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THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS.

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M A R C H   1,  1893.

$1  Per  Year.
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Who  Sells

C o u g h

Star

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

A.  E.  BROOKS  &  CO.,

46  O  taw a St., Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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In unoccupied territory for 

KAMRLKB9,  NIAGARA,  ROCHESTER,  ARIEL,  FOW­
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LER,  RALEIGH, AM.  SANSPARIEL,  STEARNS,  NEW 
MAIL,  ECLIPSE,  WESTERN  WHEEL WORKS, 
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FEATHERSTONE.

Best  Goods 

Best  Styles 

Best  Brices
Prompt  deliveries.

Catalogue on application.

PERKINS  &  RICHMOND,  101 Ottawa St.,  Errand Rapids, Mich.
I PLANTS, 
TOOLS, 
IETC.
For  1893
Every  article of value  known.  Tou will 
make  money  and  customers if  you buy our 
seeds.  Send for wholesale price list. 
CLOVER and  GRASS  SEEDS, ONION  SETS and SEED 
POTATOES.  All the standard varieties in vegetable seeds.

NEW  CHOP  SEEDS

ALFRED  J.  BROWN,  Seedsman,

24  a rd   26  NORTH  DIVISION  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

POTATOES.

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

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

W M .  H.  THOMPSON  &  CO.,

Commission  Merchants,

166 So. Water St., Chicago.

Grand  Rapids Agts,  BROWN  &  SEHLKR,  W est Bridge and F ront St.

M O S E L E Y   BRO S.,

-   W H O L E S A L E   -

FRUITS,  SEEDS,  BEANS  AND  PRODUCE.

26,28,30.32  Ottawa St.,  Grand  Rapids.

MUSKEGON  BRANCH  UNITED  STATES  BAKING  OO,

Successors  to

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

GRAGKERS,  BISCUITS  #   SWEET  GOODS.

HARRY  FOX,  Manager.

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PA ID   TO  MAIL  ORDERS.

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

H e y m a n   C o m p a n y ,

Manilfaotiirers  of  Show  Gases  of  Every  Description, BRUSHES

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

M anufacturers  of

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

O ur good» are  sold^by all  Michigan  Jobbing  Houses.

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FIRST-CLASS  WORK  ONLY.]

6 3   a n d   6 6   C an al  St.,  G rand  R a p id s,  M ich.

WRITE  FOR  PRICES.

CHA.S.  A .   C O Y B ,

M anufacturer  of

A W N IN G S   and  T E N T S

Jobbers of Oiled Clothing and Cotton Ducks.

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS

send for Price List. 

| i  Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

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12, 14,16 Pearl  St.,

M anufacturers

and

Jobbers of

Spring; lines  now ready 

for inspection

W ould  be  pleased  to 

show them .

Agents  for the  Boston 

Rubber Shoe Co.

Who  urges  you  to  keep

Sapolio?

TAe P u b l i c  I

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.

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F.  J.  D E T T E N T H A L E R   - <

JOBBER  OF

$?AND] OYSTERS
POULTRY  i  GAME

Salt  Fish

Mail Orders  hiceire Prompt  Attention. 

See quotations in  another column

CONSIGNMENTS  OF  ALL  KINDS  OF  POULTRY'AND  GAME  SOLICITED

V O O R H E E S

Pants and  Overall  Co.,
the patronage of the trade is solicited.£. D. VOORHEES, Manager.

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  good9 on time  and  fill  all  orders  promptly.  A continuance of 

L a n s in g ,  M ich.

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

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

THE PUTNAM CANDY CO.
STANDARD OIL CO.9

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

D E A L E R S   I N

Uluminating and Lubricating

NAPTHA  AND  GASOLINES.

Office,  Hawkins Block. 

Works, Butterworth Ave.

GRAND RAPIDS, 
BIO RAPIDS, 
ALLEO AN.

BULK  WORKS  AT

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND HAVEN, 
HOWARD CITY,

MANISTEE,
PETOSKEY,

CADILLAC,
LUDINGTON.

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

WIiolBsale  Grocers

HIGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR

EMPTY  CARBON 

i CSSOlU"7  BARRELS.

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“Littl* Soldier" School Shoe.

ESTABLISHED  1841.

THE MERCANTILE  AGENCY

R. G. D u n   &  Co.

Reference Books Issued  quarterly.  Collections 

attended to throughout United States 

and Canada

The BraflsM Mercantile Apcy.

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CHARLES  F.  CLARK,  Pres.

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

Rapids  Office,  Room  4,  Widdicomb  Bldg.

HENRY  ROYCK,  Supt.

This is what we warrant:

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

(Sizes 9 to 13i4)

Sole 

$1  Per  Pair Net.

BIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  OO,

GRAND  RAPIDS  AGENTS.

.THE

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.
Office, 65 Monroe St. 
L.  J.  STEVENSON,

C.  A.  CUMINGS,

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SQUIRE  SILAS.

An ancient place was Bigotville,

A strange, unsightly town,

Whose houses with  their palntless  sides,

And roofs half tumbled down,

Bespoke a lack of thrift,

That life of every kind had fled,

And seemed to indicate 
And left it desolate.

Near by the village, on the east,

Meandered River Slow,

Upon whose banks a fresh idea 

Had never deigned to grow.

Just off the so-called Village Park 

An antique structure frowned,

Whose toppling steeple seemed inclined 

To seek the solid ground.

This rickety, unsafe concern,

Wherein a careful mouse 

Would hardly dare to make his home,

Was called “The Meeting house.”

There swinging 'mid the owls and bats, 

Within its crumbling spire,

For ages past, at 9 p. m..

The bell had clanged, “Retire!”

A rod or two of pasture land,

Unfit for growing beans,

Had been reserved, by public vote,

For raising citizens.

Here, in a time-worn edifice,

Beside a stagnant pool,

The little folks of Bigotville 
Attended common school.

Back from the street some half a mile,

On Ignoramus Hill,

A quaint old mansion reared its walls, 

Overlooking Bigotville;

And there Squire Silas Custom  lived, 

Unsocial, cold and proud;

Before whose presence, old and young, 

Throughout the township, bowed.

The  Sauire, by chance, had  wooed and  wed 

Miss Habltura Pinch,

A lady who was never known 
Squire Silas ruled all Bigotville,

To yield her will an inch.

And Mrs. C. ruled him;

Both with a power as absolute 

As ’twas severe and grim.

Old Nathan Trust was constable,

And kept the corner store 

That had “Dry Goods and Groceries” 

Inscribed above the door.

It chanced that Ebenezer Grout 
"Good morning, Nathan; heard the news?” 

Came In to trade one day.
“What news?” said Nathan.  “Hey?”

“I heard just now from Carpenter,
That Wright had sold  his farm.

Young Henry Progress  bought the place.

He’ll surely come to harm;

Squire Silas Custom won’t allow 

A man like him about.

They’ll have a fuss, you see ’f they don't; 

And Si will turn him out.”

“Wright sold his farm!  Sho!  Well, do tell!
“His price, no doubt.  But what that was 

Said Nathan.  “What’d he get?”

I haven’t heard as yet.”

“Well, I declare!  That’s news, indeed!” 

Said Nathan.  “Where’ll he go?”

“Just that,” said Grout, “and why he sold, 

I’m curions to know.”

“There’s something  wrong, depend  upon  it 

John Wright would never sell 
That farm his father left to him,
He’s been kept down by Custom's heel 

If all was goin’ well.
For more than twenty year.

And then there’s Madame Custom, too, 

She’s bothered  him I hear.”

“Well, they’re the bother of us all,”

Said Nathan.  “I, for one,

Should like to hear that they had sold,

And moved away from town.

’Tls judged a crime—a fearful crime—

If some poor wretched fool 

Unwittingly o’erstep the bounds 
And break Squire Custom’s rule.

“But Squire, untrammelled  by a law,

May riot in his lies;

While all the town must fold its hands 

And meekly shut Its eyes.

O’Brien, who  tipples at the inn,
And drinks Van Bibber’s ale,

Squire Custom calls a drunken wretch 

And sends'Jhim'off to jail.

“But Squire, himself, may sit at home,

And steep in high priced wine;

Or, at some social gathering,
Get drunk as Tim O’Brien;
Yet you and I must hold our tongues,
No matter how we feel,
For Squire must not be criticised;

His tippling is genteel.

“Poor crazy Jane, Ben Toper’s wife,

Who killed Barkeeper Sling,

Squire Custom, with a pious  zeal,

Condemns at once to swing.

But Squire and wile may walk our streets, 

Concealed in Pleasure's guise,

And scatter habits worse than death 

Before'our.very.eyes.

“May pinch, cramp, torture and deform 

The bodies of our youth,

And teach themTn a thousand ways,

To ridicule the truth,

Yet no one dares to bring a charge 

Against the twain meanwhile,

For Squire and wife are favored ones;

Their work is done In ‘style.’ ”

Just at this point Miss Prate come in 

To get her bill enlarged 

“A roll of pins and three fresh eggs.”
Of course she’d have them charged. 

“You’ve  heard,” she  said, “about  that man 

Thai’s come to Bigotville.

He’s going to make a stir, they say,

On Ignoramus Hill.

“Judge Common  Sense and  Lawyer Change, 

I hear are coming, too.

With men like these a stirring round,

What will Squire Custom do?”
Exactly what the Squire would do,
No one could make quite clear.
Exactly what the Squire did do 

Shall presently appear.  ■

A lapse of years.  Squire Custom sits 

Reflecting o’er their flight.

Those years have brought him many a grief;

They’ve shorn him of his might.

“Indeed,” said he, “a pretty fix.

Am I at last outdone?

Do these young upstarts think to rule 

In this, my native town!

“That Progress’ got a new  idee,

Eb. Slocome said to-day;

If he don’t  keep it to himself,
I’ll teach him what’s to pay.

He and that scoundrel, Common Sense,

Will ruin Bigotville 

If I don’t put a stop to it—

But put a stop I will!

“They've run a pair of Iron rails 
Clean through the lower plain,
They call an ‘engine train.’
And then that scientific line.

And introduced a thunderin’ thing 

The telegraphic wire,

That's strung along the engine track,

Has set the town afire.

“For on it, standin’ just as ’tls,

They’ve made the people think 

A letter’ll go around the world 

Before a man can wink!

They’ve squandered half the public funds 

In fixln’ up the town.
They’ve built a new academy.
And torn the old one down.

“The meetin’-house has been rigged up 

With cushions, paint and blinds;

A public library procured 

To feed the youngsters’ minds;
A town house built upon the hill 

That cost a cruel sum;

New side walks laid;  the roads all paved;

A license fixed on rum;

“And all within a few short years,

In spite of my commands;

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And what is more, they've  got the power 

Completely in their hands.

For when that rascal, Common Sense, 

Soft-soaped John Government.

And made him let his  niggers vote.

My influence was spent.

“I once held office:  but alas,
I’ve been compelled to budge.
The chair I’ve occupied for years 
Holds Common  Sense as Judge.
1 have a few constituents:
My wife’s still left to me—
I sometimes wish  she'd gone the way 
Of all mortality.
‘And if this Progress still persists 
In carrying out his plan 
Of settin' all the women up 
On equal terms with man,

My days are numbered, sure as fate:

With extra power, conferred by law,

For Madam Silas C.,
Will make an end of me.

“That’s what he’s driving at, the wretch!

I’ll have the sheriff sent 

To apprehend him instantly 

For murderous intent!"

The court was crowded.  Old and young 

Flocked in from everywhere 

To hear the celebrated case 
Of Progress versus Squire.

The plaintiff's  counsel, Peter Fudge 

Were there, in all their awful state. 

And Nicodemus  Cant,
Prepared to blow and rant.

Young Henry’s counsel, Sharp and Grit, 

And Common Sense serenely graced 

Two stirring men were there;
The magisterial chair.

The court was  opened in due form,

The accusation read;

Which, stripped of its redundant words 

And legal  technics, said 

That Progress, in his late attempts 

To franchise Custom's wife,

Had laid a deep and deadly plot 

To take his—Custom's—life.

"What answer make you to this charge?"

Inquired Judge Common sense.
“Not guilty !** was the firm reply.
“Then let the suit commence."
The witnesses were duly sworn,

And pumped in legal style:

All were newsy, save one Blunt,
Who caused the court to  smile

By recommending  Lawyer Fudge 
“To hohl his sland'rous tongue.

He wan't a gon'ter connive 

To git young Progress hung."

Miss Prate was called, and took her oath 

That Betsey Croaker said 

That some one, more'n a  year ago,

Had told her nephew, Fred—

“Be more explicit, if you please,"

Said Grit,  “tell what you've seen."
“Oh, nothing, sir, except I know—

That is—they say, I mean,

That Mr. Progress don't believe 

In Mr. Custom’s ways;

And I’ve expected there would come 

A fuss, these many days."

The testimony given in,

All listened to the pleas.

Squire Fudge declaimed, and with his gas 

Created quite a breeze.

“ 'Tis clear," he said, "that yonder knave, 

For reasons of  his own,

Has plotted 'gainst my client's life:

But that's not all he's done:

"He's scattered throughout Bigotville 

These modem traps of his:

He's turned the heads of all our youth;

And not content with this.

He now would have the women placed 

Upon an equal stand 

With us, who, by established law 

Are rulers of the land.

“Your honor'll surely not withhold 

The penalty that's due;

The law demands his punishment,

And I demand it, too."

When Lawyer Grit addressed the court. 

Dead silence reigned around.

His words were pointed, plain, concise;

His arguments were sound.

“I will not try,” said he, at length,
“To prove what now is plain—

That all these extra charges brought 

Are libelous and vain.

These modern traps, I’m proud to say,

My client soon intends 

To set for fogies everywhere.
Beware, my legal  friends!

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
“About these  dreaded equal rights,

So nettling to our pride,

I’ve neither this nor that to  say;

Your honor must decide.”

Judge Common Sense pronounced the charge 

The Jury then withdrew.

But shortly brought the verdict back,
Pronounced the pris’ner at the bar 
But moved by pure and manly zeal 

Which, read by Foreman True,
“Not guilty!  So say we,
To make his fellows free."

time he  has  conducted  the  business un­
der the style of Geo.  H.  Reeder  and Geo. 
H.  Reeder  &  Co.,  having  recently  ad­
mitted two of his  brothers  to partnership 
in the  business.

Mr.  Reeder  is  a man  of  marked  in­
dividuality,  being  endowed  with  an  in­
domitable  will,  which  enables  him  to 
forge to the front  under the  most disad­
vantageous  circumstances.  He  thinks 
quickly and acts  with  equal  expedition, 
taking  little  time  to  dissect  the  most 
knotty problems incident  to  every busi­
ness career.  He is a hard worker,  but  is 
much  more exacting  as  regards himself 
than he is in his dealings with his employ­
es and customers. While his hair is plenti­
fully  sprinkled  with gray,  he is a  young 
man in appearance and  feeling,  and,  un­
less fate  intervenes,  he  has  reason  to 
look  forward  to a  long  aud  prosperous 
career.
Teach the  Children  Business  Methods.
Much has been  said and  written  about 
the beauties  of  domestic  harmony  and 
the responsibility of  the wife in  the way 
of making the  home  pleasant;  but  it  is 
only once in  a while that one picks  up  a 
paragraph that touches  upon  the duties

Old Custom sat and ground his teeth.

Long may his Squireship grind,
Till Progress, with his loftier aims,

Shall govern all mankind.

Charles A. Dickinson.

MEN  OF  MARK.

Geo.  H.  R eeder,  The  W holesale  Shoe 

D ealer.

Geo. H.  Reeder was boru in  Edinboro, 
Erie county, Pennsylvanta, June 12, 1844. 
He attended the common  schools of  that 
place, subsequently graduating  from  the 
State Normal  school  located  there,  after 
which  he  took  a  commercial  course  at 
the Poughkeepsie  Business  College. 
In 
1862  he  enlisted  in  Company  B,  145th 
Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  remaining  at 
the front until  after  the battle  of Fred-

G E O .  II .  K E E D E B .

rickburg in  1803,  when  he  was prevent­
ed from engaging in active business dur­
ing an entire year’s  illness.  At  the age 
of 21 he went  to Oil  Creek—which  was 
then in the height  of  its fame  as an  oil 
producing center—where  he  ran a meat 
market,  clerked in a store  and speculat­
ed on his  own  account,  clearing  $12,000 
in five months  and  losing  it  before  the 
end  of  another  month.  He  then  went 
back to  Edinboro,  where  he  engaged  in 
the purchase of cattle  and sheep for  the 
Philadelphia  and  New  York  markets. 
At the age of 24 he  removed  to  Bucyrus, 
Ohio,  where  he  embarked  in  the  shoe 
business,  remaining there two  years.  He 
then removed  to  Napoleon,  Ohio,  where 
he conducted  the shoe  business  thirteen 
years,  when  he  removed  to  Big  Rapids 
and continued  in  the  shoe  business  for 
three and one-half years, gradually work­
ing into the jobbing  of  goods in connec­
tion  with  his  retail  trade.  He  then 
formed  a 
copartnership  with  Luke 
Palmer,  under the  style of  Reeder,  Pal­
mer & Co.,  and removed to Grand Rapids 
to embark in the  wholesale  business ex­
clusively.  One year  later he  purchased 
the interest of  his  partner,  since  which

of the husband  in  this  respect.  What­
ever her cares,  troubles  or  perplexities, 
the wife is required to  meet her husband 
with a smile and  have everything  in ap­
ple-pie order,  if she would  live up to the 
ideal  of the right kind of a wife.
It would  seem  to  thoughtful  persons 
that a certain share  of the responsibility 
rests with  the  husband  and  the father. 
First  of  all,  as  far  as  temporal  needs 
go,  he must supply  the  family with  the 
necessaries,  comforts  and 
luxuries  of 
life,  according 
If  his 
family  move  in  certain  circles,  it rests 
with him as a sacred obligation  to do his 
best to provide  them  with  surroundings 
appropriate  to  their situation. 
If he  is 
unable to do this, the next best thing  for 
him  to do is to take them  from  their en­
vironments to some  less expensive local­
ity and possibly into  other  associations. 
This,  indeed,  is  a  most  excellent  and 
proper thing  for families  who have lived 
beyond  their  means  aud  find  retrench­
ment necessary.

to  his  means. 

Economy  should  never  begin  by cut­
ting off the things  that  make  the  inner 
It  is often the case 
home-life  pleasant. 
that  the  comforts  are  cut  off  and  the 
show remains.  No  man  should  permit 
this,  under  any  circumstances.  One  of 
the  common  errors  of  domestic  life  is 
the lack of confidence  between  husband 
and wife,  and also  the lack of  necessary 
appropriation  to carry  on household  af­
fairs.  Men of  wealth  frequently  insist

on,  year after year,  paying  all  the bills, 
| and never put into the  hands of the fam­
ily sufficient  money  for  even  the  most 
I trifling expenditures.
How can  a man expect  his children  to 
grow up with any  sound  ideas of  finan- 
| cial affairs  if  he  manages  them  in  this 
way,  passes  comprehension. 
It  is every 
man’s duty to  provide  for  the judicious 
training  for  his  boy  and  girl  in  money 
matters  as  much  as  he  provides  them 
with  food  and  clothing.  Every  child 
should  understand  the value  of  money, 
should be  called  upon  to  use  it and  be 
held to a strict  account  for its  expendi­
ture.  No  matter  what  the  wealth  or 
poverty of the parents,  this is  an imper­
ative  rule.  The  bov  aud  girl  whose 
every bill  is  paid  for  them  can  never 
know the  value of money or  how to pru­
dently provide  themselves  with  the ne­
cessities of  life.  Some  day,  when  they 
are  left  fatherless  aud  come  into  pos­
session of their  portion  of  the estate,  it 
goes to  the  winds.  And  what  wonder? 
The father,  from the very earliest child­
hood,  has taken the course  of which this 
folly is the legitimate result.
No one can  know, without practical ex­
perience,  what  it costs  to  live;  and  no 
one,  who has never  been  taught  the ju­
dicious  handling  of  financial  responsi- 
dilities  is able  to  comprehend  how easy 
it is to make  mistakes in  this respect.

J u s t  a   W ord.

If you have a  thought  that 

leans  to­
wards au  improved counter scale,  clinch 
it quick and order quick,  From  present 
appearances more Perfection  Scales will 
be  wanted during the  next  few  months 
than can  be produced and  the  manufac­
turers  will  not permit them to  be turned 
out faster than  it  can be done  with  the 
utmost attention  given  to  every  detail. 
That,  however, accounts for  the  univer­
sal  satisfaction  they  are giving.

V alue  o f th e   C oupon Book S ystem .

From the National Provisloner.

Coupon books  are  an 

innovation  of 
great  value to the  trade.  They  save all 
annoyances from disputed  accounts.  To 
understand the system  more fully it  may 
be said that these books,  which  vary  in 
denomination,  are  given  to  customers 
who are in  the habit of asking for credit. 
The book  is charged  to them for  its  full 
value at the time  they  receive 
it,  they 
being required  to  sign  an  inclosed  note 
providing for the payment  of  the  same. 
The note is then  detached  aud  held  by 
the  butcher,  grocer or  any  other  mer­
chant.  This secures the  customer’s  ac­
count,  and avoids  any  chance of  disput­
ing au open  account should  there be any 
trouble in collection.  The note is signed 
in  ink and is as negotiable as  any  other 
commercial  paper.  The coupons  are de­
tached  by  the  merchant,  a  one-cent 
coupon for  each  cent’s  worth  of  pur­
chase.
The coupon  book is  also of  great  ad­
vantage in  cash  transactions.  For 
in­
stance,  sell the book  to  your  customers 
for a cash discount,  say 5 per cent.,  a $10 
book would  be sold for $9.50 and  be good 
to the customer for $10  worth  of  goods, 
while you would  receive  $9.50  cash  in 
advauce.

L o st an d  F ou n d .

Lost—Money  enough  by  giving  down 
Found—A way to avoid it by  using the 
Thousands  have  found  the latter  and 
it.  Who 

weight on an old  style scale.
celebrated  “Perfection.”
thousands  more  are  finding 
will be  the next?

The  designing  of  carpets  and  wall 
papers opens to women a  field  for  work 
in which they seem  naturally qualified  to 
excel.  A  few  years  ago a  firm  offered 
prizes of  $1,000,  $500  and  $300  for  the 
best designs  iu  wall  papers,  the  competi­
tion  being open to natives and foreigners, 
men  and  women.  All  three  of  these 
prizes were awarded to American women. 
A man  of much experience  in  the  busi­
ness said  recently  that when women have 
had as many  years  of  the  same  advan­
tages as men,  their  work  will  stand  on 
the same level and perhaps  ahead.

Scales  may  come  and  scales  may  go. 
The  Perfection  goes  steadily  forward 
It has no successful  rival.

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use,  hence the  great  scarcity of  tallow.
The cotton crop of  the past year was  a 
partial  failure  and  receipts  are 
light. 
Scarcity and very high prices prevail  for 
cotton  seed  oil,  which,  when  plentiful, 
is  cheap  enough  to  be  largely used  by 
soapmakers,  but  now it is almost wholly 
absorbed by the lard manufacturer.  The 
outlook  for  the  remainder of  this  year, 
and  probably  longer,  is  continued  high 
prices,  with  the  probability  of  further 
advances  for  all  kinds of  raw  soap  ma­
terial.  Of  course,  this  means  higher 
prices  for  soap.  No dealer  can  make a 
mistake,  but,  in  fact,  can  profit  by  buy­
ing  a  good  supply  at  present  advanced 
prices,  as  the  advance  of  manufactured 
goods 
is  not  yet  in  proportion  to  the 
advance of  crude  material  which  must 
necessarily come  in  time.  With  manu­
facturers it  has  not  been,  altogether,  so 
much a question of  price,  lately,  as  abil­
ity to  get  sufficient  tallow,  oils,  grease, 
etc.,  for  their  needs.  There  are  manu­
facturers to-day with plenty of orders on 
their books,  but with  idle  kettles, owing 
to  inability  to  get  stock.  The  present 
condition of  the  soap  trade  has come to 
stay until  new  crops  and  stock of  hogs 
and cattle can  be  multiplied  to  supply 
the present  deficiency.  The  most  hope­
ful  say that it will  take a year or two  to 
do this. 

Geo.  M.  Ch u t e.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

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A S P H A L T

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places where Tin and Iron has failed;  Is super­
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Will last longer  than  shingles.  Write the un­
dersigned  for  prices  and  circulars, relative to 
Roofing  and  for  samples  of  Building  Papers, 

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

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Wm. Brummeler & Sons,

Practical  Roofers,

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W H A T  IS  AN  AGREEMENT?

Written for Th e  Tradesman.

Every  agreement  is a  business  trans­
action,  but,  unfortunately  for  the  peace 
and prosperity  of  business  men,  every 
business transaction is  not a legal agree-1 
ment. 
If it were,  there  would not be  so 
many  lawyers.

An  agreement  is  a  plain  proposition 
made by some certain party or parties to, 
and squarely accepted  by,  some other cer­
tain  party or parties. 
If the proposition 
and acceptance are unequivocal  in terms 
and  understood  by  all the  parties  con­
cerned,  and  the thing  to be done or  not 
to be done is lawful,  the  agreement will 
hold and  prevail  against  all  the  quib­
bling  within  and  cross-firing  without 
which may be  brought  to bear  upon  it.
If I offer you a certain quantity of good 
butter at a certain price,  and  you accept 
my proposition  as  follows,  “We  accept 
your  offer,  expecting  you  will  give  us 
choice  butter and  full weight,” it would 
be no acceptance,  and 1 would be  under 
no obligation to deliver the butter.  You 
see,  there  may  be  a material  difference 
between  “good”  butter  and  “choice” 
butter.  You accept what  I have  not of­
fered  you,  which  is,  virtually,  a  new 
proposition on your part,  which  has  not 
been accepted by me.

If  you  send  an order  to  one  of  our 
Grand Rapids wholesale merchants for  a 
certain  quantity  of  goods  on  certain 
terms of  credit,  and the  merchant sends 
you a less quantity ofgoods and  at  short­
er credit,  and the  goods  are  lost by  the 
way,  the  merchant  would  have  to  bear 
the loss,  for  this  transaction  would  not 
be a sale or agreement  between you. 
In 
such a case,  if the  merchant  had  sent  a 
greater quantity of goods,  or he had sent 
the exact quantity  you ordered  but on  a 
shorter term of  credit,  the  result would 
be the same.  The  fact  is that  he  must 
assent  to  your  proposition  precisely  as 
made,  in  order  to effect a sale or  consti­
tute an agreement between you.

The law  presumes  that  every  person 
means that which  he distinctly says,  yet 
there  are  apparent  exceptions  to  the 
rule.  For  instance,  if I offer to sell you 
my  horse for  $20,  and  you  pay  me  the 
money,  after which I tender you my cow, 
on the ground that I was thinking only of 
my  cow,  and  by  a slip  of  the  tongue, 
used  the  word  “horse,” this  would  not 
avoid my  obligation,  unless (and this  is 
where the apparent  exception  comes in) 
I could show that the mistake was known 
to you;  and in  such  case it  would show 
fraud  on  your  part.  Of course,  this  is 
an extreme illustration, but difficult ques­
tions of this kind sometimes  arise.

Suppose that 1 should  offer to sell you 
a cargo of flour at “$2,” and  that you  ac­
cepted and  the  cargo  was  delivered ac­
cordingly.  Suppose  that,  when  I  made 
you the offer,  I meant  “$2 per  hundred,” 
but,  when you  received the  invoice,  you 
protested  on  the  ground  that  you  sup­
posed you were  buying  the  flour  at  “$2 
per  barrel.”  What  would be  done in  a 
case of this  kind?

In the first place,  if there were, honest­
ly and actually,  a mutual  mistake,  there 
would be no  agreement  or  contract and 
the  flour  should  be  returned,  but,  in 
the second place,  if a jury should be  sat­
isfied,  from  the  words  made  use  of by 
me,  from the usage prevailing  where the 
bargain was made,  and known by each of 
us,  or from  other  circumstances  attend­
ing  the  bargain,  that  you  knew  that  I 
was expecting  that  price  for a hundred

pounds,  you  would have  to pay it;  and, 
if they were  satisfied  that  I knew  that 
you supposed that you  were  buying  the 
flour  at  that  price  per  barrel,  then  I 
could  not  reclaim  the flour,  nor  could I 
recover more  than  that price.  A paral­
lel case to the one assumed  is  laying be­
fore me  from  which  I have  quoted  the 
rulings of the court.

The  actual  and  honest 

intentions of 
the parties,  as expressed in the  contract, 
or in the words of the  agreement,  are al­
ways regarded  as an  important  guide  in 
constructing  it;  yet,  if  the  parties,  or 
either of them,  show  that a bargain  was 
honestly but mistakably made  which was 
materially different  from  that  intended 
to be  made,  it  would  be a  good  ground 
for declaring  that  there  was  no  agree­
ment.

Ignorance of the  law is  no excuse  for 
the enforcing of a  right or  the  avoiding 
of an obligation,  and  the  courts  cannot 
correct mistakes  so  made.  But the law 
which  one is  required,  at  his  peril,  to 
know is the law of his  own  country,  and 
in this respect the  several  states  of  the 
Union  are  foreign  to  each  other. 
Ig­
norance of the  law of  a  foreign state is 
ignorance  of  fact;  hence,  money  paid 
through ignorance  of  the  law  of  such 
foreign state may be recovered.

For  instance, 

No  legal  agreement  can  exist  where 
fraud abounds;  the defrauded  party  will 
always be relieved. 
If  both act  fraudu­
lently,  neither can  take advantage of the 
other;  and,  if one  acts  fraudulently,  he 
cannot set  his  own  fraud  aside  for his 
own  benefit. 
if  Jones 
should place a  chattel  mortgage  on  his 
stock  of  goods  for  the  purpose of  de­
frauding his creditors,  the mortgage con­
tract is  nullified,  of  course,  by  the  ele­
ment of fraud;  but Jones  himself cannot 
annul the contract and avoid  his  obliga­
tion by setting up fraud because it  is his 
own fraud.  The  law  assumes  that  the 
injured party  is the  innocent party;  and 
the party who enters  into  an  agreement 
fraudulently can suffer  no injury  which 
the law will recognize and from which  it 
will grant  relief.

A great many  delicate  questions  have 
come  up, 
from  time  to  time,  in  ou? 
courts for adjudication as to  what consti­
tutes an assent,  or the meeting of minds, 
without which  there can  be no contract.
All  negotiations  are  but  preliminary 
steps,  and which will never  terminate in 
an  agreement  until  a  certain  point  is 
reached where  the  minds  meet.  Where 
the contracting parties  are  hundreds  of 
miles  apart,  and  the  negotiations  are 
carried on  by  correspondence,  the  nec­
essary meeting  of  minds  is  not  such  a 
simple matter  as  might  be  inferred. 
I 
shall  make  this 
interesting  topic  the 
special subject  of  my  next  commercial 
law  article. 

E, A.  Ow en.

The  A dv an ce  in  Soap.

T oledo,  Feb.  23—The  sharp  advance 
in price  of  soap is caused  by  the  great 
scarcity and  extraordinarily  high  prices 
of  tallow  and  oils,  which  have  nearly 
doubled  during the  past  sixty  days and 
are still tending upward.  The high price 
of  lard  is  due  to  the  great  shortage of 
hogs,  which  is  estimated  in  the govern­
ment’s  report as being  600,000  less  than 
the  previous  year.  The  trade  reports 
show a decrease of  hogs  received  by the 
Western  packers  since  Nov.  1,  1892,  of 
nearly 3,000,000  head  as  compared  with 
the  same  period of  last  year.  The  de 
crease  in  receipts of  cattle  is  also  con 
siderable  and  prices  are  high.  As  the 
best of  the tallow is used  by the packers 
to  make “compound  lard,” there  is only 
a small quantity left for the soapmakers’

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MILE-END

Best  Six  Bord
IHadiine  or  Hand  Use.

FOR

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL

Dealers  in  Dry  Goods & Notions.

BDY  THE  PENINSDLAR

Once and You aie our Customer 

for life.

STANTON, MOREY & C0„ Mtrs.

Geo. F. O w e n , Salesman  for Western  Michigan, 

DETROIT,  MICH.

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

T. H. NEVIN CO.’S
Swiss  11a  Mixed Paints

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

and beauty of finish.

We carry a full stock of  this well  kuown 

brand mixed paints.

Send for sample card and prices.

Hazeltine & Perkins Dray Co.,

STATE  AGENTS 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Phone 640

260 S. Ionia  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

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NET PRICE  LIST^OF SAP PAILS PER 100.

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19 22 50

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

In  lots  of  500  we  willjallow  5  per  cent, off 

above prices.  Terms, 30 days net.

Send for price list of general line of  tinware.

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of both upper and lower washboards, giving the 
true  hand-rubbing  principle.  Clothes  nevei 
bunch while washing, common fault with others 
necessitating rearranging;  not a pleasant task.

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

AMONG  THE TRADE.

ABOUND THE  STATE.

Riverdale—Knouse &  Langly  succeed j 

W.  A.  Bradley in general trade.

Clayton—J.  L.  Perkins succeeds  Isaac 

R. Waterman  in  the grocery business.

Spring Lake—Campbell  &  Gray  suc­

ceed G.  A.  Price in the drug  business.

Ludington—Tiedman  &  Ungers  suc­
ceeds A. Tiedman in the lumber business.
Marcellus—Isaac  M.  Smith  succeeds 
Taylor & Smith  in  the lumber  business.
succeed 
Granger & Keeler  in  the  clothing  busi­
ness.

Otsego—Dibble  &  Keeler 

Saginaw—Henry  Biesterfeld  succeeds 
Biesterfeld Bros,  in the  hardware  busi­
ness.

St.  Johns—G.  B.  Porter  has  removed 
his jewelery  stock  from  Alma  to  this 
place.

Plymouth—Lyndon  &  Holmes are suc­
ceeded  by  Lyndon & Son  in the hardware 
business.

Battle  Creek—Elisha  Crawford  suc­
ceeds J.  F.  Caldwell  & Co.  in the grocery 
business.

Saginaw—Nerreter & Earl are succeed­
ed  by J.  C.  Nerreter &  Co.  in  the  jewel­
ry business.

Port Hope—Beck &  Holstein,  general 
store dealers,  have dissolved,  Beck Bros, 
succeeding.

Memphis—Jas.  Sweet  succeeds  Wade 
& By water in  the  hardware,  paint  and 
oil business.

Muskegon—John  Van  Dyke  succeeds 
Van Dyke &  Hanover  in  the  merchant 
tailoring  business.

Ishpeming—C.  Meilleur,  dealer 

in 
groceries and meat,  has  sold  his  meat 
business to Joe Coveau.

Marshall—Root  &  Billings,  crockery 
dealers,  have dissolved,  Kate  E.  Billings 
continuing the business.

Detroit—The style of the Hertz & Tail- 
man Planing Mill Co.  has  been  changed 
to the Hertz & Hosbach Co.

Mt. Clemens—Wm.  Schwegler  is  suc­
ceeded by  F.  P.  Hale  in the  confection­
ery and restaurant business.

Riverdale—John  B.  Adams  has  pur­
chased  the  P.  of j.  store,  and  put  in  a 
new stock of general  merchandise.

Carsonville—Graham,  Williams  & Co., 
dealers in men’s furnishing  goods,  have 
dissolved, Graham & Co.  succeeding.

Perry Frink, junior partner in the firm 
of Townsend & Frink,  general  dealers at 
Hubbardston.  died Feb.  21, aged 30 years.
Holland—The Holland City  Heading & 
incorporated,  has  been 
Stave  Co.,  not 
changed to  Holland  Stave  and  Lumber 
Co.

Big  Rapids—William  Haugstorfer  & 
Co.  is the name of the firm  that succeeds 
Mynning & Co.  in  the meat  market  busi­
ness.

Parmelee—Wallace  Watson  has  sold 
his general  stock  to Jas.  D. C.  Hubbard, 
formerly of  Middleville,  who  will  con­
tinue the business.

Ishpeming — The  merchant  tailoring 
establishmeni  of  Torrance  &  Conway 
was closed  Feb.  21  by  mortgages held  by 
Field,  Benedict & Co.

Evart—Elton Davy  and Fred B.  Smith 
have been  admitted to  partnership  in the 
general  merchandise firm  of Davy & Co. 
The style remains  unchanged.

Stanwood—Van  Auken  &  Barnard 
have sold  their dry  goods  and  grocery 
stock to Burgdoff &  Mitchell,  and  their 
boot and shoe stock to Ward & Smith.

Hastings—Spary Phillips  and  George

H.  Preston  have formed  a  copartnership 
under the style  of  Phillips  &  Preston, 
and embarked in  the grocery  business.

Cassopolis—J.  G.  Hayden &  Co.,  the 
largest grocery house in  Cassopolis,  has 
been sold out to William L. Pollock,  who 
was formerly  interested  in  the  business.
Saginaw—Wm.  Wolpert and  Rinehart 
Marskey  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under the style of  Wolpert  &  Marskey, 
and purchased the meat market  of  Wm. 
Kapp.

Battle Creek—Thos. J. Thompson, who 
was formerly engaged in  the bazaar busi­
ness at this  place,  is  offering  to  com­
promise with his creditors at 25  cents on 
the dollar.

Cadillac—P.  Medalie is no  longer  con­
nected  with  the  clothing  firm  of  H.  C. 
Auer  &  Co.,  the  enterprising  junior 
partner having become sole proprietor of 
the business.

Burton—G. C.  Rogers has sold his  gro­
cery to Geo.  McKenzie.  Mr.  Rogers will 
continue the  drug  business,  paying  es­
pecial  attention  to  the  manufacture  of 
Rogers’ troches.

Manistee—Ernest  Blackmore,  late  of 
Grand  Rapids,  has  associated  himself 
with  Henry  J.  Giegling,  in  the  meat 
business,  under  the  firm name  of  Gieg­
ling & Blackmore.

Holland—Lawrence  Kramer  and  Ed. 
Vaupell  have purchased  the  drug  stock 
belonging to the estate  of  the  late  Dr. 
Wm.  Van Patten,  and  will open the store 
for business March  1.

MANUFACTUKING  MATTEKS.

Bay City—A.  M.  Miller  &  Co.  will 
in  the  south 

erect a new planing  mill 
end of the city.

West Bay City—Theo.  Hine  continues 
in the sawmill  business,  formerly owned 
by Hine & Ladarach.

Pontiac—Peter Duffas,  who  operates a 
hardwood mill  heie,  is  cutting  500,000 
feet of railroad and  building  timber for 
the Grand Trunk  road.

Saginaw—The Britton & Barber  Hoop 
Co.,  of this city,  which has  just  finished 
its new mill here,  has secured a  stock of 
logs  and the mill  will start  March  1.

Cadillac—I.  H.  Rosenbloom,  who  has 
conducted the  merchant  tailoring  busi­
ness here for the past six years,  has con­
cluded to  remove  his  business  to  Red 
Jacket.

Greenville—The  Ranney  Refrigerator 
Co.  has  purchased  the  patents  and  ma­
chinery of  the  Latta  Sweeper  Co.,  at 
Muskegon,  and  will  hereafter  manufac­
ture sweepers in connection with refriger­
ators.

Ionia—G. F. Faude has leased the Cbas.
K.  Calkins building,  in  what is  popular­
ly known as the Schmoltz block, and will 
take  possession  with  his  cigar  factory 
about  April  1,  at  which  time  he  ex­
pects  to  have  forty  names  on  the  pay 
roil.

Bay City—The Smalleys & Woodworth 
sawmill  will start next week,  and  Green 
&  Braman  will also start their mill  in  a 
few days.  The active market  and  light 
stocks is an inducement  to  mill  owners 
who  can  secure 
logs  to  start  at  the 
earliest possible moment.

South Arm—The Wilson  Hoop  Co.,  of 
West Bay City and  South  Arm,  after  an 
existence of ten  years  or  more  has  dis­
solved.  The Bay City business  is  taken 
by Messrs.  Isaac Pierce  and  Wilson,  the 
inventor of the hoop machines,  and  the 
South Arm plant and business by Messrs. 
Alex.  Bush and W.  G.  Pierce.

Muskegon—Hackley  & Hume  are  put-. 
ting in  a full stock  for next  season’s cut 
from  their holdings in  Clare  county and 
are  making  excellent  progress.  The i 
logs reach the  Muskegon  River at Jones-1 
ville  oyer  Hackley  &  Hume’s 
logging | 
railway.  Year  by year as  the timber  re- j 
cedes the  rails of the spurs are taken  up I 
and relaid  nearer to  the base of supply.  |
Montague—The  Montague Iron  Works 
has been merged  into  a  stock  company 
under the style  of  the  Montague  Iron 
Works Co.  The capital stock is  $56,000, 
all paid in,  and  is  equally  divided  be­
tween  the  Wilsons  and  the  Hendries, 
with the exception of a small  part of the 
stock held by  S.  H.  Lasley,  who  will 
serve as one of the directors of  the  com­
pany.

Lowell—The  Avery  Panel  Co.  has 
been  organized here by E.  W.  Avery,  A. 
B.  Johnson,  F.  B. Clark and  H. W. Avery 
to  manufacture  panel  lumber  with  the 
Avery  panel  machine.  They  have  se­
cured a  location  at  East  Tawas  and  E. 
W.  and  H.  W.  Avery  and  Frank  Clark 
will go  there  at  once  to  carry  on  the 
business.  Frank  Clark 
is  closing  out 
his grocery  business  here  for that  pur­
pose.

Manistee—Rumor is rife as  to whether 
the  mills  of  the Stronach  Lumber  Co. 
will  operate  next  season,  but  nothing 
definite can  be  ascertained  in  the matter. 
It is a sure thing that  the company is not 
putting in any logs this  winter,  and  has 
but  little  stumpage  that  it  can  get  by 
rail during  the  summer;  but  John Can- 
field,  who is the  largest stockholder,  has 
lots of logs  which  he can give  the  com­
pany to saw if he wants to.

Saginaw—The  stave  mills in  this sec­
tion  will  have the largest stock of timber 
in years, and  as a  number  of  new mills 
have been built the output this  year will 
be the largest in the history of the State. 
At  Breckinridge  Gardner  &  Peterman 
have  about  1.200,000  feet  in  the  mill 
yard and are adding  to  it at the  rate  of 
40,000 feet  daily.  The  stave  output  of 
Northern  Michigan  this  year  will  ap­
proximate 350,000,000,  if it  does not ex­
ceed these figures.

Muskegon—Judge Dickerman has made 
a decision of considerable  interest to the 
creditors of the defunct  Collin  & Parker 
Lumber  Co.  After  considering 
it  for 
some time he denied a petition  made  by 
Gow & Campbell  for the  appointment of 
a receiver,  and dissolved  the  temporary 
injunction,  preventing 
the  National 
Lumberman’s  Bank from  collecting  the 
proceeds,  or Hovey  &  McCracken  from 
disposing of  the  property.  The  latter 
will  now  proceed  to  dispose  of 
the 
property under the chattel  mortgage.

Quota—Schaeffer & Belknap are build­
ing a steam circular sawmill  here.  The 
concern has a railroad extending  several 
miles into the timber  from 
its  junction 
at this  point  with  the  Duluth,  South 
Shore & Atlantic  Railway,  over  which 
they  have been  hauling cord wood.  This 
road  they  will  now  utilize  to  bring  in 
stock  for the  mill,  which  will  have  a 
capacity of 30.000 feet  a  day.  As  soon 
as the mill  is  completed 
it  will  begin 
cutting on a contract of  300,000  feet  of 
hemlock timber for the  breakwater  ex­
tension at this place.

Saginaw—C.  K.  Eddy &  Son  are  add­
ing a new system to their mill  plant  this 
winter by  which  the  boards  are  carried 
to the  sorting yard,  300 feet distant from 
the saws,  by machinery.  This mill  cuts 
about 18,000,000  feet each season.  Here­

tofore they have handled  about 6,000,000 
to 8,000,000 feet in  the yard  and sold the 
remainder on dock for  water  shipment. 
It is their intention in  future  to  handle 
the entire output of  the mill  through the 
yard,  shipping out  by  rail.  They  will 
bring 8,000,000 feet of  logs from  Canada 
and  the balance of the stock  for  the  en­
suing  season  will  come 
from  Clare 
county,

Sebewaing—The  development  of  the 
Sebewaing coal  fields goes along steadily 
and over 200 tons are  mined  daily.  On 
Friday  a  vein  of  burnished  black  coal 
was discovered  in  the  Sebewaing  mine 
five feet thick and  of  superior  quality. 
The coal  from this field  is  being shipped 
out in  large  quantities,  and  shafts  are 
being  put  down  at 
three 
points in Saginaw  county.  This  cheap 
fuel,  it is believed,  will greatly stimulate 
the establishment  of  wooden  manufac­
tures  here.  Certainly  no better location 
can  be found,  with the timber  and  fuel 
in  vast quantities to be easily  secured.

two 

or 

L’Anse—The L’Anse Lumber  Co.  is  a 
new concern  which  will  build a mill  at 
this point.  The company  is  capitalized 
at  $50,000, $15,000  of  which  has  been 
paid  in.  Work  on  the  foundation of  the 
new mill is progressing.  The  officers  of 
the new  company are J.  B.  Smith,  presi­
dent;  J.  A.  Smith,  vice-president and  M. 
J. McCabe,  secretary,  treasurer and man­
ager.  The latter  has been  long  identi­
fied with  the  Tom  Nester  interests  and 
was  raised  as  a  lumberman  from  the 
stump  upwards.  During  the  past  few 
years he has been practically manager of 
the Nester  operations  in the  vicinity  of 
Baraga and L’Anse.  The  mill will  be  a 
complete  band outfit,  and  will have  two 
band shingle  machines  and  a lath  mill, 
and probably a planing  mill  will be add­
ed in the near future.  The power will be 
furnished  with  two  boilers  and  a  100- 
horse power  engine.  The  building will 
be  40x120  feet 
size.  The  plant 
is to be completed about  May  1.

in 

H ouse.

E xclusively  W h o lesale  D ry  G oods 
Sa g in a w ,  E.  S.,  Feb.  25—The  Michi­
gan Dry Goods  Co.  has  been  organized 
with a capital stock of  $50,000,  all  paid 
in,  and the following  officers:  President, 
Isaac Bearinger;  Vice  President,  J.  R. 
Livingston; Secretary,  George A.  Lewis; 
Treasurer,  W.  L.  Thompson;  Board  of 
Directors, Isaac Bearinger, W. L. Thomp­
son,  George A.  Lewis,  J.  R.  Livingston, 
S.  H.  Webster,  J.  H.  Quallman,  J.  M. 
Morley.
The building which  will  be  occupied 
will be Isaac Bearinger’s large  block  on 
the  southwest  corner  of  Tuscola  and 
Franklin streets,  where the  Courier was 
once located,  and  which  Mr.  Bearinger 
has had fixed up for the large stock which 
will  be placed therein.  J. R.  Livingston 
has already left for the  eastern  markets 
and George A.  Lewis will  join him next 
week.  The company  propose  to  do  an 
exclusively  wholesale business.

23—The 

B usiness  C hanges  a t  th e   C en tral  City.
J ackson,  Feb. 
following 
changes have  been  made in  the grocery 
trade of this city:
L.  G.  Morgan, of Lansing  avenue,  has 
disposed of his grocery  stock  and  meat 
market to Thomas Murphy.
M.  Goykendall has  moved  his  stock 
of groceries from  East  Main  to  North 
Jackson street.
Fred Glass has  taken  the store  on East 
j Main street,  formerly  occupied  by  M.
| Goykendall,  and,  after  fitting  up  the 
room,  has filled it with  a  fine  siock  of 
groceries.
N.  H. Branch has  resigned his position 
as Secretary of the Grocers’  Union  and
O.  G.  Leach  has been  elected  to  fill  the 
office.

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

H.  E.  Grand-Girard  succeeds  Geo.  G. 
Steketee in  the  drug  business  at  142 
Ellsworth avenue.

George Goosinan  has opened a  grocery 
store on Grandville avenue.  The Mussel- 
man Grocer Co.  furnished  the stock.

Michael  Moran  succeeds  Smith & Mo­
ran in the  baking  ousiness  on Jefferson 
avenue just south of  Weuham  avenue.

H.  E.  Moseley  &  Co.  have  removed 
their cheese  and  vinegar  business  from 
45  South  Division  street  to  130  Oakes 
street.

Geo.  W.  Graver  has  engaged 

in  the 
grpcery  business  at  Kalamazoo.  The 
stock was furnished  by  the  Musselman 
Grocer Co.

R.  S. Brown,  who has traveled  in  this 
State  several  years  for  the  American 
Cigar Co.,  of Westfield,  Mass.,  has leased 
the front end of the Gunn  store,  corner 
Monroe and Waterloo  streets,  and  will 
open  a  cigar store therein  about  May  1. 
The Grand  Rapids School  Furniture  Co. 
was a commission  to  produce  the  finest 
fixtures it  is capable of  turning  out  for 
that  Durpose.

G ripsack  B rigade.

Geo.  F.  Owen  has  sold  his  farm  of  6 
acres on  Walker avenue  for $5,000.  The 
purchaser is O.  Van  Buren,  the  veteran 
milk dispenser.

Byron  S.  Davenport  was  compelled to 
remain  at home last week  by  reason  of 
a severe sprain  in  the instep.  He  hopes 
to be  able  to get out on  the  road  again 
before the end of the week.

Milton  Kerns,  the magenta representa 
tive of the cigar department  of Dilworth 
Bros.,  of Pittsburg,  was in town  several 
days  last  week and  remained  over  Sun­
day.  He no 
longer  sells  the  “reetail 
thrade.”

John  H.  Payne,  Jr.,  formerly  with 
Hawkins & Co.,  who  went  to  Colorado 
about a year ago,  has  engaged  to  repre­
sent the Drummond  Tobacco Co.  in Cali­
fornia,  and is now working his way west­
ward from Denver,  where  he  has  been 
for some time.  His health is not materi­
ally improved.

Geo.  E.  Lincoln, who has been  on  the 
road the past three years for the Chicago 
Newspaper Union,  has taken  charge  of 
the advertising department of  the  Hart- 
zell  Medicine  Co.,  at  Scottville.  The 
Hartzell company  is erecting a laboratory 
and  warehouse at Ludington  and expects 
to remove its business to that place about 
May 1.

L.  Winternitz,  general  traveling rep­
resentative 
for  the  Fermentum  Com­
pressed Yeast,  was in  town  one day last 
week  for  the  purpose  of  purchasing  a 
quantity of  ice  boxes  and  refrigerators 
for new agencies. 
Incidentally,  he pro­
moted Oscar Cusick  to  the  management 
of au  Eastern  agency.  Grand  Rapids  is 
looked  upon  as  the  training  school  for 
Fermentum agents.

Montague  Observer:  On  Tuesday  L. 
M.  Mills,  a traveling salesman represent­
ing the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co., 
of  Grand  Rapids,  was  here  to  sell Dr. 
Meinhardi a  stock of drugs which  he  in­
tended to open  up  business  with in  the 
Slocum  building  in  Swedentown,  White­
hall.  Druggists  Pitkin  and  Conley,  of 
Whitehall,  informed Mr.  Mills  that if he 
sold to  Dr.  Meinhardi  he  need  look  for 
no  further  business  from  them,  conse­
quently the  doctor could  get  no  goods.

This  angered  him  and  he  boarded  the 
train in the afternoon for  Detroit to pur­
chase his  stock.

A traveling salesman  who calls on the 
retail  trade  recently  remarked: 
“Pd 
rather  have the hours  of 7  to  12 in  the 
morning to do  business  in  than  all  the 
rest  of  the  day.  Most  retailers  have 
comparatively  little  trade  in  the  fore­
noon,  and  it is the  best  time  to  catch 
them  at leisure.  By the  way,  speaking 
of 7  o’clock in the morning,  did  you ever 
notice  that  the  salesmen  when  on  the 
road almost invariably  leave a call at the 
hotel  office  for  that  hour?  No  matter 
how late  they  are  up  the night  before, 
they don’t dare sleep  later than  7  in  the 
morning for fear  the  other  fellows will 
get ahead of  them.”

Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette:  They  say 
that  the  traveling  salesman  will  some 
day  be a sweet memory of  former days— 
that the genial  drummer  will  pass away 
and be out of sight  and out of existence. 
The Gazette believes it.  When?  Just as 
soon  as he’s  not needed.  They  say that 
there is a time and  place for  everything. 
The present is  the time for the drummer. 
His place is everywhere.  He is a ubiquit- 
uous  animal,  whose  home 
is  here  oue 
day,  there  the  next.  He is  the product 
of  this  century,  but  he  has  grown  so 
numerous  aud^  so  necessary  that it  is 
hard to see how we could get along with­
out  him.  He is another middleman  who 
is paid for by the economies  he effects  in 
securing  trade  for  his  house,  and  thus 
keeping the  factory  busy.  He saves the 
retailer the trouble and expense of going 
to market by bringing the market to him. 
He keeps the dealer posted on what man­
ufacturers are doing and  what new styles 
are taking.  He  posts his  house  on  the 
retailers  and  keeps a close  eye on  col­
lections,  bad debts,  failures,  etc.  He’s  a 
necessity of the day  and as  long as he  is 
needed  he  will  remain  a fixture  in  the 
commercial  world. 
It is,  perhaps,  fool­
ish  to  say  that  the  traveling  salesman 
will never be  abolished.  That  is  some­
thing no one can  prove.  At present it  is 
difficult to see how  his  elimination could 
be 
satisfactorily 
brought  about.  Mauy  things,  however, 
which were once customary,  are now un­
known.  Within  the  past  century  the 
whole  method  of  doing  business  has 
changed.  The  requirements  of 
the 
changed.  Our  man­
people 
liv­
ners, 
ing 
of 
our ancestors. 
If the twentieth  century 
brings about  the  mutations of  the nine­
teenth,  we  will  be as different and  as far 
in the  rear  a century  hence  as  the  pa­
triots  of ’76  are  behind  us.  Time  and 
tide  wait for  no man,  not even  the drum­
mer. 
If  combination  is  the  policy  and 
the necessity for the traveling man is  de­
stroyed the drummer  must go. 
If  some 
other plan is followed,  and the tourist  is 
not ueeded,  his name is mud.  The  boys 
on  the road  needn’t  get  uneasy  over it, 
however.  There’s  plenty  of  room  for 
them yet.

and  methods 
totally  unlike 

have 
dress 

successfully 

of 
those 

and 

are 

P u re ly   P erso n al.

L.  E.  Bahle,  the Sutton’s  Bay  general 
dealer and  lumberman,  was  in  town last 
week on his  way to Detroit.

L.  Roscoe,  of  the  grocery firm of  Ros­
coe  &  Speicher,  at  Mancelona,  was  in 
town last week  on  his  way  home  from 
Milan,  Ohio,  where  he  was  called to at­
tend the death and funeral of his mother.
Capt.  C.  G. Perkins, of Henderson, Ky.,

is in ' the  city  for  a  few  days,  called 
hither  by  the  serious 
illness  ol’  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Fred H. Ball.  Capt.  Per­
kins will  be  remembered  as  a  former 
partner in the firm  of Hazeltine,  Perkins 
&  Co.  and  a  heavy stockholder  until  a 
year  ago  in  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug Co.

W.  H.  Benedict,  the  Vermontville 
grocer,  was  in  town  one day  last week. 
He  was  chanting  “Out  of  the  o'd,  into 
the new,”  having just removed  from  the 
store  in  which  he  has  done  business a 
quarter of a century into a  double store, 
50x80 feet  in  dimensions.  Mr.  Benedict 
possesses  an  enviable  reputation  as  a 
dealer  and  deserves  the  success  which 
appears to be headed in  his  direction.

Walter H.  McBrien  has been  suspend­
ed  from  the  Peninsular  Club,  probably 
as a means of  expressing the  disapprov­
al  of  the  directors  over  the  drunken 
brawl  he recently indulged in  at the club 
house,  which necessitated his removal  to 
police headquarters. 
It is reported  that 
the  conflicting  stories  alleged  to  have 
been told by McBrien in  such connection 
also actuated the directors in taking such 
a summary action.  McBrien was former­
ly  connected  with  the  wholesale  gro­
cery trade of this  market in the capacity 
of  broker,  previous to  which  he  was 
employed  by  the  former  firm  of Cody, 
Ball & Co.  as  billing clerk.

The  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar—The market is without  change 
so far as  refined is  concerned.  The  de­
mand  for  raw  is  strong,  giving  some 
ground for the belief, expressed  in some 
circles,  that  slightly  higher  prices  will 
rule.

Fish—Whitefish  and  trout  have  both 
advanced,  the former  more than  the  lat­
ter,  owing to scarcity.  Dealers  agree  in 
the opinion that the scarcity of whitefish 
will  throw  a big  demand  cn  trout,  in 
consequence  of  which  it  will surely  go 
higher.  Mackerel  are  strong  and in ac­
tive  demand.  Herring  are  active  and 
firm.  Cod is strong and actually  higher.
Matches—The Diamond  Match Co.  has 
advanced  the price of No.  9 matches—its
fighting brand”—from $1.25 to $1.65.
Oranges—Higher and strong at  the ad­

Lemons—Only slightly higher.
Foreign Nuts—Figs  and dates  are  un­

vance.

changed.

Peanuts—Higher and  advancing.
Oysters—Lower,  with  good supply.

T he H a rd w a re  M arket.

Wire Nails—Still firm  in price,  but no 
advance has yet been  made, although ex­
treme prices have been withdrawn.  $1.70 
to $1.80 is now  quoted.

Saws—Crosscut 

saws  still  continue 
scarce and  jobbers  find  it  impossible to 
keep a supply  of  the  desirable  lengths, 
The market  is very  firm  on  saws of  all 
kinds and an  advance  has  already  been 
made  on  one-man  saws.  We  look  for 
higher  prices  on crosscuts of  all  kinds. 
We quote the one-man saw  at 42 cents  a 
foot.

Barbed Wire—No  change  in price has 
yet  been  made,  but  manufacturers  and 
jobbers are not  soliciting  orders at  pric­
es  named  earlier  in  the  season.  It  is 
hoped by all dealers  and  manufacturers 
that a firm  advance  may  soon  be made, 
as there is no profit at present  prices.

Measure  a  man  by  the  sense 

in  his 
head  rather  than by  the  dollars  in  his 
pocket.

T he  D rug  M ark et.

Gum opium is very  firm at  the  recent 

advance.

Morphia is  unchanged.
Quinine  is  in  active  demand,  but  at 

unchanged prices.

Carbolic acid  is very  firm  and  an up­
ward movement  is  expected  in the  near 
future.

Chloride of lime is also  in a firm  posi­

tion and  lilely to be advanced.

Gum kino is very scarce and  high.
Gum arabic  has declined.
Chlorate potash has advanced.

F rom  O ut o f Tow n.

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

W.  H.  Benedict, Vermontville.
F. J.  Kinney, Grove.
J. C.  Newman  & Co.,  Door.
Roscoe & Speicher,  Mancelona.
L.  E.  Bahle & Co.,  Sutton’s Bay.
D.  Wellbrook,  Rockford.
J.  P.  Cordes, Alpine.
Jas.  D.  C.  Hubbard,  Parmelee.
When the problem  of  damming  Niag­
ara has been successfully  accomplished, 
T u e  T radesm an  may  possibly  cease to 
chronicle the periodical  re-appearance of 
Fred S. Kieldsen  in the grocery business 
at Cadillac.  About every two  years  he 
flashes into the firmament like a  meteor, 
does a rushing business for a year  or  so 
and then retires from  the  field  with  the 
suddenness  of  a  spent 
rocket.  Mr. 
Kieldsen now announces  that he will  be 
in line with a new  stock early in  March.

On th e  Side o f  S afety.

William  (out 

shopping)—Sarah,  do 
you  see that little sign that  says:  “Ham­
burg edging this way?”

Sarah—Yes,  William, what of  it? 
William—Well,  if  Hamburg is  edging 
this way with all of  its cholera,  why the 
quicker we kin git out of here the better.
A man in  the Washington  Legislature 
said:  “You  may  hang  Puget Sound on 
a  tall fir  tree  to  dry,  you  may  place 
Mount  Rainer  on  a nail  keg,  unbuckle 
the bellyband of  eternity, ¡¡but  you  will 
never  get me to vote  for a man I  do not 
believe entitled to a seat in this  house.

Thau any O ther Cigars 

Michigan

Celebrated  Brands.

Made on Honor !Sold on Merit !

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

The  Basis  of Credit.

D. T. M allett in Business.

is  cemented. 

Credit is to business what mortar is  to 
the wall: it is the adhesive  material with 
which  commerce 
The 
humblest dealer equally with  the  great­
est  manufacturer  feels  the  power  and 
recognizes the need of credit.  The  ma­
jority, perhaps three-quarters, of all busi­
ness transactions  are  operated  through 
the  medium  of  credit  rather  than  cash, 
and  while  the 
individual  duration  of 
credits may have  shortened  during  the 
past five years,  the amount of credit  has 
been largely increased.
To the business mau  the  condition  of 
his  credit  is  of  vital 
importance,  and 
anything which  has a tendency to  reflect 
upon its strength is particularly avoided. 
The  man  who  desires  to  establish  his 
credit firmly,  will find himself judged by 
a common standard  the world over.  The 
four pillars which may  be said to support 
credit are,  Honesty,  Ability,  Application 
and  Resources. 
They  are  the  quali­
ties which decide the  matter  of  extend­
ing  credit,  and  a  favorable  report  on 
these points can never fail to  secure  ac­
commodation  in  proportion  to  the  cir­
cumstances.  The principle  which is  of 
most 
importance,  and  which,  indeed, 
affects ail the others,  is that  of  honesty. 
Anyone would rather lend ten dollars  to 
a poor man  whom  they knew was  honest 
in his statements, than to one who posses­
sed  wealth  but had a reputation for  dis­
honesty. 
Strip  an  honest  man  of  his 
wealth;  burn  up his warehouses; rob him 
of his investments; leave him  without  a 
dollar,  and bis case is not hopeless.  His 
honest past will stand  out  like a  white 
figure of hope upon the black background 
of his  financial wreck,  and  through  the 
force of credit founded on honest  princi­
ples he may regain  all  or  more  than  he 
lost.  Some of the most  influential  men, 
whose names are familiar  and  cherished 
sounds in the public ear,  have  at  times 
suffered  financial  defeat  but  recovered 
their position on the basis of their  repu­
tation for personal  honesty.
Honesty,  however,  may  be  sadly 
hindered from a lack of the  second  fac­
tor of commercial  credit.  Ability.  The 
man of good intentions is not  a  rare  in­
dividual,  but rather the  man  who  com­
bines in his operations honesty and  abil­
ity,  blended to a common  purpose—Com­
mercial  Credit. 
Smart  men  are  seen 
every day;  they  abound  in  all  lines  of 
trade;  honest men  are met often  enough 
to dispel  any fear of their  decrease;  but 
the truly smart man  who  is  consistently 
honest,  never finds it necessary to  adver­
tise for employment  or argue for  credit.
Gênerai  ability  is not of such  commer­
cial value  as  special  ability. 
is  of 
particular importance that the  man  and 
the work should be  in  exact  line  with 
each  other.  Ability 
is  susceptible  of 
classification much in the same way as is 
other working material. 
It is never safe 
to suspend too heavy a load of labor on the 
slender cord  of  ability,  and  equally  a 
waste of  materials  to  employ  a  huge 
cable to support a trivial  weight.
But the factors of  honesty  and ability 
are  dependent  in  turn  upon  the  third 
pillar  of  credit.  Application.  Just  at 
this point comes the test  of  ability  and 
the proof  of  honesty.  How  many  men 
of marked ability and 
inherent  honesty 
have  wasted  their  lives  through  sheer 
lack  of  industrial  application  of  their 
talents!  The kind of ability  which  con­
ceives must be reinforced with  the  will­
ingness of application  to  effect  results. 
Application means the routine of  detail, 
the everyday work which is  never ended, 
the watchful care and devotion to the task 
which ultimate  success  relentlessly  de­
mands.  Credit never knocks at the door 
of the 
in  the 
shadow  of  indecision,  never  smiles  on 
good  intentions  which are barren  of  re­
sults. 
Industry is that property of busi­
ness upon which credit bases its  security 
and lends its influence; it is  the  natural 
product of honest ability 
trained  to  a 
definite purpose.
Last comes the  pillar of  credit  which 
we  call  Resources,  upon  which  credit 
may safely extend  its assistance.  A man 
cannot  exchange  bis  Honesty,  Ability 
and Application  for a stock of  merchan­
dise  unless  he  possess 
some  actual 
Capital; 
it 
is safe to  extend  to  the  possessor  of  a

indolent;  never 

the  amount 

lingers 

credit 

of 

It 

given amount  of capital,  depends,  how­
ever,  entirely upon  the  relation  which 
the  principles  mentioned  bear  to  the 
tangible  property  he  possesses.  The 
owner of a thousand  dollars  can  at  any 
time exchange it  for an  equal  value 
in 
merchandise;  but  if he desire  to  retain 
his  money  and  obtain 
the  goods  on 
credit,  the fact of his having in the bank, 
at the time of  purchase,  the  equivalent 
in cash,  will  not entitle him to  the  con­
sideration of credit unless his  intentions 
are  known to be honest; his abilities equal 
to  his  enterprise;  and  his  application 
sufficient  to  accomplish  successful  re­
sults.

“ How’s  Trade?”

Oh,  yes,  they’ve  heard  that  before. 
But  it’s a civil question,  isn’t it?  Then 
why don’t they answer it  as true  Chris­
tians  should?  Have  they  forgotten  the 
little  story  that  their  Sunday  school 
teachers used  to  tell  them  about a  fel­
low who went by  the  cognomen of Ana­
nias?  At that time  they  were  innocent 
and  truthful.  They  had  never  been 
asked the question,  “How’s  trade?”  and 
they little thought  that  the time  would 
come when a man would  run the risk  of 
being knocked down  fifty  times a day by 
the avenger of truth  and veracity.

“Misery  loves  company,”  but,  some­
how,  when I’m miserable,  I can’t  find it. 
I’m  suffering  at  the  present  time with 
the  biggest  attack  of  the  “blues”  with 
which I’ve had the  bad  luck  to  meet  in 
some time. 
I think I was exposed to ‘em 
in  every  blessed  town  I’ve  made  since 
the holidays.  Yes, I have  ’em  bad,  and, 
if ever  double-distilled  misery hankered 
after a little good-fellowship, it is hanker­
ing now in my own case.

But what’s the  use of looking for com­
fort?  Whenever I approach one of these 
other fellows, confidentially,  for a crumb 
of consolation,  and  give the old familiar 
password,  “How’s  trade?”  he  looks  me 
right in  the  eye,  and,  without  the least 
tinge of  a blush  on  his  petrified  cheek, 
he lies to me up and .down.  Sometimes I 
try a fellow  who,  to my  certain  knowl­
edge,  has not taken an  order for a whole 
week,  and the  very  cheek  of  the fellow 
so paralyzes me that I can’t get  up cour­
age enough to contradict  him. 
I ask for 
the bread of consolation and he gives  me 
the  stone that  killed  Ananias;  and  not 
only so,  but  lie compels me to again sear 
my conscience by producing a “whopper” 
to match his. 
I leave him with a forced, 
“You bet,  everything’s  just  buzzing” — 
and,  when I  am  out of  hearing,  I  finish 
the sentence with,  “in your eye.”

“Hello, old  boy.  How’s  trade?”  is  a 
sort of interrogative double  entente. 
Its 
true  meaning,  rendered  into plain  Eng­
lish,  would be:  “Well, my son,  it is now 
your blessed privilege  to  tell a lie;  and, 
after  you  have  had  the unblushing  ef­
frontery  to lie  to me  when I know  that 
you are lying, and,  moreover,  you  know 
that I know  that  you  are  lying,  I shall 
endeavor to go you one better.”

The Bell  Telephone Company,  it is es­
timated, controls from  two to  three hun­
dred  patents.  Some  of  these  are  mere 
adjuncts  to  the  service.  The  instru­
ments now  in  common  use  do  not  em­
brace a single patent  taken out  by  Bell, 
except  his  fundamental  idea.  Some  of 
the patents held by the company are new 
and will be  guarded  carefully for many 
years to come.  A short time ago the Bell 
Company  bought  out  the  interests  of 
| Berliner  and Edison,  then  in  litigation, 
and in  various  other  respects  the  com­
pany seems to have secured its  interests 
in a  way  to make  rivalry  a very  expen­
sive  undertaking.

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

Dry Goods Price Current.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic.................  7
A rgyle...................6
Atlanta A A.............6
Atlantic  A.............   6%
H..............6%
“ 
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P ............   5H
D.............   6
“ 
“  LL................ 5
Amory.....................63£
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A..  51«
Blackstone O, 32__5
Black Crow............ 6
Black  Rock  ...........6
Boot, AL................  7
Capital  A ................514
Cavanat V..............5H
Chapman cheese cl.  334
Clifton  C R ............ 5>4
Comet..................... 61»
Dwight Star............  634
Clifton CCC...........  6)4

Arrow Brand 5>4
World Wide.  6
“  LL............... 414
Pull Yard Wide...... 614
Georgia  A..............  614
Honest Width.........   614
Hartford A ............ 6
Indian Head...........7
King A  A................. 614
King EC.................  5
Lawrence  L L ........  4%
Madras cheese cloth 634
Newmarket  G........534
B  ........5
N.........614
DD....  514
X ........ 634
Noibe R..................  5
Our Level  Best...... 614
Oxford  R ...............   6
Pequot....................  7
Solar.......................  6
Top of the  Heap__7
A B C ......................814
Geo. Washington...  8
Amazon...................8
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold Medal.............. 714
Amsburg.................7
Green  Ticket......... 814
Art  Cambric...........10
Great Palls.............   614
Blackstone AA...... 7
Hone 
....  7U
Beats AU.................4%
Boston....................12
Ju sf O u t ’  4M® 5*
King Phillip...........734
Cabot......................   714
Cabot,  %.................634
OP....... 714
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Charter  Oak...........514
Conway W..............  7J4jLonsdale...........  @  8J4
Cleveland.............. 7  Middlesex..........   @5
Dwight Anchor...... 814  No Name................   714
shorts.  8  Oak View............... 6
Edwards................. 6  Our Own................   514
Empire....................7  Pride of the West.. .12
Farwell.............. 
714  Rosalind.................. 7*4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8*4ISunilght..................  414
Fitchvllle
Utica  Mills.............. 814
First Prize..............7
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Fruit of the Loom %.  714
Vlnyard..................  814
White Horse...........  6
Falrmount.....  ........4%
“  Rock............ 814
Full Value..............634
Cabot........................ 7  I Dwight Anchor.......814
Farwell.....................8  I

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

... 

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

Unbleached 

Housewife  A...........5*4

Bleached. 
Housewife  Q ....
R......

•■■614
V.'.IX 
...814 
...914 
..10 
.1034 
..1114
Y......... 1214
Z...........1314

“ 
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.814 
814 
9)4 
...1 0  
.1014 
.11 
.21 
■ 1414

CABPST  WARP.

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Peerless, white.......18141 Integrity  colored... 20
colored... .2014 White Star..............18
Integrity................. 18141 
“  colored..20
DBS88  GOODS.
Hamilton..................8
Nameless................20
................. 25
9
“ 
1014
“ 
.................2714
................. 30
“ 
“ 
•  ................8214
“ 
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GG  Cashmere........20
Nameless............... 16
................18

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COBS

“ 

FBIHTS.

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COSSET  JEANS.

Corallne..................... 89 50
Schilling’s ...................9 00
Davis  Waists......   9 00
Grand  Rapids........ 4 50
Armory.................... 634
Androscoggin.........7)4
Blddef ora............... 6
Brunswick..............614
Allen turkey  reds..  6
robes...........6
pink a purple 6
buffs...........  6
pink checks.  6
staples  ........6
shirtings...  414 
American fancy—   534 
American Indigo...  6)4 
American shirtings.  5 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  5 
“  —   614
Arnold 
Arnold  Merino......6
“ 
long cloth B. 1014 
“ 
“  C.  814
“  century cloth 7
“  gold seal......10H
“  green seal TR1014 
“  yellow seal.. 1014
“  serge........... 1114
“  Turkey red.. 1014 
Ballou solid black..  5 
“  colors.  514
“ 
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange...  514
Berlin solids...........  514
"  oil blue.........614
“  “  green ....  614
"  Foulards ....  514
“  red 34...........   7
“  “  X..........  914
“  “  4 4.......... 10
“ 
“  3 4XXXX12
Cocheco fancy.......   6
“  madders...  6
»  XXtwills..  614
“ 

Wonderful.................84 50
Brighton......................4 75
Bortree’s .....................9 00
Abdominal............15 00
Naumkeagsatteen..  714
Rockport...................614
Conestoga.................714
Walworth..............   634
Berwick fancies 
614
Clyde Robes —
Charter Oak fancies 414 
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
mourn’g  6 
Eddystone fancy...  6 
chocolat  6 
rober—   6 
sateens..  6
Hamilton fancy___6
staple....  6 
Manchester fancy..  6 
new era.  6 
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  414 
“  Reppfurn.  814
Pacific fancy..........6
robes............614
“ 
Portsmouth robes...  6 
Simpson mourning.. 6
greys........6
solid black.  6 
Washington indigo.  6 
“  Turkey robes..  7*4
“  India robes__ 714
“  plain T’ky X 34 814 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red................ 6
Martha Washington
Turkeyred X...... 714
Martha Washington
Turkey red..........   914
Rlverpolntrobes  ...  514
WiHdsor fancy........614
Indigo blue......... 1014
..  .  434

solids.........5)4 ¡Harmony

gold  ticket

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TICKINGS.

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Amoskeag A C A.... 13
Hamilton N ............ 714
D............ 814
Awning.. 11
Farmer....................8
First Prize..............1014
Lenox M ills...........18
Atlanta,  D..............  6341Stark  A 
Boot........................   634 No  Name............... 714
Clifton, K...............   7 

AC A....................13
Pemberton AAA__16
York.......................1014
Swift River............ 714
Pearl River............ 1214
Warren...................1314
Conostoga............. 16
............8
|Topof Heap............9

COTTON  DBILL.

DEMINS.

“ 
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Amoskeag...............1214
9 oz...... 1314
brown .13
Andover................. 1114
Beaver Creek AA... 10 
BB...  9
“ 
cc
« 
Boston Mfg Co. br..  7 
“ 
blue  814 
“  d a  twist 1014 
Columbian XXX  br.10 
'• 
XXX  bl.l#

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

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Amoskeag................ 7)4
“  Persian dress 814 
Canton ..  814
“ 
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AFC........10)4
“ 
Teazle... 1014 
“ 
Angola.. 1014 
Persian..  814 
“ 
Arlington staple—   6)4 
Arasapha  fancy—   434 
Bates Warwick dres 814 
staples.  6)4
Centennial.............   10)4
Criterion................ 10)4
Cumberland staple.  514
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................414
Elfin.......................   714
Everett classics......814
Exposition............... 7)4
Glenarie.................  6)4
Glenarven................ 634
Glenwood.................714
Hampton.................. 614
Johnson Chalon cl 
14 
indigo blue 914 
zephyrs.

GINGHAMS.
Lancaster,  staple...  7 
fancies ....  7 
“ 
11  Normandie  8
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester.............  534
Monogram................6)4
Normandie............... 714
Persian..................... 814
Renfrew Dress........714
Rosemont............... 614
Slatersville.............. 6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  ................... 7)4
Toil  duNord......... 1014
Wabash...........j___714
seersucker..  714
Warwick................  814
Whlttenden............   634
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue 9 
Wamsuttastaples...  634
Westbrook.............. 8
..............10
Windermeer........... 6
York  ........................634

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GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag...............16141 Valley City..............1534
Stark......................2014 Georgia................... 1534
American...............16  IPacinc....................13

THBEADS.

Clark’s Mile End....45  IBarbour's................88
Coats’, J. & P .........45  Marshall’s...............88
Holyoke..................22141

No.

KNITTING  COTTON.

..33
6  ..
...84
8...
10... ...35
...36
12...

White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....87
...38
“  16...
39
*•  18... ....39
40
“  20... ....40
41
CAMBRICS.

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

Slater......................   5
White Star............   5
Gild Glove  .............   5
Newmarket............   5

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

BED  FLANNEL.

Fireman.................3214
Creedmore............. 2714
Talbot XXX...........30
Nameless............... 27)4

T W ........................2214
F T ............ ............. 3214
JR F .X X X ............35
Buckeye.................32)4

MIXED  FLANNEL.

Grey SR W.............17)4
Western W ............. 1814
D R P ...................... 1814
Flushing XXX........ 2314
Manitoba................ 2314
9  @1014 
1214
Brown. Black.
10)4
1114
12
20

1014
H14
12
20

Red & Blue,  plaid..40
Union R.................2214
Windsor.................1814
6 oz Western..........20
Union  B................2214
Nameless...... 8  @ 9141 
...... 8!4@10  I 

DOMBT  FLANNEL.

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Brown. Black. Slate
934 1014
1014 11)4
1114 12
1214 20

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
914
1014
11)4
1214

“ 
Slate.
914 
10)4 
1114 »14
Severen, 8oz.......... 914
Mayland, 8oz......... 10)4
Greenwood,714 oz..  914 
Greenwood, 8 oz— 1114 
Boston, 8 oz.............1014

West  Point, 8 oz— 1014 
10 oz  ...12)4
“ 
Raven, lOoz............1314
............ 1834
Stark 
Boston, 10 oz.......... 12)4

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BILESIAS.

WADDINGS.

SEWING  SILK.

White, doz..............25  I Per bale, 40 dos....$S 50
Colored, doz...........20  IColored  “ 
..........7 50
Slater, Iron Cross 

8 Pawtucket...............1014

“  Red Cross....  9
“  Best.............10)4
11 
Best AA......1214
L............................. 714
G............................. 814
Cortlcelll, doz........ 85  [Cortlcelll  knitting,

Bundle....................    9
Bedford...................1014
Valley  City.............10)4
K K ......................... 1014

..12  “ 8 
..12  I “  10 

per )4oz  ball.........30

twist,doz..40 
50yd,doz..40  I
HOOKS AND EYES— PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k & White..10  INo  4 Bl’k & Whlte..l5 
“ 
..20
“ 
..25
No 2-20, M C.........50  INo 4—15  F  814......... 40
*•  8—18, S C .......... 45 
No  2 White A Bl’k.,12  INo  8 White <& Bl’k..20 
“ 
.23
“ 
..26
No 2........................28  INo 8...........................88

COTTON  TAPE.
..15  “  10 
..18  I “  12 
SAFETY  PINS.

FINS.

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6 

2 
8 

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NEEDLES—FEB  M.

A. James.................1 401 Steamboat................  40
Crowely’s............... 1  85 Gold Eyed.....................1 50
Marshall’s..............1 00|
5—4....2 25  6—4...3 2515—4....1  95  6—4...2 95 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“  ...3 10|

“ ....2 10 

COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............1814
Anchor..................16
Bristol.........   ........13
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL......................18)4
Alabama................634
Alamance...............   614
Augusta.................7)4
Ar* sapha................  6
Georgia...................  6)4
G ranite..................  534
Haw  River............   5
Haw  J ......................5

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

7‘ 

Mount  Pleasant__ 6)4
Oneida....................  5
Prym ont................  534
Randelman.............6
Riverside................  5)4
Sibley  A ...........  ...  6)4
Toledo....................

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dlS.

h a m m e r s

HINGES.

c r a d l e s.

c r o w  b a r s .

chisels. 

HANGERS. 

CARTRIDGES.

HOLLOW WARE.

eo |
35
60
50
251

Wrought Loose Pin....................................60410 
farmers and  jobbers,  without  any  com­
Wrought  Table........................................................................................ 60410  Maydole 4 Co.’s.dls,
pensating  benefit  to  the  consumer,  as 
Wrought Inside Blind..................................60410'—  -
canned goods three years old  are  just  as 
75
Wrought Brass............................................. 
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70410
good as goods  three  months  old.  As  a 
Blind,  Parker’s.................  
70410
proof of  this  statement,  I may  mention 
70
Blind, Shepard’s 
....................................... 
the hermetically sealed foods of Pompeii,
which  after  being  canned  thousands  of I ordinary Tackle, list April  1898...............  
50
years,  opened  as  perfectly  as  though 
canned  last  summer;  also  the  hermeti-  Grai„ ......................................................dls. 50408
cally sealed flower seeds of ancient Egypt, 
which  sprout  and  blossom  to-day  as  per- | cast Steel............................................ per lb 
fectly as those of the last  crop.  This  is 
the severest of  tests  for hermetical seal-
Ely’s 1-10............................................ perm
“ 
Hick’s C. F .......................................... 
ing,  as the slightest approach to decay or 
G. D ......... ...........................................  “ 
change would be fatal to  the  life of  the 
Musket................................................ 
“ 
seed.
While the dating is  useless to the con­
Rim  Fire.........   .......................................... 
sumer,  it will  be also a source  of  worry 
Central  Fire.........   ...............................dls. 
and loss to  the can  manufacturer,  who, 
not being able to tell  exactly  how many 
cans will  be needed  by his customers un­
til the  last day  of  canning,  must  make 
some to carry over;  and,  as the date is to 
be stamped  in  the can.  the  cans  carried 
over would  be a loss to the manufacturer, 
consequently under  the  dating  bill  the 
can manufacturer would be  liable to get 
out of cans at the last  end of the season, 
especially  if a late season. 
In such case, 
the  canner  would  lose  the  last  of  the 
pack and  the farmer would  lose the last 
of  his  crop.  The  jobber  would  buy 
more cautiously  for  fear  of  overstock. 
This would  be another burden  for the al­
ready over-worried  packer.  Practically 
the same bill  was  recently  introduced  in 
the Illinois Legislature and is being fierce­
ly  fought  by  the canned  goods and re­
tail  grocery trade.

Kip’s ................................................................. dls. 25
Terkes 4  Plumb’s.............................................dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel......................... 30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand— 30c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1 ,2 ,3 ...............................dls.60410
State...........................................per do*, net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4H  14  and
3H10
H........... ............ net
X........... ______ net
8H
X........................ net
7H
X........... ......  ...net
7H
50
...........dls.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50410
Champion,  anti-friction.............................   60410
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots............................................................... 60410
Kettles...........................................................60410
Spiders  .........................................................60410
Gray enameled..............................................40410
Stamped  TlnWare...............................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33X410
dls.
Bright...................................................... 70*10410
Screw  Eyes.............................................70410410
Hook’s .....................................................70410410
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70410410
<Hs.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s......................
Sisal, H Inch and larger.............................  
9
Manilla.........................................................  13
dls.
Steel and Iron..............................................  
Try and Bevels...................................  
 
M itre............................................................ 
Com.  Smooth.
Nos. 10 to  14.....................................$4 05
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................4 05
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4 05
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4 05
Nos. 25 to 26 .....................................  4 25
No. 27................................................  4 45
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  .....................................dls.
Silver Lake, White A..............................list 
Drab A.................................  " 
White  B...............................   ‘ 
DrabB..................................  “ 
White C............................  

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

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

Socket Firm er.............................................  70410
Socket Framing............................................70410
Socket Corner............................................... 70410
Socket Slicks............................................... 70410
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per  gross..............12Q12H dls. 10

Com. 4  piece, 6 In............................dos. net 
Corrugated....................................................... dls 40
Adjustable....................................................... dls. 40410
Clark’s, small, $18;  large, 826...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, $18:  2, $24;  3,$30............................  
25
Disston’s ...................................................... 60410
New American  ............................................60410
Nicholson’s ..................................................60410
Heller’s .........................................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps  .................................. 
50

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

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

HOUSE FURNISHING  GOODS.

50
SO
55
50
55
“  35

Respectfully  yours,

From the hew York  Shipping List.

A  R eb ate  D ecision.

Ciia s.  W.  Sh ed d.

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

CHALK.
COPPER.

files—New List. 

levels. 
ROPES.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

DRIPPING PANS.

SASH WEIGHTS.

wire goods. 

Discount, 10.

 
DRILLS. 

SHEET IRON.

squares. 

ELBOWS.

combs. 

07
6H

11 
“ 
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“ 

dls.

dls.

dls.

dis.

dls.

75

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Dating Canned Goods.

From the American Grocer.

A member of the Michigan  Legislature 
from honest motives and not from  malice 
or for a  “strike,” has  introduced  a  bill 
requiring  the  dating  of  canned  goods. 
Such a measure will  work  injury to  the 
trade  and  commerce  of  the  State,  em­
barrass its manufacturers and merchants, 
and strengthen an  unreasonable  and in­
defensible  prejudice  entertained  by con­
sumers  ignorant  of  the  process of her­
metically sealing food  in  tin cans.

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Age  works no  harm  to  canned  goods. 
If properly put  up they  will  keep indefi­
nitely,  as  claimed  by  Appert,  the  dis­
coverer of the process in  1807.  This has 
been  proven  by  the tests  of  eighty odd 
years. 
It  is  frequently  the  case  that 
goods put up during the latest season are 
very inferior  to  the  same sort of  goods 
put up three,  five or  more years  earlier. 
The  character  of  a season  varies  from 
year to year.  Thus in a season of excess­
ive  moisture  peaches  contain  much 
more  water than  in a season of  ordinary 
climatic conditions.  From  this it is evi­
dent that the quality of peaches  and oth­
er fruits varies from year to year, render­
ing it  possible for  the older goods  to  be 
better than  the newer.
Some fruits,  as  for instance pineaples, 
are better the  second or  third year  than 
the first,  because  it  takes  time  for  the 
syrup  to thoroughly  permeate  the fruit; 
the  same  is  true  of  many  acid  fruits, 
which,  when  first  packed  are  a  little 
hard,  but  which  become mellowed  with 
time and the absorption of  the syrup.
We recognize that  the  popular idea  is 
that canned or preserved  food should  be 
judged by  the standard  set up for  fresh 
food  on  the  ground  that  “the  fresher 
things  are  the  better.”  As  a  general 
proposition  this  latter 
idea  is  correct, 
but as applied to  canned  goods  is  erro­
neous and  misleading.  A  law  requiring 
dating is, therefore,  undesirable, because 
it gives strength to  an  unreasonable and 
indefensible prejudice which has become 
ingrained  in  the  minds  of  many  con­
sumers.  They would accept the  date  as 
indicating  quality,  when  it bears a very 
slight relation thereto.
Such a bill  works  injury  and  loss  to 
manufacturers and  packers.  The  latter 
class make their  cans during  the winter 
and spring,  in  order  to  be in  readiness 
to preserve without delay  the fruits and 
vegetables of  the coming summer. 
If  it 
were obligatory that a date  be  struck  in 
the can,  this must be done when the cans 
are made.  Then in  case of  a crop  fail­
ure,  as in Delaware  last year,  the packer 
would  have a lot  of  useless cans, unless 
he  put  up,  in  1894,  peaches 
in  cans 
stamped 1893.
The bill  would  work  injury  to retail 
merchants  and  tend  to advance prices. 
Michigan packers would comply  with the 
law,  and  as  packers 
in  other  states 
would  not,  the  supply  and  variety  of 
canned food would be curtailed  and con­
sumers  would pay higher prices.
The enormous  consumption of  canned 
food,  reaching  1,000,000,000  tins  in  this 
country alone,  with  only now and then  a 
sporadic complaint of sickness charged to 
them and rarely proven,  attests  their su­
perior  quality  and 
lends  color  to  the 
statement so  often  made,  that  bulk  for 
bulk,  canned  food  is  of  more uniform 
and better  quality  than  so-called  fresh 
food as ordinarily  sold  in  city markets.
Brig.-General  Hawkins,  Chief  Com­
missary  Subsistence.  U.  S.  Army,  says 
very pertinently:  “No person having a de­
cent knowledge of  what is good  or  bad, 
sound or unsound,  could  be  misled into 
eating  an  improper  article  from a  can 
any easier than he could  be  induced into 
eating a decayed potato or a tainted piece 
of butcher’s meat.”
There is no  popular  demand  for such 
legislation  as is  proposed  in  Michigan, 
and there  are no  good  arguments to  be 
offered  in  support  of  the  measure. 
It 
ought to be  killed in  Committee,  as  was 
the case in the New York  Legislature.

O pposed to  th e  M cK instry Bill.

Gra nd  Ra pid s,  Feb.  20—Noticing  the 
bill on dating canned goods in last week’s 
issue,  I wish  to  say that  in my  opinion 
such a law would be a source of  loss and 
worry  to  can  manufacturers,  packers,

A Chicago court  has  decided  that  no 
person  can  be  compelled  to  deal  exclu­
sively in the  products  of  one  manufac­
turer,  and that  rebates  cannot  be with­
held because the  buyer failed to observe 
the  contracts  which  provide  that  no 
competing goods shall be handled.  Such 
a condition  of sale is  clearly in  restraint 
of trade,  as it interferes  materially with 
the  business  of  other  manufacturers. 
Two 
leading  companies  that  have  re­
ceived  considerable  notoriety  through 
the operation  of  their novel  rebate sys­
tem,  will no doubt find it necessary to re­
move the objectionable clause from their 
contracts.  A  rebate  for  maintaining 
prices is  legitimate  and leaves  an open 
field  for  all  competitors,  but  the  new 
method  for crushing rivals should not be 
allowed to  get any  headway. 
It  is tak­
ing an unfair  advantage  of  the  weaker 
concerns,  and they have a right to appeal 
to court for protection.
HATCH CHICKENS  BY STEAM
With  the  Improved Excelsior Incubator.
¡Simple,  Perfect,  Self-Rcgu- 
| latino.  Thousands in sac- 
r cessful operation.  Guaran 
r teed to natch a larger per* 
| centage  of  fertile  eggs at 
1 less  cost  than  any  other 
fHatcher.  Lowest  priced 
first-class  Hatcher  made 
GEO. H. STAHL, Quincy,!!!,

When You Get Tired

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

Prices seldom higher.

A.  J .  PH ILLIPS  &  CO.,

Fenton,  Mich.
Hardware Price Current.

T h ese  p ric e s  a re   fo r cash  buyers,  w ho 
p ay   p ro m p tly   an d   b u y   in   fu ll  pack ag es.
Snell’s ........................................................... 
60
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................50410
First Quality, S. B. Bronze..........................$ 7 00

AUGURS AND BITS. 

AXES.

d ls .

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

BARROWS. 

d ls .

dls.

bolts. 

Railroad......................................................$ 14 00
Garden.................................................   net  30 00
Stove.............................................................. 50410
Carriage new list.......................................... 75410
Plow.............................................................. 40410
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70
Well,  plain  .................................................$3 50
Well, swivel.................................................  4 00
dls.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 604.0

butts, cast. 

BUCKETS.

GALVANIZED IRON.

28
16 17

dis.
dis.

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

12 

15 

13 
Discount, 60

14 
GAUGES. 

dls.

50
55
56
55
55
70

locks—door. 

knobs—New List. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................... 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
Door,  porcelvin, trimmings......................... 
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l is t...................  55
55
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s............................ 
56
Branford’s ................................................... 
Norwalk’s ....................................................  
55
Adze Eye.......................................... $16.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye  ........................................$15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s...................................... $18.50, dis. 20410.
dls.
50
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
“  p. s. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry 4  Cls rk’s................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbin’s Pattern..........................................60410
8tebbln’s Genuine........................................ 66410
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25

MOLASSES GATES. 

mauls. 
mills. 

MATTOCKS.

diS.

NAILS

 

Advance over base: 

Steel nails, base.............................................. 1  85
Wire nails, base.......................... .......... 1  80@1  90
Steel.  Wire.
6 0 ..................................................Base 
Base
10
Base
40.....................................................  05
10
30..................................................... 
15
20............ 
16..................................................... 
15
12....................................................  
15
50
10........................................................  20 
8  ......................................................  25 
60
75
7 4 6 ...................................................  40 
4................................................... ...  60 
90
3 .................................................. 1 00 
1 20
1 60
2......................................................... 1  50 
160
FineS.................................................150 
Case  10..............................................   60 
65
75
8..............................................   75 
6..............................................   90 
90
75
Finish 10............................................  86 
90
8........................................... 1  00 
1 10
6.............................................1  15 
TO
Clinch; 10...........................................  85 
8........................................... 1 00 
80
00
115 
6................ 
B arren*........................................... 175 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   0*1
Seiota Bench..............................................  O60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  040
Bench, first qnallty.......................................  060
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood...........  410
Fry,  Acme.............................................dls.60—10
Common, polished................................ dls. 
TO
Iron and  Tinned.........................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................   50—10
"A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

 
PLANES. 

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rivets. 

PAMS.

dls.

Broken packs He per pound extra

dlS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton 125
“ 
20
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,....  TO
“  Special Steel Dex X Cats, per foot__ 
50
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cats, per foot....  30 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  root........................................  30
dls.
Steel, Game...............................................60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ............ 
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s _ 
TO
Mouse,  choker................................... 18cperdoz
Mouse, delusion.............................. $1.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market.........................................  62H
Coppered  Spring  Steel............................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  2 85
painted....................................  8 40

wire. 

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HORSE NAILS.

wrenches. 

An  Sable.........................................dls.  40410
Pntnam..........................................  
dls.  05
Northwestern................................  
dig. 10410
dls.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
75
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........... 
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75410
Bird Cages.......................  
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................   76410
Screws, New List.......................................... 70410
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50410410
Dampers, American.....................................  
40
Forks, hoes, r&kes  and all steel goods....... 65410

MISCELLANEOUS. 

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METALS.
PIG TIN.

86c
88c

ZINC.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars...................................................... 
Duty:  Sheet, 2Hc per pound.
680 pound  casks...........................................  
6*
Per pound....................................................   7
H © H -.....................................'•....................... }6
Extra Wiping.................................................   15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
Cookson............ ...........................per pound
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MILYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.........................................$7
14X20IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.

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Each additional X on this grade $1.50.

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

.........................................   6  75
..........................................  8 25
..........................................  9 25
ROOFING PLATES
Worcester..........................   6
..........................   8
13
 
Allaway  Grade................  6
..................   12
..................   15

14x20 IC,
14x20 IX,
20x28 IC,
14x20 IC,
14x20 IX,
20x28 IC, 
20x28 EX, 
14x28 IX....................................................... $14 00
14x81  IX....................................................... 15
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WKDNE8DAT,  MARCH  1,  1893.

THE  REAL  AMERICAN  POLICY.
It has  come to be a custom,  and a most 
wise one,  that the United  States  Senate 
celebrates  Washington’s  birthday  by 
listening to the reading of  Washington’s 
farewell  address when  retiring  from his 
second term of the Presidency.

Doubtless in  the  reading  which  was 
had Wednesday,  particular attention was 
paid to his sage  advice  against  entering 
into entangling alliances with foreign na­
tions. Washington,  as a far-seeing and sa­
gacious  statesman, realized that  the  day 
would come  when  European  domination 
would die out on this hemisphere.  Since 
it was possible for  the  British  colonists 
to throw off the yoke of the most  power­
ful  nation  which bad  possessions  here it 
was reasonable to expect  that  the  other 
colonists would be  able  to  secure  their 
independence  also,  but,  from  the  very 
nature of the circumstances,  the  United 
States would be the most powerful of the 
independent American  nationalities,  and 
would in time exercise a  sort  of  patri­
archal influence over all  the  others,  and 
to do so would  be a sort of natural result, 
as  well as a wise and friendly policy.

Washington had  not  been  dead  more 
than  a score of years  before  Mexico  ac­
quired 
independence,  while  several  of 
the South American States  had  done  so 
previously,  and in thirty years  from  the 
time Washington’s  farewell  address was 
published the  entire  region  from  Cape 
Horn  to the Canada line had been wrested 
from  European  control.  The  first  of 
American  statesmen  did  not mean to  ad­
vise that the  United  States  should  ac­
quire no territory  and should have no re­
lations  with other  countries.  What  he 
did fear  was  some  entanglement  with 
European  nations that would entail inter­
ference in European  affairs.  He realized 
that the interest of the first of the  repub­
lics of the West  was  in  maintaining  it­
self,  in  developing 
its  power  and  re­
sources, and in spreading free institutions 
to its neighbors of  the  other  American 
countries.

The activity and  success  with  which 
the freeing of  other  American  peoples 
was  effected  naturally emphasized  the 
necessity  for  friendly  and  paternal  re­
lations  by the great  Republic  with  its

younger sisters,  and the  next,  as  it  was 
the most obvious step in  our  statesman­
ship,  was the formulation and announce­
ment of the Monroe  doctrine,  that  there 
should be no  interference  by  European 
nations in the affairs of  this  continent. 
At first the  acquisition  of territory  was 
not only considered  wise  statesmanship 
and a most desirable act when that terri­
tory was adjacent to our own,  but no op­
portunity was  lost in carrying it out.  In 
the course of half a century  Florida  and 
the vast region west  of  the  Mississippi 
were  secured,  annexed  and  organized 
into States.  Then came the  slavery agi­
tation to disturb the whole internal policy 
of the country.  As  the  acquired  terri­
tory  became populated and was organized 
into States,  partisan and  sectional  jeal­
ousy  of  the  most  bitter  and  uncom­
promising description  arose. 
It  was  a 
question of extreme importance  whether 
a new State would  become a  free  State 
or  a  slave  State.  This  contest  over 
slavery  was sufficient to  bar the way  to 
the spread of the great  Republic  to  the 
southward  for  fear  the  new  territory 
would furnish  more  slave  States.  But 
for that Cuba would, without doubt,  have 
come into the Union,  not  to  speak  of 
other countries to the south of us.

But since slavery is  no longer a  ques­
tion any  more  than  it 
is  an  entity  in 
American  affairs,  the old  sectional  jeal­
ousies  should no  longer,  and 
logically 
can no longer,  appear in  any  problem  of 
American policy.  The  time 
is  coming 
when America must be American wholly, 
and not European.  The  United  States 
needs  to  establish  the  most  intimate 
commercial and  political  relations  with 
the American  Republics. 
It  must  ac­
quire,  by  means  entirely  friendly  and 
mutually  beneficial,  a  paramount 
in­
fluence with them.  So shall  be  evolved 
an American policy for America,  and  to 
accomplish  this  without  entering  into 
entangling  alliances is a grand  problem 
of  statesmanship.

TION.

RESPONSIBILITIES  OF  ANNEXA­

Now that  it 

is  a  practically  settled 
thing that we are to annex the  Hawaiian 
islands,  it will  not  be  out  of  place  to 
speculate  upon  some  of  the  possible 
future  consequences  of  such  a  step. 
While it is true that in  absorbingHawaii 
the United States  annexes  but  a  paltry 
foreign State,  still, having acquired  pos­
session  practically  without  difficulty or 
protest,  the way has  been opened for  de­
signs upon  more important  acquisitions.
The people of Cuba to the  south of us, 
and those of Canada 
in  the  North,  are 
said to have a strong leaning toward  an­
nexation  to this country.  Either of these 
neighboring countries  is of  vastly  more 
importance than  little  Hawaii,  and both 
are already under the dominion of strong 
European  powers. 
is  not  probable 
that the annexation  of  either  could  be 
brought about as easily as  in the  case  of 
the Hawaiian  Islands,  nevertheless,  the 
tendency of the  times 
is  unmistakably 
towards the eventual  absorption  by  the 
United States of both Canada  and  Cuba: 
therefore it would be as well  to  prepare 
leisurely  both  to  meet  promptly  any 
opposition  that  might  be  encountered 
and to  protect  the  new  territory  when 
acquired.

It 

The work of constructing the new navy 
should,  therefore,  be  pushed  energetic­
ally,  and  the  preparations  which  have 
already  been  inaugurated in  the  way  of

providing adequate land defenses  should 
not be permitted to drag.  The Hawaiian 
Islands practically command  the  princi­
pal trade  routes  of  the  Pacific,  while 
Cuba  possesses  equal  ascendency  over 
the commerce  coming  into  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico and Caribbean Sea. 
In  the  case 
of trouble,  both  these island possessions, 
if in  the  hands  of  the  United  States, 
would have to be strongly protected,  and 
such protection could only be given  by  a 
large  fleet  capable  of  coping  with  the 
most powerful possessed by  the  leading 
European nations.

To successfully carry  out  a  policy  of 
annexation it will  be  necessary  for  the 
country to possess military strength  and 
equipment  of  the  first  order,  hence  it 
would be bad policy to delay for a  single 
year  the providing of these  facilities  as 
speedily as possible.

INJUNCTION  AGAINST  A  BOYCOTT.
Until recently it has  been  found  diffi­
cult  to  secure  through  the  courts  any 
relief  from  a  “boycott” or  combination 
to obstruct  and  damage the lawful  busi­
ness of  another, except  by  means of  an 
action  for  damages,  or  a  resort  to  the 
conspiracy  laws. 
In  1890  Congress  en­
acted a law against  combinations of  per­
sons  who  are  banded  together  for  the 
purpose of  monopolizing  or of  obstruct­
ing  and  restraining  trade. 
It  punishes 
persons  found  guilty with  fine  and  im­
prisonment,  and  exacts  triple  damages 
to  be  recovered  by  action  at  law.  A 
U.  S.  Circuit  Judge,  sitting  at  New 
Orleans, recently issued  an  order for  an 
injunction  against a combination of  per­
sons  who  had  induced  the  crew of  the 
British ship  Violante,  lying  at  anchor in 
that port,  to abandon  the vessel,  and had 
thereafter  prevented  the  ship  from  se­
curing a crew until the  court had  issued 
a restraining order in the case.

The injunction was issued pendente llte, 
because the case  has not  come  up on its 
merits,  through  which,  under  the  law, 
parties found  guilty may be subjected to 
fine and  imprisonment,  with  damages  in 
addition.  But the decision of  the court, 
establishing the right and  power to issue 
an injunction in  such  cases is of  the ut­
most importance. 
Its  effect  is to  put  a 
stop  to a boycott,  or  damaging  combina­
tion,  against  commerce,  pending 
the 
slow processes of  legal methods  for final 
adjustment,  and  it  furnishes  an  imme­
diate  preliminary  remedy  which  will 
prove of  the  greatest  value and  import­
ance.

The  questions  decided  by  the  New 
Orleans Judge are, in many of their bear­
ings,  entirely new,  and  are settled  upon 
principle  rather  than  by  precedent;  but 
the logic of the court seems unassailable. 
The discussion of all the relations of  the 
issues involved is very able and  interest­
ing,  and  the  right  to  issue a restraining 
order  against  such  combinations,  which 
was  really the  foremost  issue  involved, 
seems  most  conclusively settled.  This 
case  promises to establish  an  important 
precedent.

A bill has  been introduced  in the  Leg­
islature of this  State  providing  for  the 
inspection of food products.  The Michi­
gan  Fruit  Manufacturers Association  is 
chiefly responsible  for  its  introduction. 
The object is a good one,  but  Is  open  to 
the  same  abuse  which  characterizes  a 
similar law in  the State of  Ohio,  where, 
instead of the inspection  taking  place  at 
the  manufactories,  it  is  done  after  the

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j 

i 

article  reaches  the  retail  dealer.  Th 
retail dealers of this State  should  profit 
by the experience of their  Ohio  brethre- 
and take immediate  steps  to  secure  the  1  
I 
elimination of any objectionable features 
from  the  proposed  law.  Now  is  the 
/ 
time to act,  and not after the bill  has be-  L 
come a law.  We shall have more  to  say 
i 
concerning this matter  when a copy of the  I 
proposed measure  reaches us.
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l 

to  the  end  that  men 
less  then 

As will  be  noted  by  the  resolutions 
embodied in the report of the  last  meet- 
ing,  the  Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association  speaks 
in  no  uncertain 
sound on  the  McKinstry  dating-canned-  1 
goods-biil,  now  before  the  Legislature,  v 
In common  with all  classes  of  business  J 
men,  retail  grocers  discern  the  utter 
foolishness of  this  measure,  which  ap- 
pears to  have  been 
/ 
introduced  for  no 
other purpose than  to assist  in  prolong-  y* 
ing the  session, 
\ 
whose time at home is  worth 
l)
S3  per day,  may stay  in Lansing  as long  J 
as possible.
H ow   Mail  C lerks  A ssist  th e   M em ory. 
From the Philadelphia  Record.
The  railway  postal  clerks  have  a 
' 
unique method  for learning the routes on 
which postoffices  are  located.  Take for 
i 
example,  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  in 
which there are  over 5,000  offices.  The  j  
prospective mail distributor buys a quan-  J 
tity of blank cards—about the size of the 
ordinary visiting  card—and  on  each  of  * * 
these  he  writes  the  name of  an office.
the  back  of  the  card  he writes  «► 
On 
the  name  of 
the  route  by  which 
the 
office 
its  %  ■ 
is 
mail.  Taking in hand  a  pack of  these 
cards—say from 50  to 100—he  goes over  4  
them one after  another studiously,  look-  ^ 
ing at the  back  each  time  and  getting 
the name and route clearly  associated  in 
his  mind.  The  second  time  he  goes 
i k 
through the pack he finds that he  knows 
j 
the half  of  the  routes  by  reading  the 
It  is a dull  student  4 
name of  the office. 
who,'upon going over a pack  of  cards  a 
\  
|  
dozen 
them 
thoroughly.  The  method  is  so  simple 
] 
and such an aid to memorizing  that  it  is  J 
adopted by all  railway mail  clerks.  By  ’ ' 
it clerks have  been  known  to  memorize 
a State  like  Pennsylvania  inside of  two 
months.
large  routes  clerks  work but  -   • 
On  all 
half time,  the  other  half  being devoted 
to  rest  and  study.  The  mail  clerk  at 
j 
home,  continually  reminded  of  coming  * 
examinations,  carries his cards  wherever  a 
he goes,  conning  them over  at every op-  *  
portunity.  One  demonstrative  clerk on 
the New York and Pittsburgh R.  P.  O.  is 
* 
famed for  having  learned  the  State  of 
Ohio in four days.  As he shuffled over his  » » 
cards he  walked  from  garret  to  cellar, 
and  vice  versa,  from  dawn  until  the  4  1 
shades of  twilight  fell.  On  the  fourth 
day  he went to the  examiner’s  office and 
separated Ohio without an error.
It is related that  the  wife of  a postal 
clerk adopted  the  card  method  for  in-  V* 
creasing her  vocabulary in  French.  On 
¡1 
one  side  of  the  cards  she  wrote  the  y ♦ 
French  word and on the other the English 
' 
equivalent to be learned.  Another lady, 
i  
hearing  of this,  used  the  same  system 
successfully 
learning  mythology,  ^  
placing the  word  “Mars,”  for  instance, 
’ 
on one side of the card and  “ war” on the 
other.  The method  has so  many advau-  *  * 
tages  over  the old  and  tedious  way of 
learning from the pages  of a book that it 
might  be  utilized  with  advantage  by 
I 
teachers In search of new methods of im-  $ 
parting  instruction.

times,  does  not  know 

served 

with 

for 

i 

I had  rather  that one  fading  bud  of  ^  
kindly sympathy  were  laid  in the palm  <$1 
of my  living  band  than  that  my  coffin  * 
were shadowed by a pyramid of the cost­
liest  exotics  that  ever  burdened  with  ^4 
sickly fragrance the chamber of  death— 
1
J.  L.  Russell.

Knowledge  is  power,  but  the  power 
must be put In  motion by  character  and 
purpose.

J L Ü i ü   J M l U J b i l G r ^ L l S  

1 K A D E & A L A  N

JIM   ALLSPICE.

Jim  V isits  “ P a ra d ise .”  E x tram u n d an e 

vs.  R ealization.

W ritten to r The  Tkadesman.

After going to the  depot  for  the third 
time one night at Cadillac, 1 finally found ’ 
that the train north  would arrive  in ten | 
minutes. 
I thought I might as well wait. 
Such a night!  Sixteen below zero,  blow- j 
ing a gale,  with the snow  about two feet 
deep!  Finally,  with no 
little misgiving,
I boarded  the  train,  already  two hours j 
late,  wondering  if  we would  succeed  in  j 
getting through.  Securing a comfortable 
double seat  near  the  stove,  1  lighted  a 
fresh cigar and let  my thoughts  wander | 
homewards. 
I  could  picture  my  wife 
and  the baby tucked  away in  bed,  while 
the two “kids” were nestled down  under 
the clothes—with the  family  cat—in  an 
adjoining bed;  Jack,  my  faithful dog,  ly­
ing in the corner on his rug,  with one eye 
open,  keeping  watch  over  all  as  they 
slumbered,  while  I  was  doing  my best 
to make an extra night run on  this  cold, 
blustering night,  with the hopes of  sell­
ing a new stock  on the morrow.

All at once  the  brakeman  called out, 
“Paradise—twenty  minutes  for  a  hot 
lunch.  “Grasping my grips and other be­
longings, I made up  my mind  to take  in 
the new town.  The lunch  served at the 
dining  counter  was  superb—hot  oyster 
stew,  real Java coffee,  pure  solid  cream, 
fresh  laid  eggs,  golden  butter,  home­
made  bread  and  nice  flaky  doughnuts. 
The bill  of fare  was extensive,  the  price 
was way below the average, a nice,  clean, 
tidy lunch  counter,  with a good  mother­
ly  old lady  to  wait  on  and  cheer  you 
while filling up the inner  man.  My  im­
pression was so favorable that I conclud­
ed to wait and  make  the  town.  As  the 
train  rolled  on  northward,  1 lighted  a 
fresh  cigar  to  while  away  the  hour or 
so  before  daylight.  At  the  break  of 
dawn I hustled  to  the  hotel  for  break­
fast,  finding a most genial  landlord,  who 
served  a  fine  breakfast  a  la  carte. 
I 
never  shall  forget  that  plate  of  brown 
buckwheat  cakes,  with  genuine  maple 
syrup. 
I never thought I should be able 
to  eat  ’em,  but,  when I  had  put  away 
twelve,  I made up my mind  that the oth­
er  two  should  keep  company with  the
rest.

I  was  shown 
in  gold 

Aftqr  getting  the  points  of  the town 
from the clerk,  I found that  one leading 
firm in  my line did about all the business, 
besides being  almost  absolute owners  of 
the town and all adjoining them.  Grasp­
ing my  “black chums,” I sallied  forth to
make a sale and a new  customer,  if  pos­
sible.  Never had  1 made  the  acquaint­
ance of so agreeable a firm uor seen such 
pleasant  surroundings,  furnishings  and 
general taste  displayed  in  the  arrange­
ment of  stock,  nor  such  a good-looking 
and intelligent  set  of  bright,  tidy  em­
into  a  private 
ployes. 
room  marked 
letters  on 
the 
ground glass of the door,  “Private  Trav­
eling Men Only.”  On  entering I discov­
ered  several  original  and  tasty  signs 
hanging  about  thr  apartment,  reading 
thus: 
"Checks
Cashed;”  “No  Rebates  Expected;”  on  a 
closed 
particular. 
"Change  Your  Breath  Here.”  There 
was a fine center table oil  which  rested a 
register  with  the  notice  "Sign  Here;”  a 
complete  lavatory,  with  a  bright  young 
boy in  attendance  to  answer  questions 
and assist  in  opening  up  samples.  Fi­
nally,  the  buyer  put  in  an  appearance, 
and,  after mutual  explanations,  we start-

sideboard  one 

in 

“Money 

Loaned;” 

ed  iu  for  business  and  an  order. 
I 
found  him  fully  posted  as  to  markets 
and in regard to short  weights  aud  full 
packages  of  fish,  syrups,  etc.,  he  was 
“right  up.” 
I  was  quite  surprised  to 
find that  he had never  bought any goods 
in our city.  After  placing  a fine  order 
for him,  getting  in my  house  brands  of 
plug and  fine  cut tobaccoes,  can  baking 
powder  with  the  gift scheme  of  glass­
ware,  bootjacks,  stove lifters  and frying 
pans,  I called his attention to our Colum­
bus nickel cigar with  World’s  Fair  cou­
pons,  which  seemed to  strike  him  very 
favorably,  and he  placed  an  order for  a 
full case.  My order  so  far  had  been a 
general sort up,  with  a few  specialties I 
had. 
I could  not help  but  notice  1 had 
sold him  “Spear  Head,”  Arbuckle  and 
XXXX coffee full list price. 
I wondered 
at  it,  as  I had,  of  course,  expected  to 
give him  a rebate.

After closing  up  our  deal,  he  invited 
me to a sleighride,  which  1 was not slow 
to  accept.  In  a  casual  way,  I  found 
that  none of my  competitors  were mak­
ing the town,  and I solemnly vowed  that 
“mum”  should  be  the  word. 
I  would 
never give  the  new-fonud  “snap”  away. 
After driving about the  beautiful place, 
admiring  the  nice  broad  avenues,  ele­
gant residences,  etc.,  we  finally  landed 
at the depot.  Just then my  train  north 
putting  in  an  appearance,  1  bade  my 
new-found  friend  a  kind  farewell,  and, 
with a promise  to  return  "later  on,”  I 
boarded the train  in the best of  good  hu­
mor.  Planking myself in  the  regulation 
two seats, I lighted  a fresh cigar,  intend­
ing to have a good old smoke,  but, quiet­
ly dropped off in a gentle  doze.

How  long I  slept I  will  never  know, 
but,  all  at  once,  and  with  a  terrible 
thud as if  the  train  had  struck a stone 
pile,  I awoke in a dazed  condition.  The 
brakeman  passing  just  then,  I  fohnd 
that  we  were  at  Mancelona,  five  hours 
late,  road  blocked,  with  instructions  to 
abandon  the  train.  After  getting  my­
self stowed  away  at the  hotel, I discov­
ered that  I  had  a terrible  head  on  me, 
was feeling very  dry,  and  there was  an 
intimation from  the inside man as to  the 
prospects for  dinner.  Procuring the nec­
essary  “eye opener”  it put  me to think­
ing. 
I  had  been  on  the  road  all night. 
Whether  it  was  the  hot  coal  stove,  or 
those  hot  drinks  of  Swedish  punch  at 
“Yonny  Yobnson’s”  at  Cadillac,  that 
caused  my  terrible  headache  and  al­
so  sent  me  to  Paradise,  I  shall  never 
know;  but I shall never forget  the town, 
those buckwheat  cakes,  and  that splen­
did  order.  Persume  1  shall  have  to 
"hittee the  pipe”  in order  to  make the 
place again.  Whattee you think?

Jim  A l l spic e.

Notice to the Grocery Trade.

On account of the disastrous fire which 
destroyed our works  on  Feb.  4,  we  have 
been compelled to discontinue sending 10 
pounds of saleratus  free  with  each box, 
and the price,  until  further  notice,  will 
be b H   cents per pound,  60 pounds to the 
box.
I  State Agent Del and  ACo..Fairport, N. Y.
|  A  physician  having  visited a sick  lady 
! during a storm,  she expressed  concern at 
i  his  having  to  come so  far  in  such  bad 
| weather;  to  which  the doctor  unluckily 
replied: 
"O h,  madam,  I  have  another 
patient  in  this  neighborhood, and  by  that 
, means,  you  know,  1  kill  two birds  with 
j one  stone.”  "Doctor,  replied  the  lady, 
“ you  are  too  good  a shot  for  me," and 
■ dispensed  with  his  further  attendance.

A.  F.  P e a k e ,

THE  W.  BINGHAM  CD.,  Cleveland,  0.,

Have  had  such  battering  succes in handling our  Bicycles  that  they  have  bought 
our entire  output for  1893.  They have  taken up all  negotiations  pending for the 
purchase of  cycles, and we respectfully solicit for them the good will of our friends.

THE YOST MF’G. CO.,

TOLEDO,  OHIO.

It's  Cheap!
Not  Coal,  but

A l o l  a sse s.

We  bought at the  right  time and  will  give you the  benefit of 
our purchases.  We brand them

C^OLU  A  [EDA.L,

The quality  is right,  the  price is right,  and it’s dollars in your 
pocket to  handle them.

■ all  --------—
araihait
PutmanCo.

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

MANUFACTURERS  OF

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

T ea s, C offees  an d   G ro cers’  S u n d ries.

1  and 3 Pearl  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS

WALTER  BAKER  &  CO.’S  CHOCOLATE  PAVILION  AT  THE  WORLD’S  FAIR.

1 1

EATON, LYON & CO.’S
Stationeru

Full force of  travelers will soon 
be  out  with  complete] lines jof 
new goods In

—AND—

Sporting  Goods

20  &  22  MONROE  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

“rae  K en t.”

Directly Opposite Union Depot,

AMERICAN  PLAN
BATES, $2 PER DAY
STEAM  HEAT  AND  ELECTRIC  BELLS
FREE  BAGSAGE  TRANSFER  FROM  UNION
DEPOT.

BEACH  l  BOOTH,  Props.

Geo. H.  Reeder & Co.,

JOBBBR8  OP;

Boots  anil  Shoes,

Felt Boots and Alaska  Socks. 

State Agents for

188 Sc  160 Fulton 8t., Grand  Rapida.

Excelsior
B o l t s  
Wanted1

I 

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

JTJHOü  J N llC B C I G ^ N

Som e  P ra c tic a l  S u g g estio n s  for  C oun­

try   D ealers.

PAPER  I.

Written for T h b  T b a d b s h a n .

is 

Inasmuch  as  the  personnel  of 

this 
class  of  business  men 
constantly 
changing,  from  pear to  year,  a new grist 
of beginners going  into  the  hopper  of
mercantile  experience  perhaps 
faster 
than an equal number can  be  graduated 
by their own consent at the  usual  place 
of exit,  a few  hints  from  an  old-timer 
may  not  be  altogether  thrown  away. 
Though advice is,  at present,  the  cheap­
est article on the market,  that  very  fact 
may make what 1 have to offer acceptable 
to some  whose  belief 
is  that  only  in 
underbidding competitors lies the  secret 
of  making  money 
in  a  retail  traffic; 
where wholesale dealing connected  with 
a farmer’s  life has  hitherto  proved  un- 
remunerative.

With the most  who  start 

in  a  small 
way; remote from a large town, and with­
out any experience 
in  the  methods  of 
trade or the quality  of  goods  in  which 
they expect to deal,  is like taking a  leap 
in  the dark;  but  a  little  judicious  pre­
paration  will  go  a 
long  way  toward 
securing one  from  the  calamities  com­
mon to  oversanguine  and 
less  careful 
dealers.

The building and fixtures having  been 
provided,  and the question of  how much 
capital to  be  used  finally  determined, 
there comes the important one  of how to 
select and arrange the stock of  goods  to 
the  best  advantage.  Unless  one’s  in­
tuitions can  be  trusted  (which 
is  very 
seldom the case),  a  little  private  coach­
ing by a friend  well qualified  will be the 
next best thing.  In such a case, you may 
list,  and,  with 
take a wholesale  price 
reasonable  care,  make  out, 
in  proper 
proportions,  and so as not to  exceed  the 
amount to be  invested,  a  memorandum 
of what is needed. 
If no  such  help  be 
at  hand,  take  your  funds  to  the  city 
where reputable firms abound,  and,  hav­
ing carefully selected the one with  which 
you  wish to deal,  frankly state your con­
dition to the bead of the house,  together 
with  the amount of capital  you  wish  to 
invest on the  start,  also  the  fact  that 
this is your first  venture.  A  manly  be­
ginning like this  will  often  procure  a 
business friend who may  prove  of  im­
mense advantage to you 
in  the  future. 
Only  be sure of this one  thing—that  the 
first purchase comes within  the  limit  of 
cash in  hand.  No credit  should  ever be 
asked for or suggested on  the  first  bill. 
Even if the house shows a desire to make 
the  invoice  overbalance  your  present 
means,  firmly decline the favor.  With  a 
cash purchase of the  first  one.  you  can 
feel the satisfaction that comes of  doing 
business with your own  money,  and that 
knowledge will steady your  judgment in 
many  emergencies,  and  will  make  it 
easier to  strike  out 
into  deeper  water 
where you will need  to  keep  your  wits 
together.

The line of  goods you  start  in  with 
may not comprise a  very  large  variety, 
but this is rather an advantage,  since  it 
will make it easier  for  you  to  become 
intimately  acquainted  with your  stock. 
It will  surely  be  enough  to  test  the 
market,  and you  can  then  more  intelli­
gently extend  purchases  to  other  lines 
as the needs of  customers  develop.  Two 
or three errors into which some men  fail 
at first may be  mentioned 
in  this  con­
nection.  By  pretending  to  be  better 
posted on goods  and  prices  than  they

really are.  some  amateur  buyers  tempt 
the salesman who  assists  in  filling  the 
first order to an encounter  of wits which 
is found,  in  the outcome,  to be  decidedly 
unprofitable.  It is human nature in him, 
when dared,  to justify  his  knowledge of 
business,  which he is able and  likely  to 
do in a practical  way  not easily  resisted. 
No buyer need  feel that he  is humiliated 
by asking questions o n matters  concern­
ing his own interest.  The average sales­
man.  if treated  with  business  courtesy, 
will  drop  many  hints  that  are  both 
timely and  valuable to  the  first  buyer, 
and he who resents or fails  to  profit  by 
the m  is not wise;  but,  after  you  have 
been many years in  business  and  know 
the ropes as well as  he  does,  should  that 
same salesman call at your place and try 
to tell you how to run  your  business,  it 
will be  proper  to  give  him  the  quiet 
“shake,”  being assured that  your  judg­
ment about  what will sell  best  at  home 
is better  than  his.

Some  men make the  opposite  mistake 
of leaving,  without restriction,  the selec­
tion of stock  entirely  to  the  salesman. 
Hie naturally,  in  a spirit of loyalty,  gives 
the firm,  for  which  he works,  an  advan­
tage  by  unloading  on  the  unconscious 
buyer articles that are  bargains  for  the 
seller  only.  Besides,  he 
the 
limit agreed upon,  urging  the  plausible 
reason that it is  an  advantage  to  com­
mence with a full stock.

ignores 

The  first  purchase  having  been  duly 
completed,  and the invoice  fully  written 
and in  all  its details and placed  in  your 
hands, 
it  would  be  well  to  carefully 
study it while the  goods are on the  way, 
so as to get yourself familiar,  in advance, 
with the cost of  wares on  which you  are 
to  place a new  valuation.  For  want  of 
this  precaution,  many  dealers  make 
blunders 
that  are  mortifying  even 
for  a  beginner,  since  they  could  have 
been easily  avoided  by a slight  applica­
tion of  the elementary rules of  arithme­
tic.

Another error  often  made  is the fail­
ure to establish some  general  rule  with 
which to govern  yourself  in  fixing pric­
es.  No  horizontal  per  cent,  tariff  will 
answer in  any  line  of  goods.  Due re­
gard must be  given to  the  quality,  fre­
quency  of  demand,  amount  purchased 
and  the  loss  by shrinkage and in  hand­
ling.  Even  after  the  best  possible  ar­
rangement of prices is made,  it should be 
considered as  subject to  future revision, 
as experience shall more fully determine, 
in the interest of  all concerned.  Where 
a  store  has  already  preceded  the  uew 
venture,  the worst possible course to pur­
is  to  make  prices  competitive  at 
sue 
ouce,  without  regarding  the  element  of 
cost;  this is  much like shooting at a mark 
without  taking  aim,  trusting  to  luck  to 
hit something, 
in  this case,  something, 
at all  events,  is  sure  to be  hit;  but  the 
return fire soon provokes  more  bad  feel­
ing than good  sense  can heal  in months 
of  fair  trading.  One  who  thus  cuts 
prices on the  start below  ordinarily fair 
rates  because  he  is  unable  to  make  a 
scale  for  himself,  will  be a follower in­
stead  of  a  leader,  and  always  at  the 
mercy of the  whims of  his  competitors. 
If  he  thus  practically  allows  another 
dealer  to  set  prices  on  his  goods,  he 
might as well be an agent doing business 
for someone  else. 
If each  dealer would 
study  to  become  well  acquainted  with 
the practical details of his  business,  and 
how to adapt  them  to  the  needs  of  his 
special  locality,  there  would  be  fewer

J  W   F O X ,

Qraud  Rap ds, Mich.

■7'ivi practice.  Price 50 Cts.  Send for testi-tefe 

by  a  prominent  physician  in  regular 
monials. £ tn a  Co, Cd. Rapids,  Mich

F R A N K   H .  W H I T E ,

Manufacturer’s  Agent and  Jobber of

Brooms,  Washboards,  Wooden
Indurated  Pails  X  Tubs,

AND

Wooden  Rowls,  Clothespins  and  Rolling; 

Pin»,  step  Ladders,  W ashing  Ma­

chines, M arket, Bushel and De­

livery  Has  ets.  Building 

Paper, W rapping

Pape»-, S-cks, Twine  and  Stationery.

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

135  COURT  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

Buy
NEDIGOR’8 
WIFT 
ELLIN8 
HOES

MANUFACTURED  BY

SNEDICOR  &  HATHAWAY,

DETROIT,  MICH.

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

HEROLD-BERTSCH  SHOE  CO.,

BOOTS AND SHOES.

WHOLESALE

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

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

06869910

:  PANT 1 OVERALL CO.

331  E. MainoSt., Kalamazoo, Mich.

Chicago salesroom with Silverman & Opper, 

Corner  Monroe st. and Fifth ave.

Our specialties:  Pants from S7.50 to $1«  per doz. 
warranted  not  to  rip.  Shirts  from  $3 SO to  115 
per doz.  Spring line  now ready,  samples  sent 
ou approval.

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bushwhackers in  trade,  and  the results 
would  be  advantageous  to  customers  in 
general. 
In  fact,  there is no  advantage I 
for any  community in  having more  deal- ! 
ers competing for trade than  thau can  be j 
profitably  employed 
its 
needs,  because if  prices go  down in  the 
heat of  competition,  quality  goes  down 
in greater ratio,  which  means sure loss to 
the consumer.

in  supplying 

While  it  may  be  for the interest of  a 
beginner to  acquire a knowledge  of  the 
methods possessed  by other dealers, there 
is always a best  way to manage one’s own 
business;  and  this  best  way  can  be at­
tained by  practice  only,  and  it differs in 
many  respects  from theirs,  the same as 
no two  men  are perfectly  alike  in  form, 
features and  temperament.  The  surest 
way to build  up a lasting  and  profitable 
trade  is  to  start  as  you  can  hold  out, 
having 
by 
which  prices  will  be  governed,  and  al­
lowing no deviation therefrom  except  as 
the rules of trade  require.

system  well  digested 

a 

With goods on  the  shelves  neatly  ar­
ranged  and  priced,  the  next  thing  de­
sired is  to sell  them  at a fair profit. 
If 
there were no  such thing  as  credit,  this 
problem  would  be  much  simplified,  for 
one would  then have  only to  make sure 
of a certain average amount of sales each 
day  to  do  a  profitable  business;  but, 
since an  uncertain  proportion  of  goods 
must be sold on a longer or  shorter cred­
it,  and as the stock  must be  continually 
replaced as fast as  sold,  besides  meeting 
expenses and losses  out  of the  cash  col­
lections,  keeping store in a rural  district 
will  not  prove  to be  such a pastime  as 
some people would have us believe.

In another paper the  writer will  add a 
few more suggestions as to the best meth­
ods of conducting business.

S.  P.  W h it m a b s h .

To Fix Prices by Law.

From  the  Am erican  Artisan.

Nearly  approaching  the  programme 
of those who would  deliver  over the  in­
dustries to  government  management,  in 
points of  impracticability and  contempt 
for  human  liberty  of  action,  are  the 
ideas  of  certain  well-meaning  people 
who would correct every  abuse,  whether 
real or imaginary,  by  the  application  of 
a legislative  plaster.  To  this class—al­
though the number of dead  statutes upon 
the books should  be a perpetual reminder 
of the folly of  their  belief—a  legal  en­
actment  is  a  catholicon  whose efficacy 
they imagine to have  no limit.
One of  the  most  recent  examples  of 
this wrong-headedness  is furnished  by a 
member  of  the New York State Legisla­
ture  who has succeeded in  getting a bill 
passed to a third  reading  in  the Senate, 
w hose aim is to  checkmate  the  Heading 
coal trust  by  regulating  the transporta­
tion rate for coal  over  the  railways and 
also to  fix the  maximum  price at which 
the commodity  shall  be  sold  by the  re­
tailers.  The bill requires that the trans­
portation 
the  re­
tailers 
state  licenses,  and 
that these licenses  shall  name the  max 
imum rate of freight  and  the  maximum 
retail selling  price  to  consumers,  such 
rates  to  be  subject  to  revision  by  the 
railroad commissioners at stated periods. 
The highest figure which  is permitted to 
be charged  to  consumers  in  New  York 
and Brooklyn  for  coal  under the bill is 
$4.50 per  ton.
induced  the 
parent of this measure to  action is  clear 
enough and is one  with  which  we  have 
full  sympathy,  but  we  submit  that such 
a law  would be  unconstitutional and  ab­
surd  upon  its  face,  since it would create 
a precedent which might  be  followed  to ! 
the detriment of  every  business man  in 
the country. 
If the price  of coal  is to be 
regulated by law,  why not that of stoves, 
cutlery and tinware  also?  It is  folly  to 
answer that coal consumers in New York |

The  motive  which  has 

corporations  and 

take  out 

and  Brooklyn occupy  an  exceptional  po-! 
sitiou on  account  of the  coal  trust  and  j 
that such a radical  piece of legislation  is 
necessary in their  case,  while those who 
find  it necessary  to  buy  stoves  or  other 
articles suffer  no  such  injustice  at  the 
hands  of  manufacturers,  which  would 
make  the  passage  of  a similar  law ad­
visable in  other states.  Coal  is not  the 
only product  controlled  by  a  trust;  in­
deed, there  are  few  articles  of  general 
use,  either  natural  products  or  manu­
factured goods,  for  which  consumers  do 
not pay tribute in excess  of a fair  profit 
to a “combine” of  one kind  or  another. 
To do exact  justice  in  the  direction  in 
which this  bill  points  it  would  be  nec­
essary to pass a national  law as intricate 
and  voluminous  as  the  existing  tariff 
measure,  in  which all  the articles whose 
price is  inflated  by  unjust  combination 
among the manufacturers and  producers 
should  be separately set  down,  together 
with their "maximum”  rates as  adjusted 
by  a  paternal  government.  The 
time 
may come when  this  will  be  necessary. 
We do not think it  has arrived yet.
A  much easier and more  sensible  way 
to deal  with the  Reading  coal  question, 
and for that matter,  with every other  in­
justice which  has its birth  in  “combine” 
manipulations,  is to apply the legal rem­
edies already made anu  provided. 
If the 
national law has  proved  ineffectual how 
can any  real  good  be  expected  from  a 
merely local measure?

B rief  B usiness  M axim s.

D. T. M&llett in  Business.

If you would  establish credit,  first cre­
ate  a  confidence  in  your  honesty  and 
ability  with your creditor.
It is a common  fallacy  for everyone  to 
consider  his  neighbor’s  business  more 
congenial and profitable than  his own.
It is not the man  who  himself  accom­
plishes the most  work,  but  the one  who 
possesses the  faculty to use the ability of 
others  who attains the  broadest  success.
It is a wise man,  indeed,  who  so regu­
lates  his  affairs  as  to  judiciously  mix 
business and  recreation  to  the  prejudice 
of neither.
It is not how much a  man  sells nor the 
per cent, of profit  which  he makes  which 
determines  his  gains,  but  the  relation 
which the expenses bear to the  receipts.
The business  man without  enthusiasm 
is 
lacks 
like  a stove  without  fuel;  he 
the warmth of purpose necessary for suc­
cess.
The matter of economy is not to be de­
termined by the cost,  but by  the  results.
It  is  the  men  who  investigate  that 
progress;  the conditions of yesterday are 
seldom repeated.
The  one  end  of  business  is  to make 
money,  but  there  is a distinction  in  the 
means which involves character.
It is only ihe  really  bnsy man who can 
find time to attend  to the demands of oth­
ers for assistance.
It is only the men who best know their 
business who perceive  the limit of  their 
knowledge.
Money invested in  paying one’s  debts 
never fluctuates in value.

C risp  P hilosophy.

From Ram’s Horn.
A man with a bad  liver very often has 
a good heart.
If  the  tongue  could  kill,  not  many 
would  live to old  age.
The  man  who  picks  his  own  cross 
never gets the right one.
The easiest  thing  for a loafer to do  is 
to find fault with  busy people.
When  people are hired to be good they 
quit work as soon as the pay  stops.
The diamond has the more sparkle,  but 
window glass does the more  good.
The trouble with people  who can  talk 
is that they are apt to say too much.
Undertake  to  prove  that  there  is no 
hell  and every mean  man  will throw up 
his bat.
in  heaven  how  much  re­
ligion  the rich  have by the way they treat 
poor folks.
The  world  is full  of  lion  fighters, but 
it is hard  to  find  people  who  won’t  run  j 
from  a  hornet
If you have the wrong  kind  of religion 
in  the  street  cars,  you  don’t  have  the 
right kind  at church.

They  know 

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

4  M on roe  S t ,

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

We Lead in Reduced Prices.

°nr Mott"!" New Styles.”
W E  CARRY  a  full  line  of  all  patterns  of 
Ladies'  and  Gents’  Bicycles,  and  can 
supply at once upon receipt of order.

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

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

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

W illiam  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.  William  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 ichael  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 .

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

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

The BREAD
R aiser

SUPPLANTS BAKING POWDER
Fosfon Chemical Co., Detroit, M ichigan.

SOLD  BY ALL RELIABLE  GROCERS.

HENRY  8.  ROBINSON. 

RICHARD  G.  ELLIOTT.

M anufacturéis  and  Wholesale Dealers In

Robinson AND Company-
BOOTS,  SHOES  and  RUBBERS
JDetroit,  Mich.

99, 101, 103,105 Jefferson Ave.,

State Agents for the Pandee Rubber Co.

T H E   MTCTïm^SJNT  TEADESM AN

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

Official  Organ—Mic h ig a n  T r a d e sm a n.

Jackson  Grocers’  Union.

President,  D. S. Fleming; Sec’y, O. C. Leach.

Grand  Haven  Retail  Grocers’  Association. 
President, John Boer; Secretary, Peter VerDnin.
G rand  R aoids  R etail  G ro cers’ A sso cia­

tion.

At the  regular  meeting of  the Retail Grocers’ 
Association, held at Protective Brotherhood hall 
on  Monday evening, Feb.  20, the  application  of 
Fred W. Fuller, grocer  at  143  Livingston  street, 
was  received  and  accepted  and the  applicant 
elected to membership.

The special Committees on  Flour  and  Roll of 
Honor were  not  ready to report  and were  given 
until the next meeting.
Chairman  Herrick, of  the  special  Committee 
on  Municipal  Affairs  presented  the  following 
report:
Your  Committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the 
matter of  procedure at the  coming  spring  elec 
tion, begs to report the following:
1.  That a committee of three be named in each 
ward to confer with  those desiring  the  position 
of  alderman, to  ascertain if  they are  willing  to 
pledge  themselves  to  protect  the  interests  of 
those who are paying high  rents, and are  other­
wise  under  heavy expense in  doing their  busi 
ness, by collecting a yearly tax  against  the  ped­
dler who comes without expense, such tax to be 
collected  in  full  the  1st of  May of  each  year, 
such  committee being composed of  members of 
the Association, regardless of  party affiliation.
2.  That a like committee of  three be appointed 
to  confer in like  manner with the  nominees for 
Mayor, with  the  same  support  from  the  Asso­
ciation.
3.  That  the  Association  make  a  schedule  of
licenses and present same to the Mayor elect and 
the  new  Council  for  their  consideration  and 
adoption. 

E. J  Herrick,
D. V ie r iu v e r , 

Committee.

The  report was  accepted, and  the  Committee 
was  instructed  to  pursue  the  subject  further 
and make  further reports  thereon from  time to 
time.

The  President  was  instructed  to  appoint  a 
committee of three to see  the  Mayor, and  also a 
committee of three from each ward to interview 
the nominees for office at the spring election.

A. Brink, chairman of the special Committee on 
Oil,  reported  that  Scofield, Schurmer &  Teagle 
offered to discontinue  the peddling of  oil in the 
city if  the  Standard Oil  Co. would do the same. 
The  Committee  had  been  unable  to  meet  Mr. 
Bonnell, in  consequence  of  which  the  matter 
was recommitted  for  further consideration  and 
subsequent report.
The following communication from Mr. Lemon 
was read and accepted:
G r a n d   R <f i d s , Feb. 20—I must attend a board 
meeting, this  evening, and  this will  prevent my 
meeting my brethren of  the  retail  grocery  craft 
at their meeting  to-night;  but I hope  to be with 
you at your  April  meeting.  Please  present my 
apology and excuses and assurances of my high­
est  regard for  the welfare of  the Grocers' Asso­
ciation. 

Yours truly,

S  M.  L em on.

Letters  were  also  received  from  the  Retail 
Grocers’ Associations of Grand Haven and Jack 
son, heartily approving the idea of a State league 
and  offering to  send  delegates  to a convention 
whenever same is called.

E. B. Fisher, editor  of  the  Daily  Eagle,  then 
addressed  the  meeting at  some  length  on  the 
subject of  his recent voyage  from  New York to 
the Windward Islands and return.  The address 
was  the  most  Interesting  and  instructive  talk 
ever given  the Association  and-was  heartily en­
joyed  by  everyone  present.  T h e  T r a d e s m a n  
regrets  that it is not able  to  present a verbatim 
report of  the  talk, as it was  full  of  interesting 
statements  concerning  both  sea and  land.  At 
the  conclusion  of  the  address, Mr. Fishei  was 
given a rising vote of thanks.

William  K. Munson,  Secretary  of  the  Graud 
Rapids  Fruit  Growers’  Association,  was  also 
present  to  address  the  meeting, but  consented 
to postpone  his address  until the  next  meeting, 
when  the  peddling question  will  be the special 
order of business.

E. A. Stowe  introduced  the  following resolu­
tion, which was unanimously adopted:
Whereas,  A  bill  has  been  introduced in the 
Michigan  Legislature,  making  it obligatory  for 
manufacturers of canned goods to place the date 
of the packing of their goods on  each can ;  and
W h e r e a s,  We  consider  such  a  law  entirely 
unnecessary, as it is based  on the  false assump­
tion  that  all  hermetically sealed canned  goods 
deteriorate with age;  therefore
Resolved,  That  we  oppose  such a measure  in 
all honorable ways and request our Senators and 
Representatives  to  work  and  vote  against  its 
adoption.
On  motion of  Mr. Herrick, the  Secretary  was 
instructed  to  issue a call  to  the  grocers of  the 
State  to meet  at Grand  Rapids on  March  15, for 
the  purpose  of  forming a State  league, to  take 
up  the  work  of  organization  where  the  local 
associations leaves off and carry it forward.

E. White called attention to the  closing of  the

grocery stores  one  afternoon  in the  week.  He 
said that such a custom  was in  vogue in Europe 
and  he saw no reason why it should not become 
equally popular In America.  While the laboring 
man  is  clamoring  for  an  eight  hour  working 
day,  the  grocer  is  expected  to  keep  his  store 
open, at least  twelve  hours a day.  Such  a  dis­
crimination is wrong in intent  and  purpose and 
the time is not far  distant when a proposition to' 
establish  a  half  holiday  will  be  greeted with 
something besides  smiles.
The  recent  advance in  the  price  of  tin  foil 
compressed  yeast was then  introduced through 
the medium of  the question  box  and  provoked 
a  lively discussion,  the  general  opinion  being 
that the price is now about right, although Peter 
Schuit—who is  never  entirely happy  unless  he 
smells  a  banquet  in  the  distance—thought  9 
cents  profit on  24 cents in sales  was  altogether 
too much  profit—that It cents  profit  on 36 cents 
in sales was about right.

There  being  no  further  business the meeting 

adjourned.

Yours truly,

A n o th er V oice from  G rand H aven.
G ran d  H a v en, Feb.  23—We, as Grand  Haven 
merchants, feel  deeply interested in the  Idea  of 
trying to get  the exemption  laws  revised  and I 
think it is about  time that  steps  were  taken  in 
that direction—the sooner  the  better.  If  it can 
be accomplished, it will  be of  great value to the 
retail merchants.  There  is  not a dealer in  the 
land  who  has  as  little  protection as  the  retail 
merchants  in  our  exemption  laws, and I think 
every retail  merchant in the  State  ought to feel 
interested in the  movement.  We  also  ought to 
have the support of  every jobber, as It would  be 
the means of  putting  the  retail  merchants in a 
better and healthier financial condition.
We  have  had  a  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
here  tor  nearly a year  and are  receiving  daily 
benefits  from the  movement.  We  have  a  uni­
form  price, which  prevents us from  selling our 
goods  at a sacrifice  and  also  protects us  from 
dead-beats  and  those  who  are  slow  and  not 
worthy of  credit.  The  Association  is a grand 
success and is doing  more  good  than  any other 
organization we have ever had, as it creates bet­
ter feeling, larger  profits and less losses in busi 
ness.
Hoping the  movement  toward  the  revision of 
the exemption  laws will  be  pushed and  made a 
success, I remain

J. B a l l .
The  Fam ily  M ust  H ave  B racelets.
Around  a small  basket 

in  a  crowded 
store,  a mob of  women  were  clutching 
and clawing like the  proverbial  wolves 
over a coveted  bone.  Handsomely attired 
women  were engaged  in  a hand-to-hand 
scuttle  with  those  wearing  shawls  over 
their heads;  waves of  women  poured  in 
from all sides, only  to  be  repulsed  by 
those nearest the  counter.  The  Charge 
of the Light Brigade was  child’s  play  in 
comparison  to  this  struggle.  Tall  wo­
men reached  frantically  over  the  heads 
of those in  front  of them.  Short women 
stooped and dodged 
like  the  small boy 
under a circus tent; every one struggling 
to get their hands  into  that little  basket 
at the same time;  and  for what?  Nothing 
but a  little 
imitation  garnet  and  tur­
quoise bracelet,  sold at  other  stores  for 
fifteen  cents,  which  this  enterprising 
firm was offering them for a  nickel.  And 
this was the prize for which women  with 
immortal souls  were engaging in  this dis­
graceful  skirmish. 
Suddenly  an  old 
woman  of  Irish  persuasion  and  Dutch 
decent sprang into  the  thickest  of  the 
fight; she was  like a  war  horse  smelling 
the battle from afar.  Using her knuckles 
and  elbows  to  good  advantage, 
she 
rapidly worked  her  way  to  the  front. 
Just as she was  making her last  furious 
onslaught on the ranks  ahead  of  her,  a 
floor-walker,  who had  been  watching the 
affair,  touched  her on the shoulder.  The 
whole wriggling mass stood  still,  and he 
said authoritatively:

“Madam,  wait your turn.”
She  turned,  her  old  wrinkled  face 
aflame with passion and her dim old eyes 
full of  the  fire  of  conquest,  and  ex­
claimed:
“If I wait my turn  there won’t  be any 
left for me,  for there are  mighty few  of 
them,  anyway.”
“Well,”  he replied,  “there  are  more 
than you’ll want to  buy.”
She faced him  wrathfully.  “How  do 
you  know  what 1 want. 
I know my own 
business  best,  and I’m  going to have ten 
pairs  of  those  bracelets  for  my  own 
family,  and maybe I’ll get  some  for  my 
neighbors.”

M ichigan B o ard  o f  P h arm acy .

Detr o it,  Feb.  1—A  meeting  of  the 
Michigan  Board  of  Pharmacy,  Jor  the 
purpose  of  examining  ocandidates  for

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registration,  will  be held at  Grand  Rap­
ids,  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  March  7 
and 8,  1893.
The  examination  of  both  Registered 
Pharmacists  and  Assistants  will  com­
mence on Tuesday at 9  o’clock  a.  m.,  at 
which hour all candidates will please  re­
port at  the  lecture  room  of  Hartman’s 
hall, corner  Fountain  and  Ionia streets.
The  examination  for  registration  for 
all candidates  will occupy  two days.
Owing to the action of  the  last  Legis­
lature,  which  caused  the  Railway Asso­
ciation of  Michigan  to change  its  rules 
relative to reduced rates  for  assemblies, 
special  railroad  rates  for  this  meeting 
cannot be secured.
Parties  who  are  going  from  Detroit 
should leave their names with me,as,if ten 
go,  a special rate of $6 for round trip can 
be secured.  Yours respectfully,

J am es V ernor, Sec’y.

B o a rd ers E a t Them.

A  New  York  paper  thinks  that the 
American  appetite  for  prunes  must  be 
developing rapidly,  because the importa­
tion  of this  fruit  has increased so much 
of late.  Last  year  the imports amount­
ed to 22,000,000 pounds,  against 7,000,000 
the  year  before.  The  probability 
is, 
however,  that this  increase  of  importa­
tion is  in  anticipation  of  the demand  at 
Chicago during the  world’s fair. 
It  is  a 
well-known  fact  that  prunes  make  a 
cheap  and healthy diet to  feed  boarders 
on.

GZ2T S S 2TG  H O O T .

W e pay th e h ig h est p rice fo r it.  Addreie

DPPITT  D D flQ   Wholesale Druggists 
L JLiU B l  D I IU O m  GRAND  RAP1D8

PRODUCE  MARKET,

Appels—Russets  command  $3.50  per bbl  and 
Baldwins and  Spys  $2.75®$3, according to qual­
ity.

Beans—Buyers now  pay $1.60®$1.85;for  coun­
try picked, holding  city  picked at  $1.90 @ $2.10 
per bu.
Butter—Quiet and lower.  Dealers  pay 20c for 
choice  dairy,  holding  at  22c.  Creamery com­
mands 25®26c.

Cabbage—$1 per doz., and scarce at that.
Celery—18@20e per doz. bunches.
Cider—13® 15c 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 been  without  particu­
lar change during the  past  week,  dealers  now 
paying  lSggOc  and  holding  at  22c.  A  few 
warming days would send the  price down 2@3c 
per doz.

Green Stuff—Grand  Rapids  forcing  lettuce Is 
In adequate supply at 18c per lb.  Pieplant comes 
into market  this  week at 4c 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 $1.25  and  hold 

at $1.50 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 ontside  buying points.  It  is 
the general opinion  among  large  dealers  that 
the advent of warm  weather  will tend to lower 
the price for  a  time,  due to  the  anxiety  with 
which many  handlers  will  rush  potatoes  into 
the market, producing  a  glutted  condition.

Squash—So scarce  that  it is practically out of 

market.

Turnips—35c per bu

See  th a t  this  Label  appears 
on  every ^package,  as  it  is  a 
guarantee  of the  genuine a r­
ticle.

^CHICAGO

FERMENTUM
COMPRESSED YEAST

The  Only Reliable

in  i s   market  tor  ttie  oast  Fifteen  Tears.

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

JOHN  SMYTH,  Agent  Grand  Rapids,  Mich,

Telephone  566.

See  th at  this  Label  appears 
on  every  package, as  it  Is  a 
ol  ,h«  *•»■ »»«

^CHICAGO

106  Kent St.

> ^ W 1 F N T Î Î S . 

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P E R K IN 'S   «&
H E S S
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  128  and  184  LOUIS STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USB.

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Drugs  Medicines*

State  Board  of Pharm acy. 

One  Year—James Vernor, Detroit.
Two  Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor 
Three  Years—Oeorjce Oundrnm, Ionia.
Four Years—C. A. Bugrbee. Cheboygan.
Five Years—8. E. Parkill, Owosso. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit..
Treasurer—Geo. Gandrnm, Ionia.____ _

M ichigan State  P h a r m a c e u t ic a l  A u ’n. 
President—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
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.  Q.  Coleman,  Kalamazoo; 
Jacob Jesson, Muskegon:  F.  J.  Wurzburg  and  John 
E. Peck. Grand Rapids;  Arthur Bassett,  Detroit. 
Local Secretary—James Vernor.
Next  place  of  meeting—Some  resort  on  St.  Clair 
River;  time to be designated by Executive Committee.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President, John D. Muir;  Sec’y, Frank H. Escott.

W ho W as It?  P eck.

[The  severe  storms  incident  to  the  present 
winter  season  lias  made  traveling  very  uncer 
tain, and  commercial  travelers  have  had  great 
difficulty  in  reaching  their customers on sched­
ule time.  A.  W. Peck,  traveling  representative 
for  the  Hazel tine & Perkins  Drug  Co., recently 
found  the  following  attempt at rhythmic  com 
position  pinned to his  advance card in the store 
of one of his customers.!

date, February third.5' ’
word? 

Who was It that, in days gone by,
Did our pills and salts supply.
And on whom for more we did rely?
Peck.
Who was it that  by mail did send 
A card, and on thereon he did append, 
‘'Hang  me  up and  keep  your  eye on  the 
And  from  whom I’ve  not  since  heard  a 
Peck.
Who was it that by mail did us notify 
That on him we could relv,
But told  us a d---- n big lie?
Who will take the blame, If one should die 
For want of medicine, bye and bye,
And to the land of sheol’go 
Into that clime so free from snow,
And say, “ ’Twas for the want of pills 
That he succumbed to mortal ills?
Peck.

P e c k .

The W o rld  a s  It M ay S eem   to  D ifferent 

Eyes.

W ritten  for The Tradesman.

in 

If we should  ask  an  astronomer what 
his idea of the world was, we would  very 
likely receive a reply something like this: 
“The planet or body on which we live, oc­
cupying in the solar system the third place 
in order of distance from,  and taking 365 
days to move  through  its  fixed  path  or 
orbit around,  the  sun,  revolving  on  its 
axis  once 
It 
has but  one  satellite,  the  moon,  which 
takes twenty-eight  days  for  its  revolu­
tion  around  the  earth.”  And  so  his 
answer might go on  indefinitely.  *

twenty-four  hours. 

One who made a specialty of the  study 
of geography in  all  its  branches  would 
tell us that the  world was the  surface  of 
the globe  or  planet  on  which  we  live, 
and would give  the  numerous  divisions 
and the peoples inhabiting  the same.

constitute  each  one’s 

But there are other  ways  of looking at 
the world  than these, although the above 
may be the most  real.  That  part of  the 
country,  and the  people  we  know or  In 
whom  we are the most  interested,  gener­
ally 
individual 
world.  Again, to  each  of  us  the world 
presents  a different  phase.  To  one  it 
brings  glorious  pictures  of  honor  and 
renown;  to another  riches  as  a  reward 
of past and  future  work,  while  to some 
it seems a very humdrum  kind of  a place 
where we  arise  morning  after  morning 
and  go through  the same  weary  routine 
with nothing to  break the monotony  un­
til the  Creator,  in  his  wisdom,  makes  a 
most decided change by taking one or an­
other of our  companions  into  the Great 
Beyond.  Sometimes  as  we  go  our way 
day by  day,  a face we  have  not  seen  in 
years,  nor  thought 
it  anywhere  near, 
will startle and carry us  back to  what is 
an entirely different world.  What a  dif­
ferent country  will come  before us,  and 
how bright the world seemed back  in that 
past  where  the  face  belongs!  One  by 
one  the  memories surge around  us,  and 
we are,  if not children,  still  very  young

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

again, with our  plans laid to be or to  do 
this or that great thing.  Slowly the illus­
ion  fades and  we find  ourselves back  in 
our  everyday life with its  duties and its 
pleasures,  its sorrows and its joys. 

Thomas Moore says:

For man’s illusion given;

“This world is all a fleeting show 
The smiles of joy, the  teare of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow—

There’s nothing true but  Heaven.’’ 

A nother poet says:

“This is a very good world that we live in,
To lend, to spend  and to give in ;
But to borrow, or beg, or get a man's  own—
’Tis the very worst world that ever was known.”

And  still  another:

“The  world  is a comedy  to  those  who  think— 
A tragedy to those who  feel.”
From things  seen  and heard,  I am  in­
clined  to think  that  many  believe  what 
is told  in  the  second  quotation.  Maybe 
if we should all  try  to live by  the Golden 
Rule,  this world  would  be  brighter and 
pleasanter for each  and every one of  us.

A.  L.  I.

Q ueer O rd ers  R eceived  b y  a  D ru g g ist.
D.  D.  Turner,  of  Fairbault,  Minn., 
furnishes  the  Pharmaceutical  Era with 
the  following  queer orders  received  by 
him  at  different  times  during  the  past 
half dozen years:

M. D.

Acobole (Alcohol).
Alcboil  (Alcohol).
Alchol  (Alcohol).
Alkahal  (Alcohol).
Alkohoil  (Alcohol).
Catagory  (Cuticura).
Tanery  (Tannin).
Red cipic.
Husbun Ca. Gine  Magnicy.
Glisserean  (Glycerine,  written  by  an 
Sulfuic Asic.
Dear Sir  will you  please send  me  one 
bottle off  James  Ins»,ecter  in clare you. 
Fine $100.

1  lb can of Burt Cennah.
4 ocs sconk Root.
One ocs apson soles.
One onz  meritasid.
One onz selfpuriceasid.
10c of sephern  tea.
Crese Suplyment.
Gross supplement.
Cresont Sublimat.
1 Box  Ensect powder  and  one tin ma­
chine for using it.
Mr.  Dearser Pies sen one D.  St.  Gacobs 
Oil 375 one  Doisen  Pinkelers  180 at hol- 
saile.

Gream Tartar and Sulver.
10c Gum  Straticum.
Read picipet.
Acafortis.
Belidolian  (Belladonna).
Arnecky.
Beldonia.
Bicarnate of Potash.
Colizboligascons  (Carbolic Acid).
10c of Sulfer.
10c of Mustird.
Sheponica.

The  B est  T obacco  P ouch.

From the St.  Louis  Globe-Democrat.

The best tobacco bags are made  not of 
leather or rubber,  but of the  pouch  of a 
pelican.  The  monstrous  membrane 
which fills out the lower bill of the  peli­
can is soft and thin, of very fine texture, 
easily tanned,  and,  when  dressed,  makes 
a beautiful article of leather,  possessing 
the  quality of  being  as  impervious  to 
water as India  rubber.  Tobacco kept in 
it will never become dry,  but  retains its 
sweetness and aroma  even 
longer  than 
when  preserved 
foil. 
the 
southern  seaboard  States 
its  value  is 
well  understood,  and  tobacco  pouches 
made of it are  very common.

in  tin 

In 

Bliss in  Ignorance.

From the Indianapolis  Journal.

Jungerman—When I  marry,  the  very 
first thing I mean to  do  is  to  settle  the 
question as to who is boss.
Altman—I’d advise you not to.  You’ll 
find yourself a sight better off by  remain­
ing in ignorance.

A bargain  is  not a good  one  when  it 
has a  best end  which another  man  gets.

PYRAMID  PILE  EURE,

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

From  J.  W.  Waddell,  Zulla,  Va.—I  am a cured  man. 

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

.A n y  druggist  will  gel  it for you

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

INDUCEMENT

TO  THE

IR.e x .a .ixj 

ID:R-crcH3-isxs
AMD

S t o k e s .

Do  Yoif  Sell

DIAMOND  TEH?

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

DIAMOND TEA CO.,

DETROIT,  MICH.

Diamond  Tea is sold  by all whole­

sale druggists.

Empress  Josephine Face Bleach

Is the only reliable cure for 

freckles and pimples.

HAZXXTINE  St  PERKINS  DRUG  CO., 

Gb a n b  R a p id s,  Mich.,

Jobbers for Western Michigan.

MICHIGAN

Fire & Hariiie Insurance Go

O rg a n iz e d   1 8 8 1 .

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN,

L a   Grippe

may attack but cannot overcome those protected 

by frequent use of

CUSHMAN’S
|Henthol Inhaler,

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.  8. A.

A tlas  S oap

Is Manufactured 

only  by

HENRY  PASSOLT, 

Saginaw,  Mich.

For general'laundry and  family 

washing  purposes.

Only brand of first-class laundry 

soap manufactured in the 

Saginaw  Valley.

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

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

1Ö

Wholesale Price Current•
Advanced—Chlorate potash, gum kino.  Declined—Gum arable.

“ 

“ 

7C©1  95
Morphia,  S. P. &W...1 
S. N.  Y.  Q. &
60©1 85 
C. C o.......................1
©  40 
Moschus Canton........
Myrlstlca, No. 1.........
65©  70 
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..
©  10 
20®  22
Os.  Sepia....................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
©2 00
Plcls Liq, N.»C., V\ gai
doz  .........................
© 2  00 
Plcls Liq., quarts......
© 1  00 
pints.........
©  85 
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80).. 
©  50 ©  1 
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..
Piper Alba, (po g5)__
©  3 
Pix Burgun...............
©  7
Plumbl A cet..............
14®  15 
10@1  20
Pulvls Ipecac et opil. .1 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H 
&P. D.  Co., doz......
@1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30©  35
Quasslae....................  8©  10
Qulnla, S. P. <6 W......   27©  32
S.  German.... 19)4©  33
Rubia  Tinctorum......   12®  14
SaccharumLactispv.  23©  25
Salacln.......................1  75@1  80
Sanguis  Draconis......   40©  50
Sapo,  W......................  12©  14
,T  M.......................  10©  12
“  G.............  
©  15

“ 

 

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

OILS.

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

“ 

paints. 

55
Llndseed,  boiled__   52 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
85
80 
strained...............  
Spirits Turpentine__  40)4  45
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian............. 144  2@8
Ochre,yellow  Mars... 144  2®4
“ 
Ber........1J£  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2)4 2)4@3
“  strictly  pure..... 2)4  2M@3
VermHlon Prime Amer­
13®16
 
ican ..................  
Vermilion,  English__ 
65@70
Green,  Peninsular......  
70®75
Lead,  red....................  624@7
“  w hite............... 634@7
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff..........................  
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1*4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
Paints.................... 1 00@1  20
VABNISHBS.

No. 1 Turp  Coach__1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................160@1  70
Coach Body.............. 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Fum .......1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  56@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp......................... 
70®75

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils ^  Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole A gents for the Celebrated

SWISS  VILLA  PREPARED  PÄINT8.

Foil  Line of  Staile  Dnsists’  Sullies.

We are Sole P roprietors of

Weatherly's  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

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

WHISKIES,  BRANDIES,

GINS,  WINES,  RUMS,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,

ACIDUM.
Acetlcum.................
8©  10
Benzoicum  German.
65©  75
20
Boracic 
..................
Carbolicum .  ...........
27©  36
50©  52
Citricum...................
Hydrochlor..............
3©  5
10©  12
Nltrocum 
...............
Oxalicum.................
10®  12
Phosphoiium dll......
20
Salicÿllcum.............. 1  30© 1 70
Sulphuricum............
IK©  5
Tannlcum................. 1  40@1  60
30®  33
Tartaricum................
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg..............
20  deg............
Carbonas  .................
Chlorldum.................

3)4©  5
5)4©  7
12©  14
12©  14

" 

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

SACCAIE.
Cubeae (po  50)........
Juníperas  .................
Xantnoxylum.  .........
BALSAMUM.

50®  55
8©  10
25©  30

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

CORTEX.

........  18
Abies,  Canadian__  .
........  11
Casslae  ......................
Cinchona F la v a ........ ........  18
Euonymus  atropurp.. ........  30
Myrlc'a  Cerifera,po... ........  20
Primus Virgin!........... ........  12
Quill ala,  grd.............. ........  10
Sassafras  ................... ........  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15) ........  15

SXTRACTUM.
24©  25
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra... 
33®  35
po...........
“ 
Haematox, 15 lb. box.. 11©  12
13®  14
“ 
Is........  ...
14©  15
)4S............
“  
16©  17
“  Ms............
FERRU

©  15
Carbonate Preclp........
Citrate and Quinta — ©3 50
©  80
Citrate  Soluble  .........
Ferrocyanldum Sol — ©  50
Solut  Chloride........... @  15
.9©  2
Sulphate,  com’l .........
©  7
pure............

u 

FLORA.

FOLIA.

18©  20
Arnica.......................
Anthémis................... 30©  35
40©  50
Matricaria 
......

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“ 
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11 
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GUMMI.

45@1  GO
25©  28
35©  50
15©  25
8©  10

Barosma 
..................
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-
nivelly........  .........
Alx.
Salvia  officinalis,  )4s
and  )4s....................
Ura Ursl 
...................
Acacia,  1st  picked— ©  75
.... @  45
2d 
©  30
3d 
....
©  25
sifted sorts.
p o ................. 60©  SO
Aloe.  Barb, (po. 60)... 50©  60
©  12
“  Cape, (po.  20)...
©  50
Socotrl, (po.  60).
Catechu, Is, 04s, 14 )4b,
©  1
16)............................
55©  60
Ammonlae.................
30©  35
Assafcetlda, (po. 35)..
50©  55
Bensalnum.................
55®  58
Camphors..................
Euphorblum  po  ........ 35©  10 
@2 50
Gaibanum..................
Gamboge,  po.............. 70©  7b
©  25
Gualacum, (po  30)  ...
Kino,  (po  1  10)......... @1  15
©  80
Mastic.......................
©  40
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........
Opil  (po  3 0D)........... Ì  25@2 30
30©  38
Shellac  ..  .................
bleached......
33©  35
Tragacanth ................ 40© 1 00

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HKBBA—In ounce packages.

Absinthium................................  25
Eupatorium.................. ___  20
Lobelia..........................___  25
Major a m ......................................  28
Mentha  Piperita.......... ......  23
....  26
"  V lr.................
Rue............................... ......  80
Tanacetum, V ...............
Thymus,  V .....................................  25
MAGNESIA.
55©  60
Calcined, Pat...................
20©  22
Carbonate,  Pat...............
Carbonate, K. &  M — 20©  25
Carbonate, Jennings.. 35©  36

OLEUM.

Absinthium......................3 50@4 00
45©  75
Amygdalae, Dulc_____
Amyaalae, Amarae— 8 00@8 25
Anlsl.....................................1 75@1  85
Aurantl  Cortex............2 40@2 50
Bergamll  ..........................3 25@3 50
Cajiputl............................
60©  65
CaryophyUl...................... 85©  90
Cedar  ................................... 35©  65
Chenopodll...................... @1 60
Cinnamon!!......................1 00@1  10
Cltronella..........................
©  45
Coni urn  Mac.................... 35©  66
Copaiba  ............................
90@1 00

© 4 00
2 50©2 75
3 25@2 50 
2 00@2  10
©  75 
75©  85 
2  10@2 20 
50@2 00 
90@2 00 
2 50@3 CO 
2 75@3 50 
2 20©2 30 
1 00©1  10

Cubebae....................
•Exechthltos..............
Erlgeron....................
Gaultheria.................
Geranium,  ounce......
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal......
Hedeoma  ..................
Junlperl......................
Lavendula.................
Limonls.....................
Mentha Piper..............
Mentha Verid............
Morrhuae, gal............
Myrcla, ounce............
Olive..........................
Plcls Liquida, (gal. 35)
10©  12 
Ricini.......................
1  22© 1  28 
75@1  00 
Rosmarini............
Rosae, ounce..............
6 50@8 50 
Succlnl.......................
40©  45 
Sabina.......................
90@1  00 
Santal  .......................
3 50©7 00 
Sassafras....................
50©  55 
Slnapls, ess, ounce__
©  65 
Tiglii.............................
©  90 
Thyme.......................
40©  50 
o p t.................
©  60 
15©  20
Theobromas...............
POTASSIUM.
B1 Carb.......................   15®  18
Riehromate...............   13®  14
Bromide....................  35©  39
Carb............................ 
ia@  15
Chlorate  (po  23©25)..  24©  26
Cyanide......................  50©  55
Iodide.........................2 96®3 00
Potassa, Bltart, pure..  27®  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  ®  15
Potass Nitras, opt......   8©  10
Potass Nitras..............  7©  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po................  15©  18

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Aconitum...................  20©  25
Althae.........................  22©  25
Anchusa....................  13©  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20©  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......   8®  10
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16©  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
©  30
(po. 35)................... 
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15©  20
Inula,  po....................  15©  20
Ipecac, po.................. 2 30@2 40
Iris plox (po. 35©38)..  35©  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  50©  55
Maranta,  )4s..............  ©  35
Podophyllum, po........  15©  18
Rhel............................  75@1  00
“  cut......................  ©1  75
“  pv.......................   75@1  35
Spigella......................  35©  38
Sanguinaria, (po  25)..  ©  20
Serpentaria.................  30©  32
Senega.......................  65©  70
Simllax, Officinalis,  H  ©  40 
M  ©  25
Scillae, (po. 85)...........  10©  12
Symplocarpus,  Rosti­
dos,  po....................  ©  35
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  ©  25
German...  15©  20
Ingiber a ................. 
IS©  20
Zingiber  j ...............  
18©  22
SSHBM.

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Anlsnm,  (po.  20)........  ©  15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  12©  15
Bird, Is.........................  4©  6
Carol, (po. 18)...............  8© 12
Cardamon...................1 00®1  25
Corlandrnm.................   10© 12
Cannabis Satlva.........   3H©4
Cvdonlum....................   75©l 00
Chenopodlum  .............  10© 12
Dlpterfx Odorate........ 3 00®3 25
Roenlonlnm...............   ©  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6©  8
L ln l..........................................4 @4)4
Uni, grd,  (bbl. 3)4)...  4  © 4)4
Lobelia.........................  35© 40
Pharlaris Canarian__  6  © 6)4
Rapa.............................  6©  7
Slnapls  Albu.............11  @13
Nigra...........  11©  12

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8PIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co. .2 00©2 50
D. F. R ......1  75@2 00
................. 1 25@1 50
Juni peris  Co. O. T __1  65®2 00
...........1  75©3 50
“ 
Saacharum  N.  R .........1  75©2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto.................1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba................... 1  25©2 00

SPONSSS.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage...................2 25@2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ..7............
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........
1  10
Extra  yellow  Bheeps’
carriage............... ..
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car-
rlage.......................
65
Hard for  slate  use__
75
Yellow Reef, for  slate
u se..........................
1  40

SYRUPS.

Accacla.......................... ...  50
Zingiber  ......................... ...  50
Ipecac.............................
...  60 
Ferrl Iod.......................
...  50
Aurantl  Cortes............... ...  50
Rhel  Aram..................... ...  50
Simllax  Officinalis......... ...  60
Co... ...  50
Senega ............................ ...  50
Sclllae............................. ...  50
“  Co......................... ...  50
Tolutan.......................... ...  50
Pruuus  flrg.................... ...  50

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TIHCTUBBS.

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Aconitum Napellis R .........   60
F .........   50
Aloes....................................  60
and myrrh.................  60
A rnica................................   50
Asafoetlda............................  o
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................   go
“  Co...........................  50
Sanguinaria  .......................   50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharides.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
Co.......................   75
Castor..................................1 00
Catechu...............................   50
Cinchona............................  50
Co.......................   60
Columba.  ..........................   50
Coni u m ...............................  so
Cubeba......  .......................   50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot....................................  50
Gentian...............................  50
“  Co.  .........................  60
Gualca................................   50
“ 
ammon...................  60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Iodine..................................   75
Colorless.................   75
Ferrl  Chlorldum................  35
K ino....................................  so
Lobelia.................................  so
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opil.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor.........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany.............................   50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVerlde.................  50

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Either, Spts  Nit, 8 F ..  28©  30 
“  4 F ..  32©  34
Alumen....................... 2)4© 3

u 
ground,  (po.

7).............................   3©  4
Annatto.......................   55© 60
Antlmonl, po.............. 
4©  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antlpyrln...................  @1 40
Antlfebrln..................  ©  25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  60
Arsenicum................. 
5©  7
Balm Gilead  Bud....  36©  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (lis
12;  *s,  14).........
© 11
Cantharides  Russian,
po ............................
@1  00
© 26
Capsid  Fructus, af...
© 28
f t , /
© 20
Caryophyllus, (po.  18)
14© 15
Carmine,  No. 40.........
©3 75
Cera  Alba, 8. & F ......
50© 55
Cera Flava.................  38©
is © 40
Coccus.......................  
S
40
f
Cassia Fructus...........  ©
© 25
Centrarla....................  @
10
0
Cetaceum...................  ©
© 40
600 63
Chloroform................  60©
squlbbs ..
@1  25
1  35@1  60
Chloral Hyd Crst........
Chondrus...................  90S
20© 25
Clnchonldlne, P.  A W 
15© 20
German 
3  © 12
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  ......................
60
Creasotum.................
© 35
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........
© 2
"  Prep...................
5® 5
“  preelp..............
9© 11
© 8
“  Rubra................  ©
Crocus.......................   75©
75© 85
-
Cudbear...................... 
© 24
Cuprl Sulph...............   5  _
5 © 6
io@
Dextrine.................... 
10© 12
Ether Sulph................  70©
70© 75
Emery,  all  numbers
©
© 6
„   “ 
po...............
Brgota, (po.)  75......
70© 75
Flake  White...........
12© 15
_
Galla.......................  
© 23
Gambler......................7  © 8
7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper..........  @  70
60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 & 10.
Less than box  66%
Glue,  Brown.........   9© 
15
“  White...........  18© 
25
Glycerlna..............15)4© 
20
Grana Paradlsl...........  ©  22
Humulus...............   25© 
55
Hydraag Chlor Mite..  ©  85
“  Cor....  ©  80
Ox Rubrum  ©  90
Ammonlatl..  ®1  00
Unguentum.  45©  55
Hydrargyrum.............  ©  64
Tcnthyobolla, Am..  ..1 2S©1 60
Indigo.............................   75@1 00
Iodine, Resubl...........3 80@3 90
Iodoform.........................  ©4 70
Lupulin..........................   ©2 25
65
Lycopodium.........   60© 
75
Macis....................   70© 
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararglod............   © 
27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10©  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1IÍ).......................2)4© 
Mannia,  8. F .........   60© 

French......  40© 

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

Gages.

Cherries.

Blackberries.
B. &  W....................... 
95
Red  ..........................   l  io@i 20
Pitted Hamburgh___ 
1  75
W hite......................... 
l  50
Brie  ..........................  
1  20
Damsons. Egg Plums and Green 
l  10
E rie............................ 
California................... 
1  70
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  20
Pie............................  
1  25
1  85
Maxwell.................... 
2 00
Shepard's..................  
California..................  
2 20
Monitor 
................. 
1  85
Oxford.......................
Pears.

Peaches.

“ 

1  20
2  10

Domestic.................... 
Riverside.................... 
Pineapples.
Common....................1  00@1 30
Johnson's  sliced........ 
2 50
grated........  
2 75
Quinces.
Common.................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
Red............................. 
i  30
Black  Hamburg.........  
1  50
.............. 
l  30
Erie, black 
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................
l  25
Hamburgh................. 
Erie............................  
l  25
Terrapin.......................  
l  10
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............  
l  00
Corned  beef,  Libby's.......... 2 10
Roast beef,  Armour's...........2 10
Potted  ham, )4 lb................. 1 30
“  14 lb.................  80
tongue, ft lb..............1 35
<4 lb...........  85
chicken, % lb.......... 
95

Meats.

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Vegetables.

Beans.

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Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless...........1 25
French style........2 25
Limas....................1 35
Lima, green..........................l 40
soaked.....................   75
Lewis Boeton Baked...........1  35
Bay State  Baked................. 1  35
World’s  Fair  Baked........... 1  35
Picnic Baked........................1  00
Hamburgh...........................1  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
Van Camp’s  marrofat..........1  10
early -June.......1 30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  35
French............. 
2 15
French............................. 17@22
Erie...................................   95
Hubbard...................................1 25
Hamburg...................................1 40
Soaked...............................  85
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 50
Erie...........................  
1  35
Tomatoes.
Hancock...................................1 25
Excelsior................................. 1 25
Eclipse......................................1 i5
Hamburg...................................1 40
Gallon..................................... 8 25

 
Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

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CHOCOLATE.

Baker’s.

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

>88
00
CO
so
00

0000

45
85
60
10
60

30!  00I 60

80
!  00
40eo
50
45
85
50

90
80
70
088

I  00'  00I 50

! 75
I  00
I  00
I 50

75
!  00
! 25
! 50
! 75
90
15
t 25
25
50
.  75
85
.  25
l  50
0
9:1
!4

20
.  90
! 25
96
75
! 50

I 50! 00

! 90
25
!  10
!  25
25
! 25
90
75
45
25
i  5
% 7ill
£16£S
21
50

05
25

75
75
75
75

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

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CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

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

•* 

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxeB  ............... 40@45

COCOA  SHELLS.

35 lb  bags.............. 
.  .  @3
Less quantity 
Pound  packages...........6«@7

...........  @314

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

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

Santos.

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

Maracaibo.

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

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add )6c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.

Package.

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

Extract.

Valley City )6 gross...........  75
1  15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross........l  50
“ 
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CHICORY.

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

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft..........perdos. 1  25
140
1  80
1  75
1  90
go
“  1  00

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CONBEX8ED  MILK.

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

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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.’

 

per hundred...............   2 00
2 50
“ 
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5  00

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1 per hundred...............   2 50
3 00

CHEESE.

Amboy....................... 12Ji@13H
Acme..........................  @13
Riverside...................  @12314
Gold  Medal................  @12)6
Skim..........................   9  @11
Brick.............................  
11
E dam ........................  
1  00
Leiden.......................  
23
Limburger  ................  @10
Pineapple.................  @25
Roquefort..................  @35

“Universal.

8  1, per hundred..............  S3 00
3 50
4 00 
6 00 
6 00 
7 00

Jennings’ D  C.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding box...  75 
125
3 oz 
...100 
150
2 00
...1  50 
4 oz 
6  oz 
.  2 00 
3 00
5 oz 
.. ,3c00 
4 00

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GUNPOWDER.

Austin’s Rifle, kegs............3 50
“ 
“  % kegs........2 00
“  Crack Shot, kegs ..3 50 
“ 
H kegs 2 00
Club Sporting  “  4 50
“ 
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Manilla, white.

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

Coin.

Farina.
Hominy.

100 lb. kegs................... 
354
Barrels.................................3 00
Grits....................................3 50
Lima  Beans.
Dried............................ 
4M

Maccaronl and Vermicelli.

Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported.....................10)6@..)6
Barrels 200 .........................  4 85
Half barrels 100.................   2 55

Oatmeal.

Pearl Barley.

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

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bu..........................  1 85
Split  per l b ................. 
2)4
Barrels  180.........................  5 25
Half  bbls 90 ......................  2 75
German.............................   4)4
East India..........................   5
Cracked..............................  

Wheat.

Sago.

5

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

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“ 
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Cod.

Halibut.
Herring.
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Yarmouth...............................   1 40
Pollock..........................  
3)4
Whole, Grand  Bank......  
5)4
Boneless,  bricks............ 7 @9
Boneless, strips.............. 
7
Smoked...................... 10)4@n
Holland, white hoops keg 

75
bbl  12 00
9 50
“ 
Norwegian......................   12 00
Round, )4 bbl 100 lb s ......  3 fO
.........  1 45
Scaled............................... 
17
No. 1,  100 lbs...........................12 CO
No. 1, 40 lbs............................  5 05
No. 1,  10 lbs............................  1 35
Family, 90 lbs....................
10 lbs .................
Russian, kegs....................  
so
No. 1, )6 bbls., lOOlbs........... 7 00
No. 1 34 bbl, 40  lbs..............3 05
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   85
No  1, 8 lb  kits....................  70

34  “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

Sardines.
Trout

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Whlteflsh.

No. 1, )6 bbls., lOOlbs...........7 50
No. 1. kits, 10 lbs.................1  00
Family, )4 bbls., 100 lbs  ...  4 00
kits  10  lbs.............  63
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

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

 

 
 

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Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over.............  5 per  cent.
500  “ 
loon  “ 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
ICan  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from CIO down. |
20 books...  ................. 8100
2 00
50 
3 00
100 
6 25
250 
500 
10 00
1000 
17  50

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CREDIT  CHECKS.

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

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“ 

“ 
“ 

CRACKERS.

Butter.

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

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure......................  30
Telfers  Absolute..............  3)
Grocers’............................ 15@25

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

“ 

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Blackberries.
Nectarines.

Sundrled, sliced In  bbls. 
7)4
7)4
Evaporated. 50 lb. boxes  @10)4
California In  bags........ 
16)4
Evaporated in boxes.  .. 
17
In  boxes......................8  @9
70 lb. bags....................... 
15
251b. boxes..................... 
15J4
Peeled, In  boxes........... 
16
Cal. evap.  “ 
........... 
14
“ 
In bags........ 
13)4
California In bags......
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
25  “ 
...................
Prunelles.

Peaches.

Pears.

Raspberries.

301b.  boxes...................
In barrels...................... 
501b. boxes.................... 
...................... 
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

22
23
24
Loose  Muscatels in Boxes.

2 crown.............................   1  50
3 
.............................   165
.  Loose Muscatels In Bags.
2  crown..............................   5)4
3 
.................................6)4

“ 

“ 

“ 

Foreign.
Currants.

“ 

“ 
“ 

Peel.

25  “ 
25 “ 

“ 
“ 
Raisins.

Patras,  In barrels............  
In  )4-bbls............. 
In less quantity__  

4)4
4)4
4V
Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxes  20 
Lemon 
“ 10
Orange 
11
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes..  @8
“ 
Sultana, 20 
@10
Valencia, 30  “ 
@ 7
California,  100-120.............. 10)4
90x100 25 lb. bxs. 11)4
..12)4
80x90 
“ 
13«
70x80 
“ 
60x70 
.14
“ 
Turkey......................... 
7)4
Silver..................................
Sultana.................................9)4

Prunes.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1, 6)4...............................  $1 75
No. 2,6)6............................   160
No. 1, 6..................................   1 65
No. 2, 6...................................  1 50
No. 1,6)4............................  135
No. 2, 6)4............................   126

XX  wood, white.

T H E   MICHIGAN"  TRADESM AN.

“ 

shoulders 

Bologna.....................   @6)4
Pork loins.................  @11)4
........  @10)4
Sausage, blood or head  @ 7)4
liv er............   @7)4
Frankfort__  @  9)4

Mutton  ....................... 8  @9
Veal.............................. 7  © 8

“ 
“ 

FISH  and  OYSTERS.

20

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whiteflsh 
.................  @9
T ro u t.........................   8  @9
Halibut.......................  @15
i Ciscoes or Herring__  @12
Bluefish......................  @io
Fresh lobster, per lb__ 
Cod.............................. 10  @12
No. 1 Pickerel............   @ 9
Pike............................  @8
Smoked  W hite.........  @12)4
Finnan  Haddies........... 
10
12
Red  Snappers.............. 
Columbia River  Salmon 
15
Mackerel....................... 
  15
oysters—Cans.
I  Falrhaven  counts__  @37
F. J. D.  Selects.........   @30
Selects.......................   @25
Anchor.......................  @?3
Standards  .................   @26
Favorites................... 
18

“ 

BULK.

SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100........
1  50@1  75
.........
Clams, 
1 00@1 25
Counts, per gal.........
2 20
Extra  Selects............
2  CO
Selects.......................
1 70
Standards  .................
1  20
Clams.........................
1 75
Scallops....................
2 CO
Shrimps  ....................
1  25
PA PER & WOODEN WARE

PAPER.

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

Straw 
Rockfalls.................. ......... 1»
Rag sugar.................. ......... 2
Bakers....................... ......... 2%
Dry  Goods................. .  5  @6
Jute  Manilla..............
@5)4
Red  Express  No. 1... 
........5)4
No.2...
......... 4)4

“ 

“  

“   2 __

48 Cotton.................... ...... 20
Cotton, No. 1.............. ........17
........16
Sea  Island, assorted. ...... 30
No. 5 Hemp............... ........15
No. 6  “ ......................
........15
WOODENWARE
Tubs, No. 1................. ......  7 00
“  No. 2................. ......6 00
“  No. 3................. ......5 00

TWINES.

1 7
1  35 
1  60
40 
30 
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 no

“ 
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“ 
“ 

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

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

“  No.2
“  No.3
“  No.l
“  No.2
“ 
.No.3
INDURATED WARE.
Pails..................................
Tubs, % doz.......................

“ 
“ 
1 
“ 

splint 

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as follows :

Fowl....................... ..10 @H
Turkeys..................
©10
Ducks  .................... .14 @15
Chicken.................. ..12 @13
Chickens,............... ..1 0 @11
Fowls...................... ..  8 ©  9
Turkeys.................. ..12 @13
Duck....................... -.11 @13

LIVE.

SPICKS.

Whole Sifted.

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
Pepper, Singapore, black__10
“ 
“  white...  .20
shot......................... 16
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.

Allspice............................... 15
Cassia,  Batavia................... 18
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
•* 
Zanzibar................ 18
Ginger, African................... id
r‘  Cochin....................20
Jam aica................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia......................7t
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black.... 16
“  white...... 24
Cayenne................20
Sage......................................20

“ 
“ 
“Absolute” in Packages.

“ 

&s  Hs
Allspice......................  84  155
Cinnamon...................  84  1  55
WUVCB.........................
Ginger,  Jam aica......
84 1 55
“  African...........
84 155
Mustard...................... 84 155
Pepper .......................
84 155
Sage............................. 84
SAL  SODA.
Kegs.............................
Granulated,  boxes......

SAUERKRAUT.

Gold  Medal...............
SEEDS.
A nise......................... @12«
6
Canary, Smyrna.........
10
Caraway....................
Cardamon, Malabar...
90
Hemp,  Russian.........
4)4
Mixed  Bird  ..............
5)4
Mustard,  white.........
10
9
Poppy .........................
Rape..........................
6
Cuttle  bone...............
30
STARCH.

1)4
■  1%
@8 25

“ 

Corn.
20-lb  boxes...................
40-lb 
..................
Gloss.
1-lb packages...............
3-lb 
...............
6-lb 
...............
40 and 50 lb. boxes......
Barrels.........................

“ 
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SNUFF.

.  6
•  5X

-  5«
•  5)4
.  6
.  4«
•  5)4

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

SODA.

Boxes...................................5Vs
Kegs, English...................... 4k
SALT.
100 3-lb. sacks......................12 25
60 5-lb.  “ 
2 00
 
2810-lb. sacks....................  1 85
...•.................. 2 25
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases.......................  1 50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
32
281b.  “ 
18
.. 

drill  “ 

Warsaw.

56 lb. dairy in drill  bags...  32
28 lb.  “ 
18
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks..  75

Ashton.

.. 

“ 

“ 

Higgins.

56 )h. dairy In linen  sacks. 

Solar Rock.
56 It.,  sacks............... 
Common Fine.
 
SALERATUS.

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

 

75

27

90
95

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

Church’s ..........................  83 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  %-lb........3 60
Concord................................... 3 45
Ivory, 10  oz..............................6 75
6  oz............................... 4 00
Lenox...............................  4 25
Mottled  German......................3 75
Town Talk............................... 3 50
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. 
American  Family, wrp d. .64  50 
plain...  4  44
N. K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus..............................4 75
Brown, 60 bars.........................2 85
80  b a rs........................3 50

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

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

“ 

“ 

Scouring.
Sapollo, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 50 
hand, 3 aoz......... 2 50

“ 

SUGAR.

To ascertain the cost of sugar 
laid  down  at  any town  in  the 
Lower  Peninsula,  add  freight 
rate from  New York to the  fol 
lowing quotations, which repre 
sent the refiners’ prices:
Cut  Loaf............................ $5 31
Powdered............................4  94
Granulated.........................4 62
Fine Granulated...............   4 62
Extra Fine Granulated__4 75
Cubes  ...............................4 91
XXXX  Powdered..............  5 31
Confec. Standard  A ........... 4 56
No. 1  Columbia A..............  4 50
No. 5 Empire  A  ............... 4 44
No.  6  ................................   4 37
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.................................24
Half bbls.............................. 26
F air.....................................   19
Good....................................  25
Choice.................................   30

Pure Cane.

SWEET GOODS.

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

8
8
9
8*4
8)4

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

81 for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per gal  ................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75 

YEAST.

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

TEAS.

JAPA»—Regular.

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

SUN CUR3D.

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

BASKET  FIRED.

GUNPOWDER.

F air............................. 18  @20
Choice.........................  @25
Choicest......................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
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
Superiortofine............30  @35

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG. 

YOUNG HYSON.

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

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

“ 

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

41
29
40
26
38
34
40
32

Plug.

Smoking.

Catlin’s  Brands.

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

Scotten’s Brands.

Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish.............. 38
Gold Cut  ............................ 28
W arpath............................. 16
Honey  Dew......................... 25
Gold  Block......................... 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Brands.
Peerless.................. 
26
Old  Tom..............................18
Standard..............................22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade...........................41
Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle  Sam.....................28@32
Red Clover...........................32
Tom and Jerry.....................25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Buck Horn...........................30
Plow  Bov......................30@32
Corn  Cake...........................16

Leidersdorfs Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

 

OILS.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes 
as  follows,  in barrels,  f. o.  b. 
Grand Rapids:
8
Eocene......................... 
Water White, old test.  @ 7)4 
W.  W.  Headlight, 150° 
0%
Water  White  ...........  @  6)4
Naptha.......................  @ 7
Stove Gasoline...........  @6%
Cylinder....................27  @36
E ngine......................13  @21
Black. 15 cold  test__  @  8%
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

lows:
Green............................ 2)4®3)4
Part Cured...............   @4
Full 
@4%
Dry..............................  5  @5
Blips, green  ............... 2H@ 3%
“  cured.................  @ 4«
Calfskins,  green........   4  @5
cured........  @ 7
Deacon skins...............10  @30

HIDES.

“ 

“ 

 

 

No. 2 hides % off.
PELTS.

......................25  @1 50

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

WOOL.

MISCELLANEOUS.

FURS.

00@2 75

00@7 00

Tallow.......................  6 1@  7
Grease  butter  ............  1  @2
Switches.....................  1)4® 2
Ginseng...................... 2 
Outside prices for No. 1 only.
Badger.........................  50@1 00
B ear.......................15 00@25 00
Beaver........................3 
Cat, wild......................  40@ 50
Cat, house...................  10@ 25
Fisher..........................4 
00@6 00
Fox,  red.....................1 
00@1 75
Fox, cross................... 3  Q0@5 00
Fox,  grey....................   50@1 00
Lynx........................... 2 
00@3 00
Martin, dark...............1 
00@3 00
pale & yellow.  50@1 00
Mink, dark...................  40@2 50
Muskrat.......................   03®  17
Oppossum....................   15® 30
00@3 00
Otter, dark  ................5 
Raccoon......................  25® 
Skunk  .......................1 
00@1 40
W olf............................1  G0@3 00
Beaver  castors, lb__ 2 00@5 00
Thin and  green............  
10
20
Long gray, dry.............. 
Gray, dry 
................... 
25
Red and Blue, dry........ 
35

deerskins—per pound.

“ 

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

WHEAT.

MEAL.

FLOUR.

No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test)
Bolted...............................  1  40
Granulated.......................  1  60
Straight, In sacks.............   3 60
“ barrels............  3 80
“ 
Patent 
“ sacks.............   4 60
“ barrels............  4 80
“ 
Graham  “  sacks...........  1  70
Rye 
“ 
2 90
Buckwheat, Rising  Sun— 5 50 
& Co’s  Pure......................4  25

Walsh DeRoo

“ 

 

 

Less
quantity 
817 00
14 50
18 00
20 00
20 00

MILLSTUFFS.
Car lots 
.. 616 00
Bran...........
Screenings. ..  14 00
..  17 00
Middlings..
Mixed Feed ..  19 50
Coarse meal ..  19 50
........47
Car  lots....
Less than  car  lots — ........52
Car  lots  ... OATS.
........38
Less than car lots...... ........42
HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots — 13 fO
ton lots  ...... 14 00
No. 1 

CORN.

“ 

FRESH  MEATS.

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

“ 

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

FORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess,...........................................................   20 08
Shortcut.....................................................   21  50
Extra clear pig, short cut............................
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat back.............................................23 CO
Boston clear, short cat........  ......................  23 00
Clear back, short cut....................................  23 00
Standard clear, short cut, best.... ............ 
24 00

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

Pork Sausage....................................................11
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage..............................................   9
Frankfort Sausage 
.......................................9)4
Blood Sausage.................................................   7
Bologna, straight............................................   6
Bologna,  thick................................................  6
Headcheese....................................................   7
Kettle  Rendered.............................................14
Granger..........................................................13)i
Family............................................................1054
Compound......................................................10%
50 lb. Tins,  %c advance.
20 lb. pails, )4c 
101b.  “ 
34c 
5 lb.  “  %c
3 lb.  “ 
1  c 

LARD.

“
“
“

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.....................   9 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................  9 00
Boneless, rump butts.................................... 14  50

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Hams, average 20 lbs...................................... 15)4
16 lbs.......................................15)4
12 to 14 lbs...............................15)4
picnic.................................................. 12)4
best boneless............................. .........  13)4
Shoulders........................................................11)*
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.............................14
Dried beef, ham prices...................................11
Long Clears, heavy..........................................
Briskets,  medium.  ........................................
light................................................

,, 
1  00

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

Bbls. Palis.
6)4
7)4
7)4
6)4
6)4
7)4
8)4

Bbls.

Palls.

STICK  CANDY.
Cases

Standard,  per lb..........
“  H.H.................
Twist  ............
“ 
Boston Cream  ........  .. .. 
8)4
Cut  Loaf.......................
Extra H.  H.................. ..  8)4
MIXED CANDT.

Standard.......................................6
Leader.......................................... 6
Royal............................................6)4
Nobby...........................................7
English Rock.............................. 7
Conserves.................................... 7
Broken Taffy................... baskets
“  8
Peanut Squares................. 
French Creams.............................
Valley  Creams......................... 
.
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.........................
Modern, 30 lb. 
..........................

“ 
f a n c y —In b u lk

“ 

f a n c y —In 5 lb. boxes. 

Pails.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  10
printed.........................................   11
Chocolate Drops............................................   11)4
Chocolate Monnmentals...............................  13
Gum Drops....................................................   5)4
Moss Drops....................................................   8
Sour Drops....................................................   8)4
Imperials........................................................  10
Per Box
Lemon Drops.............. 
66
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........................................................65
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams.................................. 85@95

“ 

 

 
 

3 
2 
3 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
BANANAS.

Plain Creams............................................ SO®90
Decorated Creams....................................... i 00
! String  Rock.....................................................65
j Burnt Almonds 
......................................1  00
Wlntergreen Berries.......................................60
CARAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.......................   34
 
No. 1, 
51
No. 2, 
28
 
No.3. 
...................,...
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes...................................
Small......................................................
Medium................................................
Large....................................................
Floridas, fancy................................... 2 5C@3 00
Messinas, 200s........................................  @3 00
300s........................................  @3 00
Messina, choice, 360.............................  @3 50
@1 00
fancy, 360............................. 
choice 300............................   @3 75
fancy390  .............................  
4 50

o r a n g e s.

LEMONS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

“ 
“ 

NUTS.

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

.................  @12)4

“ 
“  extra 
“ 
" 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“  50-lb.  “ 

“  10ft... 
“  14ft..........................   @15
“  20ft..........................  @16
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................  @7)4
..........................   @6
Persian. 50-lb.  box......................4%@  5
Almonds, Tarragona.............................  @19
Ivaca.....................................  @18
California.
Brazils, new..............
Filberts....................
Walnuts,Grenoble.  . 

@18)4 
@10)4 
@11)4 @14 
Marbot.
@
Calif.......................................nj@13
Table Nuts,  fancy
@13)4 
choice...............
@12)4 
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  .........
@14 
Cocoannts, fnll sacks............
@4  75
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H.  P., Suns.................
@ 5« 
“  Roasted —
@  7)4 
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............
@ 5)4 
“  Roasted...
@ 7)4 
Choice, H. P., Extras............
@ 4)4 
“  Roasted..
@ 6)4 
California Walnuts...............
12)4

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CROCKERYcAND  GLASSWARE.

FRUIT  JARS.

6 doz. In box.

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

LAMP BURNERS.

 
LAMP CHIMNEYS.  Per bOX.

 

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Pearl top.

La Bastie.

First quality.
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XXX Flint.
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No.OSnn....................................................... 1  80
No. 1  “  .........................................................1  90
No. 2  “  .........................................................2  90
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top..................................... 2  25
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No.2  » 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top..................................... 2  60
No. 1  “ 
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No. 2  “ 
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No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled....................3 70
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....................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4 88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.......................1  25
No. 2  “ 
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No. 1 crimp, per doz....................................... 1  35
No.2 
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No. 0, per  gross..............................................   23
No. 1, 
28
 
No  2, 
38
 
No.3, 
75
 
Mammoth, per doz.........................................   75
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................   06
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)4 gal. per doz.........................  60
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“  black glazed  1 and 2 gal.........  0~
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Jugs, )4 gal., per doz...................................   70
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal................................   07
MUk Pans, >4 gal., per doz..........................   60
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glazed..............  65
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glazed...............  78
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T H E   MT OTTI GAN  TRADESMAN,

IH

LIFE  BEHIND  THE  COUNTER. 

Written for The Tradesman.

Life is made up  of  strange  coinciden­

ces.  Yea,  verily!

But a few short weeks ago,  upon a cer­
tain day,  the wind blew  with  its  accus­
tomed violence,  the  snowflakes  chased 
each other by the office with  their  usual 
agility and  the  cold  crept  through  the 
cracks around the  windows  and  under 
the door  with  that  grace,  cheerfulness 
and persistence which have been its lead­
ing  characteristics since  the  first  cold 
snap in November last.

It is,  indeed,  an  ill wind that blows hot 
and  cold  with 
the  same  breath,  for 
winter is harvest time for the  dry  goods 
merchant of the northern portion  of  the 
Lower Peninsula of  the  great  State  of 
Michigan.

On  the  morning  referred  to  at  the 
opening of  this  article,  our  very  good 
friend, Silas Jawbone, entered  the  front 
door of  the  building  occupied  by  our 
stock of merchandise, the back door being 
locked at the time,  and proceeded to  the 
use of  vigorous language,  expressive  of 
his contempt for the chilly condition of the 
atmosphere without.  He also announced 
that he had come to invest in some under­
wear; but,  before buying,  expressed a de­
sire to indulge in the luxury of a  smoke. 
Being presented  with  a  clay  pipe  and 
some Peerless tobacco, he next requested 
the  loan  of  a  match,  remarking  as  he 
scratched it upon the stovepipe:

“I’m  suthin’  like  the  Irishman.  He 
‘Gimme  a  poipe, 

ses to  a  feller,  s’he, 
tebaccy an’ match an Oi’ll shmoke!” ’

*  

*  

*

No man in this region need seek  popu­
larity as a country  merchant,  who  does 
not keep at the disposal  of his customers 
a  plentiful 
supply  of  those  articles 
necessary to a cheap smoke.

Let Farmer Jones,  when  he  arrives  at 
your place of business,  after a long  ride 
in the teeth  of  a  northern  blizzard,  sit 
down by  your Round  Oak  to  thaw  out, 
and give  him  the  welcome  which  man 
owes man.  But when that  is  over  and 
you notice a restless  roving  in  his  eyes 
or that he fidgets in his chair, bring forth 
a white and spotless  “T  D,”  allow  him 
to fill  this  treasure  from  a  package  of 
XXXX,  and  you  have  made  of  him  a 
customer for life,  a friend who will stick 
closer than a burr.

Life is, indeed,made up of small things, 
and of these one  of  the  least  expensive 
to the country grocer is the giving  away 
of a few pipesfulof “smokin’ terbacker.”
Silas Jawbone, after making  a  liberal 
purchase of  underwear,  departed  home­
ward,  and as the echoes of  his  vitupera­
tions died  upon the blast,  the  door  was 
opened by Billy Swatts.

Billy,  as  everyone  knows,  is  a  small 
man.  He is  small in  stature only,  how­
ever,  for  he  is  most  liberally  endowed 
with good  humor,  and  there 
is  not  a 
mean thing about him.  But he has lived 
in Northern  Michigan 
long  enough  to 
have acquired the habits of  his  country­
men,  and  having exchanged the custom­
ary  greetings  and  backed  up  to  the 
stove,  he began in his breezy  manner  to 
relate the  following  anecdote,  which  is 
vouched  for  as  a  perfectly  true  and 
strictly moral  tale:

“When I was a little gaffer,  no  more’n
s o -------- high,  my Gran’dad  usen  to  tell
a yarn on a nold  Irishman  what  worked 
fer  his  dad  when  he  was  a  little 
feller  hisself.
“Pat  come 

into  the  house  one  cold

morn’n’,  a rubbin’ his han’s to warm ’em, 
an’  he ses to Greatgran’dad,  ses he:

“ ‘Av yez’ll have  the  daicency  to  lin’ 
me the loan av a poipe, tebaccy an’match, 
Oi’ll shmoke.  Oi  have  a  mouth  av  me 
own.’

“Well,  I’m southin’ in  the  fix  of  that 
I air  ole  Irishman  myself.”  And  Billy 
laughed heartily at his joke.

*  

*  

*

A sturdy old farmer who has ever been 
a firm adherent  of  ours,  and  who  lives 
not far from the village,  walked  in  dur­
ing the day,  and,  having filled  his  “cob” 
from  a  sack  of  his  own  home  grown 
Havana,  said in his quaint  and  amusing 
way:

“I’m no  great  hand  to  beg  tobacco. 
I’ve seen lots of it,  though, where there’s 
lumberin’  an’  such 
like  goin’  on;  but 
when 1 feel tempted  to  forage  a  smoke 
offen  some  other  feller,  I  alius  think 
about the story of  the  Irishman.  Meet­
ing a chum of his on the road, he said:

“ ‘Moike,  have yez ary tebaccy?’
“ ‘That Oi  have.’
“ ‘Have yez any poipe?’
‘“ Sure an’  Oi have that same.’
“ ‘Have yez any match?’
“ ‘Oi have,  indade.’
“ ‘Will,  thin,’  said  Pat 

in  tones  of 
melting tenderness,  ‘Of have the  jaws.’ ” 

*  *  «

In the city of Grand Rapids,  among the 
jobbers of groceries,  is a house  which  of 
late has been  “opening new territory”  in 
Northern  Michigan,  and  as  this  village 
is situated on the line of the newly  built 
extension of the Chicago and West Michi­
gan  Railway,  what is more  natural  than 
that these people should send one of their 
representatives to call upon  the  “oldest 
firm?”

The gentleman who acts in this capaci­
ty is one of the best fellows on  the  road, 
and of a countryman of his,  on  the  day 
first mentioned in  this  “o’er  true  tale,” 
he  spoke as follows:

“Shovelin’ mud in  a ditch be the  road­
side,  an’ sweatin’  till  ye  cud  wring  his 
shirt wud yer two hands,  was the  worrst 
lookin’  ould Mick me eyesiver rested an. 
Catching sight  av  us  whin  he  cast  up 
the next bit av dirt,  he stopped short like 
in his labors,  an’,  wipin’  the sweat  from 
his long nose wid the back  av his  durrty 
paw,  he says to us, says he:

“ ‘Ef  any av yez foine gintlemens have 
ary poipe, tebaccy an’ match ye’d lind  to 
a poor dhivil the loikes av  me,  Oi  have 
the  draugh mesilf.”

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*  

*

With a hoarse  cry  the  senior  partner 
fled from the store,  and it is thought that 
he may still be  hiding 
in  some  of  the 
impenetrable  swamps  in  the  region  of 
the Ellsworth sink  hole.  Any  informa­
tion 
leading  to  the  discovery  of  his 
whereabonts will  be thankfully received.

Geo. L.  T hurston.

T he  Only  Jo h n   Sm ith,  Jr.

From the  Boston  News.

Damages to the amount of  $1,000  was 
awarded  against  John  Smith,  Jr.,  by 
Chief Justice Mason yesterday,  for using 
his name in violation of a  lease  of it  for 
a period of thirty years to James A. Bow­
man.  Smith sold out a  real  estate  and 
broker agency business to Bowman,  and 
gaver the latter  the  exclusive  right  to 
use his name  in  connection  with  that 
business. 
It was  asserted  by  Bowman 
that John Smith,  Jr., was in that particu­
lar business in  Boston  in violation to the 
bill of  sale.

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15 00
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THE  MICHZQAJSr  TRADESMAN.
Slight protests  will be  made  from  time 
to time,  by the people,  even  to  the  ex­
tent of driving the governing  party  into 
the cold shades  of  opposition,  as  was 
done at the 
last  general  election;  but 
the movement will go on and on  just the 
same, 
in  spite  of  Republican,  Demo­
crat or Populist,  because  the  wealth  of 
the nation is behind it,  and few  there be 
who  control  it.

fruits  of 

the 

than  the  government  postal  service? 
There  is  no  reason  why  governmental 
control  of  railroads,  telegraph  and tele­
phone service,  and,  in  fact,  the  entire 
field  of  transmitting  intelligence  and 
transporting 
industry 
among the people,  would  not  prove  as 
beneficial,  proportionately,  as  the postal 
service.  These  surface  questions  are 
already  agitating  the  minds  of 
the 
people,  and  just  underneath  are  the 
banking and  loaning  questions,  and  be­
low  these  lies the  great  problem  of  all 
—the 
industrial  question.  When  this 
is reached,  there  will  be  a  mighty revo­
lution,  and in  that  conflict  commercial 
tyranny  will go down in  ignominy,  and 
a new and a brighter era will be  ushered 
in by  paternalism. 

E.  A.  Ow en.

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PATERNALISM ,  OR  COMMERCIAL 

TYRANNY.

W ritten fo r The  Tradesman.

Since the article in last week’s T rades­
man,  “Whither Are We  Drifting?”  was 
written,  the daily press has  published  a 
report from  Pittsburg to the  effect  that 
the representatives  from  that  city,  on 
their  return  from  the  window  glass 
manufacturers and jobbers’ meeting held 
in Milwaukee last week, report the meet­
ing a grand  success.  They  say  that  a 
combination of 9 3   per  cent,  of  all  the 
manufacturers  and  jobbers  of  window 
glass in this country  was  effected,  and 
that the other 7 per cent,  will  be  knock­
ing at the door for  admission,  when  they 
realize the great benefits  to  be  derived 
from it.  This huge trust is said  to  rep­
resent a combined capital of  $50,000,000, 
and,  as a safeguard against  future  cut­
ting in  prices,  each  member  was  re­
quired to put up  $100,000  for  each  pot 
operated,  which  sum  shall  merge  into 
the common treasury  as a forfeit  on  the 
part of any  member  who  shall  violate 
the  agreement.  A  uniform 
list  was 
adopted which,  it  is  said,  has  already 
advanced prices  fully  10  per  cent. 
If 
this report is true,  one  more  huge  mo­
nopoly has been created,  and  one  more 
commodity of prime  necessity has  been 
placed beyond the  pale  of  competition. 
Once more the people are reminded  that 
commercial freedom in  this  country  has 
fallen  into a decline  which 
is  speedily 
bearing it to its grave.

That we are rapidly approaching a con­
dition of  commercial  tyranny  must  be 
potent to  the  mind  of  every  thinking 
man.  To show that aggregation of capi­
tal and singleness of control has actually 
lessened the  cost  of  living  in  certain 
cases,  does  not  make  the  commercial 
tyranny,  as such,  one  whit 
less  in  de­
It is arbitrary and  despotic in the 
gree. 
exercise  of 
its  power,  and,  whether 
it lowers or whether it raises  prices,  has 
no bearing whatever  upon  the  subject. 
Indeed,  if the monster  came 
into  being 
for the express  purpose  of  benefitting 
humanity and lessening the  burdens  of 
the people,  it would still  be  a  tyranny; 
but when,  as a matter of fact,  it is  con­
ceived in greed  and brought  into  being 
for the  sole  purpose  of  crushing 
in­
dividual liberty as a means  of  removing 
competition,  it is paying it more  respect 
than it deserves when it is designated by 
so mild a term as “commercial tyranny.”
Will the people  meekly wait until this 
transformation is perfected;  until  every 
commodity necessary for  the  enjoyment 
of life and the pursuit of happiness shall 
have passed into the controlling clutches 
of some hydra-headed  monster  combine; 
until 
is 
utterly destroyed,  and  commercial  free­
dom, liberty of competition  in the  daily 
struggle for bread,  and the noble  spirit 
of emulation shall  be  no  more?  It 
is 
more than probable  that they  will  thus 
stupidly wait until this  process of trans­
formation  is  completed.  Every  move­
ment completes its own  cycle;  and  this 
concentrating  and  centralizing  move­
ment,  although far reaching in  its scope, 
will in time, work out its own ultimatum. 
Bill after bill will  be introduced in  Con­
gress for the avowed purpose  of  check­
ing this movement,  but  it  will  be  only 
those which are  vague  and  ineffectual 
that will be allowed to  pass,  while all of 
those which  are really  meritorious  will 
be strangled in  the lobbies,  where  they 
will  die  the  death  of  the  righteous.

individual 

industrial 

liberty 

the  guidance  of 

But when this ultimation is  reached— 
what then?  Will  it  be  a  settled  reign 
of commercial tyranny,  or  will 
it  be  a 
sudden and a mighty  flop  to  paternalism 
or governmental control?  I  opine  that 
it will be the latter. 
It has fallen  to the 
lot of this nation to make a few  pages of 
history  for 
future 
nations,  and the issue cannot be avoided. 
It is for this nation to give the world  an 
axample of the application of  the  prin­
ciple of feudalism in commercial matters. 
The executive head of the  combine  rep­
resents the despotic  monarch,  while the 
members thereof are  the  money  barons 
in the  system.  The  old 
landed  baron 
lived in a  castle  beneath  whose  walls 
nestled a  village.  The  modern  money 
baron  does  not  live  in  his  castle,  but  a 
village  peopled  with  his  vassal  de­
pendents  nestles beneath  his  wall  just 
the same; and  these  dependents  are just 
as  much  obligated  to  their 
lord  for 
their  holdings  as  were  the  old  feudal 
vassals.  A withdrawal  of  the  services 
due the  lord meant  an  eviction from the 
holdings.  What better simile to  this  is 
required than the  recent  happenings  at 
Homestead?  The  old 
system 
served its day  and  was  superseded  by 
other systems.  This modern commercial 
feudalism is  preparing  people  for  an­
other condition  of things,  and,  when the 
times have  reached  their  fullness,  the 
people will arise in  their might and wel­
come the new condition.  This  new con­
dition will  be  paternalism.  A  govern­
ment of the people will  assume control of 
It 
things  and  legislate  for  the  people. 
will  be  paternal  in  character,  and 
its 
chief aim will  be  to  reduce  the  cost  of 
living to  the  minimum  and  secure  the 
blessings  and  comforts  of  life  to  the 
greatest possible number.

feudal 

This 

is  no  eutopian  dream—it 

is 
simply  a  clear  insight  of  the  future. 
There is enough for  all  and  abundance 
to spare,  and some day  the  Great  Prob­
lem will be solved.  Some  day tfte people 
will have acquired a sufficient amount of 
intelligence to take  care of  themselves. 
They will not always remain as they now 
are—mere dupes and tools of  selfish  and 
designing  demagogues  who  serve  the 
money kings  for  pelf.  Would  anyone 
suppose,  for an instant,  that  a  man  in 
New York could  have a  letter carried all 
the way to San Francisco for two cents if 
the government  should  turn  the  postal j 
service  over  to  the  merciless  clutches 
of  some  big  private  concern?  If  the 
government were thus  to  relinquish 
its 
hold upon the  postal  service,  how  long 
do you suppose  any  clothier 
in  Grand 
Rapids  would be able  to  send  an  ounce 
sample of merchandise to some customer 
in  New  Orleans  for  one  cent ?  No 
service demanded by  the  people 
is  so 
intricate  in  all  of  its  ramifications  as 
the  postal service,  and yet it is rendered 
with  greater  precision  and a  higher  de­
gree of exactness than any other service, 
public  or  private,  of  which  the  people 
are 
the  recipients.  And  what  more 
striking  illustration do  the  people  want 
of the  beneficial  results  of  paternalism

19

G rand  R aplda  & Indian a.
Schedule  in  effect  January  29,1893.

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

9:00 a m  

A rrive from   L eave g o in g  
North.
7:20 a m
1:10 p m
1:15 p m
10:10  p m
Train arrivin g  from   south a t  6:15 a m   and  9:00 a m  

South. 
For Traverse City  and Saginaw   6:15 a  m 
For Traverse City A M ackinaw 
For C adillac and S agin aw ..........  2:20 p m  
For  Petoskey A M ackinaw ........  8:10 p m 
From Chicago and  K alam azoo.  8:35 p  m 
daily.  Others trains d aily excep t Sunday.

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.
North.
"  
For  C incinnati...............................   6:30a m
For K alam azoo and  C h ica g o ...
For F ort W ayne and th e  E a st..  11:50 a m
For  Cincinnati................................  6:15 p m
For K alam azoo  A  C h icago........10:10 p m
From S aginaw ..................................  It :50 a m
From S aginaw ..................................  10:10 p m
daily;  a ll  oth er  trains  d aily excep t Sunday.

Arrive from   Leave goin g  
South.
7:00  a m  
[0:05 a m  
2:00  p m 
6:00  p m
1:20 p m

Trains leavin g south a t 6:00 p m and  11:20 p.  m 

SLEEPINO  A   PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

NORTH

7:20 a m train   h as  P arlor  Car  to  Traverse 
City.1:10 p  m  train   has  parlor  car  Orand 
Rapids to  P etoskey and Mackinaw.
10:10 p m train .—Sleeping  ca  Grand 
Rapids  to   P etoskey and Mackinaw.
SOUTH—7:00 am  train .—P arlor chair carG rand 
Rapids to  Cincinnati.
10:05 a ill  train .—W agner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to   C hicago.
6:00  p m train .—W agner Sleep ing  Car 
Grand  Rapids to  Cincinnati.
11;20 p ill train .—W agner S leeping Car 
Grand Rapids to Chicago.

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

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

11:20 p m
6:50 a m
10:06 a m train  through W agner P arlor Car.
11:20 p m train dally, through  W agner  Sleeping Car. 

10:05a m  
3:55 p m  

2:00p m  
9:00 p m  

3:10 p m  
L v  C hicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
8:35 p m  
3:10  p  m  through  W agner  Parlor  Car. 
train d aily, through W agner S leeping Car.

7:05 am  
2:20 pm 

11:45 p m
6:15  a m
11:45 p  m 

For M uskegon—L eave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids A Indiana.
10:00 a m
6:56  a m  
11:25  a m  
4:40 p m
5:30  p m  
9:05 p m

From Muskegon—Arrive

Sunday train   leaves  for  M uskegon  at  9:05 a  m , a r­
rivin g a t 10:20  a   m .  Returning,  train  leaves  Muske 
gon a t  4:30 p m, arrivin g a t Grand  Rapids at  6:45 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
tio n ,  or  G eorge  W.  Munson,  Union  T icket  A gent, 67 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.

G eneral Passenger and T icket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

CHICAGO

NOV.  20,  1892
AND  WEST  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  MUSKEGON.

Lv. CHICAGO............. 9:00am  5:25pm »11:15pm
Ar.  GR’D RAPIDS......3:55pm  10:45pm  *7:05am
TO  AND  PROM  BENTON  HARBOR,  AND  ST  JOSEPH
Lv. G  R.......... 8:50am  1:25pm 
..........  »11:35pm
Ar.  G  R  .........»6:10am 3'55pm 
........   10:45pm
Lv. G. R ...........  8:50am  1:25pm  5:35pm  S: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,

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

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

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

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

TO AND FROM  SAGINAW,  ALMA AND  ST.  LOUIS.

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

TO  LOWELL VIA  LOWELL A  HASTINGS  R.  R.

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

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

»Every da/.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

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

R ailw ay.

In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk  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. m.
Ar. Toledo a t ............   12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m.
Lv. Grand Rapids at......6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo at..............12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m.

VIA D ., G. H.  A M.

VIA D ., L.  A N.

Return connections equally as good.

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

The O bject o f th e  S y stem .

The customer  who  had  brought some 
damaged  goods back to  exchange  them, 
and bad patiently  accompanied the cash 
girl for  fifteen minutes  from oue official 
to another in  pursuance  of  the  regular 
leaned  against  the  counter  to 
routine, 
rest herself.
“Your plan of making exchanges,” she 
said,  “is really discouraging.”
“Yes,”  cordially  replied  the  young 
woman at  the  desk,  filling  out  a blank 
necessitating  a  trip  to  another  official 
two floors above,  “that’s  what  it’s for.”

FOURTH NATIONAL BA E

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

G e o .  W.  G a t , Vice-President.

W m.  H .  A n d e r s o n ,  Cashier. 
J no  A. S e y m o u r , Ass’t Cashier.

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

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

Michigan (Tentral

“  The Niagara Falls Route.”

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

»Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Depart
Arrive. 
10 00p m...........Detroit Express........... 6 55pm
4 30 p m...................Mixed  .................  700am
10 00am ..............Day Express 
.........   1  20pm
6 00 a m ......»Atlantic and  Pacific...... 10 45 p m
1  00 p m ........New York Express.........  5 40 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific ex­
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  6:55 am ;  re­
turning, leave Detroit 4:40 p m, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:00 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
Tickets on sale at Union  Ticket Office, 67 Mon­
roe street and Union  Depot.

De t r o i t ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   a n  Mi l ­
Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Ave.

w a u k e e   Railway.

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St. Johns__Ar
Owossd........Ar
E. Saginaw..Ar
Bay City......Ar
F lin t...........Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit.........Ar

tNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 •No.  82
6 50am
11 00pm
7 45am
12 42am
8 30am
2 00am
9 05am
3 10am
10 50am
6 40am
11 30am 
7 15am 
5 40am 
1005am 
1205pm
7 30am 
5 37am 
10 53am
7 00am
11 50am
WESTWARD.

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

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

Trains Leave
Lv. Detroit.............
G’d Rapids,  Lv —
G’d Haven,  A r__
Milw’keeStr  “  .... 
Chicago Str.  “  ....

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

6  50am
1  00pm
2 10pm

»Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.

Trains arrive from the east, 6:40 a.m., 12:50 a.m., 
5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arri  e from  the west,  10:10 a.m., 3:15 
p.m. and 9:45v p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward—No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
C a air Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car.
J a s . Ca m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

TH E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

20

POLITICAL,  U NION  W ITH  CANADA.
W ritten for The Tradesman.

The union of the two English speaking 
divisions of the  American  continent un­
der one dag would appear  at  first  sight, 
to be something like “manifest destiny.” 
With  identical  interests;  their language 
and customs  similar in  all  material  re­
spects;  neither having  anything in  com­
mon  with the  rapidly decaying  political 
and social  systems  of  the  Old World— 
their union  under one government would 
seem to  be  but  a  matter  of  time.  The 
bond that unites Canada to the  “Mother 
Country”  is  a  purely  sentimental  one, 
where  it is not mercenary,  and  she  will 
not long permit a mere  sentiment  to bar 
her  progress  in  the  march  of  develop­
ment and civilization.  Hampered as she 
has been by herjconnection with England, 
which has made  the development  of  her 
vast  natural resources and the accession 
of population  such  as has  come  to  this 
country an impossibility,  her commercial 
acchievements  have  been  simply  mar­
velous.  A  few  figures  will  suffice  to
show this:  In 1882 the value of Canadian 
imports  was  $179,000,000; 
last  year  it 
was $256,000,000,  an  increase  of  42 per 
cent.  During the same period  the value 
of her products  increased from $209,000,- 
000 to $475,000,000  an  increase  of  52Ji 
per  cent. 
In  twenty-four  years  the 
value of manufactured goods exported in­
creased 432 per  cent. 
In  the  matter  of 
shipping, the  seagoing,  inland  and  lake 
tonnage  (the  employed  registered  ton­
nage)  has  risen in four  years  from 34,- 
000,000  to  43,000,000.  The  deposits  in 
Canadian  savings  banks 
in  1888  were 
$182,000,000;  in  1892  they  had  risen to 
$229,000,000.  The  population  of  the 
Dominion is yet under  six millions.  We 
give these figures to show  what  Canada, 
with her meager  population  and limited 
resources,  has  been  able  to accomplish. 
How  much of this success  is  due to  the 
infusion  of  American  business  push 
and  speculative  energy (by  reflex  influ­
ence,  say)  we  shall  not attempt  to  say. 
The Imperial  government  has  never  en­
couraged  a  general  emigration  of  all 
nationalities to British  colonies,  but  has 
always  striven  to  foster  a purely  Eng­
lish  sentiment  in  the  colonists,  and  to 
this  end  has,  by  a  system  of  assisted 
passages,  sought to  induce  the  surplus 
population of  England to “go out.”  This 
has been  especially the case  in regard  to 
Canada,  her  population  being at  least 
seven-tenths  English.  Had  general  im­
migration  been  permitted 
it  is  safe  to 
say  that  annexation  would  have  taken 
place years  ago.  Union  with  this coun­
try means large accession to  the popula­
tion,  and the consequent  enlargement of 
the home  market  Canada  has  not  the 
means necessary  to develop  her natural 
resources.  Union  with  this  country 
would  give  her  unlimited  capital  for 
this purpose.  American enterprise would 
soon  lift  Canada  out  of  the slough  of 
national  stagnation  into  which  British 
“policy”  has,  intentionally, or otherwise, 
plunged her,  and  she  would  be a sharer 
in  the national greatness and commercial 
prosperity  which  the  future  will  un­
doubtedly bring  to  our  Republic.  The 
political  differences  between  the  two 
countries,  which  must  be  arranged  be­
fore annexation  can  become a fact,  and 
the benefits which  would  accrue to  this 
country  by  such  union,  are  material 
enough  for  another  article,  which, 
if 
permitted,  we  shall lay  before the read­
ers of T h e T radesm an  in  the  near  fu­
ture. 

Da n ie l  Abbott.

FOB.  SALE,  W ANTED,  ETC.

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

BUSINESS  c h a n c e s .

677

F or  sa le —d r u g  stock  on  o n e  o f
the  best  business  streets.  All  new.  Must 
be  sold  soon  if  at  all.  Address  No.  677, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
F or  sa le  or  ex c h a n g e — stock  o f 
ladies’  and  gents’  furnishing  goods  and 
notions.  Will  take  part  real  estate.  Address 
604 Washington ave.  N., Lansing, Mich.  678
BOR  SALE—63,000 OR $4,000 STOCK OF Hard­

ware  well  located;  established  12  years. 
Sickness  reason for  selling.-  Also new store  to 
rent or sell cheap.  Will exchange for  Southern 
California  property.  Also valuable  real  estate 
to  sell.  Address  John  C.  McGowan,  West 
Branch, Ogemaw county, Mich. 

676

675

F o r  sa l e—o n e  o f  t h e  f in e s t   g r o-

cery and  meat  market combined, in  Michi. 
gan  Best location in the city.  Splendid trade. 
Reason for disposing of  it, can’t  give it our per­
sonal  attention.  Address, quick,  Lock  Box 685, 
Ludington, Michigan. 
El e g a n t o f f e r —i t s   no  tr o u b le  to
find drug  stocks for sale, but you  generally 
“find a nigger in the  fence.”  I have an elegant 
drug business for sale; stock about $4,006; 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.  670 |

For  sale -  in  one  of  the  finest

towns of  the  State, a stock of  clothing  and 
furnishings.  Will inventory about $4,800.  Only 
stock in town.  Best of reasons  for  selling.  No 
old stock.  Address  654, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
OR  SALE—WELL-SELECTED  GROCERY 
stock, located on a main thoroughfare.  One 
of  the oldest grocery establishments in the  city, 
which has yielded good returns every year.  For 
full  particulars as  to  stock, terms and  location, 
call on or address Amos S. Musselman, President 
Musselman Grocer Co. 
OR  SALE —FURNITURE,  STOVE  AND 
crockery  business.  Store  well  adapted  to 
the  business.  Undertaking  might  be  added. 
Bargain  on  the  stock;  low rent;  great oppor­
tunity;  fine  prosperous  farming  country.  Ad- 
dress Lock Box 98, Greenville, Mich._____ 651

F or  sa le—g ood,  c l e a n , sa la b le stock

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

654

659

645

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

pharmacist of 14 years experience.  Thirty- 
two  years  of  age.  Strictly  temperate.  No.  1 
references.  W. J.  Mills, Riverdale, Mich.  673

■ ANTED—SITUATION  BY  REGISTERED 
WANTED—POSITION  AS  BOOK-KEEPER 

or salesman in general store by young man 
of 20 years.  Two years’ experience in stole and 
short  course  in  commercial  college.  Good 
references.  Address  No.  058  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
ANTED—POSITION  AS  SALESMAN  BY 
unmarried  man  24  years  old ;  two and  a 
half years in general  store.  Good  stock-keeper. 
References.  Address H., Box 33, Columbiaville, 
Mich 

658

671

MISCELLANEOUS.

674

I F  YOU  HAVE  A  STOCK  OF  MERCHAN- 

.  dise  invoicing  from  $3,000 to  $6,000, and  are 
not  doing  a  satisfactory  trade, address  No. 674, 
care  Michigan  Tradesman, and  you will  learn 
something to your advantage. 

D rug  sto re  to  r e n t  in  c h a r l ev 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  centrally  located.  The  opening  for  a 
good  live  druggist  is  unexcelled  in  Northern 
Michigan, and  the rent  moderate.  Apply to G. 
W. GTouter, Charlevoix, Mich. 

references, wages wanted and experience. 
Drugs, care Tradesman. 
672
ceries  or  general  merchandise.  Must  be 
I cheap.  Address  No. 657, care Michigan Trades- 
man. 

■ ANTED—GOOD  DRUG  CLERK.  GIVE 
■ TILL PAY  CASH  FOR  STOCK  OF  GRO- 
Fo r  s a l e—tw o-story  f r 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, 65 Monroe St.___________  

__________________  

636

655

657

H o w   to  K e ep   a  S tore.
By  Samuel  H.  Terry.  A  book  of  400  pages 
written from the experience and  observation  of 
an old merchant.  It treats of Selection  of Busi 
ness.  Location.  Buying,  Selling, Credit, Adver- 
| tlsing, Account Keeping, Partnerships,  etc.  Of 
| great interest to every one in trade.  $1.50.
THE  TRADESMAN  CO.,  Ag’ts.

Grand Rapids, Mich

The King of Salesmen,

ALL  SHREWD  MERCHANTS  USE  THEM.

To  what  can  we refer  but coupon  boobs,  which  are  now in use  by hundreds of 
Michigan merchants and  are invariably giving  excellent satisfaction'.'  If you wish 
to adopt  the system,  why not buy  at headquarters,  thus  patronizing a house  which 
has  a larger output than  all other coupon  book makers in the country combined?

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Sugar Maker Supplies of 

fill  Kinds,
POST’S EUREKA SAP SPOUTS.

Oifer 15,000,000 Sold.

Patent Improved  1884.

Shgar  m akers  acknowledge  a  very 
large  increase in  the  flow of sap  by the 
use  of  the  self-sealiug  air  trap   in  th i 
IMPROVED  ECKEKA8,  as  claimed 
for them.

SPOUT  NO.  1.

Actual  size,  w ith  heavy  w ire 
hanger  th at does  not break  like 
bangers cast on the spout.

Is provided  with a spur at  the point  end,  which  catches in the wood and anchors 
the  spout in the  tree,  regardless  of  wind,  storm,  frost  or  weight,  as  the  greater 
the weight upon  the  spout  the  more  firmly the  anchor  attaches to the  wood,  the 
tube passing  only through  the  ross  and  bark of  the  tree,  and is superior to other 
spouts for the following  reasons:
First—The anchor  holds the spout  level  with  the  hole in  the  tree,  allowing the 
sap  to run off  without damming up a portion to become sour and  taint  all  sap run­
ning over it.  Second—Does  not  require to  be driven so hard or so far,  hence  does 
not  loosen  the  hark  from  the wood  and allows  the tree to heal  over much  more 
quickly.  Third—Will run  more  sap as it leaves  the outer  pores of  the  tree open 
for the  free  flow of  sap,  and is easily removed  from the  tree  by raising  up on  the 
outer end of  the spout.  Fourth—Is  stronger than  any other  spout in  the market, 
the center plate making it impossible to bend or collapse.

FOR  SALE  AT  FACTORY  PRICES  BY

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B A R C U S   BRO S.,

MANUFACTURERS  OF  CIRCULAR

Cracker  C M . 

Class  Covers  for  Biscuits.

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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

o

R ib b o n s, 

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.  Writ2 .or prices and discounts.
M IC H IG A N

M U S K E G O N ,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

’T ’HESE  chests  will 

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

Spring &  Com pany,

UR new glass covers  are by far the 
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.

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

P. 8TEKETEE X 80N8 O Y S T E R S !

Spring &  Company.

THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

CREAM  CRISP. 

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

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

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

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

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

assorted  stock  at lowest  market  prices.

the best selling cakes we ever made.

HAVE  RECEIVED

lin e   o f  H a m ilto n ,  P a c ific,  S im p so n ’s 

A   fu ll 
G arn er,  M a n c h e ster   a n d   A lle n s   P rin ts, a lso  
A F C   T o ile   du  N ord ,  D resd en ,  B a tes  an d  
A m o s k e a g   w a s h   d ress  g in g h a m s   a n d   ?  a tin es 
A   fresh   n e w  lin e  o f w h ite   g o o d s,  N a in so o k s in 
c h e c k s   an d   strip es a n d   V ic to r ia   la w n s. 

E m b r o id e r y   from   l |c   p er yd.  to  0Oe
Mail orders receive prompt attention.

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.

BEANS If you have any beans and want to seU, 

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

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

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

W H O L E S A L E

Dry  Goods. Garpets and Cloaks

W e  M ake a  S p e c ^ ty  o f ^ k e t s ,  Quilts and  Live  M m i m  

  M ej.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigt,  H enoM eier & Go.

4 8 , 0 0 ,  0 2   O tta w a   St.,

G rand  R a p id s.

THE  LIGHTEST!

THE  STRONGEST!

THE  BEST!
HESTER  MACHINERY  CO.,

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

DODGE
^

H eadquarters  for  Fruit  Jars.

Write  for  our  prices  before  ordering.

We are  prepared this  year to sell  you fruit  Jars put up  1  doz.  in  a case at a slight advance of  the old  style of 6  and  8 

doz.  in  a case,  and wish to call  your special attention to the advantage of handling jars packed in this way.

First,  a great  saving in breakage in transportation.  Second,  saving of  time of  unpacking.  Third,  saving in  paper and 
string to do cans  up.  Fourth,  convenient to handle  for  both  dealer and  customer.  Fifth, the case  makes a dark  closet to 
keep fruit in  after  being canned.  Be sure  you get our  prices on  cans  put up in this  style before  you  place  your orders  for 
the coming season.

THE DANDY

Is a perfect sealer, air tight and 
in  opening  or 
for  simplicity 
closing  it  has  no  equal.  This 
is 
the  only 
jar 
especially 
adapted  for  canners  and  pre­
servers,  as it will  vent itself as 
the  frnit,  vegetables  or  meat 
are cooking by leaving fastener 
on  first  step.  A  trial  of  these 
jars  will  convince  anyone  of 
the above facts.

Combination  Friiit,  Wine  or Jeily  Press.
It has no equal for  making wine, jellies, or fruit 
butter,  and  will  press more  lard in less  time than 
any press of its size to be obtained.

For prices  on  Cherry  Pitters,  Fruit  Press,  etc., 

see page 88 in our 110 Catalogue.

WORK 
IT HAS  100  USES

AND  CLEAN 

The  Silver F rn it  Press and  Potato 

Masher.

This  takes the  place of  all other  frnit 
and  vegetable  presses,  jelly  strainers, 
etc.  The  cup,  being  removable, 
is 
easily cleaned  and if  damaged  new ones 
can be obtained.
For price look on page  88,  catalogue 110.

ENTERPRISE  CHERRY  STONER.

The above cut illustrates our Enterprise Cherry Stoner 
which we particularly recommend  to those desiring rapid 
It  can be adjusted  by thumb  screws to adapt  it 
work. 
to the different  sizes of  cherry stones. 
It will  be  found 
rapid in its work, and a decided improvement over others 
of  this class.

THE MASON

Is still  and  always  will  be the 
favorite with a great many can­
ners.  We  are  better  prepared 
this  year than  ever to meet the 
large demand  for  this  popular 
make of  fruit  jar and  are  now 
makiug  very 
low  prices  for 
future delivery. 
If you are in 
the  market  be sure  and  write 
us for prices.

Qiieen  City  Prilit  or  Jelly  Press.

Save  all  cold  meats,  fowl,  etc.,  put  in  covered 
kettle with  just enough  water to keep from  burn­
ing.  Season to taste.  When thoroughly steamed, 
put  into  press  hot,  and  after  pressing,  allow  to 
remain  until cold. 
It may then be kept for a long 
time and  will slice like cheese.
For  pressing  out  lard,  fruit  or  jelly it  has  no 
equal.

Write  for  our  No.  110  Catalogue,  if  you  have 

NOTICE.

H. LEO N A RD  & SONS,

not received one.

2 3 4   to 1 4 0  East  Fulton  S t .,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

