Published Weekly.

VOL.  10.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS.
GRAND  R A PID S,  JA N U A R Y   4,  1893.

$1  Per  Year.
NO.  485

My  Grocer  F riend  :

’Tis clearly wrong 

To use that ancient scale so long,
'Tis worn  and dull, turns hard of late, 
Besides ’tis one requires down  weight.

You can't afford  such scales to use,
The more you  do, the more you lose; 
For profits are at  best  but small,
You give dow n weight, there’s none at all.

Far better throw such scales away 
Than  keep on  losing day by day,
For what you lose on each month’s sales 
Would  pay for us.

Perfection  Scales.

H a w k i n s   <£  C o m p a n y   S e l l   'Th e m .

WILL  SURELY  COME 
TO  THOSE  WHO  USE

P e r f e c t io n  S c a l e s.

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 .,

GRBBKER8,  BISGU1T8  #   SWEET  GOODS.

HARRY FOX,  Manager.

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PA ID   TO  H A IL   ORDERS.

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

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.

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

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

M O SELEY   BROS.,

-   WHOLESALE -

FRUITS,  SEEDS.  BEANS  AND  PRODUCE.

2 6 ,2 8 ,3 0 .3 2   Ottawa St.,  Grand  Rapids.

Don’t   Forget  when  ordering

NUTS,  FIGS, CANDY DATES, ETC.

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

To call oa or address

Special paias  taken w ith fruit orders.

C .   N .  
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WHOLESALE 

9 North  Ionia St., Grand Rapids.

 

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FRUITS  m  PRODUGE.

Mail  Orders  Receive  Prompt  Attention.

No  Hr a net  of 'Ten  Cent

CIGARS C°™ "ES G f f l l F

G.  P.  FAUDE,  Sole  Manufacturer,  IONIA,  MICH.

We  now  have  a  full  line  of  Wales 
Goodyear  Rubbers,  Boots  and  Shoes, 
Alaskas,  Green  Bays,  Ksquimeaux  and 
Portage Socks,  Knit and Felt Boots.
Dealers are cordially invited to send  in 
mail  orders,  to  which  we  promise  our 
prompt and careful attention.

HEROLD-BERTSCH  SHOE  CO.

TELLER  SPICE  COMPANY,

M ANU FACTU RERS  OF

S p ices  an d   B a k in g   P o w d e r ,  an d   J o b b ers  of 

T ea s, C offees  an d   Grocers*  S u n d ries.

I and  3 Pearl  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS

VOORHEES

Pants and  Overall  Co.,

STANDARD OIL CO..

Having removed  the  machinery,  business  and good  will of  the  Ionia  Pants  and 
Overall  Co.  to Lansing,  where we one of  the finest  factories in the country,  giving 
ns  four  times  the  capacity of  our former  factory at Ionia,  we are in a position  to 
get out our  goods on time  and fill all  orders promptly.  A continuance of  the pat­
ronage of the trade is solicited.

L a n sin g ,  M ich.

E.  D.  VOORHEES,  Manager.

G R A N D   R A PID S,  M ICHIG A N.

DEALERS  IN

Uluminating and Lubricating

NAPTHA  AND  GASOLINES.

Office,  Hawkins Block. 

Works, Butfcerworth A?e

MANISTEE,

PETOSKEY,

CADILLAC,
LUDINGTON.

»BAND  RAPIDS, 
RIG  RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN,

BULK  WORK 3  AT

MUSKEGON. 
GRAND  HAVEN,
HOWARD CITY, 

See Grocerv Price Current.BREAD

HIGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR

EMPTY  CARBON  it  GASOLIN17  BARRELS.

It Pays  Dealers to sell  FOSFON  because  there  are but  two sizes. Five Ounces 

at 10 cents.  Sixteen at 25 cents and it pleases better than  Baking  Powders.

SUPPLANTS BAKING POWDER

F o sfo n  C h e m ic a l Co., D e tro it, M ic h ig a n . 

SOLD  BY  ALL  RELIABLE  GROCERS.

DODGE

Independence  Wood  Split  Pulley.

TH E  LIG H TEST!

TH E  STRONGEST!

TH E  BEST!
HESTER  MACHINERY  CO..

45  So.  D iv isio n  St..  GRAND  RAPIDS.

TRUNKS

MANUFACTURERS
113-115-117  Twelfth  St.,  DETROIT,  MICH.
riONEER  HOUSE.

BEST  MADE,  BEST  SELLING  GOODS. 

LOWEST  PRICES.

LARGEST  ASSORTMENT.

MARTIN  MAIER  &  CO.,
BAGS

W ho  urges  you  to  k eep

S a p o lio ?

The Public !

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

Anv Jobber will be Glad to Fill Your Orders.

JOBBER  OF

F.  J.  D E T T E N T H A L E R
OYSTERS
POULTRY  1  GAME

Salt Fish

M ail  O rders  R eceive P ro m p t  A tten tion . 

See qu otation s in  an oth er colu m n

CONSIGNMENT-1 OF  ALL  KINDS  OF  POULTRY  AND  GAME  SOLICITED

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

Wholesale  Grocers

Grand  Rapids.

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GRAND  R A PID S,  W ED N ESDA Y ,  JA N U A R Y   4,  1893.
Tie Bradstreet Mercantile Apncy.
Executive Offices, 279,281,283  Broadway, N.Y

The Rradstreet  Company, Props.

POOR  MRS.  POTTER.

PROMPT« 

SAFE.
T. Stewabt White, Pres’t. 
W, Fred McBain, Sec’y.____________________

CONSERVATIVE. 

Our Fancy Goods Trade

H as  been  larger  than  ever  before in 

the history of  our house.

Come in and see our samples of

Albums,

Comb  and Brilab  Sets, 
Dolls,  Books,  Etc,
EATON,  LYON  &  CO.

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

Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of

Brooms, Washboards,  Wooden
Indurated  Pails  &  Tubs,

AMD

W ooden  Bow ls,  Clothespins  and  R olling 

Pins,  Step  Ladders,  W ashing  Ma­

chines, M arket, B ushel and De­

livery B as’  ets,  B uild ing 

Paper, W rapping

Paper, Sacks, Tw ine and  Stationery.

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

125  COURT  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.
BUY  THE  PENINSULAR
Pants,  Sits,  and  Overalls

Once and You are our Customer 

for life.

STANTON, MOREY & CO„ Mtrs.

DETROIT,  MICH.

Geo. F. Owen, Salesman  for Western  Michigan, 

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

“The  K en t,”
H AVING  conducted  the  above  named  hotel 

two  months  on  the  European  plan,  and 
come to the conclusion  that we can  better serve 
our  patrons by conducting same  on  the  Amerl 
can  plan, we take  pleasure in announcing  that 
our  rates will  hereafter be 82  per day.  As  the 
hotel  is  new  and  handsomely  furnished, with 
steam  heat and  electric  bells, we are  confident 
we are  in a position to give the  traveling public 
satisfactory  service.
Remember the location, opposite Union Depot. 
Free baggage transfer from union  depot.

BEJCH  1 BOOTH,  Props.

CHARLES  F.  CLARK,  Pres.

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

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For  many  months  1  had  lived  close 
alongside  of  Mrs.  Potter, occupying  the 
other half  of  what,  in  our  community, 
is  called  a  tenement  house.  The  walls 
were  thin  and  most  of  the  floors  bare, 
so that I  came in  time  to  know  the  his­
tory of  the Potter family,  with a minute­
ness of detail that would have rendered me 
an invaluable gossip had the Potters only 
occupied a position  of distinction in high 
society.

say  as  scornfully  as 

“Not  that  I  care,” Mrs.  Potter  would 
sometimes 
lips 
could  frame  anything.  “Don’t  I  know 
this one we bought milk of  in  my young 
days,  and  that  one  we  bought candles 
of,  and  t’other sold  us  bread?  But  you 
needn’t  say  anything,  Miss  Mary! 
I’m 
I  am  a  thoroughbred. 
an  aristocrat. 
All  my  tastes  and  inclinations  are  gen­
tle and superior.”

Mrs.  Potter was what  you might call a 
woman  with  ambitions.  Often,  when 
she  was  borrowing  a  drawing  of  tea 
over  the back  fence  or  giving  me a cup 
of custard,  whose  chief merit lay  in  the 
intention,  she would detain me  to  relate 
what  was  in  her.  “ I  feel  it here,  Miss 
Mary,”  she  would  say, laying  a  pudgy, 
ineffectual palm  over  the  region  of  her 
liver.  “I feel it here  that my destiny  is 
high. 
I  was born 
for  literature,  I  was  born  for  science— 
for the  advancement  of  my  sex.  Why, 
at  school  I  always  wrote  all  the  girls’ 
compositions!  But  what  am I now?  A 
borrower of  butter  and  an accumulator 
of babies!”

I was  born  for  art. 

True enough, there was a brood.  Nine 
or ten  in all,  perhaps, although,  except 
on the occasion  of  the  funeral,  I  never 
saw  them  still  long  enough  to  count 
them.  They  went  on  like  an  alarm 
clock that could not be stopped.

I  remember  once  Mrs.  Potter,  pen  in 
hand, called me  to the back fence to get 
my  views  on  “ The  Evolution  of  the 
Civilized  Husband.” 
“Being  an  old 
maid,” she  confided  frankly,  “I look  to 
you  for  an  unprejudiced  opinion.  Of 
course—you  poor  thing,  I  know in your 
mind you are married to  some  ideal man 
—so  is  every wife  in  her  mind, for  the 
matter of that—but  the ideal husband of 
a real, old maid must  be  the very quint- 
escence of civilization.”

All this time she held  on  her left  arm 
a little  brown  morsel  of  humanity. 
It 
looked,  with its wrinkled  little face, like 
a scorched  petal dropped off that saffron 
rose  called  the  Richardsou,  and  to  my 
inexperienced  eyes  it  didn’t  seem  any 
bigger than a Hop o’  My Thumb.

“What a dear, wee baby, Mrs. Potter,” 

said I.

“Yes,”  she  answered, 

thoughtfully, 
“he  is  little.  He’s  the  dreanings.  He 
is also the tenth.  Hypatia herself would 
have  succumbed  to  the  enervating  in­
fluences—sweet as they are—of ten.”

Sometimes at night,  when I sat  simply 
resting  from  the heartaches  and humil­
iations of the day—being a book agent by 
profession—I used to catch myself listen­
ing to the family next door.  One of Mrs. 
Potter’s boys  was  named Chauncey,  an­

N O .   4 8 5

and 

other Reginald  Cecil;  a  girl  was  called 
Hildegarde 
another  Ethelfreda. 
“Classic names are  such a comfort,”  she 
would  say.  And to  Chauncey  and Reg­
inald and Hildegarde and  Ethelfreda she 
used,  while  rocking  the  tenth,  to  ex­
pound  Tennyson  or  tell  the  story  of 
Joan  of  Arc,  or  Thomas  a  Becket  or 
Mary Stuart.  Or  she read her poetry  to 
them;  or,  better  still,  recited  her  essay 
on  “The  Mission  af  Women.”  The 
young ones listened dully.  I often thought 
them  a brntal brood;  and  when she  had 
finished  they  guyed  her  in  the  funny 
fashion  of  nineteenth  century  young 
Americans.  “Another  poem,  Emmy?” 
Chauncey  would say,  genially.  “That’s 
all right, Emmy.  Some  day  we will all 
be found dead in our beds,  each with one 
of our Emmy’s poems in his  hand.”

I would have  thought  this dreadful  if 
I  had not  become used to  the  facetious 
familiarity with  which  the  children  of 
to-day treat their  parents.

Poor  Mrs.  Potter!  Sometimes  she 
called me in to have a  look at her  “olive 
branches.”  They sat about the big,  old- 
time  mahogany  table eating  bread  and 
molasses.  They were,  it  seemed  to  me, 
one  vast  smear,  sticky  of  hand  and 
mouth—gobbling  food—grinning, crack­
ing jokes and calling their young mother 
“Emmy,” like so  many  young lordlings. 
“Reggy is my chevalier,” she would say, 
“my knight of  the Legion of  Honor,  my 
Hugeonot lover,”  and Reggy would  kick 
his heels  against his  chair  and  call out 
half 
affectionately, 
“Rats,  Emmy.”

impudently,  half 

Mrs. Potter’s own room was next mine, 
and at  night I  could  hear  a clicking  as 
she unfastened' her stays,  hear her draw 
a long  breath and  whisper  “What  a re­
lief”—the formula I  believe  with which 
every  woman  releases  herself  from  the 
environment  of  a  corset.  One  day  I 
asked her why she wore them.  “Oh, my 
dear,” she said,  “why, just for the luxury 
of  taking  them off.”  She  would  sit  in 
her  camisole  rocking  and  sighing,  and 
perhaps reading alcud her  own poems to 
herself, and occasionally I could hear her 
say,  evidently as she was about to get in­
to bed:  “There  laid  his  head  upon  the 
lap of  earth:  a yonth  to  forture  and  to 
fame unknown.”

“Alas,  I,  too,  am  a  mute,  inglorious 
Milton,  and  must  someday  die  with  all 
my  sweetness 
in  me.  You,  Reginald 
Potter,  quit kicking  your brother.”

It  was  really  Mrs.  Potter’s  habit  of 
talking aloud  that kept me from remem­
bering how solitary I was.

“I wish you were  married,  Miss Mary, 
and  had  children,”  she  would  say.  “I 
always think of a woman  who  never has 
had children  as carrying  a stone  in  her 
heart  that  only  mother-love  can melt.” 
It wasn’t very  flattering,  but  then  Mrs. 
Potter had a faculty for saying  the thing 
she should have left unsaid.

One day Mr. Potter died.  He had been 
an  inoffensive,  hard-working  grocer. 
“He  was  a-working  his  finger nails  off 
for us,  Miss  Mary,”  said  the  widow,  as 
we stood by the sofa where the shrunken 
little dead  form lay,  like a  tired  child’s;

S

T H  Hi  M IC H IG -A J N r   T R A D E S M A N .

“ but there  were  so  many  of  us,  I most 
have  it in  me to  think his courage  gave 
out and he just  let  himself  die  on  pur­
pose.  We were as  thick  and hungry  as 
leeches.  Many’s  the night I’ve watched 
him plodding  home, dead  tired  out,  all 
the love worked out  of  him,  all  the  am­
bition worked out  of  him,  with  nothing 
on earth so  important  as the house rent, 
and  nothing  in  life  so  valuable  as  the 
price  of  potatoes  and  pork,  and  when 
he’d  fall  asleep  I’d  lean  over  him  and 
listen to him snore  and say  that  line  of 
Gray’s about a  mute,  inglorious  Milton. 
Ah,  Miss Mary,  he had  to die to give me 
my lover back again.”

The whole family was in  an uproar of 
grief.  Mrs.  Potter  drenched  all  her 
sympathizers with tears.  Her  grief  em­
braced  temporarily  the  whole  human 
race.  When old colored Lucy brought in 
clean  clothes  and  said  to her:  “ Honey, 
black heads and  white  is all got to bend 
under the  little dark  door,”  Mrs.  Potter 
took her hands.  “I know,  1 know,  Aunt 
Lucy,  it  is  that  ‘one  touch  of  nature 
makes us all kin.’”

Mrs.  Potter thought it  strange her cor­
ner neighbors,  who were grand and fash­
ionable,  had  not  been  in.  “How  could 
they  stay  away  at  such  a  time?”  she 
asked,  bubbling over.  And  then,  “Don’t 
mind what I ask of  you now,  Miss Mary; 
we are up on  the high  pedestal of grief. 
It is a distinction  like  that of  Golgotha. 
I hope you may never reach it.”

Yes,  the  whole  neighborhood  was 
forced into tribute.  The  simple egotism 
engendered  by  that  crape  on  the  door 
was pathetic  and  more  humbly  natural 
than  most  of  us  would  care  to  admit. 
Things  were  borrowed  right  and  left, 
and when everything  was over a card  of 
thanks  published  in  the  obituary  col­
umns  of  the  daily  papers 
included—1 
dare  say  to  their  horror—the  solicited 
courtesies o f the swell  fam ily on the cor­
ner.

I never shall  forget a scene  that  hap­
pened about ten  days  after  the funeral. 
It seemed  that the swell lady at  the cor­
ner had also  recently  lost  her  husband, 
and on a Sunday  afternoon  when I went 
with my little  widow to  carry those first 
industrious flowers of regret that  always 
blossom on the new-made graves of  hus­
bands,  we  met  the  rich  widow  at  the 
great  gate  of  Greenwood.  She  was  a 
shape,  a symbol  of  expensive grief.  So 
black and  draped  she  looked,  that  I,  in 
my old maid  bitterness,  wondered if  she 
were not an  undertaker’s  block  weeping 
on  commission.  She  carried  a  cross  of 
tuberoses,  fresh,  or rather dead  from  the 
florists.  My little  widow  wore a  dial I is 
gown;  a yard of  flimsy  crape  floated be­
hind  her  black  bonnet.  Her  swollen 
red nose,  and  wet.  red  eyes  attested  to 
her  grief, and  in  her  hands  she  held a 
tight  wad  of  chrysanthemums  bound 
about  with  confectionery  paper,  and  of 
which she was very proud.

Mrs.  Potter stopped.  She put  out her 
hand,  covered with a black  cotton glove. 
They  had been  bought  for the  corpse, 
but  proved  too  small. 
“Never  mind,” 
said  the  widow,  “they  needn’t  go  to 
waste. 
I can  wear  them  and  think the 
sad,  sad  truth  that  I  am  even  gloved 
with grief.”

Mrs.  Potter  put  out  her  hand,  as  I 
She 
have  said,  to  the  other  widow. 
looked 
in  at  the  grave-dotted  sward. 
“This  is  level  land,” she  said,  simply. 
“Here we are  sisters  in  sorrow—sorrow

for  each  other,  for  ourselves.  We  are 
queens crowned with the iron cross.”

On her death bed Mrs.  Potter  will get 
off speeches like that.  They  sound sen­
timental,  but  somehow  the other widow 
seemed to  know  she  was  trying  to  say 
that death is the great  leveler and that a 
common  grief  may  make  sisters  of  the 
rich and poor.

The  rich  widow  put  back  her  veil. 
Under  her  kalsomined  face  glowed  a 
real  feeling.  Her  soft  suede  touched 
the cotton  thread  that  had  not gone to 
waste.  The two social  opposites for one 
moment  knew  only  a  common  woman­
hood.

Mrs.  Potter had been left with  a thriv­
ing grocery store,  but  she  absolutely re­
fused  to  keep  it.  “It sickens me,”  she 
said;  “all revolts against salt meat and a 
nickle’s  worth  of  butter  and  a  can  of 
sardines, please,” she confessed.  “ What’s 
that  line.  Miss  Mary,  about  imperial 
Caesar  dead  and  turned  to  clay  might 
stop a hole to keep the wind away? Well, 
all the  imperial  Caesar  in me revolts.  1 
am going into literature.”  And so the gro­
cery was  sold out and Mrs.  Potter’s little 
fortune  went  into  a  news  shop.  She 
kept books  and  magazines,  papers,  pens 
and ink, and her violent ambition  was to 
make  her place  the  rendezvous for  au­
thors.  The more impecunious,  the better. 
She  persisted 
in  calling  the  small 
thoroughfare where  she tempted fortune 
“Grub  street”  and 
in  thinking  every 
seedy individual who  came  along a mod­
ern Charles  Lamb or  Oliver  Goldsmith, 
or  some  “mute, 
inglorious  Milton.” 
What  quotations  and  sweet  sentiments 
she wasted on  red-eyed deadbeats,  I can­
not tell,  but I do know  how they worked 
her.  Human  spongers  and  deadbeats | 
naturally gravitate to  their victims,  and 
poor Mrs.  Potter never was proof against 
a  poem,  a  quotation  or  the  semblance 
of a sorrow.
“Take it hom e  aud  read  it,”  she said 
one day to a seedy  tramp  in  a  gray  hat 
and  with  a  red  nose,  thrusting  into  his 
hands a copy of  Ruskin’s  “King of  the 
Golden River.”  She kept only the highest 
and best literature,  for which there is no 
sale in Grub street.  He took it as far  as 
the first pawn  shop, I told her.  “A leaf 
in  the  storm,”  she  sail,  sentimentally. 
“ Who  knows what  babe  in  the  wood it 
may help  to cover?  Who knows what  a 
lute it  may  be  to help  some  singer find 
his  voice?”

At this time  1 think  Mrs.  Potter  gave 
away enough of her  stock in trade to en­
able a rascally  beggar  to  set  up  a rival 
stand a few blocks  down the street.

It was about now that  Mrs.  Potter  got 
hold of  the idea that  her mission in  life 
was to help  women.  On the spur of the 
moment  she  joined all sorts of societies. 
Rich  women  made  her  do  all  the disa­
greeable begging  that  has  to  be done— 
they  used  the  shop  for a  convenience, 
and  it  became,  as  it  were,  the  loafing 
place of  all the  philanthropic deadbeats 
in town.  They used  her stationery,  say­
ing  it  would  advertise  her  store;  they 
borrowed her  best books  to lend  at asy­
lums; they filled her small show-windows 
with  their placards, and whenever a sub­
scription  was  needed  to  fill  out  a  list 
they  readily  induced  her  to  put  down 
her name.

“I get  very  lonesome,” said  Mrs.  Pot­
ter one night.  “It is  talk,  talk,  talk  all 
day,  but  always  about  somebody  else’s 
affairs. 
I j ust wish  there  was somebody 
who  wanted  to  hear  about  me.  God

knows  I  ain’t  selfish,  and the  children 
always come first,  but  it does daze me to 
bring  myself  to  realize  there  is  not  a 
soul in the world who really cares to hear 
how I am getting  on.  You listen  polite 
enough,  Miss Mary,  but I know it is only 
a  second-hand  interest.  A  woman  like 
me  must  be  a  bore.  Sometimes  I  just 
beg the  children  to  kiss  me  and get  in 
my lap,  but  they are too big.  They say, 
‘Oh,  ma, don’t  bother.’ 
If I should  die, 
Mi ss Mary,  I’d be lonesome all  the while 
I was dead,  because of  not  getting those 
kisses.  Miss Mary, did  you ever sort  of 
stand off at  one side  in  your  mind,  and 
watch yourself hurrying across  the mud­
dy  streets,  with  stains  of  it  on  your 
draggled dress and the rain on your face, 
and  you  not  pretty  or  nice  enough  or 
prosperous enough to be a pleasant sight, 
and nobody caring for  you but yourself? 
Why, I feel all the time like a sort of hu­
man Pike’s Peak.”

Well,  this news shop was a flat failure. 
“I failed from being made a convenience 
of,”  Mrs.  Potter  told  one  of  her  cred­
itors,  “ and also because I seem to  have a 
presentiment  that  whatever  I  do  will 
fall;  whatever 1 touch will  be unlucky.” 
There wasn’t  much  money  left,  and  the 
small Potters were  reduced to  the simp­
lest fare.  Often at  dark, as I let myself 
into my bleak rooms with that symbol of 
my solitude,  that emancipator of my sex, 
a latchkey,  I  would  hear  the  mother’s 
brave voice  ringing out,  “Eat it like he­
roes,  my  lads.  Many  a  great  man  had 
only  bones  to  gnaw  in  his  childhood. 
You might just as well  begin to be great 
over bread  and  molasses  as  to  wait  for 
something  better.”  And  I  knew  very 
well her  tragic attitude,  a spoon waving 
like a banner in her  work-stained  hand.
I  think about this time Mrs.  Potter  be­
gan to haunt newspaper  offices trying  to 
sell her poetry.  “Nobody successful can 
it  is  to  try  and  sell 
understand  w hat 
your  brain work  to  buy  bread,”  she  said. 
“I read my  poems  over  and  over,  aloud 
to  myself.  They  say  what  I  feel  and 
I’ve put all my sweetness  in 
what 1 am. 
them. 
I  summon  up  courage  and take 
them to an  office.  But I  never sell  any. 
I come  away  and  hear the comfortable, 
well-fed men laughing.  They’ve no debt 
at  the  baker’s,  no  children  hungry  at 
home.”

I need not add that Mrs. Potter gave up 
poetry aud turned her  attention to some­
thing  else.  As  her  next  venture  she 
started a sewing bureau.  “Just think of 
the  women  working 
their  hearts  out, 
Miss  Mary,  for  the  sweaters,  making 
petticoats at 25 cents a dozen,  and shirts 
at  5 cents  each. 
I shall  have  more pa­
trons  than  I  can  supply  who  will  give 
their work to  us on principle.”

“ .Vhere  are  they  to  come  from?” 

I 
asked  cynically,  for  a  50-year-old  book 
agent  is  not  to  biame  for  having 
lost 
some of her faith in humanity.

“It breaks my heart to think you  have 
a flaw,  Miss Mary,  but you  have.  Don’t 
be so hard on the poor rich people.  Why, 
you might have been rich  yourself. 
It’s 
just a mere  accident  that  we  are  poor. 
The glad  will  smile  on  the  sorry.  The 
rich will comfort  the  poor.  The  strong 
must pity the weak—not  sneer at them.”
We were in the sewing bureau,  piles of 
linen were everywhere,  for the best rose­
wood bed had been sold to start this ven­
ture.  Mrs.  Potter waved her shears.  “I 
am as  brave  as  a Spartan  mother,”  she 
cried;  “I can cry,  ‘On, Stanley, on,’  and 
sing  the  song  of  the ‘Light  Brigade.’ ”

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to the

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One  hundred  pounds  of  this non­
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tions  included.  Will  sell  the  entire  lot  for 
$-¿0.

Fifty pounds  of  this  brevier, containing 
double allowance of caps but no small caps. 
Will sell  font  and one  pair  cases  for  ten 
dollars.

Eight hundred pounds of the brevier type 
now used  on  the “Tradesman.”  It  is  of 
Barnhart  Bros. & Spindler  make  and  has 
been  in  partial  use  for  only  four  years. 
Will  sell  entire font  for 18c  per  pound, or 
50  pound fonts  or  upwards at 20 cents  per 
pound.  Cases, a dollar per pair.

We also  have a choice assortment of second 
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of which will be forwarded on application.
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MANUFACTURERS  a n d  jo b b e r s of

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DETROIT,  MICH.

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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CAPITAL, 

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GRAND  RAPIDS  BRUSH  CO.,

M anufacturers  of

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Our goods are sold by a ll M ichigan Jobbing 

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Dealers  in  Dry  Roods & Notions

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only  by

HENRY  PASSOLT, 

Saginaw,  Mich.

WHITE  KID  SLIPPERS.

For general laundry and  family 

washing  purposes.

lightning.  Her  head  tossed  superbly. 
She waved a telegram.

“I  always  told  you  children  to  be 
mighty  careful  how  you  talked  about 
rich people.  You might be rich yourself 
one  day.  Read it, Miss  Mary.”  I  read 
aloud:

“Your  Uncle  Lloyd  died  last  night. 
He wills you one  hundred  thousand dol­
lars. 
The first thing  Mrs. Potter  did was  to 
pay  her  debts.  The  next  was  to  give 
largess  to  all the  struggling  women she 
knew.

B a k b e r.”

Her third act was  to publish  a volume 

of  verse. 

Ca t h e r in e Cole.

BUSINESS  LAW.

Summarized  Decisions from  Courts  of 

Last Resort.

EJECTMENT FROM RAILWAY TRAIN.
The Appellate Court  of  Indiana  held, 
in the recent case  of Lake Erie  &  West­
ern Railway vs. Cloes,  that  one  who  is 
wrongfully  ejected  from  a  train  some 
distance  from  his  destination  without 
other  means  of  reaching  his  journey’s 
end,  who continues his journey afoot,  is 
acting as  common  prudence  would  dic­
tate, and is entitled to have the injurious 
consequences of his  walk  considered  in 
fixing his damages.

PARTNERSHIP—ACCOUNTING  SUIT.
The  Supreme Court of Indiana held, in 
the recent case of Douthit et al. vs.  Dou- 
thit, that the rule that one partner cannot 
sue another for profits or  to  recover  his 
share of the assets where the partnership 
is unsettled without suing for an account­
ing,  does  not  apply  where  there  is  an 
agreement adjusting the  partnership  af­
fairs  which  awards  to  one  partner  a 
specific sum or creates a specific duty  in 
his favor,  but that in such  case  he  may 
sue upon the breach of duty  or  promise.

DAMAGES—INJURY  TO BUSINESS.

In the case of  Swain vs.  Schieffelin  et 
al., recently  decided  by  the  New  York 
Court of Appeals, it appeared that the de­
fendants,  who  were  druggists,  sold  to 
the plaintiff,  an ice cream   m anufacturer, 
a  bottle  of  coloring  m atter  know n  as 
“scarlet red,” to be used for coloring  ice 
cream,  and which was represented  to  be 
absolutely pure  and harmless.  A  num­
ber  of persons who ate ice cream colored 
with this  matter  were  taken  sick  with 
symptoms of arsenical poisoning,  and  an 
analysis of the scarlet red showed that  it 
contained arsenic.  The Court of Appeals 
held that the plaintiff was entitled to  re­
cover the value of the icecream destroyed, 
together with damages for injury  to  his 
business through loss of trade  due to the 
circumstances.

And then I  had to  listen,  trembling,  for 
fear she  would  be  inspired  to  shut up 
the bureau aud go on the stage.

Just then there  came in two old women 
—gray of face, of eyes, of hair, of gown— 
a weather-beaten  grayness that prosper­
ous people  do not like to see.  Mrs.  Pot­
ter’s cheerful  brow  darkened  a bit.  “1 
most  wish  you  hadn’t  been  the very 
first,” she said vaguely.  “It would have 
been better luck bad our  first  customers 
been rich and prosperous.”

The pair were  an  old  mother  and her 
old daughter.  “We have grown gray to­
gether sewing for  the  stores,”  one said, 
simply.

Mrs.  Potter  put  a bundle  of  linen in 
her hand.  She  fumbled  for her pocket- 
book and from  its  thin  side  drew  out  a 
flatly  folded  five  dollar  bill  that had  a 
pin  in  it.  “I  pinned  it  for  good  luck 
but  it  makes  no  difference,”  she  said. 
She gave this  with  the  work.  Her ugly 
face was  red,  the  tears  trickled  off  the 
end of her nose.  “Oh,” she  whimpered, 
“don’t I know? 
It’s the way I see Kthel- 
freda and  me. 
I  see  us in  my sleep.  1 
see us  in  the  streets hurrying to keep  a 
wolf free from  our heels. 
I see us thin, 
hungry and my  child  growing gray over 
ugly work.  Don’t  I  know  now I ain’t a 
Spartan,  1  ain’t  a  hero?  1  am  just  a 
frightened  failure.  Don’t  you  suppose 
any mother like me knows better than all 
the priests how  Mary  felt when she first 
saw in the carpenter’s  shop  the  shadow 
of the cross on her  son?”

The  old  couple  went  out  and  a  man 
came in.  Mrs.  Potter  owed  him money. 
“I had it for  you,  but  there  was  an  old 
mother  and  her  old  daughter  needed  it 
for bread,  and I had  to  give  it,”  she  ex­
plained.

“Nice  sense  of  honor  you  have,”  he 
answered. 
“It’s  very  grand  to  give 
away money when your  debts ain’t paid. 
Some people call it  generosity,  but some 
others call it thieving.”

Something was  killed in  Mrs. Potter’s 
heart then.  That  night  she  said  to  me, 
“It was  stealing,  wasn’t  it,  Miss  Mary. 
Think  of  seeing  your  own  baby,  that 
had leaned  on you for  comfort,  that  had 
sucked  at  your  breast,  wanting  food. 
Wouldn’t  you defraud  or  lie or steal  for 
her?  Still—” and she  looked  about  her 
at the ten young  faces  like  a halo about 
the frugal table,  “it  would be difficult to 
steal for ten,  wouldn’t  it?”

"Haven’t you a rich uncle  somewhere, 

Mrs.  Potter?” 1 asked.

“Yes,  indeed.  They  are  very  swell 
people.  They  live  on  Nob  Hill  in San 
Francisco.  Oh,  they  say  they  are  as 
grand  as  the  Vanderbilts.  Last  year 
they sent me a beautiful  Christmas card, 
all white satin,  and it  had  on it,  ‘Cling 
to the cross of Christ.’ ”

Of course, the  bureau  was  a  failure. 
“I’m  identified,”  she  would  say. 
‘My 
other  names  are  ill-luck  and  failure. 
People bate me for  being  so  unprosper- 
ous. 
I  have  nothing  to  tell  but  my 
grievances.”

We got her a place  in a  store, but  she 
lost  it  through  trying  to  entertain  the 
customers.  She  talked  poetry' to them, 
and philosophy  and society.  “I only in­
tended to make them  feel  at home,” she 
said, defensively.

But one night I heard  a great shout,  a 
cry  and  a  fearful  uproar  in  the  little 
tenement next door,  mingled  with  cries 
for me. 
I  ran in.  Mrs. Potter stood  as 
she afterward said,  like Ajax defying the

Only  brand o f first-class laundry 

soap manufactured in the 

Saginaw  Valley.

Having  new  and  largely  in­
creased  facilities  for  manu­
facturing  we  are well  prepar­
ed  to fill orders promptly and 
at most reasonable prices.

Established  1868.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Building  Papers,  Carpet  Lin­
ings,  Asphalt  Ready  Roofing, 
Tarred Roofing,  Felt, Coal  Tar, 
Roofing and Paving 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.

STORE ORDERS.

The Supreme Court of  Missouri  recent­
ly,  in the case of State  vs.  Loomis,  held 
constitutional a law of the State declaring 
it to  be  unlawful  for  any  corporation, 
person or firm  engaged in manufacturing 
or mining  to  issue  for  the  payment  of 
wages any order, check or other token of 
indebtedness  otherwise  than  in  lawful 
money,  unless  the  same  was  negotiable 
and redeemable at its face value  in  cash 
or in goods, at the option  of  the  holder, 
at the store or other place of business  of 
the corporation or firm.  The  court said: 
“The statute in question  does  not  deny 
the  right  of  the  manufacturer  or  the 
operator of a mine to engage in the  mer­
cantile business nor to pay the  wages  of 
labor in merchandise,  but it  simply  pro­
hibits him from issuing a check or  other 
evidence  of  debt 
in  payment  of  such 
wages without at the same  time  making 
it negotiable and redeemable  at  its  face 
value,  without discount, in  cash  or  mer­
chandise, at the option of the holder. 
In 
other words, the statute is not prohibitive 
of any right,  but  regulative  of  it,  and 
there is a wide difference  between  regu­
lation and prohibition,  between prescrib­
ing the terms  upon which a right may be 
enjoyed and a denial  of  that  right  alto­
gether.”

Use Tradesman Coupons.

$1.10  PE R   PA IR.

Send Your Orders  to

BIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  OO..

18-14  LYON  ST. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

EATON,  LYON  &  CO.’S

Full force of travelers will soon 
be  out  with  complete  lines  of 

new goods InStationBru
Sporting Goods

—AND—

20  &  22  MONROE  ST.,

G R A N D   R A P ID S .

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AMONO THE TRADE.

ABOUND THE  STATE.

McBain—G. W. Storry succeeds  S.  B. 

Ardis in general trade.

Sturgis  —  Woods  &  Hawley succeed 

Woods & Zent in the meat business.

Stembaugh—M. Corcoran  succeeds  M. 

& J.  F.  Corcoran in general  trade.

Corinne — Harry  V.  Pierce  succeeds 

Chandler & Pierce in general trade.

Tecumseh—Mrs.  Mary  Bice  succeeds 

Frank S. Bice in the  baking business.

Lennon—H.  Countryman 

succeeds 

Cronin Bros,  in the hardware business.

Detroit—W.  A.  Keyes  succeeds Kings­

bury & Keyes in the grocery  business.

Ishpeniing  —  Robbins  Bros,  succeed 
Nelson  J.  Robbins  in  the  undertaking 
business.

Shelbyville—Meredith  &  Harris  suc­
in  the  lumber 

ceed  Meredith  &  Deuel 
business.

Columbiaville—Elson  Wait is succeed­
ed  by B.  E-  McDermid  in  the  hardware 
business.

Crystal  Falls—The Crystal  Falls  Lum­
ber  Co.  is  succeeded  by  Robbins  & 
Bosanco.

Port  Huron—R.  Woodruff  succeeds 
Mrs.  R.  A.  Harrington in the grocery and 
provision business.

Otsego—E.  Bonner is  succeeded by  E. 
E.  & Nettie Smith in the  restaurant  and 
confectionery business.

Grand  Ledge—Babcock  &  Whitmore 
are succeeded by N.  M.  Van Ator  &  Co. 
in the hardware business.
□ Muskegon Heights—Andrew Olson has 
purchased  the  confectionery  and  cigar 
stock of Charles Harrison.

Ironwood—C.  Anderson & Co.  are clos­
ing out their dry  goods and carpet  busi­
ness and will  remove to Oconto,  Wis.

Middleton—J.  H.  Salisbury  has  sold 
his hardware stock to  Frank  Isham  and 
H.  M.  Kelly, who will continue  the busi­
ness.

Mason—Bates  &  Henderson  are  suc­
ceeded by  Henderson  &  Huutington  in 
the clothing and men’s furnishing  goods 
business.

Vermontville—A.  Alderman  has  sold 
his meat market  to  James  Mahar  and 
Will  Hickey,  who will continue the busi­
ness uuder the style of Hickey &  Mahar.
Muskegon — Kampenga,  Bertrand  & 
Co. have  closed out  their clothing stock 
to A.  P. Conner  & Co.  and have gone out 
of business.  The goods were transferred 
to the Conner store last Friday.

Coral—LaDu  &  Baldwin  have  pur­
chased  the  hardware  stock  of  F.  A. 
Taylor,  which will  be  moved 
to  their 
present  place  of  busiuess.  They  also 
purchased the building  occupied  by  Mr. 
Taylor,  into which they will  move some­
time during the coming summer.

Allegan—O.  R.  Johnson  writes The 
T r a d e s m a n   as  follows: 
‘‘You  have 
been  misinformed  as  to  my  being  a 
partner of Mr.  Richards.  1 am  not  now 
and  never have been in  partnership  with 
him. 
I am Mr.  Richards’ successor, hav­
ing purchased his entire stock of  general 
merchandise and shall continue the busi­
ness at the old stand on the  3  per  cent, 
plan.”

Battle  Creek — The 

indictment  pre­
sented  by the  grand jury against  M.  E. 
Brown was quashed  by  Judge  Swan  in 
the United States  Court  at  Detroit  last 
Tuesday. The basis of the charge was that 
Brown sent a  postal  card  to  a  Chicago 
firm,  notifying  them  that  the  firm  of 
George Eggleston & Co.,  of Battle Creek,

had dissolved and that the business would 
be  continued  by  himself.  Below  the 
printed announcement  was  written  the 
following:  “ Learning  of  some  irregu­
larities,  I  wish  to  caution  the 
trade 
against  giving credit to  any  firm calling 
itself  George  Eggleston  &  Co.,  on  the 
strength of the old firm,  as Mr. Eggleston 
is no longer  connected  with  me  in  the 
wholesale  jewelry  business  from  this 
date.  A  word to the wise  is  sufficient.” 
Eggleston  felt  aggrieved  and  reported 
the matter to the United  States  authori­
ties.  District  Attorney  Shepherd  pre­
sented  a bill to the grand jury, charging 
Brown  with  a  publication  on  a  postal 
card through the mails,  which  obviously 
intended to reflect  injuriously  upon  the 
character  and  conduct  of  Eggleston. 
Judge  Swan,  however,  held that  there 
was nothing in the publication which  re­
flected upon Eggleston or  which  was  in 
violation of the postal  laws.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Byron—Wm.  H.  Showerman  succeeds 
H.  H.  Rosenkrans  in  the  flouring  mill 
business.

Mt.  Pleasant—Gorham  Bros.  &  Co., 
manufacturers  of baskets,  boxes,  etc., 
have been incorporated  under  the  style 
of Gorham Bros. Co.

Charlevoix — The  Charlevoix  Lumber 
Co.  has contracted its output of hardwood 
for 1893 to David  Dake, of Manistee.

Mauistee—Louis Sands is making good 
progress with the  frame  of  his  planing 
and shingle mill and will have it in  good 
working order when navigation opens  in 
the spring.

Newaygo—Chas.  Kernan is at the head 
of a movement to organize  a  stock  com­
pany to embark in  the  manufacture  of 
the “Columbia”  folding bed,  which is the 
invention of a Newaygo man.

Dodge—The Lansing Lumber  Co.  has 
bought of the Rusts  and others  of  Sagi­
naw,  about $6.000 worth of  stump  lands 
in Gladwin county,  on  which  is  a  good 
picking of shingle  timber,  hemlock  and 
hardwood.

Wyandotte  —  The  Upper  Peninsula 
Hardwood  Co.  has  purchased  twenty 
acres of land  near  this  place  and  it  is j 
said the company,  which  owns  valuable j 
hardwood timber tracts in  Upper  Michi- j 
gan, will erect a factory on the land  pur- j 
chased,  for  the  manufacture  of  veneer 
and similar  products,  and  will  employ 
several  hundred men.

Muskegon — Last  fall  Hovey  &  Mc­
Cracken purchased the Daniel  H.  Waters 
tract of  pine in  Croton  township,  New­
aygo county.  The  tract  will  scale  15, - 1 
000,000 feet of logs.  The  timber  is now ! 
being  cut  and  put  into  the  Tamarack ' 
creek  by  Darrah  &  Cornell,  of  Big | 
Rapids, at the rate of  75,000  feet  a day. ' 
A hundred men are employed,  and a nar­
row gauge railway is used.

Manistee—The output  of  salt  at  this  | 
point has increased steadily year by year, j 
since  we  first  embarked  in its manufac­
ture,  and  we  now  easily  hold the  first 
place in the point of  product,  and  as far 
as the output of individual plants is con­
cerned,  we  are  so  far  ahead  that  the  | 
others can  hardly  be  said  to be “in it.” 
Take,  for  example, 
the  Peters  plant, 
which has a daily average for the time  it 
runs of about 2,000 barrels, and  there  is 
nothing in the State that can compare with 
it; and out  of  a  total  for  the  State  of 
about  3,000,000  barrels 
for  the  year, | 
I
Manistee contributes 1,294,139. 

Muskegon—Muskegon lumbermen have I 
always been noted for their fighting quali­
ties, especially when  in  court,  and  the 
insurance 
litigation  of  the  Michigan j 
Shingle Co. was no exception to the rule. | 
The mill of the company burned  in  Sep­
tember,  1890,  the flames spreading to and 
destroying  a  large  amount  of  lumber 
stored on  docks  leading  out  into  Lake 
Muskegon.  The companies  holding  the 
insurance on the lumber fought the  pay­
ment of the policies, on  the  ground  that 
the  conditions  named  as  to  the  clear 
space between the mill and lumber  piles 
was not maintained.  The  Shingle Com­
pany held that the agent of the insurance 
companies was well  aware  of  the actual 
condition of the ground when the policies 
were written, and that at the time of  the 
fire  the  space  existing  when  the  insur­
ance  was  written  had  not  been  en­
croached upon.  All  the companies were 
sued in the Muskegon Circuit Court,  and 
judgments secured in several cases.  The 
first case  appealed to the  Supreme Court 
went against the company,being reversed, 
and a  new trial ordered.  On Saturday the 
second one appealed was decided for  the 
Shingle  Company,  and the  judgment  of 
the 
for  $1,565.75  was 
affirmed.  Several  other  suits  were  vir­
tually settled  by the decision.

lower  court 

Bank Notes.

C. W.  and M.  W. Chapin  have  bought 
Oscar Webber’s interest in  the  bank  of 
Webber & Chapin,  at  Stanton,  and  will 
continue  the  business  with 
the  same 
management under  the  name  of  C.  W. 
Chapin & Co.

C.  A.  Hammond,  who  was  the  first 
cashier  of the First  National  Bank  of 
Traverse City,  will return from the West 
and  resume  his  former  position  now 
made vacant  by  the  resignation  of  his 
brother,  W.  L.  Hammond.

The  directors  of 

the  Merchants’ 
National  Bank of Muskegon have ordered 
$10,000  to be  taken  from  the undivided 
earnings and added  to the  surplus fund, 
making  the  latter  $50,000.  The  Union 
National Bank has  declared a 4 per cent, 
dividend  and  increased  its  surplus  ac­
count  to  $16,300.  Paul  S.  Moon  has 
been elected  a director of  the Muskegon 
Savings Bank,  and, on account of two va­
cancies having occurred during the year, 
the Board now consists of fifteen instead 
of  seventeen  members.  The  directors 
have declared a 4 per  cent,  dividend  and 
ordered $500 carried to the surplus  fund.
From   th e   C hief  C lerk  o f   th e   A uditor 

G eneral.

La n sin g ,  Dec. 30—I gladly  respond as 
one of those favoring a February meeting 
of  the  busiuess men of  Michigan.  I shall 
return to the  “ranks”  very soon and will 
pledge  you my  support  in  an  energetic 
campaign by our State Association.
The  local  Association of  Lansing  has 
long been dead, or succeeded,  rather,  by 
the  Board  of  Trade.  Now  it  would 
please me to see this  annual  meeting  of 
business men made a representative  body, 
made up of  any  who may desire to  unite 
the interests  of  Boards  of  Trade,  local 
associations and busiuess men  generally. 
Let a  meeting be  held next February and 
a  permanent  organization  of  the  com 
bined interests of business  men  be  per­
fected  and  maintained. 
Should  this 
sentiment  prevail  and  such  a  meeting 
be held,  I will assure you now that  Lan­
sing business men will  heartily  respond 
and urge those  interested  to  hold  their 
first meeting here.  The central location, 
the  legislative  session  and  the  oppor­
tunity of furnishing an attractive and In­
structive  entertainment  would  thus  be 
guaranteed.

Let others respond promptly.

Yours respectfully

Geo.  B.  Ca l d w e l l.

Just Out of Press.

The Commercial Credit  Co.’s  new  ad­
vice book for 1893,  containing the names 
of consumers unworthy of credit,  is now 
being delivered to subscribers. 
It should 
be in the hands  of  every  dealer,  as  the 
information conveyed is invaluable.

leaves  this  week 

Y. Berg,  stock clerk for  H.  Leonard & 
Sons, 
for  Holland, 
Europe.  He will be accompanied by  his 
family  and  will  remain  abroad  until 
March.

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

640

F or  sa l e — stock  o p  m e r c h a n d is e,

consisting  of  groceries,  drugs,  hardware, 
crockery, notions, etc., situated in  a  live North­
ern  town  on  railroad, surrounded  by  a  good 
farming  and  timbered  country,  also  on a navi­
gable  river one half mile from lake.  Proprietor 
is  also  postmaster.  For  price,  terms,  etc., ad- 
dress No. Ml, care Michigan Tradesman, 
641
stock of  clothing, hats  and  furnishings  in 
as  good a 2,5!0 town  as  there Is in Lower Michi­
gan.  Address  No.  640, care  Michigan  Trades­
man_____________________________  

■   BARGAIN  FOR  SOMEBODY—AN  S8,U)0 

F o r  sa l e—i  o f f e r   m y  stock  o f  g ro-

ceries, drugs,  hardware,  etc., together with 
my beautiful  store  building—the  finest  finished 
In Northern  Michigan—and  in a good  location 
at  a  remarkably  low  figure,  or  will  trade  for 
desirable  farm  or  city  property.  Address  A 
Mulholland  Jr., Ashton, Micb._________623

DON’T  HESITATE 1  STEP  RIGHT  INTO  A 

good business!  *12.000  stock of  drygoods, 
shoes  and  groceries, located  in  a  live  railroad 
town  in  the  best  county  in  Eastern  Kansas; 
monthly sales over 14,COO;  good profits;  if  taken 
at once  can step  right into a good business;  no 
trade;  must  have  cash  or  cash  and  bankable 
paper.  Address  Farmers’ and  Merchants’  Bank, 
Scribner, Neb.________________________633

F or  s a l e - o r  e x c h a n g e  fo r  l a r g e

stock  of  merchandise.  Will  pay cash  dif­
ference.  Six  hundred  acres  hardwood  timber 
land  in  Emmet  county.  Good  soil.  One half 
mile from  railway station, by road or waterway. 
For  particulars  address  E. F. B., Grand  Blanc, 
Mich_______________________________  637

and  groceries,  invoicing  about  *3,000,  in 
good town  of  1,000  inhabitants.  Good  reasons 
for  selling.  Address  No.  620,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

F or  s a l e—a   c l e a n  stock  o f  d r u g s
■ ANTEu—TO EXCHANGE  $1,010 CAPITAL 

stock in company  paying 10 per cent, divi­
dend and acre  property and  lots in Grand  Rap­
ids  for a well  assorted  hardware  stock  inveu 
torying  *3,000  or 
less. Pennock  &  Goold,  719
Wealthy avenue, Grand Rapids.________ 621

620

SITUATIONS  W ANTED.

"POSITION WANTED—FOR A YOUNG  LADY 
-L  who is experienced in commercial and bank 
book-keeping, accustomed  to  cash  and  general 
office work, an exce’lent stenographer and Rem­
ington  operator, five years’ experience with late 
employer.  Valuable,  competent  help, a lady of 
refinement  and  ability.  Owing  to  change  in 
business,  parlies  are  assisting  to  secure a posi­
tion  Address  Late  Employer,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman 
TXT ANTED — POSITION  AS  SUpEBINTEN- 
v v  dent  of  large  first class  canning factory, 
or in canned  goods  department of  large whole­
sale grocery house.  Well  upon  packing in tin. 
First-class references.  Correspondence solicited. 
Address  Lock  Box S3, Farnham, Erie Co., N. Y.

638

__________  

630

MISCELLANEOUS.

634

636

639

Powers, Portland. Mich. 

■ ANTED—A  YOUNG MAN  WITH  ONE OR 

two years’ experience in drug store.  C.  F. 
ANTED—PARTNER  WIlH  SMALL  CAP- 
ital  to  engage  in  established  and  good 
paying  manufacturing  business.  R. N. Thomp­
son, So. Boardman. Mich. 

building and  dwelling in thriving Northern 
Michigan  town.  Property  well  rented.  Will 
sell cheap or exchange  fir city  property.  A. M. 
LeBaron, 6. Monroe St. 

F OR  SALE —TWO-STORY  FRAME  STORE 
IjlOR SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  OF  GENERAL 

"  merchandise, located  at  Sumner,  six  miles 
south  of  Riverdale  Building  is  22x88,  with 
storehouse  2>ix90,  all  in  good  shape.  Trade 
amounts to *15,OH) per year.  Excellent opportu 
nity.  Address  No.  632, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

cheap.  A. T. Hoxie, Traverse C ity, Mich. 

ter  file,  nearly  new  and  used  but  a  short 
time.  Have no use for it, as we took it on a debt. 
631
W. T. Lamoreaux, 128 West Bridge street. 
Shore  &  Atlantic  mileage  book.  Will  sell 
642

Fo r sa l e—t w e n t y -f o u r  d r a w e r  l e t -
For  sa l e—p a r t l y  u se d  d u l u t h .  so
Fire & Harme lasnrancB Go.

MICHIGAN

632

Organised  1881.

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN

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5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

COUNTY  VS.  CITY  BUSINESS  LIFE.

1

Class  (in  chorus)—

Ben  II ur l

tOc  or  3  for  25c.

Made on Honor !

Sold on Merit !

ORDER  FROM  YOUR  D E A LE R .

GEO.  DEBS  4  CO.,

MaDiffactUrBrs,

DETROIT.  CHICAGO.

1893.

Happy  New  Year.

With  compliments of  the  sea­
son  we suggest  that you  com­
mence  the  New  Year  right 
with  a  good  supply  of  our 
famous  brand  of  Bee  Hive 
Chop Japan Teas.

Edwin J. Gillies X Go,,

NEW  YORE.

J.  P .  V IS N E R ,  A gt.,

167  No. Ionia St., Grand Rapids,

H o w   to  K e ep   a  S to re
By  Samuel  H.  Terry.  A  book  of  400  pages 
written from the experience and  observation  of 
an old merchant.  It treats of Selection  of Bus! 
ness,  Location,  Buying,  Selling, Credit, Adver­
tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships,  etc.  Of 
great interest to every one in trade.  $1.60.
THE  TRADESMAN  CO., Ag’ts.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Eble & Hext succeed John G. Eble, Sr., 
in  the  meat  business  at  the  corner  of 
South Division street and  Tenth avenue.
Williams & Klosterman have opened  a 
grocery store at Kalamazoo.  The Lemon 
& Wheeler Company furnished the stock.
A. W. Seymour  succeeds  Seymour  & 
Babcock  in the box manufacturing  busi­
ness at the corner of Third and D streets.
D.  P.  Clay  has  purchased  the  water 
power at  Croton  and  announces  his  in­
tention of building a manufacturing  city 
there.

The Lemon &  Wheeler  Company  has 
moved its cigar room back  into the  store 
room, thereby enlarging the sample room 
very materially.

John Burrows has  satisfied  both mort­
gages  on his  grocery  stock—$187 to Ed­
win J.  Gillies & Co. and  $135 to the I.  M. 
Clark  Grocery  Co.—and  resumed  busi­
ness at the old stand.

The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co. 
sent out to its customers  one of the most 
handsome  New  Year’s  greetings  ever 
isssued  to  the  trade. 
It  was  from the 
press of  the Tradesman  Company.

The Grocery  Market.

Sugar—As  referred  to  elsewhere,  all 
sugars  made by the American Sugar Re­
fining Co.  will  be  sold  on 
the  equality 
plan  hereafter,  so  far as  the  wholesale 
grocers of  this State are concerned.

Pork—Hog  packing  at  Chicago  has 
been nearly  50  per  cent,  less  since  No­
vember 1  than  during  the  same  time  in 
1891, and but 60 per  cent,  as large  as  in 
1890,  and has not been less but once in  a 
decade—that was  in  1888.  The packing 
at all points is  but  60  per  cent,  as large 
as last season.  There  seems to be a gen­
eral belief that  it  will  fall  short of  last 
season  more  than  25  per  cent.,  or  over 
300,000,000  pounds.  This condition  has 
allowed  the  three  different  speculative 
cliques or  parties in pork, lard  and ribs 
to easily control  prices and put them  up 
from  25  to  40  per  cent,  the  past  few 
months.  Live  stock  men  generally 
claim that  when  the  December  receipts 
of hogs are  very  light  it  is  a proof that 
the country has but  few for  sale  at  any 
price.  Other  operators  assert 
that 
many  farmers  have  been  feeding  more 
cheap corn to hogs  than  usual,  knowing 
it  was  worth  about  75  cents  or  more 
made into  provisions at  prevailing pric­
es.  January and later  months will like­
ly witness larger hog receipts at packing 
points  and  heavier  average  weights. 
There  is  a  great  cry of  scarcity after  a 
25  to  40  per  cent,  advance,  but  under 
similar circumstances it has often proved 
there  were  enough  hogs  if  prices  were 
made high  enough.  Farmers,  like spec­
ulators and  others,  often sell their hold­
ings more  freely  on  a  declining  market 
than on an advancing one.  Perhaps they 
have been holding  back,  and,  should the 
market halt  a  while  round  these prices 
or  decline  a  little,  receipts  might  in­
crease,  stocks  increase,  and  consumers 
take a notion to wait to  stock  up after  a 
decline  rather  than  while the market  is 
declining.

Fred E.  Hall  has returned from Olean, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  surprised  his  mother, 
who is now over 80 years  old.  Mr.  Hall 
has  been  with  the  Putnam  Candy  Co. 
and  its  predecessors  over  twenty-five 
years, fifteen years as  shipping clerk.

PAPER  I.

W ritte n   fo r Th b T radesman.

I wonder whether  this  will  catch  the 
eye  of  some  man  who  has  made  the 
foolish mistake  of  closing  out  a  nice, 
self-supportiug  little  business 
in  some 
quiet,  pleasant country village,  and  has 
gone into the city,  with his small  capital 
and his little family,  and  then  dug  his 
own grave?  If there be such a  man,  he 
will find no comfort in this  article,  or in 
any other which may  follow this bearing 
ou the same subject; he is  probably past 
redemption and  incapable  of  retracing 
his footsteps.  But,  if  the  attention  of 
the man  who  is  contemplating  such a 
move be drawn hereto, then such  a  man 
will be “ wise in his day and generation,” 
if he carefully read  and  ponder  well be­
fore he takes such a step.

There are times  in  the  life  of  every 
business man when to act,  or  to  refrain 
from acting,  will be  “the  casting  of the 
die’’  which  will  indelibly  stamp 
the 
future,  fixing the bounds of possible suc­
cess and the degree of pleasure and satis­
faction attainable.  The  writer is  aware 
of the fact that  there  are  a  few  great 
minds in the business world who seem to 
be the especial favorites of  the fickle god 
of fortune, and who seem to be all-power­
ful  in breaking down  all  opposition  in 
the attainment  of  their  goal. 
If  their 
moorings  relax  by  reason  of  adverse 
forces and they drift  down  the  current, 
they reverse their  engines  and, 
in  de­
fiance of the turbulent current of events, 
with its tossing,  rushing  mass  of  drift­
wood, force their way upstream  and  are 
safely anchored.

These  giants in the commercial  realm 
are few and far between.  They  are  all 
included within  the  infinitesimal  5  per 
cent, of business  successes,  and  are  so 
far removed from the experiences of com­
mon humanity that no writer  can  touch 
a sympathetic chord in the  breast of  the 
massess  without  utterly 
ignoring  the 
very existence of this  little  company  of 
“the elect.”

The average mortal is simply a creature 
of circumstances floating down the wind­
ing stream of time.  At  best,  this  little 
bark is a frail one,  and  the  utmost  he 
can do is to steer  clear of the  driftwood 
all around him  and  avoid being  dashed 
to pieces by the innumerable rocks which 
beset his course and drop  his  anchor  at 
the right  time and  in  the  right  place. 
The current is swift and  the  underlying 
sands are constantly shifting,  and  it  is 
very difficult to  secure a safe  anchorage; 
but,  when once secured,  this  same  aver­
age mortal never  succeeds  in  regaining 
the  vantage 
foolishly 
abandoned.

ground 

so 

Business life in the country is as differ­
ent from business life in the city as roads 
in the country are different  from  streets 
in the city.  The business  qualifications 
essential  to  financial  success  are  one 
thing in the country and quite another in 
the city.  And so a man may  be  a  bril­
liant success in the country and a dismal 
failure in the city.  This may  strike  the 
theorizer in the field  of  business  ethics 
as a strange idea; but any  man  who  has 
sat at the feet of bitter experience  knows 
it to be true.

1 have in mind a man who was brought 
up on a  large  farm  in  another  state. 
The family of which  he  was  a  member 
was one of the leading ones of  the local­
ity, and,  during all of the years in which 
his habits for life were being formed and

his character molded,  he  moved  among 
the highest and the best in the little rural 
world in which he lived.  He  was natur­
ally proud-spirited,  very  sensitive  and 
independent in  bearing.  He  had  been 
reared in a  puritanical  atmosphere  and 
held high notions of personal  honor  and 
business integrity.  Not finding the occu­
pation of farming congenial to his tastes, 
and having a fair business education and 
some practical experience as a  clerk,  he 
finally opened  up  a  retail  store 
in  a 
country  village.  His  uprightness  of 
character  and  gentlemanly  deportment 
secured a place for him in the best social 
circles,  and his general  intelligence soon 
placed  him  in  positions  of  trust  and 
honor.  His honesty  and business integ­
rity brought him customers, but  not  im­
mediately. 
In these  times,  when  con­
fidences weigh lighter than they ever did 
before,  it takes years of patient,  careful 
effort, even in a country  village,  to con­
vince a much gulled  public  that  one  is 
not a fraud, a cheat, and a liar.  And so it 
required  years for this  man to  work up 
his trade to a point where it was a pleas­
ure to do  business.

Ambition,  when not guided by reason, 
becomes  simply  the  demon  of  unrest; 
and  when  this  demon  is stimulated and 
aroused by a craving desire for “the root 
of all evil,” it is the cause of  more ship­
wrecks than  any other  one thing.  This 
man  got  an  idea  into  his head that his 
field  of  labor  was  too  limited.  He 
thought that the city was  waiting to em­
brace  just  such  a  person  as  he  was. 
While in the city,  he had  often stood  on 
the  street  corner  and looked  down  the 
broad  pavement  on  the  long,  seething, 
jostling line of  humanity and thought to 
himself,  “Ah, just look at that crowd  of 
people!  Every  one  of  them  has  some 
money,  and  they  are  rushing  up  and 
down  these streets  to find some place  to 
squander it. 
If I were here, I would not 
have to  wait an  hour  to see  someone  go 
by on  the sidewalk;  and,  after  this mul­
titude of  people  found  out that I would 
treat them rightly, they would pour right 
in and buy  something,  and  it  would  be 
all  spot  cash,  too.  Down  there  in  the 
country  there  is  only about so much  at 
the outside,  and  one is  compelled  to  sit 
down and  wait until  it comes along and 
be satisfied  with  what he  may  get;  but 
here in the city a fellow like me who  can 
get  right up and dust;  a fellow who  has 
some  ambition and is desirous of getting 
on in the world;  a  man  who  will  do  the 
straight,  square,  honest  thing  can  just 
scoop up  all  he  wants,  and  enjoy  the 
blessings  of  civilization  and the advan­
tages of  city life to boot, while  he is do­
ing it.”

Modest  reader, did  you ever talk  like 
this,  or  hear  anyone  else  do  so?  Of 
course,  you  have.  This man  is  not  the 
only  one  who  allows  himself 
such 
thoughts, and  not the only  one who  has 
put  his  opinions  to  a  practical  test. 
Grand Rapids is full of  them,  and in  an­
other  number  the  writer will introduce 
them to you. 

E.  A. Owen.

The Unknown.

Unknown, the golden way to win 
Unseen, the thing that might have been 

Is ever nigh, yet fading fast;
Is lost forever in the past.

Not every rose that bloometh fair 
Is warmed by beauty’s smile, I trow—
Not every one  has for his share 
To wear a star upon the brow.

Yet this is truth that all should know: 
There is some honor for each state,
And should we rule or plow or sow,
’Tls doing duty makes usgreat.

— W . A. H a v e n e r .

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T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N
Dry Goods Price Current.

The  Supreme  Court  Affirms  the  Leo 

Austrian  &  Co.  Verdict.

Few  legal  conflicts  of  a  commercial 
character have attracted greater attention 
than the case of Leo Austrian  &  Co.  vs. 
Nathan Springer,  which was  tried in the 
Kent Circuit  Court  a  little  over  a  year 
ago.  The  law  points  involved  are  as 
follows:

Plaintiffs are  furniture  manufacturers 
at  Chicago.  Defendant  is  a  manufac­
turer of German mirror plates at Fuerth, 
Bavaria,  for importation into  the United 
States. 
In  March,  1890,  defendant’s 
soliciting  agent  took  from  plaintiffs  a 
written  order  addressed 
to  “Nathan 
Springer,  Fuerth,  Bavaria,”  for  about 
83,000 worth of glass,  “to  be shipped  as 
soon as possible and not later  than  May 
15, terms f.  o.  b. Chicago,  net  60  and  90 
days, freight to be prepaid to New  York, 
and duty and freight from  New  York  to 
be paid by consignee and  deducted  from 
invoice.”  On taking the  order,  defend­
ant’s agent gave plaintiffs’ a paper signed 
by  the  agent,  commencing  with 
the 
words, 
“Leo  Austrian  &  Company 
ordered from  Nathan  Springer,  Fuerth, 
Bavaria,” and  containing  description  of 
sizes and amounts of glass  ordered,  with 
statement of prices and terms  same as in 
order.  The agent sent the  order  to  the 
defendant  by  mail.  On  April  15  de­
fendant wrote plaintiffs a letter, acknowl­
edging receipt of plaintiffs’ order and ex­
pressing regret at being unable to  fill  it 
within the  time  specified.  This  letter 
was claimed by defendant  to  have  been 
an  unconditional  refusal  of  the  order. 
Plaintiffs received this  letter  about May 
1,  and two weeks before  the  time  fixed / 
by the order for making  shipments,  but 
did not construe it as an absolute refusal 
to ship the glass.  The  glass  was  never 
shipped.  By May 15 the  price  of  glass 
had not  very  materially  advanced.  By 
July 1 a “combination” was consummated 
among the glass importers,  for  the  pur­
pose of controlling the  market.  During 
the latter part of May and  during  June, 
importers pretended  to  be  “short”  and 
discouraged 
causing 
gradual  advance  in  price.  On  July  1 
the  combination  was  made  public  and 
the price of glass  advanced  about  33 1-3 
per  cent,  above  prices  in  March  and 
April.  Plaintiffs  did  not  know  of  the 
combination until a  day  or  two  before 
July 1 and could then get no  prices,  be­
ing told to wait  for  the  new  schedule. 
On June 30 defendant  signed  a  contract 
to sell  his product to the combination  for 
a term of  two  and  one-half  years.  On 
July 1 plaintiffs  brought suit in the  Cir­
cuit Court for Kent  county,  to  recover 
damages for defendant’s  failure  to  ship 
the glass.  The case was tried in Novem­
ber,  1891,  before Judge Adsit and a jury, 
the  plaintiffs  being 
represented  by 
Stuart & Knappen and the  defendant  by 
Taggart,  Wolcott & Ganson and  John T. 
Miller.  Plaintiffs  recovered 
judgment 
for about 81,100,  being the  difference be­
tween the contract price of the glass and 
it market value in Chicago,  at  the  time 
when the glass would  have  reached  Chi­
cago, in the regular course of  transit,  if 
shipped May 15,  it appearing  that  from 
30 to 60 days would be  required  for  the 
transportation.  The case  was  appealed 
to the Supreme Court,  defendant  insist­
ing (1)  that the agent in  question had no 
power  to  accept  plaintiff’s  order,  his 
authority being limited  to  soliciting and 
forwarding orders for  acceptance  or  re­
jection by defendant in person,  and that <

thereby 

sales, 

there  was  not  sufficient  proof  of  the 
agent’s  authoiity to  justify  submitting 
the cause to the jury;  (2)  that  the  writ­
ings referred  to  did  not  in  themselves 
constitute a contract;  (3) that  there  was 
no evidence that defendant  knew of  the 
custom testified to by plaintiff’s witnesses 
for soliciting agents to accept orders from 
customers;  (4)  that it was plaintiffs’ duty 
to  protect  themselvesby  buying  glass 
elsewhere on May  1,  when  they  learned 
that defendant would not ship as contract­
ed;^) that by the terms of the contract the 
place of  delivery  was  Fuerth,  Bavaria, 
and not Chicago,  and,  therefore, that the 
market value at Fuerth on May  15  must 
be taken for the purpose  of  determining 
the amount of plaintiffs’ damages,  if any. 
The decision of the  Supreme  Court  was 
rendered  December  24,  affirming 
the 
judgment of  the Circuit Court and  hold* 
ing (1)  that the  evidence  of  the  agent’s 
apparent authority to  accept orders  was 
sufficient to justify submitting that ques­
tion to the jury; (2) that the order signed 
by the plaintiffs and the paper  signed by 
the defendant’s agent together constituted 
a contract, and that the act of  the  agent 
in  soliciting  and  receiving  plaintiffs’ 
order was in itself an  acceptance of  the 
order; (3) that the custom  testified  to by 
plaintiffs’ witnesses for soliciting  agents 
to accept orders for glass, at the  time  of 
taking orders,  was shown to be a general 
custom  and, 
therefore,  admissible  as 
tending to show the  apparent  authority 
of the agent;  (4) that the defendant could 
not,  by  electing  to  repudiate  the  con­
tract before  the  time  provided  for  its 
fulfillment,  require 
to 
recognize  such  repudiation,  before  the 
full time  for performance  had  elapsed; 
(5)  that by the proper construction of the 
contract,  Chicago,  and  not  defendant’s 
factory location in Bavaria, was the place 
of delivery,  and,  therefore,  the  time  for 
taking the  market  value  in  estimating 
plaintiffs’ damages  should  be  the  date 
when  the  glass  would  naturally  have 
reached Chicago,  if  shipped  when  the 
contract required.

the  plaintiffs 

Buying New  Goods.

It is the  business  of  every  retailer  to 
handle  goods  superior  to  those  on  the 
counters  or  shelves  of  his  competitors. 
In the general lookout  for  new goods  of 
course somebody  gets  left;  but  it is the 
popular  and  wise  merchant  who keeps 
on the  topmost  wave  of popular  favor. 
New goods  are launched  upon the  mar­
ket unceasingly.  There  are some  deal­
ers  who  buy  their  goods  as  they  buy 
their books,  adhering strictly to  the old 
and well-established products, and ignor­
ing the new  until it  has  established for 
itself  a reputation.  They  are  too  con­
servative,  and  their  trade  undoubtedly 
suffers.  There are other  merchants who 
stock up with the latest novelties regard­
less of merit just as some people are con­
stantly  thirsting  for  the  latest  novel. 
They are too hasty.  The golden mean is 
It  is  the  duty  of 
the  proper  course. 
every merchant to closely watch the mar­
kets for new and improved goods. 
If he 
fails in  getting  the  latest and  best,  his 
sales will surely  shrink.  But  before he 
displaces  the  old  by  the new he should 
be reasonably well satisfied  that the lat­
ter is the more  desirable.  A test  of the 
goods, and his  judgment and  his knowl­
edge of  the tastes  of  his customers will 
help him in  making  the decision. 
In  a 
measure  he is  a molder of public slides, 
which are seemingly as uncontrollable as 
they are  surprising,  and  it behooves the 
dealer  to  keep  abreast  with  the trade. 
Every  new  device  is  worthy  of  careful 
examination.  Those that  stand the test 
should be adopted;  those that are defect­
ive  should  be  rejected;  those  that  are 
doubtful should be handled  gingerly un- 
i til their standing is determined.

Arrow Brand  5>4 

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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Adriatic.....................7
Argyle  .....................  6
Atlanta AA................6
Atlantic  A
H ...............6
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D ...............   6
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“  LL............... 5
Amory.......................6
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A .. 
Blackstone O, 32....  5
Black Crow..............6
Black  Rock  ............6
Boot, AL.................  7
Capital  A ...................5V4
Cavanat Y ................5)4
Chapman cheese c l.  3 \
Clifton  C R ..............5)4
Comet....................... 6)«
Dwight Star.............  63i
Clifton CCC............6)4

“  World Wide.  6
“  LL^............. 4)4
Full Yard Wide.......6)4
Georgia  A ............... 6)4
Honest Width.......... 6)4
Hartford A ..............6
Indian Head............  7
King A  A................. 6)4
KlngBC...................5
Lawrence  L L .........  i%
Madras cheese cloth 6)4
Newmarket  G.........5)4
B .........   5
N .........6)4
D D ....  6)4
X ........6)4
Noibe R....................5
Our Level  Best.......6)4
Oxford  R.................   6
Pequot......................   7
Solar..........................6
Top of the  Heap__ 7
Geo. Washington...  8
A B C ........................8)4
Glen Mills...............  7
Amazon.................... 8
Amsburg.................. 7
Gold Medal.............   7)4
Art  Cambric...........10
Green  Ticket...........8)4
Great Falls.............. 6)4
Blackstone A A.......7
Beats A ll.................. 4)4
Hope............................7)4
Boston.....................12
Just  Out........   43t@ 5
King  Phillip............7*
Cabot.........................  7)4
Cabot,  %...................  634
OP.......7)4
Charter  Oak............  5)4
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Lonsdale............  @  8)4
Conway W ...............7)4
Cleveland................ 7
Middlesex.........   @ 5
Dwight Anchor.......8)4
No Name..................  7)4
shorts.  8
Oak View.................6
Edwards.................. 6
Our Own..................  5)4
Empire..................... 7
Pride of the West.. .12
Farwell.....................7)4
Rosalind...................7)4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8)4
Sunlight..................... 4)4
Fitchville  .............. 7
Utica  Mills..............8)4
First Prize............... 7
Nonpareil ..10
Vlnyard....................  8)4
Fruit of the Loom %.  7)4
White Horse............  6
Fairmount............... 4M
Sock..........   .  8)4
Full Value................634
Cabot........................ 7  I Dwight Anchor.........8)4
Farwell.................... 8  I

HALE  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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Bleached.

Housewife  Q.............6)4
R ............ 7
S  ...........734
T............ 8)4
U.............9)4
V .............10
W.....   .1034
X...........11)4
Y...........12)4
Z  ...........13)4

CANTON  FLANNEL.

Unbleached.
Housewife  A ...
B ...
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9)a
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...14)4
CARPET  WARP.

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Peerless, white........18)41 Integrity  colored... 20
colored— 20)4 White Star................18
Integrity...................18)41 
“  colored..20
Nameless.................20
Hamilton..................8
...................9
..................25
...................10)4
...................27)4
.................. 30
G G  Cashmere........ 20
Nam eless............... 16
...................32)4
.................18
...................35

DRESS  GOODS.
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CORSETS.

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CORSET  JEANS.

Elnk a purple 6

Coralino....................... 19 50
Schilling’s .....................9 00
Davis  Waists.......  9 00
Grand  Rapids.........4 50
Armory.................... 634
Androscoggin..........7)4
Blddeford................  6
Brunswick.................6)4
PRI]
Allen turkey  reds..  6 

Wonderful..................84 50
Brighton........................4 75
Bortree’s ....................   9 00
Abdominal............. 15 00
Naumkeagsatteen..  7)4
Rockport.................... 6)4
Conestoga.................. 7)4
Walworth................  634
res.
Berwick fancies__ 5)4
robes............6
Clyde  Robes............
Charter Oak fancies 4)4 
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
u ffa............  6
mourn’g  6 
pink  checks.  6
staples........ 6
Eddy stone fancy...  6 
shirtings...  4)4 
chocolat  6 
American  fancy—   534 
rober  ...  6 
American indigo...  6)4 
sateens..  6 
American shirtings.  5 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
staple....  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  5 
Manchester fancy..  6 
new era.  6 
....  6)4
Arnold 
Arnold  Merino-----6
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
long cloth B. 10)4 
“ 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4)4 
Repp fu ra.  8)4
“  C.  8)4
“ 
century cloth  7
“ 
Pacific fancy...........6
gold seal.......10)4
“ 
robes...............6)4
«  green seal TR 10)4 
Portsmouth robes...  6 
“  yellow seal.. 10)4
Simpson mourning..  6
greys.........6
“ 
serge..............11)4
Bond black.  6 
“  Turkey red.. 10)4 
Ballou solid black..  5 
Washington indigo.  6 
colors.  5)4
** 
“  Turkey robes..  7)4
Bengal bine,  green, 
“  India robes___ 7)4
rea and  orange...  5)4
“  plain T’ky X 34 8)4 
Berlin solids............5)4
“  X...10
“ 
" oil blue.............6)4
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red..................  6
“ 
“  green....  6)4
“  Foulards ....  5)4
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 34.........7)4
«  red 34.............7
Martha Washington
“  X .............  9)4
“ 
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Turkev red...........   9)4
•* 
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Rlverpolnt robes....  5)4
Windsor fancy.........  6)4
Cocheco fancy........ 6
“  madders...  6
“  X Xtwills..  6)4
indigo  blue...........10)4
solids.........5)4
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Harmony...................  434
Amoskeag A C A .... 13
AC A ......................13
Hamilton N ............. 7)4
Pemberton AAA__ 16
D ............. 8)4
York.........................10)4
Awning.. 11
Swift River.............   7)4
Farmer.......................8
Pearl  River............. 12)4
First Prize...............10)4
Warren.................... 13)4
Lenox M ills........... 18
Conostoga.............. 16
Atlanta,  D .............-.  6)4¡Stark  A 
.............  8
Boot............................  634 No Name................... 7)4
Clifton, K..................7  ¡Top of  Heap............   9

gold  ticket

COTTON  DRILL.

TICKINGS.

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DEMINS.

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Amoskeag............... 12)4
9 oz.......13)4
brown .13
Andover...................11)4
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
B B ...  9
nc  ^
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
blue  8)4
Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.19

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

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GINGHAMS.

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Amoskeag..................7)4 '
“  Persian dress 8)4 
Canton ..  8)4
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Teazle.. .10)4
Angola..10)4  ■
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Persian..  8)4'
Arlington staple—   6)4
Arasapha  fancy__ 434
Bates Warwick dres 8)4 '
staples.  6)4 :
Centennial..............  10)4 :
Criterion..................10)4 '
Cumberland  Btaple.  5)4 '
Cumberland............ 5
Essex.......................... 4)4
Elfin.........................   7)4’
Everett classics.......8)4
Exposition.................7)4
Glenarie..................   6)4
Glenarven..................634
Glen wood.................. 7)4
Hampton.................... 6)4
Johnson Chalon cl  H 
indigo blue 9)4 '
zephyrs__16

Lancaster,  staple...  7
fancies__ 7
Normandie  8
Lancashire............. .  6
Manchester............ •  53Í
Monogram.............. .  6)4
Normandie............. •  7)4
Persian................... .  8)4
Renfrew Dress....... •  7)4
Rosemont............... •  6)4
Slatersvllle............ .  6
Somerset................. .  7
Tacoma  ................. .  7)4
Toil  du Nord......... .10)4
Wabash................... ■  7)4
seersucker. •  7)4
Warwick.................
8)4
6*
Whittenden............
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook...............   8
10
Windermeer............ 5
York  ........................ 634

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GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag................ 16)4| Valley City................1634
Stark........................20)4 Georgia... 
............... 1534
American.................16  ¡Pacific......................13

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End....45  ¡Barbour's................. 88
Coats’, J. A P..........45  Marshall’s .................88
Holyoke................... 22)41
White.  Colored.

KNITTING  COTTON.

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

38 No.  14... ....87
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16... ....38
18... ....39
40
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41
CAMBRICS.

No.  6  ..
» 
8...
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10...
••  12...

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

Slater........................  5
White Star..............  5
Kid Glove  ...............5
Newmarket..............  5

Edwards.................   5
Lockwood.................. 5
Wood’s ....................   5
Brunswick.............  5

RED  FLANNEL.

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

T W...........................22)4
F T ..............  
82)4
J R F , XXX............. 35
Buckeye...................82)4

MIXED  FLANNEL.

Grey SR  W.............. 17)4
Western W .............. 18)4
D R  P ........................18)4
Flushing XXX.........23)4
Manitoba.................. 23)4
@10)4
12)4
Brown. Black.
10)4
11)4
12
20

10)4
11)4
12
20

Red A Blue,  plaid. .40
Union R ...................22)4
Windsor....................18)4
6 oz Western............ 20
Union  B ...................22)4
Nameless.......8  @  9)41 

DOMET  FLANNEL.

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CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
9)4
1UW
11)4
12)4

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9M 1")4
9)4
10)4 11)4
10)4
11)4 12
11)4
12)4 20
12)4
DUCKS.
Severen, 8 oz...........   9)4
May land, 8 oz..........10)4
Greenwood, 7)4 os..  9)4 
Greenwood, 8 os— 11)4 
Boston, 8 oz..............10)4

West  Point, 8 oz— 10)4 
10 oz  ...12)4
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Raven, lOoz.............. 13)4
 
13)4
Stark 
Boston, 10 oz.............12)4

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SEWING  SILK.

Cortlcelll  knitting, 
per )4oz  ball........ 30

White, dos...............25  ¡Per bale, 40 dos___$3 50
Colored,  dos........... 20  [Colored  “ 
........... 7 50
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Pawtucket................10)4
Red Cross....  9 
Dundle.....................   9
Best.............. 10)4 !
Bedford.....................10)4
Valley  City..............10)4
Best  AA....... 12)4
..........................7)4
K K ............................10)4
...........................8)4
Cortlcelll, doz...........85
twist, doz.. 4P 
50 yd, doz..40
HOOKS AND  ETES—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k & White..l0 No  4 Bl’k A White.,15
■>  g 
.20
••  3 
.25
No 2—20, M  C..........50 No 4—15  F  3)4....... .40
‘  3-18, S C. ..........45
No  2 White A Bl’k.. 12 No  8 White A Bl’k..20
“  4 
23
..  g 
.26
No 2............... .......... 28 No 8......................... .86
A. James....... .......... 1  40| Steamboat______ _ .  40
Crowely’s__
.1  50
Marshall’s ...
5—4....2 25
“  ....2  10

NEEDLES—PEB X.
......... 1  35 Gold  Eyed.............
........ 1 oo|
TABLE  OIL CLOTH.
5—4. ..3 2515—4....1  95  6—4.
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COTTON  TAPS.
..15
“  10 
..18
" 12 
SAFETY  PINS.

“ 8 
“  10 

..12
..12

PINS.

.2 95

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COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown......................12
Domestic.................18)4
Anchor.................... 16
Bristol..................... 13
Cherry  Valley.........15
I X L ......................... 18)4
Alabama.....................63t
Alamance................... 6)4
Augusta.....................7)4
Ar  sapha.................   6
Georgia.......................6)4
Granite....................  534
Haw  River..............  5
Haw  J ......................5

Nashua..............  ...18
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
3-ply....17
North Star................20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7)4 
Powhattan.............. 18

Mount  Pleasant__ 6)4
Oneida......................  5
Prymont.................   534
Randelman..............6
Riverside.................  5M
Sibley  A ...................  6)4
Toledo..................

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

aesthetic  and  intellectual  value  of  the 
Exposition we need  not  speak,  except to 
recognize its importance as related to the 
indirect result it will  have  in increasing 
the purchasing  desires  of  all those who 
are affected by the  works  of art  and the 
other  educational  exhibits,  of  which 
there are to be such  a great profusion.

As great as  will  be  the indirect influ­
ence of the Fair in the directions we have 
mentioned,  its greatest  indirect result  is 
to  come  from  its  character  as a gigan­
tic advertisement to  the  peoples  abroad 
of what we are and  what  we can do. 
If 
the steamboat and  the railroad  compan­
ies  do  not,  by  a  too  parsimonious  and 
greedy  policy,  seriously  interfere  with 
the great tide  of travel  that  will  in  the 
spring  begin to  flow  toward America, it 
will  be impossible to  estimate  the thou­
sands of persons from  abroad,  who  will, 
during  the  summer,  visit  America  for 
the  first  time.  Many  of  them  will be- 
manufacturers and  merchants,  and near­
ly all of them will bring with them a lib­
eral  supply  of  money.  At  the Exposi­
tion they are to discover  that during  the 
past few. years we  have made  a progress 
in  the  mechanical  and  other  arts  of 
which 
they  have  had  no  conception. 
They will  find  that we  are manufactur­
ing tools  and  machinery  which  surpass 
in workmanship,  finish and precision any 
others  in  the  world.  They  will  also 
realize that  if  our mechanics  are boast­
ful, as they affirm that  they are, it is  be­
cause  they  have  done  and  are doing so 
much of which they may justly be proud.
To keep up with  the  advance of  mod­
ern progress they  will  see that it  is nec­
essary  to  purchase  American  tools and 
American  machinery  and,  as  a  conse­
quence,  we predict that  during  the next 
Summer,  Fall and  Winter  our  manufac­
turers will  be  in  receipt  of orders from 
all parts of  the  world.  The  time  when 
America  is  to  be  the market of a large 
part of the rest of  the civilized countries 
is  not  so  far  distant  as  it  is  perhaps 
thought  to  be  by  most  persons.  Not 
only  will  our  tool  and  machine manu­
facturers profit  by this  influx of foreign 
visitors, but all our  other manufacturers 
and  merchants  as  well.  The  stimulus 
which it will give to  business,  unless all 
signs fail ani foolish  and egregious mis­
takes  are  made,  it is impossible  to esti­
mate.

When You Get Tired

Buying  rubbish, send for  our catalogue of  win­
dow  Screens,  Screen  Doors,  Etc.  Goods  well 
made from best materials.

Prices seldom higher.

A .  J .  PH ILLIPS  & CO.,

Fenton,  Mich.

Wrought Loose Pin...........................................60*10
Wrought  Table................................................. 60*10
Wrought Inside Blind......................................60*10
Wrought Brass................................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s ...................................................70*16
Blind,  Parker’s................................................. 70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1890................. 

50

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

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel................................................per lb 
Ely’s 1-10................................................perm 
Hick’s C.  F ...........................................   “ 
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CAPS.

5
65
60
35
60

CARTRIDGES.

Him  Fire........................................................... 
Central  Fire............................................... dis. 

50
25

CHISELS. 

dis.

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

Curry,  Lawrence’s.
40
Hotchkiss...............
25
White Crayons, per gross............... 12©12H dis. 10

combs. 
.......................................  
....................................... 
CHALK.
COPPER.

dis.

“ 

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

DRIPPING PANS.

DRILLS. 

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50
07
6V4

dis.

ELBOWS.

Com. 4  piece, 6 in .............................. do*, net 
Corrugated.............................................................dis 40
Adjustable.............................................................dll. 40*10

75

dis.
dis.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dis.

files—New List. 

Clark’s, small, $18;  large, 326........................ 
30
Ives’, 1, $18:  2, $24; 3,$30............................... 
25
Dlsston’s ............................................................60*10
New American  ................................................60*10
Nicholson’s .......................................................60*10
Heller’s  ............................................................. 
50
Heller's Horse Rasps  .....................................  
50

dis

GALVANIZED IRON.

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

13 

12 

15 

28
16 17

Discount, 60

14 
GAUGES. 

dis.

60
56
55
55
55
70

locks—door. 

knobs—New List. 

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’b........................ 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...................... 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................... 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings...............  
Door,  porcetoln, trimmings........................... 
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain....................  
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l i s t ..................... 55
56
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s ..............................  
55
Branford’s ........................................................ 
Norwalk’s .........................................................  
55
Adze Eye..............................................$16.00, dis. 60
Hunt E ye.............................................$15.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s ..........................................$18.50, dis. 20*10.
dlB.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
50
dis.
40
Coffee, Parker*  Co.’s ....................................... 
40
“  P. 8. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable«.... 
"  Landers,  Ferry *  Cl» tk’s ................... 
40
“  Enterprise 
......................................... 
30
Stebbin’s Pattern..............................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine............................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
25

MOLASSES GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MATTOCKS.

dis.

NAILS

Steel nails, base........................................................1 85
Wire nails, base........................................ 1  80@1  90
Wire.
Steel,
Base
60..........................................................Base
50.......................................................... Base
10

Advance over base: 

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THE  FAIR  AND  BUSINESS.

If  the results of  the Columbian Expo­
sition  at  Chicago  next  year  were  to  be 
measured alone by the  momentary grati­
fication of the  throngs which will doubt­
less crowd into  its gates,  the play would 
not be worth the candle.  This, however, 
is not said  in  the way of  reflecting  up­
on the artistic merits of  the Fair, nor do 
we  mean  to  intimate that,  in  all  those 
features which  are  necessary  for an ex­
hibition  of  its  kind  is  not  to  be a suc­
cess.  All that  is taken  for granted. 
It 
is  universally  acknowledged  to  be  the 
grandest affair of its kind,  it ever held in 
the  history  of  the  world,  and that it  is 
to be an honor not  only to American  in­
dustry  and  enterprise,  but  to  modern 
civilization  as  well,  goes  without  say­
ing.

The millions  of  dollars of  the  public 
money  which  have  been  and are  to be 
spent  upon  it, however,  are  only  to  be 
justified  by  its  indirect  results,  which 
are to be far more  numerous  and  much 
more far-reaching  than are its immediate 
and direct  results. 
It is not possible  to 
refer here to all the numerous secondary 
effects which will  fellow the opening  of 
the gates,  some  of  which  are  to  be of 
much  more  importance  than perhaps  is 
generally  thought.  There  is,  for  in­
stance,  the  general  stirring  up,  as  it 
were,  of the people of  our own  country 
The  Fair  will  act  as  a  stimulant upon 
them,  and  thousands upon  thousands of 
them will set out upon the  long  journey 
to Chicago,  who but for it would have re­
mained at their  homes.  This means  the 
spending  of  vast  sums  of  money upon 
railroad  fares,  hotel  bills, etc. 
It  also 
means  much  more  than  that;  it means 
the  purchasing  of  thousands  of  new 
dresses and suits of  clothes, of traveling 
bags,  and of  almost  every  other  article 
of  merchandise,  for  such  journeys  of  a 
lifetime are not  made without much  be­
ing bought at home, on  the road,  and es­
pecially  at  the  point  of  destination. 
This stimulation  to the retail  trade  will 
have  its  complement  in  the  wholesale 
trade,  and increased  business  in the lat­
ter  will,  of  course, react  directly  upon 
the  manufacturers.  A step  farther and 
we have reached the  makers  of  machin­
ery,  and beyond  these are  the foundries 
of iron  and  steel,  and  beyond  these the 
laborers.  Thus  it 
is  easily  seen  that 
what affects one branch of trade,  will, by 
acting  through  the  endless  chain  that 
unites  all  the various  industries, affect 
all the others as  well.

The  educational  value of  the exposi­
tion is not  to be  forgotten.  Such  fairs 
are  wholesale  civilizers,  and  could  we 
have distributed  them at  suitable  inter­
vals throughout the preceding  centuries, 
there can be no doubt  that  the  advance­
ment of the race  would  have been great­
ly  accelerated.  All  who  visit the  Fair 
will have an  advance  look,  so to  speak, 
of the next decade.  They  will not  only 
see  what  the  world  has  accomplished, 
but much  that  is to  be  brought, during 
the  next  few  years,  into  general use. 
Their tastes and  their  ideas  will be ele­
vated,  and  they  will no  longer be satis­
fied with the  imperfect  implements  and 
conveniences  with  which  they  have  la­
bored in the past.  On their  return they 
will ask  for, demand  and  buy  the  new 
and improved machines  and devices, and 
this  will  result, if  other  conditions  do 
not  materially  change,  in  a  stimulation 
to all  kinds  of  industries  which will  be 
felt  for  many  years.  Of  the  artistic,

HAMMERS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

HINGES.

hangers. 

Maydole  A Co.’s ........................................dis. 
25
Kip’s ............................................................dis. 
25
Terkes A Plumb’s .................................... dis. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand__ 30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 .................................dls.60&10
State...............................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  in. 4H  14  and
3H
longer............................................................. 
10
Screw Hook and  Eye, H..........................net 
8H
“  %...........................net 
“ 
7H
£ ...........................net 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
* ...........................net 
7H
Strap and T ................................................dis. 
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50*10
Champion,  antl-frlction................................  60*10
Kidder, wood track......................................... 
40
Pots..................................................................... 60*10
Kettles..............................................................   60*10
Spiders  .............................................................. 60*10
Gray enameled..................................................40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware..................................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware........................................  
25
Granite Iron W are....................... new list 3314*10
Bright.......... ................................................70*10410
Screw  Eyes................................................. 70*10*10
Hook’s ..........................................................70*10410
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................ 
70*10*10
dis.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ........................
Sisal, H Inch aud larger................................  

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

levels. 
ROPES.

wire goods. 

HOLLOW WARE.

dis.

dis.

9
(ÜS,

SQUARES.

SHEET IRON.

Steel and Iron.. 
Try and Bevels. 
Mitre.................

75
................. 
60
................. 
................. 
20
.  Smooth. Com.
Nos. 10 to 14........................................ $4  05
...$4  05
$1 95
...  4 05
3 05
Nos. 15 to 17........................................ 4 05
Nos.  18 to 21.......................................  4 06
3 05
..  4 05
...  4 05
Nos. 22 to 24........................................   4 05
3  15
...  4  25
Nos. 25 to 26........................,
3 25
....  4 45
3  35
No. 27 ....................................................  4 45
,  over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List sect. 19, ’86  ........................................ dis. 
Silver Lake, White A .................................list 
Drab A ....................................  “ 
White  B ..................................  * 
Drab B....................................   “ 
White C....................................“ 

All  sheets No. 18  and  Ugh 
SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
50
55
85

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dis.

saws. 

traps. 

Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,_______ 70

Solid Eyes................................................ per ton 125
“ 
Hand............................................ 
20
“  Special Steel Dex  i  Cuts, per foot 
  50
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot....  30
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  root................................................. 
30
Steel, Game........................................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................. 
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s _______  70
Mouse,  choker.......................................IScperdos
Mouse, delusion................................. $1.50 per dos.
dis.
Bright Market...................................................  65
Annealed Market............................................. 70—10
Coppered Market.............................................   60
Tinned Market.................................................  62H
Coppered  Spring  Steel...................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..................................  2 85
painted.......................................  2 40

wire. 

dis.

“ 

WRENCHES. 

An  Sable.............................................dis.  40*10
Putnam.............................................. 
dis.  05
dis. 10*10
Northwestern...................................  
dis.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
30
50
Coe’s  Genuine.................................................  
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,....................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................................. 75*10
dlB.
Bird Cages................................................ 
50
 
Pumps, Cistern............................................ 
75*10
Screws, New List..............................................70*10
Casters, Bed a  d Plate.............................50*10*10
Dampers, American......................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods........ 65*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

HORSE NAILS.

METALS.

PIG TIN.

6*
7

ZINC.

26c
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.........................................................  
Pig Bars............................................................. 
Duty:  Sheet, 2Hc per pound.
600 pound  casks...............................................  
Per pound......................................................... 
H © H .........................................................................16
Extra W iping......................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by nrivate brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson............................................per  ponnd
HaUett’s .......................................... 
18
TIN—MBLYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal............................................ $7
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 EX, 

..............................................  7  0
..............................................  9  25
..............................................  9 25

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLA WAT GRADE.
10X14IC,  Charcoal.............................  
" 
14x20 IC, 
10x14 EE, 
“ 
14x20 EE, 
“ 

$6  75
..............................................  6  75
..............................................  8 25
..............................................  9  25
BOOPING PLATES

Each additional X on this grade, 11.75.

Bach additional X on this grade $1.50.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
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“ 

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

14x20 IC, 
14x20 EE, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 1C, 
20x28 EX, 
14x28 EE.................................................................. $14 00
14x81  EE...............................................................15
14x60i l : *” N“ '9 80V,0™’ [per pound.... 
10

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Hardware Price Carrent.

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

AUGURS AND BITS. 

dlS.

 

 

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

AXES.

,T 
1 
• 

BABBOWB. 

dig.
Railroad  ......................................................... $ 14 00
Garden  .................................................... net  30 00
dis.
Stove....................................................................50*10
Carriage new list.............................................. 75*10
Plow....................................................................40*10
Sleigh shoe........................................................ 
70

bolts. 

BUCKETS.

WeU,  plain........................................................ • 8 50
Well, swivel......................................................   4 00
dig.
Cast Loose Pin, figured....................................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint................604.0

BUTTS, CAST. 

 

 

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Fine 8...................................................150 
Case  10.................................................   60
8.................................................   75
6......... 
90
Finish 10...............................................  85
8...............................................1  00
6...............................................1  15 
Clinch; 10..............................................  86
8............................................... 1  00 
ou
90
6............................................... 1  15 
B arren*...............................................175 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy....................................  ©40
Solota Bench..................................................   ©60
Sandusky Tool Co.’i, fancy...........................   ©40
Bench, first quality..........................................   ©60
Stanley Role and Level Co.’s, wood............  *10
Fry,  Acme................................................dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................... dis. 
70
Iron and  Tinned.............................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Burs..................................60—10
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat planished, Nos. 26 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

PLANES. 

rivets. 

PAMS.

dlz.

Broken packs He per pound extra.

dll.

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

MichiganTradesman

▲ WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men. 

Published at

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|3F”When  writing to  any of  our  advertisers, 
please  say that you  saw  their  advertisement in 
T h e   M i c h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n .

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

W EDNESDAY, JANUARY  4,  1893,

RAILWAY  BUILDING.

There has been very little public  com­
ment on  the matter of railway  extension 
during the year now drawing  to  a  close, 
and,  as  a  consequence,  the  addition  of 
mileage to the total  amount  of  track  in 
the country has attracted little attention; 
but that there have been a fair amount of 
work for the track-layers,  and an average 
sale of steel rails, are shown  by  the  fact 
that, during the year 1892, 4,062 miles  of 
main line have been added to the railway 
mileage of the United States.

According to the Railway  Age,  which 
is the  authority  for  the  above  figures, 
forty-three out of the  forty-eight  States 
have  added 
their  railway  mileage 
during the past year,  which  proves  that 
railroad  buildiug has been  quite general 
all over the country, even  if the  develop­
ment has  in  no  single  case  been  large 
enough to attract special  notice.

to 

There  have,  of  course,  been consider­
able relaying  of  oid  track  and  a  large 
amount  of  double tracking,  building  of 
switches and other track-laying not com­
ing under the head of new main  lines,  so 
that the actual work  done  by  the track­
layers and the consumption of steel  rails 
are  not  fully  represented  by  the  4,062 
miles of new track reported.

The  new  State  of  Washington  leads 
the list  as the principal railroad  builder 
during the  year,  that  State  alone  being 
credited with 421 miles of new main line. 
This  comparatively 
large  increase  in 
railroad mileage in Washington  is due to 
the  influx  of  settlers  aud  the  develop­
ment of the resources of  that  far-distant 
section  of  the  country.  None  of  the 
other  far-western  States  figure  to  any 
great  extent  in  the  table  of  increased 
mileage,  although  as  we  have  already 
stated, nearly all  are  represented.  The 
other notable increases  in  mileage were 
in  Pennsylvania,  with  257  miles,  New 
York,  with 236 miles, and Michigan,  with 
220 miles  of  new  road. 
In  the  South, 
Texas  leads,  with 211 miles;  West  Vir­
ginia follows  with 204; while Florida and 
Louisiana also  show  up  well,  with  146 
and 121 miles respectively.

Including the mileage of 1892,  the total 
railway mileage in the United States has 
now  reached  174,663  miles,  or  nearly

seven  times  the  distance  around  the 
world.  The largest amount of main line 
built in a single year was in  1887,  when 
12,983 miles of  track  were  constructed. 
Since that  year of  phenomenal  develop­
ment there has been a gradual falling off, 
the present year showing  a  loss  of  409 
miles compared with 1891.  During  the 
past ten years 53,000 miles of track  were 
built, and during  the  past twenty  years 
104,000 miles were  built.  These  figures 
show  a  phenomenal  development  which 
would appear to  more  than  justify  the 
more  moderate  totals  of  the  past  few 
years. 
In fact, the wonder is that  there 
should  be any need at all for new  track.

TWO  IMPORTANT  MEASURES.

T h e  T r a d e sm a n  heartily  endorses 
the proposition to  hold  a  general  con­
vention of the Michigan  Business  Men’s 
Association in February,  as two very im­
portant matters  demand  the  immediate 
and continued support of every Michigan 
business man.

One is the enactment of a  law  provid­
ing for the creation of a new office in this 
State—that of Food  Commissioner.  Our 
statute  books  contain  many  excellent 
laws relative to the  sale  of  articles  of 
food and drink,  but, in the  absence  of  a 
proper officer to enforce their provisions, 
the  laws  are  practically  dead  letters. 
The necessity for such an officer is recog­
nized by the  Michigan  Business  Men’s 
Association,  Michigan Dairymen’s  Asso­
ciation,  Michigan  Fruit  Manufacturers’ 
Association,  Patrons  of  Husbandry 
(grangers),  Patrons  of  Industry,  and 
other  organizations  of  both  producers 
and consumers,  all  of  which  have  put 
themselves on  record  as favoring the en­
actment of a law creating  the  office  re­
ferred  to.  But  for  the  fact  that  the 
Winans  administration  was  pledged  to 
retrenchment,  the office would have been 
established two years ago,  as  a  majority 
of the members of  both  bonses  of  the 
last Legislature recognized the  necessity 
of the measure,  but  were  deterred  from 
giving  the  matter  active  attention  on 
account of the warning of  the  Governor 
that he would veto any  bill  creating  an 
additional office.  The situation is  some­
what different now  and  there  is  every 
reason  for  believing 
that  concerted 
action on the part of  all  interested  will 
secure the result desired.

is 

Another subject which demands prompt 
and  decisive  action 
the  exemption 
matter.  For the first time in over twenty 
years a constitutional convention is to be 
held,  during  1893,  and  concerted  effort 
should be made to expunge from the con­
stitution of the State every vestige of the 
exemption feature. 
It  will  require  no 
small effort to accomplish this result, but 
the game is worth the powder  and  busi­
ness men should not be dilatory in acting 
on this suggestion at once.

Other subjects  would,  of  course,  be 
discussed and  passed  upon at  a  meeting 
of business men,  but T h e  T r a d e sm a n is 
strongly  of  the opinion that the  objects 
above outlined ought to  be  sufficient  to 
attract representatives from  the most re­
mote portions of the State.

STRIKE  WHILE THE IRON IS HOT.
Elsewhere  in  this  week’s  paper  is 
given a brief description  of  the  “Equal­
ity  Plan,” 
so-called,  adopted  by  the 
Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Association 
for use in  connection  with  all  sales of 
sugar at wholesale after January 3.  The 
i plan is said to be in successful  operation

in fifteen other states  and there is  every 
reason  for  believing  that  it  will  work 
well in Michigan,  so  far as  assuring  the 
jobber of  a uniform  profit is concerned. 
Whether it will work to the advantage or 
disadvantage of the retail  trade,  remains 
to  be  seen.  The  plan  is on  trial;  and 
T h e  T r a d e sm a n does  not  propose  to 
approve  or  disapprove the plan until  it 
has been given a thorough  trial.

The new  method is certainly a step  in 
advance  in  one  respect, inasmuch as  it 
assures  the  jobber  of a very  reasonable 
profit on a  staple which  comprises from 
one-quarter  to  one-third  of  his  entire 
transactions.  Selling sugar at a loss, for 
the sake of  securing  an  order for goods 
on which the  jobber  can  make  a  profit, 
is  no  longer  necessary  under  the  new 
system.  The  wholesaler’s  position  is 
secure  and no house in Michigan is  able 
to undersell  any  other  house,  so far  as 
sugar is concerned.  The new plan takes 
this great staple  out of  the realm of un­
certainty,  so far as yielding any  profit  is 
concerned;  and it  will  be  interesting to 
note what staple article,  if  any, takes its 
place as an  incentive to trade by cutting 
and slashing.

The new movement  is assuring  to  the- 
retailer, as it proves beyond a doubt that 
thorough organization will enable the  re4 
tailer to secure the same concesión  from 
the wholesaler that the latter obtains from 
the refiner.  The backbone of  the move-, 
ment  is  strong  and  the  retailer has noi 
one to blame  but  himself  if  he  fails  to; 
take  advantage  of  the  situation.  The 
jobber is not going far out of  his  way  to] 
assist the retailer in this matter—he  has! 
bis  own  business to  attend  to  and his 
own  organization  to  look  after.  T h e 
T r a d e sm a n  has,  however,  almost  in­
variably  found the  wholesaler  ready  to 
co-operate  with  his  retail  customer  in 
any  movement  looking  toward  an  im­
provement  in  trade  methods,  and  the 
time is certainly  now ripe  for  the retail 
dealer  to  show  his  hand  by  affiliating 
with his  fellows on a  common basis  and 
organizing  associations  for  the  same 
purpose  which  called 
the  Michigan 
Wholesale  Grocers’  Association into  ex­
istence—the  maintenance  of  a  decent 
profit on sugar by some system which  will 
be so strongly entrenched in the jobber as 
to  render  variation  next  to impossible. 
Will the retailer  strike while the iron  is 
hot?

TORPEDO BOATS  FOR THE  NAVY.
While  the  vessels  already  completed, 
building  and  contracted for  to  increase 
the  navy, furnish  a  fair  number of  all 
classes  of  cruisers  and  fighting  ships, 
scarcely a  beginning  has  been  made  in 
the  work of  building  torpedo  boats,  al­
though all naval experts  hold that a con­
siderable  fleet of  torpedo  vessels  of  all 
sizes is an essential auxiliary of the fight­
ing fleet.

Up  to  the  present  time  the  United 
States navy possesses  but one  first-class 
torpedo  boat, the  Cushing, and  one  tor­
pedo cruiser  Is  building. 
If  to  these is 
added the Vesuvius, the dynamite cruiser, 
the  country possesses  but  three  vessels 
which could  be classed as torpedo  boats. 
How small this  strength is may easily be 
appreciated  by remembering  that  Great 
Britain  has  several  hundred  torpedo 
boats  and  the  other  leading  European 
naval powers more  than a hundred each.
It  would,  therefore, seem  to  be  about 
time  for a beginning  to  be  made  in the 
work of  constructing a torpedo flotilla of

sufficient  numerical  strength  to  fully 
meet the  needs of  our naval  service. 
It 
is  evidently  the  belief of  the  navy  de­
partment  that  Congress will  at  no  dis­
tant  date make  some  provisions  for the 
construction of  torpedo boats,  as designs 
have been  prepared at Washington  for a 
new style of first-class torpedo boat which 
will be provided, in addition to the usual 
torpedo  tubes,  with  dynamite  guns  like 
those on the  Vesuvius,  which will enable 
the  vessel to  throw  shells  charged  with 
high explosives from a much greater dis­
tance than  it is possible  to  operate with 
the  ordinary torpedoes,  the  regular tor­
pedo tubes being reserved for use should 
it  be  expedient to approach  close  to  an 
enemy. 
It  is believed  that with a dyna­
mite  gun it would  be  possible to fire  at 
an  enemy  at  a  distance  of  nearly  two 
thousand yards.

Now that a fair proportion of the large 
ships needed  for the new navy  are being 
constructed  or  are  already completed,  it 
would  seem  proper  for  Congress  to au­
thorize the  building of  a fair  proportion 
of  the torpedo vessels needed,  so that by 
the time the  country possesses a respect­
able fleet we will not be entirely deficient 
in the matter of torpedo outfit.

AN INCOME  TAX.

One subject which will engage  the  at­
tention of  the Committee  on  Ways  and 
Means of the next  Congress  will  be  the 
widespread demand for an income  tax.

Congress must  find means for raising a 
revenue in case it  reduces  the  tariff  on 
many foreign  products,  and  the  project 
of a  tax on incomes  is  being much  dis­
cussed. 
It may be remembered by many 
that an income tax was in force for a few 
years  immediately  after  the  civil  war. 
At first the tax was  laid  on  incomes  as 
low as $1,500, and in  1866  this  tax  fur­
nished  $73,000,000.  But  it  was  soon 
taken from the smaller  incomes  and laid 
on larger,  and  thus  falling  chiefly  on 
wealthy people, became  unpopular,  and 
Congress, not being able to withstand the 
influence brought against it, repealed the 
law.

At that time there were  no  great  for­
tunes in the country  as there are to-day. 
Millionaires  were  not  common.  Men 
with ten millions were rare,  and  of  men 
with twenty millions there were probably 
but a score or so  in  the  entire  Union. 
Since  the  repeal  of  tha  income 
tax, 
enormous fortunes have  grown  up.  So 
great has been the growth  of  wealth  in 
the hands of a few,  that  it  is  estimated 
that to-day  one-half  the  wealth  in  the 
United  States  is  concentrated  in  the 
hands  of  25,000  persons,  and 
three- 
fourths of it in the hands of 250,000  per­
sons.  When we reflect that  these  small 
fractions of  the  population  hold  three- 
quarters  of  the entire  wealth of  the Re­
public and the other  sixty and  odd  mil­
lions  hold only one-fourth,  the  situation 
becomes startling,  indeed.  At  the  rate 
at which wealth is being  concentrated in 
the hands of a few,  we  may  well  look 
forward to the day when the  small  frac­
tion of the  people  will  own  everything 
and the millions  of  the  masses  will  be 
slaves as they were in  Egypt  under  the 
Pharaohs and  in Russia  under  the  serf 
system.

The depositors in Church, Bills & Co.’s 
bank,  at Ithaca, have been paid  a 50 per 
cent,  dividend and  the  assignee  asserts 
that the other 50 per cent,  will  be  paid 
in a short time.

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THE  CONSULAR  SERVICE.

There  has  recently  been  a  demand 
from  some  of  the  New  England  manu­
the 
facturing  centers  for  a  change  in 
American  consular  service. 
It  is asked 
that  American  consuls representing  the 
United States in foreign  countries be  re­
quested  to  give a  larger share  of atten­
tion to the promotion of  American  trade 
in the  countries  in  which  they  take  up 
their  official  residence,  with  a  view  of 
establishing  better  trade  relations  be­
tween  the  country  to  which  they  are 
accredited  and 
the  merchants  of  the 
United  States.

in  fact, 

This  desire  that  our  consuls  abroad 
should  become, 
commercial 
agents  as  well  as  quasi  diplomatic 
representatives is not a new thing by any 
means,  as  the  annual  reports  from  the 
different consuls to the State department 
prove that the  gathering of  trade statis­
tics is an important part of the functions 
of  the consular  service.  Great  Britain, 
some  years ago, realizing the  usefulness 
of  this  system  of  consular  reports  on 
trade  matters,  decided  to  adopt  it,  and 
now the  British  consulates  give  consid­
erable attention to  the duties of pushing 
British trade interests in  the localities in 
stationed.  Other 
which 
European  countries  have  adopted 
the 
same system.

they 

are 

The  demands  from  New  England, 
therefore, call  rather  for  an  improve­
ment of  a  long  established  custom than 
for the inauguration of an innovation.  At 
a recent banquet of the Boston merchants 
a good portion of  the speechmaking was 
devoted  to  this  subject.  According  to 
the ideas of one of  the prominent speak­
ers,  the American Consul should make it 
his constant aim  to  promote  the lawful 
trade of the United States  by  every  fair 
and  proper  means,  and  to  uphold 
the 
rights  and  privileges  and  promote  the 
advantage  of  American merchants.  As 
a natural and logical correletive he should 
be fully posted as to his  own land,  know 
its  resources  and  products,  and  their 
adaptability to the  people  among  whom 
he  has  his  official  home. 
It  should  be 
his  duty to  acquaint  the  people  with 
what the United States  can  supply.  He 
is a quasi  partner of  the  American mer­
chants,  and should  be in  full  sympathy 
with them  and  their  interests. 
If Con­
gress will have  the courage  and patriot­
ism to  make more stringent  and protec­
tive  immigration  laws,  saving  us  from 
imported  ignorance,  pauperism,  crime 
and  disease,  we  shall  have  to  rely for 
the beneficent enforcement  of  such laws 
very largely  upon  the  vigilance,  intelli­
gence  and  integrity  of  our 
consuls. 
These important  duties will  require  of­
ficers of  high qualifications  and  energy, 
and it  will  require  no  small  amount of 
research on the part of  the incoming ad­
ministration to secure men  fitted by edu­
cation  and  experience  to  answer  these 
requirements.
GRAND  INTERNATIONAL  CHARITY.
Probably  in  the  whole  history of  the 
world the vastest and  most  far-reaching 
charity, 
accomplished  on  a  scale  of 
grandeur colossal  and  magnificent to the 
highest  degree, is  to be  credited  to  the 
people  of  the  United  States in the year 
1892.  Thus  duly  chronicled  in  the an­
nals of the great Russian  famine of  1891- 
92 are the  extraordinary measures of  re­
lief so  promptly put in operation by  the 
American  people.  The  events  of  this 
most interesting history culminate in the

glorious spectacle of the free  citizens  of 
the  world’s  grandest  republic  feeding 
the starving subjects of  the  most titanic 
imperial  despotism  on  the  face  of  the 
earth.

It would  be needless  to attempt to  re­
produce  the  harrowing  and  revolting 
features of  the Russian  famine of  1891- 
92.  There  had  been  a  succession  of 
poor crops,  and  finally a total  failure of 
grain in provinces that contained twenty 
millions of  the  people  of the Empire  of 
all the  Russias.  Heartrending accounts 
of suffering crossed the ocean and moved 
profoundly the great pity  of  the Ameri­
can  people.  “We  have  bread  enough 
and to spare,”  was the  general  and gen­
erous  expression,  “and  we  will help  to 
feed the starving.”  And what the Amer­
ican  people  willed  in  the  way  of  this 
charity they accomplished, and in a man­
ner that  challenges  the  admiration and 
astonishment of  the  world.  The  report 
of the Russian Famine Committee of  the 
United States,  under  the  presidency  of 
Ex-Governor John W. Hoyt,of Minnesota, 
has just  been  published,  showing  that 
the  united  contributions  of  the Ameri­
can  people  to  the  starving  Russians 
amounted  to  five  ship  loads  of  bread- 
stuffs,  weighing about 23,000,000 pounds, 
besides more than $100,000 in money.

In  addition  to  these,  supplementary 
shipments of provisions to large amounts 
were sent in the cargoes of  several other 
vessels,  besides  more  than  $100,000 
in 
money in  addition to the  amount  above 
referred  to.  These  charities represent­
ed not merely the value  of the  flour  and 
grain,  but  free  railway  transportation, 
free  ship  freight, free  service  in  han­
dling and loading freights and ships. This 
magnificent  benefaction  was  thus made 
the act of millions of  the American  peo­
ple,  from  the  great  capitalists,  millers, 
merchants,  railway  corporations,  ship 
owners and  the  like,  to  working people 
and  laborers  of  every  class.  They  all 
participated,  and  whether  they gave  of 
their abundance or of their poverty,  they 
alike were joined in giving this  glorious 
charity.  There never was  anything like 
it in  the world.  Let  us hope there may 
never again be occasion for such an event, 
but if it should be  required,  the  Ameri­
can  people will,  without  doubt,  be equal 
to the grand emergency.

The  coffee-producing  section of  Mex­
ico is  preparing  to send a  large exhibit 
of coffee to the World’s Fair and will, be­
sides,  make  preparations  to  distribute 
gratis samples of the finest grades grown 
in Mexico  to  the visitors  to the  exposi­
tion.  As  everybody  knows,  Mexico has 
made rapid strides  in  the  production  of 
coffee, and has risen to  high rank among 
leading coffee-producing countries.  Mex­
ican  coffee  is of  very  fine  quality,  and, 
because  of  its  mild  flavor,  is  becoming 
more generally  used every year.  An ex­
tensive  exhibit  at  the  Fair  would,  of 
course,  greatly assist the development of 
the Mexican  coffee  industry  by making 
the  merits  of  the  bean  more  widely 
known, thus increasing the consumption. 
The United  States  is the  principal con­
sumer  of  this coffee,  but  there is ample 
room for a more  extensive  development 
of the demand.

When men have  their  dinners of state 
ladies.  When 
they  always 

they  always  toast  the 
women  banquet  together 
roast the men.

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

See  that  this  Label  appears 
on  every ; package,  ae  It  Is  a 
guarantee  of th e  genuine  ar­
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Far Superior to any other.
Correspondence or Sample Order Solicited. 
Endorsed Wherever Used.

JOHN  SMYTH,  A p t. Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Telephone  566. 

106  Kent St.

See  that  this  Label  appears 
on  every  package,  as  It  Is  a 
guarantee  of 
the  gennine 
article.

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T F TH;  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .

TAXING  PERSONAL  ESTATE.

This antagonism of interest, in respect 
of  taxation,  between the  owners of  real 
estate and  the owners of  personal  estate 
is of  long  standing,  and  has  frequently 
led  to  legislative investigations,  like tbe 
one  now being  conducted  by  a  special 
committee of  the New  York Legislature, 
followed  by  the  enactment  of  laws  in­
tended to enlarge the taxation of personal 
estate,  and  thus  reduce  that  upon  real 
estate.  All these attempts, as the present 
condition  of  the  matter  shows,  have 
failed  of  complete  success.  The  great 
bulk of  the  taxes,  for  city  and  county 
purposes  at  least, continues  to  be  paid 
by  the  owners of  real  estate,  although 
State  taxes, owing  to  the  new  corpora­
tion and inheritance tax laws, fall lightly 
on both  real  and  personal  estate  alike. 
The  owners of  real  estate  insist  that if 
justice were done the owners of personal 
estate  should  pay  at  least  as  much  as 
they  do, and  the  owners of  personal es­
tate  naturally  combat  every attempt  to 
compel  them to pay  more  than  they are 
now paying.

That those who  clamor for an increase 
of  taxation  upon  personal  property  do 
not  fully  understand  tbe  case  and  are 
not  well  acquainted with the  facts  con­
nected with it,  is pretty evident from the 
arguments which they employ to support 
their  views.  Most of  what,  in  conform­
ity with  the legal  fiction, they  call  per­
sonal property, is personal only in name. 
A  bond  secured  by  a  mortgage  upon a 
house and  lot or upon  a farm is personal 
property in the  eye  of  the  law, because 
the  owner of  it  can  carry it about  with 
him wherever he goes.  Bonds aud mort­
gages  are.  however,  mere  evidences  of 
part  ownership  in  the  real  estate  by 
which  they are secured,  and,  frequently, 
the  money given  for  them  helps to pay 
for  its  purchase. 
In  like  manner  rail­
road  bonds  and  shares of  stock in  rail­
road  companies  and  in  other  corpora­
tions are,  technically,  personal property, 
but, as  a  matter of  fact,  they  represent 
only  beneficial  interests  in  real  estate, 
or  in  investments of  capital  which  are 
taxed  in  their  entirety.  To  tax  both 
real  estate  at  its  full  value,  and  then, 
besides,  to tax  the  mortgages upon  it,  is 
a double taxation,  the injustice of  which 
is  admitted,  and  the  remedy which  has 
been  proposed  for it  is to tax  real estate 
only for the excess of its value above the 
mortgages  upon  it and  throw the  rest of 
the  tax  upon  the  holders of  mortgages. 
This,  however,  would  so  evidently  put 
an  end to all  lending upon  that  kind of 
that  it  has  never  yet  been 
security 
adopted. 
In  like  manner,  the  taxing 
both of  the property of corporations and 
of the shares of  their stock is recognized 
to  be  unjust by  statute, and where  cor­
porations  are  taxed  their  stock  in  the 
hands of its holders is exempt.

Nevertheless,  the  conviction  that  rich 
men  ought  to be  taxed  in  proportion to 
their  wealth  is  so  generally  prevalent 
that  it is  in  vain  to  try to  overcome it. 
Those  who  frame tax  laws must  recog­
nize  it  and  defer  to  it, and  those  who 
suffer  from  these  laws  must  make  up 
their minds  to  submit to them  up to the 
point  where  the  exaction  becomes  in­
tolerable.  They always have tbe resource 
With  these  facts  before  his eyes it is 
of putting their persons beyond the reach 
surprising to find a man like Comptroller 
of  a government  which  imposes on them 
Campbell, of  New  York, declaring  that 
a  burden  greater  than  they  choose  to 
as  Jay Gould  owned  870,000,000 of  per­
bear, and  short of  this  remedy,  their in-
sonal  property  in  his  lifetime and  paid
taxes  upon  only 8500,000, he  defrauded  genuity  will  always  be  able  to  devise 
the  people  of  New  York  of  the  taxes  other means  which will  partially  relieve 
upon  860,500,000.  Equally surprising  is i them. 
the assertion  made  by ex-Assessor  John 
D.  Ellis  that  there  is  84,000,000,000  of 
personal property that  ought  to  be  as­
sessed in New York  which is not now on 
the books, from 60 to 65 per cent, of which 
is  in  New  York  City.  Mr.  Campbell 
evidently assumed that Mr. Gould’s 870,- 
000,000 were in his  pocket or in his safe.

Some  way  has  been  found  to  make 
In  time cheap res­
cakes without  eggs. 
taurant  bntter  may  be  found  without 
hair.

A man  must  believe  in  himself when 
he concludes that all who do not think as 
he does are either  fools or knaves.

Ma tt h ew   Ma r sh a l l.

and,  therefore,  within  the  jurisdiction 
of the State and city authorities, whereas, 
in  fact, except  his  household  furniture 
and cash in hand, they were scattered all 
over 
the  Western  and  Southwestern 
states, aud  were represented  by railroads, 
bridges,  mines,  town  and  city  lots,  and 
various  other  objects  over  which  the 
State  has  no  more  control  than  it  has 
over  the  possessions of  Queen Victoria. 
So,  when  Mr.  Ellis  spoke of  the 84,000,- 
000,000  of  personal  property  in  New 
York which  ought to be taxed  he  had in 
mind,  undoubtedly,  property  similar  to 
that owned by Mr. Gould.  He added to­
gether the  reputed  fortunes of  men like 
the  Astors,  the  Vanderbilts, the  Rocke­
fellers,  and  other  millionaires,  and  as­
sumed «that  their  possessions  were  all 
actually situated  within  the  boundaries 
of  New York  and enjoying  the  benefits 
of its government.  The truth is that the 
only  r. personal  property  which  can  be 
reached  by  assessment, either  justly  or 
unjustly,  is that  which  can  be seen  and 
be laid hold of by the band.  That which 
is  personal  only  by  fiction of  law,  and 
which,  whenever  its  owner  goes  out  of 
the State,  goes with him, will  necessarily 
slip  through  any  tax  law  that  can  be 
framed.

Besides  this  error  of  fact,  the  advo­
cates  of  increased  taxation of  personal 
property tacitly assume that a man should 
pay  taxes  in  proportion  to  his  wealth, 
and  not  to  the  state  or  country where 
that  wealth  is  invested  and  where  it 
receives  the  benefit of  tbe  expenditures 
to meet which the taxes are imposed,  but 
to that  upou  whose  territory  he  resides. 
In other words,  they contend for the tax­
ation,  not of  property,  but of  the person 
owning it, and for taxation in proportion, 
not to benefits  received,  but to ability  to 
pay.  The foundation of  the  idea is evi­
dently  that  sentiment  of  communism 
which is everywhere latent in  the human 
mind,  and  which  demands  that  the  ac­
quisitions of  the thrifty aud the  success­
ful  shall  be  taken and  bestowed  upon 
the unthrifty and tbe unsuccessful.  No 
one  pretends  that a man  worth  ten  mil­
lions  of  dollars  shall  pay  ten times  as 
much  for  his clothes,  his  marketing and 
his fuel as the man with one million,  and 
yet,  when  taxes  are  in  question,  it  is 
practically  asserted  that  the  man  with 
one  million,  no  matter  where  it  is  in­
vested,  shall  pay  a  thousand  times  as 
much  as the  man  with  only  a thousand 
dollars.

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THE  VALUE  OF  SOLD.

The  chief  point  in  the  discussion  of 
the  silver question  is as  to what  should 
be its  ratio of  value to gold.  According 
to the standard of money,  it is held to be 
in the  proportion of  about one  ounce of 
gold to sixteen  ounces of  silver,  but  the 
heavy decline in the  market value of sil­
ver has for some time past much deranged 
the adjustment of relative values.

According to  the  standard  in  use  for 
our  money,  an  ounce  of  fine  silver  is 
rated at $1.29.  But the market price has 
fallen  far  below  this,  and  within  the 
past  few  days  silver  has  sold  in  this 
country for 82% cents  per ounce,  and on 
tbe  same  day the  price  in London  was 
about 76 cents  per  ounce.  Thus  it  will 
be seen that our standard  ratio of  values 
is  much  at  variance  with  the  current 
market rates, so that when silver sells at 
46 cents per ounce less than the standard 
ratio, 
the  relative  values  of  the  two 
precious  metals  are  most  seriously  de­
ranged.

The values of  the precious  metals are, 
to  some  extent,  governed  by  the  con­
siderations  of  supply  and  demand,  but 
not  to  the  extent  that  obtains  in  the 
traffic  in  other  commodities.  Gold,  in­
trinsically,  is  of  little use.  There  are 
few  economic  purposes  to  which  it  is 
applied.  Practically the world could get 
along well enough without it. 
If it were 
not for  its beauty of  color  and its exten­
sive  employment  for  purposes of  orna­
ment,  for all  practical  purposes it might 
be  left  out  of  human  economy.  The 
entire  progress  of  the  human  race  is 
largely  dependent  on  iron.  Without  it 
our  civilization  would  be  put  back  for 
thousands  of  centuries, but  the  loss  of 
gold  would  make  but  little  impression 
on  society.  But  for  the  curse  of  gold 
men  would  have  been  more  honest  in 
every  generation,  and  as  for  business 
they  would  have  adopted  some  con­
venient  method  to  adjust  exchanges. 
Gold  to-day has  really  but  little  to  do 
with the  internal  commerce of  this vast 
country. 
It  never appears  in  ordinary 
business.

When  we  come  to  consider the value 
of  gold in reference  to  the  cost of  pro­
duction,  no  estimates  are  of  any  real 
reliability.  Gold,  from the earliest times, 
has been the prey of every robber nation. 
No  matter  who  dug it out of  the earth, 
other  nations  never  ceased to  make war 
on 
those  which  possessed  the  yellow 
metal  for the  express  purpose of  taking 
it  by force,  and,  consequently,  it has  al­
ways  been  the  case  that  the  strongest 
nation  has tbe most gold. 
Interminable 
and  destructive  wars,  accompanied  by 
every horror and atrocity that the human 
race  can  suffer,  have  been  the  price of 
gold.  There  is  not  an  ounce of  it  that 
has  not  cost  its  weight in human  blood 
and  human  sweat. 
It  is  the one inani­
mate  material  thing that  has the  power 
to convert men into devils.

All  the  slavery in the  world is  justly 
chargeable  to  gold.  The  Spanish  con­
querors of  America,  after destroying the 
lives  of  millions  (the  number  is  esti­
mated  to  be  30,000,000)  of  American 
natives  in  searching  for  gold,  imported 
negroes from Africa to work in the mines. 
But  for this  there would  have been  no 
slaves  in  America.  Elaborate  efforts 
were  made to determine  the cost of  the 
gold  mined  in California  and Australia, 
the first mines ever worked by free labor. 
The estimate for  California is that every 
dollar of  gold  gathered  there cost  five.

When  we  consider  the  privations  and 
sufferings of  the men  who  went  to Cali­
fornia in the  early times,  the  actual  cost 
of  gold was  much  greater than  five  for 
one. 
In  Australia  the  commissioners 
who  attempted  to ascertain  the  cost  of 
producing  gold  officially  declared  that 
every ounce of  the metal  there had  been 
mined at a decided loss.

But if  gold  has  only a fictitious  value 
in reality, it has been  made the standard 
of worth  by the  money lenders,  who dic­
tate  to  all  the  debtor  nations. 
It  has 
pleased them to require that their debtors 
shall  pay gold,  and  that  fixes  the  law. 
Gold is the standard of value and will be 
until  some  universal  socialistic  revolu­
tion  shall  destroy the  world’s  financial 
system  and  wipe out all  national debts. 
Silver  has  become  relatively  plentiful 
and  has fallen  into disesteem.  Nothing 
but  a  revolt  against  the world’s  money 
lenders can  restore  silver to its old  rela­
tions to gold. 

F r a n k   S t o w e l l .

Strictly Fresh Eggs.

From the Chicago Produce Trade Reporter.
It is  often a matter of surprise to some 
people in large  cities who  are willing  to 
pay almost any  price for  a good  article, 
that more attention  has not been paid to 
the  egg  trade  for  table  use  during the 
midwinter  months.  The  prices  obtain­
able  by  tbe  family  grocers  during  tbe 
months  of  November,  December,  Janu­
ary and  February  for  new-laid eggs  ex- 
teud  from  40 to 60 cents per  dozen,  and 
they  are  not  always procurable  at  the 
higher price.
There is no reason  why,  under  proper 
conditions  and  surroundings—shelter, 
food,  etc.—hens  may  not  lay  during 
these months.  Those  who  have entered 
into the business in the  neighborhood of 
Montreal  are  reaping  handsome  profits 
from it, and  anyone  who  is  anxious  to 
make  money  may,  with  the  outlay of a 
very small  capital,  begin  this  profitable 
business for  himself.  The  leading  gro­
cers  brand  all  their  boxes  “New-laid 
Eggs,”  with  instructions  to  the custom­
er to  “Keep this slip and  return at once, 
if tbe eggs are not strictly  fresh.”
The  supply  during the present mouth 
is the  smallest  for  years.  There is  too 
little care  given  by  farmers  and  others 
who  supply  eggs  for  shipment  to  the 
gathering of  them in order to secure  the 
best  possible  results.  Eggs, other than 
those we  have specified  above, and  sold 
for  purposes  of  mixed  dishes, omelets, 
etc., are  not  in demand by consumer  or 
retailer;  the  low  price  obtainable  for 
them  renders  them of little value to  the 
country suppliers.

Tne  Careless Clerk.

From  th e  Dry  Goods  Gazette.
There  are  some  employes  iu  stores 
who, though  not  really  dishonest,  are 
equally dangerous to  merchants.  Those 
are the careless ones.  Though  they will 
not actually steal,  still  they are as crim­
inal as  the  thief.  The  losses  incurred 
through 
the  carelessness  of  employes 
often escape notice,  for  it is a species  of 
viciousness the results of  which  are  not 
always apparent.  Yet the merchant suf­
fers,  all  the  same.  Perhaps  we  are 
wrong in deeming this  trait vicious.  At 
worst 
it  is  a  deplorable  weakness  of 
character, often not  latent, but  acquired 
by an  unwise training.  For  the posses­
sion of this  drawback  in  character, peo­
ple  invariably  have  to  lay  the  blame 
with  those on whom  their early training 
depended.  The  boy who learns  his ear­
ly lessons  from  the  man  who  conducts 
bis business in a  slipshod  or  haphazard 
manner cannot  help  possessing  a disre­
gard of order in  his later  years.  Habits 
are  easily  acquired,  but  it  is  wofully 
hard to rid  oneself of them, especially if 
they are bad habits.
The clerk who is  careless iu  even  the 
most trivial things never will  be success­
ful.  Business,  like life, is a series of in­
cidents;  on the  attendance to  each  item 
depends the success of  the  whole.  The 
man  who  shirks, disregards  or  ignores 
trifles will be  unsuccessful  in the  main, 
for great  things  are but an  aggregation 
of little things.

OUR  SPRING  LINE  is  now  in  the  market,  and,  as  we  are  informed, 
confirms  the  high  reputation  the  senior  member of  our  firm  has  earned  for 
him self, that for elegance, style,  fit, make up and  lowness  in  price  he stands 
unequalled— a 
clothing  manufacturer,  established 
thirty-six  years  in  the  city  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.

thorough,  practical 

W illiam   Connor,  our  representative  in  Michigan,  whose  address  is 
Box  346,  Marshall,  Mich., w ill  gladly  call  upon  you  if  you  w ill  honor  him 
with  a  line  to  show  you  our  samples,  and  buy  or not  buy,  we  w ill  thank 
you  for the  honor  of  inspection.  The  mail  orders  we  are  constantly  re­
ceiving,  especially  for  our  elegant  fitting  Prince  Albert  coats  and  vests, 
are marvelous.
Those  m erchants  contem plating  putting  in  ready-made  clothing  this 
spring will  best  consult  their  interests  by  sending  for  W m.  Connor, who 
put in  four new lines  for customers  this  last fall and  will  gladly give  them  
as  references.

MICHAEL  KOLB  &  SON,

W holesale  Clothiers,  Rochester,  N.  Y.

Why  have  the  sales  til­
ing the past

creased 25  per cent,  dor- 
year  on

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Man u fact n red   by

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DEALERS IN

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THE  STORE  LOAFER.

tobacco,  evaporates  what 

the  wholesalers,  become  so 
part  of 
widened that a reconciliation  now seems 
A n  American  Institution  Decidedly  a 
impossible.  As  claimed  by  the  retail 
Nuisance and of No Benefit to Anyone.
men  the  wholesale  grocers  have  been 
selling  goods to restauranters,  hotel and 
F red  W oodrow  in  Age o f Steel.
The  store loafer is a distinctly Ameri­
boarding  house  keepers  in  job  lots  at 
can  institution.  His  shingle  hangs  out 
little over wholesale prices,thereby shut­
in  every  country.  Times  or  seasons 
ting the retail merchants out of this class 
make no  change in his habits.  You find 
of trade to which they claim they are en­
him  in  summer  ventilating  his  person 
titled.  The retailers allege also that the 
and opinions astride a barrel or in spinal
wholesalers  are  combining  to  control j 
proximity  to the surface  of  a dry good
prices  in their own favor, and  that  they
In winter he is  only  visible  when ! are  declining to sell, or boycotting,  pop
box. 
mud  or  snow  blockades  the  road,  but 
ular  brands  of  goods  which,  owing  to 
where  a  rabbit  can  walk  or  a squirrel 
their  having  become  standard  articles, 
escape interment, the  foot of  the loafer, 
are  ordinarily  sold  at  small  profits,  in 
after  finding  its  sock,  approaches  the 
order  to  force  the  retailers  to make  a 
village  store.  Here  he  whittles and ro­
market  for  other  brands,  upon  which 
tates 
little 
the  wholesalers  and  jobbers  can  make 
steam  is  left  in  his  anatomy  and adds 
larger profits or  are themselves interest­
the alleged knowledge  of  his  neighbors’
ed as  manufacturers.  This  action,  the
business to  what he has  forgotten of his  retailers  claim,  compels  them  to  go  to 
the  manufacturers  direct  for  many  ar-
duty and his debts. 
He  absorbs caloric  from a stove burn­
tides, and they have  found that by com 
ing  another  man’s  coal, the  tobacco  he 
bining  and  buying  in  large  quantities 
reduces  to  ash  and  nicotine  is largely 
they  can  save  the  middlemen’s  profits 
gratuitous,  while  for  the  corner  he oc­
and  besides  procure  at  all 
times  the 
cupies he  pays  no  rent, except  in spots 
brands  of  goods  which  they  want  and 
on  the  tioor  and  observations  made  on 
which are the most salable.
sugar,  beans and politics.
Several meetings  of  the retail grocers 
it  is  needless  to  say that, as his eyes 
have  been  held  for  the  purpose of  de­
are  innocent  of  a bandage and  his ears 
vising some means of  protection  against 
not blockaded,  what he  imbibes  through 
this alleged  unfair  action  of  the whole­
both mediums  makes him an expert as  a 
salers.  The  result  is that  the  retailers 
social critic and a scandal artist.
have  decided  to  organize  a joint  stock 
It is from such  gentlemen at  ease that 
company, each  grocer who goes into  the 
90 per  cent,  of  town  gossip finds its in­
organization  to  contribute $1,000  to the 
sidious  way;  he oscillates  from store  to 
capital  stock,  the  capital  to  be  double 
store and takes his notes.
the  number  of  subscribing  members. 
Under his hat he  registers  the sale  of 
They propose to buy  their  own goods of 
a stove and  the  objections  raised to  the 
all  kinds  direct  from  the  jobbers  and 
price of a pair of shoes or to the sanitary 
manufacturers from  whom the wholesal­
condition  of  last year’s  eggs  and delin­
ers get them.  They  argue  that the  per 
quent  butter.  He  keeps  a  census  of 
cent,  charged  them  by  the  local  whole­
customers  and old  debts,  and he  has  as 
sale men  will more  than  sustain  the gi­
accurate  a measurement  of  the  village 
gantic  enterprise  into  which  they  pro­
finances as he has of his own.
pose  to  embark.  Sixty  of  the  leading 
Of  horse  trades  and  missing poultry, 
grocers  have  subscribed  81,000  each to 
the  preacher’s faults, and  errors in  mail 
the capital  stock,  which gives  $60,000  to 
delivery,  he  is  a  wholesale  warehouse. 
start  on.  The  capital  stock  of  the or­
He enjoys the  news  as he does his pipe,
ganization  will  be  $150,000  and the  re- I
and  he generally manages to have even  a ! mainder,  it  is expected,  will be taken by 
newsboy or a sewing  society in  the rear  other grocers who  will  want  the  protec- 
when  he  unloads  his  memory  and  un-1 tion  which 
combination  will 
corks himself on the public ear. 
j afford.  Subscribers  will  not  be  lim­
it is not  to be supposed that a man ad- 
ited  to  this  city,  but  will  embrace  re­
dieted  to this  kind of  pastime  has much \ tailers  in  every 
section  which  can
ambition to  wet  his own  skin  with hon­
economically  draw  its  supplies 
front 
est  perspiration.  As  a  rule,  he  cares 
Columbus.
more  for  slicing  watermelons  than  for 
It is  stated that  combinations  of  this 
cutting  wood,  and  he  has  a  gift  of 
kind  have  been effected  in other  states 
grumbling  when  his  wife fails to recon­
It 
and  have been immensely successful. 
struct  the  stovepipe  or  misses  connec­
is  not  unusual  for  a  wholesale  house, 
tions  with  the coal house.
with  no larger  trade than  is required  to 
In the field or in the  mill  he is general­
supply a combination  of  100  retail gro­
ly  speckled  with  the  same  complaint, 
cers,  to  make a profit  of  $50,000 to $75,- 
and.  as an artist in  loafing,  work is  buta 
000 a  year.  To this  the  retailers  made 
stern necessity or  a thorny  path  to  Sat­
no objection  so long  as the  wholesalers 
supplied  them  with such goods  as their 
urday  night.
In  a  personal  and  social  sense,  the 
trade demanded,  and did  not  attempt  to 
store  loafer is  nothing less delicate than 
interfere with their legitimate customers. 
If.  however,  they  argue,  they  are  com­
a public nuisance.
pelled to send  to the  manufacture!*  for 
Everybody  but himself is cognizant of 
some brands of  goods  which  the  whole­
this  three-story  fact,  and  we  know  of
nothing that can make him  so, excepting  salers  are  trying  to  boycott,  and  also 
conversion  or  admonitory  shoe  leather,  compete  with  them  for trade  with  the 
Few  men in  business  but  would  rather  consumer,  they  might  as  well  enter  in- 
tolerate  a  white-faced  hornet  than  a 
to competition all along the line.  Those 
chronic  loafer. 
the  movement
i most  enthusiastic 
It  goes  without  saying  that,  in  lan-  favor  it  as  a money-making  scheme,  as 
guage  and  manners,  there  is no danger  j well as one of protection against all sorts 
of the  store  parasite  ever  being  canon-  of pools and combinations, 
ized as  a saint or  an educator,  his  local  i  Property  has  been  procured  at  the
atmosphere  being  generally  redolent 
southwest  corner  of  Third  and  Main 
with  obscene  jokes  and  fragrant socks.
streets for the erection of a large jobbing 
is  certainly  one  of  the  missing 
house for the  reception  and distribution 
planks in modean reform  that store loaf­
of  goods.  The  reporter  was  informed 
ing  should  escape  criticism  and  slow 
that the organization  would  be complete 
in  a  few  days,  and  that  the  company 
death  and be  allowed to  associate itself 
with  dry  goods  and  groceries,  to 
the 
would be in  full  operation shortly there­
hindrance  of  business  and  inquiry,  to 
after,  with 
temporary  quarters  some­
say  nothing  of  the  scandal  and gossip 
where  until  they  could erect their  own 
building.
that has an artesian  well in the wrinkled 
vest of the lounger.
There  are  but  few  evils  in a country 
town,  excepting a want of sidewalks and 
sewerage,  that,  by  weight  or  measure, 
can  discount  the nuisance of  store  loaf­
ing.
Retail  Grocers  Taking  a  Hand  In  the 

The best dressed man  is  the mau  who 
wears clothes that are paid  for by  honest 
labor.

It is 
generally the Bank of Fidelity that  fails 
to return money to depositors.

There  is  not  much  in  a  name. 

Combine Business.

Sundry Sarcasms.

F rom  th e  Columbus. O hio,  Jo u rn a l.
It  is  impossible  for  a  millionaire  to 
There has for some time been  a breach 
make a will to suit the thousand and one 
between the wholesale and  retail grocers 
people who have plans of  their own con-
in this city,  which  has,  by  what the  re­
tailers  call  arbitrary  action  upon  the | cerning  the  disposition of  his property.

the 

in 

It 

Spring lines  nnw  read 

for Inspection

W ould  he  pleased  to 

show  them .

A gents  for  the  Boston 

Rubber Shoe Co.

T H E  

PAE

KALCON  No.  1—Gentlem en’s Road W heel,
FALCON ESS—Ladles’ Road W heel,
FALCON  JR .—Boys’ and Girls’ Road W heel,

$115 00 
100.00 
50.00

WRITE  FOR CATALOGUE.

A ll fitted w ith Pneum atic Tires.  Finest Hte- l  inater<al.  Best w orkm anship.
T H E   Y O S T   M A N U F A C T U R IN G   CO.,

YOST’S  STATION,  TOLEDO,  OHIO.

FLORIDA  ORANGES.

We have  made  arrangements  to  receive  regular 
shipments direct from  the groves  and shall  be in 
a  position  to  make close prices.  We  have  the 
exclusive agency of the favorite “Sampson”  brand 
and  will  handle  the  “Bell”  brand  largely,  which 
will  be  packed  in  extra  large  boxes  and  every 
orange will  be wrapped in printed tissue.

P U T N A M

Goifpon  Booh Buy  of  the  Largest  Manufacturers  in  the 

The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids

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W  E  CARRY  a  full  liue  of  all  patterns  of 
Ladies’  and  Gents’  Bicycles,  and  can 
supply at once upon receipt of  order.

We are  agents  for  the Victor, Columbia. Clip 
per, Western Wheel Works, and other lines, and 
live agents are wanted In every town.

A full line of  sundries.  Our price  list will  be 
out  early  In  January,  1893.  Wait  for  us;  or, if 
you cannot, then write and get our prices before 
you  order.  Our  prices  will  be  as  low  as  the 
lowest.

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•  •  •  Yoilr  Store Building 7

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .
The eighteenth  annual meeting of  the 
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Asso­
ciation  was held  at  Detroit  last Friday. 
D.  Morris,  Secretary-Treasurer, reported 
a membership  of  562  and  a  balance  of 
$13,751.71  in  the  treasury.  Election  of 
officers  resulted  as follows:  President, 
John  McLean,  Detroit;  Vice-Presidents, 
W.  H.  Baier,  Detroit;  Hubbard  Baker, 
Grand Rapids;  W.  F. Ninneman,  Muske­
gon;  F.  H. Bowen,  Jackson,  and George 
Crawford, Big Rapids; Board of Trustees, 
Samuel Rindskoff, J. L. McCauley and T. 
J.  Chamberlin,  all  of  Detroit;  Trustees 
of the  Reserve  Fund,  Eugene  Baffey,  J. 
W. Ailes and John A. Murray,  all  of  De­
troit.  An  amendment  to  the  constitu­
tion was  submitted  by  Mr.  McLean and 
unanimously adopted,  which  adds to  the 
eligible  membership  proprietors,  book­
keepers,  managers  and  superintendents 
of legitimate  manufacturing  and  whole­
sale  concerns,  in addition  to  the  travel­
ing men and buyers, who were heretofore 
the  only  men  eligible  to  membership. 
Under  this  arrangement, President  Mc­
Lean confidently predicts  an increase  of 
the  membership  to  1,000 by  the date  of 
the next annual meeting.

F o r   u se   on   y o u r   L etter  H ea d s,  B ill  H ead s, 

C ards,  Etc.?

Gripsack Brigade.

Geo. Amiotte,  traveling  representative 
for  Snyder  &  Straube,  the  Mnskegon 
confectionery  house,  was  recently  mar­
ried to Miss Hattie Flaggert.

G.  R.  Paris,  who  has  acted  as  office 
assistant for  the  Owosso  Casket  Works 
for five gears past,  has  engaged to travel 
for the Kalamazoo Casket Co.

R. B. Orr,  who  was  the  first  man  to 
carry  a  carpet  sweeper  out  of  Grand 
Rapids  as  a  regular  salesman,  having 
gone on the road in 1878 for  the  late  M. 
R. Bissell, is  now  on  the  road  for  the 
Goshen Sweeper Co.

Kendall  W.  Hess, who  has  traveled 
through  the  South  the  past  eighteen 
months for the Filer  &  Stowell  Co.,  of 
Milwaukee, has resigned his  position  to 
embark in  the machinery  supply  busi­
ness at New  Orleans.

T h e T r a d e sm a n has  now  in  prepar­
ation its tenth annual list  of  the  travel­
ing men  of  Grand  Rapids,  divided,  as 
usual into two classes—those who  repre­
sent Grand Rapids houses and  those who 
represent outside houses.  Any informa­
tion tending to render the list  more com­
plete will  be thankfully received.
During the seventeen  years of 

its ex­
istence,  only  one  death  claim  has 
not 
the  Michi­
gan  Commercial  Travelers’  Associ­
ation—and  that  because  no  beneficiary 
of the deceased  has  ever  been  found. 
The $2,500 is  not  included 
the  re­
ported assets of the  organization,  as  it 
has been placed in a special deposit,  pay­
able to the heirs of the lateC. D. Herrick, 
in case they ever turn up.

been 

paid 

by 

in 

The annual convention  of  the  Michi­
gan Knights of  the Grip,  which was held 
at Detroit last  Tuesday and  Wednesday, 
was largely attended.  The report of the 
Secretary  showed  an  increase  in  the 
membership during the year from  336 to 
1,463 and  a balance  of  $110.23  in 
the 
treasury.  The reports of the committees 
and  vice-presidents  were  excellent  in 
character  aud  were well received.  Elec­
tion  of  officers  resulted  as 
follows: 
President,  N.  B. Jones,  Lansing;  Secre­
tary, J.  L.  McCauley, Detroit; Treasurer, 
Geo. A.  Reynolds,  Saginaw;  Board  of 
Directors,  A. C.  Northrop,  Jackson;  J. 
A.  Gonzales,  Grand  Rapids,  for  three 
years; C.  E. Cook, Bay  City;  George  E. 
Bardeen, Kalamazoo,  for two  years,  and 
E.  P.  Waldron,  St.  Johns,  and  George 
DeForest, of Detroit,  for one  year.

Robert  E.  Frazier  to  the  Michigan 
Knights  of the Grip:  “You,  gentlemen, 
are  a  very  strong  and  active  factor  in 
civilization.  You  are  the lifeblood that 
flows  through  the  arteries  of  business. 
In business you  are  the active  and chief 
exponents.  Traveling  men  are  every­
where  at  all  times,  like  the  Great Cre­
ator, sumper ubitque.  1 give it to you in 
Latin because you will all understand it. 
(Loud  laughter). 
In  the  vernacular,  1 
am told, it  means,  ‘always  everywhere.’ 
I never met a traveler  in my life whom I 
would  call a modest man.  He is  an ani­
mal of various acquirements;  he will tell 
you  the best  hotel  to  stay at;  he is a di­
gest of  time  tables;  he  will  tell  you  of 
the  latest  prima  donna and of  the  best 
preacher in every town he visits.  While 
on the road he will play with you a game 
of pedro;  and I am informed that a num­
ber  of  them here  would  not  turn their 
backs on a game of draw.  To the tender­
foot I would say “follow the traveler and 
you  will  land in  Heaven,  if  there  is  a 
Heaven  anywhere.’ ” 
(Loud  laughter)

Chas.  G.  McIntyre,  son  of  the  late 
John H.  McIntyre,  was born  in this  city 
Aug. 28,  1866,  and  attended  the  ward 
and grammar schools on  the  West  Side. 
In 1882 he entered the  employ  of  E.  S. 
Pierce  as clothing  salesman,  remaining 
there a year,  when  he  transferred  his 
allegiance to Scott &  Williams.  On  the 
failure of that firm,  three  years later,  he 
went behind the counter  for  Houseman, 
Donnally & Jones,  with  whom  he  re­
mained three  years.  He  then  affiliated 
with the  new wholesale  dry  goods  and 
notion house of  F.  W.  Wurzburg’s  Sons 
& Co.,  which  was subsequently  changed 
to F.  A. Wurzburg & Co.  During  a  two 
years’ service with this house,  he  put  in 
six months for Wm. Taylor,  Son  &  Co., 
Cleveland.  He  then 
few 
months for J.  Steinfeld, jobber  of  cloth­
ing and men’s furnishing goods at Cleve­
land,  when he engaged to  go on the road 
for Swartout  &  Downs,  with  whom  he 
has just engaged to  travel  during  1893. 
His territory includes all the  good towns 
in the  northern  portion  of  the  Lower 
Peninsula north of  the  F.  & P.  M.  Rail­
way, and he manages to call on his  trade 
every  five  weeks.  Mr.  McIntyre  was 
married Aug. 29,  1887, to Miss  Carrie  E. 
Tracy and two little daughters  complete 
the family  circle  at  79  Clancy  street. 
Mr.  McIntyre is young and energetic and 
has many years of  usefulness  ahead  of 
him.

traveled  a 

The  Drug Market.

Quinine is steady and unchanged.
Opium  remains  easy  but  is  a  little 

firmer abroad.

American saffron  is  very  scarce  and 

has doubled in value.

Gum tragacanth continues  to  advance 

and higher prices will rule.

The National  Lead  Co.  has  reduced 

its price % cent.

Chlorate of potash has advanced.
Caster oil is  higher.

Purely  Personal.

Frank  A.  Stone  has  returned  from 
England  and  resumes  his  former  posi­
tion  with  H.  Leonard  &  Sons  in  the 
course of a day or  two.

N. B.  Blain, 

the  Lowell  dry  goods 
dealer, was in town one  day  last  week, 
brightening  the  offices  of  his  friends 
with his sunny  presence.

18

We  can  fnrnish  you  with  a double  column  cut  similar to above

For  $10.

Or a single column cut, like the above for $6.

In either case w e should have clear photograph to w ork from.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

ENGRAVERS  AND  PRINTERS.

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D i r i f f s  ^

 M e d i o i n e s .

State  Board  o f Pharm acy.
One  Year—Jamep Vernor, Detroit.
Two  Tears—O ttm ar Eberbaeh, Ann  Arbor 
Three  Years—George Gundrum, Ionia.
Four Y ears—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Expiring Jan   1—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
President—O ttm ar Eberbaeh, Ann Arbor.
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Next m eeting—Saginaw. Jan . 11.__________________
M ichigan  State  Pharm aceutical  A ss’n. 
President—Stanley E. P ar kill, Owoeso. 
Vice-Presidents—I.  H.  L.  Dodd.  Buchanan;  F.  W.  R.
P erry, D etroit;  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.  W urzburg and  John 
E. Peck, Grand Rapids;  A rthur Bassett,  Detroit. 
Local Secretary—Jam es Vernor.
Next  place  of  meeting—Some  resort  on  St.  Clair 
River;  tim e to be designated by Executive Committee.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 
President. W. R. Jew ett,  Secretary,  F rank H. Escott, 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March 

June, September and December,

A New Scheme to Draw Trade.

W ritten fo r Thk Tradesman.

History repeats itself.  Ail movements 
are  cyclical.  Business  tactics,  every­
where,  and  at  all 
times,  are  nothing 
more  nor less than a  perpetually  recur­
ring series  of  these cyclical movements. 
This is an advertising age.  To catch the 
eye and ear of the  fickle, gullible public 
is  the  great desideratum.  Novelty  fol­
lows novelty,  and  each  completes  a cir­
cuit on an orbit of its own.  The ingenu­
ity of man is so nearly exhausted in  sup­
plying  this  ever-increasing  demand  for 
novelty that it has come  to pass that  the 
man who can  invent  the  biggest  adver­
tising lie is supposed to make the biggest 
haul of “ suckers.”  Men  pay  big money 
for trade-drawing  novelties,  and  the de­
mand was never greater than at the pres­
ent  moment.

A long time  ago there lived a man who 
said,  “ ‘Honesty  is  the  best  policy’  on 
which to  run  a  business;”  but, after  a 
while, the people got  tired  of  it and  de­
manded  a change.  This  so grieved  the 
old man that  he took  passage on Biela’s 
comet and  went off  on an  extended trip 
through the universe.  Generations have 
died off  since  the  old  man took his  de­
parture  from  earth, and,  of  course, no 
one now  living ever saw him.  No  won­
der that, when our wise men  announced, 
a short  time  ago,  that  this  old  comet, 
with  her  solitary  passenger,  was  ap­
proaching  the earth, the  people  became 
excited.  No  wonder that every old tele­
scope was brought  down from the garret 
and  denuded  of  its  cobwebs  and  dust 
and that  the  people  gathered in  groups 
and stood out in  the frosty night air and 
breathlessly  watched  for just  one  poor 
dim  glimpse  of  an  honest  man.  But 
they were  doomed  to  bitter  disappoint 
ment.  When  the  old man  saw the true 
condition  of  things on  earth, he said  it 
was no  use  and  told  Biela  to  turn  the 
comet around before the people on  earth 
should  have a chance to catch a glimpse 
then  make  for  some  more 
of  it, and 
friendly  port. 
It  is  very  doubtful  if 
this  generation  will  ever  come so  near 
seeing a real, genuine honest  man.

But, seriously,  I believe that  the times 
are ripe for a  few retailers to make a big 
scoop by  adopting this  homely old-fash­
ioned  policy.  Don’t  laugh, gentle read 
er—I  actually  mean  it.  You  say that 
there is no such  thing as an  honest man 
any  more,  and  that  I’m  only  talking 
through my  h at  Wait,  please, and give 
me  a chance  io  explain  my  scheme, 
know,  just 'as  well as  you  do, that our 
brilliant  age  has  outgrown  such  old 
fogy notions as “Honesty is the best pol 
icy,” and I know,  too, just as well as you 
do, that the  last honest man was starved 
to death ever so long ago;  and that is the

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

very reason  I present  my  scheme.  The 
man  who can  hit  upon  a  novelty  that 
was  never  heard  of  by  his  customers, 
and one  which he can  monopolize in  his 
own  town  without  fear  of  competition 
from any of  his rivals in  trade, is  “cock 
of the  walk”  to-day.  This  is  just  the 
very thing  for which  every  wide-awake 
retailer is striving.

To no  longer  keep  you in the dark, I 
will explain:  As a novelty, there is noth­
ing on earth to-day that will heat honesty. 
Any man who  will  adopt  it as  a  policy 
can  build  up a sure  and  lucrative busi­
ness. 
It  used  to  be  said  that  honest 
men could  not  make  a  success  as mer­
chants.  That  was  true  at  that  time. 
There were too  many  honest men in  the 
business,  and, consequently, competition 
was too  brisk to  make  success  possible. 
Times  have changed,  however,  and  now 
it can be as  truthfully said that the  oth­
er fellows  cannot make  a success  of  it, 
and for the same reason.

lose  any 

The retailer who will adopt honesty as 
a  business  policy  and  a  trade-drawing 
novelty  need  never 
sleep 
through fear of competition. There would 
not be an  iota  of  danger of his competi­
tors  breaking 
their  necks  in  a  wild 
scramble  to  steal  away  his  increased 
trade by  adopting  his  policy;  he would 
have it all his own way—there  is not the 
least  doubt  about  it.  His  competitors | 
for ten miles  around  him  would  keep 
right on trying to fool the people as they 
now do, by false  advertising  and  decep­
tive representations.  They  would  keep 
right on  batching  out  little  lottery  and 
prize  gift  schemes,  and  devising  tricks 
and inventing novelties,  all  for  the pur­
pose of humbugging the  dear people and 
making them believe  that  they  are  get­
ting something for nothing.

No, the  honesty policy  retailer  would 
have nothing  to  fear  from  his  competi­
tors.  He would  have “a soft  snap” and 
his  success  would  be  assured  from  the 
start.  Why,  if  it  should  get  out  once 
that there was a real flesh and blood hon­
est retailer of merchandise in actual busi­
ness  somewhere,  the  people  would  find 
him  if  they  had 
to  search  for  him 
through the  attics, basements  and  back 
alleys  of  the  entire city.  Of course,  it 
is generally  understood  that  the people 
are fools;  yet  they  have  sense  enough 
left to  recognize a falsehood,  whether  it 
be  presented  in  the  form of  an adver­
tisement,  a misleading  statement,  a  de­
ceptive  representation  or a square-toed, 
flat-footed  lie.  They  still  have  enough 
sense  to  distinguish  between  right  and 
wrong,  and  they  have  good  dollars  for 
the retailer who will  treat  them right

This novelty of  which  I speak  differs 
from the popular ones  in common use in 
that  it  takes  months — aye  years—to 
realize its advantages as a drawing card; 
but  when 
they  are  once  practically 
gained,  all  the  commercial  convulsions 
in  Christendom  cannot  destroy  them. 
They  are constant and  permanent,  and, 
so  long  as  the  policy  is  strictly  ad­
hered to,  there  will  be  no  lack  of  cus­
tomers.

Dear  reader, if  you  are  about to  be­
come a retail  merchant,  with  the  inten­
tion  of  remaining  one  the  balance  of 
your life,  or until  you are  able to  retire 
successfully,  and  especially  if  you  de­
sire to accomplish  your work in one cer­
tain place,  then adopt  this now  new pol­
icy of  honesty  if you  can. 
I say if you 
can, for,  if  you  lack  the  long-suffering 
required in  laying your foundation,  and

the  sterling,  uncompromising  traits  of 
character  which  are  absolutely  neces­
sary,  you  had  better  not  undertake it, 
you would  surely  fail.  You  see,  I  ad­
dress you as one  about to enter the  mer­
cantile  business. 
I  do this  because the 
chances  are  that, if  you  are  already  in 
business,  you have already  established a 
record that would forever disqualify you 
from  making  a  success  of  the  policy  I 
advocate.

is 

spot-cash  basis 

Now,  as to a  few  simple  instructions, 
and  then I  will  leave  the  matter  with 
you  for  careful  consideration. 
In  the 
first  place,  decide  upon  a  strictly  one- 
price,  spot-cash  basis.  Don’t  say  that 
a 
impossible  I 
know  better—it 
is  possible.  Adopt
your rules  and  regulations  in the start, 
from   them for 
and  then  never  deviate 
friend  or  foe.  Show  no  partiality  in 
your  place  of  business, but  treat  with 
the same attention and  courtesy all  who 
enter.  Answer  every question asked by 
a  customer, and  in which  the  customer 
is concerned,  promptly  and  truthfully, 
and  never,  under  any  circumstances, 
whatever,  defraud, deceive,  mislead,  ca­
jole,  banter or  humbug him in any busi­
ness  transaction.  Never  tell  a  lie. 
(If 
your constitution  can’t  stand the strain, 
steal 
away  quietly  and  lie  to  your 
mother-in-law  till  you  are  black in  the 
face,  but  never  lie  to  a  customer.) 
If 
you can’t sell your  shoddy  without  call­
ing  it something else,  then  don’t sell  it 
Burn  it  up,  if need  be, but  never  tell  a 
lie about it. 
If  your  customer asks you 
for a genuine calfskin  shoe  worth about 
$2,  tell  him  you  haven’t  such  a  thing. 
Show  him  your  veals  and  buffs and ex­
plain the  difference to him.  Of  course, 
he will not believe you and will go some 
where  else  and  pay  $2.50  for  the  same 
thing.  You see  he  is so  used to  paying 
merchants for  lying  to  him  that  it  will 
take him some time to get over it.  Don’t 
get  discouraged.  The  poor  fellow will 
learn, after a while,  that  he  can  buy his 
shoes of you without being  compelled  to 
pay  a  little  extra  for  a  lie  thrown  in. 
He will  learn,  first, that his money  will 
not tempt you to lie;  second,  that he  can 
get along just as well without being  lied 
to. 
If your customer asks for pure cider 
vinegar,  tell  him  you  haven’t  it.  Of 
course,  he  will  go  somewhere  else  and 
buy,  but  sometime  he  will  learn that  it 
came  out  of  a  barrel  just  like  yours. 
Never  abuse  a  customer  for  doubting 
your word  and going to another store  to 
make  his purchase.  Remember  how  he 
has  been  educated  and,  when  he  goes 
away,  pity him;  if you  are of a religious 
turn of mind,  pray that  he may be speed­
ily delivered from  his  enemies.  Follow 
these  instructions  and “keep a stiff  up­
per lip,” and,  sooner  or  later,  you will 
come out on top as sure as fate.

E.  A. Ow en.

A Paper  Match.

A Swedish  engineer  named Frederick- 
son,  after several years of  study and  ex­
periment,  has  produced  an  ingenious 
substitute for the  ordinary  match.  His 
invention is a paper  match, described as 
resembling  in  its  general  construction 
the coiled tape  measure  used  by tailors. 
The coil in  this instance is a roil of par­
affined paper  inclosed  in a  metalic case, 
one end of the paper projecting after the 
fashion  of  the tape measure, and at reg­
ular  intervals  on  the  paper  are  small 
points  covered  with  an  igniting  sub­
stance.  One has only to  give the end  of 
the  paper  a  smart  pull,  bringing  the 
igniting  point  in  contact  with  a  small 
steel  plate,  and  it light  is  struck which

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burns  slowly  and  evenly. 
¡When  the 
roll is  exhausted  a fresh  one can be  in­
serted  in  its  place.  Twenty  men  and 
eighty boys  can  make,  it  is  said,  a mil­
lion of these  matches  in an hour, and  it 
is  confidently  claimed  that  this  useful 
and not very costly appliance of civiliza­
tion will be  both  cheapened and simpli­
fied by the new  invention.

The Dog Ate the Money.

An Italian laborer of Detroit  was paid 
some money the other day, $23 in all, and 
took it  home  to  his  wife.  After count­
ing the  money over together they laid  it 
on the table for a moment  while they ad­
journed to the corner grocery to celebrate 
their  wealth.  Returning  in  a few min­
utes, they found the money gone.  There 
was  nobody  in  the  house  but  a  mangy 
yellow  cur,  and  after  looking  high  and 
low for the funds they  concluded that he 
must have stolen  them,  especially as  on 
examination  they  found  a  bit  of  green 
paper adhering to his teeth.  According­
ly  the  dog  was  sacrificed  and  a  post 
mortem held on  his remains,  with the re­
sult that all the money was  found in his 
stomach. 
It  was  torn  into  pieces,  but 
these were  carefully fitted  together and 
forwarded through a bank  to  the  treas­
ury for  redemption.

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Have in all cases given satisfaction.
Are unequalled  for  durability, elasticity 

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We carry a full stock of  this well known 

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STATE  AGENTS 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

La Grippe may catch but cannot overcome 

those protected by frequent use of

CUSHMAN’S

Menthol  Inhaler.

It destroys the microbes lodged on the mucous 
membranes and  arrests progress of  the disease. 
Recommend  It  to your customers for colds, sore 
throat, catarrh, headache and  neuralgia.
Show them the inhaler, they will  appreciate it 
by buying one at 50 cents.
A ttractive  A dvertising.  Druggists sending 
me  order for  one dozen  Inhalers at  $3.75 to  be 
shipped  by  their  jobber  will  receive,  by  mail 
prepaid, 250 Japanese  napkins  with  their  name 
inserted in the advertisement therein, also cards 
and circulars if desired.
Order  early  so  as to receive  the  Inhalers  In 
time for the demand.

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

Wholesale P rice  Current.

Advanced—Saffron, gum tragacanth, chlorate potash, castor oil. 
Declined—White Lead.

ACIDUM.

Acetlcum....................  
8®  10
Benzoicnm  German..  65©  75
Boradc 
...................... 
30
Carbollcum...............  
25©  35
Cltrlcum....................  
50©  53
Hvdrochlor................. 
3©  5
...................  10©  12
Nitroeum 
Oxalicnm.....................  10®  12
Phosphorlum dll........  
20
Sallcylicnm................1  30@1  70
Sulpnurlcum.......... ....  IK©  5
Tanulcum...................1  40@1  60
Tartaricum.................   30©  33

AMMONIA.

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Aqua, 16  deg................. 31a®  5
20  deg................. 5H®  7
Carbonaa  .....................  12©  14
Chlorldum...................  12©  14

ANILINE.

Black............................2 00®2 25
Brown...........................  80®1  00
Red................................   45©  50
Y ellow .........................2 50@3 00

BACCAS.

Cnbeae (po  60)......... 
50©  60
Junlperua....................  
8©  10
Xanthoxylum..............  25©  30

b alsam um.

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

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian....  ............   IS
Casslae  ..................................  11
Cinchona P la v a ...................  18
Euonymus  atropurp............  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po................  20
Prnnua Vlrglnl......................  12
Quillala,  grd.........................   10
Sassafras  ..............................   12
Ulmua Po (Ground  15).........  15

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11 
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BXTBACTUM.
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24©  25
po..  33© 
35
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11©  12
is ....  13© 
14
15
£ b...  14© 
W
K8..  ’6® 
FEERUM.
Carbonate Preclp........  
©  15
Citrate and Qulnla....  ©3  50
Citrate  Soluble........... 
©  80
Ferrocyanidum Sol—   ©  50
©   15
Solut  Chloride............ 
Sulphate,  com’l ................9©  2
pure.............. 
©  7

" 

Arnica.........................   18©  20
Anthem ls....................   *@   35
40©  50
Matricaria 

 

FLORA.

 
FOLIA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tln-

....................  40© 1 00
nlvelly......................  25©  28
Alx.  35©  50
and  Ks......................  15©  25
8©  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Ks
UraUrsl........................ 

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SUMMI.

16) 

“ 
“ 
“ 
*' 

Acacia,  1st  picked—   ©  75
2d 
....  ©   50
“ 
“ 
3d 
©  40
.... 
sifted sorts...  ©  25
po 
...............   60©  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50©  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ©  12
Socotrl, (po.  60).  ©  50
Catechu, 1b, (Kb, 14 Kb,
©   1
.......................... 
Ammonlae...................  55©  60
Assafoatlda,  (po. 35).. 
30©  35
Benxoinum...................  50©  55
Camphor»....................  55©  58
Euphorblum  po  ........   35© 
lo
Gafbanum....................   @2  50
Gamboge,  po...............   70©  7b
©  25
Gualacum,  (po  30)  ... 
Kino,  (po  50)..............  @  45
M astic.........................  
©   80
Myrrh, (po  45)............  @  40
Opll.  (po  2 8*0............2 00@2  10
Shellac  ........................  25©  35
30©  35
Tragacanth.................  40© 1 00

“ 
h r r b a —In ounce packages.

bleached....... 

Absinthium...........................   25
Eupatorlum.............................  20
Lobelia...................................   25
Majorum................................  281
Mentha  Piperita.....................  23
“  V lr...........................  25
Rne............................................   30
Tanacetum, V ..........................  22
Thymus,  V .............................  25

MAGNESIA.

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

OLEUM.

Absinthium.................3 50®4  00
Amygdalae, Dulc____  45©  75
Amyaalae, Amarae__ 8 00@8  25
Anlsl  ...........................1 80@1  o5
Auranti  Cortex.......... 2 75@3  00
Bergamli  .................... 3 25©3  50
Cajlputl  ....................... 
60© 65
Caryophylll...................  70© 75
Cedar 
...........................   35© 65
Chenopodli.................  ®1  60
Clnnamonll.................1  00©1  10
Cltronella........................  © 45
Coni urn  Mac.................  35© 66
Copaiba  ........................  90©1 00

Cubebae...........................  ® 
Exechthltos...............   2 
50©2 75
Erlgeron....................... 2 
25@2 50
00@2 10
Gaultherla....................2 
Geranium,  ounce....... 
©   75
Gossipi!,  Sem. gal.......  60©  75
Hedeoma  .....................2 
25®2 50
Juniperl..........................  50@2 00
Lavendula....................   90®2 00
Llmonis............................. 2 50©3 00
Mentha Piper.....................2 75@3 50
Mentha Yerid...................2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal....................1  00@1 10
Myrcla, ounce..............  ®   50
Olive...............................  75©? 75
Picis Liquida, (gal..35)  10©  12
R icini...............................  1  18@1 24
Rosmarini................... 
75©i 00
Rosae,  ounce.....................6 50®8 50
Succinl..........................  40©  45
Sabina...........................   90@1 00
Santal  ..........................3 50@7 00
Sassafras......................   50©  55
Slnapis, ess, ounce__  
©  65
Tiglil.............................  ©   90
Thyme..........................  40©  50
opt  .................  ©   60
Theobromas.................  15©  20

u 

POTASSIUM.

BICarb.........................   15©  18
Bichromate.................  13©  14
Bromide...................... 
33©  35
Carb...............................  12©  15
Chlorate  (po  22©24)..  22®  24
Cyanide........................  50©  55
Iodide.................................2 90@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com ...  ®   15
Potass Nitras, opt....... 
8©  10
Potass Nitras...............  
9
7® 
Prusslate......................  28®  30
Sulphate  po.................  15©  18

Aconitum....................   20©  25
Althae...........................  22©  25
Anchusa......................   12©  15
Arum,  po......................  ©  25
Calamus........................  20©  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)....... 
8©  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16©  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35).....................  @  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po....  15©  20
Inula,  po......................  15©  20
Ipecac,  po.................... 2 30@2 40
Iris plox (po. 35©38)..  35©  40
Jalapa,  pr....................   50©  55
Maranta,  Kb.......... . 
©  35
Podophyllum, po........   15©  18
Rhel................................   75@1 00
“  cut........................  ©1  75
“  pv..........................  75©1  35
Splgella........................  35©  38
Sangulnarla,  (po  25).. 
©  20
Serpentaria...................  30©  32
Senega.........................   65©  70
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  ©  40 
©   25
M 
Scillae, (po. 85)............  10©  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
dus,  po...................... 
®  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ©  25
German...  15©  20
ingiber a ......................   13© 15
18© 22
Zingiber  j ..................... 

“ 

SBMEN.
©  15
Anisum,  (po.  20).. 
.. 
Apinm  (graveleons)..  12©  15
Bird, Is...........................  
4© 6
Carul, (po. 18)................  
8© 12
Cardamon......................1 
00©1 %
Corlandrum...................  10© 12
Cannabis Sativa..........   3K©4
Cy-ionium......................   75©1 00
Cncnopodlum  ..............  10® 12
Dlpterlx Odorate..........3 0O@3 25
Foenlculum.................  ©  15
Foenugreek,  po..........  
8
U n i...............................   4 ©  4K
Uni, grd,  (bbl. SK)  -  4  ©  4K
Lobelia...........................   35© 40
Pharlarls Canarian___  6 ®  6K
Rapa...............................  
6©  7
Slnapis  Albu............  11  ©13
Nigra............  11©  12

6© 

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SPIRITUS.
Frumentl, W., D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R ....... 1  75@2 00
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T ... .1  65@2 00
“ 
..............1  75®3 50
Saacharum  N.  B ..........1 75©2 00
Spt.  Vlnl  Galli............. 1 75©6 50
Vlnl Oporto...................1 
Vlnl  Alba......................1 

1 

25®2 00
25®2 00

25@1 50

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

SYRUPS.

A ccacla..................................  50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................   60
Ferrl  Iod................................  50
Auranti  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom.............................  50
Slmllax  Officinalis...............   60
Co.........  50
Senega....................................  50
Scillae.....................................   50
“  Co................................  50
Tolutan..................................  50
Prunna  vlrg  .........................   60

“ 

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TINCTURES.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

™ 

Aconitum Napellis R..........  60
F .........   50
Aloes.......................................  60
and  myrrh..................   60
Arnica....................................  50
Asafoetlda.................................   o
Atrope Belladonna...............  60
Benzoin..................................  60
“  Co.............................  50
Sangulnarla...........................  so
Barosma................................  50
Cantharlde8...........................  75
Capsicum...............................  50
Ca damon...............................  75
Co.........................  75
Castor.....................................1 00
Catechu..................................  50
Cinchona..............................   50
Co.........................  60
Columba................................  50
Conium..................................  so
Cubeba....................................  50
D igitalis................................   50
Ergot.......................................  50
Gentian..................................  50
“  Co..............................   60
Gualca....................................  so
“ 
ammon....................  60
Zingiber................................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................   50
Iodine.....................................   75
Colorless..................   to
Ferrl  Chlorldum................   35
K ino.......................................  50
Lobelia...................................   so
Myrrh.....................................   50
Nux  Vomica.........................   50
O pll........................................   85
‘  Camphorated.................  50
“  Deodor...........................2 00
Auranti Cortex............... ......  50
Quassia..................................  50
MBstany................................  50
Rhel........................................   50
Cassia  Acutlfol....................   50
Co...............   50
Serpentaria...........................  50
Stromonlum...........................  60
Tolutan..................................  60
Valerian................................  50
VeratrumVerlde...................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

* 
“ 

*  
ground, 

Äther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  28©  30 
“  4 F ..  32©  34
Alomen..........................2K® 3

“ et Potass T.  55©  60

sq n lb b s  . 
1 Crst.....
Chloral Hyd
Chondrus....................
Clnchonldlne, F.  A W 
German 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  ........................
Creasotnm.................
Creta, (bbl. TO)............

(po.
7)................................ 
3©  4
Annatto........................  55©  60
Antlmonl, po............... 
4©  5
Antipyrin....................   @1  40
Antlfebrln....................  ©  25
Argentl  Nitras, ounce  ©  60
Arsenicum..................  
5©  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  
38©  40
Bismuth  S.  N ..............2 2002 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Kb
12;  Kb,  14)...............
© 11
Cantharldes  Russian, 
po  .............................
©1 00
© 26
© 28
J 20
10® 12
©3 TO
50© 55
38© 40
© 40
© 22a 10
© 40
60© 63
©1  25
1  3531  60
20© 25
15© 20
3  © 12
60
© 35
© 2
5© 5
9© 11
© 8
60© 65
© 24
5 © 6
10© 12
70© 75
•
© 6
70© 75
Flake
12© 15
Galla 
_
© 23
Gambler........................7  © 8
7  © 8
Gelatin,  Cooper..........   ©   70
French............  40©  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 A 10. 
Less than box 66%
Glue,  Brown...............  
9©  15
“  White.................   18©  25
Glycerlna.....................15K©  20
Grana Paradlsl............  ©   22
HnmuluB......................  25©  56
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ©   85 
“  Cor....  ©   80
Ox Rubrum  ®   90
©1 00
Ammnnlati 
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum..............  ©   64
Ichthyobolla, Am..  ..1 2S©1  50
Indigo...........................  750100
Iodine, Resubl...........3 80@3 90
Iodoform......................  ©4 70
Lupulln.......................1 20© 1  25
Lycopodium...............   60©  65
M acis...........................  75©  80
Uqnor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod..................   ©   27
Uqnor Potass Arslnltls  10©  IS 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
IK).............................   2©  5
Mannla,  S. F ...............  6O0J68

Emery,  all  numbers..  ©  

“ 
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po

“ 

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Morphia,  S. P. A W .. 1  7C®1  95 Seldlltz  Mixture__
Slnapis.....................

85
65© 70
V oes......................
20© 22 Soda Boras, (po. 11)

© 20
S. N.  Y.  Q. A
© 18
U. CO........................ 1 
30
Moschus  Canton.......
© 40 Snuff,  Maccaboy.  De
MyrlBtlca, No. 1........
© 35
Nux Vomica,  (po 20).
© 10 Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  ® 35
Os.  Sepia....................
.  10© 11
Pepsin S&ac, H. & P. D.
Soda  et Potass Tart ..  27® 30
C o.............................
©2 00 Soda Carb................. ■  IK© 2
Picis Uq, N.»C., K gal
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
© 5
doz  .........................
@2 00 Soda,  Ash................. ..  3K@ 4
Picis Llq., quarts__
©1  00 Soda, Sulphas..........
© 2
pints........
© 85 Spts. Ethèr C o......... ..  50© 55
PII Hydrarg,  (po. 80).
© 50
“  Myrcla  Dom...
@2 25
Piper Nigra,  (po. 22).
© 1
“  Myrcla Imp...
@3 00
Piper Alba,  (po g5)...
© 3
Plx  Burgun...............
....7 ....................... . .2 5502 65
© 7
Plumbi A cet..............
14© 15
Less 5c gal., cash ten davB.
Pulvis Ipecac et opll. 1  10©1  20 Strychnia  Crystal... ..1  40@1  45
Pyrethrum,  boxes  B
Sulphur, Subl..........
•  2K@  3K
A P. D.  Co., doz__
@1  25
Roll............ ..  2K®  3
30© 35 Tamarinds...............
8© 10
Pyrethrum,  pv..........
8© 10 Terebenth Venice... ..  28® 30
Quasslae....................
27© 32 Theobromae............ ..40  ® 45
Quinta, S. P. A W__
S.  German... 20  © 30 Vanilla...................... .9 00016 00
12© 14 Zlnci  Snlph............. .. 
7© 8
Rubia  Tinctorum__
Saccharum Lactls pv.
23® 25
Salacin........................ 1  76®1  80
Sanguis  Draconls__
40® 50
Sapo,  W......................
12© 14 Whale, winter.......... .  70
M.......................
10© 12 Lard,  extra............... .  76
“  G.........................
© 15 Lard, No.  1..........
.  42
Linseed, pure raw... .  49

Bbl.  Gal
70
80
48
52

Vini  Rect.  bbl.

OILS.

“ 

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52
50
36
b b l. 

Llndseed,  b oiled __
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.................
Spirits Turpentine__
f a in t s. 

15
55
60
40
lb .
Red  Venetian............... 1%  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ IK  2@4
“ 
Ber.........IK  2@3
Putty,  commercial....2K  2K®3
“  strictly  pure.......2K  2K@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13016
ican ................... 
 
Vermilion,  English__  
65®70
Green,  Peninsular....... 
70@75
Lead,  red......................6S£@7
“  w hite.................6K@7
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’......... 
®9G
White, Paris  American 
1  0 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
c liff............................. 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl 20@1J4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints........................1  00@1  20

 

VARNISHES.

No. lTurp  Coach.... 1  10©1  20
Extra Turp..................160@1  70
Coach Body................ 2 75®3 00
No. 1 Turp  Furn........1  00®1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55®1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp........................... 
70075

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Sole A gents  for th e Celebrated

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rl'H hi  M ICH IG AJSr  T R A D E S M A N .

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the  trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by  retail  dealers.  They are prepared just before 
going to press  and are an accurate  index of  the local  market. 
It is impossible to give  quotations  suitable for all conditions of  purchase, and t  ose 
below are given  as  representing  average  prices  for average  conditions of  purchase.  Cash  buyers or those of  strong credit  usually  buy closer than 
those who  have poor  credit.  Subscribers  are  earnestly requested to  point  out  any  errors or omissions, as it is our  aim to make  this feature of  the 
greatest possible  use to dealers.

“Superior.”

1, per hundred.................2 50

Prunes.
California,  100-120...............10 A
90x100 25 lb. bxs.llA  
..12 A
80x90 
“ 
13)4
70x80 
“ 
60x70 
.14
“ 
Turkey...........................  
7A
Silver.....................................
Sultana...................  ............ 9A

'‘Tradesman.

$ 1, per hundred............
$ 2,  “ 
............
$ 8,  “ 
............
$5,  “ 
............
$10,  “ 
............
$20,  “ 
............

“ 
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4 A
4 A
434

“ 
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Peel.

Patras,  In barrels.............  
In  A-bbls............... 
in  less quantity_ 
Citron, Leghorn, 25 lb. boxes
44
44

..  2 00 Lemon 
..  2 50 Orange 
..  8 00
..  8 00 Ondura, 29 lb. boxes.. @  6
“
. .  4 OO Sultana, 20 
@1C
..  5 00 Valencia, 30  “
@  7

“ 
25  “
25  “
“ 
Raisins.

Sardlnea.
American  A®..................4A@ 5
As..................6A© 7
Importe  hi s ..................... ll@12
A s..................... 15@16
Mns’ird  Us. 
7@8
Boneless
20
.2 50
Brook, 3 lb

Trout.
Fruits.
Apples.

lb. standard.............
York State  gallons  ... 
3 60 
2 75
Hamburgh.  "
Apricots.
Live oak...............
2 00 
Santa Cruz..................
2  00 
Lusk’s ...........................
2  00 
Overland....................
1  90
Blackberries.
L A  w .................
96
Cherries.
1 20 
d  ..............................
1  75 1 30 
Pitted Hamburgh  . . . .
White  .........................
Brie..............................
1  20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 

Gages.

1  25
1  70
1  20

1  30
2 00
1  85
2  10
185

Erie..............................  
California....................  
Gooseberries.
Common...................... 

Peaches.

P ie............................... 
M axwell...................... 
Shepard’s ....................  
California....................  
Monitor 
....................  
Oxford..........................

Pears.

Domestic...........................  
Riverside...........................  

Pineapples.
Common............................  
Johnson’s  sliced........  
grated........  
Quinces.

Common...........................  

Raspberries.
Red..................................... 
Black Hamburg.......... 
Erie,  b la ck ...................... 
Strawberries.
Lawrence.......................... 
Hamburgh........................ 
Erie....................................  
Terrapin.............................  

CHOCOLATE. 

Baker’s.

German Sweet..................
Premium__ ......................
Breakfast  Cocoa..............

CHEESE.
Amboy.........................
Acme.............................12A@12H
Riverside.....................12A@12A
Gold  Medal..........  @12
Skim.............................  9  @11
Brick................................ 
11
E dam ...................  
1 00
Leiden......................... 
23
Limburger  .................  @10
Pineapple.............  @25
Roquefort.............  @35
Sap Sago............... 
©22
Schweitzer, Imported.  @24
domestic 
....  @14

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles........... 2 75
Pint 
............4 60
Quart 1 doz bottles.............8 50

“ 

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross b oxes....................... 40

COCOA  SHELLS.

35 lb  bags........................  @3
Less quantity  ...............   @3)4
Pound packages............034 @7

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

1 20
2 10

1 30

2  50
2 75

Fair.........................................18
Good.......................................19
Prime.....................................20
Golden...................................22
Peaberry...............................24

Santos.

Fair........................................ 18
Good...................................... 19
Prime.................................... 20
Peaberry  ...............................21
Mexican and Guatamala.
Fair........................................20
Good...................................... 21
Fancy...................„................23
Prime.................................... 19
M illed.................................. 20
Interior..  ............................. 25
Private Growth................... 27
Mandehling........................ 28
Imitation............................. 23
Arabian.................................26

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

1 10

1 30
1 25
1 25
1 25
1 30
1 25

1 10
1 15
1 10

1  50

AXLE GREASE.
Aurora......................  55 
Castor Oil.................  75 
Diamond...................  50 
Frazer’s ....................   80 
M ica.........................   75 
Paragon 
.................  55 

doz  gross
6 00
9 CO
5 50
9 00
8 00
600

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Arctic.

Fosfon.

“  2  “ 

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Dr. Price’s.

BAKING  POW DER. 
Acme.
A lb. cans,  3 doz................ 
45
A lb.  “ 
2 “  .................. 
85
nb. 
“  1  “  ...............  1 80
Bilik....................................... 
10
v   ft cans............................... 
60
A lb 
1  20
f t 
2  00
ft 
9 60
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case...  80
...2  00
16“ 
per doz
90 
1  33 
oz 
1  90 
..2 4' 
..3 7!
..4 7! 
11  40 
18 25 
21 60 
41  80

0!PIHCrs
I CREAMI
Ba k in g
b o w d e n
■UiariaSM
Red Star, A B>  cans............ 
40
80
............ 
............  1  50
45 
Teller’s,  hi lb. cans, doz. 
“ 
85
“  ..  1 50
BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen in case.

Dime cans
4- 
6 oz
5- oz 
12 oz 
16-oz 
2H-lb
41b 
5-lb 
10-lb

hi ft  “ 
lib   “ 
hi lb.  “ 
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BLUING. 

E nglish..................................  90
Bristol.....................................  80
Domestic................................
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals...............4  00
8oz  “ 
7 00
pints, round............. 10 50
... 4 00
... 8 00
1 oz ball  ..................  4 50

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

“ 
“ 
BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl.............................  1
No. 1  “ 
............................ 2  00
No. 2 Carpet............:...........  2 25
2  50
No. 1 
“ 
 
Parlor Gem............................. 2 75
Common Whisk..................  
90
Fancy 
.................. 1  15
Warehouse...........................3  25
Stove, No.  1.................  125

“ 
BRUSHES.

“  10......................  1  50
“  15......................  1  75
Rice Root Scrub, 2 row—   %
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row —   1  25
Palmetto, goose....................  1 

“ 
“ 

BUCKW HEAT.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Ac. per lb. for roast 
lug and 16 per cent,  for shrink 
age.

Package.

M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
23.30
Bunola................................  22.80
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__ 23.30

Extract.

Valley City hi gross..................... 75
...........115
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross.........1 50
“ 
.........2 50

“ 

“ 

tin 
CHICORY.

Bulk.
Red..

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton,  40 ft..........perdos.  1  25
140
160
175
1  90
90
1  00

“ 
“ 
" 
“ 
Jute 
“ 
CONDENSED  MILK.

50ft........... 
60 ft........... 
70ft........... 
80ft........... 
60 ft..........  
72 ft-.........  

" 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

4 doz. In case.

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

Whortleberries.

Meats.

Common...........................  
F. A  W.............................. 
Blueberries...................... 
Corned  beef,  Lobby’s ...........1  90
Roast beef,  Armour’s ...........1  75
Potted  ham, hi lb................. 1  30
“  14 lb ...................  80
tongue, hi lb ..............1  85
“  MH>.......... 
85
chicken, 14 lb.......... 
95

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

50

Vegetables.

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless...........1  %
French style.......2 26
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  E den.......................1 20
Purity.....................................
Honey  Dew.................................1 50
Morning Glory....................
Soaked.......................................  1 15
Hamburgh  marrofat............ 1  35
e a rly ’J u n e ...........
Champion Eng.. 1  50
petit  pois........... 1  75
fancy  sifted___1  90
Soaked....................................  65
Harris standard....................   75
VanCamp’s  marrofat...........1  10
early June....... 1  30
Archer's  Early Blossom__ 1  35
French......................................... 1 80
French.................................15@20
Erie.........................................  90
Hubbard......................................1 20

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.

Peas.

“  
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

Succotash.

Hamburg......................................1 40
Soaked....................................  80
Honey  Dew.................................1 60
Erie.............................................. 1 35

Tomatoes.

Hancock......................................1 06
Excelsior ...............................1  10
Eclipse......................................... 1 10
Hamburg.................................... 1 80
Gallon.........................................2 00

100 lb. cases, 2 & 5 lb. pkgs $4  ! 
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes..............   10
Star,  40 
9
Paraffine  ..............................   11
Wicking  ...............................24

CANDLES.
 

“ 

 

 

CANNED  GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  l i b .................. 1  :
“  2  lb...................l (
dam  Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb....................... 2 1
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb......................   I
21b......................1  \
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb..............................2 ■
"  2  lb.............................. 8 1
Picnic, lib ............................ 21
21b.............................21
» 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb.......................II
2  lb..................... 1 I
Mustard,  21b.......................2 40
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb .............2 40
Soused, 2 lb.......................... 2 40
Columbia River, fiat...........1  86
tails...........1 75
Alaska, 1  lb.......................... 1  40
21b  ..  ......................1 90

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
« 

“ 

“Universal.”
“ 
» 
« 
“  
“ 

1, per hundred...............   $3 00
................. 3  50
2, 
................. 4  00
3, 
5, 
................. 5  00
$ 10, 
..........................6  00
$20, 
................. 7  00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over.................5 per cent.
500  “ 
1000 
“  
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 

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

“
“

(Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from $10  down.' 
20 books...  .................... $ 1 00
50
2  00 
3 00 
100
6 25 
250
500
10 00 
17 50
1000

 

CREDIT CHECKS.

BOO, any one denom’n .......$3 00
1000,  “ 
.......5 00
2000,  “ 
........8 00
Steel  punch.................... 
’
CRACKERS.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Butter.

Seymour XXX........................ 6
Seymour XXX, cartoon........6A
Family  XXX..........................  6
Family XXX,  cartoon.........  6 A
Salted XXX............................6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  .........6A
Kenosha 
...........................   7A
Boston.....................................   8
Butter  biscuit.....  ................6A

Soda.

Soda, XXX........................  .  6
Soda, City...............................  7A
Soda,  Duchess......................8A
Crystal Wafer............  .........10
Long  Island Wafers  ......... 11
S. Oyster  XX X .....................  6
City Oyster. XXX...................  6
Farina  Oyster...................... 6

Oyster.

CREAM  TARTAR.
Strictly  pure........................ 
30
35
Tellers Absolute................ 
Grocers’...............................20@25

D R IED   FRUITS. 

D om estic.

“ 

Apples.
quartered 
Apricots.

Blackberries.
Nectarines.

Sundried, sliced In bbls. 
6
534
“ 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes  @9 
California In  bags........  
16 A
17
Evaporated in boxes.  .. 
In  boxes.......................... 
4A
70 lb. bags.........................  
15
15A
251b. boxes....................... 
Peeled, In boxes............ 
13
Cal. evap.  “ 
............ 
12A
“ 
In bags......... 
12
California In bags.......
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels.............................
GO lb. boxes....................
.....................
26 “ 
Prunelles.

Peaches.

Pears.

“ 

“ 

301b.  boxes....................
Raspberries.
In barrels........................
50 lb. boxes......................
........................
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.
2 crown................................ 1
3 
“ 
................................  1
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
2 crown................................... 5A
“ 
3 
6A

 

Foreign.
Currants.

Jennings’ D  C.

Lemon. Vanilla
125
2 oz folding box...  75 
150
...100 
3 oz 
2 00
...1  50 
4 oz 
6 oz 
.. .2  00 
3 00
8 oz 
.. .3  00 
4 00

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

GUNPOWDER.

Austin’s Rifle, kegs..............3 50
“  A kegs..........2 00
Crack Shot, kegs . .3 50 
A kegs 2 00
4 50
a   “  2 50

“ 
“ 
“ 
“  Club Sporting  “ 
, 

“ 
.. 

HERBS.

Sage........................................ 15
Hops........................................15

INDIGO.

Madras,  5 lb. boxes..........  
F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 

JELLY.
17  lb. palls............... .
30  “ 
...............

“ 
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

55
50

90 
1  5 0

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

XX  wood, white.

No. 1,6A  ...........................  $1  75
No. 2, 6A  ...........................   100
No. 1, 6................................  1  65
NO. 2, 6 ..............................   150
No. 1,6A.......................  1®
No. 2 ,6A  ...........................  1  25
6A  ...............................  1 00
95
100
FARINACEOU8 GOODS. 

Manilla, white.
................................. 

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

 

Farina.
Hominy.

100 lb. kegs..................... 
33a
Barrels...............................     3 00
Grits ....................................... 3 50
Dried............................... 
434

Lima  Beans.

Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 

Domestic, 121b. b ox.... 
55
Imported.....................10A@-  A

Oatmeal.

Barrels 200 .........................  5  25
Half barrels  100.................  2  75

Kegs....................................

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bu..........................
Split  per lb ...................
Barrels 180.........................
Half  bbls 90......................
German.............................
East India..........................
Cracked.............................

Wheat.

Sago.

MINCE  MEAT.

2A

1  75
2A
5 25
2 75
4A

.  5

8 or 6 dos. In case  per doz..  95 

FISH—Salt. 

Bloaters.

Cod.

Halibut.
Herring.

Yarmouth..........................
Pollock.............................
Whole, Grand  Bank.......
5A
Boneless,  bricks.............
7
Boneless, strips...............
634
Smoked........................
10
Holland,  bbl....................
9 50
kegs  .................
75
Norwegian  ......................
12 00
2 60
Round Shore, A  bbl.......
1  30
“  A  “  .......
Scaled................................
16
No. 1,90  lbs...................... ..  8 25
No. 1, 40 lbs...................... ..  4 00
No. 1,  10 lbs...................... ..  1  15
.  5  25
Family, 90 lbs...................
65

10  lbs ............... .. 

Mackerel.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Sardines.

Russian,  kegs...................

Trout.

Whltefish.

No. 1, A bbls.. lOOlbs....... ...6 OO
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.............. ...  80
No. 1, A bbls., lOOlbs....... ...7  50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.............. ...  9C
Family, A bbls., 100 lbs
. . 3   1«
kits  10  lbs......... ...  45
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

“ 

Souders*.

Oval Bottle, with corkscrew 
Best In the world for the money,

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
2oz  . . .  $  75 
4 OZ  ____1  50
Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2oz  ....$1  2 
4  oz.......2  40
XX Grade 
Lernen.
2 oz...... $1  GO
4 oz.......3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2o z......$1  Î
4 oz......8 50

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.
1  gallon......................... . 
$1  75
Half  gallon........................  1 40
Quart..................................  
70
Pint...................................... 
45
Half  p in t.......................... 
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon...............................  7 00
Half gallon........................  4 75
Oman............ .....................   3 75
Pint..........:..........................  2 25

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

Sugar house........................  14

Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Ordinary............................. 
Prim e..................................  
Fancy..................................  

New Orleans.

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

16
20
30

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count... @7 00
Half bbls, 600  count.. @4 00

Small.
Barrels, 2,400  count.
Half bbls, 1,200 count
PIPES.

Clay, No.  216...................
“  T.D. full count__
Cob, No.  8......................

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

8 00
4  50

...1  75
...  75
...1 25

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

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina head................. .......6
....5
“ 
“  No. 2................. ....  4A
Broken............................. ....  3

No. 1.................

Imported.

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

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SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Allspice................................ .  8
Cassia, China In mats........
7
Batavia In band... .15
Saigon In rolls....... .35
Cloves,  Amboyna............... 22
Zanzibar.......  ....... .10
Mace  Batavia...................... .80
Nutmegs, fancy...................
.75
“  No.  1......................
,70
“  No.  2...................... .60
.  9
Pepper, Singapore, black... 
" 
white...
.20
shot........................
“ 
.15
Pure Ground In Bulk.

*• 
K 
“ 

Allspice................................ .12
Cassia,  Batavia................... .18
and  Saigon.22
Saigon.....................30
Cloves,  Amboyna................. 22
Zanzibar..................18
Ginger, African.....................11
Cochin.....................17
Jamaica..................18
Mace  Batavia........................ 70
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste.. 16
Trieste.....................18
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................60
Pepper, Singapore, black___16
“   white........24
Cayenne..................18
Sage......................................... 14

“ 
11 
"Absolute’1 In Packages.

“ 

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

 

SAL  SODA.

Kegs.......................................  1M
Granulated,  boxes............... 1M

SAUERKRAUT.

Gold Medal.................7 25@7 50

SEEDS.

8

A nise...........................   @124
6
Canary, Smyrna.......... 
Caraway............................  
90
Cardamon, Malabar... 
Hemp,  Russian..........  
4M
4H
Mixed  Bird  ................ 
6
Mustard,  white..........  
Poppy...........................  
9
Rape............................. 
6
Cuttle  bone......................  
STARCH.

30

Corn.

 

“ 

53S

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

Gloss.
1-lb packages........................... 5H
8-lb 
 
5M
6-lb 
.........................   6
40 and 50 lb. boxes...............   4M
Barrels....................................  54

“ 
“ 

 

SNUFF.

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

SODA,

B oxes....................................... 5H
Kegs, English..........................4£

SALT.
 
 

100 3-lb. sacks............................12 25
2 00
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks.......... ............1  85
2  25
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases.............................  1 50
32
56 lb. dairy In linen  bags.. 
281b.  “ 
.. 
18

drill  “ 

 

Warsaw.

56 lb. dairy in drill  bags... 
281b.  “ 
.. 
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks.. 

Ashton.

“ 

" 

Higgins.

56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks 

Solar Rock.

56 lk,.  sacks.......................... 

Common Fine.

Saginaw.....................-—  
Manistee............................ 

SALERATUS.

32
18
75

75 

27

90
95

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

Church’s ..............................33 30
JDeLand's..................................  3 15
Dwight’s ......................................3 30
Taylor’s .....................................   3 00

SOAP.
Laundry,

“ 

Allen B. Wrislev’s Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

Old Country,  80  l-lb............ 3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb............... 3 90
White Borax, 100  M lb.........3 60
Concord................................2 80
Ivory, 10  oz......................... 6 75
6  oz........................... 4 00
Lenox 
...............................  3 65
Mottled  German.................3  15
Town Talk........................... 3 00
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp d. .83 30 
plain...  3 24
5c size..  4 25
N. K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.........................   4 00
Brown, 60 bars.................... 2 10
80  b ars.....................3 25
“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.
Acme.................................... 3 65
Cotton Oil.............................5 75
Daisy...................................... 3 10
Marseilles.............................  4 00
Master....................................400

“ 
“ 

** 
•* 

Sapollo,kitchen, 3  doz...  2 50 

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

“ 

SUGAR.

To ascertain the cost of sugar 
laid  down  at  any town  in  the 
Lower  Peninsula,  add  freight 
rate from  New York to the  fol 
lowing quotations, which repre­
sent the refiners’ prices:
Cut  Loaf...............................$5 50
Powdered............................   5 00
Granulated.........................   4 87
Fine Granulated.................  4 87
Extra Fine Granulated__   5 00
Cubes...................................   5 00
XXXX  Powdered...............   5 37
Confec. Standard  A ............ 4 75
No. 1  Columbia A .................4  56
No. 5 Empire  A ...................4  44
No.  6  ..................................... 4 37
No.  7....................................... 4 31
No.  8.......................................4  19
No.  9.......................................4 00
No.  10......................  
No.  11..................................... 3 69
No.  12....................................  3 56
No.  13..............................  

 

  3 31

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels....................................22
Half bbls.................................24
Fair.........................................  19
Good.......................................  25
Choice  ...................................   30

Pure Cane.

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

8
8

9
8M
8M

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

81 for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per g a l..................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75 

YEAST.

Magic,.......................................... 1 00
Warner’s  ....................... 
Yeast Foam  ..........................100
Diamond................................  75
R oyal.....................................   90

TEAS.

j a p a n —Regular.

Fair..................................  @17
Good.......................... 
Choice............................ 24  @26
Choicest.........................32  @34
D ust............ 
.............. 10  @12

 

  @20

SUN CUBXD.

Fair..................................  @17
Good................................   @20
Choice............................ 24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust............................... 10  @12

BASKET  7IBED .

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

GUNPOWDER.

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

IMPERIAL.

o o l o n g . 

t o u n g  h y s o n .

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

ENGLISH BREAKPAST.

Fair................ 
18  @22
Choice............................24  @28
Best............................... 40  @50

 

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

Pails unless otherwise noted
Hiawatha....................  
62
36
Sweet  Cuba................. 
27
McGinty......................  
25
“  M bbls........... 
Dandy Jim................... 
29
Torpedo....................... 
24
in  drums.... 
23
Yum  Yum  .................  
28
1692 ............................... 
23
“  drums................... 
22

“ 

Plug.

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead................... 
Joker...........................  
Nobby Twist................... 
Scotten's Brands.
Kylo..............................  
Hiawatha.....................  
Valley C ity.................  
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty................ 
Jolly Tar......................  

Smoking.

Catlin’s  Brands.

41
29
40
24
38
34
40
32

Kiln  dried............................. 16
Golden  Shower..................... 19
Huntress  ..............................26
Meerschaum..........................29
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle  Navy..........................40
Stork  ......................................30
German.................................. 15
Frog....................................... 33

Scotten’s Brands.

Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner....................................16
Banner Cavendish............... 38
Gold Cut  ...............................28
Warpath.................................16
Honey  Dew............................25
Gold  Block............................30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Brands.
Peerless.................  
26
Old  Tom................................ 18
Standard................................ 20
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade..............................41
Rob  Roy.................................26
Uncle Sam.......................2£@32
Red Clover............................. 32
Tom and Jerry.......................25
Traveler  Cavendish............38
Buck Horn............................. 30
Plow  Boy........................30@32
Corn  Cake............................. 16

Leideredorf’s Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

 

OILS.

3 94
The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes
as  follows,  In barrelB,  f. 0.  b.
Grand Rapids:
Eocene.......................
8
Water White, old test
@  7M
63£
W.  W.  Headlight, 156° 
Water  White  ..........
@  6H
Naptha........................
@ 7
Stove Gasoline..........
@ 6%
Cylinder.................... 27  @36
E ngine...................... 13  @21
Black, 15cold  test...

@ 8X

HIDES.

HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol-

lows:
Green.........................
-2M@3M
@  4
Part Cured.................
Pull  “ 
@ 4M
.................
5  @  5
Dry..............................
Sips, green  ...............
2M@ 34
@  4*
“  cured.................
4  @ 5
Calfskins,  green.......
@ 7
cured.......
Deacon skins.............. 10  @30

“ 

No. 2 hides M off.
PELTS.

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

1 00
Shearlings................... 10  @25
Lambs 
Washed..  ................. 20  @23
Unwashed................. 10  @20

WOOL.

MISCELLANEOUS.

TUBS.

Tallow........................ 3M@ 4
1  @ 2
Grease  batter  ..........
Switches....................
1M@ 2
Ginseng...................... 2 00@2 75
Outside prices for No. 1 only.
50@1  00
Badger........................
B ear......................... 15 00@25 00
Beaver........................ 3 a@7 00
40@  59
Cat, wild....................
10®  25
Cat, house......................
Fisher......................... 4 00@6 00
Fox,  red.................... 1  00@1 60
Fox, cross.................. 3 00@5 00
50@  80
Fox,  grey..................
Lynx........................... 2 00@3 00
Martin, dark............. 1  00@3 00
pale & yellow 50@1 00
40@1  40
Mink, dark.................
03®  12
Muskrat......................
15@  30
Oppossum..................
Otter, dark................. 5 00@3 00
25®  90
Raccoon....................
Skunk  ....................... 1  00@1  25
W olf................................... 1  O0@3 00
Beaver  castors, lb . . . 2 00@5 00
10
Thin and green...........
20
Long gray, dry.............
25
Gray, dry 
....................
35
Red and Blue, dry. . .
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8

d e e r s k i n s —per pound.

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WHEAT.

MEAL.

64
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
64
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test)
Bolted................................. .......  1  40
.  1  60
Granulated.....................
FLOUR.
Straight, in  sacks — .........  3 10
.........  3 90
“  barrels..
“ 
“  sacks— .........  4 70
Patent 
.........  5 00
“  barrels..
“ 
. . .   1  70
Graham  “  sacks... . 
••• .......  2 90
Rye 
" 
Buckwheat, Rising  Sun —  4 75

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Walsh-DeRoo

•* 

& Co’s  Pure............

MILL8TUFFS. Less

Car lots quantité
$14 50
14 50
15 50
20 00
20 00

Bran...............114  00
Screenings....  14 00
Middlings.......IS CO
Mixed Feed...  19 00
Coarse meal  ..  19 50
Car  lots...................... .......... 48
Less than  car  lots... .......... 52
Car  lots...................... ..........37
Less than car lots.... ..........41
HAT.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__ 12 00
ton lots .......12 50
No. 1 

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

FRESH MEATS.

Beef, carcass..  5  @  6

“ hindquarters... 
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6  @ 7
fore 
... 3M@ 4
loins,  No.  3 ... 8M@ 9
ribs........8  @  9
rounds.......... —  5  @ 5M

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shoulders 

Bologna........................  @ 5
Pork lo in s...................  @ioi£
.........  @ 84
Sausage, blood or head  @ 6
liv e r ..............  @ 6
Frankfort__   @ 8
Mutton  ..........................7  @ 8
Veal..................................7  @ 7M

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FISH and  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

20
1  00

FRESH  FISH.

follows :
Whlteflsh 
..................   @ 9
T rout............  ............  8  @ 9
Halibut.........................   @15
Ciscoes or Herring__   @ 6
Blue fish..........................11  @12
Fresh lobster, per lb __  
Shrimp, per gal.........  .. 
Cod..................................10 @12
No. 1 Pickerel.............   @ 8
Pike..............................   @ 7
Smoked White............  @ 8
Stockfish............................  
11
Finnan  Haddies............ 
10
S et.................................... 
8
oysters—Cans.
Falrhaven  Counts__   @37
F. J. D.  Selects..........   @30
Selects.........................   @23
Anchor.........................   @19
Standards  ...................  @17
Favorites.......................... 

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PROVISIONS.

SHELL  GOODS.

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BULK.

Oysters, per  1U0.........1  25@1  50
Clams. 
..........  75@l €0
2 20
Counts, per gal................... 
1 75
Extra  Selects..................... 
Selects................................  
l 50
Standards...................... 
1  20
1 25
Clams.................................. 
Scallops  .........................  
1  75
Schrimps............................. 
1 00
PA PER  A WOODEN WARE 

PAPER.

“ 

Straw 
.................................... 1M
Rock falls....................................1 %
Rag sugar................................ 2
Hardware................................ 2M
Bakers......................................2M
Dry  Goods....................  5  @6
Jute Manilla.................  @5M
Red  Express  No. 1................5M
No. 2................4M
48 Cotton.................................SO
Cotton, No. 1..........................17
“  2..........................16
Sea  Island, assorted..........30
No. 5 Hemp............................15
No. 6 “ ............................... 
15
Tubs, No. 1............................  7 00
“  No. 2............................. 6 00
“  No. 3............................. 5 00

WOODENWARE.

TWINES.

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Pails, No. 1, two-hoop..
“  No. 1,  three-hoop—
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes__
Bowls, 11 inch.....................
13  “ 
......................
15  “ 
......................
17  “ 
......................
19  “ 
.....................
21 
“  
.................................
Baskets, market...................
shipping  bushel.. 
full  noop  “

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* ‘ willow ci’ths, No.l
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“  No.2
“  No.3
11  No.l
“  No.2
“ 
.No.3
INDURATED WARE.
Pails.....................................
Tubs, Mdoz..........................

“ 
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1 
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splint 

4 05 
4 55

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as  follows:

DRESSED.

Fow l............................... 8  @ 9
Turkeys........................  @12
Ducks  .........................   @12

LIVE,
Chickens,.....................  7  @ 8
Fowls........  
.................7  @ 8
Turkeys.........................11  @12 '■
Spring Duck................ 10  @11

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

M ess,........................................................ 
Short c u t............................................................  17 00
Extra clear pig, short cut................................  18 00
Extra clear,  heavy..........................................
Clear, fat back..................................................   18 25
Boston clear, short cut....................................  18 50
Clear back, short cut........................................  19 
19 00
Standard clear, short cut. best..................  

 

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

Pork Sausage........................................................9
Ham Sausage.....................................................9
Tongue Sausage..................................................9
Frankfort  Sausage  ............................................8
Blood Sausage......................................................5
Bologna, straight................................................  5
Bologna,  thick............... ....................................  5
Headcheese.........................................................5
Kettle  Rendered................................................11M
Granger...............................................................10?£
Fam ily..................................................................8
Compound..........................................................   7M
50 lb. Tins, Me advance.
20 lb. pails, Me 
101b. 
“  Me 
“  Xc 
51b. 
3 lb. 
“ 
l c  

LARD.

“
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BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs........................7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing............................ 7 00
Boneless, rump butts...........................................10 

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

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Hams, average 20 lbs......................................... 12

16 lbs..........................................12M
12 to 14 lbs................................. 12M
picnic......................................................  10
best boneless..........................................   11
Shoulders.............................................................   9M
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............................... 12
Dried beef, ham prices...................................... 8M
Long Clears, heavy..............................................
Briskets,  medium..............................................   8X
ligh t.....................................................SM

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

 
 
 

“ 

00

“ 
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3 
2 
3 

“ 
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LEMONS.

ORANGES.

Plain Creams..................................................80@90
Decorated Creams............................................i oo
String  Rock..........................................................gg
Burnt Almonds.................................................j  00
Wintergreen Berries...........................................60
16 
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes........................ 
34
51
No. 1, 
No.2, 
ig
No.3, 
42
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes.......................................  90
00
Small...........................................................
Medium................................................... .
Large....................................................
Florldas, fancy 

c a r a m e l s.
 
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“ 
 
BANANAS.

...................................... 2 85@3 25
Sampsons................................. 3 25@3 50
Messina, choice, 360................................  @4  00
@4 25
a

fancy, 360..................   ............  
choice 300................................  
fancy 300  ................................
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

“ 
extra  “  14®   
“ 
“ 

Figs, fancy  layers, 6tt>.............................  @L'M
“ 
101b.............................  ©Is 4
@15
“  20®.............................   @ia
Dates, Fard, 10-lb. box.............................   @ 8
..................................... @ 5
Persian, 50-lb.  box........................  @  5
Almonds, Tarragona................................  @19

so-ib.  “ 

Ivaca...........................................   @1?M
California................................  @18M
Brazils, new...............................................  @ 10J4
Filberts.............   ......................................  @11M
00
Walnuts, Grenoble...................................   @14
Calif...........................................  @13

“  Marbot........................................  @
“ 

Table  Nuts,  fancy....................................  @13M
choice................................   @12M
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  .......... ..................12  @14
Cocoanuts, full sacks..............................   @5 00
Fancy, H.  P.,Suns...................................   @  54
“  Roasted.......................  @  74
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..................................  @5*4
“  Roasted............ .........  @  7M
Choice, H. P.,  Extras...............................  @ 44
“  Roasted..............  ..  @ 6M
California Walnuts.................................. 
124

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PEANUTS.

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NUTS.

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CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE. 

STICK  CANDY.
Cases 
Standard,  per lb..........................  
“  H.H..............................  
“  T w ist............................. 
Boston  Cream.........  .... 
8M
Cut  Loaf...........................  
Extra H.  H........................  8M
MIXED  CANDY.

Bbls.  Pails.
614 7M
6M 7M
 
6M 74
8M

Bbls. 

Palls.

Standard.......................................... 6 
7
Leader.............................................. 6
74
Royal................................................-6M 
8
Nobby...............................................7 
English  Rock................................. 7
8
Conserves........................................7 
Broken Taffy......................baskets 
8
9
Peanut Squares................... 
“  8 
10
French Creams................................  
13
Valley  Creams................................ 
Midget, 30 lb. baskets...........................................8
Modern, 60 lb. 
8

 

“ 
f a n c y —In bulk

•* 

f a n c y —In 5 lb. boxes. 

Palls.
Lozenges, plain.................................................  10
printed.............................................   H
Chocolate Drops.........................................JIM
Chocolate Monumental«..................................  13
Gum Drops..........................................................  54
Moss Drops.........................................................   8
Sour Drops..........................................................  ° 4
Imperials.............................................................  10
Per Box
Lemon Drops................. 
*
Sour Drops.......  ..................................................56
Peppermint Drops................................................«0
Chocolate Drops...................................................65
H. M. Chocolate  Drops....................................... 90
Gum Drops................  
40@50
Licorice Drops.................................................. 1  00
A. B. Licorice Drops...........................................80
Lozenges, plain........................... 
60
printed................................................65
Imperials...............................................................60
Mottoes.................................................................. 70
Cream Bar............................................................. *
Molasses Bar..................................................••••55
Hand Made  Creams......................................86@96

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FRUIT  JARS.

6 doz. in box.

Suarts................................................................  7 00

Pints..................................................................$ 6  75
alf Gallons....................................................   9 00
Caps...................................................................   2 75
Rubbers......................................... 
40
LAMP  BURNERS.
No. 0 Sun..............................................................   45
No. 1  “  ...............................................................  50
No.2  “  ....................................................  
....  75
Tubular................................................................   75

 

 

lamp  chimneys.—Per box.

“ 
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“ 
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Pearl top.

La Bastfe.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
** 

No. 0 Sun.............................................................1 75
No. 1  “ 
.............................................................. 1  88
No. 2  “  .............................................................. 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top......................................... 2 25
N o.l  “ 
"  ..........................................2 40
“  .......................................... 3 40
No.2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top......................................... 2 60
No. 1  “ 
“  .......................................... 2 80
No. 2  “ 
“  .......................................... 3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled......................3 70
“ 
No.2  “ 
......................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
......................4  88
No. 1 Sun, plain bnlb,  per doz......................... 1  25
No.2  “ 
..........................150
No. 1 crimp, per doz.......................................... 1  35
No.3  “ 
............................................160
No. 0, per  gross...................................................  23
No. 1, 
28
No  2, 
38
No. 3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz..............................................  75
Butter Crocks, 1 and 6 gal.............................  06M

■ s, M gal., per dos.......................................  75

.......................................   90
.......................................1 80
Milk Pans, M gal., per doz.............................  65
“ 
glazed...............  75
« 
............................   78
glazed................  90
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1  " 
1  “ 
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1  “ 
‘  2  " 
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STONEWARE—AKRON.

LAMP WICKS.

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

McDowell’s  Metal  Polish.

Same as Putz Pomade, only in liquid.

B o m ’s  Pots  Lipid.

The mineral is Imported from Austria.

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COUNTERFEIT  BANK  NOTES.

The E x te n t to  W hich T heir M anufacture 

is C arried  On.

The  advent  of  the  national  currency 
and  the  issue of  Treasury  notes,  which 
were  made a necessity  by the  war,  were 
hailed with delight  by business  men be­
cause  they  drove  the  old  State  Bank 
issues  and  the notes of  private  bankers 
out of  circulation  and  supplied a  paper 
currency which  was, for a long  time, ac­
cepted  without  question,  which  was  at 
par all over  the  United  States and prac­
tically exempt from counterfeiting.  The 
counterfeit detectors went out of  use for 
a  time, for  there  was  no  occasion  for 
them. 
It  is  true that the fractional cur­
rency was  extensively counterfeited,  but 
the issues were  rapidly changed  and the 
prompt reappearance of  silver  change at 
the close of  the war  remedied  that evil.
But,  little  by  little,  the  old  state  of 
things  as to bad paper money appears to 
be  returning. 
Spurious,  altered  and 
counterfeit  notes  are  getting to be more 
numerous,  and  the  counterfeit detectors 
are  again  coming  into use  because  bad 
bills  are  getting  to  be  more  plentiful. 
The latest issue of  Underwood’s Counter­
feit Reporter describes 113 different kinds 
of  bad  national currency notes  in circu­
lation,  and seventy-six  different kinds of 
counterfeits  of  Treasury  notes,  besides 
eleven kinds of  bad money printed  from 
the genuine plates  stolen,  and  felonious 
ly put into circulation.  These are of  all 
denominations,  from a one dollar nation­
al  currency note to  Treasury notes  and 
United  States  bonds  of  the  value  of 
SI,000 each.  Making  a  modest estimate 
that only $5,000 of each kind Sf bad paper 
money known  to  be  in  circulation  has 
been  issued,  would  give  the  alarming 
sum  total of  $1,000,000  taken from  the 
capital of  honest  men. 
It  is  probable, 
however,  that a much  larger  sum is the 
real  figure. 
It is known  that  Jay Cooke 
&  Co.,  the  agents of  the  Treasury  De 
partment,  redeemed  many  thousands  of 
the  most  dangerous  counterfeits  of  the 
earliest  $1,000  Treasury  notes. 
The 
counterfeit was so perfect  that many ex 
perts  declared  that  they  were  printed 
from the genuine plates at the Bureau of 
Engraving and Printing.

There are some notable features of  the 
current  counterfeits that  point  out  the 
palpable reason why the increase has got 
to be  so  alarming.  Take,  for  instance, 
the  counterfeits  of  the  issues  on  the 
national  banks of  the  denomination  of 
five dollars.  There  are  about  forty dif 
ferent  kinds  described on about as many 
different  banks.

It,  therefore, follows  as 

The most  striking fact  in  the counter­
feit  list  is  the  evidence  that the  same 
counterfeit plate is used,  with  but slight 
alterations, to  issue  counterfeits of  dif 
ferent banks.  The  reason  why this  can 
so  easily be done is because the  genuine 
notes  of  all  the  national  banks  in  the 
United  States  of 
the  denomination  of 
five  dollars  were in  most  respects  pre 
cisely  alike. 
matter of course that a counterfeit of one 
national  bank  of  the  United  States  of 
the  denomination of  five  dollars  was 
counterfeit  mainly of  all other  national 
bank issues of that denomination.  When 
therefore, a counterfeit of  any  one  bank 
note was discovered and described in the 
counterfeit detector the counterfeiter had 
only to make slight alterations to be able 
to use the  same  plate to print a counter­
feit on another bank.  So successful  was 
the counterfeit  on  the first  issue of  na

tional bank notes of  the denomination of 
five  dollars  that it  became  necessary to 
rearrange the design and recall  the issue 
and  print a new  series.  Then  the  new 
series was also  counterfeited,  and  it  be­
came necessary to issue another, and this 
also has  been successfully counterfeited.
Of course  the  plan of  issuing so many 
genuine notes  so  nearly alike to  the ex­
tent of  hundreds  of  millions of  dollars 
presented  an  irresistible  temptation  to 
the counterfeiter who could afford to pay 
fabulous  prices  for  the  engraving  of 
counterfeit plates which  could  be so  ex­
the  counter­
tensively  used. 
feiters  did  succeed 
in  employing  at 
enormous  pay, one  of  the  most  expert 
engravers  in  the  world,  who  had  been 
largely employed  in  doing  the  genuine 
work.

Indeed, 

The  general  plan of  printing  the na­
tional  bank  notes  is to  have a plate en­
graved for face and back to be used alike 
on all  national  bank  notes.  Then  the 
names of  the banks,  the coats of  arms of 
the respective  states, the  signatures and 
numbers  are  put  in  separately.  Of 
course,  the  counterfeiter  does the  same 
thing.  They  do  not  even  go  to  the 
trouble  of  numbering  the  counterfeits 
correctly,  which  they  could  easily do by 
reference  to  the  published  lists of  the 
correct  numbers.  Neither  do  they  al 
ways  put  in  the  correct  name  of  the 
United  States  Treasurer  or  Register, 
Those  names  are  never written  on  the 
genuine  notes,  but are  printed from  en 
graved  fac-similies  of  the  signatures of 
those officials.  Few people can  tell who 
those  officials  were  at  any  particular 
time, and  nobody can  tell, except  by re 
ferring to  the  official  list,  what  are  the 
genuine numbers of any bank note.

Thus the counterfeits of the first series 
of  notes of  the  First  National  Bank of 
Chicago of  the denomination of  five dot 
lars  are  printed  from a counterfeit gen­
eral  plate which  has  the  name of  S. B. 
Colby  as  Register.  The  fact was  that 
S. B. Colby was  not  the  Register  at  the 
time the genuine notes were printed, and 
all  the genuine  notes bear  the  name of 
L. E.  Chittenden as Register.  The  same 
is  true of  the  counterfeits of  the  notes 
of  the  denomination  of  five  dollars  on 
the  Central  National  Bank  of  Chicago, 
the  German  National  Bank of  Chicago, 
the First National  Bank of Northampton, 
Mass., the First National  Bank of  Peru, 
111.,  the  First  National  Bank  of  Lock- 
port, N.  Y.,  and others.

The counterfeit  of  the  United  States 
Treasury notes of 1869 of the  denomina­
tion of 50s and 100s was  so  perfect  that 
the Treasury was compelled to withdraw 
those  isssues  from  circulation  and  to 
prepare  new  plates  for  those  denomi­
nations.  The  counterfeits of the  Treas­
ury notes issued in 1863 were pronounced 
equal to the original,  and  experts  were 
cautioned not to take them.  There was 
also a counterfeit  of  the  Treasury  note 
issued  in  1869  of  the  denomination  of 
$500  that  was  pronounced  one  of  the 
most dangerous counterfeits in existence, 
so that it was  necessary for  the  depart­
ment to retire  that  class  of  notes  from 
circulation.  Even the best experts  were 
deceived with these.

The latest paper money issued  by  the 
Government  has  shared  the  fate  of  all 
predecessors.  The 
silver  certificates 
have been extensively counterfeited in all 
denominations—ones,  twos,  fives,  tens, 
and  twenties.  Of  course,  persons  who 
handle a great deal of money learn to de-

This is the only Putz Liquid made.
Cleans and  polishes fine  brass,  copper, nickel, German 
silver, etc., removes rust.  Slickest  thing on the  market 
for  cleaning  show  cases,  brass  scoops,  scales,  signs, 
nickel on stoves, bicycles, copper boilers, kettles, shovels, 
andirons, tongs,  and ail metals.
Used by Grand  Rapids  and  many other  Fire  Depart­
ments,  John  Phillips & Co.,  show  case  manufacturers, 
Detroit.
Trade supplied by

Strong,  Cobb  & Co.,  C leveland.
F a r r a n d ,  Wil lia m s  & Cl a r k ,  Detroit. 
H a z e l t in e  &  P e r k in s  D rug Co.,  Grand Rapids. 
F oster,  St e v e n s & Co., Grand Rapids.
the mcdowell metal polish  bo..

DETROIT  and  GRAND  R A PID S.
B ew are of  all  polishes  claiming  to be  Putz  Liquid.  This is the 
only one made.  Look for our trade  mark “PERFECT.”  Genuine 
Putz Pomade  is  known as “Trumpine” and ‘ Spiked  Top Helmet.” 
All  imitations  have a tassel  on  top of  helmet of  either  paste  or 
liquid.

Gold M edal 

.

V

t

►

EALIZING  the  demand,  on  the part of 
R
the  retail  trade, for  a  line  of  goods  of 
standard  purity  and  strength,  which  can  be 
depended upon at all  times for  uniformity and 
excellence, we recently put  on the  market  sev­
eral articles in the grocery line under the brand 
of

G o l d   M e d a .l .

The  reception  accorded  these goods  has  been
so hearty and the  sentiment  of  the trade being 
so emphatically in favor of goods of undoubted 
quality, we have  decided to add  largely to our 
list of  GOLD  MEDAL  goods, to the end that 
dealers  may be able  to  purchase a full  line  of 
goods  in  which  they can  place  the  most  im­
plicit confidence.

i 

“ Not how cheap, but how good”  applies with special force to the

Gold Medal brand.

BALL-BARNHART-PUTMAN  CO.
Do  YoiJ  RiJn a Store?

If so,  the Coupon  Books of  our manufacture are exactly what 
you  need.  By  their  use  you  have  NO  CHARGING, NO 
DISPUTES  AND  NO  BOOK-KEEPING.  You can  count 
up your  daily sales the  same as if  you had  taken in all  cash, 
which  you  cannot do with  any other  system.  Our books are 
better than those of  any other manufacturer on the market, as 
they are  made  entirely in our  own  establishment, having  the 
advantage of special machinery and experienced oversight from 
start to finish.  Send for free sample and circular.

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TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

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tect  bad  bills almost  by  intuition,  but 
poor people,  who  do  not  handle  much 
money,  are  the  greatest  sufferers  by 
counterfeiters.  Their  chief  protection 
is to  remember who pays them,  and then 
to  trace  counterfeits  to  their  source. 
Some  of  the  counterfeits  of  the  silver 
certificates  are  good  enough  to  deceive 
the best judges.  The  worst  one  is  that 
of the issue of 1882,  which  bears  a  por­
trait of Hancock on its face.

“How can you tell a bad bill?” is often 
innocently  asked  of  men  who  handle 
large sums of money.  To tell bad money 
requires a great deal  of  experience  and 
skill.  There are various ways of making 
bad  bills.  There 
is,  for  instance,  a 
national  bank  note  in  circulation  pur­
porting to  be  a  two-dollar  note  of  the 
National  Union  Bank  of  Linden  Park, 
N. Y.  There is no  such  bank,  and  the 
note is entirely fraudulent. 
It resembles 
all other national bank notes  sufficiently 
to be taken by most people without ques­
tion. 
Indeed,  few  persons notice  what 
bank issues the bill they  receive, for  all 
bills  look  very  much  alike.  The  only 
way to detect fraudulent notes with  cer­
tainty is to have a list  of  genuine  notes 
at hand for consultation.

There  are  five-dollar  national  bank 
notes in circulation  purporting  to  have 
been issued by the First  National  Bank 
of Cecil, 111., the First  National Bank of 
Galena, 111., and the City National  Bank 
of Utica, N.  Y., and  there  are  no  such 
banks in existence.  There is a  counter­
feit fifty-dollar note  in  circulation  pur­
porting  to  have  been  issued  by  the 
National Bank of Commerce,  but it bears 
the  signatures  of 
the  officers  of  the 
National  Broadway  Bank.  This 
is  a 
case where  the  counterfeit  on  the  Na­
tional  Broadway  Bank  was  discovered, 
and  the  counterfeiters  merely  changed 
the name of the bank,and did not go to the 
trouble to alter the signatures. 
In other 
respects the genuine issues of both banks 
were alike, being printed  from  substan­
tially the same plate. 
In the same way a 
counterfeit plate of the Tradesmen’s Na­
tional Bank was to do duty as a  counter­
feit of the  Metropolitan  National  Bank 
and  the  Mechanics’  National  Bank  of 
New York.

It is commonly asserted that the  notes 
of the Bank of England have never  been 
counterfeited  to 
the  extent  that  ours 
have,  and for  this  exemption  some  oc­
cult superiority in the engraving or paper 
is supposed to exist.  But, as a matter of 
fact, the paper is  no  more  secure  than 
ours  and  the  engraving  is  no  better. 
They do not,  however,  issue  notes  of  a 
lower  denomination 
than  one  pound. 
But their greatest protection  is  that  the 
notes  in  circulation  are  always  clean 
They are never issued  from  the  bank  a 
second time.  Our paper  money,  on  the 
contrary, is  uniformly filthy,  and  is  is­
sued again and again  until  it  is  ragged 
and defaced,  so that it  is  almost  impos­
sible lo see  whether  it  is  good  or  bad 
The first thing  done  with  a  counterfeit 
note is to give it a worn and soiled appear 
ance, so that it shall appear to have been 
circulated a long time.

There is absolutely no excuse for keep 
ing  dirty  money  in  circulation.  The 
notes are now all prepared in the Bureau 
of Engraving and Printing.  The cost  of 
printing is a comparative  trifle,  and  the 
bureau could easily afford, if its appropri 
ations  were  properly  expended,  to  pay 
for  printing  the  national  currency  and 
Treasury notes two or  three  times  over

every year.  The  only  reason  this  obvi­
ous reform has not long ago been  carried 
out is because it is only poor people who 
lose  by  bad  money.  The  banks 
lose 
nothing by it, and they have  no  interest 
in keeping money clean  or  in  suppress­
ing counterfeits.

A  good  deal  of  popular  mystificaton 
has been occasioned by the  use  of  what 
is called  fiber  paper  and  other  paper 
which  has  threads running  through 
it. 
The fact  is  that  there  were no national 
Dank  notes  previous  to  the  year  1875 
printed  on fiber paper,  and  nobody  can 
now  rely  upon  knowing  whether  the 
genuine issue of the bank  is  printed  on 
fiber  paper  or  thread  paper  or  plain 
paper.  The  government  has  paid  out 
fortunes of money  for these  and  similar 
protections  against  counterfeits,  which 
have  aided  rather  than  obstructed  the 
operations  of  counterfeiters.  Both  the 
thread  paper  and  the  fiber  paper  have 
been  successfully  counterfeited.  The 
practice  of keeping so much dirty money 
going,  of  course,  decreases  what  little 
protection there is in fibers  and threads.
Photography is now  so  advanced  that 
it is unsafe to print any paper  money  in 
black. 
It  is  true  that  photographic 
counterfeits are generally blurred and of 
poor color, so that if the  genuine  issues 
were  kept  clean  photographic  counter­
feits could  be  easily  detected.  But,  as 
the genuine notes are not kept clean, and 
they are mostly  printed  in  black,  there 
are  maay  photographic  counterfeits  in 
circulation.

One  fact  is  worthy  of  attention,  that 
counterfeits  have become more  plentiful 
since the Bureau of Engraving and Print­
ing has done all the work of printing  the 
circulating medium.  At first  the  great 
engraving establishments of the  country 
were permitted to compete for the  work, 
and then rivalry produced the  very  best 
results.  There was also a check upon the 
number  printed  when  each  establish­
ment  printed only one part.

It  is  strange 

that  counterfeiters  of 
national bank notes  and  Treasury  notes 
have  paid  little  or  no  attention  to  the 
numbering.  There  are  three  sets  of 
numbers,  for instance,  on national  bank 
notes,  viz.,  the  charter  number  of  the 
bank, the bank number, and the Treasury 
number.  There is no secret  about  these, 
and the lists of the numbers of the genu­
ine notes are  published  in  the  counter­
feit detectors.  By reference  to  the  list 
many dangerous counterfeits can easily be 
detected.  There are more counterfeits on 
“First  National”  banks  than  upon  any 
other name.  There are so many First Na­
tional banks that the counterfeiter natural 
ly makes a general plate with that name on 
it, and changes it  to  different  localities 
as fast as the counterfeits on the  succes­
sive banks are discovered.

Since  about  every  denomination  of 
paper money now in use has been çounter- 
feited, and there  are  so  many  counter­
feits  that  200  of  them  have  been  de­
scribed; since the list is  so  large and  so 
frequently increased that  there  are  sev­
eral publications devoted to  the  subject, 
and that a  new  list  is  published  every 
two weeks, might it  not be  worth  while 
to consider  whether the  Bureau  of  En­
graving  and  Printing,  which costs in the 
neighborhood  of two millions  of  dollars 
a year,  shall not be improved in some de­
gree or abolished altogether?

Ionia—Wm. Mansfield succeeds A. Hoag 

& Go. in the flouring mill business.

THE  NEW  YEAR.

W ritten for THE  Tradesman.

Against my door and window blinds 
The Old Year walks the vale of death, 
I draw my chair beside the fire 

December’s breathing low;
Where lies his shroud of snow;
And wait to witness him expire.

Come, Muse, with pen and ink and paper 
We’ll burn away the midnight taper 
The old and young—both  faces view,

And sit beside me here;
And,learn how dies the year;
Bid .welcome one—bid one adieu.

And, while we wait, let Memory scan 
With retrospective eye,
The ruins where the feet of Time 
Swept like a meteor by;
The quick and dead, the false and true, 
Like phantoms stand before our view.

But, lo, the New Year’s chariot rolls 
While Time  aloft the scepter holds, 
He strikes, and, lo, upon the bier!

Along the fleetiDg way,
Demanding royal sway;
Lies dead the old, departed year.]

M. J. Wbislby.

State of Ohio, City  of Toledo, I __
J  S8‘

L u c a s  C o u n t y . 

F rank  J. Cheney  makes  oath^that  he is the 
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., 
doing business in the city of Toledo, County and 
State aforesaid, and  that said  firm will  pay the 
sum  of  ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS  for  each 
and every case of  catarrh that  cannot  be cured 
by the use of Hall’s Catarrh  Cure.

FRANK  J.  CHFNEY.
presence, this 6th day of December,*A.tD-1886.

Sworn  to  before  me  and  subscribed  in  my 
— ■—  
|   seal  [ 
Hall’s  Catarrh  Cure  is  taken  internally  and 
acts directly on the  blood  and  mucous surfaces 
of the system.  Send for testimonials, free.

A. W. GLEASON,

Notary  Pnblie-

F.  J. CHENEY  &  CO., Toledo, O.

fST’Sold by Druggists, 75c.

WALTER  HOUSE

j! Central'Lake, M ich., E. W alter, Prop. ’ 
Fourteen  warm  rooms,  all  newly  furnished 
Good table.  Rates,: 81.50:per  day.  The  patron 
age of traveling men especially solicited.

/Michigan (Tentral

“ 2%« Niagara Falls Route.’'

(Taking effect Sunday, Nov. 20,  1892.) 

»Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 00 p m............Detroit Express............ 655pm
4 30pm .................... Mixed  ...................  7 00am
10 00 a m ...............Day Express 
.  ..  120pm
6 00 a m  
* Atlantic and  Pacific.......10 45 p m
1 OOp m ...... New York Express...........  5 40 p m
Sleeping cars run on Atlantic  and  Pacific ex­
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave'for' Detroit at 6:55 am ;  re­
turning, leave Detroit 4:40 p m, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:00 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad  (Canada Southern Division.)
Tickets on sale at Union  Ticket Office, 67 Mon­
roe street and Union  Depot.

Detroit TIME  TABLE

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

EASTW ARD.

Trains Leave

tNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 »No.  82

Lv. Milwaukee. 
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia............Ar
St.  Johns  ...A r
Ow o s sd ..........A r
E. Saginaw..Ar
Bay City.......Ar
F lin t............Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac........ Ar
Detroit.......... Ar

10 20am
11 25am 
1217pm
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

6 50am
7 45am 
830am 
905am
10 50am
11 30am
10 05am 
1205pm 
1053am
11 50am
W ESTW ARD.

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm
6 05pm 
8 10pm 
837pm
7 05pm
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

1100pm 
12 42am
2 00am
3 10am
6 40am 
7 15am 
5 40am
7 30am 
5 37am 
700am

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

♦No. 81  tNo. 11  tNo. 13
10 50am
10 45pm
5  10pm
7 05am
6 15pm
8 25am

6  50am
1  00pm
2 10pm

»Dally.  tDaily except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 a. m., 
5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arrive  from  the west,  10:10a. m., 3:15 
p.m. and 9:45  p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parltr  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward—No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 

Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
J o h n W. L o u d , Traffic Manager.
B e n  F l e t c h e r , Trav. Pass. Agent. 
J ab. Ca m p b e l l, City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

G rand  R apids  & In d ian a.
Schedule  In effect  November  20,1892.

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

A rrive from   Leave going 
North.
7 ;20 a m
1:10 p m
4:15 p m
10:10  p m
Train arriving from   south a t  6:45 a m  and  9:00 a m 

South. 
For Cadillac  and Saginaw.........  6 ;45 a ra 
For Traverse City & Mackinaw  9:00 a m 
For Cadillac and Saginaw.........  2:20 p m  
For Petoskey & M ackinaw.......   8:10 p m 
From Chicago and  Kalamazoo.  8:35 p m 
daily.  Others trains daily except Sunday.

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.
Nortl
N orth.
For  C incinnati....  .....................  6:30 c
6:30 a m
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago.
For F o rt W ayne and the  B ast..  11.50 a m
11:50 a m
For  Cincinnati.............................   6:16 p i
6:15 p m
For Kalamazoo  &  Chicago.......11:00 p m
11:00 p m
From Saginaw...............................  11.50 a i
11:50 a m
From Saginaw.................................11:00 p i
11:00 p m
m  a n d   11.20 p .  m . ru n s
dally;  all  o ther train s  daily except Sunday._________

Arrive from   Leave going 
S outh.
7:00  a m
10:05  a m
2:00  p m
6:00  p m
11:20  p  m

Trains leaving south a t 6:00 p i 

SLEEPING  &  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

NORTH

1 :1 0   p   m   t r a i n   has  parlor  car  Grand

SO U T H --7: OO am  train«—P a rlo r c h a ir c a r G ran d  
R apids to  C in c in n ati.
1 0 :0 5   a m   train«—W a g n e r  P a rlo r  C ar 
G ran d  R apids  to   C hicago.
6 :0 0   p  m   train«—W a g n e r S leep in g   Car 
G ran d   R apids to  C in c in n ati.
1 1 ; 2 0   p  m  t r a i n . —W a g n e r S leeping C ar 
G ran d  R ap id s to  C hicago.

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

10:06 a m  
3:55 p m  

L v G ran d   R apids 
A rr C hicago 

11:20 p m
6:50 a m
10:05 a  m  tr a in  th ro u g h  W a g n e r P a rlo r C ar.
11:20 p  m  tr a in  d a ily , th ro u g h  W a g n er  S leeping C ar. 
11:45 p m
6:45  a m
11:45 p   m  

8:10 p m  
Lv  C hicago 
A rr G ran d  R apids 
8:35 p m  
3:10  p  m   th ro u g h   W a g n e r  P a rlo r  C ar. 
tr a in  d a ily , th ro u g h  W a g n e r S leeping C ar.

2:00 p m  
9:00 p m  

7:05 am  
2:20 pm  

M u skegon, G rand R ap id s & Ind iana.

F o r M uskegon—L eave. 

F ro m  M uskegon—A rriv e

6:55  a m  
11:25  a m  
6:30  p m  

10:00 a m
4:40 p m
9:05 p m

S u n d ay  tr a in   lea v es  fo r  M uskegon  a t   9:05 a   m , a r ­
riv in g  a t  10:20  a   m .  R e tu rn in g ,  tr a in   leaves  M uske 
go n  a t   4:30 p m , a r riv in g  a t  G ran d   R apids a t   5:46 p m .
T h ro u g h  tic k e ts  a n d  fu ll in fo rm a tio n   ca n   be h a d  by 
c a llin g  u p o n  A. A lm quist,  tic k e t  a g e n t  a t  U nion S ta­
tio n ,  o r  G eorge  W.  M unson,  U nion  T ick et  A g en t, 67 
M onroe s tre e t. G ran d  R apids, Mich.

G eneral  P assen g e r a n d  T ick e t A gent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

CHICAGO

NOV.  20,  1892.
ANI>  W tcsr  MICHIGAN  K’Y.

GOING TO  CHICAGO.

Lv.GR’D RAPIDS........8:50am  1:25pm »11:35pm
Ar. CHICAGO...............3:55pm  6:45pm  *7:05am

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

TO  AND FROM  M USKEGON.

Lv. CHICAGO...............9:00»m  5:25pm *11:15pm
Ar.  GR’D RAPIDS.......3:55pm  10:45pm  *7:05am
TO  AND  FROM  BENTON  HARBOR,  AND  3T  JOSEPH
Lv. G  R ........... 8:50am  1:25pm 
...........*11:35pm
Ar.  G R  ..........*6:10am  3'55pm 
.........   10:45pm
Lv. G. R ............  8:50am  1:25pm  5:35pm  8:45pm
Ar.  G.  R....................... 10:45am  3:55pm  5:25pm
Lv.  G  R ...........................................7:30am  5:35pm
Ar.  Manistee  ...............................12:15pm  10:29pm
Ar.  Traverse  C ity.......................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.

TR A V ER SE CITY  M A N ISTEE  &  PETO SK EY .

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 pm.
»Every day.  Other trains week days only.

DETROIT,

NOV.  20,  1892
LANSING  &  NORTHERN  R.  R. 

GOING TO  DETROIT.

Lv. G  R  .......................   7:10am *1:25pm  5:40pm
Ar. DET.........................11:30am *5:25pm  10:35pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. DETR......................  7:50am *1:35pm  6:10pm
Ar. G  R.........................12:55pm *5:25pm 10:30pm

TO AND  FROM  SAGINAW,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS.

Lv. GR 7:20am 4:15pm  Ar. GR.11:50am 11:00pm

TO LOWELL VIA  LOWELL A  HASTINGS R.  R.

Lv. Grand Rapids............7:10am  1:25pm 5:40pm
Ar. from Lowell...............12:55pm 5:25pm  ...........

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Parlor  Cars on all trains  between  Grand Rap 
ids and Detroit.  Parlor cars to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.

»Every day.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

Toledo,  A nn  A rb o r  6s  N o rth   M ichigan 

R ailw ay.

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

VIA D., G. H.  A M.

VIA o ., L. A N.

Return connections equally as good.

W. ;H.  Bennett,^General Pass. Agent, 
Toledo, Ohio.

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Grand  Kapids  R etail Grocers’  Association. 
President, A.  J. Elliott;  Secretary, E. A. Stowe. 

Official  Organ—Mic h ig a n  T ra d esm a n.
Next Meeting—January 16.

Jackson  Grocers’  Union.

President,  D. S.  Fleming;  Sec’y, N. H. Branch.

M eeting o f Ja c k so n   G rocers’ U nion.
At the regular meeting of the Jackson Grocers' 
Union, held on the evening of  Dec.  29,  the  roll 
call of  officeis  showed  all  present  except  the 
Secretary and the Tieasurer.

The business report of  the  Bureau  of  Collec 
tions and  Information  was  presented,  accepted 
and placed on file.  The  financial  statement  of 
the same Bureau was read  and  referred  to  the 
Auditing  Committee,  which  subsequently  re 
ported it correct and  a  warrant  for  $10.50  was 
ordered drawn in payment of same.

The Committee on Sugar  Petition  reported  67 
signatures, and asked  two  weeks'  further  time 
to complete the work, which was granted.
The report of the  C  mmittee  on  Trade  Inter­
ests was then taken from  the  table,  which  was 
as  follows:
Your  Committee  on  Trade  Interests  would 
respectfully submit  the following  subjects  for 
your consideration:
1  The necessity of securing a larger per cent- 
age of the grocers of the  city as members  of the 
Union.
a.  The  protection  of  the  grocers  from  the 
millers who sell  goods from  house  to  house, to 
the detriment of the retail trade.
3.  The  protection  of  the  members  of  the 
Union  from  wholesale  dealers 
in  groceries, 
fruits, fish, produce, etc.,  who  make  a  practice 
of  selling  their  goods  to  hotels,  restaurants, 
saloons, boarding nouses and  private  houses, to 
the injury  of the retail dealer, upon  whom  they 
are dependent for  the  greater  portion  of  their 
business.
4.  The  protection  of  the  grocers  from  the 
bakers and dealers in bakery goods  who make a 
practice of selling their goods to  hotels, saloons, 
boardinghouses  and  private  houses;  and  also 
those bakers who make a practice of selling their 
goods from their stores  at  less  then  the  estab­
lished retail price, all  of  which  is  detrimental 
to the  retail  grocer,  and  an  injustice  on  the 
part of the baker, so long as he  supplies  the  re­
tail stores with goods of his manufacture.
5.  To establish a uniform price  on  sugar, the 
most  staple  article  which  is  sold,  the  price 
offered not less than 10 per cent, profit, and to be 
fixed by the  Union  from  time  to  time  as  the 
wholesale price rises or falls.
We would recommend the adoption  of the fol­
lowing resolutions:
Resolved—That  a  committee  of  three  promi­
nent grocers be appointed to interview the millers 
and ask them to sign  an  agreement  not  to  sell 
their goods to hotels, boarding  houses,  saloons, 
restraurants or private bouses,  except  the  Hib­
bard, Hurd, Commercia  and Stowell houses, and 
that they be privileged to  exchange  flour,  feed 
and other mill products to the farmer  for grain; 
and, further,  that  they  may  sell  to  their  own 
employes at such prices as they see fit, and
Resolved—That  a  committee  of  three  promi­
nent grocer* be appointed to  visit the wholesale 
dealers in groceries, fruits, oysters and  produce 
and ask them to sign  an  agreement  not  to  sell 
goods  to  hotels,  boarding  houses  and  private 
houses or individuals  not  in  trade,  except  the 
Hibbard, Hurd, Stowell and commercial houses, 
and to their own employes, said  agreement to be 
considered a roll of honor and  to be open in the 
hall on nights of meetings for inspection, and
Resolved—That  a  committee  of  three  promi­
nent groi ers be appointed to interview the bakers 
and dealers in bakery goods in  the city and  ask 
them 10 sign  an  agreement  not  to  sell  goods 
from their wagons to the customers  of the retail 
grocers, or to hotels, boarding houses and private 
houses, or individuals not  in  trade,  except  the 
Hibbard, Hurd, Stowell and Commercial houses; 
also that they  will  not  sell  goods  from  their 
stores at less  than  the  established  retail  price. 
Amended  to  allow  bakers  to  sell  boarding 
houses using over two loaves a day, and
Resolved—That  a  committee  of  three  promi­
nent grocers, with  Mr.  Cummings as  chairman, 
be appointed to interview the grocers of  the city 
not members of the Union, and  try  and  induce 
them to join the Union.
The report was accepted  and  the  resolutions 

were discussed seriatim.

On motion,  the  President  was  instructed  to 
appoint a committee  of  three  to  interview  the 
millers, in accordance with the  first  resolution.
On  motion, the  President  was  instructed  to 
appoint a committee  of  three  to interview  the 
grocers,  merchants! and  wholesale  dealers,  in 
accordance with the second resolution.

On  motion, the  President  was  instructed  to 
appoint a committee of three to  visit the bakers 
in accordance with the third resolution.

On motion,cthe  President  was  instructed  to 
appoint a committee of three on  membership, in 
accordance with the fourth  resolution.

The special Committee.on  Membership  Cards 
reported  in  favor  of  procuring  cards  such  as 
are used by  the  Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers 
Association, and the secretary was  instructed to 
ascertain the cost of sime.

The Financial Secretary reported  the  receipts 
of the evening to be «7.50—$1.50  for  the  general 
fund and SS for the special fund.

W. H. Porter,

Sec’y Pro Tern.

Decatur—Chas.  Criffield  is  succeeded 
by Criffield & Dewey in the  clothing  and  j 
men’s furnishing goods business.

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

The  Equality Plan.

As stated by T h e  T radesm an  of  last 
week, the  Michigan  Wholesale  Grocers’ 
Association  has  adopted  the  “Equality 
Plan”  for  the  sale  of  sugars,  the  new 
scheme going into  effect  on  Tuesday  of 
this week.  The  method  in  question  is 
one which is designed to benefit both  the 
retailer and  wholesaler,  inasmuch  as  it 
equalizes  the difference  of  geographical 
location and places all  small  dealers  on 
precisely the same relation  to  the  prim­
ary  markets  of  the  country;  in  other 
words; the retail dealer really buys direct 
from  the refiner,  the jobber  merely  act­
ing as  a  broker  or  go-between.  A  mer­
chant at Traverse City, for instance, buys 
his sugar at the  New  York  price on the 
day of  purchase,  plus  the  freight  rate 
from  New  York to  Traverse  City,  the 
freight paid by him for  transporting  the 
goods  from  purchasing  point  being  re­
bated to him in the  shape  of  an  allow­
ance on  the  invoice.  Every  other  retail 
merchant in  the State does precisely  the 
same  thing,  whether  his  distributing 
point is Grand Rapids or Detroit or Jack- 
son or  Saginaw.  Thus  it  comes  about 
that the equality is  extended  to  the  re­
tailers,  who have the  same  relative  ad­
vantage of the New  York market  as  the 
wholesalers.  No matter in  what market 
he buys,  the sugar is laid down to him at 
the same price,  leaving him free to throw 
his trade to the  house  or  market  which 
treats him best  and  is  most  convenient 
to order from.  The plan is now  in  use 
in fifteen other states—in some  of  them 
as  long as three  years—and  in  no  case 
has the plan been abandoned  wherever it 
has been  introduced,  proving pretty con­
clusively that the agreed  price  arrange­
ment gives  satisfaction  to all concerned.

F rom  O ut o f Tow n.

Calls  have  been 

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

W.  D. Struik,  Byron Center.
W. A.  Lovelace, Lilley.
Thos. Yan Eenenaam,  Zeeland.
II.  Van Nord, Jamestown.
F.  E. Campau, Alaska.
N. B.  Blain, Lowell.

PRODUCE  M ARK ET.

Apples—Baldwins  and  Spys command  $2.50® 

$3 per bbl., according to quality.

Beans—The market is not  quite so stiff.  Han­
dlers pay $1.35 $1.50  for country picked, holding 
city picked at $1.75@1.85 per bu.

Butter—Scarce  and  next  to  impossible to  se 
cure adequate supplies for home demand.  Deal­
ers  pay 20@22  for  choice  dairy and  hold  at  2c 
above  paying prices.  Creamery has sustained a 
very  marked  advance,  readily  commanding 31 
@33c.

Cabbages—Dealers hold  $5@$6 per  100.  Very 

scarce.

Celery—Winter  stock is much  inferior  to  fall 

stock, commanding 18@‘!0c per doz. bunches.

Cider—12Vi@13c per gal.
Cranberries—The  market  is  without material 
change, crates  now being  held as follows: Cape 
Cods and Jerseys, $3;  Waltons, $3.50.

Eggs—Dealers  hold  limed  and  cold  storage 
goods  at  22c, while  fresh  would  readily  com­
mand 24@25c.

Grapes—Malagas command $7.50 per keg.
Honey-Clover is plenty, offerings  have  been 
free during the  past month.  The  price  has ac­
cordingly  declined to 12H@l3c.
hold at 90c per bu.

Onions—Unchanged.  Dealers  pay  75c  and
Parsnips—40c per bu.
Potatoes—The market continues weak and un­
satisfactory.  The  seaboard  cities  are  getting 
their  supplies  mainly  from  Nova  Scotia  and 
other  Canadian  provinces, depriving  Western 
growers of that territory.

Squash—Hubbard, 2c per lb.
Sweet Potatoes—All varieties are scarce.  Jer • 
seys  readily  command  $4.50  per  bbl.,  Balti 
mores bring $4 and Vlrginlas_$3.50.

Turnips—36c per bu

¿/ou cloni need a dimmy not 

a Dark-Lantern
to  open the  eyes  of the  public.

B u t  when  snow  c o m e s   you  m u st 
have

Snow Shovels

We  have  them   w ith  Long  and  B 
handles  in  wood•
In ste e l  w e  have long handle  only.

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How 
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BA RCU S  BROS.,

MANUFACTURERS  OF  CIRCULAR

GIOCOLATE  COOLER  GO,

Manufacturers  of

Equalled by few  and  excelled  by none.  All  our  saws  are  made of  the  best  steel by tbe  mose 
skillful  workmen  and  all  saws  warranted  Burnt  saws  made  good as  new for  one-fourth  the 
list price of new saws.  All kinds of

S a w   'Repairing

M U S K E G O N , 

Bone as cheap as can be done  consistent  with good  work.  Lumber  saws  fitted  up ready for use 
without extra charge.  No charge for boxing or drayage.  W riti. or prices and discounts.
M IC H IG A N

Spring &  Company,

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IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

D ress  G oods,  S h a w ls,  C 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 otton s

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

assorted  stock at lowest  market  prices.

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

Manufacturers  of

Sliow  Cases

Of  Every Description.

First-Class  Work  Only.
WRITE  FOR  PRICES.
-  G R A N D   R A P ID S

0 8   and  6 3   C anal  St.. 

VOIGT, HEBFOLSHEIMEB  &  CO
Dry  Goods. Garpets and  Gloaks

W H O L E S A L E

W e   M ake a  S pecialty of  B lankets, Q uilts an d   Live 

G eese  F eath ers.

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

OTERALLS  OF  OUR  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigt, H erueliiiir & Co.,48> 

S S S K st"

Bombination  Store  Tables  and  Shelving.

The most complete knock down  tables and shelving ever offered to tbe trade.  The 
salient  features are  uniformity of  construction,  combining  strength and neatness, 
economy of  room, convenience in shipping and  setting up. 
It will  be to your best 
interest to correspond  with  us.  Prices  reasonable.  When in the  city call  at  the 
office and see sample.

Office 315 Michigan Trust Building.  Factory 42  Mill St.

You  can  ta k e  your  choice

BEST  FLAT  OPENING  BLANK  BOOKS

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

OF  TWO  OF  THE

GRAND  RAPIDS  BOOK  BINDING  CO.,

80  Pearl  81., Hoilseman  Blk. 

G rand  R a p id s,  M ich.

Glass  Covers  for  Biscuits.

I'  I  'HESE  chests  will 

soon 
A  pay for themselves  in  the 
breakage they avoid.  Price $4.

handsomest  ever  offered 
to  tbe 
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*  from  flies,  dirt  and  prying  fingers in a short  time to pay 
for themselves.  Try them and be convinced.  Price, 50 cents each.

BUR new glass covers  are by far tbe 

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

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

CINNAMON  BAR.

ORANGE  BAR.

CREAM  CRISP.

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

the best selling cakes we ever made.

THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

S. A. Sears, M gr. 

G R A N D   R A PID S.

BLACK  GLAÏED  AKRON  STONEWARE.

T o   the  Grocery  Trade:
We call  your special  attention to our  UN EQUALED  GRADE  OF  FINE  STONEWARE, for  which we are  exclu­
sive  selling  agents.  This  quality far excels  any  ware  previously  offered in  this  State  and  the  price is no  nioie  than  foi 
ordinary Akron ware.  The output of  the factory is limited and after a certain number of  carloads are sold  we shall have no 
more to offer for  early shipment, therefore  orders  must be  placed at once. 
If  you have  not received a card  from  our agent 
regarding his arrival at your  town,  we trust  you  will  write to us, when we will  be pleased  to quote  best  possible  prices for 
this important line.

STEW  PANS. 

MEAT  TUBS—8,10,15,20,25, SO gals. 

FLOWER  POTS—Pat.  shoulder.

CHURNS. 

BUTTERS—All sizes.

H . L E O N A R D   &  S O N S ,

Selling  A gents  for  the  B e st  Factories•

’93-N ew   Process  V apor  Stove-’93

Be  Dp  with  \k  Times.

(M ini  Made  Easy.

A stove that lights like  gas.
A stove that  makes no smoke  or 
smell.
A  safe  stove.  An  economical 
stove.
A stove  calling  for  no  skill  to 
operate it.
A  stove  that  never  gets  out of 
order.
A  stove  that  pleases  the  user, 
satisfies the dealer, and stays sold.
THE  STOVE  that  has  revolu­
tionized  the vapor stove  business.
Has a sight  feed—needle  valves 
silver  plated.
The  burner  drums  are  brass— 
heat  collectors  cast  iron—never 
will rust.
The  grate  and  burner  caps can 
easily be removed.
The only stove  correct  in  prin­
ciple, “evaporates,” does not “gen­
erate,”  and  is  absolutely  without 
any of the complicated and annoy­
ing devices used on all vapor stoves 
before its introduction.

If  this  stove is not sold  in  your 
town,  write  to us  for  the  agency. 
Only one dealer in a town.  Prices 
guaranteed.  Send  for  catalogue 
and discount.
Agents for Junior Gasoline stoves, 
ovens,  oil 
stoves,  oil  heating 
stoves,  etc.

By actual  test  during  the  past 
three  years,  it  has  been  proven 
that the “New  Process”  consumes 
less  gasoline  for  the  amount  of 
heat given than  any other style or 
kind  of  vapor  stove. 
It  is  made 
without  a  “sub-tire,”  which  de­
vice  has  proven  very  uncertain 
and unsatisfactory, causing trouble 
and giving oif a disagreeable odor.
How  does  the  “New  Process” 
operate?  The fluid drips, drop by 
drop  (never  runs),  upon  a  brass 
evaporator (which  is  always  visi­
ble)  mixes  with  and  carburets  a 
current  of  air-,  descends  to  the 
burner,  where  it  lights  like  gas. 
How  simple!  and  yet  that’s  all 
there is of  it.  All parts are  made 
interchangeable  and  can  be  re­
placed.
The oven  is  made  of  asbestos— 
metal  lined,  is  a  most  even,  per­
fect  baker  and  roaster,  made  on 
our  patent “reflex”  principle,  ar­
ranged in semi-cabinet form,  locat­
ed on a comfortable working level. 
This oven can  be shipped knocked 
down  (the  only oven  made having 
this  feature),  and  can  be  put  to­
gether  by  adjusting  six  bolts,  in 
five  minutes.  Any  part  can  be 
supplied at a reasonable cost when 
necessary.

