinvard..................  854
White Horse.........  6
Rock..............854

A B C ......................854
Amazon................... 8
Amsburg.................. 7
Art  Cambric........... 10
Blackstone A A......  8
Beats All................   454
Boston.....................12
Cabot......................   754
Cabot,  %.................654
Charter  Oak...........554
Conway W..............  7)4
Cleveland.............  7
Dwight Anchor......  854
shorts.  834
Edwards................... 6
Empire....................  7
Farwell...................  754
Fruit of the  Loom.  754
Fitchville  ...............7
First Prize..............  654
Fruit of the Loom %.
Falrmount................454
Full Value................634
Cabot......................   754 ¡Dwight Anchor
Farwell.....................8 
UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
TremontN..............  554 Middlesex No.  1— 10
2___11
“ 
Hamilton N............   654 
“  3....12
L..............7 
Middlesex  AT........  8 
“ 
7___18
■  X...........  9 
“ 8...19
No. 25....  9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

HALE  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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CABPET  WABP.

Hamilton N ............   754 Middlesex A A........ 11
Middlesex P T .........  8 
2.......12
A T ..........  9 
A O .......1354
X A.........   9 
4.......1754
X F .........1054 
5.......16
Peerless, white........18  [Integrity, colored...21
Integrity..................18541 
“  colored..21
Hamilton 

colored— 2054 White Star.............. 1854

Nameless........0

DRESS  GOODS.

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9

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............. 8
...............9
..............1054
G G  Cashmere........21
Nameless  .............. 16
............... 18

“ 

...........25
...........2754
...........30
...........3254
......... 36

CORSETS.

“ 

PRINTS.

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CORSET  JEANS

Coralino................$9 50|Wonderful............ #4 50
Schilling’s ............   9 001 Brighton................4 75
Armory..................   654
Naumkeagsatteen..  754
Androscoggin.........754
Rockport.................. 654
Biddeford..............   6
Conestoga.................654
Brunswick..............654
Walworth  ...............634
Allen turkey  reds..  554¡Berwick fancies__  54
“ 
robes...........  554 Clyde  Robes...........  5
“ 
pink a purple  654 Charter Oak fancies 454
“  buffs............  6  ¡DelMarine cashm’s. 6
mourn’g 6
“  pink  checks.  554 
staples  .........  554 Eddystone fancy... 6
“ 
chocolat  6
“ 
shirtings  ...  4541 
American  fancy—   5341 
rober__   6
American indigo__  5541 
sateens..  6
American shirtings.  454[Hamilton fancy.  ...  6
staple__ 554
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  454 Manchester fancy..  6 
“  —   654 
Arnold 
new era.  6
| Merrimack D fancy.  6 
| Arnold  Merino 
...  6 
long cloth B. 1054! Merrim’ck shirtings.  454 
Reppfum .  854
“  C.  854 
century cloth  7  Pacific fancy..........6
gold seal......1054 
robes............654
green seal TR1054 Portsmouth robes...  6 
yellow seal.. 1054 Simpson mourning..  6
serge............ 1154
greys...........6
••  Turkey red.. 1054 
solid black.  6 
Ballou solid black..  5 
Washington indigo.  6 
“  colors.  554
“ 
“  Turkey robes..  754
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  India robes___ 754
red and  orange  ..  554
“  plain T’ky X 54  854 
“  X...10
“ 
Berlin B o lid e...........  554
oil blue......   654
“ 
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red..................   6
“ “  green ....  654
“  Foulards....  554
Martha Washington
“  red 54.........  7
Turkeyred 44........754
Martha Washington
“ X  .........   »54
“ 
“  4 4......... 10
“ 
Turkeyred...........   954
3-4XXXX 12
! Ri verpolnt robes....  5
Cocheco fancy........6  Windsor fancy............654
indigo blue........... 1054

gold  ticket

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TICKINGS.AC A.................
Pemberton AAA.
York...................
Swift River........
Pearl  River........
Warren...............

“  madders. . . 6 1  
“  XX twills..  6541 
solids......... 5541
“ 
Amoskeag A C A.... 13
Hamilton N ..............754
D..............854
Awning.. 11
Farmer....................8
First Prize...............1154
Lenox M ills...........18
Atlanta,  D..............  654¡Stark  A
Boot........................   654 No  Name__
Clifton, K......................   754 ¡Top of Heap
Simpson................. 20
.................18
...  ......... 16
Coechoo...............1054

COTTON  DRILL.

SATINEB

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Imperial..................1054
Black................  9@ 954
......................1054

“ 

.1254 
-.16 
.1054 
• •  754 
1254 
..14

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

7

BUSINESS  LAW.

Summarized  Decisions  from  Courts  of 

Last Resort.

B A N K   CH ECK—C E R TIFIC A T IO N —L IA B IL IT Y .
The Supreme Court of  Illinois held,  in 
the recent case of  Metropolitan National 
Bank vs. Jones,  that  where the  payee of 
a bank check  has it certified by the bank 
he  thereby releases the drawer  from  lia­
bility thereon.
RESTRA IN T  OF  T R A D E — CONSIDERATIO N.
Where  the  grocers  in  a certain  town 
agreed  with a firm  which  was  about  to 
open a butter store that  they  would  quit 
that  line of  trade for two  years,  and the 
firm paid  nothing to the grocers  and did 
not buy out any established business, the 
Supreme Court of Iowa held that the con­
tract was void  for waut of consideration.

M UN ICIPA L O R D IN A N C E-
F R A N C H ISE.

The Supreme Court of  Illinois held,  in 
the  recent  case  of  Tudor vs. Chicago & 
South Side  Rapid Transit  Railroad Com­
pany, that  an  ordinance of  a city grant­
ing authority  to  a  railroad  company  to 
locate  and construct  its  railroad  in  the 
city  along  a  designated  route,  and  not 
exceeding a given width,  when accepted, 
is  a  limitation  upon  the  power  of  the 
railroad company, and such company will 
have  no  authority  of  law  to  condemn 
property  for  right of  way  except  upon 
the route thus  limited and not exceeding 
the width fixed by the ordinance.

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M ORTGAGE— ASSIG NM EN T— L IE N .

According  to  the  decision of  the  Su­
preme Court of  Ohio in the  case of  Betz 
vs.  Snyder,  Assignee,  a mortgage of  real 
property,  which  has not been  deposited 
for record with the recorder of the proper 
county, before an assignment of the prop­
erty by the  mortgagor  for the  benefit of 
his creditors  takes effect,  is  not  a  valid 
lien  upon  the  property  as  against  the 
assignee or  the  creditors,  nor does it be­
come so by being  subsequently recorded. 
The  assignment  takes  effect,  as  to  all 
persons,  from  the time of  its  delivery to 
the Probate Court of the county in  which 
the  assignor  resided  at  the  time of  its 
execution,  and it is not  necessary that  it 
be also filed for  record with the recorder 
of deeds.

IN SU RA N CE— AC CID EN T— SUNSTROKE.
Under  a  policy of  accident  insurance 
death  from  sunstroke  cannot  be  con­
sidered an accidental death,  according to 
the decision of the United States District 
Court at Kansas City in the case of Dozier 
vs.  Fidelity and Casualty Company.  The 
court said, in giving judgment:  “It may 
be an accident that the person is exposed 
to  the  sunstroke,  but  the  conditions 
under  which  the  human  system may be 
affected by it certainly  belong to natural 
causes which  may reasonably  be  antici­
pated, As they come not by chance.  The 
term ‘accident,’  as used  in  the policy,  is 
presumed to be employed in the ordinary 
popular  sense,  which  means  happening 
by  chance,  unexpectedly  taking  place, 
not  according  to  the  usual  course  of 
things. 
So  that  a  result  ordinarily, 
naturally flowing from the conduct of the 
party, cannot  be  said  to  be  accidental, 
even  where he may not have  forseen the 
consequences.” 

_  ______

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

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

AUGURS AND BITS. 

AXES.

First Quality, S. B. Bronze..........................8 7 50

D.  B. Bronze..............................   12 00
S.B.S. Steel...............................   8 50
D. B. Steel..................................   13 50

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BABBOWS. 

dlS.

Railroad..................................................... 8 14 00
Garden.................................................. net  30 00
dls.

Stove..............................................................50&10
Carriage new list.........................................  
75
Plow..............................................................40410
Sleigh shoe  .................................................  
70

bolts. 

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST. 

Well,  plain................................................... 8350
Well, swivel.................................................   4 00
dls.
Cast Loose Pin, figured................................704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 60410
Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60410
Wrought Table.............................................60410
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60410
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70&16
Blind,  Parker’s .............................................70410
— ----  
"  
70
Blind, Shepard’s
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85.

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

BLOCKS.

c r a d l e s.

CROW BARS.

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

60
35
60

cartridges.

CHISELS. 

56
Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire...........................................dls. 
25
dlS.'
Socket Firmer............................................. 70410
Socket Framing............................................70416
Socket Corner...............................................70410
Socket Slicks...............................................70410
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40
40
urry,  Lawrence’s ......................................  
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per gross..............12@12*4 dls. 10

combs. 

dls.

CHALK.
COFFER.

“ 

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

drills. 

dls.

DRIPPING PANS.

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

30
28
25
25
27
50
50
50
07
6*4

e l b o w s.

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

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, 818; large, 826 ....................... 
Ives’, 1,818; 2, 824 ;  3, 836 ............................ 

f il e s—New List.
Disston’s .................................................
New  American.............................
Nicholson’s .........................................
Heller’s..............................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps..............................
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26; 
List 

GALVANIZED  IRON

12 

14

Discount, 60

13 
GAUGES.

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s—

d ls.

30
25
dls.
60416
60410
60410
50
50

HAMMERS.

 

 

dls.

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HINGES.

HANGERS. 

HOLLOW WARE.

wire goods. 
 

Maydole  & Co.’s ......................................dls. 
25
25
Kip’s........................................................ dls. 
Yerkes & Plumb’s ..................................dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................80c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand__30c 40&10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ..........................dis.60410
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 in. 4*4  14  and
longer.......................................................   3*4
Screw Hook and Eye, *4.........................net 
10
“ 
“  %.........................net  8*4
J£.........................net  7*4
“ 
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* .........................net  7*4
“ 
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Strap and T ............................................  dls. 
60
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track..  .50410
Champion, anti-friction.............................  60410
Kidder, wood track..................................... 
40
Pots............................................................... 
60
Kettles..........................................................  
60
60
Spiders............ 
 
Gray enameled................  
40410
HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.
Stamped  Tin Ware................................... new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..........................  
25
Granite Iron W are...................new list 33*4410
dls.
Bright.................. 
 
Screw  Eyes........................................70410410
Hook’s .............................  
 
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
levels. 
Stanley  Rule and Level  Co.’s 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain........... 
70
dls.
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  ......... 
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s.................... 
55
Branford’s ........................................... 
55
Norwalk’s ........................................  
Adze Eye.............................................. 816.00, dls. 60
Hunt Eye 
.......................................815.00, dls. 60
................................... 818.50, dls. 20410.
Hunt’s 
diS.
50
Sperry 4 Co.’s, Post,  handled.............  
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ........................... 
“  P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
40
40
“  Landers,  Ferry 4  Clr. k’s......... 
.....................  
25
“  Enterprise 
MOLASSES GATES. 
dlS.
Stebbln’s  Pattern....................... 
 
60410
Stebbin’s Genuine................................66410
Enterprise, self-measuring.................. 
26
Steel nails,  base.................................................. 1 80
Wire nails,  base.................................................. 2 20
60......................................................Base 
SO......................................................Base 

70410410
.70410410
70410410
70
55
55
55
55

Steel.  Wire.
Base
10

Advance over base: 

knobs—New List. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

LOCKS—DOOR. 

MATTOCKS.

NAILS

dls.
dls.

55

55

 

 

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2 00
Fine 3................................................ 1 50 
90
Case  10 .............................................  60 
1  00
8..................................   ........  75 
1  25
5........  .................................  90 
Finish 10..........................................   85 
1  00
s ............................................. 1 00 
1 25
1 50
6  ...........................................1  15 
75
Clinch; 10..........................................  85 
90
8..........................................1 00 
1 00
6.............................................1 15 
Barrell X......................................... I  75 
*5®
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...........  410
Fry,  Acme............................................ dis.60—10
70
Common,  polished................................dls. 
Iron and  Tinned........................................ 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................  
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED  IRON.

PLANES. 

rivets. 

FANS.

Broken packs *4c per pound extra.

dlS.

dls.

ROPES.

 

dls.

squARES. 

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, *4 Inch and larger.............................  
Manilla........................................... 
Steel and Iron.............................................. 
Try and Bevels............................................  
Mitre............................................................ 

7*4
11*4
75
60
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
83 10
3 20
3 20
3 30
3 40
3 50
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14...................................... 84 20 
Nos. 15 to 17 .....................................  4  20 
  4  20 
Nos.  18 to 21........................... 
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..............................   “ 
DrabB..................................  “ 
White C................................   “ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
56
50
55
35

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Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

TRAPS. 

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

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

Solid EyeB............................................per ton 825
20
70
no
30
30
Steel, Game................................................... 60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s  ... 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion...............................81.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market......................................... 70—10
Coppered M arket..................................... 
60
Tinned Market............................................   62*4
Coppered Spring  Steel................................ 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  3 40
painted...................................   2 85

wire. 

dls.

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WRENCHES. 

Au Sable.............................. dls. 25410@25410405
Putnam.......................................... 
dls.  05
N orth western................................ 
dls. 10410
diS.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
-50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable...............................75410
Bird Cages................................................... 
50
Pumps, ClBtern........................................ 
75
Screws, New 11st..........................................70410
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50410410
Dampers, American.................................. 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.......  
65

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dls.

HORSE NAILS.

 

26c
28c

SOLDER.

M ETALS,
PIG TIN.
Pig  Large.................................................... 
Pig Bars............................. 
ZINC.
Duty:  Sheet, 2*4c per pound.
6M
680 pound  casks........................................... 
Per  pound.................................................... 
7
*4@*4.............................................................. -1 6
Extra W iping.................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by nrivate brands
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................per  pound  16
13
Hallett’s.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.....................................
.....................................
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
.....................................
14x20 IX, 
..................................
Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.

TIN—MELYN GRADS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN— ALLA WAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“

10x14 IC,  Charcoal..............................
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

...................................
.....................................
Each additional X on this grade 81.50. 

ROOFING PLATES
Worcester..............

Allaway  Grade

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX,
14x28  IX. 
14x31  IX.
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers. | 
14x60 IX.  “ 

“ 9 

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BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

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( per  pouaa 

I 6 50 
6 50 
.  8  00 
00
6 50 
8  50
13 50 
5 75
7 25 
12 00 
15 00
814 00 
.15
to
1U

A Chemical Fire Alarm.

A new fire alarm now in  use in Sweden 
consists of a small copper cartridge closed 
by an India-rubber button and filled with 
a fire  composition.  The fuse  contains a 
mixture of potassium chlorate and sagar, 
and on it is placed a paraffin capsule con­
taining  a  few  drops of  sulphuric  acid. 
When the  temperature of  the room  rises 
above the  melting  point of  paraffin  the 
sulphuric  acid  is  liberated  and  ignites 
the  chlorate  mixture,  which in its  turn 
sets fire to the Bengal light.
A fusible metal  disc, placed in contact 
with  the  mixture,  will  also  be  melted, 
and thus make electrical connection with 
a call  bell so as to sound  the  alarm  at a 
distance.

A  New  York  firm  advertises  that  it 
will refoot silk stockings for $2 per pair 
or $1 per  foot.  By the  way,  there  is  a 
hosiery firm  in  that  city  which  allows 
ladies  to  try  on  silk  stockings  before 
purchasing,  having  provided  private 
apartments for that purpose.

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T H E   ]\nCHTGLAJSr  TRADESM AN.

Michigan Tradesman

Official O rgan o f M ichigan B usiness Men’s  A ssociation.

have  built  75,000  miles  of  railroad,  al­
most  as  much  as  our  total  mileage  in 
1880.

▲  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Retail  Trade of the Woliferine State,

The  Tradesm an  Company,  P roprietor. 

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

strictly in advance.

Publication  Office, 100 Louis St

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Entered at the Grand Rapids Post 0]/.: z.

E.  A.  STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY.  AUGUST  19,  1891.

OUR FUTURE  GREATNESS.

The  business  men  of  the  country are 
too apt to forget the soundness of  Amer­
ica’s vast  progress.  The  United  States 
is to-day,  almost  the  only  great  country 
in  the  world  whose  future  is  brighter 
than its past.  Great Britain has, in many 
respects,  reached  the  limit  of  its great­
ness. 
It  can  no  longer be the manufac­
turing center  of  the  world,  for  we  have 
taken the foremost position  in  that line. 
Its  vast iron  and  steel  business is yearly- 
increasing  in  cost  of  production,  while 
ours  is  decreasing. 
It  cannot  meet the 
world’s  ever-growing  demand  for  iron 
and steel,  because  it  cannot  increase its 
production to any great extent in compe­
tition with this country. 
It produced no 
more  pig-iron  in  1890,  notwithstanding 
the high prices prevailing,  than  in  1882, 
while we more than  doubled our output. 
Much of  its  ore  it  imports  from  far dis­
tant  regions. 
Its  cotton is all  imported. 
It  spends  about  §750,000,000  a  year for 
foreign  food-stuffs.  On  the  continent, 
every nation  is  burdened with debt,  and 
none can ever hope  to  pay off its obliga­
tions.  Measured  by  their  natural  re­
sources  and  their  possibilities, they  are 
bankrupt. 
In  all  of  them  the  cost  of 
production  and  of  living  is  steadily in­
creasing. 
In the  United States we have 
scarcely laid the foundation of our future 
greatness. 
In  natural  resources we  are 
richer than all  of  Europe combined ;  we 
are paying our debts faster than they are 
due;  we have barely scratched the grouud 
in the development of our mineral wealth; 
we were rich enough  to stand a decrease 
last year of  900,000,000  bushels of  grain 
as compared with 1889, on account of bad 
weather:  we are rich enough in  addition 
to  this  to  send  §70,000,000  in  gold  to 
Europe  within  a  few  months  without 
creating  any financial  trouble,  and  that, 
too,  after  Europe  had  unloaded  on  us 
millions of dollars of our stocks, because 
our securities were  the  only ones  in  the 
world  that  found  a  cash  market  when 
the  Barings  and  others  were  trying  to 
save  themselves. 
ten  years,  from 
1880 to 1890, we have added §2,000,000,000 
to our capital invested  in  manufactures, 
an  increase  of  nearly  75  per  cent. 
In 
the same time the value of  our manufac­
tured products has risen from §5,300,000- 
000  to  $8,600,000,000,  a  gain  of  $3,300,- 
000,000;  or,  in  other words,  we  are  now 
producing manufactured goods  at  a  rate 
of  $3,300,000,000  a  year  more  than  we 
were  ten  years  ago.  The  increase  in 
capital invested  in  manufactures  in  ten 
years,  from  1880  to  1890,  was  greater 
than  the  entire  amount  of  capital  in­
vested in 1870, or only twenty years ago. 
In these ten years the growth of our man­
ufacturing  interests  was  greater  than 
the growth from the settlement of Amer­
ica  up  to  1870. 
In  these  ten  years  we

In 

SUGGESTIONS  ABOUT  REST.

Dr.  William A.  Hammond makes  some 
suggestions in the  North  American  Re- 
vieio about  how to rest,  in which he inti­
mates  that  change  is  only partial  rest, 
and  that  the varying  of  occupations  of 
the mind as the farmer  rotates his  crops 
will  be  advantageous,  but allowing  the 
mind  to  lie  fallow occasionally like  the 
field  much  better.  “Men  and  women, 
like the fields of the earth, require change, 
and,  like  them,  they  require  rest,”  says 
Dr.  Hammond,  with  considerable  perti­
nency;  but  he  adds  that “these  objects 
can never be attained in the way that the 
avirage American sets  out to get them.” 
There  is  altogether  too  much  truth in 
this comment.  The  idea  of  rest  which 
the  average  American  possesses  is  to 
pack a trunk and satchel  in  haste, jump 
on a train and  jolt across half  the conti­
nent  to  stay a day  or  two at some  fash­
ionable  resort and then  jolt home again. 
There is change  enough in such a  jaunt, 
but  no  rest. 
If  Horace  Greeley  were 
alive he would  tell  the  listening  world 
that the way to rest is to rest.  Dr. Ham­
mond  should  have  put it just  that way, 
but he  didn’t.

A bushel of  wheat will buy more com­
modities  consumed  by  the  farmer  now 
than  at any  time in  the  history  of  this 
country  from  the  time  of  Christopher 
Columbus.  At one time  during the  war 
a bushel  of wheat  sold  for  two  dollars 
and  ninety cents  or could  be exchanged 
for five yards of muslin.  To-day a bushel 
of wheat  will buy  ten yards  of  as  good 
muslin.  At that time a bushel of wheat, 
worth §2.90,  would buy fifteen pounds of 
sugar; now it will buy twenty-one pounds 
of better sugar than people used in those 
days.

The  new  system  of  dress  reform  for 
the ladies provides for only four articles, 
including the dress. 
In  dropping  their 
skirts the  ladies do  not  seem  to  be  al­
lowed 
to  gather  up  anything  else. 
Against fashion’s  decrees  no  argument 
will  avail,  but  it  might  be  well  to  re­
mind the  ladies that  winter  is  not  very 
far off.

troit Exposition.

Only one  year  more of  national  pros­
perity, for  next  year the  political  fight 
will open, and the country .will certainly 
go to the  bow-wows if  the other  fellows 
get there.  ________________
Commercial  Travelers’ Day  at the  De­
Detr o it,  Aug.  11—I am  advised  by a 
committee  of  the  Michigan  Commercial 
Travelers’  Association  to  notify  T he 
T radesm an  that Saturday,  Aug.  29,  has 
been  designated as  “Commercial Travel­
ers’  Day”  in  the  official  programme of 
the  Detroit International  Fair & Exposi­
tion,  and will  be one of  the most  enjoy­
able  days for visitors at that  great  fair. 
Special  attractions are being  considered 
for  that  day,  while  the  regular  pro­
gramme  includes  trotting,  pacing  and 
running  races  on  the  exposition track; 
Prof. Damon’s  marvelous rifle  and pistol 
shooting;  morning,  afternoon  and  even­
ing  grand band  concerts;  balloon  ascen­
sions  and daring leaps  from the  clouds; 
the  magnificent war drama and gorgeous 
military spectacle,  “The  Siege of  Sebas­
topol,” and splendid fireworks.
Commercial  travelers  throughout  the 
state  will  be interested  in any  mention 
of  the  day that  you  may be  pleased  to 
make. 

Very truly yours.
Geo.  M.  Sa v a g e,  Sec’y.

G rip sack   B rigade

H. S. Powell, Upper Peninsula  travel­
ing  representative  for  the  I.  M.  Clark 
Grocery Co.,  was In town over Sunday,

Fred  L.  Fallas  has  started  out  on  a 
six  weeks’ trip through  Northern Michi­
gan and the  Upper  Peninsula in  the  in­
terest of Fallas & Son.

Hi.  Robertson’s  left  shoulder blade  is 
in  fairly  good  shape  again,  so  that  he 
expects to be able to resume regular trips 
on the road next Monday.

P.  Reynolds was  given a judgment for 
§110 against the  Warren  Boot  and  Shoe 
Co., Boston,  by  Justice Brown  on Satur­
day.  The amount of the  judgment  rep­
resented  commissions  on  sales  claimed 
by Reynolds while in the  employ  of  the 
defendant.

Commercial  travelers have won an im­
portant victory in the courts.  The second 
division of  the  New York  Court of  Ap­
peals  recently  held  (Taylor  vs.  Enoch 
Morgan’s  Sons Company) that  the  trav­
eler  was  entitled to commissions  on  all 
orders  made  by purchasers  on  the  line 
of his route, whether taken and forwarded 
by  him or not,  and  also on orders  from 
responsible  parties whether  accepted by 
his employers  or  not.  The  commission 
men  will hold  this as a streak of  divine 
j ustice.

The  Transportation Committee  of  the 
National  Wholesale  Druggists’  Associa­
tion  has  written to some of  the  general 
passenger  agents of  Western  roads,  ask­
ing what objections there are to the issu­
ing of  5,000 mile interchangeable tickets 
for the  use of  traveling salesmen.  Gen­
eral Passenger Agent Eustis, of  the Bur­
lington,  replies  at  some  length  to  the 
letter.  He  says one  obstacle to the sell­
ing of  interchangeable  tickets would  be 
removed if  all the  railroads could agree. 
But there were  several  other difficulties, 
and  chief  among  these  was  the  ticket 
broker.  Most  of  the  difficulties  would 
disappear if  business were conducted  in 
this country as it is in  Canada,  where by 
law  agents  are compelled to sell  tickets 
at  reasonable  rates  and  all  others  are 
prohibited from selling them at any rate. 
Mr.  Eustis  contends  that  the  National 
Druggists’ Association and similar organ­
izations control  this question,  as it  is  in 
their power, and  not In the power of  the 
railroads,  to abolish the ticket broker.

“I well remember  my first  visit  to Pe- 
toskey,” remarked  Chas. S.  Robinson on 
a G.  R.  & I. train the  other day.  “I had 
never been further north than Cadillac— 
then known as Clam  Lake—but had  fre­
quently been  invited to visit the embryo 
city  by Hon.  H.  O.  Rose. 
I  was  selling 
soap in  those  days  and in the  spring  of 
1874 I agreed  to go on to Little  Traverse 
Bay if Mr. Rose  would  guarantee  me an 
order,  which  he  did. 
It  took  a day  to 
make the run  from  Cadillac to Petoskey, 
so that the  trip required  three  days,  but 
the initial  order  from  Fox,  Rose & But- 
tars  was  the  beginning of  such a hand­
some  trade  that  I  never  regretted  the 
half  a  week  it  took 
I 
noticed  several  little  towns  along  the 
line and  watched  the late  Billy Pitwood 
capture  orders  ‘on  the  fly’ as the  train 
stopped  to  take  on  or leaye  freight. 
I 
soon learned his method of  selling goods 
and  have  been going  over  that  line al­
most continuously ever since.”

to  secure  it. 

the 

item 

“I  noted 

in  last  week’s 
| T radesm an to the effect  that the  jobber 
I pays the  freight,” remarked a represent- 
| ative dry  goods  salesman the  other  day,

“and it recalled a number of experiences 
I  have  met in a career of  a  dozen  years 
on  the  road. 
I  was  once  solicited  to 
hand  over  §10 to help  build a church by 
one  of  my  best  customers  and  com­
promised  by  paying  $5. 
I  afterwards 
saw  the  subscription  paper  and  noted 
that the traveling men had been mulcted 
§145  for  this  purpose.  Our  house was 
recently asked to f uruish a country church 
with a carpet and  compromised the  mat­
ter by mailing  the  customer a check  for 
§25.  Our  senior once  received  four  let­
ters  from as many  customers  in a single 
town,  soliciting aid for  the same church. 
It was afterwards learned that at a meet­
ing  of  the  church  members,  it  was  re­
solved  that the  merchants ask their  job­
bing friends to assist in  the  work,  which 
accounted for the arrival of simultaneous 
appeals. 
I  have  contributed  to  funds 
for  church  bells,  bought chances  on  or­
gans, music  boxes  and  crazy quilts  and 
been  frequently  caught  on  a  quarter’s 
worth of cigars, and I suppose I will con­
tinue to make a fool of myself with great 
regularity,  but I cannot  help  kicking at 
the  injustice of  the  thing, nevertheless. 
It is an outrage that traveling men should 
be  called  upon  in  this  manner  and  I 
heartily  wish  T h e  T radesm an  could 
agitate  the  matter  until  our  friends of 
the retail trade  come to look at the thing 
in its proper light.”

The Crank in Business.

From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.

There  are  cranks  and  cranks.  The 
crank  in social  life can  be  tabooed. 
In 
church,  if  there is a crank, one can sit in 
another pew.  But in business the crank 
must be endured.
The  writer  saw  an  order a few  days 
ago  from  a  country  merchant  for  a 
the 
specialty  in  dress  goods.  After 
representative  of  the  wholesale  house 
had  taken the  order,  a telegram  was  re­
ceived  from  the  manufacturer,  stating 
that  he  was  unable to supply  any more 
of the goods.  Thereupon the wholesaler 
notified  the  crank  in  question  that  he 
could  only  deliver a part  of  the  goods, 
as he had  contracts out for more than he 
could  get.  He  had been  placed  in  this 
dilemma  because  of  the  failure  of  the 
manufacturer to fill his own orders.
Now,  what  did  the crank  do?  Did he 
say  that  he was  sorry,  but  would  take 
what they could give him?  Not he.  His 
reply  came:  “Cancel  my  entire  order. 
If you can’t give  me what you agreed to, 
then I won’t take anything.”
The  entire order  amounted  to  over  a 
thousand  dollars—good,  desirable  stuff, 
which  had  been  bought  at  reasonable 
prices,  and  which  would  soon  be  re­
quired  for  business.  That’s  only  one 
case in  many.
Another  instance  that fell  under  the 
observation of  the  writer a few days ago 
was  in  regard  to  the cancellation of  an 
order. 
It may be proper to cancel orders 
under  certain  circumstances—we’ll  not 
argue that point at the present time. 
In 
the  case in point  the merchant had  evi­
dently  bought  the  bill of  goods  for  the 
purpose of  cancelling it.  They  were  a 
line  of  imported  dress  goods  which  is 
controlled  exclusively  by  one  of  the 
houses in this market. 
It  is  utterly im­
possible  to  obtain a single  piece  of  the 
goods in the  United  States  except  from 
the house in question.
Yet this  merchant  had the  hardihood 
in  cancelling  the order  for the  goods to 
assign  as a reason  that he had  been able 
to buy the  identical article  from another 
wholesale house at 10 to 15 per cent,  less 
money.
The stuff  had already  been packed  up 
when the cancellation  came.  Other cus­
tomers had  been induced to modify their 
demands  in  order  that  he  might  have 
just what he called  for,  aud this was the 
result.
There  is  no  redress,  however.  The 
crank is as liable  to  get into  business as 
anywhere  else, and  when  he  makes his 
appearance, other and better people must 
grin and bear it.

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

individual freedom. 
It is wrong in prin­
ciple,  and  no  permanent success or last­
ing  benefit can  be  obtained  through  its 
employment.

H ow  to  Get  Along.

promptness.
nothing of.

going steadilp than by stopping.

hours.
found there when wanted.
stores and saloons.

Don’t  stop  to tell  stories  in  business 
If you  have  a  place  of  business,  be 
No man  can get rich  by sitting around 
Never fool in business  matters.
Have  order,  system,  regularity  and 
Do not meddle with business you know 
Do not kick everyone in your path.
More miles can be made in one day  by 
Pay as you go.
A man of honor  respects  his  word  as 
he does his bond.
Help others when you  can,  but  never 
give what you cannot afford because it is 
fashionable.
Learn  to  say  no.  No  necessity  of 
snapping  it out  dog-fashion,  but  say it 
firmly and respectfully.
Use your own brains rather than those 
of others.
Learn to think and act for yourself.
Keep  ahead  rather  than  behind  the 

times.

Literal  English.

A woman  went  into  an  avenue  drug 
store to have a  prescription  filled.  The 
druggist  compounded  the  drugs  and  as 
he handed the  bottle to the customer,  he 
said pleasantly:
“Here’s  you  prescription,  ma’am— 
shake!”
“I’ll do nothing of the  kind,”  snapped 
the woman,  “and 1 think  you’ve  a  good 
deal of impudence to ask me to.”
“You  don’t  understand,”  exclaimed 
the druggist;  “I  mean  when  you  take 
the prescription,  you must shake.”
“I don’t want  the  prescription  if  it’s 
going to make  me  shake,”  objected  the 
customer.
“Good heavens,  woman, it’s  the bottle 
you are to shake,” shrieked the druggist.
“What  good  will  it  do  me?”  queried 
the woman.
“ He  means,  madam,”  said  the  drug­
gist’s  assistant,  coming  to  the  rescue, 
“that  the mixture  in  the  bottle  should 
be well shaken before  taken.”
“Well,  couldn’t  he  have  said  so?” 
asked  the  wrathful  customer  as  she 
looked a farewell suspicion at the unfor­
tunate druggist.

Observe  His  W eight.

Charles L. Webert in St. Louis Olobe-Democrat.

I saw a  joke in one  of  the  papers  the 
other day about  a  shoemaker asking  his 
customer  his weight.  The joke  was  on 
the  joker,  I  think,  for  the  thoughtful 
man generally takes stock of his custom­
er’s build,  and  notes  his  walk as well. 
This is because the  wear and  tear  on  a 
shoe depends very largely  upon these de­
tails.  A light, active  man  wears  out  a 
great  deal  of  shoe  leather  because  he 
generally  walks  a  great  deal,  and  also 
because a light quick step  generally  in­
volves  a  great  deal  of  scraping.  The 
heavy  man  has  of  necessity  to  take  a 
firmer  tread,  and he  will  wear  his  sole 
very little in consequence, but unless his 
legs are perfectly straight and  his  tread 
absolutely solid he will destroy the vamp 
long before the material in  the  shoe  be­
gins to show even signs of  wear.  There 
is nothing at all  funny in a careful shoe­
maker making  a  note of  his  customer’s 
weight, because by doing so and strength­
ening things  where  the  heaviest  strain 
will come he can  add  to  the  life  of  the 
shoe and to the satisfaction of its wearer.

A  Serious  Misunderstanding:.

But 

From the Toledo-Business World.
The  attitude which  the  manual  labor 
of  the  country is assuming  through  its 
various  organizations,  is  one  well  cal­
culated to cause  the  friends of  republi­
canism  the  gravest  anxiety.  Formerly 
it was  supposed that  the man  who  was 
engaged  by  another  to  perform  certain 
work had a natural  and  logical  interest 
in  the  success  of  the  enterprise  upon 
which he was employed and the prosper­
ity of the man whose  money he received. 
It was  regarded as good political  econo­
my  to  assume  that  the  welfare  of  the 
employe  was  dependent upon  and  grew 
largely  out  of  the  good  fortune of  the 
employer,  and  that  whatever  hindered 
or harassed the latter  was retlected  with 
greater or less force upon the former.
latterly  there  has  sprung  up 
throughout  the  country and  in  various 
callings  a  new  series  of  organizations 
known as  “Labor Unions,”  in which the 
individuality  and  freedom of  the work­
man  is  merged  into  the  association  of 
which  he  forms a part,  and  where  the 
theory  is  inferentially,  if  not  openly, 
taught  that  every man  or company  em­
ploying  labor is the natural  and  inevit­
able enemy of those so employed.  Nom­
inally  formed for  the  purpose of  incul­
cating  a  fraternal  spirit  and  elevating 
the grade and quality of  their particular 
these  organizations  become 
calling, 
practically  machines 
for  forcing  up 
the 
incompetent,  and  pulling  down 
the  superior workman to the  dead  level 
of  mediocrity;  for  if  the  union  decrees 
that  wages shall  be  $2 a day,  no  matter 
how  skilful and  industrious a workman 
may be, he cannot  earn beyond  the limit 
which his society has fixed for him.  The 
incompetent  man  finds  his  wages  in­
creased by this arbitrary regulation above 
his real earning capacity, and cares little 
and  knows  less  that  it comes  as  a  tax 
upon his more competent fellows.  This 
may  be  regarded  as  a  sweeping  state­
ment,  but it is nevertheless true that the 
practical working of a labor union sched­
ule is to impose a penalty upon skill ami 
provide  a  premium  for  inefficiency,  or 
worse. 
It  needs  but  a  moment’s  con­
sideration for a disinterested  observer to 
see that in all this, these men labor under 
a most serious misapprehension as to what 
is for their  own interests;  and  that  ow­
ing to the very nature of things,  the best 
of them are the greatest sufferers.
After a while there comes a time when 
the  members of  some  certain  organiza­
tion decide that  they will ask  for higher 
wages,  and  the  request is unsuccessful. 
No man,  no organization of  men, can  be 
compelled  to perform  unwilling  service 
for what  he  regards as inadequate  pay. 
Surely in a republican  country the  con­
verse ought to be true that no man should 
be  compelled  to  pay  for  labor  a  price 
that  he deems  excessive.  Theoretically 
it is true,  but is  it  practically?  The re­
course of  the man who does  not wish  to 
labor at a stipulated  price  is  to  discon­
tinue his labor.  But the recourse of  the 
employer who is unwilling to pay a price 
above the  market is—what?  The  labor 
organization  says to the  employer,  “We 
are unwilling to work any longer at your 
price,  and  therefore  we  have  stopped. 
But while  you may refuse  to  pay us our 
price,  we  also  refuse to allow  anybody 
else  to  work  for  you  at  yours.”  And 
thereupon  they proceed to set law at  de­
fiance,  and  enter on the  performance  of 
acts under the form and color of organiz­
ation which none of  them  would venture 
upon as individuals.
The  resort  to  force, either  actual  or 
threatened,  in a labor  strike is made  by 
labor  organizations  under  the  gravest 
misapprehension as to their own welfare. 
A single thought would convince the men 
that  an  appeal  to  force is a begging  of 
the very question  they  seek to establish. 
For if  the wages  they receive are  lower 
than corresponding remuneration in other 
lines of work,  or less than other  men are 
willing  to  do  the  same  work  for,  then 
force is unnecessary and  the employer is 
obliged  to  come  to them  for  his  labor. 
If,  on  the  other  hand,  the  wages  de­
manded are above the market price,  they 
are  unjust  to  the  employer  and  ought 
not to be paid.
The labor strike  is  antagonistic  to  re­
publican  institutions and to the  highest

G.  B.  Martin has sold his bank at  East 

Jordan to Reuben Glenn.

If you would be  A  LEADER, handle only goods of

Opium and morphine are steady.  Qui­
nine is lower for  German  brands.  Bro­
mide  potash  is  unsettled  and 
lower. 
Prussiate  potash  has  declined.  Gum 
arabic  is  lower.  Serpentaira  has  de­
clined.  Turpentine is higher.

The  Drug  Market.

9
A merchant  refused to hire as  a  clerk 
a young  man whose  pantaloons,  he  no­
ticed,  were worn at  the knees  and  seat, 
because  he  judged  that  a  good  clerk 
would not  thus  wear  his  clothing. 
In 
another  case  a  merchant  chose  from 
twenty applicants  a boy who  stopped to 
wipe his muddy feet  before  entering his 
office,  and whose finger nails were clean. 
“It is attention to little-things that makes 
a good clerk,” said the merchant.
Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

LEH M AN N   Ï Go.

GOOD  YEAST  18  INDISPENSABLE.

cheap, unreliable goods.

VALUE.

If  you are satisfied  to  remain at  TAIL  END  buy 

TH EIRYellow Label”S‘Best!

UNDER

GRAND  RAPIDS  OFFICE: 

26 Fountain St.

FACTORY  DEPOT; 

118 Bates  St., D etroit, Mich.

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 T T IT IT T  G -S .

We have an excellent  assortment in fine worsted, cheviot, 
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 
Thursday and Friday, September 3 and 4, 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.

The  Saginaw   Grocers  to  Picnic.
Sa g in a w ,  Aug.  15—The  retail grocers 
and commission merchants of Saginaw to 
the number of 300 will,  in company with 
their  wives and  children, enjoy  a  day’s 
outing  at  Bay  Port  August  20.  Boos’ 
band has  been engaged for  the  occasion 
and a program is  being arranged,  which 
includes races, games and athletic sports 
of all kinds.

Use Tradesman jlo Superior Coupons.

MICHAJBL  KOJLB  &  SON,

Wholesale 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.

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Orugas #  M e d ic in e s .

State  Board  of P h arm acj.

One  Tear—Stanley E. Park ill, Owosso.
Two  Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Three  Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Pour Years—Ottm&r Eberbach, Ann Arbor 
Five Years—George Gundrum, Ionia.
President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Meetings  for  1891 — Houghton,  Sept.  1;  Lapsing 
Nov. 1 _______________________________________
Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Asa’n. 

President— D. E. Prall, Saginaw.
Tirst Vice-President— H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. 
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor. 
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in  October, 1891._______
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President. W. R. Jewett, Secretary,  Frank H. Escott, 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March 
June, September and December.____________ ____
Grand R ap id s  D rug Clerks* Association, 
resident, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith._______

Detroit  P h a rm a c eu tica l  Society. 

President. F. Rohnert;  Secretary, J. P. Rhein frank.
Muskegon  Drug Clerks*  Association. 

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

PATENT  MEDICINES.

Retrospect of the  Subject by a Veteran 

Practitioner.

The  following  is taken  from  a  paper 
by Dr. John S.  Billings, prepared for the 
celebration  of  the  centennial  of  the 
American patent system:
The  application of  the  patent  system 
to  medicine in this  country has  had  its 
advantages for  certain  people,  has given 
employment to a considerable  amount of 
capital  in  production  (and  to  a  much 
larger  amount  in  advertising),  has  con­
tributed  materially  to  the  revenues  of 
the  Government, and  has  made  a  great 
deal of  work for  the medical  profession.
So  far  as  1  know,  but  one  complete 
system of  medicine lias been  patented in 
this  country,  and  that  was  the  steam, 
cayenne  pepper,  and 
lobelia  system— 
commonly  known  as  Thomsnnianism— 
to which  a  patent was granted  in  1836. 
The  right to practise this system,  with a 
book  describing  the  methods,  was  sold 
by the patentee for 820, and  perhaps some 
of  you  may have  some  reminiscences of 
it  connected with  jour  boyish  days.  1 
am certain I shall  never forget the effects 
of  “Composition  Powder,” or of  “Num­
ber  Six,” which  was  essentially  a  con­
centrated  tincture  of  cayenne  pepper, 
and  one  dose of  which  was  enough  to 
make a boy willing  to go  to  school for a 
month.
From  a  report  made  by  the  Commis­
sioner of  Patents in  1849,  it appears that 
eighty-six patents for  medicine had been 
granted  to  that  date;  for  the  specifica­
tions of most of  those issued before 1836 
had been lost by fire.  The greater number 
of  patents for medicines were  issued be­
tween 1850 and 1860.
The  total  number of  patents  granted 
for  medicines  during  the  last  decade 
(1880-1890)  is  540.  This,  however,  ap­
plies  only  to  “ patent  medicines,” prop­
erly so-called,  the  claims  for  which are, 
for  the  most  part, presented by simple- 
minded men who know very  little of  the 
ways of  the world.  A  patent requires a 
full  and  unreserved  disclosure  of  the 
recipe, and the mode of compounding the 
same,  for  the  public  benefit  when  the 
term of  the  patent  shall  have  expired; 
and the Commissioner of Patents may,  if 
he chooses,  require  the  applicant to fur­
nish specimens of the composition and of 
its  ingredients,  sufficient in quantity  for 
the  purpose of  experiment.  The  law, 
however,  does  not  require the  applicant 
to  furnish  patients  to  be  experimented 
on, and  this  may be the  reason  why the 
Commissioner has  never demanded  sam­
ples  of  the  ingredients.  By  far 
the 
greater  number of  owners  of  panaceas I 
and nostrums are too shrewd to thus pub­
lish  their  secrets,  for  they  can  attain 
their purpose much  better under the law 
for  registering  trade  marks and  labels, 
designs  for  bottles  and  packages,  and 
copyrights of  printed  matter,  which  are 
less costly and do not reveal the arcanum. 
These  proprietary  medicines  constitute 
the  great  bulk of  what  the  public  call 
“patent medicines.”

The trade in patent and secret remedies 
has been, and  still  is,  an  important one. 
We  are a bitters-and-pill-taking  people. 
In  the  fried-pork  and  saleratus-biscnit 
regions the demand for such medicines is

calling  them tonics,  stimulants  and  re­
storatives for the  body and soothing  ex- 
hilarants  for the  mind.  And it  is  true 
that  these  same  designations  and  the 
ideas conveyed by  them,  are  still  domi­
nant in  the family  circles,  the highways 
and  the  newspapers  of  this  and  other 
countries.  Even the  great  majority  of 
medical  men  still  contribute  their  full 
share to the support  and perpetuation of 
these very general and destructive popu­
lar errors, by  habitually using the  same 
language and sanctioning  the same prac­
tices regarding them.
I call them  destructive popular  errors 
advisedly,  because the  abundant  results 
of their  use in  every  circle  or  grade of 
human  society,  and  because  the  most 
rigorous,  varied  and  skillful  scientific 
investigations  have  both  demonstrated 
that no form of  alcoholic drink  is  capa­
ble of warming,  strengthening,  nourish­
ing or  sustaining the life of  any  human 
being. 
I  presume  many  of  those  who 
are  listening  to me  will  regard  this  as 
an  extravagant  statement,  more  es­
pecially  as  they  remember  the  many 
nursery and newspaper stories they have 
heard concerning  sick persons who were 
alleged to have  been kept alive on  noth­
ing but wine, brandy or whisky.
The falsity of  all such stories is  made 
apparant by the fact that nineteen-twei- 
tieths of all the alcoholic drinks given to 
the  sick  are  given  in  connection  with 
water,  milk, eggs  or meat broths,  which 
furnish  the  nutriment  and  would  sup­
port the patient better  if given with  the 
same  perseverance  without  the  alcohol 
than with  it. 
It  is  true  that  chemical 
analysis  detects  the  existence  of  some 
gum,  sugar  and  starch  or  fecula  in  the 
fermented liquids,  beer  and wine,  which 
may  be  classed  as  nutriment.  But  the 
proportion  is so  small as to be of  no  ap­
preciable  value.  Baron  Liebig,  one  of 
the most eminent  chemists of  Germany, 
has left on record the  statement that “If 
a man drinks daily eight or ten quarts of 
the best  Bavarian beer, in  the course  of 
twelve  months he will  have  taken  into 
his  system 
the  nutritive  constituents 
contained in a five-pound loaf of bread.”

Saginaw—E.  G.  Bangbart  succeeds E. 
G.  Bangbart & Co.  in  the drug  business.

The Pow er o f Imagination.

“The  power  of  imagination,”  said  a 
druggist,  “is  past  comprehension.  Not 
long  since a domestic in the  employ of a 
prominent family came into  the store  in 
great  haste  with  a  prescription  which 
called for two grains of  morphine in two 
ounces  of  aqua  pura,  that  is,  distilled 
water,  the accompanying  directions: 
‘A 
teaspoonful every  hour until  the pain  is 
allayed.’  The  patient  for whom  it  was 
intended was the head of the family,  who 
was  suffering  from  a  severe  attack  of 
nervous neuralgia.

“Now it  so  happened  that the  family 
physician who  had written  the  prescrip­
tion  was  behind  the  counter  when  the 
messenger  arrived,  having  dropped  in, 
as was his wont,  on the way to his office. 
While I was patting  up the  prescription 
we  chatted, 
laughed  and  joked,  and 
passed  the  time of  day  as  only  profes­
sional men are capable of doing. 
I filled 
the  bottle,  corked  it  carefully,  and  la­
belled it properly, and,  when the retreat­
ing form of the domestic had disappeared 
out of  the  store  door,  returned  to  my 
companionable  physician  visitor.  As  I 
did  so I saw  to  my  amazement  the  two 
grains of  morphine  reposing on  the pre­
scription scales.

" ‘Good Heaven, doctor!’ 

I ejaculated. 
‘I’ve given that girl nothing but distilled 
water.  The  morphine  is  here;  look  at 
it.  What shall I do?’

“ ‘Do?’ he replied with admirable sang 
I’ll 
froid,  ‘do?  Why,  nothing  at  all. 
wager  you a bottle  that  the  aqua  p)ira 
will  work as well  without  the  opiate as 
with it.

“ ‘Agreed,’  said I.
“The doctor was right,” concluded  the 
pharmacist,  “and  the  patient  with  the 
nervous  neuralgia—an  exceptionally in­
telligent  and  college-bred  man — was 
sleeping as peacefully as a babe after the 
second  dose  of  the  mixture.  Faith  is 
everything where medicine is concerned.”

unfailing, but everywhere they are found.
I suppose the chief consumption of them 
is by women and children  with a fair  al­
lowance of  clergymen,  if  we may  judge 
from  the  printed  testimonials. 
I  sam­
pled a good many of them myself when I 
was a boy.  Of  course, these remarks do 
not  apply to bitters.  One  of  the  latest 
patents is for a device to wash  pills  rap­
idly down the throat.
I am  sorry to say  that I have  been un­
able to obtain  definite  information as  to 
the  direct  benefits  which  inventions  of 
this kind have conferred on the public in 
the way of cure of  disease or preventing 
death.  Among the questions which were 
not put in the schedules of the last census 
were  the  following, namely:  “Did  you 
ever take any patent or proprietary med­
icine?”  “If so,  what and how much, and 
what  was  the  result?”  Some  very  re­
markable  statistics would no doubt have 
been obtained had this inquiry been made.
1 can  onlj~ say that I know of  but four 
secret  remedies which  have  been  really 
valuable  additions  to  the  resources  of 
practical  medicine, and the  composition 
of  all  these is now known.  These  four 
are  all  powerful  and  dangerous,  and 
should  only be  used  on  the advice of  a 
skilled  physician.

King-  Alcohol  Dethroned.

Go o d iia rt,  Aug.  1—I read  an  article, 
headed “ King Alcohol,” in T h e T rades­
man  some  time  ago  and  should  have 
made a  reply at the  time,  if  I  had  had 
the data I desired at hand. 
I do not now 
remember  all  the  various  points 
the 
writer  attempted to  make, nor will  1  at­
tempt any reply; but I  do  remember  an 
impression  he  made  on  my  mind  that 
he was  not  posted  in  regard  to  the  po­
sition occupied  by some of the most emi­
nent physicians in this country and Eng­
land on  the use of  alcoholics in  medical 
practice;  and,  also,  that he was not aware 
that there  were  any  hospitals  in  exis­
tence  where  spiritous  liquors  were  not 
used for any  purpose.  As the article  in 
question was calculated—I  will  not  say 
intended—to mislead the readers of your 
valuable  paper,  I  take  the  liberty  of 
sending jou a marked copy of the  Voice, 
containing  a  report of  the  proceedings 
and some able papers  read before an  in­
ternational  congress of  medical men,  re­
cently  held  at  the  National  Prohibition 
Park,  with the request that you will give 
at least  the  address  of  Dr.  S.  N. Davis, 
of  Chicago,  a  place  in  T h e  T ra d es­
man.
With  highest  personal  regards,  I  re­
main, 

Very truly yours,

Gideon N o el.

The address to which  Mr.  Noel  refers 

was as follows:
Why does an intelligent  and free  peo­
ple  continue  to  spend  such  enormous 
sums of money on drinks that so  plainly 
bring nothing but evil in return? 
I  an­
swer:  First,  because  of  the  erroneous 
education of the  greater  portion  of  the 
people in  regard to  the true  nature  and 
effects  of  alcoholic  drinks  when  taken 
into  the human  system,  and,  second,  be­
cause of  their  power to  pervert the  sen­
sibility of the brain  and nervous system, 
and thereby  devolop  the  most  fascinat­
ing and persistent mental delusions.
A large majority of  the inhabitants  of 
every country  receive the  most  influen­
tial  and enduring part of their education 
not  in the  school-room  or  from  books, 
but from the opinions, maxims and prac­
tices that  they hear and  see from  infan­
cy  to  adult  age  in  the  family,  on  the 
street  and  in  the  social  circles  of  the 
neighborhood.  From a very early period 
in  the  history  of  these  drinks,  before 
chemistry  had  separated  and  revealed 
the nature of the  active  ingredient  that 
pervades them  all,  the  people  judging 
only from the  sensations and  actions in­
duced by  their use,  were  very  generally 
persuaded to regard them as stimulating, 
warming,  soothing and restorative.  Con­
sequently they speedily  found their way 
into almost every  household in Christen­
dom,  and  was ever ready  to  relieve  the 
baby’s  colic,  to  enable  the  mother  to 
give  more milk,  to  relieve  the  father’s 
weariness,  and to  prevent  the  boys  and 
girls  from “taking colds”  when  exposed 
to wet or  cold weather;  and,  of  course, 
doctors,  priests and  people all united  in

No,  $2,25  for  1,000  printed  state­
ments  does  not  buy  very good  stock, 
but you  can send  for a sample and see 
for  yourself  what  it  is*

'The Tradesman Company,

Grand  Rapids*

P E R K I N S   <Ss  H E S S
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Nux Vomica, (po 20).. 
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Pioneer Prepared Paintl 20©1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.....................1 00©1 20
No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................160®1 TO
Coach  Body...............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp  Furn....... 1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp.........................  70©  75

VARNISHES.

Wholesale Price  Current•

Advanced—Turpentine.
Declined  German quinine, bromide potash, prusslate potash, gum arabic, serpentaria.

ACIDUM.

8©  10
Aceticum................... 
Benzoicum  German..  80@1  00
Boracic 
....................  
80
Carbolicum...............   83©  35
Citricum....................  55©  58
Hvdrochlor...............   3©  5
.................  10©  18
Nltrocum 
Oxalicum...................  11©  13
80
Phosphorlum dll........ 
Salley licum .....................1  30©1 TO
Sulphuricum.............. 
IX©  5
Tannicum........................1  40@1 60
Tartaricum.................  40©  48

AMMONIA.

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Aqua, 16  deg..............  3M@  5
7
Carbonas  ...................  18©  14
Chloridum.................  18©  14

80  deg............ 5M@ 

ANILINE.

Black............................... 8 00©8 25
Brown........................   80@1 00
Red.......................—   45©  50
Yellow............................2 50©3 00

BACCAB.

Cubeae (po.  80)........  90@1  10
Juniperus..................   8©  10
Xautnoxylum............   85©  30

BALSAMUM.
 

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

CORTBX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Cassiae  ...............................  11
Cinchona Flava  .................  18
Euonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrica  Cerifera, po............   80
Prunus Virginl....................  12
Qulllala,  grd.......................  14
Uhnuefpo (Ground- iaj'.-.! 
'.  10

BXTBACTUM.

Glycyrrhiza  Glabra...  34©  25
po...........  33©  35
“ 
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11©  12
Is...............   13©  14
“ 
“  Vis..............  14®  15
“  Ms..............  16©  17

FERBUM.

Carbonate Precip........  ©  15
Citrate and Quinta....  @3 50
Citrate  Soluble...........  ®  80
Ferrocyanldum Sol —  
©  50
Solut  Chloride...........  ©  15
Sulphate,  com’l .........  1J4®  2
pure............   ©  7

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FLORA.

 
FOLIA.

Arnica.......................  18©  20
Anthemls..................   80©  85
Matricaria 
25©  30

 

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin

..................   20©  70
nlvelly....................  25©  88
Alx.  35©  50
and  Ms...... .............  12©  15
8©  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
UraUrsi.....................  

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Acacia,  1st  picked—   ©  90
“  —   ©  65
2d 
3d 
....  @ 50
“ 
©  35
silted sorts... 
po.................  60@Lj 80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50©  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)... 
©  12
“  Socotrl. (po.  60).  @ 50
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Ms,
16)...................... 
1
Ammonlae.................  30©  35
Assafoatlda, (po. 30)...  @  20
Benzolnum.................  50©  55
Camphors..................   52©  55
Euphorblum  po  ........  35©  lo
Galbanum..................   ©3 00
Gamboge,  po...... .......  80©  95
Guaiacum, (po  30) 
©  85
Kino,  (po.  25)............   ©  80
Mastic.......................  ©  90
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
Opil.  (po. 3 20)............1  90©2 00
Shellac  ......................  23©  30
bleached........  88©  33
Tragacanth...............   30©  75

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Absinthium.........................  ■ 25
Eupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia................................   25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
“  V lr.........................  25
Rue......................................   30
Tanacetum, V .....................   22
Thymus,  V..........................  25
Calcined, Pat.............   55©  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  80©  28
Carbonate, K. &  M —   80©  85
Carbonate, Jennings..  35©  36

MAGNESIA.

OLEUM.

Absinthium................ 5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dnlc___  _  45© 75
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 00@8 85
A nlsl...........................2 00@2 10
Aurantl  Cortex...........3 60@3 75
Bergamil  ...................3 75®4 00
Cajiputi................  
  70©  80
Caryophylli...............   90@1  no
Cedar.........................  35©  65
Chenopodil................  @2 00
Clnnamonli.................1  15@1 20
Citronella..................   ©  45
Conltun  Mac..............  35©  65
Copaiba  .................... 1  20@1  80

Cubebae.....................   @750
Exechthitos..............  2 50@2  75
Erigeron.....................2 50@2 75
Gaultheria....... ......... 8 00@2  10
Geranium,  ounce......  ©  75
Gossipii,  Sem. gal......  50©  75
Hedeoma  ...................1 85@2 00
Juniper!......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonis...................... 2 50©3 10
Mentha Piper...............2 90©3 00
Mentha Verid............. 2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal..............1  00@1 10
Myrcia, ounce...........
© 50
Olive....................
90®2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35
1  10© 12
Ricini ..............  ......
1  04@1  20
75©1 00
Rosmarin!__ ____
Rosae, ounce............
@600
Succlnl......................
40© 45
Sabina.....................
90@1  00
Santa!  ......................
3 50@7 00
Sassafras...................
45© 50
Sinapis, ess, ounce ...
© 65
TiglH.........................
@1  00
Thyme......................
40© 50
opt  ..............
© 60
Theobromas..............
15© 20
POTASSIUM.

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Potassa, Bitart, com.

15® 18
13® 14
28© 30
12© 15
14© 16
50© 55
2 80@2 90
28© 30
© 15
8® 10
7© 9
28© 30
15© 18
20© 25
25© 30
12© 15
Arum,  po..................
© 25
Calamus....................
20® 50
Gentians,  (po. 15)__
10© 12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).
16© 18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 40)..................
© 35
Hellebore,  Ala,  po...
15® 20
Inula,  po..................
15© 20
Ipecac, po................. 
2 40@2 50
Iris plox (po. 35@38)..  32©  35
Jalapa,  pr..................   40©  45
Maranta,  Ms ....... ......  ©  35
Podophyllum, po.......   15©  18
Rhel...........................   75@1  00
“  cut.....................   ©1  75
“  pv.......................  75©1  35
Spigella......................   48©  53
Sanguinarla,  (po  25)..  ©  20
Serpentaria.................  30©  35
Senega.......................  50©  55
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  ©  40 
M  ©  20
Scillae, (po. 35)..........   10©  12
Syuiplocarpus,  Foeti-
@ 35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ©  25
German...  15©  20
ingiber a ..................   10©  15
Zingiber  j .............. 
22©  25
SEMEN.
..  ©  15
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  22©  25
Bird, Is..................  
4©  6
Carul, (po. 18)............  
8©  12
Cardamon....................1  00@1 25
Corlandrum...............   10©  12
Cannabis Satlva......... 
4@4M
Cydonlum..................   75©l  00
Chenopodium  ...........  10©  12
Dlpterix Odorate........ 2 00®2 25
Foenlculum...............  ©  15
Foenugreek,  po...... 
6®  8
L ini............................4  © 4M
Lint, grd,  (bbl. 3M)...  4  @  4M
Lobelia.......................  35©  40
Pharlaris Canarian__  3M@ 4M
Rapa..........................  6©  7
Sinapis,  Albu............  8©  9
,f  Nigra..........   11©  12

dus,  po............  

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Frumenti, W., D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R .......1  75@2 00
 
1  10@1 50
Juniperls  Co. O. T....1  75@1 75
“ 
.............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  E .........1 75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galll............1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto................ 1 25@2 00
Vini  Alba....................1 25@2 00

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

1  40

Accacla..............................   50
Zingiber  .............................  50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri  Iod.............................  50
Auranti  Cortes....................  50
Rhei Arom..........................  50
SlmUax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................  50
ScUlae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  60
Prunus  vlrg........................   50

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TINCTURES.

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Co...............  75

Aconitum Napellis R.........   60
p ........   5Q
Aloes...................................  60
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica................................   50
Asafcetida............................  0
A trope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
“  Co..........................   50
Sanguinarla........................   50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharides.........................  75
Capsicum....................... 
  50
Ca damou............................  75
Castor................................. 1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona............................  50
Co....................  60
Columba.............................   50
Conium...............................  50
Cubeba................................   50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian..................... 
50
“  Co............................  60
Guaica................................   50
“ 
Zingiber...............  
50
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Iodine..................................  75
Colorless.........   75
Ferri  Chloridum........  35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opil.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor........................ 2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany.............................   50
Rhei.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stramonium.... ....................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian..................  
  50
Veratrum Veride.................  50

ammon...........  60

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“  po_ 
“  Bpo. 

iEther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  26©  28 
“  4 F ..  30©  32
Alumen..................... 2M@ 3

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ground,  (po.
3©  4
7)  ............................ 
Annatto......................  55©  60
4©  5
Antimoni, po.............. 
55©  60
Antlpyrin......................  @1 40
Antifebrin..................  @  25
Argent!  NItras, ounce  ©  68
Arsenicum................. 
5©  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......  38©  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
11;  M»,  12)..............  ©  9
Cantharides  Russian,
po...............................  @1 20
Capslcl  Fructus, af...  @  20
©  25
@  20
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  12©  13
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......  50©  55
Cera Flava.................  38©  40
Coccus.......................  ©  40
Cassia Fructus...........  ©  20
Centraria....................  ©  10
Cetaceum..................   @  42
Chloroform...............   60©  63
squlbbs..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  50®1  TO
Chondrus..................   20©  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  & W  15©  20
German 3M©  12 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  .....................  
60
Creasotum...............   @  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  ©  2
“  prep..................  
5©  5
9©  11
“  precip.............. 
“  Rubra...............   ©  8
Crocus.......................  28©  30
Cudbear......................  ©  24
Cuprl Sulph...............   5 ©   6
Dextrine....................  10©  12
Ether Sulph...............   68©  TO
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po..................   ©  a
Ergota, (po.)  60 .........   50©  65
Flake  White..............  12©  15
Galla..........................  ©  23
Gambier..................... 7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ©  TO
“ 
French...........  40©  60
Glassware  flint,  70 and 10. 
bybox60and 10
Glue,  Brown.............. 
9©  15
“  White...............   13©  25
Glycerlna..................17  ©  25
Grana Paradlsl...........  ©  22
Humulus....................  25©  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  90
“  C or....  ©  80
Ox Rubrum  @1 CO
Ammoniati.  @1  10
Unguentum.  45©  55
Hydrargyrum............   ©  70
Ijhthyobolla, 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-
drarg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10©  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1M)..........................  
8©  8
Mannla,  S. F ............   50©  60

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Im porters and  .R o b b er»   «4

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PATENT MEDICINES.
Paints, Oils ^  Varnishes.

D EA LER S  Ot

M l Amenta  for th* 1

SWISS  IMS  PREPARED  PINTS.

Full  line 01  Staple  Drornts’ M e s.

We  are Sole  P r o p iM a i a t

Weatherly's Michigan  Catarri Remedo.

We  Hava la  Stoch  and  Offtar a  M l  U w  at

WHISKIES, BRANDLES,

GINS,  WINES, RUMS•

We sell Liquor* for Medicinal Purposes only.
We give oar Personal Attention to Mail Orden and Guarantee Satisfaction.
All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive them.  Send In  s 

trial order.jtaltine S Perkins Drily Co.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

T H E   MICTÎIGATST  T R A D E S M A N .

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GROCERIES.

The  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar  is  without  material  change. 
While the  supply of  raw  sugar  is  con­
siderably more  than  there  was  at  this 
time last  year,  and the possible  yield  of 
beet sugar is  considerably  in  excess  of 
any that the history of  the  trade has yet 
seen,  it  is  quite  evident  that  sellers  of 
sugar  are  by no  means  going  to  have it 
all 
their  own  way.  A  retrospective 
glance at the movements of sugar during 
the past two years forces  the  conclusion 
that  it  is  time  that  the  tide  turned and 
that the buyers should  have an inning as 
well  as  the  sellers.  The  comparative 
weakness  of  sugar  certificates  upon the 
stock exchange is an  indication most con­
clusive that some people  have arrived at 
the  opinion  that  the  industry  is  not  by 
any means  in  so  strong  a  position  as  it 
was slightly over a year ago.  The latest 
advices which  are  to  hand  from Europe 
indicate beyond question that the supply 
of  beet  sugar  will  be  quite  up  to  the 
highest estimates, the crop being in every 
way  in  a  very  healthy condition. 
It  is 
quite evident then  that  this  year’s  sup­
ply of supar for the world’s consumption 
will be beyond question  the  largest ever 
known.

Package coffee has declined a half cent.
Condition  o f th e   C heese  M arket.
Fred  E.  Angell,  traveling  representa­
tive for L. Ladd, the  Adrian  cheese job­
ber,  was  in town  over  Sunday  and  was 
interviewed  by  a 
reporter  of  T he 
TRADESMAN.

“The  farmers  of  Michigan  have  no 
reason  to  complain about  the  condition 
of this year’s  cheese  market,”  said  Mr. 
Angell,“for the Michigan product is ful­
ly a cent a pound  above the ruling  price 
for New York cheese.  In many respects, 
the present season  is  the most  remarka­
ble one I have ever seen.  Fewer  facto­
ries started  up  than  usual  last  spring 
and the prevailing  cool weather  has  en­
abled the maker  to market his cheese  in 
splendid  condition. 
I  have  not  seen  a 
‘stinker’  or  a  ‘leaker’  this  year.  As  a 
result,  the  consumption  has  been  enor­
mous  and  both  maker  and dealer  have 
been frequently oversold. 
I hardly feel 
competent to make  a prediction as to fu­
ture prices,  but I should not be surprised 
if 1 was  compelled  to  ask  14  cents  for 
first quality cheese before the opening of 
the season of  1892.”

6 doz. In box.

LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per bOX.

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

W hy C o-operative S to re s F ail H ere.
Distributive co-operation has been, per­
haps,  brought  before  the  public  most 
prominently  through  the  success of  the 
so-called  co-operative  stores in England, 
No. 0 Sun........................................................1 75
says  B.  F.  Thurber  in  the  July  North 
No. 1  “  .........................................................1  88
American  Review,  but  such  stores, 
No. 2  “  .........................................................2 70
strange to  say,  in this  country have  not 
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top......................................2 25
been a success, although  other  forms  of 
No. 1  “ 
“  .......................................2 40
co-operation here  have succeeded admir­
No. 2  “ 
“  .......................................3 40
ably.  The  reason,  however,  is  probably 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top......................................2 60
found  in  the  different  conditions. 
In 
No. 1  “ 
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England the retail  trade had  grown into 
No. 2  “ 
“  ...................................... 8 86
a system of  long  credits.  Many  landed 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled....................3 70
proprietors and others  received their  in­
“ 
No. 2  “ 
....................4 70
comes only at long intervals, and this led 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4 70
retail merchants into the habit of  selling 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz....................... 1  25
a  large  portion  of  their  trade  on  long
....................... 1 50
tim e,  w hich  inevitably  resulted  in  con-  No. l crimp, per doz.......................................l 35
siderable  losses  from   bad  debts;  so the  “ °‘ 3 
........................................1  60
dealers  had  to  raise  th eir  m argins  of 
profit upon  all th eir  custom ers to a point 
w hich  would still  leave  a  living.  T his  3 ^ ^ ;,............................................................ 2n
was  v irtually  m aking 
the  cash-paying I Half gallons'.'.'."'.’..’* .'.."" ."."'.!!!""".!'.!l4 50
custom er support  the  custom er  who  did j Rubbers.........................................................  
55
not  pay  at  all;  and w hen  this  abuse be- j Caps  only.................. ...................................  4 00
cam e extended  the  persons  w ith  fixed  in-1 Butter oocks 8^ rK«JTAR*~AKR0H‘ 
comes  who paid  th eir debts natu rally  ob-  jugs, k  gal., per doz.
jected,  and the  resu lt was the  form ation  “ 
of  societies  for  co-operative distribution  x u k  pans,* k  gal.‘, per doz.  (glazed 75c) 
on an economical  cash basis. 

«b
75
....................................  90
m
“  90c). . .   78

_  No. 2  “ 
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Mason’s or  Lightning.

fruit jars.

La B as tic.

Pearl top.

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Swift and Company quote as follows:
“  hindquarters...............................   6  @
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Beef, carcass..........................................  5  @ 6k
fore 
............................... 3  @ 4k
loins, No. 3..................................  @ 9k
ribs....................................... .......7k@  8
rounds..........................................6  @7
tongues..................  ...................  @
Bologna..................................................  @5
Pork loins..............................................   @10k
.................................   @ 7k
Sausage, bio: a rhead...........................   @5
.................................  @5
................................   @ 7k
Mutton...........................................  —   7  @8
Veal.......................................................  @ 6k

“  shoulders 

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FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F. J. Detteuthaler quotes as follows :

FRESH  FISH.

Whltefish.....................................
Trout...........................................
Halibut........................................
Ciscoes........................................
Flounders....................................
Bluefish..............  ......................
Mackerel.....................................
Cod..............................................
California salmon.......................
o y s t e r s—Cans. 
Falrhaven  Counts......................
SHELL GOODS.
Oysters, per  100..........................
...........................
Clams, 

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t 8 
15 
@ 5 
@ 9 
@10 @25 
@12 
@20

@40

1 50 
1 00

W hy?

Why should a man expect to be in good 
credit when he doesn’t pay promptly?
Why  shouldn’t  he be  unpopular  with 
his  clerks  when  he  habitually  treats 
them discourteously?
Why should he  expect  useful  sugges­
tions  from  them  when  he  has  always 
ridiculed those who have tried it?
Why should a traveling man waste  his 
time on those who are not in good  credit 
with his firm?
Why should he insist upon pressing on 
a buyer goods that he cannot use?
Why will he cling  to the old-fashioned 
idea that he must dine and  wine a buyer 
in order to sell him a bill?
Why  will  he  go  out  drinking  nights 
when he knows that he  cannot  properly 
attend to liis  business the next morning?
Why will  he insist upon  showing  cus­
tomers the  orders he  has taken,  thereby 
publishing  that  which  should  remain 
private?
Why  do  parties  who  often 
report 
“shortage”  never  report “goods  over?” 
Why  shouldn’t a  dealer  return  goods 
which were not ordered?
Why shouldn’t he hesitate to place .or­
ders with  parties who habitually “stuff” 
them,  and “substitute” other goods?
Why should a  salesman  lose  his  tem­
per when his  customer  cannot  give  him 
an  order?
Why should he  occasionally get a “big 
head”  and  in  consequence,  to  his  sur­
prise,  lose his position?
Why do retailers  always  complain  of 
dull trade when,  to  come to sift it down, 
“they  acknowledge  they  are  ahead  of 
last year?”
Why are first-class  retail  salesmen  so 
scarce?
Why don’t  employers  make  better  in­
ducements to  good  salesmen  to  remain 
in the retail business?
Why  isn’t the plan of  consulting first- 
class  clerks in  the  selection  of  goods  a 
good one.

F ru it  J a rs   C heaper.

H.  Leonard & Sons, of  this  city,  offer 
Mason’s  fruit  jars  at  $11,  §11.50  and 
$14.50  per  gross.  This  is  a  decline  of 
50 cents per gross  from the prices ruling 
last week and subject to change.

H ave T heir  E yes on O w osso. 

Au  Sa b i.e,  Aug.  17—Corneau  & Co.
have concluded to remove  their  clothing 
and hat and cap stock to another location 
and will probably locate at Owosso.

GZ2TSZXTG  HOOT.
We pay the highest price tor It.  Address

FECK BROS., Wholesale  Druggists, 
GRAND  RAPIDS.
Crockery & G lassw are

LAMP BURNERS.

PR O D tT C E   M A R K E T .

Apples—Common cooking command $1.50@1.75 
per bbl.  Fancy eating are held at $2.25@2.50.
Beans—Dry beans are  firm  and  in  strong  de­
mand at $2 per bu. for choice hand picked.
Butter—The market  is  beginning to show  the 
effects  of  the  drought, choice  dairy now  com­
manding  15@17c,  while  factory  creamery  has 
advanced to 20c.

Blackberries—6@10c per qt.
Celery—20c per doz. bunches.
Cabbages—50@60c per doz.
Corn—Green, 8c per doz.
Cucumbers—I0@.l5c per doz.
Eggs—Dealers  pay  14c  and  freight,  holding 
Grapes—Ives and  Concord command 4c per lb.
Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb.
Onions—$1 per bu. for good stock.
Muskmelons—$1 per doz.
Potatoes—50c per bu.
Peaches—Hale’s Early are still in large supply 
commanding  $1.50 @ $1.75  per  bu.,  including 
basket.  Early Michigan are expected in market 
next week.

Pears—$1 per bu. for common.
Tomatoes—75c@$l  per bu.
Watermelons—15c  now buys  the  best  melons 
which  come to this  market.  The  supply is am­
ple, although the  demand is strong.

at 15c.

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as follows for live weight:
Spring  chickens..................................... Id  @12
Fall  chickens.........................................   8  @  8 Vi
Turkeys.................................................10  @11
Spring ducks...........................................10  @12
Fall  ducks..............................................  9  @10
8 @9
Geese  .................................................. 

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

FORK  IN  BARRELS.

 

 

Mess,  new............................... 
11  75
Short c u t.....................................................   12 00
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  14 00
Extra clear, heavy......................................
Clear, fat  back.............................................  14 00
Boston clear, short cut................................   14 00
Clear back, short cut....................................  14 00
Standard clear, short cut. best................. 
14 00
Pork Sausage...................................................  7
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage..............................................   9
.......................................  s
Frankfort Sausage 
Blood Sausage.................................................   5
Bologna, straight............................................   5
Bologna,  thick..................................................5
Head Cheese....................................................   5

s a u s a g e —Fresh and Smoked.

l a r d—Kettle Rendered.

■ "*......... ........

........Pk
........  8k
Com-
pound.
6
6k
7k
6
6
6k

T ! prp.Pfl
0 and 50 ii>. Tubs.
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case.. 
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case.. 
20 lb. Palls, 4 in a  case.

Family.
....6k
....6 k
...7 k
...7k
----7k
--■6k
BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

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sm o k e d   m e a t s—Canvassed or Plain.

Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs.....................   8 60
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................  8 50
Boneless, rump butts.....................................li  50
Hams, average 20 lbs....................................... 10k
16 lbs...................................... 11
12 to 14 lbs............................... Ilk
picnic.....................................................8k
best boneless..........................................9
Shoulders........................................................  7k
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.............................   9k
Dried beef, ham prices....................................11
Long Clears, heavy........................................... 7k
Briskets,  medium.  ..
«4
light.........

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

STICK  CANDY.
Full  Weight.
Standard,  per  lb.........................
“  H.H...........  .................
Twist  ..........................
“ 
Boston Cream ............................
Cut  Loaf................................   -..
Extra H. H..................................
MIXED  CANDY.
Full Weight.

Bbls. Pails.
7k
7k
7k
9k
8k
8k

...  6k
...  6k
...  6k
...  7k
...  7k

“ 

....10k
....11

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Pails.
Bbls.
Standard...................................... 6k
7k
Leader......................................... 6k
7k
8
Special......................................... 7
8
Royal........................................... .7
8k
Nobby.......................................... •7k
Broken..................................   ... 7k
8k
English  Rock............................. •7k
8k
8
Conserves................................... .7
Broken Taffy...............................
8k
Peanut Squares............................
9
10
Extra...........................................
10k
French Creams............................
Valley  Creams............   .............
13k
fancy—In bulk.
Bbls. Palls.
Full Weight.
Lozenges, plain..........................
Ilk
printed.......................
12k
Chocolate Drops..........................
12k
Chocolate Monumentals............
14
Gum Drops.................................. __ 5
6k
Moss Drops................................
9
. . . .   8
9k
Sour Drops.................................. ....  8k
Ilk
Imperials.....................................
...10k
Per Box.
Lemon Drops................................................... 56
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
Wintergreen  Berries....................................... 65
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
51
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
28
NO. 3, 
42
Stand up, 51b. boxes................................... 1  10
Sorrentos,  200...................................
Imperials,  160....................................
Messina, choice, 360..........................
fancy, 360..........................
choice 300........................
fancy 360..........................
OTHER FOREIGN  FRUITS.

c a r a m e l s.
 
“ 
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“ 
 
ORANGES.

LEMONS.

“ 
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3 
2 
3 

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4  25 
4 00
@5  00

@  8 

“ 
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choice

“  50-lb.  “ 

Figs, Smyrna, new,  fancy  layers.......   18@19
@16 
@12k 
@10 
@ 6
@17
@16k@17 
@ 7k 
@11 k  
@14k 
@12 
@@14 
@13 
@17 
@4  50
@  5k 
@  7k 
@ 5k 
@ 7k 
@  4k 
@ 6k

Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................
..........................
Persian, 50-lb.  box......................4
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.............................
Ivaca......................................
California.......................—
Brazils, new...........................................
Filberts.................................................
Walnuts, Grenoble................................
“  Marbot....................................
Chill.......................................
“ 
Table Nuts, No. 1..................................
No. 2..................................
Pecans, Texas, H. P.,  large 
...............
Cocoanuts, full sacks............................
Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................
“  Roasted  ...................  7
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............................
“  Roasted...................   7
Choice, H. P.,  Extras............................
“  Roasted.................

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PEANUTS.

“ 
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“ 

HIDES,  PELTS  and  FURS. 

“ 

HIDES.

Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  follows:
Green.................................................................
Part Cured......................................................
Pull 
......................................................
Dry.......................................................... ..........
Kips, green  .....................................
“  cured......   .............................
Calfskins,  green.........................................
cured.........................................
Deacon skins.................................................

“ 

No. 2 hides k  off.

. . .   4 @ 5 
@ 5 
@ 5k 
@ 7
...  6
...  4 @ 4k
...  5 @ 5k
. . .   4 @  5
. . .   5 @ 6k
. . . . 1 0 @30

PELTS.

WOOL.

Shearlings........................................................ ....10 @25
Lambs................................................................. ...20 @60
• 20@30
Washed.............................................................
10@20
Unwashed........................................................
Tallow ...............................................................
. . .   3k@ 4k
Grease  butter  .............................................. . . . .   1 @ 2
Switches..........................................................
. . . .   lk@  2
Ginseng  ......................................................

MISCELLANEOUS.

2 50@3 15

The  Standard  Oil Co.  quotes  as  follows,  1 

barrels, f. o. b. Grand Rapids:
Water White..........................................  @ 8k
Special White........................................  @ 8k
Michigan Test...............................   —   @ 7k
Naptha...................................................  @ 7k
Gasoline.................................................  @  8k
Cylinder................................................27  @36
Engine  ................................................. 13  @21
Black,  Summer.....................................   @ 8

Strawberries.
l
Lawrence...... ............ 
2 25
Hamburg.................... 
i  65
Erie............................ 
Whortleberries.
l  40
Common.................... 
F. &  W....................... 
1  25
Blueberries............... 
1  30
Corned  beef,  Libby’s..........2 10
Roast beef,  Armour’s..........1  75
Potted  ham, M lb...............1  50
“  M lb.................100
tongue, M lb.............110
“  M lb.................  95
chicken, M lb.................. 95
VEGETABLES.

“ 
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MEATS.

Beans.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Peas

“ 
“ 
“ 

Corn.

Hamburg  stringless  ..........1  25
French style.......2 25
Limas......................1 40
Lima, green..............................l 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..........150
Champion Eng...
Hamburgh ‘petit  pois  ........1 75
fancy  sifted  __1  90
Soaked................................   65
Harris  standard.................   75
Van Camp’s Marrofat 
.1  10
Early June........ 130
Archer’s  Early Blossom..  .1  35
French.....................................1 80
Mushrooms.
French..............................17318
Pumpkin.
Erie.....................................   90
Squash.
Hubbard...................................1 30
Succotash.
Hamburg................................. 1 40
Soaked.......................  
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.................. 
Premium..........................  
34
38
Pure.................................. 
Breakfast  Cocoa.............. 
40
Norway.........................  @10
N. Y. or Lenawee......  @10
Allegan  ......................   @ 9m
Skim........  ...............  7  @8
Sap Sago.......................   @22
Edam  ........................  @1 00
Swiss, imported........  @  25
domestic  __   ©13M
Limburger..........................   10
Brick............................. 
12M
CHEWING  SUM.
Rubber, 100 lumps................35
200  “ 
Spruce, 200 pieces................40
Snider’s, M pint........................1 35
pint............................2 30
q u a rt........................3 50
CLOTHES PINS.

Tomatoes.

CHEESE.

CATSUP.

  85

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

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COFFEE.
GREEN.
Rio.

Santos.

Maracaibo.

Fair.................................... 20 M
Good...................................21
Prime.................................21M
Golden................................22 M
Peaberry  ............................23
Fair....................................20 M
Good.................................. 21
Prime.................................21M
Peaberry  ............................22M
Mexican and Guatamala.
Fair....................................22
Good....................... ............23
Fancy.................................25
Prime.................................22M
M illed...............................23M
Interior............................. 26
Private Growth................. 28
Mandehling......................29
Imitation.......................... 25
Arabian............................. 28M
1 20
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Me. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent,  for shrink­
age.
McLaughlin’s  XXXX--- 24 M

Mocha.

PACKAGE.

ROASTED.

Java.

APPLE  BUTTER.

Chicago goods............... 7M@8

AXLE  OREASE.
Frazer’s.

“ 
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Wood boxes, per  doz__

80
“ 
3 doz. case. ..  2 40
“ 
per gross  .. ..  9 00
25 lb. pails,......................
.................... ..  1  00
15 lb.  “ 
75
Aurora.
Wood boxes,  per  doz__
60
3 doz. case.
.  1  75
per  gross.. ..  6 00

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Diamond.

Wood boxes,  perdoz  ... .. 

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“ 
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3 doz. case.
per  gross..

Peerless.

50
.  1  50
.  5 50

25 lb. pails..................
BAKING  POWDER.
Acme, M lb. cans, 3 doz  .
2  “  ..
1  “  ..
Telfer’s,  M lb. cans, doz
“
Arctic, M ft cans...........
...........
...........
...........
Red Star, M  lb  cans........
........
........

90
45
“  M lb.  “ 
85
lib.  “ 
“ 
.  1  00
bulk..................... ..  10
“ 
45
85
“ 
“ 
.  1  50
60
.  1  20
“  M ft  “ 
“ 
1 a   “ 
.  2 00
“ 
5ft  “ 
.  9 60
40
eo
“  Mft  “ 
1ft  “ 
“ 
.  1  50
BATH  BRICK.

M lb.  “ 
1 lb.  “

“
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8oz 

BLUING.

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

CANDLES
“ 

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CANNED  GOODS.

FISH.
Clams.

“ 

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“ 

Little Neck,  l i b ..................1  10
“  2  lb..................1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb......................2 30
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb......................... 1 10
21b..........................2 10
Lobsters.

Star,  1  lb............................ 2 45
“  2  lb............................ 3 45 |
Picnic, 1 lb...........................2 00
“ 
21b...........................3 00
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb...................... 1  20
2  lb.....................2 00
Mustard,  31b......................3 00
Tomato Sauce,  3 lb.............3 00
Soused, 3 lb.........................3 00
Columbia River, flat........... 1  85
tails........... 1  65
Alaska, 1  lb.........................1  20
21b...........................1  90
Sardines.
American  Ms.................... 5@ 6
Ms.....................7@ 8
Imported  Ms.....................11@12
Ms.....................13@14
Mustard  Ms......................  ®1()
Brook, 3 lb...............................2 50

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
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Trout.

“ 
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FRUITS.
Apples.

3 25
90
2 25
2 50
2 35

 
1  75
1 60

Gages.

Apricots.

Blackberries.

Gooseberries.

York State, gallons.... 
Hamburgh, 
“  —  
Santa  Cruz...................... 
Lusk's.............................  
Overland........................ 
P. &  W............ 
98
Cherries.
Red.........................  
 
Pitted Hamburg.........  
W hite.............................  
Brie................. 
130
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
E rie............................  @1  60
Common......................... 
P ie............................. 1  60@1  75
Maxwell......................... 
Shepard’s .......................  
California.................. 2 60®2 75
Domestic......................... 
Riverside......................... 
Pineapples.
Common..........................  
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
grated........ 
Quinces.
Common......................... 
Raspberries.
Red.................................. 
Black  Hamburg.........  
Erie, black...........—  

Peaches.

Pears.

2 60
2 85

1  50
1  40

“ 

1 10

2 25
2 23

1 25
2 25
1 30

1 10
1 30

“ 

Idon.................................... 2*M
in cabinets  ................25
Durham.............................. 24
Valley City.........................  75
Felix.................................. 1  15

EXTRACT.

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

tin
CHICORT.

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

Bulk...............:...................   4M
Red......................................  7
Cotton,  40 ft.........perdoz.  1  25
1  40 
1  60 
1  75 
1  90 
90 
1  00
Eagle.
40
C row n...............................6 50
Genuine  Swiss.................... 8 CO
| American Swiss....................7 00

COUPON  BOOKS.

“Tradesman.

S  1, per hundred...............   2 0(
2 50
3 2,  "
3 00
3, 
3 on
I 5,no,
4 0U
5 00
<20,
$  1  per hundred...............   2 50
3 2 , “
----
S 5. 
*10, 
*20, 

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

...........................20 

1000 

“ 

10 

 
 
 

“

 

COUPON  PASS  BOOKS.

| Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from $10  down. |
.$ 1  00 
¡0 books.. 
2 00
50 
.........................  3 00
100 250 
.....................   .  6 25
.........................  10 00
500 
..........................  17 50
1000
CRACKERS.
Kenosha Butter...................  7M
“ 
Seymour 
5M
Butter....................................5M
“  family...........................5M
“  biscuit.........................6M
40
Boston......... ......................... 7M
City Soda............................... 7M
Soda.....................................6
S. Oyster......... 
5M
City Oyster. XXX.................  5M
Strictly  pure......................  30
Telfer’s  Absolute..............  35
Grocers’............................ 10@15

CREAM TARTAR.

 

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Apples.

PEEL.

PRUNES.

14
«7»
13
12

California Evaporated.

Sundried.......................   @9
Evaporated...................  @11
Apricots.
macK Dernes..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches  ....................
Pears,  sliced.........
Plums.........................
Prunes, sweet............
Turkey....................... @  6M
Bosnia........................ @ 8
French ....................... @ 9
18
Lemon........................
18
Orange.......................
@24
In drum.....................
In boxes..................... @24
CURRANTS.
Zante, in  barrels........ @ 5M
in  M-bbls.......
@ 5M
In less quantity @  6
r a is in s  —California
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1  75
2 00
2 25
1  40
1  50
3  “
Foreign.
Valencias...................
6M
Ondaras.....................
@ 6M
Sultanas..................... @15

London Layers, 2 cr’n 
3  “
fancy.
Muscatels.2crown  ...

CITRON.

“ 
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“ 

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Farina.
Hominy.

100 lb. kegs................... 
4
Barrels.................................3 1
Grits..................................
Lima  Beans.
Dried............................ 
6
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
45
Imported...................... 
10
Pearl Barley.
Kegs............................... 3M@3M
Green,  bu.................................1 10
Split, bbl.................................. 6 00
German.............................  
East India..........................  

Sago.

Peas.

5
5

|

Wheat.

s

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

“ 

“ 
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Cod.

Whitefish.

Pollock.
Sardines.
Trout.

“ 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Yarmouth......................
Whole............................ @6
Bricks........................... 7M@8
Strips............................. 7M@9
Halibut.
Smoked ......................
Herring.
Sealed.........................
Holland,  bbls............
kegs............
Round shore, M bbl...
“  M  bbl..
Mackerel.

10M
24
11  00
75
2 75
1  50
No. 1, M bbls. 90 lbs....... ...  9 00
No. 1, kits. 10 lbs........... ...  1  20
Family, M bbls., 10U lbs. 
...  3  50
kits, 10 lbs......
45
... 
Fancy.......................  3 50@4 00
Russian,  kegs...............
No. 1, M bbls., lOOlbs__ __ 5 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs........... ....  80
No. 1, M bbls., lOOlbs__ ....7  00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs........... ....1  00
...  2 75
Family, M bbls., 100 lbs 
kits, 10  lbs 
..
---   50
Jennings' D C.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding box...  75
1  25
3 oz 
...100
1  50
“ 
2 00
...1  50
“ 
4 oz 
“ 
6 oz 
.. .2 00
3 00
8 oz 
.. .3 00
4 10
“ 
GUN  POWDER.
K egs............................. ...5  50
...3 00
Half  kegs.....................
Sage............................... ....15
.. .25
Hops..............................
Chicago  goods............ @4
4 00
5 00
........ ...  30
No.  ... 
40
No. 1............................... ... 
7 00
No  2.............................. ... 
50
Pure............................... ....  30
Calabria.........................
Sicily............................. ....  18
...1  25
Condensed, 2 doz.........
No. 9  sulphur............... ....1  65
...1 70
Anchor parlor...............
...1  10
No. 2 home....................
Export  parlor...............

LAMP  WICKS.

LICORICE.

MATCHES.

JELLIES.

HERBS.

LYE.

“

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house.................
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary.......................
Porto Rico.
Prim e............................
Fancy............................
New Orleans.
Fair...............................
Good.............................
Extra good....................
Choice..........................
Fancy............................

. 
One-half barrels, 3c extra

19
23
17
20
26
30
36

OATMEAL.

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

PICKLES.
Medium.

Small.

..$6 50
Barrels, 1,200 count......
Half  barrels, 600 count. ...  3 50
Barrels, 2.400 count  — ...  7 50
Half barrels, 1,200 count ...  4 00
...1   75
Clay, No.  216.................
....  75
“  T. D. full count —
. ..1  25
Cob, No.  3....................

PIPES.

RICE.

Domestic.

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

Broken...............................
Japan, No. 1.........................6M
..............5M
.............  5
Java.
Patna..................................   5

Imported.
No. 2
K  

ROOT BEER.

Williams’ Extract.

25 cent size.........................1  75
3 dozen............................. $ 5 00

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

SAFOLIO.
“
SOUPS.

3  “ 

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

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

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Ginger, African..................15
Cochin..................18
Jamaica.................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  Ms
Allspice.......................   84 155
Cinnamon....................  84 1  55
Cloves..........................   84 155
Ginger, Jam .................  84 1  55
“  Af....................  84 1  55
Mustard.......................   84 155
Pepper........................  84 
Sage..............................   84

SUGAR.

©4M @ 4M 
@4.31 
@ 4M 
...  @4M
@  4
...  376@  376 
...  3M@ 356 
.  3M@ 356 
í cadvance

Cut  Loaf.............
Cubes.................
Powdered...........
Granulated.........
Confectioners’ A.
Soft A  ...............
White Extra  C__
Extra  C...............
C ......... ................
Yellow
Less than 100 lbs.
STARCH.
Corn.
20-lb  boxes..............
40-lb 
............
Gloss.
1-lb packages  ......................6
.......................  6
3-lb 
6-lb 
....................... 6M
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  4M
Barrels................................   4M
Scotch, in  bladders............37
Maccaboy, in jars...............35
French Rappee, in Jars......43  •

6M
6M

SNUFF.

“ 
“ 

“ 

SOAP.

SALT

SODA.

SAL  SODA.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 80...................3 20
Uno, 100...............................3 50
Bouncer, 100........................3 00
Boxes................................... 5M
Kegs, English.......................4M
Kegs................................ 
1M
Granulated, boxes..............  2
Mixed bird........
......4M® 6
............... 10
Caraway............
Canary..............
............... 3M
Hemp.................
............... 13
Anise.................
...............   6
Rape.................
Mustard............
................7M

SEEDS.

“

“ 

“ 

“ 

.. 

Warsaw.

Diamond Crystal.
100 3-lb. sacks.................
.................
60 5-lb 
“ 
28 10-lb. sacks...................2 15
20 14-lb.  “ 
....................  2 00
24 3-lb  cases......................  1  50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags 
28 lb.  “ 
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags..  35
28 lb.  “ 
18
Ashton.
56 lb. dairy  bags......
Higgins.
56 lb. dairy  bags......
Solar Rock.
56 lb.  sacks........
Saginaw and Manistee 
Common Fine  per bbl.  ..
Church’s, Arm & Hammer
Dwight’s Cow..........  ......
Taylor’s ............................
DeLand’s Cap  Sheaf........
pure....................
Golden Harvest 
..........

SALBRATUS.

•5M 
• 5M 
-5M 
•5M 
-5M

“ 

SYRUPS
Corn.

Pure Cane.

Barrels................................28
Half bbls.............................30
Amber.......................23 
5
Fancy drips...............28  @30
SWEET GOODS.
7
Ginger Snaps.............. 
Sugar  Creams............  
8M
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
Common to  fair...........23 @26
Superior to fine........... 30  @35
Common to fair...........18  @26
I Superior to  fine...........30 @40

YOUNG HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG.

______ 13

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

“ 

155

Plug.

PAPER.

VINEGAR.

Smoking.

t e a s t—Compressed.

Pails unless otherwise noted.
Hiawatha
Sweet  Cuba...............
McGinty....................
“  M bbls.........
Little  Darling...........
M bbl..
1791............................
1891, M  bbls...............
Valley  City................
Dandy Jim.
40
Searhead.................... 
24
Joker......................... 
22
Zero............................ 
L. &W....................... 
2;
28
Here  It Is..................  
31
Old Style............ ;___ 
Old  Honesty.............. 
41
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..................................... 12M
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
Handmade...................
....40
F rog............................
....33
ft
40 gr.......................  ..
50  gr.....................................
SI for barrel.
WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per g a l..............
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75 
Tin foil cakes, per doz...........15
Baker’s, per  lb.......................30
PA PER & WOOD EX WAKE
Straw 
.................................1M
Rockfalls..............................2
Rag sugar............................. 2
Hardware............................. 2M
Bakers.................................. 2M
Dry  Goods... 1.............. 5M@6
Jute Manilla...............
@6M
Red  Express  No. 1........ ...  5M
No. 2........ ...4M
22
48 Cotton.........................
Cotton, No. 1.................. ...2 0
“  2.................
...18
Sea  Island, assorted...... ..  35
No. 5 Hemp..................
...15
No. 6  “ ............................
...15
WOODENWARE.
Tubs, No. 1..................... ..  7 00
“  No. 2...................... ..  6 00
“  No. 3..................... ..  5 00
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop..
1  35
“  No. 1,  three-hoop.. ..  1  60
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes__ 
50
Bowls, 11 inch....................  1 00
....................  1 25
13  “ 
“ 
“*  15  “ 
....................2  00
....................  2 75
“ 
17  “ 
“ 
assorted, 17s and  19s 2 50 
“ 
“  15s, 17s and 19s 2 75
Baskets, market.................  35
“ 
shipping  bushel..  1  20 
..  1  30
“ 
full  hoop  “ 
“  bushel....................  1 50
“ willow Cl’ths, No.l 
5 75
“  No.2 6 25
“ 
“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l 3 60
“ 
“  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 5 00
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF»
Ne Old
98
No. 1 White (58 lb. test)  98 
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test)  98 
98
Bolted.................................  1 75
Granulated........................   2 00
Straight, In  sacks  .............  5 10
“  barrels...........  5 30
“ 
“  sacks..............  6 10
Patent
barrels..........   6 30
“  sacks...........  2 25
Graham
“ 
Rye
MILLSTUFFS.
I Bran...................................  16 00
Screenings.......................
Middlings.......................... 21  00
I Mixed Feed......................   27 00
Coarse meal......................   27 00
Milling.................................1 00
F eed...................................   75
Brewers, per  100  lbs........... 1  25
Feed, per  bu.......................  65
Small  lots..........................   72
“  ..........................   70
Car 
Small  lots............................40
Car 
“  ............................37
No. 1...................................  15 00
I No.2...................................  14 00

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

splint 

BARLEY.

TWINES.

WHEAT.

FLOUR.

MEAL.

CORN.

OATS.

HAY.

RYE.

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14
LIFE  BEHIND  THE  COUNTER.

W ritten for T h e  T r a d e s m a n

Since the last letter in this  series  was 
penned,  the  writer  has  been  asked  to 
sketch the  outlines of an  organized  sys­
tem of some sort which  would  meet  the 
requirements  of  the  trade.  When  the 
American  people  were  discussing  the 
feasibility of a return to specie payment, 
Horace Greeley proposed a plan that was 
simple  and  to  the  point.  He  said  the 
way to resume  was to  resume.  He  saw 
no difficulties in the way  outside  of  the 
mere disposition  of  the  statesmen  who 
had control of the matter. 
If men would 
but reach out  and grasp the good  things 
that  are practicably  attainable,  instead 
of wasting their energies in trying to  en­
compass  what  is  entirely  beyond  their 
reach,  the results  would  be  more  satis­
factory.  Every  retail  merchant  (and 
more  especially  the  grocer),  feels  and 
recognizes the  need  of  some  means  by 
which  he,  acting  in  unison  with  his 
brother retailers in his  own town,  might 
adopt new methods  and  bring about  im­
portant changes  in  the  present  system 
that would  materially  add to  the  pleas­
ure  and  profit  of  his  life  behind  the 
counter.  Every  retailer  with whom the 
writer has conversed  on this subject has 
deplored  the  decline  of  the  Business 
Men’s Association.  A  general dealer  in 
a  village  in  the  Southern  part  of  the 
State told the writer  that during the  ex­
istence  of  the  B.  M.  A.  in  his  town  he 
collected §500 in accounts which he never 
would  have realized  on had  it  not  been 
for the organized collective agency of the 
Association.  He  was  President  of  the 
Association  in  his  town  for  two  years 
and he declared that it would be in work­
ing  order  to-day  had  the  membership 
been confined to the trade or to men who 
operate behind the counter.  Bnt  when 
the doors were  thrown open  and doctors 
and lawyers came in with  a  mass of  out­
lawed  accounts, 
they  broke  down  the 
collection  machine  of  the  Association 
and run it into the ground.

to  manage 

This is the old story everywhere.  The 
B.  M.  A.  has gone into a decline,  not be­
cause  retail  merchants  do  not  know 
enough 
an  organization, 
neither is it because retailers do not  feel 
the need of organization,  but simply  be­
cause the  State body did  not  define  the 
eligibility  of  membership. 
True,  the 
matter was  discussed  at our  State  con­
ventions,  but the conventions were made 
up largely  of  delegates  outside  of  the 
trade and the lawyers,  doctors and bank­
ers being  given  to  much  speaking  and 
being far  more  prolific  of glib  than  the 
retailers,did most of the talking and took 
up most of.the time and the best definition 
that  could  be  obtained  was  that  “any 
business  man  was eligible  for  member­
ship”  and it  was  left  for  each  subordi­
nate association  to define what  a  “busi­
ness man” was.  The writer  could name 
one Association that took in two farmers. 
Lawyers,  doctors,  millers,  blacksmiths, 
carpenters, liverymen,  draymen and  real 
estate dealers  were taken in  everywhere 
and this heterogenious  make-up  of  con­
flicting and discordant  elements brought 
on a premature and untimely death.

Now, what is to be  done?  Are  we  to 
fall  back  upon  the  old-time  puny  and 
ruinous  individual  effort,  or  will  some 
other system  of  organization  spring  up 
speedily  to  take  the  place  of the B.  M. 
A.?  In the last article  under  this head, 
it was stated that no grand scheme of or­
ganization,  having  in  view  the  unifica­

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

tion of the entire State,  will ever develop 
into any practical benefit  until the  local 
retailers of  our  towns and villages learn 
to cast aside  their animosities and  petty 
jealousies  and,  clasping  each  other  by 
the hand as brothers, agree  to  act  with, 
and stand  by, each  other  for  their  own 
mutual  benefit  and  protection.  This, 
then,  would be our  starting point in  the 
development of a perfect  scheme  tp  or­
ganize  the  mercantile  fraternity of  the 
State.  First prove to the world that you 
are a fraternity by  forming local organi­
zations and,  after you  make a success  of 
associated effort in a local way,  then you 
will have the proper material with which 
to organize a State body.  We  are living 
in an age  of  organization.  Every  trade 
has its union  and every  interest  has  its 
organization.  What  influence  can  the 
individual grocer bring to  bear upon the 
jobber?  None whatever.  But fifteen  or 
twenty grocers in a country town,  acting 
as one man, can  force any jobber to cor­
rect any  abuse or  concede  what  is  just 
and proper.  The  jobber is in  a position 
to  demand  what  he  deems  right  and 
proper of the retailer and so is the manu­
facturer.  Even the farmers  are  organ­
ized and it is the  height of folly  to  sup­
pose that the retailers  will  long  remain 
in their present condition.

One of the leading grocers  of  Kalama­
zoo informed the writer that he had taken 
a leading part in organizing the business 
men of the city  under the  B. M. A.  sys­
tem.  He went  about among  his brother 
grocers,  discussing  matters  of  which 
they had one  common interest  and  urg­
ing  them to  organize  for  their  mutual 
protection.  To know  how  well  he  and 
other workers in other  lines of  business 
succeeded is but to  remember the  splen­
did B. M.  A.  of  Kalamazoo,  which  was 
the pride of  the  Association.  But  this 
apparantly strong and  vigorous sister B. 
M. A.,  although accomplishing  so  much 
good during her  brief career, came  from 
the same parent stock and,  like all of her 
short-lived  sisters,  was  born  into  the 
world with the  seeds of death firmly  im­
planted throughout  her  organism.  But 
the grocers of  the Celery  City  caught  a 
glimpse of the  promised  land  and  they 
are  now prepared  to organize a  grocers’ 
association that will live.

The value of a piece of  mechanism de­
pends upon  its  usefulness and the  more 
simple it is in its construction—provided 
it  accomplishes  what 
is  desired—the 
more useful  it is.  Complication  means 
friction and friction  means expense  and 
premature  death.  There  is  no  reason 
why any country village sporting a half- 
dozen live grocers should not have  a  lo­
cal  grocers’  organization.  These  half 
dozen  grocers  are  at  present  almost 
strangers  to  each  others.  They  shake 
hands in a brotherly and neighborly way 
with  the boot  and  shoe  men,  the  hard­
ware men  and with  all  the  other  busi­
ness men of the  village, but very seldom 
with each  other and  when  the  conven­
tionalities  of  civilized  society  compel j 
them to  do so, they  comply under  a sort 
of protest.  Each one of these grocers is 
bubbling  over  with  grievances  and  he 
charges  the  other  five  with  being  the 
cause of all his troubles. 
Jones has cut 
the heart out of package  coffees;  Brown 
is selling 22 pounds of  granulated  sugar j 
for a dollar;  Perkins is paying  more  for 
butter than he could  get for it  in  Grand 
Rapids;  Jenkens, when he  gets cut open 
by a dead  beat, turns  said  d.  b.  over  to 
bleed some of the  other fellows, in order

I to get even with  them, or for the sake of 
a little grim satisfaction;  and old  White 
keeps  his  grocery  open  till  10  o’clock 
and would stay all  night  if  he  thought 
he could  catch  an  extra  penny.  Now, 
these  same  six  grocers  are  all  men  of 
common sense,  although  their actions do 
not show it.  They know that they could 
avoid the  most 'of  this  trouble,  if  they 
wished  to.  They  know  that  it  is  not 
necessary for some carpet bagger to visit 
them at their expense and tell them what 
they already  know.  They know that  in 
union  there  is  strength, prosperity  and 
peace,  and that by  acting  together  in  a 
local way,  they could obtain pretty much 
all  the  substantial  benefits 
that  the 
grander  schemes  of  organization  make 
possible.  Finally,  they  know  that  the 
grander  scheme  can  never  be  worked 
successfully until the  local  efforts prove 
successful.  Will they  turn their knowl­
edge to practical use? 

E.  A.  Ow en.

How It F eels to be Insane.

“My wife  came to see me, but she  did 
not try to have me released.  1 demanded 
a  trial,  but no  lawyer would  defend me. 
Then  I  realized  that the whole  commu­
nity was against me. 
I became so wroth 
that  my anger  seemed  to  hang over  me 
like a dark  cloud. 
It  pressed  me to the 
floor and held me there.  Men came after 
a long time and  took me away,  I thought 
to  another prison.  One  day a cat  came 
into my cell,  and I tried td bite her.  She 
made the  hair fly,  but I killed her.
“I  don’t  know  how long  I  remained 
here, but  one  morning  the sun  rose and 
shone in at me through  the  window. 
It 
seemed  to  be  the  first  time  that I  had 
seen the  great  luminary for  months.  A 
mist cleared  from  before  my eyes.  My 
brain  began  to  work,  and  suddenly  1 
realized that I had been insane.
“I called the keeper,  and when he saw 
me  he  exclaimed,  ‘Thank  Heaven!’ and 
grasped my hand.  1 was not long in put­
ting on  another suit of  clothes and turn­
ing my face  toward  home.  A  physician 
said  that  I  was  cured,  and  everybody 
seemed bright and happy at my recovery. 
I went home.  My wife fainted when she 
saw me and  learned that I had recovered 
I asked for my little children, 
my mind. 
and two  big boys and a young lady came 
forward  and greeted me. 
I  had been in 
the asylum twelve  years.”

Detroit—Frank  Wickey succeeds E.  F. 

Lewis & Co.  in the  hardware business.

For  The  Baby

Owing to the fact  that we were unable 
to  meet  the  demand for Ghamoise  moc­
casins  last  fall,  we advise  placing your 
orders now.
We  have  them  in  all  grades  ranging 
from $1.85 to $4.75 per dozen.
SEN D  FO B   SA M PLE.

HIRTH  & KRAUSE,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Drag Store for Sale at a Bargain

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

C.  L>.  B E U N D A G E ,

Opp. New Post Office. 

117 W. Western Ave. 

Muskegon,  Mich.

A.  D.  SPANGLER & CO.,

GENERAL

Commission  Merchants

And W holesale  Dealers In

Fruits and  Produce.

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

SAGINAW,  E.  Side,  MICH.
Grad  Rapids  Electrotype  Co.,

6  and  8  Erie  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

the strike is ended, 
differences are mended 
all is serene, 
everything is clean, 
cigars will take a boom 
your dealer has not the 
ask him
he will have them. 

THE LUSTIG CIGAR CO.

J , LUSTIG,  State Agent.

S .A . Morman

Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio

WHOLESALE 
L I M E ,

Akron,  Buffalo and Louisville

C E M B N  T S ,

Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, 
F IR E   BRICK   A N D   CLAT. 

W rite  for Prices.

20  LYON  ST., 

-  GRAND  RAPIDS.

F01H  NATIONAL BAM

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bo w s e , President.

D. A.  k  (.d o k t t, Vice-President.

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

Transacts a general banking business.

Make a  Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

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

1 6

B uies for R etailers.

H. N. Morse in  Dry Goods Bulletin.

in a recent edition of  a trade journal I 
noticed  articles on  “Doing Business  at a 
Profit,”  and  “Points  on  Advertising,” 
both of  which seemed to me  rather  mis­
chievous specimens of  the  space writing 
trade,  being  characterized  by contradic­
tory,  misleading  and  random  assertions, 
and  for  the  rest  harmless  platitudes. 
Take  this from  first named  article as an 
example of a statement that, wholly lack­
ing  the  germ  of  truth,  might  still  be 
swallowed  by  the  mercantile  student 
anxious to  learn,  as  a  wholesome state­
ment of fact:  “The merchants who have 
achieved fortune  and  success  are  those 
who have made it  an  invariable  rule  to 
make a  fair profit  on  every  sale.”  Ask 
Marshall Field  or  Jas.  H.  Walker if the 
“merchant”  who  is  guided  by such  an 
“invariable rule”  can  possibly  succeed; 
yet here we are gravely told in effect that 
such a grotesque  “rule” has  pointed  the 
way for  every  successful. merchant. 
It 
remindsoneof thegoodold adage:  “ Take 
care of  the pennies  and the  pounds will 
take  care  of  themselves,”  as applied  to 
the comic illustration of an old man hang­
ing  on  to  a  bag  of  pennies  in  a  stiff 
breeze while the ponnd notes blew out of 
the window.  “Take  care of  the profit,” 
this latter  day sage would  have it,  “and 
competition will take care of  itself.”
I  don’t  suppose  for  an  instant,  mind 
you,  that  a  salaried  writer  on  a  trade 
journal  would  wilfully  misrepresent  or 
intentionally  mislead,  but  I  do  object, 
for my part,  and on  behalf of  10,000 fel­
low retailers, to paying for advice that is 
so evidently based  upon  false  premises. 
“Go  to,”  I  feel  like  saying,  or  fall  to 
“advising”  the  laborers  in  some  other 
vineyard.  Tell  the theatrical  manager, 
for instance,  to never  give away  compli­
mentary tickets;  if  he attempts to argue 
in  his  tame way that  he  considers it ex­
pedient to “paper the house” occasional­
ly,  that  he wants to popularize  his thea­
ter,  that he must  meet the  attractions of 
his  rivals,  that  a  large  non-paying  at­
tendance  the  first  night  may  insure  a 
large paying  attendance  after  that;  cut 
him  short  sternly—say  to  him:  “Sell 
your  tickets,  don’t  give  ’em  away;  the 
managers who have achieved fortune and 
success  are those  who  have  made it ‘an 
invariable  rule’  to  never  give  a  ticket 
away.”
The theatrical man might not subscribe 
to the doctrine, but some poor merchant’s 
commercial life may  be  saved  and  some 
goods  go  into  circulation  that otherwise 
would be “carried over”  and over again, 
profit and all.
The “Points on Advertising”  don’t tell 
anything new,  or point to any thing clear­
ly.  “Buy as much space as  you can  af­
ford to.”  What  does  that  mean?  How 
shall the  aspiring Wayback  storekeeper 
act on that  suggestion?  Perhaps he  has 
$100 to spare  for any  investment  which 
promises profitable returns.  Can he  af­
ford to “buy space”  with it,  and,  if  so, 
how much and for how  long?  One  day 
or six months?  Why not make a definite 
suggestion?  My rule is  to allow for  ad­
vertising  expenses  1  per  cent,  of  the 
amount of my sales. 
I have no idea how 
that compares  with the allotment of oth­
er  advertisers,  big  or  little,  but  I  do 
know there are none more  constant than 
I am, I know that the rule is explicit and 
I believe it is conservative. 
I advertise 
either four  or five  times  weekly,  three 
columns each in our three weekly papers 
and either one or  two sets  of  bills  each 
week. 
I put out a bill  Monday,  write  it 
in the morning  and  have  them  distrib­
uted in the afternoon and  next morning; 
papers issue  Wednesday  and Thursday; 
and,  if I deem it  necessary,  another  bill 
goes out Friday to stimulate still  further 
the Saturday  trade. 
I get  space  cheap­
ly, I think,  for the amount of  matter re­
quired 
to  represent  six  departments. 
Our city population is 8,000  and  I  get  a 
three-column space  on the  first  page  of 
our papers  for about  $5 each  paper  per 
week.  For each  issue of  bills,  1,000  of 
which are required  to properly cover the 
territory,  I pay about the same, the price 
varying somewhat  according  to  amount 
of composition involved.
I  try  to  make  advertisements  reada­
ble, to have them possesss  something  of 
the interest of a continued story,  to copy

nobody’s expressions or style; to mention 
each time seasonable,  popular  and genu­
ine  bargains, to have  all  that  is  adver­
tised or more for as long as advertised or ] 
longer,  to  use a  big  charge  of  shot  in 
preference to  a  solitary  bullet,  to  aim 
low and hit the heart (meaning the pock- 
etbook) of as many people as possible.
I believe  it would  be  sound  and  safe 
advice to  a  beginner  in  advertising  to 
say:  “Apply for  that  purpose  in  Sep­
tember an amount equal to 1  per cent,  of 
your  August  sales;  in  October,  1  per 
cent,  of your September sales, and soon; 
or,  if just starting in  business, spend  an 
amount  for  advertising  equal  to  what 
you pay for rent, which amount I assume 
should not  be  more  than  1  per cent,  of 
the business you will do when  fairly  es­
tablished.  Use cuts  freely and adopt or 
follow the style  that  seems  to  be  best 
adapted to your community.
LuDiNeTON, Aug. 1,1891.

W inning  Success.

A boy about 16 years of  age  had  been 
seeking employment in  one of our  large 
cities.  He looked vainly  for two  weeks 
and was  well  nigh  hopeless  of  getting 
any work to do  when  one  afternoon  he 
entered a store  kept by a  gentleman  we 
will call Mr. Stone.

The lad asked the usual question:
“Can you give me anything to do?”
Mr. Stone,  to  whom  he  appealed,  an­
swered:  “No; full now.”  Then,  happen­
ing to  notice  an  expression  of  despon­
dency on the youth’s face,  said:
“If you want to work  half an  hour or 
so,  go  down  stairs  and  pile  up  that 
I)o it well,  and I’ll give 
kindling wood. 
you 25 cents.”
“All  right,  and  thank  you  sir,”  an­
swered the young man,  and  went  below.
As the store was about closing  for  the 
afternoon he came  upstairs and went  to 
Mr. Stone.
“Ah, y> s,” said  the  gentleman,  some­
what hastily.  “Piled the wood?  Well, 
here’s your money.”
“No, sir; I’m not  quite through,  and  I 
should  like  to  come  and  finish  in  the 
morning,” said the young  fellow,  refus­
ing the silver piece.
“All  right,”  said  Mr.  Stone,  and 
thought no more of the affair till the next 
morning,  when  he chanced  to be  in  the 
basement,  and recollecting the wood pile, 
glanced  into  the  coal  and  wood  room. 
The wood was arranged in orderly  tiers, 
the  room  was  cleanly  swept,  and  the 
young man was at that moment  engaged 
in repairing the coal bin.
Hello,” said Mr.  Stone,  “I  didn’t  en­
gage  you  to  do  anything  but  pile  that 
wood.”
“Yes,  sir,  I  know  it,”  answered  the 
lad;  “ but I saw that needed  to  be  done, 
and I had  rather  work  than  not;  but  1 
don’t expect any pay but my quarter”
“Humph!”  muttered  Mr.  Stone,  and 
went  up  to  his  office  without  further 
comment.  Half an hour later the  young 
man presented  himself,  clean  and  well 
brushed,  for his pay.

Mr. Stone passed him his quarter.
“Thank  you,”  said 
the  youth,  and 
turned away.
“Stop  a  minute,”  said  Mr.  Stone. 
“Have you  a place  in  view  where  you 
can find work?”

“No, sir.”
“Well, I  want  you  to  work  for  me. 
Here” —writing something  on  a  slip  of 
paper—“take  this  to  that  gentleman 
standing by  the  counter  there;  he  will 
tell you what to do. 
I’ll  give  you  $6  a 
week to begin  with.  Do  your  work  as 
well as you did  that down  stairs,  and— 
that’s all,”  aud  Mr.  Stone  turned  away 
before  the young  fellow  had  recovered 
from his surprise sufficiently to speak.
This  happened  15  years  ago.  Mr. 
Stone’s store is more than  twice as large 
as it  was  then,  and  its  superintendent 
to-day is the  young  man  who  began  by 
piling kindling wood for 25 cents.  Faith­
fulness was his motto.  By it he has been 
advanced,  step by step,  and  has not yet, 
by any means, reached the topmost round 
of success.  He is sure to become a part­
ner some day, either  with  his  employer 
or in some other business house.

Saginaw—Gustav  H. Eyermann is suc­
ceeded  by Hamilton & Biles  in  the  gro 
eery business.

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

RUILY  FOR  BUSINESS!

Do you  want to do your customers justice?
Do you want to increase your trade in a safe way?
Do you want the confidence of  all who trade with you?
Would  you  like to rid  yourself  of  the  bother of  “posting” your  books  and 

“patching up” pass-book accounts?

yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge?
ponding ledger account without having  to  “doctor”  it?

Do you  not  want  pay for all  the  small  items  that go  out of  your  store,  which 
Did you  ever have a pass-book  account  foot up and  balance  with the  corres­
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,  ami  one  that  establishes 
a CASH  BASIS  of  crediting?
A new era  dawns,  and  with it new  commodities for its  new demands;  and  all 
enterprising merchants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the

Tradesman  or  Superior  GoUpons.

COUPON  BOOK  vs.  PASS  BOOK.

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

for the makers to  pay  them.  This  ren­
ders  unnecessary the keeping of accounts 
with each customer aud  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 
If  so, order  from  the 
coupon  system? 
largest  manufacturers of  coupons in the 
country and  address your letters to

I

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

Little Breeches.

I don't go much on religion,
I never ain’t had no show,
But I’ve got a middlin’ tight grip, sir,
On the handful  o’ things I know.
1 don’t pan out on the prophets 
And free will, and that sort of thing— 
But I b’lieve in God and the angels 
Ever sence one night last spring.
I come into town with some turnips,
And my little Gabe come along—
No four-year-old in the county 
Could beat him for pretty and strong— 
Peart and chipper and sassy.
Always ready to swear and fight—
And I’d larnt him to chaw terbacker 
Jest to keep his milk teeth white.

The snow come down like a-blanket 
As I passed by Taggart's store:
I went in for a jug of molasses 
And left the team at the door.
They scared at something and started—
I heard one little squall.
And hell-to-spllt over the prairie 
Went team, Little Breeches and all.

Hell-to-split over the prairie:
I was almost froze with skeer;
But we rousted up some torches.
And sarched for ’em far and near.
At last we struck horses and wagon, 
Snowed under a soft white mound, 
Upsot, dead beat—but of little Gabe 
No hide nor hair was found.

And here all hope soured on me,
I just flopped down on my marrow bones, 

Of my fellow critter’s aid—
Crotch deep in the snow, and prayed.

By this, the torches was played out,
Went off for some wood to a sheepfold 

And  me and Isrul Parr
That he said was somewhar  thar.

We found it at last, and a little shed 
Where they shut up the lambs at night;
We looked in and seen them huddle thar, 
ho warm and sleepy and white;
And thar sot Little Breeches and chirped,
As peart as ever you see.
“I want a chaw of terbacker,
And that’s what’s the matter of me.”

How did he git thar?  Angels.
He could never have walked In that storm.
They just scooped down and toted him 
To whar it was safe and warm.
And I think that saving a little child,
And bringing him to his own,
Is a derned sight better business 
Than loafing around the throne.

—John Hat.

N ecessity  o f a  B usiness  Education.

From the Apparel Q&zette.
“Commerce  is  King”  very  truthfully 
remarks Thomas Carlyle,  and his predic­
tion will  apply  even  more fully  to  our 
time and nation than  to  his.  To  com­
merce England owes all that she confess­
edly  possesses—wealth,  power,  domin­
ion,  iniiueuce.  There  needs no ghost  to 
come from  the grave to  foretell  us  of  a 
similar  destiny.  The  world’s  history 
can produce no instance of  so young and 
inexperienced  a  nation  embarking  in  a 
commercial  career  with  such  hot  and 
eager  haste,  and  pressing  it  with  such 
determination, and even  engrossing per­
sistence.  The close and steadfast prose­
cution of  our material  interests,  which 
unquestionably 
stamps  our  national 
character,  has  already  rendered  us,  in 
the world’s estimation, open  to reproach 
and we are everywhere  termed  worship­
ers of the almighty dollar.  The  United 
States is but one extended  counter  from 
Maine to Texas.  But we would not have 
it otherwise.  The glaring  faults  which 
are now—it  may  be  even  offensively— 
patent to the world,  will bring  with  ad­
vancing age their own  correction.  They 
are but the  accidents  of  our  anomalous 
condition,  and are engendered by the  re­
markable  combination  of  circumstances 
which have thus  far environed  us;  they 
are  but  the  offspring  of  the  bounding 
pulse and elastic  spirits of an impetuous 
and exuberant  boyhood.
The more carefully you  prepare  busi­
ness men,  with whom in a great measure 
the future of the  country  rests,  for  the 
lives they are  to  pursue,  the  more  you 
enlarge their views,  moderate  their  de­
sires, 
rectify  their  aims,  and  ensure 
their reasonable  success.  The  danger­
ous  proclivity  exhibited  by  American 
youth to rush too rashly and without due 
preparation  into the  hazardous walks of 
commerce, is  one of the  crying  evils  of 
the day. 
It has  become, in  most  quar­
ters, an absolute epidemic.  Agriculture, 
manufactures  and  the  mechanic  arts 
have been  too much  and  too  long  neg­
lected.  The tendency  with us now is to 
congregate  in towns  and  cities,  and  to I 
throng the avenues to  wealth and honor, I 
which  are  already  overcrowded.  This | 
propensity  is  far  from  healthful  and

leads to  widespread  distress,  and  great 
disappointment.  Oross  ignorance  and 
inexperience are every day  yielding  ter­
rible  bitter  and  expensive  lessons,  and 
most  of  the  lamentable  failures  which 
attend mercantile life,  and which careful 
statistics  have  computed  to  be equal  to 
90 per cent of those who embark in  busi­
ness,  are directly  attributable to  shame­
less  mismanagement  and  ignorance  of 
business,  as  well  as  to  an  absence  of 
commercial experience and dicipline.
A faulty, or rather no  system of book­
keeping has  absolutely  ruined  a  larger 
proportion of  our industrious and pains­
taking  merchants than  would  generally 
be credited  by those having  no access to 
reliable records.  Of  slovenly  business 
habits,  they  neither  know  what  they 
themselves  are  doing,  nor  what  those 
with whom their nearest interests are en­
trusted may be undoing.  The dishearten­
ing results arising from causes so palpable 
demand radical reform.  They are a sad, 
but very  significant, commentary on  the 
deficient  commercial  education  of  the 
times,  and plead  potently for correction.
It may be  esteemed  a  truth,  and  one 
which  both  individual  experience  and 
trustworthy  statistics  will  confirm,  that 
there is no royal  road to success in busi­
ness life.  There, as in all other depart­
ments of  industry, the  most  ample  and 
enduring rewards are to  the  industrous, 
the methodical and the  persevering. 
In 
legitimate business, luck,  which in spec­
ulation may serve to do, or  undue,  must 
never be  relied on. 
It lures  but to  de­
ceive.  Its  effects are illusory and not sub­
stantial.  The cases where it  has led  on 
to fortune are exceptional ones,  and only 
serve to  prove  the  general  rule.  The 
most solid,  staple and firmly based  pros­
perity  is the  direct  result of  fiscal  and 
regular law, and  will no more suffer vio­
lence than those of astronomy.  In Ameri­
ca there is no law  of primogeniture,  lit­
tle  entailed  property, 
fortunes 
change  with our weather and  rise  with 
our streams.  Here, more than anywhere 
else, experience would  seem to give  the 
lie  to  regular  system  and  plodding 
method,  but observe more closely,  pene­
trate  more  deeply,  and  take  a  wider 
scope of  men and  things, and our  asser­
tion stands  confessed.
The most obvious want of the age  and 
country is  a  more  careful  and  efficient 
system, by which young men may be more 
carefully prepared to enter  the  crowded 
arena of  business, where  so  many  haz­
ards  and  vicissitudes  beset  them,  and 
where they must encounter sharp compe­
tition,  shrewd  rivals,  and  experienced 
opposition.  They  must acquire  a  thor­
ough  acquaintance with  the  tools  they 
are to employ before they  can carve  out 
for themselves fortunes.  The race Is not 
always to the swift,  nor the battle to the 
strong,  and to  succeed in business  there 
needs more than mere desire  and  indus­
try—resolution,  knowledge,  prudence, 
experience,  calculation,  and 
regular 
method are all required.

and 

Danger  o f W heat Famine.

The New York Sun recently intimated 
editorially that there is  danger  of  abso­
lute  starvation  throughout  Europe  on 
account of the  failure of the wheat crop. 
It says:  “Is  not  Europe  face  to  face 
with a  state of want  such  as  has  never 
threatened  so  great  a  population  since 
the dawn of history?”  And then it adds: 
“On all the  earth there  is  but  one  sub­
stitute possible  for the deficient rye  and 
wheat—but  one  means  of  preventing 
even in  part  the devastation  threatened 
—and  that  is  by  the  use  of  American 
maize, should we  be  so  fortunate  as  to 
harvest  a  full  crop.”  There  will  be 
enough  wheat  or  rye,  or  both,  to  go 
round,  notwithstanding the foregoing.

Insurance  Satisfactorily Adjusted.
Muskegon,  Aug.  15 — The  loss  sus­
tained by the  burning of  the  sawmill of 
M. Wilson & Co,  has  been  adjusted,  the 
insurance  companies  paying  the  full 
amount of  the policies,  $20,000.  Wilson 
& Co. have  leased  the  sawmill  of  C.  J. 
Hamilton  and  will  operate  it  the  re­
mainder  of  the  season.  Workmen  are 
now  making repairs  and  it  is  expected 
the mill will  be in condition  to  start up 
in about two weeks.

Michigan (Tbntimt,

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trains to and from Detroit.
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•Daily.
All other daily except S unday.
Sleeping cars  ran  on  Atlantic and  Pacific Express 
Parlor cars ran  on  Day  Express  and  Grand Rapid 
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G’d   R ap id s,  Lv
I o n i a ..............A r
St.  J o h n s   ...A r
O w o sso ..........A r
E.  S a g in a w ..A r 
B ay C ity  . . . .  A r
F l i n t ..............A r
P t.  H u r o n ...A r
P o n tia c ..........A r
D etro it............A r

+No.  14 +No.  16 +No.  18 ♦No.  28
10 55pm 
6 50am
12 37am 
7 45am
1 55am 
8 28am 
9 15am
3 15am 
........
11 05am 
11 55am 
1 1 10am 
306pm
10 57am
11  55am

3 45pm
4 52pm
5 40pm
6 40pm
8 45pm
9 35pm 
8 0 (p m
10 30pm
8 55pm
9 50pm

I  20am
II  25am 
12 17am
1 20pm 
3 lOpm 
3 45pm
3 40pm 
6 00pm 
305pm
4 05pm

5 40am 
7 35am 
5 50am 
7  0am

W ESTW A RD .

♦N o. 81
7  05am
8  50am

T ra in s  L e av e
G 'd  R ap id s,  Lv 
G ’d  H av en ,  A r 
M ilw ’k ee Str  “ 
C h icag o   S tr.  “
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.

+No.  11
1  00pm
2  15pm

+No.  13
5  10pm
6  15pm 
6  45am 
6 00am

tN o . 15
10 30pm
11  30pm 
6 45am

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

23 Monroe Street.

CHICAGO 

JUNE2^ 91-
&  WEST  MICHIGAN  RY.

D E PA R T   FO R

t 5:40 +6:30

P .M .

§6:30
§6:30
t6:30

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

A.  M.  I P.  M.
t!0:00  +1:15 
+10:00  +1:15 
+10:00  +1:15 
+1  :00  +1:15 
+7:25  +5:25 
+9:00  +1:15 
+7:25  +5:25 
+7:25  +5:25 
+7:25  +5:25 
+9:00|  +1:15

Chicago.....................
Indianapolis............
Benton Harbor...........
St. Joseph..................
Traverse  City............
Muskegon..................
Manistee  ...................
Ludington.................
Big Rapids.................
Ottawa Beach............
tWeek Days.  »Daily.  § Except Saturday.
10:00
1:15
5:25
11:35

A. M. has through chair car to Chica­
go.  N o extra charge for seats.
P. M.  runs  through to Chicago  solid 
with Wagner buffet car;  sea s 50 cts. 
P. M. has  through free  chair  car  to 
Manistee,  via M.  & N. E. R. R.
P. M. is solid  train  with Wagner pal­
ace sleeping  car  through to Chicago, 
and sleeper  to  Indianapolis via Ben­
ton Harbor.
P.  M.  has  Wagner  Sleeping Car  to 
Traverse City.
P.  M.  connects  at  St.  Joseph  with 
Graham & Morton’s steamers for Chi­
cago.

11:30
6:30

DETROIT,

Lansing & Northern R R

P .  M.

A.  M.

D E PA R T   FO R

........... +7:05 +4:30
t7:05 +4:30
+7:05 +4:30

P . M.
Detroit................................... +6:50 +1:00
Lansing................................
t6:50 +1:00 ♦6:25
Howell................................... +6:50 +1:00 *6:25
Lowell.................................... +6:50 +1 :i0 ♦6:25
Alma...................  
St.  Louis  ...............................
Saginaw  City.......................
6«KA  A  M. runs through to Detroit with par- 
• w v   lor car;  seats 25  cents.
I .A A   P. M.  Has  through  Parlor  car  to  De- 
• v U   troit.  Seats, 25 cents.
6:25 P. M. runs through to Detroit  with par 
lor car, seats  25  cents.
A. M. has parlor  car  to  Saginaw, seats 
*7 
• 
25 cents.
For  tickets  and  information  apply  at  Union 
Ticket Office, 67 Monroe  street, or Union station.

Geo. D e H a v e n , Gen. Pass’r Agt.

CUTS for BOOM  EDITIONS

---- OR----

P A M P H L E T S

For the best work, at  reasonable prices, address

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

4:80 pm

Grand  Rapids  ¿6 Indiana.

In effect  July 19,1891.
TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive from Leavegoing 
North.
7:06 am
7:30 am
11:80 am
4:30 p m
p m  6:05 p m
10:80 p m
Train  arriving at 6:60  daily;  all  other  trains  dally 

South. 
For Saginaw A Big Rapids........ 
For Traverse City & Mackinaw  6 ;50 a m 
For Traverse  City & Mackinaw  9:15am 
For Saginaw,.............................. 
For Traverse City........................  2:16 
Fo iM ackinaw  City....................   8:45 p  m 
except Sunday.

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

Arrive from  Leave going 
South.
North. 
For  Cincinnati...... ....................  6:00 am 
7:00 am
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago...  10:20 a m  10:30 a m
From Big Rapids A Saginaw....  11:50 am
For Fort Wayne and the  East.. 
2:00 p m
For  Ft. Wayne............................  5:25 
p m  6:00 p m
For Cincinnati and Chicago.... 
10:00 p m  10:30 p m
From Saginaw..............................10:40 p m
Train  leaving for Cincinnati  and  Chicago  at  10:80 
p m daily;  all other trains daily except Sunday.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
• Muskegon—Leave. 
10:10&m
7:00 am  
12:45 pm 
6:15 pm
6:80 pm 
10:15 pm

From Muskegon—Arrive.

SLEEPING  A  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

NORTH—7:30  am train.—Sleeping and  parlor 
chair car, Grand  Rapids to Mackinaw City. 
Parlor chair car  Grand  Rapids to Traverse 
Oity.
1 1 :3 0   a m  tra in .—Parlor chair  car  G’d 
Rapids to Mackinaw.
10:30 p m  train.—Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey.  Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids to  Mackinaw City.
SOUTH—7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
10:30 am   train.—Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
1 0 :3 0   p m   tr a in .—Sleeping  Car Grand 
Rapids  to  Chicago.  Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.

C hicago v ia G. B.  & I. B. B.

Lv Grand Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

10:30 am  
3:55 p m 

2 :0 0 p m  
9:00 pm 

10:30 pm
0:50 am

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

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

7:05am 
2:15 pm 

Through tickets and full information can  be had by 
calling upon A. Almquist,  ticket  agent  at  Union Sta­
tion,  or  George  W.  Munson,  Union  Ticket  Agent, 67 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids. Mich.

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

C. L. LOCKWOOD.

Toledo,  Ann  Arbor  &  North  Michigan 

B ailw ay.

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

VLA  D.; L.  A  N.

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

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

Return connections equally as good.

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

THE  GREAT

EDMUND B.DIKEMBN
Watch jUakcr 
s Jeweler,
kCRNAL  8T„

4 

-

Grand Rapids 
WA.NTBD.

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

If y o u   have any  of  the  above  goods to 
ship, or anything in  the  Produce  line, let 
ns bear  from yon.  Liberal cash advances 
made when desired.

E A R L   BROS. ,
157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

C o m m issio n  M e r c h a n t s
Reference: First National  Bank,  Ohicago. 
Michigan Tradesman. Grand Rapids.

