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GRAND  R A PID S,  W EDNESDAY,  M AY  4,  1892,
THOM AS  STOKES,

A  TWICE  TOLD  TALE.

Many years ago,  I stayed awhile  in  an 
old  cathedral  town  in  the  richest  and 
loveliest  part  of  Yorkshire. 
Such 
quaint, old  houses,  roofed  with  bright- 
red tiles,  such  green  meadows  and  yel­
low cornfields,  such  great  over-shadow­
ing  trees,  and  such  sweet  old-fashioned 
gardens,  I  shall  never  see  again.  But 
the great charm to my  young  fancy  was 
the solemn  old  cathedral  and  the  cool, 
silent  courts  of  houses  that  clustered 
around  it.  The  dreamy,  peaceful  life 
enchanted me. 
I  thought  that  I  conld 
live forever among the dim  aisles  of  the 
grand old church and the  shady  gardens 
of the handsome houses.

“This  is  a  court  of  peace,”  I  said. 
“Surely no shadow of  discontent  or  sor­
row can ever come within it.”

touched 

But this I said in my haste and  my  ig­
norance.  At the end of the first week of 
my  visit,  as  I  was  wandering  in  my 
friend’s  garden,  which 
the 
graveyard of  the cathedral,  1  heard  the 
wildest,  strangest,  most sorrowful music 
I knew the  vesper  ser­
coming from it. 
vice was over. 
I knew this was  not  the 
organist’s  playing,  and  my  interest  and 
curiosity  triumphed  over  my  fear,  and 
led me  to  take  the  keys  of  the  vestry, 
which were at my command,  and  satisfy 
myself.  No  human  cry  of  agony  was 
ever more intelligible. 
I divined at once 
that  some  poor,  breaking  heart  was
pouring out  itself  into  the  Divine  ear, 
which understands  all  speech  and  lan­
guage,  and  so  1  stole  away  again, 
ashamed and sorry  for my intrusion.

after 

Frequently, 

this—sometimes 
early in the morning,  sometimes  deep  in 
the gloaming—1  heard  the  same  musi­
cian.  At last 1 spoke  to  the friend with 
whom  1  was 
looked 
staying. 
troubled as she answered:

“It is the poor  old  dean. 

1  am  glad 
he  has  this  consolation.  Do  not  dis­
turb him.”

She 

A  few  days  afterward,  as  we  were 
walking up the court,  we  met  the  dean. 
He  begged  my  friend  to  go 
into  his 
house  and  see  his  daughter  Mary;  and 
then  I  soon  understood  what  mighty 
grief it was which  had  struck  the  key­
note of  his passionate,  pleading  prayer.
She  was  dying;  no  one  but  a  parent 
could  have  doubted  it  for  one  minute. 
The earnest of eternity was in  her  eyes, 
which looked  as  if  they  had  seen  some 
vision  that  had  forever  separated  her 
from time.  She lay upon a couch drawn 
close to the open  window looking  into  a 
garden  thick  with  green  shade,  and 
bright with many  a  sweet  flower  whose 
name is now forgotten. 
I  gazed  on  her 
I do not think  it  ever 
with admiration. 
entered my mind to pity her. 
I reserved 
that feeling for  the  gray  misery  of  her 
father,  and  for  the  hopeless,  resentful- 
looking  distress  1  saw  in  the  face  and 
manner of a handsome man  whom I took 
to be her brother.  There  was,  however, 
some element in the sorrow of that dying 
room  that  I  did  not  understand  then, 
though  soon  afterward,  when  I  knew 
Mary  Harlowe’s  history, 
it  was  clear 
enough to me.

NO.  450

She was the only  child  of  her  father, 
who  had  received  her  in  exchange  for 
his young wife’s life.  Among the  silent 
rooms  of  the  great  house,  and  in  the 
pleasant  old  gardens  belonging  to  the 
church  property,  she  had  grown  up  to 
a sweet and  lovely girlhood.

inheritance  but 

When  about  seventeen  years  of  age, 
her  cousin,  Bernard  Harlowe,  was  sent 
to her father’s  care,  while  he  prepared 
for taking orders.  The  young  man  was 
not  rich,  and  was  «ever  likely  to  have 
any 
the  handsome 
person,  the  clear  head  and  the  warm 
heart nature had given  him.  But  Mary 
loved  him  almost  from  the  first  day 
of his arrival,  and Bernard thought  him­
self richer in that love  than  the  Bishop 
in his see,  or the king in his  crown.

The  dean  was  not  so  wrapped  up  in 
spiritual matters  as  to  be  oblivious  of 
what  was  transpiring  under  his  own 
roof,  yet  he  made  no  remonstrance;  so, 
though  there  was  no  positive  engage­
ment,  Bernard  and  Mary  Harlowe  con­
sidered themselves as one heart and  soul 
for time and for eternity.

One  afternoon  the  sunny  stillness  of 
the court was broken by the galloping of 
horses and the rattling of a carriage. 
It 
stopped at the dean’s  door,  and  Bernard 
recognized a young  earl,  famous  for  his 
wealth  and  church  patronage,  who 
owned  a  magnificent  seat  about  three 
miles distant.

“There  is  some  dispute  between  my 
lord  bishop  and  the  earl,”  he  said  to 
Mary.  “I  wonder  how  the  dean  will 
manage between them?”

But the earl’s  visit  seemed  to  them  a 
matter of  the very  smallest  importance. 
Wandering under the  trees,  pulling  ripe 
berries,  or  idly  gathering  some  flower 
fairer  than  all  its  mates,  they  did  not 
even speculate on the length of  his  visit 
or  watch  for  his  departure. 
It  was, 
therefore,  with  some  surprise  they  saw 
him and  the  dean  come  slowly  walking 
down the main  avenue together.

Mary  would  have  escaped  the 

inter­
view by taking  a  private  walk  to  the 
house,  but  Bernard,  with  some  strange 
instinct of being on  the  defensive,  drew 
her  arm  through  his  and  awaited  their 
approach.  The dean seemed annoyed  at

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the attitude.  He  introduced  his  daugh­
ter and his nephew,  and then bade  Mary 
“go  to  prepare  for  dinner,  which  Earl 
Grey,”  he  added,  bowing,  “will  do  me 
the honor to eat with me.”

The young nobleman  languidly assent­
ed,  following  Mary  with  his  eyes  until 
she was hiddeu  from  view by  the  shrub­
bery.  Surely,  “loving and  hating  come 
by nature,”  for ere the earl  had  spoken, 
Bernard  hated  him;  and  long  before  the 
night  was  over,  he  fancied  he  had  good 
cause to do so.

He was"angry  at  Mary  for  looking  so 
beautiful;  he  was  ai gry  at  the  earl  for 
lie  thought  his 
looking at her beauty. 
uncle  disgustingly  subservient  to 
the 
young  man’s  rank;  he  thought  Mary 
unusually cool to him.  Ail  night  long 
he was his own tormentor,  and  this  was 
but the beginning of sorrows.

The  earl,  charmed  with  Mary’s  fresh 
young  beauty,  so  different  from 
the 
clever,  intriguing women  with  whom  he 
had danced and  trifled away all  last  sea­
son,  fancied himself deeply  in  love  with 
the  simple, 
innocent  girl.  He  came 
again  and  again,  at  first  inventing  all 
sorts of excuses,  finally  without  any  ex­
cuse at all.

It  required,  indeed,  small  persuasion 
to obtain  the  dean’s  full  permission  to 
woo his  daughter.  Then  stormy  scenes 
ensued; uncle and  nephew  came  to  bit­
terest  strife,  while  Mary’s  defense  of 
Bernard only brought on  her  such  anger 
from  her  father  as  filled  her  with  grief 
and fear.

Poor Bernard!  The end  his heart  had 
In  the 
prophesied  came  soon  enough. 
presence of the dean  there  was  a  cruel, 
formal  parting;  under  the  silent  stars, 
amid the thick shrubbery of  the  garden, 
there  was  another  parting.  Then  two 
young  hearts  said  the  words  which 
doomed  one  to  an  empty  life,  and  the 
other to a splendid tomb.

Mary  would  have  promised  con­
stancy,  but  Bernard  would  not  let  her 
do it.

“You  shall  never  have  to  reproach 
yourself  with  broken  promises  for  my 
sake,  darling,”  he  said.  “What  could 
you,  you  poor  timid  little  dove,  do  be­
tween  your 
lordly 
earl?  But whatever  they  make  you  do, 
remember,  Mary,  I  shall  never  blame 
you,  and will  love you until  my  last con­
scious breath.”

father  and 

that 

Then  he kissed her pale  face  over  and 
over,  tenderly,  clingingly,  as  we kiss the 
dead, and left  her.  And  Mary,  almost 
heart-broken with  grief,  and  faint  with 
terror  lest  she  should  be  discovered, 
could only wave her  hands in  mute fare­
well,  for she knew now that love and she 
must walk apart forever.

Bernard  went to Oxford  and  Mary  be­
came Countess Grey,  and  went  whither­
soever  it  pleased  her  husband  to  take 
her.  She was naturally affectionate, and 
would  doubtless  have  become  a  loving 
and gentle  wife,  if she had  received  any 
encouragement.  But  she  soon  outlived 
the earl’s short liking,  and then  he  only 
seemed  to  find  pleasure  in  those  petty 
cruelties which unloving husbands above 
all others understand.

One of these was to affect the most un­
bounded chagrin at  the  sex  of  her  first 
child,  to sneer  at  all  daughters,  and  to 
send it  from  its  mother’s  breast  to  the 
care of a strange nurse.  Another was to 
pretend she needed exercise  and  change 
of air,  and  remove  her  from  London  to 
the  Continent  before  she  was  able  to

bear the fatigue.  He  gave  her  no  rest 
until she reached  Rome,  and here she be­
came so seriously  ill  that  even  her  ser­
vants remonstrated against the cruelty of 
moving her further.

In  Rome  she  remained  six  months, 
nearly alone.  The  earl  traveled  hither 
and  thither as his fancy led  him,  making 
his  wife only occasional short visits  of  a 
cruelly ceremonious  character.  His  life 
of extravagant dissipation  was  a  shame­
ful contrast to  the  loneliness  and  abso­
lute seclusion  which  her  Italian  physi­
cian ordered,  while  her  separation  from 
all  who  loved  or  cared  for  her,  and 
her  longing  for  her  native  land  and 
home  told  fearfully  upon  her  failing 
health.

letter  without 

But one  day a  far  more  cruel  sorrow 
faced  her.  A 
signa­
ture was placed  in  her  hands,  not  only 
accusing  her  husband  of  the  most  fla­
grant disregard  for  her,  but also intimat­
ing that her physician  was in the employ 
of her enemies,  and not a safe  person  to 
be iustrusted with her life.

She  had  long  felt  sure  that  she  was 
dying,  but the dread of dying away from 
her child,  her father and her  home  over­
came all other  fears.  This  terror  made 
her prudent.  She  arranged  for  an  im­
mediate  return  home,  and  took  advan- 
of  her  husband's  first  absence  to  com­
mence it.

For him she  left a most  noble  and  pa­
thetic letter,  entreating  him  not  to  fol­
low her,  forgiving  all  his  positive  and 
negative  cruelities,  and  asking  only  to 
be  permitted  to  die  beside  her  father 
and their child.

Her  requests  so  completely  agreed 
with  the earl’s  desires  that  for  once  he 
did not  thwart  her;  and  so,  two  years 
after this ill-starred marriage, Earl Gray’s 
traveling  carriage  again  broke 
the 
silence of  the  peaceful  cathedral  court. 
The dean’s  daughter  had  come  back  to 
him  wearing  something  higher  than  a 
countess’s coronet; she had  received  the 
signet of immortality,  and been  anointed 
for a heavenly coronation.

After  Mary’s  marriage,  the  dean  had 
gone to see  his  nephew,  and  easily  in­
duced  him to come back  with  him;  so  it 
was Bernard that  lifted  Mary  from  her 
carriage  and  carried  her  in  his  strong 
arms to the  room  she  never  left  again; 
and  it  was  Bernard  that  rode  day  and 
night,  so  that  he  might  bring  a  few 
hours earlier the child  which was to com­
fort Mary’s dying hours.

of 

her  married 

In order  to  excuse  the  step  she  had 
taken, and  procure her  father’s  promise 
to  keep  her  little  daughter,  she  had 
been compelled  to  divulge  all  the  cruel 
martyrdom 
life. 
After  this  revelation  it was not  hard  to 
understand  the  dean’s  wretched 
look, 
and  his  passionate,  pleading  prayers, 
and the music  which  was  an  articulate 
I  could  understand,  too,  now 
agony. 
the  angry,  longing 
look  on  Bernard’s 
face,  and his miserable  restlessness;  but 
neither of  the  men  showed,  in  Mary’s 
presence,  any  feeling  which  could  mar 
the peace of her descent  into  the  grave.
I  went often to  see  her  the  next  few 
months. 
It was  like  lying  with  her  a t: 
“the Gate Beautiful”  of Heaven. 
I used 
to  wonder at  her loveliuess,  and  rejoice 
in  her  certain  hope,  but  I  never  pitied 
her.  As I said before,  I  kept  that  feel­
ing for the hopeless grief of  the old man 
and the bitter sorrow  of  the  young  one.
Just before  Christmas  I  went  over  to 
the  dean’s,  after  an  absence  of  three

days.  Despair and remorse were  sitting 
in the handsome  chambers,  and  a  slow 
but certain sorrow creeping up  the  mar­
ble stairs.  The next day a narrow  coffin 
had  separated  father  and  daughter, 
mother  and  child,  husband  and  wife, 
lover and  beloved,  as  effectually  and  as 
widely as all the starry spaces.

No  one can  step   in  betw een  tw o  lov­
ing h e arts  w ith o u t  g u ilt;  an d   w hen  love 
is  slain   for  gold  o r  ra n k ,  it  h as  b itte r 
av engers. 

A m e l ia   E.  B a r k.

SCHLOSS, 

IDLER 

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COMMEND  AND  PRACTICE  HON­

ESTY.

I think it a safe thing to commend hon­
est  actions,  and  to  practice  them. 
If 
there  are  those- whose  minds  may  be 
more easily moved by holding up unselfish 
motives,  let  them  have  the  benefit  of 
such teaching,  and  if others  can  be  led 
into paths of honesty only  by being made 
to  understand 
that  dishonesty  means 
misery and  ruin,  let  this  argument  be 
laid  on,  with 
force.  Let  the 
young  and  the  old  be taught that  “the 
way of the transgressor is hard,’' as  well 
as that  “virtue is its own  reward.”

triple 

But,  after all,  there is such a  thing  as 
stirring  the  higher  motives  in  young 
hearts,  and  1 deem  it to  be the first  duty 
of the parent and the teacher to  impress 
the young mind  with  the  sense of a per­
sonal  responsibility.  When  President 
Garfield said that the person  whose char­
acter we  should  most  closely  scan is he 
who wears our hat,  who sleeps  with  us, 
eats with  us,  thinks  our  thoughts  and 
does our daily  work,  he  spoke  a  great 
truth as well as a  simple  one.  Put that 
truth forcibly  before a  young  man,  and 
' let him feel that there is no  way  of  rid­
ding himself of this perpetual companion­
ship.  He may not be. able fully  to  com­
prehend the omniscience  and  omnipres­
ence of God,  but  he can  understand  that 
there is no way of getting rid of himself. 
Let him feel that the way for him to look 
out for the man  at the  other  end  of  the 
bargain is to think of that  “other  man” 
as himself,  grown  old.  Let  him  know 
that by and by  there  will  come  a  time 
»■ when his life will be greatly  reminiscent 
—when  he  will  live  mostly  upon  the 
memories of the past,  and that it  is  now 
in  his power to lay up a  treasure  house 
full of such memories as  will  make  his 
declining years the happiest of  his  life. 
Let him  know,  moreover,  that while it is 
the  first  mis-step that  costs,  it  is  also 
the first  mis-step  that  is  easiest  to  be 
avoided,  and easiest to be retraced.

How is a young man or a young woman 
to know what is  a  mis-step, or  whether 
any act is permissible on personal ground? 
I would not have young  men  despise  or 
underrate  the  opinions  of  others,  but 
there are cases which can be settled only 
by the individual conscience. 
It  is true 
that conscience  may  be  badly educated, 
but  it  is,  after  all,  the  safest  guide. 
And beyond this, young  men  should  be 
tought  to  be  self-reliant.  The  most 
critical junctures in life are those  where 
decision has to be rendered  at  once  and 
without the chance of  consultation;  and 
there  is,  besides, 
something  cowardly 
in the attempt to shift upon other  shoul­
ders the responsibility  of  our  own  act­
ions.  The great soul-conflicts  are  those 
which are waged  in  secret  places  with 
none but God as  witness;  and  one  does 
not have to  live  long  to  feel  the  force 
of  Mr.  Beecher’s  position  when  he 
said,  “If  anybody  would  say  to  me,
‘Brother Beecher,  how  is  your  soul?’  I 
should answer ‘none of your  business.’ ”
Is there,  then, no guide for  the  young 
man or the young woman  who  wants  to 
be honest and virtuous,  and  who  would 
save himself or herself from lifetime  re­
grets?

There are a few simple rules,  which  I 
have laid down,  and which  have  helped 
me,  if they have done no other good; and 
I give them here, not as  recipes,  but  as 
suggestions:

1.  Never do an  act  or  write  a  word 
that if fully exposed to the world  would

3. 

place you  in  an  embarrassing  position, 
or that could not  be  explained  to  your 
own  honor.  This rule would cover even 
blunders or mistakes,  honestly made.
2.  Never read a book  that  you  would 
be ashamed to  permit  to  lie  upon  your 
table open  to  your  best  friend.  As  to 
young ladies that  best  friend  would  be ! 
the mother.
In  a  business  transaction,  while 
you are not called upon to supply  to  the 
other  party the sagacity  which  you  have 
acquired by  study  and  experience,  you 
are bound to  a  strict  truthfulness,  not | 
merely  in  words,  but  in  the  inferences I 
naturally drawn  therefrom.
And,  finally,  adopt  as  a  rule  of  con­
duct  the aphorism of St.  Peter  Cooper— | 
never  to  receive  auythiug  from 
the 
world  for  which  you  do  not  rentier  an 
equivalent in  some form of service.
And  in  looking out for the man  at  the 
other end of the bargain  you  should  not 
lose  sight  of  the  regret,  which  may 
come  to  him  in  after  days  of  having 
cheated you.  So be careful,  for his sake, 
not your own,  that he does not cheat you. 
Have your wits  about  you,  and  compel 
the  respect 
those  with  whom 
you  deal,  by  showing  shrewdness  as 
well as candor.  The  highest  behests  of 
honesty  and 
fair  dealing  do  not  call 
upon  you  to  be  either  a  fool  or  a 
weakling.
Do  uot 

imagine  that  everybody 

is 
honest,  nor take  it  for  granted,  because 
it is an easy thing to say,  that  the  world 
is  given  to  lying  and  dishonesty.  The 
probabilities are that there are  far  more 
honest folks than  knaves  in  the  world, 
and you  know a good many  of  them,  uot 
only  in  your  own  family,  but  among 
your neighbors.  When  you  are told that 
the world  is growing more  wicked  every 
is  on  the  very 
day,  and  the  country 
brink  of  destruction,  just 
look  about 
you,  and  from  among  your  friends  aud 
acquaintances pick  out  the  rascals  and 
traitors  that  are  going  to  precipitate 
this 
great  calamity.  Ask  yourself, 
even,  if you are one of them,  for there is 
an even chance that you  are  an  average 
citizen and an average man.

of 

And,  finally,  do  not  imagine  because 
men  who  make  a  business  of  politics, 
and go into  it  for  what  it  is  worth  in 
money and power,  seem at times to carry 
everything  before  them,  and  because 
vice  seems  prevalent  and  thrifty,  and 
virtue nerveless  and  timid,  that  honor 
is dead  and  the  country  given  over  to 
thieves and  despoilers.  There is such  a 
thing as  civic  virtue.  Patriotism  still 
lives,  and  the  voice  of  the  people— 
which  is  aptly  defined  as  the  voice  of 
God—can  make  itself  heard  when  the 
great occasions come.  So  don’t  despair 
of the republic,  and don’t weary  in  well 
doing.  Honesty is not only the best pol­
icy but the only policy.

S.  S.  P a c k a k d .

Operations.

The  Baltimore  Refinery  to  Resume 
The Curtis Bay Sugar Refinery  in  Bal­
timore will be in full operation again  by 
July 1.  Those who now  have  charge  of 
the works  are pushing the improvements 
as rapidly as possible,  as  they  are  anx­
ious to  have  the  refinery  in  good  order
when  the  canning  season  opens. 
Im­
provements are being made in  the  build­
ing and in the machinery,  and  when  the 
work is completed it Is  said  that  the  re­
finery will be as complete as  any  on  the 
Atlantic seaboard.  The  capacity  of  the 
refinery will be nearly  doubled  and  the 
cost of refining will be much  reduced  by 
the new and improved machinery that  is 
being put in. 

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The attention of  merchants desiring to 
move to  Grand  Rapids  is  called  to  the 
store advertised by Mrs.  J.  Patterson  on 
another page.

We are now ready to make contracts for the season of  1893.  Correspondence solicited.

14  and  19  lVidUicomb  B uilding.

P E C K ’S C A S H   R E G I S T E R .

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C om bined.

W hy is th e  F eck A u to g rap h ic Cash R egister th e   Best fo r M erchants ?
B ecause  it records items instead of G eneral  R esults.
B ecause  it is always ready to m ake and p reserve a record of  money paid in and out.
B ecause  there  are no “charge  slips,”  “received on account  slips,” “paid  out  slips” and “just 
B ecause  a merchant can file away his 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.
B ecause  it is not necessary to send it to the factory every six months for repairs.
B ecause  you are uot  obliged to strike  three or four keys to register one amount.
B ecause  it is simple, practical, reasonable in price, and accomplishes the results that merchants 

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

desire.

LOBDELL  &  GEIGER,  Gen’l  A gents,

39  Pearl  S t,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

“Not How  Cheap,  hut  How  Good."

"Blue Label" Ketchup

SOLD  ONLY  IN  BOTTLES,

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products.

W e  use  only  well-ripened,  high-colored  Tomatoes,  seasoned 

with pure spices, thus retaining the nataral flavor and color. 

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THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

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AMONG  THE  TRADE.

▲ROUND THE  STATE.

Sears—Frank  T.  Jeffs  succeeds  Jeffs 

Bros,  in general trade.

Homer—E.  W.  Biair  has  sold  his  res­

taurant to G.  S.  Murray.

Zeeland—H.  Wykhulzen  has  removed 

his jewelry stock to Holland.

Dollar Bay—Harry A.  Fry  has sold  his 

general stock to Hugh Moore.

Grassmere—Jas.  W.  Richards  has  sold j 

his general stock to M.  A.  Vogel.

Saline—Alfred  Humphrey  succeeds O. 

M.  Kelsey in  the grocery business.

Webberville — James  Dunn  succeeds 

Sweet & Dunn in  the grocery business.

Zeeland—Peter  Brusse 

succeeds  G. 

Brusse & Son in  the clothing business.

Amasa—Jacobson  <&  Oleson  have sold 
their genera]  stock  to  M.  Gleason  & Son.
BrintoH— O.  T.  Brinton  &  Co.  have 
sold their  general  stock  to  A.  Husband.
Port Huron—Robert Connally  has pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock of  John  Bena- 
way.

Sault Ste. Marie—W. C. Given succeeds 
Higgins  & Given  in  the  hardware  busi­
ness.

Negaunee—Alfred Senecal  has sold his 
boot  and shoe  stock  to  Henry  A.  Breg- 
stone.

Alpena—Geo.  H.  Warren,  Agt.,  has 
to 

fancy  goods 

stock 

removed  his 
Owosso.

Detroit—F.  D.  Stevens & Co.  are  suc­
ceeded  by  Stevens & Todd  in  the  drug 
business.

Hudsonville — L.  M.  Wolf  has  com­
pleted  a  30  foot  addition  to  his  store 
building.

Negaunee—P.  B.  Kirkwood  has  sold 
bis  drug  and  stationery stock  to  C.  H. 
Kirkwood.

Manchester—Gieske &  Blum  succeeds 
Gieske & Dresselhouse in the grocery and 
crockery business.

Jackson—Frank  M.  Matteson  is  suc­
ceeded  by  Matteson  &  Stanton  in  the 
hardware business.

Grand  Haven—Clark  &  Lum  are  suc­
ceeded  by  Clark & Knight  in  the  Hour 
and feed business.

Norway—C.  D.  A.  Wright  has  retired 
from  the  firm  of  Browning,  Lindahl  & 
Co., general dealers.

Overisel—Dangremond  &  Nykerk  are 
succeeded by Dangremond  &  Van  Bem- 
melen in general  trade.

Sault Ste.  Marie—Melady  &  Flood  are 
succeeded  by Annie  (Mrs.  Robert)  Flood 
in the grocery and crockery  business.

Mecosta—J.  H.  Denslow  has  sold  his 
general  stock  to  Peter  Gingrich,  who 
will continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.

Edmore—Geo.  D.  Lunn  has  purchased 
the old opera  house  building  of  Edson, 
Moore & Co.,  of Detroit,  and removed his 
drug  and  clothing  stocks  to  that 
lo­
cation.

Otsego—Chas.  Pipp,  Henry  L.  Pipp 
and their father  have  formed  a  copart­
nership  under the style of  Pipp Bros.  & 
Co.  and  purchased  the  Harris  grocery 
stock here.

Vestaburg—H.  E.  Hart  has  sold  his 
dry goods and  grocery  stock  to  Phillip 
A.  Johnson,  who  will  remove  the  same 
to his own  building.  E.  F.  Owen  will 
remove his drug stock  to  the  store  thus 
vacated.

Belding—W.  F.  Bricker has  concluded 
to rebuild the structure recently destroy­
ed by fire.  The new  building  will  be  a 
three-story  brick  structure,  with  Ionia

sandstone  trimmings,  containing  three 
stores and a sixty-room hotel.

Allegan—C.  C.  Spear  has  purchased  a 
grocery store in Chicago and will remove 
his grocery stock to  the  Windy City  and 
consolidate it with  the  goods  purchased 
there.  His store is located at the  corner 
of Seventy-first and  Peoria streets.

Traverse  City—M.  V.  Gundrum  has 
bought the vacant  lot  between  the  new 
Greilick  block  and  Friedrich  Bros,  and 
| will  at  once  proceed  to  erect  a  three- 
story  brick  structure,  occupying 
the 
ground  floor with his grocery stock.

Miriam— Gilbert  W.  Stevens  has  re­
moved  his  grocery  stock  from  Fallas- 
burgh to this  place,  locating in  the  store 
formerly  occupied  by  Adam  Hehl,  who 
decamped  a couple of  months  ago  and is 
now  working at the  blacksmithing  busi­
ness at Fort Wayne,  Ind.

Allegan—L.  L.  Putman  &  Co.,  of 
Albion,  have opened  a  branch  bouse  in 
Allegan and will buy eggs  and  all  kinds 
of produce.  They are the  proprietors of 
the Albion  cold storage and  also  have  a 
storage at Ogdensburg,  N.  Y. 
Irving  F. 
Clapp will manage  the  Allegan  end  of 
the business.

Big  Rapids—Finley  F.  Peterson,  the 
grocer,  died April  15,  after an  illness  of 
several weeks.  Mr.  Peterson  was  born 
at  Ameliasburg,  Ontario,  in  1826,  and 
came  to  Big  Rapids  twenty-one  years 
ago  last  December,  when  he  purchased 
the  place  on  North  State  street  which 
has been the  home  of  the  family  since 
1871.  Although  not confined  to  his  bed 
much of the time,  Mr.  Peterson had  been 
ailing for about four  years,  diabetes  be­
ing his chief complaint.  Deceased  was 
well  liked  by all  who  knew  him,  and  be 
will  be  especially  missed  in  the  neigh­
borhood where  he  so  long  resided.  He 
leaves  a  wife  and 
four  children  to 
mourn  bis  death,  his  eldest  son  having 
been  killed  about  five  years  ago  by  a 
falling tree.  The business  will  be  con­
tinued  by  the  widow  without 
inter­
ruption.

MANITFACTUKINC.  MATTERS.

is 

Gladwin—The  Saylor  Hoop  Co. 

manufacturing 30,000  hoops daily.

Detroit—Wm.  W.  Kurtz & Co.  are  suc­

ceeded by the Kurtz Paper Box Co.

Tekonsha—Randall  Bros,  are  succeed­
ed  by A.  H.  Randall in the  milling  busi­
ness.

Adrian—M.  H.  Higby is succeeded  by 
the Higby &  Lloyd  Lumber  Co.  in  the 
sawmill  business.

Battle  Creek—Andrew  Knight  &  Co. 
succeed  Halbert  &  Knight  in  the  sash, 
door and blind business.

Saginaw—Bliss  &  Van  Auken,  James 
McKeon and  Estey  &  Calkins  are  each 
building  short  spurs  of  logging  roads 
to reach more timber in  Gladwin county.
Oden—The Northern Michigan Lumber 
Co.  is  having  the  line  surveyed  for  a 
narrow gauge railroad from this place  to 
a  tract  of  hardwood  timber,  18  miles 
northwest and expects to  have  the  road 
in operation next fall.

Mancelona—The  Mancelona  Handle 
Co.  has purchased  a  tract  of  hardwood 
land,  with  an  estimated  stumpage  of
100,000,000  feet,  on  Cedar  River,  and 
surveys  are  being  made  for  a  narrow 
gauge road,  to be built this season.

Marquette—George  L.  Burtis  started 
his  sawmill  this  week  and  has  stock 
enough to keep him busy until  the  close 
of the season.  Wm.  Walton  has  started 
his mill at Dexter,  where  he  has  about

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

that the laws of the State  of  New  York 
contain nothing against the  sending  out 
of true statements,  no matter  how  much 
individual  interests  may  be  damaged 
thereby.  There is talk of introducing in 
the State Legislature a bill  to  limit  the 
privileges  of  agencies  and 
to  guard 
against business men  being  annoyed  by 
the divulging of “trade secrets.”

TjUrppi'DITI i V f p   To  C om m ercial  Trav- 
1 111 1 Uil 1 ini 1  elers and M erch a n ts:
Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  the  American 
Casualty  Insurance  and  Security Co., of  Balti­
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, aud  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.
Geo. H.  Reeder & Co.,
BOOTS  & SHOES
Felt Boots and Alaska Socks.

JOBBERS  OF

State Agents for

158 A  160  F u lto n   St.  G rand-R apids

| 2,000,000 feet of  logs.  C.  Uebard & Son 
have  started their mill at Pequaming.

Cadillac—The firm of James  Haynes  & 
Sons has been  disolved  by  mutual  con­
sent,  E.  J.  Haynes  taking  the  planing 
mill here and Norman  D.  Haynes  taking 
the planing mill at  Brookings,  which  he 
will  remove to Benton Harbor,  where  he 
has secured a  contract  for  considerable 
work.

Empire — The  Empire  Lumber  Co.  is 
putting in  a  shingle  mill,  in connection 
with  its  sawmill.  The company will re­
move  its  Lime  Lake sawmill  to  Empire 
as  soon  as the  cut at the former  place is 
completed,  and  also  close  its  store  at 
that  place.  The company  will  also  put 
in  a shingle  mill  at  Otter  Creek during j 
the course of  the summer.

West Bay City—The machinery  of  the 
mill of  the  Kern  Manufacturing  Co.  is 
being placed in position, and it is intend­
ed to start the mill by the middle of next 
month.  The  first  logs  will  be  cut  for 
Mr. Folsom,  the company having  a  con­
tract 
to  cut  3,000,000  feet  for  him. 
The mill has two  band  saws  and  is  ex­
pected to cut 70,000 feet daily.

Detroit—The  Galvin  Valve  and  Hy­
drant  Co.  has  begun suit against  R.  G. 
Dun & Co.  and George H.  Minchener for 
825,000 damages.  The allegations of the 
complainant are that Dun & Co.  publish­
ed matter  which was the means of break­
ing off negotiations for  a  large  contract 
the company expected  to  get  from  par­
ties in  Illinois,  and that they thus  lost  a 
large profit.

Saginaw—T.  E.  Dorr has  sold  a  tract 
of timber ou  Bluff creek,  estimated to cut
20.000.  000 feet of pine,  a  large  quantity 
of hardwood,  a farm  of  over  200  acres, 
and a logging railroad  four  miles  long, 
all  for  $150,000.  Col.  A.  T.  Bliss  was 
the purchaser,  aud  the  timber  will  be 
brought to Saginaw  River  to  be  manu­
factured.  Mr.  Dorr purchased this  land 
about  fifteen years ago for  a  mere  song 
and has cut several million  feet  of  logs 
from it every year since. 
In  fact, it  has 
been almost like findiug money,  but  Col­
onel Bliss got it at  a  bargain,  and  will 
make a good sum of  money in the deal.

Manistee—Henry  Clay  Ward  has  ar­
ranged to have the McKillip mill  saw for 
him agaiu this season.  Mr.  Ward is also 
operating in  a  tract  of  timber  that  he 
bought the past winter,  and  which ought 
to be fine  stock,  as  he  paid  $80,000  for
10.000. 000 feet of it.  This  stock  is  on 
the Michigan Central,  and will go to Bay 
City  to  be  sawed.  His  partner,  Mr. 
Baker,  who runs  a  yard  at  this  point, 
through  which  they  handle  all  their 
good stock,  will  start  a  branch  yard  at 
Bay  City,  as  they  think  that  there  is 
more  money 
their 
lumber in yard grades,  than  in selling in 
bulk lots.

in  manipulating 

Ratings of Business  Men.

From the New York Telegram.

During  the  past  few  days  the  down 
town bankers,  brokers and business  men 
generally have been  discussing  a  move­
ment  for  the purpose of preventing  the 
commercial  agencies  from  sending  out 
ratings of individuals and  firms  without 
first obtaining the consent of the  parties 
concerning  whom 
is 
given.  The intention  of  the  promoters 
of the movement is to form  an  organiza­
tion,  raise  a  fund,  retain  lawyers  and 
appeal to the courts to ascertain just how 
far  the managers of the agencies have  a 
legal  right  to  go  in  the publication  of 
details and statements  affecting  the  fin­
ancial  standing  of business men.
It  is  asserted  by  some  lawyers  who 
have  carefully  investigated  the  matter

information 

the 

W m.BrJmmBlBr3f8on3

M anu factu rers and  Jo b b ers of

Pieced & Stamped Tinware,
260  S. IONIA  ST.,  -  Grand  Rapids..

T e l e p h o n e   640.

SPEN D   YOUR  VACATION  ON  T H E  

G REA T  CAKES.

Visit picturesque Mackinac  Island. 

It 
will only cost you about $13 from  Detroit 
or $18 from Cleveland for the round trip, 
including meals and  berths.  The  attrac­
tions of a trip to the  Mackinac  region  are 
unsurpassed.  The island itself is a grand, 
romantic spot; its climate is most invigor­
ating.  Save  your  money  by  traveling 
between  Detroit  and  Cleveland,  via  the 
i). & C. Line.  Fare, $2 25.  This division 
is equipped with two new steamers, “City 
of Detroit” and “City of Cleveland,” now 
famous as  the  largest and  most  magnifi­
cent on fresh water.  Leave  every  night, 
arriving the  following  morning  at  des­
tination, making sure connection with all 
morning  trains.  Palace  steamers,  four 
trips  per  week  between  Detroit,  Mack­
inac, Petoskey, the “Soo” and Marquette. 
Send  for  illustrated  pamphlet.  Address 
A.  A. Schantz,  G. P. A., Detroit & Cleve 
iand Steam Nav. Co., Detroit, Mich.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Parks & Pettitt have  opened a grocery 
store at the  corner of  Hastings and Kent 
streets.

L.  Sweet has opeued  a grocery store at 
The  Ball-Barnhart-Put- 

Six  Corners. 
man Co.  furnished the stock.

G.  S.  Putnam & Co.,  wholesale  confec­
tioners, will remove from 413 South Divi­
sion street  to  30  South  Division  about 
May  10.

John W.  McCrath  has  decided  to  con­
tinue  his  pickle  business,  south  of  the 
city,  under the style of  the  West  Michi­
gan Pickle Works.

E.  Treadgold,  M.  I).,  has sold his  drug 
stock  at  438 Jefferson  avenue  to  James 
Cowin,  who  will  continue  the  business 
at the same location.

James  Gleason,  formerly  engaged  in 
the  grocery  business  at  Volney,  has 
opened  a  grocery  store  at  Deerfield, 
Monroe county.  The  Lemon  & Wheeler 
Company  furnished  the stock.

F.  I).  Winnie  has  formed  a copartner­
ship  with  D.  Vinton  &  Son  under  the 
style of  F.  D.  Winnie & Co.  and  opened 
a drug  store  at  Williamsburg  The Ha- 
zeltine & Perkins Drug Co.  furnished the 
stock.

Purely Personal.

O.  C.  Pemberton, the Mecosta druggist, 

was in town one day last week.

Dr.  V.  C.  Van  Liew,  the  Vestaburg 
druggist, was in  town  over  Sunday  and 
left Monday for  Delton  with  a  view  to 
investigating  the  advantages  of 
that 
place as the location for a drug  store.

A. 

B.  Schumaker,  the  Grand  Ledge 

druggist and  grocer,  is  taking  a  course 
of  treatment  at  Mt.  Clemens  for  the 
sciatic rheumatism.  His  many  friends 
in the trade  will  join  The  T r a d e s m a n  
in hoping for his complete recovery.

in  Otisco 

Geo.  P.  Hoppough,  who  is  the  oldest 
merchant 
Ionia 
county, was in the city one day last week. 
He  opened a general  store at Smyrna  in 
1873 and  proposes to celebrate  the  twen­
tieth anniversary of the event in June.

township, 

John A.  Tinholt,  senior member of the 
drug firm of Tinhol & Abbott,  at  Muske­
gon,  was  married  April  36  to  Miss 
Elizabeth G.  Brandt.  The happy couple 
left immediately  after  the  ceremony  for 
Chicago,  where  they  will  spend  a  few 
days.

Clias.  J.  Brown,  of  the  new  grocery 
firm of  Brown  & Winslow,  Benton  Har­
bor,  was  in  town  Monday.  Previous to 
embarking in  business at Bentou  Harbor, 
Mr.  Brown  was  for  five  years a member 
of  the  grocery  firm of  Collins & Brown, 
at Cold water.

Jas.  A.  Stratton,  the  Gold 

street 
grocer,  has the sympathy of  the trade  in 
the dangerous illness of his  wife,  whose 
life has hung  in  a  balance  for  several 
weeks.  Mr.  Stratton  is  nearly  beside 
himself with grief and apprehension and 
plainly shows the results  of  attempting 
to  do  double  duty—attending  to  store 
and the bedside of his  wife  at  the  same 
time.

C.  F.  Walker, the  Glen  Arbor  general 
dealer,  was  in  town  several  days  last 
week.  He  called  at  T h e  T r a d e s m a n  
office  and  demanded a retraction  of  the 
statement,  made  several  weeks  ago,  to 
the  effect  that  he  drank  water  on  the 
occasion of  his  last  visit to Grand  Rap­
ids.  As  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   has no proof

to offer  in  support of  its  statement,  and 
has  no  desire  to  libel  so  genial  a  mer­
chant, 
it  hereby  complies  with  Mr. 
Walker’s  request.

in  town 

Frank  Hamilton,  the  Traverse  City 
clothing  merchant,  was 
last 
Thursday and called at T h e T r a d e s m a n  
office.  “We are not having a  real  estate 
boom,”  he  remarked,  “but  a  genuine 
building boom  is,  nevertheless,  in  pro­
gress.  Carpenters and building mechan­
ics  of  all  kinds  have  never  been  so 
busily employed as they are  this  spring, 
it being almost impossible  to  obtain  the 
services of a man for a short time, owing 
to the fact that  their  present  employers 
have  promised  them  steady  work  all 
through the season.”

Grand Rapids business men will regret 
the  action  of  the  Merchant’s  Dispatch 
management,  changing the  headquarters 
of Thos.  Hill from  this  city  to  Detroit, 
although the many  friends  of  that  gen­
tlemen  will rejoice to learn  that  the  pro­
motion carries with it  a considerable  in­
crease in salary,  as  well  as added respon­
sibility.  Mr.  Hill’s  family  will  con­
tinue to reside here until  he  disposes  of 
his residence on Henry street,  so that his 
former associates  will have  an  occasion­
al opportunity to shake him by the  hand 
and receive the  benediction  of  that  in­
fectious  smile.  His  successor  at  the 
Grand Rapids office  is  J.  W.  Pierce,  who 
was formerly agent for the  same  line  at 
Suspension Bridge,

Philip B Kirkwood,  who has  long been 
engaged in  the  drug  business  at  Negau- 
nee,  writes T h e   T r a d e s m a n   as  follows: 
“My  successor,  Chas.  H.  Kirkwood, 
takes possession  of my  business  to-mor­
row—and 1  leave  the  mercantile  world; 
not  disgusted  nor  sour,  but  with  feel­
ings  like  a  man  who  is  taking  a  last 
shake  of  the  hand  with  an  old,  true, 
tried and trusty friend. 
I  find  that  my 
health demands a change and  a  business 
life  for  the  past  thirty-five  years 
is 
surely  entitled  to  a  rest.  You  kindly 
ask me what I intend to do.  Well,  1  in­
tend  to  do  some  building  this  summer 
(a  business  block  of  three  stores),  go 
fishing  and  hunting,  spend  some  time 
round my home and,  as the  old  chestnut 
says,  get  acquainted  with  my  family, 
where I expect to continue  to  read  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  and be  happy,  while I rum­
inate  over  my  past  life  and  say  to 
myself,  thank  God,  I  knew  enough  to 
quit before I was all broken down.”

Gripsack Brigade.

A.  W.  Peck,  traveling  representative 
fort he  Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., will 
shortly  change  his  residence  from  Pe- 
toskey to Traverse City.

Judd  E.  Houghton  has  purchased  a 
handsome  residence  at  the  corner  of 
Henry and Prince streets and has already 
taken possession of the same.

A.  S.  Doak has gone to Coaticook, Que­
bec,  to  attend  to  the  settlement  of  his 
father’s estate.  His route is  being  cov­
ered in the meantime by Frank Kruse.

Chas.  S.  Brooks  has  so  far  recovered 
from his recent illness  as  to  be  able  to 
get down  town and hopes  to  resume  his 
work  on  the  road  again  in  about  two 
weeks.

A.  F.  Draper,  formerly  engaged 

in 
general trade at  South  Arm,  is  now  on 
the road for the wholesale grocery house 
of Mendel, Smith  &  Co.,  of  Milwaukee. 
He now resides at Marquette.

Windy Hawkins came home from Alma 
last  Saturday and  returned  again  Mon­
day for a two  weeks’  stay at that  resort.

“If  I  had  $1,000  to 

His general  health  is  Improved, but  his 
nervousness has not yet left him.
invest 

in  real 
estate,”  remarked  A.  L.  Braisted  the 
other day,  “1 would take  my chances  on 
Traverse City.  That  town  is  growing 
faster than any other place of  its size  in 
the State,  yet  there  is  no  boom  feeling 
there  and  the  people  are  postively 
averse to working up a real estate boom. 
The unusnal amount of  building  in  pro­
gress tends to make  business there better 
than at any other town on my route.”

Wm.  H.  Berlin has  begun suit  against 
Moore & Coughlen,  wholesale  grocers  of 
Indianapolis,  alleging  $10,000  damages 
for conspiracy.  The plaintiff was in  the 
defendants’  employ  as  traveling  sales­
man and desired to enter  the  employ  of 
another grocery  firm.  Under  the  rules 
of  the Indianapolis  Wholesale  Grocers 
Association,  the consent  and  release  of 
the employer is necessary in such a  case 
and this was  refused.  The  case  is  the 
first of its kind in  the West,  and the out­
come will be  watched  with  interest  by 
traveling men  generally  as  well  as  by 
jobbers.

T H E   O N L Y

Bisiit  Package 

for  Bitter.

Parchment Lined Paper Pails for 

3, 5 and 10 lbs.

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. 3 
Timothy, 

“ 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 
- 

$7  00
6  00
1  50

- 

- 

Bags extra at market  price.

W.  T.  LAMOREADX  CO.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

LIGHT,  STRONG,  CLEAN,  CHEAP.
Consumer gets butter in Original Package.  Most 
profitable  and  satisfactory  way  of  marketing 
good goods.  Full particulars free.

DETROIT  PAPER  PACKAGE  CO.

DETROIT,  MICH.

Do  you  sell  it? 
What?

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Fine
Cut!

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

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Residence, 53 N.  Union St., Grand  Rapids.

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m ortgage  on  real  e sta te ,  and  a   bank-book 
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d ep o sito r,  show ing  th a t  th e  hank  was 
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d ep o sited   w ith  a  bank  and  a  pass-book 
given  to  th e  d ep o sito r  show ing  su ch   de­
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N ational  H ank  of  C lark,  th a t  a  n atio n al 
b ank  m ay  he  crim in ally   p u n ish ed   by  a 
sta te   for  u su ry .  T h e   c o u rt  said,  In  g iv ­
ing  Ju d g m en t: 
indication 
th a t C ongress  d id   n o t  in ten d   to  allow   its 
n a tio n a l  h an k s  to  tie  held  a n sw erab le  to 
sta le   c rim in al 
illegal 
In te re st  is  th e  fa c t  it  provided  th a t  a  for­
fe itu re   should  re su lt  from   such  act,  and 
th en   it  is  arg u ed   th a t  a   p en alty   o r  fo r­
fe itu re   lik e  th a t  nam ed  in  said  sectio n   30 
is  In co n sisten t  w ith,  or  a t  le a st  u n fa v o r­
able  to,  th e  th o u g h t  th a t  C ongress  u n d er­
stood  th a t  su ch   b an k s  w ould  still  be  su b ­
je c t  In  th is  re sp ec t  to  th e   police  law s  of 
th e  state.  T h is  w ould  only  he  a   fa ir 
In feren ce  if  th e  fo rfe itu re   provided  by 
C ongress  was  such 
in  Its  n a tu re   as  did, 
o r  w ould  w ith in   th e  com m on  u n d e rstan d ­
in g   of 
tak e  th e  place  or 
an sw er  th e   p u rp o se  of  th e  p e n alties  u su ­
ally  provided 
they 
do  not.  T h ey   are  p recisely  th e   p e n alties 
found  in  th e   in te re st-re g u la tin g   law s  of 
ta k in g   of 
stales,  w hich  also  m ake  th e 
Illegal  In te re st  a crim in al  offense, 
i t   is, 
th e re fo re ,  a  stra in e d   and  u n w a rra n te d  
d ed u ctio n  
th a t  w hen  Con­
g ress  Im posed  (lie  u sual  civil  p en alties 
for  ta k in g   u n law fu l  In te re st  com m on  to 
n early   all  sta te   u su ry   law s  it  m eant 
to 
have  such  p en alties  cover  o th e r  and 
d ifferen t  gro u n d ,  and  have  o th e r  and 
d ifferen t  effect  from   th e   sam e  p en alties 
w hen  found  in  co rresp o n d in g   provisions 
Of  sta te   law s.

in  police  law s,  h u t 

to  con clu d e 

law -m akers, 

Ute Tradcmtuin Coupon Books.

Greatest  Seller  on  Earth!

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Black  Rock  .......... ,  Q
B  ...... 5
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Boot. A L.. 
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Capital  A
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we cl.  33k  Noibe  R 
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6/,
..........   554 Our Level  Beat..
......... OH Oxford  R  ............
......... OH  Pequot...................
..........OH  Solar......................
Top of the  Heap.
B LEA CH ED   COTTONS.

Olí Mm e K
Carnet..........
Dwight filar
C lifto n  c  C C

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.  8  Glen M ills..............   7
Amazon.. ..........
.  7  Gold  Medal.............   754
! Arnsburg...........
.10  Green  Ticket..........  8H
!  Art  Cambric —
.  754 Great Falls..............   8H
]  Blackstone  A A.
4*4  Hope  ..........................7H
j  Beau A il..........
.12 
Just  Out......  43k@  5
Boston............
.  7  King  Phillip........... 7H
j Cabot..................
6H 
OP.......  754
Cabot,  H ..........
.  054  Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
] Charier  Oak  ...
7H  Lonsdale...........   @ 8H
! Con way W 
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7  Middlesex.........  @ 5
Dwight Anchor....... 834 No Name................ •  754
shorts 8  Oak View  ............. .  6
Edw ards................. 6  Our Own................
554
7  Pride of the West  . .12
FtiTwtn.................... 754  Rosalind................. .  754
Fruit of the  Loom. 834 Sunlight................. ■  454
Fitch rille  .............. 7  Utica  Mills........... ■  «54
“  Nonpareil  . .10
First Prize............... 7 
Fruit of the Loom X • 754|Vinyard..................
854
6
Fsùrmount............... 434 White Horse..........
Full Value............... 63ki 
.  854
“  Rock..........
HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.
...............7  ] Dwight Anchor.........854
Cabot..............
Farweil........ .
Trem ontN...............  ^¡M iddlesex No.  1.  .
Ramilt'“» N ..............  654! 
“  2...
L .............   7 
“  3...
j 
Middlesex  AT........   8 
“  7. ..
X............  9 
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No. 25 .  .  f  
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

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Hamilton N .............   754 Middlesex A A .......
2......
Middlesex P T ........ 8 
A O ......
A T ........  9 
4......
X  A..........  9  I 
X  P .......  1054! 
5.......
Peerless,  white........1754  Integrity  colored..
colored__ 1954 White Star..............
Integrity.................. 1854) 
“  colored.
Hamilton 

u12
1854
1754
16
20
1820
...............8  ¡Nameless.................... 20
25
 
 
............... 1054 
2754
............... 30
.................. 3254
.................. 35

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G G  Cashmere........ 20 
Nameless  ................16 

DBESS  GOODS.
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American  fancy —  
American indigo—  
American shirtings 
Argentine  Grays.. 
Anchor Shirtings  . 
Arnold 
“  —
Arnold  Merino

Corallne  .................89 50|Wonderful...............$4 50
Schilling's..............  9 00 Brighton....................4 75
...  9 00 Bortree’a ................  9 00
Davis  Waists 
Grand  Rapids 
.... 4  50|Abdominal............ 15  00
CORSET  JEANS.
Armory....................  6&INaumkeag satteen..  7
Androscoggin..........  754¡Rockport..................   654
Biddeford..............   6  Conestoga...................634
6541 Walworth  ..............   634
Brunswick........... 
PRINTS.
Allen turkey  reds..  554'Berwick fancies—   554
robes...........   554]Clyde  Robes............
pink a purple  654]Charter Oak  fancies  454
buffs 
pink  checks.  554! 
topic 
shirtings 

.......  6  Del Marine cashm’s.  6
mourn’g  6
554  Eddystone  fancy...  554 
4 
ehocolat  554
554] 
rober  ...  554
sateens.  554
5541 
4 
!Hamilton fancy.  ...  514
staple 
6  ] 
..  554
4  Manchester  fancy.  554 
654Í 
new  era.  554
6  Merrimack D fancy.  554 
long cloth  B .1054  Merrim’Ck shirtings.  45a 
“  Reppfurn .  854
“  C.  8541 
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[Pacific  fancy........... 554
“ 
century cloth  7 
gold seal___ 1054 
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robes.............  654
“  green seal TR 1054¡Portsmouth robes...  554 
yellow  seal..1054 Simpson mourning..  554
■erge............1154
greys.........  534
■olid black.  554 
“  Turkey  red.. 1054 
Washington Indigo.  53k 
Ballou solid black  .  5 
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colon.  554
“  Turkey robes..  754
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  India robes___ 754
red and  orange  ..  554 
“  plain T k y  X 3k  854 
Berlin solids............  554
“ 
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“  Ottoman  Tur­
oil blue 
key red ..................6
“  green  —   6!
“ 
Martha Washington
“  Foulards 
...  5!
Turkey red <k.........754
red 3k..........  7
“ 
Martha Washington
“ X  ........   9!
“ 
Turkey red...........   954
“ 
“  4 4 ...........10
“ 
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Rlverpoint robes__ 5
Cocbeco fancy........   6
Windsor fancy........   654
madders...  6
gold  ticket
XX tw ills..  654!  Indigo  blue...........1054
solids.........534 ¡Harmony...................... 4J4
AC  A ........................ 1254
Pemberton AAA__ 16
York..........................1054
Swift River.............   754
Pearl  R iver............. 12
W arren..................... 13

Amoskcag A C A .... 1254
Hamilton N .............   754
D ............. 854
Awning. .11
Farm er.................... 8
First  Prize...............1154
Lenox M ills........... 18
Atlanta,  D .- .,........   63k|8tark  A
Boot...........................63k No  Nam e...
Clifton, K .................   6*k|Topof  Heap
Simpson...................20
.................. 18
...................16
Coeohco................1054

Imperial................... IO54
Black..................  9@  954
“  BC............  @10
A A A ....................  12

COTTON  DRILL.

TICKINGS.

BAT1NX8.

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..  9

Amoskcag

ItKMIBê.
12541Columbian  brown. .12
W'A Everett, blue.......... .12
dot.
brow n.  ... .12
brown 13  !
1154][Haymaker  blue.... 
■  734
,10  !
brown..
■  73k
:! J affrey.................... ■1154
-  9 
¡Lancaster  .............. .1254
1  Boston  M fg Co,  hr..  7 ¡Lawrence, 9oz....... -1854
.13
1154
-1054

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A «dover
!  Beaver Creek  A A.
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“  d a twist  1054 
j

Columbian  XXX  hr. 10 
XXX  bl .19 

No. 220.
No.260.
No. 280.

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staples.  654jSIatereville 

Canton
A R C ...
Teazle.
Angola
Persian
i  Arlington staple..
]  Araaapha  fancy  .
]  Bates Warwick dres  854!Kosemont 
Centennial
Criterion  ...............  1054jTaeoma
Cumberland  staple.  554 Toll  du N ord.......
Cumberland............   5  W abash.................
Essex........................  454! 
seersucker
Elfin.......... .
;  Everett classics
Exposition.......
| Glenarle  ..........
Glenarven.......
Glen wood........   ........
I Hampton..................8541
I Johnson Chalon  cl 

|Lancaster,  staple
fancies
“  Persian dress  8541 
854| 
Normandie  8
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1054  Lancashire...............  654
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1054[Manchester.............   5 \
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1054! Monogram  .............   654
834  Normandie..............   754
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834  Persian.....................  854
434  Renfrew Dress........ 754
654 6
754 
1054 
754 
754
754|WarwIek.................  854
854IWhlttenden.............   634
7341 
heather dr.  8
indigo bine  9
6341 
C34  Wamsutta staples...  634 
754  Westbrook............... 8
54  Wlndermeer
Indigo blue  954 York.............
zephyrs — 16  I

10541Somerset.................. 7

GRAIN  BAGS.
.1634 ¡Valley City....... .......15
Amoskeag.............
Stark...................... .  19  Georgia............ .......15
American............. ..153k  P acific............. .......13

634

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Clark’s Mile End.. ..45  ¡Barbour s  ............... 88
Coats’, J.  & P ....... . .45  Marshall’s ....... .......88
Holyoke....................22541

No.  6  ..
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11 
10
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...34
SR
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White.  Colored.! 

KNITTING  COTTON.
38 No.  14...
39
16...
40
18...
4Ì
CAMBRICS.

...37
38
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White.  Colored.
42
43
44
45

Slater.......................  4  ¡Edwards..................   4
White Star.............   4  Lockwood......... —   4
Kid Glove  ...............  4  Wood’s ......................  4
Newmarket..............   4  ¡Brunswick..............  4

RED  FLANNEL.

Firem an...................3254IT W .............................2254
Creedmore...............2754 F T .............................. 3254
Talbot XXX..............30  J R P , XXX................35
Nameless.................2754) Buckeye.....................3254

MIXED  FLANNEL.

DOMET  FLANNEL.

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Red & Blue,  plaid. .40  I Grey S R W .............1754
Union R ...................2254 Western W  ............... 1854
Windsor...................1854 D R P ..........................1854
6 oz W estern...........20  Flushing XXX..........2354
Union  B ..................2254|Maaltoba................... 2354
Nameless.......8  @  9541 
.......  9  @1054
1254
....... 
.......  854@10  I 
Black. 

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
Brot
13
»54
15
1054
17
1154
20
1254

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Slate.
13 
954
15 
1054
17 
1154
20
1254
Severen, 8 oz.........  954 West Point, 8 oz.
.1054 
Mayland, 8oz.........1054
10 oz
1254 
Greenwood, 754 oz.  954 
.1354 
.1354
Greenwood, 8 oz — 1154
Boston, 8 oz............. 1054  Boston, 10 oz.............1254

934 13
1054 15
1154 17
1254120
DUCKS.

Raven, lOoz. 
Stark

WADDINGS.

3ILE8IAS.

White, doz.............   25  [Per bale, 40 doz__ 87  50
Colored,  doz............ 20  |
Slater, Iron Cross...  8  (Pawtucket............... 1054
“  Red Ctobb__  9  Bundle........................   9
“  Best  .............. 1054 Bedford.....................1054
"  Best  A A .......1254 Valley  City................1054
L ...............................   754  KK  ...........................  1054
G ................................  8541
Cortlcelll, doz.......... 75  ¡Cortlcelll knitting,

SEWING  SILK.

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PINS.

..12 
8 
..12  I  “  10 

tw ist,doz..3754  per 54oz  ball........ 30
50 yd, doz. .37541
HOOKS AND  EYES—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k  & White..l0  ¡No  4 Bl’k A White..15 
“  2 
..20
“  3 
..25
No 2—20, M  C.......... 50  |No4—15 F  354............40
‘  3—18, S C ............45  I
No  2 White & Bl’k..12  ¡No  8 White A BI’k..20 
.23
««  4 
“  6 
..26
No 2...........................28 
|N o 3 ........................... 36

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

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NEEDLES—PER  M.

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

1  95  6—4. ..2  95

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“ 

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COTTON TWINES.

“  ....2   10 

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crow n......................12
Dom estic.................1854
A nchor....................16
B ristol..................... 13
Cherry  Valley........ 15
I X L ......................... 1854
Alabama.....................63k
Alamance.................  654
A ugusta.....................754
Ar  sapha.................   6
Georgia....................   634
G ran ite....................  53k
Haw  River..............5
Haw  J ..................... 6

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N ashua..................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply___17
3-ply___17
North  Star................20
Wool Standard 4 plyl754 
Powhattan  ..  ......... 18

Mount  Pleasant__ 654
Oneida......................  5
P rym ont.................  53k
Randelman..............  6
Riverside.................  5J4
Sibley  A ...................  63<
Toledo......................  6

PLAID  OSNABURG8

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

AUGURS AMD BITS. 

diS.

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

 

AXES.

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BARROWS. 

First Quality, S. B. Bronze............................ I  7 50
D.  B. Bronze...............................  12 00
8. B. S. Steel.................................  8 50
D. B. Steel....................................  13 50
dlS.
Railroad...........................................................3 14 00
Garden.......................................................net  30 00
dls.
Stove.  ....................................... 
50&101
Carriage new list.............................................. 70*10
Plow....................................................................40*10
Sleigh shoe........................................................ 
70

bolts. 

 

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST. 

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

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

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

60

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

BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

5
Cast Steel.................................................per lb 
Ely’s 1-10................................................ per m  65
60
Hick’s  C. F ................................................ 
G. D ............................................................ 
35
M usket....................................................... 
60

CAPS.

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CARTRIDGES.

chisels. 

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

50
25

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

die.

dls.

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

CHALK.

combs. 

COPPER.

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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 sh an k ........

DRILLS. 

dls.

DRIPPING 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.............................. doz. net 
75
Corrugated...............................................dls 
40
Adjustable................................................dls.  40*10
dlS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, 318; large, 326........... 
Ives1, 1,318;  2, 3B4;  8 ,fe o ..............................  

piles—New List. 
Dlsston’8 
New  American................................  
Nicholson’s ............................................ 
Heller’s ..............................................................  
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................... 

dis.
..........................................................60*10
60*10
60*10
50
50

30
25

 

 

 

GALVANIZED IRON.

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

12 

15 

13 

28
16 17

Discount, 60

14 
GAUGES. 

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

50

dls.

The Future of the Telephone.

From  Hardware.

As the time  approaches  when the pat­
ents which  have protected  the Bell  tele­
phone  will  expire,  there  is a discussion 
as to the  effect it will  have  on  the vari­
ous  industries  which  play  a  part  in  it. 
In  the  matter  of  organized  exchanges, 
which  are  found in almost  every village 
in  the  densely  populated  portions  of 
the  country,  there  can  be  but 
little 
change  in  the  situation.  Charges  for 
this  service  will  uaturally  be  held  in 
check,  for  any  attempt at extortion  will 
be  met  by  popular  clamor,  which  may 
jeopardize  franchises,  but  these  plants 
are so  interwoven  with  ‘‘long  distance” 
lines reaching  to  neighboring  communi­
ties,  that  innovations of  this  sort would 
only result in confusion  and  disappoint­
ment.  This,  for  a  long  time,  will  be  a 
chief obstruction to opposition companies 
which will take  years to meet.
Again,  in subways there will  be insur­
mountable  obstructions,  for  the  present 
companies  have  taken  time by the fore­
lock,  and  in  many  cases  the  ducts  are 
exclusive. 
in  private 
lines  and  interior  wiring  that the  tele­
phone  will  receive  its  great 
impetus. 
The  cost  of  a  telephone  at  present  is 
surprisingly  small;  and  a  report comes 
from  Spain  that a hotel  has  been  fitted 
up  there  with  an  insulation  so  simple 
that  the  cost  is  less  than  a dollar  per 
phone,  and  it  is  so  efficacious  that  the 
women servants used  it  with  freedom at 
the start.
It  is  in  this  way  that  the  hardware 
dealer will  be able  to  increase  his sales 
largely  in  electrical  goods,  for  with  so 
cheap a service  the  demand  will be very 
large. 
In  fact,  almost  everyone will be 
in ready communication with his butcher, 
his  grocer,  and if  he  is  in  good circum­
stances,  his  stable.  The  future  of  the 
telephone is to be calculated in  this man­
ner,  and not in  the  way  it is now so pop­
ular,  the exchange  and the long distance 
service with which we are familiar.
An  Ingenious  Contrivance.

It  is,  however, 

To instantly obtain a light  sufficient to 
read the  time  by  a  watch  or  clock  at 
night,  without danger  of  setting  things 
on fire, is an easy  matter.  Take  an  ob­
long vial of the clearest of glass, put into 
it a piece of phosphorus about the size of 
a pea,  upon  this  pour  some  pure  olive 
oil heated to the boiling point; the bottle 
to be  filled  about  one  third  full;  then 
cork  tightly.  To use  the  light,  remove 
the cork, allow the air to enter,  and  then 
recork.  The whole empty  space  in  the 
bottle will  then  become  luminous,  and 
the light obtained  will  be  a  good  one. 
As  soon  as  the  light  becomes  dim  its 
power  can  be  increased by opening  the 
bottle and allowing a fresh supply  of air 
to enter. 
In very cold weather it is some­
times necessary to heat the  vial  between 
the hands to increase the  fluidity  of  the 
oil,  and  one  bottle  will  last  a  winter. 
This ingenious contrivance  may  be  car­
ried 
is  used  by 
watchmen  of  Paris 
in  all  magazines 
where  explosive or iutlaniable  materials 
are stored.

in  the  pocket,  and 

How to  Remove Rust  from  Knives.
When  knives  and  other  steel  cutlery 
become rusty they  should  be  cleaned at 
once.  To  remove  the  rust  rub  with  a 
flannel dipped  in sweet oil;  then cover it 
with slacked lime and allow it to rest for 
twenty-four hours;  wipe clean and finish 
off  with  some  powdered  whiting  and  a 
piece of chamois leather.  This will make 
the article as bright  as new.  An  excel 
lent  way  to  prevent  steel cutlery  from 
rusting is to plunge the blades in  a pan of 
whiting after washing  and  remove  them 
just  before  they  are  used.  When toey 
are  wiped  they  will  be  perfectly  bright, 
and  if kept in this way  cannot get rusty.

Glass  Factories to Shut Down.

The  Eastern  window-glass  manufac­
turers  have  indorsed  the  action  of  the 
Western  Manufacturers’  Association, 
which decided to shut  down  all  factories 
on May 31  and  remain idle  until  October 
15. 
is 
enforced.it  will  be the longest window- 
glass shut-down  since the  long  strike of 
1883.

to  shut  down 

the  rule 

If 

TETE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Hardware Price Current.

HAMMERS.

 

 

 

 

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dls.
dls.

levels. 

HANGERS. 

wire goods. 

LOCKS—DOOR. 

HOLLOW WARE.

MATTOCKS.
 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

25
dls. 
Maydole  A Co.’s ................... 
25
Kip’s .............................................................dls. 
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 .................................dls.60&10
State............................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  in. 4)4  14  and
3)4
longer............................................................. 
Screw Hook and  Eye, %........................... net 
10
%................... 
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net  8)4
X ............................net  7)4
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Strap and T ................................................. dls. 
50
Barn -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 W are..............................   .new list 70
Japanned Tin W are........................................  
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 3314*10
4 00
dls.
Bright........................................................... 70*10*10
Screw  Eyes................................................. 70*10*10
Hook’s ..........................................................70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................ 
70*10*10
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s  —  
70
..........  
knobs—New List. 
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 A Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  ..........  
55
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s ..............................  
55
Branford’s ........................................................ 
55
Norwalk’s ........................................................ 
56
Adze Eye............. 
316.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye..............................................315.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s ..........................................318.50, dls. 20*10.
diS.
50
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
40
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry & CIp ik’s ................... 
40
“  Enterprise 
......................................... 
30
Stebbin’s Pattern..............................................60*10
Stehbin’s Genuine............................................ 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
25
Steel nails, base........................................................ 1 85
Wire nails, base........................................................ 1 90
Steel.  Wire.
go........................................................... Base 
Base
10
50........................................................... Base 
40 .........................................................  
25
05 
25
10 
30.........................................................  
20.........................................................  
35
15 
45
16.........................................................  
15 
45
12.........................................................  
15 
50
10 ...........................................................  20 
60
8 .............................................................  25 
75
7 * 6 .......................................................  40 
4 
90
.........................................................   60 
3 .................................................... 1 00 
1 20
2 ............................................................ 1  50 
1  60
1  60
Fine 3.....................................................1  50 
65
Case  10.  ..............................................  60 
75
8.....................................  
75 
90
6..................................................  »> 
Finish 10...............................................   85 
75
g............................................... 1  00 
9)
1  10
6 .................................................1  15 
70
Clinch; 10...............................................  85 
8............................................1   00 
80
90
6............................................... 1  15 
Barrell X ...............................................175 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ...................................   @40
Sclota  Bench....................................................   @60
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................   @40
Bench, first quality............................ 
  OjO
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood............  *10
Fry,  Acme................................................dis.60—10
70
Common,  polished................................... dls. 
Iron and  Tinned.............................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Burs................................  50—10
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 34 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

Advance over base: 

MOLASSES GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

p a t e n t  p l a n i s h e d  i k o n .

“ 
<> 
“ 
“ 
“ 
•• 

NA ILS

PLANES. 

rivets. 

PANS.

dlS.

dlS.

dls.

Broken packs )4c per pound extra.

 

 

 

BOFES.

 

 

9)4

SqUARKS. 

Sisal, V4 Inch and la rg e r................................ 
Manfila..............................................................   13
dls.
Steel and 
Iron................................................ 
Try and Bevels................................................. 
M itre...........................................  
SHEET iron.

75
60
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
32 96
3 15
3 (5
3 15
325
3  35
All  Bheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

NOS. 10 to 14.......................................... S4 05 
Nos. 15 to 17 ........................................   4  05 
Nos.  18 to 21......................................   4 05 
Nos. 22 to 24 ........................................   4 05 
NOS. 25 to 26........................................ 4  25 
No. 27 ....................................................  4  45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86..........................................dis. 
Silver Lake, White A ................................list 
Drab A .....................................  “ 
White  B ............................. 
 
D rabB .....................................   “ 
White C.................................... “ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
56
“  50
55
35

“ 
“ 
« 
“ 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

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

Solid Eyes.......................   ......................per ton 326
20
70
50
30

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

30
dls.
Steel, Game...................................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse's............ 
35
70
Oneida  Community, Hawley a Norton’s —  
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c per doz
Mouse, delusion..................................31.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright M arket..................................................   65
Annealed M arket............................................. 70—10
Coppered Market  ............................................  60
Tinned Market...........................................  
  62)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel.............................. 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.................................   3 10
painted.......................................  2 65

wire. 

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

40
An  Sable..................................... ............... dls. 
Putnam .............................................. 
dls.  03
N orthwestem...................................  
dls. 10*10
dlB.
30
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
Coe’s  G enuine................................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,............ 
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................................. 75*10
Bird Cages.............................................. 
50
 
Pumps, Cistern............................................  
"5
Screws, N ew List..............................................70*10
Casters, Bed  a  d Plate................. 
50*10*10
Dampers, American........................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........ 65*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dis.
 

 

METALS,

 

 

63£
7

SOLDER.

PIG TIN.
Pig  Large.........................................................‘  26c
Pig Bars................................. 
280
ZINC.
Duty:  Sheet, 2)ic per pound.
660 pound  casks............................................... 
Per pound......................................................... 
)4@)4.........................................................................16
Extra W iping......................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
Bolder In the market indicated by nrtvate brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................... per  pound
Hallett’s.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.......................................
14x20 IC, 
........................................
10x14 IX, 
........................................
.....................................
14x20 IX, 
Bach additional X on this grade, 31.75.
10x14 IC,  Charcoal...........................  .......
14x20 IC, 
........................................
10x14 IX, 
.......................................
14x20 IX, 
Each additional X on this grade 31.50.
ROOFING PLATES
Worcester........................

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“

13
I 7  50 
7  50 
9 25 
9 25

3 6  75 
6  75
8  25
9 25

TIN—MELYN GRADE.

Allaway  Grade.

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14X20IC, 
14x20IX, 
20x28  IC, 
20x28 IX,
14x28  IX. 
14x31  IX.
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I 
14x60 IX.  “ 

“  9 

“ 

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

m nnd 
t por ponna 

6 50 
8  50 
18  506 00
7  50 
12  50 
15 50
314 0» 
.15
ln
m

T H E   F A V O R I T E   C H U R N .

The  Only Perfect  Barrel Chum  Made.

POINTS  OF  EXCELLENCE.

It is made of thoroughly  seasoned material.
It is finished smooth inside as  well  as outside.
The iron ring head is strong and not liable to beak.
The bails are fastened to the iron ring,  where they need to be fastened.
It is simple in construction and convenient to operate.
No other churn is so nearly perfect  as  THE  FAVORITE.
Don't buy a counterfeit. 

Write for Discount.

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SIZES  AND  PRICES.

No. 0— 5 gal. 
“  1—10  “
“  2—15  “
“  3—20  “
“  4—25  “
“  5-35  “
“  6—60  “
«  7—75  «

L  «  8—90  “
I 

to churn  2 gal..........
4  “ 
...
9  “ ..........
12  “ ..........
16  “ ..........
30  “ ..........
37  “ ..........
45  “ ..........

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
« 

........   3 8 00
........  
8 50
........  
9 00
........   10 00
........   12 00
.........  16 00
........   26 00
..  30 00
.........  35 00

8

TETE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

Michigan Tradesman

D (fidai Organ of Michigan Business Men’s  Association.

▲  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DKVOTKD  TO  T H I

Retail  Trade  of the Woliferine State.

Published at

lOO  Louis  St., G rand  R apids,

— BT —

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

One D ollar a Y ear, 

- 

P ostage P rep aid .

ADVERTISING  RATES  ON  APPLICATION.

Communications  invited  from practical  busi­

ness men.

Correspondents must give their full  name and 
address,  not  necessarily for  publication, but as 
a guarantee of good faith.

Subscribers may have  the  mailing  address  of 

tbeir papers  changed as often as desired.
Sample copies sent free to any address.
Entered at Grand  Rapids post office as second- 

class matter.

g3^“When  writing to  any of  our  advertisers, 
please  say that  you  saw  tbeir  advertisement in 
T h e  Michigan T radesm an.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

W EDNESDAY,  MAY  4,  1893.

is  concerned,  these 

A mouth  ago  every  indication  pointed 
to  a  good  summer  trade  in  this  State, 
both in city  and  country.  So  far as the 
latter 
indications 
promise  to  be  fulfilled,  but  retail  busi­
ness in  such  cities  as  Detroit and Grand 
Rapids is likely to  be seriously interfered 
with  by  the  infamous  strikes already  in­
augurated and predicted by  the leaders of 
organized  labor.  As  a  result of  this  at­
titude,  on  the  part of  the  mouthy agita­
tors  of  the  “rights  of  labor,” hundreds 
of  buiidiugs  which  would  have  been 
erected  this  year will  not  be  built at all 
this summer and the construction of  one 
large  block  which  would  have  entailed 
a pay roll of  at least §10,000 to workmen 
will be abandoned  until  such time as  the 
men  who  are  stirring  up  strife  among 
the  plumbers,  carpenters  and  painters 
are less  unreasonable  in  their demands. 
The  era  of  good  fellowship  between 
master  and  man  will  never  be  ushered 
in until honest workmen come  to  realize 
that the  walking delegate  and  the griev­
ance  committee,  who are at the bottom of 
nine-tenths  of  the  ill-feeling  between 
employer  and  employe,  are  the  worst 
enemies  they have  to  contend  with,  as 
the  existence  of  such  interlopers  pre­
vents  that  co-operation  between  office 
and  workshop  which  is  absolutely  es­
sential  to  the  complete  success  of  the 
occupants of both.

The union  plumbers  of  Grand  Rapids 
are out on strike,  demanding  ten  hours’ 
pay  for nine  hours’  work  and  the  em­
ployment of none but union  men.  Both 
demands  are  infamous  and  stamp  the 
men making such demands  as  unworthy 
of respect. 
If a workman is  not  receiv­
ing  adequate  compensation  for  his  ser­
vices,  he has a right to ask for  increased 
pay  per  hour,  day  or  week,  but  a  de­
mand for ten hours’ pay  for  nine  hours’ 
work  smacks  too  much  of  dishonesty. 
Again,  the man who  denies  another  the 
right he  claims  for  himself—renumera- 
tive employment,  even though be  refuse 
to bow to the dictation of a trades union— 
is a dangerous man  in  a  community,  be­
ing but one step removed from  a socialist 
and but  two  steps  from  an  anarchist. 
For the sake of  the  liberty  of  the  indi­
vidual and  the  independence  of  honest

lab o r,  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   hopes  to  see 
th e   p lu m b e rs’  s trik e   en d  
in   deserv ed  
d isaste r.

In the death  of  Alonzo  Seymour,  the 
traveling  fraternity  of  Grand  Rapids 
loses one  of  its  earliest  and  most  con­
sistent exponents.  While  the  deceased 
traveled  almost  continuously 
for  a 
quarter of a century, he never did aught, 
by word or deed,  which would reflect dis­
credit on the  profession  he  represented 
or the house whose goods he carried.

A man  seldom gets  more  money  than 
he wants,  but he often gets more  than  he 
needs.

Women  Inventors.

From the Philadelphia Times.

less 

last 

than 

New York State  outnumbers  by  many 
hundreds other States in  the  number  of 
patents  granted  to  women,  646  having 
been taken out  since  the  year  1809,  96 
being  granted  during  the 
three 
years.  Massachusetts 
is  next,  while 
Pennsylvania ranks third.  Two hundred 
and  forty-seven  patents  have 
been 
granted to women of our State, 36 having 
been  taken  taken  oat  during  the  last 
three years.  Of  this  number,  Philadel­
phia has furnished  nearly  one-half.  Of 
these,  Marie  E.  Beaseley,  famous  for 
having  inveuted  a  machine  for  turning 
out  complete  barrels  by  the  hundreds, 
has  been  granted  no 
ten 
patents.  Besides  the  best  known  and 
most generally  employed  appliances  for 
making barrels,  she is  the patentee  of  a 
life-saving  raft,  a  machine  for  pasting 
shoe uppers, a steam generator and many 
other useful appliances.
The women of Philadelphia are stylish 
or nothing,  and in  the  number  of  their 
inventions  they  have  not  overlooked 
anything that would in their opinion  im­
prove upon their personal attractiveness. 
They do not  pose  as  being  particularly 
strong-minded, 
but 
has 
been  done  by 
the  women  of  Massa­
chusetts and especially those  of  Boston, 
it is not  without point to notice that  out 
of nearly three hundred  patents  granted 
the women of that State,  two-thirds have 
been improvements  upon  corsets,  hoop- 
skirts,  bustles,  hair curlers; in short,  all 
such flummery in the line of wearing ap­
parel,  and the balance,  with  the  several 
exceptions  1  shall name,  were  taken  out 
on various good and  useful  things  grow­
ing out of house-hold  thrift.
To the  reuowu  of  our  sisters  of  that 
State,  let it be known,  the  first  fountain 
pen  was the invention  of  Susan  S.  Tay­
lor,  of East Cambridge.  And  let  Helen 
L.  Macker  have  due  credit  for  an  im­
provement  in  alloys  to  imitate  silver, 
and Annie M.  Getchell a process for har­
dening copper.  But the greatest achieve­
ment  was  that  of  Miss  Margaret  E. 
Knight,  who 
invented  a  complicated 
machine  for  making  the  useful  square- 
bottomed  paper bag,  and  refused  $50,000 
for the patent,  and  who has since invent­
ed another machine  that  does  the  work 
of  thirty  pairs  of  hands 
folding 
these  bags.

since 

in 

it 

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:

F.  C.  Sampson,  Boon.
Wm.  H.  Severance,  Middleville.
Geo.  P.  Hoppough,  Smyrna.
E.  E.  Hewett,  Rockford,
C.  F.  Walker,  Glen Arbor.
B.  Voorhorst.  Overisel.
Frank  Hamilton,  Traverse City.
Nelson Pike,  Morley.

Bank  Notes.

Hanpah,  Lay  &  Co.  will  merge  their 
into  a  State  organization  about 
bank 
June 1  under the  style  of  the  Traverse 
City State Bank.

C.  J. De Roo has been elected a director 
of  the  First  State  Bank of  Holland,  in 
place of  J.  C.  Post,  who  has  taken  an 
interest in  the Holland City State Savings 
Bank.

Death  of  Alonzo  Seymour.

Alonzo Seymour,  who  has  been  very 
low  for  several  weeks,  expired  early 
Monday morning at his late residence  at 
the corner of Hastings and Clancy streets. 
He  had  been 
in  health  and 
strength  for  several  months,  owing  to 
the gradual  breaking down of his system, 
and the final summons has been expected 
hourly for  weeks.

failing 

The following sketch of the life of  the 
deceased—up to eight years ago—appear­
ed in T h e  T r a d e s m a n  of Feb.  20,  1884, 
under the head of “Pencil Portraits—No. 
1:”

“I  was  born  in  Waterville,  Oneida 
county,  N.  Y.,  in  1819,”  said  Mr.  Sey­
mour, in reply to the reportorial enquiries, 
“and  was  brought  up  and  educated at 
Winfield,  Herkimer county,  where I  was 
married 
in  1844,  removing  to  Grand 
I  engaged  in  the  hub 
Rapids in  1849. 
business  with  L.  R.  Atwater  about  a 
year,  aud  was 
subsequently 
station 
agent at  Rockford,  111.,  for  two  years. 
Afterward I worked  for  Geo.  W.  Water­
man,  who at that  time  run  a  wholesale 
and  retail  grocery  store  where  Julius 
Friedrich’s music  store  is  now  located. 
In  1852,  I formed  a  copartnership  with 
the late John M.  Fox and Joel  Merchant, 
under the firm name of  John  M.  Fox  & 
Co.,  and  until the panic of  1857,  we  car­
ried on a general  merchandising business 
at Eaton,  Lyon  &  Allen’s  present  loca­
tion.  When  the  crisis  came  on  we 
closed up our  business,  and for a year or 
more I worked as  a  book-keeper  for  the 
firm  of  Wilmarth & Patten.  Afterward,
I  engaged  with  Wm.  Ren wick  in  the 
manufacture  of  hubs  under  the  firm 
name of Seymour &  Reuwick,  which  re­
lationship continued  about  three  years. 
Then the  firm  of  Seymour  &  Brown— 
Jas.  W.  Brown—engaged  in  the  grocery 
business  at  the  present  location  of  A. 
Rasch,  who succeeded the  firm  after  we 
had been in  business  about  a  year. 
In 
May,  1865,  I engaged to  travel  for  L.  U. 
Randall,  being the  first  man  to  carry  a 
sample case for  a  Grand  Rapids  house. 
At that  time  there was  but one  railway 
here—the  4 D. & M.,’  as it was then called 
—and traveling was done almost entirely 
by team.  My  Northern  route  required 
three weeks’  time,  and  included  Plain- 
field,  Coou’s  Hollow,  Rockford—then 
called Laphamville—Cedar Springs, Ens- 
ley,  Lisbon,  Casnovia,  Croton,  Big 
Prairie,  Big  Rapids,  Paris  and  Hersey. 
It took another week to take in Hesperia, 
Hart  and  Pentwater,  and  still  another 
to see  my  customers  at  Greenville,  Elm 
Hall and other  small  towns.  Nearly  a 
week was usually consumed  in  going  to 
and returning from  Wayland  and  Brad­
ley.  There  were  no  regular  roads 
through most of  the country  I  traveled, 
and it was  not  an  uncommon  thing  for 
me  to  improvise  a  pole  bridge  over  a 
swollen stream or stop to  chop  in  two  a 
fallen tree.  Wolves,  bear and deer were 
frequent attendants,  and occasionally the 
wolves  gave  me  a  good  chase.  From 
Big Prairie to Big Rapids, I had a twenty 
mile drive without  a  house  or  stopping 
place  of  any  kind  between.  Occa­
sionally I encountered bands of  Indians, 
but  they  never  made  me  any  trouble. 
On my return  trips  I  usually  had  con­
siderable sums of  money,  but I  did  not 
feel as timid in the deep forest  as  I  did 
when I got to  the  city.  There  was  no 
police force here then,  and open roberies 
were not uncommon.  Of  course,  I  met 
many perplexing experiences  which  are 
decidedly amusing reminiscences in  this 
time  of  fast  railway 
travel  and  good 
hotel accomodations. 
I remember sleep­
ing in  a garret at Hesperia one cold  win­
ter  night  and 
finding  an  inch of  snow 
on  the  bed  in  the  morning;  and  my re­
membrance  goes  back  to  another  warm 
morning when I awoke with  an enormous 
bedbug in each ear.
in  1868, 
I took  charge  of  A.  T.  Thomas’  general 
store at Bowne  for a year,  after which  I 
was employed as book-keeper by Wheeler 
& Borden,  who were  known as the  ‘eight 
hour  firm.’  Subsequently  I  worked  for 
Wheeler & Green,  taking  the road  again 
in  1870  for  Wm.  Sears & Co.  With  the 
exception of  one year,  when I was in the

leaving  Mr.  Randall 

“On 

employ of  Berkey & Gay as  a book-keep­
er,  1  have traveled  continuously for  the 
Messrs.  Sears. 
I  think  that  one of  the 
most  peculiar  features  of  my  long  ex­
perience on  the  road is that I have never 
met with  an accident of auy kind.  Trains 
before and  behind mine have had smash- 
ups,  but  I  have  never  been on  a  train 
that had a wheel leave the track. 
I have 
slept  in  hotels  which  burned  the  next 
night,  involving  loss  of  life,  but  have 
thus far  escaped without  mishap of  any 
kind.”

As the interview above given was read 
to  Mr.  Seymour  before  publication  and 
approved  by him,  it  probably states  the 
facts connected with his long career with 
absolute  accuracy.  He  remained  with 
the  former  firm  of  Wm.  Sears  &  Co. 
until  about  three  years  ago,  when  he 
retired  from the  road  and  thereafter de­
voted  his entire time to  his family.

Deceased  leaves a wife  and  four  chil­

dren—three sons and a daughter.

Mr.  Seymour  was  a  man  of  strict  in­
tegrity and  genial  disposition and  made 
friends wherever he went—friends which 
remained  steadfast as long  as life lasted. 
He had  no  bad  habits  and,  wherever he 
went,  he  was  as  welcome a guest  at  the 
home  circle  of  the  merchant  as  at  the 
store  and  office.  He  leaves  behind  the 
record of a well  spent life aud bequeaths 
to his  frieuds a reputation  and character 
they can revere for all  time to  come.

Counterfeiters  in  Chicago.

Four  counterfeiters  were  arrested  at 
117 South Greene street, Chicago, Sunday 
afternoon.  They  were  Mick  Dunn,  a 
mechanic,  James  Dalton,  a  shipping 
clerk  for  Hibbard,  Spencer,  Bartlett  <& 
Co.,  Martin Lewis,  who has  been  in  the 
penitentiary  at  New  Orleans,  and  Ed­
ward Mack,  who is described  as  an  all­
round thief.  The men were arrested  be­
cause of the suspicions  of  the  landlady 
of  the  premises  where  they  had  their 
room.
A search of the  room  revealed  every­
thing  necessary to mold money,  but  no 
money was discovered.  Upon a table were 
trimmings and  scraps  of  silver,  giving 
every indication of having come from the 
A stove  stood 
mold of a silver dollar. 
in  one  corner  and  a  roaring  fire  was 
burning  within.  Melted 
silver  was 
strewn in  promiscuous  heaps  upon  the 
floor.  A peculiar  appliance  for  milling 
the edge of a coin  was  also  found.  The 
instrument was  experimented  with  and 
it  was  found  that  a  silver  dollar  just 
fitted  the  confines  between  the  outer 
edges of the machines.  Three crucibles, 
one holding  perhaps  a  half-gallon  and 
two a half-pint each,  were found  on  the 
table filled with melted silver and a com­
pound of tin ore. 
In  a  small  kettle  of 
common  pottery  was  a  mass  of  silver, 
partially melted,  with a spoon which had 
been used to  skim  off  the  dross.  How 
much of the bogus coin these parties have 
put into circulatoin is not known.

Fermentation  Industries.

The Louisiana, Planter says that “dur­
ing the  coming month of  May there will 
be opened in Paris,  under  the  patronage 
of the Minister of  Agriculture, an  inter­
national  exposition  of  alcohol  and  the 
fermentation industries, comprising wine 
production,  distillation,  brewing,  cider 
manufacture and the  incidental  food in­
dustries.  This  exposition  will  be 
in­
stalled iu  the vast machinery  hall  in the 
Champs de Mars,  which will remain con­
spicuous  in  the  memory  of  those  who 
visited  the  great  exposition.  Various 
foreign  countries,  noted  for  their  pro­
ducts,  have  already  promised their  sup­
port,  Belgian  and  Dutch  gin,  English 
whisky,  Russian  vodka,  the  kirsch  of 
Switzerland  and  of  the  Black  Forest, 
colonial  rum,  and  special  liquors,  beer 
from  all  countries,  the  wines  of  Spain 
and Italy,  of Portugal and Hungary,  and 
of  the  Crimea,  as  well  as  those of  Cali­
fornia,  have 
locations  already 
marked at the exposition.”

tbeir 

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

T H E   IMI CTTTOATST  TR A D E SM A N ,

9

FIRE  INSURANCE.

Its  History  and  the  Laws,  Rules  and 

Customs Which Govern It.

SEVENTH  PAPER.

Written f o r  Thb T r a b k s m a n .

“ Or If the interest of the assured in the 
property  be  not  truly stated in  this  pol­
icy,” etc.

Nearly  all  modern  policies  contain  a 
condition similar to the one quoted above, 
which compels a careful statement of the 
title of  the applicant  for  insurance;  and 
any material omission  or  misrepresenta­
tion  will  surely  avoid  the  policy.  Es­
pecially  is  this true of  a  mutual policy, 
where the  insurer  has  a  lien  upon  the 
property insured.  This provision applies 
to  cases in which  the  actual  interest  is 
an estate of  less duration than a fee sim­
ple, or of  a different character  from that 
set  forth in  the  description,  and  not  to 
technical  evidences  of  the  title  of  the 
assured.  And  this,  too,  even  in  a  mu­
tual  company,  in  the  charter  of  which 
was a provision  that the  policy shall  be 
deemed  valid  and  binding  on the  com­
pany in all  cases  where the  insured  has 
an  estate in fee  simple  to  the  buildings 
insured and the land on which they stand; 
but if his estate be less than a fee simple, 
the  policy shall  be void,  unless the  true 
title of the assured be expressed thereon. 
Where  the  assured  had  purchased  an 
estate in  fee, and was in possession under 
his  purchase,  but, by reason  of  a  defect 
in  the  execution of  his  deed,  the  legal 
title did  not pass  to  him,  the court  held 
that the equitable  title in fee simple was 
in  the  assured,  and  that  he  was,  there­
fore,  entitled  to  recover;  that  the  ex­
pression 
in  the  charter,  “less  estate 
therein,”  referred to the  duration of  the 
estate,  and  not to the  evidences of  title.
A  claim to real  estate, resting  upon  a 
conditional  bond  for a deed,  will  not be 
sufficient  to  sustain a policy issued  by a 
mutual  company,  where  the  policy  re­
quires  a  disclosure  of  the  “true  title.” 
In  a case where the policy contained this 
condition, the plaintiffs insured the prop­
erty  as  owners.  The  title  was  derived 
by  purchase  at  a  sale  under  the  fore­
closure  of  a  mortgage  in  the  State  of 
Illinois,  the  mortgagor  having  fifteen 
months within which to redeem.  Before 
plaintiff’s  deed  was  executed, the  prop­
erty  burned.  The  court  held  that  the 
terms of  the policy did  not  relate to the 
nature  of  the  title or its  evidences,  but 
to  the  character  of  the  ownership  and 
real  interest  in  the  property;  also,  that 
the plaintiffs, having subsequently to the 
fire  acquired  the full  legal  title  by the 
deed,  such legal  title should  relate back 
and take effect as of  the inception of  the 
equitable  title,  thereby  rendering  the 
plaintiffs,  at  the  time  the  policy  was 
issued,  not  only  equitable  owners,  but 
holders of the legal title in fee.

In  the  early cases, before  this  condi­
tion  with  its ample  details was  inserted 
in  fire  policies,  it  was  held  that a mis­
representation of title,  which was mater­
ial to the  risk,  would  avoid  the  policy; 
but modern insurers do not  feel inclined 
to  rely  upon  the  caprice of  an  average 
jury,  as  to whether  a  misrepresentation 
of title on the part of  the assured Is or is 
not material to the risk;  and  so we have, 
in  the  modern  policy,  a  clause  much 
more definite. 
It is less liable to be mis­
understood  by  the  assured  and  mlscon- 
structed  by  the  courts. 
Its  terms  are 
not  hampered  with  vague  provisos,  but 
define  clearly and  arbitrarily  what  mis­
representation on the part of the assured,

will  avoid  the  policy,  whether  material 
to the  risk or not.

It  has  been  held  that  parol  proof  is 
inadmissible to prove  that the  true state 
of the title was known to the agent, when 
the policy contains a provision that every 
such  agent is the  agent of  the applicant 
and not of the company;  also, that where 
a  policy is rendered  void  by a misrepre­
sentation  of  title  in  the  application,  a 
subsequent assignment,  with the consent 
of  the  company, would not give it valid­
ity.

A father  permitted  his  son to use  his 
name  in  buying and  selling goods;  and, 
while the goods were really wholly owned 
by the  son,  the business was  done in the 
name of  both.  The  court held  that  the 
legal rights  and  interests of  the  parties 
were  not so affected  as to  render void  a 
policy of  insurance issued  on  the  goods 
in  the name of the son.

A  failure to disclose  the  true  title,  as 
to  one  of  several  parcels  of  property, 
insured by the same  policy but each sep­
arately valued, was held in a Maine case, 
to effect an avoidance of the policy;  also, 
that  property held  as  collateral security 
was  held  “in trust,”  and  must  be so ex­
pressed  in  a  policy  containing  the  con­
dition we are  discussing, in order to sus­
tain  the  policy. 
It will  be  seen by  the 
above  decision  that  the  applicant  for 
insurance should exercise great care  and 
not confound the terms  “mortgagee” and 
“ trustee,”  in  dissolving  his 
title  or 
interest 
in  the  property.  He  should 
clearly  understand  the  nature  of  his 
interest in the subject for insurance  and 
see to it that  it  is  properly expressed  in 
the policy,  and  then all will  be well.

“Or  if  the  property  be  mortgaged,  or 
otherwise  encumbered,  at  o,r  after  the 
date of  this policy, without permission in 
this •policy,”  etc.

Neglect  to  comply  strictly  with  the 
requirements  of  this  condition  will,  al­
most  invariably,  defeat  the  policy  and 
leave  the  insured  stranded,  without  a 
remedy,  in case of  a loss by fire.  A free 
and  easy  solvency  and  a good  financial 
rating  in  the  business  world  are  such 
magical  aids  in  transacting  business  in 
this  age that  men  will  hedge,  dodge and 
evade, in every possible way and manner, 
everything  tending  to  cripple  or  mar 
their financial standing.  So still mouthed 
do  they become,  and  so  successfully  do 
they cover up  their  tracks  behind  them 
that  our  commercial  agencies,  with  all 
their  searching  of  public  records  and 
th«dr sharp system of espionage, can give 
us  but  an  approximation  of  the  true 
commercial standing of  a very large por­
tion of the business men of to-day.  When 
a business  man  applies for  insurance on 
a piece of  property,  he  certainly  knows 
whether it is encumbered  or  not,  and,  if 
so,  to what extent;  and if his policy con­
tains the condition under discussion,  and 
if  his  tongue—owing to  long-established 
habits—refuse to speak, or  speak falsely 
as  to  such  encumbrances, then  he  does 
so  at  his  peril  and  his  policy  will  be 
avoided.  The  courts  look  upon  such 
neglect  as  being  wilful  and  devoid  of 
any reasonable  justification.  They have 
gone  still  further  and  decided  that  a 
statement of  a  less  amount  than  is  due 
upon  a  mortgage,  which  is  disclosed  as 
an incumbrance,  in  answer  to a question 
in the application,  will avoid  a policy.

“Or if  the assured  shall  keep  gunpow­
der, fireworks, nitroglycerine, phosphorus, 
saltpeter, nitrate of  soda, petroleum, nap­
tha,  gasoline,  benzine,  benzole or benzine

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B ecause

It is the  quickest, surest  and  most  satisfactory  seller, besides 
attracting  trade to less  known  articles.  Lion Coffee is a per­
fect blend of  the three standard grades, Mocha, Java and  Rio. 
It is roasted without glazing, and  packed in  1 -lb.  papers, with 
a  handsome  picture in every package.  To  suit  that  class of 
trade not desiring a package  coffee, merchants find  that O. D. 
Java  and  Standard  Maracaibo  exactly  fill  the  bill  as  high 
grade bulk coffees.
Undoubtedly  TfOUR  JOBBER  WILL  BE  GLAD  TO  FILL 
MLSOH R E   GO.. 
Hilt  Grade  Coffees,

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YOUR  ORDER,  AS  ALSO  WILL  THE

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ROASTERS OF

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

Facts  Talk  Louder  Than  Words !

3,487.275  SOLD  IN  1886.

ISO),STS  SOLD  IN  1011

5,092,350  SOLD  IN  1800,
5,690,025 SOLD IN 1889.

6,083,201  Sold  in 1891,

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

showing the monumental  success of our celebrated

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

va rn ish ,  o r  keep  or  w e  camphene,  spirit j 
gas or any burning flu id  or  chemical oils j 
vn th o u t written permission in this policy,” | 
etc.

The policy provides that kerosene may 
be kept in stores and dwellings  for light- 
ing  purposes,  and  in  stores  for sale  in  j 
quantity not  exceeding five  barrels—and j 
drawn  only  by  daylight.  The  insurer j 
has,  of  course,  a  right  to  stipulate  for j 
the exclusion of  such  articles as he  may j 
deem  unusually  hazardous,  and  if  the j 
prohibition  is  clearly and  definitely ex- j 
pressed,  it  must  be  substantially  com- 
plied  with. 
It has  been  held,  however, 
that  such a stipulation is not  broken  by j 
a mere  temporary deposit of  the  articles 
prohibited;  and  in  another  case  it  was 
held  that  the  temporary introduction of j 
hazardous  articles,  for  the  purpose  of 
repairs,  would  not  be  a  breach  of  a j 
condition which  prohibits  trading  in  or 
storing  such  articles—the  object of  the 
prohibition  being held  to  be  simply  to J 
prevent the  building from  being  habitu­
ally used for the prohibited trade or pur­
pose,  and  the  habitual  deposit  in  store 
of  the prohibited articles,  and  not  their 
occasional  introduction  for  the  purpose 
of repairs and painting.

In  a  Pennsylvania  case,  where  the 
keeping  of  benzole was  confined  by the 
stipulations of  the  policy to  a  detached 
shed,  the fact  that the  insured,  in carry­
ing on their  business, used  it  as  needed 
in  the  factory from  an open  can  in  the 
usual way,  it was held not to be a breach 
of  the  stipulation—benzole  being  ordi­
narily used  that way—and  the  insurers, 
having  knowledge  that  it was  used  by 
the  insured  in  their  business, must  be 
presumed to have  intended  that it might 
be  used  as  it  is  ordinarily  in  similar 
manufactories.

The  courts  have  decided  that,  when 
there  is  a conflict  between  the  printed 
and written portions of  a policy, effect is 
usually given  to  that which  is  written, j 
as  more  surely indicating  the  intent of j 
the parties.  The written  description of 
the  subject  insured  by a policy  was  as 
follows:  “A  stock  of  goods  consisting 
of  a  general  assortment  of  dry  goods, 
groceries,  crockery,  boots and shoes,  and j 
such  goods  as  are  usually  kept  in  a j 
general  retail  store.” 
In  the  printed 
conditions,  annexed,  and  made  part  of 
the  policy,  it was  stipulated  that  if  any 
of certain enumerated articles  (including 
gunpowder)  should  be  “deposited,  kept 
or  stored,” without  the  consent  of  the 
company  endorsed  on  the  policy,  the 
policy should  be void. 
It  appeared that 
at  the  time  of  effecting  the  insurance, 
the assured kept for sale a small quantity 
of  gunpowder,  and that gunpowder is an 
article  usually  kept  in  a  general  retail 
store  in  quantities  from  ten  to  fifty 
pounds. 
It  was  held  by the  Supreme 
Court of Minnesota, first, that keeping an 
article  in  a  store  for  retail  purposes is 
not  a  storing  or  keeping  within  the 
meaning  of  the  words  of  the  policy; 
second,  that  the  written  portion  of  the 
policy should control  the  printed  condi­
tions when there is a repugnance between 
them;  third,  that  the  written  words  in 
the policy  were broad enough  to  include 
all  articles  usually dealt  in  by  persons 
keeping a  general  retail  store,  and  that 
all  such  articles  were as much  included 
in the  policy as if  each  was  enumerated 
at length,  and  that the  policy was valid. 
It  will  be  seen  that a ruling  similar  to 
the  above would  naturally depend  upon 
the  general  broadness  of  the  written

portion,  the  definite  clearness  of 
the 
printed  condition,  and  the  customs  of 
the trade in the conducting and make up 
of  a general retail stock of  merchandise.
It has been held  by the Supreme Court 
of  our  own  State,  as  well  as  that  of 
several  other  states,  that  where,  by  a 
fire  policy,  the  keeping  of  gunpowder, 
without written permission in the policy, 
was to render the policy void, knowledge 
by the  agent  taking  the  insurance  on  a 
stock of goods,  that gunpowder was kept 
and to be kept,  would  prevent the avoid­
ance of  the policy thereby,  whether such 
permission was  endorsed  thereon or not.

E .  A .  Ow e n .

Equity  Between  Employer  and  Clerk.
The Christian  Advocate  was  recently 
appealed to by a  correspondent  who  en­
quired  whether a clerk who  had  contrib­
uted greatly  to  the  success  of  his  em­
ployer’s business had not  a  moral  right 
to demand  a partnership  interest  and,  if 
denied, embark  in  business  on  his  own 
account.  The Advocate  could  do  noth­
ing but reply in  the  affirmative,  where­
upon the American Grocer  comments  on 
the matter as follows:

Fair play between employer  and  those 
who have contributed to the success of  a 
business would go far to reduce competi­
tion.  The  world  has endorsed the prop­
osition,  that  “the  laborer  is  worthy  of 
his hire.”  Such cases  as  the  above  are 
j constantly arising  and,  unfortunately, in 
\ small towns and villages where  a  multi­
plication  of  stores 
is  not  desirable. 
There is enough trade to make one  store 
i profitable and not enough to insure  good 
I profits to two or more.
It frequently  happens  that  a  capable J 
| clerk  with  strong  personal  characteris­
tics becomes,  through  intimate  associa- 
I tion  with  customers,  very  popular. 
They not only like him,  but take  an  in­
terest in his prosperity.  His  hold  upon 
patrons becomes stronger when  the  pro­
prietor lacks  those  qualities  which  are 
calculated to make  him  popular. 
It  is 
good policy to give  such  a  clerk  a  just 
share of the earnings of  the business.  It 
cements  the  relations  between  the  em­
ployer  and  clerk,  as  well  as  between 
customer  and  clerk. 
It  places  a  pre­
mium on  the popular  man  putting  forth 
extra exertion  to  increase  the  business. 
If, however,  he  desires  to  be  indepen­
dent and hoe his own  row,  he  has  a  per­
fect right to open  a  store  and  use  every 
legitimate  means  he  can  to  gain  pat­
ronage.
There  are,  however,  popular  clerks 
who are unscrupulous  and  who,  harbor­
ing  an  intent  to  start  in  business  for 
themselves,  deliberately  set  to  work  to 
undermine  the  reputation  of  their  em­
ployer,  They  insinuate  that  they  were 
driven  to  start  in  business  for  them­
selves because of  the dishonesty  and  in­
competency of their employer.  They in­
timate that  he  has  too  many  tricks  of 
trade  for  them  to  remain  and  keep  a 
good conscience.  We recall  an instance 
where a  hard-working  and  popular  but 
dishonest clerk  falsified  pass-books  and 
j created errors  in  accounts,  in  order  to 
I discredit his employer and pave  his  way 
; for an easy capture of  customers  wholly 
| under his  influence.
The  competition  started  by  former 
i  clerks  is  frequently  a  source  of  great 
! annoyance,  the starting point  of  slander 
and abuse.
Dealers  who  are  capable  and  whose 
: character is of the best can  afford  to  let 
such a clerk go  on  his  way  without  at­
tempting to counteract  his  work  of  de- 
I famation and  injury.  Nothing  can  de- 
I stroy  character,  although  reputation 
may  suffer for a time.  The  people  are 
| not  long  in  detecting  pure  gold  from 
dross,  and when they  have  been  deceiv­
ed and find it out  the reaction is great in 
favor of the injured party.
Equity between employer and  clerk  is 
calculated  to  prevent  the  best  helpers 
assuming the care  and  risk  of  an  inde- 
| pendent business.

Use  Tradesman  or  Superior  Coupons.

Clothing  and  General  Store  Merchants  will  do  well  to 

Inspect  the  Line  of

Michael  Kolb  &  Son,

Most Reliable  House,  established35 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.
William  Connor,  representative  of 
above firm in Michigan, begs 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

W IL L IA M   CONNOR,

M arsh all  M ich.

Box 346, 

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 ear  loads, we want  1000 
bushels daily.

W .   T.  L A M O R E A U X   &  CO.,

128,  130 and 132  W.  Bridge St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

For  Bakings  of  fill Kinds  Use

PleisGhirann  l  Bo’s

Unrivaled Compressed Yeast.

Special attention in invited to onr

YELLOW  LABEL
which is affixed  to  every  cake 
of our Yeast, and which serves 

TO  DISTINGUISH 

Onr Goods from worthiest  Imitations.

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in 

invested 

the result of  which  will  appear  at  the j 
election of directors  May 10.  The  Rich- j 
mond  Terminal  reorganization  scheme 
seems to be hampered by a similar strug- i 
gle for control of  the property  involved, j 
and its fate  probably  depends  more  on 
the result  of  this  struggle  than  on  its j 
own  intrinsic merits.

Occurances of  this  kind  are,  indee.d, i 
not  absolutely  new. 
It  is  now  nearly 
thirty years since the New  York  Central j 
Railroad,  after having been  for years the 
private property,  as  it  were,  of  a  few 
Albany  magnates,  was  wrested  from 
them  by  the late Commodore  Vanderbilt 
by the aid of the  millions  which  he  had s 
amassed 
in  running  steamships.  The i 
struggles  for  the  control  of  the  Erie 
I Railroad  Company  are  historically  fa-1 
mous, and some of the incidents to  which 
they have given  rise  have  been  as  dra­
matically  striking  as  those  of  a  play 
upon  the  stage.  How,  in  more  recent 
years,  the  Reading  Railroad  property, 
the New Jersey  Central,  the  New  York 
I and  New  England,  the  so-called  Nickel 
Plate,  the  West Shore,  and  many  others 
of  equal  importance  have  passed  from 
one set of  hands  to  another  by  revolu­
tions as sudden  and  unexpected  as  those 
which occur in  Spanish-Ameriean  repub­
lics,  most of my readers  do  not  need  to 
be  told.  The  important  point  is  that 
these revolutions no  longer excite  alarm 
or even surprise.  They  are accepted  as 
normal  contingencies 
corporation 
affairs,  and  are  taken  as  matters  of 
course.

THE CONTROL  OF  CORPORATIONS.
The tendency of  capital toward  aggre­
gation into large masses, to  which  I  re­
ferred last  week  in  speaking  of  the  so- 
called trusts which are  a  distinguishing 
feature  of  the  development  of  modern 
industry,  has at the same time  made  the 
control  of  these  masses  of  capital  an 
object of  ambition as well as a source  of 
In the early days of corporations I 
profit. 
small 
in  this  country  comparatively 
amounts  were 
in  each  one. 
They  were  formed  by  men  who  were 
well  acquainted  with one another,  and  it 
was understood at  the  outset  that  their 
affairs were  to  be  conducted  by  officers 
then designated,  and  who,  like the mem-1 
bers of  a  private  partnership,  were  to 
retain  their  places  for  life,  or  during 
good behavior. 
In  fact, they  were really 
partnerships,  incorporated -only  for  the 
purpose  of  avoiding  personal  liability. 
When  changes  were  made  in  their  man­
agement they were usually made with the 
consent of  all  concerned,  because  with­
out such consent  changes  were  all  but 
impossible.  The  capitals  of  the  com­
panies being,  as 1  have  said,  small  and 
their  shareholders  few  in  number,  an 
absolute majority of  the  stock  was  easy 
to retain,  but difficult  to acquire.  Thus 
they remained  in  the  same  hands  year 
after  year,  and  often  descended  from 
fathers to sons,  like any  other  property.
This  primitive  simplicity  could  not 
withstand  the: growth  of  the  country’s 
wealth and the necessity of  ever  enlarg­
ing means for the development of  its  re­
In this latest phase of corporation life, 
sources.  The consolidation of numerous 
so  to  speak,  we have  but  another  illus­
little  railroad  companies  owning  short 
tration  of  the  universal  law  that  like
connecting  links  of  road into one great
like  results.
company covering the entire  line,  which  causes  tend  to  produce 
Civil society, as we see it about us, is the 
was  demanded  by 
the  exigencies  of 
final outcome of many years  of  progress 
travel  and  trasportation,  was  another 
in development.  From the family of the
powerful  element  of  corporate  aggran-
dizement.  Thus the New  York  Central  savage it proceeded  through  the  tribe  to
the nation,  and  then  through  the  con­
Railroad  Company  was  formed  in  1853 
solidation  of  nations  into  empires  and 
out  of  the  companies  which  severally 
republics.  The same  mutual  attraction 
owned  the  pieces  of 
road  between 
which keeps the members  of  the  family 
Albany and Buffalo. 
It was followed by 
together  keeps  men  together  in  larger 
a similar consolidation  of  the  lines  be- 
bodies,  and  the  same  necessity  for  mu­
tweeen Buffalo and Detroit,  and of  those 
tual  help  and  defense  which  preserves 
between  Detroit  and  Chicago. 
These 
the tribe from  disintegration  guarantees 
examples were  imitated  elsewhere,  and 
the  permanence  of 
the  nation.  The 
we see the result in the  gigantic railroad 
ideal to  which  the  world  is  moving  is 
systems of the present day, the  affairs of 
universal  brotherhood,  though  we  are 
which occupy so much of  the  public  at­
yet a long way  from that  goal,  and  I  do 
tention.  A like necessity  has led  to  the 
not expect that it will be  reached  in  my 
formation  of  the  so-called 
industrial 
time.  For the present,  the  interests  of 
trusts,  and for all that I can  see the  pro­
one country are adverse in many respects 
cess Is destined to go on still further.
to those of all other countries,  and much 
What may be  called  corporation  poli­
statesmanship  and  diplomacy  are  exer­
tics has,  under these new  conditions,  as­
cised in defending  each  one  against  the 
sumed an importance almost equal to the 
aggressions of the others.  So it  is  with 
affairs of nations.  Just now the leading 
corporations.  They  have  arisen  out  of 
topic of interest  is  the  revolution  sup­
the  industrial  and  financial  necessities 
posed to be  imminent  in  the  course  of 
of the human  race,  and their  relations to 
the present  week  in  the  Union  Pacific 
one  another  resemble  those  of  civil 
Railway Company.  A  year  ago,  to  the 
societies. 
If  nations  have  their  wars 
surprise of  everybody,  Charles  Francis 
and  their  treaties  and  their  compacts, 
Adams  retired  from  the  Presidency  of 
so  have  railroads  and  manufacturing
that  company,  and  was  succeeded  by
Sidney Dillon  as  the  representative  of  companies,  and  in  the  contests  for  the
direction of  their  affairs  there  are  the 
Jay  Gould.  Now,  it  is  said,  Mr.  Dillon 
same  opportunities  for 
intrigue  and 
is to make way  for  a candidate  proposed 
manœuvre that are employed in  winning 
by the  European  stockholders,  who  are 
high places in the State.  The  collection 
as little satisfied  with  Mr.  Gould’s  man­
and disbursement of the millions  of  dol­
agement  as  Mr.  Gould  was  with  Mr. 
lars of revenue  of  a  great  railroad,  for 
Adams’s.  Week-before last we heard  of 
example,  the employment and promotion 
a movement for supplanting  the  ancient 
of  its  thousands  of  servants,  and  the 
dynasty  which  has  so 
long  ruled  the 
patronage of its purchases, like  those  of 
Delaware  and  Hudson  Canal  Company 
a nation, afford abundant room for the ex­
by  members  of  the  modern  house  of 
cise of the talent for  command,  and  re­
Vanderbilt,  but as the present occupants 
quire a quality of  it not inferior  to  that 
of the throne are indisposed to withdraw, 
employed in  civil government.
a lively canvass for proxies  is  going  on,

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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  Baber,  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 personal attention.

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The  World’s  Peanut  Center.

4 Monroe St. 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

High Grade  Machines in the State

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control of his property  when  they  hap­
pen to be to his disadvantage.  There is 
no such thing  as  absolute  safety  in  in­
vestments.  The  best a man  can do is to 
make them only after  a  thorough  inves­
tigation  of  their  character  and  their 
prospects,  and then abide the result.

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

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We can give  you  exclusive territory  on  a  large  line  of  Bicycles.  Send for  catalogue.  Our  line 
includes the:
COLUMBIA
VICTOR
RUDGE
KITE
TELEPHONE 
OVERLAND 
LOVELL DIA­
MOND
Also others too numerous to mention.  Wholesale and retail dealers in Bicycles, Cyclists’ Sundries, 
Rubber and Sporting Goods, Mill and Fire Department Supplies.

CLIPPER 
PARAGON 
IROQUOIS 
PHCENIX 
GENDRONS 

Western Wheel Works

and all the

B I C Y C L E S   I

STUDLEY & BAKCLAY,

From the Baltimore Sun.
Norfolk  has  a  crop  which  is  worth 
millions  of  dollars  annually—peanuts.
Norfolk supplies the civilized world with 
peanuts.  The street-corner  Italian  who 
empties a pint  in  your  overcoat  pocket, 
and  the  Parisian  fruit  merchant  who 
weighs you out a quarter  of  a  kilogram 
of the homely nuts,  get them  from  here, 
for this is the only peanut market  in  the I 
world.  Smyrna has its  figs, Barbary  its 
dates,  Bordeaux its  grapes,  and  Norfolk | 
its peanuts.  What would  life  be  with- ' 
out  peanuts?  One  can  scarcely  pic­
ture an existence which  would  be  toler­
able under such circumstances.
The peanut  magnets  grow  the  edible 
tuber  in  Nansemond,  Isle  of  Wight,
Surry  and  Southhampton  counties,  but 
the common market is  in  Norfolk.  The 
rows for the nuts are  laid  off  three  feet 
apart.  They  are  made  fifteen 
inches 
deep,  and phosphates are largely used as 
an  under  dressing.  They  are  strewn 
along in these trenches about the  middle 
of  April,  and  mature  after  the  same 
term  which is required for  potatoes. 
It 
is  a  crop  which  is  marketed  like  the 
Dutch drumhead and  purple  Savoy  cab­
bage,  running from  November to March.
The nuts,  however,  have  to  go  through 
the  factories  before  they  are  shipped 
northward,  and 
factories  are, 
with a few  exceptions,  situated  in  Nor­
folk.  There are two  factories  in  Frank­
lin, Southhampton county.
“What  is  a  peanut  factory?”  might 
be  asked.  A  peanut 
is  a 
place  where  they  put  the  “goobers” 
through  some such process as  wheat  has 
to undergo  when  it  is  being  cleaned  of 
chaff  and  rid  of  cockerel.  The  most 
complicated machinery is used  to  assort 
and polish the nuts,  and  when  they  are 
packed  in  the  ninety-pound  bags 
the 
prime  class  bring  by  the  pound  from 
$2.75 to $3 a bag.  The “tops” bring  this 
price in Northern cities,  and  are  mostly 
used  by the swell groceries.  The street- 
corner  vender sells at his apple stand the 
^ 
second  grade,  and  the  old  lady  at  the 
>f  A A 7~E are not the cheapest printers in  the
—would be 
foot  of  the  wharf  carries  a  stock  of 
doubtful  “tailers.”  This is the result of 
ashamed of it if we were.  When  w
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a  “cheapest 
a market which yields to  Virgina  truck 
up  our
printer” who  does  workmanlike work,  we  will  lock
r. 
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ers $8.000,000 annually. 
It is  second  in
importance only to  the sweet potato crop | 
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As it is, system enables 
of Accomack and Northampton  counties,  p la n t   End  s u b le t   OUI  p r in t in g   to   h im
handle  work Oil  close  margins, 
There is more  in it for 
on the Eastern  shore  of  Virgina,  which  u s 
is  calculated  at  as  many  millions  per1 
10  per  cent, margin  than
us to do  $1,000  worth of  work on 
acre  as  Bermuda  has  square  feet,  and 
$100 worth at 25  per cent.
Bermuda is the only  yam-raising country
with  the  Southern
that  can  compete 
Besides, we  carry our  own  paper  stock,  envelopes, card­
peninsula.
boards,  etc.—buy direct, discount  our bills  and  save the mid­
dleman’s profit.  Let us show you what we are doing.

PERKINS  &  RICHMOND,

Commercial  Printing.

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AGENTS

But while to the public  at  large  these 
chances and  changes  in  the  careers  of 
corporations are  only  matters  of  enter­
tainment,  like the other news of the day, 
and while its chief solicitude is that  cor­
porate  aggrandizement  shall  not  be 
pushed so far as to raise unduly  railroad 
rates  and  the  prices  of  commodities, 
such as sugar,  whisky, coal and cordage, 
the  very  considerable  number  of  small 
stockholders  who  have  bought 
their 
stock for the sake of  dividends,  without 
a  thought  of  controlling  the  affairs  of 
their companies, get little or  no commis­
eration.  Yet  it  is  upon  these  people 
t hat the burdens imposed by  their  rules 
weigh  directly.  Nominally  they  have 
votes  and  may  protect  themselves  by 
using them, but really they  are  as  help­
less as the subjects of  the  Russian  Czar. 
They  buy  in  under  one  administration 
and before they know it a new  one  is  in 
power,  with whose methods  of  manage­
ment they may  have  good  reason  to  be 
profoundly  dissatisfied,  but  the  only 
remedy  they have is too sell out at a loss, 
occasioned by the  acts  of  their  ostensi­
ble representatives.  Their  condition  is 
like that  of  the  darkey  on  the  Missis­
sippi steamboat,  in the  years  before  the 
war.  Being asked by the Captain  whose 
“boy,”  or slave,  he  was,  he  could  only 
answer:  “1 was Col. Johnson’s boy when 
we came on  board,  but he has been down 
in the cabin playin’ poker over  an  hour, 
an’  I don’t know whose  boy  I  am  now.”
Fortunately for these humble members 
of great  companies,  railroad  and  indus­
trial,  the  men  that  contend  over  their 
heads for the  control  of  their  property 
are usually not altogether conscienceless, 
and whether  from  integrity  or  from  a 
regard to their reputations,  vouchsafe to 
them some of the  profits  to  which  they 
are  entitled. 
If  they  did  not,  they 
would soon become  discredited,  and  in­
vestors would  shun  every  enterprise  in 
which  they  were  engaged.  As 
this 
would deprive them of occupations,  they 
are compelled  to  be  reasonably  consid­
erate of the rights of  their  subjects, and 
thus  it comes to pass  that  dividends  are 
paid on most  stocks  which  makes  them 
worth  holding it  some  price,  greater  or 
smaller.

It  is  but  just,  also,  to  acknowledge 
that the control of corporations,  while  it 
gratifies ambition,  yields  patronage,  and 
affords great opportunities  for  personal 
enrichment,  has,  on  the  other  hand,  its 
burdens  and  its  responsibilities.  The 
business of a corporation,  like that of  an 
individual,  is  exposed  to  many  contin-1 
gencies of  loss  from  competition,  from 
depreciation  of  commodities,  and  from 
financial depression.  The  maxim  “ Un­
easy lies the head that wears a crown,” ap­
plies no less  to  a  corporation  president 
than to a  king  or  to  a  prime  minister. 
He has to be on  the  lookout  for  danger 
all the while,  and to guard against  it  by 
suitable measures.  He  has  alliances  to 
make,  treaties to negotiate,  strikes to op­
pose,  hostile  legislation  to  avert,  and 
continual  precautions  to  take  that  his 
company shall not suffer detriment in new 
and unexpected ways.  Of  all  this  the 
the  little  stockholder  knows  nothing. 
He  gets  his  dividends  when  they  are 
made,  without  returning 
for 
them,  and when  he gets  none  he  is  not 
slow  to exercise  the  privilege  of  grum­
Inasmuch,  too,  as  be  knows  or 
bling. 
ought  to  know 
that  he 
runs when  he buys his  shares,  he  should 
accept with  resignation  changes  in  the

the  risk 

thanks 

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Clever  Swindle  by  a  Woman.

A well-dressed woman entered  a  store 
at  Elmira,  the  other  day,  bought  $75 
worth of goods and  asked  that  they  be 
sent to a  hotel.  They  were  sent  by  a 
clerk.  She  presented  a  $1,000  bill  in 
payment  He asked her if  it  was  good. 
She was very indignant at  the  question, 
and told  him  to go to any  bank  and  see. 
He  went out and found it good, and came 
back with profuse  apologies  for  having 
raised the question.  She,  however,  was 
now  virtuously  angry at  his  suspicions 
and utterly  refused  to  take  the  goods. 
The  crestfallen  clerk  took  his  bundle 
back to the store. 
In  the  course  of  an 
hour, however, she appeared,  very peni­
tent for her  temper,  asking  the  clerk’s 
pardon in the sweetest way,  and  offered 
again to pay  for the  goods.  The  apolo­
gies were  accepted  and  the  goods  paid 
for, $925 being giveD in change. In another 
hour it was  found  that  the  secoud  bill 
was counterfeit,  but the woman  was  no­
where to be  found.  She  had  taken  the 
goods  with  her,  and  still  possesses  the 
$925 chauge.

PRINTING  DEPARTM ENT 

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

WHO  URGES  YOU  TO  KEEP S a p o l i o ?

'The Public 1

By  splendid  and  expensive  advertising  the  manufacturers  create  a 
demand,  and  only ask the trade to keep the goods in stock so as to supply 
the  orders  sent to them.  Without  effort on the  grocer s  part the  goods 
sell  themselves,  bring  purchasers to the  store, and  help  sell  less  known 
goods.

There is one kind of  co-operation  that 
always pays—the co-operation  of  brains 
with your business.

Anv Jobber will be Glad to Fill Your Orders.

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THE  MERCHANT’S  PARADISE.

A  Dream  Almost Too  Good to be True.
The day  was  a  lovely  one  in  spring, 
just warm enough to give one a touch  of 
that dreamy,  delightful  malady  popular­
ly known as spring  fever.  The  violets 
and dandelions were  peeping  above  the 
greensward,  the  peach  and  apple  blos­
soms perfumed the air and the persistent 
house-fly,  renewed and  rejuvenated,  dis­
played wonderful energy in  tickling  the 
nostrils of the drowsy  loafers  about  the 
corner grocery.
John  Easeman,  dealer  in  dry  goods, 
groceries,  clothing,  shoes, 
etc.,  had 
spent the greater portion of his  48  years 
in his present business,  and  he  was  still 
far from being a  rich  man.  He  sat  in 
the easy chair in  his  office,  reflecting  on 
his business  cares,  on  the  dull  season, 
the low price of some of the staple crops, 
on the slowness of collections,  and  won­
dering how he could tide  over  his  finan­
cial embarrassments  until  the next crops 
were harvested.
“It’s  pretty  tough,  sure,”  he  mut­
tered,  “to  get 
in  such  straightened 
circumstances  through  no  fault  of  my 
own,”
The  mild,  warm  breeze  was  wafted 
through  the window,  laden  with  the per­
fume of blossoms.
sort  of 
weather,”  he  murmured;  “the  farmers 
are all busy in  their fields  and  the  town 
trade is fearfully dull to-day.”
He leaned back  in his chair,  placed  his 
feet on his desk  and  in  a  few  moments 
the drowsy goddess  of  sleep  had  taken 
full  possession  of  his  faculties.  His 
head  fell lower and  lower until  his  chin 
rested on his  snirt  front,  and  a  gentle 
snore gave  conclusive  evidence  that  all 
cares  were drowned  in oblivion. 

sleepy 

"This 

is  a 

lazy, 

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“Several  caddies  of  plug 

*
“Mr.  Easeman!”
“Hey!”  exclaimed  Easeman,  rousing 
himself.  “Oh! it’s you,  is  it?  What  do 
you want,  Henry?”  he  asked his clerk.
tobacco 
have just come-in;  what  price  shall  we 
sell it for?”
“What do you ask that question  for ?” 
said Easeman  irritably,  “You  know the 
manufacturers  make  the  selling  prices 
for retailers,  and that settles it.”
“You have  forgotten,  sir,  that  letter 
from the mauufacturerers permitting the 
they 
retailers  to  make  what  prices 
choose.  Here it is.”
Easeman grasped  it  eagerly  and  read 
it carefully.
“Well,  I’ll be  hanged!”  he  ejaculated 
slowly.  “If this thing  keeps  up,  retail­
ers will  be  allowed  after  awhile  to  say 
that  their  souls  are  their  own.  Well, 
it  at  10  per  cent,  less  than  old 
sell 
prices.”
The  clerk  departed  and  Easeman  re­
sumed his musing.
“Hey,  Easeman!”  exclaimed  a  voice. 
“What prices  will  you  make  me  on  a 
barrel of granulated sugar and a  sack  of 
Java coffee?”
Easeman looked around.  There  stood 
one of the leading  citizens  of  the  town, 
a man who had always in the past order­
ed groceries for  his large  family  from  a 
wholesale house at the nearest market.
“How do you  happen to come  to  me?” 
asked Easeman.  “1  thought you  always 
bought from  a wholesale house?”
“Read this,” he replied handing him  a 
letter.
D ear  Sir —We  are  sorry  to  have  to  decline 
your order. 
In compliance with  the  request  of 
retailers, whose interests we desire to foster, the 
Wholesale Grocers’ Association  has  decided  to 
sell no more goods to consumers.
exclaimed  Easeman, 
“Can  it  be  possible?  Let  me  read  it 
again.  Yes,  it’s true.  Well,  the milleu- 
ium is near.”
Easeman made satisfactory prices, sold 
a good  bill,  and  had  just  resumed  his 
easy chair when he heard some one enter 
the store.
“There comes that  confounded  Stand­
off,”  he  muttered.  “He’s  been  owing 
me $80  for  over  two  years,  and  it’s  a 
dead  duck. 
I’ll  take  50  cents  for  the 
account.
“Howdy,  Easeman,  old  boy,”  cried 
Standoff cheerily.
“Tol’ble, 
tol’ble,”  responded  Ease- 
man,  rather coolly;  "what can  I  do  for 
you?”

“Great  Scot!” 

Whoo-oo-pee! ’  yelled  Easeman 

“Well,  you  can  write me  receipt,  if  it 
isn’t too much trouble. 
I  owe  you  $80; 
make the receipt for $100 to  cover  inter- 
st,”  he said,  counting out that  amount. 
Easeman  gazed  at him  in  amazement. 
He picked up the money,  but  it  dropped 
to the  floor  from  his  trembling  fingers. 
He picked it  up again and  seized  a  pen, 
but couldn’t make a figure or letter.
“What the deuce is the matter with you 
anyhow?”  asked Standoff.
‘I’m  paralyzed,  1 
think,”  replied 
Easeman,  pulling  himself  together  and 
writing  the  receipt  with  an  effort. 
“Much obliged  Standoff,  much  obliged. 
Do you want any goods to-day?  You can 
get all the time you  want.”
‘I don’t want any time.  All  the  peo­
ple in  town,  except  the  merchants,  held 
a convention  this  morning,  and  resolved 
that as the interests  of  retail  merchants 
must  be  fostered,  they  would  pledge 
themselves to pay  all  old  debts,  and  in 
the  future  pay  cash  for  everything. 
Good day,  old  man,  you  look  sick.  Bet­
ter go to bed”
Easemau  muttered  an  unintelligble 
reply and sank  down  in  his chair.
‘Blest if  I don’t believe I’m dreaming,” 
he said.  “No”—pinching  himself—"I’m 
awake.  Well,  that  Yale  College  pro­
fessor is right  about the  milieuium  hav­
ing come.”
His  clerk  laid  several  letters  on  the 
desk  which  had  come  in  the  last  mail. 
The  first  one  he  opened  was  from  a 
wholesale grocery  firm of  whom  he  pur­
chased  largely:
D ear Sir—You will  doubtless  be  gratified  to 
learn that at a meeting of  the  Sugar  Trust, held 
yesterday, it was unanimously decided, In order 
to protect  the  interests  of  retailers,  to  disolve 
the Trust.  You may confidently  expect  a  drop 
of 25 per cent, in  prices of  sugar  at  once.  The 
glass,  tobacco  and  other  trusts  have  also  an­
nounced their intention of taking similar action 
within the  next week.
in 
true Comanche  style,  causing  the  clerk 
,o look back  in  astonishment,  and  won­
der if he hadn’t  been  drinking.  “Well, 
the  world  is  getting  good—too  blamed 
good when those trust fellows  take  such 
a step.”
He  arose  from  his  chair  and  paced 
back  and  forth  through  the  store  to 
wear off  his excitement.  An  acquaint­
ance  who  always  traded  with  a  rival, 
Jones,  between  whom and Easeman there 
existed  a  deadly  enmity,  entered  and 
remarked:
“Easeman, Jones sent me  here  to  get 
some canned  peaches.  He  is  out  of  the 
best  brands,  and  says  you  have  some­
thing first-class.”
“Who—sent—you?”  gasped  Easeman. 
"Why,  Jones,  your  competitor  down 
the  matter  with 
the  street.  What’s 
you?”
“An attack of  nausea,” faltered  Ease- 
“Here  Henry,  wait  on  Mr. 
man. 
Thompson.”
Easeman started back to  the office,  his 
Jones,  his  rival,  his 
head in  a  whirl. 
bitter enemy,  his  unrelenting foe,  send a 
customer to him?  Incredible!  yet  true, 
nevertheless.
“I  must  rest  awhile,”  he  muttered, 
“and get  my  wits  together.  Confound 
llardcase 
it, 
who  never  knows  what  she  wants,  and 
consumes several hours of  a  man’s  time 
trying to find out.  The last pair of shoes 
1  sold  her  required  four  hours. 
She 
never knows  what size  she  wants,  what 
style,  what  last  or  what  anything.  As 
luck  will have it,  Henry is  busy  and  I’ll 
have to see  what she wants.”
“Good  afternoon,  Mrs.  llardcase,”  he 
said,  politely.  “What can I do for you?” 
“I want a pair  of  shoes,” she  replied, 
rapidly,  a  button  shoe,  common  sense 
heel and  toe,  No.  4,  D  last,  to  cost— 
Great heavens!  what’s the  matter?” 
Easemau  had  fallen  heavily  to  the 
floor.
It was the straw that broke the camel’s 
back.

there  comes 

that  Mrs. 

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It was a dream.—K. C.  Grocer.
Manistee—The  sawmills  are  all  at 
work now,  and  are  turning  out  lumber 
very fast.  We  will soon have a stock  of 
different  kinds  to  offer 
the  hungry 
buyers,  in  place of the empty spaces that 
now greet them when they come  to  look 
us over.

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 pavment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

F o r  s a l e - o u r   e n t ir e   sto c k  o f  g e n -

eral  merchandise  at  Chippewa  Lake,  con­
sisting of hats, caps, boots and  shoes, men's fur 
nishing goods, hardware, crockery and groceries. 
Having finished our lumber  operations, we offer 
the  above  stock for sale  cheap  for  cash  or  on 
time with good  security.  Will sell  this stock  as 
a whole  or  any branch of  it.  Enquire of  Chip­
pewa  Lumber  Co., Chippewa  Lake, Mich., or of 
II.  P. Wvman. Sec’y. Grand  Rapids. Mich.  449 
1710R  SALE—BAKERY, GROCERY.  CONFEC- 
X: 
tionery and ice cream business  Established 
trade.  Apply to Box 237, Gladwin, Mich. 
496
and  crockety  In  good  shape  and  doing  a 
good business.  Can give  good  reasons for  sel 
ing.  Box 87, Allegan,  Mich. 

F OR  SALE—A  FINE STOCK OF GROCERIES 
IilOR  8 U.E 
1  h

CHEAP  -  SMALL  ST  it  K  OF 
hardware,  boots  and  shoes  and  groceries, 
store  building  and  fixtures  in 
the  nest  new 
growing to»n  in  Northern  Michigan.  Business 
well  established.  Address  No.  190, care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
OF DRY
Lock

F o r  s a l e —n e w ,  c l e a n   s to  k
SPLENDID BUSINESS CHANCE FOR A PER- 

goods.  Established trade;  good town 

box 963. Rockford. Mich. 

son with  $1  100  cash.  Can  step  into an  old 
established  cash  retail  and  paying  business. 
Don’t  fail  to  investigate  this.  For particulars 
address No. 471, care  Michigan Tradesman.  471
l? 1r   houses  in  southern  Michigan;  established 
23years;  best  of  reasous  for  selling;  excellent 
opportunity for obtaining a good  business.  Ad­
dress Lock  box  1237, Coldwater, Mich, 

489

489

490

477

_________________ 463

FOR  SALE  CHEAP—AT  LISBON,  MICIL,  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 OR  SALE—A  CLEAN  GROCERY  STOCK, 
F o r  s a l e   o r  w il l   e x c h a n g e   f o r
F o r  s a l e   c h e a p   —  w e l l

doing a good business.  Reason for sellini
doing a good bus 
■ health.  W.  L.  Mead,  Ionia  Mich.
stock of  clothing, dry goods, and boots and 
shoes,  two-story  brick  bloek,  which  rents  for 
$475 annually.  Best location in town.  Address 
No. 412, care Michigan Tradesman.______ 412
SELECTED 
Address  F. A 

drug stock — New and clean. 

Jones,  M.  D. Muskegon,  Mich.

391

SITUATIONS  W ANTED.

493

SITUATION  WANTED  AS  CLERK  IN  GEN 

eral  or  dry  goods  store.  References  fur
Address No. 493, care .Michigan Trades- 
nished.
man.
TXT ANTED —  POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
VV  pharmacist  of  eleven  years’  experience. 
Address No. 487, care Michigan Tradesman.  487
■ ANTED—POSITION  WITH  WHOLESALE 
or retail grocery house as salesman.  First 
class  references.  Address  No.  488, care  Michi­
gan Tradesman.______________________488
POSITION  BY  YOUNG  LADY 
"1X7ANTED -
copyist  or
IT   as  stenographer,  typewriter,
cashier.  Can  furnish  best  of  references.  No. 
478, care Michigan Tradesman._________ 478

OIISCEUUANEOUS.

Ba s h   r

491

494

485

price.  We  have  a  National  Cash  Register 
price.
which we offer  $50 less  than  the  regular  price. 
Perfectly  new.  Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.,  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 
XXTANTED—REGISTERED  DRUG  CLERK. 
V V  Write terms,  experience,  etc.  C.  A.  Gur­
ney, Hart, Mich. 
j i o i r RENT—NICE  LARGE  LIGHT  STORE 
brick  block  near  Fifth  avenue  at  $25. 
Jno. C. Dunton, Widdicomb  Building. 
_____  GOOD  DIVIDEND - PAYING
TjlOR  SALE
stocks in  banking, manufacturing  and mer 
cantile  companies.  E. A. Stowe,  100  Louis  St., 
Grand Rapids 
_____ ______  
l’O  GO  TO  DEL
T Y 'ANTED—A  DRUGGIST
ton, Barry county, Mich., and  start a drug 
store.  Living rooms  above.  Will  beready May 
1  For particulars address H. Arbour, Stanwood,
Mich.____________ ___________________ 486
QTOCK  OF  GOODS  WANTED —WILL  EX- 
©   change a first-class  farm within  six miles of 
Grand Rapids, for a stock of merchandise.  Dif­
ference in cash.  Not  particular about  location. 
Address Box 275, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

____________________ 370

■ O  YOU  USE  COUPON  BOOKS ?  IF  SO, DO 
yon buy of the largest manufacturers in the 
United States?  If  you do, you  are  customers of 
the Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.
I  tor  sa l e—tw o  h u n d r e d   ACRES  LAND  (1*0  IM-
1  proved), located In the fruit belt of  Oceana coun­
ty,  Mich.  Land  fitted  for  machinery,  good  fences 
large  curb  roof  barn  with  underground  for  stock 
horse barn and other necessary farm buildings.  New 
windmill furnishes water for house and barns.  Eight­
een acres apple bearing orchard, also 1.000 peach trees, 
two years old, looking thrifty.  Price, $36 per  acre, or 
will exchange for stock of dry goods.  If any difference 
will pay cash.  A. Retan, Little Rock, Ark._____ 341
_______   ____   RESIDENCE  LOT  IN
Grand Rapids, 70x175 feet, beautifully shad­
Gr
ed with  native  oaks, situated In good  residence 
locality,  only 200  feet  from  electric  street  car 
line.  Will sell  for $2 500 cash, or part cash, pay­
ments to suit.  E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 
354
GOOD  CHANCE  FOR  A  BU8I 
some
ness  man  or  practical  miller,  with
money  to  Invest  in  a  roller  mill.  Address  J. 
1 Wylie, Falrgrove, Mich. 

F o r   s a l e - b e s t  

SEE  HERE-

492

497

_ 

13
F o r  s a l e - si.ioo  b u y s  5 roo m  h o u s e

and  corner lot  within  ten  minutes walk of 
post office.  W.  A. Stowe. 100 Louis St. 
XXTANTED — REGISTERED  DRUG  CLERK. 
TV  Write particulars as to experience and sal­
ary ex fiected.
L. A. Scoville, Clarksville, Mich.

469

a stock of merchandise. 
Mich.

cation, within ten  minutes  walk of  Monroe 
St.  Price, $3,200.  W.  A. Stowe, 100 Louis St.  470
county. Neb.  Will  sell  cheap  or  trade  for
A. W.  Prindle, Owosso, 

F OR  SALE—11  ROOM  HOUSE  IN  GOOD  Lo­
Fo r   s a l e —320  a c r e s o f  l a n d   in  h a y e s
■ RANTED—REGISTERED  PHARMACIST— 
WANTED —SECOND-HAND  SODA  FOUN 

tain.  Must  be  complete  and  in  good  re- 
Address No. 495, care of Michigan Trades- 

lady preferred.  Geo.  C. Rounds, Vickery- 

ville, Mich. 

480

481

472

4  5

ASPHALT

FIRE-PROOF  ROOFING

This  Roofing  is  guaranteed  to  stand  in  all 
places where Tin and Iron has failed;  is super­
ior to Shingles and much cheaper.

The best Roofing for  covering over  Shingles 
on  old roofs of  houses, bam s, sheds, etc.;  will 
not ro t  or  pull  loose, and  when  painted  with 
our 

.

FIRE  PROOF  ROOF  PAINT,

Will last  longer  than  shingles.  W rite the un­
dersigned  for  prices  and  circulars, relative  to 
Roofing  and  for  samples  of  Building  Papers, 
etc.

fl.  M.  REYNOLDS & SON,

Practical  Roofers,

dor.  Loan and Camjau Sta.,  Grand Rapid», Mich.

SOLD  MEDAL,  PARIS,  1878.

1. Baker & Co.’s
Breakfast 
Cocoa
Unlike  the 
Dutch Process

I s   A b so lu tely  P u n  

a n d  it is  Soluble.

d escrip tio n

No  a lk a lies  01 
other  chem icali 
o r d y e s  a re  usee 
in   its   m an u fac­
tu re.
of  th e   chocolate 
lan t,  and  of th e  variou s co co a  anc 
h o c o la te   p rep aration s  m anufac- 
ured  by  W alter  B aker  &  Co.,  w ll 
iQ  sent 
to  a n y   d ea ler  or 
.implication.  _____ __

V, BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Hass 
G i s i G R A V   I N G
It pays to Illustrate your  business.  Portraits, 
Cuts  of  Business  Blocks.  Uotels,  Factories, 
Machinery,  etc.,  m ade  to  order  from  photo­
graphs.

free 

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Orund  Rapids,  Mich.

1 4
Drugs $£ Medidnos•

State  Board  of Pharm acy.

One  Tear—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon,
Two  Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Three  Years—Ottmar Kberbach, Ann  Arbor 
Four Years—George Gundrum, Ionia.
Five Years—C. A. Bugbee. Cheboygan.
President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
r  Meetings  for  1892 — Star  Island  (Detroit),  July  5; 
Marquette,  Aug. 31; Lansing,  November 1.

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass'n. 
President— H. G. Coleman. Kalamazoo.
Vice-Presidents—S.  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. 
r  T Webb, Jackson.
Next place  of  meeting—Grand  Rapids, Aug. 8,3 and 1- 
Local Secretary—John  D. Muir. 
________________
G ra n d   Rapids  Pharm aceutical S o c ie ty . 
President. W. R. Jewett, Secretary.  Frank H. Eseott, 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March 

June, September and December,
G ran d  R a p id s   D r u g  C le r k s ’ A s s o c ia t io n , 
resident, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith.

D e t r o it   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty . 

President. F- Rohnert;  Secretary, J. P- Rheinfrank.
M u sk e g o n   D r u g   Clerks’  Association. 

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

The  Story of Life.

Only  the  same  old  story,  told  in  a  different 
Sometimes a smile of sadness, and then a stab of 
Sometimes a flash of sunlight, again the drifting 

strain;
pain;
rain.

rose its h ue:
a brilliant hue;
Heaven  true.

Sometimes it seems to borrow  from the  crimson 
Sometimes black with thunder, then  changed to 
Sometimes  as  false  as  Satan,  sometimes  as 
Only  the  same  old  story!  But,  oh,  how  the 
Prophet  and  priest  and  peasant,  soldier  and 
Sometimes the warmest hand  clasp leaves in the 

changes ring!
scholar ana king;_
palm a  sting.

Sometimes in the hush of even, sometimes in the 
Sometimes  with  dovelike  calmness,  sometimes 
We  dream  it.  write  It. live it,  this  weird,  wild 

midday  strife,
with passions rife;
story of life.
The Facts in the McKettrick Case. 
Some  few  weeks  ago,  the  Associated 

Press seut out the following despatch: 

I ndepend ence Cit y. Ohio,  March 30— 
Palmer  M.  McKettrick,  Cashier  of  the 
Spread  Eagle  National  Bank,  has  gone 
to  parts  unknown.  Reported  deficit  in 
his account $100,000.  McKettrick did not 
superintend a Sunday School.

Except  for  the  last  sentence  this  an­
nouncement  would  have  been  no  more 
startling  than  the  weather  reports,  hut 
its paradoxical  character excited  intense 
public  interest.  From  a  psychological 
standpoint,  the  facts  in  this  case  are 
remarkable.

Mr. McKettrick lived in a New England 
town  up  to  the  year  1880.  From  his 
youth  up  he  had  been  conspicuously 
pious,  and  at  Sabbath school  bore away 
many  prizes  for  excellent  deportment. 
He  was  a  constant  attendant  at church 
and at meetings; and regarded the theater 
and  round  dances  with  unaffected  hor­
ror.  His  clothes  were  invariably  black 
and  badly cut,  and  for a nectie he never 
wore  anything  more  frivolous  than  a 
black  butterfly cravat. 
In  fact,  McKet­
trick  was  such a model of  decorum,  that 
he  could  obtain  no situation of  trust  or 
responsibility.  He had a natural leaning 
toward  the banking business,  and sought 
employment  at  the  local  bank;  but  its 
directors would  not  have  him,  for  they 
had  lately trusted  implicitly to a deacon, 
whose silver hair is now kept closely cut 
at the  State’s expense.  His recommend­
ations  were too  abundant,  and  his repu­
tation for vital  piety  too great. 
In  this 
awkward position,  finding that he had no 
chance of  success at  home,  he  bade fare­
well to his native  town  to seek a  fortune 
in the wide,  wide world.

He  appeared  next in  the  lobby of  the 
hotel at  Independence  City,  dressed in  a 
chain-lightning plaid suit,  a vivid purple 
cravat and a white top  hat,  adorned  with

T tU B ]   M I C M I Q A J S

a  Bowery  weed.  Entering  the  hotel he 
tossed  his  gripsack  across  the  counter 
and took  the  short cut  to  the  bar-room, 
where he invited all present to liquor up. 
The  boys cheerfully rallied  to  honor his j 
proposal,  but  were  struck 
somewhat j 
aghast  when  McKettrick  poured  out  for 
himself three-fingers of brandy  which  he 
sprinkled with cayenne pepper,  in order,  i 
as he expressed it,  to  make  it  take hold.
In  the  course  of  the  afternoon  he  ac­
quired  such  ascendency  over  his  asso­
ciates as  to  make  them  receive with ac­
clamations his proposal  that at night-fall 
they would  break  the memorial  stained- 
glass windows in  the new Baptist church. 
When Mr.  McKettrick  applied for a situ­
ation at the  bank,  the Directors removed 
their aged  cashier  and  installed  the im­
petuous iconoclast  in his  place.  Such a 
man  was  not  to  be  had  every day,  and 
they felt  it.  There  began  McKettrick’s 
life of hideous hypocrisy;  when,  beneath 
a  mask of  worldliness  and  dissipation, 
he concealed  his real  nature,  and  passed 
on to fortune.

On  Sunday evenings,  when  he  longed 
to be  at  meeting,  the  need of  maintain­
ing  his false  position  compelled  him  to 
play draw poker  with the bank directors, 
and it is  but  justice  to  remark  that  he 
played  exceedingly  well.  Wine  made 
his  head  ache and  cigars  shattered  his 
nervous  system,  but he indulged  in them 
manfully.  To  join  in round  dances was 
opposed to all his training and abhorrent 
to  his  nature,  but  at  the  coffee  parties 
there  was no more  agile  foot  than  Mc­
Kettrick’s,  no  arms  more  hospitable  at 
the fireman’s ball. 
It  was  odious to him 
to  wear a purple  cravat,  and  he  would 
often  shudder as he  hung  up  his  plaid 
suit  at  night.  But when  he  thought of 
the  sagacious  manner  in  which  he was 
arranging  the  bank’s  accounts a pleased 
expression would come over his face, and 
he would even smile.

The directors were delighted with him. 
The town rang with praises of his frank, 
outspoken  manners,  and  his  freedom 
from cant.  One evening a belated revel­
ler saw  a  very respectable  looking man, 
dressed in  sober  black,  and with a heavy 
carpet bag,  take  the midnight  train east 
He  told  his  friends  that it  was  McKet­
trick,  but  his  friends  replied,  “Go  to. 
You have been out with the boys.”
But the  next morning  the  bank direc­
tors  discovered  that that  institution  no 
longer required the services of  a cashier, 
as  the  popular  Mr.  Kettrick  had  taken 
all  the  cash  with  him to Brazil,  which 
empire has a defective  extradition treaty 
with  the  United  States. 
Pale-lipped 
citizens  of  Independence  City  ask  each 
other “Whom can  we  trust  now?”  The 
bank  is in  the hands of a receiver.

m  m  m---------
The  Drug  Market.

German quinine is dull and lower.  Opi­
um  and  morphine  are  unchanged.  Bu- 
chu 
leaves  are  low.  Powdered  ipecac 
has  declined.  Chloral  hydrate  crystals 
are lower.  American saffron  has advan­
ced.  Lycopodium  has  declined.  Nut­
megs are lower.  Turpentine has declined 
Cocoaine  is  lower.  Arnica  flowers^ are 
lower.
Beware  of Ointments  for  Catarrh  that 
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell 
and completely derange  the whole  system when 
entering it through the mucous surfaces.  Such 
articles  should  never  be  used  except  on  pre 
scriptlons  from  reputable  physicians,  as  the 
damage they will do  is  ten  fold to the good you 
can  possbly derive  from  them  Hall’s  Catarrh 
Care,  manufactured  by  F.  J.  Cheney  &  Co., 
Toledo,  O., contains  no  mercury, and  is  taken 
Internally, acting  directly  upon  the  blood  and 
mucous surfaces of the system.  In buying Hall’s 
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the  genuine.  It  is 
taken  internally, and  made in  Toledo, Ohio, by 
F. J. Cheney & Co.  Testimonials free.

Contain  Mercury,

S3F"Sold by Druggists, price 75c per  bottle.

BOSTON  PETTY  LEDGER.

Size 814x3%,  bound  in cloth  and  leather  back 
and corners.  Nickel bill  file, Indexed, ruled  on 
both  sides, 60  lines, being  equal to a bill  twice
UK JLUIlg.
1000 bill heads with Ledger  complete..........83 00
2000  “ 
--------4 SO
5000  “ 
...........7 35

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F .  A .  G R E E N ,

Address

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1 3 2   S.  D iv is io n   S t.,  G ra n d   R a p id s ,  M ic h .
I  prepay express  charges  when  cash  accom 

panies the order.  Send for circular.

WE  ARE  HEADQUARTERS

SEND FOB PRICE LIST.

Daniel  Lynch,

19  8.  Ionia St.,  Grand  RapidB.

Don’t pay Ireigbt
Manufacturers’ Prices.

From Boston  aud  New York  on 
Shoe Dressing when  vou can  buy 
it  of  11IRTH  &  KBAUSE  at

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

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

HIRTH  &  K R A U SE,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

J. L.  Strelitsky,

Frame  & Co. :
Vindex, long  Havana filler..............  ........   $35
Three  Medals, long Havana filler............ 
35
55
E lk’s Choice, Havana filler and binder... 
La Fior de A lfonso,...................................  
55
65
La D oncella de M orera,...........................  
La Ideal, 25 in a box...................................  
55
M adeU ena....................................................  
60
Headquarters  for  Castellanos & Lopez’s  line  of 
Key West goods.
All favorite  brands of  Cheroots  kept In stock.

10  So.  Ionia  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

TRADESMAN.
A  Tonic
and
A  Pleasure:

T h a t ’s  t h e  h a p p y  

c o m b in a tio n   fo u n d   in

H ir e s ’ g£

You drink it for pleasure,  and get 
physical  benefit.  A  whole­
some, refreshing, appetizing, 
thirst quenching drink.

O n e  p a c k a g e  m a k e s   fiv e  g a llo n s .

Don't  be  deceived if a  dealer, for  the  sake 
of larger  profit,  tells you  some  other  kird 
Is “ just as good “ —*tis fit! sc.  No imitation 
is as good as the genuine H ires'*

FOURTH N1TI0NAL BAM

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

D. A. B l o d g e t t, President.

S. F. Aspinwall, Vice-President.

Wm. H. Anderson,  Cashier.
CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general banking  business.

H a k e  a  S p e c ia lt y  o f   C o lle c tio n s.  A c c o u n t*  

o f  C o u n tr y  M e r c h a n ts  S o lic ite d .

GX2YSXNG ROOT.

We pay the highest price for It.  Address

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GRAND  RAPIDS

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  rented,  not  sold, and 

the saving in cost o f  Each 20,000 

b ills Pays th e Rental.

SUITABLE  FOR ANY  BUSINESS.

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Pres’t. 

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TETE  M IC H IG A N   TR A D ESM A N ,

15

Wholesale Price Current•

Advanced—Saffron.

Declined—Buchu leaves, po. ipecac root, chloral hydrate, lycopodium, nutmeg

[flowers. 
, turpentine, arnica

“ 

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S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia.  S .P .A W ...1   8C@2 05 
C. C o .........................1  70® 1  95
Moschus  Canton........   @ 4 0
Myrlstica,  No. 1..........  65®  70
Nux Vomica,  (po20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia......................  18®  20
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
JO .
@2 00
Picls  Liq, N.»C., X gal
doz  ...........................
@ 2   00 
PIcis Liq., q u a rts.......
@1  00
(¡34  as
p in ts.......... 
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba,  (pog5)....  ©  3
Pix  Burgun..............   @  7
Plumbl A cet...............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opil. .1  10@1  20
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz.......  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv............  30®  35
Q uassiae...................... 
8@  10
Qulnia, S. P. & W .......  29®  34
S.  German__ 19  ©  30
Rubia  Tlnctorum.......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv.  @ 2 8
Salacin.........................1  75@1  85
Sanguis  Draconis.......  40®  50
Sapo,  W .......................   12®  14
‘r   M.........................   10®  12
“  G .........................  @  15

“ 

Seidlltz  M ixture........
Slnapls..........................
@
opt....................
©
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
©
V oes.........................
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes 
@
to®
Soda Boras,  (po. 11).  . 
27©
Soda  et Potass T art.  .
1)4©
Soda Carb..................
Soda,  Bi-Carb
@
Soda,  A sh......................3)4®
z
Soda, Sulphas.............   @ 
Spts.  Ether C o ............  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom.......  ®2  25
“  Myrcla Imp........   @3 00
‘  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
....7 .........................2 21@2 31
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal.......  @1  30
Sulphur, Subl.............   3  @ 4
Roll...............  2%@ 3)4
Tam arinds..................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  30
Theobrom ae............... 38  @  43
Vanilla....................... 9 00@16 00
Zlnci  Sulph................. 
7®  8

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faints. 

Llndseed,  boiled  —   43 
Neat's  Foot,  winter
'50 
strained................. 
Spirits Turpentine—   39 

46
66
45
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian................1«  2@3
Ochre, yellow  M ars...  IX  2@4
“ 
Ber.........IX  2@3
Putty,  commercial— 2X  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure......2)4  2X@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16
ican ............................. 
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’ ........  
@96
1  0 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting  Paris  Eng.
c liff..'......................... 
140
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
P aints..........  .......... 1 00@1  20
VARNISHES.

OILS.

Bbl.
Whale, w inter............  70
Lard,  extra.................  55
Lard, No.  1.................  45
Linseed, pure raw 
..  40

No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp.................160@1  70
Coach  Body............... 2 75@3  00
No. 1 Turp  F u rn .......1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar---1  55®1  60
70@75

Gal 
70 
60
50 I Japan  Dryer,  No.  1
43

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GRAND RAPIDS.  MIGH-

......................   m 

A cetlcum ....................  
8®  10
Benzoicum  German..  60®  65
Boraclc 
80
Carbollcnm .................  22®  30
55®  60
C itrlcum ..................... 
H ydrochlor................. 
5
3® 
Nltrocum  ................   10®  18
Oxalicum..................  10®  «
Phosphorlmn  d ll......... 
20
Salicyllcum ................1  3o@l  70
Sulphurlcum...............  
IX®  5
Tannlcum ................... 1  40@1  60
Tartarlcum ...................  33®  35

AMMONIA.

« 

Aqua, 16  deg.......... §X@ 
5
20  deg................. 5H@  7
Carbonas  .....................  18®  14
C hlorldum ...................  12®  14

 

ANILINE.
Black 
................2  00@2 25
Brown...........................  80@1  00
Red   
.................   45@  50
Y ellow ..........................2  50@3 00

Cubeae (po 
Juníperas  —  
Xantnoxylum

75).

25®

BAL8AMUM.

Copaiba........................  45®  50
Peru.......................  
30
Terabln, C an ad a.......  35®  40
T olutan........................  35@  50

 

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian...................  18
Casslae  ..................................
Cinchona F la v a ...................  “
Suonymus  atropurp............  *{
Myrica  Cerlfera, po..............  20
Prunus V lrglnl......................  1*
Qulllala,  grd.........................
Sassafras  .............................
TJlmus Po (Ground  12)........ 

io

po.

EXTRA CTUM.
Glycyrrhlza  G labra...
Haematox, 15 lb. box
Is.............
Vis............
«.8............
FERRUM.

“ 
» 
“ 

24®
33®
11®
13®
14®
16®

Carbonate Preclp........  ®„  ^
Citrate and Q uinta....  ®3  50
Citrate  S o lu b le........  @  g{
Ferrocyanldum Sol.
Solut  Chloride..
Sulphate,  com’l.
pure...

@
1)4®
®

“  

FLORA.

A rnica.........................   86®
A nthem ls....................
Matricaria 
.......  25®

F O L I A .

Barosma
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-  _ _
n lv elly ............. . - • • •  85®
Alx.  35®
Salvia  officinalis,  Xs
and  )4s......................  *2®
UraUrsi......................  8®

>• 

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6UMMI.

“

“ ....

“ 
“ 
« 
“ 

r w  - - - - 

Acacia,  1st  picked....  @  80

2d 
3d 
®
sifted sorts...
60®
p o .........  .......
50®
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60).. - 
®
“  Cape, (po.  20)...
®
Socotrl,  (po.  60).
Catechu, Is, 04s, 14 X*.
®
16)............................. 
Ammonlae.........••••••  "5®
Assafoetlda,  (po. 35)...  35®
Benzol...........................   ¿0®
Camphor»....................   °o®
Euphorblum  po  ........   35®  10
muDuvs 
x.«
Galbanum....................  
"
Gamboge,  p o ...... ...•  7°®
Gualacum,  (po  30)  ...  @
Kino,  (po.  30)........... 
  @
M astic.........................   ®  80
Mvrrh, (po. 45)............  @  40
O pl"  ¿ 0   2 70)............1  65@1  70
Shellac  .......................
T ragacanth.................  30®  75

“ 
bleached........   30®
hekba—In ounce packages.
A bsinthium ...........................  
j®
Eupatorlum ...........................  2U
Lobelia....................................  28
M aiorum ................................
Mentha  Piperita...................  23
“  V lr.........................  28
Hue..........................................
Tanacetum, V ........................  22
Thymus,  V .............................  28

MAGNESIA.

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

OLEUM.

Absinthium ..................3 50®4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc  ..  ..  45®  75 
Amydalac, Amarae.... 8 00®8 25
Antal  ..............................1  75@1  80
Auranti  Cortex............3 00®3 25
Bergamlt  .....................3 75®4  00
C ajlp u tl.................... 
50®  65
Cary ophv111................. 
80
C ed ar......................... •  35@  65
Chenopodii  .................  @1  60
C lnnam onil............. • • 1  20@1  25
C ltronella....................   @  45
Conlum  Mac...............  35®  65
Copaiba  ...................... 1  10®1  20

Cubebae.................... 
@  6 00
Exeehthitos...............  2 50®2 75
Brlgeron........................... 2 25@2 50
G aultheria........................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce.......  ®  75
Gossipi!,  Sem. gal.......  50®  75
Hedeoma  .....................1  60@1  70
Junlperl........................  50@2 00
L avendula..................   90@2 00
Lim onls.............................2 75@3 25
Mentha Piper.................... 2 75@3 50
Mentha Yerid...................2 20®2 30
Morrhuae, gal................... 1  00@1 10
Myrcla, ounce.............   @  50
O live............................   80@2 75
Plcl8 Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
R icini.................................1  08@1 24
Rosmarini.............  
75@1  00
Rosae,  ounce...............  ®6 50
Succini.........................   40®  45
S abina.........................  90@1  00
Santal  ......................... 3 50@7 00
Sassafras......................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce—   ®  65
Tiglll............................  ®   90
T hym e.........................   40®  50
opt  .................  ®  60
Theobromas.................  15®  20

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POTASSIUM.

BICarb.........................  15®  18
Bichrom ate.................  13®  14
Bromide...................... 
25®  27
Carb..............................   12®  15
Chlorate  (po  18)........   16®  18
Cyanide.......................   50®  55
Iodide................................ 2  80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  p u re ... 26©  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com ...  ®  15
Potass  Nltras, opt....... 
8®  10
Potass N ltras............... 
9
7® 
Prussiate......................  28®  30
Sulphate  po.................  15®  18

 

 

“ 

Aconitum ....................   20®  25
Althae...........................  25®  30
A nchusa......................  12®  15
Arum,  po......................  @  25
Calamus.......................   20©  40
Gentiana,  (po. 15).......  10®  12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
©  35
(po. 40)..........  ....... 
Hellebore,  Ala,  po.  ..  15®  20
Inula,  po......................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po....................2 30@2 40
Iris  plox (po. 35@38). .3 5 ®   40
Jalapa,  p r....................  42®  45
Maranta,  & s...............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
Rhei . . . . .......  
  75@1  00
cu t.......................   @1  75
pv.  ......................   75®1  35
Spigelia.......................   48®  53
Sangulnaria,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentaria..................   35®  40
Senega.........................  45®  50
Simllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 4 0
M  @ 2 0
Scillae, (po. 35)............  10®  1
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
dus,  po......................  @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ©   25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a ....................  12®  15
Zingiber  j ............... 
SEMEN.
Anisum,  (po.  20).. 
..  @  15
Aplum  (graveieons)  .  33®  35
Bird, Is........................ 
Caral, (po. 18).............. 
Cardamon...................1  00@1  ¿5
Corlandrum.................  10®  12
Cannabis Satlva  ------   3)4®4
Cydonlum....................  75@1  00
Cnenopodlnm  ............  10®  1-
Dlpterlx Odorate.......2 25@2 35
15
Foenlculum............
6®
Foenugreek,  po —
4  @ 4)4 
L in i.........................
4  @4)4 
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 3)4)
35®  40 
Lobelia....................
3)4® 4)4 
Pharlaris Canarian
6®  
R ap a.......................
“
______  
S@
Slnapls,  Albn
Nigra...........  11®  1!

4®
8®

18®

“ 

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SPIRITUB.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co. .2 00@2 50
D. F. R .......1  75@2 00
1  10®1  50
 
Junlperis  Co. O. T ... .1  75@1  75
Saacharum  N.  B .........1  75®2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli................. 1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto...................... 1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba..........................1  25@2 00

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................... 2  25@2  50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
2 00 
carriage  ..................
Velvet  extra  Bheeps’
1  10
wool  carriage..........
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage............• —
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .........................
Hard for  slate  use.  ..
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u s e .............................

1  40

SYRUPS.

A ccacla................................  
50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................  60
Ferrl  Io d ................................  50
Auranti  Cortes......................  50
Rhei  Arom.............................  50
Simllax  Officinalis...............  60
Co.........  50
Senega...................................   50
Sclllae.....................................   W
“  Co................................  50
T olutan..................................  50
Pranas  vlrg...........................  50

“ 

“ 

TINCTURES.

 

 

“ 

“ 

Aconitum Napellis R ..........  60
F ..........  50
Aloes......................................   60
and m yrrh..................   60
A rnica...................................   50
Asafcetida.............................. 
0
Atrope Belladonna...............   60
Benzoin..................................  60
Co.............................  50
Sanguinaria...........................  50
Barosma................................  50
antharides...........................  75
Capsicum...............  
50
a  damon..............................   75
Co............................  75
Castor.....................................1 00
Catechu..................................  50
C inchona..............................  50
Co............................  60
Jolum ba................................  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
Ferrl  Chlorldum..................   35
K in o ......................................   50
Lobelia...................................  50
M yrrh.....................................  50
Nux  Yomica.........................  50
OpU........................................  85
“  Camphorated.................  50
Deodor..........................2 00
Auranti Cortex......................  50
Q uassia..................................  50
R hatan y ................................  50
Rhei........................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol....................  50
Co...............   50
Serpentaria............  ............  50
Stromonium...........................  60
T olutan..................................  60
V alerian................................  50
VeratrumVeride..................   50

MISCELLANEOUS.

dither, Spts  Nit, 3 F 
Alum en..........................2)4® 3

26®  28 
'  4 F ..  30®  32

“ 

ground, 

(po.

“ 

“ 

German  3  @ 

3© 4
55® 60
Annatto........................  55®
4® 5
Antimonl, po............... 
4®
55® 60
et Potass T 
"
©1 40
A ntipyrin..................
@ 25
Antirebrin..................
® 60
Argent!  Nltras, ounce
5® 7
5®
Arsenicum..................  
55® 60
Balm Gilead  Bud 
2 10@2 20
Bismuth  S.  N —
Calcium Chlor, Is, ()4s 
@ 9
11;  Qs,  12)
Cantharides  Russian,
@1 20
PO.............................
@ 22
Capsici  Fructus, af.
@ 25
@ 20
S°po
10® 12
Caryophyllus,  (po.  14)
m 75
Carmine,  No. 40
Cera  Alba, S. & F .......  50®  55
Cera  Flava..................   38®  40
Coccus.........................  @  40
Cassia F ructus...........   @  22
Centrarla.....................   @  10
Cetaceum....................   @  40
Chloroform.................  60®  63
squlbbs..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........ 1  20@1  4u
C hondrus....................  20®  25
Clnchonidine, P.  &  W  15®  20
12
Corks,  list,  die.  per
cent  ........................
Creasotum ................. 
Creta,  (bbl. 75)
“ 
prep.......
“  preclp...
“  R ubra...

@
5®
9®
@
C rocus.........................   33®
Cudbear........................  @
Cuprl Sulph.................  5 @
D extrine......................  10®
Ether Sulph.................  68®
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po....................  @ 
6
Ergota, ?po.)  65 ..........  60®  65
Flake  W hite...............   12®  15
G alla............................   @  23
Gambler.......................   7  @ 8
Gelatin,  Cooper..........   @  70
French............  40®  80
“ 
Glassware  flint,  75 and 2)4. 
by box 70
Glue,  Brown...............  
9®
“  W hite.................  13®
G lycerina.....................15)4®
Grana Paradlsl............  @
Humulus......................  25®
Hydraag  Chlor  M ite..  @

15 
25 
20 
22 
55 
90 
80 
@1 CO 
@1  10 
.  4£@  55
@  65
Hydrargyrum 
_ 
.1  25@1  50
Ijh "  
Indigo...........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl............3 75@3 85
Iodoform......................  @4 70
f 0
L upulin..................  45© 
Lycopodium.........  50® 
55
M acls.....................  75® 
80
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod............   @ 
27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl 
3
Mannla,  S. F

“  
“ 
“ 
ithyobolla,  Am. 

“  C o r....
Ox Rubrum 
Ammoniatl..
Unguentum.

1)4).....................  

30® 33

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THE  MICHIGAN  TEADESMAN

G r o c e r y  P r i c e   C u r r e n t •

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

and  buy  in  full  packages.

COUPON  PASS BOOKS.

Green,  bu..
[Can  be  made to represent any  (
Split  per  lb
denomination  from 810  down. |  £
2 00  (
...........................
German —
3 00  i
.........................
East India...
6  25
...........................
,
........................... 10 00 
Cracked.......
........................... 17 50  1

20 books...........................8 1  00
50  “ 
100  “ 
250  “ 
500  “ 
inm  “ 

MINCE  MEAT

Peas.

Sago.

Wheat.

.......1  40
.......3 00
....  4
....  5

5

CLOTHES PINS.

COCOA  SHELLS.

m
@334
packages............6K@7

quantity 
ad  packai

CONDENSED MILK.
4 doz. in case.

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

F ISH —Salt.

Bloaters.

4

“ 
“ 

Cod.

.  1  10

Halibut.
Herring.

Yarmouth..........................
P ollock.........................
Whole, Grand  B ank...  6 @634
Boneless,  b ric k s .........7H@8
Boneless,  strips............7H@8
12
Smoked........................
Scaled...........................
Holland,  bbls..............
kegs..............
Round shore,  H bbl...
“ 
H  bbl..
Mackerel.

18@20
11  00
85
2 00
1  10
.11  00
.  1  25
.  5 50
75
Russian,  kegs...................
45
No. 1, H bbls., lOOlbs....... ...6  50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.............. ...  90
No. 1, H bbls., lOOlbs....... ...8  00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.............. ...1  10
Family, H bbls., 100 lbs  . ..  3 50
kits  10  lbs......... ...  50

No. 1, H bbls. 90 lbs.........
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.......... .
Family,  H bbls., 100 lb s..

Sardines.
Trout.

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

Whitefish.

“ 

“ 

FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes  as

FRESH  PISH

follows:
Whitefish 
..................   7 @  8
T r o u t...........................7 @  8
Halibut......................... @15
Ciscoes or Herring__   5 @  6
Bluefish....................... 11 @12
Mackerel......................15 @25
Cod................................10 @12
No. 1 Pickerel.............
@  8
Pike..............................
@ 8
Smoked  White  ..........
@  7

oysters—Cans.

@40
Fairhaven  Counts —
@35
F. J. D. Selects..........
@30
Selects.........................
F  J. D........................... @25

Oysters, per  100.........1 »@1  50
f5@l  00
Clams. 

SHELL  GOODS.
..........

“ 

GRAINS and FEKDSTUFFS

WHEAT.

MEAL.

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

86
86

FLOUR.

Bolted..............................
.  1  20
Granulated......................
.  1  4fl
4 50
Straight, In  sacks..........
“  barrels........ ..  4 60
“ 
“  sacks.......... ..  5 50
Patent 
“  barrels........ ..  5  60
“ 
.  2  20
Graham  “  sacks........
Rye 
“ 
.........
.  2 50
MILL8TUPF8.
Bran.................................. ..  17 0C
Screenings...................... ..  15 OC
M iddlings.......................
.  18 OC
Mixed Feed.................... ..  17 OC
Coarse meal.................... ..  17 OC
Car  lots........................... ....44
...46
Less than  car  lots........

CORN.

“ 

OATS.

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

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

HAT.
ton lots 

“ 

..13  50
.14 50

PLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Jennings’ D C.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding b o x ...  75 
125
“ 
...1  00 
3 oz 
“ 
...1  50 
4 oz 
“ 
6 oz 
...2   00 
“ 
Soz 
...3   00 
GUN  POWDER.

1 50
2 00
3 00
4 CO

K eg s............................................ 5 50
Half  kegs....................................3 00

HERBS.

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

INDIGO.

55
50

JELLY.

CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX....................
.  6
Seymour XXX, cartoon...
-  6H
8 ”
Family  XXX......................
Family XXX,  cartoon__ .  6H
Salted' XXX........................
.  6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  __ -  6H
Kenosha 
.........................
7H
Boston................................. ..  8
Butter  biscuit.................. --  6H

Soda.

6

Oyster.

Soda,  XXX.......................
Soda, City........................... ..  7H
Soda,  Duchess  ................. ..  8H
Crystal W afer.................... ..10
Reception  Flakes............. ..10
S. Oyster  XXX................... ..  6
City Oyster. XXX............... ..  6
Farina  Oyster................... ..  6
30
Strictly  pure......................
Telfer’s  Absolute..............
35
Grocers’.............................. 10@15

CREAM TARTAR.

DRIKD  FRU ITS

D om estic.
APPLES.

“ 

quartered  “
APRICOTS.

Sundried. sliced in  bbls.
5
5
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes @7
California in  bags..........9H@10
Evaporated in boxes.  ... 10@11
BLACKBERRIES.
In  boxes..........................
4H
NECTARINES.
70 lb. bags.........................
7H
25 lb. boxes......................9 ©9H
Peeled, in  boxes............
12
Cal. evap.  “ 
............
8
“ 
in bags  ....... @  7H
PEARS.
California in bags  __
@7

PEACHES.

“ 

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

“ 

PRUNELLES.

10
11
12

11

301b.  boxes....................
RASPBERRIES.
In  barrels.......................
50 lb. boxes......................
251b.  “ 
........................
F oreign.
CURRANTS.
Patras, in barrels........ @ 3H
in  H-bbl8........
@ 3)4
in less quantity @  4

15
16
17

“ 
“ 

PEEL.

‘ 
‘ 

Citron, Leghorn, 25 lb. boxes  20
Lemon 
10
Orange 
11

25  “
“ 
“ 
25  “
RAISINS.
Domestic.
London layers,  2  crown....1  40
S  “
...1  65
fancy__ ...1  85
Loose Muscatels, boxes.. ...1  25
70 lb  bags @534
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes..  7&<fo  7%
..11 @12
“  
Sultana, 20 
..  6>4@ 6H
Valencia, 30  “ 

Foreign.

“ 
"  

PRUNES.

Bosnia........................... @
California, 90x100 25 lb  bxs.  8
“
■ -8H
“
.9
“
9H
Turkey...........................
@5H
S ilv er................................ ...11H

80x90 
70x80 
60x70 

“ 
“ 
“ 

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.
81  75
No. 1, 6H...........................
1  60
N 0.2.6H ...........................
No. 1,6..............................
1  65
No. 2, 6 ..............................
1  50
XX  wood, white.
No. 1, 6H...........................
1  35
No. 2, 6H...........................
1  25
Manilla, white.
6H  ..................................... .  1  00
6..........................................
95
Mill  No. 4......................... .  1  00

Coin.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 

Farina.
100 lb. kegs............ 
Hominy.

334

Barrels............................. 
3 00
G rits......................................3 50

Lima  Beans.

Dried............................... 

4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 

Domestic, 121b. b o x .... 
Imported.............10H@UH
Pearl Barley.
Kegs.............................  @2H

55

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

“ 

LICORICE.

Pure...................................   30
Calabria.............................   25
Sicily.......................................  12
LYE.
Condensed,  2  doz.......................1 25
4 doz...................... 2 25
MATCHES.
No. 9  sulphur............................. 1 25
Anchor parlor.............................1 70
No. 2 hom e...................................1 10
Export  parlor.......................... 4 00

“ 

AXLE GREASE.

doz 
Aurora......................  55 
Diamond...................  50 
Frazer’s ....................  81 
M ica.........................   75 
Paragon 
.................  55 
BAKINS  POWDER.

gr
6 00
5 50
9 00
8 00
6C0

“ 
“ 
“ 
Cook's  Favorite.

(101 pieces colored glass)
(131 pieces of crystal glass)
(10C hdl cups and saucers)

Acme.
& lb.  cans, 3 doz................. 
45
a lb.  “  2 “  ............  85
lib.  “ 
i  “ ...........ieo
10
Bulk....................................... 
Arctic.
34 #> cans..............................  
60
%  ft 
..................................  1 30
1  lb 
.............................2  00
5  ft 
.............................  9 60
100 34 lb cans......................  12 00
100 34 lb cans......................  12 00
100 >4 lb cans......................  12 00
2 doz 1 ib cans......................  9 60
(tankard pitcher with each can)
per doz 
Dime cans..  90
.1  33 
4-oz
.  1  90 
6-OZ
.2 4’
8-oz
.  3 7! 
12-oz
16-oz
..»  T. 
11  40 
234-lb
18 25 
41b
51b
21  6(1 
41  80
10-lb

pernees
CREAMI
Baking
Bowden
■WWMDrntWJ*
Red Star, 34 ft  cans..........
...........
.............
Teller’s,  34 lb. cans, doz.
“  -

Dr. Price’s.

“ 
“ 

a   ft 
i  »  
K lb . 
1  lb. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“
Victor.

• 

6 oz cans, 4 d o z .................
y 
...............
2 doz...............
16 
BATH BRICK.

40 
80 
1  50 
45 
85 
1  50
80
. .  2 00

,y

“ 

BLUING.

2 dozen in case.
E nglish.............................
Bristol.......  ......................

...  90 
..  90 
70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals............ ..  4  00
............ ..  7  00
“ 
Soz 
pints,  round  ....... ..10 50
“ 
“  No. 2, sifting box. . .  2 75
..  4 00
“  No. 3. 
..  8 00
“  No. 5,
1 oz ball  ............... ..  4  50
“ 

BROOMS.
No. 2 H url......................... ..  2 00
......................... ..  2 25
No. 1  “ 
..  2  50
No. 2 Carpet......................
..  2  75
No. 1 
“ 
......................
Parlor Gem....................... ..  3 00
..  1  00
Common W hisk.............
............... ..  1  20
Fancy 
Warehouse....................... ..  3  SO
Stove, No.  1...................... ..  1  25
“  10...................... ..  1  50
“  15...................... ..  1  75
.. 
85
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row.
..  1  25
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row .
Palmetto,  goose............... ..  1  50

“ 
BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

CANDLES
“ 
 

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes................. 10
Star,  40 
9
Paraffine................................ 11
Wicking.................................  24

 

CANNED  GOODS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“  2  lb ............
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Little Neck,  1 lb ............ . .. 1   15
...1  90
Standard, 3 lb ................. . . . 2  00
Standard,  1 lb ............... ....  85
21b............... . .. 1   05
Lobsters.

Star,  1  lb ........................ __ 2 40
“  2  lb ........................ . . . 3  30
Picnic, 1 lb ...................... . . . 2   00
21b...................... ....2  90
“ 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb ................. ....1   30
2  lb ............... ....2  25
Mustard,  2 lb  .............
....2   25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb ....... . . . 2   25
Soused, 2  l b ..................
2 25
Columbia River, flat — ...1  85
tails__ ....1  75
Alaska, 1  lb .................... ....1  45
21b...................... ....2   10
Sardines.
American  54s................. -4H@  5
6H@ 7
Hz...............
Imported  54z................... .. 10@12
Hz................... .. 15@16
Mustard  54s.................... ..  7@8
Boneless.........................
20
Brook, 3  lb ...................... ....2  60

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Trout.
FRUITS.
Apples.
3  lb. standard............
York State, gallons....
Hamburgh,  “ 
....

85
2 40
2 50

Apricots.
Live oak.......................
2 25
Santa  Cruz..................
2 00
2  sp
Lusk’s ...........................
Overland....................
1  90
Blackberries.
B. &  W.........................
90
Cherries.
Red................................
1 20
Pitted H am burgh......
1  75
W hite...........................
1  20
E rie ..............................
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.
(;ommoD......................
Raspberries.
Red  ..............................
Black  Hamburg..........
Erie,  black
Strawberries.
Law rence....................  
H am burgh..................
Erie...............................
T errapin.........................
Whortleberries.

Common......................
F.  &  W.........................
Blueberries................
Corued  beef,  Libby's...
Roast beef,  Armour’s . ..
Potted  ham, H lb .......
“  54 lb ............
tongue, H lb .......
54 lb ...
chicken, >4 lb __

MEATS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

VEGETABLES.

Beans.

1  10
1  50
1  40
2 25
1  35
1  25

1  25
2 10

1  30
2 50
2 75
1  10

1  30
1  50
1  40
1

g
25
1  35

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

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Peas

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless... 
French style.
Limas............
soaked.................

...1  25
...2  25
...1  40
Lima,  green.................... ....1  30
...  80
Lewis Boston  Baked__ ...1   35
Bay State  Baked............ ....1  35
World’s  F air.................. ....1   35
H am burgh......................
Livingston  E d e n .......... ....1   15
P u rity ..............................
Honey  Dew.................... ....1  50
Morning Glory...............
..  1  10
Hamburgh m arrofat__ ....1   35
early June 
Champion E ng... 1  50
Hamburgh  petit  pols.......... 1  75
fancy  sifted.......1  90
Soaked...................................  65
Harris  standard...................  75
Van Camp’s Marrofat 
.1 10
Early Ju n e ........130
Archer’s  Early Blossom___1  35
F ren ch ................................... 1  80
F rench................................16@18
Erie  .......................................   95
H ubbard.................................1  20
Hamburg  ...............................1  40
Soaked...................................  80
Honey  Dew............................1  60
Tomatoes.
Excelsior 
............................1  00
Eclipse.................................... 1  00
H am burg............................... 1  30
G allon....................................2  50

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

“ 

CHOCOLATS—BAKER’S.

German Sweet................
Premium..........................
Pure................................
Breakfast  Cocoa............

22
35
38
40

CHEESE.

Amboy.......
Herkimer .. 
Riverside  .. 
Allegan  ...
Skim .........
Brick..........
E d a m .......
Limburger
Pineapple. 
Roquefoi
Roquefort....................
Sap  Sago......................
Schweitzer, Imported. 
domestic  __

“ 

@13
@12)4
@13
@@10
13
@1  00 
@10 
@25 
@35 
@22 
@30 
©15

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles............2 75
Pint 
..............4 50
Quartjl doz bottles............. 3  50

“ 

GREEN.
Rio.

F air.........................................16
..................................... 17
Prim e.....................................18
Golden................................... 20
Peaberry............................... 20

Santos.

F air........................................ 16
Good.......................................17
P rim e.....................................18
Peaberry  ...............................20
Mexican and Guatamala.
F air........................................ 20
Good.......................................21
Fancy.....................................23
Prim e.....................................19
M illed.................................. 20
Interior................................ 25
Private Growth...................27
M andehling........................28
Im itation.............................23
Arabian................................. 26

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

ROASTED.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roosted 
coffee, add He. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.

PACKAGE.

A rb n ck le’s A rio sa ........   19.30
M cL aughlin’s  X X X X ..  19.30
G e rm a n .................. ..........  19 30
Lion, 60 or 100 lb. case__   19 30
Bunola  ..............................   18. SO

Cabinets 

contain 
120  1  Ib.
packs 
sold at c 
price,  with 
additional 
charge o 
90 cents  fo 
cabinet

Valley City. 
Felix...........

Bulk................................
Red...................................
CLOTHES  LINES.
Cotton,  40f t ..........perdi
50 f t ............ 
“
60 f t ............ 
»
70ft.......... 
“
«
80 f t ..........  
60 f t ..........  
“
7 2 f f ........  
•<

“ 
“ 
“ 
Jute

COUPON  BOOKS.

“Tradesman.’

“Superior.”

•   1,1 
8  2,
•  3,
• 5,no,

•20,

•   i . i  
> 2, 
t  3,
• 5, 
•10, 
•20,

‘Universal.

*  1, per hundred...............   83 00
8  2, 
3 50
8 3, 8 5, 
4 00
5 00
810, 
6  00 
• 20,
7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject/to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over..............  5  per  cent.
............10 
600  “ 
1000  “ 
................20 

“

«

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

MEASURES.

Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  ............................. 81  75
Half  gallon..........  ..........
1  40
70
Q u art..................................
45
P in t.....................................
40
Half  p i n t .......  ................
doz.
Wooden, for vinegar, per
1 gallon..............................
7 00
4  75
Half g allo n ........................
Q u art..................................
3 75
2 25
P in t.....................................

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

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

New Orleans.

F a ir....................................
Good....................................
Extra good........................
Choice...............................
Fancy.................................

One-half barrels, 3c extra

OATMEAL.

13H
16
16
20

14
17
22
27
35

Barrels  200................... @4  25
Half barrels 100............... @2 25

OILS.

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,  ............
@  7H
N aptha.........................
@  7
Gasoline...................... @  834
C ylinder......................27 @36
E n g in e .................... .13 @21
Black, 25 to 30 deg —

@  7H

ROLLED OATS.
Barrels  180................... @4  25
Half  bbls 90...............
@2  25

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count........ .  84  00
Half  barrels, €00 count.. ..  2  50

Small.
Barrels, 2,400  count.
Half bbls, 1,200 count

PIPES.

4  50
2  75

Clay, No.  216....................
...1  75
“  T. D. full count.......
...  75
Cob, No.  3......................... ...1 25

POTASH.

48 cans in case.
Babbitt’s ...........................
4  00
Penua Salt  Co.’s  ............ .  3 25

ROOT BEER
W illiam s,............  per doz.  1  75
. . . .   3 doz. case.  5  00

“ 

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head..................

....6
“  No. 1................... ....5
“  No. 2................. @  4

Broken...............   ............ -   334
Japan, No. 1.....................
No. 2......................
Jav a..................................
Patna................................

....6
...5H
..  5
..  5

Imported.

SAUERKRAUT.

Silver Thread, b b l...........
H bbl.......

“ 

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Allspice...................................10
Cassia, China in mats........   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.25
“ 
“  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
“  white.......30
Cayenne..................25
Sage.........................................20

“ 
“ 

“ 

“Absolute” In Packages.

* b
A llspice............  .........  84
Cinnamon....................  84
Cloves...........................   84
Ginger, Jam .................  84
“  A f.....................  84
M ustard........................  84
Pepper..........................  84
Sage................................  84

Ks 
1  56 
1  55 
1  55 
1  56 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55

Kegs......................................  1H
Granulated,  boxes...............  1J£

SEEDS.
Anise 
................—
Canary, Smyrna.  ...
Caraw ay...................
Cardamon, Malabar.
Hemp,  Russian.......
Mixed  Bird  ............
Mustard,  w hite.......
Poppy ........................
R ap e..........................
Cuttle  bone  ............
STARCH.

@12M
8 90 
4M 
4/2@  5V4 
6 
9 
6 
30

“ 

“30-lb  boxes.............................  6&
■40-lb 

........................... 6
Gloss.

1-lb packages.........................  sw
3-|b 
5J4
40 and 50 lb. boxes...............   4 \
Barrels....................................  4\

“ 

 

SNUFF.

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

Kegs, English......................... 4 \

SALT
100 3-lb. sacks...................
60 5-lb. 
...................
28 10-lb. sacks.................
2014-lb. 
...................
24 3-lb  cases.....................
56 lb. dairy In linen  bags 
281b. 

drill  “

“ 
“ 

“ 

Warsaw.

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

“ 

s 

Ashton.

Higgins.

66 lb. dairy In linen sacks.. 

56 lb. dairy in linen  sacks. 

Solar Rock.

56 lb.  sacks.............   .........

'ITTTn  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

17

PA PK K  & WOOUKS W AKE

Common Fine.

Saginaw ............................
M anistee............................

C
80  1
85

8ALBRATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

1
Church’s ............................ 83 30  I
DeLand’s ........................... .  3  15  :
Dwight’s ............................. .  3 30
Taylor’s .............................. .  3 00

SOAP.
LAUNDRY.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

Old Country,  80  1-lb........ ..3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb ............ ..3 90
White Borax, 100  J£-lb__ ..3 60
Concord .............................. . 2  80  i
Ivorj-, 10  oz....................... .  6  75
.  4 00
6  oz........................
3 65
Lenox 
..............................
Mottled  German............... .  3  15
.  3 00
Town T alk.......................
.  2 50
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz.
.  2 50
hand, 3 doz.......

SCOURING AND POLISHING.
“ 

“ 

BASKET  FIRED.

GUNPOWDER.

W arpath.................................14
B anner...................................15
King Bee...........................   ..20
Kiln D ried...  .......................17
Nigger Head..........................23
Honey  Dew........................... 24
Gold  Block............................28
Peerless.................................. 24
Rob  Roy................................ 24
Uncle  Sam............................. 28
Tom and Jerry.......................25
Brier Pipe...............................30
Yum  Y um ............................. 32
Red Clover............................. 32
Navy....................................... 32
Handmade............................. 40
F ro g .....................................   33

WASHBOARDS.

@20 
@25 
@35 
@40

@35 
@65 
@85 
@26 
@30
@26 
@35

“ 

HIDES.

•  3  @4 

lows,  prices nominal

H ID E S ,  PE L T S  an d   PUBS  P
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol  Q
R
R
h
@  4 Hi  B
@ 5  D
j
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Green .........................
Part  Cured.................
Full 
.................
5  @  6 
Dry........... ..................
Kips, green  ...............
3  @  4 
@ 5
“  cured.................
Calfskins,  green....... 4  @  5
5  @  7
cured-----
Deacon skins............. 10  @30 

4
C
§
...................... .50  @1  50  *

Shearlings............— .10  @25 
Lambs 
W ashed...................... 20  @25
U nw ashed................. 10  @20 

No. 2 hides 14 off.
PELTS

WOOL.

“ 

1

@5* 
..  5* 
• ■  4K
..  10 
...17 
...16 
..  30

WOODENWARE.

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

No. 2. 
No. 3.
No. 1,  three-hoop

7 00 
6  00 
5 00
1  35 
1  60
40 
90 
90 
13  “ 
1  60
15  “ 
2 35
17  “ 
assorted, 17s and  19s  2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
shipping  bushel..  1  20 
full  hoop  “ 
..  1  30
bushel..................   1  50
willow Cl’ths, No.l  5 75
“  No.2 6 26
“  No.3 7 26
“ 
No.l  3 50
“ 
No.2 4 25
No.3 5 Of
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splint 

“ 
“ 
1 
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YOUNG HYSON.

mon to  fair............ 18  @26
riorto  fine............30  @40
ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
.............................. 18  @22
ce.............................24  @28
.............................. 40  @50

SUOAB.

Cut  Loaf...................... @  5«
C ubes...........................
@ 4%
Powdered....................
@  4%
Granulated.................. 4.56@ 4%
Confectioners’ A .......4.44® 4M
@4.31
Soft A.  .......................
White Extra C............ @ 4%
©  4
Extra  C.......................
@3%
C....................................
Y ellow .....  ................. @ 3%
Less than  bbls.  Me advance

SYRUPS.
Corn.

Half bbls........................... ...24
F a ir................................... ...  19
Good................................. ...  25
...  30
Choice..............................

Pure Cane.

SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps...............
Sugar  Creams.............
Frosted  Creams..........
Graham  Crackers.......
Oatmeal Crackers —
TEAS.

8
8
9
8*
8*

japan—Regular.

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

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

Pails unless otherwise noted
H iaw atha....................  
80
34
Sweet  Cuba................. 
McGinty...................... 
24
22
54 bbls..........  
Valley  City.................
Dandy Jim ................... 
27
Torpedo....................... 
20
19
in  drum s—  
Yum  Yum  ................. 
26
Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead................... 
Jo k e r...........................  
Nobby Twist..................  
Oh  My............................. 
Scotten’s Brands.

Plug.

37
22
38
29

»
3
34
41
32
28
31

Middleton’s Brands.

Kylo..............................  
Hiawatha..................... 
Valley C ity ................. 
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty...............  
Jolly T ar...................... 
Here  It Is....................  
Old Style...................... 
Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good...................... 38
Toss Up......................................26
Out of  Sight..............................25
Private Brands.
Sweet  Maple............... 
L .& W .........................  
Boss.....................................  12H
Colonel’s Choice................. 13

Smoking.

30
26

MISCELLANEOUS.

1
Tallow ....................... .  3*@  4 
Grease  butter  .......... .  1  @ 2
(
Switches.................... .  1*@ 2 
Ginseng...................... .2 0032 50  ]

PURS.

“ 

Outside prices for No. 1 only.
.  50@1 00
B adger......................
Bear........................... 5 00@25 00
.3 00@7 00
Beaver..................   .
.  40@  50
Cat, w ild..................
.  103  25
“  house...............
.4 00@6 00
Fisher........................
.1  00@1  50
Fox, red....................
.3 00@5 00
“  crosB.................
.  50@1  00
“  grey..................
.2 00@3 00
Lynx..........................
.1  00@3 00
Martin,  dark............
pale  & yellow  50@1  00
Mink, dark............... ..  40@1  10
.  03®  16
Muskrat....................
..  15®  20
Oppossum................
'  Otter,  dark............... . .5 00@8 00
“  Raccoon.................... ..  25@  75
0  Skunk....................... . .1  00@1  20
n  Wolf........................... .  1  00©3 00
..2 00@5  00
“  Beaver castors, lb..
0 
9  Thin and  green  ...
1  Long gray...............
Ì:  Red and  b lu e....  .

.............   10
..............20
..............35

deerskins—Per pound

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay  as  follows 

for dressed  fowls:
Fow l.............................. 12  @13
Turkeys......................... 14  @15
Ducks  ..........................13  @14
Spring  chickens  .......25  @31
Fow ls.............................. 9  @10
Turkeys.........................12  @13

Live Poultry.

Saginaw.

Langtry . 
Defiance.

Single.

Double.

Saginaw__
Rival..........
Defiance—  
Crescent—  
Red Star__
Ivy Leaf................................
40 g r........................................
50 ...........................................

VINEGAR.

81 for barrel.
WET  MUSTARD.

Bulk, per g a l .....................
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...
yeast—Compressed. 
Fermentum  per doz. cakes
“ 
per lb-...............
Fleischman, per doz cakes. 
“ 
per lb .................

A   N A TIO N A L

A Combination of

OLD  DUTCH  JAVA

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

THE  FINEST  MOCHA.

Guaranteed  to  Give  Entire  Satisfaction.

Hie  Great  and  oniu  Consideration  in  the 

lianiifactilre  of  GERMAN 

is Purity, Strength and Fine Flavor.

Beautiful Books and  Handsome Pictures GIVEN  FREE  to  Patrons of  German Coffee.

, 

(See certificate in each package. )

T R Y  I T  !  Y o u   cuti  g e t   i t   o f   any  J o ty L c v   m  A t-ichiQ un  •

The  Very B e st!

BAKING  POWDER

Packed 4 doz. each, 6 oz , at 80c per doz.

4  « 
a  « 

« 9   « 
«  16  « 

$ 1.20  “
2.00 
“

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,

TO  DEALERS:  We authorize you to guarantee every can of Victor Baking  Powder to be aosoiuieiy p 
to any on the market or money refunded

f wima.  -Do tin  O'  Powder to be absolutely pure;  free from any article injurious to health and equal 

M a n u f a c t u r e d   b y   THIS  TOLEDO  SPICE  CO.,  Toledo,  Ohio, 

ROUSterS Of  HIGH  GRADE  COFFEES.

Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana. 

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

P R O D U C E   M A R K E T ,

CANDIES.  FRUITS  and  NUTS.

still in the market, commanding $3 per bbl.

Apples—Russets  are  about  the  only  variety 
Asparagus—11.35 per dozen bunches.
Beans—The  supply of  dry  stock is nearly  ex­
hausted.  Handlers  pay about  $1.20 for  country 
stock and hold city  picked at $l.50@$1.60 per bu.
Butter—Dairy is In better supply.  Dealers pay 
about 16c for good  to choice  and  hold at 17@18c 
per lb.
Cabbages—New  stock is in fair  demand  at  $4 
per crate of $125 lbs.
Cranberries—Repacked  Jerseys  are  in  good 
demand at $2.25 per bushel box.
Cucumbers—$1.25  per doz.
Dried Apples—Suudried  is held at 434@5c  and 
Eggs—Jobbers  pay  12c  and  hold  at  14c.
Honey—14c per lb.
Lettuce—Grand  Rapids  Forcing  is  in fair de­
mand at 10c per lb.
Maple  Sugar—Dealers  pay  7©Sc  per  lb. and 
hold at 8@9c.
Onions—Green are  in  fair  demand at 12c  per 
dozen bunches.  Dry stock  is  in  small  demand 
and supply, commanding 00@80c per bu.
Parsnips—In  full supply at 30c per bu.
Pieplant—2He per lb.
Pineapples—$1.75 per doz.
Potatoes—Old  stock In  full  supply  at  25c  per 
bushel.  New stock Is In limited  supply and  de­
mand at $1.15 per bushel.

evaporated at 6@o34c.

Radishes—35c per doz. bunches.
Strawberries—Tennessee  berries  are  arriving 
freely, being held at 20@25c per qt.

PROVISIONS.

 

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

>  The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 
quotes as follows:
Mess,  new..................................... 
10  50
Short c u t ...........................................................  11  50
Extra clear pig, short cu t.................................13
Extra clear,  heavy..........................................
Clear, fat back.................................................   12 75
Boston clear, short cu t...................................   13 50
Clear back, short cut.......................................  13 25
Standard clear, short cut, best................... 
13  50
Pork Sausage..........................................................734
Ham Sausage........................................................  9
Tongue Sausage...................................................  9
Frankfort  Sausage 
Blood Sausage............................................ ..........5
Bologna, straight.................................................5
Bologna,  thick...............   ..................................  5
Headcheese......................................................... 5

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

..........................................   734

LARD.

534
5%
6
634
694
634

7 
7!i 
734 
79i 
774 
S 

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

Kettle
Com­
Rendered.  Granger.  Family. pound
Tierces ...
• -7RÌ 
5M
50 lb. Tins ..8 
534
20 lb. Pails .  83i 
5*
6
10  lb.  “
.  834 
.  894 
5 lb. 
“
634
.834 
3 lb. 
“
634
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs........................  6  50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.........................   6  50
Boneless, rump butts........................................   9 00
Hams, average 20 lbs..........................................   934
16 lbs.......................................... 9JT
12 to 14 lbs.................................. 10
picnic........................................................  63£
best boneless................................................. 834
Shoulders............................................................. 6
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................................. 831
  834
Dried beef, ham p rices................................. 
Long Clears, heavy................................................6J4
Briskets,  medium................................................ 
"
634

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

lig h t............ 

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FR E S H   MEATS.

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Swift & Company quote as follows:
Beef, carcass..............................................5! 4@  634
“  hindquarters...................................63£@  734
fore 
“ 
................................ 33f®  4}^
loins,  No.  3....................................  @ 9
“ 
“ 
rib s....................................................  834®  9
•• 
rounds..............................................   5  @  6
®  43»
Bologna....................................................... 
Pork loins.....................................................  @  73
A   53l
....................................... 
Sausage, blood  or head.............................  ®  434
liver............................................  @434
Frankfort  ..................................  @ 7
Mutton  ...................................................   9  @934
Veal.............................................................  5  4"

“  shoulders 

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The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDY.
Full  Weight. 

Bbls.  Palls.

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

7
7
8348 
8

MIXED  CANDY.
Full Weight.

Pails.
7
7
734
8
8
8
8
9
10
___  8
.......  8

Bbls.  ‘
6
Standard...............................
.6
Leader...............................................6
.634
Royal..................................................634
JJ
English  Rock......................
7
jonserves.............................
Broken Taffy.....................gaskets
i
8
"‘eanut Squares................... 
“
Trench Creams...............................
/■alley  Creams...............................
Hidget, 301b. baskets...................
“ 
Modern,: 0 lb. 
.....................
fancy—In bulk.
Full Weight.
enges,  plain.........................
printed....................
“ 

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pancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Palls.
....  10
...  11
.................   1134
Chocolate Drops.............................
Chocolate Monumentals..................................  13
Gum Drops..........................................................  534
Moss Drops..........................................................  8
Sour Drops..........................................................  834
Imperials............................................................   10
Per Box.
Lemon Drops........................................................ 55
Sour D rops........ ...................................................55
Peppermint Drops................................................GO
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
Wlntergreen  Berries...........................................60
caramels.
! lb.  boxes...........................   34
No. 1, wrapped,
 
“ 
Ì 
51
3
No. 1, 
...........................   28
“ 
No. 2, 
2
..........................  42
3
No. 3, 
..........................  90
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes.
Floridas,  fancy—150 

@4 00
choice.126...................................  @4  00
russets -1P0  ...............................   @4 00
4 00

“ 
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Navals  .................................
“ 

Callfornias,  Riverside  ...........................   @
Messinas, choice  200................................   @3  50
160................................  @3 50
Messina, choice, 360................................  @3  fO
fancy, 360 ...............................   3 50@3 75
@3 50
choice 300...............................  
fancy 300..............................  
@4  00
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

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

ORANGES.

LEMONS.

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NUTS.

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extra

Figs, fancy  layers, 61b. 
10» 
14». 
20»
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box.
50-lb.  "

12  @14
.14 @15 
@15 
@18 
@  9 
“  9
Persian. 50-lb.  box........................  434®  5
Almonds, Tarragona................................  @16
Ivaca...........................................   @15
California................................  @10
Brazils, new...............................................   @  734
Filberts.......................................................  @11
Walnuts, Grenoble.  ................................   @13
Chill...........................................  @10

“  Marbot........................................   @
“ 

choice................................. 

Table  Nnts,  fancy....................................  @1234
@1134
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  ........... 
Cocoannts, fall sacks..............................   @4 25
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H.  P.,Suns....................................  @  534
“  Roasted.......................   @  734
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..................................  @  534
“  Roasted......................   @  734
Choice, H. P.,  E xtras...............................  @  434
“  Roasted...................  @634

............11  @14

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seeing 

M ich ig an .

From the Detroit Collector.

T ry in g   to   C o lle ct a  C laim   in  N o rth e rn  

had  determined  to  have  the  debtor  ar- 
rested  for  fraudulently  concealing  his | 
property,  which  in  Michigan  is a misde- 
meanor,  and  for  this  purpose  prepared I 
Sands  F.  Moore,  of  the  law  firm  of 
to take the train  for the  county seat,  to  I 
Sloman,  Moore &  Dnffie, of  Detroit,  has 
procure a warrant.  Before  reaching the ; 
just  returned  from  Northern  Michigan, 
depot  he discovered that the whole town, 
and  his experience in trying to enforce a 
apparently,  was  following  him,  and  the 
next tiling he  knew  he was arrested on  a 
claim  will  interest our  readers.
A prominent local merchant in a north­
warrant sworn out by  a man  who kept  a | 
ern  town,  having  given  a  mortgage  of 
saloon  next to the debtor’s stoie, and who i 
three hundred and sixty dollars upon  his 
had  complained  that  the  attorney  had 
stock,  several  clients  of  Mr.  Moore’s 
charged  him with having stolen property 
firm  became  alarmed,  aiid  Mr.  Moore 
in his building.  The situation  had  now 
took  the first train  to see  what  could be 
become exciting.  Mr.  Moore  refused  to 
done.  On arriving there he found  that a 
plead  on  the  ground  that  the  warrant 
second  mortgage for SI.045  had been  giv­
charged no offense known to the law, and 
en to debtor’s brother three days  before, 
threatened prosecution  to  all  who  were 
and assigned to the local  bank one day  be­
instrumental  in his arrest.  A gentleman 
fore.  The  stock in  the  store was greatly 
present, 
the  difficulty  of  Mr. 
reduced,  and  Mr.  Moore did  not like the 
Moore’s situation, promptly furnished the 
necessary bond, and the case was adjourn­
looks of  things.
A  Detroit creditor had sold  the debtor, 
ed to the next  day.  On the next day  the 
three weeks  before,  about  live  hundred 
case was called in  the largest hall in  the 
dollars’  worth of  goods,  most of  the  bill 
town,  but one of the  people’s  witnesses 
being spring voodt.  The  client’s  repre­
was out of town and  it was  proposed  to 
sentative.  who  accompanied  Mr.  Moore, 
adjourn to the next day.  This disgusted 
could find  no spring clothing in the store. 
the attorney and he demanded an adjourn­
After several efforts to  get an  interview 
ment  for  thirty  days.  The  tormentors 
with the debtor Mr.  Moore  succeeded  in 
then  hurried to the lawyer’s office to  get 
getting him into  his  room  in  the  hotel, 
another warrant,  but the attorney  quick­
where he denied all charges of fraud, but 
ly  procured  a  team,  drove  twenty-two 
after  some  talk  wanted  to  know  how 
miles to the county seat,  got  the  sheriff 
much  would settle the  claim,  and on  be­
started  with  a  warrant  for  the  debtor, 
ing informed,  promised to tell  Mr.  Moore 
and  the  next  morning  the  debtor  was 
in fifteen  minutes  what  he would  do,  and 
brought before a justice of the peace who 
hurried to  his lawyers’  office.
had  been  county  clerk,  and  is  also  an 
After waiting an  hour Mr.  Moore  tele­
attorney,  and a man  more fearless in  the 
phoned  to  the county  seat,  twenty-two 
discharge of  his  duty  cannot be  found. 
miles away,  for a  writ  of  replevin,  and 
The debtor was arraigned, Mr. Moore and 
the  sheriff  arrived  with 
it  about  nine 
the  detective  gave  their  evidence,  and 
o’clock  at  night.  The  debtor,  bis  two 
hurried home on the last  train  Saturday 
lawyers and several  friends locked them-1 
night,  having  spent  a  whole  week  on 
selves  in  the store and  refused to let the 
their  second  trip.  A  week  afterward 
sheriff.m.  but that officer promptly  broke 
the examination was continued,  and  the 
in  the  doors  and  took  what  few of  the 
debtor  was defended  by  two  attorneys, 
creditor’s goods  were left.  W hen  the at­
one of them the prosecuting  attorney  of j 
torney  and  the  sheriff  entered the  store 
the  county.  This  man  for  two  whole 
they  were informed by debtor’s attorneys 
«lays,  vehemently insisted that the  pros­
that  an  assignment  had  already  been 
ecution should stop,  and that  his  client, 
made for the benefit of  the creditors and 
who had «tone nothing wrong,  should  be 
that the store  was  then  in  possession of 
let go.  He declared, as prosecuting attor­
the  assignee;  but  they  were  greatly 
ney,  that no  wrong had  been  done,  and 
taken  down  when  they  were  coolly  in­
that something dreadful  should  happen 
formed  that  the  assignee  was  already 
to Mr.  Moore for setting the criminal law 
named as a defendant in  the writ.
in  motion; but  when  it  was  shown  that 
In a few days after Mr.  Moore’s  return 
three weeks  before  the  assignment  the 
to Detroit it  was learned  that  an  invoice 
debtor  had about 88,000 worth  of  goods, 
of hats  and gloves had  been  taken  from 
and  at  the  time  of  the  assignment  he 
the depot  to the store on  the  day  before 
owed  about  §9,000,  and 
had  ■  only 
the assignment,  and  that  none  of  those 
81,500  worth of goods,  the justice  of  the 
goods were mentioned  among  the assets. 
peace stood  firmly to his post and  bound 
Mr.  Moore’s  clients  then  instructed  his 
the debtor over to the circuit court.  Mr. 
firm  to  use  every means  known  to  the 
Moore  learned  that another warrant was 
law.  regardless of expense,  and make the 
out  for him,  drove twenty miles in  a  di­
debtor come to time,  or give him the best 
rection different from  what  was expected 
fight  possible.  Returning  to  the  scene 
and got home again on Saturday night.
of  conflict,  and  learning  that  the  stock 
in 
Proceeding  again  under  the  bill 
was to be sold under the second mortgager, 
chancery,  it  was made to  appear  to  the 
Mr.  Moore  quickly  prepared  a  bill  *n 
circuit judge that  the  assignee  selected 
chancery charging  the  second  mortgage 
by the debtor was not a proper person  to 
to be a fraud,  filed  it at  midn'glit  at  the 
represent the creditors,  and an order was 
county  seat,  drove twenty-five  miles, ob­
made removing  him,  stopping  the  sale 
tained  an  injunction  from  the  circuit 
which  he  was about to make and appoint­
judge,  got back  in  time  to  catch a train 
ing  a  receiver.  The  receiver  has  now 
for  debtor’s  residence  and  had  the  in­
sold the stock,  and the bank will have to 
junction served  in  time  to stop the sale.
make a hard fight if it ever  gets  any  of 
In the meantime a detective,  who came 
the money.
from  Detroit with  Mr.  Moore,  had  satis­
A motion has been made requiring  the 
fied  himself that,  inasmuch as  there was 
debtor to appear before the circuit  court 
not  more  than  fifteen  hundred  dollars’ 
in  chancery  with  all  his  books  and 
worth of  goods  in  the  store  there  must
papers,  and make a showing  as  to  what
be  some  elsewhere.  A  search  warrant [ has become of his property,  and  explain
was sworn out,  and in  the debtor’s living 
how  it  happens  that,  after starting in 
rooms  over  the  store  was  found  about 
business with $3,500,  he fails  in  a  little 
four hundred dollars’ worth of drygoods, 
over  a  year,  owing  $9,000  and  having 
boots,  shoes,  barrels of sugar  and crack­
only $1,500 worth of property,  and  that 
ers,  boxes of soap, canned goods,  in  fact 
mortgaged  to  his  brother.  And  if  bis 
a very  complete  assortment;  among  the 
explanation  is  not  satisfactory  to  the 
rest,  one  full  box  of  bats  ami  gloves 
circuit judge it  may go hard with him.
which had been  received  the day  before 
If  creditors  throughout  the  country 
the assignment.  The goods  were hidden 
wonld  have as much pluck  and  determi­
under beds,  in  trunks,  and  concealed  as 
nation as  these  Detroit  creditors  have, 
much as  possible.
there would  be fewer  failures,  and  col­
By this  time  the  situation  was decid­
lections  would  be  much  more  prompt 
edly  interesting.  Nearly everyone in the 
and satisfactory.
little town  knew  what  was going on,  and 
quite a crowd  collected  about  the store. 
Mr.  Moore  proceeded  in  vigorous  lan­
guage, to tell the debtor what he thought 
of him,  and  that  the fight  had  only just 
begun;  and in  order  to  give  him  to un­
derstand  that  further  search  would  be 
made,  he  turned  to  the  detective  and 
said:  “1  would like to search  that build­
ing over there,” at  the  same  time  shak­
ing his head,  but  indicating no  building 
In particular.  By  this  time  Mr.  Moore

CUTS for BOOM  EDITIONS

P A M P H L E T S .

THE  TRADESMAN COMPANY.

For the best work, at  reasonable  prices, address

Use Tradesman Coupon Bootes.

-----OR----

Your Orders  for
Oranges, Bananas, Lems, Dales, Nils, Figs

And Everything Handled by us are Respectfully Solicited.

THE  PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.
S

P E R K I N S   «Ss
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

H E

DEALERS IN

S

NOS.  122  and  124  LOUIS  STREET, GRAND  R A PID S, M ICHIGAN. 

WE  CARR7 A  STOCK  OF  CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL  USB,

T H E   ]\TTCTTTO^VIST  T E A D E SM A N

eigner is crowding him out  of  the  fields 
of common  labor.  His  condition  is  de- j 
plorable,  but it 
is  immeasurably  better ; 
than  will be  that of his children,  if  they  j 
follow  his  footsteps and take his place in 
the  ranks  of  unskilled  labor.  Let  us 
gracefully  resign 
this  department  of j 
human  activity  (or  inactivity,  as  it  isj 
fast  becoming)  to  the  foreigu  elements j 
and enter upon the higher  planes  of use- j 
fulness,  as becomes true Americans. 
In ; 
order  to  accomplish  this  we  must  not j 
neglect the education and  training of our 
children  who  are  so  soon  to  take  our | 
places.  Let us not  be deluded  with  the i 
idea that,  because  we  may  have plenty of | 
means,  we shall  be able  to  set  them  up j 
in  business and,  therefore,  it  will  not  be j 
necessary  to give them  a  thorough  busi- j 
ness education or subject them to a  com­
plete training in some skilled mechanical 
department of labor.  The  wealth  which 
we command to-day  may  take the  wings 
of the morniug and fly away,  leaving  us 
nothing but a  superficial  education  and 
a little polish  with  which to ward off  the 
buffeting billows of adversity.

Every  young  American,  before  he 
reaches his twenty-fifth  birthday,  should 
acquire  some  profession,  master  some 
mechanical  trade,  receive  a  thorough 
practical  training  in  some  commercial 
pursuit, or learn to do well some  service 
for which the business world  has a steady 
demand.

Give the boys  a  chauce;  they  will  be 
battling  with the tough and  knotty  prob­
lem of life after we  are  laid  away,  and 
every assistance we may  render  them  in 
their preparation  for the great  battle  of 
life  will  be  kindly  remembered  every 
time they read our epitaphs in the Silent 
City of the Dead. 
It is a duty  we owe to 
them, to society,  and to our  country.

E.  A.  Owen.

Grand  Rapids  & Indiana.
Schedili#  in effect  January  10» 1802.

Arrive from Leave (coin*
orth. 
7:05 a l 
11 M a ! 
4 15 pi 
10 30 p 1
rains  dall

For Saginaw and Cadillac*......
For Traverse City Jt Mackinaw 
For Sajrinaw Jt Traverse  City..
For  Pctoskey <& Mackinaw......
From Kalatnajsoo and Chicago.
Train  arriving at 0 30 daily; 
except Sunday.

TU1!»  dOUCCI  NOJSTB.
South. 
5:15 a 
9:30 a 
3 00 p 
8 Wp 
8 35 p
<j south. 
Arrive froi 
North. 
...  0.30 at
For Cincinnati................
For Kalamaaoo and Chicag*) 
For Fort Wayne and the  Fai
¿..  ll:50 a f 
...  5:30 p I 
For Cincinnati................
...  10 40 p t 
For Chicago...................
m
...  10 « 
From Saginaw.................
ad 11 05 V
Trains leaving at 0 00 p
All other trains daily except Sunjai

10 30 at 
3:00 p t 
9 00 P t

For Muskegon - Leave. 

Muskegou, (Irsuil  K *pills .V luillana.
10:10 a tu
7 00 a m 

From Muskegon- Arrive.

, 

, 

. 

„  

N O R T H  

SLEETING  A  PARLOR  CAR SERVICE.
....
. 
11:30 » m train.-Parlor chair car  Gd 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
10:30 p iu train.—Sleeping  car Grand 
Rapids  to Petoskev and Mackinaw. 
SOUTH—7:00 am train.  -Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
10:30 am  train.  Wagner  Parlor Car 
Grand Rapids to Chicago.
0:00  p m train. - Wagner Sleeping Car 
Grand Rapids to Cincinnati.
11:05 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car 
Grand Rapids to Chicago.
C h ic a g o   v ia  G .  R .  &  I.  R .  R .
10 30 a m 3 00 p m 11.06 p u
Lv Grand Rapids
3:55 p tn 9:00 p m 0 50 a ti
Arr Chicago
10 30 a m train through  aguer Parlor Ca:
11:05 p m train dal!;jf, through >\agner Sie*typing Cai
7 06 a tn 310 p m 10:10 P B
Lv  Chicago
3 00 p m » 35 p m 5:15  »1
Arr Grand Kaplds
3:10 p m  through Wagner  Far tor tar. 10 10  1»  I
train daily, through Waguer Sleeping Oar
Through ticket» and full Information can  bo had by 
calling upon A. AlmquUt,  ticket agent  at  Onion ¡sta­
tion,  or George  W.  Munson.  Onion  Ticket  Agent. 67 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.t\ L. LOCKWOOD.
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
T o led o ,  A n n   A rb o r  S t  N o rth   M ich ig an  
the  Detroit,  l,»nslng  A 
N orthern or  Detroit, G rand  Haven  &  Mlhvauk  e 
offers  a  route  m aking  the  best  time  bet we  n 
G rand  Kaplds and Toledo.
Lv. G rand Rapids a t .......7:15 a.  m  and 1:00 p.  m.
Ar. Toledo a t ..............  12:55 p.  in. and 10:20 p.  m.
I,v. G rand  Kaplds a t .......6:50 a.  m.  and 8:25 p.  m.
Ar. Toledo at.  .............12:55 p. m.  and 10:20 p.  m.

In  connection  w ith 

R ailw ay .

VIA  D .,  l .  A  N.

e .   ll.  A  M.

VIA  

R eturn connections equally as good.

W.  H.  Bennett, G eneral  Pass.  Ageut, 
Toledo, Ohio

19
Michigan Central

“ The Niagara Falls Fonte.'’

Detroit Express 
' Mixed  ...........
Sew York Kxpr, 
•Daily.
i  All other diulj 
Sleeping ears 
j trains to And fi . 
;  Eies ant  parlo 
Express at 7 a. »
Frei* X  Samos, Gen I Agent  S5 Monroe St 
A  AUIUVIST, Ticket Agent, t'uion Depot.
Geo. W  Mvnsos. t'uion Ticket Otti ce. 41 Monroe Si 
O. W. Rl'dOLICS U  P. ,t T. Agent.. Chicago

i to p ut  It IN a ui 
, h> SO p tu  » W a m 
a.w p n>  m w p iu
and Paeifie Expross 
id  Rapida on Detroit

___rand Rapids W p  m.

TIME  TABLE

eastward."  "

•No.  14| + No.  16;’'No.  IS  1* No.

T rains Leav e
G  d  Rapids. LV: 6 50ain ¡1 > Team 3 25pm 10 55 pn\
I o n ia ............ Ar 7 45am; 11 25am 4 27pm 1:32 $7 ani
.Art S 30am 12  17 pm 5 JUiuiii 1 55am
St.  Johns 
Owoss >....... Ar 9 05am  1 20pm dOx^UU! 3 I5aui
E.  Saginaw Ar 10 45am  3.5pm 8  Of>mi ti  45aúi
Ar! 11 SOam  3 4opm S -15 pur T  r&iui
:  Bav Citv
j  F U u t.......... Ar lo ttam i  S 45pm 7i5pui; 5  4t>am
Pt.  U uron.  . Ar 11 55am  6 00pm S 50 pun 7
P o n tia c ........ Ar 10 53am  3 t*5pm 8 *J5pm; 5 3? am
Detroit.......... Ari 11 50am|  105pm [ 0 *¿5pm ! 1  OO&ia

WKÜTWAK1).

• No. 81  tN o .H I 7 No.  13 ♦ No.  15
T raius Leav e
G 'd Rapids, Lv j  7  Uiaml  I  oopuij1 5  10pm 1I » ^'|>1U
G'd Haven, Ar S 35am i 2  10pm 6  15pm !ll  A1 pm
6 30aiu i  t> ciOitm
j  MUw’keeStr
i o w a m i
Chicago Str.  “  I  ........... I 

•D ally. 

tD aily except Sunday.

T rains arive from the e a st,6:40 a.  in., 12:50 a.  m., 
5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p.  m, 
,
T rains  arrive  from  the west,  6:15  a 
10.10 
m  .3:15 p.m.  and  10:30 p.  m.
Eastw ard  No.  14  lias  W agner  Parler  Buffet 
ir  No  IS Chair  e'ar.  No. s2 W agner  sleeper. 
W estward  No.  si  W agner  Steeper.  No.  11 

Chair Car  No.  15 W agner  Parlor  Bnftetcar.
J ohn  VV.  l,oci>, 'Prattle  Manager,
Ben F lktchbk, Trav.  Pass.  Agent. 
,)as  Pejii-BBU., City  Picket  Agent.

C H I C A G OANI»  WKSi'  MICHIGAN  K’Y. 

' as Monroe Street.
J AN’Y l Sitó,

G01NG  Ti‘ CHICAGO.

KKTLKNlNG  FKOM  CHICAGO.

• .9:00am  l*¿:05pin *11 ; 'b|»iu 
i v t : 11’1> K \PU)S 
.3:55pm  5:25pm  *7:05am
Ar!CUtOAGO 
....... OiOOiun  4:45pm *ll:t5pin
I ..  CHICAGO 
3:55pm  tOrtOpm  *6:10..m
Ar  OK DKAPlDS 
TO  ANO  FKOM  BKNTON  IIAKUOH, ST. JOSEPH  AND 
i ,,  (¡rami Rapida. 
y.OOam P2:06pm •11:35pin 
*«O0ani  3:,\5pm  10:IOpm 
Ar. Grand  Rapida 

INDIANAPOLIS.

For Indianapolis 12:05 p m onl>,

T‘* \NP fKOM MUsKKMON. 
lv  G  R 
l0:0(ain 12 06pro  .VHOpm  S:30pm
lo:“ *»»  3 “ pin  5:25pm 
Ar  o ‘ K 
.......
TO ANO FKOM MANISTEIS, TUAVKUSB CITY  ANO Kl.N

Rifinì.

TUKOUGU  CAR  SKKV ICE.

^ •o m n a S ld s  .... 
• ! « £
Between  Grand  Rapida  and  Chicago  Wagner 
Sleepers-  l.eave Grand Rapida *11:S5 p ni., lea\ e 
Ihieago  11:15  pm.  Porlor
Urn,11.1  Rapids 12:05 1» I«
Froe Chair i ’ars Loavo
leain i Chicago U:00 a in. 
id  Hap
Clindr C ar—Leav-0H U ran
Muínistee 6:50 a iM.
D E T R O IT ',

JA N ’ V  3,  181)2
l.ANSING ,1  NORTHERN  It,  11. 
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

Grami  Rapi ls5:17 p m ;  leaves 

Hetween  Grin

lv   G iro   RAPIDS. 
a V i>UTKOI r  

...  7 :15iun  *1:00pm  5:40pm 
12:00 ...  *5:li pm  10:40pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv.  D ETROIT................
a|-  (iR ’D  RAIMI'S 

ll  Nlai I  *5.l5pm  lo.iapin 
To and  from  Lansing  and  Howell  Same as to 
TO AN 11 PUOM SAU1NAV, ALMA AND SI. LOUIS.

anil from  Detroit.

Give  tlie  Boys  a  Practical  Business 

Education.

Written for This Tradesman.

There never was a time  in  the  history 
of this country  when the absolute  neces­
sity  of  a  careful  business  preparation 
was made so manifestly apparent as it  is 
to-day.  Conditions are rapidly changing 
at  the  present  time.  The  chances  for 
maintaining  a  family  and  securing  a 
home are very poor,  indeed,  for the  man 
who  lacks the  necessary  qualification or 
practical business training to enable him 
to  go  out  into  the  rushing,  crowding, 
jostling,  matter-of-fact world,  and  make 
something  or  do  something  which  de­
mands the application of skill.

There is no demand for unskilled labor. 
The old countries of overcrowded Europe 
have been  using this country  as  a  com­
mon dumping  ground  for  their  surplus 
population  to  such  an  extent  that  the 
American market  for common,  unskilled 
and uneducated labor has become so com­
pletely glutted  that  an  American  born 
citizen in the condition  above  described 
is  compelled  to  lay  aside  his  working 
outfit,  hang up shovel  and  hoe  and  eu- 
list as a common  private  in  the  mighty 
army of satellites who  manage  by  hook 
and by crook  to secure a  precarious  liv­
ing  off  the  industry  of  others.  Occas- 
sionally a man of this class, endowed with 
an unusual degree of  Yankee  smartness 
and not too heavily  burdened  with  con­
science,  succeeds 
in  amassing  quite  a 
property; but the rank and file are pushed 
to  one side—victims of early  neglect  or 
of  wasted  opportunities. 
“Go  West, 
young man,” will no longer afford  an  es­
cape from  the  difficulty.  There  was  a 
time when Uncle Sam was supposed to be 
"rich enough to give us all a farm,”  but 
when we read  of  the  terrible  scramble 
which 40,000  men,  women  and  children 
made the other day  down  in  Oklahoma, 
to secure  the  privilege  of buying a little 
spot of alkaline earth in which  to  drive 
a home stake,  we conclude  that the  sup­
position  was  a shortsighted  one.  When 
we read  of  the  mad  rush  for  a  small 
piece of  blizzard-stricken  and  drought- 
cursed Dakota  earth,  when  Uncle  Sam 
gave the signal and yelled  “go,”  in  the 
Sisseton reservation  race,  we  wondered 
why these crazy  people  did  not  go and 
quietly  settle  on  some  of  our  Uncle’s 
free farms. 
It reminded me of  my  first 
“caravan,” when  I  lingered  to  witness 
the feeding of a cage of hungry lions.  The 
lions were wild ferocious brutes,  but  in 
their scramble  for  meat,  they  exhibited 
about the same intensity  of  desire,  and 
about the same  disregard  for  their  fel­
lows,  as the over-crowded  and  land-hun­
gry  citizens  of  this  country  do  when 
Uncle Sam tosses them  a  small  slice  of 
fourth-class real estate.  For the want of 
room,  war to the knife has been declared 
between the cattle raisers and grain  pro­
ducers  of  the  new  Slate  of  Wyoming. 
Three years ago, while the writer  was in 
Washington  Territory,  he  read  in  the 
Governor’s report of that year,  this state­
ment:  “There is no use  denying the fact 
that all of our most desirable government 
lands have all been  taken  up  two  years 
ago."  At this time,  interest in  the East 
had just been  awakened  in  this  remote 
corner of our  great  country;  yet  all  of 
Uucle  Sam’s  desirable  free  farms  had 
been given away two  years  previous  to 
that time.

The lot of the unskilled  American lab­
orer Is, indeed,  a bad one.  Free  land  is 
no longer  at  his  disposal  and  the  for­

GHflS. A. BOYE,

MA N D FACT U RE It OF

JOBBERS  OF

Horse and  Wagon Covers
Hammocks  and Cotton  D M s
11  Pearl  St,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

SEND  FOR PRICK 1.1ST.

T ire d   o f  B affles  a n d   R affle  T ic k e ts.

large, 

From the Interstate Grocer.
“Heaven deliver me from  rallies,”  said 
a prominent specialty dealer.  “It  is  my 
business  to  circulate  daily  among  the 
dealers of this city,  and  1 am asked often 
to buy tickets  for  some  kind  of  rattle. 
These rattles  are  likely  to  be  for  any­
thing from a pointer dog  to  a  wagon,  a 
stove,  or  a  white  elephant.  Not  long 
since a grocer of this city  who buys little 
or nothing from mo, came to my  office  to 
sell  me  seme  rattle  tickets  for  a  park 
wagon. 
I told him  that I had no use  for 
a park  wagon,  that my wife  would  have 
me sent to the insane asylum if 1 brought 
one  home,  and  that  any  way,  if  only 
three tickets to the rattle were sold  and  l 
held two that the third would be  sure  to 
win.  He  insisted,  however,  and  1  put 
up  two 
lovely  below-par  silver 
dollars for two tickets.  Well,  the  draw­
ing took place last Saturday night, in  the 
little 3x9 bar-room  back  of  my  friend’s 
store, and,  unfortunately,  I won the paik 
wagon.  He  sent  four  men  out  to  my 
house to look  for  me,  to  inform  me  of 
my good  fortune,  and  bring  me  to  the 
proposed feast,  but  1  was  not  at  home. 
On  Monday,  however,  I  went  to  see  him 
and he proudly  took  me  out  to  see  the 
park wagon.  1 should, on  a  rough  esti­
mate, say that it  had stood  in  some  park 
for about twelve  years. 
I  estimated  its 
net worth at $8.63. 
I  smiled  a  ghastly 
smile of pleasure,  and, thinking to do the 
proper thing,  I handed him  $2,  with  the 
request  that  he  ‘treat  the  boys.’  He 
looked me over coldly  and remarked that 
the boys had  drank  about  $8  worth  on 
me. 
I  handed that amount to him,  after 
calculating that it represented about  160 
driuks,  although five people couldn’t  get 
I  tried  to  trade 
into his place at once. 
the wagon off for $10,  but the only offer 1 
received  for it was $6. 
I  am  done  with 
raffles and raffle tickets.”

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

Wo are vory large receivers of tho above av- 
>.« sell your Hb‘pnmum

hay, grain,  wool, hides,

GRASS SEED, BEANS, POTATOES, 
GREEN  AND  DRIED  FRUITS,

advances m ade o n sb l prnents i t  m p «  

OR ANYTHING YOUNIAYHAVETO
»*■ 
W rite u s  fo r   p ric es  o r   a n y   inform ation.  >‘>u 
uiay w a n t. 

SUMMERS,  MORRISON  &  GO.. 

_ _

_ 

Commission  Merchants,

X l\  S.  WATER  ST.t 
CHICAGO, ILL
R„iWeu«e: Metr molUan Natl. Bank, Chicago. 

- 

Bo sure and Mention. thi> Paper»

ki.' G rand  Rapid“ ............  

-   ‘i  * ’'“ *>

TO  LOWELL VIA  LOWELL A  HASTINOS II.  K.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE 

Lv  Grand  Rapids 
A r.from   Low ell................11:50am  5:15pm 

7:15am  1:00pm  5:40pm
.........
Between  G rand  Rapids  and  D etroit-  Parlor 
inirH on all train».  Seat« 25 C®H4*
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Saginaw 
I arlor 
ear  leaves  G rand  Rapids  7:05  a m ;  arrives In 
Grand  Rapids 7:40 |. m.  Seats L5 cents 

•Every  day.  o th e r trains  week days  only, 

y  GEO.  DeIIAVEN,  Gen.  Pass r Ag t.
STUDY  LAW
AT  HOME.
Take a coarse in the 

Sprague  U«rr«"|.on- 
aenca School or L»w
[incorporated].  Send  ten 
cents [stampa] for partiell 
lar» to
j.  COTNEU,  Jr.,  Sec’y, 
No. 175 Whitney Uloek, 
D E T R O IT ,-  M ICH.

20
Shopping:  from  the  S ta n d p o in t  o f  th e  

S h o p p e r.

“Not fond of shopping,  ma’am?”  says 
Mr.  Oldstyle.  “Dear  me,  how  extr’or- 
dinary! I thought the ladies always were.”
There  are  certain  traditions  handed 
down  from 
father  to  son  about  “the 
ladies,”  and  “the  gentlemen,”  bless 
them,  will  believe them  until  the end  of 
time.

Perhaps in  those  old  days  when  the 
customer was of importance,  and  when  a 
lady  could  sit  comfortably  at  a  broad 
counter  deliberating  ou  the  respective 
qualities  of  the  goods  laid  before her, 
while the obliging shopkeeper dilated on 
their merits at length,  and  seemed  only 
born  to  wait  upon  her,  shopping  may 
have had its charms;  but  in  the  present 
“upstairs”  and  “downstairs,”  “farther 
along” time, it is different.

I fancy  even  our  great-grandmothers 
would not  feel  it necessary to keep  their 
reputation  for  being all  “womanly,”  by 
continuing to be “fond of shopping.”

The ordinary  shopper certainly regards 
it as one of  the  trials  of  her  life.  She 
must endure it if she would have  proper 
raiment,  and  she  might 
like  a  day’s 
outing if the thing could  be made  easier 
for her.  Often  she  would  save  herself 
long journeys and the  struggle  with  an 
ill-mannered crowd,  if she could get any­
thing  at the small  shops.  But who ever 
can?

Is  it  want  of common-sense, of enter­
prise or of means that causes small shop­
keepers always to be “out” of everything 
sure to be asked for everyday?  To drive 
their patrons away by offering them rusty 
hair-pins,  needles  without  eyes,  cotton 
that snaps with every stitch?  After try­
ing to deal  with  the  poor  little  woman 
around the corner, or  the  nice  old  man 
two streets off,  the effort is abandoned by 
the most benevolent.  The big, four-story 
establishment is the only alternative, and 
if any  woman  enjoys shopping as it must 
be done there,  she is  a  candidate  for  a 
museum of curiosities.

The shopper is a person  of  no  impor­
tance in these days; the crowd of custom­
ers are usually objects of derision  to  the 
young persons behind the counters.

“Customers,” I  heard one  saleswoman 
say,  “are  an  awful  bother.”  And  her 
neighbor replied:

"Oh.  yes. 

I never  pay  any  attention 

to their whims.”

This disregard of customers’  “whims” 
is the rule among the salespeople; it adds 
to the trials of the  weary  shopper,  who 
has  left her house,  her needle,  her  baby, 
perhaps her trade or profession, to provide

She  wishes  to  deliberate; 

T H E   M T C H I G L A J S r   T R A D E S M A N
that  she  really 
herself  with  articles 
to 
needs. 
make  a  sensible  choice;  to  exercise  a 
little taste; and this is  scarcely  possible 
in  the midst of a crowd lighting for place, 
standing three deep before the  counters, 
often with no seats to sit upon,  no  place 
to lay down  bag or parcel while the purse 
is opened;  with  continual  advice  to  go 
“three  rooms  down,”  or  “four  rooms 
across,” or  “to the  basement,”  or  “up­
stairs,”  for articles that properly  belong 
to each other,  such  as  the  linings  and 
the  buttons  of  a  dress,  trimmings 
to 
match  it,  silk with which to  sew  it;  the 
long  waiting  for  change  or  for  little 
parcels she wishes to take home—all  this 
in  an  atmosphere  always  oppressively 
close,  and sickening with furnace-heat in 
winter.

The BAR LOCK TYPEWRITER.

T h e   M od ern   W r itin g   M ach in e!

V isible  W riting.
Perm anent A lignm ent. 
A utom atic Ribbon-Feed Reverse 

H igh  Speed.

P o w e r f u l   M a u i f o ld e r . 
Light-R unning,  Durable.

The No  2  Machine  takes  paper  9 
inches wide, and writes  line 8 inches 
long.  P rice, $tOO com plete.

The  No. 3  Machine  takes  paper  14 
inches  wide,  and  writes  a  line  13*4 
inches long  Price, $1 lO com plete

SEND  FOR  CATALOGUE.

TRADESM AN  COMPANY,  State  A gents, 

G rand  R a p id s,  M ich

fifteen 
find 

You may  select  a  scarf  in  two  min­
utes and pay for it in two more,  and  you 
for  your  change, 
may  wait 
and  then 
that  Mr.  Smith  has 
not signed  a  mysterious  piece  of  pink 
paper,  and  wait  ten  more  until  he  is 
found  and signs it,  and  five  more  while 
he holds it in  his hand and gets a lengthy 
explanation from  Miss  Brown,  assisted 
by Miss Jones.  No doubt  it  is  all  part 
of the  splendid  system  that  keeps  the 
proprietor from being robbed by his  em­
ployees;  but  the  customer  who  stands 
quivering  with  impatience,  and  hearing, 
in imagination,  her  infant’s  wails,  can 
scarcely be expected to enjoy  it.  Ten to 
one she goes home  without  buying  half 
the things she put  down  on  the  list  as 
necessary,  and  without  having  gratified 
her taste in anything she has  bought.

In a greater or less  degree,  according 
to circumstances,  this  is every  women’s 
shopping experience. 
I,  who have left a 
favorite heroine hanging over  a  cliff  by 
the tips of  her  taper  fingers,  and  must 
rescue her before  I  sleep,  have  wasted 
nearly an hour in  buying a  ball of  darn­
ing-cotton  and  waiting 
for  one  cent 
change.  And Mr.  Oldstyle thinks that it 
is extraordinary  that  I’m  not  “fond  of 
shopping.”

It is time to call  a halt on the  practice 
in vogue among many  retailers, of adver­
tising to  sell  almost  everything  below 
cost. 
It is a humbug plan  that  deceives 
a good many people and drives away  the 
patronage of others.  It  is  unnecessary, 
for  it  is  a  useless  exaggeration.  The 
firms  who  sell  regularly  “below  cost” 
have  big  rental  bill  to  pay  and  other 
cannot 
large 
pay  these bills and sell goods continually 
“below  cost.”  There  are 
in 
trade,  but  this  one  can  be  dispensed 
with.

expenses, 

tricks 

they 

and 

(Im p s , L ei«, Bananas, Nats, Figs, Dates,
THE  PUTNAM  GANDY  GO.

A  Full  Line alw ays Carried by

5000 Sold.

P aten ted   188?.

S T O J P

and Investigate the Amer 
ican Cash  Register before 
purchasing.  YOU  will 
I probably gay as this  party 
does:
D ear Sir s:  We will say 
that  for  our  business  we 
greatly prefer  your “Desk 
I Cashier’’  to  the  National, 
j even at the same price, for 
i 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 
tern almost complete, 
fe 
CUAS.  ItUEDEBUSCH  CO.,
Mayville.  Wis.

....  Yours truly,
General Merchants,

Why  Wanted.

It's  the  original  of  its 
class. 
It's  the  favorite 
with  Druggists, Clothiers, 
Shoe  Stores, Hatters, Gro­
cers,  Hardware  Dealers, 
General  Merchants,  Bak­
ers, Butchers, Millers, Ho­
tels, Dairymen, Laundries 
and  in  fact  every  retail 
dealer  who wants  correct 
methods.
Write us this day for de­
scription and prices.
State  and  local  agents 
wanted.

C O   947  Royal  In.  Bldg.

Still at the Front!

The Merchant who  buys the Best always secures the  Famous

RIVERSIDE  CHEESE

Which brand has been handled by our house exclusively for 18 years and has always taken the lead.

B A L L -B A R N H A R T -P U T M A N   CO.

SAGINAW MANUFACTURING CO.,

SAGINAW,  MICH.,

Manufacturers of the Following List of Washboards.

TRADE

MARK

Crescent 
Bed  Star
Shamrock 
Ivy  Leaf 

Wilson 
Sapai
Defiance
Rival
Wilson 
Saiisaw
Defiance
Rival

DOUBLE

SURFACE
Solid  Zinc.

Doilble  Zinc
Surface.

t

'

' 

Single Zinci
Siirface.

1

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

T .  S.  F R E E M A N   A g t ,  G ran d   R a p id s,  M ich.

STANDARD OIL CO..

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

DEALERS  IN

Uluminating and Lubricating

Wash  Goods!

BATES,  TOILE  DU  NORD,  A.  F.  C.  WARWICK,  AMOSKEAG,
GINGHAMS,  SIMPSON,  HAMILTON,  MERRIMACK,  HARMONY 
PACIFIC,  GARNER  AMERICAN  LIGHT  AND  BLUE  PRINTS 
IN  FANCY  AND  STAPLE  STYLES.

Cottons, Ticks and  Demins

P eerless 

.

P.  S T E K E T E E   &  S O N S .

Spring &  Company,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

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

W e invite the attention of the trade  to  our complete  and  well 

assorted stock at lowest  market  prices.

Spring & 

C.

W H O LESA LE

Dry  goods, Garpets and Gloaks

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 c k s. 

OVERALLS  OF  OUR  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigt, SemolsMier & Go., 4 8 , 8 0 ,  8 2   O tta w a   St., 

G rand  R a p id s.

RINDGE,  KALMBACH  &  CO.

12,  14,  16  PEARL  ST.

NAPTHA  AND  GASOLINES.

Office, Hawkins Block. 

Works, Butterworth Ave.

BULK  WORKS  AT

GRAN D  R A P ID S , 
B IG   R A P ID S , 
A L LEG A N , 

MUSKEGON. 
GRAND  H A V E N , 
HOW ARD  CITY , 

M A N IST EE, 

PETOSKJEY,

C A D ILLA C ,
DU DING TON .

HIGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR

EMPTY  GfflBON  i  GASOLINE  BARRELS.

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.

H. LEONARD & SONS,

CRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

IRON  L A W N ,  OR  G A R D EN   V A SE S.

NO.  9  LAWN  VASE.

No.  9 Lawn  Vase....................................................................................Net,  e a c h ....S3  75
Entire  height, 21 inches.  Entire  diameter, 21  inches at top.  Bottom of  vase, 

13 inches square.

NO.  1  LAWN  VASE.

of handle.  Diameter top of vase, 21 inches.

No.  1  Lawn Vase..................................................................................... Net,  e a c h ....$6  00
Same,  without  handles.......................................................................... 
. . . .   5  50
Stands 30 inches high.  Base,  17 inches square.  Diameter, 30 inches to outside 

“ 

NO.  3  LAWN  VASE.

NO.  4  LAWN  VASE.

No.  3  Lawn  Vase.................................................................................   Net,  each... .$6  00
Same,  without handles........................................................................  

---- 5

“ 

No.  4  Lawn  Vase....................................................................................Net,  e a c h ....$9  00
Same,  without handles.............................  
-----8  50

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

“ 

Entire height, 32 inches.  Entire  diameter, 21  inches on top.  Bottom of  vase, 

15  inches square.

Entire height,  39 inches.  Bottom  base.  21  inches square.  Top base,  15 inches 

square.  Diameter of Vase, 21 inches.  Width  to ou’side of  handles, 29 inches.

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