Michigan Tradesman.

Published Weekly.

VOL.  10.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS.
URAJS D   R A PID S, FE B R U A R Y   8,  1893.

$1  Per  Year.
NO.  490

J M zj&k e g o n   C r a c k e r   C o .,

W ho  S e lls

GRHGKER8,  BI8GUIT8  m  SWEET  GOODS.

HARRY FOX,  Manager.

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PAID  TO  MAIL  ORDERS.

R ed

B lack  B a ss  Cigars

NEVER  GO  BEGGING.  Made only  by

G.  F.  F A U D E ,  IO N IA ,  M IC H

T S E   NE  PLUS  ULTRA  OF A   NICKEL  SMOKE !

M O S E L E Y BRO S.,

-   W H O L E S A L E   -

FRUITS.  SEEDS.  BEANS  AND  PRODUCE,

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

mOYSTERSm

A lm o s t   im p o s s ib le  to  g e t   h o ld  
o f  a n y   s to c k ,  b u t  o u r   p a tr o n s  
ca n   r e s t   a s s u r e d   th a t  i f   a n y  
o n e   ca n   fill  o r d e r s  w e   c a n •

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

POTATOES.

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

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

WM.  H.  THOMPSON  &  CO.,

Commission  Merchants,

166 So. Water St., Chicago.

P E R K I N S   <Ss
Hides, Purs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

1 “ y   - g i   r N

NOS.  188 and  184  LOUIS STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS. MICHIGAN.

WE CARRY A  8TOCK OF CARE TALLOW FOR MILL  0SK.

MUSKEGON  BRANCH  UNITED  STATES  BAKING  CO.,

Successors  to

T E L F E R   S P I C E C O M P A N Y ,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Spices  and  Baking  Powder,  and  Jobbers  of 

Teas, Coffees and  Grocers' Sundries.

I and 3 Pearl  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS

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

4  M on roe  S t ,

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

We  Lead  in  Reduced  Price«.

Oar  Mott«:  HNew  Styles."
W  E  CARRY  a  full  line of  all  patterns  of 
Ladles’  and  Gents’  Bicycles,  and  can 
supply at once upon receipt of  order.

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

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

BEANS If you have any beans and want to sell, 

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

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

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

Drops?

Coucrh

S ta r

Every  Druggist, 
Every Grocer, 
Every Confectioner 
who wants  to  liaudle the  best  goods for the 
least money. 
Manufactured by

A, E.  BROOKS  &  CO..

46  O tawa St., Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Who  urges  you  to  k e e p

Sapolio?

T h e   P u b lic  !

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

Anv Jobber will be Glad to Fill Your Orders.

Mail Orders Receive Prompt  Attention. 

See quotations in another column

JOBBER  OF

S a lt   F is h

F.  J.  D E T T E N T H A L E R
OYSTERS
POULTRY i   GAME
CONSIGNMENTS OF  ALL  KINDS OF  POULTRY  AND  GAME  SOLICITED I
Wholesale  ßroßers

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

G r a n d   R a p id s .

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

VOORHEES

Pants and  Overall  Go,,

L a n s in 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.

E.  D.  VOOKHEES,  Manager.

C O N F E C T I O N E R Y  !

Don’t think just because  it’s  a  little dull after the holidays 
that it will  be  best to  “ ruu  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.  W rite 
us.  Call  on  us  when  in  the  city or entrust  your  order to  the  wholesale 
grocers.  W e  sell  them  all.  Buy  “ Our  Make”  and  add  to  your bank 
account.

THE  PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.

STANDARD OIL CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

DEALERS  IN

U lm ninating and  L ubricating

NAPTHA  AND  GASOLINES.

Office,  Hawkins Block. 

Works, Bntterworth Ave.

BULK  WORKS  AT

G R A N D   R A P ID S , 
m o   R A P ID S , 
A JA .E G A N ,

M U SK E G O N , 
G R A N D   H A V E N , 
H O W A R D   C IT Y ,

M A N IS T E E ,

P E T O S K E Y ,

C A D IL L A C ,
L U D IN G T O N .

HIGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR

EMPTY  CARBON  i  GASOLIN17.  BARRELS.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

G R A X P  R A PID S,  W EDNESDAY,  FE B R U A R Y   8,  1893.

YOL.  X.
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.

40c—   PER  BOOK

ENTS  — o f  —
—   100  LEAVES

The "Little Soldier" School Shoe.

rc  Pat. Manifold' 
J TELEGRAMS
Western Union"or“Postal Lines
Sent Prepaid  for  above  Price, 
c 
or  will  Send  Samples.  - 
BARLOW  BROS..GRAND  RAPIDS.MICH.
1.  J.  SUKLLMAK,  Scientific Optician,  (5  Monroe Street.

Eyes  tested  for  spectacles  free of  cost  with 
latest improved methods.  Glasses in every style 
at  moderate  prices.  Artificial  human  eyes  of 
every color.  Sign of big spectacles.
ESTABLISHED  1841.

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PAID  THE  PENALTY.

It  was  after 11 o’clock at night.  The 
rows of dark dwellings which lined either 
side of  the  street  made one  house  look 
brilliantly  illuminated  by contrast.  A1 
vin  Barstow walked  quickly  toward  it 
considerably surprised  as  he  drew  near 
to  find  that it was  his own  and  not one 
of the other five in the row.  What could 
be the meaning of this lavish use of  gas' 
For  the  second  time in his  life a suspi 
cion of his wife Hashed through his mind 
Once,  when they were first married, there 
had been a letter,  but,  “Pshaw!  All  that 
died  out  years  ago,” he said to himself. 
Still,  it  was queer  that  she should  have 
received a letter  in  his presence and  de 
stroyed  it  without  telling  him  its  con 
tents.  She had  named  the  writer at  hi: 
request, but more  than  this  she had  not 
told  him,  and  he had  been too  proud to 
urge  her  confidence.  He  was  annoyed 
that  the  recollection  should  return  so 
vividly.  His  wife  did  not  expect  him 
before  1  o’clock,  as  that  was  the  time 
when he usually got home from the news 
paper office where  he was employed; but 
owing to a sudden illness of a member of 
the  staff,  he had  been ordered to start in 
the  morning  on  a  “detail” to  a  distant 
town.  As  he  approached  the  house he 
saw that  the  parlor windows were  wide 
open,  and the curtains swayed to and fro 
in the draught.  From the window of  an 
adjoining  house  the  head of  an  inquisi 
tive  neighbor  was  furtively withdrawn 
As  he  opened  the  front  door  with  his 
latch  key  the  husband  felt  a  pang  of 
shame that he  shonld do it so softly.

Through  the open  door of  the  parlor 
he  saw his wife  bending  over the  figure 
of  a man  lying  on  the  lounge.  As  he 
advanced a step  nearer  be saw  that  his 
wife’s  late visitor  and  the writer of  the 
letter—a  wealthy and  prominent  man— 
were the same.  At the sight of  her hus 
band’s 
face,  Mrs.  Barstow  appeared 
strangely disconcerted,  but  she  did  not 
cease her occupation of  bathing the head 
of  the  unconscious  man.  When he  be­
gan to show signs of returning conscious­
ness she motioned her husband back.

“Don’t let him see you,” she said hasti­

Her gesture was so imperative  that al­
most  involuntarily  Barstow  moved  out 
of  sight.  An  instant  later  the  man 
opened his eyes.  For a moment he gazed 
stupidly at the woman standing over him, 
then  a  look  of  hatred  passed  over  his 
countenance.

“You  feel  better  now,  do  you  not?” 

she asked.

“Yes,  I  am  better,  I  suppose.  The
fact  is, I’m  so used  to  doing  as I d-----
please that I can’t stand it to be crossed.” 
He raised up on one  elbow and  glared at 
her.  “Are  you a woman  or a devil  that 
you defy me so?  You must  have a price

name it!”
“Hush!” she cried,  warningly.
Her  husband  came  forward,  and  at 
sight  of  him  the  man  fell  back on  the 
pillows.

“Ah!  So you have told  him.”
“I have told him  nothing,”  she replied 

with emphasis.

XO.  490

She drew her husband out of the room. 
“He may have a stroke of  apoplexy if he 
is  excited;  he came  near  one as it was.”

“I must know what this means.”
“You  insist?”
“Certainly.”
“Then  you  mistrust  me!”  she  broke 

out sharply.

They  regarded  each  other silently for 
a  moment.  Reproach  and  appeal  were 
written  in  her  eyes.  He  dropped  his 
own.

“Yes,” he said shortly.
“Very well, I  will  tell you  after he is 

He  grasped  her  wrist. 

“You  swear 

gone.”

it?”

She  recoiled  as if  he  had  struck  her. 
“I  said  I  would  tell  you.”  Her  voice 
was cold.  “You must ring for a carriage 
now  and  get  him  home  as  quickly  as 
possible.”

They  returned to the  parlor,  but  their 
visitor maintained  a  sullen  silence until 
the  arrival of  the carriage.  At the door 
he  turned to the  wife.  “Remember the 
power of money,” he said,  and without a 
glance at her husbaud he was gone.

When  they  heard  the  carriage  door 
shut, husband and wife faced each other.
“It will  be  wrong for  me  to  tell  you 
the meaning of all this, for it is another’s 
secret,” she began.

“I  don’t  care  whose  secret  it  is,” he 
replied brutally;  “I demand to know the 
truth and the whole truth.”

“I  once  witnessed  a  murder.  This 
man,  William  Sage,  was  the  principal, 
and  one  who  was  very  dear to  me was 
accessory to the  crime.”

Instantly the  expression of  the man’s 
face  changed.  The  jealousy which  had 
predominated vanished and a new lo o k - 
keen,  shrewd,  calculating,  the  look of  a 
sleuth hound—took its place.

“And  who was  the one  who was  dear 

to you?”

For a moment she  hesitated.
“My father,” she whispered.
“And the victim?”
“Was George  Stern,  a former  partner 
of theirs. 
It happened in our cabin near 
Altaville,  in  Colorado.  The  three  had 
been playing  cards  when a dispute arose 
and my father charged  Stern with cheat­
ing.  Stern  gave  him  the  lie,  and  my 
father  knocked  him  down.  For  some 
time  previous to this there  had been bad 
blood between them about a mine,  and it 
was  only because  Stern had  expressed a 
desire  for a reconciliation  that they con­
sented  to  the  game  of  cards.” 
She 
paused.

“Well, did it kill him?”
“No;  that  is the  worst  part  of  it,  for 
then it would  have  been  partly  excusa­
ble.  Mr. Sage was furiously angry.  He 
threatened to kill  us  if  we rendered  the 
man  any assistance.  The fall  had  pro­
duced  unconsciousness.  As  soon  as  he 
opened  his  eyes,  William Sage shot  him 
twice  and  then  flung the  heavy gun  at 
his head.”

She drew her hand across her eyes with 
a  shudder.  “It  was an awful  sight. 
I 
don’t  think  I  have  ever  been quite  the 
same  since.  His  skull  was  fractured,

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 13H)

Sole. 

$1  Per Pair Net.

BIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  OO,

A. <  i
4  *  Geo. H. Reeder & Go.,

GRAND RAPID8 AGENTS.

JOBBERS  OF

Boots  and  Shoes,

Felt Boots and Alaska  ¡Socks.

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

R. G. D u n   &  Co.

Reference Books issued  quarterly.  Collections 
______  

attended to throughout United States 

and Canada

The Brads {reel Mercantile Apcy

The Bradstreet Company, Props.

Exwntive  Offices, 279,281,283  Broadway, N.Y

CHARLES  F. CLARK, Pres.

Offices in the principal cities of the United 
States,  Canada,  the  European  continent, 
Australia, and in London. England.

Grand  Rapids  Office,  Room 4,  Widdicomb
HENRY ROYCE, Snpt.

BARLOW BROV'm>BLANK BOOKS"
the  PH I LA. PAT. FLAT OPENING SACK 
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CONSERVATIVE, 

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W. F red McBain, Sec’y.

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158 A  160 Fulton St., Grand  Rapids.

Do  You  wait a Typewriter?

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

Wm. Brummeler & Sons,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Phone 640

260 S. Ionia St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

State Agents,

GRAND  RAPIDS. MUCH,

NET PRICE  LIST OP  SAP FAILS  PER 100.

IC  
10  quart.........   ........................  $14
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12 
15 
...  ............................   19
1 gal. I C Syrup Cans, per 100...  10 25

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22  50

These goods are  full size  and are guaranteed 
not to leak.  The pails are made almost straight, 
flaring enough to pack  conveniently.

In  lots  of  500  we  will  allow  5  per  cent, off 

above prices.  Terms, 30 days net.

Send for price  list of general  line of  tinware.

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into the building.  A full hour remained 
in  which to get his  copy ready. 
In  the 
local  room a group  of  belated  reporters 
looked  up  in  surprise  as  he  hastily 
entered the night editor’s room.

“Barstow  must  have a good  one,” one 

remarked,  with a look of envy.

The  fortunate  man did  not  reappear. 
He  sent  for the  artist  and  gave  him a 
rough  outline of  the  tragedy,  with  in­
structions  to  make what he could  out of 
it.  Then he set to work furiously.  With­
in an  hour the  article was  ready for the 
press.  This done he dropped wearily on 
a lounge and fell asleep.

It was 0 o’clock when  he awoke.  His 
first thought was for a copy of the paper. 
Yes,  it was  all  there;  a sensation  with a 
vengeance.  There  was  even a drawing 
of  the tragedy,  with Senator  Sage repre­
sented in the act of firing at the prostrate 
form of  his  victim,  and  the  figure  of  a 
girl  and  a man in  the background.  The 
well-known features of the murderer were 
unmistakable.

Barstow’s  next  thought was  his wife. 
The paper must have  been delivered two 
or three  hours  earlier.  He  hurried  out 
and went directly home.  An aunt of his 
wife met him in  the hall.

“Be prepared  for  the worst,”  she said 
sternly.  “The  expose  in the  paper  has 
been too much for  her. 
If  you wrote it, 
then  you  brought  this  misfortune  upon 
yourself.”

“ What  misfortune?  What  are  you 
talking  about?  Where  is  my wife?” he 
asked in rapid  succession.

“She has  lost  her  reason.  You didn’t 
know it was in her  father’s family,”  she 
added,  as he  staggered  back.  “ They all 
have  terrible  tempers,  or  else  they are 
quiet and deep like  her,  and these  some­
times go mad.”

A  horrible  laugh  rang  through  the 
house.  He  pushed  the  woman  to  one 
side and rushed to  his wife’s room.  She 
sat on the  floor,  rocking  her  body back­
ward  and  forward  as  she  grabbed  and 
pointed to the morning  Enterprise in her 
hand. 

E.  S.  Ba tes.

Unlike the Dutch  Process 

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 Grocery Price Current.

T he  B R E A D  
RAISER

SUPPLANTS BAKING POWDER
Fosfon Chemical Co., Detroit, Michigan. 

SOLD  BY ALLRELIABLE  GROCERS.

GROCERIES-DSY600DS*HM©Vî A !i

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Farming Is a Failure.  We have tried it in this community for twenty years.

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Farming is a grand success.  We  have  a  Butter  and  Cheese  Factory that was built iiv 3 
years  ago  and  has  made our  community  what  it  is  now.  Should  you need  a Butter and 
Cheese Factory in your community correspond with 
DAVIS & R A N K IN   B L D G . A M F G . CO., 2 4 0 -2 5 2   W. LAKE ST., CHICAGO 
a ico Manufacturers of Dairy Machinery and Supplies.______________________________

O U R   S P R I N G   L I N E  
is  moving fast,  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 
I thirty-six  years  in  the  city of  Rochester,  N.  Y.

William  Connor,  our  representative  in  Michigan,  whose  address  is 
I 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.  William  Connor  will  be  at  Sweet’s 
Hotel,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  on Thursday  and  Friday,  February  9  and  10. 
Customers who meet him  there  are  allowed  expenses.

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.

M ich ael  K o lb   &  S o n ,

W h o le s a le   C loth iers,

R o c h e ste r ,  N.  Y .

but  whether  by the  fall  or  the  gun we 
did not  know.  Mr.  Sage  said it was  the 
result of the fall and threatened to prove 
it if  we  told  what  we  knew  about  the 
affair.  They  dug  a  grave  in  the  thick 
brush and the body has never been found. 
It was a long  time  before  I would  con­
sent  not  to  tell,  and  during  that  time 
they  never  left  me  alone.  No  enquiry 
was  ever  made, for  the  man  was  sup­
posed to have  left  the  country.  No one 
suffered by his  death, and at last  1 made 
up my mind to keep the secret for father’s 
sake.  After  his  death I  was glad I had. 
But Mr. Sage has never trusted me.  He 
came  here  to-night in  a  frenzy and  ac­
cused  me  with  having  told  you.  He 
imagined  that  he  saw  a  reference  to 
the  crime in an  attack  upon  him in  to­
day’s Enterprise  and  he  wanted  to  buy 
me off—to buy my silence.”

Her eyes  flashed.  “ He seems  to  feel, 
somehow, that if  he  can  once get  me to 
accept  money  he  will  be  more  sure of 
me.  His rage because I refused  brought 
on the  spell  you saw.  Now 1 have  told 
you  everything.  Promise  me  that  you 
will  never  breathe a word  of  this  to  a 
human being?”

He did not reply at once.  “It is a hor­
rible thing,” he  said at length,  “but it is 
nothing in which  you  are  specially con­
cerned.”

“Nothing in which I am  specially con­
cerned?”  she  repeated,  in  amazement. 
“When 1 witnessed it and my own father 
was possibly the murderer!”

“Nonsense!  How could he be? 

If the 
man's  skull  had  been  fractured  by  the 
fall he wouldn’t have regained conscious­
ness.”

“You  haven’t  promised  me  yet,”  she 
exclaimed in sudden alarm.  “On,  Alvin, 
don’t  put  it  in  the  paper.  Don’t! 
It 
would kill  me!”

He had never seen  her so excited.  She 

was usually so calm.

“ You are  nervous  and  overwrought,” 
“ You  must  lie 

he  replied  evasively. 
down and get some rest!”

She read  the truth in his face.
“Is nothing sacred?”  she asked  bitter­
ly.  “Must this monster you work for be 
fed with  my heart’s blood?”

“You  are  growing hysterical and  giv­
ing yourself  a great  deal cf  unnecessary 
alarm.  For  your  own  good  I must  ask 
you  to go to  bed at once. 
I  must return 
to the  office  immediately,  : 1 came  home 
to  get  some  notes I had  forgotten,  and 
I’ve  barely time  to  get  through  before 
the paper goes to press.”

Once  in the  street  he fairly ran  along 
them  in  his  haste to get  his work  done 
before the paper went to press.

It  was  a  tremendous  “ scoop.”  Sage 
was  a  candidate  for  re-election  to  the 
United States  senate,  aud  was an  owner 
of  a rival  paper.  The  election  would 
take  place in two  weeks,  and the Enter­
prise had been making a very bitter tight 
against  him.  This  black  page  in  his 
history would  be  a  powerful  weapon in 
their hands;  but there was  no time  to be 
lost.  A slight  compunction for whatj he 
was  about  to  do  Barstow  promptly 
crushed by a ready sophistry of justifica­
tion.  The  coup d'etat  just  at  this  time 
would  be of  incalculable  benefit  to him.
He would  be  advanced,  perhaps,  to  the 
dazzling position of special writer.  Sure­
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for the grief  she would feel  at the publi­
cation.  Besides, was it not the duty of a 
newspaper to expose crime?

He glanced  at  his  watch as he dashed

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SPECULATIONS IN BEAL ESTATE.
I  have  been  greatly  interested in  the 
many letters which I have  received  dur­
ing the week from supporters of  the sin­
gle  tax  and  anti-poverty  doctrines, 
to 
which  I  referred  in  my  article  of  last 
week.  Most of the writers complain that 
I either misunderstand or  have  wilfully 
misrepresented the views they entertain, 
and one or two  of  them  have,  I confess, 
pointed  out  some  immaterial  errors  of 
historical fact  which I made,  and which 
they regard as proofs  of  my  entire igno­
rance of  the subject.  All that I can say 
in reply is that 1 have honestly  done  the 
best I could,  and that I have endeavored, 
as  Othello  requested  of  his  friends,  to 
“nothing extenuate nor  set  down  aught 
in malice.”  Warm partisans of any doc­
trines  must  remember  that  these  doc­
trines necessarily look different to differ­
ent minds,  and the aspect they present to 
their advocates cannot be expected to  be 
the same that they do to their opponents. 
Besides,  what  I was  aiming  at  chiefly 
was to show that the  underlying  ground 
of  the movement  to  abolish  poverty by 
confiscating  private  property  in  land, 
was  the widely  diffused  sentiment  that 
the poor have a right to share in the pos­
session  of  the  rich,  and  that  the Pope 
and  his  trusted  advisers  have  come  to 
the conclusion that  Dr.  McGlynn,  in  his 
advocacy of the anti-poverty doctrine,  has 
behind him a popular support which it is 
not safe  for the  Roman Catholic Church 
to seem to  oppose.  1 further desired  to 
call the attention  of  the  rich  to  the ex­
istence and the strength of  the  hostility 
to them, and to warn them  of  the  neces­
sity  of  taking measures to counteract  it. 
The  accuracy  of  the  details  of  the 
is, 
anti-poverty 
therefore, 
though  I  still 
a  secondary  matter, 
maintain  that I  have  stated 
their  es­
sential points  correctly.

teachings 

for 

largely 

Among other things, I said  that  under 
our  existing  laws  the  property  of  the 
private  owners  of  land  in  large  cities 
is  already 
taken  from  them 
by  taxation  and  expended 
the 
benefit of the poor.  Of the assessed  val 
uations of real and personal estate in New 
York last  year,  $1,500,000,000  was  real 
estate, and only a little over  $300,000,000 
personal  estate.  The  owners  of  real 
estate pay, therefore,  five-sixths of all the 
taxes collected in Gotham, and owners of 
personal estate only one-sixth.  Of  these 
taxes,  amounting last year to $30,000,000, 
there  was  expended  upon  asylums,  re­
formatories, 
almshouses,  aud  public 
schools,  $8,000,000,  besides  which  real 
property of churches,  free libraries,  hos­
pitals, and other benevolent  institutions 
was  exempted  from  taxation 
the 
amount of $80,000,000, thereby increasing 
the sum collected from taxpayers $1,480, 
000.  Thus,  the private  owners  of  land 
in  New  York,  in addition  to  what they 
paid for municipal purposes,  contributed 
five-sixths of $9,480,000, or $7,900,000,  to 
furnish the poor with free food  and fuel, 
free schools,  free medical  aid,  free read­
ing,  and  free  religious  ministrations, 
besides giving them water  at  a  nominal 
price. 
If, now,  a majority of  the  voters 
choose to extend this bounty so  as  to  in­
clude in it free  house rent, free  railroad
riding, free theaters,  concert  rooms  and 
other  anmsements, there is no  legal  im­
pediment in the way. 
It is not necessary 
to justify the proceeding upon the theory 
that private ownership in land  is unjust, 
or to put forward  any  other  excuse. 
It 
is enough for the majority to declare that

to 

such is their will,  and the minority  must ! 
submit to it.  Excellent  reasons  can  be | 
given for  confining taxation to  the  land 
alone, but the raising by such taxation of 
more than is needed for  strictly  govern­
ment purposes, cannot  be  defended  by 
denying 
land 
owners.

rights  of  private 

the 

under 

A great deal is said,  I  know,  not  only 
by Mr. George and his  disciples,  but  by 
others,  about the  “ unearned”  increment 
of land values,  and the right of the  com­
munity to appropriate it for its own pur­
Instances  are  adduced  of  pur­
poses. 
chases by individuals of parcels  of 
land 
at  a  trifling  price  which  have  subse­
quently, in the  course  of  time,  become 
enormously  valuable;  and  it  is  asked 
triumphantly, as if  there were  no  suffi­
cient answer to the  query,  why  this  en­
hanced value should not go  to  those  by 
whose exertions,  it is said, it was created, 
instead of being retained  by  those  who 
apparently merely  sat  still  and  waited 
for  fortune  to  come  to  them. 
It  is 
enough  to  reply,  it  seems  to  me,  that 
unless vested  rights  are  recognized  in 
land, as well as  in  other  property,  no 
civilization  is  possible. 
If,  after  an 
sanction  of 
individual, 
the 
fellow  citizens, 
laws  made  by  his 
invests  his  money 
in 
land,  he 
is to be deprived of it merely  because he 
has made a good bargain,  a  precedent  is 
set  which  strikes  at  the  ownership  of 
property of  any  kind.  Moreover,  those 
who talk  about the  injustice  of  permit­
ting  private  owners  to  retain  the  in­
crease of  land  values,  either  forget  or 
never have known that the cases in which 
land  decreases  in  value  are  quite  as 
numerous as those in which  it increases. 
Many  pieces  of  real  property 
in  New 
York are worth barely one-half now what 
they were thirty  years  ago,  and  in  the 
neighboring  cities  of  Brooklyn  and 
Jersey  City  similar  cases  abound. 
If, 
therefore, justice allows  the  community 
to appropriate the increase of land values, 
it likewise demands  that  owners  whose 
land has  decreased in value by the with­
drawal of popular favor shall be compen­
sated for the loss.

Another point which the would-be con- 
fiscators of  the increment of  land values 
fail  to  consider  is  that,  in  most  cases, 
this 
increment,  instead  of  being  un­
earned,  as  they  suppose,  by  the  owner 
of  land,  has in  reality  been  more  than 
earned by him.  To  illustrate  by  actual 
experience:  A  friend  of  mine  bought 
just before the war some lots in  the sub­
urbs  of  New  York,  paying  for  them 
$2,500.  He  held  them  for thirty years, 
paying taxes and assessments upon  them 
all the time,  and then sold them for $10,- 
000.  Here  was,  apparently,  a  profit  of 
300 per  cent,  which  he  had not earned. 
But in reality  he  had paid out in 
taxes 
and assessments,  and  in loss  of  interest 
during  the  thirty  years,  allowing  noth­
ing for his own trouble in taking  care of 
the property, not only the $10,000  which 
he  finally  received,  but  $10,000  more. 
He thus actually lost $10,000 on his invest­
ment,  instead of  gaining $7,500.  Anoth­
er  friend,  about  the  same  time,  paid 
$5,000 for some other lots  which  he sold 
last year for  $50,000, showing an  appar­
ent profit of $45,000,  or 900 percent.  On 
making up his accounts he found he was 
really out of  pocket $5,000 by the opera­
tion. 
It  cannot  be  denied  that  some 
speculators in  land  are  more  fortunate 
than my friends  were,  but  they are  like 
the lucky people who draw prizes  in lot­

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It will  not  do  to  conclude  from 
teries. 
their success  that buyers of  land always 
make profits,  any more than it will do  to 
conclude that all  buyers of  lottery tick­
ets win prizes. 
In fact, we know that  as 
a whole they lose money.

A practical  difficulty, too,  in  the  way 
of any legislative  measure for  confiscat­
ing the unearned increment of land values 
as such,  is  that  of  determining  who,  in 
case of such confiscation,  are  to share in 
the  proceeds.  The  increased  value  of 
land in New York, for example,  is due to 
the  growth  of  the entire  United  States 
and  of  its  trade  with 
the  rest  of  the 
world.  Land in  Wall street is immense­
ly valuable,  because  the  financial  mag­
nates of  both  America and Europe  con­
gregate there to do  business.  Broadway 
shops are in  demand  at  high  rents,  be­
cause the citizens of the rest of the Union 
come there to  buy  goods.  Fifth  avenue 
lots sell at great prices because  they  are 
wanted for  residences,  not  only by  our 
local millionaires,  but  by men  who have 
made  fortunes  in  other  places.  Land 
further up town is also dear,  because  of 
its desirability for families the  heads  of 
whom have  come  here to seek  their for­
tunes, and to this desirability  the elevat 
ed railroads have contributed immensely. 
But for  their  help,  indeed,  my  unfortu­
nate 
speculating  friends 
would  have  lost  much  more  than they 
did by their  ventures. 
It  is impossible, 
among  the  claims  of  all  these  diverse 
agencies,  and of the  many  others  which 
I have  not  enumerated,  to  decide  how 
much  is  the  share  of  each  one in  aug­
menting land values, and  this fact alone, 
irrespective of the  injustice  of  the  pro­
ceeding,  is an effectual  bar to putting in­
to practice the theory that  the  supposed 
unearned  increment  belongs  to  others 
than those who have bought  the  land  in 
accordance with existing laws.

real  estate 

That,  in  spite  of  all  these  considera­
tions,  the  conclusiveness  of  which  I 
think will  commend  itself  to every  dis­
passionate judgment,the doctrines taught 
by Henry George and  Dr.  McGlynn have 
found so many  adherents  as  they  have, 
is,  I repeat,  a sign  of  the  times which 
should not  pass  unheeded.  Declaiming 
against  them is a waste of  breath, and  I 
am not  sure  that  my  efforts  to  expose 
their true character are worth the trouble 
of  making them.  Still, 1  felt irresitibly 
moved to write  what  I have written,  and 
now that I  have  unburdened  my soul, I 
will  let the subject drop for  the present.

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AMONG  THE  TRADE.

ABOUND THB  STATE.

Detroit—John B.  Boyle succeeds  S.  J. 

Ransier in the drug business.

Coleman—S.  Bowdish  succeeds  Bow- 

dish & Boyce in general trade.

Hough'on—Ruhl & Barry succeed Shel­

don Bros,  in the  drug business.

Hudson—Martin  & Blood  succeed  A. 

Opdyke in the lumber business.

Newaygo—Seth  S.  Watrous  succeeds 

Lever & Lever in the drug business.

Owosso—Johu  Hoyt has purchased the 

crockery stock of  Glynn  & Monroe.

Marquette—Hager Bros, succeed  Chas. 

A.  Hager in  the furniture  business.

Brown City—John Shearsmith succeeds 
Rice & Mapes in the  hardware  business.
Bachelor—R.  R. Rogers is succeeded by 
S. J.  Brightman in  the grocery  business.
Dowagiac—Mandaval  Eaton  has  sold 
his stock of groceries to Charles Amsden.
Morenci—H.  D. Pegg  succeeds Pegg & 
Wilson iu the drug and grocery business.
Cass City—H.  B.  Fairweather succeeds 
Fairweather  Bros,  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Benton  Harbor—Nichols  &  Hall  suc­
ceed Guy  Lockwood  in  the  drug  busi­
ness.

Ionia—The 

Ionia  Produce  Co.  has 
closed out its stock and  will  retire  from 
business.

Litchfield—J.  W.  Hartman  succeeds 
John E.  Lewis  in  the  cigar  and  tobacco 
business.

Ionia—Canfield  &  Hanigan  succeed 
Welch & Long in  the  grocery  and  meat 
business.

Kalamazoo—F.  M. Harwood is succeed­
ed by Harwood & Oakes in  the hardware 
business.

Detroit —  Jno.  N.  Graham  succeeds 
Caroline C.  (Mrs. E.) Rolls  in  the  drug 
business.

Blissfield—A. C.  Bartholomew  is  suc­
ceeded by John Houghtby  in  the  furni­
ture business.

Pewamo—J.  H.  Whittaker  succeeds 
the  Pewamo  Elevator  Co.  in  the  hand­
ling of grain.

Detroit—Hasse  & Dings,  tailors,  have 
dissolved, J.  C.  Hasse &  Son  continuing 
the business.

Negauuee—Wm. Johnston is succeeded 
by  A.  Boulson  in the  saw and  planing 
mill business.

Adrian—Gibford  &  Walker  succeed 
Gibford,  Kennedy & Aldrich in  the hard­
ware business.

Saline—Chas.  F.  Underkirchen  suc­
ceeds  G. B.  Mason  in  the drug  and sta­
tionery business.

Fremont — Gross  &  Mosier  succeed 
Chas.  Rose in the  restaurant and confec­
tionery business.

Weston—Vail & Holden  are succeeded 
by Holden &  Morris in  the  agricultural 
implement business.

Bay  City—Thatcher  &  Olmstead,  gro­
cers,  have  dissolved,  Geo.  Thatcher con­
tinuing the business.

Detroit—D.  O.  Wiley  &  Co.,  produce 
dealers, have dissolved,  D. O.  Wiley con­
tinuing the business.

Lansing—Dunham  & Price,  hardware 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  Price  &  Smith 
continuing the business.

Davison  Station—The  Davison  Road 
Cart Co.  is  succeded  by  the  Wolverine 
Carriage Co., incorporated.

Clayton—Kessler &  Bales are succeed­
ed by John B. Kessler & Son in the hard­
ware and lumber business.

Petoskey  —  Pettingill  Bros.,  grocers

and bakers, have  dissolved  partnership, 
Samuel Pettingill succeeding.

Monroe Center—Willis Wrightman has 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Byron 
Craine and will continue the business.

Grand Ledge—The A.  L.  Worden drug 
stock  has  been  purchased  by  Joslin  & 
Anderson,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness.

North  Branch—Schell  Bros.  & Castle, 
dealers in general merchandise,  have dis­
solved,  Schell Bros,  continuing  the busi­
ness.

Applegate—Munn & Mattison  are  suc­
ceeded by  Munn &  Sherman  in  the dry 
goods,  grocery  and boot  and  shoe  busi­
ness.

Cadillac—Newark & Drury  have  mer­
ged 
their  hardware  business  into  a 
stock company under the style of Newark 
& Dru ary Co.

Lowell—Hunter  &  Son  have  refur­
nished  and  decorated  their  drug  store, 
enabling them to  display  their  stock  to 
better advantage.

Bendon—Albert  Kent’s store and  gen­
eral  stock  were  recently  destroyed  by 
fire.  The  loss  is  estimated  at  $3,000, 
with no  insurance.

Reed City—P.  M.  Lonsbury  has  sold 
his stock of drugs and stationery to E. H. 
Pierce and  Frank  Lonsbury,  who  will 
continue the business.

Whitneyville—F.  T. Croinger  has  sold 
his dry goods and grocery stock to Geo. E. 
Hutchinson and  will  re-engage  in  busi­
ness in  some other location.

Bellaire—Ira A.  Adams  has purchased 
the interest of Mr. Swift in the hardware 
firm of Adams & Swift and will continue 
the business in his own  name.

Mancelona—W.  E.  Watson,  the  pion­
eer merchant  of this  place,  has  sold  his 
stock  of  shoes,  dry  goods  and  men’s 
furnishing goods to P.  Medalie.

Detroit — Alexander  Goetz  has  pur­
chased the interest of  Geo. Taylor in  the 
dry goods stock  of  W. N.  Winans & Co. 
The firm name remains the same.

Watervliet—The general firm of  S.  D. 
Walden & Co.—composed  of  S.  D.  Wal­
den and F.  H.  Merrifield—will  hereafter 
be known as Walden & Merrifield.

Wayland—E.  W. Pickett has purchased 
the interest  of  Frauk  E.  Pickett in  the 
general stock of  Pickett  Bros,  and  will 
continue the business  in  his  own name.
Kalamazoo—Charles Lawrence,  for the 
past  nine  years  shipping  clerk  for  the 
Phelps & Biglow Windmill  Co.,  has  re­
signed and purchased the  grocery  stock 
of W.  A.  Purdy.

Cheboygan—Samuel  Rindskotf  has  re­
tired from the clothing firm of  Rindskoff 
Bros.  The business will be continued by 
Wm.  and  Henry  Rindskoff  under  the 
same firm name.

Coldwater—J.  W.  Shively  has  uttered 
two chattel mortgages  on  his  dry  goods 
stock, one to  A.  J.  Shively  for  $10,600 
and the other to  the  Coldwater National 
Bank for $4,350.

lshpeming—Leffler & Hildebrant, meat 
dealers at  this place and also  at Beacon, 
have dissolved,  John Hildebrant continu­
ing  the  business  at  Beacon  and  J.  J. 
Leffler at this place.

Muskegon—Glasgow Bros. & Dack will 
move  the  unsold  portion  of  the  D.  M. 
Stever dry goods stock to their  stores  in 
Jackson,  where  they have  been in  busi­
ness for the past eight years.
Fremont — James  Atchison  has  pur­
chased the interest of Mr.  Wilcox in  the 
grocery  and  boot  and  shoe  business  of 
Vallier & Wilcox.  The new firm  will be 
known  as  Vallier &  Atchison.

Prairieville—J.  E. Cairns has  sold  his 
interest in the general merchandise busi­
ness of Cairns, Temple & Co.  to his part­
ners,  who  will  continue  the  business 
under the style of Temple &  Nelson.

Kalamazoo—Conger  &  Baumann,  who 
recently  uttered  mortgages  on  their 
crockery stock to the City  Bank for $14,- 
500, offer to compromise with  their  gen­
eral creditors at 50  cents on the dollar.

Sand  Lake—The firm  of  Blanchard  & 
Tringle  has  been  dissolved.  T.  J. 
Blanchard  will  continue  the  furniture 
and undertaking business  and Tringle & 
Laclear will continue the hardware busi­
ness.

Middleton—A.  P.  Albaugh  has  sold 
his grocery stock to Naldrett  Bros.,  who 
will continue the business at the same lo­
cation.  Mr.  Albaugh has leased the new 
hotel  here  and  will  try  his  hand  as  a 
landlord.

Manton—F.  T.  Roberts  and  A.  H. 
Meeker have formed a copartnership and 
will embark in the produce and cold stor­
age business,  erecting for that purposes 
stone  and  brick  building,  25x60  feet  in 
dimensions.

White Pigeon—The “oldest established 
business in St. Joseph  county,’’ recently 
referred to  in  T h e   T r a d e s m a n ,  should 
have been  located  at this plaee,  instead 
of  Constantine. 
It correctly  referred  to 
the  harness  business  of  John  Hotchin,, 
who has sold out to Geo.  W.  Pike.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Marquette—Bice &  Sons  have  started 
their sawmill and will cut out their stock 
by May 1.

Daggett—The G.  H.  Westman  Lumber 
Co.  will build a planing mill as an adj unct 
to its sawmill here.

Evart—Nixon & Morgan have put up  a 
shingle mill on Norway  creek,  near  this 
place, and started it last week.

Trout Creek—The Trout Creek Lumber 
Co.  has started its sawmill and  will  saw 
during the balance of the season.

Saginaw—The  firm name of the Feige- 
Silsbee Furniture Manufacturing Co.  has 
been changed to  the  Feige  Desk Co.

West Bay City—The Wilson  Hoop Co., 
not  incorporated,  have  dissolved,  F.  L. 
Wilson and I.  Pierce continuing the busi­
ness under the same style.

Ithaca—W. S.  Keefer  has  purchased 
the timber on seven forties, near Farwell, 
estimated  to  cut  2,000,000  feet,  mostly 
hemlock and it will be cut at once.

Luther—Crandall & Goul  have erected 
a new  shingle  mill  seven  miles  east  of 
this  place  and  are  already  running on 
their plentiful stock of  choice cedar.

Three  Rivers—L.  J.  Knause  has 
ceased  manufacturing  harness goods  at 
Mendon, and sold his interest in the Jack- 
son  harness  factory,  accepting  a  cash 
bonus  to  establish a harness  factory  at 
this  place.

Coldwater—The stock and business  of 
the B. S.  Tibbits’  Cigar  Manufacturing 
Co.  has been purchased by the  American 
Cigar Co.  Mr. Tibbits will  give  his  en 
tire attention to the business of the Cold 
water Oil Stove Co., of which he is  Man 
ager.

Negaunee—William Johnston, who has 
been operating a planing  mill  here,  has 
sold out to A. Boulsom,  who will  run  it 
under the name of the Negaunee Sash  & 
Door Co.  As  soon as  necessary  repairs 
can be completed,  it  will  be  started  up 
for  the season’s business.

Gladwin—Seely  & Hood,  hoop man a 
facturers at  Beaverton,  have  dissolved,

Mr.  Seely  retains the Beaverton mill and 
business,  and  Mr.  Hood  the  Gladwin 
mill,  which  has  been run under the firm 
name of  Saylor  Hoop  Co., although  the 
property of the copartnership of Seely & 
Hood.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—Without change in price.  The 
demand is light and the  market  on  both 
raw and refined is weak.

Canned goods—Tomatoes and corn con­
tinue to strengthen in price and all varie­
ties of vegetables are bound to go  higher 
before  the  advent  of  another  season. 
The same is  true  of  peaches  and  some 
other  varieties  of  fruit.  Domestic  sar­
dines are higher and will probably double 
in price, owing to  the  passage  of  a law 
by the Massachusetts Legislature, forbid­
ding  salmon packing in  that  State  until 
next fall.
Oysters—The  mild  weather  is  begin­
ning to  be  felt  in  the  oyster  business 
and prices declined 10c per  gallon  Mon­
day.

Energetic  solicitor wanted  to  fill  gen­
eral  agency  position,  representing  the 
Mutual .Benefit  Life  Insurance  Co.,  of 
Newark,  N.  J.  Good  territory.  Com­
mission  and  renewal  contract.  Excel­
lent  opening  for  business  man  or  trav­
eler.  Address,  confidentially,  H.  R. 
Whitman,  Supt.  Michigan  Agencies, 
Grand Rapids.

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

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

BUSIN KSS  CHANCES.

P OR  SALE —FURNITURE  STOVE  AND 

crockery  business.  Store  well  adapted  to 
the  business.  Undertaking  might  be  added. 
Bargain  on  the  stock;  low  rent;  great oppor­
tunity;  fine  prosperous  farming  country.  Ad­
dress Lock Box 98, Greenville, Mich. • 

F o r sa le—good, c l e a n , sa la b le stock 

of  drugs,  groceries  and  hardware, or  will 
exchange for desirable  chattel property  or  real 
estate.  Arthur  Mulholland,  Jr.,  Ashton, Mich.

651

645

F o r  sa le—stock  o f  g r o c e r ies  and

fixtures in a live town in Northern Indiana. 
Will invoice about $1,800.  Address Lock Box 61. 
La Grange, Ind. 

649

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

Bo sitio n w a n t e d - fo r a young  lady

who is experienced in commercial and bank 
book-keeping, accustomed  to  cash  and  general 
office 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
tion  Address  Late  Employers, care  Michigan 
Tradesman 

638

MISCELLANEOUS.

653

647

652

I ¡'OR  SALE—OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  LARGE 

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

dise, 3  billiard  and 3 pool  tables  with outfit 
complete.  Brunswick,  Balke,  Collender  Co.’s 
make.  Used only six months.  Address  No. 653, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

F o r  sa le  o r  t r a d e  fo r  m er c h a n-
■ ANTED—BOOT  AND  SHOE  STOCK  IN- 

voicing $3,000 or less in exchange for  resi­
dence  property  in  Jackson.  Chas. F. Sanborn, 
207 Orange St., Jackson, Mich. 
r p o   EXCHANGE—SEVERAL  FINE  FARMS 
J-  and  Lansing city property for merchandise. 
For  particulars address George M. Dayton, Lan- 
sing, Mich. 
■ ANTED—TO  PURCHASE  STOCK  GRO- 
F OR  SALE —TWO-STORY  FRAME  STORE 

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. 

ceries.  Address  Box  1015,  Des  Moines, 

F o r  sa le—c lea n  stock  o f  g e n e r a l

merchandise, located  at Sumner,  six  miles 
south  of  Riverdale.  Building  is  22x88,  with 
storehouse  20x90,  all  In  good  shape.  Trade 
amounts to $15,000 per year.  Excellent opportu 
nity.  Address  No.  632, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

w ANTED  —  REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
F o r  sa l e—sylvan la k e  h o t e l,  ro m e

Dr. L. E. Benson.  Woodland, Mich.  650
City. Ind.  Or will  sell  furniture  and  rent 
building,  or  would  exchange  for  other  good 
property.  Address Lock Box 61, La Grange, ind.

*  632

Iowa. 

t>46

648

636

648.

4  J

*

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N ,
intrepid  traveler  whose  name  she 
the 
assumes and whose fortune she  proposes 
to share.

Pocket Microbes.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

W. H. Cone has opened a grocery store 
at 75 Clancy street.  The Olney & Judson 
Grocer Co.  furnised the stock.

W. J.  Barnum  has  opened  a  grocery 
store at Velzy.  The stock was furnished 
by the Lemon & Wheeler Company.

A. L. Jenison has sold his grocery stock 
at 144 West  Fulton street  to N.  H.  Wal- 
bridge, the East street general dealer.

Frank Collins has purchased  an  inter­
est in the tobacco business of A. J.  Qnist 
and the new firm will be known as A.  J. 
Quist &  Co.

C. Quint has sold his  grocery stock  on 
Center street to M. J. Yanderveen & Co., 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same location.

J. DePotter has  purchased the grocery 
stock of Seth Ellis,  at South  Grand Rap­
ids,  and added considerably thereto,  pur­
chasing  his  goods  from  the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler Company.

W.  J. and F.  C.  Henwood have formed 
a copartnership  under the  style of Hen- 
wood  Bros,  and embarked in the grocery 
business  at  Hart.  The  Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman Co.  furnished the stock.

H.  P.  Streng, of  this  city,  has  formed 
a  copartnership  with  C.  L.  Streng,  of 
Montague,  under  the firm  name of C.  L. 
Streng  &  Son,  and  will  embark  in  the 
dry  goods  business  at  Holland  about 
March 1.

Gripsack Brigade.

“Hub”  Baker's mare and sleigh,  which 
were  raffled  off  last  Saturday  evening, 
were drawn by Hull  Freeman,  of Mance- 
lona,  and  Manley  Jones,  the  versatile 
grocery salesman.

Yalda  Johnston  is  able  to  be  about 
again,  but hardly strong enough to stand 
the  rigors  of  the  road.  His  route  is, 
therefore,  being  covered  this  week  by 
C.  W.  Payne, whose place he takes in  the 
house in the meantime.

A. S.  Doak was  taken  sick  at  Smyrna 
last Wednesday  and  is  quite  ill  at  his 
home here,  being threatened  with  pneu­
monia.  His route will be covered during 
his illness  by  Jas.  B.  Mclnnes,  whose 
city trade will be covered in the meantime 
by L.  Randall Hawkins.

Wm.  Boughton has severed his connec­
tion with H. S. Robinson & Co.  to  accept 
a position with the  new  house  of  C.  E. 
Smith Shoe Co.  He will not start out for 
the new house until about  March  1,  and 
in the meantime is spending  a  fortnight 
with a brother in Massachusetts.

C.  M.  Woodard  who  has  been  on  the 
road for the past year  for  Barlow Bros., 
has engaged to travel for the Globe Com­
pany,  manufacturers of file cases and of­
fice appliances at Cincinnati.  His  terri­
tory will comprise  Michigan  and North­
ern Ohio  and Indiana.

Texas Commercial  Traveler:  No trav­
eling  salesman  need  make  himself  a 
walking encyclopaedia,  but  the  more  in­
formation he  gains on  matters pertinent 
to his business the better  he will  be able 
to cope with business  difficulties and ad­
vance the condition of  his  calling.

Wm. C. Wells,  who has traveled for W. 
J.  Gould & Co.  for  the past seven  years, 
will  be  married  Feb.  9 to  Miss  Maude 
Onnolee McGregor,  of  Flint,  which  city 
has  long  been  Mr.  Wells’  home.  The 
bride is said to be one  of  Flint’s  fairest 
daughters  and  a  worthy  companion  to

H.  S.  Robinson  <&  Co.  have  re-organ­
ized and re-arranged their traveling force 
in  Michigan,  in  consequence  of  the  re­
tirement  of  Wm.  Boughton  and  Wm. 
Paxton.  The  former  will  be succeeded 
by H.  W. Mason, who  is  already  in  the 
field.  Mr.  Paxton is succeeded by Carle- 
ton  Row,  who  will  cover  the  Michigan 
Central and D.,  L. A N.  H.  Irving  visits 
the trade of the Thumb country, Eastern 
Michigan  and  Northern  Ohio.  A.  W. 
Kelly covers Northeastern  Michigan and 
H.  F. P. Schneider  Southwestern  Michi­
gan.  The Upper Peninsula  is cared  for 
by  J.  Joe  Carroll,  who resides  at Mar­
quette and visits  all the  available towns 
in the Lake Superior country  and North­
ern Wisconsin.

The Hardware Market.

Steel Nails—Demand light.  No change 
to  note  in price.  $1.80  rates  are  now 
asked.  There  is  a  move  on  foot  to 
change the list of  advances,  but nothing 
as yet has been decided upon.

Wire  Nails—Not  strong  in  price,  al­
though the  impression  seems  to  be  that 
bottom  has  nearly  been  reached. 
It  is 
certain if there  is  not  a  change  for  the 
better some mills will have to shut down. 
The present  price  is  $1.70  to $1.80,  ac­
cording to quantity.

Barbed Wire—Many  dealers  are  plac­
ing their orders for spring  shipment,  be­
lieving  that  it  cannot  be  lower.  $2.30 
for painted  and  $2.70  for  galvanized  is 
now quoted.

Glass—Something  is  going  on  in  the 
glass  market that  will  have a tendency 
to steady prices.  At the figures at which 
glass  has  been  selling  manufacturers 
cannot  continue  and  pay 
their  debts. 
We quote 80 and 10 by  the box.

Rope—Both sisal and manillaare weak, 
notwithstanding  the  National  Cordage 
Co. pretends to control the market.  *

Lumberman’s Supplies—Everything in 
this  line  is  very  scarce,  owing  to  the 
great  demand  caused  by  the  splendid 
winter  we are  having.  Cross  cut saws, 
saw  handles, chain  files  and  cant  hook 
handles have all been  short.

Musselman Grocer Co.

Wm.  Widdicomb  has retired from the 
wholesale  grocery  firm  of Musselman & 
Widdicomb  and  the  business  has  been 
merged into a stock  company  under  the 
style of  the Musselman Grocer Co.  The 
capital  stock  of  the  new corporation  is 
$100,000, of which  $70,000  is  subscribed 
and paid in,  being held as follows:
Amos S. Musselman..................................  $35,000
John E. Peck.............................................  12,000
Henry  Idema.............................................  10,000
Edwin F. Uhl...............................................  
8,000
James M.  Barnett........................................  5,000
The officers  of  the  corporation  are as 

follows:

Peck.

President—Amos S.  Musselman.
Vice-rresident—Henry Idema.
Secretary  and  Treasurer — John  E. 

Mr.  Musselman,  who  will  serve  the 
new corporation in the capacity  of Man­
ager,  has  been  continuously  connected 
with the  wholesale  grocery  business  of 
this  market  for  the  past  eleven  years, 
having  begun  his  career as a wholesale 
grocer with the former firm of Fox,  Mus­
selman A Loverage in 1882.  He is a hard 
worker and a man of  excellent  business 
judgment,  and,  under  his  direction  and 
oversight,  the  Musselman  Grocer  Co. 
will undoubtedly meet the same measure 
of  success  which  attended  the  former 
firm of Musselman & Widdicomb.

Representative  Outhwaite,  of Ohio,  is 
none too soon in his  investigation of  old 
greenbacks and bank  notes as the  medi­
um for spreading disease,  and  the  whole 
nation  should  thank Dr. C.  F. Clark,  of 
Columbus,  for first  calling  his attention 
to this subject. 
It is  not pleasant  to be 
told by Dr. J.  C.  Graham,  bacteriologist, 
of Starling Medical College,  that  old  pa­
per  money is  as full of  bacteria as eggs 
are  of  meat. 
It  is  not  comforting  to 
think that  we may have  shut up  in  our 
pocket-books colonies of bacteria quietly 
biding  their  time  to  walk  down  our 
throats  and  do  their  evil  work.  How 
pestiferous are these  germs  Dr.  Graham 
does not know,  but  considering  that  the 
London  Lancet  reports  the  finding  of 
19,000  germs  on  two  Bank  of  England 
notes,  and  considering  that 
cultures 
made in broth, gelatine and  sugar  killed 
rats  and  guinea-pigs  twenty-four  hours 
after infection,  it is safe for Congress  to 
infer 
the  worst  and  prepare  for  it  by 
passing  Mr.  Outhwaite’s  bill  directing 
the Secretary of the Treasury to frequent­
ly redeem paper currency, and  appropri­
ating the  necessary  money,  $50,000,  for 
carrying  it  into  effect.  This  is  a small 
sum compared  with  the great  danger  it 
may avert. 
I  hope Mr.  Holman will not 
object.  Fifty  thousand  dollars of  pre­
vention is worth millions of cure.

Ka te F ie l d .

Purely  Personal.

D.  L.  Wigent,  the  Watervliet  grocer, 
has been laid up two months with inflam­
matory  rheumatism,  but  is  recovering 
so rapidly that  he  will  soon be  himself 
again.

The man  who  unscrupulously  tries  to 

get the earth catches another place.

GXXTSX2TG  H O O T .
We pay the hlgheat price for It.  Address 

D U r i Y   u u n o   W h o le s a le   D r n c i l i t i  
L JLlU A .  DDiU Q ., 

GRANT)  RAFTD8

Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of

F R A N K   H .  W H IT E ,
Brooms, Washboards,  Wooden
Indurated  Pails  i  Tubs,

AND

Wooden  Bowls,  Clothespins  and  IKolling 

Pins,  Step  Ladders,  Washing  Ma­

chines, Market, Bushel and;De- 

11 very Bas' ets,  Building 

Paper, Wrapping

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.

18 5   C O U R T  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

5

Than any Other Cigars in 

Michigan

UEO.  MOEBS  4  CO.

Celebrated  Brands.

Made on Honor !

Sold on Merit !

Send in your orders for

M

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to the

S

New  Yort  Baby  Carnap  Co.,

47, 49, 51, 53 Canal St.

Best Assortment and  Lowest Prices,

E D W IN   J.  G IL L IE S  &  CO.,

NEW  YORK  CITY,

Direct  Importers aM  Distributors of Coffees

Roisters  aid  Packers  of 

STANDARD  BRANDS  OP  THE  WORLD.

Price8 consistent with reliable quality from first hands.

J.  P.  V1SNER,  Agent,  167 North Ionia St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

T H E   M I C f f lG A N   T R A D E S M A N
Dry Goods Price Current.

0

AT  THE  GATE.

got,

St. Peter stood guard at the golden gate,
With solemn mien and an air sedate,
When up to the top of the golden stair 
A man and woman, ascending there,
Applied for admission.  They came and stood 
Before St. Peter, so great and  good,
In hope the City of Peace to win,
And asked St. Peter to let them in.
The woman was tall and lank and thin.
With a scraggy beardlet upon her chin.
The man was short and thick and stout,
His stomach was built so it rounded out;
His face was pleasant, and all the while 
He wore a kindly and genial smile.
The choirs in the  distance  the echoes  woke. 
And the man  kept still while  the woman spoke
“O thou who guardcst  the gate," said she,
“We two come hither, beseeching thee 
To let us enter the  heavenly land 
And play our harps with the angel band.
Of me, St. Peter, there is no doubt—
There's nothing from heaven to bar me out.
I’ve been to meeting three times a week,
And almost always I’d rise and speak.
I've told the sinners about the day 
When they’d repent of their evil way;
I’ve told my neighbors—I’ve toll ’em all 
’Bout Adam and Eve, and the Primal Fall ;
I’ve shown them what they'd have to do,
If they’d pass in with the chosen few ;
I’ve marked their path of duty clear.
Laid out the plan for their whole  career.
I've talked and talked to ’em loud and long,
For my lungs are good and my voice is strong. 
So. good St.  Peter, you’ll  clearly see 
The gate of heaven is open for me,
But my old man, I regret to say.
Hasn’t walked exactly the narrow way ;
He smokes and he swears and  grave  faults  he's 
And I don’t know whether he'll pass or not.
He never would pray with an earnest vim 
Or go to revival or join in a hymn;
So I had to leave him in sorrow there,
While I, with the  chosen, united it prayer;
He ate what the pantry chanced to afford,
While  I, in my purity, sang to the Lord,
And. if cucumbers were all he got,
It's a chance if he merited them or not.
And. 0 St. Peter, I love him so—
To the pleasures of  heaven please let him go ! 
Ain’t one enough—a saint I’ve been?
Won’t that atone ?  Can’t you let him in?
By my grim gospel I know ’tis so 
That the unrepentant must fry below ;
But isn’t there some way you can Bee 
That he may enter who's  dear to me?
It's a narrow gospel  bj  which I pray,
But the chosen expect to find a way 
Of coaxing or  fooling or bribing you,
So that their relation can amble through.
And say, St  Peter. It seems to me 
This gâte isn't kept as it ought to be;
You ought to stand right by the opeuing there 
And never sit down in that easy chair.
And say. St. Peter, my sight is dimmed,
But  I  don’t  like  the  way  your  whiskers  are 
They’re cut too wide and outward toss—
They’d  look better  narrow, cut straight  across. 
Well, we must be going, our crowns to win,
So open, St. Peter, and we'll pass in ! ”
St. Peter sat quiet  stroking his staff,
But. spite of his office, he had to laugh ;
Then he said with a fiery gleam in his eye, 
“Who’s tending this gateway, you or I ? ’’
And then he rose in his stature tall,
And pressed a button upon the wall.
And said to the imp who answered the bell, 
“Escort this lady around to—Hades! ”
The man stood still as a piece of stone—
Stood sadly, gloomi y. there alone.
A life long,  settled idea he had 
That his wife was good and he was bad ;
He thought, if the woman went down below, 
That he would  certainly have to go;
That. If she went to the regions dim,
There wasn’t the ghost of a show for him.
Slowly he turned, by habit bent.
To follow wherever the woman went.
St.  Peter, standing  on duty there,
Observed that the top of his head was bare.
He called the gentleman back and said,
“Friend, how long  have you been wed?” 
“Thirty years,” with a weary sigh.
And then thoughtfully added, “Why!”
St. Peter was silent.  With head bent down,
He raised his hand and scratched his crown; 
Then, seeming a different thought to take, 
“Thirty years with that woman there?
No wonder the man hasn't any hair!
Swearing is wicked, smoke's not good ;
He smoked and swore—I should think he would !
Thirty years with that tongue so sharp?
Ho?  Angel  Gabriel !  Give him a harp!
A jeweled harp with a golden string !
Good sir, pass in where the angels sing !
Gabriel, give him a seat alone—
One with a cushion—up near the throne?
Call up some angels to play their best,
Let him enjoy the music and rest!
See that on finest ambrosia he feeds—
He's had about all the Hades  he needs ;
It isn’t hardly the thing to do
To roast him on earth and in the future too.”

trimmed ;

They gave him a harp with golden strings,
A glittering robe and a pair of wings;
And he said, as he entered the Realm of Day. 
“Well, this  beats cucumbers anyway!”
And so the Scriptures had come to pass 
That “The  last  shall  be first and  the  first  shall 

J o s e p h  B i e t  Smiley.

be last.” 

It is not a good idea to jump  into deep 
water unless you know how to swim. 
It 
is not a  good idea  to  embark  in  a busi 
ness that you don’t understand.

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Argyle  ...................  6
Atlanta AA.............6
Atlantic A..............6%
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Georgia  A..............  6)4
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Glen Mills.............   7
Amazon...................8
Gold Medal............ 714
Amsburg.................7
Green  Ticket......... 814
Art  Cambric.......... 10
Great Falls.............   614
Blackstone  A A....7
Beats All................ 4
Hope....................... 714
Boston................... 12
Just  Out......   434® 6
King  Phillip...........734
Cabot......................   714
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Cabot,  %.................644
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Charter  Oak...........514
Lonsdale...........  @ 814
Conway W..............714
Middlesex........   @  5
Cleveland..............   7
Dwight Anchor......  814
No Name................ 714
shorts  8
Oak View...............   6
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Edwards.................   6
Pride of the West.. .12
Empire....................7
Rosalind................. 714
Farwell...................  714
Sunlight.................   414
Fruit of the Loom.  814
Utica  Mills............ 814
Fitchville  .............?
“  Nonpareil  ..10
First Prize..............7
Vinyaxd..................  814
Fruit of the Loom X. 714
White Horse...........  6
Fairmount...... ...... 414
“  Rock-------   .  814
Full Value..............  634
Cabot......................   7  ¡Dwight Anchor...... 814
Farwell...................8 

HALF  BLBACHBD  COTTONS.

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached.

Housewife  Q............614
R ........... 7
S  ..........734
T ........... 814
U............914
V ...........10
W......   .1034
X..........1114
Y..........1214
Z  ..........1314

Unbleached.
Housewife  A... --5 )4
B ...
“ 
-.5)4
....6
C...
“ 
D...
“ 
...  6)4
....7
B  ..
“ 
F ...
“ 
-73a
G  - — 7)4
“ 
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H ...
“ 
I...
“ 
--8M
J  ..
...  8)4
“ 
9*
K  ..
“ 
...10
L.  ..
“ 
“  M  ...
...10)4
N __ ...11
“ 
...21
“ 
O ....
....1414
CARPET  WARP.

“ 

Peerless, white....... 18141 Integrity  colored...20
colored— 2014 White Star..............18
Integrity................. 18141 
“  colored..20
Nameless................20
Hamilton 
......... 25
......... 2714
......... 30
......... 3214
......... 35

............. 8
.................9
.................1014
G G  Cashmere........20
Nameless..............16
................18

DRESS  GOODS.

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CORSETS.

“ 

“ 

PRINTS.

CORSET  JEANS.

“ 
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Wonderful.............$4 50
Corallne..................... 19 50
Schilling’s ..  ........  9 00
Brighton.................. 4 75
Davis  Waists......  9 00
Bortree’s ...............  9 00
Abdominal............15  00
Grand  Rapids........ 4 50
Naumkeag sat teen..  714
Armory..................   634
Androscoggin.........7)41
Rockport...................614
Conestoga.................714
Blddeford...............  6
Walworth................ 634
Brunswick..............614
Berwick fancies 
Allen turkey  reds..  6
514
Clyde Robes..— 
robes...........6
Charter Oak fancies 414 
pink a purple  6
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
buffs...........  6
mourn’g  6 
pink  checks.  6
Eddystone  fancy...  6 
staples  ........6
shirtings ...  414 
chocol&t  6
5341 
6
rober 
American fancy 
614 
sateens..  6
American Indigo
A m e r ic a n  shirtings.  5  Hamilton fancy.  ... 6
Argentine  Grays... 6 
staple.... 6
Anchor Shirtings...  5  Manchester  fancy .. 6
new era. 6
....  6)4
Arnold 
Merrimack D fancy. 6
Arnold  Merino....  6
Merrim’ck shirtings. 414 
long cloth B. 1014
“ 
Repp furn .  814
“ 
“  C.  8)4
“ 
century cloth  7
Paelflc fancy......... 6
“  gold seal........ 1014
robes............614
“  green seal TR1014
Portsmouth robes...  6
Simpson mourning..  6
“  yellow seal.. 10)4
greys........6
“  serge..............11)4
solid black.  6
“  Turkey red.. 10)4 
Washington indigo.  6
Ballou solid black..  5 
“  colors.  514
“ 
“  Turkey robes..  7)4 
“  India robes  ...  7)4 
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  plain Tky X 34  814 
red and  orange...  5)4
“  X...10
“ 
Berlin solids...........  5)4
“  Ottoman  Tur­
“  oil blue............6)4
key red................6
“  green ....  814 
Foulards ....  514
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 34...... 714
red 34...........7
MarthaTurkey red.......914
Washington
“  X  .........   914
“  4 4......... 10
Rlverpomtrobes....  514
34XXXX 12
icv........6 I Windsor fancy 
6)4
Cocheco fancy........6
•dders...  6 
| 
gold  ticket
madders
XX twills  .6)4 
solids........5)4|Harmony............  4M
Amoskeag AC A  ... 13
AC A....................13
Pemberton AAA— 16
Hamilton N............   7)4
York....................... 10)4
D............ 8)4
Awning.. 11
Swift River............7)4
Pearl River............12)4
Farmer....................8
Warren................... 13)4
First Prize..............10)4
Couostoga..............16
Lenox M ills...........18
COTTON  DRILL.
Atlanta,  D............. 634 {Stark  A 
.............   8
Boot.........................634  No Ñame.................. 7)4
Clifton, K............... 7  ¡Top of Heap..............  9

Indigo blue......... 1014

TICKINGS.

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“ 

“ 
“ 

Amoskeag...............1214
9os...... 1314
brown .13
Andover................. 1114
Beaver Creek  A A... 10 
BB...  9
CC—
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 

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bine  814 
“ 
“  d a  twist 10)4 
Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.19

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12)4
brown....... 12)4
Haymaker blue........ 73|
brown...  734
Jeffrey.....................1114
Lancaster  .............. 1214
Lawrence, 9 os........ 1814
No. 220....13
No. 250....1114
No. 280.... 1014

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Amoskeag..............

“  Persian dress 8)4 
Canton ..  814
“ 
“ 
AFC......10H
“ 
Teazle.. .10)4 
“ 
Angola..10)4 
Persian..  8)4 
“ 
Arlington staple....  6I4 
Arasapha  fancy—   434 
Bates Warwick dres 814 
staples.  614
Centennial............   1014
Criterion  ............... 10)4
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin.......................   714
Everett classics......814
Exposition............... 714
Glenarie.................  614
Glenarven................ 634
Glenwood.................714
Hampton...................614
Job nson Uhalon cl 
14 
indigo blue 914 
zephyrs.... 16

GINGHAMS.
Lancaster,  staple.. .  7
fancies ... .  7
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire............ .  6
Manchester........... ■  Mi
Monogram............ .  6)4
Normandie............ •  7)4
Persian.................. .  8)4
Renfrew Dress...... .  7)4
Rosemont.............. .  6)4
Slatersville........... .  6
Somerset............... .  7
Tacoma  ............... .  7)4
Toil  duNord........ .10)4
W abash................. .  7)4
seersucker ■  7)4
Warwick...............
8)4
Whittenden........... •  6*
heather dr.  8
Indigo blue 9 
Wamsutto staples...  634
Westbrook..............  8
........................10
Wlndermeer........... 5
York  ......................634

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ORA IN  BAGS.

THREADS.

Amoskeag............... 1614IValley City..............1634
Stork.......................20)4 Georgia.................. 1534
American............... 16  ¡Pacific................... IS
Clark’s Mile End....45  {Barbour's............... 88
Coats’, J. & P......... 45  Marshall’s ...............88
Holyoke..................22)41
White.  Colored.
38' No.  14... ....37
38
“  16...
39
••  18... ...39
40
“  20... ....40
41
CAMBRICS.

White. Colored
42
43
44
45

6  .. -33
...34
8...
...35
10...
.36
12...

KNITTING  COTTON.

No.

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

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

RED  FLANNEL.

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MIXED  FLANNEL.

DOMET  FLANNEL.

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

Fireman.................32)4
Creedmore.............27)4
Talbot XXX...........30
Nameless...............27)4
Red & Blue,  plaid. .40
Union R.................22)4
Windsor................. 1814
6 oz Western..........20
Union  B ................ 2214
Nameless...... 8  @9)41 
...... 8)4@10  I 

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
9)4
10)4
11)4
12)4

Grey SR W............1714
Western W  .............1814
DR P ............ .........1814
Flushing XXX....... 2314
Manitoba............... 23)4
@1014
12)4
Brown. Black.
10)4
11)4
12
20
West  Point, 8 01 
1014
10 oz
“ 
.1214
Raven, lOoz.............13)4
1814
 
Stark 
Boston, 10 oz........... 12)4

“
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Slate. Brown. Black. Slate
9H 10)4
9)4
10)4 11)4
10)4
11)4 12
11)4
12)4 20
12)4
Severen, 8 oz..........   9)4
May land, 8oz......... 1014
Greenwood, 714 oz..  9)4 
Greenwood, 8 01 — 1114 
Boston, 8 oz............ 10)4
White, dos............... 25 |Per bale, 40 dos__ S3 50
Colored, dos............ 20 IColored  “ 
...........7 50
Pawtucket...............10)4
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Dundie...................   9
“ 
Red Cross....  9
Bedford...................10)4
“  Best.............10)4
Valley  City............ 10)4
«  Best AA......1214
K K ....................... 10)4
L............................. 714
G..............................814
Corticelli, doz.........85  [Cortlcelli  knitting,

10)4
11)4
12
20

SEWING  SILK.

“  8 
“  10 

per 14oz  ball........30

tw ist,dot..40 
50yd,doz..40  I 
HOOKS AND  ETE»—PER GROSS.
“ 
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No  1 Bl’k A White..lO  No  4 Bl’k A White..15 
“  2 
..20
•• 
..25
8 
No 2—20, H C......... 50  {No 4—16  F  3)4........ 40
1  8-18, S C ...........45  I
COTTON  TAPS.
No  2 White A Bl’k.,12  ¡No  8 White A Bl’k.,20 
.-15 
“  10 
“ 
.28
» 
-18  I  “  12 
-26
SAFETY  PINS.
No2.........................28  ¡N08...
.86

WADDINGS.

..12 
..12 

SILESIAS.

PINS.

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4 
6 

NEEDLES— PEB  M.

A. James.................1  401 Steamboat...............   40
Crowely’s............... 1  351 Gold Eyed............... 1 60
Marshall’s .............. 1 00|
5-4....2 25  6—4...8 25|5—4 

1  95  6—4...2 95

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“ 

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...S10{
COTTON TWINES.
Cotton Sail Twine.. 28  I
Crown....................12
Domestic................1814
Anchor................18
Bristol.................13
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL........................1814
Alabama.................  634!
Alamance................. 614
Augusta...................7)4
Ar  sapha................  6
Georgia.....................614
Granite  ..................  534 Sibley
Haw  River.............5  Tolède
H aw   J ........................6  I

PLAID  OSNABURGB

Nashua.............  ...18
Rising Star4-ply..-17 
8-ply..-17
North Star............ 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7)4 
Powhattan.............18

Mount  P leasant--  614
Oneida..................... 5
Prym ont................  534
Randelman..............6
Riverside.................  5)4
A................6M

KALAMAZOO PANT A. OVERALL CO.

221  E. MainoSt., Kalamazoo, Mich.

Chicago salesroom with'Silverman & Opper, 

Corner Monroe st. and Fifth ave.

Our specialties:  Pants from $7.50 to 836  per doz. 
warranted  not  to  rip.  Shirts  from  $2.50 to $15 
per doz.  Spring line  now ready.  Samples  sent 
on approval.

BUY  THE  PENINSULAR
Pants,  Sits,  aid  Overalls

Once and You aie onr Customer 

for life.

STANTON, MOREY & C0„ Mlrs.

DETROIT,  MICH.

Geo. F. Owen, Salesman  for Western  Michigan, 

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

8NHDIC0R X HÄTHÄWÄY,

Manufacturers and Wholesale 

Dealers in

124-126 Jefferson Ave.,

D E T R O IT ,  M ICH.

Men’s  and  Women’s  Fine  Shoes  a 

Specialty.

U S B

MILE-ENÉ
Best  Six  Cord

— FOR

IMine or Hand Use.

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL

Dealers io Dir  Goods & Notions.

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

7

and  the  sidewalk,  and  puts in his  little 
stock.

He is now a grocer  and  entitled to all 
the  privileges and  benefits  of  a  grocer.
This  means  groceries and  provisions  at 
cost,  which  reduces his  family expenses 
and enables  him to lay aside more of  his 
wages  than  formerly,  for  the  title  of 
“grocer” does  Dot  spoil  the  Hollander’s 
zeal  for  labor.  His  wife  and  children 
attend  to  the  grocery,  and 
large or  small, represent  so  much  clear  Musket' 
gain.
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A  S u cc e ssfu l  S u b u rb an  G rocery.

W ritten   fo r Thb Tradesman.

Didn’t  think  there was  such  a  thing, 
did  you?  Well,  there  is,  and  more than 
that,  there are  several of  them in  all of 
our large towns.  We even  have some of 
them here in Grand Rapids.

the 

But these successful  suburban grocery 
stores  are  not  run  by  labor-shirking 
Yankees  who  are  looking around  for  a 
nice  soft spot  where  they can  sit  down 
and  whistle,  whittle  and  whine.  Such 
fellows are found on every corner.  When 
they entered  the  grocery  business,  they 
took off  their  overalls  and  stuffed them 
into  the  ragbag,  and took  a  fond  adieu 
of work,  worry and  want.  Fatal mistake' 
Those  overalls  should  have  been  hung 
up  by the  side  of  the  dinner  pail  and 
carefully  preserved,  for 
time  is 
speedily coming  when they  will  be need­
ed  again,  and,  when  that  time  comes, 
the necessary means will  be lacking with 
which to purchase a new pair.  The suc­
cessful  suburban  stores  are  run  by  a 
different  class of  fellows,  men  who  are 
on good  speaking  terms with  grimy toil, 
and who have never taken off  their over­
alls or  thrown  away  their  dinner  pails. 
These  men  did  not  invest  their  hard- 
earned dollars in  a little  grocery store as 
a means of  getting rid  of  work,  but as a 
means  of  increasing 
their  productive 
power and adding to their accumulations.
In order to describe one of these estab­
lishments,  we  will  suppose 
that  the 
owner  landed  in  the  city,  direct  from 
Holland,  ten  years  ago,  with  less  than 
$10 in  his  pocket,  aud  a  wife  and  two 
children  to  support—or,  rather,  a  wife 
to  help  him  support  the  two children 
Before  the  sun went  down  on  the  day 
succeeding their  arrival,  they had  found 
a  dwelling  place  and  the  head  of  the 
house had secured a “yob.”  A Holland 
er is  never  idle.  He is always  at  work 
early and  late,  and  for  whatever  wage; 
he  may be  able to command;  and,  be his 
wages  high  or  low,  he  keeps  digging 
away,  and  he never  allows  his expense 
to  entirely consume  his  income.  After 
a few  months he has  secured  permanent 
work in a factory somewhere.  He’s not 
the man to miss a day on account of hav 
ing  caught  cold  sitting  in a draft at  the 
theatre, or any other account, and, conse­
quently,  in  a  marvelously short  time  he 
is the  owner of  a small  lot,  with  all the 
appurtenances  thereunto  belonging, or 
in  other  words,  a  small  house  and  i 
chicken coop.  Two or three  years  more 
find  him  with  an  accumulation of  $300 
or $400,  in addition  to  his house and lot, 
which  are  paid  for.  By  this  time, the 
neighborhood  is  thickly  built  up  with 
other  little  houses,  which  are  occupied 
by  his  own  countrymen,  who  have  fol­
lowed  him to “ the  land of  the  free  and 
the  home of  the  brave,” as he  followed 
others who came before him.

We have  reached the point  now where 
the  successful  suburban  grocery makes 
its  appearance.  His  home  is  paid  for 
and  he  has a small  accumulated  capital 
laying  idle.  The  larger number of  his 
immediate  neighbors  are  factory hands, 
and are passing through the various stages 
of self-supporting development which he 
passed  through.  The  single ones  must 
pay for board  and the families  must buy 
groceries.  Why not  put his  spare  capi­
tal to work helping to make more capital? 
No reason  why he should  not;  and so he 
either puts a partition  across one  end  of 
the living  room, or  builds on a small ad­
dition  in  front  between the  living  room

Hollander  is  a  utilitarian.  He 
never  allows  anything  to  go  to  waste, 
and, not  only  so,  but  everything  in  his 
control  must be turned to some practical 
account.  His own  labor must count,  his 
wife’s  labor must  count,  every  accumu­
lated dollar must  help earn  another dol­
lar,  and,  if his  house is a little  too large 
for  his  family,  the  spare  room will  be 
utilized for a boarder or two.

A Yankee knows  how  to  whittle,  but, 
when  it  comes  to  running a successful 
suburban  grocery  store,  he  is  simply 
not in it.” 

E.  A.  Ow en.

The  Best Oranges.

The  expert  orange  buyer  does  not 
select the  smooth,  clean-skinned  fruit 
invariably,  nor does he object to a heavy 
percentage of  rough,  dirty  skins.  The 
latter are  not  always  easy  to  sell,  but 
they invariably  give  the  greatest  satis­
faction.  This is because in the  case  of 
oranges, as with almost any  other  fruit, 
beauty is only skin deep, and  the insects 
which infest orange  groves  and  extract 
sweetness from  the  fruit  much  as  bees 
draw honey from the  finest flowers,  only 
attack the sweetest  and  choicest  to  be 
found.  The effect of  their  efforts  is  to 
roughen the skin by  perforating  it,  and 
hence dust is retained,  instead of  falling 
or being brushed off the untouched skins. 
The fruit within the  latter  having  been 
rejected by the insects  on  account  of  a 
lack of sweetness, is not  so palatable  as 
that  in the rougher looking skins; and it 
is decidedly a good plan to follow  in  the 
footsteps of the busy little creatures who 
can  tap  an  orange  and  ascertain  how 
sweet it is in  a  manner  no  man  could 
attempt.

Business men are expected to be  cured 
when handling anything  that  is  a  drug 
on the market.

HATCH CHICKENS  BY  STEAM
Mitht^improvea EXCe|8ior incubator,
Simple,  Perfect,  Self-Regu­
lating.  Thousands in suc­
cessful operation.  Quaran 
teed to hatch a larger per­
centage of  fertile  eggs at 
less  cost  than  any  other 
Hatcher.  Lowest  priced 
first-class  Hatcher  made. 
GEO. »«■ *TAHL, Quincy,111.

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 .   P H I L L I P S   A   C O .,

F e n t o n ,  M ic h .
Hardware Price Current.

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AXES.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dlB.
AUGURS AND BITS. 
60
Snell’s..............................................
.......... 
40
.......... 
Cook's..............................................
25
.........  
Jennings', genuine..........................
Jennings’, Im itation.......................
......... 50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze..............
......... $ 7 00
D.  B. Bronze..............
.........   12 00
8. B. 8. Steel..............
.........   8 60
D. B. Steel.................
.........   13 50
dls.
Railroad......................................................$ 14 00
Garden...........................................net  30 00
d ls .
Stove.............................................................. 50*10
Carriage new list.......................................... 75*10
Plow.............................................................. 40*10
Sleigh shoe...................................................  
70
Well,  plain................................................... I 3 50
Well, swivel.................................................   4 00
d ls.
Cast Loose Pin, figured...........  ...................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 60*.0

BUTTS, CAST. 

BARXIOWS.

BUCKETS.

b o l t s . 

Wrought Loose Pin.......................................80*10
Wrought  Table.............................................60*10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60*10
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark's...............................................70*10
Blind, Parker’s............................................. 70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  189-2................ 

50

CRADLES.

CROW  BARS.

Grain................................................................ dls. 50*02
Cast Steel............................................. per*»  5
Ely's 1-10............................................. perm
...............................   “ 
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“ 
CARTRIDGES.

OAFS.

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

65 
60
35
60
50
25

c h is e l s. 

d ls .
Socket Firmer.............................................70*10
Socket Framing............................................ 70*10
Socket Comer............................................... 70*10
Socket SUcks............................................... 70*10
Butchers’Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

40 
Curry,  Lawrence’s. 
25
Hotchkiss..............
White Crayons, per  gross..............12©12V4 dls. 10

d ls .

c o m b s. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

 

28 |
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

dls.

DRIPPING PANS.

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

07
  6V4

 

ELBOWS.

75

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Com. 4  piece, 6 In............................dot. net 
Corrugated....................................................... dls 40
Adjustable....................................................... dls. 40*10
Clark’s, small, $18;  large, $26...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, $18:  2, $24;  3,$30  ...................  
 
25
dls.
Disston’s ................... 
60*10
New American  ............................................60*10
Nicholson’s ..................................................60*10
Heller's  ........................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ..................................  
60

files—New List. 
 

dls.

 

GALVANIZED IRON.

28
16 17

dls.
dls.

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

12 

15 

13 
Discount, 60

14 
GAUGES. 

dls.

50
55
65
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..................  
Russell * Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l is t................... 55
55
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s ............................ 
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
Norwalk’s ....................................................  
55
Adze Bye.......................................... $16.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye.......................................... $15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ...................................... $18.50, dls. 20*10.
dls.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post, handled...................... 
50
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
“  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables__  
46
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cle ik’s.................  
40
“  Enterprise 
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25

MOLASSES SATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MATTOCKS.

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

dig.

 

NAILS

« 

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..
.. 

Advance over base: 

Finish 10.'.’.V..’.V.'.‘.V.'.'.V..’.V 

Steel nails, base.............................................. 1  85
Wire nails, base.....................................1  d0@l  90
Steel.  Wire.
60......................................................Base 
Base
10
50......................................................Base 
26 
06
40.. 
26 
30.. 
10
16
35 
20.. 
15
45 
16.... 
45 
15
12.... 
10....
50 
.  20 
8.....
.  25 
60 
7*6.
75 
.  40 
90 
.  60 
4......
1  20 
8.2.
.1  00 
.1  50
1  60 
1  60 
FlneS.................................................... 1 50
65 
Case  10.............................................  60
75 
8.............................................  75
90 
75 
85
90 
8.......................................... 1 00
6...............................................1 15
1  10 70 
Clinch; 10..........................................  85
80
8.......................................... 1  00
90
6............................................1  15 
Barren x ...........................................175 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   Q40
Sciota Bench.............................................  ®60
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................   ©40
Bench, first quality..........................................   060
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. 25to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

PLANES. 

“ 
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“ 
“ 

r iv e t s. 

Broken packs ho per pound extra.

d ls.

dig.

HA SIXERS.

d ls .

HISSES.

h a n g e r s. 

HOLLOW WARE.

25
Maydole  * Co.’s....................................dls. 
25
Kip’s ...................................................... dls. 
Yerkes *  Plumb’s..................................dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand__90c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ..............................dls.60*10
State...........................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4 Vi  14  and
3H
10
h ........... ............ net
%........... ............ net
8H
x ........... ............ net
7V4
%........... ............ net
7H
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  TlnWare...............................new list 70
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*10*10
70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Byes...................... 
dls. 7q
•
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...................... 
Sisal, % Inch aud larger.............................  
9
Manilla.........................................................  13
dlS.
SQUARES. 
Steel and Iron.........................  
Try and Bevels............................................. 
Mitre............................................................  

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

wire g o o d s. 

75
60
26
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

sheet iron.

l e v e l s. 

ROPES.

8 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

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

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
50
55
“  85

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$2 95
3 05
3 05
3 15
3 25

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

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

Solid Byes............................................ per ton 125
“ 
20
Sliver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__ 
70
“  Special Steel Dex X Cats, per foot__ 
50
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot__ 
30
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot.............................................  30
Steel, Game................................................... 60*10
Onelaa Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s __ 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion............................... 11.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market......................................... 70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market.............................................  62H
Coppered  Spring Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  2 85
painted....................................  2 40

wire. 

dls.

“ 

WRENCHES. 

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

MISCELLANEOUS. 

HORSE NAILS.

METALS,
PIG TIN.

 

ZINC.

SOLDER.

260
  28c

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars...............................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2tfc per pound.
660 pound  casks...........................................   SSf
Per pound....................................................   7
H©H.................................................................. M
Extra Wiping.................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONT
Cookson........................................per  pound
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MELTN GRADE.
10x1410, Charcoal.........................................$7
14x2010, 
7  0
10x14 IX, 
9 25
14x20 IX, 
9 25
Bach additional X on this grade, >1.75.
10x14 IC,  Charcoal......................................> 6 756 75
14x20 IC,
8 25
10x14 LX, 
9 25
14x20 IX, 

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TER—ALLAWAY GRADE.

........................................
.................................
Bach additional X on this grade 11.50.

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B00PIN9 PLATES

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“  Worcester..............................  6 50
14x20 IC, 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
..........................   8 6Ö
.........................  18 50
“ 
20x28 IC, 
“  Allaway  Grade................  6 00
14x2010, 
7 50
*• 
14x20 IX, 
“ 
12 50
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
“ 
15 50
BOILER SIEE TIN FLATI.
14X28  IX........................................................$14 00
14x81  IX......................................................... 16
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E.  A.  STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY  8,  1893.

CIRCUMSTANTIAL  EVIDENCE.

One of  the great obstacles  in  the way 
of securing the administration of prompt 
and satisfactory justice upon  murderous 
criminals  is  the  difficulty  of  obtaining 
juries that are willing to serve.  A large 
number of the persons who are examined 
as to their fitness for  jury duty will pro­
fess an unwillingness  to  convict on  cir­
cumstantial  evidence.  Another  large 
proportion will  profess an equal  unwill­
ingness to indict  the  death  punishment 
for any crime.  Leaving  out of the ques­
tion the large amount  of  sympathy  that 
exists in favor of the shedders of blood— 
a  sympathy that  countenances  any sort 
o tkilling except that  by judicial  decree 
—a few words  on  the  sufficiency of  cir­
cumstantial evidence,  as  brought  out  in 
the recent decision of  a case by the New 
York Supreme Court of  Appeals,  may be 
interesting.

The case  was that of  Carlyle  W.  Har­
ris,  convicted in  the  lower  court of  the 
murder  of  his  wife  by  poison.  Harris 
was  a  medical  student,  well  acquainted 
with  the  opeiation  of  medicines.  He 
had  been  married  secretly  to  a  young 
woman  who  was  not  known  to  be  bis 
wife  until  after  her  death, and  it  was 
shown that  he wished  to  get rid  of  her 
in  order  to  marry  another  woman  to 
whom  he  was  engaged.  His  character 
was proved to  be bad.  While there was 
considerable  direct  evidence  to connect 
him  with  the  crime,  much  of  the  testi­
mony,  especially  in the way of  complet­
ing links in  the  chain,  was  circumstan­
tial and  was  based  on  the  judgment  of 
medical  and  chemical  experts.  Harris 
was  convicted  by  a  jury  in  the  lower 
court,  and his conviction  was affirmed in 
the  higher. 
In  delivering  the  declara­
tion of the court, Justice  Gray remarked 
upon the force  and  value of circumstan­
tial evidence.  Some  of  his observations 
are  important:  “The  mind  may  be  re­
luctant  to  conclude  upon  the  issue  of 
guilt  in  criminal  cases  upon  evidence 
which  is not direct,  and yet,  if  the facts 
brought  out,  when  taken 
together,  all 
point  in the one direction of guilt,  and to 
the  exclusion  of  any  other  hypothesis, 
there  is  no  substantial  reason  for  that 
reluctance.  Purely  circumstantial  evi­

dence  may  be  often  more  satisfactory 
and a safer form of evidence;  for it must 
rest upon facts, which, to prove the truth 
of  the  charge  made,  must  collectively 
tend to establish the guilt of the accused. 
If  any  of  the  material  facts  of  a  case 
were at variance with the probabilities of 
guilt,  it would be the duty of  the jury to 
give the defendant the benefit of the doubt 
raised.  All  that  he  should  require  of 
circumstantial  evidence  is 
that  there 
shall be positive  proof of  the facts from 
which  the  inference  of  guilt  is  to  be 
drawn,  and  that  that  inference  is  the 
only one which can  reasonably be drawn 
from those facts.”

to 

The  Judge, after  citing  the  details of 
evidence,  concluded:  “The  ev­
the 
overwhelm  the  ac­
idence  seems 
cused  with  his  guilt,  and 
leaves  the 
mind unfitted to  accept any  other  belief 
than  that  he  intended  to  make  away 
with his wife in order to  free the field of 
his own  life and  to  escape from  the im­
minent  danger  of  disgrace  or  punish­
ment,  and  that,  with  cold  deliberation, 
he  planned her  death  by  methods which 
should conceal  him as its author.  I think 
that  justice  does  not  demand  that  this 
defendant should have a new trial,  unless 
there  were  errors  committed  upon  the 
trial in the admission or exclusion  of ev­
idence,  or in the charge  of the Recorder, 
which affected any  substantial  rights  of 
the  accused.” 

Circumstantial evidence can  be so com­
plete as to  amount to a  certainty, and  it 
is unreasonable to decline  to give weight 
to all or any  evidence  that is  not direct. 
It should be heard  before  its sufficiency 
is  passed  upon.

«

Business  men  who  are  compelled  to 
rely  on the  mercantile  agencies for spe­
cific information of a commercial charac­
ter denounce the bill introduced  by Rep­
resentative White, of  this city,  requiring 
commercial  agencies  to  pay  an  annual 
license  fee  to  the  State.  The law pro­
viding  for  the 
taxation  of  mortgages 
threw additional burdens  on the borrow­
er,  without  securing  commensurate  re­
turns  to  the  people  as  a  whole.  The 
measure  above  referred  to  is  equally 
foolish and illy advised,  as its enactment 
as a law would  necessarily  result in the 
commercial agencies raising their present 
schedule of prices sufficient to  cover the 
amount of the proposed tax. 
It is a com­
mon remark that the fool killer would be 
sadly overworked if  compelled to attend 
a session of the  Legislature^  and  the  in­
troduction of such  bills  as above tend  to 
confirm the correctness of the remark.

In retiring  from the wholesale  grocery 
business,  Wm.  Widdicomb  leaves  as  a 
legacy  to his former  associates  an  envi­
able financial record and the  memory  of 
a career which commands the admiration 
of all for its method and thoroughness.

Bank  Notes.

The old and well-known  private bank 
ing house of Lilley, Bidwell & Go., which 
has done a prosperous  banking business 
at  Tecumseh  for  the  past  thirty-eight 
years,  has  been  merged  into  a  State 
bank,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $40,000. 
The  gentlemen  interested  are  Lucius 
Lilley, J.  S.  Strong,  Lavern  I. Bidwell, 
Albert L.  Brewer and L. P.  Tribou, with 
Mr.  Lilley as President, Mr. Brewer Vice- 
President and Mr.  Tribou Cashier.  The 
object of the change is to  perpetuate the 
business,  Mr.  Lilley, the  only  surviving 
member of the old firm, being well along 
in  years. 
It  will  be  called  the  Lilley 
State Bank.

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PERKINS  &  RICHMOND,  101  Ottava St.,  Granii Rapids,  Mich.

G rand  R a p id s   B r u s h   Co.,

Manufacturers  of

BRUSHES

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Our goods are  sold by all  Michigan  Jobbing  Houses.

HENRY 8.  ROBINSON.

RICHARD G.  ELLIOTT.

H v^-Kobinson A N D  f OAYPANY

Manufacture! s and  Wholesale Dealers In

BOOTS,  SHOES  and  RUBBERS,

99,101,103,105  Jefferson Ave.,

State Agents for the Candee Rubber Co.

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the prices asked,  make them LEADERS.

THE  YOST  MANUFACTURING  CO., Toledo, 0.

Bond for Catalogue.

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THE  USES  OF  GREAT  MEN.

During  the  last  twelve  months  death 
has  visited  many  of  the  most  famous 
men of  our time.  Men whom  the world 
had  delighted to honor,  to  whom it  had 
intrusted its  most  difficult tasks,  and  to 
whom it looked  for light  and  leading in 
the midst of its perplexities, have passed 
away,  leaving  us  only  “the  legacy  of 
their  example, 
the  memory  of  their 
deeds.”  A  few  old  men,  distinguished 
in  statesmanship, in  war,  in  literature, 
in art,  in  science,  or  in  philosophy,  lin­
ger still upon the field of active endeavor 
to remind  us  of  the  glory  of  the  days 
when they stood among that goodly com­
pany of their  peers to  join the majority. 
In a  little while  they,  too, will,  in  due 
course  of  nature,  be  summoned  hence, 
and  it is  inevitable  that  we  should  in­
quire how far the  progress  and prosper­
ity  of  mankind  will  be  affected  by 
the loss of  so much strength and  wisdom.
It  has  become  an  established  maxim 
that no man is indispensable in any busi­
ness upon  which  the  welfare  of  society 
depends.  “The  workmen die,  the  work 
goes  on.”  There  are,  however,  conflict­
ing theories in regard to  the  philosophy 
of progress. 
It  is maintained  by  some 
students  of  history  that  every  forward 
step in civilization,  in practical  industry 
and in thought, is due to some  individu­
al initiative. 
It is  contended  by  others 
that the advancement of the race towards 
improved conditions of  life is  the result 
of a law of historical evolution as invari­
able and  inevitable as the law  which de­
termines  the  growth  of  a  plant.  This 
second theory  seems,  at  the  first  glance 
at least,  the  part  which genius plays as 
an agent of  progress. 
In the first place,

to show not only the  necessity for an in­
dividual  initiative,  but for  an  initiative 
by some exceptionally  endowed individu­
al of  whose  special  power  science  can 
give no  satisfactory explanation.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E 8 M A X ,
genius does not  appear  to be  developed 
by the  operation  of  an  inevitable  law. 
We never  know  where  or  when  to  ex­
pect it;  but  in  the  most  unlikely  times 
and under the most uupropitious circum­
stances  it  makes  itself  heard  and  felt, 
and,  whenever and wherever it comes,  it 
is always a surprise. 
It cannot be shown 
to be the result of  heredity or of special 
training.  Great  men  are  seldom  suc­
ceeded  by sons  as  able  as  themselves; 
but sometimes,  at  the end  of  a long lin­
eage of  unbroken  mediocrity,  a child  is 
born  with  the  magic  gift.  While  the 
colleges are training scholars in a routine 
of learning, some youth who has been but 
hastily  taught  the  barest  rudiments  of 
knowledge  astonishes  and  enriches  the 
world  with  an  epoch-making  discovery 
or  invention.  There  are,  in  short,  no 
statistics of genius,  no  data to enable us 
to predict its advent.

On  the  other  hand,  there  can  be  no 
doubt that progress  tends to beget  prog­
ress. 
It was a far cry  from  Pythagoras 
to  Newton,  but  what  would  modern as­
tronomy do  without  that  golden  bridge 
which  was  built  by  the  old  Greek 
geometer?  We  use  the learning  of  the 
past to arrive at knowledge of which our 
forefathers never dreamed.  Progress  in 
this age has acquired  an  irresistible mo­
mentum.  Men expect and demand some­
thing  new  and  something  better  from 
day to day,  and  there is  yet stimulus  in 
the  atmosphere  of  our  intellectual  en­
vironment.  Progress is gradual,  because 
one discovery or  an  invention  is  neces­
sary to  another.  The  world  may  move 
by leaps but  it  can  make  in  any  given 
direction  only  one  leap  at a time.  But 
the  lines  of  thought  converge  and  the 
same  suggestions  bring  different  minds 
simultaneously to  a common  conclusion.
Consider,  for example, the invention of 
the modern calculus, or  the discovery of 
Neptune.  And  when  an  invention or  a 
discovery is made,  how easy it usually is 
to push it a little further.  The inventor 
has  hardly  got  his  machine  before  the 
public  when  some  competitor  appears 
with a useful  improvement.  The  origi­
nal inventor was the greater genius,  per­
haps, but his competitor is  none the less 
serviceable.  We  have  now  so  great 
a start that we have  no  difficulty  in  go­
ing ahead,  such  a  fund  of  suggestions 
that we can hardly escape  the  appeal of 
new ideas.  We  are  inclined  sometimes

In the second  place,  genius is original 
and creative, while talent is only produc­
tive, or,  more strictly perhaps,  reproduc­
tive.  The man of genius does something 
that has  never  been  done  before.  The 
man of talent is merely  able to do excel­
lent  work.  From  these  facts,  then,  it 
might be argued that  progress,  in certain 
directions  at  least,  is  dependent  upon 
the  leadership  of  genius.  A  poet  like 
Tennyson,  an  inventor like Edison, can­
not be made  to  order;  but  what a differ­
ence their labors in the world have made 
in its inner and its  outward life!  When 
we look over the annals of  the centuries, 
we find that great  men  have founded the 
great  kingdoms,  established  the  great 
schools, aud won the great battles of his­
tory.  They found  the  world  one thing 
and left  it  another.  Now  all  this goes

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to  believe  that  less  and  less  genius  is 
necessary  to  the march of progress as  it 
continues.

But how constantly that word recurs— 
progress!  After  all, does the  happiness 
of life consist so much upon the increase 
of knowledge  and  power?  Deep within 
our hearts  there  dwell  some  things the 
same  through  all  the  changing  years. 
We know how soon the wise and the pow­
erful pass away; how  soon the ruler lays 
aside his scepter,  the warrior  his sword, 
the millionaire his gold. 
Is it not best of 
all to  abide  in  that  permanent  part  of 
our nature where  the  poet,  the  philoso­
pher and all the  great  consolers of liter­
ature and art, speak  to us in a  language 
which is understood  through all the rev­
olutions of time?  How much of progress 
is  superficial  merely!  But,  no; 
that 
thought is vain.  So  much  suffering,  ig­
norance  and  vice  abound  in  the  world 
that we should welcome  any'true leader.
It is said  sometimes  that  our  age  has 
attained a high level of medriocrity, that 
distinction  has  become  more  difficult; 
while the  present  stands  as a whole far 
above any  former  generation,  and  great 
men are not so essential  as  they  were in 
times  gone  by.  But  somehow  we  can 
take Mttle pleasure  in  the  thought  that 
the great men of this country are to have 
no  successors  of  equal  eminence.  We 
try  not  to  believe  it.  Genius,  as  we 
have said,  is always a surprise,  and  as it 
has  often  come  when  there  was 
least 
reason to  expect, we  not  altogether  de­
spair of it, even in  an age which  has  at­
tained a high order of mediocrity.

F ra nk  Stow ell.

Young man, it is better to have a  well- 

read mind than a well red nose.

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WALL  PAPER

Merchants  can  make  30  to  50  per  cent,  selling  wall  paper  on  our 
plan,  which  is  to

Sell  From  Samples.

We  Ship  Goods  same  day  order  is  received,  so  you  need  buy  only 
what  you  sell  and  make

NO  INVESTMENT.

Our Sample  Books contain  over  400  patterns and  represent  a  stock  of 
$5,000 to  $6,000.  We  ask  $5.00 for sample books including a  nice dis­
play  rack  and  when  you  have  sent  orders  amounting  to  $50.00  we

Refund  the  Honey

paid  for  samples  and  Rack.  We  will  send  a  few  samples  from  these  books  free,  with  full  particulars  to 
Merchants.  You  can  make  $6.00  to  $12.00  every  day  this  spring  selling  our  wall  paper.

ALFRED  PEATS, Wall  Paper Merchant

136-138  W.  Madison  St.,  CHICAGO

30=32  West  13th  St.,  NEW YORK

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

D r u g s  &  M e d ic in e s *

State Board of Pharmacy.
One  Tear—Jam es  Vernor, D etroit.
Two  T ears—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor 
Three  Y ears—G eorge Gundrum, Ionia.
F our  Years—C. A. Buffbee.  Cheboygan.
E xpiring Jan. 1—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
President—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
S ecretary—Jas.  Vernor, D etroit.
T reasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
N ext m eeting—Saginaw , Jan.  II.__________

Michigan State Pharmaceutical  Aii’n, 

P resident—Stanley E. P ark ill, Owoeso.
Vice-Presidents—I.  H.  L.  Dodd,  Buchanan;  F.  W.  R.
P erry, D etroit;  W. H. H icks. Morley.
T reasurer—W m . H.  Dupont,  D etroit.
S ecretary—C. W. P arsons, Detroit.
E xecutive  C om m ittee— H.  G.  Colem an,  K alam azoo; 
Jacob Jesson, M uskegon:  F.  J.  W urzburg  and  John 
E. Peck, Grand Rapids;  Arthur B assett,  D etroit. 
L ocal Secretary—Jam es Vernor.
N ext  place  o f  m eetin g—Some  resort  on  St.  Clair 
R iver;  tim e to  be designated by E xecutive C om m ittee.
Brand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. 
P resident, W. R. Jew ett,  S ecretary,  Frank H. Esoott, 
R egular M eetings—F irst W ednesday evenin g o f March 

June, Septem ber and Decem ber,

W h a t H ave Y ou  fOF Sale?

Have  you  something  that  will  go  oil 
like  hot  cakes?  Look  about  you  for 
quick articles  that  will  be  snapped  up 
the moment they are offered.  That’s the 
stuff you  want—something  which  you 
can get in  early  and  which  will  have  a 
splendid run.  Booksellers  made a great 
deal  of  money  out  of  General  Grant’s 
book.  So  many  families  were  hungry 
for  it,  and  the  salesman  who  got  up 
with the  sun  and  started  out  early  for 
orders  came  home  handsomely 
repaid 
for his venture.  Some  books  are  slow, 
others are fast.  The  same  thing  is true 
of men.  He  has a  gift  who  can  figure 
out now what is  going  to  be in  demand 
months hence.  The  smart  journalist  is 
ready with a big check for early informa­
tion which wili astound when  made pub­
lic. 
It is understood that the office is al­
ways ready to pay  well  for  all  such ear­
ly  information;  so  the  thing  comes  to 
them,  and in the  morning  they  have its 
exclusive  use.  That  pays.  They  have 
something  for  sale  which  none of their 
competitors  have.  They  control 
the 
market.  Gould,  they  say,  used  to  pay 
liberally for secrets  which  enabled  him 
to  “get  there”  before the other  fellow. 
The  first  and  most  important  question 
with  all  trades  should  be:  Will  these 
goods sell  if  I  take  them?  Gan  1  turn 
them  over  quickly  at  a  profit?  Styles 
and fashions are very short lived and the 
short  seasons whimsical.  The motto  is, 
Quick, or you’ll miss it.  Unfortunately, 
everything one buys  doesn’t  go off  like 
hot  cakes  or  go  up  in  price.  Many 
things stay,  stick  and  torment—easy  to 
buy and hard  to  sell.  The traders  who 
are here are numerous.  This nation and 
others spend a good deal of money in the 
secret  service  business.  To  be  well 
posted they  pay  largely.  With  the  in­
dividual it isn’t very much different.  We 
have  to  be  off  the watch  or  our  ene­
mies will tumble  us and  trample  us un­
der foot.  Trade and  competition  are so 
cruel.  No  one  is figuring  specially  for 
your prosperity.  There is a wise way of 
looking  out  for  number  one.  There  is 
no sin in  thinking and  planning  for  to­
morrow.  Wise  and  prudent  yesterday 
and more so to-day are good preparations 
for to-morrow. 
If  you  buy  a  pig  in  a 
poke, you’ll  rue  it.  Be  careful.  Be on 
the lookout for bargains that have the go 
in  them.  An  author  writes  twenty 
books.  Only  one  of  them  had  the  hot 
cake  stir  in  it.  The  demand  was  uni­
versal.  You  get hold, if you  can,  of  the 
universal articles.  Trade in them.

“Never pass my door,”  said a city man 
once to a farmer,  “when  you  have  more 
of  those  good  turnips  for  sale.”  They 
were the best we ever  had  on onr  table, 
and his butter  and  eggs  were also num­

ber one.  Here  the  demand  was greater 
than  the  supply,  and  the  sales  were 
quick.  This farmer  doesn’t need to lin­
ger in the market the most of  the day of­
fering  his  produce.  Once  bought  and 
tasted his  goods were  wanted  evermore. 
He has the trick.  You can  cash his bill. 
Just imitate him,  that’s all.

Geo.  R.  Scott.

A Worthy  Measure.

One of the most  meritorious  measures 
introduced  in  the  Legislature  is  a  bill 
providing that telegraph companies shall 
be liable for the actual  loss sustained by 
customers as the  result of  negligence on 
the  part  of  the  company’s  employes. 
The bill is a proposed  amendment to Act 
No.  59 of  the  laws  of  1851, relative  to 
the incorporated telegraph companies do­
ing business in  the State,  as follows:

Sec. 14. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
owner  or  association  owning  any  tele­
graph  line  doing  business  within  this 
State, to receive dispatches from and  for 
other  telegraph  lines  and  associations, 
and from and for any  individual, and  on 
payment of  their usual charges for  indi­
viduals for transmitting dispatches as es­
tablished by the rules and regulations  of 
such telegraph  line to transmit the  same 
with impartiality  and  good  faith.  And 
such owner or  association shall be liable 
for any mistakes, errors or  delays in the 
transmission or delivery, or  for the  non­
delivery of any repeated or non-repeated 
message in damages to the amount which 
such person  or  persons  may  sustain  by 
reason  of  mistakes, errors  or  delays  in 
the transmission or  delivery;  or  for  the 
non-delivery of any such dispatch due to 
negligence of such owner or association,to 
be recovered  with  costs of  suit,  by  the 
person or  persons  sustaining  such dam­
ages.
It shall  likewise  be the duty 
of  every  such  owner  or  association  to 
transmit all such dispatches in  the order 
in which they  are  received,  and  in  case 
such owner or association  shall refuse or 
neglect to so  transmit  such  dispatches, 
such owner or  association shall be liable 
for all damages sustained  by the  person 
or persons  whose  dispatch is  postponed 
out of its order as  herein  prescribed,  to 
be recovered as provided in the foregoing 
section.

Sec.  15. 

The amendment is  evidently  aimed  at 
the  rotton  old  hulk  which  goes  by the 
name  of  the Western  Union  Telegraph 
Co., whose policy has been  to curtail  ex­
penses in every  department  by  the  em­
ployment  of  incompetent  help,  relying 
on the laxness of  the present  State laws 
relative  to  errors  in  transmitting  mes­
sages.  There are  few  business  men  in 
the State who have  not  suffered  consid­
erable pecuniary  losses by reason of  the 
parsimonious  management  and  conse­
quent  inferior  service  afforded  by  the 
Western  Union,  and  the  present  oppor­
tunity is an excellent time  to remedy the 
difficulty by  compelling  the company  to 
assume the same responsibility which all 
common carriers are compelled to assume 
under the law.  Business men who favor 
the enactment of  such a  measure  would 
do well to  communicate  with their Rep­
resentative and Senator.

The  Drug  Market.

Quinine is weak  and  foreign  is lower.
Gum opium is  steady.
Morphia  is  unchanged.
Carbolic acid  has started upwards and 
high prices will probably rule the coming 
year.

Gum kino is very scarce and higher.
Alcohol declined  36c  the  day we went
to press.  Present  prices  are as follows:
Barrels.........................................................   82 29
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10 gallon lots.................................................   2 37
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PYRAMID  PM   BURE.

A new remedy which  has created a sensation  among physicians by its wonderful 
It is the  only remedy  known  (ex­
effects in speedily  curing  every form of  piles. 
cept a surgical operation)  which can  be relied on to give instant relief and a lasting 
cure in Itching,  Protruding,  Bleeding or Blind Piles.
Briefly stated,  it has  the  following  advantages  over a surgical operation  or  any 
other  pile  cure: 
It  is  absolutely painless;  it contains no mineral  poisons nor in­
jurious  substance;  it gives  immediate  relief  from  the first  application;  it  can be 
carried in the  pocket and  used while  traveling or anywhere  without  the  slightest 
inconvenience or interference with  business;  and,  last,  but  not  least,  it  is  cheap, 
costing but a trifle.
The following  letters  speak for  themselves  and  need no comment  except to say 
we have hundreds of  similar ones and  could fill this paper with them if  necessary.
Gen tlem en—Your  Pyramid  Pile  Cure  is  without  an  equal;  it  cured  me in 30 
days or a much shorter  time. 
I waited 15 days or more to be sure I was  cured  be­
fore  writing  you,  and can  now say I have  not the  slightest  trace of  piles and am 
much surprised at the rapid and thorough effect of the remedy.  Truly yours, J. W. 
Rollins,  Marmaduke Military Academy. Sweet Springs,  Mo.
I  only used  one  package 
of  the Pyramid Pile Cure  and 1 can state to the  whole  world  that it has cured me, 
and I had them so bad I could  hardly walk and I would  have them now if  my wife 
had not insisted on my trying it, and I kept it some time before she could get me to 
use it, but I now thank  God such a remedy was  made,  and  you can  use this  letter 
in any way it will do the most good.
Mrs.  Mary  C.  Tyler,  of  Heppner,  Ore.,  writes—One  package  of  Pyramid  Pile 
Cure entirely cured me of  piles  from  which 1 have  suffered  for years,  and  I have 
never had the slightest return of them since.
Mr.  E.  O’Brien,  Rock  Bluffs,  Neb., says—The  package  of  Pyramid  Pile Cure 
entirely removed  every trace of  itching piles. 
I  cannot  thank you  enough for it.
Ask  your  druggist for the  Pyramid  Pile  Cure,  and a single  trial will  convince 
you that the  reputation of  this  remedy was  built up on its  merits as a permanent 
cure and not by newspaper puffery.

From  J.  W.  Waddell,  Zulia, Ya.—I  am a cured  man. 

It is the surest, safest and cheapest Pile Cure sold.

A n y   druggist  w ill  g e l  it  ior  you

as  he  can  obtain it from  every  wholesaler  in  Detroit, Chicago or  Grand  Rapids.

L a  Grippe

may attack but cannot overcome those protected 

by frequent UBe of

INDUCEMENT  TO  THE  RETAIL 

DRUGGISTS and GENERAL 

STORES!
Do  Yoil  Sell

DIAMOND  TEA?

M e n t h o l  In h a l e r .

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

H. D.  CUSHMAN, Patentee and Mfr., 

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

Empress  Josephine Face Bleach

I s  th e  o n ly  r e lia b le  e n r e  fo r  

fr e c k le s  a n d  p im p les.

HAZELTINE A PERKINS  DRUG  CO., 

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

Jobbers for Western'Michigan.

MICHIGAN

Organized  1881.

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN

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, as I   can  only affirm  what  I 
said  as  to  the  superior  quality of 
your flour, which  I  believe the  best 
and most  uniform of any made  in 
the county. 
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Yours truly,

D.  S.  F ren c h.

2 39

We want one live dealer in every 
city and  town to handle  and  push 
the sale of Diamond Tea, the great 
remedy  for  Constipation,  Sick 
Headache and Liver and Kidneys 
and we offer  the following induce­
ment:
To  every  dealer  who  will  send 
us  an  order  for  3  doz.  25c  size 
packages of  Diamond  Tea at $1.90 
per  doz., which  amounts  to  only 
$5.70, we  will  send free of  charge 
an  additional  1  doz.  packages,  be­
sides sufficient sample  packages to 
sample  your  whole 
town.  By 
stamping your name on each pack­
age you will thus receive full  ben­
efit of the advertising.
It will  pay hustlers  to  take  ad­
vantage of  this  offer,  before  their 
competitors get ahead ef them.
DIAMOND  TEA  CO.,

DETROIT, MICH.

Diamond  Tea is sold  by all whole­

sale druggists.

Send  for Samplfis and Prices.

A. SCHENCK  &  SON,

ELSIE,  MICH.

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W h o le sa le   P r i c e   C u r r e n t•
Advanced—Carbolic acid, gum kino, lard oil.  Declined—Alcohol.

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S. N.  Y.  Q. A

Morphia,  S. P. A W...1  70®1  95 
C. CO.......................1 60®1  85
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myristlca, No. 1.........   65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  20®  22
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls Llq, N..c„ *  gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts......   @1  00
pints.........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..  @  1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__   @  3
Plx  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumb! A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvls Ipecac et opll. .1  10®1  20 
Pyre thrum,  boxes  H
AP. D.  Co., doz......  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®  35
Quasslae....................  8®  10
Quinia, S. P. A W......  27®  32
S.  German__19*@  33
Rubla  Tinctorum......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
23®  25
Salacin...................... 1  78@1  80
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W ......................  12®  14
,r  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  15

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Seldlltz  Mixture........  @  20
Slnapls.......................   @  18
“  opt..................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  1*@  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash.................... 3*@  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......   @2 25
“  Myrcia Imp........  @3 00
•  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
....7 ....................... 2 2902 39
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal...... 1 40®1  45
Sulphur, Subl............ 2*@ 3*
“  Roll..............  2M@ 3
Tamarinds.................  8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae............ 45  @  48
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
Zlnci  Sulph...............   7®  8

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............1 00 
Lard, No.  1...............   65 
Linseed, pure raw —   49 

Bbl.  Gal
70
1  10
70
52

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paints. 

65
Llndseed,  boiled  ....  52 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
60
strained................  50 
Spirits Turpentine__  37*  42
lb.
bbl. 
Red Venetian..............IX  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__IX  2®4
“ 
Ber........IX  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2* 2*@3
“  strictly  pure......2*  2X®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..................  
  13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
65@70
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red....................  ex®7
“  w hite............... 6X@7
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders*........  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1£4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.....................1 00@1  20

 

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach— 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................166@1  70
Coach  Body.............. 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.......1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar— 1  55@1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70@75
Turp......................... 

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils % Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole A gents for the Celebrated

SWISS  IHIiLS  PREPARED  PRINTS.

M   Line of  W e  Dnmists’  Sundries.

We are Sole P roprietors of

Weattierla’8  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

W e  Have in Stock and Offer a  Full Line of

W H IS K IE S ,  B R A N D IE S ,

G IN S ,  W IN E S ,  R U M S ,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

▲ciDint.
8® 10
Aceticum................. . 
65® 75
Benzolcum  German.
20
..................
Boracic 
27© 36
Carbolicnm..............
50® 52
Cltricum...................
3® 5
Hydrocmor..............
............... .  10® 12
Nltrocum 
Oxallcum................. .  10® 12
20
Phosphorlum dll......
Sallcylicum.............. .1  30© 1  70
IX® 5
Sulphuricum............ . 
Tannlcum................. .1  40@1  60
30® 33
Tartarlcum...............
AMMONIA.
3*@ 5
Aqua, 16  deg............
5*@ 7
20  deg............
Carbonas  ................. .  12® 14
Chloridum................ .  12® 14

ANILINE.
Black......................... .2 00@2 25
S0@1  00
Brown.......................
Red.......................   • .  45® 50
Yellow...................... .2 50@3 00

n 

Cubeae (po  50)........  60®  55
Junlperus..................   8®  10
Xantnoxylum............   25®  30

BALSAM UM.

Copaiba......................  46®  50
Peru...........................  @1  30
Terabln, Canada  ......   45®  50
Tolutan......................  35®  50

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian— ...........  18
Cassiae  ...............................  U
Cinchona Flava  .................   18
Buonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca Cerliera, po............   20
Prunus Vlrglnl....................  12
Quillaia,  grd.......................  10
Sassafras  ............................  12
TTlmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

XXTBACTUM.
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra.
p o ......
Haematox, 15 lb. box

24®  25 
33®  35 
“ 
11®   12
Is...............  13®  14
“ 
“  Ha..............  14®  15
36®  17
*a....
“ 
n u n

Carbonate Preclp........ 
Citrate and Quinia 
Citrate  Soluble —
Ferroey anldum Sol 
Solut  Chloride....
Sulphate,  com’l...

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pure...

15
@3 50 
®  80 
®  50 
~  152 
7®

FLORA.

 
r o i.iA .

Arnica.......................  18®  20
Anthemls...................  3t ®  35
Matricaria 
40®  50

 

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Barosma 
 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-

40® 1 00
nlvelly........  .......  25®  28
Alx.  35®  50
Salvia  officinalis,  14a
and  * s ....................  15®  25
UraUrsl......................  8®  10

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Acacia,  1st picked.... 
®  75
2d 
“  .... 
@  50
3d 
“ 
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sifted sort*. 
_  __
po.......   60® 
80
50®  60 
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...
®  12 
“  Cape,  (po. 20)...
®  50
Socotrl, (po. 60).
Catechu, Is, (Ha, 14 X*
®  1
16)............................
Ammonlae  .................   55®  60
Assaf CBtlda, (po. 85).. 
30®  35
Benxolnum.................  50®  55
Camphor»..................   55®  5o
Euphorblum  po  ........  35®  10
Gafbanum................... 
02 50
Gamboge,  po............  70®
Gualacum, (po  30)  ...  @  25
60 
Kino,  (po  55)......
®  80 
M astic.................
@  40
Myrrh, (po. 45)....
Opll,  (po  2 80)................2 00@2 10
Shellac  ..  .................  30®  38
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth.................   40@l 00

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Abslnthlnm.........................  25
Eupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  *
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
“  V lr.........................  26
fine.......................................  »
Tanacetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25

k a o n b s ia .

Calcined, Pat  ..............  55® 60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25
Carbonate, Jennlng5..  35®  36

OLBUM.

Cubebae......................  @400
Exechthltos..............  2 50@2 75
Brlgeron.........................2 25@2 50
Gaultherla ..................2 00®2 10
Geranium,  ounce......  @  75
GosslpU, Sem. gal......   60®  75
Hedeoma  ...................2 10@2 20
Junlperl......................  50@2 00
'¡avendula.................  90®2 00
Llmonls.......................... 2 50@3 00
Mentha Piper...................2 75@3 50
Mentha Verld................. 2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal..................1 00@1 10
Myrda, ounce............   @  50
Olive..........................  85@e 75
Plcls Liquida, (gal. 35)  10®  12
Rlcinl.......................  1  22@1  28
Rosmarin!............  
75®1  00
Rosae, ounce...................6 50®8 50
Succinl.......................   40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
Santal  ....................... 3 50®7 00
Sassafras.  .................   50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tlglfl..........................  ©  90
Thyme.......................   40®  50
opt  ...............   @ 60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

r‘ 

POTASSIUM.

B1 Carb.......................   15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide....................  35®  39
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate  (po  21®23)..  20®  22
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..............................2 90@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com...  ®  15
Potass  Nltras, opt......   8®  10
Potass Nltras..............  7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

RADIX.

Aconitum...................  20® 25
Althae.........................  22®  25m  
is
Anchusa....................   12®
25
Arum,  po
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentlana  (po. 12)......   8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
®  30
(po. 35)................... 
Hellebore,  Ala,  po—   15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po...................2 30®2 40
Ins plox (po. 35@38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  50®  55
Maranta,  * s ..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei............................  75@1  00
Cut......................  @1  75
py.......................   75@1  35
@ 20
30® 32
65® 70
@ 40
& 25
10® 12
@ 35
)  © 25
15® 20
15® 16
18® 22
18®

Splgella......................  35®
Sanguinaria, (po  25)
Serpentaria..............
3enega ....................
Slmlfax, Officinalis,  H 
M
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
dns,  po............ .......
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.30)

German
Zingiber  ] ...............  

SEMEN.
@ 15
Anlsum,  (po.  20)..
12® 15
Aplum  (graveleons)
6
4®
Bird, Is....................
12
8®
Carol, (po. 18).........
1  00®1  25
Cardamon................
10® 12
Corlandrum...............   10®
3*@4
Cannabis Sativa.........   3 *C
75®1  00
Cydonlum...................  750
10® 12
Chenopodlum  ...........  10®
3 00®3 25
Dlptenx Odt
@ 15
Foenlculum 
_
FoenngTeek,  po.........   6®  8
L lnl............................4  @ 4*
Llnl, grd,  (bbl. 8 * )...  4  © 4 *
Lobelia.......................   35®
Pharlaris Canarian__6  @  6V4
Rapa..........................   6®
Slnapls  Albu............ 11  @13
Nigra...........  11®  l:

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SP1R1TU8.
Frumentl, W..D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R...... 1  75@2 00
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T — 1  65®2 00
Saacharum  N.  B.........1 75@2 00
Spt.  Vlnl  Galll............1 
Ylnl Oporto.................1 
Vlnl  Alba....................1 

75@6 50
25@2 00
25@2 00

25®1 50

1 

Florida  sheeps*  wool
oarrlage.................. 2 25®2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  .................
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool carriage........
1  10
Extra  yellow  aheepa’
oarrlage................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage .......................
Hard for  slate  use....
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................

1  40

TINCTURES.

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Aconitum  NapelllsR.........   60
F .........   50
Aloes.....................................   60
and myrrh...................  60
A rnica..................................  50
AsafCBtlda..............................   0
A trope Belladonna...............   60
Benzoin.................................  60
“  Co............................  50
Sanguinarla  .........................  50
Barosma...............................  50
Cantharldes...........................  75
Capsicum............................ 
  50
Ca damon..............................  75
Co........................   75
Castor.......................................1 00
Catechu.................................  50
Cinchona.............................   50
Co.........................  60
Columba...............................  50
Conlum.................................  50
Cubeba.................................    50
DlgltaliB...............................  50
Ergot.....................................  50
Gentian................................   50
1  Co..............................  60
Gualca..................................   50
ammon.....................  60
1 
Zingiber...............................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................  50
Iodine....................................  75
Colorless....................   75
Ferri  Chloridum..................   35
K ino.....................................   50
Lobelia..................................  50
Myrrh....................................  50
Nux  Vomica.........................  50
Opll......................................   85
Camphorated.................  50
2 00
Deodor.....................:  
Aurantl Cortex......................  50
Quassia................................   50
Rhatany...............................  50
Rhel.......................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol....................   50
Co................  50
Serpentarla...........................  50
Stramonium..........................   60
Tolutan.................................  60
ValerlaD......................  
50
VeratrumVerlde...................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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.Ether, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  28®  30 
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alumen.....................   2)4® 3

“ 
"  Bpo.  @ 20

ground,  (po.
7).............................  
3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
4®  5
Antlmonl, po.............. 
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antlpyrln...................  @1  40
Antlfebrln..................  ®  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  ©  60
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud....  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N.................2 20®2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (*s
12;  Ms,  14)..............  @  11
Cantharldes  Russian,
po............................  @1  00
Capslcl  Fructus, af...  @  26
po....  @  28
Caryophyllns, (po.  15)  12®  14
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. A F ......  50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  ®  25
Centrarla....................  ©  10
Cetaceum...................  ©  40
Chloroform...............   60®  63
squibbs..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........ 1  35@1  60
Chondrus...................  20®  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  A  W  15®  20 
German 8  ®  12 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
60
cent  ......................
Creasotnm...............
@
35@ 2
Crete, (bbl. 75)...........
5® 5
“  prep..................
9® 11
“  preclp..............
@ 8
“  Rubra...............
75® 85
Croons  .......................
@ 24
Cudbear......................
5® 6
Cuprl Sulph...............   5
10® 12
Dextrine....................  It
70® 75
Ether Sulph...............   70®
Emery,  all  numbers
@I
6
PO......................
70® 75
Ergota, (po.)  75......
12® 15
Flake  White..............  12®
28
Galla.................
•
7  @ 8a 70
Gambler......................7
Gelatin,  Cooper...
40® 60
French__
Glassware  flint, bj 
ÖoM
Less than box 66X
Glue,  Brown.........   9® 
15
«  White...........  13® 
25
Glycerlna..............15*® 
20
Grana Faradlsl...........  @  22
Humulus...............   25® 
56
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ®  85
“  Cor ....  @  80
Ox Rubrum  @  90
Ammonlatl..  @1 00
45® 55
Unguentum. 
Hydrargyrum.......   ® 
64
Icnthyobolla, Am..  ..1 25®1  50
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl..........3 80®3 90
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin.................... 1 75® 1 85
Lycopodium.........  60® 
65
Macis....................  75® 
80
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy
drarg Iod............  ® 
27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10® 12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1*).....................   2® 
5
Mannla,  S. F .........  60® 
.68

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Absinthium.................... 3 50®4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amyualae, Amarae— 8 00®8 25
A n isi................................1  75@1 85
Aurantl  Cortex..........2 40@2 50
Bergamll  ...................3 25@3 50
Callputl.......................  60® 65
Caryophylll.................   75® 80
Cedar.........................       35® 65
Chenopodll................  @1  60
Clnnamonll.....................1 G0®1 10
Cltronella......................  ® 45
Conlum  Mac................  35® 66
Copaiba  ......................  90@1 00

SYRUPS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Aurantl Cortes....................  50
60
Rhel  Arom...................  
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Sdllae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   60
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunus  vIrg.........................  50

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

iOCERY  PRICE  CURREi

ed i:
are  a
repri
r  cr<
s to <

i  this list are  for the  trade  only,  in each quantities as  are usually  purchased by  retail  dealers.  They 
n  accurate  index of  the local  market. 
It is impossible  to give  quotations  suitable  for all condition! 
renting  average  prices  for average  conditions of  purchase.  Cash  buyers or those of  strong credit 
dit.  bubscribers  are  earnestly requested  to  point  out  any  errors or omissions,  as  it is our  aim to  n 
iealers.

Sap Sago....................  @22
Schweitzer, Imported.  @24
domestic  __  @14

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CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles.......... 2 75
...........  4 50
Pint 
Quart 1 doz bottles  ...........3 50

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CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags..............  ....  @3
Less quantity  ..............  @3«
Pound  packages........... 6«@7

COPPEE.
Green.
Rio.

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

 

Santos.

Pair..................... *............. 20
Good....................................21
Prime.................................. 22
Peaberry  .............................23
Mexican and Guatamala. 
Pair......................................20
Good..........................  
21
Pancy........................... ]'.."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 )4c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent  for shrink­
age.

Package.

M cLaughlin’s XXXX..  24 30
Bunola  ............................  23.80
Lion, 60or 100lb.  case....  24.30 

Extract.

 

Valley City % gross........... 
re
1  15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross........1  50
“ 
........2 50

tin 
CHICORV.
Bulk...................................... 5
Red............................ 
 

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CLOTHES  LINES.

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

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“ 
CONBEN8ED  MILK.

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

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4 doz. In case.

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

COUPON  BOOKS, 

“Tradesman.’

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“Superior.”

6  1, per hundred............... 2 00
2 50
 
® 2. 
• 3, 
................8 00
*5, 
 
8 OP
810, 
 
4 00
820, 
5 00
8  1, per hundred............... 2 50
 
*2, 
3 00
® 8, 
................. 8 50
8 5, 
................4 00
................. 5 00

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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.
1 Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810 down. |
20 books....................... 8 1  00
50 
100 
250 
500 
1000 

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CREDIT CHECKS.

500, any one denom’n ......S3 00
...... 5 00
1000,  “ 
2000,  “ 
....... 8 00
Steel punch....................... 
75

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CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX..................... 6
Seymour XXX, cartoon......  6)4
Family  XXX......................  6
Family XXX,  cartoon........  6)4
Salted XXX.........................6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ..........6)4
Kenosha 
.........................  7)4
Boston..................................  8
Butter, biscuit....................   6)4

Soda.

Soda, XXX.........................  6
Soda, City............................  7vt
Soda,  Duchess......................8)4
Crystal Wafer..................... 10
Long  Island Wafers  .........11
S. Oyster  XXX...................  6
City Oyster. XXX.................  6
Farina  Oyster....................   6

Clyster.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure......................  30
Telfer’s Absolute..............   35
Grocers’............................ 20@25

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.

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Apples.
quartered 
Apricots.

Blackberries.
Nectarines.

Sundrled, sliced In bbls. 
714
714
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes  @1014
California In  bags........ 
1614
Evaporated in boxes.  .. 
17
In  boxes......................8  @9
701b. bags.......................  
15
15«
25 lb. boxes..................... 
Peeled, In  boxes........... 
16
7
Cal. evap.  “ 
 
13
“ 
In bags........ 
12)4
California In bags......
Pitted Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
25 “ 
...................
Prunelles.

 
Pears.

Peaches.

Raspberries.

801b.  boxes...................
In barrels...................... 
501b. boxes.................... 
...................... 
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

22
23
24
Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.

2 crown.............................   1 50
3 
.............................  165
2  crown................................ 5)4
3 
.................................6)4

“ 
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
“ 

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Foreign.
Currants.

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Peel.

25  “ 
25 “ 

“ 
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Raisins.

In  )4-bbls.........  4)4
In less quantity__ 

Patras,  in barrels............   4«
4«
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  20 
Lemon 
10
Orange 
11
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes..  @ 8
“ 
Sultana, 20 
@10
Valencia, 30  “ 
@ 7
Prunes.
California,  100-120.............. 10)4
90x100 25 lb. bxs. 11)4
. 12)4
80x90 
70x80 
13«
60x70 
.14

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Sultana................................. 9«

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

Manilla, white.

6)4 .........................  1 00
8........................................  
95
Mill No. 4.........................  100
FARINACEOUS GOODS. 

Coin.

“

3«

Farina.
100 lb. kegs...........  
Hominy.
Barrels.................................800
Grits.................................. 3 50
Dried....................  

2 00
3 00
6 25
10 00
17 50
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 

Lima  Beans.

4«

Domestic, 12 lb. box.... 
Imported............. 10)4@i.)4

55

Oatmeal.

Peas.

Pearl Barley.

Barrels 200...................... .  4 85
Half barrels 100.............. .  2 55
Kegs............................... •  2)4
Green,  bu....................... .  1  85
Split  per lb .................
2)4
Rolled  Oats.
Barrels  180...................... .  5 25
Half  bbls 90.................. .  2  75
German.......................... ..  4«
East India....................... ..  5
Cracked..............................

Wheat.

Sago.

FISH—Salt.
Bloaters.

** 

Cod.

Halibut.
Herring.

Yarmouth..........................   1  40
Pollock..........................  
3«
5)4
Whole, Grand  Bank......  
Boneless,  bricks............  
7«
Boneless, strips.............. 
7
Smoked......................10  @11
Holland,  bbl...........  9 50@12 00
iyn
Norwegian  ............... 
12 00
Round Shore, )4  bbl.......  2 50
“  X  “  ......   1  25
Scaled............................... 
ie
Mackerel.
No. 1, 90 lbs..............................9 00
No. 1,40 lbs..............................4 65
No. 1,  10 lbs..............................l 15
Family, 90 lbs.........................  5 25

tptrg 

10 lb s.................   65
so
Russian,  kegs....................  
No. 1, )4 bbls., lOOlbs...........6 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   80

Sardines.
Trout.

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Whltefish.

No. 1, H bbls., lOOlbs........... 7 50
No. 1. kits, 10 lbs.................   95
Family, X bbls., 100 lbs....  4 00 
kits  10  lbs.............  60

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FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

Bonders’.

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

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
2oz  ...  8  75 
4oz......1  50

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz___ 81  20
4  oz.....2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz.......81  50
4  oz..  3 00
XX Grade 
VaniUa.
2 o z .........81  75

Jennings’ D  C.

Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding box...  75
1  25
3 oz
...100
1  50
4 oz
...150
2 00
...2 00
6 oz
3 00
4 00
...8300
8 oz

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gross
6  009 GO
5 50
9 00
8 00
6  00

t.

45
.  85
.  1 00
10
00
.  1 90
.  2 0 0
.  9 60
.  SO
.2 00
40
80
1  50
45
85
.  1  50

.  90
..  80
..  70
Gross
4 00
7 00
10 50
2 75
4 00
8  00
4  50
1  75
2 00
2 25
2 50
2 75
90
1  15
3 25
1  25
1  50
1  75
85
1  25
1  50
109
11
24

.1  20
.1  90
.2 25
.  95
.1  75
.2 59
.8 50
.2  00
.2 90
.1  25
2  10
.2 25
.2 25
2 25
1  90
.1  75
.1  45
.1  25
© 5
4® 7
m u
5@16
©8
21
.2 50

1  00
3 25

1 75
1 75
1  75
1  75

Cherries.

Blackberries.
B. &  W ....................... 
*
R e d ..........................l  10@l 20
1  75
Pitted Hamburgh  . . . .  
W hite......................... 
i 50
E rie........................... 
1  20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
l io
E rie............................ 
California................... 
l 70
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1 20

Gages.

Peaches.

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

1  25
1 85
2 00
2 10
1  85

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2 10

Domestic.................... 
Riverside.................... 
Pineapples.
Common.................... 1  oo@l  30
Johnson’s  sliced.......  
2 50
grated.......  
2 75
Quinces.
1  10
Common.................... 
Raspberries.
1 30
Red  ............................ 
Black  Hamburg.........  
1  50
1  30
Erie,  black 
.  . 
Strawberries.
1  25
Lawrence................... 
Hamburgh................. 
1 25
Erie............................ 
1  25
1  10
Terrapin....................... 
Whortleberries.
Blueberries............... 
1  10
Corned  beef,  Libby’s..........2 00
Roast beef,  Armour’s ..........2 00
Potted  ham, % lb................1  30
“  X lb..................   80
tongue, H lb............ 135
X lb -----------  85
chicken, X lb.........   95

Meats.

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Beans.

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Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless..........l  25
French style.........2 25
Limas....................1 40
Lima, green......................... 1 40
soaked......................  75
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 35
Bay State  Baked...................... 1 35
World’s  Fair  Baked........... 1  35
Picnic Baked.............................1 00
Hamburgh................................1 40
Livingston  Eden.....................1 20
Purity..................................
Honey  Dew.........................1 50
Morning Glory...................
Soaked...............................  1  15
Hamburgh marrofat...........l  85
early?June.........
Champion Eng.. 1  50
petit  pols..........l  75
fancy  sifted....1  go
Soaked.................................  75
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........l  10
early June.......130
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  35
French..................................... 2 15
French..............................15@22
Erie.....................................   85
Hubbard..............................   25
Hamburg.................................. j 40
Soaked.................................  85
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 60
Erie.....................................   35

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

fi

Tomatoes.

Hancock...................................1 20
Excelsior .............................  2J
Eclipse......................................1 20
Hamburg..............................  40
Gallon.................................3 25

CHOCOLATE.

Baker’s.

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

23
37
43

CHEESE.

Amboy...........................  @12«
..................... 12!*@12*
Riverside......................  @12«
Gold  Medal...............   @122
Skim..........................   9  @11
xi
Brick................................. 
E dam ........................  
1 00
Leiden............................ 
23
Llmburger  ................  @10
Pineapple...................  m
Roquefort...................  @35

“Universal.”
“ 

8  1, per hundred................93 00
8 2, 
.............. 3 50
• 8, 
!*• 
•W, 
820, 

................7 00

“ 

 
 
 

No. 1,6)4...............................  81 75
No. 2, 6)4...............................  1 60
No. 1, 6..................................   1 65
No. 2, 6..................................   1 50
4 00
5 00
6 00
No. 1, 6)4...............................  1 85
No. 2,6)4......................  126

XX  wood, white.

GUNPOWDER.

Austin’s Rifle, kegs............ 8 50
)4 kegs........2 00
“ 
"  
Crack Shot, kegs . .3 50 
“ 
“ 
)4 kegs 2 00
“  • 
“  Club Sporting  “  4 50
‘ 
H  “  2 50

'I’TTTE  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .

1 8

SPICKS.

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. 1...................... 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
R  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.

“ 

%s  Ms
Allspice.....................  84  156
Cinnamon..................   84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  1  55
Ginger, Jam ...............   84  1 55
“  A f...................  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Pepper.......................   84  156
Sage.............  

84

 

 
SAL  SODA.

Kegs................................. .  IK
Granulated, boxes..............lit

SAUERKRAUT.

Gold  Medal.

SEEDS.

@8 25

Anise.........................  @12%  ;
Canary, Smyrna......... 
Caraway....................  
Cardamon, Malabar... 
Hemp,  Russian.........  
Mixed  Bird  .............. 
Mustard,  white.........  
Poppy......................... 
Rape..........................  
Cuttle  bone...............  
STARCH.

6
8
90
4K
4K
6
9
6
30

Corn.

5%

“   

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

Gloss.
1-lb packages.......................  5K
3-lb 
....  ...................6K
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  4%
Barrels.................................  5K

...............6

“ 
“ 

SNUFF.

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

SODA.  '

Boxes....................................5K
Kegs, English........................4*

SALT.
 
 

100 3-lb. sacks......................... 32 25
60 5-lb.  “ 
"2 00
28 10-lb. sacks....................  1  85
2014-lb.  “ 
2 25
243-lb  cases..........................   1 5032 
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags 
18
281b.  “ 
..

drill  “ 

 

Warsaw.

56 lb. dairy in drill  bags...
28 lb.  “ 
r‘  • •
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks.. 

Ashton.

“ 

Higgins.

66 lb. dairy In linen  sacks.

Solar Rock.

56 It.,  sacks.........................   37

Common Fine.
Saginaw.............................  
Manistee......................  
 
SALERATUS.

90
96
 

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

75

75

SOAP.
Laundry.

“ 

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.
 

Old Country,  80  1-lb................4 00
Good Cheer, 60 l i b ...................3 90
White Borax, 100  %-lb........ 3 60
Concord....................................3 20
Ivory, 10  oz............ 
6 75
6  oz............................... 4 00
Lenox.  ..............................  400
Mottled  German......................3 15
Town Talk...............................3 25
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp d. .14 05 
plain...  3 98
N. K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  4 00
Brown, 60 bars.................... 2 25
80  b a rs...................3 25
Acme...................................3 65
Cotton Oil............................ 5 75
Daisy...................................3 10
Marseilles.............................4 00
Master.................................4 00

“ 
Lautz Bros. <Sc 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 31
Powdered............................4  91
Granulated.......................    4 69
Fine Granulated................. 4 69
Extra Fine Granulated—   4 81
Cubes  .................................4  94
XXXX  Powdered................5 31
Confec. Standard  A..  ....  4 69
No. 1  Columbia A..............  4 55
No. 5 Empire  A ............... 450
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.

Corn.

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

Pure Cane.

SWEET GOODS

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

40 gr.. 
50 gr.

VINEGAR.

08

31 for barrel.

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

YEAST.

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

 

TEAS.

j a p a n —Regular.

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

SUN CURZD.

F air...............................  @17
Good.............................   ©20
Choice.......................... 24  @2£
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust............................. 10 @12

BASKET  FIRED.

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

GUNPOWDER.

Common to fair............25 @35
Extra fine to finest— 50  @65
Choicest fancy............. 75 @85
@26
Common to fair........... 23 @30
Common to fair........... 23 @26
Superior to fine.............30 @35

IMPERIAL.

oolong. 

YOUNG HYSON.

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

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

Flue Cut.

 

“ 

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

41
26
40
26
38
34
40
32

Plug.

Smoking.

Catlin’s  Brands.

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

 

Brands.

Scotten’s Brands.

Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish..............38
Gold Cut  .................. 
28
Warpath..............................16
Honey  Dew......................... 25
Gold  Block......................... 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
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.......................... 30
Plow  Boy......................30@32
Corn  Cake  ......................... 16

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

OILS.

The  Standard Oil Co.  quotes 
as  follows,  In barrels,  f. o.  b. 
Grand Rapids:
Eocene.......................
8@ 7K 6% 
Water White, old test.
W.  W.  Headlight, 156‘
© 6H @ 7 @ 6M
Water  White  ...........
Naptha.....................
_
Stove Gasoline........... 
Cylinder................... 27  ©36
E ngine.....................13  ©21
Black. 15 cold  test—   © 8%
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

 

 

“ 

HIDES.

lows:
Green............................2K@3K
Part Cured.................  @ 4
Full 
© 4K
Dry.............................   5  @5
Kips, green  ...............   2K@ 3%
“  cured.................  @ 4K
Calfskins,  green........  4  © 5
cured........  @7
Deacon skins....................... 10 @30
1 00
Shearlings................. 10  ©  25
Lambs 
.....................25  @1  25
Washed ..  ..................20  @23
Unwashed................. 10  @20

No. 2 hides K off.
PELTS.

WOOL.

11 

MISCELLANEOUS.

FURS.

Tallow.......................  4K@ 6
Grease butter  ...........  1  @2
Switches....................IK© 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 75
Muskrat......................  03@  12
Oppossum..................   15@  30
Otter, dark  ................5 00@8 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..............
Gray, dry 
...................
Red and Blue, dry........

deerskins—per pound.

‘ 

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF'S

65

MEAL.

FLOUR.

No. 1 White ^KUbJtest) 
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test)
Bolted...............................  J  40
Granulated.......................  1  60
Straight, in  sacks............   3 70
“  barrels...........  3 90
“ 
sacks............   4
Patent
barrels..........  4 90
sacks...........  1
Graham 
Rye
...................  2  00
Buckwheat, Rising  Sun... .4 
& Co’s Pure....................4 25
MILLSTUFFS. Less

Walsh-DeRoo 

“  

Car lots  quantity

CORN.

*17 00
14 50
18 00
20 00
20 00

Bran...............*16  00 
Screenings —   14  00 
Middlings......   17  00 
Mixed Feed...  19  50 
Coarse meal  ..  19  50 
Car  lots..............................47
Less than  car  lots............ 52
Car  lots  ............................. 39
Less than car lots..............42
HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots — 12 00 
No. 1 
ton lots  ...... 12 50

OATS.

“ 

FRESH HEATS.

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

“ 

“ 

shoulders 

........  @10%

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

“ 
“ 

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whltefisb 
.................
© 9 
T ro u t.......................  8
@15 
Halibut.......................
© 6 
Ciscoes or Herring—
Bluefish...................... 11
@12 
Fresh lobster, per lb —  
20 
Shrimp, per  gal
1  00
Cod...'..7....................10  @12
© 8 
No. 1 Pickerel.
@7 
Pike............................
Smoked White..........
Stockfish......................
11 
Finnan  Haddies...........
S ei.................................
o y s t e r s—Cans. 
Falrhaven  Counts—
F .J . D.  Selects.........
Selects.......................
Anchor.......................
Standards  .................
Favorites...................

@  8 
10 8

@40
@30
©28
@25
@23
19

SHELL  GOODS.

“ 

Oysters, per  100  ........1  50@1  75
Clams, 
.........1 00@1  25
BULK.
2 40 
Counts, per gal........
2 25
Extra  Selects.........
Selects....................
Standards...............
1  75
Clams ...  ................
2 CO 
Scallops  .................
Schrimps.................
1  00
PA PER & WOODENWARE 

PAPER.

“ 

Straw 
................................. 1%
Rockfalls..............................\%
Rag sugar..............................2
Hardware..............................2%
Bakers................................. .2%
Dry  Goods.................. 5  @6
Jute Manilla...............   @5K
Red  Express  No. 1..............5K
No. 2..............4K
48 Cotton............................  20
Cotton, No. 1........................17
“  2........................16
Sea  Island, assorted.........   30
No. 5 Hemp......................... 15
No. 6  “ — ..........................15
Tubs,  No. 1......................... 7 00
“  No. 2......................... 6 00
“  No. 3......................... 5 00

WOODENWARE.

TWINES.

“ 

“ 

13  “ 

Palls, No. 1, two-hoop..
“  No. 1,  three-hoop. 
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.
Bowls, 11 inch...............
..............

1  35 
1  60
40 
SO 
1  00 
1  60
2 25
2 75
3 00
Baskets, market.................   35
shipping  bushel.,  l  25 
..  1  35
full  hoop  “ 
5 75
“  No.2 
“  No.3  7 25
“  No.l 3 50
“  No.2 
“ 
-No.3 

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

“ 
“ 
1 
“ 

splint 

INDURATED WARE.
Pails..................................
Tubs, %doz.......................

6 25

4 25
5 0C

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as  follows :
.10  @11 
Fowl__
Turkeys. 
. 15  @16 
.14  @15 
Ducks  . 
Chicken.
.12  @13
Chickens,................... 10  @11
Fowls............................8  @9
Turkeys.......................12  @13
Duck............................11  @13

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess,..........................................................  pO 9®
Short c u t.....................................................   22 59
Extra clear pig, short cut............................
Extra clear, heavy......................................   ^   „
Clear, fat back............................................. 
00
Boston clear, short cut................................  *4 00
Clear back, short cut..................................... 24  00
Standard clear, short cut. best— ..........  
25 00

sa u s a g e —Fresh and Smoked.

 

lu

LARD.

Pork Sausage................................................... **
Ham Sausage...................................................  j
Tongue Sausage................................................•
Frankfort Sausage 
.......................................  »
Blood Sausage.................................................   7
Bologna, straight.............................................. 6
Bologna,  thick................................................  j®
Headcheese......................................................7
Kettle  Rendered.............................................13
Granger..........................................................
Family............................................................
Compound...............................  
50 lb. Tins, %c advance.
201b. pails, Kc 
10 lb. 
“  %c 
“  %c 
51b. 
3 lb. 
“  1  c 
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs......................8 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................  o 50
Boneless, rump butts......................................

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

“
“
“
“

sm o k e d   m e a t s—Canvassed or Plain.

Hams, average 20 lbs.......................•••............15%
16 lbs......................................15K
12 to 14 lbs.............................. J5K
picnic......................................................
best boneless......................................   JfK
Shoulders....................................................... “ S'
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............................ ]«
Dried beef, ham prices.................................. “
Long Clears, heavy.........................................
Briskets,  medium..........................................
light........... ....................................

„ 

“ 

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

 

“ 
“ 
“ 

3 
2 
3 

CARAMELS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
BANANAS.

Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams........................................l  00
String  Rock.....................................................65
Burnt Almonds............................................i 00
Wlntergreen Berries.......................................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
No. 1, 
.........................  61
No. 2, 
28
 
No.3. 
.........................  4
Stand up, 51b. boxes...................................
Small......................................................
Medium................................................
Large....................................................
..................................  2 75@3  2d
Floridas, fancy 
Messinas, 200s........................................2 75@3  00
300s........................................2 75@3  00
Messina, choice, 360.............................  @3 25
fancy, 360.............................  @3 75
choice 300.............................  @3 25
fancy 300  .............................  
400

ORANGES.

LEMONS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

“ 
“ 

NUTS.

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

“ 
“ 
“  50-lb.  “ 

“  101b..........................  @12K
I! 
“  141b..........................  @15
“  extra 
“  201b..........................  @16
“ 
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................  @ 7K
“ 
..........................  @6
“ 
Persian, 50-lb.  box....................  4K@  5
Almonds, Tarragona.............................  @19
Ivaca.....................................  @18
California.............................   ©18K
Brazils, new...........................................  @10K
Filberts.................................................  ©UK
Walnuts, Grenoble................................   @14
“  Marbot...................................  @
Calif...................................... 11  @13

Table Nuts,  fancy.
@13K 
choice ... 
@12K @14
Pecans, Texas, H.  P., 
Cocoanuts, full sacks.
..............  @4 75
Fancy, H.  P.,Suns....................................  © 5K
“  Roasted.......................   @ 7K
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..................................  © 5K
“  Roasted.......... ............  @ 7K
Choice, H. P., Extras...............................  © 4K
“  Roasted.................  @ 6K
California Walnuts  ...................................... 12K

PEANUTS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

.12

“ 

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE. 

Cases  Bbls.  Pails.
6K 7K
6K 7K
6K 7K
3H

STICK  CANDY.
Standard, per lb........................ 
“  H.H.............................. 
“  Twist  .......................... 
Boston Cream ........  ....  8K
_  , 
Cut  Loaf......................... 
Extra H.  H......................  8K
MIXED  CANDY. 1
Bbls.
..6
Standard...................................... 6
..6
Leader.......................................... *
..6K
Royal.............................................
NoDby...........
7
English  Rock 
7
Conserves....
its
Broken Taffy....................baskets
8
Peanut Squares.................
French Creams..........................
Valley  Creams..........................
Midget, 30 lb. baskets................
“ 
Modern, 30 lb. 
.................
f a n c y —In bulk

Palls.
7
7
7K
8
8
8
8
9
10
13
......  8

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  }®
printed.........................................
Chocolate Drops............................................
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  1®
Gum Drops....................................................
Moss Drops....................................................   °
Sour Drops....................................................   1g7#
Per Box
...........55
......... 60
..................... ...........90
...40@50
A. B. Licorice  Drops.......................... ...........80
...........60
...........65
’ printed...................  .........
...........60
Imperials............................................
...........70
Cream Bar........................................... ...........55
...........56
Hand Made  Creams...... ..................... .. ,.85@95

Chocolate 

“  “ 

U 

FRUIT  JARS.

 

 

Pints............................................................C 6 75
Quarts................. 
7 00
Half Gallons................................................  9 00
Caps.............................................................   2 75
Rubbers....................................................... 
40
No. 0 Sub.........................................................  45
No.l 
No.2  “ 
Tubular.

LAMP  BURNERS.

l a m p   cHiMNBYK“ ?er box.

6 doz. in box.

 

 

 
 

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“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Pearl top.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No. 0 Sun....................................................... 1  75
No. 1  “  .........................................................1 88
No.2  “  .........................................................2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top...................................... 2  25
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top....... ............................    .2 60
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled....................3 70
No.2  “ 
....................4 70
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 
“ 
160
No. 0, per  gross..............................................  23
No. 1, 
§8
No  2, 
38
No. 3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz.........................................   75
Butter Crocks, 1 and 6 gal..........................  06K
Ju^s, K gal., per doz...................................   75
80
Milk Pans, K gal., per doz......... . .  ...........  «
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Legislation  no  Solution  for  the  Silver 

Problem.

W ritten to r Th s t &adbshah.

It is evident to even  a casual  observer 
that the silver  question  is  getting  to  be 
one of the most important,  as well as the 
most  difficult,  of  all  the  questions  now 
pressing the  American  people  for a set­
tlement.  We are  confronted with a con­
dition that is rapidly growing dangerous, 
and beset with theories no less alarming, 
which threatens the stability of our once 
safe  financial  system.  This  condition 
will have to be  dealt  with  either  by  ex­
perts  or  by  amateurs.  The  latter,  at 
present,  seems to take the leading part in 
the  general  discussion. 
It  is  to  be 
feared  that  they  will coerce  legislative 
action before  sober  second  thought  can 
be called in for counsel.

This  is  the  era  of wild  and  fanciful 
theories. 
Inventive  genius,  so long em­
ployed in practically  improving the con­
ditions  of  mankind,  has  at  last  over­
stepped the bounds of mechanical,  chem­
ical  and  philosophical  experiment  and 
soared into an  atmosphere  of  exaggera­
tion in the treatment of social  and finan­
cial  problems,  until  novelty  ceases  to 
startle the public mind,  and the babies of 
to-day are accustomed  to use  impossibil­
ities as common playthings.

The  American  people  have  been  so 
often  delivered  in  perplexing  emergen­
cies by the genius of some leader wise in 
statecraft that  we have  become  inflated 
with the idea  that legislation is the  sure 
and only  relief  for  all  the  ills that af­
flict the  state and prevent the prosperity 
of  those  who  compose  such  state.  At 
the  present, we  are  like  the  ring  per­
former who essays the feat of  riding two 
horses at  once  that  are  getting  farther 
apart  in  their  centrifugal  movements, 
until the rider  finds  his  straddling pow­
ers  exercised  to  the  fullest  extent and 
himself at the mercy of  imminent neces­
sity. 
If  he fail to get the steeds  nearer 
each  other, he  must  choose  which  of 
them  he  will  ride, or,  discarding  both, 
make the race  on  foot. 
In either  case, 
the  celebrated  two-horse  act  will  have 
proved a failure, to  the  great  disgust of 
patrons  of  the  ring.  Amateur  jockeys 
looking on say that they could  avert this 
catastrophe by  tying each end of a rope, 
just the length of  the performer’s  strad­
dle,  to the bit of  each  horse.  They  for­
get  that  equine  movements  cannot  be 
controlled  by such  a slight  restraint,  as 
this  arrangement  does  not  prevent  the 
widening  of  the  distance  between  the 
points where the rider’s feet should rest. 
As  a  practical  expedient,  therefore,  it 
would  be  of  no  better  service  than  to 
read aloud in the ring a treatise on  horse 
etiquette.

except  when 

Silver  and  gold  have,  for  centuries, 
born the Durdens of commerce,  in all civ­
ilized lands,  in  the transfer of  property, 
and that to the general satisfaction of all 
concerned, 
ill-advised 
legislation has stepped in to regulate the 
comparative  value  of  either  metal. 
In 
nearly every  case,  instead of  regulating, 
it has  disturbed  the  equilibrium  it was 
designed to secure and maintain,  and the 
repeal of  each  statute  has  become  more 
popular 
than  its  original  enactment. 
Centuries ago, gold was  valued as  to sil­
ver in the proportion of eight to one. 
In 
the  natural  changes  brought  about  by 
the relative  supply of  metal, the  ratio 
has increased, until, at present, it stands 
about  twenty  to  one;  and  yet there  are 
thousands of intelligent  men who, in the

face of experience, will insist that a coin­
age law restoring the old ratio of sixteen 
to one will be the cure for the inequality 
in value and prove the “open sesame”  to 
general prosperity.  We  have every rea­
son to  believe  that  the  present ratio  is 
the  direct  result  of the unusually large 
production  of  silver  in  this  country, 
which  in  the  absence  of  free  coinage, 
passes into  the channels of  trade and  is 
disposed of for what  people  are  willing 
to give,  the increased production  contin­
ually lowering the price received.

It is  easy to  see why  those  who  own 
and operate silver mines should  desire  a 
law  that  will  at  once  put  an  immense 
profit into their hands, without regard to 
its .effect on the value of  other property. 
The gain  to  them  would  be  immediate 
and the actual  loss remote.  They could 
transfer their immense hoards of coin in­
to other property  before the general rise 
in value which  would  be the  inevitable 
result.  But why the  millions who labor 
and  have  no  chance  to  hedge  against 
fluctuating values  should  ask such a fa­
vor for  those  whom  they  are  taught  to 
consider capitalists and oppressors of la­
bor, is difficult to understand.

The experience  gained during the late 
Civil  War  ought to convince anyone that 
gold and silver cannot be kept at any giv­
en ratio by act  of  Congress  alone.  The 
law  creating  greenbacks  and  making 
them  legal  tender for  all  debts had the 
immediate effect  of  fixing  paper  as  the 
unit of value;  and gold  soon  became,  in 
the eastern portion of  the  republic, only 
a  commodity.  Greenbacks,  by  degrees 
lessening 
in  purchasing  power,  were 
soon the only medium  of  exchange,  and 
by them was determined the value of  all 
species  of  property. 
Silver  of  equal 
value with  gold  was  also  forced  out of 
circulation, and property was assessed at 
a figure  corresponding to  the  difference 
between coin and greenbacks.  The price 
of  everything  was  rated  by  the latter, 
and,  as greenbacks fell  in value,  proper­
ty appreciated in equal ratio.

On the Western  Coast the condition  of 
things  was  different,  notwithstanding 
the action  of  Congress  making  paper  a 
legal  tender.  The  people  quietly  ig­
nored  the  fact  that  paper  was  lawful 
money,  and  continued  to  do  business 
with the old medium all through the war, 
buying  and  selling  entirely  on  a  coin 
basis.  While on the  Atlantic Coast gold 
was a product useful only to pay customs 
dues, and  in  the  arts,  and  was handled 
by brokers for  the profit to  be made,  the 
people  of  the  Pacific  States made  gold 
and silver  the  unit  of value, and  green­
backs were  only seen  in brokers’  offices 
and  speculated  in  as  were  stocks  and 
bonds,  subject  to  like  fluctuations 
in 
market. 
If  any  business man  took ad­
vantage  of  the Legal Tender Act to pay 
debts in such  currency at  its face value, 
it  was  received  under  protest,  and  his 
name  thereafter  stood  not  high  in  the 
business world.  The prices of products, 
therefore, did not  rise as a general thing 
on the Pacific Coast,  but were kept stable 
except as to certain goods affected by the 
international  revenue  law.  No  one but 
those in the  employ  of  the  government 
received paper money  at  its face  value, 
and then, to  use the  same,  were  obliged 
to sell it  at the  brokers’, as  they  would 
railroad securities,  for  coin  with  which 
to purchase the necessities of life.

Thus the following  conditions  existed 
for four years in  the  East  and West un­
der a law that was imperative over  every

M ic H x a A J s r   t r a d e s m a n .

W h en   i t   c o m e s   to   s p ic e s ,  t h e  ¡ b e s t   i s  
n o n e   to o   good.

G o ld  M e d a l 

Spices

a r e   t h e   b e s t   g o o d s  m o n e y   w ill  b u y  
and  t h e y   a r e   all  p a c k e d   in  fib e r   p a ils.
O n e   tria l  w ill  m a k e   y ou   a  fr ie n d   o f 

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guarantee  of the  genuine  ar­
ticle.

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T h e   O n ly   R e lia b le

Sold  in  this  market  ior the  past  Fifteen  Years.

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

JOHN  SMYTH,  Agent Grand  Rapids, Nish.

Telephone 566.

106  Kent St.

'^ B S E Ü s w f e i'

..CHICAGO

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guarantee  of  the  genuine 
article.

^CHICAGO

state in the Union:  A man  comina; from 
San  Francisco  to  New  York  could  not 
buy a suit of clothes with the contents of 
his purse,  until he  had  changed  it  into 
paper  money.  He  received  a  premium 
on his gold, ’tis  true,  but,  even  in  buy­
ing  solid  coin  silver  spoons  or  a  gold 
watch, eagles  were not accepted,  for the 
same  reason  that  bank  stocks  were  re­
fused—because  they  were not money in 
common use.  At  the  same  time,  a  citi­
zen of  New  York  could  not  purchase  a 
dish of clam  chowder  from the common­
est  lunch  counter in San Francisco with 
money that was current in Wall street,but 
must exchange it  for  coin  of  the realm 
before he could  hope  to  appease  his ap­
petite. 
(I  should  except  burglars  and 
confidence  men  in  these  statements,  as 
they  made  no  captious  distinction  be­
tween metal and  paper  money  in  their 
business  transactions,  nor  likewise  did 
the boodle  receiver).  The  merchant  of 
San Francisco, in war time,  went to New 
York with his  gold and  sold  it  in  Wall 
street as a  foreign  merchant  would  ex­
change a cargo  of  merchandise for cash. 
With the  proceeds in greenbacks,  he laid 
in his stock,  to be shipped home and sold 
for gold and  silver, at an  apparent  loss, 
sometimes,  reckoned  by the value of the 
currency used in  its  purchase.  No  one 
knew, by the price of  goods there,  that a 
war was going on.

From  the  foregoing,  it  is  a  fair con­
clusion  to believe . that,  if  Congress at­
tempts, by  a  free  coinage  law, to  force 
silver into circulation at the ratio of  six­
teen to one,  the same results  will  follow 
as in the  case of  greenbacks—gold  will 
be a commodity,  silver the unit of  value, 
and property  will rise in value as the dis­
tance between gold and silver fluctuates. 
Congress  had  no power  to  keep  green­
backs  and  coin  together.  Though  the 
sacred rite  of  wedlock was sanctified by 
the patriotism and  sufferings  of  the en­
tire  loyal millions united  in a  holy  pur­
pose,  the  gap  between  coin  and  paper 
widened,  until  the  glad  news  of  peace 
brought a  reconciliation;  but  it was  not 
until 1879, the  year of  resumption,  that 
the divorced couple  were  again  united. 
What the inexorable law of cause and ef­
fect  divides,  no  government has  power 
to  bind  together.  The  moment  it  at­
tempts to do so,  we are  all  at  the mercy 
of the  sharpest  witted  financiers.  The 
poor man  ought  not,  and  the  business 
men of this country will not,  ask govern­
ment  to pass  a  law that  leaves  them at 
the mercy of  capitalistic Shylocks.  Just 
so sure  as  this  is done,  the  latter  will 
say  to  the  former,  “You  can  have  the 
crow,  and  I  will  take  the  turkey;  or,
I will take the turkey  and you may have 
the  crow.”  Fluctuations  in  value  of 
currency always feather the nest  of  him 
who has millions;but they eat into the poor 
man’s hoard  nntil his cupboard  is  bare. 
A  stable  currency  is  the  poor  man’s 
friend.  This truth  has  been dinged  in 
to his ears for  generations;  and  yet men 
of commanding  intellect try  to convince 
him that, because  we  are  a  progressive 
people,  the wise lessons of experience are 
to  be put away as rubbish.  They assert 
in  effect, that  because  God  once  said 
“Let  there  be  light,”  and  light  was 
therefore, a  sovereign  people  have  the 
power to say, by law, “Let  seventy cents 
in  silver  be  adollar  of  golden  value,” 
and,  presto,  the dollar appears.

As said at the beginning of this article 
we must  settle  this  question  either  by 
experts  or  by  amateurs.  The  bunco

game has  been  tried  too  often by such 
men as Benjamin Butler,  who claimed to 
believe in the magic power of law to  fiat 
something out of nothing—see his speech 
in Congress February  36,  1878—and  Sen­
ator Stewart,  of  Nevada, who voices  the 
schemes of men whose  profits  from  free 
coinage would greatly  enlarge  his  bank 
account,  but  never  raise  the wages nor 
improve  the  prospects  of 
the  hard- 
worked  miner  who  risks  his  life  and 
health to dig the shining  metal from the 
bowels of the earth,  where  gnomes,  with 
dangerous weapons of defense,  guard the 
glittering treasure.

Let,us not try to ride two horses whose 
motions are  regulated  by  a  centrifugal 
force moving  in  an  irregular  elleptical 
orbit  beyond our  control:  rather  let  us 
harness both  steeds and drive them with 
chariot, secured by  the centripetal chain 
of common  sense  to  the center  pole  of 
true  value; and  not  all  the  centrifugal 
forces  of false  theorists shall  swerve  us 
from the path marked out by the compass 
of safe experience.  S.  P.  W h i t m a r s i t .

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

EATON,  LYON  &  CO.’S

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

Stationery

-AND—

Sporting Goods

20  Sc  22  MONBOB  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

T.  H. NEVIN CO.’S
Swiss Villa  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.

Hraltine & Periins Drop Co.,

STATE  AGENTS

GRAND  BAPIDS,  MICH.

FOURTH E T H A L B 1E

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

Gko. W. Gat, Vice-President.

Wm. H. Anderson, Cashier, 
J no. A. S e y m o u r , Ass’t Cashier,

C ap ital,  $ 3 0 0 ,0 0 0 .

DIRECTORS.
D. A. Blodgett.  Geo. W. Gay. 
C. Bertsch. 
A. J. Bowne. 
Wm. H. Anderson.  Wm. Sears.

S. M. Lemon 
G. K. Johnson. 
A. D. Rath bone

' I ’ l - r r n   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

ATLAS

SOAP

Is Manufactured 

only  by

HENRY  PASSOLT, 

Saginaw,  Midi.

For general laundry and  family 

washing  purposes.

Only brand of first-class laundry 
J  soap manufactured in the 

Saginaw  Talley.

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

“ T h e   Kent.99

Directly Opposite Union Depot.

AMERICAN  PLAN
RATES, 92 PER DAT
STEAM  HEAT  AND  ELECTRIC  BELLS
TREE  BAGGAGE  TRANSFER  FROM  UNION
DEPOT.

BEKCH  i  BOOTH,  Props.

Use Tradesman Coupons.

/M i c h i g a n  (T e n t r a l

“  The Niagara Falls Route.”

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

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♦Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Depart
Arrive. 
..6 55pm
---- 
10 00 p m...........Detroit Express
.  7 00 a m
4 30 pm ...................Mixed  ...,
.  1  20pm
10 00 a m..............Day Express
6 00a m ......»Atlantic and  Pacific.......10 45 pm
1  00 p m ........New York Express.......   5 40 pm
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.

De tr o it,  g r a n d  h a v e n   a  Mil ­

w a u k e e  Railway.

Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Ave.

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave  itNo.  14 tNo.  16|tNo.  18;•No.  82
11 00pm
G’d  Rapids,  Lv|
12 42am
Ionia ...................Ar
2 00am
St.  Johns —  Ar
3 10am
O w o s s d ..............A r
6 40am
E. Saginaw..Ar
7 15am 
Bay City...........Ar
5 40am 
F lin t ...................Ar
7 30am 
Pt.  Huron...Ar
5 37am 
Pontiac.............Ar
7 00am
Detroit................Ar

10 20am I  3 25pm
11  25am  4 27pm 
1217pm  5 20pm
1 20pm  6 05pm
3 45pm  8 00pm
4 35pm  8 37pm 
3 45pm  7 05pm
5 50pm  8 50pm
3 05pm  8 25pm
4 05pm1  9 25pm

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

Trains Leave

T .xt  T i o t m i  t. 
G’d Rapids,  Lv 
G’d Haven,  Ar 
Milw’keeStr  “ 
Chicago Str.  “

•No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13
10 50am
5 10pm
6 15pm

6  50am
1  00pm
2  10pm

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

♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.

Trains arrive from the east,6:40 a.m., 12:50 a.m., 
5:00 p.m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arri  e from  the west,  10:10  a. m., d.lo 
p.m .  a n d  9:45v p. m .
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlcr  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper
W e s tw a r d — No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car.
J a b. Ca m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

15

Grand Rapids  At Indiana.
Schedule  in  effect  January  W, 1893.

TRA INS  GOING  N ORTH.

South. 

A rrive from   Leave goin g  
North.
7:80 a  m
1:10 p m
4;15 p m
10:10  p m
Train arrivin g  from   south a t  6:45 a  m  and  9:00 a  m 

For Traverse City  and Saginaw  
For Traverse C ity A  Mackinaw 
For Cadillac and S agin aw ..........  8:20 p m  
For  P etoskey A  M ackinaw ........  8:10 p m 
From Chicago and  K alam azoo.  8:36 p m 
d aily.  O thers trains d aily excep t Sunday.

6:45 a  m 
9:00 a  m 

TRA INS  GOING  SO U TH .
NorT
North.
6:30 a m
For  C incinnati................................  6:30
For K alam azoo and  Chicago.
11:50 a m
For F ort W ayne and th e  East
6:15 p m
For  C incinnati................................  6:15 p m
10.40 p m
For K alam azoo  A   C hicago........10 .40 p m
11:50 a  m
From Saginaw .................................   11:50 a m
10.40 p m
From Saginaw ..................................10 :40 p m
m and  11:80 p.  m. runs
Trains leavin g south a t 6:00 p m and  11: 
daily;  all  other  trains  daily excep t Sunday.

Arrive from   L eave g o in g  
South.
7:00  a  m
10:05  a m
8 :00  p m
6:00  p m
11:80  p m

NORTH 

SLEEPING  A   PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE.

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7:20 a m  train  has  P arlor  Car  to   Traverse 
C ity. 
1 : 1 0   p   m   t r a i n   has  parlor  car  Grand
Rapids to P etoskey and Mackinaw. 
1 0 : 1 0   p   m   t r a i n . —S leeping  car 
Rapids  to   P etoskey and Mackinaw.

. 

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SOUTH—7:00 a m  train.—P arlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to  Cincinnati.
10:05 am  train.—W agner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
6:00  pm train.—W agner Sleeping  Car 
Grand  Rapids to  C incinnati.
11;20 pm train.—W agner Sleeping Car 
Grand Rapids to  Chicago.

Chicago via G. B. & I. B. B.

L r Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

10:05 a m  
3:55 p m  

0:00p m   U :M p m
0:00 p m  
0 :5 0 .m

10:05 a m train  through W agner P arlor Oar.
11 :*0 p m train  d ally, through  W agner  S leeping Car. 

3:10p m  
Lt  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
8:35p m  
3:10  p  m  through  W agner  Parlor  Car. 
train  dally, through W agner Sleeping Car.

7:05am  
3:20pm 

11:46p m
6:45  a m
11:45 p  m 

For M uskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapid. Si Indiana.
8:55  a m  
lt:2 6 a m  
5:30  p m 

From Muskegon—Arrive
10:00 a m

4:40  p m
0:05 p m

Sunday train   leaves  for  M uskegon  a t  9:05 a   m , a r ­
rivin g a t 10:20  a   m .  R eturning,  train  leaves  Mnske 
gon  at  4:30 p m, arrivin g a t Grand  Rapids a t  6:46 p m .
Through tickets and full Information can  be had by 
calling upon A. Almqulst,  ticket agent  at  Union Sta­
tion,  or  George  W.  Munson,  Union  Ticket Agent, 87 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.

G eneral P assenger and T icket A gent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

CHICAGO

NOV.  20,  1892.
AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  RTF.

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..............9:00am  5:25pm *11:15pm
A r.  G R ’D R A P ID S......3:55pm  10:45pm  *7:05am
T O   A N D   F R O M   B E N T O N   H A R B O R ,  A N D   S T   J O S E P H
Lv. G  R..........  8:50am 1:25pm 
........ *11:35pm
Ar.  G R..........*6:10am 3'55pm 
.........  10:45pm
Lv. G. R ..........   8:50am  1:25pm  5:35pm  8:45pm
Ar.  G.  R..................... 10:45am  3:55pm  5:25pm
Lv.  G  R.......................................7:30am  5:35pm
Ar.’  Manistee............................ 12:15pm  10:29pm
Ar.  Traverse City......................12:35pm  10:59pm
Ar.  Charlevoix.....................................   2:55pm  ..
Ar. Petoskey 
............................3:30pm  . . . . —
Ar.  from  Petoskey,  etc.,  10:00  p  m.;  from 
Traverse City 11:50 a m, 10:00 p m.

TRAVERSE CITT  MANISTEE  A PETOSKET.

TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

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.
DETROIT,

NOV.  20,  1892
LANSING St NORTHERN R. R.
GOING TO  DETROIT.

Other trains week days only.

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

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

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

TO  AND  FROM  SAGINAW,  ALMA AND  ST.  LOUIS.

TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL A HASTINGS R.  It.

L v. G ra n d  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.

Bailway.

Toledo, A n n   Arbor ¿8  North  Michigan 
In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  St 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk  e 
offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  betwe  u 
Grand Rapids and Toledo.
Lv. Grand Rapids a t......7:15 a. m. and 1:00 p.
Ar. Toledo a t ............  12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p.
Lv.Grand Rapids at......6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p.
Ar. Toledo at..............12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p.
W. ¡31.  B e n n e t t ,.General Pass. Agent, 
Toledo, Ohio.

Return connections equally as good.

VIA D ., G.  H.  A  M .

VIA D ., L.  A N.

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

Official  Organ—M ic h ig a n   T k a d e s m a n .

Jackson  Grocers’  Union 

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

"The Squash She Didn’t Ate."

While  waiting  in  a  South  Division 
street grocery the other  day for a chance 
to confer  with the  proprietor  on a little 
matter of business,  I was more than ever 
impressed  with the  thought  that  there 
are  times when  even a grocer’s  patience 
is  in  danger  of  losing  its  well-earned 
virtue.

that 

It  was  past  11 o’clock,  and  the  fore­
noon  orders  had  not  yet  gone out;  in­
deed,  the  goods  were not  yet all  put up. 
At that very moment twenty-five or thirty 
wives and mothers were fretting and fum­
ing in different  parts of  the  city for  the 
well-known delivery sleigh to arrive with 
the wherewithall  to  prepare  dinners for 
more  than  a hundred  hungry  husbands 
and  children.  The  grocer  realized  the 
responsibility 
rested  upon  his 
shoulders,  as  evidenced  by  the worried, 
tired  look on his face and  the  sprightly 
efforts  he  was putting forth  in  helping 
his  two  or  three  clerks  in  getting  the 
stuff  put  up.  The  floor  was so  nearly 
covered  with  baskets,  jugs, cans,  sacks 
of flour, etc., that one could hardly make 
his way through  the store;  and,  as if  for 
no other  purpose  than to harass the  gro­
cer’s  nerves,  there  appeared  to  be a de­
mand  on  the  part of  the  public  to  be 
waited  on  just  at that  particular  time. 
Add  to  this  the fact  that two  drummers 
were  waiting  behind  the  stove  for  an 
opportunity to  undo  themselves—and do 
up  the grocer—and  you will  not wonder 
that he looked tired.

One old fellow was  in  such a hurry to 
preserve his life by purchasing a nickel’s 
worth  of  Hiawatha,  that  he  stumbled 
over  a  jug  of  molasses  and  a kerosene 
can.  After  the  said  o. f.  had  reached 
the street in safety,  a tall,  angular speci­
men of  a female  Irishman,  with a shawl 
thrown over her  head, entered the  store. 
As she approached the counter, she aimed 
a vigorous  kick  at a  lop-eared  dog  that 
had followed a farmer into the store, and 
accompanied it with:

“Git  out  wid  ye,  ye  mazely  brute! 
Faith,  an’  it’s not the loikes av me that’d 
permit  ye to  poke  yer  dirthy nose  intil 
everything  ef  I  was  kapin’  a  grocery 
sthore!”

With a defiant sniff  in  the direction of 
the  drummers, as  though  they were  the 
joint  owners  of  the  dog,  she  threw  a 
greasy  pass-book  on the  counter and  in­
formed the grocer that she wanted to pay 
her  little  bill.  The  “little  bill”  was 
made out and, after  glancing over it, she 
gave a sort of  locomotive  snort  and  vo­
ciferated:

“Luk  at  that  now!  An’  would  ye be 
afther  chargin’  a  poor  widde  loike  me 
wid  a mazely weg-e-table that  she didn’t 
ate?”

“Why,  what’s  the  matter  this  time, 

Mrs.  McTwang?”

“ Matther, ”  yelled  Mrs.  McTwang, 
it’s  yerself  that  knows  roight 
“ whin 
well 
that  that  silfsame  squash  was 
mattherated long  afoor it lift the sthore? 
Shure,  an’ I’ll  not  pay  ye a divil  a  cint 
for the squash I didn’t ate.”

“Oh,  that’s  nothing,” said  the  grocer, 
after  she had  gone.  “Every grocer  has 
his  McTwangs,  and,  if  it’s  not a squash, 
it’s sure  to be  something  else that  they 
'didn’t ate,’ and we have to humor them.”

We  Wave  not the  Eloquence  of  Daniel  W eMer, the  Poeti­
cal Powers  of  Chailcer  or  the Speed  of  Nancy  Hanks,

T H E   M I C H I G A N   TRAJDICSM-AN,
How the  Name  "Tram” Originated.
Webster’s dictionary tells  us  that  the 
origin of the word tram is probably Scan­
dinavian.  This is an  instance in  which 
the dictionary is  mistaken,  says  Electric 
Power.  Before the days of the  railroad 
the canal was,  in England  as  elsewhere, 
the most convenient means of transit  for 
heavy loads, and the owners of these many 
waterways  stood much in the position of 
the railroad kings of  to-day.
Among the most  successful  canals  in 
England  was  the  one  stretching  from 
Derby to Birmingham and  Staffordshire. 
One end of it  extended  to  the  north  of 
Derby about four miles,  to a place called 
Little  Eaton,  and 
its  terminus  there 
formed a convenient connection with the 
extensive  house-coal,  iron  and  pottery 
fields of the Alfreton and Ripley districts. 
The land from Little  Eaton  to  Alfreton 
has  a  considerable  rise,  and 
it  was 
thought unremunerative to build so many 
locks as would be required  if  the  canal 
were  extended  to  the  latter  town.  A 
road was laid,  therefore,  through a  tract 
of land purchased  for  the  occasion  by 
the canal company,  and  this  road  is  in 
active operation in  connection  with  the 
canal to the present  day.  The  designer 
of the road was James Outram,  of  Little 
Eaton. m  It  consisted  of  flat  cast-iron 
flanged'plates,  each three feet long,  with 
a gauge about equal to an  ordinary cart. 
The rails were laid at each end  on  stone 
blocks,  and  fastened to them  by  spikes 
driven  into a lead plugrun in a hole in the 
stone.  The road was called,  after its  in­
ventor,  an Outram  road,  afterward  con­
tracted into ’tram road.
The cars run  on  the  road  are  made 
with removable bodies that can be hoisted 
bodily,  with their loads of two ton9 each, 
into the canal boats.  When  these  boats 
arrive at their  ultimate  destination  the 
car bodies are then hoisted out  and  laid 
with their loads on cart frames,  and  the 
soft high-class coal of the Kilburn valley 
is thus transported direct from  the  coal 
pit to the very cellars  of  the  consumers 
without  being  once  transhipped.  This 
explanation of the origin of the word tram 
is given in Dr.  Smiles’ 
life  of  George 
Stephenson.

But we can furnish you with

Spratt’s  Dog  Food.

Disc Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

PRODUCE  MARKET,

Apples — About  the  same  as  a  week  ago, 
Baldwins and  Spys are in  fair  supply and good 
demand,  commanding $3  per  bbl. for No. 1  eat 
ing  and $2 for  No. 2 or cooking grades.

Beans—The  price  has  sustained  a  sharp  ad­
vance,  handlers  now  paying  $1.50@$1.75  for 
country picked  and  holding  city picked at $1.90 
@$2.10 per bu.

Butter—Scarce  and  almost  impossible  to  se 
cure in any quantity.  Jobbers pav 24c for choice 
dairy and find ready takers at 26c.

Cabbage—80@90e per doz., and scarce at that.
Celery—18@20c per doz. bunches.
Cider—12%@13c per gal.
Cranberries—The  market  is  without  change, 
crates  now  being  held  as follows:  Cape  Cods 
and Jerseys, $2.75;  Waltons, $3.25.

Eggs—Handlers pay 35c for fresh and  hold  at 
38c.  A few warm days would probably send the 
price down  very considerably.

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 5c per  lb. and radishes 
at 40c per doz.
Honey—Plenty  in  quantity  and  excellent  in 

quality at 12@13c per lb.

|l   and  hold 

at $1.25 per bu.

Onions—Higher  Dealers  pay 
Parsnips—40c per bu.
Potatoes—The  market  is  about  the same as a 
week  ago,  although  evidences  of  still  higher 
prices are by no means absent.

Southern  Vegetables—Have  been  ^seriously 
damaged  by  the  recent  cold  weather,  which 
extended  below  freezing  point  into  Florida. 
Unprotected  early  vegetables,  tomatoes,  beans 
and  squash  have been  killed in some  sections, 
but there are  places where the  killed plants can 
be  replaced. 
In  Louisiana  garden  truck  has 
been  killed.  If the  extent of  the  damage  done 
be  considerable,  there  is  likely  to  be  a  firmer 
market for truck well into the spring.

Squash—So scarce  that it is  practically out of 

Sweet Potatoes—Scarce and nearly out of mar­
ket.  Illinois readily command  $4.50@5  per bbl.
Turnips—36c per bu

market.

Every owner of  a dog realizes the  importance of  proper food.  The Spratt’s Dog 
Food is put up in dry,  hard  cakes composed  of  the most nutritious substances,  and 
their use will be most beneficial to your dog.

They will  keep  him  free from  disease;  will  give  him a nice,  long  coat of  hair 
and clean,  sound  teeth.  No hunter who  cares  anything  about the  welfare of  his 
dog will be without  it.

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A F C   T o ile   d u   N ord ,  D resd en ,  B a te s  a n d  
A m o s k e a g   w a s h  d ress  g in g h a m s  a n d   sa tin es. 
A   fresh   n e w  lin e   o f w h ite   g o o d s,  N a in so o k s in  
c h e c k s   a n d  strip es a n d   V ic to r ia   la w n s . 

E m b r o id e r y   from   l£e p er yd . to  BOe
Mail orders receive prompt attention.

Spring & Com pany, 

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Gracto  C M .

Covers  for  Biscuits.

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 e ts,  G in g h a m s,
P r in ts  a n d   D o m estic  C ottons.

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

assorted stock at lowest' market  prices.

Spring & Company.

t' T ’HESE  chests  will 

soon 
pay for themselves  in  the 

UR new glass covers  are by far the
to  the

y   J   handsomest  ever  offered 

breakage they avoid.  Price $4. 

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  good0  from  flies,  dirt  and  prying  fingers in a short  time to pay 
for themselves.  Try them and be convinced.  Price, 50 cents each.

NEW  NOVELTIES.

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

CREAM  CRISP.

NEWTON, a rich  finger with  fig  filling, 

the best selling cakes we ever made.

ORANGE  BAR.

MOSS  HONEY  JUMBLES. 
This  is  bound  to  be  one  of

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

ßfiOßOLAYE  GOOLER  ßO,

A la n u fa c t u r e r s   o f

H e y m a n   &  C o m p a n y ,
SIiot  Cases

Manufacturers  of

Of  Every  Description.

First-Glass  Work  Only.

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

6 8   an d   6B C an al  St.,

W H O L E S A L E

Dry  Goods. Barpets and Gloaks

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUR  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigt, EBrpMeiir & Co.,48> l° ’an! 

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B A R C U S   BRO S.,

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.  Write tor prices and discounts.
M IC H IG A N .

M U S K E G O N ,

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 Trnst Building.  Factory 12 Mill St.

DODGE

Independence  food  Split  Pnlley.

THE  LIGHTEST!

THE  STRONGEST!

THE  BEST!
HESTER  MACHINERY  GO.,

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

Important Reductions in Indurated  Hoot Fibre  Hare.

Lowest  Prises  Ever  Offered.

Yaking  Effect  Jan.  25.1893.

Subject  to  Change  without  Notice.

Per doz
Weaver pails, C qt.................................................$2  70
standard  size..................................  3  15
Star 
Fire 
round  bottom.......................... 
4  05

PAILS. 

“ 
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BDTTEK  BOWLS.

15 in.  bowl.............. S3  60
17 in.  “ 
4  50
19 in.  “ 
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MILK PANS.

Standard  size.........S3  25
Your  stock  Is  not  complete 
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934  “ 

WASH  TUBS. 
Per doz
No. 0, diame. 2334 in.  1334 in. deep................. $15  75
 
“ 
21 
No. 1,  “ 
“  12 
13  50
1934  “  11 
.....................  12  00
No. 2,  “ 
1834  i4 
No.  3, 
“ 
“ 
..................   10  50
NESTED  TUBS. 
Per nest
No.  1 Nest,  Nos.  1, 2, 3.........................................   3  00
Per doz
No.  1 Diame. 1734 in. 7 in. deep...........................   6 75
No. 2 
.......................  6  30
No.  3 
.......................  5  40
Compare  these  prices  with  what  you  have  been 
paying,  then order.

1534  “  6  “ 
1334 “  5  “ 

KEELERS. 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

No. 2,  12 q t................................................................... $7 65

Per doz

SLOP  JARS. 

SLOP  JAR MATS.

WASH  BASIN.

17 inch  Mat..................................................................... 3 60
1234 inch  Basin...........................................................2 10
No. 2, 12 inch................................................................. 4 50
Send in your orders  early  and  secure the first  sale 

SPITTOONS.

on these goods at the reduced prices.

Michigan State  Agents for  the  Grand  Rapids  Giant  Jnmor  Vapor  Store.

This is an entirely new Gasoline Stove,  with a patent  multiple  generator,  which  is the simplest  and most  powerful  generator made and far surpasses anything of  the

kind ever put on the market.  Write for catalogue.

STYLE  OF  NO.  46— 2-BURNER JUNIOR  WITH  ILLUMINATING  FEATURE  AND  GLOBE.

The Illuminating Feature  is thor?u*VIy Prac.ti? 1, iu„ eve,ry* ™y.  it is
the  cooking
* u v  
burners,  thus  affording a brilliant  gaslight  whenever  desired,  at a minimum  cost. 
This improvement will  be  appreciated  at a glance and  hailed  with  delight  by all 
buyers.  This feature alone gives this stove the preference.
Our high  stoves are one  inch,  and  our  low stoves  are three  inches  higher than 
any other make of  Junior stoves.

conveniently  located  back  of 

STYLE OF  NO. 31—TWO BURNER AND  STEP WITH  ILLUMINATING FEATURE  & GLOBE.
This stove is a gem,  it occupies but little space, has powerful burners, and in our 
judgment is destined to become the most popular stove of any on  the market.
Its practical  illuminating  device,  the  means  for  conveniently having at hand at 
all  times a tea  kettle of  boiling  water  will  be  fully  appreciated  by every  house­
keeper.

(L  LEONARD  X  SONS,  Grand  Rapids,

134 to 140 E. Fulton St.

