Published Weekly.

YOL. 9.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS.
GRAND  RAPIDS,SEPTEM BER  23,  1891.

$1  Per  Year.
NO.  418

G.  S .  B R O W N   &  CO.,

-------  JOBBERS  OF  -------

Domestic Fruits  and  Vegetables

We carry the largest stock in the city and guarantee satisfaction.  We always bill  goods at the 

lowest market prices. 

SEND  FOR  QUOTATIONS.

24 and 26 North Division St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

PEACHES  AND  BANANAS.

WE  ARE  HEADQUARTERS.

Mail  Orders  Receive  Prompt  Attention.

C  N.  R A P P   &  CO.,

9 North  Ionia St., Grand Rapids.

Made  of Forged Steel and  Interchangeable injall Its Parts.  Sold by

HESTER  &  FOX, 

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

MUSKEGON  BRANCH  UNITED  STATES  BAKING  CO.,

Successors  to

M u s k e g o n   C r a c k e r   C o .,

H A B B T   FOX,  Manager.

Crackers, B iscuits#Sw eet Goods.

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PAID  TO  MAIL  ORDERS.

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

New  Line  of ZPSN N Y   800D 8, for September Trade.
A.  E.  B R O O K S   &  CO..

Order Tycoon  Gum  and  Choco’ate T rip le t.

So. 4«  OTTAWA  ST..  OKAND  RAPIDS
Agents  Wanted !

Album  Milling Co., Albion,  Michigan:
Gents—In  connection  with  our  order  for “Albion  Patent  Flour” which  you 
will  find enclosed,  permit  us to say that  we have  used  your Albion  Patent for the 
past fifteen  years and  it has always  given  universal  satisfaction.  We  consider  it 
the best brand of flour,  for family  use,  that we handle.  Yours very truly,

WELLS  STONE  MERCANTILE  CO.

Sa g in a w ,  Mich., June 22,  1891.

We wish to place  this  brand in every city and  town in  Michigan,  and  give the 
exclusive control to responsible  dealers.  There is money in  it for  you.  W rite for 
particulars.  Perfect satisfaction guaranteed in every instance.

ALBION  WILLING  COMPANY.  Albion,  Mich.
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H ides, F urs, W o o l & T allow ,

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NOS.  132  and  i24  LOUIS  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN.

WE CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR  MILL  OSE

TELFER  SPICE  COMPANY,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

S p ice s  an d   B a k in g   P o w d e r ,  a n d   J o b b ers  o f 

T ea s, C offees  a n d   G ro cers’  S u n d ries.

1 and 3 Pearl  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS
This  will  be  the  week  to  order 
Peaches.  We look  for quality  to  be 

Crawford and Barnard 

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unusually fine—recent rains will improve size and quality.
P L U M S   We look  for large receipts of plums this  week.  Prices  reasonable.
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Fruits, Seeds,  Beans and  Produce.

TOUR  ORDERS  SOLICITED. 

..  WHOLESALE:

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MOSELEY  BROS.,

26, 28, 30 and 32  Ottawa St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

T E N N I S   S H O E S .

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MEN’S  OXFORDS.............................. 40c  YOUTHS’  OXFORDS......................... 36c
BOYS’ 
....................... 3i c
Also a line  of  Candee  Tennis Shoes 50 per  cent, off list.  A  nice  line of Men’s, 
Boys’,  Youths’,  Women’s,  Misses’  and Child’s Shoes in  Calf,  Grain,  Glove Grain, 
Dongola, etc.  Would be pleased to show you styles and prices.

........................... 38c  CHILDS’ 

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GEO.  H.  REEDER  &  CO.,

168  &  1 6 0   F u lto n   S t ,  G rand  R a p id s,  M ich.

THE flEW YORK  BI8GUIT ßO„
Manuf,

Cracker 

S.  A.  SE A R S,  Manager.

8 7 ,  8 9   a n d   41  K en t  St., 

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G rand  R a p id s.

W .  H.  D O W N S ,

-----JOBBER  O F------

Notions & Fancy  Goods.

8   So.  Tonia  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

I have just  received a fresh invoice of Ribbons, on which I am prepared to make unusually close prices.

G - e t   t h e   B e s t   I

Jennings9

Flavoring  Extracts

SEE  QUOTATIONS.

Send  your orders for PEACHES to

THEO.  B.  GOOSSEN,

Wholesale froditce  a nit  Commission,  33  Ottaw a St.,  Grand  Rapids.

H e y m a n   &  C o m p a n y ,

Spring & Company,

Manufacturers  of

Show  Cases

Of  Every Description.

WRITE FOR  PRICES.
First-Glass  Work  Only.
-  G R A N D   R A P ID S

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

D ress  G oods,  S h a w ls,  C loak s,  • 
N o tio n s, 
H o siery , 
G lo v es,  U n d e r w e a r ,  W o o le n s , 
F la n n e ls,  B la n k ets,  G in g h a m s, 
P rin ts  an d   D o m estic  C otton s

We invite the attention  of the trade to our complete and well 

assorted stock at lowest market  prices.

Spring & Company.

6 8   and  6 6   C anal  St., 

STANDARD  OIL  CO,.BALL

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
in  Illuminating  and  LUbriGating

Dealers 
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N APTH A  AND  GASOLINES.

Office,  Hawkins  Block. 

Works, Butterworth Ave. j

MILK  STATIONS  AT

Grand  Rapids,  Big Rapids, Cadillac,  Grand  Haven,  Ludington, Howard  City,  Mus­

kegon,  Reed City.  Manistee,  Petoskey, Allegan.

Highest Price Paid  for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels
R 1 N D G E ,   B E R T S C H   &  CO.,  j

M anufacturers  and Jobbers of  Boots and  Shoes.

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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.
>t  We solicit  your  inspec­
tion before purchasing.
“Agents  for  the Boston 
Rubber shoe Co.”

IM PORTERS  AND

Wholesale  Grocers

GRAND  RAPIDS.

BARNHART 

PUTMAN  CO

Wholesale
Grocers.

--------JOBBER  OF--------

F.  J.  D E T T E N T H A L E R
OYSTERS
POULTRY i BANK

SALT  FISH

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. 

See Quotations in Another Column.

CONSIGNMENTS  OP  ALL  KINDS  OF  POULTRY  AND  GAME  SOLICITED.

Graul Rapids Storage & Transfer Co., i s

Winter  8t„  between  Sbawmilt  Ave.  and  W.  Pillion  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

General  W arehousemen  and  Transfer  Agents.

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

ALL  KINDS  OF  PERISHABLES.

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

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

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

and Machine and Plow repairs, Etc.

Telephone  No.  94ö. 

j .  y .  F.  BLAKE,  Sup’t.

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

S. P. A s pik w a l l, Pres’t  

W   P b s d  M cB a i.n.  S e c 'v

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

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

We quote:

Sli d  Brand Oysters.

Selects...................28  E.  F.......................   23
Standards............  20

Daisy  Brand  Oysters.

Selects,................. 26  Standards...............   18
Favorites..............  16

O ur  Favorite  Brand.

M u.  W itliey's Home-made Mince-Meat.
Large bbls..............6‘A  Halfbbls...................6%
401b. p ails............   7  201b.  palls  ..............7J4
101b.  pails............ 7H
21b. cans, (usual  weight)..............81.50  per  doz.
51b.  “ 
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..............83.75 per doz.
Choice Dairy  Butter........................................  18
Pure Sweet Cider, in  bbls................................  15
Pure Cider  Vinegar.........................................   10
Choice 300 and 360 Lemons............................ 84.50
Will pay 40 cents each for Molasses half  bbls. 
Above prices are made low to bid for trade.
Let your orders come.

“ 

EDWIN  FALLAS  A  SON,

A  DISCOVERED  LIFE.

Welcome  ever  both to  gods  and  men 
are the persevering  and the self-helpful; 
and  Elkanah  Ramsden,  standing  one 
spring morning in his wonderful factory, 
was not inclined to underrate  either  his 
own  merits  or  the  reward 
they  had 
brought  him.  For the Ramsden  factory 
was a  wonderful place; indeed,  Elkanah 
rather considered it as the veritable final 
cause of iron  and cotton.  For to feed its 
craving  machines,  the  Hindoo  ryot,  the 
Malabar coolie,  the  abject  Egyptian,  the 
American  negro  were  all  at work;  and 
from the four  quarters of the world  had 
come  the fibers  that were  twisting.and 
twirling round the metal  rods, and dart­
ing  in  between 
finely  polished 
meshes.

the 

The dusty  daylight was  loaded with  a 
thousand  subtle  odors of  oil and cotton 
and dyes; but the sunshine  fell  on  hun­
dreds  of  webs,  many-colored,  bright- 
tinted,  soft and  glossy as  silk,  beautiful 
with  all manner  of  devices  and  reliefs 
and borders. 
It fell also on hundreds of 
“ hands,”  some  ordinary  enough,  slip­
shod both as to mind  and body; and oth­
ers just  as evidently  set apart  by extra­
ordinary  qualities,  either  acquired  or 
natural.  Among the best workmen were 
many  women, mostly  round,  rosy-faced 
Yorkshire  girls, though  here and  there 
was  the  distinctive  Lancashire  counte­
nance,  lit with the bewitching gray eyes, 
long-fringed and full of intelligence.

Beside  such  a girl  Elkanah  stopped, 
and said,  half angrily and half-pityingly:

“David’s loom is empty again,  lass!”
“It’s  dree  work,  master; bide wi’  him 

a bit.”

“ Then it’s for thy sake,  Mary.”
She said nothing,  but dropped her eyes 
on  her  work,  and  the  master  walked 
thoughtfully away.

All the morning the loom stood empty, 
and Mary watched  it with anxious  eyes; 
but when the great  iron gates opened  to 
admit 
the  afternoon  workers  a  young 
man glided up to her  side and said peni­
tently:

I  was  belated 

“Mary,  lass,  thou’s  none  angered  at 
me. 
last  night,  for  I 
walked so far I couldna win back,  and so 
belike I lost my half-day again.”

She  turned  reproachfully, but the  an­
ger all  vanished  before  the  sunny  face 
and merry eyes of her companion.

“I’m a foolish woman, David,”  she an­
swered,  “and  I’m  feared II’II  ne’er  be  a 
wiser  one.”

But her folly seemed,  at least,  to make 
her  happier;  the fair  oval face held,  all 
afternoon,  a  rosy  color,  and  the  great 
gray  eyes  glanced  sweet  intelligences 
from her  own work  to  the  loom  which 
seemed now to be doing double duty.

Mary’s  companions  called her  a pros­
perous woman.  She was a favorite with 
both  her  master  and  the overseer;  she 
was a clever  worker,  earned  thirty  shil­
lings a week and saved half of it, and the 
handsomest  lad  in  the  Ramsden  Mills 
was her lover.  But there are a prosperi­
ty  and  adversity  not witnessed  by  the 
world,  and  whose  theater  is  the heart, 
and Mary knew that there were elements

of probable disaster gathering round her 
life  which would  work her sore  trouble 
unless  she  could  summon  strength 
to 
control  them.

She  had allowed  herself to  be drifted 
along  by  circumstances,  but  she  knew 
that this  aimless progress  must soon  re­
solve  itself  into  a  question  of  “this 
road” or  “ that road.”  She  did not  dis­
trust  her  own 
judgment,  and  was  a 
woman very  likely,  amid many  counsel­
ors to follow it; but yet, with a very natur­
al  feeling,  she wanted some one to advise 
her to  do  what  she  had  already  deter­
mined  to  do.  So,  one  evening,  when 
David,  according to  custom,  came to ask 
her to  “go for a bit walk,” she answered, 
decidedly: 
“I’m  going  by  myself  to­
night,  lad.”  He did not ask her “ where;” 
his  character was too easy and facile for 
that.  He had full  confidence in his own 
influence over her,  and if she was not go­
ing with him,  why,  he must find  another 
companion: and  meeting Jack  Harkness 
at the street corner,  he  readily  fell  into 
his  proposition  “to tak’ a glass o’  beer.”
In  the  meantime,  Mary,  dressed  with 
great care  and neatness,  walked  rapidly 
to a  much more  respectable part  of  the 
city,  and  stopping  before  a  neat  brick 
house,  knocked  gently.  The  door  was 
quickly  opened by a  delicate little  lady, 
with  the kindliest face  set in  a spotless 
border of fine cambric.

“Mary,” she said,  “I saw  thee coming, 

dear.  Walk in.”

“Isn’t parson in?”
“Surely.  There  is  nothing  wrong,  I 

hope.”

“I  hope  not,  ma’am. 

I  want him  to 

tell me; that is all.”

is no one there.”

“Well,  go  straight to  his study;  there 

The study door  was open,  and  Parson 
Bradley saw  Mary as she  came upstairs.
“Good  evening,  dear,”  he  said,  as  she 
advanced;  “you  were  not  at your  class § 
meeting for  two weeks. 
I  was going  to 
send  one  of  the  leaders  to  look  after 
you.”

“No  need,  sir;  I  ha’e  been  sorely 
troubled in my mind,  and  with  troubles 
maybe  a lass  wouidna  care to  speak of 
in  her class-meeting;  so I’ve e’en come to 
your study,  sir.”

“Good girl,  you’re welcome.  Now tell 
I  can’t  advise  on 

me  the whole  truth. 
half lights, Mary.”

“It’s  about  David,  sir.  You  know  1 
like the  lad; hoo well I like him  nobody 
knows  but  myself.  Yet  I’m  feared  to 
saj%the word that binds me to him.”

“What for?”
“He’s gotten no backbone,  sir,  no pur­
pose; he just  needs to be  bolstered up a’ 
the  time.  He  means  to  do  well,  but 
everbody  says  ‘go’  and  ‘come’  to  him, 
and he’s gotten no mind of his own.”

“The  more,  Mary,  he  needs  a  wife 
whose character is likey ours—built upon 
a rock.  Whenever  a  duty comes in  our 
way  there  is  no getting  round about  it 
innocently—that is my opinion.”

“But am I David’s keeper when I’m no 

married to him?”

“If  you  love  him  and  he  loves  you 
—if  you  can  can  keep  him  from  doing

W. T. LÄMOREÄUX X GO., /alley City Colt Storage,

128,130,132 W. Bridge St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

ESTABLISHED  1841.

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

R .G . D u n   &  Co.

Reference Books issued  quarterly.  Collections 

attended to throughout United States 

and Canada

Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit, Mieh.
$500,000  TO  INVEST  IN   BONDS
Issued  by  cities, counties,  towns  and  school  districts 
of  Michigan.  Officers  of  these  m unicipalities  about 
to issue  bonds will  find it to th eir  advantage to  apply 
to this bank.  Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings 
supplied  w ithout  charge.  All  communications  and 
enquiries will have prom pt attention.  This bank pays 
4 per cent, on  deposits, compounded semi-annually. 
May. 1891._____________ 8.  D. EL WOOD. Treasurer.

W A N T E D   !

I   W ANT  TO  B U Y   one  or  two thou­
sand  cords  of  good  16-inch  beech  and 
maple wood.
I  ALSO  W ANT  TO  SELL  Lime, 
Imported  and  Domestic  Cements,  Fire 
Brick,  Sewer  Pipe,  Drain  Tile,  Hay, 
Grain,  Feed, Oil  Meal, Clover  and  Tim­
othy Seed,  Land Plaster, Etc.

THOS.  E.  W Y K E S ,

WHOLESALE  WAREHOUSE  AND OFFICE :

Cor. W ealthy Ave. and  Ionia on M. C. B. R. 

b r a n c h  o f f ic e :  B oilders’  Exchange.

Correspondence Solicited.

PEOPLE’S SAVINGS BANK.
Liability, (100,000 
Capital,  (100,000. 

Cor. Monroe and Ionia Sts.,

Depositors’  Security,  (200,000.

OFFICERS.
Thomas Hefferan, President.
Henry F. Hastings, Vice-President.
Charles M. Heald,  2d Vice-President.
Charles B. Kelsey, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.H. C. Russell 
John Murray 
J. H. Gibbs 
C. B. Judd 
H.  F. Hastings 
C. M. Heald 
Don  J. Leathers 

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

Thomas Hefferan.

Four per cent. Interest paid on time certificates 
and  savings  deposits.  Collections  promptly 
made  at lowest rates.  Exchange  sold  on  New 
York, Chicago, Detroit and all foreign countries. 
Money transferred by mail or  telegraph.  Muni­
cipal  and county bonds  bought  and  sold.  Ac­
counts of mercantile  firms as well as banks and 
bankers solicited.
We  invite  correspondence  or  personal  inter 
view with a view to business relations.

Drug M r  Sale at a Bariain
On  long  time  If  desired,  or  will  exchange  for 
part  productive real  estate.  Stock  clean  and 
w ell assorted.  lo cation the best in the city. 
I wish to retire permanently from  the drug  bus­
iness.

C.  L.  BRUNDAQE,

Opp. New Post Office. 

117 W. Western Ave. 

Muskegon,  Mich.

STUDLEY  &  BARCLAY

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Agents for the  C A N D E G   Rubber  boots, shoes,  arc­

tics, lumbermen’s, etc.,  the best in the  m arket.

We carry the finest line of  felt and k n it boots, socks 
and  rubber  clothing  in the  m arket.  Send  for  price 
list and discounts.

4 M onroe St«, G rand Rapids, Mich.

PENBERTÏÏY  INJECTORS.

SIM PLE

RE LIA B LE

The  Most  Perfect A utom atic  Injector 
42,000 In  actual  operation.  M anufactured by

Made.

PENBERTHY  INJECTOR  C0„

DETROIT,  MICH.

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GOLD  MEDAL,  PAEIS,  1878.

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

wrong and help him to do right, why then 
I think you are.”

“Thank  you,  sir.  There is something 
else; the master,  Mr.  Ramsden, you know 
him,  sir?”

“Yes; what of him?”
“He  likes  me  well,  too,  sir,  and  has 
spoken  kindly  words  to  me,  and  I’m 
feared  he’ll  be hard on David.”

“Do  you mean  to say  that Mr.  Rams­

den has asked you to be his wife?”

“Surely,  sir. 

I’m  a  decent  lass—he 
would  not  have  sought my  favor  other­
wise.

“You’d  be  a  rich  woman.  Mary,  and 
could  do a  deal  of good; but  you  don’t 
love him,  eh?”

“That’s where the  shoe pinches,  sir—1 

don’t love him.”

“Then  if  you are the good  girl  I  take 
you to be,  you’ll just  marry  David, and 
do your very best for the lad.”

“Thank you,  sir,  I  will.”
With her minister’s advice to strength­
en  her  own  desires,  Mary  ventured  to 
risk  her  happiness in  David’s  keeping. 
But  the  trouble  she  had  feared  soon 
gathered.  David  gave  her almost  from 
the  first  constant  anxiety;  he  detested 
his  loom,  and soon  contrived to  get  dis­
missed; and yet it was not from any idle­
ness of  disposition;  he was  wonderfully 
energetic at anything  that could be done 
in the open air; he would  walk scores of 
miles  on  pretence  of seeking  work,  aud 
come back from  his tramp with  pockets 
full of  bugs,  stones  aud  curious  things 
and his  heart as full of  content as  if  he 
was earning his living.

Unfortunately, in these tramps he  met 
with other men of the same nomadic hab­
its,  and  far less innocent  tastes; disrepu­
table looking characters lounged about the 
street  corner waiting for him,  and David 
ere long began to come home drunk.  No 
one  in this  gradual  falling  away  could 
blame  Mary;  she  kept  their  one  room 
clean and comfortable; she worked stead­
ily; she  bad  twice found  him work;  she- 
had constantly and patiently encouraged 
his  spasmotic 
reformations;  she  had 
hoped  against  hope,  until  even  David, 
when sober,  was  ashamed to look  her  in 
the face.

As long as it  was only  David and  her­
self,  the  pinch  of  poverty,  that  came 
soon  enough,  did  not  so very much  fret 
her,though her plump,oval cheeks looked 
wan  and  thin,  and  the  wonderful  gray 
eyes  had  a  pathetic  anxiety  in  them. 
Klkanah Ramsden  was the first to notice 
it,  and he tried,  as far as Mary would let 
him,  to be  a friend; she  owed to his  for­
bearance  the bread of  many a  week,  for 
with the  birth of  children,  even  Mary’s 
steady  loom  was  deserted at  intervals, 
and her heart and her hands were sadly di­
vided.  Yet with that God-like sympathy, 
common to  all true  women, Mary  loved 
her  husband  and  children  continually 
the better as they seem less  worthy of if. 
She had  loved David  when he  stood  be­
fore  her in all  the winsome  beauty  and 
hopefulness  of his best years,  but not  as 
she  loved him  now,  fallen from himself, 
despised  among  bis  fellows; and  as  for 
her  poor,  sickly  children,  she 
loved 
them  all  the more passionately because 
their  pinched,  famine-stricken  lives had 
been defrauded of all pleasant things.

One  night,  coming  home  through  the 
rain, cold and hungry  and utterly miser­
able—for she had not seen David for two 
days—she  met  her old  master. 
In  her 
pre-occupied  sorrow  she  would  have

passed  him;  but  a  true love  is  born for 
adversity.

“Mary,” he said,  and said  it so kindly 
and with such sincere sympathy that she 
burst into tears.

“Oh, sir,  I’m in sair sorrow!”
“ May  I  help  you—just,  Mary,  as  I 
would help any other sorrowful woman?” 
“The children  are  most famished,  and 
oh,  the  fearful cold!  And  we  have  had 
no  food  or  coals  for  nigh  on  to  two 
days,  sir!”  And  here  she  broke  into 
passionate sobbing.
•  “Poor lass!  Poor lass!  Go your ways 
home. 
I’ll  see  you  have fire  and  food 
enough in half an hour.  Where’s David?” 
“Oh,  master,  that’s worse  than all.  1 

haveua seen the lad since Monday.” 

“Well,  perhaps  he’ll  be  home  when 
you get  there.  Run away to  the bairns, 
my lass.”

She thanked him with a look and hast­
ened  home;  but  David  was  not  there. 
Even  the unwonted  comfort of a blazing 
fire, and  the  unwonted  delight of seeing 
her  children  eat  just as  much  as  they 
wanted,  could  not  soothe  her  distress. 
David had stayed away before, but never 
had  such  a  presentment  of 
trouble 
haunted her.

As she walked about her room hushing 
her  baby,  a  neighbor  looked  in  with  a 
troubled  face.  She had  a newspaper  in 
her hand,  and  she glanced  first at  Mary 
and then at  it.  Mary stopped  suddenly 
and looked wistfully at her.

“There was a listening fear in her regard,
As if calamity had but begun."
“Oh,  woman,  woman!  Whaten’s  the 

matter?  Where’s my lad?”

“I’m feared he’s in prison,  Mary.” 
Mary  did  not  scream  or  faint;  her 
blood rushed  to  her face,  and then  back 
in a choking tide to her heart.  Her hus­
band  in  prison!  Had it  come  to  this? 
She laid the baby  in her neighbor’s arms.
“Let me see the paper, woman; 1  want 

to read it  myself.”

There it was:
“Three  men  of  suspicious  character, 
David  Yorke,  Jack  Dickson  and  Jerry 
Wilson,  were  arrested  last  night  on  a 
charge of robbing Mr.  Josiah Holderness 
while walking in his own park.  Some of 
the  money in  their  possession  has  been 
identified  as  drawn  by  Mr.  Holderness 
that day  from the Spinners’ Bank.”

She  read no  further; she  remembered 
that David had been  discharged only ten 
days ago from  the Holderness Mills, and 
that he had  spoken  at the  time very bit­
terly about the author  of  what he called 
his  “ ill-luck.”  But there was  worse  in 
store.

“You’ll  see,  Mr.  Holderness  is  badly 
hurt,  Mary,” said  the  neighbor,  with  a 
tone of tears in her voice.

With  a  dreadful terror  tightening  on 
her  heart  Mary  read  that  the  unfortu­
nate gentleman had  been felled by a blow 
from one of his assailants,  and had  been 
It  was  doubtful 
insensible  ever since. 
yet  whether  the 
three  culprits  would 
have to be tried  for theft  of for murder. 
She  threw  a shawl  over her  head,  and, 
unheeding all  remonstrance, tied through 
the  rain  and  wind  and  darkness,  like 
some  hunted  creature.  Ere  long  she 
stopped at  the good  minister’s door;  his 
wife heard the sobbing voice, and, before 
she had  finished  her  request,  came  for­
ward with outstretched hands:

“Poor lass!  Poor  lass!” she  said  ten­

derly,  “come  in.”

“Oh, mistress,  where is t’ parson?” 
“He’ll  be here  directly,  Mary.  Can  I 

do nothing for you?”

forting  words.”

The  good  woman  took  no  offense;  a 
great grief  is  a  great  consecration.  A 
great silence fell on the two women.

Suddenly  Parson  Bradley opened  the 
door; he smiled gently when Mary turned 
her wretched face toward  him,  and said: 
“Don’t  be  miserable  above  measure, 
1  have  seen  David—I  am  just 

Mary. 
come from him.”

Then  she  sat  down, threw her  apron 
over her head,  aud rocking herself  back­
ward and forward,  began to  cry bitterly.
“Hush,  my woman!  Maybe things are 
I  don’t  believe 

better  than  they  look. 
David has done this thing.”

Then  she  suffered  herself  to be  per­
suaded  to  eat  a  bowl  of  boiled  bread 
and milk and talk rationally over the ca­
lamity that had befallen her.

“ David says he  met Jack  Dickson and 
Jerry Wilson  at  the little  public  house 
where  they  were  all  arrested  only yes­
terday  afternoon—the attack  was on the 
evening before; he insists that none of the 
money was  found on  him—that, indeed, 
he  had not  a farthing in his  possession, 
even  of  bis  own;  and  1  believe  him. 
David is a very weak lad, but not a wicked 
one.”

“You bid me marry him,  parson.”
“I am not sorry 1 did so,  Mary.”
“Oh,  sir,  if  you  had  felt  the  hunger 
and cold and the sorrow  of aye watching 
aud fearing for him.”

“Love often  demands  great  sacrifices, 
Mary.  How  else  should  we  understand 
the  Divine  Love, 
that  never,  never 
If  David  has  fallen  so  low 
wearies? 
with  you, dare you guess where he would 
I am not down­
have been without you? 
hearted—not  a  bit. 
It  is  the  turning 
point,  lass.  When  the tide  is clear  out 
it begins  to iiow  back  again.  Go  away 
home to  the children; I  shall  see  David 
does  not  go  to  the  wall  for  want  of 
friends and good counsel.

And  he  kept  his  word.  Fully  per­
suaded in his own  mind of  the man’s in­
nocence,  his  convictions inspired  others 
with the same belief.  Mr.  Ramsden was 
induced  to pay a good  lawyer to  defend 
him,  and others for whom he had worked 
promised  to say  in his  behalf whatever 
they conscientiously could.  But the trial 
was  long  delayed.  Mr.  Holderness  re­
covered  very  slowly,  and  it  was  early 
summer  before the case  came up for  ex­
amination.  The confinement had at first 
sorely chafed David.  He longed will  all 
the  passion  of  a  restless, nomadic  tem­
perament  for  freedom, and  when resig­
nation  came,  remorse  and  repentance 
came  also in  all  their  hardest,  blankest 
form;  for  he  was  cut  off  from  all  his 
usual  stimulants and there  was no  fond 
wife nigh to excuse  him and put  him  on 
good terms with himself again.

The trial came on at last.  David’s law­
yer had  prepared a  most convincing  de­
fense,  and  four  of  his  old  employers 
were present to speak for him.  But their 
good  words  were  not  needed,  after all, 
for  as  soon  as  Mr.  Holderness  was 
brought into  court  to  be  sworn against 
the  three men,  he at once declared  there 
was a mistake.  He  positively  asserted 
that  only  two  men  had  attacked  him; 
that he had observed those two attentive­
ly as  they came  toward  him,  and,  with­
out  any  hesitation,  selected  the  two 
guilty  men.  Neither  of  them  were 
David.  Furthermore,  he  voluntarily af­
firmed that, though  David  was  an  idle, 
graceless  fellow,  he  believed him incap-

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able  of  taking  any  man’s  purse, much 
less  of attacking his  life.

Such  testimony  was  conclusive,  and 
David  left  the  court-room  a free  man. 
But crime  and  punishment  grow out  of 
the same stem.  Now that  David  longed 
to work, no one would give it to him; his 
friends did not care to know him,  all  his 
old  work-fellows  passed  him  by.  He 
stood in greater  danger than before,  and 
Mary saw that she must  yet make anoth­
er effort for his welfare.

This time  she went to  her old  master. 
She showed him j ust how David stood with 
his little  world,  and  begged him to send 
the lad away  where he could have a  fair 
chance  to  put  his  good  resolutions  in 
practice.  Mr.  Ramsden  had  but  little 
hope,  but  he  was  not  able  to 
resist 
Mary’s  pleading  face;  and so,  within  a 
week,  David,  full  of  new-born  hopes, 
was on his way to New York.  He  made 
plenty of  brave  promises,  and Mary  be­
lieved in them;  for once,  too,  he believed 
in them himself,  although he had no defi­
nite plan as to  how they  were to  be  re­
deemed.

But when nearing the  American coast, 
the key to his  character  was  found.  A 
terrific  storm  came  on;  for  eight  days 
they were  fighting Death  band to  hand, 
and  when  all  hopes  seemed  over,  and 
most of  the crew  absolutely  refused  to 
obey  orders  longer,  David was  the Cap­
tain’s right  hand.  Things  that  seemed 
impossible  to  landsmen he  did by  some 
natural  gift or  instinct; his  spirits  rose 
with the  storm,  rose  above  it;  and  the 
man  who  had  always  been  a  coward 
among  wheels  and  bands  and  pulleys, 
knew only a  fierce,  exulting  joy  in  his 
strife with winds  and  waves.  When  at 
e  last  extremity,  they met  a  steamer 
ich took  them into  port; but  the  first 
on the right road for David had been 
Before  they parted,  the  Captain 
out  frankly  his  admiration  and 
,  and said bluntly:

’s your trade, young man?” 

r. sir, “

SHOVING  THE  QUEER.

W hy  C o u n terfeits  C ontinue  so  L ong in 

C irculation.

From th e Chicago Mail.

“Several persons have  expressed great | 
surprise,”  said one of Uncle Sam’s secret 
service men  last  night,  “that  street  car I 
conductors  make  a  practice  of  passing 
all  the  counterfeit  money they take  in.  I 
There  is nothing very startling  in  that.  I 
And the street car conductor is not alone 
in such  work, either.  He does  no  more 
than  the average  citizen does who  finds 
that  he  has  been  duped  by a shover  of 
the  queer.  A  bogus  bill  or a spurious 
coin does not retire from circulation just 
as soon as its worthlessness is discovered 
by the holder.
“The innocent  party who  has paid  $5 
for a bit of  worthless paper isn’t content 
to  lose  his  investment.  He  is  not  a 
counterfeiter, and even if he were caught 
in the attempt to pass  the bogus  bill  he 
could  plead  ignorance  and  escape  the 
law’s penalty,  without doubt,  because he 
himself was victimized, you see, and who 
can  prove  that  he  had  discovered  the 
fact before he attempted to get rid of the 
bill?  Thus  a  good  deal  of  counterfeit 
money  remains  in  circulation  and  it 
seems  almost  impossible  to  suppress it. 
The government’s efforts are  directed to­
ward  the  punishment of  the  makers  of 
the  spurious stuff  and  the  professional 
shovers  of  it. 
It  is  impossible  to  do 
more than that.
“Counterfeiting nowadays has reached 
a  point  approaching  perfection.  Very 
often a bogus  bill  remains in circulation 
a long time and performs all the functions 
of money.  Half of  the counterfeits that 
come  into  our  hands in any  other  way 
than  by  a  capture  of  the ‘mint,’  show 
actual  service. 
It  is  pretty difficult  for 
an  inexperienced  man to pick  out a bad 
bill.
“The  other  day  Captain  Porter  over­
hauled  a  man  in  Southern Indiana who 
had  been  displaying  a counterfeit  bill. 
The  fellow  claimed to be an  expert  and 
was  selling a ‘counterfeit  detector’  pub­
lication.  But  the  bill in his  possession 
was  a  genuine treasury note  and  not a 
counterfeit at  all.
“The  assistant  cashier of  one of  the 
biggest  banking  institutions  in  Chicago 
accepted  a  $10  bill  the  other  day  and 
after  banking  hours  was  surprised  to 
find the word  ‘counterfeit’ stamped upon 
the back of the bill in red ink,  the letters 
being large  enough to be read  across the 
oom.”

A  W o n d erfu l  C rack er  E xhibit.

One  of the  handsomest,  most  admired 
id best patronized  exhibits made at the 
est  Michigan Fair  last  week was  that 
of the  Muskegon branch  of  the  United 
States Baking Co., which  was under  the 
direct personal supervision  of  Mr. Harry 
Fox,  general  manager  of  the  Muskegon 
factory,  assisted  by  Mr.  R. P.  Anderson,
I Cass  Bradford  and other  representatives 
I and attaches of  the house.  The  display 
included about one hundred different va­
rieties of  crackers and  sweet goods,  the 
whole being tastily arranged  in the form 
of a pyramid  at the  intersection  of  two 
wings  of  the  main  building.  Tiers  of 
boxes  in the  lower  portion of  the  pyra­
mid  were  kept  open  and  visitors  were 
given  an  opportunity  to  sample 
the 
goods turned out by this famous factory.
I Many  exclamations  of  surprise  were 
noted at  the great diversity and superior 
j quality  of  the  products  exhibited,  few 
people  being aware that  the factory car­
ried  so large a  line of  made goods.  Mr. 
Fox  has  certainly  baked  many  new 
friends  for  the  factory  in  consequence 
of  this  exhibit,  as  hundreds  of  people 
who  have  never  used  the  goods of  the 
Muskegon  branch  will  hereafter  insist 
upon having the  product of this factory.
Iron  Mountain—G.  Kloeckner  &  Co.’s 
grocery,  dry  goods  and  clothing  store 
has been closed by chattel mortgage.

er  they

run on rocks.”
’ That conversation took place ten years 
ago. 
Its  results may be  guessed in  this 
fact,  that  there  is  not  to-day  a  safer, 
bolder  and  more  trusted captain  in  all 
the merchant service than Captain David 
Yorke.  He is a saved man; in discover­
ing  his proper  vocation,  he  discovered 
his  life. 
Into  this  work  he  put  his 
whole  heart; he never  wanted to be  idle 
—never  wanted to shirk  duty, for  work 
was pleasure and duty a delight.

Mary  has  seen  many  good  days;  her 
faith in her husband’s  better nature,  her 
honest acceptance of the  destiny pointed 
out by her true woman’s heart,  met,  as it 
usually  does,  its  full  reward;  for  love 
trusts where it cannot  see,  and bespeaks 
prosperity even by that trust.

A m e l i a   E.  Baku.

B e aten   a t  H is  O w n  G am e.

An Eastern merchant  started in  to as­
tonish  the  trade  last  week  and  make 
thing  hum.  He put  out  a sign,  “Come 
in and  get a nice  ten cent  cigar  for  five 
cents.”  That night eight big men  walked 
into the store and  asked to look  at some 
good  ten  cent  cigars.  They  each  took 
one,  and  laying  down  a  nickel  apiece 
filed  out  without  a  word.  The  sign  is 
down.

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

3

PUILY FOR BUSINESS!

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

“patching up” pass-book accounts?

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

yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge?

Did  you  ever have a pass-book  account  foot up and  balance  with the  corres­

ponding ledger account without having  to  “doctor” it?
Do  not  many of  your  customers  complain that  they have  been  charged  for 
items they never  had,  and is not your  memory a little  clouded  as  to whether they 
have or not?
Then  why  not  adopt a system of  crediting  that will  abolish  all  these  and a 
hundred other objectionable features of  the old  method,  and  one  that  establishes 
a CASH  BASIS  of  crediting?
enterprising merchants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the

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

Tradesman  or  Superior  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 
coupon  system? 
If  so, order  from  the 
largest  manufacturers of  coupons in  the 
country and address your letters to

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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AMONO  THE  TRADE.
AROUND THE STATE.

Almont—John  Ovens  succeeds  Ovens 

& Cameron in general trade.

Ypsilanti—Chas.  King, of  the grocery 

firm of Chas.  King & Co., is dead.

Au Sable—M. Comeau has removed his4 
clothing  and  hat and  cap stock  to  Bay 
City.

Addison—Wm.  Brown,  senior  member 
of the drug  firm of Wm.  Brown  & Son, is 
dead.
□ Adrian—Kittie  Callihan  has  removed 
her  stock of  ladies’  furnishing  goods  to 
Toledo.

Owosso—C.  G.  Stuart, dealer  in grain, 
lime,  coal,  etc.,  is  about  removing  to 
Toledo.

Mancelona—W.  A.  Davoll,  of  Harbor 
Springs, has bought Blosser & Co.’s stock 
of groceries.

Otsego—Sam  Folz, of  Kalamazoo,  has 
rented a building here  and contemplates 
opening a clothing store soon.

Woodland—Haight & Weed have bought 
G.  M.  Baitinger’s  furniture  stock.  Mr. 
Haight will conduct the business.

New Era—Frank Veldman has removed 
his  general  stock to Muskegon  and will 
re-engage in  business at Lakeside.

of  arson in burning  their  buildings here 
several  years ago.  Both men  have  been 
m | bound over  for trial in the Eaton  Circuit 

Court.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS. 

Marquette—John  C.  Broom  will  take 
out <5,000,000 feet of logs on the Peshekie 
River for W.  H.  Sawyer this season.  The 
logs  will  probably be railed  to this  city 
for manufacture.

Pinconuing—Charles  Resebeck, of  Mt. 
Clemens,  is  erecting  a  saw  and  stave 
mill  near  this  place,  on the site  of  the 
Sherman  mill,  which  was  destroyed  by 
fire some time ago.

Midland—Haley  & Covert,  logging con­
tractors, have started  two  camps  on the 
Molasses,  where they will  put  in  6,000,- 
000  feet  for  Rust,  Eaton  &  Co.  and
3.000. 

000 feet for ether parties.

Farwell—C.  S.  Chase  has  started  a
camp northwest of  this  place,  where  he 
will cut the  timber on  160  acres of land. 
It  consists  mostly  of  hardwood,  cedar 
and hemlock,  with scattering pine.

Standish—Austin  &  Co.’s  sawmill  is 
cutting 500,000  feet  of  lumber  for  the 
World’s  Fair  buildings iu  Chicago, and 
the firm  is  negotiating  contracts  to  cut
3.000. 

000 more for  the  same  destination.

 ^

from Grayling to  Twin Lakes.  A  num-  thing.  Of  course  he  has  school  books, 
berof  buildings  are  being  constructed¡j 
« d   answers  In i
including a  $5,000  hotel.  There is  said  fiKures  and  facts  Toys  he  must have, 
to be  about 400,000,000  feet of  pine  and  and  heie  and  there  you  will  find  the 
other timber tributary  to the  new town,  transparent  slate,  the  top,  the puzzle of
 S S ^ S S S S l T .  
Saginaw  The T,.abawaMee  Boon, Co.  «
estimates the out-put of  that corporation j 
brought  up to  consider  the  height 
for the season at 300,000,000 feet.  There  of  ingenuity, the acme of entertainment.
1 are 5 000 000 feet hung up in  the  Tobac-  You will find candies in  bottles,  made on 
! CO. 3.000,000 in the Salt,  and  a  few  ban- 
W .
dred thousand feet in the Little Molasses.  botties,  but with ingenuous  youths  they 
j The output this  year,  if  it  does  not ex-  pass for  currants,  and  once  in  a  while 
ceed the company’s estimate,  will  be the  the storekeeper comes  across a drummer
___I„  f w  nnnr it  .no  who sells him  a  lot  of  old,  faded,  fancy
In  that year it  was 
smallest since  1873. 
boxes  from  dead  Christmas  times  and 
268,959,149  feet.  The  boom  company 
birthdays of  the past,  and breaks up the 
village with the  sensation.  Then you’ll 
began operations  in  1864,  and  with  the 
find slate pencils.  They have little faith
close of  this  season will  have delivered 
I in the comprehension of their customers,
to the mills  ou  thi
storekeepers, and  so they
000,000 feet of logs. 
always tie the peucil  to the slate so  that
West Bay City—Henry W.  Sage, whose  there can be no mistake.  Stacks of  pic- 
big sawmill  here has cut nearly 700,000,-  ture-books of  a pattern  a city kid would 
turn up his  contemptuous  nose  at,  will
000  feet  of  lumber  in  the  tweuty-six  be 
fo^nd  in  kindF of  boxe9  or  mau-
years  since  it  went  into  commission,  gers an bundled  up  together,  and  sold, 
Balls of 
adding  immensely to  the  wealth  of  the  apparently,  by their thickness, 
inkstands  of
owner,  has  put  some  of 
cheap price,  note paper  with  fashions in 
of his pine investments to most excellent
crests and  monograms,  and  things  that 
use.  He  donated a handsome  library to 
have passed into limbo,  lead  pencils that 
have  “job lot”  written  all  over  them, 
West  Bay City,  and  has expended  thou­
motto  lozenges  with 
the  mottoes  half 
sands of dollars for worthy objects.  The
„  „  .  melted away,  all sorts of toys and useful
new  library  building which  he  gave  to  things Ul tl/5n  meta,  and  pai„ ted wood,
Cornell  University  at  Ithaca,  N.  Y., 
and the open-eyed child wanders through 
the place as if it were in fairy-land.
where he resides,  is practically  complet­
ed. 
It  has  a  capacity  for  470,000  vol­
umes,  and cost  $300,000,  and the  univer­
sity will  havebeside the interest on $300,- 
000 to invest in more books.

A.  Conklin,  general  dealer, Carson  City:  “I 
take  three trade  journals, but  The Tradesman 
is  the  one I watch  for  most.  It  reaches  me at 
11 o’clock every Wednesday morning.”

river  about  9,811,-  these 

Good  W o rd s  U nsolicited.

Bohemian  glass

the  results j 

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Charlotte—Ira YanValkenburg is clos-

Saginaw- The Saginaw Hardwood Lum- 
ing  out  his  furniture  and  undertaking I ber  Co.  has  been  organized by Sidney  S. 
stock and will  retire from  business. 
j Wilhelm, Josephine M. Wilhelm and John 
Otsego—M. O.  Brockway  will  resume  m.  Thompson,  to  manufacture  and  deal 
The  authorized  capital  is 

his  grocery  business  at  his  old  stand  ¡q  lumber. 
next month.  Paul Snyder will clerk  for  $5,000.
him again. 

Sagiuaw--Col.  A.  T.  Bliss  sent  a crew
Manton—Rinaldo  Fuller  has  sold  his  to  North  Bradley  last  week,  to  start a 
It  is  also  reported  that  he will 
drug stock and building to Dr. J. C.  Bos-  Camp. 
tick,  who has  removed  his  stock  to  the  Cut  about  15,000,000  feet  on  Georgian 
Fuller store. 
| bay to be rafted here next season.  Both

Bay City—S.  O.  Fisher  has  let a con­
tract for the putting in of  16,000,000 feet 
of  logs  in  the  Menominee  district, and 
they will  be manufactured at Menominee. 
He  expects  to  put  iu  about  25,000,000 
feet  in  the  vicinity of  Otsego  Lake,  on 
Otsego—Miner  &  McClelland, of  Kel-  0f his mills will be fully stocked.
the  Mackinaw  division of  the  Michigan
Saginaw—G. B. Wiggins has purchased j  central,  and  these  logs  will  be  railed
logg,  has  bought  the  Truesdell  corner 
and will  erect a  building suitable  for  a j  a tract of  land  in  Gladwin  county,  and 
here.  Thomas  Toohey  is putting in  logs 
has  started  two  camps.  He  will  cut
grocery stock. 
for Mr. Fisher in that region.  Mr.  Fisher
Sherwood — W.  R.  Mandigo  is  nego-  about  6,000,000  feet,  and  has  enough 
will  also  purchase a number of  million 
tiating  the sale of  his  drug and  grocery  timber  for  four or five years’  cutting  at
feet.  He  will  handle  about  50,000,000 
The  logs  will  come  to* his
stock,  in  which  case  he  will  probably 
feet  of 
remove to St.  Paul,  Minn.
4,000,000  feet  last  week,  and  expresses 
satisfaction  with the  present  conditions 
and the outlook as to trade.

lumber  this  season 

this  rate, 
mill  here.

Chas. Stroebe, general dealer, Ferrysburg:  “I 
wish  you  prosperity.  Keep  on  in  the  good 
work.”
M. V  Gundrum & Co , general dealers, Leroy: 
“We  enclose  postal  note of  $1, for which  send 
us  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   for  another  year.  It  is a 
good thing in our business and we must have it. 
We  admire  your  corret)indent,  Mr. Owen,  asj 
his writings  show experience, tact  and common 
sense.”

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED,  ETC.

Advertisements will be inserted  under  this  hea 
two  cents  a  word  the  first  insertion  and  onej 
word  for  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  adi| 

S h ip p e d   i  tnent taken for less than 85 cents.  Advance

bert  I.  Putnam.

Charlevoix—George  W.  Beaman,  for- 

Ionia—E.  T.  Merriett  has  bought  a  stockholders  are: 

Detroit—The Detroit Confectionery and 
Lake  Odessa—H.  R.  Wagar  has  sold 
Fruit  Tablet  Co.  has  filed  articles  of 
his  real  estate  interests in  Lake  Odessa
to  the  Lake  Odessa  Savings  Bank,  the I association,  with a capital  stock of  $50,- 
000,  of  which  $40,000  is  paid  in.  The
consideration being $12,625. 
I.  B.  Kennedy,  Davis 
half  interest  in  the  agricultural  imple-  m. Clarke,  R.  J.  McLaughlin,  Livingston 
ment business of Hayes & Spaulding, the  B.  Lemon, Thomas K.  Putnam  and  Her- 
old firm retaining a half interest. 

Saginaw—James  A.  Remick  will  put 
merly  engaged 
in  business  here,  has  jn about 20,000,000 feet of logs  this win- 
purchased the Alice  Cochran drug stock,  ter,  which  will  come to  the Whitney  & 
and will  continue  the  business  at the  Batchelor  mill  here.  Mr.  Batchelor 
states that  his  firm  will  put  in  only  a
same location. 
Sherman—Vincent C.  Wall has sold his ■ small  quantity,  as  it  has  10,000,000  to 

West Bay City—The  hoop  manufacto­
ry of M.  Hagarty  &  Co.,  at  Kawkawliu, 
is to  be removed  to this  place.  This  is 
about  all  there  is  left  of  Kawkawlin, 
which  twenty  years  ago  was  a  smart 
lumbering  town.  The date  of the  erec­
tion of the mill of D.  A.  Ballou & Co.  at 
that  village  is  not remembered,  but  in 
r p  INKERS TAKE  NOTICE—A  FIRST-CLASS  CHANCE 
X  
for a  tinner with small capital.  Tools, bench and 
1863 it  manufactured  5,000,000  feet;  in
everything  ready to work.  Shop  doing  good  paying 
,  business.  Owner  is  obliged  to  give it up on  account 
1867  the cut  had doubled, and the quantl-  of  ill health.  Lease of  shop near business  center and
well established patronage.  Also ageney of  best line 
ty  manufactured  from that  date to  1875 
of  furnaces,  samples  on  floor,  which  are  ra id   for 
when sold.  This  is an  A1  chance for m an with  little 
ranged  from  7,000,000  to  18,000,000  in
m o n ej, as present  owner m ust  seek  an o th er  clim ate. 
No. 310, care Michigan Tradesman.
interest in the firm of  Marqueston & Co.,  12,000,000  feet  of  old  logs,  which,  with | tbe latter year.  Before  1880 it  was  one 
WANTED—I  HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  PAY  FOR 
the Remick logs  to  be put  in,  will stock of tbe by-gones.  A  few million  feet  of
dealers in general merchandise, to Edwin j 
Ad
general  or  grocery stock;  m ust be cheap 
dress No. 26. care M ichigan Tradesman._________
B.  Stanley,  who  will  continue the  busi- j the mill next season. 
¡ogs  bave  been  rafted  annually  out  of
ness under his own name.
Saginaw  During 1890 the Flint&Pere the  stream.  There  are  5,000,000  feet
Marquette  Railroad  hauled  123;588,775 bung up this  season  in  the  Kawkawlin,
feet  of  logs.  This  year  business  has and probably not to exceed 3,000,000 feet
been 
jn  addition  to  those  manu-
at  the  close  of 

T ÏT ANTED—POSITION  BY  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
cist of  four  years’ experience.  References fur­
VV 
nished.  Address No. 307, Michigan Tradesm an. 
309
SITUATION  AS  BOOK-KEEPER  BY  A 
juried  m an  who  can  give th e  best of  refer- 
Address  No.  305,  care  Michigan  Tradesman,

the  year  will  not I factured at  Kawkawlin  in  former  years I Grand R>t)ld8,

$1,100  to  $1,200  per 
selling.  Address  H., 813  East W alnut  street, Kalama­
zoo, Mich. 

10R  8ALE—CLEAN  AND  CAREFULLY  SELECTED 
1  grocery stock,  located a t a good country trading
Address  A.  C. 

Business  well  established. 
A dm inistrator, Morley, Mich.

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

very 

307

313

light,  and 

the  showing | came out# 

Otsego — M.  J.  Rogan  has  sold  his 
clothing  stock  to  Miner  S.  Keeler  and 
Chas.  W.  Granger,  both  of  Middieville, 
who  will  continue  the  business,  Mr.
Granger  removing to  Otsego to  give the  compare  favorably  with  several  pre­
I ceeding years,  an  indication  that availa-
store his personal  attention. 
Charlotte—Russel  S.  Spencer  has  pur- j bje timber on  the line of this road  is be- 
chased the  interest of Dr.  Frank  Merritt j ¡ng  rapidly  exhausted.  There  are  yet 
in the hardware firm of Barber & Merritt,  j ]arge supplies of hardwood  and  hemlock 
Mr.  Spencer  has  been  clerking  in  the j tributary to the road,  which will  furnish 
Did you ever glance through a country 
or suburban “general store?”  When  the 
store for  the past two or three years  and  a good deal of  freight in future.
,  [ usual economical  man,  whose taste  does
is  well  known  and  popular.  The  new 
Grayling  A  new  lumber  town  called | nQt run to  the  pIoW}  the  ratber  gentle,
firm will  he known  as Barber & Spencer.
Twin  Lakes  has  been  started  by  the | unambitious gentleman  with  the pretty, 
Hoytville—J.  H.  Wasson  and  D.  E. 
Michelson &  Hanson  Lumber  Co.  The  blonde wife,  and a new  baby every year,
Halienbeck,  both of whom were formerly 
new  town  is  thirty  miles  west  of  this  lGGks around ,in  a <laiet fP°*  tG see  " hat 
. 
| he can bring into  the  village for  a little
engaged  in  trade  at this  place,  were  re­
place  and 
seu  at  a  moderate  profit,  he
leased from  the Ionia  prison on the 12th, 
building a  large mill  there.  The Michi-  gees  the  limit  of  every  special  article
but were immediately taken into custody
by an officer from  this county ou charges | gan Central  Railway is  building  a  road | except whisky,  aud  he goes in for every-

by Ballou  & Co.,  there  have been  rafted 
out  a  little  over  300,000,000  feet  since 
1872.

, 
the  corporation  named 

The  C ountry  S tore.

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is , capjtai 

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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TTORSES  FOR  SALE—ONE  SEVEN-YEAR-OLD  FIL 
I  1 
ij* one three-year-old  Ally,  and  one six-year-old 
gelding—all sired by Louis Napoleon,  dam by Wiscon­
sin Banner (Morgan].  All fine, handsome, and speedy; 
never been  tracked.  Address  J.  J. Robbins, S tanton, 
Mich. 

IJOR  SALE-CHEAP  ENOUGH  FOR  AN  INVEST- 

1  m ent.  Corner  lot  and  5-roora  house  on  North 
L afayette  St.,  cellar,  brick  foundation,  so ft  w ater 
in  kitchen.  31,200.  Terms  to  suit.  Address No.  187, 
care Michigan Tradesm an.___________________  

IVOR BALE  OR  RENT—CORNER  LOT  AND  5-ROOM 

house on North  L afayette st., cellar, brick found­
ation  and  soft  w ater  in  kitchen.  $1.200.  Terms  to 
suit.  Cheap enough  for  an  investm ent.  Address  No 
187, care M ichigan Tradesman.__________  
l|T A N T E D —y o u n g   s in g l e   man  w it h   ONE  OR
W  
two years’ experience In the dry goods business. 
W ages m oderate.  Address  804, care  Michigan Trades­
m an. 
TITANTED    ■_____________
AN  EXPERIENCED  DRY  GOODS  AND
clothing clerk.  In w riting give age and experi
VV 
______g  clerk.  In w riting give
M. S. Keeler, Middieville, Mich.

_________________804

187,

187

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5

PEACHES!

This is the week for Cheap Peaches.

your chance, 
ALFRED

The  very  hot weather  during the  past week 
the crop of Chilli  and  Late Crawfords and  heavy 
expected daily.  Prices  are  low  and (piality good.

lias  ripened 
markets are

•  Please  bear in mind  that it will  not  last  long
Addr<

(»et your orders m  at once,

N ( >w  is

J.  BROWN,  Grand  Rapids, 

nn i Ri 1
UÍ rit
Wd111 .IaUU(! DULi

flicti,

now  on the  road with  a complete 
all  the latest novelties in

line

Our  travelers  are 
of Jewelry, comprising
Bracelets,

Necklaces,

Hair Ornaments,

Pace Pins, IStc.,
buttons, scarf  pins,  collar 
above  we  show  over  200

Including a 
buttons, etc. 
styles  of

large  variety of  sleeve 
In  addition  to  the

It will

of  our  own  importation  at astonishingly  low  prices, 
be to your advantage to see  our line before  buying.

F.  &  W.  M.

LION COFFEE

12  Canal  St.,  and  12  &  14  Arcade,

Grand  Rapids  Mici.
Send for Sample Line of  our Handkerchiefs  and Mufflers.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Amos  Packer  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Rowland.  The  Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman Co.  furnished the stock.

G.  H.  Gifford  has  sold  his  fruit  and 
the  corner  of 
to  L.  M. 

confectionery  stock  at 
Cherry  and  Packard  streets 
Benedict.

C. C.  Dunham,  the Cadillac grocer, has 
purchased the Hatch & Co. grocery stock, 
at 3*21  So.  Division  street,  and  will  con­
tinue the business under his own name.

Sam K.  Beecher is negotiating the sale 
of  his grocery stock at the corner of Jef­
ferson  and  Wealthy avenues  to  Daniel 
E. Lozier,  formerly  bookkeeper  for  the 
Grand Rapids Ice and Coal Co.

Geo. W.  Hewes  denies  the report  that 
he  proposes to  erect a  stave factory  at 
Gaston.  He  says that  while there is  an 
abundance of maple timber in that vicin­
ity,  the supply of elm  is not large enough 
to  warrant the  establishment  of a  sepa- 
arte  factory 
for  the  manufacture  of 
staves.

B.  Jouker and Wm.  Burgma,  who have 
conducted  drug  stores  several  years  at 
387 Alpine avenue and 539 West Leonard 
street under the style of  Jonker & Burg­
ma,  have  dissolved  partnership,  Mr. 
Jonker  retaining  the  store  on  Alpine 
avenue and Mr.  Burgma taking the stock 
on  West Leonard street.

Henry  Strope,  the  Morley  general 
dealer,  has finally  gone to the  wall.  He 
recently gave  the City  National  Bank of 
Greenville a  chattel  mortgage  of $5,000, 
whereupon  Edson,  Moore &  Co., of  De­
troit,  attached  the  stock  on  a  claim of 
S3,500.  Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.  subse­
quently placed an execution on the stock 
for $140,  whereupon  Edson,  Moore & Co. 
released their  attachment.  The  failure 
has  long been  expected,  as  Strope was a 
careless business  man and conducted his 
business very  loosely.

G ripsack  B rigade

Clark  W.  Mills,  traveling  representa­
tive for J.  Weaver  &  Co.,  wholesale  pa­
per dealers at Kalamazoo,  has  instituted 
suit against  Wm.  F.  Holmes,  a  member 
of  the  firm,  for  $10,000  damages  for 
slander.  The nature of the alleged slan­
der is said to be of a private character.

The Sample  Case  advises  the  follow­
ing  handling  of 
the  hotel  problem: 
“Grumbling  and  growling  at  poor  and 
inadequate  hotel  accommodations  will 
not bring about a deserved improvement. 
Words must be  accompanied or followed 
by  actions.  Give  the  go-by 
to  hotels 
which are  hotels in  name  only and  pat­
ronize the  landlords making  an effort  to 
give value.  Refuse to drink the deleteri 
ous  decoctions  that  mask  under  the 
names of tea  and coffee.  The pure  arti 
cles are cheap enough  and can be served 
at  a  reasonable  profit.  There  is  no 
earthly  reason  why a good  cup of tea  or 
coffee  should  not  be  obtainable at  any 
hotel in  the country.  Their absence  is 
sure evidence  of  either  carelessness  or 
cupidity on  the part  of the  proprietor.”
Dr.  Evans was the hero of  the hour up 
It 
at Cedar  Springs  one  day  last week. 
appears that a female  bear and two cubs 
straggled  into  the  village  and that  in  a 
short time about  half the male portion of 
the  town was  in  pursuit.  The  mother 
and one cub made  their  escape,  but  sev­
eral  daring  spirits  cornered  the  other 
cub and  attempted  to  capture  the little

fellow.  The  cub  fought  desperately, 
biting one man in the leg and nearly sev­
ering  the  arm  of  another,  when  Evans 
suddenly  adopted  the tactics  which  have 
worked so admirably with  human beings 
—tickled  him  under  the chin.  This act 
worked like  magic  with the animal,  who 
thereupon  licked  his  hand  and followed 
him all over the town, although he would 
not permit anyone else to get wthin sever­
al feet of him.  The docility of the animal, 
under  Evans’  ministration,  was a matter 
of  continued  surprise  to  the  people  of 
Cedar Springs, most of whom were ready 
to believe  the  report  that he  was a lion 
tamer in the disguise of a traveling man.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

W.  II.  Taylor,  a  shingle  manufacturer 
at Lucas,  was in  town  several  days  last 
week.

Geo.  Blakeley, of  the firm of  Blakeley 
Bros.,  druggists  at  Fife  Lake,  was  in 
town several days last week.

J.  J.  Heiges,  manager  of  Mrs.  F.  E. 
White’s  general  store  at  Williamsburg, 
was in town several days  last week.

W.  H.  Peck,  who  conducts  handsome 
confectionery stores  at  Lansing  and the 
Soo,  was in town  a  couple  of  days  last 
week.

Gideon  Kellogg,  the  elephantine  belt 
manufacturer  of  Chicago,  was  in  town 
over  Sunday.  He  brought a select  bun­
dle of lies along with him and dealt them 
out in homeopathic  doses.

Albert Retan,  formerly of this city, but 
more  recently  engaged  in  business  at 
Muir and St. Johns,  has  concluded tore- 
move  to Little Rock, Ark.,  where he has 
somewhat  extensive 
interests. 
Mr. Retan is a hustling citizen whose de­
parture from  Michigan  will  be  a matter 
of general regret.

landed 

Frank Burns, driver for the Ball-Barn 
hart-Putman  Co., had  his  pair  of  six- 
year-old 
iron-gray  geldings  on  exhibi­
tion at the West Michigan fair last week, 
there­
and  recieved  many  encomiums 
on.  He  captured  first  prize 
for  best- 
matched work  team,  and second prize for 
fastest  walkers  with  one  ton of  weight 
on wagon.

Fred H.  Ball  went to  Detroit last  Fri­
day to attend a farewell party at  the De­
troit Club, given in  honor Wm. V. Brace, 
who will be  married on the  30th to  Miss 
Morgan, of  Toronto,  Out.  Mr.  Ball  and 
wife leave Thursday for Henderson, Ky., 
where they will  spend a couple of weeks 
with the latter’s  parents.  They  will  be 
accompanied  by  John  A.  Seymour,  Pay­
ing Teller at the  Fourth  National Bank.

A  W itty   R ebuke.

A leading citizen  who never allows an 
opportunity  to  attack the  Hebrew  race 
to  pass  by,  received a  deserved  rebuke 
the  other  evening.  He  was  sitting  in 
front  of  Sweet’s  Hotel  and  somebody 
turned  the  subject  of  conversation 
to 
Turkey.  The man spoke up and said he 
sympathized  in many  ways with the peo- 
of that  country,  particularly  with  their 
dislike  of  asses  and  Jews,  whom  they 
are ready  to kill on  the slightest  provo­
cation.

“My dear fellow,”  said a Jewish sales­
man,  who  sat  within  hearing  distance, 
“how fortunate  for you and  me that  we 
do not live in Turkey.”

E N G R A V I N G

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

THE TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich,

An  article  of  absolute m erit.

This  popular  brand  is  composed of  MOCHA,
JAVA  and  RIO.  Every  package  contains  a 
handsome  picture  card.  For  purity,  flavor  and 
strength Lion Coffee excels them all.
Mornhante  y°u nee<i  °ne or more °f  these  ca b-
Iflul ulifllllu 
INETS.  Besides  serving  as  a  con­
venience,  they dress up a store and  attract  trade.

For sale by wholesale grocers everywhere. 

Order from your jobber, or address the W00LS0N  SPICE  CO., Toledo,  0.
H,  M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON,

Free  Waterpower  Privilep.
I have a fine waterpower on Rapid River, near 
where the new extension of  the Chicago & West 
Michigan crosses said  river, near enough to run 
a side  track, which, with  the necessary  ground 
for building  I  am  anxious  to  give away.  Who 
wants it? 

ALLAN  F.  LITTLE,

A a rw o od, Kalkaska Co., Mich.

Tar and Gravel  Roofers,

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

Corner I.oui* and Campan Sts., 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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HOTEL  REGISTERS.

The  W orst and  the  Best  Signatures— 

Abbreviations—False Names.

If the handwriting on hotel registers is 
any indication  of the  education of  trav­
elers, the schoolmaster is very far abroad, 
and  the  copy  book of  our  fathers  has 
parted with its wonted  usefulness.  The 
average of penmanship is positively bad. 
The  hand  of  the  traveler  has  been 
cramped  by carrying a  bag; or  he is wet 
or cold,  hungry or dry, or all of these and 
more. At all events, when the bell boy has 
taken  his  valise and  umbrella,  the  way­
farer takes a  pen and executes  a  scrawl 
that would  befog  a  dozen  experts. 
In 
‘many  hotel  offices  a  magnifying  hand 
glass is  kept to  decipher  blurred signa­
tures. 
Sometimes  it  accomplishes  its 
purpose  by  showing  a  stroke  that  was 
made when  the pen  was  devoid  of  ink. 
In some houses on  the European plan an 
illegible writer  is  asked  to  pay  in  ad­
vance; in others  he is asked  to spell  his 
name, and  the name is  then written  out 
plainly,  in  order  that  he  may  get  his 
mail and telegrams.

Careless handwriting results in serious 
and ludicrous  mistakes.  A  man  named 
Temple was shadowed  by a detective be­
cause  his  name  looked  like  Wemple. 
Harris,  Morris,  and Norris are all one  to 
the heedless  penman; at  least  he makes 
them so.  He does the same with Norton 
and Morton, and  all names of which  the 
foregoing  are 
rarely 
troubles  himself  about  the  rest  of  his 
cognomen after he has  written Br.  The 
remainder of the name is  a dash,  a flour­
ish or a scrawl.  Meyer  generally  uses 
the  German  M,  which  he widens in  the 
middle, making it look like Weyer.  The 
Italian G is easily recognized by the long 
curve to the left, below the line.

roots.  Brown 

Chicago sends the  best signatures seen 
on hotel  books.  Boston  is  fairly  good. 
New England  is  never  at  home,  if  the 
hotel  register tells  the truth.  A  pecul­
iar thing about the handwriting of South­
ern people is that the men write a small, 
clear signature, while the  writing of  the 
women is  larger and not so good.  Albany 
sends  very  good  handwriting;  Troy  is 
correspondingly  bad.  The  writing  of 
Washington  people  seems  always  to 
slant to the right.  Many  travelers grow 
weary  after  their  names  are  finished. 
Then they  begin to abbreviate.  Buffalo 
gets  down  to  Bfo.  Cincinnati  becomes 
Cinti.  Wash,  stands  for  Washington; 
Sp’gl’d for Springfield.  No one dares to 
abbreviate  Chicago,  but  St.  Louis  often 
becomes St.  Lou.  Saint Joe  is  familiar 
to  every  hotel  clerk.  He  knows  just 
where it is.  Sanfran stands for the lead­
ing city of  California.  Detroit  becomes 
Det.  and Grand  Rapids is frequently  ab­
breviated to  G’d Rap.  Many  poor  writ­
ers are aware of their defects in penman­
ship,  and  they carry a hand stamp  which 
prints  the name and  address in full.

It is  usually a mistake  to write a false 
name  on  a  hotel  register.  A  country 
merchant was obliged  to decline an invi­
tation  to a  convention  of business  men 
in  a  city  not  far  from  Grand  Rapids. 
While the  convention  was in  session  he 
was suddenly called to  the city on press­
ing business.  He arrived at a hotel, and 
seeing 
the  register  covered  with  the 
names  of his  friends at  the  convention, 
he signed  a false  name.  The  next  day 
he  went  out  to lunch  with his  lawyer, 
leaving his overcoat at  the latter’s office. 
In the  middle  of the  afternoon  he tele­

phoned to have his coat sent to the hotel. 
The coat was sent, but  it took the owner 
two  days to  get  it,  because  the  lawyer 
had put the man’s  own name on the  box 
| containing the coat.  There  was no such 
name  on the  register,  and  the box  was 
put aside  to  be  called  for.  Meanwhile 
the falsifier  missed a  telegram from  his 
wife,  received  cards  from  people  he 
didn’t  know,  and  found  himself  an ob­
ject of suspicion on the  part of the hotel 
people.
Another on the  Great  American  Trav­
From  the Chicago Tribane.

eler.

“Poor man,” exclaimed the impulsive, 
warm-hearted lady,  “you  look as  if  you 
had known some great sorrow.”
“You are right,  mum,”  answered  the 
battered tramp,  gratefully  accepting the 
doughnuts and a bowl of fresh milk.  “I 
have.”

“May I ask what it is?”
“Yes,  mum,” he said,  with  his  mouth 
full.  “I  lost  both  my  parents  when  I 
was nothin’ but a small boy.”

“Had you no friends?”
“Yes, mum. 

I lived 
with  him  till I  was a  good sized  chunk 
of a boy, and then he died.”

I had an uncle. 

with her next. 
aunt’s till—till-----”
awakens painful memories.”
worse to come.  My aunt—she---- ”

“And you had no other friends?”
“Only  an  aunt, mum;  I  went to  live 
I was  very happy at  my
“Don’t speak of  it,  my  poor man,  if it 
“It breaks me all up,  mum; but there’s
“Died?”
“No.  She was a widow, my aunt was, 
you  know,  and  she  up  and  married 
again.  Married a  mean,  stingy,  ornery 
cuss of a man.  He  drove me  out of  the 
house  before  he  had  been  there  three 
weeks.”

“And then?”
“And  then,  mum,” said  the  dejected 
traveler, a  frightful  spasm of  pain  dis­
torting his  face  at  the  recollection,  “I 
had to go to work.”

Paper Barrels.

English manufacturers of paper barrels 
have brought  the  industry  to  such a de­
gree of perfection  as  to  rival,  in quality 
and economy of  cost, the ordinary  wood­
en article in  a  great variety of  uses,  the 
materials  employed in making these bar­
rels being for the most part, waste paper, 
cardboard,  and  for  the  better  quality, 
old sacks. 
In the  use of  cardboard, the 
material is soaked or boiled for six hours, 
and,  after  careful  sorting, is put  into  a 
rag engine  or  beater,  where it is  beaten 
and  torn  to pieces  by a series of  knives 
for about  one and  one-half  hours, being 
afterward mixed with water until a pulp 
of  uniform consistency is gained;  this is 
rolled, joined,  shaped and dried,  and  the 
barrel is finally covered with hoops.
Previous to the  putting in of  the  tops 
and bottoms, the barrels are painted with 
a  water-proof  composition  made of  lin­
seed  oil  and  resin for  ordinary purpose 
barrels, and  with  a  special  varnish  for 
those  in  which  food  articles  are  to  be 
placed.  The  standard size made  is  six­
teen and  one-half inches  in  diameter by 
twenty-eight inches  long,  and  whereas a 
barrel  made  of  wood  is  found  to  cost 
thirty-four  cents, 
the  paper  barrel  is 
produced  for about  six cents  less.  The 
process provides that all  waste be beaten 
up into pulp again.

S .A . Morin ail

WHOLESALE

Petoskey,  Marblehead and Ohio

I _ . I   m : E

Akron, Buffalo and Louisville

CEMENTS,

Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe,
FIRE  BRICK  A N D   CLAY.

W r ite   f o r  P ric e s .

20  LYON  ST., 

-  GRAND  RAPIDS.

T H E   m C H I G A l í   T R A H E 8 M A M
Dry Goods Price Cnrrent.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic.................  7
Argyle  ..................   64
Atlanta A A............   64
Atlantic  A.............   7
H.............   6«
“ 
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P ............. 6
“ 
D.............   6*
“  LL................   5*
Amory....................   7
Archery Banting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  54
Blackstone O, 32__5
Black Crow............ 64
Black Rock  ...........7
Boot, AL...............   "54
Capital  A............... 5)4
Cavanat V ..............554
Chapman cheese cl.  3%
Clifton  C R............ 554
Comet..................... 7
Dwight Star............  754
Clifton CCC...........  654

Arrow Brand 5)4 

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“  World Wide..  7
“  LL...............   5
Full Yard Wide...... 6)4
Georgia  A................6)4
Honest Width......... 654
Hartford A  ............ 5
Indian Head...........  7)4
King A  A...............   6)4
King EC.................5
Lawrence  L L ........5)4
Madras cheese cloth 654
Newmarket  G........  6
B  ......... 554
N ........   6)4
DD....  5)4
X ...........7
Noibe R..................  5
Our Level  Best........6)4
Oxford  R...............  6)4
Pequot....................  7)4
Solar.......................  6)4
Top of the Heap___ 7)4
Geo.  Washington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold Medal............   7)4
Green  Ticket........... 8)4
Great Falls.............   6)4
Hope.........................7)4
Just  Out......  454@ 5
King Phillip...........  754
OP.......  7)4
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10)4
Lonsdale...........  @8)4
Middlesex........   @5
No Name................   7)4
Oak View...............  6
Our Own................   5)4
Pride of the West.. .12
Rosalind...................7)4
Sunlight.................   4)4
Utica  Mills.............. 8)4
“  Nonpareil  ..11
Vlnyard..................  8)4
White Horse.........   6
“  Rock..............8)4

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

814

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A B C .  .
Amazon.
Amsburg.................7
Art  Cambric...........10
Blackstone A A......  8
Beats All................   44
Boston....................12
Cabot...................... 7
Cabot,  %.................  65li
Charter  Oak...........554
Conway W.  .............7)4
Cleveland.............. 7
Dwight Anchor......834
shorts.  854
Edwards................. 6
Empire...................   7
Parwell.....................7)4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8
Fitchville  .............7
First Prize..............6)4
Fruit of the Loom %.
Falrmount..............4)4
Full Value..............654
Cabot......................   754|Dwight Anchor...... 9
Farwell...................8 
|
TremontN..............  5)4
Hamilton N.............. 6)4
L............ 7
Middlesex AT........  8
X...........  9
No. 25....  9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

Middlesex No.  1— 10
2....11
3.. 
7.. 
8.. 

UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

HALT  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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10)4

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CORSET  JEANS.

Integrity, colored.

DBESS  GOODS.
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Peerless, white.. ....18
Integrity................. 18541 
Hamilton 

..............8
.................9
 
G G  Cashmere........21
NamelesB..............16
............... 18

•••  7)4 Middlesex A A...... .11
Hamilton N ......
“ 
2...... .12
Middlesex P T .. ...  8
A T ..
“ 
A O ...... .18)4
...  9
4...... -17)4
“ 
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XA..
“ 
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5...... .16
...10)4
CARPET  WARP.
.21
colored__20)4 White Star..............18)4
“  colored..21
Nameless............... 20
.................25
.................27)4
..............30
.................32)4
.............. .35
NTS.Wonderful........... M 50
Brighton............... 4 75
Bortree’s ..............o9n00
Abdominal...........15 00
Naumkeag sat teen..  7)4
Rockport...................6)4
Conestoga.................654
Walworth............   654
Berwick fancies —   4
Clyde Robes...........  5
Charter Oak fancies 4)4 
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
moum’g  6 
Eddy stone  fancy...  6 
chocolat  6 
rober  ...  6 
sateens..  6 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6 
staple....  5)4 
Manchester fancy..  6 
new era.  6 
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Merrim’ck shirtings.  4 
Repp furn .  854
Pacific fancy.......... 6
robes............  6)4
Portsmouth robes...  6 
Simpson mourning.. 6
greys........  6
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solid black.  6 
Washington indigo.  6 
Turkey robes..  7)4
India robes__ 7)4
plain Tky X 54  8)4 
“  X...10
Ottoman  Tur­
key red................   6
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 54........7)4
Martha Washington
Turkey red..........   9)4
Rlverpolntrobes....  5
Windsor fancy........6)4
gold  ticket 
indigo blue......... 10)4

CORÉ
Coralino..................$9 50
Schilling’s .............   9 00
Davis  Waists  __  9 00
Grand  Rapids.........4 50
Armory..................   654
Androscoggin........."54
Blddefora...............  6
Brunswick..............654
Allen turkey  reds..  5)4
robes............ 554
purple 654
...........  6
“ 
pink  checks.  5)4
“ 
staples  ........ 5)4
“  Bhirtings...  4
American  fancy__  554
American indigo—   554 
American shirtings.  4 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4)4 
....  654
Arnold 
Arnold  Merino 
...  6 
long cloth B.10)4
“ 
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“ 
century cloth 7
“  gold seal...... 10)4
“  green seal TR 10)4 
“  yellow seal.. 10)4
serge.............11)4
“ 
“  Turkey  red.. 10)4 
Ballou solid black..  5 
“ 
“  colors.  5)4
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange...  5)4
Berlin solids...........5)4
“  oil blue.......  6)4
“  “  green ....  6)4
“  Foulards ....  5)4
red 54...........7
“ 
“  “  X.........   9)4
“  4 4......... 10
“ 
“  3-4XXXX 12
“ 
Cocheco fancy........6
“  madders...  6
“  XX twills..  6)4
solids....... 554
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Amoskeag A C A.... 12)4
Hamilton N........  7)4
D.........8)4
Awning.. 11
Farmer....................8
First Prize......... 11)4
Lenox M ills...........18
Atlanta,  D....  6541 Stark 
Boot........................  654  No Name...
Clifton, K................  64|Topof Heap
Simpson................. 20
.................18
.................16
Coechco...................10)4

AC A...................12)4
Pemberton AAA__16
York....................... 10)4
Swift River............   7)4
Pearl River............ 12)4
Warren................... 14

.  8 
•  7)4 
.10
Imperial..................10)4
Black................9@ 9)4
“  CB..........10@104

COTTON  DRILL.

TICKINGS

SATINES.

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Amoskeag.............. 12)4
9 oz...... 13)4
brown .13
Andover.................11)4
Beaver Creek A A... 10 
** 
BB...  9
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CC....
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7 
blue  8)4 
“ 
“  d a twist 10)4 
Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12
brown....... 12
Haymaker blue......   754
brown...  7J£
Jaffrey.....................11)4
Lancaster................12)4
Lawrence, 9 oz........13)4
No. 220....13
No. 250....11 )4
No. 280.... 10)4

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GINGHAMS.
Amoskeag................ 754 Lancaster,  staple
6*
fancies__7
“ 
fancies.
“  Normandie  8

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“  Persian dress 8)4 
Canton  ..  8)4
11 
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AFC........12)4
“ 
Teazle.. .10)4 
“ 
Angola.. 10)4 
Persian..  8)4 
“ 
Arlington staple —   654 
Arasapha  fancy—   454 
Bates Warwick dres 8)4 
staples.  6)4
Centennial............   10)4
Criterion............... 10)4
Cumberland  staple.  5)4
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin.......................  7)4
Everett classics......8)4
Exposition............... 7)4
Glenarie.................  654
Glenarven..............   654
Glenwood.................7)4
Hampton...................6)4
Johnson Uhalon cl 
)4 
indigo blue 954 
zephyrs — 16

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Lancashire.............   6)4
Manchester............   554
Monogram..............  654
Normandie............... 7)4
Persian..................... 8)4
Renfrew Dress........7)4
Rosemont................. 6)4
Slatersville.............. 6
Somerset.................  7
Tacoma  ................... 7)4
Toil  duNord......... 10)4
Wabash...................  7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Warwick...............   8)4
Whitteriden............   654
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  6)4
Westbrook..............  8
..............10
Windermeer........... 5
York..........................654

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F T ............ .............82)4
JR F .X X X ............35
Buckeye.................32)4

GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag.............. 17  I Valley City...............16
Stark.......................20  Georgia....................16
American...............16HI Pacific..................  -15

THREADS.

KNITTING  COTTON.

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

|Barbour’s...............88
Clark’s Mile End....45 
Coats’, J. & P .........45  Marshall’s ................88
Holyoke................. 22)41
White.
White. Colored.
38 No.  14 .......37
“  16 .......38
39
*•  18 .......39
40
“  20 .......40
41
CAMBRICS.
Washington..............3)4
Red Cross.................354
Lockwood.................354
Wood’s ..................   334
Brunswick............  354

RED  FLANNEL.

No.  6  .
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..18
Slater......................  354
..19
White Star............   354
Kid Glove  .............   3\
Newmarket............   354
Edwards.................  354
Fireman.................32)4
Creedmore............. 27)4
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless............... 27)4
Red & Blue,  plaid..40
Union R.................22)4
Windsor.................18)4
6 oz Western..........20
Union  B ................22)4
Nameless...... 8  @ 9)41 
......   854@10  I 

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MIXED  FLANNEL.

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DOMET  FLANNEL.

954 13
10)4 15
11)4 17
12)4 20

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
13
9)4
15
10)4
17
11)4
20
12)4

Grey SR W.............17)4
Western W  .............18)4
D R P .............  
18)4
Flushing XXX........2354
Manitoba................ 23)4
9  @10)4 
12)4
Slate. Brown. Black. Slate. Brown. Black
13
9)4
15
10)4
17
11)4
20
12)4
Severen, 80Z..........   9)4
Mayland, 8 oz......... 10)4
Greenwood, 7)4 oz..  9)4 
Greenwood, 8 oz — 11)4
White, doz.............25  IPerbale,40 doz....*7 60
Colored, doz..........20 
Slater. Iron Cross.
Red Cross..
Best..........
Best A A...

SILESIAS.
.  8 Pawtucket.......
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.  9 Dundie............
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.10)4 Bedford...........
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.12)4 Valley  City....
•  74 K K .................
L...
.. 84
G..
SEWING  SILK.
Cortlcelll, doz.........75

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

...104
....  9
...104
....104
...  104

Cortlcelll  knitting, 
per )4oz  ball........30

twist, doz. .37)41 
50 yd, doz.. 37541
HOOKS AND ETES—PER GROSS.
No  1 Bl’k & White.,10
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. 12
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.-12
No 2-20, M C......... 50  INO 4—15  F  3)4

No  4 Bl’k & White..15
..20
..25

8 
10 

PINS.

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3-18, S C ...........45  I

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COTTON  TAPE.
No' 2 White & Bl’k..12 
10 
..15
“  4 
12 
.18
“  6 
SAFETY  PINS.
....28  INoS..
No 2.
NEEDLES—PER  M.

|No  8 White & Bl’k..20 
.28
..26
.36

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

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“  ...3 101

“ ....2 10 

N&Bhua.................. 18
Rising Star 4-ply— 17
3ply__ 17
North Star..............20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7)4 
Powhattan............18

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.....................12
Domestic...............18)4
Anchor................... 16
Bristol.................... 13
Cherry  Valley........15
I X L........................13
Alabama................   65M Mount  Pleasant
Alamance...............  6)4
Augusta................... 7)4
Arrsapha................  6
Georgia.....................6)4
Granite  ...................... 554
Haw  River............   6
Haw  J ....................  5

6)4
Oneida....................  5
Pyrm ont................  554
Randelman............ 6
Riversids.................  554
Sibley A.................   6)4
Toledo......................  6

PLAID  OBNABUBGB.

COTTON TWINES.

l ' U E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N
Hardware Price Current.

HAMMERS.

7

T h ese  p ric e s  a re   fo r cash  buyers,  w ho 
p ay   p ro m p tly   an d   buy  in   fu ll  packages.

AUGURS AND bits. 

dis.

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

First Quality, S. B. Bronze............................. 1750
D.  B. Bronze............................   12 00
S.B .S. Steel...................................  8 50
D. B. Steel......................................   13 50

“ 
“ 
“ 

Railroad...........................................................I  14 00
Garden.....................................................net  30 00

dis.

dis.

Stove....................................................................50*10
75
Carriage new list.............................................. 
Plow....................................................................40*10
Sleigh shoe........................................................ 
70

AXES.

BABBOWS. 

bouts. 

BUCKETS.

Well,  plain........................................................ 1350
Well, swivel...........................................................  4 00

BUTTS, CAST. 

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

 

 

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

60

Grain...........................................................dis. 50*02

BLOCKS.

CBADI.ES.

CBOW BABS.

Cast Steel.................................................per tt> 
Ely’s 1-10.................... °.A.S!..................perm  
Hick's C. F. 
G.D .... 
Musket.

5
65

CARTRIDGES.

chisels. 

Rim  F ire........................................................... 
Central  Fire................................................dis. 

50
25

dis.

dis.

Socket F irm er...................................................70*10
Socket Framing.................................................70*10
Socket Corner.................................................... 70*10
Socket Slicks.................................................... 70*10
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer..............................  
40

Curry,  Lawrence’s .......................................... 
40
H otchkiss.........................................................  
25
White Crayons, per  gross................12@12*4 dis. 10

combs. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

“ 

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

drills. 

30
28
25
25
27
  50
50
50

dis.

DRIPPING PANS.

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

07
6*6

ELBOWS.

Com. 4  piece, 6 In...............................dos. net 
Corrugated.............................................................dis 40
“  
Adjustable.............................................................dis. 40*10
“ 

75

expansive bits. 

dis.

FILES—New List. 

Clark’s, small, *18; large, *26.........................  
Ives’, 1, *18;  2, *24;  3, fe e ..............................  
Disston’s ............................................................60*16
Now  American................................................. 60*10
• -60*10
Nicholson’s  .  .................. 
Heller’s ..............................................................  
SO
Heller’s Horse Rasps......................................  
50

dis.

30
25

 

 

GALVANIZED IRON

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

13 
GAUGES. 

Discount, 60

12 

14 

28
18

ROPES.

. 

“ 

dlS.

dis.

dis.

dis.

“ 
“ 
“ 

wire. 

SAWS. 

HINGES.

traps. 

dis.
dis.

SQUARES. 

HANGEBS. 

7
diS.

SHEET IRON.

MATTOCKS.

SASH WEIGHTS.

HOLLOW WABE.

50
50
55
50
55
35

wire goods. 

Discount, 10.

LOCKS—DOOB. 

knobs—New List. 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

BAND PAPER.
BASH CORD.

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

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

Sisal, 14 inch and larger............................. 
Manilla........................................................   1114
75
Steel and Iron.............................................. 
Try and Bevels............................................  
60
Mitre............................................................ 
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
>2 95
3(5
3(5
3  15
3 25
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14.....................................*4 05 
Nos. 15 to 17.......................................4  C5 
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4  C5 
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4  05 
Nos. 25 to 26 .......................... 
..  4 25 
No. 27...............................!...............  4 45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19,’86...................................... dis. 
Silver Lake, White A..............................list 
Drab A.................................   “ 
“ 
“ 
White  B...............................  “ 
Drab B..................................   “ 
“ 
“  White C................................   “ 

Maydole  *  Co.’s ...................................... dis. 
25
Kip’s .........................................................dis. 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s..................................dis. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand— 30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 ............................... dis.60&10
State...........................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4%  14 and
longer.......................................................  
314
Screw Hook and  Eye, *4......................... net 
10
“  %..........................net  8*4
“ 
“  %..........................net  7J4
“ 
“  %..........................net  714
“ 
Strap and T ............................................. dis. 
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track— 50*10
Champion,  anti-friction.............................   60*10
Kidder, wood track..................................... 
40
60
Pots............................................................... 
Kettles..........................................................  
60
Spiders  ........................................................  
60
Gray enameled...................................... 
40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware...............................new list 70 i Solid Eyes.............................................per ton *25
25
Japanned Tin Ware.................................. 
20
Granite Iron W are.......................new list 33*4*10
70
dis.
50
Bright........................................................... 70*10*10
30
Screw  Eyes................................................. 70*10*10
Hook’s ..  .................................................... 70*10*10
30
70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................ 
LEVELS. 
Steel, Game........................................................60*10
70
Stanley Rale and Level  Co.’s 
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................. 
35
Oneida  Community, Hawley a Norton’s  ... 
70
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings...................... 
55
Mouse,  choker...................................... 18c per doz
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings..................  
55
Mouse, delusion.................................*1.50 per doz.
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings............... 
55
dis.
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................... 
55
Bright Market..................................................   65
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain.................... 
Annealed Market............................................. 70—10
Coppered Market.............................................   60
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .......... 
55
Tinned Market.................................................  62*4
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s .............................. 
55
Coppered  Spring  Steel...................................  
50
Branford’s ....................................................... 
55
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..................................  3 45
Norwalk’s .......................................................  
55
painted.......................................  2 95
Adze Eye...................................  .......*16.00, dis. 60
Hunt E ye..............................................*15.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s  ........................  
.........v. *18.50, dis. 20*10.
die.
50
Snerry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ......................................  
40
40  |
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables 
.. 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Cl c ik’s ................... 
40
“  Enterprise 
....................................... 
30
Stebbin’s  Pattern......................................... • • 60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine............................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self measuring............................. 
25
Steel nails, base........................................................ 1 80
Wire nails, base........................................................2 20
Steel. Wire.
go...........................................................................Base Base
10 
50l_I...................................................Base
05
40................................... 
20 
30.........................................................  
10
20 30 
15
20.........................................................  
35 
16....................................................  • 
15
35 
12.........................................................  
15
40 
10...........................................................  20
50 
8............................................................   25
65 
7 * 6 ......................................................  40
90
........................................................  60
4 
1  50
3 
.................................................. 1 00
2 
......................................................... 1  50
2  00 
2 00
Fine 3...................................................1 50
90 
Case  10..............  
60
1  00 1  25 
....  90
...........................  85
1  00 
1  25
8 .........................................................................1  00
6.........................................1 15
1  50 
75 
Clinch; 18.........................................  85
90
8 .........................................................................1  00
1  00
6.............................................. 1 15
2 50 
Barrell %...............................................1 75
dis.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   @40
Sciota Bench................................................  @60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  @40
Bench, first quality......................................   @80
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood 
........  *10
Fry,  Acme............................................ difs.60—^10
70
Common,  polished................................dis. 
40
Iron and  Tinned.........................................  
Copper Rivets and Burs............................. 
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

Pig  Large........................................................ 
Pig Bars.........................................................  
Duty;  Sheet, 2*4c per pound.
680 pound  casks...............................................  
Per pound....................................................... 
*4@*4.........................................................................J6
Extra W iping........ ................................  
15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market indicated by nHvate brands 
vary according to composition.  •
Cookson............................................per  pound  16
13
Hallett’s
10x14 IC, Charcoal...................................
14x20 IC, 
....................................
10x14 I X , 
....................................
14x20 IX, 
..................................
Each additional X on this grade, *1.75.
10x14 IC, Charcoal..................................
14x20 IC, 
...................................
10x14 IX, 
...................................
14x20 IX, 
...................................
Each additional X on this grade *1.50.
ROOFING PLATES
Worcester.....................

Au Sable................................. dis. 25*10©25*10*05
Putnam .................- .................................. 
N orth western...................................  
dis. 10*10
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
30
Coe’s  G enuine................................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,  .......... 
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................................. 75*10
Bird Cages........................................................ 
50
Pumps, Cistern............................................ 
*5
Screws, New 1 1st............................................  70*10
Casters, Bed a  d  Plate............................. 50*10*10
Dampers,  American........................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........  
65

14x20 IC,
14x20 IX,
20x28 IC,
14x20 IC,
14x20 IX,
...........
20x28 IC, 
.........
20x28 IX, 
14X28 IX................................... .............
14x31  IX...............................................
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, i Der  DOUn(j 
14x60 IX.  “ 
I pe  pouuu

’’ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

I 6 50 
.  6  50 
.  8  00 00
...  6  50
8  50
13 50
5 75
12 00 
15 00
114 6« 
.15

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

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

Advance over base; 

MOLASSES GATES. 

MISCELLANEOUS.- 

mauls. 
mills. 

TIN—MSLYK GRADE.

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

Finish 10 

METALS,

PIG TIN.

7 50 
9 25 
9 25

ANTIMONY

SOLDER

26c
28c

644
7

“ 9 

“ 

NA ILS

“ 

” 
“ 

RIVETS. 

PLANES.

 

 

dis.

dis.

ZINC.

PANS.

dlS.

g 

“  

“ 

" 
“ 

dl8.

 

 

dis. 06

W h a t  C o n stitu te s  a   D ay ’s  W ork?
The above question  is one of  the most 
important ones  which now  confront  the 
American  people,  albeit  there  exists the 
widest  diversity of  opinion.  The  aver- 
age’union workman  usually defines it  to 
be  the  killing  of  a  day’s time,  and  his 
practice  is too often  in keeping with his 
preaching.  The following  plan  for get­
ting a day’s work  for a  day’s pay is out­
lined by a  leading master  painter in  the 
current issue of  the  Painters' Magazine: 
When a  painter comes  to me for a  job 
I ask  him if he is a first-class  workman, 
and if he  belongs to the  painters’ union, 
to both of which he invariably replies  in 
the  affirmative.  Well,  then,  I  say,  your 
union makes  two demands  of  me, and  I 
will  only  make  one  of  you  in  return. 
Your  union says  that you  must  be paid 
$2.50 a day,  and that the day’s work must 
be only  eight  hours.  Now,  my  one  de­
mand of you  is this,  that  you  will give 
me in  return  for  eight  hour’s work  at 
$2.50 a day an able-bodied man’s work.  I 
have  discovered,  after  repeated  experi­
ments,  that a skilled,  able-bodied painter 
can paint  eight  rooms with  one  coat  of 
paint  in a  day,  and  I  demand that  you 
paint  eight  rooms  a  day  or  else  you 
needn’t begin  work.  Some  of  the  fel­
lows  who  want  work,  when  they  hear 
my demand,  shrug  their  shoulders  and 
say,  “ Well,  I’m  no  steam  engine,”  or 
“I’m  no  horse,”  while  others,  who  are 
more good natured,  say  they are  willing 
to make a trial. 
I find,  however,  that  a 
majority are not able to do eight rooms in 
a day.  Some do seven,  some seven and a 
half,  and some only six.  All men, how­
ever, who  cannot do the  eight rooms are 
paid off, and only  those who can put one 
coat of paint on eight rooms are retained. 
The work  is not  impossible  to be  done.
I  have  one  man  who  can  do  thirteen 
rooms a day if he wants to,but I only ask 
him to do eight. 
I  would rather pay  an 
able-bodied man $3 a  day than $2.50,  if I 
can get  the  man  I  want.  The  trouble 
with the painter’s union is that it doesn’t 
pretend  to  grade  its workmen,  but  de­
mands that the man whose energies have 
been  almost  destroyed  by 
idleness  or 
beer drinking  must get  $2.50 a day,  and 
work  only eight  hours,  the  same as  the 
best workman: 
I tell  you  it  is  mighty 
few men who can do the work of an able- 
bodied man  in the  painting  trade,  for  I 
have tested them.  Whether  their  want 
of  energy is owing  to enforced  idleness 
because  “they can’t get work,” or wheth­
er they  are heart-lazy, owing  to  having 
been idle  so long, and  have  also palsied 
their muscles with beer,  the result is the 
same—they  cannot  do  an  able-bodied 
man’s  work.  The result  of my  method 
has been that I have winnowed out of the 
hundreds of applicants the best men, and 
I tell  you those  fellows  are giants.  To 
see  one of  them  grasping a  whitewash 
brush  filled  with  paint,  and  doing  his 
eight  rooms  in eight hours—that  is, one 
room  a  hour—is  enough  to  make  the 
bums turn  sick at heart,  which they  in­
variably do,  and go home to howl against 
“the greed  of the  employer,” whereas  it 
is  their  own  fault,  if  they  belong  to  a 
combination  which  puts fictitious  value 
upon their energies.  Suppose I went in­
to  a dry  goods  store and  the  salesman 
told me that I must pay  the  same  price 
for a yard of  calico as I do  for a yard of 
silk,  and that the yard  of calico is really 
worth  as  much  as 
the  yard  of  silk? 
Wouldn’t I be apt to call him a liar?  Yet 
that  is what  the  painters’ trade  unions 
are doing  to-day,  when  they  insist  that 
the bum  rabble  in their  ranks must  en­
joy  the same  remuneration as  men who 
can  do ten times their work.

E N G R A V IN G

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

THE TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

G m S E M C   R O O T .
We pay the highest price for it.  Address

PEC K B R 0S., W h o le s a le   D r o n i t t i  
GRAND. RAPIDS.

60

Broken packs *4c per pound extra.

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

DuPont  Gunpowder. D

P R IC E   L IS T

U P O N T

P O W D E R

1WKE  NO  OTHER!

Insist  on  your  Jobber  furnishing  this  Brand.  If he  declines to  do 

it send  to us direct.

Iqents  for  Western  Michigan,

RIFLE.

Kegs, 25 lbs.  each,  Fg,  FFg and FFFg.............
Half kegs,  12M lbs.  each,  Fg,  FFg and  FFFg. 
“ 
Quar.  kegs, 6}£  “ 
1  lb.  cans  (25 in case)
4  lb.  cans (25 in a case)........................................ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“

50 
00 
65 
30
18

CHOKE  BORE.

Kegs,  25  lbs.  each,  Nos.  5 and  7................................$5  50
Half kegs,  12K  lbs.  each,  Nos.  5 and  7 .................  3  50
Quar.  kegs, 6M  lbs. each, Nos. 5 and 7.................1  00
1  lb.  cans  (25 in case)...........................................  
34

EAGLE  DUCK.

Kegs, 25 lbs.  each,  Nos.  1, 2, 3 and  4.................$11  00
Half  kegs,  12K  lbs.  each,  Nos.  1, 2, 3 and 4 ...  5  75
Quar.  “  6JÎ 
“  1,2, 3 and 4 ...  3  00
1 lb. cans (25 in case).......................................... 
00

“ 

“ 

CRYSTAL  GRAIN.

Nos.  1, 2, 3 and 4, 1 lb.  cans  each....................... $  90
Quarter kegs,  6 
lbs . ...........................................   4  50

8

Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s  Association. 

A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

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

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

strictly in advance.

Publication  Office, 100 Louis St
Entered at the Grand Rapid» Poet

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY.  SEPTEMBER  23,  1891.|

INCREASE  THE  YIELD  PER ACRE.
The sale of  the surplus of  the present 
crop at fair prices will  doubtless greatly 
stimulate wheat  production in this coun­
try.  The average farmer will attempt to 
do  this  by sowing  more  acres.  But the 
more  profitable  way will  be  to  increase 
the average yield per acre by better farm­
ing,  instead of  enlarging  the area  sown 
to  wheat.

The  average  yield  per  acre  of  this 
year’s  crop  is  estimated at fifteen  bush­
els.  This is a little  more  than half  the 
average  yield  per acre  in  England  and 
leaves  us a wide  margin  for  greatly in­
creasing  our  total  product  without  en­
larging  the  area  a  single  acre.  Better 
farming can do it.

By  increasing  the  total  yield  in  this 
way  the  cost of  producing each  bushel 
will  be  lowered  and the  net  profits  of 
wheat raising be greatly increased.  Let 
the  stimulus  given by the  present  good 
prices for a bounteous crop be applied to 
better farming.

The system of  meat and  live stock  in­
spection secured  by Secretary Rusk  and 
now thoroughly  enforced  by the  depart­
ment  of  agriculture  has  enabled  the 
United States to demonstrate to the world 
the  present  healthfulness  of  its  meat 
products  and to guarantee  their  quality 
in  future.  Without -this  excellent  law 
and  its  vigilant  enforcement,  it  would 
have  been  impossible to overcome  Ger­
man  prejudices  against American  pork. 
Now let  the  same  system  of  inspection 
be  extended to other  American  produce 
for export.  Then  the “ U. S.”  brand  on 
a package will  become synonymous with 
full  weight  and  pure  quality in  foreign 
markets.

A  fast  run  was made on the New York 
Central  Sept.  14,  which,  it  is  claimed, 
eclipses any  long  distance  run  ever  be­
fore made either  in  this  country  or Eu­
rope.  A  special train  composed  of  one 
of the  company’s  new standard  passen­
ger  engines,  weighing  200,000  pounds, 
and  three private  cars,  weighing 260,000 
pounds,  carrying  Vice-President  Webb 
and party,  left  New York  city at 7 a.  m. 
and made the run to  East  Buffalo, 436% 
miles,  in  440  minutes,  including  three 
stops  which  aggregated  14  minutes. 
Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  an  average 
speed of more  than a mile a  minute was 
maintained  for the entire diftance.

The  market  for  the saline  product  of 
Michigan  is  in a very  satisfactory  con­
dition and  the  output  for the  month  of 
August  and also  for the  inspection  year 
from December 1  to September 1 has been 
comparatively  larger  than  was expected. 
The  new association  appears  to be  han­
dling the affairs of the members very cir­
cumspectly  and  satisfactorily,  the  price

I of  the  product  being  maintained fairly 
well,  although it would probably be held 
up  somewhat  better  if  the  small  per­
centage of outsiders  could be induced  to 
! join the association.

increasing  the 

The completion of the St. Glair tunnel, 
between  Port Huron  and  Sarina,  is  one 
of the most significant  events of the cen- 
i tury.  That  it  will  have  the  effect  of 
vastly 
traffic  between 
Canada and the United States is believed 
without question, the construction of the 
tunnel  being rendered  necessary  by  the 
increase in  traffic in  recent years,  which 
the ferrying  system of transfer  was  un­
able to cope with.  The tunnel now gives 
a continuous  line  of  rail from  Montreal 
to Chicago  under  the  one  management, 
and makes a considerable saving both  in 
time  and  distance,  advantages  of  great 
moment  in  the  way  of  transportation. 
Although the tunnel is practically a por­
tion of  the railway  system of the  Grand 
Trunk,  no  other  railway  company  will 
be debarred from using it.

Few cities could hold  two  fairs in one 
week  and  make  a  success  of  both  of 
them,  as  Grand  Rapids  was  able  to do 
last  week.  The exhibits were large and 
diversified,  and the  attendance  was  all 
that  could  be .desired.  Whether  both 
societies will hold expositions  next  year 
is,  as yet,  undecided; but the district  or­
ganization  has  clearly demonstrated  its 
ability to  conduct  a  fair  in  the face of 
serious obstacles,  and  T h e T radesm an 
trusts that steps will  now be taken to se­
cure  a  consolidation  of  the  two socie­
ties on a basis fair to  all  concerned. 
It 
is the  height of  foolishness  for both or­
ganizations to continue  the present poli­
cy of  extermination.

A further  advance in  prices  of  cereals 
and  meats  is  inevitable.  Speculators’ 
schemes  may retard,  but the  slower act­
ing  laws  of  demand  and  supply  must 
bring it about. 
It  is  only a question  of 
time—how long no man  can  tell, but not 
as  far  distant  as  many  believe.  An 
European war is evidently postponed be­
cause of a short food supply.

A startling  statement is  that made  by 
so conservative and reliable an  authority 
as  the  old American  Agriculturist,  the 
utterances  of  which  are  accepted  as 
standard. 
It  says  that  United  States 
farmers will probably receive one billion 
dollars  more  for  the  produce  of  1891 
than  in any previous year!  Let  us  hope 
so.

C o u n try  C allers.

Calls  have  been 

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

C.  Pleifle,  Park City.
E. E.  Day, Amble.
W.  R.  Mandigo, Sherwood.
Frank Veldman,  New Era.
Wilcox Bros., Cadillac.
A.  B. Schumaker,  Grand Ledge.
Geo.  E.  Mills,  Petoskey.
E.  L. Boynton,  Griswold.
F.  Danelson,  Muskegon.
E.  B.  Stanley, Sherman.
A. J.  Felter, Stetson.
Neal McMillan,  Rockford.
Mrs.  F.  E. White,  Williamsburg.
W. G.  Sprague,  Flushing.
J.  V. Crandall,  Sand Lake.
A.  E.  Wilkinson,  Saranac.
Wagner & Son, Belding.
J. J. Bowen,  Ovid.
C. A.  Barnes,  Otsego.
F.  i).  Cleveland, Shepardsville. 

I  Taylor & Son, Lucas.
! 

i  Geo.  H.  Rainouard,  Bridgeton.

i  Hessler Bros.,  Rockford.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
H e P lay ed  a  T rick on  H is W ife. 

W ritten (o r The Tradesman.

He  was  a young  married  man  and a 
fiend, as all  young  married  men  are,  so 
far  as  playing  shabby  tricks  on  their 
young,  bashful, inexperienced  wives  are 
concerned.  He was also new, young and 
fresh  in  business.  He  had  opened  a 
small  grocery store in his native village, 
but  the  cares of  business  did  not  bear 
heavily upon  him,  as  his  motto  was  “A 
little fun first, then business.”  He begun 
business  in  a  small  store—not  because 
he  preferred that  kind of  a grocery,  but 
because  it  was  the  only  one  obtainable 
by  him  at  the  time.  Among  his  cus­
tomers  was  a  bright-looking young man 
of  about 25 years  who was the  most pe­
culiar  stutterer  the  writer  ever  knew. 
He spoke  rapidly,  as  most stutterers do, 
and sometimes he would  run out quite  a 
good-sized grist without making a break, 
but,  sooner or  later,  he  would slip a cog 
and then  all  business would have  to  be 
suspended  until  he run  down.  One pe­
culiarity  was  that  he always  ran  down 
on the first letter of the word that caused 
the  slipping of  the  cog.  For  instance, 
suppose  the cog  slipped  on  the  word 
“butter,” the succession of  sounds which 
would  follow during  the  running  down 
process would  strike the ears of  all who 
were so unforutnate as to be within hear­
ing,  something  like  this,  “But, but,  b-b- 
but,  but,  butty, but, b-b-b-b-b-butty,  but,
bubby bub-ub-ub-ub-b-b-b-----ugh.”  A
laborious grunt signifying  that the terri­
ble suspense  was  over  at  last.  During 
this trying ordeal our unfortunate friend’s 
face  would  pass  through all the  phases 
of the moon  and his features would  play 
the contortion act and frequently change 
places with  each  other.  Sometimes  the 
mouth  would  try  to  swallow  the  right 
ear, but the  nose would  always  come to 
the rescue by springing in between them, 
while the left  ear would  flop  backwards 
and  forwards  and  upwards  and  down­
wards  in  a  desperate  effort  to  find  out 
what the matter was.

Our young  grocer  placed a high  value 
on his stuttering customer, not on account 
of the dollars he paid  into  the grocery— 
he  was  too  young  and  innocent to take 
such sordid views of things—but  for the 
sake  of  the  “fun”  which  his  peculiar 
customer  occasioned  him.  Our  verdant 
grocer’s hair  (what Father Time has left 
of it)  is now tinged with gray, and to-day 
the very  things which  cause the  sympa­
thetic  tear  to wind  its  way  down  over 
the  withered  cheek  are the  very  things 
that furnished “fun  alive” in his  youth­
ful  days,  before  he  had  felt  the  sting 
of  a cold  and  cruel  world  and  ere  his 
soul had become  saddened with the  real­
ities of life.

As is  the  case in country villages  gen­
erally,  the store and  dwelling rooms  oc­
cupied by our young grocer and his little 
blue-eyed  girl  wife,  were all  under  one 
roof  and the  principal  living  room was 
immediately in the  rear of  the store and 
connected  therewith by means of  a glass 
door.

The  grocer’s wife  had  never seen  our 
stuttering friend,  and  one day when  the 
I grocer saw him  coming down  the street, 
j an idea  popped into  his head. 
It  was a 
mischievious  idea,  bent  on  fun,  regard- 
I less  of  consequences,  and  never  could 
have  popped  into  the  grocer’s  head  so 
easily if  the  head  had  been  fully occu­
pied with matters pertaining to business, 
but  there  was  a vacuum  in  the  young 
merchant’s head  and so the idea  popped

In  and  prompted  him to play a trick  on 
his  wife.  He  knew  that  the  stutterer 
was  coming to his  store to trade  and  he 
wanted  to  enjoy  the  fun of  seeing  his 
wife wait on him.  He entered the living 
room in a great  hurry and  asked  his un­
suspecting  wife  to  step  in  and  “tend 
store”  until  he returned.  She laid aside 
her  work  and,  tripping  into  the  store, 
had  just reached  the usual  position  be­
hind  the  counter  when  the  customer, 
very  much  confused  (for  the  grocer’s 
wife was very pretty),  presented  himself 
on the opposite side of the counter.  The 
grocer  peeked  through  the  window  in 
the  door  and  this  is  what  he  saw  and 
heard:

He—“Good afternoon” (with a graceful 

bow and a flourish of the right arm).

She—“Good  afternoon,  sir,”  (looking 
her  sweetest  and  glancing  toward  the 
living room door.)

He—“ Fine  weather  we  are  having 
(becoming  very much  agi­
these  days? 
tated as he thinks  how awfully  liable he 
is to slip a cog).”

She—“Yes,  sir;  we are indeed  favored 
with  charming  weather. 
Is  there  any­
thing I could do for you?”  As she asked 
the question, she advanced to the counter 
and,  leaning slightly over,  she electrified 
him  with  one  of  her  most  charming 
smiles,  and  looking him  steadily  in  the 
eye,  she  awaited his  reply.  Slip  a  cog! 
Why,  that  look  and  that  smile  would 
slip a cog  in  any man’s anatomy,  to  say 
nothing about the poor  fellow who stood 
trembling in mortal  dread of  the  explo­
sion which was about to occur and which 
would  convert  that charming  smile into 
a  frightened  look.  He  knew  he  could 
not answer her  question or utter another 
sentence with any degree of  safety with­
out  putting  forth a mighty effort and  so 
the hands closed  with the grip of desper­
ation, 
the  shoulder 
blades  rose on a level  with the ears  and 
the fun  commences.

the  eyes  closed, 

He—“You  may  give  me  some  titty- 
titty-titty-titty-titty  tit-tit-tit  tittyty-ty- 
ty tit-t-t-t-t-t-t-t toy—toy—toy,  ty  tit-t-t- 
t-t-t-t-tea.

Where the “toy!’ comes in is where the 
mouth 
tries  to  swallow  the  right  ear. 
When  the cog  first slipped  the  grocer’s 
pretty  wife  jumped about  two feet  and 
came  down with  one  pretty foot  in  the 
tea  chest  and  the  other  on  the  mouse 
trap.  Backing up suddenly  against  the 
shelf base,  she caused  the tobacco cutter 
to fall off the shelf and  land on her toes, 
and  just  before  her  customer  touched 
bottom she became thoroughly frightened 
and  bounded 
toward  the  living  room 
door with a scream.  When  she  entered 
the  room  her idiotic  husband was  iying> 
on the floor twisting and writhing in con­
vulsive fits of  laughter.  Of  course,  the 
customer fled, never  to  return,  but what 
cared this empty-pated young caterer for 
public  patronage,  so long as his  childish 
craving  for fun at the  expense of  some­
one else was gratified? 

Zeno.

W a n te d  to  b e " A s s is te r.”

“I  think,  sir,  in  fact  I  am  certain,” 
said  the  pretty  girl,  as  she  entered  the 
cynical  merchant’s  office,  “that  if  you 
engage me  my  knowledge  of  shorthand 
and  typewriting will  be a  valuable  aid 
to you in your business.”
“You are too ornamental to be useful,” 
gruffly replied  the  merchant,  “and I  am 
not  a  marrying  man.  A  pretty  type­
writer  would  just  waste  her  time  on 
me.”
tearfully  protested  the 
maiden,  “ I  have  no  matrimonial  de­
signs; I  simply  want  to  be  assister  to 
you.”

“But,  sir,” 

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

y

Life- 
w ritte n  for the tradesman. 

M y  First Bold  Adventure  in Mercantile | situation,  that  I  insisted on explaining it | 
fully  to  my  wife,  especially  the  part J
j  where  our  children’s children  came  in.  !
I  had  reached  my  majority  and  had ; j  had  a  two-fold  object  in  desiring  to | 

passed out from  under  the  care  and au- | explain  matters:  First, to satisfy  an in- j 

thority of a strict old  uncle, to whose ten- j hred desire to consider  the consequences 
der mercies  I  had  been  consigned  by a  fuliy  before  taking  the  step,  especially
dying  mother  when  I  was  only  six 
if there was any apparent or possible dan­
months  old. 
I  had  married  a  sweet, 
ger jn  taking the step;  and, in the second j 
blue-eyed child, who was nearly six years 
place,  it would  give  the  burglars  more 
younger  than  myself,  and  our  marriage 
time  either  to  retire peaceably of  their j 
had been endorsed and  dedicated to hap­
own free will,  thereby  avoiding a bloody : 
piness  by  a  host  of  friends  and  well- 
encounter, or—in  case  they  should  fail I 
wishers. 
I  had  exchanged  a  piece  of 
to  take  the  hint  and  retire—to  repent 
wild swampy land, which I had inherited 
and  prepare  themselves  for  a  sudden | 
from  my  mother,  for  a  small  stock  of 
flight iuto the mystic regions of eternity.
merchandise. 
I  had bought an old store 
My wife  was  harder  hearted  and  less 
building,  with  dwelling  rooms  attached, 
merciful than I  and  so she urged me,  by 
in my native  village  and  had  moved my 
all the big  thiugs  she  could  think of, to 
small  stock  of  goods  in  and  had begun 
rush  in  and  with  one  fell  swoop  scare 
my  career  as  a  merchant.  One  large 
them  away  and  save  our  property. 
In 
pane  of  glass  had  been  broken  out  of 
vain I  called  her  my  dear and reminded 
one of  the  front  doors and  I had not yet 
her  that  her  proposition  sounded  all 
found time to put in a  new  one. 
It was 
right,  but  it  was  fraught  with  danger, 
night and we  had  retired to bed and had 
inasmuch as the burglars might not scare 
been asleep  for  I do not know how long, 
worth a cent,  and  then  1  dropped on  my 
when my wife was  awakened  by sounds 
knees and asked her if  she  would  prom­
which  evidently  came  from  the  store, 
ise  not  to  marry  any  other  fellow,  if  I 
which was separated  from  our  bedroom 
should  lose  my  life  in  the  impending 
by  a  thin  partition  only.  My  wife 
conflict. 
I begged her to reconsider,  but 
brought  me  to  a  state  of  consciousness 
with  a  suddenness  which  surprised  me, 
as carefully  as  she  could  and  gently in­
she gave me a  shove  that  upset  me and 
formed  me  that  she  believed  burglars 
rolled  me  under  the  bed.  Seizing  the 
were in the store  and  that we had better 
lamp in one hand and a ball  club  (which 
held a council of  war  and consider ways 
stood behind the door)  in the other hand, 
and  means  of  carrying  on  a  defensive 
she  started  for  the  scene  of  hostilities.
warfare. 
I  never  feel  like  springing 
When  tiiy  wife  entered  the  store,  I 
suddenly out  of  bed  and  rushing head­
crawled  out  from  under  the  bed  and a 
long  on  the  scene  of  action,  because 1 
large  Newfoundland  dog  bounded  out 
might  kill  somebody  under  the  excite­
through  the  broken  pane  in  the  front 
ment of  the  moment, of  maim somebody 
door  of  the  store  and  the  mercantile 
for  life,  and  it  would  be  terrible  to be 
house  of  which  l was the  honored  head 
compelled to go through  life with such a 
once  more  asssumed  its  normal  condi­
load  upon  my conscience.  Then, again.
tion.  Sometimes my wife so  far  forgets 
I think it the best policy to  lie  perfectly 
herself as to  claim  some  credit for what 
still and  listen until one is fully satisfied 
she  did,  but  as  defend,  protector  and 
in his own  mind  that  he  knows  whence 
head of the household,  it would not com- 
the  strange  sounds  proceedeth,  for  it 
pprt with  my  dignity  to  credit  my  wife 
would be very disappointing to  start  off 
with  any  share  in defending the  house 
pell mell to some part  of  the  house  and 
and protecting  the  family from the first, 
find  that  one  had  made  a  mistake  in 
last and only midnight attack of burglars, 
locating the burglars. 
It would not only 
two-legged or four-legged, during  a mer­
be  disappointing  but  valuable 
time 
cantile career of twenty-seven years.
would  be  lost enpugh—lime,  in  fact,  to 
kill six or eight average ablebodied burg­
lars.  After I had listened and estimated 
and calculated  for  about  half  an  hour, 
my wife suggested  that,  all  things con­
sidered,  it  might  not  be  a  bad idea for 
me to get out of bed.

Shelby—Graham & Dean have engaged 

Mason’s  Fruit Jars.

in  the handling of produce.

R a d i x .

Who but a woman  would have thought 
of  this? 
It  beats  all  how  much  more 
practical a woman’s suggestions are than 
a man’s  in  a  case  of  emergency.  The 
idea of  getting  out  of  bed  was  the last 
thing  I  would  have  thought  of,  but, 
when my  wife  suggested  it,  I  could  see 
the wisdom of  it at once.  For  fear  that 
I might make a noise and  frighten  away 
the burglars before  I  could  get a chance 
to  kill  a  few  of  them,  my  wife  got  up 
first and found my clothes and held them 
open while  I  got  into  them.  After my 
wife had buckled on  my  armor,  1 began 
to  realize  that  the  case  in  hand was  a 
most serious one and  one  that demanded 
prayerful  consideration. 
just 
entered  the  mercantile  world  and  this 
was the first attempt to  “do  me  up”  and 
drive me  back  into  private  life. 
If  I 
should  wade  boldly  in  and  kill  all  of 
them,  my  name  would  surely  be  writ­
ten  on  the  scroll  of 
fame  and  my 
children’s  children  would  never  tire  of 
rehearsing it  in  all  its  gory  details. 
I 
was so impressed with  this  view  of  the !

I  had 

Notwithstanding the enormous demand 
we  now  have  a  large  stock of  Mason’s 
Porcelain Lined  Fruit Jars and  can ship 
promptly on receipt of  orders.

P R IC E S
Pint Mason's Fruit  Jars.............................$13 00
“ .................................14 00
Quart 
'* 
............................  17 00
V4 gal.  “ 
“ 
Rubbers, per gro......................................... 
55
Caps and Rubbers,  extra 
.........................  4 50
H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

“ 
“ 

Grand  Rapids, Mich,

Will  best consult  their own  interests and 
that of their trade if they will post them­
selves  with  the  styles,  make  up,  perfect 
fit  and  remarkably  reasonable  prices  of 
our  entire line,  adapted  for all classes of 
trade.  Our  single  and  double  breasted

W IL L IA M   C O N N O R ,

B o x   3 4 6 , 

M a r sh a ll,  M ic h .

Overcoats and Ulsters

while  being worn  cannot  possibly be told  from  the best  made to order  garments. 
The demand  has  been so great  that we are making up  a large  number  more in  all 
colors  and  grades,  Cheviots,  Meltons.  Kerseys,  Homespuns,  Covert Cloth  in full or 
half roll  box,  top and regular cuts, Chinchillas and Ulsters.
S T T T T 'S i   Large selections and  newest novelties,  double and 
TP A  T .T  
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single breasted sacks,  nobby three button cutaway
frocks  and  regular  frock  suits,  also  Prince Albert  and other  coats and  vests in 
“Clays”  worsted and other attractive materials.

R  select  line  nf  pants  well  worthy  of attention.

W IL L IA M   C O N N O R   our  Michigan  representative  during  the  past nine  years 
will  be  pleased  to call  upon  you  at  any  tim e,  if  you  will  favor  him  w ith  a  line 
addressed  to  him,  box  34(5,  M arshall,  Mich.,  where  he  resides.
Having been established  thirty-one years,  during all of  which  time we have had 
a large and  increasing  trade in Michigan,  we know  pretty well the requirements of 
the trade.

NlICHAJBL  KOLB  <£  SON,

Wholesale Clothiers, Rochester, N. Y.

Boys’  and  Children's  Overcoats  and  Stilts b S T e e n T ^
pbants  assuring  him  that  they are the  nicest, cleanest, best  made and  lowest  in  price seen this 
season.  September,  1S91.

Colored Statements

We  have  a  f e w   thousand  5 - p o u n d  
colored statem ents, size 5 | x 8 . i ,   super­
fine paper, which  w e will  close  out:

Printed  and  blocked  in  tabs of  100 

(  500,  $1  65
\  1,000, 
2  50
( 2,000, @  2  25

W e  have  the following  colors, Rink, 
Blue,  Canary,  Cherry,  Fawn,  A. in her, 
Lilac•  W e   cannot  break  packages—
that is, print  less than  5 0 0  of one color 
—of these goods,

\The Tradesman Company,

Grand  Rapids.

P E A C H E S  

P E A C H E S

This will  be peach week  for everybody,  as Crawfords and  Barnards have  been 
coming in  very slow  this  last  week  and we look  for  lower  prices if  it only turns 
warm.  We  can  give everybody all the peaches  they  want  and will  bill as low as 
the lowest.  All  we ask is for you to send in your orders early enough to select you 
fancy fruit and our having three large orchards to handle,  we can make prices that 
will suit all.  Write for prices or wire us.

TUCKER,  COADE  &  CO.,

' 56 and 58 South Ionia St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  M idi.

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10®   12 
11®  13 20
36®1 TO 
IX®  5 
40@1  60 
40®  42

“ 

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

ANILINS.

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

BACCAB.
Cubeae (po.  90)........
Juniperus..................   J*@  10
8®   10 
25®  30
Xantnoxylum...

BALSA MUM.

Copaiba........................  660  60
Peru..............................   @1  50
Terabin, C an ad a.......  35®  40
T olutan........................  35®  50

CORTBX.

Abies,  Canadian...................  18
Cassiae  ..................................
Cinchona Flava  ...................  18
Euonymus  atropurp............  30
Myrica  Cerifera, po..............  20
Prunus Virginl......................  1*
Quillaia,  grd.........................   14
Sassafras  ............■••••.........   "
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)........  10

BXTBACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza  G labra...
po............
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is...............
V4s............
54*............
FERKUM.

“ 
“ 
« 
“ 

Carbonate Preclp........
Citrate and Q ulnla....
Citrate  Soluble  ... ••• 
Perrocyanldum Sol —
Solut  Chloride............
Sulphate,  com’l
.........
pure.............

“ 

24®
33®11®
13®
14®
16®

154®®

FLORA.

FOLIA.

Arnica.......................  32®  25
Anthemis..................   30®  50
Matricaria 
......  35®  30

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-

..................   30®  50
nlvelly....................  25®  «
Alx.  35®  50
Salvia  officinalis,  54* 
„
and  54s ....................  13®  15
UraTJrsi.....................   8®  10

»  3 

“ 

OUMMI.

» 
•• 
“ 
<i 

picked  @ 90
Acacia, 1st 
2d 
“ 
. . .   @ 65
3d 
“ 
. . .   @  50
sifted sorts...  @  35
po.................  60®  80
50® 60
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)  . 
®  13
“  Cape, (po.  30).. 
®  50
“  Socotri, (po.  60) 
Catechu, Is, (54*. 14 54*. 
_  ,
16)..........................  @  1
Ammoniac.................  35®  40
Assafcetlda, (po. 30)...  @  2~
Benzolnum.................  50®  55
Camphors..................   52®  55
Eupnorblum  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum..................   @3 JjO
Gamboge,  po..............  80®  95
Gualacum, (po  30)  ...  @  ¡»
Kino,  (po.  25)............  @  30
M astic.......................
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
Opil.  6o-3 30).............2  10®2 20
Shellac  .....................   35®  35
“ 
bleached........  28®  33
TTagacanth................  30®
hbrba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  3J>
Eupatorlum....................»- -  20
Lobelia................................   25
Malorum.............................
Mentha  Piperita.................  "
“  V lr.........................  <*
Rue..................... 
30
Tanacetum, V......................  •“?
Thymus,  V..........................   25

 

 

MAONKsiA.

OLBUM.

Calcined, Pat  ............   55©  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36
Absinthium................ 3 50@4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc.......   45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae— 8  00®8 25
A nlsl........................... 1  75@1 85
Auranti  Cortex...........3 60@3 75
Bergamil  ...................3  75@4 00
Cajiputi.................... 
70®  80
Caryophyill................  90®  95
Cedar  .........................  35®  65
Chenopodli................   @2 00
Clnnamonli.................1 15®1 30
Citronella..................   @  45
Conium  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba  ......... 
1>20®1  30

 

I

“ 

Morphia,  S. P. & W...1  95@2 ! 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

“ 

C. Co....................... 1  85@2
Moschus Canton........  @  1
Myrlstica, No. 1.........   70®
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @
Os.  Sepia....................  25®  !
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co.... .......................  @2 1
Picis Liq, N.  C., 54 gal
doz  .........................  ®2  I
Picis Liq., quarts......   @1
pints.........   @
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @
Piper Alba, (po g5)__   @
Pix  Burgun...............   @
Plumbl A cet..............  14®
Pulvis Ipecac et opil. .1  10@1 
Pyrethram,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......  @1
Pyrethram,  pv...........  30®
Quassiae....................  8®
Quinta, S. P. & W......   31®
Rubla  Tine tor um......   12®
Saccharum Lac tis pv.  @
Salacin....................... 1  80®1
Sanguis  Draconls......  40®
Santonine  .................... 
4
,r  M.......................   10®
“  G............. ...........   @

S.  German__20  ©  ;

“ 

Seidlitz  Mixture........  @  25
Sinapis.......................   @  18
opt..................   @  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 12).  .  11®  12 
Soda et Potass Tart...  30®  33
Soda Carb.................  1)4®  2
Soda,  Bi Carb............   @  5
Soda,  Ash.................... 3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcia Imp........  @3 00
•  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
2 27)........................ 2 31@2 41
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Stiychnia  Crystal......  @1  30
Sulphur, Subl............ 3  @4
“  Roll..............  2?4@ 3)4
Tamarinds...................   8® 10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae..............  45®  50
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
ZInci  Sulph..................  7®  8

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  TO 
Lard,  extra...............   55 
Lard, No.  1...............   45 
Linseed, pure raw —   38 

Bbl.  Gal
TO
60
50
41

“ 

paints. 

Lindseed,  boiled  ___  41 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
Spirits Turpentine__  42 

44
strained..................  50  60
46
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian.............. IX  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars...  IX  2@4
“ 
Ber........ 194  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2)4  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure......2)4 2X@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ................  
13@16
 
Vermilion,  English__ 
70@75
Green,  Peninsular...... 
70@75
Lead,  red.....................  7  @7)4
“  w hite................. 7  @7)4
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’........  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  n
Whiting  Paris  Eng.
...................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
Paints............   ...... 1 00©1  20

cliff .

VARNISHES.

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

G et  What  You  A.slc  For!

—HINKLEY’S  BONE  LINIMENT-

FOR  THIRTY-FOUR  YEARS  THE  FAVORITE.

E nclosed'in  W hite  W rappers an d  m ade by D. 3?. F O S T E R ,  S aginaw , M ich.

Drugs  Medicines*

State  Board  of Pharmacy. 

One  Year—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Two  Years—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Three  Years—Jam es Vernor, D etroit.
Four Years—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor 
Five Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. 
President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon. 
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, D etroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

Meetings  for  1891—Lansing, Nov. 4.  _____
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Ass’n. 

President—D. E. P rall. 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 Dnnont, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Ann  Arbor, Oct. 20,81 and 22, 1891.
Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical Society. 
President. W. R. Jew ett,  Secretary,  Frank H. Escott, 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March 

Jane, September and December.
Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association. 
resident,

'  ~ . D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith.

Detroit Pharmaceutical  Society. 

President, F. R ohnert;  Secretary, J. P.;Kheinfrank.
Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association. 

President  N. Miller;  Secretary, A. T. W heeler.

H ow   H e  M anaged.

A  well-known  business  man  walked 
into a cigar store  the other morning  and 
took  out  two  coins.  One  was  a  dollar 
and  the  other  a  half  dollar.  He  laid 
them both down on the case and  pointed 
to  a  box  of  imported  cigars,  saying; 
“Give  me  a  dollar’s  worth  of  those.” 
The clerk handed them out and the buyer 
laid  the  six  that  he  wanted  in  a  row 
along  the  case.  Then  he  said  to  the 
clerk:  “Give me half a dollar’s worth of 
any  good  five cent  cigar.”  The  clerk 
did  as  he was  bid  and  the  five-centers 
were laid  along in a row also.  The gen­
tleman  then  took  the  row of  imported 
cigars  and cut  the  ends off  of  them all. 
Then  he mixed  the five-centers  and  the 
twenty-centers up together and put them 
all  into  his  capacious vest  pockets.  A 
friend  who was  standing  near,  and who 
had watched  the  operation with  a  good 
deal  of  curiosity,  said:  "Wherefore?” 
“Simply this,  my boy,”  replied  the man 
addressed.  “I  am  in a business  where 
I have to give  away a good many  cigars. 
I  am  a  man who  likes a good  cigar. 
I 
cannot  afford to give  away  the  kind  of 
cigars that I  smoke  myself, so  I  buy  a 
day’s supply and cut the  ends off.  Then 
I  buy  some  cheap  ones.  When  it  is 
necessary  for  me to  give  away  a  cigar 
I  pull out a handful  and  offer one to the 
person,  whoever  be may be.  He  thinks 
that the ones with the ends cut off 1 have 
had in my  mouth,  and  takes  one of  the 
cheap ones,  whereby I save a good  many 
dollars in the  course of  a year  and  also 
keep myself on good  terms with the peo­
ple  to  whom  it  is  necessary • to  give 
cigars.”

If you are disposed to find faults in your 
wife, you  will find her  largest one to  be 
her choice of a husband.

M arket.

The  fire  which  destroyed  the 

S erious  D isa rran g em en t o f  th e   S hellac 
large 
storehouse of  R.  C.  Layton, Jr., 63  and 
64 South street,  New  York,  September S, 
will doubtless  produce serious  effects in 
the  shellac  market  in this  country  and 
even in  the  markets of  the  world. 
Im­
porters  estimate that  nearly one-half  of 
the  entire supply of  shellac in  America 
was destroyed.  This  occurs  at a partic­
ularly  inopportune 
time.  During  the 
last year  numerous droughts have  so  in­
jured  the  rosin  trees,  that  there  is now 
only about  one third as much  shellac  in 
the  market  as  three  years  ago.  There 
are  only  34,000  cases  in  London  ware­
houses  now  as  compared  with  89,000 
three years ago.  Consequently the  price 
of  this  commodity  has  been  very  high 
for a year.  Further,  while  the available 
supplies have  been  diminishing, the  de­
mand has been increasing.  Cables  from 
Calcutta  say  the  market  is  bare  there; 
the London  merchants telegraph  that no 
stocks there  are  available  for  America. 
The outlook therefore is that shellac will 
be high for a few months at least.

No G eneral E xhibit th is Y ear.

It has  been  decided  to  dispense  with 
the  usual  exhibit  of  pharmaceutical 
goods  from  the  various  manufacturing 
houses  at  the Ann Arbor  convention  of 
the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso­
ciation,  and to coniine  efforts in this line 
to the  display only  of such  as are  made 
by  the  retail  pharmacists  themselves. 
Druggists  of the  State  are  cordially  in­
vited to make such  exhibits of their  ma­
nipulative and professional skill.

The  D rug  M arket.

Gum  opium  and  morphia are  steady. 
Quinine  is  unchanged. 
Tonka  beans 
are tending higher.  Cinchonidia in  large 
cans is lower.  Gum  ammoniac  has  ad­
vanced.  Gum  shellac  is  higher.  Oil 
anise  is  lower.  Oil  sassafras  lias  ad­
vanced.  Castor oil  is  tending  upward. 
Orris  root  has  advanced.  Borax is  ad­
vancing.  Roman  chamomile flowers are 
higher.  Brimstone  and 
sulphur  are 
higher  and  tending  upward.  Linseed 
oil has declined.

A M isunderstood M etaphor.

he’s looking first-rate.”

“I  saw Dibble  the other  evening,  and 
“Still hugging the same delusion?” 
“He was hugging a two hundred pound 
sweetheart, but she didn’t look much like 
a delusion.”

Use Tradesman  or  Superior  G on pons,

3® 4
55® 60
4® 5
56® 60
@1 40
@ 25
@ 68
5® 7
38® 40
10@2 20
@ 9
@1  20
@ 20
@ 25
@ 20
12® 13
03 75
50® 55
38® 40
@ 40
@ 20
@ 10
@ 42
60® 63
@1  25
50@1 TO
20® 25
15® 20
3  @ 12
60
@ 50
@ 2
5® 5
9® 11
@ 8
28® 30
® 24
5 @ 6
10® 12
68® TO
o
© i
50® 65
12® 15
® 23
7  @ 8
@ TO
40® 60
10.
9® 15
13® 25
7  @ 25
© 22
25® 55
@ 90
@ 80
@1  (0
@1  10
45© 56
@ TO
25@1 50
75@1 00
75@3 85
@4 TO
35® 40
40® 45
80® 85
® 27
10® 12
2® 8
50® 60

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

1 1

Wholesale P rice  Current•

Advanced—Roman chamomile, gum ammoniac, gum shellac, oil sassafras, orris  root. 
Declined—Oil anise, cinchonidia, linseed oil.

Cubebae......................  @700
Exechthitos..............  2 50®2 75
Erigeron.................... 2 25®2 50
Gaultheria................. 2 00®2  10
Geranium,  ounce......  @  75
Gossipii, Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  .................. 1  40@1  50
Juniper!......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonis......................2 50@3  10
Mentha Piper..............2 90®3 00
Mentha Verld.............2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal.............1  0G@1  10
Myrcia, ounce............   @  50
Olive..........................  85@2 75
iO®  12
Plcls Liquida, (gal. 35) 
Ricini......................... 1  00@1  20
Rosmarini............ 
75@1  00
Rosae, ounce.... ............  @6 50
Sucdnl.......................  40®  45
Sabina.......................  90@1  00
San tal  .......................3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
Sinapis, ess, ounce—   @  65
Tiglfi..........................  @1 00
Thyme.......................  40®  50
opt  ...............   ®  60
Theobromas...............  15®  20

“ 

POTASSIUM.

Bicarb.......................  15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  '14
Bromide.................... 
28©  30
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate, (po. 16)........  14®  16
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide.........................2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  28®  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @ 15
Potass Nitras, opt......  8®  10
Potass Nitras................  
7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

RADIX.

“ 

Aconitum..................   20®  25
Althae.........................  25®  30
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  30®  50
Gentiana, (po. 15)......  10®  12
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 40)......................   @ 35
Hellebore, Ala,  po—   15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po....................... 2  40@2 50
Iris  plox (po. 35®3S) .  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   45®  50
Maranta,  34*........ —   @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhel.............................   75®1 00
“  cut__ 
@1  75
“  pv.......................   75@1  35
Spigelia.....................   48®  53
Sanguinaria,  (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentarla.................  30®  35
Senega.......................  40®  45
Similax, Officinalis,  H @ 40
M  @  20
Scillae, (po. 35).............  10® 12
Syuiplocarpu8,  Fosti-
dus,  po....................  @ 35
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  ©  25
German...  15®  20
ingiber a ..................   10®  15
Zingiber  j .............. 
32®  25
BEMXN.
@ 15
Anlsum,  (po.  20). 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  20®  22
Bird, Is..................  
4®  6
Carni, (po. 18)............   8®  12
Cardamon........................1  00@1 25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Satlva.........  
4® 4)4
Cydonlum....................   75@l 00
Cnenopodium  ...........  10®  12
Dlpterlx Odorate........ 2 00®2 25
Foenlculum  —   ......   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L in i............................4  @4)4
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 3)4)...  4  @ 4)4
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Pharlarls Canarian....  3)4® 4)4
Rapa..........................  6@  7
Sinapis
Is,  Albu............   8®  9
Migra...........  11®  12

“ 

“ 
<• 
“ 

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

TINCTURES.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Aconitum  Napellis R.........   60
F .........   50
Aloes.....................................  60
and myrrh...................  60
A rnica..................................  50
Asafoetida..............................   0
Atrope Belladonna................  60
Benzoin.................................  60
“  Co............................  50
Sangulnaria..........................   50
Barosma...............................  50
Cantharides..........................   75
Capsicum.............................   50
Ca damon.............................   75
Co........................  75
Castor..................................1 00
Catechu.................................  50
Cinchona.............................   50
Co........................  60
Columba...............................  50
Conium.................................  50
Cubeba..................................   50
Digitalis...............................  50
Ergot.....................................  50
Gentian................................   50
‘  Co.............................   60
Guaica..................................   50
ammon....................  60
‘ 
Zingiber...............................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................  50
Iodine..  ...............................   75
Colorless....................   75
Ferri  Chloridum...................  35
Kino.....................................    50
Lobelia..................................  50
Myrrh....................................  50
Nux  Vomica.........................  50
O pil......................................   85
“  Camphorated.................   50
Deoaor........................ 2 00
Auranti Cortex......................  50
Quassia.................................  50
Khatany...............................  50
Rhel.......................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol....................   50
Co................  50
Serpentarla..........................   50
Stramonium..........................   60
Tolutan.................................  60
ValeriaD................. 
50
Veratrum Veride...................  50

“ 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

‘ 
“ 

“ 
ground,  (po.
7)  ..............................
Antimoni, po.............
et Potass T .
Antipyrln..................
Antifebrln..................
Argenti  Nitras, ounce 
Arsenicum.................

“ 

Calcium Chlor, Is, ()4s 
11;  Ms,  12) ..............
Cantharides  Russian,
po ............................
Caps! ci  Frac tus, af...
tpo.

Carmine, No. 40.

Coccus  ......... .........
Cassia Fructus.........
Centrarla..................
Cetaceum.................
............
squlbbs. 
Chloral Hyd erst__

loroform 

“ 

Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  .....................
Creasotum...............
Creta,  (bbl. 75)...........
“  prep..................

Ether Sulph..............
Emery,  all  numbers. 
po.................

“ 

SPONOEB.

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

Gelatin .Cooper.

by box 60and 10 
Glue,  Brown......

Grana Paradisi...........
Humulus.................
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite.. 
“ 
“  Cor —
Ox Rubrum 
“ 
“  Ammonisti.

SYRUPS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................  50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri Iod.............................  50  Iodoform
Auranti  Cortes....................  50
Rhel Aram..........................  50
Similax  Officinalis..............  60 
Senega................................  50
Scillae..................................  50 
Tolutan...................  
50
Prunus  virg...........................  5®

-----  

11 

a 

“ 

_

 

co ........  50  Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-

„

co.............................   50  Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl

a

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

GROCERIES.
A  U niform   S u g a r  B arrel.

From  the M erchants’ Review.
Besides  the  objections  to the  present 
system of packing refined sugar in differ­
ent sized  barrels  that  we have  already 
enumerated,  such  as  the  inconvenience 
of  checking off  the marked  weights  on 
the barrels and adding up the totals,  and 
the impossibility  of the retailer  forming 
an accurate  idea of how  much  sugar  he 
will be able to get  out of the barrel—be­
cause when  each barrel  varies in size no 
check can be kept on the clerks in weigh­
ing it  out—besides  these objections  and 
others,  there is a  very material one from 
the  retailer’s  standpoint,  namely, 
the 
possibility of his  being shipped some ex­
tra large  barrels on  a  declining  market 
and  very  small  barrels  at  a  time when 
prices are  advancing.  We  have  known 
of  such  cases  happening  to  retailers. 
When sugar is ordered in ten barrel  lots, 
and  barrels vary as much  as 100  pounds 
in capacity,  as  they often  do vary,  there 
may  be a  difference of  1,000 pounds  be­
tween  the  quantity  the  person ordering 
expects to receive.  Now.  an  excess of a 
thousand  pounds on a  declining market, 
when  perfectly  unexpected  by  the  re­
tailer, is no joke, especially as the staple 
is  generally  retailed  at  an  inadequate 
profit,  anti  the  case  is  no  whit  better 
when there is  a deficiency of a  thousand 
pounds and the  market takes an  upward 
movement  by the  time  the  sugar is  de­
livered.  The  variation  in the  capacity 
of  sugar barrels  is  a  relic  of  antiquity 
that ought to  be immediately  done away 
with  if  there is a  spark of  enterprise in 
the  sugar  refining  industry. 
Flour  is 
sold without  tare,  why  not  sugar?  Re­
tailers are not bothered  by tares on pork, 
then  why  should  a  different  method of 
packing and  billing be  applied  to sugar, 
which  is the  chief staple  of the  grocery 
trade?  Consider the  loss  of  time in  the 
very  necessary  work  of  examining  the 
weight marks on sugar barrels,  the turn­
ing of  the  barrels  on  end  in  order that 
the  figures  may  be  read,  and  the  time 
spent in  comparing the  results with  the 
figures on the invoice,  all  of which could 
be  saved  if the refiners  would  adopt  a 
more  modern  and  businesslike  system. 
The  American  Sugar  Refineries  Com­
pany  has  earned  the  gratitude  of  the 
jobbers of this vicinity  by allowing them 
to get  a  chance  to  get  a  profit  on  the 
company’s product,  and  we  suggest that 
it go out  of its  way a trifle to  accommo­
date the retailers by giving them a stand­
ard  uniform  barrel.

8ta tu s   of th e   P eddling  Law .

Carson  Cit y ,  Sept.  18—In the last is­
sue of T h e T radesm an, I noticed a short 
sketch on the peddler and  huckster  nui­
sance.  Please publish  in the  next issue 
a full  outline on  the  matter,  so that  all 
may understand  it,  such  as the  amount 
of  license  fee  for  each  peddler—one 
horse  and  two  horses—whether  license 
shall  be  conspicuously displayed or  car­
ried  in  the pocket, and  what course  we 
can  take  to  suppress this  growing evil, 
for  it is nothing else.  The  peddlers are 
using up all the small towns in the coun­
try, for  the  farmers  will  buy  of  them, 
even if the  cost of  their  goods averages 
25 per  cent,  more  than  with  the  home 
dealers.  Please give  us a full history of 
the matter  as soon  as  possible and  you 
will confer a great favor on your patrons 
and  friends, for there  are a  good  many 
merchants,  like  myself,  who  have  been 
harassed badly  by  the nuisance for some 
time, and  we  all  know  that if  there  is 
any one who can do the subject justice— 
as he did to  the P.  of I.—it is the "editor 
of T h e Mich ig a n T radesm an.

A.  Conki.in.

E a rn e stn e ss  in  B usiness.

Business at the present day is conduct­
ed upon sharp competitive requirements. 
Its margins are  narrow;  therefore  its re­
turns  must be made  quickly and  often. 
To succeed  in trade, not only  must those 
who would  strive for her favors have the 
usual facilities,  such as capital,  location, 
knowledge of  the  markets  and wants of 
customers,  but  should  also  be  well  en­
dowed  with  a  lively  diligence  and  an 
These
almost  vehement  earnestness. 

three  must  abide,  but  the  greatest  of 
these is earnestness.  The  will has  been 
highly valued by many  in  placing an es­
timate  upon  business  character. 
It  is 
very good,  and  so are a number  of  other 
qualities that might  be mentioned.
But  the  grand  secret  of  all worldly 
success lies  in  earnestness.  Where this 
is wanting nothing else will avail.  When 
present,  it is the mainspring coiled  with­
in  every  other  qualification  and  giving 
them  direction  and  potency. 
It  is  a 
cardinal  principle  by  which  all  others 
are more or less effected.

The G rocery M arket.

Sugar is a trifle  firmer,  the  price hav­
ing advanced a fraction.  Coffee is weak­
er and  lower,  the  package  manufactu­
rers  having  declined  their quotations }£ 
cent.  The indications  are that the mar­
ket  will continue to  decline  evory  week 
for the next three or four months,  as the 
crop of  Rio coffee  is  reported  to be the 
largest ever known.

New figs will  be in market  ii  about  a 
week.  The  crop promises  to be  of good 
quality  and  in  ample  supply,  against  a 
light  crop  last  year.  New  Brazil  nuts 
are  now  in  and  new California  walnuts 
will arrive in a short time.

The  F ru it  J a r   M arket.

Prices  on  fruit  jars  have  been  very 
firm  to the  trade  this  week at  §13,  §14 
and §17  per gross  for  pints,  quarts  and 
half-gallons.  The  demand 
is  greater 
than at any  time  during the  season and 
the  Late  Crawford  and  Chilis  varieties 
of peaches are still  in market.

The  retail  prices in  the city  are §1.25 
per dozen  for  pints,  §1.50  per dozen  for 
quarts and §1.75 per  dozen  for  half-gal­
lons.

To  G rocers.

Orders for pickles  booked  before  Oct. 
10 will  be received on a basis of §4.50 for 
1,200 mediums.  Price  guaranteed  until 
Nov.  1.  Count  and  quality  guaranteed 
absolutely. 

W a lk e r & Son,

Box 456,  Grand Rapids.

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

C ro ck ery   & G la ssw a r e

LAMP  BURNERS.

6 doz. In box.

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

 
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No. 0 Sun.............  
j  75
No. 1  “  ..........................................................1  88
No. 2  “  ......................................................... 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top........................................2 25
No. 1  “ 
2 40
No. 2  “ 
3 40
No. 0 Sun, crimp top....................................... 2 60
No. 1  “ 
2 80
No. 2  “ 
3 86
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
No. 2  “ 
...................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4 70
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.........................1 25
No. 2  “ 
....................... 150
No. 1 crimp, per doz.........................................1 35
No. 2 
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La Bostic.

Pearl top.

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FRUIT JARS.

Mason’s or  Lightning.

Pints...............................................................13 00
Q uarts............................................................14 00
Half gallons....................................................17 00
Rubbers........................................................ 
55
Caps  only...............................................  
’  4  50
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal........................  
06
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Jugs, 14 gal., per doz...................................   75
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90
iso
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Milk Pans, 14 gal., per do*,  (glazed 75c)....  80 
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STONEWARE—AKRON.
3  to 6 gal................................   06 <4

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p r o d u c e:  m a r k e t .

at 17c.
awares and Catawbas, 4c. per lb.

Cooking are held at $1 per bbl.
mand at $2 per bu. for choice hand picked.
while  factory  creamery  has advanced to 24c.

Apples—Fancy  earing command  $1.50 per bbl. 
Beans—Dry beans are  firm  and  In  strong  de­
Butter—Choice  dairy now  commands  18@19c, 
Celery—20c per doz. bunches.
Cabbages—35@40c per doz.
Cucumbers—Pickling, I5@20c per 100.
Eggs—Dealers  pay  15c  and  freight,  holding 
Grapes—Worden’s command 3c; Niagaras Del­
Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb.
Onions—65c per bu. for good  stock.
Muskmelons—40c for common;  65c for Osage.
Peaches—The  hot  weather  of  the  past  week 
has brought in the crop like a flood.  Late Craw­
fords command $1.25, old Mixon’s $1 and Chillis 
75c.
Pears—Bartlett and  Flemish  Beauties  are  in 
good  demand  at  $1.50  $1.75  per  bu.;  common 
grades are about out of market.
Peppers—Green $1 per bushel.
Potatoes—Little doing at about  35(gi40e per bu.
»¿unices—$2 25 per bushel.
Tomatoes—The supply is almost  unprecedent­

ed, dealers pay 2tc and sell at 25c.

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as follows for dressed fowls
Spring  chickens...................................12  @13
Fall  chickens........................................  @10
Turkeys.................................................   @11
Spring ducks.................  ......................  @13
Fall  ducks............................................10  @11
Geese  ....................................................   ®

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess,  new....................................................   11  75
Short c u t.....................................................   13 ¿1
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  15 00
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat back..........................................15  0
Boston clear, short cut................................  ;s 00
Clear back, short cut...................................   15 00
Standard clear, short cut. best....   .........  
15 00

sau sa ge—Fresh and Smoked.

PorkSansage...................................................7
Ham Sausage.........................................  9
Tongue Sausage...................................   .....!  9
Frankfort  Sausage 
......................................   s
Blood Sausage...............................................’  5
Bologna, straight...................................5
Bologna,  thick.............................   ...  .......  5
Head Cheese..................................... 
5
l a r d —Kettle Rendered.

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LARD.

Tierces............................................................  gu
Tubs.................................................................  pu
501b.  Tins.......................................................   8)4
Com-
pound.
6)4
6<4
7)4

Family.
Tierces .............................
...6)4
0 and  50 lb. Tubs......................6?j
• • -6?i
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case.
...7)4
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case..
10 lb. Pails, 6 In a case...............714
-•-7)1
201b. Pails, 4 in a  case.
.. .7
50 lb. Cans....................
-..6S£
BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

6%
6)4
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs..................  
7 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.....................   7 50
Boneless, rump butts...................................   10 50
Hams, average 20 lbs.......................................  9^
16 lbs...................................... 10)4
12 to 14 lbs................................loij
picnic..................................................   8
best boneless......................................   914
Shoulders......................................................   7)4
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..............................1014
Dried beef, ham prices.................................. 10
Long Clears, heavy.........................................8
Briskets,  medium.  ............................ 

sm o ked  m ea ts—Canvassed or Plain.

  85%
lig h t................................................  8)4

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Swift and Company quote as follows:
“  hindquarters................................  5y$@  654
...............................  3  @  354
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loins, No. 3..................................  8)4®  9
rib s...........................................  7)4® 8
rounds........................................   5)4@ 6
tongues........................................   @
Bologna.................................................   @ 5
Pork loins........................................   ®io
“  shoulders 
Sausage, blood  or head.........................  @ 5
liver.........................................  @ 5
Frankfort................................  @7)4
Mutton...................................................6  @7
Veal.......................................................   6)4®  7

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FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows :

FRESH  FISH.

Whlteflsh.....................................
T rout...............................................
Halibut........................................
Ciscoes..................   ......................
Flounders..............  ...................
BlueSsh......................................
Mackerel......... t..........................
Cod..................................................
California salmon.........................
oysters—Cans.
Fairhaven  Counts.......................
F. J. D. Selects..........................
Selects .....................................
F  J. D.........................................
Anchor........................................
Standards  ..................................
Favorites..................................  .
SHELL  GOODS.

Oysters, per  100. 
Clama, 

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@ 8 @15 
@ 5 
© 9 
@10 @25 
@12 
@20

@40
@28
@30
@30
@25

1  25 
1  00

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

STICK  CANDY.
Full  Weight. 
Standard,  per  lb ......................................   6)4
............................. 6)4
11. H . .. .
Twist  .
......................................   6)4
Boston  Cream  ..
Cut  Loaf.............. ..................................7)4
Extra 11.  H .......... ..................................7)4

Bbls. Pails.
7)4
7)4
7/2
9)4
8)4
8)4

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Full Weight.

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

Palls.
7)4
7)4
8
8
SV4
8)4
8)4
8
8)4
9
10
10)4
13)4

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Full Weight.

 

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CARAMELS.

printed............................ 

Bbls.
Pails.
Lozenges, plain................................ 10)4
• 10)4
11)4
printed............................. 11
12)4
.11
Chocolate Drops.....................
12)4
14
Chocolate Monumentals.......
.  5
Gum Drops........................................ 5
6l/2
9
..  8
Moss Drops............................
9)4
Sour Drops........................................   8)4
■  8)4
Imperials...................................... .
11)4
-10)4
Per Box.
fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.
Lemon Drops...................................................55
Sour Drops...................................................... 55
Peppermint Drops............................................65
Chocolate Drops...............................................70
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................90
Gum Drops................................................40@50
Licorice Drops................................................1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops.......................................80
Lozenges, plain................................................ 65
70
Imperials..........................................................65
Mottoes............................................................ 75
Cream Bar........................................................60
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams......  ......................... 85@95
Plain Creams............................................. 80@9O
Decorated Creams......................................... 1 00
String  Rock.....................................................70
Burnt Almonds..............................................1 00
Wintergreen  Berries.......................................65
No.’ 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
51
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
28
No. 3, 
42
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes.....................................1 10
Sorrentos,  200......................................  
4 !
4 1
Imperials,  160.........  
......................... 
Messina, choice, 360.........................
@6 00 
fancy, 360.........................
@6  00
choice 300......................
fancy 300.........................
@5  50
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, Smyrna, new,  fancy  layers. ..
@1S 
@16 
@12)4 
@10 @ 8
@17 
@16)4 
@17 
@ 8 
@11)4 
@14)4 
@12 
@10 @14 
@10)4 
@17)4 
@4 25
@  5)4 
@  7)4 
@ 5)4 
@  7)4 
@ 4)4 
@ 6)4

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

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LEMONS.

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HIDES,  PELTS  and  FURS.

Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  follows:

HIDES.

 

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

11  cured......   ...................................   5  @ 5)4

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WOOL.

Shearlings................................................10 @25
Lambs......................................................20 @60
Washed.. 
  ............ ...................................20@30
Unwashed................................  
10@20
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tallow...................................................  3)4@  414
Grease  butter  .......................................  1  @ 2
Switches...............................................   i)4@  2
Ginseng..............................................  2 50@3 25

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PELTS.

OILS.

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows,  1 

barrels, f. o. b. Grand Rapids:
Water White.........................................   @  8)4
Special White........................................  @ 8)4
Michigan Test.......................................  @ 7v
Naptha......................................... .........  @7)4
Gasoline................................................   @ 8)4
Cylinder............................................... 27  @36
E ngine.................................................13  @21
Black,  Summer.....................................  @8

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1 8

Hummel’s, foil...................  1  50

t i n ....................  2 501 Cracked.
CHICORY.

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Red......................................  7
CLOTHES  LINES.
Cotton,  40 ft.........per doz.  1  25 j
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50 ft.........  
1  40
60 f t......... 
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70 ft.......... 
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80 ft.......... 
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60 ft.......... 
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72 f t '........ 
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CONDENSED MILK.
Eagle.................................   7  40
Crown........................  
6 50
Genuine  Swiss.... ................8 CO
American Swiss...................7 00

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APPLE  BUTTER.

Chicago  goods...........*....

7%@8

AXLE GREASE. 

F r a z e r ’s.

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D ia m o n d .

Wood boxes,  per doz  __

80 
Wood boxes, per  doz......
.  2 40 
3 doz. case.. 
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per gross  ... 
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25 lb. pails,.......................
75
15 lb.  “ 
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A u r o r a .
60
Wood boxes,  per  doz......
.  1  75
3 doz. case..
per  gross.....  6 00
50
3 doz. case. ..  1  50
per  gross.. ..  5 50
P e e r le s s .
90
25 lb. pails.................
BAKING  POWDER.
45
Acme, )* lb. cans, 3 doz  .
85
2  “  ..
1  “  .. ..  1 00
10
45
85
..  1  50
60
........... ..  120
........... ..  2 00
........... ..  9 60
40
Red Star, hL ft  cans........
80
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........ .  1  50

“  %lb.  “ 
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1 lb.  “
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“  % lb  “ 
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5 ft  “ 
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Telfer’s,  V lb. cans, doz

Arctic, 

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BROOMS.

BLUING. 

English.......................... ...  90
Bristol............................. ...  70
...  60
Domestic.......................
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals..............4 00
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“  pints,  round.......... 10 50
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
“  No. 3, 
...  4 00
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
“  1 oz ball  .................  4  50
No. 2 Hurl..........................   1  75
2 00
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet..................... ■  2 25
No. 1 
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Parlor Gem.........................2 75
Common Whisk................. 
90
Fancy 
.................  1 20
M ill...................................   3 25
Warehouse...........................2 75
BUCKWHEAT  FLOUR.
Rising Sun.........................5 00
York State..........................
Self Rising............................... 4 50
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes.............. 1054
Star,  40 
..............  1054
Paraffine............................   12
Wicking..............................  25

CANDLES
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Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

FISH.
Clams.
Little Neck, l i b ........................1 10
2 lb......................1 90
Standard, 3 lb...........................2 30
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
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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
.1  95 
Columbia River, flat—
.1  75 
tails......
.1  25 
Alaska, 1  lb....................
.1  95
21b......................
Sardines.
American  54s......................  5® 6
54s........................... 7® 8
Imported  54s.....................11®12
54s.....................13@14
Mustard
@10
Brook, 3 lb...................... ...2 50

Salmon.
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FRUITS.
Apples.

3 25

Gages. 

2 25
2 50
2 35
99
1  20
1  75
1  60
1  30

York State, gallons....
Hamburgh,  “  —
Apricots.
Santa  Cruz.................
Lusk’s.........................
Overland..................
Blackberries.
F. &  W.......................
Cherries.
Red.............................
Pitted Hamburg. 
..
W hite.........................
E rie............................
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green  age.
©1  GO
Erie .
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  10
P ie.............................1  60@1  75
Maxwell.................... 
2 25
Shepard’s ................... 
2 2>
California..................2 60@2  i5
Domestic....................
Riverside....................
Pineapples.
Com m o n ............................
Johnson's  sliced........
grated  ......
Quinces.
Common....................
Raspberries.
Red  ............................
Black  Hamburg.........
Erie, black.................

Peaches.

Pears.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

MEATS.

Beans.

Whortleberries.

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

“  % lb............
tongue, V4 lb .......
v  lb...  .
chicken, J4 lb......

“ 
VEGETABLES.
Hamburg  stringless 

.1   25
... 
. .2 25
French style..
..1  40
Limas  ...........
. 1  30
Lima, green....................
..  90
soaked.................
Lewis Boston  Baked......
. 1 3 5
Bay State  Baked...........
135
. .135
World’s  Fair..................
.1  25
Hamburgh  ..................
Tiger ...............................
...1  10
Purity 
............................
. .1  15
E rie................................
Peas
Hamburgh marrofat.............1 35
early June.........1 50
Champion Eng... 1  50
Hamburgh  petit  p o is..........1 75
fancy  sifted.........1 90
Soaked................................   65
Harris  standard.................   75
V an Camp’s Marrofat 
.1 10
Early June.........1 30
Archer’s  Early Blossom..  1  35
French.................................1 80
French.

Corn.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

 

Tomatoes.

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.

.1  30 
Hubbard
.1  40
Hamburg  ............ .
Soaked................................   oa
Honey  Dew..........................1  60
Van  Camp’s......................... 1  10
No. Collins...........................1  10
Hamburg............................ J 30
Hancock...................... 
Gallon.................................2 75
German Sweet................
Premium.........................
Pure.............................
Breakfast  Cocoa...........
Norway......................
N. Y. or Lenawee......
Allegan  ..................
Skim..........................8
Sap  Sago....................
E dam .......................
Swiss, imported  —
domestic  —
Limburger...................
Brick.............................
CHEWING  GUM.
...35
Rubber, 100 lumps.........
 
Spruce, 200 pieces................40
Snider’s, 54 pint..................1  35

34
38
40
©103£ 
@11 @1054 
@  9 
@22 ©1 00 
©  25 
@1354 
...  10 
1254

“  200 

CHEESE.

CATSUP.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

pint............................. 2 30
quart...........................3 50
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxes  .....................40
COCOA  SHELLS.
@4
Bulk............................
@7
Pound  packages

C O F F E E .

GREEN.
Rio.

Santos.

Fair.................................  ■ -2054
Good................................... 21
Prime..................................2114
Golden.................................32%
Peaberry  ........................... 23
Fair..................................... 20%
Good...................................21
Prime.................................. 21%
Peaberry  ............................2254
Fair......................................33
Good.................................... 23
Fancy...................................35

Mexican and Guatamala.

Maracaibo.

Java.

Mocha.

Interior............................... 26
Private Growth...................3«
Mandehling........................29
Imitation.............................25
Arabian............................... 3854
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb  for roast 
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 

r o a s t e d .

PACKAGE. 

M c L a u g h li n ’s  X X X X  
Durham............
Lion, 60 lb. case 
Lion, 100 lb. case.

22Ji 
...22%
...  23?4 
...  2324 
Cabinets con­
ta in  i n g  120 
one  p o u n d  
p’kages (sim­
ilar to accom­
panying 
ill­
u s tr a tio n )  
sold  at  case 
price,with an 
additional 
charge  of  90 
’cents for cab­
inet.

EXTRACT.

Valley City........................   75
Felix..................................   1  15

"Tradesman."
$ 1, per  hundred.........
...........
“ ’* 
#2, 
“ 
* 3, 
“ 
........
* 5, 
“ 
“ 
........
“  “
*10, 
*20, 
“  ""Superior.
*  1  per hundred.......
..........
* 2, 
“ “ 
......
* 5,  “ 
*10,  “ 
.......
*20,  “ 
.......

“ 
“ 
“ 

“Universal.”

*  l, per hundred..............*2 50
*  2 , 
..............................3  00

“  

......................... 6  00
*10,  “ 
...................  * 0®
*20,  “ 
Bulk orders for above coupon 
books are subject to the follow­
1 05
ing  discounts:
200 or over..............5 
500  “ 
............ 10
1000 
......................20
“  
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS.
[Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from *10  down.J
20 books.................
.................
50  “ 
.............
100  “ 
250  “ 
.................
.................
500  “ 
1000 
.....................
“  
CRACKERS.
Kenosha  Butter........
“ 
........
Seymour 
Butter.......................
“  family.............
“  biscuit......
w
Boston..........................
City Soda......................
Soda.............................
S. Oyster.....................
City Oyster. XXX.........
CREAM TARTAR,
Strictly  pure 
Telfer’s  Absolute...
Grocers’..................

DRIED  FRUITS 

Apples.

PEEL.

PRUNES.

146%
1312

California Evaporated.

Sundried....................  @  j
Evaporated................
Apricots......
Blackberries......
Nectarines.........
Peaches  .............
Pears,  sliced......
Plums.  ..............
Prunes,  sweet..  .
Turkey
Bosnia...
French..
Lemon...
Orange..
In drum.
In boxes.
Zante.in  barrels.......   @  5J*
@ 554 @ 6
“
1  75
2 00 
2 25 
1  50i  eo
6
@ 654
1

in  54-bbls........ 
in less quantity 
r a isin s —California 
London Layers, 2 cr’n 
" 
3  “
fancy.
“ 
Muscatels,2crown  ...

3  “
Foreign.
Valencias...................
Ondaras.....................
Sultanas.....................  

@  6%
@ 8
@  9
18
18
@24
@24

CURRANTS.

CITRON.

“ 
“ 

“ 

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Farina.
Hominy.

6
Macearon! and Vermicelli.

Lima  Beans.

109 lb. kegs...................
Barrels..............................
G rits.................................
Dried............
Domestic, 12 lb. box.
Imported......................
Pearl Barley.
Kegs.............................
Green,. bu....................
Split, bbl......................
German.......................
East India....................

Sago.

Peas.

•3?* @334
.1  10
.6  00

FISH—Salt. 

Bloaters.

“ 
“ 

Cod.

Yarmouth...............................   1 10
Whole............................  @6
Bricks...........................   754@854
Strips..............................754@8H
Halibut.
Smoked....................
1054
Herring.
Scaled.......................
24
Holland,  bbls...........
11  00
kegs............
2 75 
Round shore,  54 bbl..
1  50
“ 
54  bbl.
Mackerel.
No. 1, 54 bbls. 90 lbs...........  9 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...............   1  20
Family, 54 bbls., 100 lbs__   3  50
45
Fancy.......................  3 50@4 00
Russian,  kegs....................
No. 1, 54 bbls , 1001 bs.......... 5 00
No. 1, kits, lo lbs.................  80
No. 1, 54 bbls., lOOlbs...........7 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................1  00
Family, 54 bbls., 100 lbs  ...  2 75 
kits. 10  l b s ...........  50
Jennings’ D C.

“ 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Pollock.
Sardines.
Trout.

kits, 10  lbs........... 

Whitefish.

“ 

HERBS.

JELLIES.

1  25
1  50
2  003 00
4  '0
.5  50 
.3 00

2 oz folding box
“
3 oz 
1  00
.. .1  50
“ 
4 OZ 
“ 
■ •  2  00
6 oz 
5 oz 
.. .3  00
“ 
GUN  POWDER.
Kegs...........................
Half  kegs....... ..........
Sage............................
Hops...........................
Chicago  goods...........
LAMP WICKS.
30
No.  ... 
 
No. 1...................................  
40
No. 2...................................  
50
Pure.....................................  30
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  I®
Condensed, 2 doz.................1 25
No. 9  sulphur......................1  65
Anchor parlor......................1 70
No. 2 home  .........................1  10
Export  parlor...................... 4 25

MATCHES.

LICORICE.

LYE.

@3

 

MINCE  MEAT

per cent.

3 or 6 doz. in case  per doz

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house....................
Ordinary..........................
Prim e...............................
Fancy ...............................
Fair..................................
Good................................
Extra good.......................
Choice.............................
Fancy...............................

New Orleans.

One half barrels. 3c extra

OATMEAL.
Barrels 200.................
Half barrels 100...........
ROLLED  OATS.
Half  bbls 90..............
Barrels  180.................
PICKLES.
Medium.

19

@5 (0 
.@2 75
@2 75 
@5 00

Small.

.. .35 00 
Barrels, 1,200 count.  ..
...  3 00
Half  barrels, 600 count 
Barrels, 2.400 count  .........   7 00
4 00
'  “  
Half barrels, 1,200 count 
.1
Clay, No.  216.................
“  T. D. full count...........  75
Cob, No.  3...........................1 25

PIPES.

RICE.

Domestic.

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

“ 

Nutmegs, fancy...................80
“  No.  1.......................75
“  No. 2.......................65
Pepper, Singapore, black — 15 
“ 
“  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
“ 
80
Mace  Batavia__
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste..25
“  Trieste....................27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper. Singapore, black — 20
“  white......30
"  Cayenne..................25
 
30
Absolute” in Package
Î4S  Hs
Allspice.................. . 
84  1  55
............ ..  84  1  55
* innamou 
Cloves..................... ..  84  1  55
..  84  1 55
Ginger, Jam ............
84  1  55
“  Af...............
Mustard.................. ..  84  1  55
84  1  55
Pepper ....................
Sage......................... ..  84

Sage...................... 

SUGAR.
@5)4
Cut  Loaf.................
@5!*
Cubes.....................
Powdered...............
© 4?s
Granulated.
| Confectioners’ A
@4)4
@  i%
| Soft A  ....................
@4.3'
| White Extra  C.......
@4  18
|  Extra  C..................
@  4
c .............................
@ 3%
Yellow
j  Less than 100 lbs.  >4c advance

STARCH.
Corn.

 

 

“ 

“ 
“ 

SNUFF.

2l)-lb  boxes........................   6%
40-lb 
6%
Gloss.
1-lb packages  .....................   6
3-lb 
.......................  6
6-lb 
®%
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes...............  424
Barrels................................   454
Scotch, In  bladders............37
Maccaboy, in jars................35
French Rappee, in Jars......43
Boxes.................................. 55*
Kegs, English...................... 4%
Kegs................................ 
154
Granulated,  boxes.............   2
Mixed bird.................  454® 6
Caraway............................... 10
Canary................................  354
Hemp..................................  454
Anise....................................13
Rape...................................   6
Mustard..................................754

SAL  SODA.

SEEDS.

SODA.

SALT

Diamond Crystal.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Warsaw.

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.

100 3-lb. sacks....................*2 40
....................
60 5-lb 
“ 
2  15 2 00 
28 10-lb. sacks..................
2014-lb.  “ 
...................
1  50 
24 3-lb  cases.....................
50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags..
281b.  “ 
--
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.
281b.  “ 
“  ••
56 lb. dairy  bags...............
86 lb. dairy  bags...............
56 lb.  sacks.......................
Saginaw and Manistee 
Common Fine  per bbl......
Church’s, Arm & Hammer.
Dwight’sCow....................
Taylor’s.............................
DeLand’sCap  Sheaf.........
Golden Harvest 
SYRUPS.
Corn

90
554
.554.5«
-554
pure........................ 554

SALERATUS.

...........

“ 

Pure Cane.

...28
Half bbls......................... ...30
5
Amber....................... 33
Fancy drips............... 38 @30
SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps..............
I
Sugar  Creams. 
Frosted Creams... 
Graham Crackers. 
Oatmeal Crackers.
TEAS.

ja p a n —Regular.

1  75

ROOT BEER.

SUN CURED.

Imported.

25 cent size
ä

Broken...............................
Japan, No. 1.........................j>%
554
“  No. 2....................
Java................................
5
Patna...............................
Williams’ Extract.
z

F air............................  @17
Good.... .....................   ©20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest...................... 32  @34
D ust............................10  @12
F air............................  @17
Good..........................  @2c
:::::::.......... *5 001 choice......................24  @26
Choicest.....................32  @34
SAPOLIO.
Dust........................... 10  @12
Kitchen,3 doz.  Inbox 
BASKET  FIRED.
“
Hand 
F air............................ 18
@20
Choice........................
@26
so u p s.
Snider’s  Tomato...
@35
Choicest.....................
@40
Extra choice, wireleaf
SPICES.
GUNPOWDER.
Whole Sifted.
Common to  fa ir.............25  @35
.......10
Allspice.....................
Extra fine to finest— 50  @65
Cassia, China in mats........  7!
Choicest fan cy ...............75  @85
Batavia in bund — 15
Saigon in rolls........35
, Common to  fair........ 23  @26
............... Superior to  fine.................. 28  @30
Zanzibar..................-d  * Fine to choicest.......... 45  @55

Cloves,  Amboyna
Mace  Batavia..................... 80

2 50 
2 50
! 65

OOLONG.

3  “ 

“ 
“ 

IMPERIAL.

YOUNG HYSON.

Common to  fair...........23  @26
Superior to fine..............30  @35
Common to  fair...........18  @26
Superior to  fine...........30  @40
F a ir................................ 18  @22
Choice............................24  @28
B est................................40  @50

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

“ 

“ 

Plug.

Pails unless otherwise noted.
Hiawatha  ..................  
60
Sweet  Cuba  ............ 
34
24
McGinty.  ................... 
22
54 b b ls ......... 
Little  Darling............ 
22
54 bbl.. 
20
1791..............................  
20
19  *
1891,  54  bbls................. 
Valley  City................. 
33
27
Dandy Jim ..................  
38
Searhead...................... 
J o k e r.........................  
34
Zero..............................  
22
L. & W .........................  
3 .
Here  It Is.................... 
28
Old Style...................... 
31
4 >
Old  Honesty...............  
Jolly Tar...................... 
33
Hiawatha..................... 
37
Valley C ity................. 
34
Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good  .....................38
Toss Up......................................26
Out of Sight..............................25
Boss.......................................  1254
Colonel’s Choice................... 13
W arpath.................................14
B anner...................................14
King Bee.................................20
Kiln  Dried..............................17
Nigger  Head..........................23
Honey  Dew........................... 34
Gold  Block............................28
Peerless...............  
24
 
Rob  Roy......................  
24
Uncle  Sam............................. 28
Tom and Jerry.......................2>
Brier Pipe...............................30
Yum  Yum ............................. 32
Red Clover............................. 32
N av y ...................................32
Handmade............................. 40
F ro g ....................................... 33
40 g r........................................   3
50  gr........................................

Smoking.

VINEGAR.

 

II for barrel.
WET  MUSTARD.

Bulk, per gal  ....................  
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75 
trast—Compressed. 
Fleischman, per doz. cakes  .  15
per lb  ..................30
“ 
Ferineutum  per doz. cakes  .  15 
“ 
per lb’  .................3j

PAPER.

P A P E R  A W OODEN W ARP 
Straw 
.................................... 154
Kockf a lls.................................2
Rag sugar................................ 2
H ardw are................................ 254
B akers......................................254
Dry  Goods....................   554@6
Jute  M anilla..  ............   @654
Red  Express  No. 1..............  554
No. 2................454

“ 

TWINES.

I 

“ 

" 

I  Baskets, market................... 

WOODENWABE.

“ 
splint
“ 

48 Cotton..............................   22
Cotton, No.  1..........................20
“  2..........................18
Sea  Island, assorted..........   35
No. 5 H em p............................15
No. 6  “ .................................... 15
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 76
“ 
35
shipping  bushel..  1 20
“ 
“ 
..  1 30
full  hoop  “ 
bushel....................  1  50
“ 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l  5 75
“  No.2 6 25
“ 
N0.8 7  25 
No.l  3 50 
No.2 4 25 
“  No.3 5 00
GRAINS and FEED STU FF»
90
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 1  Red  (60 lb. test) 
90
Bolted.................................   1  75
Granulated.........................   2 00
Straight, in sacks..............  5  10
“  barrels............   5  30
“ 
Patent 
“  sacks..............  6  10
“  barrels............   6  30
“ 
Graham  "  sacks............  2 45
Rye 
“ 
............   2 75
MILLSTUFFS.
Bran.......... ..........................  15 00
Screenings.........................  12  00
|  Middlings...........................  20 00
1 Mixed Feed.................-•...  25 00
!  Coarse meal.......................   25  00
Car  lots..................................  64
Less than  car  lots.......... . 
66
Car  lo t s ................................  33
Less than car lots.................  37
HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots — 13 00 
I No. 1 
ton lo ts ........14  00

WHEAT.

FLOUR.

MEAL.

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

“ 

1 4

THE!  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E SM A N .

Voigt, Qemolsbeier & Go.,

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

f

DRY GOODS,

NOTIONS,

CARPETS,

CURTAINS.

Manufacturers of

Sliirts.  Pants,  Overalls.  Etc.

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

48,  SO and 52 Ottawa St.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

LIFE  BEHIND  THE  COUNTER.

W ritten   fo r  Th e  Tr a d esm a n

Probably  no  one  reform  which  could 
possibly  be  brought about  for  the  bet­
terment of life behind the counter would 
be  as  effective in producing  the  desired 
results  as  a  change  from  the  credit  to 
the  cash  system.  Xo  one  innovation 
would  furnish  so  great  a sum  of  solid 
satisfaction  as  this.  No  other  possible 
reform would  lift so many burdens from 
the  shoulders, or  remove so much worry 
and fretting from the minds of those who 
live behind the counter as the one  under 
discussion. 
In  fast,  the  retailer,  and 
more  especially  the  grocer,  will  never 
be  able to completely escape  the  fright­
ful,  nocturnal  visitations  of  that  infer­
nal  quadruped  known  as the  nightmare; 
nor will  he  ever  be  able  to  sleep  the 
sound  and  peaceful  sleep of  virtue and 
perfect security  until  “tick” shall  be no 
more  and  the  “click” of  the  key,  as  it 
closes  the  business of  the day,  shall  in­
dicate that bis capital is all safely locked 
within  and  that  the  day’s  business  did 
not  consist of  scattering  it  to  the  four 
winds  of  heaven,  but  of  keeping  it  “in 
baud” and  “in sight,” and  in exchanging 
one commodity for another—merchandise 
for cash  or  its equivalent and cash or its 
equivalent tor merchandise,  For further 
thought  in  this  direction,  the  reader  is 
referred  to  an  article  in  this  week’s 
T r a d e s m a n ,  entitled  “ Will  the  credit 
system  always  prevail?” 
If  we  cannot 
extricate  ourselves  from  this  old  mael­
strom  of  credit,  what  is  the  next  best 
thing to do? 
If  we must  extend credits, 
is  there  not  some  way  of  systemiziug 
them,  whereby  the  element  of  uncer­
tainty  may  be  largely removed  and  the 
numerous  petty  annoyances  greatly  re­
duced?  We think  there  is,  and  it is not 
a  new-fangled,  visionary scheme  either. 
We  refer  to  the  coupon  book  system, 
which is being used all over the country, 
and  the  writer,  in  his  travels,  has  not 
met a single  person  who  has  given  the 
coupons  a  trial  w'lio  does not  speak  in 
terms of the highest praise of the system. 
Every dealer  interviewed  by the  writer, 
without  one  single  exception,  is  doing 
his level  best to advance and enlarge the 
system in his business.  There  are, how­
ever,  a  great  mai.y  difficulties  in  the 
way,  many of  which,  seemingly, cannot 
be  overcome,  except  by  an  organized, 
combined  effort  of  some  kind.  For  in­
stance,  an occasional  dealer reports  that 
he  has  not  succeeded  in  covering  his 
entire credits  with  the coupon book  sys­
tem,  because some  customers are so con­
servative  that they cannot be coaxed out 
of  the old  rut  and an attempt  to  coerce 
them would  result in losing their custom. 
If  they  cannot  have  their  every whim 
gratified,  they will  kick  over  the  traces 
and  go  elsewhere  and  find  some dealer 
who  will  cater to their  own  notions  of 
doing business.  An organized, combined 
effort  is  probably  the  only remedy that 
will  overcome this difficulty and  make it 
possible  for  the  dealer  to  confine  his 
credit business exclusively to the coupon 
book system.  Some customers  object to 
the coupons on account of  sending small 
children  to  the  store.  They are  afraid 
the  children  would  destroy or  lose  the 
books  and  then  they  would  be  out  for 
the  unused  portion,  whatever  it  might 
be.  Others  object  because  they  think 
it gives the dealer  too  much of  a chance 
to beat  them.  T-hey say  he can  tear  off 
as many coupons  as he  pleases and  they 
have no itemized account of the purchase,

showing  price and  quantity,  thereby  en­
abling them  to  know whether  the dealer 
has  robbed  them  or  not.  Then, again, 
others  object because they are afraid the 
merchant  might  fail  and the  little  note 
which was given for the book might pass 
over into  an  assignee’s hands before the 
coupons  were traded  out.  So we  might 
go  on,  cm2  nauseam,  in  enumerating one 
thousand  and  one  little 
trumped-up, 
frivolous excuses  for  not  wishing to ex­
change the hateful old  pass book  for the 
coupon  book. 
It is strange,  indeed,  that 
any  intelligent  man or woman  could  be 
found on the  face of  the earth so unrea­
sonable  as  to  coolly and  wilfully refuse 
to  grant a favor to the  person who  sup­
plies  them with  food  and  other  neces­
saries of  life and  gives them  their  own 
good  time,  pleasure  and  convenience  to 
pay  for  it, especially when the  solicited 
favor  costs  them  nothing  in  effort  or 
value,  but,  on  the  contrary,  is  actually 
beneficial  to themselves  and would  put, 
or  at  least  keep,  money  in  their  own 
pockets.

The cash  system is the  only true,  safe 
basis  upon  which  to  transact  business. 
This proposition is agreed  to by business 
men  everywhere  and  the  only  persons 
who take exception are certain consumers 
who  imagine  it  would  be  impossible to 
adopt  it  and that  an  attempt  to  do  so 
would  result  in  hardship  and  suffering 
for the masses and, finally, end in failure. 
The  writer  does  not  believe  this,  for 
reasons given  in  the  article referred to; 
but,  granting  for  the  purposes of  this 
article  that  such  would be the case  and 
that  it would  be  impossible  to  conduct 
the  retail  business of  the country  on  a 
strict cash basis,  what good, valid reason 
can  any  consumer  give why the  coupon 
book should  not  be  introduced,  adopted 
and  put in  universal use wherever credit 
is solicited  and  granted?  We  verily  be­
lieve  that  no such  reason can  be  given, 
and  we  believe,  furthermore,  that  the 
most  fastidious customer  would  remove 
even  his  trumped-up,  frivilous  excuse 
and  apologize for  having ever  made it if 
he would but seriously look into the mat­
ter  and  weigh  up  the  advantages which 
would  surely recur,  not only to the bene­
fit of  the  dealer  but to himself  as  well. 
The  writer’s experience  with  the  credit 
business has  been long and  varied and  it 
has  left  such a strong  impression on his 
mind  that,  should he again  take up  with 
a life  behind  the counter, not  one dollar 
of  credit  would  he give  except  on  the 
strength of  a coupon book, either sold to 
a responsible  party  or  payment thereof 
guaranteed  by a responsible  person. 
I 
would fill out  the blank  note attached to 
the book,  and I would  call it a note, too. 
I would  give  my customer  his own  time 
for  payment,  without  interest,  and  he 
would sign that  note,  and,  if  not respon­
sible, some friend who was would endorse 
it,  or  the  goods  would  remain  on  my 
shelves.

When 1 think of the fortunes that have 
been  wasted,  the hearts  that  have  been 
broken,  the  homes that  have been  blast­
ed and  made  desolate,  the energies  that 
have been  crippled and the noble aspira­
tions  that  have  been  nipped in the  bud 
by  this whirlpool of  credit, it makes  me 
long to take  my place once more  behind 
I the  counter, just  for  the grim  satisfac­
tion  of  frightening  into a convulsive  fit 
I the  first  unlucky  individual  who  asked 
| for credit,  by screaming  NO  into his ear 
I with such thunderous  force that  the  cat 
I in the  back  room  would  turn  itself  in­

side out  in an effort  to  turn a back sum­
mersault,  and  die.  Talk  about  the  de­
structive work of intemperance!  If  you 
would  take a walk with  me  through the 
ruins of  the dead past  and see the farms 
and  mills and  factories and  strong  men 
and  happy  families  that  this  accursed 
credit  system  has  sucked  into its capa­
cious  maw,  you  would  agree  with  me 
that  intemperance is not  the only demon 
that ought to be banished  from the  face 
of the earth. 

E.  A.  Ow en.

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on the  window,  allowed  to dry, and then 
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—we  can only conjecture—and hence we 
find it  impossible to  arrive at  any  defi­
nite  understanding of  the true  financial 
status.  Whether the business concern is 
prosperous,  solvent  or  insolvent,  de­
pends altogether upon  certain  unknown 
quantities,  which  are  left  for time  and 
circumstances to develop. 
It  is  a  vain 
question to  ask any retail  merchant who 
is  doing  an  extensive  credit  business 
whether he  is making  money  or not, be­
cause,  poor  fellow,  he  does  not  know.
He  cannot  tell  what  proportion  of  his 
accounts  will he fully realized upon and, 
because  he  cannot  tell  what  his  losses 
will  be,  he is,  therefore, not in a position 
to know whether he is making any money 
or  not. 
I never see a  grocer engaged in 
a  credit  business  but  what' I  think  of 
Josh  Billings’ advice  to  the young  man 
who was going to get  married,  "Shut up 
both  eyes,  grab  hard  and  trust  in  the 
Lord.”  The  adoption  of  the  cash  sys­
tem would  not only  benefit the  retailer, 
but it would  he a  God-send to  the custo­
mer as  well.  With  the  dollar  in hand, 
he would  be  able to obtain  his  supplies 
at a cheaper rate,  and  at the  same  time 
he would not buy so much.  All that the 
working man would  have to do,  in order 
to tune  himself up  to the  new order  of 
things, would be to put  forth a little ex­
tra effort  and  get  ahead  two  weeks  or 
two months,  as  the case  may be,  so  that 
he could  settle up  for  the  week  or  the 
month for which he  is  invariably in  ar­
rears,  and also  have the  wherewithal  to 
carry him over the  next week or  month, 
or  until  next  pay day.  He  would  not 
only  buy  less,  and  buy  cheaper,  but  he 
would  no  longer  be  unjustly  taxed  to 
help  make  up losses  occasioned  by oth­
ers.  He  would  not  only  be enabled  to 
feed and clothe  his own children for less 
money,  but  he would no  longer be  com­
pelled  to help  feed and  clothe other peo­
ple’s  children,  as 
is  the  case  under 
the  credit  system. 
The  poor  man 
who  has  neither  the  money  nor  any 
means of obtaining it, would be benefited, 
also,  for he  would  be  taken  care of  by 
the  community at  large,  and  the  grocer 
would no longer be wheedled into giving 
credit by working on his sympathies and 
taking  advantage  of  the  tender side  of 
his manhood.

To donate  $5,  freely and  spontaneous­
ly,  is noble,  life-sustaining  and  soul-ex­
panding;  but 
to  be  beaten  out  of  5 
cents is  withering,  damnable  and  unen­
durable.  ■

Credit and loss are inseperable.  There 
can  be no  extending  of  credit,  however 
limited  or  carefully  guarded, but  what 
there  will  be a  corresponding  loss to  a 
greater or lesser  extent.  Will the credit 
system  always  prevail or will the  retail 
merchant  combine to end it  at once  and 
forever? 

E.  A.  Owes.

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Tons of  matter have  been written  and 
published  showing  up  the  evils of  the 
credit system and setting forth the mani­
fold  advantages  which the  adoption  of 
the  cash  system  would  make  possible. 
Advocates of the  ready-pay or cash  sys­
tem  are  like the  advocates  of  temper­
ance,  inasmuch  as  they have it  all their 
own way.  Their propositions are granted 
and their  arguments  are  incontroverta- 
ble.  Credit  versus  Cash  is  no  longer 
even  a  debatable  question, for  no  one 
can  be  found  who  will  undertake  to 
challenge  the  statements  made  by  the 
advocates  of the  cash  system.  Does  it 
not seem strange  that'a  system of doing 
business  should  prevail and be  adopted 
and  practiced  by  the  entire  business 
community,  and  yet  be  so  exceedingly 
unpopular  that not  a  friendly voice  can 
he heard in its behalf or one word vouch­
safed in  its  defense?  No  business man 
can be  found who  will  seriously  under­
take to even apologize for  the credit sys­
tem  of doing  business,  let it  be  applied 
ever so lightly  or practiced  ever so care­
fully.  Still  this old  system,  which  has 
brought grief and ruin to so many homes; 
this system which  breeds idleness,  false­
hood,  trickery, duplicity  and disappoint­
ments; this  hated old  system which  has 
not a  single  friend in  the  world, is  the 
system  by  which  the  business  of  the 
community is transacted.  Will  this sys­
tem  always  prevail? 
It  will  until  the 
retailers of  the country put  their  shoul­
ders  to the  wheel and  speak out as one 
man  with  one  voice  and  declare  that 
“tick” shall be no more and  that  hence­
forth “merchandise”  and  “cash” are  the 
only convertable  terms  known  and  rec­
ognized by the mercantile fraternity.  An 
“ukase” of  this  nature  would  give  the 
credit system a death  blow and usher  in 
the  long-looked-for  commercial  millen- 
ium,  when the grocer and his brother re­
tailer  will be  able  to lie  down together 
and sleep  the sleep  that knows  no wak­
ing until the  roosters crow in  the morn­
ing.  Then will every  man get just what 
he  pays  for,  and  pay  for just  what  he 
gets  and  not  be  compelled  to  pay  for 
what others get,  as  is the case under  the 
present  unjust  system.  Then,  and  not 
till then,  will  the  grocer be able to man­
age and control his own business and op­
erate with an intelligent  get-at-able idea 
as to what he is doing.  No man on earth 
doing  a credit  business knows what  his 
financial  standing  or  condition  is.  He 
may  have merchandise  upon his  shelves 
amounting  to $8,000,  and  his bank  book 
may  show  a  balance  in  his  favor  of 
$3,000. 
If this were  all,  there would  be 
no difficulty in  finding a  financial status, 
because cash  (thanks  to a  wise  national 
financial  policy)  and  merchandise  in 
stock are  species  of  tangible  property, 
possessing intrinsic value and  represent 
so much  realizable capital  in hand;  but 
a third  element of  resource presents  it­
self  in  the  shape of  personal  accounts 
which  call  for  $2,000.  This  resource 
does  not  possess  intrinsic  value,  is  in­
tangible and is  realizable capital only to 
a  certain  unknown  extent.  We  know 
that  a  certain  proportion  of  it  can  be 
converted into intrinsic value on demand; 
that  another certain  proportion  of it  is 
hazy,doubtful and uncertain;aud we know 
that  still  another  certain  proportion of 
this  so-called  resource is  not worth  the 
paper  it  is  written  upon.  What  it  is 
worth as  capital in hand  no man  knows

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Tw o  P rom ising  In d u stries.

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Ledge Sewer  Pipe Co.  is so well satisfied 
over  the  custom it has  received  in  the 
drain tile  line that it will  introduce  the 
manufacture of  sewer pipe  another  sea­
son.
The Grand Ledge  Canning Co.  has  put 
up  large  quantities of  peas,  beans, corn 
and  tomatoes and is still at  work  on the 
last  two  articles.  The outlook  for  the 
initial season’s business is certainly very 
flattering.

Marquette—John  C.  Brown,  the  Sagi­
naw jobber,  has begun operations on the 
Peshekemie river, putting in three camps 
there last week.

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every merchant handling this line of goods 
to examine onr samples.

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

ARGENTINE  REPUBLIC.

C ause  of th e   F inancial  C rash   in  th a t 

C ountry.

At 

first 

rife. 

B u e n o s  A y r e s,  July 23—The financial 
troubles of  the Argentine Republic have 
for some time  been a topic of leading in­
terest to the financiers of the  world,  and 
the fiuctuating but always high premium 
on gold  is quoted daily.  Seldom  indeed 
has any comparatively  new and growing 
country been  in such a  desperate  plight 
as this.  The curious feature of it is that j 
the  distress was  not  brought  about  by 
an exhausting war  or by any general na-1 
tioual  calamity. 
It  all  came  from  the ! 
reckless extravagance of  a  single  city— j 
Buenos  Ayres—and 
that  extravagance, I 
in  turn,  was prompted  not by mere wan- j 
tonuess,  but  by  a mistaken  idea of  pro­
gress.  The  city  was  merely  trying  to ! 
provide for a future growth that was not I 
to come  so soon  as the  rulers  imagined. 
It is the story of a collapsed  “boom.”
Ten years  ago  this  city  had  about  a ! 
quarter of a  million inhabitants. 
It had 
recovered  from  the bad  times that  had ; 
followed the  revolution of 1874.  and was ! 
growing steadily and  substantially.  All 
its  public affairs  and  private industries 
were  on  a  sound  and  healthful  basis. 
Credit was good,  business was good.  B u t! 
this  admirable  state  of affairs  unfortu- j 
uately tempted people to try  to  improve 
upon it.  They were  not  coutent to  “le t! 
well  enough  alone.”  Speculation  be- j 
came 
it  was  suc­
cessful.  Fortunes  were  made on  every ! 
hand.  Strangers  began  flocking  hither 
from  all  parts  of  the  world  and  thou- j 
sands of  people flocked  to Buenos Ayres 
from  other  parts of  the  republic.  “Go j 
to Buenos  Ayres  and get  rich,” was  the I 
cry every where.  The  result was  a  so rt! 
of a  mushroom  growth  of the  city. 
In 
1889 there were more than 550.000 people 
in the city.  In seven years its population | 
had more than doubled.  And the author­
ities  were  foolish  enough  or  careless 
enough to  act as though  this was an  as­
sured,  permanent  increase,  and they  en­
tered upon  public  works and the  spend­
ing of public money accordingly.
The prices of real estate rose  to  fabu­
lous sums.  Lots  sold for  higher  prices 
in  Buenos Ayres  than they  ever brought 
in  New York  or  Chicago,  and estimates 
were based on these abnormal prices. The 
municipal  government  bought  land  at 
such  figures  for new  streets and  parks. 
Expenses  were based  on the  supposition 
that  such* values  would  be permanent. 
More  than  that,  they  actually  reckoned 
that  the city  would keep on  indefinitely 
growing at that  pace,  doubling its popu­
lation every six or seven years.  So huge 
debts  were  contracted. 
In  1884  there 
was  a loan  of  84,000,000, on  which  the 
yearly  interest is  §332,700.  Two  years 
later  there  was  a  loan  of  §10.000,000, 
with §700.000  j early interest. 
In  1888 a 
third loan of  §10,000.000 was contracted, 
with  yearly  interest of  §550,000.  and  a 
fourth of  §10,000,000 in  1890,  with §*>00,- 
000 interest.  At the same time a floating 
debt of about §13,000,000 has been  incur­
red.  Besides  all  this,  there was year af­
ter  year a  deficit,  so  that  about 82,000,- 
000  more is  due  for  unpaid salaries  and 
other accounts.
A  crash had  to  come.  When  it  came 
the vast  schenle of  public  improvement 
was not half executed,  and the works to­
day lie in an unfinished state,  so that the 
public  gets no  benefit from the  millions 
that have been  spent.  There are  splen­
did  avenues  only  partly  opened.  The 
government  has  no  money  to  buy  the 
rest of the  land needed,  and  the  owners 
will  not  sell  without  the  ready  cash.  { 
Other streets are  half paved  with expen- 
sive wood  pavements.  But  there  is  no 
money  to  finish 
the  work,  and  so  the 
streets are impassable,  and the pavement 
already  laid  is going to ruin.  Moreover, 
as soon  as it  was  seen  that  the “boom” 
was beginning to  subside the  multitude 
of  fortunt-seekers fled  like  rats from  a 
sinking  ship.  The  population  is  now 
100,009 less  than  it  was a year  ago,  anti 
at the present  rate of  diminution it  will 
be decieased  more by  50.000  by  the end ! 
of  the year.
All  this would  have  been  bad  enough 
had the effects been confined  to this city.  I 
But  they  were  not.  The  disaster  was 
felt in every province and every town  in

the  whole  republic.  Trade  was  almost 
paralyzed.  Business came to a standstill. 
In Rosario,  Corduba,  Santa  Fe,  Mendoza 
j and elsewhere the  distress was  as great, 
j almost,  as in Buenos Ayres itself.  They 
j had been  doing business  on the  basis of 
| its  business.  When 
its^business  was 
[ brought  to a  standstill  theirs  was  like­
wise.  Moreover, they had caught the in­
fection  of  speculation,  and had been  de­
veloping  themselves  too  rapidly.  The 
result was ruin.  And  to-day  in  every 
large  provincial town there are  rows  of 
empty  houses,  which  were  built  in  the 
the days  of  speculation  for  prospective 
tenants that have never  come to them.
A  remarkable  illustration  of  the  par­
alysis  of  business  is  to be  seen on  the 
Uruguay River.  There  is a  fine line  of 
steamers  connecting  this  city  with  the 
province of  Entre Rios.  Two years  ago 
it was  doing a  splendid  business.  The 
boats were crowded with  passengers  and 
loaded  with freight on  every  trip.  One 
had to secure his  berth a week or two in 
advance.  But now it  is unusual for one 
of the boats to have more than  fifteen  or 
tweuty passengers, or more  than enough 
freight  for  ballast.  The  company  has 
gone into liquidation.  It is so everywhere. 
The  provincial  banks  have  gone 
to 
smash.  The  railroads  are  not  paying 
expenses.  Manufactures  are  largely  at 
a standstill.  The  army  of  men  out  of 
work is enormous.
It is to be  observed,  however,  that the 
farmers are  suffering  less  than  any one 
else. 
Indeed,  the  financial  depression 
has been in  many respects  a good  thing 
for them.  The  price of  land  has  gone 
down,  so that they have  been enabled  to 
enlarge  the area  of their  farms by  pur­
chase.  Sugar plantations and vineyards, 
especially,  have  been greatly  extended. 
Farm labor, too,  has become cheaper, be­
cause  of  the  many  men  thrown  out  of 
work  by the  stoppage of government en­
terprises.  Wages  are  probably  lower 
here now than in any  other American  or 
European country.  And  the farmer has 
another  great  advantage.  He  gets  for 
many  of  his  products—for  wool,  and 
hides,  and  sugar—not  the  depreciated 
| currency,  but gold.
In this  latter fact  is  really  the  most 
deplorable  feature  of  the  whole  situa- 
I tion. For it evidently is now to the farmers’ 
interest to have the present financial con­
dition continue.  A lowering of the pre- 
I mium on gold  would meaH a  loss  to  the 
| farmer.  So  the  abnormal  spectacle  is 
| presented of  the very class  who are  the 
| bone  and sinew  of the  nation  being  op­
posed, through  personal  interest,  to  any 
j measure  looking  to  an amelioration  of 
the troubles with which  the government 
is contending.  How the problem is to be 
settled is difficult to imagine.  Any  sud­
den and radical stroke would probably do 
| more  harm  than  good.  Gradually,  if 
left  to  themselves,  matters  will  adjust 
I themselves, so far as  the internal econo­
my of the  nation is concerned.  But  the 
trouble is that the claims of foreign cred­
itors will keep on  augmenting at a terri­
ble rate, so that it  will be impossible for 
them  ever to  be met  in full. 
In  what­
ever  light one  views  it,  the  situation  is 
extremely difficult and menacing.
Use Tradesman Coupon  Ttooks.

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SINGLE  ENTRY  LEDGER.

J u s t th e  T h in g  for R e ta il B usiness.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Michigan(Tentral

“  The Niagara Falls Route.”

DEPART.  ARRIVE

D etroit Express....................................6:30 a m   10:00 p m
Mixed  ...................................................6:40 a m   4:30  pm
Day  Express........................................  1:20 p m   10:00 a m
"Atlantic & Pacific Express..............11:16 p m  
6:00 a m
New York Express...............................5:40 p m   12:40 p m

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

"Daily.
All o ther daily except Sunday.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  A tlantic  and  Pacific  Express 
P arlor cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand Rapid 
Fred M. B r ig g s, Gen’l Agent, 85 Monroe St.
G. 8. Hawkins, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Geo. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. 
O. W. Rugglbs.G. P.  &  T. Agent., Chicago.

0 5 0 8 1 1
SRAM HAVEN
M ilwaukee

railway'

Trains Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St.  Johns  ...Ar
Owosso  __ Ar
E. Saginaw..Ar
Bay City  __Ar
F lin t...... ... Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit.........Ar

TIME  TABLE

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

EASTW ARD.

3 45pm
4 52pm

tNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 »No.  28
6 50am
10 55pm 
12 37am 
7 45am8 28am
1 55am 
3 15am
9 15am 
11 05am 
11 55am 
1110am
3 05pm
10 57am
11 5  am
W ESTW ARD.

11 20am
11  25am
12 17am 
1 20pm 
3 10pm 
3 45pm 
3 40pm 
6 00pm
3 05pm
4 05pm

5 40pm6 40pm8 45pm
9 35pm 
8 00pm
10 30pm8 55pm
9 50pm

5 40am 
7 35am 
5 50am 
1  0am

Trains Leave
G’d Rapids,  Lv 
G’d Haven,  Ar 
Milw’kee Str  “ 
Chicago Str.  “

»No. 81 tNo. 11 itNo. 13 jtNo. 15
7 05am
5  10pm 10 30pm
8 50am
6 15pm 11 30pm 
6 45am  6 45am 
6 00am|...........

1  00pm
2  15pm

»Daily. 

tDaily except Sunday.

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

CHICAGO 

23 Monroe Street.
iErT-I'*"-
&  WEST  MICHIGAN  RY.

P.M .

DEPART  FOR

j  A. M. P .  M.  I  P . M.
Chicago.............. __ jt 9:00 tl:05 »11:35
Indianapolis__ ...  ¡t 9:00 tl:0s| 811:35
Benton Harbor...
....it  9:00 tl:05.*11:35
St. Joseph__
......t  9:00 tl:05 *11:35
Traverse  City__ ....  t7:25 t5:17........
Muskegon........... __ 1  t9:00 tl:05|t  5:30 t8:30
Manistee  ........... __ I  t7:25
Ludington.........
....  t7:25 t5:17........
Big  Rapids......... ■ ■ -  I  t7:25 t5:17|......
t Week Days.  »Daily.  § Except Saturday.
9 . A A   A. M. has through chair car to Chica- 
• W   go.  No extra charge for seats.
1 
K  P.M.  runs  through to Chicago  solid 
l  
' '   with Wagner buffet car;  sea s  50 cts.
5.1  n   P. M. has  through tree  chair  car  to 
• -L *  Manistee,  via M.  & N. E. It. R.
t 1 
p- M- is solid  train  with Wagner pal-
ace sleeping  car  through to Chicago.
I  1 
and sleeper  to  Indianapolis via Ben­
ton Harbor.

DETROIT, 

JPN* ”'

Lansing & Northern R R

DEPART  FOR

A  M.

P.'M .

P .  M.

Detroit...................................
Lansing................................
l l o w e l i ........................................................
Lowell.......................
Alma...................
St.  Louis  ...........
Saginaw  City.......................

t l  :U0
t l  :00
t l  :00

t 6 :5 0
* 6 :2 5
t 6 :5 0
*6 :2 5
+6 :5 0
t 0 :5U t l  ïtO *6 :2 5
t 7 :0 5
t 7 :0 5
t 7 :0 5

t 4 :3 0
t 4 :3 0
t 4 :3 0

•t^A   A  M. runs through to Detroit with par 
lor car;  seats 25  cents.
1:00 P. M. 
troit. Has  through  Parlor  car  to  De- 
Seats, 25 cents.
P. M. runs through to Detroit  with par 
lor car, seats  25  cents.
7  * APv  A. M. has parlor  car  to  Saginaw, seats 
• 
25 cents.
For  tickets  and  information  apply  at  Union 
Ticket Office, 67 Monroe  street, or Union station.

Geo. D eHaven, Gen. Pass’r Agt.

Toledo,  A nn  A rb o r  &  N o rth   M ichigan 

R ailw ay.

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

VIA  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. in.

v i a   d .,  s .   II.  &  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.

G rand  R apids  & In d ian a.
Schedule in effect  Septem ber  10,1891.

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive from   Leave going 
North.
7:05 a m
11:30  a  m
4:30 p m
10:30 a  m
Train  arriving a t 9:20  daily;  all  o th er trains  dally 

South. 
For Saginaw A  Traverse  C ity..  5:15 a m  
For Traverse City & Mackinaw 
9:20 a  m 
For Saginaw  and  Cadillac.........  2:15 p m 
For  Petoskey & M ackinaw.......   8:50 a m 
except Sunday.

North. 

South.
7:00  a m
10:30 a m
2:00 p m
6:00 p ra
11:05 p m
Trains  leaving  a t 6:00 and  11:05 run daily; all other 

For  Cincinnati............................   6:20am  
For Kalamazoo and  C hicago... 
For F ort W ayne and the  E ast..  11 :fi0 a m  
For  C incinnati.............................   5:30 p m 
For  Chicago............................. 
10:J0.p m 
From Saginaw...............................  10:40 p m
trains daily except Sunday.

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
10:10 a  m 
7:00  a m 
11:26 p m  
4|55 p m 
5:40  p m
9:00 p m

From Muskegon—Arrive.

SLEEPING  &  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE.

NORTH—7 :0 5   a m   train .—P arlor chair car  G’d 
Rapids to Traverse  Oity.
11: 30 a m train .—P arlor chair car  G’d 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
10:30 p  m   train .—Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids  to   Petoskey and Mackinaw. 
SOUTH—7:00 am  train .—P arlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
10:30 a m   train .—W agner  P arlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
6:00  p m   train .—W agner Sleeping  Car 
Grand  Rapids to Cincinnati.

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

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

10:30 a m  
3:55 p m  

2:00 p m 
9:00 p m  

11:05 p m
6:50 a m

10:30 a  m train  through W agner P arlor Car.
11:05 p m train  daily, through W agner  Sleeping Car. 
10:10 p m
5:15  a  m
3  10  p  m  through  W agner  P arlor  Car.  10:10  p  m 

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

7:05&m 
2:15 p m 

Through tickets and full inform ation  can  be had by 
calling upon  A. Almquist.  tick et  agent  a t  Union S ta­
tion,  or  George  W.  Munson,  Union  Ticket  Agent, 67 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

Grani  Rapids  Electrotype  Co.,

Electrdtypers

EDMUND B.DIKEMAN

T H E   G REAT

a Jeweler,

44  GAMI.  8Y„
Grand  Rapids  ■

W A N T E D .

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

If you  have any  of  the  above  goods to 
ship, or anything  in  the  Produce  line,  let 
us hear  from  you.  Liberal  cash  advance, 
m a d e   when  desired.

E A R L   BROS.,

C o m m issio n  Me r c h a n t s

157 South W ater St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  Fir st  National  Bank,  Chicago.
Mic h ig a n  T r a d esm a n. G rand R apids.

ANYTHING

To the Trade:

That will help a man  in  his  business ought  to  be 

The  opening of  the regular season  is fast  approaching, and 
of  vital  importance to him.  Many  a successful  mer-  to all  who  deal  in  Oysters we wish  to  state that  we  would  be 
[pleased  to  have  you  start in  by  favoring us with  an  order  for
cfiant has found  when 
I our  “   E,  13,"  tirand,  Th at  it  has  merit  has been
proved  by  its  popularity, that it  will  be  kept up to standard,
j  we pledge our  reputation.  All of  our  local  jobbers  will  be
j pleased  to  till  your  orders, and  we ask  that you  specify  when
ordering, the  P.  B.  brand,  always fresh,  clean  and  uniform.

That he has allowed  his money to  leak  away. 

TOO T A T E  

-jV lo p C y - Wonf take care of M  

THE pxjtnaM CANDY CO.

And  the  quicker you  tumble to the fact  that the  old  way of 
keeping it  is  not good  enough,  the  more of  it  you 
will have to count up.

If  you  wish to stop all the leaks  incident to the  mercan­

tile business, adopt one of the

0 oupop  g y stejris

Manufactured  in  our  establishment—“ T ra d e sm a n “ Super­
ior  or “ Universal ”—and  put  your business on  a cash  basis.

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY

For Samples a rd   Price  "List,  address

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

C.  A.  LAMB. 

F.  J.  LAMB.

C.  A.  L A M B   &  CO.,
and  Domestic  Frilits  and  Proddce,

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

8 4   a n d   8 6   S o u th   D iv is io n   S t.

Foreign 

Holts  Wanted!

I  w ant  500 to  1,000  cords o f  P oplar  Excel­

sior  Bolts,  18.  36 and  54  inches  long.

I  also  w ant  Basswood  Bolts,  sam e  lengths 

as above.  For particulars address

J.  W.  FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

81  SOUTH DIVISION  ST..  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Correspondence solicited. 

M o n d a y 's  an d   S a tu r d a y 's   D e tr o it  E ven in g1  N ew s 

fo r  fu rth er  P a r tic u la r s .

S 100  G IV E N   AW AY

To  the  Smokers of the

P R I N C E   R U D O L P H   C I G A R S .

T#  th e   perso n   guessing  th e   nearest  to  th e   num b er  o f  Im ps  th a t  wilt 
appear in a series o f  c u ts in  th e   E vening  News,  c u ts  not  to  exceed  100, 
1st Cash  Prize,  $50;  2d.  $25:  3d.  15;  41 h,  $10.  G uess slips  to  he  had  with 
•very 25c.  worth of  PRINCE  RUDOLPH  CIGARS  Sold  Even  here 
t ’p  to d a te   th ere  h as  been  published 23outs, w ith  a  to tal of  3 0 3   Imp«.

useorscT U R E S   *v

A i r U X .   G o k o o n , 
D e t r o i t .   M l o l i .
DANIEL  LYNCH,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  Agt.

STRAtTON  & STORM’S CIGARSa

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

I. M.  CLARK GROCERY  CO.,  G rand  i  apids

Oi/ßrsliirts.  Dress  Goods,

find a  New Line of  FlOOi Oil  Glotll in 5-4,6-4, 8-4. 

ALL,  W E IG H TS

W.  STEK ETEE  &  SOPHS

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

/ / .   LEONARD  &  SONS, Grand Rapids,

Headquarters for HOUSE FURNISHING  GOODS.

State  A gents for Oil  H eating Stoves,  Gasoline Stoves,  Wood  and  Coal  Stoves,  Tin  and  Iron Stove  F urniture 

and the  W onderful Selling Blue  and  W hite Enameled Iron  W are.

Our Improved  DOCKASH  RANGES  for  coal or wood  stand  unrivaled in  the world.  The  universal  verdict  among 
users  being  that no amount of  money would  buy them if  they could  not be replaced.  You  can  safely recommend them  to 
your customers.  For prices and description see our Catalogue No.  10 »  sent to dealers only on request.

FARM ERS’  PRIDE.
For  Wood.  With.  Nickel  Panels. 

¡HI

DOCK  CORN  R A N G E -6  Hole.

See Complété Description of this and ©tir Dockash Ranges in Catalogue.

No.  21  BRISTOL.

Ftill Nickeled Wood  Parlor  Heating Stove.

NAY-AUG.

With  Ash  Fan.  Nickel  «pua  t’rn  and  Nick el 

Foot  Kail.  With anti-clinker  or  round 

Dock ash  Crate.

DOCKASH  PARLOR.

Base Burning  Coal  Stove.  Each  stove  fitted with  round  Dockash  grate 

and Double  Heater Attachment.

V A LLEY   O AK /

For  Wood.  Nickel  Urn.  Large  ash  pan,  draw- 

center grate and  automatic register.

