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THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS.

GRAND  R A PID S,  SEPTEM B ER   14,  1892.

$1  Per  Year.
NO.  469

C .  N .   R A P P   St  C O ..
WHOLESALE  FRUITS  AND  PRODUGE.

9  North  Ionia St., Grand Rapids.

Mail  Orders  Receive  Prompt  Attention.

MUSKEGON  BRANCH  UNITED  STATES  BAKING  CO.,

Muskegon Cracker Co.,

Successors  to

H A B ST  FOX,  Manager.

Crackers, B iscu its#S w eet Goods.

SPKCIAI.  attention  p a id  to  m ail  orders.

MUSKEGON,' MICH.

PEAGHES!  PEAGHES!  PEAGHES!

Can Ship Them  1000 Miles

I make a specialty of them.  Wire  for prices.  Am bound to please.  Give  me 

T H E O .  B .  G O O S S E N ,

a trial and be convinced!

W holesale  Commission,  33  Ottawa  St.,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Gh  S.  B H O W N ,

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Foreign  and  Domestie  Friiits  and  1/egetatles.
Oranges, Bananas and Early Vegetables a Speeialty.
24-26 No. Division St.

Send for quotations. 

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CRAWFORDS  and  BARNARDS.

If you want Peaches for canning purposes

JVow  i s   the time to order•

It is possible that  prices will  touch  bottom  this and  next week.  The  first run of 
Crawfords are always the best quality while the price is usually as low as any time 
during the  season.
If  you have not received our market  report and quotations write us at once and let 
us know how many bushels you want shipped daily,

Q U ALITY  AND  PRICES  A R E   RIG H T!

ALFRED  J.  BROWN,

Seedsman and Fruit Commission Merchant.

Grand Rapids, Sept.  13, ’92. 

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Jobber of  1) 

Including the following celebrated brands, man 
ufactured  by  the  well known  house of  Glaser, 
Frame & Co.:
Vindex, long  Havana filler.......................  $35
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35
Three  Medals, long Havana filler........... 
1  I  I  I  1  v J  I  f   V f  E lk’s Choice, Havana filler and binder... 
55
5
55
60
35

A V*1  v i  JL  Vw  La  Ideal,  25 in a box................................  
M adellena................................................ 
Flor de  Romeo....................................... 

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10  So. Ionia  SI, Grand  Rapids.
B L A C K   B A S S   C I G A R S
G.  F.  F A U D E ,  IO NIA,  MICH

NEVER  GO  BEGGING.  Made only  by

THE  NE  PLUS  ULTRA  OF  A   NICKEL  SMOKE !

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you have any beans and want to sell, 
we want them, will  give you full  mar 
ket  price.  Send  them  to  ns  In  any 
quantity  np to car  loadB, 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.

M = * : +  d r / * v k * - - m

THE  NEW  YilOlf  R1SRIIIY  Rfl

Thp.  rrrfiATi  R p.9.1  n ir fa r

S.  A.  S E A R S ,  Manager. 

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Cracker Manufacturera,
G rand  R a p id s.

8 7 , 8 9  a n d   41 K e n t St., 

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Our  Fall  Lines  o f

Oil  Glottis,  Carpets  and  Gilrtains

N o w   ready•  Write for  prices•

SMITH  &  SANFORD,  68  Monroe St.

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Is the  JMiesn Desirable for M erchants to Handle because

It is Staple and w ill fit any Purchaser.

Send Your W holesaler an Order.

Retails for 10 cents,  3 for 25 cents.

Don’t   Forgot  w hen  ordering

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

Special pains  taken w ith fru it  orders.

NUTS,  FIGS,

DATES, ETC.

CANDY

To call on or address

STANDARD  OIL  CO.,

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WHO  UROES  TOU  TO  KEEP S a p o l i q ?

G BAUD  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

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DEALERS  IN

Ulmnmating and Lubricating

By splendid  and  expensive  advertising  the  manufacturers  create  a 
demand, and  only ask the  trade  to keep the  goods in  stock so as to  supply 
the  orders  sent to them.  W ithout  effort on  the  grocer’s  part the  goods 
sell  themselves,  bring  purchasers to the  store, and  help  sell  less  known 
goods.

Anv Jobber wilLbe Glad to Fill Your Orders.

GRAND RAPIDS, 
BIG  RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN, 

BULK  WORKS  AT

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND HAVEN, 
HOWARD  CITE, 

MANISTEE, 
• 
PETOSKEY,

CADILLAC,
LUDINGTON.

Office, Hawkins Block. 

Works, Butterworth Ave.

HIGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR

NAPTHA  AND  GASOLINES.

EMPTY  CARBON  i   GAM IN'7  BARRELS.

BUFFALO

B u ffa lo  B ili

Contracted  to  furnish  the  laborers  w ith  meat, killing in one 
season four thousand eight hundred and sixty-two

During the  building of the Kansas & Pacific Railway

We have taken the contract to furnish every dealer in Western 
Michigan with

BUFFALO  80HP

I M P O R T E R S   A N D

Wholesale  Grocers

GRAND  RAPIDS
i V e w   F orints

Received in all the Beet  Well  Known Brands.

I s o  F i n e  F i n e   o f   R o b e s

OUTINGS,  WIDE  BLUES,  FANCY  SHIRTINGS,  DRESS 
GINGHAMS,  SATINES,

D r e s s   G o o d s

IN  CHEVRONS,  WHIPCORDS,  BEDFORD  CORDS, 
STORM  SERGE  EFFECTS.

Yarns, Blankets, Comforts, Underwear.  Overshirts,

C orrespondenc*e  receives  o u r  P erso n al  A tten tio n .

Pants and Overalls.
jP .   STEKBTBB  &  SON.
R e y m a n   &  C om pany,

BEST LAUNDRY SOAP ON EARTH-
Co.

I M.  GLABE (jROCEBI

SOLE  ARGENTS.

6 3   an d   6 6  C an al  S t.,

Manufacturers  of

Sim  Casus

First-Glass  Work  Only.

Of  Every Description.

WRITE FOR  PRICES. 
G R A N D   R A P I D S .

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NO.  469

ESTABLISHED  1841.

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

R . G . D u n   &  Co.

Reference Books Issued  quarterly.  Collections 

attended to throughout United States 

and Canada

GOlIGBGIiL CREDIT CO.

65  MONROE  ST.

Formed by the consolidation of the 

COOPKB  COMMERCIAI.  AGENCY,

AND THE

UNION  CREDIT  CO.,

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

Telephones 166 and 1030.

L.  J.  STEVENSON, 

C.  A.  CUMINGS,

C.  E.  BLOCK.

P R O M P T , 

8A P E .
T. Stew art W h ite, Pres’t. 
W, F red McB a in , Sec’y.__________________

CO N S ER VA T IV E, 

Daisy  Brand.

Solid  Brand  Cans.

OYSTERS!
Selects...........................................................$  30
Standards......................................................  
22
E.  F................................................................  24
Selects..........................................................$  28
Standards......................................................   20
Favorites.............. .........................................  
18
Mrs. W ithey’s Home-Made Mince Meat.
Large  bbls...................................................... 6
401b  pails...... ...................................................654
101b  “ 
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V4 bbls............................................................. 654
20 lb pails........................................................  6%
2 lb cans, usuai  weight, per doz.................Cl  SO
4 lb  “ 
................3 SO
Choice Dairy Butter................  .................  
IS
Pure Sweet Cider in bbls............................  
lg
“  Vinegar.........................  10
Choice Lemons,*300 and 360 ......................  7 00
New Pickles in bbls, 1200..........................   5 25
half bbls, 300.........................3 00
The  above  prices  are made  low to bid  for 

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trade.  Let yonr orders come.

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EDW IN  FALLAS,

Prop’r of Valley City Cold Storap

215-217  Livingston St., Grand  Rapids.

Note  the  extreme  low prices at which 
we are  now offering  our  Mason’s  Porce­
lain Lined Fruit  Jars.
Don’t  lose  any  orders  as  there  is  a 
good profit at the  price, and the  demand 
has always been  heavier than the supply 
at this season.
Pints have  same size  mouth as quarts.

MASON’S 

DANDY
Covers. 

Caps. 

With  Boyd’s  Porcelain 
Best Jars with Glass
pr gr 
pr gr
Pints....................... 6 75
P ints...........................io so
Ìu arts...................7 00
Q uarts...................11  00
alf gallon............9 00
H alf  gallons............14 00
No charge for package or cartage.  All 
Fruit  Jars  shipped  on  receipt of  order. 
Price  guaranteed.

1.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

Grand  Rapids, 

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Mich.

The Bradstat Mercantile Apicy.
Executive Offices, 279,281,283  Broadway, N.Y

The|Bradstreet]Com pany, Props.

CHARLES  E.  CLARK,  Pres.

Offices In the principal cities of the United 
States,  Canada,  the  European  continent, 
Australia, and in London, England.
Grand  Rapids  Office,  Room 4,  Widdieomb  Bldg.

HENRY  ROYCE, Snpt.

Manufacturer's Agent and Jobber of

F R A N K   H .  W H I T E ,
Brooms, Washboards,  Wooden
Indicated  Pails  &  Tubs,

AND

Wooden  Bowls,  Clothespins  and  Rolling 

Pins,  Step  Ladders,  W ashing  Ma­

chines, M arket, Bushel and De­

livery Bas  ets.  Building 

Paper, W rapping

Paper, Sacks, Twine and  Stationery.

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

125  COURT  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

i. J. SHELLMAN, Scintile Optician, 65 Monroe Street

Eyes  tested  for  spectacles  free of  cost  with 
latest Improved methods.  Glasses in every style 
at  moderate  prices.  Artificial  human  eyes  of 
every color.  Sign of big spectacles.__________

S.  A.  MORMAN,

WHOLESALE

Petoskey,  M arble­

head  and  Ohio

A kron, Buffalo  and  Louisville

L U M I E ,
CEM EN TS,

Stucco and Hair,  Sewer Pipe,

FIBE  BRICK  AND  OLAY. 

W rite for Prices.

10 LYON  ST., 

-  GRAND  RAPIDS.

DO  NOT F AIL  TO  VISIT

BEIMAP, B ill i  CO.’S

Exclusive  Carriage  Repository

AND  INSPECT THEIR  LINE  OF

Carriages,

Surreys,

Phaetons,

^  Buggies•

5  &  7   N.  IONIA  ST.,

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

THE  LOYALIST’S  STRATAGEM.
Early in the  winter of  1779, Washing­
ton’s army was encamped at Morristown; 
and about twenty miles west of that place 
was the residence of Squire John Kitchell, 
one of  the  most widely  known  and un­
yielding patriots of northern New Jersey. 
His farm  and  dwelling  bordered  on the 
main  road;  and  one  evening,  late  in 
November, the usual family worship had 
just closed, his  wife  and  his  daughters 
had retired upstairs, and the  squire  was 
quaffing his nightcap of sweet cider when 
his ear caught  the hoof-beats of  a horse 
outside.

Presently a step  sounded on the stoop; 
and when the squire unfastened the door, 
his flaring candle shown fitfully upon the 
long  beard  and  blue-caped  cloak  of  a 
stranger.  The  new-comer,  somewhat 
bent by the  weight  of  apparently  sixty 
years, asked  the  favor of  a  night’s hay 
for his  horse  and, for  himself, only per­
mission to rest  in  the  barn  beside him; 
for his purpose was to depart before sun­
rise.  He  was  on his  way to  the Ameri­
can army with supplies, he  said,  and his 
laden  wagon was but half a day’s journey 
behind  him.  He supported  his  request 
by showing a pass which allowed Captain 
Job Spring, with his team, a safe passage 
to the army and a return to the Delaware 
River.

To ail  this the  sqnire  replied  that he 
was  welcome  to  such quarters  for him­
self  and  horse  as  he  could  find  in the 
barn.  Taking  a lantern, he led the way, 
adding that in  one of  the  stalls  he had, 
an hour before, given lodging to a young 
man about to  join the patriot ranks, and 
that  his  farm  hand,  Black  Tom,  also 
slept in  the  hay near  by.  After seeing 
the stranger  and  his  roadster  fairly ac­
commodated, the  sqnire  bade  him good­
night and returned to his homestead.

It was at least an  hour  after midnight 
when the  repose of  the  sleeping  house­
hold was  rudely disturbed  by the tramp 
of  horses  and  the  voices  of  a  body  of 
men 
The 
alarmed  inmates  hastily  answered  the 
summons.

admittance. 

demanding 

“Squire Kitchell, you  are  my  prison­

er!” cried the leader of the party.

“Who are  you, sir, and  where  is your 

warrant?”

“We  are  all  true  blue  and belong to 
the Sussex militia, and  here is  the  war­
rant of  the  county  committee  to arrest 
yon  for  communicating  secretly  with 
King George’s commander in New York.”
“Pooh!  Pooh!”  lightly exclaimed  the 
squire.  “Everybody  knows I am a good 
whig;  and  when  you  bring  me  before 
General  Washington, he’ll  just laugh  at 
you and tell yon to go  about better busi­
ness.”

“Well,  you  won’t  go  before  General 
Washington,  and  we  have  no  time  to 
waste  any  words.  We’ll  just  search 
your house and then  escort you safely to 
our county jail at Newton.”

“Here’s  more  of 

’em,  leftenant!” 
cried a couple of  troopers, hastily  enter­
ing, in charge of  Captain Job Spring, to­
gether with  the  young man who had oc­

cupied a stall near him, and  Black  Tom, 
the farm-hand.

“Strap the  nigger  fast  behind  one  of 
the  men  and  see  that  he  don’t escape. 
Squire, you  and  these other two will  go 
into  the  parlor  and  keep  quiet  there 
along with your family, while we  search 
upstairs  for  your  treasonable  papers. 
Sergeant,  place  sentinels  around  the 
house and one  outside  the  parlor  door, 
and see that no  one leaves the room.

The  leader  and  his  men  rushed  up­

stairs to begin their search.

The  prisoners  were  left  alone  in  the 
parlor, and the door  was  closed;  but  by 
his tramp  and  voice  they  knew  that  a 
sentry was  stationed in the hall outside. 
A candle  on  the  table  feebly illumined 
the  room, and  the  silence  was  broken 
only by the sobs of  the squire’s wife and 
daughters.  At length the old gentleman 
soothed them and then  seized the oppor­
tunity  to  explain  the  situation  to  his 
guest, Captain  Spring, and  solemnly  to 
protest his entire innocence of the charge 
alleged against  him.

“Sqnire  Kitchell, I  believe  you  with 
all my heart,” replied  the  captain,  “and 
this will yet prove to be some grand mis­
take.  I have heard of you before as one of 
our stanchest patriots.  But  what can yon 
do  at  present?  From  what 
I  have 
learned, 
to  be  no 
charge  against  me  nor  against  any­
one  but  you.  They  cannot  go behind 
my pass nor detain me.”

appears 

“Nor  detain  me a  moment, if  my son 
at army headquarters could but get word 
of it.  He  is  one of  Washington’s  most 
trusted officers,” said the sqnire.

there 

“And his name?”
“Lieutenant  Kitchell, of  the commis­

sary department.”

“What!  Lieutenant  Kitchell!”  cried 
the captain.  “Why,  my eldest  son  was 
once under his command, and his  letters 
home  often  mentioned  the  lieutenant 
with gratitude.  He is on the staff, then?”
“Yes,”  said  the  squire.  “He  is  a 
young man of  fine education, and so was 
put in general charge of the army records 
as well as those of the commissary—”

“And  that,”  interrupted  the  sobbing 
wife,  “is no  small  affair  in  an  army of 
ten thousand men.”

“So many as that!” exclaimed Captain 

Spring.

“No, no,  wife, not  quite  so  many—” 

began the squire.

“Well, no matter,” put in the captain. 
“Let us  look  at  this  matter cooly—and 
quickly, too.  Now, have you paper, pen 
and ink in this room? ”

In an  instant the  squire had opened  a 
bureau and placed  the  required  articles 
on the table.

“Now,”  said  the  captain,  “sit  here, 
squire, and write only a few lines to your 
son.  Tell  him  you  send them  in haste 
by  me,  Captain  Job  Spring,  from  the 
Delaware.  Say  you  have  been  appre­
hended  unjustly  by  the  Sussex militia, 
and state the  charge.  Now say they are 
about to  burn  the  house, and  you  may 
add they will probably  hang  yon  before 
they  leave.  Make  it  strong  enough  to 
bring relief quickly.”

K stab lislied   1868.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

H. I.  R E IM S  i  SON,

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
The deep  boom of  a  cannon  sounded 
It was 
from the heights above the town. 
the  “Old  Sow,”  an  eighteen-pounder, 
that was fired  only  in  case of  a general 
alarm.  The  report seemed to act like  a 
spur  on  the  captain’s  steed.  As  he 
reached  the  summit of  a hill  he hastily 
looked  back,  and, in  the  distance,  be­
held a cloud of  dust  rising  on the high­
road.  A  squadron  of  dragoons  was  in 
full  gallop, and  the captain flew  like  a 
flash.  They were evidently the pursuers 
and he  the  pursued.  He  was  pressing 
toward the  distant  defiles  of  the moun­
tains.  Three  miles  more  brought  him 
into  a  forest  road.  A  single  dragoon, 
outriding the  others, dashed up;  but the 
captain’s  pistol-shot emptied his saddle. 
The chase grew furious, desperate.  Two 
other  troopers  fell  in  succession.  His 
pistols were empty, and his only resource 
was  continued  flight.  There  was  still 
one  remaining  pursuer—and  but  one— 
at his heels, and he came near enough to 
grasp 
the  fugitive’s  eloak.  Adroitly 
slipping it loose, and urging his  horse to 
the utmost, once  more  he dashed ahead. 
The dragoon  followed  fast  and, coming 
alongside,  aimed  a  slashing  cut,  that 
would  have  finished  the  flight  had not 
the captain’s horse  stumbled, and,  in his 
headlong  fall, dashed  his  rider  to  the 
ground.  He was at the mercy of his foe. 
The  pursuing  soldier  leaped  from  his 
saddle,  and,  advancing  with  threaten­
ing  blade, cried:

Building and Sheathing Papers, 
Plain  and  Corrugated  Carpet 
Linings,  Asphalt  and  Coal  Tar 
Prepared  Roofing,  Best  Grades 
Asphaltnm and  Fire-proof  Roof 
Paints,  Coal  Tar  and  Coal  Tar 
Pitch,  Elastic  Roofing  Cement, 
Resin and Mineral Wool, Asbes­
tos Fire-proof Sheathing, Etc.

In Felt, Composition and Gravel,

Grand  Rapids, 

Cor.cI.OUIS and  CAMPAU  Sts..

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Flags, 
Banners 
and
Streamers

Of all kinds and made to order.

We Make a  Specialty of Campaign Banners 

and St ream ers.

Portraits of  Candidates  on  Cloth or Paper.

CHAS.  A.  OOYE,

11  PKAKL  8T.

HESTER MACHINERY CO.,

AGENTS  FOB

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“What  if  these  scoundrels  should  be 
Moody’s  men,  after  all!”  suddenly 
cried the squire.

“Moody,  the  British  spy?  A  good 
idea!  Put  that  in,  too.  So,  sign  your 
name.  Now I propose to take this letter 
and gallop off  to headquarters as soon as 
these rascals  leave.  As  for  this young 
man—what is your name? ”

“Maxwell—Robert  Maxwell,” was the 

reply ot the young man.

“Well,  1 shall  tell  these  fellows you 
are  one  of  my  teamsters.  That’s  the 
only way to get you clear of them.  And, 
as you are going  to join the army, I want 
you to hasten  after  me and  meet  me at 
the  Morristown  camp  just as quickly as 
you can.”

“Come,  Squire  Kitchell!  To  horse!” 
exclaimed the sentry,  suddenly throwing 
open the parlor door.

Then, after a sorrowful  scene of  part­
ing, the  troopers  rode  away  with  their 
two captives,  the squire and  Black Tom.
Very  soon  afterward  the  faint  dawn 
was just appearing when  Captain Spring 
mounted his  nag  in  front  of  the house, 
and said to young Maxwell:

“Push after me, my lad, as fast  as you 
can. 
I have  saved  you, and I want  you 
at  Morristown,  to  state  what  you  have 
witnessed here this  night.”

The  young  man  gratefully  assented. 
But as  soon  as  the  captain  was  out  of 
sight, he took good care  to leave the road 
and get  into  the  woods  and  fields, on  a 
course  that  would  bring  him  consider­
ably  to  the  northward  of  Morristown. 
The  truth  was,  he  had  been  a British 
prisoner,  taken  with  Burgoyne’s army, 
had  escaped  from  his  confinement  in 
Pennsylvania,  and  was  making his  way 
to the  British  lines  at  New  York.  He 
certainly had  no  desire  to follow in  the 
track of Captain Spring.

It  was  full ten  o’clock  that  morning 
when the captain was passed through the 
lines of  the American  army and ushered 
into  the  commissary’s  office  on  Bottle 
Hill  above  Morristown.  Lieutenant 
Kitchell  was  alone  in  the  office,  busily 
writing  at a table  covered  with  record- 
books.  First  exhibiting  his  pass,  Cap­
tain Spring then handed him the squire’s 
letter.

“Good  Heavens!” exclaimed  the  lieu­
tenant,  “this  must  have  instant  atten­
tion!” and he rushed  in  an agony out  of 
the office.

The  captain  sat  still  for  a  few  mo­
ments.  Then  he  rose  and  looked  curi­
ously over the  record-books,  made a few 
notes from them, and  ended  by  putting 
one of them into the breast-pocket of  his 
coat.  A  grand review of  the army  was 
going  on 
in  the  plain  below  on  the 
borders of  the  village, and, as  the lieu­
tenant  seemed in no haste to return, the 
captain mounted his  nag  and rode down 
to see  the  parade.  The  commander-in- 
chief and his  suite  were there, and,  like 
any other old rustic,  the  captain and his 
jade rode  slowly  up  and  down near  the 
line,  apparently  enjoying  the  sight. 
Presently someone  in the  crowd  seemed 
to recognize him  and  hailed him;  but to 
this  he  gave  no  attention.  He  merely 
turned  his  horse  and, in  an absent sort 
of  way, ambled  through  the  streets  of 
the  village,  westward.  After  getting 
beyond  the town, his nag  began  to trot, 
then  to  gallop, and  it  seemed  as if  the 
rider  had  forgotten  all  about  his busi­
ness, his  supplies, his  laden  wagon and 
everything, except getting  back home to 
the Delaware as fast as possible.

“At last, Moody, at last! ”
Before  the  fallen  man  could  make  a 
sign of  surrender,  there  was a rustle  in 
the  neighboriug  bushes.  A  stranger 
sprang out of  them in the rear of the ex­
cited trooper.  A heavy  club was  in his 
hand, and with one  blow he  laid the un­
suspecting soldier low.  The next instant 
Captain Spring—Moody, the  British  spy 
—flung  himself  on  the  dragoon  horse 
and,  with  a  wave  of  his  hand, dashed 
westward to  the  mountains. 
In his  un­
looked-for deliverer he recognized young 
Maxwell.

Moody’s object had  been  gained.  He 
had obtained for  Sir  Henry  Clinton the 
ration-book  and  all  other  information 
relative to Washington’s army, and when 
he  rejoined his loyalist band that  night, 
his first care was to set free Squire Kitch­
ell,  who had  so  unwittingly  aided  him. 
Moody’s well-known  retreat  in  that  re­
gion was  an  inaccessible  cavern  on  the 
borders of  two ponds, known as  the Big 
and  Little  Muckshaw,  and  about  two 
miles south of Newton in Sussex County. 
Between this  lurking-place  and the city 
of New  York was  his  line  of  operation 
and the  region  of  his  many famous ex­
ploits.

When  Moody  escaped,  Maxwell,  his 
deliverer, did  not succed in evading  the 
remaining body of dragoons who immedi­
ately  came  up. 
lie  was captured,  and, 
being identified  by  Squire Kitchell,  was 
charged  with  aiding  in  the  attack  and 
plunder  of  his  bouse.  Eventually  he 
was taken to Newton  jail and  there con­
fined under  sentence of  death.  Moody, 
however,  had  not  forgotten  his  good 
service.  Often absent  on perilous expe­
ditions, it was  not  until  the succeeding 
spring  that  the  loyalist  spy learned  of 
the  doom  impending  over  his  rescuer. 
Death threatened  young  Maxwell for an 
act  of  which  he  was  innocent  and  of 
which Moody himself  was  the perpetra­
tor.  The  spy, therefore,  determined  to 
attempt bis release at any risk.

The midnight rescue is one of  the not-

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THE DAILY PRESS

Is a mighty  power to right  wrongs, to diffuse  knowledge  and  to  bring  to  justice 

offenders against our laws, but when power is needed on the 

head of an apple barrel it

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No Good.

Realizing  this  fact, and  knowing  the time  for  packing  and  shipping  apples  has 
arrived,  we have purchased a large stock of

APPLE  PRESSES

Both lever and  screw, and  are  now prepared to furnish 
you any quantity you want.  Extended remarks concern­
ing  the  utility  and  convenience  of  these  machines  is 
unnecessary, as all  packers of  fruit are  acquainted with 
their merit. 
It  will  be  sufficient  to  say that, as  usual, 
we have the best of the kind in the market.
We have something else  also to talk  about this  morn­
ing entirely different, but  fully  as  useful,  and  which is 
many times employed in connection with the Presses. 

The article we  refer to is

The Field of Gettysburg 

is to the  old  soldier  and the student the 
most interesting of  all the earth’s  battle 
grounds.  Those who go  to  Washiugton 
to attend the encampment of the G. A. R. 
in September, will  have the  best  oppor­
tunity of  visiting Gettysburg  by  taking 
the line of the Michigan Central, and the 
Northern Central, which  includes  a side 
trip to Gettysburg either going or return­
ing.  For  those  who  wish  to  return  by 
way of  Philadelphia,  all  return  tickets 
will be honored  either via  the short  line 
or  via  Philadelphia,  allowing  stop-over 
at  Baltimore, Philadelphia  and  Harris­
burg.  The stop at Philadelphia will per­
mit of  a side  trip to New York  and  re­
turn at the low rate of $4.
During  the  summer  season the  Michi­
gan Central  gives the  privilege of  stop­
ping over  at  Niagara  Falis at any  time 
within  the  life of  the  ticket  returning, 
upon  depositing it with  the ticket  agent 
there,  affording  a valuable  opportunity 
to see the  beauties of  the great  cataract 
and vicinity at leisure.
Tickets  are  also  sold  to  Washington 
via Toledo  and  the lines  south and  east 
therefrom.
The Michigan Central  is  the  shortest 
route, the best  route,  and  offers  induce­
ments  that no other  line can  give.  For 
any additional information apply to near­
est Michigan Central  ticket  agent  or  to 
J. S. Hall,  Mich.  Pass.  Agent, Jackson, 
Mich. 

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able bistorical incidents of  Sussex Coun­
ty, and the  details  can  also  be found in 
Moody’s  “Revolutionary  Journal,” pub­
lished by himself in London  in 1782.

Taking with  him  six  picked men, the 
spy entered the village of Newton late at 
night. 
It  was a perilous enterprise, and 
stratagem became necessary.  The keep­
er of the jail was hailed, and he appeared 
at an upper  window.

“I  have a tory  prisoner  to  deliver  to 
yon,” said Moody,  assuming  the  charac­
ter of a continental officer.  “You  know 
him well. 
It is Jaquitte, one of  Moody’s 
men.

The jailer  was  overjoyed  at the pros­
pect of  having so notorious  a loyalist in 
his  custody;  but  he  was  cautious.  He 
refused to open the  doors.

“Moody  and  his  men are out—so it  is 
said—and my orders are not to unbar the 
door  after  sunset.  You  will  have  to 
wait till morning.”

The  spy  then  abandoned  stratagem, 

and sternly  exclaimed;

“The  man  who  now  speaks to you is 
Moody!  I have a strong party here!  In­
stantly open  the  doors, or  I’ll  pull  the 
jail  down  and hang  you  on the nearest 
tree!”

The jailer  vanished  from the window 
and sounded the alarm-bell.  The people 
of the town were aroused by it, and their 
approaching  steps  were  heard  in  the 
darkness.  The spy  knew that in former 
years,'not  long  past,  the  village  had 
been the scene of Indian attack and mas­
sacre,  and  he  ordered his men to  set  up 
a  terrific  yell  and  a  succession of war- 
whoops.  The  villagers  were  panic- 
stricken.

“The  savages  are  upon  us! ”  they 
cried,  as  they  hurried  back  to  defend 
their  homes.

In the meantime an entrance  had been 
forced, and  Maxwell  was  found  in  his 
cell,  peacefully  slumbering.  The  sud­
den  vision of  armed  men  startled  him. 
Instant  execution  menaced  him,  as  he 
thought,  and  he was  thrown into an ag­
ony of  despair.  The  next  moment,  the 
words:  “You  are  free! ”  raised  him  to 
such a frenzy of joy that he could scarce­
ly be hurried away in  time to  escape the 
pursuit that followed.

Young  Maxwell  was  afterward recap­
tured  and  suffered  death.  He  was  the 
brother of Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Maxwell, 
who in 1830, was the last  survivor of the 
British  officers  who  had  served  in  the 
American  Revolution.  Moody  himself, 
as  he  has  recorded,  went  to  London, 
bearing 
the  sad  news  of  his  young 
friend’s fate;  and  the  tale  we have here 
told was once as  well  known on  “Max- 
wellton  braes” as the story of  Lucknow 
and Annie Lawrie.

J.  Ba r n itz  Bacon.

Will Be Here Pair Week.

William  Connor  will  be  at  Sweet’s 
Hotel  Sept. 22  and  23  with  his  closing 
out bargains, and such merchants as call 
upon him will see such great bargains  in 
ready made  clothing as is  seldom offered 
to  the  trade, as  his  employers, Michael 
Kolb  &  Son,  of  Rochester, New  York, 
have decided to make a general clearance 
early  this  season  and  offer  these  great 
bargains to  the  trade  generally, instead 
of  their falling into the hands of  one  or 
two leading  houses, who  are  always  on 
the alert for  such  bargains.  Don’t  for­
get the day, Thursday and  Friday, Sept. 
22 and 23. 

W il lia m  Connor.

Sauerkraut Will Be High.

Sauerkraut  appears  to  have  followed 
the  example  set  by  pickles  and  deter­
mined  to  roost  high  during  the  season 
now  about  begun.  Manufacturers  of 
kraut at Chicago  claim  that  the cabbage 
crop this  year is so short  that  the  price 
of kraut is likely to touch $8 or $9 before 
the  end  of  the  season.  August  made 
kraut  sold at $5.50  from first  hands  and 
it  is  claimed  that  September  made will 
be at least $1 higher.

SCHLOSS,  ADLER  &  GO.,

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF

The  Little  Giant  Potato  Scoon

Made  of  malleable  iron in one  piece.  They  are  much 
stronger  than any wire  scoop  can  be. 
If  you have the 
strength  you  can  lift a man  with  one of  them  without 
bending or breaking the  scoop.  Any  tine  in  the  scoop 
can  be bent  up in the  shape of  a  watch spring without 
breaking. 
It  is  made  deeper  than  any  other  scoop, 
therefore  strength is added, as the center tines  brace up 
the sides.  There  being no sharp  corners or edges  they 
never bruise  or  scratch  potatoes or apples  in  handling. 
The  front  edge  being  smooth  and  reasonably  sharp, 
farmers use them to pick up corn or potatoes in the field.
The  above  are  but a few of  the  many  points  of  ex­
cellence  that  make  the  Little  Giant  the  best  potato 
scoop on earth.

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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.

OUR  NEW  LINE  OF

Tablets,
Fall Speeialties 
School Supplies 
Etc,,

ARE  NOW  BEING  SHOWN  ON  THE  ROAD BY

MR.  J. L. KYMER,
OF  OUR FIRM.
MR.  GEO.  H.  RAYNOR,
MR.  WALTER B. DUDLEY, 
MR.  CHAS.  E.  WATSON, 
MR.  PETER  LUBACH.
EATON,  LYON  &  CO.

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DEALERS IN

NOS.  122  and  124 LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

WE CARR7 A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

T H E   M IO H IG ^ JS r  T R A D E S M A N .
Muskegon—D. M.  Stever  &  Co.  have 
sold their  dry  goods  stock  to  Glasgow 
Bros. &  Dack, who  conduct  a dry  goods 
store  at  Jackson.  The  business  here 
will be under  the personal  management 
[ of J. B. Glasgow.

Upper Peninsula  and  the  northern por­
tion of  the  Lower Peninsula are booked 
for the  Bay City mills.  The  excellence 
of this market and the  manner of  manu­
facturing  lumber  to suit the trade  have 
given the  Saginaw  river  mills a reputa­
tion which makes  them  a  favorite with 
Eastern buyers.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

FOR SALE, WANTED,  ETC.

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

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AMONG THK TRADE.
ABOUND t h e  st a te.

Clare—Wm. Giberson  will  remove  his 

general stock to Clio.

Joyfield—John  Beeman  is  operating a 

general store at this place.

Sand Beach—Essler & Cary succeed F. 

►  C. Davis in the drug  business.

Gregory—O.  L.  Smith  has  purchased 

the general stock of Kuhn Bros.

Reed City—J. S. Pierce  has purchased 

the bazaar stock of S. A. Amsden 

Lakeview—Northrup  Bros, succeed C. 

M. Northrup in the  wool business 

South Lake Linden—Stephen  Lee  has 

removed his grocery stock to Hancock.

Gaylord—White  & Townsend  succeed 
W. J. White & Co. in the  meat  business.
Mancelona—S. Goldman  has  removed 
his confectionery stock to  Traverse City.
Kalamazoo —Martin  W.  Morton  has 
sold  his  grocery  stock  to  Middaugh  & 
Craver.

Shelby—C. E. Abraham  has purchased 
the furniture stock of  the Shelby Furni­
ture Co.

Greenville—Merritt & Whitney succeed 
Merritt  &  Stevenson  in  the  dry  goods 
business.

Escanaba—Wm. Duncan  is  succeeded 
by  Duncan  & Campbell  in  the  grocery 
business.

Corunna—E. M. Johnson has purchased 
the fruit and confectionery stock of  Geo. 
W. Schlagel.

Constantine—J.  B.  Randolph  is  sue 
ceeded by  Baker  and  Randolph  in  the 
fruit business.

Burr Oak—Chas.  M. Rockwell succeeds 
M.  O. Rockwell  & Co.  in  the  drug  and 
jewelry business.

Milan—W.  R. Needham  is  succeeded 
by L. J. Hitchcock in the bakery and res­
taurant business.

Eckford—J.  N.  Smith  has  purchased 
the  agricultural  implement  stock  of 
Hamilton & Rogers.

Coleman—Geo. Mitchell, of  the firm of 
Steers & Mitchell, dealers in agricultural 
implements, is dead.

Gladwin—The grocery firm of H. Simp­
son & Son has  dissolved, Henry Simpson 
continuing the business.

Cheboygan—O.  W. Grover is consider­
ing  the  project  of  building  a  planing 
mill and box factory at  this place.

Millburg—F. M. Witbeck  has removed 
his implement  stock  to Benton  Harbor, 
which  he  will  make  headquarters  here­
after.

Baldwin—L. B. Chapel  has  traded his 
store  building  and  hardware  stock  for 
property in Fenton.  His  successor here 
is D. Horton.

Lacota—Frank  L.  Deal  has  sold  his 
general  stock  to  J.  L.  Goldbraith,  but 
still  continues  the  agricultural  imple­
ment business.

Marquette—The  grocery  firm  of  Lat- 
trell  Bros,  has  dissolved,  the  business 
being continued by Frank  Lattrell under 
the same style.

Big  Rapids—The  Crescent  Furniture 
Co.  has  sold  Its  retail  stock  to  O. R. 
Bushe,  of  Au  Sable,  who  will  continue 
the business at the same location.

Mancelona — Elmer  E.  White  has 
bought an interest in his father’s grocery 
and  provision  stock  and  hereafter  the 
firm name  will  be  Geo. L.  White & Son 
Detroit—The  Vulcan  Transportation 
Co., composed of  Edward T. Peck,  John 
B.  and  Samuel  A.  Baugh  and  James 
Findlater, has filed articles of association. 
The capital stock is  $100,000.

North Bradley—Button <&Son are pros­
pecting with the  intention of  building a 
sawmill about one mile  south of Beaver­
ton.

Chippewa Lake—James Moor  is  about 
buying the shingle mill on the north side 
of Chippewa Lake and will put in a  lum­
ber mill.

Chippewa Lake—Reed &  Wilson  have 
dissolved  partnership  and  will  discon­
tinue the manufacturing  of  shingies  at 
this place.

Saginaw—The  Asphalt  Roofing  Co, 
has  been  incorporated  under  the  same 
style as heretofore,  the  capital  stock be 
ing $10,000.

Dodge—The  Lansing  Lumber  Co. 

is 
building a logging  spur  to  connect with 
a  large  tract  of  hemlock  recently pur 
chased a few miles  from the mills.

Ludington—James  Foley  is  building 
camps and  will  soon  begin  logging 12, 
000,000  feet  over  the  Danaher  railway 
for the Pere Marquette  Lumber Co.

West  Bay  City—The  capital  stock of 
the  Crumps  Manufacturing  Co.,  manu 
factoring  boxes,  sash  and  blinds,  has 
been increased from $10,000 to $50,000.

Coleman—Simons & Babcock are build 
ing a switch connecting with the Beaver 
ton branch of the Flint <& Pere Marquette 
Railroad, and will get over 10,000  pieces 
of cedar this fall.

Chippewa Lake—The  Chippewa  Lum 
ber Co. has sold it planing mill to Merrill 
& Co., of Saginaw,  and  it  is  now  being 
loaded  on the cars to be taken to Toledo, 
where It will be rebuilt.

Saginaw—Avery & Mumford will lum­
ber a number  of  million  feet of  logs in 
Tittabawassee  waters,  Midland  county, 
this fall  and winter.  They sell the  logs 
to mill firms on the river.

Saginaw—E. O. & S. L.  Eastman & Co. 
will cut several million  feet of  hard and 
soft wood logs in Bentley township, Glad­
win  county, and  the  work  of  building 
camps will be started in a few days.

Sauit  Ste. Marie—The  Sault  Lumber 
Co. has  put  on  a  night  force, and  will 
operate the mill continuously to  the end 
of the season.  The company  is now  en 
gaged  in  sawing  a big  raft  of  logs  for 
Bradley & Hurst.

Hammond’s  Bay —It  is  not  unlikely 
that  the  reported  disastrous  failure  of 
the  Presque  Isle  Lumber  Co.  may turn 
out  not so bad  as at  first reported.  The 
company owes  Sibley  <&  Bearinger  $45,- 
000, and  an  Alpena  bank $13,000,  which 
are  secured,  and  the  other  indebtedness 
is said  to  be nominal. 
It  has  6,000,000 
feet of  logs afloat in the Ocquooc, valued 
at  $45,000;  17,000  acres  of  lands,  well 
timbered with  hardwood, and  fully one- 
half that is well adapted for farming pur­
poses;  about  10,000,000  feet  of  timber, 
worth $25,000, and  other property.

Bay City—The future of  Bay City as a 
lumber  manufacturing  locality 
is  as­
sured for  many  years.  The  success  of 
log-rafting  from  the  upper  lakes  and 
from Canada to this point guarantees the 
receipt of more than 1,000,000,000 feet of 
logs to be delivered here already in sight, 
and  lumbermen are scouring the Georgi­
an bay  region  for  new  limits.  Besides 
this, several hundred  million  feet in the

Alpena—Alger, Smith & Co. have been 
lumbering  the  timber  purchased of  the 
J.  E. Potts estate, and  also a quantity of 
their own on the  Black  river,  and  they 
have  also  a  large  body  of  timber  in 
Presque Isle county and have  had crews 
looking  over  other  tracts in that county 
on  which  they  have  secured  options. 
They  will  send  down  the  lake  in  all 
about  90,000,000  feet  of  long  logs  this 
season, and  the Sanborn mill at Osineke 
is  cutting  short  logs  for  them.  They 
have built twenty miles  of  logging road 
this season and it is calculated  next sea­
son that the  Alger  road  will  be pushed 
up into Presque Isle county.  They were 
obliged to  cut a  number  of  million feet 
of  logs  on  lands  that  had been burned 
over and put them into a lake where they 
will  lie  until  the  railroad  is  extended 
north as there is  no other  way in which 
they can be  reached.

Captured by the House Organs.
A conference of  representatives of the 
independent trade papers  of the country 
was called  to meet at Chicago last Tues­
day,  but  the  house  organ men took pos­
session of the meeting  and thus defeated 
the objects  set forth  in  the call.  They 
proceeded to  organize  an association, in 
which  movement  two or three editors of 
independent 
journals  joined,  but  the 
meeting was utterly  devoid  of  incident, 
interest or result.  The party was shown 
the World’s  Fair grounds and buildings, 
through the courtesy of the editor of  the 
New  England  Grocer,  and  handsomely 
entertained at a banquet by Chase & San­
born.

The West Michigan Fair.

Secretary  Whitney  has  done  most ef­
fective advertising  for  the  West  Michi­
gan fair, to be held  here next week,  and 
all  indications  point  to  the largest and 
most  comprehensive  display  ever  made 
at a Michigan  fair.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

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582

A  GOOD  CHANCE  FOR  AN  A  NO.  1  GRO- 
-cx. eery  business.  Reason  of  selling,  poor 
health.  W. L. Mead. Ionia, Mich. 
"DIOR  SALE—AT  ONE-HALF  ITS  VALUE, 
the valuable woodenware  factory plant for­
merly owned  by  the  Shepherd  Clothespin  Fac- 
tory  Co .located  at  Shepherd,  Isabella  county, 
Mich., where all kinds of timber in any quantity 
'•an be bought at  lowest  known  prices.  Build­
ings and  machinery  new and  well  adapted for 
any wooden  ware  factory work.  O. H. Stanton, 
Jackson, Mich. 
OR  SALE—$3,800  DRUG  STOCK  IN  THE 
most central  location  In  a  thriving  city  in 
Michigan.  Population about 20,000.  First-class 
business established.  Reason  for  selling,  pro­
prietor not a druggist.  Address 581, care  Michi 
gan Tradesman. 
OR  SALE—A  STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
chandise  in  LeRoy,  Michigan.  Stock  will 
invoice *10,000,  but  we  will  reduce  to  any  de­
sired amount.  We  court a  thorough  investiga­
tion.  as  we  offer  an  established  trade  and  a 
profitable  investment.  Will  rent  or  sell  the 
building.  M. V. Gundrum & Co. 
E x c e l l e n t  o ppo r tu n ity  f o r   a  bu s-
iness man with *5,000 to #10,000 ready money 
to  embark in the  wholesale  business  in  Grand 
Rapids  and  take  the  management  of  same. 
House well established.  Investigation solicited 
from  persons  who  mean  business.  No others 
need apply.  No. 556, care Michigan Tradesman.
I   WANT TO  QUIT  WORK, BUT CAN’T DO  IT 
because I have a first-class stock of drugs on 
my hands.  If  there is a man In  Michigan  who 
wants to buy I can give him a bargain  Address 
Quinine,”  care  Michigan  Tradesman,  Grand 
Rapids. 
OR SALE—A FINE AND WELL-ASSORTED 
stock of  dry  goods, boots,  shoes,  hats, caps 
and gents’ furnishing goods, in live railroad and 
manufacturing  town of  from 500  to 600 inhabi­
tants.  Only business of the kind In the locality 
Other and more  important business requires the 
attention of the proprietor.  We court a thorough 
investigation  and  will  guarantee  a  profitable 
investment.  Address  No.  571,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.  ______  
LiUK  SALE  OR  EXCHANE—CLEAN  STOCK 
-X-  of  dry goods  and  gents' furnishing  goods 
Good point for  trade.  Reason for  selling, other 
business  requires  our  attention.  Address  No 
568, care Michigan Tradesman.
TflOR  SALE — GROCERY  AND  CROCKERY 
rLw.8i°5,tV.located  in  a  thriving  village  with 
L800 inhabitants and  doing the largest  trade in 
the town.  Will  invoice sbout  *3,000.  Sales last 
year, $28,000.  Good  location  and  best  reasons 
for  selling,  Address  No.  575,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.  If  you  want a good  thing,  write.
|{10H  SALE—NEW  AND  FINE  CLOTHING 
. 
and  furnishing  goods  stock.  Good  cash 
tr/ S e-„ Rent moderate.  In the fast growing city 
of Holland, Mich.  A good investment for a man 
of  some  capital.  Address  Box  2167,  Holland 
Mlch-__________  

675

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568

561

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SITUATIONS  WANTED.

XKTANTED—SITUATION  AS  REGISTERED 
„ druggist.  Twelve years’ experience, good 
w  eS?C68‘  -Address care Michigan Tradesman. 
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MISCELLANEOUS.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

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Apples—Dutchess are  in  fair  supply and  ex­
cellent oemand  at 80c per bu.  Pippins and Cul­
verts are in moderate demand at 60c per bu.
Beans—Dry stock is in small supply and active 
demand  Dealers  pay  tl.50Hl.60  for  unpicked 
and hold city handpicked a tfl.8531,95  per bu 

Beets—50c per bu.
Butter—Higher  and  firmer.  Dealers  pay  18c 
for choice dairy  and hold at 20c. 
s i e g e s —50c and 60c  per dozen, according to
Celery—Choice home grown commands 20H25c 
per dozen  bunches.
~(<i!ianii>eJ2,e8~LA  few  consignments  of  unripe 
wild  berries  have  come  to  market,  but  not 
enough to establish a price. 
n  R,ried  apples—Evaporated  Is  firmly  held  at 
8@9c;  sundried is strong at 5@0c. 
Eggs—Higher  and  hard  to  get.  Dealers  n»v 
15c and hold at 16c  per doz. 
rs  pay
Grapes—Ives are  in  limited  supply and  de­
mand, commanding 50@55c for 10 lb. basket 
Green Corn—8@10c per doz.
Honey—14c per lb.  Very scarce.
■5?^r d“ en°n,,_08age'  81 
crate!  nutme*- 
Onions—Dry stock is scarce, small  in  size and 
fair in quality, commanding *1.10 per bu. 
ini,6™??8 - '
b{g  weekj the market be- 
*?i£® 1L 8upJ)»ed-  Ewly Crawfords  command
i ^ 0'75iri 
Pea  s—Flemish Beauties and  Clapp’s Favorite
perbu*0*1 *1-5° * *  bu- and  Bartlett’sabout #1.75 

iBk  ards, brln8 

per bn.

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Peppers—Green, 80c per bu.

Green Ga£ es bring *1.75@$2; Lombards 
per buam80nB Me  lD  ample  a»PPly  at  #1.50@*2
seil°at 65c _LOCal  dealer8  P8?  550  Per  bu. and
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys  command  *3.75  per 
bbl. and Baltimores #3-25.
Tomatoes—The market is higher again, choice 
stock commanding 80c per bu. 
mce
Watermelons—In  fair  supply  at  *20  per 100.

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buy of the largest manufacturers in the
Iw iw íS ÍÍ!8’  /if you do’you  are  customers of 
the Tradesman Company. Grand Rapids.
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8UrUated *,n gooi  residence 
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worth  #100j  to  #1,500.  Will  pay difference  ta 
CMh.  Address  No. 470, care  &lchi¿an  Tr“ d ¿
■ AN TED -  DESIRA BLE  LOCATION  FOR 
hardware store.  Address, giving full  par­
ticulars  as to population of  town and  surround-
v 1B„u °UntJ  aJ“f  rent 01  building, No. 552, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

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located directly across  the  street  from the 
union  Depot, is  now open  to the  public 
It is 
conducted  entirely  on  the  European  plan 
Rooms with steam  heat and  electric bells range 
from50cents  to il per  day.  First-class  resSf, 
rant and dining room in connection.  Free trans 
fer of baggage from Union Depot 
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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

The  style  of  the  Princess  Dressing 
Case Go. has been changed  to the Michi­
gan Cabinet Go.

Folger & Rynbrandt, meat  dealers and 
grocers at 305 Broadway, have  dissolved, 
Folger & Jennison succeeding.

Fisher, Mansfield  &  Harmon  succeed 
G. S. Harmon in the drug  business at the 
corner of  West  Fulton  and  Mt. Yernon 
streets.

Herold, Bertsch & Go.  have opened for 
business at 5  and  7  Pearl  street,  where 
they occupy the  ground  floor  and  base­
ment  of  the  new  Morman &  Wilmarth 
building.

T. Kraai has sold  his one-half  interest 
in the  firm of  Lieffers,  Kraai & Go., gro­
cers at 788 Grandville avenue, to John L. 
Lieffers  and  Herman  Lieffers, who  will 
continue the  business  under the  style of 
Lieffers & Son.

Purely Personal.

W.  J.  Haughey, the  New Era  grocer, 
was in town one day last week.  He was 
accompanied by his wife.

Wm. T. Hess is happy  over the receipt 
of a handsome gold  watch,  presented  to 
him  by  Luce  &  Manning,  the  Boston 
wool merchants.

Wm.  H.  Hoops,  of  Chicago,  was  in 
town  a couple of  days  last week  on  his 
way to  and  from a visit  to  his  business 
interests at Luther.

Fred  H.  Ball,  Secretary  of  the Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Go.,1 may be addressed 
at Henderson, Ky., until Sept. 20.  He is 
accompanied by his wife.

Christian  Bertsch  has  returned  from 
Boston,  where  he  spent  a  couple  of 
weeks, buying goods for the new jobbing 
house of Herold, Bertsch & Go.

Lester J.  Rindge is spending  a couple 
of weeks in Boston and environs and will 
accompany  his family,  on  their  return 
from the seashore, the latter part  of  the 
week.

Dr. D. B. Kilpatrick, the veteran drug­
gist and grocer at Woodland, was in town 
last  Thursday on  his  way  home  from a 
ten  days’  tour of  the  Northern  resorts. 
It was  his first visit to the resort  regions 
for ten years.

Gripsack Brigade.

P. H. Carroll, Michigan  representative 
for  Selz,  Schwab  &  Go.,  has  returned 
from  a  six  weeks’  visit  to  the  Pacific 
coast.

John  M.  Shields  (Daniel  Lynch)  and 
Horace Shields (Brown, Hall & Co.) leave 
Friday  for  a  fortnight’s  inspection  of 
Baltimore,  Washington  and  Gettysburg.
Willis  P.  Townsend, formerly  on  the 
road  for  S. K. Bolles & Go., but  for  the 
past  few  months  in  the  employ of  the 
Hanselman  Gandy  Go.,  has  severed  his 
connection with the latter house.

Cornelius Crawford is hobbling around 
the State again and hopes soon  to regain 
his former  alacrity.  One  thing  has not 
deserted him during his  illness—his pen­
chant for effective  trading—and  there is 
a well grounded rumor  to the effect that 
he  started  out  with  a  jackknife  two 
weeks ago and is now the possessor  of  a 
second-hand  trotting horse.
The Reason.
One morning just at ten,
She issued forth again,
She took so long to range 
She did it for the change.

She entered a department store 
And when the shades of evening fell 
And when her husband asked  her why 
Within that store, she told him that 

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

The Hardware Market.

Iron and Steel—Matters are  shaping in 
the  iron  and  steel  trade  in  a  manner 
which  is  not  altogether  satisfactory  to 
those  who  had  been  hoping for a better 
condition  of  affairs.  Here  and  there 
transactions are cropping up which seem 
to justify  those  who  predicted  a return 
to the prices prevailing before  the  labor 
troubles.

Pig  Iron—Is  quiet  in  all  markets. 
Quite a large  number  of  contracts have 
been placed  for Bessemer  pig at the low 
prices lately ruling.

Bar  Iron—The  resumption  of  nearly 
all the mills will soon result in full stock 
in the hands  of  the  jobbers.  The price 
remain at the S1.80 to $1.90 base.

Cut  Nails — Eastern  manufacturers 
have advanced their price  10c a keg,  but 
the  Western  makers  have, as  yet, made 
no change.

Wire  Nails—The  market  is  quite ac­
tive with a good demand.  So many mills 
have lately resumed operations that little 
difficulty is encountered in keeping fully 
supplied.  The  price  will  still  remain 
$1.85 to $1.90.

Barbed  Wire—Still  in  large  demand, 
notwithstanding which prices seem to be 
tending  downwards.  Galvanized is held 
at $3 and painted at  $2.55, but  for  good 
orders these figures can be shaded.

Apple  Presses—Beginning 

to  move 
quite freely.  The screw and lever press­
es are quoted at $13.50 per dozen.

Shot—Market active,  but  no change to 
note  in  price, $1.50  for  drop  and $1.75 
for B B and layer being the market.

Dynamite—This  explosive,  which  is 
used so largely by  farmers and others in 
stump  blasting,  has  been  reduced  in 
price by  the  leading manufacturers.  A 
poor  article  is  dear  at  any  price,  and 
merchants should  be  careful  in  buying 
and insist upon a well-known  and stand­
ard brand.

Sheet  Iron—Still  scarce  and  jobbers 
find hard work to buy full assortments at 
any  reasonable  figure. 
It  will  be  a 
month before the sheet  mills  get caught 
up in their orders.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The market is  firm and  practi­
cally unchanged  from  a  week  ago.  C’s 
slumped off last week, but more than  re­
gained the lost ground on Saturday.

Fruits—Prime  currants  command full 
prices.  Dates  are 
firmer.  Foreign 
prunes are  without  change.  New  Cali­
fornia are firmer.  Domestic  dried fruits 
retain their  steadiness.

Spices—The market is more active and 
the activity is likely to continue through­
out  the month.  Fluctuations  in  values 
are  not  important, but  the  tendency  is 
firm all along the line.

Coffees—Rio  grades  are firm and high­
er  and  manufacturers of  package  have 
advanced their quotations %c.

Tobacco—Several  manufacturers have 
issued circulars  to the trade announcing 
advances in low  grade plug, fine cut and 
smoking brands ranging from 1 to 3 cents 
per  pound.  The  advances  take  effect 
the  16th, 18th, 20th  and  at  later  dates 
and are  attributed to the recent advance 
in low grade  leaf.

Lemons—In  better  supply  and prices 

from 50c to $1 per box  lower.

Bananas—Without material change.
Peanuts—Frices are higher in Virginia 

and a much firmer feeling is noticed.

Confectionery—Firm  at  the advanced 

prices.

E  E  C00PEK & GO.,

U T IC A ,  N .  Y.,

M anufacturers  of

Men’s,  Youths’,  Bop’  and  Children’s
C L O T H I N G  I

Snaps  in  every  line.

We  are  the  people J

REPRESENTED  BT

J.  H.  W E B S T E R ,

Owosso.  Mich.

AT  COMSTOCK  PARK,

The West  Michigan  Fair
Grand Rapids, Seat 19 to 93, 1993.
Half Fare r a  Railroads

W ill Excel Any Held by the Society.

The  Famous  Grounds,  Fast  Track,  Fine  Buildings,  Ample 
Accommodations  and  Unusual  Facilities,  backed  by  Liberal 
Premiums, w ill  bring Exhibits  and Visitors and  make a grand 
success.

The  Bend  Show  will  brine Hundreds  of Fine  nop.

Liberal  Parses  T in  Draw Fast  Horses.

Every  Day  Will  Have  Maay  Attractions.
Every Stock  Grower and  Manufacturer Should  Exhibit  and 
Everybody Should Attend the Fair.  For P re m iu m   Lists, Fold­
ers, Entry Sheets, E tc, address

C.  L.  WHITNEY, Sec’y,

Grand  Rapids.

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Only  An  Errand-Boy.
Only an  errand-boy running  all day,
Plenty of work, with the smallest or pay,
Glad  to  bring  smiles to a mother’s  wan  cheek; 
“Rent can be paid with four dollars a week.”
Only an errand boy, nimble and smart—
(That is, he ought to be. now at the start) 
Commonly clad, as a rule, but who cares?
Time enough yet for the tailor's fine wares.
Only an errand-boy, lunching at noon,
With a boy’s appetite Nature's sweet boon; 
Simple the repast that rounds the fair cheek. 
Bread can be bought with four dollars a week.
Only an errand-boy doing the chores,
Coming and  going through  gateways and doors 
Upstairs and downstairs, oh, hundreds of times 
Whistling  and  singing his  rude boyish  rhymes,
Only an errand-boy climbing the hill,
Good, honest manhood he’ll reach with a will; 
Digging and sowing good seed as he climbs. 
Gaining the dollars by saving the dimes.
Only an errand-boy, bless his  dear heart.
Riding up home on the tail of a cart.
Carrying smiles for a mother’s pale cheek, 
Sunshine and smiles and—four dollars a week!
Mbs. M  A. K id d e r .

B usiness C a re e rs fo r W om en.

“What  would  you  do,”  asked  one 
woman  of  another  who  is  wise  in  the 
ways  of  bread-winning,  “if  you  were a 
young girl and had your living to earn?’
“I don’t  know,” was  the  answer “but 
I can tell you some things I wouldn’t do.”
“I wouldn’t teach unless the ‘call’ was 
almost deafening, because  then I sbonld 
be carrying my little napkinful of talents 
to a market  already  sadly  overcrowded.
“I wouldn’t study stenography or type­
writing unless I  knew or had  opportuni­
ty  to  learn  two  or  three  modern  lan­
guages besides English, and unless I was 
to start  uncommonly  well  educated;  be­
cause, unless  I  could  fit myself  for  one 
of  the  few  extremely  good  places,  I 
should  find  the  other  places  had  little 
money in them.
“I wouldn’t go behind a counter unless 
I needed $4 or $5 or $6 a week so urgent­
ly that  I  couldn’t do without  it  while I 
was learning a better business. 
If  I did 
turn saleswoman I wouldn’t  do  my work 
languidly  or  negligently;  for  I  hope I 
should  know  that  the  question of  who 
should  continue  always  to  earn $6 and 
who  should  earn  840  would  be  condi­
tioned  by that other question, out of  800 
or 1,000 who were the half dozen that had 
the  most  intelligence  and  capacity  for 
application.
“Whatever I did  I  wouldn’t do it with 
an eye to that and nothing more.  I would 
remember a certain assistant book-keeper 
who does  her work  with  perfect exacti­
tude and  punctuality, yet sees  every lad 
who enters the office promoted above her 
head, because the lads open their eyes in 
many directions, and are ready and eager 
the  moment there  is  chance  for  an  ad­
vance,  while  every  afternoon  the  book­
keeper rolls up all  thoughts of  her work 
with the  methodical  rolling of  her soap 
and white apron.  She isn’t  really inter­
ested in it, and once her sense of  duty is 
satisfied  she  goes  home  to  embroider 
things for  charity fairs  and  absorb  her­
self otherwise.  She  is  absolutely faith­
ful, and  like a majority of  women work­
ers, absolutely without  intelligent  ambi­
tion.
“Whatever  I  did,  I  would  remember 
the saying of  a  leading  dry goods  mer­
chant: 
‘Of  all  my  employes  the  best 
women are the very best, but the average 
woman ranks far below the average man.’
“If I wanted to  succeed  with  any  suc­
cess  beyond a bare  living,  I  would  try 
hard not to he an average woman.”
Use The Tradesman  Co.'s Coupon Books.

G.  R.  MAYHEW,

Grand Rapids, Mich.,

JOBBER OF

Wales Goodyear Rubbers,
Felt Boots and Alaska Socks.

Woonsocket Rubbers,

THE
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Greatest  Seller  on Earth!

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SCHILLING  CORSET  CO.,

Detroit. Mich, and Chicago, 111.

BDY  THE  PENINSULAR

Once and You aie our Customer 

for life.

STANTON, MOREY & C0„ Mtrs.

DETROIT, MICH.

Geo. F. Owen, Salesman for Western  Michigan, 

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

X J S E

MILE-END
Best  Six  Gord

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Machine  or  Hand  Use.

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL

Dealers  io  Dry  Hoods & Notions

T H E   i n c H X G A N   T R A D E S M A N
Dry Goods Price Current.

Selling Corset Co.’s

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UNBLEACHED  cottons.

Adriatic
“  Arrow Brand 5>4 
A rgyle...................  6
“  World Wide.  6 
Atlanta AA............   6
“  LL...........  4)4
Atlantic A..............  6M
Full Yard Wide...... 6K
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Georgia  A................654
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Honest Width......... 6)4
D..............  6
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Hartford A  ............ 5
“  LL............. 5
Tndlan Head...........  7
Amory.....................  6)4
King A  A................. 6)4
Archery  Bunting...  4 
King EC.................5
Beaver Dam  A A ..  5)4
Lawrence  L L ........  4%
Madras cheese cloth 614 
BlackstoneO,32....  5
Black Crow............6
Newmarket G...... 5V
Black Rock  .........  6
B........5
Boot, AL................  7
N........6)4
Capital  A ............... 5)4
DD....  5)4 
Cavanat V................5)4
X  .....  63£
Chapman cheese cl.  334
Nolbe R..................  5
Clifton  C R ............ 5)4
Our Level  Best...... 6)4
Comet....................... 654
Oxford  R............... 6
Dwight Star............  6)4.
Peqnot....................7
Clifton CCC...........  6)4 Solar.................
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Geo. Washington...  8
Amazon...................8
Glen Mills..............  7
Amsburg..................7
Gold Medal..............7)4
Green  Ticket........... 8)4
Art  Cambric............10
Great Falls.............   6)4
Blackstone A A.......7
Hope.........................7)4
Beats A ll..................4)4
Boston...................... 12
Just  Out......   434® 5
Cabot...................... 7
King Phillip.............734
Cabot,  X.................  634
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Charter  Oak...........  5)4
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Conway W..............7)4
Lonsdale...........  @  8)4
Cleveland...............7
Middlesex........   @ 5
Dwight Anchor......  8)4
No Name................   7)4
shorts.  8
Oak View................. 6
Edwards.................   6
Our Own.................. 5)4
Empire....................7
Pride of the West.. .12
Farwell.....................7)4
Rosalind...................7)4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8)4
Sunlight..................  4)4
Fitchvllle  ............. 7
Utica  Mills.............. 8)4
First Prise..............7
Nonpareil  ..10
Fruit of the Loom X.  7)4
Vlnvard....................8)4
Falrmount..............4)4
White Horse.............6
Full Value..............634
Rock.........   .  8)4
Cabot...................... 7  [DwightAnchor........ 8)4
Farwell...................8 

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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Unbleached. 

Housewife  A...........43s

Bleached.

Housewife  Q............534
R......... 6)4
S  ..........7)4
T ........... 8
U........... 834
V........... 9)4
W......   .10)4
X..........11
T ............12
Z  ..........13

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P ............14

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colored.... 19)4 White Star............... 18
“  colored..20
Integrity.................18)4| 
Hamilton................   8
Nameless................ 20
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GG  Cashmere........20
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Nameless...............16
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Coraline................. 89 50
Schilling’s ............... 9 00
Davis  Waists......   9 00
Grand  Rapids.........4 50
Armory...................634
Androscoggin......... 7)4
Blddeford..............   6
Brunswick..............6)4
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Allen turkey  reds..  6
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robes...........6
pink a purple 6
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“  Duffs...........  6
pink  checks.  6
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staples........6
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shirtings ...  4)4 
American  fancy....  534 
American Indigo....  5£ 
American shirtings.  4)4 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Arnold 
....  6)4
Arnold  Merino___6
long cloth B. 10)4 
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century cloth 7
“  gold seal......10)4
“  green Beal TR 10)4 
“  yellow seal.. 10)4
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serge.............11)4
“  Turkey red..l0)4 
Ballou solid black..  5 
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Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange...  5)4
Berlin solids...........5)4
“  oU blue....... 6)4
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“  green ....  6)4
“  Foulards ....  5)4
red 34...........  7
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Cocheco fancy........  6
“  madders...  6 
XXtwills..  6)4
solids........5)41 Harmony

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Wonderful............84 50
Brighton......................4 75
Bortree’s .................... 9 00
Abdominal............15 00
Naumkeagsatteen..  7
Rock port...................6)4
Conestoga.................634
Walworth................ 634
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Berwick fancies__ 6)4
Clyde Robes...........
Charter Oak fancies 4)4 
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
mouru’g  6 
Eddystone fancy...  6 
chocolat  6
rober__6
sateens..  6 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6 
staple....  6 
Manchester fancy..  6 
new era.  6 
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Merrim’ck shirtings. 4)4 
“  Reppfnm .  8)4
Pacific fancy..........6
robes............6)4
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Portsmouth robes...  6 
Simpson mourning.. 6
greys..........6
solid black.  6 
Washington Indigo.  6 
“  Turkey robes..  7)4
“  India robes___ 7)4
“  plain Tky X 34  8)4 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................. 6
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 34........ 7%
Martha Washington
Turkey red..........   9)4
Rlverpolntrobes....  5
Windsor fancy..........6)4
gold  ticket 
Indigo bine..........10)4
454
A C A......................12)4
Pemberton AAA.... 16
York.......................io)4
Swift River............ 7u
Pearl  River........... 12
Warren...................is

Amoskeag A C A.... 12)4
Hamilton N ............   7)4
D............8)4
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Awning.. 11
Farmer....................8
First Prise.............11)4
Lenox M ills..........18
Atlanta,  D..............  6341Stark  A
Boot........................  634 No  Name
Clifton, K ...

COTTON  DRILL.

634|Top of Heap.

TIGKIKSS.

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Amoskeag.............. 12)4
9 oz.......13)4
brown .13
Andover................. 11)4
Beaver Creek AA.. .10 
BB... 9
CC....
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7

“ 
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“ 
blue 8)4
“  d a  twist  10)4 
Colombian XXX br.10 
“ 
XXX  bl.19

“ 

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

“  Persian dress 8(4 
Canton ..  8)4
“ 
AFC........10)4
“ 
Teazle.. .10)4 
“ 
“ 
Angola.. 10)4 
“ 
Persian..  8)4 
Arlington staple....  654
Arasapha  fanev__434
Bates Warwick dres 8)4 
staples.  6)4
Centennial.............  10)4
Criterion................10 y,
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin.......................   7)4
Everett classics......8)4
Exposition............... 734
Glenarie.................   654
Glenarven................ 634
Glenwood.................7)4
Hampton...................6)4
Johnson Chalon cl  K 
indigo blue 9)4 
zephyrs.... 16  I

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Bverett, bine........... 12)4
brown........12)4
Haymaker bine......   7)4
brown...  7*
Jaffrey.....................11)4
Lancaster................12)4
Lawrence, 9 os........18)4
No. 220....13
No. 250.... 11)4
No. 280.... 10)4

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eiNOHAMS.
Lancaster, staple... 7 
fancies....  7 
11 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire..............  6)4
Manchester__  ...... Mi
Monogram................6)4
Normandie............... 7)4
Persian..................... 8)4
Renfrew Dress........7)4
Rosemont................. 6)4
Slatersvllle...............6
Somerset................... 7
Tacoma  ................... 7)4
Toil  duNord......... 10)4
Wabash.....................7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Warwick................  8)4
Whlttenden.............  634
heather dr.  8 
Indigo bine 9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook................8
..............10
Windermeer..............6
Y ork........................ 634

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GRAIN  BASS.

Amoskeag..............16341Valley City................16
Stark......................  19)41 Georgia...................15
American.............. 16  ¡Pacific......................13

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End....45  ¡Barbour's................88
Coats’, J. & P........ 45  Marshall’s................ 88
Holyoke.................22)4l

No.

KNITTING  COTTON.

6  .
..33
8... ....34
10... ...35
12...
...38

White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....37
39
“  16... ....38
40
“  18... ...39
41
“  20... ....40
CAMBRICS.

White.  Colored.
42
43
44
45

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

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

RED  FLANNEL.

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DOMST  FLANNEL.

MIXED  FLANNEL. 

T W .............................22)4
F T .............  
32)4
JR F.X X X ............ 35
Buckeye................. 32)4

Fireman..................32)4
Creedmore...............27)4
Talbot XXX............30
Nameless................ 27)4
Red A  Blue,  plaid. .40
Union R ..................22)4
Windsor.................. 18)4
6 oz Western........... 20
Union  B................. 22)4
Nameless...... 8  @ 9)41 

Grey SR W.............17)4
Western W .............18)4
DR P ............. 
18)4
Flashing XXX........ 23)4
Manitoba.................23)4
@10)4
12)4
CANVASS  AND  PADDIES.
Brown. Black. Slate. Brown. Black.
13
13
9)4
15
15
10)4
17
17
11)4
20
20
12)4
8 oz— . . .   9K West  Point, 8 oz ...10)4
,8oz...
“
10 oz ...12K
...10K
Greenwood, 7)4 os. 
Raven, lOoz............13)4
9)4
Greenwood, 8 os.
............12)4
Stark 
11)4
Boston, 8 oz............ 10)4 Boston, 10 oz............12%
WADDINGS.

“ 
Slate.
9) 4
10) 4
11) 4
12) 4

954 13
10)4 15
11K 17
12K 20
DUCKS.

...... 8)4@10 

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SILBSIAS.

White, dos..............%  ¡Per bale, 40 dos....17 50
Colored,  doz...........20 
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Red Cross....  9 Pawtucket...............10)4
Dundle....................  9
Best............ 10)4
Bedford...................10)4
Best A A...... 12)4
Valley  City.............10)4
K K ......................... io«
....................7)4
......................8)4

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BE WINS  SILK.

Corticelll, doz........ 75  Corticelll  knitting,

twist,doz..37)4  per %oz  ball........30
50 yd, doz.. 37 )4l
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k A White..10  |No  4 Bl’k A White  15 
"20
..¡a
No 2—20, M C.........50  ¡NO 4—15  F   3)4.........40

..12 
“ 8 
..12  J “  10 

PINS.

2 
8 

3-18, S C.......... 45  I

No  2 White A Bl’k..12  ¡No  8 White A Bl’k..20 
.23

4 
6 

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COTTON  TAPE.
..15  I “  10 
..is  I “  12 
SAFETY  PINS.

NO 2........................ 28  IN0 8 ..........................86

NEEDLES—PER  M.

A.James.................1 40|Steamboat....  ........   40
& % V : : : : : - : : : i r idE yed..............160
5—4....2 25  6—4...3 25|5—4....1  95  6—4.  2 95

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“  ...8 10|

....2  10 

COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown................... 12
Domestic...............18)4
Anchor..................16
Bristol.........   ........13
Cherry  Valley........16
'X L ...................... 18)4
Alabama...................63f
Alamance................. 6)4
Augusta...................7)4
Ar  sapha................  6
Georgia..................  654
G ranite....................534
Haw  River............ 6
Haw  J ....................5

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

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Mount  Pleasant__ 6)4
Oneida...................   5
Prym ont................  534
Randelman.............6
Riverside................  5U
Sibley  A ...........  ...  6)4
Toledo....................

PLAID  OSNABURSS

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T H E   MTCETiaA^lsr  T R A D E S M A N .

Good and Bad Money.

The methods employed  by the govern­
ment experts to detect counterfeit money 
are simple as they are  infallible.  Gent­
ly  poising  a  bright silver  dollar  on  the 
tip  of  the  forefinger  and  with  another 
dollar  in  the  other  hand  a  government 
expert  in  the  treasury  department  the 
other  day  gave  the  first  coin  a  sharp 
click,  which  caused  it  to  make a clear, 
silvery ringing sound as  long  drawn-out 
and true to the final tone as a tuning fork 
Then exchanging the  genuine  dollar  on 
his finger for a spurious  one he repeated 
the  experiment.  This  time  the  sound 
that was heard  was given by the striking 
coin and died  at  once. 
It  was  not nec­
essary for the detector of  good  money to 
explain  that  the  first  experiment  was 
made with two  good  coins  and  the sec­
ond  with  a  good  and  a bad  one.  The 
latter  was  a  composition  of  lead  and 
type  metal,  and  a  very  poor  piece  of 
counterfeiting it was, too.  He  said that 
another  reliable  way to  tell was to hold 
the doubtful  coin up to the light, and  if 
the  reeding, or  milling  on the edge was 
even and clean-cut the  coin  would  be  a 
good one;  if rough and irregular, it is al­
most  sure  to  be  bad.  The  reason  for 
this  is  that  the  government  money  is 
stamped from the  cold  metal, while  the 
counterfeit  money is moulded while hot.
Still another test, but one  less used by 
experts, is  to  drop a  little  acid  on  the 
plated  coin,  and  the  eagle  where  the 
metal  wears  the  most, will  be  quickly 
eaten away.  The acid used for gold coin 
is a mixture of  nitric  acid 6>£  drachms, 
muriatic acid 15 drops, and 5 drachms of 
water;  for  silver  plated  coin, 24  grains 
of nitrate of silver and 30 drops of nitric 
acid, with  an ounce  of  water,  are used. 
One  drop is enough to test  either metal. 
Should  the  coin be  heavily  plated,  it is 
well  to  scrape it a bit  before  using  the 
acid.
Silver is  much  more  largely  counter­
feited than gold, for the reason that it  is 
hard to obtain a  cheaper  metal that will 
compare  at  all  in  weight  with  gold. 
Platinum  used  to  be  used, but  its  cost 
has so greatly  increased  in  the past few 
years  that  it  is  almost  as expensive as 
gold.
Speaking of  the  counterfeiting of  pa­
per money the expert  said  that  the gov­
ernment has  abandoned the  use of  blue 
silk thread in the  paper  certificates, and 
is now using a plain clear  paper,  similar 
to that in use  prior  to 1869. 
It is much 
more  difficult  for  an  expert  to  detect 
counterfeit  bills  than  it  is  to  tell good 
coin from bad.  There are many  reasons 
for this, chief of which is the greater va­
riety of  paper  certificates.  In  all there 
are  36  portraits, and  44  vignettes, each 
of which is so finely engraved  and so ex­
actly wrought  that  the  smallest  turn of 
an eyelash or curl of  a mustache  can  be 
made in a  counterfeit  and  none  but  an 
expert  could  tell  the  difference.  He 
must know every  line and curve and dot 
on  the  face  and  back of  every bill, and 
know  it  readily.  To  do  this they have 
to devote years of  careful study with the 
microscope and pass examinations before 
the old  experts  in  the  treasury  depart­
ment.  The  safest  test  for  popular  use 
is to note the shade  of  the  inks  used in 
numbering  the  certificates.  These inks 
have  never  been  successfully  counter­
feited.  For red a bright carmine is used, 
and for blue a clear indigo. 
In the coun­
terfeited notes the  shades  are brick  red 
and blue black,  both of  which  turn dark 
when  rubbed  with  the  finger.  A  test 
that is very little  known and yet is quite 
reliable was explained by the expert:
“The  check  letter  which  the  United 
States notes and  certificates  have in  the 
corners  diagonally  opposite  to the  note 
numbers are made in this way:  The notes 
are  printed  four  on  one  sheet, lettered 
A, B, C, D from  the  top.  Of  course,  as 
the  notes  are  numbered  consecutively, 
notes 1, 5, 9,  13, etc.,  would  be A, and 2, 
6, 10, 14, etc.,  B, and  so  on.  So  to  get 
the  proper  check  letter  for  a  note  the 
rule is to divide by  four;  if 1 is left over 
the  check  letter  should  be  A;  if  2,  it 
should  be B;  if 3, G;  and if  there  is  no 
remainder it will, of  course, be D.  The 
counterfeiters  use  but  one  plate,  and 
print all  their  notes alike, so  that three 
out of every  four  are  sure  to be wrong. 
Of course, this is  not an  infallible  rule,

but  it  is  often a great  help  in  picking 
out counterfeits.”
A ruse  that  is  frequently  resorted to 
by crooks is to soak  their  bad  money  in 
muddy water and thus give  it an old and 
time-worn appearance.  Some  have been 
known to  carry  them  in  their  shoes  to 
take the stiffness and polish out of them. 
But  the  ways  and  means  of  a  clever 
counterfeiter are as multitudinous as the 
number of bills he turns out.
One Thing Which Must Be  Extirpated.
From  the Industrial  World.
We  mean  that  aggressive  and  insur­
rectionary element  of  strikes  which  ar­
bitrarily  determines  that  nobody  else 
shall accept  the  employment and  wages 
rejected by the  striker,  and  which  does 
not hesitate  to  use  violence  and  blood­
shed to enforce this  unwarranted  decree 
against  all  competing  laborers.  This 
pernicious spirit  of  intolerance  is  alien 
and hostile to the principles  of  our  free 
institutions;  its  origin  and  habitat  are 
European and monarchical; it is the  vile 
spawn of ages of injustice and  privation; 
on American soil, it is an exotic evil sep­
arated  from  the  circumstances  which 
nourished its roots, promoted its growth, 
and provided occasions for its  legitimate 
manifestations  as a societary force acting 
against unendurable oppression;  and,  in 
this  land of liberty, it is a dangerous  as­
sault upon one of the most  sacred  rights 
intended to  be  secured  by  the  constitu­
tion of the United States to every  one  of 
the people  under  its  segis—the  right  to 
equality of  privileges  and  immunities— 
a  right  ruthlessly  trodden  under  foot 
whenever man or  woman  is  intimidated 
from seeking or obtaining work  and  pay 
prohibited by  the  spurious  authority  of 
some self-aggrandizing labor union.
Punitive laws must  be enacted to put a 
complete end  to  the  delusion  of  work­
men  that,  because  they  are  organized, 
banded,  and  ramified, 
they  have  the 
right  to  force  their  services,  at  wages 
fixed by themselves,  upon  owners  of es­
tablishments,  and  to  carry  out  that  de­
sign by beating, maiming,  or  killing  all 
other workmen who, in their own  behalf 
—in  the  independent  and  separate  ex­
ercise of their  right to make  a  contract 
which  suits  themselves—venture  to  ac­
cept the pay and  the  terms  rejected  by 
the strikers.  There must  be  something 
radically wrong, either in the motives  or 
the operations of  a strike  which  cannot 
be made successful so long  as  it  contin­
ues to be peaceable, and  which  must re­
sort to intimidation and violence in order 
to win.  The ultimate  safety  of  society 
requires that no labor-union or any other 
association  shall be  permitted  with  im­
punity to reduce  to  practice  its  prepos­
terous assumption that its members  pos­
sess,  on set occasions, a monopoly of lib­
erty  to  work;  for  precedent,  often  re­
peated, may at length  arrogantly seat it­
self in the abiding place  of  right,  to  be 
thrust out  thence  only  by  the  stronger 
arm of military  power. 
It  is  far  easier 
to  meet  the  encroachment  of  the  new 
doctrine of liberty at the threshold of  its 
advance, and strangle it there.

Wolverine—Roswell  &  Moore  succeed 

Roswell & Co. in the  grocery business.

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

AUGURS AND BITS. 

60
Snell’s .....................................................................  
Cook’s ..................................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine.............................................  
25
Jennings’,  Im itation.......................................... 50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze...............................I 7 50
D.  B. Bronze...............................  12 00
S. B. S. Steel...............................  8 50
D. B. Steel...................................  13 50

AXES.

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Railroad...............................................................t 14 00
Garden..........................................................  net  30 00

BARROWS. 

bolts. 

diS.

die.

Stove.........................................................................50*10
Carriage new list................................................. 75*10
Plow .........................................................................40*10
Sleigh s h o e .......................................................... 
70

BUCKETS.

Well,  plain..........................................................I 8  50
Well, sw ivel..........................................................  400

dlS.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.......................................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast join t.................60A10

BUTTS, CAST. 

CRADLES.

CROW BABS.

CAPS

Wrought Loose Pin..............................................60*10
Wrought  Table.....................................................60A10
Wrought Inside B lind........................................ 00*10
Wrought  Brass....................................................  
75
Blind,  Clark’s .......................................................70&10
Blind,  Parker’s .....................................................70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

.............................................  
BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 

1892.................. 

50

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

Cast Steel....................................................per 9) 

5

65
60
35
60

50
25

dlS.

dls.

E ly’s 1-10................ ................................... per m 
“ 
Hick’s  C. P ................................................. 
G. D ........  ..........................................  “ 
M usket........................................................ 
“ 

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

CABTRIDOB8.

CHISELS. 

Socket Firm er.......................................................70*10
Socket Framing....................................................70*10
Socket Corner........................................................70*10
Socket S lic k s........................................................70A10
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer................................. 
40

Curry,  Lawrence’s .............................................  
40
H otchkiss.............................................................  
25
W hite Crayons, per  gross................ 12©12!4 dls. 10

CHALK.

COMBS. 

COPPER.

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

25
dls.
50
50

28
26
23
23

50

DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser p o u n d ...................................... 
Large sizes, per  pound...................................... 

07
614

BLBOWS.

30

50
50

28
17

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

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dlS.

piles—New List. 

Clark’s, small, «18; large, 126...........................  
Ives’, 1,118;  2,124;  8 ,1 3 0...........................  

25
dls.
Dlsston’B .......................................................... 80*10
New  American...............................................60*10
Nicholson’s .....................................................60*10
Heller’s ......................... , ......................................  
Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................................... 

GALVANIZED IRON.

 

55

55

13 

15 

12 

dlB.

dlB.
dls.

mattocks.

Discount, 60

locks—door. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

knobs—N ew List. 

14 
GAUGES. 

Advance over base: 

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
16 
List 
dls.
50
dls.
55
55
55
70
dls.
55
55

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s ....................  
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings.................. 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings............... 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings................  
Door,  porcelain, trimmings.......................  
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................  
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l i s t ...........  
Mallory, W heeler  *   Co.’s ........................... 
Branford’s ...................................................... 
Norwalk’s .............................................................  
55
Adze E ye................................................ «16.00,  dls. 60
Hunt E ye................................................ »15.00,  dls. 60
Hunt’s ............................................. «18.50, dls. 20*10.
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled.........................  
50
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .........................................  
40
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Cla lk’s .................... 
40
“  Enterprise 
............................................ 
30
Stebbln’s  Pattern.................................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine............................................... 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................... 
25
N A IL S
Steel nails, base......................................................1  85
Wire nails, base..................... 
190
 
Steel.  Wire.
60............................................................... Base 
Base
50............................................................... Base 
10
25
06 
40...................................................  
 
25
10 
30............................................................... 
20........... 
35
15 
 
45
16............................................................... 
15 
45
12............................................................... 
15 
50
10 ...............................................................  20 
8..................................................................   25 
60
7 * 6 ...........................................................   40 
75
4........... ................................................  ..  60 
90
3.................................................................1  00 
1 20
2 ................................................................ 1  50 
1 60
F ln e 3 ...................................................... 1  60 
1 60
65
Case  10 ....................................................   60 
75
8 .....................................................  75 
90
6 ......................................................  90 
75
Finish 10 ..................................................  85 
8.................................................. 1  00 
90
6 ..................................................1  15 
1 10
Clinch! 10..................................................  85 
70
8................................................ 1  00 
80
6 ................................................ 1  15 
90
Barrell %..................................................175 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n cy ......................................  ©40
Sciota  B ench........................................................  050
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fan cy.............................   040
Bench, first quality.............................................  060
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, w ood.............  *10
Fry,  A cm e....................................................dls.SO—10
70
Common,  polished......................................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  p a t planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9  20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

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planes. 

btvets. 

PANS.

dls.

dls.

Broken packs Me per pound extra.

 

 

HAMMERS.

Maydole  A Co.’s .......................................................dls. 25
Kip’s ........................................ 
..d ls. 
25
Yerkes *  Plumb’s .................................................... dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...................... 
... 30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel. Hand___ 30c 40*10

 

HINGES.

dls.

dls.

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HANGERS. 

wire goods. 

HOLLOW WARE.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .................................... dls.60&10
State.................................................. per doz. net, 2  50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 4M  14  and
3J4
lon ger................................................................. 
Screw Hook and  Eye, 14........................................ net 10
X ...............................net 
814
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“ 
7M
X ...............................net 
“ 
“  * ...................... net  7#
Strap and T................................................................dls. 50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50*10
Champion,  anti-friction..................................   60*10
Kidder, wood tra ck ............................................ 
40
Pots.......................................................................... 60*10
Kettles.....................................................................60*10
Spiders  ...................................................................60*10
Gray enam eled..................................................... 40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware....................................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware...........................................  
25
Granite Iron W are.........................new llst3316*10
Bright................................................................70*10*10
Screw  E yes.....................................................70*10*10
Hook’s ........................................................  
.70*10*10
Gate Hooks and E yes.......................... 
70*10*10
<Hb.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s .........................
Sisal, M Inch and la rg er..................................  
M anilla..................................................................   13
dlS.
Steel and  Iron..'................................................... 
Try and B evels....................................................  
M itre......................................................................  

75
60
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
«2 95
3 05
3 05
3 15
325
3  35
A ll  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

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

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

levels. 
ROPES.

SHEET IRON.

50
50
55
50
55
35

SQUARES. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

9M

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

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

11 
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__  
Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per fo o t.... 
“ 
“ 
Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per fo o t.... 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot....................................................  

Solid E yes....................................................per ton «25
20
70
50
30
a)
Steel, Game............................................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ..................  
35
Oneida  Community, Hawley a Norton’s __  
70
Mouse,  choker.......................................... 18c per doz
Mouse, delusion.....................................«1.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market......................................................   65
Annealed Market.................................................70—10
Coppered Market.................................................  60
Tinned Market....................................................   6214
Coppered  Spring  Steel......................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized....................................  3 00
painted..........................................  2 55

wire. 

dls.

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

Au  Sable...................................................................dls. 40*10
Putnam.................................................  
dls.  00
dls. 10*10
Northwestern...................................... 
dls.
30
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled........................ 
Coe’s  G enuine....................................................  
50
75
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought..............  
Coe’s  Patent, m alleable.....................................75*10
dig.
B ir d c a g e s............................................  
 
50
 
Pumps, Cistern...............................................  
7f&10
Screws, New L ist................................................. 70*10
Casters, Bed  a  d  Plate............................... 50*10*10
Dampers,  American...........................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.........65*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

M ETALS,

PIG TIN.

6%
7

ZINC.

26c
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.............................................................  
Pig Bars................................................................. 
D uty:  Sheet, 214c per pound.
680 pound  casks..................................................  
Per  pound............................................................. 
14@14......................................................................   ...16
Extra W ip in g.........................................................   15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market Indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson...............................................per  pound
Hallett’s ............................................. 
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal...............................................» 7  50
7  50
 
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
...............................................   9  25
14x20 IX, 
 
9%

Each additional X on this grade, «1.75.

13

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TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
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ROOFING PLATES

 
 
 

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

Each additional X on this grade »1.50.

“ 
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“ 

“  Worcester.....................................   6 50
“ 
“ 
“ Allaway  Grade........................ 
“ 
“ 
*• 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x2010, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28  IC, 
20x28 IX, 
14x28  IX .......................................................................«14 00
14x31  IX ................................................................... 15
14*10i x ’,
10

...............................  8  50
.............................   18  50
6  00
7  50
12  50
16  50

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W E D N E S D A Y ,  S E P T E M B E R   1 4,  1 8 9 8 .

THE  TENTH  YEAR.

The issue of  last week  completed  the 
ninth  volume  of  T h e  T radesm an,  con­
sequently  the  paper  this  week  enters 
upon its tenth publication year.

Satisfied with  the  patronage  accorded 
the  journal  in  the  past and  firmly con­
vinced that it is more strongly entrenched 
in the  good  opinion of  its  patrons  than 
ever,  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   enters  upon its 
decennial  year  with  confidence  in  the 
future  and  with  gratitude  to  all  who 
have  so  generously  accorded  it  such 
hearty support.

SCHOOL  DAYS  HERE  AGAIN.
The past  fortnight  has  witnessed  the 
re-opening of the schools of the  country, 
both public and private,  and  if  there  is 
upon the face of  the  globe  a  people  to 
whom education is of  paramount  impor­
tance, that population is the  citizenry  of 
this great republic.

Under  our  theory that  one man  is  as 
good, as  far  as  natural  rights  are  con­
cerned,  as  any  other,  and  that  every 
native born boy is  a  possible  president, 
it becomes a most profonnd duty  to  pre­
pare  each  incipient  citizen  for  his  pos­
sible high duties of being one  day  presi­
dent, and his  undoubted  high  duties  of 
being an  American  citizen.  Obviously 
the wives and mothers of citizens  have  a 
most important part  to  play  in  our  sys­
tem  and  they  should  be  prepared  by 
proper intellectual  training to  play their 
several  roles  to 
the  best  advantage. 
Education,  mental  and  moral,  for  both 
sorts  of  developments  should  go on  in 
unison,  is  a  paramount  duty  for  both 
sexes.

We should not,  while dwelling  on  the 
importance  of  education,  lose  sight  of 
its real character and  worth.  Education 
is simply a means; knowledge  is  merely 
a kit of tools to work with.  The highest 
duty of the human race is to develop  the 
earth,  to  discover  its  resources and  put 
them to valuable uses; to make our planet 
more habitable; to  increase  the  comfort 
and happiness of its inhabitants.  There 
are mines to be opened, ores are to be re­
duced to metals, forests  are  to  be  felled,

fields are to be cultivated, cities are to be 
built, the navigable rivers and  lakes are 
to be covered with boats and the sea with 
ships, the vast forces of steam  and  elec­
tricity, and others more potential,  which 
we  yet  scarcely  know,  are  to  be  har­
nessed  to  do  our  will  and  lighten  the 
work of human muscle.  Then there is  a 
vast system  of  government,  by  and  for 
the people, to be carrried on.  It  is  to fit 
the populatiou for these grand and mani­
fold duties that the men  and  women  are 
to be educated.

We should send our sons and daughters 
to  school, not to make  mere  scholors  of 
them, not to convert them into mere  ani­
mated  receptacles  of  knowledge, not  to 
make  them  walking  encyclopedias,  but 
to fit them, each in his or  her  place,  for 
the part they are  to  play  in  this  great 
work  of  rebuilding  and  improving  the 
world.  Educate each  for  his  particular 
place if we only  knew how  to  do  it. 
It 
would be wise then to find out beforehand 
each child’s bent of mind and special  ap­
titudes  and  develop  them.  This  is  a 
practical age and there is so  much  to  be 
done and so little time in which to do  it, 
tLat to many  the  most  essential  part  of 
the training should come first. 
If, then, 
there  be  time  and  disposition  for  more 
elaborate culture  and  a  wider  range  of 
study  every  facility  should  be  afforded 
for it.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   Is  not  of  those  who 
think that education can be too extensive 
and  profound  for  practical  purposes. 
The highest  and  most  complete  culture 
is  not  too  much  for  those  who  have  a 
capacity for  it,  but  should  not  be  cast 
away on the  unworthy.  The  possession 
of stores of  knowledge  is  often  a  great 
consolation and comfort to men who have 
never  been  able  to  advance  thenselves 
above the most  ordinary  stations  in  the 
world’s economy.  Man  does  not  work 
wholly for himself, or wholly for society, 
He has a duty to perform to each,  but he 
is entitled to seek his own highest happi­
ness, and an honest conscience and a well- 
stored  mind  are  capable  of  conferring 
happiness which money cannot  purchase 
and gratified ambition cannot secure.

Then let us educate all  we  can  in  the 
belief  that  each  will  get  his  share  of 
personal  benefit,  and  the  human  race 
will also profit by what  each  contributes 
to the world’s great stores of progress.

DRYING  UP.

It has been something like eighty years 
since Thomas Robert Malthus, an English 
writer  on  political  economy, put  forth 
his much criticised  theory that the earth 
must  one  day become  to a great  extent 
depopulated because of  a final  failure of 
the food supply.

The  Malthusian  croaking  has  been 
greatly derided, but  forces  are in opera­
tion which  tend  to  arouse and confirm a 
belief that Malthus was not so far wrong 
after all.  The most  active  cause that is 
moving to such  an  end  is the  drying up 
of the earth through deforestation.  The 
destruction of  forests  has been  going on 
in the  Old  World  for a long period with 
great  steadiness, exposing vast  tracts of 
country to drought and  condemning it to 
barrenness and  desolation.  All  the  im­
mense  desert  region  of  China,  Tartary 
and  other  parts  of  Central  Asia  were 
once  covered  with  towns,  farms  and 
dense population,  but  the  destruction of 
forests and the devastations of  war have 
converted them into deserts, and it seems
difficult  to  believe  th a t  they ever w ere

anything else if  history did  not teach  to 
the contrary.

The absence of coal or ignorance of  its 
existence  operated  in all  cold  latitudes 
to  hasten  the  destruction  of  the wood­
lands, which  were  necessarily cut  down 
for fuel. 
It is just such a demand which 
has  deforested  wide  regions  of  Russia, 
railways, factories  and  the  ordinary ne­
cessities  of  the  people  for  fire  having 
literally  caused  the  forests  of  Central 
Russia to disappear from  the face of  the 
earth. 
It is to this cause that prominent 
Russian writers charge the present wide­
spread famine in that country.  A writer 
in the  Berlin  Jahrbucher quotes a letter 
from  an  official  of  the  Government  of 
Charkowski  to  the  Imperial  Society of 
Economics  at  St. Petersburg, as  early as 
1849, announcing the  danger of  destroy­
ing  the  trees. 
It  declares  that  in  the 
memory  of  men  then  living, regions in 
Southern Russia  then  barren and  sandy 
plains were within  half a century before 
covered  with  forests  interspersed  with 
lakes.

But if Europe and Asia are  drying up, 
how is it with us?  A  hundred years ago 
the entire region now known as the states 
of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois was covered 
with dense forests.  Now there are cities, 
towns, farms  and  some  groves,  but  no 
more great bodies  of  woods.  Kentucky 
and  Tennessee,  too,  have  been  largely 
cleared,  except  in  the  mountainous re­
gions.  This  deforestation  has  greatly 
disturbed  the  weather  phenomena. 
It 
has  subjected  the  country  to  droughts 
and has made the floods in the  Ohio Val­
ley much more  sudden  and  violent than 
formerly.  These  are  the first  stages of 
the evil.  The next may be such extreme 
and  excessive  dryness  as  to  make  the 
country barren.

There  are  no  trees  on  the  Western 
plains of  Dakota,  Nebraska, Kansas and 
Texas.  All that region is suffering more 
and more each  year from  drought.  The 
destruction of  the timber  in  Iowa, Min­
nesota and Missouri will complete a tree­
less belt  from the Black  Hills to  the Al- 
leghanys, embracing all the regions which 
inclose the headwaters of the Mississippi 
River.  The  drying  of  the  principal 
tributaries  will  be  one  of  the  results, 
affecting  the  richest grain  region in the 
world.

The drying-up process is not rapid, but 
it is steady.  The Malthusian catastrophe 
is  yet  afar  off, but  it  is  approaching. 
Astronomers  hold  that  the  moon  is  a 
dried-up world.  First it became a sandy 
waste, then  its  central  fires cooled  and 
its  seas  penetrating  through  interior 
crevices  and  caverns  came  in  contact 
with  the dying  fires and  produced  vast 
steam  bursts,  volcanic  and  earthquake 
convulsions.  Then  the  waters  extin­
guished  the fires  and sunk  into the  in­
terior caverns.  Now  there is no  surface 
water on  the  moon, no  rivers, no  lakes, 
If  there  were ever any 
no sea, no rain. 
people there they are all extinct 
It is a 
dead,  dry  planet  That, say the  astron­
omers, is what the earth is coming to.

EVOLUTION  OF  THE  RAILWAY.
All  great  commercial  and  industrial 
enterprises  are  carried  on  by  the  co­
operation  of  the  money  and  the  labor 
of  a  great  many  people,  Take  a  rail­
way, for instance. 
Its  capilal  was  fur­
nished  by  a  great  number  of  stock­
holders  and  it  was  constructed  and  is 
operated  by  the  combined  labor  of  a 
great  number  of  persons.  Necessarily,

the enterprise  was  projected on a larger 
scale than  the  money  subscribed  would 
execute,  and  so, in  order  to  get  more 
money to construct  and  equip  the  road, 
mortgages  were  given  on  the  road  and 
its  property  to  secure  loans  by  which 
funds were obtained and so the road was 
finished and put into operation.

But, as is the case with too many  such 
enterprises,  the  earnings  of  the  road 
were  not  enough  to  pay  costs of  oper­
ating  it  with  the  expense  of  mainte­
nance, and  in  addition  to  repaying  its 
borrowed  money.  So  the  business gets 
into  court  and  the  road  and  its  equip­
ment  are  sold  out  to  satisfy the debts. 
The  original  stockholders,  probably, 
lose  all  the  money  they  put  into  the 
concern;  the  bondholders,  secured  by a 
third  mortgage, lose  all  the money they 
risked in it, and the road  comes into  the 
hands of other  parties at  such a reduced 
rate that it can  earn a profit  on  its  last 
capitalization  cost, and  then  it  can  be 
successfully operated.

Thus here is an enormous  co-operation 
of  labor  and  capital, in  which  capital 
has  suffered 
proportionally  greater 
losses  than  has  labor.  This  is  the his­
tory  of  many  great  industrial  concerns 
before they become successful. 
In many 
such cases  labor  has  been  poorly paid, 
and sometimes not paid at all; and a great 
deal of money  has been  sunk,  but,  as in 
the case of  the railway,  for  instance, so 
much  disaster has a least  helped  to  de­
velop  the  country.  There  has  been  in 
such cases no actual loss of values,  only 
a  changing  of  ownership  from some  to 
others,  but  the  grand  result  has  been 
that,  after  the  railways  have  become 
bankrupt, and  have  been brought down 
to a basis  upon  which  they  can  be  op­
erated,  they  secure  the  reduction  of 
freight rates  down  to  figures the people 
can  bear.

Thus  we  learn  from  Poor’s  Railway 
Manual, the  highest  authority  on  such 
matters,  that the  railway  freight  rates 
on  grain  from  Chicago  to  New  York 
have  been  reduced  from  2  cents and  9 
mills, nearly 3 cents  per  ton-mile, to  6.8 
mills, less than 7 mills  per ton-mile, and 
all  this  in  the  past  twenty-five  years. 
This  is  a most  important  redaction  to 
the grain  farmers, as  well as to the con­
sumers  of  bread,  but  it  has  been  ac­
complished  through  enormous  disaster 
to  the  original  investors  in  American 
railroads.  After  all, the  benefit arising 
from the cheapening of articles  of prime 
necessity is of  great  consequence  to the 
masses of the people.

THE  HOT  WAVE  IN  EUROPE.
A year or more ago, Camille  Flammar- 
ion, the  French  astronomer and physical 
philosopher,  proposed  an  inquiry  into 
what  he  considered  was  quite  a  prob­
ability,  namely:  Whether  or  not  the 
climate  of  Europe  had  not  become  de­
cidedly colder.

Julius  Caesar,  in  writing  about  Gaul 
and Germany, declared  that those  coun­
tries had  cold  and  bleak  climates,  and 
from his  observations  we are  led  to  be­
lieve that their climates were, some 1,900 
and odd  years  ago, as  inhospitable  and 
rude as  is  that of  Russia.  The  subse­
quent  temperateness  of 
the  German 
climate  and 
the  geniality  of  that  of 
France have  been  attributed  to  the  in­
fluences of  civilization,  the  draining  of 
marshes, the cultivation of the earth and 
the multiplying of cities and human habi­
tations.  But it is much to be doubted  if

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siderable influence in  modifying  the  cli­
mate of any country.

Taking for granted the truth of the re­
marks of Caesar, who was a great man  in 
many ways and a careful student of  men 
and things, we may admit that there have 
been  extensive  changes  in  the  historic 
period.  Some 2,000 years ago that conti­
nent may have been growing warmer  un­
til  a  culminating  point  was  reached. 
Then it may have begun to  grow  colder, 
as  M.  Flammarion  has  asserted.  The 
fact  that  within  the  past  month  or  so 
European countries have experienced un- 
due and unusual heats  does  not  militate 
against the  theories  of  climatic  change. 
In fact, it is  not  known  just  what  does 
produce  and  establish  the  facts  of  cli­
mate.  The relative situation of countries 
with regard  to  constant  or  periodic  po­
sitions of the sun are supposed to govern 
the  conditions  of  climatology,  the  sun 
spots or other states of that luminary are 
supposed  also  to  work  changes  in  the 
weather.

At any rate there may be  cyclic  varia­
tions in the  shape  of  the  earth’s  orbit, 
this orbit being more or less  elliptical  at 
given periods.  Moreover,  if there should 
be any change  of position  of  the  center 
of gravity of  the  earth  countries  which 
are now near the equator  might  be  rela­
tively  found nearer the poles and  so  be­
come colder, while  corresponding  north­
ern regions would grow  warmer  by  rea­
son of the change of relation to  the  sun. 
There may have been no such changes as 
those noted by Caesar  in  the  century  be­
fore the Christian Era,and by Flammarion 
in  the  closing  years  of  the  nineteenth 
century  afterwards,  but  if  their  obser­
vations were well founded,  here  is  good 
material  for  the  world-builders  and 
physical philosophers to work on.

At any rate, the hot  wave  in  northern 
Europe  followed  immediately  upon  the 
hot waive in the north of our hemisphere. 
They  are being  already  charged  to  sun 
spots, but who knows the reason.
SEARCH LIGHTS AND FLASH LIGHTS
One  of  the  most  interesting  uses  to 
which  electricity  has  been  put of  late 
years has been  its adaptation  to the pur­
poses  of  warships  and  the  military 
service generally.  All warships are now 
equipped with a  complete  electric  light 
service, which  not  only  furnishes  light 
in  the  living  quarters of  the  ships but 
serves  for  the  regulation  lights  which 
the vessels are compelled by internation­
al maritime laws to carry  and  for signal 
lights  as  well.  The  incandescent  bulb 
has permitted  the  use of  lights on ship­
board  where 
the  old-time  lamps  and 
lanterns  would  have  been  impossible 
or dangerous.

By far the most important use made of 
electric lighting  on  shipboard, however, 
has been its use in search  lights.  These 
lights are so constructed as  to give great 
illuminating power, and  can  be made to 
search out  objects for  long  distances  at 
sea.  Their power is such that a warship 
can lie off shore  and carefully scrutinize 
by the aid of  its  search  lights every de­
tail of the fortifications of  a hostile port. 
The  approach of  torpedo or  other  small 
craft can be  readily  detected by  the use 
of  these lights,  and the character of  ap­
proaching  vessels  can  be  ascertained 
while still at a considerable  distance.

Electricity has also been made to serve 
the  purpose  of  signaling  at  night  on 
board  ship,  and  is  p u t  to  m any  other

purposes of less  importance.  The latest 
experiments  with  the  electric  search 
light have developed that it can be made 
to serve  the  purpose  of  signaling  long 
distances  both  on  land  and  sea, where 
all ordinary means of communication are 
unavailable.  An interesting experiment 
of  signaling  with  a  powerful  electric 
flash light is  reported in recent exchang­
es.  The light  was  located  on the sum­
mit of Mount  Washington  and messages 
were  sent  to  Portland,  a  distance  of 
eighty-five miles.

The  messages  were  sent  by  flashing 
the  intense  electric  beam  into  the  sky 
in long  and  short  flashes, to  correspond 
with  the  dots  and  dashes  respectively 
of  the  Morse  alphabet,  the  signals  be­
ing easily  read  by  a  telegraphic  opera­
tor located at Portland. 
It  is  explained 
that  the  direct  source  of  light  was,  of 
course, far below  the  horizon, the  shaft 
of  light  at  Mount  Washington  being 
projected  into  the  sky  at  an  angle  of 
forty-five  degrees. 
this  way  the 
lower  strata  of  clouds  were  avoided 
and the  pencil of  rays was  given a path 
that  took  it to a point  probably  eighty 
miles  in  the  air  above  Portland,  its 
length  being  calculated  to  be  fully 100 
miles.

The  success  of  this  experiment  will 
not be permitted to go long  unimproved, 
and we  are  likely  to soon hear that  the 
discovery will  be  put  to  some practical 
and important use.

In 

The  Drug  Market.

The past week has  been  characterized 
by a  renewed  activity  in  the  drug  mar­
ket.  Owing to the probability of cholera 
reaching  our  country,  all  disinfectants 
are showing an  upward  tendency.  Gum 
opium, quinine, chloride of lime, carbolic 
acid and permanganate of potassium have 
all felt the  effect  of  the  movement,  but 
are not, as yet, quotably higher than  last 
market prices.

An advance in the price of morphine is 
spoken of as being probable in  the  near 
future.

From Out of Town.

Galls  have  been  received  at  T h e 
T radesm an office during the  past  week 
from  the  following  gentlemen  in  trade.

B. W. Ellison, Alma.
L. W. Davis, Rothbury.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
O. A. Rowland,  Hesperia.
C. K. Hoyt,  Hudsonville.
W. J. Haughey, New  Era.
D. B. Kilpatrick, Woodland.
Wetzell Turning Works, Wetzell.

A  Manly Protest.

Ma n celo n a,  Sept.  10—When  travel­
ing  men  come  into a store, why  not  act 
manly?  Some  come  in  with  a hammer 
and nails  and  drive  up  some advertise­
ment, just as though  they stood in front 
of  a billboard.  To  such  I  would  say, 
You bad better stay at home.

J.  L.  F a bnh a m .

Wm.  Connor  writes T h e  T ra desm an 
that  his  announcement  in  last  week’s 
paper, to the effect  that  he  would  be at 
Sweet’s  Hotel  on  Thursday  and Friday 
of this week,  was erroneous.  He will be 
here  on  Thursday  and  Friday  of  next 
week instead.

I reverence old-time faith and men,
But God is near us now as then;
His force of love is still unspent,
His hate of sin is imminent;
And still the measure of our needs 
Outgrows the cramping bounds of creeds.
—Whittier.

U se  T r a d e s m a n   C o u p o n   B o o h s.

1893--PREMIUM—1893.

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It records both cash and credit sales.
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It enables you to trace transactions in dispute.
It will  keep  different lines of  goods separate.
It shows the transactions of each clerk.
It makes a careless man careful.
It  keeps  an  honest  man  honest  and  a  thief 
It will  save  in  convenience, time and  money, 
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Drugs & Medicines

State  Board  of Pharm acy.

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

Meetings  for  1892 — Marquette,  Aug.  81;  Lansing 

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 
President—Stanley E. Park ill, Owosso. 
Vice-Presidents—I.  H.  L.  Dodd.  Buchanan;  F.  W.
Perry, Detroit;  W. H. Hicks. Morley.
Treasurer—Wm. H  Dupont,  Detroit.
Secretary—C. W. Parsons, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H.  G.  Coleman,  Kalamazoo; 
Jacob Jesson, Muskegon:  F.  J.  Wurzburg  and  John 
E. Peck, Grand Rapids;  Arthur Bassett,  Detroit. 
Local Secretary—James Vernor.
Next  place  of  meeting—Some  resort  on  St.  Clair 
River;  time to be designated by Executive Committee
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 rag Clerks’ Association, 
President, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith.

Muskegon  D rag Clerks’  Association. 

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

WAYS  OP  CUSTOMERS.

Written for The Tradesman.

A noted writer once said, “The  proper 
study of  mankind  is  man.” 
It  may be 
as well to add  that a good  place  to  pur 
sue  that  study  is  in  a  country  store. 
One can here observe types of  customers 
in endless variety, that will afford a large 
experience of human nature.  Some pro 
voke a smile by  their oddities or absurd 
ities—others  make  one  tired  by  their 
perverse and annoying peculiarities.  An 
other class deserve the worst opinion one 
is obliged  to  entertain,  and  there  are 
few who live  so near the  border land  of 
crime that they  make  petit larceny hon 
orable by comparison.

Among  those  whose  whims  are  not 
wholly  disagreeable  is  the  man  who 
expects you to sell him goods at  jobbing 
rates  because  he  once  was  engaged  in 
the  commercial  line  himself,  either  as 
proprietor or clerk. 
It  takes  more  than 
a hint  sometimes  to convince  him  that 
such a  plea  does  not  entitle  him  to  be 
placed on the free list.

Another who  wants  to be sure of  get 
ting the  value  of  his  money  insists  on 
having  every  article  warranted, from  a 
fine tooth  comb  to a  sulky  plow.  This 
customer is  hard  to be persuaded that it 
is  impracticable  to  have  an  iron-clad 
guarantee kept in force  from  the  manu 
facturers down  to the consumer, subject 
to  all  the  contingencies  fraud  may  in- 
vent, and all  to serve no useful purpose.
There is  another  class who  want only 
a little of  something,  but  so  little  it  is 
hardly worth  while  to  set a price on  it 
and so you end by giving  him  what is of 
value  to  his  present  necessities,  which 
he  considers  neither  a  favor  nor a bar­
gain.  One instance  of  this  kind  occurs 
when a boy is  sent  with a half-pint  hot 
tie to get a cent’s worth of chloroform.
A class  whose  trade  amounts, on  the 
whole, to a large sum  buy their goods in 
small  quantities  and  generally  select  a 
variety;  but, lacking knowledge of  men­
tal arithmetic,  they  know no  better way 
than to  make the purchase  of  each arti­
cle  a  separate  transaction,  which  often 
compels  the  dealer  to  make  change  at 
each delivery.  When one is in no hurry, 
traffic of  this kind is more amusing than 
annoying.

Another class  whose  souls are, I fear, 
warped by  the same  foible  that affected 
Ananias  of  old,  always  pay  cash,  but 
have, in  nearly  every  case, a few  cents 
less  than  the  proper  amount,  and  this 
sum  proves  to  be  just  about  discount 
enough to annihilate the entire profit.

support 
the  dealer  depends,  because 
words  alone  cannot  do  them  justice. 
They  are  the  salt  of  the  earth, and as 
such  preserve  one’s  faith in  humanity. 
May their tribe ever increase.

S.  P. WHITMAKSIf.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
The man who calls for stamps or postal 
cards—though the postoffice may be next 
door—giving  as a reason  a personal diffi­
culty  with  the  postmaster, whom  he  is 
determined not to patronize in any event, 
may be  considered as  one  of  the freaks 
which  nature  sends  into  the  world  for 
some wise reason  unknown  to mankind. 
His passion hides from his  judgment the 
fact that, by department rule, the official 
salary is  based  alone on  the  amount  of 
stamps  cancelled  instead  of  those sold, 
and  so  his  well  meant  revenge  is  ren­
dered abortive.

cal  record.  Each  dealer  is  alone  the 
proprietor of his own individual mystery. 
He may  conjecture  and  he  may investi­
gate, but the result is still obscurity.
Nearly every dealer has a certain class 
of customers whose commercial standing 
is good up  to a  certain  amount, but, be­
yond  that, is  worth  no  more  than  any 
absconding  cashier. 
If  one  is  trusted 
past the liue of safety  the  fact  becomes 
apparent by his  continued  absence,  and 
the account  stands  on the  book waiting 
to  be  adjusted  as  accidental  circum­
stances  shall  determine. 
In  occasional 
cases  this  is  done, and  in  time  a  new 
credit  established  subject  to  the  same 
contingencies. 
If  one  could  be  sure of 
the  actual  point  that  divides  the  plus 
from  the  minus  quantity  he  could  do 
business safely with any one of this class 
of customers.  The reason this cannot be 
done is that each has  already made up  a 
private  report  of  his  own  commercial 
standing, based on the amount for which 
he was trusted by the last dealer  and be­
yond which he was refused credit.  Thus 
the actual amount he is good for becomes 
to the next dealer an  unknown  quantity 
to be marked X and collected if  possible 
or buried in the column of profit and loss.
The  sampling customer, thanks  to the 
inventive genius of  the age, is becoming 
less of  a tax  on commercial  prosperity, 
wire screens, coupled  with  eternal vigi- 
lence.haveing cut short his ravages.  Only 
the  samplers  who  ask  for  specimen 
wares  still  prove a “thorn  in the  flesh” 
and  their  demands  affect  mostly  dry 
goods  lines.  There  are  many  imposi­
tions of  an irritating  nature  one suffers 
from  customers  whose  transient  pur­
chases do  not  entitle them  to the favors 
they  claim.  But, when  one  deals  with 
the public, he must  remember  that  it  is 
made  up  of  unlike  parts  and  some  of 
those parts, though undesirable, must  be 
endured  with  as good  grace as possible.
However long a  dealer  may have been 
in business, and  however  sharp his per­
ceptive  faculties  may  have  become  by 
contact with the dishonest side of human 
nature, he  has some weak  or unguarded 
point  where 
important  pretense  or 
shrewd rascality may find  entrance with­
out knocking at the front door.  Knowing 
that a certain amount of  risk  is insepar­
able from trade, and that  to take none at 
all would curtail two-thirds of all chance 
of profitable business;  he decides  to give 
credit where his  judgment determines it 
can  be  done  within  a  reasonable  risk. 
So the  opportunity  is open  to  everyone 
who makes a prlma-facia.  case  to obtain 
goods  without  cash payment  at  time of 
delivery.  Here  the  man  who is dishon­
est  enough  to  lie, but  afraid  to  steal, 
finds  his  opportunity  and  works  it for 
all  there  is  in  it.  Besides  being  safer 
than  actual  larceny, it is, on the whole, 
more  profitable.  The  forced  collection 
he thus levies on  trade  may  be called  a 
fool tax, since that is  what the disgusted 
dealer honestly calls it in  the  solitude of 
his own reflections, each  time  vowing  it 
shall  not be  repeated;  but  the  logic  of 
fate is against  him  in  every  struggle to 
unload  the  incubus.  And  so  this class 
of customers  will  never die off  the face 
of  the earth  until  trade has  passed en­
tirely into the hands of  flinty  misers,  or 
the universal  cash  systen  shall prevail.
In noticing a few specimens of  human 
nature  who  help  to  make  commercial 
life less of  a dull monotony, I have pur­
posely  omitted  the  large  majority  of 
customers on  whose fair and considerate

The  customer  who  knows  it  all  and 
kindly informs the dealer where and how 
goods are made and what they cost, there­
by thinking to induce a concession in the 
price  may  make  one  weary  for a time; 
but, if  the  salesman does not allow him­
self to  be  rattled,  his  purpose  will  not 
be attained.

Once  in a while  when  goods  are  pro 
duced and price named  in  answer to en 
quiry, the interrogative relative pronoun 
is violently thrown  out  in a voice like 
Chinese gong  and the  dealer is informed 
in the most positive manner that Sellers, 
of Frostville, never asked more than half 
as  much  for  that  identical article.  To 
the commercial  novice  this  information 
is a staggerer;  but, in  time, he  will  get 
to  understand that  here is  but  an inno 
cent  game  of  bluff  that  certain  kinds 
of people are in the  habit of  playing  on 
general  principles  and  it  succeeds now 
and then in saving  them  a little  money, 
and  lessening  the  dealer’s  reasonable 
profit.

There is one class of  customers whose 
fo r te   is  in  never  paying  the  full  price 
asked  for  an  article. 
If  the  salesman 
does not  relent, they  will  go  elsewhere 
and  pay  more, perhaps,  but  there  must 
be a concession  to them in every case  to 
make a sale.  This  desire  to  beat down 
in price  has  no  connection  with  an in 
telligent appreciation of quality or value 
It is au  infirmity  like  kleptomania,  and 
involves  no  moral  responsibility.  Say 
one of  this class,  who  is a  little deaf,  to 
a clerk who has  shown  a piece  of  cloth 
and  stated  the  price:  “Seventeen  shil­
lings?  I will  give  you eleven.”  On  be 
ing corrected and told  that the price was 
seven shillings, this  exponent of  econo 
my  at  once  replies,  “Oh!  Seven  shil­
lings, I will give  you  five.”  These  are 
the ones who tempt a merchant  from the 
safe rule of  honest  trading.  For, in or­
der to protect himself, he is compelled to 
make a special  price  to suit the style  of 
customer,  and  in  spite  of  the  utmost 
shrewdness,  gets  himself  into  trouble 
thereby.

At long intervals comes  one  who calls 
for some article, examines  it  very  care­
fully and enquires  if  you have  others  a 
little different.  He  inspects  with delib­
eration, evidently seeking to fill a special 
order  that  allows  no  discretion  to  the 
agent.  But  he  does  not  buy.  He does 
not even apologize for the trouble he has 
made.  The  episode  passes, and  is  for 
the time  forgotten, only  to  be  renewed 
by  another  apparent  customer  of  like 
habits who repeats the same round of en­
quiries,  and  searches for  an imaginary 
article, and who  does  not buy.  This  is 
one of  the mysteries  which hang around 
commercial life. 
It is of no use to probe 
the phenomenon for light on the subject, 
o use to  ask  why;  echo  only  answers, 
Why?”  It is a derelict of  idiosyncrasy 
found in the mid-ocean of human experi­
ence.  Even Bradstreet keeps no statisti­

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

a

Wholesale Price Current.

“ 

Ä 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. A W. ..1  60®1  85 
C. C o.......................1  50@1  75
Moschus 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., 54 gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Picls Liq., quarts......   @1 00
pints.........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po, 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__   @  3
Pix  Burgun................  @  7
Plumbi A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opU. .1  10®1  20 
Pyre thrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......   @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®  35
Quasslae.................... 
8®  10
Qulnla, S. P. & W......  27®  32
S.  German....20  ®  30
Rubla  Tinctorum......   12®  14
SaccharumLactispv. 
29®  30
Salacln.......................1  60@1  60
Sanguis  Draconis......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
M.......................   10®  12
“  G............ ..........   @ 15

“ 

Seidlltz  Mixture........  ®  20
Sinapls........................  @  18
“  opt...................  @  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................   ®  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voe8  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................   1)4®
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   ®  5
Soda, Ash..................   3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   ®  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......   @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  ®3 00
‘  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
....7 ........................ 2 25@2 35
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Stiychnia Crystal......  ®1  30
Sulphur, Subl............ 2W@  3)4
Tamarinds...................   8® 10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae..............40  ©  45
Vanilla...  ............... 9 00016 00
Zlnci  Sulph..................  7®  8

*   Roll..............  2)4®  3

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra................  61 
Lard, No.  1................  42 
Linseed, pure raw__  41 

Bbl.  Gal
70
68
48
44

 

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paints. 

Llndseed,  boiled  ....  44 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
Spirits Turpentine....  34 

47
strained..................  50  60
40
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian.............. 13£  2@3
Ochre, yeUow  Mars__IK  2@4
“ 
Her........1*  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2>4  2)4®3
“  strictly  pure......2)4  254@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ................. 
  13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
65070
Green,  Peninsular......   70®75
Lead,  red......................7  @7)4
“  w hite................. 7  @7H
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  GUders’__ __  @80
1  0 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@ljt 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.....................1 00®1  20
No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10®1  20
Extra Turp................ 166@1  70
Coach  Body...............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn....... 1  0001  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55® 1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  I 
Turp......................... 
70®75

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ACIDUM.

8®  10
Aceticum................... 
Benzolcnm  German..  65®  75
Boraclc 
....................  
30
Carbollcum.................   25®  35
Cltrlcnm.....................  50® 52
HydroclUor..................  3®  5
...................  10® 12
Nltrocum 
Oxalicum....................   10® 12
Phosphorium dll........ 
20
Salley licnm ...............1  30®1  70
Sulphurlcum................  13£@ 5
Tanni cum.................. 1  4001 60
Tartarieum...................  30® 32

AMMONIA.

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Aqua, 16  deg................354®  5
20  deg................5)4®  7
Carbouas  ...................  12®  14
Chlorldum.................   12®  14

ANILINE.

Black..........................2 0002 25
Brown.........................  80@1  00
Red.............................   45®  50
Yellow....................... 2 50@3 00

BACCAB.

Cubeae (po  60)........  50®  60
Junlperus..................   8®  10
Xantnoxylum............   25®  30

BALBAMUM.

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

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian.................   18
Cassiae  ...............................  11
Cinchona P la v a .................   18
Ruonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca Cerliera, po.............  20
Prunus Virgin!....................   12
Quillala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
Uimus Po (Ground  15)........  15

_ /  

n  

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

>. 

)4s...............

EXTRACTU M.
.  Glycyrrhiza  Glabra...
p o ..........
a  ( I   Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is..............
*  
*B.........
FERRUM.
a 
Carbonate Precip........
^  V  Citrate and Qulnla....
ÇJ  Citrate  Soluble...........
Perrocy anidum Sol....
Solut  Chloride...........
Sulphate,  com’l ..........
pure.............

•• 

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

®  15 
®3 50 
®  80 
®  50 
®  15 
1)4@  2 
®  7

W -

A rn ica...........................   1?®  16
A nth em is...................... 
jjf®  35
Matricaria 
25®  30
 

FLORA.

 
FOLIA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-

......................  16@1  00
n lv e lly ........................  25®  28
A lx.  35®  50
12®  15
8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  34s
U raU rsl.........................  

“ 
........ 

and 

« /  

 

SUMML

“ 
“ 

®   75 
Acacia,  1st  p ick ed .... 
©   50
2d 
.. . .  
3d 
.. . .   @  40
sifted sorts... 
®   25
p o ....................  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 6 0 )...  50®  60 
“  Cape,  (po.  2 0 )...  @  12
®   50
Socotrl.  (po.  60). 
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 34b,
©   1
16)................................. 
A m m onlae....................  55®  60
Assafoetlda,  (po. 35).. 
30®  35
Benzolnum ....................  50®  55
Cam phors......................  50®  53
Eupnorblum  p o .........   35® 
lo
Galbanum...................... 
®3  50
Gamboge,  po................   70®  7b
Gualacum,  (po  30)  ... 
®   25
Kino,  (po  40)..............   @  35
M a stic........................... 
©   80
Myrrh,  (po. 45).............  @  40
OpU.  (po  2  60)...................1  85®1 90
Shellac  .........................   25®  35
30®  35
T ragacanth..................   30®  75

bleached.......  

“ 

herba—In ounce packages.

A bsinthium .............................   25
Bupatorlum .............................   20
Lobelia......................................  25
Majorum..................................   28
Mentha  Piperita....................  23
V Ir.............................   25
R ue.............................................   30
Tanacetum, V ..........................  22
Thymus,  V ..............................   25

« 

MAGNESIA.

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

OLEUM.

Cubebae........................   ® 4 50
Rxechthltos..............  2  50®2 75
Rrlgeron..................... 2  25®2 50
Gaultherla..................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......   @  75
Gosslpil, Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................2  70®3 00
Juniperl.......................   50@2 00
Lavendula...................  90®2 00
Llmonis...........................2 50@3 CO
Mentha Piper...................2 75@3 50
Mentha Verld................. 2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal..................1  00®1 10
Myrcla, ounce.............  ®  50
Olive..........................   7502 75
Picls Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
Riclnl.......................   96@1 00
Rosmarinl............  
75®l  00
RoBae, ounce...................6 50®8 50
Succinl........................   40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
Santal  ....................... 3 50®7 00
Sassafras.  .................   50®  55
Sinapls, ess, ounce__  ®  65
Tiglfi...........................   @  90
Thyme.......................   40®  50
opt  ................  @  60
TheobromaB...............   15®  20

“ 

POTASSIUM.

BiCarb.......................   15®  18
Bichromate................  13®  14
Bromide....................   24®  2C
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate  (po. 18)........  16®  18
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..............................2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bltart, pure..  24®  28
Potassa, Bltart, com...  ®  15
Potass Nltras, opt......   8®  10
Potass Nltras..............  7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po................  15®  18

RADIX.

Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................   12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......   8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35).......................  @ 30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®  20
Inula,  po.................... 
  15® 20
Ipecac,  po....................... 2 oo®2 10
Iris plox (po. 35®38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr....................   50® 55
Maranta,  54s.................  ® 35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei..............................  75@1 00
“  Cut......................  @1  75
“  DV.......................   75@1  35
Spigelia.......................   35® 38
Sangulnarla, (po  25)..  ®  20
Serpentarla...................  30® 32
Senega.........................  40® 45
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H @ 40
M  @  25
Scillae, (po. 85).............  10® 12
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
dus,  po.......................   @ 35
Valeriana, Rug. (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
lnglber a ....................   12® 15
Zingiber ] ................... 
18® 22

“ 

u 

Anlsum,  (po. 2 0 ) ....  ©  15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  22®  25
Bird, Is.......................... 
4®  6
Carol, (po. 18)...............  8© 12
Cardamon....................1 
00®1 25
Corlandrum.................   10® 12
Cannabis Satlva.........   3)4©4
Cydonlum....................   75©1 00
Chenopodlum  .............  10® 12
Dlpterlx Odorate.........2 50®2 75
Foenlculum...................  @ 15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L inl............................4  © 4*
Llnl, grd,  (bbl. 3)4)...  4  ® 4)4
Lobelia.........................  35® 40
Pharlarls Canarian__5)4® 6
Rapa.............................  6®  7
Sinapls,  Albu...............  8®  9
,r  Nigra............  11®  12

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» 
*  

SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W.,D.  Co. .2 00®2 50
D. F. R...... 17502 00
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T ....1  7501  75
“ 
...........1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  E .........1 75®2 00
Spt  Vlni  Galll............1 75®6 50
Vlnl Oporto.................1 
Vlnl  Alba....................1 

1 

2502 00
2502 00

10®1 50

SEMEN.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 25©2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ................. 
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
1  10
Rxtra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage................... 
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage .......................  
65
75
Hard for  slate  use—  
Yellow Reef, for  Blate 
use ...........................  
140

TINCTURES.

 

 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Aconitum Napellls R.........   60
P .......  50
Aloes............................. 60
and myrrh.................  60
A rnica.................................  50
Asafoetida............................  o
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
“  Co...........................  50
Sanguinarla.........................  so
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharldes.........................  75
Capsicum............................   50
Ca damon............................  75
Co.........................  75
Castor..................................1 00
Catechu...............................   50
Cinchona............................  50
Co.........................  60
Columba.............................   go
Conlum.............  
so
Cubeba................................   50
Digitalis..............................  50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian...............................  50
“  Co............................  60
Gualca.................................  50
“ 
ammon....................  60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Iodine..................................  75
“  Colorless...................  75
Ferri  Chlorldum.................  35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................   50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
°RU,
85
Camphorated................  50
"   Deodor.........................2 00
Auranti Cortex....................   50
Quassia..............................  50
Rhatany.............................   50
Rbel.....................................   50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................   60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVerlde.................   50

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

“ 

“ 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

‘ 
“ 

.¡Ether, Spts  Mit, 3 F ..  26®  28 
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alumen....................... 254® 3

T‘ 
ground,  (po.

@1  00 ®  20 
®  20 @  20 

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antimoni, po..............  4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrin...................  @1 40
Antifebrln..................  @  25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  ®  58
Arsenicum.................  5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............ 2 10®2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, ()4s
11;  54s,  12)..............
®  9
Cantharldes  Russian,
po............................
Capslcl  FructUB, af...
11>0.
Caryophyllus, (po.  14)
10®   12 
Carmine, No. 40.........
®3 75 
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......
50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................   ©  40
Cassia Fructus...........  ©  22
Centrarla....................   ©  10
Cetaceum...................  ©  40
Chloroform................  60®  63
squlbbs ..  ©1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  20©1  40
Chondrus...................  20©  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  &  W  15®  20
German 3  ©  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
60
cent  ...................... 
Creasotum.................  ©  35
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  @  2
“  prep...................  5®  5
“  preclp.............. 
9®  11
“  Rubra................  ©  8
Crocus.......................   33®  35
Cudbear......................  ©  24
Cuprl Sulph...............   5 ®   6
Dextrine....................  10®  12
Ether Sulph................  68®  70
Emery,  all  numbers..  ©
po...................  ©  6
Ergota.  (po.)  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 
25 
“  White................  13®
Glycerins...................15)4®
20 
Grana Paradlsl...........  ©
22 
Humulus....................   25®
55 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  © 
85 
“  C or....  ©
75 
Ox Rubrum 
@  90 
Ammonlati.. 
@1 00 
Unguentum.
45®  55
_Tum............   ®  64
Hvdrargyr
ithyobolla, Am..  ..1 25®1  50
Ichthyobol
Indigo.........................  75®1 00
Iodine, Resubl...........3 75@3 85
Iodoform....................  ©4 70
Lupulln......................  60®  65
Lycopodium..............  50®  55
Macls.........................  75®  80
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod.................  ®  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltis  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1)4) ..................................  
8
2®  
Manilla,  S .F ..............  30033

“ 

A bsinthium ........................3  50®4 00
Amygdalae, D ulc.........  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 00®8 25
A n lsl.....................................1  75@1 80
Auranti  Cortex............2  75®3 00
Bergamli  ......................3  25®3  50
C ajlputi..........................  
60® 65
Caryophylli....................   65®  75
C ed ar...............................   35®  65
C henopodll..................   @1  60
d n n a m o n ll........................1  10@1 15
C ltronella.......................... 
®  45
Conlum  M ae................ '  35®  65
Copaiba  ..........................  90®1 00

STRUTS.

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Auranti Cortes....................  50
Rhel Aram..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega.................................  50
Sclllae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunus  firs.........................  50

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12

THE  MICHIGAN  TRAJDESMAJNT.

Grocery  Price  Current.

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

and  buy in  full  packages.

Aurora...........
Castor Oil......
Diamond........
Frazer’s.........
Mica..............
Paragon 
..  ..

AXLE ORZASE.
doz
......   55
......  75
......   50
......   80
......   75
......  55
BAKING  POWDER.

Acme.

34 lb. cans, 3 doz........
34,1b.  “  2  “  ......
1  «  .........
lib .  “ 
Bulk...........................
Arctic.
34 lb cans....................
...................
34 ft  “ 
...................
1  lb  “ 
5  ft  « 
...................
Dr. W ee’s.

45 
85 
1 60 
10
60 
1  20 
2 00 
9 60
per doz 
Dime cans..  90 
4-oz 
.1  33 
6-oz 
1  90 
8-oz 
.2 47 
.3 75
12 oz 
ii 2 
16-oz
134-lb
lb
4- 
1 8 »  
lb 
5- 
21  6b 
10-lb
41  80

0?PRICE1s
C l t E A MgAKlHg
B o r n e o
Red Star, 34 ft  cans.........
34 lb  “ 
.........
1 ft  “  ........
Telfer’8,  34 lb. cans, doz. 
34 lb.  «
“  .
lib.  “ 
BATH BRICK.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

40 
'80 
1  50 
45 
85 
1 50

“ 

8oz 

BLUING.

2 dozen in case.
English.......................... ...  90
Bristol............................
...  80
...  TO
Domestic.......................
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals........... ..  4 00
........... ..  7 00
“ 
“  pints,  round........
..10 50
“  No. 2, sifting box. 
..  2 75
“   No. 3, 
>?
..  4 00
“  No. 5, 
“
..  8 00
“  1 oz ball  .............. ..  4 50
BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl....................... ..  2 00
....................... ..  2 25
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet....................
.  2 50
No. 1 
“ 
....................
.  2 75
Parlor Gem.....................
.  3 00
Common Whisk..............
.  1  00
Fancy 
..............
.  1  20
Warehouse.....................
.  3 50
Stove, No.  1....................
.  1  25
“  10....................
.  1  50
«  15....................
.  1  75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row..
85
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row..
.  1  25
Palmetto, goose..............
.  1  50

BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

“ 

OANDLBS
“ 
 

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes............... 10
Star  40 
g
Paraffine..............................n
Wlcklng..............................   24

 

CAMMED  GOODS. 

nsH.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  l i b ...................... 1 15

“  8 lb..................1  go
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Standard, 3 lb...........................2 00
Standard,  lib .............. 

85
21b ..................185
Lobsters.
Btu,  1  lb............................ 2 40
**  2  lb.................................a go
Picnic, 1 lb............................... 2 00
21h..............................*2 90
“ 
Mackerel.
Standard, lib ...........................1 05
2  lb..........................1 go
Mustard,  21b...........................2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb.............2 25
Soused, 2 lb..............................2 25
Columbia River, flat........... 1  85
tails........... 1  75
Alaska, 1  lb.............................. j 40
* lb ................................1 90

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

Sardines.

American  14s................. 4<*@  5
_ 
“  _  34a................. 634© 7
Imported  14s.....................11© 12

Trent.
F&U1TB.
Apples.

Boneless  ......................... 
«
Brook, 8 lb.......................... .. so

„ .. 
8 lb. standard__
York State, gallons...'. 
Hamburgh.
_ . 
Apricots.
Live oak............
Santa Crus..............
Lusk’s.........................
Overland...................*
„  
Blackberries.
B. A  W.......................
Charles.
d .............................

8 00 
2 75
2 00 
2  00 
2  00 
1  90
95
1  20 
Pitted Hamburgh
1  75 
W hite......................
1  30 
Brie
1  20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green

Gages.

* 

Brie............................  @1  25
California
■  
ITO
........ 
Gooseberries. 
Common....................

1  20

gross
6 00
9 CO
5 50
9 00
8 00
6 00

Peaches.

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

Pears.

Domestic....................
Riverside....................
Pineapples.
Common.....................
Johnson’s  sliced........
grated...... '
Quinces.
Common....................
Raspberries.
Red

“ 

Hamburg.

•  v ..
Strawberries. 

*  *  * 
LaWrence .*.».”.
.Hamburgh........
TErie.%.... 
Tnrrapjn

i....,.*!

COFFEE.
GREEN.
Rio.

Bair-.................................... 16
Good.................................... 17
Prime...................................is
Golden.................................20
Peaberry............................. 20

Santos.

Bair......................................
Good.................................... 17
Prime.................................. 18
Peaberry.............................20

1  30
2 00
1  85
2  10 
1  85

1 30 
1  50
A   ?  

1  10

Java.

1  20 
2 10

1 30
2 50 
2 75

Maracaibo.

Mexican and Guatamala.
'Pair......................................20
Good...............................   **2l
Bancy.............................. IIIsi3
Prime...................................io
M illed.................................20
Interior................................25
Private Growth...................27
Mandehling........................28
Imitation.............................23
Arabian.,............................ 26
•  « 
Ì
‘  To «ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
i   SE 
1  30
coffee, add 34c. per lb. for roast- 
1  25 i lng and 15,per cent,  for shrink- 
1 a*6 
A rbnehle’a A riosa........  20 80
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX  20.80
Bunola.............................  20.30
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__  20 80

-  -  p Vck’age.

ROASTED.

Mocha.

.

Whortleberries.

Common...........
1  10 
p. &  w ............... ;;;;
1  15 
Blueberries...........
1  10
_  
MEATS.
Corned  beef,  Libby’s..........1  90
Roast beef,  Armour’s..........1  75
Potted  ham, 34 lb.. 

1

“  x  ib........»

tongue, 34 lb............1 35
„k.2L 
* lb..........   85
chicken, 34 lb .......... 
95

;; 

VEGETABLES.

Beans.

 

“ 

Hamburgh  stringless..........1  25
French style.......2 25
Limas.................140
Lima, green......................  1  25
soaked.........go
Lewis Boston Baked.........   1 as
Bay State Baked....  
1  35
World’s  Pair  Baked.. ...*.'” i 35 
Picnic Baked............................ 1 00
„  
Corn.
Hamburgh..............
‘  *1  an
Livingston  Eden 
Purity..................................
1  «1
Honey  Dew..................  
Morning Glory.........  
....... 
Soaked ...............
.....................   1  15
Peas
Hamburgh marrofat............1 35
early June.........
Champion Eng... 1 50
Hamburgh  petit  pols........1 75
fancy  rifted...... 1  90

I

Harris  standard........75
.1  10
Van Camp’s Marrofat 
.  _Barlv June........1  so
, 
Archers  BarlyBlossom.... 1  35
French................................. j go
Mushrooms.
French.............................. is©20
Pumpkin.
BrIe......................................  go
Squash.
_   „  
Hnbbard..............................  20
_  
Succotash.
. 
Hamburg  ............... .
1 40 
Soaked ..........................
80
Honey  Dew.............. '...'..’.'a  60
Erie.
.1  35
Tomatoes.
Hancock...............  
1  «
Excelsior ..............1........... j  in
«ein**.....................::;;;.*i $
j an
Gallon....................... „ .. ."2 go

nburg........................... 

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
German Sweet..................
Premium............
Pure................... \............
Breakfast Coco*.." " I l "
^mb°y...................   ©11V
J»,.*
Acme.......................... 
Riverside........... 
«situ
Medal............ ;; 
» ¿ 2

CHEESE.

Brick........®,o
a i  «
Edam  ....................... 
Leiden.............. 
®L°°
Limburger............. 
«..n
pineafflT......... ;;;;; 
2 “
Roquefort...................  & |
Sap Sago.
©22
Schweitzer, Imported.
©30 
domestic  ...I
©15

“ 

CATSUP.

sold at case 
price,  with 
additional 
charge of 
90 cents for 
cstinet.

extract.

Valley City 34 gross........... 
75
.... 
.1   1Ä
Hummel’s, foil, gross........  1  50
........2 50

rib 

“ 

* 

CHICORY.

Bulk.
Red..

« 
« 
.   « 
Jute 
“ 

Cotton,  40ft......... perdra,  l  25
1  An
1  60 
1  75 
1  90 
90 
1  00

CLOTHES  LINES.
50 f t.........  
“ 
60 ft...........
70 ft...........
80ft...........
60 ft.........
72ft’.........
CONDENSED mtt.tt

4 doz. Incase.

;............ ¡ g

Genulne  Swlss........... .**""  8 j*,
American Swiss. !
"II  7 00

CRACKERS.

 

____  __ Butter.
Seymour XXX 
 
8
S S S T yI P cartoon 
’ ■’
f ® x W ! .cartoon.:::::; S*
g 1/
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ... 
Kenosha........... 
vu
Boston........... 
 
a**
Butter  biscuit .!!  !!!!!!!!;; 634
Soda.
Soda, XXX.........  
ft
Soda, City................  
2w
Soda,  Duchess.....  ...............«2
Crystal Wafer..................... in’*
Long  Island Wafers  !!!'  n  
Oyster.
_  __ 
».Oyster XXX........... 
6
City Oyster. XXX... 
........e
Farina  Oyster.............!.'".*  g
CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly  pure...............
Telfer’g Absolute...... !!!!. 
Grocers’

35
20©25

 

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.

Sundried, sliced in  bbls 
_   “ 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes
_   . . .  
California In  bags 
Evaporated in boxes! *"*

quartered  “ 
APRICOTS. 

Blue Label Brand.
pint, 25 bottles.......... 2 75
4 GO 
50

_  
Pint
Quart 1 doz bottles '-.'.".".*..8
6 gross boxes...........

CLOTHES PINS.

.40
35 lb  bags......................  ©3
Less quantity...............   E g
Pound  packages...........6 * § 7   California

COCOA  SHELLS.

. 

n ectarines.

TO lb. bags.........
25 lb. boxes.........I ! 111111
_  
Peeled, In  boxes........... 
Cal. evap.  “ 
 
 
In bags...'.*..' 
p e a r s,

PEACHES.

PITTED CHERRIES.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes................... 
................... 

« 

PRUNE LLES.

30 lb.  boxes................... 

RASPBERRIES.
In barrels................  
 
501b. boxes.................... 
...................... 
851b.  «• 
Foreign.
CURRANTS.

20
22

7034

21«
22
23

Patras, In barrels........  © 4
In  34-bbls........  © 4u
In 168B quantity  © 434

“ 

PEEL.

“
«

“ 

Foreign.

Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxes  20 
Lemon 
Orange 

25  “ 
“ 
“ 
25« 
RAISINS.
Domestic.
London layers, 2 crown.... 1  50 
8  “ 
....1  75
fancy.........l 95
Loose Muscatels, boxes...... 1  40
_ 
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes..  © 8
Sultana, 20 
“ 
©12
Valencia, 30  “ 
Bosnia........................  
e
California,  100-120...........
90x100 25 lb. bxs
80x90 
60x70 
Turkey...............
Silver.....................

- .5   ©  5J4

PRUNES.

“ 
“ 
« 

“
“

©

11  75 
1  60

XX  wood, white.

ENVELOPES.
_  
XX rag, white.
No. 1, 634.................
No.2, 634.....................
No. 1, 6...................
No. 2, 6.......................
„  
No. 1, 634.....................
No. 2, 634..............
Manilla, white.
634  ...................!...............
6..................................1"
Coin.
Mill  No. 4...........

135
1  25
1 00 
95
1  00
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
1001b. kegs...................

Farina.
Hominy.

Barrels..............................  <m
G ri* ................................. .3 8 0
Lima  Beans.
Dried............................ 
4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 

Domestic, 12 lb. box.. 
55
Imported.....................i0J4@iitf
Pearl Barley.
Kees........... 
«aw

Peas.

Green,  bn.......
Split  per  l b ................ .......1  85
• - -  3 00
German...
East India.
Cracked__ Wheat.

Sago.

5

FISH—Salt.
Bloaters.

Cod.

....*!!* 

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

_  
Yarmontb..........................
_  „ 
Pollock.......................
Whole, Grand  Bank...  ©5
Boneless,  bricks........  634©8
Boneless, strips...........6 >4@8
v  ^  Halibut.
a 
Snoicd ...................... 
12
Herring.
o o*
Gibbed, 34 bbl,.... 
Holland,  bbl........!.!!.'"’  900
„   « 
kegs  ... 
65
Round Shore, 34  bbl........  2 75
“ 54 “  ........  1 55
“ 
16
_  
Mackerel.
No. 1,40 lbs........... 
4 25
No. 1, kits. 10lbs...!!........  1  a
No. 2, 40 lbs.........  
.......3 S
No. 2,  10 lbs.............!.........I ¿X
Family, 34 bbls., 100 lbs...!  BOO
kits. 10 lbs...........   65
_ 
Russian, kegs....................  
45
„  
No. 1, 34 bbls., lOOlbs...........6 50
No. 1, 
kits, 10 ibs............  on
„  
Whlteflsh.
No. 1,34 bbls., lOOlbs........... 7 50
No. 1, 
gi
kits, 10 lbs........  
Family, 34 bbls., 100 lbs  ... *3 00 
kits  10 lbs.............  40

Sardines.
Trout

« 

INDIGO.

Sage...................................
Hops...................................
Madras, 51b. boxes.........
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes..
17  lb. palls....................... 
85
......................  1  20
30  “ 
LICORICE.
Pure.....................................   30
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  12
LYE.
Condensed, 2 doz.................1 25
4 doz................ 2 25
MATCHES.

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

“ 

MINCE  MEAT

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

MEASURES.

Tin, per dozen.

gallon.......................     |i   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
Pint..................................   2 25

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house......................  1334
Ordinary..........................  
75
Prime..............................
Fancy............................. .

New Orleans.
Fair...............................
Good.............................‘I.
Extra good........................ 
Choice............................ 
Fancy............................... 
One-half barrels, 3c extra
 

I r r e ls  800.. 
Half barrels 100................©2

OATMEAL.

 

22
27
35

ROLLED OATS.

Half  bbls 90.................   ©3 ^

PICKLES.
Medium.

Small.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........(6 00
Half  barrels, 600 count....  3 50 
7 00
Barrels, 2,400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 
4 00
Clay, No.  216............................ 7 76
Cob, No. 8.................................j 26

w  Di fnl1 count...........  75

PIPES.

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s ........................ 
Penna Salt  Co.’s............ I  825
BOOT BEER
Williams,  per doz.............   1 75
3 aoz. case......... e  00

« 

4 00

RICE.

Domestic.
Carolina head........... 

«
::  N0 .1 ................. in;?
No. 2...............   © 4
.............................   834

Broken.
Imported.
Japan, No. 1............ 
a
r‘  No.2............ 1.II.......git
Java................................*   5 *
Patna.

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

Allspice............................  7o
Cassia, China In mats.!.’"."  8 
“  Batavia In bund.!.’.75
Saigon In rolls........35
Cloves,  Amboyna.........  
22
Zanzibar......... .." 1 3
Mace  Batavia......... 
'"¿o
Nutmegs, fancy......... IIIII !«0
No.  1........... 
75
No.2 .................I*«»
-- 
Pepper, Singapore, black...! 75
v  1 
white...  .25 
shot........................

•1 
Pure Ground in Bulk.

Pepper, Singapore, black.... 20
“  white......30
Cayenne...........25
Sage.....................................20

“ 
“Absolute” In Packages.

, 

34» 

34s
Allspice............ ...........  84 1 56
Cinnamon....................   84 1 55
Cloves...........................  84 1 55
Ginger, Jam .................   84 1 55
“  Af....................   84 1 55
Mustard........................  84 1 55
Pepper.........................  84 155
Sage..............................  84

Kegs.  . .......  
734
Granulated, boxes..............  734

 

SAL  SODA.
 

 

SEEDS.

Anise ........................  @723<
Canary, Smyrna......... 
Caraway....................  
Cardamon, Malabar... 
Hemp,  Russian.........  
Mixed  Bird................ 
Mustard,  white.........  
Poppy.........................  
Rape..........................  
Cuttle  bone................ 

0
8
90
434
434
6
9
e
so

STARCH.
Corn.

“ 

“ 

SODA.

20-lb  boxes...................... 
e
«Wb 
.........................!  54£
Gloss.
1-lb packages.......................   534
....................... g
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  434
...........................4S
SNUTP.
Scotch, In  bladders.............37
Maccaboy, In jars................35
French Rappee, In Jars...... 43
Boxes....................................63-
Kegs, English...................... !4*
100 3-lb. sacks..........................62 25
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks..........................7 85
9014-Ib.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases...........................  7 ¡¡0
56 lb. dairy In linen  bags 
98ib.  » 
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags..
28 lb.  “ 
I
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks. 

salt.
 
 
drill
Warsaw.

2 00
2 25
32 
18

Ashton.

« 

“

 

75

Higgins.

56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks 

Solar Rock.

©5 50

 

56 1b.  sacks.................. 
Common Fine.

Saginaw..........................  
Manistee.......................... 
Packed 60 lbs. in box.

SALERATUS.

75
27

80
85

Church’s ..........................  13 30
DeLand’s ...............................  3 75
Dwight’s .................................. 3 30
Taylor’s....................................3 00

SOAP.
LAUNDRY.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

Old Country,  80  1-lb...........3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb.............. 3 go
White Borax, 100  4£-lb........3 60
Concord............................. ... 80
Ivory, 10  oz......................... 6 75
6  oz...........................4 00
T  “ 
Mottled  German..............  3  15
Town Talk...........................3 00

SCOURING AND POLISHING.
“ 

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

„

SUGAR.
Cut  Loaf.................
©  6 
Cubes...................
© 534 @ 6 
Powdered XXXX__
“ Standard.. 
©  534
Granulated, medium..5.31© 8J4
„   _ “ 
fine......... 5.31© 594
Confectioners’ A...... 5.18© 5V
Soft A.........................  ©4 94
White Extra C...........  @ 4*
Extra  C......................  © 4^
............   434© 434
Golden
■...........  @4
© 3X
Yellow
Less than  bbls.  34c advance

Corn.

Pure Cane..........

8YRUPS.
_ 
Barrels.......................  
0«
Half bbls.......................""..28
_  
F air............................ 
19
Good................... 
........   *
Choice.......................*.'........   30
Ginger Snaps......... .
Sugar Creams.........
Frosted Creams......
Graham Crackers..!
Oatmeal Crackers...
VINEGAR.
„  
« 8T............................. 7  ©8
50g r.... 
..................8  ©9

88
98V4

8WEST GOODS.

834

81 for barrel.
WET  MUSTARD.

Bulk, per gal  ................... 
30
Beer mag, 2 doz In case...  1  75
Magic, per box.....................  00
Warners  “ 
...........j qq
Yeast Foam, per box.!!!. 1117 00

6
534
©834

1634
434

79
¡4
73

flavoring extracts. 

2 oz folding bo:
3 oz 
4 oz 
6 oz 
8 oz 

...2 00 

Jennings’ D C.
Lemon. Vanilla
75 
1  25
“
1  50
...1   00 
«
...1  50 
2  00
“
3 00
“
...3 00
4 00
Gunpowder.
“  .H kegs...... I  2 75
“ 
„  Crack Shot, kegs . .5 00
.34 kegs 2 75
„  Club Sporting  “  6 00

Austin’s Rifle, kegs......... 5 00

_   .  “ 

34

Allspice.............................  j
Cassia,  Batavia...... IIIIIIH20
„ “ 
and  Saigon!25
Saigon.................. ..
_  
Cloves,  Amboyna................jq
Zanzibar___ 
I IlflO
er, African....................
Cochin..............I! '78
“ 
Jamaica...........  '  ap
Mace  Batavia.....................!8u
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste.  25 
Trieste...................27
3 95  Nutmegs, No. 2 IllllllllllH ae

■ 

-  _. mm

>>  a 
" 

... 
_ 
'  V 

V  h 
* 

*  •«* 

*  i t

» 

a 

i 

V 

S 

j  

TEAS.

ja p a n —R e g u lar.

F air............................  @17
Good..........................   @20
Choice............................24  @28
Choicest.........................32  @34
Dust.............................10  @12

SUN CURED.

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

BASKET  FIRED.

E*1* ............................... 18 @20
Choice..........................  @25
Choicest......................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40

SUN70WDER.

Common to fair..........26  @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

oolons. 

IMPERIAL.

Y0UN8 HYSON.

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

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

** 

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

38
24
39
29

Plug.

 

Kylo............................ 
Hiawatha.................... 
Valley City................ 
Flnzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty............. 
Jolly Tar..................... 

22
38
34
40
32

Middleton’s Brands.

28
Here It Is................... 
Old Style....................  
3i
Jas. Q. Butler  &  Co.’s Brands.
Something Good.................... 38
Toss Up................................. ‘26
Out of Sight........................... 25
HIDES,  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 

lows,  prices nominal:

HIDES.
...................2)4@3)4
Part Cured.................  @
 
@4)4
g* r...............................    @  5
Kips, green  ................. 2)4@ 3)4
“  cured.................  @ 4)4
Calfskins,  green........  4  @ 5
cured........  @ 7
Deacon skins...............io  @30

" 

“ 

 

No. 2 hides % off.
PELTS.

WOOL.

......................25  @  90

Shearlings..................io  @25
Lambs 
Washed.....................20  @23
Unwashed  .......___ io  @20
Tallow.......................  3V4@ 3*
Grease butter  ...........  l  @2
Switches....................  i£@  2
Ginseng......................2 00@2 65
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF'S

MISCELLANEOUS.

WHEAT.

MEAL.

69 
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
69
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test) 
Bolted...  ...... .................  
i  40
Granulated....................... 
i  70
FLOUR.
Straight, In  sacks............   4 20
barrels...........  4 40
Patent
sacks............   5 20
barrels...........  5 40
Graham
sacks...........  2 00
Rye
2 30

“ 

 

 

KILLSTUFFS.

Less

Car lots  quantity

$15 00
15 50
16 50
21 00
21 00

Bran............... 814  00 
Screenings ....  15  00 
Middlings......  16  00 
MixedFeed...  20  50 
Coarse meal  ..  20  50 
Car  lots............................... 52
Less than  car  lots..............54
Car  lots............................... 33
Less than car lots................40

CORN.

OATS.

New oats, 2c less.

HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__10 00
No. 1 
ton lots  ...... 12 00

“ 

FISH and  OTSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whltefish 
.................  8  @ 9
T rout........................... 8  @ 9
Halibut.......................  @15
Ciscoes or Herring__5  @6
Blueflsh.......................11  @12
Fresh lobster, per lb__ 
Soft crabs, per d o z ........ 
Shrimp, per gal............  
Cod..............................10
No. 1 Pickerel............   @8
@ 7
Smoked  White...........
oysters—Cans.

20
1  00
1  25

11 

OIL».

SHELL  OOODS.

Fairhaven  Counts__
@40
F. J. D.  Selects.........
@35
Selects .......................
@27
Anchor....................... ............
@25
Standards...................  @220
Oysters, per  100  ........1  25@1  50
........1 Q0@i  25
Clams. 
The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes 
as  follows,  In barrels,  f. o.  b. 
Grand Rapids:
Eocene......................... 
Water White, old test. 
W.  W.  Headlight, 150°
Water  White  ...........
Naptha.......................
Stove Gasoline...........
Cylinder.................... 27
E ngine............... ....13
Black. 25 to 30 deg__

8)4
<a s 
@  634 
@ 7 
@ 6% 
@36 
@21 
@ 7)4

“ 

FRESH  HEATS.
Swift & Company quote 
lows:
Beef, carcass................5
“  hindquarters...  6 
fore 
...  3
“ 
loins,  No.  3...  9
“ 
ribs.................   7
“ 
“ 
rounds............ 5
Bologna......................
Pork loins...................
........
Sausage, blood or head
liv er.............
Frankfort__
Mutton  ........................7
Veal..............................6

shoulders 

“ 
“ 

“ 

as fol-
@ 6 
@  6)4 @ 3)4 
@  9)4 @ 8 
@ 5)4 
@ 4)« @  9 
@ 7 
@  4)4 

@  4)4 @ 7 @ 8 

@ 7

POULTRY
Local dealers pay as  follows
DRESSED.
Fowl.........................
@ 9
Turkeys....................
@12
Ducks  ......................
@12
Chickens,................. 10 @11
Fowls........................ 7 @8
Turkeys.................... 11 @12
Spring Duck............ 10 @11

LIVE.

JOBBER  OF

F.  J.  D ETTEN TH A LER
gRANDI OYSTERS
POULTRY i   GAME

SALT  FISH

Mall Orders Receive Prompt  Attention. 

See quotations in another column

CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL  KINDS  OF  POULTRY AND  GAME  SOLICITED.

TELFER  SPICE  COMPANY,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

S p ic e s  a n d   B a k in g   P o w d e r ,  a n d   J o b b ers  of 

T ea s, C offees a n d   G rocers'  S u n d ries.

1 and 8 Pearl  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS

M OSELEY  BROS.,

-   WHOLESALE -

FRUITS.  SEEDS,  BEANS  AND  PRODDGE,

2 6 ,2 8 ,3 0  & 32 OTTAWA  ST.,
d

  P t a / o i c i s ,   M i o l a .

.

G

r a n

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T H A D E 9 M A \ .

18

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guarantee of the genuine a r­
ticle.

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Sold  in  this  market  tor the  past  Fifteen  Years.

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

JOHN  SMYTH,  A p t, Grani  Rapida, Mich,

Telephone 566.

106  Kent St.

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on  every  package, as  it  Is  a 
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SOCIETIES
CLUBS
CONVENTIONS
DELEGATES
COMMITTEES

Julius Berkey, Pres. 

S. S. Gay, Vice-Pres.  Wm. M6Bain, Sec’y. 

The Largest Assortment of Ribbons 
and Trimmings in the  State.

THE  TRADESMAN  CO.
Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,
BRUSHES.

J. D. M. Shirts, Treas.

M anufacturers of

O ur goods are sold by all Michigan  Jobbing' Houses.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

HAVE  AN  ORIGINAL  DESIGN 

tionery.  It don’t cost much.

W rite  to THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  They Do It.

THE P & B BEAND

Will  again this  year, as in the  past,  be the very best  procurable  and  packed daily 
from the sweetest  and  best  stock.  Regular  season opens  Sept.  15.  Start in with 
us and do the Oyster business of your town.

THE  PUTNAM  CANDY  OO.

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

1 4
DR. SOETBEER’S MONETARY SCHEME
Three  weeks  ago I commented  briefly 
npon a synopsis  transmitted  by cable of 
a  scheme  proposed  by  the  learned  Dr. 
Adolph Soetbeer,  of Vienna, for increas­
ing the use of silver as money by  substi­
tuting coins of  that metal in the place of 
the gold  coins  now in  circulation below 
the value of two dollars each. 
I pointed 
out that no  gold  coins  smaller  than the 
French ten franc piece, worth  about two 
dollars, were in use anywhere in Europe, 
and  expressed  my  inability  to  compre­
hend what  Dr.  Soetbeer  was aiming  at. 
Since  then 1 have  learned  from  foreign 
newspapers  and from a copy of Dr. Soet- 
beer’s  own  “Memorandum”  that  the 
cable synopsis of  his  plan  was incorrect 
in putting the  minimum  he proposes for 
gold coins at 2.8 grammes, whereas it is 5.8 
grammes, or  nearly  double  the  amount. 
The first effect of  the measure, if  adopt­
ed,  would, therefore, be  to retire all  the 
ten franc, ten  mark, half  sovereign and 
$2.50 gold pieces  now  outstanding, leav­
ing only the pieces  of  twice  their  value 
and  upward.  Dr.  Soetbeer  would also 
have all the  existing  silver  coins  above 
the value of twenty or  twenty-five  cents 
called in  and melted up, and  their place 
supplied  by  new  ones  coined  upon  the 
ratio of 20 to 1.  With commendable can­
dor he acknowledges that the idea under­
lying his scheme is not original with him, 
but was  suggested  in  1881  by Bank Di­
rector Moritz  Levy, the  Danish  delegate 
to the Paris Monetary Conference of that 
year, in a paper prepared by him  for the 
Conference, and  that  it  was  again  put 
forth the  following  year  by  Herr  Dec- 
President of  the Imperial  Bank of 
Germany,  in an article  published anony­
mously in a German newspaper.

The new silver  coins  with  which  Dr. 
Soetbeer  proposes 
to  fill  the  vacuum 
created by the withdrawal of the present 
small gold  and  the  old  silver  coins, he 
would have coined, as I have said, at the 
new ratio of  20 to 1 instead of  the  pres­
ent ratios of 15>£ to 1 in Europe and 16 to 
1 in this country.  He  would  have them 
made a  legal  tender  among  individuals 
and  private  corporations  up  to  three 
times the value of  the smallest gold coin 
permitted under the  new system, but re­
ceivable to an  unlimited  amount  by the 
Government. 
In  order to  avoid the ne­
cessity of carrying them around in bulky 
and  heavy  quantities,  he  suggests  the 
issue of certificates representing  them in 
denominations of  not  less than  the  half 
of  the  value  of  the smallest  permitted 
gold coin, and  possessing the  same legal 
tender quality  as  the  actual silver coin. 
The current small  change  he would  not 
disturb.

Dr.  Soetbeer  frankly  concedes  at the 
outset  that  bimetallism  is dead,  and  a 
part of  his scheme  is  the  establishment 
of a common unit of gold as the standard 
of money  value.  He  even  says that  no 
European  Government  would  join  in  a 
conference  called  for no  other  purpose 
than to consider bimetallism.  Fortunate­
ly  President  Harrison, in convening  the 
Monetary Conference, shortly to be held, 
has  suggested  the  new  topic  simply of 
increasing  the  use  of  silver  as money, 
and  this topic Dr. Soetbeer expects to be 
respectfully considered.  The leaders  of 
both  political  parties  in  Great  Britain 
have  pronounced  against  bimetallism. 
Germany is  equally opposed to it  Aus­
tria  has  just  adopted  the  single  gold 
standard, the  Latin  Union has  long ago 
abandoned silver in  practice, though not

in theory,  and the recent defeat of free sil­
ver coinage in our Congress shows that this 
country, too,  will  adhere  to  gold.  All 
that is possible is to prevent  silver  from 
being still more  depreciated  than it  now 
is, and it is to aid  in  accomplishing this 
result that Dr. Soetbeer has prepared his 
“Memorandum.”

that 

Should his  scheme  be  adopted by  the 
leading  nations  of  Europe  and  by  thé 
United  States,  Dr.  Soetbeer  computes 
that it would result in adding to the bank 
reserves of  the  commercial  world  600,- 
000  kilogrammes  of  gold,  worth  about 
$400,000,000, and  in  the  employment in 
its place as  currency of  a corresponding 
quantity  of  silver,  which,  at  the  pro­
posed  new  ratio  of  20  to  l, would  be 
about  400,000,000  ounces.  By  thus  in­
creasing the gold  reserves  of  the banks 
and  simultaneously  decreasing  the sur­
plus stock of  silver  pouring on the mar­
ket, the relative  value of silver  to  gold, 
he  thinks,  would  be  increased,  or  at 
least, 
the  evils  resulting  from 
its  further  depreciation  would  be  pre­
vented.  That  he has no hope of  restor­
ing it to its ancient position is plain from 
his  suggestion that  the new  ratio he es­
tablished at 20 of  silver to 1 of gold, and 
even this he  is  willing  to  have reduced.
An obvious  objection  to the plan, and 
one  to  which  I  find  no  answer  in  Dr. 
Soetbeer’s  “Memorandum,”  is  that  the 
effect  it  would  produce  would  be only 
temporary.  When  once 
the  existing 
stock of small  gold  coins had been gath­
ered in and stored  away  in  bank  vaults 
no more would remain to be drawn upon, 
and when  once  the channels of  circula­
tion had been filled by  the proposed new 
silver  coinage  and  silver  certificates, 
this  means 
employment 
the  surplus  silver  mined  would 
of 
be 
exhausted,  and 
the  downward 
course of  the value  of  the  metal  would 
recommence.  This  being  so, I  fail  to 
see the inducement to  take  the immense 
trouble  required;  first, to  win  over  the 
Governments  whose  co-operation  is  es­
sential to the success of the scheme;  and, 
then, to execute it in detail.  As Samuel 
Weller’s boy said of  learning  the  alpha­
bet:  It  is  hardly  worth  while  to  go 
through so much to get so little.

the 

for 

Even if  the  decline  in silver could be 
arrested permanently  by  Dr.  Soetbeer’s 
plan, or by any  other, and  the  value  of 
the metal, as  compared  with  gold, were 
fixed at somewhere  near 20  to 1, or 24 to 
1, or whatever might  be decided  on, the 
result would  fail to content  those whose 
interests demand  the  restoration  of  the 
old  order of  things.  The  outcry  in be­
half of  silver  money  comes chiefly from 
the Western and Southwestern citizens of 
this  country  who  want  a  cheap  dollar 
with which to  pay  their debts, and from 
the British  residents  in India, and  own­
ers  of  property  there,  whose  incomes 
have been  diminished  by  the decline  in 
the rupee. 
If  the gold  standard  is still 
to  be  maintained  in  Europe  and  in  the 
United States and the ratio  of  silver re­
duced  to  20  to  1, as  Dr. Soetbeer  pro­
poses, these people will  still  be dissatis­
fied.

It will be said, probably by Dr. Soetbeer 
and  by  the other advocates of the use of 
silver  money, that  gold  alone  does  not 
furnish  enough  currency,  and  that  it 
must therefore  be supplemented  by  sil­
ver in order to avoid the evils of a money 
stringency.  The prices  of  commodities 
being regulated  by  the  volume  of  cur­
rency in  circulation, they  are  low when

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co. 

qnotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

LARD.

Mess,  new....................................................   12 25
Short c u t.....................................................   14 50
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  ,5 50
Extra clear, heavy......................................
Clear, fat  back....................................................  15  50
Boston clear, short cut................................  15 50
Clear back, short cut...................................   15 50
Standard clear, short cut, best................. 
15 50
Pork Sausage...................................................7 ¡4
Ham Sausage..................................................9
Tongue Sausage..............................................9
Frankfort Sausage  ........................................   7*
Blood Sausage......................................................  5
Bologna, straight................................................  6
Bologna,  thick................................................5
Headcheese.........................................................5

sausaox—Fresh and Smoked.

7 *

BEEP  IN  BARRELS.

Family.6*
6*

Com­
pound.6
8*6*6»
7*

Kettle
Rendered.  Granger.
8*s*
Tierces........8M
501b. T ins...9 
201b. Palls..  9* 
9
10 lb.  “ 
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51b. 
..  9%
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31b. 
..  9*
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Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.....................   6 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................6 50
Boneless, rump butts.....................................  9 50
Hams, average 20 lbs.......................................12
16 lbs...................................... 12J4
12 to 14 lbs............................... 1214
picnic...................................................  9
best boneless...................................... .  814
Shoulders........................................................  814
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..............................io \
Dried beef, ham prices...................................  9
Long Clears, heavy.........................................
Briskets,  medium.  ........................................
light................................................

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

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CANDIES, FRUITS and  NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDT.

Cases. 

Standard,  per lb..................................614 
“  H.H........................................614 
“  Twist  .................................... 614 

Boston  Cream .............................814
Cut  Loaf...........................................  
Extra H.  H...............................  814

Bbls.  Palls.
714
714
714
814

MIXED  CANDT.

 

 

 

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Palls.
Bbls. 
Standard........................................6 
7
Leader................................ 
6 
7
Koval............................................ 614 
714
Nobby......................................... ..7  
8
English  Rock................................7 
8
Conserves......................................7 
8
Broken Taffy....................baskets 
8
Peanut Squares.................. 
“  8 
9
French Creams.............................  
10
Valley  Creams.............................  
13
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.....................................  8
Modern, 10 lb. 
g
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,  . 
Palls.
printed........................................... u
Chocolate Drops............................................
Chocolate Monumentals.............................    13
Gum Drops....................................................   5^
Moss Drops....................................................   8
Sour Drops.....................................................  814
Imperials.......................................................   10
Per Box
Lemon Drops.................................................. ..
Sour Drops...... ............................................ "55
Peppermint Drops.........................................“ go
Chocolate Drops............................................. !e5
H. M. Chocolate Drops..........................  
" *  90
Gum Drops............................................. .'.40@50
Licorice Drops...............................................  00
A. B. Licorice  Drops................................. “ ..go
Lozenges, plain............................................. “ go
printed........................................."(g
Imperials......................................................   'go
Mottoes................................................*” ‘ " “ 70
Cream Bar...................................................*.*” 55
Molasses Bar......................................... ” .".'."55
Hand Made Creams.............................    ’ "¿5@95
Plain Creams............................................ .‘80I&90
Decorated Creams.................................  
String  Rock.....................................................65
Burnt Almonds................................. 
Wlntergreen  Berries..................................."..60
CARAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes................... 
34
 
No.l, 
si
No. 2, 
28
 
No. 3. 
........................;  42
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes...................................   go
Small......................................................
Medium......................................................"l  50@1 75
*rKe................................ 
Californias, 9 6 .................................... 
126...............................;....
150  ....................................
Messinas, choice  200.............................  
160.............................
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BANANAS.

ORANGES.

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LEMONS.

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Messina, choice, 360.........................
fancy, 360......................
choice 300.........................
fancy 390  Maloris............ .
OTHER  PORE ION  PRUITS.
Figs, fancy  layers, 61b.......................
“  10B>.................
“ 
I4fi>.......................
“  201b......................
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box......................
......................
Persian, 50-lb.  box.................

“ 
extra 
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NUTS.

“ 
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Almonds, Tarragona.
Ivaca.........
California.
Braslls, new..............
Filberts.................... .

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Walnuts, Grenoble.................................
@14'/, 
“  Marbot.....................................
© 
Chill.........................................
" 
@10 
Table Nuts,  fancy.................................
@13 *  
choice..............................
@1254 
Pecans, Texas, H.  P .,...........................12
©14 
Cocoanuts, full sacks............................
©4 00
Fancy, H.  P., Suns.................................
© 5* 
“  Roasted....................
©  7* © 5J4 
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............................
“  Roasted...................
© 714 
Choice, H. P., Extras............................
© 4*
**  Roasted.................
© 614 
California Walnuts...............................
12*
C ro ck ery  & G la ssw a r e

PEANUTS.

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Pints.......................................
Quarts.....................................
Half Gallons.........................  ,
Caps........................................
Rubbers..................................

LAMP  BURNERS.

Pearl top.

6 doz. In box.

First quality.
“ 
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No. 0 Sun..............................................
No. 1  “  ...............................................
No. 2  “  ...............................................
Tubular................................................
LAMP  CHIMNETB.—Per bo x . 
No. 0 Sun...............................................
No. 1  “  ...............................................
No. 2  “  ...............................................
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top............................
............................
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  »■ 
“  ............................
No. 0 Sun, crimp top............................
No. 1  “ 
............................
No. 2  “ 
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No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.........
'r  
No. 2  “ 
..........
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
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No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.............
No. 2  “ 
.............
No. 1 crimp, per doz.............................
No. 2  “ 
.............................
No. 0,’per gross....................................
No. 1, 
......................................
No. 2, 
.................................
No. 3, 
.....................................
Mammoth, per doz...............................
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 and 6 gal__■.............
Jugs, *  gal., per doz............................
•  1 
•• 
.......................
*  2  *• 
............................
Milk Pans, *  gal., per  doz...................
glazed  ....
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LAMP WICKS.

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2 75 
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75
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.2 70
.2 25 
.2 40 
.3 40
.2 60
2 80 
.3 80
.3 70 
4 70 
.4 88
1  25 
.1  50 
.1  35 
.1  60
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...  28 
..  38 
...  75 
...  75
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1  80 
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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,

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that volume is scanty and high when it is 
full.  Waiving  the  discussion  of  the 
question whether  low  prices  are a curse 
and high  prices a blessing, it  is  enough 
to say that the volume of  a currency can 
be increased  as  well  by  the  addition of 
paper  money, the  value of  which is de­
rived from its prompt redemption in gold 
on  demand, as  by  silver  coin  which  is 
maintained at  par  with gold only by be­
ing redeemable, like paper, in gold at the 
will  of  the  holder.  For  example,  we 
have  in  this  country  at  this  moment 
about $800,000,000 of paper money in use 
in the shape of greenbacks, silver  certifi 
cates, and coin  notes  issued for the pur 
chase of  silver  bullion  under the act  of 
July, 1890.  This mass of currency is  re 
deemable  either  in  silver  or  in gold at 
the pleasure of our Government.  So far 
the Government  has  redeemed it in gold 
on  presentation,  and,  therefore,  it 
is 
accepted  as  equal  to gold.  If the  Gov 
ernment were  to refuse  thus  to redeem 
it, it  would sink  at  once to  the-level  of 
its bullion value as silver, whatever that 
value  might  be.  If, too,  while  the  re 
demption  in  gold  continued  the  whole 
mass of  silver in the Government  vaults 
were  to  vanish  into  smoke  and  blow 
away, leaving  only  the  gold  there, the 
value of  the  paper would  remain unim­
paired. 
It  is the gold  held  by the Gov­
ernment and the  faith  that  the  Govern­
ment will  maintain  gold  payments that 
makes our paper  money as good as gold, 
and not the silver in the Treasury.

What  this  country  is doing any other 
civilized country can do likewise.  Paper 
money redeemable on demand  in gold  is 
made no more valuable and adds no more 
to 
the  volume  of  currency  by  being 
issued against  silver  than if  it is issued 
on its  own merits.  The security  appar­
ently  offered  by  the  silver  is  illusory, 
since if  an  attempt  were  to  be made to 
sell that silver in  any large  quantity for 
gold it would  either  produce  a panic in 
the  money  market  or else  could not  be 
sold at all.  There is  only  so much gold 
in  existence,  and  swapping  1,000,000 
ounces of silver for, say 40,000 ounces of 
gold, would not  increase the stock.  For 
pocket money, silver  coins  may be more 
convenient than  paper, but,  then, nickel 
coins  would  answer  the  same  purpose 
and cost much less.

The more the subject is considered and 
all the facts  connected  with it are taken 
into account, the plainer  it becomes that 
the career  of  silver  as a precious  metal 
is  approaching  its  end.  The  forces  of 
both nature and of  civilization are tend­
ing to  this result.  The  world’s  annual 
production  of  silver  has  increased  by 
over 50  per  cent,  within  the  last  eight 
years, or  from  80,000,000  ounces in 1884 
to 128,000,000 in 1890 and a little more in 
1891, and it  goes  on  increasing.  Every 
day the cost of producing it is cheapened 
and  new  supplies of  it discovered.  On 
the other hand, its place  in  the arts  has 
been  largely  filled  by  nickel and alum­
inium and  their  alloys, and its manufac­
turing consumption is therefore reduced. 
How paper money  has  supplanted  it  in 
the  currency  is  evident  from  the  fact 
that tons upon tons of  coined  silver dol­
lars  lie  stored  away  in  our  Treasury 
vaults  because  they  are  not wanted for 
use, and are not  available, like gold, for 
the redemption of paper and for the pay­
ment of  debts in  foreign countries.  Sil­
ver  is  going  the  way  of  sailing ships, 
canal boats, homespun  cloth, hand-made 
nails  and  other  old-fashioned  contriv­

ances.  Possibly,  too,  gold  will  suffer 
the same  fate  after a time,  for  it  is  by 
no  means a  perfect  standard  of  value, 
and only keeps  its pre-eminence because 
nothing  more  nearly  perfect  has  been 
found to  displace it.  But at  present we 
shall have to stick to  gold in spite of  its 
imperfection,  and  certainly we shall not 
surrender it for silver.

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

Value  of  the  Registry  System  in  Mall 

Matter.

From Business.
When  business  men  remit  money  or 
have  valuable  documents  to  forward 
they frequently resort to the registration 
system  offered  by the  Postoffice Depart­
ment.  Letters  sent  registered  go  in 
special  pouches  from  one  office  to  an­
other and are  duly  recorded at  different 
points, but  the Government  does not in­
sure  delivery,  and  the  one  who  sends 
mail under  these  conditions  simply  has 
the  advantage  afforded  by a little  more 
system and a little more  emphasis of the 
fact that the  package  is valuable and  is 
being  watched.  Again, if  a  registered 
letter is lost  there  is a better  chance  of 
finding the person who is responsible for 
such loss, or  perhaps  the  criminal  who 
has  abstracted  its  contents, simply  be­
cause it was a marked  and  special piece 
of  mail matter.  The fact  that the prin­
cipal protection  afforded  by  the  system 
of  registration  is that  due  to  the letter 
being made more prominent has suggest­
ed to certain writers the idea of securing 
the prominence for  their  letters without 
paying  the  fee.  A  postal  thief  seldom 
has  a  confederate.  He  works  solitary 
and  alone, suspicious  of all around him. 
A partner  in crime  is not a safe partner 
to have. 
In case of  stress the partner is 
very apt to  turn  State’s  evidence.  The 
only safe plan, then, if  anything  can  be 
safe  under  the  circumstances  named, is 
to  proceed 
independently  and  alone. 
The postal  thief, knowing the danger of 
his position, is  always  on  guard  to pre­
vent detection.  He is  afraid of  marked 
bills, of  decoy letters, or  in  some  other 
manner  of  being  detected  in his nefari­
ous  operations.  A 
letter,  therefore, 
reaching  him  plainly  marked  to the ef­
fect that it contains  money  is not likely 
to be opened, it  may  be argued, simply 
because the marks which indicate to him 
that  money  is in the  letter have also in­
dicated the same fact to others, and some 
of these others know  that the letter is in 
his  possession  and  therefore  he  thinks 
they may  be  watching  him.  This  is  a 
rather  long  introduction  to  the  state­
ment of a fact we occasionally encounter 
of  late.  We  get  subscription  letters  in 
which  money is enclosed  having  across 
the face in red ink a memorandum of the 
amount,  or  the  statement  that  there  is 
money  enclosed,  in  some  instances  ac­
companied by the  signature and  address 
of  the  sender.  Such  a  letter  going 
through the mails, it  must  be  admitted, 
is  very  thoroughly  marked, and  would 
scarcely be abstracted by an  experienced 
mail thief,  for  bold indeed would be the 
man who could  put  such a thing  out  of 
the way without  feeling  that  there  was 
an  excellent chance of  the marked pack­
age being inquired after in a way to make 
it uncomfortable for him.

Wants to Sell Peanuts.

Some enterprising individual has offered 
the world’s  fair  authorities  $120,000 for 
the exclusive privilege of selling peanuts 
on the  grounds. 
It  is  said  that this  is 
the highest cash offer made for  any priv­
ilege, and the committee  thought the bid 
so high  that  they  refused to entertain it 
until  they could  satisfy  themselves that 
it was  a  bona  fide  thing.  At 5 cents  a 
bag for his goobers this speculator would 
have to sell 2,400,000 bags before he could 
get his  bonus  money back.  Even  at  50 
per  cent,  profit, which  includes  his  ex­
penses  for  hiring peanut  purveyors and 
the necessary outlay  for  roasting  appli­
ances, he would need to dispose of 5,000,- 
000  bags  to  start  even,  and  at  least 
double that  amount in order to get a fair 
return  for  the  risk  taken.  Assuming 
that 30,000,000 persons visit the grounds, 
he must expect one-third of  them to pat­
ronize his industry.

15

Grand  Rapids  ¿1 Indiana.
Schedule  in effect  July  3,1892.

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive from  Leave going 
North.
South. 
7.20 a m
0:60 a m 
For Traverse City A Mackinaw 
From  Kalamazoo  ......................   9:20 a m
2,00  pm
For Traverse City A Mackinaw 
1:60 p m 
For  Traverse  City......................  
4:15  pm
For Petoskey A Mackinaw.......  8:10 p m 
10:40 p m
From Chicago and  Kalamazoo.  8:35 p m
7:20 am
For Saginaw..................................  
ForJSaginaw................................... 
4;15pm
Train arriving from  south at 6:50 am  and departing 
north at 7:20  a m  daily;  all other  trains  daily  except 
Sunday.

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

Arrive from  Leave going

. 

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North. 

_  
For  Cincinnati.............................   0:20 a m 
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago... 
For Fort Wayne and the  East..  11:60 a m 
For  Cincinnati.............................   5:80 p m 
For  Chicago.................................... 10:40 p m 
From Saginaw...............................11:50 a m
From Saginaw.................................10:40 p m
Train arriving from the  north at 5:20 p m  and  leav­
ing south at 0:00 p. m, also train leaving south at 11:20 
p. m. run daily;  all other  trains  dally except Sunday.

South.
7:00 
10:05  a m
8:00 p m
0:00  p m
11:20 p m

a m

SLEEPING  A  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE.

NORTH

7; 20 a m train.—Parlor chair car Qr&nd 
Rapids to Traverse City  and  Grand  Rapids 
to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
55.00 p  in  train  has  parlor  car  Grand 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
10:40 p m  train.—Sleeping  car  Grand
______   Rapids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw.
SOUTH—7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
10:05 am   train.—Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
6:00  p  m train.—Wagner Sleeping  Car 
Grand  Rapids to Cincinnati.
11;20 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car 
Grand Rapids to Chicago.

Chicago via Q. R. & I. R. R.

10:05 a m 
3:36 p m  

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

11:20 p m 
6.50am
10:05 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.
11:20 p m train daily, through Wagner  Sleeping Car. 
10:10pm
0:50  am
10:10p  m 

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

2:00 p m 
9:00 p m  

7:05am 
1:50 pm 

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
0:56  am  
10:00&m
4:40 pm
11:25 am  
9:05 p m
5:30 p m 

From Muskegon—Arrive.

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, 07 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

CHICAGO

JUNE  17,  1892.
AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’Y.

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Lv.GK’D RAPIDS........ 9:05am  1:35pm *11:36pm
Ar. CHICAGO...............3:35pm  6:45pm  *7:05am

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. CHICAGO...............7:05«m  5:25pm  *11:15pm
Ar.  GR’D RAPIDS.......3:55pm  10:35pm  *7:05am

INDIANAPOLIS.

TO AND PROM MUSKEGON.

TRAVERSE CITY, CHARLEVOIX A PETOSKEY.

GRAND RAPIDS AND CHICAGO.
Via St. Joe and Steamer.
Lv Grand Rapids...................  1:35pm 
t  6:30pm
Ar  Chicago  ...........................  8:30pm 
2:00am
Lv Chicago............................   9:30am 
9:30am
5:20pm
Ar Grand R apids.....................5:20pm 
TO  AND  PROM  BENTON  HARBOR, ST  JOSEPH  AND 
Lv. G  R ............9:05am  l:35pmt6:30pm  *11:35pm
Ar.  G R  ..........*6:10am  145pm  5:20pm  10:35pm
Lv.  G. R ........................  8:40am  5:40pm 
............
Ar.  G.  R .......  ..............10:45am  145pm  5:20pm
Lv. G  R ..........*7:30am 2:10pm  5:35pm  11:15pm
Ar.  T  C.......... 12:15pm 6:45pm  10:55pm 
4:40am
7:00am
......... 
Ar. Chl’oix... *2:27pm  8:50pm 
Ar. Pet’y .......*2:57pm  9:2Cpm 
......... 
7:2Cam
Ar. B  V’w — *3‘10pm  9:25pm 
......... 
7:40am
Ar. from  Bay  View,  Petoskey,  etc.,  6:30  am, 
11:10 am, 1:15 pm, *9:45 pm.
TO AND FROM OTTAWA BEACH.
Lv. G R  .......... 8:40am 1:35pm  5:40pm 
A.r  G D .............8:06am 1:45pm 
Lv G R  ... 10:00am 

5:20pm  10:35pm
Lv Ottawa Beach 6:30 pm 
Wagner  Parlor Cars  Leave Grand  Rapids 1:35 
im, leave Chicago7:05 am, 5:25 pm ;  leave Grand 
Rapids  £7:30am, ;2:10 pm;  leave  Bay View 6:10 
am, *1:45 pm.
Wagner  Sleepers—Leave  Grand  Rapids *11:35 
pm;  leave  Chicago  *11:15  pm;  leave  Bay View 
tl0:15pm;  leave Grand  Rapids til :35 pm;  leave 
Ineianapolis via Big Four 7:00 pm.
»Every day.  tExcept Saturday.  ¿Except Mon­
day.  Other trains week days only.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

SUNDAY  TRAIN.

....

DETROIT,

JUNE  26,  1892
LANSING  &  NORTHERN  R.  R.
GOING TO  DETROIT.

Lv. G  R ....  7:20am  *2:00pm  5:40pm  *11:00pm 
Ar. DET —  11:40am  *5:56pm  10:35pm  *7:00am

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. DETROIT..............  7:50am *1:35pm  6:10pm
Ar. GR’D  RAPIDS......12:45pm *5:25pm 10:30pm

TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS.

Lv. GR 7:20am 4:15pm  Ar. GR.ll:50am 10:40pm

TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL A HASTINGS R. R.

Lv. Grand Rapids...........  7:20am 2:00pm 5:40pm
Ar. from Lowell..............12:45pm 5:25pm 7:00am

THROUGH  CAR SERVICE.

Parlor  Cars on all  day trains  between  Grand 
Rapids and  Detroit.  Wagner Sleepers  on  night 
trains.  Parlor cars to Saginaw on morning train. 

•Every day.  Other trains week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

0:00 am

_  
Detroit Express.................................... 7:00 am  
Mixed  ....................................................7:00am  
Day  Express........................................1:20 pm  
•Atlantic A Pacific Express..............   1:00pm 
New York Express............................... 5:40 p m 

DEPART.  ARRIVE
10:00 pm
4:30  pm
10:00 am
10:45 pm

•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. m.,  returning  leave  Detroit  4 :45 p. tr 
arrive in Grand Rapids 10 p. m.

Fred M. B r ig g s , Gen'l Agent. 86 Monroe St.
A. A l m q u js t , Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Geo. W. Mu n s o n , Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. 
O. W . R u g g l e s  G.P.  &  T. Agent..Chicago.
Detroit

GRANDHAVEN TIME  TABLE

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

Trains Leave *No.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18|*No.  82
Lv. Chicago__
Lv. Milwaukee. 
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St.  Johns  ...Ar
Owossj........ Ar
E. Saginaw..Ar
Bay City......Ar
F lin t...........Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit......... Ar

7 30pm
8 30pm
6 50am
7 45am
8 30am
9 05am
10 45am
11 30am
10 05am
12 05pm
10 53am
11 50am
WESTWARD.

10 20am
11 25am
12 17pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm 
3 45pm 
6 00pm
3 05pm
4 05pm

12 05t>m 
1 18am
2 14am
3 05am
6 4oam
7 15am
5 40am 
7 30am
4 57am
6 00am

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
ó 05pm 
8 tOpm 
8 45pm
7 05pm
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

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

l*No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13 *No.  15
10 45pm
4 05pm
7 05am
10 20pm
8 35am
11 20pm 
6 30am

6  50am
1  00pm
2  10pm

10 50am
5 10pm
6 15pm 
6 30am 
6 00am

»Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 a. m. 
5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arrive  from  the west,  6:45  a  m,  10:10 
a. m., 3:15 p.m. and 11:55 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlcr  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward—No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
J ohn W. Lo u d, Traffic Manager.
B e n F letcher, Trav. Pass. Agent. 
J a s. Ca m pbell, City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street

IRTO,  IR1USE  i   GO,

JOBBERS  OF

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

13-14  LYON  ST.

GRAND  RAPIDS

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

JOBBERS  OF

Stated Agents for

158 &  160  fountain St., Grand  Rapids.

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

What to Do in Case of Loss by Fire.
In all  cases where a loss has  been sus­
tained  by  fire  it is the  duty  of  the  as­
sured to notify the  company  or its agent 
of  the fact.  There  is no specified  form 
required  in  giving  such  notice, and  all 
that is necessary  is  to  inform  the  com­
pany or its agents, by letter or otherwise, 
that the  property insured  by it has been 
destroyed or damaged by fire  upon a cer­
tain date, and the  more formal  proof  of 
loss  should  follow as soon  thereafter as 
reasonable  diligence will  admit.  Blank 
forms  for this  purpose, in all  cases, are 
furnished by the agents or adjusters.  It 
is customary, however, when a  company 
is  duly  informed  of  a  loss, to  send  an 
adjuster or special agent of the company 
to examine the property and  confer with 
the  assured, and  to  determine, if  possi­
ble, the  amount of  such  damage, and  if 
the assured and the adjuster can mutual­
ly agree upon the amount of damage sus­
tained.  No  further  proceedings  aré 
necessary, except to make out a proof  of 
loss in due  form, and the  amount agreed 
upon  becomes a debt, due  in  sixty  days 
from  the date  thereof, and  no  action  at 
law can  be  commenced for  its  payment 
until  the  sixty  days  have  expired.  In 
estimating the damage  in  this manner  it 
often  happens that  an  honest difference 
of  opinion  may  arise  between  the  ad­
juster  and  the  assured  as to the  actual 
amount of damage sustained.  Such cases 
more frequently arise  where  the  loss  is 
only  partial, and  the  property  may  be 
repaired  or  otherwise  restored  to  its 
original  value  for  a  sum  less  than  the 
amount  specified  in  the  policy. 
For 
instance,  in  the  case  of  machinery, the 
damage  may arise  almost  entirely  from

water, and  all  that is required to restore 
it to  its  original  value is to clean  it  up 
and repolish such parts as may be rusted. 
In  some cases  it may be  necessary to re­
move  it  to a machine shop  for  this pur­
pose,  and  perhaps  some  parts  may  be 
broken by the falling of timbers or other 
bodies  upon  them,  and  the  expense  of 
not  only  cleaning,  but  also  restoring 
those  broken parts  constitute  the  dam­
age, and  neither  the  assured or  the  ad­
juster  are,  as  a  rule,  as  competent  to 
correctly  estimate  such  damages  as  a 
practical  machinist. 
In  all  such  cases 
the  law protects  the assured  as  well  as 
the insurer,  and in all  insurance policies 
the following clause will  be found:  “In 
case a difference shall arise touching any 
loss  or damage, after  proof  thereof  has 
been  received  in  due  form, tbe  matter 
shall,  at  the  written  request  of  either 
party,  be  submitted  to  arbitrators,  in­
differently chosen, whose award, in writ­
ing, shall be binding on the  parties as to 
the amount of  such  loss  or  damage,  but 
shall not  decide the  liability of  the com­
pany under this policy.”  It will be seen 
that  this clause  limits  the  power of  the 
arbitrators  strictly to the  amount of  the 
loss or damage, without  any reference to 
the  merits of  the case whatever. 
It has 
been  held  by some authorities  that  the 
foregoing clause  does not  take  away the 
jurisdiction of  the  courts of  law in hav­
ing cognizance of  the  matter,  and would 
not be a bar to an action on the  policy to 
recover the loss,  but where an agreement 
is mutually entered  into by both  parties 
to submit  the  same  to  arbitration,  it  is 
very doubtful whether it would  not  be a 
bar to snch action, at  least while  the ar­
bitration is  pending, but  where  arbitra­

tion has been  had and  the award  agreed 
upon, there is no question but such award 
would be a bar to all further action under 
the policy,  and  the  amount  of  damages 
awarded  by  the appraisers would  in  all 
cases be final, unless it could  be made to 
appear that there was fraud  or  collusion 
on the  part  of  the  appraisers,  with  an 
intent to defraud. 
In  such  cases  appli­
cation  may be  made  by  either  party to 
the  court  by a bill  in  equity to  set  the 
appraisal  aside.  It  is  customary  in  all 
cases where arbitration is mutually agreed 
upon  for each  party  to  select a man  to 
act  for  him,  and  the  names  of  these 
parties  are  mentioned in the  agreement, 
and  that  both  parties  mutually agree to 
submit  tbe  case  to  them  and  abide  by 
their award.

It  is  quite  reasonable  to  expect  that 
the parties so  selected would  be  experts 
and  well  acquainted  with  the  value  of 
the property destroyed or damaged.  The 
contract also  provides  that  the  men  so 
chosen must  be  disinterested,  so  far as 
any  pecuniary  interest  is  concerned, 
either as  partners,  relatives or creditors, 
and  the  oath  which  each  takes  before 
entering upon his duties as appraiser not 
only includes the foregoing qualifications, 
but  they also swear that  they will  make 
a fair and honest appraisal of  the loss or 
damage  by fire, and  render a full  sched­
ule  of  such  property, giving  its  sound 
value before  the  fire and  the  amount of 
damage to each article  mentioned in said 
schedule.

The  contract  also  provides  ( unless 
waived  by  the  mutual  consent  of  all 
parties  for  the  present) that  before  the 
appraisers  enter upon  their duties  that 
they shall agree  upon a third  man to act

as umpire  between  them in cases of  dis­
agreement  only,  and  shonld  the  ap­
praisers fail to agree upon the amount of 
damage sustained  by  any  article  or  its 
cash value before the fire, in case of total 
loss, It must  be  referred to him, and  his 
decision  between  them  is  final  and, ac­
cording  to  the  conditions of  the  agree­
ment,  the  award, when  signed  by  them 
or any two of them, is binding upon both 
parties.

Notwithstanding all that has been said 
against  insurance  companies  and  their 
! adjusters, there is certainly no more fair 
and  equitable a manner  in  which  such 
cases  may  be  disposed  of.  The  talk 
about  insurance  companies  having  in 
their  employ a class of  men who  act  as 
appraisers  and  whose  business  it  is  to 
beat the  assured is all  nonsense.  There 
is no doubt  but the  companies select the 
most competent men  they can  find to act 
as  appraisers—men  who  are  experts  in 
the line of  goods to be  appraised—but it 
by  no  means  follows  that  because  the 
man selected  by them to act  in  their be­
half is an expert  that he is a rascal,  and, 
besides, the assured  has the same oppor­
tunity of selecting an expert also, and no 
matter  how well  he may be  posted  as to 
the  value  of  the  property  damaged  or 
destroyed, the  fact of  his  being  an  ex­
pert  does  not  constitute  him a rascal in 
either case or by auy means.
The  duties  of  the  appraisers  are  to 
make a fair and just estimate of  the loss 
and damage  sustained, and in nine  cases 
out of every ten the award is sufficient to 
cover the  loss, provided  it  is  within the 
amount specified in the policy, and if the 
appraisers  do  sometimes  err  in  their 
judgment,  it  is  just  as  liable  to  be  in 
favor of the assured as the insurer.

C.  R.  T om pkins.

SWARTOUT  &  DOWNS,

JOBBERS  OF

41  So.  D ivision  St., 
G ra n d   R apids, Mich.

W e   are  m aking  special  arrangem ents  to  sh o w   a  com plete  assortm ent  of  everything
in  our  line,  for  the  benefit  of  those  w h o   w ill  attend  the  fairs  here  n ext  w eek ,  and  to 
that  end  w e   solicit  the  inspection  of  the  trade.

HERCULES  POWDER

Stamp before a Mart. I Fragment» after a bleat.
STRONGEST and  SAFESfEXPLOSIVI
W DER, FUSE, CAPS.
E l e c t r i c  M i n i n g  G o o d s

K n o w n   t o   t l x e   A r t a .

AKD ALL TOOLS FOB STOMP 'BLASTING.

FOB  8ALB  BY  THE

HERCULES  POW DER  CO M PAN Y.
J . W .  W I L L A R D ,  M a n a g e r .

40 Prospect Street, Cleveland, Ohio. 

Agents  for

Western  Michigan.

WRITE  FOR  PRICES

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Dry  Goods, Carpets and Cloaks

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

M a c k in a w   S h irts  a n d   L u m b e r m e n ’s 
OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigt, HomolsfioiBr & co„48- M  %TPzi
GOLD  MEDAL

FINECUT

Is  a  W i n n e r .   D on't  forget  the

price,
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B a l l -Ba r n h a r t -P u t m a n   G o .
S p rin g  
Com pany,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

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

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

assorted stock at  lowest  market  prices.

S p rin g   & 

C.
MICHIGAN  BARK  & LUMBER  CO..

Successors  to

N.  B.  CM & Co.

We are now ready to make contract* for the season of  1883.  Correspondence solicited.

IS  and  19  W iddlcomb  Building:.

HPHESE  chests  will 

soon 
pay for themselves  in  the 
breakage they avoid.  Price 84.

will  save  enough  good-'  from  flies 
for themselves.  Try them and be convinced

o™

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

Price, 50 cents each.

N E W   N O V E L T I E 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.,
GRAND  RAPIDS.

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 

You  can take  your  choice

Best Flat Opening Blank Books

OF  TWO  OF  THE

In th e Market.  Cost no more than the Old Style Boohs.  W rite for prices.

GRAND  RAPIDS  BOOK  BINDING  CO.,

29-81  Canal  St., 

Grand  R apids, M ich.

OUR  FAMOUS  QUICK  SELLING  SPECIALTIES.

R e ta il«   fni»  119*1  This solid brass Lamp, nick- 
lUGiilp  u u iu lio   fu r  tpl.adi  el  plated, which  has always 
been  out of  reach of  the  ordinary  buyer, retailing  anywhere 
from  $2.50 to $3.50  each is now controlled  by us in such  quan­
tities  that  it  is  offered  to  the  retail  trade  at  above  figures. 
Dealers  can  make a good  profit.  Ask  for  quotations  on  oor 
No.  202  Nickel  Plated  P arlor  Lamp,  Umbrella  shades 
and holders to fit, retail for 35c each.

One Retail Dealer Reports the sale of 24 Barrels 

Vase  Lamps  1  Shades  S ^ S L S u g S a .““  w,°
Of  our assortments in August.  Our  lamps  are  positively the 
handsomest  for the  price ever  shown.  Prices  are 50 per cent, 
below last season, with much  more elaborate and  tasty decora­
tions.  Send for our price list and  lithographed sheets showing 
our lines in actual colors.

Mil  90  Cloptaip  Oil Heating  Stoves.  Greatly improved 
J i u .   &H  u l o u l l l b   for this season, shown with full  nickel 
trimmings, new and  simple wick  lift, and is the  only stove on 
the  market  that  can  be  operated  with  entire  freedom  from 
smoke or odor.  We are the excut-iveagents for Western Mich­
igan and can offer best factory discounts.

Write for special quotations.

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O ptai]  Dripp  $9  97  With  decorated,  14inch  Dome 
IVoIdil  rllu O ,  (pAiOii  Shade and  Fount to match.  One 
of our incomparable assortments as shown on our lithographed 
sheets.  We are  positively showing the  best value of  any lamp 
manufacturer this season, and  prices are  lower  than ever  be­
fore.  Heavy  and  strong  fixtures.  Send  for  our  sheets  and 
prices.  Send for catalogue No. 108.

.  1  „  Iff.  1  u *uuo  ru o i  uam ji  facturers’  skill  for  ot 
Our catalogue shows everything that  is  BBS 
in this line, and our  prices are guaranteed to be at the  botton 

STREET  LAMPS. 
BARN  LAMPS. 
MILL  LAMPS. 

HALL LAMPS.
LANTERNS.
HEADLIGHTS.

H .   L . E 303S T - A .R ,r )   <&,  S O I S T S .

S P J B C M L   N O T IC J5 /   Our Holiday lines of  Fancy Goods  in  China,  New  Glass,  Silverware  Dolls  Flush 
Goods and complete assortment of foreign  and domestic toys is  now  ready for exhibition.  Our  purchases are in  such  quantity 
and so direct  that  we pay no middle  profits to  any.  See  our  wonderful  selections, price  them,  and  you  will  be  convinced. 
Call  early while assortment is full.  Terms—Due  Jan.  1st,  1893.

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