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W H E fact that a coffee is a Java does not always Imply 
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institution 

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167  No.  Ionia  St., Grand  Rapids, M ich.

A VENTURE  WITH  DEATH.

In Southeastern Arizona there is a tract 
of land large enough to make  an Eastern 
State. 
It is known as the Apache Indian 
Reservation,  and it is  there  that  the In­
dians of that  tribe  are  kept  under close 
military  surveillance.  Years  ago  the 
surveillance  would  occasionally  relax, 
and  then  there  would  be  an  outbreak. 
A  trail  of  blood  would  be  marked  out 
toward  Mexico,  and the  vultures  would 
come in  crowds,  as  if  from  all over  the 
West,  to enjoy the  banquet prepared for 
in  the  dead,  whose  bodies, 
them 
first 
when 
glisten 
with 
snowy  whiteness 
the  daz­
zling sunlight, so that you could see them 
dotting  the  plains  from  afar  off,  while 
the hot winds from the south that tanned 
your face would be heavy  with the smell 
of human carrion.

killed,  would 
in 

It is  not so now,  for better watch and 
ward is  kept by  the soldiers.  But when 
it was so, there were four men  who went 
into  this Apache country to prospect for 
the mines from  which,  in  the  old  days, 
the  Indians  obtained  the  silver  out  of 
which  they  would  mould  bullets  when 
they  could  not  get  lead.  Many  a man 
has lost his life searching for these mines, 
and  many  more  will  doubtless  do  the 
same before they  are  discovered.  This, 
though,  will never deter  men from mak­
ing the  effort,  so  long  as  men  have  the 
right  to  take  their  lives  in  their bands 
and wager them against wealth.

Of these four men, one was Harry Bar­
rett.  He was  young,  and  had,  as  many 
young men have,  and  as  all  young  men 
should  have, a  girl  with  whom  he  was 
very much in love,  and  to whom he  was 
engaged to be married. 
It was probably 
this,  more than  anything  else that made 
him so desirous of growing suddenly rich 
by  finding  the  treasure  mines  of  the 
Apaches, for,  when a young man is truly 
in  love,  his  greatest  regret  is  that  he 
does not  own  the  wealth of  the  Indies 
and possess the power of the Czar to aug­
ment his  importance  in  the  eyes of  the 
woman  in whom  he  is so  deeply  inter­
ested.  This was so  with Harry  Barrett, 
and  when  old  Jeff  Bramlett,  who  had 
prospected 
for  these  same  mines  for 
twenty years or  more,  came  to him with 
his  map  of  the  country  in  which  they 
were  supposed  to  exist,  Harry was  not 
long in growing enthusiastic,  and believ­
ing what was told  him,  for  the  prospect 
of  great  wealth  is  always  intoxicating. 
The map was old  and  frayed  and faded, 
for  many another  man  had  fingered  it, 
to his sorrow.  That counted for naught, 
though, with Harry.  When the day came 
for the party to start out on their search, 
he was  the  most light-hearted of  all,  es­
pecially  when  he  lagged  behind to kiss 
his  hand  to  the  girl  for  whose sake he 
desired  wealth,  and  who  stood  at  the 
door of her father’s  house watching him 
while  she  saw  in  vision  the  beautiful 
things  that  the  future  had  in  store for 
them  both.  The  wealth 
that  Harry 
might discover was not necessary to make 
her picture  of the future bright. 
If  she 
only  could  have  Harry,  that  was  suffi­
cient,  and when he  had passed  from her

sight she turned away humming the song 
he  most  liked,  while  thinking  of  the 
pleasures that awaited his return.

For months there  had  been no rumors 
of Indian disturbances.  There had been 
peace on the reservation so long that men 
had ceased to give its dangers a thought, 
as men who  live  in the  shadows of  vol­
canoes live  day  after day  unthinking of 
the  hour  that  will find  them  buried be­
neath its lava.  To the  undertaker noth­
ing  is  so  commonplace  as  death, while 
the headsman in  time sees nothing  nota­
ble in an execution,  save  whether  or not 
the  ax  finds  its  way  through  one neck 
easier than through  another.  And  so  it 
is with danger,  for when  it  is ever pres­
ent  men  grow  callous  to  it,  no  matter 
how  great  it  may  be.  So  it  was  with 
Harry Barrett and his  comrades.  While 
the  girl  who  was  awaiting  his  return 
might have  occasionally  thought of  the 
risks that  the  little  party  ran,  the  men 
never felt  any  anxiety,  or,  if  they  did, 
subdued it without  openly expressing it.
For the first few days  they found indi­
cations  of  rich  silver  deposits—indica­
tions that were  so rich  that they made  a 
permanent  camp,  intending  to  examine 
the ledges that  criss-crossed the country 
thoroughly.  They  had seen no  Indians, 
and expected none.  One day, though, as 
they sat at  dinner,  a shot  came from out 
the pines,  and  before  the  echo  had died 
away,  it  was  followed  by  a  score  of 
others.  Old  Jeff  Bramlett,  who  was  to 
have led them to untold  wealth,  dropped 
the tin plate  from  which  he  was  eating 
on  the  ground.  Not  abruptly  but  so 
gently that it hardly  made a sound;  and, 
as it fell,  he  apparently  made  an  effort 
to rise to  his  feet, only  to  fall  face for­
ward  into the fire,  where  still  simmered 
the uneaten portion of the noonday meal.
The  three  remaining  men  sprang  to 
their feet unharmed,  and  rushed  to seek 
cover behind trees  and boulders,  picking 
up the arms  that  came  nearest  to  their 
hands.  As  Barrett  passed  the  fire  he 
drew from  it  the  body  of  the  old  man. 
The  face  was  covered  with  ashes  and 
blood,  while the long hair and open shirt 
were smoking from the  contact with  the 
coals.  The  limp  body  and  the  relaxed 
jaw told how  suddenly  death had  come.

TW ENTY
THOUSAND
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As the  young  man  threw  the  body to j be only with the greatest effort  that they 
one side from the fire and sank under the ! could  escape,  as  the  Indians  had  prob-
ably  discovered  the  direction  in  which 
cover of a boulder,  he  glanced  in the di­
they were going,  and  would endeavor  to 
rection from  which  the  shots had come, 
intercept them.  As they pushed forward 
but could  see  nothing.  As  he  watched, 
with renewed haste, the  man  in the rear 
there  would  occasionally  rise  puffs  of 
suddenly slipped  and  fell, carrying with 
white smoke,  followed by the report of  a 
him his two comrades.  The fall was but 
rifle,  and  he  would 
in  return. 
a slight one.  The  little  pebbles  it  had
Through the whole afternoon  never once
did he see an Indian’s face or form.  Af-  started had hardly  ceased  rolling before
two of  the men were again on their feet, 
ter the first surprise, the three had called 
picking  up their  arms.  Harry  tried  to 
to  one  another,  and  were  rejoiced 
to 
join them and rose  to  his  feet,  but  only 
know that  none was hit.  The oldest had 
to fall again.
taken the direction of affairs.

fire 

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“Boys,  tell Mattie how it was, and give 
her what I’ve got in town.” ' At the men­
tion of  the girl’s  name,  there  came into 
the voice the  unsteady  strangeness  that 
was there when  he first told  them  that he | 
was  hurt,  while  in  the  moonlight  they 
could  see  there  were  tears  in  his  eyes. 
For  an  instant  the  wounded  man  was 
ilent,  and  then  he  added:  “You  had 
better take my  arms  with you;  you  may 
need them.”

As he finished speaking,  he  cocked the 
evolver  and  placed  it  to his  head;  but 
before he  could press the trigger, one  of 
the men grasped his hand aud exclaimed: 

“Don’t do that! ”
“Yes, you are right.  The report would 
betray us,” said the  wounded man,  as he 
lowered  the  weapon.  “Give  me  that 
knife,  instead.”

I didn’t  mean  it  that  way,” said  the 
man  who had made the remark,  ashamed 
that the true feelings which had prompt­
ed  it had been perceived by the wounded 
man. 
“Don’t  kill  yourself.  We  will 
tay  with  you,  aud  we  may  yet  pull 
through.”

The  wounded  man  shook  his  h^ad 
quietly.  The  tone  of  the  speaker told 
him  as  plain as any  words  could  have 
done,  that there  was  but  one  chance  of 
escape for  any of  them.  He  took  from 
the belt  the  man  mechanically  handed 
him,  in compliance  with his request,  his 
heavy  hunting  knife,  and  leaned  back 
full length  in the  shadow of  the canon. 
The men  who  stood  watching  him  saw 
his  eyes  close  and  his  lips  moving  in 
prayer, but only for an instant, and then, 
without looking  up,  he said:

“Good-bye,  boys;  I hope  you  will  get 

his comrades.

way,” he replied.

“ I  think I have  sprained  my leg some 

The two men assisted him to arise,  but 
when  he  was  on  his  feet,  his  left  leg 
seemed to be  without  life, so  far  as any 
control  of  the  muscles  of  it  was  con­
cerned.  He tried to  step  forward,  but it 
dragged  as if it were paralyzed.  A cold 
sweat broke out  all over him,  and  when 
one of  the men  who  supported him said: 

“This is hell! ”
It sounded like a sentence of death. 
“ Can’t  you move  at  all?”  said one of 
his comrades,  his voice  betraying his de­
sire to  be  once  more on  his way toward 
the settlements.  They  were  still stand­
ing where  they  had  fallen  in the moon­
light, and one of them  noticing it, led  the 
way back into the shadow.

“No,  I  am  afraid 

it  is  broken,” 
answered  the  disabled  man.  His  voice 
sounded strange and changed.  He could 
hardly 
it.  The  dead  man 
whom  they  had  left  lying  back  by the 
camp-fire  seemed  very  near to him,  and 
in  bis fear  aud pain  he wondered if  the 
Indians bad mutilated him  much.

recognize 

“Hold your  ammunition,  aud  wait un­
til to-night, and then we will  break  back 
for the canon and try  to reach the settle­
ments.  There are  too many of them for I 
us to stand off,” he  said,  and  so through | 
the long afternoon they waited.  The fire 
they  kindled  burned out,  and  the  body 
of  the dead man beside it grew cold  and 
rigid.  The  blood no  longer flowed from 
the wound.  When the wind  would  blow 
the ashes from the  coals left  by the fire, 
they  would  still  glow,  as  if  in mockery 
of  the  quick  death  that  had  overtaken 
the outstretched form  beside them.

When darkness  had  come, 

the  three 
men  gradually  crept  back— keeping 
as  closely  together  as  poss ble—in  the 
direction  of  the  canon  behind 
them. 
Occasionally out of  the  darkness  would 
come a flash of  light  from a rifle fired  in 
their  direction.  To  these,  at first,  they 
replied;  but  when they had got some dis­
tance from the camp where the dead man 
lay, they rose to their feet, and as rapidly 
and noiselessly  as  possible  retreated  to 
the canon.  No one spoke, but each knew 
that the faces of  his comrades were,  like 
his  own,  glowing  with  that  feeling  of 
gratitude  that  comes  only  when  a man 
has escaped almost certain  death.  They 
would never  see the  man  they  had  left 
behind again;  but, after  all,  he  was  old 
and alone in the world, while they—well, 
with  them  life was  sweeter  and  dearer 
than it could  possibly have  been to him. 
To  Harry,  at  least,  it  seemed so.  What 
would the girl have  done had  he instead 
been killed,  aud lying  back  there by the 
deserted camp-fire to be mutilated beyond 
recognition  when  his  body  should pass 
into  the  hands  of 
the  Apaches?  By 
morning  they  would  be  within  a  few 
miles of  the settlements,  and they  would 
be safe. 
It was so dark that they had  to 
use both hands  and  feet in feeling  for  a 
footway  down  through  the canon.  Still 
they were making good progress. 
It was 
hardly  midnight,  and  they  must  have 
left their camp at least a dozen  miles be­
hind.  They could  not  be over thirty  or 
forty  miles  from 
the  settlements,  and, 
once out of  the  canon,  they  would  soon 
soon  travel  that  distance.  The  moon 
would  soon  be high  in  the  heavens  aud 
that would  help them;  but it  would also 
bring aid to the pursuers, raging at their 
escape. 
Its light  was already beginning 
to fill the mountain sides and canon with 
strange and  uncouth  shadows.

The three  men  kept  closely  together, 
as if  relying  on  one  another  for  assist­
ance.  As  they  climbed  down  through 
the  canon they  remained  on  its  darkest 
side,  in order  to  avoid  any  possible dis 
covery,  although  it made  their  narrow 
footway  still  more  dangerous.  Far  be 
hind them they  could  see on the mount 
ain side a blaze of  light,  and  they knew 
it was a signal of  their escape. 
It  made 
them  push forward  with  still greater ex­
ertion, for now  they  knew  that the pur 
suit was close behind,  and  that it  would

The two  men  laid him down,  and  one, 
taking  the  disabled  limb  in  his  hand, 
moved  it  gently  back  and forth, and  in 
an  instant moved  his hand far  up on  the 
thigh.

“Yes, it’s broken there.  You  can  feel 
the ends of  the bones.” .  As  he  said  it 
he glanced from the face of the wounded 
man 
into  that  of  his  other  comrade. 
Even  in  the  shadow  the  wounded  man 
caught the expression on the faces of the 
two men  and knew that they were think 
ing  how  long  it  would  be  before  the 
Apaches would overtake them if they re­
mained  there.  Both  had  seated  them­
selves by  his side  in the shadow,  so that 
if their  pursuers  were  near  they  would 
offer a poor  target.

“Don’t you  think  you  can limp along 

without our help?” asked one.

“No,  it’s  no use,  boys, I  could  never 
get through  the  canon.  You  will  have 
to leave  me. 
If  I tried, they  would  at­
tack  us  before  daybreak.”  As  he  said 
this, he unbuckled  the belt  from around 
his waist,  with  its  gleaming row of  car­
tridges,  and handed it to one of the men, 
after taking the revolver from its hostler.
“ Well,  we  ain’t  going  to  leave you,” 

said one of his  comrades.

“Boys,  that is nonsense,”  said the  dis­
abled  man.  His  voice  was so calm  and 
clear  that it  surprised  him.  “You  can 
do me no good by staving, and there  will 
be  three  instead  of  one  to die.  By  to­
morrow  morning,  you  can  be  within 
reach  of  the  settlements  and  safe,  but 
my time has  come.”

The two men  looked  at  each  other  in 
silence.  After all,  it  was  but  true  that 
nothing  would  be  gained by  their stay­
ing.  They had  both  risen  to  their feet 
like men  who had been given a new hope

through,”

There  was  not a  quaver in  his voice. 
As he finished, the  men  turned  away  so 
as not to  see him,  each  saying softly,  as 
if speaking to himself:
“Good-bye,  Harry.”
As they stood  looking  down the moon­
lit canon, they could  hear  behind them, 
where  the wounded  man  lay,  sounds as 
if  he  were  choking  and  gasping  for 
breath.  When  they  no  longer  heard 
them,  they  looked  toward  where he lay. 
The  white  breast,  where  the  opened 
bosom  of  the  shirt  exposed  it  In 
the 
hadow,  looked  as  if  stained  with  ink 
where  the  blood  had 
touched  it,  and 
across it lay the  uerveless hand that had 
held the knife.

For  an  instant  the  two  men  looked 
down  upon  the  body  with  awe,  as  if 
afraid that the open  eyes were  watching 
them.  Then  one placed  his  hand  over 
the heart of the outstretched form,  shud­
dering as he  felt  how  warm  it  was. 
It 
seemed  unnatural  that  it should  be  so 
with a dead man.  For a moment he held 
it there,  aud then,  wiping  from it  on the 
shirt  of  the  dead  man  the  blood  that 
stained  it, he  arose  and  said,  in  answer 
to  his  comrade’s  look,  and  in almost  a 
whisper,  as if  fearing to be  heard by the 
spirit that had just  departed:

“ Yes,  he is dead.”
And then  the  two  survivors  took the 
dead man’s arms and pushed forward  in­
to the night toward the settlements, leav­
ing behind  them,  in  the  stillness of  the 
moonlit canon,  a white,  upturned face to 
await the early dawn,  when  the  Indians 
would slash  it  so  that  even  the  girl  in 
the settlement,  who  had  so  often kissed 
it would not know it.

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v  v   Wagons  They are daisies—the  finest in 
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of  everybody.  Don’t  fail to get  our  catalogue 
and  prices  before you  buy.  Prompt  attention 
given to all  communications.

Benton  Maoofactorii  Co.,

Manufacturers of

Boy’s  Carts,  Express  Wagons, 

Children’s  Sleighs, Etc.

POTTER VILLE,  MICHIGAN.

H irth  &  K r a u s e

JO B B ER S  OF

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12-14  LYON  ST., 

GRAND  R A PID S.

POSSIBLE CURRENCY CONTRACTION 
By  dint of  calling in every dollar  due 
to  it,  and of  putting off  the payment  of 
every dollar of  debt possible,  the nation­
al treasury showed at the end of its fiscal 
year,  last  Thursday, a tolerably  respect­
able  cash  balance.  The  so-called $100,- 
000,000  gold  reserve  for the  redemption 
of  the  greenbacks was  not  only not im­
paired, but it was buttressed by a margin 
of from $14,000,000 to $15,000,000 in gold, 
and  there was on  hand  besides  enough 
silver and  legal  tenders  to  make a total 
of between $125,000,000 and $130,000,000. 
Now  that  July  1  is  passed, 
the  real 
trouble  will  begin. 
Innumerable  post­
poned claims will now press for payment, 
with not  enough  funds on  hand  to meet 
them,  the  arrears of  the  sinking  fund, 
which 1 compute at $20,000,000, will have 
to be provided for,  and  the ever swelling 
pension  list  will  resume  its  depleting 
work.

In  this  emergency  the  Treasury may 
either  go  ahead  and  boldly draw  upon 
its  gold  reserve,  trusting  to  future  in­
come receipts  to  replenish  it,  or  it  may 
borrow  money  by  selling  new  bonds. 
The indications  are  that  both  measures 
are contemplated.  The gold reserve will 
first  be  used,  and if  it cannot  otherwise 
be  replenished  bonds  will  be  sold  for 
gold to accomplish  the  purpose. 
In this 
way the borrowing of  money to meet the 
current expenses of  the government  will 
be  disguised  under  the  appearance  of 
borrowing  money to maintain  the  credit 
of our currency,  and  the odium of  finan­
cial  mismanagement  will  be  avoided. 
The question  whether  the  Secretary has 
power under  the  redemption act of  1875 
to sell bonds  for gold without  additional 
legislation  has  already  been  submitted 
to the  House  Judiciary  Committee,  and 
a favorable  report  from  them  is  confi­
dently expected.

As I  have  frequently pointed  out, the 
maintenance of a specific reserve of  gold 
in the treasury for the redemption of  the 
legal tender notes,  either to the extent of 
$100,000,000, or  to  any other  amount,  is 
nowhere required by law. 
It is true that 
about  $95,000,000  in  gold was  procured 
from the sale of bonds by Secretary Sher­
man,  in  1878, for  redemption  purposes, 
and  there  is  some  plausibility  in  con­
tending  that the  diversion of  this  $95, 
000,000 to other  uses  would  be a breach 
of  good faith toward the creditors of  the 
nation.  The  answer  to  the  proposition 
is that  nobody accepts  the  legal  tenders 
because of  the  existence of  the gold  re 
serve,  but because of  their  utility in the 
payment of  debts.  Besides,  in case of  a 
sudden  distrust  in  their  value,  nothing 
short of gold enough to redeem the entire 
issue of  $346,000,000 would keep them at 
par with  gold, since any  smaller amount 
would quickly be exhausted.

Still, the  public has  been  so  long ac­
customed  to  look upon  the  $100,000,000 
gold  fund  in  the  treasury as  a  sort  of 
palladium of  financial  safety,  that  even 
its  partial  disappearance  would  excite 
alarm  and  discredit  the  administration 
in  popular  estimation.  As  yet,  the  de 
mauds  for gold  for shipment  to  Europe 
seem to have  been  met without  drawing 
largely  upon  the  treasury, but  this  im­
munity cannot  be  expected to last  much 
longer.  A feeling of uneasiness is grow­
ing  among the officers of  banks and  the 
managers of  private banking  firms  over 
these  gold  shipments,  which  will  very 
soon lead  them to refuse to pay out  gold 
in large amounts,  and to divert the drain

from  their vaults to those of  the govern­
ment.  This  they  can  do  by  tendering! 
greenbacks  or  bullion  notes in payment | 
of  checks,  and  compelling  their  cus-1 
tomers to apply for  gold to the treasury.
If  the  treasury honors  the  drafts  thus 
made  upon  it its  stock of  free  gold will 
speedily fall below $100,000,000,  and  if it 
does not,  but  tenders only silver dollars, 
as it clearly has  the  right to do, the long 
dreaded suspension of gold payments will 
have  begun,  and  gold  coin will  go to a 
premium.  The  probability,  as  I  have 
said,  is  that  the  treasury will  pay  out 
gold  for a little while  at  least  from  its 
$100,000,000  reserve,  and,  if  it  cannot 
otherwise  replace  it,  it  will  sell  bonds 
for gold  under the  resumption act. 
It is 
essential,  however,  to the success of  this 
expedient  that  the volume of  legal  ten­
ders and of  bullion notes now in circula­
tion shall  be  diminished  somewhat,  and 
herein lies a possibility that the exigency 
of  the  government on this occasion  may 
result  in  a  contraction of  the  currency 
instead  of  the expansion  which  similar 
exigencies produced during the war.

The  demand  for  gold to send  abroad 
and  the  alarm  which it creates  in  Wall 
street,  proceed  from  the  fact  that  the 
volume  of  our  currency  is  dangerously 
near  the  limit at which it can  be  main­
tained at  par in  gold,  and  that the issue 
of bullion notes under the act of July 14, 
1890,  is  continually carrying it nearer  to 
that limit.  The  natural  cheek  to  a  re­
dundancy  of  currency  is  the  outflow of 
gold  which we  see,  but  this,  at  present, 
is only a palliation  and cannot  be a cure 
so  long as the  treasury printing  press  is 
pouring  out  more  paper  money  day  by 
day.  The next  step will  be  for our own 
citizens  to  follow the  example  of  those 
of  Europe  and  demand  gold  for  the 
national promises to pay dollars. 
If  the 
demand  is  met,  it  will,  likewise,  only 
palliate  the  evil,  since  the  paper  notes 
after  redeption  are  still  reissuable,  and 
\yhen reissued they can be used to repeat 
the  withdrawal  of  gold. 
If  gold  pay­
ments are  to  be  maintained  by  the sale 
of  bonds  for  gold,  the  further  inflation 
of  the  currency  must  be  stopped, and, 
possibly,  its volume  will  have to be con­
tracted.

To  illustrate  the  point  more  fully: 
Suppose  that  during  the new  fiscal year 
the national  revenues  fall as much short 
of  the demands  upon  them as they have 
the past year, and  that, in  order to meet 
both  the  new deficiency and  that  which 
will  be carried  over  from  this year, the 
government 
temporarily  pays  out  so 
much  gold as to leave  it  with,  say,  only 
$90,000,000  on  hand.  Seeing  this,  the 
banks will  be sure to hold  fast to all the 
gold  in  their  vaults  and  to  pay  out,  as 
far  as  possible,  only  legal  tenders  and 
silver,  Then supposing, as is very likely 
to happen,  a renewed  demand  arises  for 
gold  to send  abroad, either  the  reserve 
fund  will  have  to  be  still  further  de­
pleted or an  issue of  bonds will  have  to 
be  made, which  can  be  shipped  in  lieu 
of  gold or for  which  gold  will  be  paid 
here at home.  The sale of  bonds abroad 
may indeed stop the foreign gold demand, 
but  those which  are  issued  to  meet  de­
mands  here  for  the redemption of  legal 
tenders  and bullion  notes will  fail to ac­
complish their  purpose  unless the paper 
money  taken  in  exchange  for  them  is 
locked up or destroyed. 
If it is paid out 
again as fast as it is received it will  only 
have to be redeemed  over  again,  and the 
process  will  go  on  until  between  the

receipts  from the  sale of  bonds and  the 
regular  income of  the  government from 
customs  and  internal  revenue  the  sur­
plus  currency of  the  country remains in 
the treasury vaults, as it did  three years 
ago,  and  thus  in  a  roundabout  way we 
shall  arrive at the  result of  substituting 
in the  hands of  the public  interest-bear 
ing bonds in place of non-interest bearing I 
currency.

So  much is said  about the  function of 
the  currency  as a measure of  value  and 
a medium  for the exchange of  commodi­
ties that we are  prone to forget its quali­
ty of  being  itself  a  commodity  and  its 
subjection to the  laws of  supply and de­
mand like other commodities.  The abun­
dant crop of cotton last year, for instance, 
resulted  in  such  a  lowering of  its  ex­
changeable value that three pounds of  it 
will hardly buy as much of other articles 
as two pounds of  it did a year ago.  The 
world’s  production  of  wheat,  on 
the 
other  hand,  was so much  less  last  year 
than  usual  that  our  fortunate farmers, 
who  had a good  crop,  have  been  able to 
procure  with  it  considerably  more  of 
other  commodities  than  they  did  with 
that of  the  year  before.  So  it  is  with 
every other  product of  human  industry. 
An  increased  supply  of  corn,  tobacco, 
sugar,  coal,  iron,  copper,  and  even  of 
gold and  silver, diminishes  their  power 
of procuring  other  things  by exchange, 
and a diminished supply of them increases 
it.  This  increased  and  diminished  ex­
changeable  valve  is  measured  by  ex­
changes  for  money,  or,  as  we  say,  by 
sales,  but every sale for money is to  that 
extent  a  purchase  of  money,  and  every 
purchase of  goods is a sale of  money for 
the  articles  purchased.  An  increase  of 
the volume  of  currency in  use,  whether 
it  be  by  extraordinary  discoveries  of 
gold, such as happened in  1849, or by the 
printing of  paper  money,  as  we  have 
been  doing  for  the  last  thirty  years 
necessarily diminishes  its  exchangeable 
value  in  the  same  manner that  a  large 
crop of cotton diminishes that of  cotton, 
The result is visible in the rise of wages, 
or the price of labor, the supply of which 
has not increased  so  rapidly as  the sup 
ply of currency,  and it would show itself 
also  in a rise in  the  prices of  commodi 
ties,  had 
there  not  been  an  increase 
likewise, in  their  production  due to the 
great improvements  in  labor-saving ma 
chinerjrof  recent  years.  Still,  we  have 
created  so  much  currency  that  foreign 
countries are beginning to find it to their 
advantage  to  buy  it  with  their  goods 
and  with the  stocks  and  bonds we  sold 
them  in  former  years.  Since,  too,  we 
offer  them gold at  the  same  price as pa 
per money,  and since  they  can  use  gold 
and cannot use our paper, they naturally 
take  the  gold  and  leave  us  the  paper, 
If we do not like this we must  stop man 
ufacturing paper  money,  and  this  is the 
conclusion  to  which I trust  our  legisla­
tors will speedily come.  The Democratic 
Convention at Chicago has demanded the 
repeal of  the act  of  July  14,  1890,  and 
the  distinguished  Republican  Senator 
Mr.  Sherman, who  is  supposed  to  be its 
sponsor,  now  repudiates  it.  With  this 
act  repealed,  and  free  silver  out of  the 
way,  the  national  currency  would  need 
no further tinkering.

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A S ta te   School o f  M ining  E n g in e e rin g , g iv in g   p ra c ­
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D ire cto r, H o u g h to n , M ichigan.

TELE  MICHIGAJSr  TRADESMAN

3
S t a n w o o d   &   Co.,

Gloucester, Cape Ann, Mass. 

RECEIVE

Mactal,  Codfish,  Herrin 
! i And All Kinds of Salt Water Fish

DIRECT  FROM  THE  FISHERMEN.

Represented  in  Michigan  by  J. P. Yisner, 167 
North  Ionia St., Grand  Rapids, Mich., who will 
be pleased to quote bottom  prices that first-class 
stock can be offered at by any producer or curer.

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

Geo.  W.  Gat, Vice-President.

CAPITAL,

Wat. H. Anderson,  Cashier.
-  $300,000.

- 

Transacts a general banking business.

Make  a  specialty o f collections.  Accounts 

o f country merchants solicited.

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

JOBBERS  OF

State Agents for

158 St  180 Fulton  t1.  Grand  Rapids

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS  OF

B O S S ,  IDLER  t  GO.
Parts, Sits, Overalls

-AND-

BEMOVED  TO

2 3 -2 6   L a rn ed   St., E a st

DETROIT,  MICH.

Dealers wishing  to  look  over our  line are  in­
vited  to  address  our Western  Michigan  repre­
sentative  Ed.  Pike, 272  Fourth  avenue, Grand 
Rapids.

BUY  THE  PENINSULAR
Paits,  Shirts,  aafl  (to lls

Once and You aie our Customer 

for life.

STANTON, MOREY & C0„ Mfrs.

»  ETROIT, .MICH.

G e o . F. O w e n , Salesman  for Western  Michigan, 

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

4=

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

AMONG THE TRADE.

ABOUND  THE  STATE.

Detroit—H.  G.  Begrow,  of  the  drug 

firm of Begrow Bros.,  is dead.

Oscoda—Ernest Bros,  have bought  the 

bazaar stock of C.  F.  Maynard.

Ludington—Chas.  Kerr  has  purchased 

the meat market of  J.  H.  Briton.

Ironwood—W.  Stone  is  succeeded  by 

Stone & Eaton  iu the meat business.

Shepard—Horace  O.  Bigelow  has sold 

his general stock to H.  O. Bigelow, Jr.

Lake  Linden—Mrs.  L.  A.  Gillett has 
sold her  jewelry  stock  toJno.  Herman.
Detroit—Jas.  Craig  &  Son  succeed 
James Craig in  the  wholesale  fish  busi­
ness.

Union  City—M.  V.  Carpenter,  of  the 
dry goods firm of Hitchcock & Carpenter, 
is dead.

Reed City—Wm. Curtiss has purchased 
the  pop  and  soft  drinks  business of  R. 
Dedrick.

Kalamazoo—Wm.  S.  Jenner  succeeds 
Mattie  E.  (Mrs.  Wm.  S.)  Jenner  in  the 
grocery business.

Otsego—Mortimer  Prindle,  dealer  in 
wall  paper,  has  sold his  stock to Trues- 
dell & Derhammer.

Edmore—The grocery firm of  Richards 
& Co.  has  dissolved,  O.  S.  Richards  con­
tinuing the business.

Imlay  City—G.  R.  Manwariug  &  Co. 
are  succeeded  by  Manwaring & Bartlett 
in the hardware business.

Constantine—John  H.  Eppley  &  Co. 
have purchased the drug and musical  in­
strument stock of A.  W.  Morrison.

bakery and confectionery stock and gone 
out  of  business.  C.  E.  Hankins  pur­
chased  his  shelf  goods,  and  the  store 
furniture was sold to Wm. Pullen.

Muskegon—Moses  Duquette,  the  West 
Clay avenue grocer, is again in possession 
of his stock,  Assignee  Nelson  having ef­
fected a settlement with all his  creditors 
and been discharged  by the  court

Chase—J.  S.  (Mrs.  Wm.)  Gordon  has 
removed her dry goods and grocery stock 
to  Reed  City,  where  she  has  purchased 
the news and confectionery stock of Wm. 
Curtiss and will continue business under 
the style of J.  S. Gordon & Co.

Detroit—On the application of the City 
Savings  Bank  Judge  Gartner  has  ap­
pointed William.  B. H.  Flynn receiver of 
the business of  W.  A.  Bourke & Co.  On 
June  16  last  Bourke  &  Co.  executed  a 
mortgage  to the Bank for $35,000.  In its 
bill of complaint  the  Bank  alleges  that 
the mortgagors  subsequently executed  a 
chattel mortgage covering the same prop­
erty to the S.  E. Barrett Co., and that the 
company now  claims a lien on  the  stock 
and fixtures.  The Bank declares that an 
inventory has shown that  the  mortgaged 
property  is  insufficient  to pay  the mort- 
gage;that the stock is such as would depre­
ciate unless soon disposed of, and that its 
interests would be best conserved by hav­
ing  the  stock  sold  by  a receiver.  Two 
names were suggested by the parties con­
cerned,  but neither was mutually accept­
ed.  W.  H. Flynn  was finally agreed up­
on, and  Judge  Gartner  ordered  him  to 
give a bond in the sum of $30,000.
MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Jackson—G.  M.  Stanley  has  merged 
his business  into a stock company under 
the style of People’s Oil &  Fuel Co.

Detroit—Naumann & Orttenburger are 
succeeded  by  H.  J.  Naumann  & Co.  in 
the grocery,  flour and feed  business.

Charlevoix — McLeod  &  Beveridge, 
meat  dealers  at  this  place,  have  dis­
solved, J.  A. McLeod continuing the bus­
iness.

Belding—Will J.  Hen wood has sold his 
grocery  stock 
to  Chas.  M.  Kingsley, 
formerly engaged in the grocery business 
at Cadillac.

Constantine—A.  W.  Morrison  has  sold 
his  drug  stock  to  J.  H.  Eppley & Co., 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same location.

Leroy—Frank  Smith’s new brick  store 
building is nearly  ready  for  occupancy. 
It  has an  iron  roof  and is as nearly fire­
proof as the owner can make it.

Ionia—Richard  C. Stone,  who  has  for 
many years been  in  the  dry goods  trade 
at Ionia,  will  remove to  West  Superior, 
Wis., Sept.  1 and go  into  business there.
Evart—Mrs.  N.  W.  Peck  has  sold  the 
jewelry stock  belonging to her  late  hus­
band to W.  L. Toby, of  Vassar,  who will 
continue the  business  at  the same  loca­
tion.

Charlotte—Potter  &  Co.  have  moved 
their grocery and crockery stock into the 
corner store of the Sherwood Hotel block, 
making one of  the finest retail  establish­
ments  in the State.

Hart—Geo.  Alverson  has  purchased 
the interest of Chauncey  Griswold in the 
hardware  firm  of  Griswold  &  Cahill. 
The business  will  be  continued  by  Mr. 
Alverson and John V. Cahill.

Grand  Junction—Wm.  Hay,  adminis­
trator of  the  estate  of  the  late  W.  A. 
Feazell,  has  sold  the  general  stock  to 
Smith & Co., of Ypsilanti,  who will close 
the goods out at auction sale.

Ithaca—H. C.  Leland has closed out bis

Beaverton—Tonkin & Harris’ new saw, 
shingle and  planing  mill  starts  up this 
week.

Port Huron—E.  H.  Russell has merged 
his business into a stock  company under 
the style of  the  Russell  Manufacturing 
Co.

Tawas—The  Winona  Lumber  Co.’s 
sawmill  will cut a  quantity  of  logs  for 
Sibley  & Bearinger,  brought  over  from 
Georgian  bay.

Gladwin—R.  C. Colter  has  purchased 
a quantity of  shingle  mill timber, of  W. 
W. Steele, in Butman township, and will 
put up  a shingle mill.

Plainweli—W. M. Spencer,  formerly of 
the grocery firm of Machemer & Spencer, 
has purchased a half interest in the roller 
mill of the J.  F.  Eesley Milling Co.

Traverse  City—C.  H.  Hunt, of  Man­
istee, will open a branch shoe store in the 
old  Steinberg  building  as  soon  as  Mr. 
Steinberg removes to his new block.

Twin  Lake—E.  R.  Ford  & Son,  whose 
saw and  shingle  mill  was  destroyed  by 
fire last spring, have rebuilt and equipped 
a  new  mill, which  goes  into  operation 
this  week.

Bay  City—Handy  Bros,  are  receiving 
machinery for  the addition to  their  new 
box factory  plant.  The capital stock  of 
the concern  has  been  increased  to $30,- 
000.  The improvements will  be finished 
within 60 days.

Detroit—Articles of  association  incor­
porating  the  firm  of 
James  Flower,
| Brother & Co.  for  the  manufacture  and 
jobbing  of  iron  and  brass  goods,  have 
been filed  with  the  county  clerk.  The 
capital  stock  of  $100,000 is  all  paid  in 
! and is  held by  George  Flower, John W.
I Flower, Sarah  H.  Flower  and  Frederick 
j  Flower.

Alanson—The Alanson  Manufacturing 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
[ stock of $10,000, held as  follows:  Myron

Hinkley,  $5,000;  Geo.  Sinclair  $4,000; 
Calvin Mathews, $1,000.  Myron Hinkley 
is  President,  Calvin  Mathews  is  Vice- 
President and Geo.  Sinclair  is  Secretary 
and  Treasurer.  The  corporation  will 
manufacture lumber,  fruit packages and 
cheese boxes  under  the  management  of 
Mr. Sinclair.

Saginaw—The  A. W.  Wright  Lumber 
Co.  is  constructing  branches  to  its log­
ging railroad in Clare,  Gladwin  and Ros-
common  counties,  where  it has 100,000,- 
000 feet of pine  yet  to  cut,  and  expects 
to clean up its work in Michigan in three 
years. 
It is  quite  likely  that  the  com­
pany will invest in  Canada  timber in or­
der to give its mill here a longer  lease of 
life  after  the  Michigan  timber  is  ex­
hausted.  The  company  has  handled 
from 30,000,000 to 50,000,000  feet of  tim­
ber a year the last eight years.

Reed City—T.  R.  Welsh’s  planing mill 
is running 12  hours daily.  Box  machin­
ery  has  also  been  added  to  the  plant. 
William  Horner is  making  extensive al­
terations  to  his  planing  mill  and  box 
factory,  which  will  materially  increase 
its capacity.  W. B. Miller’s shingle mill 
is cutting 3,000 cedar shingles daily.  The 
refuse is packed into bundles and shipped 
to  Grand  Rapids  for  kindling  wood. 
William  Lewis 
is  shipping  300  dozen 
hardwood  bowls a week.  Amos  Rosen­
berg’s  sawmill is  cutting  20,000  feet  of 
pine and  hardwood  lumber  daily.  The 
stock comes to the  mill by rail.
The Hardware Market.

Wages—The question  of  wages is still 
unsettled,  but  the  indications  are  that 
amicable terms will be  arranged,  so that 
when September comes all iron and sheet 
mills will be running on full time.

Sheet  Iron—Mills  are  mostly  being 
closed  down,  pending  adjustment  of 
wages.  They are not  soliciting any  new 
business and  jobbers’  prices  remain  un­
changed.

Bar  Iron—No  change  to  note  in  the. 

market.

Wire Nails—Extreme  prices  made  by 
some mills have  been  withdrawn.  Job­
bers are now getting $1.75 to $1.85  rates, 
depending on quantity  wanted.

Steel  Cut  Nails—The  demand  grows 
less and less all  the  time.  A number of 
factories  have  closed  down.  The  price 
for base sizes remains  about  the same as 
wire.  A number  of  jobbers  have  quit 
carrying them in stock at all.

Barbed  Wire—The  demand  for 

the 
present  has  nearly  ceased.  Orders  are 
being filled promptly.  No  change,  how­
ever,  to note in the price.

Window  G lass-T h e  glass  factories 
having all closed  down July 1  for three 
months  has  had a  tendency  to  firm  up 
prices.  The  indications  are  the  stocks 
in band will not  be  sufficient to  last un­
til the full  supply  comes  in  the market 
again.  As  yet,  jobbers  have  made  no 
change in their  discount.

Wire  Cloth—None  to  be  had  at  any 

price.

Shot—The  recent  advance  of  5 cents 
a bag has come to  stay  and dealers need 
not expect  to  see  any  cheaper  shot  for 
several months.  The  price  now is $1.50 
for drop  and  $1.75  for B.  B.  and larger.
Powder—A reduction is announced for 
July 1,  making  rifle  25  pound kegs, $5; 
12K pound kegs, $2.75;  6M  pound kegs, 
$1.50.  There is no change on pound  and 
half  pound cans.

Cherry Stoners—These  goods  are now 
beginning  to  move.  The  lists  and  dis­

counts are as follows: Japanned, $7.50 per 
dozen;  Tinned,  $9; Discounts, 20  and 10 
in full cases.

Snaths  and  Scythes—The  immense 
crop of hay in  sight  has  created  an  un­
usual  demand  for  haying  tools  of  all 
kinds  and a  scarcity  is  predicted.  The 
present  discount  from  list  is  40 and 10 
to 50 per cent.

Cradles—Owing  to  the  wet  weather, 
there will  be mauy places a machine can-
not be used;  thus  creating  an  extra  de­
mand for  cradles.  Jobbers  are  quoting 
wood  brace  at $34  per  dozen  and  wire 
brace at $36.  Discount, 50  per cent.

Rakes—The  demand  is  large  for  this 
time of the year.  Prices range from $1.10 
to $1.65 per dozen,  according to quantity.
Gasoline  Stoves—The  small  sizes  of 
gasoline stoves are still very scarce.  One 
manufacturer writes  he  has  refused  or­
ders  for  more  than  3,000  stoves,  as he 
was not able to take  care of  his  regular 
trade.

C ro ck ery   &  G la ssw a r e

F R Ü IT   JA R 9 .

Pints................................................................. .$775
Quarts.....................................................................  8 25
Half Gallons..........................................................  10 75
Caps.........................................................................  3 50
Rubbers............................................................. 

45

LAMP  BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun 
No. 1  “
No. 2  “ 
Tubular

6 doc. In box.

First quality.
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XXX Flint.
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LAMP  CHIMNEYS.—P e r  bOX.
No. 0 Sun...................................................
No. 1  “  ...................................................
No. 2  “  ...................................................
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top..............................
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O n   1 
No .2  “ 
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No. 0 Sun, crimp  top....................
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No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
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“ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled 
No. 2  “ 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
No. 1 Sun, plain  bulb,  per doz. 
No. 2  “ 
No. 1 crimp, per doz....................
No. 2  “ 
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LAMP WICKS.

La Basne.

Pearl top.

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45
50
75
75

1  75 
1  88 
.2 70
.2 25 
.2 40
3 40
.2 60 
.2 80 
.3 80
.3 70
4 70 
.4 88
1  25 
1  50 
.1  35 
.1  60

 
 
 

 
 
 

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No. c, per  gross  .................................................  23
No. 1, 
28
No  2, 
38
No. 3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz..............................................  90
Butter Crocks,  1 and 6 gal.............................  0654
Jugs, 54 gal., per doz.......................................  75
.......................................  90
.......................................1  80
Milk Pans, 54 gal., per dos.  (glased 75c)....  @0 
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STON EWARX—AKRON.

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MILE-END

Best  Six  Bord
JdaGtiine  or  Hand  Use,

— FOR —

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL

Dealers  in  Dr}  Goods & Notions.

THE  MICHIGAN  TR A DESMAN,

5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

F. Brewer  succeeds  Brewer & Ross  in 
the flour  and  feed  business at 643 South 
Division street.

Benjamin  Bros.  & Co.  succeed  Van- 
derwerp,  Benjamin  Bros.  &  Co.  in the 
clothing business.

J. A.  Wiley  has  closed  out  his  meat 
business at the corner of Oaks and Spring 
streets, but announces his intention of re­
suming business  at  another  location,  as 
soon as he can decide on same.

Geo.  Mclnnes,  who  has  clerked for  J.
F.  Ferris  for  the  past  dozen  years,  has 
arranged  to  embark  in  the  tea,  coffee 
and spice business,  occupying one of  the 
vacant stores in the Eagle Hotel  block on 
Waterloo street.

It  is  reported  that 

the  Protective 
Brotherhood,  the  local  organization  of 
retail liquor dealers,  has decided  to  buy 
no  liquors  or  cigars  hereafter  except 
such  as are  made  by  union  labor.  The 
jobbers  whose  trade  is affected  by  this 
action  assert  that  the leading  spirits of 
the  Brotherhood  are  notorious  violators 
of the law,  so far as  Sunday closing,  late 
hours and  selling  to  minors and  drunk­
ards  are  concerned,  and  that  aggressive 
action  of  a  boycotting  character  on the 
part of  the saloon  keepers  will  be  met 
by equally  strenuous  efforts on the  part 
of  the other  element  to  secure the rigid 
enforcement of the law.

W.  Lobdell,  who  resides at  254  Clancy 
street and has lately been engaged in the 
cash register business at 39  Pearl  street 
under the  style  Lobdell  &  Geiger.  He 
claims to have given some cash,  80  acres 
of farm land  in  Mecosta  county  and  a 
chattel mortgage  back  for  $500  for  the 
stock,  but how much cash  was  involved 
in the transaction or how much  the  land 
is  worth  are  both  veiled  in  obscurity. 
The  fact 
that  Lobdell  was  unable  to 
meet his obligations as a member  of  the 
firm of Lobdell  &  Geiger  gives  ground 
for  the  belief  that  he  had  very  little 
ready cash on hand—unless the purchase 
of a drug stock had more  attractions  for 
him than the payment  of  his  debts. 
It 
is not unlikely that Mr.  Lobdell will  yet 
be  asked  to  explain  his  status  in  the 
transaction  before 
the  creditors  get 
through with the matter.

The  young  man  who  figured  as  the 
principal actor in  the  transaction  is  re­
ported to have cut a  wide  swath  at  Es­
canaba, it being  alleged  that  he  drank 
heavily and played cards  freely  in  that 
city.  Since coming to this city, his  per­
sonal  habits  have  not  been  above  re­
proach and a knowledge of this fact kept 
several  wholesale  dealers  from  selling 
him goods on any other than a cash basis. 
He is a son of Col.  Wells,  who  was  for­
merly  Commandant  of 
the  Michigan 
Soldiers’  Home.

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Rascally Career of Druggist Wells.
Creditors of  James  N. Wells,  druggist 
at the corner of  East Bridge and Barclay 
streets,  were  surprised  last  Monday  to 
learn  that  he had  disposed of  his stock; 
and  skipped  out  under  circumstances 
discreditable  to  himself  and  involving 
loss  to  his  friends  and  creditors.  He 
purchased  the stock about  three  months 
ago  of  the  Wolverine  Drug  Co., having 
come  here  from  Escanaba  for  that pur­
pose.  By  representing  to  the  mercan­
tile agencies that he was the possessor of 
considerable  property,  he  easily secured 
credit to the amount of  about $3,000, dis­
tributed among a couple  of  dozen  credi­
tors, of  which  the  following is a partial 
list:
Wolverine Drug Co., Grand  Rapids.............   $600
..............  400
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,  “ 
Samuel Morman, 
Grand Rapids  . . . . . . .   450
Henry  B. Grady 
........ 
280
Olney & Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids,  100 
49
‘ 
M.  H. Treusch & Bro., 
30
“ 
A.  E. Brooks & Co., 
Gunn Hardware'Co., 
“ 
100
Harvey & Heystek, 
“ 
90
Frederick  Stearns & Co., Detroit....................400
Acme White  Lead & Color Co.........................  150
Leland, Smith & Co., Toledo 
......................400
Colt & Co.,  Chicago..........................................  80
The  above  list  is  by  no  means com­
plete,  and  some of  the  amounts  may  be 
incorrectly stated, but the matter is given 
with  sufficient  accuracy  to  show  that 
Wells improved his brief  business career 
to buy goods of  about every house which 
would  give  him  a  line of  credit.  None 
of the bills are believed to have been due 
at  the  time of  the  sale  and  the  goods 
represented  by several  invoices  came  in 
only a day or two  before  the  sale of  the 
stock.  As  none of  these  goods were in­
cluded  in  the  stock  sold,  the  creditors 
infer  that such  goods  were sold to other 
dealers in the city  or  shipped elsewhere 
by  Wells  himself. 
It  is  reported  that 
several shipments of goods were grouped 
a couple of  days  before  the  sale of  the 
stock  and  consigned  to  a  fictitious  ad­
dress at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  but the creditors 
have been  unable  to  trace the matter,  so 
thoroughly did Wells cover up his tracks.
The purchaser of  the  stock  is  Albert

Gripsack Brigade.

L.  M.  Mills is enlarging and  otherwise 
residence  on  Wealthy 

improving  his 
avenue.

E.  B. Dikeman  is  now  on the road for 
S.  K.  Bolles & Co., covering the territory 
formerly visited by  Geo. A. Sage.

W.  A.  Stebbins, formerly of this city, is 
now on the road for  the  Crew Levic  Co., 
jobbers  of  lubricating  and  illuminating 
oil at  Chicago.

Milton  Kerns, cigar  salesman  for  Dil- 
worth Bros.,  of  Pittsburg,  was in town a 
couple of  days  last  week.  He  was  ac­
companied by his usually broad  and  ex­
pressive smile.

It is reported  that 

the  Ravenna  Pe­
dro  and  Poker  Club  has  given  Dr.  J. 
B. Evans a commission  to  institute aux­
iliary organizations  and  that  he has au­
thorized  Dave  Haugh  and  Chas.  S. 
Brooks to  represent him in that capacity 
in Northern Michigan.

It is reported  that Dave Smith has fal­
len heir,  through the death of  a relative, 
to a considerable fortune.  The property 
has not yet come into his possession, but, 
on the  strength  of  his  expectations,  he 
has purchased a treatise on etiquette and 
a volume entitled “Thou shalt not lie.”

Wm.  Connor,  the  versatile  clothing 
salesman,  was in  the  city last  week and 
left  Wednesday  for  a  fortnight’s  visit 
to his  customers in Minnesota.  He  will 
be in Grand Rapids again July 21, 22 and 
23.  He has  entirely  recovered from  his 
recent  illness,  but  does  not  regain his 
strength as fast as he could wish.

Cornelius  Crawford  covered  his  route 
last  week  under  grave  difficulties,  suf­
fering in the meantime from  an attack of 
inflammatory rheumatism, which swelled 
one arm to about  double size.  He is ac­
companied this  week  by his  son, Glenn, 
who will carry  the  baggage  and  other­
wise assist the senior member of the duo.
Hugh  L.  Minds,  a  Detroit  traveling 
man,  has brought suit against the  Sagin­
aw Union Street Railway Co. for damages 
in the sum of $5.000.  While in thas city in 
January, 1891,Mr. Minds was struck by one

GHÄS.  I COYE,

MANUFACTURER OF

Horse and Wagon Covers,
Hammocks and Cotton  Diloks

JOBBERS OF

SEND FOR FRICE LIST.
11  Pearl  81.,  Grand  Rapids, 

MICHIGAN

Fire & Marine Insurance Go.
Fair  Contracts,

Organized  1881.

EpitaHle  Rates,

Prompt  Settlements.

The  Directors  of  the  “ Michigan”  are 

representative business men of 

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

of  the  company’s  cars at  the  corner  of 
Washington avenue and  Meredith street, 
the  result  being  a  broken  arm.  He 
claims that the employes of the company 
were to blame,  and  asks  for  reimburse­
ment  for loss  of  time  and  injuries sus­
tained.

Pharmaceutical  Era:  The  traveling 
fraternity  are  slightly  exercised  by  an 
innovation on the  part of  some business 
houses  placing  on  the  road  lady  com­
mercials. 
In  specific  cases  such  may 
answer  admirably,  but  speaking  gen­
erally  it  would  appear  that  salesmen 
have little to  fear.  The  fatigue of  long 
journeys,  uncertainty  of  regular  meals 
and the  question of  physical  endurance 
alone will  retard  many  ladies  from fol­
lowing  such a pursuit.  Again,  are  lady 
commercials  prepared  to  renounce mat­
rimony?  A lady  commercial  with twins 
in  her  arms  and a sample  case  in  each 
hand would  not be  likely to get much  of 
a line.

“Practical  jokers  sometimes  come  to 
grief,”  remarked a veteran  traveler at  a 
St.  Louis  hotel  the  other  day. 
“In 
Omaha,  some years  ago, I fell  in  with  a 
gay party of  drummers en  route to Lin­
coln. 
In the party was a young  Boston­
ian,  making  his  first  trip  west.  He 
imagined that he  was  liable  to  be  way­
laid  and  massacred  any  moment  by 
Indians,  and  the  boys  were  careful  to 
strengthen this  impression.  We  finally 
decided to get up an Indian massacre for 
his benefit,  so a  committee  was  detailed 
to get him  into the  smoker  and tell him 
blood-and-thunder stories,  while the rest 
did the Indian act.  The night was pitch 
dark  and  when  the  train  stopped  at a 
lonely  water tank,  four or five drummers 
quietly  dropped  off,  surrounded 
the 
smoker,  set  up a fearful yell  and  began 
firing off  their  revolvers.  We  expected 
the  young  Bostonian  to  crawl  under  a 
seat  and  say  his  prayers,  but he disap­
pointed us.  He  whipped a big 45 out  of 
his grip,  threw  up a window  and began 
blazing  away at  the  mock Indians  in  a 
manner which took all the fun out of the 
joke. 
It had been raining and there was 
a  deep  gully  full  of  muddy  water  on 
either side  of  the  track.  Through this 
the jokers rolled and  plunged  to get out 
or  the  way  of  the  whistling  bullets. 
When  they  climbed  back  on  the  train 
they  were  the  sorriest  looking  set  of 
stage Indians you ever saw.”

A  Book  of  Interest.

“Ideas  for  Hardware  Merchants”  is 
the title of  a book by  D.  T.  Mallett,  au­
thor of  several  works  which  have  been 
of  interest to  business  men.  While  es­
pecially  designed  for  those  engaged in 
the hardware business,  this  book will be 
found of interest to men of all trades.  It 
is full of  those  suggestions  which  need 
only to be  stated in order that  their util­
ity may  be  recognized,  and  their  perti­
nency and wisdom is such that the reader 
will wonder why be  never  thought them 
out for himself.  Besides  being instruct­
ive, it  is  an  interesting  book. 
It  tells 
what a merchant  needs  when  starting  a 
hardware store, how  he  should  arrange 
his stock,  his price lists,  keep  his books, 
make purchases,  sales, etc.,  and  gives  a 
thousand or more  hints  and  suggestions 
of value which  will  never  occur  to men 
not  having  years of  experience  in busi­
ness.  The book is  finely  gotten  up and 
anyone sending $1  to the  author at New 
Haven, Conn.,  will  fully  admit  that  the 
book is well worth the price asked.

SOLD AND ENJOYED  EVERYWHERE.

Don’t  Buy

YOURnSPRING  LINES  OF

Hammocks,

Base Ball  Goods,

& M i l   Tackle

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

EATON,  LYON  &  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

6

The Credit Hydra.

F ro m  th e  A m eric an   A rtisan .

Credit is the ball and  chain around the 
leg of the merchant, the incubus of trade 
which there is no throwing off and which, 
in  many  cases,  proves  so  heavy  a  load 
that it drags down  the  bearer  thereof to 
commercial annihilation.  More has been 
written upon the evils of  credit than up­
on any one  subject  connected  with mer­
cantile  affairs,  and  yet  to-day the ques­
tion how to eliminate  its  risks  from  the 
daily business  transactions of  wholesale 
merchant and  retail trader alike is as far 
from satisfactory settlement as ever.
There is  one  thing  which  may  be  re­
garded as settled at  all events.  So  long 
as business is done, just  so long  will the 
merchant,  whether  wholesale  or  retail, 
be obliged to  accept  a future  settlement 
of more or less definiteness as to date  for 
a present transaction.  Whether  the vol­
ume of this trade  be much  or  little, that 
it will  involve  losses  may  be  taken  for 
granted,  for  the  most  astute  business 
man,  even  with  all  the  safeguards  of 
modern business practice at his command, 
has not succeeded  in  protecting  himself 
against the unforeseen.
Most men,  we  believe,  who  enter  into 
business,  whether upon a large or a small 
scale, do  so  with  an  honest  purpose  to 
pay their debts.  When a dealer has suf­
ficient  capital  to  make  a  fair  start  by 
paying cash  for  his  stock,  providing  he 
is  wide-awake  and  energetic,  and  has 
started in a locality  where  an enterprise 
of  the kind in which he has embarked is 
needed, the chances  are that  he will ask 
very  few favors  from  the  jobber.  This 
class of  dealer  is  usually too  anxious to 
make  cash  settlements  and  save  every 
possible  cent  in  the  way  of  discounts. 
It is also the class whose trade the whole­
sale  merchants  are  so  anxious  to  get. 
But as all  men  who  depend  upon  their 
own exertions for a livelihood  are not so 
favorably  situated  as to be able to make 
a  beginning  in  this  way  they  are  com­
pelled in most cases  to  depend  upon the 
forbearance and generosity of the  whole­
sale  dealer,  who,  if  favorably  disposed 
on account  of  former  knowledge  of  his 
customers, or  the result  of  an investiga­
tion of his business character and record, 
will supply the required stock upon terms 
within the reach of the customer.  A  be­
ginning is thus made which in after years 
may broaden out and bear fruit in a long 
business intercourse  mutually  profitable 
and advantageous to both,  or  else an ex­
perience in which  misplaced  confidence, 
worry  and  financial  loss  may  result  to 
the  accommodating  merchant,  illustrat­
ing anew the risks of credit.

Rather abashed, the conductor  replied 
I that he presumed he had his pass.
“Do you know who I am?” next  asked 
Mr.  Roberts.
“Yes, sir,” replied the conductor, “you 
are the president of the road.”
“Granted that I am. 
It is your duty to 
I allow nobody to ride over this road  with­
out showing a ticket.  Always bear  that 
in  mind.”
The conductor promised to do so in the 
future and  passed  on.  After  the  next 
! station  had  been passed  he  again came 
I through the train for tickets,  and coming 
to Mr.  Roberts,  stopped and demanded to 
see his ticket.
“That’s right my man,” said the presi­
dent,  putting  his  hand  in  his  breast 
pocket.  Then he grew red  in  the  face, 
and,  as be felt in pocket after pocket, his 
face became redder.  He had left his pass 
I at home.  The conductor never  moved  a 
muscle  of  his  face,  but stood with out­
stretched  hand  waiting  for  the  ticket. 
Mr.  Roberts was too proud  to  back  out, 
and finally asked in a meek voice:
“How much  is the fare to Harrisburg?”
On being  informed  he  paid  over  the 
money,  which the conductor took without 
a smile, giving him a rebate  check  good 
for  10  cents.  President  Roberts  con­
tinued his ride in silence.

The Dry  Goods  Market.

The  selling  agents  of  the  American 
Printing Co.  are  out  with  a  circular  to 
the  jobbing  trade,  announcing  a%  ad­
vance of  %c in  indigoes and  light goods 
on  July 20,  when  the  price will  be 5%c 
and  4 c, respectively.  Until  the  date 
named,  the  present  price  remains open, 
which  opportunity  will  probably be  im­
proved  by  many  retailers,  as  they  can 
thus  effect a saving  of  §2  to  $3  a  case. 
The American  company is making a new 
fabric,  32  inches  wide,  which  will  be 
called American B and  sold  in a jobbing 
way at  9c.  Simpson’s  prints  and  cam­
brics  have  been  advanced  J£c, but  job­
bers  will  continue  the  old  price  until 
present stocks are exhausted.

M in i Corset Co’s

Glad He Spoke in Meeting.

F ro m   th e  W e ste rn  M erchant.
If the  efforts of  revivalists  always  re­
sulted as did those of a man in a Western 
town,  merchants  could  afford  to  con­
tribute liberally to  secure their services. 
It is stated that  this  revivalist preached 
a  powerful  discourse  upon personal  in­
tegrity and urged upon all Christians the 
duty of  debt  paying.  Delinquents  were 
handled  without  gloves,  and  to  clinch 
matters at the  close  of  the  discourse he 
asked all  who  paid  their  debts to stand 
up.  The  congregation almost  to  a man 
arose.  After 
the 
preacher  invited  those  who did not  pay 
their debts to stand and  up rose one soli­
tary,  forlorn  individual.  Hesitatingly 
he  got  onto  his  feet,  and  in  faltering 
tones explained that be found himself in 
the ranks of  the  poor-pay  class,  but un­
willingly.  He could not help himself, as 
he  was  the  owner  of  the  local  grocery 
and could  not  pay  up,  as every member 
of the congregation owed him for grocer­
ies. 
It is  said  that  money  poured  into 
the grocery store next morning in a lively 
manner, and  the  grocer  is  glad he went 
to church and  spoke in meeting.

they  were  seated, 

Paid  Fare  on His  Own Road.

President Roberts,  of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad,  is,  as everybody knows,  a great 
stickler for discipline, and a story is told 
of him  which is too good  to keep.  Some 
time ago,  while on his way to Harrisburg, 
the conductor of the  train  bowed  as  he 
passed  without  asking  to see his ticket. 
On  coming  through  the train again  Mr. 
Roberts touched his arm and said:  “ Why 
did you not ask for my ticket?”

THE

MODEL
(Trade Mark.)
FORM.

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Dr.

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Send for Illustrated  Catalogue.  See  price list 

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SCHILLINGICORSET  00.,

Detroit. Mich, and Chicago, 111.

'ITELE  MKTHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Dry Goods Price Current.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic
A rg y le....................   6
Atlanta AA..............6
Atlantic A ...............  6%
H...............  6)4
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D...............   6
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Amory......................   6)4
Archery  Banting...  4D 
Beaver Bam  A A ..  5'4
Blackstone O, 32__ 5
Black Crow..............6
Black  Rock  ............  6
Boot, AL.................  7
Capital  A .................5)4
Cavanat V ...............5)4
Chapman cheese c l.  3014
Clifton  C R ..............5)4
Comet......... ..............  6)4
Dwight Star.
Clifton CCC

“  Arrow Brand  5 >4 
“  World Wide..  6)4
“  LL.................434
Full Yard Wide.......6)4
Georgia  A............... 6)4
Honest Width..........6)4
Hartford A  ..............5
Indian Head............  7
King A  A................. 6)4
King EC.  ...............   5
Lawrence  L L ........   5)4
Madras cheese cloth 634
Newmarket  G.........534
B  ........ 5
N ..........6)4
D D ....  5)4
X .........634
Nolbe R ....................  5
Our Level  Best.......6)4
Oxford  R .................  6
634jPequot.......... ...........  7
6)4 Solar.........................   6)4

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

¡Top of the  Heap.
Geo.  Washington...  8
A B C ..........................8)4
Glen Mills...............  7
Amazon.................... 8
Gold Medal.............   7)4
Amsburg..................7
Green  Ticket...........8)4
Art  Cambric...........10
Great Falls...............  6)4
Blackstone A A.......7)4
Hope.........................   7)4
Beats A ll.................... 4)4
Just  Out.....  43£@ 5
Boston.....................12
King  Phillip............734
Cabot........................ 7
OP.....  7)4
Cabot,  X .....................634
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Charter  Oak............  5)4
Lonsdale............  @ 8)4
Conway W................. 7)4
Middlesex.........   @ 5
Cleveland................7
Dwight Anchor.......8)4
No Name..................  7)4
shorts.  8
Oak View........ ........6
Our Own..................5)4
Edwards...................6
Pride of the West.. .12
Empire.....................   7
Rosalind.....................7)4
Farwell.......................7)4
Sunlight...................   4)4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8)4
Utica  Mills..............8)4
Fitchville  .............. 7
“  Nonpareil  ..10
First Prize...............7
Vlnyard....................  8)4
7)4
Fruit of the Loom 
White Horse............6
Falrmount............... 4)4
“  Rock............. 8)4
Full Value...............  6*
Cabot........................ 7  ¡DwightAnchor.........8)4
Farwell.....................8 
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TremontN...............   5)4
Hamilton N................6)4
L..............7
Middlesex  AT.........8
X ............  9
No. 25....  9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

Middlesex No.  1..2..
3..
7..8..

UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

HALT  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

....  8
....  9
....  9
....10)4
CARPET WARP.
....17)4 Integrity colored.
colored.

Hamilton N __ ....  7)4 Middlesex A A ....... .11
2....... .12
Middlesex P T.
A O....... .13)4
A T.
4....... .17)4
X A.
5....... .16
X F.
.20
Peerless,  white.
Integrity...................18)41 
Hamilton..................  8
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G G  Cashmere.........20
Nameless  ................16
.................18

Nameless..................20
.......... 25
.......... 27)4
.......... 30
.......... 32)4
.......... 36

colored— 19)4 White Star. 

DRESS  GOODS.

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Wonderful..............84 50
Brighton....................4 75
Bortree’s ................  9 00
Abdominal..............15 00

Corallne................... C9 50
Schilling's.................9 00
Davis  Waists  ....  9 00
Grand  Rapids.......4  50
CORSET  JEANS.
...  634|Naumkeagsatteen..  7 
Armory..........
Androscoggin
7)4 Rockport.................. 6)4
Blddeford................  6  ¡Conestoga.................634
Brunswick.
6)4! Walworth................  634
PRINTS.Berwick fancies—   5)4
Allen turkey  reds..  5)4
robes............. 5)4
Clyde  Robes............
pink a purple 6)4
Charter Oak fancies  4)4 
DelMarlne cashm’s.  6
buffs............   6
mourn’g  6
pink  checks. 5)4
staples  .........   5)4
Eddy stone  fancy...  5)4 
shirtings...  4
chocolat  5)4
American  fancy—   5)4 
rober —   5)4
sateens..  5)4 
American indigo—   5)4 
American shirtings.  4 
Hamilton fan iy.....  5)4
Argentine  Grays...  6 
staple__ 5)4
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Manchester  fancy..  5)4 
....  6)4
Arnold ' 
new era.  5)4 
Arnold  Merino.......6
Merrimack D fancy.  5)4 
long cloth B . 10)4 
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Merrim’ck shirtings. 4)4 
“  Repp furn .  8)4
“  C.  8)4
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century cloth 7
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Pacific  fancy...........5)4
“ 
gold seal......10)4
robes............... 6)4
“ 
Portsmouth robes...  5)4 
“  green seal TR10)4 
Simpson mourning..  5)4
“  yellow  seal.. 10)4
greys.........5)4
“ 
serge............11)4
“  Turkey red.. 10)4 
solid black.  5)4 
Ballou solid black..  5 
Washington indigo.  534 
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“  Turkey robes..  7)4
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  India robes___ 7)4
red and  orange...  5)4
“  plain T"ky X 34  8)4 
Berlin solids............  5)4
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oil blue.........6)4
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red..................6
“  green....  6)4
“ 
“  Foulards....  5)4
Martha Washington
“  red 
34...  7
Turkey red 34.........7)4
Martha Washington
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Turkey red............. 9)4
“  “  4 4.......... 10
“  “  3-4XXXX 12
Riverpomt robes....  5
Cocheco fancy........ 6
Windsor fancy...........6)4
madders...  6
XX twills..  6)4 
Indigo  blue...........10)4
solids.........5)4 ¡Harmony.......................4)4
AC A ........................ 12)4
Pemberton AAA__ 16
York..........................10)4
Swift River............. 7)4
ftarl  River............. 12
Warren..................... 13

Amoskeag A C A .... 12)4
Hamilton N .............   7)4
D ............. 8)4
Awning.. 11
Farmer......................8
First Prize...............11)4
Lenox M ills............18
Atlanta,  D ..............   634 ¡Stark  A 
.............  8
Boot...........................  634 No Name.................... 7)4
Clifton, K.................   6)4¡Top of  Heap...........   9
Simpson....................20
Imperial................... 10)4
Black..................  9®  9)4
.................. 18
“  BC............  @10
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A’A A ....................  12

! Coecheo....................10)4

gold  ticket

COTTON  DRILL.

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SATIRES.

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9 oz.......13)4
brown .13
Andover...................11)4
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
B B ...  9
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Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
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“  d a  twist  10)4 

Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.19

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

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Lancaster,  staple...  7
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“  Normandie  8

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“  Persian dress 8)4 
Canton ..  8)4
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AFC.........10)4
Teazle...10)4 
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Angola.. 10)4 
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Arlington staple__   6)4
Arasapha  fancy__ 434
Bates Warwick dres 8)4 
staples.  6)4
Centennial..............  10)4
Criterion.......... — 10)4
Cumberland  staple.  5)4
Cumberland............ 5
Essex.......................... 4)4
Elfin.........................   7)4
Everett classics.......8)4
Exposition.................714
Glenarie...................  6)4
Glenarven..................634
Glenwood...................7)4
Hampton.................... 6)4
Johnson Chalon cl 
)4 
Indigo blue 9)4 
zephyrs — 16

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

GRAIN  BASS.

Amoskeag...............16)41Valley City................. 15
Stark........................  19  Georgia.................... 15
American................15341 Pacific........................13

THREADS.

Clark's Mile End__ 45  ¡Barbour's..................88
Coats', J. & P......... 45  Marshall’s ..................88
Holyoke...................23)41

KNITTING  COTTON.

White.  Colored. 

No.  14.......... 37 
16.......... 38 
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White. Colored.
42
43
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45

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41

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

Slater........................  4)4|E<twards...................   4)*
White Star..............  41* Lockwood................. 4)4
Kid Glove................  4)4 Wood’s ......................  4)4
Newmarket..............  4’4 ¡Brunswick...............  4)4

RED  FLANNEL.

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

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

32)4

HIXED  FLANNEL.

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Red & Blue,  plaid. .40
Grey SR  W..............17)4
Western W .............. 18)4
Union R .................. 22)4
D R  P ........................ 18)4
Windsor...................18)4
Flushing XXX.........23)4
6 oz Western...........20
Union  B ...................22)4|Manitoba..................23)4
Nameless.......8  ®  9)4) 
.......  9  @10)4
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12)4
Slate. Brown. Black. Slate. Brown. Black.
13
9)4
15
10)4
17
11)4
20
12)4
Severen.8 oz...........
Mayland, 8 oz......... 10)4
Greenwood, 7)4 oz..  9)4 
Greenwood, 8 oz— 11)4 
Boston, 8 oz.............10)4

9)4 13
10)4 15
11)4 17
12)4 20
DUCKS.
9)4 West  Point, 8 oz— 10)4 
10 oz  ...12)4
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Stark 
.............. 13)4
Boston, 10 oz.............12)4

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
13
9)4
15
10)4
17
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White, doe...............25  ¡Per bale, 40 dos. ...17  50
Colored,  doz............20 
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
“  Red Cross....  9
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12)4
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G................................8)4
Cortlcelll, doz..........75  (Cortlcelll  knitting,

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

SEWING  SILK.

Best AA 

..12  “ 8 
..12 I  “  10 

twist, doz. .37)4  per )4oz  ball........ 30
50 yd, doz.. 37)41
HOOKS AND EYES—FEB GROSS.
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No 2—20, M C..........50  ¡No 4—15  F  3)4......... 40
•'  3-18,8 0 ............45 
No  2 White & Bl’k.,12  ¡No  8 White & Bl’k..20 
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N o2...........................28 

COTTON  TAPE.
..15  “  10 
..18 I  “  12 
SAFETY  FINS.
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A. James...................1  40] Steamboat....... .........   40
Crowely’8.................1  35 Gold  Eyed................1  50
Marshall's............... 1  00|
5—4__ 2 25  6—4...3 25¡5—4....1  95  6—4...2 95

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
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COTTON TWINES.

“ ....2  10 

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown......................12
Domestic................ 18)4
Anchor....................16
Bristol.....................13
Cherry  Valley.........15
I X L .........................18)4

Nashaa.................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
3-ply....17
North Star...............20
Wool Standard 4 ply 17)4 
Powhattan..............18

PLAID  OSNABUBGS

6* Mount  Pleasant..
-  6)4
.  5
6)4 Oneida...................
7)4 Prymont.............. ■  5%
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6 Randelman..........
6M Riverside.............
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5* Sibley  A ............  . •  6)4
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Hardware Price Cnrrent.

HAMMERS.

7

dls.

dls.

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dls.
dls.

levels. 

HANGERS. 

MATTOCKS.

locks—door. 

HOLLOW WARE.

knobs—New List. 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Maydole  *  Co.’s ...........................................dls.  25
Kip’s ...............................................................dls-  25
Yerkes & Plumb’s .....................................dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........................80c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand— 80c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 .................................dls.60&10
State...............................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 4*4  14  and
3*4
longer............................................................. 
Screw Hook and  Eye, *4.............................net 
10
%............................ net  8*4
X .............................net  7*4
%.............................net  7*4
Strap and T .................................................. dls. 
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track— 50*10
Champion,  anti-friction................................  60*10
Kidder, wood track......................................... 
40
Pots..................................................................... 60*10
Kettles................................................................ 60*10
Spiders  ..............................................................60*10
Gray enameled..................................................40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware.................................. new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware........................................  
25
Granite Iron W are....................... new list 33*4*10
wire goods. 
Bright........................................................... 70*10410
70*10*10
Screw  Eyes................................ 
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
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................... 
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain....................  
70
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l i s t ..........  
55
55
Mallory, Wheeler *  Co.’s ..............................  
Branford’s ........................................................ 
55
Norwalk’s ........................................................ 
55
Adze Eye...................................................616.00, dls. 60
Hunt Eye.  ...........................................615.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s.  .......................................618.50, dls. 20*10.
dlB.
Sperry A Co.’s, Poet,  handled........................ 
50
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
40
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables—  
“  Landers,  Ferry & Cls ik’s ................... 
40
“  Enterprise 
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30
Stebbin’s Pattern..............................................60*}0
Stebbin’s Genuine............................................ 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
25
Steel nails, base........................................................|  §0
Wire nails, base.............................. . 
Base
80 
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50.. 
40...............................................
10
30...............................................
15
20..........   ..................................
15
16..............................................
15
12..  .........................................
.  20 
10..............................................
.  25 
8................................................
.  40 
7 * 6 .........................................
.  60 
4...............................................
.1  00 
3...............................................
........................................
.1  50
Fine 3...................................................1  50
Case  10.................................................  60
8..................................... -..........  75
90
 
Finish 10..............................................   *
.................................................1 00
.................................................1  15

°5
Steel. Wire.
Base 
10 25 
25 
35 
45 
45 
50 
60 
75 
90 
1  20 
1  60 
1  60 
65 
75 
90 
75 
90 
1  10 
70 
<**¡**'1........
80 
901
6”...........................................H 5
Barren %.............................................1  75
dls.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy....................................  Of®
Sdota Bench....................................................   f ®
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................   g g
Bench, first quality............................
*10
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood
Fry,  Acme.................................................dl*-8®—10
Common,  polished................................... 6k.
dls.
Iron and  Tinned.............................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Burs................................50—m
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

Advance over base: 

MOLASSES GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

« 
•• 
“ 
« 

rivets. 

PLANES.

NAILS

••••••• 

FANS.

dlS.

«• 

 

 

 

 

 

Broken packs *4c per pound extra,

ROPES.

9*4

sqUARES. 

SHEET IRON.

Com.  Smooth.

Sisal, *4 Inch and larger................................ 
Manilla..............................................................  13
dls.
Steel and  Iron..................................................
Try and Bevels.................................................
Mitre............................................................

75
60
20
Com. 
62 95 
3 05 
3 05 
3  15 
3 25 
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

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

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

SAWS. 

wire. 

.  dlB.

traps. 

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

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

Solid Eyes................................................ per ton 625
20
70
50
30
30
dls.
Steel, Game...................................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................. 
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s —  
70
Mouse,  choker.................................... 18c per doz
Mouse, delusion..................................61.50 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 00
painted..................................  2 55
Au  Sable......................................................dis.  40
Putnam.............................................. 
dls.  06
N orthwestern...................................  
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............................................ 
"5
Screws, New List.............................................. 70*10
Casters, Bed a  d Plate............................. 50*10*10
Dampers, American........................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........ 6f *10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

dls.
 

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METALS.

PIG TIN.

 

6X
7

ZINC.

SOLDER.

26c
  28c

Pig  Large......................................................... 
Pig Bars.................................................... 
Duty:  Sheet, 2*4e per pound.
680 pound  casks............................................... 
Per pound......................................................... 
*4@*4 ••• • .................................................................. J®
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—MKLTN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal............ ...............................6  7  50
7  50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
9  25
14x20 IX, 
9  25

 
Each additional X on this grade, 61.75.

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10xl4IC,  Charcoal..........................................6 6  75
6  75
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
8  25
14x20 EX, 
9  25

 
Bach additional X on this grade 61.50.

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

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TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
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ROOFING PLATES

 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“  Allaway  Grade.................  
“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC, “  Worcester...................................   6  50
14x20 IX, 
..............................   8 50
20x28 IC, 
.............................  18  50
14x20IC, 
6  00
.......... ........  7  50
14x20 EX', 
20x28 IC, 
..............  •  12 50
20x28 EX, 
...................  15 50
14x28 IX.................................................................. *14 oo
14x31  IX...............................................................15
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, ( pgr  pound  .. 
10
14x60 IX, 

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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.

POINTS  OF  EXCELLENCE.

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

Write for Discount.

BUSINESS  LAW.

Summarized  Decisions from  Courts  of 

Last Resort.

ACCIDENTS— EXCESSIVE  DAM AG ES.
The Kentucky Superior Court  held,  in 
the case of Louisville &  Nashville  Rail­
road vs. Law,  that a verdict of $2,000 for 
the loss of the end of a left thumb was so 
excessive as to  authorize  a  reversal,  no 
circumstances of aggravation being|shown

NOTES— DISCOUNT— SET-OFF.

In  the  case  of  Felsenthal  et  al.  vs. 
Hawks et al.,  where notes were discount­
ed by the plaintiffs’  banks  and  indorsed 
to them by the  payees  before  maturity, 
but after dishonor  and  protest  paid  by 
the  indorsers, and thereafter held  by the 
plaintiffs  for  collection  against  the  de­
fendants’ makers,  the Supreme  Court of 
Minnesota held that,  in an action thereon 
brought  by  the  plaintiffs, 
the  payees 
should  be deemed the  beneficial owners 
so as to let in a set-off in favor of the de­
fendants against them.

INSURANCE—DEATH—WIDOW— LIMITATION
The New York Court of  Appeals held, 
in the recent case  of  Cooper  vs.  United 
States Mutual  Benefit  Association,  that 
where  an  accident  insurance  company 
undertakes  to  pay  the  insured  certain 
amounts in case of bodily injury,  and  in 
case of death  resulting from such  an in­
jury to pay to the wife  of  the  insured  a 
certain snm, and  the certificate provides 
that no suit shall be brought  to  recover 
any sum unless  commenced  within  one 
year  from  the time  of  the alleged acci­
dental injury,  an action may be  brought 
on the policy by the widow of the  insur­
ed more than one year after the accident, 
if it is brought within one  year after the 
insured’s death, since  the  widow’s  right 
of action does  not  accrue  and  the  pre­
scribed period of  limitation  begin to run 
against her until the death of the insured.

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

AUGURS AND BITS. 

d ls .

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

AXES.

“ 
‘ 
1 

BABBOW8.

............*  7 50
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze...............
............  12 00
D.  B. Bronze...............
S. B. S. Steel............... ..  .......  8  50
D. B. Steel................... ............  13 50
Railroad............................................... ..........6 14 00
Garden...........................................  net  30 00
Stove....................................................................50*10
Carriage new list.  ...........................................75*10
Plow....................................................................40*10
Sleigh shoe........................................................ 
70

bolts. 

dls.

dls.

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST. 

Well,  plain....................................................... • 3 50
W ell,swivel......................................................  400

dls.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................. 70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint................60&10
Wrought Loose Pin...........................................60*10
Wrought  Table................................................. 60&10
Wrought Inside Blind......................................60*10
Wrought Brass................................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s................................................... 70*16
Blind,  Parker’s ................................................. 70*10
Blind, Shepard’s .............................................  
70

Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85.

BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW  BARS.

CAPS.

CARTRIDGES.

Grain..............................

Cast Steel...............
Ely’s 1-10...............
Hick's  C. F ............
G. D .......................
Musket..................

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

CHISELS.

Socket Firmer.........
Socket Framing___
Socket Corner...........
Socket Slicks...........
Butchers' Tanged Firmer...........

COMBS.

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

........ per &> 
........ per m 
“ 
........  
.........  “ 
......... 
“ 

5
65
60
35
60

................... 
............dis. 

50
25

dis.
......................  70*10
............... ....70*10
........................70*10
........................70*10
40
........................ 

dis.

CHALK.

COPPER.

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

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s
25
RntnKVlRH
White Crayons, per  gross............. ...12©12*4 dis. 10
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 Snank.........

28
26
23
23
2£

dis.

“ 

DRIPPING PANS.

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

07
6*4

ELBOWS.

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

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, 118; large, 126.......................... 
Ives’, 1, *18;  2,124;  8,136............................... 

p i l e s —New List. 

d l l .

dls.

SO
25

Dlsston’s ............................................................60410
New  American................................................. 60*10
Nicholson’s ...................................................... 60*10
Heller’s ...............*.............................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Hasps....................................... 
50

GALVANIZED IRON.

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

12 

13 

15 

28
16 17

Discount, 60

14 
g a u g e s . 

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

50

d ls .

SALE  OF  STOCK— ESTOPPEL.

Where a firm  engaged  in  the  general 
grocery business sold their stock of  gro­
ceries and transferred  to  the  purchaser 
their lease on the house,  agreeing not  to 
engage in the same or like business within 
two squares of that  house,  the  Superior 
Court of Kentucky held that the contract 
would not be construed as an  agreement 
on their part to abandon the business  of 
manufacturing  brushes  and  mops  and 
selling  them, 
together  with  brooms, 
buckets and wooden wares,  at  wholesale 
and retail,  which business they then car­
ried on in an adjoining house,  for  while 
such goods are almost universally sold in 
groceries,  persons who  sell  such  things 
exclusively  are  not  grocers,  and  that 
while the failure of the  purchaser of the 
grocery business to complain of  the sell­
ing of the brushes, etc.,  for  nearly  four 
months did not operate as an estoppel,  it 
was  persuasive  evidence  against his in­
terpretation of  the contract.

INSURANCE— PROOFS  OF  LOSS— ARBITRA­

TION.

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin held, 
in the recent case of Vangindertaelen vs. 
Phoenix Insurance Company of Brooklyn, 
that under the provision of a  fire  policy 
that assured  should within six days give 
notice  of  loss,  and  within  thirty days 
thereafter render proofs of  loss,  loss  to 
be  payable  sixty  days  after receipt  of 
proofs  of  loss  at  the  company’s office, 
failure  to  furnish  proofs  within  thirty 
days will not,  in the absence  of  a  provi­
sion to that effect, operate as a forfeiture 
of  the  policy,  but will merely  postpone 
the  maturity  of  the  claim;  that  where 
proofs of loss are  retaiued  by  the  com­
pany without  objection  defects  therein 
will  be  regarded  as  waived,  and  that 
where the policy  provided  that  in  case 
the company and assured failed  to agree 
on  the  loss  there should  be arbitration, 
and that no action should be maintainable 
until after an award,  where proof of loss 
had  been  filed,  and  the  company  had 
neither made objection thereto  nor  sug­
gested arbitration,  an  action  commenced 
three months after  filing of  proof  could 
not be defeated by reason of the fact that 
there had  been no arbitration.

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WEDNESDAY,  JULY  6,  1892.

THE  DRAIN  OF GOLD  TO  EUR OPE.
The  history  of  the  world’s  gold  is a 
subject  of  remarkable 
interest.  The 
thirst for treasure  was  the  chief  motive 
that incited  nations  to wars,  to  explora­
tions and  colonization of  new  countries. 
King Solomon,  by  means of  his  voyages 
to the  land  of  Ophir,  made gold  and sil­
ver as plenty as stones in  Jerusalem. 
It 
is claimed  by Appian,  the historian,  that 
Alexander  the  Great  secured  from  his 
conquest of Asia a sum of treasure equal 
to  $250,000,000,  mostly  in  gold.  Rome 
under Augustus is said to have possessed 
gold and silver to the  amount of  $1,790,- 
000,000.

These  vast  amounts  were  secured  by 
the plunder of  other  nations, and  every 
part  of  the  Old  World,  including  Asia 
and Africa,  had contributed  to the  enor­
mous  treasure  that was  gathered  at  the 
Roman  capital  under  the  reign  of  the 
first of  the emperors.  But  there  was  a 
long period of war,  conquest  and revolu­
tion  between the culmination  of  the Au­
gustan age,  which was also the beginning 
of the era of Christ,  and the discovery of 
America. 
It  was,  indeed,  very  nearly 
1,500 years,  and  in  that period  the stock 
of the precious metals  in  Europe bad de­
clined from $2,000,000,000 to 8225,000,000.
The greater  part  had  been lost at sea, 
buried  under  the  ruins  of  sacked  and 
burned  cities,  carried  back  to  Asia  by 
Huns, Tartars  and  Turks,  or  conveyed 
into  Africa  by  the  Vandals, Arabs  and 
Saracens.  At any rate, of  the enormous 
treasures which  had  been  gathered  into 
Europe by the  Greeks  and  Romans  and 
Phoenician colonists,  all had been utterly 
lost in the space of  1,500 years  save  one 
pitiful  eighth of the whole.

Then  came  the  New  World  with  its 
wonderful riches. 
In  Peru gold  was  so 
plentiful that  one  of  the  ill-fated Incas 
was  able  to  ransom  himself  from  the 
avaricious  Spaniards with a room in  his 
palace filled  with  the  yellow  metal. 
In 
Mexico gold was  abundant,  as  it  was in 
all the countries of Central America,  and 
from the  discovery of  America,  in  1492, 
to  the  discovery  of  gold in California in 
1849, $2,500,000,000 of treasure,  in  great 
part gold, had been  carried  from  Amer­
ica  into  Europe. 
In  1850  the  stock  of

coin  in Europe was placed at $2,000,000,-
000.

The  United States produced very little 
gold or  silver until after  the acquisition 
of  California.  The  American  treasures 
were  derived  chiefly  from  Mexico  and 
Central  and  South  American  countries. 
They  were  at  first  found  to  be  rich in 
both  gold  and  silver;  but  to-day,  while 
they are still  large  producers  of  silver, 
they furnish  but a trifling  proportion  of 
gold.  The  yellow  metal  has  all  been 
worked out of  those  countries,  as  it had 
been long  ago  exhausted  in  Europe and 
all of  the  Asiatic mines except  those  of 
the Ural  Mountains. 
It is a remarkable 
fact that the gold supply  in  all the  min­
ing countries is transient. 
It is soon ex­
hausted.  The  silver supply, on the con­
trary,  is much more  abiding.  The  prin­
cipal European commercial nations,  long 
ago  realizing  that  the  gold  supply was 
likely  to  be  exhausted, have  so  depre­
ciated the value  of  silver in  comparison 
with  that  of  gold  that  they  have  been 
able to monopolize, to a great extent, the 
gold,  while  silver  has  been  banished  to 
India  or  forced  to  remain  in  America, 
while the gold goes to Europe.

According to the  official  report of  the 
Superintendent  of 
the  United  States 
Mint for 1891,  we learn that the mines of 
the United States  have  produced a total 
of gold  to  the  amount of  $1,904,881,769. 
On the  30th  of June,  1891,  there was  in 
the  United  States,  in coin  and  bullion, 
gold to the amount of $646,582,852.  This 
is all that is left of the nineteen hundred 
millions of gold dug out of our rich mines. 
Some of  the balance has  been  consumed 
in the arts, but the greater part has been 
sent to Europe  to pay tribute  to  the  in­
satiable  greed  for  gold  of  our  cousins 
across  the sea.  Our  mines,  which  once 
produced $50,000,000  to  $60,000,000  gold 
a  year, now  only  yield  $33,000,000  an- 
uuaily,  but  in  spite of  this  decrease we 
are sending gold abroad yearly at the rate 
of  $50,000,000 to  $70,000,000  to meet the 
balance of  trade  against  us.  This  bal­
ance of  trade  may  be considered perma­
nently against us.  We have no means of 
getting  gold  from  abroad  through  our 
commercial  exchanges,  and so  our  only 
source of supply is in our  surely  declin­
ing mines. 
If some  means be  not taken 
to  use our  silver in  making  foreign  ex­
changes,  the  prospect  of  wholly  impov­
erishing our country of its gold supply is 
imminent.  Europe has always been able, 
either by violence or  craft,  to absorb the 
world’s  gold,  aud  the  certainty  with 
which it is draining away ours proves its 
! skill in the  business.

|  THE  HATCH  ANTI-OPTION  BILL.

The failure of  the  Judiciary  Commit­
tee of the  United States  Senate to arrive 
at any conclusion  as to  what  disposition 
to make of  the Hatch bill at  the meeting 
last Thursday and  the  postponement  of 
further  consideration  of  the  matter for 
another week have led  the  opponents of 
the bill  to  hope that  d o   action  will  be 
taken by the  Senate  at  the  present  ses­
sion.  The excuse alleged  for  non-action 
by  the  committee,  namely,  the  absence 
of  Senators  Teller  and  Wilson,  either 
means that  the  committee  is  evenly di- 
| vided, or,  what is  more probable,  that  it 
i is desired to postpone a  recommendation 
to the Senate as long as possible.

It is now believed  that  the  committee 
! is overwhelmingly  opposed  to the bill in 
j its present shape and  no  less  an author- 
I ity than the Commercial Bulletin, of New

York,  which  journal lias  been  conspicu­
ous  in  its  opposition  to  the  measure, 
states, on the  authority  of  its Washing­
ton  correspondent,  that  “the  sentiment 
of the committee is strongly antagonistic 
to  the  bill.  The  Democratic  members 
oppose it on  constitutional  grounds,  and 
so,  too, do two of  the  Republican  mem­
bers,  Messrs.  Teller  and  Platt.  This 
leaves but three members of the commit­
tee,  Messrs.  Hoar, Wilson  and  Mitchell, 
who are  favorable to it.  Mr.  Hoar  is  in 
Europe,  and Mr.  Wilson has  been absent 
from the city for a long time.”

The most of  the  members of  the com­
mittee are, therefore, opposed  to the bill 
on constitutional grounds, and are conse­
quently  not  willing 
that  the  taxing 
power of the Government should be used 
to  regulate  the  morals  of  the  people. 
There is,  therefore,  a practical  certainty 
of au adverse report from the committee, 
and  there  is even  a  possibility  that  the 
report may be so delayed  that it will not 
reach the  Senate until  too  late  for con­
sideration at this session.

Another influence is  developing which 
may also  have an important  bearing up­
on  the  fate  of  the  bill.  Owing  to  the 
wide differences of  opinion  which exists 
as to the merits of the bill,  the friends of 
President Harrison are  desirous  that  he 
should not be  placed  in a  position to  be 
compelled  to  take  sides  in  the  matter. 
Should the bill pass the Senate and reach 
the President for his  approval,  Mr.  Har­
rison  would  be  placed  in  an  awkward 
position.  A veto would  be  sure  to  dis­
please  the  Farmers’  Alliance  influence; 
whereas, on  the  other  hand,  executive 
approval  of  the  bill  would  antagonize 
the  powerful  business  interests  of  the 
country and deprive the Rhpublican can­
didate on the  eve of  election of  the sub­
stantial support of the money classes.

Under such circumstances it is not sur­
prising that the  friends of  the President 
among  the  Republican  senators  should 
be anxious to keep the bill  from going to 
him, hence their influence may  be count­
ed on to help the opponents of  the meas­
ure to delay  the  action on  it until it  be­
comes  impossible to  pass  it  at  this ses­
sion.

THE  CHOLERA  IN  ASIA.

Much  alarm appears  to be  manifested 
at the Russian capital  at  the advance  of 
cholera into  that  empire  from the East.
The  disease  has  been  for  some  time 
very severe in  Persia  and other parts of 
Western  Asia,  and  it  has  already  ap­
peared  in  Asiatic  Russia  at  the  great 
petroleum shipping port of  Baku, on the 
Caspian Sea.  Russia is already  overrun 
by a famine which has  terribly scourged 
many districts  aud  left  the  people  in  a 
condition  to be victims to  any malignant 
and  pestilential  disease  to  which  they 
may  be exposed.  The habits of  Asiatics 
generally,  and  with  them  the  Russians 
must in great part  be  classed,  are  often 
such as to  invite disease.  Their neglect 
of  sanitary  precautions  under  the  most 
favorable circumstances is not calculated 
to repel disease,  but  under the  eflects of 
the  wide-spread  and  extreme  suffering 
caused by a general scarcity of necessary 
food, there is  good  reason for  apprehen­
sion on the part of  the  Russian  authori­
ties.

Of  course,  a  pestilential  disease  like 
cholera  once  allowed  to  become  preva­
lent in Russia must  spread  to  the  other 
nations of Europe,  and is quite qs likely, 
in the course of time,  to reach our shores

if  unrestricted  intercourse  be  allowed; 
but  with  the  strict  quarantine  regula­
tions and  the  advanced  sanitary knowl­
edge now in general use by most civilized 
nations it is possible to  retard the  move­
ments of such plagues  around  the world 
and greatly to curtail  their  fatal  power. 
There  is  theD no  reason  for any appre­
hensions on the subject for  the early fu­
ture.  Should  the  disease  establish  it­
self  in  Western  Europe,  then  we  may 
think seriously on it.

PROPER  FUNCTION  OF  PARTIES. 
The  political  system  of  the  United 
States is,  in  theory,  as  perfect  as  any 
human institution can be. 
It is not only 
a  government  by  the  people,  but  the 
people themselves are so  nearly  equally 
divided into  two  great  political  parties 
that one operates as a check on the other 
and each, whichever one of them may be in 
power makes no  difference,  is restrained 
by the opposition of  the  other  from  all 
acts  of  partisan extravagance or malev­
olence.

Such is the theory and such,  to a  great 
extent, is the practice of the two  parties 
which  make  up  our  political  system. 
But, nevertheless, the  perfection  of  the 
operation of the two  organizations  with 
respect to each other is  so  little  marred 
by the fact that the parties,  great as they 
are,  have in the  past have been too much 
controlled  by  self-appointed  managers, 
and by bosses,  who,  by  gaining  control 
of the  vast  numbers  of  spoilsmen  who 
follow every party,  have risen to  power. 
This sort of power was manifested in  no 
small degree in both  the  great  political 
conventions  which  have 
recently  at­
tracted so much of  the  attention  of  the 
American  people.

The greatest foe  to  our  political  sys­
tem  is  in  the  tendency  of  parties  to 
drift into the control  of  self-constituted 
managers,  so that when any party  comes 
into dominance the power of the  govern­
ment is too  apt  to  be  manipulated  for 
the uses of the managers and of their fol­
lowers rather than for  the  general  good 
of the whole people.  But the remedy for 
this is not a third  party or in any number 
of aggregations of  voters banded together 
for any alleged purpose.  Whatever may 
be the honest and conscientious principles 
with which  political  sectaries  and  dis­
senters from the great parties  may  start 
out, they soon fall into the hands of self- 
seeking politicians who endeavor  to  use 
the new organizations  for  the  advance­
ment of their own  private  schemes.  So 
long  as  a  party 
furnishes  a  road  to 
plunder, there will  not  be  wanting  dis­
appointed and disaffected politicians who 
will leave the ranks  of  the  old  parties, 
where the avenues of advancement  were 
closed to them,  to seek  for  some  means 
of preferment in a faction.

Perhaps the new  parties,  which  from 
time to time spring into  existence to run 
a career more or less  transient,  may  do 
good by serving as escapes or drains into 
which the older  and  more  commanding 
political  organizations  may  get  rid  of 
their  extremists  and  inpracticable ele­
ments,  but they serve no other  beneficial 
purpose.  The only remedy  against  the 
rule of the bosses in the great  parties  is 
for the people to rise in revolt.  There is 
really no beneficial function in our politi­
cal  system 
for  more  than  two  great 
parties.  Our  government  is  a  govern­
ment by parties as mnch as it is a govern­
ment by the people,  and if the people  do 
not on  occasions  rise  up  and  take  the 
management of  their  parties  they  will 
only be failing in their plain duty.

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although there may  be  many  beautiful 
and peaceful days,  there are many others 
during  which  the  strongest  heart,  the 
steadiest hand and thestaunchest faith are 
sorely tried and when only by  the  strain­
ing of every nerve may one be  preserved 
from shipwreck.

How many noble ships there have been 
which have sailed out of harbors for long 
voyages  on  beautiful  days,  every  sail 
filled with gentle breezes and every heart 
swelling with pride and hope.  But some­
where on the wide sea the gentle  breezes 
have become  the  besom  of  distruction, 
bearing  the  ship  onward  towards  the 
merciless  rocks  where 
the  seas  have 
broken over her!

How many  lives  have  been  launched 
under most  favorable  skies  and,  riding 
bravely the ocean which is to bear  them 
happiness,  prosperity and honor,  the end 
of  the  voyage  has  been  a  dishonored 
wreck!

Are your life and mine safe from storm 
and shipwreck?  Are the voyages we are 
sailing so confidently to end  in  peaceful 
harbors,  or  are  they  to  be  beaten  out 
on the cruel  merciless  rocks?  Are  they 
safer than many others  which  have  be­
gun as happily and ended  so  sadly? 
If 
yes, what is it that makes them so?  Are 
we  depending  simply  upon  chance  to 
give us favoring winds  and  keep  us  off 
the rocks, or are we locating these  rocks 
upon our charts, strengthening our  good 
hip to bear  the  gales  which  will  beat 
upon it before  the  voyage  is  ever,  and 
studying the rules  of navigation without 
which every league of  the  way  hides 
deadly peril?

During the  bu-lding of the Kansas & Pacific Railway

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BOCKS  IN  BUSINESS  LIFE.

“ Self-reverence,  self knowledge,  self-control— 
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.” 

— T e n n y s o n  

(O en on e.)

I stood not long ago before a vault con­
taining treasure of great  value,  such  as 
would have  been  fitting  endowment  for 
an emperor or a kingdom.  Interposed be­
tween  me  and  this  treasure  were  the 
massive steel  doors,  closed  within  and 
locked  securely  by  great  bolts  which 
were controlled by the  delicate  mechan­
ism  of  a  combination  lock.  Nothing 
could be easier than to turn  the  spindle 
of that lock, but, had I been offered the con­
tents of the vault  should  I  cause  those 
massive bolts to spring from their places 
and the  doors  to  yield,  it  would  have 
been a hopeless task to attempt, even  al­
though I had a lifetime  to  devote  to  it.
there  came  a 
trusted employe  who  possessed  the  se­
cret of the combination.  A few turns of 
the spindle back and forth, a click,  as  of 
something dropping to its place,  a  turn­
ing of levers and handles,  then a  steady 
pull,  and the great doors swung on  their 
hinges and the vault  lay  open  to  those 
who might enter.

Presently,  however, 

through  happy 

Is  life  but  another 

treasure  house 
which  jealously  guards  its  best things 
from all but a favored few  who,  through 
inheritance, 
circum­
stances  and  shrewd  calculation,  or 
through what seems blind  chance,  have 
possessed  themselves  of  its  secret  and 
find the way of entrance  and  possession 
open to them?  I choose,  rather, to think 
that each man  has his own  door  to  open 
and to enter, that the secret of that  par­
ticular door is confided to  him,  and  that 
whether he enters or  not will depend  on 
the faithfulness and zeal with  which  he 
shall  work out,  not someone  else’s  com­
bination,  but the one  entrusted  to  him.
I have been requested to speak  to  you 
this afternoon upon some  of  the  condi­
tions of safety and success in life,  under 
the topic “Rocks in Business.”

The figure of speech  is  somewhat  in­
definite  and  uncertain.  From  earliest 
times the great  rocks  have  been  places 
• of secure refuge,  as with David  and  Eli­
jah.  They have served as surest founda­
tions on which to  build  enduring  struc 
tures.  They  have brought and  continue 
to bring into deadly peril  the  sea-tossed 
and misguided or  helpless  mariner. 
In 
what sense,  then, shall we  interpret  the 
figure?  Perhaps it will  be  most  profit 
able if we consider some  of  those  rocks 
upon which young  men’s  hopes  of  sue 
cess in life are most often  wrecked,  and 
discover, if possible,  how  they  may  be 
avoided.

Life,  we should remember,  is a serious 
problem.  Too  many  persons  act  as  if 
such a  thought  had  never  occurred  to 
them,  or, having forced  itself upon  their 
consciousness,  that it behooved  them  to 
put it away as  a  petulant  and  trouble­
some intruder.  Such  people  act  as  if 
life were a holiday  pastime,  a  masquer­
ade,  a  joke.  They  look  upon  serious 
things as evils which it may be necessary 
to endure,  but they regard the man  as  a 
canting  Puritan  who  emphasizes  such 
things as duties and  responsibilities.

How foolish,  in  the  eyes  of  the  old 
sailor who has breasted the storms of the 
sea in every clime, must seem the careless 
and  light-hearted  babble  of  those  who 
talk of the waves  as  playthings,  and  of 
the wide ocean as a placeJfor  living  out 
idle days. 
Is the man  less  foolish  who 
does not know life to be a sea  on  which,

Let us  remember  this:  Neither  ships 
nor lives are  wrecked  all  at  once.  The 
ship that goes down  under  the  gale,  or 
which the storm  drives  helplessly  upon 
the rocks,  has  had  in  her  an  incipient 
shipwreck from the time when  her  cap­
tain  was  chosen  and  she,  a  beautiful 
virgin craft, first lay on the bosom of the 
sea.  A fault in the plan, a weakness  of 
construction  or  an  ignorant  or  vicious 
commander are elements which  may  not 
detract from her beauty  as  she  spreads 
her sails  to  catch  the  morning  breeze, 
but, to end  in  fatal  wreck,  there  only 
lacks the storm to  test  her  weaknesses, 
or  the  channel  where 
rocks  lay 
hidden.  So,  when disaster, dishonor and 
shame come to a life,  we may  be  certain 
that these  are  only  the  legitimate  out­
come of causes which themselves  sprang 
from seeds  sown  far  back  in  life  and 
which have been  growing  and  develop­
ing to fruit.

the 

Modern shipbuilding has  reached  that 
point where it is recognized  as  possible 
to build ships  so  securely  that  neither 
storms nor rocks  can  hopelelssy  wreck 
them. 
I rode on such a ship  but  a  few 
months ago, and  you who  have  been  to 
sea and have thus been  brought  face  to 
face with the dangers of  the  great  deep 
can appreciate what a comfort it is, when 
you wake in the nighttime and  hear  the 
whistling of the wind like funereal wail­
ings and the rush of the waves along  the 
sides of  the  ship  and  the  straining  of 
bulkheads,  and feel  the  mighty  power 
which tosses the greatship,  as it were, in 
the air, to know  that,  come  what  may, 
accident, collision or  the  sunken  rocks, 
the boat you have trusted will  bear  you 
up until rescue comes.

But neither is  it  of  necessity  that  a 
wreck shall mark the end of any  life. 
I 
am speaking to  men  who,  for  the  most 
part, are strangers personally  to  me. 
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do not know what jour aim and  purpose 
are, but I do know that  there is  not  one | 
here who may not so build  as  to  escape 
ultimate shipwreck and,  if  he  strongly  i 
will to do so, attain to an honorable posi­
tion.

I take it  that  I  am  speaking  to  men 
who have at least a desire to advance and 
a belief that they  are  capable  of  doing 
better things than those in which they are 
at present engaged. 
If you  are  lacking 
in one thing,  an honorable ambition,  you 
are lacking in all, for, of all unpromising 
tasks, I think the  most  discouraging  is 
to attempt to influence a young man who 
has no  wish  or  purpose  to  advance  in 
life, who is content with the present  and 
with what the  present  brings. 
I  hope, 
therefore,  that I am speaking to  men  to­
day who have in their  breasts  both  the 
wish and the  purpose  to  get  on  in  the 
world.

What does the phrase  “getting  on  in 
the world” mean,  in  an  honorable  and 
praiseworthy  sense?  It  means to even­
tually be a leader where now one  has  to 
serve; it means to acquire such  a knowl­
edge  and skill  in  doing  things  as  will 
enable us to turn  events  to  our  advan­
tage,  instead of having our own interests 
continually  subordinated 
to  others;  it 
means to sometime be at the top, instead 
of  somewhere  between  that  point  and 
the bottom.  He who would be a  leader, 
however,  must  first  learn  to  serve;  he 
who  would  direct  business  must  first 
learn  the  details  of  business;  he  who 
would influence and control subordiuates 
must  first  acquire  that  knowledge  and 
experience  which  place  him  by  merit 
above  subordinates. 
Such  knowledge 
and experience rarely come  by  birth  or 
by intuition; neither  are  they  absorbed 
by mere contact with business  men,  nor 
by hard  study  for  a  brief  period  in  a 
business college.  They are  attained,  as 
a  rule,  only  by  constaut  and  faithful 
application during a long period of years 
—learning  much,  advancing  a 
little, 
holding  the  steps  gained  and  pressing 
onward to better things.  Present ease is 
not to be thought of.  He who would suc­
ceed must make every necessary sacrifice 
of present interest for the sake of  future 
gain.

Says Tennyson:

“ Men may rise on  stepping stones 
Of their dead selves to better things."

Thus always must men rise, if they rise 

at all.

What are  some  of  the  hindrances  to 
young  men  contracting  such  habits  of 
persistent application and effort as these?
The first is  hindering  companionship;
“ We live not in ourselves, but we become 
Portion of that around us.”
A  young  man’s 

instincts,  principles 
and purposes may be good and noble, but 
they  need  favoring  circumstances  and 
environment  to  develop  and  crystalize 
them into traits of character.  Few  men 
are capable of  attaining the  best that  is 
in them in the  face  of  adverse  circum­
stances. 
I  do  not  mean  such  adverse 
circumstances as arouse his  best  efforts, 
put him on his mettle, develop energy by 
the spice of conflict and show what he  is 
capable of doing,  but such circumstances 
as  are  depressing 
their  influence, 
deadening  to  ambition  and  corrupting 
to noble aspirations.  Such is  the  effect 
of much,  I might almost say of  most,  of 
the companionship into which young men 
are thrown when they start out  on  their 
own resources,  particularly  if  they  are 
separated from  good  homes.  Few  men 
whose lives have been  wrecked  make  a

in 

deliberate choice of evil at the beginuing; 
there may  have  been  in  their  hearts  a 
prefereuce for good,  and it  was  circum­
stances and environment which  caused a 
tendency towards  evil  ways  which,  by 
the time it  became  recognized,  was  too 
strong to be resisted—perhaps there  was 
then no disposition to resist it.

It  is  impossible for us to rise above  the 
level  which  we  deliberately  choose  and 
tehich  we  are  content  to  occupy.  A 
stream can  rise  higher  than  its  source 
only  by pressure, and before we can  iise 
there must be  within  us  such  a  strong 
desire and purpose to do so as will create 
an  impulse  upward.  How,  then,  can 
there  be  any  such  desire  or  purpose 
when we are content with the companion­
ship which turns our thoughts  from  the 
important issues of life,  makes  light  of 
of  duties  and  responsibilities  and  con­
tinually prefers the pursuit  of  pleasure 
to the tasks of business?

Picture to yourselves a young man who 
has secured a  responsible  position  with 
an important business  establishment  or 
corporation.  The  performance  of  his 
duties  requires  application,  zeal  and 
loyalty and  devotion  to  his  employer’s 
interests.  He has the  enthusiasm  of  a 
beginner and the  confidence  of  untried 
youth.  Perhaps he  has  visions  of  the 
time when he, also,  may be the bead of  a 
great business establishment and employ 
many  men.  Through  carelessness  or 
accident  he  finds  his  associates  among 
other men  who are without interest, zeal, 
purpose  or  character.  They  are “good 
fellows,”  as  the term goes, entertaining 
and companionable,  but  their  conversa­
tion  is frivolous and  low—it  shows  that 
they  have no  care  for  the  interests  in 
their charge; they detract from the merit 
of those who are faithful and  true;  they 
slur the men who, because they  are  ani­
mated by  better  principles,  hold  them­
selves aloof;  they  detract  from  the  re­
spect due  to  emplojers, and  render  no 
more than the service which the necessity 
of  their  position  requires.  How  long 
could our young friend continue in  such 
an atmosphere and not feel his  zeal  flag, 
his  enthusiasm  wane  and  his  purpose 
weaken?  How long will it  be, unless  he 
be  a  man  of  more 
average 
quality,  ui.til  he  is  assimilated  by  the 
companionship  he has chosen?

than 

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young men who are starting  out  in  busi­
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injurious.  They are the resort not of the 
openly  corrupt  and 
immoral  but  of 
many who make a mere pretense of virtue 
and respectability.  They aim to be a sub­
stitute for the home,  but  they  are  little 
more restraining than the  cheap  restau­
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women and girls it is  of  gossip  and  too 
often of  scandal,  and  between  the  two 
sexes it is small  talk and  cheap  wit,  fre­
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The commonest amusement is card  play­
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strengthen him for  renewed  struggle  on 
the morrow. 
It is not strange that  many 
business nlen make a practice,  in  secur­
ing  help,  of  seeking  young  men  who 
have more  helpful  abiding  places  than 
these,  and  especially  those  who  have 
homes where they go at uight. 
If  there 
were more  homes,  there  would  be  less 
necessity  for  business  men  to  employ 
detectives to report to them the  personal 
habits of their employes and where  they 
resort out of business hours.

Of course,  it is not easy to answer  the 
question:  What  must  young  men  do
who  are  without  homes  and  who  are 
forced to accept the shelter of these  sub­
stitutes?  Better by far. however, secure 
a lodging in even a  very humble  private 
family.

to 

When a  young  man  becomes  content 
with such companionship as I  have  sug­
gested,  he has crossed one  reef  of  rocks 
and is rapidly driving onto the  next one, 
which  is  evil  thinking, 
for  bad  com­
panionship must inevitably result in deg­
radation  of  thought  and  weakening  of 
principle.  The young man becomes care­
less  and  indifferent  about  many things 
which once he considered sacred;  he sees 
no reason why  he should be more particu­
lar  than  his  associates;  he  hears  their 
coarse stories and begins to see where the 
fun comes in;  he listens  to  their adven­
tures, and it seems to him that he has lived 
a  very tame  sort  of  life.  The hours  of 
hard work at store and office seem enough 
to give to business,  the  remaining  hours 
should  be  given 
recreation  and 
pleasure,  and why  should  he  not  enjoy 
himself as other men do?  Aud  then  he 
says he must get rid of his wild oats, and 
he thinks the only  way he can get rid  of 
them  is  to  sow  them.  When  a  young 
man reaches this point he is already cor­
rupted,  although he may  not  have  com­
mitted any evil act, for “Can a man  take 
fire into his bosom and not  be  burned?”
The  barriers  are  now  broken  down, 
for  it  is  inevitable 
that,  “As  a  man 
thinketh in his heart, so is he,” and  evil 
thinking leads by but a single step to evil 
doing. 
It is astonishing how quickly and 
easily bad  habits  may  now  be  formed. 
What are they? 
It hardly  seems  neces­
sary to state them:  Drinking liquor and 
frequenting saloons, then going after her 
whose feet are in the ways  of  sin,  then 
to  the  gambling  hell,  where  wretched 
hope  is  continually  deferred  and  men 
grow sick  at  heart  with  unholy  desire 
for that which is  only  a  blessing  when 
gained by honest toil and sweat of brow. 
I need not tell you how many  are  walk­
ing  these  ways.  Watch  the  doors  of 
saloons and  see how often they swing  to 
the touch of young men.  Take a  glance 
—but do not linger—in the upper stories 
of business blocks where  men  and  boys 
wait with breathless interest the turn  of 
a  card  or  the  stopping  of  a  wheel. 
¡Stand on the corner—but do  not  go  far­
ther—where converge the streets leading 
to the byways of her  who  lieth  in  wait 
for her prey, and watch  those  who  pass 
on towards her,now singly, now in pairs, 
often  a  boisterous  company  of  boys, 
youth or men  who are  out,  as  we  hear, 
“ painting the  town  red.”  They  ought 
to know that  “The  dead  are  there  and 
the guests of  her  they  seek  are  in  the 
depths of hell.”

How many years of  his  brief  span  of 
life  may  a  young  man 
in  such 
fashion  and  preserve  vigor  of  body, 
strength of mind or faculty for business? 
Almost every day I meet, on  the  streets

lead 

faces of men still young whom I know  to 
have had ability aud unusual  opportuni­
ties,  but  in whose  features  is  indelibly 
writteu that their chances of  success  in 
life are already gone.

Mr.  Depew says that, of all  the  young ; 
men he knew when he was himself young, 
there is not one who was given to the ex- i 
cessive use  of  intoxicating  liquors  but j 
who  has  failed  in  business  or  lies  in 
a dishonored grave.  Mr.  Carnegie  says ! 
that he considers it labor  lost to attempt 
to fit for  responsible  business  positions | 
young men who are addicted  to  the  use | 
of intoxicating  liquors.  “If  the  young 
man is of exceptional ability,”  says  he, 
“the  danger  is  greater, for,  when  you 
have advanced him  to  a  position  of  re­
sponsibility and trust,  he  will  fail  you 
at that moment when you need  him  the 
most.”

One of  the  saddest  results of  dissipa­
tion,  as  all  know  who  have  given  any 
thought  to  the  question,  is  the  manner 
in which it shatters  the moral  as well as 
the  physical  being. 
Intemperance,  in­
deed, often counts as its victims men who 
have  been  of  the  greatest  nobility  of 
character,  but,  after they have been sub­
ject  to  this  power  for  many  years,  the 
man  would  be  a  poor  judge  of  human 
nature who would place much  reliance on 
the former  moral  principles  which con­
trolled  them.  The  worst of  it  is  that, 
although  the  Keeley  cure  may  relieve 
them  from the  wretched appetite,  it  can 
never  wholly  restore 
toue 
which they  have  sacrificed.  When men 
have  thus by  dissipation  debased  them­
selves and sacrificed  the  moral  qualities 
which  are  the  soul's anchor,  they  come 
into that  attitude  towards  others  which 
makes  dishonesty, cunning,  trickery and 
deceit,  if not crime,  seem only legitimate 
means  for  accomplishing  desired  ends. 
In  those  incomparable  lines  of  worldly 
wisdom—now  become  household  words 
—which  Polonius  speaks  to  the  young 
Laertes, he  closes thus:

the  moral 

"This above all : to thine own self be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day. 
Thou canst not then be  false to any man.”

And,  conversely,  when  a  man  has  been 
false  to  his  higher  self,  it  must  also 
“ follow as the night the day” that he will 
not  be  found  faithful  to  his  duties and 
obligations  to others.

One of  the  best .drawn  characters  in 
literature,  in  my  judgment,  is  that  of 
Tito,  in  George  Eliot’s  “Romola.”  Un­
usually gifted  by  nature, endowed  with 
magnificent  personal  charms,  accom­
plished and learned far beyond his years, 
he  appeared  in  Florence at  the  time  of 
the Renaissance and at once  sprung  into 
popular  favor.  He  was  young,  clever 
and  beautiful,  and  his  manners  to  all 
were gentle and kind;  he  never  thought 
of anything cruel or  base.  Admitted in­
to one of the oldest and  best families,  he 
won  the  love  of  a  noble  and  beautiful 
woman,  was  advanced  to  high  position 
in the State,  and,  had  he proven  true  to 
himself and friends,  might  have enjoyed 
the utmost honor and love that this world 
has to  bestow.  But in  the hour of  trial 
which  came  to  him,  as  it  comes  to  all 
men, he lacked courage  and truth.  “By 
trying to slip away from  everything that 
was  unpleasant  and caring  for  nothing 
so  much  as  his  own  safety,  ease  and 
I pleasure,  he came at last to commit some 
I of the basest  deeds—such  as  make  men 
I infamous.  He denied his father and left 
■ him in misery.  He dishonored his noble 
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of  their trade  and the general public,  by 
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the 

from 

fleeing 

tired  body  from 
the  shore,  he  was  strangled 

reposed in  him,  that he might  keep him­
self  safe  and  become  rich  and  pros­
perous.  Yet  calamity  overtook  him, 
and  when, 
t he  peo­
in  fancied  security,  dragged 
ple,  he, 
river  up­
his 
on 
to 
death by the hands of the old man he had 
so cruelly wronged,  and his  once beauti­
ful face lay bloating  among the weeds,  a 
repulsive thing  for  carrion birds to feed 
on, the eyes  staring  into  the heavens as 
if knowing that there  the  soul  had gone 
for judgment.  Thus do men’s deeds fol­
low them through  life and meet them  at 
the Judgment Day.”

I have thus endeavored, in as practical 
a way as  possible,  to  point  out some  of 
the rocks upon  which  young men’s  lives 
are wrecked—hindering  companionship, 
corrupting  thoughts,  bad  habits,  faith­
lessness to duty.  Let us now consider how 
these rocks may be  avoided and our voy­
ages end in secure  and peaceful  harbors.
The  most  dangerous  thing  in  life  is 
drifting.  Like  the  ship,  the  man  who 
drifts  is as  hopeless  to do  well  as  he is 
helpless;  so, the  first  essential  thing  to 
do  is  to  fill  our  sails  with a masterful 
purpose.

There have been and are great geniuses 
in the world  who  seem to go to the front 
not so much  by effort  as  by a native mo­
mentum  which  overcomes  through  its 
own innate  force.  But it is not with the 
genius  or  with the  man of  great mental 
endowments  that  we  have to do. 
In the 
voyage which  the most of  us are sailing, 
commanding  ability is not  the  safest  or 
surest element of  success.  Where  many 
able  men  fail,  there  are  many more  of 
ordinary  natural  ability  who  succeed by 
virtue  of  an  enduring  purpose  which 
triumphs  over  obstacles,  is  not  easily 
discouraged,  does  not  lose  sight  of  the 
end  for  which ,t is working  and  knows 
no  such  word  as  “fail.”  Success  with 
most of us must  be attained,  if at all.  by 
force of arms.  All of  you  who are older 
can  recall  successful  men  who,  when 
boys,  were  considered of  less  than ordi­
nary ability, and who  have succeeded by 
sheer  force  of  will.  History  is  full  of 
the  names of  mun  who  have  conquered 
under  the  most  discouraging  circum­
stances.  Think of Alexander 11.  Stevens, 
who was a dwarf in body but did  a giant’s 
work.  Think  of  Chief  Justice  Chase, 
who  in his  boyhood  gave  little  promise 
of  his future great  career.  He  was,  we 
are 
impedi­
ment 
in  his  speech  and  was  stoop- 
shouldered,  shambling  and  slouchy  in 
his appearance  and  gait.  Think of  Mil- 
ton,  who wrote  inspired  poetry when  he 
was  blind,  and of  Beethoven,  who  com­
posed  music  of  unearthly  beauty  and 
grandeur when he was deaf.  As one has 
said,  ‘‘It stirs  our  blood to think of  this 
strength of  spirit which  does not^know 
when  it is beaten, but which,  like a steel 
spring,  will  rise the  instant  pressure  is 
relaxed.”

told,  nearsighted,  had  an 

This  year  commemorates  one  of  the 
most  wonderful  discoveries  the  world 
has  known,  aud  we are  learning  some­
thing of  the  great  man  whose  name  is 
inseparably linked with the event.  There 
is  no  life  which  offers  more  profitable 
study  to  young  men  than does  that  of 
Columbus.  We  are  too  apt to think  of 
this  remarkable  man  as  a  great  genius, 
specially endowed with  high  powers and 
an  intuitive  knowledge of  the secrets of 
the earth beyond the seas.  Such thoughts, 
however,  belittle  his  great  name  and

character,  for he  received no revelations 
except  those  which  came  through  pro­
found study,  untiring energy and indom­
itable purpose.  He learned  to  effect his 
great  purposes with  scanty  means, sup­
plying  deficiencies  by  the  resources  of 
his  own  energy  and  invention,  and  in 
every  undertaking  the  scantiness  and 
insufficiency  of  means  but  enhance  the 
grandeur  of  his  achievements.  Having 
to contend,  from  the  outset,  with  priva­
tions  and  impediments,  he acquired  in­
trepidity in encountering  and  facility in 
vanquishing  difficulties.

At fourteen years of age he commenced 
to  navigate  the  seas.  At an  early  age 
he took commaud of  his own  vessel, and 
during  many years  was one of  the  most 
intrepid  sailors which  that  adventurous 
age  produced.  Coming  to  Portugal at a 
time  when  Prince  Henry  was  arousing 
the  nation  with  his  grand  schemes  of 
adventure  and  discovery,  he married the 
daughter  of  one  of  that  Prince’s  most 
celebrated  navigators.  Aroused  by  the 
spirit of the age and the impulse of pass­
ing  events,  he  turned  to  the  study  of 
geographical  authors,  ancient  and  con­
temporary,  and  made  himself  familiar 
with  all  that  they had  writ.en.  From 
the  great  mass  of  acknowledged  facts, 
rational  hypotheses,  fanciful  narratives 
and  popular  rumors,  he,  with  rare good 
judgment,  discarded  the  fanciful  and 
false,  held  to  the  true  and  gradually 
wrought  out  his  grand  scheme  of  dis­
covery.  For  nearly  ten  years  he  cher­
ished  and  developed  his  theory  in  bis 
own  mind,  until  it  became  fixed  with 
singular 
firmness  and  influenced  his 
whole life and  character.  For ten  more 
years, he,  with dignity, courage and per­
tinacity  which  have  never  been  sur­
passed,  solicited  aid  from  sovereigns 
until  his  great  faith was  rewarded and 
he sailed  out of  the port of  Palos on his 
memorable voyage.

Read the rècord of that voyage.
“After  setting  sail,”  he writes  in  his 
log,  “our  course  was  due  west.  The 
third  day  we  held  our  course  boldly to 
j the  west;  the fifth  day we  sailed  boldly 
j to the west,”  and,  when  every heart  but 
i  his own was overcome by the awful  lone­
liness  of  the  sea  and  the  dread of  un­
known  terrors, and  he  was  surrounded 
by rebellious  officers  and  crew  beseech­
ing  him to turn  back,  we  find  him  still 
^ sailing  “boldly  to  the  west,”  until,  at 
last,  out  of  the  waste  of  waters  sprang 
this  new  world,  the  glorious  reward of 
nearly twenty  years of  unwearied  ener- 
! gy aud  toil.

So,  in  every  voyage  of  discovery  on 
life’s  uncertain  sea,  the  rewards  come 
to those who,  in  whatever  direction they 
have  determined to steer,  still  push far­
ther on and “ hold the course boldly.” 

But, to attain  true  success,  this  mas 
terful purpose of  which  we are speaking 
must  be  a  noble  purpose,  and,  to  be 
noble, it must  have a noble  end  in view 
He  who  wishes  to  succeed  meiely  for 
selfish  ends  will  inevitably  fail  of  true 
success,  for  selfishness  corrupts 
the 
springs of  all that is noblest and  best in 
men.  The proverb  says,  “ He that  mak 
eth  haste to be rich  shall  not remain in 
nocent.” Solomon, therefore, when offered 
the choice  of  wisdom,  wealth  or  power 
wisely  chose  the  first.  The  negative 
counterpart of  Solomon’s choice is in the 
story of  Midas,  the  Brygian  king,  who 
was  offered,  by  the  god  Silenus,  what 
ever  thing  he  wanted.  He asked 
that 
| everything he touched might turn to gold

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moral  obligations  which  must  be  ob­
served,  for without  these  no  permanent 
business success can  be  obtained.  You 
can no more  imagine  business  relations 
continuing  permanently without  ethical 
principles than you can conceive of mass 
without cohesion,  for an embodied moral 
principle  is  the cohesive element which 
binds the business world together. When 
a man repudiates these  moral  principles 
and sets out to attain his ends regardless 
of the interests and  just rights of others, 
although  he  may compel  recognition—a 
pirate  may do  that—he is no  longer en­
titled  to  be  considered  an  integral and 
legitimate  factor  of 
the  commercial 
world.

Another  essential element with  which 
to build is industry.  This is the capaci­
ty for continuous  and effective work. 
It 
does not mean mere activity—a baby is a 
very  active  being,  but  he  does  not  ac­
complish a great deal  in the world. 
It is 
the  power of  applying one’s  self  to one 
thing until that is done  and then rapidly 
passing  to  another.  The  man  who  is 
industrious  does  not  hurry  through  a 
present  task in order that  he  may enjoy 
a  few  moments  of  stolen  idleness;  he 
does  not  watch  the  clock  or  listen  for 
the whistle in order that at the  signal he 
may  desert  his  task;  he  would  rather 
give a dozen  strokes  too  many than  one 
too  few;  he does  not  count a task  done 
until it is well  done.  To  him  there is a 
pleasure  in  labor  which  does not  come 
merely from  the thought  that he is earn­
ing  his wages,  but also  from the  knowl­
edge that  he  is  producing  something by 
his  efforts.  Hence  it  is  that  the  wise 
man wrote:  “Seest  thou a man  diligent 
in business?  He shall stand before kings 
he shall not stand bfore mean men.” 

always weak and  must be continually on 
the defensive.  Subject to attack by pas­
sions from  within  and  temptations from 
without, he knows  not what moment  his 
weak spots may be found  and  his weak­
ness  overcome,  but  the  courageous  man 
carries a shield  which cannot  be pierced 
through.

These,  then,  are  the  four  important 
elements  with which  I  would  build the 
rudder which is to control  our good  ship 
as,  driven  by  determined  purpose,  she 
speeds on her course—honesty,  industry, 
faithfulness  to  duty,  courage.  Little 
danger,  with such a rudder,  of  not being 
able  to  steer  clear  of  the  rocks  and 
shoals!  And  the  man  who  possesses 
these  qualities is not  likely to  entertain 
low  ideas of  life  or  its  mission.  He is 
not likely to be careless of the destiny of 
the  soul  which  has  been  committed  to 
his charge.

The  contemplative  Hamlet, 

the 
words of  the inspired  poet of  Stratford, 
exclaimed:

in 

“What a  piece  of  work is man!  How 
noble in reason!  How infinite in faculty! 
In  form  and  moving  how  express  and 
admirable! 
In action how like an angel! 
In apprehension how like a god!”

twice ten thousands more.
them all
telligent creation poor.”

And the poet Young, meditating in his 
beautiful  “Night  Thoughts;”  broke  out 
in that impressive strain:
“Behold this midnight glory—worlds on worlds 
Redouble the  amaze.  Ten  thousands  add—add 
Then  weigh :the  whole.  One  soul  outweighs 
And calls the astonishing magnificence of  unin 
From time  immemorial  have  prophet, 
seer,  philosopher  and poet  exalted  man, 
his powers,  his  possibilities, his destiny. 
Shall  the  life of  any such  go  out  upon 
the rocks? 

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His request was granted, but the god was 
so  disgusted  with  his  baseness  that he 
gave  him  donkeys’ ears  to  show  what a 
veritable ass he had made of  himself. 
I 
know of  no meaner men  than  those who 
are  slaves  to  their  wealth,  who, to  use 
an  expression  which  I  recently  heard, 
before letting go of a nickel will squeeze 
it so  hard  as to cremate  the  Goddess  of 
Liberty.  Pursuit of  money  for  its  own 
sake is an  ignoble  thing, but to attain  it 
for what it may enable us to be and to do 
is a noble aim.

But  a  masterful  purpose  is  not  the 
only important and  essential requisite to 
success.  A  strong  impelling  force,  if 
not  rightly  controlled,  becomes  an  ele­
ment of danger  instead of  safety.  Sails 
must  be filled  to  drive the  ship onward 
through storm and billow,  but she would 
be  helpless,  indeed,  without  the  rudder. 
Do  not  we  need  one  as  well?  If  so,  it 
must  be  stoutly  built  of  the  strongest 
materials,  for  we  have  seen  the  rocks 
which threaten, and it is only our rudder 
which  can  turn  us  clear of  them. 
In 
building such a rudder, the first essential 
is integrity of character.  Honesty should 
be at the  basis of  all  our  relations with 
our fellow men.  Do not lie for any man.
If  you are working for others, do not  lie 
in  their  interest,  and,  if  you have others 
working  for  you,  do not  expect  them to 
lie in your  interest,  for,  if  they are false 
to  others, by what  right can  you  expect 
them to be  true  to  you?  There  is a too 
general impression  that lying  and deceit 
are essential elements  for the  successful 
large  business  enterprises, 
conduct  of 
It is degrading to man­
but it is not so. 
hood to make such an assertion. 
I know, 
and  you  know  successful  business  men 
who  will  not  lie  in  their  own  or  any 
one else’s  interest. 
I well  remember an 
interview  I  once  had  w ith’Thomas  J. 
Potter, 
then  general  manager  of  the 
Chicago, Burlington  &  Quincy road,  one 
of  the  ablest  railway  managers,  some 
think the ablest in many respects,  which 
this country  has produced. 
I  asked him 
for  some  information I was  desirous  of 
getting.  To  my  questions  he  réplied, 
“ 1  cannot  tell  you,  Hobbs,  what  you 
want to  know,  but  I  know who can  tell
you.  Go over to th e -----building to the
office of  M r.-----and  tell him what  you
want.  Anything  he  says to  you  about 
the  matter  1  will  guarantee  to  be  the 
truth.”  And  then he added,  “There are 
not  a  great  many  men  in  the  city  of 
Chicago of  whom  I would  want to make 
that statement,  but  I  do  not  hesitate to 
make it of  M r.-----.” 
I  did  as Mr.  Pot­
ter  advised,  and  that  meeting with  Mr. 
----- was  the  commencement of  an  inti­
mate business and personal acquaintance 
which  has  lasted  for  nearly ten  years, 
during  which 
time  I  have  transacted 
much  business  with  him,  aggregating 
some  hundreds of  thousands of  dollars, 
largely  on  the  ground  of  the  personal 
confidence  which  he  has  inspired,  and 1 
have never  had  any reason  to  question 
Mr. Potter’s  estimate of  the  man.  Con­
sider,  if  you  wish  to,  that  this  gentle­
man’s integrity is a part of his capital in 
business,  but,  wherever  you  meet  such 
capital,  lift your  hat to it.

But honesty does not simply mean tell­
ing the  truth. 
It  involves a recognition 
of  all our  duties  and  responsibilities to 
others.  The man  who is strictly  honest 
will  scorn  to  attaiu  business  ends  by 
cheating,  trickery,  fraud  or  other  un­
worthy means. 
In  all  our  business,  as 
in all  social  relations,  there  are  certain

D e a fn e s s  C a n n o t B e C u re d

by local  applications, as  they cannot  reach  the 
diseased  portion of  the ear.  There is only way 
to cure  deafness,  and  that  is  by  constitutional 
remedies.  Deafness  is  caused  by an  inflamed 
condition of the mucous lining of the Eutachian 
tube.  When this tube gets  inflamed you  have a 
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when 
it is entirely  closed  deafness  is  the  result, and 
unless  the  Inflammation can  be  taken out  and 
this  tube restored  to its  normal condition, hear­
ing will be destroyed  forever;  nine  cases out of 
ten are caused  by catarrh, which  is  nothing but 
an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will  give  One  Hundred  Dollars  for  any 
case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot 
be cured by Hall’s  Catarrh  Cure.  Send for  cir 
culars, free.
F.  J.  CHENEY  &  CO.,  Toledo,  O. 

yW Sold by druggists, 75c.

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.

Another  essential  element is faithful­
ness—faithfulness  to  the  duties  which 
have  been  entrusted  to  us.  When  a 
young man,  whatever  his  position in the 
office  may be,  has gained  the reputation 
of loyally serving his employer and being 
faithful  to  the  extent  of  his  ability to 
whatever task has been entrusted to him, 
he  may  be  certain  that  his  promotion 
will  follow as  fast as  he can  fit  himself 
for  more  responsible  duties.  His  em­
ployer does not have to ascertain whether 
an important  letter  has  been  mailed,  an 
errand performed,  an order forwarded,  a 
message  delivered  or  the  door  locked 
when the store is closed or the office  left 
vacant;  nor,  when the young man is pro­
moted,  does  it  need to be asked whether 
he wrote  Mr. Blank  about the  goods for 
which he was known to be in the market, 
or  forwarded  to  another  Mr.  Blank  the 
material  which  was out of  stock  yester­
day but which was to arrive to-day?  The 
boy  or  man  who  starts  out  by  being 
faithful, careful and loyal in all his tasks 
will always be in demand.

The fourth essential element is courage, 
courage to be  true to one’s self  and then 
true  .to  others.  Courage  is  one  of  the 
most  essential  elements  to  permanent 
success, because  it  makes  a  man  stand 
to  his  duty  without  regard  to  conse­
quences,  and  then in times of  apparent 
failure it helps  him to wait  for the  final 
and true results.  And

‘•Since right is right, to follow right
Were wisdom In the scorn of consequence.”
Courage is an element  for which every 
man will have need  every day and every 
hour  in  the  day,  for  it  is  not  only  his 
strength  in  time of  need  but his  surest 
safeguard  against  covert  attack. 
.The 
coward—I speak of  moral  cowardice—is

of

It is the Caper in this Era to make preparation for such 
events  considerably in advance.  We  are “in the swim 
and shall  be prepared to furnish  everything in the way

FIREWORKS.

When  you  get  ready to order, let  us  furnish  you with 
quotations.

P U T N A M   C A N D Y   CO.
P E R K I N S   <&
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

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WE  CAREY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

THE  MIGHTOAN  TRADESMAN.

weeks or  months, while % per  cent,  was 
found  by Biltz  to  extend  this period  to 
about  eleven  months.  However,  1  per 
cent, of  alcohol  is  sufficient  to  protect 
chloroform  for  much 
longer  than  one 
year.  Biltz claims to be in possession of 
such a chloroform  which  has  been  kept 
in  a  colorless  vial  only  half  filled, ex­
posed  to diffused  light during  six  years 
unchanged.
Pictet’s chloroform purified by freezing, 
judged  by  the  highest  standards,  must 
be  accepted,  the  author  admits,  as  the 
very purest chloroform known at present; 
when  the  manufacturers  put forth their 
claim  of  greater  stability  of  their  pro­
duct,  however,  they  committed  a serious 
error.  Careful  comparative  tests  have 
conclusively shown  that  the new chloro­
form must be protected  with alcohol and 
against  light  precisely  the  same  as  all 
other pure chloroforms.

of  Senior Vice  Department Commander, 
and is at present a member of the Council 
of  Administration  of  this  Department. 
His  first  vote for  President was  cast for 
Fremont  in  1856, and  he has  ever  been 
an  active  adherent  of  the  Republican 
party. 
In  recognition  of  past  services 
to the  party,  his  friends  propose to pre­
sent  his  name at the  Senatorial conven­
tion as the  most  available  candidate for 
State Senator. 

______

T he P resid en t to  P r e ss th e  B u tton .
The  Electric  Age  contains  a  proposi­
tion that the opening of the World’s Fair 
be  announced  by the  simultaneous  dis­
charge of cannons in every city and town 
of the United  States by  electricity.  By 
the  co-operation  of  the  telegraph  com­
panies the  loaded  cannons  could  all  be 
connected in electrical  circuit, and when 
the  President  touches  the  button there 
will be a  simultaneous roar  of  artillery 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from 
the great lakes to  the gulf.

T he  D ru g  M ark et.

There  are  very  few  and  unimportant 

changes to note this week:

Quinine—Firm  at  the  advance and as 
the last  bark  sale  in  London  was  at an 
advance  of  5  to  10  per  cent.,  present 
prices are  likely to be maintained.

Opium—Dull and unchanged.
Borax—Trifle easier,  but  not quotably 

changed.

Gum  Camphor—Declined  on  account 

of competition among the  refiners.

Tonka Beans—Scarce and tending high­

er.

Nitrate Silver—Declined.
Canary  Seed—Again  firmer  and tend­

ing higher.

Salacine—Lower.
Oil Cubebs—Lower.
Oil Cassia—Declined.
Gentian Root—Declined.

1 4
D r u g s  

M e d i c i n e s .

State  Board  o f Pharm acy.

O ne  T e a r—J a c o b   Je sso n ,  M uskegon.
Two  T e a rs—Ja m e s  V e ra o r, D e tro it.
T h re e  T e a rs —O ttm a r E b e rb a c h , A nn  A rb o r 
P o u r T e a rs—G eorge G n n d ru m . Io n ia.
F ir e  T e a rs—C. A. B ugbee.  C heboygan.
P re sid e n t—J a c o b   Jesso n , M uskegon.
S e c re ta ry —J a s .  V e rn o r, D e tro it.
T re a su re r—G eo. G u n d ru m , Io n ia.
M arq u ette,  A ug. 31;  L an sin g ,  N ovem ber 1.

M eetings  fo r  1882 — S ta r  Isla n d  

(D etro it),  Ju ly   6; 

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass n. 
P re sid e n t—B . G. C olem an, K alam azo o . 
V ice-P residents—8.  E.  P a rk ill,  O w osso;  L. P au ley , St.
Ig n a c e ;  A. 3. P a rk e r, D e tro it.
S ec re ta ry —Mr. P a rso n s, D e tro it.
T re a su re r—W m . D upont, D e tro it.
E x ec u tiv e C o m m ittee—F . J. W u rzb u rg ,  G ra n d  R ap id s; 
F ra n k   In g lis  a n d   G.  W .  S trin g e r,  D e tro it;  C.  E. 
W ebb, Jac k so n .
N ext p la c e   o f  m e e tin g —G ran d   R ap id s, A ug. 2,3  a n d  4. 
L ocal S ec re ta ry —Jo h n   D. M uir.___________________ __
Grand  Rapid«  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
P re sid e n t. W. R. Je w e tt,  S e c re ta ry ,  F ra n k  H. E seo tt, 
R eg u lar M eetings—F irs t W ednesday e v e n in g  o f M arch 
Ju n e , S ep tem b er a n d  D ecem ber._______________ _____
Uranii Rapids  D rue Clerks’ A ssociation, 
re sid e n t, F . D. K ipp;  S e c re ta ry , W . C. S m ith.

M uskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association. 

P re sid e n t  N. M iller;  S e c re ta ry , A. T. W h eeler.
The  Influence  of Light  on  Chloroform.
Twenty-five  years  ago  the  Prussian 
government  was  influenced  by  Dr.  E. 
Biltz,  of Erfurt,  who had carefully inves­
tigated  the  chemical  characteristics  of 
chloroform—introduced  into medicine as 
an an (esthetic by Jackson  and  Simpson, 
fourteen years before that—to  order  the 
latter  preserved  in  black,  well-closed 
vials  kept  in  a  dark place.  The  views 
then held by Biltz on  this  subject  have 
undergone  no  change  in  the meantime, 
as is shown by the  historical  and  chem­
ical studies on chloroform  recently  pub­
lished by him in  pamphlet form.
Biltz  starts  out  with  the  affirmation 
that the decomposition of  chloroform  is 
not  inaugurated  by  certain  impurities 
which  must  be  removed,  but  that  this 
tendency  is an integral  characteristic  of 
chloroform  itself. 
Irrespective  of  the 
method  of  production  or  the degree of 
purification  obtained,  chloroform  must 
still be subjected to all the  known meas­
ures for preservation,  because,  forsooth, 
it is chloroform.
The greater the  degree  of  purity and, 
particularly, the more free it is  of  alco­
hol,  if stored in  colorless  vials  contain­
ing air, the  sooner  and  more  readily  it 
suffers decomposition,  highly  dangerous 
for therapeutic purposes.  And  this  oc­
curs in consequence  of  the  substitution 
of  part of the chlorine in  the chloroform 
by the atmospheric oxygen  under the in­
fluence of daylight, liberating the former, 
while  also  combining  with 
the  rest  of 
the chlorine and carbon to  phosgen  and 
the  hydrogen  to  water.  Biltz  hence 
strongly urges as protective measures the 
admixture of alcohol with chloroform and 
exclusion  of  daylight.  While  the  pro­
tective influence of alcohol cannot be un­
limited,  it retards decomposition.  Chlor­
oform  suffers  decomposition  under  the 
influence of air or light,  in  the  presence 
even of alcohol;  but the alcohol will  ab­
sorb the decomposition  products—chlor­
ine and phosgen—and combine  with  the 
same to harmless or even anaesthetic com­
pounds.  As long as  there  is  excess  of 
alcohol this play will continue, but when 
exhausted,  free  chlorine  and  phosgen, 
the  very  bodies  endangering  life,  will 
make their appearance.
The time in which  such decomposition 
will  set  in, depends on  the  chemical  in­
tensity  of  the  light,  and  partially  upon 
the relative amount of oxygen present in 
the vial.  But  since  the chemical  inten­
sity of sunlight during  summer is, on an 
average, nine times  as  strong as in win­
ter,  the  minimum  for  winter  and  the 
maximum  for  summer  being  as  3:200 
even,  it happens that a specimen of chlo­
roform  remaining  unchanged  in  winter 
for  at  least  ten  days,  will  in  summer 
show  signs  of  decomposition  within 
twenty-four hours.  Decomposition gen­
erally,  though  not  invariably,  sets  in 
faster in direct  sunlight  than in diffused 
daylight.  Chloroform,  absolutely  free 
from alcohol, decomposes during summer 
within  one  or  two  hours in  direct  sun­
light, and  within  one  day in diffuse sun­
light;  during winter this period is length­
ened  to  about ten  days,  according to the 
condition of the sky.
The  presence  of  alcohol  in  the  pro­
portion of  % per  cent,  will  prevent  de­
composition of  chloroform  for  but a few

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THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

AGNES BOOTH OIGAES

In  ten sizes and shapes.  We w ill guarantee to increase your cig 
sales If you w ill give 
your custom ers a chance  to  buy the A gnes  Booth Cigar.  A ll w e ask is a sam ple order.

L  M.  CLARK  GROCERY  CO., 

S ta te   A g e n ts.

M usk egon  D ru g g ist.

B rief  S k etch   o f  C.  L.  B ru n d age,  th e  
Capt.  C.  L.  Brundage,  of  Muskegon, 
was born in Bath, Steuben county, N. Y., 
August 17,1830.  When about  five years 
old, his father moved to Allegany county, 
N.  Y.,  then  an  almost unbroken  wilder­
ness.  Attending  school  winters,  he  as­
sisted  his father  summers in clearing up 
a large  farm,  which  to-day is one of  the 
best in Western  New York.  At  the  age 
of  seventeen  (borrowing  money  to  pay 
his  tuition 
the  first  term)  he  entered 
Alfred  Academy,  rooming  in  an  attic 
and  boarding  himself,  working  nights 
and  Saturdays  cutting  cord  wood,  dig­
ging  potatoes, husking corn, or any kind 
of work whereby he could earn an honest 
dollar.  After one  term in the Academy, 
he succeeded  in  getting a district school 
at  $14  per  month  and “board  around,” 
earning  money  sufficient  to  carry  him 
through  the  spring  term.  By  teaching 
winters  and  working  summer  vacations 
in  the hay  or  harvest fields,  he paid  his 
way through the Academy and afterward 
through the  University, graduating with 
the  highest  honors.  Early  in  1862 he 
left his wife and three small children and 
a good  situation,  and  entered the service 
as a private.  He  was  rapidly promoted, 
and  on  October 9,  1862,  received a com­
mission as captain  of  Co.  G.,  130  N. Y. 
Volunteers, for efficiency and meritorious 
conduct in the  field.  He was discharged 
in the  fall of  1863  on a surgeon’s certifi­
cate,  by  reason  of  disabilities  received 
in  the service.  Returning  home, he was 
elected  the  same  fall to the  responsible 
position  of  Superintendent  of  Schools, 
holding  the  office to the  entire  satisfac­
tion of his county for six years.  Declin­
ing  a third  term,  he  came  to  Muskegon 
eighteen  years  ago  and  engaged  in  the 
drug  business.  By  close  attention  to 
business and  honorable  dealing  he  has 
built  up a trade which  is a credit  to  the 
city  in  which  he  lives.  He  is a promi- 
I nent G.  A.  R. man,  having held the office

THE  MTCHTG AIST  TRADESMAN.

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S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W ...1  7C@1  95 
C. C o.........................1  60@1  85
Moschus  Canton........   @ 4 0
Myristlca, No. 1..........   65®  70
NuxVomica,  (po20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia......................  18®  20
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co ...............................  @2 00
Plcis  Liq, N.-C., K gal
doz  ...........................  @2 00
Plcis Liq., quarts.......  @1  00
pints..........   @  85
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba,  (po g5)__   @  3
Pix  Burgun.................  @  7
Plumbl A cet...............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii. .1  10@1  20 
Pyre thrum,  boxes  H
&P. D.  Co., doz.......  @125
Pyre thrum,  pv............  30®  35
Quasslae...................... 
8®  10
Qulnia, S .P .4 W .......  29®  34
S.  German__ 19  @  30
Rubla  Tinctorum.......  12®  14
SaccharumLactlspv. 
29®  30
Salacin.........................1  60@1  60
Sanguis  Draconls.......  40®  50
Sapo,  W........................  12®  14
,T  M.........................   10®  12
“  G....... 
..........   @ 1 5

“ 

@ 24
Seldlltz  Mixture___
Sinapls......................
@ 18
opt....................
3U
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
@ 35
V oes......................
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @ 35
.  10® 11
Soda Boras,  (po. 11).
Soda  et Potass Tart. . .   27® 30
2
Soda Carb................. ■ 
I K ®
5
Soda,  Bl-Carb..........
@
Soda,  Ash................. . .   3 ) 4 ®
4
Soda, Sulphas..........
2
@
Spts. Ether C o ............. . .   50® 55
@2 25
“  Myrcia  Dorn...
@3 00
“  Myrcia Imp...
1  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
35
. . . . 7 ..................................
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal. . .
@1  30 
Sulphur, Subl...............
. -  2X@  4
Ron............
. .   2H@  3)4
Tamarinds......................
8® 10
Terebenth V enice. . .
. .   28® 30
.  40  @ 45
Theobromae.................
Vanilla...................... .9 00@16 00
Zincl  Sulph.................... . .  
7® 8

OILS.

Bbl.  Gal
Whale, winter............... .  70
70
60
Lard,  extra......................
.  55
5«
Lard, No.  1 ............... .  45
Linseed, pure raw  .. .  43
46

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b b l. 

p a i n t s . 

Lindseed,  boiled  ___   46 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.................... 
Spirits Turpentine__   36 

1 5
49
50  60
40
lb .
Red  Venetian............... IX  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars...  l x   2@4
“ 
Ber.........l x   2@3
Putty,  commercial__2X  2K®3
“  strictly  pure......2)4  2X@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ............................. 
13@16
Vermilion,  English__  
65@70
70@75
Green,  Peninsular....... 
Lead,  red.......................  7  @7)4
“  w hite...................7  @7K
@70
Whiting, white Span... 
Whiting,  Gilders’........  
@SG
1  0 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
Cliff............................. 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints............. ......... 1 00@1  20

VABNISHBS.

No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp..................160@1  70
Coach  Body................2 75©3 00
No. 1 Turp  Furn__..1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55®1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70®75
Turp........................... 

Wholesale Price  Current•

Advanced—Nothing.  Declined—Oil cassia, oil cubebs, genetian root  nitrate silver, salacine.

ACIDUM.
Aceticum...................
8®  10
60®  65
Benzolcum  German.
20
Boraclc 
....................
22®  30
Carbollcum...............
50®  52
Citrlcum....................
Hydrochior...............
3®  5
Nitrocum 
10®  12
.................
10®  12
Oxalicum..................
20
Phosphorium  dll.......
Sallcÿlicum 
.......— 1  30@1  70
Sulphuricum.............
1X@  5
Taunicum................... 1  40@1  60
30®  32
Tartaricum.................
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg..............
20  deg.............
Carbonas  ...................
Chlorldum.................
ANILINS.
Black........................... 2 00@2 25
80@1  00
Brown.........................
45®  50
Red..............................
Y ellow ......................... 2 50@3 00

3K@  5
5)4®  7
12®  14
12®  14

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BACO AS.
Cubeae (po  75).........
Juníperas..................
Xantnoxylum............
BAL8AMUM.

75®  80
8®  10
25®  30

Copaiba........................ 40@  45
@1  30
Peru..............................
35®  40
Terabln, Canada.......
Tolutan........................ 35®  50

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian........ .........  18
Cassláe  ........................ .........  11
Cinchona Flava  ........ .........  18
Enonymus  atropurp.. ........   30
Myrlca  Cerifera, po... .........  20
Prunus Virglnl............ ........   12
Quillala,  grd............... .........  10
Sassafras  .................... .........  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  12) ........   10

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

BXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra.. 
po.............
Haematox, 15 lb. box.
Is..............
K8............
Ks...............
FERRUM.
®  15
Carbonate Preclp........
@3 50
Citrate and Quinia —
@  80
Citrate  Soluble  ..........
@  50
Ferroeyanidum Sol —
Solul  Chloride............ @  15
IK®  2
Sulphate,  com’l  .........
@  7
pure..............

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FLORA.

26®  28
Arnica.........................
Anthémis.................... SI®  35
25@-  30
Matricaria

FOLIA.

“ 

“ 

“ 
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GUMMI.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“  

....................
Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-
nivelly......................
Alx.
Salvia  officinalis,  Ks
and  Ks......................
DraUrsl........................

16® 1 00
25®  28
35®  50
12® 15
8® 10
® 75
Acacia,  1st  plckod —  
@ 50
2d 
....
@ 40
3d 
....
@ 25
sifted sorts...
po................... 60® 80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)... 50® 60
® 12
“  Cape.  (po.  20)...
Socotri, (po.  60). @ 50
Catechu, Is, 04s, 14 &s,
@ 1
16).............................
55® 60
Ammonias.................
30® 35
Assafetida, (po. 35)..
50® 55
Benzolnum.................
50® 53
Camphors.................
35® 10
Euphorbium  po  .......
@3 50
Galbanum..................
70® 7b
Gamboge,  po..............
@ 25
Gualacum,  (po  30)  ..
@ 30
Kino,  (po  36)............
80
M astic........................
40
Myrrh, (po. 4 6 ) . . . . . . .
®
Opii.  (po  2 60).......... 1  65@1 ¿0
25® 35
Shellac  .. 
............
30® 35
bleached.......
30® 75
Tragacanth  ...............

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HBBB a—In ounce packages.

25
20
25
28
23
25
30
22

Absinthium...............
Bupatorlum...............
Lobelia.......................
M it jorum  ...................
Mentha  Piperita.......
“  V lr...............
Rue..............................
Tanacetnm, V ............
Thymus,  V .................
MAGNESIA.
Calcined, Pat............. .  55® 60
Carbonate,  Pat.......... .  20® 22
Carbonate, K. &  M  .. .  20® 25
Carbonate, Jennlng5. .  35® 36
Absinthium............... .3 50@4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc...  . .  45® 75
Amy dalae, Am&rae... .8 00@8 25
A nlsl....................................... .1  65®1 75
Auranti  Cortex......... 3 00@3 25
.3 00@3 25
Bergamll  ............. ..
60© 65
Cajlputi................................
Caryophylll............... .  70® 75
65
Cedar.....................................
®1  60
Chenopodll...............
.1  10®1  15
Clnnamonli.............
@ 45
Cltronella..................
Conlum  Mac............. .  35® 66
................... .1  10®1. 20
Copaiba 

OLEUM .

Cubebae........................
Exechthitos...............
Erigeron......................
Gaultherla..................
Geranium,  ounce.......
Gossipii,  Sem. gal.......
Hedeoma  ....................
Juniperl.......................
Lavendula..................
Limonis.......................
Mentha Piper...............
Mentha  Verid.............
Morrhuae, gal.............
Myrcia, ounce.............
OUve............................
Plcis Llquida, (gal. 35)
R icini.........................
Rosmarini.............
Rosae,  ounce...............
Succini.........................
Sabina.........................
Santal  .........................
Sassafras......................
Sinapls, ess, ounce__
Tiglii............................
Thyme.........................
opt  .................
Theobromas................
POTASSIUM.

“ 

@ 5 25
2 50©2 75
2 25©2 50
2 0Q©2 10
@  75 
50®  75
3 C0@2 10 
50©2 00 
90@2 00
2 75©3 25
2 75@3 50
2 20@2 30
1 00@1 10
@  50 
80®2 75 
10®   12 
86®  92 
75@1  00 
®6 50 
40®  45 
90@1  00
3  50@7 00 
50®  55
®  65 
®  90 
40®  50 
®  60 
15®  20

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, B1 tart, pure..  24®  23
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @ 15
Potass  Nltras, opt....... 
8®  10
Potass Nltras............... 
9
7® 
Prusslate......................  28®  30
Sulphate  po.................  15®  18

RADIX.

“ 

Aconitum....................  20®  25
Althae..........................     22®  25
Anchusa......................  12®  15
Arum,  po.....................   @  25
Calamus................  
 
20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)....... 
S®  10
Giychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 40).................... 
@  35
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__   15®  20
Inula,  po......................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po................... 2 20®2 30
Iris  plox (po. 35@38) ..  35®  40
Jaiapa,  pr....................   38®  40
Maranta,  &s...............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
Rhei..............................  75@1  00
“  cut........................  @1  75
“  pv.........................   75®1  35
Splgelia.......................   35®  38
Sangulnarla,  (po  25)..  @  20
Serpentarla..................  32®  35
Senega.........................  45®  50
Similax, Officinalis,  H  @ 4 0
©  20
M 
Scillae, (po. 35)............  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Freti-
dus,  po......................  @ 3 5
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a ....................   12®  15
Zingiber  j ............... 
18®  22
SBMBN.
Ani sum,  (po.  20). 
..  @ 15
Apium  (graveleons)..  33®  35
Bird, Is.......................  
4®  6
Carni, (po. 18).............  
8®  12
Cardamon................... 1  G0@1 25
Corlandrum.................  10®  12
Cannabis Satira..........  3K@4
Cydonium....................  75@l 00
Cnenopodium  ............  10®  12
Dlpterix Odorate....... 2 25@2 35
Foeniculum ...............  @  15
Foenugreek,  po..........  
6® 
8
Lini 
............................ 4  @4)4
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 3)4) 
4  @ 4)4
Lobelia.  .............  
35®  40
 
Pharlaris Canarian....  3X@ 4)4
Rapa............................. 
6®  7
Sinapls,  Albu.............  
8®  9
Nigra............  11®  12

“ 

“ 

SPIBITUS.

1 

 
“ 

« 
“ 
“ 

Frumenti, W..D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R ........1  75@2 00
Juniperis  Co. O. T —  1  75@1  75
............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  B ........ 1  75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli.............1 75@8 50
Vini Oporto.................. 1 
Vini  Alba......................1 

25@2 00
25@2 00

10@1 50

6P 0 N 6 B S .

Florida  sheeps’  -wool
.  carriage....................2 25@2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ..................  
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
1  10
wool  carriage.......... 
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage....................  
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .........................  
65
75
Hard for  slate  use—  
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se ............................  
1  40

sybups. 

*

Accacia..................................  50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................  60
Ferri  Iod................................  50
Auranti  Cortes...............  
50
Rhei  Arom.............................  50
Similax  Officinalis...............  60
Co.........  50
Senega...................................   50
Sclllae.....................................  50
“  Co................................  50
Tolutan..................................  50
Prunus  virg...........................  60

“ 

“ 

TINCTURES.

“ 

“ 

“ 

14 

“ 

“ 

“ 

‘ 
“ 

26®  28 
30®  32

“ 
ground, 

Aconltum Napellis R .. 
....  60
....  50
F  .
Aloes..............................
....  60
and myrrh..........
....  60
Arnica........................... .......  50
Asafœüda...................... ....... 
0
Atrope Belladonna....... .......  60
Benzoin.........................
....  60
“  Co.................... .......  50
Sanguinaria  .................
....  50
Barosma.......................
....  50
Cantharides..................
....  75
....  50
Capsicum......................
Ua damon......................
....  75
....  75
Co...................
....1  00
Castor............................
Catechu.........................
....  50
Cinchona  ......................
....  50
Co..................
..  .  60
Columba........................
....  50
Conlum.........................
....  50
Cubeba...........................
. . .   50
Digitalis  ..  .................
....  50
Ergot.............................. __   50
Gentian.........................
....  50
“  Co......................
....  60
Gualca...........................
....  50
ammoD.............
“ 
....  60
Zingiber.......................
....  50
....  50
Hyoscyamus.................
Iodine.............................
....  75
“  Colorless............
....  75
...  35
Ferri  Chlorldnm..........
K ino..............................
....  50
Lobelia...........................
....  50
....  50
Myrrh............................
Nux  Vomica.................
....  50
....  S5 
Opii................................
....  50
“  Camphorated........
... .2 00
“  Deodor..................
Auranti Cortex..............
....  50
Quassia.........................
....  50
...  50
Rhatany  .......................
...  50
Rhei................................
...  50
Cassia  Acutifol............
....  50
Co.......
....  50
Serpentarla..................
....  60
Stramonium..................
....  60
Tolutan.........................
....  50
Valerian....................
....  50
VeratrumVeride..........
MISCELLANEOUS.
Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F .. 
“  4 F ..
Alumen....................... 2K@ 3
(po.
7)  .............................. 
3®  4
«/  ..............................
55® 60
Annatto........................
4® 5
Antlmoni, po...............
55® 60
etPotasBT.
rat  40
Anti pyrin....................
@ 25
Antifebrin  ..................
Argenti  Nltras, ounce @ 61
5® 7
Arsenicum..................
Balm Gilead  Bud__
55® 60
Bismuth  S.  N ............. 2  10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is,  (Ks
12)...............
11; 
@ 9
Cantharides  Russian,
@1  00
PO..............................
@ 22
Capsicl  Fructus, a f...
25
@
20
i v . -
®
Caryophyllns,  (po.  14) 10® 12
Carmine,  No. 40..........
@i 75
50® 55
Cera  Alba, S. <6 F .......
Cera Flava..................
38® 40
@ 40
Coccus 
.......................
Cassia Fructus............ @ 22
Contraria...................... @ 10
@ 40
Cetacenm....................
60® 63
Chloroform.................
@1  25
squibbs.. 
20@1  40
Chloral HydCrst........
20® 25
Chondrus....................
Clnchonidine, P.  A  W 15® 20
German  3  @ 12
Corks,  list,  dig.  per
60
cent  ........................
Creasotum.................
® 50
Greta, (bbl. 75)............ @ 2
5® 5
“  prep....................
9®
“  preclp...............
11
“  Rubra.................
8
@
Crocus.........................
33® 35
Cudbear........................ @ 24
Cupri Sulph  ...............
5 @ 6
10® 12
Dextrine......................
Ether Sulph.................
68® 70
@
Emery,  all  numbers.. 
@ 6
po....................
65
60®
15
12®
Flake  \^£lte...............
@ 23
Galla............................
Gambier........................ 7  @ i
Gelatin,  Cooper..........
70
@
40®
French............
60
“ 
Glassware  flint,  75 and 10.
by box 70
9® 15
Glue,  Brown...............
13® 25
“  White.................
Glycerins.................... 15K ® 20
Grana Paradisi...........
@ 22
25® 55
Hamulus......................
Hydraag Chlor  Mite.. @ 85
“ 
“  Cor —
@ 75
“ 
Ox Rubram @ 90
“  Ammonlatl..  @100
“  Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum..............  @  65
.1  2S®1  50
Ichthyobolla, Am.. 
Indigo...........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl............3 75@3 85
Iodoform......................  @4 70
Lupulin........................  45®  50
Lycopodium...............   50®  55
M acls...........................  75®  80
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod..................   @  27
Liquor Potass Arsinltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1)4).......................  
8
Mannla,  S. F .............. 

3® 
30® 33

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Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils % Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole AgeHts  for the  Celebrated

SWISS HILL«  PREPARED  PUNTS.

Full  Line  of  H e   flniigists’  S ites.

W e are Sole Proprietors of

Weatherly’s  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

W e H ave in  Stock and Oiler a F u ll L ine o f

WHISKIES,  ERA.NDIES,

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-

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THE  MICTÏIGATsT  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.

ICan  be  made to represent any  C
denomination  from 810 down. |  8
2 00  G
.........  ...............
.......................... 3 00  g
6 25
...........................
........................... 10 00  ^
........................... 17 50  c

20 books........................... 1  1  00
50  “ 
100  “ 
250  “ 
500  “ 
1000  “ 

CLOTHES FINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

35 lb  bags........................  @3
Less  quantity  ...............   @3)4
Pound  packages........... 654<&7

CONDENSED MILK.
4 doz. In case.
Eagle.................................
Crown..............................
Genuine Swiss.................
American Swiss................

.7 4 0
.  6 25
.  8 00
.  700

COFFEE.
GREEN.
Rio.

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

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

Maracaibo.

Mexican and Gnatamala.
Fair.........................................20
Good........................................21
Fancy......................................23
Prime......................................19
M illed............, ..................... 20
Interior...................................25
Private Growth.....................27
Mandehling..........................28
Imitation............................... 23
Arabian...................................26

Mocha.

Java.

ROASTED.

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

PACKAGE.

M cLaughlin's  XXXX.

Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case

1  20 
1  65
1  65
2  00 
1  15

1  25
2  10

1  30
2  50 
2 75

1  30 
1  50 
1  40

1  95

120 1 lb.

Valley City. 
Felix 
.  ..  .

Bnlk. 
Red  .

Jute

CLOTHES  LUTES.
50 ft. 
60 ft. 
70 ft. 
80 ft. 
60 ft. 
72 ft

COUPON  BOOKS.

“Tradesman.’

per !

“Superior.’»

AXLE GREASE.

 
 

 
 
 

Arctic.

Cook's  Favorite.

doz  gross
6 00
5 50
9 00
8 00
600

Aurora......................  55 
Diamond...................  50 
Frazer's.....................  81 
Mica..........................  75 
Paragon 
.................   55 
BAKINS  POWDER.
Acme.  —
45
\  lb. cans, 3 doz................. 
2  “ 
M lb.  “ 
85
.................  
1  “  ...................  1  60
1 lb.  “ 
10
Bulk....................................... 
60
K B> cans............................... 
1  20
H »   “ 
2 00
1  lb  “ 
5  lb  “ 
9 60
100 54 lb cans......................  12 00
100 54 lb cans......................  12 00
100 54 lb cans......................12 00
2 doz 1 ib cans......................  960
(tankard pitcher with each can)
per doz 
Dime cans..  90
“ 
.1 3 3
4-oz
1  90
“ 
6 oz
..2 47
“ 
8-OZ
“ 
. 3  75
12-oz
“ 
..4 75
16-oz
2M-»> “  11  40
“  18 25
41b
“  21  60
5-lb
“  41  80
10-lb

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

nsPRtCtS
CREAM
Ba k in g
* ow den

Dr. Price's.

Red Star, H *  cans........
.........
.........
Teller's,  M lb- cans, doz

H B>  “ 
1 lb  “ 
H lb.  “
1 lb.  “
Victor.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

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

BLUING.

2 dozen In case.
E nglish.............................
Bristol................................
Domestic.........................
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals..  .......
“ 
............
“  pints,  round  .......
“  No. 2, sifting box.
“  No. 3, 
"  No. 5, 
“ 

1 oz ball  ...............

8 oz 

“
“

“ 

40
80
1  50
45
85
.  1  50
80
1 20
.  2 00

.  90
..  80
..  70
Gross
.  4 00
.  7 00
10 50
.  2 75
.  4 00
.  8 00
.  4  50

B BOOMS.
.  2 00
No. 2 Hurl.........................
.  2 25
.........................
No. 1  “ 
.  2 50
No. 2 Carpet....................
.  2 75
No. 1 
“ 
......................
.  3 00
Parlor Gem.......................
.  1  00
Common Whisk...............
............... ..  1  20
Fancy 
.  3 50
Warehouse........................
Stove, No. 1.................. ..  1  25
.  1  50
“  10......................
.  1 75
“  15......................
. 
85
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row..
.  1  25
Rice Root  8crub, 3 row..
Palmetto, goose............... ..  1  50

“ 
BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

CANDLES
“ 
 

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

 

CANNED  GOODS.

“ 

FISH.
Clams.
Little Neck,  l i b ........................ 1 lr.
2 lb .........................1 90
Standard, 3 lb.............................2 00
Standard,  l i b .....................   85
2 1 b .................165
Lobsters.

“
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Star,  1  lb................................. 2 40
2  lb................................. 3 30
Picnic, 1 lb.................................. 2 00
21b..................................2 90

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb........................ 1 30
2  lb.......................2 25
Mustard,  21b........................2 25
Tomato Sauce,  21b..............2  25
Soused, 2 lb ........................  
2 25
Columbia River, flat............1  85
tails............1  75
Alaska, 1  lb ........................... 1  to

Salmon.
“ 

21b..................................2 10

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Sardines.
American  14s.................. 4M@ 5
Ms.................. 6tf@ 7
Imported  54s ...................... 10012
H i.......................15@16
Mustard Ks........................7@8
Boneless.................... ... 
20
Brook, 8 lb............................ 2  50

Trout.

FRUITS.
Apples.

Apricots.
2 25 
Live oak.............
Santa Cruz..................
2 00 
2 »0 
Lusk’s ...........................
Overland....................
1  90
Blackberries.
B. &  W.........................
90
Cherries.
Bed................................
1  20 
Pitted Hamburgh___
1  75 
W hite...........................
1  20 
Brie  .............................
1  20
Damsons, Bgg Plums and Green 
Erie..............................
@1  25 
California.  ..  ............
1  70
Gooseberries.
Common......................
1  10

Gages.

Peaches.

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

Domestic.. 
Riverside..

Pears.

“ 

Pineapples.
Common.......................
•Johnson's  sliced........
grated  ......
Quinces.
Common......................
Raspberries.
Red  ..............................
Black  Hamburg..........
Brie,  black 
__
Strawberries.
Lawrence....................
Hamburgh  .................
Erie...............................
Terrapin.........................
Whortleberries.

HEATS.

Common......................
1  20 
F. &  W.........................
1  25 
Blueberries.................
1  20
Corned  beef,  Libby’s ...........1  80
Roast beef.  Armour’s ...........1  75
Potted  ham, 54 lb .......................l so
“  54 lb ...................100
tongue. M l b ............ 1  10
95
54 lb.......... 
95
chicken, 54 lb.......... 

“ 
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“ 
“ 

“ 

V EG ETA BLES.

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

Hamburgh  stringless...........1  25
French sty le ........2  25
Limas  ...................1  40
Lima, green.................................1 30
soaked............  80
Lewis Boston Baked.............1  35
Bay State  Baked........................1 35
World’s  Fair...............................l 35
Hamburgh.............................
Livingston  E den.......................1 20
Purity.....................................
Honey  Dew.................................1 50
Morning Glory..........................  1 20

Corn.

Peas

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Hamburgh marrofat.............1  35
early June...........
Champion Bng... 1  50
Hamburgh  petit  pole...........1  75
fancy  sifted........1  90
Soaked....................................  65
Harris  standard...................  75
Van Camp’s Marrofat 
.1  10
Early June.........1  80
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  35
French.........................................l 80
French.................................16@18
Erie.........................................   95
Hubbard...................................... 1 20
Hamburg  ............................... 1  40
Soaked....................................  80
Honey  Dew.................................1 60
Bxcelslor  ...............................1  00
Eclipse......................................... 1 00
Hamburg.................................... 1 30
Gallon......................................... 2 50

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.

CHOCOLATE— BAKER’S.
German Sweet....................
Premium.-...........................
Pure.....................................
Breakfast  Cocoa...............

Amboy..........................  @ 9
Horton.........................   @ 854
Riverside
@  854 @ 8 
Gold  Medal.................
Skim.............................  5
@ 6 10
Brick................................
Edam  ..........................
@1 00 
Limburger  .................
@10
Pineapple.....................
Roquefort.....................
Sap Sago......................
Schweitzer, imported.
domestic  ....

■ B
@30
@15

“ 

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

8  lb. standard.............  
York State, gallons  ... 
Hamburgh,  “ 

90
2  40
 

 

Half  pint, 25 bottles............. 2 75
Pint 
4 60
2 50
Quart 1 doz bottles...............3 50

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CRACKERS.

Butter.

]

Soda.

Seymour XXX..................
..  6
Seymour XXX, cartoon.. • •  6M
. 6
Family  XXX....................
Family XXX,  cartoon...
-•  6M
Salted XXX......................
..  6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ...
..  6M
Kenosha 
........................ --  7H
Boston................................
..  8
Butter  biscuit — .......... ...  6M
Soda,  XXX........................
Soda, City......................... ...  7M
Soda,  Duchess  ............... ...  8H
Crystal Wafer.................. ...10
Reception  Flakes............ ...10
S. Oyster  XXX................. ...  6
City Oyster. XXX............
...  6
Farina  Oyster................. ...  6
CREAM TARTAR.
30
Strictly  pure....................
Telfers  Absolute............
35
Grocers’............................. 10@15

Oyster.

.  6

D R IED u FRUITS.

Dom estic.
APPLES.

“ 

quartered  “
APRICOTS.

Sundrled. sliced in  bbls
5
5
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes @7
California in  bags........ 9H@10
Evaporated in boxes.  .. 12@12H
BLACKBERRIES.
1  In  boxes.........................
4M
NECTARINES.
1 
1  70 lb. bags.......................
7H
1  251b. boxes...................... @9H
1 

PEACHES.

Peeled, In  boxes  ........ .
Cal. evap.  “ 
“ 
California In bags  __

12
............ 9@!0
In bags  ....... m   sm
PEARS.
@7

“ 

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

“ 

10
11
12

PBUNELLES.

11

301b.  boxes....................
RASPBERRIES.
In  barrels........................
501b. boxes......................
25 lb.  “ 
........................
Foreign.
5 
CURRANTS,
0 
0  Patras, in barrels........ @ 3H
In  H-bbls........
@ 3K
In less quantity @ 4

21M
22
23

“ 
“ 

PEEL.

“ 
“ 

Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxes  20
Lemon 
25  “
“ 
10
6  Orange 
“ 
25  “
11
0 
RAISINS.
Domestic.
“  London layers,  2  crown ....1  40
0 
8  “
....1  65
fancy...
“ 
...1  85
u  Loose Muscatels, boxes.....1  25
70 lb. bags  @5K

.. 
“ 

Ondura, 29 lb. boxes.. @  8
..11 @12
Sultana, 20 
..  5 @  5M

“ 
1  Valencia, 30  “ 

Foreign.

PRUNES.

Bosnia........................... @
California, 90x100 25 lb.  bxs.  8
--8H
.9
--9H0i5%
Sliver.............................. ....llH

80x90 
7fx80 
60x70 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“
“
“

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

0 
2 
..  81  75
!,  No. 2, 6M......................... ..  1  60
2  No. 1,6............................ ..  1  65
u  No. 2. 6.................. ......... ..  1

XX  wood, white.

*  No. 1,6M......................... ..  1  35
1  No. 2,6H ......................... ..  1  25
..  1  00

Manilla, white.

Mill  No. 4......................

Coin.

.  1  00

Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 
Clay, No.  216............................... 1 75
Cob, No.  3.................................... 1 25

“  T. D. full count............  75

PIPES.

3 00

4 50

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

Williams,  per doz..............  1  75
5  00

BOOT BEER
3 doz. case... 

“ 

BICE.

Domestic.

“ 
“ 

Carolina head..........................6
No. 1......................... 5
No. 2..........  
  @ 4
Imported.

Broken..................................   3H

Japan, No. 1............................6
'  No. 2.............................5H
5
Java.................... 
Patna......................................  5

 

 

Sago.

Wheat.

FISH—Salt.

Cod.

Herring.

kegs..............
höre, H bbl... 
“ 
54  bbl..
Mackerel.

@5

6  @6H 
5?4@6 M

12

18@20 
11  00 
85
2  00 
1  10

Sardines.
Trout.

kits. 10 lbs............  
75
Russian,  kegs......................  
45
No. 1, H bbls.. lOOlbs............6 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...................  90
No. 1, H bbls., lOOlbs............8 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...................1  10
Family, H bbls., 100 lbs  ...  3 00 
kits  10  lbs..............  40

Whltefish.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

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

HERBS.

K egs.......................................5 SO
Half  kegs.............................. 3 00
S age...,..................................15
Hops........................................25
Madras,  5 lb. boxes..........  
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 

INDIGO.

55
50

“ 

JELLY.
17  b. palls  ........................ 
55
30  “ 
........................  
85
LICORICE.
Pure.........................................  30
Calabria..................................  25
Sicily.......................................   12
LYE.
Condensed, 2 doz.................1  25
4 doz.................2 25
MATCHES.
No. 9  sulphur....................... 1  25
Anchor parlor.......................1 70
No. 2 home............................1  10
Export  parlor.......................4 00

“ 

MINCE  MEAT

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

MEASURES.

Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  .............................  81  75
Half  gallon.......................   1  40
Quart.................................. 
70
Pint.....................................  
45
Half  pint  .......................... 
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon..............................   7 00
Half gallon........................  4  75
Quart..................................  3  75
Pint.....................................   2 25

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house........................  13H
16
Ordinary............................. 
Prime..................................  
16
Fancy..................................  
20

New Orleans.

 

Fair.................... 
Good.................................... 
Extra good.......................... 
Choice................................  
Fancy..................................  
One-half barrels. 3c extra

OATMEAL.

14
17
22
27
35

Barrels  200..................   @4  75
Half barrels 100...................... @2 50

ROLLED OATS.

Barrels  180...................  @4  75
Half  bbls 90...............  @2  50

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count............ 14  50
Half  barrels, 600 count__ 2 75

SPICKS.

Whole Sifted.

“ 
“ 
“ 

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

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Allspice.................................. 1
Cassia,  Batavia.....................20
and  Saigon.25
Saigon.....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................. 30
Zanzibar................. 20
Ginger, African.....................15
Cochin...................  18
Jamaica.................. 2C
Mace  Batavia........................ 81
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste..25
Trieste.....................27
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................65
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 20
“ 
“  white....... 30
“  Cayenne...................25
Sage......................................... 20
“Absolute” in Packages.

“ 

Mb  Ms
Allspice............  .........  84  1  55
Cinnamon............  ....  84  155
Cloves...........................  84  1  55
Ginger, Jam.................  84  1  55
A t....................   84  1  55
Mustard........................  84  1  55
Pepper.........................    84  155
Sage................  

84

“ 

 

SAL  SODA.

Kegs..............................  ....  1H
Granulated,  boxes...............  IK

SEEDS.

4
8

A nise...........................   @12K
Canary, Smyrna.  .............  
Caraway............................  
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
4M
Hemp,  Russian..........  
Mixed  Bird  ...............   4M@ 5H
Mustard,  white..........  
6
Poppy............................ 
9
Rape............................. 
6
Cuttle  bone......................  

30

8TABCH.
Corn.

20-lb  boxes.............................  6K
40-lb 

“  .............................6

G lo ss.
 
 
..........................6

1-lb packages............................5M
3-lb 
5M
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes................. 4%
Barrels....................................  (¡4

“ 
“ 

 

SNUFF.

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

SODA.

B oxes....................................... 5W
Kegs, English..........................4K

SALT.
 
 

100 3-lb. sacks....................... 82 25
2 00
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb. sacks......................  1 85
2 25
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases.........................  1 50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
50
281b.  “ 
18
.. 

drill  “ 

56 lb. dairy in drill  bags...  %
281b.  “ 
18

.. 

“ 

“ 

75 

75 

56 lb. dairy la linen sacks.. 

56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks 

Solar Rock.

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

Common Fine.

Saginaw............................. 
Manistee............................  

80
86

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

“Universal.”
“ 
« 
“ 
“ 
“ 

8 1, per hundred...............   83 00
• 2, 
................. 3 50
13, 
................. 4 00
• 5, 
................. 5 00
« 0, 
............. 6 00
................. 7 00
•20, 
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over...............  5 per cent
500  “ 
1000  “  

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

“
“

 

FARINACEOU8 GOODS. 

Farina.
Hominy.

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

354

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

Lima  Beans.

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

4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.

Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported.......................10H@11H
Pearl Barley.
Kegs..................................   @2H

8ALERATU8.

Church’s ..........................
DeLand’s .........................
Dwight’s .......... 
.............
Taylor’s .............................

S3 30
.  3 15
.  3 30
.  3 00

SOAP.
LAUNDRY.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb.......
Good Cheer, 60 1 lb ..........
White Borax, 100  5£-lb...
Proctor & Gamble.
Concord  ...........................
Ivory, 10  oz......................
6  oz........................
.............................
Lenox 
Mottled  German.............
Town Talk........................

“ 

..3 20
..3  90
..3 60

.  2  80
.  6  75
.  4 00
3 65
.  3  15
.  3 00

Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz.

SCOURING AND POLISHING.
“ 

.  2 50
hand, 3 doz....... ..  2 50

SUGAR.

Cut  Loaf......................
@  5L4
Cubes...........................
@ 5
Powdered...................
@  5k
.......4.56@  4%
Granulated.. 
Confectioners’ A .......
@4.44
@4.31
Soft A ...........................
White Extra C............
@4.18
Extra  C........................
@4.06
C  ...................................3«@  3%
Yellow 
.......................
@  35»
Less than  bbls.  Me advance

SYRUPS.

Corn.

.  24
Barrels...............................
Half bbls............................ ...26
Fair.................................... ...  19
Good.................................. ...  25
Choice...............................
...  30

Pure Cane.

SW EET  GOODS.
Ginger Snaps...............
Sugar Creams..............
Frosted Creams..........
Graham Crackers.......
Oatmeal Crackers —

TEAS.

8
8
9
8k
8k

j a p a n — Regular.

Fair...............................  @17
Good.............................  @30
Choice......................   ..24  @36
Choicest.........................33  @34
Dost.........................10  @12
Fair...............................  @17
Good.............................  @30
Choice............................ 34  @36

SUN CURED.

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

WASHBOARDS.

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

BASKET  FIRED.

Fair..............................18  @2<U£
Choice..........................  @26a
Choicest.......................   @35d
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40

GUNPOWDER.

Common to  fair.. .......25  @35
Extra fine to finest__ 50  @65
Choicest fancy............75  @85
@36
Common to fair.......... 23  @30
Common to fair.......... 33  @26
Superior to fine............30  @35

oolong. 

IMPERIAL.

TOUNG  HYSON.

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

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

Fair.............................,18*  @32
Choice...........................24  @28
Best.............................. 40  @50

TOBACCOS.

»
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF®

WHEAT.

“ 

MEAL.

80
No. 1 White (58 lb. test)
80
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test)
..  1  30
Bolted.............................
Granulated....................
..  1  50
..  4 50
Straight, in  sa ck s.......
“ 
“  barrels....... ...  4 60
“  sacks___ _ . .  5 50
Patent 
“  barrels...... ...  5 60
“ 
Graham  “  sacks__ ..  2  10
..  2 40
“ 
Rye 
.......
MILL8TUFF8.

FLOUR.

Less
Car lots  quantity
$14  0U
15 00
6 00
20 00
19 5)

Bran...............$14  00
Screenings__   15 00
Middlings.......15 00
Mixed Feed...  19  50
Coarse meal 
19 00
Car  lots......................... .......55
Less than  car  lots....... .......57
Car  lo t s ........................ .......39
..  .41
Less than car lots  .......
No. 1 Timothy, car lots ...13 fO
15 00
No. 1 

HAY.
ton lots

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

Fine Cut.

“ 

Pails unless otherwise noted
Hiawatha.................... 
SO
34
Sweet  Cuba................. 
24
McGinty...................... 
22
k  bbls.......... 
Valley  City.................  
32
Dandy Jim................... 
27
Torpedo......................  
20
19
in  drums—  
Turn  Yum  ................. 
26
Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead............... 
 
Joker...........................  
Nobby Twist..................  
Oh  My............................  
Scotten’s Brands.

Plug.  '

35
23
39
29

“ 

22
38
34
40
32
28
31

Middleton’s Brands.

Kylo.............................. 
Hiawatha.....................  
Valley C ity................. 
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty................ 
Jolly Tar...................... 
Here  It Is....................  
Old Style...................... 
Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good...................... 38
Toss Up..................................... 26
Out of Sight..............................25
private Brands.
Sweet  Maple............... 
L. &W.......................... 
Boss..........................................  12 y,
Colonel’s Choice................... 13

Smoking.

30
26

OILS.

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes
f. o.  b.

as  follows.  In barrels
Grand Rapids:
Eocene...........................
9
Water White, old test. @ 8k
W.  W.  Headlight, 150°
7l/i
Water  White  ........
@ 7
Naptha.........................
@  7
Stove Gasoline............ @ 7k
Cylinder......................27  @36
E ngine....................... 13  @21
Black, 25 to 30 deg  ...

@ 7k

FRESH  MEATS.

“

Swift & Company quote as fol-
lows:
Beef, carcass............... 5k@  6k
“  hindquarters... 7  @  8
fore 
“ 
3k@  4
loins,  No.  3... 9k@10
“ 
“ 
ribs.................. 8k@ 9k
*• 
rounds.............. 5V:@  6
Bologna....................... @ 4k
Pork lo in s................... @10M
@  7k
Sausage, blood or head  @  4k
liv e r .........
@  4k
Frankfort  ... @  7
Mutton  ........................ 8  @  9
Veal.............................. .6  @ 6k

shoulders 

.......

“ 
“ 

“ 

S in g le

Saginaw.

Red Star................................  2
Shamrock............................ 2

40 gr.. 
50 gr.

81 for barrel.
WET  MUSTARD.

y e a s t—Compressed. 
Fermentum  per doz. cakes.
“ 
per lb*...............
Fleischman, per doz cakes.. 
“ 
perlb.................

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMA IS

1 7

HIDES,  PELTS  and  FUR>  PA PER  & WOODENWARE

paper.

.................................... IJf
Straw 
Rockfalls..................................1 
Rag sugar................................ 2Lj
Hardware................................ 2k
Bakers......................................2M
Dry  Goods.................... 5  @6D
Jute  Manilla.................  @5k
Red  Express  No. 1.........   5k
No. 2  ..............4k

“ 

%

TWINES.

“ 

48 Cotton.................................£0
Cotton, No. 1.......................17
“  2.....................163
Sea  Island, assorted......   303
No. 5 Hemp...................... 153
No. 6  “ ..................................... 15 I

80

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes__  
Bowls, 11 inch.................  

WOODENWARB.
Tubs, No.  1............................7 00
No. 2........................... 6 00
No. 3........................... 5 00
1  35
No. 1,  three-hoop—   1  to
40
.......................  1  00
13 “ 
15 “ 
......................   1  60
.........................2 25
17 “ 
 
2 75
19 “ 
21 “ 
3 00
 
35
shipping  bushel..  1  25
.. 1  35
full  hoop  “ 
willow cl’ths, No.l  5 75 
“ 
No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3 50
“ 
“ 

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

No.2 4 25
No.3 5 Of

splint 

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

INDURATED WARE.

Pails.....................................  4 05
Tubs, % doz..........................  4 55

Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 

“ 

Green......................
...  2k@3k
Part  Cured.............
@ 33Í
.............. ...  @ 4
Full 
5
...  5  © 
Dry...........................
Kips, green  ............
...  2k@ 
3k4
“  cured..............
...  @
Calfskins,  green.......  4  @ 5k@ 6
No. 2 hides k off.
PELTS

WOOL.

Washed..........................20  @23
Unwashed.....................10  @20

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow.........................  3k@ 4
Grease  butter  ..........  1  @ 2
Switches......................  lk@  2
G inseng......................2 00 @2 75

POUIjTRY.

Local dealers pay as  follows:

DRESSED.

Fow l...............................  9  @10
Turkeys..........................10  @11
Ducks  .  .......................10  @11
Chickens,.......................11  @13
Fowls............................... 7  @ 8
Turkeys.........................   9  @10
Spring Duck................. 10  @11

LIVE.

FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

FRESH  FISH

follows.
Whltefish 
.................  7  @ 8
T rout..............................7  @ 8
Halibut............................   @15
Ciscoes or Herring—   5  @ 6
Blueflsh......................... 11  @12
21
Fresh lobster, per lb  ... 
Soft crabs, per doz........  
90
Shrimp, per gal................. 
1 25
Cod........ ...................... 10  @12
No. 1 Pickerel.................  @ 8
Pike..................................  @ 7
Smoked White  ..............  @ 7

oysters—Cans. 

Falrhaven  Counts —   @40
F. J. D. Selects..........  @35
Oysters, per  100  .........1  25@1  50
Clams, 
..........1  00@1 25

SHELL  GOODS.

“ 

HILLSIDE  JAVA!

FOR  YOUR  88  OR  4 0 c   GRADE.

$100  fill  lie paid  for  a  formula that  fill produce  a  Cop ol  Coffee  Potter than  H iM e!

ROYAL  DUGHE88  JAVA  &  MOGHA

For  your 35c grade.

SAN  MBRTO  BLAND

For your  30c  grade.

A True Combination of Central American and East India Java and Arabian Mocha.  Makes a better drink than 

a“d  r,ch*  Stron® bnt

l^gpOur Coffees are  all  selected with  great care,  especially for Fine Drinking Qualities.

Bp sM  Ii lit Latest  litrm t  M i t e   id  Pictd H ilt  lot  litt  S U .  Baas  nil.

THE  J. 

BOUR  CO.,

W e  Affirm That Good 
Goods  Make  Business. 

Imnorters.  Roasters  and  Jobbers  of  Fine  Coffees, 
x ia i^/va 

u,

"  buI « » .

T O L E D O ,  O .,  a ls o   D e tr o it  &   N e w   Y o rk .

W e are represented in Michigan as follows: Eastern  Michigan,  P.  V.  H e c h l e r ;  Southern  Michigan, J. 

Northern  and Western  Michigan, Thos.  F e r g u s o n

B.  F r i e n d ;

18

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAJN

PETTICOATS  ON  THE  ROAD.

S u c c e ss  o f  a  W om an   D rum m er  on  

S traigh t B u sin ess  P rin cip les.

F ro m  th e  New Y ork  San.

Woman has  torn down so many of  the 
old tight  hoard  fences  of  prejudice and 
found so many  new  paths of  usefulness 
that her presence in  the domain of  busi­
ness is  no longer a novelty;  but compar­
atively  few  persons  have  ever  met  the 
“woman  drummer.”  Her  numbers  are 
not sufficiently great to have induced the 
word-coiners to  give  her a name,  and so 
she must be  introduced  as  the traveling 
saleswoman, or,  in  the language of  “the 
road,” the woman drummer.
It was by no means easy  to find here in 
New York one  of  the  followers  of  this 
new departure.  A search for her  among 
the wholesale  houses  was  like trying  to 
run down the elusive sea serpent.  Every­
body  had  heard of  her,  and  a  few  had 
even met her in the course of  their  trav­
els,  but  when  it  came  to actually locat­
ing  her,  memory  either  proved  a  total 
blank or registered the chimerical woman 
drummer from some quite remote quarter. 
At  last,  however,  the  reporter  was  so 
fortunate as to find  a real,  live  and  very 
interesting  specimen of  the  new profes­
sion.
Mrs.  Adole  M.  Graef  is  a  traveling 
saleswoman.  She  has  been  in the busi­
ness a year and a half,  and  she is, in  the 
words  of  her  employers,  “a  great  suc­
cess.”
Mrs.  Graef  is a  prepossessing  woman, 
somewhat above the medium height, with 
pleasant  brown  eyes  and  an  attractive 
manner which must be  an important ele­
ment in her success.  When the reporter 
found her  at her hotel the other day  she 
was  dressed  in  a  handsome  dark  blue 
blazer suit  with  the most  immaculate of 
white shirt  waists  and  a dark  blue  tie. 
A blue trimmed  sailor hat  of  quiet  pro­
portions  completed  an  ideal  business 
woman’s  costume.  This  attractive, dig­
nified,  womanly  woman  seemed  by  no 
means  “cut out”  for the hard life  which 
we commonly  imagine  that of  traveling 
salesmen to be, so  that the  first question 
asked her was quite involuntary.
“How in the  world  did you happen to 
go into this business? ”
Mrs. Graef  smiled.
“Well, 

it  was  for  purely  personal 
reasons,”  she  said.  “A  great  deal  of 
trouble had come to me  and I needed  an 
occupation,  one  which  would  have  va­
riety in it.  My  father  and my  husband 
had  both  been physicians,  and you might 
say that the study of  medicine  had  been 
both  born  and  bred  in  me.  For  that 
reason,  I  selected  the  drug  business  as 
the one  most  suited  to  my  capabilities. 
I went  to  the  firm  for  which I am  now 
traveling.  They  had  already  had  one 
‘woman  salesman.’  She had  not proved 
to be a brilliant  success.  She  had  been 
in  their employ for three weeks and dur­
ing  that  time  had  been  so  ill  for  two 
weeks that  the  firm had  found it an  ex­
pensive  trial.
“So,  you  see,  when  they  sent  me  out 
it  was  a  mere  venture.  They  gave  me 
the poorest territory they had,  too.  They 
sent me up to Connecticut,  and  they said 
within themselves,  but not to  me,  that if 
1  succeeded  there  I  would  succeed  any 
place.
“That  was a year and a half ago,” and 
Mrs.  Graef paused with a reflective smile. 
“1 think,”  she continued  with a satisfied 
little laugh,  “I may safely  say I did suc­
ceed.”
“But how  does  your  success  compare 
with that of  the men  who  travel for  the 
firm? ”
“I  rank  with  the  best  salesman  the 
house  has.  His  work is  quite  different 
from  mine,  so  that  it  is  difficult  to  say 
which  is  ahead,  but  I have  the  harder 
work to do and yet I am  even  with him.”
“How  do  traveling  salesmen  regard 
the  innovation?  Are  they jealous of  the 
women  who are entering  their field?”

“Yes,  they really are.  And their jeal­
ousy  often  makes  them  unkind.  They 
drop little remarks about a woman keep­
ing  in  her  own  place, and  are  often  so 
unscrupulous as  to try  to  injure  her,  if 
only by a shrug of the shoulder  or an  in­
definite remark.
“As to my  customers,  they,  in  almost 
every case,  receive me  with  the greatest

possible courtesy.  1 must confess that 1 
do sometimes  meet a crank,  and,  as per­
haps you know,  medical men are very set 
in their ways.  But it is a pleasure to me 
when 1  finally  convert  my  cranky  cus­
tomer and make him see me and my goods 
in  the  light I  want  him  to.  But  these 
cases of  crankiness are  very rare.  Gen­
erally  1  am  received  with  the  utmost 
kindness,  and  a great  many  favors  are 
shown  me  which  a  traveling  salesman 
rarely  receives.
“ One  thing,  however,  I  find  that,  at 
first,  the  druggists  do  not  give  me  the 
same  confidence  which  they would  give 
a  man.  They  doubt  my  knowledge  of 
the business  and  its  details. 
I  have  to 
win them over, which 1 always do, simply 
because I do thoroughly understand what 
I am trying to sell them.  A woman can­
not be successful unless she is thoroughly 
equipped  with a  knowledge  of  business 
methods in  general,  and  her  own  busi­
ness in particular.  She is utterly foolish 
to depend  on  her personality,  although, 
of course, that is a strong aid to success.”
“Then what do you  consider  the most 
necessary  qualifications  for  a  sucessful 
the  reporter 
traveling  saleswoman? ” 
asked.
“She must  have a strong  constitution, 
must be capable  of  quick  thought, must 
be practical, economical and attractive in 
person and manner.  Commercial travel­
ing requires real muscular labor  as  well 
as mental  ability.  For  instance, I have 
charge very  often of  the  exhibit  which 
our firm  makes  at  medical  conventions. 
I have just returned from one at Detroit. 
Now, just  think!  There  were  perhaps 
forty  exhibits  in a  sort  of  competition. 
Of course, each  person in  charge had,  as 
I had,  two or  three others to assist in ar­
ranging things.  But I had the  responsi­
bility as  well as  the  labor.  Then there 
is always  the  going  around  in a strange 
city  renting  needed  articles,  hiring  as­
sistants, and,  after the thing is all ready, 
one.has  to be  on  one’s feet  all day long, 
meet  hundreds of  people, and  be always 
bright, good tempered and ready to adapt 
one’s self to the mood of everyone.
“ Why, I have to be  quick as  lightning 
to see a possible advantage and make the 
most  of  it.  Then  after  it  is  all  over, 
there is  the  long  journey,  a  day or  two 
in  which to make up reports  and  receive 
orders,  and it is time to start again.  For 
a territory I  have  practically  the  whole 
country,  and am sent in all directions.  I 
am emancipated  from  Connecticut  now, 
and go  only  to  the  large  cities.  Balti­
more is  one  of  my  best  places,  and,  do 
you  know,  before  I  went  there  we  did 
hardly any  business  there  at all.  This 
fall 1 am  going to Europe  to take charge 
of  some work abroad for the firm. 
It  is 
a great chance to see every phase of life. 
On  the  cars,  in  hotels, in  cities  and  in 
the  little country towns  which I  used to 
visit,  and  in  the  asylums  and  hospitals 
which come in my province, I  am brought 
into contact with every phase of life and 
all sorts of characters.  The work is full 
of  interest,  and  I  sometimes  have  very 
funny experiences.

“I  remember  one  time  I  was  in  the 
I got  in 
little town  of  Portland,  Mich. 
It was  cold  and the  fire  was 
at 2 a.  m. 
out in the  little  office  of  the  only hotel 
(save the mark!)  which  the  little village 
afforded.  The  clerk,  a great  fat fellow, 
whose  cheeks  hung  loosely  and  in  a 
neglige manner over his collar, was sound 
asleep in a chair.

“1 roused him with some difficulty and 
told him I wanted a room.  Well,  he  led 
me  along  a  narrow,  winding  hall  and 
finally  showed  me  into a room  away  off 
at  one  end  of  the  building.  After  he 
went I began to look  around. 
I found  a 
door  which  led  into  another  room,  and 
from there a door led into a closet  which 
had a partial partition between it and an­
other  closet.  Of  course,  womanlike,  I 
looked  under  the  beds  and  made  the 
usual  thorough  inspection,  but  I  could 
scarcely  sleep,  thinking  of  that  closet. 
The next day 1 asked the young fellow,  a 
green  country  boy,  who  came  to  build 
my fire  about  the  room, and  he tried  to 
calm my fears by telling me that he slept 
in the  next  room,  and  if  anything  hap­
pened for me to rap on the wall  between 
us.
“That  night  I  had  retired,  and  was 
rap!—
sound  asleep  when—rap! 

rap! 

PRODUCE  M ARKET.
Apples—60@?53 for 94 bushel box.
Beans—Dry stock is in small supply and active 
demand.  Dealers  pay  $1.30@1.35  for  unpicked 
and hold city handpicked at $1.6531.75 per bu.

evaporated at 5V4@6c.
paying 14c and holding at 15c per doz.

Beets—New, 35c per doz. bunches.
Bermuda  Onions—$1.75  per  crate  of  about 50 
lbs.
Butter—The  market is fairly well  maintained, 
all offerings  of  choice  finding  ready takers  at 
12@13c.
Cabbages—60c and 75c  per dozen, according to 
size
Cherries—$2@$2.25 per bnshel.
Cucumbers—40c pet  doz.
Dried Apples—Sundried  is held at 4@49£c  and 
Eggs—The  price  is  well  maintained, dealers 
Honey—14c per lb.  very scarce.
Lettuce—Grand  Rapids  Forcing  is  in fair de­
Musk Mellons—$1.50 per doz.
Onions—Green are  in  fair  demand at 10c  per 
Peas—June, $1 per bu.:  Marrofat, $1 25.
Pieplant—lc per lb.
Pineapples—$1.25311.75 per doz.
Potatoes—New  stock is in good  demand  at $1 
Raspberries—Red  and  black are  in  moderate 
Radishes—8c per doz.  bunches.

per bushel.
supply, being held at 10@12)4c per qt,
C Straw berries — This  week  will  wind  up  the 
supply of  home  grown, which  ranges  from 4 to 
7c per qt.

mand at 5@7c per lb.

dozen bunches. 

.

Watermelons—18@20e apiece.
Wax Beans—$1  per  bu.

PROVISIONS.

 

 

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

LA R D .

FO R K   IN   B A R R E L S.

........................................"  714

8AUSA0E—FreBh and Smoked.

quotes as follows:
c  Mess,  new.................................. 
12 00
I  Shortcut..........................................................   i3 25
Extra clear pig, short cut..............................   ,5 00
Extra clear,  heavy...................  ....................
Clear, fat back................................................... 14 00
Boston clear, short cut................................. ’  X4 50
' Clear back, short cut..................................... "  14 50
Standard clear, short cut. best..................  
15 00
Pork Sausage........................................................7%
Ham Sausage.................................................... ’"  9
Tongue Sausage................................ ........9
Frankfort  Sausage 
Blood Sausage..............................................      ... 5
Bologna, straight......................................... ] 5
.........................Y.'.’.V.  5
Bologna,  thick............. 
Headcheese.....................................................” ” 5
Com­
pound.
594
5%
694
6*4
694

Tierces __
50 lb. Tins. ..8
20 lb. Palis ..  8M
...  894
10 lb.  “ 
5 lb. 
“ ■ -  894
3 lb. 
“
•  85Ü
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs........................  6 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.........................   6 50
Boneless, rump butts........................................   9 00
Bams, average 201 bs............................. 
11 sg

Kettle
Rendered. Granger. Family.
5*
6
6M
694
6?4
6*

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

B E E P   IN   B A R B ELS.

i6 ibs..................................... . . . . .
12 to 14 lbs...................................12
picnic........................................................8)4
best boneless............................................  89»
Shoulders.............................................................   g
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................... 
.. ” l0
Dried beef, ham prices......................................   9
Long Clears, heavy....................................694
Briskets,  medium........................................ .."' ’  bv
ligh t............  ................................ ...  6 \

794
8
894
814

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AGENTS  FOR

P lain  Slide Valve  Engines w ith Throttling 
A utom atic Balanced Single Valve  Engines. 

Governors.

H orizontal, Tabular and Locom otive

BOILERS.

U pright  Engines  and  B oilers  for  L ight 

Power.

Prices on application.

45 8.  Division St., 

Grand Rapids.

P A M P H L E T S  

CUTS for BOOM  EDITIONS
For the best work, at  reasonable  prices, address 

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

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

STIC K   CANDY.
Full  Weight. 

Standard,  per lb ..................................6
“  H. H__ ..................................6
Twist  ................................... 6
“ 

Boston  Cream  .. ............ 20 lb. cases
Cut  Loaf............
Extra  H.  H......... ................cases 7

Bbls.  Pails.
7
7
7
894
8
8

7

M IX ED   CANDY.
Full Weight.

 

“ 

“ 

Bbls.

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

“ 
fancy—In bulk.
Full Weight. 

Pails.
7
Standard............. .............................6
7
Leader................. ............................6
Koval................... .............................6 H
794
Nobby................. ...........................................7
8
English  Rock... ............................. 7
8
Conserves.......... ............................. 7
8
Broken Taffy.... ............... baskets
8
Peanut Squares.. ...............  
9
“  8
French Creams................................  
10
Valley  Creams................................  
13
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.......................................   8
8
Modern, ¿0 lb. 
Palls.
Lozenges,  plain.................................................  10
printed..............................................  11
Chocolate Drops.................................................  1194
Chocolate Monumentals..................................  13
Gum Drops............................................................  594
Moss Drops..........................................................  8
Sour Drops............................................................  894
10
Imperials.......................................... 
 
Per Box.
Lemon Drops................. 
55
Sour Drops............................................................55
Peppermint Drops................................................60
Chocolate Drops...................................................65
H. M. Chocolate  Drops....................................... 90
Gnm 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, 5 lb. boxes........................... ..........   90
Californias, 9 6 ..................................  .
126,  .................................
150  ..................................
Messinas, choice  200...........................
-   “ 
Messina, choice, 360........................... :

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

@5  00 
@5  50
3 5   00
@5  50
Bananas,  Firsts.....................................   1  75® 2 50
Figs, fancy layerB, 6ft...............................  @13
“  10ft.............................   @14
141b.............................   @15
“ 
“  20ft .............................   @18
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box.............................  @894

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Seconds 

“ 
LEMONS.

CARAM ELS.

ORANGES.

extra 

160...

“ 
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“ 

3 
2  
3 

4 75

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50-lb.  “ 

.............................  @
Persian, 50-lb.  box........................494® 5
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona................................  @17
Ivaca.........................................  @1594
California................................  @r
@  8 
@1194 
@13/, 
@
@10 
@1294 
©1194 
.11  @14 
@4 50
@ 5* 
@  794 
@  5 94 
@  794 
@ 494 
@ 6* 
1294

Brazils, new
Filberts....................................
Walnuts, Grenoble.................
“  Marbot.....................
Chili.........................
“ 
Table Nuts,  fancy.................
choice...............
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  ..........
Cocoanuts, full sacks............
PE A N U T S.
Fancy, H.  P., Suns.................
“  Roasted...
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............
“  Roasted...
Choice, H. P.,  Extras............
“  Roasted.
California  Walnuts...............

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“ 

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“ 
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1  00®  1 50

Wm, BnJmmeler X Sons
Pieced & Stamped Tinware,
260  8. ION I AST.,  -  Grand  Rapid* 

Manufacturers and  Jobbers o f

Telephone 640.

more money  in this  way  than  in almost 
any other.  She must work hard,  but she 
will see more of  life in  one  month  than 
most women  see  in  a  lifetime,  and  she 
will earn a snug income in the meantime.
“I have been sick once in the past  year 
and a half.  But,  then,  anyone  might be 
ill occasionally. 
I was in Washington at 
the  time,  and  my  room  was  a  flower 
garden through the kindness of the drug­
gists and  physicians  who  were  my  cus­
tomers.  So, you see,  there  was compen­
sation even in that misfortune.
“How many traveling saleswomen do  I 
think  there  are?  Oh,  I  don’t  know. 
There may be half a dozen,  but not more. 
It  is  a  well-nigh  untrodden  field  for 
women.”

D e p r esse d   G lass M arket.

The Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter says 
the  trade  in  window  glass  this  season 
has been disappointing,  “ both as regards 
the volume of business  and  the  returns 
in the way  of  profits  to  manufacturers 
and jobbers.”  The market has been  de­
pressed as a  result  of  oversupply,  and 
although an effort  was  made  by  manu­
facturers to hold prices up,  “it  has  evi­
dently not had  the  desired  effect,  since 
American glass is selling to-day at as low 
if  not  lower  figures  than  ever  before. 
In spite  of  the  fact  that  a  majority  of 
the manufacturers entered into what was 
called a cast-iron agreement to  maintain 
prices, since violations of  its  provisions 
carried with them no exaction of a money 
penalty,  the  agreement  has  not  been 
lived up to.”

$3.00
1.75

$1.25

1.75)1.250(71,

1225

250
175

75

175  7

Explanation— $3  is  what  you 
get for one  dozen  of  W illiams’ 
Root  Beer  Extract.  $1.75  is 
its  cost  and  $1.25  is the  profit 
it pays you.  71  3-7  is the  per 
centage  of  profit.  W hat 
is 
there that pays you  as well and 
sells  as fast as  our Extract.
Have  you  it  in  stock?  If  not  order it  from 

your jobber.  They all keep it.

J. L.  Strelitsky,

Jobber  of

something wakened  me.  1 was  so start­
led that I could not speak or move.
“Rap!  rap!  rap!  came  again,  so  I 
asked what was wanted.
“A voice  replied,  ‘Here’s  a revolver!” 
“What!”  I  said.
“ ‘If you’re  afraid, here’s  a revolver!’ 
came in hollow tones, which I recognized 
I  have 
as those  of  the  young  fireman. 
had flowers and  fruit  and  confectionery 
sent  me  at  my  hotel,  but  that  was  the 
first  time  anyone  ever  showed  me  the 
delicate little  attention  of  offering me  a 
revolver.
“ How  do I  fare  at  the  hotels?  Well, 
when  I  first  began  to  travel I followed 
my custom and that of  most women,  and 
went to the parlor on  my arrival.  From 
there  I  engaged  my  room,  and  I  soon 
found out that 1 was by no means so well 
accommodated as  were  the men  who ar­
rived when  I did.  Now  I go directly  to 
the office and pick out my  own room.  As 
a result, I  have  the  best  there is, or,  at 
least,  1 stand  an  equal  chance  with  the 
others.  1 am  such a persistent  creature 
1 generally get  what  I want  anyway. 
I 
was not so  at  first,  though. 
I was more 
meek  and  easily  put  off.  But  one  ac­
quires  persistence,  and  then  you  learn 
the secret of  the art of traveling in com­
fort,  for it is an  art  to be  acquired  only 
by  experience.
“Do I meet more traveling saleswomen 
in the West than in  the  Bast?  Oh,  yes, a 
great  many  more.  Chicago  merchants 
have been much more  ready  to send  out 
women than the Eastern firms have.  Per­
haps it is because the  Western woman is 
better adapted to the profession. 
I came 
to New York from Chicago, and I was al­
most  the  first woman  to attempt travel­
ing in  the East.  The women 1 have met 
have all been  successful  and  have liked 
the work.  A great many give it up, how­
ever, principally  because  they  have not 
the strength.
“I have met women selling silks, cloaks, 
perfumes,  baking  powders,  furniture, 
spices,  and also  traveling  as  agents  for 
insurance  firms.  A  woman has to work 
harder than a man to get the same credit. 
For instance,  as  I said,  our firm  had  not 
done  enough  business  in  Baltimore  to 
even pay expenses, but when I went there 
1 did  wonderfully  well. 
It  sounds  like 
vanity for me to  say  so, but  I can  often 
sell goods when no man in  the house can 
get the smallest  order.  But unless I did 
very,  very well, don’t you see, they would 
say  I  was  not  worth  anything,  even 
though I might be fairly good.
“If a woman wants to succeed she must 
pay  no  attention  to  other  things.  Of 
course,  it is  true that  the fact that I  am 
a woman  helps  me.  And  yet,  one must 
be womanly or  that  very  fact  will  be  a 
drawback.  A woman inclined to put her 
dependence  on  making  personal  con­
quests,  and getting orders by that means, 
will  soon  have  her  hands  full  and  her 
order book empty.  There are a very few 
men who will be caught in that way,  but 
the majority of them will be disgusted.
“The money that can  be made in trav­
eling depends on the person,  and also the 
line  for  which  she  travels.  There  is 
more  money 
in  drugs  than  in  other 
branches. 
I  began  with  $1,000  a  year 
and  expenses.  Of  course  my  salary is 
much larger now.  Women in other lines 
are sometimes  paid  a commission  when 
they begin,  and they  pay  their  own  ex­
penses.  They receive from $50 up to $100 
and expenses after  they  have been with 
a house some time.”
“What  do  you  consider  the  greatest 
drawbacks in the work?”
“The  constant  traveling  is very hard 
and  the  physical  wear  and  tear  is  too 
much for  women  who are  not  strongly 
constituted.  Then  there  is  the nervous 
strain of  meeting a great  many  people. 
Sometimes,  at  conventions-,  1  meet  as 
many as 2,000 physicians,  but, of course, 
that  is  not  a  common  experience,  and 
does not occur in other lines. 
It is hard, 
too, for a woman  to adapt  herself  to ho­
tel life.  The housewifely  instinct  with­
in  her  revolts  at  the  inconveniences  to 
which  she  is  subjected.  One  has  to 
grow hardened to those things.”
“Would  you  attempt  to  dissuade  a 
woman from entering the work? ”

“Not at all. 

If she is strong and quick, 
understands  her  business, and  has  the 
faculty of making  friends,  she  can  earn I

THE  MICmQAJSr  TRADESMAN

G rand  R apid s  & Indian a. 
Schedule  In e ffect  Ju n e   18,1898.

S outh.
F o r T ra v e rse  C ity & M ackinaw  
6 :50 a  m
F ro m   K a la m a z o o ........................   9:80 a m
F o r T ra v erse C ity  A  M ackinaw   1:50 p m
F o r  T ra v e rse   C ity ........................
F o r  P eto sk ey  A  M ac k in a w ........  8:10 p m
F ro m  C hicago a n d   K alam azoo.  8:35 p   m
F o r Saginaw .....................................
F o r S a g in a w .....................................
tra in s   d aily   ex cep t  Sunday.

8:00  p m  
1:15  p m 
10:30  p m
7:20 a  m 
4.15 p  l
T ra in  a rriv in g  fro m  s o u th  a t 6:50 am  d aily  ; all o th e r 

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.
N orth.
HovT
6:80 a m
F o r  C in c in n a ti................................  6:80
F o r K alam azo o  a n d   C h ic a g o ..
11:60 a  m
F o r F o rt W a y n e an d  th e   B ast.
6:80 p  m
F o r  C in c in n a ti................................  6:80 p m
10:40 p m
F o r  C h ic ag o ...................................... 10:40 p
11:50 a m
F ro m  S ag in aw ................................. I t :50 a
F ro m  S a g in a w ....................................10:40 p m
10:40 p m
a ll o th e r tra in s  d a ily  e x c ep t Sunday.

A rriv e fro m   L eave going 
S outh.
7:00  a  m
10:05  a m
8:00  p m
6:00  p  m
11:20 p m

T ra in s le a v in g  a t  6:00 p. m . a n d  11:20 p. m . ru n  d aily ; 

SLEEPING  A   PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

N O R T H

7 : 2 0   a m  t r a i n « —P a rlo r c h a ir c a r G rand 
R apids to  T ra v erse C ity   a n d   G ran d   R apids 
to  P etoskey a n d  M ackinaw .
2 . 0 0   p   m  
t r a i n   h a s  p a r lo r  c a r  G rand 
R apids to  P eto sk ey  a n d  M ackinaw .
1 0 : 3 0   p   m   t r a i n « —S leeping  c a r  G rand 
R apids  to   P e to sk e y  an d  M ackinaw . 
S O U T H - - 17 : 0 0  a m  t r a i n « —P a rlo r c h a ir c a r G rand 
R apids to  C in c in n ati.
10:05  a m   train.—W a g n er  P a rlo r  C ar 
G rand R ap id s  to   C hicago.
6:00  p m  train.—W a g n e r S leeping  C ar 
G rand  R apids to  C in c in n ati. 
l l ; 2 0 p  m train.—W a g n er S leeping C ar 
G ran d  R ap id s to  C hicago.

C h icago v ia  G.  R.  St I.  R. R.

10:05 a  m  
3:36 p  m  

L v G ran d   R apids 
A rr C hicago 

11:80 p  m 
6  5 0 a m
10:05 a  m  tr a in  th ro u g h  W a g n er P a rlo r C ar.
11:80 p  m  tr a in  d a ily , th ro u g h   W ag n er  S leeping Car. 
1010 p m
6:50  a m
10:10 p  m 

3:10 p m  
L v  C hicago 
A rr G ran d  R apids 
8  3 5 p m  
3:10  p m   th ro u g h   W a g n e r  P a rlo r  C ar. 
tr a in  d aily , th ro u g h  W a g n e r S leeping C ar.

8:00 p  m  
9:00 p m  

7:C5am 
1:50 pm  

T h ro u g h  tic k e ts  a n d  fu ll in fo rm a tio n   ca n   be h a d  by 
c a llin g  u p o n  A. A lm quist,  tic k e t  a g e n t  a t   U nion S ta­
tio n ,  o r  G eorge  W .  M unson,  U nion  T ick et  A gent, 67 
M onroe s tre e t. G ran d  R apids, Mich.

G en eral P assen g e r an d  T ick e t A gent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

T oledo,  A nn  A rbor  St  N orth  M ichigan 

R ailw ay.

In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk  t 
offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  betwe  u 
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 at.......6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo at............... 12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m.

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

VIA  d .,  l .  a   N.

Return connections equally as good.

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

CHICAGO

JUNE  12,  1892,
AND  W ESr  MICHIGAN  R’V,
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Lv.GR’D RAPIDS.........9:00am  12:05pm
Ar. CHICAGO................3:35pm  5:25pm

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

*11:35pm 
*7:05am

Lv. CHICAGO............... 9:00am  4:topm *11:15pm
Ar.  GR’D RAPIDS....... 3:55pm  10:10pm  *6:10am

INDIANAPOLIS.

TO AND PROM  MUSKBOON.

ORANO  RAPIDS AND CHICAQO.
Via St. Joe and Steamer.
+  6:30pm
Lv Grand Rapids  .................12:05pm
Ar  Chicago 
s:m"am
......................... 8:30pm 
9:30am
‘ v Chicago  ........................... 
Ar Grand Rapids................... 
5:20pm
TO  AND  FROM  BENTON  HARBOR,  ST  JOSEPH  AND 
Lv. Grand Rapids.  ...  9:00am  12:05pm  *11:35pm 
Ar. Grand Rapids.......*6:10am  3:55pm  10:10pm
Lv.  G. R .......lO-.OCam 12 05pm  5:30pm  6:30pm
Ar.  G. R ....... 10:50am  3  15pm  M&Opm 
............
TO  AND FROM  MANISTEE, TRAVERSE CITY  AND  ELK 
Lv. Grand  Rapids.......................7:30am  5:25pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids.......................11:45am  9:40pm
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Chicago—Wagner 
Sleepers—Leave Grand Rapids *11:35 p m. ; leave 
Chicago  11:15  pm.  Parlor  Buffet  Cars—Leave 
Grand Rapids 12:05 p m ;  leave Chicago 4 ;45 p m. 
tExcept Saturday.
DETROIT,

JUNE  12,  1892
LANSING  &  NORTHERN  R.  K
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

RAPIDS.

Lv. GR’D  RAPIDS.........7:30am *1:00pm  5:40pm
Ar. DETROIT..  .......... ll:S0am*5:10pm  10:40pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. DETROIT...............7:05am *1:15pm  5:40pm
Ar. GR’D  RAPIDS.......12:00m  *5:15pm 10:10pm
To and  from  Lansing  and Howell—Same as to 
and from Detroit.

19
M i c h i g a n (T e n t r a l

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’*

DEPART.  ARRIVE
D e tro it E x p re ss.......................................  7:00 a m   10:00 p m
i:S 0 p m
M ixed 
........................................................  7  05 a  m 
D ay  E x p re ss...........................................  1:80 p m   10:00 a m
6  00 a  m
•A tlan tic A  Pacific E x p re ss...............  1:00 p m  
New Y ork E xp ress.................................6:40 p m  10  45 p m

•D aily.
All o th e r d aily  e x c ep t Sunday.
S leeping  ca rs  ru n   on  A tla n tic   an d   Pacific  E xp ress 
tra in s  to  a n d  fro m   D etro it.
E le g a n t  p a rlo r  ca rs2 lea v e G ran d   R apids on D e tro it 
E xpress a t  7 a. m ..  re tu r n in g   lea v e  D e tro it  4:45 p.  m. 
a rriv e  in  G rand  R apids 10 p.  m.

Fr e d  M. Brig g s, G e n i A gent. 85 M onroe St.
A. Alm guist, T ick e t A g en t, U nion  D epot.
Ge o . W . Munson, U nion T ick e t Office. 67 M onroe St. 
O. W. Ruggles  G. P .  A  T. A gent., C hicago.

D etroit
GRAND HAVEN

TIME  TABLE

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

EABTWABD.

♦No.  14|tNo.  16 tNo.  18i*No.  82

Trains Leave
Lv.  Chicago__ 7 30pm
Lv. Milwaukee. 
8 30pm
3’d  Rapids,  Lv
6 50am
Ionia............Ar
7 45am
8 30am
St.  Johns  ...Ar
9 05am
J w o s s d ........Ar
10 45am
E.  Saginaw..Ar
11 30am
Bay City.......Ar
10 05am
F lin t..........Ar
11 55am
P t.  Huron...Ar
10 53am
Pontiac........Ar
11 50am
Detroit..........Ar
WESTWARD.

10 20am
11 25am
12 17pm 
1 20pm 
3 05pm 
3 45pm
3 45pm 
6 00pm 
305pm
4 05pm

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm
6 65pm 
8  0pm 
8 45pm
7 (5pm 
800pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

1G 55pm 
12 37am 
1 55am 
3 15am
6 45am
7 22am 
5 40am 
7 30am 
5 37am 
7 00am

 

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

|*No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13 ♦No.  15
4 05pm
1  5p
10 20pm
7 05am
11 20pm 
8 35am 
6 30am
..........

m
1  uOpm
2  10pm
6 00am
tDaily except Sunday.

1 50a m
5  10pm
6 15pm 
6 30am 
6 00am

♦Dally. 

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  Parle r  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward —No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
J o h n  W. L o u d , Traffic Manager.
B e n   F l e t c h e r , Trav. Pass. Agent.
J a s .  C a m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

F o r M uskegon—L eave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids A Indiana.
10:00 a  m
5:56  a  m  
II :2&  a  m 
4:40  p m
0:05 p i
5:30  p m

F rom  M uskegon—A rrive.

SHORT  LINE  TO  CHICAGO.
G oodrich  Line.

Via the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwau­

kee Railway and the

The Magnificent New, Fast Steamships,

“AlWa”  and  “ City  of  Racine”

Built  expressly for this  route.  Each steamship 
1,200  tons  burthen,  with  sleeping  accommoda­
tions for  300 passengers.
These steamships have immense reserve power 
which enables them to make their regular sched­
ules in the most unfavorable weather.

SCHEDULE:

LEAVE  GRAND RAPIDS daily, except Sunday, 
at  5:10  pm ,  via  D,  G H &  M  Ry, arrive  in 
Grand ifaven 6:15  pm
LEAVE  GRAND  HAVEN  8:30  p m daily except 
Saturday, via  Goodrich  Line, arrive  in  Chi­
cago at 6:00 a m

N o te—Saturday trips resumed on  May 14. 

RETURNING—Leave Chicago daily except Sun­
day at 7:30 pm .  via  Goodrich  Line  and  ar­
rive in Grand Rapids at 6:45 a m daily.

N o t e—Sunday trips resumed May 15.

GRAND  RAPIDS 

CHICAGO, ONLY $ 3.90

TO

And  for the  round  trip. $6.50  Stateroom  Berth 
Through  tickets  can be  had at the  city  office 
and depot of the D, G H & M Ry, Grand  Rapids; 
also at all  stations  on  the  D. G H & M Ry, D, L 
& N R R ,  G R & I R R  and T, S & M Ry.

included

JOHN  SINGLETON, 
Gen’l Pass. Agent, Chicago.
G X N B B X r C   B O O T .
W e p a y  th e  h ig h e st p rice fo r it.  A ddress

PECK BROS., W holesale  D ruggists

---- ------JjDB

GRAND  RAPI

Including the following celebrated brands man 
ufacturea  by the  well-known  bouse of  Glaser 
Frame A Co.:
Vindex, long  Havana filler.........................   $35
35
Three  Medals, long Havana filler............ 
55
Klk’s Choice, Havana filler and binder... 
55
La Flor de A lfonso,.................................... 
La D oncella de M orera,...........................  
65
La Ideal, 25 in a box...................................  
55
M adellena....................................................  
60
Headquarters  for  Castellanos A Lopez's  line  of 
Key West goods.
All favorite  brands of  Cheroots  kept in Btock
10  So.  Ionia  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

TO AND FROM  SAGINAW, ALMA  AND ST.  LOUIS.

Lv. Grand  Rapids.........................................7:20am 4:15pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids........................................11:50am 10:40pm

TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL A  HASTINGS B.  R.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE 

Lv. Grand Rapids............  7:30am  1:00pm  5:40pm
Ar.from Lowell...............12:00m  5:15pm 
.........
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Detroit—Parlor 
cars on all trains.  Seats 25 cents 
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Saginaw—Parlor 
car  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:20  am ;  arrives In 
Grand Rapids 7:40 p m.  Seats 25 cents.

♦Every day.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’L

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

P u rely  P erson al.

Edson Roberts, the  Sparta grocer,  was 

in town Tuesday.

A.  B.  Steele,  general  dealer  at  Ad­
vance,  was  in  town  one  day  last  week, 
making purchases  for  his summer trade.
A. S.  Goodman and Harry L.  Hall,  of 
the Uazeltine & Perkins Drug Go.,  spent 
Sunday and Monday in  Chicago  as  hon­
orary guest of the Windy City.

Henry  C.  Shattuck,  of  the  firm  of 
Baker & Shattuck,  jobbers of  cheese and 
provisions and packers of  canued goods, 
was in town one day last week.

A.  C.  Haynes,  formerly engaged in the 
retail  grocery  business at  DeLand,  Fla., 
has located in  this  city  for  the  purpose 
of  establishing a merchandise  brokerage 
business.

B.  F.  Emery, formerly  a  resident  of 
this city,  is now engaged in the merchan­
dise  brokerage  business  at  Colorado 
■Springs,  where  he  has  resided  for  the 
past two years.

L. G.  Evans,  general  dealer  at  East- 
port,  was in  town  one day  last week  on 
his way  to his former home in Jefferson, 
Ohio,  where  he  proposes  to  rusticate  a 
couple of  weeks.

C.  H.  Cornell,  formerly  engaged in the 
produce  commission  business  here,  is 
now  running  a  fruit  ranch  at  South 
Riverside,  Cal.,  raising  oranges,  lemons 
and other semi-tropical  fruits.

Henry Knowlton succeeds  D.  F.  Dig- 
gins as Cashier of the  banking  house  of 
D.  A.  Blodgett &  Co.,  at  Cadillac.  Mr. 
Diggins will devote his  entire  attention 
to the lumber business hereafter.

O.  A.  Ball  and  Willard  Barnhart have 
returned  from  White  Birch  Point,  the 
charming  resort  on  Bear  Lake,  where 
they made  their  cottages  ready for  the 
reception of their families, who will  take 
up their abode there this week.

The sympathy of  the trade  will go out 
to James A.  Stratton, the Gold street gro­
cer,  whose  wife  died  on  Sunday  at  the 
family 
residence.  The  deceased  had 
been  ill  several  months  and  the  fatal 
termination was not  unexpected.

Peter P.  and  Paul  J. Steketee are  tak­
ing  their  vacation  this  week  and  next 
week Dan C.  Steketee and C.  Dosker will 
be missed from  the wholesale department 
of  P.  Steketee  &  Sons.  Dan  Steketee 
will  spend a portion of  the  time  in Chi­
cago.

T he  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar—About the same as a  week ago, 
the demand continuing  large;  but as the 
refiners  are  able to  turn out  enough su­
gar in  four days to meet consumptive de­
mands  for  a  week,  the  talk  of  higher 
prices  has  so  far  resulted  in  talk  and 
nothing else.

Provisions—Prices  are  booming  all 

along the  line.

Pickles—The glutted  condition of  the 
market  for the  past  six  months  is  evi­
dently at an end,  the larger packers  hav­
ing  concentrated  stocks,  so far  as pos­
sible and  advanced their  prices about $1 
per bbl.

Cheese—Frmer  in  tone  and  active  in 
demand,  the  impression of  the trade be­
ing that prices have  touched  bottom  for 
the season.

Beans—Dry stock is scarce and hard to 
get,  handlers holding strong at §1.75  per 
bushel.

Melons—The supply of  large  Georgia 
watermelons has been  light,  while  there 
were  considerable  small  and 
inferior 
The  cooler  weather
melons  offering. 

checked trade somewhat,  bnt the demand 
kept pace with supply.

Lemons — The  cold  weather  has 
checked  consumption  to  such an extent 
that  the  demand  has  decreased  and 
prices have slumped  off  50c a box.

Oranges—Nearly 

cleaned  out. 
Rhodis are so high  that Western markets 
have not handled  many.

Bananas—In  good  demand  and  fair 
supply.  The  cold weather  brings them 
in green,  occasioning  considerable  delay 
in making shipments.

all 

A n  O pen  Q u estion .

There  are  few  business  men  in  this 
part of the State,  and  still  fewer  travel­
ing men,  who do  not  know  Prof. Clock, 
who made a good living  for  over twenty 
years by the  practice  of  phrenology and 
now manages to  keep  the wolf from  the 
door by a gentlemanly species of begging. 
He recently  solicited  the gift of  a quar­
ter  from  Willis  P.  Townsend,  on 
the 
ground that he  had  not yet  partaken  of 
breakfast,  which request  was cheerfully 
complied with.  Mr. Townsend was some­
what  surprised,  a  few  hours  later,  to 
learn  that  he was  only  one  of  a dozen 
traveling  men  who'  had  contributed  a 
similar  sum  for  that  particular  break­
fast, and he  then  and  there  resolved  to 
upbraid the old gentleman for his duplic­
ity  the next time  he  met  him.  The  op­
portunity  was  soon  presented,  when  he 
introduced himself  as  the man  who had 
bestowed a  quarter  for  the  supposedly 
charitable  purpose  of  filling  an  empty 
stomach.

“ Oh,  yes,”  replied the old  gentleman, 
“I remember !  By the way,  whom shall 1 
thank for that quarter—you or the house 
you  represent? ”

The inquiry was so very pertinent that 
the intended rebuke failed to materialize.
B eq u e sts o f th e  L ate S am u el B. Sinclair.
Clifford  Elliott and  Henry  T.  Thurber 
are named as the executors  and  trustees 
of the will of the late Samuel B.  Sinclair. 
By its terms all  the  testator’s  household 
furniture,  wearing  apparel and personal 
ornaments,  with  a  few  exceptions,  are 
given to his brother, Charles B.  Sinclair. 
Two trust funds, one  for $12,000 and an­
other  for  $8,000,  are  created.  The  in­
come of  the  former  is  to  go to  the sup­
port of  his  brother’s  wife  and  children 
until the youngest  of  the latter  becomes 
of age,  when it is to be divided.  The in­
come of  the  second  fund,  and if  neces­
sary, the  principal, is  to  be  devoted  to 
the education of  Miss  Jennie  Olmstead. 
Twenty-five  hundred  dollars  is  be­
queathed  to  the  parents of  Frances  C. 
and  Don  M^.Dickinson,  Jr.,  to  be  in­
vested  by  the  parents,  and  when  the 
children reach the age of  21 to be turned 
over  to 
them.  To  Mrs.  Thomas  A. 
Stephen,  of  Galt,  Ont.,  is  bequeathed 
$1,500; to David A. Sinclair, $6,000, $5,000 
of  which to be in  lieu of  an  annuity for 
him  under  the  testator’s  uncle’s  will. 
John B.  Malony gets the deceased’s book­
case and books.  All the moneys realized 
from the testator’s life insurance policies 
and  business  investments  are  to  be  re­
invested and  the income paid during her 
lifetime to  his sister,  Mrs.  Margaret Sin­
clair Batty. 
If  she  dies  without  Issue, 
$25,000 of it goes to Mrs. Don M.  Dickin­
son,  and  the balance  as  the  sister  may 
dispose by will.  Provision is  also  made 
for  the  payment  of  legacies  under  his 
uncle’s  will.  From  the  remainder  the 
following amounts are to be paid:  Walter 
S.  Sinclair,  $10,000;  Mrs.  George  F. 
Johnson,  $2,500;  Mrs.  Charles  E.  Hill, 
$2,500; Mrs. Kate Chauncey, of Brooklyn, 
N. Y.., $2,500.  Whatever  may then  re­
main goes to his sister and her heirs.

L a rg e st Crop E ver K now n .

It is stated that  the whortleberry  crop 
will be the  largest  ever  known  in  this 
State,  the wet  weather  having been fav­
orable to the yield and size of the berries.

L ik es  th e   P a p er—T im ely  W arning  to 

C anners.

Ensley,  June  29—Allow  me  to  say 
that your valuable paper  grows more in­
teresting  each  year. 
I  consider  it  not 
only of  value  to  the  trade,  but  to  the 
home as well.
Will you kindly publish in the columns 
of your  paper a word  of  warning  to the 
canning factories throughout the country 
in regard to neatness and care in  putting 
up their goods for the trade?  1 have sold 
canned goods in my store for twelve years 
and during that time I have found worms, 
leaves and grass in  such  goods  as  corn, 
tomatoes and oysters. 
I can bring others 
who will give the same experience.  Some 
may say,  “Such  stuff  is  found in  cheap 
goods  only.”  That  is  not  true. 
It  is 
found  in first-class goods.  Some  of  my 
friends have found the  same  in peaches 
and other  fruit.  As a word  to  the wise 
is  sufficient,  I  think  it  time  to  inform 
such factories of  this matter, as it has in 
some places been very  much  against the 
sale of canned goods.
Trusting this will meet your  approval 
1 ask you to kindly give a word of  warn­
ing.  1 am very  respectfully,

Mbs.  H.  M.  Buchanan.

The T radesman  has heard such com­
plaints before  and  gladly gives place  to 
the above contribution,  in hopes the pub­
lication may  stimulate  others  who  have 
noticed a similar  condition  of  things  to 
report  the  particulars  to  The Tradks-
man 
for  publication.  No  honorable 
packer intends  that such  goods shall  go 
out of  his factory  and any  oversight  of 
that  character  is,  undoubtedly,  due  to 
the carelessness of employes. 
In  report­
ing discoveries of  this  character,  kindly 
state names of brands in each case.

A  L egal  C ondition.

Not long ago, at a wedding dinner, one 
of  the guests told this story:
In  a Western town,  a small number  of 
zealous people decided to put up a Young 
Men’s Christian Association building.  A 
committee was  appointed  and  they sent 
for a contractor  to  undertake  the  work. 
When he came,  the first thing he did was 
to enquire,  in  a very  worldly  and matter 
of  fact  sort  of  way,  into  the  financial 
resources  of 
the  organization.  The 
president  replied:  “Never  fear,  sir;  we 
are  sure  of  funds;  the  Lord  is-on  our 
side.”
“That  is  all  very  well,”  replied  the 
contractor,  “ but  1  want  someone  I  can 
send the sheriff after if  necessary.”

U niform  P rices.on   S u g a r.

The wholesale  grocers of Chicago  have 
come together  and  established a uniform 
price on sugar  to  the retail trade  of  the 
Windy City.  The  price for this week  is 
on the basis of 4.66 for granulated. 
It is 
reported that the  plau  will  be  extended 
to the  general  country  trade,  in  case  it 
works well with the city  trade.

C ountry  C allers.

Calls  have  been 

received  at  The 
Tradesman office during the  past  week 
from the following gentlemen  in  trade:

A.  B.  Steele, Advance.
L.  G.  Evans,  Eastport.
Chas. P.  Lillie,  Coopersville.
C.  S. Comstock,  Pierson.
R.  I).  McNaughton, Coopersville. 
Edson  Roberts,  Sparta.

Use Tradesman Coupon Boohs.

FOR  SA L E ,  W A N TED ,  ETC.

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

For  sa l e—sm a l l  stock  of  g e n e r a l

merchandise  for  sale  cheap  for cash.  Ad­

dress A. P. Albaugh, Middleton, Mich.

half mile from railroad, in sight of  county seat, 

517

536

F or  sa l e—a  p in e   stock o p g r o c e r ie s

and  crockery in first-class  shape.  Doing  a 
business  from  $15 000  to  $18,0:0  per  year  in  as 
fine a fanning  country as there is in  the state of 
Michigan.  Can  give  good  reasons  for  selling. 
Address Lock  Box 14  Elsie, Mich. 

F o r  sa l e  o r  e x c h a n g e—f o r  stock 

of  merchandise,  160  acres  fine  land, one- 
a flourishing town on division of  the' C., B. & Q. 
Railroad,  Akron,  Colorado  Address  Box  616, 
Howell, Mich. 
F or  s a l e—c l e a n  g e n e r a l   stock  in
town near Grand  Rapids surrounded by ex­
cellent  farming  country.  A  bargain  for  some 
one.  M. S.  McNitt, Byron Center, Mich. 
526 
THOR  SALE—DRUGS  AND  FIXTURES  IN  A 
-C  booming  city  of  Michigan.  Will  invoice 
about  $3,400.  All  in  good  condition and clean. 
Will  sell  cheap.  Address,  “Old  Man,”  care 
Michigan Tradesman. Grand Rapids,  Mich.  541
For  s a l e — sm a ll  stock  o p  d r u g s
which will  invoice $700.  $500 cash, balance 
on time. 
’92 sales, $1600.  Will  rent or sell  resi­
dence to purchaser.  Rare chance for  physician 
or young  man.  Address  Doctor,  care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
For  sa l e —c l e a n   stock  o p  st a p l e
dry  goods, clothing, furnishing  goods,  mil­
linery goods and  boots and shoes  in  one of  the 
best villages in Michigan.  Stock  will inventory 
$3,000 to $3,500,  Liberal discount  for  cash.  For
Particulars,  address  No.  530,  care-  Michigan 
F or  sa l e—a  d r u g   s t o r e,  n ic e  f ix
POR  SALE — HALF INTEREST 

tures,  fresh  and  well  selected  stock,  in­
creasing  trade,  nice  residence  portion  of  the 
city.  Inventory,  $2,500.  Address  No.  498,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
IN  GOOD
paying drug  store  in  Grand  Rapids.  Rare 
opportunity for young man.  P. V. Finch, Grand
Rapids 

radesman. 

"lOR  SALE—GROCERY  STOCK  AND  FIX- 
tures in corner  store in desirable  portion  of 
city, having lucrative trade.  Best of reasons for 
selling.  Address No. 504, care Michigan Trades­
man. 

53J

498

504

524

544

SITUATIONS  W ANTED.

TETANTED —SITUATION  AS  TRAVELING 
I f   salesman.  Would  prefer  groceries  and 
city trade.  Two years’ experience  in  retail gro­
ceries.  Can  speak the Holland  language.  Ad- 
dress No. 542, care Michigan Tradesman. 
542

MISCELLANEOUS.

537

540

ITT ANTED — TRAVELING  SALESMEN  TO 
i t   sell  Baking  Powder to the  retail  grocery 
trade.  We  put  our  goods  up in Glass  Rolling 
Pins.  We pay $60 a month  salary aud  expenses 
or 25 per cent,  commbsion.  We want  men who 
are  now  on  the  road  to  carry  as  a  side  line. 
Good  opportunity  for  clerks  and  others  who 
want to get  on the  road.  Write  for particulars, 
send  stamp for  reply.  Chicago  Baking Powder 
Co., 767 Van Buren St., Chicago. 
FOR  SALE—ONE  llxl*  ENGINE  AND  Tu­
bular boiler with  all  fittings.  One lumber 
rig,  capacity  15m;  shafting,  pullies,  etc.  Also 
wagon  and  b acksmith  shop,  size  20x50,  two 
stories  and  2<x40  one  story;  situated  in  good 
town  with  lots  of  business.  J. V. Crandall  & 
Son, Sand Lake or Luther. Mich. 
O  YOU  USE COUPON  BOOKS ?  IF  SO, DO 
you buy of the largestrmanufacturers In the 
United States?  If  you do, you  are  customers of 
the Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.

cian and small drug store in railroad town. 
Address No. 543, care Michigan Tradesman.  543
stocks In  banking, manufacturing  and mer 
cantlle  companies.  E. A. Stowe,  100  Louis  St., 
Grand Rapids. 

■ ANTED—GOOD  LOCATION  FOR  PHYSI- 
F or  s a l e — good  d iv id e n d  - p a y in g
Fo r  r e n t  — f u r n is h e d   su m m e r  r e -

sort  hotel at Traverse Point, on the  famous 
fruit  peninsula in Grand  Traverse  Bay.  Barn, 
Ice  house, boats and  all  modern  conveniences. 
Address immediately E A Stowe, Sec’y, 100 Louis 
St, Grand Rapids, Mich.
OR  SA L E -B EST   RESIDENCE  LOT  IN 
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- 
ments to suit.  E. A. Stowe. 100 Louis St. 

370

354

RED  OAK,  WHITE  OAK,

BLACK  ASH,

ROCK  ELM,  GREY  ELM, 

BASSWOOD.

A .  E .  W O R D E N ,

19  W onderly  B uilding,

QUAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

MICHIGAN  BARK  & LUMBER  CO.,

Successors  to

N.  B.  CM  & Co.

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

IK and  19  Widoicomb  Building:.

B A N A N A S

SEND  YOUR  ORDERS  TO  US  AND  WE  WILL  ENDEAVOR

TO  SEND  YOU  STOCK  THAT  WILL  BE  SATISFACTORY.

THE  PUTNAM  CANDY CO.

S p rin g  & 

C

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Dress  Goods,  Shaw ls,  Cloaks, 
Notions, 
Ribbons,  Hosiery, 
Gloves,  U nderw ear,  W oolens, 
Flannels,  Blankets,  G ingham s, 
P rin ts and  Domestic Cottons.

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

assorted stock at lowest  market  prices.

Spring & Company.

LEMONS!

boxes  before  it  gets  warm,

It  will  he  a  good  idea  to  order  25 
/There9s  money in such  a purchase• 
Get  our  prices.

PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.

VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER  k  CO.,
Dry  Goods, T arpets and Gloaks

W H O L E S A L E

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets,  Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

M ackinaw   Shirts  and  L um berm en’s  Socks.

OVERALLS  OF  OUR  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigt, HerpolsMier & Go. 48, 60,  62  O ttaw a  St., 
RINDGE,  KALMBACH  &  CO,

G rand  Rapids.

12,  14,  16  PEARL  ST.

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

"   ’ 

E  would call  the  atten- 
tion of  the trade  to our 
lines  of  walking  shoes.  We 
can show  you  all  the novelties 
at popular prices.

We  also  carry  good  lines  of 

Tennis Goods at low prices.

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

offered by any agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.

If so, and  you are  endeavoring to  get along w ithout  using one o f  our improved  Coupon  Book system s, 
you are mo ving a m ost serious m istake.  W e w ere the originators of  the coupon  book plan  and are the 
largest  manufacturers o f  these  books in the country.  Drop in and  look  over our  factory w hen  in  the 
city or send for sam ples and price list by mail.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GHR-AJSTD  RAPIDS,  MICH.

H.  L eo n a r d  &  S o n s’

Complete Lines of Crockery,  Glassware and  House Furnishing Goods, Store Lamps and

Parlor Lamps in Every Variety.

Catalogue  No.  108.

G R A N D   R A PID S,  MICH

Free  to  M erchants.

Onr

bily  a  piece 

/

of  Domestic 

Porcelain.

This incom­
parable  En­
glish  Stock 
pattern is 
imich  better 
and  cheaper.

It is proving  itself  a SELLER. 

It is an  “open  stock”  pattern  that can  be 

THIS  W ILL  NEVER  CRAZE

matched for years to come.

See illustration in colors on page 22 of our catalogue.

This COSts  no more  than  common  domestic  ware,  and  will  never 
It will sell  itself—the name is enough.  Send for sheet  showing crate 

“craze”  in your stock.

lists and prices.

THIS  SHOWS OVR

ID E A L   L IN E
Decorateli Sewing Lamps.

----   OF  ----

Gotten ont  expressly for a low 

price,  beautifully finished

OUR  GOOD  ENOUGH.

rotary 
This 
pump  is a little 
wonder. 
It  is 
improved 
and 
a l w a y s   s e l l s  
the  can  when 
shown.
You should in­
sist upon selling 
a  covered  can 
for  gasoline,  to 
keep  out 
the 
water.

We carry only 
the  best  goods 
made in the 
United  States.
Our prices  the 

lowest.

Our  assortment 
is  simply  un­
equalled.

Send for our

COLORED  LITHOGRAPHS

and  package prices.

No such  value has ever  been offered.

Rotary Pump-Galvanized Iron Can.

BEST  IN   THE  WORLD.

BELOW  ‘VLA.L.TJE !
Mason’s Fruit  Jars

OUR

Cannot be bought by us at these 

prices.

ORDER  EARLY !

- 

Pints, 
Quarts, 
Half gallons, 

$  7  75 per gross
8  25 
10  75 

“
“
SUBJECT  TO  CHANGE.

JELLY  TUMBLERS.

Now is the Time
to  order  Jelly  Tum­
blers,  before  stocks 
are  broken.  As  us­
ual our price is below 
the market and shows 
heavy car loads bought 
during the past winter.
pt. TT, per box, 1.65 
1.80
X   “  “ 
Six dozen in box.

“ 

Factory  Agents for
HI

Pearl Top.

Save your orders for

|   LAMP  CHIMNEYS
B  Until  you  see  our  special  prices 

for fall  trade.

Now is the time, to order.

