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MISS  PAMELA’S  VALENTINE.
The raindrops beat against the windows 
and  splashed  on  the  broad  door-stone. 
The elms lashed their long bare arms im­
patiently.  The lilacs beckoned and  tap­
ped at the glass, coaxing to be let in  out 
of the storm.  So  at  least  it  seemed  to 
Miss Pamela Kilburn,  sitting  at her win­
dow that Sunday afternoon.

“ ‘Tain’t fit fur a dog to be out; I had’t 
no idee this noon  that  ’twould  pour  so, 
though it looked  consider’ble  like  rain, 
too,” she said  to  herself,  watching  the 
hens that stood disconsolately on one  leg 
in  the shelter of the ox cart.

After  a  moment  she  went  into  the 
kitchen,  reached  down  her  old  plaid 
shawl  from  its  nail,  pinned  it  tightly 
around her head,  and scurried across  the 
yard to the  barn.  Opening the door, she 
drove the  hens  in  and  fastened ¡it with 
some difficulty.

“That plaguey  hasp  is  broke  ag’in,” 
she  muttered.  “ Well,  I s’pose Joe Nash 
c’n fix it ef he ever gits round to it.  He’s 
dumber’n a fish, I do say.  A  man  about 
the place is dretful handy after all.”

Miss Pamela  sighed as  she entered the 
house and spread her shawl  over a  chair 
to  dry.  When  she  had  smoothed  her 
soft gray hair,  a little ruffled by the wind, 
she resumed her post at the  sitting-room 
window. 
It  was  a  pleasant  place. 
The gay rag-carpet,  the cusioned rocking- 
chairs,  the red and black  covered center- 
table,  the  half-dozen  old  books  on  the 
shelf under the mirror,  all these were re­
garded as members of her family  by  the 
solitary woman who  dwelt  among  them. 
The tall clock in the corner was her  par­
ticular friend.  When she talked to  her­
self,  which she often did,  its clear  brisk 
ticking formed a  reassuring  accompani­
Indoors and outdoors 
ment to her voice. 
the  “ White  House  Farm,”  under 
its 
guardian elms,  showed only homely com­
fort and prosperity,  and  its mistress  led 
life.
to outward eyes,  a quiet,  contented 
The afternoon waned  bleak and  cheer­
less.  Miss  Pamela  kept  her  station  at 
the window,  gazing down the hill towards 
a 
red  house. 
Across the road from it was a still  smal­
ler  and  more  weather-beaten  barn. 
Presently there emerged from  this house 
a man  who carried a pail in either  hand. 
He crossed the road and entered the barn, 
the door swinging to and fro behind him. 
After a  while he reappeared,  still  carry­
ing the pails,  which now steamed  in  the 
chill air.  He set them down,  secured the 
swinging  door,  and  with 
slow  steps 
turned to the house and vanished.

small  weather-beaten 

The watcher at the window drew a long 

breath,  and leaned back in her chair.

“ He’s as regular  as  that  clock  about 
his chores,  Abner  is,”  she  thought;  “I 
guess them pails  was  middlin’  heavy— 
he walked slow.”

Every  Sunday  afternoon  for  nearly 
thirty years she had sat at that east  win­
dow watching  her  old  sweetheart,  and 
listening for an occasional  sound  of  his 
voice as he  called  the  cattle  home. 
It 
seemed  to  her  to-day 
that  he  looked 
thinner and more  bent than ever  before. 
She had heard him cough  once  or  twice

in  meeting  that  morning,  and  walking 
home some one  had  said  that  “ ‘twan’t 
proper for old Mr.  Whitney 
to  be  out 
such threat’nin’ weather.”

along, 

that’s  a  fact,” 

Miss Pamela repeated the words to her­
self:  “Old  Mr.  Whitney!”  He  had  al­
ways been young to her.  “ Well,  we are 
getting 
she 
mused.  “It’s all of thirty years  sence— 
lemme see—to-day’s the  13th  of  Febroo- 
ary—yes, it’s jest thirty yeary ago to-day 
that abner Whitney and  me  come  home 
from meetin’  together, an’ he asked me to 
wait in front of the postoffice  whilst  he 
run up to mail a letter.  He acted dread­
ful  knowin,’  but  1  never  mistrusted 
nothin’  till nex’ morniu,’  when  Mr.  Cut­
ler brought the mail,  an’ amongst it  was 
my valentine.”

She rose, and  went  slowly 

into  her 
darkened parlor.  On the  marble-topped 
“stand” between the  windows  lay a huge 
family  Bible.  This  she  opened,  and 
searching  among  its  leaves,  found  a 
sheet of laeed-edged paper,  yellow  with 
age.  A painted Cupid,  bearing aloft two 
red hearts,  hovered at the  top,  and  be­
neath were the  lines,  written  in  faded 
ink:

If you love me as I love  you
No knife can cut our hearts in two.
O will you not, sweet miss, be  mine,
And take me for your Valentine?

Miss Pamela came back to her seat and 
smoothed the paper  out  upon  her  knee 
with tender  fingers.

“ ’Taint as pretty  as  it  used 

to  be. 
The little  boy’s cheeks  are  consider’ble 
bleached  out—some  like  mine,” 
she 
thought,  with a swift glance at  the  old- 
fashioned mirror on the wall beside  her; 
and as she rocked and gazed at the faded 
love token, the present rolled  away,  and 
she saw herself  once  more  the  comely 
village tailoress, whose face was her only 
fortune,  who went about from  house  to 
house working  and  waiting  cheerfully 
until  handsome  Abner  Whitney  should 
be “ forehanded” enough  to support both 
a wife  and  his  poor  crippled  father. 
Again she received the  summons  to  the 
sick-bed of the lonely old mistress of  the 
“White House Farm,”  who  claimed  her 
services through some  distant  relation­
ship  to  Pamela’s 
long-dead  parents. 
She went over in  memory  the  days  of 
patient watching and care,  relieved  only 
by stolen moments  with  Abner  at  the 
white gate under  the  elms;  again  she 
witnessed the  sad  death-bed,  and  the 
funeral  at  which  she  was  the  only 
mourner.  She even seemed to  hear  the 
words of the will,  leaving “all  of  which 
I die possessed  to  my  beloved  cousin, 
Pamela  Kilburn.” 
remembered 
how,  when the first shock of surprise was 
over,  all her joy had been that at last she 
and Abner and his old father might have 
a happy home together.  A shiver passed 
over her as she recalled that first Sunday 
after the  funeral,  when  Abner  came 
to 
her as she  stood 
in  the  church  porch 
amid a crowd of  congratulating  friends 
and said so quietly,  “I  hope  you  may 
live long to  enjoy  your  good  fortune, 
Miss Kilburn,” and 
then  he  had  gone 
away alone to his house,  and  that  had 
been the end of  it  a ll,.  How  hopefully

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to 
she had waited for him to come  back 
her!  Then angry pride  had  crept  into 
her heart;  she  could  show  herself  as 
stubborn as he!  And so  the  years  had 
gone by. leaving them just two  unueigh- 
borly old  neighbors,  whose  little  love- 
story was scarcely  remembered  by  the 
present generation.

Miss Pamela did  not  often  give  her 
memory rein.  She had  a  healthy,  self- 
reliant nature, and  life for  her  had  not 
been altogether  unhappy.  But  tonight 
she felt “dretful low-sperited some way,” 
and suddenly  her  eyes  overflowed  with 
tears.

“I’m an awful fool,”  she  said  after  a 
moment,  giving  herself  a  shake  and 
searching for her handkerchief, “a reg’lar 
fool!  But I  do  hate  to  think  of  him 
never havin’  no chance, ’count  of  takin’ I 
care of his father so long,  an’  now  left • 
poor and miser’ble!  Gittin’ old, too (he’s | 
sixty-four come hayin’  time.  Abner  is), I 
an’ me with plenty  an’  more! 
I  don’t 
feel right to  hev it  so.”  A  pause.  “1 
don't b’lieve he’s  ever  thought  of  any I 
other  livin’  woman” 
(Miss  Pamela! 
blushed at herself in the glass),  “ but  he 
won’t never give in,  I s’pose—an’ 1 could | 
make him so comfortable,  too! 
lie  told j 
Mis’ Ellis,  more’n ten years ago, that he’d 
ruther  starve 
than  hang  onto  a  rich 
woman’s petticuts!  Rich!  Well,  there’s 
more'n one way of lookin’  at things’  an’
I say that plenty of means an’  no  one  to 
share ’em with ain't nothin’ but the  wust 
kind of poverty. 
.Lawzy me,  I  wisht  he 
wasn’t so  turrible  proud  an’  stubbed! 
I’ve a good uotion to ask  him  myself,  I 
declare  for’t!”  A  wave  of  vivid  red 
swept over Miss Pamela’s face up  to  the 
roots of her hair.  She sat  up straight in 
her chair,  clasping her  hands  nervously 
over the  valentine,  which  rustled  and 
crackled as  if  it  whispered  words  of 
encouragement.

The  clock ticked away  an  hour,  and 
still its mistress sat  with eyes 
that  saw 
nothing save a thin,  bo .ved man,  moving 
wearily about his forlorn  home,  with  no 
prospect before him but another  day  as 
dreary and comfortless as  the  oue 
that 
was past.

A  wave of  almost motherly tenderness 
filled the woman's heart;  tenderness that 
washed  away  the  resentment  of  many 
years.

“I a'most believe I’ll  do it!  Ef  I  was 
certain ’twa'n’t too turrible bold!  I s’pose 
I  might  try  it  by  the  Bible  same  as 
mother used  to—le’s  see—you  shet your 
eyes,  an’  p’int  out a line,  an’  go by  what 
it  says—well.  I'm  agoin’  to  do it,  an’  ef 
its  wrong,  may  the  Lord  forgiv’  me!” 
said  Miss Pamela fervently.

She  brought  the  Bible  and  laid  it on 
the  table.  Then  with  closed  eyes  and 
bowed head  she  whispered;

“O Lord—show  me the  right—for  thy 

name's sake—amen.”

She opened the book,  placed  her finger 
blindly on the  page,  and  after a moment 
of  silent  waiting,  read  aloud the words 
that were to be her oracle:

“ And a little child shall lead  them.” 
Twice she read it over.
“I don't see  what that means;  seem s’s 
ef  it  didu’t  help  much,”  she  thought, 
disappointed,  and  just  then  her  puzzled 
gaze fell  upon  the  painted  valentine  ly­
ing forgotten on the table.

“ A little  child  shall  lead them.”  The 
meaning  was plain  to  her  in an  instant.
It’s  beautiful!” 
cried  Miss  Pamela  smiling  with  misty 
eyes at the blue-robed  cherub.  “I’ll send

“O,  it’s  beautiful! 

it back to him  to-night after meetin’,  an’ 
he’ll git it to-morrer, same as I did thirty 
years  ago, Oh, dear  me  suz,  I hope he’ll 
understand that I ain’t jest bein’ forward 
I’m only a'valuin’ my pride less’n his’n.”
She  searched  until  she  found  an  en­
velope  to  contain 
love-token 
which  was  to  pass  once  more  between 
these  two.  When it was  sealed  and  di­
rected,  she  laid  it  away  with  her  best 
bonnet and shawl, ready for  the evening, 
and  looked  out  at the  darkening  land­
scape.  Her face fell.

the  old 

“Like’s  not  he  won’t  stir  out  ef  it’s 
goin’ to  be a bad  night—I  must  look  at 
the  west.  His cough troubled him pretty 
consider’ble in sermon-time this  mornin’. 
There’s a draught  by the  window  where 
he sets.  My pew’s as warm as toast.”

Abashed  at  her  own 

thought,  Miss 
Pamela  hurried  to  the  west  door  and 
threw  it  open.  The  rain  had  ceased, 
though  drops still  hung glittering  from 
every  twig.  Far  away toward  the  sun­
set shone  a  level  band  of  gold.  All 
about  her  the  eager  swallows  darted, 
now close to the ground,  now high  in  the 
air.

“ For lo.  the winter  is  past,  the rain  is 
over and gone,  the flowers  appear on the 
earth,  the time of  the singing of  birds  is 
come,”  quoted  Miss  ^amela,  uncon­
sciously.  All  her doubts and fears rolled 
away and  her  heart  was  filled  with  the 
golden promise of the west and the  music 
of a thousand birds’ songs.

Evening meeting was over.  The women 
adjusted  their  wraps  as  they  gravely 
followed the men down the narrow aisles.
After she had  seen  Abner Whitney  in 
his  accustomed  place,  Miss  Pamela  had 
sat oue moment, wishiugthe sermon over, 
the next  that it might  never  end,  but no 
idea of giving up  her project entered her 
mind. 
It  was  right  to  do,  therefore  it 
must  be  done;  and  when  the  old  man 
passed her pew he  found her  waiting for 
him  with outstretched hand.

“Good  evenin’,  Abner,”  she  said. 

It 
seemed  to  her  that  he  must  hear her 
heart  beat.  Her  voice  was  dry  and 
husky,  yet  she 
spoke  out  bravely. 
“ Howdy  do!  C’n  I  git you  to  light my 
lantern? 

I hain’t got no  match.”

Abner Whitney  was  too  surprised  to 
answer  her.  He  took  her  hand  a  mo­
ment  and  walked  down  the  aisle at her 
side.

they  came  out  on 

“ You  won’t need no lantern,  Pamely,” 
he  said,  when 
the 
porch,  “the  stars  is  bright  as  buttons 
after  the  rain. 
’Twa’n’t  a  long  storm, 
but  ’twas  considerable  f’erce  while  it 
lasted.”  He glanced  at her shyly.  “I’ll 
walk  with  you’s  fur’s  th’  corner. 
I’m 
goin’  up to Bradford’s an’  borry  his Sun­
day paper.  He’s a good  neighbor,  Brad­
ford is.”

“So  he  is,  certainly,”  assented  Miss 
Pamela,  trying  to  collect  her  thoughts. 
Just so they had walked thirty years ago. 
She  wondered  if  he remembered  it  too. 
She  drew the  valeutine  from  under  her 
shawl,  and as they neared  the post  office 
she  said  slowly  and  distinctly,  like  one 
repeating a lesson:

“I wisht—you’d  wait—fur me—a  min- 

nit. 

I want t’  mail—a letter.”

The man  looked  at  her  curiously. 

It 
seemed to him  that  he  was  living  over 
some dimly remembered experience.  He 
took  the  envelope  out of  her unresisting 
hand.  “I’ll do  it  fur  ye,  ’f  ye like,”  he 
said,  and,  going  up 
to  the  box,  he 
dropped it in.  She  thanked him  breath­
lessly,  and  then  in  silence  they  walked

♦   —  4

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w  y 

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to  the  cross-road,  clasped  hands  once 
more and parted.

“O Lord!  O  Lord!”  gasped Miss Pame­
la,  hurrying  into  the  house,  “I’ve  done 
it  now for  certain  sure!  An’  1 don’t be 
lieve he cares a grain.”

For  the  first  time in  her  life,  she  lay 
with  wide-staring  eyes  while  the  long 
night  wore  away  and  brought  another 
St.  Valentine’s  day.

‘“It’s a beautiful day, but I guess lwon’t 
begin  my  washin’  this morgin,” ’ thought 
the mistress of the “White House  Farm” 
over  her  early  cup  of  coffee.  “Th3r’ 
ain’t no hefty reason  why  I  should,  nor 
why 1 shouldn’t,  for the  matter  of  that, 
but 1 didn’t sleep well last night.  Them 
sausages yes’day didn’t set well, 1 guess.” 
That she had lain awake thinking oj  Ab­
ner Whitney was a thing  not  to  be  ac­
knowledged even to herself  in  the  cold 
light of day.

A long drawn  bellow  from 

the  barn 
interrupted her.  “For  the  land’s  sake, 
ain’t that Joe Nash fed  them  cows  yit! 
He  gits  later  ’n  later  every  mornin’. 
Poor critters.  I’ll tend to ’em  myself this 
minit.  Good for nothin’  little scamp!”

So the old shawl  came  down  from  its 
nail again,  and  Miss Pamela went out  to 
give her hungry servants their breakfast. 
While  they  ate  she  stood  meditatively 
looking about her.  How  warm  the  air 
was for February,  and how good the  hay 
smelt.  Suddenly she  heard  a  footstep 
at the door.

“Here, Joe,” she called, “I’ve done some 
o’  your  chores  a’ready,  but  ain’t  you 
kinder ’shamed  ter  be  so  lazy?  Why, 
Abner—Abner Whitney,  how  you  scairt 
me!  1—I  thought  ’twas  Joe  Nash—he’s 
dretful  troublesome lately—I—”

Abner Whitney came close  to  her  and 

laid his baud upon her arm.

“ Never mind the boy, Pamela.” he said. 
“ Look  at this.”  He held  out the  faded 
valentine.

It  was  very  still  in  the  barn.  Miss 
Pamela’s cat slid down from the haymow 
where she slept, and rubbed against them, 
arching her back and  purring.

Presently  the  man  spoke  again.  “I 
was passin’ the office early this  mornin’, 
an’ Bates he stopped me, an’  give  me  a 
letter. 
‘Mebbe it’s a  valentine,  Abner,’ 
he says,  an’  he laughed,  an’  so  did  1. 
You know what it was, Pamely,  for  you 
sent it to me.  Say,  it—it aint a joke, 
is 
I  wouldn’t want to  think  you’d  try 
it? 
I’ve been turrible 
ter make a fool o’ me. 
proud an’ hard, Pamely. 
I thought 1 was 
adoin’  right by you,  but I’d  ruther  drop 
right down dead where I  be.”  His  voice 
choked.

Miss Pamela put her hands  before  her 
face and sobbed.  “ ’Tain’t a joke, Abner; 
don’t ye know  me  better’n 
I’ve 
been lonesome too,  an’  I’ve  waited  so 
long, an’ you never said  a  word,  an’  1 
thought mebbe ef I sent back my  valen­
tine  you’d  understand 
that  I  meant 
everything.  Abner!”

that? 

In and out of the barn  door  the  hens 
walked  with  leisurely  steps,  enjoying 
the  springlike  sunshine. 
The  cows 
munched contentedly,rubbing their necks 
up and  down 
the  stanchels.  The 
swallows twittered,  and  called  to  each 
other from the eaves.

in 

Across  the  yard,  hand-in-band 

like 
two children, came  a  gray-haired  man 
and woman.  They smiled as they talked, 
bending towards one another,  but  there 
were traces of tears on their cheeks.  As 
they reached the door the man said  wist­
fully:

“I s’pose  you’re  dreadful  busy  this 
mornin’,  Pamely;  I’ll  come  back  ag’in 
t’night.”

But  Miss Pamela  drew  him 

into  the 
sitting room  with tender  authority,  and 
seated him in her own rocking-chair.

“You jest set there  whilst I flax  round 
an’ stir up some griddle cakes and  make 
a fresh pot of coffee,  fur I  don’t  believe 
you had a mite of breakfast,  and I  don’t 
relish mine none.  Here comes  that  Joe 
Nash,  but I hain’t no heart to scold  him. 
1 dunno but what be does as well  as  the 
heft of boys anyway.”

She disappeared through  the  doorway 
and Abner  Whitney 
leaned  back  with 
closed  eyes.  The  clincking  of  dishes, 
the sound of Pamela’s voice  softly  hum­
ming a tune over  her  preparations,  the 
aroma of the coffee, even  an  occasional 
whiff of smoke  from  the  griddle,  sur­
rounded him  with a feeling  of  rest  and 
contentment.  Presently he could distin­
guish the words of the hymn  his  sweet­
heart sang:

On Ararat the Ark did land,
And saved all that trustin' band.

“That’s 

the  hymn  for  us,  certain, 
Pamely,”  said Abner,  appearing  at  the 
kitchen door.

“We’ve been  tossed about  pretty  con­
sider’ble,  but we’re  landed safe on  to the 
mountain  top,  an’  you”—he 
smiled 
gently,  laying  a  detaining  arm  about 
her shoulders—“you’re offerin’ up a  sac­
rifice of coffee au’  griddle-cakes.”

“Ef you don’t let me go it’ll  be a burnt 
offerin’,  Abner,” Miss Pamela  answered, 
half proud,  half shy,  “but  there,  we’re 
a’makin’ 
light  of  serious  things,  an’ 
tain’t right.  You set up to the table now 
an’ eat the cakes’s fast  as  1  bake  ’em.
I always did hold that a cake that warn’t 
hot off’n the griddle warn’t no better’n so 
much shoe leather.  The  coffee’s  beauti­
ful, ef l do say it.  Come,  dear!’’

Sa lly  Backus Griggs.

The  Visiting: Clause.

There are probably not many  travelers 
on the railroad  who know  of  the  “ visit­
ing” clause in the  rules  of  sleeping-car 
companies. 
In  the Wagner  rules  it  is 
provided  that  “passengers  who  have 
purchased berths will  not  be  prohibited 
from iuviting friends en  route  to  share 
their  accommodations.  For  persons  so 
invited the regular form  of  berth  check 
will be issued,  punching  out  the  cipher 
and writing  the  word  ‘visitor’  • plainly 
across the face of the  check.  This  rule 
does not admit of an invitation being  ex­
tended so that  more  than  two  persons 
occupy  one  berth.  *  *  *  On  trains 
where there are two or more cars of  this 
company,  visiting  will  be  allowed  be­
tween  the  passengers  who  have  pur­
chased  accommodations  in  either  car, 
provided inconvenience  is  not  done  to 
any of the other occupants of the  cars.

A u stralian  C heese.

The exporters of cheese from the  Aus­
tralian colonies to Eugland  are,  says  the 
Orocers’  Chronicle  of  London,  finding 
their efforts to  establish  a  market  for 
their goods on this side ably seconded  by 
some of  the  largest  British 
importers,- 
notably the leading Scotch  houses.  The 
Secretary of State of Agriculture in  Vic­
toria has received a letter from a leading 
Glasgow firm  containing  some  valuable 
hints regarding the sorts  best  suited  to 
the English  and  Scotch  markets.  The 
New Zealand cheeses,  inasmuch as  they 
very closely  resemble ^the  English  pro­
duct,  are most in demand,  and  from  fig­
ures quoted by the  firm  the  profits  at­
tending this branch of trade appear to be 
not inconsiderable. 
It seems the cheeses 
which find  chief  favor  over  here  are 
those of cheddar shape and pale in color, 
two cheeses to the case.  There is  every 
prospect this season of increased  prices, 
owing to  the  favorable  opinion  created 
by the colonial article.

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8

few  are  willing 

should devolve on the part of  the  hired- 
man  continuity  of  service,  a  condition 
which 
to  make.  1 
have tried it with  varying  success,  but 
am not prepared to say more than  with a 
steady man  it works fairly  well.
Experimental:  The  real  merchant  is 
no experimentalist; no man  pours  metal 
into  a  mold  to  see  what  comes  out. 
Legitimate  trading  is  supplying 
that 
which  the public  really  want  or  fancy 
they  want.  He  should  stand  ready  to 
supply, but his skill should  indicate  the 
place,  the stock,  the  style.  He  should 
project so as  to  intelligently  anticipate 
wants,  should  read  largely  on  finance 
and trade; should always  converse  with 
men of his kind,  always having  the  bal­
ance of information in his favor.
I  worked four years for a firm  employ­
ing 300  men,  and  that  firm  wholly  es­
chewed law  suits.
There is nothing to be  gained  in  van­
quishing a customer in argument on  any 
i subject; a merchant  sells,  and  is  dumb 
to everything else while at his  business.
In conclusion,  it  may  sound  old-fash­
ioned,  but it  is  true—"Corruption  wins 
not more than honesty.”  I  am  opposed 
to  every  concealed  method.  Mark 
plainly,  deal  openly,  speak  the  truth; 
and with energy,  health,  application  and 
progressiveness,  ah  honorable  field  is 
open and offers more to the graduates  of 
our high  schools than any one of  the  so- 
called professions.
L iability o f C ollecting  B anks for  Negli­

Som e o f tlie E lem en ts o f S uccess.
Salesmen  and  saleswomen:  Hire  no 
one who has not the intention of  making 
a life business  of  it,  and  of  attaining 
eminence as a merchant.  You  will  find 
that a good salesman is all  the better for 
every branch of education  or item of  in­
formation he  is  possessed  of.  A  good 
merchant is a model  for  every  employe 
he has and  the  more  he  impresses  his 
image on their minds the  more  effective 
his forces become. 
In this  connection it 
is his duty and his profit to  instruct  his 
youthful help in all the facts and methods 
pertaining to the business.  As  a maxim 
your salesman should always know more 
of the nature of  his  goods,  their  excel­
lencies and adaptability  than  any  cus­
tomer he may wait on,  thus  giving  him 
an ascendency and confidence  that has a 
wholesome effect  on  an  irresolute  cus­
tomer on the one hand or  a  too  positive 
one on the other.  There  is  a  merchant 
in Cincinnati who can  name  the  manu­
facturer and gauge the quality  of almost 
any fabric of domestic  manufacture,  and 
he is willing to pay  liberally  any  sales­
man who will labor to acquire  the  same 
knowledge.
As to wages and  hours,  a  good  mer­
chant has no difficulty.  Clock  watchers 
and muscle savers he  should  weed  out. 
They are easily known  by  slovenly kept 
stocks and small sales columns.  A  wide­
awake merchant will  pay  special  premi­
ums for the sale of goods that  don’t  sell 
themselves, and  will  reward,  as  mer­
chants know how to do.  for  clearing  out 
remnants and  surplus  stocks,  and  will 
ask no time service he does not  pay  for.
Advertising  has  become  a  necessary 
means to the carrying  on  of  aggressive 
business. 
I  have written  many  adver­
tisements,  some telling,  some apparently 
without result.  But for a merchant who 
wants  to  maintain  his  self-respect  a 
sightly statement  in  the  daily  papers, 
facts in their strongest  arrangement and 
wording,  is the proper thing.
In  my  experience  the  newspapers, 
secular and religious,  are worthless  to a 
man who wants customers to come to his 
store.  But for the order trade, especially 
where no stock is kept and where it is to 
the interest of the seller that he shall not 
meet the buyer,  they  serve  well.  But I 
am writing regarding  regular  business. 
Above all eschew programmes  and fakes 
in the advertising line,  cupidity  being a 
ruling passion with many  buyers,  and it 
being true that it is easier to make money 
out of vices than the wants  of  mankind. 
Advertisements  which  promise  to  the 
buyer  an  unreasonable  advantage  over 
the seller readily draw this class of  cus­
tomer—being,  of  course,  largely  ignor­
ant of the true value of goods,  and com­
ing to get wool for nothing they go home 
shorn and mountebank  millionaires—too 
often disfigure the columns of  the paper 
and debase the  character  of  honorable 
business.
Horace  Greeley, commenting  on  this 
class of dealer,  says that young men  are 
attracted by their glitter,  but as they rise 
quickly they fall suddenly,  none  lasting 
thirty years. 
If you have  an  advantage 
and can set the same  before  the  people 
you are a public benefactor  and  will  be 
patronized. 
In this  city  I  could  name 
four most successful firms  whose  adver­
tisements in the daily papers are reliable 
in every respect  and  are  gladly  read. 
They bring trade  and  are  a  source  of 
profit to all concerned.
Special  ways of attracting and  holding 
trade, there are none.  Locate  properly, 
buy judiciously,  keep neatly,  display  at­
tractively,  advertise  liberally,  offer  re­
spectfully,  conduct  accommodatingly, 
sell  reasonably,  deal  justly,  and  the 
public will do their part just as surely as 
you do yours.
If 
by this is meant the  establishing  of  de­
partment stores,  let me say that the  man 
who gives his  accumulated  experiences, 
his slowly earned savings  and  his  disci­
plined mind,  body and  soul  to  the  con­
ducting of a  business  in  any  specialty 
will thrive under the shadow of  any  de­
partment  agglomeration  in 
the  world, 
“Beware of  the  man  of  one  book.”  A 
man’s two hands and two eyes  are  more 
serviceable than  a  hired  Bivarus  and 
Argus can ever be.
But if co-operation  is  meant,  then  it

Combining or associating interests: 

gence.

A case involving the  liability of banks 
for failure to exercise care and  diligence 
in  making  collections  they  undertake, 
was decided in  the Circuit  Court  of  St. 
Louis  last  week,  and  presents  several 
features of interest.
The  15th  of  October,  1883,  Selz, 
Schwab & Co., Chicago, drew  at  one day 
sight for  $2,032.25  on  W. S.  Wetzel,  Ft. 
Benton,  Montana,  through  the  Bank  of 
Northern Montana of that place,  with in­
structions  to  present  promptly  for  ac­
ceptance and urge payment  at  maturity. 
But authorizing the bank, if a reasonable 
amount  were  then paid  on  it,  to  grant 
Mr.  Wetzel  10  or  20  days’  additional 
time on  the  balance.  The  27th of Octo­
ber the bank  made returns  for one-half, 
or  $1,016.25,  stating  that  Wetzel  had 
agreed  to  yay  the  balance  in  20  days. 
Hearing nothing further  from  the draft, 
Selz, Schwab  &  Co.  wrote  the bank  on 
November  27  to  urge  payment; and  on 
the 12th of December,  becoming anxious, 
in the absence of any response whatever, 
telegraphed the  bank  by night  message 
that if the draft was not  paid  forthwith 
to place it in the  hands of  a reliable at­
torney.
December 15th, on receipt of  an agen­
cy report that Wetzel had  been  attached

This 

and had assigned,  they  wired  the bank, 
asking whether  they  were  protected, to 
which the latter  replied  on  the 17th  in 
the negative,  but  stating  in  effect  that 
the  case  had  been  entrusted  to  M.  J. 
Learning,  an attorney.  The  latter,  how­
ever,  knew  nothing  of  the matter until 
the receipt of a letter from  Selz,  Schwab 
& Co.  asking what  he had  done,  and  he 
then called  upon  the  bank Jan.  17,  and 
received the draft.
looked  suspicious,  to  say  the 
least,  nor  was  its  aspect  mended  by  a 
statement from Wetzel  that,  long before 
the  assignment,  he  had  paid  the  bank 
the money to take up the balance.
The assignment yielding only about 30 
per cent., Selz, Schwab & Co.  garnisheed 
the  bank’s balance  with the Continental 
Bank  at  St.  Louis.  The  defense  set 
forth  that,  during  the  time  of holding 
the draft,  Wetzel  was  directly  or  con­
tingently liable for  paper which it held, 
and  was  most  of  the  time  overdrawn; 
and,  though  admitting  the  deposit  of 
large sums of  money, denied  that it  had 
been instructed by  Wetzel to apply  part 
of it to clean up  the draft. 
It admitted, 
however,  that  it  knew  Mr.  Wetzel 
to 
have  been  practically insolvent,  an  ad­
mission  hardly  necessary,  as  they  had 
been among the ones to attach.
The prosecution abandoned the plea of 
wrongful  conversion,  but  showed in ef­
fect  that  the  bank  had  neglected  its 
duty  to  use  reasonable  care  and  dili­
gence,  had disregarded  positive  instruc­
tions,  limiting  the  time  for  holding the 
collection and  had  neglected  if  not  be­
trayed the  interests  entrusted to  it.  So 
the Court instructed  the jury  to find  for 
plaintiffs to the amount  of  loss  with in­
terest.  The  question  at  issue  seems 
fairly to have been tested as the defense, 
in charge of Messrs.  Ellis & Lee,  among 
the leaders of  the  St.  Louis  bar,  fought 
hard at every  point,  while  the  prosecu­
tion was ably conducted by  Hon. Nathan 
Frank,  an attorney equally eminent,  and 
to whom thanks  are  due  from  the mer­
cantile community for  his  successful ef­
forts in  establishing a  precedent  of  pe­
culiar value to them.

It  W on’t   B uy  H is  Tobacco.

Westley Hammond,of New Albany,Ind. 
has received notice that  the  government 
has allowed him a pension of $8  a month 
for services in the  Black  Hawk  war  of 
1832.  Mr.  Hammond  is  disgusted  be­
cause the pension does not  date  back  to 
the time of his  enlistment,  and  thinks 
that it ought to be $30 a month, any way. 
$8 he says is not enough to  keep  him  in 
chewing  tobacco.  He  is  a  prominent 
merchant of New Albany, and worth  not 
less than $250,000.

BOY  THE  PENINSULAR
Pits,  Sits,  aid  Overalls

Once and You aie our Customer 

for life.

STANTON, MOREY & C0„ Mtrs.

DETROIT,  MICH.

Geo. F. Ow en, Salesman  for Western .Michigan, 

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

Our  machine  Has a  reversil-.e  tulary  motion 
of both upper and lower washboards, giving the 
true  hand-rubbing  principle.  Clothes  never 
bunch while washing, common fault with others 
necessitating rearranging;  not a pleasant task.
Wm. Brummeler & Sons,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Phone 640

260 S.  Ionia St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

NET  PRICE  LIST'OF SAP  PAILS  PER 100.

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

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IX
$17
18

22 50

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

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

above prices.  Terms, 30 days net.

Send for  price list of general  line of  tinware.

U S B

MILE-END
Best  Six  Bord

— FOR —

jM in e   or  Hand  Use.

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL

Dealers  in  Dry  Hoods & Notions.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

ABOUND THE STATE. 

Montgomery—W.  F.  Freed  succeeds J. 

F.  Duguid  in general  trade.

Saginaw—J.  H.  Dinwoodie will remove  Richlantl

his jewelry stock to Coleman.

Bronson—Mrs. C.  Norton  has  sold  her 

grocery stock to J.  1).  Johnson.
Dearborn—Cartwright  Bros, 

W.  A.  Dehn in the drug business.

succeed 

Corunna—M.  L.  Chase  succeeds Chase 

& Kellogg in the grocery  business.

Hubbardston—Perry  Frink  succeeds 

Townsend & Frink in  general trade.

Lisbon—Appleton &  Harrison  succeed 

R.  F.  Hastings  in  the drug business.

Burr Oak—M.  E.  Downs  succeeds  L. 

H.  Maliery  in the grocery  business.

Wilmot—Kline Bros,  have moved their 

general stock to North Webster,  Ind.

Atlas—Fred E.  Gale  is  succeeded  by 

Abram  Up De Graff in general trade. 

Dollar ville—Darcy  &  Son 

succeed 

Bettes,  Darcey & Co.  in general trade.

Saginaw—C.  F.  Zwerk is  succeeded by 
John H.  Qualmann in the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Iron mountain—V. C.  Chellew  is  suc­
ceeded by J.  P.  Outhwaite  in  the  meat 
business.

Traverse  City—Wm.  Armstrong  suc­
ceeds  Armstrongs Ringler in the grocery 
business.

Menominee—Hans Nelson is succeeded 
in the  furniture 

by Nelson  &  Axelson 
business.

Hancock—Lazarus Silverman  succeeds 
Silverman & Levy in the  dry  goods  and 
notion business.

Marquette—John C.  Fassbender is suc­
ceeded  by  John  C.  Fassbender,  Jr.  in 
the meat business.

Saginaw—Robt.  Young has  moved his 
clothing  and  men’s  furnishing  goods 
business to Indianapolis,  Ind.

Ironwood—P.  V.  Henningseu  &  Meh- 
der, tailors, have dissolved.  P.  V.  Hen- 
ningsen continuing the business.

Otsego—While  Deputy Sheriff  McNin 
| was taking an inventory of the  stock  of 
E.  E.  Smith & Co.,  by virtue of a  writ of 
attachment  Friday,  he  was  assaulted  by 
E.  E.  Smith,  George Smith  and  Mrs.  E. 
E.  Smith and forcibly thrown out of  the 
store.  The deputy  sheriff  summoned a 
posse and  proceeded to retake possession 
It resulted in  a free  tight  with a  large 
portion of the  people  of  the  town  as 
spectators.  After 
hard 
work on 
the  part  of  the  sheriff  and 
helpers,  the Smith brothers were thrown 
bodily out on the sidewalk.  Some of the 
goods in the store  were  broken 
the 
fracas,  and some of the participants were 
injured,  but the difference of  opinion as 
to ownership will  be  settled  by  an  ap­
peal to the courts. Smith  &  Co.  having 
executed an  indemnifying bond.

considerable 

in 

MANUFACTUKING  MATTERS.

Bronson—Woodruff & Walker  succeed 
H.  T. Woodruff in the  cigar  manufactur­
ing business.

Houghton—Kutscheid &  Rule  succeed 
Kutscheid & Gitzen in  the  cigar  manu­
facturing business.

Alpena—A.  Mclnnis succeeds  Mclnnes 
& Moffatt in the  blacksmith  and  wagon 
manufacturing business.

West  Branch—A.  L.  Shrigley has pur­
chased  a new boilder for his shingle  mill 
near here.  The  mill 
is  cutting  75,000 
shingles daily.

Zeeland—Mr.  Flokken  will  continue 
the manufacture  of  imported  cheese  at 
this place,  starting  a  factory  at  Mona, 
III.,  in addition.

Saginaw—The shingle  firms at this end 
of the river have all secured  a full  stock 
of logs and  expect a  good  season’s  run 
with  excellent  prospects  of  an  active 
business and  fairly good prices.

Kalamazoo—F.  C.  Andrews  &  Co., 
painters  and  wall  paper  dealers,  have 
West  Branch—It is  said  that  as  soon 
dissolved,  Andrews & Park  succeeding.
as the French  Lumber  Co.  cuts  out  its 
Ironwood—H.  Keese & Co.,  dealers  in 
stock of logs  here, 
the  mill  having  a 
general trade,  Hour and feed,  etc.,  have
three months supply,  it will  be removed 
sold their meat business to M.  Forslund.
to Rose City,  the new lumbering  town  in
Ionia—O. J.  Bretz &  Co.  have  leased j Ogemaw county, 
the store now occupied  by  Miller & Hud-  Muskegou-P.  J.  Connell, 
the  well- 
son,  and  will  put in a  line  of  furniture I known  contractor,  will on  April  l  sever
and undertaking goods.
his connection  with  the  firm  of  Connell 
& Son.  contractors,  and go into the brick 
and tile business in 
In  con­
nection  with the  Emeus  Brick  &  Tile 
Co.,  be will  erect  an  office  at  Western 
avenue and  Water street, where they will 
also have a brick  yard  and  handle  all 
kinds of building  material.

Hastings—Joseph Rogers  has sold  au 
interest in his grocery  stock 
to  Charles 
Gardner,  and the same will  be carried on 
under the firm name of  Joseph Rogers  & 
Co.

this  city. 

Muskegon—Howard  Shaw,  for  some 
time connected  with the  grocery  house 
of D. Christie,  has purchased the grocery 
stock of L.  M.  Cod in an  and  will continue 
the business.

Zeeland—U.  DeKruif,  Jr.,  is  now  oc­
cupying the new buildiug he has  erected 
especially for the agricultural implement 
trade. 
It is one of  the  finest  buildings 
in  the county.

Saginaw—The  going  out  of  commis­
sion of the mills here of Nelson  Holland, 
C.  M.  Hill and Stevens & La Due  will re­
the  coming  season 
duce  the  capacity 
about 40,000,000 feet. 
is  understood 
that the  Mitchell,  McClure  &  Co.  mill 
will  cut  Canada 
logs.  Two  or  three 
other  small  mills  will  cut 
tor  other 
parties and on  stock  purchased  by  the 
owners.

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Big Rapids—Fred E.  Neahr  and  J.  F. 
Hughes have  purchased 
the  boot  and
shoe stock of Geo.  A.  Roof and  will con- 
c_-_ 
Saginaw—Several  firms are  inspecting 
tin ue the  business  under  the  stvle  of!/-» 
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I Georgian  Bay timber limits with *he view
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Neahr & Hughes. 
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of  purchasing.  J.  T.  Hurst,  of  Wyan-
lonia—M.  M.  McGeary  &  Co.  have  dotte,  the most daring  pine  land  specu- 
purchased the grocery  stock  of  W.  L. 
lator in  Michigan,  has a number of  large 
Mead,  and have  taken  possession.  Mr.  tracts under his  eagle  eye,  and  O.  E. 
McGeary is  favorably  known  here,  and j Elsemore,  his  general  utility  man,  has 
there appears no reason  why  he  should j just returned from  a tour of inspection of 
j limits.  He  buys  for  speculation  solely
not make a success of the  business. 

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Morenci—Harry  Spencer  has  pur-  and has done more to help the  Canadians | was had.

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chased  his  father’s interest in  the  drug  out as to the increase in the price of their 
Sec.  3.  AH  such  actions  shall  be 
and grocery stock of  H.  H.  Spencer  &  timber than ail  the Canadians themselves  commenced and prosecuted  to  effect  by 
Co.  iinH  will  /intifinno  iho  cama  nnria. ! hana Kann  .Ki. in nnkinnn 
ikn  i.ni  on I the prosecuting  attornev  of  the  countv
I the prosecuting  attorney  of  the  county 
j Co., and will continue  the  same  under  have been  able to achieve in  the  last 
j the name  of  H.  H.  Spencer.  Reuben j  years.
in which such action  is brought.
Spencer will return to his former home at

 

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Manistee—The  Freesoil  Lumber  Co. i  One hundred tons of  cats’  tails  were 
has purchased on  private terms the plant  recently sold at once for the  purpose  of 
of the Stronach Lumber Co.  at  the  head  ornamenting 
ladies’  wearing  apparel.
1 his means that,  assuming  an  average
of Manistee  Lake.  The  property  con- | cat’s tau to weigh two  ounces,  no fewer 
sists of a saw  and  shingle  mill  and  as  than  1,792,000 pussies had  to  be  killed, 
complete a salt manufacturing  plant  as 
there is in  this  vicinity.  The  company 
will discontinue its  operation at Freesoil 
and confine itself to running the Stronach 
plant. 
It  has  also  concluded  negoti­
ations  whereby  4,000  acres  of  timber 
land are transfereed  to them by the Flint 
& Pere Marquette Railroad  Company.

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

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED.  ETC.

Itti¡SINESS  C H A N C E S .

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Bay City—Mill  men  are  making  pre­
parations for the summer  campaign  and 
expect an  active  season.  The  snow  is 
disappearing gradually and  should there 
be no more heavy snow falls  it will soon 
all be gone on the  river  and  a  freshet 
will  be avoided. 
In the  woods  there  is 
still a large  quantity  of  snow  on  the 
ground which is  being  utilized  by  log 
haulers.  The  quantity  of  hardwood, 
hemlock,  elm  and  basswood 
logs  and 
cedar put in this winter in  the  Saginaw 
district is  enormous  and  will  keep  the 
mill firms  engaged  in 
its  manufacture 
actively all the season  and  bring  a large 
amount of money into  circulation.  Bliss 
& Van Auken  wiil 
log  all  summer  in 
Gladwin county,  and are  constructing  a 
logging road six  miles 
to  connect  with 
the  Gladwin  branch  of  the  Michigan 
Centra).  Their logs are  mostly railed  to 
their mill at Saginaw,  and the  output of 
the mill,  :>0,000,000 feet annually,  is  all 
handled iu  the  yard 
trade.  The  Kern 
Manufacturing Co.  will  handle all  of  its 
stock  in the car trade.  There  has  been 
some difficulty in  obtaining  the  figures 
showing the rail  lumber  shipments  out 
of the valley 
last  year,  owing  to  the 
Michigan Central  not yet  reporting,  but 
it is expected the returns  will  all  be  in 
next week.

A  M eritorious  M easure.

introduced  in 

The following is the  full  text  of  the 
bill  recently 
the  State 
Senate by Hon.  Peter Doran,  of this citv, 
providing for the closing of upper berths 
in sleeping  cars,  unless they are actually 
sold for sleeping purposes:
S e c .  1.  The  People  of  the  State  of 
Michigan enact,  that each upper berth iu 
any sleeping car  run  or  operated  upon 
any railroad  within  this  State,  shall  be 
and remain  closed  whenever  the  berth 
beneath the same shall  be  occupied  by a 
passenger,  until such  upper  berth  shall 
be needed for actual occupancy  by  some 
other  passenger  present  and"  requiring 
the same: Provided,  That the bed  in the 
upper  berth  shall  be  made  ready  for 
occupancy,  and such  berth then elevated 
and closed  until needed  for  actual  occu­
pancy, or it shall be lowered and fastened 
down  at the option of  the  taker  of  the 
lower berth:  And  provided also,  That a 
copy of this act,  plainly  printed  in  the 
English language,  shall  be  kept  posted 
in each end of each and every  such  car, 
iu a place convenient to be  read  by  per­
sons entering or leaving the car.
Sec.  2.  Any  person  or  persons,  cor­
poration, joint stock company  or  associ­
ation of  individuals  who  shall  violate 
any of the provisions of  this  act,  shall 
be subject to a penalty of $100  for  each 
and every such  violation.  Said  penalty 
shall be  taken  and  considered 
in  the 
nature of liquidated damages,  for  the re­
covery of which a civil  action  shall  be 
brought in any court of  competent juris­
diction  in the  county  where  such  vio­
lation  first occurred.  Said  action  shall 
be in the  name  of  the  people  of  this 
State,  and  the moneys recovered  therein 
shall  be paid into  the  general  fund  of 
the county treasury where such recovery

682

683

FOR SALK  OR  1RADE  FOR CLEAN  STOCK 
groceries—Handle factory.  Plenty of cheap 
timber.  Good shipping facilities.  Good chance 
right  parties.  Address  No.  683,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
F or  sa le—*3,o o  stock  o f  c lo th in g,
h ’ts, furnishings,  boots  and  shoes.  Cheap 
for cash:  no Cades.  Best opening  in  Michigan 
for  clothing.  Population  1.500;  not  a  vacant 
store iu  town.  Address  No. 682, care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
Fo r  sa l e —drug  _____
STOuK  ON  ONE  OF
the  best  business  streets.
— ---- ------------streets.  All  new.  Must
be  sold  soon  if  at  all.  Address  No.  677. care 
Michigan Tradesman.
JplOR  SALK  OR  EXCHANGE
_________   STOCK  OF
ladies'  and  gents'  furnishing  goods  and 
notions.  Will  take  part  real  estate.  Address 
0;>4 Washington ave.  N , Lansing, Mich.  678
I lOR  SALE-S3, 00 UK *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,  Weft 
Branch, Ogemaw county. M ch. 
TJIOE  SALE-ONE  OF  THE  FINEST  GKO- 
X?  eery and  meat  market combined, in  Michi.
----  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,
-------------------------  A dc
Ludington, Michigan.
rflO  EXCHANGE—FOR  STOCK  OF  OLOTH- 
J.  ing or boots and shoes, two good hard  timber 
farms of eighty  acres  each.  Thirty-five  and
seventy acres  improved.  Title  clear.  Address 
Thos. Skelton, Big  Rapids. 
680
I  ELEGANT OFFER—IT’S  NO  TROUBLE  TO 
i  find drug  stocks for sale  but you  generally 
‘•find a nigger in the  fence.”  I have an elegant 
drug business for sale; stock about *4,000; bright, 
clean  and  oldest established  trade.  Prominent 
location;  brick building;  stone walk; rent mod 
erate;  city  30,000;  reasons  for  selling  made 
known.  Salt  yourself  about  terms.  Address 
quick,  John  K.  Meyers,  Muskegon,  Mich.  670
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  stovk, terms and  location, 
call on or address Amos S. Musselman, President 
Musselman Grocer Co. 

F OR  SALE-WELL-SELECTED  GROCERY 

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676

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FOR SALE—GOOD,  CLEAN, SALABLE stock 

of  drugs,  groceries  and  hardware, or  will 
exchange for desirable  chattel property  or  real 
estate.  Arthur  Mulholland,  Jr.,  Ashton, Mich. 
__________________________________645

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

YIT'ANTED  —  SITUATION  BY  A  REGIS 
v v 
tered  pharmacist of  twenty  years’  exper­
ience.  Good references  Address, stating wages,
A  D  Carpenter, Clarksville. Mich.______684
W f  ANTED—SITUATION  BY  REGISTERED 
v T  pharmacist of 14 years experience.  Thirty- 
two  years  of  age.  Strictly  temperate.  No  1 
references.  W. J.  Mills, Riverdale, Mich.  673
\ \ T ANTED— POSITION  AS  SALESMAN  BY 
» v  unmarried  man  24 years  old;  two and  a 
half years in general  store.  Good  stock keeper. 
References.  Address H., Box 33, Columbiavflle, 
Mich________________________ 
M ISC KLLANEOUS.

67j

■ TTENTION  TRAVELING  MEN-TO  BE 
Bold at sheriff's sale In a thriving town with 
I best of railroad facilities, good schools, churches, 
| etc., a fine modern residence, complete  with  all 
I conveniences such  as  gas,  steam  heat,  water 
supply, bath, closets  etc.,  erected  at  a  cost  of 
*8,U0.  will probably be sold  at  less  than  one 
half original  cost.  A  rare  opportunity  for  a 
traveler  wishing  a  pleasant  home  In  Central 
Michigan.  Payment  made  easv.  For  informa­
tion address,  Real  Estate,  Box  397,  Charlotte. 
Mich. 
67g
/COUNTRY  MERCHANTS ARE  INVITED  TO 
'inspect  our  stock  of  dry  goods,  clothing 
and boots  and  shoes, which we propose to close 
out at a great sacrifice.  People’s Store, 333 Canal
street, Grand  Rapids.__________  
■W7TLL  PAY  CA>II  FOR  STOCK  OF  GRO- 
VV  ceries  or  general  merchandise.  Must  be 
cheap.  Address  No. 657, care Michigan Trades­
man._______ ___________ __________ 657

685

wayne Goumy savings Bank, Deiroii. Mich.
$500,000  TO  INVEST  IN   BONDS
Issued  by  cities, eonnties, towns  and  school  districts 
or  Michigan.  Officers  of  these  municipalities  about 
to issue bonds wiil find  it to  their advantage to apply 
,,  j  *•. Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings 
supplied  without  charge.  All  communications  and 
enquiries will have prompt attention.  This bank pays 
S per oent. on deposits, compounded  semi-annually.
8.  D.  EL WOOD. Treasurer.

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Jacob Allen has opened a meat  market 
at the corner of  Grandville  avenue  and 
liumsey street.

Spencer & Rainy have opened a grocery- 
store  at  Tustiu.  The  Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman Co.  furnished the stock.

Czapran Bros,  have opened  a  grocery 
store at Ludington.  The Olney  &  Jud- 
sou Grocer Co.  furnished the  stock.

The Patterson Furnace Co.  is bringing 
out a new furnace, with largely increased 
radiating surface  and  radical 
improve­
ments in grate action. 
It is also  adding 
an improved gas  burner.

The Wilcox  Heat-Light Co.  has  leased 
the second, third and fourth floors of  the 
Reid block, corner of Louis and  Campau 
streets, and expects to be  able  to  begin 
business within a fortnight.

P.  A.  Reed will open a grocery store at 
Feunville.  The Olney & Judson  Grocer 
Co.  furnishes the  stock.  Mr.  Reed  has 
been connected  with the  mercantile  and 
banking  business  of  J.  E.  Hutchinson 
for several years.

Jas.  S.  Toland,  who  conducted  the 
grocery business at Ross  fourteen years, 
retiring from  trade  a  couple  of  years 
ago to embark in  agricultural  pursuits, 
has re-engaged in  the  same  business  at 
his old location.  The  Musselmau Grocer 
Co.  furnished the  stock.

G rip sack   B rigade.

Byron  Davenport  is rejoicing  over the 
advent  of  a 10 pouud  lad at  his  house. 
A knee swelled to double size by  rheum­
atism  is not  quite  so  pleasant  to  con­
template.

Sol.  F.  Downs,  who  has  covered  a 
wagon  route  seven  years  for  W.  H. 
Downs  and  Swartout  &  Downs,  has 
severed his  connection  with  the  latter 
firm and will  hereafter  drive  his  own 
wagon over the  same  territory  he  has 
covered in the past.

Frank Adams,  who  represented  Geo. 
W. Cady & Co.,  of  Cleveland, 
in  Wis­
consin for seven years,  resigning  a  few 
months ago to take  the  Western  Michi­
gan territory of Childs,  Lee  &  Co,,  of 
Toledo,  has gone back to  the  old  house 
and the old territory.

E.  H.  Manley,  formerly engaged in  the 
retail grocery business  on  West  Bridge 
street,  but for the  past  four  years  en­
gaged  in 
the  same  business  on  East 
street,  has  engaged  to  travel  for  T. 
M.  Block  &  Co.,  of  Chicago, 
taking 
Western Michigau  as his territory.

At  a  meeting  of  Post  E.,  Michigan 
Knights  of the  Grip,  held  at  Sweets’s 
Hotel Saturday evening,  a  committee of 
five was rppointed  to arrange for  perma­
nent quarters  for  the  Post.  This com­
mittee, composed  of  Edward  C.  Groes- 
beck,  L.  M.  Mills, C.  L.  Lawton,  Ben. 
Van  Leuven and Geo.  F.  Owen,  decided 
to lease  Elk’s  hall  for  the  period  of 
one year, and  the  first  meeting  in  the 
new quarters will  include  an  entertain­
ment feature,  provided  by a  committee, 
whose chairman is  Henry  Dawiey.  The 
entertainment will  be open  to  the wives 
and sweethearts of the members and  will 
probably  be  well  attended. 
It  will 
occur on the  evening  of  April  8.  The 
Post adopted a resolution,  urging  Direc­
tor Gonzales to use his influence to secure 
the payment of the  death  benefit to  the 
family of the late Henry Burleson, as the 
deceased put in an application  in plenty

TH E!  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .

of time to have  made  him  a  full  mem­
ber,  but for a clerical  error  somewhere.
New  York  Tobacco  L ea f:  A  mild 
rupture has been occasioned in Columbus 
and other  parts  of  Ohio  between  the 
wholesale  grocers  and  their  traveling 
salesmen by a St.  Louis  tobacco  firm’s 
offer of a premium of one  cent  a  pouud 
to such commercial  travelers for all  this 
firm’s good they succeed  in selling.  The 
object of  this 
tobacco  house  was  evi­
dently to spur traveling men working for 
wholesale grocery  houses into making an 
extra effort to sell  this  particular  brand 
of tobacco.  But the  wholesalers  refuse 
to allow their men  to take  the  premium. 
They claim that if  there 
is  to  be  any 
premium for selling this brand of tobacco 
it should go to the  wholesale grocers aud 
not to their  salesmen.  A 
large  whole­
sale grocer said to the  writer:  “There is 
no telling where that scheme  would land 
the  wholesale  houses.  We  might  find 
ourselves paying  salaries  and  traveling 
expenses  to  our  salesmen,  while  the 
salesmen  would be putting  in  most  of 
their time selling the  St.  Louis  tobacco 
firm’s goods for the premium they  would 
get.”  The outcome of the matter will  be 
watched with interest.

Glass—The tone of the market  is firm. 
All indications point to  a  steady  price 
being held for the spring.

Sugar  Supplies—Everything 

this 
line is moving  off  rapidly.  No  change 
in price.

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A  G lance  B ack  F ifty  Y ears.

Cen tra l L a k e, March 10.—The article 
in  your  last  paper,  headed  “Andrew 
Jackson’s  ‘O.  K.’”  has  roused  in  my 
mind certain recollections of  the  Tippe­
canoe campaign of 1840. 
I  think  that at 
that time the Whigs,  and not  the  Demo­
crats,  (or  Loco-Focoes  as  they  were 
derisively termed  by 
their  opponents), 
numbered among  their war-cries,  which 
were many,  the cabalistic letters in ques­
tion. 
that  memorable  campaign, 
Whig songs  were  numerous,  and  sung 
with the honors at all Whig gatherings.  I 
remember  a  portion  of  one  of  these, 
which was posted up in the  shop  of  an 
old Whig shoemaker:

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“What is't that alls the people, Joe?
They’re In a kurious way,
For everywhere I chance to go 
There's nothing but ‘O.  K.’
They do not use the alphabet,
What e’er they wish to say,
But all the letters they forget,
Except the ‘O.’ and ‘K.’
The meaning of this,  with  the  rest  of 
the doggerel,  was that in  the  opinion  of 
the “poet,” the Whigs—not the “Locoes,” 
were “ O.  K.” 

F.  H.  T hurston.

A  W eekly  H alf H oliday.

Written for The T radesm an.

In view of the  fact  that  an  agitation 
has been started in  this city,  having  for 
its object the securing of  a  weekly  half 
holiday for employes in mercantile estab­
lishments,  it is  gratifying  to  note  that 
other cities are taking  up  this  question 
and pushing  it  vigorously.  This  is  a 
matter which should not be left  entirely 
with the clerks, and should  be  taken up 
by dealers themselves, for  they, after all, 
would be equal gainers  by 
it.  We  are 
very certain that there are  but  few  re­
tail merchants in this city  who  are  not 
only  willing  but anxious  to  give  their 
employes all the leisure time,  consistent 
with the requirements of their  business, 
for  rest  and 
recreation.  Bank  and 
wholesale clerks work,  as  a  rule,  not 
more than nine  hours  per  day;  skilled 
mechanics,  not  over  ten  hours.  The 
tendency in all the industries is  towards 
shorter hours.  Why,  when  this  is  the 
fact,  should  retail  clerks  be  the  only 
ones  to  receive  no  benefit  from  this 
shorter work day?

We believe  this  agitation 

is  full  of 
promise for the  over-worked  and  some­
times poorly paid clerks and  is  bound to 
succeed,  for it is founded upon that com­
mon brotherhood which unifies  the race, 
and continually gives a powerful affirma­
tive to the inhuman  question of  the first 
murderer,  “Am I my brother’s  keeper?” 

Da n ie l  Abbott.

The H a rd w a re  M a rk et.

Wire Nails—An  agreement  has  been 
reached by all  the  manufacturers  as  to 
price,  and they all seem to  be  maintain­
ing it.  The  best  price at the  mill  now 
on wire nails is $1.55,  which makes them 
cost $1.70 in Grand  Rapids.  Jobbers are 
still selling at $1.75 and $1.80,  but  if  the 
factories hold  their price,  better  figures 
must  be had.

Barbed  Wire—Extreme  prices  have 
been  withdrawn.  The present  price 
is 
$3.30 for painted  aud  $3.70  for  gaivan - 
ized.

Rope—Sisal  is  in  the  advance.  The 
best quotations now  being  made  is  9c 
for  % 
It  looks  as 
though the Cordage  Co.  had  control  of 
the market.

inch  aud 

larger. 

T he  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar—No change from  a  week  ago. 
Many of T he T radesm an’s readers have 
expressed a desire that the Grand Rapids 
price on  sugars be quoted,  instead  of  or 
in addition to the New York price.  As a 
matter of fact,  under the  equality  plan, 
the Grand Rapids  price  would  apply  to 
Grand Rapids merchants  only,  as  every 
town in the state is placed on a  different 
basis, dependent on the freight rate from 
New  York to that town.

Butter Plates—The  Oval  Wood  Dish 
Go.  announces an  advance  of  33.%  per 
cent, on butter plates,  giving as a reason 
the scarcity of  suitable  timber  for  the 
manufacture of the  goods,  The  reason 
is rather diaphonous, the real  reason for 
the advance being the fact that  the Oval 
people  have  complete  control  of  the 
market  and  can put up prices whe never 
they choose.

E a rn e d   His  M oney.

P in e  Bl u f f ,  Ark., March  11—Greatly 
to my regret,  I failed to receive my  copy 
I have 
of T h e  T radesm an for Feb.  23. 
frequently received  a  dollar’s  worth  of 
information from  a  single  issue  of  the 
paper and the  missing  number  may  be 
one of that kind.
By the way,  the issue of March  8  con­
tains the  most  sensible  article  on  cur­
rency that I have seen.  We do not  want 
to carry a dollar’s  worth  of  metal.  A 
few hundred dollars in gold is quite bur­
densome.  In ante-bellum times we paid 2 
per cent,  for South Carolina bank bills in 
exchange for  gold. 
I  remember  being 
asked 5 per cent.,  and,  concluding  that 
for $5 per hundred I could afford to  carry 
the gold,  lugged it all the way to  Texas. 
I am not quite  sure  but  I  earned  that 
amount. 

Yours  truly,

J.  P.  Angell.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

Zimmerman Ross,  formerly engaged in 
the drug business at Chase, has opened a 
drug store at Boon.

C.  F. Shirts,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery business at Shelby,  has  taken  a 
clerical  position with the  mercantile  de­
partment of the Converse Manufacturing 
Co.,  at Newaygo.

A  Liverpool,  Eng., judge  has  decided 
that  filled  cheese is  not  cheese  at  all, 
inasmuch  as  it  is  not  of  the  nature, 
substance and  quality of  cheese.

5
Important to Commercial  Trav­

elers and  Merchants.

The American Casualty Insurance and  Securi­
ty  Co.,  of  Baltimore  City, Maryland,  sells  the 
most liberal accident policy issued in the United 
States, furnishing more absolute protection  than 
any  other.  Its  policy  is a short, plain  business 
contract, free from «11 objectionable clauses and 
conditions.  In  1893 it paid losses to policy hold­
ers and  their  beneficiaries  amounting to $1,103,- 
964, and had $3,(507,675 in assets Jan. 1, 1893.  The 
premium to merchants  not  handling  goods and 
commercial  travelers  is  $1  for  each  $1,000  in 
surance  with $5 per week  indemnity during dis 
ability, not  exceeding  53  weeks, and  pays  one- 
half instead of one-third for loss of one hand or 
one  foot,  as  paid  by  most  other  companies 
Telephone  No.  1,003,  for  best  policy  issued, or 
address  W.  It.  FREEMAN,  Agent, 373  Crescent 
avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich.

INDUCEMENT

ZR/ET-iklXj 

TO  THE

Ilte T T G -O -IS T S  
AMD

G e n e r a l   S t o b e s .

Do  Yoii  Sell

DIAMOND  TEA?

We want one  live dealer in every 
city and  town to handle  and  push 
the sale of Diamond Tea, the great 
remedy  for  Constipation,  Sick 
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  C0.}

DETROIT,  MICH.

Diamond  Tea is sold  by all whole­

sale druggists.

Than any O ther Cigar 

Michigan

&

Made on Honor!

Sold on M erit!

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

of goods to get the best and the most  for 
a dollar is the man  who  will  reach  the 
highest pinnacle of success.
D oes  It  Pay?

“By  no  means. 

“ Yes,” said  he,  “I am  feeling well. 

From  “Boots  and  Shoes.”
Temperance  lectures  are  not  usually 
popular,  and we  don’t propose to deliver 
one,  but  from  observations made within 
the  last  six  months,  we  are  led to  ask 
this question:  Does it pay a salesman to 
continually 
treat  his  customers  and 
friends  to  drinks  every  time  he  meets 
them?
We  know that  this is a custom  which 
is  regarded  by  some  salesmen  as  indis 
pensable.  They think  they could not do 
business  with  a  man  unless  they  first 
took him out and treated him.  Of course, 
the  dealer  has to treat  in his  turn,  and 
after  three  or  four  rounds  neither  the 
dealer  nor  salesman  are  in  exactly the 
condition  to  do  business  properly. 
If 
there is any one  thing more  certain than 
another, it  is  that a man  who  wants  to 
transact  business  in a business-like  way 
must  have  his  head  clear.  Any befud- 
dlement, caused by drink, is sure to work 
more or less disaster.
A  salesman  who  is  well  known,  but 
who  shall  be  nameless,  happened  into 
this  office  the  other  day. 
It  was  re­
marked  that  he  was  looking  unusually 
well.
I 
don’t go  around  the  corner as much  as I 
used to,  in  fact,  I  don’t go around at all.
1 have not tasted a drop for a year.
“Are you any the worse off for it?”  we 
asked.
“On  the  contrary,  I am  better  off. 
I 
feel  better,  I  can  work  better  and  I can 
sell more goods  since I stopped  drinking 
entirely than I ever did before.”
“Don’t  you  find it necessary  to  treat 
customers  in  order  to  get  them  into  a 
buying mood?”
If I must  take a man 
out and treat him to half a dozen drinks, 
before  1  can  sell  him a bill  of  goods,  1 
would  prefer  not to sell him at all.  Be­
sides,  treating  takes  time. 
1  am  now 
working on commission.  Time is money 
with  me.  By  not  treating  I  save  the 
time consumed  in so doing,  and  save the 
expense of  the  treats. 
I  feel  better  for 
it,  the  customer  feels  better  for it,  and 
everybody seems to be satisfied.”
Twenty-five  years ago we knew a sales­
man  whose  trade  amounted  to  over  a 
million  dollars  a  year.  When we  knew 
him  he  was  an  invalid and  a  physical 
wreck,  but such  was the  confidence  that 
dealers from all  parts of  the country re­
posed in him  that  his  trade did  not suf­
fer very  much  from  his  physical  inca­
pacity.  He was  telling  the  writer  one 
day how he  used to do  business when he 
was on the road.  He said that he seldom 
if  ever  got to  bed  before 12 or 1 o’clock 
at night.  He said  every night there was 
a  meeting  in  his  room  at  the  hotel  or 
somewhere  and  a  general  “good  time,” 
with plenty of whisky and cigars.
The writer asked him if he had to start 
over again,  whether  he  would  do  with 
respect  to  drinking  just as he bad done. 
He said:
“No, I have  broken  down  one of  the 
best constitutions a man ever had  by this 
very  means,  and  my  advice  to  every 
young  traveling  man  is  to  let  whisky 
alone.  He  can  sell  more  goods  and be 
better in every way. 
If he comes in con­
tact  with  a  man  who  must  drink,  he 
can either  let  somebody else sell  him  or 
else refuse to drink himself.”
There are thousands of traveling sales­
men  who,  thoughtlessly  perhaps,  spend 
a great deal of money for themselves and 
for their firms in treating their customers, 
and it is possible that  some of  them may 
be  induced to heed  the advice  given  by 
the two salesmen quoted above.

6

THE  PRICE  OP  SUCCESS.

In v ariab le  R ules  W hich  M ust  Be  Ob­

serv ed .

From the Grocer and Country  Merchant.
In discussing the great problem of how 
to be successful in  business,  in our issue 
the  general 
of last week we laid  down 
rule that to be  successful  the  merchant 
must give personal  attention 
to  all  the 
details of his business.  One of  the most 
important of  these  details  is  the  pur­
chase of goods.  We want  to pursue this 
topic further.
It is a proverb that goods well  bought 
are already half sold.  No one  will  call 
in question the correctness  of  the  view 
here taken. 
If this is  so,  then  we  will 
not argue the point.  But  many  people 
see plainly and  acknowledge  freely  the j 
it 
correctness of a  principle,  who  find 
difficult to put  it  into  active  practice. 
Yet this elementary principle 
is  simple 
and  easy  of  comprehension.  To  buy 
well  is to buy cheaply; to buy  best  is  to 
buy cheapest.  Ver 
true! but the lowest 
priced  goods  are  not  necessarily  the 
cheapest.  Low priced goods may  be  so 
because they are short in weight,  or  in­
ferior in quality. 
If  they  are  sold  in 
packages put up at the  factory  and  are 
short weight,  your  customers  wiil  find 
this out,  and although you  may be  sell­
ing them a fraction less than  your  com­
petitors are  getting  for  a  full  weight 
package,  the  consumers  are 
likely  to 
forsake your counters and go  elsewhere. 
If you  are selling at  the  same  price  as 
your neighbor,  while you may  think you 
are getting ahead  by  making  a  larger 
profit,  you are still more 
likely  to  lose 
trade. 
If  your short  weight  packages 
huve to be broken  and retailed in smaller 
lots,  you must either  give  light  weight 
too, or if you give  full  weight  you  are 
no better off than the man  who buys full 
weight goods, even if he pays  something 
more for them.  Nine times  out  of  ten 
you are worse off,  for the too keen  manu­
facturer  who puts  up short weights does 
not do so to help out the retailer  or con­
sumer.  He is working for  himself,  and 
proposes to live,  but does not care a snap 
whether he lets  others  live  or  squeezes 
the others all to  death. 
It  will,  there­
fore,  be found a  general  rule that  it is 
better to buy full  weight goods  at  a fair 
price,  rather than 
llsrht  weight 
to  get 
goods at a little concession.
A matter quite as important as  weight 
is quality.  Study jour  trade  and  keep 
such goods as your customers  are  likely 
to want.  But in doing so,  be  careful  to 
avoid  the  temptation  of  buying  poor 
goods in the expectation of working them 
off  for  better  grades  at  prices  rather 
above  their value.  The  housekeeper  is 
more  stupid  than  common,  and  more 
careless than the average,  who  does  not 
enjoj’ the  satisfaction  arising  from  the 
larger pleasure of the palate  incident  to 
the consumption of a dish of  good  food. 
The palate is dull  that  does  not  detect 
the  difference.  So 
if  you  can  sell  a 
superior article as cheaply as your neigh­
bor sells one of less merit you  will  build 
up your  trade  quite  as  rapidly,  if  not 
more so,  than  by underselling where you 
have to  palm  off  inferior  goods.  The 
better grades of your trade  will  respond 
to this sort of treatment most,  and  this 
principle will apply with  more  force  in 
your  finer  lines  of  goods. 
It  applies 
more in luxuries than in  staples.  But it 
will apply in  force in all  lines  of  trade 
and all grades  of  goods.  Do  you  not 
think that  if  your  customers  find  the 
capers they have served with their  mut­
ton to be large,  tender  and  piquant  in 
flavor  that  they  will  remember  where 
they bought them?  Do you not  think  if 
they get between their teeth a  caper  the 
size of a pin’s  head,  as  tough  as  rubber 
and as tasteless as a chip,  that they  will 
buy the next bottle at some  other  store?
These three details seem  very  simple. 
Buy at the closest market price; get  full 
weight goods;  get  the  best  goods  your 
money  can  find. 
It  seems  as  if  a 
child could comprehend  all  that.  So  a 
a child can; but it requires a  keen,  care­
ful and experienced man  of  business  to 
put it  in  practice. 
It  requires  tireless 
energy to look over all markets,  find  the 
best goods for the money and the most in 
quantity for a given sum.  But the  mer­
chant who does take  the  pains  and  has 
the knowledge of goods and of the grades

A man whom the women of  the  coun­
try should  rise up and  call blessed  lives 
in  Rochester.  He  has  invented  self­
patching jackets and trousers.  The plan 
is simple but it is  said  to  be  effective, j HmSiton8! ^ ^ ^ . . ^14
The cloth is of  double  thickness  where 
D............ 814
most of the wear comes,  the  pattern  be-1 Tr.,-.‘,‘nr  Awning.. 11 
ing carefully adjusted so  as 
to coincide  Fim Prize.'.‘.'.V..'.'lo*
with each piece.  When the outer cover-  Lenox Mills......... is
ing wears through,  all  that  has  to  be  Ati.nt.   n 
done is to darn in the rough edges.  The  BootT 
pattern and cloth remain  intact. 

“ 

.

AC A..................... 13
Pemberton A A A __ 10
York....................... 1014
Swift River............   714
Pearl River............ 1214
Warren....................1314

Con os toga..............168

7 %

COTT°£iJ??Iix  . 

634 No  Name  ... 

1 Clifton, K............... 7  ¡Top of Heap.............  9

Dry Goods Price Current.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

A driatic.................  7
Arrow Brand  5>4 
Argyle  ..................   6
••  World Wide.  6 
Atlanta A A............   6
11  LL. ..........  4H
Atlantic A..............  6£
Full Yard Wide...... 6H
Georgia  A..............  6M
H..............6tf
“ 
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P ............   5%
Honest Width......... 614
D.............   6
“ 
Hartford A ............ 5
“  LL.............   5
Indian Head...........  7
Amory....................   63£
King A  A................6H
Archery  Bunting...  4 
King EC.................  5
Lawrence  L L ........  4%
Beaver Dam  A A..  53*
Blackstone O, 32__  5
Madras cheese cloth 63i
Black Crow............ 6
Newmarket  G........5V
Black  Rock 
.......614
B  .......  5
Boot, AL................  7
N ........  6*
Capital  A ..................53*
DD....  5k
Cavanat V..............  5H
X ...... 6*
Chapman cheese cl.  33{!Nolbe R..................  5
Clifton  C R ............ 534 Our Level Best..........6H
Comet..................... 6£ Oxford  R ................   6
Dwight Star............  6M Pequot....................   7
Clifton CCC...........  6H Solar.......................  6
¡Top of the  Heap__  7
A B C ......................8)4 Geo.  Washington...  8
Amazon.................. 8
Glen Mills.............   7
Amsburg.................7
Gold Medal............   714
Art  Cambric...........10
Green  Ticket......... 8*4
Blackstone A A...... 7i I
Great Falls.............   614
Beats All.................4%
Hope.......................714
Boston....................12
Just  Out........  454@  5
Cabot.......................  7J4
King Phillip...........  734
Cabot,  %.................   614
OP......714
Charter  Oak...........  514
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Conway W..............  7J4
Lonsdale...........  &  8I4
Cleveland
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.................  714
Fruit of the  Loom.  9
Sunlight.................   414
Fitchvllle  .............7
Utica  Mills.............814
First Prize..............7
Nonpareil  ..10
Fruit of the Loom %.  714
Vlnyard..................  814
Falrmount..............414
White Horse...........  6
Full Value..............634
Rock............ 814
Cabot......................  714| Dwight Anchor
Farwell...................8  |

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

Unbleached 

Housewife  A...........514

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

DEMINS.

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Amoskeag..............1214
9oz...... 1314
brown .13
Andover.................1114
Beaver Creek A A... 10 
“ 
BB...  9
«» 
cc._
Boston Mfg Co.  b r..  7 
“ 
blue  814
“  d a  twist  1014
Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19
Amoskeag...............1%
“  Persian dress 8)4 
Canton ..  814
“ 
AFC........10)4
“ 
“ 
Teazle.. .1014 
“ 
Angola.. 10)4 
Persian..  8)4
“ 
Arlington staple__634
Arasapha  fancy__  434
Bates Warwick dres 8)4 
staples.  6)4
Centennial............   1014
Criterion..............  1014
Cumberland staple.  514
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin.......................   7)4
Everett classics......814
Exposition............... 734
Glenarie.................  634
Glenarven................ 634
Glenwood.................714
Hampton...................614
Johnson Chalon cl 
14 
indigo blue 9)4 
zephyrs....16

[Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........1214
brown....... 1214
Haymaker blue........ 734
brown...  734
Jeffrey.....................1114
Lancaster................1214
Lawrence, 9 oz........ 1814
No. 220....13
No. 250....1114
No. 280.... 1014

“ 
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GINGHAMS.
Lancaster,  Btaple...  7
fancies___ 7
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester............   534
Monogram..............  614
Normandie............... 714
Persian...................   814
Renfrew Dress..........714
Rosemont................. 614
Slatersville............   6
Somerset.................  7
Tacoma  ................... 714
Toil  duNord..........1014
Wabash...................  714
seersucker..  714
Warwick.................  814
Whlttenden............   634
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
.  8  '
.10
.  5
•  634

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York
GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag.............. 16H|Valley City.
Stark......................  j83£ Georgia  ..
American...............15341 Pacific........

Clark’s Mile End..
Coats’, J. & P ......
Holyoke...............

THREADS.
45  ¡Barbour's...
...... 45  Marshall’s..
...... 22141
KNITTING  COTTON.
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....37
39
“  16...
..38
40
“  18... ....39
41
“  20... ...40

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

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

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

.1514
• 16J4

.88
.88

......814
....  814 
• •  9*
...10 
....1014 
...11 
....21 
....1414
CARPET  WARP.

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

.............. 18141 
............. 8
.................9
.............. 1014
G G  Cashmere.......20
Nameless  ...............16
..: ...........18

DRESS  GOODS.
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CORSET  JEANS.

“ 

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COR8
Corallne................ 89 50
Schilling’s ............ 9 00
Davis  Waists  ....  9 00 
Grand  Rapids......4 50
Armory................   634
Androscoggin.........7J4
Blddeford...............  6
Brunswick....... 
..  614
fru
Allen turkey  reds..  614 
robes.............614
Elnk a purple 
u ffs...........  614
pink  checks.  614
staples.........614
shirtings...  5
American fancy—   534 
American Indigo...  634 
American shirtings.  5 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  5 
“  —   6H
Arnold 
Arnold  Merino......6
long cloth B. 1014 
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“  C.  814
“ 
century cloth  7
“  gold seal......1014
“  green seal TR1014 
“  yellow seal.. 1014
“  serge............ 1114
“  Turkey red..1014 
“ 

Ballou solid black..
“  colon.
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange...  6
Berlin solids...........  514
11  oil blue....... 614
“ green  ....  614
“ 
“  Foulards ....  514
“ red 34..............7
“ 1 -------  914
“ 
“ 
“ 4 4............10
“ 
“ 3-4XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy........  6
“  madders...  6

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614

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Wonderful............84 50
Brighton......................4 75
Bortree’s .................... 9 00
Abdominal............15 00
Naumkeagsatteen..  714
Rockport...................614
Conestoga.................714
Walworth..............   634
ITS.
Berwick fancies....  514
Clyde Robes...........
Charter Oak fancies  414 
DelMarlne cashm’s.  6 
mourn’g  6 
Eddy stone  fancy...  614 
chocolat  614
rober__614
sateens..  614 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  614
staple__ 6
Manchester fancy..  6 
new era.  6 
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Merrim’ck shirtings.  4M 
Repp fura .  8H
Pacific fancy..........6
robes............  614
Portsmouth robes...  614 
Simpson mourning..  614
grey*.......614
solid black.  614 
Washington indigo.  614 
“  Turkey robes..  714
“  India robes__ 714
“  plain T’ky X 34  814 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................. 61S
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 34........ 714
Martha Washington
Turkeyred..........   914
Rlverpolntrobes....  514
Windsor fancy........614
Indigo blue......... 1014

gold  ticket 

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XXtwills..  614
solids........5)4 ¡Harmony

TICKINGS.

Slater......................  5
White Star............   5
Kid Glove...............  4M
Newmarket............   5

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

RED  FLANNEL.

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DOMST  FLANNEL.

MIXED  FLANNEL.

...... 814010  I 

T W........................2214
F T ............ ............. 3214
JR F , XXX............35
Buckeye.................3214

Fireman.................3214
Creedmore............. 2714
Talbot XXX...........30
Nameless............... 2714
Red & Bine,  plaid  .40
Union R..................2214
Windsor.................. 1814
6 oz Western...........20
Union  B...............2214
Nameless......8  & 9141 

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
914
1014
1114
1214

Grey S R W.............1714
Western W  ............. 1814
D R P ...................... 1814
Flushing XXX........2314
Manitoba.............. 2314
“
9  @10H 
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1214
Slate.  Brown.  Black. Slate
Brown. Black.
934 1014
914 
10H
1014 1114
1014 
UH
1114 12
12
1114 
1214 20
20
1214 
DUCKS.
Severen. 8 oz......... ■  914 West N’oint, 8 oz ...10H
May land, 8oz........ .1014
10 oz ...12H
Greenwood, 714 os. .  914 Raven, lOoz......
...13H
......
Greenwood, 8 oz... .1114 Stark
...13H
Boston, 8 oz........... • 1014 Boston 10 oz__ ...12)4
WADDINGS.
White, doz........—  25  I Per bale, 40 doz 
83 50
Colored,  doz...........20  ¡Colored  “ 
..........7 50
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Pawtucket...............1014
“  Red Cross....  9
Dundle....................  9
“  Best.............1014
Bedford...................1014
“  Best AA......1214
Valley  City.............1014
L............................. 714
K K ......................... 1014
G............................. 814
Cortlcelll, doz.........85  [Cortlcelli  knitting,

1014
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SEWING  BILK.

per 14 oz ball........80

twist, doz.. 4P 
50yd,doz..40  J
HOOKS AND ETES—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k A White..l0  ¡No  4 Bl’k & White  15 
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“ 
..25
No 2-20, M C......... 50  ¡No 4—15  F  814........ 40

..12  “ 8 
..12 I  “  10 

SILESIAS.

FINS.

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3-18, S C...........45  I

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6 

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COTTON  TAFB.
..15  “ 10 
..18 I  "  12 
SAFETY  FINS.
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NEEDLES—PER  X.

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

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

.86

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COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............1814
Anchor.................. 16
Bristol................... 13
Cherry  Valley........15
IX L — .................1814
Alabama.................634
Alamance............... 614
Augusta.................714
At 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 plyl714 
Powhattan.............18

Mount  Pleasant__ 614
Oneida....................  5
Prym ont................  534
Ran del man.............  6
Riverside...............   534
Sibley  A .................63*
Toledo....................

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WAYS  WHICH  WIN.

Seeking Merchant.

Pertinent  Suggestions for the  Success- 
From the Cincinnati Tribune.
The  requisite  qualifications of  a  suc­
cessful business man are many.
1.  He will not overload his credit until 
it becomes like  a  balky  horse  and  re­
fuses to go even when unloaded.
2.  He should  possess  a  good common- 
school education,  including  bookkeeping 
and commercial  law.
3.  He should possess and practice a code 
of moral laws,  and all  the better  if  they 
bear the test of an All-Scrutinizing  Eye; 
he should be affable to everybody,  polite 
and kind,  in  short,  a  gentleman  in  the 
true sense of the word.
4.  He should  patronize  the  home  pa­
pers having the largest circulation in the 
community with which he wishes to trade, 
charter a space,  use  attractive  headlines 
and give a list of leading articles in plain 
type.  This should not be spasmodic, but 
should be  put there to stay.  Billposting 
and fence advertising  is  money  thrown 
away. 
It is too much like  posters  of  a 
theatrical play,  read one evening and for­
gotten by the next.
5.  He will  become personally acquaint­
ed with his customers,  and,  if his trade is 
with the farmers  and  rural  population, 
he will do well to make a  yearly  canvas 
of the surrounding country,  from  house 
to house,  not for the  purpose  of  adver­
tising his goods alone,  but to become bet­
ter acquainted  with  them.  The  farmer 
knows how to appreciate,  and it will pay 
to  carry  with youja big lot of good, clean, 
newsy papers—of course they should con­
tain  your  advertisement.  Close  atten­
tion 
to  business  with  strict  economy 
ought to insure success,  and will.
6.  The employment of clerks,  salesmen 
and women is a  subject  of  vital  impor­
tance,  and they should possess  the  same 
characteristics as above described,  with a 
thorough knowledge  of  the  business  in 
hand  aud should be  instructed  never  to 
misrepresent an article  for  the  sake  of 
selling it; such misrepresentation will be 
discovered sooner or later,  and  the  pen­
alty  will not only be the loss of that cus­
tomer,  but many of his friends.
Stewart, the great  merchant  prince  of 
New York(dead  many years),  attributed 
his great success to the  strict  adherence 
to a code of morals,  from which no temp­
tation could swerve  him.  Many  annec- 
dotes have been  written about  his  repri­
mands of clerks for misrepresentation.

The difference between  the  successful 
merchant and  the unsuccessful one  may 
not be perceptible to  a casual  observer, 
but a man who has for fifty years been  a 
close observer of men and their  methods 
can see the difference very distinctly;  so 
can the public,  but they may not be  able 
to analyze it so clearly.  The most prom­
inent  defects  of  unsuccessful men  are 
such  that  all  who  have  dealings  with 
them can see; it may be  an  uncontrolled 
temper,  an  uncivil  answer,  unsociable 
manners and inability to recognize a cus­
tomer or remember his name  when meet­
ing him on the  street  or  in  select  com­
pany.
The failure of many  men  in  business 
may be owing  to a  want of  system  aud 
prompt payment;  in  leaving  work  that 
should  have been  done  to-day  until  to­
morrow or next week;  the want of think­
ing or making use of his brain,  no matter 
how much of that article he may possess.
the 
profits with  a  capable,  honest  and  in­
dustrious foreman works  well; it  stimu­
lates him to think and guard the interests 
of the business as well as that of his  em­
ployer.  Young men of bad habits should 
never be employed in a store, but a profit- 
sharing foreman is a sort of detective in- 
the absence of the proprietor,  as  his  in­
terest in the profits would naturally cause 
him to be.  The writer  of  this  has  two 
sons who  served  a  long  apprenticeship 
in the dry  goods  business  in  the  same 
house in  a  prosperous  towiP  in  Iowa. 
They  were  promoted  as  profit  sharers 
about  five  years  ago.  The  elder  was 
taken in  as a partner in a  branch  store, 
and  is  now  a  wealthy  merchant  in 
Charles City, Iowa.  The younger is still 
employed  in  the  parent  store. 
The 
proprietor  has  become  wealthy  and 
spends six months in  the  year  traveling

S.  I  have  noticed  that  sharing 

in Europe,leaving the business  in charge 
of  his  profit-sharing  foreman. 
I  have 
said  thus much,  to show that in  this  in­
stance profit sharing was a  success  both 
to employer and employe. 
I have been a 
citizen of Iowa forty years, and I noticed 
an article on page four of your  good  pa­
per on  how success is won. 
In it we  are 
told that  Cincinnati  aud  our  Southern 
Ohio and Indiana  towns  are  behind  the 
times and  that  they  do  better  in  the 
Northwest, particularly  in  Chicago  and 
Minneapolis.
Iowa  has the facilities for producing a 
far-seeing,  shrewd class of young men as 
any other spot on the globe.  The school- 
house on every hilltop  is  Iowa’s  pride, 
and the rural  population cannot  be  sur­
passed in any other  state  in  the  Union 
for intelligence. 
Instead  of  a  horde  of 
wild,  political-fiat-money  manufacturers 
—calling themselves  the  Farmers’  Alli­
ance  and  other  appropriate  names,  as 
they  do  in  Kansas  aud  States  further 
south—our Iowa farmers  set  themselves 
to work to supply the world  with  bread- 
stuffs,  horses,  cattle, hogs,  sheep,  dairy 
products  poultry,  eggs and  many  other 
products  of the farm.  The vast  amount 
of provisions  sent  forward  to  Chicago 
from every railroad  station  would  seem 
incredible if the true figures were shown, 
and,  for the want of proper data at hand, 
I can only give  the  result  of  my  own 
observation.
The vast amount  of  money  distribu­
ted among the farmers from returns from 
the sales of  the  products  of  the  soil  is 
making them rich,  and  the merchants are 
reaping  a  rich  harvest  in  trading  with 
Chicago  is  the great  distributing  point, 
aud,  of course  must  grow  and  prosper, 
as  well  as  the  towns  further  west  and 
north.
The  whole  question of  the  growth  of 
the Northwest,  in  a nutsh ill,  is that  the 
balance of trade is all in its favor.

Reckless  Orthography.

The following specimen of  “English  as 
she is wrote”  was received recently  by  a 
well known  wholesale  merchant  of  this 
city.  As a specimen of  reckless  orthog­
raphy it  is “out of sight:”

March 6th 1893—1 reced yours statemant 
and Will Say in Re Play  Will  Pay yo  as 
Soon as Posuable far it is Clost times for 
me now have Ben Runing Be  hind  for  3 
ar 4 Weeks Cant git A nuf money to.Run 
my Buissiness With„But  thik  Will  Be 
Beter Be for  lang  and  Will  Pay  yo  as 
soon as i gite it.

Use Tradesman Coupon  Books.

HATCH CHICKENS  $Y STEAM
Vith tk.  Improved £]Q8|S|of  InCUlUtOr.
Simply  Ptrftct, Sel/-R*gu- 
latina.  Thousands in suc­
cessful operation.  Guaran­
teed to natch a larger per­
centage  of  fertile  eggs at 
less  cost  than  any  other 
Hatcher.  Lowest  priced 
first-class  Hatcher  made. 
CEO. 11. 8TAHL Quincy,111

When You Get Tired

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

Prices seldom higher.

A .  J .  P H IL L IP S   &  CO.,

Fenton,  Mich.
Hardware Price Current.

augurs and bits. 

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay prom ptly  and  buy in  fu ll  packages.
dls.
Snell’s........................................................... 
60
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’,  imitation....................................50410
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.......................... $ 7 00

AXES.

“ 
• 
‘ 

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

barrows. 

 
dls.

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.

Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60&10
Wrought Table.............................................60&10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60410
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75!
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70416
Blind,  Parker’s .............................................70410
70
Blind, Shepard’s 
....................................... 
BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892...............  
50

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

Grain......................................................dis. 50402

Cast Steel.............................................per 1b  5
Bly’s 1-10.............................................per m  65
Hick’s C.  P ........................................ 
60
“ 
G. D .........   .........................................  “ 
35
Musket................................................  “ 
60

CAPS.

CARTR1B8B9.

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

56
25

chisels. 

dls.

Socket Firmer.............................................  70410
Socket Framing............................................70416
Socket Corner...............................................70410
Socket Slicks...............................................70410
Butchers’Tanged Firmer............................ 
40
40
Cnrrv,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
Hotchkiss..................................................... 
25
White Crayons, per gross..............12©12ft dls. 10

combs. 

CHALK.

dls.

COPPER.

“ 

14x52, 14x56, 14x60 ...............  

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

drills. 

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

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

 

dls.

28
26
23
23
25

07
6ft

ELBOWS.

75

expansive bits. 

Com. 4  piece, 6 in...........  ..............doz. net 
Corrugated....................................................... dls 40
Adinstable....................................................... dls. 40410
Clark’s, small, $18;  large, $26...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, $18:  2, $24; 3,$30............................ 
25
Disston’s ......................................................60410
New American  ............................................60410
Nicholson’s .................................................60410
Heller’s ......................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse R asps..................................  
80

files—New List. 

dis.

dis.

GALVANIZED IKON.

15 

12 

dis.

28
17

locks—door. 

14 
GAUGES. 

knobs—New List. 

13 
Discount, 60

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

50
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................... 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings......................... 
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
Russell 4 Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
55
Mallory, Wheeler  4  Co.’s............................ 
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
Norwalk’s ....................................................  
55
Adze Bye............................... '.........$16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Bye.......................................... $15.00, dls. 60
Hnnt’s.......................................118.50, dls. 20410.
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post, handled...... ............... 
50
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .................................... 
40
“  P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry 4  CÜ9 rk’s.................  
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60410
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................6C410
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25

MOLASSXS GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

V ATTOPITfl

dlS.
dls.

dls.

NAILS

HAMMERS.

 

 

dlB.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

HOLLOW WARE.

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.

25
Maydole  4  Co.’s.....................................dls. 
25
Kip’s .......................................................dls. 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s ..................................dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................ 30c list 60
i  Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand__30c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 ........  .................... dls.60410
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4ft  14 and
longer........................................................  3ft
Screw Hook and  Bye, ft........................net 
10
“ 
%........................met  8ft
7ft
%........................ net 
“ 
“ 
%........................ net 
754
Strap and T ............................................ dls. 
50
|  Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50410
Champion,  anti friction..........................  .  60410
I Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
|  Pots..................................................... 
60410
Kettles.........................................................  80410
Spiders  .........................................................80410
Gray enameled.............. 
40410
Stamped  TlnWare..............................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new llBt 3354410
WIRE goods. 
Bright......................................................70410410
Screw  Eyes............................. 
70410410
Hook’s .....................................................70410410
Gate Hooks and Byes...................... 
70410410
dis.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’b.....................
Sisal, 54 inch and larger............................. 
9
Manilla  .......................................................   13
dls.
Steel and  Iron.............................................. 
Try and Bevels............................................. 
Mitre............................................................ 

75
6C
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
$1 95
3 05
3 05
3 15
8 25
8 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14...................................... $4 05 
Nos. 15 to 17 .....................................  4  05 
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4  05 
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4  05 
Nos. 25 to 26 .....................................  4  25 
No. 27 ...............................................   4 45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, '86  .....................................dis. 
Silver Lake, White A.............................. list 
Drab A.................................  “ 
White  B...............................   1 
Drab B..................................  “ 
White C................................. “ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

levels. 
ROPES.

SHEET IRON.

5ti
50
55
50
55
35

squAREs. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

dls.

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

dis.

wire. 

saws. 

traps. 

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

“ 
Sliver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot,__ 
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__ 
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot__ 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  root............................................  

Solid Byes............................................ per ton $25
20
70
50
30
30
Steel, Game................................................... 60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s__ 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion............................... $1.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppered Market  ..........................................  60
Tinned Market............................................   62V6
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..........................  2 85
painted...............................  240
dis.  40410
Au  Sable.......................... 
Putnam.......................................... 
dls.  05
dis. 10410
Northwestern................................ 
dls.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..........  
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable...............................75410
diS.
50
Bird Cages................................................... 
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
75410
...70410
Screws,New List.................................. 
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50410410
Dampers, American..................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods....... 65410

MISCELLANEOUS. 

HORSE NAILS.

wrenches. 

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26c
2Se

ZINC.

BOLDER.

M E T A L S ,
PIG TIN.

Advance over base: 

Pig  Large.................................. 
Pig Bars....................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2ftc per pound.
6M
600 pound  casks........................................... 
7
Per  pound.................................................... 
f t ® * ...........................................  
M
Extra W iping.................................................  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—MEI.YN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal....................................... $ 7
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

Steel nalla, base...............................................185
Wire nails, base.....................................1  dO@l  90
Steel.  Wire.
Base 
60.....................................................Base
50.....................................................Base
10
40 ....................................................   05 
25
25
10 
30..................................................... 
35
20.........  
15 
16....................................................  
45
15 
45
12....................................................   15 
10 ......................................................  20 
50
8.................................................... 
  25 
60
7 4 6 ..................................................  40 
75
90
4........................................................  60 
1  20
3........................................................1  00 
1  60
2........................................................1  50 
1  60
FlneS...............................................1  50 
65
Case  10.............................................  60 
75
8.............................................  75 
90
6........................... 
90 
Finish 10..........................................   85 
75
8........................................... 1  00 
90
1  10
6........................................... 1  15 
70
Clinch; 10 ..........................................  85 
80
8.......................................... 1 00 
6.......................................... 1  15 
90
10x1410,  Charcoal......................................• 6  75
Barrell * ..........................................175 
175
14x2010, 
6 75
dls.
8 25
10x14 IX,
Ohio Tool Ca’s, fancy................................   ©40 J ¡4^20 ry’
9 25
Sclota Bench.............................................  ©52  Bach additional X on this grade 11.50.
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  ©40
Bench, first quality......................................   ©60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood 
........  410
Fry,  Acme.............................................dls.60—10
Common, polished................................ dls. 
70
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................   50—10
"A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 26 to 27...  9  JO 

14x20 IC,
8 56 
8 50 
14x20 IX,
18 50 
20x28 IC,
14x20 IC,
6  00 
14x20 IX,
7 50 
12 50 
20x28 IC, 
15  50
20x28 IX, 
14X28  IX......................................................  »14 00
14x81  LX....................................................... 16
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I 
14x60 IX,  “ 

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......
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

Bach additional X on this grade, $1.75.

Broken packs fte per pound extra

ROOFING PLATES
Worcester.

TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

Allaway  Grade

|t per ponnd

•« 
« 
« 
« 
“ 
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PLANS8.

7  0
9  25
9 25

RIVETS. 

FANS.

“ 9 

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dls.

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8

MichiganTradesman

A  W EEK LY   JO U HN A L  D EVOTED  TO  T H E

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

Published at

lOO  Louis  St., Grand Rapids,

— BT  THE —

TRADESMAN  COMPANY

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please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement in 
T he  Michigan T rad esm a n.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

W E D N E SD A Y ,  M ARCH  15,  1893.

IT  IS  NO LIGHT  TASK.

theme; 

its  constant 

Were you  ever struck,  gentle  reader, 
by the thought of the  magnitude  of  the 
task of producing,  week  by  week,  such  a 
journal as T h e  T r a d e sm a n ?  The issu­
ing of the ordinary  morning  newspaper 
is not  a  circumstance  in  comparison. 
The Associated  Press,  with  its  teeming 
wires, overflowing  with  news  of  “dis­
asters by  flood and field,”  its  seports  of 
crimes of varying  degree,  political  and 
social sensations and divorce suits, pours 
its flood of news  in  a constant stream in­
to the columns  of 
the  morning  paper; 
the many  items of interest to be  gleaned 
in a populous and  busy city  by the alert 
reporter,  make its  production,  so  far  as 
news is concerned,  a matter of  compara­
tive  ease.  But  these “sources  of infor­
mation”  are barred  to the  trade journal. 
It is not a  newspaper  in 
the  ordinary 
meaning  of  that  term,  but 
is  issued 
solely in  the interest  of  business;  busi­
ness men must be its correspondents, and 
business 
it  may 
chronicle  the  coming  and  going,  the 
failures and  successes of  business  men, 
the ups and downs of  business life,  with 
an occasional  business sensation or hum­
orous incident;  but there is an end  of it. 
The business man is  more  interested  in 
prices current than in politics,  while re­
ports from  the market  and the  tenets  of 
business success are  more to  his  liking 
than  murders  and  sensations.  More­
over,  the business man  takes  his  morn­
ing paper with  his coffee.  He  does  not 
want the “news of the day”  in  his  trade 
paper.  Shut out,  therefore,  as  the editor 
is  from  the  fields 
of the  trade  paper 
is 
where news for  the  ordinary  paper 
gathered, it is no light task 
to  create  a 
paper that is true to its name,  and at the 
same time readable and  interesting.  The 
nature of the undei taking  can  only  be 
appreciated by one  whose  fortune,  good 
or bad, it is to be connected  with such  a 
paper. 
In addition to the  ordin ary diffi- 
cuties of the work,  there  comes  a  time 
when everything  seems  out  of  joint— 
when correspondents are slow  or do  not 
correspond at all;  when  contributors  do 
not contribute;  when 
the  topics  which 
are  supposed  to  interest  the  readers, 
seem,  to the editor at least,  to have  been

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T H E   M I C H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .

At 

the 

same. 

just 
life  is  a  burden 

worn threadbare: dull markets,  no news,  I in all  parts of  the  country,  as  if  there 
the  business  world  apparently  at  a j  were no boycott.  As a weapon of offense 
standstill; yet the forms  must  go to  the | the boycott is a miserable farce,  and i 
a
pressroom at a certain hour on a  certain I boomerang  in  the  hand
of  those  who 
such
day, 
use it. 
It does nothing but  alienate  the 
times 
to  the  editor, 
sympathies  of  the  public.  No  lasting 
and he sees to it that his associates carry 
good  has  ever  resulted  from  resorting 
a portion of  it.  But,  be  it  said  with
to either the strike or the boycott.  Work
gratitude, such  occasions  are  rare,  and  ingmen  and  their'families  are  the  only
the lot of the editor of the  trade paper 
ones injured, most of the suffering falling 
as happy as most.  Only  he  would  like 
upon the innocent  women  and  children. 
his readers to reflect sometimes  upou the 
But this does not seem  to  be a matter of 
peculiar difficulties of his position.
much concern to  the  labor  leaders  who 
continue to foment discord from  sinister 
BUSINESS PARAMOUNT TO POLITICS.
motives.  The only  persons who profit by 
On all purely  political  questions,  T h e 
strikes are the venal  leaders who  make a 
T radesm an  is  strictly non-partisan. 
It 
“fat” thing out of the funds  contributed 
is neither  Republican  nor  Democratic, 
for the support  of  the strikers.  Take the 
but considers the policies of both  parties 
case of the printers’  strike  in  Pittsburg, 
from  a  purely  business 
standpoint. 
for instance.  The strike has been “on” for 
Therefore,  what  it  may  say  about the 
about two years now,  and  was  a  failure 
declared  policy  of 
the  new  adminis­
from the start,  without the slightest hope 
tration will  be said without any partisan 
of success.  The strike was  endorsed  by 
bias whatever.  The  economic  value  of 
the  International  Union,  which  sent  a 
a policy and not party affiliation or prej u- 
committee  to  manage  it  and  dispense 
dice is what governs  T h e  T radesm an, 
the relief fund.  That committee  is  still 
and ought to govern  every business man 
doing business,  sending out reports as  to 
in the country,  so  far  as  “politics”  is 
the condition of the strike,  paying out to 
concerned.  Does  this  seem  mercenary? 
the  strikers  the  money  received  from 
It is very far from being so,  for this is a 
printers  in all  parts of  the  country,  and 
commercial country, depending upon the 
living in regal style  at  one  of  the  best 
conservation  and  extension  of  her  com­
hotels in the city. 
It  is  presumed  that 
mercial interests,  for her advancement  in 
they are  doing  more  “living  in  style” 
the “arts of civilization”and her influence 
than anything  else,  since 
there  is  no 
in the  “councils of  the  nations.”  So,  if 
strike 
to  manage,  and  most  of  the 
we would correctly estimate the economic 
strikers who failed to  secure  re-employ­
value of  any  policy,  fiscal  or  govern­
ment have long ago  left  the  city.  This 
mental,  we must understand  its  relation 
may  be an extreme case,  but  it  throws 
to, and,  in a measure at  least,  guage  its 
considerable light,  nevertheless,  on  the 
effect upon,  our  various  industries,  the 
motives which actuate the average  labor 
proceeds of  which go  to  make  up  the 
leader.  Labor should  pray to  be  deliv­
sum total of the business of  the country. 
ered  from  its friends.
The  extreme  partisan 
incapable  of 
reasoning—indeed,  he  never  thinks  of 
reasoning;  his party  has  declared  for  a 
certain  policy,  so he declares for it,  also; 
it must be right; it is sure to be beneficial 
to the country,  for is it not the  policy  of 
his party?  He is  satisfied 
to  let  other 
men do his thinking for him,  to  the  ex­
tent,  at least, of  telling  him  who  and 
what he ought to  vote  for.  And  this  is 
the shortsighted course pursued  by many 
business men,  who would  reseut  as  an 
insult any tender  of  advice  as 
to  how 
they should conduct their  private  busi­
ness;  at the same time,  they  will  permit 
a  “professional  politician,”  whose  sole 
and only business  is  to  get  votes  and 
the  measure  of  the  value  of  whose 
services is his vote-getting  ability,  to de­
cide for them as to what is the best policy 
for the conduct of  the  business  of  the 
nation—a  course  than  which  nothing 
could  be  more  unbusinesslike.  That 
policy  which will benefit  the  many  will 
benefit the  individual;  while  a  policy 
which will  benefit  the 
individual  may 
injure the many; and,  in  the  end,  is very 
certain to  injure  the  individual.  Then 
let every  business man decide  for  him­
self,  and decide,  too,  in  the interest,  not 
of this or that party but of  the  business 
in  which  he  is  engaged.  The  business 
of the  country 
it  has 
many branches,  and 
its  success  means 
always the increasing comfort  and  hap­
piness of all  the people.

The London Dairy  notes that  it is  the 
intention  of 
cheesemakers  of 
Cheshire, England,  to endeavor to have a 
law passed  “to compel every person deal­
ing in cheese,  other than the pure article, 
to brand or durably mark the  same  with 
the word  “caserine,” and to  compel  the 
registration of every manufactory of such 
article.”  This is certainly  a step  in the 
right  direction,  as  the  average  con­
sumer  has  no  means  of  telling  which 
is the one and which the other,  and a law 
compelling the  maker  to  brand  every 
cheese he makes,  so that it can  be told at 
a glance whether it is  the  “caserine” or 
whole milk  article,  would  be  but  com­
mon justice to the  consumer. 
It  would 
be a benefit to the maker as  well,  that is 
the maker of the pure article,for it would 
enable the people  to correctly  guage the 
quality and relative value  of whole  and 
skim-milk cheese,  and  a  taste for  the 
pure article  would  be  cultivated.  The 
result of this  would  be  to  drive  skim- 
milk cheese,  to a considerable  extent  at 
least,  out of  the market,  and  whole-milk 
cheese would bring a better price.

The  Winnepeg  Board  of  Trade  ha* 
adopted a resolution  urging  the  Domin­
ion Parliament  to  enact  legislation  to 
dissolve combines and trusts and author­
ize the Governor-General  to  reduce  and 
abolish  the  import  tariff  on  any  and 
every class of goods in  '.connection  with
I which a combine or trust for the uphold-
ing of prices or otherwise hindering com-
The Knights of Labor are  to  be  con- ! petition nas been or may be  found  in the 
gratuiated upon having, at last,  come  to I Dominion.  The intention of  the resolu- 
their senses,  and  removed  the  boycott, 
tion may  be all right,  but  as  the  Gov- 
which,  some two years ago,  they imposed j ernor-General can do nothing  except  on 
upon Rochester clothing.  The only ones j  the advice of the ministers of  the crown 
injured  by  It  were  the  Knights 
them- j and as the  ministers  depend  upon  the 
selves.  Rochester clothing has been sold | moneyed  interests for their  continuance

EEMOVED  THE  BOYCOTT. 

is  one, 

though 

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the 

is 

in office, it is not very  probable  that  the 
Dominion  Government  will  be  in  any 
hurry to introduce the  legislation  asked 
for.

H.  F.  Going,  surviving  partner  of 
Thos.  Kensett  &  Co.,  pioneer  canned 
goods packers of  Baltimore,  has  several 
cans of salmon packed in 1822,  which he 
proposes to open and serve when  he  be­
comes a grandfather.  Mr.  Going should 
be careful how he puts his  life  in  jeop­
ardy  in this  manner,  as  a  cigar-maker- 
legislator of Michigan  has  put  himself 
on record as asserting that  canned goods 
begin to deteriorate after they are a year 
old.  Of course, a  man  who  has  spent 
his life in a cigar factory  is  better  able 
to pass judgment on  such matters than a 
person  who was born  under  the  shadow 
of  a  cannery and has devoted his entire 
career to the pursuit of that  business !

A diligent pursuit  and  suppression  of 
small crimes in our  cities  would  lessen 
the  commission  of  greater  and  more 
serious one.  A  good,  honest  and  pro­
ficient police force would be  worth more 
to a city,  in  actual money,  then  the  ex­
pense it  would  occasion.  The  whole­
some effect of a strict enforcement of the 
laws  cannot  be  overestimated.  The 
efficacy of law  depends  largely  on  the 
extent to which  it  is  enforced,  and  a 
strict enforcement of  it  would  give  it 
dignity and  majesty,  which  it  too  often 
possesses only in theory.

The economist who attempts to remedy 
all the ills  society  is  heir  to  by  some 
vague theory accomplishes far less  than 
the  individual  who, 
in  a  simple  and 
practical  way,  aids  a  fellow  man  and 
makes  him  better  and  happier.  The 
oppressed and poor need  something that 
will enter lives as  simple  as  theirs,  re­
move the impression  that  they  are  in­
ferior to others about them,  and  inspire 
them  with a proper  sense of  their  man­
hood’s power and possibilities^.

The higher up you  go  among  ecclesi­
astical  authorities  the  less  intolerance 
you are likely to find.  Methodist-Bishop 
Vincent’s  decision,  declaring  that  it  is 
not unchristian for members of that com­
munion 
to  keep  drugs-store  in  which 
liquor is sold for medicinal  purposes,  is 
a shining example of good  sense,  as well 
as a  stinging  rebuke  to  some  bigoted 
churchmen.

The Dry Goods Market.

Spring  trade  is  starting  among  dry 
goods jobbers,  wash goods, prints  and all 
outing flannels being in good demand.

The new product of the Arnold Mills— 
“Satin Gloria” —is a seller. 
It  is  made 
to retail at 15c;  jobbers  get  12J^c,  less 
5 per cent.  They are  copies  of  all  the 
new designs in china  silk.

A  big cut was made  by  local  jobbers 
last  week  in  Maltese  chevrons.  These 
regular lOj^c goods  were sold  so  as to be 
retailed at 10c, 32 inches  wide.  A  large 
trade  was  done,  as 
these  are  special 
value.

Jackson  Business  Changes.

J ackson,  March  13.—The 

Imperial 
Tea Co., of Detroit and  New  York,  has 
opened  a branch house at 16(5 West  Main 
street,  under the management  of  Mason 
V roman.
The  Morgan  stock  of  groceries,  on 
Lansing  avenue,  has  changed  hands 
several time recently, and is now “bought 
for keeps” by Delaney & Stanbridge.

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B U SIN E SS DEPRESSIO N   IN  BRITAIN.
No one will dispute the statement  that 
the internal trade of the United States is 
prosperous and  profitable.  Our  manu­
facturers  never  were  more  busy,  our 
artisans never were more fully employed 
nor at  higher  wages. 
If  the  prices  of 
our  agricultural  products  are  low,  the 
crops  have  been  abundant,  and  what 
farmers  and  planters  lose  consumers 
gain.  Across the ocean a very  different 
state of affairs prevails,  and  the  depres­
sion in financial  circles,  due  to  uncer­
tainty as to  the  course  legislation  will 
take on this question,  is as nothing  com­
pared to  that,  for  example,  of  Great 
Britain.

The official statistics  of  British  trade 
for the year 1892 are  now  nearly  com­
plete, and they fully justify  the  gloomy 
reports, which came to us  from  time  to 
time during the year,  of  the  depressed 
condition  of  business  in  the  United 
Kingdom. 
In value the exports  of  Brit­
ish aud Irish produce were  less  in  1892 
by £20,175,000, or over 8  per cent.,  than 
they were in 1891,  and the  imports  £11,- 
799,000,  or nearly 3 per cent. less.  Much 
of the decrease,  however,  was  due  to 
lower prices,  so that in quantity the  im­
ports  for  1892  really  exceeded  a  trifle 
those of 1891, aud the imports were  only 
about 4  per  cent.  less.  Still  the  result 
was unfavorable to  the  shipping  busi­
ness,  which  suffered  from  the  general 
depression.  The gross  earnings  of  the 
railways were almost exactly of the same 
amount as  they  were  in  1891,  but  the 
working expenses  were  larger,  and  the 
dividends,  being spread over an increased 
capital, showed an average decrease from 
5.094 per cent, in  1891 to 4.875  per  cent, 
in 1892.  The transactions of  the  banks 
of the kingdom show a light  decrease  in 
volume,  but  a  very 
in  net 
profits,  the rate per  £100  having  fallen, 
in the case of the London banks, from an 
average of 14s. 9d. two years ago,  to  one 
of  10s.  3d. 
the  country
banks  having  done  somewhat  better. 
Mining and manufactures exhibit a  simi­
lar decline,  and at the close  of  the  year 
the various unions of skilled  trades  re­
ported that in an  aggregate  membership 
of 279,577 there were 27,845 out of  work. 
The number of paupers in  England  and 
Wales at the end of November was  672,- 
722,  against 660,823 at the  same  date  in 
1891,  being about 23  in  every  1,000  of 
the population.

last  year, 

large  one 

Agriculture: 

To present the  fact  a  little  more  in 
detail,  I will quote a few scattered  items 
from the review of the year by the  Lon­
don  Economist. 
“The 
year 1892 will  long  be  remembered  as 
one of the worst which the British farmer 
has  ever  experienced. 
*  *  *  The
losses have been greater than our impov­
erished  agriculture  can  bear,  and  the 
result is that all over the  country  farms 
arc being given up,  and all  classes  con­
nected with  the  land,  owners,  tenants, 
and laborers,  find rnin  staring  them  in 
the face.”  Cattle:  “In  regard  to  live 
stock,  the Times states that  1892  was  a 
year almost of disaster to both the grazier 
and the breeder.”  Coffee:  “All the  year 
through  a  ceaseless  contest  has  been 
waged agaiust deficient, ill-assorted  sup­
plies and rising prices.  In these respects 
the year 1892 has  been  worse  than  its 
predecessors,  and we presume that  there 
are few in the home trade who  can  con- 
cientiously assert that  they  have  done 
well in  coffee  during  the  past  twelve 
months.”  Dried fruit:  “The  year  1892

the  trade 
will long be  remembered  by 
generally  as  a  most  disastrous  one.” 
Bice:  “It is not a happy task to  go  back 
upon a year so  disastrous  in  its  results 
to  nearly  all  engaged 
in  this  trade.” 
Sugar:  “The past  year,  on  the  whole, 
has been one of  disappointment  to 
the 
sugar  trade.”  Chemicals:  “The  spring 
season of 1892 proved a great disappoint­
ment to  the  nitrate  producers.”  “The 
Sicilian sulphur industry has  been  in  a 
poor way.  “There can be no doubt  that 
the demand  for  phosphatic  manures  in 
this country is  on 
the  wane.”  Cotton: 
“ There is a decrease  (in consumption) of 
6,590 bales  per  week.”  Leather:  “The 
course of business  in  the  leather  trade 
during the past year has been disappoint­
ing.”  Oils:  “The  market  for  the  past 
year has mostly been in a  drooping  con­
dition, with quotations at the close lower 
than at the  opening.”  Tallow:  “Nearly 
all the year through the demand has been 
of  a  disappointing  character.”  Silk: 
“The course of the silk trade during  the 
past year has been very remarkable, and, 
as regards the home  trade,  very  disap­
pointing.”  Timber:  “The  wood  trade 
of the United Kingdom for 1892  has  not 
resulted so  satisfactorily  for  importers 
as in  1891.”  Wool:  “The  past  year 
establishes a  record  in  two  respects— 
it marks the lowest  point to which  Aus­
tralian merino wool has ever fallen,  and 
what is more  significant,  it  is  also  the 
year of the lowest average level of values 
ever  known  for  colonial  wool.”  Coal: 
“During  no  previous  year  have  coal 
owners experienced more difficulty in ad­
justing the cost of production to the sell­
ing price.” 
Iron and steel:  “The review 
of the iron and steel trade for  1892 is  far 
from satisfactory,  for not only was  there 
a further contraction  in  the  volume  of 
business,  but  prices  continued  on  the 
downward  grade.” 
“There 
has not during the past year,  as  in  pre­
vious years,  been any very active demand 
for tonnage in any quarter.”

Freights: 

The inevitable result of this decline  in 
the activity and the profits of  British in­
dustries,  coupled with the bad  harvests, 
has  been  a  diminution  of  the  surplus 
earnings of the people  available  for  in­
vestment  in  new  enterprises.  Conse­
quently  we  find  that  the  capital  sub­
scribed  for  new  undertakings  during 
1892 was but  £81,137,177  against  £104,- 
594,910 in 1891 and £142,565,000  in  1890, 
while the amount  actually  paid  in  was 
but £59,262,059,  against  £76,043,796  in 
1891 and £141,007,000 in 1890.  Since the 
incoming of the present year  the  record 
is still worse, the  subscriptions  to  new 
undertakings, of which but a  small  per­
centage has  been  called  up,  amounting 
on  February  18  to  only  £4,929,883, 
against £16,614,174  for  the  correspond­
ing period of 1892,

The comfort derived from the  contem­
plation of Great Britain’s evil plight  and 
its contrast  with  our  own  comparative 
prosperity, is somewhat impaired by  the 
reflection  that  we,  indirectly,  share  in 
the loss  resulting  from  it.  For  years 
past our rich cousins  across  the  water 
have been  furnishing  us,  out  of  their 
surplus income, capital  with  which 
to 
make  productive  the  natural  resources 
of  our  country.  The  result  has  been 
beneficial alike to us  and  to  them.  We 
have been  enabled  to  build  railroads, 
open mines,  establish manufactories, and 
create  various  other  money-making 
instrumentalities,  of  which  we  have 
reaped the larger  share  of  the  profits,

but from which they still  have  received I 
more income than 
they  could  possibly 
have got at home.  This fertilizing flood, 
for the last year  or  two,  has  shrunken  ' 
considerably,  and now  it  threatens,  by 
reason of its own diminished volume and 
of our folly in beating  it  back  by  bad 
financial legislation,  to fail us altogether.  ] 
It is true that we have in process of time : 
become rich enough ourselves  to  forego 
the aid of foreign capital with less injury  j 
than we could have done a few years ago, 
but a loss is a loss,  be it  large  or  small, 
and it is always to  be regretted.  Let  us 
hope that this consequence of our  finan­
cial errors will make  itself  felt  in 
the 
quarter  where  those  errors  now  find 
most supporters,  and that wisdom bought 
by dear experience may  take  the  place 
there  of  the  folly  which  now  reigns 
supreme. 
T h ree  E ssen tial  R u les  fo r 

Ma tth ew   Ma r sh a l l.

th e  G uid ­

a n ce o f th e  D ru g g ist.

1.  The  druggist  and 

pharmacist 
should use  every  endeavor  to  increase 
his almanac  and  calendar  trade.  This 
highly profitable  portion  of  his  profes­
sion  is  probably 
too  much  neglected. 
He should order early and in large quan­
tities all the literature of  this  character 
to which he  has  access.  Nothing  is  so 
pleasant as to have the whole community 
spend six  weeks  or  two  months  every 
year tramping from  one  drug  store  to 
another bawling for  this  annual  supply 
of mental pabulum.  They  want  one  or 
two samples  of  each  kind  made  from 
each store,  aud are as hard  to  please  as 
a professional  female shopper.

2.  Look well after  the  children  who 
come in after empty cigar boxes. 
It will 
be well  worth  while  to  empty  a  few 
dozen  “two for fives,”  throw  the  weeds 
away,  and give the  boxes  to  applicants. 
A stick of licorice  root  with  each  box 
will prove an attraction,  and it is a  good 
card to now  and  then  kiss  one  of  the 
larger  girls.  When  the  children  leave 
always  invite  them  to  “come  again.” 
If you  fail to do so,  they  will  probably 
limit their calls to six times a day,  but  a 
kind word and au exhibition of  your  ap­
preciation of  their  patronage  will,  no 
doubt, largely extend your business.

3.  Pay very especial attention  to  the 
It j 
pushing of your postage stamp trade. 
is a mystery past finding out  why  drug­
gists are expected the world over  to  sell 
stamps,  etc.,  but it  is  probably  because 
they have nothing else to  do.  Judicious 
advertising will  be found  useful,  but the 
greatest inducement is to offer three two- 
cent stamps  for  five  cents,  and  other 
It  is  a  strange 
articles in  proportion. 
thing in human nature  that 
the  person 
who wants to buy a stamp is  always  in 
a hurry. 
It does not make a  particle  of ] 
difference how busy the druggist may be, 
the stamp  buyer is  the  most  vociferous 
in his or her demands  to  be  waited  on. | 
Mr.  Apothecary may  be up to his  elbows j 
‘•pestling a poisoned  potion  behind  his 
crimson lights,” or he may  be  preparing 
a prescription requiring the utmost nicety 
of care,  or,  perhaps,  mixing  up 
labor­
iously a hoss powder of aloes, assafos tida, 
antimony,  anti-fat,  anteover  and  other | 
remedies for ills that equine flesh is  heir  j 
to,  but all  must  stop 
to  satisfy  some j 
woman  who declares tnat if  he  “doesn’t;
j hurry up she  will go to some store  where ' 
they willwait on her.”  Aud  when  at last 
the  good man,  half distracted,  leaves his 
rask  to do her bidding,  she says casually, 
“ Just charge it,” and talks for two hours 
afterwards to a lady friend  who has hap­
pened in.

“ T h e   K e n t . "

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FRANK  H.  WHITE,
Brooms,  Washboards,  Wooden
Indurated  Pails  &  Tubs,

AND

Wooden  Bowls,  Clothespins  and  I Rolling 

Pins,  Step  Ladders,  W ashing  Ma­

chines, M arket, Bushel and.Oe- 

Uvery Bas'iets,  B uilding 

Paper, W rapping

Paper, Sacks, Twine  and  Stationery.

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

125  COURT  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

T.  fl.  NEVIN  CO.’S
Swiss  Villa  Mixed Paints

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

aud beauty of finish.

We carry a full stock of  this well known 

brand mixed paints.

Send for sample card and prices.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug; Co.,

STATE  AGENTS 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Buy

SNEDICOR  &  HATHAWAY,

DETROIT.  MICH,

Dealers wishing to see the line address 
F.  A.  Cad we! I, 682  Jefferson  ave.,  Grand 
Kapids,  Mich.

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1893

BS,  NIAGARA,  ROCHESTER,  AR IEL,  FOW- 
LEIGH, AM.  SA NSPA RIEL,  STEARNS,  NEW  
JLIPSE,  WESTERN  WHEEL  W'ORKS, 
BSTONE.

B e s t   G o o d s 

B e s t   S t y le s  

B e s t   B r ic e s
Prompt  deliveries.

Catalogue on application.

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H OW   TO  SU CCEED .

Sharp,  Crisp  and Pointed Hints  to  the 

Retailer.

The  following  article,  taken  from  the 
Cincinnati Tribune, is full  of  “meat” for 
the dealer who  is  looking  for,  and  will 
use,  hints as to the successful conduct of 
his business:

Given a sufficient  capital, a knowledge 
of the business gained by  actual  experi­
ence in handling and selling  the class  of 
goods,  a suitable storeroom  in a good lo­
cation,  a  man  with  energy,  economy, 
good habits and perseverance, may count 
on sure success in a retail  business.
Now  as  to  the  how.  Well,  volumes 
might be written, but the gist of them all 
would  be  bustle.  Unremitting  hard 
work  is at the bottom of  success in  any­
thing. 
It  is  the  men  who  can  plod. 
The  bulldog  wins  because  he  sets  his 
teeth in  and  hangs on.
The utmost care should be taken to se­
cure good help.  A  good  clerk  is  rarer 
than  a  good  wife.  Such  can  be  had, 
however.  As  good  clerks  are  hard  to 
find,  when found  they  should  be kindly 
and  justly  treated.  Much  depends  on 
this.  Respect 
their  feelings.  Treat 
them  with  delicacy 
and  generosity. 
Gratuities,  a present  now  and  then,  al­
lowance of  time off, evidence  that extra 
service or devotion to the business  is ap­
preciated  by  the  employer,  will  work 
wonders in  developing  efficiency  in  the 
help.
Never reprove a clerk in  the  presence 
of others, and never scold.  Seek out the 
special natural  ability of  each man  and 
avail  yourself  of it.  Be  master of  your 
business  and  master  of  the  employes. 
The subordinates always  respect  a chief 
who is chief.  Get  rid  of  the  incompe­
tents  in as  friendly  a way  as  possible. 
But get rid of them.  Take pains to train 
the  staff,  and  hold  them  up  to  a high 
standard of performance of  duty.
Enlist  their  goodwill in behalf  of  the 
business.  Give good wages and  then in­
sist upon good work for good pay.
Hours  of  work  should  be  made  as 
short as possible.  Avoid requiring even­
ing work if possible.  Overworked clerks 
get  cross  and  careless.  Run  at  high 
speed,  but  not  too  many  hours  a  day. 
Weed out the  lazy.  Encourage the  talk­
ers  to  go out  and  hire a hall somewhere 
—at their own expense;  not yours.
Encourage  the  clerks to  good  habits, 
neatness  in  dress,  affability  and  unfail­
ing  courtesy.  See that  they treat  Hans 
and  Bridget  as  politely as they  would 
Croesus.  The  good  salesman  does  not 
overdo  the  talking;  does  not  dictate  to 
the customer;  studies the tastes  and  best 
interests of  the  customer,  and  is  able to 
control  his  own temper.  Why  not  take 
as much  pains to retain a customer as  to 
get him?
Profit-sharing  with  employes  is  ad­
visable  under some  circumstances.  The 
theory is  good.  But  it  sometimes tends 
to complication and confusion. 
It some­
times brings  too  many advisors  into  the 
cabinet. 
It  may  lead  to  internal  dis­
sension  in  a  business,  and  misunder­
standings-  There  must  be unity  in  the 
management.  The  most  successful  un­
dertakings  in  the  world  recognize  the 
autocratic principle.
“Now, boys, this house is full of goods, 
and  they’ve  got to be  sold.”  Let in the 
light!  Spread out  the  stock  so that peo­
ple  can  see.  The  work is half  done if 
the samples are out in good shape.  Mark­
ing  goods in  plain  figures  begets  confi­
dence in  the buyer.  Then  there is much 
in  skillful  arrangement of  goods, so  as 
to catch the  eye.  A  bright-looking store 
and  stock  unfastens  the  purse.  Then 
those  show windows!  Use  them for  all 
they are worth.  Change them as often as 
possible.  Nobody brings in a  bill  for the 
wonderful  advertising  they  do.  Prices 
in the windows  work like magic.

Replenish  stock  promptly.  Have the 
goods.  Have  the  goods  people  want. 
Here comes in genius and forecast.  The 
“get-there”  merchant don’t wait for peo­
ple to push  him.  He leads.  Yes,  leads. 
And  he gets  up early to do it,  too.  Spring 
begins  before  March 1  with  him,  and the 
cream of  the season’s  profits rises on his 
milk.  Don’t you forget it.

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.

O ur  Motto:  H  ^

1893 

But steadiness in  prices is good, 

T U U   M iC M IC L A -N   T R A D E S M A N
The retail  merchant  who is too  stingy 
or to lazy to advertise  may as well retire 
to the  rear townships.  He wili  fetch  up 
there  sooner  or  later. 
In  these  days a 
man must advertise.  - And the live news­
paper  is  his  best  medium.  Beware  of 
the  humbugs  in  the  advertising  line! 
Their  name  is  legion.  They  are  the 
leeches of  the  commercial  world.  They 
fasten  themselves  on  every  merchant. 
Fire them out! 
If necessary, keep a dog.
But  advertise!  Study your  clientage, 
seize  the  fine  points  in  your  business, 
and  don’t  be afraid  to  blow the  horn. 
But  be  able to perform all  you promise. 
Have more  than  one  egg to cackle over. 
Banish deception from every department 
of  the  business.  Give  value  received 
every  time.  Then  Mr.  Jones  and  Mr. 
Brown  will  come  back.  And,  what  is 
more,  they  will  tell  about  you  to  the 
minister and the people next dore.  Don’t 
forget  the  newspaper.  The  one  that 
goes into the homes,  and that the women 
read,  is the  best.  The  women  do  most 
of  the  talking,  and  they help  the  store 
that they like.  “That’s right.”
Advertise  proportionally.  Change the 
matter often.  Short ads are  read  when 
long ones sometimes  are not.  Don’t  let 
your  politics  or  your  religious  views 
govern  your  advertising  patronage.  A 
good  silver  dollar 
is  cash—who  ever 
brings it—even though he  believes  “the 
sun do move.”
Now, turn the stock over often.  Those 
old.  shabby-looking goods hurt the  new, 
fresh  stock.  Different  lines  should  be 
brought to the front  and  made  piomin- 
ent from time to  time.  Special  window 
and counter displays—changed  as  often 
as once a week, at least—are  blisters  to 
draw.  Razeeing prices  is often resorted 
to profitably.  The man who hasn’t nerve 
enough to once in a  while “ make a loss” 
ought not to be a merchant.
too. 
Circumstances must  govern.  Whatever 
you do be open and aboveboard  about it. 
If stuck on a  lot of goods own  up,  and 
then give your customers the  benefit  of 
your folly.  But don’t  tell  lies—especi­
ally in the newspapers.  The  public are 
“on to it.”
The quick and adroit  presentation  of 
novelties  is  one  secret  of  prosperity. 
Thus is leadership in  the  market  often 
gained.  “Eternal  vigilance is the price” 
of keeping at the head of the procession. 
And the E.  V. comes in  behind the  sea­
son as well as in front.  See?
But get customers by  advertising,  and 
on all thy  getting  get  customers.  Ad­
vertise!  Advertise!!  Advertise!!!
It is doubtful  if,  in  retail  lines,  any­
thing is gained by  combinations  or  as­
sociation  with  others  in  same  line  of 
business.  Each house  ought  to  govern 
itself and have its  own  active,  definite 
policy.  Human  nature  is  selfish  and 
proves to break  regulations  and  agree­
ments.  The  pushing,  energetic  men 
hamper themselves if  they  enter  com 
binations with the weak and  sluggish.
To sum up:  Be  forehanded  and fore­
casting.  Plan  ahead for  each day,  each 
month, each season.  Value good health, 
cultivate good  nature,  eliminate  all  the 
vinegar  from  yourself, your  clerks  and 
your  bookkeeper.  Let  the  sun  shine. 
Then  push!  Concentrate  all  the  forces 
on the selling  of  goods.  There’s  where 
the 
in.  Never  mind 
politics,  baseball  or  your neighbor’s  di­
vorce case.  Wall street can take  care of 
itself,  also  the  wheat  market  and— 
Latonia.  Have  money enough so as not 
to worry about  payments.  Never give a 
note if you can  help it.  Let me  know as 
soon  as  you  begin to “shin”  for  money 
which you  must  have  before 3  o’clock. 
That’s  the beginning of the end.  Watch 
the 
leaks!  Don’t  overstock!  Know 
what  is  on the  shelves.  Beware of the 
seductive  drummer.  He  don’t  pay  the 
bills.  That  comes  on  you.  Don’t  say. 
“1 like that and  I’ll make it sell.” 
It  is 
the  taste  of the  customer  that  decides 
whether goods are saleable  or not.

profit  comes 

F . J . 

P lea sed   w ith   th e  C h ange.

Tailor—Checks,  1  see,  are  not  to  be 
Customer—Well,  that  suits  me;  1  al­

used this spring.
ways liked credit far  better.

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

PERKINS  &  RICHMOND,  101  Ottaia St.,  Grand .Rapids, Mich.

OYSTERS!

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.

WHOLESALE  OYSTERS,  FISH  and  GAME,

D B T T B N T H A

LIVE  AND  DRESSED  POULTRY.

Consignments solicited.  Chicago and Detroit market prices guaranteed.

117  Monroe  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

C //A S . 

A.,CO Y B ,
A W N IN G S   and  T E N T S

M anufacturer |of

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS

Jobbers of Oiled  Clothing  and  Cotton  Ducks.

Send for  Price  U .t. 

1 j   p e a r ,  g t   G r a n d  

M ic h .

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

1 1

THE  CALENDAR  NUISANCE.
from 

A  Merchant  Who  Suffers 

the 

Trouble.

“This calendar business  is  completely 
overdone,”  said a  merchant  some  days 
ago.  “There was a time when a calendar 
was a good advertisement of  one’s  busi­
ness because it was a convenience  to  get 
one.  Now I  consider  it  a  convenience 
not to get one.  The  month  of  January 
has become a horrid dream. 
It seems  as 
if our January  business  this  year  con­
sisted of receipting for calendars sent  to 
us,  and informing the  myriad  of  appli­
cants that we did not issue any ourselves. 
The first business day in the year,  which 
I believe was January 3. we had nine ap­
plications  for  calendars.  The  clerks 
were polite about it,  and  explained  that 
we were not issuing  any  advertising  of 
that sort this year,  but  the applicants all 
went away  with  a  sort  of  dissatisfied 
look.
“The next day  was quiet,  and  I  began 
to think we  wouldn’t  he  troubled  any 
more  with  calendar grabbers,  when, 
about 3 o'clock,  a thin,  middle-aged  man 
came into the store.  He sidled  up to one 
of the clerks,  favored  him with  a  beam­
ing smile,  and  then  whispered  confiden­
tially,  ‘l  want one of your calendars,  old 
fellow.’
“  *We don’t issue any  calendars,  sir,’ 
said the clerk.
“The visitor.uudged  the  clerk  in  the 
ribs. 
« ‘What is?”
“ ‘Bluffin’  about  calendars.’
“  ‘I tell you  we haven’t any calendars.’
“ ‘And 1 say you have,’ said  the calen­
dar fiend out loud.  T saw one  up  town 
this  morning.  Elegant  thing.  Russia 
leather and  gold, 
limited  number  for 
your big customers,  and all  that.’
“ ‘You are greatly mistaken,’ protested 
‘We haven’t  issued  a  calen­
the clerk. 
dar this year.’
I saw your calendar  my­
“ ‘Come off. 
self. 
I’m a good customer of this house,’ 
he added,  getting mad. 
‘I  bought  nine 
dollars’  worth  of  goods  here  last  fall, 
and blamed if ever 1 come in here again.’ 
And he went out and slammed  the  door 
after him  hard enough to break  all 
the 
glass  in  it.  He  really  thought  we’d 
bluffed him.  Then I had a  notice  stuck 
upon the door:

‘That’s all right,’ he  whispered.

X ................................................................................................x

HAPPY  NEW  YEAR.

NO  CALENDARS.

We never issued  one. and  we 

never  will.

...............................................................X
But we had thirty-one applications  by 
mail after that.  About the 15th the calen­
dars began to come  in  to  us.  We  re­
ceived eleven by messengers and  had  to 
sign receipts for all  of  them.  Twenty- 
four others came by  mail. 
I  had  nine 
calendars hanging in my office  at  once. 
Fire inurance,  ink,  pens,  sarsaparilla, 
electrotyping,  printing,  newspapers,  cig­
arettes,  all sorts  and  conditions  of  en­
terprise.  One  of  them  was  two  feet 
square.  1 think it must  have  been  de­
signed for blind men and  old  ladies. 
I 
stood this collection  of  calendar  bric-a- 
brac until last week,  and then  I  said  to 
the office boj: ‘William pull all these cal­
endars np by the roots  and  throw  them 
into the  waste  basket.  Then  get  fifty 
cents  from  the  cashier  and  buy  me  a 
calendar,  a little one,  all  calendar  and 
nothing else.’ ”

Science As a Detector  of Crime.

A somewhat remarkabie  case was end­
ed on  Feb.  18  by  the decision  of Chan­
cellor McGill,  Judge of  the  Prerogative 
Court of New Jersey, revoking a probate 
he had  previously granted on  a pretend­
ed will of the late George P.  Gordon, the 
millionaire  printing  press  maker  of 
Rahway. 
In 1879, a year after  Gordon’s 
death,  a retired  lawyer  named  Henry C. 
Adams attempted to foist upon the heirs- 
at-law a  will  which  he  pretended  was 
drafted bv him in 1868 at the instance of 
Gordon.  Failing  to  make  any-  impres­
sion at  that time,  his  efforts  ceased  till 
1890 when Mary Agnes  Gordon,  who had 
had the management  of  the estate,  died. 
Her  will  not  proving  satisfactory 
to 
those  who  had  been  receiving  remit- 
ances  from  tb#  estate  during  her  life­
time, and  those  remittances  ceasing  at 
her death,  a contest  was begun.  Adams

renewed  his  efforts,  and  submitted  a 
draft of the alleged will to Black & King, 
attorneys  for  the  contestants  of  Miss 
Gordon’s  will.  A  few  days  later  the 
pretended will itself  was  found  on  the 
Adams farm at  Rahway. 
It  was  subse­
quently deposited  with the  Secretary  of 
State.  The alleged  will,  which  Judge 
McGill  has  just  pronounced  a  forgery, 
when finally opened  in  the  preliminary 
probate proceedings,  was found  to  be  a 
very  long  aud  complicated  document, 
written  on  blue  paper  in  black 
ink. 
The draft,  which  was  on  white  paper, 
was also written  in the main in black ink, 
but a copious  quantity  of  red  ink  had 
been  used  in interlineations.  The signifi­
cant paragraph  of  the  new  will  was  a 
direction to  his heirs to purchase,  if  the 
testator had not  succeeded  in  doing  so 
before bis death,  the Henry Adams  farm 
for  $32,000.  Minute  directions  were 
given  to  insure  the  purchase,  but  no 
lower price than $32,000 was  mentioned. 
this  Judge  McGill 
Commenting  upon 
says:
that  the 
Adams farm is now scarcely  worth  one- 
third the price for which it is directed to 
be purchased.”

“It is also to be  here  noted 

Continuing the Judge  says:
“The only  living person  who professes 
to have had knowledge  of  this  disputed 
paper prior to November.  1890,  is  Henry 
C.  Adams.  He most  clearly  aud  posi­
tively testified  that he drew the  disputed 
paper at  the  instance  of  Mr.  Gordon. 
He produced a draft from which  he  said 
it was copied.  *  *  * 
I  have  already 
stated that  Mr.  Adams testified  most pos­
itively  when  the  draft  of  the  disputed 
paper was offered  in  evidence that it was 
the identical  document  from  which  the 
will of 1868 had  been copied,  aud  it is  to 
remembered  that  the  interlineations  in 
that draft are almost all  made  with  red 
ink,  and  that  Mr.  Adams  testified  that 
those  interlineations  existed  when  the 
will  was copied  from the draft.  With  a 
view to testing the  truth  of  this  testi­
mony the contestants submitted the draft 
to scientific experts,  who pronounced the 
red ink to be a product of eosine,  a  sub­
stance invented  by  a  German  chemist 
named Caro, in the year 1874,  and  after 
that time imported to  this  country.  At 
first it was sold  for  $125  a  pound,  and 
was so  expensive  it  could  not  be  used 
commercially in the manufacture of  ink. 
Afterwards the price was so  greatly  re­
duced that it became  generally  used  in 
making red ink. 
It  is  distinguished  by 
a  peculiar  bronze  cast  that  is  readily 
detected. 
It was recognized  in  the  red 
ink  interlineations  in  the  draft  of  the 
disputed paper produced by  Mr.  Adams 
by  a  number  of  scientific  gentlemen, 
among  whom  were  some  of  the  best 
known ink manufacturers in the country, 
and Mr.  Carl  Pickhardt,  who  first  im­
ported eosine.  *  *  *  I find  it  to  be 
impossible to rely upon the testimony  of 
Henry C.  Adams.  Excluding it  the  will 
is not proved.
“I  will  deny  probate,  revoking  that 
which  I  have  heretofore  granted 
in 
common  form.”

Toots  From Ram’s Horn.

God  speaks  whenever  and  wherever 
his truth is made  known.
A  lie is always an  enemy,  no  matter 
how well meaning it may  look.
The man who  rides  a  hobby  always 
wants the whole road for himself.
A boy’s idea of having  fun  is  to  be 
allowed to make all the noise be can.
Nothing makes a man so mad as  to  be 
shown the face of the devil in himself.
It never hurts the cause of the  devil  a 
bit for a stingy man to talk in church.
There are men  who starve  their  chil­
dren to help the brewer fatten his horses.
Love your enemies, and you won’t have 
any trouble about  treating them right.
The  character  of  love  is 
the  same, 
It does not  change 
summer and winter. 
with circumstance or climate.
Two people praying  the  same  prayer 
at the same time anywhere on earth  will 
produce a commotion in heaven.
Nothing will  take  the  fight  out  of  a 
quarrelsome man  any  quicker  than  to 
find out that there is no fight in  you.
The  angels  have  no  orders  to  open 
any windows in heaven for the man  who 
never prays except when he has  to.

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

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

T h e BREAD
RAISER

SUPPLANTS BAKIN6 POWDER

Fosfori Chemical Co., Detroit, Michigan.

SOLD  BY  ALL  RELIABLE  GROCERS.

W A N T   T O   S E L L   O U T  ? 
W A N T   T O   B U Y ?
W A N T   A   S IT U A T IO N  ? 
W A N T   A   C L E R K ?

In any case  THE  TRADESMAN'S  wants  column 
will  be apt to help  you.

It’s  Cheap!
Not  Coal,  but

M olasses.

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

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The quality  is right, the  [»rice is right,  and  it’s dollars in  your 

pocket to  handle them.■all  ------—

arnhart
PutmanCn.

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THE  CRY  OP  COMMUNE !

Mr.  Owen  Pays  His  Compliments  to 

Mr.  Stowell.

Written for The Tradesman.

forth 

With the kind permission of the editor 
of  T he  T radesm an,  I  would 
like  to 
tender Mr. Stowell my sincere thanks for 
the very high  compliment  paid  me  in 
last week’s issue. 
Indeed,  it  is the only 
compliment of the  kind  vouchsafed  me 
in these columns  during  two  years  of 
laborious scribbling.  1  began  to  grow 
discouraged.  1  put 
strenuous 
efforts to learn if any one had  ever  read 
one of my productions. 
I have  the  evi­
dence at last.  “An article,  etc., deserves 
more than passing notice.”  Thanks,  but 
I did not write  “under  the  above  cap­
tion,”  for  said  “caption”  contains  the 
word “communism.”  This may  not  be 
Mr.  Stowell’s  fault,  however—it  may 
have been a slip of the pen on the editor’s 
part. 
I am sorry that  Mr.  Stowell  did 
not carefully read the counterpart of this 
article which preceded it under the head, 
“Whither are we  Drifting.” 
If  he  had 
done so he might  have  understood  that 
I was writing under  the  inspiration of a 
prophetic spirit, and  that  the  “commer­
cial  tyranny” was  a  geueral  condition 
predicted for the future.  He  would not 
have charged me  with  having  “appar­
ently, determined in my own  mind”  that 
aggregation of capital  and  singleness  of 
control, per se,  is  commercial  tyranny, 
and “an evil to  be  deplored  and  com­
batted.”

By the way,  my critic  takes  exception 
to my phraseology.  He  thinks  there  is 
something out of joint  with  the  phrase 
“aggregation of  capital  and  singleness 
of control.” 
It might  not  have  grated 
quite as harshly on his euphonistic ears if 
the adj unct had not been  connected by a 
co-ordinate conjunction.  His  ideas  are 
evidently quite  modern,  and  manufac­
tured to order, after the  latest  improved 
patterns; while mine are  home-made and 
constructed with  home-grown  material. 
My learned friend is well  fortified  with 
lexicons  aud  unabridged  dictionaries. 
He says his lexicographers  tell  him  that 
“tyranny is unlawful  authority  cruelly 
exercised.”  He  says  “an aggregation of 
capital exercises no  authority—has none 
to exercise.”  This settles the question- 
in  his  mind.  Aggregations  of  capital 
have  no authority to  exercise—his  lexi­
cographers tell him that  tyranny  is  the 
cruel exercise of authority—hence, aggre­
gations of capital can never become com­
mercial tyrannies.

But he says an aggregation  of  capital 
“has power.”  That lets me  out,  for  my 
little,  old,  pocket  dictionary  tells  me 
that tyranny is the arbitrary and despotic 
exercise  of  power;  and  observation, 
backed  up  by  common  horse 
sense, 
teaches me that an  aggregation of capital 
with a  singleness  of  control,  when  it 
reaches the ultimate goal for which  it is 
striving, does exercise  arbitrary  power, 
becoming thereby a commercial tyranny.
If I ran a grocery on  one  corner  and 
Mr.  Stowell  ran  one  on  the  opposite 
corner,  and,  in  order  to  increase  our 
chances for success,  we  pooled our  in­
terests,  thereby reducing our  rent,  clerk 
hire,  advertising and other  running  ex­
penses, it would  be  an  aggregation  of 
capital  with a singleness of  control—but 
it would not be  a  commercial  tpranny. 
Why?  Because  it  would  possess  no 
power which  might  be  exercised  arbi­
trarily or despotically. 
It  is  only when 
these aggregations reach a point  in their

TETE  MICECIG^LlSr  T R A D E S M A N

development where they can control pro­
duction and dictate prices that  they win 
to 
the  unsavory  epithet 
“commercial  tyranny.”

themselves 

He thinks I  meant “desire for money” 
when I used the term  “greed;”  yet  he 
expresses a doubt  as  to  whether  these 
aggregations are formed for the  purpose 
of  satisfying  this  desire,  for  he  says 
“they  may  have  been  conceived 
in 
greed.” 
It seems to me that a man  who 
expresses a doubt on this question  would 
be inclined to doubt his own existence.

Mr. Stowell says I am mistaken in  my 
conception of paternalism.  He thinks  I 
don’t know the difference between  pater- 
| nalism  and  communism.  1  wonder  if 
Mr. Stowell ever waded out very far into 
the sea of political economy?  If  he has, 
an essay on  “The Object of Government” 
would be appreciated by  the  readers  of 
I  have  no  space  at 
T h e  T radesm an. 
my disposal for a discussion of the merits 
or demerits of paternalism.  Suffice it  to 
say that the term has  attached  to  itself 
an  American  signification  since  Noah 
Webster went to his reward. 
In the  use 
I made of it,  I qualified it by making  the 
term  synonymous  with  “governmental 
control.”  No chance for quibbling here. 
Nothing would give me greater  pleasure 
than to follow  this  gentleman, 
line  by 
line,  but 1 dare not impose  on  the  good 
nature of the editor, so will  confine  my­
self to this 
insinuation  of  communism 
which my friend has thrown at me.

What does  this  monopolistic  howl  of 
communism mean?  Why is it that when­
ever a man down  in  the  trenches  opens 
his mouth or takes up his pen, the watch 
dogs in the tower  send  up 
this  howl? 
Commune is the designation of  the  low­
est  administrative  division 
in  France. 
On March 27,  1871,  the commune of Paris 
proclaimed itself the only lawful govern­
ment, just as the people of Grand Rapids 
might declare themselves to be  free  and 
independent of state  and  national  con­
trol.  They  were  driven  out  of  Paris, 
but on the morning of  May  20,  they  re­
entered the city , and the terrible  cry  of 
the wealthy was heard in  every  quarter: 
“The  Commune!  The  commune!”  The 
commune fired the city  with  petroleum, 
and the fire was not checked  until  prop­
erty had  been lost to the  value  of  many 
millions of dollars,  besides  the  destruc­
tion  of  many  historical  monuments, 
which can never be  replaced.  This  act 
of vandalism  is  without  a  parallel 
in 
modern times.  The  horror  inspired  by 
the  Commune  for  a  time  drove 
the 
wealthy  classes  from  Paris.  So  much 
for  French  political  communism.  Let 
my readers who  are  better  acquainted 
with me than Mr.  Stowell is, say whether 
I  am  a  political  communist  or  not 
This short reign of terror in Paris should 
not be confounded with the social theory 
known as communism,  and which,  I  pre­
sume, 
is  the  particular  malady  Mr. 
Stowell  imagines  1  am  afflicted  with. 
Let  us 
embraces 
socialism and is the name  given  to  one 
class of the arrangements by  which  cer­
tain hair-brained  cranks  have  proposed 
to dispose with those laws of  social  and 
political economy which are supposed  to 
keep society  together.  “Socialism”  has 
generally been applied to those whe only 
propose to interfere with labor  by  abol­
ishing competion and wages,  leaving men 
to  work  under  the  influence  of  public 
spirit, and making an  equal  division  of 
the produce.  The  term  communist,  on 
the other hand,  has been applied to those

see.  Communism 

who go a  step  further,  and  propose  to 
abolish the relation of husband and wife, 
along with the system of domestic govern­
ment which is  founded  on  parental,  or 
paternal authority.  Read this over  care­
fully,  Mr.  Stowell,  and then frankly con­
fess that you didn’t know  what you  were 
talking about  when you  said  that  com­
munism appeared to bewhat  I  was  con­
tending  for.

Mr.  Stowell says:  “ What is needed  is 
simply  an  applicatiou  of  the  principles 
which  underlie  our  constitution.  No 
oppression can exist where these  princi­
ples  are active.”  So say I.  And permit 
me to add,  that the only way to avoid the 
dire calamities which  so  many  see,  or 
fancy they see,  looming up  in  the  hori­
zon, is to remove  everything  which  in­
terferes with the  free  action  of  these 
principles. 

E.  A.  Ow en.
Beware of the  Soap  Powder  Fiend. 
Section 3583 of the Revised Statutes of 

the United States provides  that 

No person shall  make,  issue,  circulate 
or pay  out  any  note,  check,  memoran­
dum,  token or other obligation  for a less 
sum than one dollar,  intended  to  circu­
late as money or to be received in  lieu of 
lawful money of the United  States;  and 
every person so offending shall  be  fined 
not more  than  five  hundred  dollars  or 
imprisoned not more than six  months,  or 
both,  at the discretion of the Court.

The “cash tickets” issued  by  the  Rose 
the  Hartford 
Washing-Powder  Co., 
Chemical Co.  and the J.  B.  Williams Co. 
are clearly infractions of the postal  laws 
and the Anti-Lottery  Act.  The  tickets 
of the J.  B.  Williams Co.,  which are fair 
samples of the others,  bear  date of  “ Feb. 
27,  1893,” and on the face  is printed: 

“ This ticket entitles the bearer  to  12- 
cent package containing 
pounds  of 
Ivorine Washing Powder  for  7  cents,  if 
presented at your grocer’s within 10 days 
from date.  This ticket is  thus  equal  to 
5 cents cash.”  The obverse side contains 
a  “notice to grocers,”  which reads:  “Our 
salesman will call and  cash  these  tickets 
at fi ve cents each or they  may  be mailed 
to us and we will cash them,  but  only on 
condition that they  were  taken  in  pay­
ment for 
pound package  of  Ivorine. 
The  J.  B.  Williams  Co.,  Glastonbury,

The attention of the  postal authorities 
at Washington was called  to the matter, 
and,  after investigation,  it  was  decided 
that “such issues are clearly  infractions 
of the law and  must  be  discontinued.” 
Grocers should let  all  such  “Aim flam” 
games severely  alone.  There are plenty 
of ways by  which money  can  be  made 
and a  business  advertised  without  re­
sorting to any such questionable methods. 
If an article has merit  and  is  useful  as 
well, it will find a market without resort­
ing to a violation of the law  for the  pur­
pose  of  “making  it  go.”  Moreover, 
dealers should remember that,  in  accept­
ing  these tickets and offering them as an 
inducement  to  purchasers,  ¡they 
are 
partlceps  criminis,  and fare  liable  to 
prosecution. 
If dealers  would  unitedly 
refuse to handle  goods  which *it  is  at­
tempted to sell on the  catch-penny  plan, 
or any similar system,  it  would  not  be 
long before  such  disreputable  and  de­
moralizing methods would be abandoned.
A business  firm at  Beuthen,  Prussia, 
recently sent out a  number of  black  let­
ters with white addresses for advertising 
purposes.  After 1000 had  been sent the 
postmaster received  an  rorder3from  the 
authorities at Berlin  forbidding  him  to 
receive any  more.

It won’t do any good for a Christian  to 

talk louder than he lives.

EATON,  LYON  &  CO.’S

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Corner Monroe st. and  Fifth ave.

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

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

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

J  W .  FOX,

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.,

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Boots  and  Shoes.

Felt Boots and Alaska  Socks.

State Agents for

158 A  ISO Fulton St., Grand  Rapids.

T o ad sto o ls  v s.  M ushroom s.

the  curry-comb 

A box of mushrooms sat  on  a  Monroe 
street grocer’s counter.  A horny-handed 
ruralist from one of the back  towhships, 
with timothy chaff in  his  whiskers  and 
dried milk on his  boots,  was 
taking  a 
mental  inventory  of  the  stock.  Three 
different clerks had, one after  the  other 
approached 
scented 
gentleman  from  the  country,  with  a 
polite bow and an inquiry  as to what  he 
would  like,  but each had been  met with, 
“Oh,  I’m just a lookin’ round to see what 
I can see.”  He did not  seem  to  realize 
that he was in the presence of delicately- 
refined, city-bred  personages  of  highly 
strung  nervous 
temperaments,  for  he 
cooly and deliberately  pulled  a  square 
yard of red cotton out of his  pocket  and 
blew such a  blast on  his  nosal  trumpet 
that it nearly frightened the timid candy- 
counter girl into a  “conniption  fit.”

After  this  exhibition  of  his  wind 
power,  he repocketed his vermilion sweat 
evaporator and took  a  copious  “chaw” 
of  black  plug  “tobacker.”  Rube  was 
now  at  peace  with  all  mankind.  His 
jaws began to wag with  a  sort of lateral 
swing,  and with  such  regular  precision 
that it indicated a long  and  close  com­
panionship with the patient ox.  After a 
little while he caught sight  of the box of 
mushrooms,  which caused  him  to  make 
the following exclamation,  delivered  in 
his own vernacular:

“Toad-stools,  by thunder!”
The candy girl  was  again  frightened 
for she thought the man with  the  milky 
boots said  “co-boss”  and  then  swore. 
The girl was not to blame,  however,  as 
the  articulation  was  very 
indistinct, 
owing to the fact that  Rube’s  organ  of 
speech,  at  the  time,  was  helplessly 
floundering  in  a  quagmire  of  tobacco 
juice.  After thus giving vent to his sur­
prise,  he reached out for one  and  began 
to pick it to pieces.  A  bald-faced  clerk 
approached  and  gently  reminded  him 
that those things were  too  expensive  to 
be mutilated in  that way.

“ What,” cried  Rube,  “de yu p’tend to 
tell me that them air toad-stools  is  good 
fur anything  jist  because  the  ground’s 
kivered with snow an’  ye  can’t  go  out 
an’ git ’em?  But  where  in  sancho  did 
ye find these?”

“Those are not  toad-stools,”  said  the 
blerk,  “they’re mushrooms,  and  if  you 
knew what they cost,  you  would  think 
they were good for something.”

Rube looked over to the candy girl and 
winked,  which caused her  to drop a tray 
of caramels.  He thought  the  clerk  was 
trying to guy him,  and he wanted to con­
vince the candy girl that  he  come  from 
the place  where 
toad-stools  grew,  and 
that he wasn’t such a  jay  as  the  clerk 
took him to be. 
In justice to  the  candy 
girl,  it is but fair to state that it was not 
the mere fact of  being  winked  at  that 
gave her such a shock.  Oh, my, no!  But 
it was the manner in which  it  was done. 
The candy girl never lived in 
the  coun­
try where the girls turn  the  grind-stone 
and the pigs drink  the  buttermilk  after 
it becomes too  sour  and 
thick  for  the 
men folks.

“Mush-a-rooms,” repeated the incredu­
lous Rube,  with  mouth  stretched  from 
ear to ear, ‘ ‘do ye s’pose  I  never  heard 
that mush-a-rooms  was  something  good 
t’  eat?  Do ye think  I’m  a  big  enough 
jay-hawk to  b’lieve  that  anybody  ever 
et toad-stools?  I guess  not,  b’  hokey. 
You’ll have to try that on  a  bigger  fool 
than I am, you betcher boots.”

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Tne proprietor now came to the rescue 
and explained to  Rube  that  they  were 
real mushrooms, and that they  were  ob- j 
tained  down  at  Grandville.  The  pro­
prietor is one of the most candid  men  in | 
the whole city.  The very  sound  of  his 
voice  carries  conviction  with 
it,  and 
when coupled with the expression  of his 
honest blue  eye, 
there  is  not  even  a 
shadow of a doubt left in the mind of his 
hearer.  Rube’s  skepticism  vanished. 
His broad-gauged grin of  self-sufficiency 
gave place to a  look  of  wide-open  sur­
prise.

“Is ’at so?”  said the  newly  converted 
Rube,  “but where do ye find ’em  dauwn 
t’ Grandville?  They  got  jist  ’s  much 
snow dauwn there as ye’v got  up here.”
“Oh,  we buy  them  of  a  party  who 
propagates them  for  the  market,”  said 
the smiling grocer,  and  then  he  rubbed 
his hands and smiled  harder as  a  token 
of the great fact that  all 
things  terres­
trial must come  to  an  end.  Rube  took 
the hint and  began to button up his over­
coat.  While searching for his mittens in 
his capacious pocket,  he gave vent to his 
pent up emotions as follows:
“Well,  a feller  never  gits 

to  old  t ’ 
lam. 
I’ve hearn  tell  of  inguns  eatin’ 
grasshoppers and pismires but,  by  hen,
I didn’t  know that yer tony city folks et 
toad-stools.  Why,  my  sakes  alive,  if 
mush-a-rooms is nothing but  toad-stools, 
come out to my place  next  summer  an’ 
ye kin git all ye want fur nothing;  but I 
wouldn’t eat one of ’em if  ye’d  give  me 
the best boss in the county.”

Prom  O ut o f T ow n .

Calls  have  been 

received  at  T he 
T radesman office during  the  past  week 
from  the  following  gentlemen  in  trade:

Elk Rapids Iron Co.,  Elk  Rapids.
Eugene O’Connor,  Kent City.
Jas.  S.  To!and,  Ross.
C.  Pfeifle,  Diamond  Lake.
R.  D. McNaughton,  Coopersville.
C.  S.  Comstock,  Pierson.
A. C.  Brink, Bailey.
A.  Denton,  Howard City.
C.  McCarty,  Lowell.
Frank Smith,  Leroy.
Jas.  D. C.  Hubbard,  Parmelee.

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will  open  up  about  April  16, 
in the  City of  Lansing,  Mich., 
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with all manufacturers of goods 
in that line.  Address

F.  P.  MERRELL,

Ithaca,  Mich.

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ENGRAVERS  AND  PRINTERS.

T H E   MICHIGLâJNr  T T tA D K S M A N .

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State  Board  of Pkarm acy. 

One  Year—James Vernor, Detroit.
Two  Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor 
Three  Years—George G undrum. Ionia.
Four Years—C. A. Bngbee. Cheboygan.
Five Years—8. E. P&rkill, Owosso. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Qundrum, Ionia.

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Asfl’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— 5 .  G.  Coleman,  Kalamazoo, 
Jacob Jesson, Muskegon:  F.  J.  Wurzburg  and  John 
E. Peck. Grand Rapids;  Arthur Bassett,  Detroit. 
Local Secretary—James Vernor.
Next  place  of  meeting—Some  resort  on  St.  Clair 
River;  time to be designated by Executive Committee
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 
President, John 1). Muir;  Sec’y, Frank H. Escott.

B etw een   T w o  F ires.
8. P.  Whitmarsh  in Pharmaceutical  Era.

The proprietor of a drug  store  iu  anj 
city or large town  may,  or  may  not,  be 
satisfied  with  his  environments.  There 
are certainly some  features in  which an 
enthusiastic lover of his  profession  may 
take pride and pleasure—such as a lively 
prescription trade that kee; s his  knowl­
edge of materia medica fresh in mind and 
develops new combinations in  orders for 
drug dispensing.  Thus he  is  prevented 
from becoming careless and dull through 
routine, or rusty from  lack  of  practice. 
To this may be added the fact,  that as he 
must necessarily keep up  with the  times 
in the matter of new  remedies,  the busi 
ness quite naturally gratifies the ambition 
of one  who aspires to be not only a dealer 
in drugs,  but a  student  and  chemist  as 
well.
That there are drawbacks, even  to the 
most prosperous city druggist,  it  is  use 
less to deny.  The competition  of  trade 
is apt  to  compel  excessive  outlays  in 
order to  keep  at  least  abreast  of  the 
times.  The cares of  conducting  a busi­
ness that requires so much  to be spent in 
luxurious  fixtures  and  expensive  clerk 
hire,  and the  chance  that  some  slight 
cause may at any time direct  the current 
of trade away  from  him  may  possibly 
overbalance the  advantage  of  location. 
The temptation  to  extravagant  living in 
order  to  maintain  social  standing  or 
family influence may  prove  one  of  the 
rocks on which his  business  and  happi­
ness may  be  wrecked.  But  one  whose 
experience has been  wholly  confined  to 
cities or large towns can have  no  realiz­
ing sense of the condition that surrounds, 
confounds and  perpetually confronts the 
country druggist.
I speak now of one who,  in addition to 
having  a  good  general  education,  has 
also  well  grounded  opinions  on  what 
may be considered the ethics of  his  pro­
fession—who is sensitive  as to the  good 
or ill-repute in  which he  may  be  held, 
and has a  conscience  of  the  true  New 
England  pattern—also  a  miscellaneous 
stock of goods and a moderate  acquaint­
ance with  human  nature.  Given  these 
conditions in an average country  village 
under our peculiar laws, and there is also 
given  the making of a hero  or  a  hypo­
crite.  Which he will  be  depends not so 
much on the surroundings as on himself; 
yet  were  it  not  for  the  surroundings, 
the battle of life  would not have  to  be 
fought out against  such  heavy  odds  as 
met men  in olden times,  who went to the 
gibbet or stake  to  prove  their  faithful­
ness to honest conviction  of  what  they 
thought was right.
The country druggist begins his chosen 
career often under  circumstances that in 
many_  respects  are  very  promising; 
especially if he is at some  distance from 
another town,  and 
the  local  physician 
has not graduated  from a  college  where 
he is taught that the  practice  of  medi­
cine  and 
the  dispensing  of  the  same 
should be combined in  one  person.  He 
can  find  some  satisfaction  in  adapting 
the stock on  his  shelves  to  the  varied 
needs of the community.  By reading and 
occasional  visits  to  city  marts,  he  can 
keep himself en  rapport  with 
the  pro­
gressive nature of his calling,  and  if not 
too much confined to  business, enjoy the 
social  amenities of  life  with  increasing 
zest.
Were it not for one element that enters 
to disturb these favorable conditions  his 
life  might  flow  smoothly  and  happily 
along,  with nothing more than the  vicis-

situdes common to ordinary  mortals  en­
gaged in mercantile pursuits.  The fates, 
however,  are  seldom  propitious  in  his 
case.  He soon finds that, on  account  of 
the  fact  that  vinous  and  spirituous 
liquors are a necessary part of  his  stock 
in trade,  entering  into  the  composition 
of so many known and needed  remedies, 
his standing in society, if not  questiona­
ble,  is at least questioned, and  he is most 
unjustly criticised by many  whose  good 
will he had hoped to deserve and  secure.
In a  rural  community  the  ordinary 
rules of law are suspended and  sentence 
is usually pronounced before the  verdict 
is  rendered.  Often  the  last  formality 
takes precedence of  the  slight  evidence 
that is grudgingly  admitted.  Upon  the 
dealer, in goods the sale of which  is  re­
stricted by  statute,  falls  a  surveillance 
equal  to  the  “ white  light  that  beats 
against a  throne,”  and  which  distorts 
natural objects  into  horrible  shapes  in 
perspective on the  shade  of  a  distant 
background.  At the outset he  is  handi­
capped  by traditions born of  gossip  and 
prejudice,  that meet him on every  hand. 
In time he also encounters bitter enmities 
from  another  class  who  cannot  under­
stand. and continually resent,  the  course 
he pursues in declining to  make  unlaw­
ful  sales.  He  is  thus  placed  between 
two fires,  and  before  his  hair  is  gray 
knows the true  application  and  painful 
meaning  of  that  noted  phrase,  “the 
slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” 
But that other saying,  “in  medio  tutissl- 
mus ibis,” does not apply to  oue  in  his 
condition. 
It is because he  has  decided 
to walk  in the middle of the road that the 
missiles from  both parties fall heaviest on 
his unprotected head.  There is a certain 
distance wherein the kick of a  mule  at­
tains its greatest momentum. 
It is easier 
to believe this statement  than  to  exem 
plify it in one’s own  person.
iu  mistaken 
By the  extremists  who, 
zeal  for  temperance,  adopt  the  motto, 
“nut Caesar, aut nullus,” the  rural  dis­
penser is classed  with the worst of  those 
who pander to  the  drinking  habit.  By 
the  opposite  class, 
to  whom  freedom 
means license  to  evade  or  defy 
laws 
passed in the interest of true  liberty,  he 
is ranked as a fanatic.  The former prove 
the sincerity of their charges by a  with­
drawal of outward  courtesies  and  by  a 
lessening 
show 
resentment by refusing  to  deal  with  a 
man  who is so foolish as to have scruples 
about selling a dram,  and considers  gold 
dross that cannot be earned  without  the 
sacrifice  of  principle.  Neither  class 
seems able to grasp  the  idea  that  one 
whose convictions of  duty  cost  him  so 
much in cold cash may possibly be in the 
right,  and they—mistaken.

trade.  The 

latter 

It is because the critics accept the voice 
of gossip for evidence,  that they so often 
do Injustice to men  who,  as a class, stand 
true to the interests of  society  at a  cost 
both in money and reputation,  that none 
but the eye  of  Omniscience  may  ever 
know.

It is easy for one whose  calling makes 
him independent of  public  favor  for  a 
living,  to suggest  what  another  should 
do in a difficult  case.  Virtue  by  proxy 
s very common,  but it never wins for its 
possessor  the  palm  for  noble  deeds. 
Were such critics to put  themselves  for 
a short time in  the place of one they con­
demn,  they would hear  the voice of con­
science echo as once it sounded on Judea’s 
plain.  “Let him that is without sin cast 
the first stone.”  When  once  they  have 
been called on at any hour of  the day or 
night to decide off-hand  a  question  not 
always  involving  moral  principle  but 
only matters of fact,  without  the  usual 
guide of  clear  testimony,  leaving  one’s 
intuitions and the preponderance of what 
slight indirect evidence may develop  the 
only clue to  a correct solution, their  de­
cisions also might not match  the wisdom 
of Solomon.

Perhaps some will  urge that  the drug­
gist may escape such embarrassing  posi­
tions by keeping  alcohol  in  stock  only 
for tinctures,  and  selling  no  vinous  or 
distilled liquor except under  the written 
order  of  a  physician.  This  suggestion 
ignores the fact that there are  every day 
cases  where  spirits  for  medicine  are 
obviously  a  necessity  in  many  house­
holds.  To compel one to pay  first a  fee 
to procure the order,  often  at  great  in-

convenience  and loss of  time,  and  then 
in addition  the  cost  of  the  medicine, 
would be  an  undeserved  hardship  for 
honest people,  while it  would  not  pre­
vent unlawful  use  by  unworthy  appli­
cants.  The  restraints  now  devised  by 
statute to prevent the sale  of  liquor  by 
druggists  as  a  beverage  are  already 
ample and exhaustive.
What  is needed to-day for the  protec­
tion of society 
in  this  particular  is  a 
public sentiment that does not shift one’s 
own  moral  burdens  on  other  people’s 
shoulders.  The value of  a  man’s  prin­
ciples can oniy be reckoned by  what they 
have  cost him either in  material,  wealth 
or personal  sacrifice.  The  druggist has 
a right to ask for a public sentiment that 
shall sustain and encourage  every honest 
dealer in living up  to  the  law  and  his 
wTell-knowu convictions  of  duty.  Thus 
the unfortunate country dealer would no 
longer be at the  mercy  of  two  hostile 
fires—one  of  gossip and misrepresenta­
tion,  reaching even into  legislative  halls, 
set by  well-intentioned  people  as  once 
were the fires  of  persecution  in  olden 
time,  to destroy  what  were  considered 
evils  that  could  be  obliterated 
in  no 
other way—the other a  fire  of  revenge, 
kindled  by 
fancied 
for 
wrongs,  and both unworthy the  age  of 
toleration in  which  we now live.

resentment 

Character is  what  we  are  when  we 

think we are not  watched.

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.
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We p a y th e high est price (or it.  A d d ren

p p m r   T ? T ? n Q   W holesale  D ra g g iati 
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Empress  Josephine Face Bleach

Is the only reliable cure for 

freckles and pimples.

HAZELTINE  &  PERKINS  DRUG  CO., 

G rand R a p id s,  Mich.,

Jobbers for Western Michigan.

MICHIGAN

Fire & Uarine Insoraocs Go.

Organized  1881.

VA«

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Is Manufactured 

only  by

HENRY  PASSOLT, 

Saginaw,  Mich.

For generallaundry and  family 

washing  purposes.

Only brand of first-class laundry 

soap manufactured in the 

Saginaw  Valley.

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

L a  G r ip p e

may attack but cannot overcome those protected 

by frequent use  of

A
CUSHMAN’S 

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

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN.

H. D,  CUSHMAN,  Patentee and Mfr., 

Three  Rivers,  Mich., O.  8. A.

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PYRAMID  PILE  CURE.

A new remedy which  has created a sensation  among physicians by its  wonderful 
effects In speedily  curing  every form of  piles. 
It is the  only remedy  known  (ex­
cept a surgical operation)  which can be relied on to give instant relief and a lasting 
cure in Itching,  Protruding, Bleeding or Blind Piles.
Briefly stated, it has  the  following  advantages  over a surgical operation  or  any 
■ other  pile  cure:  It  is  absolutely painless;  it contains no mineral  poisons nor in­
jurious  substance;  it gives  immediate  relief  from  the first  application;  it  can be 
carried in the  pocket and  used while  traveling or anywhere  without  the  slightest 
inconvenience or interference with  business;  and,  last,  but  not  least,  it  is  cheap 
costing but a trifle.
The following  letters  speak for  themselves  and  need no comment  except to say 
we have hundreds of  similar ones and  could fill this paper with them if  necessary.
Gen tlem en  Tour  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 
°  j 7 v  J*?.mid P,le Cure  and 1 can state to the  whole  world  that it has cured me, 
and I had them so bad I could  hardly walk and I would  have them now if  my  wife 
had not Insisted on my trying it, and I kept it some time before she could get me to 
use it,  but I now thank  God such a remedy was  made,  and  you can  use this  letter 
in any way it will do the most good.
Mrs.  Mary  C.  Tyler, of  Heppner,  Ore.,  writes—One  package  of  Pyramid  Pile 
Cure entirely cured me of  piles  from  which 1 have  suffered  for years, and  I  have 
never had the slightest return of them since.
Mr.  E.  OBrien,  Rock  Bluffs,  Neb.,  says—The  package  of  Pyramid  Pile Cure 
entirely removed  every trace of  itching piles.  1  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.

Zulla,  Va.—I  am a cured  man. 

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

A n y   d r u g g is t  w ill  g e l   i t   fo r  y o u

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

T H E   M T C IT T G A lS r  T R A D E S M A N .

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W h o le sa le   P r ic e   C u r r e n t•
Advanced—Balsam fir, celery seed, African ginger, Jamaica ginger, linseed oil.

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70®1 95
Morphia,  S. P. A W ...1 
S. N.  Y.  Q. & 
6n@l 85
C. Co.......................1
Moschus Canton........ © 40
Myristlca, No. 1.........
65® 70
Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10
Os.  Sepia.................... 20® 22
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. 
Co............................
®2 00
Plcis  Llq, N.-C., M gal 
m 00
doz  .........................
Plcis Llq., quarts......
®i 00
© 85
pints.........
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80).. © 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22).. © 1
© 3
Piper Alba, (pö r5)__
Plumbl A cet.............. @ 7
PIx  Bnrgun...............
14® 15
Pulvis Ipecac et opil.. 1 10®1 20
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H 
& P. D. Co., doz......
®1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv........... 30® 35
Quasslae....................
8® 10
Quinta, S. P. &W...... 27® 32
S.  German__19M® 33
12® 14
Rubia  Tinctorum......
23® 25
Saccharum Lactls pv.
Salacin.......................1 75®1 80
Sanguis  Draconls...... 40® 50
12® 14
Sapo,  W......................
10® 12
,r  M.......................
“  G.......................
® 15

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture........  © 2 0
Slnapta.......................   ®  18
“  opt..................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  ®  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  1M@  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash..................   3M®  4
Soda, Sulphas............  ®  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcia 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............2U@  3M
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae.............. 45  ®  48
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph...............   7®  8

Roll..............  2M@ 3

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OILS.

Bbl.  Gal
70
Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............1  10  1  15
Lard, No.  1...............   65 
70
Linseed, pure raw  ...  51 
54

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paints. 

LIndseed,  boiled  __   54 
57
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   80 
85
Spirits Turpentine__  39M  45
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian..............19£  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__1M  2®4
“ 
Ber........1M  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2M  2M®3
“  strictly  pure......2M  2M®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
65®70
Green,  Peninsular...... 
70®75
Lead,  red....................  6?i@7
“  w hite............... 6M®7
©70
Whiting, white Span... 
Whiting,  Gilders’.......   @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
1 40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
Paints.........   ......... 1 00®1  20
varnishes.

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

No. 1 Turp  Coach —  1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................160® 1  70
Coach  Body...............2 75®3 00
No. 1 Turp  Furn.......1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55®1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70®75
Turp......................... 

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils  Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole Agents  for the  Celebrated

SWISS  VILLA  PREPARED  PAINTS.

Line of  H e Bremste’  Suniries.

We are Sole Proprietors of

Weatherly’s  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

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

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

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

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,

TINCTURES.

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

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

Aconltum Napellis R.........   60
F .........   50
Aloes..-................................  60
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica................................   50
Asafoetlda............................  o
A trope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
“  Co..........................   50
Sanguinarla.........................  50
Barosma......... ...................   50
Cantharldes.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
Castor...................................1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona............................  50
Columba.............................   50
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba................................   50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian..................... 
50
“  Co.  .........................  60
Gualca................................   50
“ 
a mm on....................  60
Zingiber.............................   60
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine.................................     75
“  Colorless...................  75
Ferrl  Chlorldum.................  35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh............................. 
  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opil.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor..........................2 00
Auranti Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany.............................   50
Rhei.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
CO..............  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Stromonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian................. 
50
Veratrum Veride.................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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

11 
ground,  (po.

“ et Potass T. 

“  Po  ... 
“  Bpo. 

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antlmonl, po.............. 
4®  5
55® 60
Antipyrin...................  @1  40
Antifebrln..................  @  25
Argentl  Nitras, ounce  ®  60
Arsenicum................. 
6®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 20®2 25
Caldum Chlor, Is, (Ms
12;  Ms,  14)..............  @  11
Cantharldes  Russian,
po............................  @1  00
Capsid  Fructus,af...  ©  26
©  28
@  20
Caryophyllus, (po.  18)  14®  15
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera Alba, S. & F ......   50©  55
Cera Flava.................  38©  40
Coccus  .........
®  40 
Cassia Fructus 
©  25 
Centrarla........
©  10 
_
Cetaceum......  
©  40
Chloroform................  60©  68
aqulbbs..  ©1  35
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  35©1  80
Chondrus...................  20©  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  A  W  15©  20 
German 8  ©  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  ......................
60
Creasotum...............
®
35
Creta, (bbl. 75)........... ® 2
s®
5
“  prep..................
“  precip..............
118
9®
“  Rubra...............
®
Crocus....................... 90® 1 00
Cudbear......................
® 24
Cuprl Sulph...............
5 ® 6
Dextrine....................
10® 12
Ether Sulph........
70® 75
Emery,  all  numbers..
®
PO................ @ 6
Ergota, (po.)  75.........
75
70®
Flake  White..............
15
12®
® 23
Galla..........................
Gambler......................7  ® 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ©  70
French...........  40©  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 & 10. 
Less than box 66M
Glue,  Brown..............  9©  15
“  White................  13©  25
Glycerins...................15M®  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  ©  22
Humulus....................  25©  55
Hydraag Chlor Mite..  ©  85
“  C or....  ©  80
Ox Rubrum  @  90
Ammoniatl..  ®1  00
TTnguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.............  ®  64
Icnthyobolla, Am..  ..1 25®1 50
Indigo........................   75®1 00
Iodine, Resubl...........3 80@3 90
Iodoform....................  ©4 70
LupuUn......................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  60®  65
Macta.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod.................  ©  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10©  IS 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8. F ..............  60©  68

H i).......................... 2M©c4

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▲CIDUX.
8® 10
Acetlcum.................
Benzolcum  German. .  65® 75
20
Boracic 
...................
Carbollcum..............
27© 36
50® 52
Cltricum...................
3® 5
Hydrochlor..............
- 
.  10® 12
Nitrocum 
...............
Oxallcum................. .  10® 12
20
Phosphorlum dil......
Salicyllcum.............. .1  30@1 70
Sulphuricum............ •  Hi® 5
Tannicum................. .1  40@1  60
30® 33
Tartarlcum...............
AMMONIA.
.  3M® 5
Aqua, 16  deg............
•  5M® 7
20  deg............
Carbonas  ................. .  12® 14
Chlorldum............... .  12® 14

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ANILINE.

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

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

BALSAMUM

Copaiba......................  45®  50
Peru...................  ......   @1  30
Terabln, Canada  ......  50®  55
Tolutan......................  35®  50

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  IS
Cassiae  ...............................  11
Cinchona Flava  .................   18
Enonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrica  Cerifera, po.............  20
Prunus Virgin!....................  12
Quillala,  grd.......................  10
Sassafras  ............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

EXTRACTUH.

Glycyrrhtaa  Glabra...  24®  25
po...........  33®  35
“ 
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12
la...............   13©  14
«■ 
“  MB..............  14®  15
>48..............  16®  17
“ 
FERRU

Carbonate Precip........  © 1 5
Citrate and Qulnla —   @3 50
Citrate  Soluble...........  ®  80
Ferrocyanidum Sol —   ®  50
Solut  Chloride...........  ®  15
Sulphate,  com’l ............... 9®  2
pure............   ©  7

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FLORA.

 
FOl.lA.

Arnica.......................  18®  20
Anthemls..................   30®  35
Matricaria 
40®  50

 

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Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin

..................   45® 1  00
nivelly....................  25®  28
“  Alx.  35®  50
and  Ms....................  15®  25
8® 10

Salvia  officinalis,  Mb
UraUrsi 
.....................  

euxxi.
Acacia,  1st  picked.

11 
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11 
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®  75 
2d 
®   45 
®  30
sifted aorta...  ®  25
po.................  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
Socotrl, (po.  60).  ®  50
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Mb,
16)............................  ©  1
Ammoniac.................  55®  60
Assaf oetlda, (po. 35)..  30®  35
Bensoinum.................  50©  55
Camphors..................   55®  58
Buphorblum  po  ........  35©  lo
Gafbanum...................  @2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70©  75
Guaiacum, (po  30)  ...  @  25
Kino,  (po  1  10)............   @1 15
Mastic.......................  ®  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  ®  40
Opil  (po  2 80)............ 2  15@2 20
Shellac  ......................  30©  38
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth.................  40®1 00

“ 
hkrba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  SS
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia................................   25
Majoram.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................   23
“  V Ir.........................  25
Rue.......................................  so
Tanacetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25
Calcined, Pat...............   55® 60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20©  25
Carbonate, Jenning5..  35®  36

KA0NB8IA.

OLEUM.

Absinthium................ 3 50®4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 00@8 25
Antal........................... 1 75@1 85
Auranti  Cortex.......... 2 40@2 50
Bergamli  ...................3 25®3 50
Cajiputi....................... 
60® 65
Caryophylli.................   85® 90
Cedar..........................   35© 65
Chenopodll................  ©1  60
Clnnamonll.................1 00©1 10
Cltronella......................  ® 45
Conlum  Mac................  35® 65
Copaiba  ......................  90@1 00

Cubebae..................   .  ®  4 00
Bxechthitos..............  2 50@2  75
Brlgeron.........................2 25®? 50
Gaultherla......................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......   ®  75
Gosslpii,  Sem. gal......  75®  85
Hedeoma  ...................2 10®? 20
Juniperl......................  50®2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Llmonls.......................... 2 50@3 00
Mentha PI per...................2 75@3 50
Mentha Verid................. 2 20®2 30
Morrhuae, gal..................1  00@1 10
Myrcia. ounce............   ©  50
Olive..........................  95@2  75
Plcis Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
Ricini.......................  1  22@1  28
Rosmarini............  
75®1  00
Rosae, ounce...................6 50®8 50
Succlni.......................  40®  45
Sabina...................  
  90@1  00
San tal  ........................3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
Slnapta, ess, ounce__  @  65
TIglll..........................  ®  90
Thyme.......................  40©  50
opt  ...............   ®  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

“ 

POTASSIUX.
BiCarb.......................  15®  18
Biehromate..............
.  13® 14
Bromide....................
35® 39
Carb..........................
13® 15
24© 26
Chlorate  (po  23®25).
.  50® 55
Cyanide....................
Iodide.......................
2 90@3 00
27® 30
Potassa, Bitart,  pure.
@ 15
Potassa, Bitart, com..
.  8® 10
7® 9
.  28® 30
.  15® 18
.  20® 25
.  22® 25
12® 15
@ 25
Arum,  po...................
.  20® 40
Calamus....................
8® 10
Gentians  (po. 12)__
16® 18
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15).
Hydrastis  Canaden,
@ 30
(po. 35)......... .........
15® 20
Hellebore,  Ala,  po...
15® 20
Inula,  po...................
.2 30@2 40
Ipecac,  po.................
35® 40
Iris  plox (po. 35®38).
,  50® 55
Jalapa,  pr.................
@ 35
Maranta,  Mb............
.  15® 18
Podophyllum, po......
.  75@1  00
Rhei..........................
®1 75
“  cut....................
.  75@1  A5
.  35® 38
Splgella....................
® 20
Sanguinarla, (po  25).
•  30® 32
Serpen tarla................
.  65® 70
Senega ......................
[  @ 40
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H 
® 25
M
.  10® 12
Sclllae, (po. 35)...........
Spuplocarpus,  Fosti-
® 35
...
1)  @ 25
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30 
15® 20
German...
20® 24
Ingiber a .................
20® 22
Zingiber  ] ..............
se v e n .
© 15
Anlsum,  (po.  20)..
.  If© 18
Apium  (graveleons)..
Bird, is......................
4®
6
12
8®
Carni, (po. 18)............
Cardamon...................
.1  00®1  25
.  10® 12
Corlandrum...............
Cannabis Satlva.........
3M®4 
.  75®1 00
Cydonlum..................
Chenopodinm  ...........
.  10® 12
2 25®2 to
Dipt erlx Odorate......
® 15
Foeniculum...............
6®  8
Foenugreek,  po.........  
L in i..........................   4  © 4M
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 8M)  -  4  © 4M
Lobelia.......................  36©  40
Pharlarta Canarian__6  © 6M
Rapa..........................   6©  7
Slnapta  Albu............ 11  ©13
,r  Nigra...........  11®  12

dus,  po............  

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SFIRITUB.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co..2 00®2 50
D. F. R ...... 1 75®2 00
1 25©1  50
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T __ 1 65®2 00
“ 
1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  B........ 1  75®2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli........... 1  75®6 50
Vini Oporto.................... 1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba...................1  25@2 00

 

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 25©2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  .................
2 00 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
1  10
wool  carriage.........
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage...................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage .......................
Hard for  slate  use__
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se..........................

1  40

8TRU7S.

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Auranti Cortes....................  56
Rhei  Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Offidnalls..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Sclllae..................................  50
«  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Pranas  virg........................   50

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

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

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

AXLE GREASE.
doz
Aurora....................  55
Castor Oil...... ........  75
Diamond....... ........  50
Frazer’s ..................  83
Mica  ............ ........  75
..  ...........  55
Paragon 

gross
6 00
9 fO
5 50
9 00
8 00
6 00

BAKING POWDER.

“  2  “ 

Acme.
¡4 lb. cans. 3 doz..............
85 
Hlb.  “ 
2  “  ..............
1  “  ................
lib .  “ 
1  60 
Bulk................................
10
Arctic.
% B> cans.........................
60 
.........................
H ft  “ 
1  20 
.........................
lb  “ 
2 00 
a   “ 
.........................
9 60
Fosfon.
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case. 
80
“ 
16  “ 
.
40 
Red Star, H ft cans.........
80 
“ 
.........
1  50 
“ 
.........
Teller’s,  H lb. cans, doz 
45 
85 
“ 
“  .
“ 
1  50
per doz
Dime cans .  90
.1  33
4-oz
“
Goz 
1  90
.2 47
“
S-oz 
.3 75
12 oz 
“
“
16-oz 
.4 75
11  40
2M-lb  “
4 1b 
“
18 25
5-lb 
“
21  00
41  80
“
10-lb 

09PRICE1S
CREAM
Ba k in g
b&w der
öuaufBOJO

Hlb  “ 
1ft  “ 
Hlb.  “
lib.  “ 

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen In case.

“ 

8oz 

BLUING. 

English........................... . .  90
so
Bristol................................
Domestic........................... ..  70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  o v a ls..  ............ 4 00
............ .  7 00
** 
“  pints,  round  ......
.10 50
“  No. 2, sifting box .. .  2 75
“  No. 3, 
.  4  00
“  No. 5, 
.  6 00
“  1 oz ball  ............... .  4 50
BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl.......................
.  1  75
......................... 2 00
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet..................... .  2 25
...................... .  2 50
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem.....................
2  75
Common Whisk
90
Fancy 
1  15
Warehouse........................ .  3 25

“
“

“

BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

Stove, No.  1........................  1  25
“  10....................... 1  50
“  15....................... 1  75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row— ■ 
85
Rice Root  Scmb, 3 row__ 1  25
Palmetto,  goose................. 1  50

BUTTER  PLATES
Oval—250 in crate.
No.  1.............................
60
No.  2...................................  60
No.  3..................................
80
No.  5.................................. .1  00
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes............ 10
Star,  40 
.............. 9
Paraffine  ......................... h
Wicklng 
.......................... 24

CANDLES.

“ 

OANKSD  GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  1 lb.......................i 20

“  2  lb..................1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb....................   .2 25
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb....................  %
2 lb.................... 1  75
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb.............................2 50
“  2  lb...............................  3 50
Picnic,lib............................  2 00
“ 
21b............................... 2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb...................... 
1 25
2  lb.........................2 10
Mustard,  2 lb.......................... 2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb .............2 25
Soused, 2 lb.....................  
.2 25
Salmon.
Columbia River, fiat........... 1  90
“  tails.............I  75
Alaska, Red..............................1 43
Pink.............................. 1 25
American 
..................  @ 5
t 
“  „ 
Imported  H i................... lo@U
.  Hs.................... 15@16
. .   “ 
Mustard  Hs.......................   @8
Boneless....................... 
21
Brook, 8 lb...............................2 50

Sardines.
 

Trout.

“ 

Fruits.
Apples.

3 25

1  05

1 
1 
1 
1 

Apricots.

3 lb. standard........... 
York State  gallons  ... 
Hamburgh.
Live oak..............  
75
Santa  Crus.........  
75
Lusk’s.................  
75
Overland............ 
75
Blackberries.
B. &  W....................... 
95
Red.......... .................  1  loan 20
1 75
Pitted Hamburgh 
. . .  
White  ....................... 
1  50
Brie....................  
20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Gages.
1  10
Brie............................ 
California................... 
1  70
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  20

Cherries.

1 

Gold  Medal  ..............
Skim..........................  9
Brick........... 
..............
Edam  ................ .......
Leideq 
.................
Limburger  ...............
Pineapple. 
Roquefort.
Roque:
Sap Sago
Schweitzer, imported.
domestic  __
CATSUP. 

“ 

Blue Label Brand.
Half  pint, 25 bottles__
........
Pint 
Quart 1 doz bottles........
CLOTHES  PINS.

“ 

@‘~H
@11
11
1  00 
23
@10@25
@35
@22@24
@14

.  2 75 
.  4 50 
.  3 50

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

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

......   @3H

Peaches.

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

1  25
1  85
2 00
2 20
1  85

“ 

l  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  .................. 
1  ao
 
Black  Hamburg.........  
1  50
1  30
Erie  black 
.  . 
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................  
1  25
Hamburgh  .............. 
j  25
Erie.........................  . 
1  25
1  10
Terrapin....................... 
Whortleberries.
Blueberries............... 
j  00
Corned  beef,  Libby’s..........2  10
Roast beef,  Armour’s........  2 10
Potted  ham, H lb............   1  30
tongue, H ib........... ..135
“  H lb..........  85
chicken,  H lb.......... 
96

“  H lb .................

Meats.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Vegetables.

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Com.

Hamburgh  stringless..........1  25
French style.......2 25
Limas..................1  35
Lima, green..............................1 40
soaked.......................   75
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 35
Bay State  Baked................. 1  35
World’s Fair  Baked........... 1 35
Picnic Baked........................1  00
Hamburgh...........................1  40
Livingston  E den................1  20
Purity..................................
Honey  Dew..............................1 50
Morning Glory...................
Soaked............................... 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat........... 1  35
early June.........
. 1 50
Champion Eng 
petit  pois............1 7i
fancy  sifted__ 1  90
Soaked................................   75
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  10
early -June.......1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom...  1  35
French..................................... 2 15
French..............................17@22
Brie.....................................   95
Hubbard...................................j 25
Hamburg...................................1 40
Soaked................................  gg
Honey  Dew................. i...” l  50
Erie............................. 
1  36
Hancock.............................
Excelsior .  ......................... j  25
Eclipse...............................  1  75
Hamburg...................................j 40
Gallon .................................3 25

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.

CHOCOLATE.

Baker’s.

6H@7

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

23

CHEESE.
Amboy........................13H&13H
Acme...  ...................  
a i 2H
Riverside................  ®12M

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Fair.....................................20
Good...................................21H
Prime................................. 23H
Golden................................23
Peaberry  ........................... 25

Santos.
Fair......................... 
21
Good...................................22
Prime................................. 23
Peaberry  ............................24
Mexican and Gnatamala.
Fair.................................... 21
Good...................................22
Fancy................................. 24
Maracaibo.
Prime.......................  
21
M illed................................23
Interior ..  .......................... 25
Private Growth..................27
Mandehling.......................28
Imitation........................... 23
Arabian.............................. 26

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

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

Package.

M cLaughlin's  XXXX..  24 30
Bnnola  ............................  23.80
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__24.30

Extract.

5
7

Valley City H gross........... 
75
......... 1  15
FeUx 
Hummel’s, foil, gross........1  50
“ 
........2 50

“ 

“ 

tin 
CHICORY.

Bulk.................................. 
Red..................................... 
CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton,  40 ft.........per dot.  1  25
1 40
1  60
175
1  90
go
1  00

" 
“ 
“ 
,   “ 
Jute 
“ 
CONDENSED  MILK.

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

“ 
“ 
“ 
•• 
“ 
« 

4 doz. In case.

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

‘‘Tradesman.’

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

“ 

“Superior.”

I per hundred...............   2 50
3 00

‘Universal.’’

“
“
“
“
“

9  1, per hundred.
S3 00 
#2, 
.  3 50 
9 3, 
.  4 00 
*5, 
.  5 00 
.  6 00 
*10, 
7 »
# 20. 
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
..........6  per  cent.
200 or over. 
500  “ 
 
1000  “ 
 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
ICan  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from $10 down. |
20 books........................ 9  1  00
2 00
50 
3 00
100 
6  25
250 
500 
10 00
1000 
17  50

“   
“   
“   
“   
“   

10 
90 

 
 
 
 

 

CREDIT  CHECKS.

500, any one denom’n ......$3 00
...... 5 00
1000,  “ 
2000,  “ 
.......8 00
Steel  punch  .....................  
75

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

CRACKERS.

Butter.

Soda.

Seymour XXX..................... 6
Seymour XXX, cartoon......6V4
Family  XXX......................  8
Family XXX,  cartoon........6H
Salted XXX.........................  6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........  6H
Kenosha 
.  ......................  7H
Boston.................................  8
Butter  biscuit......................6H

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

XXX.

CREAM  TARTAR.
Strictly  pure...................... 
30
Telfer’s Absolute..............  3)
Grocers’..........................   15@2*

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

“ 

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Sundrled, sliced In  bbls. 
7H
714
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes  @10H
16H
California in  bags........ 
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
17
Blackberries.
In  boxes......................8  @9
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags.........................  
251b. boxes..................... 
Peeled, In  boxes........... 
Cal. evap.  “ 
........... 
In bags........ 
“ 
California In bags......
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes..................
...................
25 “ 
Prunelles.

15
15J4
16
14
13H

Peaches.

Pears.

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

22
23
24
Loose  Muscatels in Boxes.

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

“ 
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
“ 

“ 

 

Foreign.
Currants.

“ 
“ 

Peel.

Patras,  In barrels............ 
In  H-bbls.............. 
in less quantity.... 

4%
4H
4H 
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  20 
“ 
25 “ 
Lemon 
“ 10
Orange 
“ 
25  “ 
11
Raisins.
Ondnra. 29 lb. boxes 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 30  “ 
Prunes.
California,  100-120.............. inn
90x100 25 lb. bxs.llH
..12H
80x90 
“ 
13H
70x80 
“ 
60x70 
.14
“ 
Turkey......................... 
7H
SUver..................................
Sultana.................................9H

“ 
@ 8
@10
@ 7

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1, 6H ...............................  *1 75
No. 2.6H............................  160

XX  wood, white.

No. 1, 6.............................   1  65
No. 2, 6...........................     1  50
No. 1, 614  .........................  1  35
.......................  1  25
No. 2. 6H 
6H  ....................................  1  00
6........................................  
95
Mill  No. 4.........................  1  00
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 

Manilla, white.

Coin.

“
“

Farina.
Hominy.

100 lb. kegs................... 
3%
Barrels.................................300
Grits....................................3 50
Dried............................  
4H
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported.................... 10H@- - H

Maccaronl and Vermicelli.

Lima  Beans.

Oatmeal.

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

Pearl Barley.

Kegs..................................  2H

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

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

Wheat.

Sago.

5

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Yarmouth...............................   1 40
Pollock..........................  
3H
5H
Whole, Grand  Bank...... 
Boneless, bricks............. 7  @9
Boneless, strips.............. 
7

Cod.

Halibut.

Smoked...................... 10H@ll

Herring.
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Holland, white hoops keg 

75 
bbl  12 00
9 50
“ 
Norwegian........................  12 00
Round, H bbl 100 lbs  ........  3 CO
14  “  40  “  ......  
1  45
Scaled.............................  . 
18

“ 

Mackerel.

GUNPOWDER.

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

“ 
“ 

HERBS.

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

INDIGO.

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

17  lb. palls................. 
30  “ 

JELLY.
75
................1  C0@1  05

55
50

“ 
LICORICE.

Pure.....................................   80
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  12

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

“ 

MATCHES.

No. 9  sulphur..................... 1  65
Anchor parlor.....................1 70
No. 2 home  .........................1  10
Export  parlor.....................4 00

MINCE  MEAT.

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

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

 

 

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

No. 1,  100 lbs...........................12 TO
No. 1, 40 lbs..............................5 05
No. 1,  10 lbs..............................1 35
Family, 90 lbs.........................  8 25
10  lb s......................  1 00

“ 

Sugar house......................  14
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary.......................
Porto Rico.

Russian,  kegs....................  65

Sardines.

Trout.

No. 1, H bbls., lOOlbs........... 5 75
No. 1 \  bbl, 40  lbs...................3 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   85
No. 1, 81b  kits....................  70

Whiteflsh.

No. 1  No. 2

Family 
K bbls, 100 lbs .  $9 00 $8 25 $5 25 
14  “  40 
“ ..  3 85  3 55  2 35
10 lb.  kits......   1  05 
98  68
81b.  “ 
57
......   .  85 
81 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

Bonders’.

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

Prim e............................
Fancy......... ..................
New Orleans.
Fair...............................
Good.............................
Extra good....................
Choice...........................
Fancy............................. .. 
One-half barrels. 3c extra.

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count.  . @6 50
Half bbls, 600  count.. @3 75

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

8 00
4  50

16

20
30

18
20
2&
30
40

...1  75
“  T. D. fall count__ ...  75
...1  25

Clay, No.  216.................
Cob, No. 8....................
POTASH.

48 cans In case.
Babbitt’s .......................
PennaSalt  Co.’s...........

.  4 00
.  3 25

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina head...............
“  No. 1...............
“  No. 2...............
Broken...........................

Imported.

Japan, No. 1..................
....« 
r‘  N o .2 ..................
Java....................................  5
Patna..................................   5

...6
...5
.. .  4H
..  3

__6

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2  oz  — $1  2.i 
4 oz........2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz.......*1  50
4  oz..  3 00
XX Qrade 
Vanilla.
2 oz.......$1  75
4  oz.....3 50

Jennings’ D  C.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding box...  75 
125
3 oz 
...1  00 
4 oz 
...1  50 
...2  00 
6oz 
8 ox 
.. .3.00 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

1 50
2 00
3 00
4 00

> HT

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

17

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Allspice................................10
Cassia, China In mats........  7
Batavia In bund.... 15
Saigon In rolls........ 33
Cloves,  Amboyna................33
Zanzibar................ 13
Mace  Batavia...................... 80
Nutmegs, fancy................... 75
“  No.  1...................... 70
.60
white...  .30
shot........................16

“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.

No. 2.

“ 

Allspice ............................. 15
Cassia,  Batavia...................18
and  Saigon.35
“ 
“  Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna...............23
“  Zanzibar................. 18
Ginger, African..................16
“  Cochin.................... 20
Jam aica.................33
“ 
Mace  Batavia.....................7t
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste..33
“  Trieste....................85
Nutmegs, No. 2 ................... 75
Pepper, Singapore, black__16
“  white........ 24
“ 
“  Cayenne............... 30
Sage.....................................30
“Absolute” in Packages.

  84 1  55

¿is  %s
Allspice.................. 
 
Cinnamon....................   84 1  55
Cloves..........................   84 155
Ginger,  Jam aica......   84  1 55
“  African  ...........   84 1  55
Mustard.......................   84 1  55
Pepper.........................  84 155
Sage..............................  84
Kegs..................... .'...........  1%
Granulated,  boxes..............  lit

SAL  SODA.

SAUERKRAUT.

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

SEEDS.

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

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

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

STARCH.

9
6
30

40-lb 

“ 
“ 

“ 

SNUFF.

SODA.

Scotch, In  bladders........ ...37
Maccaboy, in Jars........... ...35
French Rappee, In Jars.. ...43
Boxes............................. ....5%
Kegs, English................. ....4%
SALT.
100 3-lb. sacks................. ..82 25
................. ..  2 00
60 5-lb.  “ 
3810-lb. sacks...................  1  85
2 25
2014-lb.  “ 
 
24 3-lb  cases......................  1  50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
32
28 lb.  “ 
drill  “  16  18

 

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

“ 

“ 

56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks. 

75 

Higgins.

Solar Rock.

56 1><.  sacks.......................   27
Saginaw..........................  
90
Manistee.......................... 
95

Common Fine.

SALERATUS.

 

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

“ 

Church’s .........................   83 30
DeLand’s ...............................  3 15
Dwight’s.................................. 3 30
Taylor’s  ...............  
SOAP.
Laundry.

  3 00

Allen B. Wrfsley’s Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

............................  4 25

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 
Mottled  German......................3 75
Town Talk............................... 3 50
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrpd..$4 £0 
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

“ 

“ 

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

“ 

SUGAR.

To ascertain the cost of sugar 
laid  down  at  any town  in  the 
Lower  Peninsula,  add  freight 
rate from  New York to the  fol 
lowing quotations, which repre 
sent the refiners’ prices:
Cut  Loaf................................ $5 31
Powdered  .......................... 4  94
Granulated............................  4 56
Fine Granulated....................  4 56
Extra Fine Granulated__  4 69
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  16
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.

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

8
8

9
8%
8%

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

TEAS.

j a p a n — Regular.

F air...............................  @17
Good..............................  @30
Choice.......................... 24  @26
Choicest.......................33  @34
D ust...............  
10  @12

 

SUN CURED.

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

BASKET  FIRED.

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

GUNPOWDER.

Common to  fall...........25  @35
Extra fine to finest___50  @65
Choicest fancy............ 75  @85
@26
Common to fair...........23  @30
Common to  fair...........33  @26
Superior to fine............30  @35

IMPERIAL.

o o l o n g . 

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.

Palls unless otherwise noted
62
Hiawatha................... 
Sweet Cuba...............  
36
McGlnty...... -............ 
27
“  % bbls.........  
25
Dandy Jim ................. 
29
34
Torpedo..................... 
33
in drums.... 
Yum  Yum  ...............  
28
1892............................  
23
“  drums................. 
22

“ 

Plug.

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

Smoking.

Catlin’8  Brands.

41
29
40
26
38
34
40
32

Kiln  dried...........................17
■ Golden  Shower................... 19
Huntress  ........................... 26
Meerschaum....................... 29
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy........................40
Stork  ............................ 30@32
German............................... 15
F rog..................................  33

Brands.

Scotten’s Brands.

Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish..............38
Gold Cut  ............................28
Warpath..............................16
Honey  Dew.........................25
Gold  Block.........................30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Peerless.............  
26
Old  Tom............................. 18
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  C ake......................... 16

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

j 

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I

OILS.

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

HIDES.

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

“ 

 

 

No. 2 hides % off.
PELTS.

Shearlings.................... 10 @  25
Lambs 
......................25  @1  50
Washed....................... 20 @28
Unwashed........ 
.. .10  @20

WOOL.

MISCELLANEOUS.

PURS.

Tallow........................  4%@ 5*
Grease  butter  .............1  @2
Switches.....................  1%© 2
Ginseng.......................... 2 oo@2 75
Outside prices for No. 1 only.
Badger...... ..................  50@1 00
B ear.......................15 00@25 00
Beaver............................ 3 0u@7 00
Cat, wild......................  40@ 50
Cat, house...................  10@ .25
Fisher............................. 4 00@6 00
Fox,  red.........................1  00@1 <5
Fox, cross....................... 3 00@5 00
Fox,  grey....................   50® 
Lynx............................... 2 00@3 00
Martin, dark...................1  00@3 00
pale & yellow.  50@1  00
Mink, dark...................  4002 00
Muskrat.......................   03®  17
Oppossum....................   15® 30
Otter, d a rk .....................5 00@3 00
Raccoon......................  25® 90
Skunk  .......................1 00@1  25
Wolf............................... 1  00@3 00
Beaver  castors, lb__2 00@5 00
Thin and  green............  
10
Long gray, dry.............. 
80
Gray, dry 
25
................... 
Red and Blue, dry........ 
35

deerskins—per pound.

“ 

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF» 

WHEAT.

MEAL.

No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
64
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test) 
64
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 TO
“ 
Buckwheat, Rising  Sun —  5 50 

FLOUR.

“ 

 

 

Walsh-DeRoo

& Co’s  Pure...........................4 85

MILL8TUFF8.

Less

Car lots  quantity

817 00
14 50
18 00
19 50
19 5°

CORN.

Bran...............*16 00 
Screenings —   14 00 
Middlings......  17 00 
Mixed Feed...  18 50 
Coarse meal  ..  18 50 
Car  lots............................... 46
Less than  car  lots..............50
Car  lo ts ..............................33
Less than car  lots..............43
No. 1 Timothy, car lots.... 13 £0 
No. 1 
ton lots  .......14  50

OATS.

“ 

FRESH  MEATS.

Beef, carcass....   6%@ 

8
“  hindquarters...  7  ©  9
fore 
“ 
... 5%@  6
loins,  No.  3..  @10
** 
ribs......... 8  @9
“ 
rounds........  ..  6%@ 7
•• 

“ 

“ 

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

shoulders 

Mutton  ...................... 8  @9
Veal.............................7  @8
FISH  and  OYSTERS.

“ 
“ 

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

@  9 
8  @ 9 
@15 
@12 
@18 
20
.10  @12 
@ 9 
® 8 
@ 12%  
10

F R E S H   P IS H .

follows:
Whlteflsb 
.............
Trout  .....................
Halibut....................
Ciscoes or Herring..
Bluefish..................
Fresh lobster, per lb
Cod.....................
No. 1 Pickerel.........
Pike...........................
Smoked  W hite.........
Finnan  Haddies...........
Red  Snappers..............
Columbia River  Salmon
Mackerel......................
oysters—Cans. 
Fairhaven  Counts —
F. J. D.  Selects.........
Selects.......................
Anchor.......................
Standards  ..............  .
Favorites...................

@37
@30
@25
©23
@20
18

SHELL  GOODS.

“ 

BULK.

Oysters, per  100  ........1  50@l  75
Clams, 
......... 1 00@1 @
2 20
Counts, per gal.............. 
2(0
Extra  Selects...............  
1 TO
Selects.......................... 
l  20
Standards  ..................  
Clams............................ 
t  75
Scallops....................... 
2 co
Shrimps  ....................... 
l  25
PA PER & WOODENWARE 
Straw 
1%
Rockfalls.............................1 %
Rag sugar.............................2
Hardware............................. 2%
Bakers.................... 
2%
Dry  Goods..................   5  @6
Jute  Manilla...............   @5%
Red  Express  No. 1............. 5%
No. 2.............4%

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

PAPER.

“ 

TWINES.

“ 

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

WOODBNWARE.

“  No. 2.........................  6 00
“  No. 3.........................5 00

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

“ 
“ 
“ 

13  “ 
15  “ 
i9  “ 
ts. market.................
shipping  bushel., 
full  hoop  “ 
willow cl’ths, No.l 
“  No.2 i
“  No.3
“  No.l  :
“  No.2
“ 
.No.3

splint 

“ 
“ 
1 
“ 

Pails
Tubs

INDURATED WARE.
% doz.......................

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as  follows :

DRESSED.

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

LIVE.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess,..........................................................  20 00
Short c u t....................................................... 21  50
Extra clear pig, short cut............................
Extra clear, heavy......................................
Clear, fat back............................................   23 CO
Boston clear, short cut................................   23 00
Clear back, short cut...................................   23 00
Standard clear, short cut, best................. 
24 00

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

........................................  9%

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

LARD.

“
“
“
“

 

BEEP  IN  BARBELS.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.....................   9 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................. 
..  9 50
Boneless, rump butts......................................15 00

smoked meats—Canvassed or Plain.

“ 
“ 

“ 
** 
1  00
“ 
“ 

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

light...........  ................................   H

„ 

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

  9%

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

STICK   CANDY 

Casests 

8%
................... 
M IX ED   CANDY.

Bbls. Palls.
7%
6%
6%
7%
6%
7%
8%

 

 

 

“ 
fancy—In bulk

Pails.
Bbls.
7
...6
...6%
7%
_7
3
Nobby.............................
.. .7
8
English  Rock.................
7
8
Conserves .......................
8
ets
Broken Taffy..................
9
1  8
Peanut Squares...............
French Creams.............................  
10
Valley  Creams....................................... 
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.....................................  8
8
Modern, SO lb. 
Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  10
printed...........................................  11
Chocolate Drops............................................   11%
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  13
Gum Drops......................................................  5%
Moss Drops....................................................   8
Sour Drops......................................................   8%
Imperials.......................................................   10
Per Box
Lemon Drops................................................... 55
Sour Drops...................................................... 55
Peppermint Drops........................................... 60
Chocolate Drops...............................................65
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................90
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops............................................. 1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops.......................................80
Lozenges, plain................................................60
printed........................................... 65
imperials..........................................................60
Mottoes.............................................................70
Cream Bar........................................................55
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams.................................. 85@95

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

“ 

 

 
 

“ 
“ 
“ 

3 
2 
3

Plain Creams............................................. S0@90
Decorated Creams........................................1  00
String  Rock.................... 
65
Burnt Almonds............................................ 1  00
Wlntergreen  Berries.......................................60
CARAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb. boxes..........................  34
No. 1, 
 
“ 
61
No. 2, 
“ 
 
38
No. 3, 
Stand up, ■ lb. boxes..............
BANANAS.
Small........
Medium..........................................
Large.....................................................
..................................  3 25@3 50
Floridas, fancy 
Messinas, ¡axis....................................... 3 00@3 25
300s..........................................  @3 25
Messina, choice, 360 .............................  3 25@4 (0
fancy, 360.............................  @i uo
choice 300.............................  @3 75
fancy 300.............................. 
4 50

ORANGES.

LEMONS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“  50-lb.  “ 

Figs, fancy  layers, 6fl>..........................  @

.......................  @12%

Dates. Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................  @ 7%

“  101b 
“ 
I4tt>..........................  @15
“ 
“  extra 
“ “  201b..........................  @16
“ 
..........................   @6
“ 
“ 
Persian. 50-lb.  box......................4%@  5
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.............................  @19
Ivaca...................................  @18
California.............................  @18%
Brazils, new.................. 
@10%
Filberts  ................................................  @11%
Walnuts, Grenoble 

.............................  @14
“  Marbot...................................  @
“ 
Calif.......................................11  @13

Table  Nuts,  fancy................................   @13%
choice..............................  @12%
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.............................. 12  ©14
Cocoanuls, full sacks...........................   @4 75
Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................  @ 6%
“  Roasted.....................  @8
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..............................   @ 6%
“  Roasted....................  @ 8
Choice, H. P.,  Extras..................... 
  @5%
“  Roasted.................  @ 7
California  Walnuts 
12%

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

“ 
“ 
“ 

PEANUTS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

 

CROCKEKVnAND  GLASSWARE.

FRUIT JARS.

6 doz. In box.

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

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LAMP CHIMNEYS.  Per bOX.

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Pearl top.

La Bastle.

No. 0 Sun.......................................................   1 80
No. 1  “  .........................................................1 90
No.2  “  .........................................................2 90
First quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp 
top...................................2 25
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................................2 40
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No. 1  “ 
13
“  ...  ...............................3 40
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No.2  “ 
XXX Flint.
top...................................2 60
No. 0 Sun, crimp 
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No. 1  “ 
“  ................................... 2 80
No.2  “ 
“  ...  .................................3 80
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No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
No. 2  “ 
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....................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4 88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz....................... 1  25
....................... 150
No.2  “ 
No. 1 crimp, per doz....................................... 1  36
No. 3 
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No. 0, per  gross..............................................  23
I No.  1,  “ 
28
No  2,  “ 
38
No.  3,  “ 
75
Mammoth, per doz.........................................   75
j Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................   06
“  % gal. per doz.........................  60
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................................   70
Jugs, % gal., per doz 
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal............:..................  07
Milk Pans, % gal., per doz..........................   60
glazed..............   65
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T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

tinuid  K^pitU iU uil U roLti s' Ahsuci<iUuii.
President, A.  J. Elliott;  Secretary, E. A  Stowe. 

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

Jackson  Grocers’  Union.

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

tion.

Grand  Haven^ Retail  Grocers’  Association. 
President, John Boer; Secretary, Peter VerDuin.
G rand   Banids  B étail  G ro cers’  A s s o c ia ­
At the  regular  meeting of  the Retail Grocers’ 
Association, held at Protective Brotherhood hall 
on  Monday  evening,  March  6,  G.  H.  DeGraaf 
acted as chairman in the  absence of  the regular 
presiding officer.

Several complaints were filed  against the  Star 
Mills for selling small quantities of  flour to con­
sumers,  whereupon  J. II. Goss  moved  that  the 
old Committee on Flour be discharged and a new 
Committee be appointed to investigate  the  mat­
ter and report  at the next meeting.  The motion 
was  adopted  and  the  chairman  appointed  as 
such committee  Messrs  J. H  Goss, Peter Sehuit 
and D. Arnott.

Henry  Hanink, of  the  special  Committee  on 
Oil, reported  that  Manager  Bonnell  could  not 
give a definite  answer to the  request of  the As­
sociation  on  the  oil  peddling  question,  as  he 
expected  a  visit  shortly from  an  officer  of  the 
company, when  he  would make a prompt reply 
to  the  request.  The  report  was  accepted  and 
the Committee continued.

E. J. Ilerrick, chairman of  the  Committee  on 
Municipal  Affairs, presented  the  following  re­
port:
Your  Committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the 
license  clause  of  the  report  of  your  Election 
Committee, begs leave to report as follows:
1,  That  Section  3  to the ordinance  relative to 
hucksters, peddling and  hawking in the  city of 
Grand  Rapids, passed  May  1, 1891, be  amended 
as follows:  Only yearly licenses shall be issued, 
dated from  May 1, of each year, and paid in full 
at time of  taking such  license, or proportionate 
part of fiscal year after May 1 of each year.  Also 
that the  title to the  above mentioned ordinance 
be changed by striking out the word “hawking.”
2.  We would  recommend a change  as  follows 
in the schedule of fees for licenses:
Peddlers of  groceries.......................................$51 00
berries...........................................   21 00
fruit  .......................... .............51 00
fruit by basket  only................  16 00
oil...................................................51 00
vegetables......................................81 Ot)
spices and  extracts....................... 51 00
tea and coffee...........................61  00
brooms..........................................  16 00
Chairman  DeGraaf  called  E. J. Carrel to  the 
chair and moved  that the  report be amended by 
changing the  license  fee  for  fruit peddlers  by 
basket  from  $16  to  $31.  The  amendment was 
heartily endorsed  by  Messrs. Goss, Sehuit, Wag­
ner  and  White, when  the  amended  report was 
accepted and adopted.

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The  Secretary reported  the  number of  accep­
tances to the  invitation to the  State  meeting  of 
grocers, for  the  purpose  of  organizing  a  State 
league  of  grocers' associations.  The invitation 
was not so generally accepted  as it was hoped it 
would  be, owing  to  the apathy of  a number  of 
the local associations throughout the State.

E. White  recommended  that  the  convention 
be postponed until the time of the annual picnic 
in  August, and  E.  J.  Herrick  moved  that  the 
meeting be postponed  until  the  middle of  May, 
which,  after  somewhat  extended  discussion, 
was adopted.

E. White suggested  that the  grocery stores be 
closed  at  5  o’clock  one  night  a  week  during 
June, July and August.  The suggestion evoked 
some discussion  and will  be  taken  up  for  fur­
ther discussion at some future meeting.

J.  J.  Wagner  said  that  the  Association  had 
been a very  great  benefit to the  grocers, but  he 
doubted  the  wisdom of  the last  change In  the 
sugar price.  This appearing to be the sentiment 
of  a  majority  of  those  present,  the  chairman 
asked all  those who  wished to see  the price put 
back  to 6 cents a pound  or  18  pounds  for  $1 to 
rise.  There  being no dissenting votes, the Com­
mittee  on  Trade  Interests  was  instructed  to 
make the change in price the following day.

J. H. Goss  suggested  that  some of  the officers 
of  the Association visit the West  Leonard street 
grocers  with a view to securing  applications for 
membership in that locality.

E. White moved that a roll call of the members 

be made hereafter, which was adopted.

The chairman  appointed the following special 

committees:

To  interview  candidates  for  Mayor—Messrs. 
Herrick, Wal bridge and Viergiver.
To see candidates for alderman:
A  big salmon  trust is forming  in  Ore- 
First  ward—G.  H. DeGraaf,  John  G. Gray, A. 
gon to control the  entire  output  of  the
Brink. 
Second  ward—Geo.  Mclnnes,  Jr.,  Hubert  Columbia River canneries.  All the prin- 
cipal packers have reached an agreement
Daane, A. Buys. 
Third ward—II. Liesveld,  Elmer  E. Chapel, s.  and the ¿final  steps  of  organization  are 
i about  to  be  taken.  The  combination
B. Gauthier. 
Fourth ward—John Cordes, Jr.. Julius J. Wag 
trust 
resembles  the  Alaska 
j formed last year.

ner, J. Frank Gaskill. 

salmon 

Fifth  ward—Peter  Sehuit,  U.  A.  Olney, Geo.  i 

Sixth  ward—John  Ley,  M. A. Tuinstra, John 

Seventh ward—A. Vidro,  Chas.  Petterach, Ed. 

Timmer.

Mulder.

C. Judd.

Eighth ward—J. Geo.  Lehman, Leonard  Kipp, 

Jos. Rademacher.

Ninth ward—Jas. A. Stratton,  Chas.  Schmidt.
Tenth ward—T. H. Hart, Frank Dyk, Augustus 

Bartholomew.

Van DeWyck.

H. Cobb.

adjourned.

Eleventh ward—W. F. Huyge,  B.  Doyle, John 

Twelfth ward—E.  J. Carrel, G. Roessink, Geo. 

There being  no  further business  the meeting 

The Value of a Trademark

From the  Keystone.

A trademark  is  a  certificate  of  char­
It  embodies  the  memories  and 
acter. 
reputations of the  founders  of  a  busi­
ness,  and the activities and  enthusiasms 
of present management. 
It comprehends 
the scores of lives,  may  be,  which  have 
been  concerned  in  the  development  of 
the fame  of  the  article. 
It  stands  for 
something which the public  has  learned 
to  respect.  A  man’s  name  on  a  note 
measures  in  its  effect  the  sum  of  bis 
financial  reputation.  A  man’s  eard 
socially tells by the consideration it calls 
forth just how his  reputation  stands  in 
social lines.  The preacher is  advertised 
by the power  of  his  pulpit  reputation; 
his  trademark  sells  his  published  ser­
mons and draws  crowds  to  hear  him. 
The lawyer  gains  a  public  recognition 
for his talents and for his probity by  his 
reputation for argument and honor.
Is the mercantile  trademark  different, 
except in kind?  The goods become  gen­
erally  known  as  a  social  leader 
is. 
"They gather the  force  of  many  minds 
and of many lives,  as  the  workers  suc­
ceed each other in pushing  and  perfect­
ing the article.  The purity  is  kept  up, 
the quality is found  to  be  reliable,  and 
the public awards a vote of general  con­
fidence.  This  makes  the  value  of  a 
trademark,  and it also  makes  the  value 
of a  character.”  Cynical  men  say  that 
"every man has his price.”  While  they 
measure character by this mean estimate, 
it would be well for them to  realize  that 
they  could  not  buy 
the  mere  word 
"Sapolio” for a round million of  dollars; 
and  the  names  "Elgin,”  "Keystone,” 
"Waltham,”  etc.,  represent  a  money 
value which would stagger the  belief  of 
an intending purchaser of the businesses 
represented by these  names.
In view  of  this  conceded  value  of  a 
trademark or tradename,  it  is  not  sur­
prising  that  unscrupulous  men  should 
attempt to steal  such  reputations.  The 
more  daring  will  deliberately  risk  the 
law  by  exactly  copying  the  mark  or 
name;  others,  with  more  caution,  will 
imitate  it  so  nearly  as  to  deceive  the 
public  in  nine  cases  out  of  ten.  The 
spelling will be slightly changed;  an  in­
conspicuous  word  will  be  dropped  or 
added; or any of  a  dozen  familiar  sub­
terfuges will  be  practiced. 
It  seems  to 
be  the  penalty  of  fame 
that  rascals 
should make a  target  of  an  object  dis­
tinguished above  others—not,  however, 
by defaming its  merits,  but  by  putting 
before  the  world  an 
imitation  which 
confuses the people and foists  upon  the 
ignorant  an  article  which  is  unworthy 
the reputation of the  original—an 
infi­
nitely more serious hurt than could ensue 
from unjust abuse or slander.
It behooves all good people to jealously 
guard against the counterfeiting of trade­
marks and the theft of tradename.  Com­
mon wisdom,  no less than  common  hon­
esty,  is concerned in protecting the integ­
In  such  a  defense 
rity of  reputations. 
the manufacturer, the merchant and  the 
consumer should  be  allied;  for  the  in­
iquitous defrauding  of  a  well-deserved 
popularity strikes at  the  very  root  of 
honest effort,  and stands as a  menace  to 
all worthy and  proper  ambition.

W hy  have  the  sales  in-
ing the past

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ESTABLISHED  36  YEARS.
M ic h a e l  JKolh  éè  Son,

W h o lesa le  C lo th ie r s,

H och e s te r ,  N.  Y.

It  is  a  pleasure  to  acknowledge  that  through  advertising 
herein we constantly  receive mail orders giving universal  satis­
faction,  and  our  Michigan  representative,  William  Connor, 
frequently receives  letters from  merchants  requesting to  look 
through  our  line.  He  also  attends  periodically  at  Sweet’s 
Hotel,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  and  will  be there  Thursday and 
Friday, 23d and 24th March.  Merchants meeting him there are 
allowed expenses. 
If  you desire him to call  upon  you address 
William  Connor,  Marshall,  Mich.,  and  he  will  soon  be  with 
you.

Are Yon OMipd to Wasl Your Hands

after  drawing a gallon of  oil  before  yon  can  put  up 
the next customer’s sugar, or sell  a bottle of perfume, 
if  so  save  time  and  money  by  ordering  one of  the 
WAYNE  Self-Measuring  Tanks.

Kre pil in the  business for money?

IF  SO  ORDER  A  FIVE  BARREL  TANK  and  be 
able to order  your oil in large  quantities,  save a good 
discount, return  your  barrels  and  get  full  price  for 
them, and  do  away with the  continual  loss of  oil  by 
evaporation and  leaky barrels.

First Floor Tank and Pump.

In  the  construction of  our  tanks  only  the  best  galvanized  iron  is  used.  The 
appearance of  the  whole  is  ornamental,  the  tank  being  encased  in  a  cabinet of 
Southern  pine.  The  first-floor  tanks are  finished in the  natural  wood, the cellar 
tanks are  neatly  painted, while  the cabinet on the  first  floor is also  finished  in the 
natural  wood.  Having a leverage of  three  to  one  enables  our  pump  to  respond 
with greater ease and rapidity than an old style direct lift.

If you deal  in oil why not have a clean way of handling it as

Cellar Tank and Pump.

Manufactured  by

Wayne  Oil  Yank  Bo,

FORT  WAYNE,  IND,

NET  PRICE  LIST.

First floor  Tanks and  Pumps.
1 bbl.............................   $13 OO
2 bbl.............................   15 00
3 bbl.............................   18 00
4 bbl.............................   22 00
5 bbl............................  27 00

Cellar Tanks and Pumps.

1 bbl  ...........................   $14 00
2 bbl.............................   17 00
3 bbl.............................   21  00
4 bbl  ............................  25 00
5 bbl.............................   30 00
Pump without tank__ 
9 00

Compare our prices.  O rder now and save agents’ 

commission.

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Out of  a  Class  of  One  Hundred  and 

Twenty.

At the examination session of the board 
of Pharmacy,  held here last week, 
there 
were 120 applicants,  and of  this  number 
fifty-one passed the examination and  be­
came registered  pharmacists  and  forty- 
one became  assistants,  and  twenty-four 
utterly failed.  Those who became regis­
tered  pharmacists  are:  Abel  Baker, 
Grand  Rapids;  Lee  B.  Barnard,  Deer 
Lodge,  Montana;  Walter Beck, Charlotte; 
James Braden, Joppa; Fred Burke,  Rich­
mond; Lewis  Chappell,  Grand  Rapids; 
Arthur J.  Cromwell,  Parkinson,  Ohio; 
John A.  Downes,  North  Branch;  Ira  E. 
Dunlop, Boyd,  O.; J.  J. _ Froby,  Benton 
Harbor;  B.  J.  Franks,  Detroit;  J.  A. 
Fraser,  Roscommon; J.  D.  Fromm.  Ann 
Arbor;  H.  K. Gleasen,  Wayland;  A.  D. 
Graham,  Ann  Arbor; H.  W.  Grisso,  New 
Carlisle, O.;  C.  E.  Hamilton,  Ada,  O.;
E.  D.  Hamliu,  Battle Creek; F.  J.  Harti- 
san,  Welland,  Ont.;  Fred  Harrington, 
Cedar Springs;  L.  D.  Haven hill,  Ann 
Arbor; C. A.  Henderson,  Ada,  O.; G.  F. 
Hoffman,  Greenup,  Ky.;  F.  A.  Hope, 
Detroit; Chester Joseph,  Quincy; Max  J. 
Keckler,  Ada,  O.;  Bert  E.  King,  St. 
Johns;  Fred  Kurtz,  Kalamazoo;  Albert 
Leech,  Utica; J.  W.  Loppentheen.  Lud- 
ington;  Fred D.  Matthews,  Yale;  Frank 
A.  Moon,  Lowell;  Fred  H.  Nickerson, 
Ann Arbor; C.  R. Orr,  Manistique;  Emil 
Richter,  Saginaw;  George  Robertson, 
West  Branch;  H.  H.  Rodenbaugh,  De­
troit;  J.  W.  Rothaeher,  Detroit;  K.  E. 
Rudolph,  Ann  Arbor;  F.  C.  Schmitz, 
Pontiac; John Schonborn,  Helena,  Mon­
tana; Bert Skinner, Cedar Springs;  B.  F. 
Spaulding,  Bellevue;  Jay  Nelson  Swift, 
Eaton  Rapids;  W.  Trebilcock,  Grand 
Rapids; N.  R.  Whalen,  Kalamazoo;  F.  J. 
Wheaton,  Jackson;  R. C.  Witeslow,  West 
Branch; C. W. Woodworth, Cedar Sttrings; 
G.  O.  Young,  Eaton  Rapids;  R.  Zant, 
Grand Rapids.
Those  who  passed  as  assistants  are: 
G.  H.  Beal,  Detroit; H.  P.  Burger,  Adri­
an;  O.  L.  Boice,  Yale;  C.  Bradshaw, 
Yale;  W.  Cole,  Petoskey;  Claude  G. 
Drake,  Imlay City;  John  M.  Early,  De­
troit; C.  G.  Foster,  Yale;  F.  M.  Graves, 
Grand  Rapids;  G.  G.  Gardner,  North 
Star;  Fred  J.  Green.  Manistee;  C.  E. 
Hammond, Grand Rapids; Ted  C.  Heav- 
enrich,  Detroit; Harry  P.  Hull,  Muske­
gon; Lloyd E. Jones, Grand  Rapids;  W. 
A. Jones,  Ludington;  Fred  H.  Kincaid, 
Hersey;  William  Lennon,  Yrale;  L.  O. 
Loveland,  Charlotte;  William  Lutz, 
Monroe; J.  A.  McOmber,  Hastings;  M.
F.  Marks,  Tecumseh;  G. J. Menold,  Os­
coda;  Will  C.  Moody,  Shelby;  LeRoy 
Moss,  Maple Kapids; A.  E. Moore, Grand 
Rapids; C.  R.  Newell.  Burnip’s  Corners; 
W.  F. Osterly,  Grand  Rapids; S. W.  Pew, 
Muskegon;  C.  G.  Putnam,  Middleville; 
Peter Reardon, Coopersville;  W. J.  Reid, 
Port Huron;  R.  H.  Reycroft,  Detroit;  E. 
L.  Sargeant, Saranac;  D.  L.  Treat,  Adri­
an: J.  B. Trimmer, Grand  Rapids;  C.  F. 
Miterkercher,  Saline;  H.  L.  Vaughn, 
Charlevoix; L. G.  Wolcott, St.  Johns; M. 
Wuggazer, Grand  Rapids;  B.  Whetmore, 
South  Haven;  Frank  W. Weise, Saginaw; 
L  Williams,  Englishville;  Hattie  A 
Williams,  Grand  Rapids.

that 

Maintaining  Parity  of Gold,  and  Silver
From the Journal of Banking.
To maintain the parity of gold and sil­
ver  dollars  in  the  United  States—in 
other words, to maintain gold payments, i 
is asserted that the Secretary of the Treas 
ury  has authority under the act of 1875 for 
the resumption  of  specie  payments,  to 
obtain such additional  gold  as  may  be 
necessary for the purpose,  by the  sale of 
bonds.  Admitting 
this  construe 
tion of law is correct,  and also  that  it  ii 
most important  to  maintain  gold  pay­
ments,  the question suggests itself,  what 
would be the consequences of the sale  of 
bonds, if carried to the extent it must  be, 
to obtain and  keep on hand the necessary 
gold?  The  bonds,  no  doubt,  could  be 
sold  for  gold. 
the  United 
States,  the gold would most probably  be 
drawn from  the Treasury stock,  or  they 
would be paid for with legal tender notes 
or silver certificates,  the  equivalent  of 
gold. 
If sold abroad,  foreign gold might 
be obtained  for  them,  but  just  as  the 
stock of gold abroad is diminished, it will

If  sold 

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CARPET  LININGS.

T H E   M IC H IG A N   TRA lD E SM A lNT.
have to be  replenished  from some  other 
source. 
The  United  States  Treasury, 
with its law of 1890,  pledging it to  main­
tain the  parity  of  the  gold  and  silver 
dollars,  is  the  easiest  place  to  draw 
gold 
the 
paper  currency, 
tender  notes 
of  1861,  National  bank  notes,  legal 
tender  notes  of  1890,  gold  certificates, 
and  silver  certificate, 
redeemable, 
directly  or  indirectly, in  gold coin.
The first result,  therefore,  of  an  offer 
to  sell  bonds  abroad,  for gold,  would  be 
to stimulate the redemption of the paper 
currency in gold.  As much gold as shall 
come  into  the  Treasury  from  foreign 
parts will  be drawn out of  the  Treasury 
in  redemption  of  the  paper  currency. 
More gold being then required  to  main­
tain the gold reserve,  more  bonds  will 
have to be sold to procure it.  The circu­
lation of the gold having once begun, and 
the attention of  the  public  having been 
directed to  it, 
like  all  currents,  once 
to  gain  in 
tarted 
force.  There  must  be  a  profit  to 
the  buyer  or 
the  bonds  will  not 
ell,  and this,  together with  the  confes­
sion  that 
the  Treasury is short of gold, 
and the further fact that  it  cau  be kept 
hort of gold by constant demand  for the 
redemption of  the  paper currency,  will 
ncrease the sales  and  reduce  the  price 
of  bonds. 
If  the  paper  currency  re­
deemed is  reissued there will  be no  end 
to gold purchases.  To maintain the par­
ity of the gold and  silver  dollars  under 
uch  conditions  will  be  the  continued 
labor of Sisyphus. 
If the paper currency 
s cancelled as it is redeemed,  the  result 
will  be an increase of National  bank cir­
culation  to  take  its  place.  The  bonds 
would  be cheap and the banks could both 
afford to take them better than others and 
could issue  circulation  profitably  upon 
them.  When the legal tender notes  and 
silver certificates have all been redeemed 
and cancelled,  the United  States  Treas­
ury will be left with no liabilities for  pa­
per money,  with the exception that, if the 
purchase of silver bullion by the monthly 
is 
not discontinued,  about  fifty-four  mil- 
ions per year will be  required to redeem 
these notes in gold.  The  interest-bear­
ing debt will  have been  increased by  the 
amount of bonds sold.
Probably the amount of bonds  it would 
be  necessary  to  sell  would  be  in  the 
neighborhood of  ($1,200,000,000)  one bil­
lion,  two  hundred  millions  of  dollars. 
After having  redeemed all  its  paper cur­
rency  in  gold,  the  Treasury would  find 
it  unnecessary  to  keep  a  gold  reserve. 
It  would  have  on  hand a large  amount 
of  silver,  which  it  could  gradually  dis­
pose  of  as  prices  were  favorable,  and 
apply the  proceeds  to  the  sinking  fund 
to be maintained  upon the  bonds issued. 
The  interest on these  bonds  would,  at 4 
per  cent,  be  about  $50,000,000  per  an­
num,  not more  than is paid out in Treas­
ury notes annually  for  silver.  The  sale 
of  bonds to obtain  gold  to  maintain the 
parity of  the gold and silver dollars thus 
appears  to us a very considerable under­
taking,  but at the same time a very satis­
factory  remedy for  the  present  anoma-1 
lous  financial  condition  of  the  United 
States. 
It  would  at  once  restore confi­
dence  in  all  American  securities,  give 
the  country  for  many  years a safe  and 
elastic  National  Bank  currency,  and en­
tirely  do  away  with  government  legal 
tender notes.  The silver question would 
be  practically solved,  and  the  stock  of 
silver  now in the  hands of  the Treasury 
could  be  gradually sold  at  the  smallest 
possible  loss,  and  perhaps  at  a  profit. 
We do  not,  however,  believe it would  be 
necessary  to  sell  any  of  these  bonds 
abroad.  At a rate of interest not greater 
than  4  per  cent,  and  perhaps  less, and 
with a period of  thirty years  to  run, the 
National  banks  would  take them  all  at 
par  and  pay  for  them  in  legal  tender 
notes  and  silver  certificates—that  is,  if 
the notes  presented in  payment are  can­
celled, a  Any  undue  contraction  of  the 
currency  could  be  prevented  by  the 
gradual sale of bonds for notes to be can­
celled  as  the  National  Bank  currency 
based upon  them  was placed  in  circula­
tion.

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

Lv. Detroit...................
G’d Rapids,  L v...........
G’d Haven,  A r...........
Chicago Str.  “  ...........

ue of legal  tender  Treasury  notes 

“ The Niagara Falls Route.’*

Geo.  W.  Ga t , Vice-President.

♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.

'Trains Leave 

EASTWARD.

. 

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

♦Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 00 p m ...........Detroit  Express........... 6 55 p m
4 30 p m.................. Mixed  .................  7 00am
10 00am ..............Day Express 
.  120pm
6 00 a m __»Atlantic and  Pacific.......10 45 p m
1  00 p m  ......New York Express  ........  5 40 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex­
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  6:55 am ;  re­
turning, leave Detroit 4:40 p m, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:00 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
Tickets on sale at Union  Ticket Office, 67 Mon­
roe street and Union  Depot.

De t r o i t ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   & f n i L -

W A U K E E   R ailw ay.

Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Ave.

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

10 20am  325pm
11 25am  4 27pm
12 17pm  5 20pm 
1 20pm  S 05pm
3 45pm I  8 00pm
4 35pm  8 37pm
3 45pm  7 05pm
5 50pm  8 50pm 
305pm  8 25pm
4 05pm1  9 25pm

DIRECTORS.
S. M. Lemon. 
D. A. Blodgett.  Geo. W. Gay. 
A. J  Bowne.  G. E. Johnson. 
C. Bertsch. 
Wm. H. Anderson.  Wm. Sears.  A. D. Rath Done
Mic h ig a n  ( Tentral

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

6 50am
1  00pm
2  10pm

Capital,  $300,000.

W i. H. A nderso n,  Cashier. 
J no  A. S eymour, Ass’t Cashier.

19

G rand  R apid s  &  Ind iana.
Schedule  in effect  January  29,1893.

TRA INS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive from  Leave going 
North.
South. 
7:20 am
For Traverse City  and Saginaw 
6 :45 am  
For Traverse City & Mackinaw 
1:10 pm
9:00 a m  
For Cadillac and Saginaw.........  2:20 p m 
4:15 p m
For  Petoskey A Mackinaw.......   8:10 p m 
10:10  p m
From Chicago and  Kalamazoo.  8:85 p m 
Train arriving  from  south at  6:45 am   and  9-.00 am  
daily.  Others trains daily except Sunday.

TRA INS  GOING  SOUTH.

North.
North.
For  Cincinnati.............................   6:30 am
6:30 a m
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago.
11:60 a m
For Fort Wayne and the  Bast
6:16 p m
For  Cincinnati.............................   5:15 p m
For Kalamazoo  &  Chicago.......10:40 p
10:40 pm
11:50 a m
From Saginaw...............................  11:50 &
From Saginaw...............................  10:40 p m
10:40 p m
m and  11:20 p..  ra. runs
dally;  all  other  trains  daily except Sunday

Arrive from  Leave going 
South.
7:00  a m
10:05  am
2:00  p m
6:00  p m
11:20 p m

Trains leaving south at 6:00 p 

SLEEPING  A  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE 

N O RTH

7:20 a m train  has 
City.
1:10  p  m   tra in   has  parlor  cai 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
1 0:10  p   in   tra in .—Sleeping  ca 
Rapids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw

arlor  Car  to. Travers 
Grand 
Grand

SO UTH —7:0 0  am  tr a in .-Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
10:05  a m   tr a in .—Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
6 : 0 0   p  in   tr a in .—Wagner Sleeping  Car 
Grand  Kapids to Cincinnati.
11;20  p m  tr a in .—Wagner Sleeping Car 
Grand Rapids to Chicago.
Chicago via G.  R.  &  I.  R.  R.

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

10.-05 a m  2:00 p m 
3:55 pm   9:00  pm  

11:20 p m
6:50  am
10:05 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.
11:20 p m train daily, through Wagner  Sleeping Car. 
11:45 pm
6:45  am
11:45 p  m 

7 :G5 am  3:10 p m  
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
2:20 pm  8:35 p m  
3:10  p m   through  Wagner  Parlor  Car. 
train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

For Muskegon—Leave. 

M uskegon, G rand  R apids & Ind iana.
10:00 am
6:56 am  
11:26 am  
6:30  p m 
9:06 p m

From Muskegon—Arrive
4:40 pm
Sunday train  leaves  for  Muskegon  at  9:05 a  m, ar­
riving at 10:20  a  in.  Returning,  train  leaves  Muske 
gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand  Rapids at 5:45 p m.
Through tickets and full information  can  be had by 
calling upon A. Almquist,  ticket  agent  at  Union Sta­
tion,  or  George  W.  Munson,  Union  Ticket  Agent, 67 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

C H IC A G O

NOV.  20,  1892
A N D   W K S t  M IC H IG A N   R ’Y. 

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

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

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. CHICAGO............. 9:00«m  5:25pm *ll: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
TO  AND PROM  MUSKESON.
__  8:50am  1:25pm  5:35pm  8:45pm
Lv. G.  R  . 
.................10:45am  3:55pm  5:25pm
Ar.  G.  R.
TRAVERSE  CITY  MANISTEE  A  PETOSKEY.
G  R........................................7:30am  5:35pm
Lv.
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.

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.
D E T R O IT ,

1893
L A NSING   &  N O R T H E R N   R .  K .
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

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

JAN.

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. DETR....................  7:45am  *1:30pm  6:05pm
Ar. G  R.......................12:55pm  *5:25pm  10:30pm

TO AND  PROM  SAGINAWr ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS.

Lv. GR 7:20am 4:15pm  Ar. GR.11:50am 10:40pm

TO  LOWELL VIA  LOWELL A  HASTINGS  R.  It.

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

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

•Every day.  Other trams week days only.

GEO. DbHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

Toledo,  Ann  Arbor &  North  Michigan 

Railway.

In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  A 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk  e 
offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  betwe  n 
Grand Rapids and Toledo.
Lv. Grand Rapids a t......7:15 a. m. and 1:00 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t ............  12:55 p. m. and 10:30 p. m.
Lv. Grand Rapids a t......6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo at..............12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m.

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.

Ida—N.  A.  Weifert  succeeds  A. 
Brouulick in the hardware  business.

H.

Trains arrive from the east, 6:40 a.m., 12:50 a.m 
5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arrl  e from  the west,  10:10  a.m., 3:15 
p.m. and 9:45v p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parle r  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward—No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
C hair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car.
J as. Campbbt.t,, City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

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

MO

F la v o r  o f  J a p a n   T ea.

Robert O. Fielding in American Grocer.
The slightly unpleasant  taste  of  Jap­
anese teas,  which  militates  against  its 
European consumption, may be accounted 
for by the sulphur and petroleum springs 
which are found in the vicinity of  many 
tea  producing  districts.  At  Nutsu, 
especially,  the ground is  thoroughly  im­
pregnated with petroleum,  which  has  a 
decided effect on all vegetation.
Kami-bayashi, a tea  merchant  at  Uji, 
about 1570 A. D.  was the  first  to  intro­
duce matting-covers raised on poles about 
eight feet  above  the  ground—the  tree 
bushes are from four to five  feet  high— 
so that people at work can walk under it 
comfortably and attend to the  first  crop 
of leaves.  When this is over,  the roof is 
taken down and put  away  in  houses  or 
sheds set apart for it till  the  next  year. 
Its object is to  protect  the  bushes  from 
the cold dew,  which  reddens  the  young 
leaves and gives a bitter  taste. 
It  evi­
dently diminishes the  radiation  of  heat 
leaves,  and  thus 
from the ground  and 
the nocturnal cooling; the  softened light 
at the same  time, 
lengthens  the  inter­
nodes of the young shoots and makes  the 
leaves more  tender (maybe this  matting 
roof has something to do, as well  as  the 
sulphur and petroleum springs mentioned 
above, with causing  the  peculiar  flavor 
characteristic of Japanese teas,  for  1 do 
not know that it is  used  in  any  of  the 
other  tea  producing  countries,  China, 
India,  Ceylon or Java, the teas of  which 
countries  are  similar 
in  character). 
When  riding through the country in June 
at the time when the young leaves which 
yield the first quality of  green 
tea,  are 
fully  developed,  one  notices  that  the 
whole country about Uji  is  under  mat­
ting,  over which the head  of  the  horse­
man just rises,  so that  with  the  excep­
tion of the distant  hills  and  mountains 
and the  roofs  of  the  homesteads,  the 
landscape is hidden from  view.

M eeting o f  Ja ck so n  G ro cers’  Union.
At a meeting of the  Jackson  Grocers’  Union, 
held March 9, the following is a  summary of the 
business transacted :

The Superintendent of the  Bureau  of  Collec­
tion and Information submitted a report of busi­
ness done for two weeks ending Feb. 9.
A blank petition to the State Legislature in re 
gard to changing the amount of exemption from 
$25 to $10, was  presented  by  the  Committee  on 
Trade Interests.  The petition  was received and 
referred to two members to circulate.

The  Board  of  Directors  submitted  a  report 
recommending the discontinuance of  the salary 
heretofore  paid  to  the  Superintendent  of  the 
Bureau of  Collection  and  Information,  which 
was adopted.

The Superintendent of Collection and Inform­
ation submitted a statement of the liabilities and 
resources of the Bureau.

The Secretary, O. C. Leach, tendered his resig­
nation, on the grounds that he had  not  time  to 
attend to its  duties.  The  resignation  was  ac­
cepted, and it was decided to postpone the  elec­
tion of a new Secretary until next meeting.

A communication  was  received  from  E.  A. 
Stowe, Secretary  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Retail 
Grocers' Association, in regard to the convention 
of Retail Grocers' Associations,  stating that the 
time of meeting had been postponed  until  May; 
also a letter from Mr. Stowe,  in  regard  to  the 
drafting of a bill  reducing  the  exemption  al­
lowed householders in garnishee  matters,  from 
$25  to  $10.  These  letters  were  received  and 
placed on file.

A  letter  was  presented  from  a  firm  at  San 
Francisco, Cal., asking about  the  result  of  the 
debate that was to have been held by this Union 
on the  subject  of  advertising.  The  Secretary 
was instructed to answer the letter and state that 
the matter had not yet been  discussed.

It was decided to have a social  and  invite  all 
the members and their  families  to  attend  the 
next regular  meeting.

W. H. P o r t e r , Sec’y pro tern.

The  Drug  Market. 

Quinine is steady.
Gum opium  is dull and  lower. 
Powdered opium has declined. 
Canada balsam fir has  advanced. 
Celery seed is higher.
African ginger has advanced. 
Jamaca ginger has  advanced. 
Linseed oil has advanced 2c.

PR O D U C E   M A R K E T .

Apples—No  change.  Russets  still  bringing 
$2.50 per  bbl. and  Baldwins  and  Spys $2.75@$3, 
according to quality.

Beans—Slightly lower, $1.60 to $1.70 being paid 
for country picked, city picked  bringing $1.90 to 
$2.10 per bu.

Butter—Choice dairy is in demand at 18 to 20c, 
being  held  at  22c;  creamery, 22 to 26c.  Market 
easier.
Cabbage—75c  to  $1  per  doz.  Still  plentiful 

and quality good.

Celery—20@25c per doz. bunches.
Cheese—D. M. Macpherson, the largest  maim 
facturer of cheese In the world—being the owner 
of  eighty  factories  in  Ontario — writes  T he 
Tradesman:  “If  I  am not mistaken from signs 
and  aspects of  the  butter  and  cheese  markets 
when I was in  England  last month  [the date  of 
writing is Feb. 21]  the  butter  market will  be  a 
poor  one  indeed  this coming  summer;  and the 
cheese  market  a  correspondingly  good  one.” 
Mr.  Macpherson  has  the  courage to sustain his 
convictions, as he  is  now offering  10  to 15 cents 
more per hundred pounds of milk in cheese than 
in butter.

Cider—13@15e per  gal.
Cranberries—On  the  rise, Cape Cods  and  Jer 

seys bringing $3g3.50 per crate.

Eggs have not  changed during the  past week, 
dealers paying  16 to 18c, holding  at 18c.  A drop 
is anticipated.

Green Stuff—Lettuce in good supply at 18c per 
lb.  Rhubarb 4c per lb. and radishes 40c per doz.
Honey—No change, clover stock still  bringing 
13c.

Maple Sugar—Maple  sugar  producers  are  in­
terested in the  recommendation of  the Commis­
sioner of Internal Revenue that Congress amend 
the  sugar  bounty  law so  as to  permit  the  pay­
ment of  a  bounty of  $2.20 per  loo pounds  upon 
pure  sugar, that to be the  basis upon which  all 
payments  should  be made.  Under  the  present 
law  there is no  inducement  for the  producer  to 
make a higher  grade of  sugar than 90 per cent., 
except  for the  difference in  the  market  price. 
The higher the  grade  the  larger is the  percent­
age of foreign substances removed from it.  The 
weight  is  consequently  diminished  and  the 
amount of bounty received is  smaller.  At  pres­
ent, it is  to  the  interest of  the  producer, so far 
as the bounty is concerned, to make his sugar as 
much between 80 and 90 per cent, as possible and 
not to try to produce sugar of  the highest grade.
Onions—Easier,  dealers  paying  $1.15  to $1.20, 
and holding at $1.40 to $1.45.
Parsnips—Same as last week—40c per bu. 
Potatoes—05c is still  the  paying price, with an 

easy market.

Pop Corn—The 1892 crop of pop corn, although 
planted  later  than  ever  before, has  turned out 
of  average yield  and  excellent  quality.  There 
was  more of  the ’91 crop  carried  over  Into  ’93 
than  usual, as the  old  crop  has  generally been 
exhausted by the  time  the new  came  into  mar­
ket.  Prices  ruled very steady  until  last season-, 
when  they  declined,  owing  to  overproduction 
in ’91 and ’92.  Growers  have been  flooding the 
Chicago market, thinking  that the World’s  Fair 
would  create  an  extraordinary  demand.  The 
result has  been an  excessive supply on  hand at 
the lowest  prices on  record, l(g|13£c  per  pound. 
In 1888 good rice  corn was worth  $3@3.50 per 1(0 
pounds on  the  ear, but  it is now  freely  offered 
at  $1.60  for ’91  crop, and  $1.25  for ’92.  The  ’92 
crop will  not  be  cured  out  and in good  condi­
tion to pop  before  July.  White  rice  corn is by 
far  the  best  variety and  rules 50 cents  per  100 
pounds  higher  than  pearl  flint  or eight-rowed 
corn.  The  Golden  Yellow, or  California  corn, 
has lately been Introduced  as a superior variety, 
but the trade find it to be tough and coarse when 
popped.  Iowa and  Nebraska raise the most and 
the best corn;  next  in  order come Illinois, Wis­
consin,  Missouri,  Kansas,  with  a  very  little 
grown in Ohio, Michigan and  New York.

Seeds—The  indications are that  there will  be 
an  active  demand fo-  seeds  this  year, in  fact, 
for  hotbed  seeds  it  has  already  been  brisk. 
European countries have  bought  more  on  this 
side than  usual.  Prices are  about the  same  as 
last  year, except  that  some  varieties  of  beans 
and peas  are  scarce, while  onions  are  liable  to 
run short before the season is over.  Potato seed 
will  sell well, and  grass seeds  are  higher  than 
last  year, especially timothy and  red  and white 
clover.  Growers  have been  placing more  value 
on their stocks and are contracting for the grow­
ing season of  1893 at higher figures.

Squash—Out of the market.
Turnips—35c pu. bu.
Wheat—Stocks of  wheat  In the  United  States 
and  Canada,  Feb.  1,  amounted  to  113,712,000 
bushels, according  to  Bradstreet’s. as  compared 
with 72,589,000 bushels on Feb. 1,1892, and 54 951. 
000 bushels on  Feb. 1,1891.  It will  thus  be seen 
that  available  stocks  at  the  beginning  of  the I 
month  were more than  double the  supply avail­
able at the same date two years ago. 
*

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What,, 
Annex 
Hawaii ?

unknown article?
do with a pie knife?

People who do not use spoons?
People  to  whom a fork  is  almost  an 
People  who  would  not  know  what  tc 
Most emphatically NO!  NEVER!
We will say to the people of the United 
States if  such a thing  as  the  annexation 
of  Hawaii  should  be  consummated,  we 
cannot  answer  for  the  effect  it  would 
have on  the  mind of  the  young  gentle­
man  whose  especial  pride is the  glisten­
ing,  glittering line of

E leg an t  S ilv e rw a re
Rotters  Bros.’ Table  Knives, 
Dessert Knives, 
Froll Knives, 

We have placed in  his charge.  This line comprises:

“ 

Nat Piets,
Baiter  Knives,
Sapr  Shells,
Snpr  Tongs,
Pictle  Forts,
Fish  Knives  and  Forts,
Gravy  Ladles,
Cream  Ladles,  Berry  Spoons.

Orange  Spoons,
Olive  Forts and  Spoons, 
Pie Knives,

We have been obliged to almost  entirely renew our stock  since the holidays  and

APPLES  OP  GOLD  IN  PICTURES  OP  SILVER.

¡ T o ,  t h ln S  

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Our Embossed  Fruit Knives  are  beautiful  beyond  compare.  Our  entire line is 

one that all  are enraptured  with and one we take great pleasure in showing

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HAVE  AN  ORIGINAL  DESIGN 

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HAVE  RECEIVED

line  of  Hamilton,  Pacific,  Simpson's 

A  full 
Garner,  Manchester and Allens  Prints, also 
A F C   Toile  du  Nord,  Dresden,  Bates  and 
Amoskeag  wash dress  ginghams and  satines. 
A fresh  new line of white goods,  Nainsooks in 
checks and stripes and Victoria  lawns. 

Embroidery  from  l£e per yd. to SOe
Mail orders receive prompt attention.

W H O L E S A L E

Dry  Goods, Carpets and Gloaks

We  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

M ackinaw  Shirts  and  Lumbermen's  Socks. 

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Mil, ienoloier & Go.,48> 

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B A R C U S   BR O S.,

MANUFACTURERS  OF  CIRCULAR

THE  W.  BINGHAM  CO.,  Cleveland,  0.,

Have  had  such  flattering  sucoes 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.

T H E   Y O S T   M F C .  C O .,

TOLEDO,  OHIO.

BEANS If you have any beans and want to sell, 

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

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

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

Glass  Cows  for Biscuits.

Equalled by few  and  excelled  by none.  All  our  saws  are  made of  the  best  steel by the  mose 
skillful  workmen, and  all  saws  warranted.  Burnt  saws  made  good as  new for  one-fourth  the 
list price of new saws.  All kinds of

S a w   R e p a i r i n g '

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

M U S K E G O N ,

Spring  A   Company,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Dress  Goods,  Shawls,  Cloaks, 
Notions,  Ribbons,  Hosiery, 
Gloves,  Underwear,  W oolens, 
Flannels,  Blankets,  Ginghams, 
Prints and  Domestic Cottons.

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

assorted  stock at lowest  market  prices.

Spring &  Company.

^
C J   handsomest  ever  offered 

 UR new glass covers  are by far the
to  the

soon 
pay for themselves  in  the 

I ^ H E S E   chests  will 

breakage they avoid.  Price 84. 

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

NEW   NOVELTIES.

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

CREAM  CRISP. 

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

the best selling cakes we ever made.

T H E   N E W   Y O R K   B IS C U IT   C O „

S. A. Sears,|Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

1 3 4   to   1 4 0   B a s t  F u lto n   S t.,  G ra n d   R a p id s,  M ich .

VELOCIPEDES.  TRICYCLES,  STEEL  ¡ P   WOOD  EXPRESS  WflG0|(8.

If you  have not received our spring catalogue write for one with price of the following goods.

This is undoubtedly the  easiest  running,  the most  handsome  and  best  finished 
tricycle in the  market.  The new coil  spring  seat has  proven a complete success. 
The frame is black japanned.  The wheels have oval  iron tires bright tin plated 

No.  1  has 22 inch rear wheels for girls from 4 to 7 years of age.
No.  2 has 26 inch rear wheels for girls  from 7 to 10 years of age.
No.  3 has 30 inch rear wheels  for girls  from  10 to 15 years of  age.

GEM  TRICYCLE.

No.  1 has 20 inch rear wheels for girls from 3 to 7 years of  age.
No.  2 has 24 inch rear wheels for girls from 7-to 11 years of  age.
No.  3 has 28 inch rear wheels for girls from 11  to 14 years of age.
No.  4 has 32 inch rear wheels for girls from 14 to 18 years of age.

NEW  STEEL  EXPRESS  WAGONS.

This is the best line of  boys’  Wood Express Wagons made.  The wheels are very 
strong and  durable.  The  largest sizes  have the  adjustable  malleable  iron tongue 
draw,  the 5th wheel,  welded  tires on wheels,  and are nicely striped and painted. 

For prices of 

wagons

See pages 31, 32,  33, 
No.  110 Catalogue.

No.  XX bodies are  9x18, size of  wheels 6 and 8 inches.
No.  X 
No.  0 
No.  1 
No.  2 
No. 3 
No. 4 
No. 5 
No. 6 
No. 7

10x20,
12x24,
12x25,
13x26.
13x26.
13x26,
14x28,
14x28,
15x30,

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10
10
10
10
10
12
12
12

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14
14
14
14
14
15
15
16

IMPROVED  STEEL  VELOCIPEDE.

We  wish to call the attention of  the trade to our steel  body Express wagons with 
round  corners.  The  box is constructed  of  the  best  quality of  sheet  steel, bent 
over a steel  rod  which gives it all the  strength that  is required to make it durable, 
The gear is made of  the best quality of  malleable  iron, except the axles which are 
of  the best  quality of  cold rolled  iron, with  malleable  nuts which  turn forward. 
The wheels  are steel  wire retinned.
strongest boys’ express wagon on  the market.
No. 04, 
No. 03, 
No.  02,

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Bodies. 
4x11  in. 
10x20 in. 
11x22  in.

Wheels.
6 &  9 in.
7  “  10 in. 
S  “  11 in.

Crate, 

Bodies. 
12x24 in. 
13x28 in. 
14x31 in. 
15x33 in.

Wheels. 
8 & 12 in, 
10  “ 16 in. 
12  “ 18 in. 
14  “ 20 in.

doz. No. 0, 
No.  1,
rNo.  3.

to be the best finished  and  jjn plated.

The frames of our velocipedes are made of  wrought steel and all the castings are 
malleable iron finished  in the best japan.  The wheels have oval iron  tires,  bright

Crate.
X doz.
X   “
X   “
X   “ We can  also furnish  this same  line with rubber tire if  desired. Write for prices

No.  1, front wheel 16 in.
No. 2,
20 in.
No. 3,
24 in.
No.  4,
26 in.
No. 5,
28 in.

Rear wheel  14 in.
16 in.
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18 in.
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18 in.
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18 in.

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