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CRAZY  CATO’S  L A W SU IT.

The court had but little to do  on  this 
long,  drowsy  summer  afternoon,  in  a 
Mississippi town.

Outside, the heavy air  seemed to have 
lulled ail nature into the calm of a slum­
bering  forgetfulness.  The  lazy  cattle 
slept as they stood in sullen  clusters be­
neath the  overhanging  oaks.  The  idle 
mules, hitched to every fence and tree in 
the courtyard,  thankful that  their  mas­
ters were on the jury,  and they were  re­
lieved from the hard  week’s work in the 
field, scarcely  had energy  to  drive  the 
swarming  flies  from  off  their  scarry 
backs.  Their masters  lounged  about in 
chatting  groups or lay  at full length on 
the sheltered grass,  punctuating  the se­
renity of the summer’s evening with their 
contented  snores.  Above,  a  wheeling 
bird sailed in slothful indolence through 
the  unflecked  monotone  of  blue,  and 
gazed with vacant eye on old Port Gibson 
as it appeared that  sultry  day  in  June, 
1892.

Some miles to the  west,  too  far  for 
even a murmur of its busy  life  to  ruffle 
these  quiet  shores,  the  mighty  Missis­
sippi rolls on in  tranquil  majesty,  bear­
ing its burdens of commerce  and of  sor 
row southward to the sea.
Inside the courtroom  the  judge dozed 
on the bench, the lawyers dreamed at the 
bar, the jury nodded in  their box.  The 
half-awake sheriff alone  disturbed  their 
repose  with  an  occasional  deep-voiced 
Order in court,” which  seemed  more a 
sarcasm than a necessity.  The genius of 
rest  had  blown  her  lotus  breath  over 
bench and bar, over  court  and  council 
for on  this  peculiar  afternoon  justice 
was indeed asleep.  But  the  subtle  en 
chautinent fell away  powerless  from an 
aged  negro,  who  sat  next  to the iron 
rail, and close as  he  could  get  to  the 
drooping figure of the judge.

There he sat, bent  with  the weight of 
many  years  of  servitude  before  the 
shackles broken from his  almost  unwil 
ling  limbs  had  laid 
increasing 
cares of freedom more heavily upon him. 
Liko some old time-worn  horse, who be­
ing tenderly cared for in  his  strong and 
useful days, is turned  to starve in a bar­
ren pasture  when  the  frosts  of  winter 
come.

the 

Resting  his  chin  upon  his  knotted 
hickory stick, his eyes, small, round and 
with a watchful twinkle,  took  in  every 
detail of the scene around him. 
Indeed 
he seemed the only one in all that listles 
crowd who had any interest in the doubt 
ful balance of rights and  wrongs  which 
was being sluggishly adjusted.

His droll little  head,  with  its  scanty 
crop of kinky gray wool, the  bald  place 
on top looking like an  unfertile  spot  in 
the meadow, turned  slowly  from  judge 
to jury, from sheriff to  clerk,  and  from 
attorney to attorney,  with an expression 
of alert expectancy that  was  in striking 
contrast  with  his  surroundings. 
In  a 
vacant chair beside him  lay a number of 
maps and  soiled  legal  papers,  towards 
which his palsied  hand  wandered  fur­
tively now and then,  as if to assure him­

self that his treasures  were  still  within 
his reach.

A vagrant ray  of  sunshine  traced  its 
brilliant way through  the dusty air,  and 
seemed to rest with a  peculiar kindliness 
upon his  grizzled  head,  as  if  dear  old 
Mother  Nature, 
like  a  sympathetic 
woman, felt an increased  tenderness for 
her  troubled  and  afflicted  child.  For 
this poor  ignorant  child  of  nature  was 
troubled and afflicted.  A deeper  glance 
into his restless eyes showed the light of 
reason burning with but a fading  flicker 
at its almost  deserted  shrine,  and  that 
only a glimmer yet remained.

The court awakes with a  guilty  start; 
the  machinery  of  the  law  moves  on 
again;  the  twilight  shadows  chase the 
retreating  sunshine  over  the  western 
hills, and the  sheriff  announces  “Court 
is adjourned  till  to-morrow  morning,  9 

clock.”
Slowly, and with just the  faintest  ex­
pression of disappointment on his weath­
er-wrinkled face, the  old  man  gathered 
his  maps, books  and  papers  under his 
arm, and labored painfully  out  amongst 
the noisy crowd that trampled  down the 
stone steps and into the yard.
There,”  Uncle  Cato explained,  “my 
case warn’t tried to-day, but  its  de  fust 
case on the docket and  sho  try  it  early 
in de mornin’.

Then, perfectly happy  and  contented, 
he hobbled away towards  the bayou and 
the tumble-down shanty  that  he  called 
his home.

Nearly  twenty-five  years  ago,  “Old 
Uncle Cato,” for  he was  old Cato  Green 
even  then,  had  been  employed  by  the 
sheriff of  the  connty  to  build  a  small 
house  near  the  courtroom.  For  this 
work he  was  given a  deed  to about five 
acres of  land near  town  that  had  been 
sold  to  the  State  for  delinquent  taxes. 
The ex-slave, now a landed proprietor, in 
all the pride of  his  new  position, failed 
to  take the  proper  steps  to  perfect  his 
title,  paid no taxes on the  property, and 
in a few  years  the land  was again sold, 
being  bought  by a  Jewish  merchant in 
the  town.  So the  negro was put  out of 
his  little  cabin,  the  labor  of  his  own 
hands, and retired  across the  bayou to a 
sheltered nook on his old master’s place, 
where, under  the  protection  of  an  an­
cient moss-covered  tree,  he built a  rick­
ety shanty,  which  answered  all  of  his 
simple needs.

Shortly  afterwards  Uncle  Cato  em­
ployed  a  young  attorney  to  bring suit 
against  the  later  owner,  but  for  some 
reason  this lawyer  soon  abandoned  the 
case, and the rest of the darky’s life was 
spent in  a fruitless  search for  a lawyer 
who would take his case for him.

He had once been told that his was the 
next case on the docket,  and  on that  he 
placed all the implicit faith of  his feeble 
mind.  To  him  there  was  ever need for 
hurry;  each  evening  brought  its  disap­
pointment, each morn its new-born hope. 
Never  an  hour in  all  that twenty  years 
had  missed  him  from  his  ^accustomed 
seat in court.

In his earnest  quest  for  an  advocate

the  years  flew  by on  silent wings until 
nearly a  quarter of  a  century  had been 
numbered with the past.

Change swiftly followed change; mem­
bers of  the  county  bar  retired, died  or 
moved to newer fields and strangers took 
their  places.  Each  newcomer  had  in 
turn to look into Cato’s lawsuit, and each 
in turn had abandoned it.

Then the  news  came  one day that the 
judge  had  died, and  another  was  ap­
pointed  in  his  stead,  so  the  old  darky 
was  radiant  with  the  thought  that  ‘de 
new  jedge  would gi’ him  jestice.’  And 
with habitual humility he waited.

The time for  holding  court  came,  and 
with  it the “new  jedge,”  together with 
the usual  retinue or lawyers,  witnesses, 
lurors  and  idlers,  court  week  always 
being  something  of  a  holiday,  and the 
town  full  of  country  people.  No  one, 
however,  noticed  the  old  negro,  sta­
tioned far in  advance of  the  crowd that 
gathered to  welcome the judge, and who 
scanned with eager  eye  every feature of 
this new Daniel  come to sit in  judgment 
on his  case.  And  sever  did  a  blind 
muezzin  call to  prayers  a more faithful 
suppliant than this simple African, who, 
with  uncovered  head  and  reverential 
awe, followed  his  prophet  into  the tem­
ple.
Early in the  morning, long before any 
one  else  had  come, Cato  was  already 
waiting in  the little  old-fashioned  brick 
courthouse, with  its  quaiut cupola  and 
queer furnishings.

The  busy  scene  below  the  windows 
had lost its usual charm for him this day. 
The court yard was divided into two sep­
arate pens, where traveling horse-traders 
drove  their  noisy bargains,  buying, sell­
ing or swapping. 
In one of these pens a 
horse sold was supposed to be warranted 
as  represented, and  a  certain  degree of 
that  honor  usual  among  horse  thieves 
was  respected  even  here.  But  when a 
man  rode his  horse  into  that  other in­
closure and offered to sell or trade,  it was 
an understood thing that nothing he said 
regarding the animal was to be relied on. 
Truth was  here  debarred,  and  whoever 
bought  here was  to buy  strictly  on his 
own judgment, and no  questions were to 
be asked except  the price.

At 9 o’clock  the  harsh, discordant bell 
rang  the  hour  for  meeting,  and  those 
of the crowd who had stopped outside  to 
talk crops or  swap horses  came surging 
in.  And  a  most  strangely  assorted 
crowd it was.  The  burly Irish  railroad 
hand,  the  Italian  peddler,  the  Chinese 
washee-washee  man,  the  pure-blooded 
Choctaw  Indian,  the  thick-lipped  Afri­
can  and  the  sandy-haired  native,  all 
made  such  an  incongruous  assemblage 
as  could only be seen on the  first day of 
court  week in  one of  the rural towns of 
Western Mississippi.

But foremost  and  busiest  of  all  that 
throng was Cato, hustling around getting 
ready  for a trial,  for  his  case  was “de 
berry nex’  case  on  de  docket,  and  be 
tried  fust ting  sho,  jes as soon  as  cote 
meet.”

The usual routine of organization done, 
the  sheriff  having  duly  cried,  “Oyez,

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oyez, the honorable circuit  court of Clai­
borne  county is  now open  according  to 
law,” the customary confusion,  impanel­
ing a jury, over,  the  judge  commenced 
solemnly to call the cases for trial.

Cato  was  ready  with  his,  but  was 
pained  and  surprised  that another case 
was  called instead, so  he edged  his way 
humbly up  to  his honor and inquired  if 
he  had not  made  a  mistake.  Then  be 
told  the  judge  how  he  had waited for 
twenty  years  to  get  this  case  tried— 
twenty years this  last  gone cotton pick­
ing time—and now when  it  is  the  first 
case  on the  docket,  wouldn’t  he  try  it, 
please.

The earnestness and pathos of  the old 
Negro so impressed  the  judge, who was 
unacquainted with  the story, that be ex­
amined  the  docket,  and  sure  enough 
found that such  a  case had been passed 
by for many years, and was now without 
counsel to  prosecute  it.  So, during the 
afternoon session,  his  honor took up the 
matter,  appointed Lawyer Morton to rep­
resent Uncle Cato, and  gave  notice that 
he would try it the first thing the follow­
ing morning.

Uncle Catct was now in  a  perfect tur­
moil  of  excitement,  hurrying  around 
looking  up  his  witnesses,  papers  and 
deeds, laughing, talking and joking with 
bis acquaintances.

About  dusk  that  same  evening  he 
might have  been  seen  lying  down  in  a 
secluded fence  corner, just  off the dusty 
highway, showing his imaginary property 
to an old  plantation  friend,  as black  as 
himself.

The precious map was carefully spread 
on the grass before him,  a  brick on each 
corner,  while his “deed  papers” nestled 
close beside.  At  the  edge  of  the  map 
was his oracle,  a  dirty red  book,  faded 
pink,  whose  gaudy  gold  lettered  title, 
“Every Man  His Own Lawyer,” was now 
almost  undecipherable  from  age  and 
wear.  This  book  had  been  given  him 
years  and  years  ago  by  some  one who 
was willing to humor his harmless fancy, 
and  now  no  earthly  inducement  could 
take it from him.

“Look a heah, old nigger,”  he says, in­
dicating a wavy line  on  the  map,  “You 
see dat  crookety mark?  Dat  de  bayou, 
runs right troo my lan;  dars de  house— 
dat ar cross mark;  dars  de  tater  patch; 
dars whar Lindy done  buried,  under dat 
big  cottonwood 
tree  what  de  litenin 
strike las fall.  All dat’s my lan.  1 done 
paid de lawyers in  dis  town forty seben 
dollars and six  bits, sides  de  costs, and 
den dey all done lef me’doubt gittin  my 
lan.  But  de  new jedge he say he gwine 
try dat case fust ting in  de mornin’, and 
I  get  my  lan  den  sho.  Heah  dat,  do 
you?”  Then  as  Black  Sam  opens  his 
eyes wider at the  magnitude  of  the fee, 
and  feels  a  much  enlarged  admiration 
for his opulent  friend, old  Cato pursues 
his monologue:  “You see dis  here book 
(the  oracle  in  red);  here’s  what  it  sez 
ebery man boun to  had  he  lan  what de 
map and title papers  calls  for,  dars  de 
berry  place.”  And  both  their  woolly 
heads  are  bent  in  rapt  attention  over 
the potent passage that neither can read. 
Yet each of these  ebon  frauds  makes  a 
bold show of imposing  on  the ignorance 
and credulity of  the other,  and  each  in 
secret respects  the  other more for being 
able  to  speak  out  and  understand  the 
hidden learning of the law.

Mumbling his satisfaction, Cato leaves 
the  fence  and 
Black  Sam  sitting  on 
trudges on down the  road  to see the one

lone tenant on his  place.  This has been 
his monthly task for  twenty  years, call­
ing on Crippled  Joe, the  fisherman,  who 
lived in the  cabin  Cato  had  built.  At 
each  visit  the  ejected  landlord  would 
stop him at his fishing and warn him not 
to pay any more  rent  to  Mr.  Goldstein. 
Joe holds his pole at  an angle  of  atten­
tion while Uncie Cato says:  “Here I  is, 
aworkin’ for my livin’, asawin’ wood and 
runnin’ errands,  and  you  is  a livin’ on 
niy  place  and  won’t  pay  me  no  rent. 
Nebber min’, I done kept count, and you 
got to pay all dat  rent  to-morrer when I 
gets my lan’, sho.”  Then  as  he turns to 
go,  “An’, min’ you, old  nigger,  you  got 
to pay intrust,  too,  min’ you,  intrust.” 
Crippled Joe  nods  a  good-humored  as­
sent, lands an  eel, and  goes  on  fishing, 
while Cato disappears in the bushes.

When  the  earliest  returning  loafer 
walked up stairs into the court-room next 
morning there he found  Old  Cato, thor­
oughly alive to his importance as a land­
lord, “trying a case jes like white folks.” 
Here, all  alone in that deserted  hall,  be 
awaited the  coming  of  his  judges.  By 
the time Judge Hardy came the room was 
filled  with  a  laughing  audience,  eager 
for the fun of the trying of  Crazy  Cato’s 
case to commence.  When Lawyer Morton 
seated  himself  beside  his  client  Cato 
could scarcely conceal his gratification at 
the goodly pile of  law books  he  spread 
out  on  the  table  before  him.  The  old 
darky’s meagre library,  “Every Man  His 
Own Lawyer,” looked  somewhat  incom­
plete even to its  owner’s  prejudiced eye 
beside  the  dazzling  array  that the man 
of learning had brought.

The judge ascended the bench, the jury 
took their places in  the  box, the  sheriff 
called the  witnesses—the  trial  was  be­
gun.

The plaintiff  as  a  witness  was  not a 
success.  All  he could tell  was  “dat  De 
sheriff gin me some  papers  bout dat lan 
in 1869;  den 1 move on  de place,  me an 
Lindy—Lindy she dead  now.  Mr. Gold­
stein he came along  and made we all get 
off, and we move  across de bayou on  ole 
marster’s  lan’.”  Even  the  cherished 
map was a  failure,  and  where  be  got it 
from no one on earth knows.

Nor were the  deeds any more satisfac­
tory.  Their owner could explain neither, 
but  only said he  was “sho’ 1 live on dat 
land’  bout  fo’ years.”  That was  all his 
evidence.

Cato paid  due attention to the reading 
of  the  long chain of conveyances  under 
which  Mr.  Goldstein  claimed  the prop­
erty,  understood  not  a  single  word, 
looked wise and shook  his head.

Then came  a brief  speech  by each  of 
the lawyers,  and  the  jury retired to find 
a verdict.

It  was not  long  before  these  twelve 
good  men and true filed into court again, 
and,  with  a  knowing  wink  at  the by­
standers,  handed  their  verdict  to  the 
clerk:  “We, the jury, find for the plain­
tiff, Uncle  Cato,  and  direct  that  he  be 
put in immediate possession of the land.”
To them, and to the  audience, it was a 
huge  joke,  but  to  the  old  negro  life, 
death  and  sanity  were  all  centered  in 
those careless words.

Neither Uncle Cato  nor the  judge un­
derstood the low murmur which gathered 
strength in  the  distant  corners, until  it 
burst  in a  very roar of  merriment from 
all parts of the room.

The  sheriff  restored  order  and  the 
plaintiff  turned  with  triumphant  air 
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

The astonished judge stopped  him and 
announced  that  he  would  set  that ver­
dict aside and enter judgment for the de­
fendant, Goldstein.  “What’s dat, Marse 
Morton?”  he  asked  anxiously. 
“The 
judge  says  the  verdict  was  wrong and 
you  must  not  have  the  land.”  “Oh, 
Marse Morton, he  ain’t a-gwine to do me 
dat  way,  is  he?”  “Yes,  Cato,  I  am 
afraid  he  will.  Now  you  must  let the 
land  alone,  and  I  can’t  help  you  any 
more;  the  judge  gives  it  to  Mr. Gold­
stein.”

Now,  for  the  first  time  in  all  those 
long,  weary  years,  the  faith  that  had 
known  no  doubting  wavered,  trembled 
and  fell,  and  in  that  fall  was  carried 
away the last remnant of Cato’s shattered 
reason.

Even then  there was  never a spark of 
resentment in his  great  disappointment; 
the habits of  slavery and  of poverty had 
taught  him to  suffer and  be still, to en­
dure and make no complaint.  Slowly he 
unrolled  his  priceless  map,  title deeds 
and useless  library, picked up his famil­
iar stick  and  turned  to  leave  the room. 
Involuntarily  the crowd  that  had come 
to  jeer  at  “Crazy  Cato”  parted  al­
most respectfully for him to  pass out, to 
bury his weight of sorrow in the oblivion 
of  his  humble  home  by  the  banks  of 
bayou  Pierre.

The  jesting tongue is  silent,  the  rail­
ing lip  is dumb, and  scorn  stands  with 
uncovered  head  before  him  whom  God 
had laid his chastening hand upon.  And 
so it was through a hushed and noiseless 
throng that  the  simple  negro  made his 
way, as turning his back on this tribunal 
of  human justice,  he sought with uncer­
tain step the  solitude of his lowly  cabin 
and the  companionship  of  his  own dis­
torted thoughts.

The earliest forerunners of the coming 
night  were just beginning  to steal from 
their hiding  places, like truant  children 
when the  school is  done,  as  a tottering 
and  pathetic figure moved amongst them. 
Half  hesitatingly  he  went  along  the 
lonely  streets and towards the little belt 
of  woods that  fringe the  edge of  bayou 
Pierre.  The  houses  on  each side  grew 
fewer  and  fewer, the  distances between 
them greater  and  greater,  until  the old 
man  stood alone  on the outskirts  of  the 
village  and  looked  back  upon  it,  the 
ragged specter of his departed hope.

With a few incoherent words he turned 
again and walked along the path that led 
through  a  neglected  field  where  burrs 
grew rank and the morning glory bloomed 
in flowery triumph from  the top of  each 
crumbling stalk of  last year’s corn.  But 
a few  yards  further  on  he  came  to  the 
carefully  fastened  gate,  that  seemed to 
laugh at  the  many broken  down panels 
of  faltering fence, which  offered  an un­
obstructed  entrance  to  each  passerby. 
To the  lord of  this blasted  inheritance, 
though,  the  gentle  mockery of this  was 
lost,  for  he  patiently  undid  the  ropes 
that bound  the  gate,  passed  in  and se­
cured it again with painstaking precision j 
before  he  crossed  the  threshold  of  his 
primitive abode.

And  yet  he  was  not  unwelcomed. 
Since his  first  appearance  on  the crest 
of  a  distant  hill,  a  gaunt, 
long-eared, 
yellow  hound, whose  sunken  sides  told 
of many missing meals, had stood watch­
ing  by  the  door.  Any  mere  childish 
manifestation of affection was so beneath 
the dignity of  this decrepit  pair, that it 
was  only  a  glance  and  the  slightest

twitch of bis tailless stump that bade his 
master welcome. 

J
During the  earlier  hours  of  the night 
the  watching  stars  could  see  a  softly 
swaying form, sitting in front of  the log 
hut, in one of  those  split  hickory chairs 
that  every  plantation  hand  knows  so 
well how to make.

Gently crooning to himself  the cotton­
picking  songs  of  days  gone  by,  he  lis­
tened to the tremulous cry of the screech 
owl, which,  sounding  from  a  neighbor­
ing tree,  served  only  to  emphasize  the 
death-like  hush  succeeding  it, for dark­
ness,  linked  with  silence,  had  almost 
stilled the throbbing pulse of June.

Other forms were near him, but he saw 
them not;  other  voices  sang, though his 
leaden ears unheard; other hands touched 
his, but  he knew  it  not—for  into those 
dull,  unhearing ears the voice that stilled 
the Gallilean storms had spoken,  “Peace, 
it is I.”

And  with  that  whisper,  “Peace  be 
still,” his unshackled spirit set sail upon 
that  shoreless  sea  of  mystery 
from 
whence no echo e’er returns.

The  Nazarene  had  come,  his  search 

was ended, his Advocate was found.

When day dawned, clear and  cool,  his 
neighbors  found him,  still  sitting in the 
old creaking chair, his  weary  face wear­
ing a smile of  ineffable  happiness,  as  if 
the parting soul had paused a moment in 
its flight to  plant a loving  kiss  upon its 
old companion’s lips.  His  body yet  sat 
in the  plain arm  chair, a  worn  out gar­
ment,  whose  usefulness  was  done;  the 
faithful hound  still kept  patient  watch 
o’er the fallen maps.  But the freed soul 
of  Cato  Green had  appealed  his  case to 
that  higher  court,  where  there  are  no 
technical rules, no  delays  of  justice and 
no perjured  witnesses,  and  now, before 
the  bar  of  God,  his  humble  faith  had 
won for  him his  heritage in that Eternal 
City that knows no end.

Ha r r is  D ickson.

T he  T rials  o f  a   C om m ercial  T raveler.
“Mine is a business which  calls for an 
unlimited  amount of  imagination,” said 
Burg Zeis, a Harvard graduate,  who rep­
resents  a  large  Boston  silk  and  under­
clothing  house.  “As 
soon  as  April 
makes its  appearance  I start  out on the 
road with my grips  full of  heavy winter 
clothing,  and this 1  sell  all through the 
dog days.  Mopping the  perspiration off 
my classic brow, 1 hold up to the gaze of 
my customers extra  heavy garments and 
point  out  how  perfectly  they  will  pro­
tect  his  customers  from 
the  severe 
weather of the coming winter, for which 
we  all  long  just  then  as a  measure of 
relief from the semi-sunstroke and actual 
melting  away.  The  heat  keeps  pace 
with  my eloquence  as to the  dangers of 
cold, and when  September  arrives  with 
the first  indication  that  the  sun has be­
gun to get  the  worst of  it  In its  annual 
prize  fight  with every living thing,  I  go 
out again with the lightest of fabrics and 
the gauziest of  underwear.  These I sell 
all winter,  and  as I  knock  the  snow off 
my  shoes  and  shake  more  of  it  off my 
overcoat, I dilate on the comfort of wear­
ing  net  underclothing  and  stockings 
through which the mildest of breezes can 
penetrate.  A  traveling  man’s  lot  is  a 
mixture of  the  sublime  and  the  ridicu­
lous, and I  certainly get full measure of 
the  latter.  The  only  thing  I  regret 
about is  that  I  can’t  reconcile  my duty 
to my principles with  the divine  maxim 
about  not  taking  thought  for  the  mor­
row.”

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Other  Chemicals

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l   are  used  in   the 
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Breakfast  Cocoa,

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and soluble.

A  d e s c r ip t io n   o f  t h e   c h o c o la t e  
p la n t ,  a n d   o f   t h e   v a r io u s   c o c o a  
a n d  c h o c o la t e  p r e p a r a t io n s  m a n  
u f a c t u r e d   b y  W a lte r  B a k e r   & C o , 
w ill  b e  s e n t f r e e  t o  a n y   d e a le r  o r 
a p p lic a t io n .

ft. BAKER & CO.,  Dorchester.  Mass.

H ow  to  C ure th e  P oison in g b y  Ivy.
When  you  go  into  the  country  this 
summer  don’t  “monkey”  wi^i  all  the 
pretty  plants  you  may  find  along  the 
wayside.  Especially  avoid  a  twining, 
beautiful,  three-leaved  plant  you  may 
find  growing  around the  base  of  trees, 
stone walls,  and old  fences.  An attrac­
tive plant, just the kind of  glossy glitter 
to its bright green leaves as impels one to 
“just  take a little of  it home”  with you. 
Don’t do  it, unless  you are one of  those 
few  that  may  with  impunity  handle 
Rhus tox.  That’s the  botanical name of 
the plant, that,  familiarly known as poi­
son ivy, has  caused so  much suffering to 
many.

The writer  has suffered,  and  on many 
occasions  has  struggled  for  its  cure by 
means  of  neighborly  suggestions,  by 
doctor’s efforts, potions,  lotions, harrow­
ing  days  of  dread  and  itch.  Does  it 
itch?  Yes;  you’ll  know  when  you’ve 
fooled with Rhus tox.  by a  strange itch. 
It’s different from  any  other itch.  You 
scratch  it, and  it  seems  as  though you 
had conquered  the  irritation;  it  fooled 
you.  You  look  for  a  cause,  and  find 
none.  The  skin is  normal, no  blemish 
shows,  but  it  itches  again.  When  you 
are  warm  and  comfortably asleep,  you  - 
will  be  awakened  up  scratching  that 
same spot.  You  “could dig it  out with 
your  nails.”  You  can’t  do  it.  That’s 
Rhus tox. poisoning.
Soon  a  small,  insignificant  swelling 
lumps  up where  the  itch is;  then  it be­
gins to look watery underneath the skin, 
but it  itches none  the  less, rather more. 
You scratch through the  skin, the water 
underneath  is  released,  and  the  nails 
and  fingers  carry the  watery  poison  to 
fresh  spots;  possibly  to  the  face,  the 
ears,  the body.  The same  tedious  itch­
ing,  scratching  is  multiplied.  You are 
now  a  case  for  sympathy.  Without 
means  of cure,  your existence is  a real­
I  propose,  now  that  you 
ized  sheol. 
understand the cause and  the symptoms, 
to tell you of  the  cure. 
It is  simple, it 
is effective.  Procure  from  the  drug  or 
other stores  where they are  sold a small 
bottle of little sugar pills, labeled  “Rhus 
tox.”  A “hair of  the dog  that bit  yon” 
will  cure  you.  Take  six  of  the  little 
pills  at  one  dose,  four  doses  the  first 
day—morning,  noon,  evening,  and bed 
time.  The  next day the  itching will  be 
mollified  a  degree.  The  second  and 
third  day take  three  doses of  six  pills 
each dose.  You will, by  this time, be so 
free from  irritation  that  you  may care­
lessly take a few pills  until nature heals 
up the  sores.  So  soon  as  the  healing 
begins, be very chary of  taking many of 
the pills, as  they  will,  in  excess of  re­
quirement,  produce 
intolerable, 
though harmless, itching  over the whole 
body.
The  writer,  poisoned  on  an  average 
four  to six times  a year,  finds  this rem­
edy a  permanent  check on  the  first ap­
pearance of poisoning symptoms.

an 

V a lu a b le  A d vice.

Every one should  know  by  this  time 
that it is dangerous to ask a doctor’s or a 
lawyer’s advice, even  in the most casual 
and public manner,  unless  one  expects 
to pay him for it.  There  is  a  well  au­
thenticated story of a man in  New York 
who chanced to remark  to  a  celebrated 
physican once:
“Doctor, have you any  sure  means of 
preventing seasickness?”
“Certainly,” said the doctor.
“What is it?”
“Stay  on  shore,”  said the physican, 
and sent the man his bill.
Another gentleman, who was a valetu­
dinarian, met  a  doctor  of  his  acquain­
tance on the street one day.
“Doctor,”  said  he,  “I’m  glad  I  met 
you.  Do you  know,  I’m  so  weak  that 
the least bit of walking  on  these  pave­
ments  tires  me  all  out.  What do you 
think I’d better take?”
“A horse-car, I guess,”  said  the  doc­
tor, crustily.  And he, too,  sent in a lit­
tle memorandum of the  amount  due  for 
this wise prescription.

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tria l w ill s u p p o rt  tin s  c la im . 

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wayne county savins Bank. Detroii. men.
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Issued by c ities,  co u n ties,  to w n s  a n d   school d istric ts 
o f M ichigan.  Officers  o f  th e se   m u n ic ip a litie s  a b o u t 
to  issue b onds w ill find  it   to  th e ir  a d v a n ta g e  to  a p p ly  
to  th is  b a n k .  B la n k  b o nds a n d  b la n k s fo r pro ceed in g s 
su p p lie d   w ith o u t  ch arg e-  A ll  co m m u n ica tio n s  a n d  
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1 Der cen t, on dep o sits, com pounded sem i-an n u ally .

8. D. EL'WOOD,  T re a su re r.

F.  H.  WHITE, 

Manufacturers’ agent and jobber of

PAPER  AND  VOODENWARE,

125 Court St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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AMONO THE TRADE.

ABOUND THE  STATE.

Hart—W. H.  Fuller  succeeds Fuller & 

Fuller in the meat business.

Cold water—F.  P. A1 wine has  sold  his 

grocery business to Cora  Mixall.

Sturgis—J. D.  Prideaux  has  sold  his 

grocery stock to C.  L.  Thompson.

Ridgeway—Chas.  Culbertson  will  re­
tire from the stationery  business July 1.
Hillsdale—Barrows  &  Howe  succeed 
Barrows & Thompson in the grocery bus­
iness.

Hillsdale—Barrows &  Howes  succeed 
Barrows & Thompson in the grocery bus­
iness.

Hancock—S.  Juntilla  &  Co.  succeed 
Juntilla & Wayrynen in the grocory bus­
iness.

Detroit—Kinsley & Reed have removed 
their boot and shoe stock from Alpena to 
this place.

Ishpeming—Covio & Bourboniere, meat 
dealers,  have dissolved, Jos.  Covio  con­
tinuing the business.

Saginaw—Jackson & Church  will suc­
ceed J.  L. Jackson July 3 in the foundry 
and machine business.

Northville—Carpenter  & 

Johnson 
succeed  Geo.  K.  Waterman  &  Co.  in 
the hardware business.

Escanaba—P eter  Jordan,  dealer 

general  trade  and  cedar 
m oved  from  B ig R iver to th is place.

in 
ties,  has  re­

Moline—A.  Allen,  of  Wayland,  has 
purchased the  meat  market of  A.  Mod- 
ruff  and  embarked in  the meat business 
here.

Miller—G. Y. Snyder has  sold his gen­
eral stock to  Wallace  Taylor,  who  will 
continue the  business at  the  same loca­
tion.

Holloway—H.  H. Osgood  has sold his 
general stock to Ruthfuss & Brown, who 
will  continue the  business  at  the same 
location.

Traverse  City—L.  E.  Swan  has  sold 
his grocery and meat business to Geo.  H. 
Raiuouard, formerly  engaged in  general 
trade at Bridgeton.

South Arm—J. R. Yance  has removed 
his  general  stock  from  Afton  to  this 
place, occupying  the new store building 
he  erected for that purpose.

Nashville—Truman  &  Banks, general 
dealers,  have 
the  Aylesworth 
building and  will  occupy it  about Aug.
1  with  a line of  clothing and men’s fur­
nishing goods.

leased 

Cadillac—C.  B. LaBar has retired from 
the firm of LaBar &  Cornwell, thus  sev­
ering  a  partnership  which  has  existed 
twenty-four  years.  The  flouring  mill 
and merchandising business will be  con­
tinued  by  Jacob.  Monroe  J.,  Willis  J. 
and  Frank  E.  Cornwell  under  the  firm 
name of  J.  Cornwell & Sons.

Alpena—The  extension  of  the  Alger 
road north  into  Presque  Isle  county  is 
being  pushed,  about  eight  miles  being 
already graded.  The  company  is  short 
of  men,  although  offering  §36 a  month 
and board.  Labor  has  seldom  been  in I 
better demand  in this  section of  Michi­
gan for mill and  woods work, and  wages 
are good.  One  feature,  too, of  interest 
to labor,  is that the  man  who works for 
a lumber firm is not only sure of his pay, 
but the board furnished is first class.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Reed City—Wenzel Bros, have just fin­
ished  entensive  improvements  to  their 
shingle mill, including a self-feeder, new I 
trams, and new shingle  sheds.

TECK  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Saginaw—Rust Bros.  &  Co. have sold 
the entire cut  of  their  sawmill  for  the 
I season, about 16,000,000 feet.  The price 
is not known,  but  it  is  fully up  to  the 
market.

W eek ly   R eport  from   S ecreta ry   M ills.
Gr a n d  Ra p id s,  June  26—Certificates 
of  membership have  been  issued to the 
following  new  members  for  the  week 
ending June 34:

West  Bay City—The contracts  for the 
Ross, Bradley & Co.  buildings have been 
let,  and  the  work  of  construction  will 
now proceed without  interruption.  The 
firm has some large contracts  and  hopes 
to have  the  new plant in  full operation 
in ninety days.

Bay City—Bousefield  &  Co.  have  had 
100 cars  constructed for  carrying staves 
and headings which is run  into their dry 
kiln.  The  firm  is  doing  a  very  large 
business  and  hard  times  seem  to  have 
passed them by without  the formality of 
an introduction.

Au Sable—The  H.  M.  Loud  &  Sou’s 
Lumber Co.,  which  purchased the Potts 
mill  and  railroad,  shut  down  the  mill 
last  week,  and  it  may  remain  idle  the 
rest of  the  season.  The  Loud  mill  is 
running full  force.  This  company  has 
over  1,000 men  in  its  employ, of  which 
300 are on the railroad.

Alpena—During  May there was manu­
factured  at  the  factory  of  George  N. 
Fletcher & Sons 844,999 pounds of  paper 
pulp,  and  the  amount  shipped  during 
the  same  time  was  438,956  pounds. 
There  is an  unlimited supply of  timber 
suitable for manufacture into paper pulp 
in this section of the State.

Saginaw;—Col.  A. T.  Bliss  broke  two 
camps  near  Coleman  last  week  until 
cooler weather, as  he  is receiving Cana­
da  logs  and  has  a  sufficient  quantity 
coming  in  by  rail  to  keep the mills  in 
which he is concerned  going.  His plan­
ing  mill  at  Carrollton  is  also  running 
full force.  He says the logs which came 
from Canada are opening  nicely and are 
as good as Michigan stock that  he sold a 
few weeks ago at $31 log run.

Bay City—The work of  erecting a new 
shingle  mill on  the  site of  J.  R.  Hall’s 
mill which  was burned  several  months 
ago,  is being pushed.  The building will 
be 100  feet  long, 36 feet  wide and three 
stories  high.  The  machinery  will con­
sists  of  three  new  band  saws  of  Mr. 
Hall’s invention,  drag  saw,  sapper, etc. 
The mill  will have a capacity of  135,000 
shingles a  day.  The  boiler  house  will 
be 32x73 feet  with  a fourteen-foot  alley 
between it  and the  main  mill building. 
It is  expected the  mill  will be  ready to 
begin cutting shingles in about fifty days.
Saginaw—E.  Germain  has  begun  the 
rebuilding of  his plant, a  great  portion 
of which was destroyed by the conflagra­
tion  in  this  city  on  May  20.  A most 
gratifying fact is  that  Mr. Germain will 
rebuild  on a much  more  extensive scale 
than  before,  with  many  decided  im­
provements.  A  number of  comfortable 
homes for  the  heads of  the various  de­
partments  and  other  employes will also 
be  erected.  The  plant  covers  thirty- 
eight acres.  He  has  already started op­
erations in  his ripping mill, the  planers 
and  machinery  being  in  position.  He 
expects to  have the  new planing mill in 
operation  in thirty  days and  the  entire 
plant in motion in 90 days.

M arried  M en  Preferred.

Grocer (to young man who has applied 
for a position):  Are you a married man?
Applicant:  No,  sir.  I  am  not  mar­
ried.
Grocer:  Then  you  will  not  do.  1 
prefer  to  employ  married  men.  They 
are  not  in  such  an  all-fired  hurry  to 
knock  off  work  in  the evenings.  They 
have got through courting.

3236  F. A. Scutt, West Bay City.
3237  Wm. G. Tapert,  Bay City.
3238  Fred L. Drury, Cold water.
3339  W. E.  Larkin, Bay City.
3240  Henry D. Boroff, Dayton, Ohio.
3241  Edwin D.  Shader, Caro.
3242  Rich H. Sheldon, Port  Huron.
3243  Morris E.  Lynde, Defiance, Ohio.
3244  Morris R. Fuller, Toledo.
3245  Wm.  H.  Marvin, Utica,  N.  Y.
3246  M. C.  Kelly, Flint.
3247  Chas. H. Laflamboy, McBride’s.
3248  R.  A. Heim burger, Detroit.
3249  Fred G. Hubbard, Detroit.
3250  Jas.  A. Fisher, Marlette.
3251  Grant S. Rutherford, Alpena.
3252  Frank L.  Roberts, Manton.
3253  F.  W.  Metzger, Granger.
3254  H. G. Obenauer, Bay City.
3255  A. L. Field, Lansing.
3256  Wm. J. Hubbard, Detroit.
3257  Sanford J. Lander, Jonesville.
3258  John R.  Buehler, Detroit.
3259  Charles D.  Hays,  Milwaukee.
3260  W.  H. Keefer, Chicago.
3261  Oliver M.  Hill,  Lansing.
3262  Geo. C. Bunnell, Grand Rapids.
Assessments Nos. 4 and 5 for 1893 have
been mailed  to every member, and a cir­
cular  letter  from  President  Jones  has 
been  enclosed,  to which 1  desire to call 
your special attention.
Members will please bear  in mind that 
all applications for membership  must be 
accepted  by  the  President,  Chairman 
Board of Directors  and  Secretary before 
the certificate  of  membership can  be is­
sued,  necessitating a  delay  of from ten 
to fifteen days.

Very truly  yours,

L. M.  Mills, Sec’y.

The  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar—The  London  market  on  raw 
sugars  has  declined  %c,  owing  to  the 
anxiety of speculators to realize ou their 
holdings.  Refined sugars are unchanged 
and firm,  with  indications  of  a general 
marking  up  to  come  when  the demand 
warrants. 
It is evident that dealers gen­
erally are determined to reduce stocks to 
actual  requirements  aud  the  invisible 
supply  is  becoming  rapidly  reduced. 
There has  been a  marked  improvement 
in  the demands  during  the  past  week, 
and there are  indications of a  large con­
sumption and consequently large demand 
during the  balance  of  the season.  The 
financial  situation  insures  a  steady dis­
tribution,  as  the  continued  scarcity  of 
money prohibits  anything  bordering  on 
speculation.

Oranges—The price  is slowly  moving 
upward, caused both  by scarcity and the 
poor keeping quality of the fruit.

Lemons—What  is  true  of  oranges  is 
true also of  lemons,  although  not to the 
same extent.  They are  harder  and will 
bear more.  The tendency of  the market 
is upward.

Bananas—Are the most  unsatisfactory 
fruit on  the  market.  The  price  is un­
settled and the  teudency  appears  to  be 
upward.

T hey  T ear  T heir  M oney.

is 

a  great  deal  of 

A  very  primitive  way  of  making 
change  is  customary  in  Bolivia,  where 
paper 
there 
money  of  small denominations  is in  cir­
culation.  When  anybody  is  short  of 
change  he  just  tears  a  bill  in  two, or 
four, as the case may be, and  makes  his 
payment with tile fragments.  The banks 
have been in the habit of receiving these 
pieces  of  money  at  their  fragmentary 
value, and  a  great  deal  of  trouble  has 
been occasioned  by it.  The Government 
has been taking steps to  stop this mutil­
ation of  the  currency, and  has  issued a 
notice  to  the  banks  and  to  the  public 
that all such  fragments of  curreucy will 
i be  redeemed  up  to  June  30,  and  that 
! after that  date they will  no  longer be a 
I legal tender.

From  O ut o f T ow n.

Calls  have  been 

received  at  T h e 
T r a de sm an office during the  past  week 
from  the  following  gentlemen  in  trade:

F.  W. Pollock, Sand Lake.
Wm.  A.  Lovelace, Lilley.
O.  P. DeWitt, St. Johns.
G.  Hirschberg, Bailey.
A. S.  Frey,  Lakeview.
Spring & Company, Cedar Springs.

K ep t  in  P ractice.

According to the Shoe and Leather Re­
porter, a convict  in  a  certain  peniten­
tiary,  whose  crime  was  dishonesty,  is 
compelled to spend  his  days cutting out 
pieces of pasteboard to  be  put  between 
the outer and inner soles of shoes, which 
will  be sold as made of solid leather.

FOR  SA L E ,  W A N TED ,  ETC.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

713

Yt7*ANTED—A GOOD PHYSICIAN AND SUR- 
i i  
geon to locate at  Manistee,  Mich.  Good 
opening.  Enquire  of  J.  Hanselman,  Manis­
744
tee. 
TOR  SALE—SECOND  HAND  STORE  ELE 
vator, cheap,  or  will  exchange  for  horse, 
carriage or anything I  can  use.  W.  F.  Taylor, 
Mt. Pleasant. 
m o   EXCHANGE—SIX  HUNDRED  ACRES 
A 
first-class fanning land, fn e   and  clear  of 
incumbrance,  forty miles  north  of  Grand  Rap­
ids, tu exchange for a stock of general merchan­
dise.  Address  for  particulars C. E. Herrington, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.____________________ 742
F or  »a l e—d r u g   st o r e,  sm a ll  st o c k .
Doing  nice  paying  business.  Present 
owner has other business.  Address, “Antidote,” 
739
care of Michigan Tradesman. 
F or  s a l e—w ell  e s t a b l is h e d   gro

eery  business  In  one  of  the  most  rapidly 
growing sections of Grand  Rapids  For  partic­
ulars  address  No.  740,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
■1*7ANTED—A  DRUG  STOCK  uF  ABOUT 
Tv 
$2,000 in a good, thrifty,  pleasant  village 
of 1,0;4)  to  2,' 00  inhabitants,*  and  doing a good 
business.  Address  M.  C„  care  of  Hazeltine & 
Perkins Drug Co.. Grand Rapids. 

but a few months, aud  practically as  good 
as new.  Send  for  sample  of  writing.  Trades­
man Company. Grand  Rapids. 

I ¡TOR  SALE-YoST  TYPEWRITER,  USED 
I  ¡TOR  >ALE—STOCK  OF  MEN’S,  WOMEN S 

aud children's shoes at  a discount for spot 
cash  No exchange of  property wanted.  Stock 
all purchased new since April  1.1892, of eastern 
factories, ai d  no  jobbing  house  lots.  Will  in­
voice $1.  01 or $1,300.  Good reasons  for  selling. 
Address E. M. Fletcher,  Le'-lie, Mich. 

740

736

737

741

738

store buildiug in good  railroad  and  maun 
facturing  town.  Address  P.  O.  Box  No.  93, 
Thompsonville, Mich. 

I  TOR  SALE-SMALL  BAZAAR STOcK, ALSP 
I ¡TOR  SALE—IN  A  DESIRABLE  LOCALITY 

!  of the beautiful city  of  Kalamazoo,  a  gro­
cery  and  meat  business,  situated  on  a  corner. 
Brick veneered  building  and  dwelling, 4x8 lot, 
small cottage of seven rooms  on  rear  end;  also 
barn,  carriage  house,  smoke-bouse  and 
ice­
house  All  new,  and  in  first-class  condition, 
doing a  good  and  prosperous  business.  Stock 
all new and  fresh.  Store  and  market  fixtures 
all new and first class  Only reason  for  selling 
is the  proprietor’s  failing  eyesight  For  infor­
mation inquire of Chas. Snarron, corner Parsons 
and Edwards streets, Kalamazoo,  Mich. 

For  s a l e —o n e  o f  t h e   f in e s t   a n d  

734
best selected drug stocks in northern Mich 
town; brick building; steam heat and ail modern 
improvements.  Rent  moderate;  terms  reason­
able  Address J. W.  Balcom, Tawas  City,  Mich­
igan 
TjTOR RENT—THE  NEWLY  FITTED  STORE 
X?  at 88 Canal street.  Suitable for a hardware, 
stationery or clothing store.  First-class location 
in center of business part near court bouse, next 
door  to  best  paying  drug  store  in  the  city. 
Twenty-four feet  front  and  ltO* feet deep, high 
ceiling,  etc.  For  terms  apply to  239  Jefferson 
avenue, Grand  Rapids. 

igan, excellently  located  for  business;  in  live 

73o

731

FOR SALE  OR  RENT—STORE  BUILDING 

at  Sparta.  Tip-top  place  for  hardware. 
Address No. 726, care Michigan Tradesman.  726 
OR  SALE —TWO-STORY  FRAME  STORE 
building and dwelling at Levering,a thriving 
Northern Michigan town.  Property well rented. 
Will  sell  cheap or  exchange  for  city  property. 
A.  M. I.eBaron, 65 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. 702
cash;  also store  building and  lot, including 
two dwelling  houses, on time.  Address No. 691, 
care Michigan  Tradesman._____________ 691

I  TOR  SALE-STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  FOR 
E l e g a n t  o f f e r —it ’s  n o  t r o u b l e  to

find drug  stocks for sale  but you  generally 
“find a nigger in the  fence.”  I have an elegant 
drug business for sale; stock about $4,000; bright, 
clean  and  oldest  established  trade.  Prominent 
location;  brick building;  stone walk; rent mod­
erate;  city  30,000;  reasons  for  selling  made 
known.  Sait  yourself  about  terms.  Address 
quick,  John  K.  Meyers,  Muskegon,  Mich. 
670

MISCELLANEOUS.

SPOT  CASH  FOR  WOOD—SEND FULL  PAR- 
ticulars as to price and  kind  of  wood.  Ad­
dress M. E. Lapham, 481 East Bridge  St,,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 

704

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

M.  Van Westenbrugge  has  opened  a 
grocery store  at 817 East  Fulton  street. 
The  Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company  fur­
nished the stock.

Peter  Volkers  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock  at  the  corner  of  Diamond  aud 
Grove  streets  to  John  Hudson,  who 
formerly conducted a grocery store in the 
same locality several years ago.

Montgomery &  Gauley, manufacturers 
of friction  sets, have  removed  from the 
the  building  formerly  used  as  a  steel 
wire nail  factory to  the former  location 
of the Colby wagon factory, corner South 
Fropt and West Fulton streets.

The open meeting of the Grand Rapids 
Retail  Grocers’ Association,  last Monday 
evening,  was  not  as  fully  attended  as 
was  expected, owing  to  the  oppressive 
heat,  which  prevented  many  from  at­
tending.  The  programme  was  carried 
out substantially as published,  including 
brief  addresses  by  President  Elliott, 
Frank Jewell and Daniel Abbott.

Judge Haggerty informs T he  T r a d e s­
m an that  the assertion  of James  E. Me 
Bride  to  the  effect  that  he  had  talked 
with  the  attorney  and  that  the  attor 
ney  knew  his  opinion  on  the  peddling 
cases  now  pending  in  Police  Court,  is 
false.  All he had said  had been  said in 
open court,  and was  a  matter of  record 
which all might  read.  While  he  might 
have  his own  opinion,  yet  his  opinion 
would have nothing  to  do with  the ver­
dict,  which  would  be  according  to  the 
law and the  evidence.  Even  if  he  had 
talked the matter over with  McBride, as 
that  gentleman  alleged,  it  would  be  a 
most  flagrant  breach  of  confidence  for 
him (McBride) to  repeat what  had been 
said.

Bellevue,  a  beautiful  suburb  of Pitts­
burg.  Mr. Kerns has achieved  the  suc­
cess he has acquired on the  road  largely 
through  geniality  and genuine good na­
ture.  He  belongs  to  no  secret  order 
whatever,  having but one hobby—fishing 
—and scorns to resort to the  tricks  and 
schemes sometimes taken  advantage  of 
by salesmen to augment  their sales.  He 
always a welcome visitor,  because  he 
never forgets that he is a  gentleman and 
never presses his  customers  so  strongly 
for business that they are not glad to see 
him on the next trip.

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

N e w s  from   th e   M etrop olis— In d ex  o f 

th e  M ark ets.

Special C o rrespondence.
N ew  Y ork,  June  24.—We are  up one 
day  and  down  the  next.  For  awhile 
everything  seems to  go  on swimmingly, 
then  comes  such  an  announcement  as 
that of the failure of the old coffee house 
of Henry Sheldon & Co., Thursday.  For 
forty years their  name has been synony­
mous with all that is  safe and honorable 
in business, and it seems  doubly hard on 
this  account  that  Mr.  Sheldon  should 
now see everything  swept away. 
It is a 
sad and disgraceful story told of the cause 
of the failure, precipitated by the dissipa­
tion of  one of  the  sons of Mr.  Sheldon. 
While  the  liabilities are  over  $300,000, 
the assets are far from sufficient to cover 
them, and the business, Mr. S. says, will 
not be resumed.  Where will the present 
trouble  end?  Every  business  house  is 
practicing the most rigid economies, and 
we hear of  the discharge of  many sales­
men  and  other  employes.  Slight relief 
is felt by the announcement that the Gov­
ernment will  put about $7,000,000  in cir­
culation  before  it  is really due, but will 
this check the tide of disaster altogether? 
There is an impression prevailing among 
many  of  our  people that  the  President 
will have to call Congress together before 
the time stated  in his  recent  announce­
ment, and yet—will Congreess be able to 
assuage  our  anxiety?  Such  times  are 
necessary, maybe, to teach  business men 
that  it  is  important  sometimes  to  use 
caution. 
If we always were  on the flood 
tide of  prosperity,  we  would grow reck 
less

Gripsack Brigade.

W.  K. Walker, traveling representative 
for Parke, Davis &  Co.,  of  Detroit,  was 
in town over Sunday.

Milton Kerns and  Albert  J.  Love  put 
in the day on  Black Lake  last Thursday 
and caught  sixty-eight black bass, rang­
ing in weight  from one to three pounds. 
Denizens  at  Macatawa  Park  claim that 
this is the finest catch of the  season, but 
in all probability  the actual number and 
the  real  weight  of  the  catch  will  be 
doubled  by the  time  Kern  gets  back to 
Pittsburg.

Milton  Kerns  was  born  at  Murrays- 
ville, ‘Pa., March 6,  1848,  where  he  re­
mained until 14 years of age,  when he re­
moved to Pittsburg,  where  he  took 
position as errand boy  in a cigar store at 
a  salary  of  S3  per  week.  He  subse 
quently entered the  employ  of  a  book 
store as clerk, and  at  the  end  of  two 
years was  promoted  to  the  position  of 
book-keepei,  which  he  occupied  five 
years. 
In 1871 he went on  the  road  for 
the L.  H. Smith Woodenware Co., cover 
ing the territory adjacent to Pittsburg.  In 
1884 he entered the employ  of  Dilworth 
Bros.,  cigar  manufacturers, 
traveling 
in the vicinity of Pittsburg.  He  has en 
larged his territory from year to year un 
til he now covers  fourteen  states,  visit 
ing  all  the  large  cities from Maine to 
Missouri.  Mr. Kerns was  married  Nov. 
3, 1873, to Miss Maggie Charles, of Pitts­
burg,  the  union  having  been  blessed 
with three daughters,  ranging  from 8 to 
20 years, and a  son  of  17  years.  The 
family  reside  in  a  handsome  country 
home, with roomy  grounds, located near

through 

consideration.  But 

111 fares the laud to hast’ning ills a prey.
Where wealth  accumulates  and  men decay
The  failure had  no perceptible  effect 
upon the coffee  market  which has lately 
shown  a  downward  tendency.  There 
has  been  no  great  decline,  and  why 
there  should  have  been  any  at  all  is 
rather  strange  if  we  are  to  accept the 
statistical  position  of  the  article  as 
worthy  of 
this 
doesn’t always count.
Not very much can be said of  the state 
of trade  here  just  at present,  as  every­
body is away who can  go, and the rest of 
us  are eating  only  enough  to  keep  us 
going 
the  approaching  hot 
months.  The  grocery  market  is  doing 
as well  as  any other,  and  this is  some­
thing.  The  jobbing  trade  is  fair,  and 
the  retail  business  is  holding  its  own. 
In  nothing  is there  any  great  activity, 
although some lines  of  canned goods are 
reported  as  selling  well.  Buyers  are 
waiting until later before  they  purchase 
much, and the demand  is  mostly for im­
mediate  wants.  The  hotels,  however, 
are  not  crowded  with  out-of-town  re­
tailers.
The sugar market is steady  for refined 
grades, the demand, however, being only 
moderate.
The  demand  for  attractive  grades  of 
butter is  active,  and for  State creamery 
20@21c is  paid.  Western extras, 20 }4@ 
21c; Western  imitation  creamery, 16}.¿c; 
Western factory, firsts, 15@15}£c.
Cheese  is  in  light  demand;  receipts 
are large and  State  factory, full  cream, 
choice, is  quotable  at  9@9}4'c; fine, 8% 
@9c.
Pork remains  firm  and with a  fair in­
quiry prices  are  likely to  be  sustained, 
as the supply of  hogs is not  over abund­
ant.  Short clear,  $20.50@21.50;  family, 
$20.75@21.50; mess, $19.50@20.
Molasses, New Orleans, good  to prime, 
30@34c; fancy, 37@38c.

In canned goods, that old stand-by, the 
tomato, is selling for $1.30, when any can 
be found.  Probably there  has  been no 
time since  the canning  industry became 
general that the market has been so bare 
of tomatoes  as at present.  The canning 
pack  is  held  firmly  and  becomes  more 
interesting daily, as reports of a probable 
short  crop  reach  us.  This  is  true  of 
nothing  else in the  list and  the packers 
of  poor  quality  fruits  will  be  left this 
year.  Supplies  are  ample  and  higher 
prices  cannot  be expected.  No. 3 BaltL 
more  peaches  are  selling  at  $1.40,  to 
which  figure  they  have  declined  from 
$1.85 about  two  months  ago.  Corn, N. 
Y. State, is worth $1, which  is about the 
average  figure for  the  past six  months 
Peas,  Murray’s  standard,  90c@$1.15. 
Salmon,  Columbia River, tall  tins,  $1.40 
@1.55;  Alaska, $1.15@1.17}£.
Dried fruits will be abundant this fall, 
and, undoubtedly, prices will  rule  very 
low.  Crops are said to  be  bounteous  in 
almost every country of  the  world,  and 
raisins, prunes  and  currants  are  very 
low, and new crop  California raisins are 
aid to be offered at  5%c  for  sacks f. o. 
j.  Five carloads  of  raisins  have  been 
sent from here  to  Chicago  during  the 
past week.  California  prunes are worth 
from 9@llc as to size.
Lemons have slightly reacted  and  are 
not as high as a  week  ago,  selling from 
$3 for common to $5@$6 for large choice. 
Oranges range $2.75@$3.25.
Potatoes  are  selling  well,  but  are 
lower, 
fancy  Southern  rose  bringing 
$2.25@$2.75 per bbl.
Eggs  are  sellin g   at  excellen t  prices, 
som e  M ichigan  m arks  bringing  readily 
16  cents.  Other W estern,  15@ 15K  cents.
This  country  will  undoubtedly  be  a 
large  exporter  of  hay  this  fall.  Your 
correspondent  has  just  been  shown a 
private  letter 
from  a  large  produce 
broker  in  Liverpool,  stating  that  the 
three months’ drought was already mak­
ing itself felt in  the  export demand for 
hay, and other  reports  tell  us  that  in 
some  parts  of  England  it  is selling as 
high as $40 per  ton.  This  item  is  not, 
perhaps, strictly in the  grocery line, but 
everybody is interested in having our ag 
ricultural  exports  large  and profitable 
The European farmer has  a hard  row to 
hoe, and this year he is  particularly un 
fortunate.
Grocers’ day at Chicago  is bound to be 
a  great  success,  and  many  excursions 
are being made  up  to give the  “boys’’ r 
chance to see the  sights  of  the  White 
Windy city. 
It is said to be exceedingly 
difficult  to  get  good  clerks  or  servant 
girls here now, as  they  have all gone to 
Chicago.
Much interest is felt  in  the  develop 
ment of the new  American line of steam 
ers.  The new  docks  are  being  built 
several  $2,000,000  steamers  have  been 
contracted for, and, altogether, the pros 
pects are good for a revival  of the carry 
ing of American goods abroad  in Ameri 
can ships. 

J a y .

T he  W ool  M arket.

it 

in 

of 

needs 

stagnation 

from  utter 

“free  wool” 

Very little wool is being either bought 
or  sold,  and  all  that  saves  the  mar 
ket 
the  manufact 
present 
staring 
urers.  With 
it 
the  face,  and  “tight  money 
pressing upon dealers,  the  condition  of 
the market can hardly  be  wondered  at 
Not since 1830 has the  price been as low 
as at present. 
It is now practically on 
free wool basis.  Dealers have  lost  con 
fidence in the market, and  are  not look 
ing  for  any  very  great  improvement 
The  timidity  of  buyers  has  been  in 
creased by the  failure  of  several  large 
manufacturing concerns which were sup 
posed  to  be  perfectly 
sound.  Other 
failures  are  expected,  which  will  still 
further increase the depression.

W ill  C orrect  th e   Error.

“Look here,” said an excited man  to a 
druggist;  “you  gave  me  morphine  for 
quinine this morning!”
“Is  that  so?”  replied  the  druggist. 
“Then you owe me 25 cents.”

GINSENG  ROOT.

We pay the highest price for it.  Address 

U T T I F f D D n Q   W holesale  D ruggists
i   L U J a i -D-LIUo .«  g r a n d   r a p i d s .

The  Proof of the Pudding  is  Ask­

ing  for  More.”

|SMOKERS  ONCE  SMOKERS  AL­

WAYS  OF  THE  CELEBRATED

B

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  -

  H   u r ,

The great 10c Cigar, and

¡ R e c o r d   g r e a t e r ,

The  Great  5c  Cigar.

ade on  Honor. 

Sold on  Merit

First-Class Dealers  Everywhere.

EO  DEBS  &  CO.

M A N U F A C T U R E R S ,

D E T R O I T .

Catarrh, 
Hay Fever,
Headache,
Neiralp,  Colds.  Sore  Throat.

The first  inhalations  stop  sneezing,  snuffing, 
coughing  and  headache.  This  relief  is  worth 
the  prise  of  an  Inhaler.  Continued  use  will 
complete the cure. 
Prevent« and cures  SEA  SICKNESS  on  cars 
or boat.  The cool exhllerating sensation follow - 
ing its use is a luxury to  travelers.  Convenient 
to carry in the pocket;  no liquid to drop or spill; 
lasts a year, and costs  50c  at  druggists.  Regis­
tered mail 60c, from

_____

H.  D.  CUSHMAN, M anufacturer,

Three  Rivers.  Mich.

¡^"Guaranteed  satisfactory.

REEDER  BROS.  SHOE  CO.,

W H O L E S A L E   D E A L E R S   IN

Boots  and  Shoes,

Felt Boots anil Alaska  Socks.

State Agents for

158 &  160 Fulton St., Grand  Rapids.

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Grand  Rapids  R etail  Grocers’  Association, j 
President, A.  J. Elliott;  Secretary, E. A. Stowe. 
Official  Organ— M ic h ig a n   T r a d e s m a n .

Jackson  Grocers’  Union.

President,  D. S. Fleming;  Sec’y, W.  H.  Porter. !

Grand  Haven  R etail  Grocers’  Association. 
President, John Boer; Secretary, Peter VerDuin.
M uskegon  R etail  Grocers'  Association, 
President, D. Christie;  Secretary, F.  B. Aldrich.

i 

R E V IE W   OF  A   Y E A R ’S  WORK*.
We are an  organization of  grocers, as­
sociated for financial and  social benefits; 
for  individual gain, mutual  aid, and so­
cial and friendly intercourse.
From the days of our forefathers up to 
very recent times,  people have  gone into 
trade with  the idea  that  they were able 
to  take  care of  themselves;  that  there 
was  none  but  themselves  to  be consid­
ered.  They  gave  no  thought  to  their 
brother  tradesmen,  except  to  study  in 
what way they could get the best of him, 
and  this  very  often  by methods  which 
would not be right, if we were guided by 
_ that Golden  Rule which  says,  “Whatso­
ever ye would that others should do unto 
you  do  ye  even  so  unto  them.”  This 
manner  of  conducting  business  is  fast 
giving way to  better  methods.  We find 
in  the  two  years  that  this  Union  has 
been in  existence that the feeling of  op­
position  and injustice  has  largely given 
way  to  a  much  more  friendly  spirit. 
Our members meet in harmony and give a 
helping  hand  to one  another  in  trade. 
We cannot do as well  individually as we 
can collectively.  Every branch of labor, 
trade,  mechanics  and  manufacturers, is 
organized.  The  wholesale  department 
of  the  grocery  trade  is  organized  in 
nearly every part of  our country.  They 
make  uniform  prices,  regulate 
their 
credits,  and protect the interests of  their 
members.  We need just such help in the 
retail trade and cannot do without it.
Mr.  R.  O.  Wheeler,  President of  the 
Michigan  Wholesale  Grocers’  Associa­
tion, in his last  address, said.
“The  history of  the  progress of  mer­
cantile affairs in  this  country is instruc­
tive to men of the present times and sug­
gestive  of  more  intimate  relations  be­
tween  members of  the same  occupation 
and looking to  adjustment of  difficulties 
and  solution  of  business  problems  by 
combination of  experience and the force 
of numbers.
“Competition  has  done  its  perfect 
work  in the  past,  which  is  attested by 
the  wrecks of  business  houses  all  over 
the  country.  Concentration—the  mass­
ing of large capital to overcome competi­
tion—has  been  tried  as  a  remedy,  but 
has  proved of  no benefit; nor  has it  ar­
rested the  downward course  or  effected 
an  adequate  compensation  for  capital 
and effort.  The business world has been 
obliged  to look  further for  its solution. 
The old methods  of individual effort are 
untenable in the changed conditions that 
confront the  present and  are  sure to be 
evolved  in the future.
“Preparation is now the watchword  of 
large  enterprises,  the  necessity  for  it 
being  clearly  shown  in  circumstances 
that have  arisen within  the  very  recent 
past, giving their sure monition  to every 
thinking  merchant  and  pointing clearly 
to closer relations than  have ever before 
been practicable.”
At the incipiency of  this Union a pre­
diction  was made. 
It was said that gro­
cers’ organizations in this city had never 
lived six months and that this one would 
be as  short  lived.  We  have  made  the 
prophesy a libel upon itself, for we have 
already outlived its limits by over a year 
and a  half, and  there  is  no  reason, ap­
parently, if  we  avoid  errors  similar  to 
some  that  we  have  made  in  the  past, 
profit by reason  of our  mistakes,  do our 
work  carefully  and  conscientiously  for 
our own  interests,  why  we  should  not 
continue  to  live  and  prosper  for  many 
years and  make this organization so nec­
essary to  every  member that  we  would 
consider it a great  loss to  be without its 
benefits.  At the  present time  we might 
almost  say  that we  are  just  beginning 
the work  for  which  we were organized. 
Mistakes  which  have  been  made  have 
occupied  the  time  and  attention of  the
♦Report  read  at  the  regular  meeting  of  the 

Jackson Grocers' Union, June 15,1893.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Dry Goods Price Current.

DEKINS.

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Lancaster,  staple.

Amoskeag.................12k
9oz.......13k
brown .13
Andover....................Ilk
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
B B ...  9
“ 
CC.... ‘
“ 
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7 
“ 
blue  8k
**  d a  twist  10k 
Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.19
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Amoskeag..................6k
“  Persian dress  8 
Canton  ..  8
“ 
AFC........ 10k
“ 
Teazle... 10k 
“ 
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Angola.. 10k 
“ 
Persian..  8 
Arlington staple—   6k
Arasapha  fancy__ 4k
Bates Warwick dres  7k 
staples.  6k
Centennial..............  10k
Criterion.......... —  10k
Cumberland  staple.  5k
Cumberland............ 5
Essex.......................... 4k
Elfin..........................  7k
Everett classics.......8k
Exposition.................7k
Glenarle..................    6k
Glenarven..................6k
Glenwood...................7k
Hampton.................... 6k
Johnson Chalon cl 
k  
Indigo blue 9k 
zephyrs— 16

Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue........... 12k
brown....... 12k
Haymaker blue.......  7k
brown...  7k
Jaffrey.......................Ilk
Lancaster  ................12k
Lawrence, 9 oz........ 13k
No. 220— 13
No. 250....Ilk  
No. 280....10k

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fancies ....  7
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire...............  6
Manchester..............  5k
Monogram................. 6k
Normandie.................7k
Persian.....................  8
Renfrew Dress.........7k
Rosemont...................6k
Slatersville..............  6
Somerset...................  7
Tacoma  .....................7k
Toil  duNord..........10k
Wabash...................... 7k
seersucker..  7k
Warwick.................  7
Whittenden.............   8
heather dr.  7 k  
indigo blue 9 
Wamsuttastaples...  6k
Westbrook............... 8
...............10
Wlndermeer............ 5
York............................6k

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BRAIN  BASS.

Amoskeag................16 k  ¡Valley City....................15 k
Stark........................  19k ¡Georgia.....................19k
American................. 15k I Pacific  .....................

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End... .45  ¡Barbour’s .................&6
Coats’, J. & P ..........45  Marshall’s ................. 81
Holyoke................... 22kl

No.

KNITTING  COTTON.

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

White. Colored.
38 No.  14 ....... 37
16 ........38
“ 
39
“  18 ....... 39
40
“  20 ....... 40
41
CAMBRICS.

White. Colored
42
43
44
45

Slater........................   4k
White Star..............  4k
Kid Glove................  4k
Newmarket..............  4k

Edwards.................   4k
Lockwood..................4k
Wood’s .....................  4k
Brunswick................ 4k

BED  FLANNEL.

Fireman.................. 32k
Creedmore.............. 27k
Talbot XXX............30
Nameless.................27k

T W ...........................22k
F T .............................82k
J R F , XXX............. 35
Buckeye...................82k

MIXED  FLANNEL.

Grey SR  W..............17k
Western W  .............. 18k
D R  P ........................18k
Flushing XXX.........23k
Manitoba..................23k
©10k
12k
Brown. Black.
10k
Ilk
12
20

10k
11k
12
20

Red & Blue,  plaid..40
Union R ...................22k
Windsor...................18k
6 oz Western........... 20
Union  B ..................22k
Nameless.......8  @  9k| 
.......8k@10  I 

DOMET  FLANNEL.

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Brown. Black. Slate
9k 10k
10k Ilk
Ilk 12
12k 20
DUCKS*

CANVASS  AND  FADDINS.
9k
10k
Ilk
12k

“ 
Slate.
9k 
10k 
Ilk  
12k
Severen. 8 os...........   9k
May land, 8 oz..........10k
Greenwood, 7k o s..  9k 
Greenwood, 8 os— Ilk  
Boston, 8 oz..............10k

West'Point, 8 oz— 10k 
10oz  ...12k
“ 
Raven, lOoz.............. 13k
Stark 
.............. 13k
Boston, 10 oz.............12k

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WADDINGS.

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White, dos.............   25  ¡Per bale, 40 dos.... 33 50
Colored,  dos...........20  ¡Colored  “ 
............7 50
SILESIAS.
Pawtucket................10k
Slater, Iron Cross..
9
Dandle.....................   9
R ed Cross...
Bedford.....................10k
Best.............. 10k
Valley  City..............Wk
Best  A A .......12k
K K ............................10k
L................................7k
G................................8k
Cortlcelll, dos..........85  ¡Cortlcelll  knitting,

SEWING  SILK.

per kos  ball........ 30

twist,doz..40 
50yd,dos..40  I 
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k & White..10 
|No  4 Bl’k *  White..15 
..12 
“ 8 
“ 
..20
“ 
..12  J “  10 
..25
No 2-20, M C.......... 50 
|No 4—15  F  8 k .........40
•’  3-18, S C............45 
|
COTTON  TAPE.
|No  8 White A Bl’k..20 
No  2 White A Bl’k..12 
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“  10 
.28
..26
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NEEDLES—PER  X.

A. James.................. 1  40| Steamboat................. 
to
Crowelv’s................. 1  85 Gold  Eyed............... 1 50
Marshall's................1 00| American................. 1  00
5—4. ...2 25  6—4...S 25|5—4....1  95  6-4. ..2 95

PINS.

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TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“ 

...8 101
COTTONTWINES.

“ ....2  10 

Cotton Sail Twine.. 28
Crown.......................12
Domestic..................18k
Anchor.....................16
Bristol......................13
Cherry  Valley.........15
I X L ..........................18k
Alabama.....................6 k
Alamance..... ........... 6k
Augusta........................7 k
Ar  sapha................... 6
Georgia...................... 6k
Granite....................  5k
Haw  River.............   5
Haw  J ......................  5

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

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Mount  Pleasant....  6k
Oneida......................  5
Prymont.................  5k
Randelman..............6
Riverside.................  5k
Sibley  A .................. 6k
Toledo......................

PLAID  OSNABUBG8

Chas. B. Kelsey, Pres. 

E. B. Seymour, Sec’y 

J. W. Hannen, Supt.

‘‘Chicago” Linen Hinge and

Mullins Patent Flat Opening Books. 

SPECIAL  BOOK  BINDING. 

Telephone 1243.  89 Pearl street,  Old  Houseman 

Block,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

66

T h e   K e n t / *

D irectly Opposite Union  I >  pot.

▲MBBICAN  PLAN
RATBS, 92 PER DAT
STEAM  HEAT  AND  ELECTRIC  BELLS
FREE  BAGGAGE  TRANSFER  FROM  UNION
DEPOT.

BEACH  Ì  BOOTH,  Props.

A tlas  S oap

Is Manufactured 

only  by

HENRY  PASSOLT, 

Saginaw,  Mich.

For general laundry and  family 
Only brand of first-class laundry 

washing  purposes.

soap manufactured in the 

Saginaw  Talley.

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

People's
Typewriter

Retail  price, $ 2 0  each.
Agents wanted in every town in the state.

EATON,  LYON  &  CO.

Booksellers  and  Stationers,

2 0   A   2 2   M O N R O E   ST., 
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic..................   ?
A rgyle....................   6
Atlanta A A ..............6
Atlantic A .........  ...  6*
H................. 6k
“ 
P ..............  5H
“ 
D ...............   6
“ 
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Amory......................   6k
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  5k
Blackstone O, 32__   5
Black Crow..............6
Black  Rock  ............  6 V,
Boot, AL
Capital  A .................5k
Cavanat  V ...............  5%
Chapman cheese cl.  3%
Clifton  C R ..............5*
Comet....................... 6 k
Dwight Star.............  6%
Clifton CCC............  654

Arrow Brand  5 
“  World Wide.  6
“  LL.................4*
Full Yard Wide.......6*
Georgia  A...............   6 k
Honest Width.......... 6 V4
Hartford A ..............5
Indian Head............  Sk
King A  A .................6k
IVlIlg A 
Lawrence  L L__ .  5
Madras cheese cloth 6k
Newmarket  G — ■  5k
B  ...
.  5
N ....
•  6k
DD.. •  5k
X ...
•  6k
.  5
Nolbe R ................
.  6
Our Level  Best...
Oxford  R.............
.  6
.  7
Pequot...................
.  6
Solar......................
Top of the  Heap..
.  7
Geo. Washington
A B C ........................ 8M
Glen Mills...............  7
Amazon....  ............8
Gold Medal.............   7k
Amsbnrg...................7
Art  Cambric........... 10
Green  Ticket...........8k
Great Falls...............  6k
Blackstone A A.......7k
Hope.........................   7k
Beats A ll...................4k
Boston..................... 12
Just  Out........   4k@  5
King  Phillip............7k
Cabot........................   7k
Cabot,  %...................6k
OP.......7k
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Charter  Oak............  5k
Lonsdale.............  & 8k
Conway W...............   7k
Middlesex..........   & 5
Cleveland................6k
Dwight Anchor.......8)4
Ho Name..................  7k
Oak View.......  .......6
shorts.  8
Our Own..................  5k
Edwards...................  6
Pride of the West.. .12
Empire.....................   7
Rosalind.....................7k
Farwell.......................7k
Fruit of the  Loom.  8k
Sunlight...................   4k
Fltchvllle  .............  7
Utica  Mills..............8k
Nonpareil  ..10
First Prize...............7
Vlnyard....................  8k
Fruit of the Loom X.  7H
White Horse............6
Fairmount...............   4k
Rock............. 8k
Full Value...............  6k
Cabot........................   7k| Dwight Anchor.......8k
Farwell.................... 8  I

HALT  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached.

Housewife  G.............6k
R............7
S ...........7k
T ............ 8k
U.............9k
V .............10
W.......  .10k
X...........Ilk
Y...........12k
Z............ 13k

Unbleached
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Housewife  A............5k
5k 
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...... 7k
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...  8k 9k 
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. . . I t  
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CARPET  WARP.

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Peerless, white........18  ¡Integrity  colored...20
colored__ 20  White Star................18
“  colored..20
Integrity...................18kI 
Nameless..................20
Hamilton..................  8
.................25
...................9
.................27k
...................10k
.................30
G G  Cashmere........ 20
Nameless  ................16
.  .................32k
.................35
 
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DRESS  HOODS.
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CORBET  JEANS.

COBS
Corallne.................89 50!
Schilling’s .............9 00
Davis  Waists  —   9 00 
Grand  Rapids.......4  50
Armory....................   6k
Androscoggin..........7k
Blddeford...............   6
Brunswick................. 6k
PRI]
Allen turkey  reds..  6
robes............6
pink a purple 6
b u ffs............  6
pink  checks.  6
staples  ........   6
shirtings ...  6 
American  fancy—   5k 
American Indigo...  6 
American shirtings.  Ik 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Arnold 
....  6
Arnold  Merino. . . .   6 
long cloth B . 10k 
“ 
“  C.  8k
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century cloth  7 
gold seaL— 10k
“ 
“  green seal TR 10k 
“ 
yellow seal.. 10k
“ 
serge..............Ilk
“  Turkey red.. 10k 
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Wonderful..............$4 50
Brighton....................4 75
Bortree’s ................  9 00
Abdominal............15  00
Naumkeagsatteen..  7k
Rockport.................... 6k
Conestoga.................. 7k
Walworth................  6k
rrs.
Berwick fancies —   5k
Clyde  Robes............
Charter Oak fancies  4k 
DelMarlne cashm’s.  6 
mourn’g  6 
Eddy stone  fancy...  6 
chocolat  6 
rober....  6 
sateens..  6 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6 
staple....  6 
Manchester  fancy..  6 
new era.  6 
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4k 
Repp furn .  8k
Pacific fancy...........6
robes.............6k
Portsmouth robes...  6k 
Simpson mourning..  6
greys.........6
solid black.  6 
Washington Indigo.  6k 
“  Turkey robes..  7k
“  India robes__ 7k
“  plain Tky X k   8k 
“ 
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“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red..................  6k
Martha Washington
Turkeyred k .......7k
Martha Washington
Turkeyred...........   9k
Rlverpolntrobes  ...  5k
Windsor fancy........ 6k
Indigo  blue...........10k

gold  ticket

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Ballou solid black..
colors.
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange  ..  6
Berlin solids  ..........5k
“ 
oil blue....... 6
“  green ....  6
“ 
“  Foulards 
...  5k
*•  red k ..........  7
“  X ............  9k
“ 
“  “  4 4.............10
“ 
“  3-4XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy........   6
“  madders...  6
“  XX twills..  6
Harmony.................  5
“ 
solids......... 5k
AC A ...................... 13
Amoskeag AC A. ...12k
Pemberton AAA__ 16
Hamilton N .............   7k
York........................ 10k
D .............   8k
Awning..11
Swift River.............   7k
Pearl River............ 12
Farmer......................8
Warren.................... 13k
First Prise...............10k
Lenox M ills............18
o g a ..............16
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Atlanta,  D ...............  6k|Stark  A 
............  8
Boot...........................6k  No Name.................... 7k
Clifton, K.................7 ¡Top of  Heap.................   9

COTTON  DRILL.

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THE  MICHia^]Sr  TRADESMAN.

Union  to  the  detriment  of  the  objects 
which we hoped to attain.  This state of 
affairs  is  all  right.  We  have  learned 
many  things  through  our  mistakes and 
we can  now  profit  by  reason  of  them.
I have  heard  it said that  if  it  were not 
for the carelessness, thoughtlessness and 
mistakes  that  are  made,  there  would 
be  no use  for one-half  of  the  people of 
this world.  We  are all  liable to errors; 
we must try to  make as  few as possible, 
make every step an advance, and we will 
succeed.
We have  accomplished some things al­
ready  which  are  a  benefit  to  us.  We 
have  secured  the  friendly  co-operation 
and  good  will  of  the  wholesale  trade. 
We  have  the  promise  of  the  regular 
wholesale trade  that they will  not retail 
their goods.  We  have  a  fixed  hour  for 
closing.  We had  an  excursion  and pic­
nic  which  we  will  always  remember 
with  pleasure,  and  we  have  made  a 
a pleasant feeling  throughout the  retail 
grocery trade of the city by fixing a price 
on sugar and issuing cards making a uni­
form  price for  every dealer.  This card 
rate gives great satisfaction; it furnishes 
a uniform  price to  all at the same time, 
and  is being  maintained,  with  few  ex­
ceptions, 
throughout  the  city,  and  at 
some  points  outside.  We  have  not at­
tempted to  make  a profit  on sugar,  but 
have  made a rate which  just  covers the 
cost  and  expense  of  handling.  A brief 
explanation may  be in order.  The pres­
ent price  of  sugar at  wholesale is $5.71 
per 100 pounds.  The cost of doing busi­
ness is from 10 to 15 per cent., therefore, 
to find  the cost  of  sugar,  we  must add 
this  per  cent,  to  the  wholesaler’s  price 
in order  to  find  a  selling  price.  This 
per  cent.,  added  to  the  cost  per  100 
pounds on  sugar, is  just  about our card 
rates.  If we leave the expense of  doing 
business  off  any article,  we  are  surely 
losing that much.  To go a little farther, 
in  order to do  business and  keep going, 
we have  to get some profit above  our ex­
penses, and if we do not add the expense 
of  doing  business,  and  to  that,  a  per 
cent, for gain, then we  must lose; and if 
we sell  auy article  at  just  what it costs 
then we  must double  our profit on other 
goods  to  even  up.  Sugar  is  the  most 
staple  article sold and the receipts from 
this  article  represent a  good portion  of 
the day’s  business, so if  sugar is sold at 
even a  small loss,  it  is easy  to be  seen 
that it requires close figuring to make up 
the loss on sugar  from  the sale of  other 
goods and  make a  profit for  the  grocer, 
beside.
While  upon  this  subject,  let  us  con­
sider our  interests  in regard  to the part 
that most interests every grocer—that is, 
making  money.  Manufacturers  and 
wholesale  dealers  at  the  present  time 
are getting  better prices  on  their goods 
than  ever  before.  The  retailer’s  mar­
gins, taking one  article or class of goods 
with  another,  are  smaller  than  ever. 
Can  we  not  collectively  do  something? 
Is it  not  possible  for  us  to  make fair 
prices on the goods we sell and maintain 
them?  Is there anything  gained by cut­
ting  prices?  Do  we  make  any  friends 
by it?  Do we  increase  our trade?  1 am 
young  in  the  business,  and  am  not  a 
practical  business  man, but 1  have read 
and  heard the experiences of  many who 
have grown gray in the  struggle for dol 
lars over  the  grocer’s  counter,  and  the 
lessons  that I  learn all  seem to say that 
fair,  fixed  prices,  courtesy  and  honest 
methods  are the  winners  in  the  race. 
“Competition  is  the  life  of  trade” is  a 
saying  that  originated  a  long time ago, 
and is  a true  one.  Honest  competition 
is  good  for  the dealer  and  also for  the 
customer. 
It  is  not  necessary  to  cut 
prices or injure our neighbor  to compete 
in business.  Dishonesty and  disreputa­
ble methods will not  win, for the  dealer 
who will  be dishonest  with his  brother 
tradesman will be the same with his cus­
tomers, and they  will catch  him at it in 
time.  Experience shows  me that people 
who get the  benefit of  cut prices do  not 
have  any moie  friendly feeling  for  the 
dealer on  account of  it; they only count 
it to  their good  luck and  pass on to the 
next  one  who  will  offer  a  bargain  on 
something else.
In connection with matters of trade in­
terest,  I speak  the  sentiment  of  many 
grocers when  I say that  I hope  the  day

is  not  far  distant  when  manufacturers 
can make the  standard of  their goods  of 
sufficient  merit  that  they  may dispense 
with the presents they have to give  now 
to  sell  their  goods.  The  grocer has  to 
pay  for  the  presents  and  the customer 
gets the benefits.
We believe  that if  they  would  cut off 
the presents and give the dealers the cost 
of  them as  profits,  that  we  could  and 
would  advertise  and  sell  more  of  the 
goods than  are sold  under present meth­
ods.
Iu conclusion, I wish to speak of things 
yet to be done and which  may be accom­
plished if we work together  to attain the 
object for which we are engaged in busi­
ness.  That is  to make money.  We can 
by united  effort have  the  ordinances of 
the city amended  so that no  one but the 
farmer and  gatdener  will  be  allowed to 
sell  vegetables, produce or  fruit  in the 
city without paying a fee  toward the ex­
penses of the city,  which has to  be paid, 
to a great  extent,  by  the grocer at pres­
ent.  The  dagos who  sell  fruit  and the 
hucksters  who  sell vegetables  and  pro­
duce through  the city have  no expenses 
to meet except the care  of  their  horses. 
They own no property, pay no taxes, and 
do  not bring  iu one cent to  the  city for 
the privilege  of  doing business  in some 
cases  equal  to the  business  of  some of 
our  stores,  while  we who  are  trying to 
do a legitimate  business have to pay our 
rent,  water tax,  insurance, pavement as­
sessments,  sidewalk  assessments,  etc. 
We can,  by going  about  it  rightly,  get 
an ordinance  similar  to the  one  now in 
force  in  Grand  Bapids,  which  assesses 
the dagos  $51 per year  for the  privilege 
of  selling  fruit, and  the  huckster  who 
sells  vegetables  and  produce  must pay 
$31  per  year.  We  can  find  so  many 
things to  do that  it  would  not  be wise 
for me to  mention  them, for  fear of  in­
fringing  on  the rights  of  the new Com­
mittee  on  Trade  Interests  which  will 
soon be appointed.
I  must  mention  one  thing,  however, 
that we can do—we can run  a successful 
excursion  and  picnic,  and  we  proved 
that when  we found  that  everyone who 
went to Bawbeese Lake last summer was 
not only satisfied but highly pleased with 
every  feature of  the day;  and  we  can, 
from  the present  outlook, do better this 
year than  last, for even  now people  are 
anxious  to  know  the  day  and  place. 
Everyone who  went with  the grocers on 
Aug.  10, 1892,  will  be  in  line  with  all 
their friends in  1893, and, if we work as 
faithfully  this  year as  we  did  last, we 
ought to  put funds enough in  the  treas­
ury of  the Grocers’ Union, so that  every 
one  who belongs  will feel  that he  has a 
money  interest  and a  personal  interest 
that nothing else will bring.

W.  H.  P o rter,

Chairman Com. on Trade Interests.
If you wish to  measure  anything  and 
have no rule or tape  line  at  hand,  but 
happen to  have  a  silver  quarter,  half 
dollar or whole dollar, those  convenient 
articles will  fill the  bill  to  your  entire 
satisfaction  A United  States  dollar 
one inch and a half  in  diameter,  a  half 
dollar is just  one  inch  and  an  eighth 
and a quarter dollar,  just  seven-eighths 
of an inch.
Many preachers  spoil the bread of life 
with butter of their own make.

d ls .

AXES.

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AUGURS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for cash,  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
Snell’s ................................................................  
80
Cook’s ................................................................  
40
Jennings’, genuine..........................................  
25
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................... 50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze............................* 7 00
D.  B. Bronze.............................  m 00
S. B. S. Steel.............................   8 00
D. B. Steel.................................  13 50
Railroad  .........................................................* 14 00
Garden  ............. ....................................  net  30 00
Stove....................................................................50*10
Carriage new list.............................................. 75*10
Plow.................................................................... 40*10
Sleigh shoe........................................................ 
70
Well,  plain  ......................................................* 3 50
Well, swivel...........................................................   4 00
d ls .
Cast Loose Pin, figured............................  
704
 
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint................684.

BUTTS,  CAST. 

BARROWS. 

BUCKETS.

b o l t s . 

dlB.

d ls,

Wrought Loose Pin............................................60*10 
h am m er s.
Wrought  Table....................................................60*10 Maydole  *  Co.’s ................................................... dls. 25
Wrought Inside Blind........................................60*10 Kip’s .......................................  
Wrought Brass.................................................  
Blind,  Clark's.................:............................... 70*18
Blind,  Parker’s ................................................. 70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

75 I Yerkes *  Plumb’s .................................................dls. 40*10

HINGES.

dls. 

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892............... £0*10

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

CRADLES.

CROW BABS.

Cast Steel................................................ per lb 
5
Ely’s 1-10................................................ perm  65
Hick’s C.  P ............................................ 
“ 
G. D ..........................................................  “ 
Musket....................................................   “ 

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

CARTBIDOBS.

CHISBLS. 

Socket Firmer................................................... 70*10
Socket Framing................................................70*18
Socket Corner................................................... 70*10
Socket Slicks................................................... 70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................... 
40

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s ........................................... 
Hotchkiss.......................................................... 
25
White Crayons, per  gross...............12©12*4 dls. 10

COMBS. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

60
35
60

58
25

dls.

dlS.

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

28
26
23
23
25
dls.
50
50
50

DRIPPING PAHS.

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

07
6ft

ELBOWS.

Com. 4  piece, 6 In.............................. doz. net 
75
Oanmgated............................................... dls 
40
Adlustable................................................ dls. 40*10

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dls.
Clark’s, small, 8i8;  large, 126...................  
30
25
Ives’, 1, *18:  2, *24;  3,*30.......................... 
dls.
Disston’s ...................................................... 60*10
New American  ................................................60*10
Nicholson’s ................................................. 60*10
Heller’s .........................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  .....................................  

piles—New List. 

50

GALVANIZED IRON.

28
17

dls.
dls.

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

12 

15

13
Discount, 60

14
GAUGES.

50

dls.

dlS.

MATTOCKS.

dlS.
dls.

NAILS

locks—DOOR.

MAULS. 
mills. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s ...........
knobs—New List.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.........
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings—
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..
Door,  porcelain, trimmings.............
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain.......
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s ..............................  
55
55
Branford’s ........................................................ 
Norwalk’s ......................................................... 
  56
Adze Eye.............................................*16.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye.............................................*15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s .........................   ..............*18.50, dls. 20410.
50
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
40
P. 8. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleable*.... 
Landers,  Ferry 4  Clark’s ................... 
40
Enterprise 
......................................... 
30
Stebbin’s Pattern.............................................. 60410
Stebbln’s Genuine............................................ 68410
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, Dase...........................................  ••  1  50
Wire nails, base........................................ 1  ~5@1  80
Base 
10 
25 
40...........................................................
25 
30...........................................................
35 
20..........  ..............................................
45 
16...........................................................
12....................................
45 
10...................................
50 
8....................................
60 
748.........................................
75 
90 
4.............................................................
1  20 
3.............................................................
2....................................
1  60 
“ 
1  60 
Fine 8 ...................................................
65 
Case 10.................................................
75 
90 
6.................................................
75 
Finish 10..............................................
90 
8...............................................
“ 
1  10 
6...............................................
70 
Clinch: 10.............................................
80 
90 
6.................  ..........................
1  75 
Barren %..............................................
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy....................................  040
Sciota Bench................................................. 
©50
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................   040
Bench, first quality............................ 
  ®J0
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood..........50*10
Fry,  Acme............................................... dls.60—10
Com m on,  p o lish ed ..........................................d ls. 
^
dls.
Iron and  Tinned................ 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.................................. 50—10

8..................................................................................................
8............................................................................................

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PLANES.

r ivets. 

Base 

dls.

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PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

“A’’ Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20
‘B Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 
9 20
Broken packs *40 per pound extra

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HANGERS. 

25
Mason's Solid Cast Steel...........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__ 30c 40*10
Oate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 ........ .........................dls.60&10
State............................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 4*4  14  and
longer............................................................. 
3*4
Screw Hook and  Rye, *4...........................net 
10
%................... 
“ 
net  8*4
X ............................net  7*4
“ 
%............................net  7*4
“ 
Strap and T .............................................. dls. 
50
dls.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50*10
Champion,  anti friction................................  60*10
Kidder, wood track......................................... 
40
Pots..................................................................... 60*10
Kettles..............................................................   60*10
Spiders  .............................................................. 60*10
Gray enameled..................................................40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware.................................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware........................................  
25
Granite Iron W are....................... new list 33*4*10
Blight........................................................  70*10*10
Screw  Eyes................................................. 70*10*10
Hook’s ..........................................................70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................ 
70*10*10
dls.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ........................
Sisal, *4 Inch and larger................................ 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

levels. 
ROPES.

HOLLOW WARE.

WIRE GOODS. 

dls.

9
dls.

SQUARES.

SHEET IRON.

Steel and  Iron................................
Try and Bevels..............................
Mitre...............................................

75
6«
20
Com. Smooth. Com.
*2  95
3 05
3 05
3  15
3  25
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter, over 30 Inches

Nos. 10 to  14...................................
Nos. 15 to 17...................................
Nos.  18 to 21...................................
Nos. 22 to 24...................................
NOS. 25 to 26..............................
No. 27...............................................
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  ........................................ dls. 
Silver Lake, White A .................................list 
Drab A....................................  “ 
White  B ..................................  * 
DrabB.....................................  “ 
White C...............................  

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

..*4 05
..  4  C5
.  4 05
..  4  05
..  4  25
..  4  45

50
5C
55
50
55
“  55

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Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

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

“ 
Silver 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  foot................................................. 

Solid Eyes.................................................per ton *25
20
70
50 .
30
30
Steel, Game........................................................60410
Onelaa 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.................................................  62*4
Coppered  Spring  Steel...................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.................................   2 80
painted.......................................  2 40

wire. 

dls.

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

wrenches. 

40*10
Au  Sable................................................dls. 
Putnam.............................................. 
dls.  05
Northwestern...................................  
dls. 10410
dls.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine................................................. 
50
75
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,............ 
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................................. 75410
dlB.
Bird Cages.......................................................  
so
Pumps, Cistern............................................ 
75*10
Screws, New List..............................................70*10
Casters, Bed  a  d  Plate............................. 50*10410
Dampers, American......................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods.......  65*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

METALS,

PIG TIN.

ZINC.

26c
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.........................................................  
Pig Bars.........................................................  
Duty;  Sheet, 2*4c per pound.
680 pound  casks............................................... 
6X
Per pound......................................................... 
7
*4®*i........................................................................
Extra W iping......................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder m the market Indicated by private brand* 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson..............  ...........................per  pound
Hallett’s .......................................... 
13
TIN—MZLYH GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................... I  7
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

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

Each additional X on this grade, *1.75.

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TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
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10x14 IC,  Charcoal...........................  ............> 6  75
........................................  6 75
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
........................................  8  25
14x20 IX, 
........................................  9 25

Bach additional X on this grade *1.50.

ROOFING PLATES

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“  Worcester..............................   6
14x20IC, 
F
" 
.............................  8
14x20 IX, 
S
...........................   13
" 
20X28 IC, 
S
"  Allaway Grade...................  
14x2010, 
6
8
7
“ 
14x20 EX, 
S
“ 
12
20x28 IC, 
8
20x28 IX, 
“ 
!5
S
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
14x28 IX............................................................. »14
S
14x31  IX............................................................   15
S
10s
I £ e 0 I X , N”‘9 B°"e” ’ \**r p0nnd 

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TETE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Michigan Tradesman

O

A  W ISELY   JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

Published at

lOO  Louis  St., Grand Rapids,

—  BY  THE —

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f y  When  writing to  any of  our  advertisers, 
please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement in 
T h e   M ic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n .

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE 28,  1893.

FORAGE  FAM INE  IN  EUROPE.
The  serious  drought  which  has  pre­
vailed for  so long  a time in  Europe has 
done great  damage to  the  crops  over a 
very  wide  area,  France  and  Germany 
being  principally  affected.  While  all 
the crops have suffered  more or less, the 
most  serious damage  has  been  suffered 
by the  forage  crops.  Food  for stock is 
already very scarce, and  as it  is now im­
possible  to  expect  crops  this  season. 
Europe will  have to import  very  exten­
sively foreign hay, oats and other forage.
To facilitate the  supplying  of  the de­
ficit in the home crops, the French Cham­
ber  of  Deputies  has  agreed  to  the  re­
moval of  the import  duties on oats,  bay 
and  other  forage  until  the  end  of  the 
year. 
It  is  believed  that  the  German 
Government  will  advocate the  adoption 
of similar  measures  by the Reichstag as 
soon  as that body assembles.

As  usual  in  such  cases,  Europe will 
have to look  to the United States to sup­
ply  the  deficit  in  her  crops.  Already 
some  oats  and hay  have gone  forward, 
and  it  is  expected  that  from  now  on 
there will  be a  constantly increasing de­
mand  for  American  oats,  corn  and hay 
for  European  export.  Vast  as  is  our 
crop, there is  hut  a comparatively small 
surplus left  for  export.  The same may 
be said of oats.  Higher prices, however, 
would  undoubtedly  bring  out  a  fair 
amount of both corn  and oats.
BAGGAGE  CHECK  NO  EVIDENCE.
The New York  Supreme  Court has re­
cently decided  that  a  baggage  check is 
not  evidence that  the  holder  had  any 
baggage  in  the  custody  of  any parties, 
nor does  it establish  any contract to de­
liver  any  baggage  at  any  particular 
place.  A check is only a token attached 
to an article  of baggage by which it may 
be identified. 
If a person alleges that he 
committed a piece of  baggage to a trans­
portation  company  or  other  common 
carrier, to be  delivered  at a destination, 
and the  baggage be  lost or not so  deliv­
ered,  the  claimant  must  prove  all  the 
facts.  The  check  may assist  in  estab­
lishing the  claims  alleged, but it has no 
special sanctity or force.

Such, in  substance,  is  reported  to  be 
the decision of  the court  mentioned.  It

follows that a passenger has no evidences 
of  any baggage  committed  to  a  carrier 
nor contract for its delivery.  The ticket 
for passage only mentions  the amount of 
baggage that  the  holder  is permitted to 
carry on the  contract for  passage, but it 
does  not specify or  admit  that any bag­
gage is being carried.  The only security 
which the passenger  has in the  premises 
is  in the  honesty and  capability of  the 
employes  to whom  the baggage  is com­
mitted.  Perhaps, if  they  were  in  the 
habit of  losing  baggage,  the  employing 
company,  rather than be  pestered about 
the  matter,  would  turn  off  the  delin­
quents.  Considering  the vast amount of 
baggage  transported,  but  little  is  lost. 
Fewer trunks  are  mislaid than there are 
passengers  killed  and  wounded  by  the 
common carriers.

INTERNATIONAL  ARBITRATION,
A few days ago the  British  House  of 
Commons adopted a  resolution  favoring 
the referring of all international disputes 
to  arbitration.  The  motion  was  based 
upon a similar  resolution  offered  in the 
last Congress at Washington  authorizing 
the  President 
to  conclude  arbitration 
treaties.
the 
The 
British  Parliament  was  unanimously 
adopted after a speech by Mr.  Gladstone 
affirming his belief  in  the  reference  of 
disputes  to  arbitration.  The  Behring 
Sea controversy, now in  process  of  set­
tlement by arbitration,  was  cited  as  a 
case in point.

resolution  introduced  in 

It is unquestionably  the  tendency  of 
the times to  submit  the  greater number 
of international disputes,  growing out of 
conflicting commercial  interests, pecuni­
ary indemnities and the like,  to  arbitra­
tors,  because common sense would revolt 
at the idea of going  to  war  about  such 
matters, but clearly there are  limits  be­
yond  which  arbitration  cannot  be ex­
It is  manifestly absurb to 
pected to go. 
expect that all  causes  of  international 
disagreement can be  settled  by  arbitra­
tion, or that the  world has reached a de­
gree of development where  war  has  be­
come a thing of the past.  The vast arm­
ies maintained by  the  powers of Europe 
belie such a theory,  and  it  is  a  well- 
known fact that every  recent case which 
has  been  submitted  to  arbitration  has 
either been  of  a character too trifling to 
warrant hostilities  or  some  one  of  the 
parties  at  interest  was  unprepared to 
maintain its position  by force,  and, con­
sequently,  accepted  arbitration  as  the 
safest way out of a bad scrape.

It  will be remembered that some years 
ago  the  Pan-American  Congress,  com­
posed of delegates from all the American 
countries, adopted  an  international  ar­
bitration arrangement  which has been  a 
dead letter ever since, as there have been 
wars in abundance, and not the slightest 
disposition in any case to  resort to  arbi­
tration.
What would the very  gentleman,  who, 
a few days ago voted  for  the  arbitration 
resolution in the British  House  of Com­
mons, say to a proposition  to submit the 
dispute between Russia and  Great  Brit­
ain, in Asia, to arbitation?  Clearly,  the 
English  Government  could  not  for  a 
moment assent to Russia’s pretentions in 
Asia, nor would the Czar  listen  to  any 
proposition  calculated  to  place  limita­
tions upon the prosecution of  the  ambi­
tious designs of Russia  upon  India  and 
Constantinople.

Nevertheless,  it  is  the  manifest  ten­
dency of the times to avoid  war as far as

possible and to  submit  all  purely  com­
mercial and idemnity  disputes  to  arbi­
tration as the simplest method  of  arriv­
ing at a settlement.  To that  extent  the 
agitation in favor of arbitration is stead­
ily growing.

It will be  noted that the  man who as­
sumes  to give  others  business  pointers 
has nine  times out of  ten never had any 
business of  his own or  failed to succeed 
in business while practicing his own pre­
cepts.

Co n sid e r a b l e space is devoted in this 
issue to  the matter of  the  inspection of 
weights and measures,  but no more than 
its importance demands.  That the things 
ordinarily used for measuring and weigh­
ing  purposes  need  to  be  carefully  in­
spected  and  tested  will  be  readily ad­
mitted,  and  that  the  provisions  of  the 
ordinance,  under  which  inspection  is 
done are just and right, is also admitted. 
Furthermore,  T h e  T r a d e sm a n  believes 
there ought to be a  cheerful  compliance 
with the  requirements  of  the ordinance 
on the part  of  everyone  interested. 
It 
is to the interest of dealers that it be en­
forced,  and  the  only objection that  can 
be raised with any show  of  reason is  in 
connection  with  the  fees  charged—not 
because the fees are  thought  to be exor­
bitant, but because the sealer inspects so 
frequently as to make it a heavy tax upon 
the business;  at  least  such  is  the com­
plaint from several quarters.  From oth­
ers  it is learned that no visits have been 
paid by the sealer  for  several years.  If 
the  officer  has  the  right  to  inspect  as 
often as he pleases,  and charge the regu­
lar  fee every time he  does  so, it is little 
short of legalized robbery.  Of course, a 
test should be made as  often as possible, 
but no charge made oftener than  once  a 
year.  Then, if the  work were done in a 
courteous and  gentlemanly manner,  not 
many objections would  be  heard.  Lest 
there  should  be  a  misapprehension  re 
garding  the  attitude  of 
this  journal 
towards this ordinance, T h e T r a d e sm a n 
states  that it is strongly in  favor of  the 
ordinance in question,  and  believes that 
its  provisions  are  just  and  right,  and 
should be cheerfully complied with.  The 
fees are not excessive, when  the work to 
be done is considered, and should be paid 
by  all  whose  scales  and  weights  and 
measures  are  properly  and  legally  in­
spected.  At  the  same  time it honestly 
confesses that it has no faith in the ordi­
nance as at present administered.

All indications point  to  the  selection 
of  Hon.  E.  N.  Bates  to  the  position of 
State Food and Dairy Commissioner.  Mr. 
Bates has the almost  solid  endorsement 
of the wholesale and retail  grocery trade 
of  the  State,  the  Michigan  Dairymen’s 
Association and  nearly every newspaper 
and individual  instrumental  in creating 
sentiment in favor  of  the  law, whereas 
all the other  candidates  for the position 
depend solely on  political  influence and 
political  expediency.  Of  all  offices 
within the gift of  the executive,  that  of 
Food  Commissioner  should  be  the  last 
one to be dragged into  the mire of party 
politics, and unless  Governor  Rich pre­
fers the favor of a few ring politicians to 
the hearty co-operation and endorsement 
of the commercial and  dairy interests of 
the State, he will  reflect  credit  on him­
self, his party and the commonwealth by 
naming Mr. Bates for the position.

It  affords  T h e  T r a d e sm a n  much 
pleasure to be able to present a verbatim 
report of  the  Committee on Trade Inter­
ests of the Jackson Retail Grocers’  Union 
in  this  week’s  issue.  The  report  is 
timely  and  comprehensive  and  will  be 
perused  with interest  by the  friends of 
organization everywhere. 

I

T he  H ard w are  M arket.

The general volume of  business keeps 
up and collections are very fair.  Dealers 
generally manifest  a desire to  buy care­
fully, but in  certain lines the demand is 
quite large.

Wire Nails—At  the  recent  decline in 
price, wire nails are quite firm and,  with 
the prospect of  a  general  shut down by 
all  mills  during  July, better  prices are 
anticipated.  We  quote  $1.70@1.65  ac­
cording to quantity and assortment.

Cut  Nails—While but few  are used  in 
this  territory,  we  find  prices  are held 
firm at $1.50 rates,  with  same advance as 
on wire nails.

Barbed Wire—In most  sections the de­
mand has ceased, yet  the manufacturers 
say they find it hard to  keep up with or­
ders.  There  is no  change  in price and 
we still quote $2.30 for painted and $2.70 
for galvanized.
Screen Doors  and  Windows—In great 
demand but  hard  to get.  Owing to  the 
scarcity  cf  wire  cloth,  manufacturers 
cannot  furnish the  doors. 
It is  impos­
sible  at present  to  find  an  assortment 
•anywhere.  The  common  sizes,  if  any­
body has them, are bringing $8.50@9 per 
dozen.

Wire  Cloth—The  scarcity  still  exists 
and  prices  are  up  to  2^c  in  certain 
markets.

Wool Twine—Owing  to  the low  price 
of  wool, there seems to  be but  little de­
mand for twine.  Why this  should be, it 
is hard to say, as we supposed sheep had 
to be sheared,  whether wool  was 5 or 50 
cents a pound.  We quote  6c a pound on 
full bales.

Glass—Although  a  number of  factor­
ies have  already  closed  down, the price 
as  yet  has  not  been  affected, 80  and 5 
being still quoted.

c eu tic a l  A sso cia tio n .

A nnu al  M eetin g  o f  th e  S ta te   P h arm a­
The  eleventh  annual  meeting  of  the 
Michigan State  Pharmaceutical Associa­
tion was held  at the  Star  Island House, 
St.  Clair  Flats,  June 19,  20, 21  and 22. 
Owing to  the fact  that  invitations were 
not sent to  all  members of  the Associa­
tion,  the  attendance  was  small,  only 
about  twenty-five  druggists  being pres­
ent,  none of  whom  were from  Western 
Michigan.  A  business  session was held 
Monday evening, also  on Tuesday morn­
ing and  afternoon, and  in the  evening a 
hop was held  in the  hotel parlors.  An­
other business session was  held Wednes­
day  morming,  when  the  meeting  ad­
journed  to  St.  Clair,  where  dinner was 
taken at the Oakland House.  On return­
ing to Star Island, a banquet was held at 
the  Star Island  House  in  the  evening. 
Thursday morning  a brief  business ses­
sion was held and the  members returned 
to Detroit, where  they  were  royally en­
tertained  by  Parke,  Davis  &  Co.  and 
treated to  a ride  around  Belle  Isle. 
It 
was  decided  to  refer  the  matter of  the 
next meeting  to  the  Executive  Commit­
tee, President,  Secretary and Treasurer. 
The  election  of  officers  resulted  as fol­
lows:

President—A. B.  Stevens, Ann Arbor.
Vice-President—A.  F. Parker, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.
Secretary—S. A. Thompson, Detroit.

BESTOBINO  CONFIDENCE.

in  one  another 

The resolve of the  New York banks to 
accept, if necessary, in  the  settlement of 
balances  between  themselves,  Clearing 
House certificates based  upon  good  col­
lateral  security  as • the  equivalent  of 
money, would be alarming if  it  did  not 
also  carry  with  it an assurance calcu­
lated to dispel alarm. 
It is a public dec­
laration that  the  confidence  of  business 
men 
throughout  the 
country having  become so impaired that 
they are giving less credit  and  demand­
ing more cash in their  transactions than 
they formerly did, and that there is, con­
sequently, a call for more  currency than 
the banks are able to furnish, the  banks 
propose to fill the  gap  with  their  own 
united credit,  and  thus  to  prevent  the 
universal  liquidation  which  would  re­
sult if the  process  of  substituting  cash 
for ciedit were car ried  to  an  extreme. 
The device  has  proved  successful  on 
more  than  one  former  occasion,  the 
latest  being 
that  of  the  Baring  col­
lapse in 1890, and there is no reason why 
it 
succeed 
should  not 
It 
amounts,  indeed, 
to  a  suspension  of 
cash paym ents  as  between  the  banks, 
but it insures to their customers a supply 
of credits which will serve their purpose 
equally  as  well  as  cash.  The  banks 
which henceforth may  be  debtors at the 
Clearing House by reason of drafts made 
upon them by their  depositors  will  not 
be  obliged  to  call  in turn for payment 
from their debtors, but they  will  be  al 
lowed, practically,  to  transfer  to  their 
associate banks the obligations  of  those 
debtors, to be held and carried along un 
til the emergency has passed.

now. 

The same spasm  of  stringency  which 
has led the banks to take  this  course of 
action has also had the effect of reducing 
the prices of wheat and  of  exchange  on 
Europe,  and thus of stopping the export 
of gold.  Indeed, if the  rates  of foreign 
exchange should fall only a  trifle  lower 
than they are  now,  and  should  remain 
there for a week or two, gold might even 
be shipped back to us, and as  it  is,  the 
stoppage of its export caused by sending 
wheat in its place and  by the scarcity of 
money  here,  with  the  resulting  high 
rates of interest,  demonstrate  how.  in 
financial affairs, evils tend  to work their 
own cure.  The paper  currency  created 
by the Sherman law helped  to  keep  up 
the price of wheat and  to  drive gold out 
of the country.  Now  the  currency  be­
ing contracted by the  loss  of  gold,  and 
still more by the  loss  of  public  confi­
dence,  wheat has fallen,  gold has ceased 
to be shipped, and confidence  is  return­
ing.
The  reassuring  effect  produced  not 
only on the Stock Exchange, but in com­
mercial  circles  generally, by the action 
of the banks and by the cessation of gold 
exports illustrates, too, how  much  more 
useful to the business community is gen­
eral confidence than  abundance  of  cur­
rency for which there is so much clamor. 
In fact,  an inflated  currency,  by unduly 
stimulating speculation,  is  more  detri­
mental to genuine  prosperity than a  too 
scanty  supply  of  it. 
indeed,  all 
transactions could be made for cash only, 
and  if  sellers  never  parted  with  their 
goods except upon  payment  of  money 
down, a great volume  of currency would 
not be harmful.  But  in this country, at 
least, men can  not  be  kept  within  a 
strictly cash limit.  No matter how much 
currency we have, credit will  always be 
pressed into service to increase the quan­

If, 

tity of transactions, and the  more  there 
is of currency the greater  will be the in­
crease.  With a less volume of currency, 
on the contrary, the  possible limit of in­
flation is sooner  reached,  and  the revul­
sion which inevitably follows  it  is  less 
destructive  and  its  consequences  are 
more  easily  repaired.  Obviously,  too, 
since  the  giving  of  credit  cannot  be 
avoided, it is important that  those only, 
as far as possible, should  receive it who 
deserve it, and a  more  careful scrutiny 
into the  character  and  qualifications of 
men asking for  credit  is  likely  to  be 
made when an abuse of it leads to speedy 
embarrassment,  than  when  the  day of 
reckoning is indefinitely distant.

It is also to be  remarked,  that  on the 
present occasion,  as on  those  of  a 
like 
character  which  have  preceded  it, the 
change of  public  feeling  from  general 
confidence to general distrust was started 
by a few conspicuous  revelations of  un­
soundness in places  where  it  had  not 
been suspected. 
It is  true  that  Secre­
tary  Foster’s  groundless  alarm  four 
months ago at the condition of the Treas­
ury gold reserve,  and  the  extraordinary 
measures he  proposed  for  replenishing 
it, created uneasiness  among  bank  offi­
cers  everwhere,  and  led  them  to con­
tract their loans, but  this  feeling would 
have soon worn off  had  not  events  like 
the bankruptcy  of the  Reading Railroad 
Company, the  collapse  of  the  National 
Cordage Company, the embarrassment of 
the  Whisky  Trust,  and  a  number  of 
little bank failures  at the  West,  proved 
that  there  were  more  serious  grounds 
for it than the  mere  dwindling  of  the 
Treasury  gold  reserve.  People  natu­
rally begin  to fear  that  weakness  else­
where was likely soon  to  be  uncovered; 
and  they took their  precautions  accord­
ingly.  Not  knowing  whom  they  might 
safely  trust,  they  distrusted everybody, 
and thus the vast mass of  credit transac­
tions of which the business of the country 
mainly consists has gone on shrinking by 
the  throwing  out  of  one  discredited 
debtor after another,  until  it  has come 
down to a point  where,  if  the  process 
went 
further,  nobody  who  had  not 
enough cash, or at  least  enough  securi­
ties and  commodities  promptly  convert­
ible into cash, to pay on demand all that 
he owed,  would  be  safe. 
It  is  a  case 
where the  innocent  have to suffer along 
with the guilty, and all  the  consolation 
they can get is that  in  time  their  inno­
cence will be  proved  and  their  present 
losses made up to  them.

The restoration of confidence, after the 
great  and  widespread  loss  of  it  from 
which the business community is  suffer­
ing,  will  necessarily  be  slow.  Great 
things are  expected  from  the  repeal of 
the Sherman  act,  which  is predicted  to 
take  place  as  soon  as  Congress  meets, 
which will be in September, or  earlier if 
the  wishes  of  Eastern  citizens  prevail, 
but the repeal is by no  means certain  to 
be enacted, and  even if  it is enacted  its 
direct  results  are not  likely  to be  those 
which  are  counted  upon.  Still,  since 
fear  and  discouragement  are  mental 
emotions,  they  can  be  as  efficaciously 
counteracted  by  imaginary  as  by  real 
agencies.  The  belief  that the  Sherman 
act  is the  direct  cause  of  the  present 
financial  troubles  is so  general  that its 
expected  repeal  works  by  anticipation 
and is doing now all the good it  possibly 
can do when it comes.  More  thoroughly 
and  permanently efficacious  will be  the 
result of  the  sifting process  now  going

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on and the  establishment of  credit upon 
a better  knowledge  of  facts.  When the 
conviction  generally  prevails, as it  will 
prevail in time, that no more failures are 
impending  and  that  all  the weak  con­
cerns have gone out of  business, leaving 
only those  which  can be  safely trusted, 
credit will once more be freely given and 
affairs  will resume  their  former  course. 
It  is  in  affording  opportunity  for  the 
completion  of  this  process  quietly and 
calmly that the proposed Clearing House 
certificates  will be  most  beneficial,  and 
possibly, the  bare  knowledge that  they 
are ready to be issued will have the same 
effect, without their actual  employment.
Still, after  confidence shall  have been 
restored  in  the  due  course  of  events 
under  the  conditions  now  prevailing, 
something more will be  needed to secure 
us against its renewed impairment.  The 
agitation  in favor of  free silver  coinage 
must be  permanently  suppressed  or we 
shall  be liable  to a  speedy  repetition of 
just such  a season of  alarm and anxiety 
as that  through which  we are  now pass­
ing.  To repeal the  Sherman bill is good 
so far as  it goes, but if  the  repeal is ob­
tained by concessions to the advocates of 
free silver coinage which  will keep alive 
their hopes of prevailing at  some  future 
time,  its  effect  will be  short  lived.  So 
long as  any doubt remains  whether dol­
lars paid out in gold will not be returned 
in silver the investment of  home  capital 
will  be  hampered,  and  that of  foreign 
capital in our  enterprises will be greatly 
restricted.  The  uncertainty  prevailing 
on  this  point  has  already  eaused  the 
withdrawal of  much foreign capital pre­
viously invested here, and  has prevented 
the investment of much more.

It is important, too, that  the Sherman 
act be repealed, not  only without a com­
promise favorable to  free silver coinage, 
but also without the  repeal of the tax on 
State  bank  circulation.  The  mischiev­
ousness of the Sherman act does not con­
sist  in the  purchases  of  silver  bullion 
which it  compels,  but  in  the  creation, 
for the payment of that bullion, of paper 
money.  The  $135,000,000  of  Treasury 
notes already issued under the act, added 
to  the  $346,000,000  of  old  greenbacks, 
the $175,000,000 of  National Bank notes, 
and the $400,000,000 of  silver certificates 
and  silver  dollars,  have  swelled  our 
paper  currency to  a  point  at which, as 
we  see, it  is  driving  gold  out  of  the 
country  and  is  bringing  us  perilously 
near to a  suspension of  gold  payments. 
Reducing,  as  has  been  proposed,  the 
amount  of  their  issue  to  the $2,000,000 
per month required by the Bland-Allison 
act would  only  delay  without  averting 
the catastrophe,  while the  repeal of  the I 
prohibitory 
tax  on  State  bank  notes 
would  open the gates  for  an  additional 
flood of  currency, which,  besides all the 
other evils to  which it would  expose the 
country,  would  precipitate  the  suspen- j 
sion and make it inevitable.

Ma t t h e w   Ma r s h a l l.

E qual  to   th e   O ccasion .

Inquisitive people sometimes find satis- 
tion in catechising little boys about their 
names and  affairs.  This is  how one  of 
these  curious  bodies  of  Lockport  re­
cently fared:
“Hello,  little  boy!  What  is  your 
name?”
“Same as dad’s,” said the boy.
“What’s your dad’s name?”
“Same as mine.”
“1 mean,  what do  they call  you  when 
“They  don’t  never  call  me  to break­
“Why don’t they?”
“ ’Cause I alius git there fust.”

they call you to  breakfast?”
fast.”

M istak en   Id ea s  o f  G overnm ent. 

Written  f o r  T h e  Tradesman.

The Boot and Shoe  Recorder,  of  Bos­
ton, Mass.,  is  evidently not  in love with 
the  idea of  governmental  control of  in­
dustrial enterprises. 
In a  recent article 
it denounces the champions of the “idea” 
of  government  ownership  as  “dema­
gogues or  demagogic  cranks,” and says: 
“It would be pertinent to ask  these glib- 
tongued  patriots what  they  understand 
by government?  Evidently they have in 
mind  some  piysterious  agency  entirely 
apart from human individuals influenced 
by  ordinary human  motives.”  Without 
presuming  to  speak  for  the  “cranks” 
the  Recorder is  informed  that “govern­
ment,” in  this  country,  is  the  people, 
and  is  in no  sense  an  agency.  As the 
people,  however,  cannot  themselves  do 
the Nation’s  business, they elect a num­
ber of men to do it for them.  These men 
are  directly  responsible  to  the  people 
who  elect  them.  They  are  not agents, 
but employes, and  must account to their 
employers at stated periods; and, if their 
work has not been  satisfactory, they are 
replaced  by others.  Should  the  people 
of  the  United  States  decide to assume 
control of  the  coal mines, and railroads 
and  other  great  industries,  individuals 
would  be  elected  or  appointed  to take 
charge and manage them in the interest of 
the people.

Perhaps the  Recorder  knows  that for 
the past ten years  coal has sold for $6.50 
per ton.  At  times,  perhaps,  the  price 
has varied  slightly from that  figure,  but 
that has been the prevailing price.  This 
price,  in addition to paying the wages  of 
the miners  and  yard  handlers,  and also 
transportation  charges,  has  given  the 
mine  owner, the  shipper  and  the retail 
dealer  a  handsome  profit. 
It  is  per­
fectly safe  to assume  that if  the people 
had  control of  the  mines,  the  price of 
coal  would  have  been  not  much  more 
than  half  what  it  has  been,  the  only 
charges  against it being  for  mining and 
transportation,  the profits of the middle­
men  being  eliminated. 
If,  also,  the 
railroads  were  a  “government  monop­
oly,”  it will  readily be  seen  that trans­
portation  charges would  be very largely 
decreased.

As to improvements  in  the  service  in 
connection with  the  industries  so  con­
trolled  by  the  government the Recorder 
asserts that there could be none, as there 
would be an absence of “the incentive of 
reward,” or prospect of “direct personal 
gain  to bring out the  best  results,” and 
the  postal  service, which  is  entirely in 
the hands of the people,  is  brought for­
ward  as  an  instance, and  the  question 
asked  what  inducement  there  is  for  a 
postmaster  or  postal  employe  to  study 
improved  methods. 
If  there  had  been 
no  studying  of  improved  methods,  the 
postal service of the United States would 
not have  been  what  it  is to-day, admit­
tedly the best in  the  world,  an  all  but 
perfect system;  and  if  such magnificent 
results  have  followed  “governmental 
control”  of  the  postal  service, may  we 
not  fairly assume  that  equally good  re­
sults would  follow if  the  control of  the 
great industries and enterprises, in which 
they  have  as vital  an  interest  as  they 
have in  the  postal  service, were  in  the 
hands of  the people?  As to  the conten­
tion that the  people would  have  no  re­
dress “against  the  evils  of  government 
monopoly,” it is simply puerile nonsense. 
The people themselves would control the 
monopoly and would  see  to  it  that  the

WHEN  WE  SAY  THAT 
YOU  KNOW  WE  MEAN

R I V E R S I D E !

FOR  IT’S  THE  TOP  QUALITY.

YOU  WANT  THE  BEST.
WE WANT TO SUPPLY YOU.

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PatmanCa

M I C H I G A  N  M E R C H A N T S
And  business men wbo contemplate  a visit to the World’s Fair 
would  do well to  communicate with the

which  offers  the  best  and  cleanest  rooms  and  the  choicest 
cusine to  be found  in  Chicago for  a reasonable  price.  Every­
thing  new  and  first-class 
in  every  respect.  Unanimously 
chosen  as  headquarters  of  National  Press  Association,  Michi­
gan  Press Association,  and many other organizations.

Bath  with  every  suite.  Permanent  structure  of  stone  and 
brick.  Location  (midway between World’s Fair and  business 
center of city)

Comer 341  State and  Dearborn Streets.

Either  American  or  European  plan,  as  preferred.

Beautiful Rooms, with  Bath,  Single,  $ i  to  $1.50 per Day; 

Double,  $2  to  $3  per  Day.

Elevated  station  only one block  away;  Cable  cars  pass  door.

WM.  H.  HOOPS,  Prop’r.

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business was conducted in their interest. 
The means of  redress of  the evils which 
might develop are at hand,  and would be 
used as they have been  so  often  in  the 
past.  The  Recorder  is  afraid  to  turn 
over the  conduct  of  these  industries to 
the politicians.  The  Recorder  has  for­
gotten that the “politicians” have charge 
of our affairs now, the  administration of 
which costs annually a round billion.  So 
far the people are not aware of any great 
degree  of  “degrading  slavery”  having 
overtaken them as a consequence of hav­
ing entrusted the  conduct of their affairs 
to the “politicians.”

What the future has  in  store  for  this 
country in the way of social and political 
changes,  the  wisest  cannot  say.  But 
when  the  people  want  a  change  and 
know what they want, no  power  in this 
country can long stand between them and 
the attainment of  their desires.

D a n ie l  A bb o tt.

STATE  FOOD  COMMISSIONER.

Office.

Full  Text  of  the  Law  Creating  That 
One of the first subjects  taken  up and 
advocated by T h e T r a d e sm a n, ten years 
ago,  was the creation of  a  new  office by 
the Legislature,  to  be  known  as  State 
Food Commissioner, whose duty it would 
be to enforce the  food  laws  already  ou 
the  statute  books.  Dozens  of  columns 
in advocacy  of  such an innovation have 
appeared in this paper, and to the efforts 
of T h e  T r a d e sm a n  is  largely due  the 
growth of public sentiment which has re­
sulted in the  enactment  of  the  desired 
law.  The following  is  a  certified copy 
of the statute, obtained by T he  T r a d e s­
m an from the Secretary of State:
Section 1.  The People  of  the  State of 
Michigan enact, That within  thirty days 
after this act shall  take  effect, the  Gov­
ernor,  by and  with  the  consent  of  the 
Senate, shall  appoint  a  suitable person 
to  be  Dairy  and  Food  Commissioner, 
which office is hereby created, and which 
Commissioner so appointed shall hold his 
office until January 1, 1895, and until his 
successor is appointed and qualified.  At 
the next regular session  of  the  Legisla­
ture, and every two years thereafter, the 
Governor,  by and  with  the  advice  and 
consent of  the  Senate,  shall  appoint  a 
Dairy and Food Commissioner, who shall 
hold his office for  the  term  of two years 
from the first day of January |u the year 
of his  appointment,  and  until  his  suc­
cessor is appointed and qualified.
Sec. 2.  The Governor shall have power 
to remove such Commissioner at any time 
in his discretion;  but the reasons for such 
removal shall be laid  before  the  Senate 
at the next regular  or  special session  of 
the Legislature thereafter, and in case of 
a vacancy in the office  of  Commissioner 
from  any cause,  the  Governor  may ap­
point another  person to fill same.
Sec. 3.  Before  entering  upon  the du­
ties of his office, the person so appointed 
shall  make,  subscribe,  and  file  in  the 
office of  the  Secretary of  State, an oath 
of office in  the  form  prescribed  by sec­
tion one of article eighteen of the consti­
tution of this State, and  shall enter into 
bonds  with  the  people  of  the  State  of 
Michigan  in  the  sum  of  $10,000,  with 
sureties to be approved by the Governor, 
conditioned for the faithful performance 
of his duties.
Sec. 4. Said Commissioner shall receive 
an  annual  salary  of  $1,200,  payable 
monthly, on  the warrant of  the Auditor 
General.  His necessary cash  outlay for 
the expenses  incidental  to  the perform­
ances of the duties of  his office  shall  be 
audited by the Board  of  State Auditors. 
The Board of  State Auditors  shall  pro­
vide office  room and the necessary furni­
ture and fixtures, and  the necessary sta­
tionery supplies, for  the  conduct  of  the 
business of the said Commissioner, on his 
application to said Board therefor.  Said 
office shall  be  and  remain in the city of 
Lansing. 
Sec. 5.  The  Dairy and  Food  Commis­
sioner shall submit for analysis any arti­
cle of  food  or drink  products which he 
may have reason to  believe  are adulter-

,  _ 

.

the 

Sec. 6. 

ated,  impure,  or  unwholesome  and un­
lawful products under  existing  laws,  to 
the Professor  of Chemistry at the Michi­
gan Agricultural College,  who  is  for the 
purpose of this bill to be called the State 
Analyst.  The compensation of the State I 
Analyst shall be on his bills  for  making 
examinations  and  analyses  of  articles 
placed in nis hands by the Commissioner 
for  the  purpose  of  having  their purity 
determined,  and  the  charges  for  such 
services shall be  no  more than chemists j 
and analysts  are  accustomed  to  charge 
for similar services.  His bills for analy­
ses made shall,  when  duly  certified  by 
the  Commissioner,  be  presented  to  the 
Board  of  State Auditors  for  audit  and 
allowance  monthly;  but  said  Board  of 
State Auditors  shall  not  allow  bills  of 
the State Analyst and clerical help in ex­
cess of $1,000 in  any one year.
It shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Dairy and  Food  Commissioner  to  care­
fully  enquire  into  the  quality  of  the 
dairy and food  drink  products  and  the 
several articles which are necessary con- 
stitutients of foods which  are offered for 
sale in  this  State,  and  when  he  has 
reason to believe that any such  articles, 
foods or  products  are  adulterated,  im­
pure or unwholesome,  he  shall  procure 
samples of the same and  direct the State 
Analyst to make due and careful examin­
ation of the same and report  his  finding 
thereon. 
If it  shall  appear  from  such 
report that the article,  food,  food  and 
drink product, or dairy  product, is adul- 
turated, impure or unwholesome, in con­
travention  of 
statutes  relative 
thereto, it shall be the duty of  the Com­
missioner to make  complaint against the 
manufacturer or  vender  thereof,  in the 
proper county,  and  furnish  the  prose­
cuting attorney with the evidence thereon 
to  obtain  a  conviction  for  the  offence 
charged.
It shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Sec. 7. 
prosecuting  attorneys 
to  prosecute  to 
completion  all  suits  brought  by  the 
Dairy and Food Commissioner  under the 
several statutes relative to. the  adultera­
tion of food, and the sale  of  impure and 
unwholesome food or food products.
It  shall be  unlawful  for  the 
State Analyst, while he  holds  his office, 
to furnish  any  individual,  firm  or  cor­
poration,  any certificate  as to the purity 
or  excellence  of  any  article  manufac­
tured or sold by them to  be used as food 
or in the preparation of food.
Sec. 9.  The Commissioner  shall make 
an anual report  to  the Governor  which 
shall cover the  doings  of  his  office  for 
the preceding calender year, which shall 
show, among other  things,  the  number 
of specimens of  food  articles  analyzed, 
and the State  Analyst’s  report  on  each 
one, the number  of  complaints  entered 
against  persons  for  violations  of  the 
laws relative to the adulteration of food, 
the number of  convictions  had, and the 
amount of  fines  imposed  therefor, 
to­
gether  with such  recommendations  re­
lative to the statutes in force  as  his  ex­
perience may justify.  His  report  shall 
be printed by the Board  of  State  Audi­
tors as other  State  reports  are  printed; 
one thousand copies of  each report shall 
be for distribution by  the  Commissioner 
and one  thousand  copies  shall  be  de­
livered to the State Board of Agriculture 
to be by them distributed.
Approved June 2, 1893.
W hen.

Sec. 8. 

When Mary Lease is President 
How happy we shall be;
A home for every resident 
Will grow on every tree;
When only Populists can hold 
An office worth its weight in gold,
And all the rest are in the cold,

How happy we shall be.

When Government the railroads rent 
How happy we shall be;
When money’s loaned at two per cent.
How happy we shall be; r~~i 
When men are jerked from ruin’s brink 
By added time to read and think,
And longer hours to smoke and drink, 

How happy we shall  be.

When the millennium breaks forth 
How happy we shall be;
With a united  South and North 
•  How happy we shall be;
When wealth comes to us while we wait. 
No mortgage swipes our real estate,
And Uncle Sammy pays the freight,

How happy we shall be!

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

Corner  Ottawa  and  Lyon  Streets, 

GRAND  R A P I D  S ,   M I C H I G A N .

STATE  AGENTS  FOR  THE  CELEBRATED

A G N E S   B O O T H   C I G A R S .

WE  CARRY  ALL  SIZES  AND  SHAPES.

This world-famous brand is for sale  on  the World’s  Fair  Grounds  in  the  only buildings  set 

apart for smokers.  No advance over regular retail prices.

I F   Y O U   W A N T

N E W
J A P A N
T E A S

WE  HAVE  THEM,  BUT

DO  NOT 
B E   IN  A  
H U R R Y

To buy your season’s stock.  W e can  give  you  just  as 

good  Tea,  for less money, about July  1.

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REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

J .  G eo.  L eh m an , 

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S tr e e t  G rocer.

John  George  Lehman  was  born  in 
Livingston county, N.  Y., in 1856.  The 
family  came  to  Grand  Rapids the year 
following his birth, but  shortly after re­
moved  to  Ionia,  where they  have ever 
since  resided.  Here  George  attended 
school  until  1870,  in  which  year  his 
father died.  Having  decided on  a mer­
cantile  career,  the  lad  came  to  Grand 
Rapids  and  pursued 
the  six  months’ 
course  in the  Grand Rapids Commercial 
College,  which  was  at  that  time  con­
ducted  by  Prof.  Swensberg.  The  next 
six  months were  passed in  a meat mar­
ket,  when  he  entered  the  employ  of 
Rasch  Bros., grocers, remaining  in that 
position  seven  years. 
In  1879,  with  a 
good  business training, a  determination 
to  succeed,  and  $300  cash  capital,  he 
made his first business venture,  with Mr. 
A. Rasch  as his  partner, the  firm  being 
known as Rasch  & Lehman.  They were 
located  at  No.  40  West  Bridge  street. 
The  partnership  continued  about  five 
years,  when  it was  dissolved, Mr.  Leh­
man  purchasing  his  partner’s  interest, 
continuing  the business in  the  same lo­
cation  for nearly six  year. 
It was  dur­
ing his partnership  with Mr. Rasch, that 
Mr. Lehman first met the lady who after­
wards  became  his  wife,  Miss  Flora  C. 
Miller,  to whom  he was married Jan. 24, 
1882. 
In  1889  he  built  the  three-story 
brick  block at  44  and  46  West  Bridge 
street, moving  into the west  half of  the 
block,  where  he  has  since  conducted 
business.

Integrity, economy and strict attention 
to business are,  as  everyone who knows

him  will  testify,  the  principles  upon 
which Mr.  Lehman’s  success is founded, 
and it needs no  prophet to  foretell what 
the future has in store for him.

The  number  of  men  who have  been 
successful in  establishing themselves  in 
business on the West Side  is very small, 
and it must be gratifying to Mr.  Lehman 
to reflect  that  he is  one  of  the number; 
but the  qualities  which  have made him 
successful in  his present  location would 
have  brought  him  success  anywhere. 
Something over  a  year ago, Mr. Lehman 
purchased  a beautiful  residence  on  Mt. 
Vernon street, where he now resides, en­
joying, as every business man ought, the 
comforts  of  a  home  entirely separated 
from business.

A n Old T ruth in  N e w  Form .

Truth  and  roses  by  any  new  names 
j  smell as  sweetly.  We  met an  old truth 
the other day in this new dress and think 
well of it,  so  we send it into  the printer 
for  wide  distribution.  It’s  a  splendid 
tonic  and  stimulant.  There  are  some 
stimulants from the  pit, and many there 
be  who  use  them; here is  one from the 
dome  with  suggestive  and exhilarating 
qualities.  This  is  it:  “If  a  man  can 
write a  better book, preach a  better ser­
mon,  or  make a  better  mouse-trap than 
his neighbor, though he  builds his house 
in  the  woods,  the  world  will  make  a 
beaten path to the door.”

The  children can  tell  us  who it  was 
who  was  taken  from  the  plough  and 
placed  at the  head  of  a  great  nation. 
Let  no one, young or old, sit down mop­
ing  under  the  impression  that  he can­
not  rise to  some  eminence  more or less 
high. 
It  is  better  to  have  wooed and 
lost than  not to have  wooed at all.  The

loss stirs  one  into more effective  doing. 
All losses  do that when rightly handled. 
Reader,  handle  them  rightly. 
I  have 
something now, said the inventor, which 
will  fetch  the  crowd  to  my studio  or 
shop.  See how they come.  The cobbler 
who  took  John  B.  Gough  by the  hand 
and  steadied  him  into  a  temperance 
meeting,  did  a  night’s  work  which  is 
being felt all  round  the  world.  We all 
can  do that  much.  How is it with you? 
Are  you  trying  to  be  somebody?  Are 
you steering or drifting?

Geo.  R.  Scott.

W h a t  th e  T rained  E y e S e e s.

A sleight-of-hand man once said that he 
owed much of  his success to his  persist­
ent  cultivation of  the faculty of  observ­
ing  ordinary things.  He cultivated this 
by watching people as he passed them on 
the street, by noting the details of differ­
ence.  He said  that he finally got so pro­
ficient  that  he  could  glance  at  a  shop 
window on passing it and tell everything 
in it, even  to  details of  construction  of 
small  articles, as  the pattern of  a chain 
in a jeweler’s window, for instance.
In addition to its mental  training, this 
observing  of  details  has  a more attrac­
It  furnishes  amusement  and 
tive side. 
makes  an ordinary  going forth  for busi­
ness or  pleasure a veritable  trip to won­
derland. 
If you will take  the trouble to 
inquire  into the  matter  you  will be sur­
prised  how little  people,  even  women, 
observe of  what is going on  about them. 
Women  are  always  mentioned  as  alert 
and infallible observers.  As a matter of 
fact, they observe  very  little  outride of 
the  details  of  other  women’s  hats and 
gowns.  And  they  do  not  observe these 
as  much as  they get  credit for doing, as 
any dressmaker or milliner can tell.
You will  notice this  difference  in  ob­
servation in the conduct of people in the 
elevated  trains.  One man,  sitting  in  a 
corner peering  over his  newspaper,  will 
suddenly laugh.  He has seen something

to amuse him  in some  person in  the car 
or  in  some  window  the  car  has  just 
passed.  Now, others  have been looking 
in  the  same  direction  as  he,  but  have 
seen nothing to laugh at.
The truth is, they did not  see what he 
saw.  They were  looking at  it,  but they 
were  looking at  it  with  eyes  untrained 
for details.  The small, incongruous ele­
ments which make up humor had escaped 
them.  But if the laughing man had told 
what  he  saw  the  others  would  have 
laughed. 
It was not  lack of  a  sense of 
humor, but simply lack of observation.
In  any  crowd  that  jostles  along  the 
sideways of  Broadway there are a thous­
and peculiarities of  dress and manner,  a 
score  of  incidents  full  of  humor  or  of 
that gentle  melancholy  which  refreshes 
like tears  shed  over  a novel.  The  peo­
ple who are fond of  parading and seeing 
what is  going on  are  conscious  of  this 
crowd in only  a dim  way.  They do not 
think  of  separating  it  further  into de­
tails  than  pretty  or  ugly,  handsome or 
unattractive.  And in that way they miss 
almost all  the life and beauty and inter­
est.  They  see,  but  at  the  same  time 
they  do  not  see.  And they  forget that 
all the fun and all  the shadow that writ­
ers  put  into print  for  them  to read are 
but  faint  reflections  of  the  fun  and 
shadow of the panorama of  life which is 
around everybody.
The  color  of  a  bootblack’s  shirt, the 
cut of  a working  girl’s  gown, the  ways 
in which  women do  their hair,  the kind 
of  eyebrows  and  eyes,  expression  of 
faces—all these  things  may be observed 
and noted  in such  a  way that  a score of 
other  things  unnoticed  before  will  be 
opened to view.  The  more this  minute 
and careful observation is  cultivated the 
more  entertaining  and profitable, too, it 
becomes.

A Matter of Endurance.

“I can take 100 words  a minute,” said 
the stenographer.
“I  often  take  more  than  that,”  re­
marked the other fellow in sorrowful ac­
cents,  “but then I have to—I’m married.”

DEALERS  WILL  FIND  TANGLEFOOT  THE  MOST PROFITABLE 

AND  SATISFACTORY  FLY  PAPER.

SELL  WHAT  WILL  PLEASE  YOUR  TRADE  BEST.

The price for T anglefoot in the United States east  of  the  Rocky  Moun­
1  Box................................................................................................$0  45
1  Case (10 boxes).................................................. ........................... 3  75
5  Cases at one  purchase....................................................per case,  3  65
10  Cases at one  purchase.................................................... 
3  55

tains:

“ 

T A N G L E F O O T
Sticky Fly  Paper,

S E A L E D

NEW  STYLE.

IN  NEW  PACKING.

NEW  PRICE. 

WITH  NEW  HOLDERS.

Each double sheet  of  Tangle­
foot  is  separately  sealed  with 
our Wax Border, which, while it 
permits  the  easy  and  ready 
separation  of  the  sheets, abso­
lutely prevents  the  sticky  com­
position from running  out  over 
the  edges.  This  Border  pre­
serves each sheet independently 
and indefinitely  until  used  and 
prevents all loss and  annoyance 
to the dealer.

Each  box  of  Tanglefoot  will 
contain  25  double  sheets  of 
Tanglefoot  and  two  Tanglefoot 
Holders—15 loose double sheets 
and two packages  each  consist­
ing of a Holder  containing  five 
double sheets.

Push  the  new  package with 
your family trade,  they will  all 
buy it if it is  brought  to  their 
notice. 
It  will  increase  your 
sales of  Tanglefoot  by  encour­
aging a more liberal  use  among 
your  trade.  Your  customers 
will  appreciate  the  new  pack­
age and will soon ask for it.

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Good Investments for Limited  Capital.
W ritten for Thb Tbadksm an.
An impression  prevails  in  the  minds 
of men who  are not blessed  with an un­
limited amount of capital, that profitable 
investments  can  no  longer  be  made. 
They listen  to the  farmer’s  tale of  woe 
and  conclude  that  farming  no  longer 
pays.  From the  mercantile ranks of in­
dustry  comes  the  despairing  cry  of 
struggling,  disappointed  retailers  who 
are being forced to the wall by  a compe­
tition  so  oppressive  as  to  make  ample 
elbow  room  and  liberal  profits  utterly 
unattainable,  and  the would-be investor 
turns  away  from  the  mercantile  busi­
ness.  Manufacturing  offers  a  more 
promising field; but aggregations of capi­
tal are  reducing  cost  to  a  minimum by 
the  use  of  powerful,  labor-saving  ma­
chinery, and the exercise of accumulated 
power in influencing  the market price of 
both raw materials and the manufactured 
products, making  it  impossible  to  suc­
cessfully  operate  with  small  capital. 
Neither can the  owner of a  limited capi­
tal use it to  advantage  by merging  it in 
the  aggregation  unless,  by so doing,  he 
secures  a  remunerative  position  in the 
concern as  manager,  bookkeeper,  secre­
tary or  traveling  salesmen.  Otherwise, 
it would simply be  equivalent to loaning 
his capital  at  a  good  rate  of  interest- 
something  which a  man of  small means 
cannot afford  to do.  This dearth  of  op­
portunity to make profitable business in­
vestments with  limited  capital,  is taken 
advantage of  by the  big concerns  in se­
curing road  salesmen  and  office  assist­
ants. 
It  has  became  quite  fashionable 
for new  aggregations  to  advertise for  a 
manager,  secretary  or  traveling  repre­
sentative  who  is  willing  to  invest  a 
small  capital  in the  business. 
In  this 
way the  combinations block  the way for 
the individual  with limited capital,  and 
the  latter blocks  the game for  the indi­
vidual  who  has  no  capital,  by  making 
use of  his  means  in  purchasing  an op­
portunity to work at a good fat salary.

It is, no doubt, a fact 'that the  chances 
to invest  from  SI,000  to  353,000 in  light 
business  callings,  yielding  good  profits 
and requiring  little or  no manual labor, 
have  become  exceedingly scarce.  Hard 
work  went  out  of  fashion  a long  time 
ago, and since that  time the ingenuity of 
man  has  been  fearfully  strained  in de­
vising ways  and  means  to  get a  living 
without  working  for  it,  or,  in  other 
words,  to  get  something  for  nothing. 
Because the time has arrived when a man 
can’t support  his  family by sitting on a 
counter, dangling  his heels and  waiting 
for  imaginary  customers  who  never 
come;  or,  by  holdiug  down  an  office 
chair  in a dingy little  room on the third 
floor, with  a back  alley  view, until  the 
landlord  kindly comes  to his relief  and 
gives him  notice  to  vacate the  premises 
for  the  next  man  who  is  waiting  to 
squander  his  limited  capital  in  office 
rent; or, by standing on the street corners 
or posing in  the hotel  lobbies,  watching 
for suckers and waiting for something to 
turn  up—I  say  because  men  can  no 
longer  support  their  families  in  these 
light,  easy,  genteel  avocations 
they 
howl and  prate about  the degeneracy of 
the  times.  They  say  an  honest  (God 
forgive them) man can no longer earn an 
honest ltving,  and they wonder what the 
country is coming to.  Now, Mr.  Editor, 
I am going  to show  that  no  country on 
earth offers  better chances for the profit­
able  investment of  limited  capital than

this very  Michigan of  ours;  and  if  I go 
beyond  the  confines  of  merchandising 
for them  (which I shall do of  necessity)
I  trust  you  w ill  not  deem it  too  far  re­
m oved  from  business  m atters  to  m erit 
publication  in T h e  T r a d e sm a n.

The business I refer to is fruit culture. 
Don’t  elevate  your  proboscis,  anxious 
reader; I know this means  work,  early, 
late,  and all the  time while the summer 
lasts; but,  if  faithfully  performed,  the 
reward  is  certain  and  liberal.  Fruit 
lands are cheap  and  plentiful,  and  the 
market  for  fruit  is unlimited.  In this 
field of labor the reward is proportionate 
to the amount of energy  put  forth;  nat­
ure, unlike  man,  responds  faithfully to 
the demands of  diligent  effort.  Here is 
a business  not  affected  by  competition 
either in volume or  percentage of profit; 
a business which offers  health,  prosper­
ity and happiness to all who engage in it  • 
and conform to its demands,  which  are: 
diligent study, close application, and un­
tiring  perseverance.  There  are  thous­
ands  of  acres  of 
land  in  the  fam­
ous  fruit  belt  of  Michigan,  especially 
adapted to the growing  of  small  fruits, 
lying near our  lake  ports  just  as  the 
lumberman and subsequent fires  left  it, 
which  can  be  bought  for  a  song and 
cleared for  another  song.  The  time  is 
coming, and it is not  far  distant,  when 
these unbroken lands will  be  converted 
into fruit gardens dotted with happy and 
prosperous homes.  A  recent run up the 
shore 
a
inspection  of  some  of  Oce­
personal 
ana 
fruit  gardens,
and  careful  interviews  had  with  the 
owners,  was a  revelation  to me. 
I saw 
in  that  revelation  not  only  what  had 
been, and  is being done,  but  I saw what 
might be  done. 
I saw that  the chances 
for  profitable investments  of  small cap­
ital  were,  apparently,  unlimited;  and 
then I thought of  the crowded cities and 
towns—of  the thousands who are elbow­
ing their  way through  the crowded ave­
nues,  searching  for  some  vacant  spot 
where  they can invest a little  capital in 
merchandising, knowing that the chances 
for success  are  nineteen  adverse  to one 
that  is  favorable. 
It  would  seem that 
we are  rapidly drifting  into a  condition 
where  a white  shirt  and a  comfortable 
seat  in 
the  shade  with  prospective 
glimpses of  starvation,  is more  prefera­
ble than a little  manual labor  with a re­
ward of sure and certain  prosperity.

as  Shelby  and 

county’s 

fine 

as 

far 

I  have already  used  up the  space  al­
lotted  me,  and  will, therefore,  have  to 
defer giving facts and figures in proof of 
the general statements thrown out in this 
article.  As  the subject of  canning  fac­
tories is being  discussed  in the columns 
of T h e  T r a d e sm a n  I  shall,  probably, 
be permitted to have my say on that sub­
ject  as it  has  a bearing  on the question 
of how to make profitable investments of 
small  capital. 
In a  future article I will 
confine myself to facts  and figures based 
on  actual  experience  in  both  growing 
and canning fruits. 

E. A.  Ow e n.

T he  D ru g  M arket.
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Opium, morphia and quinine are steady.
Paris  green  is  very  scarce.  Som e  of 
the  m anufacturers  are sold  out  and  re­
fu se orders,  and  an  advance  of  2 cents 
has  already  been  made,  w ith  higher 
prices  looked  for.

Insect powder has advanced on account 

of  scarcity of  flowers.
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Drugs & Medicines*

State  Board  o f Pharm acy. 

One  Year—James Vernor, Detroit.
Two  Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor 
Three  Years—George Gondrum, Ionia.
Four Years—C. A. Bugbee. Cheboygan.
Five Years—S. E. P&rkill, Owosso.
President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.. 
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrnm, Ionia.

M ichigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 

President—Stanley E. Parkiil, Owosso. 
Vice-Presidents—I.  H.  L.  Dodd,  Buchanan;  F.  W.  R.
Perry, Detroit;  W. H. Hicks. M or ley.
Treasurer—Wm. H. Dupont,  Detroit.
Secretary—C. W. Parsons, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H.  G.  Coleman,  Kalamazoo; 
Jacob Jesson, Muskegon:  F.  J.  Wurzburg  and  John 
E. Peck, Grand Rapids;  Arthur Bassett,  Detroit. 
Local Secretary—James Vernor.
Next  place  of  meeting—Some  resort  on  St.  Clair 
River;  time to be designated by Executive Committee.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 
President, John D. Muir;  Sec*y, Frank H. Escott.

Wby  I  Don’t  Use  Patent  Medicines.
1.  Because it seems  unreasonable that 
a man who possesses  no medical knowl­
edge, or not enough of it  to earn an hon­
est  living,  should  discover  drugs  of 
such  virtue,  or  combinations  of  such 
power, that they  cure  where  all  others 
fail,  and save lives  ‘‘given  up by all the 
doctors.”  Sometimes  the  discoverer  is 
not even claimed to be at all  acquainted 
with medicine,  but a missionary or some 
other  benevolent  character  whose  only 
wish is to benefit humanity.  Sometimes 
these wonderful secrets  of  healing  are 
said to be learned from  the  negroes,  In­
dians,  savages,  or  anywhere  or  every­
where where the halo of  mystery can be 
made to surround the preparation.  Sav­
ages have not made brilliant  discoveries 
in the arts or sciences;  why  should they 
have discovered so many and  such  won­
derful cure-alls,  and  why  should  they 
die off so much faster than  civilized peo­
ple in spite of them?

F A L S E   PRETEN SIO NS.

2.  Because the great  majority  of  pat­
ent medicines  have  been  analyzed  and 
shown to  contain  only  drugs  that  are 
well known, and do not possess any such 
properties as are attributed to them.  To 
look at  the  wonderful  promises  in  the 
advertisement and then  at the results of 
the analysis would make  the man in the 
moon laugh at the  gullibility of the peo­
ple of the earth.  Take the much  adver­
tised sarsaparilla, for  example.  “Hare’s 
Therapeutics,” one of the latest and best 
books on the subject (used as a text book 
at  Harvard),  says:  “Sarsaparilla  seems 
utterly without  effect  in  the hands  of 
most physicians.”  H. C.  Wood’s “Thera­
peutics,”  another  eminent  authority, 
says:  “The  only  sensible  effects  that 
follow even the largest  draughts  of  the 
decoction (of sarsaparilla) are simply the 
results of  gastric disturbance.”  For the 
consolation  of  some  who  have been so 
wonderfully benefited, and have so grate­
fully told of it,  it  may  be  added  that 
“Some cases of syphilis which  are of an 
obstinate character  (and  have  possibly 
been  to  all doctors  without relief, etc.) 
will yield to iodide of potassium and sar­
saparilla where iodide  alone fails.”

SECRET  POISONS.

3.  Because while many of them are in­
ert and powerless for good or  evil, many 
are injurious and  lead  to  the  liquor  or 
opium  habits  or  cause  death  directly. 
Among the harmful  ingredients  may  be 
mentioned  opium  in  some  form.  The 
various  soothing  syrups with which the 
infants  of  the  ignorant  are  so  often 
drugged  and  killed, either  by  a  single 
dose  or  indirectly by the resulting indi­
gestion that carries  them  off, almost in­
variably  contain  opium  in  some  form. 
Many patent  cough  mixtures contain so 
much opium that  they lead to the opium 
habit in those using  them  long.  Scotch 
Oats Essence was very widely advertised 
a while  ago.  After  the  publication  of 
an analysis showing that  it  contained  a 
large  amount  of  morphine,  it  dropped 
out  of  notice.  The  headache  powders 
and pills that are  now so  plentiful gen­
erally contain acetanilid and have caused 
many  cases  of  poisoning.  The  list  of 
dangerous patent medicines might be ex­
tended  almost  indefinitely.  Most  face 
preparations  contain  arsenic,  and  most 
stomach bitters contain  whisky  or other 
powerful drugs.

APPEAL  TO  CREDULITY.

4.  Because  they  appeal  to  the  igno­
rance and  credulity  of  people, and  try

THE  MICHIGAN  THADESMAJST
doing business.  This  matter  the  retail 
druggists should post themselves on, and 
buy their drugs of firms who sell to drug­
gists only.  Get  together  every druggist 
in  the  State,  and  when  you  find  your 
wholesale druggist is  selling the grocery 
houses in  your town, make  it a point to 
buy  your  drugs  of  someone  else.  For 
myself,  1 would not buy a dollar’s worth 
of such a firm, knowing such to be a fact. 
Now,  let’s  hear  from other  retail drug­
gists, and  we will  all  agree to  read any 
articles that may be written in  regard to 
this  matter,  whether  by our  brother re­
tailers or wholesalers or by the Secretary, 
President or any member of the Michigan 
Pharmacy  Board.  Some  groceryman 
might  say  this  was  written  by  some 
crank,  who wants the  earth and wants it 
fenced;  but  crank  or no crank,  fence or 
no fence, all we want is what we are pay­
ing for  and what  we have  a law  to pro­
tect us in.

by  all  means  to  deceive  the  unwary. 
Here we find the real  secret  of  the suc­
cess  of  patent  medicines.  They appeal 
to the mysterious.  Like the quack  doc­
tor  at  the  cattle-show,  whose  flashing 
(paste) diamonds, long hair floating over 
his shoulders, peculiar  costume, and un­
paralleled braggadocia all mark him as a 
strange  man,  and  hence  gifted  with 
strange powers, so the advertisements of 
the patent  medicine,  its  marvelous  dis­
covery,  its  mysterious  composition,  its 
wonderful cures, its  unheard-of  success 
where all else fails, all  go  to  show that 
this medicine  is  really  mysterious  and 
acts like a charm.  Nothing would so de­
stroy people’s  faith  in patent medicines 
as  to  have  the  formula  printed  on  the 
bottle.  But so long as  the quack doctor 
and the quack medicine can dazzle people 
by the glamour  of  mystery, so long will 
the ignorant and the credulous be duped.

FO RG ED   TESTIM O NIALS.
Because the testimonials of wonder­

5. 

Hoping to hear from others, I am 

Yours respectfully,

B.  R.  Mich.

ful cures are  mostly forgeries.  No sane 
person would for  a moment think of  be­
lieving all  the  testimonials.  Every one 
knows that the  majority are “made up.” 
Still  there  are  a  few  genuine  ones, 
and they  amount  to  this:  “I  took  the 
medicine;  I  am  better.  Therefore  the 
medicine  cured  me.”  The  ship  was 
sinking;  the  captain  swore,  and  they 
were saved.  Therefore  they were saved 
because  the  captain  swore.  The  testi­
mony of  credulous people,  and of  some 
people who  are educated  and logical  in 
some  ways  but  ignorant  in  the  thing 
whereof  they  testify,  has  been  used to 
bolster up  every falsehood  and supersti­
tion in  literature,  science,  art, politics, 
business and  religion  from  the wonder­
ful  yarns  of  Homer’s heroes  to the last 
visit  of  the  sea  serpent.  Witchcraft, 
mind cures, the miracles of Dr. Cullis, of 
the  Mormon elders, and of hosts of other 
miracle  workers  can  all  produce thou­
sands of  devoted followers who will tes­
tify to anything  from the cure of  an un­
sightly wart to  the last stages of  organic 
heart  disease.  Those who have been in­
jured  or  killed  by  the  treatment  are 
never heard from.  These are  not adver­
tised.  People  read  only the  praises  of 
the  patent  medicine, and  a  newspaper 
that  derives  large  profits  from  patent 
medicine  advertisement is  not  likely to 
devote much space gratis to showing  the 
falsity of  such  advertisement or  the in­
jury caused by the nostrums.  The  cred­
ulous  hear  only one  side, and  are  con­
stantly  taken  in. 
If  they  have  a  cold, 
take some patent medicine and get  well, 
they ascribe  their cure to the  nostrums, 
without  thinking  that  their  neighbors 
recovered as  rapidly  without using  any 
medicine.  This  popular fallacy is  wan­
ing. 

H. H.  B u r n s,  M. D.

O pp osed  to   M edicine  S ellin g   G rocers.
R i c h l a n d ,  June 20—Michigan  has en­
acted  a  law  for  the  protection  of  her 
registered  pharmacists,  but  every  day 
brings to light the  practice of  pharmacy 
by retail  grocers all  through  the  State, 
selling  laudanum,  paris  green,  com­
pounding prescriptions, retailing poisons 
without affixing  the label  prescribed by 
law, or  giving the  name  of  said  poison 
with the proper antidote affixed  thereon. 
They should read section 9 2287 C 7 How­
ell’s Statutes, and it  would not  be a bad 
idea for the  State Board of  Pharmacy to 
read  the  same  section  and  then  take 
some action  in regard to  the  matter and 
try and  protect  the  thousands  of  regis­
tered  pharmacists  who  pay  every year 
their  registration  fee  of  as  many more 
dollars  to  sustain  said law  and see that 
they  have  their  rights.  This  misde­
meanor is punishable  by a  fine, and  the 
Board of  Pharmacy could  make  no bet­
ter use of  the money than to hire a good 
detective  to  look  up  such matters  and 
prosecute ail violations of the law.
Grocers selling drugs always cut prices 
and spoil the profits which  the druggists 
pay a license  to  obtain, while  they pay 
none.  We don’t object to anyone selling 
drugs if  they want to, but let them do as 
any druggist  does—register  and pay the 
fee, or keep a registered  clerk. 
I do not 
uphold the wholesale druggists who ped­
dle  out  their  patent  medicines,  drugs 
and sundries through the State to grocers 
and  on any four  corners  whenever they 
can make a sale, simply  for the name of

D efinition o f  th e  T erm   “ B ank C red its.”
In  shaping  the  character of  the  cur­
rency as  well  as the  credit of  a nation, 
no influence should  be more pronounced 
for  conservatism and the  establishment 
of  right  principles  than  that  of  the 
banker; and  those  engaged  in  banking 
should  be  thoroughly  informed  in  the 
principles of its business, the greatest of 
which is credit.
In the earliest ages,  as well as in mod­
ern  times,  personal  qualities have been 
regarded as  wealth.  Character,  ability, 
skill and  energy are  as truly  means for 
capital  and trading as could  be any ma­
terial goods.  For instance, character may 
be used as a power for purchasing goods, 
etc.,  by giving a  promise  redeemable  in 
the  future.  This  means  of  utilizing  a 
good name,  whether  verbal  or  written, 
is what we  denominate  as credit.  Thus 
character  becomes  wealth in  an indivi­
dual sense, and  the  aggregate  character 
of the people constitutes the  basis of the 
national credit.
Money  is  the  great  medium of  uni­
versal  exchange.  This  feature  demon­
strates  its true  character  and  property. 
Money is  also the  evidence of debts that 
arise  between  individuals, communities 
and nations,  because it  is  the  means by 
which  such  debts  are  exchangeable. 
Money,  therefore, has all the  properties 
of credit. 
It is simply a right to demand 
something of  some one else.  A promise 
or  credit  is  nothing  more.  When  a 
banker  proceeds  to  grant  a  credit is he 
not  always  desirous  to  know  that  the 
settlement will  be prompt,  absolute and 
complete?  If  this is the accepted stand­
ard for good  credit,  how  important then 
that  money,  which  is  the  medium  of 
credit (or debt) exchanges to be received 
by ignorant and  intelligent alike, should 
be  as  near  absolute  and  unchanging in 
value  as human  ken can make it. 
If  it 
does not attain to this standard it is easy 
to see how the ignorant and unenlightened 
can be, as  they always  are,  the sufferers 
from a  bad or  unstable  circulating me­
dium.  The  enlightened  understand the 
inexorable laws of  credit and are always 
on  guard  that  they may convert  their 
credits  before  the  danger  comes.  An 
eminent writer has said:  “Credit is any­
thing which is  of  no direct use in  itself 
but which is taken in exchange for some­
thing else,  solely in  the belief  or confi­
dence that we have the right to exchange 
it away  again for  something  else  we do 
require.”  Who  can  give  a  better defi­
nition of  money  than this?  Who would 
accept money  but  for  the  belief  that it 
could  be readily  exchanged  for  what is 
wanted?  Money  will not  feed  or clothe 
us except by exchange.  We thus demon­
strate the relations of  money  and credit. 
All persons accept the fact that personal 
credits should not be  circulated if  unre­
liable  and worthless.  Why do  they not 
look upon  their  circulating  medium  in 
like manner and have due  regard always 
for its great  underlying  principles as to 
safety and stability?
The varieties of credit in  our  country 
are very great. 
In  speaking  of  credits 
we usually think of such things as notes, 
checks, bills  of  exchange,  merchandise 
bills or accounts, etc.  The  bank note is 
a bill of credit.  In fact, any order to do or

pay something is a  credit.  An  order to 
your merchant or coal dealer is a present. 
If you buy a  ticket  to  the  concert  you 
purchase a right to see the performance. 
It is a credit.  The steamer  or  the  rail­
road ticket is but  a credit—a right  to be 
transported to a certain  specified  place. 
In like manner the  tickets  of  the  ice­
man, the  milkman  and  the  breadman, 
etc., are all bills of credit.  Thus you can 
realize  the  homogeneous  character  of 
money and credit—one  being  of  a  gen­
eral character, while  the other is specific 
and  particular.  These  examples  show 
the application of credit in  the  common 
affairs of business.  Banks  receive their 
chief  compensation 
from  the  charges 
made—called  discount—for 
carrying 
these particular credits for their patrons. 
As such  credits  mature  from  time  to 
time they are converted into the medium 
of general credit.
Credit, therefore, in its  application to 
banking, means  nothing  more  nor  less 
than the expectation  of  money within a 
reasonable limit of  time. 
It  should  be 
the one aim and abiding  hope  of  every 
good banker to realize  this  expectation. 
Assuming this to be true,  then let us re­
member  the  adage  that  “Money  well 
lent is half collected.”

Cr e e d T.  W a l k e r.

A v era g in g   D a m a g e s  U n law fu l.

The  Supreme  Court of  California has 
lately decided  that it  is  unlawful  for  a 
jury to arrive at  the amount of damages 
to be assessed  in  a civil  suit  by  taking 
an  average  of  their  various  estimates. 
Some  time  ago  a  young  lady  of  San 
Francisco was  passing  along  the street, 
and  a  chisel,  falling  from  a  scaffold 
where a carpenter was at  work, inflicted 
a painful wound upon her.  She sued for 
damages, and  the  jury found  it  hard to 
agree as to the amount which  she should 
receive.  Everyone  had a  different  idea 
on the  subject, though  they were  all of 
the opinion that she ought to have some­
thing.  They  finally decided to make  an 
average of the sums which they were  in­
clined  to  award  her,  and  hand  in  the 
average as  their  verdict.  They told the 
court  how  they had  arrived  at their de­
cision, whereupon an  appeal was  taken, 
and the Supreme  Court decided  that the 
verdict  was  reached  “by  chance,”  and 
could not  stand.  Where  the element of 
chance enters into an average is not very 
plain to an outside observer, but perhaps 
the California solons know.

The  P rop osition   S e e m e d   R ea so n a b le.
A lad of 15 applied for the  position of 
office boy in a downtown house.
“Can  you read  and  write  and  spell, 
and  are  you  honest?”  asked  the  em­
ployer.

“Yes,  sir.”
“How old are you?”
“Fifteen.”
‘ We pay such a boy 82  a week  and he 
finds himself.”
“All  right, 
I’ll  take the  job  on one 
condition.”
“What’s that?”
“I’ll take  care of  the reading, writing 
and spelling, but  you’ve  got to look out 
for  the  honesty  till  I  get  a  raise  of 
wages.”

Some souls there  are  like  the  cactus 
blossom, surrounded by a pricking  mass 
themselves  a  marvel  of 
of  ugliness, 
sweetness.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

Pec k ham’s Ä siiä

l'I e a sa u t-S a fe -C r r ta in .  Gi  !  a
i g h   C u re, 
bottle  today: 
you may need it
to n ig h t.  One I  
| |   n  dose  will prove
its value. S a v e V  I   V U U   t h e   C h ild ren  ! 
W h o o p in g -Co u g h ,  C r o u p  Co l d s,  Co u g h s, 
quickly yield to  its  use. 
k e e p l t a t h a n d .   Large
bottle
A il d ru g g is ts
p r ic e   t o   t h e J t r a d e  :

a

$2 a dozen;  5 per cent, with  3  doz.  order, 10 per 

cent, with 6 doz.

On receipt of dealer's  printed  address we will 
forward, free of charge,  a tablet  of  9x12  white 
wrapping paper, cut  from  40-pound  book, bear 
lng dealer’s card  neatly printed thereon.
Order PEC K H A ll\S  CKOIIP  REMEDY  of 
your jobber, and send your  label  to  Peckliam  
Rem edy  Co.,  Freeport, Mich.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

1 5

Wholesale P rice  Current.
Advanced—Insect Powder.

ACIDUM.

Acetlcum.......................  
8® 10
Benzoicum  German..  65®  75
......................  
Boracic 
30
Carbolicum  .  ............... 
27® 36
Citricum.......................  
50® 52
Hydroctuor................. 
3® 
5
Nltrocum 
.....................  10® IS
Oxalicum......................   10®  12
Phosphorlum dll........  
20
Salley lieum ...................... 1  36®1 70
Sulphuricum...............  1X®
Tannlcum..........................1  40®1 60
Tartarlcum................. 
AMMONIA.

30®  33

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Aqua, 16  deg...............  3&@  5
20  deg...............   5)4®  7
Carbonas  ................ 
  12®  14
Chloridum...................  12®  14

ANILINE.

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

BACCAE.

Cubeae (po  40)......... 
3‘.®  40
Juniperas.................... 
8®  10
Xanthoxylum..............   25®  30

BAL8AMUM.

Copaiba........................  45®  50
Peru..............................  @1  95
Terabin, Canada  —  
50®  60
Tolutan........................  35®  50

COBTEX.

Abies,  Canadian...................  18
Ca8slae  ..................................  11
Cinchona F la v a ...................  18
Rnonymus  atropurp............  30
Hyrlca Cerifera, po..............  20
Prunus Vlrgini......................  12
Qulllala,  grd.........................   10
Sassafras  ...............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........   15

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EXTBACTUM.
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra..
po..........
Haematox, 15 lb. box.
Is..............
Hs............
548..........
TEBBU
Carbonate Preclp.......
Citrate and Quinta...
Citrate  Soluble..........
Ferrocyanldum Sol...
Solut  Chloride..........
Sulphate,  com’l .........
pure............

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24®  25 
33®  35 
11®   12 
13®  14 
14®  15 
16®  17

®  15 
®3 50 
®   80 
@  50 
@  15 
.9®  2
®   7

Arnica.........................   18®  :
Anthemls....................   3f@  i
Matricaria 
50®  (

 

F L O R A .

 
F O L IA .

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Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin

....................   18®  !
nlvelly......................  25®  s
Alx.  35®  !
and  )4s......................  15®  i
8®  1

Salvia  officlnallB,  548
....................  
UraUrsi 
•man.

Acacia,  1st  picked—   ®  1
2d 
....  ®  i
....  ®  !
3d 
sifted sorts...  @  i
p o .........   60® 
I
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60)...  50®  I 
“  Cape,  (po.  20)...  ®   :
Socotrl. (po.  60).  ®  l
Catechu, Is, (Mis, 14 548,
16) ........................... 
®   :
Ammonlae...................  55®  (
Assafcetlda,  (po. 35).. 
30®  !
Benzoin am...................  50®  !
Camphor»....................   55®  !
Euphorblum  po  .........  35®  1
Galbanum....................   ®2  !
Gamboge,  po...............  70® 
'
Guaiacum,  (po  35).... 
® 
i
Kino,  (po  1  10)..........   @11
M astic.........................  
®   t
Myrrh, (po. 45)............  @  1
Opll  (po  4  20)...............2 90@3 (
Shellac  ........................  35®  <
“ 
33®  5
Tragacanth.................  40®1  (
bebba—In ounce packages.
Absinthium...........................   5
Bupatorlum...........................   5
Lobelia....................................  5
Majorum................................  S
Mentha  Piperita...................  S
»  Y lr...........................   S
Rue..........................................   2
Tanacetum, Y ........................  1
Thymus,  V .............................  S

bleached....... 

MAGNESIA.

Calcined, Pat — .........  55®  (
Carbonate,  Pat__ ....  20®  i
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  i 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  2

OLEUM.

Absinthium....................3 50®4 (
Amygdalae, Dulc........   45®  1
Amydalae, Amarae___8 00@8 i
A nlsl................................1  70@1 t
Aurantl  Cortex...........2 30@2 4
Bergamll  .....................3 2S@3 E
Cajlputl...................... 
60®  f
Caryophylll.................  85®  S
Cedar...........................   35®  <
Chenopodll.................  ®1  f
Clnnamonll.................  90® 1  (
Cltronella....................   @  4
Conlum  Mac...............  35®  (
Copaiba  ......................  8C®  i

X

  ® 

Cubebae..........................  
Sxechthltos...............   2 50@2 75
Rrlgeron.......................2 25@2 50
Gaultherla................... 2 00@2  10
Geranium,  ounce....... 
®  75
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal.......  70®  75
Hedeoma  ....................2 1G@2 30
Juniper!..........................  50@2 00
Lavendula....................   90®2 00
Llmonls.............................2 40@3 60
Mentha Piper.................... 2 75®3 50
Mentha Verld...................2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal....................1  00@1 10
Myrcla, ounce..............  @ 5 0
O live...............................  90@2 75
Picls Liquida,  (gal..35)  10®  12
R iclni.........................   1  22® 1  28
Rosmarlnl................... 
75@1 00
Rosae,  ounce.....................6 50@8 50
Succlnl...........................   40® 45
Sabina...........................   90@1 00
Santal  ..........................3 50®7 00
Sassafras......................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__   @  65
Tlglll.............................  @  90
Thyme.........................   40®  50
op t...................  @  60
Theobromas.................  15®  20

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POTASSIUM.

Bi Carb..........................  15®  18
Bichromate.................  13®  14
Bromide...................... 
36®  40
Carb...............................  12®   15
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24®  26
Cyanide........................  50®  55
Iodide.................................2  90@3 00
30
Potassa, Bitart, pure..  27® 
Potassa, Bltart, com...  @ 1 5
Potass  Nltras, opt........ 
8®  10
Potass Nltras................  
7®  9
Prusslate ......................   28®  30
Sulphate  po.................  15®  18

BADIX.

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Aconitum....................   20®  25
Althae...........................  22®  25
Anchusa......................  12®  15
Arum,  po......................  @  25
Calamus........................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)....... 
8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)................  .. 
@  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po_  15®  20
Inula,  po......................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po..........................2 20@2 30
Iris  plox (po. 35@38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr....................   40®  45
Maranta,  14s ...............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
Rhei..............................   75@1  00
“  cut........................  @1  75
“  pv.........................   75@1  35
Splgella........................  35®  38
Sangulnaria,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentarla..................   30®  32
Senega.........................   65®  70
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 4 0
M  @  25
Scillae, (po. 35)............  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Fcetl-
®  35
dus,  po...................... 
Valeriana, Rng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a ..................  
18®  20
18®  20
Zingiber  j ................. 
SEMEN.
..  @ 15
Anisum,  (po. 20).. 
if®   18
Aplum  (graveleons).. 
4®  6
Bird, Is........................ 
Carol, (po. 18)..............  10®  12
Cardamon......................1 
Corlandrum.................  10®  12
Cannabis Satlva..........  3)4 @4
Cydonlum...................  75®1  00
Chenopodlum  ............  10®  12
Dipterlx Odorate..........2 25@2 50
Foenicnlnm ...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po..........  
6®  8
U n i..............................4  @ 4H
Llnl, grd,  (bbl. 3)4).. 4  @  4)4
Lobelia.........................   35®  40
Pharlarls Canarian__ 4 <4® 
5
Rapa;........................... 
6®  7
Slnapls  Albu............. 11  @13 *
Nigra............  11®  12

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SPIBITUS.
Frnmentl, W..D.  Co.. 2 00®2 50
D. F. R ....... 1  75@2 00
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T ___ 1 65@2 00
“ 
..............1  75@3 50
Saacharnm  N.  B ..........1 75@2 00
Spt.  Vlnl  Galll............. 1 75@6 50
Vlnl Oporto...................1 
Vlnl  Alba......................1 

1 

25@2 00
25@2 00

25@1 50

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

STBUTS.

A ccacla..................................  50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................   60
Ferrl  lod................................  50
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom.............................  50
Slmllax  Officinalis...............   60
Co.........  50
Senega....................................  50
Sclllae.....................................   50
“  Co................................   50
Tolutan..................................  50
Pranas  vlrg...........................   50

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TINCTUBES.

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

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

Aconltum Napellls R..........   60
F ..........   50
41  “ 
“ 
and  myrrh....................   60
Arnica.....................................   50
Asafcetlda..............................   0
Atrope Belladonna...............   60
Benzoin....................................  go
„  “  Co...............................  50
Sangulnaria.............................  50
Barosma..................................  50
Cantharldes..........................  75
Capsicum...............................  50
Ca damon...............................  75
„  “ 
Castor..................................... 1 00
Catechu..................................  50
Cinchona..............................   50
Columba................................  50
Conlum..................................  so
Cubeba....................................  50
D igitalis...............................  50
Ergot......................................  50
Gentian.....................  
50
„  “  Co..............................   60
Gualca...................................   50
Zingiber................................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................   50
Iodine.....................................   75
Colorless........  75
Ferri  Chloridum.............  35
K ino.......................................  50
Lobelia...................................   50
Myrrh.....................................   50
Nux  Vomica.........................   50
O pll........................................   85
“  Camphorated.................  50
“  Deodor............................2 00
Aurantl Cortex......................  50
Quassia..................................  50
Rhatany................................   50
Rhel.........................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...............  50
“ Co..........  50
Serpentarla...........................  50
Stromonium...........................  60
Tolutan..................................  60
Valerian................................  50
VeratrumVerlde..................   50

amnion..........  60

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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ground, 

AEther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  28®  30 
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alumen......................... 2>4@ 3
(po.
D ................................ 
4
3® 
Annatto........................  55®  60
4®  5
Antimoni, po............... 
55®  60
et Potass T. 
Antipyrin....................   @1  40
Antlfebrin....................  @  25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  60
Arsenicum..................  
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  
38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ..............2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Hs
12;  ^s,  14)...............   @  11
Cantharldes  Russian,
p o ...............................  @1  00
Capsid  Froctus,af...  @  26
“ p o....  @  28
®  20
“ Bpo. 
Caryophyllus, (po.  18)  14®  15
Carmine,  No. 40..........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F .......  50®  55
Cera Flava..................   38®  40
Cocona 
.......................   @  40
Cassia Fructus............  @  25
Centrarla......................  @  10
.............   @  40
Cetacenm .. 
Chloroform.................  60®  63
squlbbs ..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........ 1  35@1  60
Chondrus....................   20®  25
200 25
Clnchonldlne, P.  a   W 
15® 20
German 
8  @ 12
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  ........................
60
Creasotnm.................
@ 35
Creta, (bbl. 75)............
@ 2
prep....................
5® 5
precip...............
9® 11
@ 8
Rubra.................
70® 75
Cudbear....................
@ 24
Cuprl Sulph.............
5 @ 6
Dextrine..................
10® 12
Ether Sulph..............
70® 75
Bmery,  all  numbers
O
® 6
" 
po.................
jota.j[po.)  75.......
70® 75
12® 15
Flake  w hite............
Galla.........................  
_
® 23
Gambler........................  7  @  8
7  @ 8
Gelatin .Cooper..........   @  70
French............  40®  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 & 10. 
Less than box 66K
Glue,  Brown...............  
9®  15
“  White.................  13®  25
Glycerins.....................14)4®  20
Grana Paradlsl............  @  22
Humulus......................  25®  55
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..  @  85 
“ Cor ....  @ 8 0
Ox Rubrum  @  90 
Ammonlatl..  @100 
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum..............  @  64
Tcnthyobolla,  Am..  ..1  2S®1  50
Indigo...........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl............3 80@3 90
Iodoform......................  @4 70
Lupulin........................  ©2 25
Lycopodium...............   65®  70
M ad s...........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararglod..................   @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8. F ...............  60®  6s

IK)...............................2)4® 4

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S.  N. Y. Q.  &

Morphia,  !» P .4 W .  2 20@2 45
C.  Co......................  2 10@2 35
Moschus Canton.........  @ 4 0
Myrlstlca,  No  1 .........  65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 1 0
Os.  Sepia......................  20®  22
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co...............................  @2 00
Picls Liq, N>C., H gel
doz  ...........................  @2J00
Picls Liq., quarts.......  @1 00
pints..........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper Nigra,  (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__   @  3
Plx  Burgun.................   @  7
Plumbl A cet...............  14®  15
Pulvls Ipecac et opll. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz.......  @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv............  20®  30
8®  10
Quasslae...................... 
Qulnla, S. P. a  W.......  29®  34
S.  German__   20®  30
Rubla  Tlnctorum.......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
20®  22
Salacln......................... 1  75@1  80
Sanguis  Draconls.......  40®  50
Sapo,  W........................  12®  14
"  M.........................   10®  12
“  G.........................   @  15

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Seldlltz  Mixture........   @  20
Slnapls..........................  @  18
opt....................   ®   30
Snnff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes.........................   @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb..................   1)4®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb.............   @  5
Soda,  Ash....................  3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas.............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o............  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom.......  @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........   @3 00
*‘  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
....7 ........................... 2  19@2 29
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Stiychnia  Crystal....... 1  40@1  45
Sulphur, Subl............. 2K@  3
“  Roll...............  2  @  2)4
Tamarinds..................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  30
Theobromae................45  @  48
Vanilla...  ................9 00@16 00
Zlnci  Sulph................. 
7®  8

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. 

Llndseed,  boUed__   54 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained................. 
80 
Spirits Turpentine__   35 

57
85
40
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian...............IK  2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.... IK  2@4
“ 
Ber.........1st  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2K  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure...... 2)5  2K@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16
ican ............................. 
Vermilion,  English.... 
65®70
Green,  Peninsular....... 
70@75
Lead,  red......................  e%@7
“  w h ite.................6K@7
@70
Whiting, white Span... 
Whiting,  Gliders  ......... 
@90
1  0 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Bng.
c liff............................. 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.......................1  00@1  20

VARNISHES.

No. lTurp  Coach.... 1  lo@l  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 
Turp...........................  
70®75

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils % Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole A gem ts for the  Celebrated

SWISS  VILLA  PREPARED  PAINTS.

Lie of Staple Dints’  Seines.

We are Sole Proprietors of

Weatherly's  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

W e  H ave in  Stock and Offer a  F u ll L ine of

WHISKIES,  BRANDIES,

GINS,  WINES,  RUMS,

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

H A M M   &  PERKINS  DRUG  CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT.

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 .......... .........  80
M ica........................   75
..  .. ........   55
Paragon 

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

BAKING  rO W U EB. 
Acme.
A lb. cans, 3 doz................. 
45
A lb.  “ 
2  “  .................  
85
lb.  «  1  “  ...................  1 60
1 
Bulk....................................... 
10
A 
cane 6 doz  case.......... 
55
1  10
$41b  “ 
2 00
1  B>  “ 
5  lb  “ 
9  00
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case...  80
16
.2 00 
40
Red Star, it fl> cans.......
...
..........
Teller’s,  A lb. cane,  doz.
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Arctic.
4 doz  “   
2 doz  “   
1 dot  “   
Fosfon.

 

B>  “ 

54 
1  fi>  “ 
54 lb.  “ 
11b.  “
54 lb cans........
1 lb cane........
Dr. Price’s.

Our Leader, 54 lb cans

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85 
1  50 
45

per doz 
Dime cans..  95
..1  40 
4-oz 
2 00 
6 oz 
..2 60 
8-oz 
..3 90 
12 oz 
..5 00 
16-oz 
12 00 
2541b
18 25 
lb
4- 
22 75 
5- 
lb 
41  80
10-lb

IJBPRICE'S
CREAM
gAKlHg
powder
*ui«?nx5

BATH  BRICK.
2  dozen in case.
English......................... 
90
Bristol.....................................  80
Domestic................................  70

 

BLUING.  Gross

“ 

“ 
“ 

8oz 

Arctic, 4 oz  ovals...............  3 63
“ 
...............   7 00
“  pints,  round...........   9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75
“  No. 3, 
... 4 00
“  No. 5, 
... 8 00
“  1 oz ball  ....................  4 50
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........   3 60
“ 
8 oz.......... 6 80
“ 
BROOMS,
i.40. 2 Hurl............................   1 75
.............................2  00
NO. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet....................   ..  2 25
No. 1  “ 
......................... 2  50
Parlor Gem........................... 2  75
Common Whisk............. 
Fancy 
...................1  15
Warehouse............  ............3 25
Stove, No.  l .........................   125
10......................   1 50
15......................   1 75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row—  
85
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row —   1  25
Palmetto,  goose..................   1 50

BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

90

“ 

BUTTER  PLATES. 

Oval—250 In crate.

No.  1.......................................  60
No.  2.......................................  70
No.  3.......................................  80
No.  5............................................ 1 00

CANDLES.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes...............  10
Star,  40 
 
Paraffine  ..............................  10
Wicklng 
.............................  24

“ 

 

CANNED  GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  lib ..................l  20
“  2 lb..................l  go
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 81b.......................2  25
Cove Oysters.
lib .....................l  00
Standard, 
21b.................... 185
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb..............................2  50
“  2  lb..............................3  50
Picnic, 1 lb............................2  00
“ 
21b............................2  90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb.......................1  25
2  lb.....................2  10
Mnstard,  2 lb ...................... 2  25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb .............2  25
Soused, 2 lb ..........................2  25
Salmon.
Colombia River, flat............1  90
“ tails...............1  75
Alaska, Red..........................1  45
pink..........................1  25
Kinney’s,  flats.....................1  95
Sardines.
American  14s ..................   @ 5
A s.................. 614® 7
Imported  A*...................... 10® 11
A«.......................15016
Mnstard  44s ........................  @8
Boneless............................. 
21
Brook, 8 lb............................2  60

“ 
“ 

Trout.

“ 
“ 

Fruits.
Apples.

g5
3 00

Cherries.

Apricots.

3 
1b. standard.......... 
York State, gallons__  
Hamburgh,
Live oak.......................  
1  75
Santa Cruz..................  
1  75
Lusk’s ........................... 
1  75
Overland....................  
1  75
■  Blackberries.
B. &  W.........................  
95
Red...............................  1  10@1 20
Pitted Hamburgh  . . . .  
W hite........................... 
1  50
Brie..............................  
1  20
Damsons, Bgg Plums and Green 
Erie..............................  
1  10
California....................  
1  70
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common...................... 
1  25
P ie............................... 
M axw ell......................
Shepard’s .................... 
1  65
California....................  
2 20
................... 
Monitor 
1  65
Oxford................1........
Pears.

Peaches.

Gages.

1 75

Beans.

“ 
“ 

1  20
2 10

Qninces.

Domestic...................... 
Riverside...................... 
Pineapples.
Common.......................1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........  
2  50
2  75
grated........  
Booth’s sliced.............  @2 50
grated............  @2  75
1  10

Commo n ...................... 
Raspberries.
Red................................ 
1  30
Black  Hamburg.......... 
1  50
1  30
Brie,  black  ................. 
Strawberries.
Lawrence....................  
1  25
Hamburgh..................  
1  25
  1  25
 
Erie............................  
Terrapin.........................  
1  10
Whortleberries.
Blueberries................. 
1  00
Corned  beef  Libby’s ...........1  90
Roast beef  Armour's...........175
Potted  ham, A lb .......................1 30
“  A lb ...................  80
tongue, 14 lb...............1 35
85
chicken, 14 lb................... 95

>4 lb..........  

Meats.

“ 
Vegetables.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Peas.

Com.

Hamburgh  stringless...........1  25
French style........2 25
Limas....................1  35
Lima, green.................................1 40
soaked........................  75
Lewis Boston Baked.............1 85
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.................................l 50
Morning Glory....................
Soaked.................................. 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat............. 1 35
early Jane..........
Champion Eng.. 1  50
9
petit  pois.............1 75
fancy  sifted____1 90
Soaked....................................  75
Harris standard....................   75
VanCamp’s  marrofat............1 10
early -Tone........1 30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  35
French.................................... 2 15
F rench...............................17®22
Erie.........................................  95
Hubbard................................. 1 25
Hamburg................................. 1 40
Soaked....................................  85
Honey  Dew.............................1 50
Erie..........................................1 35

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

Tomatoes.

Hancock................................
Excelsior ...............................
Eclipse....................................
Hamburg................................
Gallon................................... 3 75

CHOCOLATE.

Baker’s.

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

23
37
43

CHEESE.

Amboy.........................   @10
Acme.............................  9A@9fc
Lenawee......................  9A@9A
Riverside.......................  ®10

® 944

Gold  Medal
Skim............................   7  ® 9
Brick  .............................. 
11
Edam  ..........................  
1  00
Leiden 
23
...................... 
Limbnrger..................   @10
Pineapple....................   @25
Roquefort....................   @35
Sap Sago...... ...............  @22
Schweitzer, Imported.  @24
domestic  __   @14

“ 

CATSUP.

“ 

Blue Label Brand.
....... 
Triumph Brand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles  ..........2 75
Pint 
4 50
Quart 1 doz bottles 
.  3 50
Half pint, per  doz...............1 35
Pint, 25 bottles..................... 4 50
Quart, per  d o z ...................3 75

CLOTHES  PINS.
COCOA  SHELLS.

5 gross boxes..................4C@45
35 lb  bags.......................  @3
Less  quantity  ...............  @314
Pound  packages...........644 @7

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

Fair........................................17
Good...................................... 18
Prime.....................................20
Golden...................................20
Peaberry...............................22
Fair........................................18
Good......................................20
Prime.................................... 21
Peaberry  ...............................22
Mexican and Guataroala.
Fair........................................21
Good...................................... 22
Fapcy.................................... 24
Prime.................................... 23
M illed...................................24
Interior.................................25
Private Growth....................27
Mandehling.........................28
Imitation..............................25
Arabian.................................28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Ac. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent,  for shrink­
age.
Package.
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX 
Bnnola  ........ ...............
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case 

23  30

Extract.

Valley City A gross............ 
75
.......... 1  15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross.........1 50

“ 

Bnlk.
Red

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft...
50 ft...
60 ft...
70 ft...
80 ft...
60 ft...
72 ft'..

“
“
••
Jnte
“

..  per doz.  1  25
140
160
175
190
90
100

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

CONDENSED  MILK.

4  doz. In case.

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

 
 
 
 

“Tradesman.’
 
 

8 1, per hundred.............  2 00
2 50
*2,  “  “ 
8 00
“  “ 
3 3, 
3 00
“  “ 
3 5, 
310, 
“  “ 
4  00
820, 
“  “ 
5 00
, per hundred.............  2 50
3 00
“  “ 
, 
3 50
,  “  “ 
“ 
..................................6  00
, 
“  “ 
4 00
, 
“  “ 
5  00
illgHSBK

 
"Superior.”

 
 

 

 
 

 

 

 

‘Universal.’

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

1000 

8  1, per hundred. 
..........   83 00
8 2, 
.................3  50
8 8, 
.................4  00
8 5, 
.................  5 00
810, 
..................6  00
820. 
...............  7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over..............  5  per  cent.
500  “ 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
(Can  be  m ade to represent’any 
d enom in ation  from  810  dow n. | 
20 book s................................$ 1 0 0
50
2 00 
3 00 
100
6 25 
250
500
10 00 
17 50
1000

...........................20 

10 

“

“

 

 

CREDIT  CHECKS.

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

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

CRACKERS.

Butter.

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

Soda.

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

Oyster.

CREAM  TARTAR.
Strictly  pure........................ 
30
Telfer's  Absolute...............  
31
Grocers’...............................15@2S
DRTED  FRUITS. 

D om estic.

“ 

Pears.

Peaches.

Blackberries.
Nectarines.

Apples.
“ '-^-'quartered 
Apricots.

Sundried, sliced In bbls. 
7 A
7A
“ 
Evaporated, 50’lb.’boxes  @11 
California in  bags........  
16A
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
17
In  boxes— ................   8  @9
70 lb. bags.........................  
15
15 A
251b. boxes....................... 
Peeled, In  boxes............ 
16
Cal. evap.  “ 
............ 
14
“ 
In bags......... 
13A
California in bags.......
o 
Pitted Cherries.
Barrels.............................
50 lb. boxes....................
.....................
25 “ 
Prunelles.
301b.  boxes....................
Raspberries.
In  barrels........................ 
501b. boxes...................... 
251b.  “ 

22
23
24
Loose  Muscatels in Boxes.

 
Raisins.

2 crown................................  1  60
3 
................................  1 80
2  crown................................. 5 A
3 
6A

“ 
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
“ 

“ 

 

 

Foreign.
Currants.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

4
4A

Peel.

25  “ 
25  “ 

Patras,  in barrels......... 
in  A-bbls.........  
in less quantity —  

“ 
“ 
Raisins.

4 A
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  20
Lemon 
10
Orange 
ll
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes..  @ 8
“ 
Sultana, 20 
..  8A@ 9
Valencia, 30  “ 
@ 7
Prunes.
Calif omia,  100-120................10
90x10025lb. bxs. 11A
..12 A
80x90 
“ 
70x80 
13M
“ 
60x70 
.14
“ 
7%
Turkey........................ 
Silver.............................  14@15
Sultana....................................9
French,  60-70........................ 13
70-80........................ 12
80-90........................ 11
90-10'.......................10
ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1, 6A.............................  81  76
No. 2,8A .............................  1  60

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

{

No. 1,6................................  165
No. 2, 6................................  1  50

XX  wood, white.

Coin.

Manilla, white.

No. 1,6A .............................  1  35
No. 2, 6A.............................  1  25
6A  .......................................  1  00
6............................................ 
95
Mill  No. 4...........................  1  00
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
100 lb. kegs..................... 
34s
Barrels.........................................8 00
Grits.............................................3 50

Farina.
Hominy.

Lima  Beans.

Dried............................... 

Maccaronl and Vermicelli.

Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported......................10 A@*  A

4A

Oatmeal.

Barrels 200..............................   4 50
Half barrels  100 .................  2  40

Pearl Barley.

Kegs.....................................   244

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bu...........................  2 00
Split  per lb ................... 2&@3
Barrels  180...................  @4  50
Half  bbls 90...............   @2  40
German...................................  4 A
East India.............................  5
Cracked................................. 

Wheat.

Sago.

5

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth..................................  1 40
Pollock............................. 
Whole, Grand  Bank....... 
Boneless,  bricks................7@9
Boneless, strips..................?@9

3A
5 A

Halibut

Smoked........................ 10A@11

Herring.
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Holland, white hoops  keg 

(5
bbl  10 00
7 50
“ 
Norwegian..............................   12 00
Round, A bbljlOO lbs........   2 85
1  45
Scaled........................... 

“  A  “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

.......  

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

19

“ 

10  lb s...................  
Russian,  kegs...................... 

Sardines.

95
65

Trout.

No. 1,  A bbls., lOOlbs............ 6 75
No.  1 A bbl, 40  lbs.................... 3 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...................  85
No. 1,8 lb  kits......................  70

Whlteflsh.

No.  1

Family 
A bbls, 100 lbs........... $7 50 83 25
A  “  40  “  ...........   3 25  1 50
101b.  kits....................  
48
8 lb.  “ 
41
....................  
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

90 
75 

Souders’.

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

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

2 
4 

doz
2oz  __ $  75
4 

oz  ....  1  50
Regular
Vanilla.
doz
oz  ....$1 2u
oz..... 2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz........ $1 50
4 oz.......   3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz........ $1 75
4 oz........  3 50

Jennings’ D  C.

Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding box
...  75
1  20
4 oz 
...1  40
2 00
6 oz 
...2 00
3 00
3 oz taper.........
2 no
...1  36
4 oz taper..............1  50
...1  50
2 50

“
“

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs......................................... 3 50
Half  kegs................................2 00
Quarter  kegs......................... 1 15
1 lb  cans................................   30
A  lb cans...............................  18
Kegs......................................... 4 50
Half  kegs................................2 50
Quarter kegs........................... 1 40
1 lb cans................................   34
Kegs  ....................  
11  00
............................5 75
Half  kegs 
Quarter kegs.......................... 3 00
1  lb  cans............................... 
60
Sage..........................................15
Hops....................................... .15

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

HERBS.

 

INDIGO.

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

55
50

JELLY.
17  1b. palls...................  @  55
30  “ 
.................   @  85

“ 
LICORICE.

Pure.........................................  80
Calabria..................................  ^
Sicily.........................................  12

Condensed, 2  doz.......................1 25

LVE.
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
70
Q nait..................................
45
Pint.....................................
40
Half  p in t..........................
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon............................... 7 00
4  75
Half gallon........................
3 75
Quart..................................
2 25
Pint......................................

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

Sugar house........................

14

Ordinary.............................

Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Prim e..................................
Fancy..................................

New Orleans.

Fair......................................
Good....................................
Extra good..........................
Choice................................
Fancy...................................

One-half barrels, 3c extra. 

16

20
30

18
22
27
32
40

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count...  @5 00
Half bbls, 600  count..  @3 00

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

6 (X)
3 50

Small.

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216...........................1 75
“  T. D. full count............  75
Cob, No.  3................................1 25

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

RICE.
Domestic.
Carolina bead........................  5
No. 1....................... 4A
No. 2......................  4
Broken..................................   3

“ 
“ 

Imported.
Japan, No. 1............................5A
N o.2....................... 5A
Java.......................................  5
Patna.....................................   5

" 

THE  MICHia^ISr  TRADESMAN,

B oot B eer  Extract.
“ 

Williams’, 1 doz...................   1 75
3  doz...................5  00
Hires’, 1  doz........................   1  75
“  3 doz...........................  5 00

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Allspice.................................10
Cassia, China In mats.........  7
Batavia in bund___15
Saigon In rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna..................22
Zanzibar................... 12
Mace  Batavia...................... 80
Nutmegs, fancy................... 75
“  No.  1.........................70
"  No.  2.........................60
Pepper, Singapore, black.... 10 
“ 
white...  .20
shot...........................16
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Allspice.................................15
Cassia,  Batavia................... 18
and  Saigon.25
“ 
“ 
Saigon......................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................ 22
•*  Zanzibar...................18
Ginger, African....................16
”•  Cochin.....................  20
Jamaica.................. 22
“ 
Mace  Batavia.......................7t
Mustard,  Bug. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste......................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................75
Pepper, Singapore, b la c k ___16
“ 
“   white......24
“  Cayenne...................20
Sage.  ..................................... 20
"Absolute” in Packages.

“ 

“ 

SAL  SODA.

14s  Ms
Allspice........................  84  155
Cinnamon....................   84  1  55
viuvcB...........................  ert
1  55
Ginger,  Jam aica.......  84
1  55
African............  84
Mustard........................  84 1  55
1  55
Pepper.........................   84
Sage......... 
.............   84
Kegs.....................................
154
Granulated,  boxes.............
•  1M
SEEDS.
A nise...........................   @1254
Canary, Smyrna..........
6
Caraway......................
10
90
Cardamon, Malabar...
Hemp,  Russian..........
454
Mixed  Bird  ...............
554
Mustard,  white..........
10
9
Poppy...........................
Rape.............................
6
30
Cuttle  bone.................
STARCH.

SNUFF.

Corn
20-lb  boxes........................... .  6
40-lb 
.........................
•  5*
Gloss.
1 -lb packages  ......................
.  554
3-lb 
.......................
.  554
........................ .  6
6-lb 
4*
40 and 50 lb. boxes.............
Barrels................................-.
.  554
Scotch, In  bladders............ .37
.35
Maccaboy, In jars...............
.43
French Rappee, In Jars —  
B oxes................................... ..55»
Kegs, English......................
• •444
SALT.
100 3-lb. sacks...................... 12  25
...................... 2 00
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb. sacks.................... 1  85
...................... 2 25
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases........................ 1  50
32
56 lb. dairy In linen  bags.. 
18
28 lb.  “ 
drill  “  16

SODA.

“ 
“ 

“ 

Warsaw.

56 lb. dairy in drill  bags.. 
281b.  “ 
-- 
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..

Ashton.

“ 

“ 

Higgins.

56 )*>. dairy in linen  sacks

Solar Rock.

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

Common Fine.

Saginaw.............................
Manistee............................
SALERATUS. 

Packed 60 lbs. in box

554
DeLand’s ............................. •  55a
Dwight’s ..........................- • •  554
Taylor’s ..............................

SOAP.
Laundry.

32
18
75

75

27

70
70

*

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1
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1

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♦  

*

■  j
« 

«

V

+   7

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

“ 

*  

.3  4 i
Old Country,  80  1-lb........
.3 90
Good Cheer, 601 lb............
.3 95
White Borax, 100  \ -lb—  
Proctor & Gamble.
3 45
Concord..............................
6 75
Ivory, 10  oz.......................
4 00
6  oz.........................
3 90
Lenox 
.  ...........................
3 60
Mottled  German...............
3 25
Town Talk.........................
vi
Dlngman Brands.
3 95
Single box..  .5.................
.V 5 box lots, delivered........
3  85
10 box lots, delivered....... 3 75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp d. .84 00 
plain...  3 94
N. K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.........................   4 75
Brown, 60 bars...................... 2 85
80  b ars.....................3  50

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

“ 

“ 

•*

Acme 
.................................  4 00
Cotton OU..........................     6  00
Marseilles.............................  3  95
Matter  ....................................4 35

*a

Smoking.

Gatlin’s  Brands.

Kiln  dried.................
......   17
........ 19
Golden  Shower........
Huntress 
.................
.........26
........ 29
Meerschaum.............
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle  Navy..............
........ 40
. ,30@32
Stork  .........................
German.....................
.........15
F rog...........................
.......33
Java, 56® foil.............. ____ 32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.......................
........ 16
Banner Cavendish...
........38
Gold Cut  ...................
........ 28

Scotten’s Brands.

.........15
Warpath....................
.........30
Honey  Dew...............
Gold  Block................
.......26
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s
Brands.
Peerless......................
.........26
Old  Tom....................
........ 18
..  ..2 2
Standard....................
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade.................
.........41
Rob  Roy....................
.......26
. .28(^32
Uncle  Sam.................
.........32
Red Clover.................

LeidersdorPs Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

Tom and Jerry..........
Traveler  Cavendish.
Buck Horn.................
Plow  Boy...................
Corn  Cake.................

.........25
........ 38
.........30
..30@32
........ 16

OILS.

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes
as  follows.  In barrels,  f. o.  b.
Grand Rapids:
Eocene.......................
854
Water White, old test
@ 754
7
W.  W.  Headlight, 150
Water  White  Mich..
© 6%
Naptha........................
@ 654
Stove Gasoline..........
@ 75»
Cylinder...................... 27  @36
E ngine...................... 13  @21
Black, 15 cold  test  ..

@ 854

HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol-

HIDES.

lows:
Green .........................
..  2@3
Part Cured.................
354@ 4
Full  “ 
.................
5  ©  5
Dry..............................
Kips, green  ................. 3  @ 4
“  cured..................
@ 5
Calfskins,  green........ 4  @  5
cured....... 5  @  6
Deacon skins............. 10  @30

“ 

@ 45%

No. 2 bides 54 off.
PELTS.

Shearlings................... 10  @  20
Lambs 
...................... 15  @  30

WOOL.

Wasbed..  ................. 12  @ 8
Unwashed.................
8  @15

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow.......................
Grease  butter  ..........
Switches....................
Ginseng...................... 2 00@2 50

3  @  3%
1  @ 2
154@ 2

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8

WHEAT.

No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test)

62
62

MEAL.

Bolted...  ..................
Granulated.................

....  140
.  1  65

FLOUR.

“

Straight, In  sacks__ ....  360
“  barrels... .......  3 85
“ 
“  sacks__ ....  460
Patent 
“  barrels... .......  4 80
“ 
Graham  “  sacks...
...  1  70
....  1  90
" 
Rye 
MILL8TUFFS.

Bran...............814 00
Screenings —   13 00
Middlings.......15 00
Mixed F eed...  18  no
Coarse meal  ..  17 50

Less
Car lots quantity
*14 00
13 00
15 00
18 50
18 00

CORN.

Car  lots......................
Less than  car  lots...

.........44
.........47

OATS.

Car  lots  .....................
Less than car lots....

.........35
........ 3854

HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__ 13  00
ton lots .......14  OO
No. 1 

“ 

Thompson & Chute Brands.
Silver................................... 3 80
M ono................................... 3 35
Savon Improved.................  2 50
Sunflower...........................3 05
Golden.................................. 3 25
Economical  ............. ..........  2 25
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 50
hand, 3 doz.......... 2 50

“ 

SUGAR.

The  following  prices  repre­
sent the actual selling prices in 
Grand Rapids, based on the act­
ual cost in New  York,  with  36 
cents per 100 pounds added  for 
freight.  The  same  quotations 
will not apply to any town where 
the freight rate from New York 
is  not  36  cents,  but  the  local 
quotations will, perhaps, afford 
a better criterion of the  market 
than to quote New York  prices 
exclusively.
Cut  Loaf.  ........................... *6 36
Powdered  .............................6  23
Granulated........................... 5  73
Extra Fine Granulated —   5  86
Cubes...................................  6  11
XXXX  Powdered...............  5  54
Confec. Standard  A ..........5  67
No. 1  Columbia A ..............  5  61
No. 5 Empire  A  ...................548
No.  6 ......... ......  5 36
No.  7....................................... 5  23
No.  8.....................................  5  11
No.  9............................ 
5 05
No.  10.... 
.........................   4  98
No.  11..................................... 4  92
No.  12..................................  4  86
No.  13...................................   4  63
No 14...................................   4  36

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels..................................2i
Half bbls................................23
Fair.........................................  19
Good.......................................  25
Choice.....................................   30

Pure Cane.

SWEET  GOODS.

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

8
8
9
854
854
as
40 gr.
50 gr...............................8  @9

*1 for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per gal  ....................  
30
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1 75
YEAST.
Magic,.................................... 1  00
Warner’s 
.........  ................. 1  00
Yeast Foam  .........................1  00
Diamond................................  75
R oyal.....................................   90

TEAS.

ja pa n—Regular.

BASKET  FIRED.

Fair.............................
@17
Good...........................
@20
Choice......................... 24 @26
Choicest...................... 32 @ 34
D ust............................ 10 @ 12
SUN CUR2D.
Fair.............................
@17
Good...........................
@20
Choice......................... 24 @26
Choicest...................... 32 @34
Dust.................................. 10 @ 12
Fair.................................. 18 @20
Choice..............................
@25
Choicest..........................
@35
Extra choice, wire leaf
@ 40
GUNPOWDER.
Common to  fall......... «5
(g}35
Extra fine to finest... 50 @ 65
Choicest fancy.......... 75 @85
@ 26
Common to fair.......... 23 @30
Common to  fair........ 23 @ 26
Superior to fine............ 30 @ 35
Common to  fair........
18 @26
Superior to  fine......... 30 @ 40
Fair................................18  @22
Choice.............................24  @28
B est................................40  @50

OOLONG.
IMPERIAL.

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

YOUNG  HYSON.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

Palls unless otherwise noted
Bazoo...........................   @30
Can  Can........................  @27
Nellie  Bly.....................27  @24
Uncle ben......................21  @22
Hiawatha....................  
60
34
Sweet  Cuba................. 
McGinty......................  
27
>4 bbls........... 
25
Dandy Jim................... 
29
Torpedo.......... ............ 
24
23
In  drums__  
28
Yum  Yum  ................. 
1892 ............................... 
23
“  drums................... 
22

“ 

“ 

Plug.

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

41
29
41
26
38
34
40
32

FRESH  MEATS.

“

Beef, carcass.............

6  @ 754
“  hindquarters.. 754®  854
“ 
.  454®  554
" 
“ 
•* 

fore 
loins,  No.  3.. .10  @11
ribs................. .  8  @ 9
rounds............ ■  7  @  754
© 6
@1054

Bologna......................
Pork loin s...............

“ 

“ 
“ 

shoulders............  @  \W%

Sausage, blood or head  @  7
liv e r .............   @ 7
Frankfort__   @  8V4
Mutton  .........................8  @  9
Veal............................... 7  @ 8
FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follows:

FRESH  FISH.

Whiteflsb 
..................   @ 8
T rout...........................  @  8
Halibut.........................   @15
Ciscoes or Herring....  @ 5
Blueflsh........................  @18
Fresh lobster, per lb —  
20
Cod................................ 
11
No. 1 Pickerel..............  @ 8
Pike..............................   @ 8
Smoked  White...........   @ 9
Red  Snappers...............  
12
Columbia River  Salmon 
20 
Mackerel........................ 
25
otsters—Cans. 

Fairhaven  Counts—   @40
F. J. D.  Selects..........   @33

SHELL  GOODS.

Oysters, per  100  ........ 1  50@1  75
Clams. 
..........1 00@1  25

“ 

PROVISIONS.

2 00
Scallops..............................  
Shrimps  ............................. 
1 50
PA PER  A WOO DEN WARE

PAPER.

Straw 
.................................... 1M
Rockford................................2
Rag sugar  ...............................254
Hardware................................ 2%
Bakers......................................2%
Dry  Goods....................  5  @6
Jute  Manilla.................  @614
Red  Express  No. 1............... 514
No. 2................414

“ 

TWINES.

“ 

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

WOODBNWARE.

Tubs, No. 1............................  7 00
“  No. 2.............................6 00
“  No. 3............................. 5 00
1  35
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop —   1  60
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes__  
40
Bowls, 11 Inch.....................   SO
......................  1  00

13  “ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

 
 

17
........................  1  0C
15  “ 
..........................2 25
17  “ 
2 75
19  “ 
3 0C
21  “ 
35
shipping  bushel..  1  25 
..  1  35
full  noop  “ 
No.2 7 5C
No.3  8 5(1
No.2 4 25
.No.3 5 0C

“ 
“ 
“ willow cl’ths, No.l  6  25
“ 
• 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“  No.l  3 50
“ 
“ 

splint 

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

Baskets, market................... 

INDURATED WARE.

Pails.....................................  3  15
Tubs,  No.  1...............................13 50
Tubs, N o.2................................12 00
Tubs, No. 3................................10 50

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as  follows:

DRESSED.

LIVE.

Fow l.............................. 10  @11
Turkeys......................... 11  @12
Ducks  .........................
Live broilers l&lbs. to 2 lbs.
Live broilers less than  1-1 54 
Spring  Chickens..........15  @20
Fowls.............................. 7  @ 8
Turkeys................................8  ©  9
Spring  Ducks...............15  @18

each, per  doz..........
lbs.  each .per doz...

Tbe Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

M ess,.................................................................21  06
Shortcut..................................................... -  .  21  00
Extra clear pig, short  cut...............................  23 00
Extra clear,  heavy..........................................
Clear, fat back.................................................  21  50
Boston clear, short cut....................................  22 00
Clear back, short cut........................................  22 00
Standard clear, short cut. best.....................  
22 50

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

.............................................854

Pork Sausage........................................................
Ham Sausage.......................................................   9
Tongue Sausage...................................................9
Frankfort Sausage 
Blood Sausage......................................................  7
Bologna, straight................................................   6
Bologna,  thick...............   ..................................  6
Headcheese......................................................... 7
Kettle  Rendered................................................. 11
Granger................................................................ loSt
Fam ily..................................................................  8
Compound...........................................................  754
50 lb. Tins, &c advance.
20 lb. palls, He 
10 lb.  “  3£c 
“  %c 
5 lb. 
'•  1  c 
3 lb. 

LARD.

“
“
“
“

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs.............................  8 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing..............................   8 50
Boneless, rump butts.........................................1400

“ 
“ 

“ 
'• 
“ 
11 

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plata.
 

Hams, average 20 lbs............................ 

1314
16 lbs..........................................13J4
12 to 14 lbs..................................13*
picnic.........................................................II
best boneless..........................................  1354
Shoulders..............................................................1054
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................................1354
Dried beef, ham prices......................................1054
Long Clears, heavy.............................................
Briskets,  medium...............................................  ,
ligh t.....................................................  11

„ 

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

STICK  CANDT.

Cases 

“  H.H...............
“ 

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

.. 
854
.'.  854
MIXED CANDY.

Bbls. Palls.
654
754
654
754
754
654
854

PallB.
7

Bbls.
Standard.............................................f 
Leader...............................................®
Nobby................................................7
English  Rock.................................. 7
.7
Conserves................................. 
Broken Taffy......................baskets 
8
9
Peanut Squares................... 
8 
French Creams................................
Valley  Creams................................  
If
Midget, 30 lb. baskets........................................   g
Modern, SO lb. 
 

 

“ 
fancy—In bulk

 

 

fa n c y—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Palls.
LozengeB, plain.................................................  10
printed.............................................   JJ
Chocolate Drops...................................................JlH
Chocolate Monumeutals........ .........................  If
Gum Drops.........................................................
Moss Drops.........................................................  
jj
Sour Drops.........................................................
i°
Imperials......................... 
Per Box
Lemon Drops........................................................66
Sour Drops........ ................. 
65
Peppermint Drops................................................60
Chocolate Drops...................................................65
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................... 90
Gum Drops.............................................   • • -*0@60
Licorice Drops.................................................. 1 55
A. B. Licorice Drops...........................................80
Lozenges, plain........................... 
60
printed................................................65
Imperials...............................................................60
Mottoes..................................................................70
Cream Bar............................................................. 65
Molasses  Bar........................................................55
Hand Made Creams......................................85@95

“ 

 

Plain Creams................................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams................................................. i 00
String Rock.........................................................65
Burnt Almonds.......................................................i 00
Wintergreen  Berries......................................... 60
CARAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb. boxes............................  34
 
No. 1, 
51
No. 2, 
 
28
No.3, 
...........................
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes.......................................

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

3 
2 
3 

 
 

Small............................................................ 1  50@1 75
Medium......................................................2 0C@2 50
Large  .........................................................

California Riverside Seedlings...............3 75@4 00

BANANAS.

ORANGES.

LEMONS.

“ 
“ 

50-lb.  “ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“  extra 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Messina,choice  360 ................................ 

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, fancy  layers, 61b.......................
“ 
101b.......................
141b.......................
“ 
“  201b........................
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box........................
.......................  
NUTS.

5 00
fancy, 360 ...............................   5 50@6 00
choice 300. 
@4  50 
fancy 380  ..
6  00
@1254 
@1254 @14 
@15 
@ 754 @ 614
.........
Persian, 50-lb.  box....................... 45%@  554
@19 
@13 
@1854 
@ 9 
@1154 
@1354 
@ @13 
@1354 
@ 12  
@14 
@4 25

Almonds, Tarragona................................
Ivaca..........................................
California.................................
Brazils, new...............................................
Filberts......................................................
Walnuts, Grenoble...................................
“  Marbot........................................
“ 
Tabie Nuts,  fancy...................................
choice................................
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  .............................12
Cocoannts, full sacks..............................
Fancy, H.  P., Suns....................................  @  8
“  Roasted......................  @  954
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..................................  @ 8
“  Roasted.....................  @ 954
Choice, H. P.,  Extras..............................   @654
“  Roasted...................  @  8

“ 
“ 
“ 
CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE. 

Calif........................................... 11

PEANUTS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

FRUIT  JARS.

Pints................................................................. I 6 50
Quarts................................................................  7 00
Half Gallons.........................................  .........  9 00
Caps...................................................................   3 OO
Rubbers............................................................. 
50
No. 0 Sun..............................................................   45
No. 1  “  ..............................................................   50
No.2  “  ...............................................................  75
Tubular................................................................  75

LAMP  BURNERS.

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.  Per bOX.

6 doz. In box.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Pearl top.

La Bastle.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No.OSun.............................................................1  80
N o.l  “ 
..............................................................1  90
No.2  “  .............................................................. 2  90
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top......................................... 2 25
No. 1  “ 
“  ..........................................2 40
No. 2  “ 
“  .......................................... 8 40
No. 0 Sun, crimp top......................................... 2 60
No. 1  “ 
“  .......................................... 2 80
8
No. 2  “ 
“  ..........................................3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.....................3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
......................4  70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
......................4 88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz......................... 1  25
No. 2  “ 
......................... 1  50
No. 1 crimp, per doz.......................................... 1  35
No. 2  “ 
........................................... 1  60
No. 0, per  gross..................................................   23
28
No. 1, 
 
No  2, 
38
 
No. 3, 
75
 
Mammoth, per doz.............................................   75
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal................................  06
54 gal. per doz........................  60
“ 
Jugs, 54 gal., per doz.......................................  70
"  1 to 4 gal., per gal...................................   07
Milk Pans, 54 gal., per doz.............................  60
“ 
...........................  72

1  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.

LAMP WICKS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal.............................  07
Milk Pans, 54 gal..............................................  65
............................................  78

1  “ 

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18

THE  MICEUG^JST  TRADESMAN

WEIGHTS  AND  MEASURES.

Inspection.

Farcical  Character  of  Their  Official 
It has been  quite generally understood 
by the grocers of this city that those sec­
tions of the city charter upon the author­
ity of which the  Common Council passed 
the weights and  measures  inspection or­
dinance  had  been  repealed,  and  that, 
consequently, 
the  ordinance  was  no 
longer  in  force.  T h e  T r a d e sm a n  has 
been  at considerable  trouble  to investi­
gate the matter, and finds that no change 
has been made in the city charter in that 
regard, and that  the  ordinance is still in 
force.  The power of  the Common Coun­
cil to provide for inspection as defined in 
the  ordinance, and  for  the appointment 
of an  inspector  to carry  out  the  provi­
sions of  the  ordinance  is undoubted, as 
the following sections of the city charter 
will show:
58.  To appoint one or more inspectors, 
measurers,  weighers and  gaugers of  ar­
ticles to be measured, inspected, weighed 
and  gauged;  to  prescrioe  and  regulate 
their powers  and  duties,  fees  and com­
pensation.
59.  To direct and  regulate the inspect­
ing  and  measuring  of  wood,  lumber, 
shingles,  timber,  posts,  stones, heading 
and all building material; the inspecting, 
measuring and  weighing of  coke and all 
kinds of  coal; the inspecting and  weigh­
ing of hay; the inspecting of  vegetables, 
meats, fish  and all  other  food or  provi­
sions to  be  sold at  wholesale  or  retail; 
the  inspecting  and  weighing  of  flour, 
meal,  pork, beef,  and  all  other  food or 
provisions,  and  salt  to  be  sold  in  half 
barrels,  barrels,  casks, hogsheads, boxes 
or other packages.
60.  To regulate the  weights and meas­
ures to be  used in said  city, and to com­
pel every  merchant,  retailer,  trader,  or 
dealer in  merchandise,  groceries, provi­
sions, or  property  of  every  description 
which is  sold  by measure or  weight,  to 
use weights and measures to be sealed by 
the city sealer,  and to be  subject  to his 
inspection and alteration so as to be made 
conformable to  the standard  of  weights 
and measures established  by the general 
laws of this State.
By  authority of  these  sections of  the 
city charter  the Council  passed  the fol­
lowing ordinance:
Section 1.  The  sealer  of  weights  and 
measures  of  the city  of  Grand  Rapids 
shall  have the  exclusive  power  to per­
form all  the duties  pertaining to  his of­
fice, and  shall  try and  prove  all scales, 
beams,  weights  and  measures  used  in 
said city, for the  purpose of  buying and 
selling; and  such as  shall be  found con­
formable to the standards  kept in his of­
fice  he shail  stamp  with  the  word “ap­
proved,”  or  the  letter  “M,”  and  the 
year in  which such  inspection  is  made; 
and such as are found not to be conform­
able  to  the  standard  in  bis  office,  he 
shall mark with  the word “condemned.”
Sec. 2.  The  sealer  of  weights  and 
measures shall be provided by the city of 
Grand Rapids with a book,  to be kept in 
his office,  in which  he  shall register, in 
alphabetical  order,  the  name  of  each 
person  whose weights,  measures, scales, 
beams  or other  instruments  he  has in­
spected; the number and size of the same 
and what  number of  each was approved 
and condemned, with  the time of inspec­
tion; and such  book shall  at all  reason­
able times be open to  the inspection and 
examination of the public.
Sec. 3.  It shall be the duty of  the said 
sealer of  weights and  measures  at least 
once in  each year, and  as much  oftener 
as he  may deem it  necessary, to inspect 
all wood  boxes, racks or  measures  used 
by wood  dealers in said  city from which 
is sold or  offered  for  sale, or  delivered, 
sawed, or  sawed  and split  wood  by the 
cord, half cord or less quantities; and all 
such  boxes,  racks  or  measures  found 
conformable  to 
(which 
standard  shall not  be less  that one hun­
dred and fifty  cubic feet  for a  cord, and 
not less  than seventy-five  cubic feet for 
half  a cord) the standard for wood racks

the  standard 

to  be  8  feet  by 4 feet  to be kept in  his 
office, he shall stamp with the word “ap­
proved,” and the  year in  which such in­
spection  is  made,  and  all  such  boxes, 
racks or  measures, found  not conforma­
ble to the  standard in his  office, he shall 
stamp with the  word  “condemned,” and 
the  year  in  which  such  inspection  is 
made.
Sec. 4.  No  person  shall  neglect or re­
fuse  to  exhibit  any  weights, measures, 
scales, beams  or other  instruments used 
by  him  or  her  in  weighing  or  meas­
uring,  or  any  box, 
rack  or  mea­
sure,  from  which is  sold or  offered for 
sale, or  delivered  any  sawed, or  sawed 
and split  wood  in  any  quantity,  to  the 
sealer of weights and measures when de­
manded  by him, or his authorized assist­
ants,  for the purpose of  having the same 
inspected.
Sec. 5.  No person shall use  for buying 
or selling, any weights, measures, scales, 
beams, or other  instruments, or for buy­
ing,  selling  or  delivering,  sawed,  or 
sawed and  split  wood in  any  quantity, 
any  box,  rack  or  measure,  unless  the 
same has  been  inspected  and  stamped 
“approved”  by  the sealer of weights and 
measures, or by said sealer of weights and 
measures stamped  with  the  letter  “M,” 
And all boxes,  racks or  measures, from 
which sawed, or sawed and split  wood is 
sold, offered for sale or delivered, shall be 
bound by  an iron  band running  around 
the  upper edge of  said  boxes  or  meas­
ures.
Sec. 6.  No  person shall  sell or deliver 
any  coal,  hay  or  straw  (except  straw 
sold in bundles) within the limits of  the 
city of  Grand  Rapids, unless there shall 
be delivered  to the  person  in  charge of 
the wagon, or  conveyance  used in deliv­
ering  such  coal,  hay  or  straw  (except 
straw sold in bundles), a certificate writ­
ten  in  ink,  duly  signed by  the  person 
selling the same, and showing the weight 
of  the coal, hay or straw purported to be 
delivered,  the  weight  of  the  wagon or 
conveyance  used  in  such  delivery,  the 
total  weight  of  coal,  hay  or  straw and 
conveyance,  the  date  of  weighing  the 
same and the name of the purchaser.
Sec. 7.  No  person  in  charge  of  the 
wagon or  conveyance used  in delivering 
coal, hay or  straw, to  whom  the  certifi­
cate mentioned in section 6, has been de­
livered, shall  neglect or  refuse upon de­
mand  to  exhibit  such  certificate  to the 
sealer of  weights  and  measures  of  said 
city, or to his  assistant, or to any person 
designated by him, or to the purchaser of 
the  coal, hay  or straw  being  delivered; 
and when  said  officer, or  the persons so 
designated,  or  such  purchaser  shall de­
mand  that  the  weight  shown  by  such 
certificate be verified, it shall be the duty 
of the  person  delivering  such  coal,  hay 
or  straw, to  convey the  same forthwith 
to some public scale of the city, or to any 
private scale in the city where the owner 
thereof shall consent to  such use, and to 
permit the verifying of the weight shown, 
and shall,  after the delivery of such coal, 
hay or  straw,  return  forthwith with the 
wagon or  conveyance  used  to  the same 
scale and verify the weight of such wagon 
or conveyance.
Sec. 8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said 
sealer  of  weights  and  measures  to  in­
spect  or  cause  to  be  thoroughly  in­
spected and  tested  the  weight  of  coal, 
hay or  straw sold  or delivered as  afore­
said  within  the  limits  of  the  city  of 
Grand Rapids,  and to take the necessary 
proceedings and make the necessary com­
plaints to enforce  the provisions of  this 
ordinance.
Sec. 9.  The tees to be charged and col­
lected for  the services of  the said sealer 
of weights and measures, which said fees 
shall belong  to said  city, and when  col­
lected  by  said  sealer  of  weights  and 
measures, shall be paid into the treasury 
of said city, shall be as follows:  For  in­
specting and sealing scales of from three 
to  ten  tons  capacity,  each  one  dollar. 
For  inspecting  and  sealing  dormant 
scales, each  fifty  cents.  For inspecting 
and sealing movable platform scales, each 
thirty-five  cents.  For  inspecting  and 
sealing  beams  weighing  one  thousand 
pounds  and  upwards,  each  thirty-five 
cents.  For 
sealing 
counter  scales,  each  twenty cents.  For 
Inspecting and  sealing wood racks, each 
I twenty-five  cents.  For  inspecting  and

inspecting  and 

K

S  JUSTICE 

in  a  Great 
Measure  Constitutes  the 
Real Good Man, so Should 
invariable  Practice 
it  be  our 
Never to deviate from  the Minut­
est Principles Thereof.

Actuated  by  the  feeling,  we 
'''IllSifU  take our pen  in  hand to tell  you 
how  justly deserving  of  all  the 
praise  bestowed  upon  them  are 
the

JEWÉTT  WATER  COOLERS.

Justly made of wrought 
iron  body  and  base,  cor­
rugated  galvanized  iron 
reservoir,  plated  self-clos­
ing faucets.

Too  much  stress cannot 
be laid  upon  the  fact that 
at all  seasons  of  the  year 
and  particularly just now 
a  Water Cooler  is  as nec­
essary  to  your  comfort, 
happiness and  health  as a 
house to live in  or food to 
eat.  The  price  of  these 
Coolers is within the reach 
of  all,  and none  can  have 
an  excuse  for  not  having: 
cold pure  water every day 
this summer.

D S T E fW E V E N S

18  and  19
Widdicomb  Building.

We are  now  ready  to  make 
contracts for the season of 1893.

Correspondence
Solicited.

THE  MÌCHIG^lÌST  TRADESMAN.

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to 

any 

attempt 

to  deliver, 

Sec.  11.  Nothing  in 

sealing  every  patent  balance,  steelyard 
or other  instrument for weighing,  other 
than the above  enumerated, each twenty 
cents.  And  with  each  scale  sealed  by 
him he shall  inspect and seal one set  of 
weights,  without  any  additional charge 
or  compensation.  For  inspecting  and 
sealing any dry measure, each two cents. 
For inspecting  and sealing  any board or 
cloth measure, each two cents.
Sec. 10.  Ho person or persons shall ob­
struct, or  in any manner impede  or wil­
fully  delay  the  said  sealer  of  weights 
and measures in the execution of his du­
ties under  this  ordinance, either  by re­
fusing him  or  delaying  his  entrance or 
admission  into  any  of  the  places above 
mentioned;  and  no  person  or  persons 
shall refuse or omit to stop any wagon or 
carriage as  aforesaid  whereby  the  due 
execution of  this  ordinance or  any part 
of  it,  shall  be  impeded  or  obstructed; 
and  any  person  or  persons  who  shall 
sell,  or  attempt 
sell,  deliver, 
or 
coal, 
hay  or  straw  of  less  weight  than  that 
purported to be  delivered  or sold by the 
certificate  mentioned in section 6 of this 
ordinance,  shall be  deemed  guilty of  a 
violation of this ordinance.
this  ordinance 
shall  be  construed  to  prohibit  the  said 
sealer of  weights  and  measures,  when 
thereunto duly  authorized  by  the  Com­
mon Council  of  said  city, from employ­
ing or deputizing  one or  more assistants 
in the  performance of  the duties in this 
ordinance  enumerated;  and  said  assist­
ants shall receive such  compensation for 
their services as the said Common  Coun­
cil may prescribe.
Sec.  12.  Any  person  or  persons  who 
shall violate any of  the  provisions or re­
quirements of  this ordinance, on convic­
tion thereof, shall  be  punished by a fine 
of  not  less  than  one  dollar  nor  more 
than fifty dollars, together with costs  of 
prosecution,  and in  default of  the pay­
ment of  such fine and  costs, the defend­
ant may be  sentenced to  be imprisoned, 
at hard  labor, in the common  jail of the 
county of  Kent,  or  in any  penitentiary 
jail  or workhouse of  said  city, until the 
payment  of  such  fine  and  costs,  for a 
period  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more 
than ninety days.
The desirability and  necessity of such 
an ordinance will be readily admitted by 
all reputable  dealers.  Certain  features 
may be objectionable, but,  on the whole, 
the ordinance is a good  one, and its pro­
visions  should  be  cheerfully  complied 
with. 
It  is  taken  for  granted  that an 
honest  dealer  desires  to  give  his  cus­
tomers honest measure, but, as  it  is im­
possible to have at  hand  a  complete set 
of standard weights  and  measures,  it  is 
necessary that  some  one  should  be  ap­
pointed who knows  the  standard and  is 
in  a  position  to  say  when  scales  and 
weights and measures are  in proper con­
dition.

While this and much  more can be said 
in favor of  the ordinance, it  is very cer­
tain that its administration  is  far  from 
being all that it ought to be.  Scales have 
been  inspected,  sealed,  and  a  demand 
made for fees,  where  there was  no buy­
ing and selling in the meaning of  the or­
dinance.  The  sealer  has,  on  finding 
scales out of order,  himself attempted to 
remedy the  defect,  charged  for  it,  and 
made  complaint  if  the  charge was  not 
paid;  he has no  power, under  the  ordi­
nance, to do more than ascertain the con­
dition of the scales, stamp  them accord­
ing to his  finding,  and  collect  his  fees. 
He is exceeding his  authority if  he goes 
further  than  this,  and  will  only  make 
trouble for  himself  and  bring the ordi­
nance into disrepute.  Then, again, some 
of the places where scales and  measures 
are used have not been visited by the in­
spector in two years, and a  few for even 
a longer time.  This  is “inspection that 
does not inspect,” and  is  a  farce.  One 
of  two  things  should  be  done—either

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abolish  the  office  entirely, or  have  the 
inspection  performed  efficiently  and  in 
accordance  with  the  terms  of  the  law. 
If the present  inspector  cannot  do  the 
work as it  ought  to  be  done,  some  one 
else should be appointed to the office who 
can do it.  The amount of  work  accom­
plished  is  not  to  be  determined  alto­
gether by  the  fees collected, nor  by the 
extent of  territory covered.  A  visit  on 
the part of any one interested to some of 
the  groceries  and  other  places  where 
scales and measures  are  used will  show 
not only how  the  work  of  inspection is 
being done, but how  antagonism  to  the 
ordinance  has  been  engendered, result­
ing in a feeling of hostility to  the  officer 
entrusted with its enforcement.

*  *  *

On Thursday last  Gaskill & Goss, gro­
cers  at  198  East  Bridge  street,  were 
served with  a summons to appear in the 
Police Court  and  answer to  a  charge of 
using a  measure after  it had  been  con­
demned by  the  sealer. 
It  appears that 
the  sealer entered  the  store  and  asked 
Mr.  Gaskill  if  he  wanted  his  scales 
tested.  Mr.  Gaskill  replied  that he did 
not think he  did.  Mr.  Bush  then asked 
if  he  might  look  through 
the  store. 
Being  answered  that  he  might,  he  en­
tered the store, remained some time, and 
on coming out  made  a demand  for  fees. 
He  was asked  for  his  bill, but  said  he 
would put the matter in the hands of the 
City Attorney.  On entering the store he 
(the  sealer)  noticed a  tin measure lying 
in a box of  beans.  After  examining  it, 
he  marked  it  “condemned,”  saying  it 
was an  illegal  measure.  He then  went 
away, but  returned in  a  few  days, and, 
seeing  the  measure  in  the  same  place, 
entered a complaint  against  the  firm for 
using  a  measure  which  had  been  con­
demned.  The case  was called Friday in 
the  Police Court, but was  adjourned un­
til Monday.

*  *  *

Summonses  have  also  been  served on 
Wm.  Van  der  Maas,  Emil  Rebentisch, 
Morris  Dykema,  Thos.  E.  Wykes,  and 
others,  for  refusing  to  pay  the sealer’s 
fees.  Mr.  Dykema 
informed  T he 
T r a d e sm a n that his  reason for refusing 
was because the scales were not properly 
inspected.  Mr.  Dykema  was,  at  that 
time, located on West Bridge street.  He 
was burned out about seven months ago, 
and has since then called in the sealer and 
had  his  scales  tested,  paying  the  fee 
when  the  bill  was  presented.  Others 
say  they  have  not  refused  to  pay  the 
fees, but  simply  wanted  to  know what 
they were paying for and how often they 
were expected to pay.  In no case, so  far 
as can be learned, was any objection made 
either  to the  inspection  or  to  the  fees. 
But the manner in  which the sealer does 
his  work is  objected  to; at the best, the 
work  is  superficially  performed,  but 
when it is done to  an accompaniment  of 
abusive  language,  it  need  hardly  be  t 
matter  of  surprise if  objections  are  oc­
casionally  heard. 
If  the present incum­
bent of  the office is  to  discharge his du 
ties as  he has in  the  past,  the  result is 
certain.

#  *  *

A  similar  attempt  to 

the  present 
splurge was made to enforce the payment 
of  the  inspection  fees  about  a  dozen 
years  ago.  A. B.  Wykes,  the  Monroe 
street meat dealer, and W. T. Lamoreaux, 
who was then  engaged in  the seed busi­
ness on Canal street, both refused to pay 
the  fees  charged  by  Locksmith Parker,

who was then the city sealer.  Both gen­
tlemen  were  sued,  and,  failing  to  ap­
pear,  judgment  was  rendered  against 
them.  Both  appealed  to  the  Circuit 
Court  and  there  the  matter  ended, the 
city never filing notice of an appearance.
Bewareof Alleged “Wholesale Agents.’*
"rom the Michigan Farmer.
There is a class of  people working the 
farmers in  Michigan  who  deserve some 
attention from the  press.  These are the 
traveling  cloth  and  grocery  sellers who 
make  a  pretense  of  wholesaling  their 
wares and  saving the  farmers the  profit 
of  the middleman.  This is a very catch­
ing expression, and has caught hundreds 
of  farmers  throughout  the  country  of 
late years.  We  have  before  us  a busi­
ness  card  of  one  of  these  coucerns, 
claiming to be  large importers and  man- 
facturers of the goods they sell,  stating 
that nothing  is  sold  by  retail  in  their 
store, and only  by the salesman outside. 
We  can  hardly  think that  any  of  our 
readers are so simple as to believe for an 
instant that  there is such  an institution 
in Detroit.  That  a firm might  refuse to 
do business  because  the  order  was  not 
taken  in  by  “our  outside salesman,” is 
something unique in  its  way.  The best 
way is to give  these  fakirs a wide berth. 
If  the matter  is  investigated  it  will be 
found that  supplies to  fill  these  orders 
are drawn from  the wholesale  houses in 
this  city,  and  that  the  quality of  the 
goods furnished is such  as will leave the 
seller  a large  profit  on  the transaction, 
it is safe to say that your  nearest grocer 
or dry goods merchant will be glad at  all 
times to furnish  you with  a better class 
of goods at  as low  rates as  these travel­
ing  frauds.  The  wholesale  merchants 
of this  city have not yet  put men on the 
road to solicit  orders  from  the farmers.
There are some people  in  the  church 
who would hurt the devils  cause a great 
deal if they were to leave it.
Mic h ig a n  P en tr a i

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’*

(Taking effect  Sunday, May 28, 1893.) 

♦Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Depart
Arrive. 
10 20p m ...........Detroit  Express.............6  55pm
10 00a m ............... Day Express............   1  80pm
6 0l)am  __ «Atlantic and  Pacific....... 10 45p m
1  00 p m  .......New York E xpress.........  5 40 p m
Sleeping cars run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex­
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  6:55 am ;  re­
turning,  leave  Detroit  5 pm, arriving  at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad  (Canada Southern Division.)
A.  A l m q u ist, Ticket Agent,

Union Passenger Station.

G rand  R apids  St In d ian a. 
Schedale  In  effect  May  28,1893.

North.
South.
For Traverse City  and Saginaw  6:45 a m 
7:20 am
6:45 a m
For Traverse City & Mackinaw  9:00 a m
1:10 pm
9:00 a m
For Cadillac and Saginaw.........  2:20 p m
4;15 p m
2:20 p m
For Petoskey & Mackinaw.......  8:10 pm
8:10 p m
10:30 p m
From Chicago and  Kalamazoo.  8:35 p m 
8:35 p m
6:45 a m and  9:00 a m
Train arriving  from  south at  8:45 a m  i 
daily.  Others trains daily except Sunday.

TRA INS  GOING  SO U TH .

North. 
For  Cincinnati.............................   8:30am 
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago... 
For Fort Wayne and the  East..  11:50 am  
For  Cincinnati.............................   5:15 p  m 
For Kalamazoo  Sc  Chicago.......10:40 p  m 
From Saginaw...............................  11:50 a m
From Saginaw.................................10:40 pm
daily;  all  other  trains  daily except Sunday.

Arrive from  Leave going 
South.
7:00 am
10:05  am
2:00 pm
8:00 p m
11:20 p m

Trains leaving south at 8:00 p m and  11:20 p.  m. runs 

SLEEPING  Sc  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

NORTH

7:19am train  has  Parlor  Car  to  Traverse 
City.
1 : 1 0   p  m   t r a in   has  parlor  car  Grand 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
1 0 :3 0   p  in   tr a m .—Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw.
SOUTH—7:00 am train.—Parlor chair oar Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
10:05  a m   train.—Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
6:00  p m train.—Wagner Sleeping  Car 
Grand Rapids to Cincinnati.
11:20 p m train.—Through  Coach  and 
Wagner Sleeping Car  Grand  Rapids to Chi­
cago.
Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R.

Ly Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

10:05 a m 

4:10 

2:00 p m 

11:20 p m

pm  9:10 pm  0:50 am

10:06 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.
11:20 p m   train  daily,  through  Coach  and  Wagner 

Sleeping Car.
Ly  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
6:45  am
10:10 p  m 
train daily, through Coach  and Wagner  Sleeping Car.

8:35 p m 
3:10  p  m  through  Wagner  Parlor  Car. 

2:20 pm 

7:05 

am 3:10 pm  10:10 p m

For Muskegon—LeaYe. 

M uskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
10:00 a m
6:56  a m 
11:25 am  
4:40 p m
6:30  p m 
9:06 p m

From Muskegon—ArriYe

Sunday train  leaves  for  Muskegon  at  9:05 a  m, ar­
riving at 10:20  a   m.  Returning,  train  leaves  Muske 
gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand  Rapids at  5:45 p m.
Tnrough tickets and full  information  can  be 
had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at 
"Tnion  Station,  Telephone  606,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

CHICAGO

NOV.  20,  1892
ANO  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’Y.

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

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

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

TO  AND FROM MUSKEGON.

Lv. CHICAGO..............9:00am  5:25pm  *11:15pm
Ar.  GR’D RAPIDS......3:55pm  10:45pm  *7:05am
TO  AND  FROM  BENTON  HARBOR, AND  ST  JOSEPH
Lv. G  R............8:50am  1:25pm 
...........  *11:35pm
Ar.  G R ............*6:10am 3-55pm 
.........  10:45pm
Lv. G. R............  8:50am  1:25pm  5:35pm  S:45pm
Ar.  G.  R....................... 10:45am  3:55pm  5:25pm
Lv.  G  R.......................  
7:30am  5:35pm
Ar.  Manistee  ...............................12:15pm  10:29pm
Ar.  Traverse  C ity........................12:35pm 10:59pm
Ar.  Charlevoix...............................2:55pm 
...
Ar. Petoskey  ................................  3:30pm  ............
Ar.  from  Petoskey,  etc.,  10:00  p  m.;  from 
Traverse City 11:50 a m, 10:00 p m.

TRAVERSE CITY  MANISTEE  A PETOSKEY.

 

 

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

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

in  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee 
R’ys  offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  be­
tween Grand Rapids and Toledo.
v ia s .,  l.  *   N.  r’y .

Time Table in effect May 14, 1893. 

Lv. Grand Rapids at.......7:10 a. m. and 1:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t.............   1:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m,
Lv.Grand Rapids at.......6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p. in
Ar. Toledo at...............   1:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m,

v ia d ., e .  h.  & m.  r ’y .

Return connections equally as good.

DETROIT,

W.  H.  B e n n ett, General Pass. Agent, 
Toledo. Ohio.
JAN.

1893
LANSING &  NORTHERN  R.  R
GOING  TO DETROIT.

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

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

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

TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS.

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

TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R.  B.

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

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

♦Every da/.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.

De t r o i t ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   &  Mi l ­

w a u k e e   Railway.

Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield A vs. 

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

EASTWARD.

tNo.  14
6 45am
7 40am
8 25am
9 00am
10 50am
11 32am 
10 05am
12 05pm
10 53am
11 50am
WESTWARD.

Trains Leave  *No. 81  I tNo. 11  tNo.  13.|tNo. 15
4 45pm 10 20pm 
G’d Rapids,  Lv 
6 00pm 11 20pm 
G’d Haven,  Ar 
6 20am  6 30am 
Milw’keeStr  “ 
6 00am|............
Chicago Str.  “

7 00am  1  00pm
8 25am  2  10pm

•Dally.  tDaily except Sunday 

Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:60 p.m., 
4:45 p. m. and 10:00 a. m.
Trains  arrive from  the  west, 6:40 a. m.,  10:10 
a. m., 3:15 p.m. and 9:45 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlcr  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward —No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car.
Jas. Ca m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.

23 MonrGe Street-

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

20
COLLECTION OF DEBTS IN FRANCE.
The first step which it  is necessary for 
a creditor in France to take before he can 
use legal means to collect a debt dne him 
is  to  obtain  a  judgment  against  the 
debtor.  This  judgment,  provided  the 
amount due does not  exceed $40, is  ren­
dered by  the local  justice of  the peace, 
who, upon  the  payment  of  a  small fee 
on  the part  of  the  creditor,  dispatches 
through  the  mail  a  printed  notice  ad­
dressed  to  the  presumably embarrassed 
party.  The notice directs the delinquent 
to  appear  upon  a  certain  day and  at a 
given  hour  before  the  magistrate  in 
question,  there  either  to  arrange  for  a 
settlement  of  the  account  or  to show 
cause  why he should  not  pay the whole 
or part of  it. 
If  a  compromise  can  be 
made,  well and good; if  not, the defend­
ant is  a  second  time  summoned  to  ap­
pear.  Should  he then  flatly refuse pay­
ment, or if  he  protests  his  Inability  to 
liquidate or fails to put in an appearance, 
judgment is rendered  against him.  The 
cost of the judgment,  together with that 
of  the  summons,  is  defrayed  by  the 
plaintiff, and a copy of the former is sent 
to the debtor.  He has then three months’ 
grace, during  which  period  he  may ap­
peal  before  a civil  court  the  judgment 
already  handed  down.  Failing  to  do 
this, or  admitting, for  argument’s sake, 
that  the case  goes to  trial  and  that the 
judgment  of  the  lower  tribunal is  sus­
tained, the plaintiff  puts the  entire mat­
ter in  the hands  of  a huissier, or recog­
nized debt collector.  This officer of  jus­
tice, if  he  can  be  called  such, is  indi­
rectly an appointee of  the State,  though 
he receives no compensation from its ex­
chequer.  Like  notaries,  advocates  and 
counselors, he  is an  independent indivi­
dual, locating his office where he chooses 
and depending  for a livelihood  upon his 
fees.  His  functions partake of  those of 
both  the  bailiff and  the  process server; 
but his  methods, as well  as his preroga­
tives, resemble  neither the  one nor  the 
other.

It was Philippe le Bel, Sing of France 
who, in  November,  1302,  caused  to  be 
appointed  to office a  certain  number  of 
men—one hundred and  fifty in all—who 
were  authorized  by royal  decree to col­
lect  unpaid  revenue,  seize  chattels, and 
imprison  those who  attempted to  evade 
taxation.  Some  were  provided  with 
horses, while  others performed their du­
ties on  foot.  The authority  with which 
these  agents  of  the  law  were clothed, 
however,  led them  in a  great  many in­
stances to overstep their privileges. 
In­
numerable complaints were  made by the 
people  to the  King, and  he  was  finally 
forced to diminish the number of this ar­
bitrary  band  of 
tax  collectors,  whose 
ranks  had  already been  seriously deple 
ted by the community itself.

Henry II, who took the utmost precau 
tion that the  Kingdom should  not be de­
frauded of  the  imposts  levied  upon  its 
subjects, gave  additional encouragement 
to  the maintenance  of  this  body.  The 
only modifications made under his reign, 
nevertheless, were that a huissier should 
at least  be able  to  read  and  write, and 
that in  despoiling  a debtor of  his prop­
erty  he should leave  in the  latter’s pos­
session a duplicate inventory of the same
To-day a huissier is authorized to prac­
tice his calling by a special permit issued 
by the  minister of  justice,  to whom ap­
plication  must  first  be  made  through a 
local magistrate.  He must have attained 
the age of  25  years,  have  served in the

army, have studied  law two years  under 
the  direction of  a  notary,  advocate,  or 
other  huissier,  and  must  also  furnish 
certificates of recommendation  attesting 
his good character.

The huissier, upon request of the cred­
itor, makes an  abstract statement of the 
conditions  of  the  debt.  This  resume, 
written  on  paper  stamped  and  water­
marked by the  Government—as, in fact, 
are all  legal  acts  passed  in  France—is 
known as a “signification,” and is handed 
in  person to  the  debtor.  The  fee  for 
preparing  and  serving  the  same varies 
according to the length of the instrument 
and not  according to  the  importance of 
the  debt. 
Its  average  cost  may  be 
placed  at  $2.50.  The  signification  is 
nothing  more  or less  than  a full  state­
ment of the case and a request for imme­
diate payment

Should the debtor  disregard  or ignore 
this document, an “assignation” is served 
upon him, which is, in turn, a mere repe­
tition of  the other.  Again, if,  after the 
receipt of  this  notice,  the  debtor  fails 
within a period of eight days to settle the 
amount due, a  third  notice  to the  effect 
that his  furniture and belongings will be 
seized  is  placed  in  his  hands  by  the 
huissier.

The expense  entailed in  the  prepara­
tion of  these  notices,  their  cost  being 
from $2  to  $3  each, is  defrayed  by the 
creditor. 
If  at  any moment  the debtor 
agrees to liquidate in  full, he is not only 
required by law to  discharge his original 
obligation, but  to  add to  it the  costs of 
the  judgment  and  fees  of  the huissier. 
If his furniture is sold in order to satisfy 
the  debt, enough  must be placed  at the 
disposal of  the auctioneer  to cover both 
the  original  debt  and  the  costs of  the 
abortive  collection. 
In  this  way  the 
creditor  is  practically  insured  against 
loss, while the  debtor  only augments by 
procrastination  the  amount  of  his  in­
debtedness.

On  the  other  band,  presuming  the 
court to  have  decided  the  case  against 
the  creditor,  the  plaintiff  and  not  the 
the  debtor is  obliged  to  pay  the  costs. 
Not only  that, but he  must  pay as well 
the  legal  fees of  the  opposing  counsel, 
as his  adversary would be  forced  to  do 
should he lose the suit.

Not the least Important of the huissier*s 
functions in  France is  the  collection of 
moneys due for  unpaid rent. 
In this in­
stance  no  judgment  is  required.  The 
landlord has  simply to ask  for and to re 
ceive the  authorization  of  a  referee  or 
the  president  of  the  civil  tribunal  in 
order  to employ  legal  means for the re­
covery  of  arrears. 
If  payment  is  not 
forthcoming  withing a  certain  specified 
time, a  provisory seizure  is made of  the 
tenant’s effects; and if  at the end of  one 
month, and  after numerous  threats,  set 
tlement  is not  made, judgment  is given 
and  furniture  or  other  property  is at 
tached.

Whether  or  not  this system  of  debt 
collecting is  a better or a worse one than 
that which exists  in the United States is 
a matter of opinion.

The  huissier  is  in  the  Republic  of 
France an  individual  to be feared by all 
whose  finances  are  run  on  the  same 
scale  as were  those of  Mr.  Wilkins Mi- 
cawber.  But  his  prerogatives,  happily 
for the  debtors, are in  some degree lim­
ited.  Unlike certain agents  of  the law, 
his  work—his  attachments,  seizures, 
threats,  evictions and process  serving— 
must be  performed  between  the  rising

and the  setting of  the sun.  This  gives 
him about  sixteen  hours  of  activity  in 
midsummer  and  eight at  Ghristmastide.

H orace G.  Know les.

PR O D U CE  M A R K E T ,

Asparagus—About out of market.
Beans—Handlers pay 81.75  for country-picked 
and hold at 82.  City hand-picked are quoted  at 
10@25c above these figures.

Beets—35@40c per doz.
Butter—Dealers now  pay  1254@14c  for choice 
dairy, holding at  14@16c.  Creamery  is  In  fair 
demand at 19c.

Cabbage—Cairo and Louisiana  stock  is  about 
exhausted.  Kentucky stock is  In  moderate de­
mand at 82.75 per crate.  Home grown  is  begin­
ning to come  in  and will  be in sufficient supply 
to meet the requirements  of  the  market  in  the 
course of a week or ten days.

Carrots—20c per doz.
Cherries—Red command 82 per bu.
Cucumbers—30c per doz.
Eggs—A  little  stronger  and  higher,  dealers 

paying 1354c and holding at 1454c.

Green Beans—81.25 per b u .;  wax, 82 per bu.
Green Onions—83112c  per doz. bunches.
Green Peas—50c per bu.
Honey—White  clover  commands  15c  per  lb. 

dark buckwheat brings 1254c.

Lettuce—20c per bu.
Onions—Mississippi  stock commands 81.25 per 
bu., while Bermuda stock  is  in  limited demand 
at 82.50.  Egyptian  stock  from  Tennessee  com­
mands 81.75 per bu.

Pieplant—lc per lb.
Pineapples—81.25^81.50 per  doz., according  to 

size and quality.

per 24 qt. case.

Plums—Tennessee  Wild  Goose  command  82 

Potatoes—Old stock has dropped to 50c per bu., 
and will probably disappear from the market be­
fore the end  of  another  week.  New stock  has 
declined to 81 per bu., and will probably go  still 
lower in the course of a few days.
Radishes—6@8c per doz. bunches.
Raspberries—Ohio  Blackcap commands  84.50 

per stand of 32 qts.
Squash—4c per lb.
Strawberries—The  market 

is  well]  supplied, 
the price ranging from 3@6c,  according  to qual­
ity and condition of market.  The crop  is large, 
but  is  not quite  so  fine  in  quality, taken  as  a 
whole, as was expected,  a  considerable portion 
of the berries being small in size.

Tomatoes—81.50 per 4 basket crate.
Turnips—Mississippi  stock,  25c  per  dozen 

bunches.

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Watermelons—The Georgia crop  is  beginning 
to arrive, commanding 25@30c apiece.  It  is  re 
ported that  the  crop  is  exceptionally  fine  this 
season. 
What Is Lawful and What Is Unlawful.
It is commonly believed nowadays that 
it is a criminal  offense to mail a debtor a 
dunning message on a postal card.  This 
is not the  law,  there being  no offense if 
the message is not couched in disrespect­
ful  language.  Judge  Thayer defipes the 
difference between  mailable and unmail­
able cards  by citing  the following  cases 
which have come before  his court: 

MAILABLE.

Please  call  and settle  account, which 
is long  past due, and  for which  our col­
lector  has  called  several  times,  and 
oblige.

UNMAILABLE.

You owe  me  $1.80.  We  have  cabled 
several  times for  same. 
If  not  paid at 
once we shall place  with our law agency 
for collection.

Purely Personal.

A.  K.  Wheeler,  of 

the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company, is spending the week 
at the White City.

John M. Moore, manager  of  Spring & 
Company’s  dry  goods  store  at  Cedar 
Springs, was in town Monday.

M. J. Clark and Frank Jewell left  Sat 
urday for  Tacoma, Wash.,  with  a  view 
to purchasing a  large tract of cedar tim­
ber land in that  vicinity.

Chicago Enterprise.

Frequent  instances, says the  Railway 
Review, of  what  can  be  done  on  occa­
sion have been  recorded concerning Chi­
cago, many  of  which entitle  the  city to 
pre-eminence,  but  one of  the  most  re­
markable  exhibitions  of  energy  was

brought to completion  early  in the pres­
ent month, when the  largest grain eleva­
tor in the  world, having a  storage capa­
city of 3,680,000 bushels, was commenced 
on April  1 and finished  and commenced 
business  on  May  3, a  period  of  thirty- 
three  days;  having  within  one  week 
from that time more than 1,000,000 bush­
els of wheat  in store.  More than 8,000,- 
000 feet of  lumber were used in  the con­
struction of the building, which is of the 
ordinary  crib  style.  The  elevator  is 
equipped throughout with  electric lights 
and  is  completely  furnished  with  all 
styles of  modern  machinery.  From 600 
to 900 men were  continuously  employed 
night  and  day  in  its  construction. 
If 
any  one  knows  of  a  quicker  job,  we 
should like to have it reported.

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T o u r  B ank A ccount Solicited.

Kent  County Savings Bank,

GRAND  RAPIDS  ,MICH.

J no.  A.  C'ovodb  Pres.

H enry  I dema, Yice-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  Ver d ie r,  Cashier.

K. Van Hoe, Ass’t C’s’r. 

Transacts a General Banking  Business. 

Interest  A llow ed  on  Tim e  and  Sayings 

D eposits.

DIRECTORS:

Jno. A. Covode, D. A.  Blodgett,  E. Crofton Fox, 
T. J. O’Brien,  A. J. Bowne,  Henry Idema, 
Jno.W.Blodgett.J. A. McKee, 
J. A. 8. Verdier.

D eposits  Exceed  One  M illion  D ollars.

MICHIGAN

Organized  1881.

DETROIT,  M ICH IG A N .

A C D U A I   T

FIRE-PROOF  ROOFING

This  Hoofing  is  guaranteed  to  stand  in  all 
places where Tin and Iron has failed;  is super­
ior to Shingles and much cheaper.

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

FIRE-PROOF  ROOF  PAINT, 

Will last longer  than  shingles.  Write the un- 
dersigned  for  prices  and  circulars, relative  to 
Roofing  and  for  samples  of  Building  Papers,
etc.

fl. M. REYNOLDS & SON,

Ckr,  Louis and  Oampan  Sts.,  Grand Rapidi,  Mich.

Practical  Roofers,
BUY  THE  PENINSULAR

Once and You aie our Customer 

for life.

Stanton  &  Morey,

DETROIT,  MICH.

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

Residence  59 N.  Union St., Grand  Rapids.

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W H O L E S A L E

We  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Dry  Goods.  Carpets and Gloaks.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Geese  Feathers.

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EXTRACTS

S E E   Q U O T A T IO N S .
M u sk eg o n   B ra n ch

U n i t e d   S t a t e s   B a k i n g   C o .,

M u sk eg o n ,  M ich.

O r ig in a to r s  o f  th e   C eleb ra ted   C a k e,  “ M U S K E G O N   B R A N C H .”

Write for samples of New and Original Crackers and  Cakes, before 
purchasing for your Spring trade.

Mail orders a specialty. 

H A R R Y   F O X ,  M a n a g er.

Spring & Company,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

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

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

assorted stock at lowest  market  prices.

Spring & Company.
B A N A N A S

L a r g e   B u n c h e s ,
Y e llo w   P l u m p   F r u it.
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H E S S
P E R K I N S   <Ss
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  183  and  1 8 4   LO UIS  ST R E E T .  G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H IG A N .

W"E  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAK.R  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  CSK.

F.  J.  D BTTF N TH A .L F R ,

WHOLESALE  OYSTERS,  FISH  and  GAME,

LIVE  AND  DRESSED  POULTRY.

Consignments solicited.  Chicago and Detroit market prices guaranteed.

117  Mon roe  St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Glass  Colors  for  Biscuits.

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'  I  l,HKSE  chests  will 
soon 
pay for themselves  in  the 
I breakage they avoid.  Price 84. 

✓ '“'w UR new glass covers  are by far the
1 1   handsomest  ever  offered  to  the
trade.  They  are  made  to  fit  any
of our  boxes  and can  be  changed  from 
one box  to  another in a moment.  They 
will  save  enough  goods  from  flies,  dirt  and  prying  fingers in a short  time to pay 
for themselves.  Try them and be convinced.  Price, 50 cents each.

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

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

CREAM  CRISP. 

NEWTON, a rich  finger with  fig  filling, 

the best selling cakes we ever made.

ORANGE  BAR.

MOSS  HONEY  JUMBLES.
This  is  bound  to  be  one of

THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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

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

THE  YOST  MFG.  CO.,

TOLEDO.  OHIO.

D O N ’T   T A . E K   Y O U R   C U S T O M E R   T O   D E A T H

In  trying to sell  him  a poor make of  Stove,  but keep the

GRAND  RAPIDS  GIANT  JUNIORS

They  need  no  loud  talking  or  arguing  by  the 
hour  to  sell  them.  The  Improved  GRAND 
RAPIDS  JUNIOR  STOVE has no competition, 
for it is the best  Junior  Stove  on  the market, in 
regard to quality and price it has no equal.

The  Generators are  much  larger  and  heavier 

than  on  any other  Junior  Stove, 
it has the improved  needle  point 
valve, 
large  square  jet  Oven 
Burner and  illuminating:  device.

O

E v e r y ] S t o v e  

G u a r -

ANTEED  TO

WORK

S a t i s f a c ­

t o r i l y .

Write for discount.
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Gasoline and Oil  Stove Ovens.

We have two  styles  of  ovens  especially de­
signed for this stove.  Full  lined double Russia 
iron ovens  with  end  or  side  doors,  list, each, 
$4.00.

Class E subject  to  a  discount.

Full  Flued  in  Russia  Iron  or  Tin. 

Tin^double! dou.,,Ie:;;;:;;:;::::;;;: ;** Z  

XLUSSia  IIO Il,  S in g le .............................................................  o   00  No. 36 Stove, like cut without illuminating device...  13 0)  j  No. 45 Stove, 3 burners, without  “ 
rp- 
“ 
-LH1,  S in g le ....................................................................................   2   O 0  No. S3 Stove, t&me aa 31 without illuminating device, 
ll  00  i  No. 48 Stove, 2 burners,  without  ‘ 

....... ....................  ...............   114 50  .  No. 43 Stove, 3 hurners with  illuminating device.......  $8 50
7 00
6 50
5 oo

No. 31 Stove, with two burners on top,  and step..........   13 50  |  No. 46 otove, 3 burners, with 

0  r...  S ° ‘ 21 §tove. 
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high juniors,  l,..«.,  i 

low  juniors.

W rite  for special  discount on  th is  line of Ovens. 

Class  K  subject  to  a  discount.
If you areadealer' and we haven,t “   a*encr ie f,? " g K o ^ h L m a fk e “1 ^

  US  and  secnre  the  a*ency for thebest

FL Y   T R A P S.

BALLOON  FLY 

TRAP.

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b

HARPER  FLY  TRAP.

No.  3  Star  Oil  Stoves.

of our spring catalogue.

This Stove has been greatly  reduced since the issuing 
List each.
In. wicks...................................... tl 80
in. wicks  ...................................2 50
in. wicks........................................3 90
in. wicks.........................  
3  81
in. w ick s................................. 5 90

No. 3 Single,  3-3% 
No. 4 Single,  3-4 
No. 6 Single.  3-4 
No. 3 Double. 4-3% 
No. 4 Double, 4-4 

Class B subject to our regular discount

Buy your fly traps now and get the first sale.  Don't let your competitor get ahead 
Per doz.
Balloon  Fly Traps.......................................................................................................  IS  70
Harper Fly Traps.............................................................................................. ........  3 34

of  you. 

Class B subject to a discount.

H.  Leonard  i Sons.

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

No.  1  Slimmer  Girl  Oil  Stone.

This is the best all iron leservoir stove made
„  „ 

Per doz.
No. 1 Summer Girl  ............................................$12 40
No. 2 Summer Girl..............................................  24  75

Class B subject to  a discount.

Write for prices of ovens to St this style  of  stove.

