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WON  BY  A  DREAM.

“I am  sorry  to  say,  Blake, that  I  am 
under the impression  that  you  will lose 
that case,”  said  Dodworth  to  me  as  he 
entered my store and  took a seat.

Dodworth  is not  only  my lawyer,  but 
also my trusted  friend.  We  sat side  by 
side  in  the  town  school  and  graduated 
from Princeton in the same year.

The case he referred to was one of long 
standing  between  myself  and  a  shoe 
manufacturer named Fairfax.  Some  six 
months before  Fairfax bad  supplied  me 
with a large quantity of  uppers of an in­
ferior grade from  those  which  I had or­
dered,  and  now  he  was  trying  to make 
me pay for them. 
I had  demanded a  re­
duction on the  invoice  price  from  Fair­
fax one day when I met him on the street, 
and to  this  he  had  made  an oral agree­
ment, but now he demurred and intended 
to sue for the full amount.

“But I can  prove  that  he agreed  to  a 
reduction  of  15  per  cent.,”  I  replied, 
rather  nettled to find  that my  friend did 
not think 1 had a clear  case.

How  can  you  prove  it?”  he  asked 

dryly.

events.”

“Why,  he  said  so  himself,  at 

all 

That  is  no  proof. 

If  you  tax  him 
about it  in court  he will,  of  course, say 
you are entirely mistaken,  and there you 
are. 
If  there  was  some  outside  party 
witness to the bargain—”

“There was.”
“Who was it?”
Ah,  that  was  the  rub.  Ever since  I 
had defied Fairfax to go to  law  and  col­
lect the bill,  I had been trying to think of 
the gentleman who  had been with me on 
that occasion. 
It  was someone I did not 
know very well,  and 1 had  forgotten him 
within 
try  my 
best I could  not recall either his face  or 
his name.

hour,  and  now 

“If you can tell me who this party is, I 
will  call on  him and see if  he recollects 
the matter,”  went on my  friend.  “ If he 
does, you are safe;  if not,  your_case goes 
to pieces.”

the 

“Fairfax must know him,” I replied.
“That isn’t  the  point.  Do  you  know 

him?”

“Yes;  but I can’t recall him now.”
“Well,  try  your  best  to  do  so  dur­
I will  call  again  late this 

ing the  day. 
afternoon.”

With these words Dodworth passed out 
of the place,  leaving me very  busy  with 
my thoughts.

Dodworth  came  back at 5 o’clock  and 

cheerily asked what luck.

“None,” I  replied,  “I  couldn’t think 
of that man’s name if  my  life  depended 
on it.”

“Then you had better pay up  and have 

the case  quashed.”

“Not a bit  of  it,” I  said,  stubbornly. 
“I want  you  to  fight  him  all  you  can.. 
Put  him under the closest  cross exami­
nation you can possibly devise.”

“Oh, of coarse, I’ll  do that  if  yon  in­
I  only want you to 

sist on going ahead. 
be prepared for defeat if  it comes.”

“I will be.”
“I’ve  got another  plan,” he  went  on,

rubbing his chin  slowly.  “Suppose you 
put  a  personal'  in  the  leading  papers. 
The witness may possibly see it.”

I shook my head. 

I was under the im­
pression that  the witness was a business 
man himself, and, if so, it was not likely 
that he was in the habit of  perusing  the 
personal column of any newspaper.

“Well,  suit  yourself,” said  Dodworth, 
shrugging  his 
“I  only 
thought  you  wanted to do all that could 
be done.”

shoulders. 

“Well, go ahead and write out the per­
sonals,”  I  returned,  simply  to  please 
him.

Writing up the  advertisement  was  no 
easy matter.  Both of  us tried our hands 
at it and  made a number of  failures  be­
fore we produced the  following:

W itn ess  W a n ted—Will 

the  gentle­
man  who  overheard  a certain  business 
transaction concerning a reduction in the 
invoice  price  of  a  quantity  of  uppers 
kindly communicate  with “Dealer,” this 
office?
“Fairfax may see that and then he will 
know  just  how  weak  we  are,” said  I, 
when the writing was finished.

“That  is  true,”  replied  Dodworth 
“but there is nothing else to do,  and it is 
your last hope.”

“When shall we insert them?”
“Have your boy take  them to  the  dif 
ferent offices  at  once; .they  will  appear 
in to-morrow’s issues.”

I did as he  advised.  Late  on  the fol 
lowing day  1 received  two  replies—one 
from'a  paper  in which the personal  had 
not .been inserted,  advising  me to try its 
columns,  and  one  from  a private detec 
tive,  who  was  willing  to  work  up  the 
case for a proper fee.

I paid no  attention  to  either  of these 
letters.  At the  same  time I was served 
with a notice  to the effect  that  the case 
would  come  up  in  the  regular  county 
court,  held in an  adjoining  town on  the 
following Tuesday.

“I  suppose  I am in  for  it,” I  said  to 

Dodworth.

“I’m  afraid  you  are,  Blake.  You 
would  have  been  better off  if  you had 
taken my advice in the first place.  How 
ever, I will do the best 1 can  for you.”

“I know  you will. 

I want  you  to  let 
every  one  know that  the reason  I don’ 
pay the bill is  because I think  Fairfax i 
swindler.”

“I’ll make it hot for him,” laughed my 

friend.

But  for  all  this  the  outcome  of  the 
matter worried  me  not a  little. 
It  was 
not because I would have  to pay several 
hundred dollars  if  I lost the case,  but  it 
was having a judgment rendered  against 
me.  This is something  every  true busi 
ness man dislikes to  have occur.

“I’ve got  to  go  to  Hamstone  to-day, 
said  Dodworth,  as  he  entered  my  store 
early Monday  morning,  “and I  won’t  be 
able  to  see  you  again  before  the  trial 
But that doesn’t  matter,  for I’ve got  the 
whole thing laid  out as  far as it will go. 
Be sure and meet me at the Liberty court 
house at 9  o’clock  to-morrow  morning.

I promised that I would.
“And  if you  find  that  witness, bring

him along,” he  added,  as he went out  of 
the door.

I  promised  this  also.  But  there was 
no use trying to think who the man  was.
It  was  worse  than  chasing  a phantom, 
and by night I was half inclined to think 
that 1 was  mistaken  and  there  had  not 
been any witness at  all.

“Well,  how about  that  case of  yours 
and  Fairfax’s?”  asked  my  wife  that 
evening.

I’m  afraid  I’m  going  to  lose  it,”  I 

replied.

Lose  it!”  she  exclaimed.  “Why,  I 
thought you were  perfectly sure of  win­
ning.”

I would  be  if it  wasn’t  that  1 can’t 
for the life of me think of  a certain wit­
ness’s name.”

“Did you know the witness?”
“Quite well.”
“And you can’t think of his name?” 
“Not the first letter of it.”
“Then  why  don’t you  go to  him  and 

ask what it is?”

I would if I could  remember who  he 

was.”

coldly.

My wife pursed up  her lips and smiled 

Seems  to  me I could  think of  a per­
son’s name if it was  as  important as  ail 
that she said.

1 did not have any doubt but  what she 
could.  But then  women are  vastly  dif­
ferent from men.

I passed  a restless  night. 

I  dreamed 
that  I  was  in  the  court  room,  and  the 
case was in full sway.  Fairfax was hav­
ing  everything  his  own  way,  and  the 
jurers were  looking  at me  with clouded 
brows  and  doubtful  shakes  of  their 
beads.  Evidently  I was  judged  to be  a 
close business man  who  was  trying  his 
best to squeeze out of an honest debt.

“And  so you  say  there  was a witness 
to this transaction?” I dreamed  Fairfax’s 
lawyer said.  “Who was it?”

It was only for a second  that I hesitat­
ed.  Then I answered in a plain, matter- 
of-fact tone:

“Mr.  George Ardell.”
“ Who is he?”
“A shoe dealer of  Hamstone.”
“Is he here?”
“He is.”
And  with  this I  dreamed  Mr.  Ardell 
stepped forward and put in his evidence, 
and  after  this  the  case  was  all  in  my 
favor,  for  Fairfax  hadn’t  a  leg  left  to 
stand on.

And  then  I dreamed  how  thankful  I 
was that my  memory  had  served  me so 
well,  and  what  a  fool  I thought  I  had 
been to have forgotten  at all,  and a good 
deal more of  similar  stuff, until  I awoke 
with a start and found myself sitting up­
right in  bed, with  my  wife  wide awake 
beside me.

“For gracious sake, John,  what  is  the 

matter?” she cried.

“I’ve found out who that witness was!” 
I exclaimed.  “I just  dreamed about the 
whole thing.”

“And who is it?”  she asked, with a con­

siderable show of interest.

“Why,  it  came  to  me just  as  easy  as 
anything could.”  I went on,  “I  was in

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the court room and the  lawyer asked me 
to name the man and I said—I  said—”

And  then  I  did  my  best  to  think  of 

what I had said.
“Well,  what?”
“ Why,  I  said  it—was”---- 1  ran  my
through  my  hair  half  a  dozen 
hands 
times.  “Why, confound the thing!  I’ve 
forgotten  it  again!’’  And  true  enough 
that name and face had  slipped  through 
my mind  once  more.  There was no use 
trying  to  bring 
It 
wouldn’t  come,  and  after  spending  two 
hours in the easy chair trying to coax the 
thing  to return, I gave  up in despair.

it  back  either. 

“I think after this when you meet any­
one you had better  put  it down  in your 
notebook,”  said  my  wife  at  the  break­
fast  table.

But,  then, she  was  slightly  cross be­
cause I awoke  her two  hours before  the 
regular time.

At 8 o’clock  1 took the  train  for  Lib­
erty,  and,  arriving  there, made my  way 
at once to  the  court  house. 
I was feel­
ing pretty blue,  and  it did  not  help  my 
spirits  when  the  time  for  the  case  to 
open  came  and  Dodworth  had  not  yet 
put in an  appearance.

“Fairfax  vs.  Blake,”  called  out  the 
clerk,  and  at  that  moment  my lawyer 
appeared at the doorway.

“ Missed  two  trains  hunting  up your 
witness!”  he exclaimed.  “ But I got him 
and  brought  him  aloug.  1  left him  in 
the hallway so as to  give  Fairfax a  sur­
prise.”

“You’ve  got  the  witness?”  I gasped. 

“Mr. George  Ardell,  a  shoe  dealer  of 

“ Who is it?”

Hamstoue.”

“Why, of course,  that is the very man,” 
I cried in  high  delight.  “ Why couldn’t 
I  think of  him?  Does he remember  the 
case?”

“ Perfectly.”
“ And how did you run  across him?”
“i’ll  tell  you after  the  trial.  But say, 
put down  the name so as not to  forget it 
when you are on  the stand.”

And,  without a murmur,  I  did  as  di­

rected.

The  case  was  soon  in  full  sway. 

I 
gave in my testimony  and  it was corrob­
orated by Mr.  Ardell in every  particular. 
The jury brought in a verdict  within ten 
minutes. 
It was for  the plaintiff for the 
amount  of  the  bill,  less  15  per  cent., 
with the cost  of  the  suit  to  be paid  by 
Fairfax. 
I was  perfectly  satisfied,  and 
Dodworth,  the  witness  and  myself  left 
the building in high spirits.

“Now tell me how you found out about 
Ardell,”  said 1 as we sat down at the ho­
tel to have dinner at my expense.

“ It was a curious  thing,” replied Dod­
worth.  “Did  you  notice  how  Fairfax 
stared at  me  when I arose as  your law­
yer?”

“Yes.”
“ Well,  I  slept  with 

It  happened  that  we 

that  man  last 
night. 
both 
stopped  over  at  Hamstone  and  at  the 
same hotel.  The  town is  crowded  with 
men  on  account  of  some  reunion,  and 
the  clerk  said  that  I  couldn’t  have  a 
room,  but if I  was willing  to share with 
another man he would fix  me up. 
I said 
‘all right,’and he put me in  with Fairfax.
“I  saw  at  once  who  he  was,  but  he 
didn’t know me from  Adam,  and  I didn't 
let on.  We went to  bed and he was soon 
sound asleep.

“ ‘I’ve  got you  Blake,’ said  he. 

‘You 
can’t  win 
this  case,  Blake.’  These 
words made  me  wide  awake,  and I lis­

“Pretty soon he took  another toss.
“ ‘I  don’t  care  if  George Ardell  was 
there,’ he  murmured;  ‘he  won’t remem­
ber a  thing  about  it—not  a thing. 
I’ll 
win 
this  case,  Blake.  What  Ardell 
knows won’t help you a bit.’

“ He  continued  to  talk in  this  strain 
for  a  long  time,  and I drank  in  every 
In the morning I was the first up, 
word. 
and you can  make  up your  mind that  I 
wasn’t long  in  finding  out  who  Ardell 
was, and  then  I set out  to  find him.  1 
had considerable trouble,  but when I did 
it was all right,  and  you know the rest.” 
explanation. 
When he  had  finished  I told  the  other 
two of  my  dream, and  all  three  of  us 
agreed  that  from  beginning  to  end the 
case  was a curious one.

Such  was  Dodworth’s 

From the Grocers* Bulletin.

Keep Down the Expense Account.
The  facilities  for  doing  business  are 
much better than  they  were a number of 
years  ago,  and  for  the  same  amount of 
capital  a much  larger  business  can  be 
transacted.  Rapid  freight  transporta­
tion has had much to do with this change, 
and  in connection  with  this the  use  of 
the telegraph  and  telephone  has greatly 
facilitated business operations.  So much 
have these factors  helped to increase the 
business  done,  that  many merchants are 
apt  to  forget  another  side  of  the  ques­
tion,  and  a  side  which  needs  as  sharp 
looking  after  as anything  in  the  whole 
line of business transactions.
We refer to the  expense of  doing busi­
ness,  which,  upon  examination,  will  be 
found  to have  increased in a more  rapid 
ratio  than  has  the  amount  of  business 
done.  The problem of how to keep down 
the expense  account is a most  important 
one,  upon  which  depends  the  success 
or failure of  a business.
The use of the telegraph, the telephone 
and  the  typewriter,  while  helping  busi­
ness,  has  also  greatly increased  the  ex­
penses.  While  the proprietor  or  assist­
ant  used to  do all the  corresponding,  he 
now  has to  have  one or  two  typewriter 
operators to assist  him;  and again, rapid 
transportation  has  caused  merchants  to 
buy much more frequently and in smaller 
quantities,  thus  necessitating  a  much 
larger  amount of  bookkeeping  and  cor­
respondence. 
It  is  hardly  necessary  to 
follow up all  the items which  call for an 
increased  outlay  in  the  modern method 
of  transacting  business,  but  when  the 
proprietor comes to look over the expense 
account  for  the  month  or  quarter,  the 
totals are such  that he can  forcibly  real­
ize that doing  business in a modern  way j 
is a most  expensive  thing,  and the  best 
energies  of  a  successful  house  are  ex­
pended in the direction of  keeping down 
expenses.  Especially  is  this true where 
the  business is divided  up  into  depart­
ments,  for  here the  managers may think 
that a little  expense here  and a little ex­
pense  there  will  not  amount  to  much, 
but  when  some  half-dozen  departments 
are  in  a  bouse, and  all  these  expenses 
are  footed  up, it will  be  found that the 
total  is  something  which sometimes  be­
comes startling to the proprietor of a busi­
ness.
With the  increased  expenses  and with 
the  decreasing  profits, owing  to  compe­
tition,  it has  become a necessity that the 
capital invested  in a business  should  be 
turned  over  much more  frequently  than 
was the case  fifteen or twenty years ago; 
unless  this can  be  done, the  business is 
not  apt  to  be  profitable, and  it  has  be­
come true  indeed  that  it  is  the  nimble 
sixpence  which  leads  to  profits.  But 
however often the capital  may be turned 
over  during  the  course  of  a  year,  it  is 
one of  the essential  things in  arriving at 
success  to  keep  down  the  expense  ac­
count.

The Eternal Balance.

Wealth helps some  people, doubt It not a bit,
And splices out the lack of mother wit;
Five thousand dollars’ schooling is a joy,
A godsend to a fifty dollar  boy;
Although some little girl with chic and vim 
May take the prize and waltz right over him, 
Thou  shalt  not  fret—heaven  portions  out  our 
Ood swings all things in perfect equlpose.

joys;

J a m e s B. W i o s i n .

--- OB —

No  Alkalies
Other  Chemicals
if. Baker & Go.’s
Breakfast  Cocoa,

are  used  in  the 
preparation o f

which is  absolutely pu re 

and soluble.

A d escrip tio n   of  th e   chocolate 
p la n t,  an d   of  th e  v ario u s  cocoa 
an d  ch o co late p re p a ra tio n s m an­
u factu red  by W alter B ak er & Co. 
will be s e n tfre e  to an y  d e a le r on 
ap p licatio n .

W. BAKER & GO., Dorchester, Mass.

ASPHALT

FIRE-PROOF  ROOFING

The best Roofing for covering over Shingles 
on old roofs of houses, barns, sheds, etc.;  will 
not rot  or  pull  loose, and  when  painted with 

This Roofing Is guaranteed  to  stand  In  all 
places where Tin and Iron has failed;  Is super­
ior to Shingles and much cheaper.

ourFIRE-PROOF ROOF PAINT,
etc.A. M. REYNOLDS & SON,

Will last longer  than  shingles.  Write the un­
dersigned  for  prices  and  circulars, relative to 
Roofing  and  for  samples  of  Building  Papers, 

Practical Roofers,

Qg, Lovii and Oampao 8ts., Brand Rapida, Midi.

M I C H I G A N

Firs & Marine Insnraflce Go.

Organized  1881.

De t r o i t ,  Mi c h i g a n

66The  Kent.'*
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 $2  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.

THE  K I C f f l G A I i   TRADESMAN.
Unlike toe Dutch Process 

tened eagerly for whatever might follow. 

EATON,  LYON  &  CO.’S

Full force of travelers will soon 
be  out  with  complete  lines  of 
new goods in

Stationeru

—AND—

Sporting  Goods

20  &  22  MONROE  ST.,

G R A N D   R A P ID S .

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Send in your orders for

M A S K S

to the

Yort  B ali  Carriage  Co.
47, 49,  51, 53  Canal St,

1 

Best Assortment  and  Lowest Prices,

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MANUFACTURERS AND JOBHERS OF

TUBERS AND

!,  ADLER  &  GO.,
SMrts,

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Gents'  Furnishing Goods.

REMOVED  TO

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

DETROIT,  MICH.

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

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

Geo.  W.  Gat, Vice-President.

CAPITAL, 

W m .  H. A n d e r s o n ,  Cashier.
-  - 
-  $300,000.

Transacts a general banking business.

BEIGH  1  BOOTH,  Props.

H ake am pec laity of.collections.  Account* 

of country ^merchant« solicited.

' I 'H -H!  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

COUNTRY VS.  CITY  BUSINESS  LIFE.

PAPER  II.

W ritten   to r The T radesman.

We 

sometimes  hear  men  remark, 
while bemoaning  their  ups  and  downs, 
that they must  have been born under an 
unlucky star.  They cannot perceive any 
other  reason  for  their  ill  luck, and  so 
they attribute it  to the peculiar position 
of some  luminary  in  the  firmament  at 
the time  of  their  birth. 
If  there  be  a 
star of “ill luck,”  there  may  also be  a 
“star  of  humility,”  which  would  ac­
count for so many people  being born in­
to the world with  a sort of  an  idea that 
somebody  else  possesses  a  proprietary 
interest in  them.  They  seem to take  it 
for granted,  right  from  the  very  start, 
that their only  mission  in  this world  is 
to humbly  serve  someone else who  has 
a paramount right to earth and  its bless­
ings.  They  do  not  complain,  but  are 
rather inclined  to a feeling of  thankful­
ness  for  the  air  they  breathe  and  the 
small space they are permitted to occupy; 
and,  not being the  absolute owners in fee 
simple of  their  own  souls,  they are -re­
lieved from  all responsibility  and worry 
as to their future  welfare.

The  business  world  is  divided  into 
three  grand  divisions, namely,  leaders, 
followers  and 
independents.  The  fel­
lows  who  make  their  debut  under  the 
“star of  humility”  are  the  “followers” 
and “servers” in the  world of  trade and 
traffic;  the  “cupbearers”  in  the  social 
arena,  and  the  “ ward  heelers” 
in  the 
realm of politics.

These followers and  servers  are a nu­
merous  class  and may  be found  every­
where, in  the  country  and  in  the  city 
alike.  The small  retailer who is set  up 
in  business,  and  who  is  being  held  up 
and  carried  by  some  jobber,  is  only  a 
server; his bonds of servitude are as bind­
ing,  and  he enjoys  no  more  freedom  of 
action, than the  vassal  of  feudal  times. 
Every  dollar he  receives  belongs  to  his 
jobber, and  his  very  existence  depends 
upon  his  fidelity  to  him. 
Indeed,  in­
stances have  been  known where jobbers 
have made use of these fellows simply as 
decoy  ducks  or  stuffed  scare-crows,  for 
the  purpose  of  heading  off  some  rival 
jobber in his undertakings,  and when the 
purpose has been  served,  the “server” is 
relieved from further duty,  regardless of 
his  fidelity.

The larger  portion of these “servers,” 
however, are  “counter  jumpers.”  Who 
does not  know  clerks  who  have  grown 
gray in the service;  men who have served 
a  lifetime  at  the  beck  of  an employer? 
If  these  men  should  reach  the  age  of 
Methuselah,  they  would still  be  serving 
someone  else. 
It  is  their  destiny—for 
this they were born into  the world.  Put 
them  into any  other  position,  and  they 
would be as  much  out of  place as a coal 
scuttle on the china closet shelf.

Country  life  possesses  no charms for 
these followers and servers. The more gor­
geous their surroundings, the  more  they 
see to  pay  homage  to;  and  so  the  city 
holds  out  great  attractions  for  them. 
They are, by nature,  what the  masses in 
our  cities  who  have  been  brought  up 
therein  are by  force of  circumstances— 
reconciled  servers of men.

The man  described in a previous  arti­
cle who made the great  mistake  of  clos­
ing out his country  business and coming 
to the city, does not  belong to this class. 
He  belongs  to the  “independent”  class 
of business  men, a  hasty  description  of 
which  will  be  given  before  advancing 
further in this subject.

The  independent  business  man,  es­
pecially if  he possess  the inherent traits 
of character  ascribed  to  the  individual 
referred to,  is, in my opinion, the noblest 
specimen  of  them  all. 
Such  a  man 
thinks more  of his  good  name  and  per­
sonal honor than he does of  the accumu­
lation of money for money’s  sake,  and he 
very  seldom  becomes  rich.  Yet  he  is 
ambitious  and  anxious to  get  on in  the 
world, not for the mere purpose of hoard­
ing,  but  rather  to secure  a  substantial 
basis as  a means  of  supporting  and  es­
tablishing  a  status  of 
independence. 
This  substantial  basis  is  necessary,  in 
order  that  he  may  be able  to  pay  one 
hundred cents on  the  dollar, and  pay  it 
at the  very time  agreed upon;  and to  be 
unable to do so would, in his  estimation, 
be a foul blot  on his character.  He will 
freely  advise,  counsel  and  urge  on  to 
honorable action, but he has  no desire to 
lead,  control  or  drive  others.  He  will 
carefully  weigh  the  opinions  of others, 
consider  their  suggestions  and  accept 
and adopt whatever he  considers will  be 
to his advantage;  but he will not blindly 
follow,  truckle  to,  submissively  be  sat 
down upon, or, be  led by, any  man  with 
whom he may come in  contact,  be he big 
as Goliath or rich as Croesus.  He professes 
to  be a man  in  every  sense  of  the term. 
Being a  social  creature,  he  expects  the 
right haiid of fellowship  from every oth­
er social being in the  little community in 
which his lot is cast.  His  business mot­
to is,  “Live and  let live,” and his tactics 
are to  be  straightforward,  truthful  and 
honest.  His aim is to do right, and he is 
naturally fond of approbation as a means 
of conveying to him the fact that his cus­
tomers believe  that he  is disposed to  do 
right

My city bred  friends will laugh at  the 
above picture  and accuse me of  copying 
from  some  goody-goody  Sunday  school 
book, or  from some old-fashioned morali- 
zer of  forty years ago;  but I assure them 
that  there  are  scores  of  disappointed, 
struggling,  heartsick business men right 
here in this beautiful city of  Grand Rap­
ids  who  made  the  same  fatal  mistake 
that the friend described in  my last arti­
cle  made.  These  men  know  that  the 
country  abounds  with  just  such  men. 
They  know,  further,  that  the  very  at­
mosphere  of  the  city  is  rank  poison to 
the very natures of this class  of business 
men.

But  why  don’t  they  return  to  their 
pleasant associations  down  in  the coun­
try,  if the city is  so distasteful  to them? 
Easier said than  done.  Why doesn’t the 
child  turn  around  and  pick  up  the 
spilled milk,  instead of  sitting down and 
crying about  it?  The  fact  of  the  busi­
ness is that these  men,  in  an  evil  hour, 
with  mistaken  ideas  of  matters  and 
things  with  which  they  were  not  ac­
quainted,  pulled up the anchor and drift­
ed down the current;  and  it would  be as 
easy to drop that anchor where it first was 
as to coax water to run up hill.  These men 
have committed an irretrievable blunder. 
They  are  waging  an  uneven  contest. 
They meet duplicity and chicanery  with 
scrupulous  regard for honorable dealing 
and  frank  truthfulness,  and  they get 
downed  every  time.  They  are  ignored, 
run  over,  shoved  aside,  until  they  are 
utterly crushed.  Sometimes  they break 
down completely and go  to the dogs and 
take their families with them.  City com­
petition is  keener  and  more  unscrupu­
lous  than  competition  in  the  country; 
I crooked  ways  and  means  succeed  in  a

8

WHITE  KID  SUPPERS.

$1.10  PER PAIR.

Send Your Orders to

BIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  CO.,

18-14  LYON  ST. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of

F R A N K   H .  W H IT E ,
Brooms,  Washboards,  Wooden
Indicated  Pails  l  Tilhs,

A N D

Wooden  Bowls,  Clothespins  and  IRolling 

Pins,  Step  Ladders,  W ashing  Ma­

chines. M arket, Bushel and De­

livery Bas'.ets,  B uilding 

Paper, W rapping

Paper, Sacks, Twine£and  stationery.

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

185  COURT  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

A T L A S

S O A P

Is Manufactured 

only  by

HENRY  PASSOLT, 

Saginaw,  Mich.

For general laundry and  family 

washing  purposes.

Only braud of first-class laundry 

soap manufactured in the 

Saginaw  Talley.

Having  new  and  largely  in­
creased  facilities  for  manu­
facturing  we  are well  prepar­
ed  to fill orders promptly and 
at most reasonable prices.
G Q T S 2 2 7 G  R .O O T .
We pay the highest price for it.  Addreee

PECK BROS., W^ r1nD itlpfifl**

way  that  would  be  impossible  outside; 
trickery  runs  riot,  and  on  every  hand 
honest  effort  is  taken  advantage  of  by 
rascality.  Add  to  all this  the fact  that 
social  standing  is  based  on  boodle,  and 
that the man  with  small  means is  virtu­
ally buried  alive socially,  and it will  be 
readily seen  that the city is no place  for 
the class of business  men I have  depict­
ed.

In my next and  last article  under this 
head,  I shall  confine  myself  exclusively 
to “Country Business Life.”

E. A.  Ow en.

Vanderbilt—L.  A.  Harris,  dealer  in 
drugs, is succeeded  by Harris &  Savage.
Geo. H. Reeder &  Co.,

Q JOBBERS  OF

Boots  and  Shoes,

Felt Boots and Alaska  Socks.

State Agents for

158 &  160 Fulton St., Grand  Rapids.

GRAND  RAPIDS  BRUSH  CO.,

M anufacturers of

BRUSHES.

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

O ur goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing 

Houses.

BDY  THE  PENINSULAR
Pants,  Sits,  a i  Overalls

Once and You aie our Customer 

for life.

STANTON, MOREY & C0„ Mirs.

D E T R O IT ,  M ICH .

so . F. O w e n , Salesman  f o r  Western ¡Michigan 
Residence. 59 N.  Union St., Grand  Rapids.

DODGE
Wood  Split  Pulley.

THE  LIGHTEST!

THE  STRONGEST!

THE  BEST!
HESTER MICH1NERY GO.,
So.  D iv is i o n   S t .,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

AMONO THE TRAPE.

ABOUND  THE  STATE.

Viola—Harry Pierce succeeds Chantler 

& Pierce in general  trade.

Locke —  L.  G.  Royce  succeeds  Ira 

Hawes in general  trade.

Otsego—E.  E.  Smith  succeeds  E.  S. 

Bonner in the restaurant business.

Muskegon—Lon  Brown  has  removed 

his clothing stock to Ashville,  N. C.

Ypsilanti  —  M.  B.  Shaffer  succeeds 

Chas.  C.  King in the grocery business.

Leslie—Bickhart  Bros,  succeed  L.  J 

Bickhart in the flouring  mill  business.

Baraga—L.  J.  Gallagher 

succeeds 
Gallagher & Hill in the grocery business.
East Tawas—Robt.  J. Smith  has  pur­
chased the drug  stock of  H. A. Goodale.
Lapeer—Edward  Miller  is  succeeded 
by John P.  Roberts in the meat business.
Owosso—W. S. Gardner is succeeded by 
E.  L. Devereaux in the grocery  business.
Elk  Rapids—W.  H.  Mather  has  sold 
his  confectionery stock to  Chas.  Mickel- 
son.

Cadillac—John Nelson  succeeds Peter­
son & Nelson in the  confectionery  busi­
ness.

Chelsea—The  Glazier  Stove  Co.  suc­
ceeds the Glazier Strong  Oil Stove Co. at 
this place.

Negaunee — Wm.  Henrickson,  meat 
dealer,  has  been  closed  under  chattel 
mortgage.

Muskegon—John  Klooster  succeeds 
Waalkema  &  Klooster  in  the hardware 
business.

Charlotte—Spaulding  & Brackett  suc­
ceed Spaulding & Thomas in the boot and 
shoe business.

Elk  Rapids—J.  W.  Slater  has  pur­
chased  the  notion  and  bazaar  stock  of 
Miss Gorman & Co.

Algonac—James  H.  Logan  has  sold 
part  of  his grocery  stock,  removing the 
remainder to Port Huron.

Way land—J.  R. Cole has  sold  his  dry 
goods  and  furniture  stock  and  store 
building to E.  W. Pickett.

Richmond—T. S.  Weter & Co. are  suc­
ceeded by Thomas  Fanning in  the cloth­
ing,  boot and shoe and  grocery business.
Grand  Ledge—The  furniiure  and un­
dertaking  firm  of  Granger  &  Hall  has 
dissolved,  W.  H.  Hall  continuing  the 
business.

Owosso—Chas.  Parker  expects to  put 
a stock of groceries, boots and shoes, etc., 
in the store on West Main street,  vacated 
by Geo.  H.  Warren.

Detroit—lsadore  Kuttnauer  has  been 
admitted to partnership in  the  wholesale 
tobacco firm of Louis  Kuttnauer  &  Co., 
the style remaining  the  same.

Owosso—F.  B.  Richardson has sold  his 
grocery stock to  Elmer T.  Sheldon,  who 
has  clerked  for  F.  H.  Banister  for  sev­
eral  years.  He  will  continue  the busi­
ness at the same location.

Kalkaska—S. Cohen  has  sold  his  dry 
goods,  clothing,  hat  and  cap  and boot 
and shoe stock  to Jacob Weiss,  formerly 
of Traverse City,  who  will  continue  the 
business at the same location.

Saginaw—Seth  Davis  has  purchased 
the interest of the “Co.” in the firm of A. 
D.  Spangler  & Co.,  wholesale fruit  and 
produce dealers.  The  new  firm will  be 
known as Spangler  &  Davis.

Springs, has formed a copartnership with 
his brothers,  W.  H.  and  S.  M.  Summers, 
under the style of Summers Bros.,  for the 
purpose of  embarking in  the confection 
ery business.

Negaunee—P. B. Kirkwood’s new brick 
It is 
block is now receiving its  tenants. 
66x75 feet in dimensions and three stories 
high, embodying all the desirable features 
ordinarily found  in  blocks in the  larger 
cities.

Flint—Lewis & Co.  have been  display­
ing in their windows a remarkable  freak 
of nature  in  the  shape  of  a  perfectly 
formed  cow  only 
twenty-four  inches 
high and thirty-eight  inches  long.  The 
cow  was  born  in  Southern  New  York 
and is of the Holstein breed.

Detroit—The copartnership of  William 
H. Mitchell & Co., wholesale milliners on 
Jefferson avenue,  has  been  renewed  for 
three  years.  William  H.  Mitchell  and 
Douglass  E.  Kellogg  are  general  part­
ners.  Reuben  C.  Webb is  special part­
ner to the extent of $12,000.

Detroit—Burnham,  Stoepel & Co.  have 
filed notice of a renewal of  their partner­
ship.  Fred C. Stoepel, Joseph J. Crowley 
and James Wilson, of Detroit,  and James 
K.  Burnham  and  Albert H.  Munger,  of 
Kansas City, are general partners.  David 
Whitney,  Jr.,  as  special  partner,  con­
tributes $100,000 to the capital stock.

Kalamazoo—John  C.  Fleming,  for sev­
eral  years  proprietor of  the Grand  Rap­
ids & Indiana  elevators in  this  city and 
in  Hunterstown,  lnd.,  has  filed  chattel 
mortgages  covering  both  properties en­
tire in favor of  the First  National  Bank 
of  Kalamazoo.  The Bank had furnished 
him  money  to  carry  on  the  business. 
The  amount  stated in the chattel  mort­
gages  is  $2,500,  but  the  elevators  are 
worth  about  $15,000.  Subsequently  a 
writ  of  attachment  was  issued  against 
the elevator  property for  $1,050 in favor 
of George Ackley to secure him for wheat 
stored  in  the  elevator.  Unfortunate in­
vestments caused the collapse.

Detroit—Moses 1. Schloss, defendant in 
the suit of  B.  Frank  Adler  for  the  ap­
pointment  of  a receiver  for  the firm  of 
Schloss,  Adler  &  Co.,  has  filed  his 
answer to  the allegations of  Adler.  He 
denies  that  he  refused  to  comply  with 
Adler’s  request  to  come  to  a  full  and 
fair  accounting  for  the  purpose  of  dis­
solving  the  partnership.  On 
the  con­
trary,  he claims  that he  has always been 
ready to do so and that he  himself, since 
the  taking of  the  inventory,  repeatedly 
requested  Adler  to come  to  an  account­
ing,  but Adler put  him  off  from time  to 
time  upon  some  frivolous  pretext  or 
other.  Schloss  charges  that  Adler  re­
peatedly, before and  since  the taking  of 
the inventory,  threatened to  involve the 
affairs of the firm in litigation and  there­
by  impair  Schloss’  interest,  unless  he 
bought  out  Adler’s  interest.  He  says 
that the charges made against him in the 
bill of  complaint  were  simply  the  out­
growth of the bitter feeling  awakened in 
him  by  Schloss’ refusal  to  buy  out  his 
interest in  the  business.  He concludes 
by  saying that the  interests of  the cred­
itors are but  subserved  by the  appoint­
ing of a receiver  and  the winding up  of 
the firm’s affairs.

Copemish—Mrs.  W.  W. Gibb  has  pur­
chased the  interest  of her  father  in  the 
drug  firm  of  Gibb  &  Clark.  The  firm 
will hereafter  be  known  as  Gibb & Co., 
comprising Walter W.  Gibb and  wife.

Hart—Frank Summers,  late of Berrien

MANUFACTURING  MATTEBS.

Bell—W.  A.  French is putting in about 
5,000,000 feet of hard  and  soft timber to 
stock his sawmill here.

Detroit—Johnson,  Nelson  &  Co.  have 
been succeeded by Nelson,  Barker & Co.,

TEK  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

manufacturing  chemists  at  118  and 120 
Congress street west.

Tawas—The  Winona  Lumber  &  Salt 
Co.  is  purchasing 5,000,000  feet  of  logs 
of small jobbers in Iosco  county to stock 
its sawmill here next season.

Jackson — Foote  &  Jenks,  manufac­
turers  of  perfumes  and  extracts,  have 
merged their business into a  stock  com­
pany, the style remaining the same.

South  Arm—The  Parkes  Lumber Co. 
will  hereafter  be  known  as  the  South 
Arm  Lumber  Co.,  W.  J.  Morgan,  W,  S. 
Johnson and C.  H.  Ellis having incorpor­
ated at Milwaukee under that name  with 
a capital stock of $75,000.

Harrietta—B.  Bristol  is  erecting  log­
ging camps near this place  and will soon 
begin operations for  White & Friant, ex­
pecting to put in about  4,000,000 feet  of 
hemlock,  which  will  go  into  the south 
branch of the Manistee river.

Detroit—Horton,  Cato & Co., manufac­
turers of extracts and  table  sauce,  have 
merged their business into a  stoek  com­
pany under the style of  the  Horton-Cato 
Manufacturing Co.  The capital stock of 
$15,000 has been  fully paid in  and is held 
by Margaret Cato, J. C.  Eichhorn  and  B. 
E.  Hamlin.

Cadillac—W.  W.  Cummer  has  com­
pleted  the  purchase  of  18,000  acres of 
hardwood  timber  land,  located 
the 
townships of  Antioch, Colfax,  Boon  and 
Selma.  He will  build a  standard guage 
railroad to the further limit of this tract, 
and expects to bring all of  the timber to 
Cadillac for manufacture  by  the  factor­
ies at that  place.

in 

Cadillac—Cobbs &  Mitchell’s  sawmill 
No.  1  will  begin  operations  in  a  few 
days  with  a  complete  band  saw  outfit. 
The  additional  band  saw  at  the  No.  2 
mill  will  be  ready  to  run  during  the 
present winter.  A quantity of  very fine 
pine  logs  are  being  delivered  by  daily 
trains  from  the  firm’s  camps  in  Grand 
Traverse county.  The three  baud mills 
will  have a plentiful  supply of logs dur­
ing the year.

Bay City—The  project  to transfer the 
Blodgett sawmill from  Muskegon to this 
city is  a go. 
It  is  understood  that  the 
Michigan Central Railway  has agreed  to 
transport the mill free of  charge.  What 
is known  as  the  South  End  Lumber  & 
Salt Co.  has been  formed to  operate this 
mill  plant,  with  a capital  stock  of  $50,- 
000.  S.  O.  Fisher,  Joseph  Turner,  W. 
H.  Tousey,  Alfred  Mosher,  Alfred 
Mosher,  jr., and  Albert  Miller  are  the 
stockholders.  The site  for the new mill 
has already been cleared of debris.

Bay City—The copartnership  between 
Pitts  &  Cranage  expired  by  limitation 
Jan. 2, Thomas  P.  Cranage, the  resident 
manager,  retiring.  The  sawmill  will  be 
operated by Thomas Pitts  and other  De­
troit capitalists.  The  records show  that 
the Pitts & Cranage  plant  was  operated 
from  1863  to  1867  inclusive  under  the 
firm name of Samuel Pitts & Co. 
In 1863 
the  mill  manufactured  2,750,000 feet  of 
lumber. 
In  1868  Thomas  Pitts  &  Co. 
operated the mill,  and in  1870 the firm of 
Pitts & Cranage  took  hold  and has con­
tinued until now.  The  Michigan  timber 
owned by the firm  is  nearly  exhausted, 
and  it  is  likely  that  Canada  will  be 
drawn  upon for  supplies.  Mr.  Cranage 
has invested in the  McGraw Transporta­
tion Co., owning  lake  carriers,  and  will 
also attend to  his duties  as President  of 
the  Michigan  Salt  Company.  He  is  a 
gentleman of  undoubted ability, has  ac­
cumulated  a  handsome  fortune,  and  is

one of Bay City’s most prominent and re­
spected business men.

Manistee—Louis  Sands  is  increasing 
his holdings of  pine lands  on  this  river 
as fast as  opportunity  offers.  He  must 
have bought  over $200,000  worth of tim­
ber on  this  river  during  the  past year. 
His last  purchase  was  from  E.  N. Sai­
ling, of  a  tract  in  27-6,  near  Kalkaska, 
estimated  at  about  4,000,000  feet  of 
choice pine,  about the same  of  hemlock, 
and  a  large  amount  of  hardwood,  the 
price  paid  being  about  $27,000.  This 
timber would be about a ten-mile haul to 
the main river,  and a shorter haul to  the 
north  branch,  but  as  Mr.  Sands  owns 
quite  a  large  group  in  that  town,  he 
probably  intends  putting  in  a  railroad 
there later on.  Mr.  Sands seems to have 
his mind set on a  yard  trade,  as  in con­
nection with the shingle mill  he is build­
ing he is also going to put up a thorough­
ly equipped  planing  mill,  capable of do­
ing the best  kind  of  work  for rail ship­
ment.  He  has  put this  away  from  his 
other  mill  where  he  has  lots  of  piling 
room should  he  go into  the  yard  trade, 
and where there is a  good  chance to  get 
a switch into the yard from the Manistee 
&  North  Eastern  Railroad,  as  well  as 
from the Manistee & Grand Rapids.

Manistee—The  experimental  oil  well 
at  the  Canfield  &  Wheeler  Company’s 
mill was to  be  sunk 350  feet  below  the 
salt,  and they had gone down a perfectly 
dry hole for  about  320  feet,  when  they 
struck a vein  of  exceedingly  dense  and 
very  bitter  water,  which  under  strong 
pressure bubbled  up  to  the surface  and 
stopped  operations.  A  partial  analysis 
shows  that  the  liquid 
is  very  rich  in 
bromine,  but  as  it  is  a  cheap  article, 
there would  not  be  much  in  that.  Mr. 
Percy,  the  contractor,  thinks  now that 
there is little possibility of finding either 
oil or gas,  and that if  they  did strike  it, 
unless  it  was  under  tremendous  pres­
sure it would not rise to the surface under 
the weight  of  such a dense  liquid.  He 
has about 30 feet to drill  under  his con­
tract,  but 
they  have  not  yet  decided 
what  they  will  do. 
It  is  to  be  hoped 
that  they  will  continue  drilling  to the 
depth contemplated,  so as to get through 
the  Trenton rock,  at  least,  as all  geolo­
gists say that  if they do  not find oil  and 
gas in that  formation they are not likely 
to  strike  it  at  all. 
seems  strange 
that  some of  the mills  here  should  be 
so much  troubled  with  oil  coming  up 
along with the brine, and  when they put 
down a special  well  for  oil  they cannot 
get a sign of it.

It 

Nine New Members for the M. C. T. A.
D e t r o it , Jan. 9—At  the  first  regular meeting 
of the  Board of  Trustees of  the  Michigan Com 
mercial Travelers’ Association, held Jan. 7, Sam­
uel Kindskoff, of Detroit,  was elected  chairman 
of  the Board  and  D. Morris Secretary-Treasurer 
of  the  Association  for the  ensuing  year.  The 
President  appointed as  members  of  the Exam­
ining  Finance  Committee,  Geo.  B.  Hutchin, 
Louis  Kuttnauer  and  Louis  A.  Peters,  and  as 
chairman  of  the  Railroad  Committee  Edwin 
Mortlock.  The  membership was increased nine 
by  having  that  many  applications  since  the 
annual meeting, all of whom were  unanimously 
elected,  and we have as many more in sight  for 
the  next  Board  meeting  and  hope to double it. 
I can’t see  any good  reason, if the boys will  all 
put their shoulders to the wheel, why we should 
not  have  1,000  members  on  Jan.  1,  1894.  The 
new  as  well as the  old  members of  the  Board 
are  very  enthusiastic  and  are  going  to  work 
with a vim  this year  for the  good of  the  Asso­
ciation, and  hope all  the  members will  take the 
same interest. 

D. M o r r i s .

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The  Fanatic.

For many a proud religion has been built
The blood of countless thousands has been spilt, 
Genius Is oft one gift, so overgrown,
That all the mental balance is o’erthrown.

On the wild ravings of a fevered brain; 
The dreams of some fanatic to attain; 

E u g e n e   B a r r y .

Use Tradesman Coupons.

Changes  in  the  Constitution  of  the 

M. C. T.  A.

Two important amendments to the con­
stitution  of  the  Michigan  Commercial 
Travelers’ Association  were  adopted  at 
the  recent  annual  meeting.  One  was 
offered by  Thomas  Macleod,  as  follows:
The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  have 
power to  offer as  an  inducement for the 
soliciting of  members  a commission  not 
exceeding  the  amount  of  the  initiation 
fee  provided  for  in  the  constitution, 
which is at present $5.

The other  amendment  was  offered  by 
John  McLean,  changing  the  article  re­
lating  to  membership  as  indicated  by 
words set in  italics:

Any man of good character and in gen­
eral good health, not under 21  years and 
not  over  45  years  of  age,  who  is  now 
and has been for six months immediately 
prior to the date  of  his  application, en­
gaged in  buying  or selling some kind  of 
goods,  wares  or  merchandise  at  whole­
sale, and who goes  away from  his  regu­
lar place  of  business  for  that  purpose, 
also any person who  may be  engaged  as 
superintendent, 
proprietor,  manager, 
book-keeper  or  salesman  in  any  legiti­
mate wholesale  or  manufacturing  busi­
ness  is eligible to membership in this as­
sociation:  Provided,  however, 
that  he 
shall at the time of his application,  have 
a bona fide residence  in any  state  north 
of latitude 39 degrees.
These changes  will  undoubtedly  aug­
ment the membership  roll very material 
ly,  although an increase from 562 to 1,000 
—as  promised  by  President  McLean— 
seems like a big  jump  for  a single year, 
If  any  executive  officer  can  accomplish 
such a result,  McLean  is the man.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

W. W.  Eagan  succeeds  Ed.  O’Donnell 
in  the  boot  and  shoe  business  at  54 
Canal street.

Cornelius  Yan  Sluys  has  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  the  corner  of  North 
Prospect and Matilda streets.  The Ball- 
Barnhart-Futman Co. furnished the stock.
A.  F.  Griswold  has  purchased  the 
interest of  H.  Beall  in  the  firm of  Gris­
wold & Beall,  grocers  at  825 South  Div­
ision street, and will  continue  the  busi­
ness in his own  name.

The  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.  has 
adopted plans  for the enlargement  of its 
office  and  sample  room, 
throwing  the 
main  partition 
fourteen  feet  further 
back  and  removing  the  shipping doors 
further back on the main floor.

F.  W. Shirley,  who  has clerked  for H. 
E.  Locher  & Co.,  the Ellsworth  avenue 
druggists,  for  over  eleven  years,  has 
opened  a  drug  store  for  himself at  the 
corner  of  Grandville  avenue  and  Hall 
street.  The  Hazeltine & Perkins  Drug 
Co.  furnished the  stock.

Winchester  &  Daniels  will  manufac­
ture 25,000,000 feet of hemlock lumber at 
their four  mills  on  the  Chicago  &West 
Michigan,  Grand  Rapids  & Indiana  and 
Detroit,  Lansing  & Northern  roads dur­
ing  the  coming  year.  This  will  all  be 
piled and sorted for the  yard trade.

The  Grand  Rapids  School  Furniture 
Co.  has  arranged  to  construct  an  addi­
tion to its  plant  in  the  shape of  an  ex­
tension of  its main factory  building east 
to Broadway.  The  extension will be 250 
feet long, 50 feet wide  and  three  stories 
high.  Work on the new building will be 
begun as soon as the  weather moderates.

Purely  Personal.

Frank A. Stone is back to  his  desk  at 
H.  Leonard & Sons,  looking all the better 
for his  three  weeks’  acquaintance  with 
Neptune  and  a  fortnight’s  sojourn  in 
England.

W.  D.  Tuxbury,  formerly  associated 
with his father in the management of the 
Sullivan Lumber Co.’s store at  Sullivan, 
is now in charge of  the  store  conducted 
by the same company at Wallin.

Frank A.  Rockafellow, General Mana­
ger of  the  Rockafellow  Mercantile Co., 
dealers in general  merchandise  and  ele­
vator  operators  at  Carson  City,  was  in 
town a couple of days last week.

Albert C. Antrim  has returned  from  a 
trip  through  the  South  and  the  towns 
and cities around Gotham  and  leaves to­
day for a six months’ trip  to  the  Pacific 
coast via Dakota,  Montana,  Washington 
and Oregon,  returning  via New and Old 
Mexico, Texas,  Louisiana,  Alabama  and 
Tennessee.

Alcinous  M.  Townsend,  who  was  en­
gaged  in  business  at  Mendou  over  a 
quarter of a  century, died Sunday as the 
result  of  Bright’s  disease.  He  was  a 
member of  the  hardware firm of  Town­
send & Emery  for twelve  years,  but sold 
his half  interest  in the  business  to  his 
partner a week prior  to  his death.  The 
business  will  be  continued  under  the 
style of A.  P.  Emery.

The Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  has 
just received another car load of Snider’s 
catsup.  They  claim to be the only house 
in Western Michigan who buy  catsup  in 
car lots.

Use Tradesman Coupon Boolt*.

T H E   M IC K C T G ^ lS r  T R A D E S M A N ,

5

Snedicor &  Hathaway,

M anufacturers and W holesale Dealers in

BOOTS,  SHOES  and  ROBBERS,

124 and  126 Jefferson Ave,,

De, M i c h ,

Men’s and Women’s Fine Shoes a Specialty.

The Legal Status of Holidays.

The  complications  from  a  business 
point of view,  which arise when appoint 
ed holidays  fall  upon  Sunday,  which  is 
also a holiday,  are  sometimes  annoying, 
We have  just been  through  a Christmas 
and New Year’s  experience of this kind, 
and  a  statement  of  the  law  applied  to 
this question may not  be out of  place or 
uninteresting at this  time,  although that 
particular  conjunction  will  not  occur 
again  for  seven  years.  Holidays  are 
secular days on  which  the  law  exempts 
all persons from the performance of con­
tracts for labor or other personal service, 
from  attendance  at  court,  and  from  at­
tention  to  legal  proceedings.  On these 
days  public  business  is  suspended,  and 
the presentment and  protest of papers is 
excused,  as on Sunday.  Falling  on Sun­
day,  the Monday  succeeding is generally 
observed;  and  paper  becoming  due  on 
such Monday is  payable on the Saturday 
preceding, contrary to the usual rule  giv­
ing until the next  day  for  paper falling 
due,  without grace,  on  a holiday.  Holi­
days  are  appointed  by  statute,  or  are 
authorized  by custom  having  the  force 
law.  Their  observance,  however, 
of 
binds  no  man’s  conscience. 
It  is  his 
privilege to labor or not,  as he prefers.

Good  W ords  Unsolicited.

do without T h e   T r a d e s m a n .”

L.  Hoekstra,  grocer, Kalamazoo:  “Could not 
Travis  &  Baker,  druggists,  St.  Johns:  “We 
would  not  care  to  get  along without  It.  It  is 
the best trade paper we take.”

S. M. Brown, real  estate, Traverse  City:  “As 
my subscription to  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  has expired 
you may discontinue it.  In my present business 
I have no need of  it.  I  found it very useful  to 
me during the four years I was engaged in trade 
and, should  I  be at  any future  time in need  of 
such  a  paper, I  assure  you  T h e  T r a d e s m a n   is 
the first one I should think  of,”
S. P. Whitmarsh, general  dealer. Palmyra:  “I 
am  compelled to acknowledge  that the  present 
stage of excellence ought to satisfy every reader. 
I can see that your corps of writers is increasing 
and  that  their  discissions of  trade  topics  are 
becoming  more interesting  as well  aa practical. 
I hear  many commendations of  the  paper  from 
traveling  men,  which  satisfies  me  that  your 
course is assuredly upward and outward."

Card to  the Trade.
Gr a n d  Ra p id s,  Jan.  9, 1893.

I  have  re-engaged with  Edwin  J. Gil­
lies & Co., of  New  York,  which  ensures 
good  values  in  teas,  coffees, spices, mo­
lasses,  syrups, etc., and prompt attention 
to orders during the coming year.
Thanking you  for  past  favors and  so­
liciting  a  continuance of  your  esteemed 
patronage,  I am yours truly,

J.  P.  V isn er.

Do  Yob  want a Typewriter?

IF SO,  W H Y  NOT 
B U Y   THE  BEST?

The  BARLOCK  machine  embodies  many  de­
sirable features  found  in  no  other  typewriter. 
Circulars sent on application.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

State  Agent»,

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH

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

Class  (in  chorus)—

%

B en   H u r!

IO c  o r   3   f o r   2 5 c .

Made on Honor !

Sold  on  Merit  !

ORDER  FROM  YOUR  DEALER.

Manufacturers,

D E TR O IT. 

C H IC A G O .

USB

Boot  Six  Bord

FOR —

Macliine  or  Hand  Use.

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL

Dealers  in  Dry  Roods & Notions.

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THE  SALESWOMAN’S  VOCATION.
In  undertaking  to  describe the condi­
tions surrounding any branch of trade or 
any  occupation,  especially  those  suited 
to  women,  there  are  several  important 
considerations  demanding  serious  atten­
tion.  No  just  estimate  of  any  subject 
can  be  made unless  the  mind of  the in­
vestigator is capable  of  taking at once  a 
broad and practical view of the question. 
It  must  be  viewed,  so  far  as  possible, 
from all  sides;  and  there  must  be a cer­
tain  amount  of  judicial  acumen,  which 
will enable one  to  recognize the inevita­
ble  necessity of  compromise  on  certain 
lines;  of  accepting  the  changing  condi­
tions of social relations, and of admitting 
limitations.

But  over  and  above  these  considera­
tions  stands  one  truth  more  boldly de­
fined  than  all  others. 
It  is  one  with 
which  every  working  girl  has  first  to 
contend,  and it does not take  her long to 
discover by the inexorable rule of supply 
and  demand  that she  cannot be success­
ful if  she does  not love  her work.  The 
days of  playing with  work and  the time 
when women  could  regard  regular  em­
ployment  as  a “makeshift” on  the road 
to  marriage, have  been  relegated to the 
era wherein she  could  only teach  school 
and sew for a livelihood.  A woman now, 
if  she  would achieve  the  independence 
which is her  aim, must  regard  her work 
just  as  much a profession or business as 
does the man beside whom she labors.

The  inevitable  result of  industry is to 
go  forward, and if  she  would  keep her­
self  well  in  the  van she  must  learn to 
accept the exacting conditions  which are 
coming  more  and  more to surround  all, f 
regardless of sex.

In  no  one  vocation  is  this,  perhaps, 
more noticeable than in that of the sales­
woman.  To the  uninitiated  it seems an 
easy thing  to  stand  behind  the  counter 
and dispense tape and needles to a throng 
of  good-natured  buyers.  One  has  only 
to look pretty, smile aud know the prices, 
thinks  the careless  observer.  But  it  is 
with  the  saleswoman  to a certain extent 
as  it  is  with  the  skillful  surgeon,  who 
seems to set a bone with such remarkable 
ease—there has been a long lane of learn­
ing  how  leadiDg  up  to  these  smiling 
pastures of success.

This 

This “learning  how” comprises  many 
things not down in the  books or confined 
within  a  set  of  rules.  The  “rules,” in 
reality,  are  few,  being  simply the  gen­
eral  ones  applicable  to  any position  of 
life,  viz.,  good  character,  tidy  habits, 
promptness,  goodnature  and .adaptabil­
ity. 
last  requirement,  however, 
is the chief element of success.  Granted 
a  love  for  her  work,  pleasing  personal 
habits,  and  a  mastery of  the  merit  and 
prices  of  her  wares,  a saleswoman  must 
have an intuitive knowledge of the wants 
and desires of  her customers,  so that she 
may be  able  to  suggest  ideas and  com­
binations  which will enable the  doubter 
at once  to  determine what  is  most suit­
able  in taste  as  well  as  purse. 
In this 
way the  value of  her  work  becomes  at 
once apparent by the constituency which 
she can  gather around  her.  This adapt­
ability,  however, 
is  seldom  acquired. 
Like  the  gift  of  poetry,  music,  art, or 
mathematics,  it must  be  born  in  one  to 
compass a  full  measure of  achievement. 
Still  the  disposition  to  be  obliging,  the 
desire  to  please,  the  determination  to 
win  a  high  place  in  the  regard of  em­
ployers and customers alike, can do much 
toward supplying the lacking birthright, i

“ 
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UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic.................7
Argyle  ...................  6
Atlanta AA.............6
Atlantic A..............  65k
H..............  6*
“ 
P ...............  5*
“  
D..............  6
“ 
“  LL..............  5
Amory.....................  65k
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A..  5!« 
BlackstoneO, 32....  5
Black Crow............ 6
Black Rock  ...........6
Boot, AL................  7
Capital  A ............... 5)4
Cavanat V..............5H
Chapman cheese cl.  334
Clifton  C R ............ 514
Comet..................... 6 V*
Dwight Star............  654
Clifton CCC...........6)4

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Dry Goods Price Current.
When a girl  first  enters a store  she  is 
usually  given  a  position  among  the 
needles, pins and  tapes and  lighter arti­
cles of  merchandise. 
If  she  keeps  her 
stock in good order, is prompt, energetic, 
attentive  to  her  customers, after  a few 
months’ service  she  may be  promoted to 
the  lining,  gingham,  trimmings  and rib­
bon  departments,  with  a  possible  ad­
vance  in  wages.  These  are necessarily 
more  ldifficult  departments  to  fill,  be­
cause they call  for greater  knowledge of 
the  quality  of  goods,  and  their  adapt 
ability to certain ends. 
If  her employer 
finds, after  a  time,  that  he  can  depend 
upon  her  judgment,  he  not infrequently 
permits  her to buy  the  stock  in her  de­
partment.  These  goods  are  bought  by 
samples  displayed  by  agents,  as  it  is 
only in rare  instances that a house sends 
its saleswomen to the  centers of  trade to 
purchase  merchandise.  A  well-known 
and elegant dry goods emporium has one 
woman  buyer who  goes  every season  to 
the  eastern  markets  to  buy lace.  This 
house also sends its women customers on 
an annual trip to Europe to procure ideas 
for advanced styles.

Arrow Brand 5U 
“  Worldwide.  6
“  LL............... 414
Full Yard Wide...... 614
Georgia  A..............  654
Honest Width.........  614
Hartford A .............5
Indian Head...........7
King A  A..................614
King EC.................  5
Lawrence  L L ........  4%
Madras cheese cloth 654
Newmarket  G........554
B ....... 5
N.........614
DD  ...  654
X ........654
Nolbe R..................  5
Onr Level  Best...... 614
Oxford  R...............   6
Pequot.................... 7
Solar.......................  6
Top of the Heap__7
Geo. Washington...  8
A B C .  ...................814
Amazon...................8
Glen Mills.............   7
Amsburg.................7
Gold Medal.............. 714
Art  Cambric...........10
Green  Ticket......... 854
Blackstone A A......7
Great Falls.............   654
Hope....................... 754
Beats All................ 414
Boston....................12
Just  Out......   454® 5
King Phillip...........754
Cabot......................   714
OP.....  714
Cabot,  X.................654
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Charter  Oak...........514
Conway W..............754
Lonsdale...........  @  854
Middlesex........   @5
Cleveland.............. 7
Dwight Anchor...... 854
No Name................   714
shorts.  8
Oak View...............   6
Onr Own.................. 514
Edwards................. 6
Empire....................7
Pride of the West.. .12
Rosalind.................714
Farwell.....................714
Fruit of the  Loom.  854
Sunlight..................414
Fltchville  .............7
Utica  Mills............ 814
First Prize..............7
Nonpareil  ..10
Fruit of the Loom X.  714
Vlnyard..................  814
Falrmount..............414
White Horse...........6
Full Value..............654
Rock............  814
Cabot...................... 7  IDwlght Anchor........854
Farwell...................8 

There  are  not  many women  heads  of 
departments in comparison with the num­
ber  of  men  so  employed;  but  the  fact 
that  within  the  last  five  years  women 
have  stepped  into  these  posts,  hitherto 
occupied  exclusively  by  men, argues  a 
great deal  for  the “ business head”  here­
tofore denied them.

BALT  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Unbleached.

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As  to  wages  in  this  calling,  a  great 
deal depends  upon  environment and op­
portunity.  There  are  employers  who 
scruple not to demand the best service of 
an employe  at  starvation  wages.  Such 
men will use the best years of a man’s or 
woman’s  life to increase  his  hoard,  at a 
price  barely  serving  to  keep  soul  and 
body  together, only to turn  them adrift, 
helpless and disheartened, when they are 
no longer of service.
An instance  illustrating  the  above as­
sertion was related  to  the  writer  by the j 
manager  of  a  leading  dry goods  house. 
The young woman in question  had given 
three years of faithful service behind the 
counter  for  the  pitiful  sum  of  $2.50 
weekly.

“She  was at once  advanced to  $5  per 
week when  she came to work  for  us,  be­
cause,”  said  the  humane  manager,  “no 
girl  can  possibly live  on  less  than $5 a 
week.”
Such 

instances  of  employers  taking 
into consideration the needs and rewards 
of  the worker  are  rather  the  exception 
than the rule;  but among the best houses 
wages may be safely said to average from 
$5  to  $7 a week.  After exceedingly effi­
cient  service,  or  long  service,  the  sums 
of  $10, $12  or  $15  are  not  infrequently 
paid.  Women designers in the dress and 
millinery departments,  or  in  the  art de­
partments of  various  stores  receive  all 
the  way  from  $10  to  $25  weekly.  As 
heads  of  departments  they  earn  from 
$1,200  to  $2,500  yearly.  Men  for  this 
service receive  from  $3,000 to $5,000 an­
nually.  The difference  in  price  is  said 
to  be  due  to  the  greater  efficiency, en­
durance  and  business  farsightedness of- 
the  men.  As  things  are  at  present  or­
ganized,  women cannot hope  to  compete 
with  men  on  their  ground of  gain  and 
eligibility;  but with this field of industry 
open  to  them, there  is  no  reason,  short 
of  their own  lack of  application  to  the 
intricacies of a business,  to prevent them 
from advancing step  by step to positions 
equally  lucrative.

CANTON  FLANNEL.
Bleached.
....5)4 Housewife  Q...
...614
44
....7
R...
....514
44
....6
S  .. — 75k
•4
T ...
...6)4
....814
....7
U ...
...  9)4
<1 V  ...
...10
U w...
.  .105k
56
X...
...1114
...1254
64
Y...
Z  ...
...1314

A...
B...
C...
D...
E ...
F ...
G  .. ••••714
H...
....75k
I.... ....854
J .  
...  8* 
K . .. 
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...10
L.  ..
....1014 
...11 
....21 
....1414
CABPIT  WARP.

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Peerless, white....... 181»¡Integrity  colored...20
colored. ...2014 White Star..............18
Integrity.................18141 
“  colored..20
Nameless................20
H a m ilt o n .......................   8
.................9
......... 25
 
......... 2714
G G  Cashmere........20
......... 30
Nameless..............16
......... 3214
............... 18
......... 35

DRESS  OOODS.

1014

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CORSET  JEANS.

OORS
Coralino..................69 50
Wonderful............64 50
Schilling’s ............... 9 00
Brighton......................4 75
Davis  Waists......   9 00
Bortree's.................... 9 00
Grand  Rapids.........4 50
Abdominal............15 00
Naumkeag satteen..  7)4
Armory.....................654
Androscoggin......... 7)4
Rockport.................. 6)4
Blddefora..............   6
Conestoga.................714
Brunswick................614
Walworth................ 634
FRO
ITS.Berwick fancies....  5)4
Allen turkey  reds..  6
robes...........6
Clyde Robes...........
pink a purple 6
Charter Oak fancies 4)4 
buffs...........  6
DelMarlne cashm’s.  6 
pink  checks.  6
mourn’g  6 
staples........6
Eddystone fancy...  6 
shirtings...  414 
chocolat  6 
American fancy....  554 
rober  ...  6 
American Indigo...  654 
sateens..  6 
American shirtings.  5 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
staple....  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  5 
Manchester fancy..  6 
....  614
Arnold 
new era.  6 
Arnold  Merino......6
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
long cloth B. 1014 
“ 
Merrlm’ck shirtings. 414 
“  Repp turn .  814
“ 
“  C.  8M
“ 
century cloth 7
Pacific fancy..........6
“  gold seal......1014
“ 
robes..............6)4
11  green seal TR1014 
Portsmouth robes...  6 
“  yellow seal.. 1014
Simpson mourning.. 6
“  serge............ 11)4
greys........6
“  Turkey red..10)4 
solid black.  6 
Ballou solid black..  5 
Washington Indigo.  6 
“ 
“  colors.  5)4
“  Turkey robes..  7)4
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  India robes___ 7)4
red and  orange...  5)4
“  plain Tky X %  8)4 
Berlin solids.............514
“ 
“  X...10
“  oil blue........ 6)4
“  Ottoman  Tur­
«  «  green ....  6)4
key red.................. 6
“  Foulards ....  5)4
Martha Washington
“  red 54------- -  7
Turkeyred 54........7)4
Martha Washington
“  “  X ...........  914
*•  4 4.......... 10
“ 
Turkey red............ 9)4
“ 
“ 3-4XXXX12
Rlverpolnt robes....  5)4
Cocheco fancy........  6
Windsor fancy..........6)4
“  madders...  6
“  XX twills..  614
Indigo  Dine..........10)4
“ 
solids.........5)4
Harmony.................   434
Amoskeag A C A.... 13
AC A....................13
Hamilton N ............ 714
Pemberton AAA__16
York.......................10)4
D............ 8)4
Awning.. 11
Swift River...........   7)4
Farmer....................8
Pearl  River........... 12)4
First Prise..............10)4
Warren...................18)4
Lenox M ills...........18
Conostoga............. 16
Atlanta,  D..............  654|8tark  A 
...........  8
Boot........................ 654 No  Name...................7)4
Clifton, K ...............7  iTopof Heap.............9

gold  ticket

COTTON  DRILL.

TICKINGS.

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Amoskeag.............. 12)4
9oz...... 18)4
brown .18
Andover................. 11)4
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
BB...  9
CC....
Boston Mfg Co.  b r..  7 

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blue  8)4 
“ 
“  d a  twist 1014 
Columbian XXX  br.10 
“ 
XXX  bl.19

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........1214
brown....... 12)4
Haymaker bine......   734
brown... 754
Jeffrey.....................11)4
Lancaster  .............. 12)4
Lawrence, 9 oz........13)4
No. 220....13
No. 250....11)4
No. 280.... 10)4

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Lancaster,  staple...  7
fancies__ 7
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire............... 6
Manchester...............554
Monogram................654
Normandie............... 7)4
Persian..................... 8)4
Renfrew Dress..........7)4
Rosemont................. 6)4
Slater8ville.............. 6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  ................... 7)4
Toll  duNord..........10)4
Wabash.....................7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Warwick.................   8)4
Whlttenden.............. 654
heather dr.  8 
Indigo blue 9
....  8
..... ....10
14 Windermeer— ....  5
....  63k

Amoskeag................ 754
“  Persian dress 8)4 
Canton ..  8)4
“ 
AFC........10)4
“ 
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Teazle...10)4 
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Angola.. 10)4 
Persian..  8H 
“ 
Arlington staple....  654 
Arasapha  fancy—   454 
Bates Warwick dres 814 
staples.  614
Centennial.............  10)4
Criterion...... . 
10)4
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin.......................   7)4
Everett classics......854
Exposition............... 714
Glenarie.................  654
Glenwood.............. .  714 Westbrook....".
Hampton............... 614
Johnson Chalón cl

indigo blue 914 Y ork...............
zephyrs... 16

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GRAIN BAGS.

Amoskeag.............. .16541Valley City....... —  155k
Stark...................... 20141 Georgia........... .. ..155k
American.............. 16 Pacific............. ....13
Clark's Mile End....45  IBarbour's..
Coats’, J. & P ......... 45  Marshall’s.
Holyoke..................22141

THREADS.

KNITTING  COTTON.

No.

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

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....37
“  16... ....38
39
•*  18... ...39
40
41
“  20... ....40
CAMBRICS.
Edwards................  5
Lockwood.................5
Wood’s..................   5
Brunswick............  5

Slater......................   5
White Star............   5
Eld Glove...............  5
Newmarket............   5

RED  FLANNEL.

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

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

MIXED  FLANNEL.

DOMET  FLANNEL

Red & Blue,  plaid..40
Union R ..................22)4
Windsor.................. 1854
6 oz Western...........20
Union  B................. 22)4
Nameless...... 8  @ 9)41 
...  814010  I 
CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
914
10)4
11)4
12)4

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Brown. Black. Slate
954 lf)4
101? 11)4
11)4 12
12)4 20
DUCKS.

Slate.
914 
1014 
11*4 
1214
Severen, 8 oz..........   9)4
Mayland, 8oz......... 10)4
Greenwood, 7)4 os..  9)4 
Greenwood, 8 oz— 1114 
Boston, 8 oz.............1014

Grey SR W.............17)4
Western W  .............1814
D R P ............ ......... 18)4
Flushing XXX........ 23)4
Manitoba................ 23)4
9 @1014
12)4
Brown. Black.
10)4
11)4
12
20
West  Point, 8 oz__10)4
10 oz  ...12)4
“ 
Raven, lOoz.............13)4
.............13)4
Stark 
Boston, 10 oz............1254

10)4
UH
12
20

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WADDINGS.

SILESIAS.

White, dos............. 25  IPer bale, 40 dos__ 63 50
Colored, doz.......... 20  IColored  “ 
..........7 50
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Pawtucket...............10)4
Red Cross....  9
Dundle....................  9
Best..............10)4
Bedford...................10)4
Best  AA...... 12)4
Valley  City.............10)4
K K ......................... 10)4
L............................... 7)4
G...............................8)4
Corticelll, doz.........85

twist,doz..4P  i 
50yd,doz..40  I 
HOOKS AND ETES—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k & White..10
..12
..12
PENS.
50 

No  4 Bl’k A White..15
”  8 
..20
..25
10 
|No4—15  F 8)4........40

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

SEWING  SILK.

2 
3 

...........«O  1

No  2 White & Bl’k..l2  ¡No  8 White & Bl’k..20
“  4 
.28
h 
6 
..26
...........86

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

|No 8 ...........

No 2............

......... 28 

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NEEDLES—PER   M.

A. James — ......... 1  40| Steamboat..
Crowely’s__
.......... 1  85|Gold  Eyed.
M a r s h a ll’s . ..
...........1 oo|
5-4....2 25 6—4. .  3 2515—4... .1  «5 6—4. ..2 95

...........  40
...........1  50

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

“ ....2  10

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. . .8   10
COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.................... 12
Domestic................18)4
Anchor...................16
Bristol....................18
Cherry  Valley........15
I X L ......................18)4
Alabama................. 65k
Alamance...............   6)4
Augusta.................714
At  sapha................  6
Georgia...................  6I4
G ranite..................  55k
Haw  River.............5
Haw  J ....................6

Nashua.................. 18
Rising Star 4-ply__17
S-ply__17
North Star............. 20
Wool Standard 4 ply 1714 
Powhattan............ 18

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Mount  Pleasant__ 6)4
Oneida  ..................   5
Prymont  ...............   55k
Randelman.............  6
Riverside  ..............  5Jk
Sibley  A .................654
Toledo....................

p l a id   08NABtr a e s

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But  it  is  not  alone  in  the  dry goods 
emporiums that women are employed be­
hind  the  counter. 
In  the  bazaars  they 
have  superseded  men  almost  entirely, 
and  the  first-class  grocery  stores  have 
installed  them  behind  the  candy  coun­
ters,  at the hot coffee, luncheon,  bouillon 
stands and,  where the establishment car­
ries such stock,  at the toilet counter.

Women in the East are  also  coming to 
the front  as  registered  pharmacists,  and 
the writer  not long  since  saw the  state­
ment  in  an  Eastern paper,  that it seems 
to  be  a  profession  peculiarly  suited  to 
them  by  reason of  their  more  sensitive 
touch and delicate sense of smell.  How 
far these considerations  enter into so ex­
act  a  science  as  chemistry,  the  writer 
hereof  does  not  pretend to say;  but the 
profession  of  pharmacy  for  women  is 
worthy  of  investigation,  because  of  its 
dignity,  the  knowledge  embraced  in  it, 
its uncrowded  condition and correspond­
ingly good pay.

Occasionally  in  music  stores,  and  al­
most exclusively in hair-dressers’ parlors, 
we  find them  engaged.  As  assistants to 
dentists—indeed,  women with  good mus­
cular  biceps  are  already  relieving  dis­
tressed people of  refractory molars—and 
behind the florists’ counters,  helping dis­
tracted  Algy to decide  upon what “she” 
likes  best,  they are  demonstrating their 
ability. 
In fact,  there are but few retail 
departments of  trade  where women  are 
not  established  in  some  capacity,  and 
with  the  usual  persistence of  the sex it 
will be strange,  indeed,  if  another  half 
decade  does not behold them wholesalers 
as well.  Altogether,  the  old adage that 
“One swallow does not make a summer” 
undoubtedly  holds  true,  yet  the  advent 
of  one swallow is  apt to predict  its near 
approach,  and  the  writer of  these  lines 
beheld  some two  years  ago a young and 
charming woman wholesaler of cigars.

“papa”  does  not  furnish  sufficient  pin 
money,  fancy they can  stand  behind  the 
counter,  look  pretty  and  gossip  with 
their  colaborers,  at  so  much  clear  gain 
per week. 
It  is,  in  fact,  high  time  for 
women  to  realize  that  in  the  hand  to 
hand  struggle for  bread, they  must give 
their  best  endeavors or fall  ingloriously 
to  the  rear.  The  “ working  girl”  who 
has come to stay will not do this.

Bir c h  Arnold.

He  Bluffed  Hia  Friend  b u t  Lost a Cus­

tom er.

F ro m  th e  B o sto n  H e ra ld .

A  Boston  drummer  had  borrowed 810 
from  a  Springfield  merchant,  and  for a 
year  had  been  calmly destroying all the 
angry  duns  which  the  merchant  sent. 
One day the Springfield man went to Bos­
ton,  blazing with  rage and determined to 
order his winter goods from another firm.
He  walked  into the  drummer’s  office 
with  fire  in  his  eyes.  ~  But  it  had^no 
effect  on the  agent.  The  latter grasped 
his hand and enquired about all the folks.
“That’s all right,” said  the Springfield 
man,  “ but will  I  have to take my money 
out in bluff ? ”
“My  dear  fellow,” said  the  agent,  “I 
must  confess  I  am  ashamed of  myself, 
but  really  it  always  seemed  to slip  my 
mind. 
I  cannot  tell  you  how  badly  I 
feel  about it.  Just  step this  way and I 
will get it for you.”
Then going to the book-keeper be said:
“Just  let  Mr. J-----have  810,  will  you,
Fred?”
The bookkeeper handed over the money 
without  any trouble,  and the  Springfield 
man became strongly of  the opinion that 
he had  made a mistake  in forming  such 
an  unfavorable  estimate  of  the  agent. 
His  manner  changed,  and  after  talking 
awhile,  the two  became  as  close  friends 
ever.  The  Springfield  man  finally 
gave his  order,  and  went  home  satisfied 
that  he had  made a mistake  and  atoned 
for it.
In  due time  the order  arrived.  With 
it  came the  bill.  The  Springfield  man 
looked it  over,  and  when he reached  the 
last  item  opened  his  eyes  very  wide. 
This was the item:
To borrowed  money...........................  810
The Springfield man now gets his orders 
filled elsewhere.

Look Out for Counterfeit Coins.

Thomas B.  Carter,  chief  of the secret 
service bureau,  predicts one of  the  most 
gigantic  and  successful  counterfeiting 
schemes in the country’s history  at  Chi­
cago next year.  He believes the souvenir 
coins will be counterfeited and command 
ready  sale.  He  says  the  metal  from 
which the genuine are made can be easily 
secured and moulded at a cost of 40 cents 
each.  The bogus coins could be sold for 
81 each,  affording  a profit  of  60 cents to 
the makers.

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.

The  chief  obstacles  the  saleswoman 
has  to  encounter  usually center  in  her­
self.  Not that she does not have to meet 
with  much  to  aggravate,  much  that  is 
overbearing  and  unjust  on  the  part  of 
both employer and  customer;  but if  she 
can  shut her  teeth  with a grim  determi­
nation to  overcome  all  obstacles, master 
her trade,  and  demonstrate  her  useful­
ness  at  all  times,  she  will  find  as  the 
way progresses  that it is  less  rocky and 
rough,  and occasionally opens into green 
vales of rest and refreshment.

Another  important  consideration  with 
women is that they are beginning to look 
upon their  work as a profession  for life, 
and do  not speculate  beyond the horizon 
in which  their  work is cast.  A  woman 
realizes  that  to  make a fortune  requires 
business  sagacity,  the  indifference  of 
an  alligator’s  hide  to  the  “slings  and 
arrows”  of  snubs  and  slights,  and  an 
unfailing  pluck  to  which  she  has  not 
been  educated.  For  this  reason  she  is 
content  to  “let  well  enough  alone,” do 
her duty faithfully,  and demonstrate her 
ability to earn at least a living.

To sum  the case  briefly: 

If  a girl  be­
lieves that she can put heart in her work, 
study it in all its details, master all of its 
requirements, develop habits of industry, 
promptness,  good-nature,  patience  and 
cleanliness,  acquire  as  far  as  possible 
the  art  of  pleasing,  and  be  content  to 
advance  slowly,  there  is  at  least  the 
promise of  a good living  in  the vocation 
of a saleswoman.  But the best and most 
reliable merchants are  coming every day 
to discourage  more and  more  the  appli­
cations  of  green  misses  who,  because

Wrought Loose Pin...................................... 60*10
Wrought  Table.............................................60*10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60*10
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70*18
Blind,  Parker’s............................................. 70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1890................ 
Grain........................................  
CROW BABB.

CRADLES.

 

Cast Steel............................................. p er»  5
Bly’s 1-10............................................. perm 
Hick’s C. F ............................................  “ 
G. D ............................................... 
Musket................................................ 

CAPS.

 

65
60
" 38
60

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

CABTBIDSBS.

CHISELS. 

Socket Firmer.............................................  70410
Socket Framing.............................................70*18
Socket Corner................................................ 70*10
Socket Slicks................................................ 70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

dlS.

dls.

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
Hotchkiss....................................................  
95
White Crayons, per gross..............12©12K dls. 10

combs. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

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

DRILLS. 

28
26
23
23
dls.
50
50

25

50

dripping pans.

Small sites, ser pound................................. 
07
Large sizes, per pound................................   6 ¡4

ELBOWS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Com. 4  piece, 6 In............................do«, net 
75
40
Corrugated............................................. dls 
Adjustable.............................................dls. 40*10
Clark’s, small, $18;  large, 826...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, $18:  2, $24;  3,$30............................  
25
dls.
Disston’s ................................................. .60*10
New American  ......   .................................. 60*10
Nicholson’s .............................................60*10
Heller’s ....................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ..................................  

piles—New List. 

dls.

50

GALVANIZED IRON.

28
16  17
dls.
50
dls.

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

12 

15 

13 
Discount, 60

14 
gauges. 

55

55
55
55
55

70
dls.
55
55
56

locks—door. 

knobs—New List. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s................. 
Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings....................  
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings.................  
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
Door,  porcelsin, trimmings......................... 
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain.............. 
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l is t.........  
Mallory, Wheeler *   Co.’s....................... 
Branford’s .............................................. 
Norwalk’s ...............................................  
Adze Bye.......................................... $16.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye.......................................... $15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ...................................... $18.50, dls. 20*10.
dlS.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Poet, handled................  
50
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ..............................  
40
“  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable*.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry A Cle rk’s............ 
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
dls.
Stebbln’s Pattern....................................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine...................................60410
Bnterprlse, self-measuring..................... 
25

MOLASSES SATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MATTOCKS.

40
30

NAILS

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

Advance over base: 

50
die. 50*09

HAMMERS.

dlS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

HINeKS.

HANGERS. 

Maydole  A Co.’s..................................... dls. 
25
Kip’s........................................................dls. 
25
Yerkes *  Plumb’s.................................. dls. 40*10
Mason’B Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand— 80c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1 ,2 ,3 ................................dls. 60*10
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 In. 414  14 and
longer........................................................  314
Screw Hook and  Bye, >4...................................net 10
“ 
9i.......................... net  8J4
5£.......................... net  7V6
“ 
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HOLLOW WARE.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Strap and T ...................................................... dls. 50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track— 50*10
Champion,  anti friction.............................   60*10
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots............................................................... 60*10
Kettles...........................................................60&l0
Spiders  .........................................................60*10
Gray enameled..............................................40*10
Stamped Tin Ware............................... new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33)4*10
Bright...................................................... 70*10*10
Screw  Byes.............................................70*10*10
70*10*10
Hook’s ............................... 
Gate Hooks and Byes...................... 
70*10*10
<Hs.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ......................
Sisal, *4 Inch and larger.............................  
9
Manilla.........................................................  13
dls.
Steel and Iron..............................................  
Try and Bevels............................................. 
Mitre............................................................  

levels. 
ROPES.

wire goods. 

75
60
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

SHEET IRON.
. 

SqUABES. 

dls.

325
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  Ughter,  over 30  inches 

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

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
50
56
35

“ 
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$2 95
3 05
3 05
3 15

Discount, 10.

BASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

s a w s. 

t r a p s. 

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

Silver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot,__ 

Solid Byes............................................ per ton $25
“ 
20
70
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot—   50
"  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot__   30
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot........................................  30
dls.
Steel, Game...............................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s ...........  
35
70
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s —  
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion............................... $1.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market......................................... 70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market.........................................  6244
Coppered Spring Steel............................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  2 85
painted....................................  2 40

w ir e . 

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HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

An  Sable.........................................................dls. 40*10
Putnam.......................................... 
dls.  05
N orth western................................  
dls. 10*10
dls.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75*10
dlS.
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. 

METALS.
PIG TIN.

ZINC.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.....................................................  260
Pig Bars.......................................................   280
Duty:  Sheet, 2tfc per pound.
600 pound  casks...........................................  
6*
Per pound....................................................   7
HQH ...................................................................iS
Extra Wiping.................................................   15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder m the market Indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................per  ponnd
HaUett’s....................................... 
13
TIN—MXLYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................ 8 7
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

........................................   7  0
........................................   »26
.......................... .............  9 25

Bach additional X on this grade, $1.75.

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TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
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BOOPING PLATES

10x14 IC, Charcoal............................................$6 75
14x2010, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 ix, 

 
$75
.........................................  8 25
........................................   9 as

Bach additional X on this grade 81.50.

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“  Worcester...........................   6 50
“ 
..........................   8 50
.........................  18 50
“ 
“ Allaway  Grade.....................  6 00
7 50
“ 
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}2 50
“ 
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15 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC. 
14x20 CL 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
14x28  IX.............................................................»4 00
14x81  IX................................  
ISeo i i : f“  

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\  * *  p®“ 4  • • •  10

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

AUGURS AND BITS. 

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

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AXES.

BARROWS. 

dlS.

Railroad......................................................$ 14 00
Garden.................................................   net  30 00
Stove.............................................................. 50*10
C acrlage new list.......................................... 75*10
Flow.............  
40*10
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70

bolts. 

dls.

 

 

BUCKETS.

Well, plain................................................... $ 8 50
Well, swivel......................................................  4 00
dlS.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast Joint.............. 60*40

BUTTS,  OAST. 

 

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160
FlneS.................................................160 
65
Case  10..............................................   60 
75
8 .............................................  75 
90
90 
   
75
Finish 10............................................  85 
8........................................... 1 00 
90
1  10
6........................................... 1  15 
70
Clinch; 10...........................................    ¡» 
80
8........................................... 1 00 
BO
6......................................1 15 
B arren*...........................................175 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   O40
Sclota Bench..............................................  
5®
Sandusky Tool Co.’«, fancy......   ................  040
Bench, first quality.........................  
  OfO
Stanley Buie and Level Co.’s, wood...........  *10
Fry,  Acme..............................................dls.60-10
70
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Bars...............................50—10
"A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 90 
"B” Wood’s pat planished, Nos. 26 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

PLANES. 

r iv e t s. 

Broken packs 140 per pound extra.

PANS.

dlS.

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THE  SALESWOMAN’S  VOCATION.
In  undertaking  to  describe the condi­
tions surrounding any branch of trade or 
any  occupation,  especially  those  suited 
to  women,  there  are  several  important 
considerations  demanding  serious  atten­
tion.  No  just  estimate  of  any  subject 
can  be  made unless  the  mind of  the in­
vestigator is capable  of  taking at once  a 
broad and practical view of the question. 
It  must  be  viewed,  so  far  as  possible, 
from all  sides;  and  there  must  be a cer­
tain  amount  of  judicial  acumen,  which 
will enable one  to  recognize the inevita­
ble  necessity of  compromise  on  certain 
lines;  of  accepting  the  changing  condi­
tions of social relations, and of admitting 
limitations.

But  over  and  above  these  considera­
tions  stands  one  truth  more  boldly de­
fined  than  all  others. 
It  is  one  with 
which  every  working  girl  has  first  to 
contend,  and it does not take  her long to 
discover by the inexorable rule of supply 
and  demand  that she  cannot be success­
ful if  she does  not love  her work.  The 
days of  playing with  work and  the time 
when women  could  regard  regular  em­
ployment  as  a “makeshift” on  the road 
to  marriage, have  been  relegated to the 
era wherein she  could  only teach  school 
and sew for a livelihood.  A woman now, 
if  she  would achieve  the  independence 
which is her  aim, must  regard  her work 
just  as  much a profession or business as 
does the man beside whom she labors.

The  inevitable  result of  industry is to 
go  forward,  and if  she  would  keep her­
self  well  in  the  van she  must  learn to 
accept the exacting conditions  which are 
coming  more  and  more to surround  all,  | 
regardless of sex.

In  no  one  vocation  is  this,  perhaps, 
more noticeable than in that of the sales­
woman.  To the  uninitiated  it seems an 
easy thing  to  stand  behind  the  counter 
and dispense tape and needles to a throng 
of  good-natured  buyers.  One  has  only 
to look pretty, smile and know the prices, 
thinks  the careless  observer.  But  it  is 
with  the  saleswoman  to a certain extent 
as  it  is  with  the  skillful  surgeon,  who 
seems to set a bone with such remarkable 
ease—there has been a long lane of learn­
ing  how  leading  up  to  these  smiling 
pastures of success.

This 

This  “learning  how” comprises  many 
things not down in the  books or confined 
within  a  set  of  rules.  The  “rules,” in 
reality,  are  few.  being  simply the  gen­
eral  ones  applicable  to  any position  of 
life,  viz.,  good  character,  tidy  habits, 
promptness,  goodnature  and  .adaptabil­
ity. 
last  requirement,  however, 
is the chief element of success.  Granted 
a  love  for  her  work,  pleasing  personal 
habits,  and  a  mastery  of  the  merit  and 
prices  of  her  wares,  a saleswoman  must 
have an intuitive knowledge of the wants 
and desires of  her customers,  so that she 
may be  able  to  suggest  ideas and  com­
binations  which will enable the  doubter 
at once  to  determine what  is  most suit­
able  in taste  as  well  as  purse. 
In this 
way the  value of  her  work  becomes  at 
once apparent by the constituency which 
she can  gather around  her.  This adapt­
ability,  however, 
is  seldom  acquired. 
Like  the  gift  of  poetry,  music,  art, or 
mathematics,  it must  be  born  in  one  to 
compass a  full  measure of  achievement. 
Still  the  disposition  to  be  obliging,  the 
desire  to  please,  the  determination  to 
win  a  high  place  in  the  regard of  em­
ployers and customers alike, can do much 
toward supplying the lacking birthright, i

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UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic.................7
A rgyle...................  6
Atlanta AA.............6
Atlantic A..............  6*
H
P ............   5
“ 
D.............   6
“ 
“  LL............... 5
Amory.................... 6:
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A..  51«
Blackstone O, 32__5
Black Crow............ 6
Black Rock  ...........6
Boot, AL................  7
Capital  A................514
C a y  a n  a t   V ....................5H
Chapman cheese cl.  3*
Clifton  C R ............ 5fc
Comet..................... 6 V»
Dwight Star............  6*
Clifton CCC...........  6)4

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADEBMAN.
Dry Goods Price Current.
When a girl  first  enters a store  she  is 
usually  given  a  position  among  the 
needles, pins and  tapes and  lighter arti­
cles of  merchandise. 
If  she  keeps  her 
stock in good order, is prompt, energetic, 
attentive  to  her  customers, after  a few 
months’ service  she  may be  promoted to 
the  lining, gingham,  trimmings  and rib­
bon  departments,  with  a  possible  ad­
vance  in  wages.  These  are  necessarily 
more  ldifficult  departments  to  fill,  be­
cause they call  for greater  knowledge of 
the  quality  of  goods,  and  their  adapt­
ability to certain ends. 
If  her employer 
finds, after  a  time,  that  he  can  depend 
upon  her  judgment,  he  not infrequently 
permits  her to buy  the  stock  in her  de­
partment.  These  goods  are  bought  by 
samples  displayed  by  agents,  as  it  is 
only in rare  instances that a house sends 
its saleswomen to the  centers of  trade to 
purchase  merchandise.  A  well-known 
and elegant dry goods emporium has one 
woman  buyer who  goes  every season  to 
the  eastern  markets  to  buy lace.  This 
house also sends its women customers on 
an  annual trip to Europe to procure ideas 
for advanced styles.

Arrow Brand  5=4 
“  Worldwide.  6
“  LL................. 414
Full Yard Wide...... 614
Georgia  A................614
Honest Width.........614
Hartford A .............5
Indian Head...........  7
King A  A................614
King EC.................  5
Lawrence  L L ........  4%
Madras cheese cloth 614
Newmarket  G........514
B .......5
N........614
DD....  514
X ....... 614
Nolbe R..................5
Our Level  Best...... 614
Oxford  R ............... 6
Pequot....................7
Solar.......................6
Top of the  Heap....  7
Geo. Washington...  8
A B C .  ...................814
Amazon...................8
Glen Mills.............   7
Amsburg.................7
Gold Medal............ 714
Art  Cambric...........10
Green  Ticket......... 814
Blackstone A A......7
Great Falls............... 6*
Beats All................ 4%
Hope....................... 714
Just Out.....   414® 5
Boston....................12
Cabot......................   714
King Phillip...........714
Cabot,  \ .................6%
OP......714
Charter  Oak...........5V4
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Conway W..............714
Lonsdale...........  @  8I4
Cleveland.............. 7
Middlesex........   @5
Dwight Anchor...... 814
No Name................ 714
shorts.  8
Oak View............... 6
Our Own................   514
Edwards................. 6
Empire....................7
Pride of the West.. .12
Farwell.....................714
Rosalind.................714
Fruit of the  Loom.  814
Sunlight.................   414
Fitchvllle  ............. 7
(Ttica  Mills............ 814
First Prize..............7
“  Nonpareil ..10
Fruit of the Loom X.  714
Vlnyard..................  814
Falrmount..............414
White Horse...........6
Full Value..............6=4
Rock.........  .  814
Cabot...................... 7  I Dwight Anchor........ 8I4
Farwell...................8 

HALE  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

There  are  not  many women  heads  of 
departments in comparison with the num­
ber  of  men  so  employed;  but  the  fact 
that  within  the  last  five  years  women 
have  stepped  into  these  posts, hitherto 
occupied  exclusively  by  men,  argues  a 
great deal  for  the “ business head”  here­
tofore denied them.

CANTON  FLANNEL.

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As  to  wages  in  this  calling,  a  great 
deal depends  upon  environment and op­
portunity.  There  are  employers  who 
scruple not to demand the best service of 
an employe  at  starvation  wages.  Such 
men  will use the best years of a man’s or 
woman’s  life to increase  his  hoard,  at a 
price  barely  serving  to  keep  soul  and 
body  together, only to turn  them adrift, 
helpless and disheartened, when they are 
no longer of service.

An instance  illustrating  the  above as­
sertion was related  to  the  writer  by the 
manager  of  a  leading  dry goods  house. 
The young woman in question  had given 
three years of faithful service behind the 
counter  for  the  pitiful  sum  of  $2.50 
weekly.

“She  was at once  advanced to  $5  per 
week when  she came to work  for  us, be­
cause,”  said  the  humane  manager,  “no 
girl  can  possibly live  on  less  than $5 a 
week.”
Such 

instances  of  employers  taking 
into consideration the needs and rewards 
of  the worker  are  rather  the  exception 
than the rule;  but among the best houses 
wages may be safely said to average from 
$5  to  $7 a week.  After exceedingly effi­
cient  service, or  long  service,  the  sums 
of  $10, $12  or  $15  are  not  infrequently 
paid.  Women designers in the dress and 
millinery departments, or  in  the  art de­
partments of  various  stores  receive  all 
the  way  from  $10  to  $25  weekly.  As 
heads  of  departments  they  earn  from 
$1,200  to  $2,500  yearly.  Men  for  this 
service receive  from  $3,000 to $5,000 an­
nually.  The difference  in  price  is  said 
to  be  due  to  the  greater  efficiency, en­
durance  and  business  farsightedness of- 
the  men.  As  things  are  at  present  or­
ganized,  women cannot hope  to  compete 
with  men  on  their  ground of  gain  and 
eligibility;  but with this field of industry 
open  to  them,  there  is  no  reason,  short 
of  their own  lack of  application  to  the 
intricacies of a business, to prevent them 
from advancing step  by step to positions 
equally  lucrative.

Unbleached.
Bleached.
....5)4 Housewife  Q...
Housewife  A...
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...  6)4
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E ...
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66 V ...
"p — 71»
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66 W...
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H...
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66
I.... ....8*
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N ....
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...14K
OABPET  WARP.

...6)4
....7
....7*
....8)4
...  9*
...10
.  .10*
...11K
...12K
...13K

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Peerless, white.......18)4 ¡Integrity  colored...20
colored. ...2014 White Star..............18
Integrity...............18141  “ 
“  colored..20
Hamilton.................8
Nameless............... 20
................. 9
.................25
.................2714
.................1014
G G  Cashmere........20
.................30
Nameless.............. 16
.................3214
............... 18
......... 35
... 

DBE88  GOODS.
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COBSET  JEANS.

Wonderful................ 64 50
Brighton......................4 75
Bortree’s .....................9 00
Abdominal............15 00
Naumkeag satteen..  714
Rockport...................644
Conestoga.................714
Walworth................ 6)4
ITS.Berwick fancies....  5)4
Clyde Robes...........
Charter Oak fancies 4)4 
DelMarlne cashm’s.  6 
moura’g  6 
Bddystone fancy...  6 
chocolat  6 
rober  ...  6 
sateens..  6 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6 
staple....  6 
Manchester fancy..  6 
new era.  6 
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Merrlm’ck shirtings. 4)4 
Repp f urn .  814
Pacific fancy..........6
robes..............614
Portsmouth robes...  6 
Simpson mourning.. 6
greys........6
solid black.  6 
Washington Indigo.  6 

COBS
Corallne..................... 69 50
Schilling’s ...............9 00
Davis  Waists......   9 00
Grand  Rapids........4 50
Armory...................6=4
Androscoggin......... 7)4
Blddeford..............   6
Brunswick..............614
FBI]
Allen turkey  reds..  6
“ 
robes............ 6
pink a purple 6
“ 
“  Duffs............  6
pink checks.  6
“ 
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staples  ........ 6
“ 
shirtings...  4)4
American fancy....  5)4 
American Indigo...  6)4 
American shirtings.  5 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  5 
....  614
Arnold 
Arnold  Merino...... 6
“ 
long cloth B. 1014
“ 
“  C.  814
“  century cloth 7
"  gold seal.......1014
“  green seal TR1014 
“  yellow seal.. 1014
“ 
serge............ 11)4
“  Turkey red.. 10)4
Ballou solid Dlack..  5 
"  
“  colors.  514
“  Turkey robes..  7)4 
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  India robes....  7}| 
red and  orange...  5)4
“  plain Tky X 14  814 
Berlin solids...........514
“ 
“  X...10
“  oil blue........614
“  Ottoman  Tur­
“  “  green ....  614
key red.................. 6
11  Foulards....  5)4
Martha Washington
Turkey red 14........714
red M...........7
" 
Martha Washington
“  “  X ...........  9H
“  4 4......... 10
«• 
Turkey red............ 9)4
<« 
“ S-4XXXX 12
Rlverpointrobes....  5)4
Windsor fancy..........6)4
Cocheco fancy........  6
“  madders...  6
“  XXtwills..  614
Indigo blue..........10)4
“ 
solids.........5)4
Harmony................  4)4
Amoskeag AC A....13
AC A.................... 13
Hamilton N............ 7)4
Pemberton AAA.... 16
York.......................10)4
D............ 814
Awning.. 11
Swift River............  714
Farmer....................8
Pearl River............1214
First Prize............. 10)4
Warren...................13)4
Lenox MUls...........18  ]
Conostoga............. 16
Atlanta,  D..............6)4|Stark  A 
............. 8
Boot........................614 No  Name.............. 
.  7)4
Clifton, K............... 7  I Top of Heap.............  9

gold  ticket

COTTON  DBILL.

TICKINGS.

“ 
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“ 

” 

“ 

“ 

DEMINS.

“ 
“ 

Amoskeag..............12)4
9 oz.......1314
brown .13
Andover.................11)4
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
BB...  9
“ 
Cc....
“ 
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
“ 
blue  8)4 
11  d a  twist 1014 

Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

“ 
“ 

Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12)4
brown....... 12)4
Haymaker blue........ 7)4
brown...  7)4
Jeffrey.....................11)4
Lancaster  ...............12)4
Lawrence, 9 oz........ 1814
No. 220....13
No. 250....1114
No. 280.... 10)4

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

Amoskeag.............. 7)4
“  Persian dress 814 
Canton ..  814
“ 
“ 
AFC........10)4
“ 
Teazle.. .10)4 
“ 
Angola.. 1014 
Persian..  8H 
“ 
Arlington staple....  6* 
Arasapha  fancy  ...  4)4 
Bates Warwick dres 814 
staples.  6)4
Centennial.............  1014
Criterion_______ 1014
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................414
Elfin.......................   714
Everett classics......8)4
Exposition............1 \
Glenarie.................  6)4
Glenarven................ 6)4
Glenwood.................7)4
Hampton...................614
Johnson v'halon cl 
14 
indigo blue 9)4
zephyrs__16

GINGHAMS.
Lancaster,  staple...  7
fancies__7
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester.............  5)4
Monogram................6)4
Normandie............... 714
Persian..................... 814
Renfrew Dress..........714
Rosemont................. 6)4
Slatersvllle...............6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  ................... 714
Toll  duNord......... 10)4
Wabash.....................714
seersucker..  714
Warwick................  814
Whlttenden............ 6)4
heather dr.  8 
Indigo blue 9 
Wamsuttastaples...  6)4
Westbrook..............8
..............10
Windermeer........... 5
York......................... 6)4

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GRAIN  BAGS.

THBEADS.

Amoskeag...............16)41 Valley City...............15)4
Stark......................20)4 Georgia... 
..............15*
American...............16  IPaclfic.................... 13
Clark’s Mile End....45  IBarbour's................88
Coats’, J. & P .........45  Marshall’s ............... 88
Holyoke................. 22141
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....87
“  16... ....38
39
40
'•  18... ....39
“  20... ....40
41

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

KNITTING  COTTON.

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

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

No.

Slater............. ........5
Edwards.........
White Star__ .......  5 Lockwood.......
Kid Glove...... ........5 Wood’s ...........
Newmarket... ........5

...  5
...  5
...  5
Brunswick — ...  5

RED  FLANHEL.
......32)4 T W .................
Fireman........
Creedmore— ........27K F T .................
Talbot XXX... ....... 30
J R F, XXX....
Nameless......

Red & Blue,  plaid. .40
Union R.................2214
Windsor.................1814
6 oz Western..........20
Union  B................22)4
Nameless...... 8  @9)41 
...... 8)4010  I 

“ 
Slate.
914 

10)4 11K 

“
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Brown. Black. Slate
9)4 lOK
10K UK
U K 12
12)4 20

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
9K
10K
UK
12K

12)4
Severen, 80Z...........  9H
May land, 8 oz......... 10)4
Greenwood, 7K os..  9K 
Greenwood, 8 oz— UK 
Boston, 8 oz.............10)4

DOMET  FLANNEL.

...-22K
....82)4
...35
...... 27K Buckeye.......... --- 32K
MIXED  FLANNEL.
Grey SR W.............17K
Western W ............. 18K
DR P ............ ......... 18)4
Flushing XXX........ 23K
Manitoba.................23)4
®10K
12)4
Brown. Black.
10K
UK
12
20
West Point, 8 oz__10K
10 oz  ...12K
“ 
Raven, lOoz.............13K
Stark 
.............18K
Boston, 10 oz............12)4
WADDINGS.
25 Per bale, 40 dos. ..83 50
20 Colored  “ 
...... ..  7 50
SILESIA».
8 Pawtucket.......... ...10)4
9 Dundle............... ...  9
10K Bedford.............. ...10K
...10)4
12)4 Valley  City......
K K .................... ..  10K
VK 
. 8K

10K
UK
12
20

“ 

SEWING  SILK.

[Cortlcelll  knitting, 
per Koz  ball........30

Red Cross.. 
Best..........

No  4 Bl’k St White..15
..20
..25

8 
10 

Cortlcelll, doz.........85
twist, doz. .40 
50 yd, doz..40
HOOKS AND ETES—FEB GROSS.
No  1 Bl’k A White..l0
«  2 
..12
“ 
“ 
«  8 
..12
“ 
“ 
No 2-20, M C......... 50  INo 4—15  F  8K
*■  3—18, S C ..........45  I
COTTON  TAPE.
No  2 White & Bl’k.,12 
10 
“  4 
..16
..18
“  6 
12 
SAFBTT  FINS.
NO 2.
....28  INo3..
NEEDLES—PER  M.

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PINS.

INo  8 White & Bl’k.,20 
.28
..28

.86

A. James.................1 401 Steamboat................  40
Crowely’s................1 85 Gold  Eyed...............1  50
Marshall’s.............. 1 00|
TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
5-4....2 25  6—4. ..8 2515-4. ...1  96  6—4...2 95 
“  ...8 10]

COTTON TWINES.

“ ....2 10 
Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............18K
Anchor..................16
Bristol................... 13
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL....................18K
Alabama................. 6*
Alamance............... 6)4
Augusta.................  7)4
Ar  sapha................  6
Georgia...................  6)4
Granite  ..................  5*
Haw  River.............  6
Haw  J ....................6

Nashua................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
3-ply....17
North Star..............20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7K 
Powhattan.............18

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Mount  Pleasant....  6K
O n e id a   ..........................  5
Prymont  ...............   5*
Randelman...........  6
Riverside  ..............  5M
Sibley  A ...........  ...  6)4
Toledo....................

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-TEDE  MICHIGAN  TU ADESMAN.

But  it  is  not  alone  in  the  dry goods 
emporiums that women are employed be­
hind  the  counter. 
In  the  bazaars  they 
have  superseded  men  almost  entirely, 
and  the  first-class  grocery  stores  have 
installed  them  behind  the  candy  coun­
ters,  at the hot coffee, luncheon,  bouillon 
stands and,  where the establishment car­
ries such stock,  at the toilet counter.

Women in the East are  also  coming to 
the front  as  registered  pharmacists, and 
the writer  not long  since  saw the  state­
ment  in  an  Eastern paper,  that it seems 
to  be  a  profession  peculiarly  suited  to 
them  by  reason of  their  more  sensitive 
touch and delicate sense of smeil.  How 
far these considerations  enter into so ex­
act  a  science  as  chemistry,  the  writer 
hereof  does  not  pretend to say;  but the 
profession  of  pharmacy  for  women  is 
worthy  of  investigation,  because  of  its 
dignity, the  knowledge  embraced  in  it, 
its uncrowded  condition and correspond­
ingly good pay.

Occasionally  in  music  stores,  and  al­
most exclusively in hair-dressers’ parlors, 
we  find them  engaged.  As  assistants to 
dentists—indeed,  women with  good mus­
cular  biceps  are  already  relieving  dis­
tressed people of  refractory molars—and 
behind the florists’ counters, helping dis­
tracted  Algy to decide  upon what “she” 
likes  best,  they are  demonstrating their 
ability. 
In fact,  there are but few retail 
departments of  trade  where women  are 
not  established  in  some  capacity,  and 
with  the  usual  persistence of  the sex it 
will be strange,  indeed,  if  another  half 
decade  does not behold them wholesalers 
as well.  Altogether,  the  old adage that 
“One swallow does not make a summer” 
undoubtedly  holds  true,  yet  the  advent 
of  one swallow is  apt to predict  its near 
approach,  and  the  writer of  these  lines 
beheld  some two  years  ago a young and 
charming woman  wholesaler of cigars.

“papa”  does  not  furnish  sufficient  pin 
money,  fancy they can  stand  behind  the 
counter,  look  pretty  and  gossip  with 
their  colaborers,  at  so  much  clear  gain 
per week. 
It  is,  in  fact, high  time  for 
women  to  realize  that  in  the  hand  to 
hand  struggle for  bread,  they  must give 
their  best  endeavors or fall  ingloriously 
to  the  rear.  The  “ working  girl”  who 
has come to stay will not do this.

B irch  Arnold.

He  Bluffed  Hie  Friend b u t  Lost a Cus­

tom er.

F ro m  th e  B o sto n  H e ra ld .
A  Boston  drummer  had  borrowed 810 
from  a  Springfield  merchant, and  for a 
year  had  been  calmly destroying all the 
angry  duns  which  the  merchant  sent. 
One day the Springfield man went to Bos­
ton,  blazing with  rage and determined to 
order his winter goods from another firm.
He  walked  into the  drummer’s  office 
with  fire  in  his  eyes.  :  But  it  had^no 
effect  on the  agent.  The  latter grasped 
his hand and enquired about all the folks.
“That’s all right,”  said  the Springfield 
man,  “ but will  I  have to take my money 
out in bluff ?”
“My  dear  fellow,”  said  the  agent,  “I 
must  confess  1  am  ashamed of  myself, 
but  really  it  always  seemed  to slip  my 
mind. 
I  cannot  tell  you  how  badly  I 
feel  about it.  Just  step this  way and 1 
will get it for you.”
Then  going to the  book-keeper be  said:
“Just  let  Mr.  J----- have  810,  will  you,
Fred?”
The bookkeeper handed over the money 
without  any trouble,  and the  Springfield 
man became strongly of  the opinion that 
he had  made a mistake  in forming  such 
an  unfavorable  estimate  of  the  agent. 
His  manner  changed,  and  after  talking 
awhile,  the two  became  as  close  friends 
as  ever.  The  Springfield  man  finally 
gave his  order, and  went  home  satisfied 
that  he had  made a mistake  and  atoned 
for it.
In  due time  the order  arrived.  With 
it  came the  bill.  The  Springfield  man 
looked it  over, and  when he reached  the 
last  item  opened  his  eyes  very  wide. 
This was the item:
To borrowed  money...........................$10
filled elsewhere.

The Springfield man now gets his orders 

Look Out for Counterfeit Coins.

Thomas B.  Carter,  chief  of the secret 
service bureau,  predicts one of  the  most 
gigantic  and  successful  counterfeiting 
schemes in the country’s history  at  Chi­
cago next year.  He believes the souvenir 
coins will be counterfeited and command 
ready  sale.  He  says  the  metal  from 
which the genuine are made can be easily 
secured and moulded at a cost of 40 cents 
each.  The bogus coins could be sold for 
81 each,  affording  a profit  of  60 cents to 
the makers.

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,  M i c h .
Hardware Price Current.

The  chief  obstacles  the  saleswoman 
has  to  encounter  usually center  in  her­
self.  Not that she does not have to meet 
with  much  to  aggravate,  much  that  is 
overbearing  and  unjust  on  the  part  of 
both employer and  customer;  but if  she 
can  shut her  teeth  with a grim  determi­
nation to  overcome  all  obstacles,  master 
her trade,  and  demonstrate  her  useful­
ness  at  all  times,  she  will  find  as  the 
way progresses  that it is  less  rocky and 
rough,  and occasionally opens into green 
vales of rest and refreshment.

Another  important  consideration with 
women is that they are beginning to look 
upon their  work as a profession  for life, 
and do  not speculate  beyond the horizon 
in which  their  work is cast.  A  woman 
realizes  that  to  make a fortune  requires 
business  sagacity,  the  iudifference  of 
an  alligator’s  hide  to  the  “slings  and 
arrows”  of  snubs  and  slights,  and  an 
unfailing  pluck  to  which  she  has  not 
been  educated.  For  this  reason  she  is 
content  to  “let  well  enough  alone,” do 
her duty faithfully,  and demonstrate her 
ability to earn at least a living.

To sum  the case  briefly: 

If  a girl  be­
lieves that she can put heart in her work, 
study it in all its details,  master all of its 
requirements, develop habits of industry, 
promptness,  good-nature,  patience  and 
cleanliness,  acquire  as  far  as  possible 
the  art  of  pleasing,  and  be  content  to 
advance  slowly,  there  is  at  least  the 
promise of  a good living  in  the vocation 
of a saleswoman.  But the best and most 
reliable merchants are  coming every day 
to discourage  more and  more  the  appli­
cations  of  green  misses  who,  because

Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60*10
Wrought Table.............................................60*10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60*10
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70410
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892...............  
50
Grain......................................................dls. 50402

CBADLBS.

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel.............................................per lb  5
Ely’s 1-10.............................................perm  66
60
Hick’s C .F ..........................................  “ 
G. D .....................................................  “ 
85
Musket................................................  “ 
60

CAPS.

CARTRtDSRS.

CHISBL8. 

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

50
26

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

dlB.

dls.

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

combs. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

HAMMERS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

25
Maydole  *  Co.’s.......................................dls. 
25
Kip’s.........................................................dis. 
Yerkes *  Plumb’s..................................dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand— 80c 40*10 
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ...............................dls.60*10
State...........................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4H  14  and
Screw Hook and  Bye, %..........................net 

longer..........................................................   3)4
10
X......................... net  8*4
“ 
X ......................... net  7*
“ 
“ 
%......................... net  7)4
Strap and T ............................................. dls. 
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 
25
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33M*10
Bright......................................................70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10*10
70*10*10
Hook’s ................................ 
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70*10*10
levels. 
dls.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s.....................
ROPES.
Sisal, % Inch and larger.............................  

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.

HOLLOW WARE.

wire goods. 

dls.

dis.

list 70

“ 

drills. 

Planished, 14 os cut to size........per pound 
28
14x52,14x56,14x60 .......................  
26
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................  
23
Cold Rolled, 14x48........................................  
23
28
Bottoms..............  ....................................... 
Morse’s Bit  Stocks.....................................  
50
50
Taper and straight Shank............................ 
50
Morse’s Taper Shank.................................... 
Small sizes, ser pound................................. 
07
Large sizes, per pound................................   W
Com. 4 piece, 6 in ............................do*, net 
75
Corrugated........................................................dls 40
Adjustable........................................................dls. 40*10

DRIPPING PAHS.

ELBOWS.

dls.

bxfahsivb bits. 

dls.

dlS.
dls.

files—New List. 

Clark’s, small, 8l8;  large, 826...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, *18:  2, *24; 3,*30............................  
25
Disston’s .....................................................60*10
New American......   ...................................60*10
Nicholson's..................................................60*10
Heller’s .........................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse R asps..................................  
50
28
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
List 
16 
17

GALVANIZED IRON.

dis.

12 

15 

13 
Discount, 60

14 
GAUGES. 

dls.

50
55
56
55
56
70

locks—door. 

khobs—New List. 

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...................... 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....................  
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings.................  
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
Door,  porcelain, trimmings......................... 
Drawer  and  Shatter, porcelain................... 
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l i s t ................... 55
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s............................ 
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
56
Norwalk’s ....................................................  
66
Adze Bye.......................................... #16.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye.......................................... *15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ......................................118.50, dls. 20*10.
dls.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Prat,  handled...................... 
50
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s.................................... 
40
“  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable«.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cle rk’s................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
...................................... 
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
26

MOLASSBS GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MATTOCKS.

dig.

NAILS

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

Advance over base: 

9
dls.

SQUARES.

SHEET IRON.

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

75
...............  
60
...............  
...............  
20
Smooth. Com.
...84 05
82 95
Nos. 10 to 14.....................................*4 05
...  4 05
3 05
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................4 05
..  4 05
3 05
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4 05
...  4 05
3  15
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  405
..  4 85
3 25
Nos. 25 to 26.......................
....  4 45
3 35
No. 27................................................  4 45
,  over 30 Inches
Wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  .....................................dls. 
Silver Lake, White A..............................list 
Drab A.................................  “ 
White  B...............................  ‘ 
Drab B.................................  “ 
White C................................ “ 

All  sheets No. 18  and  ligh 
SAND PAPER.
SASH COHD.

50
50
56
50
55
35

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“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

dls.

saws. 

wire. 

traps. 

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

Solid Byes.............................................per ton *25
“ 
20
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,....  70
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot....  50
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cats, per foot....  30
“  Champion  and  Blectrlc  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot............................................   30
Steel, Game...................................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s .... 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per do*
Mouse, delusion...............................11.50 per dos.
dis.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market......................................... 70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market...............................................   62 X
Ä red  Spring Steel................................  
50
d  Fence, galvanised...............................  2 85
“ 
painted....................................  2 40
Au  Sable.........................................................dls. 40*10
.  dls. 05
Putnam.......................................... 
Northwestern................................  
dls. 10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable...............................75*10
Bird Cages..........................................  
.50
Pumps, Cistern........................................   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........85*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

horse nails.

wrenches. 

dls.

dig.

 

METALS.
PIG TIN.

 

 

 

 

 

6X

ZINC.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
26c
Pig Bars.......................................................   28c
Duty:  Sheet, 2Xc per pound.
660 pound  casks........................................... 
Per pound....................................................   7
* © * - . .............................................................. J«
Extra Wiping........................... 
  1$
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market indicated by Private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................per  pound
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MBLYN GRADE.
10xl4IC, Charcoal........................................ 17
14x20 IC, 
.........................................  7
10x14 IX, 
9
 
9
 
14x20 IX, 

Bach additional X on this grade, 81.75.

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TIE—ALLAWAY GRADE.
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ROOFING PLATES

 
 
 

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

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40
Cook’s ........................................................... 
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Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
Jennings’,  Imitation.....'.............................50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.......................... # 7 00

AUGURS AND BITS. 

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S. B. S. Steel...............................  8 60
D. B. Steel....................................13 50

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C irrlage new list.......................................... 75*10
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Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 664.0

BUTTS, OAST. 

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Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  040
Bench, first quality.........................•............  Of0
Stanley Rale and Level Co.’s, wood...........  *10
Fry,  Acme............................................ ..............
70
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dls.
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
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Copper Rivets and Burs.............................   50—10
"A” Wood’s patent planished, Noe. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 26 to 27...  9 20 

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Michigan Tradesman

A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  CO  THB

Best  In terests  of  Business  Men.

Published at

lOO  Louis  St., Grand Rapids,

—  BY  THB —

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

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESD AY, JANUARY  11,  1893,

B R IN G IN G   C A N A D A   TO   T IM E .
It is announced  from  Washington that 
the  outgoing  administration  has  deter­
mined to  signalize  the  last  few  months 
of its tenure of  office by  instituting  vig­
orous 
retaliatory  proceedings  against 
Canada, because  of  the  unjust  discrim­
ination  shown  against  American  busi­
ness interests by  the  Dominion  Govern­
ment. 
In spite of  the constant  expostu­
lations addressed to  the Ottawa  Govern­
ment  by our  State  Department,  and  the 
retaliatory  measures  actually  adopted 
with respect to the canal  tolls,  the Cana­
dians  continue  to  impose  onerous  bur­
dens  upon  American  shipping  passing 
through  their  canals,  and  upon Ameri­
can merchandise  transported  over  their 
railroads.

The  United  States  Government  has 
been slow to  move in  this matter,  under 
the belief that  public  sentiment  in Can­
ada  would  promptly  compel  a cessation 
of  the  unfair  spirit  displayed  by  the 
Government.  The desire for annexation, 
expressed  by  so  many  Canadians,  also 
induced President  Harrison  and  his ad­
visers  to  adopt  a  conciliatory  course.
Now,  however,  that it is clearly shown 
that moderation is  misplaced,  and  that, 
instead of improving the  situation,  it  is 
constantly growing worse, it has been de­
cided to act vigorously.

The new method of  procedure selected 
is to strike at Canadian trade by stopping 
the privileges the Canadian railroads have 
hitherto  enjoyed  of  transporting  goods 
in  bond  through  American  seaports by 
overland routes into Canada.  This priv­
ilege has  enabled  them  to  successfully 
compete with American  railroads and  to 
take  considerable  business  away  from 
them,  owing  to  the  fact  that  they  (the 
Canadian roads)  were  not  subject to  the 
restrictions  imposed  on  the  home  roads 
by the interstate commerce  law.

It is stated that the  new method of  re­
taliation will be put in force very shortly, 
and that  every  measure  short  of  actual 
hostilities  will  be  resorted  to  to  bring 
our Canadian neighbors  to terms.

In the light of these hostile trade dem­
onstrations,  the 
annexation 
which so  many  Canadians  indulge in  is 
somewhat ridiculous.  A nation which is

talk  of 

THE  MXOHXG-âJSr  TRADESMAN.

willing  to  permit  its  Government  to 
adopt such unfriendly  measures  against 
the  trade  of  a  neighboring  nation  can 
have  no  serious  intention  of  favoring 
annexation to the very country thus con­
tinually attacked.

Organized labor received  another body 
blow last  Friday  in  the  decision of  the 
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, sustain­
ing the decision of the Allegheny County 
Court,  which  granted  an  injunction 
against the striking printers of Pittsburg, 
restraining  them  from  annoying  or  in­
timidating  the  workmen  employed  by 
the employing  printers.  The  job print­
ers of Pittsburg struck for  an eight-hour 
day  on Oct.  1,  1891,  but  the  strike  has 
been about  as  successful  as  the  Home­
stead  affair.  Unlike  the  Homestead 
strike,  the  uuionists  did  not  resort  to 
murder and incendiarism, confining their 
operations  to  assaulting  the  men  who 
took  their  places  and  ruining  the  ma­
chinery and  material  of  the  employing 
printers.  The  latter  naturally 
took 
steps to put the unionists under legal re­
straint, and the highest  tribunal  in that 
State sustains the action.  Strange  as  it 
may  seem,  the  union  printers  of 
the 
country still contribute a weekly  stipend 
to “maintain the strike”—to be more ex­
act,  to  keep  a  venal  strike  committee 
drunk  at  a  high-toned  hotel—although 
there  is no more prospect of winning the 
strike  than  of  turning  the  moon  into 
cheese.  Great is  the  acumen of  union­
ism!

A serious  danger  menaces  the  cheese 
industry of Michigau  in the shape of  the 
combined cheese factory-creamery  enter­
prises now being located  in various parts 
of the State  for  the  purpose  of  making 
creamery butter  and skim cheese;  worse 
than that,  “filled” cheese, neutral  grease 
taking the place of  the  cream made into 
butter. 
In  the  absence  of  a  law  com­
pelling  the  branding  of all  cheese,  ac­
cording to the butter fat contained there­
in,  the  placing  of  filled  cheese  on  the 
market will soon ruin  the reputation for 
full cream cheese which it has taken two 
generations  for  Michigan  cheesemakers 
to build up.  Those who  believe in  hon­
est goods and honest methods—in selling 
goods for exactly what they are and noth­
ing  else—should  concentrate  their  en­
ergies  in  securing, at  the  hands  of  the 
present  Legislature,  a  law  compelling 
the branding of all cheese  manufactured 
in  Pthis  State  and 
the  icreation  of  a 
Food Commissioner,  to  attend  to the en­
forcing of the law and other laws of sim­
ilar character now  on  our statute books. 
Without  a  proper  office  to  enforce  the 
laws,  they are a dead-letter.

The  Saranac Local,  in referring to the 
large number of  scheme  creameries now 
being  located  in  this State,  sagely  re­
marks:

Unfortunately  the  great  majority  of 
these  “assisted”  creameries  never  hold 
out long enough for the cream to rise.

M ichigan's Failure Record for  1892.
There were  219 failures  in  Michigan 
during the past year.  As  the number of 
firms doing business was 49,822,  the  per­
centage of failures is  but  little over two- 
fifths of  1 percent  The total liabilities 
were 82,969,296.  The year  before  there 
were  232  failures,  with  liabilities  esti­
mated  at  82,308,282.  The  liabilities  of 
the year before that amounted  to 86,082,- 
024.

The  Lowell V eteran  H eard  From.
L o w ell,  Jan.  3—I note with  pleasure 
several suggestions in  T h e  T radesm an 
in reference to calling a meeting  in  Feb­
ruary  of the State Business Men’s  Asso­
ciation.  The good work done in the past 
should  be  sufficient  encouragement  to 
push forward, and  while  mistakes  may 
have been made,  experience  may  teach 
how to avoid them.  The  benefits  accru­
ing to the business interests of  Michigan 
through this organization cannot be  esti­
mated, and no one  conversant  with  the 
facts can  say  that  the  time and money 
spent in the work have not  been  well in­
vested.  Our  local  association  has  not 
been as active,  perhaps,  as  some  others; 
but we look with pride upon the improve­
ments  made  through  our united  efforts 
and hope for greater good to  come.  Ex- 
President Hamilton refers with  pleasure 
to the work of his home Association, and 
a visitor  to that  hustling  Northern  city 
can readily discover the  “power  behind 
the  throne.”  Truly,  if  local  organi­
zations  can  accomplish  so  much,  what 
may we not expect from  a  thorough  or­
ganization of the business men of the en­
tire State?  What the  business  men  of 
Michigan  cannot  accomplish,  business 
men of other  states need not attempt.
There are few  things  on  earth  which 
would  afford me  greater  pleasure  than 
to meet once more and clasp  hands  with 
the veterans of the M.  B.  M. A.  Let this 
be a representative meeting and my wish 
in  the 
is  that  every  city  and  village 
State may be represented.  The business 
interests of  the  State  demand  it. 
If  a 
meeting is called, Lowell will  be  there.

Yours Truly,

N.  B.  Bla in.

Financial Notes.

It  is  reported  that  S.  W.  Webber,  of 
Lyons,  has  purchased a business  lot  at 
Carson  City,  and  will  erect  thereon  a 
brick building, suitable for  the  use of  a 
bank,  with a view  to  organizing another 
bauk in that town.

The  Edison  Illuminating  Company of 
Detroit  was  organized  in  April,  1886, 
with a capital stock of  8250.000.  A year 
ago the stockholders  resolved to increase 
the  stock to  8350,000.  Half  of  the  new 
stock  was issued  last July.  At a recent 
meeting of the Board of  Directors it was 
ordered to immediately  offer the  remain­
ing  850,000  of  new stock  at  par  to  the 
present stockholders for subscription pro 
rata to be paid for by Jan.  14.

Henry Idema  has  purchased the stock 
in  the  Kent  County Savings  Bank  held 
by the estate of the late James Blair.

Some  heavy transfers  in  stock of  the 
Grand Rapids School  Furniture Co.  have 
lately  taken  place,  Gaius  W.  Perkins, 
Wm.  T.  Hess  and  Chas. J.  Reed  having 
purchased the holdings of Case & Crotser 
and James A. Rumsey.

Present Price of  Granulated  Sugar. 
On account of the advance in  sugar  at 
wholesale,  the retail price of  granulated 
in this city has  been changed to  the fol­
lowing:

“  50  “
“  81.

6)4 cents per  pound 
4 pounds for 25  cents.
8K  “ 
17 
“ 
The O. & W.  Thum Co.  has won an im­
portant  victory  in  the  United  States 
Court of Massachusets,  iu  the  case of O. 
& W. Thum Co.  vs. John A.  Andrews,  et 
al., fully establishing the rights of plaint­
iff  to  the  sealing  borders  on 
their  fly 
papers.  The decision is deemed of great 
advantage to  the company, owing  to the 
effect it  will  have  on other  imitators  of 
Tanglefoot.

At five dollars he offered bis mantles fine,
Then he marked them down to four ninety-nine, 

But they didn’t sell worth a cent:
And like hot cakes at once they went.

W as It a  Fair Combination ?

F ro m  th e  A m eric an  G rocer.

A  neighboring  dealer 

On a balmy spring morning a few years 
since  the  representative  of  the  well-
known  Gloucester  firm o f------ & -------
dealers in fish, entered the store o f--------
and  sold  fifty  kits  of  new  season’s 
mackerel at  81.15.  Somehow or other it 
happened that the  fifty other  dealers in 
fish in that city failed to buy  any  of the 
same line of goods, so that  upon  arrival 
& Co.  were the only parties in the
city offering new mackerel in  kits.  They 
stacked the packages on the sidewalk and 
labeled them $1.50, thus  getting  a  very 
fair  profit.
In that section it  was  the  custom  of 
farmerf and families resident  in the city 
to buy a kit of salt  mackerel.  And so it 
came  about that  many a  farmer  as  he
passed through the city stopped a t -------
& Co.’s store and  invested $1.50 in a  kit 
of new mackerel,  and  many of  the  city 
folks did the same.
looked  with
jealous eyes on--------& Co.’s lively trade
in mackerel.  He discerned  that the low 
price and the excellent quality of the fish 
were proving  a  paying  advertisement. 
And so he ordered a lot of  kits and upon 
arrival stacked them in front of his store,
but marked them $1.45 per kit.  --------&
Co.  promptly marked their kits  down  to 
$1.40,  when the competitor  dropped  the 
price to $1.35,  only  to  be  followed  by
--------& Co., dropping to  $1.30.  Down !
down ! down  ! went the  figures until cost
had been reached, when--------& Qp. called
on their  competitors  and  asked  if  the 
policy they were  pursuing  was  fair  to 
each other?  After discussing  the  ques­
tion the rival firms came to the conclusion 
th«t their method was folly  and  so they 
agreed upon a price at which both  would 
sell the kits of mackerel, viz., $1.45, thus 
giving both a fair  profit.  As  both  ad­
hered to the agreement,  both  did a  good 
trade and  made  money.  They  entered 
into a combination in  restraint  of  com­
petition,  and  one  which  checked  the 
public entrenchiug on their  capital  and 
enjoying their services without remuner­
ation.
Was  it  a  fair,  a  just  combination? 
Think it over and  let 
the  editor  know 
your  opiuion.  Apply  the  principle  in­
volved to larger combinations and tell us 
if it is fair or whether it  is  foul,  unjust 
and inequitable!

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

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PRODUCE  MARKET 4

Apples—Baldwins and Spys  are in fair  supply 
and good  demand,  commanding S3  per bbl. for 
eating and $2 for cooking grades.

Beans—Unchanged.  City  picked  is  held  at 

Sl.604Sl.75.

Butter—Very scarce, choice dairy readily com­
manding  23@24c  and fancy  creamery  bringing 
32333c.

Cabbages—So scarce that  dealers have  ceased 
quoting  by the  100, selling  by  a  dozen,  with 
strong  probability  that  the  price will  soon be 
made  by  the  piece.  The  ruling  price  is  now 
75@85c per doz.

stock, commanding 18@20c per doz. bunches.

Celery—Winter  stock Is much  Inferior  to  fall 
Cider—12*4@13c per gal.
Cranberries—The  market  is  a  little  lower, 
crates  now  being  held  as follows:  Cape  Cods 
and Jerseys, S2.75;  Waltons, $3.25.

Eggs—stocks  of  cold  storage  are  practically 
exhausted, In consequence  of  which the Chiga- 
go market has  advanced from 18  to 23c  per doz. 
Local handlers  hold old  eggs  at 24c and  strict­
ly fresh  at 28c, with only  occasional  offerings 
of the  latter.

hold at 90c per bu.

Grapes—Malagas command $7.50 per keg.
Honey—Clover In comb  commands 13@14c.
Onions—Unchanged.  Dealers  pay  75c  and 
Parsnips— 10c per bu.
Potatoes—The market  Is  looking up again, lo­
cal handlers having  all  received enquiries  and 
orders  from  outside  markets  during  the  past 
week 
In  consequence  of  the  revival  in  the 
markets, handlers have  notified  their  buyers at 
outside points to increase  the paying price from 
50 to 55c per bu.
manding 2Hc per lb.

Squash—Very  scarce,  Hubbard  readily  com­
sweet Potatoes—Scarce and nearly out of mar­
ket.  Illinois readily  command  $4  per bbl.  and 
Tennessee Yams bring $1.25 per bu.
I  Turnips—35c per bu

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T ^ A J 3E S M A /N \

9

Gripsack Brigade.

Henry Tons has  gone  on  the  road for 
Caskey,  Quinlan & Hawley, the Petoskey 
furniture  manufacturers,  and  was  in 
town last week on his way to the West.

The Owosso traveling  men are arrang­
ing  to  hold  their  second  annual  social 
gathering,  which  they  hope  to  make  as 
successful  as  their  first  social,  held  a 
year ago.

Abraham  Peck,  formerly prescription 
the  Lowell 
clerk for  W.  S.  Winegar, 
druggist,  has gone on  the  road  for  the 
specialty  department  of  the  Standard 
Oil  Co.,  covering  the  trade  of  North­
western Michigan.

G. W. Dennis succeeds F. E.  Edmunds 
as  traveling  representative  for  A.  E. 
Brooks & Co.  Mr. Edmunds has engaged 
to  travel  for  Gray,  Toynton  &  Fox, 
wholesale  and  manufacturing  confec­
tioners of Detroit.

At the annual meeting of the Travelers’ 
Club, of Detroit,  the  following  directors 
were elected to take the  place  of  those 
retiring:  George L.  Sampson, Ed.  Wiles 
and L.  R.  Meserve.  The  officers for the 
ensuing year  were  elected  as  follows: 
President,  George  L.  Sampson;  Vice- 
President,  T.  J.  Chamberlain;  Second 
Vice-President,  Ed.  Wiles;  Secretary- 
Treasurer,  R.  A.  Catton; Auditor,  T.  J. 
Chamberlain;  chairman  of  the  house 
committee,  L.  R.  Meserve.  The  mem­
bership  of  the  Club  is  280,  and  the 
finances are in  a  very  satisfactory  con­
dition.

“I have  known  hundreds of  commer­
cial travelers in my time,”  said a  promi­
nent  traveling  man,  “but  I have  never 
known one yet  to  make a success on  the 
road,  or even  remain on  the road for any 
length of time,  unless he worked as hard 
for his employer  as  he  would  work  for 
himself. 
I will say even  more,  and  that 
is,  that  I  never  knew  a  narrow-minded 
or bigoted salesman to succeed.  The  re­
quirements of  a successful salesman can 
never be appreciated  until  one  becomes 
a  salesman  himself. 
The  successful 
salesman  cannot  be  ignorant,  because 
the dealer will  find  that  out  at the very 
start;  he cannot  be insolent,  because his 
insolence will be  resented;  he  cannot be 
too smart,  because there is  many a small 
country  dealer  just  as  smart  as  he  is. 
He  must  be  a  well-informed,  earnest, 
courteous  gentleman at all  times,  and  I 
am glad  to  say,  while  speakiug  on this 
subject,  that the  old-style  salesman that 
we  used  to  read  about  when  we  were 
boys is gone.  The idea of  the  drummer 
twenty-five  years  ago  implied  a  man 
dressed in  th? flashiest  style  of clothes, 
of  loud  demeanor,  who  demanded  and 
got the  best  of  everything  wherever  he 
went, and who  regarded  morals as  only 
of secondary consideration.  The  people 
of  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago  thought 
that a drummer  could not be  successful 
unless he got on an occasional tear.  The 
drummer now is essentially  a gentleman 
in all that the word implies.  He must be 
a  gentleman  in  conduct as  well  as ap 
pearance.  No  bumming  or 
tearing 
around is tolerated for  one moment by  a 
reputable house. 
In short,  the salesman 
is a perambulating  merchant;  he travel 
from  place  to  place,  representing  his 
house and stands for his  house wherever 
he goes.  The  better  class  of  salesmen 
will not associate with the drummer who 
thinks  it  is  duty  to  get  drunk  or  act 
smart wherever he  goes.  Go  where you 
will, I doubt if  you  can  find  a more in 
telligent, a more moral, or  a  more trust-

worthy class of men than  you  find in the 

nks of the traveling salesmen.”
Jos. P.  Visner was  born at Coaticooke, 
Quebec,  May  25,  1854.  He  removed 
shortly  thereafter  with  his  parents  to 
Chicago.  When 7 years  old  he  removed 
with  his  parents to  East  Saginaw,  sub­
sequently  coming to this  city,  where  his 
father enlisted  as  a  volunteer  in  1861. 
On the return of his father from the war, 
the  family  removed to Muskegon,  where 
he  remained  ten  years.  Mr. Visner  at­
tended the  common  schools at that place 
and completed  his education  by a course 
at  the  Grand  Rapids  Business  College. 
He  then  conducted  a  general  store  at 
Monterey,  removing  a  few  months later 
to Hopkins  Station,  where  he conducted 
business  three  years.  He  then  took in 
Peter Dendel as a partner,  when the firm 
name  became  Visner  &  Dendel.  One 
ear  later he sold  out to his  partner,  re­
moving  to  Allegan,  where he  embarked 
in the lumber and building material bus­
iness.  This  he  continued  three  years, 
when  he removed  to  Grand  Rapids Jan.
,  1890, ani  engaged  with  Edwin J. Gil­
lies  &  Co., of  New  York,  as  city  sales­
man.  This  position  he still  holds,  hav­
ing  recently re-engaged  with  the  house 
for  the  fourth  year.  Mr. Visner  is  a 
patient  and  persistent  worker,  and  to 
this  fact is  due  the  remarkable  success 
which has  attended  his career as a sales­
man in this  market.  That he enjoys the 
confidence of  his  house  to a marked  ex­
tent is shown  by the  fact  that he is per­
mitted  to  make  collections  and  enforce 
the payment of  doubtful accounts,  with­
out consulting  headquarters;  in fact,  his 
success  in  this  respect has  been  so  re­
markable that  Gillies & Co.  could hardly 
afford to curtail his authority in this line.

The H ardw are M arket.

There is but little to  report in the line 
of  hardware.  Business  continues  good 
and the  outlook  for  the  coming  year is 
very encouraging.  But very  few chang­
es are being made in prices.

Wire  Nails—Still  continue  to decline 
and, owing to the  severe  winter,  the de­
mand is very  light.  Present  quotations 
are $1.75 to $1.80 base.

Barbed  Wire—Many  dealers  are plac­
ing  their  orders  for  spring  shipments, 
believing prices are  as low  as  they  can 
possibly  go.  Jobbers  are  quoting  for 
shipment 
follows 
Painted,  $2.10;  galvanized, $2.55.

factory  as 

from 

Rope—Again on the decline,  both sisal 
and  manilla.  We  quote  sisal  at  Sj^c 
and  manilla at  12>£c.

Saws—A great  scarcity  exists  among 
the saw makers and  it is  impossible  for 
jobbers to  keep a supply  of  the  salable 
sizes.  E. C. Atkins & Co.  write they  are 
working night and day,  and yet find they 
cannot keep pace with the  demand.

Chain—For logging  purposes  are also 
difficult to  obtain.  Notwithstanding the 
scarcity,  there is no change in the prices.

The  Grocery  M arket.

Sugar—Some  grades  have  advanced 
during  the  past  week,  powdered  and 
cubes  being  %c higher  and soft  grades 
having  been marked up  from  )^@3-16c. 
The new method of  handling  sugar  ap­
pears to meet  with  less opposition  than 
was  expected, 
the  retail  trade  having 
apparently  decided  to  give  the  plan  a 
fair trial before  condemning  or  approv­
ing it—a wise thing to  do.

Oranges—Unchanged.
Lemons—Plenty and cheaper.

TUB  FA BOON.

FALCON  No.  I —Gentlemen’s Road W heel, 
FALCONESS—Ladies’ Hoad W heel, 
FALCON  JR .—Boys’ and Girls’ Road W heel, 

$115 0«
100.0«
50.00

A ll fitted w ith Pneum atic Tires.  Finest Steel  m aterial.  Best workm anship. 
T H E   Y O S T   M A N U F A C T U R IN G   CO.,

WRITE  FOR CATALOGUE.

YOST’S  STATION,  TOLEDO,  OHIO.

S t u d l e y   &   B a r c l a y ,

4  M o n ro e  S t ,

G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M ICH.

O nr  Motto:  <1New  Styles."
w  E  CARRY  a  full  line of  all  patterns  of 

Ladles’  and  Gents’  Bicycles,  and  can 

supply at once upon receipt of order.

We Lead in Mifced Prices.

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, 1898.  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.

See  th a t  this  Label  appears 
on  every npackage, as  It  is  a 
guarantee of the genuine ar­
ticle.

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Soli  in  this  market  lor  the  past  Fifteen  Years.

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

JOHN  SMYTH,  A p t Grani  Rapids,  Midi.

Telephone 566.

106  Kent St.

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plan  a' house,  that  is  just  the  proper 
thing for her to do,

The  old  cry  that the children will  be 
neglected usually  comes  from dyspeptic 
croakers or from men who are willing  to 
sit  idly about the  domestic  hearthstone 
while their  wives  earn money  that  pro­
vides them with the necessities and many 
times  with  the  luxuries  of  life. 
It  is 
said that there  are  in  the  State  of New 
Tork alone over twenty thousand women 
who support their husbands.

Many a young woman has  chosen a ca­
reer and an independence of her own,  be­
cause of what she has learned of the hab­
its of her father  and brothers as well'as 
other men of her acquaintance.  Not long 
since, one of  the most  intelligent young 
women of the age remarked to her friend: 
“I suppose it is very unkind and unfilial 
for  me  to say  it,  but  if  all  the women 
when  they marry  have  to  put  up  with 
what  mamma and  my married sister do, 
the  best  thing  for  me is  to  be  able  to 
take care of myself and stay single.”

And many  other  young  women  look­
ing about the world are fully justified  in 
taking the same  ground;  therefore,  it  is 
that  women  everywhere  are^making 
themselves independent and are learning 
to meet  emergencies if  they arise.  The 
brilliant and petted graduate is becoming 
wiser  than  her  generation, 
she 
knows that she is no  more  likely to  find 
a pathway of  roses  than her.Associates; 
and  when  she  sees  half  a dozen of  her 
two-year-ago  classmates  living in silent 
if  not  outspoken  wretchedness, 
she 
thinks that it  behooves  her  to  do  some­
thing to  so fortify herself  that when the 
time of trouble  comes she will  have  the 
means of support and the ability to keep 
herself  and  her  children  from  want if 
necessary. 

N.  S.  Stow ell.

for 

The  Drug  M arket.

Carbolic  acid  is very  firm  and higher 

prices are looked for.

Cassia  buds are  in  small  supply  and 
have advanced.  Oil cloves has advanced 
in sympathy with the bnds.

Malaga olive oil, both yellow and green, 

has advanced.

Another  advance 

in 

linseed  oil  is 

looked for daily.

Gum opium is steady.
Quinine is unchanged.

4 0
Drugs 0  Medicines•

State  Board  of Pharm acy.
On©  Y ear—Ja m e s  V e rn o r, D e tro it.
Tw o  Y e ars—O ttm a r E b erb ac h , A nn  A rb o r 
T h re e  Y e ars—G eorge G u n d ru m , Io n ia.
Four Years—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Expiring Jan  1—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
S e c re ta ry —Ja s .  V e rn o r, D e tro it.
■Treasurer—G eo. G u ndrum , Io n ia.
N ext m ee tin g —S aginaw . J a n . 11.______________________
M ich igan   S t a t e   P h a rm a ceu tica l  Ass’s .  

P re sid e n t—S tan ley  E. P a rk ill, Owopbo.
V ice-Presidents—I.  H.  L.  D odd,  B u ch an a n ;  F.  W .  R.
P e rry , D e tr o it;  W . H. H icks. M orley.
T re a su re r—W m. H  D upont,  D e tro it.
S e c re ta ry —C. W . P a rso n s, D e tro it.
E x ec u tiv e  C om m ittee—H.  O.  C olem an,  K alam azo o ; 
Ja c o b  Jesso n , M uskegon:  F.  J.  W u rz b u rg   a n d   Jo h n  
E. P eck. G ran d  R ap id s;  A rth u r B assett,  D e tro it. 
L ocal S e cretary —Ja m e s V ernor.
N ext  p lac e  o f  m ee tin g —Som e  re s o rt  o n   St.  C la ir 
R iv e r;  tim e  to  be d esig n a te d  by E x ec u tiv e C om m ittee.
G r a n d   R a p i d s   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c i e t y .  
P re sid e n t. W . R. Je w e tt,  S e c re ta ry ,  F ra n k  H . E sc o tt, 
R eg u la r M eetings—F ir s t W ednesday e v e n in g  o f M arch

Ju n e , S ep tem b er an d  D ecem ber.

THE  COMING  WOMAN.

A  good  deal  of  comment  has  of  late 
been  indulged  in  about  the  various oc­
cupations of women and  their  fads,  fol­
lies and amusements.  Somebody  is sure 
to be shocked  whatever a woman may do. 
If she remains  quietly  at  home,  avoids 
general society  and  busies  herself  with 
her own  affairs, she  is  mysterious,  and 
somebody’s  eyebrows  are  raised  when­
ever she is spoken  of. 
If  she  goes  out 
frequently,  no  matter  what  her  errand 
may  be, she  is a  gadabout. 
If  she  sits 
quietly  in  her  place  at  a  reception  or 
party, she is stupid. 
If  she is lively aud 
vivacious,  she is a flirt  or is  trying to at­
tract attention, even if  nothing worse  is 
If  she is fond of  horses,  a 
said of  her. 
certain  portion  of  the  community 
is 
horrified. 
If  she  goes to the races,  it  is 
simply  shocking,  no  matter if  the  taste 
may have been inherited from the father, 
or that she  may  have  been  taken about 
in his arms to see the best  races and  the 
finest blooded nags of  his day.

It  would  he  somewhat  interesting  to 
the  inquiring and  unprejudiced mind  to 
be informed  just  what  a woman  should 
do.  We hear no  end of  talk about what 
she should not be  and  do;  hut  the ideal 
woman  does not seem to be described  in, 
any of the current literature.

There  is  a  great  deal  of  vague  talk 
about the domestic woman  and the home 
woman,  the  woman  whose  entire  exist­
ence is  comprehended  in the meet-your- 
husband-with-a-smile  platitude,  that  is 
so old that it deserves to be superannuat­
ed;  but she  who  narrows  her  life down 
to  a  perpetual  smile,  while  she  is  all 
right  enough in theory,  for  some reason 
or other,  in  practice she  doesn’t  pan out 
at all.

A great deal  is expected  of  the  nine­
teenth-century  woman,  and  a great deal 
more will be expected of  her in the  next 
decade. 
It  would  be  worth  while  for 
these  croakers  and  would-be  philoso­
phers  and  critics  and  fault-finders  and 
the whole tribe of  malcontents generally 
to turn  their  attention  to  the question: 
Where will  she find a man  worthy to  be 
her consort? 
If,  as all  these  platitudes 
inform  us,  the  chief  end  and  aim  of 
woman is  to adorn a home, it is a matter 
of primary  interest who  is going to  pro­
vide  the  home,  and,  of  course,  as  the 
first count in this  indictment,  what  sort 
of a provider is  it that is to he the main­
spring of  all this sweetness and light.

Some  of  these  days  when  we  have 
grown a great  deal wiser  and more com­
prehensive  and  clear-sighted  than  we 
are now,  we will find out that there is no 
sex in  occupation;  that  if  a woman  can 
run a farm, manage  a mine,  successfully 
conduct the affairs of  a countingroom or

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

La  Grippe

may attack but cannot overcome those protected 

by frequent use of

CUSHMAN’S

[Me n t h o l   In h a l e r .
It destroys the microbes lodged on the mucous 
membranes and  arrests progress of  the disease. 
Unequalled  for  COLDS,  SORE  THBOAT, CA­
TARRH,  HEADACHE  and  NEURALGIA.
The  first  inhalations  stop  sneezing, snuffing, 
coughing  and  headache.  Continued  use  com­
pletes the  cure.  Sold  by all  druggists 50 cents. 
Registered mail 60 cents from

H. D.  CUSHMAN, Patentee and Mfr.,

T.  H.  NEVIN  CO.’S___

Swiss  Villa  MiM Paints

Have been  used  for over ten years.
Have in all cases given satisfaction.
Are unequalled  for  durability, elasticity 

and beauty of finish.

We carry a full stock of  this well known 

brand mixed paints.

Send for sample card and prices.

Hazelline & Perkins Drag Co.,

STATE  AGENTS

GRAXD  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Three  Rivers,  Mich,, U. S. A.

POTATOES.

We have made the handling of  Potatoes a “specialty” for many years and have 
a large trade.  Can  take care of  all that can be shipped  us.  We give  the best ser­
vice—sixteen years experience—first-class salesmen.

Ship your stock to us and get full Chicago market value.
Reference—Bank of Commerce, Chicago.

W M .  H.  THOMPSON  &  CO., 

Commission  Merchants,

166 So. W ater St., Chicago.

OYSTERS!

THE  P.  &  B.  BRAND WILL  PLEASE  YOUR  CUSTOMERS 
—INCREASE  YOUR TRADE—AND  MAKE  YOU  MONEY- 
THREE  FEATURES  THAT  COMMEND  THEM  TO  YOUR 
SOLD  BY  ALL  GRAND  RAPIDS  JOBBERS— 
NOTICE. 

PACKED  BY

T H E   P U T N A M   C A N D Y   CO

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 
himself, that for elegance, style, fit, make-up and lowness in price he stands 
unequalled—a  thorough,  practical  clothing  manufacturer,  established 
thirty-six years in the  city of  Rochester, N.  Y.

William  Connor,  our  representative  in  Michigan,  whose  address  is 
Box 346, Marshall, Mich., will  gladly call upon you if  you  will honor him 
with a line to show  you our  samples,  and  buy or not  buy, we  will  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  merchants  contemplating  putting in  ready-made  clothing  this 
spring will  best  consult  their  interests by sending  for  Wm.  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.

WE  AHE  THE  EEOEEE

W ho  Can Sell  yon an  A  No.  I   A rticle of

Pure  Huckwheat  Flour

A t  a  M oderate  Price.  A  Postal card w ill  bring 

quotations and  sample.

A.  S C H E N C K   &  S O N ,

E L S IE ,  M ICH.

Two Sat Down.
One to sing and one to spin
But no one listened to the dull wheel’s din.

Two sat down In the morning time,
All men listened to the song sublime,

The singer sat in a pleasant nook 
And sang of a life that was sad  and sweet,
While the spinner sat with steadfast look 
Down in her heart as she sat alone.

The singer sang with a rose in her hair,
And the spinner  spun on with a dull despair 

And all men listened to her dulcet tone.
Down in her heart as she sat alone.

But lo!  on the morrow no one said 
Aught of the singer or what she sang.
Men were saying:  “Behold this thread!” 
And loud the praise of the spinner rang.

The world  has forgotten the singer’s name— 
But far o’er the ocean the spinner’s fame 

As though it had no limit.

Her rose is faded, her songs are old;
Yet is blazoned in lines of gold.
They talk about a woman’s sphere.
There’s not a place in earth or heaven,
There’s not a task to mankind given,
There’s not a blessing or a woe,
There’s not a whispered yes or no,
There’s not a life, or death, or birth.
That has a feather’s weight of worth, 

Without a woman in it.

Empress  Josephine Face Bleach

Is the only reliable cure for 

freckles and pimples.

HAZELTINE  A  PERKINS  DRUG  CO., 

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

Jobbers for Western Michigan.

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Advanced—Cassia buds, oil <

ACIDUM.

8® 10
Acetlcum................. . 
Benzoicum  German. .  65® 75
20
Boracic 
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25© 35
Carbolicum..............
50® 52
Citrlcum..................
Hydrocblor.............. .  3® 5
............... .  10® 12
Nftrocum 
Oxalicum................. .  10® 12
20
Phosphorlum dll......
Sallcylicum.............. .1  30@1  70
Sulpnuricum............ .  1M® 5
Tarinicum  ................ .1  40@1  60
30® 33
Tartarlcum................
AMMONIA.

Aqua, 16  deg............ .  3M@ 5
20  deg............ .  5)4® 7
........................ .  12® 14
C a r b o n a s  
Chlorldum................ .  12® 14

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ANILINE.

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

BACCAE.

Cubeae (po  60)........  50®  60
Junlperus..................   8®  ¿0
Xantnoxylum............   25®  30

ba lsa m tjm .

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

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CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian..................  18
Cassiae  ...............................  JJ
Cinchona Flava  .................   18
Euonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrica  Cerlfera, po.............  20
Prunus Virgin!....................   12
Quillala,  grd.......................   1»
Sassafras  ............ 
Jf
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

 

 

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Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...
p o ..........
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is..............
)4s............
Ms............
FKBRUM.
Carbonate Preclp.......
Citrate and Qulnla....
Citrate  Soluble..........
Perrocy anldum Sol —
Solut  Chloride...........
Sulphate,  com’l .........
pure............

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

®  15 
®3 50 
®  80 
@  50 
@  15 
.9®  2
®  7

f l o r a .

Arnica.......................   18®  20
Anthemls...................  * ®   35
Matricaria 
......   40®  50

FOlla.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

...................  40® 1 00
nlvelly....................  25®  28
Alx.  35®  50 
and  Mis....................  15®  25
8®  10

Salvia  oificiDalls,  34s
UraUrsl...................... 

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Acacia,  1st  picked—   @  75
2d 
....  ®  50
3d 
....  ®  40
sifted sorts...  ®  25
p o .................  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
Socotrl. (po.  60).  ®  50
Catechu, Is, ()4b, 14 34s,
16)  ....................   • - 
®  l
Ammcnlae.................  55®  60
Assafcstida, (po. 85)..  30®  35
Benzolnum.................  50®  55
Camphors..................   55®  58
Euphorblum  po  ........  35®  lo
Gafbanum...................  _ @2 50
Gamboge, po..............  70®  75
Guaiacum, (po  30)  ...  @  25
Kino,  (po  50)............   @  45
M astic.......................  @  80
Myrrh, (po  45)...........  @  40
Opil,  (po  2 80)................2 00@2 10
Shellac  ......................  25®  35
bleached......   30®  35
Tragacanth................  40® 1  00

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herb a—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bnpatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia...... .........................   25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
«  Y lr.........................  25
Rue.......................................  30
Tanacetum, Y......................  22
Thymus, V..........................   25

MAONXSIA.

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

OLEUM.

Cubebae...................  .  @ 4 00
Exechthitos..............  2 50®2  75
Erlgeroo...................2 2 5 5 0
Gaultheria.................2  00@2  10
Geranium,  ounce......   ®  75
Gosslpli, Sem. gal......  60®  75
Hedeoma  ...................2 25@2 50
Juniperi......................  50®2 00
Lavendnla.................  90@2 00
Limonls..................... 2  50®3 00
Mentha PI per..............2  75@3 50
Mentha Verid............2  20®2 30
Morrhuae, gal............ 1  00@1  10
Myrcia, ounce............   ®  50
Olive..........................  85@S 75
Plcls Liquida, (gal. .35)  10®  12
Rlcinl.......................  1  18@1 24
Rosmarin!............  
75@1  00
Rosae, onnce............   6 50®8 50
Sncclnl.......................   40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
Santal  ....................... 3 50©7 00
Sassafras....................   50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tiglll..........................   @  90
Thyme.......................   40®  60
opt  ...............   @  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20
Bi Carb.......................   15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide....................  33®  35
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate  (po  22®24)..  22®  24
Cyanide......................  50©  55
Iodide.........................2  96@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com...  ®  15
Potass Nltras, opt......   8®  10
Potass Nltras..............  7®  9
Prussiate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po................  15®  18

POTASSIUM.

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RADIX.

Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......   8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)...................  @  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po..................2  30@2  40
Iris  plox (po. 35®38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  50®  55
Maranta,  Ms..............  ®  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei.............................   75@1 00
“  Cut......................  @1  75
“  pv.......................   75@1  35
Splgelia.....................   35®  38
Sangulnarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentarla.................  30®  32
Senega.......................  65®  70
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40 
M  @  25
SelUae, (po. 85)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
dus,  po....................  @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
lnglber a ....................   13® 15
Zingiber  J.................. 
18® 22

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Anlsnm,  (po. 20).. 
..  @ 15
Apiuxn  (graveleous)..  12®  15
Bird, Is......................... 
4® 6
Garni, (po. 18)...............  8® 12
Cardamon.................... 1 00® 1  25
Corlandrnm.................   10® 12
Cannabis Sativa.........   3M@4
Cvdonltun 
................  75@l 00
Cnenopodlnm  ............   10® 12
Dlpterlx Odorate.........3 00®3 25
Foenlcnlom..............  ©  15
Foenugreek,  po......... 
6®  8
4  © 4M
Lini  ...............  
Uni, grd,  (bbl. 854) 
4 © 4M
Lobelia.  ................  
 
Fharlarls Canarian—   6  @  6)4
Rapa............................. 
6®  7
Slnapls  Albn...........  11  @13
,f  Nigra...........  11®  12

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SPIRITUS.
Frumentl, W., D.  Co. .2 00®2 50
D. F. R .......1  75@2 00
 
Jnnlperls  Co. O. T .... 1  65@2 00
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.............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  E .........1 75@2 00
Spt.  Vlnl  Galll............1 7G@ü 50
Vlnl Oporto.................1 
Vlnl  Alba....................1 

1 

25®2 00
25@2 00

25@1 50

 

 

Florida  sheeps’  woo!
carriage............ 
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ....  
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage................... 
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage 
.....................  
Hard for  slate  use—  
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se.......................... 

.2 25®2 50
2 00
1  10
85
65
75
1 40

Absinthium.................... 3 50@4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc  ..  ..  45®  75 
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 0G@8 25
Anisl  ......................... 1 80@1  a5
Aurantl  Cortex..........2 75@3 oo
• Bergamll 
................. 3 25@3  50
Cajlputi  ..................  
60®  65
Cary ophy111................  15®  80
......................  35®  65
Cedar 
Chenopodll...............   ®1  60
Cinnamon!)  ................ 1 C0®1  10
Cltronella  .................  @  45
Conlum  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba  ....................  90®1 00

SYRUPS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferri  Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................   56
Rhei  Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
SelUae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   80
Tolntan...............................  SO
Pranas  vlrg.........................  60

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TINCTURES.

 

 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

** 

Co.............  75

Co.............  60

Aeon!turn  Napellis R.........   60
F .............  50
Aloes.....................................   60
and myrrh...................  60
A rnica..................................   50
Asafcetida............................  o
Atrope Belladonna................  60
Benzoin.................................  60
“  Co............................  50
Sangulnarla.........................  50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharldes.........................  75
Capsicum..............................  50
Ca damon..............................  75
Castor...................................1 00
Catechu.................................  50
Cinchona............................  50
Columba...............................  so
Conlum................ 
50
Cubeba......  .......................   50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot.....................................   50
Gentian................................   '50
“  Co............................  60
Gualca................................   50
“ 
Zingiber...............................  50
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Iodine..................................  75
Ferri 
K ino....................................  50
Lobelia..................................  50
Myrrh....................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  *50
Opil.....................................  85
“  Camphorated.................   50
“  Deodor..........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex......................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany............... 
50
Rhei.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol....................   50
“  Co..................  50
Serpentarla..........................   50
Stromonlum..........................   60
Tolutan.................................  60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVerlde...................  50

Colorless.......  75
Chlorldom......  35

ammon.........  60

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MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

per

* 
“ 

dither, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  28®  30 
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alnmen....................... 2M@ 3

11 
ground,  (po.

et Potass T. 

“ 
cent 

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antlmoni, po..............  4®  5
55®  60
Antlpyrln..................   @1  40
Antirebrin..................  @  25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  60
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, is, 04s
12;  Ms,  14)..............  @  11
Cantharldes  Russian,
.........................  @1  00
po 
Capslci  Fructus, a f...  @  26
“ po—   @  28
“ 
@  20
“ 
“ B po. 
Caryophyllus, (po.  14)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus 
....................  @  40
Cassia Finetas...........  ©  25
Centrarla  ..................   @  10
Cetacenm..................   ©  40
Chloroform  —   ........  60©  63
squibbs..  ©1  25
Chloral Hyd Cr»t.......1  35©1  60
. 
. ......  20® 25
Chcndrus' 
Cinchonldine, P. ä  W  15® 20
German  8  @ 12
Cordts,  ilet,  dis. 
...........
»
Creasotnm 
@ 35
......
Creta, (bbl. 75)..
......   @ 2
5® 5
...... 
“  Prep  ........
“  preclp......
9® 11
....   ® 8
“  Rubra......
......   60® 65
Crocus  ..............
Cudbear............
......   @ ¿A
......   5 @ 6
Cuprl Sulph......
........ ........  10® 12
Dextrine 
Ether Sulph......
......   70® 75
Emery,  all  numt 
>ers..  @ 
......  @ 6
Brgota,  (po.)  75. 
......   70® 75
........  12® 15
Fiake  White__
Galla................. .......  
23
Gambier............ ........  7  @ 3
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ©  70
40®  60
GlasHwsre  "'nt. by box ".0 & 10. 
Less than box  66%
Glue,  DruWU...... ......   9®  15
“  White...............   13®  25
Glycerina 
................15)4®  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  ©  22
Humulus....................  25©  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  85 
“  Cor  ...
©  &J 
Ox Rubrum
©   90 
Ammonlatl.
©1  <0
Unguentum.  4;©  55
Hydrargyrum........ 
@  64
.1  25®l 50
Unthyobolla, Am. 
Indigo...................  75@1 
00
Iodine,  Resubl..........3 8 @3 90
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin.................... 1 2 @1 25
Lycopodium.........  60© 
65
Macis  .........................  75® 80
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
27
Liquor Potass ArsinlUs  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
5
Mannla,  8 .F ..............  60@J68

drarg Iod............  @ 

1)4).....................   2® 

French  ........ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

po

“ 

“ 

a

35® 40

“ 

“ 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W.. .1  7C@1  95
C.Co...................... 1  60@1  85
Moschus Canton____  @  40
Myrlstica, No. 1.........   65®  70
Nnx Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  20®  22
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co........................   @2 00
Plcls Llq, N.-C., K gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcls Uq., quarts......  @1 00
pints.........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5) —   @  3
Pix  Bnrgun................  @  7
PlumbI A cet..............  14®  15
Pnlvis Ipecac et opii..l  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
&P. D.  Co., doz......   @125
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®  35
Quasslae.................... 
8®  10
Qulnla, S .P .4 W ......   27®  32
S.  German__20  ©  30
Rubla  Tinctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Laetis pv. 
23®  25
Salacin...................... 1  7S@1  89
Sanguis  Draconis......  40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
*  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  ©  15

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture........  @  20
Slnapls........................  @  18
“  opt...................  ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  1)4®  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Soda,  Ash....................3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o............  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......   @2 25
“  Myrcia Imp........  @3 00
•’  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
....7 ........................ 2 55@2 65
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal.......1  40® 1  45
Sulphur, Subl............. 2)4® 3)4
Roll...............  2M@ 3
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  30
Theobromae..............40  @  45
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
Zinc!  Sulph...............   7®  8

“ 

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   76 
Lard, No.  1...............   42 
Linseed, pure raw —   49 

Bbl.  Gal
70
80
48
52

“ 

faints. 

Undseed,  boiled  __  52 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   50 
Spirits Turpentine__  36 

11
C5
60
40
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian.............1%  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__1%  2@4
“ 
Ber........1M  2@3
Putty,  commercial.... 2M  2%@3
“  strictly  pure......2)4  2%®3
VermiUon Prime Amer­
13@16
ican ..........................  
VermiUon,  English__ 
65@70
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red....................  6%@7
“  w hite............... 6%@7
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
1 40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1*4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.......... ...........1 00@1  20
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp.................160@1  70
Coach  Body............... 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp  Furn........1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55®1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 

cliff.............................. 

Tutp............................ 

70@75

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT  MEDICINES

DEALERS  IN

Paints, Oils  Varnishes.

Sole A gents for the  Celebrateli

SWISS  VILLA  PREPARED  PAINTS.
Lie  or  He  Druggists’  Sunöries

We are Sole Proprietors of

Weatherly’8  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

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

WHISKIES, 

B R A N D IE S
GINS,  WINES,  RUMS,

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

HAZELT1E  & PEHHS DBDfi CO.,

GRAND RAPIDS,  M ICH.

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THE  MICEIIG^JSr  TRADESMAN

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

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 
It is  impossible to give  quotations  suitable for all conditions of  purchase,  and those 
going to  press  and  are an  accurate  index of  the local  market. 
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
3 00 
8  2, * 3, 
8 50
4 00
8 5, 
810, 
5 00
820,
6 00

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Prunes.
California,  100-120...............10)4
90x100 25 lb. bxs. 11)4
..12)4
80x90 
“ 
13)4
70x80 
“ 
60x70 
.14
“ 
Turkey......................... 
7)4
Silver..................................
Sultana...............................9)4

AXLE GREASE.
doz
Aurora....................  55
Castor Oil...............   75
Diamond.................  50
Frazer’s ......... ........  80
Mica.......................  75
..  .. ........  55
Paragon 

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

 
 
 

 
 
Fosfon.

BAKING  POWDER. 
45

Acme.
2  “  ................  85
1  “  .................  1  60
Arctic.

K lb. cans, 3 doz.......  
H lb.  “ 
lib .  “ 
ttulk...........................  
10
K lb cans....................  60
1  20
K lb  “ 
2 00
lb  “ 
lb  “ 
9 60
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case...  80
.. .2 00 
16 “ 
per doz
Dime cans..  90
4-  oz  “  ..1  33
“ 
6-oz 
.  1  90 
“  ..2 47
8-oz 
12oz 
“  ..8 75
16-oz 
“ 
254-ib  “ 
“ 
4 lb 
5- 
lb  “ 
10-lb 
“ 

“  2  “ 
■*uv>. « iw r's 
p; prices
CREAMI
Ba k in g
*owde*

T)r. Price’s.

“ 

..4 75
11 40
18 25
21 60
41 80

40
Red Star, a  ®  cans........... 
........... 
80
...........  1  50
45
Teller’s,  V lb. cans, doz. 
“  ..  85
“  ..  1 50

V4 ft  “ 
1 ft  “ 
H lb.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 

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BATH  BRICK.
2  dozen In case.

 

“ 

‘7 
“ 

8oz 

BLUING. 

English...............................  90
Bristol..................................  80
Domestic.............................
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals..............  4 00
“ 
7 00
“  pints,  round  ..........10 50
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75
“  No. 3, 
...  4 00
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
1 oz ball  ................  4 50
“ 
BROOMS,
No. 2 Hurl..........................  1 75
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
“  10......................  1 50
“  15......................  1 75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row....  85
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row__ 1  25
Palmetto, goose.................  1  50

“ 
BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

BUCKWHEAT.

CANDLES.

100 lb. cases, 2 & 5 lb. pkgs {4  50 
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes............   10
Star,  40 
9
Paraffine  ........................ 
Wicking  ............................ 24

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CANNED  GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  1 lb............
.1  15
“  2  lb............ ...1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb................. .. .2 00
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb...............
..  90
2lb................
.1   70
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb ......................
-.2 40
“  2  lb.......................
.  3 30
Picnic, 1 lb....................
..2 00
“ 
21b......................
.  2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb.................
..1 05
2  lb...............
..1  90
Mustard,  21b.................
.2 40
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb ........
. .2 40
Soused. 2 lb.................
2 40
Columbia River, flat....
...1  85
tails...... ...1  75
Alaska, 1  lb ....................
..1  40
21b  .................... ...1  90

Salmon.
“ 

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“ 

“ 
“ 

Sardines.
American  ^ s ................ 4)4@ 5
As................«4@ 7
Import«» 
i£s................... 11 @12
V4s  ..................15@16
Mus'trd  3£s......................7©8
Boneless.......................... 
20
Brook, 3 lb  .........................2 50

Tront.
Fruits.
Apples.

3 60
2 75

Apricots.

3 
lb. standard........
York State  gallons  ... 
Hamburgh.  »• 
Live oak............ . 
2 00
.. 
2 00
Santa Cruz................. 
2 00
Lusk’s ......................... 
l  90
Overland................... 
Blackberries.
B. A  W.......................  
95
l  20
d  ............................ 
Pitted Hamburgh 
1 75
. . .  
W hite......................... 
1  SO
Erie  .......................... 
1  20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 

Cherries.

Gages.

E rie............................ 
California................... 
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 

Peaches.

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

1  25
1  70
1

l  30
2 00
1  85
2  10
1  85

1  20
2 10

1  30
2 50
2 75
1
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l  io
l  J5
l  io

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Domestic....................  
Riverside.................... 
Pineapples.
Common..................... 
Johnson’s  sliced.......  
grated.......  
Quinces.
Common.................... 
Raspberries.
Red.............................. 
Black  Hamburg.........  
Erie, b lack ...............  
Strawberries.
Lawrence................... 
Hamburgh................. 
Erie............................  
Terrapin.......................  
Whortleberries.
Common.................... 
F. &  W....................... 
Blueberries...............  
Corned  beef,  Libby’s..........1
Roast beef,  Armour’s ..........1
Potted  ham, )4 lb................1
“  54 lb.................
tongue, K lb.............1
“ 
54 lb.........
chicken, 54 lb.........
Vegetables.

Meats.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless..........1  25
French style........2 25
Limas...................1 40
Lima, green..............................1 25
soaked....................  80
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1  35
Bay State  Baked................. 1 35
World’s  Fair  Baked........... 1  35
Picnic Baked........................1  00
Hamburgh..........................
Livingston  Eden.................1 30
Purity..................................
Honey  Dew..........................1 50
Morning Glory..................
Soaked.................................1  15
Hamburgh  marrofat............1 35
early 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....130
Archer’s  Early Blossom__1  35
French................................. 1  80
French.............................15@20
Erie...................................   go
Hubbard......... ................... 1  20
Hamburg.............................. 1 40
Soaked..............................   80
Honey  Dew.......................... 1 60
E rie...................................... 1 35

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

“ 
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“ 
“ 

“ 

Tomatoes.

Hancock.............................. l 05
Excelsior..........................110
Eclipse...............................1   10
Hamburg............................. 1 so
Gallon.................................2 90

CHOCOLATE.

Baker’s.

German Sweet.................. 
Premium........................... 
Breakfast Cocoa.............. 

23
37
43

CHEESE.

Amboy........................125a@12l£
Acme.......................... 1254@12H
Riverside...................12H@12 \
Gold  Medal  ..............  @12
Skim.......................... 9  @11
11
Brick.............................  
Edam  ...........................  
1 
Leiden 
23
Llmbnrger  ................  @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 50
Quart 1 doz bottles 
...........3 50

“ 

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes................. 40@45

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags..............  .....  @3
Less quantity  ..............  @354
Pound  packages...........63i@7

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

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

Santos.

Fair......................................20
Good....................................21
Prime.................................. 22
Peaberry  .............................23

Mexican and Guatamala.

Maracaibo.

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

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast 
lng and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.

Package.

M cLaughlin's  XXXX  23.30
Bunola.............................  22.80
Lion,60or 100lb.  case....  23.30 

Extract.

Valley City 54 gross..........  
75
..........1  15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross........1  50
" 
........2 50

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tin 
CHICORY.

Bulk.
Red..

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton,  40 ft......... per doz.  1  25
140
160
1  75
1  90
90
100

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" 
CONDENSED  MILK.

50ft..........  
60 ft..........  
70 ft..........  
80 ft..........  
60 ft.......... 
7 2 ff........  

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4  doz. In case.

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

‘Tradesman.’

1 1, per hundred............... 2 00
*2, 
2 50
8 8, 
3 00
8 5, 
8 00
4  00
•10, 
800, 
5 00

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“Universal.”
“ 
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$  1, per hundred..............$3 00
................3 50
8 2, 
................4 00
8 8, 
................5 00
8 5, 
810, 
.................6 00
820, 
................7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over.............  5 per  cent.
5uu  “ 
COUPON  PA SS  BO O K S. 
(Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810 down. |
20 books..................... 8 1 00
2 00
50 
3 00
100 
6 25
250 
500 
10 00
1000 
17 50

........................20 

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CREDIT CHECKS.

500, any one denom’n ... .  83 00
..  5 00
1000,  “ 
“ 
2000,  “  “ 
..  8 00
Steel  punch....................
75
CRACKERS.

“
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Batter.

...  6
SeymonrXXX...............
Seymour XXX, cartoon. ...6)4
Family  XXX.................
..  6
Family XXX,  cartoon..
...  6)4
Salted XXX..................
...  6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ... ...  6)4
Kenosha 
.................... ■  7)4
Boston............................
...  8
Butter  biscuit.............
...  6)4
Soda, XXX....................
.  6
Soda, City.....................
...  7)4
Soda,  Duchess..............
...  8)4
Crystal Wafer................. ...10
Long  Island Wafers  ■..
...11
...  6
S. Oyster  XXX..............
City Oyster. XXX...........
...  6
...  6
Farina  Oyster..............

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.

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

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

“ 

Pears.

Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Blackberries.
Nectarines.

Sundrled, sliced In  bbls. 
7 
7
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes  @9 
California in  bags........ 
16)4
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
17
In  boxes..................... 8  @9
701b. bags....................... 
15
15)4
251b. boxes.....................  
16
Peeled, In  boxes........... 
Cal. evap.  “ 
........... 
12)4
“ 
In bags........ 
12
California In bags......
Pitted Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
25 “ 
...................
Prunelles.
301b.  boxes...................
Raspberries.
In barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
......................
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

Loose Muscatels in Boxes.

2  crown..........................1  50
8 
.............................   1 65
2  crown...............................  5)4
3 
6)4

“ 
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
“ 

“ 

 

Foreign.
Currants.

“ 
“ 

Peel.

Patras,  In barrels............  
414
In  )4-bbls..............  4)4
4)4
in less quantity__ 
Citron, Leghorn, 25 lb. boxes  20 
Lemon 
10
Orange 
II
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes..  @ 8
@10
Sultana, 20 
“ 
Valencia, 30  “ 
@7

“ 
" 
Raisins.

25  “ 
25 “ 

“ 
" 

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

XX  wood, white.

No. 1,6)4..........................  81  75
No. 2, 6)4..........................   160
No. 1,6.............................   1  65
No. 2,6.............................   150
No. 1,6)4..........................   1®
No. 2,6)4..........................  1  25
6)4  ...................................   1 00
6........................................  
95
Mill No. 4.........................  1 00
FARINACEOU8 GOODS. 

Manilla, white.

Coin.

Farina.
Hominy.

100 lb. kegs................... 
3)4
Barrels.................................300
G rits.....................................3 50
Lima  Beans.
Dried............................  
434

Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 

Domestic, 121b. box.... 
56
Imported.....................10)4®.  %

Oatmeal.

Barrels 200.........................  5 25
Half barrels 100.................   0 75

Pearl Barley.

Kegs..................................   2)4

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bu........................   1  75
Split  per l b .................  
2)4
Barrels  180.........................  5 25
Half  bbls 90 ......................  2 75
German.............................   4)4
East India..........................   5
Cracked.............................. 

Wheat.

Sago.

5

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

“ 

“ 

Cod.

Halibut.
Herring.

Yarmouth...............................   1 40
Pollock..........................
5)4
Whole, Grand  Bank......  
Boneless,  bricks............  
7
634
Boneless, strips.............. 
Smoked........................... 
10
Holland,  bbl......................  9 50
75
Norwegian  .......................  12 00
Round Shore, )4  bbl........  2 60
34  "  ..........  1 30
Scaled............................... 
16
No. 1, 90 lbB..............................8 26
No. 1,40 lbs..............................4 00
No. 1,  10 lbs..............................1 15
Family, 90 lbs.........................  5 25

“ 
Mackerel.

kegs  .................  

Sardines.
Trout.

10  lb s.................   65
Russian,  kegs....................   45
No. 1, % bbls., lOOlbs................6 00
No. 1, Uts, 10 lbs..................  80
No. 1, )4 bbls., lOOlbs............7 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   90
Family, )4 bbls., lOOlbs__  3  10
kits  10 lb s...........  45
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

Whlteflsh.

“ 

“ 

Sonders’.

Jennings' D  C.

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

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

GUNPOWDER.

Austin’s Rifle, kegs............3 50
“  H kegs........2 00
“ 
“ 
Crack Shot, kegs . .3 60 
)4 kegs 2 00
“ 
“  Club Sporting  “  4 50 
* 
%  "  2 50

“ 
“ 

HERBS.

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

INDIGO.

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

17  lb. pails.......................  
30  “ 

JELLY .
90
......................  1  50

55
50

“ 
LICORICE.

Pure.....................................   30
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  12

LYE.
Condensed, 2 doz.............. 1 25
4 doz...............2 25

“ 

MATCHES.

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

MINCE  MEAT.

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.
1  gallon........................ 
81  75
Half  gallon......................  1  40
Q uart........................... 
70
p in t.............................. 
45
Half  pint  .......................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon............................  7 00
Half gallon......................  4 75
Q uart...........  ..................  3 75
Pint..................................   2 25

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house......................  14
Ordinary..........................  
Prim e............................... 
Fancy...............................  

New Orleans.

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

16
20
30

18
20
25
30
40

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

PICKLES.
Medium.

Small.

PIPES.

Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. 
Best in the world for the money,

Barrels, 2.400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 

8 00
4 50

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
2oz  ...  8  75 
4 o z __ 1  50
Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz  __ 81  2
4  oz...  2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz........81 50
4 oz.........3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz........81 75
4 OZ.........8 50

Clay, No.  216.........................1 75
“  T. D. full count...........  75
Cob, No. 8............................. 1 25

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina head.......................6
“  No. 1...................... 5
“  No. 2.....................  4)4
Broken.................................3

Imported.
Japan, No. 1............  ...........6
No. 2.......................5
Java....................................  5
Patna..................................   5

K 

THE  MICTHG^JSr  TRADESMAN.

18

“ 

shoulders 

Bologna......................  @5
Pork loins.................   @11*4
........  @9*4
Sausage, blood or head  @ 6*4
liv e r............   @6
Frankfort  ....  @  8*4
Mutton  ........................7  @ 8
Veal.............................. 7 @7*4
FISH  and  OYSTERS.

“ 
“ 

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

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

20
1 00

11
8

15

PR O V ISIO N S.

SHELL  GOODS.

 

 

“ 

BULK.

Oysters, per  100  ........1  25@1  50
75@1  00
Clams, 
2 20
Counts, per gal.............. 
Extra  Selects...............  
1  7S
1  50
Selects..........................  
1  20
Standards.................... 
Clams ............................ 
1  25
Scallops  ..  ..................  
I  75
Schrimps..........................  
1 00
PA PER & WOODENWARE 

PAPER.

“ 

Straw 
................................. 1*4
Rockfalls.............................. 1%
Rag sugar..............................2
Hardware.........  ...................2*4
Bakers.................................. 2*4
Dry  Goods..................   5  @5
Jute Manilla...............   @5*4
Red  Express No.  1...............5*4
No.  2...............4*4
t w i n e s .

48 Cotton............................  £0
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.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“  

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 hoop  “

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

“  No.2
“  No.3
“  No.l
“  No.2
“ 
.No.3
INDURATED WARE.
Palis..................................
Tubs, *4 doz.......................

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

splint 

4 05 
4 55

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as follows:

DRESSED.

Fowl.......................... 8  @9
Turkeys.....................   @12
Ducks  .......................  @12

LIVE.

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

 

 

 
 
 

“ 
“ 
“ 

3 
2 
3 

CARAMELS.
 
“ 
 
“ 
 
“ 
BANANAS.

Plain Creams.............................................80@90
Decorated Creams.............................................1 00
String Rock....................................................65
Burnt Almonds..................................................1 00
Wintergreen  Berries...................................... 60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
51
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
28
No.3, 
42
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes...................................   90
Small......................................................
Medium................................................
Large ....................................................
Florida», fancy  .................................. 2 85@3 25
Sampsons..............................3 25@3 50
Messina, choice, 360.............................  @3 25
fancy, 360.............................  @3 75
choice 300.............................   @3 25
fancy 380  .............................  
4 00
Figs, fancy layers, 61b..........................   @12*4
10»...... ..................  @12*4

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box.........................  @8  -

“ 
“ 
“  50-lb. 

“ 
“  14»..........................   @15
“  20»..........................  @16
“ ..........................   @5
Persian, 50-lb.  box......................  @ 5

“ 
“  extra 
“ 

ORANGES.

LEMONS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

r t "
j

•* 

p

*

V 

V

-   t

<r 

'•  p
t   >

».  <# 

-

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

Allspice...............................8
Cassia, China In mats........  7
“  Batavia In bund.... 15
Saigon In rolls...... .35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna.............. .22
Zanzibar......   ...... .10
“ 
Mace  Batavia.................... .80
Nutmegs, fancy.................
.75
iio.  1...................
“ 
.70
“  No. 2.................... .60
Pepper, Singapore, black... 
.  9 
“ 
“  white...
.20
shot...................... .15
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.
Allspice............................. .12
Cassia,  Batavia................. .’8
and  Saigon.22
Saigon...................30
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
Zanzibar................ 18
Ginger, African................... 11
Cochin.................  17
Jam aica................18
Mace  Batavia.....................7b
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste.. 16
Trieste...................18
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................60
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 16
*•  white.......24
“ 
“ 
Cayenne................18
Sage.................................... 14
“Absolute” In Packages.

“ 
*' 
“ 
“ 

“ 

fcs 

*4s
Allspice......................  84  156
Cinnamon...................  84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  1  55
Ginger, Jam ...............   84  1 55
“  Af...................  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Pepper.......................   84  155
Sage........  *  .............  84

SAL  SODA.

Kegs...................................  1*4
Granulated,  boxes..............1&

SAUERKRAUT.

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

SEEDS.

A nise.........................  @12*4
Canary, Smyrna......... 
Caraway....................  
Cardamon, Malabar... 
Hemp,  Russian.........  
Mixed  Bird  ..............  
Mustard,  white.........  
Poppy......................... 
Rape..........................  
Cuttle  bone................ 
STARCH.

6
8
90
4*4
4*
6
9
6
80

Corn.

"   

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

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

1-lb packages.......................  5*4
8-lb 
6*4
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  414
Barrels.................................  5*4

“ 
“ 

 

SNUFF.

Scotch, In  bladders.............37
Maccabov, In jars................35
french Rappee, In Jars.......43

SODA,

Boxes....................................5*«
Kegs, English........................444

SALT.
 
 

 

100 3-lb. sacks......................... 82 25
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks..........................1 85
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases.............................1 50
56 lb. dairy In linen  bags.. 
281b.  “ 

2 00
2 25
32
18

drill  “ 

Warsaw.

“ 

56 lb. dairy in drill  bags...  32
281b.  “ 
18
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..  75
5611», dairy In linen  sacks.  75 

Ashton.
Higgins.

.. 

“ 

Solar Rock.
56 lk,.  sacks............... 
 
Common Fine.
Saginaw..........................  
Manistee................ 
 

SALERATUS.

27
90
95

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

Church’s ........................... 13 30
DeLand’s .............................3 15
Dwight’s..........  .................330
Taylor’s..............................  8 00

SOAP.
Laundry.

“ 

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

Old Country,  80 1-lb........... 8 20
Good Cheer, 60 l i b ............. 3 90
White Borax, 100  M lb........3 60
Concord............................. 2 80
Ivory, 10  oz....................... 6 75
6  o z ...................... 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
6c  size..  4 25
N. K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................   4 00
Brown, 60 bars...................2 10
“ 
80  b a rs................. 3 25
Lautz Bros. & Co.'s Brands.
Acme................................. 3 65
Cotton Oil.......................... 575
Daisy.................................3  10
Marseilles..........................  4 00
Master...............................4 00

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Scouring.
Sapolio,kitchen, 3  doz...  2 50 
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 12
Granulated.........................4 87
Fine Granulated................. 4 87
Extra Fine Granulated__  5 00
Cubes................................   5  12
XXXX  Powdered..............  5 50
Confec. Standard  A........... 4 75
No. 1  Columbia A................4 63
No. 5 Empire  A ................456
No.  6  .................................4 50
No.  7.................................... 4 44
No.  8....................................4 31
No.  9....................................4 18
No.  10................................4  12
No.  11.................................. 4 00
No.  12...............................  3 87

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels.................................22
Half bbls.............................. 24
F air.....................................  19
Good....................................  25
Choice..................................  30

Pure Cane.

SWEET  GOODS

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

8
8
9
8v*
8*4

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  ............................1 00
Yeast Foam  ........................100
Diamond.............................   75
Royal..................................   90

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

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

SUN CURED.

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

BASSET  FIRED.

F air.............................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

oolong. 

IMPERIAL.

YOUNG HYSON.

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

ENGLISH BREASPAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

 

“ 

“ 

Pails unless otherwise noted
Hiawatha................... 
62
36
Sweet Cuba................ 
27
McGinty....................  
25
*4 bbls.......... 
Dandy Jim.................  
29
Torpedo................... 
24
in drums.... 
23
Yum  Yum  ................ 
28
1892............................  
23
“  drums................. 
22
Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead.................  
Joker......................... 
Nobby Twist................. 
Scotten’s Brands.
KylO............................ 
Hiawatha...................  
Valley City................ 
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty..............  
Jolly Tar....................  

41
26
40
26
38
34
40
32

Plug.

Smoking.

Catlin’s  Brands.

Kiln  dried...........................16
Golden  Shower..................19
Huntress  ................... "...  .26
Meerschaum....................... 29
American Eagle Co.'s Brands.
Myrtle Navy....................... 40
I Stork..............................30@32
German............................... 15
1 F rog....................................33

Scotten’s Brands.

Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.......................... ...1 6
Banner Cavendish........ ....38
Gold Cut  ...................... ....28
Warpath....................... ....16
Honey  Dew................... ....25
Gold  Block................... ....30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s
Peerless........................ ....26
Old  Tom....................... ....18
Standard.......................
...22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade....................
Rob  Roy....................... ....26
Uncle Sam.................... 28@32
Red Clover.................... ....32

Leidersdorfs Brands.

Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

Traveler  Cavendish__ ....38
Buck Horn.................... ....30
Plow  Boy......................30@32
Com  Cake.................... ....16

OILS.

Tbe  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes
as  follows,  in barrels, f. 0.  b.
Grand Rapids:
8
Eocene.........................
Water White, old test. @ 7*4
W.  W.  Headlight, 150°
63£
Water  White  ........... @ 6*4
Naptha....................... @ 7
Stove Gasoline........... @ 6%
Cylinder....................27 @36
E ngine......................13 ^21
Black, 15cold  test.... @  8*

HIDES.

HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

lows:
Green............................ 2*4@3*4
Part Cured...............   @ 4
Full 
@4*4
Dry............................. 5  @  5
Kips, green  ............... 2*4@  3*4
cured.................   @4*4
Calfskins,  green........  4  @ 5
“ 
cured........  @ 7
Deacon skins............... 10 @30

“ 

 

 

No. 2 hides *4 off.

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

Shearlings....................10 @25
Lambs 
Washed.......................20 @28
Unwashed.................. 10 @20

WOOL.

MISCELLANEOUS.

00@2 75

0U@7 00

00@6 00
00@1 60
00@5 00
00@3 00
00@3 00

“ 

PURS.

Tallow........................   3*4@ 4
Grease  butter  .............1  @2
Switches.....................  1*4@ 2
Ginseng...................... 2 
Outside prices for No. 1 only.
Badger.........................  50@1 00
B ear.......................15 00@25 00
Beaver........................ 3 
Cat, wild......................  40@ 50
Cat, house...................  10@ 25
Fisher..........................4 
Fox,  red..................... 1 
Fox, cross................... 3 
Fox,  grey....................   50@ 80
Lynx........................... 2 
Martin, dark...............1 
pale & yellow.  50@1  00
Mink, dark...................  40@1 40
Muskrat.......................   03@  12
Oppossum....................  15® 30
Otter, dark..................5 00®6 00
Raccoon......................  25® 90
Skunk ....................   ..1 
W olf............................1 
Beaver  castors, lb ....2 00@5 00
Thin and  green............  
10
20
Long gray, dry.............. 
Gray, dry 
25
................... 
Red and Blue, dry........ 
35
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8
65
No. 1 White (58latest) 
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test) 
65
Bolted...............................  1  40
Granulated.......................  160
Straight, In sacks..............  3 70
“ barrels............   3 90
“ 
Patent 
“ sacks..............  4 70
“ barrels...........   5 00
“ 
Graham  “  sacks...........  1  70
Rye 
2 00
“ 
Buckwheat, Rising  Sun— 4 75 
& Co’s Pure.................... 4 25
MILLSTUFFB. Less

deerskins—per pound.

Walsh-DeRoo

FLOUR.

MEAL.

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00@1 25
00@3 00

Car lots  quantity

814 50
14 50
15 50
19 50
19 50

CORN.

Bran................  814 00 
Screenings ....  14 00 
Middlings........   16 00 
Mixed Feed...  18 50 
Coarse meal  ..  19 00 
Car  lots...............................46
Less than  car  lots..............50
Car  lots.............................. 37
Less than car lots...............41
No. 1 Timothy, car lots— 12 00 
No. 1 
ton lots  ........12 50

OATS.

“ 

F R E S H   M EATS.

Beef, carcass..............  5*4® 7
“  hindquarters...  6*4®  8
...  4  @4*4
“ 
fore 
“ 
loins,  No.  3 ...  9  @10
ribs....................  8  @  9
« 
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rounds...............  5  @  5*4

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The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess, .  ..........................................................  18 50
Short c u t......................................................   19 08
Extra clear pig, short cut.............................  22 00
Extra clear, heavy.......................................
Clear, fat back.............................................  20 00
Boston clear, short cut................................   20 00
Clear back, short cut..................................... 21  00
Standard clear, short cut. best.....  .........  
22 00

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

 

 

LARD.

Pork Sausage....................................................10
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage..............................................   9
Frankfort Sausage  ........................................8
Blood Sausage.................................................  5
Bologna, straight............................................   5
Bologna,  thick.............. 
5
Headcheese.................................................... 5
Kettle  Rendered............................................13*4
Granger..........................................................11*4
Family............................................................  9
Compound......................................................  8*4
50 lb. Tins, *4C advance.
20 lb. pails, J4C 
101b.  “  S4C 
51b.  “  74c 
31b.  “  1  c 
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs......................  7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing..............................7 00
Boneless, rump butts..........................................10 00

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

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smoked meats—Canvassed or Plain.

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Hams, average 20 lbs....................................... 13**
16 lbs...................................... 13*4
12 to 14 lbs................................14
picnic................................................... 10*4
best boneless......................................   lx
Shoulders.................................  
10
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..............................13*4
Dried beef, ham prices...................................   9
Long Clears, heavy..........................................
Briskets,  medium.  ........................................   8*4
light...............................................   8*4

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C A N D IE S,  FR U IT S  an d   NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDY.
Standard,  per lb........................  
“  H.H.............................. 
“  T w ist..........................  
Boston Cream ........  ....  8*4
Cut  Loaf.........................
Extra H.  H...........  . 
...  8*4
MIXED  CANDY.

Cases  Bbls.  Pails.
6*4 7*4
6*4 7*4
6*4 7*4
8*4

Pails.
Bbls.
7
..6
7
..6
-.6*4
7*4
8
..7
8
..7
. .7
8
Conserves........................
8
its
Broken Taffy....................
9
8
Peanut Squares...............
xu
French Creams.............................  
Valley  Creams.............................  
13
Midget, 301b. baskets....................................  8
Modern, 301b. 
.......................................8

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fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  10
printed.........................................   11
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 11*4
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  13
Gum Drops....................................................   5*4
Moss Drops....................................................   8
Sour Drops....................................................   8*4
Imperials...................... 
10
Per Box
Lemon Drops.............. 
55
Sour Drops...................................................... 55
Peppermint Drops............................................60
Chocolate Drops...............................................65
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................90
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops.............................................. 1  00
A. B. Licorice  Drops.......................................80
Lozenges, plain........................... 
60
printed........................................... 65
Imperials......................................................... 60
Mottoes............................................................ 70
Cream Bar.................................  
55
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made Creams.................................. 85@95

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NUTS.

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Almonds, Tarragona..............
Ivaca.......................
California..............
Brazils, new............................
Filberts.................................
Walnuts, Grenoble.  ..............
“  Marbot....................
Calif........................
“ 
Table Nuts,  fancy.................
choice...............
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  .........
Cocoanuts, full sacks............
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H.  P., Suns.................
“  Roasted 
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............
“  Roasted...
Choice, H. P.,  Extras............
“  Roasted..
California Walnuts...............

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@18*4
@17*4@18*4
@ 10*4
@11@14
@
@13
@13*4
@12*4
@14 
@5 00
@ 5*4 
@  7*4 
© 5*4 
@  7*4 
@ 4*4 
@ 6*4 
12*4

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE. 

FRUIT  JARS.

Pints............................................................$ 6 75
Quarts..........................................................   7 00
alf Gallons................................................  900
Caps...............................................................   2 75
Rubbers...................................... 
40
LAMP  BURNERS.
No. 0 Sun.........................................................  45
No.l  “  .........................................................   50
No.2  “  .........................................................   75
Tubular...........................................................  75

 

 

 
 

 
 

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Pearl top.

La Bastie.

6 doz. In box.

First quality.
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XXX Flint.
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lamp chimneys.—Per box.
No. 0 Sun............................................... 
 
No. 1  “  ......................................................... 1 88
No.2  “  ......................................................... 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top........................................... 2 25
No. 1  “ 
No.2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top........................................... 2 60
No. 1  “ 
No.2  “ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled....................3 70
“ 
No. 2  *• 
....................4 70
....................4 88
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.......................1 25
No.2  “ 
.......................150
No. 1 crimp, per doz.............................................1 35
No. 2  “ 
........................................1  60
No. 0, per  gross..............................................   23
No. 1, 
28
No  2, 
38
No. 3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz................  .......................   75
Butter Crocks, 1 and 6 gal  .........................  06*4
Jugs, *4 gal., per doz...................................   75
....................................  90
...............................1 80
Milk Pans, *4 gal., per doz..........................   65
“ 
glazed..............  75
“ 
.......... i .............   78
“ 
glazed..............  90

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‘  2  “ 
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STONEWARE—AKRON.

*4 “ 
1  “ 
1  “ 

LAMP WICKS.

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1 75

2 40
3 40

2 80
3 80

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

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.

PUTNAM  CANDY CO.

THE  FINANCIAL OUTLOOK FOR 1893.
A little more than two  years have  now 
elapsed since  the Baring failure of 1890. 
The  worst  sufferer  by  that  catastrophe 
was Great Britain, and but for the prompt 
action of  a few powerful  London  banks 
and bankers under the leadership of Gov­
ernor Lidderdale of tbe Bank of England, 
the  result  might  have  been  a  general 
prostration of  British  credit.  Germany 
was less  seriously  affected,  and  France 
less so  still,  while  this  country  escaped 
all  injury  except  that  indirectly  pro­
ceeding from the  temporary cessation of 
investments here,  as  everywhere else, by 
British capitalists.  How severe was  the 
check  to  enterprise  in  this  respect  is 
shown  by  the  fact,  to  which  I have on 
other occasions  adverted, that,  while the 
amount of  money  subscribed  in London 
for new undertakings  in 1890 was  £142,- 
565,000,  it was in  1891 only £104,594,910, 
and 
this  year  it  will  barely  exceed 
£80,000,000.

In  Germany, 

The  recovery  in  Great  Britain  from 
the  collapse of  the  Baring’s  Argentine 
speculations  has  been  hindered  by  the 
bad  harvests  of  1891  and  1892,  and  by 
the  injury 
to  her  trade  and  manufac­
tures caused  by the competition of  other 
countries.  The resulting  diminution  of 
the returns of both  her agricultural  and 
her business industry has diminished her 
surplus profits  available  for new invest­
ment and  has thus prolonged the stagna­
tion consequent  upon  her  losses  in Ar­
gentina. 
tbe  revulsion 
from  the  speculative  excitement  which 
prevailed in  1890  has  likewise  had a de­
pressing  effect  which  has  been  intensi­
fied  by  political  troubles.  The  whole 
continent  of  Europe, 
in  fact,  is,  just 
now,  in  anything but a happy  condition. 
France is in daily  peril  of  a  revolution, 
and  Italy, Greece and  Russia  are  strug­
gling under a  suspension  of  specie  pay­
ments.  Austria, only,  is  bettering  her 
finances,  being  about to  place  her  cur­
rency upon  a gold  basis  after  an era  of 
depreciated paper money which has last­
ed for over forty years.

In  contrast with  Europe  this  country 
may  be  said  to  be  highly  prosperous. 
The crops of everything but  cotton  have 
been for two successive  years abundant, 
and though the  cotton crop this year has 
been  small  in  comparison  with  that  of 
last year,  the higher price it  brings very 
nearly  makes  up 
the  difference.  So 
much activity  in  building  and street  im­
provements  was  never  manifested,  nor 
was the  general  demand  for labor  ever 
so good.  While  there is  no  boasting of 
large profits  in  either jobbing or  manu­
facturing  lines,  no  loud  complaints  are 
made,  and the maintenance  of  the  gross 
receipts  of the  principal railroads of the 
whole  country, 
in  spite  of  lowered 
rates,  demonstrates  that the  volume  of 
their  freight  and  passenger  transporta­
tion  has 
increased.  The  few  great 
strikes  that  have  occurred  during  tbe 
year prove that workingmen are well em­
ployed,  for  strikes  rarely  take  place 
when employment  is scarce.

It  is  true  that  speculative enterprise 
has  been  checked here,  both  by the ces­
sation  of  new  foreign  investments and 
by  the  recall of  much  foreign  capital 
through  the  sale  of  our  securities pre­
viously  held  by  foreigners.  We  have 
not  only  not  increased  our  obligations 
abroad,  but we have diminished them  by 
the  export  of  gold  as  well  as  of  tbe 
produce of our soil.  That  the result has 
not  been  more  injurious  to  us  than  it

has been, demonstrates  the great  wealth 
of our country and the productiveness of 
its  industry.  Precisely  how  much  of 
our debt has been liquidated  in this way 
during these past  two  years  it is impos­
sible,  even  approximately, to  estimate. 
In  gold  alone  we  have  shipped  many 
millions,  and  many  millions  more  are 
represented by the excess of  our exports 
over  our  imports  shown  by  Treasury 
statistics.

The country enters  upon the new year, 
therefore,  in a sound condition,  so far as 
regards its industrial and commercial ac­
tivity  and its  material  resources.  Con­
fidence  in  the  future  is  impaired  only 
by the  large and  growing volume of  our 
paper  currency,  and  by  the  possibility 
that  we may  be  unable  to keep it at par 
with gold.  Later  in  the  year  we  shall 
probably  have  the  cholera  to  contend 
with, and there is always an  uncertainty 
about the crops,  which  only  tbe  actual 
harvesting of  them  can  dispel,  but,  for 
the moment,  the currency trouble is that 
which excites the most  concern.  At the 
same time,  it is apparent to  most  people 
that  even  the  worst  that could happen 
from this  source  would  be  nothing like 
what some alarmists imagine.  A suspen­
sion  of gold payments and a premium on 
gold  would  produce  inconvenience  and 
loss, but it  would  not  be financial  ruin.
How much of a matter of  sentiment is 
the feeling of the public in regard to the 
currency  is  shown  by  the  calm  which 
now  prevails,  in  comparison  with  the 
panic of eight years ago,  when President 
Cleveland,  in  advance  of  his  inaugura­
tion,  wrote his famous letter denouucing 
the Bland-Allison act and  predicting the 
direst  evils  as  the  speedy  result  of  its 
continued  operation.  Baukers,  mer­
chants,  politicians and  newspapers were 
almost  frantic 
in  their  expressions  of 
sympathy  with  Mr.  Cleveland’s  views 
and of their fears of  the evil consequen­
ces which he pointed  out.  Yet then  we 
had  only  about  $800,000,000  paper  and 
silver money,  and there was in the Treas­
ury  $127,000,000  of  gold to  support  it. 
Now,  when the volume of  our paper and 
silver has swollen  to over  $1,000,000,000, 
and is increasing $4,000,000 a month,  and 
when the gold  in  the  Treasury  has de­
creased to  $122,000,000,  anxiety  indeed 
prevails,  but it is neither widespread nor 
intense.

One explanation  of this  change  is,  no 
doubt, that  people,  as  the result  of  all 
the discussion and  argument  which  has 
been going  on  respecting the  currency, 
have become more  enlightened in  regard 
to its nature and  functions,  and are less 
easily  deceived  by  specious  fallacies. 
Experience,  too,  has  taught  them  that 
the  capacity  of  the  country  to  absorb 
currency and to  keep it in  circulation  is 
much greater than they  had  supposed it 
I was eight years ago.  Assured confidence 
in our national  Government  and  in  its 
ability to meet  all  its pecuniary  obliga­
tions has also  done  much  to  dispel tbe 
fears of  those  who  remember  the  dark 
days of the war,  when  gold  went to  270 
and upward, not because of  the quantity 
of  greenbacks  issued,  but  because  of 
doubts as  to  their  ultimate  redemption. 
Now the  belief  prevails  that even  if  a 
suspension of gold payments should take 
place and gold go to a premium,  a reme 
dy would soon  be applied and gold  pay­
ments be  resumed.

It is possible that in the course  of  the 
next few months,  under the combined in- 
I fluences  of  the  increase  of  our  paper

Goitpon  Books Buy  of  the L argest  M anufacturers  in  th e  

The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapid*

Country  and  Save  Money.

McDowell’s  Metal  Polish. 

Borsm’s  Pntz  Lipid.

The mineral is imported from Austria.

Same as Putz Pomade, only in liquid. 

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 all metals.
Used by Grand  Rapids  and  many other  Fire  Depart­
ments,  John  Phillips & Co.,  show  case  manufacturers,
Detroit.
Trade supplied by

Strong,  Cobb  & Co.,  Cleveland.
F arkand,  Willia m s & Cla r k,  Detroit.
H a zeltin e  & P erk in s Drug Co.,  Grand Rapids.
F oster,  Stev en s & Co., Grand Rapids.
the  mcdowell  metal  polish  go,

DETROIT  and  GRAND  RAPIDS.
Beware 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.

G old M e d a l G oods.

■EALIZING  the  demand,  on  the part of 

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 edal.

The  reception  accorded  these goods  has  been 
so hearty  and the  sentiment  of  the trade being 
so emphatically in favor of goods of undoubted 
cpiality,  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.

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

Gold  Medal  brand.

BALL-BARNHART-PUTMAN  CO.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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as 

they  do 

in  paper 

money by  the operation of  the Sherman 
act,  and of the exports of gold to pay our 
debts abroad,  a run of gold may be made 
on  the  Treasury  and  on  the  banks, 
which they will be  unable  or  unwilling 
to  meet.  What  then?  Every  one  who 
remembers the suspension of  specie pay­
ments  in  1857,  and  again  in  1860,  can 
answer the question.  The banks and the 
Treasury would  continue  to  make  their 
payments  in  paper,  as  they  do  now; 
people would buy and sell for paper, and 
pay 
now, 
and the only persons  who would  be hurt 
would  be  the importers and  purchasers 
of foreign merchandise, who would  have 
to pay a premium for gold to  make their 
remittances.  The idea  advanced  in cer­
tain  quarters,  that a  suspension of  gold 
payments and a premium  on gold would 
cause  a  hoarding  of  gold,  and  thus  a 
disastrous contraction of the currency,  is 
purely chimerical.  The  gold now in the 
banks and in  the Treasury would in case 
of  suspension  stay  there,  and  it  would 
continue to be counted as  reserve as it is 
now.  The  gold  not in the  banks and in 
the Treasury,  but  stored away  in  chests 
and  old stockings,  would  also stay there 
and  remain  as  useless for  currency pur­
poses as  it  is  now.  As  to that  which is 
in  actual  circulation  and  passing  from 
hand to hand in the transactions of  daily 
business,  the  amount  of  it  is  so  small 
that  its  disappearance  would  be  un­
noticed.

It  is  enough  to  remind 

This  alarm  at  the  prospect of  a  sus­
pension of  gold  payments  and  the  pre 
dictions  of  the  disasters  that  will  at­
tend  it  are  very  much  like  the  alarm 
which the advocates  of  free  silver  coin­
age express  at  the  continued  demoneti­
zation  of  silver,  and their predictions of 
the disasters  which  will  ensue  if  silver 
is  not  restored  to  unlimited  use  as 
money. 
them 
that  silver  has  not been  used  in  Great 
Britain  for  anything  but  small  change 
since the  beginning of  this century; that 
it  disappeared  from  circulation  in  this 
country  in 1834, never  to  return, except 
as token money  deriving  its  value  from 
the restriction put upon  its coinage; that 
its free coinage  ceased  in  the  countri es 
of the Latin Union  in 1875,  and  that for 
years it has been  supplanted  in Austria, 
Russia,  Greece,  Italy  and  Spain  by  de­
preciated paper  money. 
In  spite  of  all 
this, the  industry  and  commerce  of  the 
world  have  gone  on  prosperously,  the 
value of  real  estate  everywhere has  in­
creased,  wages are higher than they ever 
were,  and  the  sum  total  of  the world’s 
wealth is greater.  What good except the 
lightening  of  existing  debts  is  to  be 
gained by  remonetizing  silver and  what 
evil is to be averted  it  is difficult  to see.
Nevertheless,  sound  finance  demands 
that  Congress  take  timely  measures  to 
avert the  suspension  of  gold  payments 
with which we are  threatened.  The ne­
cessity of  being  always  prepared  to  re­
deem  a currency in  gold  is a wholesome 
check upon its undue expansion,  and up­
on the speculation which  that expansion 
promotes.  We  have  escaped  the  infla­
tion  of  values  which  would  have  fol 
lowed the free coinage of  silver; now let 
us  guard against that which  will  follow 
the continued  increase of  our  currency 
under  the  Sherman  act.  Nothing  more 
is needed to  make the  financial  outlook 
for 1893 as bright as any reasonable  man 
could desire. 

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

Use Tradesman Coupons.

T he D rum m er W a s N e r w  an d  th e  C ash­

ie r  C ash ed  H is C heck.

that  point. 

From tbe New York Sun.
A number of  commercial travelers  sat 
in the lobby of an uptown hotel the other 
night  talking  of odd  experiences  while 
traveling.
“It is strange how ready  business men 
are to take things  for granted,” said one 
of  them.  “The  average  man  supposes 
that the merchant is very slow.about  ac­
cepting the representations of  strangers, 
but 1 bad  an  experience  some time  ago 
which  proves  the  contrary.  You  all 
know  that  the  most  depressing  thing 
that can  happen  to a drummer is to  run 
short of money on the road,  especially at 
a time when  he is  bound  to make quick 
connections. 
I  had  that  happen  to  me 
last  year.
“1 was making a trip through the West 
for  a  Chicago  firm,  and  was  taking in 
I had a great  lot  of 
only the big  cities. 
baggage,  and  my  expenses  were  very 
high  on  account  of  the excess 1 had to 
pay.  Besides,  trade was  dull,  and it  re­
quired  much  coaxing  and  liberal  enter­
taining  to  get a  buyer  to  look  at  my 
goods. 
I had  learned  that another man 
in the same line was going over the same 
route,  and  1  knew,  of  course  that  the 
one  who  struck  town  first  was  pretty 
sure to get all the trade  that could be se­
cured and  leave  very  few  pickings  for 
the one who followed.  Being  somewhat 
older  in  the  business  than  my rival,  I 
managed  to keep ahead  of  him  until  I 
reached  Cleveland  and  I had  drawn  on 
the house  for a  considerable  amount  of 
money,  and  expected to  find it  awaiting 
me  at 
I  was  practically 
stranded  when I reached  my  hotel,  and 
my first enquiry was for the  letter that 1 
expected.  There  was a  letter from  the 
house, but to my  intense  disgust it  con­
tained  no  check, and  said  simply  that 
the boss was  away  on a little  vacation, 
and had left no  instructions.  However,
I knew the members of a large local pub­
lishing  firm  very  well.  They  were 
among our  biggest customers,  and,  after 
I had gotten  over my  first  wrath, I con­
cluded that  the matter  would  come  out 
all  right.  The  next  morning  early  1 
went over  to see  the  firm  and  inquired 
for the senior member.  He had gone out 
of town.  So  had all the others, and aft­
er  a  few  minutes  I  learned  that  there 
was nobody there  with  whom I had  any 
personal  acquaintance.
“1 was  completely  flabbergasted,  and 
for some minutes I didn’t  know what  to 
It would  do  me no  good, so far  as 
say. 
the  present  was  concerned,  to  send  on 
again  to  Chicago,  because  I  knew that 
my  rival  was  following  closely  behind 
me, and that every  minute was precious, 
After  thinking  the matter  over,  I made 
up  my  mind  that  there  was  only  one 
thing  to  do,  and  that  was  to  get  the 
money  then  and  there.  1  inquired  for 
the man in  charge,  who  happened to  be 
the  bookkeeper  and  the  cashier  of  the 
firm, and presented my  card to him.  Of 
course,he knew the firm that 1 represented 
very well; but, that being my first visit to 
Cleveland,  he knew nothing of me. 
I ex­
pected to have a hard time with him.
“ ‘Mr.  Smith,’ I said  to  him—we will 
take  it  for  granted that  his  name  was 
Smith—T expected  to see some  member 
of  the  firm  when I came here,  but I  am 
told they are all out of  town. 
It is  very 
important for me to get through with my 
business here to-day and leave Cleveland 
to-night,  but,  unfortunately,  a  draft 
which I  expected to  find here  has  been 
delayed  and  I  am,  therefore,  short  of 
money. 
I am well acquainted with them 
(mentioning  the names of  the  members 
of the firm), but  this  is  the  first  time " 
have had the  pleasure  of  meeting  you 
Now, can I trespass on  your kindness  to 
the  extent  of  having  you cash  a check 
for me?’ ”
“ He  refused, of  course,”  interrupted 
one of  his listeners.
“That  was  certainly  what I  expected 
he would do.  At the very least I expect­
ed him to evade  the  matter  and  put  me 
off. 
It would have been so very easy for 
him to have said  that be didn’t have the 
authority  to do  it  in the  absence of  the 
firm.  But  he didn’t  do anything of  the 
kind. 
immediately, 
‘Why, certainly. 
I’ll be only too glad to 
be  of  service  to  you.  What  is  the

Instead  he  said 

‘Two  hundred  and  fifty dol­
amount?’ 
‘All right,’ he said, and go­
lars,’ I said. 
ing to his safe  he drew out  that  amount 
and counted it out  in front of me. 
I sat 
down and  wrote  out the  check,  signing 
mine, mind you,  not the  firm  name,  and 
handed  it  to  him.  He  simply  glanced 
over  it  and  put  it  away.  We  talked 
pleasantly for a few  minutes,  and he  in­
sisted  that I  must  call  round  and  take 
dinner with him in  the evening  before  I 
left town.
“I never  struck such  luck as that  be­
fore in my life,  but it just  proves what I 
have  said.  Any  scoundrel  could  have 
gotten  hold  of  one  of  the  cards  of  my 
firm and have made the same representa­
tions. 
I showed him no other  authority 
than  the  card.  Yet  the  man  who  took 
those  chances was,  1 learned  afterward, 
a man of many years’ experience  in busi­
ness,  and  the  place  he  held  was of im­
portance  and  highly  paid. 
I  have  no 
doubt  he  would  have  done  the  same 
thing had he been a member of the firm.”

State of Ohio, City  of Toledo, (
f

L u c a s  County. 

F r a n k   J. C h e n e y   makes  oath  that  he is the 
senior partner of the iirm of F. J. C h e n e y  & 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 ca*e of  catarrh that  cannot  be cured 
b y  the use of H a l l ’s  C a t a r r h   C u k e .

Sworn  to  before  me  and  subscribed  in  my 

FRANK  J.  CHFNEY.
presence, this 6th day of December,“A. D  1886.
A. W. GLEASON,
‘ 
Notary  Public,
t 
i 
j   s e a l   j- 
Hall's  Catarrh  Cure  is  taken  internally  and 
acts directly on the  blood  and  mucous surfaces 
of the system.  Send for testimonials, free.

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

J

Sold by Druggists, 75c.

FR E E  TO  F. A. M.  A C olored E ngraving 
o f  Chinese  Mas-nig a t  w ork, also, 
la rg e  
C atalogue  o f  Masonic  hooks  a n d   goods 
vith b o ttom  prices.  New Illu strated  Ilia* 
,ory o f F reem aso n ry  fo r Agents.  Bew are 
o f th e  spu rio u s M asonic books. REDDING 
&  CO., Publishers  an d   M anufacturers of 
Masonic Goods, 731 B roadw ay. New Y ork.

•^ E | WALTER  HOUSE
CentrallLake, Mich., E. W alter, Prop.  ‘ 
Fourteen  warm  rooms,  all  newly  furnished.- 
Good table.  Rates,  $1.50 per  day.  The  patron 
age of traveling men especially solicited.
Michigan(Tentral

“  The 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 ana  Pacific......ID 45 p m
1  00 p 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.)
’ Mon-
Tickets on sale at Union  Ticket Office, 61 
roe street and Union  Depot.

DKTROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  &  MIL­

WAUKEE  Railway.

Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Ave.

Trains Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St.  Johns  ...Ar
O w o s s j........A r
E. Saginaw  . Ar
Bay City......Ar
Flint  ...........Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit......... Ar

E A S T W A R D .

tNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 »No.  82
11 00pm
6 50am
12 42am
7 45am
2 00am
8 30am
3 10am
9 05am
6 40am
10 50am
7 15am 
11 30am
5 40am 
10 05am
7 30am 
12 05pm
5 37am 
10 53am
7 00am
11 50am
WESTWARD.

10 20am
11 25am
12 17pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
o 05pm 
8 00pm 
8 37pm
7 05pm
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

Trains Leave

T.xr  notmit 
G’d Rapids,  Lv 
G’d Haven,  Ar 
Milw’keeStr  “ 
Chicago Str.  “

»No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13
6  50am 10 50am
5 10pm
1 00pm
6 15pm
2  10pm

.............. . 10 45pm
7 05am
8 25am

1 Ö

Or&nd  Rapids  St Indian a. 
S chedule  In effect  N ovem ber  20,1892.

N o rth .
S outh.
7:20 a m
6:45 a m
F o r C adillac  a n d  S ag in aw ..........
1:10 p  m
9:00 a  m
F o r T ra v erse C ity  &  M ackinaw
4; 15 p m
2:20 p in
F o r C adillac an d  S ag in aw ..........
For  Petoskey & M ackinaw.......
10:10  p m
8:10 p m
F ro m  C hicago a n d   K alam azoo.
8:35 p  m 
6.45 a  m an d   9:00 a m
d a lly .  O th ers tra in s  d a ily  ex c ep t S unday.

T ra in  a rriv in g   fro m   so u th  a t   6:45 i 
TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.
N orth.
Norl (
6:30 a  m
11:50 a m
6:15 p m
11:00 p  m 
11:50 a  m  
11:00 p m
m  a n d   11:20 p.  m . ru n s

For  C incinnati.............................   6:30
F o r K alam azo o  a n d   C hicago.
For F ort W ayne and the  East.
F o r  Cincinnati...........................
F o r K alam azoo  &   C h ic ag o ........11.00 p
From Saginaw...................
F ro m  S ag in aw ................................. 11:00 p m
d a ily ;  a ll  o th e r  tra in s   d a ily  ex c ep t Sunday.

A rriv e fro m   L eave g o in g  
S o u th .
7:00  a  m  
10:05  a m
2:00  p m
6:00  p m
11:20 p  m

T ra in s le a v in g  so u th  a t  6:00 p 

N O R TH

SLEEPING  &  PARLOR  CAR  8ERVICE. 

1 : 1 0   p  i n   t r a i n   h as  p a r lo r  c a r  G ran d  
R apids to  P eto sk ey  an d  M ackinaw .
1 0 :1 0   p   m   t r a i n . —Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw.
UTH—7 :0 0  am  t r a i n . —P arlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
1 0 :0 5   a  m   t r a i n . —W agner  P arlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
6 : 0 0   p  m   t r a i n . —W a g n e r S leeping  C ar 
G ran d   R apids to  C in c in n ati.
1 1 ;2 0   p  m  t r a i n . —W agner Sleeping Car 
Grand Rapids to Chicago.

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

10:05 a m  
3:55 p m  

L v G ran d   R apids 
A it  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 aily , 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 

3:10 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 aily , 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  

F o r M uskegon—L eave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana,
10:00 a  m 
6:55  a  m 
4:40  p m  
11:26  a  m  
9:06 p m
5:30  p  m

F rom  M uskegon—A rrive

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 etu rn in g ,  tr a in   lea v es  M uske 
g o n  a t   4:30 p m , a r riv in g  a t  G ran d   R ap id s a t   5:45 p  m .
T h ro u g h  tic k e ts  a n d  full in fo rm a tio n   c a n   be h ad  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 e t  A gent, 67 
M onroe stre e t. G ran d  R apids, Mich.

0. L. LOCKWOOD,
G eneral  P assen g e r an d  T ick e t A gent.

CHICAGO

A N D   W E ;

NOV.  20,  1892.
IT  MICHIGAN  li’Y.

GOING TO  CHICAGO.

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

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

TO  AND PROM  MUSKEGON.

Lv. CHICAGO......  .... 9:00«m  5:25pm »11:15pm
Ar.  GR’D RAPIDS......3:55pm  10:45pm  *7:05am
TO  AMD  FROM  BENTON  HARBOR,  AND  ST  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 City..................... 12:35pm  10:59pm
Ar.  Charlevoix  ........................   2:55pm  ...........
\r. Petoskey  .............................3:30pm  .............
Ar.  from  Petoskey.  etc.,  10:00  p  m.;  from 
Traverse City 11:50 a in, 10:00 p m.

TRAVERSE CITY  MANISTEE  &  PETOSKEY.

THROUGH  CAR SERVICE.

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

Wagner  Parlor Cars  Leave Grand  Rapids 1:28 
Wagner  Sleepers—Leave  Grand  Rapids *11:35 
Free Chair Car for Manistee 5:35 p m.
»Every day.  Other trains week days only.

DETROIT,

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

GOING TO  DETROIT.

Lv. G  R  .....................   7:10am  *l: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. G R  11:50am 11:00pm

TO  LOWELL VIA  LOWELL  &  HASTINGS  R.  K.

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 da/.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

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

R ailw ay.

»Dally.  tDaily except Sunday.

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

Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car.
J ab. Ca m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

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

VIA  D., G.  H.  A M.

VIA D ., L.  A   N.

Return connections equally as good.

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

16
Grand  U.ipiils  Retail Grocers’  Association. 
President, A.  J. Elliott;  Secretary. E. A. Stowe. 

Official  Organ—M ic h ig a n   T r a d e s m a n .
Next Meeting—January 16.

Jackson  Grocers’  Union 

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

The  T reatm en t  o f  C ustom ers.

From  the M erchants’ Review.
The whole  duty  of  the  dealer  to  his 
customers is  not  summed  up  in  honest 
dealing,  polite attention  and prompt  de­
livery of goods. 
It  is  required  of  mer- 
hcants that  they should  at least provide 
sufficient room between the store counter 
and the merchandise to allow  patrons  to 
move  about  without  being  crushed  by 
contact with each other,  or without  hav­
ing clothing soiled by coming  in  contact 
with  goods, during tbe busiest  hours  of 
the day.  Some  stores have so  narrow  a 
space before the counters  that  Saturday 
evenings are a trial to the patrons, a few 
people uncomfortably crowding the  space 
and  preventing  one  another’s  moving 
about to examine the articles  which they 
wish to purchase.  The appearance of  a 
jam in a retail establishment  will  cause 
any woman to avoid  the  place,  even  if 
the prices are below tbe range  of  neigh­
boring  stores,  and  the  most  desirable 
class of patrons is most likely  to be  thus 
repelled  and  driven  to  rival  establish­
ments.  This  objectionable  feature  of 
too many retail grocery stores,  viz., want 
of sufficient room  for  customers,  seems 
to be due to the high  rentals  of  eligible 
store property in  many  cities.  The  re­
sult is, as regards tbe retail trade at least, 
that door space  that  should  be  devoted 
to  the  accommodation  of patrons,  and 
which  would  enable the clerks  to  move 
about more quickly  while  waiting  upon 
customers during rush hours,  is  covered 
with piles of goods, only  a narrow  path­
way  being  left  open  between  the  door 
and  counter.  Such establishments are 
rightly denominated  “stores,”  the term 
“to shop,” as used by  the  fair  sex,  not 
strictly  applying  to  trading  with  this 
class  of  retail establishments—they  are 
simply places for the storage of goods, the 
sale of which  cannot  but  be  conducted 
with more or less difficulty.
The contrast  between  a  store  crowd­
ed  with  goods 
the  manner  al­
luded  to  above  and  the  best  arranged 
establishments,  is  very  unfavorable  to 
the former.  The  most  modern  style  of 
grocery  store,  with  its  surplus  stock 
stowed away  under counters, on  shelves 
and in the basement,  and a clear view af­
forded right through the store  from  end 
to  end,  invites  new  custom,  while  the 
overcrowded store  repels  it. 
If  to  the 
advantages of  a clear floor be  added that 
of seats  for  waiting  customers,  such  as 
are to be found  in  some  of  the  leading 
grocers’  stores,  the  attraction  for  the 
best class  of  customers is  irresistible,  if 
other things are equal.  The  dealer  who 
compels  bis  female  customer  to  stand 
while waiting a clerk’s leisure,  or  while 
her orders  are  being  filled,  has  hardly 
mastered the secret of the art  of  selling 
goods.  An old dealer  who  retired  from 
business  a  few  years  ago  said  to  the 
writer recently:  “If a customer is stand­
ing,  a salesman will have great difficulty 
in  selling  her  a  new  brand of  goods 
which his employer is eager to push,  but 
give her a comfortable  seat,  and with  a 
little tact the clerk  can sell  her  articles 
which she is  not  actually  in  need  of.” 
A  little  reflection  will  convince  the 
reader that our  friend  has not  exagger­
ated the advantages  of  the  grocer  who 
provides a sufficient number of  seats for 
his patrons.

in 

This feature  of  the  retail  business— 
the arrangements for the  comfort  of pa­
trons who visit their merchant’s place  of 
business—is  as important as tbe demean­
or of the  proprietor  and  his  assistants 
towards the said patrons, or  the  method 
employed in  the  delivery  of  goods. 
It 
is a source of  much  complaint  that  too 
many  grocers’  customers  do  not  per­
sonally make their  purchases,  but  send 
servants or  children  with  their  orders. 
In this  contingency  the  dealer  has  no 
opportunity to make sales of new articles 
of merit,  the messengers  not  being  em­
powered to make purchases on their own 
responsibility. 
If  retailers  wish  their 
lady customers  to  visit  their  establish­
ments,  they should make proper prepara-

THE  MICHIGAN  TRAX)ES]S£AJSr.

tions  for the accommodation of  the  de­
sired visitors; not expect them to ran the 
gauntlet  of  greasy  butter  tubs,  dusty 
flour  barrels  and toppling pyramids  of 
canned goods, or to  be  hustled  about by 
strangers while forced to stand  for  per­
haps  many  minutes.  Make  the  place 
worth a  visit  and  purchases  by  proxy 
will become less common.

Money in  Soda  W ater.

A Chicago druggist said to a newspaper 
man the other day,  that if  he could  only 
get a chance at the soda water  privileges 
at  the  World’s  Fair,  he  would consider 
that his fortune  was  made  for  life.  He 
said that there was money  in  soda  water 
anyway that would amaze the uninitiated; 
that it was not an uncommon thing  for a 
§10,000 soda water plant to pay for itself 
in five months.  The Fair privileges, he 
said,  had been secured by  a  local  syndi­
cate,  which he  thinks  is  working  with 
the trust of soda water fountain manufac­
turers.  There will  be  big  money  in  it 
for  somebody.

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

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

B U SIN ESS  C H A NC ES.

640

F o r  a le — stock  o f  m er c h a n d ise,
consisting  of  groceries,  drugs,  haroware, 
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. ¿41, care Michigan Trad- sman. 
641
A  BARGAIN  FOR  SOMEBODY—AN  £S,<00 
-tA  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. 
I lOR  SALE—I  OFFER  MY  STOCK  OF  GRO- 
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  propertj.  Address  A 
Mulholland  Jr., Ashton, Mich. 
DON’T  HESITATE!  STEP  RIGHT  INTO  A 
good business!  $>2.000  stock of  drygoods, 
shoes  and  groceries, located  in  a  live  railroad 
town  in  the  best  county  in  Eastern  Kansas; 
monthly sales over J4,i'00;  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. 
JjlOR  SALE-OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  LARGE 
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
F OR  SALE—A  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  DRUGS 
and  groceries,  invoicing  about  $3,000,  in 
good town  of  1,000  inhabitants.  Good  reasons 
for  selling.  Address  No.  620,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.___________  

L20

633

623

S IT U A T IO N S   W A N T E D .

TJOSITION WANTED—FOR A YOUNG  LADY 
A  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 
emi loyers  Valuable,  competent help, a lady of 
refinement  and  ability.  Owing  to  change  in 
business,  parties  are  assisting to secure a posi­
tion  Address  Late  Employers, care  Michigan 
Tradesman_________  

638

M IS C E L L A N E O U S .

643

F arm  f o r  sa l e  or  e a c h a n g e—1two

hundred  acres  in  a good  farming  district 
within  12  miles  of  the  city  of  Grand  Rapids. 
Clay loam soil.  Two apple orchards, large grain 
barn,  horse  barn,  etc.  Good  spring  of  water 
near  house.  Will sell  on  liberal terms  or  will 
exchange  for  stock  of  merchandise  not  to  ex 
ceed  $4,000  in  value  in part  pay.  For  further 
particulars  call on or address  M. S„ 666 Wealthy 
avenue. Grand Rapids, Mich. 
SXTANTED—GOOD  LOCATION  To ENGAGE 
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in the meat business.  Would  buy  market 
in good  town.  Address  No. 644. care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
V17 ANTED—A  YOUNG MAN  WITHONEOR 
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two years’ experience in drug store.  C. F. 
Powers, Portland. Mich. 
\ \ T ANTED—PARTNER  WI I’H  SMALL CAP 
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ital  to  engage  in  established  and  good 
paying  manufacturing  business.  R. N. Thomp- 
son, So. Boardman. Mich. 
f ^OR  SALE —TWO-bTORY  FRAME  STORE 
building and  dwelling In thriving Northern 
Michigan  town.  Property  well  rented.  Will 
Bell cheap or exchange  for city  property.  A. M. 
LeBaron, 61 Monroe St. 
F OR  SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  OF  GENERAL 
merchandise, located  at Sumner,  six  miles 
south  of  Riverdale.  Building  is  22x88  with 
storehouse  2(1x90,  all  in  good  shape.  Trade 
amounts to $15,000 per year.  Excellent opportu 
nity.  Address  No.  632, care  Michigan  Trades 
n»»n-______________  

636

644

639

634

632

FOR SALE-TWENTY FOUR DRAWER LET-’ 

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. 

P.  8TEKETEE  4  SONS,

HAVE  A  WELL  ASSORTED  LINE  OF

Windsor  and  Scotoh  Caps

FROM  $2.25  PER  DOZ.  UP,  ALSO  A  FULL  LINE  OF  LADIES’  AND 

GENTLEMEN’S

gloves,  Mitts  and  JVlufflers

HANDKERCHIEFS,  WINDSOR  TIES.  GENT’S  SCARFS,  AND  A  FRESH

STOCK  OF

Dolls,  and  Christmas  Novelties  for  Holiday  Trade.

¿/ou dorit need a dimmy not 

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

But  when  snow  conies  you  must 
have

Snow Shovels

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handles  in  wood•
In steel  we have long handle  only.

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O F   T W O   O F   T H E

In  th e M a rk e t.  C ost no  m ore th an  th e O ld S ty le  B o o h s.  W r ite  fo r  p rices.

GRAND  RAPIDS  BOOK  BINDING  CO.,

Pearl SI., (loilseman Blk. 

G rand  R a p id s,  M ieh.

Grader  Clasts. 

Glass  Covers  for  Biscaits.

S p rin g  &  C om pan y,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

D ress  G oods,  S h a w ls ,  C loaks, 
N o tio n s, 
H osiery, 
G loves,  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 r in ts  and  D o m estic C ottons

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

assorted stock  at lowest  market  prices.

S p rin g  &  C o m p a n y.
H e y m a n   &  C o m p a n y ,

Manufacturers  of

Show  Cases

Of Every Description.

First-Glass  Work  Only.

WRITE FOR  PRICES. 
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0 8   a n d   0 8   C a n a l  S t .. 

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m, H
  &  CO.,
Dry  Goods. Carpets and Gloaks

W H O L E S A L E

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We  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

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B A R C U S  BROS.,

MANUFACTURERS  OF  CIRCULAR

Squalled by few  and  «celled by none.  All our  saws  are  made of  the  best  steel by the  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   R e p a i r i n g

Done as cheap as can be done  consistent  with good  work, 
without extra charge.  No charge for boxing or drayage.

M U S K E G O N , 

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Lumber  saws  fitted  up ready for use 

Writ 2 .or prices and discounts.
M IC H IG A N .

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

t HPHKSE  chests  will 

will  save  enough  good*  from  flies,  dirt 
for themselves.  Try them and be convii

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A N U R  new glass covers  are by far the 
I
  handsomest  ever  offered 
to  the 
trade.  They  are  made  to  fit  any 
of  our  boxes  and can  be  changed  from 
one box  to  another in a moment  They 
and  prying  fingers in a short  time to pay 
iced.  Price, 50 cents each.

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

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

CREAM  CRISP. 

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

the best selling cakes we ever made.

THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

PGOLATE  COOLER  GO,

Manufacturers  of

Combination  Store  Tallies  and  Shelving.

The most complete knock down  tables and shelving ever offered to the trade.  The 
salient  features are  uniformity of  construction, combining  strength and neatness, 
ecouomy 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.

BLACK  GLAZED  AKRON  STONEWARE.

the Grocery  'Trade:

To 
We call  your special  attention  to our  UNEQUALED  GRADE  OF  P INE  STONEW ARE, for  which  we are  exclu­
sive  selling  agents.  This  quality far excels  any  ware  previously  offered  in  this  State  and  the  price is  no  more  than  for 
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.

T

FLAT  BOTTOM 

MILK  PANS.

ROUNI»  BOTTOM 

MILK  PANS.

STEW  PANS.

MEAT  TUBS—8, 10,15, 30, 35, 30 gals.

FLOWER  POTS—Pat.  shoulder.

H. LEO N A RD  & SONS,

CHURNS.

BUTTERS—All sizes.

’93-New
(Mini  Made  Easy.

Selling Agents  for  the  Best  Factories•

Process  Vapor  Stove-’93

Be  Up  with  the  Times.

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 tiie 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  beating 
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 
beat 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 off 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.

