Published Weekly. 

V O L.  9.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS. 

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  J U L Y   20,  1892.

$1  Per  Tear.
NO .  461

MUSKEGON  BRANCH  UNITED  STATES  BAKING  OO.,

Successors  to

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

H A R R Y   FOX,  Manager

Crackers, Biscuits«® Sweet Goods.
The BAB LOCK TYPEWRITER.

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TELFER  SPICE  COMPANY,

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I and 3 Pearl  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS

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C.  N.  RAPP  Si  CO..
FRUITS  AND  PRODUCE.
WHOLESALE 

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For  two  weeks, 
beginning June 27, 
we will offer special 
inducements on

BICYCLES.

Now  is  the  Time 

to boy.

We have the lead­

ing lines:
VICTOR 
COLUMBIA 
CLIPPER 
GENDRONS 

and all the

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Line.

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é Monroe St.

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Grand Rapids, Mich. SMITH  &  SANFORD, 68  Monroe St.
The  Green Seal  Cigar
It is Staple and w ill fit any Purchaser.

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GRAND RAPIDS, 
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demand,  and  only ask the trade to keep the goods in stock so as to supply 
the  orders  sent to them.  Without  effort on the  grocer’s  part the  goods 
sell  themselves, bring  purchasers to the  store,  and  help  sell  less  known 
goods.

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Michigan with

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"E  are not the cheapest printers in  the  State—would be 
ashamed of it if we were.  When  we find  a  “cheapest 
Contracted  to  furnish  the  laborers  with  meat, killing in one j printer ” who  does  workmanlike work,  we  will  lock  up  our
season four thousand eight hundred and sixty-two
plant and  sublet our printing to him.  As it is, system enables 
us  to  handle  work on close  margins.  There is more  in it for 
us to do  $1,000  worth  of  work  on  10  per  cent,  margin  than 
$100 worth at 25  per cent.

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Issued  b y   cities, counties, towns  and  school  districts 
of  Michigan.  Officers  of  these  municipalities  about 
to issue bonds will And  it to  their advantage to apply 
to this bank.  Blank bonds and bla  ks for proceedings 
supplied  without  charge.  All  communications  and 
enquiries will have prompt attention.  This bank pays 

per cent, on deposits, compounded  sémi annually.
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and corners.  Nickel bill  file, Indexed, ruled  on 
both  aides, 60  lines, being  equal to a bill  twice 
as long.
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COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO

65  MONROE  ST.

Formed by the consolidation of the 

COOPER  COMMERCIAL  AGENCY,

AND THE

UNION  CREDIT  CO.,

And  embodying  all  the  good  features  of  both 
agencies.
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receive  prompt  and  careful  attention.  Your 
patronage respectfully solicited.

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latest Improved methods.  Glasses in every style 
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THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

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attended to throughout United States 

and Canada

ABSOLUTELY  PURE
PEPPER

EDWIN.J. GILLIES &  CO.
745 to 249 WASHINGTON ST NEW YORK.

T<O say that the above fancy bottled spices are 
strictly pure does  not convey the  excellent 
high merit of  the goods.  They are  put up from 
such  as  Shot  Sifted  Pepper, Saigon Cinnamon, 
finest Zinzlbar Cloves—nothing else—and can be 
retailed at popular  prices.  The  beBt will  make 
trade and in use 1b good economy.

E.  J.  GILLIES  &  CO.,

NEW  YORK.

MICHIGAN KEPRESENTATIVE,

J.  P.  VISNER,

167  No. Ionia St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
Fire i Bifrglar Proof
A ll Sizes and Prices. 
Parties in need of the above 
¿are  invited  to  correspond 
"with
I.  Sliultes, Agt. Diebold Safe Co.

MARTIN,  MICH.

F R A N K   H   W H IT E

Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of

Brooms,  Washboard«, Wooden

AND

Indurated  Pails  &  Tubs,

WOODEN  BOWLS,  CLOTHESPINS  & 

ROLLING  PINS,  STEP  LADDERS, 

W ASHING  MACHINES,  MAR­

KET,  BU SH EL  &  DELIV ­

ERY  BASKETS,  BUILDING  PAPER

Manufacturers  in  lines  allied to above, wish 
ing to be represented in this  market are request 
ed to communicate with me.

185  COURT  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

P R O M P T , 

C O N S E R V A T IV E . 

8 A P E .
T. Stew art W h it e, Pres’t. 

W. F r ed  McB a in, Sec’y.

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  W E D N E S D A Y ,  J U L Y   20,  1892,

N O .  4 6 1

Aromatic !

THE  NEW  MINISTER.

All alone in the cool, green shadows of 
the glen,  with tall ferns nodding around, 
and blue  asters  dipping  their  fringes in 
the  forest  pool,  while  the  midday  sun­
shine could  scarcely  penetrate  the awn­
ing of  beech  leaves overhead—Mr.  Pyn- 
sent felt like a modern Robinson Crusoe, 
as he  leaned  back  against a moss-enam­
eled  rock,  and  turned  the  leaves  of  his 
pocket edition of  “Shakespeare.”

“Now,  I  don’t suppose,” thought  Mr. 
Pynsent  to  himself,  luxuriously  watch­
ing the  erratic  flight  of  a gigantic  blue 
butterfly,  “that  there  is  a  living  soul 
I don’t suppose—”
within a mile of me ! 
But just at  that  instant a sweet,  impe­
rious  voice,  like  the  call  of  the  robin 
which  had  just  fluttered  away  into  the 
blackberry thickets,  pierced  through the 
fragrant  silence  of  the  summer  noon, 
calling:

“ Charley  !  Charley!”
And  a bunch of  autumn 

leaves drift­
ed down upon his book from  the  edge of 
the precipice  above.

“Are you  there, Charley? ”  reiterated 
the  sweet, bird-like  voice.  “ Good  gra­
cious, why don’t you  speak?”

Mr. Pynsent  straightened  himself  up, 
and tried to look through the green braid­
ing of foliage overhead.

“Yes,  I’m  here,”  said  he,  wishing  in 
his secret  heart  that  he  wasn’t so  near­
sighted,  and  hadn’t  left  his  eyeglasses 
behind in New York.

“Then, why  didn’t you  say  so before, 
you stupid  fellow.! ” retorted  the  unseen 
catechist, with a  fresh  shower of  leaves 
descending from her aerial height.  “May 
I come  down? ”

“ Certainly,”  responded  our  puzzled 

hero.

“ Oh, but  I  can’t  though,”  added  the 
voice,  with a little hysterical catching in 
its  accents.  “I’ve  quarreled  with  Bell 
and  mamma,  and  I’ve  broken  the  big 
china  vase,  and  I’m  very,  very  misera­
b le!”

To this frank  statement  of  affairs our 
puzzled hero could think of no immediate 
reply.  Although  he was a clergyman of 
the Church of  England,  he was not quite 
prepared  to  give  in  his  adhesion to  the 
doctrine of the confessional.

“Why don’t  you  ask  me  why?”  cried 
out  the  voice;  and  through  the  green, 
tremulous chiaroicuro  of many leaves he 
could  see  the  shine of  crimped  yellow 
hair,  the flutter of a pale blue scarf over­
head.  “I declare, you  don’t  seem a  bit 
interested!”

“I am,indeed,” protested Mr. Pynsent, 

with genuine  earnestness.

“It’s  all  the  new  minister,”  said  the 
fair one  with  the  golden locks.  “Com­
ing  poking  and  prying  here  where no­
body waqts  him.”

“The—new  minister!”  repeated  the 
Reverend  Mr. Pynsent,  with  a  curious 
sensation of  seeing  him self  in a sort  of 
m ental  looking-glass.

“Yes,  the  new—min-is-ter! ”  repeated 
the  girl, mimicking  his  accent  of  sur­
prise.  “ Charley, don’t  be  such  a  fool, 
or I shall throw my parasol down at you. 
Of  course,  it’s  the  new  minister.  Who

else  should  it  be?  Coming  to  dinner 
just when nobody wants him!  And there 
is Bell,  putting  her  hair  in curl-papers, 
and laying oat  all the religious books on 
the  centertable,  and  hiding  away  the 
novels under the sofa,  and mamma fresh 
trimming  her  cap  and  making  lobster 
salad;  and, oh, Charley,  killing my white 
doves to make a pigeon  pie!  Oh! ” (with 
a sob)  “I do hope the very first mouthful 
of  it will choke the  new minister!  And 
I cried—I couldn’t  help it,  Charley dear 
—now could  you?  And  I slapped  Bell, 
and  I told  mamma  the  minister  was  a 
greedy  pig  to  want  to  eat  my  white 
darlings up;  and  mamma said I was pro­
fane  and  impious,  and  she’d  have  my 
name  sent  up  as  a  special  subject  of 
prayer a Wednesday  night.  And I said, 
if there  was any  praying  to  be  done,  I 
conld  do  it  myself;  and  then  I  turned 
around in  a huff,  and  my  skirt  knocked 
the Dresden vase off  the little stand  and 
broke it;  and,  oh, Charley,  do you blame 
me for being very,  very  wretched? ”

“Not in  the least,”  answered  the Rev­

erend Mr. Pynsent,  with energy.

“And I’ve  cried  until  my  eyes  are as 
red as  pickled beets,”  added  this  mod­
ern Penserosa.  “And I’ve got to go back 
and  beg  mamma’s  pardon,  and  make  it 
up with  Bell,  and—and I  know  1  can’t 
eat a mouthful of dinner with'those dear 
white doves under the pie crust,  and that 
horrid prig of  a new minister  sitting op­
posite.”

“Perhaps  you’ll  like  him,  after  all,” 
soothed Mr.  Pynsent, feeling  very much 
like an  eavesdropper  in  momentary  ex­
pectation of being detected.

“  ‘Like  him!” ’  with  a  little  derisive 
laugh.  “ Oh,  you  know  perfectly  well, 
Charley,  that  I  never  could  get  along 
with  clergymen. 
I  can’t  remember  the 
dates in Deuteronomy,  and I never  could 
be quite certain about the  Pharaohs,  and 
I’m  always  sure  to laugh out in Sunday 
school.  Bell says she’s  going  to set  her 
cap  at  the  new  minister—Pincers  his 
name  is,  or  Pinto,  or  some  such  out­
landish-sounding  thing.  Well,  let  her, 
if she  likes. 
I  couldn’t marry  him—no, 
not for  ten thousand  dollars!  To think 
of my dear,  little  white doves! ”

“Yes,”  faltered  Mr.  Pynsent,  waxing

TWENTY
THOUSAND
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have  used  them  from  one  to 
six years and  they  agree  that 
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Counter  Scale  the  “PERFEC­
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For sale by

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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more  and  more  uncomfortable  all  the 
time,  “but don’t you think it’s just possi­
ble  that  this—this  gentleman  may  not 
have known about the  white doves? ”

“ Charley,  why  are  you  so  hoarse?” 
cried  out  the  fair  unknown, in  an  un­
conscious  paraphrase of  Little  Red Rid- 
inghood..  “ Have  you  been  and  caught 
another cold? ”

“N-no;  not  that  I am  aware  of,” said 
Mr.  Pyusent,  pondering  how  he  should 
contrive to explain to her at this  stage of 
affairs that he was the wrong Charley.

“Then it’s  the  echo  from  the rocks,” 
said the  damsel.  “It  makes your  voice 
sound  as  gruff  as  a  bear. 
Is  that  the 
12  o’clock  whistle?  Oh,  then,  1  must 
hurry and help Bell with the peaches and 
cream  for  desert.  And  I  can’t  come 
down  to  talk  with  you,  after  all.  But 
there’s  a  tea-rosebud, Charley, dear. 
If 
I’d left it on the bushes,  Bell  would only 
have gathered it to pamper the new min­
ister with.  Asters  and  johnny-jumpers 
are good enough for him.”

And  the  next  minute  a  half-blown 
Mareschal-Niel bud,  goldeu-ceutered and 
odorous  with  subtle  perfume,  drifted 
down  upon  the  leaves  of  the “Shakes­
peare,”  and  the  sunshiny  little  head, 
with its fluttering blue  coif,  was gone.

The  Reverend  Mr. Pynsent  rose  and 

looked around with a bewildered air.

“Upon my word,” said  he,  “one might 
.almost believe one’s sell  to  be in  an  en­
chanted  glen.  Was  that  golden  head 
really a dream?  And am 1 actually such 
an ogre? 
Is the widow Wilton positively 
about to  serve up  to me  a dish  made  of 
the little penitent’s white doves?  By the I 
sacred  stork  of  Egypt,  I’ll  not  taste  a | 
mouthful  of  it!  And  who  is 'Charley,’ I 
anyhow?  And  how  about  this imperial 
‘Beil,’ who  is going to marry  me, nolens I 
volens!  It  strikes  me  1  am  about  to 
venture  into  unknown  dangers.  How­
ever,”  resolutely  closing  the  “Shakes-1 
peare”  and  slipping  it  into  his  vest 
pocket,  “ 1  have  commenced  the  cam­
paign and  I am going to carry it through, | 
even  though it should prove a Waterloo!” 

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“Dinner is  ready,  Mr.  Pynsent,  if  you 
please,” said  Miss  Bell  Wilton,  a  tall, 
Juno-like  damsel, of  some  three or four 
and twenty summers.
And  the  Reverend  Charles  Courtney j 
Pynsent,  who had  been sitting,  in  rather j 
uncomfortable state, in the “ best parlor” 
with  the  widow  Wilton,  followed  his 
hostesses  into 
little  diuing-room. 
There, in a white  dress  with a blue sash 
knotted  loosely  around  her  slim  waist, 
stood a lovely young girl of sixteen, with 
golden  tresses gathered into a knot,  and a 
tuft  of  geranium  leaves  in  her bosom. 
Mr.  Pynsent  felt himself  color  up to his 
-temples—it  was  the  very  face that  had 
smiled  down  from  the  top of  the preci­
pice,  encircled in its framework of forest 
foliage.

the 

At  the  same  moment,  a  dark-haired, 
pleasant young man came m  with a linen 
duster over his arm,  avalise in  his hand, 
and a healthy sunburn on  his cheek.

“Charley! ” cried the girls, in  concert.
“ Cousin  Charles,”  added  the widow, 
extending  a  cordial  band  of  greeting, 
“pray,  let me  introduce  you to the Rev­
erend Mr. Pynsent.”

“Glad  to  meet  you,  sir,”  nodded 
Charley.  “ Yes,  I  thought  it  would  be 
a surprise, Aunt  Phillis. 
I’m just home 
from Boston.  Spent  two  days  there  at 
the  great  Musical  Convention.  Only 
reached  Brattleboro’  half  an  hour  ago.

Thought,  if  1 made  good  time from  the 
station, I might be in season to dine with 
you.  Why,  Paulie, child, what  are  you 
staring at? ”

For  Paulina  Wilton  had  grown  first | 

pale  and then pink.

“Charley,”  cried  she,  with  one  hand 
pressed convulsively  against  her pearly ! 
throat,  “ wasn’t  it you  at the Forest Pool 
this  morning?”

“ My dear  child,” said  Charley,  “1 tell I 
you  I  was  on  an  express  train  until 
twenty minutes ago! ”

“It was 1,” said the Reverend Mr.  Pyn­
sent,  composedly.  “Jfy name is Charles, 
too;  and  when  I  heard 
it  called,  I 
answered.  And I  am  much  obliged  to 
you,  Miss  Paulina,  for  this  rosebud,” 
with  a  calm,  downward  glance  at  the 
half-opened  “Mareschal Niel” in  his but­
tonhole.

Paulina looked  at  him for  a  moment, 
with  half-startled  eyes.  He  could  but 
smile reassuringly.

“ You  are  not  vexed  with  me?”  said 

she, solemnly.

“Not in the least, ”  he answered.
“Then 1 forgive you the tragedy of the 

white doves,” said she.

And they shook hands upon it.
It is needless  to add  that  Bell Wilton 
didn’t marry the new  minister,  after all. 
And Mrs.  Wilton says,  rather  pensively:
“To think that little  Paulie should  be 
the one to be a minister’s wife,  after  all! 
Paulie,  that  never could  learn  her cate­
chism  nor  sit  still  upon  the  Sabbath- 
day.” 

A my  Ra n d o lph.

They  All  Do  It.

“Do  I  know 

From the Dry Goods Retailer.
“Here,  you get out  of  this!  Don’t  le t! 
me catch you in this store again!”
A little feminine  shriek  followed  this 
rough salutation.
The writer turned and beheld a beauti­
ful aud fashionably dressed  young  lady 
in the cluthes  of a floorwalker.  He  had 
torn open a little bundle which  she  had 
just received from the package desk, and 
forced her money into her hand, aud with 
considerable roughness was hurrying her 
to the door.  The face of the young wom­
an  was  a  picture.  She looked  like  an 
angry queen.  Her eyes  were half aflame 
aud  half  drowued  in  tears.  Her  mag­
nificent teeth showed through the reddest 
kind of lips,  and  her  clear  complexion 
was like  marble  touched  with  the  line 
scarlet of  flowers.
1 was  tempted  to  interfere,  but  the 
tales of  kleptomauia  and  other  strange 
things  which  happen  in  our  great  ba­
zaars,  and,  knowing  the man, besides,  to 
be  a  gentlemanly  floorwalker—for  this 
drama was  taking  place  in  one  of  the 
most  fashionable  stores  in  the  city—1 
withheld my  hand.
the 
floor walker with a laugh.  “1 should say 
1 do!  She is a very grand  lady,  indeed. 
My dear sir, she is one  of  the  tricks  of 
the trade.
“ That bewitching  lady  in  Paris-made 
gown and imported  bonnet is  a  salesgirl 
in the store of our enterprising  neighbor 
on the next block.  She gets  $11 a week. 
She came down here disguised as  a  cus­
tomer,  bought a dozen  handkerchiefs  as 
a blind,  and  proceeded to price a number 
of goods in  which our enterprising neigh­
bor  suspects  we  are  underselling  him. 
This is so as to  give  him  a  tip  how  to 
mark  his goods. 
In short,  she is  a  spy, 
and,  as we are not permitted to hang spies 
in this warfare of trade, all we can  do is 
to escort them to the picket lines  and let 
them  go.  Now that this young  lady  has 
been discovered, her  occupation  in  this 
line of usefulness is gone; but our  neigh­
bor will have another rigged  up  in  less 
than no time.
“Eternal vigilance is the price of under­
selling. ”
“ But do all the big  stores  keep  these 
spies,  as you call them?”  1  asked.
“Well,” said the ungallant floor walker, 
with a sly wink and  smile,  “they  all  of 
them do but ourselves.”

that  lady?”  said 

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Deafness Cannot Be Cured

Summarized  Decisions from  Courts  of 

Last Resort.

FRAUDULENT  CONVEYANCE —CONTRACT­

ORS.

Where a firm  of  contractors  who  had 
undertaken  to grade  certain  sections  of 
a  railroad,  being  unable  for  want  of 
means to  carry  out  their  contract,  con­
veyed to appellant  all their  property for 
equitable  distribution  among  their cred­
itors,  appellant  undertaking to complete 
the work and turn over the  profits to the 
grantors’ creditors after reimbursing her­
self for expenses incurred, the Kentucky 
Court of  Appeals held  that the creditors 
of  the grantors had no right to complain 
of  the conveyance.

VEGETABLES—DELIVERY—FROST.
In  the  csae  of  Anderson  vs.  May the 
Supreme  Court  of  Minnesota  held  that 
upon a contract to raise, sell  and deliver 
a specified  quantity of  beans of  various 
kinds,  no  particular  land  upon  which 
they were to be raised being specified, the 
fact that unexpected early frosts so far de­
stroyed the party’s crop  that  the vendor 
could  not  deliver  the  whole  quantity 
specified  did  not  excuse  his  non-per­
formance of the contract.

CERTIFICATE  OF DEPOSIT—LIABILITY.
The Supreme Court of Utah held,  in the 
recent case of Long vs. Citizens’ Bank, that 
a bank is not  liable,  even  to an innocent 
holder  for value,  on  a certificate  of  de­
posit issued before its organization or in­
corporation,  and  signed,  as  cashier,  by 
the person who afterwards  became such, 
there  being  nothing  to  show  that  the 
bank  ever  received  any  consideration 
therefor,  and  that  the  promoters  and 
subsequent  officers  of  the  bank,  other 
than  the  cashier, cannot  be  held  liable 
on the certificate in  the absence  of  alle­
gations and  proof that by fraud or negli­
gence they aided in giving it currency 

CIVIL RIGHTS DECISION.

said 

in  his  opinion: 

Judge Black,  of  the Missouri  Supreme 
Court, rendered a  decision in the case  of 
Younger  et  al.  vs.  Judah, holding  that 
the  Fourteenth  Amendment  to  the Con­
stitution was not  violated by  the refusal 
of  a manager  of  a  theater  to  a colored 
man  and  a  colored  woman  to  occupy 
seats in the parquet of the theater.  The 
judge 
“The 
colored man  has  and is  entitled to  have 
all the  rights of  a  citizen,  but  it cannot 
be  said  that  equality  of  rights  means 
identity  in  all  respects.  Here  the  de­
fendant did not exclude or attempt to ex­
clude  colored  persons  from  his theater. 
He  provided  accommodations  for  them, 
but  in  doing  so  required  them  to  pur­
chase  tickets  and  take  seats  in the bal­
cony,  and  this  rule  adopted  by  him ac­
cords with  custom  and  usage prevailing 
in this State.  Such custom has the force 
and effect  of  law  until  some  competent 
legislative  power  shall  establish  some 
other  different  rule.  The  defendant’s 
rule  was no  more than a reasonable reg­
ulation which he had a right to make and 
enforce.”
INSURANCE — INSOLVENCY — CONDITION.
The  question  whether  a  condition 
against sale in a policy of  insurance was 
broken was before  the Supreme  J udicial 
Court  of  Massachusetts  in  the  case  of 
Brown  vs. Cotton  &  Woolen  Manufac­
turers’  Mutual  Insurance  Company  of 
New England. 
It appears from the opin­
ion that the sale relied on  was a convey­
ance by the plaintiff four days before the 
fire  to  the  trustee  in  insolvency of  her 
husband’s  estate  by  a deed  which  pur 
ported to  be for  valuable  consideration 
but for which  the plaintiff  testified that 
she  received  nothing.  The  plaintiff 
proved against her  husband’s estate, and 
her claim  was  allowed,  but she  received 
nothing upon it.  TheC ourt said:  “It  is 
argued  that  her  position  as  a  creditor 
preserved  for  her  an  insurable  interest 
in  the  factory  after  the  transfer,  and 
that the  conveyance  was not a sale. 
In 
the opinion  of  a majority  of  the  Court 
the  conveyance  was  a  breach of  condi­
tion.  *  *  *  We  are  of  opinion,  in  the 
first  place,  that  it  makes  no  difference 
whether  the  consideration  of i the  con­
veyance  is  of  substantial  value  or  is 
merely the technical consideration which 
is said to be  imported  by  the  execution

of a deed. 
If  the  plaintiff’s  conveyance 
was  in  other  respects  a  breach  of  the 
condition,  the 
fact  that  she  received 
nothing for it will not save it.  *  *  *  But 
it is said  that  the plaintiff did not alien­
ate  her.  whole  interest  because  she  re­
tained  an  insurable  interest  after  the 
transfer as one of the creditors for whom 
her  grantee  held  the  property  in trust. 
We  will  assume  that  it  is  true  that  a 
creditor has an  insurable  interest in  the 
estate of his debtor when conveyed to an 
assignee  in  insolvency.  * * *  But  we 
think that an interest of that kind would 
not be a  continuation  of  the  former in­
terest of  the  plaintiff.  By  her  convey­
ance the plaintiff  parted  with  the whole 
legal  title, and  as  her  grantee  already 
owned  her  husband’s  equity,  she  ex­
tinguished  her  mortgage. 
In  whatever 
words  we  express  the  fact,  she  put au 
end to her preferred  right  to satisfy her 
debt out  of  this  land  before  other cred­
itors  could  touch  it.  Her  right  after­
wards was not created  by  or reserved or 
excepted  out  of  her  conveyance. 
It 
arose from the independent circumstance 
that her  grantee  was  an  assignee in  in­
solvency,  and that  the  land became part 
of the fund held by him as such. 
It was 
a right  in common  with other  creditors 
to share in the fund and in the  land only 
in so far as it was part of  the fund.  We 
are of  opinion that the  condition against 
sale was broken.”

Girard, and His Workmen.

Stephen  Girard  had  many  excellent 
business  traits.  He  was  not  a  general 
giver;  vagrants  found  little  quarter  in 
his house.  But Girard was distinguished 
for  his  considerate  conduct  toward  em­
ployes.  If a man conformed to his whims, 
he  would be his friend, and stand by him 
through all  reverses.  One  day, a young 
man,  just  commencing  business,  wished 
to  obtain  of  Girard  a  bill  of  goods  on 
credit. 
“Have  you  brought  a  cart  to 
take these goods with  you?”  “No,”  was 
the reply.  “I prefer to save the expense; 
so 1 shall  carry the  goods  on  my back.” 
You will succeed,” said the  banker,  “if 
you  don’t  drink.  While  you are  sober 
and carry home your own goods,  you can 
have all the  credit you  want.”  One day 
a man  came to him  and  wanted  employ­
ment.  “What  do  you want to  do?”  “I 
will  do  anything  that will  give  me  an 
honest  living.”  “I  will  give  you a dol­
lar a day,”  said Girard.  “You take that 
pile of stones that  you  see in the  end of 
that lot,  and carry them to the other side 
and  pile  them  up  in the  same  manner 
that  they are  now.”  The  job was  com­
pleted, and  the man  took his money and 
weDt home. 
In the morning he came for 
work.  “Take that  pile  of  stones,” said 
the merchant,  “and put them back where 
you  found them;  pile them up,  and 40 it 
well.”  At  night the  man  came for  his 
money.  The  next  morning,  he  had  to 
remove  the  stones  again;  and  so  he 
worked  day  after  day  for  a week.  On 
Saturday night Girard complimented him 
on his industry, his attention to business, 
and the  uncomplaining manner in  which 
he went  about  his  work.  “I like  you,” 
said  the  banker;  “there  is  no  nonsense 
about  you;  you do what  you  are  told to 
do.  Many  men  would  have  objected to 
doing  the  work  over  and  over  again. 
You  shall  have work  as  long as  I  have 
anything for anybody to do.”

The Changes of Two Decades.

Twenty  years  ago the  buyer  went  to 
the  seller,  now  the  seller  goes  to  the 
buyer.  This is not to be  taken literally, 
of  course,  as  if  the  seller was  required 
to hawk his wares from door to door, but 
the  whole  tendency of  modern business 
methods is that  the man  who has  some­
thing to sell  seeks out  the buyer, a com­
plete reversal of former conditions, when 
he who was in want of something sought 
out the seller.  The tradesman who now- 
a-days  contents  himself  with a dignified 
seclusion  petrifies  into  a  statue.  The 
live man  advertises, circularizes, thrusts 
his personality in a hundred  ways on the 
notice of  the  public,  presents  his  wares 
so that they speak for  him,  considers the 
taste of buyers, creates wants and desires 
and studies the convenience of customers.
Use Tradesmanor Superior  Coupons.

bv 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.

JSSf-Sold by druggists, 75c.

F law  Carls

WE  ARE  HEADQUARTERS

SEND FOR PRICE LIST.

Daniel  Lyneii,

19  S.  Ionia St., Grand  Rapids.

IRTE,  KRAOSE  4  CO.,

JOBBERS  OF

a

6HA8.  A.  GOYE,

MANUFACTURER OF

Horse and Wagon Covers,
Hammocks and Cotton  Dilcks

JOBBERS OF

SEND FOR PRICE  LIST.

11  Pearl  81.,  Grand  Rapida,  flieh.
SCHLOSS,  ADLER  4  GO..
Faits, Shirts, Overalls

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF

-AND-

BEMOVED  TO

2 3 - 2 8   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.

HESTER  MACHINERY  CO.,

AGENTS  FOR

Plain  Slide Valve  Engines w ith'T hrottling 
Automatic Balanced Single Valve  Engines. 

Governors.

Horizontal, Tubular and Locomotive

BOILERS.

Upright  Engines  and  Boilers  for  Light 

Power.

Prices on application.

45 S. Division St., 

Grand Rapids
Geo. H.  Reeder & Go.,
BOOTS  & SHOES
Felt Boots and Alaska  Socks.

JOBBERS  OF

State Agents for

C h il d r e n’s  S hoes
Leather and Shoe Store Supplies.

13-14  LYON  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

I R 7 E  are on top, In the  way of  Boys’ Express 
v  v  Wagons.  They are daisies—the  finest in 
the market—and  the prices  are within the reach 
of  everybody.  Don’t  fail to get  our  catalogue 
and  prices  before you  buy.  Prompt  attention 
given to all  communications.

Benton  Mannfactnrim  Co.,

Manufacturers of

Boy’s  Carts,  Express  Wagons, 

Children’s  Sleighs, Etc.

POTTERVILLE,  MICHIGAN.

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AMONO  THE  TRADE.

ABOUND THE  STATE.

Iron wood—Stone  &  Eaton  succeed W. 

Stone in the meat business.

Detroit—Thos.  Davey  succeeds  Edwin 

Davey in the meat business.

Ewen—J.  H.  Scott  succeeds  Scott  & 

Mack in the hardware business.

Benton Harbor—Herr Bros,  succeed E. 

H. Foster in the grocery business.

Flint — Wood  &  Atwood,  hardware 

dealers,  are going out of business.

Mt.  rieasant—W.  W.  Cox  succeeds 

Cox A Peake in the drug  business.

Fremont—Wm.  Boone  will  shortly re­

sume the retail furniture business.

Bessemer—M.  A.  Mittenthal,  clothing 

dealer,  has removed to Goshen,  Ind.

Matchwood—The  F.  J.  Hargrave Co., 

general dealer,  has moved to Ewen.

Three  Rivers—O.  T.  Avery  succeeds 

C.  H.  Creighton  in the meat  business.

Cheboygan—L. J.  McLeod  &  Co.  suc­
ceed  Frank  E. Caswell  in  the  clothing 
business.

Vassar—F.  L.  Wittenbrook,  proprietor 
of  the 99 cent  store,  is removing to  Nor­
walk, Ohio.

Muskegon—Andrew  Wierengo  has fit­
ted up a handsome office in his wholesale 
grocery  house.

Cass  City—James  McArthur  succeeds 
James McArthur  A  Co.  in the  dry  goods 
and grocery business.

Ishpeming — Andrew  Conradson  suc­
ceeds Hansen & Conradson in the grocery 
and furnishing goods business.

Laingsburg—Whitney  &  Bailey  have 
nearly completed their cold storage build­
ing. 

It is of brick,  three  stories high.

Jackson—Cowley  &  Davis  succeed T. 
Cowley &  Co.  in the boot  and  shoe busi­
ness.  They  also  succeed  H. J.  Davis & 
Co. in the same  business.

Manistee—The new  Canfield A Wheel­
er combination salt and oil  well  is down 
about  1,200  feet,  and going  China-ward 
at the rate of 10 feet daily.

Yermontville—Fred  Benedict,  one  of 
Vermontville’s  enterprising  young  busi­
ness  men,  has  gone to Chicago  to  look 
over a good  offer  he  has  had  to go  into 
the grocery  business.

Detroit—Webb, Standish & Co., whole­
sale meat dealers,  have  filed  articles  of 
association.  The capital stock is $50,000. 
R.  S.  A A.  Webb and Charles D. Standish 
are the stockholders.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Pinconning—Estey  &  Calkins  succeed 
Estey,  Calkins A Co.  in  the  sawmill  and 
lumber business.

West  Branch—French & Co.  have  cut 
out all the stock on  hand and  shut down 
their sawmill  for the present.

Au  Sable—The  H.  M.  Loud  A  Sons 
Lumber  Co.  is  supplying  1,500  Norway 
poles for the Fort  street railway  line, of 
Detroit

Cheboygan—The  Cheboygon  Lumber 
Co.  has  contracted to  saw  2,000,000 feet 
of  logs  for  Sailing,  Hanson  A  Co.,  of | 
Grayling.

Escanaba—The  Metropolitan  Lumber 
Co.  recently  effected  the  sale  through 
Saginaw  parties,  of  18,000,000  feet  of 
lumber to go east.

West Branch—Bartholomew Bros, have 
purchased a small  saw and  shingle  mill 
at Deep River  and are  removing  it to  a 
point near this place.

Cadillac—Elbert  J.  Haynes  and  Chas. 
E.  Haynes  succeed  the  old-established

plauing  mill  firm  of  James  Haynes  A 
Sons under the style of  Haynes  Bros.

Mt.  Pleasant—T. J.  Barber  has  rented 
the building  formerly  occupied  by J. R. 
Gavin  and  will  start  a harness  factory 
August 1, employing  about a dozen men.
Saginaw—Contracts  have  been signed 
for  the  transfer  from St.  Louis  to Sag­
inaw,  of  the  Palmerton  Wooden  Ware 
Co., a concern which manufactures pails, 
tubs, etc., consuming  large quantities of 
pine and  basswood  timber. 
It  will  em­
ploy 150 hands.

Gaylord—George  Fiege,  who  built  a 
saw and hoop mill at this  place last win­
ter.  is manufacturing hard  and soft lum­
ber and 35.000 hoops  daily.  He  reports 
the  hoop  market  a little  slow,  as he is 
just  working  up  a  trade  and  has  not 
fairly  got  into  the  harness.  His  elm 
hoop logs cost him $6 to $6.50 at the mill, 
which makes elm  timber  good  property 
for the settlers in this  vicinity.

Might  Have  Been  a  Mammoth  Mon­

opoly.

In this modern day of trusts,  monopo­
lies, syndicates  and  combinations,  it  is 
not  generally  known  that  about  forty 
years ago a scheme  was  planned  which, 
had it gone through,  would have  created 
one of the biggest monopolies the country 
ever  knew,  even  surpassing,  in  extent 
and wealth,the Western Union Telegraph 
Company or the  Standard  Oil  Company. 
The  scheme  was  nothing  less  than  to 
secure the control of all the  timber  land 
in Western Michigan,  from  Grand  River 
North to the Straits of Mackinaw,  and  it 
would have been accomplished if the capi­
talists who were invited to accept ground 
floor positions had  had  the nerve  to  put 
up the money necessary.

Hon.  Thomas D. Gilbert,  of  this  city, 
and his brother, the late Francis  B.  Gil­
bert, planned the deal. 
It  was  in  1850, 
soon after the close of the  Mexican  war. 
The soldiers received  land warrants from 
the goverument  in  recognition  of  their 
services,  and  the  country  was  flooded 
with them.  The warrants called for  160 
acres of government land each,  and were 
so  plentiful  that  any  number  of  them 
could have been picked up at  prices run­
ning as low as  $100.  The scheme was to 
buy up all the land warrants  obtainable, 
and on them locate pine  lands  tributary 
to the rivers flowing  into  Lake Michigan 
—the Grand,  Muskegon, Manistee, White 
and  the  streams  further  North  to  the 
Straits. 
It  was  estimated  that  $2,000,-
000 or $3,000,000  at  the  most  would  be 
sufficient to  carry  the  project  through, 
and place in the hands of the corporation 
or syndicate organized  for  the  purpose, 
the virtual control  of  the  entire  timber 
resources of Western Michigan. 
If  such 
a  plan  were 
to  be  proposed  to-day, 
it can easily be imagined how quickly the 
necessary funds  would  be  forthcoming. 
But  in  1850  it  was  different.  Ten  or 
twelve years before that there  had  been 
a wild speculation in Western lands  and 
town sites,  and  the  Eastern  capitalists 
had lost heavily.

and  they invited  Eastern  capitalists  to 

The  Gilberts  did  not  have  the  neces­
sary funds to swing the deal  themselves,
1 
join them in the immense project.  They 
presented  facts and  figures,  showing the 
lumber resources of  the  territory which 
could  be  picked  up  at less  than  $1  an 
acre.  They  told  of  the  immense  pine
I forests  offered,  to  put  in all  the  money 
they themselves  could  raise and guaran­
teed that the capitalists would receive  at

'I'HK  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E SM A N .

least 10 per cent,  interest a year on their 
investment,  but  they applied  for  money 
in  vain.  The  Eastern  capitalists  were 
too  cautious and  allowed  the golden  op­
portunity to slip  by,  and it was  the only 
opportunity  that  was  ever  offered.  A 
few  years  later the  money could  easily 
have been  obtained, but  it was  then too 
late.  The  government  had  given  the 
Graud Rapids A Indiana Railroad a grant 
of  1,000,000  acres of  land to aid  in  the 
construction of  the  road,  500,000  to  aid 
the “Soo” canal,  and another large grant 
to the  Flint A Pere  Marquette  Railroad, 
besides  giving the  State  immense tracts 
of  swamp  lands to aid internal improve­
ments.  With these grants valuable pine 
and  hardwood  lands  were  located,  and 
about that  time  the mill  owners and op­
erators,  the  Blodgetts,  Hackleys,  Tor­
rents  and  Wards awoke  to  the necessity 
of buying early and often.  The Mexican 
land  grants  were  picked  up  by  many 
purchasers  instead  of  by  one  gigantic 
corporation,  and  the  land  found  many 
owners instead of one.

Thos.  D. Gilbert,  the originator of  the 
scheme forty years ago, is still an honored 
resident of  this  city,  and  he  remembers 
his  early plan to gain  great  wealth,  but 
rejoices  as a patriotic  citizen  that it did 
not work, 
it would  have made  him and 
those whom  he  invited  to  come  in  im­
mensely  wealthy,  but  it  would  have 
retarded by  many  years the  growth  and 
development of  Western Michigan.  Had 
his scheme gone through,  instead of hun­
dreds  of  operators  building  mills  and 
starting towns  in  this part of  the ¡State, 
all the land and  timber would have been 
owued and controlled by  a single corpor­
ation  and  this  corporation  would  have 
practically controlled the lumber  matket 
of  the  country. 
Instead  of  a  hundred 
fortunes being made in pine, there would 
have been but  one,  that of  the  corpora­
tion,  and this corporation would have ex­
ercised a despotic  sway  over  prices and 
output.  The  result of  the combine  can 
more easily be  imagined than described, 
and, as it  failed,  it  will  have  to  be im­
agined  anyway.

The Hardware Market.

Wages—As a large number of the lead­
ing  bar  and  sheet  iron  makers  have 
signed  the  wage  scale  for  the  coming 
year,  we do  not  look for any scarcity  of 
goods.

Bar Iron—In many cases, owing  to the 
closing down of  a number of mills, high­
er prices are prevailing for well-assorted 
orders.  This firming of prices cannot be 
maintained when business is  resumed.

Wire Nails—At  this  writing  no  wire 
nail mills  are  in operation, having tem- 
porarally closed  down  for repairs.  The 
result is a  scarcity  of  nails  and  higher 
prices are being asked by those who have 
stocks in hand.  This  shortage  will  not 
last long,  as all the mills  will soon be  in 
operation,  when  nails  will  again  be 
plenty.

Cut Nails—No change to  note.
Window  Glass—The  market  still  re­
mains  stationary.  The  demand  during 
the past week has not been heavy.

Screws—While  no  change  has  been 
the 
made  in  the  published  discount, 
prices established  by  the manufacturers 
are  being  shaded.  Liberal  buyers  can 
obtain  from 5 to 10 per  cent,  better  dis­
counts by asking  tor them.

Shot—Still firm at the last advance and 

there is some talk of  another  advance.

Pig Lead—Is  not firm,  but  very  little 

is  moving.

Lead  Pipe—The  recent  advance  is 
firmly  held.  Jobbers  are getting  5 ^   to 
5%c per pound in  full coils.

Copper—No  change  to note,  although 

prices are not very firm.

Apple Pearers—The time  is soon com­
ing when these goods will begin to move. 
The prospects of a very small crop of ap­
ples  will,  no  doubt,  tend  to  decrease 
sales on them.

Stoves—New catalogues  are beginning 
to  be  sent out  by  the  different  makers 
and,  while  nearly  all  are  getting  out 
some new patterns,  the  prices will range 
about the same as last year.

Agricultural  Tools—Such  as  cradles, 
scythes, snaths and  forks are all in  such 
great  demand,  owing  to  the  immense 
crops,  that  it is very  hard  to find a  full 
assortment anywhere.  The manufactur­
ers  of  all  these  lines  are working over 
time to keep up with orders and still find 
it impossible.  We do not  anticipate this 
shortage will  make  any  advance in  the 
goods, as the dealers  seem determined to 
hold the prices  down  during the  season 
as they began.

Shelf Hardware—As usual this time of 
the year, trade is quiet  and  shelf  goods 
are  moving  but  little, except  in  build­
ers’ hardware,  and  the  demand  for  that 
keeps pretty regular.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  market  is  strong  and the 
demand is heavy.  Why  the  refiners  do 
not  advance  prices  is  a  matter of  con­
jecture among the  wholesale trade.

Canned  Goods—Corn  continues strong 
and scarce.  Blackberries and pie peach­
es are  both a little  stronger  and higher.
Cheese—The market is fully Xc higher 
than a week ago and the tendency is still 
upward.

Green Peas—Advanced 30c per bu.
Jelly — The  manufacturers  have  ad­

vanced their prices about  10 per cent.

in  completely 

Pickles — Fully  50c  per  bbl.  higher 
than a  week  ago,  as  packers  have  suc­
ceeded 
conceutrating 
stocks.  The acreage this season is much 
below the average,  giving ground for the 
belief that pickles  will continue high un- 
I til the crop of 1893 is in the market.
Prunes — Californias  are  about 

higher.

Scaled Herring—Lower.
Yeast  Foam — The  price  will  be  re­
duced on the  20th  from  $1.08  to  $1 per 
box.

Oranges—Unchanged.
Lemons—Without  particular  change.
fair 
Bananas—In  good  demand  and 
supply.  The  quality is generally  good.
Nuts—A sharp advance has taken place 
in  New  York,  amounting  to  2 ^ c  on 
Brazils,  l%c  on  Almonds  and  4%c  on 
Walnuts.  The market is  excited,  owing 
to the heavy demand.

Country  Callers.

Calls  have  been 

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

A. Cohen, White  Cloud.
F.  L.  Convis, Bancroft.
A. C. Barkley, Crosby.
Snell A Whitney, Bradley.
Jas.  McConnell, Jennings.

Southern  Peaches  in  Market.

Large and handsome  yellow  Crawford 
peaches from Georgia are now in market, 
commanding $3.50 per  crate  of  six  bas­
kets.

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5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

A.  M.  Stover has closed out his grocery 
stock at  168  Fourth  street  and  retired 
from business.

C. C.  Terwilliger has opened a grocery 
store at Ensley.  The Ball-Barnhart-Put- 
man Go.  furnished the stock.

A.  Engberts  has  removed  his grocery 
stock from Zeeland to Grand  Rapids, lo­
cating  at the  corner  of  Hall  street  and 
Terrace avenue.

Thos. Reating has  sold a half  interest 
in his  grocery  stock  at  239 East  Bridge 
street  to  Wm.  Eillean.  The  new  firm 
will be known as Keating &  Eillean.

The  assignee of  the  Fidelity Savings, 
Loan  and  Security  Association,  which 
was  compelled  to go  into  liquidation as 
the  result of  the  peculations  its Secre­
tary, announces  himself  ready  to  make 
a distribution of  the  funds  in his  hands 
and  Judge  Adsit  has  set  the  time  for 
final  hearing  for  August  1  at 2 o’clock. 
The assignee puts in a claim  for $550 for 
personal  services,  figured at the  rate  of 
$10  per  day,  besides  $150  expended  for 
legal  services  and  $57 for  traveling  ex­
penses. 
The  claim  appears  to  The 
T radesm an  to  be a most  unreasonable 
one, considering the  amount of  property 
at stake and the time apparently required 
to wind up the  business,  and  any of  the 
creditors who  feel  disposed  to  object to 
the allowance of so large a sum would do 
well to be  present  in  court, either  per­
sonally or by representative, on the  date 
above mentioned.

Gripsack Brigade.

William Connor the  versatile  clothing 
salesman,  will  keep  open  house  to  his 
friends at  Sweet’s Hotel  July 28 and 29.
H. S. Powell,  who has represented  the 
I.  M.  Clark  Grocery  Co.  in the  Upper 
Peninsula for several years,  has  severed 
his connection with that house.

O.  Levy, who  has  represented  Gorton 
& Praet on  the  road  for  the  past  year, 
has taken the  position of house salesman 
in the store of his father,  Morris Levy.

E.  O.  Phillips  has  returned  from the 
Upper Peninsula  and  Northern Wiscon­
sin  and  Minnesota, where  he  spent  six 
weeks in  the interest of  W. F.  &  W.  M. 
Wurzburg.

L. C.  Langdon,  traveling salesman  for 
Drew,  Selby & Co.,  was  married  at  Pa- 
toka,  lnd., July 14, the bride  being  Miss 
Ora Watson of that place.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Langdon will reside in Kalamazoo.

R.  B.  Orr,  who  has  represented  the 
Thompson  &  Taylor  Spice  Co.  in  this 
territory  for  the  past  six  months,  has 
ceased traveling for that  house  and  an­
nounces his  intention  of  takiug up  his 
residence in Tennessee.

Cornelius Crawford  suffered so severe­
ly from  the  rheumatism  last  week that 
he  abandoned his  road  work  for a time 
and hied  himself  away to  Mt. Clemens, 
where he is  taking  baths  and  knocking 
out  Old  Rheum  in  double  quick  time. 
His route is being  covered  in  the mean­
time by J.  H. Hagy.

J. C.  Watson  entered  the  employ  of 
Chas.  S.  Yale  &  Bro.—the  predecessors 
of the present house  of  Daniel  Lynch— 
fourteen years ago  and has  not  taken  a 
vacation for a full decade.  He has sworn 
off on working forever,  however,  and  Is 
spending  the  present  week  with  his 
family here,  taking in the  parks and  re­
sorts in this vicinity.

Geo.  T.  Smith,  Western  Michigan  re

presentative  for  P.  Lori Hard & Co.,  has 
gone  to  Collingwood,  Out.,  to  spend  a 
couple of  weeks  with  his  mother.  He 
has fully  recovered from his recent rail­
way accident, although  the  back  of  his 
head is still  somewhat sore.  He had two 
accident  insurance policies—one  in 
the 
Star and the other in the  Preferred.  The 
latter  company  has not  yet  been heard 
from,  but the former sent a check for $75 
the  same  day the  proofs of  claim were 
received.

Jas.  N. Bradford  writes T h e T r a d e s­
m an as follows:  “I  have  endeavored  to 
do my  best  to  execute  the  commission 
issued me by  the  Great  Grand Pedro  of 
the United Sons of Pedro and Poker; but 
find, while canvassing the Northern coun­
try,  that  the  members  inclined  to  join 
such an organization  are  very  reluctant 
to  embrace  the  opportunity  I  offered 
them for so  doing.  After  asking  me to 
deal the cards,  they  say  my  inability  to 
stack the cards and deal  from the bottom, 
without being detected with ease,  totally 
unfits  me  for  the  prominent  trust  im­
posed in me;  furthermore,  they  say  that 
they  want an expert  and a man of  large 
experience  to instruct  them  in the mys­
teries of 5 cent ante and think no one less 
than Dave Haugh or  Charlie Brooks will 
fill the  bill.”

P u re ly  P erso n al.

Edward Frick is confined to his bed by

reason of  one of Job’s  comforters.

O.  A. Ball  returned from White  Birch 
Point Sunday and  returns  again  to-day.
F.  L. Convis,  dealer  in  groceries  and 
notions at Bancroft, was in town  several 
days last week, 
the  quest  of  Ezra  O. 
i Phillips.

C. E.  Udell, the  extensive  cheese job­
ber of St.  Louis,  was in town a couple of 
days last week, the guest of  his  brother, 
C. S. Udell.

Frank A.  Stone has  purchased acreage 
on West street,  between Fourth and Sev­
enth streets, and  has  platted  same  into 
sixty-one lots as  the  “F. A.  Stone Addi­
tion.”

Wm.  H.  Van  Leeuwen,  the  Cherry 
street  druggist,  has  purchased  the  El­
liott E. Judd homestead  at 397  Fountain 
street and will  fit  the  same  up  for  his 
own residence.  The lot is 73x365 feet in
dimensions.  The  purchase  price  was 
$5,900v

John  Lynch,  once  a 

lumberman  of 
Muskegon,  now a resident of Grand Rap­
ids, is about  going  to  California,  where 
he  has  an  interest  in  the  Kings  River 
Lumber  Co.,  with  P.  A.  Ducey,  of De­
troit.  The  operations  of  the  company 
are in  Tulare  county.  Mr.  Lynch  will 
devote his  entire  attention  to  the busi­
ness.  The  company  has  been  long  es­
tablished,  and  operates  in 
redwood, 
sugar pine and yellow pine.  The stump- 
age owned by  the  company  is estimated 
at  2,000,000,000  feet.  Connected  with 
the plant is a log flume 50 miles long, and 
costing  $200,000.

Change in Firm Name.
Grand Rapids, Mich., July 1,1892.

We  take  pleasure in announcing  to  our  cus­
tomers  and  the  trade in general  that  we  have 
admitted  Mr  A. B. Hiith, who  has  been in our 
employ in the capacity of traveling salesman for 
the  past  eight  years, and  Mr. E. T. Hlrth, who 
has been In our Employ a similar length of time, 
as  copartners.  The  style  of  the  firm  shall  be 
known hereafter as

BIRTH ,  KRAUSE  & CO.

Thanking the trade for their  liberal patronage 
bestowed on us the  past nine years  ana trusting 
that the same  will  be  extended to the new firm, 
we are. 
’ 

HIRTH  &  KRAUSE,

Respectfully yours,

H O  YOU  USE  TAGS?

W e quote the  following  prices  on  No. 4 Tags, delivered to any  Express Office 
or Jobbing House in the City :

P R I C E S  :

One Thousand, 
Two Thousand, 
Five  Thousand, 

-

$1.50
8.50
4.50

We carry all other sizes of Tags and  can fill orders 

on short notice.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

“ Hot  How  Cheap,  but  How  Good.,9*

“Blue Label” Ketchup

SOLD  ONLY  IN  BOTTLES,

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

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

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

PREPA RED   AND  GUARANTEED  BY

CURTICE  BROTHERS  CO.,

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

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

Distributing  Agents.

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T H E   M IO H IG A U   TEADESM AJN.
Dry Goods Price Current.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

HALT  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

THE  EASY-GOING  STORE.

Do Not  A chieve S uccess.

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Such  a  suggestion, 

P ro p rie to rs W ho A re Good  F ellow s b u t 

The proprietor is always a good fellow, I nice  _ 

Adriatic.................  7
Argyle  ..................   6
Atlanta A A............ 6
Atlantic  A................6%
H................634
P .............  5H
D..............6
LL..............5

Amory....................   634
Archery Bunting...  40 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  53* 
Blackstone O, 38—   5
Black Crow............ 6
Black  Rock  ...........6
Boot, AL...............   7
Capital  A ............... 514
Cavanat V..............514
Chapman cheese cl.  334
Clifton C R ............ 5*
Comet..................... 614
Dwight Star.
Clifton CCC

Arrow Brand  5*4 
World Wide..  6*
LL............... 4X
Full Yard Wide...... 614
Georgia  A..............614
Honest Width......... 614
Hartford A  ............ 5
Indian Head...........  7
King A  A................614
King EC.................5
Lawrence  L L ........  514
Madras cheese cloth 634
Newmarket  G........  534
B  .......5
N ........614
DD....  5Ü
X ....... 634
Nolbe R..................  5
Our Level  Best...... 614
.Oxford  R............... 6
634jPequot....................  7
634 Solar.......................  614

¡Top of the  Heap
Geo. Washington...  8
A B C ........................814
Glen Mills.............   7
Amazon.................. 8
Gold Medal............ 714
Amsburg.................7
Green  Ticket......... 814
Art  Cambric...........10
Great Falls.............   6*4
Blackstone A A......714
Hope....................... 714
Beats All.................. 414
Just  Out......   434®  8
Boston....................12
King  Phillip...........734
Cabot...................... 7
OP......714
Cabot,  X.................634
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Charter  Oak...........514
Lonsdale............  & 814
Conway W— ..........714
Middlesex.........   @ 5
Cleveland.............. 7
Dwight Anchor...... 814
No Name................   714
Oak View...............   6
shorts.  8
Our Own................   514
Edwards................. 6
Pride of the West.. .12
Empire...................   7
Rosalind.................714
Farwell.....................714
Sunlight..................  414
Fruit of the Loom.  814
Utica  Mills.............814
Fitchville  .............7
“  Nonpareil  ..10
First Prize..............7
Vinyard..................  814
Fruit of the Loom X-  714
Whit« Horse...........  6
Falrmount..............414
“  Rock.............834
Full Value..............634
Cabot...................... 7  I Dwight Anchor........ 814
Farwell...................8 
...  534 Middlesex No.  1...
TremontN........
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Hamilton N......
...  634
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...  7
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...  8
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...  9
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No. 25 ...  9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

wishes he  could find some way of reduc­
ing stock or selling out,  so that he might 
try again in  some other  town  better (?) 
adapted for business.
Poor Easy!  With all  his  good  nature, 
From the D ry Goods Economist.
he is secretly  carrying a burden of  wor­
Did you ever  think of  it—the easy-go­
rying distress,  and  the  way  is  growing 
ing  store?  Well, it’s  a  fact;  there  are 
dark before him.
easy-going  stores,  and  they  are  in  the 
What do we  find  in  Mr. Easy’s  store? 
majority, too,  in  every  city,  town  and 
Well,  we find that  his  help are all good, 
village in the  Union.
polite  fellows;  perfectly  candid,
and his wife is just as nice as can be, and i well-bred  and  gentlemanly, plainly  be 
if he has  children,  why,  of  course,  they  lieving,  as  Mr.  Easy does, that “ window 
take  after  their  father  and  mother;  so  dressing,”  “department  dressing”  and 
the whole combination is of  the most de-  ticket  writing  are  all  accomplishments 
sirable  order. 
requiring  special  natural  gifts.  So  we
He never puts on airs;  he is purely and  find goods hung  up  on lines and against 
thoroughly  American, his  employes  are  the wall and in the windows in a manner 
his equals.  For him to assume a manner  that is a  cross  between  what  would  be 
of distance,  reserve or dictatorship, even  expected from a washwoman and a young 
in his  own store,  would  be, to his mind, 
lady with embryonic and chaotic ideas of 
an  outrage  against  the  native,  inborn  home  decoration.  There  is  nothing  in 
principle of  American  freedom  and cit-  these displays  attractive to us or  anyone 
else.
izenship—equality and the rights of man.
As to ticket writing,  possibly  someone 
So he is  always on  good  terms  with  all
in  the  store  has  an 
leaning 
his  help.  So  life  goes  along  smoothly 
toward what is called  drawing.  He pro­
and pleasantly in the  “easy-going store” 
duces tender little things  that  favorably 
—to the employes.
impress  some  young  lady  friends, who 
But the  business  is not  increasing;  in 
come in and admire them very  much and 
fact, sometimes  you  can  catch a look  in 
wonder how he  can  do such nice  things.
Mr.  Easy’s eye indicating  that  there is a 
Still,  we  find  Mr.  Easy  wondering  why 
sore  spot  somewhere;  possibly  in  the 
that  stock  does  not  reduce  itself  and 
money  department,  a leakage  or a tying 
why that harrassing condition persists in 
up,  or,  well—something  that  we  can’t 
existing between his "bills payable”  and 
just get at;  but  then, he  is a fine  fellow 
his “bank account”
and  we must not damage his  business by 
While he is rubbing  the  wrinkles into 
incautiously  saying  to  a  friend,  “Easy 
his  brow  in  his  little  office we find  his 
looks worried;  do  you  think  things are 
men  sitting  idly  round  the store.  The 
going against him?” 
stock shown to  Mrs. Smith  is  still  lying 
from 
about, just as Mr. Jones  left it—mussed, 
friend 
to  friend,  would  soon  be  so 
tangled, and looking fearfully like a mess 
changed  that  it  would be a common  ru­
of  stuff from  a  second-hand  junk store.
mor that  poor Easy’s  finances  were in  a 
There  is  a tradition  somewhere  in  the 
bad  condition;  then  the  best  houses  in 
air that confusion  indicates  business,  so 
trade would  begin to draw  in their lines 
confusion goes on,  growing  rapidly,  un­
of  credit,  and  soon  Easy  would  be  in 
til no man knows  the  stock  and  no man 
bankruptcy, or fighting out a long,  hope­
feels responsible for  it.  Mr.  Easy is the 
less,  slow  fight  against  misfortune;  so 
buyer and owner,  so  it  is  all  right,  and 
we must be careful  what we say.
that is why  we  find  in  “the  easy-going 
Good nature is all right, but unlicensed 
store” so much  stock  going  to waste  by 
good nature does not pay;  it produces the 
bad management.  The  amount of  stuff 
“easy-going  store.”  When  you  go into 
that is jammed up, spoiled and absolutely 
an easy-going  store,  really,  you  are  not 
ruined in an  “easy-going store” is appall­
expected to buy.  The proprietor and his 
ing to anyone  with  the  slightest idea  of 
clerks would feel  absolutely  hurt if  you 
what proper handling of stock means.
insinuated that they were  trying to force 
No  doubt  Mrs.  Smith came  in  to buy, 
a sale upon you.  No, they  want  you  to 
and may  have seen  just what  she  want­
feel quite at home in  their  store.  Come 
ed,  but she  wanted it nice  and neat  and 
in as  often  as  you  can  and  look  round 
fresh;  possibly she  wanted a new  dress, 
and price the goods.  Some  day you will 
and  would  not  buy a thing  that  would 
see just what  you  want,  and  then  they 
need hours  at  home to  fuss  and  bother 
will  be glad to sell, when you have found 
over to make it look new.
the article  you  want to  buy.  They  are 
We  saw a Mr.  Easy  one  day  putting 
so used to people not buying that it  is no 
new  counters  in  his  store.  They  had 
surprise to them when you walk out,  and 
glass  fronts, and  we  asked  him,  “Why 
they open the door and pleasantly  say to 
do you have glass fronts?”  He  replied,
you,  “Call again.”
“To  show  nice  novelties.”  Now,  in  a 
It is not at all uncommon in Mr.  Easy’s 
large  city  such a thing  might  do  well; 
store  for  some of  the  men  to  go to his 
but in a provincial town—why, in a month 
little  office  and  refer  some  question to 
every  novelty  in  his  store,  so  exposed, 
him that has been under discussion at the 
would be old.  We can easily fancy Mrs.
counter;  anything,  from baseball to poli­
Smith saying,  “Yes,  Mr.  Easy,  it is very 
tics, or from religious to serious business 
nice;  but, you know,  it is  not new.  Ev­
matters,  such  as  whether  “antique” 
erybody in town  has already seen it. 
If 
should be spelled  with a “k” or not.
my daughter  wore it to the  party every­
Mr.  Easy often sits at  the counter  and 
body would say,  ‘ Oh, look  at Miss Smith 
indulges in pleasant, sociable chats with 
with that  old novelty  from Easy’s !’  No, 
his young men,  his idea  being  that they 
it won’t  do;  1 want  you to write to New 
will thus see that he is a good fellow and, 
York and get me  something new.”
of  course,  do  all  they  can  for  him in 
An old  saying  has it  that  “The good- 
pushing business;  and  that  if  he enjoys 
natured man is the beggar’s brother.”  It 
the good will of  his clerks, business will 
is  worth  Mr. Easy’s  attention  to  think 
show better  results.
about.  He need not be a fool, nor an ass, 
Mrs. Smith  comes  in  and  Mr.  Jones 
nor a hog;  all he wants to do is to realize 
waits upon  her  with  the  utmost  atten­
that he  opens  his  store  in the morning 
tion,  patience  and  good  will;  talks 
and keeps it open all day purely  for bus­
church,  Sunday school  and  the 
latest 
iness;  that he  hires  his  help  purely  for 
social gossip of the town,  but fails to sell 
business,  and  that  he  must  have atten­
her anything.  Mr.  Easy does not ask Mr. 
tion to business in business  hours.
Jones  what  Mrs.  Smith  wanted—that 
Let him select his  best man and spend 
would  be  questioning  Mr. Jones’  sales­
an evening with him  in his  little  office; 
manship;  he goes into his little office and 
show him the record  of  last  year’s  sales 
looks again at his “ bills  payable”  and at 
for the  month  corresponding  to the ap­
his “ bank  account,” and  wonders  what 
proaching month;  impress  upon him the 
he must do to turn  some of  his stock in­
absolute  fact  that  that  record must  be 
to money, even  only a little,  and  he sits 
beaten;  show  him that the store has  de­
and  thinks.
generated  until  it  has  now  become  a 
Mrs.  Easy and the children are passing, 
cross  between  home  life  and  an infant 
and they  come in,  and  for an  hour or so 
debating society or  social  club, and that 
pleasant  little  Mrs. Easy  makes  a  nice 
a change must be  made.
visit among the  young lady saleswomen; 
Then,  let Mr.  Easy take a vacation, not
an  air of  brightness  and  cheerfulness is 
to New York for  more  goods,  but to the I 
^ I no Name................
diffused  oyer  the  whole  place,  and  the 
towns similar to his.own that have smart, | ciifton, K............. 6j*|Topof Heap...........9
happy  (?)  Mr.  Easy goes home to  dinner 
clean,  aggressive,  progressive stores;  let 
SATINES.
for about two hours or so;  but that night, 
him study  their  methods, their  manners 
when  figuring  up  his  sales,  he 
looks 
and their styles;  it  is the  education that 
again  at  the “bills  payable” and at  the 
he requires.
footing  of  his  “ bank  account”  and

robes...........  534 Clyde Robes
pink * purple 634
buffs...........  6
pink  checks.  534
staples........534
shirtings ...  4 
American  fancy—   534 
American indigo—   534 
American shirtings.  4 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
....  634
Arnold 
Arnold  Merino-----6
long cloth B. 1034 
“ 
“  C.  834
“ 
century cloth 7
“ 
“  gold seal......1034
“  green seal TR1034 
“  yellow seal.. 1034
“ 
serge............ 1134
“  Turkey red.. 1034 
Ballou solid black..  5
“ 
"  colors.  534
Bengal blue,  green
red and  orange ..  534
Berlin solids........ ..  534
“  oil bine.... -.  634
••  green .. -  634
•• 
“  Foulards .. ..  534
7
red %........
“ 
“  X  ...  .•  934
“ 
“ 44  .... .10
“ 
“  3-4XXXX 12
“ 
Cocheco fancy........6
madders.
XX twills..  634 
solids........534
Amoskeag AC A ....1234
Hamilton N ............   734
D............ 834
Awning.. 11
Farmer....................8
First Prize............. 1134
Lenox M ills.......... 18
Atlanta,  D..............  6341Stark  A

534
Charter Oak fancies 434 
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
mourn’g  6 
Eddy stone fancy...  534 
chocolat  534 
rober—   534 
sateens..  534 
Hamilton fancy.  *...  534 
staple....  534 
Manchester fancy..  534 
new era.  534 
Merrimack D fancy.  534 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  434 
Repp fura .  834
Pacific fancy..........534
robes............634
Portsmouth robes...  534 
Simpson mourning..  534
greys........534
solid black.  534 
Washington indigo.  534 
“  Turkey robes..  734
"  India robes___ 734
“  plain Tky X %  834 
« 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red................   6
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 34........734
Martha Washington
Turkeyred..........   934
Rlverpolntrobes....  5
Windsor fancy........  634
indigo  Dine..........1034
Harmony...................434
AC A......................1234
Pemberton AAA— 16
York.......................1034
Swift River............  734
Pfearl  River............12
Warren...................13

.  .20
__16
...............
....18
f’nfaline  ..........
. .69 5GWonderful...........
...  9 00 Brighton...............
Davis  Waists  .. ..  900 Bortree’s ..............
Grand  Rapids.. ...  4M Abdominal...........
CORSET  JEANS.
Armory............ ....  6* N aumkeag satteen.
.... 7*4 Rockport...............
Androscoggin..
Biddeford......... ....  6 Conestoga............
Brunswick....... ....  834 Walworth.............
Allen turkey  reds..  5341 Berwick fancies 

...  734 Middlesex A A......
Hamilton N ......
2......
Middlesex P T .. ...  8
A O ......
...  9
A T ..
4......
...  9
X A ..
5......
X F ..
...1034
CARPE! WARP.
Peerless, white.. _17141 Integrity  colored..
colored ...19341 White Star............
“  colored.
Integrity...........
Hamilton  ......... ....  8 Nameless...............

Imperial..................1034
Black................9® 934
“  BC...........  @10
A A A ..................  12

Simpson.................. 20
.................18
.................16

u
H
(C
« 
CORSETS.

1 Coechco..................1034

.  ..1834
DRESS GOODS.

.12
1314
.1714
.16
.20

COTTON  DRILL.

gold  ticket

271430
3214

TICKINGS.

PRINTS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

6

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

•» 

“ 

“ 

10U

“ 
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“ 

“ 

» 

“ 

DEMINS.

“ 
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Amoskeag..............1234
9oz...... 1334
brown .18
Andover.................1134
Beaver Creek A A... 10 
BB...  9
CC..-. 
Boston Mfg Co.  hr..  7 

« 
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“ 
blue  834 
“  d a  twist  1034 

Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl .19

“ 
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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12
brown........12
Haymaker blue........ 734
brown...  734
Jeffrey.....................1134
Lancaster  ...............1234
awrence, 9 os........1334
No. 220....13
No. 250....1134
No. 280.... 1034

“ 
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OINOHAMS.

“ 

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

“  Persian dress 834 
Canton ..  834
“ 
AFC........1034
“ 
Teazle.. .1034 
“ 
“ 
Angola.. 1034 
“ 
Persian..  834 
Arlington staple—   634 
Arasapha  fancy—   434 
Bates Warwick dres  834 
staples.  634
Centennial............   1034
Criterion...............1034
Cumberland staple.  534
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................434
Elfin.......................   734
Everett classics......834
Exposition............... 734
Glenarie.................  634
Glenarven..............   634
Glenwood.................734
Hampton...................634
Johnson Chalon cl 
34 
indigo blue 934 
zephyrs— 16

“ 
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Lancaster,  staple...  7 
fancies ....  7 
Normandie  8
Lancashire............... 634
Manchester.............  534
Monogram..............  634
Normandie............... 734
Persian..................... 834
Renfrew Dress........734
Rosemont................. 634
Slaters vllle.............. 6
Somerset.................   7
Tacoma  ................... 734
Toil  duNord......... 1034
Wabash...................  734
seersucker..  734
Warwick....  ........  834
Whittenden............ 634
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook..............8
.........................10
Windermeer........... 5
York..........................634

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BRAIN  BASS.

Amoskeag..............1634|Valley City................15
Stark......................  19  Georgia...................15
American.............. 1534lPacinc  ......................13

THREADS.

KNITTING  COTTON.

Clark’s Mile End... .45 
| Barbour's................88
Coats’, J. & P ........ 45  Marshall’s.................88
Holyoke.................22341
White.
White. Colored.
38 No.  14 .......37
6 ..  ..33
“  16 .......38
39
8 .......34
“  18 .......39
40
10 .......35
“  20 .......40
41
12 .......36
CAMBRICS.
Edwards................  43*
Lockwood.................434
Wood’s ..................   434
I Brunswick...........   434

Slater......................  *34
White Star............   4*
Kid Glove...............  4*4
Newmarket............   4*4

BED  FLANNEL.
Fireman.................3234 TW ...
Creedmore............. 2734 F T ...
Talbot XXX...........30  JH F , XXX
Nameless............... 2734

.2234 
..3234 
..35
Buckeye................. 3234

MIXED  FLANNEL.

“
“
Slate.
13
15
17
20

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
Brown.
Brown.
1315
934
1034
17
1134
20
1234

Grey SR W.............1734
Red A Blue,  plaid..40
Western W  .............1834
Union R................. 2234
DR P ...................... 1834
Windsor..................1834
Flushing XXX........ 2334
_ oz Western...........20
Manitoba................ 2334
Union  B.................2234
DOMET  FLANNEL.
@1034
Nameless...... 8  @ 9341 
1234
834010  I 
Black.
Black.
Slate.
13
934
934
1517
1034
1034
1134
1134
20
1234
1234
DUCKS.West  Point, 8 oz.. ■. 1034 
Severen, 8oz..........   934
10 oz  ...1234
May land, 8 oz.........1034
Raven, lOoz.............1334
Greenwood, 734 oz..  934 
■ Stark 
.............1334
Greenwood, 8 oz — 1134 j 
Boston, 10 oz............1234
Boston, 8 oz............1034
WADDINGS.
White, doz............. 25  IPer bale, 40 dos— 87  50
Colored, dos..........20 
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Red Cross....  9
Best............ 1034
Best AA..... 1234
L............................. 734
................................834
Cortlcelll, doz........ 75  ICorticelll  knitting,

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

twist, doz. .3734  per 34oz  ball........30
SOyd,doz..3734l
HOOKS AND ETES—PER GROSS.
“ 
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No  1 Bl’k A Whlte..lO  INo  4 Bl’k *  White..l5 
..20
..25
No 2-20, M C........ 50  INo 4—15 F 334...........40

..12 
“ 8 
..12  I  “  10 

SEWING  BILK.

sm a lts

“ 
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PINS.

2 
3 

“ 

|

8-18, S C ...........45  I

No  2 White A Bl’k..l2  INo  8 White A Bl’k..20
.28
-.26
|No3..........................86

COTTON  TAPE.
..15 
“ 10 
..18  1 “   12 
SAFETY  PINS.

No2........................28 

“ 
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“ 
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4 
6 

NEEDLES—PER  M.

A. James.................1  40ISteamboat—   ........  40
Crowely’s................1  85 Gold Eyed.................... 1 50
Marshall’s..............1 00|
5—4....2 25  6—4. .3  2515-4... 1  95  6—4...2 95 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“ 

..-3 lol
COTTON TWINES.

“ ....2   10 

Cotton Sail Twine.. 28
Crown...........-....... 12
Domestic............... 1834
Anchor.................. 16
Bristol................... 13
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL.......................1834
Alabama...................61i
Alamance................. 634
Augusta...................734
Ar  sapha...............   6
Georgia...................  634
G ranite..................   544
Haw  River............   5
Haw  J ...................5

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

Mount  PleasaDt—   634
Oneida....................  5
Prymont  ................  534
Randelman............   6
Riverside...............   534
Sibley  A.................  634
Toledo....................

PLAID  OBNABURGS

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Hardware Price Cnrrent.

HAMMERS.

AXES.

bolts. 

HINGES.

“ 
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“ 
“ 
“ 

levels. 

HANGERS. 

dls.

BUCKETS.

BARROWS. 

dls.
dls.

dls.

 

 

 

 

BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

dl8.

die.

CROW BARS.

BUTTS, CAST. 

LOCKS—DOOR. 

HOLLOW WARE.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

knobs—New List. 

WIRE GOODS. 
 

HOUSE FURNISHING  GOODS.

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

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

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

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

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

Stove..............................................................50&10
Carriage new list.......................................... 75410
Plow.............................................................. 40410
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70

Cast Steel.............................................per lb  5
Ely’s 1-10......................................... ..perm  
“ 
Hick’s C. F ............................................ 
G. D .......................................................  “ 
Musket.................................................. 
“ 

First Quality, S. B. Bronze..........................I 7 50
D.  B. Bronze...........................  12 00
s. B. S. Steel..........................   8 50
D. B. Steel.............................   13 50
Railroad......................................................3 14 00
Garden.'.............................. ................   net  30 00

dls.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 60410
Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60410
Wrought Table.............................................60410
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60410
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70410
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70410
Blind, Shepard’s .......................................... 
70

Maydole 4  Co.’s ...................................... dls. 
25
25
Kip’s .........................................................dls. 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s..................................dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................80c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand— 80c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 8 .............................. dls.60410
State...........................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 In. i%  14  and
longer.......................................................   314
Screw Hook and Bye, %..........................net 
10
“ 
X.................... ....n et  8VS
M.......................... net  7V4
•• 
X.......................... net  7X
“ 
Strap and T ............................................. dls. 
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track— 50410
Champion,  antl-frlctlon.............................   60410
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots.......................................  
60410
Kettles...........................................................60410
Spiders  .........................................................60410
Gray enameled............................................. 40410
Stamped  Tin Ware......................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
Granite Iron W are................... new list 38X410
dls.
70410410
Bright.................. 
Screw  Eyes.............................................70410410
Hook’s .....................................................70410410
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70410410
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ...................  
70
55
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..................  
70
55
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
Mallory, Wheeler  4  Co.’s ............................ 
Branford’s ................................................... 
56
Norwalk’s ................................................... 
56
Adze-Eye......................................... 116.00,  dls. 60
Hunt Bye.  .......................................«5.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s   ....................................«8.50, dls. 20410.
dlB.
50
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
“  P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry 4  Clp i k’8................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60410
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................66410
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Steel nails, base......... ....................................180
Wire nails, base................................................... 1 85
Steel.  Wire.
go...........................................  
  Base 
Base
......................................................... Base 
10
40 .....................................................  05 
25
30.....................................................  
25
10 
35
15 
20.........  
16.....................................................  
45
15 
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
45
12..................................................... 
15 
14x52,14x56,14x60.......................  
10......................................................   20 
50
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................  
60
8........................................................   25 
Cold Rolled, 14x48..........  
7 4 6 ..................................................   40 
75
Bottoms.............. 
4 
60 
90
a” . . . .................................................loo 
120
Morse’s Bit  Stocks.....................................  
2 
1  60
.................................................... 1  50 
Taper and straight Shank.................................  .. 50
1  60
Fine 3..............................................1  50 
Morse’s Taper Shank...................................  
Case  10.............................................   60 
65
75
8....................................  
75 
90
6 .............................................  90 
75
Finish 10...........................................  85 
90
8...........................................1 00 
6  ..........................................1  15 
1  10
Clinch! 10..........................................   85 
TO
80
8......................................... 1 00 
115 
90
6................ 
B arrell*.......................................... 175 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   ©40
Sdota Bench................................................  060
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy...................  
  ©40
Bench, first quaUty......................................   ©80
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood...........  410
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
Common, polished............................... dls. 
TO
dls.
Iron and  Tinned.........................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Burs............................. 50—10
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

Socket Firm er.............................................  70410
Socket Framing.............................................70418
Socket Corner................................................70410
Socket Slicks................................................70410
Butchers’Tanged Firmer............... 
  40
dls.

Dlsston’s ...................................................... 80410
New American.............................................60410
Nicholson’s ..................................................60410
Heller’s ......................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................................... 
50

«« 
Com. 4  piece, 6 in ............................dos. net 
Corrugated....................................................... dls 40
« 
Adjustable....................................................... dls. 40410
« 

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
25
Hotchkiss................................ 
 
White Crayons, per gross..............12Q12ft dls. 10

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

13 
Discount, 60

14 
SAUeES. 

Small sizes, ser pound................................  
07
Large sizes, per pound........: ......................  6K

Clark’s, small, 118; large, 126.......................  
Ives’, 1,118; 2,124; 8, ¡88............................ 

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

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

Advance over base: 

28
26
23
23
25
50
50

CHALK.
COFFER.

GALVANIZED IRON.

 
FLAKES. 

FILES—New List. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

MAULS. 
HILLS. 

DRIPPING FANS.

65
60
35
60

58
25

CABTRIDOES.

 
DRILLS. 

MATTOCKS.

dig.

dls.

76

30
25

 

 

 

PANS.

rivets. 

 

 

 

 

chisels. 

dls.

ELBOWS.

 

 

 

 

NAILS

combs. 

12 

15 

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

Broken packs %c per pound extra.

28
17

50

dls.

“ 
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ROPES.

SQUARES. 

SHEET IRON.

75
60
20
Com. 
32 95 
3 05 
3 C5 
3 15 
3 25 
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Sisal, X Inch and larger.............................  
9X
Manilla.........................................................  13
dls.
Steel and Iron..............................................
Try and Bevels............................................
M itre...........................................................
Com.  Smooth.
Nos. 10 to 14.....................................S4 05
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................4 05
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4 06
Nos. 22 to 24.....................................  4 05
Nos. 25 to 26 .....................................  4 25
No. 27................................................  4 45
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86...................................... dls.
Silver Lake, White A..............................list
Drab A.................................  “
White  B.............................   “
DrabB................................   “
White C.................................“

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

“ 
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Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

sawb. 

traps. 

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton 325
“ 
20
Silver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot,__ 
70
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__ 
50
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot__ 
30
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot.............................................  30
Steel, Game................................................... 60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s __ 
TO
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion...............................31.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market......................................... 70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market.............................................  62X
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  3 00
painted....................................  2 55

wire. 

dls.

“ 

WRENCHES. 

An  Sable.................................................dls.  40
Putnam.......................................... 
dls. 03
dls. 10410
Northwestern................................ 
dlB.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75410
Bird Cages................................................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
75
Screws, New 11st..........................................70410
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50410410
Dampers, American..................................  
  40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods......61410

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dl8.

HORSE NAILS.

METALS.
FIG TIN.

6*
7

ZINC.

26c
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars....................................................... 
Duty:  Sheet, 2V4c per pound.
680 pound  casks........................................... 
Per  pound.................................................... 
XOV4.................................................................. }6
Extra W iping......  ........................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder m the market indicated by nrivate brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................per  pound
Hallett’s......................................  
TIN—MELTN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal...........  ...........................37  50
..........................................  7  50
14x2010, 
10x14 IX, 
..........................................  9 25
14x20 IX, 
..........................................  9 25

Each additional X on thlB grade, «.75.

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10x1410, Charcoal...................................... 3 6  75
..........................................  6 75
14x2010, 
10x14 IX, 
..........................................   8  25
14x20 IX, 
.................................. .......   9 25
ROOFING PLATES

Each additional X on this grade «.50.
“ Worcester........................ 
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Damages to Hardware Stock.

The  average  retail  hardware store  in 
small towns is seldom adapted to its pur­
pose. 
It  should  be  well  lighted,  dry, 
and  its  fittings  should  be  as simple  as 
possible,  giving  dry,  warm  air  free  ac­
cess to every corner and crevice.
Dampness  and  dirt  are  but  too  com­
mon in this class of stores,  and it is hard 
to estimate the losses which result yearly 
from  this  cause.  The  rusting  of  iron 
and  steel;  the  verdigris  and  deadened 
polish  on  brass  and  copper  goods;  the 
pinholes  in  tinware,  and  the  dulling of 
the  fine  polish of  gun  stocks,  tool  han­
dles,  and  carpenters’  levels,  are  nearly 
all due to this  cause. 
It is comparative­
ly seldom that articles are actually ruined 
outright, although in some  cases the loss 
in this way is considerable,  but the main 
loss  is  in  the  general  depreciation  of 
stock, neglected  by customers  who  pick 
out  newer and  more  attractive  articles, 
until the dealer sooner or later finds that 
he  has  a  large  amount  of  goods which 
must  be  sold  at  cost  or  sacrificed  at a 
considerable loss.
No  store  goods  suffer  so  much  from 
damp  as  hardware,  because  being much 
colder than the  atmosphere, they attract 
all the  moisture  held  in  suspension  by 
the air. 
If  the cellar is damp and  sends 
its vapors  up  through  the  cracks in the 
floors, or through the cellar way,  be sure 
that  it will  do its  work  on  your  bright 
steel, tin and copper goods.
Good ventilation, and in damp weather 
good  diffused  heat,  with  frequent  ex­
amination  and  cleaning  of  goods, 
is 
necessary  to  keep  a  hardware  stock in 
first-class  condition.  When  heavy  and 
farm  machinery is sold all  bearings  and 
polished  surfaces  should  be  protected, 
except,  perhaps,  those  kept  on  show, 
where  they would  be  likely  to  damage 
the  clothing  of  customers.  Guns,  rifles 
and  pistols  should  be  frequently  ex­
amined  and  should  never  be  loaned or 
used if intended for sale.  Small calibred 
rifles  and  pistols  are  very delicate  and 
easily  ruined  by  careless use. 
Indeed, 
it is almost impossible  to  find  a second­
hand  22  caliber  rifle  or  pistol  which is 
not ‘-leaded” beyond cure.  Almost every 
hardware store which  sells  firearms  has 
in  stock weapons  which  have been  un­
salable  for  years  because of  neglect  or 
the  loss  of  polish  and  finish  lost  in  a 
day’s use,  and often as the  result of  the 
too-accommodating spirit of  the proprie­
tor.
Apropos of firearms, the dealer in these 
goods  and  the  necessary  ammunition, 
should  always  be  on  the watch  against 
the  stupidity  and  carelessness  of  cus­
tomers.  He  should  never  allow one to 
“try” a cartridge  in  rifle  or  pistol;  the 
dealer  should  do  that  himself,  and  be 
sure to remove it afterwards.  He should 
not  allow smoking  where  loose  powder 
is  kept  or  used  to  load  cartridges;  nor 
should  he  countenance  on  any  pretext 
the careless handling of any weapon.
More than one salesman has been killed 
by such carelessness  and  folly,  or  even 
had the store turned into a shambles by a 
desperate suicide,  whose  purpose  might 
have been  foiled  had  the  general  rule 
been observed,  that “no  weapon  should 
be loaded on the premises except  by  the 
dealer.”
Iii many cases  it would also seem  that 
dealers ought  to  refuse  to  sell  pistols, 
dirks and the like to minors,  unless  with 
the consent of their parents.  When  the 
consent is given  the  dealer  is  justified, 
but any business done in neglect  of  this 
rule, is often in a business sense  a  great 
mistake. 
It is true  that  in  these  days 
caution in this respect is  too  often  con­
sidered old-fashioned,  but many  a dealer 
has made a small profit,  to regret the sad 
result  of  the trade  all his life in  pocket 
as well as spirit.

Wanted His  Money’s Worth.

Insurance  Agent—I  came to call your 
attention to the fact  that your policy ex­
pires to-day,  and beg  you to renew it.
Economist—Very  sorry, but this is the 
tenth  year  that 1  have  been  insured  in 
your  company,  and  nothing  has  hap­
pened,  so 1 have made up my mind to try 
another company.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

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CAPS.

W e are carrying this season a larger assortment than 

ever of all goods that belong  to an angler’s outfit.

“ The Little Finger Does It.”

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

accounts. 
In a machine shop a man may 
spend  his  life working with a particular 
tool  and know very little about any other 
part of  his business.  Economy  requires 
a division of  labor and a classification of 
industries.

Some of  the most  successful and  emi­
nent  merchants  who  have  grown  up in 
the great  cities in the  past  quarter of  a 
century  were  boys  raised 
in •  country 
stores  where  they  handled  all  sorts  of 
merchandise, from gloves to grindstones, 
dry  goods,  groceries,  hardware,  drugs 
and  fancy  goods.  They  learned  every 
other  part of  the  business  before  they 
became specialists,  just  as  the  trained 
athelete,  if  he  be  not  over-trained,  de- 
velopes  all  his muscles  in  harmony,  in­
stead of  becoming  lopsided  by excessive 
use of some organs and neglect of others. 
This  monotony of  life  is  seen  in  every 
department and it is much  the  rule with 
those who merely play as with those who 
work.  For  what  stagnations,  for  what 
one-sided  development, for  what morbid 
physical  and  mental  habitudes  is  this 
monotony  not  responsible?  There is no 
mechanism so exceedingly complex  as  is 
the human  being—physically, intellectu­
ally  and  spiritually—and  when  a  few 
faculties  are  excessively  developed  or 
unduly taxed  while all others  are left in 
abeyance,  then  there must  be bodily and 
mental disorders.

It is because of  all  this  that a change 
of scene, of air, of surroundings,  mental, 
moral and physical, is so often beneficial 
to  the  health. 
It  means  simply getting 
out of  the  old  groove* for a little  while. 
It is putting  into  play a new  set of mus­
cles  or a new  set of  mental  or  spiritual 
faculties. 
It  is often beneficial  for peo­
ple from the lowlands to go to the moun­
tains, or  from  the  hills to the sea  coast. 
But there  is  no sure rule  about this.  A 
change of  latitude or of  longitude  with­
out regard to the topography or land level 
may  have the  desired  effect.  The chief 
consideration  is to  secure the  intangible 
and obscure but easily realized influences 
of  change which  are  able to correct the 
disordered  chemical  or  physiological  or 
spiritual  functions  of  our  nature.  As 
soon as we  begin to feel  better we  know 
the fact, even if we know not why. 
It is 
the  right sort of  change  that each  must 
determine  for  himself.  But,  ordinarily, 
it is easily  got  by  those  who are  really 
not too  seriously diseased,  and  when ob­
tained each knows it for himself.  There­
fore,  advice in the premises is but of  lit­
tle worth.  Of  course,  it  is  possible  to 
have  too  mnch  of  a  good  thing.  The 
rolling stone gathers no moss.  The vag­
abond is a miserable  wretch.  But a rea­
sonable  and  proper  change is good  and 
desirable.

while the country is virtually  under  the 
control of the mob of miners.  The  Gov­
ernor, realizing his helplessness, has  ap­
pealed to the  Federal  Government,  and 
doubtless the State  of  Idaho,  as  was  a 
few weeks ago the State of Wyoming, will 
in a short time be  under  the  control  of 
the forces of the United States Army.

Every violent and  lawless  demonstra­
tion by any class of citizens  against  the 
settled order,  if it possess not force  suffi­
cient to dominate and control the powers 
of the Government,  must  come  to  grief. 
When popular violence cannot rise to the 
dignity and force of revolution,  then  it is 
a riot,  and rioters,  instead  of  being  he­
roes,  become mere criminals amenable to 
the law for the blood they  shed  and  the 
property they appropriate  to  their  own 
use  or destroy.

No riot by laborers can ever accomplish 
any  good.  No  movement  by  working 
men  which adopts murder  and  arson  as 
its means of progression  can  end  other­
wise than in failure, ignominy  and  gen­
eral  execration.  Working  men  have 
every right of  organization  for  the  ad­
vancement  of  their  interests,  but  they 
have no right to violate property interests 
or to disturb social order.  Employers of 
labor have every right of  regulating  the 
details of their business,  but  they  have 
no powers of compulsion over their work 
people beyond what is  confirmed  by  the 
terms  of  a  lawful  contract  under  the 
guarantees of the constitution.

It is plain enough that any  demonstra­
tions of violence either on the side of em­
ployers or  of  employes  can  bring  only 
evil  consequences,  and  no  matter  how 
great the force that may be  mustered  on 
either side,  all the  disturbers of the pub­
lic peace will be compelled in the end  to 
succumb to the lawful  authorities and be 
made to suffer for their crimes. The only 
remedy for differences  between  employ­
ers  and  employes  is  in  some  fair  and 
reasonable system of settlement based on 
arbitration.  A  congressional committee 
has  been  appointed  to  investigate  the 
matter and that committee, if it be  wise, 
will suggest some  system  of  legislation 
that  will  provide  for  compromise  and 
arbitration.  The most enlightened coun­
tries  of Europe  are  already  taking  the 
lead in  efforts  to  solve  the  problem  of 
settling  conflicts  between  capital  and 
labor.  The need  for  something  of  the 
sort is quite as urgent  in  this  great  re­
public. 
If peaceable  means  be  not  de­
vised  for  adjusting  such  controversies, 
bloody conflicts will  become  constantly 
of more frequent  occurrence  and  vastly 
more  destructive  and  terrible  in  their 
consequences. 
It will be  either arbitra­
tion or anarchy.

difficult to believe that cholera  has  been 
permitted to find its  way  into  the  heart 
of Europe in so short a time.  But if  this 
news be true, it is only through the  most 
inexplicable mismanagement. 
If cholera 
is in Western Europe now, the  time  will 
not be long before it will be  imported  to 
our  shores. 
The  reports  alluded  to 
should be carefully examined,  and  until 
ascertained to be true there is no good  to 
be got from creating unnecessary  alarm. 
Nevertheless, 
all  proper  precautions 
should be taken to keep  out  foreign  in­
fection.  Cholera,  while originally traced 
to the tropical valley of the Ganges in In­
dia,  is by  no  means  confined  to  warm 
regions nor  does  it  require  the  -heated 
season  for  its  spread.  St.  Petersburg, 
Moscow,  Edinburgh,  Montreal  and  Que­
bec  are  localities  which  have  suffered 
most deadly if  not  most  frequent  visit­
ations  of  the  disease.  Cholera  is  now 
held to be one of those malignant diseases 
caused by a  peculiar  microbe  or  micro- 
phitic  germ,  distributed  for  the  most 
part in drinking  water.  The  dejections 
from cholera patients, finding  their  way 
to  running  streams,  appear  to  furnish 
these  germs  and  thus 
they  may  be 
transported by such streams to great  dis­
tances. 
In this way the waters of  rivers 
are poisoned and the disease can be com­
municated  to  the  people 
living  along 
their course or to the  people  who  travel 
on them in boats through the  use  of  the 
water for drinking.

Being due, in all likelihood, to some sort 
of filth poison,  there can be,  in  view  of 
the  possible  advance  of  cholera  from 
Europe, no more urgent duty than to clean 
up every American city with  the  utmost 
diligence.  The warning from across  the 
water ought to excite every  municipality 
to prompt and vigorous action.

In a careful  crop  report  compiled  by 
the New York  Tribune  it  is  shown  that 
crop prospects have continued to improve 
rapidly, and while estimates of the ripen­
ing wheat range all the way from 520,000,- 
000 to .580,000,000 bushels it is well to re­
member that the lowest  estimate exceeds 
any crop except the last,  and  that  with 
50,000,000 bushels carried over the  coun­
try would have at this lowest  estimate  a 
supply  of  570,000,000  bushels,  whereas 
the consumption with the  unprecedented 
exports during the past year have reached 
only  about  580,000,000  bushels.  From 
present appearances it seems more likely 
that the yield will exceed the government 
estimate, which pointed to about 550,000,- 
000 bushels, making the supply over 600,- 
000,000 bushels for the coming year.

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WEDNESDAY,  JULY  20,  1892.

THE  SUMMER  OUTING.

The season  of  the annual  summer  mi­
gration  is  now  upon  us.  Some  go  for 
health,  but  the  majority  have  pleasure 
as their chief object;  and, without doubt, 
the greater  part of  them,  whatever  may 
be the  object of  their flitting,  will  come 
back  improved  in  health.  Some  may 
possibly  be  benefited  by  the  medicinal 
action of  the special mineral waters they 
will  drink,  for  some of  the  waters, far 
fewer  than  is  commonly  imagined,  pos­
sess  undoubted  curative  properties  in 
some  sorts  of  physical  disorders.  But 
we  are  inclined  to  believe  that  many 
more will  find  their  recompense  for the 
inconveniences and expense of a summer 
tour  in  the  general  circumstances  of 
change.

Change of  food, change of  air,  change 
of  scene  are  vastly  more  conducive  to 
our physical  welfare than  we  often  im­
agine.  The  circumstances  of  modern 
life  are  often of  a nature  to make exist­
ence  monotonous.  We have read a story 
of  a man  who never  failed a single  day 
in  thirty  years  to  repair  to  the  same 
office,  bang  up  his  hat  upon  the  same 
peg,  seat  himself at the  same  desk,  and 
set  himself  for a given  number of  hours 
to the  task of  figuring up the  same sort 
of  accounts  in the  same  sort of  books, 
without a break  in  the  sameness  of  his 
existence in all that time.

Truly no honest  man  should  complain 
that  he  has  steady employment  at  fair 
wages.  Every  honest  and  industrious 
man should congratulate himself  on  the 
enjoyment  of  such  an  advantage.  But 
health  is  an  absolutely necessary  ingre­
dient of  being  able either  to  appreciate 
the  benefits  of  a  regular and  remunera­
tive  occupation  or of  being able  to  ren­
der  fair  and  faithful  service  into  the 
bargain. 
It  is  certainly  true  that  the 
tendency of modern  life is towards same­
ness  and  monotony. 
In  an  early  day 
business and industries were not so close­
ly classified  as  they are  to-day. 
In  the 
average  mercantile  establishment  the 
same man was at the same time salesman 
and  accountant. 
In a machine  shop  an 
apprentice learned every part of the bus­
iness  from  the  foundry to  the  finishing 
tools.  To-day  a  man  is  a  bookkeeper 
only;  his  life  is  spent  in  figuring  over

ARBITRATION  OR  ANARCHY.
Labor riots seem  to  be  just  now  the 

regular order of things.

Emboldened by the success  of  the  or­
ganization of the  ironworkers  in  Penn­
sylvania 
in  a  pitched  battle  with  an 
armed  force, 
the  organized  miners  in 
the far off State of  Idaho  have  attacked 
the non-union men  working in the  Cœur 
d’Alene mines and  routed  them  and  a 
company of local militia sent to maintain 
order.  A score of men makes up the list 
of killed and wounded,  while  there  has 
been  great  destruction  of  private  prop­
erty. The military resources of the State of 
Idaho, which contains  only  84,000  total 
population,  are  necessarily  very  feeble, 
and already they  have  been  exhausted,

In  the  meantime  strikers  who  carry 
their cause to  the  extent of  rioting,  ar­
son and murder must be treated the same 
as any other criminals and men who sym­
pathize with such  manifestations should 
be placed in the category of  traitors and 
poltroons.
REPORTS  OF  CHOLERA  IN  EUROPE.
The  announcement  that  cholera  had 
appeared in Western Asia in the ports  of 
the  Caspian  Sea  was serious  enough  to 
have  aroused  European  nations  to 
the 
strictest vigilance and the most strenuous 
sanitary measures to prevent its  advance 
further west.

Very few weeks have elapsed since the 
disease was reported  at Baku,  the  great 
petroleum  port of the Caspian.  Now we 
It  is
hear of it at  Moscow  and  Paris. 

Not all rules or  precedents  work  both 
ways.  For  instance,  it is  possible for  a 
millionaire to imagine that he is suffering 
all the ills of poverty,  and in  this humor 
to starve  and  die  from  hunger;  but no 
poverty stricken son of humanity can re­
verse  this  experience  and,  by  imagina­
tion alone,  satisfy  the  keen demands of 
hunger,  clothe  the  chilled  limbs  with 
warm garments and  enjoy  the luxurious 
pleasures which the millionaire has in his 
imaginary way  renounced. 
If he could, 
there would be neither poverty nor riches 
in this world,  but one  all-satisfying con­
dition of  universal  content among  those 
who  were  willing  to be contented.  No 
provision is made  in  this  supposed case 
for  the  anarchist.  He  is  beyond  the 
reach of  all  suppositions  and possibili­
ties—a chaos  that  can  only  be acted on 
by the same  Power  that  makes a world.

LANDLORD  AND  TENANT.

PAPER VIII.

The tenant is liable to the landlord for 
any injury done  to the premises  by him­
self or his  agent or servants;  but his lia­
bility  for  waste  does  not  depend  upon 
negligence.  The  general  ruling  of  the 
courts is that he  is  clearly  bound to  re­
move all  damage to the  leased  premises, 
or to pay therefor.  He is  liable  to third 
parties for all injuries caused by his neg­
ligence  or  breach of  duty  to  make  re­
pairs,  although  the  landlord  is bound  to 
make repairs;  but he is not  liable for in­
juries  resulting 
from  inevitable  acci­
dents, nor for injuries to  which the com­
plaining parties have materially contrib­
uted.  He  is  only  bound  to  exercise 
reasonable care,  and his negligence must 
be established as a matter of  fact,  and it 
must appear that it caused  the  injury.

Tenants who occupy  different parts of 
the  same  building  without  joint  right 
are not liable foreach other’s negligence.
It is the tenant’s duty to remove ice from 
the doorsteps,  and he only is  responsible 
for injury resulting from such ice.

if  the 

The  term  “nuisance”  means, legally, 
“ anything that unlawfully worketh hurt, 
inconvenience  or  damage,”  and the ten­
ant,  as well as  the  landlord,  is responsi­
ble for the continuance of a nuisance up­
on the  premises,  although  continued  by 
subtenants;  but, 
lessor  has  no 
control  over  its construction or  use and 
has  not  sanctioned  it,  then  the  lessee 
only is responsible.  The  lessor will be­
come liable for a nuisance created by the 
tenant if it is  continued  after  the  lessor 
may  have a  right of  entry  to  abate  it. 
The fact  that  the  negligence of the ten­
ant  contributes to a  nuisance  which  ex­
isted before  the leasing  will  not  relieve 
the lessor;  and,  before the  tenant can  be 
made  liable  in  such a case,  he  must  be 
notified to  abate it,  unless  he  has  com­
mitted  some  act  which  is  in  itself  a 
nuisance.

Filthy  tenements  crowded  with  filthy 
tenants may be condemned by a board of 
health  of  a  city  as  a  nuisance. 
In  a 
Pennsylvania  case  it  was  held  that  a 
Chineese  laundry  in a basement  so  con­
ducted as to injure the business of a ten­
ant of  the  story  above may be  enjoined 
as a nuisance.

A tenant  may  recover  damages  for  a 
nuisance  affecting  his  rights,  although 
he took the premises with  knowledge  of 
its existence,  and  the damages are not to 
be estimated by the amount of rent paid, 
but by the actual injury sustained. 
In a 
Missouri  case,  however,  the  court  held 
that,  after  the  death of  the  tenant,  his 
wife  can  maintain  no  action,  although 
his illness was caused by the nuisance.

The  right  to  sue  to enjoin or abate a 
nuisance  rests  with a tenant  from year 
to  year,  and  not  with  a  tenant  from 
month to  month.

A  landlord  may  recover  the  loss  in 
rental  value  arising from  a  nuisance to 
his  property;  but  the  mere  establish­
ment of  a coal yard  near  his house will 
not, of  itself, entitle  him to such  recov­
ery, nor will the erection of small, cheap 
tenements for orderly colored  tenants be I 
ground of  complaint,  although intended 
to injure an adjoining proprietor.

When any part of  the  leased  premises 
is taken for  public use, the  tenant is en­
titled to compensation for damage,  to the i 
value of  his term,  and  may  be  awarded 
the use,  for  the  remainder  of  the term, | 
of the  amount  paid  for such part of the j 
leased  premises  as  is  taken.  He is en­

titled to receive the  amount awarded for 
buildings  which  belong  to him,  and  all 
necessary  expense  incurred  in  rebuild­
ing, or in the removal of  machinery,  and 
damage  sustained  by  loss  in  the use of 
the premises;  but  loss  to  the  tenant  of 
the good will of  the business  or  of  cus­
tomers,  or injury to personal property of 
the tenant, it has been held,  cannot be so 
considered. 
It  has also  been  held  that 
loss  of  sales  during  the  widening  of  a 
street cannot  be proved if' not  shown  to 
have  been  caused  thereby. 
In  making 
the award,  advantages  to  the  respective 
parties are to  be  deducted  from  the  in­
jury  to  each  respectively,  and  interest 
may be allowed  from  the time  the  dam­
ages should have been  paid.

The  covenant  for  quiet  enjoyment is 
not  broken  by a lawful  exercise  of  the 
right of eminent domain during the term; 
but,  of  course,  if the whole premises are 
taken for public  use,  the  tenant’s  estate 
is  determined  and  the  lease  is  extin­
guished.

If 

the  tenant  abandons  the  leased 
premises  without  cause,  he is still liable 
for rent.  Any  act  of  the  lessor  which 
interferes with  the  quiet  enjoyment  of 
the premises, or any breach of  duty ren­
dering them untenantable, unless the right 
to abandon  is  waived  by  a  continuance 
in  possession,  is  sufficient cause;  but  if 
the tenant  abandons  without cause,  and 
the landlord  consents  or  accepts  by  re 
suming control  of  the  premises,  he  will 
be freed from  liability  tojpay  rent. 
In 
case of  an  abandonment  without  cause 
the  landlord may  either leave the prem 
ises vacant  and  recover  rent, or  he may 
take  possession and  determine  the  ten 
ancy.  He  may  re-let  the  premises  for 
the benefit of  the tenant, and  he may re 
pair and take  care of  the premises with 
out  releasing  rent;  but  he  cannot  both 
take possession and treat the lease as sub 
sisting.  Acceptance  of  the  key  by  the 
landlord  without a  waiver  of  thejclaim 
for  rent  does  not  prove  consent|to  the 
abandonment,  and  the  mere  moving  off 
the premises, or  ceasing  to useithem,  as 
has  been  held  in  this  State,  does  not 
prove an abandonment,  or justify  an en­
try by the  laudlord.

The tenant,  after the expiration of  his 
term,  has  a right of  ingress  and  egress 
to remove his  personal  property,  and he 
is entitled to a reasonable length of  time 
for  that  purpose;  and  it  hasjbeen  held 
that,  where  there is no  unreasonable de­
lay  on  the  part  of  the  tenant, he may 
enter with reasonable  force to take away 
his personal effects,  or he  may  maintain 
replevin for personal property left on the 
premises  of  which  the  landlord  takes 
possession.  The  landlord amakes  him­
self liable as a trespasser if he interferes 
with  his  tenant  at  will  while  acting 
promptly  in  removing  his  personal  ef­
fects,  and the tenant also incurs liability 
as a trespasser if  he resort to violence in 
removing his goods and chattels.

Incoming tenants can  claim  no  rights 
against  former  tenants  whichrthe land­
lord could not  lawfully  urge;  but it  has 
been held that an  incoming tenant has  a 
right to fill an ice house  beforeohis term 
commences.

Ah  outgoing  tenant has a right  ,to re­
move  plants  which  he  had  himself  set 
out,  and the tenant of  a nursery  may re­
move trees and shrubs therefrom.

Our  Supreme  Court  has  held 

that, 
where there is an  agreement  to pay rent 
in advance,  a breach thereof  does not, of 
itself, determine the tenancy,  and  that  a

T H E   M T C H IG ^ lTST  T R A D E S M A N .

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PUTMAN  CANDY  CO.
H ig h   G rad e 
C onfectionery,

A re  E x te n siv e   M a n u fa ctu rers  of

A nd  th e  L a rg est  H a n d le rs  of

O ranges,  L em on s, 

B a n a n a s,  Nuts, 

Dates,  F igs,  Etc.,

In  W e ste r n   M ich igan .  Y o u r  o rd ers  to  th em  
w ill  be  p ro m p tly   e x e c u te d   an d   d u ly   a p p re­
ciated .

Write your Jobber for Prices or Address 

T .  V i m T T B m S n T l Z ; ,   Resident  Agent,

106  KENT  STREET, 

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forfeiture  cannot  be enforced  until  the 
lapse of  a period  allowed for  a discount 
of rent payable in advance;  and the same 
Court  has  held  that  the  tenant  has the 
whole of  the day  upon which the rent  is 
made payable to pay his rent.

When  rent  for  a  fixed  term  is  to  be 
paid  at  a  certain  rate  per  month,  with 
right  of  re-entry  for  nonpayment,  it  is 
payable  monthly  and  not  at  the  end  of 
the  term.  Rent  does  not  accrue  to  the 
landlord as a debt until the time for pay­
ment arrives:  and, when the day of  pay­
ment falls on Sunday, there is  no default 
until midnight of  the  next  day.  Where 
the  statute gives the  landlord a lien  for 
rent on  the  tenant’s  property,  the  rent 
becomes  due  whenever  the  tenant  at­
tempts to remove the  property.

As before stated,  a lease  may be dated 
back so as to cover a term, part of which 
has already expired,  but  such naming of 
a past day does not  make the  tenant lia­
ble  to  pay  rent  from  such  day.  When 
additional  rent  is to be paid in consider­
ation  of  certain  improvements 
to  be 
made,  it will operate  as a  condition  pre­
cedent, and the additional rent will not  be 
payable  until  the  improvements  have 
been completed.

When  the  lease  is  silent  as  to  where 
the rent is payable,  it is  payable  on  the 
leased  premises,  but,  where  some  place 
is named  in the  lease, it  is  the duty  of 
the tenant to  find  it,  if possible.
, A  tender  of  rent  payable  in  specific 
articles upon the  day  fixed  for  payment 
extinguishes  the  obligation  without  re­
gard to the subsequent value of the prop­
erty,  and after the tender the articles are 
held by the tenant at the risk of the land­
lord.

The  acceptance  of  negotiable  paper 
for  rent is not a payment  thereof unless 
intended  and  accepted  as  such. 
If  the 
landlord  directs  payment  by  mail,  he 
must assume the  risk  and  bear the loss, 
if any,  and,  where the tenant pays taxes, 
he may deduct it from the rent.
Having  reached  my  limit,  I  am com­
pelled  to  close  this  paper  and  with  it 
this part of  my work.  My  next  paper, 
under the  head  of  “Summary  Proceed­
ings,”  will close the series.

E.  A.  Ow en.

One  S eller  of  Veils.

“There is a girl presiding over the veil 
counter in a certain  big  store.”  says  an 
exchange, "who is probably the innocent 
cause  <>f  more  woman  making  guys  of 
themselves  than  any  other  person 
in 
the  city.  She  is  a  plump  little  thing, 
with the dark hair, dusky eyes, olive skin 
and brilliant coloring of a Spaniard.
“When  she  throws  some  blue  gauze 
over her face  one  marvels  at  one’s  stu­
pidity in  never trying blue one’s self.
“When she twists a white embroidered 
veil  around  her  head,  one  resolves  to 
have a veil like that,  no  matter  what  it 
costs.
“ When she flings  a  bit  of  black  net, 
mantilla fashion, over her  jet tresses and 
peeps out with gleaming teeth and laugh­
ing  eyes,  a  woman  simply  has  to  buy 
that  black net,  although  she  knows  that 
her  eyes  are  green  and  that  her  com­
plexion is like a mud fence.
“This is  why  the  women  stand  six 
deep around this particular counter at all 
hours and buy  veils  which  make  them 
look hideous.  They get  the  girl  to  try 
on the veil they desire and  then  buy  it, 
fondly deluling themselves into  the  be­
lief  that they will  look  just  like  her  in 
it—a delusion quickly dispelled  by  their 
mirrors when they get home.”

One canning  company  in  Salem. Ore., 
has  canned  50,000  pounds  of  strawber­
ries this season.  The  value of  the fruit 
Is about $2,000.  Half a dozen  other can­
neries at different  points  have been pre­
serving nearly the same amount each.

The Collection of  Debts.

W ritte n  fo r Th i T radesman.

From  the  memorable  transaction  in 
the  Garden of  Eden,  where  a  dishonest 
financier made a contract which he never 
intended to fulfill,  up to the present day, 
when  false  pretenses  and  bad  debts 
largely  make up the  record of  commer­
cial  business,  the  question of  how  best 
to keep the debt and credit columns well 
balanced has puzzled the wisest and most 
enterprising of men.  Whether the com­
merce of  the  world w‘as  carried on  by a 
system  of  barter  and  trade,  or  by  ex­
changes  made  in the  coin of  the  realm, 
there  has  always  been  a  debtor  class 
hanging  like a dead  weight  on the  heels 
of  commercial  enterprise.  A  part were 
unfortunate  but  honest;  a  part  honest 
but  shiftless;  another  dishonest  enough 
to  steal,  but  preferring a safer  way  of 
petit larceny.  A still  larger portion has 
been  made up of  those who unite  selfish 
instincts with a low moral tone.  Neither 
debts nor duns disturb their consciences. 
They  have a sublime  indifference  to  the 
consequences of  broken  promises, and  a 
peculiar faculty of  invention that  brings 
fresh excuses  to  serve their  purposes  as 
fast as the old  ones are worn threadbare 
and cease  to  procure  further confidence.
1  might  go  on  and  describe  as  many 
more types of  debtors, each  having some 
distinguishing features  easily recognized 
in the mind of  any dealer  who will  take 
a retrospect of his mercantile experience. 
They  are  the  dark  shadows,  haunting 
recollections that else would be pleasant; 
they  are  threatening  clouds  casting 
gloomy tints  over what  should be bright 
hopes of  the  future;  they  are  the  una­
voidable  concomitants of  business life— 
thorns  in  the  fiesh  that  discipline  the 
soul for good  or  ill—evils  that will  be a 
part  of  trade  experience  as  long as hu­
man  nature falls  short of  being angelic.
There is no use of complaining or wish­
ing things were  different.  The  spirit of 
our  institutions,  instead  of  decreasing 
the number of  chronic and  exasperating 
debtors,  encourages  them  by  legal  ex­
emptions  and  judicial  interpretations of 
statutes  against  the  creditor,  until  one 
becomes  satisfied  that  a  repeal  of  all
laws for the collection of  debts would be 
a boon  to  everyone who  exchanges arti­
cles of value for human  promises.

As far as the  retail  dealer of  to-day  is 
concerned,  he  receives  no  practical  ben­
efit from  the machinery of the law  in the 
collection  of  debts,  as  honest  men  will 
do  as  they agree  without  such compul­
sion,  and  dishonest ones can  always find 
ways enough to make the  seeming power 
of  statutes  futile  or  too  expensive  for 
frequent  use;  nor can  agencies often  be 
relied upon for  efficient service,  for they 
are  mostly  confidence  games  gotten  up 
by men  who use one  business  man  as  a 
hunter  does  a  deeby  duck,  to draw  an­
other  into  the  meshes of  a  scheme that 
usually collapses after the initiatory dues 
have  been collected  from  the too confid­
ing subscribers.

The  retail  dealer, therefore, might  as 
well make up his  mind to face the  situa­
tion  with all  the  courage  and  judgment 
which he has  obtained  from experience, 
and  do  business  with  each  customer ac­
cording  to  the  credit  he  individually 
earns. 
however, 
will  be  the  price  of  a  clean  balance 
sheet that will show less than 2 per cent, 
loss  on  gross  sales,  unless  it  may be in 
some  favored  locality.  When  wearied 
with  fruitless  attempts  to  collect  ac-

Eternal  vigilance, 

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guarantee  of the  genuine  a r­
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Sold  in this  market  lor  the  past Fifteen Years.

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

L.  WINTERNITZ,  Stale  Agent,  Grant  Rais,  Biel.

Telephone  566.

106  Kent St.

See  th at  this  Label  appears 
on  every  package, as  it  is  a 
guarantee  of 
the  genuine 
article.

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

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

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

For  Bakings  of  fill Kinds  Use

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of our Yeast, and which serves 
Oar Goods from worthless Imitations.

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It  appeared 

T H E   M ICH IG LA IST  T R A D E S M A N ,
I will  close this  article  with a collect­
ing  incident  witnessed  many years  ago 
! in  California,  which  shows  one  of  the 
' methods  then in  vogue.  One day,  in the 
| spring of ’53,  I  started  from  Doty’s Flat, 
j in Placer  county,  for  Sacramento, secur­
ing a passage  with  a freighter  who  was 
returning  empty  to  the  city.  After  a 
two  hours’ ride  we overtook a number of 
six-mule  teams  going  also  to  the  city. 
Their drivers were  much excited over an 
| accident  which  was  described  in  eager 
j  staccato  terms  ami  with  many  profane 
j  embellishments. 
that  a 
I German with  a two-horse team had driven 
around them,  and,  in getting  back to the 
j  road,  had  roughly collided  with the lead 
mules,  bruising and  laming  one of  them 
! and breaking parts of the harness.  While 
they  were  repairing  damages  we  drove 
on,  the  man  I  was  with  promising  to 
watch  for  the  culprit  and  report when 
they  should  meet  at  the  North  Fork 
House at noou.  Just after dinner, as the 
whole  company were  discussing their ci­
gars and also the episode of the morning, 
the  object  of 
their  resentment  came 
quietly  along  the  road.  At  once  there 
was a dramatic  scene  enacted  that  will 
never  fade  from  the  recollection of  the 
spectators.  The  one  whose  team  had 
been  injured  stepped  to  the  door  and 
halted  the  German,  while  two  willing 
comrades  held  the  heads of  his horses. 
He was  asked  the reason  for  his  action 
of  the  morning,  but,  terrified  by  what 
must have  seemed  to  him  a  Vehmic tri­
bunal  in  terrible  guise,  he  could  only 
stammer out his most  humble  apologies. 
On  being  told  that he had  done  damage 
to the  amount  of  $50, and  that  it  must 
be paid on the  spot in cash  or  taken  out 
of  his  hide with a horsewhip  at  the rate 
of $2.50 per blow,  he became demoralized 
with fear,  imploring them  to  pity a poor 
man  who had  not  enough to support his 
wife and  children.  But  this did  not in­
fluence  the  man  who  had  been  angry 
for  hours  over  the  injury  done  to  his 
favorite  team,  and  he  insisted  on  the 
German  making a  choice  either  to  pay 
for  such 
injury in coin  or  in  personal 
suffering.  Hardly  had  he  time  to  do 
more  than  make a sign  in  response  be­
fore the heavy whip of the enraged team­
ster  began  to  collect  his  claim,  not  in 
hard  cash,  but  in  the  fiat  money  of  re­
venge.  The  air  for  thirty  seconds  re­
sounded with the  swish of  the whip and 
the  heart-moving  cries  of  the  victim. 
Then the  horses were  released,  and  the 
poor wounded  fellow drove  on,  followed 
by the comments of a heartless crowd.

C rate  Chests. 

counts  long  overdue,  the  only  genuine 
comfort  with  which  he  can  poultice his 
wounded  feelings  is  to  contemplate the 
very select company of the true ai.d tried 
among  his  customers,  whose  honor 
is 
untarnished  and whose  credit  has  stood 
the  test of  time  unimpaired.  The satis- | 
faction  one  feels  in  reflecting  that  a j 
remnant is still left whose actions recon­
cile one  to  renewed  faith  in  humanity 
will go far to smooth  the  asperities of  a 
business life.

the  most  liberal 

To such the dealer  can.  and  ought  to, 
extend 
inducements. 
He may  justly concede  to  all  honorable 
and  prompt  customers  reduced  prices, 
according  to  the  amount  of  purchases, 
without  being  unfair  to those  who  are 
transient  buyers  and  pay  ruling  rates.
It would be unjust to concede  to  the lat­
ter favors  solely for  the  purpose of  at­
tracting  future  custom.  Every  reason­
able  concession  to  a  regular  customer 
whose  trade  is  enough  to  justify  it  is 
preferable to increased sales at full rates 
to a class whose credit is unsound.  Good 
policy dictates  this  course,  for they will 
feel  that  their  custom  is  appreciated, 
and  they  will  mentally  institute  com­
parisons in favor of  the one  who  makes 
just  distinctions between  good  and  bad 
credits.  Every  man’s  sense  of  justice 
tells him when  he is well  used,  and self- 
interest is a motive worthy to be appealed 
to,  if done within reasonable limits.  All 
this may seem to have no direct reference 
to  the  collection of  debts, but  yet  it  is 
pertinent  to  the  subject of  present dis­
cussion,  for,  if  “A penny saved is a pen­
ny earned,”  surely a book account avoid­
ed is a definite  amount  saved to the  far- 
seeing,  enterprising  merchant.  While 
no  business  can  be  carried  on,  in these 
days, on  a  strictly  cash  basis,  the  man 
who shortens  his pages of  book accounts 
by  a  wise  system  of  discrimination  in 
giving  credits  is  on  the  safe  side.  To 
pursue  such a course  is  far  better  than 
to  make  large  and  reckless  sales,  al­
though  one  may be never  so  sharp and 
successful as a collector.

The pleasanter  the  relations  between 
buyer and  seller,  the more profit there is 
for  each  party.  The  less  dunning  one 
does,  the  easier  it  is  to  maintain  the 
entente cordlale,  which is as necessary in 
commercial as in social affairs.  Business 
should  never be conducted on the princi­
ple of “Every man  for  himself and  may 
the Devil take the hindermost.”

The  ordinary  worries  of  commercial 
experience  are  enough,  without  adding 
to them  by a careless habit of  indiscrim­
inate  credit,  and  the various  irritating 
dunning methods  that  are the  necessary 
sequel.  Since  margins of  profit are,  to­
day,  close  on  all  classes  of  goods, the 
lines of credit should be correspondingly 
shortened. 
If  one cannot  succeed in do­
ing  a  safe business  under  these  condi­
tions,  it  is  better  to  fail,  if  one  must, 
with  goods  unsold  than to be obliged  to 
report  most  of  the  assets  as  book  ac­
counts hopelessly bad.

Should  one  choose,  occasionally, 

to 
leave the  ninety and  nine who  are true 
and  faithful  and seek  the 1 per cent, of 
fugitive  debtors  in  the  hope  of  saving 
something,  he  may  do  so, not  so  much 
for  profit as for  athletic exercise.  And, 
should he once  in a while  be  tendered a 
full  payment,  he  may  thank  his  stars, 
and  may  very  properly  attach  to  the 
usual form of  receipt a promise  never to 
trust  the debtor  again  so  long  as  grass 
grows or water runs.

Quality  Wins!

A.nd  you  can  depend  on  the  best 
quality  w here  you  buy  this  brand.

Glass  Covers  for  Biscails.

I  p^n,  -uh T rr-i--A g |

However  much of  truth there  may  be 
contained  in  the  saying,  “ It  is  more 
blessed  to  give than  to  receive,”  I  am 
sure  that  neither  giving  nor  receiving 
ever blessed  either  party to this transac­
tion.  But one of  the witnesses,  at least, 
learned  a  lesson  from 
this  peculiar 
method of  collecting that  has since  tem­
pered  his  judgment  towards  many  un­
fortunate as well as dishonest debtors.
S. P.  W hitm arsh.

MICHIGAN  MINING  SCHOOL.

A State  School of  Mining Engineering, giving  prac­
tical  instruction in mining  and allied  subjects.  Has 
summer schools in surveying, Shop practice and  Field 
Geology.  Laboratories,  shops  and  stamp  mill  well 
equipped.  Tuition  free.  For catalogues apply to the 
Director, Houghton, Michigan.

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.

npHKSE  chests  will 
soon 
'*■  pay for themselves  in  the 
>reakage they avoid.  Price $4.

ill  save  enough  good'-  from  flies

B UR new glass covers  are by  far the 

handsomest  ever  offered 
to  the 
trade.  They  are  made  to  fit  any 
of our  boxes  and can  be  changed  from 
one box  to  another in a moment  They 
dirt  and  prying  fingers in a short  time to pay

N E W   N O V E L T IE S

We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties:

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

CREAM  CRISP. 

MOSS  HONEY  JUMBLES.
NEWTON,  a rich  finger with  fig  filling.  This  is  bound  to  be  one  of 

the best selling cakes we ever made.

THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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

Rambling-  T h o u g h ts  From  a  Pessim istic 

S tan d p o in t.

Written fo r  Th e Tradesman.

Away  back  in  the  50’s,  when  1  was  a 
boy on the old farm in Canada,  niv  only 
daily companions  all  through  the  long 
summer  months  were  dear,  faithful, 
and long-suffering old  Buck  and  Bright. 
Shall I ever forget them?  Well,  I  guess 
not.  Buck—how  unclassical and  prinia- 
tive that  sounds  to  me  now!—was  as 
black and as devoid of. horns  as  the  ace 
of spades, and he sported au abbreviated 
tail.  Poor Buck has long since departed 
this life, and,  with all due respect for his 
memory,  l cannot refrain from  laughing 
when 1 think of the frantic efforts of that 
tail in fly time.  Be was kind and  obedi­
ent and when he saw me in  the  attitude 
of holding high his  end  of  the  yoke  in 
one hand and swinging his bow  with  the 
other,  and  heard  the  command,  “Come 
under,  Buck,”  he never refused to  obey. 
Bright  wore  brindle  stripes  and  one 
sawed-off horn; and  one  of  his  eyes (the 
the one next to Buck)  was  no  good  and 
the other was sky-colored.

As before stated, they  were  my  daily 
companions  and.  while  plodding  back­
ward and forward over the old  fields,  we 
frequently  halted  under 
the  friendly 
branches of an oak or  a  wild  cherry  to 
rest.  During these rests 1 would  sit  on 
the  old  wooden  plowbeam  and  watch 
the myriads of noisy crows on their  way 
to campmeeting; and the  other  two  fel­
lows—that is,  Buck  and  Bright—would 
heave  and  “ loll”  and  get  ready  for  a 
fresh start.

Did you ever watch the crows? 

I used 
to remark to  Buck  that  1  thought  the 
crows  exhibited  the 
least  sense  and 
wasted the most noise of anything 1  ever 
saw; but 1  had uever seen  very  much  at 
that time. 
If Buck had  even  hinted  to 
me at that time that men  were  just  like 
crows,  1  would have gone  with  him  into 
another  form  of  existence  and  would 
never  have  become  a  man.  My  only 
source of information up to that time had 
been the little Sunday  school  library  and 
the catechism,  and  1 supposed  that  men 
—not some men,  but  all  men—were  in­
dividually independent, intelligent beings 
possessing reasoning powers which justly 
constituted them  the  crowning  work  of 
creation.  Created in  the  image  of  the 
Great Architect of the universe and given 
the earth and  the fruitfulness thereof  as 
a heritage,  and placed in  dominion  over 
every created thing  therein,  1  supposed 
that, as  a  natural  result  of  the  divine 
plan, all  men exercised  their  God-given 
attributes. 
In other  words,  I  supposed 
that men  utilized  their  own  brains  in­
dividually in regulating their own actions, 
and that they formed their own  opinions 
and drew their own  conclusions  accord­
ing to the dicta of their own  judgments.
Yes,  men  are  just  like  crows—blind 
multitudinous  followers  of 
the  blind. 
For every old crow that seemed to possess 
a  marked  degree  of  individuality  and 
evince the least symptoms of a  desire  to 
investigate  for  himself  and  a  capacity 
for mapping out  his  own  course,  there 
were 999 who followed in the  wake  and 
cried  “Caw, caw,” simply  because those 
in  advance of tBem cried  “Caw,  caw.”  I 
used to think that even the boss crow did 
not know as much as he imagined he did, 
for sometimes  he  would  strike  out  for 
the pine grove under the impressien that 
he had caught a sniff of a  dainty  morsel 
of corruption, and immediately the whole 
crow tribe would take up the cry and fol­

low,  filling the air with such h  confusion 
of  rasping souuds that Buck  would  roll 
his off eye heavenward and  wonder  what 
it was all about. 
In a few minutes  back 
they would come, showing that  the  boss 
crow had made a miscalculation;  but  the 
common herd  followed  just  the  same— 
mere echoes of their leader.

Yes, men are  like  crows.  Keep  your 
ear close to the  ground,  and  before  the 
present political  campaign  comes  to  au 
end, you will  hear something that souuds 
very much like  “Caw,  caw,—caw,  caw, 
caw.” 
It is my  intention  to  give  these 
rambling thoughts  a  commercial  appli­
cation,  and the reader may make his own 
application  politically,  socially,  and  re­
ligiously.

“Caw, caw,”  in crow  parlance,  means 
a whole volume of  old  commercial  saws 
and 
aphorisms  when  translated  into 
plain English.  These business  precepts 
are originated by  prominent and success­
ful  business men, and are at once adopted 
by the masses and  incorporated  into  the 
code of  business  ethics.  They  become 
the gospel of trade, and to question their 
soundness is au evidence of mental  aber­
ration.
In a recent number of  a  leading  trade 
journal,  a  writer  takes  up  considerable 
space in defining the qualifications neces­
sary on the part of  a business man to en­
sure  success.  First  and  above  all,  he 
stated,  was a firm  and steadfast  determi­
nation to win success,  or  die  in  the  at­
tempt.  This is the gospel  we  preach  in 
this our day of grace,  and yet we  wonder 
why it is that self-distructiou is so preva­
lent in the land  we boast of.  The  “suc­
cess,”  and the “get there”  in this modern 
get-there-or-die  doctrine  means  the  ac­
cumulation of  wealth and nothing more. 
Get rich and win  a  glorious  success,  oi 
fail to  get  rich  and  make  a  miserable 
failure.  No wonder that suicides  are  so 
common and accomodation in our asylums 
so  limited.  Of  all  the  motives  which 
prompt men to action and  spur  them  on 
to dare  and  to do,  none is more powerfu 
than the love  of  appprobation—to  gain 
the respect and admiration of others.  A 
motive  of  this  kind  may  be  strongly 
tinctured  with selfishness,  but  that  only 
adds to its strength.  We  are  told  that 
the world is  growing  better  every  day 
yet 1 cannot help but think that possibly 
there was a time when  honor,  brotherly 
love  and  business  integrity  were  more 
sought  after,  and  commanded  a  larger 
degree of respect and admiration than the 
mere acquisition of money.  Be this as it 
may.  the only standard of earthly success 
recognized in  this country to-day is based 
on  the  Almighty  Dollar.  Reach  it  by 
any means;  miss-  it  and  die  in  the  at 
tempt.

Any  standard of  a  successful  earthly 
existence that is not within the  reach
of
every  man is  false,  cruel,  unjust,  sub­
versive of human happiness and  distruc 
tive of true manhood.  This false  stand 
ard licenses  oppression,  encourages  pi 
racy and  places a premium  on  robbery 
It distroys every noble and generous  1m 
pulse, puts a blight upon patriotism  and 
breeds contention,  hatred and crime.
E .A.  Owen

A  tradesman  on  Flatbush  avenue 
Brooklyn,  has a big sign stretched across 
the  front of  his  store  bearing  in  large 
black  letters  the  legend, 
“Dealer  in 
Green Goods.”  He sells  vegetables  aud 
general  garden  truck,  but  if  the  sign 
doesn’t bring him many  rural customers, 
eager for  unhallowed  speculation,  there 
is no virtue in  appealing  to their 
incli­
nations.

VTTHIRTY-FIVE  years  experience 
j I C 
teaches us that  retailers best con- 
suit  their  own  interest  and that 
of  their trade  and the general public,  by 
purchasing from a stock  which  combines 
durability, style,  fit  and  excellent  work­
manship  with  prices  so  low  as to  meet 
all  competition:

MICHAEL  KOLB  &  SON,

ROCHESTER,  N  Y.

assure  the  retail trade  that  their  entire 
stock  for  fall  and winter  1892  and  1893 
is  manufactured upon  the above  princi­
ple. 
Inspect  our  samples  which  will 
demonstrate this truth.  Write our repre­
sentative, William Connor, Box 346, Mar­
shall,  Mich.,  and  he  will  soon  be  with 
you,  go  through  our  entire  line,  learn 
rices and judge for yourselves,  and no offence will  be taken,  buy or not buy.
One of  the largest and  most  complete  lines on the  road in single  and  double 
breasted ulsters,  with regular or shawl collars.  Pronounced  best fitters ever  seen, 
in  Friezes,  Shetland, Fur Beavers, Chinchillas in  blue black and many  faucy colors, 
imported and domestic material.

OVERCOATS.

Very many styles in  Kerseys,  Meltons, Chinchillas, Irish Friezes, Fancy Woven 
bespotted 24-ounce rough wools, Royal  Montagnacs soft as spun silk and very warm, 
ingle and double breasted.

Double  Breasted  Suits in all Grades of  material and 

many  colors.

PRINCE  ALBERT  COATS  and  VESTS.

n style and  fit  positively pronounced  unexcelled.  Our mail  orders for  these con- 
inn this statement.
Cutaway,  frocks aqd sacks should be seen  to be appreciated,  which will satisfy 
the closest buyers of excellent clothing to retail at a desirable profit.

M ICHAEL  KOLB  &  SON,

Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers,

R o c h e ste r .  N   Y .

MICHIGAN

Organized  1881.

THE  BOSTONTEMOFFEE

IMPORTERS,

Fair  Contracts,

Equitable  Rates,

Prompt  Settlements.

Are now  receiving  by  every 

Overland,

incoming  steamer  and 
New Crop  Teas
of  their  own  importations, 
which  means  that  in  pur­
chasing  from  them  you  get 
Teas of special  character and 
at only one  reasonable profit 
above actual cost of importa­
tion.

You are surely paying two 
or  more  profits in  buying of 
the  average  wholesaler.

Chase  &  Sanborn,

IMPORTERS,

B O S T O N . 

C H IC A G O .

The  Directors  of  the  “ Michigan”  are 

representative business men of 

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

EUGENE  HARBECK,  Sec’y.

Don’t

YOURoSPRING  LINKS OF

& 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.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T K A D E 8 M A " V -
full  with a polite  request  to call and ex­
amine his new  stock of  goods. 
It is too 
early to state  results. 
If  it works well, 
the patent on the scheme will be worth a 
million.

13

THOUGHTS  WISE  AND  EDGEWISE.
W r itte n  f o r  T h e  T radesman.

Many  a  man  thinks  he  has  real  re­
ligious  doubts  when  they  are  only  chi­
meras.

*  *  *

The  man  who  makes  motions  in and 
around a  court  of  record  is  not  neces­
sarily a lawyer.

Of many  men  it  may  be  said that,  in­
stead of  going  boldly  into  the  battle of 
life,  they send substitutes.

*  *  *

*  *  #

A man  cannot  be  wholly  selfish  who 

allows his wife the last word.

*  

*  

*

A clear conscience  is said to be  a sure 
cure for insomnia, but it is too expensive 
a  remedy  for  the  cneese  paring  econo­
mists of the present age.
*  *  *

Some  radical  reformers  begrudge  the 
Almighty  His monopoly  of  the  air they 
breathe at no expense, just  because It  is 
a monopoly.

*  *  *

It is strange that  the suicides  who are 
every  day  inventing  some  new  way  to 
“shuffle off this mortal coil” do not think 
of  putting  up  at  a  many  storied  hotel 
with  patent  elevator  attachments,  se­
curing quick  conflagration.

*  

*  

*  

*

*  *  *

A sad-eyed  young  man wliose practice
at the  court  of  love  had  obtained  only 
adverse  verdicts  bitterly  remarked  that 
female  education  was  sadly  defective, 
“for,” said  he,  “the  mothers  of  to-day 
teach their  daughters  only the gospel of 
negation.”
’ 

If  capital  punishment  is  the  best de­
terrent  of  crime,  those  murderers  who 
commit  suicide  deserve  the  thanks  of 
society,  for they accomplish  what all the 
executive  and  judicial  powers  but par­
tially achieve at  an  immense  cost to the 
public,  while this  is done at no cost save
the coroner’s expenses.
*  *  *

The nearer a  state  comes  to the ultra­
humanitarian standard set  up by profess­
ors of penology,  the more  it costs the peo­
ple for protection. 
Innocent life is safer 
when  judicial  red  tape  is  not  used  to
blind the eyes of Justice.
*  *  *

If a sentence to State prison for a term 
limited conditionally is an indeterminate 
sentence,  and,  therefore, invalid,  accord­
ing to the opinion of our Supreme Court, 
what assurance  have  we  that  the  same 
Court,  if confronted with a case,  will not 
decide  that a life sentence  is  also  inde­
terminate  and  void,  since  life  may  be 
but a span or a generation of  years?

#  

*  

*

The fire escapes,  so  called,  attached to 
grand hotels  are  rightly  named,  for  the 
fire escapes in spite of all efforts to check 
it;  but  the  guests  only  escape  “as  by 
fire,”  if lucky enough to escape at all.

*  »  *

A  late  writer observes  that  “Wasted 
force  is  the  great  trouble  of  to-day.” 
This is true so far as it applies to the ex­
cessive  coughing in  church  indulged in 
by those who  have but  little strength  to 
spare.

*  *  *

A Western country dealer  has hit on  a 
new scheme to stimulate  trade.  He had 
a large list of  customers  long in arrears 
for  small  amounts  who had  not visited 
his store  for  many  months,  because,  as 
they said, they  were  “ashamed to face  a 
creditor  till  that  little  bill  was  paid.” 
To each one of  them  he sent a receipt in

*  *  *

There are  two  kinds  of  highway rob­
bery:  The first is  the  old  way with the 
revolver,  which  generally  takes  all  one 
has at the  time;  the  other  is  when  you 
are  accosted  by  an  acquaintance  and 
asked for a loan of  50  cents or  $1 to tide 
over  an  emergency.  This  takes  but  a 
trifle, ’tis true, but,  like lost opportunity, 
is gone forever.  There is,  however,  this 
compensation — it  sets  one  man  (too 
mean  to  do  anything  else)  dodging  for 
the rest of his natural life, trying to keep 
out of the range of your vision.

*  

*  

*

Bashful  John Simple,  on  being  intro­
duced  to  Miss  Clara  Hargreave,  un­
consciously paid  that lady a compliment 
that no society  man  could have excelled. 
In reply  to  her  remark  that  she fancied 
they had met  before,  he  said:  “I cannot 
remember  the  occasion. 
If  1 had  ever 
beeu  in  Heaven,  I would  know  it  must 
have been there.”

There  was  once  a boy  who  resolved 
that  he  would  have a fixed  purpose  in 
life  and  strive for  it  until  it  should be 
attained.  So he studied  hard at  school, 
and,  when he became  a man,  he read  up 
and  studied  still.  He  sought  far  and 
wide for  all the practical  knowledge his 
growing  mind  could  master,  filing  it 
away  in  his  mental  storehouse for  the 
necessities of  the future.  At the age  of 
forty-seven he reached the summit of his 
ambition—he  became  postmaster  in  his 
native town  and  truly  honored the office 
by faithful attention  to every  duty.

*  *  *

Some people  may  smile at the humble 
ambition of  one who  set his mark in  life 
at what  would  be called a low standard; 
but,  when the plans now in process of in­
cubation by expert  statesmen  and  those 
who are something else,  including a  host 
of petitioners from every part of the land, 
to modify the  postal  system in the inter­
est of what is called reform, shall become 
fully  developed,  a  humble  postmaster- 
ship  will  be  less  of  a sinecure  than  a 
place in the cabinet.  The man who then 
writes P.  M.  after his name will find that 
it means  more  than  post meridian.  He 
will have to get  up early in  the morning 
and keep his  wits  about him all day. 
If 
civil service  rules  govern the  selection, 
he will  have to be a living encyclopedia, 
and,  perhaps,  a  Briarcus,  before  obtain­
ing a local  appointment.  He  will  have 
to  understand  banking,  to  superintend 
his part of  the complicated  deposit  sys­
tem;  he  must  be  a  telegraph  operator, 
receiving and  sending  cheap  messages; 
an  expert in  using  the  phonograph;  an 
electric  scientist,  to  make  and  report 
signal  service  observations;  a  statisti 
cian, to  make  out  records  to  be filed in 
the  census  bureau;  a  sleuthhound  and 
detective,  to  mark  the  clews  of  crime 
and  immorality  that  may  lurk  in  the 
mail bags;  an express  agent  and  money 
broker;  an  expert  in all styles of  book­
keeping,  so that the  office standing  may 
be seen at a glance  by  an  inspector who 
can  stop over only one train, besides act­
ing as  superintendent of  carriers organ­
ized for a  double  daily  delivery of  mail 
at every  dwelling on  every  crossroad in 
his district. 
In  short, he  will be a man 
of  all work,  a  genius of  the first  water, 
and,  when fully developed up  to the  de­
mands of the system,  he will be the won­
der of his day and age.

July 8,  1892. 

S.  P.  WhitmAKSH.

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14
Drugs  Medicines.

State  Board  of Pharm acy.

One  Tear—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Two  Tears—James Yemor, Detroit.
Three  Years—Ottmar Eberb&ch, Ann  Arbor 
Four Tears—George Gnndrnm, Ionia.
Fire Years—C. A. Bugbee. Cheboygan.
President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
November 1.

Meetings  for  1892 — Marquette,  Aug.  31;  Lansing, 

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 
President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. 
Vice-Presidents—8.  E.  Parkill,  Owosso;  L. Pauley, St.
Ignace;  A. S. Parker, Detroit.
Secretary—Mr. Parsons, Detroit.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—F. J. Wurzburg,  Grand Rapids; 
Frank  Inglis  and  G.  W.  Stringer,  Detroit;  C.  E. 
Webb, Jackson.
Next place  of  meeting—Grand  Rapids, Aug. 2,3 and 4. 
Local Secretary—John  D. Muir._____________________
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 
President, W. R. Jewett,  Secretary,  Frank H. Escott, 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March 
June, September and December.________________
Grand Rapids D rug Clerks’ Association, 
resident, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith.

Muskegon  Drug Clerks’  Association. 

President  N. Miller:  Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.
One  Hundred  and  Twenty-Six  Pass  a 

Successful  Examination.

At the  July  meeting of  the  Michigan 
State Board of  Pharmacy,  145 candidates 
were  examined.  Of  these,  68  received 
certificates  as  Registered  Pharmacists, 
and 58 as Assistants.  The  next meeting 
of  the Board  will  be  held  for the exam­
ination of  applicants living in the Upper 
Peninsula  at  Marquette,  Aug.  31.  Fol­
lowing is a list  of  the  successful  candi­
dates at the recent examination:
Registered  Pharmacists—R.  B.  Arm­
strong,  Petoskey;  G.  A.  Backmeyer, 
Clayton;  James  Bates.  Flushing;  F.  M. 
Billings,  Marshall;  Ray  Burlingame, 
Dowagiac;  W.  B. Cady,  Ypsilanti;  J.  G. 
Campbell,  Windsor,  Ont.;  W.  Church, 
Flint:  L.  H. Cole, Fenton;  T. W.  Cooper, 
Harbor  Springs;  T.  J. Carley,  Ann Ar­
bor;  W.  J.  Dalbey,  Mt.  Clemens;  Geo. 
Dale.  Wyoming, Out.;  J.  B.  Dale, Toron­
to,  Out.;  C.  A.  Dutton,  Ingersoll,  Ont.; 
W.  R.  Faber.  Ann  Arbor;  F.  S. Geppert, 
F.  Giddey,  W.  B.  Gordon,  Robert  Halls 
and Janies J.  Hayes,  Detroit;  C.  M.  Hen- 
sel,  Lithopolis,  0.;  A. J.  Hertzel,  Ada,
O. 
D.  Johnson.  Marion;  F.  G.  Johnston. 
Marshall;  F.  Carmsen,  Grand  Rapids; 
F.  H.  Kelly,  Detroit:  1.  N.  Kinney, St. 
Louis;  George  II.  Landis,  Woodland:  E. 
Leibhauser,  Nashville;  W.  Lunger- 
hausen,  Mt.  Clemens;  Charles  T.  McIn­
tyre,  Woodland;  W.  McKee,  Kalamazoo; 
J.  S.  McLarty,  Toronto;  John  Maxwell, 
Ann Arbor:  G.  R.  May,  Stockbridge;  C. 
Menold,  Bangor;  C.  W.  Merkle,  Char­
lotte;  W.  H.  Mortimer, John  A.  Murray, 
J.  Paddock,  Detroit;  E.  A.  Pickard, 
Thomasville,  Ont.;  T.  E.  Robinson, 
Charlotte;  J.  A.  Schaick,  Mt. Clemens;
E.  Shabert,  Alvado, O.;  T.  Schmalzried, 
Geo.  M. Schultz  and L.  Seltzer,  Detroit; 
Wm.  G.  Sieg, Ionia;  J. Sielong,  Ada, O.; 
A. Sipprell and M. Smith,  Detroit;  Wm.
P.  Stafford,  Cadillac;  L.  Tafi,  Lowell;
F.  A.  Tiller,  Detroit;  C.  A.  Topping, 
Fenton:  J.  A.  Van  Loon, Detroit;  John 
Vermema,  Menominee;  E.  Z.  Ware, 
Grand  Rapids;  G.  J.  Warner,  Birming­
ham;  J.  A.  Webster,  Detroit;  Bert  Well­
man,  Armada;  J. J.  Wells,  Athens; John 
Werner,  St. Thomas,  Ont.;  A. J.  Wilkin 
son, Windsor.  Ont.;  Van  J.  Witt,  Lake 
City.
Assistant  Pharmacists—F.  E.  Beard, 
Charlotte;  B.  Bearss,  Yale;  W.  Beck, 
Charlotte;  T.  W.  Bonifield,  Neptune, 0.; 
N. S.  Bristol,  St. Johns;  W.  E.  Bromley, 
Detroit;  W. T.  Charbonneau,  Chatham, 
Ont.;  W.  H.  Cooley, Clio:  F.  W. Dersch, 
Adrian;  J.  H.  Dunn,  W.  H.  Eaton  and F. 
Faber,  Detroit:  L.  C.  Forger,  W.  Bay 
City;  B.  Franks and  L.  T.  Freytag,  De­
troit:  G.  G.  Gardiner,  North  Star;  R. 
Hamlin,  N.  Healey,  N.  L.  Hubbard,  E. 
Hunt,  Detroit;  C.  Jewell,  Pontiac;  S. 
Judson,  Clayton;  C.  D.  Kendall,  Port 
Huron;  B.  E.  King,  St.  Johns;  J.  H. 
Klien,  Chelsea;  E.  Kranth, S.  A.  McDer- 
mitt,  Detroit;  H.  A.  Main, Tekonsha; M. 
A.  Millar, Garna:  L. Morrison, Williams- 
ton;  W.  L.  Newton,  Richmond;  E.  E. 
Palmer, Potterville;  G.  E.  Prenton, De­
troit;  W.  Perkins,  Alma;  R.  Prickney, 
Ypsilanti;  A.  M.  Reid,  Detroit;  E.  H. 
Richards,  Saranac;  W.  Riddle,  Detroit; 
J.  Rothacher,  F.  Rothacher, Detroit; C. 
Rowley,  Marshall;  John  Rutherford, 
Jonesville;  E.  Sargent,  Saranac;  P.  J.

;  Charles Hill,  11.  H. Hoffman, Detroit;

Sauer,  Detroit;  F.  Schmitz, Pontiac;  E. 
Schwint, Ada, O.;  G. Sherrard, Yale;  R. 
Shaw,  Port Huron;  S.  Smith,  Cass City; 
W.  A. Smith,  Windsor;  J.  Staley, Yale; 
F. J.  Stephenson,  Brooklyn;  Claude  E. 
Whipple,  Detroit;  Fred  Winn,  Elk Rap­
ids;  C.  B.  Zuam, Eastport;  H.  Zirn,  Sag­
inaw;  F.  Gleason,  Greenville;  Fred  A. 
Richter,  Saginaw.

Inventions That  Paid.

The popular “return  ball”  yielded the 
patentee  an  income  of  $50,000  a  year. 
The  “Dancing Jim  Crow” toy was worth 
$75,000 a year to its inventor;  the Spring 
window shade,  the stylographic  pen,  the 
marking  pen  and  rubber  stamps,  each 
$100,000  a  year.  The  common  needle 
threader was  worth  $10,000 a year to the 
man  who  first  thought of  it.  The rub­
ber  tip  on  lead  pencils, 
the  gummed 
newspaper  wrapper, 
the  machine  for 
making  type,  made  rich  men  of  their 
originators.
Silverton  sold  his  patent  for  copper 
tips 
to  children’s  shoes  for  $67,000. 
Waterman’s process for  tempering  wire 
netted  him  $83,000.  Plimpton,  the  in­
ventor of roller skates, made over $1,000,- 
000.  Burden realized a  profit of  $90,000 
for his  invention  in  horseshoes.  Hoe’s 
printing press  made for him in  fourteen 
years $248,000.
Singer, living in a loft over a stable on 
the Bowery in New York, with no money 
and little to  eat, was  next  met in Paris 
luxuriously enjoying an income of $1,400 
a day.  Arkwright,  the  inventor  of  the 
cotton  spinning  machine,  whose  father 
shaved men  for  a penny  in London,  ac­
quired a  fortune  which  yielded  an  in­
come of $2,000,000 a year,  and  left at his 
death nearly $50,000,000.

Good and Bad Advertisements.

From Fame.

“When a happy hit is made in the way 
of  catch  lines it is worked  to  death  all 
over  the  country, and  invariably  has  a 
number  of  imitators  who  endeavor  to 
attract attention  by playing on the  same 
string;  but at best these are only echoes, 
and sometimes they are worse  than that.
“ ’Do  you  wear  pants?’  had  its day, 
and is a thing of  the past. 
Its populari­
ty  and  advertising  value  has  probably 
led to the  latest  ‘bungle’ in an  advertise­
ment of the same class. 
I will not quote 
the author’s  name, although he unblush- 
ingly  parades  it  in  connection  with an 
announcement like this:  ‘I have dropped 
my pants to $4.50 ’
“ Here is a rather  neat way of  describ­
ing a two-dollar pair of shoes. 
It comes 
from  Greenport,  Long  Island,  where 
Krancher doubtless does a good business: 
‘Krancher  has  shoes at  $1  a  foot.  Es­
tablished  1856.  All  kinds  of  footwear 
for man,  woman and child.’ ”
The  D rug  M ark et.

There  are  few  changes  to  note  this 

week:

Gum opium is steady.
Morphia is unchanged.
Quinine is firm at last week’s price.
Jalap root is higher  again and  tending 

upward, on account of small stocks.

Balm of Gilead buds are lower.
Nitrate silver is weak and declining in 

price.

Tonka  bean  stocks  are  concentrated 

and tending higher.
Cocaine is lower.
Orange peel is higher.

B.  M.  A.  O rganized a t H a rrie tta .

H a b k ie t t a ,  July  13—The  merchants 
of this place held a meeting  last evening 
and orgauized a Business  Men’s Associa­
tion, with ten members.  Every business 
man  but  one  joined  in  the  movement. 
The officers elected are as  follows:

President—John C. Ben bow.
Vice-President—S. J. Doty.
Secretary—John  Garrett.
Treasurer—Harry Driben.
We look for excellent results from this 
action of the business men.

J ohn  Ga r r e tt,  Sec’y.

Owosso—J.  H.  Thorn  succeeds  J.  J. 

Knapp in the commission  business.

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E SM A N .
FOURTH NATIONAL BAM

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

D. A. B lodgett, President.

Geo.  W.  Gat, Vice-President.

Wm. H. A n d erso n,  Cashier.
CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general banking  business.

Make  a specialty of collections.  Accounts 

of country m erchants solicited.

P A M P H L E T S

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

THE  TRADESM AN  COMPANY.

All children  enjoy a drink of

H ires’  Root Beer.

So does every other member of the family.

A2a cent  package m akes 5 gallons o f this delicious 
drink.  Don’t  be deceived if a  dealer, for the sake 
Of larger  profit,  tells  you  som e  other  kind  is 
“just as good 
’tis false.  No imitation is as good 
as the genuine H ir es'.

AGNES BOOTH CIGARS

In   ten sizes and shapes.  We will guarantee to Increase your d g  
sales if you w ill give 
your custom ers a chance  to  bay the Agnes  Booth Cigar.  A ll we ask is a sam ple order.

I.  M.  CLARK  GROCERY  CO., 

S ta te   A g e n ts.

To call on or address

Don*t  Forget  when  ordering

A.  E.  BROOKS  &  CO.,  Mfrs,  46 Ottawa  St., Grand  Rapids.

NUTS,  nas,CANDY DATES, ETC.
Jobber ofBioars

Including the following celebrated brands man­
ufactured  by the  well known  house of  Glaser, 
Frame A Co. :
Vlndex, long  Havana filler.......................  $35
Three  Medals, long Havana filler........... 
35
55
E lk’s Choice, Havana filler and binder... 
La F lor de Alfonso,................................  
55
65
La Doncella de M orera,......................... 
La Ideal,  85 in a box................................ 
55
M adellena......... 
60
Headquarters  for  Castellanos & Lopez’s  line  of 
Key West goods.
All favorite  brands of Cheroots  kept in stock

J. L.  Strelitsky,

10  So.  Ionia  8i,  Grand  Rapids.

Special pains taken w ith fru it orders.

 

 

T H E   M I C U T  G  AIST  T R A D E S M A N ,

Wholesale P rice  C urrent•

Advanced—Jalap ro

Declined—Balm Gilead bud.

A CIDUM .
Aceticum ............................
8 ®   10
Benzoicum  German.
6 0 ®   65
Boraclc 
20
..............................
Carbollcum......................
2 2 ©   30
Cltrlcum...................
5 0 ®   52
Hyarochior..............
3 ®  
5
Nltrocum 
...............
1 0 ®   12
Oxalicum ...........................
1 0 ®   12
Phosphorium  dll......
20
Sallcylicum.............. 1  30@ 1  70
Sulphuricum............
I X ©   5
Tannicum................. 1  4 0 ®  1  60
Tartar l c u m ........................
3 0 ®   32
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg............
20   deg............
Carbonas  .................
Chlorldum...............
A N IL IN S.
Black....................................... 2   0 0 ® 2   25
Brown...................................
8 0 ® 1   00
Red............................................
4 5 ®   50
Yellow................................... 2   50@ 3  00

5
3 X @  
5 K @  
7
1 2 ®   14
1 2 ®   14

“  

BACCAR.
Cubeae ( p o  
6 5 ) .............
Juniperus...........................
X a n t n o x y l u m ..................
BALS AM UM.
Copaiba...................................
Peru............................................
Terabln, Canada  ..........
Tolutan...................................

6 0 ®   70
8 ®   10
2 5 ®   30

4 0 ®   45
@ 1  30
3 5 ®   40
3 5 ®   50

C O R TEZ.

Abies,  Canadian............ ............. 
18
Cassiae  ..................................
............. 
11
Cinchona Fiava  ............
............. 
18
Enonymus  atroprrrp. . ............  
30
Myrica  Cerlfera, po... .............  20
Prunus Virgin!................. ........  12
Qulllala,  grd.............. ........  10
Sassafras  ................... ......  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  12) ........  10

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

BXTRACTUM .
24®  25
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra... 
33@  35
po.................
ii@  12
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is.............. 13®  14
14®  15
KB............
16®  17
Ks............
FER R U M .
Carbonate Preclp . ...... @  15
@3 90 
@  SO 
Citrate  Soluble......
@  50 
Ferrocyanldum Sol.
®  15
Solul  Chloride......
Sulphate,  com’l —  
.

pure... 

IK®@

“ 

FLO R A .

Arnica.......................  28®  28
Anthemls..................   *@  35
Matricaria 
25®  31)

... 

folia.

Barosma 
..................  
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tln-

lti@l 00
nlvelly....................  25®  28
Alx.  35®  50
and  %b....................  12®  15
8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  !4s
UraUrsl.....................  

“ 

“ 

OUKMI.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Acacia,  1st  picked  ...  ®  75
2d 
....  @  50
3d 
.... @ 40
sifted sorts. . .  @  25
po.........  60® 
80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20) ...  ®  12
Socotri, (po.  60).  @ 50
Catechu, Is, (tts, 14 Kb,
16)..........................  
®  1
Ammonlae.................  55®  60
ABsafcetida, (po. 35)..  30@  35
Bensolnum.................  50®  55
Camphors..................   5U@  53
Buphorblum  po  ........  35@ 
io
Galbanum...................  @3 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70®  7b
Gualacum, (po  30)  ...  @ 25
Kino,  (po.  35)............   @  30
Mastic.............  
  @  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
Opll,  (po  2  50)...........1  6C@1  60
Shellac  ......................  25®  35
. “ 
bleached......  30@  35
Tragacanth...............   30®  75
h e r ba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium......................   ■  25
Bupatorium.........................  20
Lobelia................................   25
Majorum........  ...................  28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
“  V lr.........................  26
Rue.......................................  80
Tanacetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25

MAGNESIA.

Calcined, Pat.............   55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M —   20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36

Cubebae......................  @500
Exechthltos..............  2 50®2 75
Erlgeron..................... 2 25@2 50
Gaultheria..................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......   @  75
Gosslpil, Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................2 00@2 10
Juniper!......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
LImonis......................2 75@3 25
Mentha Piper.............. 2 75@3 50
Mentha Yerid.............2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal.............1  00@l  10
Myrcla, ounce............  @  so
Olive..........................  80®2 75
Picls Liquida, (gal. 35)  10®  12
Ricini....................... 
86®  92
Rosmarlnl................. 
Rosae, ounce............   6 50@8 50
Succlnl.......................  40®  45
Sabina.........................  90©1 00
Santal  .......................3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
Sinapls, ess, ounce...  @ 65
Tlglll..........................  @  90
Thyme.......................  40®  50
“  Opt  ...............   @ 60
Theobromas...............  15®  20

75@1 00

potassium:.

BlCarb.......................  15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide.................... 
24®  26
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate  (po  18)........  16®  18
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..............................2 S0@2 90
Potassa,  Bitart,  pure..  24®  23 
Potassa, Bltart, com...  @  15
Potass Nitras, opt...... 
8®  10
Potass Nltras..............  7®  9
Prussiate...................   28®  30
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

RADIX.

■ 

Aconitum..................   20®  25
Althae........................   22®  25
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Aram,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......   8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)..................   @  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po....................... 2 20@2 30
Iris  plox (po. 35®38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   45®  50
Maranta,  &s  .............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhel............................  75@l  00
“  Cut.....................   @1  75
“  pv.......................  75@1  35
Spigella.....................   35®  38
Sangulnarla, (po  25)..  @  20
Serpentarla...............   30®  32
3enega.......................  45®  50
Similax. Officinalis,  H  @ 40 
M  @ 20
Scillae, (po. 35)  .  ......  10®  12
Syuiplocarpus,  Fcetl
dus,  po.... ...............  @  35
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  ©  25
German...  15®  20
inglber a ..................   12®  15
Zingiber  j .............. 
18®  22
SEXEH.
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
..  @ 15
Aplum  (graveleons)  .  33®  35
Bird, Is..................  
4®  6
Carul. (po. 18)........... 
8®  12
Cardamon......  ..........1  00©1  25
Corlandrum............   .  10®  12
Cannabis Satlva.........  3H@4
Cydonlnm..................   75®1  00
Cnenopodlum  ...........  10®  12
Dlpterlx Odorate........2 25®2 35
Foenlcuium...............  @  15
Foenngreek,  po......... 
6®  8
L ln i...........................   4  @ 4K
Uni, grd,  (bbl. 3K) 
4  @ 4*
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Pharlaris Canarian—   3X®  4K
Rapa..........................  6®  7
Sinapls,  Albu............  
8®  9
Nigra...........  11®  12

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

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

 

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

Absinthium.................... 3 50@4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc.......   45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 00@8 25
Anlsl............................... 1  65@1 75
Aurantl  Cortex..........3 00®3 25
Bergamll  ...................3 00®3 25
Cajiputi.................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll...............   65®  75
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodll...............   @1  60
Clnnamonll.....................1  10@1 15
Cltronella..................   ®  45
Conlum  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba  ....................   90@1  00

STRUTS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................  50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................  50
Rhel  Arom..........................   50
Similax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Sclllae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Pranas  virg........................   50

“ 

“ 

“ 

Ä 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W...1  7C@1  95 
C. Co.......................1  60@1  85
MoschuB Canton........  @  40
Myrlstlca, No. 1.........   65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia....................  20®  22
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co ...  ......................  @2 00
Picls  Liq, N.»C., K gai
doz  .........................  @2 00
Picls Llq., quarts......   @100
pints.........  @  85
Pll Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (pog5)....  @  3
Plx  Bur gun...............   @  7
Plumb! A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opll.. 1  10@1  20
Pyrethram,  boxes  H 
& P. D.  Co., doz......  @1  25
Pyrethram,  pv...........  30®  35
Quassiae....................  8®  10
Quinta, S. P. & W......  29®  34
S.  German.... 19  @  30
Rubia  Tinctorum......   12®  14
Saccharam Lactls pv.  29®  30
Salacin.......................I  60@1  69
Sanguis  Draconls......  40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
“  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

Seidlltz  Mixture........  @  24
Sinapls.......................   @  18
“  opt..................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snnff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  IK®  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash..................   3K@  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
*'  Vinl  Rect.  bbl.
. ..  7  .......................2 25@2 35
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal......  @1  30
Sulphur, Subl.............. 2%@ 4
“  Roll..............  2H@ 3K
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae............. 40  @  45
Vanilla..................... 9 00®1S 00
Zlnci  Sulph...............   7®  8

OILS.

Whale, winter..........   70 
Lard,  extra...............   55 
Lard, No.  1...............   45 
Linseed, pure raw  ...  43 

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
50
46

“ 

bbl. 

Llndseed,  boiled  ....  46 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   50
Spirits Turpentine 
  36
pa in t s. 

15
49
60
40
lb .
Red Venetian..............lx   2@3
Ochre, yeUow  Mars...  IX  2@4
“ 
Ber........IX  2@3
Putty,  commercial__214  2K@3
“  strictly  pure.....2K  2X@3
VermUlon Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
65®70
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red....................  7  @7K
“  w hite................7  @7K
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.....................1 00@1 20
VARNISHES.

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

HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO.

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT  MEDICINES
Paints, Oils  Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole Agents for the  Celebrateá

SWISS  1/ILLÄ  PREPÄRED  PRINTS.

F i  Line  of  Staple  Druggisls’  S ite s.

We are Sole Proprietors of

Weatherly's  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedu.

W e  Have in Stock and Offer a  F u ll Line of

WHISKIES,  BRANDIES,

GINS,  WINES,  RUM S.

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-

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

TINCTURES.

“ 

“ 

“ 

a 

» 

Aconitum  Napellls R.........   60
¡a)
Aloes.......................................60
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica................................   50
Asafcetida............................ 
0
A trope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................   60
“  Co..........................   50
Sangulnarla.........................  50
Barosma.............................   50
Can th arides.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
Co.........................  75
Castor..................................1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona............................  50
Co.........................  60
Columba.............................   50
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba............... : ..........   ..  50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian...............................  50
“  Co............................  60
Guaica................................   50
“ 
ammon....................  60
Zingiber...............   ...........  50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..................................  75
“  Colorless...................  75
Ferri  Chlorldum.................  35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................  50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
......................  S5
Camphorated...............   50
Deodor......................... 2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Khatany.............................   50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
ValeriaD.............................   50
Veratram Verlde.................  50

MISCELLANEOUS.

1 
“ 

/Ether, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  26®  28 
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alnmen....................... 2K@ 3

ground,  (po.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
cent 

7)  ............................  3®  4
Aunatto.....................   55®  60
Antlmonl, po..............  4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antlpyrln..................   @1  40
Antlfebrin..................  @  25
Argent!  Nitras, ounce  @  61
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ks
11;  Xs,  12)..............  @  9
Can th arides  Russian,
po............................  @1  00
Capslcl  Fractus, a f...  @  20
po—   @ 20
B po.  @  20
Caryophyllus, (po.  14)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......  50®  55
Cera Fiava.................  38®  40
Coccus  ......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  22
Centreria....................  @  10
Cetaceum...................  @  40
Chloroform...............   60®  63
sqolbbs..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Chat.......1  20@1  40
Chondras..................   20®  25
Cinchonidlne, P.  A  W  15®  20 
German  3  @  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
60
.................... 
Creasotum...............   @  50
Crete, (bbl. 75)...........  @  2
“  prep.................... 
5®  5
“  preclp...............  
9®  11
“  Rubra.................  @  8
Crocus.... ..................  33®  35
Cudbear......................  @  24
Capri Sulph...............   5®   6
Dextrine....................  10®  12
Ether Sulph...............   68®  70
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po.................. 
  @  6
Jpo.)  65 .........   60®  65
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................  @  23
Gambler...... ...............7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
“ 
French...........  40®  60
Glassware  flint,  75 and 10. 
by box 70
Glue,  Brown.............. 
9®  15
“  White.................  13®  25
Glycerine...................15ft®  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  @  22
Hamulus....................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  85
  @  75
@  90
Ammoniatl..  @100 
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  65
.1  25®1  50
Jcnthyobolla, Am. 
Indigo..........................   75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl..........3 75®3 85
Iodoform.......................  @4 70
Lupulin......................  45©  SO
Lycopodium..............  50®  55
Macis.........................  75®  80
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod.................  ®  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl 
IK)....................   a®  8
Mannia,  8. F ...............  30033

“ 
“  Ox Rubrum 
“ 
“ 

“  Cor 

16

T H E   MTCHIG^ISr  T R A D E SM A N

G rocery  Price  C urrent•

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
denomination  from 510 down. I
20 books....................... .* 1  00
50  “ 
........  ............ .  2 00
............... .  3 00
100  “ 
250  “ 
......................
.  6 25
500  “ 
....................... .  10 00
................ .  17 50
1000  “ 

Peas.

Green,  bu........................1 70
Split  per  l b .......................3 00
German.............................   4
East India..........................   5
Cracked.............................. 

Wheat.

Sago.

5

CLOTHES FINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags......................  ©3
Less  quantity  ................   @3M
Pound  packages..........6M©7

CONDENSED MILK.
4 doz. In case.

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

Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count. 
8 CO
Half bbls, 1,200 count 
3 50
Clay, No.  216.......................1  75
“  T. D. full count...........  75
Cob, No. 8........................1 25

FIFES.

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s ..........................  4 00
Penna Salt  Co.’s ..............  3 25
Williams,  per doz...........  1 75
5  00

ROOT BEER
3 doz. case... 

“ 

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head.......................6
“  No. 1.......................5
“  No. 2................  © 4

Imported.

Broken...............................   3M
Japan, No. 1......................... 6
“  No. 2..........................5M
Java....................................  5
Patna..................................   5

S P IC E S .

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
u 
“  white...  .25
“ 
shot.........................19
Pure Ground In Bnlk.

Allspice................................1
Cassia,  Batavia...................20
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna............... 30
Zanzibar............... 20
Ginger, African.................. 15
Cochin.................  18
Jam aica.................2T
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 
Cinnamon....................   84 1  55
Cloves..........................   84 155
Ginger, Jam .................   84 1 55
“  Af....................   84 1  55
Mustard.......................   84 1  55
Pepper.........................  84 155
Sage........................ 
84

 

SAL  SODA.

Kegs..................................     1M
Granulated,  boxes__ ........  1M

SEEDS.

Anise.........................  @12*
4
Canary, Smyrna......... 
Caraway....................  
8
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
Hemp,  Russian.........  
4M
Mixed  Bird............... 4M© 5M
6
Mustard,  white.........  
Poppy......... ..............  
9
Rape..........................  
6
Cuttle  bone................ 
30

STARCH.
Corn.

20-lb  boxes..........................  6M
40-lb 

“  .......................... 6

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

1-lb packages.......................   5M
3-lb 
6M
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  4M
Barrels.................................  4*

“ 
“ 

 

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

SNUFF.

SODA.

Boxes....................................5M
Kegs, English........................4*

SALT
 
 

100 3-lb. sacks......................... 52 25
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks.......................   1 85
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases...........................  1 50
56 lb. dairy in’linen  bags.. 
281b.  “ 
.. 

2 00
2 25
50
18

drill  “ 

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

.. 

B 

“ 

56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..  75 

66 lb. dairy in linen  sacks. 

75

Solar Rock.

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

Common Fine.

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

80

85

Warsaw.

Ashton.
Higgins.

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

“ 
“ 

Cod.

Halibut.
Herring.

Yarmouth...............................   1 10
PoUock  .......................
Whole, Grand  Bank...  ©5
Boneless,  bricks........6  @6M
Boneless, strips...........5*©6M
Smoked........................... 
Scaled.........................  
Holland,  bbls............  
kegs............. 
Round shore, M bbl... 
“  M  bbl.. 
Mackerel.

12
©16
11  00
85
2 09
1 10
No. 1, 40 lbs.......................... 4 25
No. 1, kits. 10 lbs.................  1 25
No. 2, 40 lbs..........................3 50
No. 2,  10 lbs........................  1 05
Family, M bbls., 100 lbs....  5 00
65
Russian, kegs....................   45
No. 1, M bbls., lOOlbs........... 6 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs..................  90
No. 1, M bbls., lOOlbs............7 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   95
Family, M bbls., 100 lbs__3  00

Sardines.
Trout.

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

Whitefish.

“ 

kits  10  lbs.........  40

“ 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

2 oz folding box
3 oz 
4  oz 
6   o z  
8  oz 

Jennings’ D C.
Lemon. Vanilla
...  75
1  25
“
..1  00
1  50
“
2 00
..1  50
..2 00
3 00
“
“
..3 00
4   10
G U N   P O W D E R .

“ 

INDIGO.

...5 50
...3 00

K egs...............
Half  kegs........
Sage....................................
Hops...................................
Madras,  5 lb. boxes.........
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes..
60
17  lb. palls  ...................... 
30  “ 
......................  
90
LICORICE.
Pure.....................................   30
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  12
LTE.
Condensed, 2 doz.....................1 25
4 doz.....................2 25
MATCHES.

No. 9  sulphur........-............1  25
Anchor parlor.......................... 1 70
No. 2 home............................... l 10
Export  parlor......................4 00

“ 

MINCE  MEAT

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

MEASURES.

Tin, per dozen.

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

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house......................  18M
Ordinary..........................  
16
Prim e............................... 
16
Fancy...............................  
20

New Orleans.

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

14
17
22
27
35

OATMEAL.

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

ROLLED OATS.

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

FICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 connt........... 16 0
Half  barrels, 600 count__3 00

155

•  AXLE  GREASE.

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

doz  gross
600
550
9 00
8 00
600

~ 

Dr. Price’s.

Cook’s  Favorite.

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

45
M lb. oans,  3 doz............... 
2 “  ................   85
M lb.  “ 
1  “  .................  1 00
1 lb.  “ 
Bulk....................................  10
Arctic.
54 Jb cans............................  60
..........................   1 20
H 9>  “ 
1  lb  “ 
.......................... 2 00
5  ft  “ 
..........................   9 60
100 M lb cans....................  12 00
100 
lb cans....................  12 00
100 M lb cans....................  12 00
2 doz 1 lb cans....................  9 60
(tankard pitcher with each can)
per doz
Dime cans..  90
1  33 
4- OZ 
1  90 
6 OZ8-oz
.2 47 
12-cz
3  75 
» 75 
16-OZ
11  40 
2%-lb
18 25 
41b
21  60 
lb 
5- 
10-lb
41  SO

'iuCCwt^Br'^ 
pgFMCEfc
I CREAMI
Baking
powder
■¡SUHBNSBg*
Red Star, V 9> cans..........  
40
...... go
...........  1  50
45
Telfer’s,  *  lb. cans, doz. 
85
“ 
“  ..  1  50
80
“ 
................. 1 20
2 doz................  2 00
BATH BRICK.

6 oz cans. 4 d o z ................. 
9 
16 

m a   “ 
1 lb  “ 
Hlb.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 
Victor.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

•* 

2 dozen in case.

blciss. 

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

“ 
“ 

“ 

 

 

 

BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl............................2 00
No. 1  “ 
.......................... 2 25
No. 2 Carpet.........................2 50
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem.......................... 3 00
Common Whisk..................  1 00
Fancy 
.................1  20
Warehouse.......................... 3 50
Stove,  No.  1......................  125
“  10......................   1  50
“  15......................   1  75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row—   85
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row__1  25
Palmetto, goose..................  1 50

“ 
BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

cahdx.es
 
“ 

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

 

CANNED  GOODS.

“ 

“ 

PISH.
Clams.
Little Neck,  l i b ...................... l is
2 lb......................1 90

“ 
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Standard, 31b......................2 00
Standard,  1 lb.........   ........  85
2 lb...................1  65
Lobsters.

Star,  1  lb.................................2 40
“  2  lb.................................8 30
Picnic, 1 lb......................  ..2 00
“ 
21b................................2 90

Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb...................... l so
2  lb.................... 2 25
Mustard,  21b......................2 25
Tomato Sauce,  21b.................2 25
Soused. 2 lb...................  
2 25
Columbia River, flat........... l  ®
tails................1 75
Alaska. 1  lb.............................. i 50
21b............................... 2 10

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Sardines.
American  Ms................ 4*@ 5
_ 
Ms.................6M@ 7
Imported  Ms.....................10@12
Ms..................   15®16
Mustard Ms....................  7©8
Boneless......................... 
20
Brook, 8 lb...............................2 so

Trout.
FRUITS.
Applet.

Apricots.

Cherries.

Live oak..................... 
2 25
2 00
Santa Cruz................. 
2 50
Lusk’s......................... 
Overland..................  
1  90
Blackberries.
B. A  W....................... 
95
1 20
Red.............................  
Pitted Hamburgh___ 
1  75
1  20
W hite......................... 
1  20
Brie  ......................... 
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
E rie............................  @1  25
1  70
California................... 
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  10

Gages.

Peaches.

Pie.............................. 
Maxwell.................... 
Shepard’s ..................  
California..................  
Monitor 
...............  
Oxford  ......................
Pears.

1  25
1  65
1  65
2 00
1  15

“ 

1  25
2  10

Common 

1  30
2 50
2 75
]  jq

1  30
1  50
1  so
j

Domestic.................... 
Riverside.................... 
Pineapples.
Common..................... 
Johnson's  sliced.......  
grated  ...... 
Quinces.
..................  
Raspberries.
..........................  
Red 
Black  Hamburg.........  
Erie,  black 
.  . 
Strawberries.
Lawrence................... 
Hamburgh  .............. 
Erie............................  
Terrapin....................... 
Whortleberries.
Common..................  
1  yo
F. *  W....................... 
1  S
Blueberries...............  
1  20
Corned  beef,  Libby's........ 1  80
Roast beef,  Armour’s........ 1  75
Potted  ham, % lb.............. 1  50
“  M lb................1  00
tongue, M lb ........... 110
95
**  M lb..........  
chicken, M lb.........  
95
VEGETABLES.

25
5

1

“ 
7 00

Beans.

“ 

“ 

2 75

Peas

“ 
“ 
“ 

Cora.

Hamburgh  stringless...........1 25
French style.........2 25
Limas.................. 1 40
Lima, green..........................1 30
soaked....................1  so
Lewis Boston Baked............1 35
Bay State  Baked.................. 1 35
World’s  Fair........................ 1 35
Hamburgh..........................
Livingston  E den.................1 20
Purity 
................................
Honey  Dew.................... . . . j  50
Morning Glory....................  1 30
Hamburghmarrofat ....." ..1   35
early June...........
Champion Eng... 1  50
Hamburgh  petit  pols........ 1 75
fancy  sifted..... 1  go
Soaked.................................  65
Harris  standard.................   75
Van Camp’s Marrof at 
.110
Early June.......1 30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__1  85
French...............................1  80
French..............................16©18
Erie......................................  05
Hubbard............................ 1  ao
Hamburg  ............................1  40
Soaked.................................  80
Honey  Dew......................... .1 60
Tomatoes.
Excelsior 
..........................100
Eclipse................................1 00
Hamburg........................... 1 30
Gallon .................................2 60

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

“ 

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

22
35
38
40

CHEESE.

Amboy...........................  @10
Acme.............................   @;o
Riverside......................  @10
Gold  Medal   
........  @ 9
Skim........  ................  5 
6
Brick.............................  
10
E dam ....................... 
©1  00
Limburger  ................... 
©10
Pineapple......................  m
Roquefort......................   ©35
Sap Sago.......................   ©22
Schweitzer, Imported.  ©30
domestic  ....  ©15

“ 

CATSUP.

lb. standard....... 
3 
Turk State, gallons  ... 
Hamburgh, 

- 

 

 

90
3 60

Blue Label Brand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles........... 2 76
Pint 
........... 4 80
2 SO
Quart;! doz bottles................. 8 50

‘ “ 

COFFEE.
GREEN.Rio.

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

Santos.

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

Mexican and Gnatamala.

Maracaibo.

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  roasted 
coffee, add Me. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.

PACKAGE.

A rbnckle’s A riosa.... 
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX
G erm an.......................
B u nola  ................................
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case..

Valley City......
......
Felix...... 
Hummel’s, foil. 
tin  ..

“ 

75 
1  15 
.  1  50 
. .  2 50

Bnlk.
Red

CLOTHES  LINES.
Cotton, 40 ft...
"
50 ft...
“ 
n
60 ft...
" 
70 ft...
“ 
“
80 ft.  .
“ 
Jute
60 ft...
“ 
W 72 f f .
“ 

per doz.  1  25
1  40
1  60
176
1  90
90
1  00

C O U PO N   B O O K S .

“Tradesman.’

............8 00

“ 
, 
‘ 
“ 
“8nperior.”

per hnndred................. 2 00
 
2 50
••  ........... 8 00
“ 
4 00
 
 
5 00
per hundred................. 2 50
00

“Universal.”
• 1, per hundred..............  13 00
»2. 
................8  50
“ 
..............4  00
“ 
*3, 
................5  00
« 
• S, 
£2- ; 
......................... «00
»0, 
“ 
 
....7 0 0
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts
200 or over............ 5 per  cent.
600  •• 
1000  “ 

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

“
“

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 
....................
• •  7*
Boston............................
...  8
Butter  biscuit....  ......
...  6M
Soda, XXX....................
.  6
Soda, City.....................
...  7M
Soda,  Duchess 
...........
...  8M
Crystal Wafer...............
...10
Reception  Flakes.........
...10
S. Oyster  XXX.......... ...  6
City Oyster. XXx........... ... 6
Farina  Oyster..... .... ...  6
CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly  pure............
30
Telfer’s  Absolute......
Grocers’.................
35
10@15

Oyster.

DRIED  FRUITS.

Domestic.
APPLES.

“ 

quartered  “
APRICOTS.

Sundried. sliced In  bbls
5
5
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes ©7
California in  bags..... 9M@10
Evaporated in boxes.  .. @14
BLACKBERRIES.
In  boxes................
4M
70 lb. bags...............
NECTARINES.
7M
25 lb. boxes.............. 9  @9M
PEACHES.
Peeled, In  boxes...... .
12
........ 9@!0
Cal. evàp.  “ 
In bags  .... 8© 8M
“ 
PEARS.
California in bags  _ @7
Barrels..............
PITTED CHERRIES.
10
50 lb. boxes............
11
..........
25  “ 
12
PRUNELLES.
30 lb.  boxes.......
RASPBERRIES.
In  barrels..............
501b. boxes..............
25 lb.  “  ..............

21M
22
23

11

“ 

“ 

Foreign.
CURRANTS.
Patras, in barrels.....
In  M-bbls.....
“ 
“ 
in less quantity

PEEL.

© 3M
@   3 *
© 4

©

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Foreign.

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

25  “
“ 
“ 
25  “
RAISINS.
Domestic.
London layers,  2  crown ...1  40
8  “
...1  65
fancy...
...1  85
Loose Muscatels, boxes. ...1 26
70 lb. bags  ©5V4
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes.. @ 8
“ 
Sultana, 20 
..11 @12
Valencia, 30  “ 
..  5 &  5M
PRUNES.
Bosnia.................
California,  100-120........ ... 8V
California, 90x100 25 lb. Dxs.  9
..9M
• ’ O *
■ 10*
“
Turkey................. @5M
Silver...................
...11M
ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.
No. 1,6M................
No. 2, 6M................
No. 1,6..................
No. 2, 6..................
XX  wood, white.
No. 1, 6M  ......................
No. 2, 6M.......................
Manilla, white.
6M  ................................
6.....................................
Coin.
Mill  No. 4...............

.  51  75
.  1  60
.  1  66
.  1  50

80x90
7fx80
60x70 

. 
1  35
.  1  25

“ 
“ 
“ 

1  00

1  00

. 

. 

F A R IN A C E O U 8   G OO D S. 

Farina.
1001b. kegs.................
3*
Hominy.
Barrels....................... ...... 3 00
G rits.......................... ...... 3 50
Dried.....................

Lima  Beans.

Maccaronl and Vermicelli.

Domestic, 12 lb. box...
*  55
Imported.................... 10M@UM
Pearl Barley.
Kegs............................ . .   ©2M

SALERATU 8.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

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

SOAP.
LAUNDRY.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb...........3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb...................3 90
White Borax, 100  3£-lb.............3 60

Proctor & Gamble.

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

SCOURING AND POLISHING. 
“ 

Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 50 
hand, 3 doz......... 2 50

SUGAR.

L0ai.................   ® 5*
cubes.........................  @ 5
Powdered.................  @ 5M
Granulated.. 
...... 4.S6@  4%
Confectioners’ A......   @4.44
Soft A.........................  @4 31
White Extra C...........  @4  18
Extra  C......................  @4 06
C  •  .............................3X@  >X
Yellow 
  @  3%
Less than  bbls.  Me advance

.......... 

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels...........................
..  249A
Half bbls.........
F air................................ ...  19
Good............................... ...  25
an
Choice  ............................

Pure Cane.

SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps..............
Sugar Creams............
Frosted  Creams.........
Graham  Crackers......
Oatmeal Crackers__

8
8
9
8*
8*

TEAS.

ja pa n—Regular.

P a ir..........................   @17
Good..........................   @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
D ust............................ 10  @12
P air............................  @17
Good..........................   @20
Choice.......................... 24  @26

SUN CUBED.

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

BASKET  FIRED. 

GUNPOWDER.

............................18  @20
Choicest...................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to fair.......... 25  @35
Extra fine to finest....50  @65
Choicest fancy............ 75  @85
@26 
Common to fair...........23  @30
Common to fair...........23  @26
Superiortofine............30  @35

oolong. 

IMPERIAL.

YOUNG HYSON.

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

ENGLISH BREAEPAST.

P air............................. 18  @22
Choice.......................... £4  @28
Best......................... 40 @50

TOBACCOS.

Pine Cut

“ 

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

38
22
39
29

Plug.

Middleton’s Brands.

Kylo............................ 
22
38
Hiawatha...................  
34
Valley C ity................ 
Pinzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty..............  
40
Jolly Tar....................  
32
Here  It Is................... 
28
Old Style....................  
31
Jas. G. Butler &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good.....................38
Toss tJp.................................. 26
Out of Sight........................... 26
Private Brands.
Sweet  Maple.............. 
L. &W.......................  
Bobs....................................  12*4
Colonel’s Choice.................13

Smoking.

30
26

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

 

WASHBOARDS.

WHEAT.

MEAL.

No. 1 White (58 lb. test)
No. 1 Red-(60 lb. test)
Bolted.............................
Granulated..................
Straight, in  sacks  .........
“ 
“  barrels.........
Patent 
“  sacks___...
“  barrels.........
“ 
Graham  “  sacks__
Rye 
.........
“ 
MiLLSTUPFs.

PLOUB.

“ 

Less

814 00
15 00
16 00
20 00

Car lots  quantity

CORN.

20 50

Bran.............. 814 00 
Screenings ....  15 00 
Middlings  ...  15 00 
Mixed Feed...  20 CO 
Coarse meal 
19 50 
Car  lo ts .........................................54
Less than  car  lots..............56
Car  lo ts ..............................39
Less than car lo ts .............. 41
No. 1 Timothy, car lots  ... 13 50
No. 1
15 00

HAY.
ton lots

OATS.

Single

 

1  40

Double.

Wilson.................................... J2 00
Saginaw..................................   1 75
Rival............... 
Daisy.......................................  1 00
Langtry..................................   1 10
Defiance.............................   1075
Wilson...............................  2:50
Saginaw.............................   2o2o
Rival..................................   I08O
Defiance..................................  2 00
Crescent....................................2 60
Red Star....................................2 75
Shamrock...............................  2 50
Ivy Leaf..................................  2 25
40 g r.....................................  7
50 gr......................................8

VINEGAR.

81 for barrel.
WET  MUSTARD.

Bulk, per g a l................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75 
yeast—Compressed. 
Permentum  per doz. cakes..
per lb-................
“ 
Fleischman, per doz cakes...
“ 
perlb..................

OILS.

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes 
as  follows,  In barrels,  f. o.  b. 
Grand Rapids:
Eocene......................... 
9
Water White, old test.  @ 8M 
W.  W.  Headlight, 150° 
7Vt
Water  White  ......   ..  @ 7
Naptha.......................  @ 7
Stove Gasoline...........  @ ju
Cylinder....................27  @36
E ngine..................... 13  @21
Black. 25 to 30 deg 

..  @  7H

FRESH  MEATS.

“ 

Swift & Company quote as fol­
lows:
Beef, carcass..............  6M@ 7%
“  hindquarters...  7M@  8H 
fore 
“ 
...  4  @ 4£
** 
loins,  No.  3...  9  @10
“ 
ribs.................  8H@ 9*4
“ 
rounds...........  @ 6
Bologna......................  @ 4M
Pork loins..................   @10
........  @  7%
Sausage, blood or head  @  4%
liv e r............   @ 4V4
Frankfort   

  @7
Mutton  ...................... 8  @  9
Veal............................ 6  @ 6M

shoulders 

“ 
“ 

“ 

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

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

HIDES,  PELTS  and  FURo
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol

17
FA FER A WOODEN WARE

PAPER.

Straw 
................................ ] v
Rockfalls........................... ..iJi
Rag sugar........................... .2 *
Hardware..............................2M
Bakers..................... 
2J4
Dry  Goods.................. 5  @6
Jute Manilla...............   @5M
Red  Express  No. 1.............. 5«
No. 2 .............4*

“ 

tw ine s.

48 Cotton............................  to
Cotton, No. 1...... ................17
„  “ 
“  2........................16
Sea  Island, assorted......... 30
No. 5 Hemp......................... 15
No. 6  “ .................................15

WOOBBNWARE.

Tubs,No. 1.........................  700
“  No. 2.........................  6 00
“  No. 3.........................5 00
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
1  35 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop....  1  £0
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes______  40
Bowls, 11 Inch....................  
so
.................... 1  00
13  “ 
.................... 1  60
15  “ 
17  “ 
.................... 2  25
...................2  75
19  “ 
21  “ 
.................  3 00
35
shipping  bushel..  1  25 
..  1  35
full  hoop  “ 
5 75
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3 50 
**  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 5 nr
Pails..................................  4 05
Tubs, *4 doz......................  4 55

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ willow cl’ths, No.l 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

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

INDURATED WARE.

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

splint 

77
77
1  30
1 50
4 40
4 50
5 40
5 50
2  10
2 40

“ 

lows,  prices nominal
HIDES.
Green.......................
Part Cured............
Pull 
...............
Dry............................
Kips, green  ..............
“  cured...............
Calfskins,  green......
cured......
Deacon skins............
No. 2 hides M off.
PELTS
..................
WOOL.

“ 

2 t f @ 3 *
@  4
@  4 K
5  @   5
2 K @   3>/,
@   4 %
4  @  5 *
@  6
10  @ 30

Shearlings................. 10  @ 25
Lambs 
Washed.................... 20   @ 2 3
Unwashed ...............
10  @ 2 0

20  @   50

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow.....................
G rease  butter  .........
Switches..............  .
Ginseng 
...............

3 M @   3M
1  ®   3
1*4® 2
2   0 0@ 2  75

POULTRY

Local dealers pay as  follows:

DRESSED.
Fowl.........................
9   @ 1 0
Turkeys  ..................
10  @ 11
Ducks  .  ..................
10  @ 11
Chickens,................. 12  @ 1 3
Fowls.......................
8   @   9
Turkeys....................
9   @ 10
Spring Duck............
10  @ 11

LIVE.

FISH  and  OYSTERS.

.......... .

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as

follows
FRESH  FISH
Whlteflsb 
7   @   8
Trout  .......................
7   @   8
Halibut.....................
@ 15
Ciscoes or Herring...
5   @   6
Bluefish.............. 
.. 11  @12
Fresh lobster, per lb
2)
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...
SHELL  GOODS
Oysters, per  100  ......
Ciamg. 

“ 

1  25@ 1  50
.......... 1  00@ 1  25

@ 40

H ILLSID E  JAVA!

FOR  YOUR  38  OR  40c  GRA.DB.

$100  will  tie paii  for a  ferula Hat  will  prodace  a  Cop ol  Coffee  letter tban  Hillside!

ROYAL  DUGHESS  JA1/B  X  MOGHfl

For  your 35c grade.

SAN  MARTO  BLEND

For your  30c  grade.

A T rue Combination of Central American and East India Jav a and Arabian Mocha.

Makes a better d rin k   than a straight  Maraeaibd.  Very  fragrant  and  rich.  Strong  but 

not  rank.  E ntirely free  from Rio.
U pO ur Coffees are all selected with  great care,  especially for Fine Drinking Qualities.

Roasted in tbe Latest Iipred  Cylinders  and  Packed while  hot into  501  Cans  only.
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Goods  Make  Business. 

Importers,  Roasters  and  Jobbers  of  Fine  Coffees, 

Business.

TOBBDO,  O.,  a l s o   Detroit  &  New  York.

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

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

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T H E   M I C H I Q A J S r   T E ^ L D E S M L A J S i

CENTRAL  LAKE.

N ew s.

In terestin g   C om m ercial  a n d   P erso n al 
Cen t r a l  L a k e ,  July  1 1 — The Chicago 
& West  Michigan  Railway is  in  full  op­
eration  through  this  place  and  runs 
trains as far  north as Petoskey.  We are 
having  first-class  service—eight  trains 
per day—six passenger and two freights. 
The extension was not open for the freight 
traffic  until  July 5th, though  passenger 
trains  ran  the  26th of  June,  and  there 
was  considerable  freight  waiting  to  be 
taken to this  and  neighboring  erstwhile 
railroadless  towns.  Central  Lake  mer­
chants received their share with the rest. 

*  *  *

And  this  recalls  the  weary years  that 
the writer  has  spent,  more  than  twenty 
miles  from  the  nearest  railway  station 
and  nine miles  from a lake  port.  How 
we  used to swelter  under  the  hot  sum­
mer’s  sun, trailing  groceries  and  other 
commodities through the scorching sands 
between  here and Elk Rapids!  And how 
we  nearly  froze  to  death  in  the  fierce 
storms of  winter!  Perhaps,  after  many 
years  have  rolled  away,  we  will  look 
back  to  the  good  old  times when  leeky 
butter  was  legal  tender  in  this  realm, 
and  when  Walter  Sissons  made  period­
ical  trips  to  Eastport  with  a  yoke  of 
spotted  steers  to  bring  over  loads  of 
flour  to his  father’s  store.  Perhaps we 
uiay  look  back  to  those  times  and  feel 
that we were  better off  then  than  in  the 
time to come;  but when that tune comes, 
if it ever does,  we shall  probably  be very 
bald,  very old and  very foolish.

*  

*  

*

*  *  *

Charles  E.  Ramsey,  formerly  of  Kal­
kaska  and  Grand  Rapids,  is  building  a 
store at this  place  and  gradually squar­
ing  himself  for  business.  He  has  not 
yet  divulged  the exact  character of  the 
merchandise  which  he  will  handle;  but 
we are  tolerably sure that it will  be gro­
ceries to a great  extent,  and  that he  will 
have  a  good  stock  and  handle  it well. 
He  has  been  appointed  American  Ex­
press  Agent  here,  and  carries  off  the 
honors of the position in first-class shape. 
A.  T.  Hoxie, of Traverse City, appoint­
ed  a  day  for  the  purpose,  came  here 
early in  the  morning,  and  bought  4,000 
pounds of  wool  from the  farmers in this 
neighborhood.  There are many thousand 
pounds  yet within  the  reach of  this sta­
tion,  held  by people  who  for one  reason 
or  another did  not bring  it  on that day, 
and  many  thousand  pounds  more  have 
gone  to  Chicago  commission merchants. 
The wool  growing  industry is yet  in  its 
infancy in Northern  Michigan,  and there 
are  those  who  say that  sheep  will  not 
thrive  here.  We  venture  to  predict, 
however,  that not  many years  hence the 
counties  along  Grand Traverse Bay will 
have a national  reputation  for the extent 
and excellence of  their woolen  industry. 

*  *  *

With  the  superior advantages  that we 
have  for  the  production  of  brick,  it 
seems strange that there are so few plants 
in  this  region  for  the  manufacture'of 
this article.  We  have  great hills of ex­
cellent  clay,  with an abundance of  wood 
and water,  and no dearth of  sand.  Only 
a few  miles  from here  is  located a brick 
yard where  is  produced  so  superior an 
article that  the proprietor cannot supply 
the demand  for  bis  best  grades.  The 
growing scarcity of  timber  is  being felt 
all over the  United States,  and it cannot 
but  result in the  increased  consumption 
of  other materials available for  building 
purposes. 
In  the  few  instances where 
small  brick  manufacturers  in this  part 
of  the  country have failed of  producing 
a  satisfactory  article,  it  has  been  the 
result of  inexperience  or carelessness  in 
manipulating  the  materials  at  hand,  or 
of poor shipping facilities.

*  

*  

*

Last  winter the  farmers of  the Grand 
Traverse region  paid  out  for  hay  more 
hard cash than they received last fall for 
potatoes.  Hundreds of tons were shipped 
in  and  sold in this  immediate  vicinity. 
Next  season,  if  the  signs  hold  right, 
there will  be a different  order of  things; 
The Northern Michigan  farmer looks out 
over  his fields with a feeling  that he has 
been blessed  with an abundance.  There

are no poor crops.  The rains which have I 
driven to despair the husbandmen of  the ! 
Sunny  South,  and  made  the  gods  to j 
weep, have  been  just  what  our  people 
have  been  looking  for,  lo,  these  many 
years. 
It  has  rained  very steadily  here | 
at  times,  but  they have  been  mild  and j 
pleasant  showers which  have  been milk j 
to the soil  and given  life to the  growing 
plants.  Our grass crop is abundant,  and 
the pleasant weather of late is giving the 
farmers  opportunity  to  save  it  in good I 
condition.  Potatoes never looked  better 
and  we hope to have  enough to feed half 
the people of  the United  States. 
If  the 
crop  brings  the  price  it  should,  money 
will  be plenty in Northern  Michigan an­
other year.

*  

*  

*

It  seems,  however, 

It becomes  more  apparent  every year 
that  the  cash  system  is  gaining  favor 
with  the  retail  trade.  The  old  song of 
“ Mark  it  down,”  with  its  variations  of 
“Chalk it down,”  “Charge it up,”  “Just 
keep track of it till 1 come in again” and 
“I’ll  pay for  this  after  threshing,” are 
not  sung  as  frequently  as  in the  past, 
and  the singers  themselves  do  not  feel 
the  same  certainty that  their  song will 
be received with  favor  by the merchant. 
It  is a pity  that  the  cash  business  has 
been  held in such  fear and  disfavor  by 
merchants  generally in past generations, 
for it leaves it to the present one to solve 
the  problem and to pave the way for the 
future. 
that  the 
present,  with,  perhaps,  some  aid  from 
the one  that is to follow,  will  get  things 
in  pretty good  shape for the  retailers of 
the time  to  come.  The writer  has  been 
unable  to  find  a single  instance  where 
the  cash  system  has  been  thoroughly 
tried  that the  merchant has not declared 
in favor of  the system,  and  knows of no 
merchant who has adhered strictly to the 
rule  of  “No  credit” for  the  space of  a 
year who has  gone  back  to  the old  sys­
tem.  And  among  the  customers  them­
selves we  find  some of  the  warmest  ad­
vocates of the cash plan of buying goods. 
They  find,  after  the  feeling  wears  off 
that the merchants think them dishonest, 
that  they can  buy  goods  cheaper of  the 
cash  man.  They find  that they are  not 
so tempted to buy goods that they do not 
need.  They  find  that  they  have  no 
trouble in  settling  old  store bills—when 
there  are  none to settle—and  they  find 
themselves,  as  well  as  their  merchant, 
better off  at  the  end of  the  year.  The 
cash  system is one  that is worth trying, 
and we conscientiously  recommend  it to 
the  prayerful  consideration  of  many  a 
careworn,  discouraged, 
tired-out  mer­
chant of  the  old  school. 
If  you  don’t 
sell  quite  so  many  goods  at  first,  you 
will,  at  least, have  something  to  show 
for what you  do, and if  goods do not  go, 
you still  have them  where  you  can  put 
your hand on them  if  necessary, and not 
scattered over the  length and  breadth of 
an  uncertain community.
*  *  #

Detroit.’
thing to drink.’
anything.’
you smoke?’

Our Detroit  shoe  man  was  here  this 
week. 
It had  been  in  his  province  to 
in  one  of  the  towns 
make a collection 
further  south,  and  he  related  his  ex­
perience somewhat as  follows:
“I found my man seated  on  a  box  in 
front  of his place of business.
** ‘Good morning,’  said I.
‘ ‘Umph.’
“ ‘Nice morning.’
“ ‘Umph.’
“ ‘I  represent Shoestring & Cartoon,  of 
“ ‘Glad to see you.  Let’s  have  some­
“ ‘No, thanks,  don’t  think  I  care  for 
“ ‘Well,  let’s  have  a  cigar.  Suppose 
“ ‘Well, don’t care if I do.’
“So we went  over  to  a  grocery  and 
helped him to get away with his beer, and 
we lighted our cigars, and  talked  a  few 
minutes.  Finally he said:
“ ‘Come over to  the  store,’  whieh  we 
did.
“I looked around for a minute,  and  it 
seemed pretty  bare:
“ ‘What’ll it invoice?’ he asked.
“ ‘For a guess I should say about 8135.’’ 
“ ‘You hit it pretty close. 
It goes just 
$141.  There is a mortgage of $250 on  it, 
and there  are  judgments  against  it  of 
$500 or $600 more. 
I’m  an  honest  man,

the 
Mr.  Upper, and  when  I  can  earn 
money, I’ll pay your  firm  every  cent  I 
owe them. 
I’m always  glad  to  see  any 
of your  people,  and  when  they  come 
around  I always buy them a  drink  or  a < 
cigar,  whichever they prefer; but  that’s 
all there is in it  now.’
“I thanked  him  for  his  candor,  told j 
him that I admired his nerve, and silently l 
stole away,  leaving  behind  me  all  that 
was mortal of our $325 creditor.

Geo.  L.  T hurston.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

C r o ck ery   & G la ssw a r e

FRUIT  JARS.

Pints..............................................................#7 50
Suarts...........................................................   8 oO
alf Gallons..............'.................................10  50
Caps...............................................................  3 25
45
Rubbers.................................. •....................  

LAMP  BURNERS.

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

 

LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per bOX.

6 doz. In box.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No. 0 Sun........................................................1  75
No. 1  “  ......................................................... 1  88
No. 2  “  ......................................................... 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.......................................2 25
No. 1  “ 
“  ...................................... 2 40
No. 2  “ 
“  .......................................3 40
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.......................................2 60
No. 1  “ 
“  .......................................2 80
No. 2  “ 
“  .......................................3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
..'................   4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
.....................4 88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz......................  1  25
No. 2  “ 
....................... 150
No. 1 crimp, per'doz........................................1 36
No. 2  “ 
........................................ 1  60

La Bastle.

Pearl top.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

LAMP WICKS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

No. 0, per  gross..............................................  23
No. 1, 
................................................   28
No  2, 
................................................   38
No. 3, 
................................................   75
Mammoth, per doz..........................................  9u
STON KWARE—AKRON.

Butter Crocks, 1 and 6 gal..........................  0614
Jugs, 44 gal., per doz....................................  75
....................................  90
....................................1 80
Milk Pans, 44 gal., per doc.  (glazed 75c) —   €0 
“ 
78

‘  1 
“ 
■  2  “ 
‘ 

“ 
“ 
1  “ 

(  5  90c) 

" 

. 

PRODUCE  M ARKET.

Apples—Red  Astricans  and  Harvest  apples 
from Ohio command $3.50 per bbl.  Home grown 
fruit  will  be  in market  before  the  end of  the 
week.
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.

Beets—New, 25c per doz. bunches.
Butter—The market is fairly well  maintained, 
all offerings  of  choice  finding  ready takers  at 
12313c, while jobbers hold at 14315c.
Cabbages—60c and 75c  per dozen, according to 
size
Celery—Choice home grown commands 25c per 
dozen  bunches.  It  is  no  longer  necessary for 
local  dealers to depend  on  Kalamazoo  growers 
for  this  staple, as home  grown is ample for  the 
needs of this market.
Cherries—Very scarce  and  high,  readily com­
manding $2.50 per bushel.
Dried  apples—Evaporated  is  firmly  held  at 
839c;  sundried is weak at 3K@4c.
Eggs—The  price  is  well  maintained, dealers 
paying 14c ana holding at 15c per doz.
Honey—14c per lb.  Very scarce.
Lettuce—About out of market.
Musk  Mellons—Osage,  $1.61  per  dozen;  nut­
meg, $1.25 per dozen.
Onions—Green are  in  fair  demand at 10c  per 
dozen bunches.  Illinois  is  firmly held at $1  per 
bushel.
Peas—Marrofat are in large  supply, command 
ing 40®50c per bu.
Potatoes—New  stock is in  good  demand  at $1 
per bushel or $2.75 per bbl.
Raspberries—Black] are  in  ample  supply  at 
7@8c  per qt.  Red  are  not  very plentiful,  com­
manding 10® 12c per qt.

Radishes—10c per dozen bunches.
Tomatoes—Mississippi stock is in fair demand 
at $1.25 per 4 basket crate.
Watermelons—Higher  and  scarcer,  owing  to 
the drought in Georgia.
Whortleberries—In  ample  supply  and  fairly 
good demand.  Dealers pay $2.50 per  bushel ana 
J hold at $3 per bu. 
j  Wax Beans—$1®$1.25 per bushel.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

FORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess,  new....................................................   12 25
Short c u t......................................................  13  ro
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  i5 00
Extra clear, heavy.......................................
j Clear, fat  back.............................................  14 50
i  Boston clear, short cut................................   16 00
j Clear back, short cut....................................  15 00
] Standard clear, short cut. best................. 
15 00

sausaob—Fresh and Smoked.

LARD.

.......................................  744

Pork Sausage..................................................... 744
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage..............................................   9
Frankfort  Sausage 
Blood Sausage.........   .....................................   5
Bologna, straight............................................   5
Bologna,  thick...............................................   5
Head Cheese....................................................   5
Com­
pound.

Kettle
Rendered. Granger. Family.
..8
Tierces ...
Ó
5 0 1 b .  Tins .844
644
20 lb. Pails .  844
644
10 lb.  “
.  8%
6%
5 lb. 
“
6%
.  8%
.  9
7
3 lb. 
“
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.....................   6 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................  6 50
Boneless, rump butts.....................................  9 50
Hams, average 20 lbs.....................................   12%

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

BEEP  IN  BARRELS.

7V
8
$44
8/4
8%
8%

544
5 «
6%
6 )4
644

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16 lbs....................................... 13
12 to 14 lbs...............................13

picnic...................................................  944
best boneless.......................................  84»
Shoulders.......................................................  844
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..............................10%
Dried beef, ham prices..................................  944
Long Clears, heavy.........................................
Briskets,  medium...........................................
light................................................

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CANDIES.  FRUITS and  NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: 

stick  can dt.
Full  Weight. 

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

Bbls.  Pails.
7
7
7
844
8
8

MIXED  CANDY.
Full Weight.

Bbls.

Pails.
7

 

 

“ 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

“ 
fancy—In bulk 
Full Weight. 

Standard.......................................6
Leader...........................................6
Royal............................................ 644
Nobby........................................... 7
English  Rock...............................7
Conserves........................... .........7
Broken Taffy....................baskets
Peanut Squares................. 
“  8
French Creams..............................
Valley  Creams.............................
Midget. 30 lb. baskets....................................  8
8
Modern, 10 lb. 
Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  10
printed..........................................  11
Chocolate Drops.............................................  1144
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  13
Gum Drops......................................................   544
Moss Drops.....................................................  8
Sour Drops......................................................   844
Imperials.......................................................   10
Per Box
Lemon Drops................................................... 55
Sour Drops......   ............................................. 55
Peppermint Drops............................................60
Chocolate Drops...............................................65
H. M. Chocolate Drops.................................... 90
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops.............................................. 1  00
A. B. Licorice  Drops....................................... 80
Lozenges, plain................................................ 60
printed............................................65
Imperials..........................................................60
Mottoes.......................1................................... 70
Cream Bar........................................................55
Molasses  Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams..................................85®95
Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams........................................1  00
String  Rock.....................................................65
Burnt Almonds............................................ 1  00
WIntergreen  Berries....................................... 60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb. boxes..........................  34
51
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
28
No. 3 
42
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes....................................  90
Small....................................................   1  oo®]  25
Medium................................................. 1  50@1  7
Large..................................................... 2 G0@2 2
Californlas, 9 6 ..................................... 
126.......................................  
150  ................................... 
“ 
160.............................

caramels.
 
“ 
“ 
 
“ 
 
BANANAS.

Messinas, choice  200.............................  @

ORANGES.

4 50
5 00

3 
2 
3 

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“ 

“ 
‘ 

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LEMONS.

Messina, choice,  360.........................   @5 00
fancy,  360.........................   @5 50
choice  300.........................  
@5 00
fancy 300..............................  5 50@5 75

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OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“  50-lb.  “ 

Figs, fancy  layers, 61b..........................   @13
,T 
“  10ft  ..........................  @14
“  extra 
“  14ft..........................   @15
“ 
“  20ft..........................  @18
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................  @844
“ 
..........................  @644
“ 
Persian. 50-lb.  box......................  444@ 5
HUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.............................   ©17
Ivaea.....................................  @1544
California.............................   @17
Brazils, new...........................................   @8
Filberts..................................................  @1144
Walnuts, Grenoble.
@1344
@@10
@1244
@1144@14 
@4  50
@   »44 
@   744 
@   644 
@   744 
@   444 
@   644 
1244

“  Marbot.....................
“ 
Chill.........................
Table Nuts,  fancy.................
choice................
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  .........
Cocoanuts, full sacks............
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H.  P., Suns.................
“  Roasted....
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............
“  Roasted...
Choice, H. P.,  Extras............
“  Roasted..
California Walnuts................

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'i’HEl  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E SM A N .

ON  THE  GOOSE  CHASE.

A  D rum m er’s  Painful  a n d   E xpensive 

V isit to  E a st L iverpool,  Ohio.

James A. Braden in N. T. Daily  Recorder.

The 

little  town  of  East  Liverpool, 
Ohio,  was,  up to within a very few years, 
a decidedly bad place,  almost  its sole in­
dustry being the manufacture of pottery, 
and a majority  of  the  men employed  in 
the works were possessed of  a degree  of 
recklessness that might  have done credit 
to a Texas cowboy as he is generaly  sup­
posed  to  be. 
In  a  word,  they  were  a 
pretty  rough  lot. 
It  was a  bright  Sep­
tember  afternoon  that  a  natty  young 
“knight of the road”  struck that village. 
He 
represented  a  Philadelphia  cigar 
house,  but  his  experience  was  not  un­
limited,  and  he  had  not  yet  gained  to 
any  great  extent 
that  characteristic 
which  traveling  salesmen  are  usually 
credited  with  possessing, which the  im­
mortal  Dickens has  named  “preternatu­
ral sagacity.”  Nevertheless,  he was anx­
ious to succeed  and  expressed  a  desire 
that evening to go out  with  “the boys.” 
No sooner was his wish made known than 
he was  invited to go  with the  gang to  a 
clambake  to  be  held “a mile  or two up 
the Goose Chase.”
The  Goose  Chase  proved  to  be a nar­
row,  rough  country  road,  skirted  on 
either  side  by  scrubby  bushes  and  tall 
weeds  that  circled  around  and  about a 
high hill, at the  foot of  which  the town 
stood.  As they  plodded  up  the  incline 
much sport was  made  of  our  hero’s silk 
hat and patent leather shoes,  but he took 
their jokes good-naturedly, and while the 
crowd  smoked  his  prime  cigars  he  re­
galed  them  with 
the  very  best  yarns 
with which his  mind  was filled, and felt 
sure that he  was “standing  in,”  and  as 
there were several “buyers” in the crowd, 
thoughts of  the long bills of  goods  he’d 
sell on the morrow were constantly loom­
ing before his  imagination.
They had  proceeded a mile  and a half 
from  the  town  in  this  way,  when  sud­
denly the man in the  lead,  who carried a 
lantern, for  the  night  was  rather  dark, 
gave  vent 
to  an  unearthly  yell,  and 
dropped  the 
light,  extinguishing  it. 
When our  representative recovered from 
the fright this  sudden  action  had  given 
him,  he  saw  in  the  road  before  him  a 
monster  gander  flopping  his wings  and 
screaming  hideously,  and  much  greater 
was  his  alarm  when  a  second  later  he 
realized  that  he  was  alone.  Where  his 
companions had gone he knew not.
For a second  he  pondered  on  what  it 
all meant  and what  he should  do, but  a 
flash and shot ten feet to his right was of 
inestimable  value  in  hastening  his  de­
cision,  and, turning,  he fled precipitately 
down the grade.  Shot followed shot, and 
as he flew along,  his  coat tails streaming 
out behind,  his  hair  flying  in  the  wind, 
for his tile lay  in the road some distance 
back,  sharp sticks  held  in  unseen hands 
in  the  bushes  at  the roadside  prodded 
him on.  Never  had he dreamed  that  he 
was  possessed  of 
such  extraordinary 
speed,  and  a  constant  surprise  was  in 
store for him from this source, as at every 
new  assault,  such  as  an  antiquated  egg 
or  decayed  vegetable,  his  limbs  moved 
the faster.  So great a momentum had he 
attained that  when  he  came  to the foot 
of  the hill where  the road made a  sharp 
curve  he  could  not  stop,  but  plunged 
headlong through the  window of a  store 
that stood at the corner.
Nearly paralyzed with  fright and com­
pletely  exhausted,  he  lay  on  the  floor 
puffing and panting.  A rough hand drew 
him to his feet,  and a voice said:  “ Come 
along.  You  have  made  enough  dis­
turbance  for  one  night.” 
in  vain  the 
wretched fellow pleaded and tried to tell 
his  story,  but  the  “copper”  only  said: 
“Don’t  convict  yourself,”  and  dragged 
him along.
He was  taken  into a poorly  furnished 
room in which was a  rude sign  that read 
“ Mayor’s Office,”  that told him where he 
was  supposed  to  be, and  a  very  sorry 
looking “Mayor,”  with pottery  clay cov­
ering his clothes, seemed to be expecting 
him.
“Drunk and  disorderly,  your  Honor,” 
said the impersonated  policeman.
“Any witnesses? ” asked  the  chief of­
ficial.
“A few,  I  guess,”  leered  the  cop,  and 
almost  immediately a  half score  of  pot­

ters  entered  the  room,  and  being  duly 
sworn affirmed that they had seen the de­
fendant drinking and intoxicated.
“Yer  general  appearance  alone  con­
victs yer,  young feller;  else,  why is your 
close all  torn?  Jest  shet  up  or  it’ll go 
all the  harder  on  ye.  The  sentence  of 
this here Court  is  ten dollars  and  costs; 
all together,  thirty-eight dollars, and yer 
have jest a  half-hour  to  leave  this  here 
town.”
The unfortunate “knight of  the  road” 
came down with  his  last  cent,  but could 
only  raise  $31.  This,  however,  was  ac­
cepted,  and  the “copper” led  him out of 
court.  Taking him to the  depot he said: 
“Take my advice, young feller, and don’t 
come  back  here,  for  the  gover’ment  is 
mighty strict here in this locality.”
An hour later and the “Mayor’s Office” 
was  the  scene  of  revelry.  Forty  men 
were  drinking  to  the “health  and long 
life of the Goose Chase.”
The misused “knight”  never  returned 
for his  samples,  nor  has  he lately  been 
seen in  those parts. 
If  he  reads this it 
may be well to say that he would  be per­
fectly safe now.

T he W o rth  o f T horoughness.

From  the Shoe and Leather Gazette.

Preparation  is  as  essential to  success 
in  mercantile  pursuits  as  in  what  are 
In the 
commonly called the professions. 
latter he who would achieve success must 
learn  to  be  methodical;  haphazard  at­
tendance  upon 
lectures  of  desultory 
study will not avail much, however well- 
endowed the  young  aspirant for  distinc­
tion may be with natural abilities.  The 
man  who  is  a  student  at  college  and 
studies  in  a  slip-shod  manner,  without 
plan  or  system vigorously adhered_to,  is 
always a failure. 
In the hot rush of  the 
race  for  supremacy  in  commercial life, 
he  will  “stay”  longest  and  win  most 
prizes,  who has  been able  to  control his 
ambition,  and  to  devote,  in  quiet, pains 
taking work  from day to day some  years 
in  a  well  ordered  store.  The  griefs, 
heart  burnings  and  losses  so  often  ex­
perienced by the  tyro,  are  always trace­
able  to  the  want  of  previous  training. 
How many a young  man of  good  habits, 
respected  in  his  community,  and  by  no 
means a fool, makes an utter failure when 
started  in  trade  by  some  kind-hearted 
aunt or  other  relative,  for  the  want  of 
that  special training  in  the  minutiae of 
business,  familiarity  with  which  is  al­
ways  present in the  case of  the success­
ful  tradesman.  Such  a  man  may, it  is 
true,  have  the  services  and  advice  of 
some experienced  clerk  or  partner  and 
make a great  success,  but  in  the majori­
ty of cases this is the exception.
One of  the most  glaring  faults of  our 
national  character  is, perhaps, our  lack 
of thoroughness, our impatience  at  mat­
ters  of  detail,  our  over  eagerness  to 
“ get  thar,”  resulting  in  our  “ giving 
hostages  to  fortune,” or,  as  the  blunt 
Saxon  proverb  has  it,  “eating  the  calf 
in the cow’s belly.”
In commercial  life,  as well as in every 
other department of  human  activity, the 
prizes  will  fall to patient  industry  and 
courageous  pertinacity,  rather  than  to 
meteor-like  brilliancy  and  evanescent 
energy.  Esop’s  fable of  the  hare  and 
tortoise  is  being well illustrated  in  the 
careers of almost  every  man  with whom 
we come in contact from day to day.
A H oodooed E stab lish m en t.

There is a drug store on Myrtle avenue, 
Brooklyn,  which  has  the  reputation  of 
It  has  certainly  been 
being  hoodooed. 
the scene of  a  remarkable series of  mis­
chances  of  late. 
It  was  close  to  this 
store that  Armstrong shot and  killed his 
father-in-law,  Herrick,  some  six  years 
ago.  Hermann Frank then kept the drug 
store.  Shortly after Mr.  Frank fell dead 
behind  his  counter.  His  successor, Mr. 
Rohiffs,  likewise  died  suddenly  in  the 
store about two years afterward.  A Ger­
man druggist next took the business, and 
carried  it  on  for a year,  when  he  shot 
himself.  August Engell held a mortgage 
on  the  stock,  and concluded  to  carry on 
the  business.  A  few  days  ago  he  fell 
across the counter dead.

Big  Rapids—D.  Hamilton  has  pur­
chased  the  meat  market  formerly  con­
ducted by 8.  O.  Littlefield.

G rand  R apids  & Indian a.
Schedule  In effect  June 12,1898.

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive from  Leave «oing 

North.
7:20 am
2:00  pm
4:15  p m
10:30  p m
7:20 a m
4; 15 pm
Train arriving from south at 6:50 am daily; all other 

South. 
For Traverse City & Mackinaw  6:50 a m  
From  Kalamazoo  ......................   9:20 am
For  Traverse City &  Mackinaw  1:60 p m 
For  Traverse  City......................  
For Petoskey & Mackinaw.......   8:10 p m 
From Chicago and  Kalamazoo.  8:35 p m
For Saginaw..................................  
For S aginaw ................................ 
trains  daily  except  Sunday.

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

North. 
For  Cincinnati.............................  0:20 a m 
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago... 
For Fort Wayne and the  E ast..  11:50 a m 
For  Cincinnati.............................   5:20 p m 
For  Chicago.................................... 10:40 pm  
From Saginaw...............................  11:50 a m
From Saginaw.................................10:40 p m
all other trains daily except Sunday.

Arrive from  Leave going 
South.
7:00 a m
10:05  am
2:00 pm
6:00  p m
11:20 p m

Trains leaving at 6:00 p. m. and 11:20 p. m. run daily; 

SLEEPING  A   PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

NORTH

7:20 a m train«—Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Traverse City  and  Grand  Rapids 
to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
2.00 p  m  train   has  parlor  car  Grand 
Rapids to Petoskey and M tckinaw.
10:30 p m  train .—Sleeping  car  Grand 
R&pids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw. 
SOUTH—7:00 am  train . -Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
10:05  a m   train .—Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
6:00  p m  train .—Wagner Sleeping  Car 
Grand Rapids to Cincinnati.
11;20 p m tra in .—Wagner Sleeping Car 
Grand Rapids to Chicago.

C hicago v ia G. R.  & I. R. R.

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

10:05 a m   0:00 pm  
3:35 p m  9:00 p m  

11:00 pm
6 50 a m
10:05 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.
11:20 p m train daily, through Wagner  Sleeping Car. 
10:10 p m
6:50  am
10:10 p  m 

7:05 am  8:10 p m 
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
1:50 pm  8 35pm  
3:10  p m   through  Wagner  Parlor  Car. 
train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

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

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

R ailw ay.

Toledo,  A nn  A rb o r  &  N o rth   M ichigan 
In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven <& Milwauk  i 
offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  betwe  i 
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 10:30 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 n ., a.  H.  A H.

VIA D., L. A M.

Return connections equally as good.

CHICAGO 

W.  H.  B enn ett, General Pass. Agent, 
Toledo, Ohio
JPNE12-18^
A N D   WKSr  M IC H I G A N   R’Y.
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Lv.GR’D RAPIDS........9:00am 12:05pm *U:S5pm
Ar. CHICAGO............. 3:35pm  5:25pm  *7:03am

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO. *

Lv. CHICAGO............. 9:00am  4:45pm *11:15pm
Ar.  GR’D RAPIDS...... 3:55pm  10:10pm  *6:10am

INDIANAPOLIS.

TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

GRAND  RAPIDS AND  CHICAGO.
Via St. Joe and Steamer.
Lv Grand R apids...............12:05pm 
t  6:30pm
Ar Chicago  ........................  8:30pm 
2:00am
Lv Chicago  ........................  
9:30am
5:20pm
Ar Grand Rapids................. 
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.......10:0i am  12 05pm  5:30pm  6:30pm
Ar.  G. R....... 10:50am  3  15pm  5:20pm 
..........
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.
-JÜNE12^
DETROIT, 

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

RAPIDS.

LANSING &  NORTHERN  R.  R.
GOING TO  DETROIT.

Lv. GR’D  RAPIDS...... 7:30am *1:00pm  5:40pm
Ar. DETROIT............. 11:50am *5:lfipm  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.
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 K.  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 Rapie1,7 :40 p m.  Seats 25 cents.

♦Every da/.  Other trains week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

19
M i c h i g a n  (T e n t r ä l

“ The Niagara Falls Route.”

4:30  p m

D EPA RT.  A RRIV E
Detroit Express..  ...............................  7.00am   10:00pm
Mixed  ...................................................   7:0&am 
Day  Express.......................................   1:20 p m  10:00 a m
'Atlantic& Pacific Express..............  1:00pm 
e:00 a m
New York Express...............................5:40 pm  
10 45 p m

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

Fred M. Briggs, Gen’l Agent. 85 Monroe St.
A. Alm quist, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Geo. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St.
O. W. Rugolbs  G. P.  &  T. Agent.,Chicago.
B
Milwaukee
-  RAILWAY 

1 TIME  TABLE

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

1

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave ♦No.  14jtNo.  16 tNo.  18 *No.  82
........ ..
Lv.  Chicago__
Lv. Milwaukee. 
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St.  Johns  ...Ar
Ow o s sd....... Ar
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Bay City......Ar
Flint  .......... Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit.........Ar

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Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 a. m., 
5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arrive  from  the west,  6:45.a  m,  10:10 
a. m., 3:15 p.m. and 10:30 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parler  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward — No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetear.
J ohn W. Loud, Traffic M anager.
Ben F letcher, Trav.  Pass. Agent.
J as. Cam pbell, City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

For Muskegon—Leave.

Muskegon, Grand 
6:55 am  
11:25  a m 
5:30 p m

From Muskegon—Arrive. 

Rapids & Indiana. 
10:00 a m 
4:40 pm  
0:05 p m

SHORT  LINE  TO  CHICAGO.
G o o d r i c h   L in e .

Via the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwau­

kee Railway and the

SCHEDULE :

The Magnificent New, Fust Steamships,

“Atlanta”  aid  “ City  of Racine”

Built  expressly for this  route.  Each steamship 
1,200  tous  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.

LEAVE  GRAND RAPIDS daily, except Sunday, 
at  5:10  p m,  via  D,  G II &  M  Ry, arrive  in 
Grand Haven6:15 pm
LEAVE  GRAND  HAY EN 8:30 p m daily except 
Saturday, via Goodrich  Line, arrive  in  Chi­
cago at 6:00am

N ote—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 dally.

Note—Sunday trips resumed May 15.

$ 3.90

GRAND  RAPIDS 
CHICAGO, ONLY

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 
&NRR,  G R & I R R  and T, S & M Ry.

included

JOHN  SINGLETON, 
__________ Gen’l Pass. Agent, Chicago.
GX2T3S2TG  H O O T .

We pay th e highest price for It.  Address

D U n i r   D 'D  H Q   W holesale  Druggists 
r i l U A .   JD -tiU o .,  GRAND  RAPIDS

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DISCOURAGEMENTS TO ENTERPRISE
If  I had  not  lived  as  long  as I have, 
and had  so  much  experience  of  the  in­
consistencies of  human nature, I  should 
be  astonished  at  the  way  in  which men 
in high as  well  as in  low  positions,  pro­
fessing to seek the material prosperity of 
the  country,  take  the  most  efficacious 
means  for  impairing  if  not  destroying 
i t   They complain that business is pros­
trated.  that labor is unemployed and that 
enterprise  is  dead,  and  yet  by the very 
remedies which they propose  for the evil 
they prolong and increase it.  Nothing is 
more  essential 
to  business  prosperity 
than a confidence that existing conditions 
will remain  uuchanged.  When men can 
see just what risks they are running they 
can 
the  necessary  precautions 
against them,  but when the dangers they 
have to encouuter are  unknown  and  un­
certain  they  hesitate  and  act  timidly. 
There are  chances  and  changes  in  busi­
ness  under  the  most  favorable  circum­
stances,  but  familiarity  with  them  robs 
them  of  their  terrors. 
It  is  the  novel 
and the untried that most  powerfully af­
fect  the  imagination  and  produce  the 
most  deterrent  effect, and  of  these  ele­
ments  of  mischief  the  most  fruitful 
source is legislation.  We can reckon  up­
on the weather,  the crops,  and even upon 
the caprices of  fashion,  with  a tolerable 
assurance  of  satety,  but  the  hazards  of 
legislative  action  baffle  calculation.  A 
lawyer  who  was  very  celebrated  in  my 
younger days,  Mr. George  Wood,  used to 
say to those  who  consulted him:  “I  can 
tell you what the law is to-day, but 1 can­
not tell you  what the Supreme Court will 
decide,  as  that  tribunal  is  partly  com­
posed of lawyers of little ability.”  Most 
of  our  legislators,  unfortunately,  are 
equally  undeserving  of  respect  as  re­
gards  financial  and  business  questions. 
Even those who are really well  informed 
and  competent  are  too  much  given  to 
considering  the  unenlightened  preju­
dices of their immediate constituents up­
on whom  they  depend  for their  places, 
and are too little  regardful  of  the needs 
of  the  country  as a whole.  The  recent 
passage by  so wise a body as the United 
States  Senate  of  the  Free  Silver  bill 
would  be  accountable  except  upon  the 
theory  that  the  Senators  voted  not  ac­
cording  to  their  convictions but accord­
ing to  what  they  believed  to  be  the  re­
quirements  of  personal  interest.  As  to 
the numerous  wild  measures  introduced 
into the  House of  Representatives,  they 
are notoriously presented  and  supported 
on  political  grounds,  without  reference 
to their  consequences if  they  should  be 
enacted into laws.

This, it  is  true, is  only  a  roundabout 
way of saying that the people themselves 
are,  at bottom, the cause of this meddling 
and  tinkering  legislation,  and  that  the 
only permanent cure for  it is popular in­
struction and enlightenment.  Yet, when 
I see  how  long  the  world  has  gone  on 
abandoning  one  error, after it  has been 
proved to be an error by bitter experience, 
only  to  flounder  into  another  error  not 
yet exposed,  I have  no  hope  that  in  my 
time, at best,  this slow and painful proc­
ess of  education will accomplish its final 
result.  As children  disregard the warn­
ings of  their parents and want to  see for 
themselves  the  folly of  each  particular 
piece  of  foolishness,  so  every  genera­
tion,  I  presume,  will  insist  on  trying 
over,  under  a new  form,  to  be sure,  ex­
periments which  have already been tried 
by its predecessors,  and found to fail.

that 

it  may  well  be 
the  manage-
ment of  manufacturing enterprises on  a 
large scale by  private  citizens  will ulti­
mately  become  impossible,  and  that  if 
they are to be established and maintained
at all it must be under the protection and 
under  the  supervision  of  the  Govern­
ment.  This  is  what  the Socialists have 
been always  demanding,  and  to  the  re­
cent spread of  their  opinions, as  shown 
in  legislation  against  corporations  and 
against trusts,  I  have  frequently  called 
attention.

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E SM A N
Tracing the origin of  the mischief still 
further back,  we  find  that it  lies  in the 
discontent of the great  mass of  mankind 
with their lot in  life,  and in their  irrita­
tion  against  those  who  are  apparently
better situated.  From  the day on  which 
Gain slew his brother Abel  because Abel 
found  more  favor  with  the  Almighty 
than he did, down to the present moment, 
prosperous and  successful men  have  al­
ways had to  incur  the  secret,  if not  the 
open,  resentment of those less fortunate. 
Their  success,  from  want  of  practical 
familiarity  with  its  basis,  is  attributed 
to  oppression  or  dishonesty,  and  even 
where it is plainly due  to  personal skill, 
enterprise  and  industry,  it  provokes  a 
desire  to  limit  it  and  check  it  as  if it 
were detrimental to  the nation  at  large. 
Thus, only a few weeks  ago,  the Omaha 
Convention solemnly declared that  "The 
fruits of  the toil  of  millions  are  boldly 
stolen  to build up colossal fortunes for  a 
few,”  that  “The supply  of  currency  is 
purposely  abridged  to  fatten  usurers, 
bankrupt enterprise  and  enslave  indus­
try,”  and  it  demanded 
the  taking  of 
measures to remedy “the grievous wrongs 
of  the  suffering  poor.”  This  is  only  a 
fresh  expression  of  a  sentiment  which 
has loug been at  work  producing  meas­
ures  like the  Granger  legislation in  the 
Western States, and the acts of  Congress 
against the aggregations of capital known 
as  Trusts.  The mere fact that any man 
or set of men have acquired large wealth 
and use it skillfully to  gain  more wealth 
is accepted as conclusive proof that such 
wealth is the fruit of injustice and its ac­
quisition a  crime.

No one can  surely forecast the future, 
and I do not pretend to say how soou and 
how 
far  the  views  of  which  Senator 
Palmer  is  the  spokesman  will  become 
embodied in law.  Nor do I say that their 
supremacy  will  cause  the  ruin  of  the 
country.  . But I have  no  doubt  that  the 
favor with  which  they are received,  and 
the consequences to which  they  have al­
ready led are  extremely  discouraging  to 
enterprises which  would  assist in devel­
oping  the  resources of  the  country and 
in  promoting  that  business  prosperity 
the decay of which is so greatly deplored. 
Capital  already  invested  in  such  enter­
prises cannot, of  course,  leave the coun­
try,  but with the "prospect that future in­
vestments of it are to be controlled not by 
its owners but  by those  whose  interests 
are  adverse  to  theirs,  we  must  expect 
them  to  cease  to  be  made here.  They 
will be made in  other places  where they 
will be  free  from such  burdensome con­
ditions. 

Ma tt h ew   Ma r sh a ll.

T.  J.  Lucas,  the  Monroe  street  shoe 
dealer,  offers  handsome  Japanese  nap­
kins  for the use of picnics,  parties, etc., 
without  charge.  He invites  his patrons 
to call at 88  Monroe  street  and get them 
in any quantity desired.

The  troubles  at Homestead,  Pa.,  have 
given occasion  for  the  expression,  from 
various  quarters  and  in  various  forms, 
of  this  sentiment of  hostility to  accu­
mulations  of  wealth.  The  conduct  of 
the Carnegie  Steel  Company  in seeking 
to regain the possession of its works from 
a body of  men who  were obstructing ac­
cess to them has been widely condemned, 
and the  determination  of  the  unlawful 
occupants neither to  work for their  for­
mer employers  upon the terms  offered to 
them nor  to  permit  others  to take  their 
places,  has  been  as  widely  approved. 
Senator Palmer of  Illinois went so far as 
to advance,  in a formal speech,  upon  the 
Senate  floor, 
the  doctrine  that  large 
amounts  of  capital,  once  invested  in 
manufacturing plant and made to furnish 
employment  to  numerous workmen,  be­
come  in  a manner  public  property  and 
cease to belong to their owners in  such a 
manner as to give them the right to man­
age them as they think  best.  The Sena­
tor asserted  that  when  a man  has  once 
secured  employment from a large manu­
facturing  concern  he  has  a  right  to in­
sist on  being  employed  for  life, or dur­
ing good  behavior,  like  a public  official, 
and is justified in  resisting  dismissal  by 
force,  if need be. 
In his opinion the dis­
charged  workmen  of  the Carnegie Steel 
Company were  entirely  right in occupy­
ing its works  and in opposing the admis­
sion to them of new employes.

It is quite possible that  Senator  Palm­
er’s  views  will  yet  have  to  be  adopted 
and  acted  upon  as  the  only  effectual 
means of  preventing  in future the great 
contests  between  employes and employ­
ers  which  have  so often heretofore par­
alyzed  industry  and  resulted  in  great 
losses of  both  property and  life.  With 
the  dominent  public  sentiment which  I 
have mentioned  favoring  the  earners of 
the  payers  of  wages,
wages  against 

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED,  ETC.

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BUSINESS  CHANCES.

OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—I  WILL SELL 
or  exchange  my house  and  lot, located  in 
the  best  city, of  seven  thousand, in  the Upper 
Peninsula, for good property of equal value In a 
good live town of two to five thousand In South­
ern Michigan.  The house is a substantial eleven 
room  house,  good  cellar  18x40,  water  works, 
good  barn  18x26. good  sheds,  poultry yard, etc. 
House and  lot  cost  $2,500, value at $2,200,  mort­
gage  $600 will  exchange  for a house and  lot of 
equal value  or  less, or  for a good  grocery busi­
ness;  also,  we  have  a  good  meat  market  and 
grocery we will  exchange  Located on  the best 
corner in  the  city;  can  reduce  stock  down  to 
$1,000 if necessary.  Either or both the above we 
will  exchange  or  sell  for  cash.  Address  No. 
458. care Michigan Tradesman. 

F or  sa le  ok  ex c h a n g e  fo r  a  stock

of merchandise—A good hotel and furniture 
located  at  the  thriving  village  of  Homer, Cal­
houn county, Mich.  Price, $6 500  The Banner 
grist mill, located  at  Cadillac, Wexford  county, 
Mich  This is a desirable property for  someone 
wanting  to run a grist  mill  and  feed  and  hay 
business 
I  also  have  several 
pieces of farm ana timbered lands and some city 
and  village  lots  that I will  sell  cheap, or  will 
trade for a good  mercantile  stock, as I am  over­
stocked  on  real  estate.  Albert  E  Smith,  Box 
1123, Cadillac, Mich. 

I lOR  SALE-CLEAN  NEW  STOCK  OF  DRY 

goods, notions,  clothing,  furnishing  goods, 
shoes,  groceries,  cigars,  tobaccos  and  confec­
tionery, located in one of the best business towns 
in Michigan.  Doing  over $2,000 per month  spot 
cash  business.  Not  a  dollar  of  credit.  Stock 
will invoice about  $6,000.  Address  No. 549, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

Price.  $4,000. 

549

458

547

550

F o r  sa l e—c ig a r  a n d tobacco  st o r e,

invoicing  about  $1,000, in  the  best  town in 
Michigan  and the  best  location in the  city.  A 
fine  opening  for  confectionery  In  connection. 
Can  give  good  reason  for  selling.  Will  want 
two-thirds cash.  Address Derby Cigar Factory 
Belding, Mich. 

fl'OR  SALE-SMALL  STO^K  OF  GENERAL 
merchandise  for  sale  cheap  for cash.  Ad­
dress A. P. Alhaugh, Middleton, Mich.
F or  sa le—c lea n  g e n e r a l  stock  in
town near Grand  Rapids surrounded by ex­
cellent  farming  countrj.  A  bargain  for  some 
526
one.  M. S. McNitt, Byron Center, Mich. 
I IOR  SALE —SMALL  STOCK  OF  DRUGS 

which will  invoice $700.  $500 cash, balance 
on time.  ’92 sales, $1 600.  Will rent or sell  resi­
dence to purchaser.  Rare  chance for  physician 
or young  man.  Address  Doctor,  care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
lOR  SALE —CLEAN  STOCK  OF  STAPLE 
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
'radesman. 

Particulars,  address  No.  530,  care  Michigan 
F o r  SALE —HALF  INTEREST  IN  GOOD 
I 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. 

Rapids 

paying drug  store  in  Grand  Rapids.  Rare 
opportunity for young man.  P.  V. Finch, Grand 

■ 524

504

544

53j

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YK7ANTED—GOOD LOCATION  FOR PHYSI- 
V V  cian and small drug store in railroad town. 
Address No. 543, care Michigan Tradesman.  543
I lOR  SALE —GOOD  DIVIDEND - PAYING 
stocks in  banking, manufacturing and mer 
cantlle  companies.  E. A. Stowe,  100  Louis  St., 
Grand Rapids. 
Fo r  sa le —b e st  r e sid e n c e  lo t  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 LouiB St. 

354

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D ETROIT.IMICH.

Gao. F. Owen, Salesman for Western  Michigan, 

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

RED  OAK,  WHITE  OAK, 

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RINDGE,  KALMBACH  &  CO.,

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G r a n d   R a p i d s ,   M ic h .

Successors  to

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”  

~ \7 \T  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 are now ready to make contracts for the season of  1893.  Correspondence solicited.

18  and  19  Widdicomb  Building:.

Spring & 

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W H O L E S A L E

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