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YOL.  9.

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NO.  452

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G r a n d   IR .e/oicis,  2s/LloX\.
T he  G reen  S eal  C igar
It is Staple and w ill fit any Purchaser.

Is the Most Desirable for M erchants to H andle because

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Retails for  10 cents,  3  for 25 cents.

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As a  haunt  of  crime,  the  slum-laby­
rinth of a populous city is rivaled by  the 
wilderness  of  a  thinly  settled  border 
laud.  For purposes of bolder enterprise, 
there is even a decided preponderance of 
advantages  in  favor  of  the  wilderness; 
and during  the  carnival  of  chaos  that 
followed  the  downfall  of  the  Mexican 
Empire,  the  border-counties  of  Texas 
were  infested  by  whole  regiments  of 
professional bandits—“patriots,” as they 
called themselves,  when they  used  their 
pistols only to  “defray expenses,’’  as the 
Salvation Army  would say. 
In Cameron 
county,  near 
the  mouth  of  the  Rio 
Grande, the firm of Cortina  &  Bros,  was 
doing a wholesale business in  patriotism 
of  that  sort,  till  one  day 
the  senior 
member of the syndicate was arrested on 
a charge of having annexed the  horse  of
the  widow  W-----,  an  American 
lady
who had  been  visiting  on  the  Mexican 
side of the river.

The next day  a  representative  of  the 
Matamoros Ranchero called at  the  head­
quarters of the firm.

“It’s an infernal  piece  of  blackmail,” 
cried  Cortina, 
junior;  “ but  mark  my 
word,  we’ll  make  them  sorry  for  it. 
There’s some mistake about  it, sure,”  he 
added after a while.  “If  that  had  been 
my  brother,  he  would  have  kidnapped 
the old lady,  too.”

By  a  similar  line  of  logic  a  Mexican 
expert would probably arrive at the  con­
clusion that no countrymen of  his  could 
have  had  a  hand  in  the  recent  Texas 
train-robberies.  On  the  first  occasion 
the passengers were not  molested  at  all. 
The last time they  were  let  off  with  an 
optional contribution.  That latter trans­
action,  would, especially,  have  struck  a 
Spanish-American  critic  as  wholly  un­
professional.  A  wealthy  candidate  for 
the  presidency  of  the  republic  might 
content himself with stopping a train for 
the purpose of removing a political rival; 
but  a  specialist  should  have  business 
tact  enough  to  know 
that  only  a 
thorough  and  impartial  search  can  do 
justice to all parties concerned.  A single 
deviation  from  that 
rule  once  cost 
Colonel  Jeaningros the  prize  of  a  peril­
ous  expedition  for  the  capture  of  an 
army-chest, which a disguised paymaster 
managed to smuggle through in a shabby- 
looking tool-box.

NO.  452

—by  some  queer  coincidence,  nearly 
always on  “crowd  days,” no  matter  how 
cunningly the depot  agents  might  have 
smuggled  in  their  passengers  in 
the 
bustle  of  miscellaneous 
traffic. 
It 
seemed  clear  that  the  “patriots”  must 
have inside aid,  bat a constant change of 
employees  evidently  failed  to  diminish 
their  sources  of  information.  Railway 
patrols  were  equally  unavailing.  A 
force  of  mounted  rangers  scoured  the 
country  in  every  direction  south  and 
north of  the  track,  but  that  track  led 
through  a  rougher  mountain  country 
than the eastern  division  of  the  Denver 
and Utah railroad.  Regular train-guards 
would have strained the resources of  the 
impecunious company,  but  had at last to 
be adopted as a lesser evil.

Uniformed beef-eaters,  to  the  number 
of twenty and upward,  were then hauled 
to and fro on the  line  of  the  most  dan­
gerous section  (from Paso  del  Macho  to 
Amozot)  and local  toughs  were -collared 
by scores;  but  the  genius  of  the  Rio 
Grande  committee  rose  superior  to  all 
difficulties.  Twice the west-bound  train 
was robbed in  the  open  prairie,  within 
gun-shot of a regular depot.  Twice  the 
track of the lower section was obstructed 
in a way that  prevented  the  two  trains 
from  meeting at  the  dinner-station,  thus 
putting the west-bound passengers at the 
mercy of the bandits;  and  on  one  occas­
ion  the  car  containing  the  beef-eaters 
was  uncoupled  and  left  on  the  track, 
while  the  rest of  the  train  pursued  its 
way  in  charge  of  an  improvised  con­
ductor.

But as the excess  of  all evils  tends  to 
suggest the means  of  relief,  the  afflicted 
officials at  last  bethought  themselves  of 
exorcising their demons with  the  aid  of 
Beelzebub,  by invoking the assistance of 
the  “Contra-Guerillas”—mounted  detec­
tives,  as we might define  them—a  quasi- 
organized  body  of  desperadoes, 
sub­
sidized by the  general  government,  and 
employed chiefly in the  neighborhood  of 
the Indian reservation  south  and  south­
west of the Rio  Grande.  The  leader  of 
these rangers was  at  that  time  engaged 
in  guarding  the  mines  of  Chihuahua, 
which had  been  beeu  repeatedly  raided 
by the moss-troopers  of  Pancho  Parras, 
but after meeting the  agent  of  the  rail-

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When the first  regular  train  was  put 
on the trans-Cordilleras  line  from  Vera 
Cruz to  Puebla,  the  Rio  Grande  profes­
sionals sent  down  a  commissary,  who 
scrutinized the phenomenon with  a  glad 
surprise, at  once  appreciating  the  busi­
ness advantages of  the  novel  invention. 
Stage-coaches could  take  to  the  woods, 
or  change  their  route  altogether  (the 
Mantamoros  dlligencia  having  thus  re­
peatedly dodged the best-laid  traps); but 
the pre-ordained track  of  a  train  prom­
ised to raise interception to  the  rank  of 
an  exact  science.  A  picked  band  of 
veterans,  with  a  detachment  of  trained 
spies,  was at once dispatched to the  new 
Eldorado,  and from  November,  1869, till 
May,  1870,  the  passenger  train  of  the 
main line was robbed about once  a  week

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La Doncella de M orera,......................... 
65
La Ideal, 85 in a box................................  
55
M adeltena................................................ 
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way commissioners he had  a  private  in­
terview  with  his  ablest  lieutenant,  a 
noted  partisan  of  the  Juarists,  and  a 
ready companion of  every  desperate  en­
terprise.  “The  Parson”  (El  Cura),  as 
his troopers called him in  allusion to  his 
favorite  disguise,  at  once  closed  the 
bargain,  but  stipulated 
for  absolute 
secrecy and  carte-blanche  privileges  for 
all preparatory arrangements.

Three days after, El Cura and  a  select 
posse of his sharp-shooters embarked for 
Vera  Cruz  under  various  disguises. 
During  the  first  half  of  May,  1870, 
the spies  of  the  bandits  had  no  reason 
for special apprehension.  A new  brake- 
man or two were  added  to  the  force  of 
the  freight  department.  A  baggage- 
master of the passenger train was recom­
mended  for  a  position  in  the  repair- 
shops,  and  his  successor  was  temporily 
accomodated  with  several  assistants;  a 
new huckster appeared  ou  the  platform 
of  the dinner-station,  and  seemed  busy 
enough to justify the engagement of  two 
partners; but the trains  came  and  went 
as usual; the beef-eaters were  again  out­
witted,  and on the  18th  of  May  a  train 
was  for  the  last  time  stopped  in 
the 
open  vega  and  ransacked  from  end  to 
end.

That  outrage  furnished  a  welcome 
pretext, and on  the  next  day  the  train 
started out with a howitzer  conspicuous­
ly mounted  on  the  weather-deck  of  the 
tender.  On  that  isolated  redoubt  the 
commissioners  might  as  well  have 
mounted a wash-tub,  for  in  the  absence 
of an ordnance guard  there  was  nothing 
to  prevent  the  robbers  from  collaring 
the engineer  and  pitching  his  battery 
overboard;  but  the  arrangement  served 
as an excellent  blind;  an  innovation  of 
some sort had been  visibly  adopted,  and 
the patriots  might  be  expected  to  take 
their  measures 
accordingly.  Those 
measures  were  simplified  by  another 
change  of  programme,  equally  futile. 
The  old  train-guards  (the  beef-eaters) 
were  transferred  to  an  open  platform 
car, drawn  by a special  engine,  and  fol­
lowing the  regular  train  at  a  distance 
varying from a hundred yards to  a  mile, 
for nothing seemed  now  easier  than  to 
run the main  train ahead,  and detain  the 
rear-guard by  some  sudden  obstruction.
Traffic of  some  sort  or  other  seemed, 
nevertheless,  to  increase,  for the passen­
ger-trains  now  began  to  carry  double 
baggage-cars and modified their schedule, 
as if  their  overload  made  it  difficult  to 
run the  up-grades  on  time.  The  rear­
guard,  too,  then  moderated  their  speed 
—so  much,  indeed,  that  they  ofteu  re­
mained  two  full  miles  behiud. 
For 
nearly a  week  the  little  howitzer  rode 
triumphant,  and  the  bandits  themselves 
seemed to  enjoy  the  absurdity  of  the 
phenomenon; but on  the  long  run  there 
was  no  resisting  that  combination  of 
business chances,  and on the  36th of  the 
month a big  tree  was  suddenly  dropped 
athwart the track  of  the  rear  train  just 
when the front section  was making  good 
time  on  a  down-grade.  At 
the  end 
of that grade a red  flag was  Muttering  in 
the breeze,  a blockade hove iu sight,  and 
the train came to a full stop.

“O Dios!  Ladrones!  Bandits!”  Yes, 
there  they  came.  Twenty, 
thirty  of 
them,  pistol in  hand,  rose  from  behind 
the  obstruction  or  emerged  from 
the 
shade of concealing thickets.

“Alaxo!  Out  and  down,  all of  you!” 
came  the 
fully  expected  command, 
which  the  trainmen  obeyed  with  per­

haps rather suspicious  alacrity, for  they 
were ordered to halt and advance  one  at 
a time.

“What’s in that third car?”
“Baggage.  Shall we open it?”
“Never  mind  now.  Out  with  your 
boodle!  Turn out  your  pockets,  and  be 
quick about it!”

The search began.
“Hurry  up!  Here  comes  the  train- 
guard!”  yelled out one of  the  brakemen.
“ Who was that?  Hush  up,  you  luna­
tic!”  growled  the  leader,  not,  though, 
without  an  uneasy  glance  to  the  rear. 
“Here,  my  men,  stand  together  here!” 
fearing  that  some  of  his  cutthroats 
might take  the  alarm  and  run.  “This 
way,  all of you!”

Just up to programme, for in  the  next 
second the door  of  car  No.  3  began  to 
gape,  and  a  moment  after  a  crash  of 
musketry turned the  scene  into  a  babel 
of  yells  and  confusion,  and  before  the 
robbers could  answer  the  shrieked  com­
mands of  their  leader,  twelve  of  them 
were rolling  in  their  blood,  while  the 
rest rushed to the woods  in  wild,  uncon­
trollable  terror.  Volley  after  volley 
sent forth its  storm  of  balls  and  slugs; 
and  when  the  beef-eaters  at  last  did 
come,  though  at  a  double  quick, 
the 
work  was  doue,  aud  El  Cura,  note-book 
in  hand,  was  standing  on  the  track, 
while  his  men  were  dragging  up  the 
corpses  or  emptying  their  pistols  into 
the brain of some crippled wretch.

From  that  day  the  security  of  the 
Mexican railroads was  equalled  only  by 
the popularity of their securities,  till the 
line of  the Mexican  Central  approached 
the Rio Grande  and  tempted  the  border 
baudits to muster  their  reserve  forces— 
their home  guards,  as  it  were—and  re­
new the campaign on the  scene  of  their 
historic  triumphs.  Robberies  then  be­
came  chronic  again,  and  for  nearly  a 
year the interception of  every rich cargo 
proved that the patriots  had  once  more 
established a thorough system of  espion­
In stress  of  contracts  the  govern­
age. 
ment  at  last  massed  all 
its  available 
troops  along  the  imperiled  route;  the 
United  States  garrison 
in  Southern 
Texas were instructed to  co-operate, and 
an  interuational  fox-hunt  of  two  years 
ultimately abated the uuisance.

Train  robberies  have  since  been  re­
duced  to a rational  minimum  of  half  a 
dozen per year, and more  than  once  the 
cavaliers have been routed by the  timely 
arrival of a patrol;  but,  time permitting, 
they rarely fail to  indemnify  themselves 
by an exhaustive search.  They  rip  up 
bundles aud satchels, empty the contents 
of every trunk,  make passengers strip  to 
the skin,  and in doubtful cases take their 
baggage along, to search it in the leisure 
of their  bivouac.  Their  ferreters  seem 
to have developed a  sixth sense  for  the 
discovery of  hidden  valuables;  but,  for 
all  that, a  little  jew  from  Brownsville, 
Texas, once managed to baffle their  vigi­
lance.  Just as they entered  his  car,  he 
turned in his seat,  and  with  an  appear­
ance  of  anxious  dispatch  proceeded  to 
squeeze  a  small 
the 
shutters  of  the  next  window.  They 
could  not  help  noticing  his  maneuver, 
and promptly  ordered  him  to  stand  up 
and fold his hands.  When  they  tackled 
him in  due  course,  their  spokesman  at 
once turned to that window.

satchel  behiud 

“What’s this here?  Tried  to  beat  us, 
you poor sinner, did  you?  Cogalc—hold 
him—that’s i t   Now let me see that bag! 
Aha!  bank-notes. 

I thought so.”

3
“ JNot  H o w   Cheap,  but  How  Good»99

“B lu e L abel” K etchup

SOLD  ONLY  IN  BOTTLES,

Will  be  found to maintain  the  high  character of  our  other  food 
products.

We  use  only  well-ripened,  high-colored  Tomatoes,  seasoned 

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

PREPARED  AND  GUARANTEED  BY

CURTICE  BROTHERS  CO.,

Rochester,  N.  Y.,  U. S. A. 

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

Distributing  Agents.

“Oh,  don’t,  don’t,”  wailed  the  poor 
sinner;  “ that’s  my  children’s  money. 
They will starve! they  will  starve!  they 
will die! my poor little girls!”

“Send ’em  this  way,  and  we’ll  take 
care  of  them,”  was  the  brutal  reply. 
“How much is that,  anyhow?”

“Oh,  Lord  Senor,  all  I  have  in  the 
world—twelve thousand dollars in Amer­
ican  money—twelve 
two
hundred dollars,  I think—”

thousand 

“Is  that so?” fingering over the  notes. 
less.  Let’s  see  your 
“Yes,  more  or 
pocket, now.”  A handful of  silver  was 
turned out bit by bit—some  five  dollars, 
perhaps.

“Oh, Senor,  you  are  surely  not  going 

to take my last  penny?”

“D—n  it,  no!”  broke  in  the  leader. 
“Let  him  keep  his  nickels,  and  his 
watch,  too.  This will  do  us,”  shoving 
the roll into his gripsack.  “Good  boy!” 
with a slap on his  back.  “Next!”—with 
a complacent grin,  which  a  week  or  so 
later was probably seen on the other side 
of his face,  when  he  ascertained 
that 
those “American  bank-notes”  had  been 
issued by  the  Confederate  Government.
A package  of  less  irredeemable  secu­
rities had,  in the meanwhile,  been  stick­
ing safely under the cushion  of  the wily 
passenger,  who  had  taken  that  satchel 
along for the  special  purpose  of  divert­
ing attention from the main  stake.

F e l ix  L.  Osw ald.
Abrogation  of Tobacco  Monopoly.
The failure of  the  Tobacco  Monopoly 
in Persia bids  fair  to  have  political  re­
sults of considerable importance.  It will 
be remembered that last summer a syndi­
cate of English capitalists secured a con­
cession from the Shah for a tobacco regie 
to include  not  only  the  export  but  in­
ternal trade.  After  a  considerable  sum 
of money had been expended  in  perfect­
ing  arrangements,  the  Persian  Govern­
ment was  compelled  by  popular  clamor 
to recall,  first the internal and at last the 
export concessions.  The  question  then 
arose  of  remuneration  to  the  English 
stockholders,  both  for  their  actual  ex­
penditures and their  loss  of  interest  on 
the capital.  After considerable bargain­
ing,  the  Persian  Government  agreed  to 
pay the English stockholders the  sum  of 
£500,000  in  full  for  all  claims.  This 
proposition  was  accepted,  but 
then 
came the question of how the money was 
to  be  secured.  There  is  little  ready 
money in Teheran, but the Persian finan­
ciers have already  learned  lessons  from 
Europe and Turkey, and a loan was soon 
suggested.  Here  should  have  been 
England’s  opportunity,  and  had  Sir 
Drummond  Wolf  been  Ambassador  it 
would  probably  have  been 
improved. 
As  it  was,  Russia stepped  in  and  has 
offered to loan the  requisite  sum,  receiv­
ing  as  security  the  control  of  the  cus­
toms.  The  results  of  such  an  arrange­
ment  it  is  easy  to  foresee.  With the 
most important source  of  revenue  abso­
lutely in her control,  Russia can scarcely 
fail  to  make  herself  omnipotent 
in 
Teheran.  That  once accomplished,  aud 
the  Kajar  dynasty  made  dependent,  it 
will not take a long  step  to  the  Persian 
Gulf,  and  Russia  will  at  last  have  her 
outlet to the southern seas.

There are at present only five factories 
in this country  for  the  manufacture  of 
beet sugar,  three being in California  and 
two in  Nebraska. 
It  is  estimated  that 
it would require 750 factories of  the  size 
of  the  Chino,  Cal.,  factory  to  produce 
enough sugar for the consumption of the 
United  States.  Many 
the 
opinion  that  no  more  profitable  crop 
can  be  raised 
in  a  large  portion  of 
the  United  States than  sugar  beets,  and 
the  establishment  of  factories  would, 
no doubt,  prove  to  be  a  very  profitable 
investment.

are  of 

It is easier to create  a  debt  than  the 

means for satisfying it.

“

u 

1,000 

Ousting the  Old-Timers.

Send for sample.

THE  MICHIG-AJSr  TRADESMAN.
EVOLUTION  OP  THE  DRUMMER.
The Younger Traveling Men  Said  to  be 
From the Denver News.
“One  of  the noticeable changes of the 
last one or two years is the disappearance 
of the old-fashioned traveling  man,”  re­
marked  a  wide-awake  hotel  manager 
yesterday,  as he cast his eye over a num­
ber of guests of the house as they sat  in 
the rotunda.  The keen winds  from  the 
mountains  had  warned  the  patrons  of 
the  hotel  to  remain  indoors,  and 
the 
lounging  place  presented  an  animated 
scene.
“Now, take these  people  here,”  con­
tinued the speaker,  “and I’ll  venture  to 
say there are  not  more  than  three  old- 
time  drummers  in  the  entire  crowd. 
While over half the  men  in the rotunda 
are representatives of some Eastern com­
mercial  establishment,  they  are  young 
men,  and some of them are in Denver  for 
the  first time.
“The change commenced last year, and 
I could name at least a score  of  familiar 
countenances that  are  greeted  no  more 
over the counter.  The day is past  when 
a commercial traveler can camp down  in 
any of the larger cities and coax his  cus­
tomers of smaller  places  to  pay  him  a 
visit  aud  inspect  his  samples. 
In  the 
years gone by the  drummer  who  struck 
Denver expected to  remain  ten  days  or 
two weeks.  He spread  out  his  samples 
in  the  sample  room  of  the  hotel  and 
booked orders as the  country  customers 
dropped in.  The traveling man  usually 
laid  himself  out  for  a  high  old  time 
while gracing the city with his  presence.
“Why,I’ve seen representatives of large 
houses take a vacation of a week  to  rest 
up after a long  railway  ride  from.  New 
York or Philadelphia.  The houses  have 
found  out  that  the  heavy,  slow-going 
men were getting left by the young chaps, 
and the change was quickly inaugurated. 
The  young  fellows  are  sent  out  now. 
They go on the fly and  make  it  a  point 
to visit personally every customer in  his 
regular place of  business.  Postal  cards 
to customers don’t count under  the  keen 
competition which has developed recent­
ly-
“Another innovation which  is  spread­
ing alarm  among  traveling  men  is  the 
ease with which business men may secure 
passes from  railroads.  A business  man 
goes to a railroad manager and announces 
that he is thinking of visiting the Eastern 
market.  Although nothing may be  said 
about it,  the railway magnate takes it for 
granted  that  his  caller  will  order  his 
goods shipped over the  line granting the 
pass.  Pasteboards  are  accordingly  is­
sued,  not only  for the merchant,  but  for 
his entire family and one or two  cousins 
and aunts thrown  in.  The  practice  has 
grown to such an extent that the railway 
men  tell  me  it  is  becoming  a  serious 
question for the  management  to  decide 
where to draw the line.
“The merchant goes  East  and  makes 
his selection of goods,  instead of  patron­
izing the man who is on  the  road.  The 
railways have thus stepped in and  inter­
fered to a large extent with the  business 
of the commercial traveler.  As the  pas­
ses are issued as often as asked  for,  the 
larger  buyers  are  getting  further  and 
further  away  from  the  drummer  for 
this reason younger and less experienced 
men  are  sent  out  at  a  comparatively 
small  expense to the house.”
W hat Certification of a  Check Implies.
From the American Banker.
It  is  held  that  the  certification  of  a 
check  attests  the  genuineness  of  the 
signature  and  the  presence  of  suffi­
cient funds to pay  it,  the bank reserving 
the amount certified and  regarding  it  as 
having been  already paid and,  therefore, 
unavailable for  other  use.  The  courts 
hold  that  the  certification  relieves  the 
check of all defenses when  if  has passed 
into the hands of a  bona  fide  holder  for 
value.  The bank,  by  its certification  of 
the  check  and  charging  the  amount 
against  the  drawer’s  account,  becomes 
liable to pay the same  to  any  bona  fide 
holder.  A certified check stands on  the 
same footing as  an  accepted  bill  of  ex­
change, so far as the rights of the holder 
are concerned.  The bank,  by act of  cer­
tification,  imparts  to  the  paper  such  a 
character as to rank it  with  the  highest 
kind of commercial paper.

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

desire.

Cream  Laid  Bill  Heads.

A  A T E  have an  odd  lot Cream  Laid  Bill  Heads which  we 
V  ^   will close out while present  supply lasts at the same 
price as our cheapest paper.
1 -C size, 
in. wide, 6 lines,
^  
500 each size,

5 0 0$1  65 
2  00

50
00
75

^ 4   K

<t 

« 

$4 50
5 40
5 00

PRINTING  DEPARTMENT

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

MICHIGAN  BARK  & LUMBER  CO.,

Successors  to

We are now ready to make contracts for the season of  189i.  Correspondence solicited.

IS  and  19  Wield icorab  Building.

P E C K ’S  CASH  R E G ISTER .

W E  SELL  MORE

Registers

Rusiness  Men
Than  all  the  O ther  Register  Companies 

Combined.

W hy is the Peck A utographic Cash Register the Best for M erchants?
Because  it records items instead of General  Results.
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.
Because  it is not necessary to send it to the factory every six months for repairs.
Because  you are not obliged to strike three or four keys to register one amount.
Because  It Is simple, practical, reasonable in price, and accomplishes the results that merchants 

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LOBDELL  &  GEIGER,  Gen’l  A gents,

39  Pearl  St ,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

his general  stock  from  Elmira  to  this 
place, having sold a half  interest  in  the 
business  to  F.  D.  Hunt,  of  Chesterton, 
Ind.  The  new  firm  will  be  known  as 
Spreen & Hunt.

Traverse City—S.  W. Perkins has  sold 
his meat market business  to  E.  R. Knee- 
land,  who  will  continue  at  the  same 
place.  Mr.  Perkins  will  probably  en­
gage  in  the  cold  storage  business  on 
quite an extensive scale.

Vermontville — Dry  goods  will  no 
longer be on sale at the  store  of  Robin­
son  &  Rannells,  as  Mr.  Robinson  has 
made arrangements to have them shipped 
to his store at  Clarks,  Ohio.  The  drug 
store  will  continue  to  run  under  the 
supervision of Dr.  Rannells.

Detroit—The  wholesale  grocery  firm 
of Sinclair,  Evans  &  Elliott  will  here­
after be known as Sinclair,  Elliott & Co., 
the interest of the late Mr.  Evans having 
been  taken by David  Whitney,  Jr.,  who 
contributes $50,000 in  cash  to  the  com­
mon stock as a special  partner.

Traverse  City—Frank  Kubeck 

and 
Robert Church have formed a co-partner­
ship under the style of Kubeck & Church 
and  will  open  a  clothing  and  men’s 
furnishing  goods  stock 
the  new 
Greilick  block  about  Sept.  1.  Mr. 
Kubeck  was  with  the  Hannah  &  Lay 
Mercantile  Co. 
eighteen 
years,  while Mr. Church  has  lately  been 
in the employ of  H.  W.  King  &  Co.  and 
C.  P.  Kellogg & Co., of Chicago.

for  about 

Holland—P.  W.  Kane  has  sold  his 
drug stock to  Wm. Swift and  Miss  Susie 
Martin,  who  will  continue  the  business 
under the style of Swift & Martin.  Miss 
Martin  has had about  a  dozen  years’ ex­
perience  in  the  drug  business,  having 
occupied 
the  position  of  prescription 
clerk  for  W.  H.  Dendel,  the  Hopkins 
station druggist,  for the past four  years. 
Mr. Swift was a passenger  conductor  on 
the  C.  &  W.  M.  railway  for  about  a 
dozen  years.

in 

between  $5,000  and  $8,000.  The  mill 
was new,  having  been  built  early  this 
spring,  and  had 
run  but  one  or  two 
months.  The loss is an especially heavy 
one upon Mr. Ford.  He was just getting 
started  in  a  small  way  in  the  lumber 
business, and,  owing to the  inadequancy 
of the water protection;  had been  unable 
to procure any insurance.  The mill will 
be rebuilt.

Saginaw—The Michigan Land &  Lum­
ber Co. is pressing suits  against  a  num­
ber of lumber concerns in this section  of 
the State.  The company named obtained 
patents to certain  lands  from  the  State 
which  had  previously  been  granted  to 
railroads by  the  United  States  govern­
ment and subsequently sold by  the  rail­
roads.  The Michigan  Land  &  Lumber 
Co.  asks these lumbermen to pay for  the 
timber cut  from  lands  which  they  had 
purchased  and  for  which  the  lumber 
company claims to hold patents from the 
State.  One lumber concern  in  Ogemaw 
county has been asked to  come  down  to 
the extent of $60,000 and  long  litigation 
will doubtless ensue.

Gripsack Brigade.

Chas.  S.  Brooks  started  out  on  the 
road  again  Monday,  after  an  enforced 
idleness of two mouths by illness.

Ezra O. Phillips,  traveling  representa­
tive for W.  F.  &  W.  M.  Wurzburg,  left 
monday for a two mouths’ trip through the 
Upper  Peninsula,  intending to go as far 
as  Duluth.

Howard Udell,  who has been traveling 
in the  Dakotas  several  months  for  the 
J.  B.  Pace  Tobacco  Co.,  of  Richmond, 
Va.,  has  engaged  to  travel  for  Felix  & 
Marston, of  Chicago.

Kendall  W.  Hess,  who  covers 

the 
States of  Alabama,  Mississippi,  Georgia 
and Florida for the Filer  &  Stowell  Co., 
of  Milwaukee,  Wis., has  been  in  town 
for  a few days  on  a  visit  to  his  father, 
Wm. T.  Hess.

4

AMONO THE  TRADE.

ABOUND THE STATE.

Newberry—Joseph Emms  succeeds  E. 

Barr in the grocery business.

Jackson—C.  F.  Binder  succeeds C.  F. 

Binder & Co.  in the meat business.

Wacousta—Jas.  W.  Randall  has  sold 

his general store Jno.  A.  McClelland.

Kalamazoo—J.  N. Uewett has succeded | 

the grocery firm of Hewett & DeWater.

Saginaw—Geo.  M.  Beyerlein  succeeds j 

Weil & Beyerlein in the grocery business.

Flint—C. E.  Pomeroy  is  succeeded  by j 

Pomeroy  Bros,  in  the  grocery  business.

Williamsvilie—J.  Fred  Merritt has  as- I 

signed his general  stock  to  his brother.
Holton—Geo.  D.  Burton  has  removed 
his drug stock from White Cloud  to  this 
place.

Ovid—W.  U.  McLeod  has sold  his dry 
goods and boot and shoe  stock to High & 
Farmer.

Detroit—Peter  A.  Dumond  succeeds 
W.  H. Wilson & Co.  in the flour and  feed 
business.

Ludington—The Pere  Marquette Lum­
ber Co.  has  sold  its general  stock  to H.
S.  Fuller.

Chester—Wm.  Boyles,  dealer  in  agri- j 
to 

implements,  has  removed 

cultural 
Charlotte.

Kalamazoo—A.  L.  Conger  has  sold  a j 
half interest in his variety stock to Frank  j 
Baumann.
C Marquette—Albert  Ekstrom has retired 
from  the  dry  goods  firm  of  Ekstrom, 
Strong & Co.

Cass City—Laing & James succeed Jno. 
C. Laing in  general  trade  and  the  grist 
mill business.

Perrinton—Meyer  Berg  has  removed 
his clothing and  furnishing  goods  stock I 
to East Jordan.

Negaunee—Feibish  &  Co.  have  sold 
their wholesale liquor and cigar business 
to Decker & Simons.

Traverse  City—D.  H.  Woodham  has I 
sold  his  confectionery  stock  to  D.  F.  I 
Kane, of Grand Rapids.

Cadillac—J.  F.  Hutchinson has decided 
to remove  to  the  Upper  Peninsula  and 
will 
therefore  close  his  meat  market 
about  June 1.

Bradley—Dr. J.  H. Reed has purchased 
the  drug  stock  and  fixtures  of  R.  G. 
Beckwith,  and  will conduct the  business 
at the old stand.

Clarendon—G.  A.  Cook  has  sold  his | 
general  stock  to  Robert Moore,  who  has 
taken possession and  will  conduct  busi­
ness at the old stand.

Kalamazoo—W.  J.  Soles  has  retired 
from the grocery firm  of  Allen  &  Soles. 
The business  will  be  continued  at  the 
same location by C.  B.  Allen.

Manistee—Fred  and  Roy  Secor  have 
purchased the grocery  stock  of  the  late 
W. J.  Rich  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness under the style of Secor Bros.

Hamilton—R.  K.  Dykstra has  sold  out 
his stock of hardware,  and  will  shortly 
move to Holland.  He has there engaged  I 
himself to  J.  B.  YanOrt, dealer in  hard- | 
ware.

Greenville—Serviss & Riley  have  sold 
their  meat  business  to  Frank  Nelson, 
who  has  been 
the  employ  of  the | 
Anderson  Packing  Co.,  for  the  past 
seven years.

Orange—Henry  H.  Jordan  has  pur- I 
chased the interest of the junior member 
in the firm of E. C.  Tew  &  Son,  general 
dealers,  and  the style  of  the  house  will 
hereafter be Tew & Jordan.

in 

Watervliet—W. C. Spreen has removed !

Tampa  on 
the  South.  That  Master 
Walker is a bright lad goes  without  say­
ing.  He has a  pair  of  sparkling  brown 
eyes and a  pleasant,  honest  face.  Loie 
says that he has had a good trade.  He was 
a New York boy until a few  months ago, 
when his father moved  to  Winston.  He 
has had  good  training,  and  did  some­
thing Sunday quite original  for  a  drum­
mer—went to church  twice.  Loie  talks 
well and is polite and  modest.  He  will 
sell goods where anyone else  can.”

to 

fill 

The regular quarterly  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of 
the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip  convened  at  the 
Hudson  House,  Lansing, 
last  Friday 
evening,  continuing  until  daylight  the 
next  morning.  All  the  Directors  were 
present and the President  and  Secretary 
were  also  in  attendance.  The  resigna­
tion of Geo. C. Cooper, as Treasurer, was 
received  and  accepted,  J.  J.  Frost,  of 
Lansing,  being  elected 
the 
It  was  decided  to  accord  all 
vacancy. 
those in arrerars for dues 90 days’ further 
time to pay  up aud be reinstated.  Those 
who fail to take advantage of  this exten­
sion will  be  dropped  from  the  roll  .of 
membership.  An invitation was received 
from the Detroit  Post  to  hold  the  next 
annual  convention  at  Detroit,  but  as 
there appeared to be a general  desire  on 
the part of the membership  to  hold  the 
next meeting at Grand  Rapids,  it was de­
cided to  pospone  the  further  considera­
tion of the matter until the next meeting 
of  the  Board, 
in  hopes  an  invitation 
would  be received in the meantime  from 
the  Valley  City.  The  reports  of  the 
officers  disclosed  the  fact  that  the  or­
ganization was in a prosperous condition, 
with  a  comfortable  balance 
the 
treasury.

in 

The  Grocery Market.

Sugars  are  without  change.  Green 
Rios are  Mc higher.  Domestic  rice  and 
Valencia  raisins  are  each  Xc  higher. 
Corn  syrup  has  advanced 2c per  gallon. 
The Alaska salmon packers have effected 
a strong  combination  and  agreed to cur­
tail  their  output  one-half  and  advance 
their quotations  IX  per  cent, over those 
of last year.

The orange market is very  strong  and 
prices East are fully 50c per  box  higher 
than a week ago.

Lemoms are 25 @ 50c  per  box  higher 

than a week or ten days ago.

Foreign nuts of all kinds are  firm  and 
everything except pecans have  advanced 
X  @ l%c.

Peanuts are firm at a slight advance.

Butter  Will  Be  Cheap.

The indications are that butter will  be 
a drug on the market by  June  1,  as  the 
luxurious grass  feed  is  already  increas­
ing the supply on the market  and  stocks 
are beginning to accumulate in the hands 
of  the  retailers.  Country  merchants 
should be  careful  not  to  become  over­
loaded,  and should also avoid  paying  too 
high prices, as the market is  sure  to  be 
unsettled and dull in a very short time.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium  is  firm  but  unchanged.  Mor­
phine is steady.  Quinine is unchanged. 
Mercurials  have  declined.  Bi-chromate 
of potash has advanced.  Canary  seed  is 
higher.  Gum  Arabic  has  advanced. 
Buchu leaves are lower.  Oil  cloves  has 
declined.  Po. jalap is lower.  Pink root 
is 
lower.  Assafoetida  has  declined. 
Linseed oil has advanced lc a gallon and 
a further advance is looked for.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Trout  Creek—The  Trout  Creek  Lum­
ber Co.  has started both sides of  its band 
mill  and  expects to get  the  shingle,  lath 
and  siding  machines  in  operation  this 
week.

Bay  City—Bail, Thompson  &  Co.  will 
put  machinery into the  frame of  the old 
Bradley  shingle  mill, and  intend  to  be­
gin  the  manufacture of  shingles  about 
the middle of June.

Jennings — Mitchell  Brothers &  Mur­
phy’s double sawmill is now running day 
and  night.  Their  daily 
input  of  logs 
from  the  woods  is  between  75,000  and
100.000  feet  and  they have  several  mil­
lion feet of logs on hand.

Saginaw—The Sample & Camp sawmill 
has gone out of  commission  and  is to be 
dismantled.  Last  season  this  mill  cut 
7,000,000  feet.  The mill  has  been oper­
ated by this firm since 1882. 
It is under­
stood  that a woodenware  concern  is  ne­
gotiating for the mill  site.

West  Bay City—The  new  mill  of  the 
Kern Manufacturing  Co. cut its  first  log 
on the 10th.  The  mill is one of  the best 
equipped  on  the  river,  and  has  a  con­
tract  to  cut  logs for  David Ward which 
will  last  twenty years.  A  planing  mill 
and sorting yard will  be operated in con­
nection,  and  the  entire  product  will  be 
handled by rail.

Twin Lake—E. R.  Ford’s  shingle  mill 
was burned to the  ground  on  the  10th. 
There were distroyed  with the mill about
75.000  shingles,  entailing a  loss  all  told

The  traveling  men  of  Grand  Rapids 
now  have  an  opportunity  to  entertain 
the  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  on 
the occasion of  the next  annual  conven­
tion, if they so desire, and T h e  T ra des­
man should be pleased  to  see  some  one 
take the initiative in the matter and  call 
a meeting  of  the  boys  to  consider  the 
subject.

The Travelers’ Protective  Association, 
which had a checkered career  for  a  few 
years,  appears to be on the  high  road  to 
prosperity,  the  treasury  containing  a 
j comfortable balance of  $13,000,  with  all 
debts  paid. 
In  addition  to  the  $3,000 
accidental death indemnity, each member 
is entitled to  $100  per  year,  in  case  of 
death  from  natural  causes,  for  every 
year up to five years that he  has  been  a 
member,  provided  that  he  has  been  a 
member for the years consecutively prior 
to his death.  One who has been a  mem­
ber for five years has  a  paid-up  life  in­
surance policy  for  $500,  in  addition  to 
which he  gets  the  benefit  of  week  end 
tickets,  five  thousand  mile  tickets,  and 
extra advantages in  baggage  excess  and 
hotel  rates.

Atlanta Constitution:  “Two weeks ago 
we  had  commercial  travelers  here  in 
capes and skirts and lace.  Now there  is 
one  in  knickerbockers.  Fourteen-year- 
old Loie Walker,  who  is  selling  tobacco 
and  representing  a  newspaper,  is  the 
youngest  drummer  on  the  road.  He 
started out from  Winston,  N.  C.,  seven 
weeks ago on his first trip,  and  has  been 
as far as New Oleans in the West  and  to

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

J.  W.  Forbes  has  opened  a  grocery 
store at Alaska.  Musselman  &  Widdi 
comb furnished the stock.

F.  A.  Rice  has  removed  his  grocery 
stock from 75 Pearl  street  to  the  corner 
of Fifth avenue and Union street.

N.  S.  Hubbard  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  75  Pearl  street.  The  I.  M. 
Clark Grocery Co.  furnished the stock.

B.  A.  Cooper  has  opened  a  grocery 
store at 75 Clancy street.  The Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company  furnished  the  stock.
Armstrong  &  Ringler  have  opened  a 
new  grocery  store  at  Traverse  City. 
The Olney & Judson  Grocer  Co.  furnish­
ed the stock.

L.  S.  Roell,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery business at Belding,  has  opened 
a grocery store  at  Bellaire.  The  I.  M. 
Clark Grocery Co. furnished the stock.

The Wolverine Drug  Co.  has  sold  its 
branch store at 605 North Coit avenue to 
Theron Forbes,  who  has  lately  been  in 
charge of the business iu the capacity  of 
manager.

Harry Snow,  formerly engaged  in  the 
drug business at  Grand  Ledge,  has  de­
cided to re-embark in the  same  business 
at that place.  The Ha/.eltine  &  Perkins 
Drug Co.  has the order for the stock.

H.  M.  Reynolds  has  purchased  the 
Mechanic block,  located on the northeast 
corner of Louis  and  Campau  streets,  for 
$15,000.  The property is a valuable  one 
and the purchaser  congratulates  himself 
on having secured it at a bargain.

The New York Tribune,  which is  pub­
lishing what purports  to  be  a  complete 
list of  the  millionaires  of  the  country, 
credits Grand Rapids with the possession 
of  three men  who require  seven  figures 
to indicate  their  worldly  goods—D.  A. 
Blodgett,  D.  H.  Waters  and  J.  W.  Con­
verse.  The  latter  gentleman  is  largely 
identified  with Grand Rapids and  has  an 
enormous amount of  property  here,  but 
his residence should  properly  be  stated 
as Boston, Mass.  Grand  Rapids  has  a 
dark horse,  however,  abundantly able  to 
fill the gap thus created in  the person  of 
Jonathan Boyce,  who has resided in  this 
city several years.  His  possessions  are 
mostly timber lauds,  he  having one tract 
of  pine 
in  the  vicinity  of  Midland 
which  is  valued  at  $1,000,000  by  con­
servative  estimators.

Purely Personal.

B.  H.  Farren,  of  the  old  house  of 
J. S.  Farren & Co., of  Baltimore,  was  in 
town a couple of days last week.

Charles E.  Watson’s horse,  which  was 
recently disposed of by means of  a raffle, 
was drawn  by  E.  White,  of  Saginaw, 
who held ticket No.  146.

Charles E. Olney  and  family  returned 
from Southeru California  last  week  and 
leave about June 1  for Thompson, Conn., 
where they will  spend the summer.

H. D.  Wood, of  the  wholesale  grocery 
firm of  H.  D.  Wood  &  Co.,  at  Toledo, 
was  in  town  one  day  last  week on  his 
way  to  the  trout  streams  of  Northern 
Michigan.

Herbert  T.  Chase  has  purchased  the 
York  residence,  at  4  Windsor  Terrace, 
and will take possession of  the  property 
some  time  during  the  summer.  The 
house is superbly appointed and the loca­
tion is unsurpassed.

W. C.  Spreen,  who  has  been  engaged 
in general trade at Elmira several  years, 
was In  town  last  week  on  his  way  to 
Watervliet,  to which  place  he  has  re­
moved  his  stock.  The  family  were 
sorely afflicted,  a  few  days  before  leav­
ing  Elmira,  by  the  death  of  an  infant 
daughter.

Amos  S.  Musselman  was  in  Traverse 
City for the first time  last  week  and  re­
turned home thoroughly  impressed  with 
the belief that great  things  are  in  store 
for  the  Queen  of  Traverse  Bay.  Mr. 
Musselman  confidently  predicts 
that 
Traverse  City  will  be  the  Saginaw  of 
Northern  Michigan,  basing  his  predic­
tion on the superior water and rail  facil­
ities of  the place,  the  almost  inexhaus- 
table supplies of hardwood timber natur­
ally tributary to  the  town,  the  wonder­
ful fertility of the soil  in  almost  all  di­
rections and the remarkable  fruit  yields 
which the  soil  and  climate  render  pos­
sible.

C.  C.  Chittenden,  of  the  Chittenden 
Lumber  Co.  and  Chittenden  &  Herrick, 
was  in  town  a couple of  days  last week 
for the purpose of  buying machinery for 
his mills and  goods for his  supply store. 
The Chittenden  Lumber Co.  is operating 
at Hoxeyville, twenty miles west of  Cad­
illac,  where it has a sawmill cutting pine 
at the  rate of  35,000 feet  per  day and is 
putting  in a hardwood  mill,  with a daily 
capacity  of  20,000  feet,  which  will  go 
into operation about  July 1.  Chittenden 
& Herrick have  just closed a deal for the 
purchase  of  15,000,000  feet  of  standing 
pine  in  town  22-7,  Missaukee  county, 
seventeen  miles  east  of  Cadillac,  which 
will  be  manufactured  either at Cadillac 
or Lake City.  Operations will  be begun 
on this tract about  July 1.

No  Truth in  the  Report.

The  daily  papers  have  devoted  con­
siderable space of late to an alleged com­
bination  of  wall  paper  manufacturers, 
formed in the shape  of  a  trust  for  the 
purpose  of  restricting  the  output  and 
controlling  prices. 
T h e  T radesman 
has inside information on the subject and 
is prepared to state that there is no truth 
whatever  in  the  report,  which  is  cir­
culated solely for the purpose of stimulat­
ing the retail  trade  to  stock  up  specu­
latively, in anticipation of higher prices. 
There are about eighty manufacturers of 
wall paper in  the country,  the  majority 
of  whom  are  small  producers,  and  no 
combination is likely to succeed  with  so 
many branches to look after.  When  the 
demoralizing  competition  of 
the  past 
three years shall have reduced  the  num­
ber  of  factories  to  about  twenty-five,  a 
revival  of  the  former  combination  may 
be  expected.

Bank  Notes.

Henry C.  Russell has  sold  his  holding 
in the  Peoples’ Savings  Bank  of  Grand 
Rapids to Ex-Judge  Hatch  and  resigned 
the position of director.

The new Commercial Savings  Bank  of 
Marshall expects  to  open  its  doors  for 
bnsiness  Wednesday  morning.  Every­
thing was in  readiness  a  week  ago,  but 
the presence of  State  Banking  Commis­
sion Sherwood could not be secured.

Country  Callers.

Calls  have  been 

received  at  The 
T radesm an office  during  the past week 
from the following gentlemen in trade: 

Spreen & Hunt,  Watervliet.
Bates & Troutman, Moline.
Geo.  Schicbtel, New Salem.
Ml 
M.  H.  Sherman,  Okemos. 
Chittenden Lumber Co., Cadillac.
H.  K.  Bush,  Pierson.

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.  S T E K E T E E   &  SONS.

Peerless  Warps.
VOIGT, HE6F0LSHEIMEB  k  C0„
Dry  Goods, Carpets and Cloaks

W H O L E S A L E

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

G eese  Feathers.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUR  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigt, HemolstieiiBr k Co.,4S- G°an! S
st-
Spring & Company,

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IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

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

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

assorted  stock  at  lowest  market  prices.

Spring & Company.
H e y m a n   &  C o m p a n y ,

Manufacturers  of

Slow  Cases

Of  Every Description.

WHITE FOR  PRICES.
First-Glass  Work  Only.
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C o u rtesy   in  th e   S tore.

Not long ago,  writes  a  contributor  to 
the  Youth's Companion, I was  seated  at 
a counter in an underwear and children’s 
clothing establishment frequented by the 
wealthier ladies of San  Francisco,  when 
a  poorly  dressed  woman  wandered  in, 
leading a little boy and  girl.  From  her 
dress and appearance she  was  evidently 
a working-woman or the  wife  of  a  day- 
laborer.  who probably lived  in  the  out­
skirts of the town,  and  who rarely got so 
far away from  home,  being  accostumed 
to make most of her purchases at  one  of 
the little suburban stores scattered about 
the city.
It was the first day  of  the  month;  the 
day before  had  been  the  monthly  pay­
day of  her  husband,  and  it  was  plain, 
from her bright expression, that  she  had 
in her purse a little money  which  it  was 
her delight to  spend,  mother-fashion,  in 
the  adornment  of  her  children,  both 
of whom were  painfully  shy  and  shab­
bily dressed.
“1 would like to  look  at  a  bonnet  for 
my  little  girl,”  she  said,  modestly  ad­
dressing  the stylish-looking,  black-eyed 
young saleswoman.
“A wash  bonnet, I  suppose?”  replied 
the young  lady.
‘‘If you please.”
Stooping  and 

the 
counter,  the  young  woman  brought  out 
a large box  piled  high  with  dainty  em­
broidered caps of  the latest  pattern,  and 
covered  with  a  frost-work  of  fine  em­
broidery.
The woman put out her  hand  timidly, 
and possessed herself of one of  the  more 
elaborate.  The  saleswoman  picked  out 
one of plainer pattern and held  it  out  to 
her, saying pleasantly:
“Here is  one  of  the  prettiest  bonnets 
we have in the store.”
The mother took it  in  her  hand,  look­
ing happily at  her  child’s  smiling  face. 
It was  a  charming  little  bonnet;  pretty 
enough for  the  nicest  little  girl  in  the 
city; one that would be sure to be becom­
ing to the sweet little face; but prudence 
checked her.

reaching  under 

“How much?”
“Two dollars.”
The price was very reasonable  for  the 
bonnet and  the  place.  Nobody  goes  to 
that  store  without  expecting  to  pay 
roundly for  exquisite  taste  and  perfect 
workmanship.  But the poor woman put 
the bonnet away with a  decisive gesture, 
trying  to  disguise  the  disappointment 
she  felt.
I  can’t  go  higher 
“That is too much. 
than fifty cents.”
I looked anxiously at  the  saleswoman, 
wondering  if  she  would  make  a  con­
temptuous retort.  But the girl  remained 
as calm and polite as if she were  serving 
the Queen of Sheba.
“I will look and see if we have  any  in 
her size at that price. 
I am  almost  sure 
that we are out of  that size  in  fifty-ceut 
bonnets,” she said.
Then she made a feint of looking under 
the  counter,  and  rose  again,  still  with 
the utmost courtesy.
“I am sorry,  but we entirely out of her 
size,” she said.
The poor woman took her  children  by 
the  hand  and  left  the  store,  with  her 
pride  unhurt,  and  the  girl  handed  me 
my change with a word of  thanks.
I  nodded  a  good-by  to  her,  wishing 
that I might express my  appreciation  of 
her  gracious  little  deed;  wishing,  too, 
that other saleswomen would  follow  her 
example of thoughtful  consideration  for 
the poor; and  wishing,  most of  all,  that 
there  was  some  way  of  slipping  two 
shining coins into the purse  of  the  poor 
mother,  so  that  she  could  have  the 
bonnet she wanted  to  frame  the  child’s 
sweet,  shy face.

The  Farmers’  Co-operative  Trading 
Store,  of  Alta,  Iowa,  at a meeting held 
lately, decided  to  close  out  their  entire 
stock of groceries,  dry goods and general 
merchandise.  This  company is  compos­
ed of about eighty Swedish  farmers  who 
started in business about  two  years  ago 
with the idea that there “ was millions in 
it,”  but,  like  most  co-operative  stores, 
the dividends prove to be only  much  ex­
perience dearly bought.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

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Greatest  Seller  on  Earth!

Dr.

FRENCH

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FOR

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL

Dealers  in  Dry  Hoods & Notions.

BDY  THE  PENINSULAR
Pants,  Sits,  ill Overalls

Once and You aie our Customer 

for life.

STANTON, MOREY & C0„ Mtrs.

DETROIT, MICH.

Geo. F. Ow en, Salesman  for Western  Michigan, 

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

THli!  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic.................  7
Argyle  ...................  6
Atlanta A A............   6
Atlantic  A..............  6%
H..............  6)4
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D..............  6
“ 
“  LL..............  5
Amory.....................634
Archery  Bunting...  40 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  53* 
Blackstone O, 32—   5
Black Crow............ 6
Black  Rock  ...........6
Boot, A t................  7
Capital  A —   ........5)4
Cavanat V..............  5)4
Chapman cheese cl.  3%
Clifton  C R ............ 534
Comet..................... 634
Dwight Star...........  63£
Clifton CCC...........  634

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.Arrow Brand  5>4 
“  World Wide..  634
“  LL...............   434
Full Yard Wide...... 634
Georgia  A..............  634
Honest Width.........   634
Hartford A  ............ 5
Indian Head...........  7
King A  A..................634
King EC.................5
Lawrence  L L ........  534
Madras cheese cloth 634
Newmarket  G........  534
B  ....... 5
N ........ 634
D D ...  5>4
X ........634
Noibe R..................  5
Our Level  Best......634
Oxford  R ...............   6
Pequot....................  7
Solar.......................   634
Top of the  Heap—   7
Geo.  Washington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold Medal.............. 734
Green  Ticket......... 834
Great Falls.............   634
Hnnp 
....  *  7U
Just  but.'!.’. . .  434® 5*
King  Phillip...........734
OP......734
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Lonsdale...........  @ 834
Middlesex........   @5
No Name................   734
Oak View............... 6
Our Own.................. 534
Pride of the West.. .12
Rosalind...................734
Sunlight..................  434
Utica  Mills............ 834
“  Nonpareil  ..10 
Vlnyard..................834
White Horse...........  6
“  Rock............ 834

A B C ......................834
Amazon.................. 8
Amsburg.................7
Art  Cambric.......... 10
Blackstone A A......  734
Beats All................   434
Boston....................12
Cabot......................   7
Cabot,  X.................634
Charter  Oak...........534
Conway W..............734
Cleveland.............. 7
Dwight Anchor......  834
shorts.  8
Edwards.................   6
Empire...................   7
Farwell...................734
Fruit of the  Loom.  834
FltchvUle  .............7
First Prize..............7
Fruit of the Loom %.  734
Falrmount..............434
Full Value.............. 634
Cabot...................... 7  IDwlght Anchor
Farwell...................8  I
UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
Middlesex No.  1— 10
TremontN..............  534
“  2....11
Hamllt'"! N.............634
3....12
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L............ 7
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Middlesex AT........8
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BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

HALE  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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2........12
4 
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Middlesex P T.
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A T.
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X A.
X F.
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C A R PET
Peerless, white.
....1734
Integrity................. 18341 
Hamilton................   8
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G G  Cashmere........20
Nameless..............16
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1034

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DBKSB  GOODS.

colored__1934 White Star....-........18
“  colored..20
Nameless................20
......... 25
......... 2734
......... 30
......... 3234
......... 35

COSSETS.

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COSSET  JEANS.

Coralino................. 89 50[Wonderful............ $4 50
Schilling’s ..............  9 00 Brighton..................4 75
Davis  Waists......   9  00 Bortree’s ..............   9 00
Grand  Rapids.......  4 50|Abdominal............15 00
Armory...................  6341N aumkeag satteen..  7
Androscoggin......... 7)4 Rockport....................634
Biddeford..............   6  Conestoga.................6%
Brunswick..............  8341 Walworth................ 634
Berwick fancies—   534
Allen turkey  reds..  534 
Clyde Robes...........
robes............534
Elnk * purple 
Charter Oak fancies 434 
uffs.........   6
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
monrn’g  6 
pink  checks. 534
Eddystone fancy...  534 
staples........   534
chocolat  534 
shirtings...  4
rober....  534 
American fancy—   534 
sateens..  534
American Indigo—   534 
Hamilton fancy...... 534
American shirtings.  4 
staple....  534 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Manchester fancy..  534 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
new era.  534
Arnold 
“  —   634
Arnold  Merino......6  ¡Merrimack D fancy.  534
long cloth B.1034{MerrUn’ckshlrtlng8.  434
Repp fu m .  834
C.  834
century cloth 7
Pacific fancy..........534
robes..............634
gold seal......1034
Portsmouth robes...  534 
green seal TR1034 
Simpson mourning..  534
yellow seal.. 1034
greys........5)4
Berge............ 1134
solid black.  534 
Turkey red.. 1034 
Washington indigo.  534 
Ballou solid black..  5 
“  Turkey robes..  734
“  colors.  534
“  India robes___ 734
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  plain T’ky X X 834 
red and  orange...  534
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Berlin solids...........534
“  Ottoman  Tur­
“  oil blue........  634
key red................   6
“  “  green ....  634
Martha Washington
“  Foulards....  534 
Tnrkeyred34........7)4
red £ ...........7
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Martha Washington
“  “  X ...........  »34
Turkey red..........   934
“  4 4..........10
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Rlverpolnt robes....  5
“  3-4XXXX12
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Windsor fancy........  634
Cocheco fancy........6
“  madders...  6
indigo  Dine..........1034
“  XX twills..  634
Harmony...................434
“ 
solids.........534
AC A......................1234
Amoskeag AC A ....1234
Pemberton AAA.... 16
Hamilton N ............ 734
York....................... 1034
D............ 834
Awning.. 11
Swift River............ 734
Pearl River............ 12
Fanner....................8
Warren................... 13
First Prize............. 1134
Lenox M ills.......... 18
COTTON  DRILL.
Atlanta,  D..............6X|3tark  A 
.............  8
Boot........................ 64£ No  Name................... 734
Clifton, K............... 634¡Top of  Heap.............9
Simpson..................20
.................18
.................16

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

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

gold  ticket

TICKINGS.

BATINXS.

* 
“ 

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“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

DEMINS.

“ 
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Amoskeag..............1234
9 oz...... 1334
brown .13
Andover.................1134
Beaver Creek  A A... 10 
BB...  9
“ 
cc.... 
it 
BostonMfgCo.  br..  7 
“ 
blue  834 
“  d a  twist  1034 
Columbian XXX br.10 
“ 
XXX  bl.19

“ 
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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12
brown....... 12
Haymaker bine........ 74t
brown...  734
Jaffrey.....................1134
Lancaster  ...............1234
Lawrence, 9 oz........1334
No. 220 
13
No. 250.... 1134
No. 280.... 1034

“ 
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GINGHAMS.
Lancaster,  staple...  7
“ 
fancies__7
“  Normandie  8

“ 

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

“  Persian dress 834 
Canton ..  834
“ 
AFC........1034
“ 
“ 
Teazle.. .1034 
“ 
Angola.. 1034 
“ 
Persian..  834 
Arlington staple—   634 
Arasapha  fancy—   434 
Bates Warwick dres 834 
staples.  634
Centennial............   1034
Criterion..............  1034
Cumberland staple.  534
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................434
Elfin.......................   734
Everett classics......834
Exposition......... /..  7)4
Glenarie.................  634
Glenarven................ 634
Glenwood.................734
Hampton...................634
Johnson Ghalon cl 
34 
indigo bine 934
zephyrs__16

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Lancashire............... 634
Manchester.............  534
Monogram..............  634
Normandie............... 734
Persian..................... 834
Renfrew Dress........734
Rosemont................. 634
Slatersville............6
Somerset...............  7
Tacoma  ................... 734
Toll  du Nord......... 1034
Wabash...................  734
seersucker..  734
Warwick...............   834
Whittenden............   634
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook..............8
............10
Windermeer........... 5
York..........................634

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GBAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag.............. 16)4 ¡Valley City...............15
Stark......................19  Georgia.....................15
American............... 1534! Pacific  .....................13

THBEADS.

No.

KNITTING  COTTON.

Clark’s Mile End.... 45 
| Barbour's................88
Coats’, J. & P .........45  Marshall’s ................88
Holyoke..................22341
White. Colored.
38 No.  14 .......37 
“  16 .......38 
39
“  18 .......39 
40
“  20 .......40 
41
CAMBRICS.
Edwards................  4
Lockwood................ 4
Wood’s ..................   4
Brunswick............  4

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

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

42
43
44
45

White.  Colored.

Fireman.................3234
....................1734
Creedmore............. 2734
....................16
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless............... 2734

BED  FLANNEL.
T W ...
..............2234
F T ............ ............. 8234
J R F , XXX............35
Buckeye.................3234

MIXED  FLANNEL.

“
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DOMET  FLANNEL.

Grey SR W.............1734
Western W  .............1834
D R P ...................... 1834
Flushing XXX........ 2334
Manitoba................ 2334
010)4
12)4
CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
Black.
Brown.
13
13
934
15
15
1034
1720
1720
11)4
1234
West Point, 8 oz— 1034 
10 oz  ...1234
“ 
Raven, lOoz.............1334
Stark 
.............1334
Boston, 10 oz............1234

Red & Blue,  plaid..40
Union R .................2234
Windsor................. 1834
6 oz Western.......... 20
Union  B................ 2234
Nameless...... 8  @ 9341 
“ 
.......  834010  I 
Slate.  Brown. 
Black.
Slate.
934
13 
934
15 
1034
1034
17 
11)412)4120
1134
1234
DUCKS.
Severen, 8oz..........
9)4
May land, 8 oz........ 1034
Greenwood, 734 oz..  934 
Greenwood, 8 os — 1134 
Boston, 8 oz........... 1034
White, dos..............25  IPer bale, 40 dos— >7 50
Colored,  doz...........20 
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
RedCross....  9
Best.............1034
Best AA.......1234
L ............................... 734
G...............................834
Cortlcelli, doz........ 75 

Pawtucket...............1034
Dundle....................  9
Bedford...................1034
Valley  City............ 1034
K K ....................... 1034

[Corticelli knitting,

SEWING  SILK.

WADDINGS.

SILESIAS.

twist,doz..3734  per 34oz  ball........30
50 yd, doz.. 37341
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
“ 
“ 

No  1 Bl’k & Whlte..l0  [No  4 Bl’k & White.. 15 
..20
..25
|No4—15 F  334...........40
I

No 2-20, M C.........50 
3—18, S C..........45 

..12  " 8  
..12  I  “  10 

No  2 White *  Bl’k..12  INo  8 White & Bl’k..20 
.23
«  4 
..26
«  6 
36
No2........................28 

COTTON  TAPE.
.15  “  10 
..18  |  “  12 
SAFETY  FINS.
|N o8..

FINS.

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2 
3 

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NEEDLES—FEB  M.

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

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“ 

.. .3 10|
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...................6£
Alamance.............   034
Augusta...................734
Ar sapha................  6
Gemma...................634
Granite................  53£
Haw  River............   5
Haw  J ....................6

Nashua................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply— 17 
8-ply....17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl734 
Powhattan.............18

Mount  Pleasant.. ■  634
.  6
Oneida.................
Prym ont............. -  541
.  6
Randelman..........
•  634
Riverside............
..  6)4
Sibley  A ..............
Toledo.................

PLAID  OSNABUBGS

THE  MTCITIGA.lSr  TRADESMAN,

7

BUSINESS  LAW.

Hardware Price Carrent.

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

AUGURS AND BITS. 

dlB.

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

AXIS.

‘ 
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First Quality, S. B. Bronze......................... 9 7 50
D.  B. Bronze..........................   12 00
S. B. S. Steel...........................  8 50
D. B. Steel.............................. 13 50
Railroad......................................................I 14 00
Garden...................................................net  30 00

BABBOVS. 

dig.

bolts. 

dls.

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

BUCKETS.

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

BUTTS, CAST. 

dls.
Cast Loose Pin, figured............................. . .70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 60*10
Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60*10
Wrought Table.............................................60*10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60*10
75
Wrought Brass............................................. 
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70*10
Blind,  Parker’s................. 
70410
Blind, Shepard’s .......................................... 
70

 

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

60

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

BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

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

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

CARTRIDGES.

chisels. 

Socket Firmer...............................................70*10
Socket Framing............................................70*10
Socket Comer............................................... 70*10
Socket SUcks............................................... 70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

60
35
60

50
25

dls.

dls.

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per gross............. 12(912)4 dls. 10

combs. 

CHALK.
COFFER.

ELBOWS.

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

 

 

dls.

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

DRIPPING PANS.

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

 

07
  6)4

dlB.

dls.

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

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, 918; large, 926 .......................  
Ives’, 1,918; 2,924 ; 8, *38............................ 

80
25

piles—New List. 

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

GALVANIZED IRON.

12 

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

13 
Discount, 60

14 
GAUGES. 

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

15 

28
17

50

HAMMERS.

dls.

dls.

dls.

HINGES.

dls.
dls.

levels. 

HANGERS. 

MATTOCKS.

WIRE GOODS. 

LOCKS—DOOR. 

HOLLOW WARE.

knobs—New List. 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

25
May dole  *  Co.’s.....................................dls. 
25
Kip’S....................................................... dls. 
Yerkes *  Plumb’s.................................. dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand__30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 .............................. dls.60&10
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 In. 4)4  14  and
3)4
10
V4........... ............ net
X........... --------- net
8)4
x ........................ net
7)4
%........... ............ net
7)4
50
...........dls.
Bara Door Udder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50*10
Champion,  anti-frlctlon.............................   60*10
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots............................................................... 60*10
Kettles...........................................................60*10
Spiders  .........................................................60*10
Gray enameled.....................................t —  40*10
Stamped Tin Ware................................  .new list 70
25
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
Granite Iron W are......................new list 33)4*10
Bright......................................................70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10*10
Hook’s .....................................................70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes.........................  70*10*10
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s .....................  
70
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings......................... 
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
Mallory, Wheeler *  Co.’s ...........................  
56
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s ................................................... 
55
Adze Bye.............................................. 916.00, dls. 60
Hunt Eye.............................................. 915.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s...................................... 918.50, dls. 20*10.
dls.
50
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
“  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malléables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cl? ik’s................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Steel nails,  base..................................................1 85
 
Wire nails,  base.................................... 
Steel.  Wire.
60...........  
Base 
Base
10
50.......................................................Base 
40......................................................  05 
25
26
30......................................................  10 
20.........  
35
15 
45
16......................................................  15 
45
12...................................................... 
15 
50
10 ......................................................  20 
8 .......................................................   25 
60
7 * 6 ...................................................  40 
75
4 .......................................................   60 
90
1 20
3.........................................................1  00 
1 60
2.........................................................1  50 
1 60
Flne3................................................1  50 
Case  10..............................................  60 
65
8..............................................  75 
75
90
6 .............................................  90 
75
Finish 10 ..........................................   85 
8.............................................1  00 
90
6............................................ 1  15 
1  10
Clinch? 10...........................................  85 
70
80
8.............................................1  00 
6............................................ 1  15 
90
Barren %........................................... 175 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   Q40
Sclota Bench................................................  060
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  040
Bench, first quality......................................   090
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood...........  *10
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.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 

Advance over base: 
 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

MOLASSES GATES. 

MAULS.
mills. 

“ 
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« 
“ 
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planes. 

rivets. 

NAILS

Broken packs )4c per pound extra.

dls.

dls.

 

 

ROPES.

squARss.' 

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, )4 inch and larger.............................  
9)4
Manilla........................................................   13
dls.
Steel and  Iron..............................................  
Try and Bevels............................................. 
Mitre............................................................ 

75
60
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
92 95
3 (5
3 (5
3 15
3 25
8 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14...................................... 94 05 
Nos. 15 to 17 .....................................  4 05 
Nos.  18 to21...................................   4 06 
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4 05 
Nos. 25 to 26................................. ..4 2 5  
No. 27 ...............................................   4 45 
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
85

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

HORSE NAILS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

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

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton 926
20
70
50
30
30
Steel, Game................................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s __ 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion............................... 91.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market.............................................  62)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel..............*................ 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  3 10
painted...................................   2 65

wire. 

dls.

“ 

dls.

FIG TIN.

METALS.

WRENCHES. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Au  Sable.................................................dls.  40
dls.  05
Putnam.......................................... 
Northwestern................................ 
dls. 10*10
dls.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled....................  
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.............................. 75*10
Bird Cages................................................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
75
Screws, New List..........................................70*10
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50*10*10
Dampers, American....................................  
  40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........65*10
1 90
Pig  Large....................................................   26c
Pig Bars....................................................... 
28c
Duty:  Sheet, 2)4c per pound.
680 pound  casks........................................... 
Per pound.................................................... 
)4@)4.................................................................. 16
Extra W iping.................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many other  qualities  of
solder In the market Indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................per pound
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal...........  ...........................9750
7 50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 LX, 
9 25
14x20 LX, 
9 25

Each additional X on this grade, 91.75.

SOLDER.

ZINC.

6)f
7

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TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.
“ 
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“ 

 
 
 
boo ping plates

 
 
 

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

Each additional X on this grade 91.50. 

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“  Worcester................................  6 50
“ 
..........................   8 50
.........................  18 50
“ 
“  Allaway  Grade................  6 00
7  50
“ 
“ 
12  60
“ 
15 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x201c, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
14x28  IX............................................................ 914 09
14x31  IX......................................................... 15
10
lSeo K ’. f“r 

’ 9 B° “er*’ \ P » Pound  ... 

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

The  Only Perfect  Barrel Chum  Made.

Summarized  Decisions from  Courts  of 

Last Resort.

EXECUTION CREDITOR—PURCHASER.
An execution creditor who buys  at  his 
own sale  is  not  a  bona  fide  purchaser 
within the meaning of  the  law,  accord­
ing to the decision of the Supreme  Court 
of Indiana in  the  case  of  Old  National 
Bank of Evansville vs.  Findlay.
MARRIED  WOMEN—PROPERTY .SEIZURE.
Where  a  married  woman  contracted 
for the purchase of land,  purchased lum­
ber and was erecting a house on the land, 
when a sheriff seized  the  lumber  under 
execution  against  her  husband, 
the 
Supreme Court of  Minnesota  held,  in  a 
suit against  the  sheriff  (Granning  vs. 
Swenson),  that  the  facts  justified  the 
conclusion that the lumber  when  it  was 
seized  was  in 
the  possession  <of  the 
plaintiff,  and not in that of  her  husband 
so as to create an  appearance  of  owner­
ship in him,  and hence that  the  plaintiff 
might  recover  against  the  sheriff  even 
though  the  statutory  affidavit  giving 
notice of  her  title  had  not  been  served 
on  him.
PARTNERSHIP  INTEREST-SALE-ACCOUNT.
The Supreme Court of Indiana held, in 
the recent case of Houk et al.  vs. Walker 
et al.,  that a sale of one partner to a con­
tinuing member of  the firm, or to a third 
person,  in  the  absence  of  any  special 
agreement to the  contrary,  carries  with 
it  the  actual  interest  of  such  partner; 
that the presumption is that  the  account 
of such partner with the  firm  was  taken 
into  account,  and  his  interest  in  the 
partnership increased  or  diminished  ac­
cording to the state  of  bis  account,  and 
that such selling partner,  in the  absence 
of special agreement to that effect,  is not 
liable  to  account  to  the  purchaser  for 
any sum which may be due from  him  to 
the firm, and that prima  facie  such  sale 
cancels  his  account,  in so  far,  at  least, 
as the purchasing partner is concerned.
APPLICATION OF  PAYMENTS—USURY.
The Kentucky Court of  Appeals  held, 
in the recent  case  of  Neale  et  al.  vs. 
that  all  payments  on  a  debt 
Rouse, 
should be  first  applied  to  the  principal 
and legal  interest;  that  so  long  as  any 
part of  the  principal  and  legal  interest 
remains unpaid the  debtor  may  elect  to 
have any payments he  has  made  on  the 
debt at any time  in  the  past  applied  in 
that way, although the  money  was  paid 
as usury; that this  is  true  although  the 
note evidencing the debt may  have  been 
renewed from  time  to  time  since  the 
payments  were  made,  and  although 
there may have been a change  of  a  part 
of  the obligors,  and  that  the  limitation 
of one year,  which applies  to  actions  to 
recover  usury  paid,  does  not  apply.
ASSIGNMENT—FRAUD—CREDITORS.
Where an assignor  just before  making 
an assignment drew  out  of  the  bank  a 
sum of money  and  gave  it  to  his  wife, 
who kept it  secreted  for  eight  months, 
the  sum 
in  question  consituting  the 
greater part of the  available  assets  and 
not being included in  the  inventory  and 
schedules,  and after the existence of this 
fund had been discovered  by  the  credi­
tors  by  legal  procceedings  the  money 
was paid to the assignee,  the  New  York 
Court of Appeals held that  this  conceal­
ment rendered  the  assignment  void,  al­
though the  assignor  swore  that  he  did 
not intend  to defraud  his  creditors,  but 
merely to  hold  said  money  for  whom­
ever it belonged to.  The court said  that 
the rule  was  that  the  intentional  with­
holding and secreting of assets of  a  sub­
stantial  value from  the possession of  the 
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WEDNESDAY, MAY  18,  1893.

THE  NICARAGUA  CANAL.

During the  early  part  of  next  month 
there  is  to  take  place  in  St.  Louis  a 
convention  for  the  purpose  of  advocat­
ing  the  completion  of  the  Nicaragua 
canal.  To this convention  all the  States 
and Territories  of  the  Union  will  send 
delegates accredited  by  their  respective 
Governors,  and it is also understood that 
the principal Boards of Trade  and  Com­
mercial  Exchanges of the large cities will 
likewise be  represented  by  delegations. 
The  convention  may,  therefore,  be  ex­
pected to thoroughly  represent  both  the 
commercial and political interests of  the 
different sections of  the  country,  hence 
the conclusions it may  arrive  at  will  be 
entitled to  the  serious  consideration  of 
our National Legislature and  the  masses 
of the people as well.

its  rich 

the  western  coast 

The  completion  of  the  canal  would 
afford the United  States  easy  communi­
cation,  not  only  with  its  own  western 
coast  and 
line 
of  Mexico 
and  Central  America, 
the  entire  Pacific  slope  of 
but  with 
South  America,  with 
trade. 
Those  parts  of  the  world  are  now 
only  reached by  the  long  voyage  round 
Cape Horn,  or  by  transhipment  across 
the Isthmus,  with  the  attendant  break­
ing  of  bulk  and  costly  handling.  The 
rich  and  prosperous  republics  of  the 
west coast  of  South  America  are  large 
consumers of  food products,  as  well  as 
ali  sorts  of  manufactured  goods,  agri­
cultural implements and the like.  These 
articles  are  now  nearly  altogether  fur­
nished by Europe, but with the  facilities 
the  canal  across 
the  Isthmus  would 
the  United  States  ought  to 
furnish, 
secure the bulk of the business.

The ignominious failure which  attend­
ed  the  Panama  Canal  scheme  has  not 
dampened the ardor of  the  promoters  of 
the  Nicaragua  venture,  because 
the 
natural obstacles  to  be  overcome  are  in 
no way as formidable in the  case  of  the 
latter as they proved to be in  the case  of 
the former work.  The DeLesseps canal 
necessitated the excavation of  the entire 
route  through  a  mountainous  country, 
while the  Nicaragua  Canal  would  need 
but comparatively  little  excavating,  the 
route for nearly its entire length  follow­
ing the course of  natural waterways,  the

upon  the  syndicate  became  aggressive. 
A sheriff’s man  appeared  at  the  bureau 
of the company  and  asked  for  the  full 
amount  of the penalty  from  the  day  of 
the decision,  and,  the claim  being  ignor­
ed,  seized  tables,  chairs,  desks,  and 
office  furniture.  The  defense  of  the 
company  is  that  they  have  appealed 
against  the  decision.  Meanwhile  the 
men go on working  over-time  peacefully 
and contentedly as usual.

Competition and the  mercantile  world 
wishes the national cordage  trust  would 
go hang  itself  with  its  own  twine, 
to 
make its strangulation binding.
The  Square  Merchant.

He is as honest as the day is  long—his 
yard-stick  always  the  full  length,  and 
his goods are  as satisfactory  as  himself 
and his measure.  Remember,  when  you 
go  shopping, 
that  the  lowest  priced 
article isn’t always  the  cheapest.  That 
is cheapest which costs a little more  and 
wears  three  times  as  long.  Those  are 
the real bargains.  A good honest article 
at a fair price.  Beware of traders whom 
you  don’t  know  and  have  not  proved. 
“Prove all things” is a  standard  maxim. 
How will this  definition  of  a  merchant 
answer?  He is one who opens store,  not 
altogether  for  his  own  enrichment  but 
partly  for  the  accommodation  of  the 
community.  The square merchant never 
loses  sight  of 
this  one  of  the  funda­
mental  facts—his  interest  lies  in 
im­
proving the condition of  every family  in 
the country.  He is as interested  in  get­
ting a good  price  for  what  the  farmers 
have to sell  as  he  is  in  getting  a  fair 
price for what he  sells  himself.  That’s 
a  true  merchant,  and  the  people  soon 
learn to trust him and  love  him.  When 
he hears of anything that is  an  improve­
ment in seed, implement  or  methods,  he 
scatters the good news along through the 
townships.  That’s  an  honored  country 
merchant.  The city trader works on the 
same lines;  he  has  learned  that  decep­
tion or trickery  of  any  kind  is  of  all 
things  the  most  unprofitable.  As  the 
great majority of buyers are  not  experts 
—knowing the cost and value of goods to 
have dealings with the  square  man  is  a 
great  relief,  pleasure  and  gain.  They 
are quite at home  in  such  a  store,  and 
regard the shopkeeper’s word as genuine 
as gold.  So we are not only to  stand  by 
such a man,  but we are  to  mention  him 
among  our  friends,  and  praise  him  all 
the time for the honor  he  brings  to  the 
race. 

Geo.  R.  Scott.

The  Hide  Market.

All  quotations  are  nominal  and  not 
likely  to  hold  good  many  days.  At  a 
largely  attended  meeting  of  the  upper 
leather tanners  of  the  Eastern  States, 
held at Boston on  the  12th,  all  the  tan­
ners  represented  agreed  to  either  shut 
down Ju ly   1  for 60 days  or  reduce  their 
output  oue-half  for  four  months  from 
that  date.  This  will  tend  to  make  a 
stagnant market for some weeks to come, 
although the enforced idleness will bring 
about  a  healthier  condition  of  the 
business.

Kerosene  Oil  Lower.

A general decline of >^c per gallon has 
been made all over  the  State  in  illumi­
nating  oils,  both  in  barrels  and  from 
tank wagons.

Lowell—John C.  Scott is succeeded  by 
Scott & Boylan in the hardware business.

________________

improvement of which  and  the  connect­
ing of  their  different  waters  and  levels 
by short canals and locks would form the 
most serious engineering problems  to  be 
overcome.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
to be hoped  that it will  be faithfully ob­
served  by  all  during  the  coming  sum­
mer. 
OPPOSITION  TO  THE  SUGAR  TRUST.
Although there has been  an  anti-trust 
law  in  force  for  several  years,  it  had 
been allowed in a measure  to  be  forgot­
ten until the recent agitation against the 
Sugar  Trust  urged  the  United  States 
authorities  to  apply  it. 
In  reply  to  a 
recent request  of  the  House  of  Repre­
sentatives that the Attorney  General  in­
form that body what  steps,  if  any, have 
been taken  against  the  trust  under  the 
“Sherman  Law,”  that  official 
replied 
that the United States  District  Attorney 
at  Philadelphia  has  recently  brought 
suit under the law against the  American 
Sugar Refinery and the  Philadelphia  re­
fineries,,  which some weeks ago  sold  out 
to the combination.

As the completion of  this  work  would 
give an easy and short  water  connection 
between the Pacific  and  Atlantic  Coasts 
of  the  United  States,  thus  aiding  the 
commerce of both coasts, it  is  important 
that the canal,  if it is to be  built, should 
be constructed with American capital, so 
that its control may remain  in American 
hands. 
In time of  war the  canal  would 
then  permit  us  to  move  our  warships 
and  war material from  one  coast  to  the 
other,  which we are not now  able  to  do, 
a fact that,  in the event of touble,  would 
prove a serious matter.

A  SATURDAY  HALF  HOLIDAY.
Some years  ago,  when  the  question of 
allowing  a  half  holiday  on  Saturdays, 
during  the  summer  months,  was  first 
agitated  by  business  men  in  the  large 
cities,  the  project,  while  finding  much 
favor on  the  part of  many, was  stoutly 
opposed  by  a  very respectable minority, 
who held that the granting of a half holi­
day on Saturdays as a permanent feature, 
for  no  other  purpose  than  to subserve 
the  pleasure  and  recreation  of  the em­
ployed, was establishing a bad precedent. 
Those in favor of  the half  holiday, how­
ever, 
the 
movement  gradually extended,  until  the 
custom  has  become  the general  rule in 
most of the large cities of the country.

largely  preponderated,  and 

The  state of  New York  has made  all 
Saturdays  half  holidays,  irrespective of 
the season of  the year, but the custom as 
far as other parts of the country are con­
cerned  has  extended only  to  the Satur­
days daring the summer months.

As the heated term is now almost upon 
us, the  question of  early closing  on Sat­
urdays  is  again  being  agitated. 
It  is 
understood  that  most of  the  wholesale 
houses will  close at 3 o’clock, as was the 
custom  last  year,  but  there  is  a  move­
ment  on  foot  to  make  an  early closing 
arrangement even more far-reaching than 
has  hitherto  been the  case.  While  all 
the jobbing houses have in the past agreed 
to the  early closing  hour  for  Saturday, 
there  have  always  been  a  few  which 
have  carried  out the  custom  in  but  an 
imperfect manner,  so that the concession 
to the employes  was  but a nominal  one. 
It is to be  hoped  that this  year this will 
not prove to be the  case,  and that all  the 
jobbing houses  and as many of the retail 
establishments  as  may  be  able  to  see 
their way clear will close early on Satur­
days in  the  literal  sense,  thus  affording 
their employes and clerks an opportunity 
for  recreation  and  rest  which  enables 
them to continue their  duties  and  labors 
in  their  employers’  interest  during  the 
entire  summer  without  impairment  to 
health or strength.
There  is  no  reason  to doubt  that  the 
early  closing  movement  on  Saturdays 
during  the  summer  is  as  popular with 
employers as  it  is  with  the  employed, 
and,  as long as it is generally understood 
that  the  custom  will  be carried  out  in 
good  faith  by  all,  there will  be  no  in­
centive for any one to disregard the rule. 
During the summer months there is really 
no wholesale  business  that  requires  at­
tention  after  3  o’clock  in  the afternoon, 
and,  with  proper  diligence,  matters  can 
be always so arranged  as to close promp- 
ly at that  hour.  Experience has  proven 
that the custom is a good one, hence it is

The suit in  question  is  understood  to 
mean that the  Government  will  seek  to 
prove that  the  absorption  of  the  inde­
pendent  Philadelphia  refineries  by  the 
trust  was  a  violation  of  the  anti-trust 
law and  that  both  the  American  Sugar 
Refining Company  and  the  Philadelphia 
refineries must restore  the  condition  of 
things existing before  the  consolidation.
This suit will  be  watched  with  inter­
est,  as  it  will  undoubtedly 
test  the 
efficacy of the law now in force  to  reach 
the  trusts,  and  if  successful,  will  un­
questionably lead to  similar  proceedings 
against  the  other  trusts. 
It  has  been 
claimed by some  that  the  Sherman  law 
is powerless to reach the monopolies and 
would  not  stand  the  test  of  constitu­
tionality,  which  are  points 
that  the 
present suit will doubtlessly set  at  rest.
This  method  of  fighting  the  trust  is 
possibly to be preferred to  that  recently 
agitated  in  Washington,  which  com­
prised the entire removal of  the duty  on 
refined sugar.  The enemies of  the  com­
bination desire to strike a blow  at  it  by 
forcing it  to  compete  with  the  foreign 
refined sugars of Europe.  This would be 
unfair,  because  the  blow  aimed  at  the 
trust would  actually  inflict  the  greatest 
injury  upon  the  domestic  sugar  pro­
ducers,  and  would,  moreover,  destroy 
the possibility  of  independent  refineries 
being hereafter constructed.

If  Congress  desires  to  regulate  the 
Sugar Trust  it  should  do  so  by  direct 
legislation, or  by  compelling  the  execu­
tive officers  of  the  Government  to  en­
force  the  laws  already  on  the  statute 
books,  and  not  by  disturbing  the  tariff 
laws,  to  the detriment  of  the  country’s 
legitimate industries and  business  inter­
ests generally.

CURIOUS LABOR COMPLICATION.
A curious phase of  the  labor  question 
is reported from  Paris.  A  decision  was 
rendered  in  the  courts  some  time  ago 
forbidding the  Paris  Omnibus  Company 
to work its employes  more  than  twelve 
hours a day,  and fixing a penalty for dis-

I obedience at 100 francs a day,  to be  paid 

to a syndicate of the men.  The company 
ignored  the  decree,  and  the  men  con­
tinued to work  fo^the  statutory  twelve 
hours,  and for certain hours  in  addition. 
Thereupon the  syndicate  communicated 
with  the  company,  but  no  notice  was 
taken of  the  communication.  The  men 
continued to work  during  the  forbidden 
hours and the company  continued to em­
ploy them.  As the next  step  the  syndi­
cate claimed the penalty.  But  the  com­
pany still pursued  a  course  of  masterly 
It ignored the claim.  There­
inactivity. 

T H E   M I C H I O ^ lIS :  T R A D E S M A N .

9

THE  NATIONAL  FINANCES.

Oar citizens have become so accustomed 
to an  overflowing  national  treasury that 
they  scarcely think of  an opposite  state 
of things as possible.  The  richest coun­
try in  Europe,  Great  Britain,  finds  in  a 
surplus of  a  million of  pounds or  so  of 
annual  revenue  over  annual  expendi­
ture matter for self-congratulation.  Ger­
many, Austria and Russia barely manage 
to  make  both  ends  meet, while  France, 
Spain,  Portugal  and  Italy regularly face 
deficits more or less considerable. 
Italy, 
particularly,  is  just  now  in  a  financial 
situation in which  her statesmen have to 
confess  that  heroic  reductions  must  be 
made  in  her  military  and  naval  estab­
lishments from the absolute impossibility 
of raising enough money to pay for them 
on  their  present  footing.  Our  govern­
ment,  on the  contrary, has, for  the  past 
twenty  years,  enjoyed  the  luxury of  a 
surplus income  so  large that it has  been 
difficult  to  dispose of  it.  We  have paid 
all our ordinary expenses, redeemed hun­
dreds of  millions of  our war  debt in ad­
vance of its maturity, and scattered other 
hundreds of  millions in river and harbor 
improvements,  in  the  payment  of  pen­
sions and arrears of  pensions, and in the 
liquidation of  all  sorts of  claims,  which, 
under  other  circumstances,  would  not 
have been considered.  So oppressive be­
came  this  plethora of  national  revenue 
that we were lately driven to deplete it by 
a revision of  the tariff,  which  lopped off 
millions  in  duties  on  raw  sugar,  and 
raised those on  many manufactured arti­
cles to a prohibitory  point.  The remedy 
has  been  rather  over efficient, and, dur­
ing the last ten months, the customs have 
fallen  to  $150,000,000,  against $195,000, 
000 for  the corresponding ten  months  of 
the previous fiscal year, so that, notwitb 
standing a slight gain in internal revenue 
our  total  receipts  have been  only $295, 
500,000,  against  total  expenditures  of 
$300,000,000.

This  deficiency  of  $4,500,000  is, to  be 
sure,  not  important  in  itself,  and  if  it 
showed  the full  extent of  the  change in 
our national financial condition,  it might 
be viewed with equanimity.  But the fact 
is  that  it conveys  only a partial  idea  of 
the  real  state of  affairs.  Not  only  has 
the revenue  decreased in  the  ten months 
mentioned  $45,000,000,  but  the  expendi­
tures  have  been  kept  down to meet  the 
decrease  by a process  of  staviug off  the 
payment  of  claims  against  the  govern­
ment,  which  merely postpones  the  evil 
day  when a much larger  deficiency must 
be acknowledged.  The reduction of pay­
ments  to  $300,000,000 against  the $342,- 
000,000  which  they were a year  ago  has 
been  effected  by a  disregard  of  pension 
and  other  appropriations,  and  even  the 
requirements  of  the  sinking  fund  act 
have not been complied with.

The  Secretary of  the  Treasury,  in  his 
report presented to Congress last Decem­
ber, estimated,  for the  fiscal year ending 
with  the end of  n e x t  June, his  ordinary 
requirements  at  $409,000,000,  of  which | 
the proportionate part for the ten months 
just expired  is  $327,000,000. 
Inasmuch 
as nothing has happened to diminish this 
amount 
its  reduction  to 
$300,000,000  in  actual  fact  could,  as  I 
said,  only be effected  by putting off  pay­
ments which will  have to be made sooner 
or  later.  Furthermore, in  the  same  re­
port,  the  Secretary  acknowledged  that 
the requirements of  the sinking fund for 
the  extinguishment of  the  principal  of 
the  national debt would be, for  the  cur­

legitimately, 

rent year, $48,913,000.02.  Of this amount 
about  $25,000,000  has  been  met  by  the 
redemption  of  the  4%  per  cent,  bonds 
which  matured  last  September,  leaving 
about $24,000,000  yet to be paid,  with no 
means in sight for paying it.

All 

the  probabilities,  therefore,  are 
that  we  shall  commence  the next  fiscal 
year on July 1, not only without any sur­
plus of  annual  income  to carry forward, 
but with  unpaid obligations  to  the sink­
ing fund and for other purposes, of many 
millions of  dollars.  Evidently,  we  shall 
have either to cut down our expenditures, 
increase  our  revenue,  or  borrow  the 
money which  the  revenue  falls short  of 
supplying.  No  political  party will  be 
desirous  of  resorting  to  borrowing  to 
meet current expenses, nor can those ex­
penses well be reduced  below their pres­
ent figures.  The most  available  expedi­
ent will  be  to increase the receipts from 
customs  and  from  internal  revenue,  but 
this  measure  involves  difficulties  of  a 
very serious character.

Apparently it would be easy, by merely 
augmenting the duties on imported goods, 
to augment  the total  revenue from  that 
source,  but,  in  the  first  place,  raising 
duties  means  raising  prices  to the  con­
sumer,  which  tends  to  diminish  con­
sumption,  and thus to defeat the purpose 
aimed  at.  Besides,  on  most  manufac­
tured  goods  the  duties  are  already  so 
high as to restrict importations very con­
siderably,  and  raising them still  higher 
might  prevent  importations  altogether. 
An increase of duties upon raw materials 
and  the  reimposition  of  those  on  tea, 
coffee,  and  similar  articles,  now  free, 
would  be  effectual,  but  it  would  be un­
popular.  Higher  taxes  on  whisky  and 
tobacco  would,  again,  by  stimulating 
ingenuity  in  devising  means  for  their 
evasion,  and by making fraud more prof­
itable, fail to have the  full effect desired. 
The financial problem which will soon be 
presented  to  our  statesmen  for solution 
is, therefore,  one  which  will  tax  their 
abilities to the utmost.

The  depletion  of  the  Treasury  is,  at 
this present  juncture,  also  embarrassing 
in its relations to our  national  currency. 
We resumed  gold  payments in  1879,  and 
have ever since maintained  them with so 
little effort that,  in spite of all warnings, 
very few people  really believe that there 
is any likelihood of our not being able to 
maintain  them  forever.  This  sense  of 
security has  been  confirmed  by  the  ab­
sence  of  any  ill  effects  from  the  great 
exports of  gold  which  we  made  a  year 
ago,  so  that  the  exports  now  going  on 
have  as  yet excited  no  alarm.  Provi­
dence,  which  proverbially  takes  care  of 
those who cannot take care of themselves, 
has thus  far  been on  our  side,  its latest 
interposition in our  behalf  having  been 
the  sending of  good  harvests  to us  and 
bad  harvests to  our  fellow  men  in  Eu­
rope.  But we cannot count upon always 
being  thus  favored.  This  very  year,
| perhaps, we may have to confront a state 
of  things  in which  our  ability to main­
tain  the gold  standard will  be  put  to a 
test which I, for one, have serious doubts 
of  our  enduring  successfully,  The sur­
plus of gold in the Treasury, which saved 
us from a suspension of  gold payments a 
year  ago,  has  nearly  disappeared,  and I 
see nothing which will supply its loss.

Not  to  repeat  what  I  have  so  often 
said  before, 1 will  only remind  my read­
ers that the country is carrying a volume 
of  $1,100,000,000 in silver and paper cur­
rency, with only,  at the utmost, $300,000,-

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These  are  Our  Leaders:

LION  COFFEE,  0. D.  JAVA and 

STANDARD MARACAIBO.

L 'ION  is our  leading  package  coffee, being  composed of  Mocha, Java and  Rio, 
with a handsome picture in each package.  As high-grade bulk coffees, O. D. 
Java  and  Standard  Maracaibo take the  lead.  We  guarantee  these  coffees to give 
entire satisfaction.  For quotations write your jobber, or address as below:

W00LS0R  SPICI  CO, 
Hiih  M e   Coffees,

BOASTERS OF

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RESIDENT  AGENT,

106  Kext  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

Facts  Talk  Louder  Than  Words !

J,487,275  SOLD IN 1886.
3,509,575  SOLD  IN  D ll.

5,092,350  SOLD  IN  1888,
5,690,025 SOLD IN 1889,

6,983,201  Soli  in 1891.

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

showing the monumental success of our celebrated

RECORD  BREAKERS
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000 in gold  available  for its  redemption.
1  know that the director of the mint esti 
mates our stock of gold at a much greater 
amount, but he does  it  by assuming that 
all  the  gold  coined  since  1879 and  not 
otherwise  accounted  for still  remains in 
the country and is within reach.  On the 
contrary,  much of  it has been  melted up 
or  carried  away in  the  pockets  of  trav- | 
elers, or  hoarded  where it cannot  be got 
at.  At all  events, the  only gold  that  it 
is  safe  to  reckon  upon to maintain  the 
rest  of  our  currency on  a  gold  basis is 
that which is in  the vaults  of  the  treas­
ury and  of  the  banks, since it is  only to 
those  institutions  that  applications  for 
payment in gold are ever made. 
Indeed,
I question whether we can rely upon any 
gold except that in the  treasury, since so 
soon as  the  treasury ceases  to  pay gold, 
all the banks  in  the  country will  follow 
its example.  Considering that the treas­
ury has  now only $119,000,000 of  gold of 
its own,  and  that it is liable  to be  called ! 
on  at  any  moment  to  redeem  with  it I 
$346,000,000 of  legal  tenders,  and  $93,- 
000,000 of  notes issued  under  the act  of 
July,  1890,  besides  some  $28,000,000  of 
retired  bank circulation, of  which it has 
assumed  the  redemption,  its position  is 
not very strong.

What  may happen  between  now  and 
the first of  July is,  that  as  soon as Aus­
tria perfects,  as  she is  likely to do  some 
time this month,  her plans for creating a 
gold currency, this country will be drawn 
upon  for  at  least  $20,000,000, and  per­
haps  more. 
If  our  banks  supply  it,  as 
they  probably will  in the  first  instance, 
they will  immediately seek  to  replace it 
by drawing  it  from the treasury  in  ex­
change for legal tender notes.  This will 
very soon run  the treasury stock of  gold 
down to the $100,000,000  which it is now 
holding as a fund  for the  redemption  of 
the legal  tenders,  and  then the  govern­
ment will have to decide whether it shall 
go on and impair this fund or offer silver 
dollars  instead of  gold. 
If  the treasury 
refuses  to  pay  gold  so will  the  banks, 
and  then the  shippers of  the  metal  will 
have  to  buy  it  in the  open  market  at  a 
premium,  as they  used to  do in  the days 
before resumption.

With regard to the  effect on the money 
market of a suspension ot gold payments 
by the  government  and  by the  banks,  I 
am not  one of  those who  expect  it to be 
disastrous. 
It will  cause no contraction 
of the currency  in circulation,  since gold 
circulates to so  limited an extent that its 
withdrawal will not be noticeable.  There 
will  be  no  reduction  of  loans  by  the 
banks,  since  the gold  they  refuse to pay 
out or to sell  will  still  form part of their 
reserve.  There  will  be  no  rush  to  sell 
merchandise,  but  rather  one  to  buy  it 
before  a  depreciated  currency  raises 
prices,  and  there will  be no presssure  of 
stocks  and  bonds  on  the  market,  since 
they will  fetch  in  exchange nothing but 
currency,  and 
there  will  be  nothing 
gained  by  selling  them.  Altogether,  I 
await the course of events with equanim­
ity,  and  I  recommend  my  readers  to do 
the same. 

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

S uccess  o f W om en  as  Bill  Collectors.
From  the  New  York World.

This  is  a  story  of  how  some  young 
women in this  town  make  a  very  good 
living, 
it  is  a  truly  interesting  story. 
Some folks will say that it is  another  il­
lustration of  the  superiority  of  women.
Everybody knows that the  tailors  who 
make the young men of this town look so 
fine have a deal of  trouble  in  collecting 
(heir money.  Some of the funny  papers

say  that  a  fashionable  young  man  who 
pays  his  tailor  with  any  degree  of | 
promptness loses caste.  Only those who 
have  been  derelict—may  be  “fashion- | 
able” would  be  the  better  word—have, 
any  idea  of  the  deep  plots  that 
th e ! 
tailors have used to collect  their  money. 
Now  some  of  the  very  wisest  have | 
discovered  a  plan  which  the  debtors 
look upon  as  Machiavt Ilian  in  its  deep j 
cunning.
Who but a  tailor  would  conceive  the 
idea  of  employing  a  pretty  young 
women to  collect  his  bills  from  young 
men, or old ones who still think they are 
young?  It  is  quite  true  that  several 
fashionable tailors  are  doing  that  very 
thing.  There was never any plan so  ex­
cellent for them.
The great  trouble  with  this  new  de­
parture, from  the  woman  wage-earner’s 
standpoint, is that it makes an  invidious 
distinction.  The  woman  so  employed, 
to  be  successful,  must  be  pretty.  She 
must also be quick  of  wit  and  have  no 
ordinary  amount  of 
self-possession, 
Given these  things,  with  courage,  and 
she can make  a  small  fortune.  For  if 
she is clever, she will not  make  the  col­
lections on a salary, but on a commission.
When a pretty  young  woman,  charm­
ingly dressed,  appears  at  an  office  and 
says that she  wants  to  see  Mr.  Putoff, 
the office boy never dreams  of  inquiring 
! what her  business  may  be.  He  s mply 
| goes to the  young  man  and  says  that  a 
I lady  wishes  to  see  him,  and  he  adds, 
j with the office boy’s  privilege,  that  she 
I is young and pretty.  Mr.  Putoff  never 
dreams of demanding to  know  her  busi­
ness  before  he  goes  out.  He  appears 
j with a smile as broad as a French play and 
j greets her with overpowering politeness, 
j And when she  looks  at  him  shyly  and 
I timidly and murmurs with a  little  catch 
in  her  voice,  “Oh,  Mr.  Putoff,  you’ll 
pardon me,” he feels that there  is  noth­
ing on earth he would not do to  help  the 
beautiful  girl  who  is  in  distress.  He 
doesn’t notice  the  slip  of  white  paper 
in her hand.  And then  when  she  tells 
him that  she  has  called  to  collect  the 
little  bill  which  he  owes  Cuttem  & 
Tailor, it  dazes him.  He  pays  the  bill 
before he  can  recover  from  his  amaze­
ment.  And even  if  he  did  recover  his 
wits in time he would never dare put her 
off and  run  the  cross-fire  of  the  other 
fellows in the office.
There  are  in  New  York  now  about 
I half a dozen young women  who  are  em- 
i ployed as  collectors  by  tailors.  Natur- 
I ally, it isn’t a business that  every  young 
lady  would  care  to  go  into,  but  the 
| wages  are  attractive.  There 
is  one 
young  woman,  employed  by  a  Fifth 
| avenue  tailor,  whose  average  is  $50  a 
| week,  and  she  does  not  work  over  six 
hours a day.
“It isn’t nearly  so  bad  as  it  seems,” 
said she.  “The first time I went into  an 
It  was 
office I thought 1  should  faint. 
only with the greatest effort that  I  could 
make  myself  go  there  at  all.  But  I 
didn’t have to do any urging at all.  The 
man paid  me  almost  without  saying  a 
word. 
It  didn’t  take  me  five  minutes 
and my  commission  was  $10.  That  en­
couraged me and now I  get  along  splen- 
! didly.  But it takes lots of  assurance  at 
j times.  Still  I  have  never  been  treated 
discourteously  but  once.  The  worst 
trouble is that  the  men  want  to  invite 
you to dinner, to the theatre and all  that 
sort of thing.”

A Presidential Puzzle.

A new puzzle has been invented which 
is  said to be  likely to increase the  popu­
lation of  the  mad  house  to an  alarming 
extent.  Compared to it, the  “15 puzzle” 
is  as  simple as  a  sum  in  addition. 
It 
consists of  a series of  thirty-five wooden 
blocks, placed in four parallel rows.  One 
space is left blank to allow of free motion 
! along the various  roads to the  goal.  On 
| each  block  is  printed a letter of  the  al- 
I phabet,  the  total  combination  spelling 
the  names of  twenty-five  possible candi­
dates  for  the  Presidency.  There  are 
blank blocks  besides,  to  fill  in the space 
if  the  candidate’s  name  hasn’t  enough 
letters.  The  scheme is to select a candi­
date,  and,  by moving one block at a time, 
get  his  name  in  the  winning  line—an 
undertaking  that  appears simple,  but is 
likely  to  cost  the  victim  that  tries  it 
many a weary  hour.

See  th a t  this  Label  appears 
on  every  package,  as  It  is  a 
guarantee of the  genuine  ar­
ticle.

FERMENTUM
COMPRESSED YEAST

THE  ONLY  RELIABLE

Soli  in  this  market tor the  past  Fifteen  Tears.

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

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Telephone  566.

106  Kent St.

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on  every  package,  as  it  is  a 
guarantee  of 
the  genuine 
article.

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Special attention it invited to oar

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Onr Goods Grom worthless  Imitations.

TO  DISTINGUISH 

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

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

3 JOBBERS  OF

State Agents for

Don't lay lreiglit
Hirers’ Prices.

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

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

THE  BOYS  WHO  SUCCEED.

They  M ust  Have  Clear  Minds  and 

Cool  Brains.

Written for Tax T r a d e s m a n .

In articles immediately preceding this, 
the writer made an  appeal  in  behalf  of 
the boys of  this  generation  by  showing 
the necessity of  a good,  practical,  busi­
ness or mechanical  training,  in  order  to 
help  them  over  the  rough  and  rugged 
pathway of life,  when it came their  turn 
to report for duty.  The  advantages  in 
after life,  resulting  from  an early prep­
aration  of  this  kind,  were  depicted, 
showing that  the  American  artisan,  by 
reason of  his  practical  knowledge,  was 
in a position to command a  much  larger 
degree of the comforts  of  life  than  was 
possible  on  the  part  of  the  unskilled 
laborer.

The simple acquisition of a mechanical 
trade or  a  thorough  business  training 
will not,  however,  bring  these  comforts 
and blessings  of  life.  The  knowledge 
acquired  must  be  turned  to  practical 
account. 
It must be applied closely  and 
continuously. 
for  constant, 
skillful action  guided  by  thought,  and 
this thought must proceed  from  a  clear 
mind and a cool  brain;  and  this  brings 
me to the subject of  this article.

It  calls 

A  young  man  may  graduate  with 
flaming  honors  in  the  best  educational 
institution in the land;  he  may  diligent­
ly serve the  old  English  apprenticeship 
of seven years in  the acquisition  of  the 
best mechanical trade  in  the  world;  or, 
he may  become an expert  in  some  mer­
cantile  pursuit,  but,  if he does not  keep 
his  mind  clear  and  his  brain  cool,  all 
will  avail  him  nothing.  Proficiency— 
talent—skill—of what use are  these  all, 
when  the  mind  is  beclouded  and  the 
brain is ignited?

Young man!  How dare  you  tempt  the 
anger  of  the  gods  and 
insult  your 
employer,  by  enhaling  your  whisky- 
polluted breath into the face of that lady 
customer?  Don’t  you  know  that  she 
is  somebody’s  sister,  or  somebody’s 
mother?  Are you  so  foolish  as  to  im­
agine  that  you  are  superior  to  any 
human being whoever lived, inasmuch as 
your secret sins will never find  you  out? 
My young  friend,  if  that  brain,  which 
God has endowed you  with,  and  for  the 
proper care of which he will hold you  to 
a strict accountability, has ever been  set 
on fire by the doubly-distilled  essence  of 
ruin and damnation,  take my advice  and 
stop!  Never,  by  your  own  hand,  de­
throne your reason again; for,  in spite of 
all  the  fine  accomplishments  you  may 
have, sooner or later you will be crushed, 
if you continue in this dangerous course.
The  writer  is  personally  acquainted 
with certain clerks in this city,  whom  he 
could name  if  he  wished  to,  who  are 
going down  grade  at  break-neck  speed 
and  will  soon  reach  the  bottom  and 
plunge head-first  into  the  pit  of  black 
despair. 
If  it  were  all,  it 
would be sufficiently sad, but  in some  of 
these 
fond 
mothers  and  loving  sisters  are  already 
beginning to  snap,  and  when  the  final 
crash  comes,  God  only  knows  the  full 
“extent of the ruin  and  desolation  which 
will be left  behind.

heart-strings  of 

Is this all? 

cases, 

These are the  boys  who,  lacking  this 
innate desire to  do  right—or, possessing 
it,  are lacking in  executive  force  in  ex­
ecuting  it—who  can  never  get  there. 
The world is too  full  of  dangerous  pit- 
falls, and the forces of the  evil  one  are 
too  formidable  for  these  unfortunate,

weak brothers to cope with and  they  are 
drawn under the current and perish.

E.  A.  Owen.

Young man, permit me  to  ask  you  to 
what class  you  belong?  Do  you  know  j 
whither you  are  drifting,  and  are  you 
utterly unable to stay your course, owing 
to  your  driveling  imbecility?  Then  I 
pity you and those  who  gave  you  birth, 
from the lowest depths of  my heart;  but 
if your inability is  caused  by  falling  a 
victim  to  your  diseased  appetite,  then | 
frankly confess it  like a man and submit 
to a medical treatment.  Are you trying 
to make yourself believe that  your  daily 
guzzling is what you need to make a man 
of you,  and that the customers  you  wait 
upon,  and the people you associate  with, 
do  not  know  that  you  are  intoxicated j 
more than half the time?  Then  you  are 
a fool and it is a great pity that you ever | 
had  a  mother  or  a  sister.  Are  you  a 
bummer  through  choice,  and  do  you 
glory  in  it?  Then  you  are  a  monster 
and ought never to  have  been  born. 
If 
you  belong to  either  of  these  classes, 
you can never “get there”  until  you  are 
able to keep  your  mind  clear  and  your 
brain cool. 
Proposed  Syndicate  of  W hip  Makers.
From the Westfield, Mass., Republican,
An attempt is  being  made  to  buy  up 
all the whip  manufacturing  concerns  in 
the country  and run  the  business  under 
one  management.  C. C.  Foster, of  New 
York, is engaged in this mission,  and has 
visited  the  manufacturers  in  Westfield, 
who make three-quarters  of  the  product 
in the country.  Mr.  Foster says that his 
plan meets with general favor and he be­
lieves he can  secure  the  object  sought. 
There  have  been  repeated  attempts  to 
combine  the  whip  interests  to  prevent 
ruinous competition,  but every  combina­
tion  has  fallen  through,for  sooner  or 
later some  member  violates  the  agree­
ment.  Now it is proposed  to  have  only 
one  ownership,  and  let  each  concern 
share in it by holding stock.  Mr. Foster 
says  that  whip-making  has 
suffered 
peculiarly from  competition,  which  has 
not resulted  in  cheapening  the  product 
as  it  should. 
In  other  industries  the 
cost of selling does not  run  over  10  per 
cent.,  but it has cost about  25  per  cent, 
to  sell  whips,  and  there  are  twenty 
traveling  salesmen  when  one  could  do 
the  business.  The  large  number  of 
competing  concerns  and  their  rivalry, 
Mr. Foster says, has  made  an  unprofita­
ble and unnecessary number of  styles in 
whips.  There ought not  to  be  over  150 
styles,  but in their  eagerness  to  get  up 
salable articles  different  from  those  of­
fered by competitors,  the  manufacturers 
are  using  1,000  or  more  models,  which 
are expensive  because  requiring  special 
preparation.
The plan proposed  is  to  continue  the 
different  concerns, 
the  owners  being 
given shares in  the  controlling  corpora­
tion.  This  plan,  Mr.  Foster  believes, 
will  stimulate  interest  and  rivalry  to 
produce the best article.  The  buying of 
material will,  however,  be  left  to  the 
general management.  Stock will  be  as­
signed to each and  a  careful  accounting 
made of the finished product.  Of course, 
this  will  make  prices  uniform,  but  it 
will  also  cheapen  them.  The  product 
of the Westfield  whip  factories  amounts 
to over  $1,000,000  a  year,  and  this  big 
purchase  will  especially  interest  that 
town,  although  Mr.  Foster  says  it  will 
continue to  lead  in  the  business. 
It  is 
proposed  to  have  the  managers  of  the 
big  corporation  American  manufactur­
ers.  The principal concerns  still  to  be 
consulted in the matter are in Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  and  Columbus,  Ohio,  but  Mr. 
Foster believes that  all  can  be  brought 
into the big corporation.

E N G R A V I N G

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

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

HIRTH  &  K RAUSE,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

158 & 160 Fnlton  St.  OrandeRaplds

Slaoghter Sale !

Him, Briimmeler i  Sons
W.  H.  DOWNS,  I  Pieced & Stamped Tinware,

M anufacturers and  Jobbers of

260  S. IONIA  ST.,  -  Grand  Rapids. 

Telephone  640.

SOLD  MEDAL,  PABIS,  1878.

June  1  I  shall  remove 
my notion  stock  to  41 So. 
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.

8   So.  Ionia  Street,

BOSTON  PETTY  LED0EE.

Yeur  account is always posted!

Yonr bill  is always made ont!

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and corners.  Nickel bill  file, indexed, ruled  on 
both  sides, 60  lines, being  equal to a bill  twice 
as long. 
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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

D. A. B lodgett, President.

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NINTH  PAPER.

FIRE  INSURANCE.

Customs Which Govern It.

Its  History  and  the  Laws,  Rules  and 

and the policies stipulate  that each com­
pany shall  be  liable  only for  its ratable 
proportion of  any  loss,  if  one  company i 
pays more than its just share,  its remedy I 
is  not  against the  other  companies  for j 
Written f t   T hk T r a d e s m a n .
contribution, but  against the  assured,  to 
This  company shall  not  be  liable under  this 
recover  back the over  payment. 
It was 
policy  for a greater  proportion of  any  loss  on 
held  that  where  property  covered  by | 
the  described  property, or  for  toss  by and  ex­
pense of removal  from  premises endangered by
several  policies of  insurance  is  burned,
fire, than the  amount hereby insured shall  bear | 
eg  containing  substantially the
.
to the whole  insurance, whether valid or not. or 
by solvent or insolvent  insurers, covering  such  clause  above  cited, the  proportion to be 
property, and  the  extent  of  the application  of  paid  by one  insurer  is  that  which  the
the insurance under this policy or of  the contri 
amount of  his  policy  bears  to  the  total | 
button  to be  made by this  company in case  of 
amount of the insurance, though some of | 
loss, may be provided  for  by agreement  or con­
the policies  cover  other  property in  ad­
dition  written  hereon or attached  or appended 
dition to that destroyed.
hereto.  Liability  for  re insurance  shall  be  as 
specifically agreed hereon.

r  

The principle of  contribution  between 
co-insurers  of  the  same  property  was 
early  established  and  has  always  been 
enforced;  and,  as  this  series  of  papers 
purports to bear  upon the  history of  fire 
insurance,  my  readers  will  pardon  me 
for quoting  from Angell,  in his  work  on 
the subject of double insurance:

It was  held in an Iowa case that where 
the subsequent insurance is void, by rea­
son of  want of  notice of  the prior insur­
ance or for  any other  cause,  the liability 
of the original  insurers is not ratably re­
duced;  the  principle of  ratable  liability 
being applied  only with  reference to the 
amount  of  valid  insurance.  This  diffi­
culty  was removed  by adding  the words, 
“ whether valid or invalidated.”  and thus 
another  stage was  reached in the  devel­
opment of the modern policy.

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The  above  learned  opinion  was  writ-
ir a i u r u   u u u n u u   w o?  n m -  
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There is no illegality in the practice of 
double insurance, nor  is it prejudicial in 
its  ordinary effects  to  the  assured or  to 
the  insurer.  To  the  assured  it  is  at­
In a case  in  Marylaud,  where one  was 
tended  with  advantage,  as  it  provides 
insured  in  a Baltimore  company  on  his
with greater  certainty for the  protection
of  the whole  amount of  his interest, and I QWU  „oods  and  ¡n  certain  foreign  com- 
the several  underwriters on different pol- 
„„  <rnnrU
icies  being in  the  nature of  co-insurers,  P^mes  on  h.s  own goods  and  on  goods
he is enabled to select any whose respon-  held  on  commission,  the  policy  m  the 
sibility  he  may  prefer  for  satisfaction  first company containing a clause similar 
for  the  amount of  his  loss.  No  incon-  tQ the one cited  it was  held that the for- 
venience,  on the other hand,  is sustained 
„¡thin  the pffpct
by an underwriter in the case of a double  ei*n  policies we  e
insurance,  for  his contract  is  not varied | of  the  covenant  relating to other  msur- 
ances,  and  that  the  Baltimore company 
by it,  and if  the underwriter iu one  poli­
cy should  pay the  whole  amount of  the 
was  not  entitled to an  abatement  on  its 
loss, he  would  be  entitled  to recover  a 
policy by reason of such other insurance.
ratable  contribution  from 
the  under­
Out of  cases  similar to the  above  has 
writer  in  the other  policy.  The  princi­
ple of  contribution has  its foundation in 
grown the necessity of a sUindard policy, 
the clearest principles of natural justice,
so constructed that all  underwriters may
. 
for, as all  are equally bound and equally 
, „„„
relieved,  it is  obviously but just that,  in 
such a case,  all should contribute in  pro-  This  necessity has been  fully  met in our 
portion  toward a benefit  obtained by all.  own state. 
Any other rule in case of double insurance 
would  put  it  into the  power of  the  as­
sured  to  select  his  own  victim  and, 
A Californian writer to a San Francisco 
upon  motives  of mere caprice  or  favor­
paper strongly  denies  that the  tarantula 
itism,  to  make  a common burden  a  per­
and  the  centipede  are  such  deadly ene­
sonal oppression.
mies of the human kind as they are cred­
ited with being.  He says:  “I have cap
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-  tured  every  tarantula  that  I  have  seen
ten in  an  early period of  the  history  of j j,ejore they jumped in any direction,  and
the  development  of  the  fire  insurance 
have  teased and  tormented  them  until I 
was  tired,  and  presume  they  were  too 
policy.  At that  time, in  case of  double 
tired to jump, but I have never been able 
insurance, 
the  assured  could  recover 
to get  them to do  more  than  try to  get 
from  either  or  any one  of  his  insurers 
out  of  sight.  Centipedes,  I  was  told, 
the  whole amount  insured  for,  and  the 
would  cause the  part  of  a  person  over 
which 
they  crawled  to  shrivel  up  or 
insurer’s only  remedy was  to  fall  back 
waste  away,  yet a man  on  my place was 
upon  his  co-insurer  for a ratable contri­
stung  by  a  good-sized  centipede.  We 
bution  of  the  amount.  This  was  the 
applied sal soda  and sent  the man  home 
cause  of  much  inconvenience  and  un­
to  die,  as  the  centipede  had  crawled
______________________   nearly the whole length of him and stung
necessary expense  to  the insurance com-
panies,  at  best;  but when  it  is  borne in ! him on the  back,  but he was on hand the 
mind  that  the  policies  of  cc-insurers I wag about  equal to a hornet’s sting.” 
It 
frequently became  invalidated,  and  that I js probably true that different people are 
themselves  sometimes j affected  differently by the  bites or stings
the  co-insurers 
failed  to  contribute,  it will  be seen  that  of  these “varmints,” just as some people 
, 
I are seriously  injured  by poison  oak  and
the system  was not  altogether free  from  otj,ers  are not  susceptible to its peculiar
j virus.  Cases are on record where people
hardships and  injustice. 
In most  of  the policies  now  issued  in | have been  physical wrecks  from injuries 
this  country, specific  provisions  similar i inflicted  by  centipedes,  tarantulas  and 
T.  „  stingrays,  but  it  does  not  follow  that
A 
to  the  one  quoted  are  inserted.  They | everybody who is struck  by one of  these 
vary  considerably,  but  usually  require  creatures is doomed to such a fate. 
It is 
that any other  insurance must  be  stated j just  as  well, however,  not  to  make  the 
by the  insured and  endorsed on  the pol-  experiment.  When one is bitten there is 
. 
I hardly  anything  better  than  a little  sal
icy,  and  that in case  of  other  insurance  goda appiied directly to the wound.  The 
each  company shall  pay  only  a  ratable  virus  of  all  poisonous  reptiles  and  in­
proportion of  the  loss.  This does  away j sects  seems to be of  an acid  nature  and 
with  the  old  contribution  system  and j  the soda  neutralizes it if the  application 
is  made before  the  poison  gets into  the
gives each  insurer the  right to limit  the  jjlood
recovery of  the assured  against  itself  to j 
ratable  proportion of  the  wholeI  There  were  in  1865  about  9.500,000
its 
the
amount  insured. 
River and the Rocky Mountains,
in a Wisconsin case that, where there are j Almost  all  are  now  gone—killed  for 
several insurances on  the same property, i their meat,  their skins  and  their  bones.

. . .  buffaloes  on  the  plains  between 

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

The Public !

B y  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.

Anv Jobber will be Glad to Fill Your Orders.

Agents  Wanted 1

We can give  you  exclusive territorv  on  a  large  line  of  Bicycles.  Send for  catalogue.  Our  line 
Includes the:
COLUMBIA 
VICTOR 
RUDGE 

CLIPPER
PARAGON
1R° QU° IS

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TELEPHONE 
OVERLAND 
LOVELL DIA- 
MOND 
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Also others too numerous to mention.  Wholesale and retail dealers in Bicycles, Cyclists' Sundries, 
Rubber and Sporting Goods, Mill and Fire Department Supplies.

Western Wheel Works

and all the

GENDRONS

Line.

4 Monroe St. 

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

STUDLEY  &  BARCLAY,
B I C Y C L E S !

We Control  Territory  on the  Finest and  Largest  Line of Cheap, Medium  and 

High Grade  Machines in the State

WRITE  US  FOR 
TERMS  AND  DIS­

COUNTS  TO 

AGENTS.

WE  WANT 

AGENTS IN EVERY 

LIVE  TOWN.

PERKINS  &  RICHMOND,

13 Fountain St., Grand Rapids,  Mich.

THE  MICHIGAN  TBADESM AX

an  arch.  By  pinning  the  material  to 
hoop and gathering  the  folds  at  base  it 
will resemble a fan.
‘A  world  of  dress  goods”  may  be 
formed  in  this  manner:  Secure  to  the 
center of the floor  an  upright  according 
to the height  desired.  Nail  a  circle  to 
the top  and  bottom  about  the  size  you 
would judge the shoulder  of  the  frame­
work  will  come  to  and  fasten  to  up­
right.  Another large circle is necessary, 
which will have to be made  at  a  lumber 
mill,  and  secure  to  center  of  upright. 
Take thin  strips  which  are  pliable  and 
nail to top and bottom  over  the  circles, 
which  will  produce  the  desired  effect. 
The framework is now  ready  to  be  dis­
played with a variety  of  dress  patterns. 
A card should read:

We  Have  a  World’s  Supply

SPRING  DRESS  PATTERNS

AT

FAIR  PRICES.

floor  and 

For  a  spring  opening,  a  window  of 
dress fabrics displayed on the cornucopia 
order,  arranged  in  some  special  design, 
will  make  an  elaborate  display.  The 
forms  may  be  constructed  in  various 
sizes.  Take the center  of  window  and 
build a platform from three  to  five  feet 
square and  about  four  feet  in  height. 
Drape the front and sides of  platform  in 
this manner:  Nail on  half-barrel  hoops 
and from each hoop pin on a pattern and 
gather 
folds  at 
tie 
the 
with ribbon. 
In the  center  of  platform 
nail an upright according to the height of 
window and secure  to  the  top  a  large 
hoop.  This will  enable  you  to  display 
several patterns by pinning around  hoop 
and gathering ail folds at base.  Fill  the 
top  with  plants  and  flowers.  At  each 
corner of platform nail  an  upright  with 
hoop and  form  the  goblet  design.  Fill 
goblets  with  flowers.  The  spaces  be­
tween  patterns arranged  around  base  of 
platform fill in  with  fans. 
If  there  is 
any space open  in  the  background  and 
room will  permit,  fill in  with patterns on 
each side  similar  as  described  around 
base of platform, otherwise merely drape 
in plain folds.  The floor of  the  window 
fill in with a mirror on each side of  plat­
form,  to  represent  a  lake within  a  few 
inches  of  window  pane,  and  bank  up 
with  Nile  green  material.  On  each 
mirror place  a  swan,  as  described  for 
Easter;  water-lilies  may  be  introduced. 
The floor arrangement may  be  shown  if 
the dresser  desires,  or  according  to  the 
size of the window.
A solid window of laces  and  embroid­
eries  may  be  show n 
in  this  m anner: 
Arrange a number of steps built up from 
boxes  and  planks.  Display  your  laces 
wound around  cardboard  formed  in  the 
shape of cones,  pinning on  blue  cambric 
as a foundation.  On the top of each cone 
display a fan.  The  spaces  between  fill 
up with embroideries. 
In the  center  of 
window  place  a  column  and  arrange 
laces  in  a  spiral  manner.  From  the 
top of  column  pin  on  laces,  festooned 
around  the  entire  window  to  form  a 
canopy.  The  floor  fill 
in  with  em­
broideries.

IDEAS  FOR  DISPLAYING  SHOES.

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502

483

510

INGS.

TO  EXCHANGE.

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

Jones. M. D. Muskegon,  Mich. 

drug stock — New and clean.  Address  F. A 

box 963. Rockford, Mich.
son with  SI 100  cash.

m o   EXCHANGE-PORTABLE  STEAM  SAW- 
JL  mill  in a good  hardwood  country, for  mer­
chandise  or  improved  real  estate.  Address  P. 
Medalie, Mancelona, Mich.___________ 508

WANTED — POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
■ ANTED —  POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
■ ANTED—POSITION BY  YOUNG  MAN  IN 

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
'pharmacist  of  eleven  years’  experience. 
Address No. 487. care Michigan Tradesman.  487
dry goods, men’s  furnishing goods or gen­
eral  store.  Six  years’  experience.  Good refer­
ences.  Address  No. 5j2, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

F or  sa le  ok  e x c h a n g e —fo r  c ity
F o r  sa le  c h ea p  —  w ell  se le c t ed

13
crushing the  paper  in  the  hand.  Gold 
JplOR  SALB-OUR  ENTIRE  STOCK  OF  GEN
eral  merchandise  at  Chippewa  Lake,  con 
paint, touched up here and there, will add 
sisting of hats, caps, boots ana  shoes, men's fur 
to the make-up.
nishing goods, hardware, crockery and groceries. 
A  pretty  display,  “The  Incoming  of 
Having finished our lumber operations, we offer 
the  above  stock for sale  cheap  for  cash  or  on 
Spring,”  may  be  arranged  thus:  Take
, time with good  security.  Will sell  this stock  as
, 
cheese cloth or paper of a  Nile  green  or | a whole or  any branch of  it.  Enquire of  Chip- 
delicate  violet  tint  and  cover  the  side ! pewa  Lumber  Co.. Chippewa  Lake, Mich., or of
H. P. Wyman, Sec’y. Grand  Rapids. Mich.  449
wall and background with the  same  ma­
I  TOR  SALE—NEW,  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  DRY 
terial.  Fill in the  floor  with  the  same 
goods.  Established trade;  good town.  Lock
material or bank  up sod  and  arrange  a 
SPLENDID BUSIN ES 
spring from rocks.  Display  stands  and 
CHANCE FOR A PER- 
shoes may be distributed throughout  the 
Can  step  into an  old 
established  cash  retail  and  paying  bakery. 
window.  Another  way  is  to  place  a 
Don’t  fail  to  investigate  this.  For particulars 
large mirror on the floor and bank up the 
address No. 471, care Michigan Tradesman.  471
sides.  Place a shoe on the glass  with  a 
figure doll seated in the shoe  top  drawn 
property, a general  stock of  merchandise at 
a  bargain.  Situated  fifteen  miles  from  Grand 
by miniature toy swans.  Plants, flowers, I 
Rapids.  Address No  510, care Michigan Trades­
etc.,  may be arranged as desired.  A dis­
man. 
play card to read:  “The spring has come, j 
so  look  at  our  shoes 
that  have  just 
sprung.”
Varied colored  cheese  cloth  or  tissue 
paper may be used  throughout  the  sea­
son,  according to  the  fancy  colors  that 
will be  worn.  This  will  make  a  very 
handsome  and  tempting  attraction  for 
the general public.
IDEAS  FOR  DISPLAYING  MEN’S  FURNISH­
The  most  effective  window  displays 
for furnishings is to arrange a unit, com­
posed of as many articles as the  taste  of 
the dresser  may  dictate,  and  to  repeat 
this unit to fill one or more  bars,  or  the 
entire window.
In dressing a window for  the  purpose 
of getting as much show as possible with 
a few  goods,  I  would  suggest  that  an 
appropriate  ceiling  and  background  of 
one  certain  shade  be  arranged  from 
cheese  cloth. 
This  may  be  done  by 
tacking the  material  around  the  entire 
edge  of  window  pane  and  brought  to 
back  of  window. 
Floral  decorations 
consisting  of  trailing  vines,  pots  of 
tropical plants and hanging baskets  may 
be made especially  attractive distributed 
throughout the window.  Make up price- 
tickets same color as scarfs.
The  arrangement  of a  spring  display 
may  be  made  up  as  follows:  Form  a 
ceiling  effect  and  background  with  a 
violet or Nile green cheese cloth.  (Where 
there are no display fixtures form  arches 
of  high  strips  of lumber,  starting near 
the window pane  and  gradually  incline 
toward the back.)  Cover the  floor  with 
same material and  introduce  Spring  by 
a doll figure seated in a chariot drawn by 
scarfs made up as butterflies.  This is as 
follows:  Take a small wooden  box  and 
tack on pasteboard  curved  in  shape  to 
the front part; then cover over entire box 
with gold paper, edging it  with  flowers. 
The wheels  are  made  of  barrel  hoop:», 
covered  over  with  silk  handkerchiefs. 
At some distance from the chariot secure 
a number of scarfs at  intervals  apart  to 
the floor of the window by inserting stout 
wire into the skirts.  On each side of the 
body attach a small wing made  of  tissue 
paper or pasteboard cut to shape,  which 
may be outlined with gold paint. 
Insert 
two gilt scarf pins into  the head to  rep­
resent the eyes,  and around the  neck  of 
each scarf attach ribbons which represent 
the rains  held  by  figure  seated  in  the 
chariot. 
Floral  decorations  may  be 
introduced througouht the window.
FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

F c
Jno. C. Dunton, Widdicomb  Building. 
F OR  SALE —GOOD  DIVIDEND-PAYING 
S'  TOCK  OF  GOODS  WANTED —WILL  EX- 
change a first-class  farm within  six miles of 
Grand Rapids, for a stock of merchandise.  Dif­
ference in cash.  Not  particular about  location. 
Address Box 275, Grand Rapids. Mich. 
497__
■ 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.
TjlOR  SALE-BEST  RESIDENCE  LOT  IN 
Jj  Grand Rapids, 70x175 feet, beautifully shad­
ed with  native  oaks, situated in good residence 
locality,  only 200  feet  from  electric  street  car 
line.  Will sell  for *2 500 cash, or part cash, pay­
354
ments to suit.  E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 
JIO R   SALE—11-ROOM  HOUSE  IN  GOOD  LO
cation, within ten  minutes walk of  Monroe 
Price, 13,200.  W. A. Stowe. 100 Louis St.  470
St.
320 ACRES OF LAND IN HAYES 
■piOR SALE-
county, Neb.  Will sell  cheap  or  trade  for 
a stock of merchandise.  A. W. Prindle, Owosso,
M i c h . _____________________ ^80
•ÿÿ-ANTED
_____   TRAVELING  SALESMEN  TO
sell  baking  powder  to  the retail  grocery 
trade.  Men  acquainted with  different sections 
of country.  A good  side  line;  also good oppor­
tunity  for  clerks or any live  men who  want  to 
get  on  the  road ;  experience  not  absolutely 
necessary;  we mean business.  To the right man, 
a liberal  contract will  be  made  and  steady em­
ployment given:  we pay not less than *75 month 
salary and expenses, or 20 per  cent, commission. 
Address,  with  stamp, U. S. Chemical  Works, 842 
THREE  NEARLY  NEW  LAMB 
■DIOR  SALE-
knitting  machines.  Also one  round Tuttle 
knitter.  Frank McDerby, Nashville. Mich. Ml505
■  OOD  W A NTE D—CORRESPONDENCE 
solicited  with  parties  having  any  No.  1 
stovewood.  Cash and highest market price paid. 
M.  E.  Lapham,  431  East  Bridge  street,  Grand 
503
Rapids, Mich. 
'Y^Tanted-
_____ A  DRUGGIST  TO  GO  TO  DEL
ton, Barry county, Mich., and  start a drug 
store  Living  rooms above.  Immediate posses­
sion  given.  Address  Henry  Arbour, Stanwood, 
Mich. 

stocks in  banking, manufacturing  and mer 
can tile  companies.  E. A. Stowe,  100  Louis  St., 
Grand Rapids.______________________ 370

RENT—NICE  LARGE  LIGHT  STOKE 
brick  block  near  Fifth  avenue  at  $25. 

an Buren St., Chicago, 111.___________ 506

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MISCELLANEOUS.

809

491

WINDOW  DRESSING.

knowledged Expert.

Comprehensive  Suggestions  by an Ac­
Henry Harman in Printers’ Ink.
Window  dressing,  as  a  method  of  at­
tracting  custom,  is  now  recognized  as 
In no 
being of  the highest  importance. 
department of  store  building  or  remod­
eling  do  we  see a more  marked  ebange 
for the better than in the present highly- 
improved  methods of  constructing show 
windows.  The  store of  1893  has  more 
than a plate-glass window, it has a plate- 
glass  front.  Formerly  only  dry  goods 
houses made a study of window dressing, 
but  now  the  practice  extends  through 
all branches of trade. 
It is beyond ques­
tion  that  there  are few things so  attrac­
tive  as  a  beautifully  and  artistically 
dressed  show  window. 
It  is,  perhaps 
the cheapest advertisement  that  dealers 
may  indulge  in. 
Its  real  aims  are  to 
show the  people  what  you  keep  to  sell» 
and  the  prices  at  which  you  sell. 
Around these all the various  details  cen­
ter.  Bear in mind that the principal  ob­
ject  of  the  most  successful  window 
dressers, like that of the best advertisers, 
is to do something that will cause people 
to talk.  Excite the  curiosity,  the  cupid­
ity,  the talk  of  the  people  and  the  ad­
miration and  the  patronage  will  surely 
come,  as  it  has  numberless  times.  To 
keep abreast of the times  it  is  necessary 
for your  windows  to  have  your  utmost 
attention  by  a  constant  change  of  dis­
plays similar to a moving panorama.

IDEAS FOK DISPLAYING DRY  GOODS.
The  principal  object  to  attain 

is  to 
dress your windows so they  will  attract. 
The key to success is a fund of  resource. 
To have only one way of placing  a  piece 
of calico,  puffing a  silk,  or  opening 
ribbon,  one particular  spot  in  which  to 
place a particular piece  of  dress  fabric, 
is but a poor effort  to  a  great  end.  By 
repetition  of  the  same  argument  day 
after day and year after year, the general 
public  lose  a  chief  point  of  interest. 
There must be a  constant  succession  of 
novelty, even  while  continuously  work­
ing  from  the  same  class  of  goods. 
In 
this  line  I  will  offer  a  variety  of  dis­
plays.

FOB A DRESS  GOODS DISPLAY'.

and 

three 

A ribbon effect may be formed to cover 
the entire ceiling and background in this 
manner:  Hang two curtain poles within 
a  few  inches  of  window  pane,  each 
pole being hung from the other  at  about 
a distance of three feet,  or  according  to 
height  of  window.  Another  curtain 
pole is hung across the back  of  window 
to correspond with the  lower  pole  hung 
in front.  Start by pinning  the  ends  of 
ribbons to top pole,  bringing them under 
the lower one,  back  over  the  pole  sus­
pended at back  of window,  allowing  the 
ribbons to drape.  Dress fabrics or goods 
of like character may be formed in  corn­
ucopia shape,  placed in an  upright  posi­
tion about three or  four  feet  back  from 
the  window  pane 
feet 
apart, in two  rows,  one  row  behind  the 
other, three in the  first  and  four  in  the 
second,  having the forms of the first  row 
standing in  front  of  the  spaces  of  the 
second row. 
If  the  window  is  a  small 
one have but a single  row,  and  that  of 
but two forms, filling the spaces between 
with fancy fans or other suitable articles. 
The forms are made  by  taking  uprights 
the  desired  height  braced 
to  heavy 
lumber and  barrel  hoops  secured to the 
top.  The  goods  is  then 
taken  and 
pinned in pleated folds around the hoops 
and gathered at the base.  Trimmings or 
laces are festooned  over  the  goods  with 
buttons  and  gloves  to  match.  Glove 
forms may  be  secured  inside  of  hoops, 
holding a parasol or spray of flowers.
Another very  pretty  design  is  to  ar­
range  one  or  two  rows  formed  in  half 
circles,  with the  patterns  shown  in  the 
shape  of  goblets.  The  same  form  is 
used,  and in place of gathering the  folds 
at the base gather  them  about  half  way 
and tie to upright, allowing  the  folds  to 
drape  gracefully,  then  draw  tightly  to 
base.  Place a bunch of flowers from  the 
top of each goblet.  If sateens or challies 
are displayed, drape over a few  yards of 
laces lengthwise.
Another way is to  take  off  the  hoops 
and nail a  crosspiece  on  top  of  upright 
and bend  a  half  hoop,  which  will  form

In dressing  shoe  windows  I  think  it 
best to make  it  a  point  to  exhibit  the 
greatest number of styles  without  over­
crowding the windows,  and to have some 
particular color,  so to speak,  for  the  en­
tire  display.  Too  many  colors  attract 
attention to the dressing of  the  window 
and detract  from  the  display  of  shoes.
I also say that the mere changing position 
of shoes is not sufficient,  but  each  time 
you dress a window change  it  in  such a 
manner that  the  people  will  notice  it. 
Paper flowers, vines  and tropical  plants 
set the shoes off to  excellent  advantage.
It is impossible to show shoes to advan­
tage unless there is a background,  which 
is now  generally  used  in  the  shape  of 
mirrors and plushes; but this is not  nec­
essary,  as cheese cloth may  be  procured 
and draped into  any  number  of  effects. 
Tissue paper may  also  be  used  for  the 
same purpose by making a framework of 
light strips,  the entire length of  window 
covered  over with cloth and  paper  pin­
ned  on  irregular  so  as  to  form  wavy 
effects.  Crushed tissue paper  makes  up 
the best effect.

I  I 

498

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under  this 
head for two cents a word the first insertion and 
one  cent a word for each subsequent insertion. 
No advertisements taken for  less than 25 cents. 
Advance payment.
F or  sale—a  drug  store,  nice  fix

tures,  fresh  and  well  selected  stock,  in 
creasing  trade,  nice  residence  portion  of  the 
city.  Inventory,  $2,500.  Address  No.  498,  care 
Michigan Tradesman
F  drug stock all complete and favorable  lease 
of store—an old  established  business.  Enquire 
of  Eaton,  Lyon  &  Co., or  Stuart  &  Knappen, 
rooms 15,16 and 17, New Houseman Block, Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 
F or  sa l e-
GROCERY  STOCK  AND  FEX 
- 
tures in corner  store in desirable portion  of 
t
city, having lucrative trade.  Best of reasons for 
seUing.  Address No. 504, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
jq'EW ,  CHOICE STOCK  OF  DRUGS  AND 
groceries.  $3,000,  and  new  store  $1,500,  at 
Okemos.  Profits about $1,500 per year.  Will sell 
or  exchange  in  part  for  a  desirable  home  In 
Grand  Rapids.  Address  No. 507, care Michigan
Tradesman.

■ OR SALE—A FINE STOCK OF GROCERIES 

and  crockery  In  good  shape  and  doing  s 
good business.  Can give  good  reasons for sell

________

463

504

This is  done  by  merely | Dig.  Box 87, Allegan, Mich. 

489

BED  OAK,  WHITE  OAK,

BLACK  ASH,

ROCK  ELM,  GREY  ELM,

BASSWOOD.

A.  E.  W O R D E N ,

19  Wonderl.v  Building,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

TEDE  MICIUG^JSr  TRADESMAN.

1 4
Drugs  Medicines»

State Board of Pharmacy.

One  Tear—Jacob  Jeseon, Muskegon.
Two  Tears—James Vernor, Detroit.
Three  Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor 
Four Years—George Gnndrum, Ionia.
Five Years—C. A. Bugbee. Cheboygan.
President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Marquette,  Aug. 31;  Lansing,  November 1.

Meetings  for  1S92 — Star  Island  (Detroit),  July  6; 

Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Ass’n. 
President— H. G. Coleman. Kalamazoo. 
Vice-Presidents—S.  E.  Parkill,  Owosso;  L. Pauley, St.
Ignace:  A. S. Parker, Detroit.
Secretary—Mr. Parsons, Detroit.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—r. J. W urzburg,  Grand Rapids; 
Frank  Inglis  and  G.  W.  Stringer,  Detroit;  C.  E. 
Webb, Jackson. 
_ 
Next place  of  meeting—Grand  Rapids, Aug. 2, S and 4. 
Local Secretary—John  D. Muir. 
________ ________
Grand  Rapids Pharmaceutical Society, 
President. W. R. Jewett, Secretary,  Frank H. Bscott, 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March 

June, September and December.
G ran d  Rapids Drue Clerks’ Association, 
resident, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith.

^

Muskegon  Drug Clerks’  Association. 

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

How  to  Test  Drinking  W ater  for  Im­

purities.

Frederick  J. Wulling , Ph.  G., in  Pharmaceutical Rec
ord.
Sometimes the pharmacist is called up­
on, especially if  his sign  reads “chemist 
and  druggist,”  to  ascertain  whether  a 
sample of  water  is  fit  for  drinking  and 
domestic  purposes or  unfit for  that  end. 
It  isn’t a very  difficult  matter  to  apply 
a few tests  for  the simple  determination 
of  the fitness or otherwise of a sample in 
question.  A  complete  examination  of 
the  character of  a sample of  water  is  a 
very difficult problem  and should  be  re­
ferred  to  a  skilled  chemist.  The  sub­
stances  to  be  looked  for  primarily  are 
organic  matter,  albuminoid  matter,  am­
monia, nitrates and nitrites.
The  nitrogen  compounds  are  usually 
more abundant if  auimal matter  is  pres­
ent;  they of  all other abnormal constitu­
ents render water  the most unwholesome. 
Their presence  and  of  ammonia and  of 
albuminoid  substances,  does  not  neces­
sarily  render  water  unfit  for  domestic 
purposes,  but  water  containing them  or 
either one  usually becomes the  breeding 
place of  the  contagious  disease germs  if 
they are around.
1.  For  organic  matter, put  a  little  of 
the sample  into  the  beaker,  add  two  or 
three  drops of  dilute sulphuric  acid and 
color  distinctly  with  a  solution  of  per­
manganate of potassium.  If much organic 
matter  is  present, the  color  of  the  per­
manganate  becomes  discharged  almost 
immediately;  if  less  or  very  little,  it 
takes  longer to decolorize. 
If  the  color 
has  not  changed  in  twenty-five or thirty 
minutes it is  safe to assume  that orgauic 
matter  was not  present.  This  is  a  tol­
erably reliable test.
2.  For  nitrites, a  little  sulphuric  acid 
added to the  water  forms nitrous  acid if 
nitrites  are  present,  which  is  easily  de­
tected  by its  power of  liberating  iodine 
from iodide of potassium.  A little starch 
paste  is  mixed  with a small  quantity of 
a  solution of  potassium  iodide,  and  the 
mixture  added  to  the  suspected  water 
coutaiuiug the sulphuric acid.  If nitrites 
were present the nitrous acid formed lib­
erates the  iodine from  the iodide,  which 
turns  blue  with  starch.  This  indirect 
method  is  a  ready  means for  detecting 
the nitrites if  present  in not  too  small a 
quantity.
3.  Nitrates  are detected  by converting 
into nitric acid, which turns morphia red. 
A portion of  the  water  is  evaporated to 
dryness, the residue  treated  with a drop 
of  stroug sulphuric  acid  (which  makes 
nitric  acid of  the nitrate)  and  a  portion 
of  the morphiue  added. 
If  nitrate  was 
present the morphine gives red color.
4.  For  ammonia,  Nessler’s  reagent  is 
by far the  best test. 
It  may be made by 
dissolving  18  grains of  iodide of  potas­
sium in a little  water, adding solution of 
mercuric chloride  until the red  iodide of 
mercury  first  formed  redissolves  upon 
agitation.  To this is added a solution of 
50  grains  caustic  potassa  and  distilled 
water to make 8 ozs.
This  reagent  will  detect  0.00375 of  a 
grain  in a pint of  water  by giving a yel­
low  color.  A  reddish  color or  precipi­
tate forms with  larger  quantities of  am­
monia.
5.  Albuminoid  matter  requires a more

elaborate proceeding for its detection. 
If 
all  the  above  were  found  it  is  hardly 
necessary to go to the  trouble of  looking 
for albuminoids;  the water would  be un­
wholesome even if they were not present. 
If it is desired to test for them, neverthe­
less,  Chapman  and  Wankly’s  test is the 
simplest  to  employ. 
If  the  water was 
found  to  contain  ammonia,  the  latter 
must  first  be removed, as must  also any 
urea that may be present.

The  Coal  Combination.

laws, 

there 

The increase already made in the price 
of  anthracite  coal  by  the  great  com­
bination of railroads  and  mine  owners, 
with  the  probability  of  a  further  in­
crease,  is  stirring  up  inquiry  and  dis­
cussion as to what  can  be  done  by  the 
people in their own  behalf.  The  profits 
of  the  coal  operators, 
is  good 
reason for believing,  was  disproportion­
ately large before the advance,  and  this 
advance will,  if it goes  no  further,  put 
millions of  dollars  into  the  pockets  of 
those who are cornering the business,  at 
the  expense  of  the  people. 
It  is  the 
opinion of some that the  combination  is 
illegal,  but we do not believe  it  will  be 
so declared.  This  may  be  bad  for  the 
people and bad for the law,  but it is very 
doubtful  if,  under  existing 
the 
combination can be  prevented  from  in­
creasing  the  price  of  coal  at  its  will. 
There is, of course,  a limit beyond which 
it will not be profitable for  the  coal  op­
erators to go,  and that is about where the 
combination will stop. 
In the meantime, 
the people,  by  a  slow  process,  may get 
stirred up to a point  of  demanding  that 
laws be enacted by the operation of which 
they  may  obtain  some  of  their  natural 
rights. 
It is to be hoped  that  this  may 
be the case.
The fact that antracite coal  cauuot  be 
satisfactorily contracted for in the  East­
ern  part  of  the  country  has  led  some 
manufacturers who use a  large  quantity 
to look to the substitution of  bituminous 
coal—we believe in some instances to con­
tract for it  But, should this become any­
thing like common, the combination  will 
undoubtedly  find  ways  of  controlling 
that trade as well as the trade in  anthra­
cite.
Beware  of Ointments  for  Catarrh  that 
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell 
and completely derange  the whole  system when 
entering it through the mucous surfaces.  Such 
articles  should  never  be  used  except  on  pre 
scriptlons  from  reputable  physicians,  as  the 
damage they will do  Is  ten  fold to the good you 
can  possbly derive  from  them  Hall’s  Catarrh 
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.

Contain  Mercury,

J®*Sold by Druggists, price 75c per  bottle.

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HEALTHY.

BEVERAGE  KNOWN.

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KINDGE,  KALMBACH  &  CO,

12,  14,  16  PEARL  ST.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

1 X 7 E  would call  the  atten- 
"   ’ 
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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 

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|

ACIDTJM.

8®  10
Acetlcum................... 
Benzolcum  German..  GO®  65
Boraclc 
....................  
20
Carbollcum................  22©  30
Citricum...................  55®  60
Hvdrochlor...............  
3®  5
Nitrocum 
.................   10®  12
Oxalicum...................  10®  12
Phosphorium dll........ 
20
Salley licnm .....................1  30@1 70
Sulphurlcum..............  1X@  5
Tannlcum........................1  40®1 60
Tartaricum.................  33®  35

AMMONIA.

“ 

Aqua, 16  deg..............  3)4®  5
20  deg..............  5 Vi®  7
Carbonas  ...................  12®  14
Chlorldum.................  12®  14

ANILINE.

Black...............................2 00®2 25
Brown........................   80®1  00
Bed.............................   45®  50
Yellow............................ 2 50@3 00

BACCAK.

Cubeae (po  75)........  75®  80
Juniperus...................  J@  10
Xantnoxylum.............  25®  30

BALSAMUM.

Copaiba......................  45®  ^
Terabin, C anada......   35®  40
Tolotan......................  35®  50

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Cassiae  ...............................
Cinchona Flava  .................  1»
Kuonymus  atropurp...........
Myrica  Cerifera, po.............  ao
PrunuB Virgin!....................
Qulllala,  grd.......................   J‘
Sassafras  ............ 
 
Jr
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)........ 
io

 

24®  25 
33®  35 
11®   12 
13®  14 
14®  15 
16®  17

KXTUACTUM.
Glycyrrhixa  Glabra...
p o ..........
“ 
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
“ 
Is...............
Vis..............
“ 
“  Vi*............
FERRUM.
®  15 
Carbonate Precip........
@3 50 
Citrate and Qulnla....
®  80
Citrate  Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol....  w
Solut  Chloride..........   @  1“
Sulphate,  com’l ..........IVi®  *
pure............   @  7

7* 

Arnica.......................
AnthemlB...................  8r@  35
......  
*
Matricaria 

flo ra.

FOLIA.

..... 

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

60
nivelly....................  ¿5®  «
»  Alx.  35®  80

»  1 

Salvia  officinalis,  )4s
UraUrsI.....................  

and  Vis....................  ^

8®  10

euHMi.
“ 
“ 

o -

- 70® 

®  75
Acacia, 1st  picked.... 
....  @  50
2d 
<* 
®  40
«  3d 
.... 
@  25
sifted sorts... 
“ 
11  p o ......  ..... 
60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  @  12
Socotrl, (po. 60).  ®  50
Catechu, Is, (Vi*, 14 Ms,
16)............................  ®  L
Ammonlae........---•••  56®  5“
Assafcetlda, (po. 35)..  30®  35
Bensolnum.................  ¿0®  j»
Camphor»..................   50®  53
Euphorblum  po  ........  35®  10
Gafbannm...................
Gamboge,  p
Gnalacnm, (po  30)  ...  @  "
Kino,  (po.  80)............   @  <®
M astic.......................   @  5"
Myrrh, (po  45)...........  @  40
Opll,  (po  2  70)...........1 65@1  TO
Shellac  . 
.................   25®  ®
bleached........  30®  35
Tragacanth................  30®  75

“ 
hebba—In ounce packages,
Abslnthlnm.........................  j®
Eupatorlum.........................
Lobelia.................................  ®
Majorum.............................
Mentha  Piperita.................   £
»  V ir.........................  28
Rue.............- ......................   §2
Tanacetnm, V ......................  £
Thymus, V..........................   25
Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. & M....  20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36 

MASKBSIA.

OLEUM.

Absinthium.................... 3 50®4 00
Amygdalae, Dnlc........  45®  75
Amyualae, Amarae— 8 00®8 25
A n isi............................... 1  65@1 75
Aurantl  Cortex..........3 00@3 25
Bergamil  ...................3 75®4 00
Cajlputl....................  80®  65
Caryophy ill...............   70®  75
Cedar  .........................  35®  65
Chenopodll...............   ®1  60
Clnnamonil.....................1 20@1 25
Cltroneila...................  @  45
Conlum  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba  .....................1  10®1  20

Cubebae........................  ® 
Bxechthitos..............  2 50®2 75
Brigeron.....................2 25@2 50
Gaultheria..................2 00®2 10
Geranium,  ounce......  ®  75
Gossipli,  Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................1  60@1  70
Junlporl.......................   50®2 00
Lavendula..................   oo®2 oo
Llmonls.......................2 75@3 25
Mentha Piper...............2 75®3 50
Mentha Verld............. 2 20®2 30
Morrhuae, gal..............1  00@l 10
Myrcla, ounce...............   @ 50
Olive....... ....................  80®? 75
Plcis Liquida, (gal. 35)  10®  12
Ricini..........................   9G@1 10
Rosmarini................. 
Rosae, ounce..............  ®6 50
SuecinI.........................  40® 45
Sabina......................  
  90@1 00
Santal  ....................... 3 50®7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ouuce__  ®  65
Tiglil....................  ...  @  90
Thyme.......................  40®  50
opt  ...............   ®  60
Theobromas...............  15®  20

' 

75®i 00

POTASSIUM.

BiCarb.......................  15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide.................... 
24®  26
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate  (po  18)........  16®  18
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..........................2 S0@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  26®  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @ 15
Potass Nitras, opt...... 
8®  10
Potass Nitras..............  7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

RADIX.

“ 

Aconitum...........  —   20®  25
Althae.........................  25®  30
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana, (po. 15)......   10®  12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 40)...................  @  35
Hellebore,  Ala,  po—   15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po...................2 30®2 40
Iris plox (po. 35@38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   35®  38
Maranta,  Ms.... .........  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei...........................   75@1  00
“  cut.....................   @1  75
“  pv.  ....................   75@1  35
Splgeila.....................   35®  38
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..  ®  20
Serpentaria.................  35®  40
Senega.......................  45®  50
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  ®  40 
M  @  20
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Syuiplocarpus,  Fceti-
dus,  po............ .......  @ 35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
ingiber a ..................   12®  15
Zingiber  j .............. 
18®  22
SEMES.
Anlsom,  (po. 20).. 
. ■  @ 15
Aplum  (gTaveleons)..  33®  35
Bud, Is...................... 
4®  6
Carni, (po. 18)............   8®  12
Cardamon....................1  00@1 25
Corlandrom...............   10®  12
Cannabis Satlva.........   3Vi@4
Cy doni um..................   75@1 00
Cnenopodlum  ...........  10®  12
Diptenx Odorate.........2 25@2 35
Foenlculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po......   .  6®  8
L ini............................4  @ 4Vi
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 3Vi) 
4  @ 4M
Lobelia.......................  36®  40
PharlarlB Canarian—   4  @ 4M
Rapa..........................  8®  7
Àlbu............   8®  9
Slnapls
Nigra...........  11®  12

“ 

“ 
** 

SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W..D.  Co. .2  00®2 50
D. fr. R ....... 1 75®2 00
1  10@1 50
 
JnnlperlB  Co. O. T — 1  75@1 75
** 
........1   75@3 50
Saacbarum  N.  B.........1  75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............1 75@6 50
Vini Oporto................ 1 25@2 00
Vini  Alba................... 1  25©2 00

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 25@2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ................. 
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage......... ..—  
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage .......................  
J®
75
Hard for  slate  use—  
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use.......................... 
1  40

SYRUPS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferrl Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................  50
Rhei  Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
SclUae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolntan...............................  60
P ra n a s  vlrg.............................  ®0

“ 

» 

5 50

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

** 

TINCTURES.
Aconltum  Napellls K. 
F.
Aloes..........................
and  myrrh........
Arnica.......................
Asafcetlda....   ...........
Atrope Belladouua....
Benzoin.....................
“  Co.................
Sangulnarla  ..............
Barosma....................
Cantliarldes...............
Capsicum..................
Ca damon..................
Co...............
Castor........................
Catechu....................
Cinchona  ..................
Co...............
Columba....................
Conlum.....................
Cubeba......  ..............
Digitalis  . 
...............
Ergot..........................
Gentian.....................
“  Co..................
Gualca.......................
ammon...........
“ 
Zingiber....................
Hyoscyamus..............
Iodine.......................
“  Colorless.........
Ferrl  Chlorldum........
Kino..........................
Lobelia.......................
M yrrta.........................
Nux  Vomica..............
“  Camphorated..
“  Deodor...........
Aurantl Cortex......
Quassia.................
Rhatany  ...............
Rhei.......................
Cassia  Acutifol —  
Co.
Serpentaria..........
Stramonium...........
Tolutan.................
Valerian...............
Veratrum Verlde...

“ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

@ 22

‘ 
“ 

ASther, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  26®  28 
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alnmen..................... 2)4® 3

Ti 
ground,  (po.

“  et Potass T. 

7).............................  3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
4®  5
Antlmonl, po.............. 
55®  60
Antlpyrin..................   @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
Cantharldes  Russian,
po............................  @1  20
Capsid  Fructus, af... 
“  po....  @  25
“  B po. 
@  20
Caryophyllus, (po.  14)  10®  12
Carmine, No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, 8. & F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  22
Centrarla....................  @  10
Cetaceum...................  ®  40
Chloroform...............   60®  63
squibbs..  @1  26
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  20®1  40
Chondrus...................  20®  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  A  W  160  20
German 3  @  12 
Corks,  list,  dig.  per
80
cent  ...................... 
Creasotum...............   @  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  @  2
“  prep..................  
5®  5
“  precip.............. 
9®  H
“  Rubra...............   @  8
Crocus.................. 
33®  35
Cudbear......................  @  24
Cuprl Sulph...............   5 ®   6
Dextrine......................... 10® 12
Ether Sulph...............   68®  70
Bmery,  all  numbers..  @
po..................   @  6
Ergota. ipo.)  65 .........   60®  65
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................  @  23
Gambler......................7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper...............   @ 70
.  “ 
Glassware  flint,  75 and 2M. 
by box 70
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White...............   13®  25
Glycerlna...................15M®  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  ®  22
Humulns....................  25®  56
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  85
“  Cor....  @  75
Ox Rubrum  @  90
Ammonlatl..  @100 
Unguentum.  45®  66
Hydrargyrum............   @  65
.1  25®1  50
ijnthyoDolla, Am.. 
Indigo........................   75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 75®3 85
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin......................  45®  50
Lycopodium..............  50®  55
M ads.........................  75®  80
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
@  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1M)..........................  
Mannla,  8. F ..............  30®33

French.........  40®  60

drarg Iod............ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

a®

“ 

“ 

Ä 

S. N.  Y.  Q. A

Morphia,  8 .P .4 W ...I  SC®S 06
C. CO.......................1 70@1  95
Moschns Canton........  @ 40
Myrlstlca, No. 1.........   65®  70
Nux Vomlca, (po 90)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia.................... 
IS®  20
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls  Llq, N.»C.. M gal
doz  ........................   @2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts......  @1 00
plnts.........   @  85
PU Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @  1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__  @  3
Pix  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opil.. 1  10@1  30 
Pyrethrum.  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., dos......  @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv..........   30®  35
Quasslae....................  S®  10
Quinta, S.  P. & W......  29®  34
S.  German__19  @  30
Rubla  Tlnctorum......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactlspv.  @  28
Saiacin...................... 1  60®1  65
Sanguls  Dracouis......  40®  50
Sapo,  W.....................   12®  14
,r  M.......................  10®  13
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

® 24
Seldlits  Mixture.......
IS
Slnapls.......................
30
opt..................
©
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes....................... @ 36
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes @ 35
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  . 10® 11
Soda  et Potass Tart... 27® 30
1M@ 2
Soda Carb.................
Soda,  Bi Carb............
® 5
Soda,  Ash.................. 3M© 4
® 2
Soda, Sulphas............
50® 55
Spts. Ether C o..........
“  Myrcla  Dom...... @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp.......   @3 00
*'  Vini  Reet.  bbl.
....7 ........................2 81@3 31
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal......  @1  30
Sulphur, Subl............3  @4
7r  Roll..............  2M@  3M
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  2S®  30
Theobromae............ 38  ®  43
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
Zlnci  Sulph...............   7®  3

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   56 
Lard, No.  1...............   45 
Linseed, pure raw  ...  41 

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
50
44

“ 

1 5
47
Llndseed,  boiled  __  44 
Neat's  Foot,  winter
strained...............  
60
60 
SpiritsTurpenUne__  36M  40
lb.
bbl. 
FAINTS. 
Red  Venetian..............IX  3@S
Ochre,yellow  Mars... IX  3@4
“ 
Ber........IX  2®3
Putty,  commercial__3M  3M®3
“  strictly  pure..  2M SX@3 
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican .......................... 
1S®16
Vermilion,  English—  
70®75
Green,  Peninsular.......  70©75
Lead,  red....................  7  @7H
“  w hite................7  @7M
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @96
1  0
White, Paris  American 
Whiting  Parts  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
VARNISHES.

Paints....................1 00@1 20

No. 1 Turp  Coach___1 10®1  30
Extra Turp.....166@1  70
Coach  Body.......... 
.2 75®3 00
No. 1 Turp  Fnrn........1  00@t  10
Eutra Turk Damar 
.1   55®1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70®75
Turp......................... 

Importers  ami  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils ^  Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole Agents for the Celebrate«!

SWISS  VILLA  PREPARED  MINTS.

F i  Line  of  Staple  Druggists’  Srairies.

We are Sole Proprietors of

Weatherly's  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

W e Have In Stock and Offer a Full Line of

WHISKIES,  BRANDIES,

GINS,  WINES,  RUMS.

We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only.
We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantee satisfaction.
All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them.  Send a trial order-

HAZEIM  4 PERKINS DRUB CO,

G R A N D   R A PID S,  MICH.

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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.

COUPON PASS BOOKS.

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

Acme.

AXLE GREASE.

Aurora....................  55 
Diamond.................  50 
Frazer’s ..................   81 
Mica.......................  75 
Paragon 
...............   55 
BAKING  POWDER.

doz  gross
600
5 50
9 00
8 00
600

 

 
 
 

Arctic.

(lfll pieces colored glass)
(101 pieces of crystal glass)
(106 hdl cups and saucers

M lb.  cans, 3 doz................ 
45
“  2 “  .................  85
Vi lb. 
1 lb. 
“  1  “  .................  1 60
Bulk....................................  10
u   lb cans............................  60
T  20
Vi lb  “ 
“ 
1  9> 
2 00
5  B> 
“ 
9 60
Cook’s  Favorite.
100 V4 lb cans....................  12 00
100 )4 lb cans....................  12 00
100 >4 lb cans....................12 00
2 doz 1 lb cans....................  9 60
(tankard pitcher with each can)
per doz 
'fVU. WUXT-«—<i
Dime cans..  90
pfPRICBs
.1  33 
oz 
4- 
1  90 
6-oz 
..2 47 
8-oz 
CBEAM
.3 75 
12-oz 
.1  
16-OZ 
11  40 
2)4-lb 
baking
41b
18 25 
Bowden
21  60 
lb 
5- 
10-lb
41  80
40
Red Star, 
80 
1  50 
45 
85 
1  50

9>  cans.........
.........
.........
Teller’s,  V lb. cans, doz. 
“  .

Vi S>  “ 
1 fl>  “ 
Vilb.  “ 
lib .  “
Victor.

Dr. Price’s.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

6 oz cans, 4 d o z ...............
“ 
9  “ 
................
2 doz...............
16
BATH BRICK.

2 dozen in case.

Domestic.

No. 3, 
No. 5,

No. 1 
No. 2 1 
No. 1

Fancy

BRUSHES.

Rice Root Scrub, 2  row—  
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row —

CANDLES
 
“ 

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

 

CANNED  GOODS. 

FISH.
Clams.

“ 

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

“ 

“ 

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

“ 

“ 
“ 

Salmon.
“ 

Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb...................... l  30
2  lb.................... 2 25
Mustard,  2 lb  ....................2 25
Tomato Sauce,  21b............ 2  25
Soused, 2 l b .....................  2 25
Columbia River, flat...........1  85
tails...........1  75
Alaska, 1  lb.........................1  45
21b.......................... 2  10
Sardines.
American  )4s.................4H@  5
Vis................6V4@ 7
Imported  Ms.....................10@12
Vis.....................15@16
Mustard Ms.....................   7@8
Boneless.......................... 
20
Brook, 3 lb..........................2  50

“ 
“ 

Trout.
FRUITS.
Apples.

3 1b. standard............  
York State, gallons__  
Hamburgh,  “ 

85
2 40
 

 

Apricots.
2 25
Live oak.....................
2 00
Santa Cruz.................
2 50
Lusk’s .........................
Overland..................
1  90
Blackberries.
B. &  W.......................
90
Cherries.
Red.............................
1 20
Pitted Hamburgh......
1  75
1  20
W hite.........................
Erie............................
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.
Common....................
Raspberries.
Red  ...........................
Black  Hamburg.........
Erie,  b lack ...............
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................
Hamburgh  ...............
Erie............................
Terrapin.......................
Whortleberries.

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

1  25
2 10

1  30
2 50
2 75
1  10

1  30
1  50
1  40
1

2Ë
5
1  35

MEATS.

Common....................
1  20
F. &  W.......................
1  25
Blueberries...............
1  20
Corned  beef,  Libby’s__ ...1  80
Roast beef,  Armour’s__ ...1  75
Potted  ham, )i lb........... ...1  50
“  M lb............ ...1  00
.1   10
95
95

tongue, Vi lb ........
“ 
)4 lb...
chicken, >4 lb......
VEGETABLES.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

Peas

“ 
“ 
“ 

Corn.

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  Eden........... ...1  15
Purity............................
Honey  Dew.................... ...1  50
Morning Glory............... ..  1  10
Hamburgh marrofat......
...1  35
early Jane__
Champion Eng... 1  50
Hamburgh  petit  pols__
...1  75
fancy  sifted..
...1  90
Soaked ..........................
...  65
Harris  standard............. ...  75
Van Camp’s Marrofat 
.1  10
...1  30
Early Jan e..
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
Tomatoes.
Excelsior 
.................... ...1  00
Eclipse............................ ...1  60
Hamburg....................... ...1  30
Gallon............................ ...2 50

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

“ 

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.

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

CHEESE.

Amboy.......................
Herkimer...................
Riverside...................
Allegan  ..................
Skim..........................
Brick..........................
Edam  ........................
Limburger  ...............
Pineapple...................
Roquefort...................
Sap Sago....................
Schweitzer, Imported. 
domestic  __

“ 

22
35
38
40

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

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles...........2 75
............ 4 50
Pint 
2 so
Quart ! doz bottles............ 3 50

* “ 

CLOTHES PINS.

COCOA  SHELLS.

>ags......................  @3
Less  quantity...............   @3)4
Pound  packages...........634 @7

CONDENSED MILK.
4 doz. in case.

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

COFFEE.
GREEN.
RlO.

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 Vic. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent,  for shrink 
age.

PACKAGE.

A rbuckle’s A rlosa........  19.30
M cLaughlin's  XXXX  19.30
G erm an.................... . 
19 30
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__  19 30
Bunola  ............................  18.80

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

Bulk
Red..

>n,  40 ft......... per doz.

CLOTHES  LINES.
50ft.........  
“
60 f t.........  
“
70 f t.........  
“
“ .
80 ft.........  
60 ft.........  
“
7 2 ff........ 
“

COUPON  BOOKS.

“Universal.”
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

8 1, per hundred..............  83 00
»2, 
................3  50
................4  00
•3, 
................5  00
»5, 
•W, 
................6  00
.................7  00
820, 
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200or over..... . 
5 per cent.
500  “ 
 
1000  «  

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

io “
“

CRACKERS.

Butter.

Soda.

Seymour XXX.................. ..  6
Seymour XXX, cartoon... ..  6)4
Family  XXX.................... ■  VZ
Family XXX,  cartoon__ ..  6V4
Salted XXX...................... ..  6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  __ .  6 Vi
Kenosha 
....................... ■  7 Vi
Boston.............................. ..  8
Butter  biscuit................. ..  6 Vi
Soda, XXX......................
.  6
Soda, City.......................
..  7*
Soda,  Duchess................. ..  8 Vi
Crystal Wafer.................. ..10
Reception  Flakes............ ..10
S. Oyster  XXX...............
..  6
City Oyster. XXX............
..  6
Farina  Oyster................
..  6
CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly  pure..................
30
Telfer’s  Absolute...........
35
Grocers’.......................... 10@15

Oyster.

DRIED  FRUITS.

Domestic.
APPLES.

“ 

quartered  “
APRICOTS.

Sundried. sliced in  bbls.
5
5
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes @7
California in  bags.........9Vf@10
Evaporated in boxes.  ... 10@11
BLACKBERRIES.
In  boxes.......................
4M
NECTARINES.
70 lb. bags.......................
7VÍ
251b. boxes................... s @9 Vi
Peeled, in  boxes...........
12
Cal. evap.  “ 
...........
8
“ 
in b ag s...... @ ? Vi
PEARS.
California in bags  __
@7

PEACHES.

“ 

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

“ 

10
11
12

PRUNELLES.

11

301b.  boxes...................
RASPBERRIES.
In  barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
......................
25 lb.  “ 
Foreign.
CURRANTS.
Patras, In barrels........ @ 3)4
In  Vi-bbls.......
©   3\
In less quantity @ 4

15
16
17

“ 
“ 

PEEL.

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

25  “
“ 
“ 
25 “
RAISINS.
Domestic.
London layers,  2 crown. ..1  40
3  “
..1  65
fancy__ ...1  85
..1  25
70 lb  bags ©5)4
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes..  7U& 7V4
..ll @12
“ 
Sultana, 20 
..  6)4@ 6Vi
Valencia, 30  “ 

Loose Muscatels, boxes..

Foreign.

“ 
“ 

PRUNES.

Bosnia........................
@
California, 90x100 25 lb. bxs.  8
“
..84
“
.9
“
. .9)4
Turkey......................... @5)4
Silver.............................
-11V4

80x90 
70x80 
60x70 

“ 
“ 
“ 

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1, 6Vi......................... 81  75
1  60
No. 2, 6VÍ.........................
No. 1,6............................
1  65
No. 2, 6............................
1  50
XX  wood, white.
No. 1,6)4.........................
1  35
No. 2, 6)4.........................
1  25
Manilla, white.
6)4  ..................................
1  00
6......................................
95
Mill  No. 4.......................
1  00

Coin.

FARINACEOUS GOODS. 

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

3M

Barrels.................................300
Grits.................................. 3 50

Lima  Beans.

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

4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 

Domestic, 121b. box.... 
Imported..............10Vi@llVi
Pearl Barley.
Kegs..........................  @2 Vi

56

PIPES.

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

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s ............................  4 00
PennaSalt  Co.’s...............  3 25

ROOT BEER
Williams,  per doz............   175
3 aoz. case......... 5 00

“ 

BICE.

Domestic.

Carolina bead.......................6
“  No. 1.......................5
“  No. 2.................  © 4
3)4

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

 

 

Imported.

Japan, No. 1......................... 6
"  No. 2..........................5 Vi
Java....................................  5
Patna......................................  5

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

Allspice................................io
Cassia, China In mats........  8
“  Batavia in bund__ is
Saigon in rolls........ 35
11 
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................................is
Cassia,  Batavia...................20
and  Saigon.25
“ 
“  Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................30
•*  Zanzibar................. 20
Ginger, African...................15
“  Cochin.................... 18
Jam aica................. 20
“ 
Mace  Batavia...................... 80
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste..25
“  Trieste.................... 27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................65
Pepper, Singapore, black.... 20
“ 
white....... 30
“  Cayenne..................25
Sage.....................................20
“Absolute” in Packages.

“ 

“ 

Vis
.........  84

Vis 
Allspice..............
1  56
Cinnamon..................   84 1  55
Cloves........................   84 1  55
Ginger, Jam ....... ........  84 1 55
“  Af........... ......  84 1  55
Mustard.............. ......  84 1  55
Pepper ............... .......   84 1  55
Sage........

........  84

SAL  SODA.

Kegs...................................    lVi
Granulated,  boxes..............  1£

SEEDS.

Anise.........................  @12)4
Canary, Smyrna......... 
3Vi
Caraway....................  
8
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
Hemp,  Russian.........  
4Vi
Mixed  Bird  ..............  44@ 5Vi
Mustard,  white.........  
6
Poppy......................... 
9
Rape..........................  
6
Cuttle  bone...............  
30

STARCH.
Corn.

20-lb  boxes..........................   6U
40-lb 

“  ..........................   6

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

1-lb packages.......................  5Vi
3-lb 
5V4
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  4)4
Barrels................................   4)4

" 
“ 

 

SNUFF.

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

SODA.

Boxes....................................5Vs
Kegs, English....................... 4£

SALT.
 
 

 

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

2 00
2 25
50
18

drill  “ 

56 lb. dairy In drill  bags...  35
281b.  “ 
18

.. 

“ 

“ 

56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..  75 

56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks.  75 

Solar Rock.
Common Fine.

56 lb.  sacks..........................  25
80
Saginaw.............................. 
Manistee............................. 
85

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

Peas.

Sago.

Wheat.

Green,  bu..
Split  per  lb
German ....
Bast India...
Cracked......

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

6

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

“ 
“ 

Cod.

Halibut
Herring.

Yarmouth...........................  1  10
Pollock.......................  
4
Whole, Grand  Bank...  6  @6)4
Boneless,  bricks........7Vi@8
Boneless, strips...........7Vi@8
Smoked...................... 
12
Scaled......................... 
Holland,  bbls............  
kegs............. 
Round shore, Vi bbl... 
“ 
54  bbl.. 
Mackerel.

18@20
11  00
85
2 00
1  10
No. 1, Vi bbls. 90 lbs...........11  00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs................  1  25
Family, Vi bbls., 100 lbs__ 5  50
75
Russian, kegs....................   45
No. 1, Vi bbls., lOOlbs.......... 6 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   90
No. 1, Vi bbls., lOOlbs...........8 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs................. 1  10
Family, Vi bbls., 100 lbs__3  50
kits  10  lbs............  50

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

Whitefish.

Sardines.

Trout

“ 

“ 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Jennings’ D C.
Lemon. Vanilla
125
2 oz folding box...  75 
150
...100 
3 oz 
“ 
2 00
“ 
4 oz 
...1  50 
6 oz 
.. .2  00 
3 00
“ 
8 oz 
“ 
...3  00 
4 00
GUN  POWDER.
Kegs........................................ 5 50
Half  kegs.................................3 00
Sage.............................. 15
Hops.....................................25
Madras, 5 lb. boxes........ 
S. F .,2 ,3 and5 lb.boxes.. 
Chicago  goods............   @3
Mason's,  10,20 and 30 lbs..  6 
51b.......................   7

INDIGO.

HERBS.

JELLY.

55
50

“ 

LICORICE.

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

“ 

MINCE  MEAT

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

MEASURES.

Tin, per dozen.

 

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

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar honse......................  13 Vi
Ordinary..........................  
16
Prim e............................... 
16
Fancy...............................  
20

New Orleans.

F a ir................................  
Good................................. 
Extra good........................ 
Choice.............................. 
Fancy................................ 
One-half barrels, 3c extra

OATMEAL.

14
17
22
27
35

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

ROLLED OATS

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

PICKLES.
Medium.

Small.

Barrels, 1,200 connt........... 83 50
Half  barrels, 600 count....  2 25 

Barrels, 2,400 connt. 
Half bbls, l^OO.count 

4 00

2 50

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

HIDES,  PELTS and  FUR"
Perkins  &  Hess pay  as  fol

11  cured...... 

lows,  prices nominal:
HIDES.
Green..................
Part Cured...........
Full 
...........
Dry.......................
Kips, green  .........
.
Calfskins,  green..
cnred..
Deacon skins.......
No. 2 hides % oST
PELTS
Shearlings............
...............
Lambs 
WOOL.
Washed.. 
.........
Unwashed........

“ 

...... 3  @4
@4
© 4
...  5  @5
...  3  @4
© 4
...  4  @5
...  5  @7
...10  @30

...10  @25
...50  @1 50
...20  @25
...10  @20

MISCELLANEOUS.

Grease  butter  . . .
...  1  @ 2
Switches.............
1V4@  2
Ginseng..................... 2 00©2 50

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay  as  follows 

for dressed  fowls:
Fowl............................ 12 @13
Turkeys....................... 14 @15
Ducks  ........................13  @14
Spring chickens, per doz *4 to *6
Fowls...........................10  @11
Turkeys....................... 12 @13

Live Poultry.

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFg 

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
Patent 
“ sacks.............  5 50
“ 
“ barrels...........   5 60
Graham  “  sacks...........  2 20
“ 
Rye 
...........  2 50
MILL8TUFP8.

PLOUB.

“ 

Less

Car lots  quantity

*16 00
16 00
17 00
19 00
18 50

CORN.

Bran..............*15  00 
Screenings_  15  00 
Middlings.....  16  00 
Mixed Feed...  19 00 
Coarse meal  ..  18 50 
Car  lots...............................49
Less than  car  lots..............50
Car  lots  ............................. 33
Less than car lots...............35
No. 1 Timothy, car lots — 13 50 
No. 1 
15  00

HAT.
ton lots 

OATS.

“ 

OILS.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes 
as  follows.  In barrels,  f. o.  b. 
Grand Rapids:
W.  W.  Headlight, 15G° 
744
Water White, old test.  @ 85-4
Water  White  ...........  @ 7*4
Naptha.......................  @7
Stove Gasoline...........  @854
Cylinder..................27  @36
E ngine....................13  @21
Black, 25 to 30 deg  ...  @7)4

SA LER A TU 8.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s ........................ .  *3 30
DeLand’s ....................... ..  3  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, 601 lb......... ...3 90
White Borax, 100  94-lb... ...3 60

Proctor & Gamble.
Concord  ......................... ..  2 80
..  6 75
Ivory, 10  oz....................
..  4 00
6  oz......................
Lenox 
.......................... .  3 65
Mottled  German............ ..  3 15
Town Talk..................... ..  3 00

“ 

SCOURING AND POLISHING.
“ 

Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz. 
hand, 3 doz......

..  2 50
..  2 50

SUGAR.

Cut  Loaf.................... @  5%
Cubes......................... @ 4%
Powdered..................
@ 4%
Granulated.. 
......4.56® 4%
Confectioners’ A......4.44© 4%
Soft A......................... @4.31
White Extra C........... @ 4%
<9  4
Extra  C......................
C...  ........................... @3 94
Yellow......
@ 394
Less than  bbls. 54c advance

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Pure Cane.

Barrels............................ ..  22
Half bbls......................... ...24
F air................................. ...  19
Good............................... ...  25
Choice.................................  30
SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps..............
Sugar  C ream s............
F rosted  C ream s.........
Graham Crackers......
Oatmeal Crackers—
TEAS.

8
8
9
8H
894

ja pa n—Regular.

@17
F air................
@20
Good...............
Choice.........................24 @26
Choicest......... ...........32 ©34
D ust...........................10 ©12
@17
@20@26

F air... 
Good.. 
Choice.

BUN CUBED.

.24

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

BASKET  FIRED.

F air.......................... 18 @20
Choice.......................
@25
Choicest....................
@35
Extra choice, wire leaf @40
GUNPOWDER.
Common to fair........ 25 ©35
Extra fine to finest... 50 ©65
Choicest fancy......... 75 @85
©26
Common to fair........ .23 ©30
Common to fair........ .23 ©26
Superior to fine......... 30 ©35

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG.

YOUNG HYSON.

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

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

“ 

“ 

Plug.

Pails unless otherwise noted
Hiawatha  .................  
60
Sweet Cuba...............  
34
24
McGlnty....................  
22
94 bbls.......... 
Valley  City................ 
32
Dandy Jim ................. 
27
Torpedo..................... 
20
19
in  drums—  
Yum  Yum  ...............  
26
Sorg's Brands.
Spearhead.................  
33
Joker......................... 
22
Nobby Twist................. 
39
Oh  My..........................  
29
Scotten's Brands.
Kylo............................ 
22
Hiawatha...................  
38
Valley City................ 
34
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty..............  
49
Jolly Tar....................  
32
Here  It Is................... 
28
Old Style....................  
31
Jas. O. Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good.....................38
Toss Up.................................. 26
Out of Sight........................... 25
Private Brands.
Sweet  Maple.............. 
L. & W.......................  
Smoking.
Boss..........................
Colonel’s Choice......

Middleton’s Brands.

30
26
12/,
13

Warpath..............................14
Banner................................15
King Bee..............................20
Kiln Dried...........................17
Nigger Head................... ...23
Honey Dew......................... 24
Gold  Block......................... 28
Peerless............. 
24
Rob  Boy..............................24
Uncle  Sam..........................28
Tom and Jerry.....................25
Brier Pipe............................ 30
Yum Yum...........................32
Red Clover...........................32
Navy....................................32
Handmade...........................40
F rog..................................  33

 

WASHBOARDS.

Single.
Wilson......................
Saginaw....................
Rival.........................
Daisy.........................
Langtry....................
Defiance....................
Double.
Wilson.....................
Saginaw....................
Rival........................
Defiance..................
Crescent...................
Red Star...................
Shamrock...............
Ivy Leaf..................
VINEGAR.
40 g r.....................................  7
50 gr.....................................8

*2 00 
1  75 
1  40 
1  00 
1  10 
.  1  75
2  50 
2  25
1  80 
2  00 
2  602 75 
2 50

$1 for barrel.
WET  MUSTARD.

Bulk, per gal  ................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  175
tb ast—Compressed. 
Fermentum  per doz. cakes..
“ 
per lb".................
Fleischman, per doz cakes... 
“ 
per lb..................

17
PA PER A WOODEN WAKE

PAPER.

“ 

.........................
Straw 
Rockf alls......................
Rag sugar.....................
Hardware.....................
Bakers..........................
Dry  Goods..................
Jute Manilla...............
Red  Express  No. 1......
No. 2......

.......IX9t
:::::2* 
......2*4
©594
594
.......494
48 Cottou.......................
..10
Cotton, No. 1................. ....17
“  2.................---- 16
Sea  Island, assorted__ .  30
.  ...15
No. 5 Hemp..................
No. 6  “ ..........................
___15
WOODENWARE.

TWINES.

“ 

Palls, No. 1, two-hoop..
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes ... 
Bowls, il inch................... 

Tubs, No. 1  .................. ...  7 00
“  No. 2.................... ...  6 00
“  No. 3.................... ...  5 00
1  35
“  No. 1,  three-hoop ....  1  60
40
80
“ 
13  “ 
....................   90
.....................1  60
15  “ 
“ 
.....................  2 35
“  17  “ 
assorted, 17s and  19s  2 50 
“ 
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
“ 
Baskets, market.................  35
shipping bushel..  1  20
“ 
..  1  30
full  hoop “ 
“ 
bushel  . ............   1  50
“ 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l  5 75
1  No.2 6 25 
“  No.3 7 25 
• 
.No.l  3 50 
“  No.2 4  25 
“  No.3 5 0C

splint

“ 

FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

FRESH  FISH.

follows:
Whlteflsh 
.................  7
T r o u t ................................  7
H a lib u t..............................
C iscoes or H erring------ 5
Bluefish...................... 11
Fresh lobster, per lb  ...
Soft crabs, per doz........
Shrimp, per  gal............
Cod............................. 10
No. 1 Pickerel............
Pike............................
Smoked  White  .........

oysters—Cans. 

@ 8 
@ 8 
@15 @ 6 
@12 2) 
1  25 
1  25 
@12 
@  8  j 
©   7  1 
@  TJ
@40
@35

Falrhaven  Counts —
F. J. D. Selects.........
SHELL  OOODS.
Oysters, per  100  ........1  25@1  50
Clams, 
.........   75@1  00

“ 

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$1000 paid for any article injurious to health found in VICTOR.

M entals, ast  your  Jollier  atioot  these pods  or address os.

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

« 
« 

4  « 
a  •• 

«  9  “ 
«  16  “ 

$1.20  **
2.00 
“

O U R  G O O D S  A R B   B IR S T   Q U A L IT Y

P ARAMARIBO,  DUTCH  GUIANA.

TTIB,  TOUBDO  SPÌCJ3  CO.,  Toledo,  Ohio.

18

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

they  wouldn’t  sell. 

she would let him  have  them;  “he  was 
such a dear, good fellow.”
Half an hour  later  an  express  wagon 
unloaded five big boxes  in  front  of  the 
door.  Thirty days  later  her  firm  drew 
on him for $1S0.
1 stayed in town  waiting  for  a  draft; 
on the third  day  I  walked  down  street 
and counted  seven  separate  show  win­
dows fnll of that woman’s goods.  Every 
merchant in town had  a  consignment  of 
dusters, and a horrible suspicion that  he 
had  been  worked. 
They  tried  to  sell 
them,  but 
They 
tacked up a “take one” sign,  but  people 
wouldn’t  carry  them  away.  One  man 
tried to foist them upon a crowd of small 
boys who were  picking  pins  out  of  the 
sweepings at the back  of  the  store,  but 
the boys scoffed at his overtures; another 
man tried to give his'  to  a  cheap  circus 
that  struck  the  town.  He  said  they 
would make nice plumes  for  the  horses 
in  the  parade,  but 
the  circus  man 
wouldn’t have  them.  There  are  about 
twenty firms on my route that get red  in 
the face every time the janitor dusts  the 
office.  Oh, yes! women on the road are a 
howling success; that’s the  difficulty. 
I 
tell you,  it will never do.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

still in the market, commanding 13 per bbl.

Apples—Russets  are  about  the  only  variety 
Asparagus—50c per dozen bunches.
Beans—The  supply of  dry  stock is nearly  ex­
hausted.  Handlers  pay about  $1.20 for  country 
stock and hold city  picked at $l.50@$1.60 per bu.
Bermuda Onions—$2 per  crate of  about 50 lbs.
Butter—The market  is  well  supplied, dealers 
paying  13@14c for  choice  dairy and holding  at 
15@16c.
Cabbages—New  stock is in fair  demand  at  $3 
@$3.50per crate of 125 lbs.
Cranberries — Repacked  Jerseys  are  in  good 
demand at $2.25 per bushel box.
Cucumbers—$1  per doz.
Dried Apples—Sundried  is held at 4@4%c  and 
evaporated at5%@6c.
Eggs—The  market  is  steady but not nearly so 
firm  as a week  ago.  Jobbers  pay about  12c and 
hold at 13@14c.

Honey—14c per lb.
Lettuce—Grand  Rapids  Forcing  is  in fair de­
mand at 10c per lb.
Onions—Green are  in  fair  demand at 12c  per 
dozen bunches.
Parsnips—In full supply at 30c per bu.
Peas—Green, $1.25 per box.
Pieplant—2c per lb.
Pineapples—$1.40 per doz.
Potatoes—Old  stock in full  supply  at 25c  per 
bushel.  New stock Is in limited  supply and  de­
mand at $1.50 per bushel.

Radishes—25c per doz. bunches.
Strawberries—Tennessee  berries  are Arriving 
freely, being held at  0@12e per qt.
Wax Beans—$2 for 
bu. crates.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

.......................................  7%

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

quotes as follows:
Mess,  new....................................................   10 50
Shortcut.....................................................   ll  75
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  13 50
Extra-clear, heavy.......................................
Clear, fat back.............................................  12 50
Boston clear, short cut................................   ¡3 50
Clear back, short cut....................................  13
Standard clear, short cut. best................. 
13 50
Pork Sausage.....................................................7%
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage..............................................   9
Frankfort Sausage 
Blood Sausage.................................................   5
Bologna, straight............................................   5
Bologna,  thick..............  ...............................   5
Headcheese....................................................   5
Com­
pound
5%
5%
5 \
6
6%
«%

Kettle
Rendered. Granger.  Family.
Tierces. ..
5%
• •
54i
50 lb. Tins . .8
20 lb. Pails •  8%
6
10 1b.  “
6M
•  8V6
51b. 
.  8%
6?g
“
6%
.  8%
3 lb. 
“
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs......................  6 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................  6 50
Boneless, rump butts.....................................  8
Hams, average 20 lbs.......................................  I

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

16 lbs..................................... lo%
to 14 lbs..............10%
picnic...................................................
best boneless..................................  8%
Shoulders..  ...................................................
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.............................  8?i
Dried beef, ham prices...................................8%
Long Clears, heavy........................................... 6%
Briskets,  medium...........................................   6%

BEEP  IN  BARBELS.

7 
7% 
7% 
7-ü 
7% 
8 

light................................................6

LARD.

1 
‘ 
1 
1 

12 

„ 

“ 

“ 

FRESH  MEATS.

 

“ 

3Ji@

Beef, carcass  ........................................5  @  6%

Swift & Company quote as follows:
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
•• 

hindquarters...............................7  @  S
fore 
loins,  No.  3................................   @10
ribs.........................; ..................  8%@ 9
rounds.............  
5%@  6

@ 4 H
Bologna.................................... 
Pork loins................................................  @
..................................  @5%
Sausage, blood  or head...........................  @ 4
liver........................................  @ 4%
Frankfort  ......  
Mutton  ..................................................  9  @10
Veal........................................................  5  @6

“  shoulders 

“ 
“ 

@

 

 

 

 

The  Catechism of Shopping.

to 

See the lady. 

Is the  lady  rich? 

Is  she  a  pretty  lady? 
She is a pretty lady.  That  is  to  say,  if 
accused of being pretty  she  would  deny 
it;  if  not  so  accused,  she  would  be  as 
mad as a wet hen. 
It 
looks like it.  She does not  see  anybody 
else in the world.  Oh, yes, she  is  rich. 
What is the lady doing?  Let us see.
See  her  go  into  the  store.  Did  she 
step ou the  pretty  boy  who  opened  the 
door  for  her?  Not  quite,  but  the  boy 
had to hustle to escape.  Why  does  the 
the  counter 
baldheaded  man  behind 
have  such  bard  work  to  look  pleasant? 
Some  people  find 
look 
pleasant anyway.  Does  he  enjoy  pull­
ing down all  the  goods  in  the  store  as 
the  rich,  pretty 
requests?  He 
should.  She  will  probably  buy  large 
amounts of goods.  But no.  See,  she  is 
leaving  the  store  without  buying  any­
thing.  Does the  baldheaded  man  seem 
tired?  He seems  tired.  He  has  half  a 
day’s work before him  to  put  the  goods 
back where he found them.
Is  she  having  lots  of 
fun? 
It is to be hoped so.  Nobody  else 
is.  Does  she  work  other  stores 
the 
same way?  She works  a  large  number 
of other stores in just the same way.

See  the  lady. 

it  hard 

Does she buy anything?
Not a solitary blamed thing.
What is she doing?
She is shopping.
Is  the  lady  shopping?  She  is  shop­
ping.  Do many  ladies  shop?  They  all 
Is  there  no  cure  for  the  habit? 
shop. 
No.

lady 

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

C ro ck ery   & G la ssw a r e

LAMP  BURNERS.

 

6 doz. in box.

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

First quality.
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lamp  chimneys.—Per box.
No. 0 San...............................................  
 
No. 1  “  ..........................................................1
No. 2  “  ..........................................................2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.......................................2 25
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.......................................2 60
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 71
No. 2  “ 
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No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.......................1  25
No. 2  “ 
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No. 1 crimp, per doz.............................................. l 35
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Pearl top.

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Women Drummers.

Objections  of  an  Old  Traveler  to 
Sam. Blakely in Dry Goods Bulletin.
A paragraph is going the rounds of the 
newspapers in  regard  to the  success  of 
travelers;  and 
women  as  commercial 
while an attempt  to  disparage  the  use­
fulness  of  the  fair  ones  in  any  of  the 
various branches  of  men’s  work  which 
they  have  undertaken  will  be  frowned 
upon as ungallant,  1 have determined  to 
brave the storm of criticism and, if neces­
sary, sacrifice myself  upon  the  altar  of 
j ustice for my sex. 
I shall fight  bravely 
as long as there  is  hope,  and  when,  at 
last, overpowered by the  superior  num­
bers of the enemy,  I  will  submit  grace­
fully, put on a decollette  corsage and an 
injured air and  invite  my  friends  to  a 
“pink tea.”  1  take  this  stand  not  be­
cause of any  aversion  to  housekeeping, 
nor through a dislike for  crocheting and 
singing the baby to sleep. 
I  am  not  an 
extremist.  1  think  no  true  gentleman 
would  object 
to  his  wife  draping 
her  dresses 
sending 
on 
him to  secure  a  bargain  at  a  remnant 
sale.  We should not be too exacting; but 
when the newspapers talk  of  “ woman’s 
success on the road,” 1 think  it  is  time 
for  some  one  to  protest. 
It  will  not 
alone  be 
the  traveling  man  who  will 
suffer,  but it will  bankrupt  every  retail 
merchant  in America  in  less  than  two 
years.
1 will relate a little experience of  mine 
to  prove  this  assertion.  About 
three 
years ago, as 1  got  off  the  train  at  the
town of B--------,  and  gave directions to
have my trunks sent up  to  the  hotel,  1 
noticed a young woman with a  business­
like  air  who  got  into  the  omnibus  in 
waiting.  1 was a single mar  then,  and, 
with assurance born of  long  practice,  1 
stepped into the omnibus and took a seat 
beside her, asking her politely if I might 
band her satchels up to the driver on top, 
as the  vehicle  was  somewhat  crowded. 
She replied that she could  “take  care  of 
them  herself,”  and, encouraged  by  her 
smile,  1 ventured to remark that it was a 
very  warm day.  She looked at me sharp­
ly for a moment and said  it  was  not  so 
warm as some days she had  experienced, 
and  murmured  something  about 
the 
weather having very little  effect  on  the 
“freshness” of certain  traveling  men.  I 
said  nothing  more,  but  an  hour  later, 
when 1 called to see my customer  (“tele­
scope” in hand),  1 found him in a  corner 
of his office, while  before  him stood  my 
fair friend of the omnibus shaking a red, 
white and blue paper duster in  his  face, 
and talking  at  a  rate  that  inspired  me 
with mingled awe and  envy.
She explained that the great advantage 
this duster possessed  over  those  trashy 
things made of turkey  feathers,  and,  in 
fact, over all other dusters  of  any  kind 
whatsoever,  was to be found in  the  fact 
that  it  could  be used  on  the  roughest 
woodwork without harming the dnsteror 
on  the  finest  piano  without  scratching 
the shining  surface  of  the  instrument. 
It could be used to clean  the  fixtures  or 
the floor. 
It  would  polish  brass  signs, 
brighten the  silverware,  rub  the  show­
cases to a gleaming transparency.  In the 
home it could be put to a  thousand  uses 
and  placed upon the mantle  shelf  as  an 
ornament of rare beauty. 
It was  a win­
dow brush,  a hat brush, a  clothes  brush, 
a shoe brush and a nail brush  combined. 
It would shrink if it  was  too  large  and 
expand if it was too small. 
It  could  be 
washed like  a  piece of  linen  and  dried 
in the sun without fading the colors.
“What!” said the merchant; “you can’t 
wash it. 
“Yes, but my dear sir look at  the  pe­
culiar fiber of the  paper.”
Altogether, it was  the  most  beautiful 
and wonderful invention  of  this marvel­
ous age. 
It would prove  a  blessing  to 
the possessor; bring the sunshine of glad­
ness to the household.  Her firm had  the 
sole right for this  country.  She  would 
dispose of a limited quantity  (in  lots  of 
ten gross only) to one firm in a  town, for 
the  ridiculous  price  of  $36  per  gross. 
She pleaded and argued and bullied,  and 
finally  coaxed  the  old  gentleman  into 
placing  an  order  for  five  gross.  That 
was a smaller lot than she had ever  sold 
before; in fact,  she  bad  refused  several 
orders of the kind,  but as a special favor

It’s  paper.”

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

STICK  CANDT.
Full  Weight. 

Standard,  per lb...............................  6 
H.H..................................... 6 
T w ist.................................6 
Boston  Cream  ..............20 lb. cases 
Cut  Loaf............................................7 
Extra H.  H...............................cases 7 

Bbls.  Palls.
7
7
7
8%
8
8

MIXED  CANDT.
Full Weight.

Bbls. 

Palls.

 

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Standard.......................................6 
Leader.......................................... 6 
7
7%
Royal............................................6% 
8
Nobby...........................................7 
English  Rock.............................. 7 
8
Conserves.................................... 7 
8
8
Broken Taffy.................... baskets 
Peanut Squares.................  
9
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French Creams.............!  .............  
10
Valley  Creams.............................. 
13
Midget, 30 lb. baskets....................................  8
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Modern, ¿0 lb. 
fancy—In bulk.
Full Weight. 

panct—In 5 lb. boxes. 

CARAMELS.
 
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Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  10
printed..........................................  11
Chocolate Drops.............................................  11%
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  13
Gum Drops.....................................................  5%
Moss Drops.....................................................  8
Sour Drops.....................................................  8%
Imperials........................................................  10
Per Box.
emon 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
Wlntergreen  Berries.......................................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb. boxes..........................   34
51
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
28
No. 3, 
42
Stand up, 51b. boxes....................................  90
Californias, 126 and 300  ...................... 
3  50
4 00
150,  176 and  200 ................. 
Messinas, choice  200.............................   @4  50
160..............................  @4 00
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Messina, choice, 360.............................   @3 fO
fancy, 360 .............................  3 50@3 75
choice 300.
@3 50 
fancy 300..............................
@4  00
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
@14 
@15 
@15 
@18 
@ 9 
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@ 8
Persian, 50-lb.  box......................4%@ 5
@17
@15

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Ivaca...................................
California.............................
Brazils, new...........................................
Filberts..................................................
@ 11
Walnuts, Grenoble................................
@13
Marbot.................................
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Chill.......................................
@10 
Table Nuts,  fancy.................................
@12% 
@ 11% 
choice..............................
Pecans, Texas, H.  P .,.........................11
@14 
Cocoanuts, full sacks............................
@4 25
Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................   ® 55£
“  Roasted....................  @  7%
Fancy, H.  P„ 
Flags........................   @  52£
“  Roasted....................  @  7%
Choice, H. P.,  Extras............................  @ 4%
“  Roasted.................  @ 6%

Figs, fancy layers, 61b.............................12
“  10»........................... 14
“  14»...........................
“  20»...........................
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................
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NUTS.

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Your Orders for

2 40
3 40

Oranges, Bananas, Lemons, Dates, its, Figs

2 80
3 81

And Everything Handled by ns are Respectfully Solicited.

THE  PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.

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No. 0, per  gross.............. ...............................  23
No. 1, 
28
No  2, 
38
No. 3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz..........................................  90
Butter Crocks, 1  and 6 gal..........................   06%
Jugs, % gal., per doz....................................  75
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Milk Pans, % gal., per doz.  (glazed 75c)__   60
C "   Wo)....  78
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

MADNESS  AND  BADNESS.

This is an experimental and  inventive 
age. 
It must, therefore, of  necessity  be 
a speculative  age.  An  experiment  pre­
supposes  an  idea,  a  thought,  which  is 
neither reason  nor  knowledge,  but  im­
agination and speculation.  An invention 
is generally brought out as a result  of  a 
hypothesis  which 
is  called  a  working 
theory,  this meaning a  conception,  only 
that  there  are  some  discovered  things 
which render  it  plausible  and  perhaps 
probable, even if the law of probabilities 
cannot as yet be applied  to  it.  The  re­
sult of all this is  wonderful  discoveries, 
great inventions.  But for every hundred 
of these there are  thousands  of  vagrant 
fancies,  hypotheses proved only to  their 
authors,  or  perhaps  to  some  school  or 
sect that  has  received  them.  The  first 
great sphere for these theories  is  in  the 
physical  world,  and  relates  to  physical 
nature.  Not only  is  there  the  seeking 
of a cause for  everything,  but  the  con­
clusion that a cause is discovered.  There 
was nothing wilder in alembic days  than 
some of  the  modern  announcements  of 
the laboratory or the assumption of those 
who speculate about the means  of  vital­
izing enfeebled life.  There never before 
was so  favorable  an  age  for  humbugs. 
We do not mean patent nostrums or cun­
ning  but  useless  devices,  but  humbug 
ideas,  believed in as  solemn  verities  by 
those who have espoused them.

It is impossible to confine this  activity 
to the sphere of  physical  nature. 
It  is 
mental  activity  and  moral  activity  and 
speculation also,  and  is  as  rampant  in 
mental science and  psychology  as  amid 
the laws  of  the  material  universe. 
In­
deed,  everything is asked to materialize. 
As to health we are told  it  is  a  concep­
tion.  Think yourself well  and  you  are 
well.  The bodily condition  is  a  mental 
state.  As to badness or crime  it is mad­
ness in the sense that  it  is  an  infirmity 
consequent upon the physical constitution 
of the brain.  Between physical  philoso­
phers,  like  Huxley,  or  mental  philoso­
phers,  like Maudsley,  philosophic novels 
like those of  George  Eliot  and  “Robert 
Elsmere,” and beliefs  like  those  of  the 
Christian Scientists,  we find  strange  ap­
propriations  and 
jumblings  of  terms, 
strange faith  in  unbeliefs,  and  strange 
admixture and trituration of body,  mind 
and soul.

As to invalidity, pauperism and  crime, 
how far is all this true? 
Is this a  corre­
lation and conservation of  the  forces, so 
that they are all one  energy  or  one  in­
ertia?  As Emerson puts  it,  is  the  sick 
man a rascal?  Is  the  pauper  thriftless 
only by force of circumstances or by  the 
laws of Reformer George?  Is the  crimi­
nal  guiltless  because  of  the  material 
convolutions of the brain?  These  ques­
tions would not be so earnestly discussed 
were it  not  that  somehow  some  grains 
of truth had become mingled with  much 
error. 
It is true that no one part of that 
which is human or that which our person­
ality  represents  is  independent  of  the 
other  parts. 
Ill health  often  inclines 
one to irritability, to hasty judgment,  to 
discouragement,  or  to  some  mental  or 
moral morbidity.  Hence health is to  be 
sought for  its  mental  and  moral  uses. 
It is to be prized not merely for athletics, 
but for thought and  for  character.  But 
the  moment  that  invalidity  is  used  to 
cover up permanent  faults  or  to  apolo­
gize for the absence of graces that moment, 
it  is  pressed  beyond  its  legitimate use. 
It  is to be admitted that acquired  or  in­

herited conditions of our  physical,  men­
tal and moral natures may and  do  often 
give a wrong bias and  that  this  bias  is 
harder  to  be  controlled  by  some  than 
by others.  But bias does not  vacate  re­
sponsibility. 
It  gives  all  the  stronger 
argument for  assertion  of  self-restraint 
and  self-control. 
It  awakens  another 
resident  force  which  determines  to  be 
master  in  defense  of  right  and  truth. 
Some of the strongest characters and some 
of the noblest  of  men—the  Fabers,  the 
Cowpers, the Paysons and  multitudes  of 
less  noted  sufferers—have  shown  that 
mentality and morality need not  and  do 
not  succumb  to  ill-health. 
Indeed,  in­
stances abound in  which  invalidity  has 
brought out the finer  traits  of  character 
in  those naturally  vicious,  stubborn  or 
ill-tempered and made them  examples of 
“sweetness and light” or,  what is  better 
and older, love and light.

Poverty, too,  has  its  bias,  but 

is  no 
excuse  for  “ blaming  the  Fates.”  A 
most  distinguished  preacher  of  New 
England was born in an  almshouse,  and 
we could  point  to  other  cases  of  equal 
lowliness and similar success.

Most of all, crime is not either a physi­
cal or mental state.  Here, too,  bias,  is no 
doubt,strong and there must be a summon­
ing of all the mastery of self and an appeal 
for help to the higher  power.  There  is 
triumph by the road which  Bunyau  and 
John  Newton  and  Medley  and  Colonel 
Gardiner  and  Jerry  McCauley  walked. 
We  are  hearing  now-a-days  so  much 
apology for failures of character that  we 
must carefully  guard  against  confusion 
of terms or  excuses  derived  from  incli­
nations which  were bound to be resisted. 
Yet because it  is desirable  not  to  have 
temperaments or dispositions  which  are 
aggravated by invalidity,  we are to think 
of health as one of the great  factors  for 
the elevation of society and the  improve­
ment  of  mankind.  Mental,  moral  aud 
physical hygiene are associated outside of 
the  body  as  well as  in it, and  must to­
gether do what they can to  increase  our 
powers of vital resistance to all that will 
damage our manhood or impair real force 
of character.

Yellow   Garter  Craze.

From the New York Sunday Advertiser.
The “yellow garter”  craze  has  struck 
Brooklyn with emphasis, and though one 
may not be able to ascertain the fact, one 
j  can rest assured that nine out  of  ten  of 
the pretty girls on the street are wearing 
just above their left knee the dainty  yel­
low band that is supposed to  be  Cupid’s 
mascot-in-chief.  At one of the  counters 
of a Fulton  street  dry  goods  store,  the 
other day,  a dashing young woman asked 
for seven pairs.  When they were shown 
her a broad grin rippled down  the line of 
girls behind the  counter,  and  the  pur­
chaser smiled feebly.  Then,  when asked 
if she wanted them all the same size,  re­
plied:  “Oh, dear, no. 
I’m not going  to 
wear them all.”  But as  she  knew  only 
three sizes, presumably those of  her inti­
mate friends,  she had to go without  four 
pair.  And the salesgirls giggled audibly 
as she left the  store.  There  is  another 
handsome girl in Brooklyn who  is  wear­
ing a yellow  garter.  She  confessed  the 
fact  at  the  table  of  a  married  friend, 
when the brutal  husband  asked  her  to 
show  it  to  him.  The  two  women  ex­
changed glances,  and there was  a rustle, 
a dive,  a little  snap,  and  in  the  young 
lady’s hand lay a bright golden band,  on 
which  shown  a  broad  silver  buckle. 
The  husband  viewed  it  with  interest, 
but somehow it took refuge  in  a  pocket 
before he could make any careful investi­
gation. 

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Charlevoix—Frank E. Wood & Co.  are 
succeeded by Jas. B. Parsons in  the con­
fectionery business.

Grand  Rapids  & Indiana.
Schedule  In effect  May  15,1898.

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive from  Leave doing 
North.
7:05  a m
11:30  a m
4:15  p m
10:80  p m
Train  arriving at 9:20  daily;  all  other  trains  daily 

South. 
For Saginaw  and  Cadillac.........  5:15 a m  
For Traverse City A Mackinaw 
9:20 a m 
For Saginaw A  Traverse  C ity..  8:00 p m 
For  Petoskey A Mackinaw.......   8:10 p m 
From Kalamazoo and Chicago.  8:35 p m 
except Sunday.

South.
7:00 a m
11:45  a m
2:00  pm
8:00  p m
11:05 p m
Trains leaving at 6:00 p. m. and 11:05 p. m. run daily; 

North. 
For  Cincinnati.............................   6:20 a m 
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago... 
For Fort Wayne and the  East..  11:50 a m 
For  Cincinnati.............................   5:30 p m 
For  Chicago.................................. 10:40pm  
From Saginaw...............................10:40 p m
all other trains daily except Sunday.

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana«
10:10 a m 
7:00  am  
4:40 pm  
11:85 am  
9:05 p m
5:40 p m

From Muskegon—Arrive.

SLEEPING  A  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE.

11:30 a m train«—Parlor chair  car  G’d 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
10:30 p m train.—Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw. 
S O U T H —7 : 0 0  am train.-Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
11:45 am   train.—Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
6:00  pm  train.—Wagner Sleeping  Car 
Grand  Rapids to Cincinnati.
11;05 p in train.—Wagner Sleeping Car 
Grand Rapids to Chicago.________________

Chicago via G. R.  & I. R. R.

Lv Grand  Rapids* 
ArrChicago 

11:45 a  m  8:00 p m 
5:85p  m  9:00pm  

11.05 p m
6:50am
11:45 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.
11:05 p m train daily, through Wagner  Sleeping Car. 
11:15p m
5:15  am
3:10  p  m  through  Wagner  Parlor  Car.  11:15  p  m 

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

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

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

Railway.

Toledo,  Ann  Arbor  St  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 at......7:15 a. m. and 1:00 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t ............   12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m.
Lv. Grand Rapids a t......6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t..............12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m.

v i a   d ., a. a. & v.

VIA  D ., L .  A  N .

Return connections equally as good.

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

Playing Carls

WE  ÄRE  HEADQUARTERS

SEN D  FOR PRICE LIST.

Daniel  Lynch,

19  8. Ionia St., Grand  Kapids.

CHUS.  fl.  GOYE.

MANUFACTURER OF

Horse and Wagon Covers
Hammocks and Cotton  Clicks

JOBBERS OF

SEND FOR PRICE LIST.

11  Pearl  81,  Grand  Rapids,

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Michig an fTBrcrwar.

“ The Niagara Falls Route."

DEPART.  A RRIV E
Detroit Express....................................  7 .00 am   10:00 p m
Mixed  ....................................................7.05 am   4 30 pm
Day  Express........................................  1:20pm  10:00 a m
•Atlantic A Pacific Express..............10 30 p m 
6 00am
New York Express...............................5:40 p m  18 .40 p m

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

Frkd M. Briggs, Gen'l Agent. 85 Monroe St.
A. Almquist, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Gko. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. 
O. W. Rugqles  G. P.  A  T. Agent.,Chicago.
Detroit

GRANPMEN TIME  TABLE

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave »No.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18j*No.  82
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
10 55pm 
Ionia...........Ar
12 37am 
1 55am 
St.  Johns  ...Ar
3 15am
Owosss........Ar
6 45am
E. Saginaw .  Ar
7 A:2ain 
Bay City......Ar
5  40am 
Flint  .......... Ar
7 30am 
Pt.  Huron...Ar
5 37am 
Pontiac....... Ar
7  00am
Detroit.........Ar

10 20am
11 25am
12 17pm 
1 20pm 
3 (5pm 
3 45pm 
3 45pm 
6 00pm
3 05pm
4 05pm

6 50am
7 45am
8 30am
9 05am
10 45am
11 30am
10 U5am
11 55am
10 53am
11 50am
WESTWARD.

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
ô 65pm 
8  0pm 
8 45pm 
715pm 
8 0  pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

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

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M 20pm 
7 05am
11 20pm 
8 35am 
6 30am
 

1  oOpm
2 10pm

5  10pm
6  15pm 
6 30am 
6 00am

»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.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parler  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 o hn W. L o u d , Traffic Manager.
B en F l e t c h e r , Trav. Pass. Agent.
J as.  Ca m p b e l l, City Ticket Agent.

CHICAGO 

23 Monroe Street
JAN’Y3-18iB-
AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R T .
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv.GR'D RAPIDS.......9:00am  12:05pm *ll:?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  PRO31  BENTON  HARBOR, ST.  JOSEPH  AND 
Lv. Grand Rapids.  ...  9:00am  12:05pm  *11:35pm
Ar. Grand Rapids  __»0:10am  3:55pm  10:10pm

INDIANAPOLIS.

For Indianapolis 12:05 p m only.

TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

Lv.  G. R......  lO-.OCam  12 05pm  5:30pm  8:30pm
Ar.  G. R.......10:55am  3 55pm  5:25pm 
...........
TO AND  FROM  M A N ISTEE, 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 Kapids *11:35 p m.; leave 
Chicago  11:15  pm.  Parlor  Buffet  Cars—Leave 
Grand Rapids 12:05 p m ;  leave Chicago 4 ;45 p m. 
Free Chair Cars—Leave  Grand  Rapids 9:00 a m; 
leave Chicago 9:00 a m.
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Manistee—Free 
C h a i r  Car—Leaves Grand Kapils 5:17 pm; leaves 
Manistee 6:50 a m.
D E T R O IT , 

JA*’Y3’-1-892
I,A N S IN O   &   N O R T H E R N   R .  R .
GOING TO  DETROIT.

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. GR’D  RAPIDS......7:15am »1:00pm  5:40pm
Ar. DDTROIT..............12:00 m  *5:liipm  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  SA GINAW ,  ALMA  AND ST. LOUIS.
Lv. Grand  Rapids..................... 7:05am  4:15pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids..................... 11:50am  10:40pm
Lv. Grand Rapids...........  7:15am  1:00pm  5:40pm
Ar. from Lowell..............11:50am 5:15pm 
........
Between  Grand  Rapids [and  Detroit—Parlor 
cars on all trains.  Seats 25 cents.
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Saginaw—Parlor 
car  leaves  Grand  Kapids  7:05  am ;  arrives in 
Grand Rapids 7:40 p m.  Seats 25 cents.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

T O   L O W E L L   V IA   L O W E L L   £   H A S T IN G S   B .  R .

»Every day.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeIIAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.
STUDY  LA W
Take a course In the 

AT  HOM E.

S p r a g u e   C o r r e s p o n ­
d e n c e   S c h o o l o f  L a w  
[Incorporated].  Bend  ten 
cents [stamps] for particu 
lars to
J.  COTNER, Jr., Sec’y, 
No.  375 Whitney Block, 
DETROIT,-  MICH.

20

THE  MICHIG^lSr  TRADESMAN,

The  V illage  Politician.

beg;
jaw,

before,
floor;

work—
Turk.

tection,
election;

SIttin’ on a cracker box, a barrel or a keg; 
Chawin' on  tabacker  be  has  been  obleeged to 
Whittlin'  of  a  splinter  while a workin’  of  his 
Sayin’ what a pity his opinions ain’t the law; 
Runnin’  the  hull  country  as  'twas  never  run 
Turnin' out  the rascals while  he spits  upon  the 
Showin’ of the President egzactly what to do, 
Keepin’ things in general from  gettin’ in a stew. 
Grumblin'  over  Wall  street,  monopoly  and 
Wife  at  home  a  hoein' in  the  cornfield  like  a 
Fig'rin' on  the  cornin' nominations  purty close, 
Givin' to the other  side a mighty sick’nin’ dose; 
Talkin'  tariff  and  reform,  McKinley  and  pro­
Sweatin’ that the earth won't move a peg before 
Givin’  lazy  congressmen  a needed  rakin’  over, 
Settin’ there in Washington like well-fed pigs in 
Givin' Gould and Vanderbilt a pointer here  and 
Showin' Jest how surely one can be a millionaire. 
Payin' off the nation's debt as easy as a wink. 
Borrowin' a dime to get  himself  another  drink. 
Spankin’ little Chili jest to show her how it feels 
Sassin' back Great Britain for pesterin’ our seals, 
Tellin’ of the czar to let them  nihilists alone, 
Helpin'  Kaiser  William  to  prop up  his  shaky 
Builain’ a great  navy with  an  hour  or  two  of 
Lettin’ the  hull  world  know  that  we're  rabid, 
Gettin' off  his  high  horse, though  when  home 
Dodgin' creditors like an ordinary sinner; 
Jumps to hear  his  first-born  yell, “You’d  better 
Plour’nd  coffee's plum  give  out,  ’nd  mother’s 

throne.
guff,
rude and rough;
he goes to dinner,

clover;
there,

watch out. dad!
mighty mad.’’

Reach  the  Top  by  W ell  Doing:.

things 

Surrendering  to  difficulties  or  bad 
habits is a bad  business. 
It  is  weaken­
ing  and  disgraceful.  When  a  strong 
man  says,  "I’m  going  to  conquer,” he 
generally  succeeds.  When  a  weakling 
says it,  he fails.  The boy who goes  into 
an office to reach the  top—determined  to 
do it—doesn’t  stop  short  of  the  mark. 
He is in  to  win  and  so  takes  precious 
good  care  of  his  mind,  his  body,  and 
morals.  He  seizes  hold  of  everything 
that  contributes  to  his  advancement; 
obstacles in  the  way  are  to  him  stimu­
lants.  He  has 
learned  and  uses  the 
grand old Bible maxim,  “If  you  faint  in 
the day  of  adversity  your  strength  is 
small.”  Nothing pleases  a  father  more 
than  to  see  his  boy  sweating  and  pro­
gressing through hard  places. 
It proves 
that he has the stuff in him.  Wilting and 
whining are not in his line—not his way. 
Enduring  hard 
superb 
is  a 
quality.  The  finest  epitaph 
the 
in 
English  language  is 
this—“He  died 
trying.”  He  is  a  rare  specimen  who 
hasn’t  met  hard  lines—some  time  or 
other through life—and one can’t  be  too 
grateful for the  hard  things  he  met  by 
the  way  and  conquered.  The  richness 
was  in  the  overcoming.  He  weathered 
storm,  saved vessel, cargo and character. 
That  was  a  brave  girl  who  seized  a 
burglar the other evening  and  held  him 
until the officer came.  She is entitled to 
a good husband and a  good  home.  May 
she have  both  right  away.  The  world 
admires heroines, and there are  many  of 
them in country and town.  Do  they  not 
endure  hardships  with  more  patience 
than  men?  Yes,  of  cousre  they  do. 
Many of  the  hard  cruel  things  of  life 
which one  encounters  in  the  afternoon 
come from imprudences in the  forenoon. 
Here  a  bad  beginning  doesn’t  make  a 
good ending.  Mastering  difficulties  and 
crucifying temptations make a delightful 
memory,  and what greater joy than that. 
It is a joy one can have  without  the  ex­
penditure of money.  That’s  one  of  the 
beauties of it. 
In the  army  and  in  the 
counting-house 
the  man  who 
masters things who  is  sent  on  honored 
missions. 
In every little group  of  men 
there are picked ones—fellows  on  whom 
the captain can depend—ones  who  don’t

is 

it 

bury their talents  in  a  napkin  but  who
make the most  of  themselves  and  their 
surroundings.  On  their  path  are  no 
stones left  unturned.  Do  you  want  to 
be a success  in  this  life  and  the  next? 
If  so,  obey  St.  Paul  by  keeping  your 
body in subjection.  Avoid  doing  works 
for repentence.  The crowd do that.  Be 
against the crowd.  Make your business 
a success by handling wisely  your  many 
opportunities.  Reach  the  top  by  well 
doing. 

G e o .  R.  S cott.

Grit makes the m an;
The want of it the chump;
The men who win lay hold,
Hang on, and hump.

Unpolluted !

v^r®00DS
/  
t h is  m o o c t X M  
< Afcwn GUARANTEED^» 
^TO  BE  GROUND FROM ^ 
THE  FINEST  SELECTED 
SjWHOLE SPICES AH»TO BE^
Xnabsolute LY PU PE^l

A B SO LU TE LY   P U R E

P E P P E R

EDWIN. J .  GILLIES  &  CO.
2 4 5  TO 2 4 9   W A S H IN G TO N   ST  NEW YORK .

Sole Owners of

CRESCENT  MOCHA, Genuine Arabian
BLENDED  DIAMOND  JAVA,  Most  De­

licious.

STAR  MARACAIBO, High  Mountain. 
GLOBE  RIO,  Old  Golden.
BEE  HIVE  TEAS, Full Strength and Fine 

Flavor.

J.  P.  V IS N E R ,

Ben i Representative, 167 Ji.Jonia St.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

The 

Last 
Drop
Is as  good as the 
first.  No  dresrs. 
All pure and whole- 
* 
some.  The most 

popular drink of the day.

H ire s ’l l .

A perfect thirst quencher.

Don't be deceived  if a dealer, for the take 
of larger  profit,  tells  you some other kind 
is **just as good"—'tis false«  No imhatiog 
Is as good as the genuine Hires*.

GXXTSBXTC  R O O T.
PPP1T  DDflQ  W holesale  D ruggists 
r jjV /A .  Jj I I U O ij 

We pajr th e  highest price for tt.  Address

GRAND  RAPIDS

Do YoO Riln a Store?

IF  SO

COUPON  BOOKS

AJRE  E X ACTLY  WHAT  YOU NEED!

BETTER than any other Conpon  System  and  FAR SUPERIOR to

PUNCH,  BRASS  OR  PAPER  CHECKS.

We can refer yon to Hundreds of Merchants who are using Our System, who would not 

run their stores without it.  Writ« for particulars, prices and free samples to

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

Original and  Largest  Manufacturers  of  Coupon*. Books in  the United  States.

lOO  L o u is  S treet, 

G rand  R a p id s,  M ieh.

THE  ONLY

Right  Mm  for  Butter.

Parchment Lined Paper Pails for 

3, 5 and 10 lbs.

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

DETROIT,  MICH.

LEMONS!

It  will  be  a  good  idea  to  order  25 

boxes  before  it  gets  warm.

T here’s  m oney in such  a  purchase. 
G et  our  prices.

PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.

A^cru,  u x v v \ f c  t% v u í> C t£ .

THE
NATIONAL,
No.  33,
Evidence  that  The  National IS  the  Best.

Price,$20.

C O M B I N A T I O N

L O C K .

W I T H

The   “  Cashier ”   is o f  no  Use.

H e  R eturned the  Peck.

S t .  L ouis,  M o.,  March  15,  1892. 

There  is  not  the  slightest  comparison  between  the  American 
Cashier  and  the  National  Cash  Register.  Yours  is  a  register  in 
every  sense  of  the  word,  while  the  American  Cashier  is  a  slight 
improvement  over  an  ordinary  memorandum  book.

A.  IT.  S ippy,  Prescription  Druggist,

Vandeventer  and  Finney  Aves.

The  “ Cashier”  is  no  Protection.

S t.  L ouis,  M o.,  April  4,  1892.

I  have  this day ordered  a  National  Cash  Register,  at  the  same 
time  disposing  of  the  one  I  had in  my place  of  business,  called  the 
Cashier  for  the  following  reasons:  The  Cashier  is  really  no  pro­
tection  against  mistakes,  and  it  requires  too  long  to  figure  it  up, 
Consequently  taking  too  much  of  the valuable  time  of  any  person 
doing  any  amount  of  business. 

M.  E.  F riedevvald,

Druggist.

W ould not keep  the  “ Cashier."

M an ch e ste r,  I a.,  April  14,  1892.

After  having  used  the  American  Cashier  Register  for  18 
months,  I  find  it  does  not  prove  successful  enough  to  keep  it 
longer.  The  National  Cash  Register  I  considered  so  much better, 
even  considering  the  price  and  all,  that  I  finally  made  the change, 
and  am  well  pleased  with  the  way  the  National  works. 
I  think  it 
f u l l y   pays  for  the  difference  in  cost. 

H enry  G oodh ile,

General  Store.

H olland,  M ich.,  April  5,  1892.

I  have  returned  this  day  a  Peck  Cash  Register  and  bought  a 
No.  33  National  Cash  Register  in  place  of  same,  which  I  think  is 
much  easier  to  operate  and  better in  construction  than  P eck’ s. 
I 
am  well  pleased  with  it. 

J ohn  P essin k,

Baker  and  Confectioner.

Countermanded  T heir  O rder fo r  the  Peck.

C adillac,  M ic h .,  April  8,  1S92.

W e  have  this  day  countermanded  our  order  foi  a  Peck  Cash 
Register,  and  have  ordered  one  of  the  National  Registers,  No.  33» 
same  bein.;  less  than  one-half  the  cost  of  the  Peck  Register.

W ilcox  B ros.,  Grocers.

D iscarded the  Peck.

That  I  have  seen  fit  to  discard  my  Peck  Cash  Register for one 
of  your  No.  3  National  Cash  Registers,  shows  for  itself  what  1 
think  of  the  value  and  usefulness of  the two machines.  Of  course, 
Peck’s  Cash  Register  is  not  to  be  compared  with your  National 
Cash  Register for  simplicity  and  usefulness,  to  say nothing  of  the 
labor  saved  in  adding  up  itemized  figures for the entire day’s  busi­
ness,  which  has  to  be  done  by  users of  the  Peck  machine.

G u stav  G eiss,  Evansville,  Ind.

We  Make  34  Different  Styles  of  Registers.

PRICES:  $15,  $20,  $25,  $30,  $50,  $65,  $75,  $100,  $125,  $150,  $175,  $200, $225 and  $250.

Q w r  UuuU¿tíM a w  adaffidL to  M

T H E   N A TIO N A L  CASH  REGISTER  CO.,  DAYTON,  OHIO.

L E J O H S T - A - R X )   &

GRAND  RADIUS,  MICH.

Jobbers of  Seasonable Goods.

If  y o u   a re  a  d e a le r   an d   h a v e   n o t  r ec e iv ed   o n e   o f  o u r  n e w   1 8 9 2   C a ta lo g u es, 
N o   108, a sk   for it  a n d   w e   w ill  sen d   it  at o n ce.

Adjustable  Chairs,  HammoGks,  Spreaders,  Rope  and  Hooks.

Peerless Hammock Spreader,

away,  no 

This cut shows the chair 
folded for shipping or put­
ting 
levers, 
ratchets or  screws to man­
ipulate: no chance to pinch 
your  fingers  while  swing­
ing.

Steel  Automatic  Friction  Acting  Swinging,  Porch  or 
Lawn Chairs,  self-adjusting to any position from upright 
to horizontal.

No.  250—Gray,  India Hemp,  with 
braided  edge,  Mexican  weave, 
6 ft. 
clinched thimbles......................  6 ft.

13 ft. 8  7  00

rth body. Fill length- Net per doz.

No.  250 — Colored,  India  Hemp, 

with  braided  edge,  Mexican 
weave, clinched  thimbles.  .

6 ft. 

13 ft

8  00

6 ft. 6 in  14 ft.

12  40

No. 88—Colored, India and Sisal 
hemp,  with braided edge, Mex­
ican weave, clinched thimbles

7 ft. 

14 ft.

No.  265—Colored,  braided  sisal, 

7 ft. 
improved  Mexican weave.........  7 ft.

I
No. 71—Knotted  linen,  improved 
.  7 ft. 

Mexican weave, oval  thimbles
No. 72—Colored,  linen, knotted 

10  95

14  00

23  50

14 ft.

14 ft.

edge,  improved Mexican weave, 
oval thimbles............................. 7 ft.  8 in.  16 ft.

' 7 ft.  8 in.  16 ft. 35  50

BRBY  HUMMOCKS.

No.  1—Baby, rope knotted, cotton, 4 ft.  6 ft. 9 in.  3  85

FRNGY  FRINGED  HRMM0GK8,

No. 2265—Colored, knotted sisal, 
improved Mexican weave, oval
thimbles and fringe.

7 ft. 

14 ft. 

25  35

is made of a solid piece of Hard Wood  bent  bow 
shape 'with hooks on its lower edge.  It is designed 
to sustain a heavy weight, and is so simple in it - 
construction  and application,  that all will under­
stand hpw to use it.  Many imitations  have  been 
offered to the public, but none possess the qualitiei 
that have made the Peerless Spreader so popular.

Peerless Stretchers.

Net  per  doz. 
.........  
85

Aurora  Stretchers....... ............................ 
AnchorHammockRope

80

Patented May 3d, 1881.

iTfflS IS THE BESTDEVICE EVEROFFEBED
FOB FASTENING UP A HAMMOCK. 
You can put it up and take it down in an instant^ 
without tying a knot.  By sliding the anchor upand 
down the ropo you can regulate the height of the
TTmmmnAfo

Anchor  Rope.............................................  

8°

p rim »
¡Bumi

Leiter Rope.  This is the latest hammock 

rope and fastener. 

It is safe and sure

No. 86—Knotted cotton,  im­

proved Mexican weave,  with
oval thimbles and fringe----  7 ft.  8 in.  16 ft. 

45  00

No.  98.

No. 98—Bright  tinned  hammock  hooks, 
the back  piece is 2 in.  square;  hook  is
3 in.  long, extra strong.............. ..........
No.  48—Screw hook..................................

“0

Same chair in a different position.

Tbe  Wayne  Steel  Sw u m   Clair.

Leads all others,  trimmed with striped sateen 

finished duck.

Net each......................................................................00

In half dozen lots, 84.50 each net.

