Published Weekly.

VOL.  9.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS.
(IKAND  RAPIDS,  APR IL  13,  1892.

$1  Per  Year.
NO.  447

MUSKEGON  BRANCH  UNITED  STATES  BAKING  CO., 

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

Successors  to

H A R R Y   FOX,  M anager.

C r a c k e r s ,   B i s c u i t s # S w e e t   G o o d s . B   i s   s

SPEC IA L  A TTENTION  P A ID   TO  M A IL  ORDERS.

M USKEGON,  M ICH .

E v ery   B ook k eep er  W ill  A p p reciate  a  B lan k   B oo',  th a t  O pens  F la t
The M U LLIN S  FLA T  OPENING  SPRING  BACK I

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Is  th e   B est  in   th e   M arket.  W rite   to r  prices.

HARVEY  &   HEYSTEK, 

JOBBERS  IN 

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J o b b er

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>taple and will fit any Purchaser.

holesaler an O rder.

Retails for 10 cents, 3 for 25 cents.
G .  S.  BROWN  &   CO.,

Foreign  and  D om estic  F rilits.

s  o f 
Oranges and Bananas a Specialty, 
p quotations. 

24-26 N o  Division St.

p   YORK  BISCUIT  00.,

S.  A.  S E A R S ,  Manager.

Wall  Panar,  Window  Slades  aad  Piclara  Maalflings.

We are the only Jobbers in Western Michigan, and sell at Factory Prices. 

W e m ak e a  sp ecialty of S tore Shades. 

75  i  77 Monroe Si.-Warehoilse,  81  i   83  Campali  81, Granò Rapids. 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  W EDNESDAY,  APR IL  13,  1892.

NO.  447

YOL.  9.

Fine  Millinery!

W holesale  and  Retail.

SPRING  STOCK  IN  ALL  THE  LATEST 

STYLES  NOW  COMPLETE.

MAIL  ORDERS  ATTENDED  TO  PROMTLY.

ADAMS  &  CO.,

90 Monroe St., 
.THE.  „

-  Opp.  Morton House.

PROMPT,  CONSERVATIVE,  SAFE.

S. F. Asfinwall, Preat 

W. Feed McBain. Sec'y
A.  J.  S11KLLMAN,  Scientific Optician,  65 Monroe Street.

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Eyes  tested  for  spectacles  free of  cost  with 
latest Improved methods.  Glasses in every style 
at  moderate  prices.  Artificial  human  eyes  of 
every color.  Sign of big spectacles.

T H O S .  E .  W Y K E S ,

W H O LESA LE

L im e,  C em ent,  Stucco,  H a ir,  F ire   B rick , 

F ire   Clay, L ath ,  W ood,  H ay, G rain,
O il  H eal, C lover'and  T im o th y  Seed. 

Corner Wealthy Ave. and Ionia St.

on M. C. R. R. 

Office, 45 S. Division.

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And  other  ornamental  trees.  One hun­
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Michigan.  Catalogue  free. 
Send  for 
one now.

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SNOWFLAKE,  MICH.

PARENTS—Give  your  children  a  knowledge 
of  Book-keeping,  Shorthand,  Typewriting,  etc.
FOR  THEM
IT  WILL  BE 

MUCH

Educate them at the Grand  Rapids, Mich., Busi­
ness College,  Ledyard  Block, corner  Pearl  and 
Ottawa-st8.  Visit us.  For catalogue address  A. 
S. Parish, successor to C. G. Swensberg.
Mention this paper.
Wayne  County  Savings  Bank,  Detroit,  Mich.
$500,000  TO  IN V E S T   IN   BONDS
Issued by  cities, counties, towns  and  school  districts 
of  Michigan.  Officers  of  these  municipalities  about 
to issue bonds will find it to  their advantage to apply 
to this bank.  Blank bonds and blat ks for proceedings 
supplied  without  charge.  All  communications  and 
enquiries will have prompt attention.  This bank pays 
4 per cent, on deposits, compounded semi-annually.
8. D. EL WOOD, Treasury.
Pire i BUrglar Proof
A ll Sizes an d  P rices.
| Parties in need of the above 
■ are  invited  to  correspond 
"with
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M A R TIN ,  M ICH.

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wants a FURNITURE  FACTORY,  and a 
bonus of $10,000 awaits the right man.

Parties  accepting  must  have  capital 
and experience.  Address for particulars,

A.  L.  GREEN,  Beatrice,  Neb.

T H O M A S   S T O K E S ,

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

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New  Kork  €ity.
Represented in Michigan by

J.  P.  VI8PR,  Merchandise  Broker

304  N o rth   Io n ia   St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Who will  quote prices by mail or call  on dealers 
wishing a supply for Lenten trade.

ESTABLISHED  1841.

THE MERCANTILE  AGENCY

R . G. D u n   &  Co.

Reference Bootes issued  quarterly.  Collections 

attended to throughout United States 

and Canada

The Bradstreet Mercantile Apncy
Executive  Offices, 279,281,283  Broadway, N.Y

T he B ra d stree t  C om pany, P rops.

CH ARLES  F.  C LA R K ,  P res.

Offices in the principal cities of the United 
States,  Canada,  the  European  continent, 
Australia, and in London, England.
Grand  Rapids  Office,  Room

HEN RY   ID E M A ,  Snpt.

BEANS

If you have any beans and want to sell, 
we want them, will  give you full  mar 
ket  price.  Send  them  to  us  in  any 
quantity  up to car  loads, we want  1000 
bushels daily.

W. T.  LRMOREÄUX i CO.,

128,  130, 132 W . B rid g e St.,

G RA ND  R A P ID S,  M ICH .

For 50c  (stamps)  I 
mall  you  specifi­
cations  by  which 
with  one  hour's 
work  (your  own)  you  transform  your  useless 
cheese safe into a handsome  store fixture.  Last 
pound of  your  cheese  then  remains  fresh  and 
salable as  first  one  cut.  None  to  throw  away. 
Double your sales. 

T  B. LATOUCHE,

Reference any comm’l agency. 

(Merchant) , 
Ashland, 111.

IN  HIS  STEAD.

Instrum ent of Justice.

How  an Accident  Made a Husband  the 
Holt’s name was synonymous with suc­
cess.  He  was  a  man  of  boundless  re­
source  and  commanding  intellect. 
In 
his  early years  he  had worked  with un­
wearied  perseverance,  giving himself  no 
rest  until,  through  his  law  practice, he 
had  amassed a fortune,  the very mention 
of which commanded men’s respect.  He 
was  never  hampered  or  retarded  by 
haste;  each  move he made  was sure  and 
advantageous;  and if  he had  gained  the 
reputation  of  possessing  a  heart  that 
was in a constant  state of  repose,  in  the 
face  of  his  success  men  thought  none 
the less of him.  They knew that worthier 
men  had  failed,  while  he  had gone  tri 
umphantly on to the alluring goal.

A  half-hour  of  his  company  was  as 
beneficial  as  a  cold  shower.  The most 
loquacious curtailed  his words and made 
them  to  the  point  under  Holt’s  coldly 
critical eyes.

His office was  considered  the best  law 
school  in  the  city.  His  clerks disliked 
him thoroughly, but accorded him a meed 
of respect  they gave  no  other man.  He 
was  impervious  to  their  want of  good­
will;  he did not care for their esteem,  he 
exacted only the unconditional obedience 
he obtained.

No  man  came  to the  office  late  more 
than once.  Holt’s  urbane hope  that the 
late-comer’s  health  was  improving,  and 
that he would soon be entirely recovered, 
did not pass current as genuine solicitude. 
But,  again, he never demanded a moment 
of  their  time  after  office  hours;  he  was 
essentially  a  just  man.  There  was  no 
one  ready or adroit  enough  to  retort  to 
his  stinging  satire,  but  the  men  were 
willing  to  bear  it,  for  in  his  monetary 
dealings he was extremely liberal.

It  was  only  after  Holt’s  marriage, 
when  he  was  nearing  forty,  that  men 
drew nearer to him.  They  were  glad to 
discover  that he was not so  invulnerable 
as they had  supposed.

The world  knew  nothing of  her  until 
she came to them as Holt’s wife, but soon 
after,  reports originated  that her parent­
age had been enveloped  in  mystery,  and 
that  Holt  had  rescued  her  from  the 
temptations that  come to bitter  poverty, 
and  educated  her  at  his  own  expense 
Her faultless face and  manner seemed to 
give  the lie  direct to the  rumor that had 
gained  ground,  and  she  took  her  place 
with unquestioned supremacy.

Holt lavished  upon  her a fund of  love 
that  most  men would  have  found  suffi 
cient  for a large  family. 
It  was  almost 
pitiful to watch him while with her.  For 
her  sake  he  forced  himself  to  go  into 
society,  which,  hitherto,  he  had  con 
sidered unrelieved martyrdom.  He threw 
open his house to their acquaintances be 
cause  she  was a young  woman,  and  he 
was determined  not to weary her,  but he 
deemed it his  home  only on  those  even 
ings  when  they were  alone.  He  chafed 
under  the  yoke he put  around his neck 
but  she  was  never  allowed  to  become 
aware of it.

She was, perhaps,  the only person who

did  not  fear  Holt.  Those who  thought 
she  had  married  him  from a feeling  of 
gratitude were compelled to change their 
belief  on  seeing her  sweet graciousness 
to  him.  She  bewildered  the  world,  as 
well as Holt, by her smile.

She  insisted  upon  his  taking  care of 
his health,  aBd  walked to the  office with 
him nearly every morning,  saying that if 
left to himself he would ride, and so have 
no exercise.  She  would call  for  him in 
her coupe  at  five,  and  sometimes  alight 
and admonish  King,  the  junior  partner, 
for  not  relieving  Holt  of  more  of  the 
routine work.  Holt gave himself over to 
the  luxury of  being taken  care of  with­
out complaint.

Holt  was seated  alone  in  his  private 
office,  having  ended the  last audience he 
intended to grant that afternoon. 
It had 
been  a  most  trying  and  fatiguing  day, 
but his face showed no sign of weariness. 
A  knock  came  at  the  door,  and  Holt, 
recognizing  his  wife’s  form  outlined 
against  the  glass,  arose  and  opened  the 
door  for  her.  At that  moment  his face 
was almost  redeemed  from  plainness by 
his smile.

“I  am  about  to  disappoint  you,”  he 
observed,  motioning  her  to  be  seated; 
‘I am  called  across  the  river on  impor­
tant  business,  and  shall  not  be  able  to 
take  you  out  as  arranged.  You  know 
how much I regret  this,  but it is impera­
tive that I go.”

“Why  cannot  Mr.  King  go  in  your 
stead?”  she demanded,  with  evident dis­
pleasure at his  default.  “I am  sure you 
could save yourself many a task by using 
him  in  your  stead.  You  are  too  un­
sparing of your own  time and self.”

Holt looked at her in amusement.  “Do 
you not  know  you are the  only one who 
thinks  me  thoughtful of  others?  They 
would tell you,  and truthfully,  that I am 
going  because  I  know  I  can  provide 
against accidents and defeats more surely 
than can  King.  Perhaps,  in  time,  I may 
lose,  through your influence,  some of  my 
hardness.  Besides,  King  has  work  that 
will keep him here until  close on to mid­
night. 
If  it  were  not  so,  I  should  ap­
point  him  my  substitute,  that  you need 
not stay home.”

Will  he  stay  here  all  alone ?”  she

TWENTY 
THOUSAND 
R E T A IL   G R O C E R S

have  used  them  from  one  to 
six years  and  they  agree  that 
as  an  all-around  Grocer’s 
Counter  Scale  the  “PERFEC­
TION”  has no equal.
For sale by

H A W K I N S   &   CO .,

GRAND  R A PID S,  M ICH.

And by Wholesale Grocers generally.

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

asked,  feigning an  interest in the  affairs 
of the law firm.

“All  alone.  Perhaps  the  only one  in 
the building.  There is no need to shiver 
for King;  there is no danger.”

“But there  must  be  danger,  all  alone 
in this immense building.  1 am glad you 
are not to stay,” she laughed,  looking up 
at  him  tenderly.  “I  think  I shall  tell 
Mr.  King  he had  better  bring  some one 
along for company.”

“He  is  out,  at present. 

I  must  send 
you  home  now,  for I  have  some  few in­
structions to leave.  You  well  know how 
much 1 dislike to disappoint you.”

“1  am  disappointed,”  she  murmured, 
“ for 1 thought we should enjoy the even­
ing  together,  but  I am  going  to  bear  it 
bravely.  Shall you  be late?”

“It is possible 1 may be home by twelve 

certainly not before."

Holt 

saw  her  enter  her  carriage
and  drive  away.  On  re-entering  the 
building,  he turned  his ankle,  and  found 
it difficult to mount the stairs.  He made 
no mention of  it  in  the  outer office,  but 
directed them to tell  Mr.  King he wished 
to see him at once.

It  was  some  ten  minutes  later  that 
King entered.  Holt was  an  intellectual 
giant;  King,  a  physical  giant.  Beside 
Holt,  who  was  gaunt  and  yellow,  his 
health and good  looks were so evident as 
to seem almost an impertinence.

without  thought of  eating. 
It is  not al­
together  unpleasant  to  have  somebody 
interested in one’s welfare.

At  half-past  seven,  he  neatly  folded 
the  last  document and  pushed  them  to 
one  side.  He  knew  that what  he  had 
accomplished  in  the  two  hours  would 
have taken King double the time.

Thinking of  the three  hours  that still 
remained  before  King’s  possible return, 
he almost  regretted  having directed him 
to meet him at the office.

He  took  from  his  pocket a  jeweler’s 
box  containing a string of  rubies;  it had 
caught his eye that  morning,  and be had 
found  time to purchase it, though he had 
not taken time for  luncheon.  He turned 
the  lamp  low  and  leaned  back  in  his 
chair,  holding the rubies against his face. 
No  sound  broke  the  stillness,  except, 
now and  then,  the  guawing of  some  rat 
in the wainscoting.

Suddenly  he 

leaned  forward 

in  his 
chair,  intently  listening.  He  detected a 
soft  foot-fall  in  the  corridor—it was the 
step  of  one who  was moving  carefully, 
so as to conceal  all  noise.  He  heard  a 
key inserted in the lock of  the door lead­
ing to  the  office,  then it was  withdrawn. 
He  turned  the  lamp  so  low  it  emitted 
only a mere spark,  and,  pulling open  the 
drawer of  the table,  drew  out King’s  re­
volver.

P E C K ’S  CASH  R E G IST E R .

W E   ttELL  MOKE

Resistors
TO

Rusiness Men
Than  a ll  th e   O th e r  R eg ister  C om panies 

C om bined.

out slips” to be lost and break the record.
to the record of any previous day.

W hy Is th e  I'eck A utographic Cash  R egister th e   Rest for M erchants?
B ecause  it records items instead of G eneral  R esults.
Because  it is always ready to m ake and preserve a record of money paid in and out.
B. cause  there  are no “charge  slips,”  “received on account  slips,” “paid  out  slips” and “just 
B ecause  a merchant can file away bis entire day's  business on one sheet and refer in an instant 
B ecause  figures won't lie, but machinery, if out of repair, is bound to.
Because  it is not necessary to send it to the factory every six months for repairs.
Because  you are not obliged to strike three or four keys to register one amount.
Because  it is simple, practical, reasonable in price, and accomplishes the results that merchants 

After using a Peck Cash  Register  for one year we can  conscientiously say that we are entirely 
satisfied.  We are continually harassed with periodical  communications from the  National Regis­
ter Co., but we don't want their  register at any price.  We voluntarily  state our preference for the 
Peck  Register. 

GEO.  L.  WILTON  &  CO., Books, Wall Paper, Etc.

W est Bat Cit y . Mich., Feb  25,1892.

desire.

B I C Y C L E S  I

We Control  Territory  on the  F inest and  L argest  Line of  Cheap, M edium   and 

H igh Grade  M achines in th e  S tate

WRITE  US  FOR 

TERMS  AND  DIS 

COUNTS  TO 

AGENTS.

WE  WANT 

AGENTS IN EVERY 

LIVE  TOWN.

PERKINS  &  RICHMOND,

13 Fountain St., Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Clothing  and  General  Store  M erchants  will  do  well  to 

Inspect  the  Line  of

Michael  Kolb  &  Son,

ROCHESTER,  N.  Y.

Most Reliable  House,  established 35 years.  The senior  member of  this firm  being 
a practical  tailor,  personally  superintends the manufacturing  department,  and  has 
the reputation of  making the best fitting garments and most select choice in  styles, 
patterns and  designs,  adapted  for all  classes of  trade and sold at such  low prices,
and  upon  such  equitable  terms as  not  to fear  any competition,  and  within  reach 
of all.

The person in the  hall  came with  but 
one  object,  and it is  fair to suppose  that 
the  man  who  purposes  to  commit  bur­
glary  is  desperate  enough  to  shoot  to 
save  himself  or  his plunder.  Holt was 
prepared  for  his  entrance,  and  deter­
mined  to  act at once  without parley,  for 
his  accident,  to  some  degree  crippled 
him,  and  he did not  propose to let go his 
hold on  life of his own  volition.

He  had  not  long to wait.  The  steps 
paused at his  door;  then  the  key turned 
in the  lock,  and  the  door  swung  open. 
Holt saw the man’s face was masked with 
some dark  stuff,  and  pulled the  trigger. 
The  man fell  forward,  and  Holt  turned 
up the light.  The  burglar had fallen on 
the  other  side  of  the  table,  and  Holt 
walked toward  him.  He  moved  slowly, 
remembering  his injured  foot;  he was in 
no hurry to view his victim.

And then  he  saw it was his  wife!—the 
black  lace scarf  had  fallen away,  expos­
ing her perfect face.

She  had  grown  nervous  because  he 
had  not  come  home  to dinner,  and  had 
come down  for him,  and he  had shot her. 
He carried  her  over  to  the  couch  that 
stood  in one corner of  the room.  As her 
head  touched the  pillow,  she  raised  her 
hand to his face,  murmuring,  “Rob, Rob, 
why did you hurt me?”

Holt stepped back  in  paralyzed fear— 

she was calling him by King’s  name.

“You  will  have to go to Mr.  Rodney’s, 
King. 
I  have  again  turned  my  ankle. 
Make haste, and you will be able to catch 
the 6 o’clock car.  I shall take your place, 
and complete those documents this even­
ing.”

“Let  them  go  until  morning,”  urged 
King;  “I will  manage to get  down  early 
enough  to  finish  them  before  they  are 
needed. 
I  can  see  the  pain  you  are 
suffering.”

“We have no time for condolences just 
at  present,”  interrupted  Holt,  wincing 
under  King’s  compassionate  looks;  “I 
shall  finish the papers to-night.”

“I met Mrs.  Holt as 1 came back  to the 
office,  and she told me of  her disappoint­
ment.  Are you going home?”

“I  shall  go  home  to dine  and  come 
down  later.  You  might  join me here on 
returning  from  Rodney’s,  when  we  can 
go into the matter fully.”

Again impressing upon him the wisdom 
of going home  to  dinner,  King  left  the 
office  hurriedly,  scarcely hoping to make 
the car.

Holt arose,  preparatory to going home. 
He  repressed  an  exclamation  of  acute 
pain  as  his  weight  came  down  on  his 
ankle. 
If he went  home be doubted  his 
being able  to  come down again.  As his 
wife  did  not  expect  him,  he decided  to 
stay at his office and commence on  King’s 
work.  He  walked  to  the  door,  telling 
the  chief-clerk,  who  was then  the  only 
one  left in the  office,  that he would  stay 
a  time  longer,  but  made  no mention  of 
his intention  to spend  the evening at the 
office.  He waited in his  own office  until 
he heard  the man leave.  Then he locked 
the outer doors  and went to King’s office, 
which  was  a  small  room,  seldom  used 
because it did not connect with the others; 
to  enter,  it was  necessary to go out  into 
the passage-way.

He 

lighted  the  student’s  lamp  that 
stood on the  table,  and  began  his work.
The  bells  sounded  for  six,  and  Holt 
remembered he had  been  too  busy  that 
morning to interrupt his labors for lunch­
eon.  He wondered  what his  wife would 
say  if  she  knew  he  was  still  at  work,

She was  here in King’s  office,  and,  be­
cause of  the sudden  change of  plans,  he 
had discovered her.  He staggered blind­
ly to  a  chair.  The last  few months  un­
rolled  themselves  before  him,  and  he 
cursed his own  lack of  penetration.  He 
brought his hand down on  the table with 
such  force the  rubies  danced  madly on 
their  slender  thread  of  gold,  throwing 
off  their  dazzling  lights.  He  wished 
dully they  were  diamonds;  their  pigeon- 
blood  red  hurt his  eyes.  He took  them 
up fiercely,  as if to crush them,  and  they 
cut his hand.

He  looked  up  at  her  cry.  She  was 
leaning  forward,  watching him  with  di­
lated eyes.

“Why are  you  here?”  she  cried;  “you 
must not kill him.  You must be satisfied

W ILL IA M   CONNOR,

Box 340, 

M arshall  M ich.

William  Connor,  representative  of 
above firm in  Michigan, be^s to announce 
that  the trade  can secure  some  Closing 
Out  Bargains  for  Spring  and  Summer 
trade which  will be sold at astonishingly 
low  prices.  Mr.  Connor  also  takes 
pleasure in  calling  attention  to  his  nice 
line of  Boy’s and  Children’s  Clothing as 
well  as  to  his  great  selection of  Men’s 
Suitings,  Spring  Overcoats  and  Pants, 
all closing out to the  trade at marvelous- 
y  low  prices.  Largest  line  of  Prince 
Alberts  and  Cork  Screw  Cutaways 
in 
fancy and  plain.  Mail  orders  promptly 
attended  to,  or  write  William  Connor, 
Box  346  Marshall,  Mich.,  and  he  will 
soon  be  with  you to show  you  our  full 
line,  and  he  will  supply you  with  the 
leading  merchants’  printed  opinions  as 
to the  honesty of  our  goods  and  prices

Mr. Connor’s Next Date.

Wm.  Connor,  clothing  salesman  for 
Michael  Kolb & Son,  will  be  at  Sweet’s 
Hotel on  Friday,  April 8.

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with  my  death 
not kill him.”

Promise  me,  you  will

He had  had  no  thought of  King,  but, 
on  the  instant,  seeing  her  anxiety  for 
him,  he decided on his mode of action.

“No,  I shall not kill  him,”  he respond­

ed, coldly.

“You  frighten  me,”  she  whispered. 
“If you only  would not sit there  smiling 
to yourself.  You  have no right  to  com­
plain—I made you happy for a year.”

“So  you  did,”  agreed  Holt;  “it  was 
I  would  have  laid 

very  good  of  you. 
down my life for you.  Would King?”

She did  not  know what  course to pur­
sue.  Finally  she  said,  “Yes.”  Still  he 
sat,  holding  the  rubies, calmly  smiling. 
“Take me  home.”

“Your home is with  King;  and,  as you 

know,  this is his  office.”

“You cannot mean to leave  me here !” 

she exclaimed.

“Why not?  You  are  nothing  to  me, 
and  King will  be  here  in  the  course  of 
two or three hours.  He  was very urgent 
in pressing  me to go  home to dine;  I see 
the  reason  now.  Unfortunately,  how­
ever, I had  turned  my ankle,  and,  as  it 
was  rather  painful,  concluded  to  stay 
here.”

“You  regret  it  now?”  she  breathed. 
“You  are  sorry  the  veil  is  torn  from 
your eyes?”

He caught  his  lip in  his teeth.  What 
she  said  was  true—he  regretted  being 
turned out of his fool’s paradise.

He  caught up his  gloves  and top-coat. 
“What are you doing?” she questioned. 
“You  are  not  going  to  leave  me  here 
alone?”

“If you are afraid,  l  can stay with you 
for a time longer—I  have  no  very press­
ing  engagement. 
I  can  stay  with  you 
until the end,  if you prefer it,  and short­
ly after, King will probably be here.” 

“Are  you  going  to  let  him  find  me 
here?” she asked,  waiting  for his answer 
with suspended breath.

“Of  course.  You  said  he  would  be 
willing to die  for you—he shall  have the 
chance.  The bullet lodged in your breast 
is from  King’s  revolver,  and  you  are in 
King’s  office.  He  will  come in and  fall 
down beside you  and try to warm  you to 
life  by  his  caresses,  and,  perhaps,  his 
clothes  will  not  be  quite  spotless when 
he  arises.  Knowing  the  extent  of  his 
guilt,  he  will  not  be  as  collected  and 
rational  as  I,  and  will  stay  with  you 
futilely searching  for some  plausible ex­
cuse to give the world for your presence 
No one is aware I am here,  and it will be 
a very clear case against him 

She drew  a  shuddering sigh.  “I  will 

not die yet. 

I shall call for help.”

“No one heard the shot,” he reminded, 
“Don’t move;  you  will  only  hasten the 
end,”  he  cautioned, as  she  fell  on  her 
knees beside  him.  “You must  not come 
nearer me.  My apparel  must not be dis­
ordered when I reach the club.”

“You might save me yet,”  she pleaded, 
her  hand on his  knee;  “save  me,  and  I 
will make  you  forget  this  night.  You 
can not wish your name to be dishonored. 
Men  will  laugh  derisively  when  they 
know  the one  woman  you  loved  played 
you  false.  You will  know  no  peace if 
you let me die.  Even suppose  he  is  ac­
cused and found  guilty,  it will not bring 
me back  to  you.  You will  be  afraid of 
the  night,  sitting  there  in  the  house, 
haunted by my presence.  Before I came, 
you were employed in making your name 
and  fortune,  but,  without  me,  your  tri­
umphs will be only Dead Sea fruit.  Take

me  home,” she  implored,  in  the  suasive 
voice that  had never  before  been denied 
aught.

Holt drew back  with distaste from  her 
touch.  When  she  had  finished,  he  ob­
served: 
“Your  position  must  be  un­
comfortable.  Had you not better go back 
to  the  couch? 
is  King’s  favorite 
lounging-place.”

It 

Looking  at  him,  she  foresaw her ulti­
mate defeat,  but did not desist from  beg­
ging him to take her away.
. Once he laughed  low,  showing  her the 
rubies,  saying she  deserved  great  credit 
for  the  cleverness  with  which  she  had 
deceived  him,  but  otherwise he made no 
response.  She  cried  for  help  once,  but 
was  answered  only  by  the  echo of  her 
own  voice  as it rang  through  the  lofty 
building.

Her  voice  died  away from  sheer  ex­
haustion.  The pool of blood on the floor 
grew larger,  and  one  tiny stream slowly 
wended  its  way to  Holt’s  chair,  and  he 
watched it with  unconcerned interest.

An  hour  passed;  then  she  ceased  to 
plead  for  King  or  for a drink of  water. 
When  Holt  looked  up  at  last,  she  lay 
back on the couch—dead.

Carefully picking his  steps,  he walked 
over to the table, and  took up the papers 
which  he  intended  to  put  in  his  own 
desk,  and  destroyed  all  trace  of  his 
presence.  He  looked searchingly at him­
self,  but  he  could  find  no  sign  of  the 
struggle  through  which  he had  passed.
It was shortly 
after  nine—it was  time  he  reached  the 
club.  He  turned  the  light  low,  and,  as 
he  did  so,  glanced  over  at  her.  She 
seemed  to  be  watching  him.  How  he 
hated her!  He had  shown  it  by the tor­
ment he had made her  endure.

He drew out his watch. 

But she  had  made his  happiness—the 
only happiness he had ever known.  Now 
he would  go  home  to  the  lonely house, 
bereft of even the memories of that time.
Surely she  moved.  He walked toward 
her,  and grasped  her by the arm,  crying
“You are to come home with me----- ”

He  waited  for  a  second  in  sickening 
fear,  then,  thrusting  the  rubies  before 
“Don’t  make  believe  you 
her,  added: 
don’t hear  me. 
I forgive  you—see,  they 
are for you.”

He released his hold.  He saw she was 

dead.

He must go—he had told  her he would 
go to the  club.  He  passed  his  hand  in 
front of his eyes,  as if he had grown sud 
denly blind.  The  lights would  glare up 
there—it was  so  quiet  and  dark  in  the 
little room.

Some  one  was  coming  up  the  steps 
whistling. 
It  was  King,  the  man  she 
had  loved.  He  clutched  the  revolver 
leveling it toward  his  forehead.  No,  he 
would  not  disgure  himself—there  had 
always  been too  much  contrast between 
them.

The  cheery  whistle  sounded  louded, 
clearer.  Holt  aimed  at  his  heart  and 
fired.  Of him it had been jestingly said, 
he had no heart.

The whistle died away.

A l ic e   S.  W o l f .

His  Contribution.

Priest—“Pat,  there’s a hole in the roof 
of the church,  and 1 am trying to  collect 
enough money to repair  it.  Come  now, 
what will you contribute?”
Pat—“Me services,  sor!”
Priest — “What  do  you  mean,  Pat? 
Pat—“No;  but if it rains next Soonday, 

You’re no carpenter.”
Oi’ll sit over the  hole.”

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the  orders  sent to  them.  Without  effort on  the  grocers  part  the  goods 
sell  themselves,  bring  purchasers to  the  store,  and  help  sell  less  known 
goods.

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T H E   M IC H IG A 3Sr  T R A D E S M A N .

AM ONG  T H E  T R A D E .
ABOUND THE  STATE.

Ellis—M.  E.  Flynn  has  sold his  gen-

era!  sitoe.k  ito J.  Kiefer.

Deliroil August  Gels1er  Las sold  his

drug  sto<;fc to Geo.  PentOD.

May

le —Mrs.  Waiter Tubbs;  has sold

ber furni ture stock to C.  E.  Brown.

Dexter Andrews Ac Davis are succeded

by Da

Bros.  Ac Co.  in general. trade.

Hebba

LäDsing — James  FIeming

Adrian— L.  B.  Miilai‘d  SUCC4;eds  Mil-
lard  Ai Vanidergift  in  thte drug business.
succeeds
* Fleming in tbe tiow are  busi-
-Woods  & Hawley succeed ’
Theo. H. Strophägel  in1  the  meat  busi- |
oess.

Resuiin g—-Thomas  Berry  has sold  bis \
boot  and s•hoe  stock  toi  Worth Ac  Cart- i
wright

Slur

Mulllik< — Dr.  Ansitin  P.  Hart  has

sold hiIS  <lnig  stock  to IL  P. Ac  R.  C.  j
Frencl

SL  IjOUis-—Arthur  Onwig  is  Sueceeded \
by  Pei;er Rijbinson  in  tlle  conf<setionery •
business.

Mt.  Pleasant—M.  J.  Topping  is  sue- j 
ceeded  by Topping & Palmer in  the  gro-; 
eery business.

Big Prairie—L.  E.  Swan  has  removed j 
his grocery  stock  to White  Cloud  and  re­
sumed  business at the  former location of j 
J.  M.  Romans.

Kalamazoo—F.  A.  Johnson  & Co.  suc­
ceed  Bush  &  Johnson  in  the  flour  and 
feed  business.

Jackson—J.  H.  Telford  is  succeeded 
by  Allen &  Morehouse  in  the  coal  and 
wood  business.

Durand—Lorenzo  Chambers  succeeds 
Chambers  &  Barnard  in  the  drug  and 
grocery business.

Cadillac—Frank  H.  Huntley  has sold 
his  jewelry  stock  to  E.  W.  Thompson,  ! 
who will continue the  business.

Kalamazoo — A.  J.  Burdick  has  re­
moved  his drug stock from Potter’s Alley 
to the northern  portion of the city.

Constantine—R.  F.  Watkins  has  sold 
his grocery stock  and  removed  his drug | 
stock to  a location  on  the  opposite  side 
of the street.

Cora!—Newell & Shook have purchased 
the  grocery,  crockery,  confectionery and 
fancy goods  stock formerly owned  by the 
late Edwin Medes.

Cedar Springs—E.  A.  Nickerson,  who 
has dealt in  hardwood lumber for several 
years,  has  decided  to  open  a  furniture 
store at  this place.

Ashley—C.  R.  Daggett,  formerly  en-  | 
gaged in  the  grocery  business  here,  has 
purchased a general stock at Pike,  N.  Y., 
and removed  to that place.

Battle  Creek—N.  H.  Hammond  has 
sold his crockery and glassware stock  to 
David Glenn  and  A.  E.  Pilchard,  who 
will continue the business.

Del ton—Dodge & Robinson have leased 
the Hyde & Edgett  building  and  will re­
move  their  furniture  and  undertaking! 
stock from  Prairieville to  this place.

Paris—D. C.  Leggett  has sold  his  drug ! 
and  grocery  stock  to  J.  L.  &  W.  H. 
Davenport,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness.  under the style of  Davenport  & Co.  I
Holland—Irving  F.  Clapp,  who  was 
for many  years  a  leading  grocryman  of j 
Allegan,  has  leased a store  at this  place 
and  will shortly  embark  in  the  grocery 
business.

Galesburg—W.  A.  Burdick,  the  drug­
gist,  has  begun  the  erection  of  a  two- 
story brick store building, on  the  site of |

the burned building,  which he expects to 
be able to occupy by fall.

Muskegon—Geo.  Rogers has purchased 
the interest of Mrs.  Ricbar in the grocery 
firm of Richar at Son.  The business will 
be continued  by  L  C.  Richar  and  Mr. 
Rogers  under the style of Richar & Co.

Muskegon—The  Enos  Boyer  grocery 
stock  was bid in  at assignee sale by C. C. 
Moore,  of  Shelby.  The  stock 
inven­
toried $458 and Mr.  Moore’s bid was $350. 
The purchaser will continue the business 
at the «ame  location.

Traverse City—The firm  of  Despres Ac 
Montague  has  been  dissolved,  Mr.  Des­
pres  taking  the  shop  fittings,  pipe  and 
plumbing  stock,  and  Mr.  Montague  the 
hardware stock.  Mr.  Montague will con­
tinue the  hardware  business  at  the  old 
stand,  while Mr.  Despres  will  devote his 
entire time to  the plumbing business.

Detroit — William  J.  Peoples.  Grand 
River  avenue  grocer,  has  commenced  a 
$10,000  damage  suit  against  the  whole­
sale grocery firm  of  Phelps,  Brace & Co.  i 
on  the  charge  of 
imprisonment. 
The  firm  had  Peoples  arrested  on  a ca- j 
pias some  time ago  on the  charge of  ob-j 
taining  goods  under  false  representa-' 
tions.

false 

MANUFACTUKING  MATTEBS.

Clare—Tonkin,  Harris & Co.’s  shingle 
mill,  near this  place,  has  shut  down  for 
repairs.

Ravenna—Archie  McKinnon,  recently 
of  Coopersville,  has  opened  a  harness 
shop at this place.

Mt.  Clemens—Lewis  &  Brehler  are 
succeeded  by  A.  Brehler  &  Son  in  the 
manufacture of  sash and  blinds.

Sears—Charles  Plater  has  leased  the 
Johnson,  Crissenden & Co.  mill  here and 
will stock it with shingle timber.

West  Branch — The  sawmill  of  the 
French Lumber Co.  will start this  week, 
with  a stock of 2,000,000 feet of logs.

Hartwick—Shore Bros,  have just start­
ed  their saw Bill on  hardwood,  and  will 
have at  least three  months’ run  on  oak, 
basswood, elm, beech, ash and maple logs.
Evart—Nixon  &  Church  have  put  in 
about 1,000,000 feet of  hemlock  north of 
here  and  broken  camp.  D.  C.  Church 
has  put  about 5,000,000  feet  into  Clam 
River,  and  will  keep  on  lumbering 
during the summer.
Detroit—Articles 

the 
Hydrogen  Burner  Co.  have  been  filed 
with the county clerk.  The capital stock 
is  $100,000,  all  paid  in.  The  incorpo­
rators are E.  G.  Mummery,  W.  B. Thom­
son,  G.  C.  Keays and John S.  Gray.

incorporating 

McBride—The lumber and shingle firm 
cf F.  D.  Hyde &  Co., composed  of  F.  D. 
Hyde and E.  K.  Wood,  has dissolved, Mr. 
Wood  retiring.  The  business  will  be 
conducted  under the  same firm  name by 
F.  D.  Hyde and his son,  D.  M.  Hyde.

Detroit—Articles of  association of  the j 
Oswegatchie Quarry Co.,  Limited,  have ! 
been  filed.  The  capital  stock is  $300.-1 
000, of  which James W.  Carpenter,  Jr., j 
chairman,  holds $299,800,  and  James  A. 
Phelps, secretary,  and Simeon  A.  Mun- 
ger,  treasurer,  $100 each.

Averill—W.  H.  Richardson,  who  op- j 
crates  a  shingle  mill  at  this  place,  in-1 
tends putting in a planing mill in the old j 
Wright & Ketcbam  mill  building,  and  is ! 
also building a small  saw  mill  five miles ! 
from  Averill,  at 
the  old  Wright  & J 
Ketcbam headquarters,  at Hope.

Marquette — More 

logs  have  been 
banked  in  this section  the  past  season 
than for any  previous  season  in  a num-|

her of years.  J.  C.  Brown  has almost as 
many logs  banked on  Dead  River as were 
banked by the different loggers last year. 
Brown’s men are at present on the drive.
Lansing—E.  J.  Evans  has  purchased 
the interest of F.  W. Prince in  the manu­
facturing confectionery house of  Prince, 
Chamberlin & Co.  and the  business  will 
hereafter be conducted under the style of 
the Lansing Confectionery  Co.,  the other 
partners  being  John  Chamberlin—for 
many years  engaged  in  general  trade at 
East Jordan—C.  W.  Richards and Jas.  L. 
Price.

Manistee—Buckley  &  Douglas  have 
decided to  put  in  automatic  sprinklers 
all  through  their  saw  mil!  plant.  They 
recently  bad  a  smash  up  on  their rail­
road  which demoralized one of their loco­
m otives  for  the  time  being,  and  their 
general  manager  has  gone  East  to buy 
two  more,  as  they 
cannot  take  care 
. of  their  business  with  the rolling stock 
on  hand.

Bay City—S.  O.  Fisher  has  purchased 
of J.  T.  Hurst 11,000,000  feet  of  logs at 
$12 a  thousand,  and  4,000,000  feet at $6, 
the  consideration  aggregating  $156,000. 
The  logs  were cut  on  Lake Superior and 
will  be brougdt here to be manufactured. 
Mr.  Fisher had previously purchased 25,- 
000,000 feet  of  logs,  and  be  will  manu­
facture  over  50,000,000  feet  of  lumber 
this season.

Marquette—Charles  Johnson,  of  Rock 
River,  Alger  county,  owns  forty  acres 
of land  in  this county, from which he cut 
the pine and disposed  of  it.  He became 
so pine  hungry  that  he  omitted  to  pay 
attention to  the  limits  of  his  land,  and 
got over on  160  acres  of  State  land,  and 
cut  the  pine  off  that,  as  well  as  forty 
acres  more  of  State land.  He  was sum­
moned  before  the  State  Swamp  Land 
Board  to answer for the trespass. 
It was 
decided  to  compromise  the  matter pur­
suant  to  an  agreement  on  the  part  of 
Johnson  to purchase the 200  acres  at  $4 
an acre.

Plea for Fractional Currency. 

K a l a m a m o o,  April  11— An  issue  of 
$25,000,000 of  fractional  currency would 
be the greatest  convenience  the  govern­
ment could  bestow  upon  the  people. 
It 
is greatly needed  for use in the mail  and 
for like purposes.  Even  if  postal  notes 
were  issued  at  every  postoffice,  they 
would  by no means fill the want, but they 
might  well  be  changed  to  postoffice 
checks,  with blank  lines  to  be  filled in 
by  the  sender  with  name  and  resi 
deuce of  payee,  and  also transferable by 
endorsement. 
In  this  form  they would 
be  as  safe  as  bank  checks,  and  if  not 
filled out  would  be  payable  to  bearer. 
This 
improved  postal  note  would  not 
conflict with or supply  the want of  frac­
tional  currency.  The  German  money 
order postal card  is still  simpler.

N em o.

State of Ohio, City of Toledo, |

Lucas County 

f ss-

Frank  J.  Cheney  makes  oath  that  he is the 
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., 
doing business in the city ot Toledo, county and 
state  aforesaid, and  that said  firm will  pay the 
sum  of  ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS  for  each 
and  every case of  catarrh  that cannot be cured 
by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Core.

FRANK  J.  CHENEY.
presence, this 6th day of December, A D, 1886.

Sworn  to  before  me  and  subscribed  in  my 

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A  W GLEASON,

Notary Public.

Hall’s Catarrh  Cure is taken  internally and acts 
directly on the blood  and  mucuous  surfaces of 
the system.  Send for testimonials, free.
F  J   CHENEY  &  CO,  Toledo, O 

Sold by druggists, 75c.

Selig Corset Co.’s

T H E

M O D E L
(Trade Mark.)
F O R M .

Greatest  Seller  on  Earth!

Send for Illustrated  Catalogue.  See  price list 

in this journal.
SCHILLING  CORSET  C0.f

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BOSTON  PETTY  LEDGER.

Year account  is always posted!

Your bill  is  aiwais  made out!

Size 8%x3J£,  bound  in cloth  and  leather  back 
and corners.  Nickel bill  file. Indexed, ruled  on 
both  sides, 60  lines, being  equal to a bill  twice 
as long.
1000 bill heads with Ledger  complete.......... 13 00
2000  “ 
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5000  “ 
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Fair  Contracts,

O rganized  188,1.

Epitahle  Rates,

Prompt Settlements.

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P A M P H L E T S

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representative business men of 

our own State.
D.  WHITNEY,  JR.,  Pres.

EUGENE  HARBECK,  Sec’y.

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

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Cbas.  S.  Jandorf  has  opened  a bakery 

at 502 South Division street.

Leroy & Son have  removed  their  gro­
cery store on North Lafayette street over 
to East Bridge street.

F.  L.  Tolies has opened a grocery store 
at Big  Prairie.  The  Ball-Barnhart-Put- 
man Go. furnished the stock.

W.  H.  Pardee,  dry  goods  dealer  at 
Freeport,  has  added a line  of  groceries. 
The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished 
the stock.

B.  Van Anrooy  informs T h e   T r a d e s­
m a n  that  the  report  that  he  purchased 
the grocery  stock  of  Wm.  D.  Hembling 
is untrue.

The Grand Rapids Corset Co. has leased 
an entire floor  in  the  New  Gilbert block 
and will  remove  its  manufacturing  and 
shipping departments from  the  Kennedy 
block to that location.
Chas.P. Rathbun has purchased the mort­
gages on the Ira  C.  Hatch  grocery  stock 
and taken possession  of  same.  He  will 
probably  go  through  the  formality  of 
foreclosing  the  last  mortgage,  to  secure 
title  to the  stock,  when  Mr.  Hatch  will 
probably resume charge of  the  business. 
It  is  predicted  by  Mr.  Hatch’s  friends 
that  he  will  ultimately own  the  stock
again. 

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The  Cooper  Commercial  Agency— 
owned  by  Stevenson  &  Cumings—and 
the Union Credit Co.  have  merged  their 
business into one agency under the  style 
of 
the  Commercial  Credit  Co.  Tru­
man  Kellogg  and  Don  P.  Jones,  who 
were  President  and  Vice-President  of 
the  Union  Credit  Co.,  retire  from  the 
business, 
the  proprietors  of  the  new 
agency  being  L.  J.  Stevenson,  C.  A. 
Cumings and C.  E. Block.

Max  Westheimer,  the  Three  Rivers 
clothier,  recently  uttered  three  mort­
gages on his stock—one  for $2,100  to his 
father-in-law at  Niles,  another for $2,000 
to a local  bank  and a third  for  $1,000 to 
his  wife.  He  then  assigned  to  Hosea 
Burch.  Peter Doran went to Three Riv­
ers at the  instance  of  L.  Marcus  & Son, 
of Buffalo,  and replevined  $800  worth of 
goods,  when  Westheimer 
settled  the 
claim  by  giving  endorsed  paper.  He 
subsequently compromised another claim 
at 30 cents on  the  dollar  and  will  prob­
ably effect a settlement with all his cred­
itors and resume business.

Purely  Personal.

J.  D.  Noah,  general  dealer  at  Moline, 

was in town Monday.

Dr.  Chas.  S.  Hazeltine and Hon. Edwin 
F.  Uhl propose to go to Europe  in June, 
where they will remain  a  month  or  six 
weeks.

Frank A.  Stone  was  in  Chicago  two 
days last week,  attending  a  meeting  of 
the National  Association  of  Jobbers  of 
Crockery and  Glassware.

Wm.  H.  Hoops,  formerly a  resident of 
this city,  but now  residing in  the Windy 
City,  was  in  town a couple  of  days  last 
week, on his way to Lutner.

D.  C.  Leggett,  who  recently  disposed 
Gf his drug  and  grocery  stock  at  Paris, 
has decided to  remove  to  Hart  and  em­
bark in the clothing business.

Geo.  W.  Leveridge,  who  has  acted  as 
head  clerk 
for  E.  Hagadorn,  general 
dealer  at  Fife  Lake,  for  several  years, 
died 
last  Tuesday,  leaving  wife  and 
children.

Bert Longwell, of the firm of Longwell 
Bros.,  druggists  at  Mason,  has  returned 
to his desk  at  the  Agricultural  College, 
after a fortnight’s vacation on account of 
the diphtheria quarantine.

Fred  C.  Miller  has  gone  to  Dallas, 
Texas,  to  look  over  the  properties  and 
prospects  of  the  Lone  Star  Salt Co., of 
which  he  is  a  stockholder.  The prin­
cipal owner of  the  business  is Frederick 
R.  Blount,  who  was  formerly  a  resident 
of this city,  and a member  of  the former 
firm of Blount & Miller.

The  friends  of  Henry  Royce  will  re­
joice with him  over  his  appointment  as 
district manager  of  the  Bradstreet  Co., 
as successor to Henry Idema.  Mr.  Royce 
has  been  connected  with  the  office  for 
nearly a  dozen  years  and  is  thoroughly 
acquainted with every detail of  the busi­
ness.  No better selection could possibly 
have been made by the  management.

Reuben  A.  Deal,  who  is  associated 
with his father,  J.  Deal,  in general trade 
and the manufacture  of  staves,  heading 
and lumber at  Gun  Marsh,  was  married 
last Thursday to  Miss  MaryBrouard,  of 
Doster.  The happy couple spent Sunday 
in Grand Rapids and will be  “at home”  to 
their friends at Gun Marsh after May 30. 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n   extends  congratula­
tions.

Byron Joslin,  a competent and faithful 
member  of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   fold,  died 
very suddenly last  Thursday  evening at 
the family residence on  Prospect  street, 
leaving  a  wife—the  daughter  of  Hon. 
Wm.  D.  Fuller—and  two  children.  De­
ceased  was  an  excellent  printer  and  a 
man  worthy  the  respect  and  confidence 
of  everyone.  All  who  knew  him  will 
sincerely  regret  his untimely taking off.
H.  M.  Lee,  for many  years  engaged in 
the clothing business at Nashville, passed 
through the  city last  Wednesday  on  his 
way  to  Tacoma,  which  he  expects  to 
make  his  home  in  the  future.  Before 
leaving home he  was served  with a sum­
mons,  at  the  instance  of  W.  T.  Barker, 
alleging $200,000 damages  for non-fulfill­
ment of contract in  connection  with  the 
Barker Scale Co., of  which  he  is a quar­
ter owner.  Frank  C.  Boise  is  made co­
defendant with him  in the action.

Sugar  Competition.

From the New York Shipping List.

of 

from 

competition 

A well  known  sugar refiner,  who is not 
identified with the combination,  sums  up 
the whole sugar situation in a few words, 
as follows:  “The trust, even if it owned 
every refinery in  the  land,  and  had  not 
the opposition which  will  come  from my 
factories,  would meet with  the  sharpest 
kind 
foreign 
countries.  The tariff  law  provided  for 
this,  and  a sugar monopoly is  as  impos­
sible as are  most of 
the  other monopo­
lies talked of and written  about  so  fre­
quently.”  Let prices be put above a cer­
tain  point  and  this  country  would®  be 
flooded with refined sugar  from  abroad. 
Even now English exporters  are  finding 
a market here for both the cane  and beet 
products  at a shade under current figures 
for  domestic.  Another  source  of  com­
petition will be the American  beet  sugar 
interests,  the intention being to establish 
refining plants independent  of  the  com­
bination.

The Sisseton Indian  Reservation

In South Dakota will  be  open  to  settle­
ment on or about April 15.  This reserv­
ation  comprises  some  of  the  choicest 
lands  in  Dakota for  farming  and  sheep­
raising purposes.  For detailed informa­
tion  address  W.  E.  Powell,  General  Im­
migration  Agent,  Chicago,  Milwaukee 
&  St.  Paul  Railway,  Chicago,  111.;  or 
Harry  Mercer,  Michigan  Passenger 
Agent,  82 Griswold Street, Detroit; Mich.

Fin e
Cut!

Tie Best  Tolacco  in America  to  Retail  at 50  cents.
BALL-BARNHART-PUTMAN  CO.

SEND  A  SAMPLE  ORDER  TO

Geo. H.  Reeder & Co.,
BOOTS  & SHOES
Felt Boots and Alaska  Socks-

JOBBERS  OF

Clover ani 
Tiotty  M

Now is the time to buy CLOVER  AND 
TIMOTHY  SEED  for  your spring trade. 
We  have  a  good  stock  and  for  THIS 
WEEK will sell  you

FOR  CASH

In five bag lots or over as follows: 

Prime Clover, 
No, 2 
Timothy, 

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6  00
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Bags extra at market  price.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

W.  T. LAMOREADÎ  & CO. D o n ’ t
BUY  TIE  PENINSULAR
Pits,  Shirts,  iH   Overalls

Once and You are our Customer 

for life.

158 &  160  F u lto n   St., G rand  R apids

  B u y

YOUR  SPRING  LINES  OF

Base Ball  Boots,

& M i l   Tacilo

STANTON, MOREY & C0„ Mtrs. Until you have seen our  assortment.  Our sales­

men are now on the way to call on you.

D ETRO IT,  M ICH.

Geo. F. Owen, Salesman  for Western  Michigan, 

Residence, 59 N.  Union St., Grand  Rapids.

EATON,  LYON  &  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

ably better than  red and orange.

y e t n o t so  w ell  as o ran g e  an d   yellow .
combination.

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Harmonies  For  Window  Dressers.
Red and violet do not accord well.
Orange  and  yellow  accord  incompar­
Orange and green do not  accord  well.
O range  an d   v io le t  accord  p assab ly , 
Yellow and  green  form  an  agreeable 
Greenish yellow and violet blend  nice­
ly-
The  arrangement  of yellow  and  blue 
is  more  agreeable  than  that  of  yellow 
and green,  but it is less lively.
Green and blue produce an  indifferent 
effect,  but  better  when  the  colors  are 
deep.
Green  and  violet,  especially  when 
light,  form a  combination  preferable  to 
green and  blue.
the 
side of indigo, increases its intensity, and 
vice  verm.

Orange-yellow,  when  placed  by 

Red and green intensify each other.
Yellow and indigo  combine  perfectly.
Red and orange do not accord well.
Red  and  yellow  accord  pretty  well, 
especially if the red is purple-red  rather 
than  scarlet,  and  the  yellow  rather 
greenish than  orange.
Red and blue accord passibly,  especial­
ly if the  red  incline  rather  to  scarlet 
than crimson.

Blue and violet accord badly.
When two colors accord badly together 
it  is  always  advantageous  to  separate 
them by white.
Black  never  produces  a  bad  effect 
when it is associated  with two  luminous 
colors.
Black  and  white  sensibly  modify 
bright  colors.
While gray never  exactly  produces  a 
bad  effect 
in  its  association  with  two 
luminous  colors,  yet  in  most  cases  its 
assortments are dull.
Blue when placed by the side of orange 
increases the latter’s intensity,  and  vice 
versa.

friend 

P u ttin g   th e   B e s t  F a c e   U n o n   it. 
Pommery  met  an  old 

the 
other  day  whom  he  had  not  seen  for 
several years.
“Bless  me,  Pommery,  old  boy!  I’m 
glad  to see you.  You are  looking  well. 
How is it with you?”
“Fair to middling,”  replied  Pommery. 
“Married  yet?”
“Yes.”
“That’s good.”
“Not so very good.  I married a shrew.” 
“Ah—that’s bad.”
“Not  so  very  bad.  She  brought  me 
“Indeed—that was  good.”
“Not so very  good.  1  laid  it  out  in 
sheep  in  a  Texas  ranch,  and  they  all 
died of foot rot.”
“Surely,  that was  most  unfortunate.” 
“Not so very  unfortunate,  for  I  sold 
the skins for more  than  the  sheep  cost 
me.”

thirty thousand dollars.”

“That made ample amendment.”
“Not so  very  ample.  1  laid  out  the 
money  upon  a  house,  and  the  house 
burned down,  with all there  was  in  it.” 
“That  was hard luck, surely.”
“Not so very  hard.  My  wife  was  in 

it!”

P o s itiv e   P ro o f.

“Papa,” said a talkative little girl, “am 
“No,  my  child. 
If  you  were,  you 

I made of dust” ?
would dry up once  in awhile.”

A woman entered a West Chester,Penn., 
store,  the other day and asked for  a  cer­
tain saleswoman.  A clerk said  that  the 
saleswoman  in  question  was  absent,  to 
attend  the funeral of her  mother,  which 
was  to  take  place  at  3 o’clock 
in  the 
afternoon.  “Dear me.  I’m so sorry,”  re­
plied  the  woman.  “Do  you  think  she 
will be back by 4?”  ’And the  clerk  told 
her,  as  politely  as  he  could,  that  he 
hardly thought the young  woman  would 
make a dead  rush  from  the  cemetery  to 
the store,  and.  what  was  more,  he  said 
they  “wouldn’t think mnch of her if  she 
did.”  The woman  went away,  thinking 
how little reliance  was  to  be  placed  on 
“salesladies.”

Use Tradesman Coupon Boohs.

[  Hak« a  Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

’I'Hfti  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N
Dry Goods Price Current.

Do  Y ou  Desire  to  Sell

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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A d riatic...................  7
Argyle  ....................   6
Atlanta AA..............6
Atlantic  A ...............   6%
H ................. 6*
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D ...............   6
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Amory......................   6*4
Archery  B unting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  5*4
Blackstone O, 32__ 5
Black Crow............. 6
Black  Rock  ............6
Boot, AL.................  7
Capital  A .................5*4
Cavanat V ............... 5*4
Chapman cheese cl.  3*4
Clifton  C R ..............5*4
Comet....................... 6*4
Dwight Star.............  6*4
Clifton C CC ............  6*4

Arrow Brand 5*4
“  World Wide.. 6*4
“  LL.................4*4
Full Yard Wide.......6*4
Georgia  A ...............   6*4
Honest Width..........  6*4
Hartford A  ..............  5
Indian Head............  7
King A  A.................6*4
King EC .  ................  5
Lawrence  L L ........   5*4
Madras cheese cloth 6*4
Newmarket  G........ 5*4
B  ........5
N ......... 6*4
D D ....  5*4
X ........ 6*4
Noibe R ....................  5
Our Level  Best.......6*4
Oxford  R .................  6
Pequot......................  7
Solar.........................   6*4
Top of the  Heap__ 7
ABC.....................8*4
Geo.  W ashington... 8
Glen Mills...............  7
Amazon.................... 8
Gold  Medal............. 7*4
Amsburg...................7
Green  Ticket.......... 8*4
Art  Cambric............10
Great Falls..............   6*4
Blackstone A A.......   8
Hope......................... 7*4
Beats A ll...................  4*4
Boston...................... 12
Just  Out.......  4*4@ 5
King  Phillip............7*4
Cabot.........................  7
OP....... 7*4
Cabot,  X ...................6X
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Charter  Oak............ 5*4
Conway W ................7*4
Lonsdale............  ©  8*4
Middlesex.........   @ 5
Cleveland.................7
Dwight Anchor........8*4
No Name..................  7*4
shorts.  8
Oak View.................  6
Edwards....................6
Our Own..................  5*4
Empire......................  7
Pride of the W est.. .12 
Rosalind...................7*4
Farw ell.....................7*4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8*4lSunllght...................   4*4
Utica  M ills............. 8*4
Fitchville  .............. 7
“  Nonpareil  ..10
First Prize............... 7
Fruit of the Loom %.
V lnyard....................  8*4
White Horse............  6
Fainnount................. 4*4
“  Rock..............8*4
Full Value...............6*4
Cabot........................ 7  I Dwight Anchor.........8*4
Farw ell.................... 8 
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Trem ontN...............  5*4
Hamilton N ..............  6*4
L ..............  7
Middlesex  AT.........8
Y 
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Nol. 25..!!  9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

Middlesex No.  1....10
2....11
3 .. 
7 .. 
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UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

HALE  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

colored — 19*4 White Star.

....  8
....  9
....  9
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CARPET WARP.
...17*4 Integrity colored.
colored

Hamilton N __ ....  7*4 Middlesex A A ....... .11
2....... .12
Middlesex P T.
A  O....... .13*4
A  T.
4....... .17*4
X A.
5....... .16
X F.
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Peerless,  white.
Integrity...................18*41
Hamilton...................  8  Nameless..................20
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G G  Cashmere.........21 
N am eless..................16 
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Coraline 
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Schilling's..............9 Ool Brighton................... 4 75
Davis  W aists.......  9 00 Bortree’s ...............   9 00
Grand  Rapids......   4  50| Abdominal............ 15 00
Armory....................   6*4
Nanmkeagsatteen..  7
Androscoggin..........7*4
Rockport.................. 6*4
Conestoga...................6%
B lddefora...............   6
W alworth................6X
Brunswick...............6*4
FRI]
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Berwick fancies—   5*4
Allen turkey  reds..  5*4 
robes............. 5*4
Clyde  Robes............
Eink a purple 6*4
Charter Oak fancies  4*4 
u ff s ............6
DelMarlne cashm’s.  6 
monrn’g  6 
pink  checks.  5*4
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Eddy stone  fancy...  5*4
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shirtings...  4
chocolat  5*4
rober___5*4
American  fancy....  5*4 
American Indigo—   5*4 
sateens..  5*4
American shirtings.  4 
Hamilton fancy.  ..  5*4 
Argentine  G rays...  6 
staple....  5*4 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Manchester  fancy  .  5*4 
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Arnold 
new era.  5*4
Arnold  Merino.......6
Merrimack D fancy.  5*4 
long cloth B. 10*4 
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Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4*4 
Repp furn .  8*4
“  C.  8*4
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century cloth  7
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Pacific fancy...........5*4
“  gold seal.......10*4
robes.............6*4
“  green seal TR 10*4 
Portsmouth robes...  5*4 
“  yellow seal.. 10*4
Simpson mourning..  5*4
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serge..............11*4
greys.........6*4
solid black.  5*4 
“  Turkey  red.. 10*4 
Ballon solid black..  5 
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colors.  5*4
“  Turkey robes..  7*4
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  India robes__ 7*4
red and  orange...  5*4
“  plain T’ky X X  8*4 
Berlin solids............  5*4
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oil blue........6*4
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red ..................  6
“  g reen ....  6*4
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Martha Washington
red X ...........  7
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Martha Washington
“ X  .............9*4
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Turkey red...........   9*4
«  3 4XXXX 12
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Rlverpolntrobes....  5
Cocheco fancy........ 6
Windsor fancy.........6*4
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madders...  6 
Indigo  Dine.......... 10*4
“  XXtw ills..  6*4 
solids.........5*{
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Amoskeag A C A .... 12*4
A C  A........................ 12*4
Hamilton N .............   7*4
Pemberton AAA__ 16
York.......................... 10*4
D ............. 8*4
Awning.. 11
Swift River..............  7*4
Farm er........................8
Pearl  River............. 12
First Prize...............li*4
W arren............. .....13
Lenox M ills............ 18
COTTON  DRILL.
Atlanta,  D ...............  6X ¡Stark A 
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Boot..........................6X  No Name.....................7*4
Clifton, K ................... 6  ¡Top of  Heap............. 10
Simpson................... 20
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Imperial................... 10*4
Black..................9© 9*4
“  BC............  ©10

Washington indigo.

gold  ticket

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Coechoo.................. 10)4

By Sam ple?

Send for odr Spring catalogne

SM ITH   &  SANFORD,

G rand  Rapids, Mich.

Don’t nay MgM
Haifacturers’ Prices.

From Boston  and  New York  on 
Shoe Dressing when you can buy 
it  of  H1RTH  &  KRAUSE  at

GILT  EDGE, 
GLYCEROLE, 
RAVEN  GLOSS, 
ALMA,  [ Large size].

A  Rug  with  each  gross,  $22.80.  Shoe 
Stool with two gross.  An assorted  gross 
of the above dressing, $22.80.

HIRTH  &  K RAUSE,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

USE

MILE-END

Best  Six  Gord
j U n e   or  Hand  Use.

— FOR —

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL

Dealers  in  Dry  Goods & Notions
FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

D. A. Blodgett, President.

S. F. Aspinwall, Vice-President.

CAPITAL, 

Wh . H. A n d e r s o n ,  Cashier.
-  $300,000.
-  - 

Transacts a general  banking  business.

SEMINS.

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Amoskeag................12*4
9oz.......13*4
brown .13
Andover...................11*4
Beavercreek  A A... 10 
B B ...  9
“ 
CC....
“ 
Boston Mfg Co.  b r..  7 
“ 
blue  8*4
**  d a twist  10*4 
Columbian XXX  br.10 
“ 
XXX  bl.19

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, bine........... 12
brown....... 12
Haymaker blue.......7X
brow n...  7X
Jeffrey.......................11*4
Lancaster................. 12*4
Lawrence, 9 o s.........18*4
No. 220.... 13 
No. 250....11*4 
No. 280.... 10*4

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Amoskeag................7

“  Persian dress  8*4 
Canton ..  8*4
“ 
AFC.........10*4
“ 
Teazle.. .10*4 
“ 
“ 
Angola.. 10*4 
“ 
Persian..  8*4 
Arlington staple—   6*4 
Arasapha  fancy—   4% 
Bates Warwick dres  8*4 
staples.  6*4
Centennial..............  10*4
C riterion..................10*4
Cumberland  staple.  5*4
Cumberland............ 5
Essex.......................... 4*4
Elfin......................  7*4
Everett classics...... 8*4
Exposition.................7)4
Glenarie...................  6*4
Glenarven..................634
Glenwood...................7*4
Hampton.................... 6*4
Johnson Uhalon cl 
*4 
Indigo blue  9*4
zephyrs— 16

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GINGHAMS.
Lancaster,  staple...  7 
fan cies....  7 
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire...............  6*4
Manchester__  .......  6X
Monogram..................6*4
Normandie.................7*4
Persian....................... 8*4
Renfrew Dress.........7*4
Rosemont...................6*4
Slatersville................6
Somerset.....................7
Tacoma  .....................7*4
Toll  duN o rd .......... 10*4
W abash....................   7*4
seersucker..  7*4
W arwick.................  8*4
W hlttenden................634

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heather dr.  8
Indigo blue  9
Wamsutta staples...  6X
Westbrook..................8
............... 10
Wlndermeer...............6
York............................6X

DRAIN  BASS.

Amoskeag............... 16*41 Valley City................15*4
Stark........................  19*4  Georgia....................15*4
American................ 16 
| Pacific........................14*4

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile E nd....45  ¡Barbour's................. 88
Coats’, J. & P ..........45  Marshall’s .................88
Holyoke...................22*4|

KNITTING  COTTON.

White.  Colored. 

No.

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

..12
..18
..19

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

White.  Colored.
42
43
44
45

No.  14.......... 37 
16.......... 38 
“ 
*• 
18..........39 
“ 
20.......... 40 

38
39
40
41
CAMBKICB.
.  4  ¡Edwards.................   4
Lockwood.................. 4
Wood’s ....................  4
B runsw ick.............  4

RED  FLANNEL.

Firem an...................32*4
Creedmore...............27*4
Talbot XXX............30
Nameless.................27*4

T W ............................22*4
F T ............................32*4
J R F , XXX.............35
Buckeye.................. 82*4

MIXED  FLANNEL.

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9*4
lo*4
11*4
12*4

DOMET  FLANNEL.

9*4 13
10*4 15
11*4 17
12*4 20
DUCKS.

Red & Blue,  plaid..40
Union R ...................22*4
W indsor...................18*4
6 oz W estern........... 20
Union  B ..................22*4
Nameless.......8  ©9*41 
.......8*4010  I 

Grey S R  W .............17*4
Western W  .............. 18*4
D R P ........................18*4
Flushing XXX........23*4
Manitoba.................23*4
©10*4
12*4
Slate. Brown.  Black. Slate. Brown. Black.
13
9*4
15
10*4
17
11*4
20
12*4
Severen . 8 oz.......... ■  9*4 West  Point, 8 oz ...10*4
10 oz ...12*4
May land, 8 oz........ .10*4
Greenwood, 7*4 oz. .  9*4 Raven, lOoz.......
...13*4
.......
Greenwood, 8 0*... .11*4 Stark
...13*4
Boston, 8 oz............ .10*4 Boston 10 o z....
...12*4
WADDINGS.
25 Per bale, 40 dos.. ..87  50
.20
SILESIAS.
.  8 Pawtucket........... ...10*4
.  9 Dundie................ ...  9
.10*4 Bedford............... ...10*4
.12*4 Valley  City......... ...10*4
.  714 KK  .......................... ..  10*4

White, doz............
Colored,  doz.........
Slater, Iron Cross.
Red Cross..
Best...........
B estA A ...
..........................

13
15
17
20

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TJ 
G ............................. ..  8*4
CortlcelU, doz..........75

SEWING  SILK.

CortlcelU  knitting, 
per *4oz  ball........ 30

8 
10 

twist, doz.. 37*4 
50 yd, doz.. 37*4
HOOKS AND ETES—FEB G BOSS.
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No  4 Bl'k A White..15
No  1 Bl’k & White..10
..20
“  2 
..12
.25
»  3 
..12
No 2-20, M C .......... 50  INO 4—15  F   3*4.........40
‘  3—18.SC ............45  I
COTTON  TAPS.
No  2 White & Bl'k..12 
10 
“  4 
..15
12 
..18
«  6 
SAFETY  FINS.
....28  IN08...
NEEDLES—FEB  M.

¡No  8 White A Bl’k..20 
.23
.26

FINS.

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A. Jam es...................1  401 Steamboat....  .........  40
s.................1  35 Gold  Eyed................1  50
Crowely’s..................1  35 <
Marshall’s ................1 00|
5—4. ...2 25  6—4. ..3 2515—4....1  95  6—4. ..2 95 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“ 

...3  10|
COTTON TWINES.

“ ....2   10 

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crow n......................12
D om estic.................18*4
A nchor.................... 16
B ristol..................... 13
Cherry  Valley.........15
1 X L ......................... 18*4
Alabama...................6X
Alamance.................  6*4
A ngusta...................7*4
Ar  sapha.................  6
Georgi«.....................  6*4
G ranite....................  SX
Haw  River..............6
Haw  J ......................6

N ashua.................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply— 17 
3-ply....17
North  Star...............20
Wool Standard 4 ply 17*4 
P ow hattan............. 18

Mount  Pleasant__ 6*4
Oneida.....................5
P ry m o n t.................  5X
Randelman..............6
Riverside.................  5*4
Sibley  A ...................  6*4
Toledo......................  6

PLAID  OBNABURG8

In  fact  there  will, 

Um brella  Men  W ant to  Combine.
From the New York Commercial Bulletin.
It is reported on  very  good  authority 
that a movement  is  on  foot  among  the 
large  umbrella  and  parasol  manufac­
turers of  this city to form a big combina­
tion 
for  the  purpose  of  maintaining 
prices.  A number of  preliminary  meet­
ings have been held,  but  as  yet  no  or­
ganization  has  been  effected.  Another 
meeting is  to  be  held  early  next  week 
and definite results are expected.
The  plan  that  the  promoters  of  the 
movement have  outlined  does  not  con­
template  the  formation  of  any  central 
company. 
if  the 
scheme be  consummated,  be  no  change 
whatever  in  the  offices  of  the  various 
manufacturers.  The idea,  in  brief,  is to 
control  the  frame  manufacturers,  and 
through them to control the smaller man­
ufacturers  of  umbrellas  and  parasols. 
In other words,  it is the intention to reg­
ulate one of the chief  sources of  supply.
The umbrella  trade  is  at  the  moment 
in  a  very  unsatisfactory  condition.  As 
is the  case  with  other similar  branches 
of business,  it is suffering from the  evils 
of  dating ahead. 
In  the  keen  competi­
tion that  has  arisen  for  business  sub­
stantial customers are able practically  to 
dictate the terms on which they  will buy 
goods,  and  they  naturally  dictate  very 
long terms.  As  a result the capital that 
was sufficient  to  carry  on  the  business 
some  years  ago  is  now  utterly 
inade­
quate.  The  large  manufacturers  find 
comparatively little  inconvenience  from 
this source,  but the smaller ones  are  un­
able to stand  the  strain,  and  are  com­
pelled at  times  to  make  decided  sacri­
fices of stock to  obtain  ready  cash.  As 
in other  branches  of  competitive  trade, 
the lowest  seller establishes  the  market 
price,  and in  this  way  the  large  manu­
facturers join as common  sufferers  with 
the small ones on account  of  the  exten­
sion of credits.
The smaller manufacturer,  in  addition 
to the credit  system,  often finds it to his 
advantage to buy a  large  lot  of  frames, 
or sticks,  or coverings.  He has  not  this 
ready money,  but before his bill becomes 
due  he  finds  a  customer  where  he  can 
place,  and receive cash payment,  for say 
half of the complete umbrellas at a  very 
moderate profit,  or  at  times  at  a  small 
loss.  His actual profit  he  can  make  on 
the other half.
This,  it is claimed,  is the  condition  of 
affairs that has brought  about  the move­
ment to form the  combination. 
It  is ar­
gued that if the supply of  frames can  be 
controlled  the small  manufacturers  can 
be made to pay such prices  as will  force 
them  to  maintain  the  selling  figures. 
There  are  three  factories  that it is esti­
mated  supply  fully  90  per  cent,  of  the 
umbrella  frames,  and  negotiations  have 
already  been  started  for  the  output of 
those factories.  The arrangement that it 
is  desired to  make  is that  the  factories 
shall  agree  to  sell their  entire  output 
(which shall be the  same  as last  year’s) 
to  the  combination  at a specified  price; 
and shall  agree  not to  increase  the  out­
put.  The  factories,  it is stated,  are con­
sidering the proposition, but  feel that in 
view  of  placing  such  restrictions  on 
themselves  they  should  get  an increase 
in price  over  last  year.  As  this  would 
be in  turn  an  increased  cost  to  the um­
brella manufacturer,  there is some hitch, 
we are informed,  in the work of  organiz­
ing the  combination.  Another  idea  ad­
vanced in connection  with  the  proposed 
combination  is that  a fund  be  raised  to 
purchase  and  keep  from  flooding  the 
market (which means keeping out of  the 
hands of the jobbers)  the  surplus  stocks 
of the smaller  manufacturers.  There  is 
naturally considerable difference of opin­
ion  on this  among  the  promoters  of  the 
proposed combination. 
It is argued that 
the  combination  in  this  event  would 
simply become a charitable  organization 
for  old  umbrellas—the  more  the  small 
people could produce the more money the 
big ones would  lose.

E N G R A V IN G

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

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

HAMMERS.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dlS.
Snell’s ................................................................  
60
Cook’s ................................................................ 
40
Jennings', genuine..........................................  
25
Jennings’,  im itation...................................... 50*10

AUGURS AND BITS. 

AXES.

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

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

BARROWS. 

dlS.

Railroad...........................................................•  14 00
Garden....................................................... net  30 00

bolts. 

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

 

 

BUCKETS.

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

BUTTS, CAST. 

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

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

60

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

BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel................................................ per lb 
5
Ely’s 1-10................................................ perm   65
Hick’s  C .F .............................................. 
G. D .........................................................  
M usket....................................................  

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

CARTRIDGES.

chisels. 

Socket F irm er...................................................70*10
Socket Framing................................................70*10
Socket Comer....................................................70*10
Socket Slicks....................................................70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firm er............................... 
40

60
35
60

50
25

dls.

dls.

Curry,  Lawrence’s ..........................................  
40
25
H otchkiss.........................................................  
White Crayons, per  gross............... 12@12>4 dls. 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. 

 

dls.

DRIPPINe PANS.

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

 

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

07
6*4

ELBOWS.

Com. 4  piece, 6 in .............................. dot. net 
75
Corrugated...............................................dls 
40
Adjustable................................................dls. 40*10

dlS.

dls.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, IIS; large, 126.........................  
Ives’, 1,118;  2,124;  8, ¡3 0 ..............................  

80
25

piles—New List. 

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

GALVANIZED IRON.

12 

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

14 
GAUGES. 

Discount, 60

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

13 

15 

28
17

50

25

dls.

dls.

dlB.

HINGES.

dls.
die.

levels. 

HANGERS. 

MATTOCKS.

wire goods. 

LOCKS—DOOR. 

HOLLOW WARE.

knobs—New List. 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

14  and 
longer............................................................  
*4.......... ............net
%.......... ............net
St.......... ............net
* .......... ............net
..........dis.

Maydole  *  Co.’s ........ ................................ dls. 
Rip’s ....................................................................... dls. 25
Yerkes *  Plumb’s ................................................ dls. 40*10
Mason's Solid Cast Steel............................80c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand__ 30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ................................. dis.eo&io
State............................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 
3*4
10
8*4
7*4
7*4
50
Bam Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50*10
Champion,  anti friction..............................   60*10
Kidder, wood tra c k ......................................... 
40
Pots..................................................................... 60*10
Kettles................................................................ 60*10
Spiders  ..............................................................60*10
Gray enameled................................................ 40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware..................................new list 70
Japanned Tin W are........................................  
25
Granite Iron W are....................... new list 3314*10
Bright..........................................................70*10*10
Screw  Eyes................................................70*10*10
Hook’s .........................................................70*10*10
70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................ 
70
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ...................... 
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings...................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................... 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings............... 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................... 
55
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain....................  
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  ..........  
55
55
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s .............................. 
Branford’s ........................................................ 
55
Norwalk’s ........................................................ 
55
Adze Bye.............................................116.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye.  .......................................... 115.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ..........................................118.50, dls. 20*10.
dlS.
50
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
40
“  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable«.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry A C lsik’s ................... 
40
“  Enterprise 
......................................... 
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..............................................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine............................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
25
Steel nails, base........................................................ 1 85
Wire nails, base........................................................2 00
Steel.  Wire.
60...............................................  
Base
  Base 
10
50...........................................................Base 
40 .........................................................  
20
05 
30..........................................................  
20
10 
30
15 
20........... 
35
16.......................................................... 
15 
35
15 
12..  ..................................................... 
10...........................................................   20 
40
50
8.............................. 
25 
65
7 *  6 ......................................................  40 
4 ............................................................   60 
90
1  50
3............................................................1  00 
2 00
2............................................................1  50 
Fine 3.................................................. 1  50 
2  00
90
Case  10..................................................  60 
100
8.....................................  
75 
1  25
6................................................  90 
Finish 10.............................................   85 
1  00
8.............................................. 1  00 
1  25
6.............................................. 1  15 
1  50
Clinch: 10 .............................................   85 
75
90
8.............................................1  00 
6.................  
100
115 
Barrell X .............................................175 
2  50
Ohio Tool Co.*s, fan cy ...................................   @40
Sclota  Bench....................................................   050
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................   @40
Bench, first quality..........................................  050
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood............  *10
Fry,  Acme.................................................dls.60—10
Common,  polished...................................dls. 
70
dlB.
Iron and  Tinned.............................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Burs................................  5C—10
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

Advance over base: 

 
PLANES. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

“ 
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“ 
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rivets. 

NAILS

dlS.

dls.

Broken packs He per pound extra.

 

 

 

 

 

7

ROPES.

9*4

squAREs. 

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, *4 inch and la rg e r................................ 
M anilla..............................................................  13
dls.
Steel and  Iron..................................................  
Try and Bevels................................................. 
M itre.................................................................  

75
60
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
12 95
3 15
3 C5
3 15
8 25
3  35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14..........................................14 05 
NOS. 15 to 17 ........................................   4  05 
Nos.  18 to 21.......................................  4  06 
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..........................................dls. 
Sliver Lake, White  A ................................ list 
Drab A ....................................  “ 
White  B .................................  “ 
Drab B ....................................   “ 
White C....................................“ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
50
55
35

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“ 
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Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

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

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

Solid Eyes................................................ per ton 125
20
70
50
30
30
Steel, Game........................................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................. 
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s __  
70
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c per doz
Mouse, delusion..................................11.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..................................................   65
Annealed M arket.............................................70—10
Coppered Market  ............................................  60
Tinned Market.................................................  G2*4
Coppered  Spring  Steel...................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..................................  3 10
painted.......................................  2 65

wire. 

dla.

“ 

dls.

WRENCHES. 

Au  Sable......................................................dls.  40
dls.  06
Putnam ............................................ 
Northwestern................................... 
dls. 10*10
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
30
Coe’s  G enuine................................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought,....................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable..................................75*10
Bird Cages........................................ 
50
Pumps, Cistern............................................ 
*5
Screws, New U st..............................................70*10
Casters, Bed  a  d  Plate.............................50*10*10
Dampers,  American........................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel  goods........fit *10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dis.

 

 

HORSE NAILS.

M ETALS,

PIG TIN.

8 Si
7

ZINC.

260
28c

SOLDER.

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Pig Bars............................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2*4c per pound.
680 pound  casks............................................... 
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vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson...........................................per  pound
Hallett’s .......................................... 
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10x14 IC, Charcoal............................................I 7 50
 
14x20 IC, 
7  50
10x14 IX, 
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14x20 IX, 
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Each additional X on this grade, 11.75.

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14x20 IX, 
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8

Michigan Tradesman

Otflei&i Organ of Michigan Business Men's Association.

A WEEKLY JOURNAL DKTOTKD TO THB

Retail  Trade  of the Wolilerine State,

Published at

lOO  Louis  St., G rand R apids,

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p^-W hen  writing to  any of  our  advertisers, 
please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement in 
T h e  M ic h ig a n   T r a d e s m a n .

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

W EDNESDAY, A P R IL   13,  1892.

AFTER  THE  HOUSE  ORGANS.
At  the recent annual convention of the 
Southern  Wholesale  Grocers’  Associa­
tion,  held at Memphis,  the following res­
olution  was  unanimously  adopted:
W h e r e a s,  It  being  known  that  there 
are  now  issued  and  published  in  the 
United States  about  forty  alleged  trade 
papers  which especially  promote  the in­
terest  of  individual  houses,  and  which, 
though not  ostensibly  are  actually  con­
trolled,  issued  and  owned by  individual 
houses;  and,
W h e r e a s,  It  being  known  that  such 
trade  papers  are  permitted 
to  pass 
through  the  mails  at  second  class  rates 
of  one  cent  per  pound,  while  private 
price  lists,  honestly 
issued  and  undis­
guised  as  trade  papers,  are  required  to 
pay third class rates of one cent for each 
two ounces  or  frac’ion  thereof,  averag­
ing about ten cents per pound;  therefore 
Resolved,  that  it  is  the  sense of  this 
Association  that  this  is  an  unjust  dis­
crimination  in  favor  of  certaiu 
large 
houses  by  the  Post  Office  Department, 
which  is  contrary  to  the  laws  of  the 
United States,  and that  this  Association 
hereby  instructs  the  Secretary  to  com­
municate to the  Postmaster  General  the 
fact  that  it  protests  agaiust  such  dis­
crimination, and demands that the  privi­
lege of the  second class rate  of  one  cent 
per  pound  shall  be  extended  to  every 
house  which  issues  a  price  list,  or  to 
none.

The  above  resolution  has  the  right 
ring and should  be  adopted  by every or­
ganization of  business  men  in the coun­
try,  to the end that the  pernicious house 
organs  be  compelled  to  throw  off  their 
masks  and  cease  to  masquerade  before 
the public  in  false colors.

A  postal  fractional  currency  is  pro­
vided  for in Senator Kyle’s bill  No.  2531, 
now before the Committee  on  Postoffices 
anil  Post roads in  the United States Sen­
ate. 
It provides that on and after Jan.  1, 
1893,  the issue by  the  Postoffice  Depart­
ment of postal  notes  shall  cease,  and  in 
their stead shall  be  issued a postal  frac­
tional  currency  in  denominations  of  5, 
10,  25,  50  and  75c.  This  currency  is to 
be furnished  to  all  postmasters  in  such 
sums  as  the  Postmaster  General  shall 
deem  proper,  having  due  regard  for the 
amount of business  transacted. 
It  shall 
be legal tender for sums less than SI,and 
shall  be redeemable  at  any  postoffice  in 
the  United  to  the  amount  of  SI,  at any 
money order postoffice of the fourth class 
to the amount of $5, and in any postoffice

of  the  first,  second  or  third  class to an 
amount  not  exceeding  810 
in  any  one 
payment.  Such  postal  fractional  cur­
rency is to be furnished to  the  public on 
payment  therefor  at  its  face  value  in 
lawful money of the United  States with­
out other cost  or  charges. 
In  this  way 
fractional currency  could  be  distributed 
in any  part  of  the  country  where  most 
needed.  We  trust  that  this bill will  be 
enacted,  for  it  is  one  of  the  great con­
veniences that people living in the  coun­
try must have. 
It is a better and simpler 
measure than the fractional silver  certif­
icates  which the  House provided  tor  in 
1888 which  was  killed  in  the Senate Fi­
nance  Committee  by  the  then  Secretary 
of the Treasury,  Charles S.  Fairchild.

The inventor of  perpetual  motion and 
the American sea serpent have periods of 
appearance and  disappearance.  One W. 
W.  Mattox, of Piedmont, S.  D.,  is  repre­
sented  to  have  made  a  machine  which 
consists  of  a  walking  beam  provided 
with  a  track  upon  which  a  large  ball 
moves.  When the  bail  reaches  bne end 
of  the  plank,  it releases  a  lever  which 
throws the ball into its original position, 
again  ready  to  begin  a new  revolution. 
Several mechanics and experts have seen 
the  novel  contrivance  and  the  general 
opinion  is  that  it  is  perpetual  motion. 
The power generated  is  not  sufficient to 
be of any particular value.  Strange it is 
that in this age  any  sane  person  should 
fancy that energy can be produced  with­
out  rendering  an  equivalent.  There  is 
not,  and never  can  be,  a device  that will 
impart more than  the  power given  to it, 
less  the  friction  of  the  wearing  parts. 
No inanimate thing has inherent strength 
The stored-up  energy  of  the  sun  in  the 
form  of  a  coal  mine  is  the  nearest  ap­
proach to perpetual  motion.  Something 
can’t  be  gotten  out  of  nothing, either 
in  mechanics or  finance.

The Patterson  Guardian  says the out­
look  for the  Patterson  silk  industry  is 
brighter  than  for  many  months.  For 
more than  a year prior to the present one 
the situation was distinctly  unfavorable, 
and several  manufacturers  would  have 
gone out of  business  had they been able 
to do so without  a  large  financial  sacri- 
fic.  As it was,  not a few  “were  obliged 
to produce goods  rapidly and  sell at  low 
prices to keep their  heads above water.” 
The revival  began in December last,  and 
was first made apparent  by  an  increase 
in demand,  but  notin price.  Judging by 
the state of the market for wages of  silk, 
workers,  prices are now  improving.  As 
the paper named says, “at one mill a short 
time ago a weaver,  who has many  equals 
as a workman  in this city,  drew over $75 
for his two weeks’  labor. 
In  the  same 
mill there were about  twenty  who  drew 
sixty odd dollars,  and  none  of  the  men 
received less than  $40.”  Certainly  this 
looks a great deal  like the return  of good 
times.  Daring  the  stagnation  in  the 
silk  market  many  weavers  worked  at 
what they term  “starvation  wages,”  but 
now there is not so much  complaint.

trusts 

T h e   T r a d e s m a n  

its  readers 
will not  accuse it  of  going  into  politics 
| because it  gives  place,  this  week,  to the 
j arguments,  pro  and  con,  the  repeal  of 
the K cent duty  on  refined  sugar.  The 
question  has  assumed so  serious a phase 
that business men must  ignore  party  af­
filiations in the treatment of  the  subject 
and act in the matter in accordance  with 
the best interests of the country at large.

There must be competition in the field of 
sugar  manufacture  or  the  producer  of 
raw sugar and  the  consumer  of  the  re­
fined article will  be at  the mercy of  one 
of  the  most  grasping  monopolies  ever 
created and maintained.

The people of  the  United  States  con­
sume an average  of  175  pounds of  meat 
eacb per annum.  With a population  in­
creasing at the rate of  more  than  2,000,- 
000 yearly,  we can stand  some  increased 
production of  beef.  We  also  eat  white 
bread,  and more of both of these articles 
than  any  other  people  in  the  world. 
This does not  indicate  the  extreme pov­
erty the calamity orators tell  us about.

Bank  Notes.

The  business  public  received a  genu­
ine  surprise,  last  Thursday,  in  the  an­
nouncement  that  Henry  Idema  had  re­
signed  the  district  management  of  the 
Bradstreet Co., Io accept  the  position  of 
Vice-President of  the  Kent County  Sav­
ings  Bank.  He  had  been  connected 
with the agency  business so  many  years 
that the two had come to be  looked upon 
as  inseparable  and  his  retirement  from 
the position he  so  long  adorned  will be 
sincerely regretted by business men gen­
erally,  as  his  strict  integrity,  conserva­
tive  methods  and  excellent  judgment 
served to make him  an  exceptionally re­
liable  criterion  of  credits. 
In  his new 
duties at  the Kent County  Bank,  he  will 
attend to the  commercial  business  only, 
Cashier  Verdier  devoting  his  entire  at­
tention to the savings  department.  The 
Bank has  purchased the  building  it  has 
occupied since it  was organized  of  Mrs. 
A.  B.  Watson,  paying  $25,000  for  the 
building and realty,  and will enlarge and 
otherwise 
improve  the  banking  office 
very materially.

The Holland City  State  Bank  has  un­
dergone a new  organization  and  will  be 
known in the future as  the Holland City 
State  Savings  Bank,  with  a  capital  of 
$50,000.  The  officers  are  Jacob  Van 
Putten,  Sr.,  President;  W.  H.  Beach, 
Vice-President;  C.  VerSchure,  Cashier. 
The  directors  are  the  officers  and  J. 
C.  Post,  P.  H.  McBride,  D.  B.  K.  Van 
Raalte,  M.  Van Putten,  A.  Van  Putten 
and  J.  Van  Putten,  Jr.  The  property 
known  as  the  Howard  corner  has  been 
bought by the  Bank and  an  architect is 
drawing up plans  and  specifications  for 
a bank  building to  be  erected  upon  the 
premises.

Clerks and  Salesmen.

As  a  rule  the  most  successful  mer­
chants began as clerks and worked  their 
way up from boys to be  the heads of  the 
firms.  This  is  in  accordance  with  the 
natural order of things.

Ability in the clerk or  salesman  with­
out application is of  small  value.  Good 
employes are not made of drones or man­
ufactured of laziness.  There  must  be a 
drill or march performed  before  the raw 
recruit is fit for the fight.

The  very  first  thing  a  clerk  should 
study is himself,  his  position  in  life,  his 
In short he should  learn to 
capabilities. 
control  his  mind  and  thoughts  and  to 
turn  them  in  the  direction  of  practical 
business.  All  this  he  can  readily  ac­
quire  by  close  observation,  study  and 
practice.

“In my  travels I have  seldom  if  ever 
made a mistake in a clerk  after  entering 
his store and viewing his stock of goods,” 
says  an  old  merchant.  “I 
invariably 
know  that  where  clerks  have  allowed 
spider  webs  and  dust  to  accumulate  in 
the store they are no good,  and  the head 
of the house is not  much  better.”

Responsible  for  Losses  Caused  by 

F raudulent R epresentations.

Some time ago the City  National Bank 
of Birmingham, Ala.,  began a suit in the 
United States  Circuit  Court  against  the 
commercial agency of R.  G.  Dun & Co. to 
recover  $5,264.46,  lost  on  drafts  which 
the  bank  discounted  for  W.  A.  Kitts,  a 
lumber  merchant  of  Oswego,  on  al­
leged  false  representations  concerning 
the credit and financial  standing of Kitts 
furnished  the  commercial  agency  by S. 
B.  Burchard, their  representative.  The 
case was tried in New York.City,resulting 
in a verdict  for the full amount  claimed, 
including interest.  This is the first case 
in  which  any  commercial  agency  has 
been  held  liable  for a false  report  sent 
out  to  a  subscriber. 
In  all  previous 
cases of  a  similar  kind  the  agency  has 
been relieved of  all responsibility.

The trial judge,  in his charge,  told the 
jury that the plaintiff  could  not  recover 
unless the jury was satisfied  that Burch­
ard  made  the  representations  fraudu­
lently,  and that the defendants  were  not 
responsible  for  any  negligence  on  the 
part  of  Burchard  in  obtaining  the  in­
formation  upon  which  the  representa­
tions were made.

Every  Day  Philosophy.

Late to  bed and  early  to  ryes  maketh 
much sorrow and redness of  eyes.
It  is  far  more  blessed  to  trundle  a 
baby carriage than to lead a pug dog.
We  want  an  honest  dollar,  but  we 
want  an  honest  service  that  earns  the 
dollar.
Women  are  not  successful  at  fishing, 
because  they  can’t  drop  a  line  without 
adding a postscript.
Live  and  act  so  that  yon  won’t  be 
ashamed of the fellow  who  looks  at you 
from the  mirror.
When  a man says he is too poor to take 
a paper we believe  him,  because  that  is 
one of the reasons  why he is poor.
When  people  learn  to  fly,  wonder  if 
syndicates and  land  sharks  will  gobble 
If they don’t,  it won’t be be­
up the air. 
cause they don’t want  to.
We hear much about  the dignity of  la­
bor  and  we  hear  its  praises  sounded 
mostly  by  those  who  know  nothing  of 
labor  except  its dignity,  having  a  very 
limited  experience  of  the  thing  itself. 
We hold that no  one  should  he  ashamed 
of honest  labor,  but  we  do  hold  that  a 
person should be ashamed of  the kind of 
labor that he  does  because  he  lacks the 
energy  to  do  a kind  of  work  that  puts 
more mind into it. 

Su g a r   S c o o p.

The  Ideal  Business  Man.

The ideal business  man  must  be  hon­
est,  truthful,  prompt,  systematic,  atten­
tive  to  small  things,  punctual  in  pay­
ment,  firm in  collection  (but  willing,  if 
he  needs  be,  to  tide a  friend  over),  or­
derly,  polite,  watchful,  slow  to  decide, 
but quick to act,  never  narrow  or incon­
siderate.
Honesty,  he  feels,  is  the  basis  upon 
which  all  business  must  stand.  Upon 
his  neighbor’s  honesty  he  depends. 
Truthfulness,  that  essence  of  honesty, 
which precedes  the  exchange  of  money 
or  goods,  is  of  absolute  necessity  to 
proper  transaction  of  business.  What 
he agrees to do he  feels he  must  do,  and 
in  order  to  be  faithful 
in  this  mat­
ter he must have a certain  system which 
will not admit of the omission of a single 
act,  backed up by his  word or that of  his 
neighbor.
Upon this  thorough  basis  of  honesty, 
truthfulness,  system,  he  builds his  sym­
pathies for his friends in business.

Kindness  he  knows  to  be  what  he 
loves  best.  Kindness  draws  kindness, 
which  is  love,  which  is  sympathy.  As 
he feels,  he admits that  others  may  feel; 
and does unto no man what he would not 
have done unto him.
These  things  he  carries  ont  himself 
and  exacts in  others  because  he  knows 
them to be right

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

9

tow n Village.

The Corner  Grocery  Crowd  a t  Poke- 

when  it  comes  to  buying groceries,  one 
ablebodied  customer  is  worth  more  to 
Jerry than  seventeen  Wumpups.  Amos 
Pinchtight possesses  more  good  humor; 
sheds more smiles;  gets  more fun  out of 
life at the  least  expense,  and  has  more 
leisure  time  at  his  disposal,  than  any 
member  of  the crowd;  he will sit on  the 
salt  barrel  during  the  short  summer 
evenings,  out  under the  old  wood  awn­
ing and  watch  the  farmers’ horses gnaw 
the  horizontal  two-by-six  pine  tie  bar. 
After the big Georgia watermelons begin 
to arrive  in  Poketown,  Jerry Whiffleson, 
with  one  eye  always on  business,  plays 
the  salt  barrel  gang  of  loafers  for  all 
they’re  worth.  When  the  long  row  of 
salt  barrels  are  all  occupied,  on  a  hot! 
night,  by a  crowd of thirsty,  sweltering, 
gossiping  loungers,  of  which  Amos  is 
always  one,  Jerry  will  cut a great  slice 
of  melon,  go  outside  and  stand  on  the 
step facing the crowd and  raise that half | 
yard  of  melon  and  bury  his  face up to 
his ears in its  cool,  sweet, crimson  juici­
ness  and  smack  his  lips  and  wink  at 
Amos.  Amos is proof against shows and 
entertainments  of  all  kinds  having  an I 
admission  fee.  Amos  is  religious,  but 
the contribution  box  keeps  him  away 
from church.  Amos likes fun, and when 
the  swarthy son  of  Italy,  with  his  per­
forming  bear,  appears on the  street  cor­
ner,  he  stands  in  the  front  row  and j 
laughs  until  his face  opens up from  ear 
to  ear;  but when  he  sees  an  attendant 
remove  his cap and  start  for the crowd, 
his face shuts up with a snap like a steel 
trap,  and he suddenly remembers that he 
has  business  down  the  street.  Amos 
dearly 
loves  music,  but  it  never  had 
sufficient  power over his  soul  to unclasp 
his  pocketbook.  To all  of  these things 
Amos is as impervious as a wall of  gran­
ite;  but when Jerry gives him that water­
melon  wink,  he  tumbles. 
It is said  that 
every  man  has a weak  spot  somewhere i 
and  you  have  but  to  touch  it  and  his 
purse  is  at  your command.  Man  is  an 
animal,  and,  in  common  with  all  other 
animals,  he becomes  restless and  his ap­
petite is aroused  through  the avenues of 
his senses,  while iu the presence of those 
who  are  indulging.  Man  is  but  a ma­
tured child and  his very  nature cries out 
for every good thing which he sees others 
enjoy.  And so,  night  after  night,  Amos 
and  others  who  happen to  perch  upon 
the salt  barrels  will  sit  and  gorge them­
selves  with  watermelons  and  exchange 
pleasantries with the farmers  and  farm­
ers’  wives  who  come  into  Poketown  at 
the  close of  the  day’s  labor to exchange 
their butter and eggs for groceries.

P o k e t o w n, April 5—When Bijah Bean­
pole read in the paper an account of how 
he took the conceit out of Vinegar Brown 
and blasted  his  reputation  as a shoe ex­
pert,  he  was  “tickled" almost  to  death. 
He said Vinegar’s shoe  talk was in keep­
ing  with  his  political talk,  and  that  all 
the nois6  which he made  with his mouth 
came  out  through  the  same  hole in  his 
hat.  Bijah claims  to  be  the  Poketown 
shoeman.  He  is  a  great  advertiser  of 
his own  business—never  subscribing for 
less  than  one-half of  an  entire  page  in 
the  Poketown  agricultural  fair  book— 
and  looks with  suspicion  upon  all  who 
doubt  his  veracity  and  sound  business 
judgment.  He  has no  use for  these  fel­
lows  who sit around on  salt  barrels and 
soap boxes  and talk  through  their  hats, 
and  tell  how much  better  and  cheaper 
everything  is  in  some  other  town;  and 
so,  when he read  an account of  the little 
affair which happened  over in  the corner 
grocery he could not refrain  from asking 
Vinegar,  the  first  time  he  passed  the 
shoe  store  on  his  way to the  postoffice, 
how  shoes  were  selling  down  at  the 
county seat.  About the third time Bijah 
referred to the matter,  Vinegar  began to 
effervesce on the inside  and continued to 
do so until he met me,  when  he  bubbled 
over.  He  said  that  any driveling  idiot 
who  knew  no  more  than  to write  such 
silly  twaddle as that  ought  to be  trans­
ported  to the regions of imbecility on the 
keen  edge of  a  new hickory rail.  1 told 
him  1  was  no  “bloated  bond-holder,” 
“inflated  capitalist,”  “stuffed  monopo­
list,”  “swelled-up bank president,” “pro­
prietor of  a  whisky  trust,”  village mar­
shal or a sucker;  that  I  was ouly a poor, 
obscure  district  schoolmaster,  working 
for  my board  (with a few  cheap  clothes 
thrown  in),  and  1  couldn’t  see  why  he 
should  be piggish  enough to covet  what 
little space I occupied in Poketown.  But 
it was  no  use.  Vinegar’s mind  is  like 
waterlime  cement,  soft  and  murky  at 
first,  but when  it  sets,  it  sets,  and  all of 
the  wisdom of  the gods  can’t remodel it. 
Henceforth, the heretofore honored name 
of lchabod Grizzle must be disgraced and 
wr  tten  on  the scroll of  infamy  by  the 
side  of  the  “bloated  bondholder”  and 
the  despised  “capitalist.”  Vinegar  has 
so willed it.
in  all  likelihood  this  will  be  my  last 
letter from Poketown for 1 have failed to 
secure  the  spring  term,  owing  to  Vine­
gar’s  pernicious 
influence  (his  brother 
being  a  trustee  in  my  district),  and  I 
shall be compelled to leave.  A poor man 
This salt barrel  brigade,  like a corpor­
without capital cannot live in Poketown. 
ation,  never  dies. 
It  comes  and  goes 
Bottomly Quirk, for instauce, were it not 
with  the  seasons,  like  a  flock  of  wild 
for his team,  wagon,  plow,  poor  appetite 
geese. 
It is as  necessary in  the  general 
and  great  physical  endurance,  would be 
makeup  of  Poketown,  as  the  village 
compelled  to  migrate  to  some  more fa­
marshall; and its practical utility is great, 
vorable  clime. 
It  makes  but  little  dif­
and it is as  indispensible, as  the  village 
ference,  however,  for  the  corner grocery 
nightwatch. 
its  appearance 
crowd will  soon adjourn  for its  summer 
about  the  time  that  the  tender  young 
vacation.  The  fire in the  big  stove will 
leaves on the oak  trees  are  the size of  a 
soon go out;  the soap  boxes, three-legged 
mouse’s  ear and  it  disappears  when  the 
stool,  and  the  two  little  bottle  blueing 
leaves on the maples  first  show signs  of 
boxes,  partially  filled  with  sawdust will 
fickleness. 
If  it  makes  its  appearance 
be relegated to the back room;  the screen 
before the first carload of salt arrives for 
doors  will  be  put  up,  and  the  corner 
the corner grocery,  it  takes  up  its posi­
grocery  will  put  on  its  summer  attire. 
tion on the  horizontal tie  bar,  where the 
The  members of  the  crowd  will  scatter 
men sit iu close  proximity  to the  horses 
to  make  hay  while  the  sun  shines  and, 
noses,  as evidenced  by  the  green  saliva 
like the  busy  bees,  lay in  a store of  sup­
streaks on  the  backs  of  more  than  one 
plies  necessary  to  carry  them  through 
check  “wampus.”  Whether  perched  on 
the next regular session.  Vinegar Brown’s 
bar or salt  barrels,  will  make  no  differ­
avocation will call  him into the country, 
ence.  The  loungers  will  chew,  smoke, 
where the  click of  the hammer  and  the 
spit, swear,  whistle,  whittle,  laugh,  ar-
rapping music of the saw will,  for a time
at least  drive all thoughts of the “bloat-  gue,  quarrel,  joke,  try to sell each other; 
ed  bondholder”  and the “country’s immi-  fire a  vacant,  vulgar  stare  into  the  face 
uent  Deril” from  his confused  and dum-  of every woman  who passes  by or  enters 
fuddled mind.  Bottomly Quirk will soon  the store,  and  accost,  in a lawless,  jocu- 
be carting  manure and  plowing gardens, 
lar  manner  every  young  girl  who  can 
After  the  garden  plowing  is  over with,  muster a sufficient amount  of courage to 
he  will  secure a little  patch  of  ground  run the gauutlet.  Country  village  girls 
somewhere to plant  to corn and  potatoes  are thus forced by  these  salt  barrel  bn- 
^   . 1, . » .   ™hioi>  with  the  odd  iobs  of  gades to assume a  sort  of  bold  swagger
on  shares,  which,  with  the  odd  jobs  of | gade 
and a deportment which has the external 
teaming he will  pick up during  the sum­
appearance of  being  rather  loud,  all  of
mer, will enable him  to remodel  his over­
which the young  dude  (aye,  and  the old 
alls  and,  perhaps,  buy a  new  pair. 
It 
dude,  too,)  from  the city,  is  quite apt to 
would  be a noble  act of  charity and  one 
In  a  country  village,  ap­
misconstrue. 
which  would  be  greatly  appreciated  by 
pearances do  not  count  for  as  much  as 
Bottom,  if  Jerry  Whiffleson  would  up­
they  do  in  the  city. 
If  this  were  not 
holster  the  cover of  the cracker  barrel.
true,  these  salt  barrel  brigades  would 
Flip  Wumpup,  a waspy  but  silent mem­
either not come together until everybody 
ber of  the crowd,  will also spend  his va­
else  had  gone  to  bed  or  they  would
cation iu the country,  wielding the trow-
el.  Wumpup  is a great  mudslinger,  but I change  their  place  of  meeting  to some

It  makes 

Facts  'Talk  Louder  Than  Words !

1,487,275  SOLD  IN  1886.

3,509,575  SOLD  IN  1887.

5,092,350  SOLD  IN  1888,
5691025 SOLD IN 1809.

6,983,201

This  is  not  an  ordinary  monument,  but a TABLE of  EXACT  FIGURES, 

showing the monumental  success of our celebrated

B & N -H U jR
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RECORD  BREAKERS

(The Great 5c Cigar.)

(10c or 3 for 25c)

Sold by leading  dealers all over the United States.  Ask for them.

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life.  Pulpville 

It  is  the  oid,  old 

io
underground retreat, out of sight and be­
yond hearing.
is  painfully  conservative 
Poketown 
and  prematurely  old.  Life,  however,  is 
not made up of years,  but of  experience; 
and  of  him  who  has  had 
the  widest 
experience,  it can  truthfully be said,  he 
has  lived  the  longest.  Poketown  grew 
so fast after  coming  into  existeuce  that 
it would be almost  safe  to  say  that  she 
was born full grown.  She  grew  rapidly 
and  lived  fast  and  furious  for  a  few 
fleeting  months,  when,  in  the  twinking 
of a eye,  she  stopped,  never to go again. 
She has  no  more  worldly  ambition;  re­
pose,  satisfaction  and  resignation  are 
stamped upon her brow,  and she is “only 
waiting”  for  something  (it  will  be  her 
toes)  to  turn  up.
The business vitality of Poketown is at 
a  very  low  ebb,  yet  her  merchants  are 
better satisfied  and more prosperous than 
are the  merchants  of  Pulpville,  a  rival 
town  three  miles  down  the river.  Two 
or three  years ago,  Pulpville  barely  es­
caped  the  terrible  fate  of  being  buried 
alive.  The  old  corpse  had  lain  around 
for so many years that a kind  and merci­
ful public had, at  last,  resolved  to cover 
it over with the  clods  of  eternal  forget­
it  may 
fulness,  when, 
incredible  as 
appear,  the  old 
landmark  manifested 
is 
signs  of  returning 
alive  to-day,  but  her  merchants  are  in­
consolable. 
story. 
When will the mercantile fraternity learn 
the  nature  of  bonus-granting,  with  its 
pernicious and unbusinesslike principles 
and its direful effects?  Why do retailers 
persist in  committing  the  unpardonable 
blunder of putting their dollars in  an en­
terprise, the only possible effect of which, 
so far as  they are  concerned,  is a ruina­
tion  of  their  business?  Suppose  that 
staid,  quiet,  delightful  old  Poketown 
should suddenly  become  possessed  with 
the demon of  our  western  cities and  re­
solve  to  go  into  the  “boom”  business ! 
Natural conditions will not bring it about, 
and,  of  course,  unnatural  and  abnormal 
methods would have to  be applied  in or­
der  to 
succeed.  Manufacturers,  who 
cannot see  sufficient  natural  advantages 
to  come  of  their  own  accord,  must  be 
bought  and  hired  to  come  with  hard 
cash.  This means the raising of a bonus, 
which  is  to  operate  as  a substitute  for 
the  non-existaut  natural  ad  vantages; 
and,  as the  benefit is  said  to be a public 
one.  every  business  man  in  the  town 
would  be importuned to  assist in  raising 
the  bonus.  Now,  the  retailer, 
in  his 
short-sightedness, would reason like this: 
If  we  secure  that  factory,  twenty-five 
families will  be added  to our population. 
There are  five of  us in  the  grocery  busi­
ness,  and that means five additional  fam­
ilies for each of  us to supply.  This  will 
increase my trade,  at least $600 annually, 
and,  of course,  it is to my interest to help 
raise the bonus.
Fatal reasoning!  The bonus is raised; 
the factory goes  up;  the  twenty-five  ad­
ditional 
families  come  in;  the  boom  is 
on;  and  what is  the  result?  Instead  of 
five  grocery  stores,  Poketown  would 
have ten,  as  the  inevitable  result  of ad­
vertising  a boom,  and  Whiffieson & Spig- 
gott.  instead  of  reaping  an  increase  of 
$600,  would  be  compelled,  by  increased 
competition,  to part with  $1,000 of  their 
old trade.
But  Jerry  is  not  sufficiently  fond  of 
kicking  himself  to  be  caught  with any 
such chaff.  The corner grocery  will con­
tinue to deal out groceries to the farmers, 
while the  grocers of  Pulpville  will  con­
tinue  to  kick  themselves  clear  into  the 
back room every time they catch a glimpse 
of the big smokestack  on  the  other  side 
of the river.  They have little else to do.
Poketown may be slow,  but  she is sat­
isfied.  Her  circulation  may  be  rather 
sluggish,  but  she  is  healthy.  She  may 
not ape metropolitan  manners,  but she is 
pleasant  and  fair  to  look  upon.  Poke- 
town may not be able to sport a  “boom,” 
and her retailers should thank God for it. 
Poketown  is not a single idea,  like Pnlp- 
ville,  but  a rival  community  of  happy, 
contented and  respectable  home  owners 
and  home  dwellers.  May  she  continue 
as  she  is,  and  may  the  corner  grocery 
prosper and the  crowd never be at a loss 
what to talk about.

I c h a b o d   G r i z z l e .

Use Tradesman  nr  Superior Coupons.

TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

Advertised  Proprietary  Articles.

From the American Grocer.

It 

The manufacturers  of  specialties  use j 
every endeavor to  create  a  popular  de- j 
maud 
for  their  various  preparations,  j 
The most feasible way,  and  the  one  se- j 
curing results  in  a  short  time  and  the I 
most effective  manner,  is  by advertising,  j 
Most of the grocers feel  bound  to  carry 
in stock  such  goods  as  are  extensively | 
advertised.  We  think  this  slavery  to 
popular demand  is frequently carried too 
far; as,  for instance,  when the dealer  at­
tempts to carry  in  stock  all  thoroughly 
advertised brands of  soap,  baking  pow­
der,  package coffee, etc.  One or  two  re­
liable articles,  backed by the dealer’s en­
dorsement of quality,  we deem the better 
policy.
is.  unfortunately,  the  case  that 
these  advertised  specialties  are  sold  at 
cost or a nominal profit,  as  the  result  of 
competition  between  distributers.  The 
manufacturers  claim  that  they  are  not 
responsible for the foolish  action  of  the 
retailers  and  that  their  interest  in  the 
matter ceases  when the goods leave their 
possession.
We think this  position  untenable,  be­
cause manufacturers  are  the  only  ones 
that can compel  the  sale  of  a  popular 
proprietary  article  at  a  uniform  price. 
They are bound in equity to do all within 
their power  to secure the distribution of 
goods at  such  a  price  as  will  give  the 
retailers fair compensation for their  ser­
vice.
A  rebate policy,  or  system  of  limited 
price,  checkmates  the  cutter,  or  trade 
pirate,  whose operations defraud  the ma­
jority of their just recompense, or profit, 
thereby weakening the credit  of  the  en­
tire  trade.  The  legitimate  distributers 
of food and  articles  used  in  connection 
therewith are  the  grocers,  and  not  the 
dry  goods  and  Yankee  notion  dealers, 
who frequently  seek  to  divert  business 
by  selling 
the  most  popular  package 
goods  at  a  nominal  profit,  leaving  the 
grocers  to  handle  sugar,  flour,  butter, 
provisions and  other  staples,  which  es­
tablished  custom  has  decreed  shall  be 
sold  at a nominal profit.  Grocers are de­
prived  of  the  opportunity  to  average 
profits  because  of  the  cutting  on  pro­
prietary goods,  by notion  stores.
In the end the result of  this  is  antag­
onism to the manufacturer and a  war  on 
his specialty.  Let us take a case in point 
—Pillsbury’s flour.  This is sold,  in many 
instances,  at  cost,  below  cost,  or  at  a 
profit of  fifteen to twenty-five  cents  per 
barrel.  The grocer soon attempts to  de­
throne that brand and introduce  one  not 
sold  by  ever}  competitor.  He  inaugu­
rates  special  brands,  even  though  he 
scratches off  Pillsbury’s brand  and  sub­
stitute his own.  All  this could  be  stop­
ped  and every retailer of  flour  made the 
firm friend and  agent  of  the  mill,  were 
the millers to establish  a  uniform  price 
for the jobber and  retailer. 
It has  been 
done  and  it  is  constantly  being  done, 
and  history proves that it does not check, 
but  rather gives permanency to the  pop­
ular  demand.  Nothing  so  dissatisfies 
consumers as variable  prices at retail for 
a proprietary or any other article  in uni­
versal use.
With a limited price the  advertiser  of 
specialties places the  retailer  under  ob­
ligations,  because he creates demand and 
saves the distributer time and expense.

Civility  in  Business.

Civility costs nothing  and  pays  enor­
mously,  yet notone man in ten but  loses 
more or less every  month by  his  neglect 
of  it.  Probably  incivility  may  some­
times be largely due to want of  health— 
to  a  nervous,  irritable,  dyspeptic  con­
dition,  which makes  men ill  friends with 
themselves  and  with  all  those  around 
them.  A man in such a  state  of  health 
ought  not  remain  in  business,  partic­
ularly in a position  where  he  has  to di­
rect and control subordinate workers and 
come in direct personal contact with  the 
public.

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

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class, 
it’s  the  favorite 
with  Druggisis, Clothiers, 
Shoe  S  ores, Hatters, Gro­
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General  Merchants,  Bak­
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and  in  fact  every  retail 
dealer  who wants  correct 
methods.
Write us this day for de­
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State  and  local  agents 
wanted.

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and investigate the Amer 
lean Cash  Regis.er before 
purchasing.  YOU  will 
probably say as this  party 
does:
Dear Sirs:  We will say 
that  for  our  business  we 
greatly prefer  your “Desk 
Cashier”  to  the  National, 
even at the same price, for 
every business selling bills 
of  goods, or  odd  number 
sales your Desk Cashier is 
preferable to the National, 
not considering price.  We 
are so well pleased with it 
that with our three  Desks 
we consider  our  cash sys­
tem almost complete.
Chas.  R uedebuscu  Co., 
Mayville,  Wis.

General Merchants,

Yonrs truly,

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THE  CHECK  TO  OVERPRODUCTION.
Many advocates of  free silver  coinage 
assert that its  enaction  by  this  country 
alone  would  restore silver  to  its  former 
relative value  to  gold,  and  all  of  them 
agree that it would be  sure  to  do  so  if 
the  other  civilized  nations  would  join 
with us in  adopting  it.  Undoubtedly,  if 
the  whole commercial  world  should  ac­
cept 15,  16,  20,  or  any  other  number  of 
ounces of silver as the equivalent of  one 
ounce of gold that would be  sufficient  to 
establish the ratio.  All  values  are fixed 
by  common  consent,  and  the  current 
prices of  the market  merely  record  that 
consent as  ascertained  by  actual  trans­
actions.  Legislation  which accords with 
the facts  in  this  respect  may  seem  to 
have produced  them,  but,  really,  it  only 
declares  what  has  already  taken  place. 
When  it attempts anything else  it  fails. 
No  matter  how  many  Congresses  and 
Parliaments should  enact,  for  example, 
that sixteen ounces of silver should equal 
in  value  one  ounce of  gold,  they  could 
not make them equal.  Creditors might be 
compelled to  accept  silver  at  this  rate 
in  payment  of  existing  debts,  but 
in 
future transactions they would  stipulate 
for terms  more agreeable  to  themselves. 
Government officers might receive  silver 
for duties and  taxes  at  its  legal  value, 
but  when they came  to  pay  it  out  they 
would have either to submit  to  the  rule 
of the market, or repudiate their  obliga- 
tious  to  the  extent  of  the  difference. 
Even an  unanimous  agreement  by  the 
citizens of  all countries to  accept  silver 
at a ratio above that fixed by  the laws of 
trade,  would  have  only  a  temporary 
effect.  Gold would cease to be mined ex­
cept under the most favorable conditions, 
and a scarcity of  it  would  ensue  which 
would  finally  break  over  the  artificial 
barriers put around its  price  and  make 
it more  nearly  commensurate  with  the 
cost of production.

It is surprising that faith in the power ! 
of 
legislation  to  control  the  relative 
values of  gold  and  silver  should  be  so 
strong as it is,  in the face of the repeated 
failures of attempts to regulate  thus  the 
values  of other  commodities.  Not  long 
ago a wealthy and powerful  combination 
of  European capitalists set about buying 
all the copper in the world and selling it 
again at a high price.  For  a  time  they 
succeeded,  and  copper  went  up,  but  it 
staid up only  long  enough  to  stimulate 
its production and diminish its consump­
tion,  until  it  accumulated  upon  their 
hands to an amount beyond their  ability 
to hold it.  Then came the inevitable re­
action,  and  the  combination  broke  to 
pieces.  The result would have been  the 
same if the operation had been conducted 
by a government  instead  of  by  private 
persons, 
it  might  have  been 
longer in coming  about.

though 

That the fall in the value  of  silver  as 
measured in  gold has been due to an  in­
creased production of  silver as compared 
to that of  gold does not,  to my mind,  ad­
mit of  a reasonable doubt.  Putting  the 
proposition in a  reversed  form  and  say­
ing that  the  supply  of  gold  has  been 
diminishing while that  of  silver  has  re­
mained  unchanged,  does  not  invalidate 
its truth.  The fact remains,  that where­
as,  fifteen years  ago  one  ounce  of  gold 
would buy only fifteen or  sixteen ounces 
of  silver,  it  will  now  buy  twenty-four 
ounces,  and  the  contemporaneous  fact, 
that the annual  production of  silver  has 
increased from  about  70,000,000  ounces 
to 130,000,000 ounces,  while that of  gold

It follows from this, that the exchange­
able value of  silver  has got to submit to 
the  inevitable,  and  that  the  sooner  all 
efforts to  bolster it  up  by  legislation  or 
by any other  artificial  interference  are 
abandoned,  and  the metal  left to  its  fate, 
the  sooner will It cease to  be  a  disturb­
ing factor iu finance.  The cotton planters 
of  the  South  are  suffering  this  year 
equally  with  the silver miners from over­
production.  The  statisticians  at Wash­
ington estimate that the crop is 2,000,000 
bales larger than  the  world demands and 
the price  of  the  staple  has, 
in  conse­
quence,  declined  to  the  lowest  point  it 
has touched  lor a long time.  Very  prop­
erly,  the planters, instead of calling upon 
Congress to legislate for their relief, pro­
pose to help themselves.  Next year, they 
say,  those  who cannot  afford to  raise cot­
ton  at its present price  will  raise  some­
thing else.  Those  who  have raised it by 
the aid of  fertilizers  will  dispense  with 
fertilizers,  and only  those  will try  for  a 
full crop  who  are  so  favorably  situated 
that  they can  make  a  profit  on  it.  On 
the other hand,  the diminished price will 
somewhat increase consumption  and cre­
ate a market  for a  portion  which  would 
otherwise be  useless and  unsaleable. 
In 
this way,  after a  few  oscillations  back­
ward and forward,  the supply  of  cotton 
will adjust itself to the demand  and  the 
demand to the supply, and the temporary 
overproduction  will disappear.

This oscillation to aqd fro in the neigh­
borhood  of  a point  of  stability goes on, 
unless it is interfered  with,  all  the while 
in every department of  human  industry. 
When  houses are wanted rents  rise,  and 
that  stimulates  the  building  of  more 
houses to meet  the  demand.  When,  on 
the other hand,  houses  stand  empty  be­
cause there are not enough tenants to fill i 
them,  the building of  them  ceases  until 
the population grows up  to  them.  The 
ironmasters of  the  country,  when  they 
find  that  their  production  has  for  the 
moment outrun consumption,  shut  down 
all the furnaces that cannot  be  operated 
profitably  and wait for  better  times  be­
fore starting them  up again.  How close­
ly tradesmen  who deal  in  milk,  butter, 
eggs»  groceries,  and  other  articles  of 
daily and general use  learn  to  regulate 
their purchases by the demands  of  their 
customers has often been made  a subject 
of remark  by  writers upon political econ­
omy,  and very justly.  That a great  city 
like  New  York,  for 
instance,  should 
daily get just so much as it needs and no 
more of food,  drink  and  fuel,  without 
waste and  without  scarcity,  is  indeed  a 
marvellous illustration of  the perfection 
with which human  beings learn  to  adapt 
themselves to circumstances.  We scarcely 
ever think of it except when by some un­
usual combination of  circumstances like 
the riots of 1863,  or  the blizzard of 1888, 
the machinery  is  deranged and our com­
fort interfered  with.

In this process of  adjustment  of  sup­
ply to demand,  and of  the  natural  cure 
of  overproduction  by 
lopping  off  the 
least profitable  part of  it until  the  resi­
due  equals 
silver 
miners must suffer  like  the  rest  of  the

the  consumption, 

T H E   A I T C I T T G A l TTST  T R A D E S M A N ,
has remained stationary,  may reasonably 
be accepted as the explanation of it.  Our 
Government,  by  buying  and  storing  sil­
ver  away  to  the  extent  of  54,000,000 
ounces a  year,  and to that extent dimin­
ishing  the  supply,  has hitherto kept the 
price of it above its natural  level,  but  it 
has not succeeded  in  preventing  its  de­
cline altogether.

A  NN OUN CEMENT_______

11

We have removed  our  Manufacturing  Department  to 
the  new  building  which  we  have  erected  solely for  our 
own  use  at  330  and  332  Lafayette  Avenue, on the  same 
street,  but seven  blocks distant  from  the  new Post Office 
building,  and  easily  reached  from  our  store  by  the Con­
gress  and Baker,  or Fort street cars.

Our specialty  in  manufacturing will  be a high  grade 
of  Ladies’  Fine  Shoes  in  Hand-Turned,  also  Men’s  and 
Women’s Goodyear Welt  and  Machine  Sewed,  and  Misses’ 
and Children’s in  Machine Sewed.

In  “ Low  Cuts,”  both  Hand-Turned  and  Machine 
Sewed,  we are  showing one of  the most desirable  medium 
priced  lines  now  offered to the trade.  Sample  orders  will 
have prompt and  persoual  attention.

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D E T R O I T ,  M IC H

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We respect  honest  competition, but deprecate unscrupulous 
methods  in  trade  and  meet  all  prices  made  by  illegitimate 
competitors.

Special attention given to out-of-town-trade.

Sold  in  this  market  for the  past  Fifteen Years.

Far Superior to any other.
Correspondence or Sample Order Solicited. 
Endorsed Wherever Used.

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lick.

Telephone 566. 

106  Kent St.

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world.  There  are  always  some  pro­
ducers who get caught on  the  turn,  and 
have to pay  for  their  want  of  skill  in 
forecasting the future.  Not  a  year  has 
passed in my  business  life  that  I  have 
not heard complaints from  one  or  more 
of my friends of  dull  trade  and  a  want 
of sufficient demand  for  their  goods  to 
make a market for all of them. 
It is im­
possible  that 
it  should  be  otherwise. 
Even in the case  of  the  necessaries  of 
life which I  have  mentioned  as  an  ex­
ample of the most perfect working of the 
natural law on the subject,  some  dealers 
every day get “stuck” more or  less  with 
unsold  goods,  and  have  to  give  them 
away or let  them  spoil  on  their  hands, 
and when  it  comes  to  commodities  the 
demand for which,  as  for  instance  that 
for clothing,  is  governed  by  fashion  or 
by the wheather,  or like that  for  wines 
and cigars by the  pecuniary condition of 
their purchasers,  the  peril  of  such  mis­
haps is greater.  I am told that this  year 
the sales of costly pictures are very much 
less  than they  were  before  the  Baring 
collapse of  year before last, and it is  at­
tributed to the decline  in  the number of 
new fortunes, the possession of  which is 
a potent stimulus  to  the  acquisition  of 
works of art  To complain of these fluct­
uations is as silly as to complain that the 
weather of  one year  is  not  exactly  like 
that of another year,  or  that the temper­
ature and the sunshine or  rain  of  every 
day of every month  do not correspond to 
those  of 
the  corresponding  day  and 
month of the year  before,  and  may  not 
be  counted  upon  as  sure  to  recur  the 
year following.

It  must  be  expected,  therefore,  that 
the price  of  silver  will  continue  to  de­

TH E   M ICHIGAN  TRA.DESMA.ISr.

cline until the point is reached  at which 
no more  of  it  is  produced  than  is  de­
manded for actual use in the  arts;  but  1 
cannot see that this  is  a  calamity  to  be 
deplored  above  all  others  of  the  same 
nature.  The  allegation  that  gold 
is 
specially favored because it is the official 
standard of  value,  and that silver  is en­
titled to  the  same  advantage,  finds  no 
support in  the statistics of  gold  mining. 
Within my own recollection  hundreds of 
gold  mines  have  been  opened,  worked 
for a  little  while,  and  then  abandoned 
because they  were  not  profitable.  The 
production of  gold,  like that  of  cotton, 
iron,  wheat,  and  everything else,  is reg­
ulated by natural law,  and that  silver  is 
subject to the same law affords no ground 
for anxiety. 

Ma t t h e w   Ma r s h a l l .

Too  Much  Trust in  Business.

that 
is 

is 
hard 
honest 

From the National Orocer.
While there is  no doubt  whatever that 
one  of  the  fundamental  principles 
in 
business  is  that  of  confidence  between 
business  men,  there  is  no  doubt  what­
confidence  can  be 
ever 
this 
and 
It 
abused. 
to 
say  which  man 
and 
is 
which is not upon an ordinary  acquaint­
ance or even upon a business intercourse 
of moderately long  standing.  There  are 
many  men  in  this  world  who  lack  all 
business  honor  and  integrity.  All they 
strive for is to suit their own ends.  They 
live  for  the  day  and  are  quite  satisfied 
with  the  result.  While  some  of  these 
men  may  succeed  a  majority  of  them 
fall at their own hands.  Still  their  fall 
does  not  assist  those  who  have  trusted 
It  does not  bring  back  to  them 
them. 
the  dollars  they  invested  in a  good-for- 
nothing  merchant. 
Indeed,  while  the 
annoyance  is  very  great  when 
such 
things occur,  little or no recompense can 
be  forthcoming, excepting,  perhaps,  the 
knowledge  gained  by  the  experience, 
and this in many cases is very poor  com­
pensation for the amount involved.

It  is told of  an old  Quaker  merchant, 
who was passing down  a main  thorough­
fare  in  his  town  and  who  saw  a  new 
store opened,  that  he  quietly  and  unos­
tentatiously  entered  the  store  and told 
the new  proprietor  that  if he wanted to 
succeed in  life he  must  be  very careful 
whom  he 
trusted.  This  advice  was 
given after a business experience of over- 
thirty  years,  and  was  told  entirely  for 
the benefit of  the young  beginner. 
It is 
said  that he took the  advice to heart and 
that his business became a great success.
While we  do not  regard  the  world  as 
dishonest,  or  as  bad, we  believe  that  a 
good  deal  of  annoyance  and  trouble 
would be saved if more caution were dis­
played by business  men  in  this  matter. 
It  is  easy  to  believe  that  everybody  is 
honest  and  straightforward,  but 
it  is 
better  to  test  all before you trust them.
A  very  prominent  merchant  in  this 
city  said “that  he would  sooner  trust  a 
man of character  without  capital  than a 
man of no character or of  comparatively 
questionable  character  with  capital.” 
While discussions were going on amongst 
his partners regarding whom  they should 
trust  his  invariable  answer  to  all ques­
tions was:  “1 have faith in  the man  and 1 
will  trust  him.”  Another  member  of 
a firm of  equally  high  standing  and ex­
tended  experience,  once  said  that  he 
never liked  to  deal  with  a  customer  he 
could  not  fully  trust,  and  that  in  nine 
cases  out  of  ten  wherever  a man’s  ac­
count was guaranteed  there  was trouble 
with  him.  This  same  man  had  once 
taken to him a slip of  paper upon  which 
was an account of a considerable amount 
| that  was  overdue. 
In  a  very  off-hand 
manner  he  told  the  credit  clerk:  “Oh, 
that’s all  right,  he’ll  pay.”  The  credit 
clerk was very  much  disapointed  at  the 
reply and desired to  emphasize  the time 
the account was  overdue,  when the mer­
chant  further  replied:  “1  hope  that  all 
accounts  on  our  books  are  as  safe  as 
this.”  There  were  many  accounts  on 
his  book  that 
if  they  were  overdue 
twenty-four  hours a prompt  note  would 
be sent to them to pay.  Tet  this gentle­
man  made  fewer  bad  debts  than  any

other merchant in the  same line  of  bus­
iness. 
It  is, no doubt,  a hard  matter  to 
discriminate  between  those  you  should 
trust  and  those  you  should  not  trust, 
but at  the  same  time it is  much  better 
that  you  know  your  men  before  you 
trust  them.  There  are  those 
in  this 
world whose only object  in life  is  to get 
into  debt.  They  are  always  cogitating 
how they can raise  the  wind by  borrow­
ing,  obtaining  credit,  or  by  any  other 
means  to  get  hold  of  somebody’s  else 
property. 
Pay  day  with  them  never 
comes.  Tet, 
it  is  strange  to  say,  that 
there are any number of  such characters 
as  these  who  are  constantly  obtaining 
new credit,  and it is  strange to  say  that 
they  always find merchants ready to trust 
them.  Once  bit,  twice  shy,  is  an  old 
adage, but  somehow or  other it  does not 
fully bear  fruit  in  every case,  for  there 
are those who are constantly getting  bit, 
and still they are  not shy, but  are ready 
dupes  for  the  next  fraud  who  comes 
along.
Always make it a rule  never  to trust a 
man  who  has  once  deceived  you.  Be 
something  like  the  Quaker  who  lent a 
merchant a certain  sum  of  money  for  a 
fixed period.  When the  money  was lent 
the Quaker  heard the  true  character  of 
the  man  and  found  out that  it was  not 
unusual  for him to  pay the  first three or 
four loans back promptly.  He  certainly 
paid this loan on the very first day it was 
due and  paid  it very  early  in the  morn­
ing,  but it was only a few days before he 
was around again for another loan,  when 
the  Quaker  quietly  told  him:  “Thou 
hast  deceived  me  once;  1  cannot  allow 
thee  to  deceive  me  again.”  The  man 
was indignant,  and  abruptly  asked  him 
if  he  did  not  pay  his  first  loan  back 
promptly,  and the  Quaker  replied,  “Ah. 
that is  where  thou  deceived  me. 
I  did 
not  expect  it,”  and  this is  the  only  ex­
planation  that  the  borrower  could  get 
out  of  him. 
It  is  this  same  kind  of 
shrewdness  which  the  Quaker  so aptly 
displayed which  makes,  or  rather  helps 
to make  money.  Trust  only  those  who 
have  good  characters  and  who  never 
deceive you.

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G ripsack Brigade.

Thos.  McLeod,  the veteran representa­
tive of  H.  P.  Baldwin,  2nd & Co„  was  in 
town Saturday.

Geo. F.  Owen is  getting  out  plans for 
a seven-story  brick  block  to  be  erected 
on his lot on Ellsworth avenue.

J. P.  Visner,  local  representative  for 
Edwin J.  Gillies & Co., of New York, has 
removed  from  304  to  167  North  Ionia 
street.

Geo.  H.  Chandler,  traveling represent­
ative for  the  Standard  Oil  Co.,  has  re­
moved from Kalamazoo to Holland, where 
he has taken up his  residence.

Chas.  S.  Brooks  "has  so  far recovered 
from his  recent  illness  as  to  be  able to 
sit up in bed and hopes to  get  out doors 
in the course of a couple of weeks.

John C;  Utman,  formerly with Mussel- 
man & Widdicomb,  has engaged to travel 
for the Hammel Cigar Co.,  of  Ionia,  tak­
ing Southern  Michigan  as  his  territory.
Rhine Osting was confined to  his home 
last week by an acute attack of inflamma­
tion of  the  bowels.  He  has  so  far  re­
covered as to resume his  duties  with the 
Lemon  & Wheeler Company.

Edward C.  Groesbeck,  traveling  repre­
sentative for Louis  Sands,  of  Lake City, 
has  returned  from  an  extended  trip 
through the Eastern  States  and  went to 
Lake City Monday to look  over the man­
ufacturing end of the house.

Wm.  H.  Sigel,  who  has  traveled  sev­
eral years  for  C.  G .  A.  Yoigt  &  Co.,  has 
engaged  to  represent  A.  S.  Davis on the 
road.  He is  succeeded at the  Star  Mills 
by M.  Campau,  formerly 
traveling  rep­
resentative  for  LaBar  &  Cronwell,  of 
Cadillac.

The  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Mich­
igan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association 
has elected Daniel  Morris  Secretary  and 
Treasurer of the orgauization.  Mr. Mor­
ris has been acting in that capacity since
Feb.  20,  pending  official  action  by  the 
Board.  Mr.  Morris is  a  retired  traveler, 
having  represented  W.  H.  Edgar  &  Son 
on the road for many years.

T h e   B u sin e ss  O u tlo o k .

For the time being the stock market  is 
in  possession  of  the  bears—prices  are 
selling  down.  The  masses  are  pretty 
generally at work  at  fair wages,  trade  is 
of increasing volume,  the  railroads  are 
earning well,  yet for  all  this  the  bears 
hammer the market,  and  would make  us 
believe that trade matters  are  not  satis­
factory.  Every dog  has  his  day.  The 
Bering Sea difficulty  has been solved, the 
silver bill shelved  and  the  farmers  are 
busy  seeding  the  earth;  what  more  is 
needed?  True,  the cotton  account  isn’t 
doing well,  we are digging too much  iron 
and  silver  out  of  the  earth,  and  the 
holders  of  grain 
their  margins 
shrinking.  Fact is, we are suffering from 
excess of good  things.

find 

Thirty thousand miles of new railways 
are under survey.  With plenty of  money 
and cheap iron  it does seem opportune to 
go ahead if branches and  extentions  are 
A lread y   w e  have  171,000 
re q u ire d . 
miles of railroads,  so with  the  projected 
lines completed we shall  o v erto p  300,000. 
There is a good  time  coming  if  we  can 
only restrain  the  schemirig  politicians. 
This is the  danger.  The  crude  legisla-
tion  proposed  at  Washington  is  some­
times simply terrific in its manifestations 
of ignorance and in its  possible  results. 
Give us a rest. 

Geo.  R.  Scott.

Push in Business.

It is an assured  fact  now-a-days  that 
if  you  intend to make money,  you must, 
says  Finance,  take  hold  of  something, 
you  must devote your  work,  your  skill, 
your  experience,  and  whatever  money 
you have to something.
Caution is,  indeed,  a great thing  in  in­
vestment,  but,  as 
in  everything  else, 
there can  be too  much  of  it.  The  man 
who is too cautious in  his  business  pol­
icy runs a greater  risk  of  being  ruined 
by  missing  golden  opportunities  than 
one  who 
is  seemingly  reckless  in  his 
undertakings.  Conservatism of the gen­
uine sort should be  the  characteristic  of 
every  legitimate  business  man;  aggress­
iveness,  however,  in every  line  of  com­
merce,  enlarges to  a  thousand  fold  the 
possibilities  of  success,  while  at  the 
same time permitting of the employment 
of  conservative methods.
The genuine business man  is a specul­
ator; he is no gambler.  He  takes  risks, 
but they are warranted  by the necessities | 
of  his enterprises.  He also,  of ten comes 
to grief,  but  his  ruin  only  emphasizes 
the mistake that  should  be  avoided  by 
others.
Any man who wishes to invest has lots 
of  good chances.  But he  must act  and 
by  rightly acting he will win.

Country  Callers.

Calls  have  been  received  at  T h e 
T r a d e s m a n  office  during  the past week 
from the following gentlemen in  trade:

Yeakey & Pallett,  Wayland.
Thos.  Van  Eneenenaam,  Zealand.
A.  Sessions,  Wayland.
J.  W.  Randall,  Wacousta.
Geo.  W.  McKee,  Alto.
W.  H.  Pardee,  Freeport.
W.  N.  Hutchinson,  Grant.
Nelson  F.  Miller.  Lisbon.
Hannah  &  Lay  Merc.  Co.,  Traverse 
ltobt.  F.  Armstrong,  Reed City.
C.  Van  Amberg,  Whitneyville.
Bates & Trontman,  Moline.
Jos.  Deal,  Gun Marsh.

City.

65  Monroe  St.

GifcAND Rapids, April 1,1892.

We take pleasure  in  announcing that we have 
this day consolidated the two agencies, formerly 
known as  Cooper’s Commercial  Agency and  the 
Union Credit Co.  under the style of the

ComierGial  Credit  Co.

retaining the  best features of  each, thereby giv­
ing onr members the benefits of  both.  W e shall 
place competent and experienced help in charge 
of  each department  and  combine our efforts  to 
please and benefit the business men.

STEVENSON  &  CUMINGS, 
UNION  CREDIT  CO.

The office of the Commercial Credit Co. will be 
at the former  location of  the  Cooper Agency. 65 
Monroe  street, where  experienced  and  compe­
tent  men  will  be on  hand at all  times to attend 
to the wants of  our patrons.

Telephone 16 > for Commercial Reports.

1030 for Collection Department.

“ 

HESTER  &  FOX,

AGENT  FOR THE

MANUFACTURERS OF

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A utom atic B alanced .Single V alve  E ngines. 

G overnors,

H orizontal, T u b u lar an d  Locom otive 

BOILERS.

U p rig h t  E ngines  and  B oilers  fo r  L ig h t 

P ow er.

Prices on application.

4.4-46 8.  D ivision St., 

G rand R apids.

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

The  Grocery  M arket.

Sugar is steady,  with  no  indication  of 
an  advance  until  the  present  stocks  in 
jobbers’  hands are  depleted.  Green cof­
fees are 
lower and the manufacturers 
of  Bunola  package  have  reduced  their 
price  J£c  also.  String  beans  have  ad­
vanced,  owing to  the  fact  that  the mar­
ket  is  nearly  bare  of  stock.  Common 
fine salt has declined 5c per barrel.

17 Years of  Development

HAVE  RESULTED  IN  THE

Which  makes, automatically, a fac-simile dupli­
cate and triplicate, while  making  original bills, 
receipts,  orders,  checks,  etc.  The  original  is 
given to the customer, the  duplicate to the cash­
ier,  and  the  triplicate is rolled  up  inside  as  a 
record, and  can be taken  out at any time for ex­
amination. 
It  is  absolutely  incorruptible,  al­
ways ready, and  does  not  permit  dishonesty or 
carelessness.  It is alike a protection  to  the cus­
tomer, the salesman and  the merchant.

These  M achines  are  ren ted ,  n o t  sold, and 

th e  saving in cost o f E ach 20,000 
SU ITA BLE  FO R   A N T  BUSINESS.

b ills P ays th e  R ental. 

Send  for  a  Full  Descriptive  Pamphlet 

Shouting Different Styles,

C H IC A G O

154 Monroe St., Chicago.
Chas. P. Stevens,

W. Vernon Booth, 

Pres’t. 

Sec’y and Gen. Mgr

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

456

IOR  SALE—OLD ESTABLISHED  GROCERY 
business,  sto«k,  fixtures,  etc.,  in  hustling 
f  of  Muskegon.  Reasons  for  selling,  other 
3iness.  A rare chance.  Address Lew W. Cod- 
", Muskegon, Mich. 
)R  SALE-OUK  ENTIRE  STOCK  OF  GEN 
eral  merchandise  at  Chippewa  Lake,  con 
ng of hats, caps, boots and  shoes, men’s fur 
ling goods, hardware, crockery and groceries, 
ing finished our lumber  operations, we offer 
above  stock for sale  cheap  for  cash  or  on 
3 with good  security.  Will sell  this stock  as 
hole  or  any branch of  it.  Enquire of  Chip- 
•a  Lumber  Co., Chippewa  Lake, Mich.,'or of 
>. Wyman. Sec’y, Grand  Rapids, Mich.  449 
jj{  SALE—ESTABLISHED JEWELRY BUS- 
iness,  stock  and  fixtures,  at  Evart,  Mich, 
opposition.  Reasons  for  selling, owner de- 
sed  Splendid opportunity.  F. P. Atherton,
:d City, M^ch._____________________ 420
3LENDID  BUSINESS CHANCE  FOR A PER- 
son with  $1  100  cash.  Can  step  into an  old 
iblished  cash  retail  and  paying  business, 
l’t  fail  to  investigate  this.  For particulars 
Iress No. 471, care Michigan Tradesman.  471
)R SALE—ONE OFTHE  BEST DRY GOODS 
houses  in  southern  Michigan;  established 
jars;  best  of  reasons  for  selling;  excellent 
irtunity for obtaining a good  business .^Ad- 
s Lock box  1237, Coldwater, Mich. 
>R  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE —A  LUMBER 
mill of 25,000 feet capacity in Michigan, with 
00  feet of  custom  logs on  the  yard.  Price, 
O  Also  a  farm  of  80  acres  with  30  acres 
red 
Price,  $1,000.  Would  exchange  for 
chandise or  hearse  and  undertaking  goods, 
ress No. 446, care  Michigan Tradesman.  451

4« i

1 3
F o r  s a l e   c h e a p —a t   Lis b o n ,  m ic h .,  a

drug stock all complete and favorable  lease 
of store—an old  established  business.  Enquire 
of  Eaton,  Lyon  &  Co., or  Stuart  &  Knappen. 
rooms 15.16 and 17, New Houseman Block, Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 

F o r  s a l e   o f  e x c h a n g e  —a  l u m b e r

mill  of  25  M.  feet  capacity,  in  Michigan, 
with  800  M  feet  of custom  logs  on  the  yard. 
Price,  $2,000.  Also  a  farm  of  HO  acres,  with  30 
acres cleared  Price,  $1,000.  Would  exchange 
for  merchandise,  or  hearse  and  undertaking 
goods.  Address  No.  446, care  Michigan Trades­
m an ________________________________ 446

463

■ HIS  IS  NO  FICTION—I  HAVE  FOR  Dis­

posal, if  I can find  the  right  persons  with 
from  $1,000  to  $5,000, two excellent,  long-estab­
lished and good  paying  businesses—both  cloth­
ing and gents’ furnishing  goods.  Easy terms of 
payment, if  accommodation is required  for part 
payment.  None but principals treated with.  Ad­
dress in first instance, William  Connor,  Box 346, 
Marshall, Mich. 

447

395

poor health.  W. L. Mead, Ionia  Mich. 

doing a good business.  Reason for selling, 

F o r   s a l e —a  c l e a n   g r o c e r y   s t o c k ,
F OR  SALE —TWENTY-FIVE  ACRE  FARM 

in Putnam county, Florida.  Ten acres under 
cultivation.  Four acres in orange  trees, lemons 
and  limes,  grape  fruit,  citron,  pomegranates, 
quinces,  peaches,  pears,  plums,  grapes,  figs, 
guavas,  mulberries,  strawberries,  persimmons, 
dates, palms, olives, pecans, walnut, ornamental 
trees, etc.  Two story cottage, barn, buggy house, 
horse, buggy, cart and farming tools.  Place has 
been  cultivated  six  years.  Will  sell  for $2,500 
cash.  A. H. McClellan, McMeekin, Fla.

OR  SALE  OR  WILL  EXCHANGE  FOR 
stock of  clothing, dry goods, and boots and 
shoes,  two-story  brick  block,  which  rents  for 
$475 annually.  Best location in town.  Address 
No. 412, care Michigan Tradesman.______ 412

F o r  s a l e   c h e a p   —  w e l l   s e l e c t e d  

drug stock — New and clean.  Address  F. A 
Jones. M. D. Muskegon,  Mich.___________ 391

SITUATIONS  W ANTED.

SITUATION WANTED AS BOOKKEEPER OR 

salesman  in  general  store.  Eight years ex 
perience.  Best of references.  Address No.  474,
care Michigan Tradesman_______________474
ANTED — A  POSITION  MAY  1,  BY  A 
registered  pharmacist  of  #twelve  years 
practical  experience  in  the  business.  Am  a 
married man  and  a  permanent situation  is  de­
sired  at  moderate wages.  Best  of  references. 
Address Lock Box 11. Akron, Mich. 
ANTED—POSITION  AS  AN  ASSISTANT 
pharmacist.  Good  references.  Address
No. 462, care Michigan Tradesman.______ 462
IIT A S T E D  — POSITION  BY  YOUNG  LADY 
VV  as  stenographer,  typewriter,  copyist  or 
cashier.  Can  furnish  best  of  references.  No.
478, care Michigan Tradesman._________ 478
IIT A N T E D —POSITION  ON  THE  KOAI)  FOR 
VV  grocery  or  specialty house, or situation as 
buyer  for a large  retail  house.  Jacob Vanden- 
berg, corner  Buckeye  and  Wells  streets, Grand 
Rapids. 

476

466

MISCELLANEOUS.

370

IOR  SALE  CHEAP—A FIRST-CLASS (Tufts) 

soda  water  fountain  and  complete  outfit, 
aly used about  seven  months.  For terms  ad-
ess F.  D. Hopkins, Alba, Mich.________464
¡IOR  SALE — GOOD  DIVIDEND - PAYING 
'  stocks in  banking, manufacturing  and mer 
intile  companies.  E. A. Stowe,  100  Louis  St., 
rand Rapius. 
TIOR  SALE—OR  WILL  TRADE  FOR  STOCK 
1  of merchandise, part or whole of  2 800 acres 
>od farming land in Alcona county, Mich.  Ad- 
:ess Westgate &  Paterson. Alpena,  Mich.  465

■O  YOU  USE COUPON  BOOKS?  IF  SO, DO 

you buy of the largest manufacturers in the 
nited States?  If  you do, you  are  customers of
le Tradesman Company. Grand Rapids._______
TOR SALE—TWO HUNDRED ACRES LAND  (160 IM- 
'  proved), located In the fruit belt of  Oceana coun- 
r  Mich.  Land  fltted  for  machinery,  good  fences, 
ree  curb roof  barn  with  underground  for  stock, 
jrse barn and other necessary farm buildings.  New 
indmill furnishes water for house and barns.  Eight- 
)n acres apple bearing orchard, also 1.000 peach trees, 
ro years old, looking thrifty.  Price, $35 per acre, or 
ill exchange for stock of dry goods. If any difference
ill pay cash.  A. Retan, Little Rock, Ark.____
TIOR  SALE  -B E S T   RESIDENCE  LOT  IN 
J  Grand Rapids, 70x175 feet, beautifully shad- 
i  with  native  oaks, situated in gooi  residence 
icality,  only 200  feet  from  electric  street  car 
ne  Will sell  for $2 500 cash, or part cash, pay- 
lents to suit.  E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 
TILL  PAY SPOT  CASH, 50 CENTS ON  THE 
T  dollar,  more  or  less,  for  clothing,  dry 
ods. etc.  J. Levinson, Petoskey  Mien.  4;i9
1  with  some  experience  in  plumbing  and 
36  fitting.  Good  wages;  steady  employment 
right  man.  Address  No.  475, care  Michigan 
adesman. 

\w a n ted—s o b e r , in d u s t r io u s t in n e r
¡OR  SALE—NEARLY  NEW  YO.VT  TYPE- 
IOR  S A L E - $1,100  BUYS  5-ROOM  HOUSE 
RANTED — REGISTERED  DRUG  CLERK.

writer  Reason  for  selling, we  use  a Bar 
ick and  consider it superior  in  every respect, 
adesman Company^lOO I,ouis^treet._____

and  corner lot  within  ten  minutes walk of 

st office.  W.  A. Stowe. TOO Louis >t. 

___________________   *<5

469

354

Write particulars as to experience and  sal 
f expected.  L. A. Scovillc, Clarksville, Mich.
IOR  SALE—11-ROOM  HOUSE  IN  GOOD  LO- 
cation, within ten  minutes  walk of  Monroe 
Price. $3.200.  W.  A.  Stowe, 100 Louis St.  470
some  manufacturing or  jobbing  business 
lereby I can  have  employment in officei or see 
y  trade.  References  exchanged.  Corres- 
ndence  confidential.  Address  No.  4m  care 
chigan Tradesman. 

■ANTED—TO  INVEST  ABOUT  $3.0iH)  IN 

4io

T H E   M I C H I G A N   TR A JD ESM ^JST,
The Patrons of Industry In  Canada.
The Montreal  Shareholder  and  Insur­
ance  Gazette  denounces  the  Patrons  of 
Industry for their efforts to compel retail 
dealers to sell goods at a profit of only 12 
per  cent,  over  cost.  The  Gazette  says 
that such a percentage means  starvation 
for the retailers,  and adds that  Montreal 
wholesalers are being  deluged  with  ap­
plications for  false  invoices  aud  blank 
invoices,  through  which the Patrons may 
be deceived.  The arbitrary action of the 
Patrons,  says the Gazette, makes such de­
ception necessary,  and  wholesalers  who 
refuse to give  crooked  invoices  are  los­
ing their custom,  which  is  being  gained 
by less scrupulous  merchants.
Save Your  Discounts.

in 

SCHLOSS,  ADLER  &  GO.,
Fits, arts, Overalls

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF

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

184,  186 &  188  JE F F E R S O N   AVE.,

D E T R O I T ,  M IC H .

The writer happened in  a  retail  store 
one rainy day,  when business  was slack, 
but the enterprising proprietor and clerk 
were busy figuring on bills.  “1 thought,” 
said the proprietor,  “1 would see what I 
could  make  by  discounting  some  bills 
which I received by this morning’s  mail, 
and I find that I will make exactly  $6.75 
sending out  checks  for  these  bills this 
morning,  and  that  is more than I could 
make net  by  waiting  on  customers  for 
several  hours. 
In  fact,  I  am  making 
more  this  morning  by  its  being  rainy 
than I  would  if  it  had been pleasant.” 
And  there is not a  merchant  who  could 
not save money  by discounting  his  bills 
as they  come.

14
Drugs  Medicines*

S tate  B o ard   of P h arm a c y .

One  Tear—Jacob  Jeeeon,  Muskegon.
Two  Tears—James Vernor, Detroit.
Three  Tears—Ottmar Eberb&ch, Ann  Arbor 
Four Tears—George Gnndrum. Ionia.
Fire Tears—C. A, Bngbee, Cheboygan.
President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor. Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
r  Meetings  for  1893 — Star  Island  (Detroit),  July  6; 
Marquette,  Aug. SI;  Lansing,  November 1.

M ichigan  S tate  P h arm a c e u tica l  A ss'n. 
President—H. G. Coleman. Kalamazoo. 
Vice-Presidents—8.  E.  Parkill,  Owosso;  L. Pauley, St.
Ignace;  A. S. Parker, Detroit.
Secretary—Mr. Parsons, Detroit.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—F. J. Wurzburg,  Grand Rapids;
Frank  Inglis  and  G.  W.  Stringer,  Detroit;  C.  E. 
m  Webb, Jackson.
Next place  of meeting—Grand  Rapids, Aug. t, 3 and 4. 
Local Secretary—John  D. Muir._____________________
S n s d   K apids  P h arm aceu tical  Society. 
President. W. R. Jewett, Secretary,  Frank H. Escott, 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March 

June, September and December.
G rand R ap id s  D rag C lerk s’ A ssociation, 
resident, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith.

D etro it  P h arm aceu tical  Society. 

President, F. Rohnert;  Secretary, J. P. Rheinfrank.
M uskegon  D ru g   C lerks’  A ssociation. 

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

Incidence of Loss in Committing Errors.
In  every business, wholesale or  retail, 
errors  occur,  either  through  accident, 
negligence, carelessness, or the ignorance 
of employes,  and  sometimes  are tracable 
to the employers  themselves,  giving  evi­
dence of the fact that we are all  liable to 
make mistakes.  But as these same errors 
invariably  cost  in  time  or  money  a loss 
results,  either  directly or indirectly,  and 
the  loss  is a matter of  considerable con­
sequence.  The  question as to who  shall 
bear the loss is a line  one,  and  admits of 
considerable argument.  Every employer 
who  has a thought  for his reputation, or 
regard  for  the  quality of  the  goods  he 
offers,  will  avoid  as  far  as  possible any 
loss  from  such a cause,  and  will  do  so 
most  successfully by employing only  the 
most thorough  and  competent workmen. 
Of these he may reasonably expect skilled 
and  perfect  work,  and  small  loss  on 
account of  errors, which he must  expect 
to  be  made  by a poorer  class of  labor. 
With  first-class  help  few errors  should 
ever  be made,  and  allowance  should  be 
made  when  they  are,  for  they  are  gen­
erally the  result  of  au  accident  rather 
than of carelessness,  and in  almost every 
case a good  workman  is  willing  for  the 
sake of  his reputation to make  good  the 
injury  as far as is within  his power,  and 
is still  more  careful  in the  future.  But 
that he should  be made to suffer  the loss 
in  the  majority  of  cases  would  seem 
hardly  justifiable,  under  the  above  cir­
cumstances.  Therefore,  we  would  say 
that the employer should  either bear  the 
loss entire,  or  be  willing to  do  so  as  a 
counterbalance  to  losses  and  imperfec­
tions of  which he is the cause.  The em­
ployer who will  hazard his business  and 
reputation by the  employment of  incom­
petent,  careless  and  uninterested  work­
men  deserves to  sustain  the 
loss  they 
invariably  cause, not  only  pecuniarily, 
but in  the  matter  of  time and  quality of 
work,  and 
console  himself 
with  the  fact, if  it  be  any consolation, 
that the difference in  wages  balances the 
loss.  So  that  in  either  case  it  would 
seem  that  the  employer  should  sustain 
the loss,  as in the first  mentioned  case it 
will  be but  slight,  will serve as a lesson, 
and if satisfied  that it was  done when in 
the exercise of  due  care,  he  will  not  be 
the  loser in  the  end. 
In  the  other case 
he  should  be  loser,  because  he  not only 
knowingly places  himself  liable  to  such 
loss,  but  encourages  this  class of  work­
men,  and  thus  directly  or  indirectly 
causes  and  encourages  loss  to  others. 
There  are,  of  course,  “mitigating”  cir­
cumstances  which  justify  an  employer 
in requiring a man to make good the loss 
he  has  caused,  as when  the  same  error 
occurs  often, or there  is  evidence that a 
want of  due care has been exercised.  So 
that in this,  as  in  everything  else,  there 
is  reason,  and  it  is  due  to  interest  of 
common  justice and  humanity that care­
ful judgment be  used  in drawing the line 
that  makes  either  party  liable  for  the 
loss  incurred.

should 

W hy  Do  Millionaires  Work?

It appears  strange to some  young men 
just starting out in  life  to  see  men who 
are  worth  their  millions  toiling  away,

day  after  day,  just  as  hard  as  if  they 
were  the  humblest  clerks  in  the  estab­
lishment  and  sometimes  much  harder. 
The young man says,  “if  I had  as  much 
money  as  that  man,  I would  not  work 
like that,”  and  perhaps  he  will  do  the 
same thing at some  time in  his life.
The cause of all this toil is not so hard 
to  see  after  all.  When  the  same  rich 
life  he 
merchant  was  beginning 
formed  the  habit  of  working  for  some 
one  else,  and  then  when  he  got  into an 
establishment  of  his  own  he  kept  on 
working  hard  and  after  his  fortune  is 
made he finds it almost  impossible to re­
main  idle or  even  give  up a little work, 
lie has formed the habit of diligence and 
it is as hard to break as any habit.
In  the  beginning  a man  sets  out  to 
make money  for two  reasons:  First,  be­
cause  he  wants  to  secure  an  existence; 
second,  he  desires  to  secure  pleasures 
and  luxuries.  But  while  working  for 
these  purposes  men  become  acquainted 
with  great  projects  and  problems  and 
schemes and industries, and if  they  are 
earnest  men  who  have  more  than a sel­
fish interest in the  business  world  about 
them they soon  become absorbed in  those 
things. 
It  is  not  charitable  to suppose 
that  rich  men  cling  to  their  business 
simply for the amount of money it brings 
in,  when  they  already  have  more  than 
they  can readily  spend.  But  there  is a 
certain pleasure and excitement obtained 
from holding the rudder of a great enter­
prise and sending it boldly ahead through 
all kinds of weather.  Does the old sailor 
love  the  sea  because  of  the  dollars  he 
has made as  wages or  the  dollars he  ex­
pects to make?  Not he.  He loves it be­
cause  his  life-work  has  been  identified 
with  it. 
It  is  just  the  same  with  the 
rich  business  man.  His  work  has  be­
come  a  pleasure  aud  he  cannot  be  in­
duced to leave it long. 
It is like running 
a large machine  and  seeing  how  well  it 
does its  work  under  the  hand of  a man 
of long experience,  and  when  it is out of 
order he takes pleasure in  putting  down 
his hand  and  adjusting  it so  that it will 
run smoothly again.

Pointe  for  Clerks.

life 

Every  sound  man,  says  Dr.  Talmage, 
starts life with a capital of §100,000—I say 
every man.  You  tell  me  to  prove  it.  1 
will prove it.  Your right arm—will you 
take $5,000 and  have  it  cut  off?  “No,” 
you say.  Then certainly it is  worth $5,- 
000,  and your  left arm is worth as much, 
and your  right  foot  as  much,  and  your 
left  foot  as  much.  Twenty  thousand 
dollars  to  start  with.  Your  mind—for 
how  much  would  you  go  up  and spend 
your 
in  Bloomingdale  Asylum? 
Twenty thousand  dollars  for  your intel­
lect.  You would refuse  it. 
It is worth 
that,  anyhow;  $40,000  for  equipment. 
Then  you  have  an  immortal  soul;  for 
how much  would  you  sell  it?  For $60,- 
000?  “No,” you  say,  with  indignation. 
Then  certainly  it  is  worth  that  much. 
And there are  your  $100,000,  the magni­
ficent outfit with which  the  Lord started 
every  one  of  you.  And  yet  there  are 
young men who are waiting for others to 
come and make  them;  waiting  for insti­
tutions to  make  them;  waiting  for  cir­
cumstances to make them.

Cigarette  Statistics.

From the Worcester Spy.

The Boston Herald has been gathering 
some statistics in regard to the increased 
manufacture  of  cigarettes  during  the 
last fourteen years,  which are  of  special 
interest  in  view  of  the  recent  agitation 
in the State Legislature for a law entirely 
prohibiting  their  sale  in  Massachusetts. 
From a  manufacture  in  1878 of less than 
‘¿40,000,000 a year  in  the  United  States, 
the number has  increased,  until now the 
total is almost 3,000,000,000 per year,  the 
figures for all  the years since 1878 show­
ing  an  almost  steady  growth, notwith­
standing the laws  that  have been passed 
in  many  states  restricting  the  sale  of 
tobacco in  this  form—such  restrictions 
being chiefly in the form  of  laws forbid­
ding  the  sale  of  cigarettes  to  minors. 
From  the  rapid  increase  that  has been 
shown,  it is  to  be  feared  that  such  re­
strictions have  been  of  the  kind  that do 
not restrict.

Use  Tradesman  or  Superior  Coupons.

WE  ARE  HEADQUARTERS

SEND FOR PRICE LIST.

Daniel  L p b ,

19  S.  Io n ia  St., G rand  R apids.

The  Drug:  M arket.

Alcohol has advanced.  Gum  opium is 
dull.  Morphia  is  unchanged.  Nitrate 
silver is lower.  P.  &  W.  quinine  has 
declined.  German  is  unchanged.  Cel­
ery  seed  has  advanced.  Linseed  oil  is 
higher.  Cubebs  are 
lower.  Gum  kino 
has advanced.

GX2TS21TG  H O O T .

We pay the highest price for It.  Address

D T H T T   T3"DnCI  W holesale  D rn M lsts 
r ilU lY   D flU O .,  GRAND  RAPIDS

Ci  Ion  Snelli

Which  will  be  better appreciated  by your 
customers,  or which  will  do  you  more good 
than  to  have  1,000 men  each  carry 
one  of  your  Vest  Pocket  Memorandum 
Books  with  your  advertisement  oil  both 
outside cover pages ?

If  these  are  not  good  enough  for  you, we 
can  make  better ones for $12,  $15,  $20  and 
upwards.

We  are  not re la is  these  Boohs! 
We  are  not  j o l i   these  Boohs! 
We  Hahe  'Em !

No quantity is too large,  and  the  larger  the 
quantity,  the  less the  price per thousand. 
Send for samples !

We do uot  confine  ourselves to making  memorandum  books,  but execute  any­
thing in the printing line.  Let your  orders for  stationery or circulars come in  for 
shipment with your memorandum  books.

PRINTING  DEPARTMENT

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

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

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S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W ...1  80@2 05 
C. C o ........................ 1  70@1  95
Moschus  Canton........   @ 4 0
Myrlstlca,  No. 1...........  70®  TO
Nux Vomica,  (po 20)..  @ 1 0
Os.  Sepia.......................  18®  20
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
C o ............................   @200
Picis  Liq, N.»C., )4 gal
doz  ...........................  @2 00
Picis Liq., q u a rts.......  @1  00
p in ts..........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba,  (po g5)___  @  3
Pix  Burgun..................  @  7
Plumbi A c et................  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opil. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum.  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz.......  @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv.............  30®  35
8®  10
Quasslae....................... 
Quinla, S. P. & W ........  29®  34
S.  German___ 20  @  30
Rubla  Tlnctorum........  12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
@  28
Salacln.........................1  75@1  85
Sanguis  Draconls........  40®  50
Sapo,  W .........................  12®  14
“  M..........................   10®  12
“  G ...........................  ®  15

“ 

Seldllts  Mixture.......
@  24 
Sinapls......................
®  18 
“  opt....................
®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes.......................... 
_
@  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass T art...  27®  30
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 Im p........   @3 00
*'  Vinl  Beet.  bbL
----7........................... 2 21@2 31
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal.......  @1  30
Sulphur, Subl............. 3  @ <
Roll.. 
■ ■  2V@3)4
8® 10
Tam arinds__
..  28® 30
Terebenth Ven 
.  38  @ 43
Theobromae  ..
.9 00® 16 00
Vanilla............
.. 
7® 8
Zinc!  Sulph..

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Bbl.  Gal
TO
.  TO
Whale, w inter............  TO
.  56
60
Lard,  extra.................  55
.  45
5«
Lard, No.  1..........
Linseed, pure raw
44
.  41

“ 

paints. 

Llndseed,  b o ile d __   44 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained................. 
50 
Spirits Turpentine__   42 

1 5
47
60
50
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian............... 13£  2@3
Ochre, yellow  M ars...  14£  2@4
“ 
Ber.........IK  2@3
Putty,  commercial__ 2V  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure.......2)4  2%@3
VermUion Prime Amer­
ican ............................. 
13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
70@75
Green,  Peninsular....... 
70@75
Lead,  red......................  7  @7)4
“  w h ite .................7  @7)4
@70
Whiting, white Span... 
Whiting,  Gliders’ ........  
@90
1  0 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
c liff............................. 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@l  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
P aints....................... 1  00@1  20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp...................160®1  TO
Coach  Body.................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp  F u rn ........ 1  00@1  10
Entra Turk Damar__ 1  55@l  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp........................... 
70@7

Wholesale Price  Current•

Advanced—Alcohol, linseed  oil, celery seed, gum kino.
Declined—Nitrate silver, P & W quinine, cubeb  berries.

A ceticum ....................  
8®  10
Benzolcum  German..  60®  65
Boracic 
30
...................... 
Carbolicum...................  33®  30
C itricum ....................  
55®  60
HvdroctUor................. 
3®  5
Nltrocum 
...................  10®  12
O xalicum ......................   10®  13
Phosphorium  d ll......... 
30
Salicyllcum .................. 1  30®1 TO
Sulphurlcum...............   13£@  5
Tannlcum ......................1  40®1 60
Tartaricum ................ 
36®  33
AMMONIA.

Aqua, 16  deg...............   314®  5
20  deg...............   5*4©  7
Carbonaa  .....................  13®  14
C hloridum ...................  13®  14

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ANILINS.

Black..............................2  00®2 25
Brown...........................  80@1  00
R ed................................  45®  50
Y ellow ...........................2  50@3 00

BACCAK.

Cubeae (po  75)...........  
75® SO
Ju n ip eru s.................... 
8®  10
Xantnoxylum...............   35® 30

BALSAMDM.

Copaiba........................  47®  50
Peru...............................  @1  30
Terabin, C an a d a .......  35®  40
T olutan........................  35®  50

CORTBX.

Abies,  Canadian...................  18
Casslae  ..................................  H
Cinchona Flava  ...................  18
Buonymus  atropurp............  30
Myrlca  Cerliera, po..............  30
Prunus V lrglnl......................  12
Qulllaia,  grd.........................   14
Sassafras  ...............................  14
Ulmus Po (Ground  12).........  10

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BXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra..
po..........
Haematox, 15 lb. box.
Is..............
)4«...........
548..........
FEBBtJM.
Carbonate Preclp.......
Citrate and Q uinla...
Citrate  Soluble..........
Ferrocyanidum Sol...
So) ut  Chloride..........
Sulphate,  com’l .........
pure...........

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34®  35 
33®  35 
11®   12 
13®  14 
14®  15 
16®  17

@  15 
@3 50 
®   80 
®  50 
@  15 
154®  2 
@  7

A rn ica.........................   23®  25
A nthem is....................   25®  30
Matricaria 
25®  30

 

 
NOLIA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tln-

....................   20®  75

nlvelly......................   25®
Alx.  35®

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Salvia  officinalis,  548
and  54s......................
Ura U rd ........................

OUMMI.
Acacia, 1st  picked.
2d 
“ .
3d 
sifted sorts
p o ..........   ..
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60)
“  Cape,  (po.  20)

“ 
“ 
“ 

“

Socotrl. (po.  60).
Catechu, Is, (54s, 14 54s,
16) ......................................
Ammo n ite ...................  55®
AssafCBtIda, (po. 35)...  35®
Benzoinum...................  50®  55
Cam phors....................   50®  53
Bupnorblnm  po  .........  35® 
lo
Gafbanum....................   ®3 50
Gamboge,  po...............   70®  75
Gualacum,  (po  30) —   ®   25
Kino,  (po.  30)..............  ®   25
M astic.........................  
®   80
Myrrh,  (po. 45)............  @  40
Opil.  (po  2 80)..............1  75@1 80
Shellac  ........................  35®  35
bleached.........  30®  35
T ragacanth.................  30®  75

“ 
hbbba—In ounce packages.

A bsinthium ............................ -  25
Bupatorlum ...........................   20
Lobelia....................................  25
M ajorum ................................   28
Mentha  Piperita...................  33
“  V ll...........................   25
Rue..........................................   80
Tanacetum, Y ........................  23
Thymus,  Y .............................  25

MAONBBIA.

Calcined, P a t...............  55®  60
Carbonate,  P at............  20®  23
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25
Carbonate, Jennlng5..  35®  36

OLBTTM.

A bsinthium ..................3 50®4 00
Amygdalae, D ulc____  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 00®8 35
A nlsl.............................. 1  75@1 80
Aurantl  Cortex............3 00@3 25
Bergamll  .....................3  75@4 00
C allputl...................... 
65®  75
Caryophylli.................  75®  80
C ed ar...........................   35®  65
Chenopodll.................  @1  60
Clnnam onll...................1  20®1 25
C ltronella....................   ®  45
Conlum  M ac...............  35®  65
Copaiba  ...................... l  10®1  20

Cubebae....................   .  @ 600
Bxechthitos....................  2 50®3 75
E rigeron........................... 2 25@2 50
G aultheria........ ..........2 00@2  10
Geranium,  ounce.......  ®  75
Gossipil,  Sem. gal.......  50®  75
Hedeoma  .....................1  40@1  50
Junlperi........................  50@2 00
Lavendula..................   90@2 00
Lim onls.............................2 75@3 25
Mentha Piper.................... 2 75@3 50
Mentha Verid...................2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal................... 1  00@1 10
Myrcia, ounce.............   @  50
O live.............................  80®2  75
Piéis Liquida, (gal. .35)  10®  12
R lcinl.................................1  08@1 34
Rosmarlni.............  
75@1  00
Rosae,  ounce...............  @6 50
Succlni.........................   40®  45
Sabina.........................   9P@1  00
Santal  ..........................3 50@7 00
Sassafras......................  50®  55
Sinapls, ess, ounce__   @  65
Tiglll............................   @  90
Thym e.........................   40®  50
opt  .................  @ 6 0
Theobroma8.................  15®  20

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POTASSIUM.

BICarb.........................   15®  18
Bichrom ate.................  13®  14
Bromide............*........  
25®  27
Carb..............................   13®  15
Chlorate,  (po. 16)........   18®  20
Cyanide........................  50®  55
Iodide................................ 2 80@2 90
Potassa, BItart,  pure..  36®  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com ...  ©  15
Potass  NI tras, opt....... 
8®  10
Potass N itras...............  
7®  9
Prusslate......................  28®  30
Sulphate  po.................  15®  18

RADIX.

 

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A conltum ....................   20®  25
Althae...........................  25®  30
A nchusa......................  12®  15
Arum,  po......................  @  25
Calamus.............  
  20®  40
Gentians,  (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  50®2 60
Iris  plox (po. 35®38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  p r....................   43®  45
Maranta,  *4s...............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
Rhei..............................   75@1  00
“  cut........................  @1  75
“  pv.........................   75®1  35
Splgella.......................   48®  53
Sanguinaria, (po  SK>)..  @ 3 0
Serpentaria..................   35®  40
Senega.........................   45®  50
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 4 0  
M  @  20
Sclllae, (po. 35)............  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Fcstl-
dus,  po......................  @ 3 5
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
inglber a ....................   12®  15
Zingiber  j ............... 
18®  22
SEMEN.
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
..  ©  15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  27®  30
Bird, Is.......................  
4®  6
Carul, (po. 18).............  
8®  12
Cardamon..........................1  00®1 25
Corlandrum.................  10®  12
Cannabis Sativa..........  3H@4
Cydonlum....................   75®l  00
Chenopodlum  ............  10®  12
Dlpterlx Odorate.........2 35®2 35
Foenlculum................   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.......... 
8
L In l..............................4  @4)4
Lin!  grd,  (bbl. 3)4)  . ■  4  @4)4
Lobelia.........................   35®  40
Pharlarls Canarian—   3)4® 4)4
R ap a............................. 
6®  7
Sinapls,  Albu.............  
8®  9
N igra...........  11®  12

6® 

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8PIRITU8.
Frumentl, 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.  B .........1  75®2 00
Spt.  Ylnl  Galll................. 1  75@6 50
Vinl Oporto...................... 1  25@2 00
Ylnl  Alba......................... 1  25®2 00

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SPONGES.

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

2 00
1  10
85
65
75
140

SYRUPS.

A ccacla..................................  50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................   60
Ferri  Iod................................  50
Aurantl  Cortes............... —   50
50
Rhei  Arom.....................  
Slmllax  Officinalis...............   60
Co.........  50
Senega...................................   50
Sclllae.....................................   50
“  Co................................  50
T olutan..................................  50
Pranas  vlrg...........................  50

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TINCTURES.

 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

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“ 

Aconltum  Napellis R ..........   60
F ..........   50
Aloes.......................................  60
and  m yrrh...................  60
A rn ica...................................   50
Asafcetlda..............................  
o
A trope Belladonna...............   60
Benzoin..................................  60
Co............... ?...........   50
Sangulnarla...........................  50
B arosm a................................  50
Cantharides...........................  75
Capsicum ...............................  50
Ca  damon...............................  75
Co........................  75
Castor...................................... 1 00
Catechu..................................  50
C inchona..............................   50
Co.......................    60
Columba................................  50
C onlum .................. 
50
Cubeba...................................   50
D igitalis................................  50
Ergot.......................................  50
G entian..................................  50
Co..............................   60
G ualca....................................  50
ammon...................   60
Z ingiber................................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................   50
Iodine.....................................   75
Colorless..................  75
Ferri  Chloridum................  35
K in o .......................................  50
Lobelia...................................   50
M yrrh.....................................   50
Nux  Vomica.........................  50
O pil........................................   35
“  Camphorated.................  50
“  Deodor............................2 00
Aurantl Cortex......................  50
Q uassia..................................  50
Rhatany  .........................—   50
Rhei........................................   50
Cassia  Acutifol....................   50
Co...............   50
Serpentaria...........................  50
Stramonium...........................  60
T olutan..................................  60
V alerian................................  50
Veratrum Veride...................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

‘ 
.“ 

“ 
ground, 

Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  26®  28 
“  4 F ..  30®  33
A lum en....................... 2)4® 3

“ et Potass T.  55®  60

(po.
7)................................ 
3®  4
Annatto........................  55®  60
Antlmoni, po............... 
4®  5
A ntlpyrln....................  @1  40
Antifebrln....................  @  25
Argent!  Nitras, ounce  ©   60
Arsenicum................... 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  
55®  £0
Bismuth  S.  N ............ 2  10@2 30
Calcium Chlor, Is,  ()4s
11;  Ms,  12)...............   @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
p o ..............................   @1  20
Capsid  Fructus, a f...  @ 2 2
po—   ®   25
Bpo.  @ 2 0
Caryophyllus,  (po.  14)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40..........  @3  75
Cera  Alba, S. & F .......  50®  55
Cera  Flava..................   38®  40
Coccus.........................  ©   40
Cassia Fructus............  @  23
Centrarla......................  @  10
Cetaceum....................   @  40
Chloroform .................  60®  63
squlbbs..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........ 1  25@1  50
Chondrus....................   20®  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  *   W  15®  20 
German  3  ®  12 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  ........................ 
60
Creasotum ................. 
@  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)............  @  2
“  prep....................  
5®  5
9®  11
“  preclp...'.........  
"  Rubra.................  @  8
C rocus.........................   30®  35
Cudbear........................  @  24
Cuprl Sulph.................  5 ®   6
D extrine......................  10®  12
Ether Sulph.................  68®  TO
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po  ...................   ®   6
Ergota,  (po.)  65..........  60®  65
Flake  W hite...............   12®  15
G alla............................   ©  23
Gambler........................7  @  8
Gelatin,  Cooper..........   @  TO
“ 
F rench............  40©  60
Glassware  flint,  75 and 2)4. 
by box TO
Glue,  Brown............... 
9®  15
“  W hite.................  13®  25
G lycerins.....................15)4®  20
Grana Paradis!...........  
©   22
Humulus......................  25®  55
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..  ®  90
  @  80
@1  CO
Ammonlatl..  @1  10 
Cnguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum..............  @  TO
.1  25@1  50
lohthyobolla, Am.. 
Indigo...........................  75®1  00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 75®3 85
Iodoform......................  @4 TO
L upulln........................  35®  40
Lycopodium...............  55®  60
M acis...........................  75®  80
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararg lo d ...................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnitls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
2®  3
1)4)............................. 
Manilla,  S. F .............  
33® 35

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

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

ROLLED OATS.

Grocery  Price  Current•

The  quotations given below are such as are  ordinarily offered  buyers who pay promptly 

and  buy  In  full  packages.

i

@13
&
@@10
13
@1  00 
@10 
@25 
@35 
@22 
@30 
@15

domestic  ..
CATSUP.

lalf  pint, common.............   80
tn t 
............1  to
iuart 
..............1  50
lalf  pint, fancy..................1  25
....................2 00
*int 
Juart 
3 00
...............  

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CLOTHES PINS.

COCOA  SHELLS.

quantity 
â  packages

@344

644@7

Santos.

Fair.
Prim e..................................... 18
Golden....................................20
Peaberry 
.............................. 20
F a ir.........................................16
Good.......................................17
Prim e..................................... 18
Peaberry  ...............................20
Mexican and Guatamala.
F a ir........................................ 20
Good.......................................21
Fancy..................................... 23

Maracaibo.

Prim e....................................19
M illed.................................. 20

Java.

Interior................................ 25
Private Growth...................27
M andehling........................28
Im itation............................. 23
Arabian................................. 26

Mocha.

BOASTED.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 44c. per Ib. for roast 
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.
A rb n ck le’s A rio sa ........   19.80
M cL aughlin’»  XXXX 
19.80
G e rm a n .............................19 fO
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__   19  80

PACKAGE.

EXTRACT.

Valley City...........................
Felix 
1  15
Hummel’s, foil..................l  SO
“ 
t i n ......................2 50

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

Bulk.
Red..

444

CLOTHES  LINES.
40 f t ..........perdoz.  1  25
50 ft. 
1  40
“ 
60 ft. 
1  60 1
70 ft. 
80 ft. 
1  90 
60 ft. 
90 
7 2 ff
1  00

COUPON  BOOKS.

 
 
 
 
 

“Tradesman.’
 
 

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1 1, per hundred.............. 2 00
• 2, 
2 50
8 3, 
3 00
• 5, 
3 00
4 00
810, 
•20, 
5 00
8 1, per hundred...............  2 50
3 00
• 2, 
• 8,  “ 
................ 3 50
• 6, 
4 00
 
810, 
 
5 00
820, 
.................. 6 00

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APPLE  BUTTER

40 lb. p a ils...........................  5
20 lb. p ails...........................   5*4
Mason’s,  10, 20 or 30 lbs—   6 
51b.........................   7
AXLE  GREASE.

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Graphite.

“ 

“ 

*4 gr. cases, per  g r............. $8 50
12J4 lb. pails, per doz  .......  7 50
251b. 
.......... 12 00
100 lb. kegs, per  lb ..............  4
2501b- 44 bbls., per  lb ........
400 lb. bbls., per lb .............   314
gr. cases, per g r............. $6  50
14 lb. pails, perdoz.  -----7 00
lb. 
.......... 10 50
00 lb. kegs, per  lb .............   314
50 lb.  14 bbls., per  lb ........   3*4
400 lb. bbls., per lb ..............  3

Badger.

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BAKING  POWDER.

Arctic.

(l«l pieces colored glass)
(131 pieces of crystal glass)
(100 hdl cups and saucers

Acme.
45
44 lb. cans, 3 doz................. 
2  “ 
141b.  “ 
85
................. 
1  *•  .................  1 60
1  lb.  “ 
10
Bulk....................................... 
*4 lb cans..............................  
60
.............................  1 20
14 ft  “ 
“ 
1  lb 
............................ 2  00
5  1b 
.............................  9 60
“ 
Cook's  Favorite.
100 14 lb cans......................  12 00
100 44 lb cans  ....................  12 00
100 44 lb cans......................  12 00
2 doz 1 ib cans.....................   9 00
(tankard pitcher with each can)
per doz 
Dime cans..  90
.1   33
“ 
4-oz
1  90
“ 
6 oz
“ 
.2  47
8-oz
12-oz
“ 
.3  75
“ 
.1 7 5
16-oz
244-!b “  11  40
“ 
18 25
4 lb
“  21  60
51b
“  41  80
10-lb

wumr ' 
a?---puac__-
paPRICE'S
ICREAMI

pow der

Dr  Price's.

Red Star, ** ft cans...........
..........
..........
Telfer’s,  >4 lb. cans, doz. 
“  ..
“  ..

14  lb  “ 
1 ft  “ 
“ 
141b. 
1 lb. 
“ 
Victor.

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6 oz cans, 4 doz  ..................
“ 
9  ** 
.................
2  doz..................
16 
BATH BRICK.

2 dozen In case.

BLUING. 

E nglish................................
Bristol..................................
Domestic..............................
I
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals...............
“ 
8oz 
...............
pints,  round  ..........
“ 
“  No. 2, sifting box  . 
“  No. 3,
“  No. 5, 
“  1 oz b a ll...................

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BROOKS.

“ 

No. 2 H url............................
............................
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet....................   ..
No. 1 
“ 
.........................
Parlor Gem..........................
Common W hisk..................
Fancy 
................. .
Mill.................................
Warehouse.........................
Stave, No.  1.........................
“  10.........................
“  15..........................
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row—
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row__
Palmeto, goose...................
BUCKWHEAT  PLOCR.
Rising Sun..........................
York State..........................
Self Rising, case..............

BRUSHES

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CANDLES
“ 

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes.............
Star,  40 
..............
Paraffine..................  .........
W lcklng..............................
CANNED  GOODS.

PISH.
Clams.

“ 

Little Neck,  1 lb ...............
“  2  lb ...............
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb ....................
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb ...................
21b...................
Lobsters.

Star,  1  lb ...........................
“  2  lb ...........................

“ 

Salmon.
“ 

Columbia River, flat — ...1  85 
l
tails__ ...1  75  ]
Alaska, 1  lb ...................... ...1  45  ]
...2  10  j

21b......................

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Sardines.

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American  Ms.................. 49»@ 5 
644@ 7
44s...............
.11® 12
Imported  *4®...................
. 13@14
44s..................
Mustard  K s....................
7@9
Boneless.........................
20
Brook, 3  lb ......................
...2  50

Trout.

FRUITS.
Apples.
3  lb. standard............
85
2 40
York State, gallons  ... 
2  50
Hamburgh,  “ 
__
Apricots.
Live oak.......................
2 25
2 00
Santa  Cruz..................
Lusk’s ...........................
2 50
Overland....................
1  90
Blackberries.
B. &  W.........................
90
Cherries.
Red...............................
1  20
Pitted  Hamburgh  ...  .
1  75
W hite...........................
1  20
Erie  ...........................
1  20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green
E rie ..............................
@1  25
California....................
1  70
Gooseberries.
Common......................
1  10

Gages.

Peaches.

P ie ................................
M axw ell......................
Shepard’s ....................
California....................
Monitor 
................
Oxford  ........................
Pears.

“ 

Domestic......................
Riverside......................
Pineapples.
Common.......................
Johnson’s  sliced........
grated........
Quinces.
com m on...... ...............
Raspberries.
Red 
............................
Black  Hamburg..........
Erie,  black
Strawberries. 
Lawrence....................
H am burgh..................
Erie...............................
T errapin........................
Whortleberries.

MEATS.

Common......................
F. &  W.........................
Blueberries.................
Corned  beef,  Libby’s..
Roast beef,  Armour’s ..
Potted  bam,  44 lb .........
“  44 lb ..........
tongue, 44 lb __
“ 
44 lb ...
chicken. *4 lb ...
VEGETABLES.

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Beans.

1  10
1  50
1  40
2  25
135
1  25

1  25
2 10

1  30
2 50
2 75
1  10

1  30
1  50
1  40

4  OR
0  5
1  35

1  20
1  20
. .. 1   80
....1  75
. .. 1   50
...1   00
.1  10
. 
... 
95
... 
95

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Peas

“ 
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....1   25
....2   25
....1   40
....1   30
....  80
....1  35
... 1   35
. .. 1   35

Hamburgh  stringless.. 
French style
Limas..........
Lima,  green..................
soaked...............
Lewis Boston  Baked...
Bay State  Baked..........
World’s  F air.................
Corn.
Hamburgh 
...................
Livingston  E d e n .........
... 1   15
Honey  Dew.................. __ 1  50
Morning Glory..............
...  1  10
Hamburgh m arrofat... __ 135
early Jan e..
Champion Eng... 1  50
Hamburgh  petit  pois.. 
....1   75
fancy  sifted
....1   90
Soaked ...........................
....  65
Harris  standard.......... __   75
Van Camp’s Marrofat 
.1  10
Early J u n e .
. . . 1   30
Archer's  Early Blossom__ 1  35
F ren ch ........................... .......1  80
Mushrooms.
i  F rench...........................
..16218
Pumpkin.
E rie................................ .......  95
Squash.
H nbbard........................
Succotash.
Hamburg  ...................... __ 1  40
.  ..  80
....1   60
....1   00
....1   00
....1   30
....2   50

1 ! Soaked...........................
11 Honey  Dew...................
Tomatoes.
Excelsior 
...................
I  Eclipse...........................
H am burg......................
i  G allon...........................

“ 

“ 

Mackerel.
CHOCOLATE—BAKER' 8.
Standard, 1 lb................. ...,1 30
2  lb ............... . . . 2 25 German Sweet...................
Mustard,  31b...............
. . . f t 00 Premium.............................
Tomato Sauce,  31b....... . . . 8 00 ! Pure................................  ..
Soused, 3  lb .................... . 
.3 00 Breakfast Cocoa...............

22
35
38
40

“Universal.”

$  1, per hundred...............   83 00
12,
3 50
4 00
8 3,
8 5,
5 GO
810,
6 00 
7 00
820,
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over..............  5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “  

10 “
“
COUPON  PASS BOOKS.

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

(Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down. | 
20 books...........................8  1  00
50
2 00 
3 00 
100
250
6  25 
500
10  00 
17  50
1000

 

CONDENSED KILK.
4 doz. In case.

Eagle....................................   7  40
Crown  .................................. 6 25
Genuine  Swiss.................... 8 00
American Swiss...................7 00

CRACKEBS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX........................6
Seymour XXX, cartoon.......644
Family  XXX........................  6
Family XXX,  cartoon........   644
Salted  XXX........................... 6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ...........644
Kenosha 
.............................  744
Boston.....................................  8
Batter  biscuit......................  644

Soda.

Soda,  XXX...........................  6

Crystal W afer........................ 10
Reception  Flakes..................10
S. Oyster  XX X ......................  6
City Oyster. XXX...................  6
Farina  Oyster......................   6

Oyster.

CREAM TABTAR.

Telfer’s  Absolute.

D R IE D   FRUITS. 

D om estic.
APPLES.

“ 

APRICOTS.

quartered  “ 

Sundrled. sliced in  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California in  bags..........
Evaporated in boxes.  ...
BLACKBERRIES.
In  boxes...........................
NECTARINES.
70 lb. bags.........................

Peeled, in  boxes 
Cal. evap.  “ 

PEACHES.
.......

@7

444

PEARS.

California In bags  —   @7

PITTED CHERRIES.
11
Barrels............................. 
50 lb. boxes....................   m
25  “ 
 

“ 

 
PRUNELLES.

30 lb.  boxes....................  

RASPBXBSIKB.

In  barrels...........................  
501b. boxes...................... 
............................ 
251b.  “ 
F oreign,
CURRANTS.

1244

17
17!
18

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

PEEL.

Patras. In barrels........   @ 4

in  44-bbls........   @444
In less quantity  @  444 
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  21 
Lemon 
10
Orange 
11

25  “ 
“ 
“ 
25  “ 
RAISINS.
Domestic.
London layers,  2  crown__ 1  40
S  “ 
....1 6 5
fancy...........1  85
Loose Muscatels, boxes....... 1  25
70 lb  bags  @544 
Ondura. 29 lb. boxes..  744® 744 
..11  ®12
“ 
Sultana, 20 
..  644@ 644
Valencia, 20  “ 

Foreign.

“ 
“ 

PRUNES.

Bosnia...........................  @
California, 90x100 25 lb. bxs.  8
..844
. 9
94
Turkey...........................6  @644
S ilv er......................................11

80x90 
70x80 
60x70 

“  
“ 
“ 

“ 
“  
“ 

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

 

XX  wood, white.

No. 1,644.............................  81  75
No. 2, 644.........................  1  60
No. 1,6.......  
1  65
No. 2 ,6 ................................  1  50
No. 1,644.........................  1 35
No. 2,644  .......................   1  25
644  ..................................  1 00
6............................................ 
95
Mill  No. 4...........................   100

Manilla, white.

Coin.

Farina.
Hominy.

100 lb. kegs.....................

4

Barrels................................. 3 75
4  25
G rits....................................

Lima  Beans.
Dried...............................

4
Macearon! and Vermicelli.

55
Domestic, 12 lb. box__
Imported......................1044®! 144
Pearl Barley.
Kegs..................................3 @4

Peas.

Green,  bu..........................
Spilt, bbl.............................
G erm an...............................
East India...........................
Cracked...............................

Wheat.

Sago.

.1  40
.5 00

444
544
5

F ISH —Salt.

Bloaters.

“ 
“ 

Cod.

Halibut.
Herring.

Yarmouth........................... .  1  10
4
P ollock.........................
Whole, Grand  B ank...  6 @644
Boneless,  b ric k s .........  744@8
Boneless,  strip s..........   744@8
Smoked........................
12
Scaled...........................
Holland,  bbls..............
kegs..............
Round shore,  44 bbl...
“ 
44  bbl..
Mackerel.

18®20
11  00
85
3 25
1  35
No. 1, 44 bbls. 90 lbs.........
.11  00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs............... .  1  25
.  5  50
Family,  44 bbls., 100 lb s..
kits, 10  lbs.........
75
. 
Russian,  kegs...................
45
No. 1,  44 bbls.. lOOlbs.......
..6 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs..............
..  90
No. 1, 44 bbls., lOOlbs........ ..8 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.............
-.1  10
Family, 44 bbls., 100 lbs  .
.  3  50
kits  10  lbs.........
..  50

Sardines.
Trout.

“ 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Whitefish.

“ 

Jennings’ D C.
2 oz folding box...  75
“  cj.-a ... 1  00
3 oz 
4 oz 
. ..1  50
“ 
6 oz 
“ 
...2100
“ 
...3 00
8 oz 
GUN  POWDER.

Lemon. Vanilla
1  25
1  50
2 00
3 00
4  10

K egs..................................
Half  kegs........ ................

..5  50
.3 00

HERBS.

Sage.................................... ...15
Hops.................................
...25
Madras,  5 lb. boxes  .......
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.

INDIGO.

55
50

JELLY.

Chicago  goods.............
@3
Mason’s,  10, 20 and 30 lbs ..  6
51b...................... ..  7

“ 

LICORICE.

12

Pure.................................... ...  30
Calabria............................. ...  25
Sicily.................................. ...  18
LTE.
Condensed,  2  doz............ ...1  25
4 doz............ ...2 25
MATCHES.
No. 9  sulphur................... ...1  25
Anchor  parlor.................. ...1  70
No. 2 home....................... ...1  10
Export  parlor.................. ...4   00

“ 

MINCE  MEAT

3 or 6 doz. In case  per doz.. 1  00

MEASURES.

Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  .............................  81  75
Half  gallon.......................   1  40
Q u art..................................  
70
P in t.....................................  
4
H alf  p i n t .......................... 
4
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.foo
1 gallon .
Half gallon  ......................   4
Q u art..................................  3 75
P in t.....................................  2 25

KOLASSKS. 
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house........................  1344
O rdinary................. ..........
P rim e..................................
F ancy..................................

New Orleans.

F a ir......................................
Good....................................
Extra good..........................
C hoice................................
Fancy...................................
One-half barrels. 8c extra

OATMEAL.

Barrels 200................  @4 40
Half barrels 100..............@2 30

@4  40 
@2  30

PICKLES.
Medium.

Small.

T. D. full count............  75

po t ash.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s ............................   4  00
Penna Salt* Co.’s ...............   3  25

boot b ee r
Williams, per doz...............   1  75
3 doz. case.......... 5  00

BICB.

Domestic.

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

Broken..................................

Imported.

Japan, No. 1............................6
r‘  No. 2............................544
Jav a.......................................  5
Patna......................................  5

SAUERKRAUT.

Silver Thread, b b l. . . . . . . .   $1  50
44 bbl.........  2 25

“ 

Whole Sifted.

" 
‘ 
11 

Allspice...................................10
Cassia, China In m ats.........  8
Batavia In bund___15
Saigon in rolls.........35
Cloves,  Amboyna........ .........22
Zanzibar................... 13
Mace  Batavia........................80
Nutmegs, fancy.....................80
“  No.  1.........................75
“   No.  2.........................65
Pepper, Singapore, black— 15 
“ 
w hite...  .25
shot........................... 19
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Allspice...................................15
Cassia,  Batavia.....................20
and  Saigon.%
Saigon......................35
Cloves,  Amboyna..................30
Zanzibar................. 20
Ginger, African.....................15
“  Cochin...................... 18
Jam aica...................20
“ 
Mace  Batavia........................ 80
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste. .25
“  Trieste...................... 27
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................65
Pepper, Singapore, black— 20
“ 
w hite.......30
“  Cayenne................... 25
Sage.........................................20
“Absolute” In Packages.
9*8 
A llspice........................  84
Cinnamon....................   84
Cloves...........................  84
Ginger, Jam .................  84
“  A f....................   84
M ustard........................  84
Pepper........................ 
84
Sage........ 
..............  84

. 

44s
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55

SEEDS.

A nise...........................   @1244
344
Canary, Smyrna..........  
Caraw ay...................... 
8
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
Hemp,  Russian..........  
444
Mixed  Bird  ...............   444@  544
Mustard,  w hite.......... 
6
Poppy...........................  
9
R ape............................. 
6
Cuttle  bone  ...............  
30

STARCH.
Corn.

 

“ 

20-lb  boxes...........................   644
40-lb 
644

Gloss.
1-lb packages  ........................  6
3-lb 
.........................6
6-lb 
644
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes...............
Barrels...................................   4 \

“ 
“ 

Scotch, in  bladders.............37
Maccaboy, In jars................ 35
French Rappee, In Ja rs.......43

BNurr.

SODA.

B oxes....................................... 54»
Kegs, English.................. 
4X

SAL  SODA.

Kegs................................... 
144
Granulated,  boxes...............   IK

SALT
 
 

100 3-lb. sacks........................82 25
2 00
“ 
60 5-lb. 
2810-lb.  sacks....................   1  85
2014-lb.  “ 
2 25
24 3-lb  cases.........................  1 50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
50
18
281b.  “ 

drill  “ 

 
 

Warsaw.

56 lb. dairy in drill  bags... 
281b. 
.. 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Ashton.

Higgins.

56 lb. dairy In linen sacks.. 

56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks. 

35
18

75 

75

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

WASHBOARDS.

25
85
90

SWEET OOODS.
Ginger Snaps............... 
Sugar Creams.............. 
Frosted  Creams.......... 
Graham  Crackers....... 
Oatmeal Crackers....... 

8
8
9
Sv4
8 y,

Solar Rock.

56 lb.  sacks......................
Common Fine.
Saginaw ...........................
M anistee..........................

8ALERATU8.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

Church’s ..........................
83 30
DeLand’s ......................... ..  3  15
Dwight’s ............................ ..  3 30
Taylor’s ............................. ..  3 00

SOAP.
LAUNDRY.

“ 

“ 

Thompson & Chute  Brands.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Silver,  10012 oz............... ..83 65
Snow, 10010 oz.................
.  5 00
Mono, 10012 oz  ...............
.  3 35
German Family,  60 1 lb .. 
..  2 55
7511b...
.  3  10
Laundry Castile, 75 1 lb .. 
..  3 05
Marbled, 75 1 lb  ..............
..  3  05
Savon Improved, 60  1 lb. ..  2  50
Sunflower,  100 10 oz.........
.  2  75
Olive, 100 10 oz.................
.  2  50
Golden, 80 1 l b ............... ..  3 25
Economical, 30  2 lb ......... ..  2 25
Standard, 30 2 lb  ............ ..  2 35
Old Country,  80  1-lb...... ...3 30
Good Cheer, 601 lb .......... ...3  90
White Borax, 100  M-lb... ...3  60
Proctor & Gamble.
Concord............................. ..  2 80
Ivory, 10  oz......................
..  6  75
6  oz........................
..4 0 0
Lenox 
.............................
Mottled  German..............
.  3  15
Town T alk........................
.  3 00
Snow, 100 6-oz 
.........
..  3  75
Cocoa Castile, 24  lb .........
..  3 00
Silverine, 100  12 oz.......... ..  3 50
5012 oz............ ..  1  fO
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz. 
..  2 50
hand, 3 doz.......
..  2 50
Potash Flakes, 7210 oz... ..  5 00

SCOURING AND POLISHING.
“ 
“ 

TOILET.

‘ 

SUGAR.

Cut  Loaf......................
C ubes...........................
Powdered....................
Granulated.. 
.......
Confectioners’ A .......
Soft A ...........................
White E xtra C............
Extra  C........................
C . . . .............................. @ 4
Y ellow ........................  3%® 3%
Less than  bhls. 

@  5)4
@ 5
@  5
@4.69
@4  56
@ 4M
@4  18
©

advance

SYRUPS.
Corn.

Barrels..............................
.  23
Half bbls...........................
..25
F a ir....................................
..  19
Good..................................
..  25
Choice................................ ...  30

Pure Cane.

TEAS.

Japan—Regular.

F a ir.............................
@17
Good...........................
@20
Choice......................... .24 @26
Choicest...................... .32 @34
D u st............................ .10 @12
SUN CURED.
F a ir.............................
@17
Good...........................
@20
Choice......................... .24 @26
Choicest...................... .32 @34
D ust............................ .10 @12

BASKET  FIRED.

F a ir............................. .18 @20
Choice.........................
@25
Choicest......................
@35
Extra choice, wire leaf @40

GUNPOWDER.

Common to  fair......... .25 @35
Extra fine to finest... .50 @65
Choicest fancy.......... .75 @85
@26
Common to  fair........ .23 @30
Common to  fair........ .23 @26
Superior to fine.......... .30 @35

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG.

YOUNG HYSON.

Common to  fair........ .18 @26
Superior to  fine......... .30 @40

ENGLISH BREAKFAST;

F a ir................................18  @22
Choice.............................24  @28
Best............................40 @80

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

“ 

Palls unless otherwise noted
H iaw atha....................  
60
34
Sweet  Cuba................. 
M cG inty........................ 
24
)4 bhls........... 
22
Valley  City.................  
32
Dandy Jim ................... 
27
20
Torpedo....................... 
in  drum s—  
19
Yum  Yum  .................  
26

“ 

Plug.

Sorg's Brands.
Spearhead................... 
J o k e r.......................... 
Nobby Twist................... 
Oh  My.............................  

37
22
38
29

30
2t)

Private Brands.

Middleton’s Brands.

Scotten’s Brands.
22
Kylo..........................  
Hiawatha..................... 
38
Valley C ity.................  
34
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty................ 
40
Jolly Tar......................  
32
Here  It Is....................  
28
Old Style...................... 
31
Jas. G. Butler &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good.......................38
Toss  Up......................................26
Out of Sight..............................25
Sweet  Maple..................
L. & W .........................
Smoking.
Boss.................................. ...  12)4
Colonel’s Choice............ ....13
W arpath......................... ....14
B anner........................... ....15
King Bee......................... . ...20
Kiln Dried...................... ....17
Nigger Head................... __ 23
Honey  Dew.................... ....24
Gold  Block........................
....2 8
Peerless................................ ....24
Rob  Roy......................... ....24
Uncle  Sam.......................... ....28
Tom and Jerry..................
Brier Pipe............................ .  ..30
Yum  Y um .......................... ....32
Red Clover.......................... ....32
Navy................................ . . .   Si
Handmade.......................... ....40
F ro g ................................ ...  33
GRAINS an d  FEEDSTUFF8

WHEAT.

No. 1 White (58 lb. test)
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test)

MEAL.

85
85

FLOUR.

Bolted................................ .  1  20
Granulated......................
1  40
.  4  50
Straight, in  sacks............
.  4  60
“  barrels........
“ 
5 50
Patent 
“  sacks............
.  5  60
“  barrels........
“ 
Graham  “  sacks.......... .  2  20
.......... .  2 50
Rye 
“ 
MILLSTÜFFS.
Bran................................... .  16 OOj
Screenings....................... .  15 00
Middlings......................... .  17  00
Mixed  Feed...................... .  17 00
Coarse meal...................... .  16  50
Car  lots............................. ...45
Less than  car  lots.......... ...43M

CORN.

“ 

OATS.

Car  lots  ........................... ...33
Less than car lots........... .. .35

No. 1 Timothy, car lots.. 
No. 1 
..

“ 

HAY.
ton lots 

..13 00
..14  00

oysters—Cans.

Falrhaven  Counts__   @35
F. J. D. Selects..........   @30
Selects.........................   @25
F  J. D...........................  @20
Anchor.........................   @20
Standards  ...................  @18

SHELL  GOODS.

“ 

Oysters, per  100........ l  2501  50
Clams. 
..........  75@l  00
H ID ES,  PELTS and  F O S i
Perkins  &  Hess pay  as  io!

“ 

lows,  prices nom inal:
HIDES
G reen....................
Part  Cured............
Full 
............
Dry.........................
Kips, green  ..........
“  cured.......  ..
Calfskins,  green..
cured..
Deacon skins........
No. 2 hides % off
PELTS
Shearlings.............
.................
Lambs 
WOOL.
W ashed.................
U nw ashed.........

" 

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow ..................
Grease  butter  ....
Switches...............
Ginseng.................
FURS.

....  3  @4
@ 4
...  @ 4*
...  5  @ 6
. . . 3   @ 4
@ 4*
. . . 4   @ 5
...  5  @6)4
...10  @30

...10  @25
...50  @1  50

...20  @25
..1 0   @20

...  3K@ 4
...  1  @ 2
...  1)4@ 2
.  .2 00@2  50

Outside prices for No. 1 only.
Badger..................
...  50@1  00
Bear.......................
.15 00@25 00
B eaver..................
...3  00@7 00
Cat,  w ild...............
...  40@  50
“  house............
...  10@  25
Fisher....................
...4 00@6 00
Fox, red.................
...1  00@1  50
“  cross.............
...3 00@5 00
...  50@1  00
L “  grey...............
Martin,  d ark.. 
..
. ..1  0i;@3 00
pale  & yellow  50@1  00
Mink, dark............
...  40@1  10
Muskrat.................
...  03@  IS
Oppossum.............. ....  15®  20
Otter,  dark............
.. .5 00@8 00
Raccoon.................
...  25@  75
Skunk....................
...1  00@1  20
Wolf.......................
..  1  00@3 00
Beaver castors, lb.
...2 00@5 00

“ 

deerskins—Per pound

Thin and  green  ..
Long gray.............

...............  10
...............20

17

O IL S .

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes 
as  follows,  in barrels,  f. o.  b. 
Grand Rapids:
W.  W.  Headlight,  150 
fire  test (old test)  ....  @ 8
Water White,  ............ 
N aptha.........................  @ 7
Gasoline......................  @
Cylinder 
....................27  @36
E n g in e....................   13  @ 21
Black. 25 to 30 deg 

© 7H

@7)4

. 

P O U L T R Y .

Local dealers  pay  as  follows 

for dressed  fowls:
Fow l.............................. H  @12
Turkeys.  .  ..................14  @15
Ducks  ..........................13  @14
Spring  chickens........ 15  @25
Fowls............................. 9  @10
Turkeys.........................12  @13

Live Poultry.

P A P E R  & W O OD EN W A RE 

PAPER.

“ 

“ 

TWINES.

................................... 3 X

Straw 
Rockfalls........................
Rag sugar.......................
H ardw are.......................
Bakers............................
Dry  Goods.................... 5 H@6
Jute  Manilla................. @6)4
Red  Express  N o .l.......
....  5)4
N o.2.......
....... 4)4
25>
48 Cotton.........................
Cotton, No. 1.................. ....is
“  2................... ....16
Sea  Island, assorted__ . . .
No. 5 H em p....................
...15
No. 6  “ ....................... 
. ....15
WOODENWARE.
Tubs, No. 1...................... ...  7 00
“  No. 2...................... ...  6 00
“  No. 3...................... ...  5 00
Pails,  No. 1, two-hoop..
1  35
“  No. 1,  three-hoop.
..  1  60
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.... 
50
Bowls, il Inch................ ...  1  00
...............
13  “ 
...  1  25
15  “ 
................. ...  2 00
.
17  “ 
...  2 75
assorted, 17s and 19s  2 50
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
35
shipping  bushel..  1  20
full  hoop  “
..  1  30
bushel............. ...  1  50
willow cl’ths, No.i  5 75
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3  7 25
“  No.l  3 50
“  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 5 0C

Baskets, m arket................. 

splint 

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Single.

Double.

W ilson....................................... 82 00
Saginaw.....................................   1 75
Rival..........................................   l 40
Daisy...........................................  l 00
L angtry.....................................   1 10
Defiance.....................................   l 75
W ilson.......................................  2 50
Saginaw.......................................2 25
R ival..........................................  l 80
Defiance.......................................2 00
Crescent....................................... 2 75
Red Star.......................................2 75
Shamrock ...............................2  50
Ivy Leaf.....................................  2 25
40 g r.......•................................   7)4
50 gr........................................ 8 Y%

VINES AB.

$1 for barrel.
W E T   M U S T A R D .

Bulk, per gal  .................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75 
tb ast—Compressed. 
Fermentum  pe  doz. cakes..  15
per lb-...................25
“ 
Fleischman, per doz cakes ...  15 
“ 
perlb....................25

F ISH   and  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenth&ler  quotes  as 

FRESH  FISH

follows;
Whltefish 
............. ..  8 @10
T r o u t....................... ..  8 @  9
H alibut......................
@15
Ciscoes...................... ..  5 @ 6
F lo u n d ers............... ..  8 @10
.11 @12
Bluefish....................
Mackerel................... ..15
Cod............................. ..10 @12
California  salmon  .
@15
No. 1 Pickerel..........
@ 9
©  8
P ike...........................
Smoked  White  ..  ..
@  3
Bloater, per  box........ 

1  50

W e  Affirm   T h a t 
Good  Goods  M ake 

B usiness. HILLSIDE  JAVA! A n d   P o o r G oods 

B u sin ess.

M a r

Grocery men :  

Are  you  satisfied  with  your  sales  of  High Grade 

?

Are  you  sure  that  you  are  selling  the  Best  to  be  obtained!

H IL L S ID E   J A V A   is a scientific  combination  of  Private Plantation  Coffees, selected  by  an  expert and  from  which  a cup 
of  coffee can  be made that will  give universal satisfaction.  Cup  qualities  alw ays  uniform  which  is one  reason  why  it 
is a trade holder wherever introduced.  H IL L S ID E   J A V A   has  many  friends  in  Michigan! 
D O   Y O U   S E L L   I T ?

$100  will  tie paiä  for  a  formala that  will  predace  a  Cap ol  Coffee  tetter than  Hillside !

Roosted  iff tie Latest  lim e d   Cylinders  aid  Packed  while  let  into  50-11,  Cans  ealy.

T H E  T.  UVE.  B O U R  CO.,

Im porters,  Roasters  and  Jobbers  of  Fine  Coffees,

140  Sum m it  S t .,  Toledo, 

O., also  Detroit  &  New  York.

W e are represented in Michigan as follows:  Eastern  Michigan,  P.  V.  H e c k l e r ;  Southern Michigan,  M.  H.  H a s s e r ;

Western  Michigan,  Thos.  F e r g u s o n   [“ Old  Fergy”].

18

How  to  Beat  the  Sugar  Trust.
Sugar refiners have a protection ot half 
a cent a pound against  foreign  competi­
tion,  and they have  combined  in  order 
to prevent home competition.  This  will 
enable them to obtain the  full benefit  of 
that half-cent,  which will serve to equal­
ize the difference in  wages  between  this 
country and Europe and  the  balence  go 
into the pockets of the  refiners  as  extra 
profits.  The public has only one  means 
of heading off this conspiracy,  but it is  a 
very good one.  Clean raw sugar is much 
better  in  every  way  than  the  darker 
grades of  refined  sugar,  and  for  many 
purposes is better than  the  finest  white 
sugar.  The sugar refiners rely upon  the 
strong prej udice of the American  people 
in favor of white things  to  prevent  the 
use of raw sugar and ensure their triumph. 
The people should put away their  preju­
dice agaiust brown sugar, just as many of 
themhave put away their prejudice again­
st brown  flour.  Sugar of  a  rich  brown 
color is much better tasted and  probably 
more wholesome  than  the  dead-looking 
greyish sugar that is  turned  out  of  our 
sugar  refineries.  Grocers  do  not  gen­
erally keep raw  sugar  because  there  is 
no demand for it; if the  people  want  it, 
they must ask for it,  and keep on  asking 
until they get it. 

Geo.  R.  Scott.

Sensible  Advice  to  Clerks.

It pays  to  take  as  much  interest 

in 
your employer’s business as if  you  were 
working for yourself.
It pays to earn more  than  you  receive 
in  salary.  Your  employer  expects  to 
make something from the labor  of  those 
who work for him. 
If he did  not,  there 
would  be  little  use  continuing  in  busi­
ness.
It pays to be  conscientious  in  trifling 
things.  The sum of life is for  the  most 
part made up of  trifles,  and  success  or 
failure generally turn on something  that 
at the moment seemed a  trifle.
It  pays  to  learn  everything  you  can 
that  has a  bearing  on  your  occupation. 
The more you learn  the  better  you  will 
do.
It  pays  to  cultivate  a  pleasant  and 
obliging manner.  You  may have this as 
a natural  gift,  but if  not,  it  can  be  ac­
quired  by  practice  until  it  becomes  a 
habit.
It  pays  to  put  all  the  capacity  you 
have into your daily  work. 
Intelligence 
is  in  demand.  Steam  and  electricity 
have supplanted human  machines.
It pays to be reliable.  Reliable people 
are not too plentiful.  Let your employer 
have  confidence  that  if  you  undertake 
anything you  will do it right.

Tbe  “ K icker”  in  Trade.

The “kicker”  in trade is nearly always 
the  fellow  who  asks  more  than  he  is 
willing to grant.  He  demands  that  the 
house be buys from shall  give him  liber­
ties which he would not think  of  giving 
his own  customers.  He  appears  to  ac­
cept it as a matter of  fact  that  the  best 
in the  world shall  be  his,  but  that  his 
customers must be satisfied  with what he 
judges  to  be  their  right.  He  is  very 
critical  as to the kind of  goods he  buys, 
and will find  a flaw where  the  manufac­
turer himself cannot find  it,  but is  liable 
to show  anger  if  his  customer  notices 
anything out of  the  way.  The  success­
ful merchants are those who are  as  anx­
ious to please  as  their  customers  are  to 
be pleased;  who  bend  every  energy  to 
satisfy their  trade,  and  are  willing  to 
lose money,  if it  is  necessary,  to  retain 
the good will of those they come in  daily 
contact  with. 
It  is,  therefore,  reason­
able to  assume that  a  mistake  made  by 
the experienced dealer is  not  to  be  laid 
up against him,  for it  is one of  accident, 
and  in  no  wise  reflects  upon  his  judg­
ment.

Port Huron—Hy.  McMorran  succeeds 
W.  W. Campfield & Co.  in  the  wholesale 
grocery,  flour,  feed and coal business.

GAN H IE S. FR U IT S an d   NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDT.
Full  Weight. 

Bbls.  Palis.

“ 
“ 

Standard,  per  lb ...................................  6 
H .H ..........................................  6 
Twist  ......................................6 
Boston  Cream  ............... 20 lb. cases 
Cut  Loaf..................................................7 
Extra  H.  H ..................................cases  7 

7
7
7
854
8
8

MIXED  CANDT.
Full Weight.

Bbls. 

Palls.

7
Standard...........................................6 
7
Leader...............................................6 
Royal................................................ 654 
754
Nobby............................................... 7 
8
English  Rock................................. 7 
8
8
Conserves........................................7 
8
Broken Taffy......................baskets 
9
"’eanut Squares................... 
8 
French Creams................................  
10
Valley  Creams................................  
13
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.......................................  8
Modern, :o lb. 
.......................................... 8

“

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fancy—In bulk.
Full Weight. 

 
 
 

 

 

“ 

“ 

3 
2 
3 

“ 
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“ 

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ORANGES.

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

CARAMELS.
 
 
 

Pails.
jozenges, plain.................................................   10
printed..............................................  11
Jhocolate Drops.................................................  1154
Chocolate Monumentals..................................  13
Gum Drops..........................................................  554
Moss Drops..........................................................  8
Sour Drops..........................................................  854
Imperials.............................................................  10
Per Box.
emon Drops........................................................ 55
Sour D rops............................................ V............55
'eppermint Drops................................................60
Chocolate Drops................................................... 65
H. M. Chocolate  Drops........................................90
Gum  Drops.............................. 
...40@50
Licorice Drops.................................................. 1  00
A. B. Licorice  Drops...........................................80
Lozenges, plain............................ 
60
printed................................................65
Imperials...............................................................60
Mottoes.................................................................. 70
Cream Bar............................................................. 55
Molasses  B ar........................................................ 55
Hand Made  Creams......................................85©95
Plain Creams..................................................80@90
Decorated Creams...........................................1  00
String  Rock..........................................................65
Burnt Almonds................................................1  00
Wintergreen  Berries...........................................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes...........................   34
51
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
28
No. 3, 
42
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes.......................................  90
Florida»,  fancy-150-176-200....................   @3  75
“ 
choice. 126.................................   ©3  00
“ russets -1P0-176-216..........................  ©3  50
T angerines................................  
“ 
....
Californias,  Riverside........................... 2 25@2  50
N a v als............ •...................
Messinas, choice  200................................   ©3  75
160................................   @3 50
“ 
@3  50
©4  00
@3  50
©4  00
.12  ©14 
.14  @15 
.  @15
@18 
©  9 
@  8 
■  454© 5
@16 
©15 
@16 
@  754 
@12 
@14 
@ 
@10 
@1254 
@1154 
.11  @14 
@4 00
©  554 
-  ©  754
©  554 
©  754 
©  454 
@ 654

Figs, fancy  layers, 6B>............
“  10» ............
“  141b............
“  20»...........
Dates, Ford, 10-lb.  box.......... .
..........
Persian.50-lb.  b o x ....
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.............
Ivaca.......................
California...............
Brazils, new.............................
Filberts.....................................
Walnuts, Grenoble.................
Marbot.....................
Chill........................
Table  Nats,  fancy.................
choice...............
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  ..........
Cocoanuts, full sacks.............
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H.  P., Suns.................
“  Roasted....
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............
“  Roasted...
Choice, H. P.,  E xtras............
“  Roasted.

Messina, choice, 360................................ 
fancy, 360................................  
choice 300................................  
fancy 360................................. 

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

“ 
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50-lb.  “ 

“ 
“ 
“  
“ 
“ 

LEMONS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

extra 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

J. L.  Strelitsky,

Including the following celebrated brands man­
ufactured  by the  well-known  house of  Glaser, 
Frame & C o.:
V index, long  Havana filler.........................   $35
T h ree  M edals, long Havana filler............ 
35
55
E lk ’s C hoice, Havana filler and binder... 
La F io r de A lfonso,. . . . .   ........................ 
55
La H oacella de M o re ra ,...........................  
65
55
La  Id eal,  25 in a box...................................  
W . J .  F lo ren c e ............................................  
65
Also  fine line  Key West goods at rock  bottom 
prices.  All favorite  brands of  Cheroots  kept in 
stock.

10  So.  Ionia  SI.,  Grand  Rapids,

P R O O U C K   M A R K E T .

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
Closer T rade Relations W ith Canada.
H a l if a x ,  Nova  Scotia,  April  11—1 
believe  in  having  closer  trade  relations 
with the United States and  Canada.  We, 
with  a  population  less  than  5,000,000, 
cannot afford  anything  but the  best  and 
most  friendly  understanding  with  the 
65,000,000 people  in  the  States.  Do not 
understand me to mean legislative union. 
This will not be entertained  by  us while 
we have the present connection  with our 
glorious Queen Victoria and  her  family, 
and which  must  not  be  weakened.  We 
have our fishery,  the  bait  question,  and 
the freedom of our harbors and railroads 
to offer  young  people,  which  they  want, 
and  could  offer  in  exchange  for  a  free 
trade to a certain  extent.

Apples—In good demand  and  firm  at  present 
quotations.  Russets,  Baldwins  and  Greenings 
easily bring  *2.50 per  bbl, while  Spys are  firmly 
held at *2.75.
Beans — Without  material  change,  either  in 
price or  demand.  Jobbers  pay  about  *1.20  for 
country stock  and  hold  city picked  pea or me­
dium at $1.60 per bu.
than  a  week  ago. 
Jobbers  pay  18@l9c  for  good  to  choice  dairy 
and  hold  same  at  20©21c.  Factory  creamery 
is  in fair demand at 27c.

Celery—25c per doz.
Cabbages— 50©60c per doz.
Cranberries — Repacked  Cape  Cod are in  fair 
demand at *6  50  per  bbl.
Dried Apples—Sundried  is held at 4J4@5c  and 
evaporated at 654©'7c.
Eggs—.Jobbers  pay  10‘i@llHc  for  shipments 
reaching  them in time  for  Easter  demand, but 
the  price will  probably fall off  after  Saturday. 
Dealers should be sure to get their  shipments to 
market  by  Friday  morning  to  secure  the  best 
results.

Butter—A  little  weaker 

G il b e r t   S e a m a n .

Her  Criterion  of  Purity.
“Did  you  hear  my  little  girl’s 

last 
smart  remark?”  asked  Mrs  Blake  of  a 
friend the other day.
“No; what was  it?”  replied  the  lady 
addressed.
“You  know she says her prayers every 
night.”
“Yes.”
“She  doesn’t  stick  to  the  prescribed 
formula,  ‘Now 1 lay me,’  etc.,  but  offers 
up some  original  petitions.  The  other 
night she said: 
‘Dear Lord,  bless  papa 
and mamma, and all my aunties  and  un­
cles,  and make me pure.  Make me awful
pure.  Make me pure as the-------- baking-
powder.  Amen.”

Flour  Mill  W anted  a t  New  Buffalo.
N ew  Bu ffa l o ,  April  9—This  town 
has about 1,000 inhabitants and is one  of 
located  towns  in  Michigan. 
the  best 
There 
is  no  flouring  mill  within  ten 
miles of here.  We are  surrounded  by a 
good farming country and three railroads 
—the M.  C., C.  & W.  M.  and  I.  L  L 
If 
an enterprising man will  come  here  we 
will give him the best  site  in  the  town 
free. 

J ohn A.  W est.

Paper  Packed 

Screw.

WRITE  FOR  PRICES

Wm. Brifmmeler  Sons

M anufacturers and  Jo b b ers o f

Pieced & Stamped Tinware,

280  S. IONIA^ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

T elephone  640.

We are very large receivers o f th e  above a r­
ticles and are prepared to  sell yo u r shipm ents 
prompt ly a t th e  highest m ark et  p rice  a n a   to 
give you quick returns. We also receive an d  sell
HAY,  GRAIN,  WOOL, HIDES,

GRASS SEED, BEANS, POTATOES, 
GREEN  AND  DRIED  FRUITS, 
OR  ANYTHING  YOU  M AY  HAVE  TO  SHIP,  Lib-
o ra l;advances m adeonshipm ents if requested. 
Write us fo r  prices  o r  any  inform ation  you 
may w ant.

SUMMERS,  MORRISON  &  CO.. 

Commission  Merchants,

174-  S .  W ATER   S T ., 
C H IC A G O ,  I L L
References M etronolitan NntL Bunk, thk'U jo. 

-  

Be sure and Mention this Paper.

Honey—14c per lb.
Lettuce—Grand  Rapids  Forcing  is  in fair de­
mand at 15c per lb.
Maple  Sugar—Dealers  pay  7@8c  per  lb. and 
hold at 8@9c.
Onions—Green are  in  fair  demand at 20c  per 
dozen bunches.  Dry stock  is  in  small  demand 
and supply, commanding 60@80c per bu. 

Pieplant—8c per lb.
Potatoes—No change in the  market, producers 
having come  to  the  conclusion that  no  higher 
prices may be looked  for this season.

Radishes—35c per doz. bunches.
Sweet Potatoes—The market is a  little  higher, 
choice  stock  now  readily  commanding  *3.50 
per bbl.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

GRANGER

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

lard—Kettle Rendered

...........................................  7)4

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

quotes as follows:
Mess,  new..........................................................10 75
S h o rtc u t...........................................................  11  £0
Extra clear pig, short cu t...............................  14 00
Extra clear,  heavy..........................................
Clear, fat  back.................................................   13 25
Boston clear, short cu t....................................  13  50
Clear back, short cu t.......................................  13 50
13 75
Standard clear, short cut. best................... 
Pork Sausage..........................  
754
Ham Sausage........................................................  9
Tongue Sausage...................................................9
Frankfort  Sausage 
Blood Sausage......................................................  5
Bologna, straight................................................   5
Bologna,  thick............... .......................  ...........5
Head Cheese......................................................... 5
Tierces..................................................................  7%
Tubs.......................................................................  8
50 lb.  Tins.............................................................8
Tierces.............................................................  
7
7
50 lb cases........................................................ 
20 
7
.......................................................  
10 
7*
......................................................  
5 
......................................................  
7%
3 
....................................................... 
8
Corn-
pound
5
5J4
5)4
53£
6*4
6%
6 V,

Tierces......................................... 5 54 
30 and  50 lb. Tubs........................5% 
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case............... 5% 
5 lb. Palls, 12 In a case.................6 
10 lb. Pails, 6 in  a case..............61* 
20 lb. Palls, 4 In  a  case............. 6% 
50 lb. Cans....................................6 ¡4 
BEEP  IN  BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs........................  6 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing......................... 6  50
Boneless, rump butts........................................  9 00
Hams, average 20 lbs..........................................  9*4
16 lbs..........................................   95
12 to 14 lbs...................................10
picnic........................................................  6X
best boneless............................................  8 ¡4
Shoulders.............................................................   6
Breakfast Bacon, boneless................................  8%
Dried beef, ham prices.........................................8!4
Long Clears, heavy................................................654
Briskets,  medium..............................................   7
lig h t............  .....................................   7

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

Family. 

lard. 

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“ 

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“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

„ 

j 

FR ESH   MEATS.

“ 

Swift & Company quote as follows:
Beef, carcass..............................................4*£©  6**
“  hindquarters...................................6  @ 7
fore 
“ 
................................ 3X@  4*4
loins,  No.  3...................................  
“ 
©  9
ribs....................................................  8  ©  854
“ 
“ 
rounds..............................................5  @  6
tongues..........................................  
“ 
Bologna....................................................... 
Pork loins....................................................   ©  8
.......................................  ©  6
Sausage, blood  or head.............................  ©  414
liver............................................  @454
©  7
Frankfort  .................................. 
Mutton  ........................................................ 
©3
Veal.............................................................  5  ©6

“  shoulders 

©
©  45»

IMPORTANT To  C om m ercial  Trav 

elers and M erchants :

“ 
“ 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  the  American 
Casualty  Insurance  and  Security Co., of  Baltl 
more City, Maryland, is furnishing the most  lib­
eral  accident  policy,  affording  more  protection 
for  the  money than  is  given by any other com­
pany or association doing business in the United 
States.  Its  policy  is  short  and  simple, is  free 
from all  objectionable and  unnecessary clauses 
and  conditions, and is an  absolute  contract  se 
cured  by a cash  capital of  *1,000,000. with  over 
*500,000  surplus,  hence  there  are  no  contin­
gencies  as  to  amount to be paid  the  insured or 
his beneficiary, as in  all  association certificates 
Those wishing the best policy issued, should call 
up telephone 1003, or address

W.  R. FREEMAN, Agent, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

19

TALKS  WITH  A  LAWYER.
EARNEST  OR PART PAYMENT.

Written for The Tradesman.

There  was  an ancient  custom,  which 
was deemed  more  or  less  necessary,  for 
contracting  parties  to  shake  hands  to 
signify  the  completion  of  the  bargain. 
It  was  called  handsale.  The  giving  of 
earnest  followed  this  custom. 
From 
early authorities  it may be  learned  that 
the earnest  formed  no  part  of  the  pur­
chase price. 
It  was  given  only as a to­
ken. 
It might  consist  of  a  ring,  or any 
article of value.  The custom was suited 
to the manners of unlettered ages, and is 
now  almost  fallen 
into  disuse.  The 
words are  not in the statutes of  many of 
the States,  but  the  statutes  of  most  of 
the States declare that unless the  buyer, 
at  the  time  of  the  contract,  pay  some 
part  of  the  purchase  money,  or  give 
something  in  Earnest  to  bind  the  bar­
gain,  it  is void;  and it is  held  that mere 
tender of Earnest,  or part payment is not 
sufficient.  The  Earnest  must  be  given, 
or  part  payment  must  be  made,  at  the 
time of  the  making  of  the  contract. 
It 
will be understood, however, that if there 
be a  sufficient  memorandum  in  writing, 
signed  by  the  parties,  the  contract  will 
be binding  under  the  statute  known  as 
the  statute of  frauds.  The  English stat­
ute  of  frauds  which  has  served the 
model 
statutes, 
was passed  in  the 29th  year  of  Charles 
the  Second,  1677.  The  17th 
section 
reads  as  follows:  “And  bee  it  further 
enacted by the authority aforesaid,  That 
from and after the said fower  and  twen- 
tyeth day of June,  noe  Contract  for  the 
Sale  of  any  Goods,  Wares  or  Merchan­
dises for the price of ten pounds Sterling 
or upward  shall  be  allowed  to  be  good 
except the Buyer shall accept part of the 
goods soe sold,  and  actually  receive  the 
same,  or  give  something  in  earnest  to 
bind the bargaine,  or in part payment, or 
that Some Note or Memorandum,  in writ­
ing,  of  the said  bargaine  be  made  and 
signed by  the  partyes  to be  charged by 
such Contracts or their Agents thereunto 
lawfully authorized.”

subsequent 

for  all 

In most of the statutes of  the States of 
the Union the price stated is $50;  in Ala­
bama, California and  Idaho it is $200;  in 
Arkansas,  New  Jersey,  Maine  and  Mis­
souri,  $30; 
in  Arizona,  $100;  in  New 
Hampshire,  $33;  in  Vermont,  $40; 
in 
Utah,  $300.

The Florida, Iowa and Kansas  statutes 

cover sales of personalty at any price.

As stated,  if there  be  no  memoradum 
in  writing,  the  possession  of  the  goods 
must  have  passed,  and  the goods  must 
have been  accepted, or  something  given 
in earnest or in part payment to bind the 
bargain,  and the  part  payment  must  be 
made at the time of making the contract. 
If it is not so made,  but  is  subsequently 
made,  it  does not  make  good  the  previ­
ous  void  agreement,  but  it  serves  to 
make  a  new  agreement. 
It  is  also  de­
cided that  the  part  payment  or  earnest 
must be in  money or  in  money’s  worth, 
that is, something of intrinsic  value.

If the buyer gives his note  at  the time 
of the  contract,  it is neither  earnest  nor 
part payment,  but a note of a third party 
may be  received as  earnest  or part pay­
ment.

If the purchaser holds the seller’s note, 
a  surrendor  of  the  note  at  the  time  of 
the contract will be part  payment under 
the statute.  I will conclude by citing one 
of the earliest English  cases,  illustrating 
the effect of a part  payment  at  the  time

of  making  the  contract.  The  case 
is 
Thornborow  v.  Whitacre. 
It  was  tried 
in 1705.  The facts are: Thornborow met 
Whitacre and said:  “Let  us strike a bar­
gain. 
If I pay you a £5 note down  now, 
will you give me two rye corns next Mon­
day,  four  on  Monday  week,  eight  on 
Monday  fortnight,  and so on, doubling it 
every Monday for a year?”

in  a  year 

sued  Whitacre 

Whitacre  quickly  accepted  the  offer. 
When,  however,  he came to calculate the 
amount of rye he would  have to  deliver, 
he found that it came  to  more  than  was 
in  all  England. 
grown 
Thornborow 
for 
his  agreement. 
failure 
The  court 
the  contract  was 
foolish,  but  was  valid.  The  defendant 
claimed the contract was  an “impossible
contract.”  The court held it was only so 
in  respect of  the  defendant’s  ability  to 
perform it.  The plaintiff had judgment.

to  perform 

said 

W m .  C.  S p r a g u e .

Sizes  of  French  Prunes.

From the American Grocer.

There  constantly  arises  between  job­
bers of French prunes and their  custom­
the 
ers  more  or  less  trouble  because 
number  of  prunes  to  the  pound  differ 
from  the  designation  as  given  by  the 
trade.  We have several times  explained 
this  matter. 
It  must  be  remembered 
that  prunes  are  packed  in  France  to 
meet the demands of the  world,  and  as 
the metric system is  in  operation  there, 
and  all  countries  except  the  United 
States buy according to  that system,  the 
prunes are packed  in accordance therein. 
The standard for packing  prunes  is  the 
half kilogramme,  which is equivalent  to 
1.10 English pounds. 
If all the importers 
and wholesale dealers  in  prunes  would 
join hands  and  distribute  circulars  ex­
plaining  this  difference  much  of  the 
trouble now experienced would  be  obvi­
ated.  We reproduce here,  for the benefit 
of our readers,  an  explanation  as  given 
in  November, 1890,  as follows:
French  prunes  are  sorted  into  eight 
different sizes,  known  to  the  wholesale 
trade of the country  as  50-5,  60-5,  70-5, 
80-5,  90-5,  100-5,  110-15 
the 
half  kilog. 
In  Germany,  Russia,  Bel­
gium,  Spain,  Italy  and  other  European 
countries, French prunes are sold  to  the 
retail trade on the  basis  of  the  original 
standard of  so  many  fruit  to  the  half 
kilog.,  but  in  the  Uuited  States,  ever 
since the fruit was first  introduced,  the 
trade has handled the fruit on  the  basis 
of the English pound.  This was natural 
enough,  but  unfortunately 
the  trade 
learned to disregard the fractional differ­
ence between the English pound  and  the 
half kilog.,  and for convenience sake  de­
cided to call ten fruits less to the English 
pound,  the equivalent of the  number  of 
fruit to a half kilog.,  without  regard  to 
the size of the  fruit,  and  while  this  is 
practically correct for the smaller fruits, 
such as 80-5,  90-5,  100-5,  and  110-15,  it 
is not  correct  for  the  larger  fruit,  be­
cause the half kilog.  is equal to  1  10-100 
English pounds,  and  therefore  the sub­
traction  of  ten  fruits  per  half  kilog. 
could not be justly applied to all sizes of 
fruit.

fruit 

to 

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in  Pennyslvania,  claimed  to  be  a  sure 
cure,  “if the roots were not  washed:”
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dont  wash the  roots—rattle  roots,  sarsa­
parilla  roots,  spigurad  roots,  saladine 
or gravel roots,  hour houn tops,  mountin 
tea  leaves  and  roots,  warm  wood  tops, 
catnip  tops,  red  clover  blossom,  sage 
tops, safron blossom, pipsisaway tops and 
roots,  elicompain  roots,  maiden  hair 
roots,  slipery  alim  bark,  black  cherry 
bark, 4 handfuls mulin harts.
Put all  in 3 quarts of  water and boil it 
to 3 pints and strain and put 1% pints of 
good  whiskey  and  sweten  with  shuger 
housemalasses dose one  half  gill 3 times 
a day for 3 days  and  stop  3 days  and so 
on as before.

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T H E   M IC H IG A N   TRA JDESM AJST

T H E   P E O P L E   A N D   T H E   SU G A R   TRU ST.

W ith  th e T ariff.

The Sugar Trust is “protected:”

(a)  By  duty  of  % cent  per  pound  on 
refined  sugar.
(b)  By natural  advantage or protection 
of  % of a cent per pound.

W ith o u t th e T ariff.

The  natural  advantage  or  protection  to 

Sugar Trust is  % cents per pound.

Present  price  of  raw  sugar,  96  degrees 

centrifugal,  3% cents per pound.

Price of  raw  sugar,  96  degrees  centrifu- 

qal,  3%  cents per pound.

Present  price of  refined  sugar,  granulat­

ed,  4%  cents per pound.

Price of  refined  sugar,  granulated  A,  4 

cents per pound.

Difference between  above prices,  1 %  cents 

per pound.

Difference  between  above  prices,  % cents 

per pound.

Cost  of  refining,  not  over  %  cents  per 

pound.

Cost  of  refining,  not  over  %  cents  per 

pound.

Net  profit  on  refined  sugar,  % cents  per 

pound.

Net profit per barrel,  $2.03%.
Net profit on  12,600,000 barrels,  or mini­

mum yearly production,  $25,593,000.

Net profit  on  refined  sugar,  %  cents per 

pound.

Net profit per barrel,  81 %  cents.
Net profit  on  12,600,000  barrels, or mini­
mum  yearly  production,  $10,237,500 
per year.

Actual value of Sugar Trust properties, 
about §35,000,000.  Rate of  profit on val­
uation,  73.08 per cent.  Sugar Trust cap­
italization:  7 per  cent,  preferred  stock, 
§37,500,000;  common  stock,  837,500,000; 
6 per cent, bonds,  810,000,000.
After paying 7 per  cent,  on  preferred 
stock  and 6 per  cent,  interest  on  bonds, 
the above rate of profit would yield 59.65 
per cent,  on the common stock.

After  paying  7 per  cent, on  preferred 
stock and 6 per cent, on bonds, the above 
rate of  profit would  yield  18.7 per cent, 
on the common stock.
Proposed  rate of  saving  to the  people 
by  means of  free  sugar.  815,356,000  per 
annum.
In the compilation of  these figures,  we 
have treated  the Trust very liberally.
Is it not time  that the wholesale extor­
tion  now  practiced  by  the  Trust  be 
stopped?  Let  us  have  free  sugar  in 
reality and not merely in name.

ESTABLISHED  1868.

JL  M.  REYNOLDS  X  SON,

W holesale D ealers In

BU ILD IN G   &  SH E A T H IN G   PA P E R S , 
PL A IN   AND  CORRUGATED  C A RPET 
LININGS,  A SPH A L T  AND  COAL  TA R  
P R E P A R E D   RO OFIN G ,  BEST  GRADES 
ASPHALTUM   &  F IR E   P R O O F   ROOF 
PA IN TS,  COAL  T A R   AND  COAL  TA R  
PIT C H ,  ELASTIC  R O OFIN G   CEM ENT,
ROSIN  &  M IN E R A L   W OOL,  ASBESTOS 
F IR E -P R O O F   SH E A T H IN G ,  ETC.

Practical  Roofers

Iu  F e lt, C om position an d  G ravel.

Cor.  LOUIS  &  CAMPAU  STS.,

G rand  R a p id s,  M ieh

MANUFACTURER OF

GHHS. H. GOYE,
Af nils & Tents

Horse and Wagon Covers

M i c h i g a n  C e n t r a l

“  The Niagara Falls Route.”

DBPAHT.  ARRIVE

Detroit Express.....................................7:00 a m   10:00 pm
Mixed  ....................................................7:06 am   4:90 pm
Day  Express........................................  1:20 p m   10:00 am
* Atlantic A Pacific Express.  ...........10:30 pm   6:00 a m
New York Express...............................6:40 p m   12:40 pm

•Daily.
All other daily except Sunday.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Express 
trains to and from Detroit.
Elegant  parlor  cars  leave Grand  Rapids on Detroit 
Express at 7 a. m.,  returning  leave  Detroit  4:45p. m. 
arrive in Grand Rapids 10 p. m.

Fred M. B r ig g s, Gen'l Agent, 85 Monroe St.
A. Almquist, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Gko. W. Munson, Union Ticket Ofiice. 67 Monroe St. 
O. W.Rugglks  G .P.  A  T. Agent.,Chicago.
Detroit

URANO HAVEN TIME  TABLE

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave  ¡tNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 *No.  82
10 55pm 
G’d  Rapids,  Lv  6 50am
12 37am 
Io n ia ............Ar  7 45am
1 55am 
St.  Johns  ...A r  8 28am
3 15am 
Owoss3........ Ar  9 03am
8.45am 
E.  Saginaw..Ar  10 45am
7.20am 
Bay City.......Ar  11 30am
5  40am 
F li n t............Ar  10 05am
7  30am 
Pt.  Huron... Ar  11 55am
5 37am 
P ontiac........ Ar  10 53am
7  00am
Detroit..........A r|ll 50am

10 20am
11 25am
12 17pm 
1 20pm 
3 05pm 
3 45pm
3 40pm 
G 00pm 
305pm
4 05pm

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
S 05pm 
8 10pm 
8 45pm 
705pm 
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

WESTWARD.

Trains Leave 

i •No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13

G’d Haven,  A r............

r,
8 35am 2 10pm 6 15pm

»Daily. 

tDaily except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 13:50 a. m., 
5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arrive  from  the west,  10:10  a. in., 3:15 
p.m. and 9:50 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  P arltr  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Waguer  Sleeper.
W estward—No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
J o h n W. L o u d , Traffic Manager.
B e n  F l e t c h e r , Trav. Pass. Agent.
J a s. C a m p b e l l, City Ticket Agent.

C H IC A G O  

AN D   W EST  M ICHIG A N   R ’L

23 Monroe Street.
JAN’Y- ^

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv.GR’D RAPIDS..........9:00am  12:05pm »11:35pm
Ar. CHICAGO................3:55pm  5:25pm  *7:05am
Lv. CHICAGO...............9:00am  4:45pm *11:15pm
Ar.  GR’D RAPIDS........3:55pm  10:10pm  *6:10am
TO  AND  FROM  BENTON  HARBOR,  ST.  JOSEPH  AND 
Lv. Grand Rapids. 
.  9:00am  12:05pm  *11:35pm
Ar. Grand Rapids  __ *6:10am  3:55pm  10:10pm

INDIANAPOLIS.

For Indianapolis 12:05 p m only.

TO AND FROM  MUSKEGON.

Lv.  G. R ........10:0Cam  12  05pm  5:30pm  8:30pm
Ar.  G. It........10:55am  3 55pm  5:25pm 
...........
TO AND FROM  MANISTEE,  TRAVERSE CITY  AND  ELK 
Lv. Grand  Rapids........................7:25am  5:17pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids........................11:45am  9:40pm

RAPIDS.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Chicago—Wagner 
Sleepers—Leave Grand  Rapids *11:35 p m. ; leave 
Chicago  11:15  pm .  Parlor  Buffet  Cars—Leave 
Grand  Rapids 32:05 p m;  leave Chicago 4;45 p m. 
Free Chair Cars—Leave  Grand  Rapids 9:00 a m; 
leave Chicago 9:00 a m.
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Manistee—Free 
Chair Car—Leaves Grand Rapids 5:17 pm ; leaves 
Manistee 6:50 a m.
D E T R O I T , 

JAN’Y3’1892
LANSING  &  N O RTH ER N   R .  R.
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

Lv. GR’D  RAPIDS.......7:15am  *1:00pm  5:40pm
Ar. DDTROIT............... 12:00 m  *5:lBpm  10:40pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. DETROIT...............   7:00am  *1:15pm  5:40pm
Ar. GR’D  RAPIDS.......11:50am  *5:15pm  10:15pm
To and  from  Lansing  and Howell—Same as to 
and from Detroit.

TO AND  FROM  SAGINAW, ALMA AND  ST.  LOUIS.
Lv. Grand  Rapids.......................7:05am  4:15pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids....................... 11:50am  10:40pm

TO LOWELL VIA  LOWELL A  HASTINGS R.  IS.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Lv. Grand Rapids............  7:15am  1:00pm 5:40pm
Ar.from Lowell............... 11:50am  5:15pm 
.........
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Detroit—Parlor 
cars on all trains.  Seats 25 cents.
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Saginaw—Parlor 
car  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:05  a m ;  arrives In 
Grand Rapids 7:40 p m.  Seats 25 cents.

♦Every day.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.
STUDY  LAW
Take & course in the 

AT  HOME.

S p r a g u e   C o r r e s p o n ­
d e n c e   s c h o o l  o f  L a w  
[incorporated!.  Send  ten 
cents [stamps] for p&rtlcu 
l&rs to
J.  QOTNER,  Jr.,  Sec’y, 

No.  876 Whitney Block, 
D E T R O IT ,-  M IC H ,

Present rate of  extortion from  the people by means of  the tariff,  % cents per pound, 

or $15,356,000 per annum.

The  O th er  Sid e  o f  th e  Q uestion.

The  above  argument for the  repeal of  the present  duty on  refined  sugar,  which 
is  reprinted  from  the  New  York  Commercial  Bulletin, is  thus  answered by the 
American Qrocer,  which argues from the protection standpoint:

it 

One  of  onr  esteemed  contemporaries, 
with  strong  free  trade  leanings,  is vig­
orously  advocating  the  removal  of  the 
present  duty  of  balf-a-cent a pound  on 
refined  sugars,  giving  as  a  reason  that 
the Sugar  Trust has  finally absorbed  its 
competitors and  has  advanced the  price 
of sugar three-eighths of  a cent a pound.
If there was any reason  for retaining a 
moderate duty on refined sugar when  the 
present law was enacted, the same reason 
holds good now.
It  was  considered that  a  half-a-cent a 
pound  did  not  more  than  make up  for 
the  difference iu  the  price of  labor  and 
other  expenses of  refining  sugar  in this 
country  and  refining 
in  Germany, 
France and England.  Hence, while mak­
ing  raw  sugars  free  of  duty,  Congress 
retained  a  moderate  duty upon  refined 
sugars, but it reduced the duty on  refined 
grades 
from  an  average  of  perhaps 
3 cents a pound to half-a-cent a pound.
If  this  very  moderate  protection was 
abolished  at  the  present  time, it  is  not 
probable that it would inure to the  bene­
fit  of  the  American  consumer,  or,  at 
least,  only in a small  degree,  for foreign 
refiners  would  undoubtedly  raise  their 
prices  and  absorb  at  least a portion  of 
the half-cent a pound  duty removed.
It  is not  to  the interest of  the people 
of  the  United  States that  the sugar  re­
fining industry should be crippled, and if 
it  can  make a profit  by  working  all  the 
refineries  under  the  one  organization, 
the  American  Sugar  Refineries Co.  buy­
ing  their  raw  material  lower in foreign 
countries than  they could if  the different 
refiners  were  competing  against  each 
other  for  supplies, and working them as 
economically  as  possible,  fair-minded 
men will  not object  to  the refiners mak­
ing a good profit.
If they make too large a profit for  any

length  of  time,  it  is  certain  that  new 
capital will be tempted into this industry, 
and there is no danger of  any  unreason­
able prices for sugar.
Some persons are so constituted,  how­
ever,  that they cannot bear to see any in­
dustry prosperous,  especially if the tariff 
in any way  contributes to that end.
Just now,  owing to the low price of raw 
sugar and the advance of three-eights  of 
a cent a pound in refined  which  has  re­
cently taken  place,  the refiners are  mak­
ing a good  profit,  but for several  months 
previous they were losing money  and  it 
is  impossible  to  say  how 
long  their 
present  margins  of  profit  can  be  con­
tinued.
Within comparatively few years Ameri­
can sugar refiners by their improvements 
in  the  process  of  refining  sugar  have 
given the people of the  United  States  a 
greater reduction in  the  price  than  the 
McKinley  bill gave them in  reducing the 
duty.
In 1865,  when R.  L.  & A.  Stuart  were 
the principal refiners of  sugar,  the  cost 
of refining was  estimated  at  upwards  of 
4 cents a pound,  whereas,  no.r it is  gen­
erally estimated at from one-half  to five- 
eights of a cent a pound.

To remove the one-half-cent duty  now 
imposed upon refined sugars would  crip­
ple the American sugar refining industry, 
which  would  be  a  public  misfortune, 
and it would be  a  step  toward dragging 
down the price of American labor to  the 
level  of  that  of  other  countries  that 
would  be  our competitors.

The field is free for anyone who wishes 
to go  into  the  sugar  refining  business, 
and we may be sure that  if  our  refiners 
are enabled to exact excessive profits  for 
any length of time there  will  be  plenty 
more  refineries.

Coupon  Books Buy  of  th e   L argest  M anufacturers  in  th e 

The Tradesman Company, G rand Rapids

Country  and  Save  Money.

JOBBERS OF

Hammocks and Cotton  Clicks
11  Pearl  8t.,  Grand  Rapids,  Jflicli.

SEND F O R  P R IC E   LIST.

G ran d   R apid s  St Indiana.
Schedale  in effect  January  10,1892.

TRAINS  GOING NORTH.
South. 
5:15 a m
For Saginaw  and Cadillac.......
For Traverse City A Mackinaw 9:20 a m
2:00 pm
For Saginaw A  Traverse  City.
For  Petoskey A Mackinaw----
8:10 p m 
8:35 p m
From Kalamazoo and Chicago.
except Sunday.

Arrive from  Leave going 
North.
7:06  am
11:30  a m
4:15  p m
10:30  p m
Train  arriving:at 9:20  daily;  all  other  trains  dally 

T RA INS  GOING  SOUTH.

F o r  C in c in n a ti..............................
F o r K alam azo o  a n d   C h ic ag o ..
F o r F o rt W a y n e an d  th e   E ast.
F o r  C in c in n a ti..............................
F o r  C h ic ag o ...................................
F ro m  S ag in aw ................................
all other trains daily except Sunday.

Arrive from  Leave going
S outh.
7:00 a  l
10:30  a
2:00  p
6:00  p
11:05 p

N o rth .
6:20 a  m
11:60 a  m
6:30 p m
10:40 p m 
10:40 p  m

Trains leaving at 6:00 p. m. and 11:05 p. m. run daily; 

M uskegon, G rand  R apids & In d ian a.

For Muskegon—Leave. 

From Muskegon—Arrive.

7:00 a m  
11:26 a m 
5:40 p m 

10:10am
4:40 p m
9:05 p m

SLEEPING  A  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE.

11:30  a in tra in .—Parlor chair  car  G’d 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
10:30 p  m   tra in .—Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw. 
S O U T H —7:00 a  in tra in . —Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
10:30  a m   tra in .—Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
6:00  p m   tra in .—Wagner Sleeping  Car 
Grand  Rapids to Cincinnati.
11 ;05  p  in tra in .—Wagner Sleeping Car 
Grand Rapids to Chicago.
C h ica go  v ia  G.  R.  St I.  R.  R.
2:00 p m  
9:00 p m 

11:05 pm
6:50 a m
10:30 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.
11:06 p m train daily, through Wagner  Sleeping Car. 
10:10 p m
5:15  am
3:10  p  m  through  Wagner  Parlor  Car.  10:10  p  m 

3:10 p m 
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
8:35 p m 
train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

10:30 a m  
3:66 p m 

7:05 a m 
2:00 pm  

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

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

R a ilw a y .

T o ledo,  A nn  A rb o r  &   N orth   M ichigan 
In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven A Milwauk  e 
offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  betwe  n 
Grand Rapids and Toledo.
Lv. Grand Rapids a t.......7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t .................1:10 p.m . and 11:00 p. m.
Lv. Grand Rapids a t.......6:50 a. m. and 3:45 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t.................1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m.

v ia  d ., e . H. a  M.

VIA d .,  l .  a  N.

Return connections equally as good.

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

STANDARD  OIL  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

D EA LER S  IN

Uluminating and  Lubricating

Spring & Company,

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R ib b o n s, 

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N o tio n s, 
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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 r in ts  a n d   D o m estic  C ottons

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

assorted stock at lowest market  prices.

Spring & Company.

NAPTHA  AND  GASOLINES.

Office,  Hawkins Block.

Works, Butterworth Aye.

GRAND RAPIDS, 
BIG RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN,

EMPTY

BU LK   W ORKS  AT

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND  HAVEN, 
HOWARD CITY, 

MANISTEE, 

PETOSKEY,

CADILLAC,
LlTDINGTON.

HIGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR

CARBOK  Ì  GASOLINE  BARRELS.

SAGINAW MANUFACTURING GO.,

SAGINAW,  MICH.,

M anufacturersf of the Follow ing L ist of  W ashboards.

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Dry  Goods,  Carpets and  Cloaks

We  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

M a c k in a w   S h irts  an d   L u m b e r m e n ’s  S o ck s.

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voit, HernoMeier & Go. 4 8 , 8 0 ,  8 2   O tta w a   St., 

G rand  R ap id s.

RINDGE,  KALMBACH  &  CO.

12,  14,  16  P E A R L   ST.

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Deiance
Rival
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solid  zinc. 

Double  Zinc 

Surface.

If you use River Shoes, see our line 
before placing orders.  We  make  the 
correct styles.  Also want to sell  you 
your Boston Rubbers for next season- 
Terms and discount as good as offered 
by any agents for the  Boston  Rubber 
Shoe Co.

Winter  81., between  ShawmUl Ive.  and  V.  FUlion 81.,

Single Zinc 
Surface.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

General  Warehousemen  and  Transfer  Agents.

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

ALL  KINDS  OF  PERISHABLES.

The  above  are  all  superior 
Washboards, 
in  the  class  to 
which  they  belong.  Send  for 
cuts and price-list before order­
ing.

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

gines, Straw Stackers, Drills, Bakes, Tedders, Cultivators, 

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

and Machine and Plow repairs, Etc.

T S.  F R E E M A N ,  A g t ,   G ran d R a p id s,  M ich. Telephone  No.  046.

J.  T .  F.  BLAKE,  SupH.

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RARIDSMien.

W e illustrate  here  only the  best  line of combs  made.  Our  large  and  increasing  sales  are  making it one of our  m ost  im­

portant lines.  All combs carefully put up one dozen in a box.

FINE  RUBBER  COMBS.

DRESSING  COMBS.

POCKET  COMBS.

No.  2010 Fine Comb.  1  doz.  in  box,  net.................   15
No. 2011 
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No.  2013 
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No. 2013 
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Nos.  130-11-12-13-14.

No.  120-11  Fine Comb.  1  do/., in  box.........................   25
No.  120-12 
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29
No.  120-13 
No.  120-14 
31

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No.  188. 6-inch,  metal  back.  1 doz.  in  box,  n et...  35
No.  188, 7-inch, 
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No.  188—6 and 7 inch. 

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No.  2751—7 and S inch.

No.  2751,  7 in.  Dressing Comb,  1  doz.  in box........  37
........   44
No.  2751,  8 in. 
No.  2765,  7 in. 
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No.  2766,  7
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No. 2759—7 and 8 inch.

No.  2759,  7  inch Dressing Comb,  1  doz in  box___  48
No. 2759,  S inch 

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No.  178 Vestibule pocket comb with mirror,  case  and 

button  hook,  net per doz.,  74c.

No.  178.

No.  1000,  8 inch Dressing Comb,  1 doz.  in box—   55

No.  1000—8 inch.

No.  1162—4 inch  Pocket  Com b in case...................   40

N o .  1102— 4  in c h .

No.  160—5 inch Pocket Comb without c a se ..........  40

No.  160—5 inch.

No. 2374,  8-inch Dressing  Comb,  1 doz.  in box. ..  80
No.  2*74,  8%-ineh 
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No.  2374—8 and SJ^ inch.
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No.  84 Elite Fine  Comb,  1  doz.  in  box...................  60

CIRCLE  COMBS.

No.  1  Round Comb.......................................per doz  29
No.  10.—3 ass’td colors celluloid  r’d comb 
38

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No.  3770 7%-inch Dressing Comb,  1 doz.  in box

No. 2770—7X  inch.

No. 260—Folding. 
64  No. 260 Folding Pocket Comb..........

No. 2300—8 inch extra strong.

No.  2300,  8-inch Dressing  Comb,  1 doz in  box___1  75

HORN  DRESSING  COMBS.

6%  inch Clear Horn  Dressing Comb.......................   33
6%  inch Berkshire Horn,  swage back....................  58
7J?  “ 
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J.  P.  Noyes & Co.  Metal Back Dressing Combs.

No.  765—7 inch  Barbers’  Comb...............................  48
No.  766—7% in. 
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Barbers’  Comb.

No.  374,  Round  Comb................................................   94

No. 374

No.  7770.

No.  355— inch horn and  nickel plated metal
back Dressing Comb.........................................  
No.  360—6 inch  same.............................................. 
No.  370—7  “ 
No.  7770, 7  “  nickel  ends—lasts a lifetim e.. 
No.  570,  Hotel  comb,  7 inch  metal  back  and

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1  25
1  15

hole for chain............................................ 

HORSE  COMBS.

No.  2 Horse Comb..................................................... 

No.  2.

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