Michigan Tradesman

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS.

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M A Y   11,  1892.

$1  Per  Year.
NO .  451

Published Weekly.

V O L .  9.

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

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Flavoring  Extracts

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TWO  WOMEN.

Jim  Harden,  with  much  deliberation, 
drew  toward  him  the  tobacco-can  and 
proceeded to stuff the  bowl  of  his  pipe 
full of the weed. 
It was significant.  We 
knew  we  were  about  to  hear  what  Jim 
called an  “antidote,”  and  our  faces  and 
attitudes at once expressed  profound  in­
terest.

“Women,”  said  Jim,  between  puffs, 
“is queer cattle—yes,  they be.  A  feller 
thinks  he  has  th’r  p’ints,  an,  mebbe 
keeps on  thinkin’  so  fer  awhile.  Then 
he finds out, all of  a  suddint,  th’t  what 
he thinks  he  knows  an’  what  he  don’t 
know is  more  nigh  alike  th’n  what  he 
thinks he knows an’ what he does  know.
One woman  ain’t  no  more  like  ’nother 
woman,  th’n  I  be  like  that—wal,  like 
that  stove,  f’rinstance. 
’Cause  why? 
’Cause th’r p’verse.  They  be,  an’  they 
cain’t  help  it,  none  whatever.  More- 
overmore,  they  don’t  wanter  help  it— 
that’s  th’  p’versity  of  ’em.  W’y,  ye 
never seen no woman that’d  be, ’r  do,  ’r 
think like  ’nother  woman  ef  she  hung 
fer not doin’ it.  Th’r all  ’like,  all  right 
’nough,  in  them  respecks,  but  not  any 
more.  Ye c’n pick out y’r female where- 
ever ye please,  an’ I  don’t  keer  ef  she’s 
th’  mos’  commonist,  ev’ry-day  sort  o’ 
critter,  ye cain’t find ’nother  one  wi’  th’ 
same  markin’s.  Th’  Lord  A’mighty, 
didn’t make ’em  that  way  no  more’t  all 
cattle is short-horns, an’ I’ve saw a lot.

“I was  jes’  thinkin’  of  a  couple  o’ 

cases I c’n rec’lect.

“Up in Dakoty, 1 knowed a  feller  th’t 
hed  a  regular  thor’ugh-bred  wife.  His 
name was Sammis, an’ he kep’ store up to 
Bessemer, also  sellin’  wagons  an’  grain. 
He  was a  fine  feller,  this  Sammis,  an’ 
nothin’ was too  good  fer  him,  not  even 
his woman,  an’  they was reg’lar stuck on 
each  other.  Mis’  Sammis  had  ail  they 
was  goin’—Sammis  had  dust,  an’  he 
wasn’t ’fraid  t’put  it  up.  They  had  a 
fine  house,  kep’  a  Chinese  cook  an’  a 
hired girl,  an’  had  ev’rything  folks  c’n 
hanker  fer,  includin’  warious  trips  t’ 
Omahaw  an’  Ch’cago  ev’ry  year. 
I 
knowed ’em a long time,  an’ I never seen 
folks get ’long  so  smooth  t’gether—jes’ 
like them doves that sits on  th’  fence  b’ 
th’ stable.  They’d b’en hitched  seven ’r 
eight year,  had a brace of  as  likely  kids 
as ye ever seen,  an’ still folks used t’ say, 
allers,  how much them Sammises did  sot 
by each other. 
It  beat  th’  dooce,  sure, 
an’  might’ve  went  on  fer  all  time,  ef 
Sammis hadn’t gone an’got inter trouble.
“Come one year,  bizness  was  slack  at 
the  store—cash  bizness,  I  mean—an’ 
Sammis,  he  let  out  a  heap  o’  stock  on 
time,  fer  grub-stakes  an’  th’  like.  But 
he’d likewise be’n playin’ poker some,  as 
uzhal,  an’ was shy fer stuff w’en one day 
some o’  th’ people  he  was  owin’  called 
fer him t’  settle up.  He’d  b’en  borryin’ 
dust  fr’m  th’  c’lections  he’d  made  fer 
some of  ’em,  ’xpectin’  t’  pay  up  right 
soon,  but  he  didn’t  c’nect  proper,  an’ 
they  sinched  ’im.  Ev’rybody  at  Besse­
mer took a hand—’xcept  a  few  o’  them 
th’t c’d’ve helped him most,  an’ oughter- 
’ve did  it—an’  tried  to  help  Sam  out, 
but, feelin’  innercent, Sam,  he  wouldn’t

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have  it,  none  whatever,  an’  tol’  them 
Eastern  cusses  th’t  seein’ 
they  didn’t 
wanter wait t’ll  fall,  an’ git a fa’r squar- 
up,  they c’d go t’ th’ devil, an  he’d  go  t’ 
jail.  So  they  sen’s  ’im  up 
two  year 
beltin’ rock  in  th’ pen.  We’d’ve  got  a 
gang t’gether an’ took  ’im  ’way  f’m  th’ 
offusers, but Sam sent us word he  didn’t 
want nothin’ o’ th’ sort—he  was  goin’  t’ 
take  his  sassyfras  like  a  man;  an’  he 
done it.

“Now, don’t think fer a minute th’t all 
this  time  Mis’  Sammis  wa’n’t  doin’ 
nothin.’  Great  Enoch! 
that  woman 
hustled like a major—went t’ the men as 
was sinchin Sam,  an’  begged,  an’  plead­
ed,  an’ might’ve  got  ’em  to  give  in,  ef 
Sam  hadn’t  been  so  uppish  with  ’em. 
She looked  jes’ orful, durin’ th’ trial, an’ 
took on tur’ble w’en th’  jedge  sent’nced 
Sam.  She didn’t look like she useter fer 
a  long  time;  jes’  got  paler  ’n  more 
peakid-like,  an’  folks  thought  she  was 
goin’  t’  die  off,  sure. 
three 
months later,  she  went  t’  see  Sam,  an’ 
Sam, he tol’ me  ’bout  it  a  couple  years 
ago.  They had a real scene,  jam-full  o’ 
tears  an’  real  spoony  love,  an’  Sam 
wanted t’  know ef  it wouldn’t  be  better 
fer her t’ git a devorce,  ’cause  he  was  a 
disgrace  t’  her.  Then,  o’  course,  she 
falls on ’is  neck an’ weeps a hull  lot,  an’ 
sez as how she’ll stick  t’ him  till  th’  ol’ 
Harry goes inter th’  ice-cream  bizniss, ’r 
somethin’ like that.

’Bout 

“An,’  gents,  it  wa’n’t  three  months 
longer b’fore  she  gits  her  dog-gone  de­
vorce,  an’ splices with  a  bald-headed  ol’ 
duffer f’ Pennsylvany,  th’t’d come  t’  Da 
koty t’ git unhitched hisself!  Oh,  it was 
tough,  I tell ye.  Sammis,  he’s  out  now, 
doin’ good bizness,  an’  got  his  kids—at 
Bessemer,  too,  b’gosh—an’  also  behavin’ 
hisself.  But he was consid’ble  broke up 
w’en th’woman shuck ’im.”

Here Jim paused to refill his pipe, and 
the  opportunity 
took  advantage  of 
briefly  to  debate  the  question  as 
to 
whether or not  Mrs.  Sammis  was  justi­
fied in doing as she did.  Then  Jim  pro­
ceeded.

“Th’ other  case  I  was  thinkin’  of  is 
diff’runt  a  hull  lot.  Th’  woman  in  it 
was ’bout th’ same  calibre  as  th’  other 
one, I reckon, but more perseverin.’

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THE  MICHIGAN'  TRADESMAN,

“It was up  in  Dakoty,  too,  this  here 
case; over ’t  Gilman,  ’bout  twenty  mile 
fr’m Bessemer. 
I  was  sheruff, then,  an’ 
knowed ev’rybody in that blame  county. 
B’sides, th’ gyurl was a sorter relation  o’ 
mine,  how  1  come  t’  know  s’  much 
’bout it.

“This here  gyurl  was  a  dandy  high- 
stepper.  Her ol’  man  was well fixed, an’ 
she’d went  t’ school  t’ St.  Louis,  an’  was 
purty  persnickety.  Blame  fine  gyurl, 
stunnin’ purty an’ nice, but  persnickety, 
’cause some  o’  th’  finest  an’  best-fixed 
boys  in  th’ county  wanted  ’er,  an’  she 
turned  up  ’er  nose  at  th’  hull  bilin.’ 
Treated  ’em  all  nice,  an'  all 
that,  but 
treated ’em all alike,  w’ich  was  oupleas- 
ant fer th’ boys.

“Th’ trouble was, 1  reckon,  she’d  be’n 
readin’  a  hull  lot  o’  blame  trash,  an’ 
’xpected some prince was  cornin’ ’long  t’ 
offer hisself, w’ich  did  happen,  only  he 
wa’n’t no prince, ’xcept,  mebbe,  ’cordin’ 
t’  her notion. 
It was a blame  dood  fr’m 
somewhere  East,  th’t  struck  town  an’ 
got  job a ’t th’ Cleveland  smelter, keepin’ 
time—a  feller  named,  ’r  callin’  hisself, 
Ward  Fortescue.

“He  hadn’t  hardly  struck  th’  camp 
b’fore him  an’  Marne  meets  each  other, 
an’  is  mashed,  most  immejit.  He  was 
one o’ these  slim,  purty  ducks  th’t  c’u 
sing lots an’ put up  a  real  smooth  talk, 
an’ make book-love—one  o’  these  sweet 
warts th’t a feller aches t’ spank an’ kick.
I s’pose it’s women’s  natur’  t’  git  stuck 
on ’em, ’cause they alus do.

“ Anyhow,  Fortescue,  as he  called  his­
self,  wades right in an’ rushes  Mame  fer 
all he was worth,  an’  Mame  she  liked  it 
all right,  so ’twa’u’t long ’tore she up an’ 
tells her folks th’t him an’  her is goin’ t’ 
git  spliced.  Th’  ol’  lady  was  tickled 
lots, ’cause Fortescue had  lied t’ her con- 
sid’ble ’bout his folks,  an’  how rich  they 
was, an’ so  on;  but  the  ol’  man  kicked 
right  smart,  tellin’  Mame 
th’t  Mister 
Dood had got t’ cough  up  his papers  an’ 
show  his  hand,  likewise  givin’  Smith 
names  o’  people  they  c’d  write  to  fer 
recommends.

“Mame,  as I  said  b’fore,  had  sperrits 
herself,  an’ she  kicked  hard,  sayin’  she 
was of age an’  her own  boss,  an’  c’d  do 
as she pleased; but th’  ol’ gent got hot in 
th’ collar an’  tol’  her  t’  shet  up,  w’ich 
she done,  keepin’ up heaps o’ thinkin’ all 
th’ time.

real  prompt. 

“Th’ ol’ gent come  t’  me  an’  chinned 
awhile;  then  he  went  an’  seen  Berry 
Wright, th’  lawyer,  an’  he  wrote  some 
letters,  w’ich,  fer  a  wonder,  one  was 
answered 
Pinkerton’s 
agency wrote th’t  th’ d’scription  b’long­
ed t’  a chap named Ward  th’t  was  want­
ed in Michigan fer  shakin’  his  wife  an’ 
leavin’  th’ bank he worked fer in th’ hole.
“I tuk th’ letter an’ started fer Smith’s, 
after I’d et supper.  On  th’  way up, here 
come Smith,  like a hen  with ’er head cut 
off,  shakin’ ban’s  with  hisself,  an’  tur’- 
ble ’xcited, ’cause he’d  be’n  t’  see Fortes­
cue,  an’ Fortescue told ’im  he  was  dead 
sure  t’  marry  th’  gyurl  ef  she  didn’t 
shed ’im.

“I tol’  th’  ol’ gent  ’bout  th’  letter  an’ 
other evidence,  an’  he felt better.  Then 
we walked up t’  th’ house  an’  waded  in­
ter th’ gyurl, provin’ t’  her  th’t  th’  cuss 
was as  low-lived  a  scamp  as  they  was 
out o’ jail.  D’ye you  think  she  keered? 
Oh,  no.  She jes’  rips out at  me,  an’ you 
bet,  she  roasted  me  bad,  windin’  up  b’ 
hopin’  she’d never see  me  again.  Then 
she turns on th’ ol’ gent with a lot  o’  rot 
’bout his  slanderin’  Fortescue,  an’  how

she loves the blame rascal,  an’  is  goin’ t’ 
toiler ’im t’ the devil,  ’r somewheres.

“Did she come? 

“Th’ next mornin,’  her  an’  th’  dood 
was  missin.’  They  went  t’ 
th’  nex’ 
camp,  got  married  by  a  justice  o’  th’ 
peace, an’ skipped.  She wrote  t’  th’  ol’ 
folks fr’m  Denver, askin’ t’  be  forgiven, 
an’ sayin’  how  happy  she  was;  but  her 
pa wrote back sayin’ she  c’d  come  home 
jes’  w’en  she  pleased, 
if  she’d  leave 
Ward—Smith called ’im Ward,  w’ich was 
his name, sure ’nough—an’ came  t’ stay.
I  sh’d  say  no.  She 
stuck t’ Ward,  an’ got treated like  a  dog 
fer it.  He used  t’ get  drunk  and  ’buse 
Marne,  an’  raise Cain all sorts  o’  ways— 
an’  still  she  didn’t  kick  none.  We 
never give  Pinkerton  any  more  inf’rma- 
tion,  so Ward wasn’t bothered none f’r  a 
couple  o’  year.  Then  he  up  an’  run 
away f  m Mame an’  tli’  kid,  leavin’  ’em 
nary red; but it  jes’ happened  he  met  a 
feller th’t knowed ’im,  an’ he was gently 
ruuned  in  ’an  tuk  t’  Michigan.  They 
socked it to ’im hard, too, ’cause his first 
wife’s folks was  riled  up,  an’  th’  bank 
he’d stole  from  was  likewise  achin’  t’ 
take a fall out of ’im.

“Mame? 

She’s  at  D’troit—I  don’ 
know  how  she  got 
in 
sewin’  an’ tryin’ t’  keep  her  an’  th’  kid 
alive till that skunk gits out o’ jail.

there—takin’ 

“Don’t women beat  th’ very dooce?”
And  Mr. Harden  shook  his  head  and 
R.  L.  Ketchum.

sighed heavily. 

Hard Hearted Grocerymen.

The  Greeley-Burnham  Grocery Co., of 
St.  Louis,  reports  the  following  exper­
ience with a Texas grocery firm:

On  March  12  we  received  a  telegram, 
sent  at  our  expense,  and  signed  “C.  W. 
Collum & Co.,  Decatur, Tex.,”  asking  us 
to  send  them a round  trip  ticket  to  St. 
Louis  and  return,  as  they  desired  to 
come to this market and  buy goods.  We 
replied  that  we  were  a  little  short  on 
rouud.trip  tickets  at  the  present  time, 
and  were  unable  to  comply  with 
the 
request.
We  then  received  another  telegram, 
also at our  expense, asking  us to send  a 
salesman to  Dallas  to  meet them.  This 
being  a  little  more  reasonable, we  tele­
graphed  our  salesman  to  go  to  Dallas, 
which  he  did at an  expense of  $16, only 
to find fifteen  or  twenty other salesman, 
who had been summoned by mail or wire 
for the  same  purpose.  Our  representa­
tive  succeeded,  however,  in  getting the 
order,  which amounted to the  munificent 
sum of  $325,  and which,  in traveling  ex­
penses,  telegrams,  etc., had  already cost 
nearly  10  per  cent,  to  sell.  The  sales­
man 
returned  home,  kicking  himself 
every few  minutes at having spent three 
days’ time and $25 in money to sell a $325 
order.  Reaching  home  tired, weary and 
disgusted, he  found  a telegram  from  C. 
W.  Collum  &  Co.  (also  sent  “collect”) 
countermanding  the  entire  order.  His 
feelings  may be imagined.
For genuine,  unmitigated  gall and  im­
pudence,  we must say that  C. W. Collum 
& Co.  beat  the  record  up to date.  They 
are daisies,  and no mistake.

New Business Block at Negaunee.
N eg a u n ee,  May  5—Having  fully  de­
cided  to  erect a brick  block  during  the 
coming  summer, P.  B. Kirkwood  is  now 
negotiating with the Masonic lodge,  with 
a  view of  putting on  a  third  story, the 
entire floor  space  to  be  fitted  up for the 
purposes of  the  order.  Should  the  ar­
rangement be effected, contracts for clear­
ing the  site will  be made as soon as  pos­
sible,  as  well as for  the  erection of  the 
new structure. 
It is the purpose to have 
the  new  building  ready  for  occupancy 
within four  months  from the  time work 
is commenced.  According  to  the plans, 
the  front will  be  made of  brick  and  red 
stone,  with  plate  glass  fronts,  and  will 
be the most  elegant of  the several  hand­
some ones of the street.  The erection of 
the  building  makes a break  in a wooden 
row which will  tend  to  lower insurance 
I rates of the entire block.

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Because  it is always ready to m ake and preserve a record of money paid in and out.
Because  there  are no “charge  slips,”  “received on account  slips,” “paid  out  slips” and “just 
Because  a merchant can file away his entire day’s business on one sheet and refer in an instant 
Because  figures won’t lie, but machinery, if out of repair, is bound to.
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Because  you are not obliged to strike three or four keys to register one amount.
Because it is simple, practical, reasonable in price, and accomplishes the results that merchants 

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to the record of any previous day.

desire.

LOBDELL  &  GEIGER,  Gen’l  Agents,

39  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

MICHIGAN  BARK  & LUMBER  CO.,

Successors  to

dry goods stores,  who  receives  a  salary 
of  $1,600  per  year.  “What!”  I  hear 
some incompetent idler exclaim, who has 
become  too  delicate  for  manual 
labor 
and has concluded to wait for some “soft 
snap”  to  turn  up,  “a  clerk  in  a  dry 
goods  store  getting  $1,600  per  year?” 
Just  so,  my  young  imbecile;  but  you 
must remember  that  this  man  has  full 
and  complete  charge  of  the  carpet  de­
partment of this establishment.  He was 
cradled,  so  to  speak,  in  this  branch  of 
industry,  and  received  in  early  life  a 
thorough 
this  particular 
mercantile  pursuit.  His  early  practical 
experience,  followed by a close attention 
to business,  has made  him  an  expert  in 
his liue and fitted  him  for  the  responsi­
ble position which he  holds.  This man, 
naturally,  is  no  brighter  than  hundreds 
of  other  men  who  are  not  capable  of 
earning one-third  as  much,  simply  be­
cause he was  trained  and  prepared  for 
some usefulness, while they were not.

training  in 

The  writer  has  no  desire  to  commit 
himself as to  the  merits  or  demerits  of 
the  plumbers’  strike,  now  pending  in 
this city, but there is  one  statement  em­
bodied in the reply of  the  employers  to 
the  set  of  rules  adopted  by  the  men 
which has the genuine  ring  of  common 
horse sense in it.  They stated that  they 
would  “treat  with  each  man  individu­
ally,  as  to  his  wages,  under  the  new 
order,  on 
the  basis  of  his  value  to 
them.”  This is surely the only  just and 
equitable basis of treatment  in  all  cases 
involving  an 
interchange  of  values— 
and labor and wages should be no excep­
tion to the rule.  Every one  knows  that 
ten  hours’  labor  of  one  man  may  be 
worth  $3.50, while  ten  hours’  labor  of 
another  man  may  not  be  worth  more 
than  $2.50.  Now,  suppose  some  arbi­
trary  power  undertakes  to  compromise 
the matter by fixing  a  uniform  price  of 
wages at $3,  and then forces these men on 
employers  at 
this  fixed  schedule  of 
prices.  The employer who  might  be  so 
untortunate as to  have  the  poorer  man 
assigned to him,  would  be  compelled  to 
pay him 50 cents  per  day  more  than  he 
could earn, which would be an act of  in­
justice to such employer.  On  the  other 
hand,  the employer to whom was  assign 
ed the better man,  would  get  the  benefit 
of his labor for 50 cents per day less than 
he earned,  which  certainly  would  be  an 
act of injustice  to  this  workman.  This 
may be construed as a sort  of  charitabl e 
or  mutual  benefit  system;  but,  in  the 
writer’s  opinion, 
it  is  unreasonable, 
theoretically,  and  promotive  of  bad  re­
sults,  practically. 
to 
annul natural law by applying unnatural 
It  tries  to  uphold  the  weak  by 
law. 
| suppressing the strong. 
It  attempts  to 
foster  incompetency  at  the  expense  of 
superior  capacity. 
i 
premium on mediocrity  and  retards  ad 
vancement,  and  reverses  the  engine  of 
human progress.
admonition  of  my 
former article—give the  boys  a  chance 
by  fitting  them  for  some  useful  oceu 
pation. 

In  fact,  it  puts 

It  undertakes 

E. A. Owen.

repeat 

the 

1 

GIVE  THE  BOYS  A CHANCE.

Written for The Tradesman.

in 

this 

My  last  article 

line  of 
thought was descriptive of the unfortun­
ate  condition  of  the  American  citizen 
who finds himself upon the stage of action 
to-day without  means  and  with  a  wife 
and family on his  hands;  and,  owing  to 
early  neglect  or  wasted  opportunities, 
compelled to face the world as a common, 
unskilled laborer.  An appeal was  made 
to the present generation of men  to  give 
their boys a chance to  successfully  fight 
the battles of life,  by preparing them for 
the  higher  planes  of  industry  and 
the 
more  skillful  lines  of  usefulness.  The 
boys  of  one  short  generation  ago,  who 
were given a chance and  improved  their 
opportunities,  are the men  who  turn  the 
wheels of industry to-day.  They are the 
skilled  Knights  of 
Industry,  whose 
handicraft  produces  the  wealth  of  the 
nation and furnishes us  with  everything 
material to  our  comfort  and  happiness. 
The spectre of idleness possesses  no  ter­
rors for them,  for the  world  will  always 
have need of their efficiency and skillful­
ness. 
It  is  only  the  raw  material  of 
humanity  who  are  compelled  to  carry 
the hod and stand  on  the  street  corners 
and wait for the next job.  The  demand 
for mere brute force is becoming less and 
less all the time and the  time  is  rapidly 
approaching  when 
the  man  who  can 
offer the world  nothing  better  than  this 
will receive mighty little recognition  for 
his unsolicited contribution.

These  boys  of  the  past,  who  were 
given a chance and embraced  it,  are  the 
men who pour into our streets  when  the 
whistles  scream  out  the  signal  for  the 
close  of  the  day’s  labor.  They  come 
from the factories and shops and, as they 
wend  their  way  homeward,  they  pass 
scores of the raw material class standing 
on the street  corners,  growling  at  the 
times  and  cursing  at  everything 
in 
general,  because there is  nothing  to  do. 
These  are  the  chronic  grumblers  and 
perpetual  kickers  and  their  name  is 
legion.

Follow  one  of  these  shilled  workmen 
to  his  home  and  what  will  you  find? 
Yes; his  home,  and  paid  for,  or  being 
paid  for,  out  of  surplus  wages.  You 
will find a  neat,  cosy  little  cottage  and 
in  that  cottage  carpets  are  upon  the 
floors and oil paintings  adorn  the  walls. 
In the  sitting  room  stands  a  book-case, 
well stocked with books  and  magazines 
a fancy rack upon the  wall  contains  the 
morning  or  evening  paper—perhaps 
both; one or more  instruments  of  music 
—quite  frequently an organ or a piano— 
and a  sewing  machine  are  found  there 
Upon an  extension  table  in  the  dining 
room,  awaiting the labor-stained Knight, 
is spread the supper,  fit  for  a  king,  and 
more luxurious in its make up  than  was 
ever  prepared  for  a  knight  of  skilled 
labor in any other laud beneath  the  sun. 
Add to all this a happy,contented and well 
provided  for little wife,  and two or three 
bright-eyed and neatly-dressed American 
born babies,  and you have the picture  of 
an  average,  industrious  and  temperate 
artisan’s home in  this country.

The writer lives  in  a  section  of 

the 
city where  these  homes  abound  and  he 
knows what he is writing about.  Among 
them  are  carvers, 
pattern  makers, 
plumbers, builders,  book-binders,  paint­
ers,  printers,  etc.,  and all receiving$3.50 
upwards per day,  with  steady  work  the 
year  round.  The  writer  is  acquainted 
with a salesman  in  one  of  our  leading

Use  of  Samples.

Weary clerk  (after cutting off  twenty- 
five samples of dress goods)—Is that  all, 
madam?
Miss Grabbe—Urn!  1  would  like  one 
more sample.  My mother is  so  particu­
lar.  Cut me off  a  piece  from  that  roll 
under your hand.
Little Sister  (loudly)—Why,  Moll, that 
won’t do at all.  Mother said she  wasn’t 
going  to  have  any  blue  in  that  crazy 
quilt, ’cause it always fades.

We are now ready to make contracts for the season of  1894.  Correspondence solicited.

18  and  19  W iddicomb  Building.

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AMONO THE TRADE.

ABOUND THE STATE.

Delton—A.  E. Varah has opened a har­

ness shop here.

Adrian—Geo. Brenner  succeeds  E.  H. 

Meyer in the bakery business.

Benton  Harbor—L.  Kennedy has  sold 

his grocery stock to C.  M.  Martin.

Wood’s  Corners—R.  E.  An slow  suc­

ceeds R. Warren in general trade.

Alpena—Jas.  E.  Field  &  Co.  succeeds 

Field & Gray in the drug business.

Grayling—Hymon Joseph has  sold  his 

dry goods stock to Rosenthal Bros.

Constantine—R.  F.  Watkins  will  re­

move his drug stock to Union City.

Gulliver—H.  O.  Rindy is succeeded  by 

Humeston & Stiles in general trade.

Edmore—Regis  &  Burgess  succeed 

Thos.  Regis in the grocery  business.

Homer—J.  H.  Darrow  succeeds  Dar- 

row & Knight in the grocery business.

Lansing—Oscar M.  Elliott  succeeds  J. 

W.  Higgs, Jr.,  in the grocery business.

Bay City—Geo.  G.  Powers  &  Co.  suc­
ceeds E. A.  Spear in the grocery business.
Brighton—Samuel  Harwood  has  sold 
his grocery stock to W. C.  Havens & Son.
Menominee — J.  EL  Jewett  succeeds 
Mrs. J.  F.  Anson in the notion  business.
Saginaw—Wm. Graham succeeds A. J. 
(Mrs.  W.  I.)  Woodruff in  the  drug  busi­
ness.

Alpena—Geo.  W.  Keudrix  succeeds E.
S.  (Mrs.  G. H.)  Warren in  the dry  goods 
business.

Bay  City — Altman  &  Grossman  suc­
ceeds  Endelman  &  Co.  in  the  clothing 
business.

Marlette—Geo.  Weaver succeeds Emily 
L.  (Mrs. James  A.)  Fisher  in  the  drug 
business.

Kalkaska—Hobbs  &  Palmer  succeed
T.  D.  Hobbs  in  the  grocery  and  meat 
business.

Muskegon—Ralph Buitendorph is  now 
operating  his  meat  market  at  264  Ter­
race street.

Saginaw—F.  L. Carter &  Co.  have  dis­
to  De 

posed  of  their  grocery  stock 
Groat Bros.

Laingsburgh—Whitney &  Bailey  have 
sold their grocery stock and meat market 
to  F.  M.  Dodge.

Grand Ha^ren—Clark  &  Lum  are  suc­
ceeded by Clark  &  Knight  in  the  flour 
and feed business.

Jackson—Frank D.  Hamilton  succeeds 
W.  H.  Hamilton & Son  in  the  tea,  coffee 
and spice business.

Gill's Pier—Wm.  F. Gill,  of the firm of 
Wm. Gill & Son, general dealers and saw­
mill operators, is dead.

Ontonagon—James Corgan & Son have 
sold their dry goods and grocery stock to 
J.  M.  Wadsworth & Co.

Ubly—J.  W.  Herber 

the 
former firm of  J.  W.  Herber & Co.  in  the 
dry goods and grocery business.

succeeds 

Elm  Hall—J.  R. Shaffer has purchased 
the old Hudson store  building  and  will 
remove his drug stock to that location.

Kalamazoo—Rudow  &  Galligan  are 
succeeded by Carl Rudow  in  the  whole­
sale and retail cigar and liquor business.
Cadillac—F.  H.  Huntley has  sold  his 
jewelry  stock  to  E.  W.  Thompson,  who 
will  continue  the  business  at  the same 
location.

North Muskegon—A.  R.  Williams  has 
opened  a grocery  and  men’s  furnishing 
goods  store  at  Alberts  &  Rosenberg’s 
sawmill,  at the outlet of Bear Lake.

Vestaburg—Dr.  Y.  C.  Van  Liew  has 
decided to remove his drug stock to West

Owosso,  having  given  the  Hazeltine  & 
Perkins Drug Co.  an order for the  neces­
sary fixtures.

Altona—Hafey  &  Lyons  have  pur­
chased the sawmill of  H.  J.  Brown  and 
will 
adding 
machinery for the manufacture of broom 
and mop handles.

capacity, 

increase 

Greenville—T.  E. Johnson has sold his 
interest  in  the  cigar  firm  of  Roneigk, 
Johnson  &  Co.  to  Louis  Roenigk  and 
Craig Slaght  and  has gone  on  the  road 
for a glove and mitten firm.

its 

Muskegon—J.  E.  Rochon  has  sold  his 
interest in  the drug firm of Deschamps & 
Rochon to James  P.  Eddy,  formerly  of 
Lake  Linden.  The  new  firm  will  be 
known as Deschamps & Eddy.

Detroit — The  three  coal  firms,  Pitt­
mans & Dean,  Hall  &  Ashley  and  Peo- 
cock & Son,  have  decided  to amalgamate 
their  business  into one  stock  company, 
to be known as The Pittmans & Dean Co.
in 
partnership with his son  of  the  firm  of 
Rolinson Hros.,  of  Hesperia,  have leased 
the Twining  building  and  will  open  a 
bazaar store under the firm name of  Rol­
inson & Son.

Shelby—E.  Rolinson,  of  Parma, 

Allegan—J.  B.  Lehman  and  Louis 
Eisenberg,  who  have  had  charge  of  the 
Model shoe store here  for  several  years, 
have  formed  a  copartnership  and  will 
embark  in  the  shoe  business  at  Kala­
mazoo about Sept.  1.

Fife Lake—Ph.  Bernstein  has  moved 
the old Pioneer  drug  store  upon  the  lot 
formerly  occupied  by  C.  C.  Bailey’s 
double store.  He will repair  the  build­
ing and  add twenty-five feet at  the  rear. 
When it is completed,  he  will  occupy  it 
with his general  stock.

Manistee—J.  W.  Rich,  a  well-known 
and  highly  respected  business  man  of 
this  city—formerly  of  the  drug  and 
grocery  firm  of  Scoville  &  Rich,  and 
later,  up to the time of  his death  engag­
ed  in  the  grocery  business  on  River 
street West—died  on  May  2  of  kidney 
trouble.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Coleman—Lloyd  &  McMorris  are  cut­
ting 30,000 staves daily, and  will  put  in 
machinery to manufacture heading.

Rhodes—Post & Ferguson are building 
a mill near  this  place  for  the  manufac­
ture of lumber,  lath and table legs.

Detroit—Williamson,  Griggs  &  Co., 
manufacturing  chemists,  are  succeded 
by the Williamson  Manufacturing Co.

Hammonds  Bay—Fitzpatrick  Bros, 
have  banked  6.000,000  feet  of  logs  for 
the Presque isle Lumber  Co., in Presque 
Isle county, and  will  resume  operations 
in about two weeks.

Bay City—Jonathan  Boyce  is  driving 
piles  for  the  foundation  for  his  new 
planing  mill.  The  Michigan  Central 
Railroad is extending  its  tracks  to  this 
plant.

Beaverton—Seely & Flood are  floating 
the frame of the Noland  &  Co.  sawmill 
from its former site on the Coleman road 
down  the  South  Tobacco  river  to  this 
place,  where it will  be  equipped  with  a 
complete  outfit.

Saginaw—The  Saginaw  Combination 
to  manufacture  and  sell 
Ladder  Co., 
ladders,  has  been  organized  by  Ezra 
Rust, Wm. Binder,  George  L.  Burrows, 
W.  G.  Hay,  Norman  L.  Miller,  Joseph 
Barber  and  Frank  R.  Potter.  Capital 
stock, $15,000.

Ludington—James Foley banked during 
the past season 12,000,000 feet of logs for

Change  in  the  Route  of  the  "Grand 

Rapids.’’

The Grand  Traverse  Herald is author­
ity for the  statement  that  the  route  of 
the  City  of  Grand  Rapids  has  been 
enlarged in  a  way  that  will  work  still 
more  to  the  benefit  of  Traverse  City, 
Grand Rapids  and  other  jobbing  points 
in Western Michigan. 
Instead of simply 
running  between  Traverse  City  and 
Manistique,  she  will  extend  the  line  to 
Escanaba and  Gladstone,  thus  not- only 
making  connections  at  Manistique  with 
the through  “Soo” line  railroad,  but  at 
Gladstone  with  the  Chicago  &  North­
western.

The change  is  a  most  important  one 
and T h e  T radesm an  hopes  to  see  the 
route  so  well  patronized  that  Hannah, 
Lay & Co.  will be impelled  to  make  the 
venture permanent.

Division street,  where the bus­
iness  will  be  continued under 
the style of
SWARTOUT  &  DOWNS.
Previous to that  time,  I offer 
any  goods  in  my stock  at  cut 
prices for spot cash.

W.  H.  DOWNS,

8  So.  Ionia  Street.

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

0 JOBBERS  OF

State Agents for

the  Pere  Marquette  Lumber  Co.,  and 
next  season  will  put 
in  the  last  of 
the 50,000,000 feet that  he  contracted  to 
log four  years  ago.  There  will  be  an 
overrun of 8,000,000  feet  on  the  50,000,- 
000 contracted for.

Detroit—The Howarth Reversible Sash 
Co.  has  filed  articles  of  incorporation. 
The capital stock is $10,000,  divided  into 
1,000  shares,  500  of  which  are  held  by 
Henry  Howarth, 250  by Malcomb P.  Mc­
Gregor  and  250  by  Benjamin  F.  Berry. 
The  company will  do  business  all  over 
the United States.

Manistee—Vessels  have  been  making 
very quick round trips of late.  One that 
left loaded on Friday was back  on  Tues­
day morning,  and one came from Chicago 
to  Manistee  a  few  days  ago  in  fifteen 
hours,  which  is  better  time  than  has 
ever been  made  before  by  either  barge 
or schooner so far as ever recorded.

Ludington—Thos.  R.  Lyon,  Agt., sold 
last week  500,000  feet  No.  1  strips  and 
boards to  go  to  Muskegon,  and  350,000 
feet of  the same  kind  of  stock  to  go  to 
East Saginaw.  The latter shipment goes 
by  rail,  and  part  of  it  is  green.  This 
will  be  be  one  of  the  best  years  we 
have had  for the  lumber  business  if  we 
get the logs to make  the  lumber  out  of.
Grayling—It  is  stated  that  Michelson 
& Hanson,  whose new mill  at  Lewiston, 
on the Twin  Lake  branch  of  the  Michi­
gan Central,  was burned  April  16,  have 
perfected  arrangements with C.  A. Cline, 
of West Branch,  to saw 8,000,000  feet  of 
the firm’s logs.  The  logs  will  be  railed 
from  Lewiston to  West Branch, and  will 
stock the Cline mill for the entire season.
Marquette—J.  C.  Brown had his  dam 
at the mouth of Boice creek carried away 
last  week.  As  the  loss  of  this  would 
mean  the  hanging  up  of  5,000,000  or
6.000.  000,  he is rebuilding it.  The heavy 
rains have helped the  streams  consider­
ably,  and a few warm  days  to  melt  the 
snow  remaining  in  the  swamps  would 
give  a  fair bead of water in many of the 
streams.

Cheboygan—The sawmill of  Pelton  & 
Reed  has  started  for  the  season,  with
20.000.  000 feet of logs in sight, of  which
9.000.  000 will come from  Canada,  all  in 
boom and ready to be  rafted  across  the 
lake. 
improvements 
made by Thompson Smith’s Sons to their 
big mill have been  finished,  and the  mill 
is ready  for  business.  The Huron Shore 
mills are all well stocked for the  season, 
and the output will  doubtless  be  larger 
than that of last  year.

The  extensive 

The Hardware Market.

The window glass market is firm at the 
recent advances  and the general  impres­
sion  is  that  the  agreement to close  the 
factories  on  May  30—thirty days earlier 
than usual—will  not be  rescinded  at the 
coming  meeting  of  manufacturers  at 
Chicago, but  that  the agreement will  be 
carried  out  as  originally  intended. 
In 
case  this is done,  present  prices will  not 
only be maintained but  further advances 
will take place.

The  ma nufacturers of  bar  and  sheet 
iron are all  looking for labor  troubles in 
June and July, which will case a scarcity 
of  goods and a corresponding advance in 
prices.

While  the  National  Cordage Co.  is  in 
nearly  absolute  control  of  the  market, 
yet  the  one or two  factories  outside the 
combination  and  the large  stocks in the 
hands of jobbers tend to make the market 
a little unsettled.

15 8  A   1 6 0  F u lto n   St.  Gránelo R a p id s  j

Wm. Brilmmeler ì  Sons

M anufacturers and  Jobbers of

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

T elephone  640.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

H.  W.  Worden,  grocer  at  811  Fifth 
avenue,  has removed his  stock  to  Boon, 
where he has resumed business.

R. B.  McCulloch,  druggist  at  Berlin, 
has added a line of groceries.  The Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
the 
stock.

furnished 

Edmund Whalen has opened a  grocery 
store at 20  Ellsworth  avenue  under  the 
style of  Whalen  Bros.  The  Ball-Barn­
hart-Putman Co.  furnished the stock.

The  Fuller  &  Rice  Lumber  Co.  has 
put in a supply store  in  connection with 
its  sawmill  at  Gilchrist.  The  Lemon 
& Wheeler Company furnished the stock.
John C.  Kendall,  who  embarked in the 
manufacture of  furniture  ornaments  on 
Prescott street about six months ago, has 
sold  the  business  to  Frank  P.  McGraw 
for $2,700.

J. C.  Hertstein, grocer at 183 Plainfield 
avenue,  has sold hi3 stock  to  G. Timmer 
and  Isaac  Van Vliet, who will  continue 
the business  under  the  style of  Timmer 
& Van Vliet.

Youngblood & Son have sold their meat 
market  business  at  the  corner  of East 
and Cherry streets  to  Fred  Pegler,  Jr., 
who will  contiuue  the  business  at  the 
same location.

John Haan has purchased  the  fixtures 
of  Geo. C.  Thompson,  at  Montague,  and 
engaged in the  grocery  business  at  that 
place.  The Olney &  Judson  Grocer  Co. 
furnished the stock.

F.  B.  McKay,  grocer  at  670  Cherry 
street,  and  Thos.  Price,  meat  dealer  at 
672  Cherry  street,  have  joined  hands 
under the style  of  McKay  &  Price  and 
will hereafter conduct  both  branches  of 
the business under one management.

A. M. Le Baron has  sold  his  interest 
in the firm of Le Baron Cobb, grocers  at 
780 South Division street,  to his partner, 
who will continue the business under the 
style of  Geo.  H.  Cobb.  Mr.  Le  Baron 
will continue his present connection with 
the Commercial Credit Co.

“There  are  twenty-eight  men  in  the 
retail grocery business  in  this  city  who 
formerly worked  for  me  in  the  Widdi- 
comb Furniture  Co.’s factories,” remark­
ed Wm. Widdicomb, the other  day,  “and 
of that number only  one  has  failed  and 
all have achieved  success,  in  greater  or 
less  degree.  1  consider  such  a  record 
most remarkable in every respect.”

Richard D. Swartout, formerly a  mem­
ber of the  firm  of  Spring  &  Company, 
has  purchased  a  half  interest  in  the 
notion and furnishing goods  business  of 
W.  H. Downs and the firm will be known 
as Swartout & Downs after June  1, when 
the  new  arrangement  goes  into  effect. 
The place of  business  will  be  changed 
from 8  South  Ionia  street  to  41  South 
Division street,  where the firm has leased 
a three-story and  basement building for a 
term of years.  Both members of the firm 
have  had  cnosiderable experience in the 
business and have many friends among the 
trade who will wish them success.

Gripsack Brigade.

Ed. Pike has so far recovered  from  his 
recent illness as to be able to resume  his 
regular trips on the road.

S.  R. Evans has  recovered  from  a  six 
weeks’  illness  with  typhoid  fever  and

taken a position as city salesman for  the 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.

Willis P.  Townsend, who  has  traveled 
for  S.  K.  Bolles  &  Co.  for  some  time 
past, has  gone on  the  road  for the Han- 
selman  Candy  Co., of  Kalamazoo,  with 
which concern he was formerly identified. 
He  will  continue  to  reside  here,  the 
same  as  before.  Geo. A.  Sage, the  erst­
while  Rockford  grocer,  succeeds  him 
with Bolles & Co.

Jack W.  Lindsay, formerly State agent 
for the Liggett & Myers Tobacco  Co.,  of 
St.  Louis, but now Maine  agent  for  the 
J. Wright Co., of Richmond, Vir.,  was in 
town  all  last  week  and  left  Saturday 
night for  Boston,  where  he  makes  his 
home.  He expects to return in  Septem­
ber  and  complete  a society event of no 
small dimensions.

“Our  firm,”  says  a  young  business 
man,  “has a traveling man whose wife is 
what is commonly termed a terror.  She 
regulates her husband  in  every  particu­
lar, draws his salary and  doles  it  out  to 
him,  comes  in  and  raises  Sancho  with 
the house  if  he  is  out  too  long,  and 
makes herself generally obnoxious.  All 
the men in the  office  are  afraid  of  her, 
and  you  would  laugh  to  see  them  all 
scatter off and get  very  busy  when  she 
appears.  Well,  sir,  this  year  the  firm 
wanted  to  cut  that  drummer’s  salary 
down,  and how do you think they did  it? 
They knew his wife  would  make  things 
lively  if  she  knew  his  salary  was  de­
creased,  so they fixed it up between them 
that his pay was to be  reduced,  but  that 
his  wife  should  draw  the  old  amount, 
and that  as  the  drummer  has  a  little 
bank account  he  would  make  matters 
square  with  the  firm  at  the  end  of  the 
year.  How’s that for terrorizing  abiliity 
—one  little  130-pound  woman  holding 
under  her  thumb  her  husband  and  a 
whole firm besides.”

Purely Personal.

J. C. Rings,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
drug business at  Shelby,  has  taken  the 
management  of  C.  P.  Utley’s  store  at 
Hesperia.

D.  W.  Richardson,  formerly  engaged 
in general trade at Standish,  but now en­
gaged in the cedar pole, post and tie bus­
iness at that place was  in  town  one  day 
last week.

Chas.  H.  Kirkwood,  who  recently  pur­
chased  the  long-established  drug  busi­
ness  of  P.  B.  Kirkwood,  at  Negaunee, 
was  instantly  killed  Saturday  night  by 
being thrown from an electric  street car. 
His body was terribly mangled.

Albert Retan, formerly engaged in  the 
mercantile  business  at  Muir  and  St. 
Johns, now  a  wild  and  invincible  real 
estate boomer  at  Little Rock, Ark., is in 
the  State  for  a  few  days,  calling  on 
friends and relatives in  various  parts  of 
Michigan.

Country  Callers.

Galls  have  been 

received  at  T h e 
T radesm an office  during  the past week 
from the following gentlemen in trade:
J. G. Neuman & Go., Dorr.
Brown & Winslow,  Benton Harbor.
L.  A.  Knowles,  Stetson.
F.  N. Cornell.  Sebewa.
J.  L.  Handy, Boyne City.
F.  A. Jenison, Manton.
Amboy cheese are again in the market, 
as  announced  by  the  Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer Co.  in another  column.  The  de­
mand so  exceeded  the  supply  that  last 
fall  they  were  unable  to  secure  half 
enough  to  fill  winter  orders,  although 
taking the entire make.

AM BOY
CHEESE.

For  25  years the  leading  brand.  Not  the  cheapest,  but 
the  best  and  most  profitable  to  handle.  “ Good  as  Amboy ” 
has  been  for  years the argument  used  by  our competitors  to 

sell  inferior grades.  You  cannot afford to experiment.  Stick 
to  the  “Amboy,”  you  KNOW  they  are  O  K.

You  can  SELL  ten  while  TRYING  to  sell  five  of  any 

other  brand.

liNEY  I  JUDSON
GROCER  CO.
Do you  sell  it? 
What?

Ivy

C u t !

w  m m m

The Best  Tobacco  in America  to  Retail  at 50  cents.
BALL-BARNHART-PUTMAN CO.

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Pants,  Shirts,  aid  Overalls

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for life.

STANTON, MOREY & C0„ Mtrs.

DETROIT, MICH.

Geo. F. Owen, Salesman for Western  Michigan, 

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

6

A  ROW   OF  BRICKS.

American workingmen in all  branches 
of industry are to be congratulated  upon 
the probability that there will be no gen­
eral strike ordered in the building trades 
for  the  purpose  of  securing  the  eight 
hour day.  The  loss  caused  by  such  a 
strike  would  be  wide-spread.  There 
would be  idleness  and  financial  strin­
gency  among  many  thousands of  house 
carpenters,  bricklayers,  stone  masons, 
metal workers, plasterers,roofers, glaziers, 
decorators,  painters,  hod  carriers,  etc. 
These,  together with  owners or contract­
ors,  would constitute the  direct  parties 
to any such  contention,  and  it  is  such 
parties who decide  whether  work  shall 
proceed  or  cease. 
is  commonly 
thought that they  alone  are chiefly con­
cerned.  Not so.  They  make  up  but  a 
small  fraction  of 
the  body  of  people 
affected.

It 

A  cessation  of  work  on  the  part  of 
builders woeld have its  most prompt sec­
ondary effect in a more  or  less  complete 
stagnation  of all trades that  are  mainly  j 
conducted  for  supplying  builders  with 
material.  Brick kilns would grow  cold, 
quarrymen  would  find  business  slack, 
iron  moulders  would  feel  the  blight, 
manufacturers  of  window  glass  would 
suffer,  the effect would  be  serious  upon 
sawmills and planing  mills, there would 
be  trouble  among  the  makers  of  cut, 
wrought and wire  nails  and  white  lead 
works would be in danger of suspension.
As the next to feel  the  harmful  influ­
ence must be reckoned occupations which 
less  directly  yet  largely  depend  upon 
the  building  industry.  For 
instance, 
there is the immense business  of making 
mechanics’  tools.  This list also includes 
teamsters, 
freight  handlers  and  retail 
dealers in  all commodities used in  build­
ing,  with  their  employes. 
If  build­
ing  should  come  to  a  standstill  there 
would be less work for janitors,  for  ele­
vator operators, for stationary engineers, 
for messenger boys and scrub women.

But we have not  yet  begun  to  get  to 
the end.  Men who  do  not  have  money 
cannot spend money.  The total idleness 
of many, the partial idleness of diminish­
ed savings of many more,  means  unpaid 
debts, impared credit,  smaller  consump­
tion of food, fuel,  clothing,  doing  with­
out almost all  luxuries  and  very  many 
necessities of life.  There is not a farmer 
in Dakota, a coal miner in Pensyl vania,  a 
weaver in  Rhode Island, a lumberman in 
Michigan,  a shoemaker in Massachusetts, 
a tobacco grower in Virginia,  an  orange 
grower  in  Florida  who  would  not  be 
more or less affected by  any  widespread 
labor  disorganization  that  might  come 
upon  any single branch of  the  great  in­
dustrial  world.

There is  an  old,  familiar  illustration 
that  is  especially  in  order  now  when 
labor troubles in  the  building  industry 
threaten.  Teachers  of  natural  philoso­
phy in  schools sometimes give  an  object 
lesson thus:  Place on  any  smooth  sur­
face a row of bricks,  standing them  with 
their broad sides toward one another and 
an inch or two apart, then tip  the  brick 
at one end of the  row  against  the  next 
one and watch how each  in turn will fall 
against  its  neighbor  until  every  brick 
has been  overthrown,  though  only  one 
was touched from the outside.  Even so, 
in this  complex  and  multiplex  modern 
society  of  ours,  do  we  all  stand  or 
fall, at  any  rate  stand  or  stumble,  to­
gether; and none of us can  tell  when  he 
starts a movement where it will stop.
S.  S. P a ck a r d.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic.................  7
Argyle  ...................  6
Atlanta A A............ 6
Atlantic  A..............  634
H..............  6)4
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D..............  6
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Amory.....................  6)4
Archery  Bunting...  4Q 
Beaver Dam  A A..  534 
Blackstone O, 32—   5
Black Crow............ 6
Black Rock  ...........6
Boot, AL................  7
Capital  A................534
Cavanat V..............5)4
Chapman cheese cl.  334
Clifton  C R ............ 5)4
Comet.....................   634
Dwight Star............  634
Clifton CCC...........6*4

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.Arrow Brand  5*4 
World Wide..  6)4
“  LL................  434
Full Yard Wide...... 6)4
Georgia  A................6)4
Honest Width......... ¿34
Hartford A ............ 5
Indian Head...........  7
King A A................6)4
KingR C ................   5
Lawrence  L L ........  534
Madras cheese cloth 634 
Newmarket  G........  534
B  ... ..  5  '
N ___..  634
DD.. ••  534
X  ... ..  6%
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Our Level  Best......6)4
Oxford  R ...............   6
Pequot....................  7
Solar.........................634
Top of the  Heap__7
Geo. Washington...  8
A B C .  .....................834
Glen Mills.............   7
Amazon.................. 8
Gold Medal............   7)4
Amsburg.................7
Green  Ticket......... 834
Art  Cambric...........10
Great Falls.............   634
Blackstone A A......7)4
Hope....................... 7J4
Beats All.................. 4)4
Just  Out......   434® 5
Boston....................12
King  Phillip...........734
Cabot......................   7
OP......7)4
Cabot,  X ...  .............634
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Charter  Oak...........5)4
Lonsdale...........   @ 8)4
Conway W................7)4
Middlesex.........   @ 5
Cleveland.............. 7
No Name................   7)4
Dwight Anchor...... 834
Oak View...............   6
shorts.  8
Our Own................ 5)4
Edwards................. 6
Pride of the West... 12
Empire...................   7
Rosalind.................7)4
Farwell.....................7)4
Sunlight..................  4)4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8)4
Utica  Mills............ 834
Fitchville  ............. 7
“  Nonpareil  ..10
First Prize..............  7
Fruit of the Loom %.  7)4
VInyard..................  8V4
White Horse...........  6
Falrmount..............  434
“  Rock............ 834
Full Value..............634
IDwlght Anchor...... 834
Cabot. 
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Farwell.
Middlesex No.  1 — 10
TremontN..............  5)4
“  2....11
Hamilton N............   6)4
3....12
“ 
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Middlesex  AT........  8
8....19
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No. 25....  9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
Hamilton N ............ 7)4
Middlesex P T ........  8
A T........  9
X A........  9
X F ........ 10)4

Middlesex A A........11
2 .............12
A O ....... 13)4
4....... 17)4
5....... 16
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colored__19)4 White Star...............18
colored.. 20
Nameless................20
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Peerless, white.......17)41 Integrity  colored.
Integrity.................18)41
Hamilton................  8
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G G  Cashmere........20
Nameless  ...............16
............... 18

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UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

HALT  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

DRESS  GOODS.

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CORSET  JEANS.

Corallne................. 19 501Wonderful................ 84 50
Schilling’s . .  .........  9 00 Brighton......................4 75
Davis  Waists......  9 00 Bortree’s ...................  9 00
Grand  Rapids.......  4 50|Abdominal............15 00
Naumkeagsatteen..  7
Armory...................  634
Rockport...................6)4
Androscoggin......... 7J4
Conestoga.................63l£
Biddefora...............  6
Walworth................ 634
Brunswick............... 634
ITS.Berwick fancies—   5)4
f r u
Allen turkey  reds..  534
Clyde Robes...........
robes............ 5)4
Charter Oak fancies 4)4 
pink a purple 634
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
buffs...........   6
moum’g  6 
. pink checks. 5)4
Eddy stone fancy...  5)4 
staples.........534
chocolat  5)4 
shirtings...  4
rober....  5)4 
American fancy—   5)4 
sateens..  5)4 
American indigo—   5)4 
American shirtings.  4 
Hamilton fancy. —   5)4 
staple....  534 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Manchester fancy..  5)4 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
new era.  5)4 
....  6)4
Arnold 
| Merrimack D fancy.  5)4 
Arnold  Merino.....  6 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  434 
long cloth B.10)41 
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Repp furn .  8)4
“  C.  8)4
“ 
century cloth 7
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Pacific fancy..........5)4
robes..............6)4
“  gold seal......10)4
Portsmouth robes...  5)4 
“  green seal TR 10)4 
Simpson mourning..  5)4
“  yellow seal.. 10)4
greys........5J4
“ 
serge............ 11)4
solid black.  5)4 
“  Turkey red.. 10)4 
Washington indigo.  534 
Ballon solid black..  5 
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“  Turkey robes..  7)4
“  India robes___ 7)4
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  plain Tky X 4   8)4 
red and  orange...  5)4
“ 
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Berlin solids...........  5)4
“  Ottoman  Tur­
“  oil blue.........6)4
key red................ 6
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Martha Washington
“  Foulards....  5)4
Turkeyred X........ 7)4
“  red 34............7
“  %...........  9)4
Martha Washington
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Rlverpolntrobes....  5
¡Windsor fancy..........6)4
Cocheco fancy......
6 
“  madders..
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indigo bine..........10)4
“  XX twills.
.  5)41 Harmony...................434
solids......
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AC A......................12)4
Pemberton AAA. ...16
York....................... 10)4
Swift River............ 7)4
Pearl  River............ 12
Warren................... 13

Amoskeag AC A.... 12)41
Hamilton N............   7)4
D............ 8)4
Awning. .11
Farmer....................8
First Prize.............11)4
Lenox M ills..........18
Atlanta,  D..............  634|Stark  A 
...........  8
Boot........................ 644 No  Name................... 7)4
Clifton, K...............   6J4|Topof Heap...........9
Simpson..................20
.................18
.................16

Imperial..................10)4
Black................9@ 9)4
“  BC...........  @10
A A A ..................  12

Coechco..................10)4

gold  ticket

COTTON  DRILL.

SATIRES.

5 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

DEMINS.

“ 
“ 

Amoskeag.............. 12)4
9 oz...... 1334
brown .13
Andover................. 11)4
Beaver Creek  A A... 10 
“ 
BB...  9
“ 
CC.... 
Boston Mfg Co.  b r..  7 
bine  8)4 
“ 
“  d a twist  10)4 
Columbian XXX br.10 
“ 
XXX  bl.l#

“ 
“ 

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

“ 
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“ 

GINGHAMS.
Lancaster,  staple...  7 
“ 
fancies —   7
“  Normandie  8

“ 

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

“  Persian dress 834 
Canton ..  834
“ 
AFC........10)4
“ 
Teazle... 1034 
“ 
“ 
Angola.. 10)4 
“ 
Persian..  8)4 
Arlington staple—   6)4 
Arasapha  fancy—   434
Arasapha  fancy—   4:
Bates Warwick dres 8: _
staples.  6)4
Centennial............   1034
Criterion................ 10)4
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin.......................   7)4
Everett classics......8)4
Exposition............... 734
Glenarie.................  634
Glenarven................ 634
Glenwood.................734
Hampton...................6)4
Johnson Ohalon cl 
)4 
Indigo blue 9)4
zephyrs__16

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

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GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag...............16341 Valley City..............15
Stark......................  19  Georgia..................If
1534|Pacific  ....................13
American.
THREADS.

Barbour's................ 88
Marshall’s............... 88

KNITTING  COTTON.

Clark’s Mile End... .45
Coats’. J. & P .........45
Holyoke..................22)4
White.  Colored.
38 NO.  14 .......37
39
“  16 .......38
••  18 .......39
40
“  20 .......40
41
CAMBRICS.

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

No.

White. Colored.
42
43
44
45

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

Edwards.  .............  4
Lockwood.................4
Wood’s..................   4
Brunswick...........   4

RED  FLANNEL

Fireman.................32)4
Creedmore............. 27)4
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless............... 27)4

T W........................ 22)4
F T ..........................32)4
J RF, XXX............35
Buckeye.................32)4

MIXED  FLANNEL.

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DOMET  FLANNEL.

Red & Blue,  plaid..40
Union R .................22)4
Windsor.................18)4
6 oz Western..........20
Union  B ................ 22)4
Nameless...... 8  @9)41 
......8)4@10  I 

Grey SR W.............17)4
Western W  .............18)4
D R P ...................... 18)4
Flushing XXX........ 23)4
Manitoba................ 23)4
9  @10)4 
1234
Slate. Brown. Black. I Slate. Brown. Black.
13
9)4
15
10)4
17
11)4
20
12)4
Severen, 8 oz..........   9)4 (West  Point, 8 oz— 10)4
Mayland, 8oz......... 10)4 
10oz  ...12)4
“ 
Greenwood, 7)4 oz..  9)4  Raven, lOoz............13)4
Greenwood, 8 oz— 11)4  Stark 
............13)4
Boston, 8 oz.............10)4  |Boston, 10 oz..........12)4

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

934 13
10)4 15
11)4 17
12)4|20
DUCKS.

“ 

WADDINGS.

|

SELESIAS.

SEWING  SILK.

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

White, doz............ 25  IPer bale, 40 doz— 87 50
Colored, doz...........20 
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Red Cross....  9
Best..............10)4
Best AA......12)4
L............................... 7)4
G...............................8)4
Cortlcelll, doz.........75

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

No 2-20, M C. 
3-18, SC ..

twist, doz. .37)4 
50 yd, doz. .37)4
HOOKS AND ETES—PER GROSS.
“ 
“ 

No  1 Bl’k & White.,10  INo  4 Bl’k & Whlte.,15
..20
..12  “ 8 
..12  I  “  10 
..25
PINS.
...50  INo4—15  F  3)4........40
...45  I 
COTTON  TAPE.
No  8 White & Bl’k..20 
No  2 White A Bl’k..l2 
“  10 
.28
..15
.26
“  12 
..18
SAFETY  PINS.
....28  INO 3..
NEEDLES—PER  M.

4 
6 
No 2.

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A. James.................1  401 Steamboat....  ........  40
Crowely’s............... 1  35 Gold  Eyed............... 1  50
M&rshàU’B..............1 00
5—4. ...2 25  6-4...3 2515—4.... 1  95  6—4...2 95 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“ 

...3101
COTTON TWINES.

.  2 10 

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............18)4
Anchor..................16
Bristol...................13
Cherry  Valley........15
I X L.... .................. 18)4
Alabama.................634
Alamance...............   634
Augusta...................7)4
Ar- sapha................  6
G e m » ...................  634
G ranite................  534
Haw  River...........5
Haw  J ......................6

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

“ 

Mount  Pleasant..
Oneida.................
Prymont  ............
Randelman.........
Riverside............
Sibley  A..............
Toledo.................

.  6)4
.  5
•  Mi
.  6
-  534
..  634

PLAID  OSNABUBGS

THE

MODEL
(Trade Mark.)
FORM.

Greatest  Seller  on Earth!

Dr.

U lL llilig  l
FRENCH

SHAPE

Send for Illustrated  Catalogue.  See  price list 

in this journal.
SCHILLING  CORSET  CO.,

Detroit. Mich, and Chicago, 111.

U S E

M IL E -E N D

Best Six Gord
Machine  or  Hand  Use.

— FOR —

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL

Dealers  in  Dry  Goods & Notions.

THE  MICHIGAlSr  TRADESMAN.
Hardware Price Current.

HAMMERS.

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

60
Snell’s........................................................... 
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine......................................  
25
Jennings’,  imitation...................................50410

AUGURS AND BITS. 

AXES.

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

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

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

BARROWS. 

bolts. 

dlS.

die.

Stove..............................................................50&10
Carriage new list.......................................... 70410
Plow.............................................................. 40410
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70

buckets.

BUTTS, CAST. 

Well,  plain..................................................• 3 50
Well, swivel.................................................   4 00
dlS.
Cast Loose Pin, figured................................704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 60410
Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60410
Wrought  Table............................................. 60410
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60410
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70410
Blind,  Parker’s.................  .........................70410
Blind, Shepard’s .......................................... 
70

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

60

Grain......................................................dls. 50402

BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

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

CARTRIDGES.

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

CHISELS. 

dls.
Socket Firm er...... ...................................... 70410
Socket Pruning.............................................70410
Socket Corner................................................... 70* 10
Socket Slicks................................................ 70<$¡10
Butchers’Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

58
25

dls.

COMBS. 

CHALK.
COFFER.

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

“ 

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

drills. 

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

dls.

DRIPPING PANS.

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

07
  6ft

 

ELBOWS.

Com. 4  piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
75
40
Corrugated........................................... dis 
Adjustable............................................ dls. 40410
dls.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, 118; large, 126.......................  
SO
Ives’, 1,118; 2,124; 8,830.............  
25
 
piles—New List. 
Dlsston’s .......................................................60410
New  American.............................................60410
Nicholson’s ..................................................60410
Heller’s......................................................... 
50
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................................... 
28
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
List 
16 
17

GALVANIZED IRON.

dls.

12 

15 

 

13 
Discount, 60

14 
GAUGES. 

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

60

dis.

Maydole 4  Co.’s..................................... dls. 
25
25
Kip’s ................................................. 
dis. 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s............................................ dis. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand— 30c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 ................................dls.60410
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 in. 4ft  14 and
longer........................................................  3ft
Screw Hook and  Bye, ft.................................. net 10
“  %................... 
“ 
net  8ft
“  %...........................net  7ft
“ 
“  %...................   ...net  7ft
“ 

HINGES.

“ 
“ 
“ 

dis.

dls.

dls.

HANGERS. 

dls.
dls.

levels. 

MATTOCKS.

LOCKS—DOOR. 

mauls. 
mills. 

knobs—New List. 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

HOLLOW WARE.
 

Strap and T ...................................................... dls. 50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50410
Champion,  anti friction.............................   60410
Kidder, wood track..................................... 
40
Pots......................  
60410
Kettles...........................................................60410
Spiders  .........................................................60410
Gray enameled........................................  .. 40410
Stamped  Tin Ware............................... new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................  
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new Ilst33ft410
wire goods. 
Bright...................................................... 70410410
70410410
Screw  Byes............................. 
Hook’s .....................................................70410410
70410410
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ............... —  
70
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
55
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..................  
Russell 4 Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
55
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s............................ 
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s ................................................... 
55
Adze Bye......................................... 116.00, dis. 60
Hunt Bye.  ......................................615.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s....................... 
...........618.50, dis. 20410.
dis.
50
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
“  P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry 4  CIp <k’s................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60410
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 60410
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Steel nails, base................................................... 1 85
Wire nails, base....................................................1 90
Advance over base: 
Steel.  Wire.
60...................................................... Base  Base
Base 10
50................................ 
 
25 
05
40.. 
25 
30.. 
10
20.. 
35 
15
45 
15
16.... 
12..  . 
45 
15
10....
50 
.  20 
8....
60 
.  25 
75 
.  40 
746.
90 
.  60 
4......
3......
1  20 
.1  00 
1  60 
.1  50
1  60 
Fine 3................................................1 50
65 
Case  10.............................................  60
75 
8.............................................  75
90 
6.............................................  90
75 
Finish 10..........................................   85
8..................................... 1 00
93 
6............................................ 1 15
1  10 
70 
Clinch; 10.........................................   85
80 
8 .........................................................................1  00
90 
6................ 
115
Barren %...........................................1 75
1  75 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   ©40
Sclota Bench................................................  ©60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  ©40
Bench, first quality......................................   ©60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood...........  410
Fry,  Acme............................................ dis.60—10
Common, polished................................dls. 
70
dls.
Iron and  Tinned.........................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................  50—10
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

MOLASSES GATES. 

 
PLANES.

NAILS

“ 
<• 
•• 

r iv e t s. 

PANS.

dls.

dls.

.
..
..

“  
“ 

m  

Broken packs ftc per pound extra.

ROPES.

SqUARBS. 

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, ft inch and larger.............................  
9ft
Manilla........................................................   13
dls.
Steel and Iron..............................................  
Try and Bevels............................................. 
Mitre............................................................ 

75
60
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
62 95
3 65
3 05
3 15
325
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14......................................64 05 
Nos. 15 to 17 .....................................  4  05 
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4  05 
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4  05 
Nos. 25 to 26 .....................................  425 
No. 27 ...............................................   4 45 
I wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86...................................... dls. 
Silver Lake, White A..............................list 
“ 
Drab A..................................  “ 
“  White  B................................  “ 
“ 
Drab B...................................  “ 
“  White C.................................. “ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
50
55
35

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dis.

saws. 

traps. 

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

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton 825
20
70
50
30
30
Steel, Game................................................... 60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s —  
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion............................... 81.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market......................................... 70—10
Coppered Market  ........................................  60
Tinned Market.............................................  62ft
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  3 10
painted....................................  2 65

wire. 

dis.

“ 

WRENCHES. 

Au  Sable................................................. dls.  40
Putnam.......................................... 
dis.  06
Northwestern................................ 
dls. 10410
dis.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75410
Bird Cages.......................  
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
75
Screws, New 11st..........................................70410
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50410410
Dampers, American..................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods....... 65410

MISCELLANEOUS. 
 

dl8.

 

 

HORSE NAILS.

METALS,
FIG TIN.

ZINC.

26c
28C

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2ftc per pound.
680 pound  casks...........................................  6ft
Per pound....................................................  7
ft@ ft.................................................................. 16
Extra Wiping.................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONT
Cookson........................................per  pound
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MELTN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................8 7 50
7  50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
9 25
14x20 IX, 
9 25

Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.

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TIN—ALLAWAY GRADS.

10x14 IC, Charcoal.........................  ...........8 6  75
6 75
14x2010, 
10x14 IX, 
8  25
14x20 IX, 
9 25

Bach additional X on this grade 81.50.

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ROOFING PLATES

14x20 IC, 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
“ 
20x28 IC, 
14x20IC, 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
“ 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
“ 
14x28  IX................... 
14x31  IX................................  
14x60 IX, f“r 

“  Worcester................................  6 50
“ 
..........................   8 60
“ 
.........................  13 50
“  Allaway  Grade................  6 00
7  50
“ 
“ 
12  50
16 50
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATS.
814  08
15
10

' 9 B0I‘1‘er,, \ Per Pound  ... 

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BUSINESS  LAW.

Summarized  Decisions from  Courts  of 

Last Resort.

FRAUDULENT REPRESENTATIONS—STOCK.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota held, 
in the recent case of Redding  vs.  Wright 
et al., that if a member  of  a  corporation 
offering  his  stock  for  sale,  falsely  and 
fraudulently  represents  that  the  corpo­
ration  is  not  in  debt  and 
is  making 
profits of a specified  amount,  and  there­
by induces one to  purchase his  stock,  he 
is responsible for the fraud, even though 
the purchaser  might  have  discovered  it 
by  investigation  into  the  affairs  of  the 
corporation.

HUSBAND AND WIFE—MORTGAGE.

The Supreme Court of Indiana held, in 
the case of  Wilson  et  al.,  vs.  Logue  et 
al.,  that a mortgage given  by  a  husband 
and wife upon real  estate  held  by  them 
by entireties to  secure  a  note  given  by 
them for the husband’s separate  debt  is 
void,  and  that  where  a  building  upon 
land held  by  husband  and  wife  by  en­
tireties  is  destroyed  by  lire,  and  the 
husband informs  the  wife  of  his  inten­
tion to rebuild it  and  the  wife  does  not 
object,  and  is  present  when  material 
bought by the husband  is  delivered  and 
used for such purpose without objection, 
she is estopped to deny her  liability,  and 
the material man is entitled to a  lien  for 
the material furnished.

from 

taxation 

for 
the  machinery  used  for 

EXEMPTION—TAXATION—FACTORIES.
The  Supreme  Court  of  Mississippi 
held,  in  the  case  of  Greenville  Ice  & 
Coal Co.  vs. City  of  Greenville,  that  an 
act  entitled  an  act  to  encourage  the 
establishment  of  factories  in  the  state 
and to exempt them  from  taxation,  and 
exempting 
ten 
years 
the 
manufacture  of  cotton  and  woolen 
goods,  yarns  or  fabrics  composed  of 
these or other materials, or for  the  mak­
ing of all  kinds  of  machinery  or  imple­
ments of husbandry, or  all  other  things 
or articles not prohibited by law, did  not 
exempt ice factories,  but  exempted  only 
machinery  used  for  making  articles  of 
like  character  with  the  articles  enum­
erated.

to 

so 

likely 

the 
they 

to  be  put  upon 

same 
are 
are  not 

NEGLIGENCE—DEFEFCTIVE  ARTICLE.
If one engaged in the business of  man­
ufacturing goods not ordinarily of a dan­
the 
gerous  nature, 
market for sale and for  ultimate  use,  so 
negligently constructs an article  that  by 
reason of such negligence it will obvious­
ly endanger the life or limb  of  any  one 
who may use it,  and if the manufacturer, 
knowing  such  defects  and  knowing 
that 
concealed 
that 
be 
discovered,  puts the article  in  his  stock 
of goods for sale,  he is  liable for injuries 
caused  by  such  negligence  to  one  into 
whose  hands  the  dangerous  implement 
comes for use in the usual course of bus­
iness,  even though  there  be  no  contract 
relation between  the latter and the  man­
ufacturer.  So  held  by  the  Supreme 
Court of Minnesota in the case  of  Schu­
bert vs. J. R. Clark Co.
TELEPHONE  SERVICE—DISCRIMINATION.
The decision rendered by Judge Wales, 
in the  United  Mates  Circuit  Court  at 
Wilmington,  in  July  last,  granting  a 
mandamus  compelling  the  Delaware  & 
Atlantic Telegraph  &  Telephone  Co.  to 
place  a  telephone  in  the  Wilmington 
office of  the  Postal  Telegraph  Co.,  has 
been affirmed  by  the  Circuit  Court  of 
Appeals in a decision rendered  at  Phila­
delphia.  The refusal  of  the  defendant 
company to grant  the  plaintiff  company 
the privileges demanded  was based upon 
the claim that the  Western  Union  Tele­
graph  Co.  had  secured  by  special  con­
tract the exclusive right to the use of  its 
service.  The Court of Appeals said that 
while  telephone  and 
telegraph  com­
panies are not  required  to  extend  their 
facilities beyond  such  reasonable  limits 
as  they  prescribe  for  themselves,  they 
cannot discriminate between  individuals 
of classes which they undertake to serve.

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

The  Only Perfect  Barrel Churn  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.

SIZES  AND  PRICES.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

M ichigan Tradesman

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E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  11,  1898.

It 

ADVANTAGES  OF  COMPETITION. 
The advantage  of  competition  to  the 
consumer is  well illustrated  by  the  con­
dition of affairs in Denver, Col.,  where  a 
large part of the community  is  enjoying 
the  free  use  of  as  much  water  as  is 
wanted. 
is  the  result  of  a  war 
between  the  Citizens’  Water  Company 
and  the  American  Water  Company. 
Both companies have  been  fighting  for 
various street franchises  for  some time. 
Recently the  Citizens’  learned  that  the 
American  was  furnishing water to  their 
customers at half  price,  whereupon  the 
former  company  announced  that  until 
further notice they would eharge nothing. 
The  consumers,  however,  will  have  to 
pay for  it  in  the  end,  when  one  com­
pany has  succeeded  in  freezing  out  or 
buying out the other.

A  survey  has  been  made  between 
Chicago  and  St.  Louis  for  an  electric 
railway.  The  distance  covered  is  250 
miles.  The route surveyed is said not to 
touch a  single  city,  village,  or  hamlet. 
It  even  avoids  all  the  graveyards  and 
hits only three  or  four  isolated  houses. 
By the use of this air line  a  cheap  right 
of way has been secured  and a saving  of 
thirty-one miles in distance,  as compared 
with  the  shortest  railroad  between  the 
two  points  has  been  rendered  possible. 
The road is designed purely  for  through 
business,  and it is claimed  that  a  speed 
of 100 miles per hour will  be attained  by 
the cars built for this  road.

$84,000,000 for twelve months.  The  per 
capita  circulation 
is  pat  at  $24.72,  a 
slight increase as  compared  with  April 
1, when the  per  capita  circulation  was 
estimated at $24.68.

People like  to  live  in  a  town  where 
real estate is lively,  but  when  an  earth­
quake takes the moving business in hand 
they think it is overdone.

The  best  candidate  doesn’t  run  for 

office.  He lets the office run for him.

Keep your credit good by  not  using  it 

any more than you can help.

How Not to  Make  a  Sale.

The  attendant,  using 

A “visitor within  our  gates”  stepped 
the other day into a big  Boston  clothing 
store not  many  miles  from  Washington 
street,  with  intent aforethought  to  pur­
chase a spring overcoat.  He was met  at 
the door, says the Herald of that city,  by 
an  elegantly  attired  getleman,  who 
courteously and  with  a  polite  waive  of 
the hand directed him within.
At first  the  visitor  hesitated  a  little, 
for the place seemed filled with  counters 
on which coats,  vests  and  trousers  were 
piled  up  to  prodigious  heights,  and  it 
promised to be difficult to find the article 
of  which  he  was  in  search.  But  on 
gazing  around,  he  gradually  observed 
that at  each  long  counter  a  gentleman 
was stationed,  presumably to help people 
to find what they wanted.  The ambitious 
customer cautiously approached the man 
in charge of  the first counter  and  asked 
to see a spring overcoat.
the  politest 
English,  promptly indicated how glad he 
would be to effect  a  sale;  then,  without 
stirring from his place at the head of the 
table,  he indicated a pile of  spring  over­
coats some five paces  down  the  counter. 
The visitor walked to  the  pile,  took  off 
one of the coats,  tried it on,  and found it 
not to his  taste.  He  thereupon  walked 
back to the attendant,  and  asked  to  be 
shown  another  specimen  of  the  same 
genious.  The man  of  clothing,  who,  in 
the  meantime, had  been  contemplating 
the decorative effects of  a local artist  on 
the ceiling,  affably  pointed  to  another 
pile right at the end of the counter.  The 
would-be customer  again  made  his  way 
to the pile  indicated,  and  sought  there 
for a spring overcoat that would  fit  him. 
He failed  again,  and again came  back  to 
the attendant.
the  attendant,  still 
motionless as a statute at the head of his 
counter,  had  been  watching  the  street 
through the plate-glass  window.
“Found the one you wanted?”  he  ask­
ed,  with  a polite inclination.
“No,” said the visitor,  “can’t I make  a 
trade with you?”
“Trade?” said the other. 
“I  thought 
you came in to buy a spring overcoat.” 
“Yes,” said the disgusted visitor, “and 
I thought you were here to sell one.  Now,” 
be  added,  moving  in  the  direction  of 
the  door,  “my  trade  is  this—just  $100 
to $1 that you won’t see me  in  this  par­
ticular store this side of  kingdom  come. 
Do you take it?”
Before the  astonished  salesman  could 
pick up  his  gold-bowed  spectacles,  the 
door slammed to,  and  another  customer 
had gone away—as Hans Breitman has it 
—“in die Ewigkeit.”

In  the  interim, 

While a sufficient  volume  of  currency, 
is  of  great  importance,  yet  good  faith 
and  business  honor  are  of  more  vital 
consequence  in  the 
long  run.  Every 
dollar issued by our government must be 
as  good  as  every  other  dollar.  This 
makes our  credit  good;  and  under  this 
limitation we could stand an  increase  of 
many billions of dollars  in  our  circula­
ting medium.  Under  any  other  condi­
tions a large increase  would  prove  most 
disastrous.

The monthly  report  of  the  Treasury 
Department shows that there  was  a  net 
increase in the circulation for the  month 
of April  amounting  to  $4,930,724.  The 
total circulation on May 1  was  estimated 
at  $1,613,572,244,  an  increase  of  over

Attention is directed to  the  advertise­
ment  of  John  Le  Duke  in  the  Wants 
Column.  The  business  advertised  is 
deserving of investigation.

The orange  market  is  getting  higher 
and  fruit  is  becoming  scarce.  Lemons 
are  in  good  supply and  prices are  low. 
Bananas  are  plenty and  very reasonable 
in price.

Dynamite  has  been  superseded 

in 
Sweden  for  blasting purposes.  Electric 
wires  are  introduced  in  the  rock  and 
then heated.  The sudden heating of the 
rock rends it in pieces,  quietly and effec­
tively,  without peril to human life.

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WM.  H.  HOOPS.

Brief  Sketch  of  a  Genuine  Michigan 

“ Hustler. ”

Wm.  H.  Hoops was born in Jackson  in 
1850 and received his early  education  in 
the public schools  of that  place.  When 
about 14 years of age he entered the  em­
ploy of the Michigan Central Railroad as 
clerk in the freight office there, resigning 
a year later to take the position of assist­
ant  cashier  of 
the  company’s  main 
freight office in  Chicago.  This  position 
he held for four years,  when he was  pro­
moted to  that  of  chief  cashier—a  most 
responsible position—which he held  un­
til April 1,  1876, when he resigned to  go 
on the  road  for  the  wholesale  grocery 
house of W.  J.  Quan  &  Co.  Although 
he had had no previous experience in the 
business,  either  in  wholesale  or  retail 
trade,  he started out after  “posting  up” 
ten days,  winning success from the start. 
His territory included  all  the  towns  in 
Michigan covered by bis house and  it  is 
a matter of common  knowledge  that  no 
Michigan  salesman  was  ever  able  to 
cover more territory,  see more  customers 
and sell more goods  in  the  grocery line 
than Mr.  Hoops.  He  worked  early  and 
late six days  a  week,  nearly  sacrificing 
health and strength as the  price  of  suc­
cess, acquiring in the mean time  a  com­
fortable competence.  Jan.  19,  1886,  Mr. 
Hoops purchased the interest of John  G. 
Shields in the wholesale grocery  firm  of 
Shields, Bulkley & Lemon, when the firm 
name was changed to Bulkley,  Lemon  & 
Hoops, Mr.  Hoops resigning his  position 
with Quan & Co.  to take  an  active  part 
in the management of the business.  On 
the retirement of Mr. Bulkley, Mr. Hoops 
became manager of the  financial  depart­
ment of the house,  in which  capacity  he 
strikingly exhibited those traits of  char­
acter which strongly  marked  his  career 
on the pathway to success as a salesman. 
He  insisted  that  his  customers  should 
pay their hills  quite  as  promptly  as  if 
they were dealing with Chicago  or  New 
York houses,  and  the  stand  thus  taken 
has since been very generally adopted by 
all of the houses at  this  market.  Early 
in 1889 Mr.  Hoops  formed  a  copartner­
ship with A.  J.  Tucker and Wm.  E.  Bar­
rett,  under the style of Tucker,  Hoops  & 
Co.,  which firm purchased the lumbering 
and  general merchandising plant of Wil­
son, Luther  &  Wilson,  at  Luther.  Mr. 
Hoops retired from the wholesale grocery 
business on July 1 of that year,  when  he 
entered upon the work of bringing  order 
out of chaos in the venture  at Luther—a 
task for which he was peculiarly adapted. 
He soon succeeded in thoroughly system­
atizing every branch of the business  and 
the firm is commonly credited  with  hav­
ing  realized  handsome  returns  from  a 
business which had proved disastrous for 
the former  owners  and  bore  little  evi­
dence  of  prosperity  when  assumed  by 
Tucker, Hoops & Co.  Mr Barrett retired 
from the firm a fiew months after its  for­
mation and on Sept.  1,  1891,  Mr.  Hoops 
purchased  the  interest  of  Mr.  Tucker,, 
since which time  he  has  conducted  the 
business on his own account,  although it 
still 
runs  under  the  old  firm  name. 
Within the last  eight  months,  the  lum­
ber has all  been  sold  and  shipped,  the 
mill sold and removed to  the  South,  the 
logging railroad and engines disposed  of 
and  all  other  unnecessary  assets  con­
verted into cash.  Little now  remains to 
be sold except several thousand acres  of 
land and the stock  of  general  merchan­

dise,  both  of  which  await  prospective 
purchasers.

In January of this year Mr.  Hoops sold 
his residence property  in'  this  city  and 
removed to Chicago,  where  he  resides in 
a handsome and commodious residence— 
bought at a bargain,  of  course—at  4105 
Drexel Boulevard.  Aside from his other 
duties, he  has  found  time  to  purchase 
forty-five acres of  land  within  the  cor­
porate  limits  of  Winnetka, one  of  the 
most promising suburbs of  Chicago,  sit­
uated  twelve  miles  North  of  the  city. 
This he has platted into  396  lots  as  the 
“Wm.  H.  Hoops  Sub-division”  and  is 
already putting the lots  on  the  market.
It need hardly  be  remarked  that  Mr. 
Hoops is a man of  marked individuality, 
with strong likes and equally strong  dis­
likes.  He is  a  firm  friend  and  an  im­
placable  enemy  and  carries  into  every 
detail of his work the same  zealous  am­
bition and powerful energy  which  have 
served him to such good  purpose  in  his 
sure and steady advancement  from  com­
parative poverty to comfortable affluence.

Women  Drummers  in  the  South.

From  the A tlanta'Constitution.

soap  and  gloves. 

Women  are  gradually 

taking  to  the 
road as drummers.  Two were in Atlanta 
last week.  One handles  paints  and  the 
other  hardware.  Mrs.  Miller,  a  hand­
some blonde,  sells the paints.  She says 
that commercial  traveling  offers  an  in­
viting field for  her  sex.  “You  get  ac­
customed to traveling,  and  after  a  few 
weeks you do not mind the fatigue,”  she 
says. 
“Women  make  good  salesmen, 
if we can use  that  expression.  My  sex 
started in  business  by  haudling  drugs, 
perfumes, 
Now 
women  are 
representing  dozens  of 
branches of trade.”
“You are treated with proper respect?”
“Yes,  indeed.  Women are not  insult­
ed in America so  long  as  they  conduct 
themselves with propriety. 
I  think  we 
have some advantages over men.  We are 
not  good  story-tellers  but  we  dispatch 
business.  Merchants are prompt in meet­
ing their engagements  and  they  do  not 
keep us waiting for an  audience.  Until 
the novelty wears  off  women  will  have 
good success.  After a while the business 
world will get used to us and  merchants 
will tell us as quickly as they do  a  man 
that they do  not  want  anything  in  our 
line to-day—that is,  if  they  do  not.  A 
woman does not have to sacrifice an  iota 
in  this  occupation. 
of  her  femininity 
Perhaps we are shown a little more court­
esy  and  attention  than  men. 
I  have 
never had a hotel clerk give me anything 
but the best sample rooms he had  in  the 
house.”
“How do  the  expense  accounts  com­
pare?”  the reporter asked.
“Women have no cigar bills  and  no— 
but  we  won’t  speak  of  that.  Possibly 
the day  will  come  when  an  occasional 
dozen of roses will be  allowed  to  go  in 
the  expense  account.  As  we  do  not 
smoke, 1 think  it  would be  reasonable, 
don’t you?”

Porcelain Industry in Japan.

Seto-mura,  a village in Owari Province, 
has been one of the principal  centers  of 
the  Japanese  porcelain  manufaturing 
industry,  and prior  to  the  great  earth­
quake of October 28 last the  annual  out 
turn  of  porcelain  exceeded  $400,000  in 
value, over 500  furnaces  and  3,500  em­
ployes  being  engaged  daily  in  the  in­
dustry.  Only fifteen  of these  500  furn­
aces, however,  remained intact after  the 
calamitous  earthquake.  The  porcelain 
merchants of Nagoya have therefore  de­
cided to raise  a  fund  on  behalf  of  the 
ruined manufacturers, in order  to  assist 
them to renew their business.

No  fish  can  equal  the  dolphin  as  a 
swimmer. 
It has been observed  to  dart 
through the water at a rate  computed  to 
be much  greater  than  twenty  miles  an 
■hour,  and is often seen swimming  round 
and round  a  vessel  which  is  sailing  at 
highest speed.

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F a c t s   'Talk  L o u d e r   T h a n   W o r d s !

3,487,275  SOLD  IN  1886.

3,500,575  SOLD  IN  1887,

5,092,350  SOLD  IN  1888,
5,830,025 SOLD IN 1889,
8.685,850  E D   1  1890.
b ,983,207 Sold in 1831

This  is  uot  an  ordinary  mouument,  but a TABLE of  EXACT  FIGURES, 

showing the monumental success of our celebrated

B E N - H Z J R

RECORD  BREAKERS
These Cigars are by  far the most popular in the market to-day.  MADE on HONOR 

(The Great 5c Cigar.)

(10c or 3 for 35c)

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

THE  CHINESE  IN  AMERICA.

A  great  deal  has  been written  about 
the  Chinese  in  America,  but,  unfortu­
nately,  prejudice  and  political  interests 
have so  tinctured  most of  the  comment 
that  it  has  been  difficult  for the  unin­
formed reader to form  anything like just 
conclusions  on  the  subject. 
It  is  my 
purpose  here  to  speak  only  of  what  I 
know,  and  twenty  years’  residence  in 
California  may  perhaps  be  thought  a 
sufficient basis for the formation of  posi­
tive opinions  and the  collection of  facts 
upon which to ground them.

Personal experience  does  not  warrant 
me  in  echoing  the  denunciations of  the I 
Chinese which  a  certain  class  of  politi-1 
cians  have  made familiar  to  the Ameri­
can  public. 
I  do  not  believe  that  the 
Chinaman  constitutes  fit  material  for 
American  citizenship,  but  this  belief 
does not rest  upon any conviction of  his 
inferiority. 
It springs from observation 
of  his  non-assimilative  character;  from 
the  fact  that he does  not  adapt  himself 
to  -any  new  or  strange  civilization,  but 
maintains his peculiar national and racial 
habits,  customs  and  views,  no  matter 
how long he may have lived in the United 
States.

The  whole  trend  of  Chinese  civiliza­
tion is away  from  the lines  upon  which 
we are  proceeding.  The  Chinese theory 
of  life  has  little in common  with  ours. 
The  Chinese  system  of  government  is 
entirely different from the American. 
It 
is  only  in  commerce  and  industry that 
the old  and  the  new civilization  appear 
to be capable of coming together.

In the struggle for existence the China­
man  appears  armed  with  exceptionally 
formidable weapons,  and it really  is this 
fact which has caused him to be regarded 
as  an  enemy  by  those  who,  possessing 
less  ability  to  sustain  themselves,  have 
protested  against  exposure  to  competi­
tion with him.  John Chinaman, in truth, 
is  endowed  with  most  of  the  qualities 
which  wise  men  everywhere and  at  ail 
times have held  to  be  conducive to pro-1 
gress  and  prosperity.  He  is  thrifty, 
sober, industrious,  faithful to his  trusts, 
patient,  intelligent,  quick  in  learning, 
and,  as  a  rule,  honest."  When  such'  a 
man was willing to work for small wages, 
it is clear  that  he  was a most dangerous 
rival to white  labor,  which, especially in 
the  far  west,  has  been  handicapped  by 
recklessness, 
intemperance  and  unre­
liability.  The Chinaman not only worked 
for  perhaps  one-third  of  the  current 
white labor  rate,  but he  managed to live 
better  than  in  his  own  country, and  to 
save  money steadily  at  the  same  time. 
There  was  a  period  in California  when 
John  seemed  on  the  point of  expelling 
all white labor  from the  State,  He was 
rapidly  taking  its  place  in  almost  all 
manufactures.  His  services  as a domes­
tic  were  universally  in  demand.  The 
entire laundry business had  long been in 
his hands.  Fruit-growers had discovered 
that  no  labor  was so valuable  as  his  in 
picking and packing.  Farmers preferred 
the sober, quiet,  trustworthy yellow man 
to white hired hands,  who went off every 
Saturday to the nearest saloon, got drunk, 
gambled all Sunday, and frequently were 
unfit for work on Monday morning.

Since that time  the Chinese  influx has 
been checked  by federal  legislation,  and 
there is no longer  any danger that white 
labor  will  ba  driven  from  the  Pacific 
Coast.  A  considerable  permanent  Chi­
nese  population  remains,  however,  and 
it flourishes in its own quiet way.  From

the  very  first,  as  was  to  have  been  ex­
pected,  there  has  been  trouble  between | 
John  Chinaman  and  the  United  States | 
over the opium question.  John will  and 
must  have  his  opium,  which  is  really 
much  more  moderately used  than might 
be  thought  from  the highly  sensational | 
statements  about  “ opium  joints.”  Of 
course,  the  drug  is  abused, like  every­
thing  else;  but, considering  how large a | 
proportion of the Chinese take it in some | 
form,  and  how  small  a  percentage  of j 
them are  visibly affected  by it,  the  con­
clusion is  justified  that it does not count i 
nearly so many victims as whisky.  How- 
ever that may be, the smuggling of opium 
into San Francisco has given the custom- 
house people there a great deal of trouble, 
and  has so educated  them  in  the  pene-1 
tration of  “ways that are dark and tricks 
that  are  vain,” that a highly  interesting 
and  decidedly  curious  volume  could  be 
filled with such experiences.

To give  the  readers  of  The  Trades- j 
man some idea of  John Chinaman's craft j 
and cunning,  I
  will  give an account  of  a j 
few of  the  devices  to  which  he  used to j 
resort for the  economical  introduction of j 
his favorite  drug.  At  one time  it  came | 
to  be  noticed  that  an  unusual  quantity j 
of bamboo  steamer-chairs  was  being im- | 
ported from  China.  Several  such  ship- j 
ments had  passed  the  cnstom-liouse  be- J 
fore suspicion  was  aroused,  and  then  it j 
was discovered  that  the  hollow  bamboo j 
legs of  the folding-chairs had  been skill- 
fully fitted with tin cylinders,  filled with j 
opium.  Of  course,  a  seizure  followed,  j 
but,  no  doubt,  the  “Heathen  Chinee” 
who devised  the trick  had  already made | 
a  handsome  profit  on  his  venture,  and j 
could afford the loss easily.

A device which was much simpler, and 
therefore far more difficult to detect,  had 
probably been employed  for years before 
it was  found  out.  All  the Chinese  who 
landed in San  Francisco came as steerage 
passengers,  and,  as  such,  of  course,  had 
| to  furnish  their  own  bedding,  which, 
naturally  enough,  being  frugal-minded 
folks,  they  carried  ashore  with 
them 
when they arrived at their journey’s end. 
How  long the  revenue  officers had  been 
accustomed  to confine  their  perfunctory 
inspection  of  John’s  baggage  to  such 
examination of  his  bed as satisfied  them 
that no  tins of  opium  were  sewed  up in 
it,  will  probably  never  be  known;  but 
there came a day when  an  officer  took  it 
into  his  head  to  rip open  oue  of  these 
mattresses, and the result was surprising. 
Sure enough,  there  were  no tins  of  opi­
um,  but  the  entire  stuffing of  the  mat­
tress had  been  saturated with  the  semi­
liquid  opium,  several  pounds of  which 
could  be distributed in this way.  When 
the Chinaman  got to Chinatown  with his 
baggage,  the opium experts  put  his  bed 
through  a  process  which  released 
the 
drug, and it was once  more ready for the 
uses of  commerce.  The  smuggling  car­
ried  on  in  this  manner  had,  no  doubt, 
been  very extensive,  and  the  loss to the 
revenue  heavy;  but  though  when  the 
dodge  was once  discovered it could  not 
be  employed  again,  it  was quite  useless 
to try  to  detect  the  guilty  parties,  and 
the  only  course  was to keep  a  brighter 
lookout  for  the  future.  But  John  did 
not give his enemies in the custom-house 
much  rest. 
Scarcely  a  mouth  passed 
without  bringing to light  some  new and 
ingenious  method of  evading  the opium 
duty.  As  invariably  happens,  though 
governments  never  learn  wisdom  from 
experience  in  such  matters,  it  was  the

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high duty that engendered the smuggling.
A moderate one would  not  have  made it 
worth  while.  The risk would  have been 
too great  for  the  profit.  But  the  high 
duty  was  kept up,  and  so  the  duel  be­
tween  the  importers  and 
the  revenue 
officers continued;  and  the  mere  fact of 
its continuance  proved,  for  many  years, 
that it paid the smugglers well.

“Heathen  Chinee”  acted,  and  with  his 
usual  good  fortune. 
It  was  nearly im -, 
possible  for  the  most skeptical  revenue 
officers to  fasten a suspicion  upon  these 
barrels of eggs, everyone of which might 
be  passed through  the  hand without be­
traying the faintest suggestion of  iniqui­
ty.  Yet, as  a  matter of  fact, these  eggs 
were,  in a startling number of  instances, 
base impostures.  Precisely how the cheat 
came to be revealed I do not now remem­
ber, but  in due  time it was  realized  that 
in every package of  real eggs  there  was 
a certain  (or uncertain)  number of  sham 
ones—tin  eggs—made  exactly  to  resem­
ble the genuine  article, and  which,  after 
being  filled with  opium,  were  carefully 
coated  with  tar, rolled  in  sawdust, and 
laid  side by side  with the  innocent hen- 
fruit.  Truly  the  heathen Chinee  is  pe­
culiar  for  ways  that  are  dark;  but  in 
view of  the general  success of  his smug­
gling  operations,  it  can  hardly  be  said 
with truth that his tricks are vain.

The craft of the Chinese was exhibited 
in their selection of methods. 
It is to be 
observed  that  they  never  attempted  to 
smuggle by means of goods in themselves 
likely to attract special attention.  They 
invariably made  use of  something  com­
mon, and large quantities of which might 
be  imported without  arousing suspicion.
One  day  a  considerable  shipment  of 
Chinese shoes  had been  landed from the 
steamer.  Just  such shipments  had been 
seen on that wharf scores of times before, 
and nobody paid  any attention  to  them. 
They were put  up  without  heavy cover­
ings,  so that each parcel  could  be easily 
examined.  The  shoes  were  those  with 
thick,  white  soles  and  low  heels.  The 
sole  was  fully  an  inch  thick, and  with 
little  stiffening  in  it.  Now,  a  package 
of these innocent-looking shoes had  been 
flung  on  the  top of  a pile of  cases,  and 
a  custom-house  officer  happened  to  be 
lounging and  half  sprawling  over  these 
cases  while  he  chatted with  a  comrade. 
As  an  idle  man  will,  sometimes,  he had 
taken  out  his  pocket-knife,  and  as  he 
talked he occasionally stuck the  point of 
the blade into the lid of the packing case, 
on  which he was  leaning.  Presently,  to 
diversify  the  routine a  little,  he  stuck 
his  knife  into  the  heel  of  one  of  the 
Chinese  shoes  which  stood  temptingly 
near;  and,  as  he  did  so,  he  heard  the 
familiar  “click”  of  metal  upon  metal. | 
The sound roused him instantly from his 
listlessness, and  it  was  but  a  moment’s 
work to rip open  the thick,  white sole of 
the shoe,  and to expose, neatly imbedded 
therein,  a flat tin case of  opium,  made to 
fit  the  cavity. 
In  this  case,  again, no­
body  ever  knew  how  many opium-filled 
shoes  had  passed  through  the  custom­
house before the trick was found out.

He  has  led  the  revenue  officers  the 
liveliest of dances, and has so stimulated 
their detective  faculties  by the  amazing 
versatility  and  fecundity of  his  inven­
tion that  by this  time  it  ought to be  no 
I longer possible  even  for  him to devise a 
I new trick.  Yet  opium  smuggling  has 
never ceased,  and if  it  has  been  practi­
cally  stopped  at  San  Francisco,  it  has 
only been  transferred to the  British Col­
umbian  frontier, and placed  in  conven­
ient  connection with the  other extensive 
business  of  surreptitiously  introducing 
Chinese into California in defiance of  the 
Exclusion  Act.  The  racial likeness  be­
tween  Chinamen  has  been  a  standing 
difficulty  for  years,  and  John, with  his 
characteristic  astuteness,  has  taken  ad­
vantage of  it.  Under  the  law,  a China­
man who  had  elected to live  permanent­
ly in California could pay a visit to China 
and  return,  and  to  prevent  deception 
all possible  means of  identification  were 
resorted to.  The  home-going  Chinaman 
was  furnished  with  papers which  were 
supposed to describe  him  so  completely 
that it would  be  impossible  for  any one 
else to use  them  without  being  at  once 
detected.  All  these  precautions,  how­
Another Chinese invention  was, if pos­
ever,  proved  unavailing  to  prevent  the 
sible, still more subtle. 
It had long been 
admission to the State of strangers.  Per­
the  custom  to  import  eggs  from China. 
haps a Chinaman  had “made his pile”  in 
The  practice,  no  doubt,  originated 
in 
California.  Two or  three thousand  dol­
pioneer times,  when the  chicken-ranches 
lars  is  a  fortune  in  China, and  such  a 
were  few  and  far  between,  and  when 
sum  may be  accumulated in a few  years 
ship-loads of  dirty clothes  were  sent  to 
by  one  of  these  extraordinarily  thrifty 
China to be washed.  Not that the owners 
and abstemious  people,  whose living and I 
of  the  clothes  sent  them.  Your  early 
lodging  costs  them  very little, and  who 
Californian  was  not  built  that  way. 
I can  easily save  half  their  income  upon I 
When  he  had  worn  a  shirt  until it was 
an earning of  a  dollar a day. 
In such a I 
soiled,  he  simply took it off  and threw it 
case,  the man  about to leave  the country 
away,  buying  a  new  one  instead  of 
would never  think of  declaring  his  real
bothering  himself  about  a  laundry;  but
sundry  canny  folks  took  advantage  of  purpose to the  authorities, for  he  would
see  in  the  papers authorizing his return 
this  custom  to  collect  all the  discarded 
a new means of  profit, and  no Chinaman 
linen,  flannel, etc., send it to China to be 
allows  such  an  opportunity  to  escape 
washed,  and on its  return  sell it for new 
him.  On reaching China,  he looks about 
goods.  The  business  was  found  profit­
for some  friend or acquaintance  who de­
able for a time.  At  the  same  period,  in 
sires  to  try his  fortune in America,  and 
all probability,  the Chinese egg  business 
there  are  always  plenty eager  to  grasp 
was set on  foot.  Now,  since  the voyage 
at  such a chance of  wealth.  Then  this 
from China to San.Francisco is not of the 
adventurer  is  carefully  coached  by  the 
shortest,  and  since  eggs  are  fragile and 
California  Chinaman,  who  knows  just 
perishable  products,  precautions  were 
what questions  will  be  asked  him,  and 
taken to preserve them in their primitive 
who prepares  him to meet  every enquiry 
freshness.  They were  dipped in tar and 
based  upon  the  passport.  Of  course, 
then  rolled  in  sawdust.  Whether  this 
there must be some personal resemblance 
process really had any preservative effect 
between  the  two  men, but  there  is  no 
upon  them I am  unable  to  say;  but one 
difficulty  about  that,  and  so  the  ruse 
thing it certainly did  do, that is, make it 
generally succeeds.
impossible to distinguish the original egg 
until each  individual specimen had been 
carefully  cleaned.  Upon  this  fact  the

At  one  time  experiments  were  made 
with  the  French  device,  which  consists

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in taking  ink-impressions of  the  thumb, 
it  being  alleged 
that  no  two  human 
thumbs  were  identical,  and  that  conse­
quently,  whatever  facial  resemblances 
might  exist, the  manual  test  would  be 
beyond  evasion.  As it is  not  pretended 
that  the  entrance  of  new  Chinamen  to 
California has been completely prevented, 
the  presumption must  be  that even  the 
thumb-signature  has failed  more or less. 
Its .adoption may, however, have diverted 
the smuggling of  Chinamen  to  the fron­
tier  of  British  Columbia,  the  extent  of 
which  is  such  as  to  defeat  any attempt 
to police it effectually.

The  Chinese  in  California,  with  the 
exception,  perhaps, of the wealthier mer­
chants,  are  emphatically  birds  of  pas­
sage,  and  this  is one of  the  popular  ob­
jections  to  them.  Speaking of  the mer­
chants,  it is due to them to say that their 
commercial  standing  is  very  high. 
1 
have been told  by a California  banker of 
large experience  that  he  had  never lost 
a  dollar  through  a  Chinese  merchant; 
that,  as  a  class, they were  scrupulously 
upright,  and  that  he  would  sooner  do 
business  with  them  than  with  a  large 
proportion of  white  men.  This  reputa­
tion  for  probity  attaches to the  Chinese 
merchants  of  California  generally,  and 
some of  these men and  firms do business 
on a very large  scale and  employ  a great 
deal of  capital.  Among  them  will  be 
found  many whose  manners  are  refined 
and  polished,  and  who so conduct  them­
selves as  to  be  entitled  fully to the  ap­
pellation of  “gentlemen.” 
It  is  not un­
common  to  meet  in  this  class  Chinese 
who speak  and write  several languages, 
and whose English is idiomatic and fluent. 
Reserved and  exclusive  as  regards their

private lives,  they  know  how to exercise 
an elcgaut hospitality  upon  occasion, and 
not seldom,  and  quite  after the  Oriental 
fashion,  conceal  much  luxury  in  their 
homes behind  the  most  unprepossessing 
exteriors.

The  mass of  Californian  Chinese  un­
doubtedly live squalidly.  Like the lower 
classes  in  all  countries,  they  are  accus­
tomed  to  crowd  together,  and  to  disre­
gard  sanitary principles in their  general 
mode of  life.  Still  the  Chinese  quarter 
of  San  Francisco  is  by  no  means  the 
swarming and filthy region it was twenty 
years ago.  Perhaps  it  will  compare not 
unfavorably with the  foreign quarters in 
most  large  cities,  whether  here  or  in 
Europe. 
In  some respects  the  compari­
son would  be more  creditable to the Chi­
nese  than to  their  rivals,  indeed,  for  no 
matter how close and dirty their quarters 
may  be,  John  Chinaman,  as  a  rule,  and 
by  some  magic of  his  own, contrives  to 
maintain  a  condition of  personal  clean­
liness not at all common among the poor­
er population of  other  races.  No doubt, 
his habit of wearing clothes all of  which 
can be washed  has  something to do with 
this,  but  it is also  evident that  he  takes 
a pride in being and appearing clean and 
neat  in  person  and  dress.  Even  when 
doing the work of  a navvy on  a railroad, 
living  in  movable camps  by the  side  of 
the track, this trait is observable in him. 
On Sunday  he  takes  to  the wash-tub as 
naturally  as  a  sailor,  and  disports  his 
sunburned  face  and  lean,  brown  arms, 
if  possible,  in  a  spotless  white  jumper 
or a clean blue dungaree tunic.

I have said that John is a sober fellow, 
but he has one failing which often brings 
him  to  grief.  He  is  too  commonly  an

inveterate gambler. 
I  have had Chinese 
boys in  my  employ,  mere  lads  of  four­
teen  or  fifteen,  who would  repair when­
ever they had money to the nearest  “Fan- 
tan” game,  and  remain  there  until  they 
had lost everything.  Sometimes the poor 
wretches would  gamble  away even  their 
outer garments, and return next morning 
to work  dejected  and  gloomy, but  by no 
meaus  cured  of  the  passion.  Chinese 
servants,  according  to  my  experience, 
are, as a rule, faithful, docile and honest. 
I  know some writers  have charged them 
with  dishonesty,  but  in  twenty years no 
Chinese servants stole  to  the  value of  a 
cent from me, and 1 know plenty of  peo­
ple who could say as much.  At the same 
time,  one  must  know how  to  treat John 
in  order  to  keep  him.  He  must  be 
humored in various ways.  He has strange 
idiosyncrasies,  and  funny little supersti­
tions.  and  quaint  prejudices, and a very 
strong  self-esteem.  He  will  not  be 
bullied,  and  he  cannot be driven, and  if 
not  handled judiciously, no mule can  be 
more  obstinate  than  he.  But  he  is  a 
very useful  personage  and  a very  inter­
esting study in all his phases  and  condi­
tions,  and the  more we  know of  him the 
more  one  realizes  that  there  is.  as  Sam 
Slick  put  it,  “a  good  deal  of  human 
nature  in  man,” even  though  the  man 
hails from far Cathay.

Geo. F.  Parsoxs.

A  Sign of  Failure.

From th e M inneapolis Com mercial B ulletin.
Whenever a  young man is  seen  wear- 
ing the toggery  that approaches the dude 
costume he may be set down  every  time 
as lacking  in  the  essentials  that  bring 
success.  Such young men are often seen, 
however.
,  The attention of the writer was dlreet- 
: ed to a young man on the streets of  Min-

neapolis this week.  He  was just making 
his debut in  business  life,  as  his  years 
told,  and  he  was  doing  it  under  dude 
auspices.  His hands were tightly glo ved, 
in his right hand  was  lightly  carried  a 
walking stick that as a means  of support 
wonld not  carry  a  baby,  and  from  his 
mouth  protruded  a  cigar.  The  young 
man was gliding along the street  with  a 
motion that  plainly  told  of  his  impor­
tance as viewed  from  within.  That  boy 
will be a failure.
In  the  first  place  he  lacks  sense  on 
general  lines,  for the hard worker has too 
much sense to pattern after a dude.  But 
if this is not objectionable in itself it will 
work to the boy’s disadvantage,  because 
a majority  of  business  men  would  see 
nothing in him to command  their  favor­
able consideration.  The cane, the gloves, 
the cigar,  and the general  air would  be a 
block  in the way of success at  the  start.
There are  a  good  many  boys  in  the 
city  who  should  learn  this  lesson,  but 
very often their environment  is unfavor­
able for it.  Their  fathers  humor  them 
instead of giving them  practical  lessons 
of industry that will make  good  men  of 
them.  The country boy  is  often  misled 
by the  city  boy’s  appearance.  He  sees 
the slickly dressed  young  man  and  im­
agines that  it is proper ambition to reach 
out after  good  dress. 
It  is  a  mistake. 
As a rule,  the  country  boy  is  worth  a 
dozen city dudes,  and he can  be  content 
that he is building  on  a  firmer  founda­
tion if he  is  working  and  learning  the 
value of industry and of money, than any 
city young man  who  carries  a  cane  as 
part of his daily  work. 
It  takes  brains 
to  succeed in this world, not  canes,  and 
the young man who sets about  it  to  de­
velop his brain  will act wisely.
Every country  boy should improve  his 
opportunity to develop his mind by  good 
reading.  Read history, good  fiction,  zo­
ology.  astronomy  and  other  of  the  sci­
ences.  They all present wonderfully in­
teresting questions.more fascinating than 
dime  novels,  every  one  of  which 
weakens the mind if read.
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From  the Sew York Tribune.
“ The man who  has  it  in  him  to  win 
will generally  win in the long run,”  said 
a  New  York  merchant  the  other  day. 
“Sometimes 1 think  it's  best  to  get  all  : 
your bad luck in  a heap.  Pile it  on  one 
bit  after the  other,  and  then  when  the 
good luck comes  you  have  a  clear  way 
and  are  in  good  training  for  a  strong I 
run.”
“I was out west fifteen years ago when 
I met a young fellow  who  interested  me 
a great deal.  He couldn’t have been over 
twenty-eight  then,  but  he  had  seen  a 
good deal of life—that  is,  life  out  there.  ! 
I heard that  he  had  been  in  the sheep­
raising business a couple of years before, 
but  had  lost  his  whole  business—bad  | 
luck, every one said. 
I had taken  out  a j 
few thousand dollars with which 1 want- | 
ed and expected to make  a  fortune  in  a | 
marvelously  short  time.  As  I  knew  ! 
nothing  at  all  about  sheep,  and  every ! 
one said that what he didn’t  know  about j 
sheep was not worth knowing,  1  thought j 
it would be a good idea  to  strike  a  bar- j 
gain with him.  So 1 went to him.”
“He  was  working  in  a  railroad  ma­
chine shop at the  time, earning  1  think 
it was S3.75 a day.  for before he  came  of i 
age he had learned this trade  just to  fall  I 
back on,  he explained. 
‘And,’  he added, j 
with a twinkle  in  his  eye,  ‘I’ve  fallen 
back on it oftener than 1 expected.’
“When  1  explained  to  him  my  idea 
about the  sheep,  he  told  me  about  his 
life.  His mother had died  and  left  him  | 
about 83,000.  When he came  of  age  he  I 
took the money and put  it  all  in  sheep. 
He lost it.  For a time  he  had  ‘fired’  on j 
a locomotive and then  went  back  to  his 
trade.  He saved money,  and  invested  it 
in a sawmill  scheme  with  some  others. 
The mill  burned  down—it  hadn’t  made 
money,  anyway—and  he  went  back  to 
his trade  again.  Then  he  worked  his 
way  to  Deadwood:  made  up  his  mind I 
there was nothing there for him,  and got J 
back into Wyoming.  He had in  his  life 
learned how  to  telegraph.  He  had  a j 
smart head and  a  pleasing  manner  and j 
got two  jobs  at  once—telegraph  opera-) 
tor and manager of  the  drug  store store 
In  a  little  town,  running  the  business 
end of the drug store while  its  owner,  a ! 
physician,  looked  after  the  drug  part, 
which  was  a  trifle  compared  with  the 
fancy-goods,  paints,  oils,  and  various ! 
other things, including coal!  He  estab- j 
lished  his  telegraph  office  in  the  drug 
store and ali  went  merrily  until  he  had 
saved 81,500.  With that he went out and | 
hunted  up  a  partner  with  the  same 
amount of capital.  They went to Utah,  i 
He bought sheep and‘went broke’again!”
“ ‘Now,’  he said to me with  a pleasant 
laugh,  ‘you  see  that  I  haven’t  made 
just what you might eall  a startling  suc­
cess out of sheep.  But I  know  there  is 
money in it. 
I know why  I  have  failed 
before and I may fail again.  But I have 
been saving 875 a month  to  go  into  the 
business once more,  and  if  after  what  11 
have told you you would like  to  try  me,
1 am your man.’  So  in  due  course  of | 
time we ‘went  broke’ or  practically  so.”
“I had come  to  admire  this  man  im­
mensely.  He  was 
straightforward, 
bright,  witty and extremely  able,  and  I 
felt more sorry  for  him  than  I.  did  for 
myself.”
“A-----,”  I said,  when  the  game  was
over  “the  trouble  with  you 
is  sheep. 
You’d make a fortune at anything else in 
the world,  because  you  have  the  brains 
and the pertinacity to do it,  but  as  long 
as you stick to sheep you will  be  a  poor 
It’s your fate.  Come, now,  swear j 
man. 
off on sheep with me. 
I  am  going  back 
East,  and make my money slowly.”
“ ‘Just  you  wait,’  he  said,  laughing 
cheerfully. 
“Well, the other day  a  big,  full-waist- 
ed,  brown-bearded  man walked  into  my j 
office. 
I knew him at a glance,  and  was  j 
so glad to  see  him  that  I  jumped  half 
way across the room.
“How  are  you?  I  cried.  How  have j 
you been doing?  Tell me all  about your- i 
self.  And then he told  me  in  a  modest 
way that he had  built  half  a  town,  and 
had  come  East  to  get  some  ideas  on 
plumbing and  waterworks.”

‘I’ll hit it yet.’

THE  MICHIGAN
“ ‘I’ll get  the contract for  the  water­
works,’  he  said,  ‘if  I can  get  hold  of  a 
real live man here who will go  out  with 
me. 
I’ve already  completed  the  dicker 
for opening  a  plumbing  shop. 
I  also 
want you to And me a smart, wide-awake 
young  man  who  wants  to  be  a  bank 
cashier.  Have got the  bank,  and  we’ve 
got the  president—I’m  that  fellow,  but 
we  want a cashier.’
“Well,  A-----,”  I  said,  “I  told  you
that you could do it. 
I knew  it  was  in 
sheep 
you. 
finally.”
“ ‘Sheep!’  cried  A-----,  with  a  great
laugh. 
‘Why,  man.  I  have  one  of  the 
finest herds in the  West,  and  the  finest 
plant  without  an  exception  anywhere, 
if you want  to  see  a  sheep  ranch  that 
beats  the  world  come  out  and  see  me. 
Sheep!  man,  it  was  sheep  that  did  all 
the rest.’”
“And  then,”  added  the  New  Yorker, 
“ while I congratulated him  with  all  my 
heart,  I  felt  a  little  faintness  to  think 
what I might have had if I  had  stuck  it 
out with him.”

I’m  glad  you  quit 

the 

is 

called 

the  flour  and 

Compressed  Yeast a  Vegetable.
One  great  family  of  the  group  of 
micro-organisms 
“yeast.” 
When  the  grocer  sends  to  the  cook  a 
little square soft cake of  yeast,  wrapped 
in  tin-foil, to keep it clean  and moist,  he 
acts  as  a  connecting  link  between  bio­
logical  science  and  commerce  and  do­
mestic  life.  The  commercial  value  of 
one single yeast plant may  be  estimated 
on the basis  that  the  single  yeast  cake, 
costing  its  consumer  1  cent,  may  con­
tain many hundred millions of the single 
plant.  When  these  yeast  plants,  well 
distributed  through  the  dough,  are  set 
in  a  warm  place,  they  begin  to  grow, 
and in order to grow they  must  consume 
food.  Now, 
salt  and 
the  dough  are  very  choice 
water  in 
viands  for  these  little  plants,  and  as 
they  feed  they 
tear  these  substances 
asunder wherever  they  lie,  assimilating 
some  elements  under  the  influence  of 
the life forces,  and  setting  free,  among 
other  things,  carbonic  acid  gas.  This 
occupies more  space  than  did  the  com-1 
pound of which it formed  a  part  before 
it  came  under  the  restless  influence  of I 
the living  plant  cell,  and  so  the  bread 
“rises” and becomes light and  porous;  a 
happy result for  us,  for  the  poor  yeast 
plants  are  fattened  but  to  die,  and  at 
the  right  moment  off  goes  the  whole 
mass  to  the  oven,  where  their  myriad 
budding lives are soon extinguised.
Thus, when we eat the  bread,  we  eat 
the  myriads  of  cell  fragments  which | 
make up the wheat  or  rye  or  barley  of | 
the flour, as well  as the yeast cells them- j 
selves,  and call it food.
This is one of the  best  forms  of  food, 
and,  as in almost all our  foods, the  man, j 
himself a vast aggregate of  cells, assimi­
lates the ruins of  other  cells,  both  ani­
mals and plants.
There is a whole,  great,  and important 
series of manufacturers  dependent  upon 
the life  process  of  different  species  of 
j yeast  plants  analogous  to  those  which 
| we have  received  in 
the  bread.  Beer 
I making  and  many  other  fermentations 
rest  upon 
the  micro-organism  called 
yeasts.  Where the various species  came 
from originally  it  would  be  useless  to 
speculate.  What  special  purpose  the 
beer  yeast,  for  example,  served  in  the 
economy of  nature  before  the  dawn  of 
the beer age,  who shall say?

Can’t Find  His  Land.

A Biddeford, Me., man is said to  be  in 
an odd predicament.  He  says  that  he 
j  owns fifty acres of land in the suburbs of r 
j Biddeford that  he can’t  find,  though  his 
j grandmother  willed  it  to  him.  The 
boundary lines haven’t been run  for gen­
erations.  He  has  had  a  surveyor  at 
| work trying to  run  the  lines,  but  each 
| time he has encroached on land to which 
| others have clear titles.  Now the prop­
erty is advertised for taxes, and  a  possi- 
| ble solution  has  presented  itself  to  the 
| owner.  He says he  is  going  to  let  the 
| city sell the land for taxes, bid it in him- 
| self  and  let  the  city  find  it  for  him.
| The city, he argues,  can’t  sell  anything 
j it can’t deliver,  and it can’t  deliver  any- 
1 thing it can’t find.

JF’E R K I N S   &   R IC H M O N D ,

13 Fountain St., Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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\ A T E  are not the cheapest printers in the State—would be 
ashamed of it if we were.  When  we find a “cheapest 
^   v  
printer” who  does  workmanlike work, we  will  lock  up  our 
plant and sublet our printing to him.  As it is, system enables 
us  to  handle  work on close  margins.  There is more  in it for 
us to do  $1,000  worth  of  work on  10  per  cent,  margin  than 
$100 worth at 25  per cent.
Besides, wre  carry our  own  paper  stock,  envelopes, card­
boards,  etc.—buy direct, discount  our bills  and  save the mid­
dleman’s profit.  Let us show you what we are doing.
PRINTING  DEPARTMENT

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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.

Any Jobber will be Glad to Fill Your Orders.

A g e n t s   W a n ted  I

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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 
and all the

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4 Monroe St. 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

THE  MTOmGKAlSr  TKADESMAX

FIRE  INSURANCE.

Its  History  and  the  Laws,  Rules  and 

Customs Which Govern It.

E IG H T H   P A P E R .

Written for Thk Tradesman.

* 

“This company shall not be liable for loss 

*
* 
to  awnings,  bullion,  casts,  sculpture,
curiosities, drawings,  dies,  implements, jewels, 
manuscripts, medals,  models, patterns, pictures, 
scientific apparatus,” etc.

Most of  the above  articles are common 
to  many  households  and  some  of  them 
can  be found in the  house of  the artisan 
as  well  as in the  home of  the capitalist. 
Indeed,  to  remove  these  fifteen  articles 
from  an average  home would  be  an  act 
of  depletion. 
It  would  materially  de­
crease the value of the “household goods” 
or the  “contents of  dwelling house,” yet 
not  one of  these  articles  is  included in 
the  insurance,  unless  especially  men­
tioned in the description in the policy.

How  important  it  is,  therefore,  that 
insurers should  carefully read  over  this 
condition,  and  give  careful  attention  to 
a proper designation of everything which 
it is  intended  to  cover. 
Insured parties 
are notoriously careless and negligent  in 
the  matter of  their  insurance  contracts, 
frequently examining  them,  for  the  first 
time,  after the property is destroyed, and 
then  often  finding  that,  through  negli­
gence  and  inattention,  they  have  failed 
to include  important and  valuable prop­
erty which  they had  intended to protect, 
and  have been  in  the constant violation 
of conditions which were  plainly printed 
or  written  out  for  their  guidance,  and 
which  could  have been  easily  observed, 
if  they  had  taken  the  pains  to  inform 
themselves what  they  were.  People  are 
sometimes  disposed  to  blame,  quite  un­
reasonably,  companies  which  act  honor­
ably and  faithfully up to the  fullest and 
most liberal construction of  the contract, 
in  favor  of  the  insured,  for  losses  oc­
casioned  simply and  alone  by their own 
carelessness. 
They  even  sometimes 
blame  the  courts  for  a  decision which 
the  plain  terms of  the  contract impera­
tively calls for,  when  they learn at great 
expense the plain and simple lesson,  that 
courts,  and even courts of  equity, cannot 
make a contract  for the  parties nor  frit­
ter away  or  ignore  its  plain provisions, 
nor  give  equitable  relief  against  the 
plaintiff’s own  carelessness  and  inatten­
tion. 
If  this  series of  articles shall  in­
duce  any  considerable  number  of  the 
readers of  The Tradesman, careful and 
in  other  respects,  to  bestow 
prudent 
proper  attention  upon 
the  provisions 
contained  in  their  policies of  insurance, 
then will  my labor  in  this  direction not 
have been in vain.

Numerous  questions  have  arisen as to 
the meaning and construction of  some of 
the  terms used  in  the  exceptions noted. 
For example,  in a New York  case,  where 
the exception was of  “jewels, plate, med­
als  or  other  curiosities,  paintings  and 
sculptures,”  and  among  the  items  of 
household 
furniture,  for  the  loss  of 
which  the assured  claimed,  were includ­
ed  five  portraits,  with 
their  frames, 
twelve silver tablespoons and silver sugar 
tongs,  the court  instructed the  jury that 
although  “ plate” and  “paintings”  were 
not  covered by the  policy,  unless  speci­
fied, yet  he  doubted whether  the  condi­
tion  could  be applied to the  portraits or 
silver spoons specified in the  schedule of
things insured.  The expression, “or other 
curiosities,”  would  seem to indicate that 
the insurers bad  in mind articles of orna­
ment,  as  contradistinguished  from those

designed  for  common  use  or  kept  as 
memorials of friends.

Lord  Coke once  defined  the  character, 
“ etc.,”  as meaning “ whatever else ought 
to have been  expressed,” and in a Massa­
chusetts case,  where the description was, 
“on thier stock  of  watches,  watch  trim­
mings,  etc.,”  it  was held  to  include the 
entire stock of  the insured,  consisting of 
plate,  silverware, 
tools  of  trade,  and 
such other goods as  form part of  similar 
stocks  in  Boston—all  being  covered  by 
the “etc.”

Any word or expression  used  will,  or­
dinarily,  be  liberally  construed,  as  in­
cluding whatever  is  necessary to  fill  up 
its fullest and most perfect meaning.

“This company shall not be liable by virtue of 
this policy, for  loss by theft, at, or  after a fire.”
It would  seem to be quite  unnecessary 
to  insert  a  condition of  this  kind  in  a 
contract  of  indemnity  against  loss  by 
fire, for  the  purpose  of  saving  the  in­
surers  from  liability in case  of  loss  by 
theft. 
In  the  absence  of  precedent,  it 
probably would  be unnecessary,  but  the 
question has repeatedly been adjudicated 
and  the  decisions  of  the  courts  have 
clearly  established  such  liability. 
In 
the  absence of  such  a provision,  there­
fore,  the companies  would  be  liable  for 
loss by theft at, or after a fire;  but where 
a  policy  contains  a  clause  such  as  the 
one above  quoted,  it has  been  held  that 
the  insurers  were  not  liable  for  goods 
stolen while  being carried  from a build­
ing which was on  fire,  even in  pursuance 
of advice of  the fire warden.

“Nor 

for  any 

evidences of debt, or securities.”

“ Nor for bills, currency, notes, accounts, deeds, 
This  is  an  absolute  exception,  con­
taining  no  proviso—the  different  kinds 
of  property  enumerated  being  simply 
uninsurable.
loss  caused  or  by  fire, 
caused  by means of  or  during  an  invasion, in­
surrection,  riot,  civil  commotion, or military or 
usurped power, or  by order  of  any civil author­
ity.”
Damage  arising  from  the  wilful  and 
felonious acts of  servants or strangers  is 
a  risk  insured  against,  and  must  be 
borne  by  the  insurers,  unless  specially 
excepted in  the  policy;  and  this  has in­
duced  insurance  companies  to  ingraft 
upon their policies this exception.

This sort of  exception  has  been in use 
for  more  than a century. 
It  was  origi­
nally  inserted  in  the  conditions  of  the 
policies  of  the  London  Assurance  Com­
pany and was stated  thus,  “nor for dam­
age  happening by  any  invasion,  foreign 
enemy,  or  any  military  or  usurped 
power.”  The  Sun  Fire  Insurance  Co. 
adopted a similar  clause,  with  the  addi­
tion  of  the  words,  “civil  commotion,” 
and  upon  its  construction,  discussion 
was  had in  1780,  before  Lord  Mansfield. 
During the riots  which  occurred in June 
of  that year,  the  mob,  among  other acts 
of violence and destruction  burned down 
the  house  of  one  Langdale,  which  was 
insured in the  Sun  company,  and  action 
was brought to recover for the loss.  The 
point  at  issue  was  the  meaning of  the 
words  “civil  commotion.”  Lord  Mans­
field  said,  “I think  a  ‘civil  commotion’ 
is  this:  An  insurrection of  the  people 
for general  purposes,  though  it  may not 
amount  to  a  rebellion  where  there is a 
usurped power. 
If  you  think  this  was 
an  insurrection  of  the  people  for  the 
purposes of mischief, though not amount­
ing to  a  rebellion, you will  find for  the
defendants.”

The word  “riot” has since been added, 
which is quite  different  from,  and  much 
narrower  than  “insurrection,”  or  “civil

commotion.” 
It  is  commonly defined to 
be a tumultuous disturbance of the peace 
by three  or  more  persons,  assembling of 
their  own  will,  with  intent  mutually to 
assist  each  other  against  any who  may 
oppose  them,  in  the  execution  of  some 
enterprise of a private nature,  and after­
wards  actually executing, or  attempting 
to execute the same in a violent or turbu­
lent manner,  to the  terror of  the people, 
whether  the  act  intended  were of  itself 
lawful or unlawful.

Many  very 

interesting  cases  have 
hinged  upon a construction of  the words 
“usurped  power,”  which,  for  the  want 
of time  and  space, must  be passed over. 
The question  as to what  acts of  destruc­
tion  were  within 
this  exception  has 
arisen in numerous cases in this country, 
out of  events  connected with,  or  arising 
out of  the  rebellion  and  civil  war. 
In 
some  cases  a  town  was  destroyed,  or 
many of its valuable buildings with their 
contents  burned, to prevent  them  from 
falling  into  the  hands of  the  opposing 
force, by  the  express  order of  the  civil 
magistrate.  Whether such a destruction 
would come within  the exception,  1 have 
not the means at hand of knowing.

E.  A.  Owen.

The Prosperity of Our Workmen. 

Edward Atkinson in th e May Forum.

There has never been  a  period  iu  the 
history  of  this  or  any  other  country 
when the general rate  of  wages  was  as 
high as it is now,  or the  prices  of  goods 
relatively to the  wages  as  low  as  they 
are to-day, nor a period when  the  work­
man,  in the strict sense  of  the word, has 
so fully secured to his own  use  and  en­
joyment such a steadily and  progressive­
ly increasing proportion of  a  constantly 
increasing  product.  Hence,  as  far  as 
our  experience  goes  in  dealing  with 
the great flood of immigration which  has 
poured in upon  us in increasing  measure 
during  these  twenty-five  years,  greater 
in the last ten years than ever before, all 
the facts  and  conditions  would  tend  to 
prove that we  might  invite  its  continu­
ance,  so far as it  consists  of  the  intelli­
gent and the  capable  who  constitute  by 
far the greatest portion,  rather  than  im­
pose  taxes 
intelligent 
and  capable  from  coming  here  to  im­
prove  their  condition.  We  now  have 
specific and absolute data  in  respect  to 
manufactures,  the  mechanic  arts  and 
mining going to prove that,  through  the 
application of  science  and  invention  in 
these specific  directions,  those  who  do 
the actual work  in  the  sense  in  which 
the  workman  uses  that  phase—in  a 
lessening number of hours and with  less 
arduous  effort—secure  constantly  ad­
vancing  wages, 
increased  purchasing 
power, better food and more  of  it,  moie 
clothing,  if not quite as good  on  account 
of  the obstruction to the import of wool, 
and  also, outside  of  a  few  congested 
districts 
in  cities,  better  shelter  at 
lessening cost to the occupant.

to  keep 

the 

13
F or  sa l e- o u r  e n t ir e  stock  o f  g b n-
eral  merchandise  at  Chippewa  Lake,  con 
sisting of hats, caps, boots ana  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 
H. P. Wyman, Sec’y, Grand  Rapids. Mich.  449 
"ElOR SALE—BAKERY, GROCERY,  CONFEC- 
-I?  tlonery and ice cream business.  Established 
trade.  Apply to Box 237, Gladwin, Mich. 
496
F or sa le—a  f in e  stock o f g r o c e r ies
and  crockery  in  good  shape  and  doing  a 
good business.  Can give  good  reasons for  sell­
ing.  Box 87, Allegan, Mich. 
489
F or  sa le  c h ea p —sm all  stock  o f
hardware,  boots  and  shoes  and  groceries, 
store  building  and  fixtures  in  the  best  new 
growing town in Northern  Michigan.  Business 
well  established.  Address  No. 490, care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
490
F or  sa le—n e w ,  clean  stock  o f  dry
goods.  Established trade;  good town.  Lock 
483
box 963, Rockford, Mich. 
SPLENDID BUSINESS CHANCE FOR A PER- 
son with  *1100  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
I NOR SALE—ONE OF THE BEST DRY GOODS 
"  houses  in  southern  Michigan;  established 
26years;  best of  reasons  for  selling;  excellent 
opportunity for obtaining a good  business.  Ad­
dress Lock box  1237, Coldwater, Mich. 
477
F or  sa le  c h ea p  —  w el l  se le c t ed
drug stock — New and clean.  Address F. A 
Jones. M. D. Muskegon,  Mich.__________ 391

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

502

370

MISC ELLANEOU8.

TETANTED — POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
i t   pharmacist of  eleven  years  practical  ex 
perience.  Am  married  man.  Or would  like to 
find  good  place to locate  with  first class  store. 
Address No. 499. care Michigan Tradesman.  499
■ rANTED—POSITION BY  YOUNG  MAN  IN 
dry goods, men's  furnishing goods or gen­
eral  store.  Six  years’  experience.  Good refer­
ences.  Address  No. 502, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
ANTED —  POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
pharmacist  of  eleven  years’  experience. 
Address No. 487, care Michigan Tradesman,  487
F or  r e n t—n ic e  la r g e  l ig h t  st o r e
in  brick  block  near  Fifth  avenue  at  $25. 
491 
Jno. C. Dunton, Widdicomb  Building. 
OR  SALE —GOOD  DIVIDEND - PAYING 
stocks in  banking, manufacturing  and mer 
cantile  companies.  E. A. Stowe,  100  Louis  St., 
Grand Rapids. 
■ ANTED—A  DRUGGIST  TO  GO  TO  DEL 
ton, Barry county, Mich., and  start a drug 
store.  Living rooms  above.  Will  be ready May 
1.  For particulars address H. Arbour, Stanwood, 
Mich. 
STOCK  OF  GOODS  WANTED—WILL  E x­
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. 
O YOU  USE  COUPON BOOKS ?  IF  SO, DO 
you buy of the largest manufacturers in the 
United States?  If  you do, you  are  customers of 
the Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.
F or  s a l e - b e s t  r e sid e n c e  lo t  in
Grand Rapids, 70x175 feet, beautifully shad­
ed with  native  oaks, situated in gool 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
SEE  HERE—GOOD  CHANCE  FOR .-A  BUSI 
ness  man  or  practical  miller,  with  some 
money  to  invest  in  a  roller  mill.  Address  J. 
Wylie. Fairgrove, Mich. 
F or  sa le —*1.100  buys  5-room  house
and  corner lot  within  ten  minutes walk of 
469 
post office.  W. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 
OR  SALE—11-ROOM  HOUSE  IN  GOOD  Lo­
cation, within ten minutes walk of  Monroe 
St.  Price, *3,200.  W. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St.  470
F or  sa le-320 a c res o f la n d in h a y es 
county, Neb.  Will  sell  cheap  or  trade  for 
a stock of merchandise.  A. W. Prindle, Owosso, 
Mich. 
TTTANTED—REGISTERED  PHARMACIST— 
VV  lady preferred.  Geo.  C. Rounds, Vickery- 
ville, Mich.________________________ 481

497 

486

480

492

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 or  sa le- a  d rug  st o r e,  n ic e  fix
tures,  fresh  and  well  selected  stock,  in­
creasing  trade,  nice  residence  portion  of  the 
city.  Inventory,  *3,500.  Address  No.  498,  care 
Michigan Tradesman._______________ 498
F or  sa le—w el l  e sta b lish ed  boot  &
shoe  business  in  Big  Rapids.  This  stock 
will  be sold  at  a  bargain.  For  particulars  en- 
quire of owner, John Le Puke._________ 500
F or  sa le  —  ba za a r  stock,  e s t a b-
lished  eight  years,  making  money  ;  must 
sell;  will  exchange  for  Detroit  property.  Ad­
dress David Lang, Lansing, Mich. 
F or sa le  c h ea p—a t  Lisb o n,  m ich.,  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 
I Rapids,  Mich. 

463 

SOI

LUMBER

RED  OAK,  WHITE  OAK,

BLACK  ASH,

ROCK  ELM,  GREY  ELM,

BASSWOOD.

A .  E .  W O R D E N ,

19  Wondirly  Building,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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THE!  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

14
Drugs ^M edicines.

State Board  of Pharmacy.

One  Y ear—Jacob  Jeason,  M uskegon.
Two  Y ears—Jam es  Vernor, D etroit.
T hree  Years—Ottm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor 
Four Y ears—G eorge Gundrum. Ionia.
Hive Years—C. A. B ugbee,  Cheboygan.
P resident—Jacob  Jesson , Muskegon.
Secretary—J as.  V ernor, D etroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
M arquette,  A ug.SI;  L ansing,  Novem ber 1.

M eetings  fo r  1892 — Star  Island 

(D etroit),  July  5; 

Vichisau  State  Pharmaceutical  Ass’n. 
P resident— H . G. Colem an, K alam azoo. 
Vice-Presidents—S.  E.  ParkUl.  O wosso;  L.  P auley, St.
Ig n a ce;  A. S. Parker, D etroit.
Secretary—Mr. Parsons, D etroit.
T reasurer—Win. Dupont, D etroit.
E xecu tive Com m ittee—F. J. W urzburg,  Grand Rapids; 
Frank  In glis  and  G.  W.  Stringer,  D etroit;  C.  E. 
W ebb, Jackson.
N ext place  o f  m eetin g—Grand  Rapids, Aug. 2,3 and 4. 
L ocal Secretary—John  D. Muir._____________________ __
Grand  Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. 
P resident. W. R. Jew ett,  Secretary,  Frank H. E scott, 
Regular M eetings—F irst W ednesday evenin g o f March 
June, Septem ber and Decem ber.
Grand Rapids Drue Clerks* Association, 
resid en t, F. D. Kipp;  S ecretary, W . C. Sm ith.

Muskegon  Drag Clerks’ Association. 

P resident  N. Miller;  S ecretary, A. T. W heeler.

To  H a ra ss  P a te n t  M edicine  Firm s.

From  th e C hicago Drug Review .

A  sample  of  the  amount  of  concern, 
anxiety and  loss  of  time  and  money  to 
which a number  of  crank  legislators,  if 
so disposed,  can  put  reputable  business 
firms,  is  disclosed  by  the  rumor  from 
Washington regarding the  probable  pre­
sentation to the House, of a bill  re-enact­
ing the old  war tax on  patent  medicines, 
with additional hardships in  the  way  of 
an increase in the amount of  the tax and 
the  establishment  of  a  board  of  exam­
iners,  whose chief chemist  shall  analyze 
all such remedies,  pass upon their  possi­
ble worth and  prohibit  the  manufacture 
of those which  in  his  judgment  or  the 
judgment of the board,  shall  he  deemed 
worthless or injurious.
This is the sort  of  fool-legislation  the 
granger element  in  Congress  is  capable 
of saddling  upon  the  country,  aided  by 
coalition with either of  the other parties 
anxious for  granger  votes,  if  the  most 
stenuous  efforts  are  not  made  to  show 
the futility of  such  schemes  as  well  as 
the  hardship  they  entail  on  legitimate 
industries,  to say nothing  of  their  plain 
violation of the rights of the public  to  a 
choice  of  their  own  remedies  for  ail­
ments which can  be so treated.
The grangers may have  a  certain  por­
tion of the medical profession with  them 
in this onslaught  upon  a  highly  useful 
industry,  but  it  is  questionable  if  any 
other aid will  be  extended  to  them  ex­
cept  for  political  reasons. 
It  is,  how­
ever,  because  of  the  possibility  of  this 
latteracoalition.  that  the  bill  should  be 
fought from the start,  and if attacked  in 
time,  its  weak,  and  unjust  points  may 
be shown up in proper shape to  the  sen­
ators and representatives whose aid  may 
be asked in its passage.
The mere idea that any one man or  set 
of men, however learned,  could  satisfac­
torily pass judgment on a combination of 
even the simplest  remedies,  without  ex­
perimenting  upon  patients 
in  actual 
practice,  is preposterous in the  extreme. 
The  simplest  knowledge  of  chemistry 
ought  to  demonstrate  clearly  that 
the 
effect  of  certain  elements  alone  is  no 
guide to the effect combined,  nor can one 
combination  be  a  clear  guide  to  the 
effect  of  another. 
The  opinions  are 
almost as varied among experts as to  the 
probable effect  of  any  simple  combina­
tion of remedies before trial, as the num­
ber  of  the  experts 
themselves,  and 
it  is  being  proven  daily  that  differing 
conditions of  formula, dose  and  time  of 
taking, often produce effects  little  short 
of  miraculous,  and  entirely contrary to 
previously accepted theory.  How,  then, 
can a set of  men  without  actual  experi­
ence in the use  of  a remedy  upon  their 
own patients, give  a  clear  and  just  de­
cision respecting the  value  of  any  com­
pound.  the  constituents  of  which  they 
only can know?  It  is  the  variest  non­
sense to suppose  that  any  few  men  can 
possess the daily practical experience  of 
thousands of busy practitioners  who  are 
daily recording discoveries in  the use  of 
formulas  upon  which  are  afterwards 
based many of our popular  patent  reme­
dies,  and wh’ch  will continue  to  lead  to 
others as long as science makes  progress 
against superstition and ignoranee.
America  is  not  the  country  nor  this

the  proper  century,  for  such  medieval 
sumptuary enactments.

A  T ough  B a t  Y arn.

From  th e  New York Sun.
“We’ve  had  the  most  extraordinary 
experience with rats lately in our place,” 
said  a  merchant  from  Oil  City,  now  in 
town baying goods,  “and I’m late a week 
or so in putting in my spring  stock  just 
on account of it,  for it looked for  a  spell 
as  if  the  rats  were  going  to  carry  off 
everything  eatable  or  moveable  in  the 
town.  They foraged in droves about the 
place,  and  if  one  division  of  rats  that 
had set out to loot a grocery or a butcher 
shop  wasn’t large enough  in  numbers  to 
accomplish  the  purpose,  they  sent  out 
messengers,  and  in  less  time  than 
it 
takes  to  tell  it  re-enforcements  would 
arrive and victory would  perch  on  their 
banners.  Some  merchants  tried  closing 
up their stores  to  save  their  goods,  but 
that was probably  the  worst  thing  they 
could  have  done.  The  rats  couldn’t 
be kept  out  by  closing  the  stores,  and 
they reseuted the attemps  to  circumvent 
them  by  destroying  more  than 
they 
would have carried away.
“The cats and dogs in Oil City thought 
they would have a picnic  when  the  rats 
first  made  their  appearance 
in  such 
numbers,  and  they  started  in 
to  have 
heaps of fun  with  the  rodents  and  live 
high on them.  Well,  sir,  inside of  three 
days you couldn’t find a  live  dog  or  cat 
in  town.  Those  the  rats  hadn’t  killed 
evacuated the place aud took  to  the  ad­
jacent hills and  woods, where every night 
they could  be  heard  wailing  piteously 
for their homes,  but they  didn’t  dare  to 
come in  for their  lives.  We  were  kept 
busy for a couple  of  days  carting  away 
dogs and cats that  the  rats  bad  killed. 
It was really  awful,  and  a  public  meet­
ing was called finally to adopt some plan 
by which the rats could  be  exterminated 
or driven from the town.  What  do  you 
think?  The  rats took  possession  of  the 
opera house where the meeting was to be 
held,  and it had to be abandoned.
“When the rats first  captured  us  they 
showed  their  wonderful  smartness  at 
once, for the first thing they  did  was  to 
raid all the drug stores, from which they 
took every kind of  rat  poison  the  stores 
had in stock and dumped the  whole  bus­
iness in the Allegheny river.  As  a  pre­
cautionary  measure,  I  think  that  beats 
anything 1 ever heard of.
“After the rats had held the town for a 
week or so, one of  our  papers  came  out 
in  a  strong  article  against  them,  and 
urged  the calliug  out  of  the  militia  to 
rout them,  if  nothing else could be done. 
The next day every carrier of  that paper 
was surrounded  by  droves  of  rats,  and 
they were not able to deliver the  papers. 
The newsboys  selling  the  paper  were 
treated in the same way, and  a  big  dele­
gation of  rats waited  on  the  editor  and 
publisher,  and both of  them  had  to  fly. 
It looked as  if  the  publication  of  the 
paper must be discontinued,  but  matters 
were settled amicably by the paper with­
drawing  its  offensive  remarks  and  re­
questing  the  citizens  to  make  the  so­
journ  of  the  representative  body  of 
rodents  then  among  us  as  pleasant  as 
possible.
“But,  smart  as  these  mysterious  rats 
were,  they  were  not  smart  enough  to 
shun 
the  liquor  stores  and  drinking 
places,  where  they  helped  themselves 
liberally  to  the  assorted  and  insidious 
goods carried in  stock  in  such  places. 
The  consequence  was  that  in  a  few 
weeks’ time  they  became  a  most  dissi­
pated and  degraded  set  of  rodents,  and 
we began to see some  hope  of  their  de­
struction.  The  rats  themselves  must 
have seen  their  danger,  for  one  day  we 
missed them.  Only a few straggling  old 
topers were left,  and  we  soon  put  them 
out  of  their  wretchedness.  What  had 
become of the great body of  rats  no  one 
could imagine, and it was only last week 
that we found out.  A man  from  James­
town was in Oil City on business,  and he 
said that for some  days  there  had  been 
great commotion  at  Lakeside,  on  Chau­
tauqua,  because  Humanitas, 
the  new 
bichloride of gold asylum for drunkards, 
had been taken possession  of  by  an  im­
mense drove of disreputable looking rats, 
who were appropriating all  the  cure  for 
drunkenness  the  establishment  had  on

“Nobody  knows  whence 

hand.  Then we knew what  had  become 
of our rats,  and everybody  felt  some  se­
curity in doing business again.
rats 
came that captured Oil City,  but it is  be­
lieved from Bradford,  where  they  could 
no  longer  live  on  rusty  oil  well  drills 
and  wind.”

those 

D ealing w ith  D ead S tock.

It is poor  policy  to  allow  anything  to 
slumber in the store if  there  is any  way 
to wake it  up and keep it  moving. 
If it 
is  necessary  to  keep  an  article  that  is 
little used,  it should be brought  forward 
and its salability tested. 
It  may be that 
it is  not dead  after  all.  Perhaps  other 
people  can  be found  who  will  buy it if 
they are only informed that there is such 
an  article,  and  that  you  keep  it.  So 
when a thing is found  tucked away  on a 
high shelf it had best  be  pulled out, set 
in  a  handy  and  conspicuous  place,  and 
the attention  of  customers  called  to  it. 
After awhile, its standing in your market 
will  be  fully  demonstrated.  You  will 
know  then  whether  to  get  rid  of  it  or 
buy it in  small lots, if  it is really  neces­
sary to keep it at all.

The  D rug  M arket.

There are  few changes  to  note.  Qui­
nine  is  dull  and  unchanged.  Opium is 
firm.  Morphia is steady.  Sassafras bark 
has  declined.  Oil  anise  is  lower.  Oil 
cubebs has declined.  Castor oil is lower. 
Bromide  of  potash  has  declined.  Tur­
pentine has declined.  Salacine is lower.

C ontain  M ercury, 

B ew are  of  OintmentB  for  C a ta rrh   th a t 
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 
Cure,  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.

gsg^Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle.

FOURTH NATIONAL BAM

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

8. F. A s p in w a l l , Vice-President.

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

Transacts a general banking  business.

Hake a Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.
GX2TSX2TG  ROOT.
We pay th e highest price for It.  Address

D r r s ir   13T) n o   Wholesale  Druggists 
L LiL/ZV  DHUiO.,  GRAND  RAPIDS

Say| [Hires
Do you a  Root 
Drink  ™  Beer?

SOLD  AND  ENJOYED  EVERYWHERE,

Playing Carls

WE  ERE  HEADQUARTERS

SEND FOR PRICE  LIST.

Daniel  L p h ,

19  8. Ionia St., Grand  Rapids.

Don’t pay freiglit
Manufacturers’ Prices.

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

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

A  Rug  with  each  gross,  $32.80.  Shoe 
Stool with two gross.  An assorted  gross 
of the above dressing, $22.80.

HIRTH  &  KRAUSE,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

J. L.  Strelitsky,

Including the following celebrated brands man­
ufactured  by the  well-known  house of  Glaser,
Frame & Co. :
Vindex, long  Havana filler.......................   $35
35
Three Medals, long Havana filler........... 
Elk’s Choice, Havana filler and binder... 
55
La Flor de Alfonso..................................... 
55
La Doncella de Morera,...........................   65
La Ideal, 25 in a box................................  
55
Madellena....................................................  
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.

BOSTON  PETTY  LEDGER.

Size 8%x3%,  bound  in cloth  and  leather  back 
and corners.  Nickel bill  file, Indexed, ruled  on 
both  sides, 60  lines, being  equal to a bill  twice
as long.
1000 bill heads with Ledger  complete  ......   S3
......... 4
2000  “ 
5000  “ 
..........7

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Address

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I  prepay express  charges  when  cash  accom 

panies the order.  Send for circular.

THE  MICHIGAN“  TRADESMAN,

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S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W .. .1  80@2 05 
C. Co.......................1 70@1  95
Moschus Canton........  © 4 0
Myristlca, No. 1.........   65©  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  ©  10
Os.  Sepia....................  18©  20
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co...........................   @2 00
Picis Liq, N.»C., M gal
doz  ........................
© 2  00 
Picis Liq., quarts......
@1  00 
©  85 
pints.........
©  50 
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..
©   1 ©  3 
Piper Alba, (po g5)__
Pix  Burgun...............
©
Plumbl A cet...............   14©  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv............  30©  35
Quasslae..................... 
8©  10
Quinia, S. P. & W........  29©  34
S.  German___19  ©  30
Rubla  Tlnctorum......   12©
Saccharum Lactis pv.  @
Saladn.......................1  60@1  65
Sanguis  Draconis......  40©  50
50
Sapo,  W.....................   12©  14
“  M.......................  10©  12
“  G.......................  ©  15

“ 

Seldlitz  Mixture........  ©  24
Slnapis.......................   ©  18
“  opt..................   ©  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes.......................  ©  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10©  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27©  30
Soda Carb.................  1M@  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash.................... 3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50©  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcia Imp........  @3 00
•'  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
....7 ........................ 2 21 ©2 31
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal......  @1  30
Sulphur, Subl............ 3  @4
“  Roll..............  2M@3M
Tamarinds................. 
8©  10
Terebenth Venice......  28©  30
Theobromae............. 38  @  43
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph...............   7©  8

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   55 
Lard, No.  1...............   45 
Linseed, pure raw  ...  40 

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
50
43

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faints. 

46
Llndseed,  boiled__   43 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained..................  50  66
Spirits Turpentine__  38 M  43
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian.............. 1M  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ IK  2@4
“ 
Ber........IK  2@3
Putty,  commercial— 2M  2H@3
“  strictly  pure...... 2M 2K@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
70@75
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red.....................  7  @7M
“  w hite................. 7  @7M
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’........  @90
1  0
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
clHT.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints....................1 00@1  20
No. lTurp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................160@1  70
Coach  Body...............2  75®3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.......1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp........................  
70®75

VABN1SHES.

H AZBLTINB

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DRUG  CO.

la a p o s te r s  a n d  J o b b e r*  w t

CHEMICALS  AND

W h o le s a le   P r i c e   C u r r e n t •

Advanced—N othing.
Declined—Sassafrass bark, oil anise,  oil cubefes, castor oil, bromide potash, salacine, turpentine.

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A c e t i c u m .............................. 
8 ®
Benzolcum  German..  80©
Boraclc 
C a r b o lic u m .........................  28©
Cltricum.....................   55©
Hydroehior..................  3©
Nltrocum 
...................  10©
Ox all cum .....................  10©
Phosphorium dll........
Salicylicum...............1 30@1  70
Sulphuricum................  1K@ 5
Tannicum..................1  40@1  60
Tartaricum...................  33© 35

AMMONIA.

« 

Aqua, 16  deg..............314© 
5
20  deg..............  5H©  7
Carbonas  .....................  12© 14
Chlorldum...................  12© 14

a n il in e .

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

BACCAK.

Cubeae (po  75)..........   75® 80
J u n l p e r u s ......................................... 
JO
Xantnoxylum..............   25© 30

BALSAMITE.
Copaiba........................  45© 50
Peru. . . . ...................  
30
Terabin, Canada  ........  35© 40
Tolutan........................  35© 50

COBTEX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Casslae  ...............................  JJ
Cinchona Flava  .................
Buonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrica  Cerifera, po............   20
Prunus Virgin!....................   J*
Q u ill a ia ,  g r d .................................  1*
Sassafras  ............................  J*
Ulmu8 Po (Ground  12)........  10

EXTBACTIJM.
Gly cyrrhlza  Glabra...
p o . . . .........
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is..............
Mb ..................
M s ..................

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FEBBUM.

24©
33©
11®
13©
14©
16©

Carbonate Precip........  ©  15
Citrate and Quinia....  @3 50
Citrate  Soluble...........  ©  80
Ferrocyanidum Sol —   @
Solut  Chloride...........  ©
Sulphate,  com’l .........   1V4Ö
pure............   @

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Arnica.......................   ¿6©  28
Antbemls...................  •*©  35
Matricaria 
25©  30

 

 
FOLIA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

...................  IS©

nivelly....................  25©  28
Alx.  35©  50
and  Mb....................  48©  15
8©  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
UraUrsl...................... 

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OUMMI.

©

Acacia, 1st  picked—

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60©
5 0 ©

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2d 
3d 
sifted sorts...
po........  ••• —
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...
“  Cape, (po.  20)...
Socotrl, (po. 60).
©
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Ms,
16)............................  ©
Ammonlae.................  55©
Assafcetlda, (po. 35)...  35©
Benzolnum.................   50©
Camphors..................   50©
Euphorblum  po  ........  35©^  iu
Gafbanum...................  @3 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70©  7b
Guaiacum, (po  30)  ...  ©  25
Kino.  (po.  30)............   ©  25
Mastic.......................   ©  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  ©  40
Opil,  (po  2 70)...........1  65©1 70
Shellac  ......................  25©  35
bleached........  30©  35
Tragacanth................  30©  75

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hbbba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Eupatorium.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................   23
“  V lr.........................  25
Rue..................................  80
Tanacetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V................  
25
Calcined, Pat..............  55©  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20©  22
Carbonate, K. &  M__  20©  25
Carbonate, Jennings..  35©  36

MASNESIA.

 

OLEUM.

50®4 00

Absinthium.................3 
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarae— 8 00@8 25
Anisi............................1 
Aurantl  Cortex...........3 00@3 25
Bergamii  ...................3 
Cajlputi....................  60©  65
Caryophylli...............   75©  80
Cedar  ........................   35©  65
Chenopodil...............   ©1  60
Clnnamonil.................1 
Cltronella...................  ©  45
Conlum  Mac..............  35©  65
Copaiba  .....................1 

65@1 75
75@4 00

20@1 25

10©1 20

Cubebae........................  © 
Exechthitos..............  2 50®2 75
Erigeron.........................2 25@2 50
Gaultheria......................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......  ©  75
GoBsipii,  Sem. gal......  50©  75
Hedeoma  ...................1  60®1  70
Juniperl.......................   50@2 00
Lavendula..................   90@2 00
Limonls.......................... 2 75@3 25
Mentha Piper...................2 75@3 50
Mentha Verid.................2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal................. 1 00@1 10
Myrcia, ounce............   ©  50
Olive............................  80@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal..35)  10©  12
Ricini..........................   96©1 10
Rosmarini................. 
Rosae, ounce..............  ©6 50
Succlnl.........................  40© 45
Sabina.........................  90@1 00
San tal  ........ 
8 50@7 00
Sassafras......................  50© 55
Slnapis, ess, ounce—   @  65
Tigli!..........................  ©  90
Thorne.......................  40©  50
©  60
Theobromas...............  15©  20

opt

 

75®1 00

POTASSIUM.

Bi Carb.......................  15©  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide.................... 
24©  26
Carb............................  12©  15
Chlorate  (po. 18)........  16©  18
Cyanide......................  50©  55
Iodide........................ 2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  26©  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @  15
Potass Nitras, opt......  8®  10
Potass Nitras..............  7®  9
Prussiate....................  28©  30
Sulphate  po................  15©  18

BADIX.

Aconitum..................   20©  25
Althae.........................  25©  30
Anchusa....................   12©  15
Arum,  po....................  ©  25
Calamus......................  20©  40
Gentiana, (po. 15)......   10©  12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16©  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 40)...................  @
Hellebore,  Ala,  po—   15©
Inula,  po....................  15©
Ipecac, po................. 2 30@2 40
Iris plox (po. 35®38)..  35©  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   42©  45
Maranta,  Ms..............  ©  35
Podophyllum, po........  15©  18
Rhei  . . . ......................  75@1  00
cut......................  @1
V.  ....................   75@1  35
Splgella.....................   48©  53
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..  © 2 0
Serpentaria.................  35©  40
3enega.......................  45©  50
Simllax, Officinalis,  H © 4 0
© 20
M 
SclUae, (po. 35)...........  10©  12
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
dus,  po....................  ©  %
Valeriana, Bng. (po.30)  ©  %
German...  15©  20
ingiber a ..................   12©  15
Zingiber  j ...............  
SEMEN.

18©

11 

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Anlsum,  (po.  2 0 ) ....  ©  15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  33®  35
Bird, is.......................  4©  J
Carni, (po. 18)............   8©  1:
Cardamon.................. 1  00@1  25
Corlandrum...............   10©  12
Cannabis Sativa.........   3 y,®4
Cydonlum...................  75@1  00
Cnenopodlum  ...........  10©  12
Dlpterix Odorate......... 2 25®2 35
Foeniculum...............   ©  16
Foenugreek,  po.........   6©
Lini ..*....................... 4  © 4M
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 3M) • • •  4  ©4M
Lobelia.......................  36©  40
Pharlaris Canarian—   3M© 4M
R apa..........................   6©
Slnapis,  Albu............   8©

,r  Nigra...........  11©  12

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

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 25@2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ...............
200 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool carriage........
1 10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage..................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage .......................
Hard for  slate  use....
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se..........................

1  40

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................  50
Rhei  Arom...............  
  50
Simil&x  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Sdllae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan..........   .................   50
Pranas  vlrg.......................   50

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5 50

TINCTUBES.

 

Aconitum Napellls R .........   60
F .........   50
Aloes...................................   60
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica..................................  50
Asafcetida............................  0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
Co..........................   50
Sanguinaria.........................  50
Barosma...............................  50
Cantharides.........................  75
Capsicum..............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
Co.........................  75
Castor..................................1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona............................  50
Co.........................  60
Columba.............................   50
Conlum......................... 
 
Cubeba................................   50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian...............................  50
Co............................  60
Guatea................................   50
ammon....................  60
Zingiber.............................  50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..................................  75
Colorless...................  75
Ferri Chlorldum.................  35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................  50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opil.....................................  85
Camphorated...............   50
Deodor........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
nassla...............................  50
h atan y.......................—   50
Rhei.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol..................   50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVeride.................  50

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(po. 

26©  28 
30©  32

MISCELLANEOUS.
Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F.. 
“  4 F ..
T« 
Alnmen....................... 2M® 3
ground,  (po.

. 
“ 
) .............................  3©  4
Annatto......................  55©  60
4©  5
Antimonl, po.............. 
et Potass T.  55©  60
Antipyrin..................   @1  40
Antlfebrln..................  ©  25
Argentl  Nitras, ounce  ®  60
Arsenicum.................  5©  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  55©  60
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 10©2 20
Calcium Chlor, is, (Ms
11;  Ms,  12)..............  ©  9
Cantharides  Russian,
po............................  ®1  20
Capsicl  Fructus, a f...  ©  22
© 25
®  20
Caryophyllus, (po.  14)  10©  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   ©3 75
Cera Alba, S. & F ......   50©  55
Cera Flava.................  38©  40
Coccus.......................  ©  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  22
Centrarla....................  ©  10
Cetaceum...................  ©  40
Chloroform...............   60©  63
squibbs..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  20®1  40
Chondrus...................  20©  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  &  W  15©  20
German 3  ©  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
60
cent  ...................... 
Creasotum...............  
©  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  ©  2
“  prep..................  
5©  5
11
“  preelp..... 
9© 
"  Rubra......  ® 
8
Crocus.......................  33©  35
Cudbear......................  ®  24
Cupri Sulph................  5 ©   6
Dextrine....................  10©  12
70
Ether Sulph.....   68© 
Emery,  all  numbers..  ®
po........   © 
6
Ergota^Tpo.)  65 .........   60©  65
12©
Flake  white—
Galla
Gambier..................... 7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ©  70
French...........  40©  60
“ 
Glassware  flint,  75 and 2M. 
by box 70
Glne, Brown............  9©  15
"  White.............   13©  25
Glycerins...................15M©  20
Grana Paradlsl..........   @  22
Humulus....................  25©  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  90
“  Cor....  ©  80
Ox Rubrum  @1  00
Ammonlati.  @1  10
Unguentum.  45©  55
Hydrargyrum...............   @ 65
.1 25®1  50
rjhthyobolla, Am. 
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 7S@3 85
Iodoform.......................   @4 70
Lupulin......................  43©  50
Lycopodium..............  50©  55
Macis.........................  75©  80
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod....................  © 27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10©  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1M).............................  2®  3
Mannla, S. F 

30©33

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V arnishes.
P ain ts,  O ils 

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sn n   n u i  wtipiin  n im .

Full  lite  of  Staple  Druggists’ M ies.

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G I N S ,  W IN E S ,  R U M S ,

We n il Ltqnora for Meitelnal Purposes only. 
We give oar Personal Attention to Mall Orders M l Oss rwtffl SatlstnetfclO.
All oiden are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we twelve them.  Sena in  • 

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grocery  Price  Current•

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

and  buy  in  full  packages.

CLOTHES PINS.

5 gross boxes.......................40

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags......................  @3
Less quantity...............   @3)4
Pound  packages...........6?i@7

COFFEE.

GREEN.
Rio.

Fair.....................................16
Good...................................17
Prime................................. 18
Golden................................20
Peaberry............................20

Santos.

Fair.................................... 16
Good...................................17
Prime.................................18
Peaberry  ............................20
Mexican and Guatamala.
Fair.................................... 20
Good...................................21
Fancy.................................23
Prime.................................19
M illed............................... 20
Interior............................... 25
Private Growth................. 27
Mandehling......................28
Imitation...........................23
Arabian..............................26

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

ROASTED.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add *c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent,  for shrink­
age.
A rbuckle’s A riosa........  19.30
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX..  19.30
G erm an..........................   19 30
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__  19 30
Bunola  ............................  18.80

PACKAGE.

COUPON  PASS  BOOKS.

I Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810 down. | 
20 books........................ 8 1 00
1UU 
250  “ 
500  “ 
1000  “ 

......................
......................
.......................
.......................
CONDENSED MILK.
4 doz. in case.
Eagle..............................
.  7 40
Crown.............................
.  6 25
Genuine Swiss...............
.  8 00
American Swiss.............. ..  7 00

6 25 
10 00 
17 50

CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX................. ...  6
Seymour XXX, cartoon.. ...6 *
FamUy  XXX................... ..  6Ç
Family XXX,  cartoon... ...  6*
Salted XXX.................. . ...  6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ... ...6 *
...................... ...  7*
Kenosha 
Boston............................. ...  8
Butter  biscuit... 
........ ...  6*
Soda.
Soda, XXX......................
.  6
Soda, City....................... ...  7*
Soda,  Duchess............... ...  8*
Crystal Wafer................. ...10
Reception  Flakes........... ...10
S. Oyster  XXX............... ...  6
City Oyster, XXX...........
...  6
Farina  Oyster............... ...  6
CREAM TARTAR.

Oyster.

DKIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.
APPLES.

Sundried, sliced in  bbls. 
5 
5
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes  @7

quartered  “ 

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APRICOTS.

PEACHES.

NECTARINES.

BLACKBERRIES.
In  boxes.......................  
4V
7y
70 lb. bags....................... 
25 lb. boxes....................9  @9y
Peeled, in  boxes  .........  
12
Cal. evap.  “ 
 
 
8
“ 
In bags  ......  @ 7V
PEARS.
California in b ag s__   @7
PITTED  CHERRIES.
Barrels..........................  
10
50 lb. boxes................... 
11
25 “ 
12

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PRUNELLES.

301b.  boxes................... 

AXLE GREASE.doz  gross
600
5 50
9 00
8 00
600

Aurora....................  55 
Diamond.................  50 
Frazer’s...................  80 
Mica.......................  75 
...............   55 
Paragon 
BARING  POWDER.

Acme.

 
 
 

 
 
 

Arctic.

Dr. Price’s.

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

v  lb.  cans, 3 doz................  45
*  lb. 
“  2 “  .................  85
1 lb. 
“  1  “  ...................1 60
Bulk....................................  10
V lb cans............................  60
1  20
*  lb  “ 
“ 
1  fi> 
2 00
5  lb 
“ 
9 60
Cook’s  Favorite.
100 J4 lb cans....................  12 00
100 *  lb cans....................  12 00
100 *  lb cans....................  12 00
2 doz 1 ib cans....................  9 60
(tankard pitcher with each can)
per doz 
Dime cans..  90
.1  33 
oz 
4- 
1  90 
6-oz 
.  2 47 
8-oz 
.  3 75 
12-oz 
.4 75 
16-oz 
11 40 
2*-lb 
18 25 
41b
21  60 
5- lb 
41  80
10-lb

D«mCElS
CREAM
Ba k in g
powder
Muauractf*
Red Star, & 

40
cans........... 
80
........... 
...........  1 50
45
Telfer’s,  4 lb. cans, doz. 
“  ..  85
“  ..  1  50
80
“ 
..................   120
2  doz.................  2 00
BATH BRICK.

6 oz cans, 4 doz  ................. 
9  <■ 
16 

lb.  “ 
l lb.  “ 
Victor.

*  fi>  “ 
i ib  “ 

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2 dozen in case.

BLUING. 

English...............................  90.
Bristol..................................  80
Domestic.............................   70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals..  ........... 4 00
8oz 
pints,  round  ..........10 50
No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
No. 3, 
...  4 00
No. 5, 
...  8 00
1 oz ball  ...................4 50

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BROOMS.
 

 

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No. 2 Hurl.................................2 00
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet..............................2 50
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem.......................... 3 00
Common Whisk..................  1 00
Fancy 
.................1  20
Warehouse.......................... 3  50
BRUSHES.
Stove, No.  1.......................  125
10.....................1  50
15....................   1 75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row—   85
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row —   1  25
Palmetto, goose..................  1 50

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

 

CANNED GOODS.

PISH.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
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Little Neck,  li b ................. 1  15
“  2 lb.................1 90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb....................2 00
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb....................   85
21b................... 165
Lobsters.

Star,  1  lb..........................2 40
2  lb..........................8 30
Picnic,lib......................... 2  00
21b.......................... 2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb...................... l 30
2  lb.....................2 25
Mustard,  21b......................2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb............2  25
Soused, 2 lb....................   2 25
Columbia River, flat..........1  85
tails..........1  75
Alaska, 1  lb........................1  45
21b.......................... 2 10
Sardines.
American  * s ................4*@ 5
* s ................6*@ 7
Imported  Ms.................... 10@12
Hs.....................15@16
Mustard Ms......................  7@8
Boneless.......................... 
20
Brook, 8 lb......................... 2  50

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
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Trout.

“ 
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Apricots.
Live oak.....................
2 25
Santa Cruz.................
2 00
Lusk’s.........................
250
Overland..................
1  90
Blackberries.
B. &  W.......................
90
Cherries.
Red.............................
1 20
Pitted Hamburgh......
1  75
W hite.........................
1  20
Brie...........................
1  20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green
E rie............................ @1  25
California...................
1  70
Gooseberries.
Common....................
1  10

Gages.

Peaches.
P ie.............................
Maxwell....................
Shepard’s ..................
California..................
Monitor 
.................:
Oxford.......................

Pears.

“ 

Domestic....................
Riverside....................
Pineapples.
Common.....................
Johnson’s  sliced........
grated.......
Quinces.
1 Common....................
Raspberries.
Red  ...........................
;  Black  Hamburg.........
I Erie,  black 
..............
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................
Hamburgh  ...............
Erie............................
Terrapin.......................
Whortleberries.

MEATS.

Common....................
F. &  W.......................
Blueberries...............
Corned  beef,  Libby’s ...
Roast beef,  Armour’s ...
Potted  ham, *  lb ........
*  lb...........
tongue, *  lb ......
*  lb ...
chicken, *  lb__

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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

i 3 l

1  20
1  25
1  20
. . . 1   80
...1  75
...1  50
.. . 1   00
. . 1   10
95
95

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Peas

“ 
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Corn.

“  
2 25
2 75

Hamburgh  stringless... 
...1  25
French style.
...2 25
Limas  .........
...1  40
Lima, green...................
...1  30
soaked...............
...  80
Lewis Boston Baked__ ...1 35
Bay State  Baked...........
...1  35
World’s  Fair.................
...1  35
Hamburgh....................
Livingston  E den.........
. .1   15
Purity  ................................
Honey  Dew........................1  50
Morning Glory..................   l io
Hamburgh marrof a t ..........1  35
early June...........
Champion Eng... 1  50
Hamburgh  petit  pois........ 1  75
fancy  sifted.....1  90
Soaked................................   65
Harris  standard.................   75
Van Camp’s Marrofat 
.110
Early June...... 1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom_1  35
French...............................1  80
French.............................. 16@18
Erie.....................................   95
Hubbard............................ 1  20
Hamburg  ............................1 40
Soaked.................................  80
Honey  Dew........................1  60
Excelsior .  .........................1  00
Eclipse................................1  00
Hamburg............................ l  30
Gallon ...  ...........................2 50

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.

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

CHEESE.

Amboy.......................
Herkimer...................
Riverside...................
Allegan  ..................
Skim..........................
Brick..........................
E dam ........................
Limburger  ...............
Pineapple...................
Roquefort...................
Sap Sago....................
Schweitzer, imported. 
domestic  ....

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@12*
@ 12*
@12
@10
13
@1  00 
@10 @25 
@35 
@22 @30 
@15

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

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

85  Half  pint, 25 bottles.......... 2 75
2 40  Pint 
...........4 50
2 50  Quart]! doz bottles............ 3 50

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16
17

EXTRACT.

Valley City........................ 
75
1  15
Felix.............................  
Hummel’s, foil...................1  50
tin .................... 2 60

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RASPBERRIES.

In  barrels...................... 
501b. boxes.................... 
251b.  “ 
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Foreign.
CURRANTS.

CHICORY.

“ 

in less quantity  @ 4

Bulk.
Red

Cotton, 40 ft...
M 50 ft...
66
60 ft...
“
70 ft...
11
80 ft.  .
Jute
60 ft...
**
72 ft-..

CLOTHES  LINES.
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COUPON  BOOKS.

...per doz.  1  25
140
160
1  75
1  90
90
1  00

“Tradesman.’

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“Superior.”

per hundred............... 2 00
“ 
................2  50
................3  00
' 
“  “ 
....................8  00
................4  00
“ 
................5  00
* 
per hundred...............   2 50
3 00

“Universal.”
“ 
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per hundred..............  83 00
3 50
 
 
4 00
 
5 00
...................6  00
 
7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over...............5 per cent.
...........10 
600  “ 
1000 
......................20 
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“
“

Citron, Leghorn. 251b. boxes  2 
Lemon 
1
Orange 
1

“ 
“ 

PEEL.

25  “ 
“ 
25 “ 
“ 
RAISINS.
Domestic.

fancy.

Foreign.

Ondura, 29 lb. boxes..  7*@ 7y 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
..11  @12
Valencia, 30  “ 
..  6*@ 6J

PRUNES.

Bosnia........................   @
California, 90x100 25 lb. bxs.  8 
,.8V
..9
. ,9V
Turkey.........................  @5*
Silver..................................11 *

80x90 
7fx80 
60x70 

« 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

XX  wood, white.

No. 1,6*..........................   81  75
No. 2, 6 * ..........................   160
No. 1,6.............................   1  65
No. 2, 6.............................   1  50
No. 1,6*..........................   135
No. 2,6 * ............. 
125
6*  ...........................   1 00
6........................................  
95
Mill  No. 4.........................  100

 
Manilla, white.

Coin.

 

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

FARINACEOUS GOODS. 
3%
Barrels.................................300
Grits.................................. 3 50

Farina.
Hominy.

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

4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
Domestic, 12 lb. box.... 
56
Imported.................... 10*@ll *
Pearl Barley.
Kegs...............  
  @2*
 

MINCE  MEAT

Peas.

Green,  bu........................ ..1  40
Split  per  l b ...................
German..........................
East India.......................
Cracked..........................

..3 00 11
-  4
'  5

Wheat.

Sago.

5

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

“ 
“ 

Cod.

.  1  10

Yarmouth.......................
Pollock.......................
4
Whole, Grand  Bank...  6 @6*
Boneless,  bricks........7*@8
Boneless, strips...........7*@8
Halibut.
Smoked ......................
12
Herring.
Scaled.........................
Holland,  bbls............
kegs.............
Round shore, *  bbl...
“ 
*   bbl..
Mackerel.

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

Sardines.
Trout.

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

Whitefish.

“ 

“ 

FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as

follows:
FRESH  FISH
Whitefish 
.................  7 @  8
T ro u t.........................7 @ 8
Halibut....................... @15
Ciscoes or Herring__  5 @ 6
Blueflsh..................... 11 @12
Mackerel....................15 @25
Cod............................. 10 @12
No. 1 Pickerel............
@ 8
Pike............................ @ 8
Smoked  White  ......... @ 7
F&lrhaven  Counts — @40
F. J. D. Selects......... @35
Selects ....................... @30
F  J. D......................... @25
Oysters, per  100  ........1  25@1  50
Clams. 
.........  75@i  00

o y s t e r s—Cans.

SHELL  GOODS.

“ 

GRAINS and FEKDSTUFFS

WHEAT.

MEAL.

85
No. 1 White (58 lb. test)
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test)
85
Bolted............................
.  1  20
Granulated....................
.  1  40
Straight, in  sacks.........
.  4 50
“  barrels........ ..  4 60
“ 
“  sacks.........
Patent 
.  5 50
“ 
“  barrels........ ..  5 60
Graham  “  sacks........
.  2 20
“ 
.  2 50
........
Bye 
MILLSTUFFS.

FLOUR.

“ 

Less
Car lots,  quantity.
816 00
16 00
17 00
18 00
17  50

CORN.

Bran..............$15 00
Screenings__  15 00
Middlings......16 00
Mixed Feed...  17 50
CoarBe meal  ..  17 50
Car  lots.........................
Less than  car  lots........
Car  lots  .......................
Less than car lots .•........
HAT.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots.
ton lots  ..
No. 1 

OATS.

“ 

...46
...46
...33
.. .35
..13 50
.14 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Jennings’ D C.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding box...  75 
125
3 oz 
...100 
150
“ 
4 oz 
...1  50 
2  00
“ 
3  00
...2  00 
6oz 
“ 
“ 
8 oz 
.. .3  00 
4  00
GUN  POWDER.

HERBS.

K e g s ........................................ 5  60
Half  kegs...........................3 00
Sage......................................16
Hops.....................................25
Madras,  5 lb. boxes  ........ 
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
Chicago  goods............   @3
Mason’s,  10, 20and30lbs..  6 
51b.......................   7

INDIGO.

JELLY.

“ 

55
50

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 home.................... ....1  10
Export  parlor......   ...... ....4 00

“ 

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

MEASURES.

Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  ..........................   81  75
Half  gallon.....................   1  40
Q uart...............................  
70
P int....................... 
45
 
Half  p i n t .......................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
.  7 00
1 gallon.........................
Half gallon  .................
.  4 75
Q uart............................
.  3 75
.  2 25
Pint...............................

•  13*
16
16
20

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house..................
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary.......................
Porto Rico.
Prim e............................
Fancy............................
New Orleans.
Fair...............................
Good.............................
Extra good....................
Choice..........................
Fancy............................. .. 
One-half barrels, 3c extra

14
17

35

OATMEAL.

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

O IL S .

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

ROLLED OATS.

Barrels  180.................   @4  25
Half  bbls 90..............  @2  5

p ic k l e s.
Medium.

Small.

p i p e s .

Barrels, 1,200 count........... 84 00
Half  barrels, 600 count__2 50

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

4 50

2 75

Clay, No.  216............................ 1 75
Cob, No. 3.................................1 26

“  T. D. full count...........  75

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

BOOT BEER
Williams,...........  per doz.  1  75
..  ..  3 doz. case.  5 00

“ 

r ic e .

Domestic.

Carolina head....................... 6
“  No. 1....................... 5
“  No. 2...............   @4
Broken...............................   3*

Imported.

Japan, No. 1.......................... 6
“  No. 2...........................5*
Java....................................  5
Patna..................................   5

SAUERKRAUT.

Silver Thread, bbl...........
*  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 
“ 
“  white...  .25
“ 
shot......................... 19
Pure Ground in Bulk.

Allspice............................... 15
Cassia,  Batavia...................20
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon.................... 35
Cloves,  Amboyna................30
Zanzibar................20
Ginger, African...................15
“  Cochin.....................18
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

“ 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

17
HUMES,  PRATS  and  FURS  PAPER A WOÖDJSNWAHR
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fo 
■14»

PAPER.
Straw
Rockfalls ............
Sag sugar............
Hardware.......... .
I  Bakers.................
I  Dry  Goods...........
Jute  Manilla........
Red  Express  No.

2%
i@6@5t

“Absolute” in Packages.

%s 
Allspice.....................   84
1  55
Cinnamon...........
....  84 1  56
Cloves................. ......  S4 1  56
.......   84 1  56
Ginger. Jam ......
......  84 X  56
“  A f...........
....  84 1  55
Mustard..............
84 1  56
Pepper ............... ...... 
Sage............................   84

SAIi  SODA.

Kegs........................ -   ... 
IK
Granulated,  boxes..............  1$

A nise.........................  @12%
3%
Canary, Smyrna.  ......  
Caraway....................  
8
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
Hemp,  Russian.........  
4%
Mixed  Bird  ..............  4%@ 5%
Mustard,  w h ite ........ 
6
9
Poppy.........................  
Rape..........................  
6
Cuttle  bone  .............. 
30

6%

“ 

STABCH.
Com.
20-lb  boxes..............
.........
40-lb 
Gloss.
1-lb packages......
3-lb 
........
6-lb 
........
40 and SO lb. boxes 
Barrels.................
SNUFF.

“ 
“ 

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

SODA.

Boxes..........................  ...... 5%
Kegs, English.......................4%

SALT
100 3-lb. sacks..................
...................
6015-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks.................
2014-lb.  “ 
...................
24 3-lb  cases....................
56 lb. dairy in'linen  bags.
281b.  “ 

drill  “

*2 25 
2  001  85
2 25 
1  50
50
18

Warsaw.

56 lb. dairy in drill  bags..
28 lb.  “ 
.

“ 

“ 

Ashton.

Higgins.

56 lb. dairy in linen sacks..  75 

56 lb. dairy in linen  sacks.  75 

Solar Rock.

56 lb.  sacks.......................   25

----- -

80
88

Common Fine.
Saginaw........................
Manistee........................

SALS RATU8.

Packed 60 lbs. iu box.
. 

Church’s ........................ .  13 30
DeLand's............
:?  15
Dwight’s ......................... ..  3 30
Taylor’s .......................... . .  3 00

SOAP.
LAUNDRY.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country,  80  1 lb ...... ...3 20
Good Cheer, 60 1 lb......... ...3 90
White Borax, 100  % lb...
. .3 60
Proctor & Gamble.
Concord  ........................ ..  2 80
Ivory,10  oz.................... . .  6 75
6  02.....................
“ 
.  4 00
Lenox 
..........................
3 65
Mottled  German............
.  3  15
Town Talk.....................
.  3 00
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz. ..  2 50
.  2 50

SCOURING AND POLISHING.
“ 

hand, 3 doz......

SUGAR.
Cut  Loaf....................
©  5%
Cubes........................
© 4%
Powdered.................
a  47b
..  .  4 56© 4%
Granulated.. 
Confectioners’ A.  ...  4.44® 4%
Soft A........................
@4.31
White Extra C........... @  1%
Extra  C.....................
©  4
c ..............................
@3 7i
Yellow............ 
..
@ 3%
Less than  bbls.  %c advance

SYRUPS
Com.

Pure Cane.

Half bbls......................... ...24
19
Fair  ...
Good............................... ...  28
...  30
Choice  ..........................
SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps..............
Sugar  Creams............
Frosted Creams.........
Graham Crackers......
Oatmeal Crackers—
TEAS.

8
■8
9
8%
8%

japan—Regular.

@17
F air...........................
Good.......................... @20
Choice....................  - .24 @26
Choicest..................... 32 @34
Dust...........................10 @12
F air............................ @17
Good.......................... @20
Choice........................ 24 @26

SUN CURED.

W arpath..............................14
Banner ................................15
King Bee..............................20
Kiln Dried...........................17
Nigger Head........................23
Honey  Dew..............
Gold  Block...............
Peerless....................
Rob  Roy...................
Uncle Sam.................
Tom and Jerry...........
Brier Pipe.. 
......
Yum  Yum ........... .....
Red Clover...........................32
Navy.........................
32
Handmade................
F rog..................................  33

WASHBOARDS.

Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust.............................10  @12

BASKET  PIKED.

F air.............................18  @20
Choice........................  @25
Choicest.....................   @36
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40

GUNPOWDER.

Common to  fair...........25  @35
Extra tine to finest___50  @65
Choicest fancy............ 75  @85
@26
Common to  fair...........23  @30
Common to fair...........23  @26
Superior to fine............30  @35

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG). 

YOUNG  HYSON.

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

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

“ 

Palls unless otherwise noted
60
Hiawatha  ................. 
Sweet Cuba............... 
34
24
McGlnty.................... 
“  % bbls.........  
22
32
Valley  City...............  
Dandy Jim ................. 
27
Torpedo....................  
20
in  drums—  
19
Yum  Yum  ...............  
26
Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead ..  ............  
Joker.......................  
Hobby. Twist................. 
Oh  My.......................... 
Scotten’s Brands.

38
22
39
29

Plug.

Middleton’s Brands.

22
Kylo...........................  
38
Hiawatha.................. 
Valley C ity...............  
34
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty.............. 
40
32
Jolly Tar.................... 
28
Here  It Is................... 
Old Style.................... 
31
Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good.................... 38
Toss Dp.................................. 26
Out of Sight........................... 26
Private Brands.
30
Sweet  Maple.............. 
L. A W.......................  
26
Boss....................................12%
Colonel’s Choice................ 13

Smoking.

Double.

Sagmaw.............................  1
Rival  ................................   1
Daisy..............................     l
Langtry.............................  i
Defiance.............................   1
Wilson.............................   2
Saginaw.............................   2
Rival.................................   1
Defiance.....................
Crescent.....................
Red Star...............   ...
Shamrock..................
Ivy Leaf.....................
VINEGAR.
40 gr.....................................
50 gr.....................................

81 for barrel.
WET  MUSTARD.

Bulk, per gal  ...................
Beer mug, 2 doz in case.. 
1
t b a s t—Compressed. 
Fermentum  per doz. cakes..
per lb"................
Fleisehman, per doz cakes 
. 
perlb..................

■  “ 
“ 

48 Cotton 
! Cotton. No.
Sea  Island, assorted  ...
No. 5 Hemp..................
No. 6  ••..........................
WOODEN WARS.
Tubs. No. 1....................
••  No. 2....................
No. 3....................
Pails, No. 1. two-hoop..
“  No. 1,  three-hoop 
Clothespins. 5 gr. boxes
Bowls. 11 inch...............
13  “  ..............

Baskets, market

assorted, 17s and  19s 
“  15s, 17s and 19* 
thinning  bushel 
full  hoop  “
bushel 
willow cl’ths

splint

No.l
No.2
No.3
No.l
No.2
No.3

7 0U 
6  00 
5 00
1  35 
1  60
to 80 
90 
1  60
2 36 2 50
2 76 
351 20 
1  30 
1  50
5 75
6 26 
7 26
3 50
4 26
5 0C

“ 

lows,  prices nominal:
RIDES.
Green...................
Part Cured............
Full 
............
Dry........................
Kips, g reen..........
i  “  cured......
Calfskins,  green 
.
cured 
Deacon skins........
No. 2 hides % oS.
PELTS
i Shearlings............
I Lambs 
...............
w o o l.
Washed  . 
Unwashed

“ 

@4 
@ 4% 
@ 44»
l i
@  14» @ 5i 7@30

.10  @25 
50  @1  50

@25
©20

MISCELLANEOUS.

; Tallow.........................3%@  4
i Grease  butter  ...........  1  @  2
Switches....................  1 %@ 2
I Ginseng 

2 00@2 50

............  
FURS.

“ 

j  Outside prices for No.  1 oulj
Badger............
Bear................
Beaver..........
Cat, wild.........
"  house......
Fisher..............
Fox, red...........
“  cross........
“  grey.........
Lynx........ .......
Martin,  dark 
pale &: 
Mink, dark
Muskrat.......
Oppossum..........
Otter,  dark......
Raccoon............
Skunk...............
Wolf..................
Beaver castors, 1
DEERSKINS—
Thin and  green
Long gray.........
G ray.................
Red and  blue...

.......   50@1 00
... .15 00@25 U0 
...3 00@7 00 1
.........  4U@  50 !
.......   10@  26 !
---- 4 00@6 00
....... 1  00@1  50
........3 00©5 00
......  50@1  00
....... 2 00@3 00
....... 1 UC@3 00
■ ellow  50@i  00 *
40@1  10 
03©
03@  16
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
 
I
O
 
  15©
S
.
. 5  00@8  00
.
.
.
.
......  25®  75
.....1 00@1  20
.
.
  1  00@3  00
.
.
> .
- 2  00@5  00 
-
-
E’er pound 
...............  10

.
.

j

Local dealers pay  as  follows 

for dressed  fowls:
Fowl.................... ..
Turkeys..................
Ducks  .................
Live Fouler 
Spring  chickens —
Fowls.....................
Turkeys..................

@13
©15
@14
@00
@11@13

Good Goods Make HILLSIDE  JAVA! Atui  Poor Goods

We  Affirm That 

( jr X mO C 0 T * \ y 1 I1 & 1 1   • 

Are  >ou  satisfied  with  your  sales  of 

Jbf 

C j r V l lt lC ?   O o / Z O O ' S   ?

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

HILLSIDE  JAVA  is a scientific  combination of  Private Plantation Coffees, selected by  an expert and  from  which a cup 
of  coffee can be made that will give universal satisfaction.  Cup  qualities  alw ays  uniform  which  is one  reason  why  it 
is a trade holder wherever introduced.  HILLSIDE  JAVA  has many friends  in Michigan! 
DO  YOU  SELL  IT ?

$100  vill  lie paid  for  a  formula that  will  produce  a  Cap ol  Coffee  better than  Hillside!

H i t   Ii Hi LiH   lijrin l  dilutes  ¡ill  Faded  n i l   M   into  50-11.  Cm   ill. 
H

J .   Ts/L.

E

 

T

M O  

S u m m it S t.,  T o led o ,  O .,  a lso   D e tr o it  &   N ew   Y o rk .

Importers,  Roasters  and  Jobbers  of  Fine  Coffees,

W e are represented in Michigan as follows:  Eastern  Michigan, P.  V.  H e o h l e r;  Southern Michigan,  M.  H .  G a sse r;

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

18

UNION  PACIFIC  AFFAIRS.

The result of  the  Union  Pacific  Rail­
way  Company  stockholders’  meeting  at 
Boston emphasizes  one  of  my  favorite 
maxims that nothing is so certain  as  the 
unforseen.  To  be  sure,  the  success  of 
the Gould party on this occasion was  not 
unforseen,  strictly speaking, since it was 
known that they would not submit  to  be 
turned out  of  office  without  resistance, 
but  it  was  so  generally  believed 
that 
they would resist in  vain, that  the  con­
trary event was a great surprise.  As  it 
was, they received only a small  majority 
of the votes cast,  and  those  that  turned 
the scale in their favor  were,  up  to  the 
last moment,  in  the  hands  of  their  op­
ponents.  To have snatched, as they did, 
victory from the very jaws of defeat was 
an exploit which has deservedly won  ad­
miration if not approval.
Some people are disposed to censure the 
holders of the 26,000 proxies which  gave 
to Mr. Gould and his friends  the  control 
of the Union Pacific property for another 
year,  at  least,  and  to  think  that  they 
ought to have voted them in the opposite 
direction,  while  some  even  make  the 
charge that these  proxies  were  sold  for 
money.  There is no  ground  that  I  can 
see  for  doubting  George  Gould’s  story 
that  he  got  the  proxies  by  the  very 
simple  expedient  of  proving  by  argu­
ment to the gentlemen who  had  the  dis­
posal of  them  that  it  would  be  for  the 
advantage  of  their  principals  to  give 
them to him.  They may very  well  have 
come  to  the  conclusion  on  the  merits 
of the  case  that,  as  President  Lincoln 
would have  said,  this  was  not  a  favor­
able occasion  for  swapping  horses,  and 
that they had better retain the team they 
had than to try a new one.

Whoever  will  take  the  pains  to  look 
over  the  report  of  the  Union  Pacific 
Company for 1891,  just  issued,  will  see 
that  the  successful  management  of  its 
affairs  is  no  easy  matter.  Eight  thou­
sand and more miles of road,  a capital of 
sixty millions,  a  debt,  funded  and  un­
funded, of  more  than  one  hundred  and 
forty millions,  with property  and  assets 
to  balance  capital  and  debt  combined, 
and  gross  earnings  of  some  forty  odd 
millions  yearly,  demand  administrative 
talent  of  a  considerably  higher  grade 
than that which suffices for any  banking 
or  brokerage  business,  however  large. 
Charles  Frances  Adams  found  the  task 
too much for him,  and  left  the  company 
on the brink of going into the hands of a 
receiver.  Under Mr. Gould’s administra­
tion  this  catastrophe  has  so  far  been 
averted,  whether by his endeavors  or  in 
spite of them it is  not  necessary  to  dis­
cuss,  since the potentates who  combined 
to rescue the company showed no resent­
ment at his behavior by  their  votes, and 
the bouse  of  Morgan  distinctly  refused 
I should not 
to exert itself against him. 
myself  like,  as  a  stockholder  in 
the 
Union Pacific, to have it controlled  by  a 
man  who has so many  interests  adverse 
to its interests  as  Mr.  Gould  has;  but, 
then,  I  should  not  hold  Union  Pacific 
stock on any terms, because 1  never  buy 
stocks except for the dividends they pay. 
Union Pacific does not  pay  any,  and,  for 
all that I can see,  will not pay  any  until 
I shall  be  dead  and  unable  to  collect 
them.  Still,  so long as a majority of the 
people who differ with me in this  respect 
and are  willing  to  own  the  stock,  are 
also willing to trust Mr.  Gould,  I  do not 
see  why  the  rest  of  the  world  should 
object.

 

8

€ AN OIKS, FRUITS and NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes aB follows:

STICK  CANDY.
Full  Weight. 

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

Bbls.  Palls.
7
7
854
8
8

MIXED  CANDY.
Full Weight.

Bbls.

Palls.

Standard...................................... 6
Leader.......................................... 6
Royal............................................654
Nobby...........................................7
English  Rock.............................. 7
Conserves....  ..............................7
Broken Taffy....................baskets
Peanut Squares.................  
“  8
French Creams.............................
alley  Creams.............................
Midget, 30 lb. baskets....................................  8
Modern, £0 lb. 
 

 

 

54

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Full Weight. 

 
 

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2 
3

ORANGES.

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

CARAMELS.
 
 

Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  10
printed...........................................  11
Chocolate Drops.............................................  1154
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  13
Gum Drops.....................................................  554
Moss Drops.....................................................  8
Sour Drops.....................................................  854
Imperials........................................................  10
Per Box.
Lemon Drops................................................... 55
Sour Drops .......................................................55
Peppermint Drops............................................60
Chocolate Drops...............................................65
H. M. Chocolate Drops.................................... 90
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops..  ..........................................1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops.................................... ..80
Lozenges, plain.............................................. 60
printed......... ..................................65
Imperials................................................'.........60
Mottoes.............................................................70
Cream Bar........................................................ 55
Molasses Bar....................................................55
Hand Made  Creams...................................85@95
Plain Creams.  ...........................................80@90
Decorated Creams.......................................1 00
String  Rock.....................................................65
Burnt Almonds............................................ 1  00
WIntergreen  Berries....................................... 60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb. boxes..........................  34
No. 1, 
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51
28
No. 2, 
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No. 3, 
90
Stand tip, 5 lb. boxes.
Floridas,  fancy—150..........................
choice. 126.............................
russets -150..........................
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123..........................
Californios,  Riverside  ......................
N avals..........................
Messina«, choice  200..........................
“ 
160..........................
Messina, choice, 360..................  —
fancy,  360..........................
choice  300...........................
fancy 390............................
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, fancy layers, 6Tb........................
“  10».......... ...........
“ 
“  14»......................
“  extra 
“  20»......................
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Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box......................
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Persian, 50-lb.  box.................
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NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.........................
Ivaca..................................
California.........................
Brazils, new.......................................
Filberts.............................................
Walnuts, Grenoble.  .........................
“  Marbot...............................
Chili...................................
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Table Nuts,  fancy............................
choice..........................
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  ......................
Cocoanuts, full sacks.......................
Fancy, H.  P.,Suns...... .....................
“  Roasted...... .........
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..........................
“  Roasted...............
Choice, H. P.,  Extras.......................
“  Roasted.............

@4  50 
@4 00 
@4  50 
4 00 
@
@4  50 
@4 00
@3 00 
3 50@3 75 
@3 50 
@4 00
12  @14 
14  @15 
@15 
@18 
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@ S 
.  4K @   &
@16
@15
@16
@  754 
.  @11 
@13 
@ 
@10 
@1254 
@1154 
.11  @14 
@4 25
@ 554 
@  754 
@ 554 
@ 754 
@ 454 
@   6*4

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PEANUTS.

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LEMONS.

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Your Orders for

Oranges, Bananas, Lemons, Dates, Nits, Figs

And Everything Handled by us are Respectfully Solicited.

THE  PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.

P E R K I N S  
H E S S
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

N08.  122 and  124 LOUIS STREET. ORAND  RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

FBOntfCE  MARKET,

still in the market, commanding 83 per hbl.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
The company has,  as  I  have  said,  for 
the present escaped going into the hands 
of a receiver.  By making an assignment 
of all its available assets  to  trustees  for 
the benefit of unsecured  creditors  to  the 
amount  of  $18,000,000, it has obtained  a 
respite of three years, of  which less  than 
one year has expired, in  which  to  extri­
cate itself  from  its  embarassments.  At 
the end of that period, it will  again have 
to face the same  exigency,  and  its  fate 
will depend entirely upon the  value  and 
salability of the securities, by the  use  of 
which it has lately so happily  staved  off 
bankruptcy. 
It was conceded,  when  the 
trust  of  these  securities was made, that 
they would not readily  bring  enough  to 
pay 
the  amount  for  which  they  are 
pledged,  and  it  was, moreover,  asserted 
that even if  they would  do  so,  it  would 
be ruinous to scatter them among numer­
ous small purchasers instead  of  keeping 
them  together  as  a  compact  whole. 
Whether it  will  be  otherwise .when  the 
three  years’ 
trust  expires  the  event 
will decide.

Apples—Russets  are  about  the  only  variety 
Asparagus—75c per dozen bunches.
Beans—The  supply of  dry  stock is nearly  ex­
hausted.  Handlers  pay about  81.30 for  country 
stock and hold city  picked at 81.50@81.60 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  S3 
@S3.50pcr crate of 135 lbs.
Cranberries — Repacked  Jerseys  are  in  good 
demand at 83.35 per bushel box.
Cucumbers—81.25 per doz.
Dried Apples—Sundried  is held at 4}4@5c  and 
evaporated at 6@654c.
Eggs—Jobbers  pay 1254c  and  hold  at  1454 c.
Honey—14c per lb.
Lettuce—Grand  Rapids  Forcing  is  in fair de­
mand at 10c per lb.
Maple  Sugar—Dealers  pay  7©Se  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 U0@80c per bu.
Parsnips—In full supply at 30c per bu.
Pieplant—254c per lb.
Pineapples—-81.40 per doz.
Potatoes—Old  stock in full  supply  at 25c  per 
bushel.  New stock is in limited  supply and  de­
mand at 81.75 per bushel.

Radishes—35c per doz. bunches.
Strawberries—Tennessee  berries  are  arriving 
freely, being held at I4@18c per qt.

The Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co.

PROVISIONS.

FORE  IN  BARRELS.

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

quotes as follows:
Mess, new.....................................................  10 50
Short c u t......................................................  11  50
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  13 75
Extra clear, heavy.......................................
Clear, fat back.............................................  12 75
Boston clear, short ent................................   13 50
Clear back, short cut....................................  13 25
Standard clear, short cut. best................. 
13 50
Pork Sausage.....................................................754
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage.............................................. 9
Frankfort Sausage  .........................................  7%
Blood Sausage.................................................   5
Bologna, straight............................................   5
Bologna,  thick..............  ...............................   5
Headcheese.................................................... 5
Com
pound
554
5%
6
6l4
654
.  6 5C
.  G 5C
.  9 0C
-•  9V..  93£
..10
..  654
-  854
..  6
..  834
..  854
..  654
..  654
..  654

Kettle
Rendered. Granger.  Family.
Tierces........7% 
554
501b. Tins...8 
534
6
301b. Pails..  854 
10 lb.  “ 
..  854 
654
51b. 
..854 
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654
8U 
31b. 
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654
BEEP  IN  BARBELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs__
Extra Mess, Chicago packing......
Boneless, rump butts....................................
sm o k e d   m e a t s—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs....................
16 lbs....................
12 to 14 lbs............
picnic................................
best boneless......................
Shoulders.....................................
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...........
Dried beef, ham prices................
Long Clears, heavy.......................
Briskets,  medium........................
light..............................
FRESH  MEATS.

7
754
754
7?4
7%
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Swift & Company quote as follows:
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Beef, carcass..........................................5 54 & 7
hindquarters...............................754@  854
fore 
..............................4  @5
loins,  No.  3.................................  @10
ribs...............................................854®  9
rounds........................................   554®  6

Bologna..................................................  @4 V*
Pork loins................................................   @ 7%
....................................  @  5?4
Sausage, blood  or head...........................  @ 454
liver........................................   @ 454
Frankfort  ...............................  @7
Mutton  ...................................................   9  @10
Veal........................................................  5  @6

“  shoulders 

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This,  however,  is  a  matter  of  small 
importance  compared  with  that  of  the 
company’s gigantic debt  to  the  United 
States Government and to  its  first  mort­
gage bondholders,  which  matures  in  in­
stallments  beginning  in  1895—the  next 
year  after  the  maturity  of  the  three 
years’  trust just created—and  ending  in 
1899.  To  the  government  it  will  be 
liable to  be  called  upon  to  pay,  com­
mencing in 1895,  a  sum  which,  on  June 
30,  1891,  amounted  to  $51,881,601,  and 
which is increasing  by  about  $1,000,000 
every  year,  so  that  in  1898,  when  the 
bulk of it becomes due, it will  be  nearly 
$60,000,000.  The first  mortgage  bonds, 
which are a prior lien to the Government 
debt, amount to $35,500,000,  and  mature 
from  1896  to  1899,  making  altogether 
$93,500,000 for  which  payment  must  be 
provided or delay obtained not later than 
1899.  This,  too,  is  independent  of  a 
number of smaller debts  on  branch  and 
collateral lines which it  is  quite  as  im­
portant to take care of.

Obviously, the  thing  to  aim  at  is  to 
get the time of payment of  the  principal 
of the debt I speak of extended upon the 
best  terms  that  can  be  made  with  the 
holders of it.  As  to  the  $33,500,000  of 
first  mortgage  bonds  the  question 
is 
merely one of the rate  of  interest.  The 
bonds are  in the hands  of  investors  who 
would much rather not  be  paid  off,  pro­
vided they felt sure of their  income,  and 
who,  if they had  to  decide  the  question 
to-day,  would probably take  5  per  cent, 
per annum and perhaps less,  in  place  of 
the 6 per cent,  which they now get.  The 
$60,000,000 debt to the  Government, rep­
resenting the subsidy bonds  issued  from 
1865  to 1869 to  aid  the  building  of  the 
road,  stands  in  a  different  position. 
Oddly enough,  while it is due to  a  credi­
tor, which,  until lately,  having had more 
revenue than it has known how to spend, 
has anticipated its own maturing debt at 
a premium  virtually  producing  it  only 
2 per  cent,  per  annum  on 
the  money 
employed  for  the  purpose,  and  would, 
therefore,  presumptively,  jump  at  the 
offer  of  anything  above  two  per  cent., 
rather than accept payment  of  the  prin­
cipal,  all efforts to  negotiate  with  it  an 
extension of the time of payment have so 
far proved fruitless.  Bills  for  the  pur­
pose  have  several 
times  been  recom­
mended to Congress by  the  Interior  and 
Treasury  Departments,  and  once  or 
twice they have  come  pretty  near  pass-

THE  MICHIG^lIST  TBADESMAN.

ing, but they have  all failed  finally,  and 
for the present  none  is  even  talked  of, 
notwithstanding  that  the  Commissioner 
of Railroads,  in a report to the Secretary 
of the Interior made only last November, 
repeats  his  recommendation 
that  the 
debt  of  the  Union  Pacific  and  of  all 
the other subsidized  railroad  companies 
be refunded,  and  suggests  the  appoint­
ment of a Commission  by  the  Govern­
ment to investigate the whole matter and 
devise  some  plan  which  shall  at  once 
secure to the  Government  its  dues  and 
yet not cripple the companies.

to  aid 

It is an interesting  question  what  the 
Government can do and what it  is  likely 
to do in  case  no  arrangement  is  agreed 
upon for extending the time  of  payment 
of its claim  against  the  subsidized  rail­
road companies upon  terms  which  they 
will accept. 
In section 5 of  the original 
act of July,  1862, providing for the  issue 
of  bonds 
the  construction  of 
the Union Pacific Railroad,  it is declared 
that the bonds issued in pursuance  of  it 
“shall constitute a first mortgage  on  the 
whole  line  of  railroad  and 
telegraph, 
together with the rolling  stock,  fixtures, 
and property of  every  description,  and 
in  consideration  of  which  said  -bonds 
may be issued; and the refusal or failure 
of said company to redeem said bonds  or 
any part of  them when required to do  so 
by the Secretary of  the  Treasury  in  ac­
cordance with the provisions of  this act, 
the said road,  with  all  the  rights,  func­
tions, 
immunities,  and  appurtenances 
thereto belonging,  and also all  the  lands 
granted  to  the  said  company  by 
the 
United States,  which at the time  of  said 
default shall remain in the possession  of 
the said company, may  be  taken  posses­
sion of by the Secretary of  the  Treasury 
for the  use  and  benefit  of  the  United 
States.”  The next section  declares  that 
the  grants made  in  the  act  are  “ upon 
condition  that  the  company  shall  pay 
said bonds at maturity.”  By an  amend­
ment  passed  in  1864,  the  Government 
mortgage  was  subordinated  to  the  first 
mortgage of $33,500,000. 
It  is  perfectly 
plain  that,  under  these  provisions,  the 
Government may take possession of  that 
part of the Union Pacific Railroad which 
was constructed  with the proceeds of the 
subsidy bonds,  and  also  of  the  unsold 
lands granted to the company by the act, 
subject to the first mortgage  of  $33,500,- 
000.  But  this  property  comprises  only 
the 1,821 miles of main line and  no  land 
not either sold or mortgaged,  and it  does 
not  comprise  the  much  more  valuable 
branch lines  and  collateral  investments 
of the company.  What can  the  Govern­
ment do with this fragment  of  railroad? 
It cannot  use  it  profitably,  and  it  can­
not sell it for anything like  the $93,500,- 
000 with  which  it  is  burdened. 
If  it 
sells it for what it will  bring, can  it  get 
judgment against  the  company  for  any 
deficiency that may result,  and collect its 
claim from  the  rest  of  the  company’s 
property?  1 doubt it very  much,  and  1 
also doubt whether  if  it  gets  the  judg­
ment,  which it would only do  after  pro­
tracted  litigation,  the  execution  on  it 
would  yield  any  money.  Railroads  of 
the magnitude of  the Union  Pacific  can­
not  be  sold  like  houses  and  lots,  be­
cause the purchasers for them are not  so 
numerous,  and  it  might  very  well  be 
that  the  upshot  of  the  whole  business 
would  be  to  leave  the  Union  Pacific 
property, at a  small  cost,  ip  the  hands 
of the  present company or of  a successor

to it,  free  from  all  claims  by  the  Gov­
ernment.

The more likely result is a compromise 
on the lines of those which have been, as 
I have said, already proposed and reject­
ed,  though  differing  from  them 
in  de­
tails.  The payment of  this Government 
debt will be extended over  a  long  series 
of years at  a  low  rate  of  interest,  and 
this will  clear  the  way  for  an  adjust­
ment  of  the  first  mortgage  and  other 
debts of  the  company  on  easier  terms. 
The negotiations in  behalf  of  the  com­
pany will  have  to  be  conducted  by  the 
shrewdest  men  it  can  employ,  and  in 
view of  Mr. Gould’s established  reputa­
tion for  astuteness,  I  am  not  surprised 
that a majority of  the  stockholders  wish 
to retain him in  their service.

Ma tth ew  Ma r sh a ll.

Off on the  Wrong  Scent.

What a  jolly thing it is for the monop­
olists  to  see  the  people  going  off  on  a 
wrong  scent  and  leaving  them  free  to 
carry  out  their  schemes  without  inter­
ference.  Every  week  some  new  fran­
chise is granted by some State or county, 
town or city—a franchise which  means a 
monopoly,  and  the power to collect  trib­
ute from the people.  Every  week  some 
new combinations of  capital  are  formed 
for the purpose  of  consolidating  indus­
tries that should be conducted under  the 
law  of  competition,  which  is  the  poor 
man’s only protection  against  the  inor­
dinate  greed  of  the  capitalist.  Every 
week some new scheme is set  on foot for 
enriching the few at  the  expense  of  the 
many,  and developing in this country  an 
aristioracy of wealth.  “And the people, 
oh!  the  people,”  what  are  they  doing? 
Most of  them  are  attending  strictly  to 
their own  business,  and  voting  on  elec­
tion  day  as  the  bosses  direct.  Those 
who are anxious for  reform  allow  their 
attention to be  distracted  by  chimerical 
schemes which  can  only  end  in  smoke. 
They want  to  correct  the  abuses  which 
exist because of  improper  legislation  by 
still  more  unwise 
legislation.  They 
would restore the  balance  of  wealth  by 
creating more money, or  they  would  re­
store the equilibrium of society by pater­
nal  legislation  giving  special  rights  to 
the working classes.  And while they are 
thus wasting their energies  in  trying  to 
do the impossible,  fetters  are  being  riv­
eted on  their  wrists  and  ankles  which 
will  be  a  burden  to  them  and  their 
children after them for all time to  come.

Geo.  R.  Scott.

B ig h ts   o f   a   W o r k m a n .

A Chicago judge has decided that there 
are rights that a workman  cannot  barter 
away.  A  manufacturer  executed,  for 
the consideration of one dollar, a writing 
to the effect that a  workman  in  his  em­
ploy should not  go  into  the  same  busi­
ness in  any  one  of  the  nineteen  states 
that were mentioned until at  least  three 
years after leaving the employ of the said 
manufacturer.  The  workman  left  and 
went  to  the  same  business,  when  his 
former employer attempted  to  stop  him 
by injunction.  The  judge  decided  that 
the sum of  one  dollar  and  work_  for  a 
week could not  be  held  as  sufficient  in 
equity to restrain a man  from  earning  a 
living,  and he disolved the injunction

A  boy  may  be  started  right  in  the 
world  by  a  good  education  and  yet  go 
wrong,  just as a clock  started  wrong  in 
the morning but  regulated  so  as  to  run 
too fast will be found wrong at night.

A bad mistake in addition is when you 
add to your expenses  without  adding  to 
your income.

Grand Baplds ¿»Indiana.
Schedale  In effect  January  10,1898.

TRA INS  GOING  N ORTH.

Arrive from   Leave pro In g 
North.
7:05 a m
11.30 a m
4:15 p m
10:30 p m
Train  arriving a t 9:20  daily;  all  other  trains  daily 

South. 
For Saginaw and  Cadillac.........  6:15 a  m 
For Traverse City A  Mackinaw 
9:20 a  m 
For Saginaw &  Traverse  C ity ..  2:00 p m 
Foi*  Petoskey A  M ackinaw.......  8:10 p ra 
From Kalamazoo and Chicago.  8:35 p ra 
except Sunday.

TRA INS  GOING  SO U TH .

North.
For  C incinnati.............................   6:20 a m
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago...
For Fort W ayne and the  E ast..  11:50 a m
For  Cincinnati.............................   5:30 p m
For  C hicago................................ 10:40pm
From Saginaw...............................10:40 p m
all other trains daily except Sunday.

Arrive from   Leave going 
South. 
7:00 a m  
10:30  am  
2:00  p m 
6:00  p m 
11:05 p m
i daily ;

Trains leaving a t 6:00 p. m. and 11:05 p. m. 

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
10:10 a  m 
7:00 a m 
11:25 a m  
4:40  p  m  
5:40 p m
9:05 p  m

From Muskegon—Arrive.

SLEEPING  &  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

NORTH

1 1 :3 0   a  m  t r a i n . —P arlor chair  car  Q’d 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
10:30 p m train.—Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw. 
SOUTH—7:00 am train.-P a rlo r chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
10:30 am  train.—W agner  P arlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
6:00  pm train.—W agner Sleeping  Car 
Grand Rapids to Cincinnati.
11;05 p  m train.—W agner Sleeping Car 
Grand Rapids to C hicago________________
Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R.

10:30 a  m 
3:55 p m 

Lv G rand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

11:05 p m
6:50 a  m
10:30 a  m train  through W agner P arlor Car.
11:05 p m tra in  daily, through W agner  Sleeping Car. 
10:10 p m
6:15  a  m
3:10  p  m  through  W agner  P arlor  Car.  10:10  p  m 

3:10 p m  
Lv  Chicago 
A rr Grand Rapids 
8.35 p m 
tra in  daily, through W agner Sleeping Car.

2:00 p m 
9:00 p m  

7:05 a m  
2.00 p m  

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

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

C. L. LOCKWOOD,

Railway.

Toledo,  Ann  Arbor &  North  Michigan 
In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk  e 
offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  betwe  n 
Grand Rapids and Toledo.
Lv. Grand Rapids a t......7:15 a. m. and 1:00 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t ............   12:55 p. m. and 10:30 p. in.
Lv. Grand Rapids at......6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo at..............12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m.

v ia d „  e .  h .  & 31.

VIA D ., L.  A N.

Return connections equally as good.

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

Don’t  Buy

YOUR  SPRING  LINES  OF

Until you have seen our  assortment.  Our sales 
men are now on the way to call on yon.

EATON,  LYON  &  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

MANUFACTURER OF

CHSS,  l   GOYE.
Amins k Tents

Horse and Wagon Covers
Hammocks and Cotton  Clicks

JOBBERS OF

SEND FOK PRICE LIST.

11  Pearl  SI.,  Grand  Rapids,  Jlieh.

1 9
Mic h ig a n (Tentpal

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’'

D EPA RT.  A RRIV E
D etroit Express....................................  7 00a m   10:00 p m
4:80  p m
Mixed  ....................................................7:05am  
Day  Express........................................  i:20 p m   10:00 a m
"Atlantic A  Pacific Express..............10.30 p m 
0:00 a m
New York Express............................... 5 :40 p id  18  40 p m

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

Fred M. B r i g g s , Gen'l Agent. 85 Monroe St.
A. Almquist, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
G e o . W. M u n s o n , Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. 
O. W. Ruggles  G. P.  A   T. Agent.,Chicago.

TIME  TABLE

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave »No.  14 +No.  16 +NO.  18 »No.  82
10 55pm 
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
12 37am 
Ionia...........Ar
1 55am 
St.  Johns  ...Ar
3 15am 
Ow o ssd........Ar
6.45am 
E. Saginaw..Ar
7 22am 
Bay City......Ar
5  40am 
F lin t...........Ar
7 30am 
Pt.  Huron... Ar
5 37am 
Pontiac....... Ar
7  00am
Detroit.........Ar

6 50am
7 45am
8 30am
9 05am
10 45am
11 30am
10 05am 
1155am
10 53am
11 50am
W ESTWARD.

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

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
5 65pm 
8  0pm 
8 45pm
7 05pm
8 0  pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

»No. 81 |tNo. 11 tNo. 13 |»No.  15
Trains Leave
5 10pm 110 20pm
7 05am  1  00pm
G’d Rapids,  Lv 
6 15pm  11 20pm 
8 35am  2  10pm
G’d Haven,  Ar 
6 30am  6 30am 
Milw’keeStr  “ 
6 00am | ...........
Chicago Str.  “
’ . ! ! !!!!|  !!!!!!!
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 a. m., 
5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arrive  from  the west,  6:45  a  m,  10:10 
a. m., 3:15 p.m. and 10:30 p. m.
Eastw ard—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parle r  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward — No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Chair Car  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
J ohn W. Loud, Traffic Manager.
Ben  Fletcher, Trav. Pass. Agent. 
J as. Campbell, City Ticket Agent.
23 Monroe Street.
JAN’Y3-^
a n d   WEST  MICHIGAN  It’V. 
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

CHICAGO 

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

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

INDIANAPOLIS.

For Indianapolis 12:05 p m only.

TO AND FROM  MUSKEGON.

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

RAPIDS.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Chicago—Wagner 
Sleepers—Leave Grand Rapids *11:35 pm .; leave 
Chicago  11:15  pm.  Parlor  Buffet  Cars—Leave 
Grand Rapids 12:05 pm ;  leave Chicago 4 ;45 p m. 
Free Chair Cars—Leave  Grand  Rapids 9:00 a m;
leave Chicago 9:00 am. 
__
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Manistee—Free 
Chair Car—Leaves Grand Rapids 5:17 pm; leaves 
Manistee 6:50 a m.
DETROIT,

JAN’Y 3,  1892

LANSING & NORTHERN R. R. 
GOING TO DETROIT.

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. GR’D  RAPIDS......7:15am *1:00pm  5:40pm
Ar  DDTROIT..............12:00 m  *5:10pm  10:40pm
Lv  DETROIT..............  7:00am  *1:15pm  5:40pm
Ar' GR’D  RAPIDS......11:50am *5:15pm  10:15pm
To and  from  Lansing  and Howell—Same as to 
and from Detroit.

TO  AND FROM SAGINAW,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS.

Lv. Grand  Rapids.....................,?:25am
Ar. Grand  Rapids.....................11:50am  16:40pm

TO  LOWELL VIA  LOWELL  &  HASTINGS R.  R.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Lv. Grand Rapids...........7:15am  1:00pm 5:40pm
A r.from  Lowell..............11:50am  5:15pm 
......
Between  Grand  Rapids [and  Detroit—Parlor 
cars on all trains.  Seats 25 cents.  _
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Saginaw—Parlor 
car  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:05  am ;  arrives In 
G rand Rapids 7:40 pm.  Seats 25 cents.

»Every day.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeIIAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.
STUDY  LAW
AT  HOME.
Take a  course in the 

Sprague  Correspon­
dence  school of Law 
[incorporated].  Send  ten 
cents [stamps] for partlcu 
lars to
J.  COTNER, Jr., Sec’y, 
No.  S75 W hitney Block, 
DETROIT.-  MICH,

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T A L K S   W IT H   A   L A W Y E R .

THE GKOWTH OF  AMERICAN LAW. 

Written for The  Tradesman.

To obtain an adequate Idea of  the  law 
of any country,  one  must  travel  to  its 
sources and follow  its  growth  from  its 
very  beginning.  Let  us  pursue  this 
method in a few  studies  on  the  growth 
of our law. 
In the first place  the  seeds 
of American  jurisprudence  were  trans­
planted from the  old  world.  . The  navi­
gators, explorers,  missionaries,  reform­
ers,  gold  seekers  of  the  very  earliest 
days,  brought to our  shores  along  with 
their intense desire for conquest,  for  in­
dividual gain,  for the glory of their  sov- 
erigns,  and  for  religeous  freedom,  the 
customs and laws of the homes they  left 
and adopted them in the new world so far 
as they were fitted  to their circumstances 
and  their  environment.  The  English 
brought with them the priceless  heritage 
of the common law  of England, and  the 
French and  Spanish brought  the  princi­
ples and codes built upon the foundations 
of the civil  law—the law of Koine.

Of  the  early  explorers 

succeeding 
Columbus,  there  was  Juan  Ponce  de 
Leon,  who landed in  1513,  near  St.  Au­
in  search  of  the 
gustine,  in  Florida, 
Fountain  of  Youth; 
in  1520,  Spanish 
ships touched  the  coast  of  Carolina;  in 
1521,  the territory now known  as  Texas. 
New Mexico  and  California  became  a 
part  of  a  great  province  attached 
to 
Spain  by the conquest  of  her  great  ex­
plorer, Cortez. 
I)e  Soto,  another  Span­
iard,  led a party from  Florida  across  the 
country to  the  Mississippi  in  1542. 
In 
1584-5, Sir Walter Raleigh sent two expe­
ditions  to  North  Carolina.  A  Spanish 
settlement  was  made  at  St.  Augustine 
1565.  Jamestown,  Virgina,  became  the 
first  English  settlement  in  1607.  New 
York (New  Netherlands),  in  1613,  was 
settled  by  the  Dutch,  and  Plymouth, 
Massachusetts,  by  the  English  in  1620. 
La Salle explored the great lakes and the 
Mississippi in  1682,  the French establish­
ing  settlements  at  Kaskaskia  and  Ar­
kansas  Post  in  1685,  and  Mobile  and 
Vincennes 
Thus  England, 
Spain and France  divided  among  them­
selves  the  great  continent  of  North 
the  Southern, 
America. 
England  the  Central,  and  France 
the 
Northern portion.

Spain  got 

in  1702. 

are 

only 

a n d

inhabitants 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
The discoveries thus  made  vested  the 
new lands in the sovereign.  His title was 
that  by  discovery  grounded  upon 
the 
three  following  ideas:  The  Christian 
nation  that  discovers  a  heathen  land 
owns  it  to  the  exclusion  of  all  other 
Christian nations.  This  nation  to  com­
plete  its  title  must  within a reasonable 
time,  occupy  and  use  this  land.  The 
native 
the 
occupants of the land and not its owners.
For over a hundred years from the dis­
covery  by  Columbus  no  settlement  de­
serving  of  more  than  passing  mention 
was  made  in 
the  new  world  by  the 
English.  Many and feeble attempts were 
made,  fearful hardships  endured,  heroic 
efforts put forth, but in  vain.  Raleigh’s 
and  Drake’s  efforts  were  uusuccessful. 
The Spanish settlements were  more  suc­
cessful,  and  for  a  clear  reason.  Spain 
looked  upon  her  explorations  as  means 
toward  extending  her  dominion.  She 
looked forward to  another  great  Roman 
Empire.  Her  explorations  were,  in  a 
sense,  official,  and  once  a  post  was 
planted,  high officers of state  with  large 
salaries were annexed  to  it,  thus  draw­
ing patronage,  wealth  and  population. 
It  was  otherwise  with  the  English. 
In 
nearly  every  case  colonization  and  ex­
ploration was private  enterprise;  if  un­
successful, drawing in its wake individual, 
suffering and loss, but  if  successful,  re­
sulting in little indeed  to  the  individual 
but everything to the crown.  Left  thus 
to their own resources,  English  colonies 
in  America  had  a  precarious  existence 
for the first  hundred  and  fifty 
to  two 
hundred years,  leading one writer to  say 
of  the  British  colonists  as  late  as  the 
end  of  the  seventeenth  century,  “they 
were  robbers  and  pirates  on  a  large 
i scale.” 

W m.  C.  Spr a g u e,

During  the  past  ten  years  there  has 
been a great falling off in  the  supply  of 
lobsters,  until  the  price  has  increased 
fully one hundred  per  cent.  This  ap­
plies alike to  the  New  York  market,  to 
the waters along the New  England  coast 
and  in  Canada  and  Newfoundland, 
where lobster fishing and  canning  is  an 
important  industry.  The  necessity  for 
increasing the supply of  lobsters  is  gen­
erally recognized,  and  two  methods  are 
proposed  for accomplishing  this  object. 
One is the enactment of  laws  which will 
check  the depletion  of  the  lobster  beds 
by over-fishing, and the other is artificial 
propagation.

H - S - R o b i n s o n  AND C o m p a n y

Manufacturers  and  Wholesale  Dealers  in

B O O T S ,
S H O B S
R U B B E R S .

New Factory, 330 and  332  La Fayette Avenue,

Office and Salesroom,  99, 101, 103, 105 Jefferson Ave.,

D E T R O IT ,  M ICH

The  BA E  LOCK  TYPEW RITER.

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

Visible  W riting.
Permanent Alignment. 
Automatic Ribbon-Peed Reverse 

High  Speed.

P o w e rfu l M a n ifo ld e r. 
L ig h t-R u n n in g ,  D u ra b le .
The No  2  Machine  takes  paper  9 
inches wide, and writes  line 8 inches 
long.  Price, $100 complete.
The  No. 3  Machine  takes  paper  14 
Inches  wide,  and  writes  a  line  1.3'i 
Inches long  Price, $1 to complete

SEND FOR  CATALOGUE.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  State  Agents, 

G rand  R a p id s,  M ich

RINDGE,  KALMBACH  &  CO.,

12,  14,  16  PEARL  ST.

G ran d   R a p id s,  M ich.

T X 7 'E   would call  the  atten­
tion of  the trade  to our 
lines  of  walking  shoes.  We 
can show  you  all  the novelties 
at popular prices.

We  also  carry  good  lines  of 

Tennis Goods at low prices.

We  want to sell  you  your  rubbers  for  fall.  Terms  and  discounts  as  good  as 

offered by any agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.

THE  ONLY

Ml  Package  for  Bitter.

Parchment  Lined Paper Pails for 

3,  5 and  10 lbs.

LIGHT,  STRONG,  CLEAN,  CHEAP.
Consumer gets butter in Original Package.  Most 
profits.bit?  mid  satisfactory  way  of  marketing 
good goods.  Full particulars free.
DETROIT  PAPER  PACKAGE  CO.,

DETROIT,  MICH.

A Full Line always Carried by

THE  PUTNAM  CANDY  BO.

STANDARD  OIL  CO., Spring &  Company,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

D ress  G oods,  S h a w ls,  C loaks, 
N o tio n s, 
R ib b o 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  a n d   D o m estic  C otton s

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

assorted stock at lowest  market  prices.

Spring &  Company.

VOIGT, HGRFOLSHEIHEB  &
Dry  Goods,  Garpets and Cloaks

W H O L E S A L E

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigt, HeTOoMeier & Co.,48> 

.
RINDGE,  KALMBACH  &  CO.

S

12,  14,  16  FEABL  ST.

st-

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.

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 e e r l e s s   W a r p s .

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

• G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N .

DEALERS  IN

Illuminating and  Lubricating

NAPTHA  AND  GASOLINES.

Office, Hawkins Block. 

Works, Butterworth Awe«

GRAND RAPIDS, 
BIG RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN, 

BULK  WORKS  AT

MUSKEGON. 
GRAND  HAVEN, 
HOWARD  C IT E , 

MANISTEE, 

PETOSKEY,

CADILLAC,
LUDINGTON.

HIGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR

EMPTY  GARBON  i  GASOLINE  BARRELS.

SAGINAW MANUFACTURING GO.,

SAGINAW,  MICH.,

Manufacturersf of the Following List of Washboards.

(1 m p r o v e  pD

Crescent 
Bed  Star 
Shamrock 
Ivy  Leaf 

Wilson 
Sapai 
Defiance 
Rival

y

'

'

DOUBLE

SUBFACE
Solid  Zinc.

Double  Zinc 

SUrfaßB.

Single Zinc 
Surface.

Wilson 
Saginaw 
Defiance 
Rival

j
The  above  are  all  superior 
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 rand  R a p id s,  M ich.

H. LEO N A RD  & SONS,

G R A N D  

RAPIDSMI C H .

Velocipedes and Tricycles for Children.

IMPROVED  STEEL  VELOCIPEDE.

NEW  IMPROVED  GIRL’S  TRICYCLE.

Wheels  are  finished  with  bright  tin  plate  and  have oval  tires, the  frame  is 
SI  60
1  85
2  10 
2  35 
2  60

nicely japanned. 
No.  1—Front wheel 16 inches;  rear wheels 14 inches, each,
No. 3 
No. 3 
No. 4 
No. 5

It is the best velocipede we can buy.
20
24
26
In  lots of  six.  net  price 10 cents each less.

16
18
18
20

No.  1—Toledo, 22 in. 
No. 2 
No. 3 

26  “
30  “

“ 
“ 

Prices are  without wheel fenders.

rear wheels;  for girls from 4 to 7 years,  net each, 
“ 
“ 

“  7 to 10  “ 
“  10 to 15 years 

*• 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“
“

GEM  TRICYCLE.

This  is  the  most  perfect  Tricycle on  the  market  for 
babies  and  children, 
it is recommended  by  physicians  as 
the only machine  ladies and  girls of  a delicate constitution 
can  ride with  benefit.  The  Gem has  steel wheels, grooved 
steel tires, and  forged  axles,  adjustable  spring seat,  uphol­
stered with plush,  filled with Japanese hair.

Prices quoted without wheel fenders.
years of age, 

“ 

No.  1—20 in.  rear wheel,  for 
No. 2—24 
No.  3—28 
No.  4—32 

** 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

3 to
7 
11 
14 

to 11
to 14
to 18

Rubber Tires, $4.50 net extra.

$5  40
6  50
7  60

Net  each, 
$5  50
6  75
10  00

