Published Weekly. 

VOL.  10. 
MUSKEGON  BRANCH  UNITED  STATES  BAKING  CO.,

Successors  to

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS.
GRAND  RAPIDS,  JANUARY  25,  1893.

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

Who  Sells

$1  Per  Year.
NO.  488
Drops?

Cough---- f 

Star

Every  Druggist,
Every Grocer,
Every Confectioner 
who w ants  to  handle  the  best  goods for the 
M anufactured by 
least money. 

A.  E.  BROOKS  Sc  CO., 
taw a St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

46  O

Red

CRACKERS,  BISCUITS  *   SWEET  GOODS.

HARRY FOX,  Manager.

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PA ID   TO  MAIL  ORDERS.

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

Black  B ass  Cigars

NEVER  GO  BEGGING.  Made only  by

G.  F.  F A U D E ,   I O N I A ,  M IC H

THE  NE  PLUS  ULTRA  OF  A   NICKEL  SMOKE !

M O SELEY   BROS.,

-   W r a O X ^ B S J l Z J B   -

FRUITS,  SEEDS.  BEANS  AND  PRODUGE,

26,28,30,32  Ottawa 8t„  Grand  Rapids.

P,  8TEKETEE  i   SONS,

HAVE  A  WELL  ASSORTED  LINE  OF

Windsor  and  SgoIgIi  Caps

FROM  $2.25  PER  I)OZ.  UP.  ALSO  A  FULL  LINE  OF  LADIES’  AND 

GENTLEMEN’S

Gloves,  Mitts  and  JMflers
Dolls,  aod  Christmas  Novelties for  Holiday  Trade.

STOCK  OF

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

POTATOES.

We bave 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.
PERKINS  &  HESS
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  122  and  .24  LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,

WE CARK?  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR  M il.L  TSR

TELFER  SPICE  COMPANY,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

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

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

I and 3 Pearl  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS

1   W   I N I  

T R I   I M K 9  

martin  maier  & co,
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MANUFACTURERS
113-115-117  Twelfth  St.,  DETROIT,  MICH.
LARGEST  ASSORTMENT. BAGS
PIONEER  HOUSE.

BEST  MADE,  BEST  SELLING  GOODS. 

LOWEST  PRICES.

OUR  HOLIDAY  CATALOGUE  NuW  READY. 

Send  for  it !

C a r p e t  S w e e p e r s .

SMITH  *  SANFORD,  68  Monroe  St..  Grand  Rapids.

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

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

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

V O O R H E E S

Pants and  Overall  Co.,

L a n sin g ,  M ich.

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

&  D.  VOORHEES,  Manager.

STANDARD OIL CO.,

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

Wholesale  Grocers

Grand  Rapids.

R I N D G E ,  K A L M B A C H   &  CO.,

19, 14, 16 Pearl  St.,

Manufacturers

and

Jobbers of

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

DEAIiEHS  IN

U lm n in a tin g  a n d   L u b ric a tin g

Spring lines  now ready 

for Inspection

W ould  be  pleased  to 

show them..

Agents  for the  Boston 

Rubber Shoe Co.

NAPTHA  AND  GASOLINES.

Office, Hawkins Block. 

Works, Butterworth A?e.

6BA.ND RAPIDS, 
BIG RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN.

B U L K .  W O R K S   A T

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND  HAVEN, 
HOWARD  CITY,

MANISTEE,

PETOSKEY,

CADILLAC,
LUDINGTON.

HIGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR

EMPTY  GflRBON 1 GH80UNI7  BARRELS.

Who  urges  you  to  k eep

Sapolio?

'The F*ublic !

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

Anv Jobber will be Glad to Fill Tour Orders.

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

It Pays  Dealers to sell  FOSFON  because  there  are but  two sizes, Five Ounces 
See Grocerv Price Current.

T h e  BREAD 
R a iser

SUPPLANTS BAKING POWDER
Fosfori C h em ical Co., D etroit, M ich igan . 

SOLD  BY ALL  RELIABLE  GROCERS.

JOBBER  OF

F.  J.  D E T T E N T H A L E R
g^AND] OYSTERS
POULTRY I   GAME

Salt Rish

Mail Orders Receive Promptm Attention. 

See quotations in another column

CONSIGNMENTS  OF  ALL  KINDS  OF  POULTRY  AND  GAME  SOLICITED

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V O L .  X.

GRAND  R A PID S,  W EDNESDAY,  JA N U A R Y   25,  1893.

NO.  488

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291  E. ¡Hainan., Kalamazoo, Mich.

06869910

Chicago salesroom with Silverman & Opper, 

Corner  Monroe st. and  Fifth ave.

Oar specialties:  Pants from $7.50 to *16  per doz. 
warranted  not  to  rip.  Shirts  from  13 50 to $15 
per doz.  Spring line  now ready.  Samples  sent 
ou approval.

G e o . H .  R e e d e r  &   C o.,

JO B B E R S   OF

Boots  and  Shoes,

Felt Boots and Alaska  Socks.

State Agents for

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158 &  160 Fulton st., Grand  Rapids.
COMMERCIAL  CREDIT  CO.

Union Credit Co.

Successor  to  Cooper  Commercial  Agency  and 
Commercial  reports  and  current  collections 
receive  prompt  and  careful  attention.  Your 
patronage respectfully solicited.
Telephones 166 and 1030. 
Office, 65 Monroe St. 
L.  J.  STEVENSON, 
C.  A.  CUMINGS,

C.  E.  BLOCK.

The  "Little Soldier"  School Shoe.

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Large  bbls...........................  
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40 lb  pails..........................................................6%
20 lb pails............................. 
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2 lb cans, usual  weight, per  doz.............. 81  50
5 lb  “ 
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Choice Dairy Butter in rolls......
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Pure Sweet Cider  in bbls...........
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“  Vinegar........
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Fancy Florida Oranges..............
Choice Messina  Lemons, 300-360.
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New Pick.es in bbls. 1200 
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half  bbls, 600  ___
Peach preserves, 20 lb.  pails......

EDWIN FALLAS,
S   PER  BOOK 
100 L E A V E S
Pat. Manifold
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(Fortracing delayed Freight Shipments) 
----------l i f e   Pat.  M anifold

Prop  Talley City  Cold  Storage,
j  2 1 5 -2 1 7   L ivingston   St.. Grand  R apids.

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W o  t e l e g r a m s !

A. J. SÜKLLMAN, Scientific Optician, 65 Monroe Street.

Eyes  tested  for  spectacles  free of  cost  with 
latest improved methods.  Glasses In every style 
at  moderate  prices.  Artificial  human  eyes  of 
every color.  Sign of big spectai les.
e s t a b l i s h e d   1841.

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

R. G. D u n   &  Co.

Reference Books Issued  quarterly.  Collections 

attended to throughout United States 

and Canada

The Braflstreet Mercantile Acency.

The  Bradstreet  Com pany, Props.

THE  TOUCH  IN  THE  HEART.

Old Abel  Dunklee was  delighted,  and 
so was old  Abel’s wife,  when  little  Abel 
came.  For this coming they had  waited 
many years.  God  had  prospered  them 
elsewise; this one supreme blessing  only 
had  been withheld.  Yet  Abel had never 
despaired.  “1  shall  some  time  have  a 
son,” said he.  “1  shall  call him  Abel. 
He  shall be rich;  he shall  succeed to  my 
business; my house, my factory, my lands, 
my  fortune—all  shall  be  his!”  Abel 
Dunklee felt this  to be a  certainty,  and 
with this prospect constantly in mind  he 
slaved  and  pinched and  bargained.  So 
when  at last the little  one  did  come  it 
was as heir to a considerable property.

The joy  in the  house  of Dunklee  was 
not shared  by the community  at 
large. 
Abel Dunklee was by no means  a  popu­
lar  man.  Folk  had 
the  well-defined 
opinion that he was selfish,  miserly  and 
hard. 
If he had not  been  actually bad, 
he had never been  what the world calls a 
good  man.  His  methods  had  been  of 
the grinding,  sordid order.  He  had  al­
ways  been  scrupulously  honest  in  the 
payment of his debts and in  keeping  his 
word,  but  his  sense  of  duty  seemed  to 
stop there; Abel’s idea  of  goodness  was 
to owe  no  man  any  money.  He  never 
gave a penny to charities  and  he  never 
spent  any  time  sympathizing  with  the 
misfortunes or distresses of other people. 
He was narrow, close,  selfish  and  hard, 
so his neighbors and  the  community  at 
large said,  and I shall  not deny that  the 
verdict was a just one.

When a little one comes into this world 
of ours it is  the  impulse  of  the  people 
koie to bid it welcome  and  to  make  its 
lot pleasant.  When little  Abel  was born 
no such enthusiasm obtained outside  the 
austere  Dunklee  household. 
Popular 
sentiment found vent in an expression of 
hope that the son and heir would grow up 
to scatter the dollars which old man Dunk­
lee had  accumulated  by  years  of relent­
less avarice and unflagging toil.  But Dr. 
Hardy—he who had officiated in  an  all- 
important capacity upon that momentous 
occasion in the Dunklee  household—Dr. 
Hardy shook his head wisely, and perhaps 
sadly,  as if he  were  saying  to  himself: 
“No, the child  will never do either what 
the old folk or what the other folk  would 
have  him do; he is not  long for here.”

Had you questioned  him  closely,  Dr. 
Hardy  would have  told  you 
that  little 
Abel was as frail a babe as  ever  did  bat- 
tie  for  life.  Dr.  Hardy  would  surely 
never have dared  say that to  old  Dunk­
lee,  for in his rapture  in  the  coming  of 
that little  boy old  Dunklee  would  have 
smote the offender who presumed even to 
intimate that the babe was not  the  most 
vigorous as  well  as  the  most  beautiful 
creature upon earth.  The  old  man  was 
simply assotted with the child—in a self­
ish  way,  undoubtedly,  but even  this self­
ish love for  that puny little child showed 
that the  old man  was  capable  of  some­
what  better than his past  life  had  been. 
To hear him talk you might have  fancied 
that Mrs.  Dunklee had no  part or  parcel 
or interest  in  their offspring. 
It  was al­
ways  “my  little  boy”—yes,  old  Abel

Duuklee’s money had a  rival  in  the  old 
man’s heart at last, and “that rival  was a 
helpless, shrunken,  sickly little babe.

Among  his  business  associates  Abel 
Dunklee  was  familiarly  known  as  Old 
Growly,  for the reason that his voice was 
harsh and discordant and sounded for all 
the world like the hoarse growling of  an 
ill-natured bear.  Abel was not a particu­
larly  irritable  person,  but his slavish de­
votion to money-getting,  his  indifference 
to  the amenities of life, his entire neglect 
of the  tender practices of humanity,  his 
rough,unkempt personality, and his deep, 
hoarse voice—these  things  combined  to 
make that sobriquet of “Old  Growly”  an 
exceedingly appropriate one.  And  pre­
sumably Abel never thought of resenting 
the slur implied therein and  thereby;  he 
was too shrewd not to  see that,  however 
disrespectful  and  evil-intentioned  the 
phrase might be,  it  served  him  to  good 
purpose,  for  it  conduced  to  that  very 
general awe,  not  to  say 
terror,  which 
kept  people  from  bothering  him  with 
their charitable and sentimental schemes.
Yes,  1 think  we can accept it as a  fact 
that Abel liked that  sobriquet;  it  meant 
more money in  his pocket and  fewer  de­
mands upon his time and patience.

But Old Growly abroad and Old Growly 
at  home were two very different  people. 
Only the voice was the same.  The homely, 
furrowed,  wizened  face lighted  up,  and 
the keen,  restless eyes lost their  expres­
sion of  shrewdness,  and  the  thin,  bony 
hands  that  elsewhere  clutched 
and 
clutched  and  pinched  and  pinched  for 
possession unlimbered themselves in  the 
presence of little Abel  and  reached  out 
their long fingers yearningly and  caress­
ingly  toward  the  little child.  Then the 
hoarse voice would growl a salutation that 
was  full  of  tenderness, 
for  it  came 
straight  from the old man’s heart;  only, 
had you not known  now  much  he  loved 
the  child, you  might have thought other­
wise,  for the old man’s voice was  always 
hoarse and discordant,  and that was why 
they called him Old  Growly.  But  what 
proved his love for  that  puny  babe  was 
the fact that every  afternoon,  when  he 
came  from 
factory,  Old  Growly 
brought his little boy a  dime;  and  once, 
when  the little fellow had a fever on him 
from teething, Old Growly  brought  him 
a  dollar!  Next  day  the  tooth  came 
through and the fever left him,  but  you 
couldn’t make the  old  man  believe  bat 
what it  was  the  dollar  that  did  it  all. 
That  was natural, perhaps,  for  his  life 
had been spent  in  grubbing  for  money, 
and he had not the soul  to  see  that  the 
best and  sweetest things  in  human  life 
are not to be had by riches alone.

the 

As the  doctor  had in one  way and  an­
other  intimated would  be  the  case,  the 
child did not wax fat  and  vigorous.  Al­
though Old  Growly did  not  seem  to  see 
the  truth, little Abel  grew older  only to 
become  what the  doctor  had foretold—a 
cripple.  A  weakness  of  the  spine  was 
developed,  a  malady  that  dwarfed  the 
child’s  physical  growth,  giving  to  his 
wee  face a pinched,  starved  look,  warp­
ing  his  emaciated  body and  enfeebling 
his  puny limbs,  while  at  the  same  time

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This is what we warrant:

1.  Top Genuine Kangaroo.
2.  Vamp Best Veal Calf.
3.  Sole Best Union Leather.
4  Grain Tap, Grain Counter and  Grain Inner 

(Sizes 9 to 13V4)

Sole. 

$1  Per  Pair Net.

BIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  CO,,

GRAND RAPIDS AGENTS.

THE  MICHIGLAlN  TRADESMAN.

In  Time  of  Peace Prepare  for  War.

Already the cold and snow and whistling winds are upon us and too late,  many 
of you,  will think of several little  things you could  have done  preparatory to their 
coming,  to ensure warmth and comfort.

YOUR  WINDOWS  do  rattle with  every blast of  the wind,  and  the  snow and 
cold air will come in under your doors.  Strips of weather will be found just where 
they are most unwelcome.

Weather
Strips

Are  sure  preventatives of  all  these annoyances.  They  will  make  your windows 
snug and  tight  and your  doors proof  against all  storms.  Weather strips will save 
your fuel,  save your health,  save your temper.

" Were  you  brought  ilp  in  a  sawmill?”

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Is a question  thought  and  many times  asked,  as some thoughtless  person  leaves 
your establishment,  forgetting to close the  door after  him.  Put on an eclipse door 
spring and your door will close of itself uoiselessiy and securely.
Save your coal,  sift  your ashes,  buy a coal  sifter and ease up on your coal bin, 
deposit your ashes in one of  our ash cans.  Provide a healthful  way of temporarily 
disposing of  the odds aud  ends from the  table and  kitchen by getting a galvanized 
iron Garbage  Can.
Invest in Weather  Strips,  Coal  Sifters,  Eclipse  Door  Springs,  Ash  Pails  and 
Garbage Cans,  aud  your  rest will  be undisturbed  by the  raging of  the  elements; 
your conscience will  be clear of  vain  regrets  over a giving  away of  temper;  your 
pocketbook will  increase in obesity  and you  will  be exempt  from  the calls of  the 
health officer.

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it quickened  the  intellectual  faculties to 
the degree of precocity.  And  so two and 
three and four  years went by, little Abel 
clinging  to  life  with  pathetic  heroism, 
and Old Growly  loving  that little cripple 
with all the violence of his selfish nature. 
Never once did it occur to the father that 
his child might die,  that death’s seal was 
already  set  upon  the  misshapen 
little 
body;  on  the  contrary,  Old  Growly’s 
thoughts were  constantly of  little Abel’s 
famous  future, of  the  great  fortune  he 
was  to  fall  heir  to,  of 
the  prosperous 
business  career he was to pursue,  of  the 
influence  he  was to wield  in the world— 
of  dollars,  dollars,  dollars,  millions  of 
them which  little Abel  was some  time to 
possess;  these were Old Growly’s dreams, 
and he loved to dream them!

Meanwhile  the world  did  well  by the 
old  man;  despising  him,  undoubtedly, 
for  his  avarice and  selfishness,  but  con­
stantly pouring wealth, aud more wealth, 
and  ever  more  wealth  into  his  coffers. 
As for the old man, he cared not for what 
the  world  thought or  said,  so  long as it 
paid  tribute to him;  he wrought on as of 
old,  industriously,  shrewdly,  hardly,  but 
with  this  new  purpose:  To  make  his 
little boy happy and  great with  riches.

Toys  and  picture-books  were  vanities 
in which  Old Growly  never  indulged;  to 
have expended a farthing  for  chattels of 
that character would  have seemed  to Old 
Growly  like  sinful  extravagance.  The 
few  playthings  which 
little  Abel  had 
were  such as his  mother  surreptitiously 
bought;  the old man believed that a child 
should  be  imbued  with a proper  regard 
for  the  value of  money  from  the  very 
start, so his  presents  were  always  cash 
in hand,  and  he bought a large  tin  bank 
for  little Abel  and taught the  child how 
to put  the  copper and  silver  pieces  into 
it,  and  he  labored  diligently  to  impress 
upon the  child of  how great  benefit  that 
same money would  be to him  by and  by. 
Just  picture to yourself,  if  you can,  that 
fond,  foolish  old  man  seeking  to  teach 
this  lesson  to  that  wan-eyed,  pinched- 
faced little cripple!  But little  Abel  took 
it  all  very  seriously,  and  was  so  apt  a 
pupil  that  Old  Growly made  great  joy 
and was wont to rub his  bony hands glee­
fully and  say to himself:  “ He  has  great 
genius—this  boy  of  mine—great  genius 
for finance!”

But on a day, coming from  his factory, 
Old  Growly was  stricken with  horror  to 
find  that during  his absence  from  home 
a great  change had  come upon his  child. 
The doctor  said it was  simply  the  prog­
ress of  the  disease;  that it was a marvel 
that  little Abel  had  already held  out so 
long;  that  from the  moment of  his birth 
the seal of  death had  been set  upon  him 
in  that cruel  malady which  had  drawn 
his face and warped  his body and  limbs. 
Then  ail  at  once  Old  Growly’s  eyes 
seemed  to  be  opened  to  the  truth,  and 
like a lightning  flash it came to him  that 
perhaps  his  pleasant  dreams  which  he 
had  dreamed of  his child’s  future could 
never be realized. 
It was a bitter awake­
ning,  yet amid  it all the old man was full 
of  hope, determination  and  battle.  He 
had little faith  in drugs and  nursing and 
professional  skill;  he  remembered  that 
upon  previous occasions cures  had  been 
wrought  by  means of  money;  teeth  bad 
been brought through,  the pangs of  colic 
beguiled,  and  numerous  other  ailments 
to which infancy is heir had  by the same 
specific been baffled.  So now Old Growly 
set  about wooing  his little  boy from  the 
embrace of  death—sought  to  coax  him

back to health with money, and the dimes 
became  dollars,  and  the  tin  bank  was 
like to burst of fullness.  But little Abel 
drooped  and  drooped,  and  he  lost  all 
interest  in  everything,  and  he  was con­
tent to lie,  drooping eyed  and listless,  in 
his  mother’s  arms all  day.  At  last  the 
little flame went out with hardly so much 
as a flutter,  aud the hope of  the house of 
Dunklee  was  dissipated  forever. 
But 
even in those  last  moments of  the  little 
cripple’s  suffering  the  father  struggled 
to call  back the old  look  into the  fading 
eyes  and  the  old  smile  into  the  dear 
white  face.  He  brought  treasure  from 
his  vaults  and  held  it up  before  those 
fading  eyes  and  promised  it  all, all,  all 
—everything he possessed—gold, houses, 
lands—all  he had  he would  give to  that 
little child if that little child  would only 
live.  But  the  fading  eyes  saw  other 
things and the ears that were  deaf to the 
old man’s lamentations  heard voices that 
soothed  the  anguish of  that  last  solemn 
hour.  And so little Abel  knew the Mys­
tery.

Then the old man crept away from that 
vestige of his love and stood alone in the 
night and  lifted  up his face  aud  beat his 
bosom  and  moaned  at the  stars, asking 
over  and  over  again  why  he  had  been 
so  bereaved.  And while  he  agonized in 
this  wise and  cried there  came to him  a 
voice—a  voice  so  small  that  none  else 
could  hear;  a voice seemingly from God, 
for from infinite space beyond those stars 
it sped  its  instantaneous  way to the  old 
man’s soul and lodged there.

“Abel,  I have touched thy heart!”
And so, having come into the darkness 
of night, old Dunklee went back  into the 
light of day and found life beautiful,  for 
the touch  was in his heart.

After that, Old  Growly’s  way of  deal­
ing  with  the  world  changed.  He  had 
always  been  an  honest  man,  honest  as 
the world  goes.  But  now he was  some­
what  better  than  honest;  he  was  kind, 
considerate,  merciful.  People  saw  and 
felt  the  change,  and  they  knew  why  it 
was so.  But  the  pathetic  part  of  it all 
was  that  Old  Growly  would  never  ad­
mit—no,  not  even  to  himself—that  he 
was  the  least  changed  from  his  old 
grinding,  hard  self.  The good deeds he 
did were not his  own;  they  were the lit­
tle  boy’s—at  least  so  he  said.  And  it 
was his whim when doing some kind and 
tender thing  to  lay  it to  little  Abel,  of 
whom  he  always  spoke  as  if  he  were 
still  living.  His  workmen,  his  neigh­
bors,  his  townsmen—all  alike  felt  the 
graciousness  of  the  wondrous  change, 
and  many,  ah!  many  a  lowly  sufferer 
blessed that broken old man  for succor in 
little  Abel’s  name.  And  the  old  man 
was  indeed  much  broken;  not  that  he 
had  parted  with  his  shrewdness  and 
acumen,  for as of  old  his  every  venture 
prospered;  but  in 
this  particular  bis 
mind seemed weakened, in that,  as I have 
said,  he  faucied his child  lived,  that  he 
was  given  to  low  mutterings  and inco­
herent mumblings,  of  which  the burden 
seemed to be  that child of  his,  and  that 
| his greatest pleasure appeared now to be 
! watching other little  ones  at  their play. 
In fact, so  changed  was be  from  the Old 
Growly of former years,  that,  whereas he 
| had then been  wholly  indifferent  to  the 
! presence of  those little  ones upon earth, 
he  now  sought  their  company  and  de­
lighted to view  their innocent and mirth­
ful play.  And so presently the children,
I  from regarding him at first  with distrust, 
I came to confide in  and love  him,  and  in

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St. J ohns,  Mich.,  Dec. 8, ’92. 

A.  Schenck & Son:

Gentlemen — Replying  to  yours 
of  the 7th inst.,  would  say you are 
welcome  to  use  the  letter  as  you 
wish, ns I can  only affirm  what  I 
8aid  as  to  the  superior  quality of 
your flour, which  I   believe the  best 
and most  uniform of  any made  in 
the county. 

Yours truly,

D.  S. French.

Send  for  Samples  and  Prices.

A. SCHENCK  &  SON,

ELSIE,  MICH.

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away off yonder—and  the old man heard 
it and went  thither.

The doctor—himself  hoary  and  stoop­
ing  now—told  me  that  toward  the  last 
Old Grampa  Growly  sank  into a sort  of 
sleep, or stupor, from  which  they  could 
not rouse him.  For many  hours  he  lay 
like one dead,  but  his  thin, creased face 
was very peaceful and there was no pain. 
Children  tiptoed  in  with  flowers,  and 
some cried  bitterly,  while  others—those 
who  were  younger—whispered 
to  one 
another:  “Hush,  let  us  make no noise; 
Old Grampa Growly is sleeping.”

At  last  the old man roused.  He  had 
lain like one  dead  for  many  hours,  but 
now at last he seemed  to  wake of a  sud­
den,  and seeing children about  him,  per­
haps he fancied himself  in that pleasant 
park,  under  the  trees,  where  so  very 
often he had told  his  one  pathetic  story 
to those little  ones.  Leastwise  he made 
a feeble motion as if he would have them 
gather nearer,  and,  seeming to know his 
wish,  the  children  came  closer  to  him. 
Those who  were  nearest  heard  him  say 
with  the  ineffable  tenderness  of  old:
“Once ther’ wuz a littl’ boy-----■”

And with those last sweet  words  upon 
his lips,  and with the touch  in  his heart, 
the old man went down  into  the Valley.

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years  ago  and  has  made our  community  what  It  is  now.  Should  you need  a Butter and 
Cheese Factory in your community correspond with 
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Also Manufacturers of Dairy Machinery and Supplies.

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Don’t think just because  it’s a little dull after the holidays 
that it will  be  best to “ run close.”  Now is  just the time 
to  clean up the  odds  and  ends—push  them to the  front  and  fill  up with 
bright, fresh  goods  and  be in readiness to tempt a half-hearted  customer 
with an  attractive  display.  Empty show cases  and  half  filled  pails will 
not induce  sales.  We  keep  our  factory  humming  and  we  want  to 
replenish your stock with  purest and best  goods on the market.  Write 
us.  Call  on  us  when  in the  city or entrust  your  order to  the  wholesale 
grocers.  We  sell  them  all.  Buy  (i Our  Make ”  and  add to your bank 
account.

THE  PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.

HAVE  YOU  SEEN  THE  FALCON  CYCLES?

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due time the old man was known far and 
wide  as Old Grampa Growly, and he was 
pleased  thereat. 
It  was  his wont to  go 
every  fair  day,  of  an  afternoon, into  a 
park  bard  by  his  dwelling  and  mingle 
with the  crowd  of  little folk there;  and 
when  they  were  weary  of  their  sports 
they  used  to  gather  about  him—some 
even  clambering  upon  his  knees—and 
hear him  tell  his story, for  he  had  only 
one story to  tell, and  that was the story 
that lay  next  his  heart—the  story  ever 
and forever  beginning  with  “Once ther’ 
wuz a  lit«» boy.”  A  very  tender  little 
story it  was, too,  told  very  much  more 
sweetly  than 1  could  ever  tell  it, for  it 
was  of  Old Grampa  Growly’s own little 
boy,  and  it  came  from  that  heart  in 
which the touch—the touch  of God Him­
self—lay like a priceless pearl.

So you  must  know  that the last years 
of  the  old  man’s  life  made  full  atone­
ment  for  those  that  had  gone  before. 
People  forgot  that tbe old man had ever 
been  other  than  he  was  now,  and,  of 
course, the  children  never  knew  other­
wise.  But, as  for  himself, Old  Grampa 
Growly grew tenderer  and tenderer,  and 
his goodness  became  a  household  word 
and he  was beloved  of  all.  And to the 
very  last  he  loved  the  little  ones  and 
shared their  pleasures  and sympathized 
with them in their griefs,  but always re­
peating  that  same  old  story,  beginning 
with “Once ther’  wuz a littl’ boy.”

The curious part of  it  was  this:  That 
while he  implied  by  his  confidences  to 
the  children  that  his  own  little  boy 
was dead he  never made  that  admission 
to  others.  On  the  contrary,  it  was  his 
wont, as I  have  said,  to  speak  of  little 
Abel as if  that child  still  lived,  and hu­
moring  him  in  this  conceit  it  was  the 
custom of the older ones to speak always 
of  that  child  as  if  he  lived  and  were 
known and beloved of  all. 
In  this  cus­
tom the  old  man  had great  content  and 
solace,  for  it was  his  wish  that  all  he 
gave to and did for charity’s sake should 
be  known  to  come,  not  from  him  but 
from Abel,  his son,  and  this  was his ex­
press  stipulation  at  all  such  times. 
I 
know whereof I speak,  for I  was  one  of 
those  to  whom  tbe  old man came  upon 
a time  and said4  “My  little  boy—Abel, 
you know—will give  me  no  peace till  I 
do what  he requires.  He  has  this  sum 
of  money  which  he  has  saved  in  his 
bank, count  it  yourselves, it  is  $50,000, 
and he bids me  give  it  to the townsfolk 
for  a  hospital, one  for  little  lame  boys 
and girls.  And  1  have  promised  him— 
my  little  boy,  Abel,  you  know—that  I 
will give $50,000  more.  You  shall  have 
it when that  hospital is  built.”  Surely 
enough,  in  eighteen  months’  time  the 
old man handed us the rest of the money, 
and  when  we  told  him  that  the  place 
was to be called  the  ‘Abel  Dunklee  hos­
pital’ he was sorely  distressed and shook 
his  head  and  said:  “No,  no—not  my 
name!  Gall  it  the 'Little Abel  Hospital’ 
for little  Abel—my  boy, you know—has 
done it  all.”

The old man  lived  many  years—lived 
to  hear  tender  voices  bless  him and  to 
see pale  faces  brighten  at  the sound  of 
his  footfall.  Yes,  for  many  years  the 
quaint, .shuffling figure moved about  our 
streets,  and his  hoarse  but kindly  voice 
-roh,  very  kindly  now!—was  heard 
repeating  to the  children  that  pathetic 
old story of “Once ther’  wuz a littl’ boy.” 
And  where  the  dear  old  feet  trod  the 
grass  grew  greenest  and  the  sunbeams 
■estled.  But at last  there  came  a  sum­

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Send in your orders for

M A S K S

to the

New  York  Baby  Carriage  Co.,

47, 49,  51, 53  Canal St.

Best Assortment and  Lowest Prices,

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

Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of

Brooms, Wasiiboards,  Wooden
Indilrated  Pails  i  Tubs,

AND

Wooden  Bowls,  Clothespins  and  (Bolling 

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.

125  COURT  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

They  are  Beauties!

Russet Rims.—Mannesman!. Spiral Drawn Tubes.  Send for Catalogne.

YOST  MANUFACTURING  CO.,  Toledo,  Ohio.

AMONO THE  TRADE.

abound THE  st a te. 

Hudson—C.  C.  Whitney  has  opened  a 

grocery store in  East  Hudson.

Leroy—S.  W.  Hartley  succeeds  A.  C. 

Adams in the Hour mill  business.

Munson—Chas.  M.  Gilbert  succeeds 

Perry & Gilbert in geueral  trade.

Lansing—O.  N.  Stone & Co.  succeed J. 

W.  Barker in the grocery  business.

Lowell—R.  B.  Boylan  succeeds  Scott 

& Boylan  in the hardware business.

Bravo—Samuel  E.  Orr  succeeds  Ches­

ter Kelley in the grocery  business.

Kalkaska—H.  W.  Pipp  succeeds  Pipp 

Bros & Co  in the hardware business.

Otsego—Chas.  E.  Pipp  succeeds  Pipp 

Bros & Co.  in the bard wars business.

Kalamazoo—Persing  Bros,  succeed  C. 

L.  Persing in  the hardware business.

Detroit—Victor E.  Vincent has sold his 

crockery business to Mary H.  Bennett.

Cass City—H.  B.  Fairweather succeeds 
Fairweather Bros, in the grocery business.
Onekama—C.  D.  Stanley is succeeded 
by A.  F.  Richmond in the  drug business.
Bay  City  —Geo.  Thatcher  succeeds 
Thatcher & Olmstead in the grocery busi­
ness.

Bay City—Rose  Bros.'  succeed  the  es­
tate of  John Rose  in  the  jewelery  busi­
ness.

Bessemer—Holland  &  Matthews  sue - 
ceed  H.  Kempe  &  Co.  in  the meat  busi­
ness.

Hudson—  Kirkup  &  Roney  succeed 
Goodnow & Kirkup  in the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Clio—Boyd  Bros,  have  removed  their 
hardware  stock  from  Mt.  Morris  to this 
place.

Rapid River—A. P. Waldo has removed 
his general stock from Masonvilie  to this 
place.

Alma—B.  W.  Ellison  is  succeeded  by 
B.  W.  Ellison & Son in  the  grocery  and 
drug business.

Owosso—Ingle  &  Tillotsou  succeed
Geo. TS.  Ingle  in the  agricultural  imple­
m ent  business.

Saginaw — H.  J.  Elwert 

succeeds 
Boehlke  & Elwert  in the wall  paper and 
paint business.

Hillsdale—F. W. Jewett succeeds Wals- 
worth  & -Jewett  in  the  dry  goods  and 
cloak business.

Iron wood—J.  P.  (Mrs.  Peter) Johnson 
is succeeded  by  Eugstrom  & Johnson in 
the grocery  business.

Sunfield—Dr. C.  N.  Snyder &  Co.  are 
moving their drug  stock  into  their  new 
brick store building.

Ovid—Andrews &  Marshall,  hardware 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  Marshall  & 
Woodworth  succeeding.

Fenton—Mrs.  Rachel  A.  Fanson is suc­
ceeded by H.  D.  Brink  in  the millinery 
and fancy goods  business.

Grand Ledge—Harvey W. Brice has pur­
chased the restaurant, cigar  and  tobacco 
business of G.  L. Coryell & Co.

Detroit  —  Fechheimer,  Hart  &  Co., 
wholesale liquor dealers,  have dissolved, 
H. C.  Fechheimer & Co.  continuing.

Fremont—Vallier  &  Atchinson  suc­
ceed  Vallier  &  Wilcox  in  the  grocery, 
crockery and boot and shoe business.

Fremont—Dudley  &  Eicholtz,  whole­
sale  lumber  dealers,  have  dissolved, 
H. J. Dudley continuing the business.

Manistee—Louis Sands has  christened 
his new logging road  the Lake  City  and 
Northwestern  Railroad,  and will operate 
it to  full  capacity  in  hauling  logs this 
season.  The demand for bill stuff of  all 
kinds  is  so  great  this  winter  that  the 
mills that are in operation  have  all they
Saginaw—The Hayden  Fancy  Grocery j can attend to,  and have had to  refuse or-

Saginaw—S.  A.  Price  has sold  his gro­
cery  stock to C. N. Lockwood & Co.,  who 
will continue  the  business  at  the  same 
place.

j Co.  has doubled  its  store  capacity,  now
occupying 114 and 116 North Washington 
avenue.

THE  MTCÏUGAJNr  TRADESMAN.
j ders already in a  great  many  instances.
Saginaw—The  Wall  &  Webber  saw- 
' mill is being  operated,  cutting  hemlock 
j and  Norway  bill stuff. 
It  will  run  the 
j  remainder of  the  winter,  and  Mr.  Wall 
says  they  can  sell  stock  faster  than  it 
comes from the saw.  Hemlock bill  stuff 
up to  18-foot is selling  quick at  $9.50 on 
j board the  cars,  fully  $1  in  advance  of 
the price paid last spring.

Monroe—Henry D. Hoffman has uttered
a $2,750 chattel mortgage on his millinery 
■ stock and a $3,500 realty mortgage on his 
store property.
|  Cbesaning—Whipple  Bros.  & Granger, 
hardware  dealers,  have  failed,  and  are 
compromising with their creditors  at  25 
cents on the dollar.

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Muskegon—Martin  Amrodt  has  pur-
chased the store and  grocery stock  of A. 
M.  Kobe, on Jackson street, and will con­
tinue the business.

Plainwell—Day & Foreman  have  sold 
their meat market to John Crispe and  T. 
G.  Bachelder,  and  will  divide  the  stock 
and fixtures between  them.

Woodland—Dr.  L.  E.  Benson has  pur­
chased the interest of C.  W.  Williams  in 
the drug firm of Benson  &  Co.  and will 
continue the business in his  own  name.
Hart—C.  Bergmann and Wm.  Hannum 
have  formed a copartnership  under  the 
firm name of Bergmann  &  Hannum  and 
will put in a  stock  of  paints  and  wall 
paper.

Cheboygan  —  Louis  Pinkous, 

junior 
member of the firm of H.  Pinkous &  Co., 
clothing dealers,  will  retire from the firm 
Feb.  15 and embark in the same business 
on his own  account.

MANUFACTURING  MATTEBS.

Winterfield—Joseph Hixon will remove 
his general stock and  shingle mill  plant 
to  Marion.

Muskegon—Hessening  Bros,  are  suc­
ceeded  by Vanderwerp &  Hudson  in the 
shingle mill business.

St.  Louis—The St. Louis Hoop & Stave 
Co.  is running its mill  nine hours a  day, 
the output being 37,500 staves.

Sturgis—Flowers  Bros,  will  succeed 
Mrs. S.  D.  (Mary  Kate)  Flowers  in  the 
manufacture  of boots and shoes.

Saginaw—The Saginaw  Lumber & Salt 
Co.  has extended its  corporate  existence 
10 years,  with a paid up capital  of $100,- 
000.

Winsor—Liken & Bach,  of  Unionville, 
have removed their stave  mill from Fair- 
grove  to  this  place,  where  they  have 
enough  timber to last several years.

Saginaw—John  G.  Owen  is  ready  to 
start  his  sawmill  at  Owendale.  The 
conditions for logging there are good and 
a large quantity of logs are being cut and 
railed to the  mill.

West Bay City—The  box  factory plant 
of the Crump  Manufacturing  Co.,  which 
was  shut  down  for  repairs  the  first of 
the year, is in  motion  again  and is send­
ing out two  carloads  of  box shooks and 
two of dressed lumber  every day.

Scottville—C.  D.  Young  last  year 
shipped 
thirty  carloads  of  bird’s-eye 
maple in  the  log to  New  York.  He  is 
buying this  winter,  paying $10  to $25 a 
thousand  for logs.  He also  buys  black 
ash and birch  burls.

Sumner—The  Tucker  Mercantile  Co. 
has  purchased  760  acres  of  land  of 
Whitney & Remick  in  Clare county,  and 
have started a camp  of  twenty-five  men 
to cut the  timber, estimated at  2,000,000 
feet,  mostly hemlock and  hardwood.

Manistee—The  Buckley  &  Douglas 
sawmill, after a four  weeks’ stop  for  re- 
I pairs,  started again last week,  night  and 
day,  and  will  make  the  double  run  for 
the balance  of  the  year.  They  have  a 
large stock  of  hardwood logs at the foot 
of the slide  ready for  the  saw,  and also 
quantities scattered along the road.  They 
will saw  hardwood  for  some  time, and 
will pile  the pine  logs they  haul  on  the 
ice  and  leave  them  until  later  in  the 
season.

Oscoda—Last year the Gratwick, Smith 
& Fryer Lumber Co.  bought the  Tanner 
mill  and  operated  it  151  days,  cutting 
12,000,000  feet.  The  big  mill  of  the 
company  was  operated 212 days, cutting 
over  50,000,000 feet.  This mill has been 
in operation ten years and has turned out 
nearly 500,000,000 feet  of  lumber.  The 
timber  of  the  company  has  nearly  all 
been  sold  or  manufactured,  and  opera­
tions,  it is said,  will  soon  be transferred 
to Minnesota,  where  the company  owns 
a large body of  pine.

Jackson  Grocers  Ready to  Co-operate 

In a Progressive Movement.

J ackson,  Jan.  21—In  T h e  T ra des- 
man  of  Dec.  28  1  find  an  article  in  re­
gard  to  the  exemption  laws  by  W.  S. 
Powers;  also  in  the  issue  of  Jan.  18 an 
article  on  the  same  subject  by  E.  A. 
Owen. 
In each of these articles the sub­
ject is so  fully and  ably  haudled that  it 
would  be  useless  for  me  to  try  to  add 
anything.  There  is,  however, one thing 
which  comes  to  mind  which  seems  as 
if partiality  is shown  by the  law of  the 
State.  An  item  of  a  later  date  in  the 
daily press  speaks  of  John Doc  leaving 
town without paying his  hotel  bill,  of  a 
small amount,  and of  his being arrested, 
brought  back  and  locked  up.  Now,  I 
am too ignorant to see  why a man should 
be arrested  and  punished for a dollar  or 
two owed to  a hotel,  when  the  law  will 
not  touch  him  if  he  gets  a quantity  of 
victuals from a grocer or a suit of clothes 
from the clothier.
We of  the Jackson Grocers’ Union,  use 
T h e T radesm an at  our meetings and in 
our business and  find  that  it  is a hand­
book for  everything.  We  are  surely  as 
much interested  in  laws  which will  help 
us to  get our honest  dues as any city  in 
the State.  1 see by T h e  T radesm an of 
Dec.  14 
there  may  be  a  general 
meeting  of  business men at  Grand Rap­
ids  in  February  to  discuss  matters  for 
legislative  action.  We are not members 
of the M. B.  M.  A.,  but  are interested  in 
having something done by the lawmakers 
to  help  make  our  customers  honest. 
Taking the list of delinquent creditors as 
we  find  them,  it  looks  to  us  as  if  not 
more than one-half of the people are hon- I 
est from  principle  and  only a few  from 
policy;  therefore,  there  is  nothing  but 
the  strong  arm  of  the  law  which  will 
help us to get our dues.
Will you kindly inform  us in regard  to 
what is necessary  for our Union to  have 
representation in the M.  B.  M.  A?  What 
subjects  are  to  be  brought  before 
it? 
Have the dates of  the meeting  been defi­
nitely decided  upon?
An early answer  by letter  or  through 
T h e  T radesm an will give  us a chance 
to talk over the subject  and  will  greatly 
oblige, 
Chairman Committee  on Trade Interests.
At five dollars be offered his 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.  U.  P o rter.

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PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—A  little  higher  than  a  week  ago,  as 
the  continued  cold  weather is curtailing  ship­
ments into this  market.  Baldwins and Spys are 
in  fair  supply and good  demand,  commanding 
S3  per  bbl. for  No. 1 eating  and  12  for  No. 3 or 
cooking grades.

Beans—Handlers  pay S1.40SS1.50  for  country 
picked  and  about  $1.20  for  unpicked, holding 
city picked mediums at Sl.60SSl.75.

Butter—Scaice  and  almost  impossible  to  se 
cure in any quantity.  Jobbers pay 34c for choice 
dairy and find ready takers at 36c.

Cabbage—80@90c per doz., and scarce at that. 
Celery—18@2uc per doz. bunches.
Cider—12‘4@13e per  gal.
Cranberries—The  market  Is  without  change, 
crates  now  being  held  as follows:  Cape  Cods 
and Jerseys, S3.75;  Waltons, $3.25.

Eggs—Cold  storage  stock  being  practically 
exhausted, the  trade  has  recourse  only  to  the 
stray lots of fresh which reach the market.  Job 
bers  cheerfully pay 25@2Gc  -for all  offerings  of 
that character, which  find ready sale at 27&28C. 
A  few  warm  days  will  probably  increase  the 
supply  of  fresh  stock, but  it  will  be  several 
weeks  before  the  supply  will  be  equal  to  the 
demand.

Grapes—Malagas have advanced 50c a keg, be­

ing now held at $8.

Green Stuff—Grand  Rapids  forcing  lettuce  is 
in adequate supply at 18c per lb.  Pieplant comes 
Into market  this  week at 3c per lb. and radishes 
at 40c per doz.

Honey—Plenty  in  quantity  and  excellent  in 

quality at 12@13c per lb.

hold at 90c per bu.

Onions—Unchanged.  Dealers  pay  75c  and
Parsnips—10c per bu.
Potatoes—The market is practically unchanged 
from a week ago  The  demand is good,  but the 
severe  weather  makes  shipment  difficult  and 
expensive  and  handling  by the producer  next 
to impossible, as  the  farmer cannot  haul  stock 
to market in this  weather  without  suffering too 
large a percentage of  loss by freezing.  As soon 
as  the  weather  moderates, buying  will  be  re­
sumed  and  competition  may force  the  buying 
price  np another  notch, as the condition of  the
great  consuming  markets warrants  another ad 
vance.
Squash—Very  scarce,  Hubbard  readily  com­
manding 2¡4c per lb.
sweet Potatoes—Scarce and nearly out of mar­
ket.  Illinois readily  command  $4  per bbl  and 
Tennessee Yams bring $1.35  per bu.

Turnips—35c per bu

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED,  ETC.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under  this 
nead for two cents a word the first insertion and 
one  cent a word  for each subsequent  insertion. 
No advertisements  taken for  less  than 35 cents. 
Advance payment.
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I1U8INK88  CHANCES.

TjlOR  SALE-GOOD,  CLEAN, SALABLE stock 
of  drugs,  groceries  and  hardware, or  will 
exchange for desirable  chattel property  or  real 
estate.  Arthur  Mulholland,  Jr.,  Ashton, Mich.
_____ ______ ________________  

645

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

TDOSITION WANTED—FOR A YOUNG  LADY 
,  who is experienced in commercial and bank 
bemk keeping, accustomed  to  cash  and  general 
onice work, an excellent stenographer and Rem- 
ington  operator, five years’ experience with late 
employers  Valuable,  competent help, a lady of 
refinement  and  ability.  Owing  to  change  in 
business,  parties  are  assisting to  secure a posi- 
“ on.  Address  Late  Employers, care  Michigan 
x raaesman 

638

MISCELLANEOUS.

047

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646

\ \ J ANTED—BOOT  AND  SHOE  STOCK  IN- 
TV  voicing $3,000 or less in exchange for  resi­
dence  property  in  Jackson.  Chas. F. Sanborn 
207 Orange St., Jackson. Mich. 
fTIO  EXCHANGE—SEVERAL  FINE  FARMS 
J-  and  Lansing city property for merchandise 
t  or  particulars address  George M. Dayton, Lan- 
sing, Mich. 
Vy-ANTED-TO  PURCHASE  STOCK  GKO- 
cerles.  Address  Box  1015,  Des  Moines 
Iowa. 
W a n t e d - good  location  to e n g a g e 
< t 
in the meat business.  Would  buy  market 
in good  town.  Address  No. 644, care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

Ital  to  engage  in  established  and  good 
paying  manufacturing  business.  K. N. Thomp- 
son, So. Boardman. Mich. 

WANTED-PARTNER  WITH  SMAr.T. c a p.
F or  s a l e —tw o-story  fr a m e  sto re
F or  sa l e—clean  stock  o f  g en e r a l -

building and  dwelling In thriving Northern 
Michigan  town.  Property  well  rented.  Will 
sell cheap or exchange  for city  property.  A. M. 
LeBaron, 65 Monroe St._______  

merchandise, located  at  Sumner,  six  miles 
south  of  Riverdale.  Building  is  23x88,  with 
storehouse  20x90,  all  in  good  shape.  Trade 
amounts to *15,oco per year.  Excellent opportu 
nity.  Address  No.  632, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

633

614

636

634

F or SALE—TWENTY-FOUR DRAWER LET- 

ter  file,  nearly  new  and  used  but  a short 
Ume.  Have no use for it, as we took it on a debt. 
631

W. T. Lamoreaux, 128 West Bridge street. 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
F o r   Sale!

The Hardware Market.

C M a M   B a r 
S tallion

Eleven  years  old,  sixteen 
hands  high,  weighs  1,350 
pounds;  also one

Ten years  old,  weighs about 
1,500  pounds.
Either  are good  drivers  sin­
gle,  and  have  been  driven 
some double;  good style and 
good travelers;  good disposi­
tion and excellent stock get­
ters.  Address

LOCK  BOX  97,  CHARLOTTE,  MICH.

Bolts 
Wanted !

I  want  500  to  1,000  cords  of  Poplar 

Excelsior Bolts, 18 and 36 inches long.

1  also  want  Basswood  Bolts,  same 
lengths  as  above.  For  particulars  ad­
dress

J  W .  F O X ,

G rand  Rapids, Mich.

E-RISTOPHER 
ER-LUMBUS  F

g 2 !

SMOKERS  ALL 

WANT

B en  H ut
|  Cigars|

SO  SHOULD  YOU.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Truesdell & Son have opened a grocery 
store at Otsego.  The  Lemon &  Wheeler 
Company famished the stock.

The Grand  Rapids  Paint  & Color Co., 
recently  organized  as  a stock  company 
with a paid-in capital of $10,000,  has  be­
gan operations in  the Simonds’ building, 
on Waterloo  street.  A complete  equip­
ment of grinding apparatus  has been put 
in and lines of cottage colors will shortly 
be placed on the  market.  The  company 
will  also  manufacture  varnish  and  en­
gage in the jobbing  of paint and  linseed 
oil.

Purely  Personal.

W.  L.  Freeman  has  returned  from 
Freeman,  Ont.,  where  he spent a couple 
of weeks at the  family hearthstone.

Philip  Graham, 

the  South  Division 
street  grocer, 
leaves  Wednesday  for 
Florida,  where he will spend the remain­
der of the  winter.

E. R. A.  Hunt, of  Lowell,  has gone  to 
Traverse  City  to  take  the  position  of 
prescription clerk for  H. S.  Baruabee  & 
Co., the  senior  member  of  the firm hav­
ing  recently  died  from  the  effects  of 
typhoid  fever.

O.  P.  Barcus, proprietor of the  Barcus 
Bros, saw works,  at Muskegon,  died  Sat­
urday after an illness of  one  day.  Mr. 
Barcus was a man of  excellent character 
and his demise will cause widespread sor­
row.  The business will probably be con­
tinued by Wm.  W.  Barcus,  son of the de­
ceased,  who 
the  business 
capacity of his  sire.

inherits 

Financial Notes.

A firm has  been  organized  in Lowell, 
composed of C. J. Church,  of Greenville, 
B.  Quick,  Chas.  A.  Church  and  B.  E. 
Quick,  of Lowell, under the firm name of 
B.  E. Quick & Co., to do  a general bank­
ing  business  at Freeport.  B.  E.  Quick 
will act as Cashier  and devote his entire 
attention to  the  new  institution,  which 
has already opened its doors for business.
The Michigan Savings Bank  of Detroit 
proposes to  test the law in regard to tax­
ing  bank  stock,  and  has  brought  suit 
against the  Wayne  County Treasurer  to 
recover  $395.49,  the  amount  of  taxes 
paid  by  them  under  protest  December 
22,  1892.  The  Bank  claims  that  the 
outstanding  mortgages  more  than  bal­
anced their stock,  and  that  this  fact  ex­
empted them from taxation on their  cap­
ital stock.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—Practically  unchanged  except 
slight  variation  in  some  of  the  lower 
grades.

Oysters—The  market is  greatly excit­
ed, prices  are  beyond  reach and  stock 
is  almost  impossible  to  secure  at  any 
price.

Coffee — Manufacturers  of  package 
their  quotations

goods  have  advanced 
He.

From  Out of Town.

Calls  have  been  received  at  T he 
T ra desm a n office during the  past  week 
from the following gentlemen  in trade: 

Jas.  Dwiggans,  Sullivan.
A. J. Felter, Stetson.
R.  J.  Side,  Kent City.
Nelson  Graham, Rockford.
Gaylord  Helmer,  McMillan.
S.  P.  Whitmarsh,  Palmyra.
Thnrston & Go.,  Central Lake.
The commercial  traveler is more liable 
than other business men to  get the grip.

General Trade—The  demand  for hard­
ware of  all  kinds  still  keeps  up.  But 
very  little  change  in  price  has  taken 
place,  which seems to  indicate  that  val­
ues were about right.

Wire Nails—Still remain weak and the 

demand is light.

change to note.

Cut Nails—But few are moving and no 

Glass—Owing  to  the  severe  weather, 
most  building  operations  have  ceased 
and but  little  glass is  called  for.  The 
tendency to advance in price that was in­
dicated the  latter  part of  the  year  has 
not yet come and  prices, if anything, can 
be shaded.

Rope—Something seems to be the mat­
ter with the National  Cordage  Co.,  as  it 
cannot hold the rope  market up where it 
would like  to.  Both  sisal  and  manilla 
are  on  the  decline.  Eight  cents  for 
sisal and 12X for  manilla  are quite reg­
ularly quoted.

Saws—The  splendid  sleighing  in  all 
parts of Michigan  has put  every  man in 
the woods  getting  out  timber  and  logs 
and the result is nobody can get saws half 
fast enough to supply the  demand.  We 
quote Atkins’, 28 to 30;  Simmonds’, 65 to 
70;  W.  M.  & Co., extra thin back, 28.

Snow  Shovels—The demand  has  been 
very large.  Stocks  are  depleted.  Steel 
snow shovels are  ail gone.  A  few  steel 
point wood blade is about  all that can be 
had at $1.65 to $2 per dozen.

Lumbering  Supplies—All  articles  in 
this  line  are  very  scarce.  Cant  hooks, 
skidding  tongs, chain,  hooks, cant  hook 
handles, cold shutts—in fact,  everything 
—is sold right up to date and jobbers and 
retailers  are  telegraphing  every  day, 
urging more prompt shipments.
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  sbalt  not  fret—heaven  portions  out  our 
God swings all things in perfect equipose.

joys;

J ames B. Wiggin.

HEROLD-BERTSCH  SHOE  CO
BOOTS  AND  SHOES.

WHOLESALE

I

Wales  Goodyear  Rubbers,  Boots,  Shoes, 
Alaskas,  Green  Bays,  Esquimaux  and 
Portage Socks,  Knit and Felt Boots.
Dealers are cordially invited to send in 
mail  orders.

GRAVD  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

'  Geo.  W.  Gat, Vice-President.

Wm. H. A n d e r s o n ,  Cashier. 
J no.  A.  Se y m o u r, A ss’t  Cashier.

5

Edwin j.  GuJJES&Gft

B L E N D E D

COFFEE  READ THIS.

IF  YOU ENJOY  A  GOOD  CUP  OF 
TITHE fact that a coffee is a Java does not always Imply 
J- 
that  it  will  make  a  delicious  beverage,  for  Java« 
differ  very  materially  on  account of the section  of the 
Island of Java on which they are grown and the method 
need  in  cultivating,  tome  being  grown  by  private 
planters, other under the government supervision.  Some 
of these Javas are delicious, others rank and worthless.
The D ia m o n d J ava is a blend of those Javas watch ex­
cel In any peculiar degree in fine flavor or full  strength, 
and which mingling harmoniously together produce the 
perfection of a coffee.
The D iamond J ava is packed  In  air-tight cans  when 
taken hot from cylinders, and its fragrant aroma is  thus 
preserved  until  used.  This  brand  of  Whole  Roasted 
Coffee is intended for those that appreciate a fine article, 
and desire to use the best coffee that can be obtained.
A S K   YOTTR  G R O C E R   F O R   IT .  $

U h e  cannot supply you send us his name.

J.  P.  VISNER,  Agent,  Grand  Rapids.

STRAW BOARD.

WE ARE THE LEADERS  IN  THIS  PRO ­
DUCT  AND  CARRY  A  VERY  LARGE 
STOCK.  DON’T  FAIL  TO  W RITE  US 
FOR PRICES.

BUILDING  PAPERS.

WE  CARRY  A  LARGE  LIN E  OF  THE 
STANDARD  BRANDS  AND  CAN  SUP­
PLY  THE  TRADE  AT  VERY  LOW 
PRICES.

CARPET LININGS.

CORRUGATED  AND  PLAIN  OF  FIRST- 
CLASS  WOOL  STOCK.  WE  ARE  P R E ­
PARED  TO  QUOTE  LOW  PRICES  FOR 
CARPET IN  ANY  QUANTITY.

H.M. REYNOLDS &  SON

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

Grand Rapids, Mich

WALTER  HOUSE

Central|Lahe, Mich., E. W alter, Prop. 

Fourteen  warm  rooms,  all  newly  furnished 
Good table.  Rates,  11.50  per  day.  The  patron 
age of traveling men especially solicited.

MANUFACTURED  AT

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

D E T R O I T

—  B Y  —

C apital,  $ 3 0 0 ,0 0 0 .

DIRECTORS.
D. A.  Blodgett.  Geo. W. Gay. 
S. M. Lemon. 
C. Bertsch. 
A. J  Bowne.  G.  K. Johnson. 
Wm. H. Anderson.  Wm. Sears.  A. D. Rathbone

BEO.  H O EB S  &  BO.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Dry Goods Price Current.

6

NOVICE  IN  HARDWARE.

Confession  of Early Experiences in the 

Business.

From  Hardware-

‘neath  the 

llavillg  graduated  at  the  grand  old 
university 
elms  of  New 
Haven,  the  problem  presented  itself  to 
me,  without any great urging on my part, 
what pursuit was I  to follow  during  the 
rest  of  my  mundane  existence?  For  I 
had  resolved  that I would  have none  of 
the rolling stone  bitters  in  my cocktail, 
and that I would  stick  to  one thing to  a 
mossy old  age  unless it  should  prove so 
unremunerative  as  to  cause  the  pro­
verbial  wolf to  become  too  inquisitive 
With this laudable  determination,  I  cast 
about me and  finally  decided  to  accept a 
promising  opportunity  in  a  large  hard­
ware  establishment.  1  determined  to 
start in at the bottom and learn the busi­
ness  from  the  ground  up.  One  of  my 
friends advised  me  to  commence at  the 
top  and learn  the business from that ex­
alted  height.  Aside  from  the  impossi­
bility there was an inadvisability in  this 
course of  action,  so  I  said to him:  “Did 
you read Csesar and Virgil first and learn 
the  vocabulary  and  grammar  after­
wards?”  With  this  sage  remark I  dis­
missed  him,  with  a  haughty  air  which 
was calculated to  impress  him  with  his 
ignorance.
So 1 took off  my  coat  and  pitched in.
This  latter 1  did  literally,  for,  the  first 
day of my  work,  while  excavating  four 
cents’  worth of  putty  from  its quiet re­
pose,  I lost my balance and pitched head­
long 
into  the  barrel, smelling  like  a 
glazier the  rest of  the day.  One  of  my 
sympathetic  friends  asked  me  why  I 
didn’t keep my  balance  in  the  bank  as 
he did,  then 1  wouldn’t  lose it. 
I didn’t 
answer him.  Since  that little  episode  I 
have  not  been  able  to  approve  of  Mr.
Diogenes’ choice of a habitation,  for even 
without the  putty I don’t believe he was 
very  comfortably  fixed;  he  certainly 
wasn’t if he dwelt in the same posture in 
which I  tried it. 
It’s  funny what queer 
taste some people exhibit in  their habits 
of  sleeping.  1  once  knew  a  man (he’s 
dead now) in the  West, who  had a  com­
fortable  home,  handsomely  furnished.
Yet  this  idiot  had  a  partition  made  in 
his  woodshed,  furnished  one  of  the 
rooms thus  made with a bed,  two chairs 
and a table, and  would sleep  there every 
other  night.  One  night a tarantula and 
a  rattlesnake  indulged 
in  pleasantries 
with him,  and he never slept there again.
They  said  he  had  the  largest  funeral 
ever seen in  Monroe  county.  That  was 
hard  luck,  but  it  isn’t  hardware,  and  1 
am  digressing.
Deciphering cuneiform  inscriptions  or 
translating  Homer’s  great  story  never 
gave me half as  much trouble  as did the 
interpretation of the hieroglyphics which 
stood  for Christian numbers on the price 
lists.  Before  my  mind  fully  mastered 
them I suppose 1 cheated  on  one side  or 
the other, the customers or  the firm that 
employed  me,  hundreds  of  times. 
I 
could  work the  thing  all  right  in  prac­
tice,  but  my  mistakes  when  making  a 
sale were due,  1 suppose,  to  the dreadful 
responsibility 
the 
knowledge  that  I held  a human  being’s 
money  in  my  hand,  as  it  were.  This 
made my  translation halting and faulty.
I  at  first  made  use  of  a  small  key  or 
“crib”  with the hieroglyphics  to  jog my 
memory a  trifle.  This  was  my  Rosetta 
stone. 
In the  use of this my four years’ 
experience at college made  me an adept.
Of course, when  I glanced at  this  when 
making a sale,  I was all right,  but it was 
when  I began to get gay with myself and 
depend  on  my  memory,  that  prices ran 
riot and somebody was apt to be defraud­
ed of  his hard-earned  money.  At last  1 
mastered the system,  and could attend to 
the wants of  a customer  with  some  de­
gree of confidence,  telling him or her,  as 
the case might be,  in the  most I-know-it- 
all manner, everything I knew about  the 
goods and a great  many  things  I  didn’t 
know.

accompanied 

that 

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U N BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.Arrow Brand 5M 
Adriatic.................  7
Argyle  ...................  6
-   Worldwide.  6
Atlanta AA.............6
“  LL............... 4)4
Atlantic A..............  634
Full Yard Wide...... 6)4
H................6*
“ 
Georgia  A..............  6)4
“ 
P ............   5)4
Honest Width.........6)4
D..............  6
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Hartford A ............   6
“  LL..............6
Indian Head...........  7
Amory.....................634
King A  A................6)4
Archery Bunting...  4 
King EC.................5
Beaver Dam  A A..  5),
Lawrence  L L ........  4%
Blackstone 0, 32___5
Madras cheese cloth 634
Black Crow............ 6
Newmarket  G........5v
Black  Rock 
........6
B  ....... 5
Boot, AL................  7
N.........6)4
Capital  A....... ..........5)4
DD....  5)4
Cavanat V..............5*
X ...... 6*
Chapman cheese cl.  33£>Noibe R ..................  5
Clifton  C R ............ 5)4 Our Level  Best........ 6)4
Comet..................... 6V Oxford  R...............   6
Dwight Star............  634 Pequot....................   7
Clifton CCC...........6)4 Solar.........................6
|Top of the  Heap__ 7
A B C ......................8*
Geo. Washington...  8
Amazon.................. 8
Glen Mills..............  7
Amsburg.................7
Gold Medal............   7)4
Art  Cambric...........10
Green  Ticket..........8)4
Blackstone A A...... 7
Great Falls............... 6)4
Beats All.................4H
Hope......................... 7)4
Boston....................12
Just  Out........  434© 5
Cabot.......................  714
King Phillip.............734
Cabot,  X ................. 634
OP.....  7)4
Charter  Oak...........5)4
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Conway W..............  7)4
Lonsdale...........  ©  8)4
Cleveland...............7
Middlesex........   © 5
Dwight Anchor...... 8)4
No Name.................. 7)4
shorts.  8
Oak View...............   6
Edwards................. 6
Our Own.................  5)4
Empire....................7
Pride of the West.. .12
Parwell...................7)4
Rosalind...................7)4
Fruit of the Loom.  8)4
Sunlight..................  4)4
Fltchvllle  ............. 7
Utica  Mills............ 8)4
First Prize..............7
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Fruit of the Loom X.  7)4
Vinvard..................  8)4
Falrmount..............4)4
White Horse...........  6
Full Value..............634
Rock_____  .  8)4
Cabot......................   7  I Dwight Anchor...... 8)4
Farwell...................  8  |

HALT  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.

“ 

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“ 

CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached. 
Housewife  G ....
R .......

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Nameless................20
.................25
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B  .. ......5)4
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C A R PET
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D R ESS
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G G  Cashmere..
...20
Nameless  ........
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COBS
Corallne............
..69 50
Schilling’s ........
..  900
.  9 00
Davis  Waists...
Grand  Rapids..
. .  4 50
COSSET  JEANS.
Armory..................   634
Androscoggin..........7*
Biddeford..............   6
Brunswick..............6)4
PR IN T S .
Allen turkey  reds 
6 

Peerless, white..
Integrity...........
Hamilton 

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Elnk a purple 6

robes...........6
u ffs...........  6
pink  checks.  6
staples  ........6
shirtings...  4)4
American  fancy__  5£
American Indigo...  6)4 
American shirtings.  5 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  5 
“  —   6)4
Arnold 
Arnold  Merino.  ...  6 
long cloth B. 10)4 
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“  C.  8)4
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century cloth 7
gold seal......10)4
“ 
“  green seal TR 10)4 
“ 
yellow seal.. 10)4
“ 
serge.............11)4
“  Turkey red.. 10)4 
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Wonderful............$4 50
Brighton......................4 75
Bortree’s ..................   9 00
Abdominal.................15 00
Naumkeagsatteen..  7)4
Rockport.................6)4
Conestoga................7)4
Walworth.............. 634
| Berwick fancies
5)4
Clyde  Robes__
Charter Oak fancies 4)4 
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
moura’g  6
Eddystone fancy... 6
chocolat  6
rober  ...  6
sateens..  6 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6
statue__6
Manchester fancy..  6 
new era.  6 
Merrimack D fancy. 6 
Merrim’ck shirtings.  4)4 
»  Repp furn .  8)4
Pacific fancy..........6
robes............6)4
“ 
Portamonth robes...  6 
Simpson mourning.. 6
greys........6
oUd
solid black.  6
Ballon solid black..  5  Washington Indigo.  6 
“  colors.  5)4  “  Turkey robes..  7)4
“  India robes....  7)4 
Bengal bine,  green, 
red and  orange...  5)4  “  plain T’ky X V  8)4
Berlin solids...........5)4 
“ 
“  x .„io
“ 
“  oil bine.......   6)4  “ Ottoman 
Tur-
“  green  ...  6)4  key red 
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............6
“  Foulards  ...  5)4  Martha Washington
red 3 4 .....  7 
“ 
Turkey red 34........ 7)4
“  X  .........   9)4 Martha  Washington
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“ 44 
Turkey red...........  9)4
.......10 
“  3-4XXXX 12  Rlverpolntrobes....  5)4
“ 
Cocheco fancy........  6  Windsor fancy..........6)4
madders...  6 
XX twills..  6)41  Indigo blue...........10)4
solids........5)4(Harmony...................   434

gold  ticket

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tick ings.

One thing that troubled me a great deal 
until I became  used  to  it  was the gross 
and  unpardonable  ignorance of some  of 
our  customers,  mostly  those  known  as 
the Pennsylvania Dutch.  Here  was dis­
played an ignorance that was  sublime in 
its profundity;  it fairly took your breath I cSton. k.'.7

Amoskeag A C A.... 18
Hamilton N ............7)4
D............ 8)4
Awning. .11
Farmer....................8
First Prise.............10)4
Lenox M ills..........18
Atlanta,  D..............6S4|Stark  A 
Boot........................  634 No  Name..................7)4

A C A......................13
Pemberton AAA__16
York....................... 10)4
Swift River............ 7)4
Pearl River............ 12)4
Warren....................18)4
Conostoga..............16
............  8
7
~  Top of Heap............  9

COTTON  DRILL.
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Amoskeag.............. 12)4
9oz...... 13)4
brown .13
Andover....... ......... 11)4
Beavercreek  AA...10 
B B ...9
CC....
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 

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bine  8)4 
“  d a  twist 10)4 
XXX  bl.19  ;
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Columbian XXX br. 10 

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Amoskeag...............7)4
“  Persian dress 8)4 
Canton ..  8)4
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AFC........10)4
“ 
Teazle... 10)4 
“ 
Angola..10)4 
Persian..  8H
“ 
Arlington staple__  6)4
Arasapha  fancy__434
Bates Warwick dres 8)4 
staples.  6)4
Centennial.............. 10)4
Criterion................10)4
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin.......................   7)4
Everett classics......8)4
Exposition............... 7)4
Glenarie.................  6*4
Glenarven................ 634
Glen wood.................7)4
Hampton.................. 6)4
Johnson Chalon cl 
)4 
indigo bine 9)4 
zephyrs__16

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, bine..........12)4
brown. ....12)4
Haymaker bine...... 7 §4
brown...  734
Jaffrey.................... 11)4
Lancaster................12)4
Lawrence, 9 oz...... 18)4
No. 220....13
No. 250....11)4
No. 280....10)4

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GINGHAMS.
Lancaster,  staple...  7 
fancies....  7 
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester............   534
Monogram..............  6)4
Normandie............... 7)4
Persian...................   8)4
Renfrew Dress........7)4
Rosemont................. 6)4
Slatersvllle.............. 6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  ...................7)4
Toll  duNord......... 10)4
Wabash.................... 7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Warwick...............   8)4
Whlttenden.............. 634
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook................8
..............10
Windermeer............. 6
Y ork........................634

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GRAIN  BASS.

Amoskeag...............16)4I Valley City...............1534
Stark......................20)4 Georgia....................1534
American...............16  iPaclfic....................13

THBBADS.

|Barbonr's................88
Clark’s Mile End... .45 
Coats’, J. & P......... 45  Marshall's............... 88
Holyoke..................22)41

KNITTING  COTTON.

White.  Colored.

No.

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

No.  14 ........87 
“ 
16......... 38 
“  18 ........39 
“  20____ 40 
KICS.
Edwards................  5
Lockwood.................5
Wood’s ..................   5
Brunswick...........   5
TW.....................22)4
FT...................... 32H
JR F , XXX............36
Buckeye.................82)4

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

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

BED  FLANNEL.

NIXED  FLANNEL.

Red & Blue,  plaid. .40
Union R ..................22)4
Windsor.................. 18)4
oz Western........... 20
U n ion  B .......................22)4
DO NET  FLANNEL.
Nameless...... 8  © 9)4! 
8)4©10  I 
Slate.
Black.
10*
9*
9) 4
10) 4
11*
11) 4 
12*
12*
Severen. 8oz..........   9*
May land, 8 oz.........10*
Greenwood, 7* 0*..  9)4
Greenwood, 8 oz__11)4
Boston, 8 oz............10)4

Grey SR W.............17)4
Western W .............18)4
D R P ............. 
18)4
Flushing XXX........ 23)4
M anitoba..................... 23)4
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“
12)4
Slate
Black.
11*
10*
10H
11*
12
12
20
20
West Point, 8 os.... 10*
10oz  ...12)4
“ 
Raven, lOoz.............13*
Stark 
.............13)4
Boston, 10 os........... 12)4
WADDINGS.

CANVASS  AND  PADDING,
Brown.
9)4
10*
11*
12*

Brown.
11*
10)4
12
20

SILBBIA8.

White, dos............. 25  IPer bale, 40 dos
Colored, doz.......... 20  Icolored  “ 
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Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Red Cross....  9
Best.............10*
Best AA......12)4
7*
8*

83 50 
7 50
Pawtucket...............10)4
Dundie....................  9
Bedford...................10*
Valley  City.............10)4
K K ......................... 10*

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SEWING  SILK.

Corticelll, doz........85  (Cortlcelli  knitting,

per Hos  ball........80

twist,doz..40 
50yd,doz..40  I
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k & White..10  |No  4 Bl’k & White..15
..20
..25
|No 4—15  F 3 * ........40

..12  I “ 
8 
..12  J “  10 
FINS.

No 2-20, M C......... 50 

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8 

3—18, S C ..........46  I

No  2 White & Bl’k..12  INo  8 White A Bl’k. .20 
.28
..26

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COTTON  TAPE.
..15  »10 
..18  I »  12 
SAFETY  PINS.
....28 
|N o8...
NEEDLES—PER  M.

.Jam es.................1  401 Steamboat.

Crowely’s...............1 85 Gold Eyed............... 1 60
Marshall’s... 
5-4....2 25 
...2   10

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TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
6-4. ..8 2515—4... .1  96 
“  ...8 10|

6-4...2 96

COTTON TWINES.

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

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

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Mount  Pleasant__ 6*
Oneida....................6
Prymont................  534
Randelman.............6
Riverside  ..............  su
Sibley  A.................6*
Toledo....................

PLAID  OSNABDBGS

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8NED1C0R l HÄTHÄWÄY,

Manufacturers and Wholesale 

Dealers in

124-126 Jefferson Ave.,

D E T R O IT ,  M ICH.

Men’s  and Women’s  Fine 

Specialty.

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Best  Six  Bord

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pachine  or  Hand  Use.

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL

Dealers  in Dry  Hoods & Notions.

T h e  Sun.

(NEW  YORK.)

During 1893  THE  SUN  will be of sur­
passing  excellence  and will  print  more 
news and more  pure literature than ever 
before in its history.

T H E   S U N D A Y   S U N
IS THE GREATEST SUNDAY NEWSPAPER 

IN THE WORLD.

Price 5c a Copy; by mail $2 a year. 
Daily by mail, $6.
Daily and Sunday by mail, $8 a year. 

Address

THE  SUN,  New York.

BUY  THE  PENINSULAR
Pants, Sits,  id Overalls

Once and You aie  ou r Custom er 

for life.

STANTON, MOREY & C0„ Mtrs.

DETROIT,  MICH.

Geo. F. Owen, Salesman for Western  Michigan, 

Residence, 69 N.  Union St., Grand  Rapids.

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T H E   MICHXG^LlSr  TRAJDESM AJST.

Wrought Loose Pin................................... ..60*10 
Wrought Table.............................................60*10  Maydole  * Co.’s..................................... dll.
Wrought Inside Blind..................................60*10 j Kip’s .
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70*16
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70*10 i
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

hammers.

modern  novel  and  you  will  know how 
beautiful  she  was. 
In  addition  to  her 
beauty, an air of refinement and modesty 
surrounded  her;  she  seemed  altogether 
too good for  this  world.  Coming  up  to 
the counter  in a shrinking  way,  for-she 
was evidently embarrassed at seeing men 
only in the  store, she  said in gentle  and 
refined  accents,  “I  want  some  pads.” 
Pads! 
I  was  dumbfounded.  O  what 
shamelessness!  Asking me  in  the  most 
matter-of-fact  way  for  pads!  Never­
more will  I put my  trust in appearances. 
Pads!  Feeling  that  the  silence was be­
coming unbearable,  and  having  a  some­
what  hazy  idea  that  I  must  say  some­
thing,  I  stammered,  “But  you  don’t— 
don’t need  them.” 
I  saw  1 had made  a 
break  the  moment  the  words  left  my 
lips,  and I fully expected to  see  the fair 
young thing smite me  with  a  glance and 
flaunt out of the store at the insult.  But 
not  so.  The  shameless  hussy  calmly 
said,  “No,  I  don’t  want  them;  they’re 
for my father.”  For  her  father!  Now, 
in the first place,  what  does  her  father 
want with pads? And in the second place, 
what a  pernicious example  for a man  to 
set  his  daughter. 
Suddenly  a  voice 
whispered  in  my  ear,  “Shut  up,  you 
idiot!”  Then aloud, “Just step this way, 
please.” 
I  soon  discovered  that  what 
he  wanted,  and  what  she  technically 
called “pads,”  composed  part  of  a  har­
ness.  Her  father  was  a  harnessmaker. 
As I wiped the copious  dew of  agitation 
from  my  bewildered  brow,  I  vowed  I 
would  spend  a  week  in  the  stable  in 
order to avoid  such  mistakes  in  the fu­
ture.
The maligned beauty,  all  unconscious 
of  the  uncomplimentary  opinion  I  had 
formed  of  her, gracefully  sailed  out  of 
the store,  a restored  idol.  Do you  won­
der that my nerves are shattered by such 
experiences?
A recital  of  such  heartrending breaks 
can only weary  the reader,  as it  agitates 
me,  and I shall,  therefore,  call a  truce, 
ending this educational dissertation with 
a  few  homely  but  wholesome  points to 
be observed  in the conduct of  this  busi­
ness:
When  a  man  asks  you  for  forks,  be 
careful to ascertain whether they  are in­
tended for use  at the table or in the  hay 
field.
If a sailor enters the store,  do not take 
it  for granted  that  he  will  ask  for  tar 
rope,  nor  that  the  roue  will  call  for 
rakes,  nor that  the  begrimed  individual 
wants  washers,  nor  that  the  old  maid 
sighs for  felloes.
When  a customer  asks  for  a drink  of 
water,  do not tell him to  go  back to  the 
iron  department  and  drink  a  wagon 
spring.  Such  pleasantries  are  apt  to 
cause hard feeling.
Now,  if  any  reader  of  the  foregoing 
lines fails to become rich in a short time, 
if  he has faithfully  allowed these words 
to sink deep into his mind,  he must  be  a 
dolt,  indeed.  Nicht  wahrt

Use Tradesman Coupons.
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.
Hardware Price Current.

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BLOCKS.
CRADLES.

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892................ 

50

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

CBOW BARS.

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

CAPS.

CABTBIDOBS.

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

56
25

CHI8BL8. 

dlS.

Socket Firm er...............................................70*10
Socket Framing.............................................70*16
Socket Corner................................................70*10
Socket Slicks......................j........................ 70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

combs. 

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dls.

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per  gross..............12Q12M die. 10

CHALK.
COPPER.

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

drills. 

dls.

DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser pound................................. 
Large sizes, per pound...............................  

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

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ELBOWS.

75

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Com. 4  piece, 6 in ............................dos. net 
Corrugated........................................................dls 40
Adjustable....................................................... dls. 40*10
Clark’s, small, $18;  large, $26...................... 
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 Rasps  ..................................  
50

files—New List. 

dls.

dls.

GALVANIZED IRON.

28
17

dls.
dls.

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

15 

13 
Discount, 60

12 

14 
oausbs. 

dls.

50
55
55
55
55
70

LOCKS—DOOR. 

knobs—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  Shutter, porcelain................... 
Rnssell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l is t...................  55
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s............................ 
55
Branford’s ....................................-.............. 
55
Norwalk’s ....................................................  
55
Adze Bye.................................  
$18.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye......................................... $15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ...................................... $18.50, dls. 20*10.
dlB.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
50
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .................................... 
40
“  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable!.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cls dfc’s.................  
40
“  Enterprise 
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25

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MOLASSES OATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

 
dls.

NAILS

Advance over base: 

Steel nails, base..............................................1  85
Wire nails, base.......................... ..........1  80© 1  90
Steel,  -  Wire.
Base
60......................................................Base 
10
50......................................................Base 
25
40......................................................  05 
25
10 
30...................................................... 
20.........  
35
15 
16.....................................................  
45
15 
45
12.....................................................   15 
10.......................................................  20 
50
8........................................................   25 
60
7 *  6 .................................................   40 
75
4...................................................  ..  60 
90

 

 

AUSUBS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dls.
Snell’s........................................................... 
60
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................50*10
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze...........................$700
D.  B. Bronze..........................  12 00
S.  B. 8. Steel...............................  8 80
D.  B. Steel..................................   13 50

AXES.

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dlS.

BOLTS. 
 
 

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

Railroad......................................................$ 14 00
Garden  ................................................  net  80 00
dlS.
Stove................... 
50*10
Carriage new list 
75*10
Plow.............................................................. 40*10
Sleigh shoe  .................................................. 
70
Well, plain................................................... $ 3 50
Well, swivel.................................................   4 00
dls.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright Bast joint.............. 064.0

BUTTS, OAST. 

BUCKETS.

 

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FlneS.............................................. 150 
Case  10.............................................  60
8.............................................  75
6.............................................  90
Finish 10...........................................  85
8.......................................... 1 00
6...........................................1  15 
Clinch! 19..........................................  85
8.........................................1 00
6..............  .................... 116
Barren %.........................................1  75 
Ohio Tool Co.’a, fancy................................   040
Sciota Bench.............................................  ®6G
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  040
Bench, first quality......................................   0*0
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood...........  *10
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
70
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 50—10
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat planished, Nos. 26 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

PLANES. 

RIVETS. 

Broken packs He per pound extra.

1
dll

FANS.

dlS.

away.  One  of  these  stolid  specimens 
would  come  in  and  slide  reproachfully 
up to one  of  the  salesmen.  Silence  for 
eighteen seconds while  he  collected  the 
scattered remnants of what stood him  in 
place  of  a  brain;  then,  “1  vant  some 
nails.”  Silence,  expecting  you  to  read 
his  mind  when  he  had  none. 
“ Yes, 
what  size?”  “Oh,  ten  penny.”  Anoth­
er  silence. 
“Oh, 
“Yes,  how  many?” 
’bout free  poun’s.”  Then  you get  him 
three  pounds  of ten  penny  nails.  Any 
person with the  minutest fraction  of  an 
intellect  would  have  said  at  once,  “ I 
want three  pounds of  ten penny  nails,” 
but not so with your Dutchman.  He be­
lieves in letting you  find  out  things  for 
yourself.  Perhaps  he  thinks  you’ll  re­
member  them  better.  What  a  happy 
life  he  must  lead—no  supersensitive 
nature  to  become  wounded, no  carping 
care to mar the serenity  of  his  peaceful 
days.  He enjoys  the same  kind of  hap­
piness  as  a  cow  when  she  is  well-fed, 
In 
and has  just  about  as  much  sense. 
some  of them  cupidity is  harmoniously 
blended  with  their  stupidity. 
If  they 
can beat you down two cents on the price 
of  an  article,  they  are  happy  for  the 1 
rest  of  the  day. 
It  is  sometimes  well 
worth a nickel to see the look of supreme 
delight take the place of  the usual  vacu­
ity on his face when  you come down  for 
him.
I was, perhaps, properly repaid for my 
criticisms  on  the intellectuality of some 
of  our customers  by the  embarrassment 
caused me by their request for something 
I never knew  existed, whose name to me 
was  as  strange  as  soap  to  an  Indian. 
This was a source of great  annoyance  to 
me,  and unfeeling customers  who  want­
ed  some  obscure  or  eccentric  article 
would, it seemed to me, come  straight to 
me for  it,  and,  of  course,  I didn’t know 
any more about  it than  I  did of  the  fu­
ture  state.  One  afternoon  soon  after  I 
began,  a young  lady,  not so beautiful  as 
Cleopatra,  modestly  asked  me  for pow­
der. 
It  first occurred  to me to send  her 
to  a drug store,  but it  flashed  across me 
that  it  was  gunpowder,  and  not  face 
powder, she meant.  Yes,  I knew  where 
the gunpowder  was  kept,  and I thought 
I knew the price.
“I want it  for a  dog,”  said  she,  “and 
I’d like to know how much I need.”
“Well,  said  I,  assuming  my  most 
Chesterfieldian manner, “about three and 
a quarter drams of powder, and an ounce 
and a quarter of  number  six  shot,  with 
two felt wads  on the powder  and a card­
board wad on the shot ought to  fix him.”
“But I don’t want any shot,” protested
the female.
“You  can’t  kill  him  without  shot,” 
said  I.
The poor creature  shrieked and nearly 
fainted at the idea of the assassination of 
her pet  poodle, and  informed  me  so  in 
dignantly that she  wished to  administer 
the dose internally to cure  some ailment 
of the poor beast,  that I got  rattled,  and 
charged her five  cents too  much  for  the 
explosive.  How was I to  know that  she 
had  an  indisposed  canine?  But  some 
people are so unreasoning.
^portly  after  this  experience  a  busi 
ness-like  looking  man  approached  me 
and said,  “I want half a dozen  one and  a 
quarter inch bibs.”
“One  and  a quarter  inch!”  thought  I. 
“What a  minute  infant  he  must  have. 
Why doesn’t he exhibit it in a museum?” 
I  was  about  to  send  him  out  to  a  dry 
goods  store  when  the  salesman  at  my 
side came to the  rescue  and  said,  “Yes, 
sir;  this  way,  sir.”  Knowing  that  we 
did  not  deal  in infants’  apparel,  1  fol­
lowed  them  curiously,  and  lo,  and  be­
hold!  he  showed  the  customer  some 
spigots, such as  you  turn  every  day (if 
you have cleanly  habits)  when  you  run 
the water into your bath tub.  Only  the 
quickness of  my  fellow  salesman  saved 
me  from  a  fresh  display  of  ignorance, 
and  relieved  my  mind  of  its false  im­
pressions concerning the man.
But the worst  break  1  ever  did  make 
occurred in this wise:  One evening short­
ly before  closing  time,  when  my  mind 
was occupied with  visions  of  the  pleas­
ure I  was  soon  to  bestow  on  the  inner 
man,  another  and  very  different  vision 
appeared tome.  And  what a vision! “A 
beauty  from  ‘wayback,” ’ thought  I. 
I 
shall not attempt to  describe her.  Read 
the  description  of  the  heroine  In  any

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HINOBS.

HANOERS. 

wire eooDS. 

HOLLOW WARE.

HOUSE FURNISHING  GOODS.

Yerkes * Plumb’s..................................dls. 40*10
Mason's Solid Cast Steel........................ 80c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand__30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ...............................dls.60&10
State...........................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 In. 4H  1$  and
longer.......................................................   3H
10
Screw Hook and  Bye, H .........................net 
“  %......................... net  8H
“ 
* ......................... net  7H
“ 
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Strap and T .......................................... dls. 
50
dls.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50*10
Champion,  antl-frlctlon.............................   60*10
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots............................................................... 60*10
Kettles...........................................................60*10
Spiders  .........................................................60*10
Gray enameled..............................................40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware.............................. new list 79
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are.....................new list 33V4 *10
dls.
Bright...................................................... 70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10*10
Hook’s .....................................................70*10410
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70*10*10
dla.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ......................
Sisal, H inch and larger.............................  
9
Manilla.........................................................  13
dls.
Steel and Iron..............................................  
 
Try and Bevels.................................... 
M itre............................................................ 

75
60
20
Com. 
$2 95 
3 05 
3 05 
3  15 
3 25 
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Com.  Smooth.
Nos. 10 to  14.....................................$4 05
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................4 05
Nos.  18 to 21....................................  4 06
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  405
Nos. 25 to 26 .....................................  425
NO. 27................................................  4 45
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  .....................................dls. 
Silver Lake, White A..............................list 
Drab A.................................  “ 
White  B...............................   1 
Drab B..................................  “ 
White C.................................“ 

SAND PAPEB.
SASH CORD.

levels. 
ROPES.

SHEET IHON.

60
50
86
50
55
35

SqUARES. 

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Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton $25
“ 
20
Silver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot,__ 
70
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 
50 
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot....  30 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  root............................................. 
30
Steel, Game...................................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s __ 
70
Mouse,  choker.................................. 18c per dos
Mouse, delusion...................*...........$1.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market......................................... 70—10
Coppered M arket........................................  60
Tinned Market.............................................  62 H
Coppered  Spring Steel............ a ............... 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...... .....................  2 85

wire. 

dls.

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painted...................................   2 40

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

Au  Sable...........................................dlB.  40*10
Putnam.......................................... 
dla. 05
dls.10410
N orth western................................  
dlS.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
80
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 76
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

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METALS.
PIG TIN.

ZINC.

BOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................   260
Pig Bars.......................................................  
28c
Duty:  Sheet, 2Hc per pouDd,
680 pound  casks...........................................   63i
Per pound....................................................  7
H @ H .................................................................is
Extra Wiping.................................................   15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market Indicated by nrtvate brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson............ ...........................per  pound
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................ $7
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

Bach additional X on this grade, 91.75.

7  0
9 25
9 25

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

Bach additional X on this grade 11.50.

 
 
 

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14x20 IC, 
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............................   8 50
14x20 IX, 
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20x28 IC, 
I  Allaway Grade.................  6 00
14x20 IC, 
7 50
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20x28 IC, 
II 
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15 60
20x28 IX,
BOILER SIZE TOT PLATE.
14x28  XX........................................................ $14 00
14X31  IX......................................................... 16
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 1 M  mjnnd 
10 
14x60IX,  “ 
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Michigan Tradesman

A  W 1 K L I   JOU RN A L  D EVOTED  TO  T H 1

B e st  In te re sts  o f  B u sin ess  M en.

Published at

lOO  Louis  St., Grand  Rapids,

— BT  THE —

TRADESMAN  COMPANY

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please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement In 
T h e  Mic h ig a n T r a d e sm a n.

E.  A  STOWE,  Editor

W KDXESDtY, JANUARY  35,  1893

In  either  case, 

THE  LESSONS  OF  THE  LEDGER.
There is,  perhaps, no  time in  the year 
when the business man becomes  as close 
a student of his ledger as  at the close  of 
the year. 
It is at  this  time  when  items 
mature into totals,  while losses and gains 
are brought  before  the  court  for  exam­
ination and an impartial  verdict. 
It  is a 
time  for  reflection  with  all,  and  of  re­
pentance with many.  With some the in­
vestigation is a delightful  process  as in­
dicating progress and  prosperity,  matur­
ing in a discovery of being richer than at j 
the close of the  previous  year,  and with  I 
substantial evidence on  hand of  doing as 
well,  if not better,  in  the  year  to  come. 
Others are neither so happy  nor  so  rich 
as they were.  Twelve months  have reg­
istered  as many  falls  in the  mercury  of j 
the  business 
thermometer,  and  a  cor­
responding  decent  on  the  stairway  of 
progress. 
the  causes, 
both of going up and  coming  down,  are ! 
likely to be put in the scales and weighed,  ! 
and where continuance is a virtue and re- j 
pentance  a  necessity,  the  totals  of  the j 
ledger are  the  missionaries of  the hour,  j
Here common  sense or  folly are made ; 
manifest; 
indiscretion  or  carelessness j 
are  epitomized  in  cold  arithmetic;  mis- j 
takes,  like  the  maternal  hen,  mark  the 
difference  between 
the  chalk  and  the 
legal  egg  in  the  prodnction  of  poultry 
and the  prospects of  a sale  in  the  mar­
ket.  Disappointments,  as  unavoidable 
as a change in the  weather or the record 
of  a  ballot  box,  are  more  or  less  the 
thorns that are left in every annual crop,  j 
Customers  are  not  always  what  they j 
promised  to be;  the keg  was new  but the ! 
cider  sour.  Their  promises  were  gilt 
edged,  but  their  pay  invisible.  Debts 
remain  on  the  books  where  their claim  I 
on immortality is  beyond  dispute,  while j 
markets,  like  men,  are not  always  w hat! 
they  seem.  Dishonesty,  misplaced  con- j 
fidence, and salaries  without  equivalent. ! 
have all  made their raids on  the expense j 
account,  with  a  solitary  cipher  at  the j 
foot of  the  column.  These  things,  like 
the population of Noah’s ark, represent a 
variety,  both of  freight and  passengers,  i 
all  which are  unloaded  by  the  business ! 
man at the close of the year.

Some men profit by  these  experiences;

of 

the 

the 

has 

cash 

punishment, 

others,  if the wiser,  are never the better.
| Enough, however,  is annually discovered 
j to  make  a wise  man  reflective  and  his 
¡vice versa regretful.  Success  in but few 
I instances is  a result of accident or indif- 
j ference. 
It has its  laws  and conditions,
I both economic and moral,  and  their vio- 
laiton 
no 
its 
furniture  of 
I matter  whether 
I an  office  or 
the 
sinner. 
In the morals of  business  there 
are no revised edition,  or wrinkles of age 
or decay.  They are as immutable  as the 
1 multiplication table,  and no man can re- 
I verse either their potency or cousequenc- 
I es.  The  idea  that  business 
integrity, 
j conscience  and  square  dealing  are  no 
I longer  factors  in  prosperity,  may  find 
now  and then  a room to  rent  in  a com­
mercial  hat,  but  we  question  whether 
the  average  business  man.  however 
much he  may  ignore  his  duty,  has  any 
honest doubt of  the right  way  being  the 
best.

In  business  methods  and  conditions 
there  are.  however,  continual  changes, 
and  it  is  always  here  that  the  unin­
formed or the  negligent  find themselves 
at the wrong  end of  the  kite.  For  this 
obtusity  and  shortsightedness  there 
is 
practically no valid excuse.  Every trade 
has,  in  these  days, 
its  own  journal. 
Here the man most interested  can secure 
all  the  information  he  needs,  and  for 
what  is after  all  but a nominal sum  per 
year can secure the education not obtain- | 
able elsewhere at any price.  The oppor­
tunities  of  advertising  are  equally  as 
available.  When  judiciously  appropri­
ated, the results are  unanimous in  favor 
of the man  who appreciates  the value of 
printer's  ink. 
In  this  direction,  as  in 
all  others  in  which  methods  improve 
with time,  the scope  and  importance  of 
advertising 
increasing. 
Readers are not  now,  as of  old,  in  a mi­
nority, nor is  the  circulation  of  a trade 
journal  limited to a  solitary mail  bag or 
the  boundaries  of  a  county. 
this 
means  of  increasing  business  one  may 
find its results on  the  smiling side of his 
ledged. 
In fact,  all  causes  that lead  to  | 
business expansion  and  success are more 
or less legible to  the man who makes  up 
his  mind  to  profit  by  the lessons of his 
ledger.

is  continually 

In 

JIM   ALLSPICE.

F irst Trip O ut th e  N ew  Y ear-V arieg ated  

E xperiences.

W r itte n  f o r   T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

Say,  boys,  when  you  have  left  the 
house for your  first trip out  over the old 
territory for the first time in the new year, 
with the  counsel,  advice  and,  to  put  it 
stronger,  with  the  positive  instructions 
of  your  financial  “Say”  of  the  house 
mingled  with your marked  statements of 
the bookkeeper as  to the  line to be pur­
sued  regarding  your customers that  are 
on the wrong side  of the  ledger,  as  you 
look them all over,  don’t  you  just  won­
der  how and what  will  be  done to  keep | 
peace and trade in the family?

From  the  first  of  your  customers  to 
call  on you have positive  instructions to 
get  “money  or  blood,”  and  he  is  your 
personal  friend,  the  one  man  of  all  on 
your route to assist  whom you  would put 
your hand  in  your pocket.  “ What am  I 
going  to  do,”  you  say.  But  face  the 
music you  must.  So,  with  your heart in 
your  boots  and  your  usual  courage  in 
your  side  pocket,  you  enter  his  store; 
and  if  the  church  bell  would  only  toll, 
you could  attend  a  funeral  with  relief,

rather than shake hands and  wish  him a 
“Happy  New  Year.”  You  feel  more 
| like hitting him right  there and jumping 
into a first-class  “scrap”  than  proceed- 
I ing to  business.  After  a  few  minuets’
! conversation,  you  ate  almost  paralyzed 
I by his asking  for his statement  and say- 
| ing that he guesses he’d better fix that up 
| before giving  you  an  order.  Then  and 
| there is the  one time  in  your  life  wlten 
you  would like to  have that  bookkeeper 
out behind the  store  aud  make him eat, 
one  by  one,  the  many  statements  and 
pushing letters he has sent you repeated­
ly  concerning  this  customer,  asking  if 
you thought you had not lost your senses 
in  still  selling  him.  Your  last 
inter­
view with him  regarding his acconnt was 
not very bright,  and,  now that  he is pre­
pared  to  “ fix  it  up,”  you  are  as  greatly 
surprised  as  if you  had  drawn  a  prize 
in the  lottery.  After  a  diligent  search 
among your  statements,  you  finally find 
it,  and,  when  he  counts 
the  proper 
amount  in  good  crisp  bank  notes,  to 
balance the account in full,  you can con­
trol  yourself  no  longer,  but  ask  him 
where did he  “catch  on.”  He tells  you 
he finally sold  his piece of  pine  land  up 
North  and is  now  in  good  shape.  You 
wonder  what  the  house  will  say  when | 
you  send in  his  first order  and  the  cash 
to balance.

But you  soon  find  that collecting  and 
selling on the rest of your route is  like a 
checkerboard,  but  with  quite  a few  ex­
tra black  blocks  added.  Some  of  your 
old regular customers have changed part­
ners  and  are going  to try  other houses 
for  a  change.  The  most  humiliating 
of all  is  to find  that your old  enemy and 
rival,  Tom  Brown,  has  been  just  two 
days  ahead  of  you  for  his  new  house, 
ami  has  opened  up  with  some  leaders 
that have captured  the  best  part of the 
trade,  while  no  particular  prices  on 
lines you  may  have  to offer seem  to off­
set  his,  and  you  are  compelled  to  rub 
down  among  your  cost  marks,  to  con­
vince the boys that  you  are  still  “ in it” 
andean do business at the old stand.

While you look at the  blue side,  what 
’livens you  up more than  to have a firm 
that has  never  given  you  an  order call 
you in on your  first trip and say,  “Well,
I am going to try your  house,  and I will 
give you a trial order.”  That offsets all 
past negligence at once, and the  way you 
elaborate  the  peculiar  whys  and  why- 
fores of your house is a caution,  and  you 
feel 
ready  then  and  there  to  forgive 
them  for all  unkind remarks in the past.
But.  when  you  strike  the  next  town 
and  find  that  the  old  firm  of  Smith  & 
Brown has  “busted,”  you  are right in  it, 
coat off,  aud,  with  your  village  lawyer, 
proceed to  take  a hand in  by  an  attach­
ment at once. 
If  by  luck  you  are first, 
you  simply  wait  for  developments—or 
someone  connected  with  the  family  to 
come along and dispossess you of posses­
sion—or  you  entertain  a  proposition 
from the firm to  settle.

Years of this kind of work have no ter­
rors  for you,  and  you rather  enjoy your 
meals  aud the situation,  while  the other 
fellows  do  the  walking  and  fretting. 
The regular  customers  in  each town are 
glad  to  see  you, 
the  usual  orders  are 
booked,  and,  after  getting  through  at 
the last town and you figure up your sales 
and collections you  say,  “ Well,  might be 
worse.  Next  trip will  certainly  be bet­
ter.”  You  are  contented  to  say,  “Will 
see you again  in 30 days.”

J im   A l l s p i c e .

Married  Salesmen  Preferable.

“The  fixing  the  salesmen’s  routes  of 
late so that they can spend their Sundays 
as frequently  as possible at home is gen­
erally  ascribed to the concerted effort  of 
the  salesmen  themselves  in  that  direc­
tion,”  said  Ed.  Haase, of  the  A.  C. L. 
Haase  &  Sons  Fish  Co.,  St.  Louis. 
“ While it is true  that the traveling  men 
are so appreciative of home comforts and 
enjoyments  that  they  are  exceedingly 
eager  to  travel  in  territories  that  will 
allow  them to  spend  one day a week,  at 
least,  with their  families,  the fact of the 
matter is that the employers  are  just  as 
anxious  to  secure  this  end  as  are  the 
salesmen.  As  a  rule,  a  manufacturer 
and  jobber  prefers  to  employ  married 
men 
to  represent  them  on  the  road. 
This doesn’t mean that the benedicts  are 
any  more  devoted  to  business,  or  are 
any more trustworthy than the bachelors 
—as  far as  their work goes—but it is  an 
acknowledged  fact  that  a  man  with  a 
famjly  looks  more  to  permanency  than 
does the young man  who  has no  one  de­
pending  upon  him 
for  support.  But 
there  is  a  reason  aside  from  this  that 
favors the  salesman in  his endeavors  to 
keep  as  close  to  home  as  possible,  and 
that  is  the  knowledge  the  employers 
have  in  the  importance  of  a  day  of 
rest  once  a week. 
It may  be  said  that 
the salesman  can  rest  just as  well  at  a 
hotel as he can at  home. 
If resting con­
sisted only  in  sitting  idly  around, or  in 
reading the papers,  or  Haggard’s novels, 
this might  be the  case, but there can  be 
no  true  rest  without  recreation.  The 
business man who can get  his mind com­
pletely off of business affairs one day out 
of  seven,  is  better  able  to  do  effective 
and  thoughtful  work  than  he  who  is 
forced to think constantly of his trade re­
quirements.  There  is  no  idea more  ri­
diculous than that there is rest in  sitting 
indolently down  with folded hands.  The 
mind is never so  busy as when  we try  to 
If  we go to  our 
keep it  worn  working. 
homes  after  a  day  of  hard  labor,  and 
throw  ourselves  into  an  armchair,  our 
thoughts  will  turn  to  our  business,  in 
spite of  all we can do. 
If,  however,  we 
pick up the  evening  paper, or  get inter­
ested in some light novel,  we will forget 
all the anxieties and  cares of  a responsi­
ble pursuit,  and for a few hours,  at least, 
our  brains  will  have  the  much  needed 
rest.  The salesman who  can  devote his 
Sundays to his family  starts out on Mon­
day  with  an  ambition  and  a  vim  that 
will carry him nearly through the  week. 
Indeed,  it  will  carry  him  through  the 
week,  for  as  he begins  to  tire  out  the 
thought of the Sunday ahead of him  will 
buoy him  up,  and  sustain  him  through 
all  vicissitudes.  The  salesman,  how­
ever,  who has nothing to look forward to 
except a  Sunday  at  the  hotel, can  only 
hope for a congenial  crowd,  and  even  if 
his  hopes  are  realized,  the  chances  are 
that the  congeniality of  the  crowd  will 
display  itself in such a way that the day 
of rest will result in  exhaustion  and  de­
pression rather  than  a  building  up  and 
mental  stimulation.  With all deference 
to  the  industry  and  ability  of  the  un­
married 
salesmen—and  their  success, 
good humor and  wit are such that I take 
off my hat to them—I must say  that they 
have  a  much  harder  time  than  their 
married brethren.”

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

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Gripsack Brigade.

A  State  division  of  the  T.  P.  A. has 
been established here by  the  election  of 
Geo.  F.  Owen as President and  Janies B. 
Mclnnes as Secretary  and  Treasurer.

Henry M.  Northrup, for the  past three 
years  with  the  Wells-Stone  Mercantile 
Co., at Saginaw, has resigned his position 
to  accept  a  position  as traveling  sales­
man  for  H.  Werner  & Co., of Detroit.

The  annual meeting of Post E,  Michi­
gan Knights of the Grip,  will  be  held  at 
the New Livingstone on Jan.  28,  at  7:30 
p.  m. 
It is expected that every  member 
of the organization will be present at that 
time,  as officers are  to  be  elected and  a 
program outlined for the ensuing year.

Homer Klap,  formerly engaged  in  the 
grocery business  on  Ellsworth  auenue, 
has engaged with the Ball-Barnhart-Put- 
man Co.  as city  salesman, 
the  engage­
ment to date from Feb.  1.  Homer  is  an 
active  and  energetic  worker  and  his 
friends will  wish  him success in his  new 
undertaking.

Frank W.  Boor,  traveling  representa­
tive for the Schulte Soap Co., of  Detroit, 
was arrested in Battle Creek last Wednes­
day  for  the  alleged  embezzlement  of 
several hundred dollars and  Detroit  offi­
cers were notified.  During the afternoon 
Boor,  who had been placed in  charge  of 
a deputy sheriff,  was permitted  to  go  to 
his  room  in  the  Williams  House.  He 
skipped out,  going to Marshall in a livery 
rig,  where  he  was  subsequently  appre­
hended and taken to Detroit for examina­
tion.

H.  F.  Jones,  General  Manager  of  the 
Fermentum  Compressed  Yeast,  was  in 
town three days last week,accompanying 
General Traveling Agent  Winternitz  on 
his quarterly  inspection  of  the  Grand 
Kapids Agency. 
It was  Mr.  Jones’  first 
visit to  the  Valley  City  and  he  was 
agreeably  surprised  at  the  commercial 
importance the marget has acquired.  Mr. 
Winternitz  remained in town  until  Sat­
urday, improving the opportunity to  call 
on many of his friends among  the  trade, 
from whom he received a warm welcome.
Sam.  B.  Morrison,  formerly  traveling 
representative  for  the  Olney &  Judson 
Grocer  Co., but  now on  the road  for the 
Wells-Stone  Mercantile  Co.,  of  Detroit, 
with headquarters at Grand Forks, N. Da­
kota,  writes his  brother here the  follow­
ing amusing  circumstance  in  connection 
with one of his customers:  Grand Forks, 
N. D.,  Jan.  11—1  wrote  you a few  lines 
from  Duluth  and  told  you  then  that  I 
would  write  more  when I arrived  here. 
The  reason 1 have  not  done so is that  I 
have  been  laid  up.  On  my  way  back 
from  Duluth I made a small  town on the 
N.  P.,  and  then  found  it  necessary  to 
drive  to another  town in order  to  get in 
as  I  wanted.  My  friend  in  the  small 
town  wanted  me  to  take  a  package  of 
gammel ost to his brother in Grand Forks 
and I agreed  to  do  so.  This  will  be  a 
long  story but I will  make it as short  as 
possible.  Gammel ost is a cheese,  a pro­
duct of Norway. 
I think he is the father 
of  limburger—at  any  rate  he  is  much 
stronger  and  more  aggressive.  1 found 
a man to drive  me to the  other town  and 
put  Mr.  G.  O.  under  the  driver’s  knees, 
and we went dashing over the prairies at 
I 
the rate of  about two  miles an  hour. 
wish you could  have seen  that team. 
It 
was  composed of  two  ramshackle  crea­
tures,  which  the  driver  in a moment  of 
enthusiasm  referred  to  as “horses.”  It 
was  not  long before  the  heat  from  the

driver’s  legs  began  to  warm  up  Mr.  G. 
O.,  and  Mr.  G. O. got  up  and  began to 
spoil  the ozone.  After  a  while,  I asked 
the  driver if  he was  sick and  what was 
the matter.  He  pulled  up his team,  got 
out  into a snowdrift  and examined  him­
self  all  over,  even  to  the  soles  of  his 
moccasins, and  then  got  into the  cutter, 
(by  the  way,  he  was  a “frog  eater” or 
Frenchman).  The  first  thing  he  said 
was,  “It is dem d—n horse, 
I drive dem 
horse  two year  and  dat  not  happen  be­
fore.”  By  this  time,  Mr.  G.  O.’s  in­
fluence  had  reached  “dem  horse,”  and 
they increased their  speed to tLree miles 
an  hour.  1  thought  it would  be a good 
thing  to  compliment  him on  owning  so 
good a team  and  did  so. 
It  seemed  to 
please him and he said,  “Dere is the best 
two d—n horse  in this  country for hunt. 
Dey go out  on de  prairie  and  point  de 
blackbird all  by deirsef.”  By this  time 
we had reached the town where I wished 
to go,  and he left me  with tears of joy(?) 
in his  eyes.  The  train  was  just  about 
due, and  when  I  got in I  put  Mr.  G.  O. 
in a seat  about  the  middle of  the  coach 
and took a seat in the rear  myself. 
In  a 
short time Mr.  G.  O.  got up and began to 
kick  about the train  service,  etc., and  it 
was not  long  before  Mr.  G.  O.  and I had 
a private  car,  the  passengers all  leaving 
I told 
us and  going into other  coaches. 
the  conductor,  who  for  a  long 
time 
worked on the  M. C., all about  the  mat­
ter  and  he pretended  to  think it a  good 
joke,  but,  for  all  that,  he  would  come 
through the coach on the run, and I think 
the  brakeman  once  tried  to climb  over 
the top of  it.  Well,  I  finally got  Mr.  G. 
O.  to  his  destination  and  left  him. 
I 
then  began  to  feel  sick. 
I  seemed,  to 
need his stimulation,  and this is how the 
rest of  the  matter  seemed  to  me:  Mr. 
Roast Beef got up on a table in my stom­
ach  and  proclaimed  himself  the  main 
factor  in  my  sustenance.  Messrs.  Pork 
& Beans at once  called  him a liar,  and  a 
nasty fight occurred then and there,  with 
Mr. Onion as referee and Ham & Eggs as 
time  keepers. 
It  came to an  end at last 
and  they  all  agreed  on  demanding  a 
higher place  in my anatomy than  that in 
which  1  had  placed  them. 
I  did  not 
know  at  first  but  arbitration  would  be 
the  right  thing,  but,  on  Mr.  Onion’s  in­
sisting  on  occupying  a  position  in  my 
throat, I decided that a  “lock out”  would 
be  in  order  and  so  let  them  go.  And 
where are they?  “Ask of the winds that 
far  around with  fragments  strewed  the 
prairies.” 
I  have  since  been,  and  am 
now, gorging myself on weak tea and  dry 
I  have  written  this  with  a  ‘steal 
toast. 
pen,’  but  the  story  is  true  just 
the 
same.”

The  Drug  Market.

Opium is easy and unchanged.
Quinine 

is  weak  but  not  quotably 

changed.

American saffron is  about  out of  mar 

ket and is very high in price.

Sabadilla seed is  also scarce  and high­

er.

Balm  of  Gilead  buds  have  advanced
Chlorate potash is  lower.
Bromide potash has advanced.
Paris green  is  now  quoted as  follows:
Arsenic  kegs.................................................   1154
125 to 175 lb.  kegs.........................................   12
14, 28 and 56 lb. pails.....................................   13J4
1  lb.  tins....................... ..............................  14
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An advance is probable  soon.
If pork goes up  much  higher  the  hog 

will soon be out of sight.

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Stock  is  very  scarce  and what  little  there  is to  be  had  is 
held  at  rediculous prices.  We  sold  last week at Sl.fO per 
gallon and  prospects are that  there will be no decline for at 
least two weeks.  But no matter  what the price  may be  the 
P. & B. brand will lead in quality and measure.

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

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^CHICAGO

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

..CHICAGO

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FERMENTUM
COMPRESSED YEAST

T h e   Only Reliable

Sold  in this  market  lor tie  past  Fifteen  Years.

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

JOHN  SMYTH,  Agent. Grand  Rapids,  Midi.

Telephone 566.

106  Sent St.

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

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^CHICAGOkY.

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 ur  M otte:  o

New Styles.”

Ve Lead in Redtleed Prices.

E  CARRY a  full  line  of  all  patterns  of 
Ladies’  and  Gents’  Bicycles,  and  can 

supply at once upon receipt of  order.

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

A full line of  sundries.  Our price  list will be 
out early  in  January, 1898.  Walt  for  us;  or, if 
you cannot, then write and get our prices before 
you  order.  Our  prices  will  be  as  low  as  the 
lowest.

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Drugs $t Medicines*

State Board of Pharmacy.
One Year—James Vernor, Detroit.
Two  Years—Ottmar Eberlach, Ann  Arbor 
Three Years—George Onndrum. Ionia.
Four Years—C. A. Boctee. Cheboygan. 
Expiring Jan. 1—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor. Detroit.
""misnili i r—Geo. Gnndrom, Ionia.
Next meeting—Saginaw, Jan ■ 11.

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Am ’d. 
President—Stanley E. Parkili, Owosso. 
Vice-Presidents—I.  H.  L.  Dodd,  Buchanan;  F.  W.  E.
Perry, Detroit;  W. H. Hicks. Morley.
Treasurer—Wm. H  Dupont.  Detroit.
Secretary—C. W. Parsons, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H.  G.  Coleman,  Kalamazoo; 
Jacob Jesson, Muskegon:  F.  J.  Wurzburg and  John 
E. Peck. Grand Rapids;  Arthur Bassett,  Detroit. 
Local Secretary—James Vernor.
Next  place  of  meeting—Some  resort  on  St.  Clair 
River;  time to be designated by Executive Committee.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 
President. W. R. Jewett,  Secretary,  Frank H. Escott, 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March 

June, September and December.

E volu tion   In  B u sin ess.

D. T. Mallett In Business.

Business  life  may,  for  the mere  sake 
of  illustration,  be  compared  to  the  de­
velopment of  a tree.  The first matter to 
be considered,  in either the planting of a 
tree or  the  starting of  a business, is  the 
vitality of  the  roots.  Does  the  scheme, 
the  idea,  or the  plan  show  evidences of 
sufficient  force  to  carry it  through  the 
first  season of  growth?  Will  it  secure 
for itself a hold  upon  the foundations of 
growth which  lie  below the  surface? 
If 
the plan  has  inherent  force  and  seems 
full of  promise, then comes  the question 
of location.  A tree which requires moist­
ure at its roots will never  prosper on the 
desert,  and  so a business which  depends 
for its support  upon a certain  set of  cir­
cumstances  must  be  planted in  its  own 
environment.  After  the  location  has 
received careful thought and been finally 
determined  upon, comes  the  problem of 
growth.  The sun  shines,  the rain  falls, 
the wind  blows alike  upon  the  business 
and the  tree.  One  day all  seems  bright 
and  hopeful,  the  wheels  run  in  their 
grooves  without  a  sign of  friction, and 
success  is  in  the  air.  Another  day  the 
fierce winds of opposition shake the very 
roots,  and  disaster  threatens the  life  of 
the  enterprise.  Then  comes  the  strain 
of  effort  and  the  test  of  the  ability to 
hold the success  attained.  Still  another 
day  and  the  dismal  rain of  dull  times 
hangs  like a fog  of  hindrance  upon  the 
business  and  opposes  its  growth.  The 
tree,  however,  survives  the  storm  and 
lives to find another day of sunshine, and 
while a weak  branch  or  two  may  have 
fallen to the  ground,  the  trunk is sturdy 
and new twigs are  climbing upward.
The business  man,  like  the  tree,  may 
find in the  forces of  opposition  and  the 
discouragement  of  doll  times  a  severe 
test of  his  strength;  but if  close  profits 
teach him the need of  true economy, and 
competition  the  necessity for  increasing 
his efforts, he may survive the ordeal and 
become a better  merchant  for  the  trial. 
The  tree,  again,  is  always  growing,  it is 
never  satisfied  with  the  breadth  of  its 
branches or the depth of its roots;  so the 
business  man who  succeeds  is tirelessly 
broadening  his  field  of  operations;  ever 
on the  alert for  new ideas  and methods. 
The  whole  essence  of  business  success 
consists in keeping  abreast of  the times. 
It takes  an  all-round  business  man  to 
detect the changing methods which daily 
creep into  every line of  commercial  life. 
Stand still to-day and to-morrow will find 
you  behind  the  current  of  events—the 
only  safety lies  in  progress.  Then  the 
growth must be symmetrical;  it must not 
lean too  heavily in one direction  and en­
danger the foundations.  The tree whose 
branches spread to the four points of the 
compass  gathers  force  as  it  grows,  it 
could  never  stand  in  the  face  of  the 
storm if.  its  limbs all  grew in one  direc­
tion.  The wise  business  man  will  not 
risk all his resources in one line of effort, 
but will  spread  his operations.  He  will 
not  deprive  his main  business to  foster 
some  outside venture;  the  tree  does  not 
enlarge  its  limbs  at  the  expense of  its 
trank.
The tree  grows  slowly,  and its growth 
is steady. 
It does not attempt to become 
a full grown tree in a single night, neither 
can a business  firmly establish  itself  ex­
cept  through  patient  effort 
“  Make 
haste slowly”  is an old saying, and some­
times  forgotten in these  modern  days of

THE  MICHTGLAJN"  TRADESMAN,
GRAND  RAPIDS  BRUSH  CO.,

Manufacturers of

great  fortunes  accumulated  in  a single 
life-time,  but its  truth is plainly evident 
in the  thousands of  wrecks  which  have 
resulted  from  ignorance of  its wisdom. 
Making a right  start  in the  right  direc­
tion is the  foundation of  all  success, for 
“As the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.”

M ercantile C redits.

From the American Grocer.

The  question  of  mercantile credits  is 
one that  should  command  the  attention 
and  thoughtful  interest  of  all  who  are 
engaged in  banking,  commercial,  manu­
facturing or  other pursuits in  which op­
erations of  a  greater  or  less  magnitude 
are largely based  on  confidence,  and  al­
though  there is  no feature  of  any busi­
ness  more  prominent  as  a factor  in its 
success  or  failure,  or  more  difficult  of 
successful  management,  it is a fact  that 
there exists less general knowledge npon 
the  subject than  upon other questions of 
equal importance,  and upon  no  question 
of such daily and ever present  contact is 
so little written.
The  present  system  of  mercantile 
credits  as practically applied,  has devel­
oped in  recent  years  to  a  great  extent, 
and there may now be found in the  lead­
ing  business  concerns  and  manufactur­
ing establishments of the country  an  or­
ganized and  completely  equipped credit 
department,  upon  which  rests  the  re­
sponsibility  of  avoiding  losses  by  bad 
debts—a source of serious danger  that is 
a constant  menace,  and  one  that  is not 
infrequently  the  “hidden  rock”  upon 
which  some  unfortunate  commercial 
craft is hopelessly  wrecked.
The  successful  credit man  should  be 
an  apt  student  of human  nature,  pos­
sessed  of  natural  tact,  which  combined 
with the  element of caution in a fair  de­
gree,  and good  judgment ripened  by  ex­
perience, enables  him  to  “ steer  clear” 
and avoid  more  than a reasonable  share 
of losses  by  bad  debts.  He  must  have 
the benefits of a training and  experience 
that  no  other  field  affords;  be  well  in­
formed on general topics,  and keep post­
ed as to the  success or  failure of  impor­
tant  interests  in  all  sections  in  which 
his  house  is  doing  business.  He  must 
investigate  and  study  the  cause  and 
movement  of  “booms,” and  their  effect 
on the  locality  directly  affected,  always 
keeping a weather eye of  watchful solic­
itude  on  accounts  in  such  localities, 
opening  no  new  accounts  with  dealers 
who are inclined to speculation, or whose 
interests  are  likely  to  be  adversely af­
fected  by the changed conditions.  Like­
wise,  he must  be  alive  to possible unfa­
vorable  changes  in  the  condition of  all 
customers  of  the  house,  and  especially 
so in cases where  sudden  disaster or  de­
pression  occurs,  whether  from  strikes, 
epidemics,  floods, poor  crops  or  other 
causes,  and  can  often  show  commenda­
ble aDility by the  prompt  application  of 
tact and  judicious  management in  “get­
ting out” safely from threatened and im­
pending failures.
Another  feature  of equal  importance 
with  that  of  the  credits  is  the  proper 
management  of  the  Collections,  and  in 
the leading houses  this  branch is  under 
the charge and  general  direction  of  the 
Credit Department,  which  gives  special 
attention to the slow  and  unsatisfactory 
accounts,  in  which  field 
there  are fre­
quently daily opportunities for  the exer­
cise  of  tact  and  shrewdness,  which  are 
necessary to escape serious losses.
The duties  devolving  upon  the credit 
department are  laborious  and  exacting, 
beginning with the opening of  business, 
and in no department is  there required a 
greater  amount  of  close  and intelligent 
application, or  where the quick exercise 
of good  judgment  is  of toner demanded, 
as well as the absolute necessity of acon- 
stant,  unflagging,  systematic vigilance.

MICHIGAN

Fire & Harifle Insurance Go.

Organised  1881.

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN

G Z X T S Z 2 Y G   X l O O T r
We 

the highest price for It.  Addreca

PEGS BEOS., WGRAJ?D

BRUSHES.

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

Oar goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing 

Houses.

----OR —

Unlike me Dutch Process
No Alkalies
Other  Chemicals
. Baler & Go.’i
Breakfast  Cocoa,

are  used  in  the 
preparation o f

which is  absolutely pu re 

and soluble.

A  d e s c r ip tio n   o f  th e   c h o c o la te  
p la n t,  a n d   o f  th e   v a r io u s  cocoa 
a n d  c h o c o la te  p r e p a r a tio n s m an ­
u fa c tu r e d   by W a lter B a k e r  & Co. 
w ill b e s e n t f r e e  to  a n y  d e a le r  o n  
a p p lic a tio n .

W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass.
Empress  Josephine Face Bleach

Is the only reliable cure for 

freckles and pimples.

HAZELTINE St  PERKINS  DRUG  CO., 

Gbaot> R a p id s, Mich.,

Jobbers for Western Michigan.

ATLAS

SOAP

Is Manufactured 

only  by

HENRY  PASSOLT, 

Saginaw,  Mich.

For general laundry and  family 

washing  purposes.

Only brand of first-class laundry 

soap manufactured in the 

Saginaw  Yalley.

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

Do  Yoo  wait a Typewriter?

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

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANT,

State Agents,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH

T.  H.  NEVIN CO.’S

Swiss V I  Mixed 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.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,

STATE  AGENTS 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

La  Grippe

may attack but cannot overcome those protected 

by frequent use of

CUSHMAN’S 

|Henthol  Inh aler.

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 mall 60 cents from

H.  D. CC8HMAN, Patentee and H fr., 

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

EATON,  LYON  &  CO.’S

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

Stationeru

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Sporting  Goods

20  A   22  MONROE  ST.,

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Wholesale P rice  C urrent•

Advanced—Saffron, bromide potash, balm gileaa buds. 
Declined—Chlorate potash.

TINCTURES.

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Aconltum Napellis R .........   60
F ...........   5Q
Aloes............................  
 
14  and myrrh...................  60
A rnica..................................   50
Asafoetlda............................  o
Atrope Belladonna................  60
Benzoin.................................  60
“  Co............................   so
Sangulnarla..........................   so
Barosma...............................   50
Cantharldes...........................  75
Capsicum............................   so
Ca damon............................  75
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CO......................   75
Castor..................................1 00
Catechu...............................   50
Cinchona  ............................   50
Co......................   60
Columba.............................   50
Conlnm...... t .......................  50
Cubeba.................................  50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...........  ;...j..............   50
Gentian...............................  50
“  Co............................  60
Gnalca.................................  so
“ 
ammon..................  60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Iodine..................................   75
Colorless................   75
Ferri  Chlorldum.................  36
K ino........................ 
 
50
Lobelia............................. 
  50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opll.....................................   ©
“  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor.........................2 00
Auranti Cortex....................   50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany.............................   50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stromonlum.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerlao..............................  50
VeratrumVeride.................  50

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ACIDUM.

Acetlcum...................
Benzoicum  German..
Boraclc  ..................
Carbolicum..............
Citrlcum...................
Hydroehlor..............
Nitrocum 
Oxallcnm................
Phosphorlum dll.......
Salicylicum...............1
Sulphurlcum.........
Tannlcnm................1
Tartarlcum................
AMMONIA.

......... .

8©   10 
65®  ■  20
10©  12 
25©  35 
50©  52
m  
10®   12 
20
30@1  70
i*@40®1  60 
30®  33

Aqua, 16  deg................SIA®  5
20  deg................5H@  7
Carbonas  ....................   12® 14
Chlorldum...................  12® 14

A N IL INK.

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

Cnbeae (po  50).........   50®  55
Junlperus...................  8®  10
Xanthoxylum............   25®  30

BALSAM UM .

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

GORTBX.

Abies,  Canadian.................   18
Casslae  ...............................  11
Cinchona F iav a.................   18
Bnonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrica Cerlfera, po.............  20
Prunus Vlrglnl....................   12
Qulllala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
UlmuB Po (Ground 15)........  15

KXTRACTUM .

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24®  25
po...........  33®  35
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12
Is..............  13®  14
Vi«............   14®  15
¡48.............  16®  17
FK BBU M .

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Carbonate Preclp.......   ®  15
Citrate and Quinia—   @3 50
Citrate  Soluble...........  ®  80
FerrocyanldumSol—   @  50
Solut  Chloride...........  @  15
Sulphate,  com’l .............. 9®  2
pure............   ®  7

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Arnica.......................   18®  20
Anthemta...................  31®  35
40®  50
Matricaria 

 

FLO R A .

 
FO L IA .

......... 

Barosma 
 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tln-

40®1 00
nivelly....................   25®  28
“  Alx.  35®  50
and  Ms....................   15®  25
8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
UraUrsl...................... 

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OUM M I.

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®  75
Acacia,  1st  picked.... 
2d 
....  @  50
3d 
©  40
.... 
sifted sorts...  @  25
po.  ..............  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  &  12
Socotri, (po. 60).  ©  50
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Mb,
16)............................  ©  1
Ammonlae.................  55®  60
Assafcetlda, (po. 35)..  30®  35
Bensolnum.................  50®  55
Camphor»...................  55®  58
Buphorblum  p o ........  35®  lo
Gal ban urn...................  @2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70®  7b
Gualacum, (po  30)  ...  ®  25
Kino,  (po  50)............   ®  45
M astic.......................   @ 80
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
Opll.  (po  2 » « ............2 00@2 10
Shellac  ......................  25®  35
bleached......   30®  35
Tragacanth.................   40®1 00

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bbbba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Rupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  26
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita........'........   23
“  V Ir.........................  26
Rue.......................................  30
Tanacetum, Y ......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   S>
Calcined, Pat  ..............  55® 60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M ....  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennlng5..  35®  36

MAGNESIA.

OLBUM .

Absinthium................3 50@4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc  ..  ..  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae__ 8 00@8 25
Antal  ......................... 1  75@1 85
Auranti  Cortex...........2 40@2 50
Bergamll  ...................3  25®3 50
Cajipud  .....................  60® 65
Caryophylll.................   75® 80
Cedar 
.........................  35® 65
Chenopodll................  @1  60
Clnnamonll.................1  00@l 10
Cltronella  ....................   @ 45
Conlnm  Mac................  35® 66
Copaiba  ......................  90@1 00

Cubebae........................   @ 4 00
Exechthltos..............   2 50®2 75
Brlgeron...................2 25@2 50
Gaultheria................2 00@2  10
Geranium,  ounce......   @  75
Gosslpll, Sem. gal......   60®  75
Hedeoma  .................. 2 10@2 20
Juniper!.......................   50@2 00
Lavendula...................  90®2 00
Limonis.................... 2 50@3 00
Mentha Piper.............2 75@3 50
Mentha Verid........... 2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal........... 1  00@l  lo
Myrcla, ounce............   @ 50
Oflve......   ...................  85@P 75
Plcis Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
Rieini.......................   i  18@1  24
Rosmarinl............  
75®1  00
Rosae, ounce.............6 50®8 50
Succlnl........  ..............   40® 45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
Santal  ....................... 3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tlglii..........................   ®  90
Thyme.......................   40®  50
opt  ...............   @ 60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

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POTASSIUM.

RADIX.

BiCarb.........................  15® 18
Biohromate.................   13®  14
Bromide.......................  35® 39
Carb.............................. 
is® 15
Chlorate  (po 21@23).  20®  22
Cyanide.......................   50® 55
Iodide.........................2 90®3 00
Potassa, Bltart,  pure..  27®  30 
Potassa, Bltart, com...  @ 15
Potass  Nitras, opt...... 
8®  10
Potass Nitras..............  7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18
Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................   12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......   8®  10
Glychrrhiza, (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,  Me..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhel..............................  75@1 00
■  cut......................  @1  75
PV.......................   75@1 35
Splgella......................  35®  38
Sangulnarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentarla.................  30®  32
Senega.......................   65®  10
Simllax, Officinalis,  H @ 40
M  @  25
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Syuiplocarpus,  Foeti-
dus,  po....................  @  35
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a ................. 
15®  16
Zingiber J...............  
18®  22
SRMNN.

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Antaum,  (po. 20)........  @  15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  12®  15
Bird, Is.......................  4®  6
Carol, (po. 18).............  8®  12
Cardamon.................. 1  oo@l  25
Corlandmm................  10®  12
'lannabls Satlva.........   3H©4
Cydonlum...................  75®1 00
Chenopodlum  ...........  10®  12
Dlpterlx Odorate....... 3 00®3  25
Foenlculum...............   ®  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L lnl............................4  @ 4M
Linl, grd,  (bbl. 3M)...  4  ©4M
Lobelia.......................   35®  40
Pharlarta Canarian__6  @ 6M
Rapa..........................   6®  7
Slnapls  Albu............ 11  @13
Nigra...........  11®  12

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SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R ...... 1  75@2 00
................. 1 25®1  50
Jnnlperls  Co. O. T __1  65@2  00
“ 
...........1 75@3  50
Saacharum  N.  B....... 1 75®2  00
Spt.  Vlnl  Galll.......... 1 75@6  50
Vlnl Oporto............... 1 25@2  00
Ylnl  Alba.................. 1 25@2  00

SPONOBS.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 25@2  50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ................. 
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
Si
carriage................... 
Grass sheeps’ wool car
r la je .......................  
65
Harafor  slate  use__ 
75
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se.........................  
1  40

 

SYRUPS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferri  Iod.............................   50
Auranti  Cortes....................  50
Rhei  Arom...............   ......  50
Simllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega-................................  50
Sdllae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunas  flrg.........................  50

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70@1  95
0 n @ l  85 
@  40
6 5 ©   7 0  
©  10 
20®   22
@2  00
© 3  00 
@ 1  00 @  85 
©  50 @  1 @  3 

Morphia,  S. P. & W ...1 
S. N.  Y.  Q. *
C. Co....................... 1
Moschus Canton........
Myrlstlca, No. 1.........
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..
Os.  Sepia....................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................
Plcis  Liq, N.»C., M gal
doz  .........................
60
Plcis Liq., q uarts......
“ 
pints..........
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80) .. 
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..
Piper Alba, (po g5)__
Plx  Burgun................
©  7
Plumbl A cet..............
14®  15 
Pulvis Ipecac et opll.. 1 
10@1  20
Pyre thrum,  boxes  H 
& P. D.  Co., doz......
@1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®  35
Quasslae....................   8®  10
Qulnla, S. P. & W......  27®  32
S.  German....20  @  30
Rubia  Tlnctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
23®  25
Saladn.......................1  76@1  80
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
a  M.......................  10®  12

“  G.............................  @  15

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Seldlitz  Mixture........ @ 20
Slnapls.......................
© 18
,r  opt..................
90
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................
© 35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes 
@ 35
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .
10® 11
Soda  et Potass Tart... 27® 30
Soda Carb.................
1M@ 2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............ @ 5
Soda,  Ash.................. 3M© 4
Soda, Sulphas............
@ 2
Spts. Ether C o........... 50® 55
“  Myrcla  Dom......
©2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
*'  Vlnl  Rect.  bbL
...7........................ 2 65®2 75
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal......1  40@l  45
Sulphur, Subl..............2W@ 3M
Roll..............  2M@ 3
Tamarinds.................  8®  10
...  «(0 
Terebenth Venice..
...  28© 90
Theobromae......... ...45  © 48
Vanilla..................
.9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph........... ...  7® 8

OILS.

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

Bbl.  Gal
70
80
48
52

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b b l .  

P A IN T S. 

strained......... . 

65
Llndseed,  boiled  ....  52 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
60
SO 
SplrltsTnrpentlne....  37M  42
l b .
Red Venetian..............ljf  2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__1M  2@4
“ 
Ber........im  a@3
Putty,  commercial.... 2M 2M@3
“  strictly  pare...... 2M  2R©3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican...................  
13@16
 
Vermilion,  English__  
65@70
Green,  Peninsular......   70©75
Lead,  red..;................  ej£®7
“  w hite............... 6M@7
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  GIlders\77...  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
Cliff..................... :.. 
140
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20© 1 ¿4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints......................l 00@1 20
No. lT urp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Tnrp.................160@1  70
Coach Body............... 2 75©3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn........1  00@1  10
EutraTurkDamar....l  55®1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70@75
Tnrp......................... 

V A R N ISH B S.

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

MISCELLANEOUS.

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“  Pr®P.

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

"  
ground,  (po.

,ubra........

“ et Potass T.  55®  60

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  56®  60
Antlmonl, po.............. 
4®  5
Antipyrln...................  @1  40
Antlfebrln..................  @  25
Argentl  Nitras, onnce  ©  60
Arsenicum.................  5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............ 2 20@2 25 I
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
12;  Me,  14)..............
@  11
Cantharldes  Russian,
PO............................
@1  00 
Capsid  Fructus, af...
@  26 
@  28 
"  B po.
@  20 
Caryophyllus, (po.  1 5 ) ___
12®  14
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................   ®  40
Cassia Fructus...........  Q  25
Centrarla....................  @  10
Cetaceum...................  ©  40
Chloroform................  60®  63
squlbbs..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  35©1  60
Chondrus...................  20®  25
Clnohonldlne,F.  i f
  15®  20
German 8  @  12 
Corks,  list,  dia.  per
cent  ....................... 
60
Creasotum  ....
@ 35
Creta, (bbl. 75)
@ 2
5® 5
9® 11
© 8
Crocus.......................   75®
75® 85
Cudbear......................  @
O 24
Cuprl Sulph................  5 @
5® 6
Dextrine....................   10®
10® 12
Ether Sulph................  79®
7G® 75
Emery,  all  numbers.
@
@ 6
_
„   “ 
po.................. 
Ergota, (po.)  75..........  70®
70® 75
Flake  white..............  12®
12® 15
Galla..........................   @
® 23
Gambler......................7  ® 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ©  70
French...........  40®  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 &  10.
Less than box 66M
Glue,  Brown........
9®  15 
“  White.........
25 
Glycerins....................15M@
20 
Grana Paradisi...........  @
22 
Humulus....................   26®
55 
Hydraag Chlor Mite..  @ 
85 
“ 
“  Cor ....  @
80 
90
Ox Rubrum  @
“  Ammonlatl..  @100
“  Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  64
linthyobolla, Am..  ..1 25@1  50
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl..........3 80@3 90
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin.....................1 2@1  25
Lycopodium..............  60®  65
Macis.........................  75®  80
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltta  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1M)...........................  2®  5
Manilla,  S. F ............   60®  68

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CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils  Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole A gents for the Celebrated

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We are Sole P reprletors of

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We Have in Stock and Offer a Full U n e of

WHISKIES,  BRANDIES,

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-

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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THE  MICïïIGLAJN'  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 
going to  press  and  are an  accurate  index of  the local  market. 
It is  impossible  to give  quotations  suitable  for all conditions of  purchase,  and those 
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.

*   %  a

AXLE GREASE.
doz
......   55
......   75
......   50
......   8)
......   75
..  .. ........  55

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

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

Blackberries.
95
B. A  W ....................... 
Cherries.
................  1  io@i 20
Red  ... 
1 75
Pitted Hamburgh  . . .  
W hite......................... 
1  59
Erie  ..........................  
1 20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 

Arctic.

BAKING POWDER.
Acme.
45
V4 lb. cans,  3 doz................ 
2 “  .................   85
H lb.  “ 
1 
lb.  “  1  “  .................  1  60
BtHk....................................  10
U lb cans............................  60
1  20
Vi lb 
2 00
lb 
fi> 
9 60
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case...  80 
...2  00 
16“ 
per doz
oz 

 
 
Fosfon.

Dr. Price’s.

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D 'pm cts
ICREAMI
Ba k in g
Pow der

Dime cans.
4- 
6-oz
5- oz 
12-oz 
16-oz 
2J4 lb 
4 lb 
5-lb 
10-lb

Red Star, & 9> cans..........  
40
..........  
60
...........  1  50
45
Teller’s,  Vi lb. cans, doz. 
85
“  .. 
“  ..  1  50

Vi*>  “ 
1 ft  “ 
VS lb.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 

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BATH  BRICK.
2 

dozen In case.

 

 

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8 oz 

BLUING. 

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BROOMS.

English...............................  90
Bristol..................................  80
Domestic.............................   TO
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals..............  4 GO
“ 
“  pints,  round........... 10 50
“  No. 2, sifting box... 2 75
“  No. 3, 
... 4 00
“  No. 5, 
... 8 00
1 oz ball  ................  4  50
“ 
No. 2 Hurl..........................  1  75
No. 1  “  .......................... 2 00
No. 2 Carpet................. 
-.  2 25
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

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BRUSHES.

Rice Root Scrub, 2  row—   85
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row__  1  25
Palmetto, goose......................  1 50
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes............   10
Star,  40 
..............  9
Paraffine  ...........................   11
Wicklng  ............................ 24

CANDLES.

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CANNED  GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

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“ 

Little Neck,  lib .................1  20
lb...............1  90

“  2 
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Standard, 3 lb...........................2 25
Standard,  1 lb....................   90
21b.....................1  60
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb...........................2  5i
“  2  lb........................... 8  50
Picnic, 1 lb..........................2 00
“ 
21b..........................2  90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb...................... 1 25
2  lb.................... 2  10
Mustard,  2 lb ......................2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb............2  25
Soused, 2 lb........................2  25
Salmon.
Columbia River, flat..........1  90
“  »alls..........1  75
Alaska, Red  ....................... l 45
pink........................1  25
Sardines.
American  V£s................4 Vi© 5
As...............6V4@ 7
Imported  Vis.....................10@11
Vis.....................15@16
Mustard  Ms..................... 7@8
21
Boneless.......................... 
Brook, 8 lb......................... 2  50

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Trout.
Fruits.
Apples.

lb. standard........  
3 
York State, gallons  ... 
Hamburgh,  *• 
__ 
Apricots.
Live oak................ ... 
Santa Cruz................. 
Lusk’s........................ 
Overland................... 

l 00
3  00
2 75
l 75
1 75
175
1 75

Gages.

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

Peaches.

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

1  10
1  70
1  20

1  25
1  85
2 00
2  10
1  85

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1  30
1  50

1  20
2 10

Domestic.................... 
Riverside.................... 
Pineapples.
Common....................  1  00@l 30
-Johnson’s  sliced.......  
2 50
grated.......  
2 75
Quinces.
Common.................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
Red 
.......................... 
Black  Hamburg.........  
Erie, black 
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................  
1  25
Hamburgh................. 
1  25
1  25
Erie............................ 
1  10
Terrapin.......................- 
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............  
1  10
Corned  beef,  Libby’s..........1  t-5
Roast beef,  Armour’s..........1  75
Potted  ham, 54 lb .....................1 30
“  Vi lb.................  80
“ 
tongue, Vi lb..................1 35
“ 
7 00
K lb.........   85
“ 
chicken, M lb.........  
95

Bleats.

1 30

“ 

Vegetables.

Beans.

1  00

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Com.

“ 
“ 
2 50
“ 

Hamburgh  stringless..........1  25
French style...... 2 25
Limas................. 1  40
Lima, green..............................l 40
soaked......................  75
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 85
Bay State  Baked...................... 1 35
World’s  Fair  Baked................1 35
Picnic Baked..................  
Hamburgh  .........................
Livingston  E den.....................1 20
Purity  ................................
Honey  Dew..............................l 50
Morning Glory..................
Soaked...................................   1 15
Hamburgh  marrofat............1 35
early'June.........
Champion Eng.. 1  50
petit  pois............1 75
fancy  sifted___ 1 90
Soaked.................................  75
Harris standard..................   75
VanCamp’s  marrofat......  .1  10
early June.......1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  35
French... 
.........................2  15
French..............................15@20
Erie.....................................   85
Hubbard...................................1 25
Hamburg  ............................ 1 40
Soaked.................................  85
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 60
E rie............... 
1  35
Hancock...................................1 10
Excelsior .  ......................... 1  10
Eclipse......................................l 10
Hamburg.............................1 30
Gallon.................................3 00

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.

“ 

CHOCOLATE.

Baker’s.

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

23
37
43

CHEESE.

Amboy........................12M@12S£
Acme.......................... 12Ji©12Vi
Riverside................... 12Vi@12M
Gold  Medal  .................   @12
Skim.......................... 9  a i l
Brick.............................  
E dam ........................  
Leiden....................... 
Llmburger  ...................  @10
Pineapple......................  @25
Roquefort......................  @35

11
1 00
23

“Universal.”
$ 1, per hundred..............  S3 00
“ 
#2, 
3 50
 
“ 
S3, 
 
4 00
S  5,  “ 
5 00
 
“ 
810, 
.................6  00
820, 
“ 
 
7 00

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1, 6V4  ........................  Si  75
No. 2, 6Vi  .........................  1  60
No. 1,6....... 
1  65
No. 2, 6.............................   1  50
No. 1,6Vi............  ...........  1  35
No. 2,6V4............. 
1  25

XX  wood, white.

 

 

 

Sap Sago  ..................
Schweitzer, imported. 
domestic  __
CATSUP.

“ 

@22
@24 
@14

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 
Pound  packages.......... 6M@7

      ........  @314

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

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

Santos.

Fair......................................20
Good....................................21
Prime.................................. 22
Peaberry  .............................23
Mexican and Guataraala.
Fair......................................20
Good.................................... 21
Fancy................. „...............23
Maracaibo.
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 Vic. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent,  for shrink­
age.

Package.

M cLaughlin’s  XXXX  23.80
Bnnola  ...........................   23.30
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__23.80

Extract.

Valley City V4 gross...  ....  75
Felix 
......... 1  15
Hummel’s, foil, gross........1  so
“ 
........2 50

“ 

“ 

tin 
CHICORV.

Bulk..............................  
.  5
Red..................................... 7

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton,  40 ft......... perdoi.  1  25
1 40
1  60
175
190
90
1  00

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Jute 
“ 
CONDENSED  MILK.

50ft.......... 
60 f t.......... 
70 ft.......... 
80 ft.......... 
60 ft.......... 
72 f f ........ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

4  doz. in case.

Eagle.................................   7 40
Crown  .................................6 25
Genuine Swiss...................  7 70
American Swiss...................6  25

COUPON  BOOKS.

“Tradesman.’

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

, per  hundred.............   2 00
2 50
, 
, 
3 00
, 
3 00
, 
4 00
, 
5 00
. per  hundred.............   2  50
3 00
“ 
, 
3 50
,  “ 
. 
“ 
4 00
, 
“ 
5 00
,  “ “ 
.................. 6 00

“ 
“ 
“ 
" 
“ 
“Superior.”
“ 
“ 
“ 

 
“  
 
 

 

“
“

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

Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over............   5  per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 
COUPON PASS BOOKS.
[Can  be  made to represent any
denomination  from S10  down. |
20 books....................... $ 1  00
....................... .  2 00
50  “ 
....................... .  3 00
100  “ 
....................... .  6 25
250  “ 
500  “ 
...........  ......... .  10 00
1000  “ 
....................... .  17 50

CREDIT CHECKS.

500, any one denom’n ..
1000,  “ 
2000,  “ 
Steel  punch....................
CRACKERS.

“ 
“ 

“
“

..S3 00
..  5 00
..  8 00
75

Butter.

Seymour XXX...............
.  6
Seymour XXX, cartoon. ...  6Vi
Family  XXX.................
..  6
Family XXX,  cartoon... ...  6Vi
Salted XXX.................
...  6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ... ...  6Vi
Kenosha 
.................... ■ ■  7 Vi
Boston........................
...  8
Butter  biscuit..............
•  6Vi

Soda.

Soda, XXX....................
Soda, City.....................
Soda,  Duchess  ............
Crystal Wafer...............
Long  Island Wafers
Oyster.
S. Oyster  XXX..............
City Oyster. XXX...........
Farina  Oyster..............

.  6
...  7Vi
...  8Vi
.. .10
...11
...  6
...  6
...  6

CREAM  TARTAR.
Strictly  pure......................
Telfer’s Absolute..............
Grocers’............................20@25

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

7 
7

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Blackberries.
Nectarines.

Sundried. sliced in  bbls. 
Evaporated. 50 lb. boxes  @9Vi 
California in  bags........ 
16V4
Evaporated in boxes.  .. 
17
In  boxes..................... 8  @9
15
70 lb. bags....................... 
25 lb. boxes.....................  
1556
Peeled, in  boxes........... 
16
Cal. evap.  “ 
........... 
12V4
“ 
in bags........ 
12
California in bags-----
Pitted Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
26  “ 
...................
Prunelles.

Peaches.

Pears.

•• 

“ 

301b.  boxes..................
Raspberries.
In barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
......................
25 lb.  “ 
Raisins.

Loose  MuscatelB in Boxes.

2 crown.............................   1  50
3 
.............................   1 65
2  crown  .............................  5V4
3 
...............................6V4

“ 
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
“ 

Foreign.
Currants.

Patras,  in barrels............
In  H-hbls..............
in less quantity —

“ 
“ 

Peel.

“ 
“ 

25  “ 
25  “ 

“ 
“ 
Raisins.

Citron, Leghorn, 25 lb. boxes  20 
Lemon 
10
Orange 
11
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes..  @8
Sultana, 20 
@10
Valencia, 30 
@7
Prunes.
Califomia,  100-120....
90x100 25 lb
“
80x90 
70x80 
“
60x70 
“

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
'* 

.......10V4
. bxs.UVi 
•  12V4 
1314 
.14 
7V4
9V4

Turkey. 
Silver ... 
Sultana .

*  «

A  y  >

«a  1  *

1

A  «  A

Manilla, white.

6V4  ....................................  1 00
6........................................  
95
Mill  No. 4.........................  100
FARINACEOUS GOODS. 

Coin.

Farina.
Hominy.

100 lb. kegs................... 
3M
Barrels....-.'........................8 00
G rits....................................3  50
Dried............................  
45£

Lima  Beans.

Maccaroni and Vermicelli. 

Domestic, 12 lb. box.... 
56
Imported.................... 10V4@-. Vi

Oatmeal.

Barrels 200.......................  525
Half barrels 100 .................   2 75

Pearl Barley.

K egs...................................  2 Vi

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.
 

Green,  bu..........................  1 75
Split  per 1b.................  
2Vi
Barrels  180.........................  5 26
Half  bbls 90 
German.............................   454
 
East India...................... 
 
Cracked.............................. 
5

Wheat.

Sago.

 

HERBS.

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

INDIGO.

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

17  1b. pailB.......................  
30  “ 

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

55
50

“ 
LICORICE.

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

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

“ 

MATCHES.

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

MINCE  MEAT.

2 75

5

3  or 6 doz. In case  per dns.. 95

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

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

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

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

New Orleans.

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

PICKLES. 
Medium. 
Barrels, 1,200 count.
Half bbls, 600  count..
Small.

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

@7 00 
@4 00

8 00 
4 50

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

POTASH.
48 cans in case.
 

Babbitt’s ............... 
4 00
PennaSalt  Co.’s..............  3 25
RICE.
Domestic.
Carolina bead........................6
No. 1....................... 5
No. 2....................  4 Vi
Broken.................................  3
Imported.

“ 
“ 

« 

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

 

 

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

“ 

Cod.

5Vi
7
654
10

Halibut.
Herring.

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

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

10 lb s...................   65
Russian, kegs....................   45
No. 1, Vi bbls., lOOlbs.......... 6 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   80

Sardines.
Trout.

“ 

“ 

Whlteflsh.

No. 1, Vi bbls., lOOlbs.......... 7 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   90
Family, Vi bbls., 100 lbs__  3  10
kits  10  lb s.........  45

“ 

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

Bonders’.

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

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
2 o z __S  75
4  oz_  1  50

Regular 
Vanilla.

doz
I  2oz  _$1  2ti
4 oz.........2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
I 2 oz........SI 50
4 OZ.......  3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
I 2 oz........SI 75
14 oz.........3 50

Jennings’ D  G.

Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding box...  75 
1  25
3 oz 
...100 
150
4 oz 
...1  50 
2 00
3 00
.. .2  00 
6 oz 
...3  00 
3 oz 
4 00
GUNPOWDER.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“  u   kem 

Austin’s Rifle, kegs............ 3 50
“ 
2 no
“  Crack Shot, kegs ..3 50 
“ 
Vi kegs 2 00
“  Club Sporting  “  4 50
. 
Vi  “  2 50

“ 
“ 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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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
“  No.  I ....................
.70
“  No. 2.................... .60
Pepper, Singapore, black... 
.  9 
" 
“  white...
.20
shot...................... .15
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.

“ 

Allspice............................. .12
Cassia,  Batavia................. .18
and  Saigon.22
“ 
Saigon................. 30
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
—  Zanzibar..................18
Ginger, African................... 14
K  Cochin..................   17
Jam aica................. 18
“ 
Mace  Batavia......................70
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste.. 16
“  Trieste.................... 18
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................60
Pepper, Singapore, black__16
“  white...... 24
“ 
“  Cayenne..................18
Sage......................................14
“Absolute” In Packages.
Ms  Ms
Allspice...........  ..........  84 166
Cinnamon...........  ....  84  155
Cloves...........................  84 1  55
Ginger, Jam.................   84 1 55
“  A f....................   84 1  55
Mustard.......................   84 1  55
Pepper.........................   84 155
Sage........ 

.............  84

. 

SAX.  SODA.

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

SAUERKRAUT.

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

SEEDS.

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

6
8
90
4M
4)4
6
9
6
80

Corn.

 

“ 

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

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

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

“ 
“ 

SNUFF.

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

SODA.

Boxes....................................5M
Kegs, English........................4!»

SALT.
 
 

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

drill  “ 

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

.. 

“ 

“ 

Higgins.

Solar Rock.

56JH. dairy in linen  sacks.  75 

56 1l.  sacks.......................   27

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

Common Fine.
 
SALERATUS.

90
95

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

SOAP.
liaundry.

“ 

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

Old Country,  80  1-lb........ ..3 20
Good Cheer, 6011b........... ..3 90
White Borax, 100  *-lb.... ..3 60
Concord............................ .  2 80
Ivory, 10  oz.................... .  6 75
6  oz....................... .  4 00
Lenox............................... 3 65
Mottled  German.............. .  3 15
Town Talk....................... .  3 00
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp d. .S3 30 
plain...  3 24
5c size..  4 25
N. K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  4 00
Brown, 60 bars.................... 2  10
80  b a rs...................3 25
Acme...................................3 65
Cotton Oil............................ 5 75
Daisy...................................3 10
Marseilles............................ 4 00
Master.................................4 00

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

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 ................. 4 56
No.  6  .................................   4 44
No.  7....................................4 37
No.  8....................................4 25
No.  9....................................4  18
No.  10.................................. 4  12
No.  11.................................. 4 00
No.  12................................   3 87
No.  13.................................   3 31

SYRUPS.

Com.

Barrels........................ 
 
Half bbls..............................24
Pure Cane.
Fair.....................................   19
Good.....................................  25
Choice..................................  30

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

8
8

9
8M
8M

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

*1 for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.

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

YEAST.

Magic,.......................................1 00
Warner’s  ..................... 
Yeast Foam  ........................1  00
Diamond...............................  75
Royal....................................  90

Brands.

Scotten’s Brands.

Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish.............. 38
Gold C u t............................ 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...........................41
Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle Sam.........   ........ 2g@32
Red Clover...........................32
Tom and Jerry.....................25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Buck Horn..................  
  3o
Plow  Boy...................... 30@32
Corn  Cake  ......................... 16

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

OIL8.

quotes 
f. o.  b.

The  Standard Oil  Co. 
as  follows,  in barrels. 
Grand Rapids:
Eocene........................
22
Water White, old test. 
W.  W.  Headlight, 156°
Water  W hite...........
Naptha.......................
Stove Gasoline...........
Cylinder................... 27
Engine..................... 13
Black, 15 cold  test__
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

8
@ 7M 6* 
@ 6)4 
@ 7 
@ 6*  @36 

@21 @ 8M

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

H ID E S .

“ 

 

 

No. 2 hides M off.
PE L T S .

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

TEAS.

jafan—Regular.

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

BUN CUBXD.

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

B A SK ET  F IR E D .

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

G U N PO W D ER.

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. 

IM P E R IA L .

TO U N G  HYSON.

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

EN G LISH   B R E A K FA ST .

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

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

Palls unless otherwise noted
Hiawatha................... 
62
36
Sweet Cuba................ 
McGinty....................  
27
25
“  M bbls.......... 
Dandy Jim .................  
29
Torpedo..................... 
24
in drums—  
23
28
Yum  Yum  ................ 
1892............................ - 
23
“  drums................. 
22

“ 

Plug.

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

Smoking.

Catlin’s  Brands.

41
26
40
26
38
34
40
32

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

M ISCELLANEOUS.

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P U R S .

Tallow........................   4 @ 5M
Grease butter  ...........  1  @2
Switches.....................  1M@ 2
Ginseng.... ................. 2 00®2 75
Outside prices for No. 1 only.
Badger.........................  50@1 00
B ear.......................15 00@25 00
Beaver............................3 00@7 00
Cat, wild......................  40@ 50
Cat, house...................  10© 25
Fisher..............................4 00@6 00
Fox,  red  ................... 1  00@1  60
Fox, cross....................... 3 00@5 00
Fox,  grey....................   50@ 80
Lynx...............................2 00@3 00
Martin, dark...................1  00@3 00
pale & yellow.  50@1  00
Mink, dark...................  40@1 40
Muskrat.......................   03®  12
Oppossum....................   15® 30
Otter, dark......................5 00@3 00
Raccoon......................  25® 90
Skunk  .......................1  00@1  25
W olf............................... 1  00@3 00
Beaver  castors, lb__2 00@5 00
Thin and green............  
10
Long gray, dry.............. 
20
Gray, dry 
................... 
25
Red and Blue, dry........ 
35
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS 
66 
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test) 
66
Bolted...  .........................  140
Granulated.......................  1 60
Straight, in sacks............   3 90
“ barrels...........  4 10
“ 
Patent 
“ sacks.............  4 90
“ barrels...........  5 10
“ 
Graham  “  sacks...........  1 70
Rye 
“ 
...........  2 TO
Buckwheat, Rising  Sun__4 75
& Co’s  Pure....................4  25

deerskins—per pound.

Walsh-DeRoo 

W H EA T.

FL O U R .

M EAL.

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M IL L ST U FFS.

Car lots  quantity
«15 00
Bran........... .. *14  50
14 50
Screenings....  14 00
16 00
Middlings.. ...  15 50
20 00
Mixed Feed....  19 50
19 50
Coarse meal ..  19 00
..47
Car  lots......
Less than  car  lots........... ..52

COHN.

Old corn, 2c higher.

OATS.

..39
Car  lots  ...
Less than car lots............ ..42
No. 1 Timothy, car lots... .12 00
... .12 50
No. 1 

H A T .
ton lots 

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FRESH MEATS.

Beef,carcass..............  6  @8
“  hindquarters...  7  @  9 
fore 
...  5 @ 6
“ 
loins,  No. 3... 10  @12
“ 
ribs................   9  @10
“ 
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rounds.............6  @6)4

“ 

“ 

shoulders 

Bologna......................  @6
Pork loins.................   @12M
........  ©10*
Sausage, blood or head  @  7
liv er........ 
.  @7
Frankfort__  @8)4
Mutton  ....................... 8  @9
Veal...............................7 @8

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FISH  and  OYSTERS

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follows :
F R E S H   F IS H .
Whitefish 
.................  @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  W hite.........  @8
Stockfish......................  
11
Finnan  Haddies........... 
10
S ei....................................  
oysters—Cans.
Fairhaven  Counts__  @40
F . J. D.  Selects.........   @33
Selects..............  ......   @30
Anchor.......................  @26
Standards  .................   @26
Favorites...........  . . .  
21

20
1  00

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SH ELL  GOODS.
1  50@1  75
Oysters, per  100........
Clams, 
.........
1 00@1  25
Counts, per g a l .........
2 40
Extra  Selects............
2 25
Selects .......................
2 C0
Standards..................
2 00
Clams.........................
1  75
Scallops  ....................
2 CO
Schrimps....................
1  00
PA PER A WOODEN WARE

P A P E R .

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Straw 
...................... ......... 1*
Rockfalls................... ......... 17s
Rag sugar..................
Hardware.................. ......... 2M
Dry  Goods................. 5  @6  1
Jute  Manilla..............
@5)4
Red  Express  N o.l... 
No.2  .. ........5)4
......... 4)4
48 Cotton.................... ...... Í0
Cotton, No. 1.............. ....... 17
........16
Sea  Island, assorted. ...... 30
........15
No. 5 Hemp...............
........15
No. 6  “ ......................
W OODENW ARE
Tubs, No. 1................. ......  7 00
“  No. 2................. ...... 6 00
“  No. 3................. ...... 5 00

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TW IN ES.

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

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“ willow cl’ths, No.l
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“  No.2
“  No.3
“  No.l
“  No.2
“ 
.No.3
IN D U R A TED   W A RE.
Pails..................................
Tubs, Mdoz.........................

splint 

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4 05 
4 55

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as  follows :
Fowl..........................11 @12)4
Turkeys..................
@16
Ducks  .  ....................14 @15
Chicken.................. ..14 @15
L IV E .
Chickens,............... ..11 @13
Fowls..................
..  9
Turkeys...............
..12 @13
Spring Duck........... ..11 @13

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

FO R K   IN   B A R R E L S.

Mess............................................................   19 00
Short c u t....................................................... 21  00
Extra clear pig, short cut.............................  22 00
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat back.............................................  22  00
Boston clear, short cut.................................   22 00
Clear back, short cut....................................   22 00
23 00
Standard clear, short cat. best...................  

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

Pork Sausage................................................... 10)4
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage..............................................  9
Frankfort Sausage 
........................................  9
Blood Sausage.................................................   7
Bologna, straight............................................  6
Bologna, thick................................................  6
Headcheese......................................................7
Kettle  Rendered.............................................12)4
Granger............ ..............................................il?j
Family................................................... 
  9)4
Compound............................................. 
50 lb. Tins, )4C advance.
20 lb.  pails, Me 
10 lb.  “  * c 
51b.  “  %c 
31b.  “  1  c 

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B E E F   IN   B A R R E L S.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs....................... 8 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing..........................8 00
Boneless, rump butts...................................... 12 50

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

“ 
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Hams, average 20 lbs....................................... 14
16 lbs......................................14M
“ 
“  12 to 14 lbs.....................................14*
picnic................................................... 12
best boneless........................................  13
Shoulders.................................  
11)*
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..............................14
Dried beef, ham prices...................................10
Long Clears, heavy.........................................
Briskets,  medium.  ........................................
light...........  ..................................

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

STIC K   CANDY.
Case

Standard,  per lb............
“  H.H.............. ...
Twist  ..............
“ 
Boston Cream ...............   8)4
Cut  Loaf.........................
Extra H.  H......................  8M
M IX ED   CANDY.

6)4
6)4

is  Bbls. Palls.
7)4
7)4
7)4
8)4

Bbls.
...6
...6
...6)4
,. .7
.. .7
.. .7
3t8
8

Palls.
7
7
7)4
8
8
8
8
9
10
13
...  8
...  8

Nobby.............................
English  Rock.................
Conserves.......................
Broken Taffy...................
Peanut Squares...............
French Creams..............
Valley  Creams................
Midget, 30 lb. baskets___
Modern, SO lb. 
...... .

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fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Palls.
Lozenges, plain............................................   10
printed.........................................   11
Chocolate Drops............................................ 11M
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  13
Gum Drops....................................................   5)4
Moss Drops....................................................   8
Sour Drops....................................................   8M
Imperials.................... 
10
Per Box
Lemon Drops................................................... 55
  55
Sour Drops.............................................  
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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3 
2
3 

ORANGES.

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LEMONS.

CARAM ELS.

Figs, fancy  layers, 61b.................

Plain Creams..................
Decorated Creams..............
String  Rock..........................
Burnt Almonds..........................
Wintergreen Berries.................
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
No.3, 
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes...........
Small...................................................
Medium..........................................".
Large............................................1
Floridas, fancy 
................................
Messinas, :)00s................................ .
300s..................................”
Messina, choice, 360...........................
fancy, 360........................
choice 300............................
fancy 300  ............................
O TH ER   FO R EIG N   FR U IT S .
“  101b  ..  .  ..............
“  14 lb........................
“  20B>........................
50-ib.  “ 
.................... ;;
Persian, 50-lb.  box..................
Almonds, Tarragona..........................
Ivaca................................ .
California..........................
Brazils, new........................................
Filberts......................................
Walnuts, Grenoble.............................
“  Mar hot.................................
Calif....................................
“ 
Table Nuts,  fancy.............................
choice............................
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  ____   _____
Cocoanuts, full sacks.........................
Fancy, H.  P.,Suns.............................
“  Roasted.................
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...........................
“  Roasted................
Choice, H. P„  Extras.........................
“  Roasted............
California  Walnuts...........................

“ 
9
“  extra 
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Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box...

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NU TS.

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Sillon
............1  00
Aft
i  00
..............60
...........  34
...........  51
...........  28
49
...........  90

@ 8 

85 @3 25 
@3 00 
@3 00
@3 25 
@ 3 75 
@3 25 
4 00
@12)4
@12M@15 
@16 
@ 5 
@  5
@18M 
@17 M 
@18)4 
@WM @11 
@14 
@1  @13 
:_~@13)4
@12)4
2  @14 
@5 00
@ 5M 
@ ?M@ 5)4 
@ 7)4 
@ 4)4 
@ 6M 
lgM

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

F R U IT   JA R S .

Pints............................................................S 6 75
Quarts..........................................................  7 00
Half Gallons................................................  9 00
Caps.............................................................   2 75
Rubbers.....................................  
 
LA M P  B U R N ER S.
No. 0 Sun...........................................................  45
No. 1  “  ...........................................................  50
No.2  “  ................................................ 
....  75
Tubular............................................................   75

lamp chimneys.—Per box.

6 doz. In box.

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La Bastie.

XXX Flint.

“ 
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Pearl top.

First quality.
“ 
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No. 0 Sun................................... ....................  1  75
No. 1  “  .........................................................1  88
No.2  “  .........................................................2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top...................................... 2 25
No. 1 
.....................................2 40
“ 
No.2 
“  ...................................... 3 40
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.  .............................   . ..2 60
“  ...................................... 2 80
No. 1 
No. 2 
.....................................3 86
“ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled....................3 70
“ 
No.2  “ 
....................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4 88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz...................... 1  25
....................... 150
No.2  “ 
No. 1 crimp, per doz....................................... 1 35
No.2  “ 
........................................1 60
No. 0, per  gross..............................................  23
No. 1, 
 
No  2, 
 
No. 3, 
 
Mammoth, per doz...............   .......................   75
Butter Crocks, 1 and 6 gal..........................  06M
Jugs, M gal., per doz...................................  75
....................................  90
................................... 1 80
Milk Pans, M gal., per dos..........................   (6
“ 
glased..............   75
...........................  78
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glazed................  90

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LA M P W ICK S.

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GROCERY  METHODS  IN  HOLLAND.

W h at  T horough  T raining a n d  P ra ctical 

Experience  Will  Do.

To be “Jack of all  trades  aDd  master 
of none,” seems to be the great American 
idea as to what constitntes a  proper  pre­
paration for earning a  livelihood and  se­
curing a share of the good things of  this 
life.  These “Jacks”  stand no chance  in 
the  race  for  success  with  skilled  and 
thoroughly  trained  competitors. 
In no 
mercantile pursuit do  we  find  so  many 
“Jacks”  as in the grocery  business,  and 
in every one hundred  so  engaged  it  is 
safe to say that fully 95 per cent,  are  in­
competent.  They have had  no  previous 
training whatever, and but a few of them 
ever tied up a pound of  anything  before 
they  commenced 
to  puddle  around 
amongst  their  own  goods.  No  wonder 
this 95 per cent. fail.  The wonder is not 
that so many fail, but that so many stand 
ready to sacrifice themselves  by  rushing 
in to fill up the  ranks  as,  one  by  one, 
they throw up their hands and  go under. 
To succeed in the  face of this  wholesale 
slaughter, requires skill and tact.  To be 
able to manage a grocery business in such 
a way as to make a brilliant success of it, 
and that right  in  the  midst  of  twenty 
concerns  that  run  themselves  without 
the least regard  to  business  principles, 
requires  a  knowledge  of  the  business 
and a rigid  discipline  such  as  but  few 
young men in this free and easy  country 
of ours  acquire.  Young  America  lacks 
the  patience  to  secure  the  necessary 
knowledge,  and he loves his  liberty,  not 
too wisely but too well, to submit  to  the 
necessary  discipline  in  fitting  himself 
for  so simple a thing, apparently, as  the 
managing of a grocery store.  He prefers 
to take his chances with the crowd,  and, 
when he pulls in with the successful few, 
it is due more to a lucky accident than to 
anything else.

Peter Schuit, the Ottawa street grocer, 
presents a striking example  of  what  an 
early practical  training  in  the  grocery 
business will do to insure success.  Four­
teen short  years  ago,  Mr.  Schuit  com­
menced business in Ottawa street with  a 
capital of $50.  To-day he is worth about 
$15,000 and is yet a  young  man.  Peter, 
as he is  familiarly  called, 
is  a  grocer 
from the ground  up.  There  is  nothing 
magical  about  his  success—he  simply 
knows how to run  a grocery store and he 
runs it.  He knows what to buy, when to 
buy and how much to buy; and  although 
not a large man,  he  never  permits  any 
other man to “sit down on”  him  in  the 
management of  his own  business.  Mr. 
Schuit  is  a  social,  pleasant  gentleman 
with whom to converse, and he  Is  brim­
ful of information on all matters pretain- 
ing to the grocery business.  While talk­
ing with a reporter for T h e T ra desm a n, 
the other day,  on  old  country  business 
customs,  he kindly  vouchsafed  the  fol­
lowing information:

“A grocery store in America  is quite  a 
different  sort  of  an  institution  from  a 
grocery store in Holland.  Our tea stores 
are very much like  the  old  country  gro­
cery  stores in appearance.  Here a  gro­
cery store is a combination  of  what, 
in 
Holland, would be four separate and dis­
tinct kinds of business, namely, a grocer, 
a  dealer  in  green  fruits,  a  vegetable 
dealer and a dealer in butter, eggs, cheese, 
soft soaps,  etc.  The  HoUapd  grocery, 
being  free  from  these*  other  lines,  is 
much neater and cleaner, of course,  than 
the stores in this country.

Gold Medal 

.

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N ,
“In one sense, the Holland  grocery  has 
attached to it a sort of factory feature, that 
is, a  large  amount of labor is expended in 
preparing  the  goods and putting them in 
proper condition for sale.  Goods do  not 
go out of the store in the same  condition 
in which they come into  it,  as  in  this 
country; for  instance,  currants,  raisins, 
rice,  teas,  sugars,  etc.,  are received in, 
condition, just as they are  here:  but  the 
currants and raisins must be  cleaned for 
the table; the  rice  must  be  sifted  and 
screened,  making several  grades  at  cor­
responding prices,  and  the  sugars  must 
be kept free by pulverizing,  in order that 
they may be easily  handled  and  readily 
mixed.  A grocer is supposed to  be  able 
to  duplicate,  by  mixing,  any  sample 
which may be sent to him by a customer. 
In teas he must also  know  how  to  sift, 
mix and  grade  to  suit  his  customers. 
Coffee is  always  bought  in  the  green 
state and  roasted  by  the  grocer.  The 
roasting process is more perfect than that 
in  vogue in this country.  A full hour is 
required for the roasting, and the cooling 
should be gradual.  The roasted  berry is 
larger and more uniform,  which  proves 
the superiority  of  the  Holland  process 
of roasting.  The  Holland  grocer  makes 
his own cocoa  and  chocolate.  He  buys 
the  cocoa  seeds  or  beans,  which  are 
about the size  of a  peanut,  and  roasts, 
pulverizes, melts,  flavors,  sweetens  and 
manufactures them into different articles 
Of  cocoa  and  chocolate.  The  Holland 
grocer  uses  buckwheat  flour  in  making 
his chocolate paste,  which is better  than 
the  rye flour used in this country.

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■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 b d a .l .

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

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

Gold  Medal  brand.

BALL-BARNHART-PUTMAN  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,

Wholesale  Clothiers, Rochester, N. V.

Borsu’s Fats  Lipid.

The mineral is imported from Austria.

McDowell’s  Metal  Polish. 

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 a rra n d,  W illia m s & Cla r k,  Detroit. 
H a ze lt in e  & P er k in s Drug Co.,  Grand Rapids. 
F o8teb,  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.

I tell you,  a grocery clerk has something 
to learn in the old country.  He must not 
only devote three years of  his  time,  but 
he must pay  for  the  privilege  beside. 
Wealthy fathers sometimes  pay  as  high 
as $600  to get a son into a  good  grocery 
house to learn the business.  As  the  ap­
prentice  receives nothing but  his  board 
and washing, the father has to keep  him 
clothed for  three  years,  in  addition  to 
the sum paid for instruction.  Of course, 
such an  apprentice has it easier than one 
who only pays $300 and puts in full work. 
I learned my business in one of  the  best 
grocery houses in the city of Amsterdam. 
I paid $300 for the privilege  of  working 
three years for my board.  The bouse em­
ployed quite a force  of  clerks,  and  we 
all wore  a  white  uniform  with  aprons. 
We worked from 5:30 a. m.  to 11:30 p. m., 
and on  Saturday  nights  until  1  o’clock 
Sunday morning.  At this  hour,  women 
employes came in to scour up everything, 
and a detail  of  clerks  alternated  in  re­
maining to assist in moving  barrels  and 
other heavy articles.  This weekly scour­
ing lasted until 3 o’clock Sunday morning, 
and yet the week’s  work  was  not  com­
pleted,  as  the  stores  did  not  close  on 
Sunday.  The  only  difference  between 
Sunday and any other day was  a  lighter 
trade,  which required a smaller  force  of 
clerks, and this made  it  possible  for  us 
to have every second or third  Sunday  to 
ourselves.  The only way we could get a 
half-holiday  during  the  week  was  by 
putting in extra Sunday work.

“After completing  my apprenticeship, 
I was employed and finally became  head 
clerk at the princely  (?)  salary  of  $150 
per year.  This was the maximum wage, 
the minimum  being  about  $60,  and  the 
average received by grocery clerks would 
not exceed $80 per year,  board,  of course, 
included.”

Mr. Schuit related  a  little  experience 
he had as a member of a  grocery  clerks’

inclined 

union in the  old  city  of  Amsterdam,  a 
quarter of a  century  ago,  which  shows 
that clerks’ unions are not quite so  mod­
ern  or  peculiarly  American  as  some 
might  be 
to  suppose.  “We i 
made up  our  minds,”  said  Mr.  Schuit, 
“that a working day commencing at  5:30 
in the morning  and  closing  at  11:30  at 
night was too much of a good thing,  and 
so we formed a  union  to  bring  about  a 
reform.  We demanded a half-hour later 
in  the  morning  and one hour  earlier  at 
night.  We demanded Free Sundays,  and 
Saturday’s closing hour should remain at 
1 o’clock Sunday morning.  1 was placed 
on the committee whose  duty  it  was  to 
wait upon the city  proprietors  with  our 
demand.  This sealed my  doom. 
I  was 
notified by my  employers  that  my  ser­
vices  were  no  longer  needed. 
The 
union stood by me,  and not a man would 
raise a finger,  and the  result was  that  I 
was  reinstated  and  our  demands  were 
granted.”

In answer to  a  question,  Mr.  Schuit 
said:  “Oh, Yes, the  trade was  bothered 
more or less by price cutting competitors. 
That reminds me  of a  funny incident re­
lating  to  price  cutting. 
A  German 
opened up a grocery store in our vicinity, 
and being very  anxious  to  catch  trade, 
he cut a cent or two on coal oil.  We fol­
lowed  with a lower  cut.  He  led  again 
and we  responded.  Once  more  be  led 
and then the order  at  our  house  was: 
‘Boys, roll two barrels of  oil out  on  the 
street, knock  in the  heads,  hang  a  dip­
per on the side of each and  place a  card 
over them with the invitation printed  on 
it,  “come early  and  help  yourselves.” ’ 
This brought our German  competitor  in 
with inquiries  as to  what  we  meant  by 
such work.  The head  of  our  house  in­
formed him that it was a first-class adver­
tising scheme, and he thought  he  would 
give it a good long  trial before abandon­
ing it.  This cured our German friend  of 
the price cutting habit.”

Honor and stability go  hand  in  hand, 
and Mr. Schuit but  adds  to  the  general 
opinion held by our foreign born citizens 
generally,  when  he  asserts  that  honor 
and stability are  more  sought  after  and 
more highly prized  in  the  old  country 
than in this.  As an evidence of this,  he 
states that the good will of an established 
business is often a source of considerable 
wealth.  To  purchase  a  business,  one 
must not only pay  100  per  cent,  of  the 
invoice value of the  stock,  but  he  must 
purchase the good  will  of  the  business, 
which is  generally  appraised  at  a  sum 
equalling one year’s sales of the business. 
So much  for  business  stability.  As  to 
honor, Mr.  Schuit states that  a  disputed 
account is a very rare  occurrence.  Bills 
are paid and  no questions asked.  He re­
lates one very curious custom in relation 
to collections. 
It seems that the servant 
girls are  entrusted with the duty of pay­
ing grocery bills by  the  presentation  of 
checks,  and  each  in  return  receives  a 
little donation from the grocer equivalent 
to 1 per  cent of the bill or account.  This 
acts on the girls as an incentive to see that 
the  master  pays  his  grocery  bills 
promptly.

“What about the machine you  devised 
or invented to dress up  and  convert  old 
currants  into nice  new  fresh  fruit,  Mr. 
Schuit?”

“Well, if there’s any machine about it, 
it’s  this,”  replied  Mr.  Schuit,  holding 
up both hands.  “Do you  see  that?”  he 
added, pointing  to  a  common  looking 
sieve. ’  “That’s all  there  is of it,  so  far

as a machine is concerned. 
I called  it  a 
machine at the Grocers’ meeting, because 
I couldn’t just think of  the  proper  Eng­
lish word to use.  The only  known  per­
fect process, whether done on a large  or 
on a small scale,  is handling and sifting; 
and this will not  convert  old  fruit  into 
new,  but it  .will  clean  currants  and  fit 
them for the table,  whether they are  old 
or  new.  This  so-called  ‘sugaring’  or 
white mould that you  see on  currants  is 
nothing more nor less than a sort of  fun­
gus growth—an  accumulation  of  insect 
germ life, which can readily  be  seen  by 
the aid of a microscope,  and  which  will 
develop and utterly consume the fruit  if 
not removed.  This process  I  speak  of 
will absolutely remove  this  growth  and 
clean the fruit. 
It cannot be washed  oif 
or destroyed by  the  application  of  soft 
water and molasses.”

“What does it cost to clean them?”
“Well,  I can clean them at  a  cost  not 
to  exceed $3 a barrel,  or  less,  or  about 
three-fourths  of  a  cent  a  pound.  The 
loss in weight is but a  trifle,  and the  en­
hanced value is fully four cents a pound, 
giving a net profit of about $10  a  barrel, 
or  $13  remuneration  for  $3  worth  of 
labor.”

Mr.  Schuit will probably give a practi­
cal  demonstration  of  his  sifting  and 
cleaning processes in the near future.

A Poor Beginning.

From the Commercial  Enquirer.
Young men  who  hope  to  be  business 
men should be extremely careful to start 
right.  Business habits when formed and 
solidified  by  practice  are  difficult  to 
change. 
If  they  are good  habits,  their 
firmness is a gain;  if  they are erroneous, 
it will be found very hard to build a suc­
cessful career upon them.  Any  taint  of 
crookedness has a souring  effect on all  a 
man’s endeavors.
In  the  course  of  business  we  came 
across  an  incident  the  other  day  that 
serves  to  illustrate  some  things.  A 
young  man, after  several  years  in  the 
employment of  a well-known and honor­
able house, requested to be released from 
his contract  for a term of  service which 
would end only with  the year.  His plea 
was that  he wanted  to  go into  business 
for himself. 
It appears that his contract 
specified  that,  should he be  released for 
any cause,  he  was not to  engage in sell­
ing any similar line of goods,  but it  now 
turns out that he has  gone into precisely 
that  industry.  He  has  the  selling of 
a line that is  nearly allied to that  of  his 
late employers.
Now, the cases are  comparatively rare 
in  which  a man  does a very  wrong  act 
without  any  previous  kcts  of  unright­
eousness  on  his  part.  Even  errors  of 
judgment  sometimes  pave  the  way  for 
venial offenses  later  on.  Lack of  cour­
age is often the direct precursor of  unin­
tended rascality.
It is said that this man  had conducted 
the firm’s business on the road in a  loose 
manner. 
In the  desire to  make sales at 
all hazards he would give  customers cut 
prices, not  daring to confess that he had 
undersold rates. 
In cases of  complaints 
he made  allowances  beyond  any justifi­
able degree, and he  would promise to  do 
things which  he  could  not  properly  do 
and would  leave his  firm in ignorance of 
what he had agreed  upon.
Looked at merely as a matter of policy, 
such performances are  in the last degree 
foolish.  The concealment attempted was 
necessarily  short-lived.  At  the  settle­
ment of bills all  differences  were pretty 
sure to come out, and  then  the promiser 
must face the music.  Even if  he had no 
wrong intent,  such as  drawing  commis­
sions on sales superinduced by unauthor­
ized terms or prices, the  weakness of his 
character as a business  representative is 
unpleasantly illustrated. 
It is  true  that 
many men get  into  places of  mercantile 
responsibility  without any previous com­
mercial  training.  Unless  they  possess 
by  nature  traits  peculiarly  adapted  to 
i the mathematics of trade, they are apt to

confuse business  relations.  One  of  the 
first and indispensable conditions of con­
tinuous  and  satisfactory trade is a clear 
and  cordial  understanding  between  the 
seller and buyer.  The traveler’s duty in 
great measure lies in  the development of 
this happy condition.  With  the best  in­
tentions  mutually,  mistakes  and  disa­
greements  are  sure  to  arise  and the in­
termediary can be of the greatest service 
as  a peacemaker.  When, instead, he, by 
his loose  acts,  becomes  the  fomenter  of 
discord,  his  place  is much  better  than 
his  company.  Many  of  our  younger 
readers, no doubt, hope to feather  out as 
road  representatives, and  we  say  to  all 
such,  be careful  in  statement,  manly  in 
confession  of  error,  and  more  than  ex­
act  in  the  performance  of  every  agree­
ment  and  every  duty.

St a t e o p O h io , Cit t   o f T o led o,  (

Lucas County. 

) 88‘

F r a n k  J. C h en e y  makes  oath  that  he is the 
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Ch e n e y  A Co., 
doing business in the city of Toledo, County and 
State aforesaid, and  that said  firm will  pay the 
sum  of  ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS  for  each 
and every case of  catarrh that  cannot be cured 
by the use of H a ll' s Ca ta r rh  C u r e.

FRANK J.  CHENEY.
Sworn  to  before  me  and  subscribed  in  my 
presence, this 6th day of December,"A.*D. 1886.
—«— 
j  SEAL  j- 
NOtary PubHC*
Hall's  Catarrh  Cure  is  taken  internally  and 
acts directly on the  blood  and  mucous surfaces 
of the system.  Send for testimonials, free.

A. W. GLEASON,

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

fSfSold by Druggists, 75c.

¿ 6 The  K ent. 99

AM ERICAN  PLA N
B A T E S,  $2  P E R   DAY
STEAM   H EA T  A N D   ELECTRIC  B E L L S
F R E E   B A 66A G E   T R A N SFE R   FROM   UNIO N
D EPO T.

BEIGH Î BOOTH, Props.

Michigan (Tentral

“ The Niagara Falls Route.”

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

♦Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 00p m ...........Detroit Express........... 6 55pm
4 30pm ...................Mixed  .................  7 00am
10 00am ..............Day Express 
.  ...  120pm
6 00 a m  .... * Atlantic and Pacific...... 10 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.)
Tickets on sale at Union Ticket Office, 67 Mon­
roe street and Union  Depot.

■ETKOIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  A  MIL­

Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Ave.

WAUKEE  Railway.

EA STW A RD .

Trains Leave  itNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 *No.  8Ï
1100pm 
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
12 42am
Ionia........... Ar
2 00am
St.  Johns  ...Ar
3 10am
Owossd........Ar
6 40am 
E. Saginaw..Ar
7 15am 
Bay City......Ar
5 40am
F lin t...........Ar
7 30am 
Ft.  Huron...Ar
5 37am 
Pontiac....... Ar
7 00am
Detroit.........Ar

10 30am
11 25am 
1217pm
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 06pm

6 50am
7 45am
8 30am 
905am
10 50am
11 30am 
10 05am
12 05pm
10 53am
11 50am
W ESTW A RD .

325pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
3 05pm 
8 00pm 
837pm
7 05pm
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

6 50am
1 00pm
2 10pm

♦Dally.  tDaily except Sunday.

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

Trains Leave
Lv. Detroit........
G’d Rapids,  L v. 
G’d Haven,  A r. 
Mllw’keeStr  “  . 
Chicago Str.  “  .
Trains arrive from the east, 6:40 a.m., 12:50 a.m. 
5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arrl  e from  the west,  10:10  a. m., 3:15 
p.m. and 9:45Vp. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlor  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 as. Ca m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

15

G rand  R apid s  St In d ian a.
Schedule  in effect  November  20,1802.

TRA INS  S O W S   N O RTH .

Arrive from  Leave going 
Sooth. 
North.
For Cadillac  and Saginaw.........  6 :45 a in 
7:20 a m
For Traverse City & Mackinaw  9:00 a m  
1:10 pm
For Cadillac and Saginaw.........  2:20 p m  
4;16pm
For Petoskey A  Mackinaw........  8:10 p m 
10:10  p m
From Chicago and Kalamazoo.  8:36 p m 
Train arriving from  south at  6:46 a m  and  9:00 a m
daily.  Others trains daily except Sunday.

TRA INS  GOING  SOUTH.

For Kalamazoo and  Chicago... 
For Fort Wayne and the  East..

South.
7:00 am
10:06  am
8:00 p m
6:00  p m
11:20 pm

North.
6:30 am
1160 a m
6:16 p m
11:00 pm
11:50 am
11:00 p m
m and  11:20 p.  m. runs

Trains leaving south at 6:00 p 

daily;  all  other  trains  daily except Sunday.

SLEEPING  A  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

N O R T H 1 : 1 0   p   m   t r a in   has  parlor  car  Grand 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
1 0 : 1 0   p   m   t r a m .—Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw.

S O U T H —7 : 0 0  a m  t r a in .—Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
1 0 : 0 5   a m   t r a in .—Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
6 : 0 0   p  m   t r a in .—Wagner Sleeping  Car 
Grand  Rapids to Cincinnati.
1 1 ; 2 0   p m  t r a in .—Wagner Sleeping Car 
Grand Rapids to Chicago.

C h icago v ia  G. R. St I. R.  R.

10:05 am  
3:55pm 

Lv Grand  Rapid. 
ArrChicago 

11:20 pm
0:60am
10:05 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.
11:20 p m train daily, through Wagner  Sleeping Car. 
6:45  am
11:45 p  m 

3:10 p m  
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
8:36 pm  
3:10  p  m  through  Wagner  Parlor  Car. 
train daUy, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

2:00 pm  
0:00pm 

7:05 am 
3:20 pm 

11:16 pm

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids A Indiana.
6:55  a m 
10:00 a m
4:40 pm
11:25 a m  
5:30 p m 
0:06 p m

From Muskegon—Arrive

Sunday train  leaves  for  Muskegon  at  9:05 a  m. ar­
riving at 10:20  a m.  Returning,  train  leaves  Muske 
gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand  Rapids at 5:46 p m.
Through tickets and (nil information  can  be had by 
calling upon A. Almqoist,  ticket  agent  at  Union Sta­
tion,  or  George  W.  Munson,  Union  Ticket  Agent, 67 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

CHICAGO

NOV.  20,  1892.
AND  W EST  MICHIGAN  R’Y.

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

 

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv.GR'D RAPIDS....... 8:50am  1:25pm *11:35pm
Ar. CHICAGO..............3:55pm  6:45pm  *7:05am
Lv. CHICAGO............. 9 :00htu  5:25pm *11:15pm
Ar.  GR’D RAPIDS......3:55pm  10:45pm  *7:05am
TO  AMD  FROM   R EN TO N   H A RBO R,  AND  ST  JO S E P H
  8:50am  1:25pm 
Lv. G  R 
........*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  ...........
Ar. Petoskey  ............................. 3:30pm  .............
Ar.  from  Petoskey,  etc.,  10:00  p  m.;  from 
Traverse City 11:50 a m, 10:00 p m.

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

TO  AND FROM   M USKEGON.

 

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

Wagner  Parlor Cars  Leave Grand  Rapids 1:25 
Wagner  Sleepers—Leave  Grand  Rapids *11:35 
Free Chair Car for Manistee 5:35 p m.
♦Every day.  Other trains week days only.
DETROIT,

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

GOING TO DETROIT.

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

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. DBTR....................  7:50am *1:35pm  6:10pm
Ar. G  R.......................12:55pm *5:25pm 10:30pm
Lv.GR 7:20am 4:15pm  Ar. G R. 11:50am 11:00pm 

TO  AND  FROM   SA GINAW ,  ALMA  AND  ST .  LO U IS.

TO LO W ELL VIA  LO W ELL  A  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 day.  Other trains week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

Toledo,  Ann  Arbor  St  North  Michigan 

Railway.

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

V IA  D .,  G.  H .  A M.

V IA  D ., L .  A N .

Return connections equally as good.

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

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Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association. 
President, A.  J. Elliott;  Secretary, E. A  Stowe.

Official  Organ—M i c h i g a n   T r a d e s m a n .

Jackson Grocers’  Union 

tion.

President,  D. S. Fleming;  Sec’y, N. H  Branch.
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ A ssocia­
At the regular  meeting  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Retail  Grocers’ Association, held  at  J’rotective 
Brotherhood hall  on  Jan.  16, the  application of 
Huttinga Bros., grocers at  the  corner  of  North 
Colt avenue and  Ann  street, was  received  and 
accepted.

The Committee on  Trade  Interests  reported a 
change in  the  retail  price  of  granulated sugar,, 
which  went  into  effect on  Jan. 9  The  report 
was accepted and adopted.

The Committee on  Flour  and  the  Committee 
on  Roll  of  Honor  both  reported  progress  and 
asked  further  time  to  complete  the  work  en 
trusted to each  Committee, which was  granted.
J. A.  Smits  read  a  paper  on  the  subject  of 
“Exemptions,”  which  was  well  received.  On 
motion of  E  J. Carrel  a  special  committee  was 
appointed to  take  the  matter  under  considera­
tion  and  report  a  plan  of  action  at  the  next 
meeting.  The  chair  appointed  as  such  com­
mittee E. J. Carrell, J. A. Smits and E. White

E. A. Owen read  a  paper  on  the  “Question of 
Hour.” which  appeared  in  full  in  our  issue of 
last week.

Peter  Schuit  then  described  his  method  of 
cleaning  curiants,  exhibiting 
the  sieve  by 
means of  which  he  claimed  to  be able to thor­
oughly cleanse the  most  unclean  fruit  at a cost 
of  about  one half  cent  a  pound.  The talk was
well received and the  subject  will  be  taken up 
for further discussion  at  some  future  meeting.
The  President  then  announced  the  special 
subject  of  the  meeting  as  “The  Necessity  of 
Organization  Among  the  Retail  Trade,”  and 
called  upon  several  representatives  of 
the 
wholesale  grocery  trade  to present their  ideas 
on the subject, after the  secretary  had  read the 
following letters of  regret  from those who were 
unable to be present:

F  OM  MR.  BALL

It  is  a  matter  of  much  regret  that  absence 
from the city will  not  permit  my  being  at the 
meeting  to morrow  evening.  You  understand 
how heartily in favor of  organization  I am and 
that  my  good  wishes do not  end  with  the  job­
bers’ association.  Certainly, if any line of b .si-

Sincerely yours,  F r e d  H . B a l l.

FROM   M R.  M D 88ELM AN.

It is a great  disappointment  to  me  not  to be 
able to meet with  you  this  evening, but  illness 
in my family prevents  me.  I want to say to you 
and  want you  to say  to the men at the meeting 
that the benefits of organization will only appear 
clear as they  get  more  thoroughly interested in 
the  work  of  reform.  That much is needed, all 
will admit.  That  there  is  a  remedy  for  many 
of the evils must appear to every thinking man 
provided  the  majority  will  take  hold of  the 
work.  One  or  two  can't  do  it, but  fifty  loyal, 
manly, reliable  dealers  can  accomplish almost 
anything  they wish, provided  they  are  patient. 
I am sure the  jobbers  will  support  them in any 
way they may be asked to  within the bounds of 
reason.  There  is  no  class  of  men  who  work 
harder than  the  retail  dealer, and  thev  are en­
titled  to  a  legitimate  return  for  their  labor. 
This can  be  secured  by  co-operation  and con­
certed  action.  Don’t  say  “What’s  the  use?” 
That  is not  the  sentiment  of  a  good  business 
man.  Then  another  thing: 
It  will  do  these 
merchants good to meet frequentl v and look into 
each other’s  faces.  They  will  find  each  other

meetings, would  grow  into  lack  of  confidence 
and maybe hatred.  I am  extremely  sorrv I can­
not  be  with  you  for  there  are  many  things I 
should  like  to  say  that  would,  I  believe,  en­
courage  this  movement,  for  it  is  dollars  and 
cents to everyone to  keep it up and increase the 
field  of operation.  With a  kind  greeting to all, 
I remain, 

Yours  truly,

A mos 8.  M u ssklm ax.

FROM  MR.  JUDSON.

On account of  important business  calling  me 
out of  the  city, I  will  be  unable  to attend the 
meeting of your Retail Grocers' Association this 
evening.  I wish to say to the  Association, how 
ever, through  you, that  I  am  in  sympathy with 
their  work,  and  sincerely  hope  their  united 
action  will  accomplish the  good  results  antici­
pated. 

\  ours resp’y,

W il l ia m  J u dso n.

FROM  MR.  LEMON.

In  answer to your  kind invitation  to  be  with 
you  this  evening  at  a  meeting  of  the  Retail 
Grocers’  Association,  to confer  and  talk  with 
you on  the  necessity of  organization  among re­
tail grocers, I am  really very  sorry to state  that 
another engagement calls me out of town to-day 
and utterly prevents my being with you to-night
I  wish,  however, to  put  myself on  record  as 
saying that 1 am strongly in favor of this organ-

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
ness is  in  need  of  the  benefits  resulting  from 
closer  fellowship, the  retailing  of  groceries  is, 
and it has been a matter of  pride in my visits to 
other  cities  in  the  State  to  refer  to  our  home 
dealers as men  who  are  progressive  and  have 
realized  and  put  into  practice  business princi­
ples  which  have  resulted  in  reducing  illegiti­
mate cutting and slashing to a minimum.
I  hope  to  have  the  pleasure of attending the 
next meeting of  the  Association, and  feel  sure 
that its labors will result in much good to us all.

ization, because it is right  and  necessary to per­
fect  such, in  order  to  secure  that  unity  and 
harmony  of  action, the  existence  of  which  is 
nowadays  absolutely  necessary  among  mer­
chants  engaged  in  any  particular  line of  mer­
chandising,  whether  in  a  wholesale  or  retail 
way, in  order  to  insure  self  preservation, and 
with  that a  fairly  remunerative  profit  for  the 
amount of  money  invested, the  necessary risks 
taken, the  personal  devotion  absolutely  neces­
sary to the success of any business.
Perhaps I could give  you no stronger proof  of 
my unqualified  belief  that  organization among 
retailers  as  well  as  wholesalers  is  absolutely 
necessary to meet  the  requirements, and  act  in 
harmony with  the  spirit and  conditions of  the 
time in which we now live and do business, than 
to say that 1 leave  to-dav to attend a  meeting of 
representative  wholesale  grocers  from  Ohio, 
Indiana. Illinois and Michigan, to be held in the 
city of Chicago to-morrow,  which  meeting  will 
have for its object the  solidifying  and  perfect­
ing  more  thoroughly  an  organization  which 
means a more uniform system  or  plan of  trans­
acting business  in this  and  neighboring  states 
than has  heretofore  existed—something  which 
will be hurtful to none, but  beneficial to all.
Say to the retail  grocers of this city  that they 
shall  have  my  hearty  support  in  any  and 
every way  in  which  it can be  engaged for  the 
good of the retail grocers of Grand Rapids.

_ 

Very truly yours,

S. M.  Lem  n .

Brief and spirited  addresses were  then  made 
by James A. ¿Morrison, James  B.  Mclnnes  and 
Sumner  Wells,  all of  whom  advanced  cogent 
reasons why a  grocers’  organization  should  be 
maintained  and  the  membership  increased, if 
the  retailer  expects  to  secure  the  returns  to 
which he is entitled.

On  motion  of  II.  G.  DeGraaf,  the  Secretary 
was instructed to print extra copies of the sugar 
price lists  hereafter  and  deliver  same to  each 
groery  jobber,  to  be  sent  out with  his city  in­
voices.

Treasurer Harris  reported a balance  on  hand 
of $577, $400 of which is  invested  in a certificate 
of  deposit,  bearing  4  per  cent,  interest.  The 
Secretary reported the receipts of the evening as 
$87,  which  was  properly  turned  over  to  the 
Treasurer at the close of the meeting.

On motion of Harry  DeGraaf, a vote of thanks 
was tendered those who assisted  in  making  the 
meeting so complete  a success, and  the  jobbers 
and wholesale grocers and their  representatives 
were requested to feel  free  to  attend  the meet­
ings at any time.

There being no further  business  the  meeting 

adjourned.

MEETING  OF THE  EXECUTIVE  BOARD.

At  the  close  of  the  meeting,  the  Executive

Board was called together, all  being present ex­
cept Mr. E. J. Herrick.  The  bill of  the  Protec­
tive Brotherhood for  $13.50, in  payment  of rent 
of room  from  Jan. 1  to  April  1, was  approved 
and ordered  paid.  The salary  of  the Secretary 
was fixed at $50  per  quarter, beginning  Sept. 1, 
1892, payable  at  the  end  of each quarter.  The 
Secretary was  instructed  to  keep a  solicitor in 
the field as much as  possible, with a view to in­
creasing the membership as  rapidly as  possible. 
There being no further  business, the Committee 
adjourned.

A   H astings  E n terp rise  S a v e d  

from  

B a n k ru p tcy .

H a s t in g s,  Jan.  16—It has  been a mat­
ter of common  knowledge for some  time 
that the Hastings Chair & Table Co.  was 
in financial  difficulty and that  an assign­
ment was likely  to  occur  at  any  time. 
Such a crash has happily been averted by 
the  action  of  a  number  of  Hastings 
gentlemen.  The capital stock  has  been 
increased 828,000 and  the whole increase 
taken by Chester Messer, Richard Messer, 
Dan W.  Reynolds, Clement Smith, Philip
T.  Colgrove, M.  L.  Cook and W.  R. Cook. 
This gives  these  gentlemen control, and 
they now constitute the Board  of  Direc­
tors, and have  the  management  of  the 
Co.’s  affairs.  The  Messer  Bros,  own 
nearly a controlling interest  in  the  City 
Bank, of which D.  W.  Reynolds is  Cash­
ier,  and also stockholder.  Clement  Smith 
is the  newly  appointed  Circuit  Judge, 
and has been for years, until he was  ele­
vated to the bench, associated with Philip 
T. Colgrove in the practice  of  law  here. 
Mr. Colgrove is the leading lawyer of the 
city.  The two Cooks have for some time 
been doing their best to waive  the  Ban­
ner.  The same seven gentlemen own the 
Hastings Wool Boot Co., a  very  success­
ful  institution,  the largest of its kind  in 
the  country.  They  are  all  successful 
business men,  have enlisted  in  the  new 
enterprise in dead earnest,  and  will  not 
spare labor or expense to put it on a suc­
cessful  footing.  They  have  the  means 
and  disposition to do it,  and  are  by  no 
means novices in the manufacturing busi- 
ness.

S W A R T O U T   &  D O W N S,

JOBBERS  OF

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

We  are  now  ready  w ith  our  Spring  line  of  Pants,  Shirts,  Overalls, 23 tc*

W H O L E S A L E

Dry  Goods,  Carpets and  Gloaks

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets,  Quilts and  Live 

G eese  Feathers.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigt, flBmolsHemr & Go., 48-l£a®f 

st-

B A R C U S  BROS.,

MANUFACTURERS  OF  CIRCULAR

Equalled by few  and  excelled  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.  Lumber  saws  fitted  up ready for use 
without extra charge.  No charge for boxing or drayage.  Writ? .or prices and discounts.
M IC H IG A N

M U S K E G O N , 

- 

ßflOßOLÜTE  ßOOLER  ßO,

Manufacturers  of

Combination  Store  Tables  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, 
economy of  room, convenience in shipping and  setting up. 
It will  be to your best 
interest to correspond  with  us.  Prices  reasonable.  When in the  city call  at  the 
office and see sample.

Office 315 Michigan Trust Bnilding.  Factory 42  Mill  St.

DODGE

Independence  Wood  Split  Pnlley.

T H E   L IG H T E S T !

T H E   ST RO N G EST!

T H E   B E S T !
HESTER  MACHINERY  CO.,

45  So.  D iv is io n   St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Spring* & 

C Grader Chests. 

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

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

Glass  Covers for Biscuits.
iiiS ¡ T t r r t T T m  riy ip a
■ w

W e invite the attention of the trade  to  our complete  and  well 

assorted  stock  at lowest  market  prices.

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

Manufacturers  of

Slow  Cases

Of Every Description.

First-Class  Work  Only.

WRITE FOR  PRICES. 
-   G R A N D   R A P ID S .

@8  an d   0 8  C an al  S t., 

/^ w U R  new glass covers  are by far the
to  the

handsomest  ever  offered 

soon 
pay tor themselves  in  the 

IH P H E S E   kchests  will 

breakage they avoid.  Price 84. 

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

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

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

CREAM  CRISP. 

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

the best selling cakes we ever made.

THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

S. A . Sears, Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

T H E   LEO N A R D

Handsome New Styles for the season of  1893  fully  illustrated in our No.  110 Spring Catalogue.

D E A L E R S ,   If  there is no  agency in  your  town  for this  celebrated  line of  Refrigerators, write us  for  our  No.  110 
catalogue and discounts and  we will  give you the  e x c l u s i v e   a g e n c y   for the two best lines of Refrigerators made, the

Leoianl Cleanaft  Excelsior

Antique  Ash

Real  Bronze Trimmings 

Rich  Carvings 

Leonard  Locks 

Metalic Ice Rack 
Charcoal  Filled 

Wool  Felt  Lined 

Zinc  Inside

Removable Flues

Self-retaining Casters 
Solid  Iron  Shelves 
Improved Trap

Antique  Ash 

Plain  Finish 

Tripple  Walled 

Charcoal  Filled 

Leonard  Locks 
•  Removable  Flues 
Improved  Trap 

Zinc Lined

Solid  Iron Shelves 

Self-retaining Casters

STYLE  OF NO. 61  GROCERS’  REFRIGERATOR.

Now  is your time to get the  agency for  Refrigerators  and all  other  summer  goods.  Don’t  place  your orders  for Gaso­
line  Stoves,  Children s Carriages,  Ice Cream  Freezers,  Hammocks,  Velocipedes,  Tricycles,  Express  Wagons,  Lawn  Mowers 
or any other summer goods until  you  have seen  our No.  110  Catalogue,  which  will  be  mailed to you by dropping us a postal.

WHY

The Leonard Refrigerator

Is  Easier  Kept  Glean  than  any  other  make.

All  Refrigerators having the improved  inter­
nal circulation  of dry  cold  air for ventilation 
must  have flues  through  which  the  warmest 
air in  the  provision  chamber  ascends  to  the 
ice  box. 
This  air  contains  particles  of 
various kinds of foods below which  lodge  on 
the  inside of  the  flues  and  there  decay  and 
render  the  refrigerator  unfit  for  a  second 
seasons use.  This difficulty is avoided in  the 
Leonard  Cleanable  by  making  one  wall of 
each  flue  removable,  so  that  every  part  can 
be cleaned.

W rite for our new  prices  and  discounts.

STYLE OF  NO.  75  OPEN.

H.  LEO N A R D   &  SONS,

STYLE  OF CLEANING  NO.  75.

134  to  140  E«  Fulton  S t;  Grand  Rapids•

