Michigan Tradesman.

Published Weekly.

VOL.  10.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS.

GRAINID  .RAPIDS,  SEPTEMBER  28,  1892.
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The  Celebrated “Highland Brand”

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NO.  471

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V IN E G A R  ■ PIC K LES

A r e   M a tc h le s s   in   Q uality.

O A K L A N D   V IN E G A R   &  PIC K LE  CO.,

H i g h l a n d   S t a t i o n ,   M ich.

BLACK  BASS  CIGARS
G.  F.  F A U D E ,   I O N I A ,   M I C H

NEVER  GO  BEGGING.  Made only  by

TEE  NE  PLUS  ULTRA  OF  A  NICKEL  SMOKE !

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MUSKEGON  BRANCH  UNITED  STATES  BAKING  CO.,

Successors  to

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

HARRY  FOX,  Manager.

-  Crackers, Biscuits^Sweet Goods.
BEANS If you have any beans and want to sell, 

we want them, will  give you full  mar 
ket  price.  Send  them  to  us  in  any 
quantity  up to car  loads, we want  1000 
bushels daily.

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PA ID   TO  H A IL  ORDERS.

MUSKEGON,’ MICH.

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

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

Julius Berkey, Pres. 

S. S. Gay, Vlee-Pres.  Wm. McBaiu, Sec’y. 

J.  D. M. Shirts, Treas.

Grand  Rapids  Brash  Co.,
BRUSHES

M anufacturers of

O ur goods are sold by all Michigan  Jobbing Houses.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

WRITE  FOR  PRICES  ON

CHEESE

H. E. MOSELEY & CO.

45  South  Division  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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AMERICAN

Wisconsin,  Ohio and  Michigan  make, 

IMPORTED

Limburger,  Swiss,  Fromage  de Brie, 
D’Isigny, Camembert, Neufchatel and 
Caprera.  Also our  XXXX Orchard.

VINEGAR

The  Green  Seal  Cigar

Is the Most Desirable for M ercbants to Handle because

It is Staple and w ill fit any Purchaser.

Send Tour W holesaler an Order.

Retails for 10 cents, 3^for 25 cents.

Don’t  Forgot  when  ordering

NUTS,  FIGS,

DATES, ETC.

CANDY

To call on or address

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

Special pains  taken w ith frn it  orders.

P eachesI
H ill’s   C h illi,

Old  M ix o n ,

r a t e   C ra w fo rd s.

Heavy markets  have  continued  every  day  the  past week  and  prices  have  been 
within the  reach of  all.  The quality of  the  Late  Crawfords is No.  1.  Send your 
orders  to us  as we  are the  largest  dealers  in  the  trade, our  daily taking  having 
been from nine to fifteen hundred bushels. 

WRITE  US.

ALFRED  J.  BROWN,

24 and 26 N orth Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

STANDARD  OIL  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

DEALERS  IN

Illuminating and  Lubricating

NAPTHA  AND  GASOLINES.

Office,  tiawkins Block. 

Works, Butterworth Aye.

GRAXD  RA PIDS, 
BIO  RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN,

BULE.  W 0 3 Z 3   AT

MCSKEGO.V. 
GRANI»  H AVEN,
HOWARD  C IT I, 

MANISTEE,

PETOSKEY,

CADUXAC,
EDDINGTON.

HIGHEST  PRIOE  PAID  FOR

EMPTY  CARBON  it  GASOLI^  BARRELS.

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  ol 

T ea s, C offees a n d   G ro cers’  S u n d ries.

I and 3 Pearl  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS

M O SELEY   BROS.,

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W H O L E S A L E  -

FRUITS,  SEEDS.  BEANS  AND  PRODUGE.

2 6 ,2 8 , 3 0  & 3 2  OTTAWA  S T ,

G rand  Ra/oicls,  Maolx

N ew  Prints
A l s o  
D r e s s   G oods

F in e  L in e  o f 

Received in all the Best  Well Known Brands.

OUTINGS,  WIDE  BLUfcS,  FANCY  SHIRTINGS,  DRESS 
GINGHAMS,  SATINES.

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

Tarns, Blankets, Comforts, Underwear.  Overshirts,

Pants and Overalls.

Correspondence  receives onr  Personal  Attention.

P .   S T B K E T B B   « »   S O N .
H e y m a n   &  C o m p a n y ,

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Manufacturers  of

Slot  Casus;

First-Glass  Work  Only.

0 8   and  6 6   C anal  St..

Of  Every Description.

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

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Who  urges  you  to  keep

Sapolio?

T b e   P u b lic  !

By  splendid  and  expensive  advertising  the  manufacturers  create  a 
demand, and  only ask the trade to keep the goods in stock so as to supply 
the  orders  sent to  them.  Without  effort on the  grocer’s  part the  goods 
sell  themselves,  bring  purchasers to the  store,  and  help  sell  less  known 
goods.

Any Jobber will be Glad to Fill Your Orders.

T.

JOBBER  OF

F.  J.  D E T T E N T H A L E R
OYSTERS
POULTRY i GAME

SALT  FISH

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. 

See quotations in another column

CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL  KINDS  OF  POULTRY  AND  GAME  SOLICITED

IM P O R T E R S   A N D

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VOL. 10._____________GRAND  RAPIDS,  W EDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  28,  1892.  * 

NO.  471

C M N E D iL  CREDIT CO.

65  MONROE  ST.

Formed by the consolidation of the 

COOPER  COMMERCIAL  AGENCY,

AND THX

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.  COMINGS,

C.  E.  BLOCK.

F R A N K   H.  W H IT E ,

Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of

Brooms, Washboards,  Wooden
Indurated  Pails  i  Tubs,

AND

Wooden  Bowls,  Clothespins  and  Rolling 

Pins,  Step  Ladders,  W ashing  Ma­

chines, M arket, Bushel and De­

livery Ban'  ets,  B uilding 

P aper, W rapping

Paper, Sacks, Twine  and  Stationery.

BARLOW B R O V 'loBLANK BOOKS!
È The  PH I LA. PAT. FIAT OP ENIN G UÂC Kl 
1  Scmq ro*prices GRAND  RAPIDS.MICH.

.THE

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.  SHELLS AN,  Scientific Optician,  65  Monroe Street

PAUL  BAYNE’S  ESTATE.

“A pretty  place!  Well, yes. 

I flatter 
myself it is a pretty place now.  You are 
wondering why I should  take any credit 
to  myself  about  it, but  explaining  that 
involves the story I promised you.”

Mr.  Montgomery  settled  himself more 
comfortably  in  his  arm-chair,  and  his 
companion said:

“Ah, yes!  The romantic  story of  the 
Rayne estate.  1 have  not forgotten that 
promise.”

“Yes!  Odd  genius, Rayne!  We went 
to college together and were  always good 
friends.  When  he  went  abroad,  after 
his father died, he gave me  charge of all 
his  affairs,  for  he  was  wealthy.  The 
house and grounds we passed this  morn­
ing are a part of the old estate, the house 
one of the oldest in  this country.  There 
are some bits of  English furniture there, 
brought over before the  Revolution,  that 
would make  a  collector’s  mouth  water. 
It was an old-fashioned  place when Paul 
Rayne’s father  died,  and  as  Paul had  a 
handsome  house  in  Philadelphia  and a 
large income  it was  not  surprising  that 
he did not care  to bury  himself at Pool- 
ville.  But he married and lost  his  wife 
and two children with a malignant fever. 
Then he came back to the old place.  He 
was not  alone.  Herman  Rayne,  the son 
dead,  came 
of  his 
with 
his  wife’s 
sister,  a  terrible  cripple,  whose  mind 
was  enfeebled  and  body  mutilated  by 
a fall.

long 
and  also 

brother, 

him, 

“Not to weary you  too much with  de­
tails, this  was  the  family  ten years ago 
when  Paul  Rayne  died:  Paul  himself, 
Miss  Henderson,  the crippled  sister-in- 
law, Mrs.  Clifford, the housekeeper, two 
servants  and  last,  but  not  least,  Lottie 
Henderson,  an orphan niece  of  the  late 
Mrs, Rayne.  Herman  was  in Paris,  fin­
ishing his medical studies.

“For years before his death, Paul Rayne 
was  a  recluse,  a  student  from  love  of 
knowledge for  its  own sake.  He  wrote 
no books,  sought no opportunity  to share 
what he had learned, and seemed to have 
no  interest  in  life outside  of  his home. 
But in that  home  he made  it one aim  of 
his monotonous  existence  to train Lottie 
in  intellectual  pursuits.  Bless  my life! 
I can see that baby  now,  before  she was 
seven  years  old,  sitting  at  the  great li­
brary  table,  studying  Latin  Grammar. 
She wonld slip away when I engaged her 
uncle in conversation,  and the next  time 
I saw her would be  rolling  pie crust  for 
Mrs. Clifford  or  knitting  socks,  on  the 
porch.

“She was the loveliest  little creature  I 
ever knew,  and Paul Rayne loved her as 
if she had been his own child.  Yet, with 
the  strange fatality  so  often met  in my 
profession, he  kept putting off  and put­
ting off  making a  new  will and  leaving 
her independent.  He often  talked of  it.
“ ‘Of  course, I  want  Lottie  to  marry 
Herman,’ he would  say;  ‘but I shall  not 
make  any  conditions. 
I  will  leave  her 
this  house  and  thirty  thousand dollars; 
and poor Clara’—that  was  Miss  Hender­
son—‘must have a life-income out  of the 
estate.’

“But  one  morning,  when  Lottie  was 
only  nineteen,  Paul  Rayne  was  found 
dead  in  his  study-chair,  and  the  only 
will in existence  was  an  old  one,  made 
before Lottie  came  to  Poolviile,  leaving 
everything to Herman Rayne.

“ ‘I suppose I must go  away,’  the poor 
child Lottie  said to  me,  after  the funer­
al.

" ‘Wait until I hear from  Paris,’ I said; 
for  I  hoped  Herman  Rayne  would 
carry  out  his  uncle’s  intentions.  He 
was  a  wealthy  man  from  his  father’s 
share of the Rayne property,  and I hoped 
he would not let Miss Henderson or  Lot­
tie suffer for his  uncle’s neglect.

“I was not altogether  pleased with his 

letter,  but Lottie was  delighted.

“ ‘I  shall  not  live  at  Poolviile,’  he 
wrote,  ‘and certainly  should  not deprive 
Miss  Henderson  of  a  home.  Will  not 
Lottie stay as her  companion, at any sal­
ary you think  right?”
“Lottie,  as I said,  was well pleased  to 
stay;  but  you  must  let  me  explain my 
own  regrets.  At  nineteen,  Lottie  was 
beautiful,  a  pure  blond,  tall,  graceful 
and refined to the  very  tips of  her  aris­
tocratic little fingers.  For years the lov­
ing  pupil  of  a  devoted  teacher, her  ac­
quirements  were  rather  masculine,  but 
few women choosing the course of  study 
she  had  pursued.  Her  music  was  her 
one  recreation,  and  that  she  had  never 
been  taught.  She  played  and  sang  by 
ear alone,  but  she  had  wonderful talent 
and power.

“ With all her knowledge of languages, 
of  deep 
research  into  many  abstruse 
studies,  she  was  no  bookworm.  Mrs. 
Clifford had  trained  her  in all  womanly 
arts,  of  sewing  and  housekeeping,  and 
she was essentially  womanly  in disposi­
tion and tastes.

“Now,  it  did  not  please  me  to  have 
this  lovely,  winsome  girl,  at  the  very 
portals  of  womanhood,  shut  up  in  a 
gloomy  house,  a  mile  from  any  other 
residence,  the companion of  an imbecile 
woman  and  the  servants.  You noticed 
the beauty of  the house and grounds,  to­
day.  Ten years ago it was the most dark 
and lonely abode you can imagine.  Tall 
trees  surrounded the  house  on all sides, 
shutting  out  all  sunlight;  the  garden 
was a mere tangle of  weeds  and flowers, 
growing  as  they  would; 
the  furniture 
was old  and  gloomy,  and  the  only  new 
things  in  the  house  were  some  of  the 
the books and the grand  piano.

“And there  Lottie lived,  devoting her 
time  to  the  care  of  a  feeble,  imbecile 
cripple,  whose  only  spark  of  reason 
seemed  to  be  love  for  the  girl.  She 
would listen while Lottie sang or played, 
beating time with  her  poor feeble hand, 
nodding  and  smiling;  she  would  play 
backgammon,  with  frightful  disregard 
for  all  rale,  but  never  exhausting Lot­
tie’s  patience.  Much  of  the  time  she 
slept,  and then Lottie studied.

“ ‘For,’  said  she  to  me,  ‘of  course  I 
cannot  stay  here  always,  and I want  to 
fit myself to teach.’

“We seldom coaxed  her  out, because, 
although she  was  cheerful  and patient, 
she grieved for her  adopted  uncle  as for 
a father, and  her deep mourning was  an

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T. Stewart White, Pres’t. 
W. F red McBaik, Sec’y.__________________
OYSTERS!
Selects...........................................................g  30
Standards......................................................  
22
B.  F ...............................................................   24
Selects...........................................................$  28
Standards......................................................   20
Favorites........................................................ 
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Mrs. W lthey’s Home-Made Mince Meat.
Large  bbls...................................................... 6
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40 Id  palls............................................... 
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20 lb pails........................................................  ¿M
2 lb cans, usual  weight, per  doz.................81  50
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Choice Dairy Butter............... ....................  18
Pure Sweet Cider in bbls............................   16
“  Vinegar........................  10
Choice Lemons, 300 and 360 ....................... 7 00
New Pickles in bbls, 1200...........................5 25
half bbls, 300........................3 00
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PropT of Valley City Cold Storage

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Including the following celebrated brands, man­
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Three  Medals, long Havana filler........... 
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La Flor de Alfonso,............ ................... 
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excuse for declining all invitations.  Be­
ing an old bachelor,  in a boarding-house, 
I  could  offer  her  no  hospitality.  But 
she  was  fond  of  me,  called  me ‘Uncle 
Robert,’ and I  had not  neglected my will 
as my  old  friend  had  done, though  she 
had no claim upon  me

“Paul Rayne had been six months dead 
when Doctor Gardiner came to Poolville. 
He brought letters  from  Herman  Rayne 
to me and to old Doctor Wilcox, our only 
medical  authority  before  he 
came. 
Doctor Wilcox was  delighted  with  him. 
Although  not  thirty,  he was a doctor  of 
the  kind  that  are  born,  not  made,  and 
soon proved  his  skill  in  some obstinate 
chronic cases.

“ ‘I  shall  retire  now,  Montgomery,’ 
the doctor said to me, rubbing  his  hands 
together. 
‘1 could not make up my mind 
to do it before,  but Doctor  Gardiner  will 
more than fill my  place.  Why,  think of 
it! 
I took him  over to see Miss Hender­
son  to-day, and  he  has  already  told  me 
of a contrivance  that  will  enable her  to 
walk  a  little.  There  cannot  be  much 
done for  her,  poor  thing, but  he can re­
lieve some of  her suffering.’

“And I soon found Doctor  Wilcox was 
right.  New  scientific  discoveries  had 
thrown some light upon  the  injuries the 
poor  old lady  had  received,  and  Doctor 
Gardiner  was 
family 
physican.

installed 

as 

“As there were two Misses Henderson, 
and one of them by no means an invalid,
I appointed  myself  dragon-in-chief,  and 
watched  Doctor  Gardiner  closely.  But 
my heart warmed to him,  he  was  so cor­
dial, so  gentlemanly  and  so  devoted  to 
his  patients.  Every  ease  was  as  care­
fully tended  as  if  it  was  the  only  one, 
and  patients  were  friends  from  the be­
ginning.  His  purse  was  open  for  all 
distress, and I could  never  calculate the 
charity he exercised,  both  professionally 
and privately.

“It  did  not  surprise  me  that  Lottie 
soon  began  to  brighten  up  when  the 
doctor paid  his  daily  visit  to  her  aunt. 
Although  Mrs.  Clifford  was  a  perfect 
Mrs. Grundy for  propriety,  always being 
in attendance,  the  young  hearts,  it  was 
evident,  were  mutually  attracted,  and  I 
began to  build  castles  in the air for my 
favorite.

“It was  springtime  when  Doctor Gar­
diner came  to  Poolville,  and  during  the 
summer hfc most  certainly made the bur­
den of  life  far  more  endurable  to  poor 
Miss  Henderson,  while  Lottie’s  pale 
cheeks  bloomed  ane^  in  the  added  air 
and  exercise  she  obtained  in  attending 
her  aunt  on  the  walks  and  long drives 
the doctor ordered for her.

“But,  in  the  winter,  a  long-standing 
lung  complaint,  from  which  Miss Hen­
derson suffered,  developed into consump­
tion,  and there  was  no  hope  she  would 
see  another  summer.  She  failed  very 
gradually,  very painlessly.  Even I, who 
saw her nearly every day, could  scarcely 
mark  the  steps  that  were  leading  her 
from  her  narrow,  suffering  life  to  the 
more perfect one beyond  the grave.

“ Lottie  was  the  most  faithful  nurse, 
loving and devoted,  and the invalid clung 
to her with a trust  that  was  very touch­
ing. 
It had  always  been  Lottie’s  pride 
to  have  her  aunt  neatly  and  tastefully 
dressed,  and she was doubly  careful now 
that  the  confinement  to  the house gave 
her  an  excuse  for  invalidish  costumes. 
The softest of white  knit  shawls was al­
ways draped over the white, embroidered 
wrapper, and  the  snowy  hair  smoothly

folded under  pretty  lace  caps.  Herman 
Rayne had  allowed  his  charge an ample 
income,  and  Lottie  conscientiously  de­
voted it to the invalid’s sole use.

“March  was  nearly  over  when  Miss 
Henderson died.  The  day  after the  fu­
neral  I  was  writing  to  Herman  Rayne 
when Doctor  Gardiner  came  into my of­
fice.

“ ‘I  am  writing  to  Rayne,’  I  said. 

‘Have you any message?’

“ ‘None.  You are telling him of  Miss 

Henderson’s death? ’

“ ‘Yes;  and  I  think  now  he  ought  to 
do  something  for  Lottie.  Of course, as 
her nominal occupation is gone, she  can­
not stay where she is.’
just 

left  her.  You 
must  have  seen,  long  ago, that  1  loved 
her.’

I  have 

“ ‘No. 

“ ‘I suspected it.’
“ ‘Twice before I have asked her  to be 
my wife,  but she  thought  her duty com­
pelled her to devotejier  life to her aunt. 
That duty over,  she  confesses  now  that 
she loves me.’

“ ‘I am heartily  glad,’ 1 said.
“ ‘Thanks,’  was  the  quick, cordial  re­
ply. 
‘You  are  her  best  friend, I know. 
Rut’—and he smiled—‘you need not send 
that letter  all  the  way  to  Paris, merely 
to  come  back.  Have  my  nine  years 
abroad entirely  changed  me.  Uncle Rob­
ert?’

“And then I recognized him.
“ ‘Herman  Rayne!’  I  cried. 

‘I  have 
been sure before  this that you and I  had 
met  somewhere  before,  but  I  did  not 
place you.  Queer,  too,  for I  knew your 
mother’s name  was  Gardiner  and  yours 
Herman Gardiner  Rayne.  Well, well, it 
is  all  as  my  old  friend would  have it. 
Does Lottie know?’

“ ‘I  told  her  to-day.  We  will  walk 
over to the  church this afternoon, Uncle 
Robert.  Will  you  be there,  to give  the 
bride  away?  I must return to  Paris for 
a  few months;  so  that  will  be our wed­
ding trip.’

“And that,’’ continued the old  lawyer, 
“explains why I say I flatter  myself that 
the old house  is  so  improved.  Herman 
Rayne asked  me  to  make  it a home  for 
them when  they  should  return  to Pool­
ville,  and  they  reside  here  most of  the 
time.  Sometimes they  spend a few win­
ter weeks in  Philadelphia, buttheirwork 
is here.’’

“Their work?”
“Yes, they are no drones in the world’s 
hive.  Herman  Rayne  devotes himself to 
his profession and the  study  of  diseases 
caused  by want  and  the remedies as  far 
as science will aid them.  His wife is his 
earnest,  efficient  helpmeet,  and 
their 
large  wealth  flows  freely  in  al  charit­
able work.  They have  no children,  and 
devote their time and  money to the poor 
and  suffering.  Poolville  will  probably 
have a  hospital on the site of  the Rayne 
estate,  when the hands now  governing it 
are still and  cold.’’

T he old  law yer paused a  m om ent,  and 

then  added:

“It was all  well for Lottie!  But I still 
say that Paul  Rayne  showed  a culpable 
neglect  when  he  failed  to  make  a will 
and that all men so situated should think 
seriously of the responsibility they shirk 
by leaving such a duty  too  long neglect­
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

3

A  T em p erate  V iew  of  C holera.

Written for Thb Tradesman.

It is rather surprising that with all the 
advantages we  have,  as a nation,  gained 
in  three  previous  encounters  with  this 
disease,  there  should  be  so  much alarm 
shown at the mere prospect of  its arrival 
on  our shores  for  the fourth  time.  We 
have  of  late  years  had  two  visitations 
from  another  disease  that  took  away 
more  victims  than  a  season  of  cholera 
usually has  done.  Although  the  flow of 
business was materially interrupted,  and 
its  ravages  reached  every nook  and cor­
ner  of  the  land,  the  Russian  disease 
called “la grippe” did  not  produce  one- 
tenth  as  many  direful  forebodings  as 
now  prevail  among ail  classes, with less 
reason.  Perhaps it was because  the dis­
ease  was  obscure,  and  like  other  evils 
little  known,  was  less  feared.  Perhaps 
because  its  results were  not so  immedi­
ately fatal; at all  events, it was  not  her­
alded  by pickets  on  the  outposts,  as has 
been the case with cholera.  Though little 
understood at first, the skill of  the medi­
cal  profession  soon  found a way to meet 
successfully this new assault on the vital 
forces  of  humanity,  and  faith  in  that 
skill quieted public fear.

Why should  we  not now  rest in equal 
confidence  that the increased  knowledge 
gained  by  study  and  experience  with 
cholera in all  its  modified forms will  en­
able us easily to control  its worst effects, 
should the disease gain a foothold among 
us during the  coming  year?  There  are, 
it is true,  some conditions  differing from 
those  prevailing  during  previous visits. 
Our  increased  numbers  constitute  one 
element of  danger greater  than then  ex­
isted,  but  it is balanced  by the  fact that 
the  entire  mass  of  our  population  are 
living in greater  comfort, and  are better 
prepared  for  sickness of  any  kind.  Fa­
cilities  for  travel  have  made  us  more 
likely to carry infection when once start­
ed, but, on  the  other  hand,  science  has 
provided  us  with  warnings  and  safe­
guards  which were before unknown, and 
which  minimize  the  danger  common  to 
people who are always on the move.  The 
only point where we are  unduly exposed 
is made more vulnerable by the increased 
immigration  that  has  been  pouring  in 
for the  last  few years—an  immense hu­
man  freshet, caused  by  the  bursting of 
barriers raised by monarchial selfishness, 
but which were in a fit of  imperial anger 
broken,  to our serious  disadvantage.

Our  danger  has  been  imminent  ever 
since the Czar chose to decimate the pop­
ulation  of  his  realm  by  a  wholesale 
forced deportation of subjects, and other 
European rulers  likewise raised  the em­
bargo so loug kept up against emigration, 
and thus  let  loose  the most  undesirable 
element to seek  our  shores. 
It  is to  be 
hoped,  however,  that  the  immensity  of 
the crisis  now  so  apparent will  be  the 
means of  raising  the  non-partisan ques­
tion of  stopping  the  flow of  a tide  that 
is  eating  away  the  very  foundation  of 
our American system of government.

Those who dread so much the expected 
visitation of  cholera should  be reminded 
that we have passed through equal perils 
in the  past, with .but a small  part of  the 
loss anticipated  by our fears at the time.
I well remember  the visits of  this dis­
ease in  1849,  and  again  in  1852. 
In the 
former year I was for a month  during its 
worst  ravages  in  Chicago, then perhaps 
much  smaller than  is  Grand  Rapids to­
day.  Working  in  the  heat  of  an  un­
usually warm  season, at a time when the

sanitary condition  was very  much worse 
•than it can  be  now,  1  saw  no  evidence 
that  there  was  a  plague  eating  at  the 
heart of  the city.  Business  went on  as 
usual,  large gangs of men being engaged 
in planking  Lake  street to cover  a  sur­
face  that else  would  be  impassible  for 
travel;  and  the  waters  of  the  famous 
river  sent  up a breath to meet  the  oxy­
gen  of  the  upper  air  no  less  fragrant 
than it does  at  the  present.  An intelli­
gent  head  directed  sanitary  measures, 
while  professional  skill  was  faithfully 
employed  in  each  case;  and  before  a 
great  while  the  dread  destroyer  had 
passed  by,  leaving  many  wondering  to 
see how small was the list of his victims.
Again, while traveling across the plains 
in the summer of 1852, I found myself in 
the  midst  of  cholera’s  ravages,  where 
results  were  hastened  by  exposure,  bad 
water,  home-sickness and a lack of  med­
ical  aid.  Yet even  here was  no panic— 
no  fierce,  selfish  struggle  to  escape  at 
the  expense  of  others.  From  the  Mis­
souri river to the South Pass graves lined 
the  road  so  that  scarce  a  day’s  travel 
failed  to  disclose  from  one  to a score. 
It was,  after all, but a ripple on the even 
flow of civilization.  The business of the 
day kept on with its ceaseless whirl,  and 
no  one gave  evidence of  such cowardly 
fright as has  appeared of  late among the 
inhabitants of Fire Island.

It is well for us to be afraid sometimes. 
We should always be afraid of  wrong,  of 
dirt  and  bad  water, of  filth  rotting  in 
alleys  and  byways. 
If  such  intelligent 
fear  drives  us  to  an  earnest  effort  to 
cleanse  the  festering  garbage of  cities, 
and  use  better  sanitary  precautions 
everywhere,  even  in  quiet  country life, 
the cloud that now hovers over our homes 
and  threatens  calamities  to  every  busi­
ness  interest will  be of  inestimable  ser 
vice.  And if  our  people  learn  that  the 
question  of  stopping  excessive  and  un 
desirable  accessions  to  our  population 
must  be  courageously  met  outside  of 
party 
lines,  and  selfish  squabbles  for 
official honors,  one more instance will  be 
given of good flowing out of evil.

To  be  forewarned  is  to  be  doubly 
armed,  but  a  soldier  who  trembles  at a 
distant  enemy is little  to be  relied  upon 
when the assault comes to close quarters. 
The  disease  so  much  dreaded  may, in 
spite of  the best  precautions, get  a foot 
hold in this  country for  a  time as it has 
before, but  with  patient diligence every 
case  will  be noticed  and  treated with a 
view to prevent  further  infection.  The 
medical  experience  of  the  present  day 
may be  relied  upon  to  secure  us  from 
the  horrors that  have visited  only those 
lands where filth and superstition  fought 
against the  scientific measures  taken for 
relief.  With us education and generally 
healthy  conditions  will  surely  modify 
and  greatly  lessen  the  ravages  of  the 
much-dreaded  cholera,  as  they  already 
have  done  for  small-pox and  other dis 
eases once considered uniformly fatal.
S.  P.  W h itm a r sh.

Good Words  Unsolicited.

T. W. Brown. general dealer, Otia:  “We would 
not  like to miss  the  visits of  our  friend  which 
becomes dearer as we are longer acquainted.”

Thurston & Co., general dealers, Central Lake 
“We  appreciate  T he  Tradesman  very  much 
and  especially the  market  summaries  that you 
have been running of late.  They give a hurried 
man  an  idea of  the  markets  without  wading 
through a dozen columns of quotations.”

Use The Tradesman  Co.’s Coupon Books,

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TETE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.
ABOUND THE  STATE.

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Elsie—L. Page has opened a meat mar­

Pinnebog—A.  W.  Hay  &  Co. succeed 

Butler & Hay in general trade.

Adrian—Mulzer Bros,  succeed Michael 

Mulzer in the boot and shoe business.

Jonesville — Chas.  Fenton  succeeds 
Chas. N.  Skinner  in  the  meat  business.
Boon—H.  E.  Bowen, dealer  in  hard­
wood lumber,  has removed to Thompson- 
ville.

Lawton — McNeil  &  Barnes  are  suc­
ceeded by H. Barnes & Sou in the grocery 
business.

Saginaw — Friedlein  &  Graebner  are 
succeeded by H.  J.  P.  Graebner  in  the 
grocery business.

Cheboygan—W.  R.  Marentette  has  re­
moved his boot and shoe stock from  Bay 
City to this place.

Rapid River—H.  W. Cole  is  succeeded 
by Cole & Condie in  the  wagon  and  im­
plement business.

Holland—Swift &  Martin  are succeed­
ed by Huizenga & Martin in the drug and 
stationery business.

Burlington—E.  L.  McPherson has pur­
chased the grocery,  grain  and  wool  busi­
ness of J.  M.  French.

Harrison — H.  Razek  &  Co.,  general 
dealers,  have dissolved,  Sol.  Rosenstock 
continuing the business.

Constantine—J.  B.  Randolph 

is  suc­
ceeded by Baker & Randolph in  the con­
fectionery and cigar business.

Waldron—Gleason  Bros.,  who conduct 
a harness shop here, have put in a branch 
business of the same kind at Hudson.

Hamilton—John Strabbing, of Allegan, 
has bought the store and dwelling belong­
ing to Klaas Zuidewind  and  will  open  a 
hardware and implement  store  here.

Traverse  City—J.  B.  Martin  has  re­
tired from the drug  firm of  H. S. Barna- 
bee  &  Co.  The  business  will  be  con­
tinued by Mr.  Barnabee in his own uame.
Howard  City—Frutchey  &  McGeorge, 
the wholesale egg dealers, who have been 
operating here during the  past  summer, 
have begun the erection of a  warehouse, 
with cold storage compartment.

Traverse  City—L.  M.  Bennett,  who 
was  formerly  in  the  jewelry  business 
here,  but who left  some  three years ago, 
has  returned  and  will  open  business 
again  in  the  S.  M.  Brown  building  on 
Front street.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

East Tawas—The French Land & Lum­
ber Co.  will  lumber a large body of  hard 
wood timber in Ogemaw county this win­
ter.  The logs will be railed to this place.
Cedar  Springs—Warren  H.  Wheeler, 
Frank L.  Fuller and Herbert W.  Wheeler 
have  formed  a  copartnership under  the 
style of  the Wheeler  &  Fuller  Medicine 
Co., to  embark  in  the  manufacture of a 
nerve tonic.

Jackson—The  Jones  &  Gaige  Mining 
Co. has been  organized  and a  shaft  will 
be sunk on  the Carter farm,  west of  this 
city,  at once.  A basin  of  coal  has  been 
discovered 85  feet  from  the surface and 
three or four feet in thickness.

Bently—Post  &  Ferguson  have  sold 
their interest in theEstey & Calkins mills 
to  the  latter,  who,  in  turn,  sold  a  half 
interest to John Oliver & Son, of Buffalo, 
who  have  assumed  management  of  the 
saw  mill, cutting  25,000  feet  daily,  and 
will erect ten  kilns for  the manufacture 
of coal.

Diamond  Lake—C.  Pfeifle  is  cutting

about  2,000,000  feet  of  pine,  hemlock, 
cedar and  ash,  covering  five sections  he 
recently purchased from  the Ferry Lum­
ber Co.  and  the  Alley  Lumber  Co.  The 
logs are  floated  down  White  River and 
cut out  on contract at  the Alley sawmill 
at Whitehall.

Detroit—The  Muser  Confection  Co  is 
fitting up a factory at 142  Larned  street, 
west.  The  new  corporation  is officered 
as follows:  President, A.  Muser,  former­
ly  with  Detroit  Confectionery  Co.  and 
Fruit  Tablet  Co.;  Vice-President, C.  H. 
Wolverton,  Port  Huron;  Secretary  and 
Treasurer, Albert E.  Foote,  Ann  Arbor.
Detroit—Judge  Reilly  has  settled  the 
Pilliod  phase  of  the  Smith  Middlings 
Purifier  Co.  trouble. 
It  involved  the 
possession of some mill  property  at  Or- 
land,  Ind. 
rilliod  pays  $5,000  and  re­
ceives a  quit-claim deed to the  property. 
Of this $5,000 the First National Bank of 
Marshall receives $2,000 and the  balance 
is to be divided among all the other banks 
holding notes secured  by  the  mortgage. 
It was only one of  the  great  number  of 
knotty problems  involved  in  the  Smith 
case,  but it was amicably settled.

Detroit—A clever swindler struck town 
last Saturday and speut  ten  busy  hours 
here, with the result that a number of De­
troit merchants are  now  whistling  for  a 
quantity of goods  for  which  they  have 
not been  paid and  which  there  is  small 
likelihood  of  their  ever  seeing  again. 
The  young  man  was  a  very  slick  indi­
vidual,  nobbily attired,  of suave manners 
and  very  pleasant  address.  While  the 
scheme which he worked is by no  means I 
original,  it has not been tried  in  Detroit 
very often,  but as  often  as  it  has  been ! 
tried it has proved  extremely  successful 
and the operator has always managed  to 
elude detection; in fact,before the partic­
ulars of the game could reach the ears of 
the police,  the  swindler  had  ample time 
to be a thousand  miles  away.  Saturday 
morning a  bright  young  fellow  stepped 
up to the desk of the  receiving  teller  of 
the State Savings Bank,  and laying down 
$200  in  cash,  stated  that  he  wished  to 
deposit that amount.  He gave the  name 
of F.  W.  Foster.  A  deposit  book  was 
made out in  his name and he then  asked 
to be given a  check  book  as  he  thought 
he might have occasion to draw out some 
of  the  money.  The  accomodating clerk 
provided him  with  the  check book  and 
the  stranger left the bank.  After bank­
ing hours the young man began  to get  in 
his work.  One  merchant  after  another 
was  visited  and  purchases  were  made 
which were all paid for in State  Savings 
Bank checks. 
If a  merchant  was  wary 
of his strange customer or the check,  the 
presentation of the  bank  book  with  its 
entry of that same day  seemed  to disarm 
all suspicion.  When  the  swindler  had 
shopped to his heart’s content,  he began 
to work  the  other  eud  of  the  scheme. 
A  visit  was  paid  to  the  office  of  the 
United States  Express  Company,  where 
Mr.  Foster  wrote  out  a  check  on  the 
bank for the  full amount  of  his deposit, 
made it payable to the bearer,  and  gave 
it to Money Clerk Bennett  with  instruc­
tions that it be collected  upon  the  open­
ing  of  the  bank  Monday  morning  and 
forwarded to him  at-  Dover,  N.  J.  He 
paid the express  charges  and  went  his 
way.  Whither that  way  led  the  detec­
tives have since been unable to find  out. 
Bright and early Monday morning, Clerk 
Bennett presented the check at the  bank 
and received the $200  which  he  at  once , 
forwarded  according  to  Foster’s  direc-1

tions.  The  checks  which  the  swindler 
had given to the various  merchants,  Sat­
urday afternoon,  did not reach the  clear­
ing house until noon,  Monday,  and when 
they were presented to the  State Savings 
Bank for  collection,  were  returned,  of 
course, with the  endorsement,  “Deposit 
withdrawn.”  An  Investigation  by  the 
victimized merchants led  to  the  exposi­
tion of the above  facts.  On  account  of 
the secrecy with which the merchants and 
the bank have invested the  affair,  it  has 
been impossible  to  learn just how  many 
or  what  firms  were  taken  in,  or  how 
great an amount the swindler took out of 
town  with him. 
It is understood that the 
amount of each of the checks  was  small 
and on this account the  victimized  firms 
are unwilling to have it known that they 
were imposed upon,  preferring  to  stand 
the loss rather than accept the notoriety. 
The case has been handed over  to  detec­
tives and they are at work upon it.  The 
fellow is evidently an adept at the  game 
and no doubt Detroit was only one of the 
cities in his  prearranged  swindling  cir­
cuit.

V iew ed  b y  O ther  E yes.

Minneapolis Northwest Trade'.  We con­
gratulate T h e  Mic h ig a n T radesm an on 
the attainment of its tenth  birthday  and 
trust it will reach its hundredth under the 
same able management as at present.
Plainwell Enterprise:  T h e  Mich ig a n 
T radesm an completed its ninth  year  of 
last  week.  This  paper, 
publication 
which is most  excellently  conducted  in 
all its departments,  is the  acknowledged 
organ of the retailers of Michigan.  The 
editor,  E. A.  Stowe,  has  good  reason  to 
feel proud of its success.

Vermontville  Echo:  Last  week  T h e 
Mic h ig a n Tradesm an entered  upon  its 
tenth year of usefulness.  Few  periodi­
cals  are  of  greater  benefit  to  business j 
men than T h e T radesm an. 
Its reading 
matter is instructive and interesting  and 
its  market  report  reliable.  The  old 
T radesm an  is indispensable.

Hastings  Democrat:  T h e  Michigan 
T radesm an has just completed its ninth 
year of publication. 
It is the acknowled­
ged organ of retail dealers  in  Michigan. 
E. A. Stowe, its  editor, has  reason  to be 
proud of its success.

F rom   O ut of  Tow n.

Galls  have  been 

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

Pine Lake Iron Go.,  Ironton.
F. J. Meech, Ellsworth.
Geo. T. Wilson, Dowling.
Walter Mosher, Greenville.
L. R.  Lansing,  Way land.
R.  D.  McNaughton, Goopersville.
H. Brownyard,  Lake P.  O.
Frank Hamilton,  Traverse City.
Holmes &  DeGoit, Tustin.
F. S. Gashion,  Baldwin.
J.  R. Harrison & Co.,  Sparta.
W. J.  Haughey, New  Era.
J. W. Perkins, Crystal Valley.
G.  L. Martin & Go.,  Elk Rapids.
A. J. Burnes,  Wacousta.
Hemstreet Bros.,  Bellaire.
G. A.  Estes,  Tustin.
W. G.  Sprague, Flushing.
B. J.  Robertson,  Breedsville.
H.  W.  Rodenbaugh,  Breedsville.

D rop in Broom   C orn.

The broom corn  syndicate is  going  to 
pieces and the wholesale  price of  broom 
corn  has  dropped  from  7  to 4  cents  a 
pound.  The  decline  will  undoubtedly 
bring  about  lower  prices  in  brooms in 
the course of a couple of months.

Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  received 
last week a large  consignment of  “Peer­
less” Japan teas  direct  from  Japan  via. 
sailing  vessel  “ Fingal”  to  Vancouver, 
thence overland to Grand Rapids.  They 
report this season’s pieking of “Peerless” 
teas to be very fine.

G rocer.

V alue o f R eady M oney, a s  T a u g h t  b y  a  
An enterprising grocer  in  the  town of 
Santa Clara,  Gal.,  has  adopted  an  origi­
nal  method of  trade.  Each  side  of  the 
store is fitted  up for  business on its  own 
account.
In the  general arrangement  each  side 
is a duplicate of  the other, the difference 
being  that one  side is for cash  and  the 
other for credit.
When  a  customer  comes  in,  the  first 
question  asked is,  “Do  you  wish  to buy 
for cash or on account?”
If  it  is  a  cash  customer  the goods on 
the cash  side are  shown,  but  if  it is one 
who  wants  credit  he  is  shown  to  the 
other  side,  and  for  the  first  time in his 
life perhaps  made to realize  the value of 
ready money.

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED,  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 85 cents. 
Advance payment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

■   GOOD  CHANCE  FOR  AN  A  NO.  1  GRO- 
F or  sa l e—a t  o n e-h a lf 

cery  business.  Reason  of  selling,  poor 
health.  W. L. Mead, Ionia, Mich. 
576
it s  v a l u e,
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 woodeu  ware  factory work.  O. H. Stanton, 
Jackson, Mich. 

1 HAVE  PAID-UP  STOCK  IN  A  MANUFAC- 

turing establishment in a live  town in Michi­
gan which I would exchange for a hearse, worth 
not less than five hundred dollars.  Address No. 
583. care Michigan Trade-man. 

F or  sa l e—a  stock  o f  g e n e r a l  m e r-

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. 

580

588

583

Ex c e l l e n t  o ppo r tu n ity  fo r  a  B u 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.
_______ ___ ______________________ 556
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. 
OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANE-CLEAN  STOCK 
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. 

568

571

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

W ANTED—POSITION  BY  YOUNG  LADY 
as  book-keeper  or  assistant  book-keeper 
and cashier.  Can furnish good references.  Ad- 
dress No. 586, care Michigan Tradesman. 
586

MISCELLANEOUS.

370

you buy of the largest manufacturers In the 
United States?  If you do, you  are  customers of 

the Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.

DO YOU  USE  COUPON BOOKS T  IF  SO, DO 
F or  sa le —good  d iv id e n d  - pa y in g
F o r  sa le  -  b e s t  r e sid e n c e  lo t  in

stocks in  banking, manufacturing  and mer 
cantile  companies.  1. A. Stowe,  100  Louis  St.. 
Grand Rapids. 

Grand Rapids, 70x175 feet, beautifully shad­
ed with  native  oaks, situated In good  residence 
locality,  only 800  feet  from  electric  street  car 
Une.  Will sell  for $8 500 cash, or part cash, pay- 
ments to suit.  B. A. Stowe. 100 Louis St. 
fTlWO  RESIDENCE  LOTS  IN  VILLAGE  OF 
J-  Belding  to  exchange  for  grocery  stock 
worth  $1 00.»  to  $1,500.  Will  pay  difference  in 
cash.  Address  No. 470, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
W E  HAVE  A  SPECIALTY  FOR  DRUM’ 
mers’  side  line,  and  will  make  liberal 
arrangements with  those  calling upon  the  dry 
goods  and  grocery  and  boot  and  shoe  trade. 
Address N. P. Co., 96 State street, Chicago. 
584 
ANTED-COMPETENT  REGULAR  PHY 
slcian  to  locate  at  Wacousta.  Only  one 
physician  in  place,  which  is  center  of  good 
farming  community.  Address  No  588,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

5gg

570

354

MICHIGAN

Fini & M ari Insurance Go.

Organised  1881.

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN.

A  J

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THE  MICHIGA.N  THAHESMAIST.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

T. Webster has opened a tin shop at 353 

West Bridge street.

Walter Mosher  has  opened  a  grocery 
store at Greenville.  The  Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman Go.  furnished the  stock.

McDonald & Judson  have  engaged  in 
general trade at Benzonia.  The  Lemon 
& Wheeeler Company furnished the  gro­
cery stock.

Baker & De Young  succeed  E. Y.  Sinz 
in  the  drug  business  at  the  corner of 
East  and  Sherman  streets.  Mr.  Sinz 
contemplates locating in the West.

The cloud  hanging  over the cigar firm 
of  S.  K. Bolles  &  Go.,  in  the  shape  of 
mortgages to  the amount  of  $9,000,  has 
been lifted by E.  B.  Dikeman,  who  has 
satisfied  the  mortgagees  and  resumed 
business in  his  own  name,  having  pur­
chased the intetest of S.  K.  Bolles.

in 

locating 

The  Michigan  Sand  Brick  Go.,  which 
has extensive yards at St.  Joseph, has re­
moved its  executive  and  business  office 
to  this  city, 
the  Michi­
gan Trust  Co. building.  The office is  in 
charge of C.  B.  Field,  who  is  President 
and General Manager of  the corporation.
Martin Cuncannan has sold his interest 
in  the  drug  store  at  198  West  Bridge 
street to  W. A.  Swarts Sc Son,  who  will 
continue  the  business at the  same  loca­
tion.  Mr. Cuncannan  has  formed  a  co­
partnership with  his  brother  under  the 
style of  J. &  M. Cuncannan  and  opened 
a drug store  at  181  West  Bridge  street. 
The  Hazeltine Sc Perkins  Drug  Co.  fur­
nished the stock.

A.  J

The bakery  and  restaurant  stock  and 
fixtures of  C.  M.  Hatfield,  at  129  Canal 
street, was  sold  at  foreclosure  sale last 
Thursday and was bid in by J. P.  Visner 
for $260.  The  Western  Beef  Co.  had  a 
first mortgage on the  stock  for  $250 and 
E. J.  Gillies  &  Co.  had  a  second mort­
gage  for  $83.  Mr.  Yisner  bought  the 
property  to  protect  the claim of  Gillies 
&  Co., subsequently  disposing of  a half 
interest to  John  Cusick.  The  new  firm 
will  be  known  as  Yisner  Sc Cusick and 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  old 
stand.

D. A. Blodgett has  purchased the J. C. 
Simonds Sc Son  shingle mill manufactur­
ing  plant at  53  and  55 North  Waterloo 
and  will  consolidate it with  the  Butter- 
worth  &  Lowe  plant,  the  mechanical 
portion of  which will  hereafter  be man­
aged  by Frank  A. Simonds, junior mem­
ber of  the  former  firm.  Edward  Lowe 
retires from  active  participation  in  the 
business,  to take the management of  Mr. 
Blodgett’s  large  and  extended  business 
interests.  The  price  paid  for  the  Si- 
mond’s plant was  $26,000,  which enables 
the  elder  Simonds to retire  with  a com­
fortable competency.

As will be noted  by  the  official report 
of the proceedings,  in another portion  of 
this  week’s  paper,  the  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association  has  been  re-organized on  a 
little different  basis  than  the former or­
ganization,  it having been  found  desira­
ble to add several features  not  incorpor­
ated in the old  Association.  The  initial 
meeting,  held  last  Monday evening,  was 
fairly well attended and it is to be hoped 
that a large number of  new faces will be 
seen at  the  regular  meeting next  Mon­
day  evening,  when  the  remainder  of 
the officers will be elected and the  stand­

ing committees will be announced.  There 
are numerous  reforms  which  can be  se­
cured by the  organization, in  its present 
shape,  and the  temper of  the  leaders  of 
the movemeut  plainly  indicates that  ex­
cellent results will follow in its  wake.

Gripsack Brigade.

A.  A.  Ward, of the firm of Ward Bros., 
clothiers  at Marshall,  accompanied  Wm. 
Connor on  his  visit  to  this  market  last 
week.

Arthur T.  Reed,  formerly a resident of 
Muskegon,  but  for  the  past  half  dozen 
years  on  the  road  for  various  Chicago 
houses,  has taken the  position of  adver­
tising  representative  for  the  Edwards 
Coupon  Co.

the  versatile  clothing 
Wm.  Connor, 
salesman,  met 
following  mer­
the 
chants  on  the  occasion  of  his  visit  to 
this  market  last  week:  P.  W.  Travis, 
Otsego; A. J. Burnes,  Wacousta; Geo. W. 
Miller, Charlevoix;  Bosman  Bros.,  Hol­
land;  F.  Boonstra,  Zeeland;  Keeler  Sc 
Granger, Otsego.

A veteran traveling man for a Holyoke, 
Mass.,  house was  recently  married after 
a  courtship  of  twenty-seven  years. 
In 
fitting up  their new home, the bride dec­
orated  her  sewing  room  in  the  most 
unique  fashion.  During  their  long  en­
gagement the lover had written her faith­
fully from all quarters of  our  big  conti­
nent.  She  had  treasured  every  envel­
ope  which  brought  her  his  letters, and 
now they paper the  walls  of  the sewing 
room.

John D. Cuykendall, who has  traveled 
many years for H. D.  Edwards Sc  Co.,  of 
Detroit  was  found  dead  in  bed  at  his 
home  in  Marshall  on  Sept.  20,  having 
apparently expired the night before  dur­
ing an attack of apoplexy.  Mr.  Cuyken­
dall was in the neighborhood of  80  years 
of age  and went to Marshall in the  early 
thirties.  For many years he was engaged 
in the foundry business there and later in 
the agricultural implement business.

Brains,  pluck  and  perseverance  form 
a  combination  which  will  always  land 
the possessor in the front  rank and  give 
merited reward to well-directed energies. 
Among the many  young  men  who  have 
made  Saginaw  their  home  for  several 
years is P.  W. Crosby, with Symons Bros. 
Sc  Co.,  wholesale  grocers of  that  city. 
Mr.  Crosby  is  a  native  of  Canada,  but 
came  to  Michigan  when  quite  a  small 
boy and located with his  parents in Tus­
cola  county. 
In  the  spring  of  1888  he 
engaged  with  Symons  Bros.  Sc  Co.  as 
stock clerk,  and,  by hard work and strict 
attention to business,  he has risen to one 
of  the  most  important  positions  in  the 
house, that of  house  salesman.  He  has 
traveled over all the territory covered by 
his  house  and  is  intimately  acquainted 
with a large majority of their customers. 
He is a friend to every  one, a favorite in 
society and  has  hosts  of  friends among 
the boys on  the road.  Mr. Crosby is the 
youngest traveling  man  out  of  Saginaw 
but can  sell  the  goods  with  the rest  of 
the  boys.

A n E xpensive L u x u ry .

From the Portland Observer.
The  Lyons  Herald  says a representa­
tive of  Davis Sc Rankin  has  been  there 
endeavoring to organize a stock company 
to put  in a creamery. 
If  our  neighbors 
know  when  they are  well  off, they  will 
jump  at  the  chance  to  enrich  Davis  Sc 
Rankin.  No  town  that  can  afford  it 
should  be without one of  these  celebrat­
ed creamery plants;  life is almost a blank 
without  one—and  the  stockholders  are 
entirely so.

\

Established  1868.

I.  M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Building  Papers,  Carpet  Lin­
ings,  Asphalt  Ready  Rooting, 
Tarred Rooting,  Felt, Coal  Tar, 
Rooting and Paring Pitch,  Resin 
Asphalt  Roof  Paints,  Mineral 
Wool  for  deadening  purposes, 
Asbestos  products,  Pipe  cover­
ing, car, bridge and roof paints, 
Elastic roofing Cement, Etc.

In Felt, Composition and Gravel,

Warehouse and Office 

Cor.  LOUIS and  CAMPAU  Sts..

Grand  Rapids, 

-  Mich.

ty & S t& f a n  born

THE  BOSTON

TEA2C0FFEE

IMPORTERS,

Are now  receiving  by  every 

incoming  steamer  and 

Overland,

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,

IM PORTERS,

BOSTON . 

CHICAGO.
BUY  THE  PENINSULAR
Pets,  Shirts,  s i   Overalls

Once and Yon aie our Customer 

for life.

STANTON, MOREY & C0„ Mfrs.

DETROIT,  MICH.

Geo. F. Owen, Salesman for Western  Michigan, 

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

Teacher—What Is 
the best Cigar  sold  in 
this country to-day?

Class  (in  chorus)—

1Sen  II ur !

10c  or  3  for  35c.

Made on H onor!

Sold on M erit!

ORDER  FROM  YOUR  DEALER.

& CO.,

Manufacturers,

DETROIT. 
CHICAGO.
HESTER  MACHINERY  CO.,

AGENTS  FOR

ta g s » *

Plain  Slide Valve  Engines w ith T hrottling 
Automatic Balanced Single Valve  Engines. 

Governors.

Horizontal, T ubular and Locomotive

BOILERS.

U pright  Engines  and  Boilers  for  Light 

Power.

Prices on application.

45 S. Division St., 

Grand Rapids.

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Banners  
and
Streamers.

Of all kinds and made to order.

W eM ake;a Specialty of Campaign Banners 

and Streamers.

P ortraits of  Candidates on  Cloth o r Paper.

CHAS.  A.  COYE,

11  PEARL ST. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

DISSOLUTION  NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given  that  the  copartnership 
heretofore existing under the name of Kolvoora 
& Teravest has  this  day been  dissolved  by mu­
tual consent.  All accounts due to and  from the 
firm will be settled by A. Eolvood.

Hamilton, Mich., Sept. 12,1892.

A. Kolvoord. 
Wm. Teravest.

THE  MICBŒQ^JSr  TRADESMAN
SCHLOSS,  ADLER  &  GO..
Dry Goods Price Current.
Faits, Sits, Overalls

MANUFACTURERS  AND JOBBKR8 OF

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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6

TOO  MUCH  CONCENTRATION.

The value of seeing ourselves as others 
see us is no less  for  nations  than for in­
dividuals.  An  intelligent  onlooker  pro­
verbially sees  most of  the  game,  and an 
intelligent  stranger  can  see  defects  in 
our characteristics to which  we have  be­
come  blinded  by the  familiarity of  life­
long  surroundings.  There can  be  little 
doubt  that a vote  as to what  constitutes 
our most  striking  feature, if it could  be 
taken  from  observant  and  competent 
visitors,  would result in  a large majority 
designating  devotion  to  money-making. 
In moderation  such a trait is valuable as 
indicative  of  industry  and  enterprise, 
but  carried  to  its  present  excess,  this 
characteristic is our greatest curse.  Neg­
lecting individuals, here and  there, who, 
gathered  together,  would  form a minori­
ty  not  altogether  inconsiderable  in  its 
quantity and  weighty  in  its  intellectual 
quality,  it  is  surely  indisputable  that 
this  disease  is  a  serious  menace  to  the 
highest  form  of  public  progress.  Cul­
ture 
in  the  arts,  religion,  morality, 
health, duties of  citizenship, sociological 
question,  and,  in  fact,  all  that  fails  to 
bring  material  grist  to  the  individual 
mills which  grind  day in and  night  out 
to  produce  moneyed  affluence  for  their 
owners—all  these  pursuits  are  wofully 
neglected  in  the  frenzied  rush 
to  ac­
quire  a  larger income  than  one’s  neigh­
bor.

What  results  from such  selfish  negli­
gence?  Lack of  national and  municipal 
spirit  is  the  worst  of  its  evils.  These 
are  the  greatest,  because  the  most  di­
rectly  affecting  the  commonwealth  in 
their extent.  When  men  are so devoted 
to the accumulation of so-called riches as 
to  pay  no  attention to their  own  physi­
cal  and  intellectual needs,  it  is  not sur­
prising that they are apathetic in matters 
which only  concern  them  as  units  of  a 
great whole.  While thoughts of material 
aggrandizement  absorb  every  waking 
hour  to  a  greater  or  less  degree,  and 
leave no time for real home life or proper 
supervision of the children’s upbringing, 
there  is  no  reason to wonder  that  civic 
affairs should  be  left exclusively  to  the 
management of men whose whole thought 
is  personal  advancement  at  no  matter 
what  cost  to  the  public  they  are  sup­
posed  to  serve.  The strength  or  weak­
ness of  a nation lies in the  public spirit­
edness of its individuals.
Nothing but the vast natural advantages 
of  the  country prevents  the evil  results 
of  these  conditions from  becoming more 
disastrously evident.  That this will con­
tinue to be  the case  for  years to come is 
highly  probable.  But  until  a magnani­
mous  patriotism  displaces  self-centered 
concentration, America will never achieve 
that  summit of  her influence  among  the 
nations  of  the  world  for  which  she  is 
pre-eminently fitted by the framework of 
her  institutions  and  the  beneficence  of 
her natural endowments.

T rav erse City.

C heap  E x cursion 

to   P eto sk e y   an d  
An  excursion  train  will  leave  Grand 
Rapids on  October 4, at  10:30  a.  m.,  ar­
riving at Petoskey at 5:30 p.  m.  Tickets 
good for return  until October 13,  will  be 
sold for this  train at the  rate of  $4,  and 
will  be  good  to  either  Traverse  City or 
Petoskey,  as may be desired.  Train will 
arrive at Traverse City at 4:20 p. m.  The 
Petoskey  fair will  be  held  October  3  to 
8,  and  the  Traverse  City  fair  October 4 
to 7.  Apply to G.  R.  & I.  ticket  agents, 
or address  C.  L.  Lockwood, General Pas­
senger Agent, Grand  Rapids,  for  further 
information.

REMOVED  TO

2 3 -2 B   L a rn ed   S tM E a st

DETROIT,  MICH.

Dealers wishing  to  look  over our  line are  In­
vited  to  address  our Western  Michigan  repre­
sentative.  Ed.  Pike, 372  Fourth  avenue, Grand 
Rapids._________________________________

G.  R.  MATTHEW,

Grand Rapids, Mich.,

JOBBER OF

Wales Goodyear Rubbers,

W o o n so ck et R u b b ers,

F e lt B o o ts an d  A la sk a  Socks.

WOOD  WANTED!

We will  pay  cash  for  dry Beech  and  Maple 
Wood,  delivered  on  cars  within  ISO  miles  of 
Grand Rapids.  Correspondence solicited.
S.  P.  BENNETT FUEL  &  ICE  CO., 

Grand Rapids.

Greatest  Seller  on Earthl

Send for Illustrated  Catalogue.  See  price list 

in this journal.
SCHILLING  CORSET  CO.,

Detroit. Mich, and Chicago, 111.

Bleached.
Housewife  Q............534
R......... 634
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V...........934
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X......... 11
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Unbleached 

Housewife  A...........434
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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic...................  7
Arrow Brand 5M 
••  World Wide.  6
A rgyle...................  6
Atlanta AA...............6
“  LL...............   4%
Full Yard Wide...... 634
Atlantic A..............  64£
Georgia  A..............634
H..............  6*
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Honest Width......... 634
“ 
P ............   534
Hartford A ............ 6
D..............6
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Indian Head...........7
“  LL............. B
King A  A ............. 634
Amory.......................  6S4
Archery  Bunting...  4 
King EC.................  5
Beaver Dam  A A..  5}*
Lawrence  L L ........  4%
Blackstone O, 32....  5
Madras cheese cloth 634
Newmarket  G........544
Black Crow.............. 6
B  .......5
Black Rock  ...........6
N........  634
Boot, AL................  7
DD....  634
Capital  A ..................5*4
Cavanat V................5H
X ....... 634
Nolbe R..................  5
Chapman cheese cl.  334
Clifton  C R ...............5*
Our Level  Best...... 634
Comet..................... 634  Oxford  R................  6
Dwight Star............  634 IPequot....................  7
Clifton CCC...........6*  Solar..........................6
|Top of the  Heap....  7
Geo. Washington...  8
A B C ...................... 8>4
Glen Mills..............  7
Amazon...................8
Amsburg................. 7
Gold Medal.............734
Art  Cambric........... 10
Green  Ticket..........834
Great Falls..............  634
Blackstone A A.......7
Hope........................734
Beats All................. 434
Boston.....................12
Just  Out......   434® 5
King  Phillip...........734
Cabot.......................7
OP.....  734
Cabot,  %..................634
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Charter  Oak............534
Conway W...............7J4
Lonsdale...........  ® 834
Cleveland............... 7
Middlesex........   @5
Dwight Anchor....... 834
No Name................   734
shorts.  8
Oak View............... 6
Edwards..................   6
Our Own................   534
Empire.....................  7
Pride of the West.. .12
Rosalind.................734
Farwell....................734
Fruit of the Loom.  834
Sunlight.................   434
Fltchville  ............. 7
Utica  Mills............ 834
Nonpareil  ..10
First Prize...............7
Vlnyard..................  834
Fruit of the Loom X.  734
White Horse...........  6
Falrmount............... 434
Full Value...............644
.  834
Cabot...................... 7  I Dwight Anchor........834
Farwell...................8  I

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Rock...... . 

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

CARPET  WARF.

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CORSET  JEANS.

Peerless, white....... 17341 Integrity  colored...20
colored.... 1934 White Star..............18
“  colored..20
Integrity................. 18341 
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Hamilton................   8
Nameless............... 20
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2734
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1034
G G Cashmere.......20
....................30
“ 
...............3234
“ 
Nameless...............16
18
................. 35
“ 
CORSETS.
Wonderfnl.  .........84 50
Brighton......................4 75
Bortree’s .....................9 00
Abdominal...........15 00
Naumkeagsatteen..  7
Rockport................ 634
Conestoga............... 634
Walworth.............. 634
ITS.
Berwick fancies....  534
Clyde Robes...........
Charter Oak fancies 434 
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
m ourn’g  6 
Eddystoae fancy...  6 
chocolat  6
rober__6
sateens..  6 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6
staple__ 6
Manchester fancy..  6 
new era.  6 
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Merrlm’ck shirtings. 434 
Repp furn .  834
Pacific fancy..........6
robes............634
Portsmouth robes...  6 
Simpson mourning..  6
greys........6
solid black.  6 
Washington Indigo.  6 
“  Turkey robes..  734
“  India robes__ 734
"  plain Tky X 34 834
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red................ 6
Martha Washington
Tnrkeyred 34......   734
Martha Washington
Turkey red.......... 934
Rlverpolntrobes....  534
Windsor fancy........634
Indigo bine......... 1034
Harmony................  434
AC A......................1234
Pemberton AAA__16
York.......................1034
Swift River............ 734
Pearl River............12
Warren...................18

Coralino..................... 99 50
Schilling’s .................   9 00
Davis  Waists......  9 00
Grand  Rapids........4 50
Armory.................. 634
Androscoggin..........734
BlddefordTTTT.........  6
Brunswick..............634
PRC
Allen turkey  reds..  6
robes...........6
pink a purple 6
buffs...........  6
pink  checks.  6
staples........6
shirtings...  434 
American fancy—   534 
American indigo...  6 
American shirtings.  434 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  5 
Arnold 
....  634
Arnold  Merino......6
long cloth B. 1034 
“ 
“ 
“  C.  834
“ 
century cloth 7
“  gold seal......1034
“  green seal TR1034 
"  yellow seal.. 1034
serge............ 1134
" 
“  Turkey red.. 1034 
Ballou solid black..  5 
“  colors.  534
“ 
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange...  534
Berlin solids...........534
“  oil bine........034
“  "  green ....  834
“  Foulards....  534
red 34...........  7
“ 
“  “  %...........  934
»  4 4......... 10
“ 
“ 
« 3-4XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy........6
“  madders...  6
“  XX twills..  634
“ 
solids.........534
Amoskeag A C A.... 1234
Hamilton N ............ 734
D............ 834
Awning.. 11
Farmer....................8
First Prise............. 1134
Lenox M ills..........18
8
Atlanta,  D..............  634¡Stark  A
Boot........................  634 No  Name............... 734
Clifton, K...............   634|Top of Heap...........9

COTTON  DRILL.

gold  ticket

TICKINOS.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

DEMINS.

“ 

Amoskeag. ..............1234
9os.......1334
brown .18
Andover..................1134
Beaver Creek AA...10 
BB...  9
CC....
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 

« 
“ 
“ 
bine  834 
"  d a  twist 1034 

Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

“ 
“  

Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........1234
brown........12 34
Haymaker bine......   734
b r o w n ...  734
Jaffrey.....................1134
Lancaster................1234
Lawrence, 9ox........ 1834
“  No. 220....13
“  No. 250....1134
“ 
No. 280.... 1034

" 

Amoskeag.................734
“  Persian dress 834 
Canton ..  834
“ 
AFC....>.1034 
“ 
“ 
Teazle.. .1034
" 
Angola..1034 
“ 
Persian..  834 
Arlington staple—   634 
Arasapha  fancy....  434 
Bates Warwick dres 834 
staples.  634
Centennial.............  1034
Criterion...............1034
Cumberland staple.  534
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................434
Elfin.......................   734
Everett classics......834
Exposition................734
Glenarie.................   634
Glenarven................ 634
Glenwood.................734
Hampton.................. 034
Johnson Chalon cl 
34 
indigo blue 934 
zephyrs.... 16

eiNOUAMS.
Lancaster,  staple...  7 
fancies....  7 
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire............... 634
Manchester...............534
Monogram................634
Normandie............... 734
Persian..................... 834
Renfrew Dress........734
Rosemont................. 634
Slatersvllle...............6
Somerset.................   7
Tacoma  ................... 734
Toil  du Nord......... 1034
Wabash.....................734
seersucker..  734
Warwick................  834
Whlttenden............   634
heather dr.  8 
Indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook..............   8
........... ..10
Windermeer............. 5
York  ........................634

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«RAIN  BASS.

Amoskeag...............16*41 Valley City...............15
Stark......................  1934 Georgia................... 15
American............... 16  iPacific...................... 13

THREADS.

KNITTINO  COTTON.

Clark’s Mile End....45  IBarbour's................88
Coats’. J. & P......... 45  Marshall’s ................88
Holyoke..................22341
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....37
“  16... ....38
39
40
*•  18... ....39
“  20... ....40
41
CAMBRICS.

White.  Colored.
42
43
44
45

6  ..
8...
10...
12...

..33
...34
...35
...36

Slater......................   434
White Star.............  434
Kid Glove...............  434
Newmarket.............  434

Edwards................  434
Lockwood.................434
Wood’s..................   434
Brunswick...............434

RED  FLANNEL.

DOMET  FLANNEL.

MIXED  FLANNEL.

Fireman.................3234
Creedmore............. 2734
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless................2734
Red & Blue,  plaid. .40
Union R..................2234
Windsor.................. 1834
6 oz Western........... 20
Union  B................. 2234
Nameless...... 8  ® 9341 
.......  834@10  I 
“ 
Brown.  Black.
Slate.
9*
9)4
1034
1034
1134
1134
1234
1234
Severen, 8 oz...........  934
Mayland, 8 oz............10)4
Greenwood, 734 01..  934
Greenwood, 8 oz__ 1134
Boston, 8 oz.............1034

9)4
1034
1134
1234

T W ........................2234
F T .............  
8234
JR F , XXX............36
Buckeye.................8234

Grey SR W.............1734
Western W .............1834
D R P ......................1834
Flushing XXX........ 2334
Manitoba................ 2834
9  @1034 
1234
Black.
10)4
1134
12
20

Brown.
10)4
113412
20

“
“
Slate
|MH113412

20
West  Point, 8 0*.... IO34 
lOos  ...1234
“ 
Raven, lOoz.............1334
.............1334
Stark 
Boston, 10 oz............1234

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CANVASS  AND  PADDING.

WADDINGS.

SILESIAS.

White, dos..............25  IPer bale, 40 dos__ 87 50
Colored,  dos...........20  |
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
“  Red Cross....  9
“  Best.............1034
“  Best AA......1234
L............................. 734
G..............................834
Cortlcelll, doz.........75  [Cortlcelll  knitting,

Pawtucket...............1034
Dandle....................  9
Bedford......................1034
Valley  City...............I034
K K ......................... 10)4

SEWING  BILK.

-.12  “  8 
..12  |  “  10 

twist, doz. .3734  per Hos  ball........80
50 yd, doz..3734)
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

No  1 Bl’k & Whlte..l0  INo  4 Bl’k A White..15 
“ 
..20
” 
..25
No 2-20, M C......... 50  INo 4—15  F  834........ 40
••  8-18, S C...........45  I
No  2 White A Bl’k..12  INo  8 White A Bl’k..20 
.28
“ 
“ 
..26
No 2........................ 28  INo 8......................... 86

COTTON  TAPE.
..15  “  10 
-.18  |  “  12 
SAFETY  PINS.

FINS.

“ 
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“ 
" 

2 
3 

4 
6 

HKSDUS—PBB  H.

A. James...............1 401 Steamboat..............  40
Crowely’s................1 85 Gold  Byed...............1  50
Marshall's.............. 1 001
5—4....2 25  6-4...8 2515-4....1  96  6—4...2 96

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“  ...8 10|

“ ....2 10 

COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............18)4
Anchor..................16
Bristol...................13
Cherry  Valley........15
I X L.......................18)4
Alabama...................6M
Alamance................. 634
Augusta.................734
Ar  sapha................  6
Georgia.....................634
Granite........?........  544
Haw  River............ 5
Haw  J .....................6

Nashua.............  ...18
Rising Star 4-ply.. ..17 
8-ply....17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 ply 1734 
Powhattan............. 18

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Mount  Pleasant__ 634
Oneida....................  5
Prym ont................  544
Randelman............   6
Riverside...............   6)4
Sibley  A ...........  ...  6U
Toledo....................

PLAID  OSNABURGS

THE  MICHiaAlSr  TRADESMAN,

7

MAKING  MONEY.

Mankind may  be  divided  roughly into 
two  classes — those  who  understand 
money and  those who  do  not.  The first 
of these possess all  the real  power in the 
world,  the  second  are  subordinates, ser­
vants,  slaves. 
The  ability  to  make 
money and  employ it  to  the owner’s ad­
vantage is a very remarkable  gift, and is 
displayed  more  by  the  Teutonic-Celtic 
races  than  by the  other  families of  the 
It  is  an  ability,  too,  which  is 
earth. 
largely increasing.
Americans may now  be  said  to  be the 
money-makers par excellence;  yet, so far, 
a comparatively  few  have  made  wealth 
and kept  it.  The  majority  have passed 
through existence without winning  more 
than a small  share,  and the lot of  others 
has  been  hopeless  poverty.  The  com­
mon  state  now is that  in  which  people 
just  manage to discharge  their  financial 
obligations  to  society.  Expenditure de­
vours income as night follows day.  These 
people  live  neither  beyond  their  means 
nor  under their  means,  but  fully  up to 
them.  They are too honest or  too proud 
to  be in  debt,  but  they lack  the  money­
keeping faculty.
During  the last  fifty  years the money­
makers  have  been  so busy  and  so  suc­
cessful that they may almost be pardoned 
for  the  indignation  they  feel  toward 
those who  see the  golden  river  running 
through  the  land,  and  yet will  not  take 
the  trouble  to  catch  a  pailful.  The 
money-makers  have  built  the  railways, 
for  without  their  capital  and  cupidity 
the  locomotive  must  have  remained  an 
inventor’s  dream.  They  have  brought 
the  telegraph  out of  the  savant’s  study 
to  make  time a laggard  and  space a ne­
gation.  They have metamorphosed Amer­
ica,  and  they  are  busy  reshaping  the 
whole  earth  and  the  destinies  of  man­
kind.  Already  the  tide of  wealth  has 
swept away many of  the old  landmarks, 
and,  as  it  rises  into  higher  waves,  it 
portends changes of which the shrewdest 
thinkers  cannot  grasp  the  full  signifi­
cance.
The natural  aptitude  for  money-mak­
ing becomes  more  marked  from  year  to 
year.  Good times and bad times make it 
equally more pronounced.  When a period 
of depressed trade occurs  there  is a gen­
eral  outcry  against  unthriftiness  and 
foolish  spending. 
The  tendency  for 
money-getting  becomes  fearfnlly  acute, 
and  the  knowledge  that  less  is  being 
made  and,  consequently, 
less  stored 
rouses  people  into  high  activity.  The 
sin of  spending unduly  is  denounced on 
every side.  The  duty of  taking  care  of 
what  we  have  is  sternly insisted  upon, 
and clamorous multitudes of unemployed 
work  people  are  told  they  deserve  the 
privations  they  are  enduring  because 
they did  not  lay  by  for  the  rainy  day 
which has come upon them.
One of  the  most remarkable symptoms 
of  a  general  advance  in  prudence  and 
thrift  is  the  enorm ous  num ber  of 
in­
surance  '-.ssociations  which  have  arisen 
in the past  twenty-five years.  A man of 
the  middle  class is now  looked  upon as 
in a degree selfish if  he does not  provide 
for the  wants of  his family even  beyond 
the grave.  All heads of  families are ex­
pected to insure their  lives,  and  for sub­
stantial amounts.  The superior artisans 
are  alive  to  their  duty  in  this matter, 
and  the lower  ranks of  labor  have  cre­
ated  some  of  the  strongest  and  most 
skillfully  planned  assurance  companies 
that are to be found.  By means of burial 
societies,  the  poorest  assure  themselves 
and  their  families  for  the  few  dollars 
that  will  place  them  decently  in  their 
graves.  The  sick  clubs  and other  pru­
dential  and  saving  associations  are,  in 
their way, further evidences that the peo­
ple are becoming  money-savers, and that 
time is only needed to make them money­
makers.  Assurance  against  calamity in 
any  form  is  merely  sparing  from  the 
abundance  of  to-day  that  it  may be  en­
joyed to-morrow,  should it be needed.
This is very good, but  what  about  the 
dark side of things?  How about pauper­
ism?  Can a country with the  number of 
destitute people we  have  be really  pros­
pering?  Not  a  day  do we  take  up  the 
newspapers  but  that  we  read  therein 
some  piteous  case of  starvation  in  the 
midst of plenty.  Do  not the  lucky ones 
thrive at the expense of others?  In reply

to these  questions  it  must  be  admitted 
that  pauperism  is  truly  gigantic.  The 
existence of  tramps  and  beggars is both 
a  disgrace  and a danger which  must  be 
combated  as the  first of  national  duties. 
And  pauperism  is  being  combated;  of 
that  there  is  no  doubt.  Pauperism  is 
one of the heirlooms of the feudal period 
of  the  Old  World.  Then  society  com­
prised  two  classes,  the patrons  and  the 
patronized.  There was  then no disgrace 
in being dependent.  Under our industrial 
regime nations have disappeared, but the 
habit of dependence still exists in certain 
sections of  society;  hence the hereditary 
pauper.  With  the  ceaseless  removal of
the  peasantry into  towns, with  the  con­
stant  increase of  machinery for  the  cul­
tivation of  the  soil, the  dependent  class 
decreases.  But one of the effects of  rus­
tic immigration  into the  great centers of 
industry has  been to swell the volume of 
pauperism whenever trade was depressed. 
Directly the ex-peasant was  out of  work 
he threw  himself  and  his  family on  the 
charitable  with  as  little  shame  as  he 
threw off his  coat.  Then  the demoraliz­
ing influence of  courts and alleys  tended 
to degrade him and his children;  he could 
not always resist the saloon, and the gut­
ter  was  the  only playground.  With the 
changes now going  on  it  is  to  be  hoped 
that  pauperism  will  be  reduced  much, 
both  in  quantity  and  degree.  As  yet, 
however, the abject condition, the drunk­
enness, the vice  and  squalor to  be  seen 
in the large and also in some small towns 
are most disheartening.
The  fevered  competition  of  modern 
times  is a conspicuous  symptom that  all 
classes  are  alive  to  the  importance  of 
money matters.  Strife for wealth is not 
a new  mode of  civil war  as  some  pessi­
mists allege, nor is it caused by a brutish 
indifference to everything external to our 
selfish interests. 
It springs from modern 
conceptions  of  the  philosophy  of  life. 
Parents  toil to make  a  comfortable pro­
vision for old  age;  and  it  is  well to call 
attention to this, as being one of the new 
ideas  of  the  time.  Formerly  parents 
found an  asylum in  the  home of  certain 
of  their  children, often with  the  eldest 
son  or  daughter, but  now  the  spirit  of 
independence is  so  paramount among us 
that parents  cannot  endure the  thought 
of  living  upon  their  children.  At  the 
same time  they are  not  less  considerate 
for their children’s future;  they not only 
seek fortune for themselves, they seek to 
place their sons on the  road to opulence, 
and  to  dower  their daughters.  Money- 
grubbing,  as  it  is  called, is  not  always 
indulged in by a desire for accumulation,
to minister to sensual pleasures, to make 
a  dash  in  the  world of  fashion. 
In the 
majority of cases wealth is sought by the 
middle  classes  to  secure  the  possessor 
against  the  agonies  and  despairs  of  a 
mean  estate.  The dread of  poverty and 
patronage  makes  fathers  plod,  makes 
m others  economize;  m akes sons  exercise 
self-restraint,  m akes  daughters  become 
useful  in  the  kitchen  and sewing room. 
The  wish  for  easy  circumstances  does 
more  to  foster  the  return  of  old  home 
life,  with its attendant  virtues,  simplici­
ties and tranquilities, than  all the  other 
“aids  to improvement”  that  are  operat­
ing upon  the middle  classes.  The ideas 
now  are  monetary 
independence,  fru­
gality and industry.  Those who witness 
the arrival of  the twentieth  century will 
find what these ideals have accomplished.

Hardware Price Current.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

dlB.

‘ 
• 

AXES.

BARROWS. 

60
Snell’s ................................................................. 
Cook’s ...............................................................  
40
Jennings’, genuine..........................................  
25
Jennings’,  Im itation....................................... 50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.............................8 7 50
D.  B. Bronze.............................  12 00
S. B. S. Steel..................................   8 50
D. B. Steel......................................  13 50
dlS.
Railroad......................................................... 8 14 00
G ard en .................................... ..............net  30 00
dis.
Stove......................... 
50*10
Carriage new list.............................................. 75*10
Plow.............................................................. 40*10
Sleigh shoe........................................................ 
70
Well,  plain........................................................ 8 3 50
Well, kwlvel......................................................  4 00
dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright Sast jo in t................60*10

butts, cast. 

buckets.

bolts. 

 

Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60*10
Wrought Table.............................................60*10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60*10
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s ............................................ 70*10
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

....................................... 
BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1893................ 

50

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

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel............................................ per ft  5
Ely’s 1-10.............................................. perm  65
60
Hick’s C. F .............................................  “ 
G. D ........................................................  “ 
35
Musket...................................................  “ 
60

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

50
25

OARTBIDSES.

chisels. 

Socket Firmer...............................................70*10
Socket Framing............................................70*10
Socket Corner............................................... 70*10
Socket Slicks............................................... 70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

40
Carry,  Lawrence’s ....................................... 
Hotchkiss..................................................... 
25
White Crayons, per gross..............12Q12X dis. 10

CHALK.

combs. 

COFFER.

dis.

dis.

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

28
26
23
23
25
dis.
50
50
50

DRIPPING FANS.

07
Small sizes, ser pound............................. 
Large sizes, per pound.......................  
  6H
 
Com. 4 piece, 6 in ............................doz. net 
75
40
Corrugated..............................................dis 
Adjustable..............................................dis. 40*10

ELBOWS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

d ll.
Clark’s, small, «18; large, 826................... 
80
Ives’, 1,818; 2,824 ; 8, 830........................ 
25
dis.
Dlsston’s ..................................................60*10
New  American........................................ 60*10
Nicholson’s ............................................. 60*10
Heller’s ..................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps...............................  
50

FILES—New List.. 

RAMMERS.

dis.

“ 
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“ 
“ 
“ 

HINGES.

h angers. 

HOLLOW WARE.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

25
Maydole  A Co.’s....................................dis. 
25
Kip's................................................  ..  .dis. 
Yerkes * Plumb’s..................................dis. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand__80c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ........................dis.60&10
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 in. 4)4  14  and
longer........................................................  3H
Screw Hook and  Eye, *4.........................net 
10
X.......................... net  8X
“ 
X.......................... net  7X
“ 
“ 
%.......................... net  7X
Strap and T ............................................ dis. 
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50*10
Champion,  anti-friction.............................   60*10
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots..................................................................... 60*10
Kettles.................................................................60*10
Spiders  .............................................................. 60*10
Gray enameled..................................................40*10
Stamped  Tin W are..............................   .new list 70
Japanned Tin W are......................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are ....................... new list 33^*10
dis.
Bright........................................................... 70*10*10
Screw  Eyes................................................. 70*10*10
Hook’s ..........................................................70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................ 
70*10*10
dla.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ........................
Sisal, % Inch and la rg e r................................ 
M anilla..............................................................   13
dis.
Steel and  Iron................................................... 
Try and Bevels....................................... 
 
M itre.................................................................. 

75
60
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
82 95
3 05
8 05
3 15
325
3  35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14..........................................84 05 
Nos. 15 to 17 ........................................   4  05 
Nos.  18 to 21.......................................  4  06 
Nos. 22 to 24 ........................................   4  05 
Nos. 25 to 26........................................   4 25 
No. 27..................................................   4  45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86..........................................dis. 
Silver Lake, White  A .................................list 
Drab A ....................................  “ 
White  B .................................   “ 
Drab B.....................................  “ 
White C....................................“ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

levels. 
ROPES.

wire goods. 

SHEET IRON.

50
50
55
50
55
35

squARss. 

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9V4

 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

GALVANIZED IRON.

55

15 

12 

dis.

28
17

55
55
55
55

NA ILS

dlS.
dis.

MATTOCKS.

LOCKS—DOOR. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MOLASSBS sates. 

14 
GAUGES. 

knobs—New List. 

Advance over base: 

13 
Discount, 60

70
dis.
55
55
55
dis. 60
dis. 60

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
16 
List 
dis.
50
dis.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................  
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....................  
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain.............. 
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s.......................  
Branford’s ..............................................  
Norwalk’s ................................................ 
Adze Eye.............................................816.00, 
Hunt Bye.............................................815.00, 
Hunt’s ..........................................818.50, dis. 20*10.
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
50
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  M alléables.... 
40
11  Landers,  Ferry & Cle ik’s ................... 
40
30
......................................... 
“  Enterprise 
Stebbln’s Pattern..............................................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine............................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
25
Steel nails, base........................................................ 1 85
Wire nails, base........................................................ 1 60
Steel.  Wire.
Base
60............................................................Base 
50.........  
10
Base 
25
05 
40........... 
25
10 
30........................................................... 
20........... 
35
15 
45
16........................................................... 
15 
45
12........................................................... 
15 
10............................................................   20 
50
8 .............................................................  25 
60
7 * 6 ........................................................  40 
75
90
................................................................  60 
1  20
8............................................................1 00 
8........................................................... 1  50 
1 60
160
F lneS .....................................................150 
65
Case  10..................................................   60 
8..................................................   75 
75
6..................................................   90 
90
Finish 10................................................  85 
75
8................................................1 00 
90
6..............................................1  15 
1 10
Clinch; 10...............................................  85 
70
80
8................................................1 00 
6................................................1 15 
90
Barren %...............................................175 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ....................................  0*1
Sdota Bench....................................................   Ç60
Sandusky Tool  Co.’*, fancy...........................   040
Bench, first quality..........................................  060
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood............  *10
Fry,  Acme..................................................dls.60-10
Common,  polished................................... dis. 
70
dis.
Iron and  Tinned.............................................. 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs................................50—10
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

“ 
•• 
«« 
« 
« 
«« 

flaxes. 

rivets. 

FANS.

dis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Broken packs Mo per pound extra.

dis.

saws. 

traps. 

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

Solid Eyes................................................per ton 826
“ 
20
70
Sliver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot,.... 
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot....  50
30 
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot.... 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  root............................................ 

30
dis.
Steel, Game................................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ............. 
35
Oneida  Community, Hawley a Norton’s __  
70
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c per doz
Mouse, delusion.................................. 81.50 per doz.
dla.
Bright Market..................................................   65
Annealed Market............................................. 70—10
Coppered M arket.............................................   60
Tinned Market................................................
50

K red  Spring  Steel...............................  

d  Fence, galvanized...............................  3 00
“ 

painted.......................................  2 55

wire. 

HORSE NAILS.
 

dis. 

WRENCHES. 

Au  Sable  ................... 
40*10
dis.  00
Putnam .............................................. 
N orth western...................................  
dis. 10*10
dis.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
30
Coe’s  G enuine................................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,....................... 75
Coe’B  Patent, malleable.................................. 75*10
dlS.
Bird Cages...................................................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern............................................ 
7! *10
Screws, N ew List.............................................. 70*10
Casters, Bed  a  d Plate............................. 50*10*10
Dampers, American........................................  
40
Forks, hoeB, rakes  and all steel goods........ 6E *10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

METALS,

FIG TIN.

6ff
7

ZINC.

26c
280

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.........................................................  
Pig Bars............................................................. 
Duty:  Sheet, 2Xc per pound.
600 pound  casks...............................................  
Per  pound.........................................................  
K@Vi.........................................................................16
Extra W iping......................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson............................................per  pound
Hallett’s ..........................................  
TIN—MXLYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal............................................• 7  50
14x2010, 
7  60
10x14 IX, 
9  25
9  25
14x20 IX, 

Bach additional X on this grade, 81.75.

18

“ 

 
 
 

 
 
 

“ 
'• 
“ 
TIN—ALLA WAT GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

 
 
 
ROOTING PLATES

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

Bach additional X on this grade 81.50.

 
 
 

“ 
“ 
“  . 
“ 
“ 

“  Worcester..............................  6 50
14x20 IC, 
.............................  8  50
“ 
14x20 IX, 
...........................   18 50
“ 
20x28 IC, 
“  Allaway  Grade.................. 
14x20 IC, 
6  00
7  50
“ 
14x20 EX, 
“ 
12  50
20x28 IC, 
20x28 EX, 
“ 
15 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
14x28  IX ..............................................................814 08
14x31  EX..................................... 
14x60 i l l f"  N» ' 9 B° “e" '  [ p®1 Pound.... 

15
10

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8

Michigan Tradesman

Dfllci&l Organ of Michigan B naines« Men's  Association.

A  WKBKLY  JOURNAL  DKVOTED  TO  THE

Retail  Trade  of the Woliferine State,

Published at

lOO  Louis  St., Grand Rapids,

— BY—

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

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ness men.

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class matter.

^ fW h e n   writing to any of  our  advertisers, 
please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement in 
1%k Michigan T radesm an.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  28,  1892.

AN INTERNATIONAL BOND OP UNION
The  British  newspapers  are  devoting 
considerable space to comment on the pro­
ject of holding a periodical festival of the 
English-speaking  races  with  the  object 
of  recognizing  as  a  fraternizing  force 
competition  in  athletic  sports, 
in  in­
dustry  and  in  literature.  There  ap­
pears to be a disposition  to  think  favor­
ably  of  the  project,  but  most  of  the 
comments  indicate  some  doubt  as  to 
such  a  periodical  celebration  success­
fully  combining  the  many  different ob­
jects mentioned.

All seem to be  agreed  upon the entire 
feasibility of  a  festival  of  all  the  Eng­
lish-speaking  ra^es  which  will  include 
a display of athletic  sports  and  national 
games, and  believe  that  such  a festival 
would  exert  a  strong  fraternizing 
in­
fluence  which  might  eventually  permit 
the  iucluding  of  literature  and  art and 
even commerce.  All  the English-speak­
ing races are united  by  a  common bond 
of 
in  athletics  and  general 
sports,  however  divided  in  commercial 
interests,  politics  and  other  respects; 
hence,  in  the  words  of  one of  the Eng­
lish  commentators  on  the  project,  it  is 
very  possible  that  the  movement  may 
eventually  result  in  a  festival  which 
will  prove  to  be  “ the  Olympian  games 
of a larger world than the  Greek.”

interest 

in 

For many  years  past there  has been  a 
free  interchange  of  interest  among  the 
English-speaking  nations  in  their  re­
spective  achievements  in  the  world  of 
sports,  in  athletic diversions and compe­
titions.  The champions in  the  different 
countries 
the  several  branches  of 
athletic sports have  of  late  years freely 
competed  with  each  other  in  interna­
tional  contests.  American  teams  have 
visited  England  to  compete  in  cricket 
and rifle matches and British teams  have 
visited  America  for  the  same  purpose. 
Our  gladiators  of  the  prize  ring  have 
competed in England and  Australia,  and 
English as well as Australian champions 
have competed in  this  country.  And  so 
the matter runs through  the  whole cate­
gory of sports.

When these  things  are  remembered it 
does  seem  actually  possible  to  estab­
lish such a periodical festival as has been

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

suggested, and  there  is  no  denying that 
such a  celebration,  if  once  inaugurated, 
would  be  far-reaching  in  its  results. 
There  is  little likelihood,  however,  that 
such a festival  could be  made to extend 
to  all the purposes  contemplated  in  the 
original  scheme.  There  is  much  force 
in  this  connection  in  the  remarks of  a 
Mr. Service,  Ex-Premier  of  one  of  the 
British colonies,  who  says  he thinks  “it 
would  be  well  to  limit  the  scheme  in 
the  first  place  to  contests  mainly of  a 
physical character,  which  would possess 
the  greatest  attraction  for the  youth  of 
the  Empire.  The  periodical  gathering 
once established,  it  could,  and  no doubt 
would be, gradually  availed of  far other 
purposes,  literary,  commercial, scientific 
and social.”

NO  GAS  AT  THE WORLD’S  FAIR.
Whether  because  they  think  the  gas 
business  too  strong  to  be  in danger,  or 
because  they  feel  already  distanced  by 
electricity,  the  gas  manufacturers  of 
the  country  will  not  make  an  exhibit 
at  the  World’s  Fair.  A  strong  effort 
was made in  that  direction  by  the “Gas 
Industry  Council,” but,  after  strenuous 
exertions, it  only  succeeded  in  getting 
subscriptions  to  the  amount of 871,580, 
and finally gave it  up in  despair, on  the 
ground  that  “a  meager  and  incomplete 
exhibition  would  work  more damage  to 
the  industry  than  the  entire  abandon­
ment of the scheme.”  This is  greatly to 
be regretted,  both in the interests of  the 
gas  companies  and  in  the  interests  of 
the  public;  for  while  electrical  inven­
tion  has  been  making  wonderful  ad­
vances,  both in the directions of lighting 
and  heating, equally  great,  though  not 
equally  well  advertised,  advances  have 
been made in the gas  industry. 
In Eng­
land,  France and Germany  of  late  years 
have been made  many  important  inven­
tions 
for  increasing  the  illuminating 
power  of  gas,  utilizing  its  heat  and 
cheapening its production.  And it would 
certainly  be  to  the  interest  of  the  gas 
companies 
to  acquaint  the  American 
public with the high  power  regenerative 
burners  of  the  Siemens  lamp,  for  in­
stance,  and  the  Cromartie,  and  many 
others.  The  incandescent  gas  lamps, 
which nse  the  heat  of the gas to render 
certain solid  bodies  luminous are almost 
unknown this side  of the Atlantic, as are 
the  so-called  carburetted  gas  lamps, 
which  enrich  the  flame  at  the  bnrner 
with  a  heavy  carbon  vapor.  These 
things Americans would  be interested to 
see,, and also the  many  improvements in 
gas  cooking 
heating  stoves, 
bath-heating  apparatus  and,  more  than 
the  modern 
all 
generating  gas  where­
methods  of 
by, 
it  can  be 
made  for  5 cents a  thousand  feet.  But 
if the gas companies  are  going  to  allow 
the electric people to  monopolize the  at­
tention  of  the  World’s  Fair,  they  will 
find, as Light, Heat and Power says,  that 
they had better have  paid  the entire ex­
pense of  the whole  fair  than to have al­
lowed this matter to drop.

friends  claim, 

interested 

stoves, 

else, 

its 

in 

PREPARING  FOR  AN  EMPIRE.
It  looks  very  much  as  though  Chili 
were  preparing  to  change  her  form  of 
government  from  an  at  least  nominal 
republic  to  a  military  despotism.  She 
has  passed  a  law  making  military  ser­
vice compulsory on  every  effective male 
in  the  Republic  above  20 years of  age. 
The  first  ten  years  are  to  be  spent  in

active  service.  At  30  the  men  go  into 
the first reserve,  and  at  40  into the sec­
ond.

This  system  will  create  an  immense 
standing  army,  a  well  disciplined  and 
thoroughly  welded  body  that,  under  a 
leader  whom  it  admires  and  is  accus­
tomed  to  obey,  would  have  little  re­
gard  for  constitutions,  courts  or  any 
other safeguards of public liberty.

to  protect 

The history of  the world declares  that 
a large standing army is  ever the  enemy 
of 
freedom  and  the  opportunity  of 
tyrants. 
It  was  the  army  maintained 
to withstand the encroachments of Persia 
that  destroyed  the  liberties  of  Greece 
and  opened  the  way  for  Alexander  of 
Macedon. 
It  was  the  legions  of  Rome 
that  placed  Augustus  Caesar  on  the 
imperial  throne  over  the  ruins  of  the 
It was  the 
great  Old  World  republic. 
great  army  organized 
the 
Hanseatic  «ties  from Norse  freebooters 
and  Tartar  nomads  that  transformed 
once 
republican  Russia  into  the  most 
despotic  tyranny  of  the  world.  The 
great  army  called  into  existence to put 
down  the  rebellion  came  dangerously 
near,  in  the  opinion  of  many  people, 
making a military  dictator  for America. 
It is the  army of  France  that,  when  its 
favorite General  is  elected  to the  Presi­
dency,  will  rebuild  for  him  the  throne 
that  it  built  for  Napoleon.  And  the 
same  will  be  the  history  of  affairs  in 
Chili,  and by  so much  the sooner,  as the 
Chilians are an excitable and uneducated 
people.  Republics  are  peaceful  organi­
zations  for  peace-loving  people.  Some 
army  they  must  have  to  protect  them­
selves from  internal  dissension  and for­
eign  aggression,  but  a  large  army  con­
stitutes their greatest danger.

Some  singular  facts  concerning  the 
danger  of 
infection  by  paper  money 
have  been  educed  by  a  bacteriological 
analysis of the bank notes of the Spanish 
Bank of  Havana  in  general circulation. 
Attention  was  drawn  to  the  subject by 
the  fact  that  circulation  increased the 
weight  of  the  notes  in  consequence of 
their acquiring foreign  matter.  The ex­
amination made showed  on  the  notes  in 
use for some time a considerable number 
of microbes,  and  on  some notes as many 
as  10,000  microbes  were  detected. 
Eight  pathogenic  species  were  encoun­
tered,  including those of  diphtheria and 
tuberculosis.  The  result  of  the  exami­
nation was  that  a general  warning  was 
issued  to  the  public  against  this active 
source  of  danger.  The  use  of  bank 
notes is at  all times attended  with a cer­
tain degree of risk,  and  a fortune awaits 
the  inventor  of  a  cheap  and  effective 
fumigating apparatus.

The International  Cigarmakers’  Union 
has  promulgated a boycott  on  S.  Oren­
burg  &  Bro.,  of  New  York—who  pay 
more  than  union  wages  but  refuse  to 
recognize  the  union—and  the  following 
brands of  cigars:  Tansil’s Punch,  Best, 
Delmonico,  Esmeralda,  Galaxy,  N.  Y. 
Perfecto, O. P.  Stragler  and  Gran  Goza. 
T h e  T radesm an refers to the matter in 
this manner in order  that  decent  people 
who  do  not  approve  of  the  favorite 
weapons of unionism—boycotting, incen­
diarism,  intimidation  and  murder—may 
patronize  the  brands  put  under the ty­
rannical interdict.

Galesburg—Schroeder  &  Carson  suc­
ceed Schroeder &  Olin in  general  trade.

The Installment Plan.

In some cases it may  be  followed. 

In 
many cases—the  majority  of  cases—the 
plan is not a good one. 
It  is  too costly. 
The man who buys on credit is always at 
a disadvantage with  the  man  who  pays 
cash. 
It is up-hill work with him.  And 
it is precisely the same with families who 
buy on  credit  from  the  grocer  and  the 
tailor.  Look into the matter for yourself 
and figure out the big difference. 
If you 
can’t buy a piano  outright  don’t  buy  it 
on monthly payments,  for  it  is  costing 
you more than fifteen  per  cent,  interest 
extra.  Let  your  music  be  the  whistle 
until  you  have  earned  the  cash,  then 
when you have  entered  the  market  ob­
serve with what  deference  and  discount 
you are treated.  Depend  upon  it,  our 
way is the best.  We give  you  a  secret; 
follow out the installment plan with your 
cash.  Buy or earn interest by weekly or 
monthly deposits in a bank or with a good, 
true,  successful  friend.  Do  you  know 
much about the word  increment f 
See 
your dictionary and then see your banker. 
This is a fine country and good  world  to 
those  who  lay  hold  of  common  sense. 
To the senseless ones it is cruel and hard. 
Buying by the  pail,  our  washerwoman’s 
coal  costs  her  ten  dollars  a  ton;  poor 
body,  she has customers who would glad­
ly advance her $5 on account to get  it by 
the ton,  but  few  people  think  or  plan 
right.  Think out the power  of  cash  in 
all the markets,  and then you can’t  very 
well  fritter  away  and  waste  the  thing 
more valuable than all gems.  Fifty  dol­
lars  in  your  bank  or  pocket  is  much 
better than in a ring on  your  finger. 
If 
wide-awake,  with cash yon will be always 
finding gaps from which the returns  will 
be fourfold.  When you go to market ask 
first the credit price,  and  after  that  the 
discount off for cash.  The  pitiful  fool 
who goes to the saloon,  can  he  ever  get 
profits out of passing opportunities?  No, 
In  the  wholesale  houses,  the 
never. 
smartest  salesman  is  assigned 
to  the 
man who buys for  cash.  How  quick  he 
is seen and how welcome when  he enters 
the establishment.

There  is  more  success  in  the  way  a 
merchant buys than in the  way  he  sells. 
Ready money; job  lots.  How  they  ac­
comodate  each  other!  Be  wise,  then, 
with your wallet and watch closely those 
leeches,  your  mouth  and  your  back, 
with their  perpetual  cry  of  Give,  give. 
You  have  not  earned  your  spurs  yet. 
Earn them in the way suggested.  Think 
of  the  difference  between  the  families 
whose  debts  and  credits  are  running 
against them and the wise families whose 
interest account  looks  up  so  smilingly 
every quarter day.  Cash or credit, which? 
Decide now. 

Geo.  R. Scott.

Financial Notes.

O.  F. Conklin,  E. A. Stowe and  W.  P. 
Conklin  have  sold  their  stock  in  the 
Traverse Point Association to J.  S.  Jen­
nings and Mrs.  Jas. B.  Mulliken,  of  De­
troit.  The  sale  includes  not  only  the 
land comprising  the  Traverse  Point  re­
sort but the hotel,  barn,  ice  house  and 
cottages not owned  by  private  individu­
als.  The new owners  will  continue  the 
improvements inaugurated by the found­
ers of the resort,  with  a  view  to  giving 
Traverse Point the reputstion its  superb 
location deserves.

The  new  Bank  of  Morenci  opened 
its doors  to  the  public  Sept.  20.  The 
business  will  be  under  the  personal 
management of G. H. Gates.

The Hardware Market.

The  hardware  market  has  been  un­
eventful during the past week,  the  trade 
moving  along  without  any  special  fea­
tures or noteworthy  changes.  There  is, 
however,  little  disposition  to  place  or­
ders  in  anticipation  of  strengthening 
prices.

Pig  Iron—Reports  from  all price cen­
ters  indicate  a  firmer  attitude  of  the 
market.

Copper—The copper  market continues 
to soften, but little  change  has  yet beeu 
made in sheet  copper  for tinners’ use.

Pig Tin—This article has held its own, 

with a tendency to higher values.

Pig Lead—Has  relapsed  into dullness 

after a brief spurt of activity.

Lead Pipe—Should  pig lead decline to 
any extent, you can look for lower prices 
on  lead  pipe  in  sympathy with the  de­
cline.  Jobbers  are  now  quoting  lead 
pipe at  5c  which price  could,  no  doubt, 
be shaded for liberal orders.

Cut  Nails—The  firmness  in  the  East­
ern  market  has  reached  the  Pittsburgh 
market, and  nails  for  prompt  shipment 
are  impossible  to  obtain.  Jobbers  are 
quoting $1.85  rates.

Wire Nails—Wire  nails  are  not  in  as 
satisfactory condition as  cut  nails,  inas­
much as the market is regarded  as some­
what weak,  without,  however,  any  quot­
able falling off in  price.  The volume of 
business is good and  jobbers  are  selling 
at $1.80 to $1.90,  according  to  size  of or­
der and location of  trade.

Barbed Wire—The  market is not char­
acterized by a specially  strong  tone,  and 
the volume of business is only moderate. 
Good buyers cannot secure better figures, 
and we have  heard  of  $3.40  for painted 
and $2.85 for galvauized being made,  but 
it was for good sized  orders.

Glass—There  have  been  no  new  de­
velopments  in  the  glass  market  during 
the past week.  Manufacturers of Amer­
ican glass are trying  to  do something  to 
maintain the price, as the figures at which 
it is now  sold  do  not  cover  the  cost  of 
production,  but,  as yet,  nothing has been 
accomplished.  The  price  still  remains 
at 80 to 80 and  10. according to quantity.
Powder—A  reduction  has  been  made 
in the price of  rifle  powder by nearly all 
the  makers.  The  price  is  now  as  fol­
lows:  25  pound  kegs,  $4.50;  1 2 pound 
kegs, $2.50;  6%  pound kegs, $1.37.

Shot—No change has been made  in the 
price of  shot, and,  as  the  production  is 
held full in hand by  the  manufacturers, 
a decline at  present is not looked for.

The  Drug  Market.

Gum opium is weak  and  has  declined.
Morphia is  unchanged.
Quinine is steady.
Gum  camphor  is excited  and  rapidly 
advancing.  We note an advance of about 
10 per cent,  on Saturday.

Corrosive  sublimate  has  advanced  on 
account of large demand for  disinfecting 
purposes.

Lycopodium has advanced.  Stocks are 
light  and  this  article  is  in  demand for 
campaign  purposes.

ad­

German  chamomile  flower  has 

vanced.
It is reported that the  crop is very  small 
and foreign  markets  are  almost bare  of 
stock.

Manna  has  advanced  on  account  of 

small crop.

lower later on.

Celery  seed  has  declined  and will  be 

Use Tradesman Coupon Boohs.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

9

Purely Personal.

Frank E. Chase has returned from  De­
troit whither he  went  to  meet  his  wife 
and daughter on their return  from  their 
summer outing at Cape  Cod.

Austin K.  Wheeler,  Treasurer  of  the 
Lemon & Wheeler Company,  is  spending 
a couple of weeks  at  Washington,  New 
York  and  other  Eastern  cities.  He  is 
accompanied by his family.

Frank Daniels,  the  Traverse  City  gro­
cer, has been granted a patent on his im­
proved  computing  scale  beam.  He  has 
already made  arrangements  with a lead­
ing scale  maker  to  manufacture  it  on  a 
royalty.

A.  Kolvoord,  of  the  former  firm  of 
Kolvoord  &  Teravest,  general  dealers at 
Hamilton, was in town one day last week. 
Mr.  Kolvoord  is  undecided  as  to  his fu­
ture  career,  but  has  about  decided  to 
embark  in  the  mercantile  business  at 
Holland.

Geo.  H.  Minchener,  District Manager 
for R. G. Dun &  Co.,  with  headquarters 
at Detroit, celebrated the  thirty-fifth an­
niversary of his service  with the firm  on 
Sept.  14.  Mr.  Minchener began as a copy­
ist for the  firm in  Montreal and has been 
manager of  the Detroit office for twenty- 
nine years.

H.  M.  Hemstreet, of  the firm of  Hem- 
street  Bros., grocers  and  crockery deal­
ers at Bellaire,  was in town  two or  three 
days last week.  He is  enthusiastic  over 
the  business  prospects  of  Bellaire  and 
asserts  that  a  new  hoop  factory  and  a 
new shingle mill will  be  in  operation in 
the course of a mouth  or six weeks.

The heartfelt  sympathy  of  the  trade 
will go out to Mr. O.  A.  Ball  and  family 
over the death of Mrs. Ball,  who  passed 
away  Sunday  noon  and  was  interred 
Tuesday forenoon.  The deceased was a 
woman  of  commendable  attributes  of 
head and heart and  her death will  cause 
widefelt sorrow  beyond even  the  family 
circle.

F.  S.  Cashion,  senior  member  of  the 
firm  of  Cashion  &  Son, general  dealers 
at  Baldwin,  was  in  town  last  week  on 
his  way  to  Oklahoma,  whither  he  goes 
to look after his  land claim of  160 acres, 
located  at  the  time  the  reservation was 
thrown open  to  settlers a year ago.  Mr. 
Cashion  will  visit  the  paternal  roof  in 
Perry  county,  Mo.,  on  his  way to Okla­
homa.

C.  E. Mahan, managing partner of  the 
drug firm of C. L.  Martin &  Co.,  at  Elk 
Rapids,  was  in  town  several  days  last 
week,  selecting  goods  for  the  holiday 
trade.  Mr.  Mahan  predicts bright  pros­
pects for Elk Rapids, two new  manufac­
turing enterprises being  nearly ready to 
begin  operations—a  stave  and  heading 
mill and  a  clothespin  ' and  rolling-pin 
factory.  Mr.  Mahan  was  accompanied 
by his wife.

Frank  Jewell  received  a  draft  for 
$200,000  from  the  Columbia  National 
Bank of  Tacoma  one  day  last  week  in 
payment of  his  interest  in  a  mine  in 
which he invested  $3,000 on the occasion 
of  his residence in Tacoma,  two or  three 
years  ago.  The  draft  was  a  skillful 
fac-simile,  but  H.  F.  Hastings  improved 
the opportunity to circulate  the  news  as 
authentic  and  succeeded  in  creating  a 
thousand  or  more  congratulatory  mes­
sages to Mr. Jewell from his many friends. 
The latter  says  he  was  unaware of  the 
fact that  he  had so many friends  and is 
surprised  that  the  supposed  possession 
of  a couple of  hundred  thousand should 
make  the  greetings  of  his  friends  so 
much warmer.

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HEAVENRICH  BROS.,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ailor-M ada  Clothing
138-140  Jefferson  five,,  Detroit,  Mieli.

COMPLETE  LINES  OF  MEN’S,  BOYS’  AND  CHILDREN’S 

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M anufacturers and W holesale Dealers in

Boots,  Shoes 

Rubbers,

99,101,103,105 Jefferson Ave.,

DETROIT,  MICH.

State Agents for the Candee Rubber Co.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

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Drugs  Medicines*

State Board  of Pharm acy.

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

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

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass'n. 
President—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Vice-Presidents—1.  H.  L.  Dodd.  Buchanan;  F.  W.  R.
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 rug Clerks* Association. 
President, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith.

Muskegon  D rug Clerks*  Association. 

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

MYSTERIES  OP  INSURANCE. 

Written  for The Tbapbskan.

Experience is a kind of stock fdr which 
a  man  pays  in  general  full  rates,  al­
though  the  price  fluctuates  more  than 
with any other marketable product.  That 
which is  acquired  at  second-hand  (such 
as by reading of another’s mishaps)  is not 
apt to prove of  much value.  Nor is that 
which people  throw  at us in  the way  of 
advice,  gleaned  from  their  own  follies, 
of  much better  service  than  job lots se­
cured at  auction  sales, since  what  costs 
nothing is sure never to rate higher than 
par value at time of delivery.

Insurance, 

Insurance  experience, especially,  may 
well be compared  with  the  matrimonial 
kind,  because it is commonly bought at a 
disadvantage. 
like  matri­
mony,  being a progressive science,  one is 
obliged to invest in order to  understand; 
and he is  prettv  sure  to  understand,  as 
far as he has invested.  The mysteries of 
neither  can  be  fully 
investigated  by 
theory  alone,  and  everyone  who  seeks 
•practical  information  must  take  many 
things for granted until  they  are proved 
to be otherwise.

Most every  business man has a chance 
in his life to invest in  one or more kinds 
of insurance experience.  At first,  know­
ing little about its nature, rales  and cus­
toms,  he  takes  stock  at  current  rates 
with  scarcely  a  preliminary  enquiry, 
having other matters  more important  to 
engage  his  attention.  When  he  gets 
time to look up the  question of  econom­
ic insurance, he finds that it is subject to 
the rules  that  govern  commerce in gen­
eral,  and  that,  for  want  of careful  se­
lection, he  has  often bought  some  dear 
bargaips.

If  one  puts  himself  unreservedly  in 
the  hands  of  agents,  accepting  their 
statements as he would  those of  the em­
ployes  of  other  public  corporations,  he 
might as  well be  in  Baxter  street,  New 
York,  with  a  home-made  suit  on  and 
both  hands  in  his  pockets.  You  may 
talk with agents on the subject,  and they 
will  tell  yon  that  the  rates  are  scien­
tifically  impartial  because  they  are the 
result of statistical tables which give the 
average experience of  mankind  for long 
periods  and  are,  therefore,  conclusive. 
They will assure yon  that the  best actu­
aries agree so  remarkably In  deductions 
from  ascertained  facts 
that  insurance 
has become an exact science.  But,  after 
placing  a  few  risks, the  result  will  as­
tonish you  when  comparisons  are made 
with other policy  holders.  The  discrep­
ancy  will  appear not so much in the  rate

THE  MICHIQ^JSr  TRADESMAN,

alone as in  the character  of  the risks as 
fixed  by  the  companies.  Each  agent, 
anxious to secure business,  suits  himself 
to the caprices of  customers  and the im­
partial,  fixed  charges, so  justly  lauded, 
become like clay in the hands of  the pot­
ter.

A common practice of  sharp  solicitors 
has been to name a good round rate on  a 
dwelling  for  a term  of  years  and  then 
persuade the customer to carry insurance 
on contents, often  equal  to  the  amount 
placed on  the  house.  They  thus  curry 
favor  with  the  company  while  the  un­
conscious  policy  holder  pays  dearly for 
something  he  does  not  really need and, 
in the event of  a loss, finds  it difficult to 
collect honestly  what  he has so thought­
lessly paid for.

Another agent,  after  securing a profit­
able customer in the person  of  an  easy­
going dealer who believes that the prices 
asked  are the company’s  regular  terms, 
will arbitrarily raise the rates from  time 
to time on some  plausible pretense until 
they reach the  high  water  mark of  dis­
content which,  at  last, sweeps  the  once- 
confiding  customer  out  from  under  his 
control  entirely.  Alas!  that  he  should 
land in the  hands of  another  unscrupu­
lous agent,  who by a concession in terms, 
obtains the confidence of  the  dealer and 
for  years  continues  to  collect  the  uni­
form  premium,  although  the 
regular 
rates have  been annually  falling.  Who 
can blame the victim of  this commercial 
strategist,  when  he wakes  up to  the fact 
that he  has  been  bled  again  (only by  a 
different instrument)  if  he  comes to  the 
same  conclusion  with  old  King  David 
who once remarked,  “All men are liars?” 
Here  cames  in  the  real  value  of  expe­
rience, opening  his  eyes to the fact that 
he  must  buy  insurance  as  he  does  the 
stock on his shelves—by careful selection 
and comparison as  to  quality  and  price 
with other goods offered in open  market. 
He should,  also,  post himself  as much as 
possible in the literature  which treats of 
the  legal  aspects of  insurance,  and  ex­
amine every  written  contract  as though 
it were a deed of  valuable real estate.

their 

logical  value. 

While  thus  gaining  information,  use­
ful and necessary from his point of view, 
he will be more and more  convinced that 
the ethics of insurance, viewed  from  the 
company’s  standpoint, are  and  forever 
must  be  mysteries  to  the  laymen  of 
commerce.  He  will  find  that  ratings 
made by expert  insurance  authority  are 
so  arbitrary  in  their  nature  and  so  in­
consistent with the reasons urged in their 
support that no finite  mind  can  compre­
hend 
Protests 
against  injustice  or  inequality  are  met 
with  explanations  which 
render  the 
reason for the  grievance  more  palpably 
obscure.  New conditions of  progressive 
civilization,  whereby  risks  are  more  or 
less modified, tend to  snrround the ques­
tion with a fog of  uncertainty.  Accept­
ing the  fact that  most  of  the fine points 
which  enter  into  the adjustment of  fair 
commercial  rates  of  insurance  are  not 
within the  range of  investigation  likely 
to be taken by  business  men  in general, 
still there are  others  which  concern his 
interests  materially,  and  he  cannot  be 
expected to  content  himself  without  an 
attempt at a solution.

But  in  this  endeavor  he  will find no 
light shed on the reasons  for the distinc­
tions  commonly  made 
in  determining 
comparative  risks.  Between  two  prop­
erties, equal in every  respect  as  regards 
construction and external fire risk, neither

for 

the 

used  in  any  hazardous  occupation,  in­
surance  ratings  are  often  so  far  apart 
that nothing  but a special  divine revela­
tion  can  make  clear  the  reason  for it. 
One of the mysteries that  confront a lay­
man in the pursuit of  knowledge  is why 
a  store  on  one  side  of  a  street, and  a 
dwelling  on  the  other,  both  being  de­
tached  and  having  internally  the  same 
fire risk,  should be  rated  in  the propor­
tion of  one hundred  and fifty to twenty- 
five.  Cease to sell  goods  from  the store 
and fit  the  same  for a dwelling, and be­
hold!  the  charge 
insurance 
dwindles  to  one-sixth  of 
the  original 
amount.

These  peculiarities  of  the  insurance 
system,  however,  need  not  disturb  the 
mind of any man  long.  Like  the fifteen 
puzzle,  they can be dropped after  toying 
with them  a while.  One  thing  is grati­
fying  to every  business man to-day, and 
that  is  that  by  a  wise  system  of  State 
supervision,  through  a  Commissioner  to 
protect the rights of insurers,  and a gen­
eral  improvement in the  methods adopt­
ed by companies,  the business of  fire in­
surance has been developed to a point far 
beyond that  occupied  twenty years ago. 
While we may  still  wonder  at much  we 
do not understand,  we  can  never  be in­
sensible to the security it affords.

S .  P .  W h i t m a b s h .

Two for a Quarter.

A dealer  running  a  well-known  hotel 
cigar stand said the other day that one of 
the most curious  things under his notice 
was the  way some  men  try to get out of 
paying for  cigars.  Two  gentlemen  call 
for  cigars, and  straightway  behave like 
two ladies in a street car, each making  a 
pretentious  dive  for  change,  and  each 
hanging back in  the  hope that the other 
fellow  will  get  there  first,  Eventually 
one  of  them  pays, and  both  walk away 
feeling and looking  awkward.  Another 
curious trick is where  two men stroll  up 
to the stand without asking each other to 
have a cigar,  and  the  first man calls  for 
a fifteen  cent  cigar  and  begins  to  hunt 
for change.  The other one  takes a cigar 
and  one  of  the  two  puts  down  fifteen 
cents.  Then  the  one  who  holds  out 
longest  produces  a  dime  with  celerity, 
and  saying:  “Two  for  a  quarter,  ain’t 
they?”  planks It down  unless  the dealer 
Is smart enough to get up the first amount 
and then strike him for  the  single cigar. 
Neither  man  wonld  invest  ten cents  to 
treat the other, but both would drag their 
sense of decent trading  and  good behav­
ior  in  the  dust  to “get  ahead”  for five 
cents.  Truly  human  nature  is  a  great 
thing, and there is a good  deal of  it in  a 
hotel  lobby if  the man at the cigar stand 
is a veracious  chronicler.

Tripe  Leather.

Leather is now made from tripe,  and a 
very  superior  quality of  sole leather  at 
that,  which  has  the  additional  recom­
mendation of  being cheap.  The follow­
ing story is told of  its first introduction: 
Some year  or so  ago a tanner, employed 
in  a Cincinnati  establishment, requested 
to have his wages raised from $1.50 to $2 
a day.  He quit and went to another tan­
nery  asking  for  employment.  He  was 
told that  there  was  no  vacancy,  but he 
persisted  and  said  that  he  could  teach 
them how to make a new kind of  leather 
that would  make  their  fortunes.  They 
laughed,  but  when  he  explained  how 
tripe could  be turned  into  leather,  they 
stopped  laughing  and  employed him  at 
$5 a day.  Now  tripe  leather  is  quoted 
in the trade  journals  and  brings a good 
price.

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Morphia,  S. P. A W ...1  6G@1  85 
C. Co.......................1 50@1  75
Moschus Canton........  @  40
Myrlstlca, No. 1.........   65©  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  20©  82
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls  Llq, N.»C., K gal
doz  .........................  @200
Plcls Llq., quarts......   @1  00
pints.........   ©  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..  ©  1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__  @  3
Plx  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbi A cet..............  14©  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opll..l  lo@l 20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
A P. D.  Co., doz......   @1  iS
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30©  35
Quassiae....................   g©  10
Qulnla, S. P. A W......   27©  32
S.  German....20  ©  30
Rubla  Tinctorum......   12©  14
Saccharum Lactis pv. 
29©  30
Salacln.......................l  60@1  60
Sanguis  Draconis......   A)©  50
Sapo,  W......................  12©  14
M.......................   10©  12
“  G.......................   ©  15

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture........  ©  20
Slnapls.......................   ©  18
opt...................  ©  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................   @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10©  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27©  30
Soda Carb.................  1K@  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   ©  5
Soda,  Ash.................... 3K@  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50©  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......   ©2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
*'  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
....7 ........................2 25@2 35
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Stiychnla Crystal......  @1  30
Sulphur, Subi............ 2K@  3K
Tamarinds................. 
8©  10
Terebenth Venice......   28©  30
Theobromae.............40  @  45
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph...............   7©  8

*   Roll..............  2k@’.S

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra................  64 
Lard, No.  1...............   42 
Linseed, pure raw__  41 

Bbl.  Gal
70
68
48
44

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paints. 

strained............  50 

Llndseed,  boiled__   44 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
Spirits Turpentine__  34 

11
47
60
40
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian........................lx  2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars...  IX  2@4
“ 
Ber........IX  2@3
Putty,  commercial....2X  2K@3
“  strictly  pure..... 2K  2X@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16
ican ..........................  
Vermilion,  English__ 
65@70
Green,  Peninsular...... 
70@75
Lead,  red...............................  7 @7K
“  w hite............................7 @7K
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @9G
White, Paris  American 
1  0 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng. 
cliff..........................  
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@l J4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.....................1 00@1  20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................ 160@1  70
Coach  Body...............2 75@8 00
No. 1 Turp Furn....... 1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70®75
Turp......................... 

Wholesale Price Current•

Advanced—German chamomile, gum camphor, ergot, ergot po., lycopodium, manna. 
Declined—Celery seed, gum opium.

ACIDUM.

Acetlcum................... 
8@  10
Benzoicum  German..  65@
Boraclc 
30
....................  
Carbolicum.  .............  33©  45
Cltrlcum...................  50©  53
H ydrochior.................  
Nitroeum 
.................   10©  12
Oxalicum...................  10©  12
Phosphorium dll........ 
20
Salley Ileum............... 1  30@1  70
Sulpnuricum..............  IX©
Tannlcum.................. 1  40@1  60
Tartarlcum.................  30©  32

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AMMONIA.

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Aqua, 16  deg..............  3J¿@
20  deg..............  5K@
Carbonaa  ...................  12©
Chlorldum.................  12©  14

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

BACCAK.

Cubeae (po  60)........  50©  60
Junlperus...................  8©  10
Xanthoxylum.............  25©  30

BALSAMUM.

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

OORTBX.

Abies,  Canadian.................   18
Cassine  ...............................  11
Cinchona F lav a.................   18
Bnonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca  Cerifera, po.............  20
Primus Virginl....................  12
Qulllaia,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................   12
Ulmus Po (Ground 15)........  15

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EXTBACTUM.
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...
po.........
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is............
Ks............
548...........
FERRUM.
Carbonate Preclp........
Citrate and Quinta —
Citrate  Soluble...........
Ferrocy anldum Sol —
Solut  Chloride...........
Sulphate,  com’l .........
pure.............

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

©  15 
@3 50 
©  80 
©  50 
©  15 
IK©  2 
©  7

A rnica.........................  
16
A nthem is....................   8C@  35
Matricaria 
 
40©  45

FLORA.

 
FOLIA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tln-

.....................  16@1 00
nlvelly......................  25©  28
Alx.  35©  50
and  Kb......................  12©  15
8©  10

Salvia  officinalis,  !4s
Ura Ural........................ 

11 

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OUMMI.

“ 
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“ 
“ 
11 
** 

16)........................ 

Acacia,  1st  picked—  
2d 
.... 
3d 
.... 
sifted sorts... 
p o ......  ... ..  

©  75
©  50
©   40
©  25
60©  80
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60)...  50©  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ©  12
Socotrl, (po.  60).  ©   50
Catechu, Is, (Ks,14 Xs,
©  1
Ammoniae...................  55®  60
Assafostlda, (po. 35).. 
30©  35
Bensolnum...................  50©  55
Cam phor»....................  52©  55
Eupnorblum  p o .........  35© 
lo
Galbanum....................   ©3 50
Gamboge,  po...............   70©  7b
Gualacum,  (po  30)  ...  ©   25
Kino,  (po  40)..............  ©  35
M astic.........................   @  80
Myrrh,  (po. 45)............  ©  40
Opll,  (po  2 60)............1  80@1  85
Shellac  ........................  35©  35
30©  35
T ragacanth.................  30©  75

“ 
herba—In  ounce packages.

bleached....... 

A bsinthium ...........................   25
Bupatorlum ...........................   20
Lobelia....................................  25
M a]orum................................   28
Mentha  Piperita...................  23
*»  V ir...........................   25
Hue..........................  
30
Tanacetum, Y ........................  22
Thymus,  V .............................  25

 

 

MASNBSIA.

Calcined, P a t.................  55© 60
Carbonate,  P at............  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M ....  20©  25
Carbonate, JennlngS..  35©  36

OLBUM.

A bsinthium ................ 3 50©4 00
Amygdalae, D ulc........   45©  75
Amyaalae, Amarae___8 00©8 25
A n lsl..............................1  75@1 80
Aurantl  Cortex........... 2  75@3 00
Bergamil  .....................3  25®3 50
C ajiputl......................... 
60© 65
Caryophylll...................  65® 75
C ed a r.............................  35© 65
C henopodll.................  @1  60
Clnnam onll..................1  10© 1 15
C ltronella........................  © 45
Coni urn  Mao..........,..   35©  65
Copaiba  ........................  90@l 00

Cubebae........................   © 
Exechthltos..............  2 50©2 75
Brlgeron.....................2 25©? 50
Gaultherla................. 2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......   ©  75
Gossipii, Sem. gal......  50©  75
Hedeoma  ...................2 70®3 00
Juniper!.......................   50©2 00
Lavendula...................  90©2 00
Limonls......................2 50@3 oo
Mentha Piper.............. 2 75@3 50
Mentha Verid................. 2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal..................1  00@1 10
Myrcla, ounce............   ©  50
Olive............................  75@2 7!
PI els Liquida, (gal..35)  10©  12
R ld n l...........................  1  04@1 2
Rosmarin!.................  
75@1 00
Rosae, ounce...................6 50©8 50
Succlnl.......................   40©  45
Sabina.........................  90@1 00
Santal  ........................3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................   50©  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  ©  65
Tlglll..........................   ©  80
Thyme.......................   40©  50
o p t.................  ©  60
Theobromas...............   15©  20

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POTASSIUM.

Bt Carb.......................   15©
Bichromate................  13©
Bromide....................  24©
Carb............................  12©  15
Chlorate  (po. 22)........  20©  22
Cyanide......................  50©  55
Iodide..............................2 90@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  24©  28
Potassa, Bitart, com...  ©
Potass  Nltras, opt......  
8©
Potass Nltras..............  7©
Prusslate....................   28©
Sulphate  po................  15©  18

RADIX.

“ 

Aconitum...................  20©
Althae.........................  22©
Anchusa....................   12©
Arum,  po.
©  25
Calamus......................  20©
Geutlana  (po. 12)......   8©  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16©  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
©  30
(po. 35)................... 
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15©  20
Inula,  po....................  15©  20
Ipecac,  po...................2 30@2 40
Iris  plox (po. 35©38)..  35©  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  50©  55
Maranta,  Xs..............  ©  35
Podophyllum, po........  15©  18
Rhel............................  75@1  00
cut......................  @1  75
pv.......................   75@1  35
Splgella......................  35®  38
Sangulnaria, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentarla.................  30©  32
Senega.......................  40©  45
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40
M  @ 25
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10©  12
Syuiplocarpus,  Foetl-
...  ©  35
Valeriana, Bng. (po.30)  ©  25
German...  15©  20
Ingiber a ...................  12©  15
Zingiber  j.
18®  22
SBMXN.
Anlsum,  (po. 20).. 
..  @ 15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  18©  20
Bird, is......................... 
4© 6
Carni, (po. 18)...............  8© 12
Cardamon..................1  00®1  25
Corlandrum.................   10© 12
Cannabis Sativa.........   3K©4
Cydonlum....................   75@l 00
Chenopodlum  .............  10© 12
Dlpterlx Odorate.......2 50@2 75
Foenlculum..................   © 15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6©
Lini
© 4* 
© 4*
Lini, grd,  (bbl.8H)___  _   JR
Lobelia.......................   35©  40
PharlarlsCanarian....  5K@  6 
6©
Rapa
8©
Slnapls,  Albu

dus,  po............  

Nigra...........  11©  12

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SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R....... 1 75@2 00
................. 1 
Junlperis  Co. O. T ___1 75@1  75
...........1  75@3 50
“ 
Saacharum  N.  B.........1 75@2 00
Spt  Vini  Galli............1 75@6 50
Vini Oporto................ 1 
Vini  Alba................... 1 

,r 

25@2 00
25@2 00

10@1 50

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

SYRUPS.

Accacia...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferrl Iod.............................   50
Aurantl Cortes....................  50
Rhel Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
CO........  50
Senega................................   50
Sclllae.................. 
50
“  CO.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Pranas  rtzg.........................  50

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4 so
“ 

TIXCTUBKB.

“ 

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“ 

“ 

Aconltum Napellls R.........   60
p ............   5Q
Aloes...............................!!.’  60
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica.................................  so
Asafcetlda............................  o
A trope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................   60
„  “  Co...........................  50
Sangulnaria.........................  so
Barosma..............................  so
Cantharldes.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................   75
Co.........................  75
Castor..................................1 00
Catechu...............................   so
Cinchona............................  so
Co.........................  60
Columba.............................   so
Conlum...............................   50
Cubeba.................................  50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot....................................  SO
Gentian...............................   50
“  Co............................  60
Guaica................................   50
ammon....................   60
“ 
Zingiber.............................   60
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Iodine..................................   75
“  Colorless...................  75
Ferrl  Chlorldum.................  35
K ino...................................   SO
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opll.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   SO
“  Deoaor......................... 2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  SO
Quassia...............................  SO
K hatany.............................   50
Rhel.....................................   50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
ValeriaD..............................  50
VeratrumVerlde.................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

11 

@1 25

‘ 
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ASther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  26©  28 
“  4 F ..  30©  32
Alumen.....................2X® 3

“  
ground,  (po.

squlbbs.. 

“ 
"  B po. 

7).............................   3©  4
Annatto......................  55©  60
Antlmonl, po..............  4©  5
et Potass T.  55©  60
Antlpyrln.......................   @1 40
Antlfebrln..................  ©  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  ©  58
Arsenicum.................  5©  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  38@  40
Bismuth  S.  N ........... 2 25@2 £5
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ks
13;  Ms,  15)..............  ©  12
Cantharldes  Russian,
po.................................  @1 00
Capsid  Fructus, af...  ©  20
po__  ©  20
©  20
Caryophyllus, (po.  14)  10©  12
Carmine,  No. 40..............  @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......   50©  55
Cera Flava.................  38©  40
Coccus.......................   ©  40
Cassia Fructus...........  ©  22
Centrarla....................  ©  10
Cetaoeum...................  @  40
Chloroform................  00©  68
Chloral Hyd Crst.......1  20@1  40
Chondrus...................  20©  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  A  W  15©  20 
German  3  ©  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  ...................... 
60
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
Mpo.)  75.........   70©  75
Flake  White..............  12©  15
Galla..........................   ©  23
Gambler......................7  @ 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
French...........  40©  60
Glassware  flint,  75 and 10. 
by box 70
Glue,  Brown..............  9©  15
“  White................  13©  25
Glycerlna...................15K©  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  ©  22
Humulus....................   25©  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ©  85 
“  Cor....  @  80
Ox Rubrum  ©  90 
Ammonlati.  @100 
Unguentum.  45©  55
Hydrargyrum............   ©  64
Icnthyobolla, Am..  . .1 25@1 50
Indigo.............................   75@1 00
Iodine, Resubl..........3 80@3 90
Iodoform.........................  ©4 70
Lupulln......................  60©  65
Lycopodium..............  60©
65 
Macis.........................  75©
75©  80
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy
arar g Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10©  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
IK )...........................  2©  8
Manilla,  S .F ..............  60©  66

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Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT  MEDICINES
Paints, Oils  ^  Varnishes,

DEALERS  IN

Sole A geats for the  Celebrateci

SWISS  VILLA  PREPARED  PAINTS.

We are Sole Proprietors of

Weatherly’s  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

W e Have in  Stock and Offer a P u ll L ine of

WH1SKIBS,  BRJLXniBS,

GINS,   WINBS,  RUMS.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Grocery  Price  Current•

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

and  buy  in  full  packages.

AXLE GREASE.

Aurora......................  55 
Castor Oil...............   75 
Diamond...................  50 
Frazer's....................  80 
M ica.........................   75 
.................  55 
Paragon 
BAKING  POWDER.

doz  gross
600
9 CO
5 50
9 00
800
600

Acme.
2  “ 

M lb. cans, 3 doz................. 
J41b.  “ 
.................  
lib . 
Bulk................................  ... 
M B> cans..............................  
14 fi>  “ 
“  
1  fl> 
5  lb 
“ 

45
85
“  1  “  ..................   1  00
10
Arctic.
60
.......................  1 20
......................... 200
.......................... 9 60
Dr. Price’s.
per doz
Dime cans .  90
.1  33
“
4-oz 
1  90
“
6-oz 
.2 47
“
8-oz 
“
12 oz 
.3 75
.4 75
“
16-oz 
11  40
234-lb  “
18 25
“
41b 
5-lb
21  60
10-lb 
“
41  80

ptPRICEfe
ICHEAM
Ba k in g
POWDER

 

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BLUING.

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“ 
“ 
“  No. 2, sifting box. 
“  No. 3, 
“  No. 5, 
“ 

Red Star, 14 lb  cans......... 
40
80
...........  
...........  1  50
Teller's,  M lb. cans, doz. 
45
85
“ 
“  ..  1  50

14 fl>  “ 
l lb  “ 
141b.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 
BATB BRICK.
2 dozen in case.
English....................... 
90
Bristol..................................  80
Domestic.............................   70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals........... ..  4  00
........... ..  7 00
8 oz 
pints,  round....... ..10 50
. .  2 75
..  4  00
“
..  8  00
“
1 oz ball  .............. ..  4  50
BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl....................... ..  2 00
....................... ..  2 25
No. 1  “ 
..  2 50
No. 2 Carpet....................
..  2 75
No. 1 
....................
“ 
Parlor Gem..................... ..  3 00
Common Whisk.............. ..  1  00
.............. ..  1  20
Fancy 
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.

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CANDLES

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes........... ..  10
........... ..  9
8tar,  40 
Paraffine......................... ..  11
Wl eking.......................... ..  24

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PISH.
Clams.

“ 

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“ 

Little Neck,  lib ...........
...1  15
“  2  lb........... ....1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 31b............... ....2 00
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb..............
...  85
21b.............. ....1  65
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb...................... ....2 40
“  2  lb...................... ...3  30
Picnic, l i b ....................
...2 00
“ 
21b.................... ....2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb............... ...1  05
2  lb.............. ....1  90
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb...... ....2  25
Soused. 2 lb.................. .  2 25
Columbia River, flat__ ...1  85
tails__ ....1  75
Alaska, 1  lb.................. ....1  40
...1  90
Sardines.
American  34s............... •43i@  5
34s.............. -634© 7
Imported  Mb................. --11@12
34s  ............... .. 15@16
Mustard  Mb.................. ..  7@8
Boneless.......................
20
Brook, 8 lb.................... ....2 50

Salmon.
“ 

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

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Trout.
FRUITS.
Apples.

3  lb. standard............
York State, galions__
3 60
Hamburgh, 
—
2 75
Apricots.
Live oak..............
2 00
Santa Cruz.................
2 00
Lusk’s.........................
2 00
Overland..................
1  90
Blackberries.
B. A  W.......................
95
Cherries.
d .............................
1  20
Pitted Hamburgh......
1  re
W hite........................
1  30
E rie...........................
1  20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green

Gages.

E rie............................  @1  25
1 70
California................... 
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  30

Peaches.

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

l  30
2 00
l  85
2 10
1  85

“ 

l  20
2 10

l  30
2 50
2 75
1  10

Domestic....................  
Riverside.................... 
Pineapples.
Common.....................  
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
grated.......  
Quinces.
Common.................... 
Raspberries.
Red............................. 
Black  Hamburg.........  
Erie,  black 
.............. 
Strawberries.
Lawrence................... 
Hamburgh .................. 
Erie............................  
Terrapin....................... 
Whortleberries.
Common.................... 
1  10
1  15
F. A  W....................... 
Blueberries...............  
1  jo
Corned  beef,  Libby’s.........1  90
Roast beef,  Armour’s.........1  75
Potted  ham, 14 lb...............1  30
tongue, H lb ............1  35
14 lb ..........  85
chicken, 14 lb.......... 
95

1 30
1  50
1  21
1  25
1 25
1 30
1  25

“  341b........80

MEATS.

“ 
VEGETABLES.

“ 
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Beans.

“ 

“ 
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Peas

Com.

Hamburgh  stringless.........1  25
French style....... 2 25
Limas.........-....... 1  40
Lima, green........................1  25
soaked.......................  80
Lewis Boston Baked..........1 35
Bay State Baked................1 35
World’s Fair  Baked..........1  35
Picnic Baked.................  ... 1  00
Hamburgh..........................
Livingston  Eden...............1  20
Purity..................................
Honey  Dew........................l  50
Morning Glory..................
Soaked......   ......................1  15
Hamburgh marrofat..........1  35
early June..........
Champion Eng... 1 50
Hamburgh  petit  pots........ 1 75
fancy  sifted..... 1  90
Soaked................................   65
Harris  standard.................   75
Van Camp’s Marrofat 
.110
EarlyJune.........1  80
Archer’s  Early Blossom__1  35
French...............................1 80
French..............................15@20
Erie......................................  90
Hubbard.............................1  20
Hamburg  ............................1  40
Soaked.................................  80
Honey  Dew........................1 60
E rie.................................... 1  35

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

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Tomatoes.
Hancock............................   1  05
Excelsior 
.........................1  10
Eclipse................................1  10
Hamburg............................ 1 30
Gallon................................ 2 60

CHOCOLATE—BAKEB’I
German Sweet.................
Premium..........................
Pure.............................
Breakfast Cocoa.............
CHEESE.
Amboy................. .
Acme..........................
Riverside...................
Gold  Medal  ..............
Skim..........................   6
Brick.............................
Edam  ........................
Leiden 
....................
Llmborger  ...............
Pineapple...................
Roquefort...................
Sap Sago....................
Schweitzer, Imported.
domestic  ....

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CATSUP.

@1134 
@11 
@1134 
@1034 
@  9 
10
@1  00 
23 
11 

@25 @35 @22 

@24 
@14

“ 

Blue Label Brand.
Half  pint, 25 bottles__
........
Pint 
Quart 1 doz bottles........
5 gross boxes...................

2 75 
4 SO 
8 50
.40
351b  bags......................  @3
Less quantity  ..............  @334
Pound  packages...........614@?

COCOA  SHELLS.

CLOTHES PINS.

COFFEE.
GREEN.
RlO.

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

Santos.

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

Mexican and Guatemala.

Maracaibo.

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

Mocha.

Java.

ROASTED.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 34c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.

PACKAGE.

A rbuckle’s A riosa........  21.30
M cLaughlin's  XXXX  .  21.30
Bunola  ............................  20.80
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case —   2  .30

Cabinets 
containing 
120 1 lb.
packages 
sold at case 
price,  with 
additional 
charge of 
90 cents for 
c-*i inet.

EXTRACT.

Valley City 34 gross..........   75
......... 1  is
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross........  1  50
“ 
........2 50

tin 

“ 

“ 

CHICORY.

Bulk..............................  
Red......................................7

5

Cotton,  40 ft......... per doz.  1  25
140
1  60
175
1  90
90
100

CLOTHES  LINES.
50 ft........  
“ 
“ 
60 f t.........  
» 
70 ft........  
80ft.........  
“ 
60 ft.......... 
« 
72 f t '....... 
“ 

“ 
‘ 
_ 
Jute 
“ 

CONDENSED MILK.
4 doz. in case.

Bagle..................................7 40
Crown.................................... 25
Genuine Swiss...................8 00
American Swiss................. 7 00

CRACKERS.
__ Butter.

Soda.

Seymour XXX.............. 
6
Seymour XXX, c a r t o o n 634
Family  XXX......................  e”
Family XXX,  cartoon........634
Salted XXX.........................  6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........634
Kenosha 
.  ......................  714
Boston.......................... 8
Butter  biscuit....................  634
Soda, XXX.........................  6
Soda, City..............................7^4
Soda,  Duchess......................¿34
Crystal Wafer.....................10
Long  Island Wafers 
........11
S. Oyster  XX X...................  6
City Oyster. XXX.................  6
Farina  Oyster....................   6
Strictly  pure...................... 
30
Telfer’s Absolute.............. 
35
Grocers’............................ 20@25

CREAM TARTAR.

Oyster.

DRIED  FRUITS. 

“ 

“ 

Domestic.
APPLES.
quartered 
APRICOTS.

Sundried, sliced in  bbls. 
6 
sv
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes  @834
California in  bags.........
Evaporated in boxes.  .. 
BLACKBERRIES.
In  boxes........................ 
NECTARINES.
70 lb. bags.......................
251b. boxes.....................
Peeled, in  boxes........... 
 
Cal. evap.  “ 
 
“ 
in bags........ 
PEARS.
California in bags......

1634
444

PEACHES.

19
14
13

“ 

PITTED CHERRIES.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
26 “ 
...................

“ 

PRUNELLES.

20
22

“ 
“ 

1034

2134
22
23

301b.  boxes..................
RASPBERRIES.
In barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
251b.  “ 
......................
Foreign.
CURRANTS.
Patras, in barrels........ @ 4
in  34-bbls........
@  4M
in less quantity @ 434
Citron, Leghorn, 25 lb. boxes  20
Lemon 
10
Orange 
11

25  “
“ 
“ 
25  “
RAISINS.
Domestic.
London layers,  2  crown....1  65
3  “
...1  85
fancy__ . . . 2  00
23
Loose Muscatels, boxes.....1  60
Ondnra. 29 lb. boxes .. @  934
“
Sultana, 20 
@
Valencia, 30  “
@ 8J<

Foreign.

PEEL.

“ 
“ 

‘ 
‘ 

PRUNES.

Bosnia........................ @
California,  100-120.........
90x100 25 lb. bxs.
80x90 
70x80 
60x70 

“
“
“
Turkey.........................
Silver.............................

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

©

ENVELOPES.
XX rag. white.

XX  wood, white.

No. 1, 634......................... .  11  75
No. 2, 634  ....................... .  1  60
No. 1,6............................ .  1  65
No. 2, 6............................ .  1  50
No. 1,634................................ .  1  35
No. 2, 634......................... -  1  25
Manilla, white.
634  ..........................................
.  1  00
6.....................................
95
Mill  No. 4.....................
.  1  00
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
109 lb. kegs................... 

Coin.

334

Farina.
Hominy.

Barrels................................. 8 00
Grits.................................... 3 50
Dried................................. 
4

Lima  Beans.

Maccaronl and Vermicelli.

Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported.....................1034@1134
Pearl Barley.

Kegs...............................   @214

Peas.

Green,  bu.................................1 85
Split  per  l b .............................3 00
German........................ 
East India..........................   5
Cracked..............................

Wheat.

Sago.

 

 

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

“ 
“ 

Cod.

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

Halibut.
Herring.

kegs 
” 
Mackerel.

Yarmouth..........................
Pollock.......................
Whole, Grand  Bank...  @5
Boneless,  bricks  ........  634@8
Boneless, strips...........63a@8
Smoked...................... 
12
Gibbed, 34 bbl...................  3 25
Holland,  bbl....................  9 00
65
Round Shore, 34  bbl.......  2 75
34  “  .......   1 55
Scaled............................... 
15
No. 1, 40 lbs....................... 4  25
No. 1, kits. 10 lbs................  1 25
No. 2, 40 lbs.......................  3 50
No. 2,  10 lbs.......................  1 05
Family, 34 bbls., 100 lbs__ 5 00
65
kits, 10 lbs...........  
Russian, kegs....................  
45
No. 1, 34 bbls., lOOlbs...........6 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   90
No. 1, 34 bbls., lOOlbs........... 7 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   95
Family, 34 bbls., 100 lbs  ...  3 00 
kits  10  lbs.............  40

Sardines.
Trout.

Whitefish.

“ 

“ 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Jennings’ D C.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding box.. .TO 
1  25
3 oz 
...1  00 
“ 
...1  50 
4 oz 
“ 
6oz 
...2  00 
“ 
“ 
5 oz 
.. .3  00 
Gunpowder.
Austin’s Rifle, kegs...........4  50
“ 
“  34 iegs........2 50
“  Crack Shot, kegs . .5 00 
“ 
34 kegs 2 75
“  Club Sporting  “  6 00 
“ 
34  “  8 25

“ 
“ 

1 50
2 00
3 00
4 00

INDIGO.

“ 

Madras,  5 lb. boxes.........  
55
50
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
JELLY.
17  lb. pails.......................  
85
30  “ 
......................  1  20
LICORICE.
Pure.....................................   80
Calabria. .............................   25
Sicily....................................  12
LYE.
Condensed, 2 doz...............1  25
4 doz...............2  25
MATCHES.

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

‘ 

MINCE  MEAT

S i S S S

3 or 6 doz. in case  per doz..  95

MEASURES.

Tin, per dozen.

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

 

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house...... ...............  14
Ordinary..........................  
Prime............................... 
Fancy...............................  

New Orleans.

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

16
20
30

18
20
25
30
40

OATMEAL.

Barrels 200.................  @5 60
Half barrels 100................ @2 95

ROLLED OATS.

Barrels 180.................  @5  60
Half  bbls 90..............  @2  95

PICKLES.
Medium.

Small.

Barrels, 1,200 count............16 00
Half  barrels, 600 count....  3 50
7 00
Barrels, 2,400 count. 
4
Half bbls, 1,200 count 
4 00
Clay, No.  216........................ 1 75
“  T. D. full count...........  75
Cob, No. 8.............................1 25

PIPES.

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

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

“ 

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head........................6
“  No. 1....................... 5
“  No. 2................  @434
Broken.............. -...............   334

Imported.

“  No. 2...........................534

Japan, No. 1............. ............6
Java....................................  5
Patna..................................   5

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

Allspice............................... 10
Cassia, China in mats........  8
“  Batavia in bund__ 15
Saigon in rolls........S3
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“ 
Zanzibar..................13
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
“  No.  1....................... 75
“  No. 2....................... 65
Pepper, Singapore, black.... 15 
“ 
white...  .26
shot......................... 19
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.

Allspice............................... 1
Cassia,  Batavia...................20
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon.................... 35
Cloves,  Amboyna................30
Zanzibar................20
Ginger, African................... 15
**  Cochin..................   18
“ 
,ar
Mace  Batavia......................ot
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste..25
“  Trieste.................... 27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................65

Jam aica............  

“ 

Pepper, Singapore, black__20
“   white.........80
“ 
Cayenne...........25
“ 
Sage.................................... 20
“Absolute” in Packages.

34s 

34s
Allspice...........  ........   84  1  55
Cinnamon..................   84  155
Cloves.........................  84  1  55
Ginger, Jam ................  84  1 55
“  Af...................  84  1  56
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Pepper.......................   84  156
Sage............................    84

SAL  SODA.

ElG£8>
Granulated, boxes................1M

SEEDS.

A nise.........................  @1234
Canary, Smyrna......... 
Caraway.......................... 
Cardamon, Malabar... 
Hemp,  Russian.........  
Mixed  Bird  — ......... 
Mustard,  white.........  
Poppy............................... 
Rape................................  
Cuttle  bone....................  

6
90
434
434
6

9
6
80

8

STARCH.
Corn.

“ 
" 

“   

20-lb  boxes..........................   6
40-lb 
5X

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

1-lb packages.......................   534
3-lb 
534
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes................434
Barrels................................   534
Scotch, in  bladders.............37
Maccabov, in jars................35
French Rappee, in Jars...... 43

SNUFF.

 

SODA.

Boxes....................................S3«
Kegs, English........................434
100 3-lb. sacks......................... 82 25
60 5-lb.  “ 
2 00
2810-lb. sacks.......................   1 85
2014-lb.  “ 
2 25
243-lb  cases................  
  1  50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
32
18
.. 
drill  “ 
281b.  “ 

SALT.
 
 

Warsaw.
“
Ashton.

56 lb. dairy in drill  bags...  32
18
281b.  “ 
  ., 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks.. 
75 

“ 

Higgins.

Solar Rock.

561b. dairy in linen  sacks. 

75 

56 lb.  sacks.......................   27

Common Fine.

80
86

BALERATUS.

Saginaw..........................  
Manistee.......................... 
Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Church’s ..........................  83 30
DeLand’s ....................... 
3 15
Dwight’s......... 
.................3 30
Taylor’s....................................3 00

SOAP.
LAUNDRY.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Proctor A Gamble.

Old Country,  80  l ib ...........3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb..............3 go
White Borax, 100  54-lb........3 60
Concord............................... 2 80
Ivory, 10  oz......................... 6 75
6  oz...........................4 00
Lenox...............................  3 65
Mottled  German................. 3 15
Town T alk......................... 3 00

" 

SCOURING AND POLISHING.
“ 

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

SUGAR.

“ 

Cut  Loaf....................  @ 6
Cubes — .......... 
  @  534
Powdered XXXX......   634@  6J£
Standard..  @534 
Granulated, medium..  534@5.56
„  
 
63405.56
Confectioners’ A......  
@534
Soft A.........................  5  @5.06
White Extra C...........  @434
Extra  C......................  @  45g
C ................................   @
Golden.......................  @
Yellow.......................   @
Less than  bbls.  340 advance

 

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Pure Cane.

Barrels................................27
Half bbls.............................29
F air.....................................  
t9
Good....................................  ¿5
Choice..................................  30
SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps.............. 
Sugar Creams............  
Frosted Creams.........  
Graham Crackers......  
Oatmeal Crackers...... 

8
8
9
844
834

VINEGAR.

40 gr............................. 7  @8
50 gr............................8  @9

81 for barrel.
WET  MUSTARD.

Bulk, per gal  ................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75
Magic, per box.....................1 00
Warner's  “ 
1  00
Yeast Foam, per box............1 00

YEAST

. 

 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

18

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

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

BUN CUBED.

BASKET  FIRED.

F air..............................18  @20
Choice.........................  @25
Choicest......................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40

eUNPOWDKR.

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

oolono. 

IMPERIAL.

TOUNO HTSON.

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.

“ 

Palls unless otherwise noted
Hiawatha  .................. 
62
Sweet Cuba................ 
36
24
McGinty..................... 
22
)4 bbls.......... 
Valley  City................ 
32
27
Dandy Jim ............ ,.. 
Torpedo..................... 
20
In drums.... 
19
Yum  Yum  ................ 
26
Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead.................  
Joker.........................  
Nobby Twist................. 
Oh  My..........................  
Scotten’s Brands.

38
26
39
29

Plug.

“ 

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

25
40
34
40
32

Middleton's Brands.

Here It Is........................  
28
Old Style....................  
31
Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good....................38
Out of Sight...........................25
HIDES  PELTS and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess pa;  as  fol
lows,  prices nominal :

“ 

“ 

HIDES.
Green...................
Part Cured...........
Full 
...........
Dry.......................
Kips, green  .........
“  cured...........
Calfskins,  green..
cured..
Deacon skins..........
No. 2 hides % off.
PELTS
Shearlings................
Lambs 
....................
WOOL.
Washed....................
Unwashed..........
Tallow......................
Grease  butter  . . . .
Switches..................
Ginseng....................

...... 2)4@3)4
@
...  @4)4
. . . 5   @ 5
• • •  2)4® 3)4
. . .   @4)4
. . . 4   @5
. . .   @  7
...10  @30

...10  @25
...25  @  90
...20  @23
...10  @20
- - ■  3)4® 3X
. . .   1  @2
...  1)4® 2
...2 00@2 75

MISCELLANEOUS.

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF?

HEAL.

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

 

 

MILLSTUFFS.

Less
Car lots  quantity
$15 00
15 50
16 50
—
20 50

Bran................$14 00 
Screenings__   15 00 
Middlings___   16 00 
Mixed Feed...  20 00 
Coarse meal 
..  20 00 
CORN.
Car  lots............................... 52
Less than  car lots.............. 54
Car  lots  ..............................38
Less than car lots................40

OATS.

New oats, lc less.

HAT.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__ 10 00
No. 1 
ton lots  ......12 00

“ 

FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whltefish 
.................  8  @9
T ro u t........................... 8  @9
Halibut.......................   @15
Ciscoes or Herring__5  @6
Bluefish.......................11  @12
Fresh lobster, per lb __ 
Soft crabs, per doz........ 
Shrimp, per gal............  
Cod.............................. 10  @12
No. 1 Pickerel............   @8
Pike.  .........................   @7
Smoked White...........  @7

oysters—Cans. 

20
1 00
1  25

“ 

OILS.

SHELL  GOODS.

Falrhaven  Counts —   @35
F. J. D.  Selects..........  @30
Selects.......................   @25
Anchor.......................   @22
Standards  .................   @19
Oysters, per  100  ........1  25@1 50
........  75@1 60
Clams. 
The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes 
as  follows.  In barrels,  f. o.  b. 
Grand Rapids:
Eocene......................... 
8)4
Water White, old test.  @ 8
W.  W.  Headlight, 150° 
7
Water  White  ...........  @  6&
Naptha.......................   @ 7
Stove Gasoline...........  @6%
Cylinder......................27 @36
E ngine........................13 @21
Black. 25 to 30 deg 

.  @ 7)4

FRESH  MEATS.

“ 

Swift & Company quote as fol­

lows:
Beef,carcass...............   5 @6

“  hindquarters...  6  @ 6)4
“ 
...  3 @ 3)4
fore 
loins,  No.  3...  9 @9)4
“ 
“ 
ribs..................   7 @ 8
rounds..............  5 @5)4
'• 
Bologna......................  @ 4)>,
Pork loins..................   @9
....  @  6?i
Sausage, blood or head  @ 4)4
l i v e r ...........  @ 4)4
Frankfort  ...  @7
Mutton  ....................... 7  @'8
Veal...............................6 @7

shoulders 

“ 
“ 

“ 

Local dealers pay as  follows:

POULTRY.
DRESSED.

Fowl..............................8 @9
Turkeys......................  @12
Ducks  .......................  @12
Chickens,....................  7 @ 8
Fowls.............................7 @8
Turkeys........................11 @12
Spring Duck................10 @11

LIVE.

C .  N .  R A P P  
WHOLESALE 

FRUITS  A[RD 

9 North  Ionia St., Grand Rapids.

OCX
PRODUGE.

Mail  Orders  Receive  Prompt  Attention.

RINDGE,  KALMBACH  &  CO,

12,  14,  &  16  PEARL  ST.

P a l l   Season.  1892.

GIVE  US A  CALL  AND  SEE  OUR COMPLETE  STOCK.

we know will be satisfactory.

FACTORY  GOODS. L!TSe'LT
JOBBING  GOODS.  We carry a fu ll line and can show you
WARM  GOODS.  We never had so nice a line of shoes, slippers
RUBBER  GOODS.  We  sell  the  best,  the  Boston  Rubber

and buskins, also felt boots and socks.
We  sell  the  best,  the  Boston  1 
Shoe Co.’8.  Satisfaction guaranteed.

all the novelties of  the season at prices

Our  Fall  Lines  o f

Oil  Glottis,  Garpets  and  Gifrtains

Now ready•  Write for  prices•

SMITH  &  SANFORD,  68  Monroe St.

B A N A N A S !

If  y o u   w a n t  la r g e   b u n c h e s  o f  th e  b est 

q u a lity ,  sen d   y o u r   o rd er  to
T H E   P U T N A M   C A N D Y   CO.

See  th a t  this  Label  appears 
on  every cpacfcage, as  it  Is  a 
guarantee of the  genuine a r­
ticle.

^ ^ s s E û y ^ ï ^

.CHICAGO

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.V.

FERMENTUM
COMPRESSED YEAST

THE  ONLY  RELIABLE

Sold  in  Ms  market  lor  the  past  Fifteen  Years.

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

JOHN  SMYTH,  Agent Grand  Rapids, Micii.

Telephone  566.

106  Kent St.

^^fftOALE DISTIVA^ 

^CHICAGO

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

^CHICAGO

For SOCIETIES

CLUBS
CONVENTIONS
DELEGATES
COMMITTEES

The Largest Assortment of Ribbons 
and Trimmings in the  State.

THE  TRADESMAN  CO.

THE P & B BRAND

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  CO.

14:

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

MISTAKES  IN  BUYING*.

I told him to go ahead.

From  Hardware
My friend bad opened a retail hardware 
store in a small  place  in  Indiana, abont 
a year ago, and be said be wanted a little 
advice. 
“I am  hard  up,”  said  he,  “and  yet  I 
am  worth  nearly two  dollars  for  every 
one dollar that  1  owe.  Here  is  my con­
dition:  Stock,  about  $3,500;  accounts, 
$1,200;  real  estate  (my  store  building), 
$1,600;  total  assets,  $6,300.  My  liabili­
ties of every kind are $2,250.  This leaves 
my  net  worth  $4,050.  My accounts  are 
against  farmers,  and  1  cannot  collect 
much on them for 60 or 90 days yet.  The 
claims against  me  are  for merchandise, 
except  $750 due  Sept.  1 on  my building. 
If  I  could  borrow $1,200  for  90  days, I 
could  pull  through  easily.  That would 
enable  me  to  pay off  my note  and  one- 
third  of  my  other  debts, and  my  cash 
trade  would  put  me  in  tolerably  fair 
shape by January  1  next.”
After  he  had  gone  we  discussed  his 
case  and  decided that  he  had  an  easy 
way out of his trouble—let him cut down 
his stock.
He  had  his  inventory with  him and I 
noted down a few items.  To a practiced 
eye it was plainly  evident that  too much 
of  his  capital  was  locked  up  in  dead 
stock.  1  remember  that  he  had  strap 
hinges as  follows:

Quantity,  4  3  3  4  3  3  dozen.
Size, 
inch.
In one-inch screws he had

4  5  6  8  10  12 

9  4  2  1  3  8  7  gross.

Size, 6  7  8  9  10  11  12
In glancing over  his  stock of  carriage 
bolts 1 saw that  he had  more of  the out­
side lengths of  each size than  he  had of 
the staple  sizes.  At  least  one-third  of 
his stock was made up of goods that were 
very slow  sale,  or  of  unsalable  sizes of 
staple goods.  He  could  have  cut  down 
his stock one-third and not only not have 
missed  a  sale  because  of  this,  but  it 
would  have  increased  the  value of  the 
remainder if he were selling out.
The  most  common  mistake  made  by 
merchants  to-day  is  in  the  buying  de­
partment.  Manufacturers  and  jobbers 
both conspire to induce men to overstock. 
Quantity discounts  are  made as  alluring 
as  possible,  that  the  man  who  ought in 
justice to himself to buy but half a gross 
shall buy  five gross.
It is  as if  the salesman were  saying to 
himself, or the man  who gets  up the dis­
count sheet was reasoning,  “I may never 
get  another  order  from  him,  and  the 
future may take care of itself.”
The  margin  is  so  great  between  the 
half  gross  that  he  ought  to  order,  and 
the five  gross he  is  tempted to buy,  that 
he  swallows  the  baited  hook,  and  his 
shelves  are  overstocked  for  years  to 
come in that article.
The jobber tempts the  retailer to over­
stock at every  point:  First, by inducing 
him to order goods long before the season 
for  selling  them,  and  when  he  cannot 
tell  what  the  demand  will  be. 
If  the 
retailer  is  slow to order,  inducements  in 
the way of  guaranteeing  prices,  and dat­
ing bills ahead are thrown out, and when 
these start the buyer, extra discounts for 
large orders appear, and the victim orders 
unwisely both as to time  and  as to quan­
tity.  He is helping  the  jobber by carry­
ing stock for  him.  and he generally pays 
well for the mistake.
I  do  not  believe the  buyer  lives who 
will  not  say  that  his  regrets  as  to  the 
past  lie  in  his  having  bought too freely 
rather than  too sparingly.  There  is  not 
a  stock  of  hardware  on  earth  but that, 
in closing  it  out, allowances would have 
to  be made  for some  unsalable goods  in 
it.
I have  frequently been  called  upon  to 
inventory  retail  stocks of  goods,  and  I 
have always  found that a large  per cent, 
of  the  goods  then on hand were  foolish 
purchases.
It  is  altogether  too  easy,  this  buying 
and ordering  goods.  A  genial salesman 
assures  you  that he envies  you  the  op­
portunity you  have of  placing  with him 
a large order.  He  mentions the  big sale 
made to Blank, of Bluffton, and to Clark, 
of  Clarksville,  and  you  do  not  like  to 
hurt  his  feelings  by  offering  him  the 
trifling order you  intended to have given

“Oh, 

him.  So yon give him a much  too  large 
order,  and if you are able to pay the bill, 
you have  tied  up  just so  much of  your 
capital in unnecessary stock.
A very shrewd jobber said to me a few 
days  ago,  “My  nose  has  been  on  the 
grindstone  all  this  year  ’92,  because 
money that  ought  to  have  been  to  my 
credit  in  the bank  last  January was  on 
my  shelves  in  surpluss  stock. 
It  has 
been a very  severe  lesson,  but  I  think  I 
will not need to learn it again.”
The  head  salesman  in a large  import­
ing  house  in  New  York,  with  whom I 
was in  conversation, excused himself for 
a moment to take  down an order read off 
to him by a young  man who  simply gave 
the memorandum and then went away.
“That  is  the  city  buyer  for  Blank & 
Blank,” said the salesman;  “you  know of 
them?”
Yes,  I knew  of  them as having  a very 
large catalogue of  goods,  and this was to 
be met with in the hands of almost every 
man in the West. 
I  supposed  that they 
bought  goods  in  very  large quantities, 
and  carried  an  immense stock of  every­
thing advertised in their list.  But I was 
amazed at the order  their  man  had  just 
left. 
It called  for twelfths of  dozens of 
nearly  everything  wanted,  and  it  was 
only at rare  intervals  that a  sixth  of  a 
dozen  was  mentioned,  and  never  any 
larger quantities than  that. 
I expressed 
my surprise.
they  carry  very  little  stock,” 
said the salesman.  “Every morning they 
make out a list of  what that day’s orders 
call for, and this young man goes around 
and orders these goods.”
In another  house I met  the  city buyer 
of  another  of  these  mail-trade  houses, 
and I learned that he was simply picking 
up the goods  his  day’s orders  called for, 
while the importers and jobbers not only 
“paid  the  freight,”  but  carried  all  the 
stock.
Of course, the purchases of such houses 
amounted to large  sums  in the  course of 
a month,  but  the  rest of  us  had to  buy 
ahead of  our  orders, and  one  wondered 
why these  houses should  not  have  to do 
likewise.  That they did  not  was all the 
greater to  their  credit  as  shrewd  mer­
chants.
Very  few  retailers  to-day  are  more 
than  twenty-four  hours  distant  from  a 
good  jobbing  house. 
It  ought  to  be  a 
matter of  pride  with  the  average  mer­
chant to keep his stock low, and yet miss 
no sales.  But many men  boast of a large 
stock  as if  it were  evidence of  their  ca­
pacity  as  merchants, and ought  to  give 
them standing.
In  buying  goods  the first  mistake the 
average  merchant  makes  is  in  buying 
such  goods as screws,  bolts,  hinges,  etc. 
He will  want  an  assortment,  and a good 
assortment,  for  are  not  these  items  the 
very backbone of the hardware business? 
He has not learned the exact sizes needed 
in his  neighborhood, and  he  is  assured 
that he cannot go very far wrong in  buy­
ing the largest  possible  assortment.  As 
a result, he  does  not  buy  enough of  the 
staple sizes  used  in  his  community,  but 
he  lays  in  a  large  stock of  other  sizes 
that his trade will never call for.
If  he were wise  he would wait  and let 
the demand for  the odd  sizes  develop as 
time passed on and then  buy for this;  he 
starts with a full assortment, and a large 
share of  this  he  will  hand  down to his 
successor.
Let  us  look  at  the  memorandum  of 
strap  hinges  that I  saw  in  my friend’s 
inventory.  He  has  as  many  10  inches 
and 12 inches  in  stock  as  he  has  of  6 
inches.  Had  he  bought one-half  dozen 
of each of the larger two  sizes,  he would 
have still had an assortment, and enough 
for his market
In the  screw memorandum  it  is  plain 
to be  seen that he  had ordered ten  gross 
of  each  number from 6 to 12.  Probably 
the  salesman  casually  mentioned  that 
this was but “one package” of  each size, 
and  the  man  felt that he could  not  ask 
for  less than  that.  But  he  would  have 
been much wiser to have ordered more of 
the medium sizes and less of some of  the 
others.
As I started  off  on a trip, many  years 
ago,  I fancied I had hit upon an idea that 
would  help  me to  a  good  many orders. 
I had noticed before this that every store 
had  more  or  less of  unsalable goods. 
I

believed  that  the  retailer would  gladly 
sell these to me at a good  deal  less  than 
factory price, and  thank  me for helping 
him turn such goods into better stock.
The  scheme  succeeded  so well  that  I 
was forced  to  abandon  it. 
I  could get 
certain goods at my own price, but I saw 
I was  getting  more of  such  than I could 
unload.  As  it  was,  I  traded  in  three 
weeks for all the odd sizes of tacks, bolts, 
butts,  screws,  augers,  etc.,  that I  was 
able to work off  in the  next  three years.
Every  man  who  takes a yearly  inven­
tory  (and  no man  can  lay claim to com­
mon  sense who  does  not  do  this)  must 
feel  annoyed  at  the  large  share  of  his 
capital  that is invested in surplus stock, 
or in unsalable sizes of staple goods.
If  he  happens  (as  is  the  case  with 
many men)  to be running his business on 
a  small  capital,  then  this  part  of  his 
stock  is all  the  more unsatisfactory and 
burdensome.  Let  him  put  the  proper 
remedy before himself—to buy in smaller 
quantities, and  use  every means  in  his 
power to cut down the stock of slow-sell­
ing goods.
There is no  place in  the  world  where 
a man’s  capital  is  of  so  little  value  to 
him  as when  it  is  in  dead  stock on the 
shelves of  his own  store.  Two-thirds of 
the  men  who  are worried to meet  their 
bills are  those who  have large  stocks of 
goods.
The heavy buyer is a plum to the trav­
eling  man, for a large  order  redounds to 
his  credit,  but  the  man who  buys care­
fully and discounts  his  bills  is  the  one 
rated the highest in  the estimation of the 
house.  His  credit  and  cash  will  buy 
goods in small quantities at better prices 
than are  given  to  the other.  The heavy 
buyer  soon  reaches  the  point where  he 
must ask  favors of  the  houses  he  buys 
from,  and favors cost money.
Better  one  dollar  in  the  bank to your 
credit  than  five  dollars in poor  stock on 
your shelves. 

Wm. H.  Ma h er.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

FORK  IN  BARBELS.

Mess,  new.................................*..................  11  50
Short c u t..........................................................   14 25
Extra clear pig, short cut.................................  .5 5.)
Extra clear,  heavy.......................................
Clear, fat back.................................................   ¡5 00
Boston clear, short cut.....................................   16 00
Clear back, short cut........................................   15 CO
15 50
Standard clear, short cut. best.................... 
Pork Sausage.............................................. 
7 *4
Ham Sausage...................................................9
Tongue Sausage.............................................. 9
Frankfort Sausage  ........................................74
Blood Sausage.................................................   5
Bologna, straight............................................ 5
Bologna,  thick..............  ............................... 5
HeaaCheese.................................................... 5

bausasb—Fresh and Smoked.

LARD.

64
64
64
7
74
74

8
84
8/4
84
84
9

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

Com-
Kettle 
Rendered. Granger. Family. pound.
Tierces __ ..84
6
501b. Tins.. -84
64
201b. Pails. .  9
64
. •  «4
10 1b.  “ 
64
51b. 
. .  9*8
“ 
31b. 
“ 
...  9tt
74
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs......................6 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing....................... 6 50
Boneless, rump butts.....................................  9 oo
Hams, average20 lbs....................................... 114
16 lbs.......................................llai
12 to 14 lbs...............................lij^
picnic...................................................84
best boneless........................................  iu
Shoulders..........................................................8
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..............................io
Dried beef, ham prices..................................... 8
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  CANDY.
Standard,  per lb........................  
“   H. H............................. 
“  Twist  ........................... 
Boston  Cream  ...............  
8*4
Cut  Loaf.........................
Extra H.  H......................  8*4
MIXED  CANDY.

Cases  Bbls.  Pails.

6V4
64
64

Bbls.

Palls.
Standard.......................................6
7
Leader.......................................... g
7
Royal............................................64
7*8 
Nobby...........................................7
English  Rock.............................. 7
8 
Conserves.................................... 7
8 8 
Broken Taffy....................baskets
Peanut Squares................. 
“  8
9
French Creams.............................
1013
...
Valley  Creams.............................  
Midget, 30 lb. baskets..................................... 8
Modern, SO lb. 
.......................................8

“ 

fancy—In bulk

“ 

Lozenges, plain................................
printed.............................
Chocolate Drops................................
Chocolate Monumentals...................
Gum Drops........................................
Moss Drops........................................
Sour Drops........................................
Imperials...........................................
fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.
Lemon Drops.....................................
Sour Drops........................................
Peppermint Drops.............................
Chocolate Drops................................
H. M. Chocolate Drops.....................
Gum Drops........................................
Licorice Drops...................................
A. B. Licorice Drops.......................
Lozenges, plain.................................
printed...................  ........
Imperials...........................................
Mottoes..............................................
Cream Bar........................................
Molasses Bar.....................................
Hand Made  Creams..........................
Plain Creams.....................................
Decorated Creams............................
String  Rock.....................................
Burnt Almonds................................
Wintergreen  Berries........................

“ 

CARAMELS.

“ 

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3 
2 
3 

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LEMONS.

ORANSES.

BANANAS.

No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.................
.................
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
................
No. 3, 
.................
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes.............................
Small........................................................
M edium .................................................
L arg e........................... ..........................
Calif ornias, 96.................................. .
126.......................................
150  ....................................
Messinas, choice  200........................... .
“ 
160...........................
Messina, choice, 360.............................
fancy, 360........................... .
choice 300.............................
fancy 380  Mai oris............... .
OTHER FOREieN  FRUITS.
Figs, fancy  layers, 61b.........................
10»..........................
14»..........................
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box........................
.........................
Persian, 50-lb.  box...................
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona...........................
Ivaca......................................
California...........................
Brazils, new...........................................
Filberts................................................. .
Walnuts, Grenoble...............................
“  Marbot...................................
Chili......................................
“ 
Table  Nuts,  fancy...............................
choice.............................
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.............................
Cocoanuts, full sacks...........................
Fancy, H.  P., Suns...............................
“  Roasted  .................
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..............................
“  Roasted.................
Choice, H. P.,  E xtras..........................
“  Roasted..............
California  W alnuts..............................

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“  20»..................

“ 
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PEANUTS.

50-lb.  “ 

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Falls.

.......10
......  li
..... UK
.......  13
......   54
......   8
......   8«
.......10
Per Box
........55
........55
........60
........65
........90
. ,40@50
__ 1  00
........80
........60
........65
........60
.........70
........56
55
.! 85@95 
. .80@90
----1 00
........65
....1   00 
.........60

34
61
28
42
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.2 C0@2 25

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@ 54 
@  74 
@ 54 
@ 74 
@ 44 
@ 64 
124

C ro ck ery   & G la ssw a r e

FRUIT  JARS.
Pints.......................................
Quarts.....................................
Half Gallons...........................
Caps........................................
Rubbers..................................

LAMP  BURNERS.
No. 0 Sun.....................................
No. 1  “  .....................................
No. 2  “  .....................................
Tubular................................... ;.

Pearl top.

6 doz. In box.

“  ......................
»  .................

First quality.
“ 
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XXX Flint.
“ 
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lam p  chim neys.—Per box. 
No. 0 San..............................................
No. 1  “  ...............................................
No. 2  “  ...............................................
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top............................
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top..........................
“  ......................
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
“  ..........................
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.........
....
“ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
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No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.............
No. 2  “ 
.............
No. 1 crimp, per doz.....................
n o . 2 
.........................
«  
LAMP w icks.
No. 0, per  gross__
No. 1, 
___
No  2, 
No. 3, 
Mammoth, per doz
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 and 6 gal...........
Ju p , 4  gal., per doz.......................

La Bastie.

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Milk Pans, 4  gal., per doz........
glazed
glazed.

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* 6 75 
,  7 00 
9 00 
.  2 75 
40

45
50
75
75

1 75 
.1  88 
.2 70
.2 25 
.2 40 
.8 40
.2 60 
.2 80 
.3 80
.8 70 
.4 70 
.4 88
.1  25 
.1  50 
.1  35 
.1  60
..  23 
...  28 
..  38 
...  76 
...  75
064 
75 
90
1  80
65 
75 
78 
90

and if  every one of  us, both  natives and 
foreign born,  was  not  discontented  with 
his  lot  in  life  and  striving to better  it. 
Discontent  begets  enterprise, stimulates 
ingenuity,  and promotes industrial activ­
ity.  The men who work for wages, when 
they endeavor  to  secure greater compen­
sation,  shorter  hours, or  any  other  im­
provement  in  their relations  with  their 
employers,  are  actuated by the same mo­
tives  as  the  builders  of  railroads,  the 
founders  of  factories,  the  openers  of 
mines,  and  all  the  other  varieties  of 
money  seekers.  Their  strikes  are  no 
more proof of  misery than are corners in 
stocks, the  formation  of  trusts, or  rail­
road rate wars.  Besides, when hundreds 
and even  thousands  of  men are  able to 
live without work for whole  months at a 
time, as  we  see  them  doing when  they 
are on  strike, it shows  that  they are  by 
no means  in a state  of  utter  destitution 
and  starvation. 
troubles,  as 
proofs  of decaying industry,  may,  there­
fore,  be  treated as what  the  mathemati­
cians call negligible quantities.

Labor 

The belief is current,  and  gives rise to 
much  despondent  talk  about  business, 
that  unless  speculation  is  rife, the  de­
mand  for  labor and  for  goods  in  excess 
of the supply, and the livleiest activity is 
displayed in all departments of industry, 
the  country is going  down  hill,  and will 
soon land  everybody  in  ruin. 
It  might 
as well  be  said  that  a  man  is  in  good 
health  only when  his  blood  is  at  fever 
heat, his nerves  strung up to the highest 
pitch, and  he  sleeps  but  four  hours out 
of  the  twenty-four.  There is  sure to be 
a  reaction  in  his  case  which will  leave 
him  worse  off  than  his  neighbor whose 
blood remains at its normal temperature, 
who takes  life easily, and who sleeps his 
full eight  hours and  more,  and  so  there 
is  in  the  case of  a  country  when  it in­
dulges  in  a  period of  wild  speculation, 
as Great  Britain  lately did  in  Argentine 
investments. 
I  see  that  the  Bank  of 
England is still  out of  pocket some  $25,- 
000,000 of  the  money  which it advanced 
two years  ago to prevent  the  collapse in 
the securities of  Argentine  from leading 
to a financial catastrophe in London, and 
the  sudden  cessation  of  exports  from 
Great  Britain  to  the  country  has  pro­
duced a stagnation  in  many branches  of 
British  industry, much of  which  is  un­
fairly attributed to our tariff.  The check 
given  to  enterprise  by  the  unlucky re­
sult of  Argentine  ventures  has  also  re­
duced the amount of  new investments in 
London  to  one-half,  and  the  business of 
the London  Stock  Exchange to less  than 
two-thirds of  what they  were before  the 
Baring failure. 
In view of  this warning 
I am  quite content  with  the less  showy 
but more solid prosperity of this country, 
and I am not disposed to complain of the 
absence of speculation.

Ma tth ew  Ma r sh a ll.

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’*

DEPART.  ARRIVE
Detroit Express....................................7:00 & m  10:00 p m
Mixed  ....................................................7:05am  4:30 pm
Day  Express........................................1:20 p m  10:00 a m
•Atlantic A Pacific Express.............. 1:00 pm   0:00 a m
New York Express...............................5:40 p m  10:45 p m

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

Fred M. Briggs, Gen'l Agent, 85 Monroe St.
A. Almquist, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Geo. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office. 07 Monroe St. 
O. W. R uggles  G. P.  &  T. Agent.,Chicago.

mmnw TIME  TABLE

IDETROIT

1

NOW IN  EFFECT.

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave ♦No.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 ♦No.  82
Lv. Chicago__
Lv. Milwaukee. 
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St.  Johns  ...Ar
Owossa........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 
905am
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 
305pm
4 06pm

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

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
d 05pm 
8 lOpm 
8 45pm 
7C5pm 
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

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

•No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13 •No.  15
4 05pm
10 45pm
10 20pm
7 06am
11 20pm 
8 35am
6 30am

6  50am
1  00pm
2 10pm

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

♦Dally.  tDally 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. Loud, Traffic Manager.
Ben F letcher, Trav. Pass. Agent.
J as. Campbell, City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

H1RTH, (UOSE k 00.,

JOBBERS OF

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

12-14  LYON  ST. 

GRAND  RA PID S

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

JOBBERS  OF

State; Agents for

T H E  COUNTRY’S  SO L ID  PR O SPE R IT Y .
While it is now very evident  that  this 
country is to  escape a serious  scourge of 
the  Asiatic  curse,  I  do  not  refuse  to 
recognize the fact that  the advent of  the 
cholera  and  the  uncertainty  which,  in 
the absence of  experience, prevails  with 
most people  as to its  future career  have 
discouraged  the  buying  of  stocks  and 
prevented the  making of  an effective re­
sistance to the downward course of prices.
I comprehend very well, too, the despond­
ency not only of  persons  who have been 
compelled  by  the  wiping  out  of  their 
margins to sell their stocks at a loss, but 
of  investment holders who have  not sold 
and  are  under  no  necessity of  selling, 
but who  have to endure  the  sight of  an 
apparent  shrinkage  of 
their  capital. 
Their  incomes  are nowise  lessened  nor 
likely  to  be  lessened  by  the  epidemic, 
but  such  is  the  constitution  of  human 
nature  that  high  quotations  for  one’s 
property are viewed with  pleasure and a 
decline  in  them  causes  pain.  Shrewd 
stock  operators  are  aware of  this  fact 
and act accordingly. 
If by bold and per­
sistent  sales they can  produce a nominal 
fall, a real  fall is likely to follow  it  and 
to  give them  back  at a profit what  they 
have sold.  We  have  all  seen  the  thing 
done  over  and  over  again,  and  yet  we 
continue to be influenced by it.

Fortunately,  the  country’s  prosperity 
does  not  depend  upon  the  New  York 
Stock Exchange,  and  is  little affected by 
its vagaries. 
It is too  solid in its nature 
and rests upon too  broad a foundation to 
be  seriously  impaired  even  by the  rav­
ages of  cholera  in  the  worst  form  that 
the timid expect  it  to take.  Nor are the 
exportation  of  gold,  the  recent  labor 
troubles,  and  the  alleged  mischiefs  of 
the McKinley tariff  to  be  accepted as in­
dications of. a decline in it.  The industry 
of sixty millions of people,  with millions 
of acres of  fertile  soil,  vast  and produc­
tive  mines,  and  countless  ingenious me­
chanical inventions,  is too mighty a force 
and accomplishes results of  too immense 
proportions to be thwarted by such petty 
agencies.

Why the cholera  is  not to be feared as 
a  destroyer of  values,  and  why  the  ex­
portation  of  gold, even  if  it  should  re­
sult in putting  the  metal to  a  premium, 
will  not produce  any serious  mischief, I 
have  already explained  on  this  and  on 
previous  occasions.  That  the  philan­
thropic  and  tender-hearted  people  who 
see  in  the  strikes  at Homestead,  Buffalo 
and other places evidence of  deep-seated 
wrong and of  coming industrial disaster, 
as well as the political writers and speak­
ers who  denounce the  McKinley tariff as 
the  cause  of  a  commercial  depression 
already great and sure to become greater, 
are  likewise  in  the  wrong,  I  think  can 
also be  made  plain  to any  one  who will 
dispassionately consider the facts.

Undoubtedly,  strikes  such  as  that  at 
Homestead against a reduction of wages, 
that at  Buffalo for  higher wages,  that  of 
the New England granite  cutters against 
a change in the date of fixing wages, and 
that of  the building  trades in New York 
against  the  employment  of  non-union 
workmen must  be  admitted to indicate a 
great deal of  discontent  among the earn­
ers of  their living  by manual  labor. 
In 
this  respect,  however,  they do not  differ 
from the rest of mankind, especially that 
portion of it which dwells in this country. 
The United  States would  not  be what  it 
is if  our forefathers  had  not  been  dis­
contented with the rule of Great Britain,

TETE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Michigan PiEFTFai

“ The  Kent.**
Th is  new  and  handsomely  furnished  hotel, 

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 
from 50 cents  to $1 per  day.  First-class  restau­
rant and dining room in connection.  Free trans­
fer of baggage from Union Depot.
The patronage of  traveling men  and  country 
merchants  is  earnestly solicited, as we  are con­
fident our hotel  and its  service will  commend, 
themselves to all seeking clean, quiet, and home­
like accommodations.

BHICH  l  BOOTH,  Props.

158 &.1I 6O  Fountain  St.^Grand  Rapids.

1 5

G ra n d   R a p id s   A  I n d ia n a .

Schedule  in effect  July  3,1892.

North.
South.
For Traverse City A Mackinaw
7:20 am
6:50 a m
From  K alam azoo.......................
9:20 am  
For Traverse City A Mackinaw
2:00  p m
1:50 p m
For  Traverse  City.......................
4:15  p m 
For  Petoskey A Mackinaw.......   8:10 p m
10:40  p m
8:10 p m
“  m Chicago and  Kalamazoo.
8:35 p m
Saginaw...................................
7:20 a m 
For Saginaw..................................
4;15 p m
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.

North.

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

Cincinnati.............................   6  20 a rw
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago...
For Fort Wayne and the  East..  11:50 a m
For  Cincinnati...............................   5:20 
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 6 .00 p. m, also train leaving south at 11:20 
p. m. run dally;  all other  trains  daily except Sunday.

pm

SLEEPING  A  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

NORTH 7:20 a m  train#—Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Traverse City and  Grand Rapids 
to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
2#00 p  m  train   has  parlor  car  Grand 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
1 0 : 4 0   p   m   t r a in .—Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw. 
S O U T H —7 : 0 0  a m  tra in # —Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
1 0 :0 5   a m   tra in # —Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
6 : 0 0   p m   t r a in .—Wagner Sleeping  Car 
Grand  R ap id s to Cincinnati.
1 1 ; 2 0   p  m  tra in # —Wagner Sleeping Car 
Grand K apids to Chicago.

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

10:05 a m  
3:35 p m  

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

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

3:10 p m  
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 pm  
9:00 p m  

7:05 am 
1:50 pm 

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana#
10:00 am
6:55  am  
11:26 am  
4:40 pm
5:30 p m 
9:06 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  W7  Munson,  Union  Ticket  Agent, 67 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.O. L. LOCKWOOD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
CHICAGO 
SEPT- .^

AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’T. 
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Lv.GR’D RAPIDS........8:50am  1:25pm *11:35pm
At. CHICAGO..............3:35pm  6:45pm  *7:05am

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

 

TO AND FROM  MUSKEGON.

Lv. CHICAGO..............9:00am  5:25pm *11:15pm
Ar.  GR’D RAPIDS......3:55pm  10:45pm  *7:05am
Lv Chicago.............................   9:30am 
9:30am
TO  AND  FROM  BENTON  HARBOR,  ST  JOSEPH  AND 
INDIANAPOLIS.
Lv. G  R  
  8:50am Jl :25pm 
........*11:35pm
At.  G R ..........*6:10am 3'55pm 
.........  10:45pm
Lv. G. R ...........  8:50am  1:25pm  5:40pm  3:55pm
Ar.  G.  R..................... 10:45am  3:55pm  5:20pm
Lv.  G  R....................................... 7:30am  5:35pm
..........................11:20pm  10:24pm
Ar.  Manistee 
Ar.  Traverse City.......................12:35pm 10:59pm
Ar.  Charlevoix  .........................  2:55pm 
..
Ar. Petoskey  ............................. 3:30pm  .............
Ar.  from  Petoskey.  etc.,  10:00  p  m .;  from 
Traverse City 11:50 a m, 10:00 p m.

TRAVERSE CITY,  MANISTEE  ft PETOSKEY.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

pm, leave Chicago 5:25 p m.
pm;  leave  Chicago *11:15  pm.

Wagner  Parlor Cars  Leave Grand  Rapids 1:25 
Wagner Sleepers—Leave  Grand  Rapids *11:35 
Free Chair Car for Manistee 5:35 p m.
♦Every day. 

tExcept Saturday.  Other trains 

week days only.
D E T R O I T ,

LANSING Sc NORTHERN  R.  R.
GOING TO  DETROIT.

Lv. G  R__7:00am  *1:25pm  5:40pm  *11:30pm
Ar. DET__11:50am  *5:25pm  10:35pm  *7:30am

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. DETR__  7:50am *1:35pm 5:15pm  *11:00pm
Ar. Gj R........ 12:55pm *5:25pm  10:20pm  *7:00am

TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS.

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

TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. R.

Lv. Grand Rapids...........7:00am  1:25pm 5:40pm
Ar. from Lowell..............12:55pm 5:25pm  ..........

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.

T o led o ,  A n n   A rb o r  <Ss  N o rth   M ich ig an  

R a ilw a y .

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

VIA D., G. H. ft M.

VIA D., L. ft N.

Return connections equally as good.

W. ;H.  B ennett,^General Pass. Agent,

Toledo, Ohio.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

T H E   K IC K E R .

I thought some one would kill him, as he kicked 
Or that  some mad wretch would fill him  full of 
But I wondered when  the barber gave  him  just 
For  I’d  never  run  across  such  an  all-round 
And the porter bowed  so  meekly when  he took 
And  all  cottoned  to  him  weakly  though  he 

from morn to night,
buckshot out of spite;
the smoothest shave.
knave;
the kicker’s grip,
never gave a tip.

Trainmen watched with care  the heating on the 
Not a hackman essayed  beating  when his  kick 
Even  newsboys  grinned  compliance  when  he 
And fair women sought alliance with this mold- 
Like a mule, by earnest  kicking, he had  won all 
And  in Heaven  you’ll find  him picking  out the 

car he patronized.
was realized;
quoted office rates,
er of the fates
pleasant things.
longest pair of wings.

A sso c ia tio n .

R e o rg a n iz a tio n   o f  th e   R e ta il  G ro c e rs ’ 
At a  meeting  of  the  retail  grocers  of  Grand 
Rapids, held at the rooms  formerly occupied  by 
the  Owashtanong  Club,  on  Monday,  Sept.  19, 
A. J. Elliott acted as chairman  and  E. A. Stowe 
as secretary, pro tem.

The  reading of  the  minutes of  the last  meet­
ing was  omitted  by resolution and  the proceed­
ings  of  that  meeting  were  ordered  expunged 
from the records.

The Committee on  Constitution  and  By-Laws 
presented its report, which  was  read, section by 
section, and  adopted seriatim and  then adopted 
as  a  whole,  including  several  minor  changes 
and amendments.

An opportunity was  then  given  those  present 
to sign the constitution and by laws and twenty- 
two signatures were affixed thereto.
sulted as follows:

Election of  officers  for  the  ensuing  year  re­

President—A. J.  Elliott.
Secretary—E. A.  Stowe
Treasurer—B. S.  Harris.
The election of Vice-Presidents was postponed 

until the next regular meeting.

On motion of G. H. DeGraff, the President, Sec­
retary  and  Treasurer  were  instructed  to  have 
printed 500  copies of  the  constitution  and  by­
laws and the same number of blank applications 
for membership  and such  other matter as  may 
be found necessary for  the  use of  the  Associa­
tion.

On motion of  the same  gentleman, the  Secre­
tary  was  instructed  to  send  out  cards  to  all 
grocers  in the  city notifying  them of  the  next 
meeting which will be held on Monday evening, 
October 3.

A vote of thanks was tendered L. D. Harris for 
the use of  the hall, and the  meeting adjourned.

T lie S u c c e ssfu l S a le sm a n .

Make your boy a smart salesman.  Here 
are two boys,  the one  can  beat the other 
ten times over in selling goods, and so he 
gets ten times  the  wages  and gets  them 
ten 
times  quicker.  The  commercial 
houses  are  bidding  all the  time  against 
each other for such a young man.  Every­
body wants him.  Can  you  build such  a 
boy?  Of  course  you  can,  if  you’ll  go 
about it in  the  right  way.  Some  sales­
men,  like  poets,  are  born, but  more  are 
taught  by  wise  parents.  They  are 
switched  onto  the  right  track. 
It  is 
training that fits them  for  lives of  work 
in  all  the  numerous  departments,  and 
the  impressionable  years  of  youth  are 
the  years  in  which  to  do  the best and 
most lasting work.  None  can equal  the 
wise parent  in giving direction and stim­
ulus to the  boy.  What  a  crime  against 
the family and the state to bring up boys 
and girls with nothing in  them but  what 
the spoon put in!  What are the essentials 
of a successful  salesman?  These:  Pleas­
ing  manners,  a  thorough  knowledge  of 
goods  and  of  human  nature;  also  the 
needs of  the trade and  the changing con­
dition  of  markets.  How  can  one  sell 
goods to a  man  whose  good  opinion  he 
hasn’t  gained?  Be  as  truthful  as  the 
day  is  long  and  squarer  than the best. 
Now  start  out  and  roll  up  your  pile. 
There is  a  magnificent  field  for  you in 
any  and  every  state  of  the  Union. 
Touch not the accursed  thing, no matter

In every large 
in what form  presented. 
establishment,  wholesale or  retail,  there 
are popular  salesmen  who  take the  eye 
and the  promotion  of  the  head  men  of 
the concern.  Never  make  the  mistake, 
young  man,  of 
thinking  you  are  not 
noticed  or  classified, for  you  are  every 
day  you  serve;  your  destiny  is in  your 
own hands.  Make no mistakes.

Geo.  R.  Scott.

T h e   G ro c e ry   M a r k e t.

Sugar—The  supplies  of  foreign  beet 
sugar at the different  ports  having  been 
released from  quarantine,  under  certain 
restrictions,  all  the annoyances  incident 
to the cholera scare have  been  overcome 
and the  situation  has  settled  down to  a 
natural  basis.  The  London  beet  sugar 
market is weak  and the  tendency is low­
er.  Refiners are ten  days  behind on  or­
ders for hard grades and orders for gran­
ulated are  only  received  during half  of 
each  day.  Prices  are  unchanged,  but 
firm.

Molasses  and  Syrups—The  movement 
is not as large as usual  at this  season  of 
the year,  but prices are  steady.

Coffee—Rio grades are firm and strong. 
Manufacturers  of  package  goods  have 
advanced  their  quotations  %c.  Desira­
ble grades of  mild  coffees are strong,  in 
sympathy with the firm  position  of Bra­
zilian  grades.

Rice—Domestic is not moving as rapid­
ly as was  expected  would  be  the  case. 
Foreign grades are in fair request.  Japan 
is slightly  higher  for  prime  and choice 
sorts.

Fish—Cod  is  firm.  Box  herring  are 
steady.  Former prices  on mackerel  are 
well maintained.

A  D a y  o f D ru n k e n n e s s .

From the Philadelphia Grocer.
Labor Day in Grand Rapids,  according 
to T h e  Mic h ig a n T radesm an,  was Bac­
chus’ Day, which means that the day  was 
devoted by the labor element to the drink­
ing of rum and beer. 
It was not far from 
the same in this  city,  the  labor  demon­
stration in Rising Sun Park being mainly 
devoted  to  the  drinking  of  intoxicants 
and consequent disorder. 
Instead of  be­
ing a  day  devoted  to  sensible  physical 
recreation, it was given over to the indul­
gence  of  the  most  pernicious  habits. 
Labor Day is a failure.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—Maiden Blush are in fair demand and 
supply  at $2 per  bbl.  Pippins  command  about 
$1.75 per bbl.
Beans—Dry stock is in small supply and active 
demand.  Dealers  pay  $1.50@1.60  for  unpicked 
and hold city handpicked at $1.85@1,95 per bu.

Beets—60c per bu.
Butter—Higher  and  firmer.  Dealers  pay  18c 
for choice dairy  and hold at 20c.  •
Cabbages—50c and 60c  per dozen, according to 
size.
Celery—Choice home grown commands 20@25c 
per dozen  bunches.
Cranberries—Cape  Cods are  coming in  freely, 
dealers holding at $8 per  bbl.  They are large in 
size and fine in quality.
Dried  apples—Evaporated  is  firmly  held  at 
8@9c;  sundried is strong at 5@6c.
Eggs—Not  quite  so  strong.  Dealers  pay  17c 
and hold at 19c  per doz.
Grapes—Concords,  3c  per  lb.;  Niagaras  and 
Delawares  4c  per  lb.  The  yield  is  generally 
large  and the quality  fine.

Green Corn—8@i0c per doz.
Honey—14c per lb.  Very scarce.
Musk  Mellons—Osage,  75c@$l per crate;  nut­
meg, 50@60c per dozen.
Onions—Yellow Danvers command 90e@$l per 
bushel.
Peaches—This  week will  practically wind  up 
the supply of choice fruit.  Late  Crawfords will 
probably  run  $1.2S@$1 75,  Chilis  $1@$1.35  and 
Old Mixons about $1.25.  The  warm days of  last 
week hastened the ripening of late peaches very 
materially.
Pears—Bartlett’s  bring  about  $2.00  per  bu. 
Clapp’s  and Flemish  Beauties  are about  out of 
market.

Peppers—Green, 50@60c per bu.
Plums—Lombards  command  $1.75@$2  per bu. 
Potatoes—Higher  and  strong.  Dealers  pay  60 
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys  command  $3.25  per 
Tomatoes—The market  is  lower again, choice 
Watermelons—In  fair  supply  at  $20  per 100.

Green Gages and Damsons are out of market.
and hold at 65c.
bbl. and Baltimores $2.75.
stock commanding 50c per bu.

Farm ing  is a failure, we have tried it for 20 years in this county.

Farm ing is a grand success.  We have had a Co-operative B utter A Cheese Factory  here 
for five  years.  I t  was  b uilt  by  Davis  &  Rankin  Bldg.  &  Mfg.  Co.,  Chicago,  Ills.  Ad­
dress  them  for Inform ation if  yon wish a factory, and how  to get it.

TRADE WINNERS

All  Goods  Manufactured  by  Us• 

Quality the Bestl  Purity Guaranteed1

PUTNAM  CANOY CO.

P E R K I N S   <&  H E S S
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

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

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CARE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

PEACHES! 

PEACHES! 

PEACHES!

Can Ship Them  1000 Miles

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

a trial and be convinced!

THEO.  B.  GOOSSEN,

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

And  will  be  Higher•

H   It  will pay you  to order freely of  H
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AGENT  FOR  E.  J.  GILLIES  &   CO., 

167  NORTH  IONIA  ST,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

J-  P-  V IS N E R , 

NEW   Y O R E . 

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Spring &  Company,

IMPORTERS  A SD   M'UOLESALE  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  an d   D o m estic  C ottons.

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

assorted stock at lowest  market  prices.

Spring &  Company.

MICHIGAN  BARK  & LUMBER  CO.,

You  can  take  your  choice

OF  TWO  OF  THE

¡Best  Flat  Opening  Blank  Books

In the M arket.  Cost no m ore than the Old Style Books,  W rite for prices.

GRAND  RAPIDS  BOOK  BINDING  CO.,

2 9 -3 1   C an al  St., 

G rand  R a p id s,  M ich.

HERCULES POWDER*

Successors  to

N.  B.  C M  & Co. A N N I H I L A T O R .

Stamp tefora a  Mart.  1  Fragments after a  b lu b

STRONGEST and  SAFEST EXPLOSIVI
POWDER, FUSE, CAPS,
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K u o  t v  xl  t o   t i l e   A r t s «

Aim ALL. TOOLS FOB STOMP 'BLASTING,

HERCULES  POWDER  COMPANY,

FO B  SALB  BY   TH X

40 Prospect  Street,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

J. W. WILLARD, Manager.

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

1*  and  19  W iddicomb  Building,

Agents  for

Western  Michigan,

W RITE  FOR  PRICES

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W H O L E S A L E

Dry  Goods. Carpets and Cloaks

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live- 

G eese  Feathers.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Yoiit IrjoM eiir & Co.,48> 

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Wholesale 
Grocers.

BARNHART

PUTMAN  CO.

*TtHESE  chests  will 

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

to  the 
handsomest  ever  offered 
trade.  They  are  made  to  fit  any 
of our  boxes  and can  be  changed  from 
one box  to  another in  a moment  They 
will  save  enough  good«1  from  flies, dirt  and  prying  fingers in  a short  time to pay 
for themselves.  Try them and be convinced.  Price,  50 cents each.

O 'UR new glass covers  are by far the 

N E W   N O V E L T IE S .

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

CREAM  CRISP. 

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

the best selling cakes we ever made.

THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,
GRAND  RAPIDS.

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 

THE  NEW  ELECTRIC

Oil  H eating  Stove.

Acknowledged  as  the  Best  Oil  Heater

yet  produced•

OUR  No.  20.

fl Few Reasons Whg:

AND  PRICES  GUARANTEED.
It  is the  easiest  selling  stove in  the  market, 
because  it has  advantages  enjoyed  by no  other 
stove.  Advantages  which  every consumer  of 
oil  understands, because  everybody knows  that 
a  BRASS  TANK  w ill  never  leak, while  a 
tin  tank is soon eaten through by the oil.

PRICE,  $12.00

It  has  a  greater  radiating  surface  and  the 
largest  hot air  circulation, making it a stronger 
heater with the same amount of fuel.
It  is the  only  oil  stove  on  the  market  that 
can be operated with  entire freedom from smoke 
or  odor.
It  has  a  water  reservoir  in  the  burner, pro­
ducing  a  constant  evaporation,  supplying  the 
flame  with  oxygen, aiding  combustion  and giv­
ing  a  soft,  mild  and  healthful  atmosphere  in 
the room.  This valuable and  important  feature 
cannot be over estimated.
It  is  by  far  the  best  made.  The  oil  tank, 
water  reservoir,  burner,  wick  tube,  wick-lifting 
device and  flame deflector are entirely of  brass, 
and  because  of  its  resistance  to  rust, greatly 
increasing the durability of the stove.
It  is the most convenient.  A drop door mica 
frame affords easy access to the burner for light­
ing  without  tipping  back  the upper part of  the 
stove.  Every  stove  is  mounted  on  castors, 
without extra charge.  The  filling device  is the 
safest and  simplest  in  use.
The location  of  the oil  tank  is such  that  the 
cold  air passes  entirely around  it, always  keep­
ing  the oil  cool  and  rendering it  impossible  to 
create an  explosion.
I »eautifully modelled 
and  richly  ornamented  with  full  nickel  trim­
r—
mings. 
Heating  capacity,  2,000  to  2,500  cubic  feet 

It  is  the  handsomest. 

in cold weather.

H.  LEO N ARD
G r a n d   R a p i d s ,

&  SONS,
M ich.

STATE  AGENTS

FOR

The  World’s  Best.

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