Michigan Tradesman.

VOL.  10.

GRAND  R A PID S,  FE B R U A R Y   22,  1893.

NO.  492

Five Flinty Facts.

F IR S T   T R IE D   A N D   PRO V EN . 
FU L L Y   ST A N D IN G   T H E   TEST, 
TAB  AHEAD  OF  ALL  S1VAL8. 
FA ST  IN C R E A S IN G   IN   DEM AND. 
F o r Sale by H a w k in s   &  C o m p a n y .

M U SK EG O N   BR A N CH   U N IT E D   S T A T E S  BA K ING   GO.,

Successors  to

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

GRAGKERS,  BISCUITS  #   SWEET  GOODS.

HARRY FOX,  Manager.

SPECIAL  a t t e n t i o n   p a i d   t o   m a i l   o r d e r s .

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

Who  Sells

Cough

Drops?

Star

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

A.  E.  BROOKS  &  CO.,

46  Ottawa St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Red

G r a n d   R a p i d s   B r u s h   Co.,

M anufacturers  of

ym  y

■  BRUSHES

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

O ur goods are  sold by all  M ichigan  Jobbing  Houses.

C R A S.  A .  CO FB,

M anufacturer  of

'  A W N IN G S   and  T E N T S

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS

Jobbers of  Oiled  Clothing  and  Cotton  Ducks.

* 

Send for price  u s t . 

l  \  p earl  g t.,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

M O S E L E Y   BRO S.,

- WHOLE SALB -

FRUITS,  SEEDS,  BEANS  AND  PRODUGE.

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

Black  B ass  Cigars

N E V E R   GO  BEGGING. 

M ade o n ly   b y

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

THE  NE  PLUS  ULTRA  OF  A   NICKEL  SMOKE l

STANDARD  OIL  CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

D E A L E R S  IN

U lm n in a t in g  a n d   L u b r ic a tin g

I,
Wholesale  Grocers

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

Grand.  Rapids.

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

12, 14,16 Pearl Ht.,

N A PT H A   A N D   GASO LINES.

Office,  H awkins Block. 

W orks,  B utterw orth Ave.

GRAND RAPIDS, 
BIG RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN.

BU LK   W ORKS  AT

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND  HAVEN,
HOWARD  CITY, 

MANISTEE,

PETOSKEY,

CADILLAC,
LUDINGTON.

H IG H EST  PRICE  PA ID   F O R

EMPTY  BARBON  i   GASOLIN17  BARRELS.

V O O R H E E S

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.  VOORHEES,  Manager.

C O N F E C T I O N E R Y  Î

Don’t think just because  it’s a little dull after the holidays 
that it will  be  best to “ run close.”  Now is  just the time 
to  clean  up the  odds  and  ends—push  them to the  front  and  fill  up with 
bright, fresh  goods  and  he 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  hum m ing  and  we  want  to 
replenish your stock  with  purest and best  goods on the market.  Write 
us.  Call  on  us  when  in  the  city or entrust  your  order to  the  wholesale 
grocers.  We  sell  them  all.  Buy  “  Our  Make ”  and  add to your bank 
account.

Manufacturers

and

Jobbers of

&

Spring lines  now ready 

for inspection

W ould  be  pleased  to 

show t beni.

Agents  for  the  Boston 

R ubber Shoe Co.

Who  urges  you  to  keep

Sapolio ?

The  Public !

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

Anv Jobber will be Glad to Fill Your Orders.

F.  J.  D E T T E N T H A L E R
JOBBER  OFOYSTERS
POULTRY 4  GAME

Salt Fish

THE  PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.

Ma/ll Orders Receive Prompt  Attention. 

See (quotations in another column

CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL  KINDS  OF  POULTRY: AND  GAME  SOLICITED

YOL.  X.

GKAXD  R A PID S,  W EDNESDAY,  FE B R U A R Y   22,  1893.

X O .  492

i.  J.  SHELLMAN, Scientific Optician, 65 Monroe Street.

Eyes  tested  for  spectacles  free of  cost  with 
latest improved methods.  Glasses in every style 
at  moderate  prices.  Artificial  human  eyes  of 
every color.  Sign of big spectacles._________
SBTA B LI8HKD  1841.

THE MERCANTILE  AGENCY

R. G. D u n   &  Co.

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attended to throughout United States 

The Braflstreet Mercantile Apacy.

and Canada

The B radstreet  Company, Props.

Executive  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  Bldg.

HENRY  ROYCE,  Snpt.

ÌARLQW BRO’S^BUNKBOOKSi
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This is what wc warrant:

1.  Top Genuine Kangaroo.
2.  V amp Best Veal calf.
3.  Sole Best Union Leathei.
4  Grain Tap, Grain Counter and  Grain Inner 

(Sizes 9 to 13M)

Sole 

Stl  P e r  P a ir N et.

B IR T H ,  K R A U SE   &  C O ,

GRAND  RAPIDS  AGENTS.

COMMERCIAL  CREDIT  CO.

Union Credit Co.

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

C.  E.  BLOCK.

The King

O f   a ll  C o f f e e s ,
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NEMESIS  IN  A  VILLAGE.

Mrs.  Clay  was 

ironing  before  her 
It  was  Tuesday,  of 
kitchen  window. 
course,  or she would not have  been iron­
ing,  and though the month was July  she 
was not much to be pitied on  account  of 
her warm occupation,  for her  stove  had 
been removed to the summer  kitchen,  a 
shed adjoining the  room 
in  which  she 
worked,  and  a light breeze  was  playing 
over her  ironing-table. 
Seated  on  the 
doorstep  between the  two  kitchens  was 
her half-grown daughter Lodilla, shelling 
peas.

The only sounds in the room  were  the 
occasional thump of the iron as it was set 
down  on its staud,  or the hiss of  a  fresh 
one as Mrs.  Clay applied  her  wet  finger 
to its shining surface to see if it were  hot 
enough for use.

Under  most  circumstances  Lodilla 
would have been singing at the top of her 
voice,  but this  afternoon  she  had  been 
kept  in  to  shell  peas  when  she  had 
wanted to go berrying,  and  sullen  rebel­
lion  is not a mood  in  which  one  sings. 
She flicked the pea pods over the edge  of 
the pan set to receive them, enjoying this 
little breach of order though she herself, 
having to pick them  up afterward,  would 
be the only sufferer.

Mrs.  Clay herself,  though she  had vin­
dicated her authority,  was  not  in  a  hu­
mor for conversation.  Her triumph  was 
mingled with resentment that  a struggle 
should have been necessary, and  she  set 
her lips firmly together and said  nothing 
when she saw the scattered pods,  taking 
care  only  not  to  step  on  them  as  she 
passed.  As she went and came in her ex­
change  of  irons,  she  took  occasion  to 
glance through the window before her at 
a  charming prospect which,  lacking  the 
human element, bad no charm for her.

Her house was at the end of the village, 
and  from  the  north  windows  no  other 
house was visible except the corner of old 
Martin Banks’s cottage up the lane to the 
right and nearly hidden’by willows.

The village road dipped into  a  hollow 
notjfar beyond her house,and the presence 
of a clump of willows  on  each  side  the 
hollow  was  fair  evidence  of  a  stream 
somewhere in  its  depths;  from  this  the 
road mounted again  in curves,  only  here 
and there visible through the trees,  until 
it reached at last a far-off  summit  which 
was to the village children  the end of the 
world,  except, of course, to those who had 
been to Sunbury—they knew better.

Fields of grain,  alternating  with  pas­
ture and bits of woodland,  bordered  the 
road,  harmonizing with perfect  blending 
and contrasting of color as nature’s com­
binations always  do.  But Mrs.  Clay had 
no  eye  for  nature  or  nature’s  colors, 
though she said she knew better  than  to 
trim a blue  dress  with  red,  which  was 
“more than some of the summer  boarders 
did.”  About  3  o’clock,  however,  this 
despised prospect took on a human  inter­
est,  for Martin  Banks’s  daughter Sarah, 
the divorced wife of Jim Wiugford,  came 
running down  the lane from  her  father’s 
house, first looking from side to side under 
her flapping sunbonnet, and finally catch­
ing it off her head in order to  see  better,

the 

either  wringing  her  hands  or  wiping 
them on her apron,  Mrs.  Clay  could  not 
tell  which,  though  she  had  seized  and 
mounted  her  spectacles  at 
first 
glimpse of a human  being,  and  was  now 
giving her whole attention  to  the  sight. 
When Sarah Wingford,  or Sarah  Banks, 
as  she 
insisted  now  on  being  called, 
reached the  road  she  turned  back  first 
to  the  hollow,  from  which  she  soon 
emerged  and  came  on  swiftly  and  dis­
tractedly  toward  the  village.  As  soon 
as  she  was  within  hearing  Mrs.  Clay 
made out  that  she  was  calling,  “Mart! 
Mart!” 
she  said,  with  a 
measure of disgust. “Might  ’ a ’  knowed 
that  was 
if  that 
youngun gets out of her sight a minute.” 
Then,  her voice softened a little, “1 don’t 
wonder, 
though.  Jim  Wingford’s  des- 
p'rate ’nough for  anything,  and  he  was 
set on havin’ the child.  Lodilla, you run 
out an’  meet her,  an’  tell her Mart’s gone 
berryin’ with the other children.  Do you 
hear?” stopping with suspended iron, for 
Lodilla had not moved.

it.  Perfectly  crazy 

“Humph!” 

“Yes,  ma’am,”  Lodilla  answered, 
slowly finishing the last  pod  and  begin­
ning  deliberately  to  pick  up  from  the 
floor the scattered evidences of her rebel­
lion.

Mrs. Clay turned  back  to the  window. 
Sarah  was  evidently  in  great  distress, 
for she was  running  faster,  wiping  her 
hot  face,  while  her  hair  was  blowing 
down  around  her  shoulders.  “It’s  all 
right,  Sarah,” called  Mrs.  Clay  reassur­
ingly, and  again turning to  Lodilla,  “Are 
you going?  If  you  ain’t,  say  so.  an’ I’ll 
know what to do!”  “I’m  goin’.”  Lodilla 
arose and shook her  skirts  over the  pan 
of pods,  picked up  first the  dish of peas 
and  then  the  pan  and put  them  away, 
went to the hook  and got her bonnet and 
put it on  carefully  and  took  the longer 
way around the house to  the road.

By the time  she reached  it  she  heard 
her mother  calling  out  to  Sarah Banks, 
who was now quite  near,  “Are you look­
in’  for  Mart,  Sarah?  He’s  all  right. 
The Crawford  boys  and  girls come  past 
here and they had him goin’  berryin’.  1 
s’posed they’d ast  you.”

Sarah  Banks  had  been  a  pretty  girl 
once and a girl of spirit, but the terror in 
which she  had lived by day  and that was 
reflected  in her dreams  by night had tak­
en  away  from  her  both  good  looks and 
high spirit,  and it was a trembling, nerve 
shaken creature that sank down  on Mrs. 
Clay’s doorstep  and burst  into hysterical 
tears.

Mrs.  Clay stood  still,  embarrassed,  aft­
er she had taken  Sarah’s bonnet and laid 
it on the table  and  put a glass  of  water 
to  the  woman’s  lips.  She  was  not  by 
nature  a  consoler,  and  she  seldom  at­
tempted a part in  which she felt  herself 
so  awkward.  Lodilla  had  come  back 
and stood  in  the  shed  door  looking on 
with  unsympathetic  curiosity.  Mrs. 
Clay  vented  her  feelings  angrily  upon 
the  girl. 
“You  can  go  now,  Lodilla 
Clay,  berryin’ or  anywhere  you  please. 
I’ve seen  enough  o’  your  peskiness  for 
one aft’noon.  Do you  hear me?  Start!” 
And as  she made a motion  forward,  Lo-

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

dilla  thought  best  to  start,  though  her 
pace slackened,  once over  the doorstep.
“Always the way,” she muttered to her­
self as she went,  “won’t led me  go when 
the’s anything goin’ on outside and sends 
me away  when  the’s  anything  goin’  on 
at home.”

Sarah’s first and hardest burst  of tears 
being  over,  Mrs.  Clay  thought  it  was 
time to use reasoning.

“Sarah,” she said  testily,  “you’re silly 
about that child.  Why,  if  you  keep ou 
this way  you’ll  be in a ’sylum  before he’s 
old ’nough to  take  care  of  himself,  an’ 
what  good’d  that  do?  You  know  well 
’nough that  the’  ain’t a man or a woman 
in the village but what looks out for him, 
an’ you’d hear fast ’nough if the'  was any 
danger.  We’re  all on  your side.  Why, 
his father couldn't get him  with all of us 
watching out.”

Sarah  wiped her eyes,  but  her  face did 

not brighten.

“You do’  know Jim Wingford’s  well’s I 

do,” was all she  said.

“I know  he’s a desp’rate  man,  but  he 
has respect for the law,  I reckon,  an’  the 
law give you the child.  An’ more’n that, 
the last I  heard  o’  Jim  he  was  goin’  to 
Californy,  an’ 1  reely don’t  s’pose you’ll 
ever see him agin.”

“He give  out  that,”  said  Sarah, mean­

ingly.

“Oh,  well,  now,  Sarah,  do  give  him 
some  credit!  Don’t  be  so  everlastiu’ly 
s’picious.  The’s some good  in  him,  if he 
did  treat  you  mean.  Mebbe  you  was  a 
little to blame.”

The lurking pleasure  with  which  Mrs. 
Clay thus expressed  a long-held  convic­
tion  escaped  Sarah,  absorbed  in  one 
thought.

“It’s  too 

late  to  think  o’  that,”  she 
said  despairingly.  “ We’re  nothin’  to 
each  other  now,  an’  the  boy’s mine,  an’ 
he’s a bad man  to torment me so.”

“Why,  Sarah,  he ain’t  tormentin’ you; 
yourself.  He  ain’t 

you’re  tormentin’ 
never tried to git the child.”

“No,  but  he  said  he would have him 

an’  what Jim says he means.”

“Well,  he’d know  better’n to try  to git 
him  by  foul  means,  for  he  knows he’d 
git a taste o’  the law if he did. 
If 1 was 
you,  I’d  be more afraid o’ the courts than 
I  would  o’  kidnappin’.  Jim’s  a  smart 
man,  an’  he  might  git  the  law  twisted 
some day so’s to give him a claim.”

A new  fear  tore  poor  Sarah’s  heart, 
but  she  found  some  consolation  in  re­
minding herself that  Judge King  at  the 
county seat was her uncle.

She rose from the step,  putting  on  her I 
bonnet  and  tying  the  strings  slowly 
with  trembling  hands.  “Mebbe  I  am 
foolish,”  she  said,  her  lips  quivering 
again,  “but  he’s all  I  got,  an’ I used  to 
be so happy.”  Her voice  broke and she 
had  to  wait  for  composure  before  she 
could say,  “If you see the  children coin­
in’,  tell ’em to  hurry,  will  you?  I can’t 
help feel in’  anxious  even  now ’t I know 
he’s safe.”

The village people did  not thank each 
other in  words  for services of  any kind, 
though  their  gratitude  spoke  in  other 
ways;  and Sarah’s,  as she left the house, 
expressed  itself 
in  the  offer  to  bring 
down some of  the currant  jelly  she had 
just been making.

Mrs.  Clay’s  eyes  followed her  as she 
went up  the  road  slowly.  “1  mus’  be 
made  diff’rent,”  she said to herself.  “If 
her case was  mine,  I’d  be so  m ad’t Jim 
Wingford  dassn’t 
come  ’ithin  three 
counties o’ me.  She  jes’ lets  herself  be 
scared to death, ’stid o’ scarin’  him.”

Lodilla’s permission to go berrying did 
not  seem  to  be  worth  much  when  it 
came,  but as she walked down  the  village 
street  and  turned  off  into  the  road  by 
which the berrying party must have gone 
to  reach  Simpson’s  Patch,  her  spirits 
rose gradually,  and  when  she had  made 
up her mind to get even with  her mother 
in  cold  blood,  provided 
she  could 
keep  her  anger  warm  until  fit occasion 
offered for venting it,  she cast off her sul­
lenness  and  began  to  sing.  She  had a 
clear,  high voice, and had not yet reached 
the stage of  self-consciousness  at which 
she  would be  ashamed to  sing on a pub­
lic  road;  and  as  she  went  along  the 
farmers in  the  fields  looked  up  at  the 
sound and said to one  another that  “that 
little gal o’  the Widder Clay’s had a  real 
good  voice—prob’ly  sing  in  the  choir 
some day.”

A strange  man  in  a high  buggy,  who 
had turned into  the  road  some  minutes 
after her,  looked up at the sound,  said  to 
himself:  “There’s  a  chance;  perhaps 
she’d  know  something,  and  urged  his 
horse on  to  overtake  her.  He  drove  a 
trifle past  her,  then  slackened  his  pace 
as if by an afterthought and  said:  “Want 
to ride up the hill,  little  girl?”  Lodilla 
looked  up  at  him  suspiciously.  “No, 
sir,” she  said,  walking  ou  slowly.  The 
stranger  kept  pace  with  her.  “You’re 
Lawyer  Case’s  daughter,  ain’t  you?  I 
was sure of it when  I looked at  you;  you 
look  so  much  like  your  older  sisters.” 
Lodilla was flattered.  Lawyer  Case lived 
in  the  best house in  the village, and  his 
young lady daughters were  her  especial 
admiration. 
“No,  I  ain’t  any  kin  to 
them.  My name’s  Clay.”  “Oh,  yes,  in­
deed!  Mrs.  Clay’s  daughter.  She owns 
that  pretty  cottage  next  to  old  man 
Banks.  His  daughter  lives  with  him, 
don’t  she?  She’s  a  widow  with  one 
child.”  “She  ain’t  a widow.  She’s di­
vorced,”  said  Lodilla.  “Oh,  is that  so? 
Pity!  1  remember her  as a very  pretty 
girl.  Only one child,  eh?  I suppose she 
thinks  so  much  of  him  she  keeps him 
tied to her apron  string.” 
It did  not oc­
cur to Lodilla  as  strange  that  the  man 
should know  that  the  child  was a boy, 
though 
the  stranger  himself  bit  his 
tongue for vexation at his  mistake.  She 
was  not  usually 
communicative  with 
strangers,  or,  indeed ^ with  any one,  but 
a remnant  of  spite  over  the afternoon’s 
humiliations remained with her,  and  she 
gave a contemptuous  account of  Sarah’s 
fright over the little boy’s supposed loss. 
The stranger seemed  much  interested— 
he  put  several  questions,  rather  irrel­
evant,  it seemed  to  Lodilla,  as to the lo­
cation of  Simpson’s  Patch,  the  number 
and size of the children in  the party,  and 
the  appearance  of little Mart Wingford. 
He seemed  to miss  entirely the point  of 
the joke as Lodilla saw it.

Presently he  appeared  to  lose interest 
in  the  subject,  looked at his  watch  and 
said  he  was going to be late for his  train 
at  the  county  seat,  and  lifting  his  hat 
politely drove on at a good  pace,  leaving 
Lodilla looking after him  and  wondering 
if  she had  not  been more  gracious than 
was quite proper.  At the top of  the hill 
be seemed to turn  to one side  toward the 
woods and stop or almost stop,  and  when 
be came out into the road again it looked 
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it was  a long  way off,  and  she could  not 
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anyhow?  There was  an  answer  to  this 
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Simpson’s Patch and found the Crawford 
children,  four of  them,  scattered far and 
wide,  the girls searching and crying,  and 
the  boys  searching  and  accusing  each 
other,  all  nearly distracted  over  the loss 
of little Mart.

“He  was  so  tired  when  we  got  him 
here,”  said the elder girl,  “ ’t I set down 
’n let  him  go to  sleep  in  my lap,  but  I 
couldn’t set there all the  aft’noon when I 
had  berries  to  pick, ’n so  1  spread  my 
apron  under  his  head ’n  left  him  there 
asleep, ’n I stayed right near him,  didn’t 
I,  Jenny?”

“Yes,” said  Jenny,  with a will to help 
but a blundering tongue:  “you only went 
away  once,  to  the  other  side  o’  the 
patch.”

“Well,  I  thought  Harvey  was  right 

there.”

“That’s right.  Blame  it all onto me!” 
exclaimed  Harvey,  much  offended.  “ 1 
didn’t want  him to  come;  I knowed he’d 
git tired  out,  but the girls would  have it, 
an’  they  didn’t  ask  his  mother,  either, 
’cause  they  couldn’t  find  anybody  any­
where ’round the house but Mart.”

Lodilla’s  mind,  naturally  suspicious, 

began  to put things together.

“Did  you  leave  him  where  anybody 

could see him from  the road?”

“Why  yes;  why  not?” asked Jenny.
“Did you see anybody  goin’  by?”
“There was a oxcart,” said the younger 

boy  slowly.

“Yes,  an’  abuggy,” said  Harvey.  “But 
the’  couldn’t  anybody  git  him  ’thout 
climbin’  the  fence,  an’  we’d  ’a’  heard 
that.”

“The’s  a  teeny,  little  place where  he 
could  ’a’  got  through  by  himself,” said 
the  elder  girl,  beginning  to  sob  again. 
“He’s sech a little  feller  an’ as quick’s a 
squirrel!”

“Shut up!”  said  Lobilla,  snapping  her 
lips together as if for an example.  “Le’s 
go see.”

The four  Crawfords led  the way,  look­
ing  down  on the  ground  and  indulging 
in  mutual  recrimination  as  they  went; 
but Lodilla did  not  hear—she was  look­
ing right and left for signs of a struggle. 
The  gap  in the  fence was a “teeny” one, 
but  the  mark of  the  small  shoes in the 
damp clay beneath showed that the four- 
year-old boy had squeezed  through there 
and  got out  into the  road.  They traced 
his  footprints  in  the  dust,  and  at  one 
place,  under some pokeberry stalks,  they 
decided he had sat  down  upon a stone to 
rest,  for  they found  at  the  base  of  the 
stone two little  holes dug by his  heels in 
the  grass.  The  footprints  went  only  a 
few steps  further,  and  these,  alas!  led 
out  into  the  middle of  the  road,  where 
they  stopped. 
Some  person  or  some 
vehicle had taken him up, that was plain.
“Didn’t he cry?” asked  Lodilla,  sharp­
“Didn’t  none  o’  you  hear  him 
ly. 
screech?”  No one  had. 
If  he had  been 
carried  off  by  a  stranger,  Lodilla  rea­
soned,  that  would  have  happened—the 
second  man whom  she had  thought  she 
saw in  the  buggy  must  have  been  Jim 
Wingford,  and  the  child  recognizing his 
father,  had probably gone with  him will­
ingly.  She  turned  upon  the  Crawford 
children  savagety. 
“You’d  better  be 
gittin’  home  an’ hide  in  the  cellar,”  she 
said;  “you’ll all be hung if you’re caught. 
You’ve let  Jim Wingford  kerry off  little 
Mart,  and  his  mother’ll have the  law on 
you.”

The  girls  and  the  younger  boy  burst 
into  wild  lamentations,  beseeching  her 
not to tell on them, but Harvey, who was

old  enough to know that  Lodilla did  not 
know  everything,  hushed  them  fiercely, 
using words that,  being  duly reported  to 
his  mother,  had  to  be  washed  off  his 
tongue  with  soft  soap  and  water  that 
evening at bedtime.

Lodilla  now  ran  down  the  road  and 
into  the  village as if  the air  offered  no 
resistance.  To  people who  would  have 
stopped  her,  seeing  her  excitement,  she 
only gasped  out,  “Somepin’  awful!  Jim 
Wingford’s  kerried off  little  Mart!”  and 
ran on.

The  word  went  from  mouth to mouth. 
People gathered at their  front gates,  and 
by universal  accretion  the  story  of  the 
kidnapping was soon  perfected, and only 
two or three  bright  souls  thought to fol­
low  Lodilla  home  and  get  the  correct 
version.  There was  the usual mounting 
in hot haste and chase after the fugitives, 
but  it  drew  toward  sundown  and there 
was no news.

*  *  *

There was no one in the Banks cottage 
but  Martin Banks and his  daughter,  and 
Mrs. Clay  in the  kitchen  getting  a per­
functory supper.  People  had come,  but 
old  Martin was  never a genial  host,  and 
he had coldly sent them  all away,  declin­
ing  their  offers  of  companionship  and 
cheer.  “What ye kin do towadd findin the 
child we’ll thank ye for,  but  the’s  noth­
in’ any one kin do here,”  he said grimly, 
and  their  sympathy,  adulterated  with 
curiosity,  turned  sour.  “Let  him  find 
his own  grandchild,” they  said  as  they 
turned homeward.

The clock had  struck  seven,  and  Mrs. 
Clay had just  signified  that supper  was 
ready for whoever felt like eating.

Old  Martin  stumbled  out 

into  the 
kitchen,  saying,  “Come,  Sarah,  better 
eat somepin’ an’ keep  up your strength,” 
but as she  lay tearless and  exhausted on 
the lounge and made  no  motion,  except 
to shake her head, he went out and closed 
the door.

The straight rays of the sun  lay across 
the  lane  between  the  willows  and  the 
locust trees.  The tree  toads  had  begun 
their  croaking  and  the  far-off sound  of 
water  falling  over  a  dam  lent the  last 
drop  of 
lonesomeness  and  desolation 
needed  to fill  the wretched cup of  which 
poor Sarah  Banks  was  being  forced  to 
drink.  She shut her eyes,  but she  could 
not shut out  the sight  of  little Mart,  as 
she  had  seen  him  last  feeding himself 
bread  and milk and scattering what  was 
left for the  “chickies.”  She  should nev­
er see him again,  for,  though Jim would 
be good to Mart,  he  would never  let the 
boy come near her against  whom he  was 
so bitter.  Perhaps if  she bad been more 
willing to let  him have his  privileges as 
a father  she  might  have expected  more 
now  for  herself. 
If  she  only  knew 
where they were she would  write,  would 
beg,  plead,  promise anything—there was 
no  anger,  no  desire for revenge  in  her 
terrified, bereaved heart.  But Jim would 
not believe that, he would be as afraid of 
her now as she had been of  him.

“Sarah!”  She  heard  her name called 
softly.  Was it a real sound?  She  lifted 
her head  and listened.  “Sarah!”  There 
it was again,  and it seemed to come from 
beneath  the  window  outside.  She  sat 
up,  saying breathlessly,  “Well?”

A  face  appeared  at  the  window—a 
wretched,  despairing,  stricken  face—a 
face that pitied and that asked for pity— 
was  it  Jim’s  face? 
“Come  out  here, 
Sarah,”  he  whispered,  and she  obeyed. 
Was that Jim sitting  on  the  porch  with

his chin  in his  hands and that wild  look 
in  his eyes,  as  if  he  had  been  murder­
ing  someone?  And  where  was  Mart? 
This last she managed to  gasp out as she 
stood  above  him.  She  tried  to  ask  it 
sternly,  but  she  could not,  for  the  man 
was suffering.

“Sarah,”  he said,  and his mouth  as he 
spoke twisted like—the  mouth of one  in 
torture,  “Little  Mart  ain’t yours  an’  he 
ain’t mine—we quar’led  over him an’ we 
ain’t good  enough  to  have him—I  ain’t 
anyhow—an’  God’s  got him.  “But,”  as 
a horrified look  came  into  her eyes,  “it 
wan’t my doin’s.  I loved  him  an’ I’d  a 
kep’  him out o’  harm’s way at the risk o’ 
my own life. 
I  meant to take him an’  I 
did take him  but—oh, Sarah,  the  Lord’s 
mark was on him then an’  he died in  my 
arms!  We couldn’t git to a doctor  quick 
enough.  Come  an’  see.”  He 
led  her 
down to the end of the lane where a bug­
gy had driven in  from the  highroad.  Be­
side the  stranger who sat there and  who 
got down  and  went to his horse’s head  as 
they drew near, turning his back to them, 
was something  lying  on  the  seat under 
the  dust-robe.  Sarah 
flew  toward  it, 
waving  behind  her  the  man  who  had 
been her  husband  and  who  was Mart’s 
father,  and  who  now  fell  humbly  and 
miserably  back, 
acknoweledging  her 
greater  right.

Little Mart  lay  on the  cushions,  with 
dust on his shoes and berry  stains on his 
little  frock.  There  were  stains  of  a 
deeper  color  around  his  mouth  and  he 
held  in  his  stiffening  hand  a  spire  of 
poison berries,  the  berries  nearly  gone.
That Jim Wingford still  loved his wife 
was  plain  from  the  way 
in  which  he 
watched  her  face  when  her  long  gaze 
was satisfied and  she turned away.  “You 
don’t  blame  me,  Sarah?”  he  almost 
sobbed,  reaching out for  her hand as she 
went  past  him. 
“No,  you  ain’t  to 
blame,” she said,  wearily.  “I do’  know 
who’s to  blame.  All  I know  is I shan’t 
be uneasy  about  him  any more,  an’  Pm 
mos’ wore  out  frettin’.”  A  sleepy  look 
was settling upon her face,  and she slept 
through the next  four  days,  even miss­
ing the funeral,  for the doctor would not 
have her  wakened.  The  neighborhood, 
already  scandalized  at this,  should  have 
been prepared for  what  happened  some 
months later  when  Jim  Wingford came 
and took Sarah  Banks  away as  his wife 
a second time.

“He was dreadful  keerful of her,” the 
people said  who  saw  them  drive  away 
from the parsonage to the station.  “An’ 
she  seemed  to  take  it  ’thout  noticin’. 
She won’t ever  be the same  agin.”

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of both upper and lower washboards, giving the 
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STATE  AGENTS 

G RA ND  R A PID S,  M ICH .

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T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E SM A N

AMONO  THE  TRADE.

ABOUND  THE  STATE.

Durand—Perry  & Winans  succeed  El­

mer Barlow in the meat business.

lronwood—Geo.  Brewer  succeeds S.  J. 

Roberts in the furniture business.

Harbor Springs—G.  C. Adams succeeds 

Barber Bros,  in the grocery business.

Cheboygan—E. O. Penny succeeds Pen­

ny & Frost in the dry goods business.

West  Bay City—John  Taylor & Co. are 
succeeded by the West  Bav City Shoe Co.
Mt.  Clemens—F.  P. Ilale succeeds Win. 
Schwegler in the confectionery  business.
Centra!  Lake—Zeran  &  Atwood  will 
shortly open  a boot and shoe and grocery 
store.

Potterville—Clarence Laverty succeeds 
C.  C.  Fast  in  the  agricultural  implement 
business.

Alpena—Samuel  Greenbaum  succeeds 
H.  Greenbaum  &  Son  in  the  clothing 
business.

Butternut—J.  S.  Dennis succeeds Den­
nis  &  Boyer  in  the  grain  and  produce 
business.

Lake  Linden—John  Haffer  succeeds 
Mary  (Mrs.  Nick)  Kirchen in  the grocery 
business.

West  Bay  City—A.  E. 

(Mrs.  J.  W.) 
Morris  is succeeded  by Keiley  &  Co.  in 
the grocery business.

Saginaw—John  Otto.  Jr.,  &  Co.  are 
succeeded by L.  H.  Genn  in  the  men’s 
furnishing goods business.

Blissfield—Benfer  &  Houghtby  Bros, 
succeed A. C.  Bartholomew in  the  furni­
ture and  undertaking business.

Petoskey—C.  C.  Ham mil  has  removed 
to the new Coburn  block  and  will carry 
a full  line of groceries  and  meat.

East Jordan—Coulter  &  Jamison  have: 
sold their  grocery  stock  to  H.  W.  King, j 
who has removed  it to his own  store.

Hubbardston—F.  A.  Holbrook  has as­
signed  his drug stock to O.  C. Townsend, 
who will close out the  stock  at  auction.  |
Houghton—Ransom B. Sheldon has sold j 
his  drug  stock,  conducted  under  the  I 
style of Sheldon  Bros.  & Co.,  to  Ruhl  & > 
Barry.

Mt.  Clemens—Moore & Etchell, dealers 
in  women’s furnishing  goods,  have  dis-1 
solved.  Squire  J.  Moore  continuing  the j 
business.

Owosso—D.  L.  Murpby has purchased j 
the paint and wall  paper stock of  James 
M.  Tobin & Co.,  and  will  continue  the 
business.

Pewamo—John  Simons  has  sold  his : 
dry goods stock to A.  Fox and exchanged j 
his grocery stock  with  Webber  &  Ruel | 
for a farm.

Detroit—Porteous,  Hunter &  Co.  have 
dissolved,  and  are  succeeded by Hunter, 
Glenn  &  Hunter  in  the  dry  goods  and j 
millinery business.

Mancelona—J.  D.  Lewis  succeeds  L. 
W.  Stewart in the dry  goods and  bazaar 
business—not dry goods and  clothing,  as 
was stated  last week.

Lewiston—The  Michelson  &  Hanson 
Lumber Co. has agreed  to present a court­
house and jail  to the county  if the county 
seat is moved  to Lewiston.

Petoskey—H.  A.  Easton,  who has been 
associated with the  Brackett  Hardware j 
Co.  for several years,  has  opened  a hard-! 
ware store on  his  own  account 
in  the 
new Coburn  block.

Petoskey—Hamer  Bros,  have  pur­
chased the  Freeman  boot and  shoe stock 
and  will continue  the  business  in  con­
nection  with their hat and cap  and  furn­
ishing goods business.

East Jordan—John  Boosinger  recently 
1 purchased  the  interest of  D.  C.  Hurd  in 
| the  firm  of  F.  E.  Boosinger  &  Co.,  gen- 
j eral  dealers,  since which  time  the  firm 
has been known  as Boosinger Bros.

East Jordan—Dr.  F.  C.  Warne will  re- 
! move  his drug  stock  about  March  1  to 
I the  new  building of  J.  C.  Glenn.  The 
store now  occupied  by  him  will then  be 
j opened  by the Giaut Clothing House.

Grand  Ledge—Moulder  &  Lockwood 
I have sold their grocery  stock  to  Streeter 
j & Shadduck,  nut  will  continue 
in  the 
j boot  and  shoe  business.  Mr.  Streeter 
j was  formerly  engaged 
trade  at 
j Wacousta and Delta.

in 

Plainwell—The firm of Case  &  Balch, 
shoe merchants,  has been  dissolved,  W.
I D.  Case having sold  his interest  to  John 
P.  Forbes,  of Pensacola,  Fla.,  who  will 
come here  to 
live.  The  business  will 
hereafter be  conducted  under  the  firm 
| name of Balch  &  Forbes.

Muskegon—V.  1L  Yost,  who  for  the 
! past two years has  been  connected with 
1 the grocery  house  of  A.  Towl,  E.  West­
ern  avenue,  has  gone  to  Charlevoix,
I where he enters the retail  meat  business 
in  his  own  behalf.  His  position  with 
j Mr.  Towl  is  taken by  Henry  Walde.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Lake  Linden—Mrs.  E.  P.  Berry  suc­
in  the  cigar 

ceeds Berry &  Hollopeter 
manufacturing business.

Ludingtou—Butters & Peters  are buy­
ing hardwood  logs at the rate  of  100,000 
to 150,000  feet  a  week.  They  mostly 
come from farmers’  cuttings.

Bay City—The  Folsom &  Arnold saw­
mill  will  not  go  out  of  commission,  as 
has been reported,  but  will  be  operated 
as usual to saw the  company’s logs  com­
ing from Canada.

Detroit—The  Cabinet  Cigar  Co.,  not 
incorporated,  has  dissolved.  D.  E. 
Sweeney  continues  the  wholesale  and 
retail  business  and  W.  D.  Healey  con­
tinues the manufacturing business, under 
the same style.

Duncan City—Thompson  Smith’s Sons 
have closed a deal  for 70,000,000  feet  of 
Canadian pine on  the  Massasauga  river 
about 25 miles north of  Thesalon.  This 
firm owns 200,000,000 feet of  pine in  the 
Georgian Bay district.

I.udington—The  Danaher  &  Melendy 
Co.  is putting  85,000  feet  of  logs  daily 
into  Tallman 
lake,  that  district,  from 
whence  they  will  be taken  next season 
and loaded  on  Flint  &  Pere  Marquette 
railway cars  for  transportation to  Lud- 
ington to be sawed.

Muskegon—The  hardwood  tracts 

in 
Muskegon  territory are coming  into  use 
and the cut year  by  year  will  increase. 
Last  season  Monroe  &  Brinen  floated 
down  the Muskegon  river  1,000,000  feet 
of ash,  which  brought  a  good  return. 
They also had one lot of 2,000,000  feet of 
pine,  which  brought  more  by  the  mill 
run,  it is  said, 
than  any  other  choice 
stock manufactured  here.

Bay  City—Capt.  James  Davidson  has 
sold  five schooners  during  the last three 
months  at  $35,000  each.  He  has  two 
more on  hand  and is getting  out a  large 
quantity of ship timber in northern Mich­
igan.  Captain  Davidson  is  building  a 
steamer  for  the Lake  Superior  lumber 
trade,  240 feet long,  37 feet  beam and  13 
feet  depth  of hold,  to  cost  $70,000.  It 
has a capacity  to carry 1,000,000  feet  of 
lumber.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

PATRONS  OF  INDUSTRY.

[ Rise and Fall of the Order—Its  Founder 

Now a  Grocer.
From the Sanilac County Republican.
A few  days  ago a  gentleman  in Sani­
lac Centre entertained  at  his  home over 
night  one  of  the  most  notable  and ex­
ceptional  characters 
in  the  history  of 
Sanilac county.  Five  years  ago  he was 
known  and  talked  about  throughout 
Michigan  and  many  other  states of  the 
Union.  Now he Is  practically forgotten 
and his  name is  rarely  mentioned.  We 
refer to  F.  W.  Vertican, of  Port  Huron, 
the founder of the P.  of  I.  Formerly  he 
was a preacher  in  the  U.  P.  church,  but 
at the  time  he  became  known  to  fame 
was successfully cultivating a small farm 
in  Moore township.  There,  through dis- j 
content  and  brooding  over  his lot,  was 
evolved  what  subsequently  created  the j 
greatest furore  ever known  in  the State. 
With his  plans  he  went  to  Port Huron 
and  by the assistance of  some old organ­
izers  perfected  them,  came  back  to 
Mooretown  and  organized  the  first  sub­
ordinate lodge of the P.  of I.  in  the Unit­
ed  States.  The  scheme  was  popular, 
spread rapidly, and within two years near­
ly  every county  in  Michigan  was  thor­
oughly  organized,  besides large  numbers 
in  Ohio,  New  York,  Indiana  and other 
Western  States. 
In  this State alone 80,- 
000 members  were  claimed  and  in Sani­
lac county,  between  3,000 and 5,000  were 
actually enrolled.  The Grand officers re­
ceived  princely  salaries  and  Vertican 
himself  married  a  prominent 
society 
lady  and  lived  in  regal  state at  Port Hu­
ron.  Conscious of the power of  the new 
society,  a few designing ones saw a  mag­
nificent opportunity  for the  use of its in­
fluence  in  politics.  Vertican  was  de­
posed  and  the  P.  of  I.  went  into  the 
campaign of 1890 with some of the State’s 
most experienced  ringsters  at  its head. 
From  that  moment  the  order  began  to 
crumble and to-day  the  State’s  member­
ship is but a handful. 
In  Sanilac coun­
ty,  where it  was  nurtured  and  cradled, 
it is  practically extinct.  The  first lodge 
instituted  by  Vertican  in  the  little  log 
school  house at  Urban is  about  the only 
one now  in  active  operation  with  dues 
paid.  The annual  meetings of two years 
ago  were  the  greatest  days  in  Sanilac 
Centre.  The  county  convention  called 
for  last  Wednesday  was  attended  by 
three of the county officers and not a sin­
gle  delegate.  Vertican  now  keeps  a 
small grocery  in  an  obscure  quarter  of 
Port  Huron.  Recently  he  applied  to 
Grand  President  Partridge  for  a  com­
mission to revive his  dying offspring and 
offered  to  do  it  at  a  salary of  $40 per 
month and expenses.  He was offered his 
expenses only and may not  accept.  Mr. 
Vertican is certainly a  man of  consider­
able  genius  and  native  energy.  Under 
conditions  not  of  his  own  creation,  a 
luminous product of  his  brain has  suuk 
into dark  and  deserved  oblivion,  but  he 
may be heard from again.
Timely  Caution  to  the  Diamond  Match 
From the Insurance  World.

Company.

If the worthy gentlemen who control  a 
monopoly of the trade in  matches in  the 
United States  will  give  ear  to  reason, 
they  will  improve  the  quality  of  their 
product, even if in so doing  they have to 
sacrifice a tithe of  their  present  profits. 
Some of  the  matches  now  sold  are  a 
nuisance because  of  their  unreliability, 
while others are  a  constant  source  of 
danger to property,  if not to life,  even in 
the hands of careful  people.  A  portion 
of these latter drop a  portion  of  the in­
flammable  composition  invariably,  and 
if it  happens  to 
light  on  combustible 
material a fire is  pretty  sure to  result. 
Much clothing has been  ruined 
in  this 
way,  and no end of  profanity  provoked. 
Another class  of  dangerous,  matches  is 
the kind so highly charged with explosive 
that when struck a part of it flies through 
the air to a considerable distance,  and is 
likely to do harm to whatever it happens 
to reach  in its  flight.  At 
least  one  in­
stance is known  where the  sight of  eyes 
was lost through  material  from  one  of 
these percussion matches,  to say nothing 
of less serious hurts and annoyances  fol­
lowing their  use.  The  match  plays  an 
important  part  in 
increasing  the  fire 
losses of the country,  and  will no  doubt

continue to do so until human  ingenuity 
evolves  a  substitute  for 
it.  But  the 
match makers could  decrease  its  harm­
fulness in this  as 
in  other  respects  if 
they desired to do so.

Purely  Personal.

Stephen S.  Scliantz, the Woodland gen- 
j eral  dealer,  was  in  town  one  day  last 
j week  for the purpose  of  being sworn  in 
| as a deputy revenue  collector.  His  sole 
! duty as a servant  of  Uncle  Sam  will  be 
to  weigh  the  maple  sugar  presented  to 
| him  for the sake of  the bounty.

S.  B.  Calkins,  the  Central  Lake  drug- 
I gist,  was in  town several days  last week, 
j Mr.  Calkins  has  recently patented  a dis- 
i play rack  for legal  blanks,  which he  will 
shortly place on  the market.  The device 
is so  simple  and  so  manifestly  essential 
to the  sale of  this line  of  goods  that  it 
will  undoubtedly  meet with  a large  sale.
Hull  Freeman,  the  Mancelona  grocer, 
was  in  town  last  week  and  purchased 
Manley Jones’  half interest in  Hub Bak­
er’s raffled-off-mare.  No  one  would sus­
pect  Hub  of  practicing  such  deception, 
but  he  attempted  to  palm  off  on  his 
friend  Freeman  a horse slightly  affected 
with the heaves,  glanders, spavin,  spring 
halt  and  pink-eye. 
Freeman  was  too 
sharp  for  him,  however,  taking from  the 
stable a horse  worth  easily  twice  what 
he paid for him.

The  Grocery  Market.

Coffee—The  raw  market 

Sugar—The American Sugar Refineries 
Co.  reduced  the price  of  all  grades,  ex­
cept the five  lower  grades, 
last  week. 
The change was not made  to  meet  com­
petition,  but  to  encourage  buying  and 
cause a movement in the surplus  stocks.
is  utterly 
featureless.  The  action of Arbuckle  in 
relieving the jobber  from  the  contract 
price has  been  followed  by  the  other 
manufacturers of package  goods,  so that 
the price is now open all along  the  line. 
The list remains the same as  before;  but 
there  will  probably  be  no  attempt  to 
absolutely maintain  it.  Local  authorities 
are of  the opinion that the  limit  will  be 
put on again after a  vigorous  campaign 
of cutting.

Spices—All  grades  of  gingers  are 
higher,  on  account  of  scarcity.  Other 
varieties are unchanged,  except  pepper, 
which is firmer.

Slaughter in Pickles.

To close out my stock of mixed pickles,

I quote them at bargain prices:

Sour mixed pickles per half  barrel $4. 
Sweet mixed pickles per half barrel $5, 
Special prices for job  lots.
Five per  cent,  discount  for cash  with 

order.

These  goods  are  guaranteed  not  to 
scum or ferment  and to give perfect sat­
isfaction. 

Cjias.  W.  Sjiedd,

Pickle  Manufacturer,  860  Madison 

avenue,  Grand  Rapids.

Energetic  solicitor wanted to fill  agen­
cy  position,  representing  the  Mutual 
Benefit  Life  Insurance  Co., of  Newark, 
N.  J.  Good  territory.  Commission  and 
renewal contract.  Excellent opening for 
business man or traveler.  Address,  con­
fidentially,  H.  R,  Whitman,  Supt.  Michi­
gan  Agencies,  Grand Rapids.

$500,000  TO  IN V E ST   IN   BONDS
1"au*d  *7  c ities, co u n tie s, to w n s  a n d   school  d istrict! 
o r  M ichigan.  Officers  o f  th e s e   m u n ic ip a litie s  about 
i °  i!?n<Lb0? d s i ? 11 flnd  u t o   th e ir  a d v a n ta g e  to  a p p lj 
to  th is b an k .  B lank bonds a n d  b la n k s f o r proceeding! 
su p p lie d   w ith o u t  c h a rg e .  All  co m m u n ica tio n s  anc 
en q u irie s w ill h a v e  p ro m p t a tte n tio n .  T his b a n k  pavi 
3 p e r o en t. on d ep o sits, com pounded  sem i-a n n u ally .
8.  D.  EL WOOD, Treasurer.

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

F.  C.  Woodin  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Petoskey.  The  Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman Co. furnished the  stock.

C.  C.  Comstock,  who  has  conducted  a 
grocery store at 333 Canal street  for  the 
past tweuty  years, 
is  closing  out  the 
stock and  will  retire from  the  business.
the 
Wyman  property,  at  Wyman,  and  will 
shortly  embark  in  general  trade.  The 
Olney & Judson  Grocer Co.  has the order 
for the grocery stock.

John  Dallavo  has  purchased 

John  W.  Cazier has opened a dry goods 
and  grocery  store  at  Conklin.  Voigt, 
Herpolsheimer  &  Co.  furnished  the dry 
goods and the  Ball-Barnbart-Putman Co. 
supplied the groceries.

C.  Ainsworth has  closed out  his  seed 
business and given  up  the  store at  the 
corner  of  South  Division  and  Oakes 
streets.  He  will re-engage  in  the  wool 
business as soon as the season  opens.

Gripsack Brigade.

A. 

S.  Doak  and  Valda  Johnston  have 

so far recovered from their recent attacks 
of illness  as  to be  able  to  resume  their 
regular routes again.

“1 never tell any  stories,”  remarked a 
genial  traveler.  “I  find  that  business 
men  will deal  with  a  drummer a  great 
sight quicker if he has no  yarns  to spin. 
You see he is at once impressed  with the 
great  novelty of  such  a  salesman,  and 
while he is trying to  discover  how  such 
a thing as a silent traveling man  can  ex­
ist and sell  goods,  he  buys  a  big  bill. 
That has been  my  watchword of  success 
—never tell a story.”

The boys have a good  one  on  Charley 
Robinson now.  He made no end  of  fun 
of Herbert Baker because  Hub  stood on 
the depot platform at Reed  City  several 
months ago and let  a  train  he  proposed 
taking slip away  without  him,  owing  to 
the  animation  of  the  conversation  he 
was conducting.  Robinson  repeated  the 
experiment up at Newberry one  day  last 
week,  being compelled to  get  up  at  2 
o’clock in the  morning 
in  order to  get 
into the Soo in  time to  keep his  engage­
ments with his customers.

“The  life  of  a commercial  traveler,” 
says  a  Knight of the  Grip,  “is  not one 
long poetic dream,  let me  tell you.  The 
pilgrim’s path does not  lie ever  through 
a Vale of  Tempe.  He  must  be  able  to 
eat  anything  and  sleep  anywhere.  He 
must have sufficient muscle to  play  dray 
horse for  his own  baggage in  towns  that 
have not  reached  the  dignity of  ’busses 
and express  wagons,  and  cheek  enough 
to get to the front,  no  matter  who  trots 
in the procession.  One day  he takes his 
dinner at  Delmonico’s,  and  the  next  he 
stands  up 
in  a  comfortless  shed  and 
stores his internal economy with  leather 
pies and slumgullion,  whose  alias is cof­
fee.  He  reposes  one  night  on a spring 
mattress with pillows of eider down,  and 
the next he bunks  with  a rank  stranger, 
who snores  like a diphtheretic  fog-horn 
and insists on  taking his half of the corn­
cob mattress out of the middle.  One day 
his meals are brought to  him  by a pretty 
lass,  whose cheek looks like a ripe  peach 
and  whose  voice  sounds  like  a  bulbul 
warbling in the gardens of Cashmere;  the 
next a big cornfield  negro  pokes his head 
into  the  dining  room  and 
inquires  in 
‘Uamerliver, salt pok- 
stentorian tones: 
erbiled  aigs?’ 
It’s  a grand  transforma­
tion  scene,  and  the  man  who  cannot

adapt himself to all the  lightning chang­
es might  just  as  well  get  off  the  road, 
for he  will find it a hard one to travel.” 

Stove and Hardware  Reporter:  When 
a boy  I always  had a great  desire to  be­
come a traveling salesman.  They  seemed 
to me to have the  finest  kind  of  times, 
riding on  the cars,  seeing so  much of the 
country,  and  living  off  the  fat  of  the 
land. 
I thought if I could  only  get  on | 
the road and make  the  money they  were 
making  I  should  be  supremely  happy. 
But my  ideas of  happiness  have  had  a 
severe shock  within the  past  ten  years.
I  have  attained  the  place  1  coveted  when 
a boy,  but,  alas  for  my  childish  hopes!
1 found  it was not such a line thing after 
all. 
It is true there are men  who  really 
appear to like  the  constant  change  of 
scene,  but when one gets  right  down  to 
the question I  believe  the  majority  of 
them would say they  were  tired  of  the 
life.  There are desirable things about it, 
but the most desirable one is  the  money 
to be made out of it.  Salesmen, as a rule, 
are paid  well  for  their  success—in  fact, 
a house has no use  for  a  salesman  who 
does not command a good  salary. 
If  he 
can’t do good enough  work  to  commaud 
a large salary on  the road  he  had  better 
go into another businsss. 
It is  this  one 
matter of salary that keeps many men on 
the road.  They say they  can’t  make  as 
much money  in  anything else,  and  their 
hope is to  be able to  retire  and  go  into 
business for themselves later  in  life,  or 
to get a position  with  the  house  in  the 
home office.  Traveling  men,  as a  rule, 
are a healthy set  and  are  usually  con- 
sided good risks  by  the 
life  insurance 
men.  Those who stay  on  the  road  get 
used  to  the  changes  and  take  care  of 
themselves.  Still  it is not the  pleasant­
est thing in the world  to start out  one of 
these cold  days and strike a  town  where 
one has to ride a mile to  the  hotel,  and 
have to sleep in  a damp, cold bed.  Some 
service in  the country is fine, while there 
is much which is  wretched.  One has  to 
put up with much  discomfort,  and  the 
conscientious salesman earns  every  cent 
of his salary,  however much  it  may  be. 
To be successful  on  the road a man must 
be  especially 
fitted  for  his  business. 
There is nothing  easy about  the  work. 
It takes keener business men  to  succeed 
as traveling salesmen  than as merchants. 
But it may also be said  that some travel­
ing men would not be  successful  at  the 
head of business concerns no matter how 
efficient they may be as salesmen.  Much 
can  be  accomplished 
in  training,  but 
without natural aptness a  man  had  bet­
ter not travel.
Wholesale  Grocers  Unite  on  the  Trust 
Four of  the largest  wholesale  grocery 
houses of St.  Louis are about to perfect a 
consolidation  of  interests  on  the  trust 
plan,  under  which  the  four  establish­
ments will be  operated  as  one,  and  all 
expenses and earnings will be  pooled  on 
an  agreed  basis.  Three  of  the  four  are 
already incorporated  under the  Missouri 
law—the Goddard Peck Grocery Co.,  the 
Greeley-Burnham Grocery Co.  and I.  W. 
Sc udder & Co.  The forth.  E.  G.  Scudder 
&  Co., is a partnership firm.  Two things 
are first to  be  satisfactorily  settled,  the 
value of the stocks of the respective con­
cerns,  and the basis of representation for 
each.  When this is done,  a new company 
will be organized which  will  proceed  to 
buy the stock of the  four  concerns,  and 
pay  for them  with stock of the new  com­
pany. 
It is  intimated that  possibly  the 
other leading grocery jobbing  houses 
in 
St.  Louis may  join  in  the  combination, 
but the consummation  of  the  movement 
named does not depend upon the consent 
or co-operation of the other houses.

Plan.

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

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

Jackson  Grocers’  Union.

ganization.

President,  D. S. Fleming;  Sec’y, N. II. Branch.
I Grand  Haven  Retail  Grocers’  Association. 
President, John Boer; Secretary, Peter VerDuin.
I Grand  Haven  Grocers  in  Line  on  Or­
G r a n d   H a v e n , Feb. 13—I   am  speaking for the 
grocers of  Grand Haven.  We have an organiza­
tion of our  grocers, about  seventeen in number. 
We want to let  you  know tin t  we are a part  of 
the  people, and  that  we  are in  favor of  having 
the laws  revised  on  that vital  point  We have 
all  read, with  great  pleasure, the  masterpieces 
which  have  appeared in your  paper  from  time 
to time in defense of our interests.  I cannot add 
anything  else to the  sound  logic of  those men, 
but we must have  protection, and it can  only be 
brought  about  by  the  strong  arm of  the  law.
I think that  now is the time  that we should  rise 
in all the  strength of  manhood and  prove to the 
business  men of  this  State  and  the  dead-beats 
that we can take care of  our interests  and make 
the rascals come to time.  Our  motto is “Justice 
and  our just dues.”  We  have to show  the peo 
pie  that  we are  not dead.  We ought to have  a 
convention, and we should  come well  prepared, 
tilled with  enthusiasm  and  push, and  see  that 
we get laws made which are just and which pro­
tect our honest business men from rascals.  Let 
every  organization  send  a  certain  number  of 
delegates  to the  convention—men  of  backbone 
and principle—to consider the  best  way to go  to 
work.
Would you please inform me what is necessary 
for representation there?
On what date will  the convention be held?
What subjects will  be discussed there?
Can  or  will  laws  be  passed  by  the  present 
Legislature which will  look  toward  remedying 
present evils?
We  would  like  to  hear  from  you  on  these 
points as soon  as  possible.  I  would  very much 
like to know by Thursday night, if  possible, so I 
can report at our meeting.
Why  don’t  we  see  something  in  your  paper 
about Grand Haven?  We feel  that  we ought  to 
have a more generous recognition in your paper?

Ever your friend,

P e t e r  V e r  D u in , Sec’y.

Proper  replies  were  made  to  the  above  en 
quiries, when  Mr.  VerDuin  responded  as  fol­
lows:
G r a n d   H a v e n , Feb. 17—We had an association 
of all the business men of the town, but it didn't 
work very well, so it  broke  up.  We  believe  in 
an association where all of the  men  are  of  the 
same occupation and in the same line of work.
We heartily favor the idea of a State league  of 
grocers’  associations  and  we  are  already  pre 
pared for a convention, as we know it would  be 
a good thing and that  it  would  benefit  us  all. 
We have already appointed a committee of three 
to represent us at the  convention,  consisting  of 
John  Boer,  Peter  VerDuin  and  Egbert  Holle- 
stelle.  We all  think  that a convention ought to 
be held  and the sooner  the  better, say March 1.
Our  association  is  prospering  nicely  and  we 
have  already made  hundreds of  dollars  by our 
organization.
Hoping  our  cause  will  prosper  and  that  we 
may  hear from  you at any  time  on any subject 
akin to the retail grocery trade, we are 

P e t e r  V e r  D u i n ,  See’y.
Jackson Grocers Favor a State League.
J a c k so n , Feb.  12—At  the  last  meeting of  the 
Jackson Grocers’ Union, I read your reply to my

Yours truly,

questions  in  regard  to  the  sugar  matter.  The 
answers were so explicit  and  satisfactory to the 
members  that  they  passed  a vote of  thanks  to 
you for your courtesy.
Your  letter in regard  to a grocers’  league  was 
received  and a motion was  passed  favoring  the 
organization. 
I cannot send you this as official, 
but  for fear  that our  Secretary has  not  found 
time to write  you, I thought  I would  advise you 
privately.
I  see  that  the  Grand  Rapids  grocers  have 
tackled a little end of the exemption laws.  Can 
we not get a few good heads among the business 
men and the help of some of the members of the 
Legislature  and  revise  the  laws,  so  that  they 
will  be more  reasonable  than  they are?  I find 
by talking  with  some of  our  State  law-makers 
that the  grocer and  merchant are  looked  upon 
as bloated bond  holders  and a common prey for 
all  classes of  people to rob.  I  wish  that  some 
of  them  had  to  tackle  the  business  for  a few 
weeks  this  winter,  on  the  same  terms  as  the 
average grocer.  I think they would come to the 
conclusion there was something the matter with 
their spectacles.
With  regards to  T h e   T r a d e s m a n , and thanks 
for your kindness, I am

Respectfully yours,

Chairman Committee on Trade  Interests.

W. H. Porter,

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

TWO  TENDEEFEET.

The “old  timer” in  Colorado  has a su­
preme contempt  for  tenderfeet—or new­
comers.  This  feeling is gradually dying 
out,  but  it  will  never  be wholly extinct 
until the last old  timer  has passed  “over 
the range.”  There was a time, however, 
when the old  timer looked  upon the ten­
derfoot as an interloper and usurper.
Less  than  ten  years  ago  two  bright 
young fellows from New York arrived in 
Colorado,  bearing  letters of  introduction 
to the  most  prominent  and  wealthy men 
in  Denver.  They  were  young  men  of 
ample  fortunes,  and  announced their in­
tention of engaging in mining.  They did 
not  desire  to  purchase  a  mine.  They 
wanted  the  excitement  of  prospecting. 
They  were  hale  and  hearty  and  were 
anxious for the experience of roughing it.
Among  others  to  whom  they brought 
letters of  introduction  was  Uncle  Billy 
Golden,  an old timer,  who had  struck  it 
rich  inrLeadville,  and  was  rated  finan­
cially at «3.000,000.;
Uncle Billy had all the  pioneer dislike 
for tenderfeet, but these young men  were 
such  manly,  independent  fellows  that 
they  soon  found  favor in the  old  man’s 
eyes,  so  that  one  morning  when  they 
came to him  and  announced their  inten­
tion of going to  Leadville to prospect for 
“carbonates,”  the  old  man  gave  some 
very  valuable information.  He told them 
of a locality  where he was confident they 
would  find  mineral.  He  shook  them 
warmly  by the band at parting,  and  they 
promised  to take his advice  and never to 
forget his great kindness.
“Those  boys  have  the  right  kind  of 
stuff in them,”  said  Uncle Billy.
A month later he received a letter from 
the  boys.  They  had  located a claim  in 
the exact spot suggested  by him, and  had 
named the claim the  "Uncle Billy” in  his 
honor.  They  were  very  sanguine  of 
striking  mineral,  and  as Uncle Billy  had 
given them a  “pointer” on  this promising 
location,  they  felt  that  they  ought  to 
show  their  appreciation 
in  some  sub­
stantial  way, so they  had sent him  a deed 
to  a  one-third 
interest  in  the  "Uncle 
Billy”  mine.
Two months passed  by and Uncle Billy 
received occasional  letters from his young 
tenderfoot friends.  They had not struck 
mineral,  but  they were  expecting  to  do 
so any day.
A few weeks later Uncle  Billy received 
the following telegram:
Ta William Golden, Denver, Col  :
mine?  Spot cash.  Answer quick.

What  will  you  take  for  the  “ Uncle  Billy” 

New York, July 10,1892.

J   MaDIbON W oIGJIT & Co.

This telegram set Uncle Billy to think­
ing.  He  reasoned  that  the  boys  had 
struck  it in  this mine and had acquainted 
their  New York  friends  with  the  fact. 
He had  been purposely kept in  ignorance 
so  that  they could  buy  him  out  cheap. 
It was  all  clear to Uncle  Billy.  He had 
been  through  a number  of mining trans­
actions,  but  he  had  never  yet  been 
“done  up  by  a  tenderfoot,”  as  he  ex­
pressed it.

He wired back:

..  _ 

Denver, July 10,1892.

W il l ia m   G o l d e n .

J. Madison Wright & Co., New York:
I cannot make a figure without  consulting my 
partners,  who  are  now  in  Leadville. 
If  you 
want  my one third  interest  wire  me  and I will 
came price. 

J  Madison Wright & Co.

T h at night came the answer:
Must have the entire  property.  See your part­
ners and fix lowest possible price.  English cap­
italists waiting. 
The next  night Uncle  Lilly arrived in 
Leadville,  and  early  the  next  morning 
started  for  the  mine.  He  had  little 
trouble in finding it,  for the  fame of  the 
“ Uncle  B illy”  had  quietly 
spread 
throughout the camp.

“Halt!”
This challenge  brought  Uncle  Billy to 
a  sudden  standstill. 
It  came  from  a 
miner  standing  in front  of  the “Uncle 
Billy”  shaft house.  As he gave the com­
mand he lowered a Winchester rifle to en­
force it if necessary.
A parley ensued.  Uncle Billy learned 
that the mines  had  been closed and  left 
under an  armed  guard.  No one was al­
lowed on the  premises.
“I am one of  the owners of this mine!” 
exclaimed Uncle  Billy.
“I  can’t  help  that,”  was  the  reply. 
“You can’t  come  any further. 
I’ve got 
my  orders  and  now  you’ve  got  yours. 
Keep off.”

it 

ler?”

“I  see  how 

“Where  are  young  Jackson  and  Mil­
“In Denver.”
Uncle Billy  managed  to  get a handful 
of the dirt on the dump  when the  sentry 
was not looking and  made a dignified  re 
treat.
is,”  he  said,  “these 
young tenderfeet are trying to do me  up 
I’ll show ’em a trick with a hole in it.”
He hurried  back  to Denver and found 
young Jackson, one  of  the  co-owners of 
the  “Uncle Billy”  mine.
“How  much  do  you and  Miller want 
for your interest?” asked  Uncle Billy
“We are not  anxious  to  sell,”  replied 
Jackson.  “We  think  we  have a pretty 
good  thing,  but if you  want our interest 
you can have it for $100,000 cash.”
“Come in this evening,” replied Uncle 
Billy.
He at once wired J.  Madison  Wright & 
Co.:
Will take $500,000 for “Uncle  Billy” mine.
The answer came promptly:
Terms satisfactory.  Will leave for Denver to 
-night.
This telegram  was signed  “J.  Madison 
Wright.
That  evening  William  Golden  gave 
James Jackson  a check  for  $100,000  and 
received  a  quit  claim  deed  to the prop­
erty.
Then he waited for J. Madison Wright. 
Four days  passed.  J.  Madison  was  due 
to  arrive.  A  week  elapsed  and  no  J. 
Madison came.
Then  Uncle  Billy  telegraphed  the firm 
of J.  Madison  Wright & Co.  aud  inquired 
about the delay.  He received an answer 
that they did not  know  to  what delay  he 
referred.  Explanations  followed  and 
Uncle  Billy  learned  that  no telegrams 
had been sent him  by the firm of J.  Mad­
ison  Wright  & Co.  “If  any  such  were 
sent they  were  forgeries,” the  telegram 
concluded.
“Buncoed!”  exclaimed  Uncle  Billy, 
“and  by tenderfeet,  too.”

*  

*  

*

in  great  style. 

James Jackson  and  John  Miller  were 
sitting on  the  veranda of  a quaint little 
hotel  in the south of  France in the  early 
summer of 1884.  A bottle of  wine and a 
box of cigarettes were on the table.  Mil­
ler was laughing  uproarously.
“You ought  to  have seen  the look  on 
the old man’s face,” said  Jackson,  as  he 
lighted a cigarette,  "when  1 gave him the 
deed.  He actually thought he was doing 
us  up 
I  would  have 
liked to  have seen  him  when  he got into 
that sand bank,  which we called  a mine.”
“I  suppose  he has  found  out by  this 
time  that 1 sent  those  telegrams,”  said 
Miller as he raised  a glass of  wine to his 
lips.  “Oh,  well,” he continued,  when he 
had drained the glass,  “it was only $100, 
000,  and he has  more  left,  while we  will 
soon  have  to  go to  work again,  for  we 
have  only  $15,000  left.  Why,  what  is 
the  matter,  old  man?” 
he  suddenly 
asked,  as he observed his companion gaz­
ing at a London  paper,  his  face pale and 
his hand trembling.  “What  Is  the mat­
ter, old man?  Are  they after us?”

“Bead it,” replied Jackson.
Miller  picked  up the  paper  and read: 
“The Denver Tribune  records a wonder­
ful  mining  case.  William  Golden,  the 
noted  Colorado  millionaire  and  mine 
owner,  has just  sold  the “Uncle  Billy” 
mine  on  Fryer  Hill,  Leadville,  to  an 
English syndicate  for  £1,000,000.  Dur­
ing the past two years this mine has pro­
duced £300,000.”
lips 
“We’ve  been 
trembled  as  he  said: 
buncoed,  by----- !”

Miller’s  face  was  white.  His 

A  Sensitive  Paint.

It  is  reported  that  a chemist  has  in­
is  sensitive  to 
vented  a  paint  which 
changes  of  temperature.  At  ordinary 
temperatures it is a bright yellow, but as 
it grows  warmer  it  begins to assume an 
orange tinge, and at a temperature of 220 
degrees  it  becomes a  bright  red.  As it 
cools it assumes its original  color,  and it 
may be heated  over and  over again  with 
the same effect. 
It is suggested that this 
paint may be used  to great  advantage on 
parts of machinery liable to become heat­
ed from  friction,  where it would  at once 
report any abnormal  rise of  temperature 
by its change of color.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

Dry Goods P rice Current.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic.................  7
Arrow Brand 5V 
Argyle  ...................  6
“  Worldwide.  6 
Atlanta AA..............6
14  LL. ..........  414
Atlantic A...............   634
Full Yard Wide...... 614
“  H..............   6*
Georgia  A..............614
“ 
P .............  5*
Honest Width.........   614
“ 
D...............   6
Hartford A .............5
“  LL..............  5
Indian Head...........  7
Amory.....................  6S£
King A  A................614
Archery Bunting...  4 
King EC.................  5
Beaver Dam  A A ..  514 
Lawrence  L L ........434
Blackstone O, 32....  5
Madras cheese cloth 634
Black Crow..............6
Newmarket  G........534
Black Rock  ...........6
B........  5
Boot, AL................  7
N........614
Capital  A ................514
DD....  5>4
Cavanat V..............5*
X ......6*
Chapman cheese cl.  334 Nolbe R..................5
Clifton  C R .............. 514
Onr Level  Best...... 614
Comet....................... 6V-
Oxford  R...............   6
Dwight Star............  634
Peqnot....................7
Clifton CCC...........614
Solar.......................6
Top of the  Heap__7
Geo.  Washington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold Medal............   714
Green  Ticket......... 814
Great Falls.............   6I4
Hope.......................714
Just  Out........  414® 5
King  Phillip...........7M
OP......  714
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Lonsdale...........  @ 8*
Middlesex........   @ 5
No Name................ 714
Oak View......  ...... 6
Our Own................ 514
Pride of the West  . .12
Rosalind.................714
Sunlight  ................  414
Utica  Mills............ 814
Nonpareil  ..10

ABC....................   814
Amazon.................. 8
Amsburg.................7
Art  Cambric...........10
Blackstone A A...... 7
Beats All.................414
Boston....................12
Cabot.......................  714
Cabot,  %.................
Charter  Oak...........514
Conway W..............714
Cleveland...............7
Dwight Anchor.......  8I4
shorts.  8
Edwards..................6
Empire....................7
Farwell................... 714
Fruit of the  Loom.  8*
r iiuuviiic  ......
First Prize........
Fruit of the Loom X.  7*
Falrmount........
4M
Full Value........
...  634
HALF BLBACH
Cabot................
...  7  i
Farwell.............
..  8
CANTON  F
Unbleached.
Housewife  A...
....514
B  ..
“ 
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C  ..
“ 
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D...
“ 
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E  ..
“ 
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G  ..
“ 
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H ...
“ 
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I.... ....I'M
“ 
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“ 
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“ 
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L.  ..
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“  M  ...
..1014
...11
O  ...
“ 
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« 
P ....
...1414
CARPET  WARP.

814

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Peerless, white.. ....181« I Integrity  colored.. 20
colored... .2-'* White Star........  ... 18
Integrity................. 18*|
colored..20
Hamilton................ 8
Nameless................20
9
..............25
.............. 1014
..............2714
G G  Cashmere........20
..............30
Nameless............... 16
..............3214
................18
......... 35

DRESS  GOODS.

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CORSETS.

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CORSET  JEANS.

Corallne................. (9 5Q|Wonderful................ $4 50
Schilling’s ...............   9 00 Brighton................... 4 75
Davis  Waists......  9 00 Bortree’s ...................  9 00
Grand  Rapids.......  4 50|Abdominal........... 15 00
Armory.....................634
Naumkeagsatteen..  714
Androscoggin......... 714
Rockport...................6*4
Blddeford..............   6
Conestoga......... 
714
Brunswick................614
Walworth..............   634
rrs.
PRC
Allen turkey  reds..  6 
Berwick fancies....  514
robes...........6
Clyde Robes...........
Eink a purple 6
Charter Oak fancies 414 
uffs  .........   6
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
pink  checks.  6
mourn’g  6 
staples  ........6
Eddy stone  fancy...  6 
shirtings ...  414
chocolat  6 
American  fancy__ 534
rober  ...  6 
American Indigo...  614 
sateens..  6 
American shirtings.  5 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
staple....  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  5 
Manchester fancy..  6 
....  614
Arnold 
new era.  6 
Arnold  Merino......6
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
long cloth B. 1014
“ 
Merrtm’ck shirtings.  414 
................... C.  814
“  Repp turn .  814
“ 
century cloth 7
Pacific fancy..........6
“  gold seal......1014
“ 
robes..............614
“  green seal TR1014 
Portsmouth robes...  6 
“  yellow seal.. 1014
Simpson mourning..  6
“ 
serge.............1114
greys........6
“  Turkey red..1014 
solid black.  6 
Ballou solid black..  5 
Washington indigo.  6 
“  colors.  514
•' 
“  Turkey robes..  714
Bengal bine,  green, 
“  India robes__ 714
red and  orange...  514
"  plain Tky X 34  814 
Berlin solids...........514
“ 
“  X...10
"  oil bine........ 614
“  Ottoman  Tur­
«  “  green ....  614
key red................ 6
11  Foulards ....  514
Martha Washington
red 34-------- 7
“ 
Tnrkeyred 34........714
“  “  X  ............914
Martha Washington
“  4 4 .........10
“ 
Turkey red.......... 914
“ 
« S-4XXXX 12
Rlverpolntrobes  ...  514
Cocheco fancy..........6
Windsor fancy........  614
“  madders...  6
“  XXtwills..  614
indigo blue......... 1014
solids......... 514
*' 
Harmony................  434
□res.
TICK
Amoskeag A C A.... 13
AC A......................13
Hamilton N .............. 714
Pemberton AAA__15
D- 
..  ...  814 
York........................1014
Awning..11
Swift River............ 714
Farmer......................8
Pearl River............ 1214
First Prize.............. 1014
Warren.................... 1314
Lenox MlUs........... 18
Conostoga...............16
Atlanta,  D.............  634|8tark  A 
.......... 8
Boot.... 
..............   634 No Name...............714
Clifton, K...............7  Top of Heap............  9

gold  ticket

COTTON  DRILL.

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Amoskeag.............. 1214
9 oz...... 1314
brown .13
Andover................. li*
Beavercreek  AA...10 
“ 
BB...  9
“ 
CC....
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
“ 
blue  814 
“  d a  twist  1014 
XXX  bl.19  i
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Columbian XXX  br. 10 

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........1214
brown....... 1214
Haymaker blue......   7)4
brown...  734
Jaffrey.....................H14
Lancaster................1214
Lawrence, 9 oz........ 1314
“  NO.220....13
“  No. 250....1114
“ 
No. 280.... 1014

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

“  Persian dress 8*
Canton ..  814
“ 
AFC........1014
“ 
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Teazle...1014 
“ 
Angola..1014 
Persian..  8*
“ 
Arlington staple__  6*4
Arasapha  fancy  ...  4M 
Bates Warwick dres 814 
staples.  614
Centennial.............  tO1/,
Criterion..............  1014
Cumberland staple.  514
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................414
Elfin.......................   714
Everett classics......814
Exposition............... 714
Glenarie.................  6*
Glenarven................ 6M
Glen wood................. 714
Hampton.................. 614
Johnson Chalon cl 
14 
Indigo blue 914 
zephyrs 

GINGHAMS,
Lancaster,  staple...  7
fancies__7
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester............   534
Monogram..............  614
Normandie............. 714
P ersian...................814
Renfrew Dress........714
Rosemont............... 614
Slatersville............ 6
Somerset.................  7
Tacoma  .................714
Toil  du Nord......... 1014
Wabash..................  714
seersucker..  714
Warwick...............   814
Whittenden............   634
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook..............  8
..............10
Wlndermeer...........   5
York  ...................... 634

GRAIN  BAGS.
Amoskeag.............. 16*1 Valley City...............1634
Stark..................... 2014 Georgia 
..................1534
American...............16 

| Pacific  .....................13

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Clark’s Mile End....45  IBarbour’s  ..............88
Coats’, J. & P .........45  Marshall's................88
Holyoke................. 22* |

KNITTING  COTTON.

No.

..33
...34
...85
...36

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

White.  Colored.
White.  Colored
38 No.  14... ....37
42
39
“  16...
43
...38
*•  18... ...  39
40
44
41
“  20... ....40
45
CAMBRICS.
Slater......................  5
Edwards  .............  5
White Star............   5
Lockwood................ 5
Kid Glove  .............   5
Wood’s ..................   5
Newmarket............   5
Brunswick...........   5

RED  FLANNEL.

Fireman................. 3214
Creedmore..............2714
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless................2714

T W........................2214
FT  ............ 
3214
J R F, XXX............35
Buckeye.................3214

MIXED  FLANNEL.

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1’*
12
20

DOMET  FLANNEL

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
914
1014
1114
1214

Red & Blue,  plaid. .40
Union R ................. 2214
Windsor................. 1814
6 oz Western...........20
Union  B.................22*4
Nameless...... 8  @ 944] 
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Grey 8 R W.............1714
Western W  .............1814
D R  P 
................... 1814
Flushing XXX........2314
Manitoba................ 2314
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Slate. Brown. Black. Slate
Brown. Black.
9>* h *
914
10*
1014
1014 11*
l ’H
1114 12
1114
12
1214
12* 20
20
DUCKS.
Severen 8 oz.... ....  9* West Point, 8 oz
-10*
May land, 8oz.. ....10*
10 oz - . 12*
Greenwood, 714 os..  914 
Raven, lOoz............ 1314
Greenwood, 8 os__11S4
Stark 
..........1814
Boston, 8 oz............ IO141 Boston, 10 oz............1214
White, dos............. 25  I Per bale, 40 dos..  $1 50
Colored,  dos...........20 
| Colored  “ 
.......... 7 50
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Pawtucket...............1014
Red Cross....  9
Dundie  ...................   9
Best  ............ 1014
Bedford...................1014
Best AA......1214
Valley  City.............I014
........................714
K K .........................1014
........................ 814

WADDINGS.

BILBSIa b,

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2 
8 

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10 

[Cortlcelli  knitting, 
per 14os  ball........30

Cotticeli!, dos......... 85
twist, doz.,40 
50 yd, doz.,40
HOOKS AND ETES—PER GROSS.
No 1 Bl’k A White..10
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No 2—20, M C........ 50  INO 4—15  F  314
•'  3-18, S C..........45  I
No  2 White A Bl’k.. 12  INo  8 White & Bl’k  20 
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No 2.

INo  4 Bl’k & Whlte.,15
..20
..25
40

COTTON  TAPS.
..15  “  10
..18  “  12
SAFETY  PINS.
....28  INoS..
NEEDLES—PER  X .

PINS.

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A. James.................. l 401 Steamboat__
Crowely’s..................1 Si Gold  Eyed....
Marshall’s................1 00|
5—4....2 25 6—4...3 

2515—4....1  95  6

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

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COTTON TWINES.

..  40
..1  50

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............1814
Anchor..................16
Bristol...................13
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL.......................1814
Alabama................. 634
Alamance................. 614
Augusta.................  714
Ar  sapha................  6
Georgia...................  6*
Granite..................  534
Haw  River............5
Haw  J ...................6

Nashua................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
3-ply....17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 ply 1714 
Powhattan............. 18

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Mount  Pleasant__ 614
Oneida....................  5
Prymont................  534
Randelman............   6
Riverside................  5M
Sibley  A..........  ...  6*
Toledo...................

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BUSINESS  LAW.

Summarized  Decisions  from  Courts  of 

Last  Resort.

TELEGRAM— NECESSITY— SUNDAY  LAW.
The sending to  a  daughter  of  a  tele­
graph  message 
informing  her  of  her 
mother’s dangerous sickness and improb­
able reeovery is a work of  necessity,  ac­
cording to the decision  of the  Appellate 
Court of Indiana in  the case of the West­
ern Union Telegraph Company  vs.  Esk­
ridge. 
In the same case  the  court  held 
that a demurrer would not  lie  to  a  com­
plaint upon a contract which on its  face 
was regular  and  lawful  because  it  ap­
peared also on its face to have  been  exe­
cuted on Sunday,  but  that  the  question 
must be reached by answer.

lottery, so-called gift concert, or other sim­
ilar enterprise  offering  prizes dependent 
on chance, adding:  “Although the trans­
action  was an attempt by Austria to  ob­
tain  a  loan  of  money  to  put  into  her 
treasury,  it 
is  quite  evident  that  she 
undertook  to assist her credit by an  ap­
peal  to the  cupidity  of  those  who  had 
money.  Every holder of a  bond  has  an 
equal chance  with  the  holder  of  every 
other bond.”

Wm. Brummeler & Sons,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

TRADE  NAME  —   MEDICINAL  PREPARA­

TIONS.

The Supreme Court of Minnesota  held 
in the recent case of Watkins vs. Landon 
et.  al.,  that any  person  lawfully  acquir­
ing a knowledgo  of  the  composition  of 
any medicinal preparation,  not patented, 
has the  legal  right to  manufacture  and 
sell the same,  if, by reason  of  the  man­
ner in  which such knowledge is acquired, 
that  would  not  constitute  a  breach  of 
confidence or good faith; that he may also 
publish the fact that his  product is made 
in  accordance with the  original  formula 
therefor,  but that  when such  a  prepara­
tion  has come to be popularl,  known  by 
the  name  of  a  person,  another  person 
engaging in the manufacture has no right 
to appropriate that name to his  own  ex­
clusive  use as a  proprietary  trade-m ark 
or trade name.

BANK  CHECK— CERTIFICATION—LIABILITY.
In the case of Meridan  National  Bank 
of Indianapolis vs. First National Bank of 
Shelby ville, where it appeared that a per­
son sold stolen property  and  received for 
it  a  check in an assumed name or order on 
appellant bank,  which  was  not  paid  for 
want of identification,  but  was  certified 
by  the  appellant  bank  and  afterward 
paid by  appellee  without  identification 
to the payee,  who indorsed it  in  his  as­
sumed  name to the appellee,  the  Appel­
late Court of Indiana held that the drawer 
had no power to countermand such check 
after its certification;  that  the  certifica­
tion created  a  direct  liability  from  the 
certifying bank to the payee and the  ap­
pellee bank bis indorsee; that the  certifi­
cation operated as a payment by the  cer­
tifying bank of the  drawers’  account  to 
the amount of the check: that the  appel­
lee bank,  a bona-fide indorsee  for  value, 
took the check  freed  from  any  equities 
existing  between  the  original  parties, 
and that the indorsement of his  assumed 
name by the pay was valid and passed the 
title to the  check.

LOTTERY— AUSTRAIN  PREMIUM  BONDS.
In the case of Horner vs. United States, 
the Supreme Court at Washington  lately 
held  that  certain  “Austrian  premium 
bonds,”  for  which  the  appellant  was 
agent,  were “lottery”  bonds  within  the 
meaning of the recently  passed  anti-lot­
tery  law which prohibits  the  mailing  of 
matter relating to any  lottery,  so-called 
gift concert,  or  other  similar  enterprise 
offering  prizes  dependent  upon  lot  or 
chance.  The bonds  in  question,  which 
were issued to raise a loan  of  40,000,000 
gulden,  were to be each of  the  value  of 
100 florins,  and to be redeemed whenever 
a number corresponding  to  the  number 
of the  bond should  be  drawn,  a  certain 
number of drawings each year being pro­
vided  for,  and during the first  year  each 
bondholder  whose  bond  was  redeemed 
was to receive  135  florins,  this  amount 
increasing five florins per year up  to  the 
maximum of 200 florins,  the  last  of  the 
bonds to  be  redeemed  in  fifty-five  years 
On the part of the appellant  it  was  con 
tended  that the plan,  which  had  for  its 
primary object a 
loan,  was  not  trans­
formed  into a lottery  simply  because  of 
the  presence  of  an  element  resembling 
the lottery plan of distribution as a  sub 
sidiary feature.  The court held that the 
bonds came within the inbabitions  of  the 
law,  whose  denunciation  is  no 
longer 
against an  illegal lottery, but against any

Phone 640

260  S.  Ionia St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

n e t  p r ic e  l i s t o f  s a p   p a il s  p e r   100.

15
gal. I C Syrup Cans, per 100...  10 25

IC
$14
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IX
$17
18
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  5T0  we  will, allow  5  per  cent, off 

above prices.  Terms, 30 days net.

Send for price  list of general  line of  tinware.
Geo. H. Reeder & Co.,

JOBBERS  OF¡

Bools  and  Shoes,

F elt Boots and Alaska  Socks

State Agents for

158 &  160 Fulton St., Grand  Rapids.
HATCH  CHICKENS  BY  STEAM
With  the  Im proved Excelsior Incubator.

■Simple,  Perfect,  Self-Regu­
lating.  Thousands in suc­
cessful operation. Gnaran 
teed to hatch a larger per­
centage of  fertile  eggs at 
less  cost  than  any  other 
'Hatcher.  Lowest  priced 
first-class  Hatcher  made, 
OF«*. H . S T A H L  O n ln cT .lli

When You Get Tired

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

Prices seldom higher.

A.  J .  PH ILLIPS  &  CO.,

Fenton,  Mich.
Hardware  P rice Current.

 

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pay prom ptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
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dls.
60
Snell’s......................................... 
 
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’,  imitation....................................50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze...........................S 7 00

bolts. 

barrows. 

D.  B. Bronze...............................   12 00
S.  B. 8. Steel........................ 
8 60
D.  B. steel....................................13 50

 
dls.
Railroad — ................................................S 14 00
Garden................................................. net  30 00
dls.
Stove.  ...........................................................50*10
Carriage new list.......................................... 75*10
Plow.............................................................. 40*10
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70
Well,  plain................................................... I 3 50
Well, swivel......................................................  4 00
dll.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 66*.0

BUTTS, OAST. 

BUCKETS.

Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60*10
Wrought Table.............................................60*10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60*10
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s.............................................. 70*10
Blind,  Parker’s............................................."0*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

....................................... 
RLOCKS.

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

50

Grain......................................................dls. 50*02

CRADLES.

CROW RARS.

Cast Steel............................................per  lb  5
Ely’s 1-10............................................per m 
Hick’s C. F .........................................  
“ 
G. D ....................................................  “ 
Musket............................................... 
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CARTRIDGES.

Him  Fire.......... ........................................... 
Central  Fire.........   ...............................dls. 

CHISELS. 

dlS.
Socket Firmer.............................................70*10
Socket Framing............................................70*16
Socket Corner............................................... 70*10
Socket Slicks............................................... 70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

dls.

combs. 

CHALK.
copper.

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

« 

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

DRILLS. 

’ 

DRIPPING PANS.

07
Small sizes, ser pound..........................
Large sizes, peT pound....................... .........  6M

ELBOWS.

15 

16 

12 

dls.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

files—New List. 

GALVANIZED IRON.

14 
GAUGBS. 

knobs—New List. 

13 
Discount, 60

Com. 4  piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
75
40
Corrugated........................................... dla 
Adlnstable............................................dli. 40*10
diS.
Clark’s, small, Si8;  large, $26...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, $18:  2, $24; 3,$30  ............................ 
25
Disston’s .......................................................60*10
New American  ............................................60*10
Nicholson’s ..................................................60*10
Heller’s  .......................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse R asps..................................  
50
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27  28
17
List 
dls.
dls.

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................... 
50
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcelvln, trimmings......................... 
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
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.
diS.
50
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .................................... 
40
>'  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cls rk’s................. 
40
11  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25

MOLASSES GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

LOCKS—DOOR. 

MATTOCKS.

dlB.

diS.

NAILS

Advance over base: 

Steel nails, base.............................................. 1  85
 
Wire nails, base..........................  
1  30® 1  90
Steel.  Wire.
60.......................................................Base  Base
10
50.......................................................Base 
25
40 .....................................................  05 
30...................................................... 
25
10 
20......................................................  15 
35
45
16...................................................... 
15 
45
12...................................................... 
15 
10 ......................................................  20 
50
8.........................................................   25 
60
7 * 6 ...................................................   40 
75
90
4...................................................  ...  60 
1 20
3........................................................1 00 
1 60
2....................................................... 1 50 
1 60
FlneS...............................................1 50 
Case  10..............................................   60 
65
75
8..............................................   75 
90
6..............................................   90 
Finish 10............................................  85 
75
8.......................................... 1 00 
90
6........................................... 1 15 
1  10
70
Clinch; 10...........................................  85 
8........................................ 1  00 
80
90
6.........................................1  15 

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PLANES. 

Barren X........................................... 175  175
dlZ,
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................  ©40
Sclota Bench..............................................  ©60
Sandusky Tool Co.’i, fancy.........................  ©40
Bench, first quality......................................   ©00
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’a, wood...........  *10
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
70
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
dls.
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Bars............................... 50—10
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

rivets. 

Broken packs Mo per pound extra.

PANS.

HAMMERS.

25

dls.

H IN G ES.

65
60
35
60

h a n o e r s. 

Maydole *  Co.’s.................................., .dls. 
Sip’s................................................................. dls. 25
Yerkes & Plumb’s............................................ dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel......................... 30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand— 30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ...............................dls.60*10
State...........................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4M  14  and
3M10
M........... ............ net
%........... --------- net
8M
X........... ............ net
7M
%........... ............ net
7M
...........dls.
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50*10
Champion,  anti-friction..............................   60*10
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots............................................................... 60*10
Kettles...........................................................60*10
Spiders  .........................................................60*10
Gray enameled..............................................40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware...............................new list 71
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33^*10
Bright...................................................... 70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10*10
Hook’s .....................................................70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70*10*10
dls.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s .....................
Sisal, M Inch and larger.............................  
28
Manilla.
"  
26
23
Steel and  Iron.
23
£   Try and Bevels.
25

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

levels. 
ROPES.

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

HOLLOW  WARE.

WIRE g o o d s. 

9
13
dls.

SQ U A RES.

50
25

dls.

d iS . 

A lltre

SHEET  IRON.

71
6€
ar.
.  Smooth. Com.
...$4 05
$1 95
...  4 05
3 05
..  4 05
3 05
...  4 05
3  15
...  4 25
3 25
....  4 45
3 35
,  over 30 inches

wide not less than 2-10 extra

SAND PAPER.

SASH  CORO.

, ’86  .............................
......dig.
, White A.................... ........list
Drab A.......................
__  *
White  B....................
“
Drab B.......................
...... “
White C.....................

53
50
55
50
55
35

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

 

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton 125
Hand........................................ 
“ 
20
Sliver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot,....  70
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot 
50
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot....  30 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  root........................................   30
dls.
Steel, Game............................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
70
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s __  
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion............................... $1.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market.............................................  62M
Coppered  Spring  Steel............................. 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  2 85
painted....................................  2 40

wire. 

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

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

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dls.

M ETALS.
PIG TIN.

ZINC.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................   26c
Pig Bars.......................................................  
28c
Duty:  Sheet, 2Mc per pouDd.
660 pound  casks...........................................   6X
Per pound....................................................   7
M©M-............................................................... 16
Extra W iping.................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qnalltles  of 
solder in the market Indicated by nrivate brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................per  pound
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MXLYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................ 17
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

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

Each additional X on this grade, 11.75.

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TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
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Bach additional X on this grade $1.50.

10xl4IC,  Charcoal........................................$6 75
..........................................  6  75
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
..........................................  8 25
..........................................  9 25
14x20 IX, 
ROOFING PLATES
Worcester...........................  6 50
8 50
18  50
AUaway  Grade...............   6 00
7  50
12 50
15 50

14X20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX,
14x28  DC.............................................................»14 00
14x31  IX ........................................................15
10
iS e o ii: f?‘r N°' 9 Bo«er' ’ f P « Pound.... 

BOILER SIZE TIN FLATS.

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8

Michigan Tradesman

A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

Published at

lOO  Louis  St., Grand Rapids,

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please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement in 
T h e   M ic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n .

E.  A.  STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY.  FEBRUARY  82,  1893.

AMERICAN  BEET  SUGAR  INDUSTRY.
The  February  number  of  the  Cosmo­
politan  Magazine  has  a  very  interesting 
article on beet sugar culture in the United 
States,  in  which  useful  information  is 
furnished the general reader on a subject 
of  which  comparatively little  is  known 
outside  of  those  directly  interested  in 
sugar culture.  The article in question is 
accompanied  by  illustrations  depicting 
the methods of cultivating the sugar beet 
and  manufacturing it into sugar.

Too much  cannot  be  said and  written 
on the  subject of  beet  sugar cultivation 
in the United States,  because that indus­
try,  but  lately  introduced,  is capable  of 
being  developed  to an  extent  which  will 
in  time  enable the  United  States to  pro­
duce  at  home  the two  million  or  more 
tons  of  sugar  now  annually consumed, 
and in  payment  for which many millions 
of  American  money  are  yearly  sent 
abroad to enrich West  Indian  sugar pro­
ducers  and  the  beet  sugar  factories  of 
Europe.

Although  but a few years have elapsed 
since it was  first demonstrated that sugar 
beets could be grown and profitably man­
ufactured into sugar in the United States, 
the  industry has  already taken  firm root 
in  several  of  the  Western  States,  and 
from experiments which  have been made 
in more than  a dozen states it has become 
known  that  fully  half  the  area of  the 
United  States affords climatic and  other 
conditions  propitious  to  the  growth  of 
sugar beets.

Speaking  of  the  establishing  of  beet 
sugar  factories in  the  United  States,  the 
Cosmopolitan  says  that  “there  are  now 
in  this  country six  of  these  plants,  the 
locations  being  Alvarado,  Watsonville 
and  Chino,  in  California;  Grand  Island 
and  Norfolk,  in  Nebraska,  and  Lehi,  in 
Utah,  the last  four of  which  were  estab 
lished in  1890  and  1891.  All  have been I 
able  thus  far  to  cope  with  the  disad- I 
vantages  that  lie in  the  path of  the  in­
dustry in the way of solution of the agri­
cultural  problem,  and  the  business may 
be  said  to  have  gained  already  a  very 
strong foothold.”

According to reliable information  from 
California it appears  that the  three beet < 
factories which  last season  produced be- I

tw een  them  about  8,000,000  pounds  of 
sugar,  have  this  season  turned  out  23,- 
000,000  pounds.  This  rate  of  develop­
ment  is  really  astonishing,  representing 
an 
increase  nearly  three-fold  within  a 
single year.

The first  beginnings of  the beet  sugar 
industry in Europe were even  more mod­
est and  unpromising than they have been 
a  century  later  in  this  country.  The 
great Napoleon,  in  his eagerness to over 
come the  difficulties  experienced  in  im­
porting cane sugar  from the West Indies 
at a time  when  British  cruisers were  on 
the  alert  to  cut  off  his  ships,  liberally 
subsidized  the  producers of  beet sugar, 
and to this state aid,  a policy pursued by 
the  various  European  governments  ever 
since,  is  due  the  splendid  development 
the  European  beet  sugar  industry  has 
now  attained.

Judging by  the  expert  opinions  pub­
lished elsewhere  in  this  week’s  paper, 
the measure 
introduced  in  the  Legis­
lature by Representative McKinstry, pro­
viding for the dating of all canned goods, 
is without a friend or  champion  of  any 
consequence,  no one  who  lays  any  pre­
tentions to a knowledge  of  the  subject 
having given  the  proposed  statute  the 
least  measure  of  approval.  The  bill 
appears to  be one  of  those  illy-advised 
creations,  which owe  their  existence  to 
ignorance  and  their  advocacy  to  stub­
bornness.  There 
is  no  demand  any­
where for the  measure  and  no  reason 
why it should ever come before the Legis­
lature, except to gratify the  ambition of 
little  cheap  notoriety. 
its  father for a 
Mr.  McKinstry 
is  a  cigarmaker  and 
would  probably resent a  statement  that 
cigars are not fit for use after  they are a 
month old;  yet he  boldly announces  that 
all canned goods  deteriorate  after  they 
are  a  year old,  thus putting his opinion 
against the united  opinions  of  chemists 
and others  familiar  with  the  subject, 
who assert that the contrary is  the  case. 
In the light of these facts,  the best thing 
the Muskegon gentleman  can  do 
is  to 
permit his measure to  die  a  quiet  and 
ignominious death,  for if he  attempts to 
foist such a senseless law on the  people, 
the people are pretty likely to  be  heard 
from.

ORGANIZED  TYRANNY.

Dictatorial  Attitude  Assumed  by  the 

Trade  Unions.

From the Boot and Shoe Recorder.

A curious phase of  the  labor  question 
is developed  in  New  York City,  where 
certain of the labor unions are aiming  to 
form a trust of the workers,  with  a view 
to dictating in  the  matter  of  wages.  A 
case is reported of a  brewer who  was  in 
great distress and said  he  could  get  no 
work because he was  a  non-union  man, 
and the  union  refused  to  take  him  in. 
Another case was given  of  two  carriage 
painters who could not get work  because 
they  did not  belong  to  the  union,  and 
when they tried to join  they  found  that 
the initiation fee was the prohibitory one 
Of $25.
We have had  labor  unions  demanding 
almost everything else,  but  it  is  some­
thing of  a new  departure  to  find  them 
undertaking to make close monopolies of 
the organizations and  refusing to take in 
new  members.  Still  it  is in  line  with 
what we might  expect,  and  is  only  an­
other 
illustration  of  the  fatuity  with 
which the average workmen act  directly 
in  opposition  to  their  own 
interests. 
Suppose that this principle  was  carried j 
out generally by the  labor  unions,  what 
would be the  result?  The  number who i 
could  work  would  be  limited  and  the 
number of idlers increased.  There is no 
telling where the  line  would  be  drawn I

T H E   MICHIGLAJST  T R A D E SM A N .

and the  m ovem ent  stopped.  But  every 
restriction of employment  and  every  in­
crease in the number of idlers  must  cut 
off the demand  for  the  products  of  the 
union  workers,  to say  nothing of the dis­
tress  of  the  unemployed  and  the  con­
tributions,  either  voluntary  or  by  tax­
ation,  which must be made for  their  re­
lief..  If the unions remained  at  present 
membership,  therefore  the  condition  of 
the  members  must  gradually  become 
worse,  for with  less demand  for the  pro­
ducts there must be less employment even 
for the members of the union.
It is only another example of  the radi­
cal  blunder of the trade unions  in assum­
ing that employment is a fixed  quantity, 
and that  by  controlling  the  supply  of 
laborers  wages can  be  changed  at  will. 
It seems impossible for  these  people  to 
understand the  simple  business  princi­
ple that  demand  is  the  important  con­
sideration 
in  fixing  all  values  while 
supply  must  always  be  secondary. 
If 
there is a demand  for brewers or carriage 
painters,  for example, there will  be little 
trouble about securing good  wages  with­
out a union,  while if there  is  no sale for 
the  product  on the other  hand,  all  the 
unions that were  ever  organized  would 
be powerless to fix or  maintain  any  rate 
of wages.  Business  prosperity  in  any 
branch of  industry depends on  the num­
ber of peoole employed  as  wage earners. 
When employment  is  general  and  the 
laborers  who form  the mass  of  the  peo­
ple  are  earning  good  wages,  we  have 
prosperity  in  all  lines because  from  the 
earnings comes  the  demand  for all  pro­
ducts. 
If any  proof of this were  needed 
it  would  be found  in  the  fact  that  any 
disaster  or  depression  which  cuts  off 
employment  in one section is quickly  felt 
in the diminished  demand  for  products 
in all other sections. 
It is of the highest 
importance,  therefore,  for  all  who  de­
pend  on  wage  earnings  to  have  the 
greatest possible number of  laborers em­
ployed  at  some  wages  rather  than  to 
have  any  considerable  number 
idle. 
There is all the difference between profit­
able  customers  and  dependents  who 
must be supported  in  idleness.  Because 
the  sale  of  goods 
is  made  by  the  em­
ployer the effect  is none  the  less  direct 
and  positive  than  it  would  be  if  each 
workman  were operating for himself in  a 
separate shop.

In  spite of all  this we find  labor unions 
almost  without  exception  doing  every­
thing in  their power to limit the  number 
employed.  The  proscriptive  measures 
against  non-union  men  and  the  rule 
against apprentices all  have  this aim  in 
view. 
It may  be  said  that  each  union 
acts only  for its  particular  branch,  but, 
when the  unions  and  the  branches  are 
multiplied,  we have the general  effect in 
all  lines,  rendering  employment  more 
difficult to obtain and thus increasing the 
number of idlers.  Even in  cases  where 
unions succeed 
in  forcing  advances  in 
wages it almost invariably  results in  in­
creasing  the  number  of  idle  members 
who must  be  supported  by  those  who 
continue at  work.

in  the  same 

the  dregs  and 

Another  example 

line 
showing  how  measures  often  turn  out 
directly the opposite from  what  was  in­
tended  is found in  the contract labor law 
passed at the demand of the labor unions. 
This law was  intended  to  prevent  em­
ployers in case of  strikes  from  sending 
to European countries and  bringing over 
a force of 
laborers  who  might  replace 
the strikers.  The law  on 
its  face  ap­
pears reasonable  and  practical,  but  the 
effect is  to  prevent  the  coming  of  the 
better  class  of  industrious  productive 
workmen in  the different industries while 
admitting 
least  de­
sirable 
as  we 
are 
made 
goods  it  is  certainly  an  advantage  to 
bring  over  the  workers  and  make  the 
goods  here.  This  could  not  interfere 
with  the  employment  of  any 
laborers 
here  because  the  new  workmen  would 
practically have the same  work they  had 
on the other side and their earnings here 
would make so  much  extra  demand  for 
the products of all other  workmen  here.
It  is  admitted  that  the  quality  of  the 
immigration  of  late  years  is  much  in­
ferior and there  is  a  demand  for  more 
stringent  restrictive  measures. 
But 
the  really  desirable  classes,  the  in­

long 
European 

classes.  As 

importing 

dustrious  workmen  whose  skill  and 
ability add to the  wealth  of  the  nation 
and who make the best citizens,  will  not 
give up a reasonable certainty  for an un­
certainty,  ami remain at home.  We have 
an  abundance  of  capital  and  business 
enterprise to successfully carry on  many 
branches of manufacturing which we now 
depend on Europe to supply. 
If employ­
ers were free to select the best  workmen 
from  the  European  factories  and  offer 
them an assurance of employment at good 
wages those industries would be  quickly 
established here and  we  would  have  the 
cream instead of the dregs  of  industrial 
Europe.  Would  not  immigration  of 
this class be vastly  better for  out  work 
men as a whole than the  result  of  their 
well  intended  but  sadly  dissappointing 
contract labor law?  No intelligent busi­
ness  man  would  think  of  paying  the 
passage money  for the majority of  immi- 
grauts now being dumped ou  our  shores 
by  the steamship  lines.  He  would  cer­
tainly make a better  selection  if  he  were 
contracting to offer  steady  employment. 
The 
skilled  workmen  who  would 
naturally  be engaged  moreover  would  be 
the least likely  to  work  for  wages  lower 
than  the  American  standard,  while  the 
herd of  semi-paupers  now  coining  are 
forced by their necessities to accept  any 
employment at any  wages  that  may  be 
offered.
Labor unions  undoubtedly  have  their 
uses and their benefits to the workmen  as 
well as  to  the  industry,  provided  they 
work along legitimate  lines  and  do  not 
attempt  the impossible. 
It is  absurd  to 
suppose that  combinations  for  monopo­
lizing labor and  arbitrarily  fixing  wages 
can  succeed  in doing something that com­
binations of capital  have  never been able 
to  accomplish.  The  idea  of  cornering 
the supply of a commodity  is  always  an 
attractive one and  it  is  usually  easy  to 
find men  willing to go into such a scheme. 
Occasionally  there is a temporary success 
with  some gains,  but  the  rule is  certain 
failure.  The  law of supply  and  demand 
overrides all calculations,  and  the  greed 
of the  combination  must  meet the greed 
of outsiders equally anxious to get an ad­
vantage.  The first gains of such  combi­
nations are eventually  over-balanced  by 
greater losses.  So it must  be with  labor 
combinations  whenever  attempted,  and 
the unions  in  adopting  such  a  policy 
only invite the certain  retribution.
\Ve  all  want  and  the  line  in 
which  effort should  be  directed  is  more 
employment  with  more  wage  earners. 
Capitalists want  this  to  insure  interest 
returns quite as much  as  laborers  want 
it  to  insure  wages.  The  interests  of 
both are identical;  neither can prosper at 
the expense of the other:  No one branch 
of industry  can  hope  to  prosper  when 
other  branches  are  depressed,  and  no 
one set of workmen  can  possibly  main­
tain  high  wages  when  there  is  an 
in­
creasing number of unemployed  in  other 
industries.  Labor  union  leaders  may 
ignore these fundamental truths but can­
not escape the Inevitable  results  of  mis­
guided actions in opposition thereto.

What 

Prom Out of Town.

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

W. J.  Barnum,  Velzy.
B.  S. Runnels,  Big Prairie.
Lamoreaux & Beerman,  Fruitport. 
Schantz &  Co., Woodland.
R.  B.  McCullock,  Berlin.
S.  C.  Peterson,  Alaska.
Frank  Hamilton,  Traverse City.
S.  B. Calkins, Central  Lake.

The  Grand  Traverse  Herald,  which 
comes as near to  being  a  representative 
local newspaper  as  any  publication  in 
the State,  has  donned  a  new  dress  of 
type throughout  and  now  presents  as 
handsome  an  appearance,  typographic­
ally,  as it always has editorially.

Hirth,  Krause  & Co.  have  secured the 
agency in  this  territory  for  the  “Little 
Soldier” shoes,  which  are  manufactured 
by Kollock,  Logan  & Co.

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

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9

W HITHER ARE  W E  DRIFTING? 

Written for Th b  T r a d e s m a n.

This  is  a  paramount  question. 

It  is 
the question of  the  hour.  The  greatest 
minds of our  country  are  discussing  it. 
The National Congress is  grappling with 
it,  and,  surely,  every  business  man  in 
the land should  give it careful  and seri­
ous consideration.

Every man  who  has  been engaged  in 
business  for  the  past  twenty  or  thirty 
years  knows  that,  during  that  time,  we 
have drifted far away  from the old land­
marks;  and he knows  right well,  too,  in 
what direction we have  drifted.  And he 
knows,  further,  that the propelling forc­
es which underlie this  movement gain  in 
strength  as the  years  roll  by,  and  that, 
consequently, we are moving more  rapid­
ly,  to-day,  in a certain direction than ev­
er before.  So obviously  apparent is this 
tendency of  the times  that  every novice 
in the business ranks perceives it.

We all realize the fact that these forces 
are  constantly  merging,  unifying,  con­
solidating  and  centralizing  human  en­
ergy  and  neutralizing 
individualism. 
What will  the  end  be,  and  to  what  de­
gree  of  industrial  centralization  shall 
we  attain?  But  before  we  attempt  to 
speculate  on  the  future, let  us  take  a 
retrospective view and note some  of  the 
changes brought about through this ever- 
increasing  tendency  toward  centraliza­
tion.  Thirty-five  years  ago  individual­
ism  flourished 
like  a  green  bay  tree. 
Every country village  was a trade center 
by  itself  and,  comparatively, independ­
ent  of  every  other  trade  center.  That 
great  leveler, the  railroad,  had  not  yet 
cobwebbed the country with its thread of 
steel, breaking down  old-time individual 
advantages—both 
in­
dustrial—equalizing values,  and destroy­
ing the many small trade centers and cre­
ating fewer and  larger ones.  Every  vil­
lage trade center had its  cabinet  maker, 
its wagon  maker,  its tinsmith, its cooper, 
its  pump maker,  its  harness  maker,  its 
shoe  shop and its  tannery;  aud many of 
them  possessed  a distillery.  These  lo­
cal  shops  and  factories  created a home 
market  for  the  farmers’  surplus timber 
and other supplies,  and  the local  manu­
facturers represented the  manufacturing 
interests of the country at that time,  and 
were individual,  pure and simple.  Every 
shop or factory was  controlled by the in­
dividual owner or  owners  thereof,  inde­
pendently  of  any  outside  interference, 
and  success  or  failure  depended  alto­
gether upon the business capacity and in­
dustry of the individual.

commercial  and 

The  building  of  railroads  broke  up 
this condition of things.  Transportation 
facilities  generalized  the  extraordinary 
advantages  possessed  by  favored  local­
ities—such  as  water  power,  cheapness 
and  abundance  of  material,  etc. — by 
easy and rapid  distribution.  This tend­
ed to the  cheapening  and  equalizing  of 
prices.  It  also  opened  up  the  whole 
country as a market for each  favored lo­
cality where trade centers developed rap­
idly at the  expense of  the numerous iso­
lated points  already  referred to.  These 
larger  trade  centers  were,  in  turn,  out­
done by still larger centers,  as the build­
ing  of  railroads  progressed.  As  the 
fields widened and  the  railroads extend­
ed  the  markets,  competition  was  en­
gendered among manufacturers, and they 
soon began to pool  their  interests.  The 
small  combinations  soon  found  them 
selves as  closely  driven  by  competition 
as  were  the  individual  manufacturers,

and  still 
larger  combines  were  ef­
fected;  and  these larger combines  pooled 
together and  formed trusts  and monopo­
lies.

Some  interests  have 

Now,  in view of  our  past  commercial 
record,  and  the  signs  of  the  times  at 
present,  it is safe to predict  that  we are 
speedily  approaching a time  when every 
industrial interest in the  country  will  be 
a  huge  monopoly,  governed  and  con­
trolled  by  some  delegated,  centralized 
body,  few  in number  but  autocratic  in 
power. 
already 
reached this point,  and  others  are  rapid­
ly  approaching 
it.  Preponderance  of 
wealth in  the hands  of  the  few  makes 
monopoly possible,  but where the capital 
employed in  any  certain  industry is  too 
widely distributed, or in too many hands, 
the  next  most  effective  means  is  made 
use of,  namely,  organization.  When or­
ganization  accomplishes its objects,  it is 
as  destructive  of  open  competition 
as monopoly. 
If  this  were  not so,  then 
organization would be  mere child’s play. 
But the  spirit of  the times,  born  of  this 
all-pervading  tendency to monopoly, de­
mands  it  and  any  interest,  whether la­
bor,  agricultural,  mercantile  or  manu­
facturing,  is  justified in  organizing  for 
its own  protection.

included. 

Some  time ago,  the  wholesale  grocers 
organized in the East and  adopted  what 
is known as  the Equality  Plan  in  han­
dling  sugars.  This movement  has  ad­
vanced,  taking in state after  state,  until 
it has  absorbed seventeen  states,  and  it 
will continue, probably, until every state 
in  the  Union  is 
I  mention 
this simply to show whither we are drift­
ing.  A few men engaged  in one  line  of 
industry,  all in  one  city,  meet  together 
and perfect an organization.  The  move­
ment  is extended,  and  soon  it  embraces 
the whole state. 
It next reaches over in- 
*to an  adjoining state,  and  on  into anoth­
er,  until  every  state  is  organized,  and 
then it becomes a national combine,  with 
a  delegated,  centralized  head  which 
adopts  rules  and  makes 
laws  for  the 
guidance  of  its members.  What is  this 
but monopoly?  The coal combine is said 
to  be  a  monopoly,  but  what  difference 
does it  make  whether  a score or  two  of 
men regulate  the price of  coal and com­
pel  you  and  me  to  pay  this  price  or 
freeze,  or  whether  a  thousand  or  two 
men regulate the price of sugar and com­
pel  you and  me  to pay  the  price  or  eat 
sand?

I have no fault to  find with  the  sugar 
movement.  I only  mention  it  as  an  il­
lustration to show the general drift of all 
organized efforts,  and  to  strengthen  the 
prediction heretofore made,  that the gen­
eral  tendency  is  toward  monopoly—or, 
to  make  it  more  palataDle,  centralized 
control. 

E. A.  Ow en.

Cannot Find  One.

It is related that a man  who  was  writ­
ing a history of New York  employed  an 
expert  to  find  out  for  him  how  many 
speculators in  Wall  street  succeeded  in 
the long run.  After a  laborious  investi­
gation the expert reported that  the  only 
instance  which  he 
could  discover 
was a  man  fiom  Bhode  Island,  named 
Smith,  who had  actually won $30,000  in 
a  speculation in  the  street  and  carried 
the money away  to  speculate  no  more. 
It was the single bright instance in a long 
line of wrecks,  and was written down  in 
the book to hand the name of Smith down 
to immortality.  Unluckily for his  repu­
tation,  however,  hardly  was  the  book 
published before Smith turned up on the 
street and put  his  $30,000  into  another 
speculation.  He never heard of 1% again, 
and  the  sole 
instance  of  a  successful 
speculator  was ruthlessly destroyed.

H E N R Y   S .  R O B IN SO N . 

R IC H A R D   G .  E L U O T T .

H-Ç-RQBircsorc AND Company-
BOOTS,  SHOES  and  RUBBERS,

Manufacture»»  and  Wholesale Dealers in

99,101,103,105  Jefferson Ave.,

D,Mich.

State A gents for the  Candee Rubber Co.

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

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

T he  B R E A D  
R aiser

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

SOLD  BY  ALL  RELIABLE  GROCERS.

If yon have any beans and want to sell, 
we want them, will  give yon full  mar 
ket  price.  Send  them  to  ns  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.

TELFER  SPICE  COMPANY,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

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

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

I and 3  P earl  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS

OUR  SPRING  LINE  ia  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 
thirty-six years in the  city of  Rochester, N. Y.
William  Connor,  our  representative  in  Michigan,  whose  address is 
Box 346,  Marshall, Mich., will  gladly call upon you if  you will honor him 
with a line to show  you our  samples,  and  buy or not  buy, we  will  thank 
you  for the  honor  of  inspection.  W illiam   Connor  will  be  at  Sweet’s 
Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich., on Thursday and  Friday, March  2d  and  3d. 
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 ic h a e l  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 .

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T H E   M IC H IG A N   T K A D E8 M A N .

MEN  OF  MARK.

nam Candy Co.

From the New York Tribune.

Some Problems of Poverty.

Ben. W. Putnam,  President  of the  Put­

In the  course  of  a  sermon  the other 
Sunday Dr.  Rainsford  declared  that no- 
I where  in  the  world  is  the  retail trade 
more unfavorable to the poor than in  this 
country.  That  there is a large  measure 
of truth in this  statement  will  be denied 
by no one  familiar  with  the life of  the 
very poor in the tenement-house districts.

peal to the retail dealer,  for he  is simply 
doing what all business men  do—getting 
as  much  profit as  he can  out of  his busi­
ness.  We may think that it would be to his 
interest  in  the  long  run  to  be  content 
with smaller  profits;  but  so  long  as he 
does not think so the question  is settled, 
so far as he  is concerned.  The only rem­
edy lies in so improving the conditions of 
life of the poor that they  will be capable 
of looking  out  for  their  own interests. 
Even the  poorest  family  ought  to have 
enough room to store away at  least a ton 
of coal  at once or to keep a barrel of flour. 
At  present  few  can do  so.  This opens 
up the great question of  tenement-house 
reform—a  question  which  cannot  be 
much longer ignored,  because  it  vitally 
affects the  well-being  and  prosperity  of 
the whole  city. 
If  we  not  only allow, 
but  force,  thousands  of  people  to live 
under conditions little  better  than those 
of wild  beasts, we must  not be surprised 
if many of them show  themselves  to  be 
as  little  amenable to law  as wild beasts. 
No matter  how  we  explain  it,  there  is 
something  wrong  with  a social  system 
that is content to  let  so  many thousand 
human  beings  live in  tenements that are 
themselves  prolific breeders of ignorance, 
hopelessness and  crime.  But  improved 
tenements  would  be  of no  avail,  unless 
the poor are themselves  improved.  The 
most helpless aspect of their condition  is 
that they  are  contented  with it.  They

few words.  He  has  but  two  hobbies— 
system in business and  horses outside  of 
business—and  both  receive  the  proper 
amount of  attention at  the proper  time. 
Benjamin W.  Putnam was born Feb.  1,
He has  comparatively  few  friends,  but 
1843,  in  a  historic  old  farm  hotel  near 
those he has are bound  to him with bands 
Orange,  Mass.,  located  on the  stage  line 
of steel.  Those  who  enjoy  his  friend­
between Boston  and Vermont.  There he 
ship cherish  it  as  a  rare  privilege  and 
lived  until  14  years  of  age,  when  his 
such a thing as his breaking with a friend 
father sold  the  farm  and  hotel  and  re- j is seldom  witnessed, 
He is a liberal con- 
moved  to  Warwick,  Mass.,  to  engage  in  tributor to public enterprises 
especially
the general store business.  Mr.  Putnam  turf meetings—and  in every respect may 
entered  his  father’s  employ,  and  after  be said to  be a  model  citizen.  His only 
the first year  was  in  general  charge  of  fault—if  fault it  be—is  that  he  carries 
the  business,  buying the  goods and act-  fidelity  to business  to  that extreme that 
ng as book-keeper and general  overs eer.  | he is almost a slave  to  his business,  and
At the age of 21 he  went  to  Springfield, 
but for his  innate  love of  horseflesh  and 
Mass.,  where he kept books for  two  and 
exercise  outside  of  business  hours  he 
one-half years  for  Hopkins,  King & Co., 
would long ago  have gone  to his reward.
wholesale  flour  dealers.  Here  he  first 
heard of  Grand Rapids  through the firm 
of  Sweet  &  Barnett—Martin  L.  Sweet 
and James M.  Barnett—who  at that  time 
conducted a flour mill  business here and 
shipped large quantities  of flour into  the 
Eastern States. 
In  the fall  of  1865 Mr. 
Putnam decided to make his home in  the 
Great  West,  and,  after  visiting  Chicago 
and several other places in  Michigan,  he 
came here  and  entered the employ of  E. 
F.  Ward  & Co.,  who  at  that  time  con­
ducted a  sash,  door  and  blind  business 
on  Mill street. 
In  the spring of  1866 he 
formed a copartnership  with  his brother, 
Joseph  D.,  under  the  style  of  Putnam 
Bros.,  and purchased a small  confection­
ery  stock,  which  was  located at  the foot 
of Monroe street,  where Miner’s hat store 
now  stands.*-The  stock  was  so  small 
that it conld  have  been  all  loaded on  a 
wheelbarrow,  but  the business increased 
so rapidly  under  the energetic  adminis­
tration  of  the  Putnam  Bros,  that  they 
were soon compelled to  move across  the 
street,  where they  fitted  up a handsome 
store room  in  the old  Irving Hall  build­
ing,  where they  remained  several years, 
store  in 
subsequently  occupying 
the 
the
of  the  Hall  building.  Their 
place 
next  move  was  to  abandon 
the  re­
tail  business  and  open  a wholesale and 
manufacturing  business  on  Waterloo 
street,  subsequently  removing  to  Kent 
street,  where  they  did  business  in  the 
building now occupied  by the New York 
Biscuit  Co.  They  next  moved  to  the
Butterworth  building, on  Huron  street,  j For, partly through  necessity  and  partly! want  nothing  better,  because  they 
where they  remained until  their removal  through ignorance,  they  habitually make  intellectually  conscious of  nothing
their  purchases  from  day  to  day.  and 
to Canal  street,  where  the  firm  of  Put­
| often  from  hour  to hour,  the  result  be- 
nam  Bros,  and  Putnam  &  Brooks  did
I ing, of course,  that they  pay enormously 
business  about a dozen  years,  acquiring  high prices  for  everything. 
Instead  of 
a  reputation  for  enterprise  and  agres-  buying  a ton of coal  for $6 or less,  they 
siveness  which was the pride of the mar-  buy  it by the scuttle or  bushel  at theeor-
ket in  its early days as a  jobbing center. 
sft°“ et!mes  Pay!"&  V ? e
rate of 815  or $20 a ton.  Besides  which,
The  establishment  was  completely gut-  the  coal  for  which  they  pay this moo­
ted by fire on one  occasion,  but  the  firm  strous price  is often of the poorest qual- 
quickly  got  on  its  feet  again  and  was  *^y.  Flour,  which  they  could  get  at
soon  doing business at the old  stand,  ap- 
,the
’  F  | form of baker’s bread at about  $15 a bar-
parentiy none the  worse for the  singing  rel.  So it is  with  all the other staples of 
it received.  Five  years ago  the firm  re- | life.  The  well  to  do  are  able  to get
everything  at  bottom  prices,  because 
moved  to 
its  present  quarters  in  the 
they are so  situated  that  they  can  pur­
Blodgett building,  on South  Ionia  street, 
chase a  large  quantity at once.  But the 
and  three  years 'ago  the  firm  was  dis­
very  poor,  who  can  least  afford 
it,  pay 
two or three times  as  much  for  similar 
solved  by  the'retirement  of  Mr.  Brooks 
articles,  which are often inferior in qual­
and the organization  of a stock company 
ity.  The same  thing  is true of  the few 
with $75,000 paid  up  capital  under  the 
luxuries which  the poor sometimes allow 
style  of  the  Putnam  Candy  Co.  The 
themselves.  When  they  wish  to  pur­
chase these luxuries—a watch or a bit of 
business  has  gradually  increased  under 
jewelery. may be—they almost invariably 
the  management  of  Mr.  Putnam,  who 
patronize some little  shop  in the  neigh­
acts  as  President  and  Manager  of  the 
borhood,  getting an article for which,  as 
corporation  and  has  a  general  oversight 
as a rule,  they pay 50 per cent, more than 
they would for the same  grade of  goods 
over every detail of the business,  until it 
in a large establishment.
is the leading business of  the kind in the 
Evidently something should  be done to 
State.
remedy this state of  affairs;  but it is not 
It  is  useless  to ap-
easy to  say  what. 

are
nothing  bet­
ter.  Any  city  missionary  will  testify 
that there are families  which would  vio­
lently  resist a compulsory law of cleanli­
ness.  For instance,  if  they  were forced 
to take a bath habitually  they would  feel 
that  sense  of  shame  that  most  people 
would  feel  in  the  commission  of  some 
foolish or discreditable act.
It is absurd  to  suppose  that  anything 
can  be done  with  such  people until  they 
are morally  regenerated.  They  must be 
educated,  and  the  whole  horizon of their 
life enlarged.  At  present  they  are  not 
properly a part of modern  civilization at 
all,  but lie almost  wholly without its  in­
fluences.  Before their  condition can  be 
materially improved they must  be put in 
right relations with the progressive ideals 
of human society,  so  that,  in  a measure, 
they will think  its  thoughts,  and  strive 
in their own  lives  to advance the  inter­
ests  of  the  whole  community.  When 
they  have been thus rehabilitated the ter­
rible  problem  of  poverty  will  largely 
solve itself through the orderly evolution 
of human society.

A Chicago man  recently saved  his  life 
by carrying a roll  of $100 bills  inside his 
vest  when a bullet came that  way.  Yet 
there are people who neglect  so simple a 
precaution.

Personally,  Mr.  Putnam  is  a  man of

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Manufacturer’s Agent and  Jobber of

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

AMU

Wooden  Bowls,  Clothespins  and  Rolling 

Pins,  Step  Ladders,  W ashing  Ma­

chines, M arket, Bushel and De­

livery Has  ets.  B uilding 

Paper. W rapping

Paper, Sacks, Twine  and  Stationery.

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

125  COURT  ST.,

G RAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

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06899612

H M  PINT 1 OVERALL CO.
1  F.  MainsSt., Kalamazoo, Mich.

Chicago salesroom with Silverman & Opper, 

Corner Monroe st. and  Fifth ave.

Our specialties:  Pants from *7.50 to IV  perdoz. 
warranted  not  to  rip.  Shirts  from  $2 50 to  *15 
per doz.  Spring line  now ready,  samples  sent 
on approval.

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POTATOES.

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Bookkeeping- as  a   P rofession .

The  casual  observer who  stands  in  a 
great  retail  store and  watches the  con­
tinuous  flash  of  the  cash  carrier,  and 
listens to the  sharp  click as  the  return­
ing vehicle  reaches  its  destination  with 
the proper amount of  small change, does 
not  usually  think of  the  busy fingers  at 
the  other  end of  the line,  or of  the cen­
tral intelligence which  controls all  those 
radiating  lines.  The bookkeeper’s office 
is  like a reservoir  into  which  all  these 
little  streams  flow together,  only it  is  a 
reservoir  of  a  strange and  highly sensi­
tive  kind so that  it  feels  and  responds 
instantly  to  any  improper  variation  in 
the  flow  of  the  little  tributaries.  The 
wiles of  the salesman are seen and noted 
of  all,  but  the  art of  the  bookkeeper is 
rarely  thought of  by the  general  public 
or  is  considered a dull  and  mechanical 
occupation.  Most people doubtless think 
rather slightly of the work of the record­
ing angel  until he opens  his  book.  His 
task  is  doubtless somewhat  mechanical, 
and  still  he has  occasion  to make  some 
remarkably  interesting  entries  and  so 
has the  bookkeeper,  dull  as  his  routine 
of  work  may  be.  That  it at  least  does 
not produce dullness in those who pursue 
it the Essays of Elia are a sufficient proof.
There is a great  difference in tastes,  of 
course.  Some  men  loathe  a  counting- 
room  as  heartily  as  Frank  Osbaldistone 
and turn  with a relish to a sonnet,  while 
others,  like  the  clerk  in  “Hard  Cash,” 
find the romance of  their lives in figures, 
devour  columns of  sums  as  other  men 
devour  novels;  dream  of  trial  balances 
by night  and  are  not  happy until  they 
begin  again  in  the  morning.  That  the 
figures  represent  money that  belongs  to 
some  one  else  does  not  diminish  their 
pleasure  in  the  least;  their  interest  is 
for  the  figures  in  the  abstract.  They 
take  a  sort of  romantic  interest  in  the 
marvelous  completeness and  orderliness 
of  the little science they pursue,  and the 
astronomer’s delight when  a  new  planet 
swims  into his  ken  at the  precise  print 
indicated  by  his  calculations, 
is  not 
greater than that of the born  bookkeeper 
when  a  month’s  work  shows  the  place 
where a two-cent piece was wrongly deb­
ited to  “cash.”  The greatness and small­
ness  of* thiugs is purely  relative,  and  to 
a  mind of  a turn  for mathematical  nice­
ties  the search  for a missing  figure is as 
thrilling a pursuit  as  a search  for  a new 
world. 
It is as  natural  for some  men to 
love a ruler and red  ink and a book  with 
neat  and  orderly rows of  figures  as it  is 
for  others  to  scrawl  verses  or  pictures 
on 
loose  scraps  of  paper  and  scatter 
everything to the  four  winds of  heaven.
In  this mercantile age  the art of  book­
keeping  has  assumed  an  unprecedented 
importance  as  the  chief  portal  to  the 
mercantile  life.  When  the spirit of  un­
rest  seizes the  country lad  and  he feels 
the craving for  city  life,  his first  step is 
to  enter a  commercial  school and  study 
bookkeeping.  He  may  discover  before 
he  has mastered  the subject  that he  has 
missed  his calling and  that  he belongs on 
the farm,  but if he finds that he  likes the 
work and perseveres until  he has learned 
g.11  that  the  school  has to teach, he  will 
probably succeed in getting a place where 
he  has  all  the work  he  cares to  do and 
enough  hay to keep  him  alive.  Now is 
the crucial time. 
If  he thinks he knows 
it all  he is  lost;  he  will  never rise  any 
higher;  if  he  sets  to  work  earnestly to 
convert  theory into  practice,  he  will  in 
due course of time come to  be  worth any­
where from  $1,000 to $2,500 a year.  But 
the  number  of  expert  accountants 
is 
amazingly small  when  one  considers  the 
great  number of  those  who  are  engaged 
keeping books.
Is the life of  a bookkeeper a  desirable 
one?  That is the question  that  is often 
asked  by  young people  starting  in  life, 
and  the  question  was put  to an  expert 
who had spent many years in active book­
keeping or  in the instruction  of  others. 
“Yes,  and  no,”  he  said.  “It  is  a  hard 
question  to  answer; 
is  a  wearing 
profession  and  a  hard  one. 
If  one  is 
given to  worrying he had better be  dead 
than go  into  the  business,  for  mistakes 
will  happen  and  sometimes 
it  will  be 
mouths before things can be straightened 
out.  Now,  I enjoy the work;  they can’t 
put  too  much  work  on  me.  My  head 
gets  tired,  but I  am  just  as  fresh  the

it 

next  morning.  The  way  I  do  it  is  by 
mental  exercise. 
If 1  went to bed  when 
I got  through  work I would  see  figures 
all  night  and could  not  sleep  a  wink. 
So I take  something  very  light—1  don’t 
care  how  silly  it 
is—Arabian  Nights, 
Robinson Crusoe,  Oliver Optic,  Beadle’s 
dime  novels,  anything  to  distract  my 
mind  from  the  figures.  Then  I  sleep 
like a top.  But if  one  sets  to  worrying 
about  mistakes  he  had  better  go  into 
some  other  business  at  once. 
I  was 
called not  long ago to hunt up a mistake 
in  the accounts  of  a bookkeeper  in  this 
city. 
She  was  overworked,  and  had 
worked for months extra hours  trying to 
discover the trouble.  There was a short­
age of $1,000,  and  she worked  over it so 
she could not enjoy her vacation. 
I spent 
98 solid hours of  work and  at last I found 
it.  A substitute had added up some  col­
umns and  had  made a mistake  of  $1,000 
on each side  so that  the  totals balanced 
and the mistake could  not  be  found till 
the  separate  ledger  entries  were  gone 
over.”  “I suppose  you find a good  deal 
of  carelessness  as  you  examine  other 
people’s accounts.”  “Oh dear yes, there 
are some  very capable merchants who do 
not seem to appreciate the importance of 
bookkeeping;  keep  their memoranda  on 
old envelopes,  or  loose slips of paper. 
I 
knew a  man  who  kept  his  accounts  in 
his hat;  one  day  on  the  prairie  his hat 
flew off and his ledger was scattered over 
about 20 square miles.”
“Has  the  bookkeeper  many  chances 
for  dishonesty?”
“Not in  a small  way;  not  so  many as 
the  salesman.  When  he  takes anything 
at all it  is  usually  a  big  haul.”  “Is  it 
hard for an  expert  accountant  to  cover 
up his  thefts?”  “That  depends  on  the 
system. 
If the accounts  are  thoroughly 
kept  and  well 
looked  after  he has  no 
chance to steal a penny. 
If  he is left  to 
his own  devices and is allowed to  be the 
only one who  understands  the  books the 
amount  that  he  can  take  is  almost  un­
limited. 
I  believe in getting  good men, 
paying them enough so  that they can  af­
ford to be honest,  and  then in  following 
them up with a sharp  stick.  The reason 
that  there  are so many  dishonest book­
keepers is that  employers do  not realize 
the value  and  responsibility  of  the ser­
vices that they render and cut down their 
pay  to the lowest margin,  and then  leave 
them 
like. 
Most people want to  be  honest,  but  not 
all  have the force  of character to remain 
honest when temptation i3   thrown in their 
way.”  “Have  you  found  many  books 
dishonestly  ‘cooked’  in  your experience 
as  an  auditor?”  “Not  many;  most  of 
them  were  the  result of  carelessness.” 
“The hardest  work  that  an  accountant 
has to  do,  by the  way, is  in auditing  ac­
counts.  There  is often  a complete  lack 
of system.  The vouchers  for  payments 
are not  arranged  so that  one  can  get  at 
them,  and often all  that  one can  do is  to 
audit  the  castf  account  and  see that  it 
balances  with  the  cash  on  hand.  One 
who does auditing will  find some  fearful 
and  wonderful specimens of bookkeeping 
done by men  who  claim to be  experts.” 
“What are the chief requisites  for a suc­
cessful bookkeeper?”  “In  the first place 
be must  have a talent  for  arithmetic,  a 
mind  that  works  rapidly  and  surely. 
Then he must  have good  health and  the 
capacity  for  a  great  deal  of  very  hard 
work.”  “Is there any difference between 
young men and young women in capacity 
for  this  work?”  “The  young  women 
pick  it  up  more  quickly,  but I am  not 
sure that they have more ability. 
It is a 
very  good  profession  for  women. 
It 
gives  a  good  deal  more  freedom  than 
clerking.  The  work sometimes bunches 
up  but  when  it  is  got  out  of  the  way 
there is  often a considerable  time  when 
one can get off  easily.”  “How  long  are 
the working hours?”  “How long are the 
working hours of  a housewife?  Till the 
work is done.  That is one  great trouble 
with the  work.  Employers  do  not  ap­
preciate the  labor  involved  and  pile  on 
outside duties till it  is  impossible to  at­
tend  to  it  properly.  Of  course,  it  gets 
behind,  then there  are  mistakes,  worry 
and dissatisfaction. 
If  employers  want 
their  work  done  in  a  satisfactory  way 
they  should  see  to  it  that  their  book­
keepers  have  no  more  work  than  they 
can do with comfort and  ease.”

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JIM  ALLSPICE.

A  Few  Hints  to  the  Boys  on Expense 

Accounts.

Written for Th e  Trade s m a n

The mystery is  finally  solved. 

I  find 
where  I am  now  poor  and  still  behind 
with  the  house,  I  have  been  asleep  all 
these years.  The old  saying of  the new 
suit of clothes in the expense  account  is 
no longer a myth—it  has  turned  out  to 
be a fact;  in  fact,  as  plain  a  conundrum 
as was  ever  solved,  and  to  you,  fellow 
travelers,  who are not “onto the racket,” 
I  will  divulge,  with  the  understanding 
that  “mum is the  word.”

When  I  look  back  at  my 

long  con­
tinued struggles for  years  to  keep  even 
with  my  landlord,  my  coal  and  wood 
man,  the  groceryman  and  the  short- 
weight man  who forgets to take his hand 
off the scales when he  weighs  the  meat, 
I say to myself,  “Too bad  1 was not  ‘on’ 
before.”

While on one of  my Northern  trips,  I 
chanced to  make the  acquaintance  of  a 
young and dudish looking  salesman who 
seemed to  be very pert  and right up and 
posted fully as  to all  prize  fights,  horse 
races  and  general  athletic  sports.  He 
smoked  cigarettes  very freely;  he had  a 
very fine and polished  easy way and,  for 
some reason, became quite confidential as 
to his sales,  salary and  general  business 
life.  Our first stop found  us at Cadillac. 
We both  went  to the same hotel.  After 
supper,  while I was  busy with my  mail, 
getting my orders  eopied, he  put  in  his 
time figuring,  which  I  afterwards  found 
to be his monthly expense account.  Aft­
er figuring it all  out,  he  made a  regular 
copy of one portion,  which he  mailed  to 
his  house.  He  was  careless  enough  to 
leave the original on the desk at  my side

and  my  curiosity  led  me to  investigate
the  find,  w ith  the follow ing resu lt;

EXPENSE ACCOUNT FOR NOVEMBER.

Dr.

*  Dr.
................. ......  320 00
...  50 00
....  22 00 392 CO

One  mileage book 
Cash for expenses....................
Collections.......................
Cr.
30 days hotel @32.................... ......   360 00
M i leage used............................
...  14  20
'Bus and sundry expenses...... ___ 
7 50
Cash and mileage on  hand__ ......  10 30 392 00

BAKE OFF.
Worked the  “con” ...................
...  8 5 00
Hotel  divy  .............................. ......  
5 00
Lunch counter saved  ............
5 CO
Staid with  friends..................
500
.... 
Walked to hotels.............................   3 SO
Rebates not paid.............................  
5 00 328 SO
Paid house rent...............................  312 00
Paid for clothes......   ......................  16 50 328 50
After reading  it over very carefully,  1 
says to myself,  “It was no joke,  after all, 
about the suit of clothes being in the new 
traveling  man’s  expense.  Here 
is  the 
proof,  and you fellows  who have been  in 
the dark can now see how  it is done.  In 
all probability he  does  not  hold  a posi­
tion very  long.”  This probably will  be 
pleasant reading to some of the boys, but, 
to me, it was dead news from the way be­
yond.  Such is life.

Cr.

I also  notice  in  connection  with  this 
that the salesman with all the trunks and 
extra  baggage,  who  has  the  best  room 
and also occupies the sample room at the 
hotel,  generally has a“pull” on the clerk, 
dining room girl and the bartender.  His 
money  goes  farther  or  else  is  brighter 
than 
that 
trav­
for  a  meal 
eler  who 
or 
grip to  and from the train,  regardless  of 
how many trips a year.  We  are  all hu­
man and some of us  keep up a thinking, 
especially when we ride into a town with 
our  fellow traveler in the same line and 
have him jump  out  to the  trade  on  the

only 
carries 

night  and 

of 
stops 

his  own

average 

the 

fiy and  quote  granulated  or  Arbuckle’s 
with a cut or rebate quietly made  “on the 
side,”  in order to hold  trade  until  he can 
get around  after  or  with his competitor, 
who,  as a general rule,  goes to the hotel, 
takes a wash, fixes up, eats a good  square 
meal,  then goes  forth  ready  to  meet all 
competition  and,  generally  speaking, 
books  the  orders.  With  what  pride  a 
labors  with  beginners  and, 
salesman 
finally,  sells 
them  a  stock,  putting 
in his years of  experience  as to  quality 
of the  goods  and  making a  selection of 
the  different 
lines  so  as  to  meet  the 
amount to be  invested; and,  after taking 
the order,  shipping  and delivering,  what 
is  more embarrassing than to meet  them 
again  and  find  some  of  your  rivals in 
trade  have  already  called  and  put  in 
their cold  work  by cutting  your straight 
and legitimate prices  wide  open and,  in 
a  general  way,  really  tried  to  belittle 
you  and  your  house,  because  they  did 
not buy of them,  and first time they  meet 
you are so pleased to see you  and cannot 
help but mention  they  were so glad you 
took the order—they were so afraid  they 
would  buy  in  Chicago.  Boys, it  is  all 
moonshine,  and 1 find,  the  longer I trav­
el,  there are tricks in our  line as  well  as 
others— “The  early  bird  catches 
the 
worm.”

J im  All spic e.

Mute Advertising:.

A rather unusual  bit  of experience fell 
to the lot of a Cherry street grocery clerk 
recently.

The clerk Is  on familiar  terms  with  a 
corncob pipe,  and between the two a vast 
quantity of package smoking tobacco finds 
a  ready  market.  A few days ago  while 
loading his corncob from  the contents  of

a newly-opened  package,  the  clerk  was 
surprised at finding a neat  little card  up­
on which  was printed  a certificate  to the 
effect that,  if  the holder forwarded  it  to 
the office of Blank  & Blank,  it would en­
title him to a watch which would be mail­
ed to  bis address immediately. The brand 
of  tobacco  is  a  well-known  staple  one, 
sold in the  regular  way,  and as  free  of 
prize gift schemes  and  lottery  fakes  as 
any other  standard  article  of  merchan­
dise.  The clerk  was  at  first  inclined to 
treat the matter as an  unexplainable lit­
tle mistake of some kind,  but  he was ad­
vised to  forward the certificate and  see if 
anything would come  of it. 
Imagine his 
surprise when  the  return  mail  brought 
the  promised  watch,  which  he  is  now 
sporting,  and  for  which  he has  refused 
$5.

The salesman who  sells the grocer this 
brand  knows  nothing  about  it  and  can 
give no explanation of  the matter.  Was 
it a blunder on the part of  someone con­
nected with the putting up of those pack­
ages,  or was  it an advertisement?  If for 
an  advertisement,  was  it  intended  for 
the watch or for the tobacco?  Assuming 
it to be a  “mute” advertising  scheme,  it 
is a good one.  So  far as  this  particular 
store  is concerned,  every  customer  will 
know  that  a  $5  watch  certificate  was 
found in a package of  this certain brand 
of  tobacco,  and  on  the  principle  that 
what  has  happened  once  may  happen 
again,  it would have  a certain  tendency 
to induce  people to  purchase more of it.

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

G x x r a z x r a   r o o t .
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Did  you ever know an  American  who 
avowed that he refrained  from incurring 
any expense because he could  not  afford 
it ?  I can  recall  no 
instance  of  such 
frankness.  An English Duke,  a Russian 
Prince,  will say this,  meaning  that there 
are other uses  to  which  he  devotes  his 
income  more  satisfactorily  to  himself 
than  would be the outlay suggested;  but 
one of  our  countrymen  who  prefers  a 
humbler to a more pretentious hotel, and 
frankly avows that he does  it to save ex­
pense,  is exceedingly rare.

Steaming down the  Rhine  over twenty 
years ago,  I saw many  things  more  im­
pressive,  but nothing that gave me  more 
satisfaction,  than  the  spectacle  of  a 
family, evidently of the  middle class,  in­
telligent  and  not  without  refinement, 
draw together  on  the  open  deck,  and 
there,  sitting in  a  cozy  circle,  eat  the 
dinner which they had evidently brought 
from  home  to  comfort  them  on  their 
summer-day’s  excursion  for  pleasure. 
That they enjoyed this more than  a meal 
in the  hot,  stifling  cabin  was doubtless 
the fact; still,  the-saving of needless cost 
was plainly considered also.  Who knows 
an  American  family  of  any  culture  or 
consideration that  dares  be  thus  inde­
pendent and rational ?

One of my favorite recollections is that 
of a lady who,  thirty odd  years ago,  was 
newly married,  and  was,  with  her  hus­
band,  a  vegetarian,  then  termed  “Gra- 
hamite.”  She had a young wife’s  visits 
from  those who had  been  friends  when 
she needed  such,  as  well  as  relatives 
from  homes  fifty  to  a  hundred  miles 
distant, each of  them  scrutinizing  with 
keen eyes her bearing in  her new role of 
housekeeper and  hostess, without knowl­
edge of  or the  faintest  sympathy  with 
her peculiar ideas of diet.  At meal-time, 
she bade them welcome  to such  food  as 
she had  prepared  for  her husband  and 
herself—no tea,  no  coffee,  no  meat,  no 
condiment but salt—abundant and whole­
some,  no doubt,  but  as  plain  and  un­
stimulating as that of any  hermit in  the 
wilderness, or  monk 
in  his  cell.  Had 
she explained or  apologized,  the  charm 
would have been broken; but  she simply 
proffered what  she had,  and  evinced no 
consciousness that it was other than they 
were  accustomed  to,  or  might  have 
chosen.  Her manner implied—“I  know 
you have not  come  hither  for  food,  for 
that  you  have at home;  and 1 am  sure 
you prefer more of my  society  with  such 
fare  as 
is  convenient  to  -  sumptuous 
viands which I  must  leave  you  alone  to 
If  they  were  tolerably  well 
prepare.” 
bred,  this  pleased  them; 
if  not,  what 
matter if they went soon  and never came 
again ?

indifferent 

The better minds of the age are ponder­
ing a thousand projects which aim to help 
the needy and assuage the pangs of want. 
How  to  make  the  weekly  or  monthly 
stripend  of  the 
toiler  go 
further,  is a  problem  which  fitly  taxes 
the attention of the generous and humane. 
They have studied long and with indiffer­
ent success to  enhance  his  means;  sup­
pose they were to give  one  year  to  the 
problem—“How  shall  we  most  wisely 
and effectively circumscribe his needs ?” 
Here is a poor family  living  in  a  great 
and dear city on a  total  income  of  $600 
per  annum—hardly  able,  they  say,  to 
pay  the  rent  each  month,  though  their 
rooms will  barely  hold  them,  and  each 
member works that can earn a dime; how 
much of that $600,  think  you,  goes  for

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what they might better do without?  Sup 
pose they saved and wisely invested what 
they  thus  squander,  how 
long  would 
they dread the peremptory knock  of  the 
rent collector or turn pale at  the  thought 
of a week without work ?

How to  improve  and  elevate  the con­
dition of the laboring poor is the divinest 
problem of the age.  The  laborer  is  no 
more a slave; he is  not  even  a  serf;  he 
has  renounced  tutelage  and  guardian­
ship.  “Lord of  himself, 
that  heritage 
of woe,” he demands more  leisure,  more 
culture,  more  consideration.  He 
in­
dignantly  asks  why,  producing  every­
thing,  he  should  possess  and  enjoy 
nothing.  He is  mistaken  every way; he 
neither possesses everything  nor  enjoys 
nothing.  The  capitalist,  who  pays  for 
the labor which builds a  railroad,  is  as 
truly  a  producer  as  though  he  toiled 
daily on  the  gradually  extending  track 
with pick and  spade; so is  the  engineer 
and  the  contractor.  The  rudest  track­
layer may be  part  owner  of  the  road 
when finished  if  he  will  devote  to  this 
end so much of his earnings as he invests 
in 
if  he 
weekly  spends all  he earns,  he  has  no 
right and no  claim  to  property  in  that 
road.  He  may have  laid every rail,  and 
yet he owns nothing,  if he  has eaten  and 
drunk  up his wages so fast  as he  earned 
them.

liquor,  tobacco,  etc.;  while, 

“Shall  we ever be  able  to  reduce  the 

usual day’s work to eight hours ?”

Yes;  if  the 

laborer  will  consent  to 
forego meantime  the  indulgence  of  all 
factitious appetites.  Eight  hours  faith­
ful  labor per day will  provide for all our 
real needs; while eighteen will not suffice 
to satiate all our  superimposed  cravings 
for sensual  indulgence.  The  young me­
chanic in  a great  city,  who  earns  from 
$15 to $25 per week,  may easily accustom 
himself to dance and drink it  up so  fast 
as he receives it,  though  he  might  and 
should save half of it;  and he who  saves 
nothing the first year of his independence 
of parental guardianship,  will  rarely be­
gin to save  thereafter.  “It  is  the  first 
step  that  costs,”  in  this  as 
in  most 
things.  The  youth  who has  saved  half 
his first year’s earnings will seldom cease 
to save thereafter.

Franklin’s pithy maxims  as though they 
had  made  his  countrymen  sordid  and 
meanly parsimonious—a nation of misers 
and skinflints. 
I  fail  to  see  proof  of 
this.  Our charities  are  munificent,  not 
to say ostentatious—witness those evoked 
by  the  desolation  of  Chicago.  During 
forty years  of  observation  in  this  city, 
I have seldom  known  a  fair  appeal  to 
her benevolence  to  pass  unheeded. 
If 
giving  would  extinguish  pauperism,  I 
think one  thousand  millions  of  dollars 
would  readily be subscribed and paid  to 
achieve that  end.  A las!  we  all  know 
that almsgiving would  not  achieve  it— 
that,  after we had raised  and  disbursed 
the full  billion, 
there  would  be  more 
beggars and  more  suffering  from  want 
than  there  now  are.  Bailing  out  the 
ocean  is  a rational undertaking compared 
with that of extinguishing  pauperism by 
alms-giving.

The great need of our age  is manliness 
—that spirit of self-respect and self-trust 
which silently says:  “You may have mil­
lions; I have nothing; 1 am  content  with 
what I earn,  and do not  want  your  mil­
lions  until  I have fairly earned  them.  I 
do not seek your company  nor  value you 
one whit more  for your millions;  I  envy

I 

have heard men  talk  of  Benjamin 

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

18

you not  their  possession;  hate  you  no 
more than I love  you  because  of  your 
wealth; should you ever need my services, 
you can  have them by  fairly  paying  for 
them; that done,  we shall  stand on a foot­
ing of perfect  equality,  as  we  do  now. 
If you fancy I will cringe  and  smirk  to 
win your favor,  when  I  can  find  cord- 
wood to cut at a fair  price  and  thereby 
live incurring no  obligation,  profiting by 
no patronage  whatever,  that shows  that 
you do not know me.”

But this spirit is only  possible in  men 
of chastened appetites  as  well as  heroic 
souls.  Diogenes in  his  tub,  asking  no 
odds of Alexander of  Macedon  but  that 
he would no  longer  interrupt  the  phil­
osopher’s share of the common sunshine, 
would  have been a pretender and a cheat 
had he pined for the banquets of Apicius, 
the wines of  Cyprus  and  of  Scio.  He 
was the peer of the great conqueror, only 
because he had long  ago  triumphed  over 
the appetites whereby the  vast  majority 
are led captive and enslaved.  Alexander, 
enthralled by  ignoble  yet imperious pas­
sions,  instinctively recognized his master 
in the cynic who commanded  everything 
because he coveted  nothing.

Vainly do we,  by  invention  after  in­
vention,  increase  the  efficiency  of  our 
exertions  while  we see  no  limit  to  our 
desires.  The  sewing  machine  trebles 
the  seamstress’  capacity  for  execution; 
so we cover our  dresses  all  over  with 
fancy stitching,  and so render them more 
costly than  before.  Of what avail  is the 
steam-plow’s marvelous  efficiency if  the 
plowman deserts the field,  insisting  that 
he will  live by sophistry as  a  lawyer  or 
by quackery as a doctor?  Invent and im­
prove as  we may,  we shall  be nowise the 
gainers so long as we practically  esteem 
it to be the chief end of man  to  produce 
as little as he may and  consume as much 
as he can.

lordly  few. 

The poorest  artisan  to-day  consumes 
luxuries which  were  once  monopolized 
by  the  rich  and 
Is  the 
artisan benefited by this  diffusion?  Time 
was,  when  he was  satisfied  with  coarse 
bread and coarser raimeut; at  length,  he 
achieved the possibility  of  being  drunk 
a week at Christmas,  though  obliged  to 
be sober all the rest of the  year;  should 
we congratulate him that he may now,  if 
he chooses,  reel to bed  every.night,  and 
that he often  improves his privilege?  Is 
it fortunate for him  that  he  may  begin 
to  defile  himself  with  tobacco  while 
hardly yet  in  his  teens,  and  that  he 
thenceforth  snuffs,  smokes  and  chews 
himself out of all natural purity of taste, 
and at length 
into  his  coffin?  To  my 
perception,  it is  clear  that  far  beyond 
ability to earn or to secure  more  of  this 
world’s goods than  now  fall to his lot,  he 
needs wisdom  to guide his  appetites  and 
firmness to control  them.

The Hardware Market.

There  are  but  few  changes  taking 
place in  hardware,  as during this  mouth 
things are usually very quiet.

Wire Nails—A  firmer  tone 

is  mani­
fested with all the mills, and the extreme 
prices existing in January are withdrawn. 
Jobbers have not,  as yet,  made  any  ad­
vance,  but will be compelled to  do so,  if 
the mills remain  firm.

Barbed Wire—Firm in  price.  A great 
many orders are being entered  for  ship­
ment  in  March.  A  buyer  cannot  go 
amiss at present prices in  buying  all he 
can pay for.

Rope—For some reasou the rope market

cannot be kept up to what manufacturers 
say is a paying figure.  While  there  has 
been no change in fcisal,  we  find  manilla 
is a little lower.

Glass—The recent  advance  made  all 
along the  line seems to  be maintained by 
both jobbers and  manufacturers,  and  it 
is  well  that such is the case,  as  margins 
still are all too close to cut.

Board  and  Log Rules—A very material 
advance has been made in  all  kinds  of 
board and log  rules.  While  there  was 
but three  makers,  the  competition  be­
tween them was  very severe  and  prices 
went way  below  the  cost  mark.  While 
there does  not seem to  be  any  combin­
ation,  a general advance by all  has been 
made.  We  quote  40  and  10  discount 
from  list.

FOB  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.

Bt'SINK SS  CHANCJSS.

T7ILEGANT OFFER—IT’S  NO  TROUBLE  TO 
A J  find drug  stocks for sale, but you  generally 
• find a nigger in the  fence.”  I have an elegant 
drug business foratile; stock about 34,000;bright, 
clean  and  oldest  established  trade.  Prominent 
location:  brick building;  stone walk; rent mod­
erate;  city  30,000;  reasons  for  selling  made 
known.  Suit  yourself  about  terms.  Address 
quick,  John  K.  Meyers,  Muskegon,  Mich.  67
■ OR  SALE  —  IN  ONE  OF  THE  FINEST 
towns of  the  State, a stock of  clothing  and 
furnishings.  Will inventory about 34,800.  Only 
stock in town.  Best of reasons  for  selling.  No 
old stock.  Address  054, care  Michigan  Trades­
man__________________ ___ ________ 654
TjIOR  SALE—WELL-SELECTED  GROCERY 
A   stock, located on a main thoroughfare.  One 
of  the oldest grocery establishments in the  city, 
which  has yielded good returns every year.  For 
full  pa- ticul irs as  to  stoek. terms and  location, 
call on or address Amos S. Musselman, President 
Musselman Grocer Co. 
IilOK  SALE —FURNITURE  STOVE  AND 
crockery  business.  Store  well  adapted  to 
the  business.  Undertaking  might  be  added. 
Barg  in  on  the  stock;  low  rent;  great oppor­
tunity:  fine  prosperous  fa  ming  country.  Ad­
dress Lock Box 98. Greenville. Mich. 
651
IilOR  SALE—GOOD,  CLEAN, SALABLE stock 
of  drugs,  groceries  and  hardware, or  will 
exchange for desirable  chattel property  or  real 
estate.  Arthur  Mulholland,  Jr.,  Ashton, Mich.

659

645

.SITUATIONS  W A N T E D .

■ JTAN TED—POSITION  AS  BOOK KEEPER 
or salesman in general store by young man 
of  0 years.  Two years’ experience in store and 
short  course  in  commercial  college.  Good 
references.  Address  No  c;,"  --i-s  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
TAT ANTED—POSITION  AS  SALESMAN  BY 
I t   unmarried  man  24  years  old;  two and  a 
half years in general  store.  Good  stock keeper. 
References.  Address H., Box 33, Columbiaville, 
Mich_____________________________ 671

658

MISC ELL ANEOU8.

656

072

655

rrto   RENT—Nh.W  BR[i;K  STORE  22X100,  IN 
A  heart  of  business  in  this  rapidly  growing 
town of 3,0i 0, having four  large flourish-ng fur­
niture  factories  and  many  other  industries. 
Railroads radiate to six points of compass.  Only 
one clothing, two hardware and three dry goods 
stores.  Grand openiug for another of  each.  R. 
S  Tracy, Sturgis, Mich. 
D rug  sto re  to  r en t  in  «  h iRlev o ix.
The store was  built in 1875  and  has been in 
use as a drug  store  continually ever  since  that 
time,  it  has  shelving,  drawers,  counters,  dis 
pensing  counters all  ready  for a stock of  goods 
and  is  centra ly  located.  The  opening  for  a 
good  live  druggist  is  unexcelled  in  Northern 
Michigan, and  the rent  moderate.  Apply to G. 
W. Orouter, Charlevoix, Mich. 
TOT A NTE D—GOOD  DRI  G  CLERK.  GIVE 
t V  references  wages wanted and experience. 
Drugs, care Tradesman. 
IpOR  SALE—OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  LARGE 
stock  of  merchandise.  Will  pay  cash  dif­
ference.  six  hundred  acres  hardwood  timber 
land  in  Emmet  county.  Good  soil.  One  half 
mile  from  railway station, by road or waterway. 
For  particulars  address  E. F. B., Grand  Blanc,
Mich. 
■ TILL  PAY  CASH  FOR  STOCK  OF  GRO- 
ceries  or  general  merchandise.  Must  be 
cheap.  Address  No. 657, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
F or  s a l e—tw o-sto ry  fr a m e  sto re
building and  dwelling in thriving Northern 
Michigan  town.  Property  well  rented.  Will 
sell cheap or exchange  for city  property.  A. M. 
LeBaron, 6  Monroe St. 
F OR SALE—CLEAN  stock  OF  GENERAL 
merchandise, located  at  Sumner,  six  miles 
south  of  Riverdale.  Building  is  22x88,  with 
storehouse  2"x90,  all  in  good  shape.  Trade 
amounts to 315,0c0 per year  Excellent opportu 
nity.  Address  No.  632, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
■ OK  SALE—SYLVAN  LAKE  HOTEL,  ROME 
City  Ind.  Or will  sell  furniture  and  rent 
building,  or  would  exchange  for  other  good 
property.  Address Lock Box 61, La Grange, Ind.
648.

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632

652

636

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

INDUCEMENT

R e t a i l   D m j a a i s T S

TO  THE

AND

<3t^ 2 sTE1j=ij l .Tj  S t o r e s .

Do  Yoil  Sell

DIAMOND  TEA?

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 
H eadache and L iver 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.

Empress  Josephine Face Bleach

Is the only reliable cure for 

freckles and pimples.

HAZELTINE  &  PERKINS  DRUG  CO., 

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

Jobbers for Western Michigan.

M IC H IG A N

Fire & Marine Insurance Go.

Organized  1881.

DETROIT,  M ICH IG A N .

1 4
Drugs & Medicines*

State Board of Pharm acy. 

One  Tear—James  Vernor, Detroit.
Two  Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor 
Three  Years—George Gtindram, Ionia.
Four Years—C. A. Buff bee, Cheboygan. 
Expiring Jan  1—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Onndrum, Ionia.
Next meeting—-Saginaw. Jan. 11.__________

M i c h i g a n   S t a t e   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A w ’d , 

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

Others.

June, September and December,
Concentrated  Rations  for  Soldiers  and 
When Uncle Sam next  goes to war the 
soldiers  who  fight  under the  starry flag 
will  be  supplied  with  coffee in a shape 
so highly condensed  that one  four-ounce 
package will  serve  as  a  month’s  ration 
for  each  man.  The concentrated  prep­
aration  will  be given  out,  perhaps,  as a 
dry  powder,  but  more  probably  in  the 
form of small  lozenges,  resembling small 
cough-drops  in  size  and  shape.  These 
lozenges will  be inclosed  in tin  boxes of 
100,  each of  them  weighing  a  gramme 
and representing one cup of coffee.  For 
preparing the beverage no coffee-pot  will 
be required,  it being necessary  merely to 
put a coffee-tablet  into the cup and  pour 
boiling  water upon  it,  when the  coffee is 
instantly made.  Sugar and  milk  can  be 
added  to suit  the  taste. 
In  France such 
coffee-lozenges  of  comparatively 
large 
size  have  been  recently  introduced,  be­
ing made  bulky by the addition of  sugar 
for  sweetening;  but  everybody does  not 
care for sugar, and therefore those which 
have lately begun  to be manufactured  in 
this country have been made plain.
The  processes  by which  coffee is thus 
concentrated  are  very  interesting.  To 
begin  with,  the  beans  are  roasted  in  an 
enormous oven and ground in a huge mill. 
Then they are  put  into a great  iron ves­
sel,  which is nothing  more nor  less than 
a gigantic  coffee-pot,  holding 240 pounds 
at a time.  Hundreds of gallons of filtered 
water  are  pumped  into  the  coffee-pot, 
which  acts on  the  “drip”  principle,  and 
the infusion is drawn off  to an  evaporat­
ing tank.  A  steam  pump  keeps  the  air 
exhausted  from  this  tank,  so  that  the 
coffee  is  in  vacuo,  being  heated  mean­
while  to  a  high  temperature  by  steam 
pipes.  The  water  It  contains  rapidly 
passes off  and  the  coffee is of  about the 
consistency of  molasses when it is  taken 
out. 
It is poured into trays of  enameled 
ware,  and  these  trays  are  placed  on 
shelves  in  another  evaporator.  When 
the trays are  removed a short time  later, 
the coffee is a dry solid, which is scraped 
off  the  trays,  ground  to  powder  and 
moulded into lozenges.
There  is  no  reason  why  the  govern 
ment  should  not  prepare  coffee in  this 
way on a large scale, in  the event of war, 
at a very  great  saving.  By the  process 
described one  pound of  the beans can  be 
made  to  produce  more  than  100  cups. 
By enquiry  it  has  been  ascertained that 
hotels  and  restaurants  only  get  from 
fifteen to thirty-six  cups  from  the  same 
quantity,  the  minimum  being  reported 
by the most expensive establishments and 
the  maximum  by  the  cheapest  eating 
houses.  The reason  for  this is that  the 
usual  plan  is to make  the  infusion  and 
throw  away  the  “grounds,”  which  still 
contain  two-thirds or more of the original 
strength  of  the  coffee.  Of  course,  for 
commercial purposes the  lozenges can  be 
made of  Rio,  Mocha or any other  variety 
of  the bean,  to suit the  taste.  From the 
military point of  view,  the  advantage  of 
dispensing with  bulky  utensils  for  pre­
paring  coffee would  be  important.  Ex­
periments have  recently been made with 
success in the treatment of tea by similar 
methods,  and  before  long  a dry  soluble 
essence produced from the leaves will  be 
offered in the market,  a tiny drachm bot­
tle  holding  twenty  tablets,  each  repre­
senting one cup.
Eggs are  now  sold on the  market in  a 
shape  resembling  sawdust.  The  chief

center  for the manufacture of  this  prod­
uct  is  St.  Louis,  where  great  quantities 
of  eggs are  bought  up  in  the summer, 
when  the  price  of  them  goes  down  to 
almost  nothing.  They  are  broken  into 
pans, the  white and  yolks  separate,  and 
evaporated  to  perfect  dryness.  Finally 
they are scraped  from the pans and gran­
ulated  by grinding,  when  they are ready 
for  shipment  in  bulk.  Bakers,  confec­
tioners and  hotels use  eggs in this form, 
which is an  important  saving at seasons 
when  they are  dear  in  the  shell. 
It is 
without  doubt  a  fact  that  most  of  the 
eggs sold in cities during the winter have 
been  kept over  from the  previous sum­
mer  by  pickling them  in  brine  or  lime 
water,  so that people should  be thankful 
for a desiccated substitute.  A  manufac­
tured  product of  a  similar  description, 
called  “egg  albumen”  is  imported  from 
abroad. 
It  looks  very  much  like a fine 
quality of  glue,  broken  into  small  bits, 
golden yellow, transparent and decidedly 
pretty.  The eggs of wild fouls of various 
species  are  largely employed in  making 
it,  the  whites, that  is  to say,  the  yolks 
in  Europe  for  tanning 
being  utilized 
leather.  This “egg  albumen” is used by 
bakers  and  for  glazing  prints. 
It costs 
55 cents a pound retail.
Condensed jellies are  becoming an  im­
portant  commercial  article.  They  are 
made in the shape  of  little  bricks,  each 
weighing  three  ounces  and  with an  in­
side wrapper  of oiled paper.  According 
to the directions,  the  brick  is  to be  put 
in one pint of boiling  water  and  stirred 
until it is dissolved.  The mixture is then 
poured into a mould or  other  vessel  and 
In a few hours  the 
put in a cool  place. 
jelly is  “set”  and  ready  for  use,  a  pint 
and a half of it. 
It never fails to “jell,” 
which point is the cause of  so much anx­
iety to amateur jelly-makers.  The bricks 
are flavored  with various  fruits, currant, 
raspberry,  grape,  etc.,  and  some are  of 
pure calves-foot jelly, to which wine may 
be added  for wine jelly, preferably Sicily 
Maderia.  Fifteen cents a brick is the re­
tail  price.  Concentrated 
ice  cream  is 
put up in tins of eight  ounces each.  The 
contents of  a can  are  to be  put in three 
pints of  boiling  milk,  stirred well,  per­
mitted to cool  and  then  frozen,  produc­
ing two quarts of  ice cream.  Condensed 
desserts  are  prepared  and  sold in  cans 
similarly,  such as blanc mange.
When  condensed  milk was first intro­
duced  thirty  years  ago,  the  idea  was 
laughed  at.  The  inventor  carried  the 
entire daily supply for New York City in 
a ten quart  pail, delivering it personally 
to his patrons.  He  died  worth  $7,000,- 
000,  made out of the  business,  which  has 
grown  to  be  a gigantic  industry.  The 
processes employed  are very simple,  the 
fresh milk being  put into a great  copper 
tank with a steam jacket.  While it is be­
ing heated sugar is  added,  and  the mix­
ture  is  then  drawn  off  into  a  vacuum 
tank where  evaporation  is produced  by 
heat.  The vacuum  tank  will hold,  per­
haps,  9,000  quarts. 
It has  a glass  win­
dow at the top,  through  which the oper­
ator in charge  looks  from  time  to time. 
He  can  tell  by  the  appearance  of  the 
milk  when the  time  has  arrived to shut 
off the steam, and  this  must  be done  at 
just the right moment, else the batch will 
be spoiled.  Next the milk is drawn  into 
forty quart cans,  which are set into very 
cold spring water,  where  they  are made 
to revolve rapidly by  a  mechanical  con­
trivance,  in  order  that  their  contents 
may cool evenly.
Many  artificial  baby  foods  are manu­
factured  and sold in  concentrated form. 
For  example,  products  advertised  as 
“substitutes 
are 
made from cow’s milk,  to which is added 
a  sufficient  quantity  of  sugar  to  cor­
respond with the  constituents  of  moth­
er’s milk.  The  water  is removed  from 
the  mixture  in vacuo, 
leaving  a  fine 
white powder,  which  is put up  in  pack­
ages.  Finely powdered  wheat  flour and 
other nutritious  vegetable  elements  are 
added in more elaborate preparations.

for  mother’s  milk” 

Detroit—The Hay & Todd Manufactur­
ing  Go.,  of  Ypsilanti,  has 
leased  the 
upper story of the  Hull  block,  where  it 
will  manufacture 
fitting 
underwear  and  equestrian  tights.  The 
factory will employ about forty hands.

jersey 

silk 

Unlike me Dutch Process 

No  Alkalies
Other  Chemicals

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a re  used  in   the 
p re p a ra tio n  o f

(W. Bator & Co.’s
Breakfast  Cocoa,

w hich is   absolu tely p u re  

a n d   soluble.

A  d escrip tion   of  th e   ch o co la te 
|  p lan t,  and  of  th e  variou s  cocoa 
and ch o co la te prep aration s m an­
u factured by W alter B aker & Co. 
w ill be se n tfr e e  to a n y  d ea ler on  
ap p lication .

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W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass.

La  Grippe

may attack but cannot overcome those protected 

by frequent use  of

A
CUSHMAN’S 

JWe 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.

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PYRflfUID  PILE  CURE.

A new remedy which  has created a sensation  among physicians by its wonderful 
effects  in speedily  curing  every form of  piles. 
It is the  only remedy  known  (ex­
cept a surgical operation)  which can be relied on to give instant relief and a lasting 
care in  Itching,  Protruding,  Bleeding or Blind Piles.
Briefly stated,  it has  the  following  advantages  over a surgical operation  or  any 
other  pile  core: 
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  coaid fill this paper with them if  necessary.
G e n t l e m e n—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.
From  J. W.  Waddell, Zulla,  Va.—I  am a cured  man.  I  only used  one  package 
of  the Pyramid Pile Cure  and I 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 
yon  that the  reputation of  this  remedy  was  built up on its  merits as a permanent 
cure and not by newspaper puffery.

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

Any druggist  will  get it for you

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

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4 00

ACIDUM.

Cubebae........................  @ 
ExechthltOS..............  2 50®2 75
Erlgeron.........................2 25@2 50
Gaultherla......................2 00®2 10
Geranium,  ounce.....  @ 75
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal......   75®  85
Hedeoma  ...................2 10@2 20
Juniperl.......................   50®2 00
Lavendula...................  90@2 00
Limonis.......................... 2 50@3 00
Mentha Piper...................2 75®3 50

Aceticum...................
m   10
65®  75
Benzoicum  German..
Boraclc 
....................
27®
Carbolieum..............
Cltrlcum...................
50®  52 
3®  5
Hvdrochior...............
.................
Nltrocum 
.  10®  12 
.  10®  12 
Oxalicum...................
. 
Phosphorlum dll.
20 
.1  30® 1  70 
Salieylleum........
Sulpnuricum__
.  IX®  5 
.1  40®1  60 
Tanni cum...........
30®  33
Tartarlcum.........

AMMONIA.

s 

Aqua, 16  deg..............  3%@  5
20  deg..............  5 Vi®  7
Corbonas  ....................   12® 14
Chlorldum................  
  12® 14

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

RACCAE.
Cubeae (po  50)........
............
Juniperus 
Xanthoxylum.  ........
BALSAMUM.

50®  55
.  8®  10
.  25®  30

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

COBTKX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Casslae 
...  .......................   11
Cinchona Flava  .................   18
Buonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po............   20
Prunus Virglnl....................  12
Qulllaia,  grd.......................  10
Sassafras 
12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

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BXTRACTUM.

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24®  25
po...........  33®  35
“ 
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12
“ 
Is...............  13®  14
Vis.............   14®  15
“ 
«  %s.............   16®  17
FBRRU

Carbonate Preclp........  ®  16
Citrate and Qulnia—   ®3 50
Citrate  Soluble  .........  ®  So
Ferrocyauidum Sol —   ®  50
Solul  Chloride  .........  ®  15
Sulphate,  com’l .............. 9®  2
pure............   ®  7

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Arnica  .....................   18®  20
Anthemls..................   3i@  35
Matricaria 
40®  50

 
FOJ.1A.
Barosma 
.  ...  ........
Cassia  Acutltol,  Tin
nlvelly 

45®1  00
............   25®  26
“  Alx.  35®  50
and  Vis....................  15®  25
8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Xs
Ura Ursi 
................... 

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“ 
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2d 
3d 
sifted sorts... 
po 

Acacia, 1st  picked....  ®  75
....  ®  50
....  @  4o
®  25
..............  6o®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
Soootrl, (po.  60).  ®  50
Catechu, Is, (Vis, 14 Xs,
®  1
.......................  
Ammonlae.................  55®  60
Assafcstlda, (po. 35)..  30®  35
Bensolnum.................  50®  55
Camphors...................  55®  58
Euphorblum  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum...................  @2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70®  7b
Gualacum, (po  30)  ...  @ 25
Kino,  (po  55)............  ®  60
M astic.......................  ®  80
MyTrh, (po  45)...........  ®  40
Opll  (po  3 0 » ...........2 25@2 30
Shellac  .....................   30®  38
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth...... ........   40@1 00
Absinthium................. ......   25
Eupatorlum................. .......  20
...................... ......   25
Lobelia 
Majornm...................... ......  28
......   23
Mentha  Piperita........
....  25
“  V lr.................
......  30
Rue.............................
......   22
Tanacetum, V............
Thymus,  V.................. ......   25

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KA0KXSIA,

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

OLXUM.

Myrcla, ounce.

Rosmarini.

Slnapls, ess, ounce.
Tlglfl......................
Thyme...................
opt  ...........

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.2 20@2 30
.1  00@1 10
@ 50
.  95@2 75
>  10® 12
1  22@1  28
75@1  00
.6 50®8 50
.  40® 45
.  90@1  00
.3 50@7 00
.  50® 55
@ 65
@ 90
.  40® 50
@ 60
.  15® 20

POTASSIUM.

Arum,  po.

Maranta,

Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)...................
Hellebore,  Ala,  po...

Potassa, Bitart,  pure. 
Potassa, Bitart, com..
Potass Ni tras.

.  15® 18
.  13® 14
35® 39
•  12® 15
22® 24
.  50® 55
.2 96@3 IN
.  27® 30
@ 15
8® 10
. 
.  7® 9
.  28® 30
.  15® lb
.  20® 25
.  22® 25
.  12® 15
® 25
.  20® 40
8® 10
. 
.  16® 18
@ 30
.  15® 20
.  15® 20
.2 30@2 40
.  35® 40
.  50® 55
@ 35
.  15® 18
.  75@1  00
@1  75
.  75@1  35
35® 38
@ 20
.  30® 32
.  65® 70
1  @ 40
@ 25
.  10® 12
@ 35
1)  ® 25
.  15® 20
18® 20
18® 22
@ 15
. 
Anlsum,  (po. 20).. 
Aplum  (graveleons). 
.  12® 15
Bird, Is.
4® 6
8® 12
.1  00®1  2b
.  10® 12
•  3%@4
.  75®1  00
Cy<ChiCheno;pOdl I
.  10® 12
lx Od
.3 00@3 25
@ 15
Foenlculum....
Foenugreek,  po.........  
6®  8
U n i.  .........................4  @  4Vi
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 3Vi) 
4  @ 4*
Lo bella.......................   85®  40
Pharlarls Canarlan__6  @  6Vi
Rapa..........................   6®  7
Slnapls  Alba.........11  @13
, r   Nlgra...........  11®  12

“  cut....................
SplgeW....................
Sanguinarla, (po  25).
Serpentaria...............
3enega 
....................

Zingiber  ].

dus,  po.

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SPIBITUS.
Frumenti, W..D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R......1  75@2 00
.................1  25@1  50
Junlperls  Co. O. T__ 1 65@2 00
“  ...........1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  E ........1 75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli...........1 75@6 50
Vini Oporto............... 1 25®2 00
Vini  Alba...................1 25®2 00

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage 
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ................. 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage................... 
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage ........................ 
Hard for  slate  use__ 
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................  

..............2 25@2 50
2 00
1  10
85
65
75
1  40

Absinthium................ 3 50® 4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc.......   45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae__8 00®8 25
75@1 85
A nlsl........................... 1 
Aurantl  Cortex...........2 40@2 50
Bergamll  ...................3 
25®3 50
Cajlputl......................  
60® 65
Caryophylll.................   85® 90
Cedar 
.........................  35® 65
Chenopodll................  @1  60
Clnnamonil................ 1  C0@1 10
Cltronella  ....................   @ 45
Conlum  Mac................  35® 65
Copaiba  ......................  90®1 00

BTBUPS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferrl  Iod.......................  ...  50
Aurantl  Cortes....................  50
Rhei  Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega.................................  50
S c illa e .......................................... 
50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Pranas  rIrg.........................  50

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Morphia,  8 .P .4 W ...1   7C@1  95 
C. Co.......................1 60@1  85
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myrlstlca, No. 1.........   65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia....................  20®  22
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls  LIq, N.-.C., Vi gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcls LIq., quarts......   @1  00
pints.........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__   @  3
Pix  Burgun................  @  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opll.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
St P. D.  Co., doz......   @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®  35
Quassiae....................   8®  10
Quinla, 8. P. & W......  27®  32
8.  German__19Vi@  33
Rubia Tinctorum......   12®  14
SaccharumLactlspv. 
23®  25
Salacln.......................1  75@1  87
Sanguis  Draconi8......  40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
«  M.......................  10®  12
  @  15
“  G........ 

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Seldlltz  Mixture........  @  20
Slnapls.......................   ®  18
“  opt..................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  36
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
SodaCarb................. 
lVi®  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Soda,  Ash....................3Vi@  4
Soda, Sulphas............  @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
*•  Vinl  Rect.  bbl.
....7 ........................ 2 29@2  39
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal......1 40@1  45
Sulphur, Subl............ 2U@ 3Vi
Roll..............  2%@ 3
Tamarinds.................  8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae..............45  @  48
Vanilla.....................9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph...............   7®  8

OILS.

Bbl.  Gal
70
Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard, extra.............. 1  10  1  15
Lard, No.  1...............   65 
70
Linseed, pure raw....  49 
52

 

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55
Llndseed,  boiled  __   52 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
85
strained................  80 
SplrltsTurpentlne__  40Vi  45
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian..............IX  2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__IX  2@4
“ 
Ber........IX  2@S
Putty,  commercial__2X  2Vi@3
“  strictly  pure......2)4  2%@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,  Gilders’........  @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
No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................160®1  70
Coach  Body...............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn....... 1  00@1  10
EufraTurk Damar__1  56®1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70©75
Turp......................... 

VARNISHES.

Im porters  and  Jobbers  o f

TINCTURES.

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

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

Aconltum Napellls R.........   60
F ..........  50
Aloes....................................  60
and myrrh.................  60
A rnica................................   50
Asafoetida............................  0
A trope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
“  Co..........................   50
Sangulnaria.........................  50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharldes.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca  demon............................  75
Castor.......................................1 00
Catechu...............................   50
Cinchona............................  50
Columba.............................   50
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba................................   50
Digitalis  ..............................  50
Ergot....................................  50
Gentian...............................  50
“  Co............................  60
Gualca.................................  50
“ 
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Iodine..................................  75
Ferrl 
K ino....................................  50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica........•..............  50
Opll.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor............................. 2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................   50
Quassia...............................  50
K hatany.............................   so
Rhei.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVerlde.................  50

Colorless........  75
Chlorldum.......  35

ammon..........  60

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

MISCXLLANEOUS.
11 
ground,  (po.

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antimonl,po.............. 
4®  5
55® 60
et Potass T. 
Antipyrin...................  @1  40
Antlfebrin..................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  60
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud....  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 20®2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Vis
12;  >48,  i4)..............  @  li
Cantharldes  Russian,
po  ..........................   @1  00
Capslcl  Fructus, a f...  @  26
“ po....  @ 28
“ B po.  @  20
Caryophyllus, (po.  18)  14®  15
Carmine, No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, 8. A F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  88®  40
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  25
Centrarta....................  @  10
Cetaceum...................  @  40
Chloroform................  00®  68
squlbbs..  @1  25
Chloral HydCrst........1  35 @1  80
Chondrus...................  20®  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  A  W  15®  20 
German 8  @  12 
Corks,  list,  dir.  per
cent  ......................
60
Creasotum.................
@ 35
Crete,  (bbl. 75)...........
@ 2
5® 5
9® 11
@ 8
;ubra........
75® 85
Crocus.......................   75®  85
Cudbear..............
@ 24
Cuprl Sulph................  5®   6
5 @ 6
10® 12
Dextrine....................  10®  12
70® 75
Ether Sulph...............   70®  75
Emery,  all  numbers..
@@ 6
po  .................
Ergota, (po.)  75.........
70® 75
ia® 15
Flake  White..............
@ 23
Galla.......................... 
_
Gambler......................7  @ 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
French...........  40®  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 St 10.
Less than box 66%
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White...............   18®  2b
Glycerlna...................i5Vi@  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  ®  22
Humulus....................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  85
“  Cor ....  @ 8 0
Ox Rubrum  @  90
Ammonlatl..  @100
. Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  64
linthyobolla, Am..  . .1 2S@l 50
Indigo......................   75@1  00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 80@3 9u
Iodoform..................  @4  70
Lupulin......................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  60®  65
Macis.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Aralnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8 .F ............   60®  08

IX ).......................... 2Vi®  4

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CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils % Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole A gents for the  Celebrated

SWISS  KILLS  PREPARED  PRINTS.

M   Lilli of  Staple  Druggists’  S ii«

We are Sole P roprietors of

Weatherly’«  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

W e Have in  Stock and Offer a F ull Line of

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

GINS,  W INES,  R U M S v

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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T H E   M IC H IG A N   TR^JDESMJUS

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

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

AXLE GREASE.
doz
Aurora........... ........  55
Castor Oil....... ........  75
Diamond.................  50
Frazer’s ......... ........  89
Mica.............. ........  75
..  .. ........  55
Paragon 

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

Acme.

Arctic.

BAKING  POW DER 
lb. cans, 3 doz...............  

45
85 
Vi lb. 
lib. 
1 60 
Balk.
10
60 
M lb cans. 
Vi»  “ 
1  20 
tt>  “
2  00 
1b  “
9 60
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case...  80 
“ 
16  “ 
.. .2 00
Red Star, & lb cans........... 
40
“ 
SO
............  
“ 
..........   1  50
45 
Teller's,  M lb. cans, doz. 
“ 
“  ..  85
“  ..  1  50
» 

yt lb 
“ 
IS)  “ 
Vi lb.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 

“  2  “ 

Fosfon.

BATH  BRICK.
2  dozen In case.

 

 

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8oz 

BLUING. 

BROOMS.
 

English...............................  90
Bristol..................................  SO
Domestic.............................   70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals..............   4 00
“ 
7 00
“  pints,  round  ..........10 50
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75
“  No. 3, 
...  4 00
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
“  1 oz ball  ..................  4  50
No. 2 Hurl...........................  1 75
2 00
NO. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet................  
  2 25
2  50
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem...........................2 75
Common Whisk................. 
90
Fancy 
.................1  15
Warehouse...........................3 25
BRUSHES.
Stove, No.  1.......................  125
10.....................  1 50
15.....................  1 75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row—   %
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row__  1  25
Palmetto, goose.................   1 50
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes............   10
Star,  40 
9
Paraffine  ............................ 11
Wicking 
............................ 24

CANDLES.

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CANNED  GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

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Little Neck,  lib .............
“  2  lb .............
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 31b..............
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb............

...1   20
....1  90
...2  25
....  95
21b.............. ....1  75
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb....................
. . .  .2 50
“  2  lb....................
.8  50
. .  
Picnic, 1 lb.................... ...2  00
21b..................
“ 
...2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, li b ..............
. . . . 1   26
2  lb............
...2   10
Mustard,  2 lb  .................
...2  25
Tomato Sauce,  21b___
...2  25
Soused, 2 lb ...................
.2 25
Salmon.
...1  90
Columbia River, flat...
...1   75
“ 
tails...
Alaska, Red.......................
....1  45
pink........................
...1  25
Sardines.
American  Vis...................
.  @ 5
/is ....................
• 6Vi@ 7
Imported  Vis......................
..10@11
.. 15@16
Vis......................
Mustard 
. .   @8
........................
Boneless..............................
21
Trout.
...2 50
Brook, 3 lb ..........................
Fruits.
Apples.

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3 lb. standard............
York State, gaiions__
Hamburgh, 
__
Apricots.
Live oak............
Santa Cm«................
Lusk’s .........................
Overland..................

1  05
3 25

1 75
1 75
1 75
1 75

Cherries.

Blackberries.
B. A  W....................... 
95
Red............................  1  10@1 20
Pitted Hamburgh...... 
1  75
W hite......................... 
1  50
Brie  ..........................  
l  20
Damsons, Bgg Plums and Green 
E rie............................
California..................
Gooseberries.
Common.................... ‘

Gages.

1  10 
1  70

Peaches.
Pie............................
Maxwell....................
Shepard’s ..................
California..................
...............
Monitor 
Oxford.......................
Pears.

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Domestic....................
Riverside....................
Pineapples.
Common....................1
Johnson’s  Bliced  ......
grated.......
Quinces.
Common....................
Raspberries.
Red  ...........................
Black  Hamburg.........
Erie,  black 
. . .
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................
Hamburgh  ...............
Erie............................
Terrapin.......................
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............
Corned  beef,  Libby’s.. 
Roast beef,  Armour’s..
Potted  ham, Vi lb.........
“  Vi lb......... .
tongue, Vi lb___
54 lb...
chicken, Vi lb....

Meats.

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1  25
1  85
2  00 
2  20 
1  85

1  20 
2  10

00@1  30 
2 50 
2 75

1 30 
1  50 
1  30
1  25 
1  25
1  25 
1  10

1  00

2  10 
.2  10 
.1  30 
.  80 
.1  35
85
95

Vegetables.

Beans.

“ 

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Peas.

“ 
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“ 
“ 

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless..........1  25
French style...... 2 25
Limas................. 1  35
Lima, green..............................l 40
soaked......................  75
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 35
Bay State  Baked..................1 35
World’s  Fair  Baked............1 35
Picnic Baked........................1 00
Hamburgh...........................l 40
Livingston  E den................ 1 20
Purity..................................
Honey  Dew..............................1 50
Morning Glory...................
Soaked............................... 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat........... 1  35
early June........
Champion Eng.. 1  50
petit  pols.......... 1  75
fancy  sifted__ 1  90
Soaked.................................  75
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  10
early June.......1 30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  35
French.................................2 15
French............................. 17*522
Erie.....................................   95
Hubbard.............................. 1  25
Hamburg..............................1 40
Soaked.................................  85
Honey  Dew..........................1 50
E rie......................................1 35
Hancock.............................. 1 25
Excelsior.............................1 25
Eclipse................................. l 15
Hamburg..............................1  40
Gallon.................................3 25

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.

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CHOCOLATE.

Baker’s.

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

23
37
43

CHEESE.

Amboy........................12Ji@13Vi
Acme..........................  @13
Riverside......................  @1234
Gold  Medal...............   @12 Vi
Skim..........................   9  @11
Brick................................. 
11
E dam ........................  
100
Leiden............................ 
23
Llmburger  ................  @10
Pineapple...................  @25
Roquefort...................  @35

8 1, per hundred..............  S3 00
................3  50
8 2, 
8 8, 
................4  00
8 5, 
................5  00
810, 
.................6  00
 
820, 
700

"Universal.”
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No. 1, 614...............................  81 75
No. 2, 6Vi............................  160
No. 1,6...............................  165
No. 2, 6.............................   1  50
No. 1, 6Vi............................  135
No. 2.6V4............................  125

XX  wood, white.

GUNPOWDER.

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Austin’s Rifle, kegs......... ..8 50
“  Vi kegs...... .  2 00
Crack Shot, kegs . .3  50 
Vi kegs 2 00 
Club Sporting 
4 50 
Vi  “  2 50

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

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

Blue Label Brand.
.. 

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CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags.............. 
.  @3
Less quantity 
Pound  packages...........83£@7

............   @3>4

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

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

Santos.

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

Mexican and Guatamala.

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

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

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

Package.

M cLaughlin’s  XXXX..  24 30
Bunola  ...........................   23.80
Lion. 60 or 100 lb.  case__24.30

Extract.

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

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tin 
CHICO RV.

Bulk.
Red..

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton,  40 ft......... per doz.  1  25
140
1  60
175
190
90
1  00

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CONDENSED  MILK.

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

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4 doz. In case.

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

“Tradesman.’
 
 

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“Superior.”

S 1, per hundred...............   2 00
2 50
#2,  “ 
................... 8  00
*8,  “  “ 
8 00
8 5.  “ 
810,  “ 
4 00
820.  “ 
5 00
per hundred...............2 50
00

 
 
 

 

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1

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

Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts
200 or over. 
.. —   5  per cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS.
(Can  be  made to represent any
denomination  from 810 down. |
20 books....................... 8 1  00
......................... 2 00
50  “ 
100  “ 
......................... 3 00
250  “ 
......................... 6 25
......................... 10 00
500  “ 
1000  “ 
......................... 17 50

CREDIT  CHECKS

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

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CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX...............
..  6
Seymour XXX, cartoon..
..  6Vt
Family  XXX..................
.  6
Family XXX,  cartoon__ ..  6 Vt
Salted  XXX....................
..  6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  __ .  6 Vi
Kenosha
7 Vi
Boston.............................
..  8
Bntter  biscuit...............
..  6 V4

Soda.

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

Oyster.

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

CREAM  TARTAR.
Strictly  pure...................... 
30
Telfers  Absolute..............  3 1
Grocers’............................ 15@25

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

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Pears.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Blackberries.
Nectarines.

Sundried. sliced in  bbls. 
7V4 
7VS
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes  @10VS 
California in  bags  ...... 
16VS
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
17
In  boxes......................8  @9
70 lb. bags....................... 
15
15J4
251b. boxes.....  .............. 
Peeled, in  boxes......... 
16
Cal. evap.  “ 
........... 
14
“ 
13V4
in bags........ 
California in bags......
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
...................
25 “ 
Prunelles.

Peaches.

Raspberries.

SO lb.  boxes...................
In barrels...................... 
501b. boxes.................... 
...................... 
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

22
23
24
Loose  Muscatels in Boxes.
2 crown............................. 1  50
3 
.............................  1 65
2  crown.................................5V4
3 
6V4

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Loose Muscatels in Bags.
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Foreign.
Currants.

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Peel.

25  “ 
25 “ 

“ 
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Raisins.

Patras,  in barrels............  
4*4
in  Vi-bbls..............  4V4
4%
in less quantity__ 
Citron, Leghorn. 251b. boxes  20 
Lemon 
“ 10
Orange 
11
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes..  @8
“ 
Sultana, 20 
@10
Valencia, 30  ‘ 
@ 7
Prunes.
California,  100-120.............. I0tf
90x100 25 lb. big. 11K
..12V4
80x90 
“ 
13&
70x80 
“ 
60x70 
.14
“ 
Turkey......................... 
7V4
Silver..................................
Sultana................................. 9%

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ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

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

HERBS.

INDIGO.

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

55
50

17  lb. palis....................... 
30  “ 

JELLY.
90
......................  1  EO

“ 
LICORICE.

Pure.....................................   30
Calabria...............................  25
8icily....................................  12

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

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MATCHES.

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

MINCE  MEAT.

Manilla, white.

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

Coin.

Farina.
Hominy.

100 lb. kegs................... 
354
Barrels.................................8 00
Grits....................................8  50
Dried............................ 
4J£

Lima  Beans.

Haccaroni and Vermicelli.

Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported.....................10Vi@i _ Vi

Oatmeal.

Barrels 200 .......................  4  85
Half barrels 100 ...............   2 55

Pearl Barley.

Kegs..................................  2 Vi

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bu........................   1  85
Split  per l b .................  
2Vi
Barrels  180.......................  5 25
Half  bbls 90....................  2 75
German.............................   454
East India..........................   5
Cracked..............................  

Wheat.

Sago.

5

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

“ 

Cod.

Halibut.
Herring.

Yarmouth...............................   1 40
Pollock..........................  
3V4
5V4
Whole, Grand  Bank...... 
Boneless,  bricks............ 7 @9
Boneless, stripe.............. 
7
Smoked......................10  @11
Holland,  bbl..........   9 50@12 00
75
Norwegian  ......................  12 00
Round Shore, Vi  bbl........  2 50
“  Vi  “  ......   1  25
Scaled............................... 
17
Mackerel.
No. 1,  100 lbs...........................11 25
No. 1, 40 lbs............................  4 65
No. 1,  10 lbs............................  1 30
Family, 90 lbs.........................  5 25

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

10 lb s.................   65
50

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

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Sardines.
Trout.

No. 1, Vi bbls., lOOlbs...........6 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................  85

Whltefish.

No. 1, Vi bbls., lOOlbs...........7 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................1 00
Family, Vi bbls., 100 lbs__  4 00
kits  10  lbs............   68

11 

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

Souders’.

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

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

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

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

16
20
30

New Orleans.

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

18
20
    25
30
40

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count... 
Half bbls, 600  count.. 

Small.

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

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

@7 00
@4 00

8 00
4 50

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz....... 81 2u
4  oz.....2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon. 
2oz.....81  50 
4 oz.......  3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz........81 75
4  oz..... 3 50

Jennings’ D C.

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216............................ 1 75
Cob, No. 8.................................1 25

“  T. D. full count...........  75

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s ..............................   4 00
Penna Salt  Co.’s...................  3 25

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina head........................6
“  No. 1........................5
“  No. 2......................  4 Vi
3

Broken...............  

 

Imported.

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

Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding box...  75
1  25
3 oz 
...1  00
1  50
4 oz 
...1  50
2 00
6 OZ 
...2 00
3 00
...3.00
8 oz 
4 OO

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SPICKS.

Whole Sifted.

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Allspice............................... 10
Cassia, China In mats........  7
Batavia In band__ 15
Saigon In rolls........ 32
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
Zanzibar..................10
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................75
No.  1...................... 70
No. 2......................60
Pepjje
per, Singapore, black__ 10
white...  .20
“ 
shot......................... 16
Pure Oround In Bulk.

Allspice............................... 15
Cassia,  Batavia................... 18
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon....................25
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
•* 
Zanzibar................18
Ginger, African...................16
“  Cochin....................2o
Jam aica................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia......................70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22
“  Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 16
“  white.......24
Cayenne................20
Sage......................................20

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“Absolute” In Packages.

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Ms  Ms
Allspice...........  ........   84  155
Cinnamon..................   84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  1  55
Ginger,  Jam aica......  84  1  55
“  African  .........   84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Pepper.......................   84  155
Sage........  ■ 

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

SAt>  SODA.

Kegs...................................    1M
Granulated, boxes...............  l \

SAUERKRAUT.

Gold Medal...............   @8 25

SEEDS.

Anise.........................  @12M
6
Canary, Smyrna......... 
Caraway......................... 
10
90
Cardamon, Malabar... 
Hemp,  Russian.........  
4M
Mixed  Bird 
5H
........... 
10
Mustard,  white.........  
Poppy......................... 
9
Rape..........................  
6
Cuttle  bone....................  
STARCH.

30

Corn.

“   

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

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

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

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SNUFF.

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

SODA.

Boxes....................................5M
Kegs, English........................4X

SALT.
 
 

 

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

2 00
2 25
32
18

drill  “ 

Warsaw.

56 lb. dairy In drill  bags...  31
28 lb.  “ 
18
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..  75

Ashton.

.. 

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Higgins.

56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks.  75 

Solar Rock.
56 1k..  sacks............... 
Common Fine.
 
SALEKATUS.

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

 

27

90
96

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

SOAP.
Laundry.

“ 

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

Old Country,  80  1-lb........... 4 00
Good Cheer, 601 lb...................3 90
White Borax, 100  X-lb........3 60
Concord....................................3 20
Ivory, 10  oz.........................6 75
6  oz............................... 4 00
Lenox 
............................   4 00
Mottled  German......................3 15
Town Talk...............................3 25

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp d. .$4 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

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

Acme........................................3 65
Cotton Oil.................................5 75
Daisy.....................................   3 10
Marseilles...............................  4 00
Master......................  

4 00

“ 

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

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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 94
Granulated............................  4 63
Fine Granulated....................   4 63
Extia Fine Granulated—   4  75
Cubes................................   4 9<
XXXX  Powdered..................   5 31
Confec. Standard  A........... 4  56
No. 1  Columbia A..............  450
No. 5 Empire  A 
..............4 38
No.  6  ................................   438
No.  7..................................4 31
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
Fair.....................................  19
Good...................................  25
Choice..................................  30

Pure Cane.

SWEET  GOODS

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

8
8
9
8M
8M

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

31 for barrel.

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

YEAST.

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

 

TEAS.

Japan—Regular.

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

8TJN CUBED.

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

BASKET  FIRED.

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

0UNPOWDER.

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

oolong. 

IMPERIAL.

TOUNO HYSON.

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

ENSLISH BREAKFAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

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

“ 

Plug.

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

Smoking.

Catlin’s  Brands.

41
29
40
26
38
34
40
32

 

Kiln  dried...........................17
Golden  Shower................... 19
Huntress  ................. 
.26
Meerschaum....................... 29
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy....................... 40
Stork  ............................ 30@32
German............................... 15
F rog....................................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
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade................
Rob  Roy................... ......... 26
. .28@32
Uncle  Sam..........  ...
___32
Red Clover................
Tom and Jerry.......... ......... 25
Traveler  Cavendish. ........38
Buck Horn............... .........30
Plow  Boy................. ...30@32
Corn  Cake...............
........16
OILS.

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes
as  follows,  In barrels,  f. 0.  b.
Grand Rapids:
Eocene............ ?.......
8
Water White, old test
@  7M
W.  W.  Headlight, 151° 
6X
Water  White  .........
@  6M
@ 7
Naptha......................
Stove Gasoline.........
© 6X
Cylinder.................. 27  @36
18  ©21
Engine..................
Black. 15 cold  test...
©  8X
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURs.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol-

lows:
HIDES.
Green.......................
..2M@3M
Part Cured...............
© 4
...............
Full 
© 4M
Dry............................ 5  © 5
Kips, green  .............. 2M@ 3M
“  cured...............
© 4M
4  © 5
Calfskins,  green......
cured......
© Î
Deacon skins............ 10  ©30
No. 2 hides M off.
PELTS.

1 00
Shearlings................. 10  ©  25
................... 25  ©1 50
Lambs 
WOOL.
Washed................... 20  ©23
10  @20
Unwashed............

“ 

“ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

PUBS.

6  © 7
1  @ 2
1M@ 2

Tallow.....................
Grease  butter  .........
Switches..................
Ginseng.................... 2 00@2 75
Outside prices for No. 1 only.
50@1  00
Badger......................
B ear.......................15 00@25 00
Beaver...................... 3 00®7 00
40©  50
Cat, wild...................
10©  25
Cat, house...............
Fisher....................... 4 00@6 00
Fox,  red.................. 1  00@1  15
Fox, cross................. 3 00@5 00
50©  80
Fox,  grey.................
Lynx......................... 2 00@3 00
Martin, dark — ...... 1  00@3 00
pale & yellow 50@1 00
40©2 00
Mink, dark...............
03®  17
Muskrat..................
15©  30
Oppossnm.................
Otter, dark............... 5 00@3 00
25® 1  00
Raccoon...................
Skunk  ..................... 1  00@1  40
W olf......................... 1  00@3 00
Beaver  castors, lb... 2 00@5 00
10
Thin and  green........
20
Long grav. dry.........
25
Gray, dry 
..............
35
Red and Blue, dry...

deerskins—per pound.

.. 

“ 

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8

WHEAT.

MEAL.

65
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
65
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test)
....  1  40
Bolted......................
.  1  60
Granulated...............
FLOUR.
Straight, In  sacks — ....  3 70
“  barrels... ......  3 90
“ 
“  sacks__ ....  4 70
Patent 
“  barrels... ......  4 90
“ 
...  1  70
Graham  “  sacks...
....  2 00
Rye 
“ 
...
Buckwheat, Rising  bun —  4  75
...... 4 25
Less
Car lots quantity
*17 00
14 50
18 00
20 00
20 00

Bran..............*16 00
Screenings —   14 00
Middlings......17 00
Mixed Feed...  19 50
Coarse m eal..  19 60

& Co’s  Pure...........
MILL8TUPPS.

Walsh-DeRoo

“ 

CORN.

OATS.

........47
Car  lots....................
........52
Less than  car  lots...
........38
Car  lots  ...................
........42
Less than car lots....
HAT.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__13 f0
ton lots ......14 00
No. 1 

“ 

FRESH  MEATS.

Beef, carcass.........
“  hindquarters 
“ 
fore 
loins,  No.  3
“ 
“ 
ribs............
'* 
rounds........

“

.  6M@ 8 
.  7  @  9 
•  5M@ 6 
.10  @12 
.  9  @10 
.  6M@  7

“ 

shoulders 

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

........  @10M

“ 
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FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F.  J,  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whlteflab 
.................
@  9 
@ 9 
T ro u t...........  .........   8
Halibut.......................
@12 
Ciscoes or Herring__
©  6 ©10
Blneflsb......................
Fresh lobster, per lb __
@ 12" 
10
Cod  ........................ 
No. 1 Pickerel............
@  9 
Pike...........................
@  8 @ 9 
Smoked  White...........
Finnan  Haddies...........
8 
Red  Snappers..............
10
Columbia River  Salmon
Mackerel.....................
15
o y st e rs—Cans.
Fairhaven  Counts__ @37
F. J. D.  Selects.........
@30
Selects.......................
@25
Anchor.......................
@23
Standards  .................
@20
Favorites...................
18

SHELL  HOODS.

“ 

Oysters, per  100  ........1  50@1  75
Clams. 
......... 1 00@1  25
BULK.
Counts, per gal........
2 20 
Extra  Selects.........
2 CO 
Selects ....................
1 70 
Standards  ..............
1  20 
Clams......................
1  75 2(0 
Scallops  .................
Shrimps  .................
1  00
PA PER A WOODENWARE

PAPER.

Straw 
.................................IX
Rockfalls.............................
Rag sugar..............................2
Hardware..............................2M
Bakers.................................. 2M
Dry  Goods.................. 5  @6
Jute  Manilla...............   ®5M
Red  Express  No. 1............  5M
No. 2..............4M

“ 

“ 

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

WOODBNWARE.

TWINES.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Baskets, market.

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

13  “ 
15  “ 
17  “ 
19  “ 
21 
“  
shipping  bushel.. 
full  hoop  “

*• 
“ willow cl’ths, No.l
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“  No.2
“  No.3
“  No.l
“  No.2
“ 
.No.3
INDURATED WARE.
Pails..................................
Tubs, Mdoz.......................

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

splint 

1  35 
1  60
40 
80 
1  00 
1  60
2 25
2 75
3 00 
35
1  25 
1  35
5 75
6 25
7 25
3 50
4 25
5 Of

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as  follows:

DRESSED.

Fowl............................10  @11
Turkeys.......................15  @16
Ducks  ........................14  @15
Chicken.......................12  @13
Chickens,....................10  @11
Fowls............................8  @9
Turkeys.......................12  @13
Duck........................... 11  @13

LIVE.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess,..........................................................   20 51
ShoTt c u t.....................................................   22 09
Extra clear pig, short cut............................
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat back...........................................   23 50
Boston clear, short cut.................................   24 00
Clear back, short cut........................................   24 00
25 00
Standard clear, short cut. best.... ..............  

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

........................................ 9M

Pork Sausage....................................................11
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage..............................................  9
Frankfort Sausage 
Blood Sausage.................................................  7
Bologna, straight............................................  6
Bologna,  thick................................................  6
Headcheese....................................................   7
Kettle  Rendered............................................14
Granger...........................................................13M
Family............................................................ 10X
Compound...................................................... 10-Sfi
50 lb. Tins,  Me advance.
20 lb.  pails,  Me 
10 lb.  “  Xc 
51b.  “  %c
3 lb.  “ 
1  c 

LARD.

“
“
“

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs.....................   9 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing..............................8 73
Boneless, rump butts..........................................13 50

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

“ 
“ 

“ 
'■ 
“ 
“ 

Hams, average 20 lbs....................................... 15M
16 lbs...................................... 15H
12 to 14 lbs................................15M
picnic................................................... 12M
best boneless.........................................13M
Shoulders........................................................ 11W
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............................ 14
Dried beef, ham prices.................................. 11
Long Clears, heavy.........................................
Briskets,  medium...........................................
light................................................

„ 

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

STICK  CANDY.

Standard,  per  lb..........
“  H. H.................
Twist  ............
“ 
Boston Cream ........— .. 
Cut  Loaf.......................
Extra H.  H...........  . 

8M
. ..  8M
MIXED CANDT.

Cases  Bbls. Palis.
7/4
7M
7H
8M

6M
6M
6H

Bbls.

Palis.

Standard...................................... 6
Leader..........................................6
Royal............................................6M
Nobby.......................................... 7
English  Rock..............................7
Conserves.................................... 7
Broken Taffy....................baskets
Peanut Squares................. 
“  8
French Creams.............................
Valley  Creams.............................
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.........................
Modern, £0 lb. 
..........................

“ 
fancy—In bulk

 

“ 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

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

“ 

3 
2 
3 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Plain Creams.............................................80@90
Decorated Creams............................................. 1 00
String  Rock.....................................................65
Burnt Almonds.... ........................................ 1  00
Wintergreen  Berries.......................................60
caram els.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
 
No. 1, 
51
No. 2, 
 
as
No. 3, 
.........................
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes...................................
Small......................................................
Medium................................................
Large....................................................
Florldas, fancy..........................................2 75@3 00
Messinas, 200s.............................................2 75@3 00
300s.............................................2 75@3 00
Messina, choice, 360.................................  @325

“ 
“ 
“ 
BANANAS.

ORANGES.

LEMONS.

“ 

 
 

fancy, 360 .............................  3 75@t 00
choice 300..............................  @3 75
fancy 390  .............................. 
4 00

“ 
“ 
“ 

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

NUTS.

501b.

extra 

Figs, fancy layers, 6 » ............................  ©

“  10»
“  14».
“  20».
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box.

..............  @12M
..............   @15
..............  @16
..............  @ 7M
..............  @ 6
Persian, 50-lb.  box......................4M@ 5
Almonds, Tarragona.............................  @19
Ivaca.......................................  @13
California...............................  @18M
Brazils, new...........................................  @10M
Filberts.................................................   @11M
Walnuts, Grenoble................................  @14
“  Marbot....................................  @
Calif.......................................11  @13
“ 
Table Nuts,  fancy................................   @13M
choice................................   @12M
Pecans. Texas, H.  P„  ..........................12  @14
Cocoannts, full sacks...........................   @4  75
Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................  @ 5M
“  Roasted.....................  @  7jt
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............................  @ 5M
“  Roasted........... ........   @ 7M
Choice, H. P., Extras............................  ® 4M
Roasted.................  @ 6M
California Walnuts.

“ 
“ 
" 

PEANUTS.

“ 
“ 

“ 

I CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

.............................. 12M

FRUIT JARS.

Pints............................................................}
Quarts..........................................................
Half Gallons................................................
Caps.............................................................
Rubbers.....................................  ................
No. 0 Sun................................... .....................  45
No. 1  “  .........................................................  50
No.2  “  .........................................................  75
Tubular..........................................................  75

LAMP BURNERS.

LAMP CHIMNEYS.  Per bOX.

6 doz. In box.

 

 

2 

 
 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

La Bastle.

XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

First quality.
“ 
“ 

“  ............... - ................... 2 80
“ 

No. 0 San......................................................... 1 80
No. 1  “  ......................................................... 1  90
No.2  “  ......................................................... 2 90
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top................................ 
No. 1 
No.2 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.........................................2  60
No. 1  “ 
No.2 
“ 
Pearl top.
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
No.2  “ 
....................... 150
No. 1 crimp, per doz.......................................1  35
No. 2  “ 
........................................1  60
No. 0, per  gross..............................................   23
No. 1, 
................................................  28
No  2, 
................................................  38
................................................  75
No. 3, 
Mammoth, per doz..........................................  75
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks, 1 and 6 gal..........................  06M
Jugs, M gal., per doz...................................   75
....................................  90
................................... 1 80
Milk Pans, H sal., per doz..........................  66
glazed................  75
“ 
..........................   78
“ 
“ 
glazed.................  90

“ 
“ 
“  M  “ 
“ 
1  “ 
“ 
1  “ 

‘  1 
“ 
•  2  *’ 
•* 
“ 
“ 

LAMP WICKS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

2 
s 

3 

25
40
40

80

18
THE  COOPER&VILLE  CREÄMERY.

AT1T1  THE  STOCKHOLDERS  SATIS­

FIED   W ITH  DAVIS,  RAN­

KIN  &  CO.

A  L ocal  B usiness  A d v an tag e.

A reporter for  The  T radesman  was 
in  Coopersville  recently,  and,  meeting 
Mr.  S.  K.  Felton,  the  hustling  soliciting 
representative of  Davis  &  Rankin,  the 
creamery building  firm  of  Chicago,  he 
accepted an invitation from  that  gentle­
man to visit the creamery  recently  built 
at that  place.

The factory building,  which is  located 
just outside the  business  center  of  the 
village, is 30x48 feet in dimensions,  with 
a wing,  12x24 feet,  which  comprises  tre 
engine room and  office.  The  factory  is 
well  built in  regard  to  retaining  heat, 
the  walls  being  constructed  with  two 
dead  air chambers.

If there is any one scientific  invention 
of the age that shows the  importance  of 
using first-class butter producing strains, 
it is the Babcock  tester  in  use  at  this 
factory.  The milk is tested once a week 
and the record shows  a  wonderful  vari­
ation.  The four tests are  averaged,  aud 
each patron’s statement is  made  out  on 
that basis on the fifteenth of each month. 
This modern creamery system is  said  to 
be a great improvement on the old cream 
receiving system.  The  farmer  delivers 
the entire product,  just as he does at the 
cheese factory.  The milk is weighed and 
run  into a large vat,  whence,  after being 
temperature,  it 
reduced  to  a  certain 
passes through  what 
is  known  as  the 
Alexandra Jumbo centrifugal  separator, 
the “skim”  milk  passing  to  the  right 
into a large vat  and  the  cream  passing 
into a vat to the left.  This  separator  is 
a Sweedish invention and is  certainly  a 
wonderful  machine.  To  attempt 
to 
describe it properly would  require  more 
time and space than can  be allotted to it. 
Just think of a little machine,  occupying 
less space than a  lamp  stand,  receiving 
milk direct from the cow and spinning it 
around at the  rate  of  6,500  revolutions 
per  minute, 
the  butter 
globules and  throwing them  off  centri- 
fugaliy,  and forcing the  “skim”  milk off 
in an  opposite  direction !  And  it  does 
its work perfectly,  too,  for the most care­
ful tests of the “skim”  milk do not show 
any cream.  To view the  small openings 
in this machine when  it  is  not  in  oper­
ation, one could not believe  that a ton of 
milk could be  forced  through  them  in 
one hour,  yet  such  is  the  case.  After 
being separated from  the milk, the cream 
remains in the vat from  24 to  48  hours, 
when  it passes into a huge  churn,  which 
is simply a  revolving box 3 feet  high,  3 
wide and 7 long.  The butter  is  worked 
on  a revolving wooden disk about  6  feet 
in diameter,  by passing  underneath  two 
grooved cone-shaped rollers.

separating 

This creamery  has  but  recently  com­
menced operations,  yet 27,976 pounds  of 
milk was received in January,  and  from 
every 100 pounds of this milk 5.36 pounds 
of butter  was made,  or  a  fraction  over 
18.65 pounds of milk  for  one  pound  of 
butter.  The sales report  shows a  mini­
mum of 28 cents and a  maximum of  31.5 
cents received.

The factory is equipped  with a cheese­
making outfit,  so that,  in case  of  a  mis­
hap  of  any  kind,  the  milk  can  be 
utilized.

The building  and  plant  cost  $4,950, 
and the  stockholders,  so  far  as  seen,

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
secure to the stockholders  a good paying 
dividend.  We have no fear of  a glut  in 
the butter market in  the  summer  time, 
for,  should the price drop to  a  non-pay­
ing point,  we could ship our  cream  into 
Grand Rapids for ice cream  purposes.”

seem  perfectly satisfied  with  the  manner 
in which Messrs.  Davis  &  Rankin  ful- j 
filled their  contract.  Some  slight  fric­
tion  was caused  by  the  Company’s  col­
lector,  but  Mr.  Felton,  the  solicitor, 
settled up  matters  precisely  as  agreed 
upon,  and to  the perfect  satisfaction  of 
all concerned.

C. 

C.  Lillie,  Commissioner  of  Schools 

for Ottawa county,  and  one  of  Western 
Michigan’s representative dairy farmers, 
is president  of  the  Creamery  Company 
and the largest  stockholder.  Mr.  Lillie 
was not seen but was reported by Messrs. 
Oakes,  Taylor  and  Park  as  follows: 
“Mr.  Lillie is one of  our  most  enthusi­
astic patrons.  He keeps  seventeen cows 
and formerly sold  his  butter 
in  Grand 
Rapids at 25 cents  per  pound  on  con­
tract.  He says that  he  doesn’t  have  to 
do that now  because he can  get more for 
it.  Where he used  to get 17%  pounds of 
butter churned at home,  he  says he  now 
gets 18K pounds at  the  creamery  from 
the same quantity of milk.  He  not only 
gets more butter  from  his  milk  but  he 
gets a better price for it.  He has sixteen 
customers  in  Grand  Rapids  whom  he 
supplies regularly  with creamery  butter. 
Add to this the important  fact that he is 
relieved from all  the  old-time  drudgery 
of buttermaking at home,  and  you  will 
readily understand why  he is so enthusi­
astic in  this creamery  business.”

C.  P.  Lillie, one of Coopersville’s lead­
ing  merchants, 
is  a  stockholder.  Mr. 
Lillie said:  “1  subscribed  for  stock  in 
it. 
the creamery because I  had faith  in 
Our  farmers  have  always  sold 
their 
butter in the city,  and,  as  a result,  they 
do their trading there.  1 hold, as a busi­
ness man,  that,  if the  farmers  can  sell 
their  butter  at  home  at  satisfactory 
prices,  they will spend  more  money  at 
home  for  merchandise.  The  creamery 
has given splendid  satisfaction  so  far. 
We feel proud of it and have the greatest 
confidence in its ultimate  success.  1 am 
satisfied that no other  creamery builders 
would have given us any  better value for 
our money,  or treated us any  better than 
Davis &  Rankin  did.  Mr.  Felton  was 
indefatigable in his efforts and triumphed 
in  the face of much opposition.”

D.  C.  Oakes,  the  Coopersville  banker, 
is treasurer of  the  Creamery  Company. 
Mr.  Oakes said:  “I  am a  stockholder  in 
the creamery and have great faith  in  it. 
Of course,  we met with  some  opposition 
in organizing our  company.  Some said: 
*Oh,  Davis &  Rankin  are  after  the  big 
end of it;’  but 1 want to say to  you  that 
Davis &  Rankin  are  justly  entitled  to 
every dollar they got out  of  it.  Had  it 
not been for the  liberal  course  adopted 
by them,  we would not have this  cream­
ery to-day.  They  took  a  committee  of 
our people over to Illinois and gave them 
a practical demonstration of the working 
of the system.  Mr.  Felton  worked  hard 
for six weeks in working up  an  interest 
among our farmers and business men  be­
fore a company  was  organized. 
I  have 
no doubt but what all this  cost Davis  & 
Rankin  at least  $500, and every  sensible 
man knows that it is  simply a matter  of 
business ethics  for  these  gentlemen  to 
reimburse themselves for  this  necessary 
expenditure.  We are perfectly  satisfied 
with the cost of our  creamery  and  with 
the result of its operations so far.  When 
we get it worked up to its fullest capacity, 
which is  about  10,000  pound  of  milk 
daily,  we  will,  no  doubt,  be  able  to 
manufacture butter the year round at an 
average rate of 3 cents  per  pound,  and

W.  R.  Boynton,  hardware  dealer, is al­
so a stockholder.  Mr.  Boynton  is a live 
business man and  quite  enthusiastic  on 
the butter question.  He  said:  “I  went 
into this creamery business  to encourage 
what I consider a move  in  the  right  di­
rection.  There  is  great  need  for  im- 
provement  in  this  butter  business. 
It 
has always been  a prolific  source of  an­
noyance. 
It is  the  cause  of much  hard 
work on  the farm,  and a very large  pro­
portion of the butter so made, after pass­
ing through  the grocery stores,  is actual­
ly not fit for  a Christian  to  eat.  And  I 
guess it wouldn’t be  much  better if test­
ed before reaching the grocery stores.  Of 
course,  in my business I do  not take but­
ter  in  trade,  but,  occasionally,  when  a 
crock of  ‘gilt-edged’ is offered in trade by 
some  buttermaker  whom  1 know,  I  put 
a ‘corner’ on it  for  my private  use.  On 
one occasion I  ‘took  in’ a  crock  of  ‘dou­
ble gilt,’ and when  the  supposed  expert 
buttermaker departed,  I tasted  the arti­
cle and found  that  it  had  ‘taken me in.’ 
I  carried  the  precious  stuff  out  in  the 
back yard and  buried  it  where it  could 
never more outrage  the refined tastes  of 
a gentleman.  The average farmer’s wife 
does not possess the necessary appliances 
and conveniences  to  make  good  butter. 
Now this  creamery  system  relieves  the 
farmer  of  this  onerous,  yet  unsatisfac­
tory,  labor,  and,  at the same  time,  it  in­
creases  the  income  from his  dairy  and 
gives  him  a home cash  market  for  his 
product,  realizable  on  the  fifteenth  of 
every month.  This  is  an  advantage  to 
home business  and  the  very  thing  that 
induced me  to  go  into it.  Everyone  is 
satisfied,  so far as I know, with the build­
ing and plant and  with its  operations  to 
date.”

J.  M.  Park,  a dairy farmer living about 
three miles and  a half  from  the  village, 
is a patron  and stockholder of the cream­
ery.  Mr.  Park  said:  “I have,  for  sev­
eral years,  managed my dairy  in  view  of 
winter  buttermaking. 
I  can  get  more 
money out of my cows in this way,  as the 
extra  price  obtained  for  winter  butter 
more than offsets the extra feed required. 
I always marketed  my  butter  in  Grand 
Rapids.  When  Mr.  Felton  came here  to 
organize a  creamery  company,  I  fell  in 
with the idea and  subscribed  for  stock. 
I am more than satisfied  with the  result 
so far.  1 subscribed  for stock  with  the 
understanding that I was to pay for it by 
promisory note  at  6  per  cent,  interest. 
When the  collector  demanded money,  I 
refused to settle with  him,  but  Mr.  Fel­
ton  settled  up  everything  precisely  ac­
cording to agreement. 
I think I am safe 
in saying that every  stockholder is satis­
fied  with the building and plant;  indeed, 
1 honestly  think  that  Davis  &  Rankin 
have given us a  better building than  we 
contracted  for.  We had some  difficulty 
in  organizing a  company.  So  many  of 
our farmers  got  taken  in  in  the notori­
ous  P.  of  I.  mill  at  Conklin  that  they 
were 
that  this  was  another 
scheme to  ‘do them up.’  But  this  cream­
ery is a success and,  sooner or  later, the 
farmers will  recognize  the  fact. 
I  tell 
you,  it removes a great burden  from  the 
farmer,  and  no  one  appreciates 
it  so 
much as the farmer’s wife.”

afraid 

Amos  Taylor,  of  Bavenna, 

is  also

a  stockholder.  He  was  seen  and  ex­
pressed  himself  as  being  well  pleased 
with the  result.  Mr.  Taylor  furnished 
the  lumber  for  the creamery,  and  he 
spoke in  glowing  terms  of  the  satisfac­
tory  business relations had  with  Messrs. 
Davis & Rankin and their agents.

Everyone  interested  in  the  Coopers­
ville creamery,  so far as interviewed,  ex­
pressed  himself  as  being  pleased  with 
the creamery  and  the  manner  in which 
they were treated,  from  start  to  finish, 
by Davis & Rankin  and their gentleman­
ly solicitor,  Mr.  S. K.  Felton.

Many  thanks  are  due  Mr.  Geo.  W. 
Bevins,  the secretary and  business man­
ager,  and Mr.  Coleman, the buttermaker, 
for  their  kindness  and  courtesy  on the 
occasion of this  visit.

Mr.  Falton  says that his house is doing 
an extensive  business.  Three  hundred 
workmen are employed  in  the  works  at 
Chicago,  and  about  300  solicitors  and 
builders  are  kept  constantly at  work in 
organizing creamery companies and  con­
structing the  plants all  over  the Union. 
The report -of  last  summer’s  operations 
showed that,  on an  average,  one  cream­
ery  company  was organized aad the build­
ing erected and  fully  equipped  for busi­
ness for every working day in the season.

E.  A.  Ow e n .

t

E x c e l s i o r  
Bolts 
Wanted !

1  want  500  to  1,000  cords  of  Poplar 

Excelsior Bolts,  18 and 36 inches long.

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

«.  a  

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J  W.  FOX,

G rand  R apids, Mich.

STRAW  BOARD.

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

BUILDING  PAPERS.

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

CARPET LININGS.

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

H.M. REYNOLDS & SON

GRAND  R A PID S,  MICH.

UNIVERSALLY  CONDEMNED.

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----------flto

the  originator  of 

Finds No Friends Any where. 

Representative  McKinstry's  Measure 
cT he bill  introduced in the  Legislature 
by  Representative  McKinstry,  of  Mus­
kegon,  providing  for  the  dating  of  all 
canned  goods,  appears  to  meet with  the 
disapproval  of  all  and  the  approval 
of  none.  As 
the 
measure  claims  to  be  acting 
in  the 
interest of  public health,  but vouchsafes 
no reason  why canned  goods  over a year 
old  are  unwholesome,  The  Tradesman 
recently  appealed to the  State  Board of 
Health for  information,  with the  follow­
ing result:
Lansing,  Feb.  13—In  reply  to  your 
letter  of  February  11,  inquiring  what 
position,  if any,  this Board  has  taken on 
Representative  McKinstry’s bill  to  date 
canned  goods  sold in this  State,  1 would 
say that the bill has not come before this 
Board, and 1 am, therefore, unable to say 
what  position it would  take on the  sub­
ject.  The  subject  of  the  bill  has  not 
been  formally considered  by the  Board, 
although it has been mentioned.

Very respectfully,

Henry  B.  Baker, Sec’y.

*  

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#

Certainly no one is better able to speak 
authoritatively as to the  effect of such  a 
measure than Jack Armsby,  the  Chicago 
canned  goods  prince.  This  gentleman 
presents his  opinions  in  no  uncertain 
tones,  as follows:
Chicago,  Feb.  15—Replying  to  yours 
of Feb.  14,  would  say,  that  we  cannot 
conceive how the law  would  benefit  any 
one. 
If canned  goods  a  year  or  two 
years old  were inferior in quality  to new 
goods,  such a law as this might  be bene­
ficial,  but  that is not  the  case. 
In  our 
opinion,  if it was passed,  it  would  soon 
become a dead  letter.  The ordinary con­
sumer,  who  knows  very 
little  about 
canned goods,  naturally  thinks  that  age 
affects  such  goods  unfavorably,  and, 
therefore,  would always buy new  goods, 
instead of the old,  thus entailing a heavy 
loss on  anyone who happens to hold any 
old  goods.  This  would  hurt  retailers, 
jobbers  and  packers.

Yours truly,

J.  K. Armsby.

*  

*  

*

The Muskegon grocers appear  to  take 
little  stock  in  either  the  man  or  his 
measure, judging by the  following inter­
views in the Muskegon News:

instance  of  poisoning 

“Only  a  small  percentage,”  Said  D. 
Christie,  “of canned goods sold  here  are 
packed in  this State,  and  how  are Michi­
gan laws going to control  other  states or 
foreign  canned  goods?  We  guarantee 
everything  in canned goods that  we  sell 
and the packers have no  object  in  send­
ing out undesirable goods,  and  whatever 
is  found to be so is returned to us and we 
return to the jobber  or  packer  we  pur­
chase of.  The most reliable packer  will 
occasionally turn out  a  faulty  can,  but 
the percentage is so small that it scarcely 
amounts to  anything.  Of  one  million 
cans  of different kinds of  fruit  and  fish 
only one or two  cases  of  bad  merchan­
dise were reported.  We never have  had 
any 
the 
canned  goods sold here.  Where there is 
trouble  sometimes it is owing to careless­
ness on the part of the  housekeeper; the 
fruit or fish is left in the can after  open­
ing,  and that should never be done.
“In my position as  dealer  it  does  not 
make any  difference to me whether it  be­
comes  a  law or not,  but  it  would  shut 
out competitioh, and we would be obliged 
to handle all Michigan packed  goods. 
It 
would have the effect of  making  canned 
goods more expensive for the people, and 
they will have to pay  for the immaginary 
protection,  if  the  bill  becomes  a 
law. 
However,  I don’t think there is a  chance 
for the bill to pass.”
“My idea of  the  law,”  said  H.  Cum­
mings,  “is that it  would  be  detrimental 
to  the  consumers,  from  the  fact  that 
packers will put up  a sufficient  quantity 
to supply the demand,  and they  can  get 
their own  prices and can get such  prices

from 

Wm. H. Anderson,  Cashier. 
J n o .  A. Seymour, Ass’t Cashier.

Capital,  $300 ,0 0 0 .

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

ran Hiram bui

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

G e o .  W .  Gay, Vice-President.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
as  they  have  a  mind  to  ask.  On  the 
other hand  where  packers  have  put  up 
large stocks of  canned  goods,  both  the 
jobber and heavy retailers are enabled to 
buy at a less price because  every  jobber 
and every packer who has  a  large  stock 
on hand is more anxious to  sell,  and  the 
retailer will be better enabled to give the 
consumer lower prices than  he  could  if 
he was at the mercy of the packer or job­
ber who had a small stock.
“Very few cans  have  ever  been  com­
plained  of  or  returned,  and  we  have 
I always caution 
never poisoned anyone. 
purchasers  not to  leave them in the  can 
after opening.  1 haven’t  any  idea  that 
the bill  will  become a  law.  1  have  not 
heard  the  subject  agitated  among  the 
grocers.”
“My opinion concerning the McKinstry 
bill,” said  E.  P.  Watson,  “is,  that  if  it 
should  be passed it will  be of  no benefit 
to the  consumer  and a detriment  to the 
dealer. 
It  does not  amount to anything 
for two or three reasons:  First, it would 
have to be universal to  be effective.  Two 
or three  states  might  pass a law for  the 
dating  of  goods  while  all  the  others 
would have none.  As the bulk of canned 
goods comes  from other  states it may be 
seen  how useless it would  be in  protect­
ing  the  people.  Not  one  person  in ten 
would  think to look  on  the  can  for the 
date.  Michigan  herself  can’t  begin  to 
supply  the  canned  goods necessary  for 
home  consumption,  and if  we can’t  sell 
unstamped goods,  who is going to suffer?
“Canned goods  will  keep three or four 
years  if  handled  properly. 
In  cases 
where  canned  goods  are  unfit  for  use, 
and it rarely  happens,  it is  because  the 
goods were not fresh  when  put up.  The 
subject is  discussed in  the  Grocers'  Cri­
terion,  a  Chicago  publication,  and  the 
Grocers’ Association of  that city took  ac­
tion on the same kind of a bill now pend­
ing  in  the  Illinois Legislature. 
It was 
resolved  by the Association  that  ’the bill 
would  be an  injury to the dealer,  and of 
no benefit to the  consumer.’  I think the 
bill  will  not  pass  as it is too much  like 
the Miner law—it is in the interest of the 
State,  whereas it should be national.”

HENRY  PASSOLT, 

washing  purposes.

Is  Manufactured 

Saginaw  T alley.

Saginaw,  Mich.

only  by

H aving  new  and  largely  in­
creased  fa cilities  for  manu­
facturing  we  are w ell  prepar­
ed  to fill orders prom ptly and 
at m ost reasonable prices.

A tlas  S oap

For general  laundry and  fam ily 

Only  brand o f lirst-class laundry 

soap  niannfactured  in  the 

*  

*  

*

No man in this  country  has  probably 
made more  of a study  of the  subject  of 
canned goods than Frank N. Barrett,  the 
veteran editor of that  king of trade jour­
nals, the American Grocer.  In  its search 
for  knowledge  on  the  dating  question, 
T h e  T radesm an  naturally  applied  to 
Mr.  Barrett,  receiving  in  reply  the fol­
lowing 
generous  and  comprehensive 
response:
N ew   York,  Feb.  16—Such  a  law  as 
that proposed  presupposes  that  canned 
goods that  are two, three,  four,  five or six 
years old are  not just  as good  as  those 
that are one year old.  The  fact  is  that 
any  article  that  is  hermetically  sealed 
in  a  tin  can  is  good  for  an  indefinite 
period.  1 have seen condensed milk twen­
ty  years old that was just as  sweet and 
sound as when it  went  into the army  as 
sutler’s supplies. General Greeley testifies 
that the canned goods  used  in  his expe­
dition contributed  to  the  unusual  good 
health of his men and that, although they 
were  frozen, 
thawed  out,  frozen  again 
and carried  through  two  winters,  they 
were apparently  as  good  as when  first 
put  up.  There  were  a 
lot  of  canned 
goods taken  from  a  river  at  Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  which had been there over twenty 
years,  having been knocked overboard in 
some  way  and  subsequently  fished  up. 
They  were  found  to  be  sound  and  in 
good condition.
It is  readily  apparent,  from  the  cor­
respondence  which  you  print  and from 
my own experience,  that the popular im­
pression is that canned  goods  more than 
one year old are not palatable and  sound 
and fit for food;  hence  such  men  as  Mr. 
McKinstry  think  they can  obviate  what 
they regard as an evil by  some such bill. 
He must bear in  mind  that  the State  of 
Michigan does  not  can  many articles  of 
food,  and only  in a  limited  supply,  and 
such  a law  would  be  entirely  inopera­
tive for  all  meats,  fish,  vegetables,  etc., 
packed in other  states. 
I  wonder  if  he 
imagines  that by  passing  such a law he 
could induce canners of salmon in Alaska 
and  along  the  Columbia  river  to  go to

Use Tradesman Coupons.

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

“  The N iagara  F alls Route.”

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

♦Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 00 p m..........Detroit  Express............655pm
4 30pm .................. Mixed  .................   7 00am
10 00 a m ..............Day Express  ...........  1  29 pm
6 00am  ... .»Atlantic and  Pacific..... 10 45 pm
1  00 p m  ...... New York E xpress........  5 40 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific ex­
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  6:55 am ;  re­
turning, leave Detroit 4:40 p m, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:00 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains east  over the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
Tickets on sale at Union  Ticket Office, 67 Mon­
roe street and Union  Depot.
D e t r o i t ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   & £ m i l -
Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Ave.

W A U K K E   R a i l w a y .

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave  j+No.  14 +No.  16ltNo.  18|*No.  82
11 00pm
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
12 42am
Ionia...........Ar
2 00am
St.  Johns  ...Ar
3 10am
Owossj........Ar
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
700am
Detroit......... Ar

10 20am  3 25pm
11 25am  4 27pm
12 17pm  5 20pm 
1 20pm  Ò 05pm
3 45pm  8 00pm
4 35pm  8 37pm
3 45pm  7 05pm
5 50pm  8 50pm 
305pm  8 25pm
4 05pm|  9 25pm

6 50am
7 45am
8 30am
9 05am
10 50am
11 30am
10 05am
12 05pm 
1053am
11 50am
WESTWARD.

Trains Leave 

Lv. Detroit......
G’d Rapids,  Lv 
G’d Haven,  Ar 
Milw’keeStr  “ 
Chicago Str.  “

:: : : ::
...........

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

6  50am
1 00pm
2 10pm

»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  arrl  e from  the west,  10:10 a. m., 3:15 
p.m. and 9:45v p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parle r  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward—No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car.
J a b.  Ca m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

19

Grand  Rapids  <St Indiana.
Schedule  In effect  January  29,1893.

North.
7:20am
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  

South. 
For Traverse City  and S aginaw   6:15 a m  
For Traverse City A  Mackinaw  9:00 a  m 
For Cadillac and S agin aw .........   2:20 p m  
For  P etoskey A  M ackinaw ........  8:10 p m 
From Chicago and  K alam azoo.  8:35 p m 
daily.  O thers trains d aily excep t Sunday.

TRAINS  G O IN S  SOOTH.

Arrive from   L eave goin g  

North. 

For  C incinnati................................  6:30 a m  
For K alam azoo and  C h icago... 
For F ort W ayne and th e  B a st..  11:50 a m  
For  C incinnati................................  6:15 p m  
For K alam azoo  A   C hicago........10:40 p m 
From S aginaw .................................   It :50 a  m
From S aginaw .................................   10:40 p m
Trains lea v in g  south at 6:00 p m and  11:20 p.  m. runs 
daily;  all  other  trains  d aily excep t Sunday.__________

South.
7:00  a m
10:05  a  m
2 :00  p m
6:00  p m
11:20  p m

SLEEPING  A   PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

N O RTH

7:20 am train  h a s   Parlor  Car  to  Traverse 
City.
1:1 0   p  m   tra in   has  parlor  car  Grand 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
1 0 :1 0  p  m   t r a i n .—Sleeping  ca  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw.
SOUTH—7:00 am  train .—Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
10:05  a m   tra in .—Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids to  Chicago.
6 :0 0   p  m   tr a in .—W agner S leeping  Car 
Grand  Rapids to C incinnati.
1 1 ;2 0   p m  tr a in .—Wagner Sleeping Car 
Grand Rapids to Chicago.

C h ic ag o  v ia  G.  R.  & I. R.  R.

10:05 a m  
3:55 p m 

Lv Grand  Rapids 
A i t  C hicago 

11:20 p m
6:50 a m
10:05 a  m train  through W agner Parlor Car.
11:20 p m train daily, through  W agner  Sleeping Car. 
11:46 p m
6:45  a m
11:45 p  m 

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

2:00 p m  
9:00 p m  

7:05 am  
2:20 pm 

M u skegon, G rand R apids &  In d ian a.

For M uskegon—Leave. 

From Muskegon—Arrive

6:55  a m  
11:25  a m  
5:30  p m 

10:00 a m
4:40  p m
9:05 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  Muske 
gon  a t  4:30 p m, arrivin g a t Grand  Rapids a t  5:46 p m .
Through tick ets and fu ll inform ation  can  be had by 
ca llin g  upon A. Alm quist,  tick et  agen t  a t  Union Sta­
tion,  or  G eorge  W.  Munson,  Union  T icket  A gent, 67 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.

General  P assenger and T icket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

CHICAGO 

xov- 2011892
AND  W ESf  MICHIGAN  R’Y.

GOING  TO CHICAGO.

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

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

TO AND PROM  MUSKESON.

Lv. CHICAGO..............9:00am  5:25pm *11:15pm
Ar.  GR’D RAPIDS......3:55pm  10:45pm  *7:05am
TO  AND  FROM  BENTON  HARBOR,  AND  8T  JOSEPH
Lv. G  R..........8:50am  1:25pm 
...........*11:35pm
Ar.  G R ..........*6:10am 3'55pm 
.........  10:45pm
Lv. G. R ...........  8:50am  1:25pm  5:35pm  8:45pm
Ar.  G.  R ..................... 10:45am  3:55pm  5:25pm
Lv.  G  R........................................7:30am  5:35pm
Ar;  Manistee 
..........................12:15pm  10:29pm
Ar.  Traverse City.......................12:35pm 10:59pm
Ar.  Charlevoix..........................   2:55pm 
...
Ar. Petoskey  ............................. 3:30pm  .............
Ar.  from  Petoskey,  etc.,  10:00  p  m.;  from 
Traverse City 11:50 a m, 10:00 p m.

TRAVERSE  CITY  MANISTEE  A  PETOSKEY.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

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

DETROIT,

LANSING  &  NORTHERN  R.  R. 
GOING TO  DETROIT.

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

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

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

TO AND FROM 8A8INAW,  ALMA AND BT. LOUIS.

TO LOWELL VIA  LOWELL A  HASTINGS R.  R.

Lv. Grand Kapids............   7:10am  1:25pm  5:40pm
Ar. from L ow ell................ 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. DkHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t

Toledo,  Ann  Arbor  &  North  Michigan 

Railway.

VIA D ., L.  A N.

In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Mllwauk  e 
offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  betwe  n 
Grand Rapids and Toledo.
Lv. Grand Rapids at......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 a t..............12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p.
W. ;H.  B e n n e t t ,"General Pass. Agent, 
Toledo, Ohio.

Return connections equally as good.

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law: 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
Fred H.  Ball, Secretary Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman Co.,  thus  refers  to the  proposed 
dating-canned-goods 
“I  see  no 
possible excuse for  such a law;  certainly 
there is no demand  for  it on  the part  of 
either  the  packer,  dealer  or  consumer. 
We have  stowed away in  odd corners  of 
our  store  small 
lots  of  canned  goods 
which  have  been  packed  from  five  to 
twelve years,  and if either  House of  the 
Legislature will accord a hearing on  the 
bill,  I  will  take  some  of  these  goods 
down to Lansing and compare them  with 
goods  packed  in  1892.  If  anybody  can 
tell the  difference  between  the  old  and 
the  new  goods,  they  can  do  better 
than  I  can.”

D R A W IN G

Is taught in  our  public schools,  but  LOTTERY  DRAWING 
is  prohibited  by  law. 
In  non-progressive  cities  poor  old 
horses DRAW  their street  cars.  All  the  above drawings  are

The  Drug  Market.

The upward movement  in  opium  con­
tinues and prices  are  still  hardening  in 
the primary markets.

Morphi a  advanced  on  the  12th  10 
cents per ounce  and  another  advance is 
probable.

Quinine is steady.
Malaga  olive  oil is scarce  and higher.
Cloves have advanced.
Oil  cloves is higher,  on  account of the 

advance of the buds.

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  pay in i  $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 pay 24c for choice 
dairy and find ready takers at 26c.

Cabbage—$1 per doz.. and scarce at that.
Celery—'8®2yC per doz. bunches.
Cider—13'a.lpc per  gal.
Cranberries—The  market  is  without  change, 
crates  now  being  held  as follows:  Cape  Cods 
and Jerseys, $2.75;  Waltons, $3.25.

Eggs—The  market  has  suffered a further  de­
cline  during the past week, dealers  now paying 
18c?p;0e and holding at ¿2c.

Grapes—Malagas are  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—Not so plentiful  as a few  weeks  ago. 

Clover stock is held at 13c.

Onions—Higher  Dealers  pay  $1  and  hold 

at $1.25 per bu.

Parsnips—10c per bu.
Potatoes — The  market  is  without  material 
change, buyers continuing to pay 65c  per bushel 
here  and 60c at the outside  buying points.  The 
demand continues  strong and  the anxiety to fill 
orders has resulted in  a  number of  frosted cars 
and made many shippers sick.

Squash—So scarce  that  it is  practically out of 

market.

fweet Potatoes—Out of market.
T urnips—35c per bu

well  provided  for,  but  the  DRAWING  OF  THE  BEARD 
BY  A  DULL  RAZOR  often  caused  by the  want  of  a suit­
able strop,  produces excruciating agony.  Now.  coming to  the 
real  gist of  our subject, we want to tell  you  that we  nave in 
stock the celebrated

Horse  Tail  Razor  Strops

Constructed  from  tanned  horse  tail,  a material  which  forms 
the facing of Lapadists1  wheels and discs used in polishing and 
cutting  diamonds. 
Its being used  for this  purpose is enough 
of a guarantee  that it is the  best  material  for  putting an  edge 
on  all  fine  cutting  implements.  The  No.  2  we  retail  at 50c, 
the oiled  strop at 65c and  the  leather and canvas  strop at $1. 
Come in  and  see them.

Buy
^NKDIGOR’8 

O Y S T E R S !

I

20

in  order 

expense  ' of  dies 

the 
to 
stamp  the date on  canned  goods?  Such 
a law would keep alive  an  unreasonable 
prejudice  which  exists 
in  the  public 
mind  and  entail  needless  expense  on 
packers.  You  might  mention  that  the 
salmon which took  the prize at the Inter­
national  Exposition  at Berlin some years 
ago was four years old and  had been  in 
the Philadelphia  Exposition. 
It  was put 
up  by A.  Booth  &  Co.  Another  thing, 
there are certain  sorts  of  fruits  which 
are better when  two  years  in  the  can; 
for instance,  pineapple. 
It  seems  that 
the fruit absorbs more of the  sugar from 
the liquor the longer it  is  in  the can  so 
that pineapple,  after  being  canned  two 
years,  would  be better than  when  in only 
one.  There are some things,  litre lobster, 
for instance,  and squash,  which  become 
discolored  after  several  years,  but  1 
do not know as the  dietetic  value  is  at 
all affected  by  age.  The  one  great  ob­
jection to such a  bill is  that  it  is  a  re­
striction  upon trade  and  commerce  and 
would  work  injury to every  jobber  and 
retailer in  the  State,  because  the  law 
would  be entirely  inoperative  on  goods 
put up outside the State.  All restrictive 
legislation is  generally  an 
injury  and 
makes  laws a dead  letter. 
I  have  been 
trying to  find  the  argument  presented 
before the  New  York  Legislature  when 
such a bill  was  introduced  here,  which 
resulted in  its  being  killed.  Age  has 
less  to do  with  the  wholesomeness  of 
canned goods  than  anything  else  con­
nected  with  them. 
It  might  be  that  a 
person  would get hold of a  lot  of  goods 
freshly packed and  find the  quality  in­
ferior to some ten  to  twenty  years  old. 
Why,  then,  discriminate  against 
the 
better  goods  to  the  advantage of  the 
poorer,  simply because  the 
latter  were 
freshly packed?  I have  just come  from 
a luncheon  where  1  went  to  test  this 
matter practically.  We heated first a can 
of Printiuiere soup,  which contains peas, 
beans and other vegetables. 
It  was  five 
years old and was tested  alongside a can 
of  the same sort  of  soup  freshly  made. 
So far as the  color was concerned,  there 
was no difference,  nor  could  anyone de­
tect the slightest  difference  in  flavor;  in 
fact,  I thought the taste of the vegetables 
in the five-year  old  soup  approximated 
more closely fresh vegetables  than  those 
in the soup  made  recently.  We also ate 
a  can  of  asparagus  that  was  seven  or 
eight years old and  was  put  up by John 
Moir’s  Sons,  at  Wilmington,  Delaware. 
It was tender and of  excellent  flavor,  in 
all  respects,  equal  to fresh  canned  as­
paragus,  and  a  great  deal  better  than 
some  put  up  last  summer.  Michigan 
cannot afford  to have on  her books a  law 
which  would restrict the  development of 
trade  throughout the entire  State,  when 
the only  reason  for  there being  such  a 
law is the unreasonable prejudice  which 
one consumer  out  of about  one  million 
thinks enough of  to bring  the matter  to 
public attention.  Another consideration 
is  that  imported  goods  would  have  no 
date  and,  therefore,  American  goods 
would  be discriminated against.

Another consideration: As you are well 
aware,  packers  manufacture  their  cans 
during the winter,  in order to be in read­
iness  for the  next  summer’s crop.  The 
date must  be stamped  on  the cans at  the 
time of manufacture.  Now it  happened 
that in  Delaware  last  season  the  peach 
crop  was a failure  and  the  packers  were 
obliged to carry over to  another year the 
empty  cans. 
they  bad  been  dated 
they would either have  had to  be thrown 
away or else used  with the  date on,  giv­
ing the  impression  that the goods  were 
one year or more  older  than  they really 
were.  As there are  about  one thousand 
million  tins of  canned  food  used  in  this 
country every  year  and as no injury has 
been proven  to  have resulted from  their 
use,  it is difficult to  frame an  excuse  for 
such special legislation.

If 

The bill,  if passed,  would be a blow at 
the retailers,  as  it  would  reduce  com­
petition, raise prices,  the  result  of  less 
variety and supply,  for  packers  in  out­
side states would  pay no attention  to  the 
law,  and thus the few  packers  in Michi­
gan would have the trade.

Yours heartily,

F .  N .  B a r r e t t .

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The weather  has  moderated in  Maryland so the dredges 
can  work,  consequently the  price of  oysters  has  receded 
to a point  near actual  value.  There are six weeks  yet of 
the regular season  and during  Lent  there  is  chance for a 
large volume of business to be done.

Send in  your orders and reap the benefit.

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

|E L L P

_ 

MANUFACTURED  BY

SNEDICOR  &  HATHAW AY,

DETROIT,  MICH,

Dealers wishing to see the line address 
F.  A.  Cadwell, 682  Jefferson  ave.,  Grand 
I Rapids, Mich.

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Dry  Goods, Carpets and Cloaks

W H O L E S A L E

We  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

M ackinaw   S hirts  and  L u m b erm en ’s  Socks.

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigt, Hemolsbeinior & Co.,48> !£ a n ! S S f f i st-

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

Saw Repairing

Done as cheap as can be done  consistent  with good  work.  Lumber  saws  fitted  up ready for use 
without extra charge.  No charge for boxing or drayage.  Writ 2 .or prices and discounts.
MICHIGAN.

MUSKEGON, 

- 

Spring &  Company,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Dress  Goods,  Shaw ls,  Cloaks, 
Notions,  R ibbons,  Hosiery, 
Gloves,  U nderw ear,  W oolens, 
Flannels,  B lankets,  G ingham s, 
P rin ts and  Domestic Cottons.

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

assorted stock at lowest market  prices.

Spring &  Company,

P.  8TEKETEE l SONS

H A V E   R E C EIV ED

A  full  line  of  H am ilton,  Pacific,  Sim pson’s 
G arner, M anchester and A llens Prints, also 
A F C   Toile  du  Nord,  Dresden,  Bates  and 
A m oskeag w ash  dress  gingham s and  satines. 
A fresh new  line of w hite goods,  N ainsooks in 
cheeks and stripes and V ictoria  law ns. 

E m broidery from  l|e  per yd. to BOe
Mail orders receive prompt attention.

L

DODGE

i Independence  Wood  Split  Pulley.

THE LIGHTEST!

THE  STRONGEST!

THE  BEST!
HESTER  MACHINERY  CO.,

45  So.  Div isio n  St..  ORAND  RAPIDS.

Glass  Covers  for  Biscuits.

ÌWWIÌ®

mm

' T ’HESE  chests  will

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

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

N E W   NOVELTIES.

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

CREAM  CRISP. 

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

the best selling cakes we ever made.

THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Farming is a grand success.  We  have  a  Butter  and  Cheese  Factory that was built flvi 
years  ago  and  has  made our  community  what  it  is  now.  Should  you need  a Butter and 
Cheese Factory in your communitv correspond with 
D A V IS  &  R A N K IN   B L D G . & M F G . CO ..  2 4 0 -2 5 2   W. LAKE S T .. CHICAGO* 

Also Manufacturers of Dairy Machinery and Supplies.

ta rta n

Lowe.'t  Prices  Ruer  Offered.

Taking  Effect  Jan.  25  1893.

Subject  to  Change  without  Notice.

PAILS. 

Per doz
Weaver pails,  6 qt.....................................................$2  70
standard  size.....................................  3  15
Star 
round  bottom........... 
Fire 
......................  4  05
MILK  PANS.

BOTTER  BOWLS.

“ 
“ 

15 in.  bowl................S3  60
17 in.  “ 
4  50
19 in.  “ 
5  40

 
 

 
 

Standard  size..........$2  25
Your  stock  is  not  Complete 

if yon haven't these goods.

 
 
 

*• 
“ 
9% “ 

*•  21 
**  19%  " 
"  18%  " 

Wa sh   TUBS. 
•» 
" 1 2  
11 
" 
“ 
NESTED  TUBS. 

Per doz
No.  0. díame.  23%  in.  13%  in.  deep...........................$15 75
13  50
No.  1, 
12  00  I
No. 2, 
10  50
No. 3, 
Per nest
No.  1 Nest,  Nos.  1, 2,  3 ............................................   3  00
Per doz
d eep ...................   6  75
6  30
 
 
5  40
Compare  these  prices  with  what  you  have  been 

No.  1  Diame.  17%  in.  7  in. 
6  "  " 
No.  2 
5  “ 
No.  3 

15%  •• 
13%  ** 

KEELERS. 

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paying,  then order.

Per doz
No.  2,  12 qt.................................................................. $7  65

SLOP  JARS. 

17 inch Mat.................................................................  3  60

SLOP  JAR  MATS.

12%  inch  Basin..............................................................2  10

WASH  BASIN.

SPITTOONS.

No.  2,  12 inch..................................................................4 50
Send in  your orders  early  and  secure the first  sale 

on these goods at the reduced  prices.

M ielan State  Agents for  tlie  Grand  Rapids  Giant  Jnmor  Vapor  Stove.

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  thoroughly practical  in  every way. 
It  is
located  back  of  the  cooking
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  onr  low stoves  are three  inches  higher than 
any other make of  Junior stoves.

conveniently 

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STYLE  OF  NO.  31— TWO  BUBNER  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.

fl.  LEONARD  £  SONS,  Grand  Rapids,

134 to  140 E.  Fulton St.

