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Her limp seemed  really painful to the 
ticket taker as she made  her way over to 
where a  group of young theological  stu­
dents  stood  silently  together  by  their 
“Gospel  chariots,”  as 
irreverent 
newspaper 
fellows  had  dubbed  their 
wheeling  chairs.  Some  of  them  were 
raw looking fellows, and  appeared much 
more  fitted  for  the  wheeling  of  chairs 
than the exercise of oratory in the pulpit 
or elsewhere.  Some  looked rather weak 
and inane,  as  if  they  had  not positive 
ness  of  character  to  do  anything  but 
pray.  But  there was  one  among  them 
who was standing straight on his legs, as 
an athlete naturally does,  and  there was 
something in the lines of his firmly closed 
mouth  and  the  pose  of  his  head  that 
made the young woman go up to him and 
ask him what the price  of  his chair and 
his services were for  the  day.  Not that 
she had any need to ask, for she had read 
all about it in the papers,  and calculated 
on it very carefully.  But  she  asked by 
way of  opening  the  conversation.  The 
student  took  off  his  blue  cap  and  an 
swered her slowly,  and with an accent of 
indifference that  somehow was  not  just 
what  Mary Stuart  had  been  expecting 
Her own blood was tingling in her veins 
It was  almost  unbelievable  to  her that 
she was  really at  the  Fair  at  last—the 
Fair which had been before her eyes as a 
sort of glorified vision for two years, and 
for  which  she  had  saved  and  planned 
and  sacrified. 
It  seemed  to  her  that 
everybody must have  been working  just 
as 3he had been to  get  there,  and that it 
was only natural  that their voices snould 
be  tingling  with  enthusiasm.  She  felt 
for a moment as if  she would have liked 
to change her  young  man  and  get  one 
who  seemed  less  criminally  indifferent 
to the glories of the moment,  but she was 
too shy  to do that, and she made her bar­
gain,  and  seated  herself with  some em­
barrassment  in  the  chair,  blushing,  as 
she was  rolled  away,  to  feel  that  the 
eyes of the young students  were  on her.
She was  very  light  weight—so  light 
that  the well  oiled  chair,  on 
its  easy 
bearings,  impelled  the  pusher  to  walk 
faster than  he  intended,  and  he  had  to 
use  a  little  resistance  to  moderate  its 
pace.  The  little  black  sailor  hat  she

wore had no trimmings, but was swathed 
in a fleecy black veil,  as  the  young man 
noticed on  looking downward.  The sim­
ple black gown had neither crinoline nor 
flounces,  as  he noticed  also,  but merely 
wide white cuffs and collar,  and the high 
tan boots and gauntlet  gloves  had  been 
selected  with  careful  reference to each 
other.  One foot was a little shorter than 
the other,  as  was  evident  even  as  they 
rested on the little shelf on the chair.  So 
much the  young  man  casually  noticed, 
and that the body was very slight indeed 
and had a sort of tension in it as if nerves 
and muscles were on the alert.

“Where do you wish  to go?”  he asked 
perfunctorily,  as he  had  asked on many 
previous mornings of his  “freight.”  But 
the  answer  was  not  forthcoming. 
In­
stead,  the young woman wheeled  around 
in her chair and  looked  up  at  him with 
some distress on her pale face.

“I  haven’t  an  idea,”  she  said.  “I 
haven’t been  here  before.  This  is  my 
first day. 
I’ll  only have  five  days here.
I might have had  seven,  only it  takes  a 
I want 
day to come and another  to  go. 
I’ve been 
to see just as much as  I  can. 
I’m 
saving for two years  to  come here. 
a  typewriter—and  a  stenographer. 
I 
can’t walk much at  a  time, or I’d never 
have  thought  of  taking  a  chair. 
If  it 
hadn’t been for taking a chair it wouldn’t 
have been so hard for  me  to come.  But 
you see  how  it  is. 
I  haven’t  been  to 
school much.  And I thought I could get 
a good deal of  education here.  Perhaps 
you can tell me  how. 
It’s  very import­
ant to  me.”

The morning  wind  blew  her  reddish 
brown  hair about her face a little  under 
the veil, and made her cheeks look  paler 
than ever.  Nathan Ingersoll stopped the 
chair and looked down at her  a moment. 
He had got in  the way,  during his thirty 
odd  days  already  spent  at  the  fair,  of 
keeping his personality well out of sight. 
At  first,  to  be  sure,  he  had  permitted 
himself some feeling of personal interest 
in  the  women  he  wheeled  about  the 
grounds,  and  had ventured on  a few oc­
casions to forget that  for the time being 
he was a paid  servant,  and  had  let  his 
thoughts  speak  themselves  in  their ac 
customed  way.  But  he  had  suffered 
three or four  rather  severe rebuffs,  over 
which  he  had  good  naturedly  smiled 
saying  they  were  really 
just  what  he 
needed,  and that  they were  good  train 
ing.  But all the  same  he  had  smarted 
under them,  and for  the  last two weeks 
had kept himself well in hand,  and  been 
as indifferent to the persons he was push­
ing around  the  ground  as  they were  to 
him.  Now,  however,  there  seemed 
to 
come into sudden existence a  new condi­
tion.  Evidently this was  a case that in­
volved some moral  responsibility.  And 
Ingersoll was  almost morbid on the sub­
ject of  moral responsibility.

looking  up  at  him. 

The  red-brown  eyes,  which  matched 
the half  curling hair  so  perfectly,  were 
still 
Ingersoll 
smiled  down  at  them  with  an  uncon­
scious  eloquence  that  came  from  his 
youth and  his  strength  and  his  mascu­
linity.

“I’ll do my level best,” he said heartily, 
all  of  the  indifference  gone  out  of  his 
voice,  “and if you don’t see  what’s  best 
to see in the time you  are  here,  it won’t 
be  my fault.”

“Oh,”  said Miss  Stuart almost breath­
lessly,  “do you mean it would  be  possi­
ble  for  me  to  have  yon—to  have  this 
chair, I mean—every day?”

Ingersoll  laughed outright  this  time. 
She  was  evidently  very much confused 
lest  there  should  seem to be something 
personal in this request.

“You  can  have this chair every day,” 
he replied,  “if you  come as early as you 
do this morning—that is,  if no  one  gets 
me—that is,  the chair—before you  do.  I 
think  1  could  manage  to  keep  in  the 
background  and  not  to  make any en­
gagement until  you came if you think it 
will  help  you  to see the Fair systemati­
cally  by  having  the  same  guide  every 
day.”

“That  is  exactly  what I meant,”  said 
Miss  Stuart,  gratefully.  “It  would be 
such  an  economy  of  time  and energy. 
We  would  know  just where we left off, 
and wouldn’t repeat ourselves.”

This  seemed  very  businesslike  and 
thorough,  and  grounded  upon  such  a 
common sense basis,the  good feeling be­
tween  the  two  began  to  appear  quite 
natural,  and  any  sense of timidity that 
there  might  have  been  vanished  im­
mediately.

Of  course  it  was a different day from 
others.  How could it be otherwise?  All 
the  thoughts  that  had  been stirring in 
Ingersoll’s  mind  insisted now  in break­
ing  out  of  their shells and trying their 
wings now that he had a listener.

“ It’s the apex of the century,”he cried 
enthusiastically.  “This mass of  finished 
material,  this  marvelous  architecture, 
this  meeting  of  the  nations  and  the 
handicraft  of  the  nations,  this putting 
together of all  sorts of energies!”

It sounded a little sophomoric to be sure. 
He  looked  down  a  little shyly to see if 
Miss Stuart were laughing;  he knew her 
name  by  this  time.  But,  so  far from 
laughing,  she  had  quite  a rapt expres­
sion,  as  if she were  concentrating all of 
her  thoughts  on  the  hour  and the sur­
roundings. 
It  got  so  after  a time that 
she ventured bits of confidence.

“I’ve  been 

in  the  same  office three 
years,”  she  said  once,  “and  the  man 
there  has  never  said a word to  me dur­
ing all that time except to dictate letters. 
He doesn’t even  say good  morning when 
he cames in  or good  night when I leave. 
I  haven’t  missed  a  day 
in that whole 
time,  and  have  hardly  made a mistake 
in  my  work.  He  pays  my  salary, but 
he  doesn’t  show  any  other mark of ap­
preciation.”

“The  clam!”  ejaculated 

Ingersoll, 
which was,  perhaps,  a little  thoughtless 
of a divinity student.

“One Christmas,” went on Miss Stuart, 
feasting her eyes in rapture  on a case of 
German opals,  “I  thought I would see if 
I conldn’t  cure  him of  his  grumpinesa. 
1 bought him  a bunch  of  roses  and put 
them  on  his  desk.  When  he  came 
them.  And
he  never  even  noticed 

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

the next morning  they  were thrown out, 
though they couldn’t  possibly have been 
faded.”

‘‘Such a  man  ought  to-----” began In-
gersoll,  in a  wrath that  could hardly be 
called  righteous,  when  suddenly  Miss 
Stuart cried  out  that  there was  an opal 
with  a  red  light  in  it,  and  they  went 
closer to look  at it.  She  liked womanly 
things. 
She  almost  trembled  at  the 
splendor of some of the jewels; she never 
wearied of  the  china and the marvelous 
tints of the  glassware;  she  pointed  out 
beauties  in the  laces  and  embroideries 
that  Ingersoll  could  not  possibly  dis­
cover; and  she  went  into the  most out­
spoken raptures over  the Felix gowns.

“ You’re not one of those very improved 
feminine 

women  who  disapprove  of 
things,  are you?” said Ingersoll.

“Oh,  well,”  she  said,  rather  sadly, 
“ perhaps  these  improved  women  have 
had all of these fine  things.  Shall  I tell 
you the truth?  1 never even saw a great 
I think 
many things of this sort before. 
I’d  just as  soon  wear them for awhile as 
not.  Then 1 could  renounce them  after 
awhile,  and  be  just  as  superior  as the 
other women.”

“It’s  a great  year  for  women,”  said 
Ingersoll,  with  just as  much originality 
of  manner  as if  there  were  something 
new in the remark.

“Yes,” said Miss Stuart,  indifferently, 
In fact,  1 
“ but  I know so  few women. 
know  hardly  any. 
I’m  so  busy.  And 
there’s only the women  at  the boarding 
bouse.  And  they don’t  care  much  for 
me on account of  my doing typewriting. 
Not that 1 mind.”

“Of  course  not,”  said  Ingersoll  with 

conviction.

By  the  end  of  the  first  day  they had 
done  a good  part  of  the  Liberal  Arts 
Building.

“It would  take a  week to  do it  prop­
erly,”  Ingersoll  explained,  “but  we’re 
adapting  ourselves 
to  circumstances, 
don’t you see.”

“I’m so  much  obliged  to  you,”  cried 
Miss  Stuart.  “I  don’t  know  what  I 
would have done if  I hadn’t met you—or 
some one like you.”

So ended the first day.
The next  morning was  dull  and cold. 
Beyond  the  peristyle  the  gray  waves 
dashed  sullenly.  The  sky  was  like  a 
pall.  But at  the hour of  8 Mary Stuart 
limped in  the gate,  wrapped in  a mack­
intosh and carrying an umbrella.  Nathan 
Ingersoll  stepped  out  of  the  group  of 
young  men  and  helped her  to her seat. 
She spoke to him a little coldly.  Nathan 
was  not a  young  man  of  much  experi­
ence.  He  thought  maybe  he  had  been 
too familiar.  He  resolved  not to  speak 
till she  gave him  permission.  She  was 
determined  not to  make a  spectacle  of 
herself again—that  is what she told her­
self  in the  night  she  had  been  doing. 
They went  to  the  picture  gallery.  He 
got her  catalogue for  her, and  took one 
from his  own  pocket.  They  looked  at 
the  pictures  silently.  When  she  mo­
tioned to  move on  he  obeyed  her.  She 
wanted  horribly to ask  him  about some 
of  the pictures.

Why  should  those  Frenchmen  insist 
on  making  their  women  purple?  Who 
ever saw a  lavender woman?  They are, 
at  least, scarce.  Altogether  there  was 
an astonishing lot of canvas,  considering 
the  scarcity  of  clothes.  Mary  accused 
Ingersoll of  being positively indecent to 
put  her  chair before  some  of  the  pic­
tures.  But everyone else appeared to be j

looking at  them without  any confusion. 
So she got used  to  it.  At  least she  was 
almost  used  to  it.  Once  a  remark  es­
caped her in spite of herself.

“I don’t care  how  beautiful  a picture

is,  ”  she said,  “or  how well  it  is painted 
—not that I’m any  judge of that—unless 
it means something.”

“Ah!”  said  Ingersoll.  Then  he took 
her  to  some  other  pictures.  There was 
Christ,  pale  and  infinitely  sad,  blessing 
bread among a group of modern working­
men, while they, aghast, yet full of  rap­
ture  and tearful gratitude,  gazed on his 
dear, friendly face, in the midst of a time 
so  alien  and  so  hard.  There was Mag­
dalene,  the  modern,  in  a  splendid  ball 
room,  and  none  to  pity  the  horror and 
loneliness of her heart, or even to divine
it.  There  was the  dawn  of  the  spring 
day,  with  Corot’s  mystic  light  stealing 
through each dim  and tender  vista,  and 
all  the  flush and  poetry of  the  waking 
hour!  The  tears  came  to Mary Stuart’s 
eyes.  She  almost  thought  she  could 
hear  a  bird  song  pricking the  sweet  si­
lence of that dawn.

How  was it  she  knew  her  companion 
had thoughts like her own?  How  was it 
that little by little the silence  which had 
begun  in sullenness  began  to  be  a  de­
light.  A fuller  sense of  color and form 
seemed to  break  upon  her.  She  won­
dered  if  the loneliness  and  dissatisfac­
tion she had always felt had been because 
her life  had had  so little beautiful in it. 
Every moment she seemed to understand 
these pictures  better.  She began to  no­
tice how marvelous was color!  How full 
of wonderful gradations!  Were shadows 
like  that?  Were  they  ever  so  purple? 
Was light on plains and deserts white as 
those pictures showed them to be?  Were 
women so  beautiful?  Was  love so poet­
ical that  painters painted it always, and 
with 
life 
seemed to be  unfolding!

such  passion?  How 

fast 

Her startled mind showed her suddenly 
the interior  of  the office  where  she had 
sat  for  three  long  years,  and  she  felt 
again the  silence—not a  silence  such as 
Corot had  painted,  which  might  at  any 
moment be  broken by  the wind of dawn 
rushing  up  through  the  meadows,  but 
the  silence  imposed  upon  slaves!  She 
saw the  immovable,  dull,  yellow face of 
the man she  worked  for—the  man  who 
could not  differentiate  between  the ma­
chine and  the  woman,  and  thought  of 
them  both  as  typewriters.  Why,  that 
had not been  life at all!  With a  gesture 
born of a new courage and a new delight, 
she threw back  her head  and  looked up 
at her companion.  She  wanted to make 
sure he was following her thoughts.  He 
looked  back at  her without smiling,  but 
with perfect  comprehension.  And from 
somewhere there came a wave of warmth, 
delicate and touched  with a sentient joy, 
and  passed  over  her  body, and  seemed 
someway to  bring with it  a perfume and 
a song, and  all  the pictures  swam for  a 
moment in a golden haze fairer than that 
any of the artists had put on their moun­
tain tops.

Youth is an  alchemist.  He will  make 
gold for  one any  moment,  if  he is only 
given the right materials.
*  *  *

To follow the evolution of a soul—who 

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One day  came  when these  two people 

were saying always:

“It is the last day.”
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them, would  have  supposed  that on the 
morrow  creation  would  be  destroyed. 
That day  whatever  they  said  was  flip* 
pant.  They did nothing but jest.

“Has  anyone ever  been over  there to 
the  south  end  of  the  grounds?”  Mary 
asked. 
Ingersoll  shook his  head doubt- 
ingly.

“I  hear they  are thinking of  sending 
for  Stanley,”  he  said.  “They  want to 
know if  he wouldn’t be  willing to pene­
trate them.”

It was wonderful. 

They got endless  amusement  from the 
people.  Mary  could  tell  whenever she 
met anyone who  was on his “first  day.” 
They did the Midway Plaisance that day. 
The  four  ends  of  the  earth  seemed  to 
have  been  swept  together  and  dumped 
here. 
It swept down 
little patriotic  distinctions  and  all  nar­
row  thoughts  of  locality.  These  men 
from  the  Soudan,  these  mighty women 
from  Dahomey,  these dancers from Asia 
Minor, these  sallow men  from  the spice 
perfumed  isle  of  Java,  these  Eskimo 
women  who held  their  babies  close  in 
their arms,  these dreamy eyed  Bedouins, 
these languid  Turks—were  they not  all 
the same?  To live, to  love,  to laugh,  to 
hope, to  weep,  to  die—what  difference? 
’Tis the same from  Martinique to  Mada­
gascar!  Someway,  Mary  had  never 
thought of  that before.  The  world  was 
getting very large to her.
And it was the last day!
That night she stayed  on the grounds, 
instead  of  leaving  at  6  o’clock,  as  she 
had previously done.  She wanted to see 
the great basin lit by electricity. 
Inger­
soll invited  her to supper,  and  they  ate 
together in the  Polish restaurant, though 
since they had an  Irish stew,  they might 
as well have  eaten  anywhere else.  But 
they didn’t much notice what they ate.

The light was not  yet quite out of  the 
sky, when 100,000 persons stood together 
in silence  around  the  still  lagoon  that 
runs from  the Administration  Building, 
waiting—waiting for a  thing  so much  a 
part  and  parcql  of  this  century  that 
never can the one be spoken  of  in  ages 
to come  and  be  disassociated  from  the 
other.  The sky was a cold blue.  Against 
it the exquisite building with  dome, and 
sloping lines,  and  statue and tower, out 
lined themselves  clearly and  delicately 
Beyond  the  peristyle 
lake 
gleamed,  and  in  the  east  there  hung  a 
star.  The great white  mountain poured 
its musical  streams  of  water  down  the 
gleaming  steps.  The  gondolas  drifted 
back and forth noiselessly on the lagoon. 
Schubert’s “Serenade,”  of  all things  in 
the world, came softly down through the 
space,  throbbing with passion.

the  blue 

Suddenly there was  a  transformation. 
From  white  dome  and  peristyle,  from 
colonnade and  water’s  edge,  from pillar 
and freize,  gleamed out  in  one startling 
second innumerable points of fire, bright 
as gold,  piercing in their Intensity.

It was the  climax!  This was  the best 
the century had done.  This magic thing, 
born  in  the  clouds,  harnessed,  tamed, 
trained,  subjugated,  made  man’s  best 
messenger,  his  illuminator,  his  intelli 
gencer,  his  motive  power—electricity— 
the material triumph of the agel

Whiter than ever looked the buildings 
colder and bluer  than  ever  the  arching 
' sky.  And  like  a  million  near familiar 
stars  gleamed  the  incandescent  lights 
and from the heart of  the lagoon poured 
the waters, lit with  fire  and  tinted like 
the rainbow.

If it had been any other time  it  might

not have meant so much  to  the two peo­
ple who stood there among the throng in 
silence watching it.  But as it was—well, 
as it was,  the  beauty and  the throbbing 
serenade,  and the  marvel  of  it  all, and 
the  subtle,  thrilling  magnetism  of  the 
great  crowd  brought  about  an  emotion 
no more to be restrained than the falling 
of  the  green  waters  over  the  Niagara. 
Ingersoll  stood  beside  the  chair  and 
dropped a hand  on  that  of  Mary.  She 
did not look up.  She had known he was 
going to do it.

“How long could  you be  patient,”  he 

said softly,  “a year?”
“A thousand years.”
It  was  hard  that  there  should  have 
been a  hundred  thousand  persons pres­
ent.  Though, come  to  think  of  it, one 
spectator would have been just as bad.

“I  won’t  mind  the old curmudgeon,” 
she said.  She meant the man  she worked 
for.

“I’ll write  every  day,”  he  said.  He 

instinctively offered a compensation.

The people on the great porches of the 
Administration  Building  were  shouting 
their  applause of the scene below.  The 
torches  flamed  around  them  and  made 
them look  like brownies,  as  they threw 
up their arms and waved their hats. 
In­
gersoll  and  Mary  watched  them,  with 
their hands clasped tight.

It’ll take me a year to finish college,’’ 
he  said.  “You  know  what  I  told  you 
about my prospects. 
I think  I’m a very 
fortunate fellow.”

He wasn’t, in  comparison  with a good 
many  other  men.  But  it’s  all  in  the 
point of view.  Good fortune is merely a 
matter of opinion.

Later on  he wheeled the  chair toward 
the gates.  The  crowd  poured  along to­
ward the  Illinois  Central  train. 
Inger­
soll  said  some  wonderful  things  then. 
Mary  wondered  how  mere  words could 
seem  so  beautiful.  He  felt  himself 
thrilled  by  his  eloquence. 
It gave  him 
courage  to  think  he  might  be  a  great 
man when  he got  in the  pulpit.  What 
he was really saying was:  “I love you. 
When  the sky  is  blue  enough  and  the 
summer  wind  blows,  and  the  night  is 
present—these  words  may  come 
to 
seem like  the lyric  of the greatest  poet 
I  suppose  you found  the  Fair  very 
educational? said Mrs. Van Doosen, wife 
of the local  jeweler at the dinner  table 
when Mary had got back to  the boarding 
house.  Mary’s  red  brown  eyes  swam 
suddenly with a sort of mist.

•   *  *

“Yes, I did,” she said softly.
She waited for  Mary  to say something 
more.  But  Mary  had  nothing  more  to 
say.
“What  a stupid  little  thing,” thought 
the  jeweler’s wife.  “What  good does it 
do people of that sort to go to the  Fair?” 

E lla W.  P e a t t ik .

Tact  in  Salesmanship.

that  her 

requires 
that 

tact 
it 
articles  must  be 
a  way 
the 
taste 

Tact is important in the sale of  goods 
There is  seldom  a  woman—and  women 
are the  purchasers—who  enters  a  store 
who  has  a  definite  idea  as to what she 
wants.  She  must  be  suited,  and  many 
to  please 
times 
in
shown 
The 
such 
lady  will 
believe 
is 
suited. 
There should be no  misrepresentation in 
doing  this.  Misrepresentation  is  not 
tact.  Have you  this  faculty, or do your 
customers leave you many times without 
buying  simply  because  you  have  not 
been able to  make them believe that the 
goods  shown  were  what  they  desired? 
It  is born with some, but  if  you are not 
born  with  it,  you  can  acquire  it  to at 
least a  certain  degree—to  a degree that 
will be well  worth while to strive for.

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AMONO THB TRADE.

A B OU ND  T H B   STA TE.

Charlevoix—C. Barry succeeds Barry & 

Chaloupka in the cigar business.

Leesville—C.  E.  Mitchell  succeeds W. 

J. Cooper in the grocery business.

Caro—Charles  W.  Reynolds  succeeds 

Wilson Reed in the meat business.

Saginaw—D.  E.  Miller is succeeded by 

M.  Carter in the grocery  business.

Bloomingdale—M.  Wiggins & Co.  have 

sold their general stock to S.  Peck.

Croswell — Cook  &  Hurley  succeed 

Cook, Hanson & Co.  in general trade.

Grand  Junction—G.  A.  Bates  &  Co. 
in general 

succeed  R.  Dobson  &  Co. 
trade.

Big  Rapids—Manon  &  Ogelsby  suc­
ceed  W.  G.  Manon in the confectionery 
business.

Morenci—The  grocery  stock  of F.  L. 
Crockston  has  beeu  seized  on  chattel 
mortgage.

Iron  Mountain — Anderson  &  Sund- 
strom  succeed  Mrs.  Wm.  Sundstrom  in 
general trade.

Marquette—A.  M.  Bigelow  succeeds 
Vannier &  Bigelow  in  the  jewelry  and 
news business.

Gagetown—A.E.  Uebblewhite has pur­
chased the agricultural  implement  stock 
of T. J.  Finkie.

Grand  Ledge—Streeter  &  Shadduck, 
grocers,  have  dissolved,  A.  Shadduck 
contiuuing the business.

Flat  Rock—McBride & Co.  succeed S. 
F.  Smith  & Sons in general trade and the 
agricultural implement business.

Ludington—Mary  (Mrs.  Hans)  Jensen 
has  given  a  chattel  mortgage  on  her 
grocery and meat stock to Morris Kief.

Carleton Center—J.  N. Covert has sold 
his general  stock to Ira  Hawes,  who will 
continue the  business at  the same  loca­
tion.

Greenville—D.  Longnecker and  Henry 
Leroy have formed  a  copartnership and 
purchased  the  harness  stock  of  John 
Baker.

Mt.  Clemens—C.  A.  Boehme,  manu­
facturer  of  rope  and  cordage,  is  suc­
ceeded  by  the  Boehme  &  Rauch  Cor­
dage Co.

Plainwell—John  Crispe  has  sold  his 
meat market to  Kurtz & McKibben,  both 
of  Hastings,  who took  possession of  the 
business July 3.

Ludington—Hemlock  bark 

is  begin­
ning to arrive  freely  and  brings  $5.25 a 
cord.  This  is  50  cents  higher than  the 
price paid last season.

Cedar Springs—Mrs.  M.  Bertrandt has 
opened a  stock of  dry goods  and  ladies’ 
furnishing goods and notions in  the store 
recently occupied by E.  Bassett.

Lake Odessa—B.  Cohen,  formerly  en­
gaged 
in  business  at  Hesperia,  has 
opened a grocery  store here.  The stock 
was furnished  by  Andrew  Wierengo,  of 
Muskegon.

Wolverine—The  special  partnership 
existing between  Samuel  Simon,  of  this 
place,  and Charles W.  Ballard, of  North 
Branch,  has  been renewed until  June 1, 
1894,  Mr.  Ballard  contributing $5,000 to 
the common  stock.  The  firm  name re­
mains the same as before, S. Simon  & Co.
Gobleville—Ed.  M.  Bailey  has  pur­
chased the  interest  of  W.  S.  Crosby in 
the  drug  firm  of  W.  S.  Crosby  &  Co. 
The business  will be  continued  by  Mr. 
Bailey and Mrs.  Lucy E.  Atwell,  of Law- 
ton,  under the style of  Ed.  M. Bailey  &

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Co., Arthur B.  Clark  representing  Mrs. 
Atwell’s  interest.

Shelby—S.  Kohler  has  sold his inter­
est in the meat market of Kohler & Lacey 
to Hart &  Son and Will Lacey,  who will 
combine  the  two  markets and continue 
the  business  in  the  stand  occupied by 
Hart  &  Son’s  market.  The  new  firm 
name is Hart,  Lacey & Hart, each having 
a third interest.

M A N U FA CTU RIN G   M ATTERS.

Bay City—H.  E. Sanford, who operates 
a shingle  mill at  Essexville,  will erect a 
planing  mill  and  box  factory  on  his 
premises. 
It  is  proposed  to  have  the 
plant ready for operations Oct.  1.

Bay  City—James  McLennan  &  Son, 
of this  city, have  purchased  nine acres 
of  land  at  Essexville,  and  will  at once 
begin  the erection  of a  sawmill for  the 
manufacture of  hardwood lumber.

Tawas City—J.  W.  King, who operates 
a  sawmill  in  Plainfield  township,  has 
added shingle  mill  machinery,  and  ma­
chinery  for  cutting  long  timber.  The 
shingle mill  will turn  out  30,000  a day. 
The mill starts  this week.

Ludington—The  sawmills here are re­
ceiving  about  double  the  quantity  of 
logs  over  the  Flint  &  Pere  Marquette 
Railroad of  any  previous  time  in  their 
history.  The  Danaher  &  Melendy  Co. 
is  receiving  forty  carloads daily,  T.  R. 
Lyon 35 cars and the Cartier Lumber Co. 
twenty-five cars.

Saginaw—Within  the  year  Ed.  Ger­
main  manufactured  80,000 doors  for ex­
port,  at  a  figure 
that  would  astonish 
manufacturers  a year  or so  ago,  and yet 
he  did the  work at a  nice  little margin 
of profit.  His new planing mill aud fac­
tory will  be equipped  with  the best ma­
chinery that the genius of invention  has 
devised  to turn  out  products at  the ut­
most speed and lowest cost.

Bay  City—The  work  of  erecting  the 
new planing mill of Ross,  Bradley & Co., 
in West  Bay City,  is in  progress,  and is 
being pushed vigorously.  Not in several 
years has  there  been  as  much  building 
of new industries at this end of the river 
in  progress  and  in  contemplation  as at 
the  present  time.  The  work of  remov­
ing the  machinery of  the  Ross,  Bradley 
& Co.  plant in  this  city  to  the  new site 
will begin this week.

Rogers City—F.  D.  Larke and  Paul II. 
Hoeft have  contracted with  Eastern par­
ties to cut and deliver on docks at Rogers 
City  125,000  hop poles  and  25,000 grape 
poles.  These  poles  must  be of  sound 
cedar,  cut  twenty-five  feet  long,  from 
three to  four inches  in  diameter  at  the 
butt  and  terminating at  the  top  of  the 
tree.  This  opens a new  market for  the 
forest products  of  Presque  Isle county, 
and  promises to be a profitable one.

Manistee—There  is a better  feeling in 
the market  than  there  has  been  in the 
past  two  weeks.  Buyers  do  not  take 
hold  with much more  vigor, but they are 
acting as  though  they want  lumber and 
are  willing  to buy  it provided  manufac­
turers will furnish it at a figure they can 
stand.  The tightness of the money mar­
ket is  easing  off  somewhat  and  a man 
will soon be  able to buy a  thousand dol­
lars’  worth  of  lumber  without  having 
that amount  in coin  to  put down  before 
he sees the lumber.

The  Wool  Market.

The  demoralization  sttll  continues, 
with not a ray of  hope,  so  far  as can be 
seen.  The  easing up  of  money has  not

the 

benefited wool,  as it was  expected to do, 
because there is no demand for it.  Man­
ufacturers  report  the  lightest  orders in 
the  history  of 
trade,  clothiers 
throughout the  country  carrying  over a 
large  portion  of their  stocks  from  last 
year.  Another  feature of the market  is 
the  small  advances  on  consignments, 
showing  the  want  of  confidence  in the 
market on  the part of  dealers.  Wool is 
“cheap,”  but,  contrary 
to  the  usual 
order of things, the price has not tempted 
even  manufacturers  into  buying  any 
more than is needed for present use.  No 
one has any  money to  speculate  with— 
especially  in  wool.  Prices  are  a  triHe 
lower than a week ago.

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News  from the  Metropolis—Index  of 

the  Markets.

Special Correspondence.

informed.  Notwithstanding 

N ew  Y ork,  July  1.—Not  much
change  is  to  be  noted  in  the  grocery 
market. 
It  is  said  that the recent sus­
pension of banks in California  has upset 
the  calculations  of  the coast canners to 
quite an  extent.  No great  degree of in­
terest  is  shown 
in  California  canned 
goods,  and  from  all  appearances,  the 
driers will  have to  take care of an abun­
dance  of fruit and next winter  will  wit­
ness  such  low  prices for dried fruit  the 
demand will be enormous.  That is what 
“they” say.  Just who  “they” are we are 
not 
the 
great profits alleged to  be  made  by  the 
California  packers,  they  always  seem 
bard  up.  They  ought  to  grow  olives. 
Mr.  Elwood  is  said to have netted over 
$800  an  acre  from  his olive  grove,  and 
this  is  not  to  be  sneezed  at,  even  in 
California.
For foreign and  Pacific dried  fruit the 
demand  is  very  small  and  prices  are 
nominal.  Some  Calafornla  bag  raisins 
have sold  at  4%e;  kegs,  5j^c.  Prunes, 
currants and nuts are all  lifeless.
Lemons  are  selling  well,  and  really 
fancy stock brings $5@6*per box for 300s, 
although  very  good ones can  be bad for 
$3@3.50.  Sicily  oranges,  $2.75@3.25; 
Rodi, $3.50@4.
In  the  line  of  domestic  green  fruit, 
the  arrivals  are  large,  but,  as  yet,  no 
great  amount  of  good  apples  has been 
received.  The  small  fruits,  cherries, 
grapes,  berries, currants, etc., are abund­
ant.  Cherries  are  worth 5@8c.  Straw­
berries  command  8@10c.  Watermelons 
are  blocking  both  sides of  the  street, 
selling  at  $12@20 per  hundred.  Early 
Harvest apples are  quotable at $3.50 per 
bbl.;  currants,  7@9c  per  lb.;  huckle­
berries,  10@13c;  gooseberries,  $1.75@2 
per bu.
In  dried  fruits  nothing  is  doing.  A 
few  blackberries  and  cherries  have ar­
rived from the South.  Fancy evaporated 
apples, 8@8%c; peaches,  Georgia peeled, 
12@14c; apricots,  13@16c.
Beans are tending downward, although 
hardly  quotable  at  lower  prices 
than 
have prevailed,  viz.,  $2 for both pea and 
marrow;  choice foreign  pea, $1.75
Butter remains at former figures—21 % 
@22c for Elgin and other  extra  Western 
as  well  as  for  extra  State  creamery. 
Western  creamery,  firsts,  19%@20>£c, 
and  from  this  down  to  16>£@i7c  for 
Western  factory. 
fancy 
colored cheese, 9M@9%cis paid,  and the 
market  as a  whole  may  be  said  to  be 
firm.  White is quotable at 8X@9c.
Eggs, quiet;  but receipts are light  and 
prices firm.  Fancy Michigan,  16c;  other 
Western,  15@15j^c,  and  these  prices 
prevail  for all  good stock.
Potatoes are arriving freely,  and prime 
Rose are quotable at  $2.50@2.75 per bbl; 
Chili,  red,  $2@2.50.  Cauliflower,  $2.50 
@3 per bbl.  Green peas, $1.50@2.25 per 
bag.  Tomatoes, $1@2 per carrier.
Dressed chickens,  Western,  are  worth 
18@20c  and  the  demand  is  good,  al­
though,  perhaps of  a sort of  a  holiday 
character.  Above quotation is for young 
chickens,  suitable  for  broiling.  For the 
birds  of “ uncertain  age”  12@13c is top.
Sultana raisins  promise  to  be  a short 
crop this year, or,  at least, it will proba­
bly  fall below  last year’s—when  it was

For  strictly 

35,000  tons—by  10,000  tons.  They  are 
worth 7@9c.
The Ceylon  Tea Planters’ Association, 
which  has  struggled  against  fate  for 
three years  with  a capital  of  $1,000,000, 
is in trouble,  aud an attachment for $23,- 
000  has been  issued  against  it.  Ceylon 
tea can’t  make much  headway here just 
yet. 
It is about  a generation  too previ­
ous.
Production  of  gold  throughout  the 
world  last  year  was  $130,816,000,  and 
it 
is  thought  this  year  will  see  this 
amount exceeded by $10,000,000,  as great 
finds are reported from Southern  Africa.
The steamer  Freiburg  will take  from 
here  in  a few  days 1,900 tens of  bay to 
Havre.  Please  take  notice  of  this, be­
cause it is  something  almost unheard of 
heretofore. 

J ay.

Good Words Unsolicited.

J.  A. McMurtrle  A Son,  druggists, Three Riv­
ers:  “We  cannot  keep  house  without  The 
Tuade“man.  We  find  its  drug  market  report 
to be always reliable."
Frank Weaver, grocer, Manton:  “I have tried 
your paper and  want it again.  It helps  to keep 
the  drummers  straight—that  is- on  prices. 
It 
Is Impossible to keep them straight on all things, 
you know.”

G. L. Fenton,  druggist,  Kingsley:  “Still like 

it too well  to give it up."

J. H. Williams & Co., grocers, Manton:  “I al­

ways welcome it  as an old friend."

at a bargain.  Address  box  634,  Traverse  City, 

If some folks had their  way about this 
world how few  people  could  live  com­
fortably in it.

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

74s

746

747

749

Mich. 

and  fixtures  in  best  town  in  Michigan. 
Compelled  to  sell  by reason  of  failing  health. 
Box 501, Traverse City, Mich. 

FOR  SALE—Confectionery  and  bakery  stock 
Ba y in g sh o e sto ke fo r sa le—in b est

town in Michigan of 5,i 00 inhabitants, loca­
tion fine, clean stock, invoice 18,500, sales $17,000. 
Best of reasons for selling.  Good bargain.  Ad­
dress Boots and  Shoes’,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

I POSITION  WANTED  BY  A  REGISTERED 

Pharmacist with experience in both whole­
sale  and  retail  houses.  Good  references  fur­
nished.  Otis Jones, Burulps Corners, Mich.  745 
TTITILL  PAY  SPOT  CASH  FOR  ANY  LARGE 
i ”   general stock, if offered at  big  discount. 
Box 327, Stanton. Mich. 

Doing  nice paying  business. 

ceries for sale  on  Union  street.  Will  sell 

Bu sin ess  house  a n d  stock  o f  g r o- 
F or  sa l e—seco n d-han d  sto re  e l e
vator, cheap,  or  will  exchange  for  horse, 
carriage or anything I  can  use.  W.  F.  Taylor, 
Mt. Pleasant. 
713
m o  ex c h a n g e—six   h u n d r e d  acres
JL 
first-class farming land, free  and  clear  of 
incumbrance,  forty miles  north  of  Grand Rap­
ids, to exchange for a stock of general merchan­
dise.  Address  for  particulars C. E. Herrington, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

I lOR  SALE-DRUG  STORE, SMALL  STOCK.
FOR  SALE—SMALL  BAZAAR  STOCK, ALSO 

742
Present
owner has other business.  Address, “Antidote,” 
739
care of Michigan Tradesman. 
store building in good  railroad  and  manu 
facturing  town.  Address  P.  O.  Box  NO.  93, 
738
Thompsonville, Mich. 
OR  SALE—YOST  TYPEWRITER,  USED 
but a few months, and  practically as  good 
as new.  Send  for  sample  of  writing.  Trades­
man Company, Grand Rapids. 

F o r  sa le—o n e  o f  t h e  f in e s t   and

736
best selected drug stocks in northern Mich 
igan, excellently  located  for  business;  in  live 
town; brick building; steam heat and all modern 
improvements.  Rent  moderate;  terms  reason­
able  Address J. W. Balcom, Tawas  City,  Mich­
igan_______________________________ 73p

F o r  r e n t—t h e  n ew ly  f it t e d   sto re

at 88 Canal street.  Suitable for a hardware, 
stationery or clothing store.  First-class location 
in center of business part near court house, next 
door  to  best  paying  drug  store  in  the  city. 
Twenty-four feet  front  and  100 feet deep, high 
celling,  etc.  For  terms  apply to  239  Jefferson 
avenue, Grand Rapids. 

F or sa l e  o r  r e n t—sto re  b u il d in g

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. LeBarou, 65 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. 702 
LEGANT OFFER—IT’S  NO  TROUBLE  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.  Suit  yourself  about  terms.  Address 
quick, John  K.  Meyers,  Muskegon,  Mich.  670

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

M.  A.  Mosher  has  opened  a  grocery 
store at Mill Creek.  The  Olney  & Jud- 
son Grocer Co.  furnished the stock.

Chas.  E.  Whitcomb has  sold  his inter­
est in the Grand  Rapids Glass Co.  to  H. 
W.  Boozer and  Joseph  Hosey,  who will 
continue  the  business  under  the  same 
style,  with a  view  to  merging  it  into a 
stock  company  soon.  Mr.  Hosey  was 
formerly  connected  with the  Anderson 
Glass  Works,  of  Chicago,  and  has  had 
considerable  experience  in 
the  glass 
business.

Gripsack Brigade.

W.  A.  Van  Leuven  (Putnam  Candy 
Co.)  is  spending  a  week or ten days at 
the  White City.  On  his return,  he  will 
extend  his  territory  from  Newberry to 
Marquette,  including Manistique.

James N. Bradford  sprained  an  ankle 
on  the  morning  of  June  17, in  conse­
quence of which  he has  been compelled 
to  remain at home  for three weeks.  He 
hopes to be  able to  resume his  road du­
ties again in three weeks.

S. E.  Wells has  resigned  his  position 
with the United  States School Furnituie 
Co.  and taken a  position with the Grand 
Rapids School Furniture Co. to represent 
its  line  of  church  and  bank  furniture 
and opera chairs in  the Western  States.
W. Fred.  Blake is  the happy father of 
a  girl,  weighing  nine  and  one-half 
pounds  net,  who  arrived  early Monday 
morning,  making  the  third  daughter to 
grace  his  family  circle.  Fred,  prayed 
for a boy, and the result is another proof 
of  the  Biblical  injunction  to  the effect 
that the  prayers of  the wicked  availeth 
nothing.

Purely  Personal.

Wm.  H. Downs and wife have returned 
from the World’s Fair,  where they spent 
a week or ten days.

Mrs.  B.  S.  Davenport  and  son  have 
gone  to  Big  Rapids,  where  they  will 
spend the summer on the farm of her par­
ents.

Albert  Kuppenheimer,  who  returned 
from Europe a couple of  weeks ago,  was 
married  at Manheim,  Baden,  May 30,  to 
Miss Rosa Mayor, of Jttingen.  The cere­
mony  was  performed  by  the  Mayor  of 
Manheim,  and  afterward  by a rabbi, in 
accordance with the custom of that coun­
try.

Mrs.  Alton S. Frey,  wife  of  the Lake- 
view general  dealer,  died  at  the family 
residence on June 25,  and was  buried on 
the  27th  at  Ensley,  Newaygo  county. 
The  deceased was  a  woman of  rare vir­
tues,  and  her husband  has the sympathy 
of  a  large  circle  of  friends  in  his  be­
reavement.

The  Grocery  Market.

Coffee—Arbuckle  is  out  with  a  new 
contract  which  went  into effect July 1, 
and is so  binding  in  character  that the 
wholesale dealer  who does not live up to 
the terms of the  contract loses his profit 
on the entire  purchase.  The  Michigan 
Wholesale Grocers’  Association has also 
arranged  to  put  all  brands  of package 
coffee  on  the  equality  plan  on July 5. 
This  will  insure 
the  same  degree  of 
steadiness  in  the  price  that is now the 
case  with sugar, enabling the wholesaler 
to get a reasonable profit, while the retail­
er  is  assured  of  the  price being main­
tained.

Sugar—Refined  grades  were advanced 
on Friday  J^con Standards No. 8, 12 and

and 

reduced 
to  supply 

largely 
inadequate 

13 and l-16c on  all other softs below No.
5.  A  very considerable  Increase  in de­
mand is reported  and  further  advances 
momentarily expected.  Stocks  in  deal­
ers’  hands  throughout the  country have 
en­
become 
tirely 
the  de­
mands  of  the  season.  Refiners  áre  al­
ready oversold on several grades of softs. 
The situation is  strong at all  points and 
the course of the market, until new sugar 
becomes  available,  will  be  of  unusual 
interest.  Messrs.  Willett &  Gray’s esti­
mates  show  an apparent surplus of  25,- 
000  tons (111,277  tons  last  year)  at the 
close  of  the  season,  basing  their  esti­
mates  on  the  most  ultra  conservative 
lines,  reducing  the  consumption  of  a 
year ago,  from July 1 to Nov.  1,  whereas 
with  abundant  fruit  prospects  we  look 
for  a  largely 
increased  consumption; 
placing the meltings  at  the same as last 
year and consumption on same basis,  we 
shall require 50,000 tons more than  they 
estimate or 25,000 tons more from Europe 
to carry us  through,  it  is  reasonable to 
suppose,  therefore,  that instead of 65,000 
tons  as  estimated,  we  must  look  to 
Europe for upward of 100,000 tons before 
Nov.  1.

Oil—As  will  be  noted  by  the official 
announcement  in  another  column, 
the 
Standard  Oil  Company  has  abandoned 
the  sale  of  W. W. Headlight and Water 
White Michigan  brands,  in consequence 
of the recent law passed by the last Leg­
islature,  and  will  hereafter  furnish but 
two brands to the trade of  this market 
Eocene in barrels and XXX Water White 
Michigan Headlight in barrels  and bulk 
the  tank  wagons  marketing  only 
the 
latter brand.

Oranges—Are  down  notwithstanding 
their scarcity,  the  quality being against 
them.

Lemons—The market is firm at a slight 
advance.  Hot  weather  is always favor­
able to the lemon market,  so,  though the 
quality  is  somewhat  off, 
the  price  is 
tending upward.

Bananas—The market is steady at last 
week’s  quotations,  and  is  likely  to re­
main so.

The  Drug  Market.

Gum opium  is  lower.  This  article is 
selling  in New York  below  the cost  of 
importation  from  Smyrna, on account of 
speculators  unloading  because  of 
in­
ability  to  renew  loans  from  banks  to 
carry it.

Morphia is steady.
Quinine is weak.
Balsam  copaiba  has  declined,  on  ac­

count of large stocks.

Balsam peru is in better  supply and is 

lower.

with the bud.

Oil  cloves  has  declined,  in sympathy 

Oil cubebs is lower for same reason.
Oil erigeron  has declined,  on  account 

of  a better supply.

Manufacturers  of  bromides,  ammonia 
potash and  sodium advanced  their price 
2 cents  per pound.

Cloves are in  large  supply and lower.
Saffron  is lower  as the  new crop is at 

hand.

Paris  green  is  very  scarce.  Jobbers 
are  unable  to  supply  size  packages de­
sired  in  every  instance.  Dealers  who 
did not order early must  take  what they 
can get.

Carbolic  acid  is  lower, on  account of 

large stocks and slow sale.

The Manchester  Ship  Canal.

There  is  nothing  which  better illus­
trates  to  Americans the  fact  that  the | 
ship canal is  not a thing of  the past nor i 
a relic of former ages than the history of j 
the Manchester Ship Canal.  The city  of \ 
Manchester,  England,  is  but  thirty-five 
miles from  Liverpool.  Various  canals, 
small rivers  and numerous  railroads af-1 
ford the inland  town  outlets  for  its nu­
merous  manufactures.  But 
railway 
freights  were  high  and  the  canals that 
passed through  the district  were  small, 
and  this  single  city  found  herself  so 
hampered by rates  and the actual inabil­
ity  of  the  railroads  to  transport  her 
freight,  that she determined to bring the 
ocean to her since she could not go to the 
It was  a long,  bitter  fight to ob­
ocean. 
tain  an  act  which  would  enable her to 
build the canal. 
In  ’83, ’84  and ’85  the 
investigations  were  carried  on before  a 
Parliamentary  committee,  and  $750,000 
were expended  in obtaining  the charter. 
Liverpool,  against  her  own  best  inter­
ests,  fought the battle  to  the bitter end, 
and it  was only  through  Captain Eades’ 
answer to a single question that the com­
pany finally  decided  upon a  plan which 
met the objections from  Liverpool.  The 
original  design was  to  use the  river for 
the canal,  and this  would have undoubt­
edly  injured  the  harbor  of  Liverpool, 
and when finally beaten  the  Manchester 
Council asked Mr.  Eades,  in cross  ques­
tioning,  what  would  he  do  had  he the 
canal 
to  build.  The  answer  was,  “I 
should  bring  the  canal  along the shore 
to a point  where it  would no  longer in­
jure  the  river.”  That  answer  was all 
they  had to  show for an  expenditure at 
that  particular  time  of £20,000,  but the 
half dozen  words were  worth all it cost. 
The plans were  modified and the conces­
sion obtained.
The total length is only  thirty-five and 
one-half  miles.  For fourteen  and  one- 
half  miles  the  canal  is  filled  by  the 
waters of  the  Irwell,  Mersey  and other 
rivers, in fact, it takes the place of them 
and receives all  their storm water.  The 
sewage which  formerly  went  into these 
rivers is now being retained and purified. 
The lower  part of  the  canal  for twelve 
miles is tidal, and locks and sluices have 
been  provided  to  allow  the  passage  of 
water  out  from  the  canal  and  for the 
tidal  flow.  The  canal  has  been  made 
through its  whole  length  to a minimum 
width of  120  feet  at the  bottom,  and  it 
averages  172  feet  wide  at  the  water 
level.  The  upper  portion  from  Man 
Chester  is  170  feet  wide  at  the  bottom 
and 230 feet  at the  water level.  At the 
various  locks  the  canal  is  widened out 
considerably  to  admit  the  turning  of 
vessels, if  necessary,  and large steamers 
can pass  each other  at any point  of  the 
canal.  At places where  works for man­
ufacturing  purposes 
are  constructed 
along the sides of the canal it is widened 
out to permit ships to lie alongside of the 
wharves  without  interfering  with  the 
passage of  vessels up and down.
When  we think of  the insignificant lit 
tie ditches  which for  so long  have held 
their own in  competition with  railroads 
in  this  country  we  see  that  there  are 
great possibilities in a canal which when 
built has a depth of  twenty-six feet,  and 
locks  and  sills  are  made  twenty-eight 
feet  below the  water  level  in  order to 
allow, if necessary,  for the  future deep 
ening of the canal.
It was found  necessary  on account  of 
differences in level  between  Manchester 
and Liverpool  to provide  locks at Litch 
ford.  There  are two  locks of  different 
sizes, one 600x65 feet wide and a smaller 
one  300x45  feet  wide.  The  total  rise 
from  the  ordinary  water  level  to  the 
docks  at  Manchester  is  sixty  feet  six 
inches,  and this  is divided between four 
sets of  locks,  the  average  of  each  lock 
being  fifteen 
feet  one  and  one-half 
In  building  this  canal  it was 
inches. 
necessary 
to  provide  all  the  railroads 
which  crossed 
the  country  with  ap­
proaches  and  high  level  bridges.  As 
many of  the lines  crossed the canal at a 
skew,  a  span  varying  from  137  to  266 
feet was made in order to enable the full 
width of  120 feet to be  available for the 
canal  itself.  The  swing  bridges  are 
worked  by hydraulic  power as well as a 
movable aqueduct  which  carries a small 
canal across the main line.

There are provided at Manchester docks 
which  have  a  space  of  114  acres  and 
wharves having an area of 152 acres, their 
length being five and one-half miles.  At 
Warrington there is a dock having an area 
of twenty-three acres,  and at other points 
the canal  has  been  widened  in order to 
allow  steamers to  lie  alongside without 
encroaching  upon the  canal.  The total 
excavation  involved  in 
this  enormous 
piece of  work  was  46,000,000  yards, of 
which 10,000,000  cubic  yards was  sand­
stone rock.  This  large quantity of spoil 
has been employed in filling up lowlands 
and in  bringing up  the ground  on either 
side  of  the  canal  to  a  suitable  level. 
There were  no less than  17,000 men and 
boys employed  during the  work,  and 200 
horses,  and  228  miles  of  contractors’ 
railroad was laid for the purpose of mov­
ing the  excavated earth.  A  part of  the 
canal 
is already  in  use,  and  it  is  ex­
pected  that it  will  be  open  early  next 
year  for its  entire  length.  What  the 
total cost will be is not yet known.  The 
apital of the company  in 1891  was £10,- 
900,000.  Nine  million  pounds  had  al­
ready been  spent,  and  £3,900,000  more 
were  required.  When  finished  ocean 
steamers of  the  largest  size,  up  to say 
600  feet  in  length,  can  deliver  their 
freight at  Manchester  without tranship­
load  for  foreign  ports 
ment,  and  can 
with nearly the same ease as though Man­
chester was on  a navigable river. 
If we 
take Mr.  Haupt’s  figures  we  find  that 
this  bringing  of  Manchester  upon  the 
canal,  or  what  is  more  accurate,  upon 
the river,  is  equivalent  to  reducing the 
cost  of  transportation  between  Liver­
pool and Manchester to about one-seventh 
of its former amount,  and,  theoretically, 
Manchester  is  benefited  six  times  as 
much  as  though  the  same  quantity  of 
merchandise  could  be carried to  Liver­
pool at the  same price. 
It  is no  longer 
necessary  for  her  goods  to  be  tran- 
hipped.
The  enormous  expenditure by  which 
this  coming  to the  sea  will  be  accom­
plish is a good  investment,  and the pros­
perity  of  the city will show that  a wise 
thing has been doue. 
It would even pay 
the  city to  assume  the  whole  expense 
and  the burden  of  operation  and main­
tenance,  and make the canal a free water 
way.
G IN SEN G   R O O T .

We pay the highest price for it.  Address 

T) 17017"  "DUnC!  W holesale  Druggists
T-Ci u Ja.  -D IIU o m   g r a n d   r a p i d s .
“The  Proof of the Pudding  is  Ask­

ing  for  More.”

SMOKERS  ONCE  SMOKERS  A L ­

W AYS  OF  THE  CELEBRATED

B e n - H u r ,

The great 10c Cigar,  and

J ^ e c o r d   J ^ r e a k e r ,

The  Great  5c  Cigar.

Made on Honor. 

Sold on Merit

First-Class Dealers  Everywhere.

MANUFACTURERS,

D E T R O I T .

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From  th e American Grocer.

Some men  receive very  large  salaries 
for turning  the pages of  ledgers in use. 
It seems an easy and almost useless occu­
pation to the novice,  but in  reality it  is 
the  detective  office  of  the  firm.  The 
ledger  handler  is  an  expert  in  credits, 
who,  by  frequent  inspections of  the ac­
counts of  the firm’s  creditors,  keeps  an 
eye  on  just  what  they  are  doing.  We 
imagine if  dealers  were  aware  of  the 
close  attention  given  by  some  firms to 
the  history  of every customer’s account, 
that there would be a great improvement 
in some of  the records.  Step into one of 
the  large  jobbing  houses,  and  ask  the
credit  clerk if  the  firm  sells Mr.  A-----,
and if  he  is  regarded  worthy of  credit. 
Instead of an  immediate answer you will 
be taken to  a room full of  filling  bQxes, 
alphabetically  arranged.  A box marked 
“A” will  be removed,  and  in  a few sec­
onds the record of  Mr. A-----will be be­
fore you.  At a glance  you will have the 
date his account was  opened,  the  record 
of every purchase, the date each bill was 
settled, besides his personal  statement as 
to his worth and that of the various mer­
cantile agencies. 
If  there has  been any
trouble  with  Mr. A-----or  he  has been
delinquent, the facts will be on record.
Credit is getting to be an exact science 
with  the  larger  houses.  A  first-class 
credit clerk must  have tact, perfect self- 
command,  shrewdness 
in  asking  and 
answering  questions,  keen  perceptive 
faculties,  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
laws of  trade  and  finance,  be  quick to 
read character and swift  to  make  a  de­
cision.  Said  one  of  the  most  expert 
credit  clerks  in  the  city:  “Any  man 
that is  honest,  has ability, and  is indus­
trious, can get a credit with us, if he has 
not much capital.  We are simply allow­
ing  a  thoroughly  trustworthy  man 
to 
hold our goods and save us the insurance 
and cost of storage.  There  is  little risk 
in trusting merchandise  to  that  sort  of 
men.”
The right sort  of  character is quite as 
good  a  recommendation  for  credit  as 
money.  When  both  are  combined,  the 
risk is  beyond  question.  And  rest  as­
sured  those  granting  credits  keep  per­
fectly posted about their  creditors, even 
to the  relation  of  personal  habits  and 
personal expenditures to business career.

C atch y   W indow   D isplays.

Harry Hannan In National Grocer.

If  you want to attract the attention of 
the passersby  and at  the  same  time in­
troduce  some  special  article,  take that 
article  and  arrange  it  in  the  center of 
your window  into  some  artistic  design, 
with a background made up of the same. 
For example: 
If  your  have  a  certain 
brand of soap you  would like to display, 
build  it  up to  represent  a  high  wall. 
Make a  derrick, and  have a  doll on  the 
top of this wall in the act of pulling up a 
bar of  soap,  which  represents the stone. 
Display a placard to  read:

“BUILDING UP A REPUTATION.”

If  you  wish  at  any  time  to  make  a 
special fruit display for  your window or 
inside  the  store,  build  a high  pyramid 
from  any  old  lumber.  Take  wire  net­
ting and secure it to this pyramid leaving 
sufficient space in between to  show your 
fruit.  Ton can  then  start  by filling  in 
so much space with apples, then oranges, 
and so on with fruits in season.
The ice cream season is here.  Why not 
place a freezer in  your window arranged 
on  top of  a  pyramid  of  boxes,  and  the 
various  articles  used  displayed  on  the 
boxes  with cards calling attention to the 
same.
Special  attention  should  be  given  to 
the show window  for the  Nation’s great 
holiday, and a distinctive Fourth of July 
window  should be  made up appropriate 
for  the  occasion.  Yonr  store 
front 
should be decorated with  flags and bunt­
ing,  and  while some  little  expense may 
be  attached to the  getting up  of  the ar­
ticles  necessary to  produce  the  desired 
effect, it is one of the best  paying adver­
tisements to  a dealer,  for  the  public ap­
preciate the  go-ahead  merchant  of  the 
present day.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N
Dry Goods Price Current.

DENINS.

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Adriatic.................7
A rgyle...................  6
Atlanta AA.............6
Atlantic  A..............6ft
H..............654
“ 
P ............  5*
“ 
D.............   6
“ 
“  LL.................6
Amory.................... 6ft
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  5in
Blackstone O, 32__5
Black Crow.............. 6
Black Rock  .............6*
Boot, A L................  7
Capital  A..................514
Cavanat Y................5V4
Chapman cheese cl.  3ft
Clifton  C R ...............5*
Comet........  ............6ft
Dwight Star............  6ft
Clifton CCC...........  6*

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.Arrow Brand  5 
Worldwide.  6
“  LL.................  454
Pull Yard Wide.......6 Vi
Georgia  A............... 6k
Honest Width..........6 Vi
Hartford A ..............6
Indian Head............  3Vi
King A A .................6 Vi
KlngBC...................  6
Lawrence  L L.........5
Madras cheese cloth 6ft
Newmarket  G.........6ft
B ..........5
N ..........614
D D ....  614
X .........6*
Nolbe R......................5
Our Level  Best.......6
Oxford  R.................  6
Pequot........................7
Solar........................... 6
Top of the Heap....  7
Geo. Washington...  8
Glen Mills...............  7
Gold Medal.............   7 Vi
Green  Ticket.......... 814
Great Falls...............  614
Hope..........................714
Just  Out........ 4ft@ 5
King  Phillip............7M
O P.....  714
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Lonsdale..........  ® 8ft
Middlesex.........   @ 5
No Name..................  7Vt
Oak View.................6
Our Own..................  6V4
Pride of the West.. .18
Rosalind...................7V4
Sunlight.....................414
Utica  Mills..............8 Vi
Nonpareil ..10
Vlnyard....................  8*
White Horse............6
Rock.............  8 vi

A B C ........................8V4
Amazon.................... 8
Amsburg........  .......7
Art  Cambric............10
Blackstone A A.......7ft
Beats A ll..................4 vi
Boston......................12
Cabot........................ 754
Cabot,  \
...................6ft
Charter  Oak............6Vi
Conway W ...............   754
Cleveland................6ft
Dwight Anchor.......854
shorts.  8
Edwards................... 6
Empire......................7
Far-well.....................7*
Fruit of the  Loom.  8Vi
Fitchvllle  .............  7
First Prise............... 7
Fruit of the Loom X.  7Vf
Falrmount............... 454
Full Value............... 6ft
Cabot.......................... 754|Dwlght Anchor
Farwell.................... 8 

HALF  BLXACHKD  COTTONS.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached. 
Housewife  Q ....

Unbleached 

Housewife  A............654
B ............5 Vi 
C............6 
D ............6V4 
E ............7 
F ............75* 
G ..........754 
H............7ft 
1............854 
J .......... 8 Vi 
K..........  954
L........... 10
M  .......... 10V4
N ........... 11
O........... 21
P ........... 1454

.   f i............7

_ 
654
“ 
S ............7ft
“ 
“ 
T ............8 Vi
“ 
U............954
“  V ..............10
“  W.......,.10ft
•* 
X ..........11 Vi
“ 
Y.......... 12V4
“  Z.............. 1SV4

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Amoskeag............... 1254 1
9os.......1354:
brown .18
Andover..................1154 1
Beaver Creek AA.. .10 
B B ...9

Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 

“ 
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blue  854 
“  d * twist  1054 
“ 

Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

c c .

Colombian  brown..12
Everett, blue............1254
brown........1254
Haymaker bine.........7ft
brown...  7ft
Jeffrey.......................1154
Lancaster................. 1254
Lawrence, 9 os......... 1354
No. 220.. ..13 
No. 250.. ..1154 
No. 280.... 1054

H N U U U .

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Amoskeag.....................654

“  Persian dress  8 
Canton ..  8
“ 
“ 
AFC.........1054
“ 
Teazle...1054 
“ 
Angola.. 1054 
Persian..  8 
“ 
Arlington staple....  6)4
Arasapha  fancy__ 4k
Bates Warwick dres 754 
staples.  654
Centennial..............  1054
Criterion.....................1054
Cumberland staple.  554
Cumberland............ 5
Essex......................    454
Elfin.............................   754
Everett classics...........854
Exposition................... 754
Glenarie......................   6)4
Glenarven.................... 6ft
Glenwood.....................754
Hampton.......................654
Johnson Ohalon cl 
54 
Indigo blue 954 
zephyrs....16  1

Lancaster,  staple...  654 

fancies....  7
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire............  6
Manchester..............  5ft
Monogram................. 654
Normandie.................754
Persian.................... 8
Renfrew Dress........754
Rosemont...................654
Slatersville.............6
Somerset..................7
Tacoma  .....................754
Toll  du Nord.......... 1054
Wabash...................... 754
seersucker..  754
Warwick.................  7
Whlttenden..............8

heather dr.  754 
Indigo bine 9 
Wamsutta staples...  6ft
Westbrook............... 8
...............10
Wlndermeer............ 6
York............................6ft

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Amoskeag............................1654 [Valley City.....1654
Stark........................  19ft Georgia.19ft
American................................15ft ¡Pacific........

Clark’s Mile End....45  (Barbour's.................£6
Coats’, J . 4 P ..........45  ! Marshall’s.
.81
Holyoke...................22541

THRXASB.
.45

No.

XNITTINS  COTTON.
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14...
39
40
41
CAMBRICS.

..38
6  ..
8... ...34
10... ....35
...86
12...

...37
16... ....88
“ 
*•  18... ....39
“  20... ....40

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

Slater.......................... 454
White Star..............  454
Kid Glove.................. 4%
Newmarket................454

Edwards.................   454
Lockwood..................454
Wood’s .....................   45|
Brunswick................454

XBD  FLANNEL.

Fireman................... 3254
Creedmore............... 2754
Talbot XXX.............80
Nameless..................2754

T W .......................... 2254
F T ............................ 8254
J B F , XXX.............36
Buckeye.................. 3254

NIXED  FLANNEL.

DOMBT  FLANNEL.

Grey SR  W..............1754
Western W .............. 1854
D R P ........................1854
Flushing XXX.........2354
Manitoba..................2854
01054
1854
Black.
10*
11*
12
20

Red & Blue,  plaid..40
Union R...................2254
Windsor................... 1854
6 os Western............20
Union  B .................. 2254
Nameless.......8  &  954| 
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“ 
Slate
Black.
Slate.
1054
$
954
1154
1054
12
1154
1154
20
1254
1254
DUCKS. 
Severen, 8 os...........   . n
> * West?Polnt, 8 os.... 10* 
May land, 8 os.......... 10*
10 os  ...12*
“ 
Greenwood, 7* o s..  9* 
Raven, lOos..............13*
Greenwood, 8 os— 11* 
.............. 13*
Stark 
Boston, 10 os.............12*
Boston, 8 os..............10*

CANVASS  AND  PADDINO.
Brown.
954
1054
1154
1254

Brown.
1054
«K
12
20

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WADDOTOS.

BILXSIAB.

S E W » «   BILK.

Cortlcelll  knitting, 
per 540s  ball........ 80

White, dos................25  IPerbale, 40 dos....68 50
Colored,  dos.............20  iColored  “ 
............7 50
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Pawtucket................10*
Dundle.....................   9
“  Red Cross....  9
Best..............10*
“ 
Bedford.................... 10*
» 
Best AA...... 12*
Valley  City............. 1054
L ................................7*
K K ......................... 10*
G............................. 8*
Cortlcelll, dos..........85
twist, dos..40 
60 yd, dos..40
HOOKS AND ETES—PER CROSS.
No  1 Bl’k A White..10
|No  4 Bl’k A White..15 
“ 
“  2 
..12
..20
“ 
“  8 
..12
“ 
..26
" 
No 2-20, M C .........50 |No 4—15  F  8 * ... ...40
•'  8—18, S C ... .......45
COTTON  TAPI.
No  2 White 4  Bl’k.. 12 INO  8 White A BPk.,20
..15 1  “  10 
.28
i  
Il 
••  6 
..18 1  «  12 
..26
BÂWWTY  P U A
.......28 INo 8...................... ...86
NNNDLXS— m   M.

No 2..................

▲.James.................. 1  40|Steamboat...  .........  40
Crowely’s.................1  86 Gold  Eyed...............1  60
Marshall’s ................1 00| American.................1 00
5—4....2 25  6—4...S 26|5—4....1  95  6 -4 ...2  96 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“  ...8 10]

“ ....2 10 

8 
10 

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COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28 
Crown.......................12
Domestic...................18)4
Anchor.......................16
Bristol................... 
  13
Cherry Valley.........15
I XL..........................18*1
Alabama.....................6k
Alamance...................6*
Augusta....................7 *
Ar< sapha................... 0
Georgia...................... 6*
Granite......................5ft
Haw  River.............6
Haw  J ......................•

Nashua.................. 18
Rising Star 4-ply__17
8-ply....17
North Star............. 20
Wool Standard 4 ply 1754 
Powhattan............18

Mount  Pleasant.... 6*
Oneida................. 5
Prymont.................   5*
Randelman..............6
Riverside.................  6M
Sibley  A .................. ¡ 2
Toledo......................

PLAID  OBNABUBSS

Chas. B.  Ke l s e y , Pres. 

E. B. Sey m o u r, Sec'y 

J. W.  H a n n e n ,  Supt.

''Chicago” Linen Hinge and

Mullins Patent Flat Opening Books. 

SPECIAL  BOOK  BINDING. 

Telephone 1243.  89 Pearl street,  Old  Houseman 

Block,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

“ T h e   K e n t . * *

D irectly Opposite Union  l>  pot.

AX ■ BICAN  PLAN
RATI8, 12 PER  DAT
8TBAM  HEAT  AND  BLECTRIC  BBLLS
FREE  BAGGAGE  TRANSFER  FROM  UNION
DEPOT.

BEACH  1   BOOTH,  Props.

ätläs  S oup

Is Manufactured 

only  by

HENRY  PASS0LT, 

Saginaw,  Mich.

For general laundry and  family 

washing  purposes.

Only brand of first-class laundry 

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,

20  Sc  22  MONROE  ST., 
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

CARPET  WARP.

“ 

Peerless, white........18  ¡Integrity  colored...20
colored— 20  White Star................18
Integrity.................. 18V4I 
“  colored..20
Nameless.................20
H a m ilt o n .......................   8
...................9
...................25
...................10V4
...................2754
...................30
G G  Cashmere........ 20
Nam eless............... 16
.  ............... 32 Vi
.................18
...................86

DRXSS  OOODB.
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CORSET  JEANS.

cone
CoraUne................... 69 60
Schilling's..  ...........9 00
Davis  Waists.......  9 00
Grand  Rapids..........4 SO
Armory.................... 6ft
Androscoggin..........754
Blddefora................  6
Brunswick.................654
ran
Allen turkey  reds..  6 
robes............6
El nk * purple 6
a lls ............  6
pink  checks.  6
staples........ 6
shirtings...  6 
American  fancy—   654 
American Indigo...  6 
American shirtings.  154 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Arnold 
"  —   6
Arnold  Merino.......6

long cloth B. 1054 
“ 
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c   8H 
“ 
century cloth 7
“  gold seal.......1054
“  green seal TRIO*
“  yellow  seal.. 10*
" 
serge..............1154
11  Turkey  red.. 1054 
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NTS.
Wonderful.............64 SO
Brighton........................4 75
Bortree’s ............... 900
Abdominal............15 00
N anmkeag satteen..  7V4
Rockport.................654
Conestoga............... 754
Walworth...............6ft
ITS.
Berwick fancies..?.  6Vi
Clyde  Robes............
Charter Oak fancies 454 
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
mourn’g  6 
Eddy stone  fancy...  6
chocolat  6
rober___ 6
sateens..  6
Hamilton fancy......6
statue....  6
Manchester fancy..  6 
new era.  6
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Merrim’ck shirtings.  4ft 
“  Repp furn .  8*
Pacific  fancy..........  6
robes............6Vi
“ 
Portsmouth robes...  654 
Simpson mourning..  6
greyi........6
solid black.  6 

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Ballon solid black.. 
colors.
Bengal bine,  green, 
Berlin solida............  554

red and  orange...  6
oil blue 
" 
6
“  green ....  6
" 
...  554
"  Foulards 
“  red f t ..........   7
“  3«............  954
“ 
“ 
4 4.10
“ 
“ 
*•  8-4XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy........ 0
“  madders...  6 
“  X Xtwills..  6 
“ 
solids.........»4

Washington Indigo.  654 
Turkey robes..  7 *  
India robes....  714 
plain T*ky X ft 854 
“  X...10
Ottoman  Tur­
key red................. 654
Martha Washington
Tnrkeyred ft...... 754
Martha Washington
Turkey red...........914
Rlverpolnt robes....  554
Windsor fancy........614
Indigo blue......... 1054
H arm ony.........  .  5
T ic K ix e s .AC A ........................13
Amoskeag AC A ....1254
Hamilton N ............. 754
Pemberton AAA... .10
York.........................1054
D ............. 854
Awning..11
Swift River............ 7V4
Fanner.............. e ...  8
Pearl  River............. 12
First Prise................1054
Warren.................... 1854
Lenox M ills............18
o g s ................16
C 
COTTON  D U U ..
Atlanta,  D ............. 6ft I Stark  a . 
................8
Boot............................. 6ft No  Name................754
CUfton, K.................7  ITopof Heap..............  9

gold  ticket

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rHEì  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

7

D ep lo rab le  C ondition  o f  th e   C an ad ian  

C anning  In d u stry .

Written for Thb Tk a d isr a n.

As  the  canning  factory  question  is 
being discussed  in  the  columns of  T he 
T radesman,  the thought occurred to me 
that a  communication  from  one  of  the 
original  promoters  and  principal  stock­
holders of  one of  the oldest  and largest 
canning  factories in  the  section of  On­
tario  whence I  came  might  throw  some 
light  on  the  question, 
I  accordingly 
wrote  to  Roger  Crysler,  Esq.,  general 
merchant  and one of  the  promoters and 
leading  stockholders  of  the  Delhi  can­
ning  factory.  Mr.  Crysler is ex-warden 
of  the  county  of  Norfolk,  and  a repre­
sentative  Canadian  business  man. 
In 
answer to my enquiry the following com­
munication was received:

Delh i, June 26,  1893.

'

Dear Sib—My  experience  in the can­
ning business would not recommend it to 
others.  If I had never had anything to do 
with it, nothing  would induce  me to in­
vest in that  direction.  We  have  opera­
ted for  fourteen  seasons and have never 
seen one dollar in  dividends  or interest. 
To  start  a  factory  able  to  compete 
with  old,  established  organizations, 
you would require  building and plant at 
a cost of $30,000,  dead stock—should you 
ever  have  occasion  to  quit—besides  a 
working capital of,  at least,  from $50,000 
to  $100,000.  We  required, 
last  year, 
about  $135,000,  and  the  profits  merely 
paid expenses of  extra  plant  and actual 
discount.  This year will be the toughest 
ever experienced in the canning business 
in  Canada.  Goods  are  being offered  as 
futures,  at  prices at  which  they cannot 
be produced; and  if  the raw  fruits  and 
vegetables can be  obtained,  half  of  the 
factories must go to the wall. 
Fruit  of  all  kinds  is very  plentiful 
this year,  and the prospects are excellent 
for vegetables.  The  pack  will  be enor­
mous unless  something  unforseen turns 
up.  The farmers  and fruit growers  are 
always sure to make money in supplying 
the  factories,  for  the prices received by 
them  must  be  satisfactory or  they will 
not  grow  the  stuff.  Our  schedule  of 
prices  this  season  is  as follows:  Corn, 
$6.50  to $10 per  ton; peas, IX   cents per 
pound;  tomatoes,  20  to  25  cents  per 
bushel.  We do not  import anything but 
peaches  from the United States,  and but 
few of those.  This year we shall import 
none; having  a factory  at  old  Niagara, 
we shall have  all the peaches and plums 
we  require.
We sell very little canned  goods in the 
United States,  and even if  the American 
duty of  60 per  cent,  were  removed, our 
surplus  would  go  to  the  old  country. 
The  canning  business  is  like  lots  of 
other  enterprises,  wherever  there  is  a 
dollar in it a  hundred others will spring 
up to get it. 
I cannot say a word for the 
encouragement  of  starting  canning fac­
tories.  My  experience  is  all  against it 
and, under the financial  panic which has 
struck the  United States,  the promoters 
would,  most  likely,  find  themselves  in 
deep water. 

Tours truly,

Roger  Crysler.

This is  not a  very encouraging report 
for those who advocate a canning factory 
for Grand  Rapids.  Still,  after perusing 
the  above letter,  the  reader may  justly
infer  that the  writer’s  mind is  slightly 
tinged  with  prejudice.  Mr. Crysler ad­
mits  that  “very  little”  of  the canned 
product is sold in the  American market, 
yet  he  thinks  an  advantage  of  60  per 
cent,  would not add to this “very little,” 
and that the surplus would  still finds its 
way to the markets of the “old country.” 
Mr.  Crysler,  as  a  business  man,  will 
agree  with me  when I say  that  a home 
market is always  preferable to a foreign 
market. 
It is  preferable  for  many rea­
sons, all of  which,  however,  are  based 
on  one  consideration—profit.  The  re­
moval  of this  60  per  cent  duty  would 
give  Mr. Crysler  a home  market for his 
canned  product  and  would  go  a  long

way in  developing a  “dividend”  which, 
he says,  has never yet appeared.

A canning factory  in Ontario, depend­
ing upon the  American  fruit grower to a 
greater or lesser extent  for supplies.sub- 
ject to Canadiau  duties,  and cut off from 
marketing its product in  a natural home 
market  by  tbe  imposition  of  a  60 per 
cent. American tariff,  thereby forcing its 
product  into  foreign markets thousands 
of miles  removed  from  the base of sup­
ply,  must  surely  be less promising as a 
lucrative  investment, 
than  would  be 
such a factory  in  any  small  town  in our 
own  Michigan  fruit  belt.  We  have 
thousands  of  acres of cheap lands close 
to the  lake  shore, especially adapted to 
the growing of fruits and  vegetables.  A 
canning  factory  at  one  of  these  lake 
towns  would  be  in  the  midst of abun­
dant  supplies  of  all kinds. 
In market­
ing  its  products,  it  would  have  water 
communication  with  scores  of  cities, 
studding  a  coast  line  of  thousands  of 
miles.  In addition to this, the markets of 
the  boundless,  intermediate  West must 
always depend  upon external sources of 
supply;  and  what  section  of country is 
more  favorably  situated or more especi­
ally  adapted  by  nature  to  supply this 
vast region with fruits,  green,  canned or 
dried, than  the  famous  fruit  belt  of 
Michigan? 
It  is  quite  apparent  that 
some  of  the  difficulties,  at least,  which 
confront the  Canadian canner would not 
exist here.  The  Michigan  canner,  if lo­
cated  in  a  lake  town  in the fruit belt, 
would  have  home-grown  supplies, easy 
and cheap transportation of the product, 
and  a  free,  unlimited  home  market to 
sell in. 
It  would  certainly seem that a 
canning  factory  so  situated, possessing 
such advantages,  would,  under judicious 
management,  pay 
the  stockholders  a 
“dividend” if a canning factory ever  did 
pay a dividend anywhere.

in  Grand  Rapids. 

The  question  as  to  the  feasibility of 
operating a canning  factory successfully 
in  Grand  Rapids  is  a debatable one,  if 
we may  judge  by  the  varying opinions 
expressed  by  some  of our leading busi­
ness  men. 
I  do  not  think  such  an 
undertaking  would  prove 
satisfac­
tory 
One  prime 
condition of success in the canning busi­
ness  is  cheap  supplies.  This  means  a 
small town and cheap lauds remote from 
large  centers  of  population.  The  raw 
material is worth  more in  our city mar­
kets,  in  the  green  state, than a canner 
could afford to pay for canning purposes. 
This meaus  either no  business, or a los­
ing business. 

E.  A.  Owen.

The  devil, 

like  tbe  quack  doctor, 
charges nothing for  advice,  but  makes 
you pay dearly if you follow it.

Hardware Price Current.

“ 
1 
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AXES.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dis.
60
40
25
.50*10
.......8 7 00
.......  is 00
....  8 00
.......  13 50
dis.
.. 
n et  80 00 
.......50*10
.......75*10
.......40*10
70
...... 
.1 8  50 
.  4 00 
dis. 
.70*  
.60**0

AUGURS AND BITS.
Snell’s ....................................................
Cook’s .............................................
Jennings’, g e n u in e ................................
Jennings’,  imitation ......................
First Quality, S. B. Bronze............
D.  B. Bronze............
S.B.S. Steel............
D. B. Steel................
Railroad.........................................
Garden...........................................
Stove.............................................. .
Carriage new list............................
Plow................................................
Sleigh shoe.....................................
Well, plain  ....................................
Well, swivel...................................
Cast Loose Pin, fig u re d ........................
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast Joint

BUTTS,  OAST.

BUCKETS.

B A R R O W S .

BOUTS.

dis.

14 00

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

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892 ...............  60*10

Grain...........................................................dls. 50402

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

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

5

65
60
35
60

CARTRIDGES.

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

c h is e l s. 

dls.
Socket Firmer.................................................70*10
Socket Framing................................................70410
Socket Corner....................................................70*10
Socket Slicks....................................................70410
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................... 
40

50
25

c o m b s. 

dls.

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

c h a l k .

COPPER.

“ 

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. 

 

dls.

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser pound.................................... 
07
Large sizes, per pound...........................  . .. ..   6K

ELBOWS.

Com. 4  piece, 6 in .............................. dos. net 
75
40
Corrugated................................................... dls 
Adjustable................................................... dls. 40*10

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dls.

piles—N ew List. 

30
Clark’s, small, $18;  large, 826.......................... 
Ives’, 1, 818:  2, 824;  3,830  ................................. 
25
Disston’s .............................................................. 60*10
New A m erican ..................................................60*10
Nicholson’s .........................................................60*10
Heller’s ................................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse R a sp s........................................ 
50

dls.

GALVANIZED IRON.

15 

13 

12 

28
17

dlB.

Discount, 60

LOCKS—DOOR. 

snobs—N ew List. 

14 
GAUGES. 

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

Stanley Rnle and  Level Co.’s .........................  
50
55
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings........................ 
Door,  porcelain, jap.  trimmings....................  
55
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings................  
Door,  porcelvin, trimmings............................. 
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain...................... 
70
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  ........... 
55
55
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s ................................. 
55
Branford’s ............................................................ 
Norwalk’s .............................................................  
55
Adze R ye................................................816.00, dls. 60
Hunt R ye................................................815.00, dls. 60
Hnnt’s .............................................818.50, dls. 20*10.
50
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled.......................... 
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .........................................  
40
40
“  P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  M alleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cls (k’s .................... 
40
“  Enterprise 
......................:.............. 
30
dls.  •
Stebbln’s Pattern.................................................60*10
Stebbln’s G enuine............................................... 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................... 
25

MOLASSES GATES. 

mauls. 
mills. 

MATTOCKS.

dls.
dls.

HAMMERS.

dls.

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

Maydole  *  Co.’s........................................dls. 
25
25
Kip’s ............................................................dls. 
Yerkes A Plumb’s ..................................... dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........................80c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand... .80c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .................................dls.60AlO
State............................................... per dos. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  in. 4K  14  and
3*
H............ ..............net
10
9i.............----------net
8*
...........................net
7*
\
* ............ ............. net
7*
............dls.
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track___50*10
Champion,  antl-frlctlon..................................  60*10
Kidder, wood tra ck ............................................ 
40
Pots.......................................................................... 60*10
Kettles.....................................................................60*10
Spiders  .................................................................. 60*10
Gray enam eled..................................................... 40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware....................................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware...........................................  
25
Granite Iron W are.........................new UstSSX&lO
B light............................................................  70410*10
Screw  E yes.....................................................70*10*10
Hook’s ..............................................................70*10*10
Gate Hooks and B yes.........................  
70*10*10
<Hb.7o
Stanley Rnle and Level  Co.’s .........................
9
Sisal,  H Inch and larger..................................  
M anilla..................................................................   18
dls.
Steel and  Iron...................................................... 
Try and B evels....................................................  
M itre......................................................................  

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

levels. 
ROPES.

HOLLOW WARE.

WIRE GOODS. 

75
60
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

SHEET IRON.

squAREs. 

825
8  85
A ll  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over SO  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14............................................. 84  05 
Nos. 15 to 17.............................................  4  05 
Nos.  18 to 21.........................................   4  06 
Nos. 22to24  ...........................................   4  05 
Nos. 25 to 26 ...........................................   425 
No. 27 ........................................................  4  45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’8 6 ........................................... dls. 
Silver Lake, W hite  A ...................................list 
Drab A ......................................   “ 
White  B ....................................   ‘ 
Drab B .......................................  “ 
White C................................  

SAND PAPER.
SASH OORD.

50
50
56
50
55
“  85

“ 
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“ 
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dlB.

 

Discount, 10.

12 96
3 05
8 05
8 15

BASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

SAWS. 

traps. 

H and............................................... 

" 
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 By es................................................... per ton 125
20
70
50
30
30
Steel, Game............................................................80*10
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s .................. 
35
Oneida  Community, Hawley a Norton’s .... 
70
Mouse,  choker......................................18c per dos
Mouse, delusion................................... 81.50 per dos
dig.
Bright Market......................................................  65
Annealed Market.................................................70—10
Coppered Market.................................................  60
Tinned Market....................................................   62H
50

S red  Spring  Steel...................................... 

d  Fence, galvanized....................................  2 80
“ 
painted..........................................  2 40

wire. 

dls.

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

An  Sable.................................................. dls. 40*10
Putnam.................................................  
dls.  06
dls. 10*10
Northwestern...................................... 
dlS.
80
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled........................ 
Coe’s  G enuine....................................................  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,............. 
75
Coe’s  Patent, m alleable.....................................75*10
dig.
Bird C ages............................................................ 
60
Pumps, Cistern...............................................  
76*10
Screws, New L ist.................................................70*10
Casters, Bed  a  d  Plate...............................60*10*10
Dampers,  American...............................-...... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods....... 61*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

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Steel nails,  base............................................................ 1 50
Wire nails, base............................... 
60............................................................. Base 
50................................... 
40...............................................................  
30...............................................................  
20........... 
16................................................................ 
12...............................................................  
10...............................................................  
8................................................................. 
7 * 6 .......................................................... 
4................................................................. 
8.................................... 
2................................................................. 
F In e8 ....................................................... 
Case  10....................................................  
8..................................................... 
fi 
F i n i s h . v . v . v . v . ’.v .v .v ." '.!!!! 
8................................................... 
6 ................................................... 
Clinch; 10................................................. 
8 ................................................. 
............................ 
a 
! 

Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
........1  75@1  80
Base
10
26
25
35
45
46
50
60
75
90
1 20
1  60
160
65
75
QQ
75
90
1  10
70
80
90
B arr el 1 
1  75
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n c y ......................................  040
Sclota  B ench......................................................  ®50
Sandusk-Tool  Co.’s, fan cy.............................   040
B ench,... at quality.............................................   040
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  w ood...........50*10
Fry,  A cm e.................................................... dls.60—10
Common,  polished......................................dls. 
70
Iron and  Tinned................................................. 
40
Copper Rivets and Bnrs.................................... 60—10

1. ’. . ' . . * . . i
PLANES. 

rivets. 

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11 
II 

PANS.

dls.

dlS.

^ 

' 

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 He per pound extra

METALS,
PIG TIN.

6 £
7

26c
28c

ZlMOa

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.............................................................  
Pig Bars................................................................. 
D uty:  Sheet, 2Hc per pound.
600 pound  casks................................................... 
Per  pound............................................................. 
K©H - 
v ................................................................... 18
Extra W ip in g..........................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
Bolder In the market Indicated by private brand* 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson...............................................per  pound
Hallett’s ............................................. 
TIN—MMLYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal..............................................8 7
14x2010, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

Bach additional X on this grade, 81.75.

7  0
9  26
9  26

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TIN—ALLA WAT GRADE.

10x14 IC,  Charcoal............................................8 6  75
14x2010, 
8  75 
10x14 EX, 
8  25 
14x20 IX, 
9 25

.....................................
......................................
.....................................
Bach additional X on this grade 81.50.

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HOOPING PLATES

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“   W orcester...............................   6 5G
14x 20 IC, 
“ 
14x 20 IX, 
...............................  8  50
............................  18  50
•• 
20x28 IC, 
6  00
14x20 IC, “  Allaway  Grade........................ 
7  50
“ 
14x20 IXL 
“ 
12  50
20x28 IC, 
20x28 Q , 
" 
....1 5   50
ROIT.RR SIZE TIM PLATE.
14x28 IX.............................................................. 514 00
14x81  IX.............................................................  15 00
i ^ » g ; , «rN,? -|Bo“ «r^ [per pound....  10 00

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

MichiganTradesman

A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

Published at

lOO  Louis  St., Grand Rapids,

— BT  THE —

TRADESMAN  COMPANY.
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g y  When  writing to any of  our  advertisers, 
please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement in 
T h e  Mic h ig a n T r a d e sm a n.

E.  A. STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  JULY  5,  1893.

IND IA ’S  ACTION  ON  SILVER.

The stoppage of  silver coinage  by  the 
Executive  Council  of  India  marks  an 
epoch in the  history of  financial legisla­
tion.  That  a  country of 250 millions of 
inhabitants,  the great bulk of whose cur­
rency was  of  silver,  should take such  a 
step is remarkable. 
It should  be  borne 
in mind,  however,  that  this  action  was 
taken by,  not  the  nation,  but  the mem­
bers of  the Executive Council,  of  whom 
the  Viceroy,  Lord  Lansdowne, 
is  the 
head,  and  is  claimed  by them to  be  an 
absolute necessity in the interest of trade 
and commerce, and because of the fall  in 
the value of exchange.  Whether  or  not 
this is to be the permanent  policy of  the 
Indian Government,  remains  to  be seen. 
The shock to  the world of  finance is  the 
greatest  ever  experienced,  and what the 
ultimate  consequences  will  be  no  one 
can predict. 
It  has  already resulted in 
a serious decline in  the  market value of 
silver in  all  parts  of  the  world.  What 
the course to be pursued by our own gov­
ernment ought  to  be  it  is  hard to say; 
probably  by the time  Congress meets  in 
August the full effects  of  India’s action 
may  be seen and  so  our policy be deter­
mined.  A't present opinions vary widely 
as to what  legislation will  be  necessary 
or what the policy of  this country ought 
to be.  The advocates of  a  single (gold) 
standard declare that  this  action of  the 
Indian Government makes  the  repeal of 
the Sherman  law and  a  return to mono- 
metalism imperative,  as  the continuance 
of the silver policy  will drive gold out of 
the  country  and  so  weaken  our  credit 
abroad,  which  has already suffered from 
the withdrawal of so much  of the yellow 
metal.  On  the  other  hand,  free  silver 
men urge the passage of an absolute free 
coinage  bill,  which,  by providing a mar­
ket  for  silver,  will  have  a  tendency to 
keep the price  of  the  metal somewhere 
near what it ought to  be.  There  is  an­
other  class  of  men,  called  bimetalists, 
who want to see both  metals kept in cir­
culation.  They  declare that the time  Is 
come for this  country to assert its finan­
cial 
independence  of  England  and  the 
rest of Europe,  and have  a  policy  of  its 
own;  that America has too long followed 
England’s  lead  in  money  matters,  and 
that from this time  she  should lead and

not  follow; 
that  this  country  is  rich 
enough and  strong  enough  to  not  only 
stand alone on  this  question  but to say 
what shall be the  world’s  financial  pol­
icy.  The adoption  by  India  of  the sin­
gle standard is a bold step taken with the 
purpose of  forcing  this  country also  to 
abandon  the coinage of  silver.  England 
must have  gold,  because her business  is 
largely with foreign nations, her internal 
trade being small in comparison.  On the 
other hand,  while our business with other 
nations is enormous, it must  be  remem­
bered that we are the greatest consumers 
in  the world,  and that, therefor, the mon­
etary necessities of this country are alto­
gether  different  and  very much greater 
than those of other countries.  There are 
but 600 millions  of  gold  in the country, 
which is not  sufficient  for  even  the  in­
ternal needs of the country,  saying noth­
ing  about  our  business  with  foreign 
countries.  The amount of  money in cir­
culation  is  now  nearly a  billion  and  a 
half, or about  two  and  a  half  times  as 
much as all the gold in the country.  To 
stop the coinage of  silver entirely would 
mean  such a curtailment of  the circulat­
ing  medium  as  would  completely  par­
alyze the business of the country.  There­
fore,  a financial  policy that provides for 
the  use  of  both  metals  as  money,  as 
nearly on a par with each other as  possi­
ble,  would  seem  to  be  the  wisest  and 
safest for the  United  States,  because  it 
will provide  money  for  both  home  and 
foreign business. 
In the  meantime,  the 
business of  the country  will go on much 
the same as if India had never repudiated 
silver;  and as  soon  as  the present scare 
is  over,  and  business  confidence  is  re­
stored,  the 
financial  strength  of  the 
United States,  its ability to  run  its own 
financial  affairs,  without  any  reference 
as to what other  countries  may  or may 
not do,  will  be fully demonstrated.
THE  CATTLE  SCARCITY.

There  is  a  growing  agitation  among 
the cattle and  live stock  interests of  the 
country in  favor of  the Government pro­
viding means  for  obtaining  more  accu­
rate  statistics  of  live  stock  and  cattle. 
It is  proposed,  for  instance, that a  new 
bureau  be  created  in  the Department of 
Agriculture,  to  be  known  as  the  live 
stock statistical bureau,  for  the purpose 
of furnishing statistics of the production 
and movement of cattle,  sheep,  hogs and 
live stock in  general.

It has been  claimed  that, owing to in­
complete  information,  there  has  been a 
reckless marketing of cattle,  and that,  as 
a consequence,  the country is threatened 
with a scarcity similar to that now being 
experienced  with respect to the hog sup­
ply, which it will  be impossible to over­
come  except  after  several  years  have 
It is thought  that a proper dis­
passed. 
semination  of  statistical 
information 
about the  production  and  movement  of 
live stock  would  prevent  reckless  mar­
keting calculated to unduly cut down the 
supply.

The  high prices  for  hogs  which  pre­
vailed a year ago directly induced a  very 
free  marketing, so  that  since  then  the 
hog supply  has shown  a surprising  fall­
ing  off,  both  in  the  total  number  mar­
keted  and  in  the  average  weight and 
condition  of  the  supply. 
It  is  stated 
that the  present heavy marketing of cat­
tle will produce  identically  the same re­
sults.
It  seems  that  a  Dill  was  introduced 
during the last Congress,  which  it is pro­
posed  to  again  introduce  in  the  next

Congress,  providing for the  creation of a 
special  bureau  of  live  stock  statistics. 
This bureau is to compile and publish as 
widely as  possible all  information relat­
ing to  live stock.  This  purpose  of  the 
bill T h e  T radesm an  can cheerfully in­
dorse,  but there is a clause providing for 
the establishing and  maintenance by the 
Government  of  a  number  of  exchanges 
throughout  the  cattle-raising  country 
which does  not recommend itself to gen­
eral  approval.  While  the  Government 
should  furnish all  useful statistical  in­
formation,  it  has no more right  to estab­
lish  exchanges  for  the  cattle  interests 
than for any other branch of  industry.
ICED  DR IN K S  A N D   SUNSTROKE.
The use of  ice  for  the  preparation of 
cooling  beverages  and  for  preserving 
perishable  articles  of  food  is  almost | 
wholly modern. 
It was but little known 
to the ancients.  The  luxurious Romans 
carted  snow  from  the  ravines  of  the 
Appenine Mountains  to cool  their wines, 
but  this was  a  luxury  possible  only to 
the  wealthy. 
It was  not to be  dreamed 
of by the masses.

The extensive use  of  ice for  domestic 
purposes is wholly  modern,  and the ben­
efits that  have accrued  from the general 
introduction  of  refrigeration  processes 
are incalculable  in amount,  but  it must 
not  be concealed  that the  excessive use 
of  ice,  like any other sort of  excess,  has 
been productive of  much damage  to the 
health of the people.

The fatal effects of heat are greatly ag­
gravated  by an  imprudent  use  of  iced 
drinks, a fact which is established in the 
history of the introduction of iced bever­
ages into all hot latitudes.  Heretofore all 
the cases of insolation or sunstroke were 
in  cities  where  ice  was  abundant. 
In 
the  country, men  working in  the  fields 
under the direct rays of the sun are com­
monly untouched.  Nine cases out of ten 
may be properly attributed to the impru­
dent use of  iced beverages. 
If would be 
most  beneficial if  people could  be made 
to  understand  the  danger  from  the ex­
cessive  use of  iced  drinks, but  it seems 
difficult to  impress  upon people swelter­
ing under the torrid  heat of summer  any 
prudence  or  wisdom.  They  are  very 
warm and  they resort  at once to the use 
of  very cold  drinks  for  relief.  The re­
sult is  too commonly a dangerous condi­
tion of congestion which involves almost 
every important  function  of  the human 
system. 
If  there is  ever  a time  when a 
most sparing use of  iced beverages is re­
quired,  it  is  during  the  prevalence  of 
summer  heat.  The  danger  is  not  so 
much in  the beverage as in the excessive 
coldness. 
Iced  water is  just as danger­
ous as  iced liquors of  a stronger nature. 
It is the sudden refrigeration of  an over­
heated  human  body  that  does  the  mis­
chief.

There  is  good  reason  to  attribute to 
the excessive use  of  cold  beverages  the 
growing 
frequency  of  kidney disease, 
which has taken  its  name  from  that  of 
the physician who first made  it  the sub­
special 
ject  of 
study—Dr.  Richard 
Bright. 
It  is  the  disease  of  the  nine­
teenth century;  it is  the disease of  those 
localities where there  is  a  general con­
sumption of iced beverages,  and  since it 
is claimed that ice is  used  to greater ex­
cess in the United States  than any other 
country,  this dangerous  and most alarm­
ing disorder promises  to  be,  more  than 
any  other, the American  disease.  Sun­
stroke is more  common  in  the  cities  of 
America  than  in  those  of  Europe  and

Asia.  Are we  coming  to  a  like  record 
with regard to Bright’s disease?  A lead­
ing medical  authority, Dr.  Austin Flint, 
of New York, in  1869 stated that Bright’s 
disease was five times  more  frequent  in 
London than in Paris,  sixty times as fre­
quent in  London  as  in  Bombay,  India, 
and nearly ninety  times  as  frequent  in 
London as in Genoa.  Here  seems  to be 
a direct connection between Bright’s dis­
In  London it is 
ease and the use of ice. 
more  general  than 
in  Paris,  while  in 
Bombay  and  Genoa  some  twenty-five 
years ago the  use  of  ice  was  but  little 
known.  America was not  then included 
in  the  statistics,  but  to-day  the  great 
cities of  the United  States  must  figure 
prominently in the statistics of mortality 
from  kidney disease.  Our  sanitary sci­
entists  will do  well to consider whether 
or not an excessive use of  ice is destroy­
ing the vitality of  the  American people, 
and give warning accordingly.

Contrary 

to  expectation,  Governor 
Rich  deigned  to  disregard  the  almost 
unanimous  sentiment  of  the  wholesale 
and  retail  grocery  trade  and  the dairy 
interests of  the  State  in  selecting  the 
first State Food and Dairy Commissioner, 
having named for that position Mr. E. C. 
Storrs, of  North  Muskegon.  Mr.  Storrs 
is a  gentleman of  no experience in mer­
cantile or dairy affairs,  his knowledge of 
food and food products being  confined to 
the  production  of  grapes.  While  it  is 
to be  regretted  that  the  Governor  was 
unable to  rise above the slough of party 
politics  in  making  this  appointment, 
now  that it  is  made,  it  behooves every 
one  interested  to  give  the  new  officer 
hearty  support  in  all  wise  methods  he 
may adopt toward  the betterment of our 
food  supply.  The  law  is  intended  to 
benefit the honest  farmer,  merchant and 
manufacturer  and to circumvent the dis­
honest  practices  now 
indulged  in  by 
some representatives of all three classes. 
The  farmer  who  buys  corn  syrup and 
resells  it 
syfup 
should  be  prosecuted  as  vigorously  as 
the manufacturer who puts a  cider vine­
gar label on  a barrel which  never  saw a 
drop of  vinegar  made  from  apples. 
It 
is to be  hoped  that  the  new  officer will 
take a  broad view of matters,  as  his ac­
tions  will  necessarily  form  a precedent 
for  the  future,  and  the  opinions enter­
tained  of the office  at its  inception will 
be  apt  to  be  cherished  a  long  time. 
Serious  mistakes  in  the  enforcement of 
the law at  this time  would be quite  apt 
to create  so much  antipathy  to  it  as to 
secure its repeal at the hands of the next 
Legislature,  and  it  might  take  many 
years  of  active  effort  to  obtain  its  re­
enactment.

for  genuine  maple 

The druggists  of  Sioux  Falls,  S.  D., 
appear to  have  grown  veïy weary of the 
red-tape  provisions  of 
the  prohibition 
law. 
It requires  the issuance  of  a per­
mit and the filing  with the county judge 
monthly of  a  report  of  the  sales  made. 
These  reports have grown  to be  a great 
farce.  Twenty  saloons in the town  pay 
no attention to the law.

The  best  way  to  get  American  gold 
back  from  foreign  countries  is to send 
Americas  wheat  after  it.  This will be 
brought about in the course  of time.

There  is  not  much consolation in the 
saying that  lighting never  strikes twice 
in the same  place, 
It  doesn’t  need  to. 
I Once is  sufficient.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
and  in all  weathers  haunted  the  place 
and  remained  with  a zeal  equalled only 
by a devout  Hindoo in  his  favorite tem­
ple,  so that to  find  the proprietor  alone 
was a rare exception.

L e m o n s

9

AND--------

O ranges.

A  P lea   for  an   Old  F riend .

W ritten Cor Tr i  T r a d e s m a n .

The village blacksmith is a  figure  fa­
miliar to  literature  and  the  arts.  The 
poet has sung him into  universal  celeb­
rity; the  painter  has  immortalized  him 
and his Rembrandt colored surroundings 
on  canvas,  and  the  sculptor  has  also 
touched the  subject  with  the fire of his 
genius.  Romance  has  pictured  him 
standing by  his  forge,  rough  and  un­
couth,  massive  in  form,  with  brawny 
arms and broad  shoulders,  yet  graceful 
in pose,  on  whom the  fitful  light  of the 
forge fire flashes  and  disappears,  alter­
nately revealing and concealing the hero 
as he stands framed  by  the open door of 
his shop,  a character  never to be  effaced 
from the observer’s memorv.

as 

the 

village 

But neither poesy  nor art nor romance 
has  ever  faithfully  represented  to  the 
lovers of sentiment a  certain quaint and 
worthy  product  of  a  past  civilization 
known 
shoemaker. 
Whether old or young,  married or single, 
he was  an  important  feature  of  every 
village or hamlet in the land.  His voca­
tion brought  him  into  as  intimate  rela­
tions  with  the people as  did that of the 
doctor  or the minister.  He may not have 
entered so heartily  into  their  joys  and 
sorrows,  but he cheerfully  and  honestly 
ministered to their material comfort.  He 
was ever the delight  or  terror  of  small 
boys according as they were  companion­
able or  mischievous; the  friend and gos­
sip of every  jovial  wight  who  had  an 
hour to waste  in  small  talk  or  wanton 
idleness.  He knew  the history of every 
family,  and  the  coming  and  going  of 
every visitor.  With one  set  of  eyes on 
his work,  his mental  vision  took  in  all 
the incidents occurring  within his  terri­
torial limits,  which were  discussed with 
as well-meant freedom  as the daily jour­
nals of the present treat the news that is 
constantly flying to  them  from all parts 
of  the  world;  in  fact,  to sum up in a 
single sentence his  relation  to  the pub­
lic,  he took the place of  a village sewing 
society holding perpetual session.

His shop was  small  and  low;  oftener 
than  otherwise  it  stood  disconnected 
from other buildings,  out of the  way  of 
more pretentious  structures,  though  on 
the main street.  Sometimes there was a 
projecting sign in front, on which an  ob­
ject or two—painted  with  more  or  less 
fidelity to reality—took  the  place  of  a 
word denoting the calling of the proprie­
tor,  whose name appeared below in plain 
or shaded letters.  A pile  of terra  cotta 
colored rubbish in front  always  marked 
the locality as a place  where  weary and 
worn understandings  were  kindly taken 
in  and  in  due  time  tenderly  heeled. 
There were always one  door and  one or 
two windows in a front  that  stood with 
gable to the street.  Perhaps,  if  on  the 
sunny side,  an awning of wood  or  cloth 
served  to  protect  the  patient  worker 
whose position was close  to the window, 
through which his eyes  roved to observe 
every passing object that could  be  used 
to “ point a moral or adorn a tale.”

The interior was even less inviting than 
the exterior.  Rough walls,  whitewashed 
and marked  with  rougher  patches,  and 
wooden  wainscoting  guiltless  of  paint 
and yellow with the stains of  time,  were 
features  that  attracted the  attention  of 
one entering,  for the  first  time,  this den 
of a follower of the worthy Saint Crispin. 
To  a  casual  visitor  there  would seem 
to be nothing in this dingy room to draw 
the  crowd of  loungers  that at  all times

There was a box stove  usually occupy­
It  some­
ing  the  center  of  the  room. 
times stood  on its  original  quadrupedal 
integrity, but oftentimes a pile of  dilapi­
dated bricks took  the place of  a leg lost 
while at the post of duty.  A rusty pipe, 
rising  from a rustier and firecracked  up­
per  casting,  essayed,  in  a  half-hearted 
way,  with  many a  sag and  many a wob­
ble, 
to  reach  the  crazy  chimney  that 
stood  on  feeble  stilts  against  the  rear 
wall,  into which  chimney  it  finally dis­
appeared.  The  stove  was  originally
Gothic in  design,  but time  and accident 
had 
left  signs  of  vandalism  not  to  be 
mistaken.  A  door  balanced  on  one
hinge,  and without a catch,  that made  an 
iron brace necessary to  keep it in  an up­
right position, stood  guard  in front of  a 
fire  that  sometimes  cheerfully  blazed, 
and as often tearfully sputtered and went 
out.

On one side of the room stood a case of 
shelves  that  never  developed  a  right 
angle in  any  part,  but subtended a  wall 
surface it seemed ever disposed to climb. 
It  never  succeeded, however,  in  making 
the effort  anything  more  than  a  mere 
pretext for  some  other  uudivulged  pur­
pose. 
It was  loaded  down with a  large 
assorted  collection  of  lasts  tawny with 
the  wear  of  contact  with  leather,  and 
bearing the marks of awl and hammer on 
their  unprotected  soles.  They  often 
excited  my  youthful  curiosity  after  1 
was informed  that they  were all  turned 
out in  a lathe.  How that  could be done 
as I  understood  the  ordinary work of  a 
lathe was a  question that ever  appealed 
to my imagination as a feat bordering on 
the miraculous,  and I often  furtively ex­
amined the  wooden  marvels  to see if  1 
could  discover the  marks  of  said lathe. 
It was  wonderful,  too,  how  my  hero of 
the lapstone  could  distinguish  between 
them  whenever  he  selected  a  pa*r  for 
any  purpose, since I saw no  more differ­
ence,  save in size, than I could in a lot of 
pressed bricks. 
I finally reached a solu­
tion of the last  mystery by  assigning to 
the  shoemaker  an  instinct  like  that of 
the mother sheep that  never fails to rec­
ognize  her  offspring  amid  a  bleating 
crowd of facsimiles.  My  adolescent  in­
terest  in  the  mysteries  connected with 
building up around  a last the  conglome­
rate product of  a shoe,  fashioned within 
and without with a marvelous adaptation 
to  the shape of  the  human  foot  and its 
necessities,  made me  a  frequent visitor 
and a  great stayer  at  the  village  shoe- 
shop. 
I  never  tired  of  watching  the 
gradual  development  of  a perfect  shoe 
from the raw material, except as I wished 
it would not be so often delayed by mak­
ing each stage  of  construction  in one of 
a pair  wait  the  completion  of  a  corre­
sponding  stage in  its counterpart.  The 
process  of  making  a  waxed  end,  as it 
was  called, often  beguiled  me from  the 
path of  duty when  sent on  an errand  to 
which a timetable  was attached.

On a shelf quite out of easy reach were 
rolls  of  upper 
sundry  bundles  and 
leather,  while a pile of sole leather occu­
pied  the floor  in  one  corner,  on  which 
loungers reposed  when chairs and boxes 
were full.  A drop shelf  hung on a side- 
wall,  where  at  times  a  skillful  hand 
drew a sharp  knife around  the patterns 
I in a manner that seemed to  my youthful

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notions of  economy a waste  of  precious 
material.  There was a pungent smell to 
the  stock  in trade  that  was  not wholly 
disagreeable until  it became  overpower­
ing.  The  low  bench  on which  most of 
the work  of  the shop was performed ap­
peared to be  in form  a  facsimile of mil­
lions that have,  no doubt, done duty  for 
centuries.  On  all  things  else  time has 
worked  changes,  whether improvements 
or not, but the  pattern of  a shoemaker’s 
bench  remains the  same,  yesterday,  to­
day  and  forever  with  all  the  marks, 
stains and  abrasions,  as  also the medley 
ot  tools and  material  thereon.  He who 
sits  on this  throne  of  labor  is,  for the 
time, the  central figure  among those as­
sembled  in  bis  domain,  the  arbiter  in 
disputes  that  daily arise; and,  if  a man 
advanced in  years  and one  who has seen 
a deal  of the world,  he is also  an  oracle 
to  whose  wisdom  many  disciples  pay 
willing if  unconscious tribute 

There is  a  certain  class  of  men  who  j 
are  disposed  to  undervalue  or  despise | 
services  they  cannot  imitate. 
It  has 
been intimated by such maligners of their | 
race that  procrastination  is  a  synonym 
for “shoemaker’s promises.”  They gloat j 
over and  make  sport  of  what  they pre- i 
teud to assert are the usual shortcomings 
of these servants of  the  public  in  rela- 
tion  to  time  contracts  with  customers. 
On behalf of the village shoemaker I  un­
hesitatingly  affirm  that,  in  comparison 
with the man  who runs  a  threshing out­
fit.  the former  is  a  man  of  perfect and 
unadulterated truth  in  all  his dealings. | 
Things in this  world must be judged  by 
comparison  in  order  to  determine true 
value.

I  do not deny that, once in a while, my | 
hero of  the last and hammer tires of the 
dull  monotony  of  bench  work,  and  is 
compelled,  for the sake of  his health, to 
stretch  his legs by taking  a short recess. 
He may,  perchance,  under  the  tortures 
inflicted by some visiting bore—there are 
a  tew  in  every  town—feel  obliged  to 
“shut up shop”  and,  like  Simon  Peter, 
“ go  afisbing.”  Accordingly,  be  pins  a 
notice  to  that  effect  on  the  door, and, 
equipped  with  the  proper  tools,  takes 
the nearest cut to the river.  While thus 
engaged,  out  of  the  world  "and  by the 
world  forgot,’’  is  it  strange if  he some­
times  lingers too long  amid the sweet se­
ductiveness of  the occupation,  and occa­
sionally disappoints  the  expectations  of 
some testy customer who does not realize 
the universal rule of  business  men  that 
allows  days of grace on  promises to pay? 
Whether they be “ promises to pay”  coin 
for notes  of  band,  or  to  deliver  goods, 
does not  matter  as  to  the  principle  in­
volved.  This,  then,  is  the  “ head  and 
front  of  his  offending.”  Gan  those  of 
other and  less humble  callings who deal 
as often  with a censorious  public show a 
cleaner  record ?

The man who  wastes  our  grain in  the 
straw stack,  and  keeps  his engagements 
from  one to two weeks behind time, adds 
insult to  injury,  and  with  less  excuse 
than the  shoemaker who,  in  addition to 
the manual  service  he  renders as a me­
chanic,  is also the friend  and  adviser of 
everybody,  and  is,  therefore,  subject  to 
as  many  interruptions  and  unforeseen 
contingencies as the doctor. 
It  is mani­
festly unkind and unjust to  make a cast- 
iron rule to guide his actions, and to hold 
him  np as a sinner above  all  men  if  he 
fails to  comply with  it  literally.  As  a 
servant of  the people the manifold bene­
fits he confers on  society should condone

even worse shortcomings than have been 
laid  to  his  charge.  “Let  him  who 
is 
without sin cast the first stoDe.” 
If  the 
spirit of this reproof  were observed,  my 
client and  friend would  be  forever safe 
from  the  showers  of  critical  brickbats 
that  have  been  so  often 
thoughtlessly 
thrown at his unprotected  head.

The  village  shoeshop 

is  not  only  a 
place for the  idler,  but  many a  thinker 
has learned therein  lessons that are usu­
ally taught  in  lyceums  or other institu­
tions for higher culture.  Mind acting on 
mind  by debate,  dispute,  gossip—If  you 
will,  so that it is not malicious—or polit­
ical or religious discussion  (this last gen­
erally unwisest  of  all)  receives  benefits 
that cannot easily be reckoned in dollars 
and  cents;  something  is  gained,  though 
it be only polish from the attrition of op­
posite  opinions.  But  it  is  also a place 
for the  interchange of  social  amenities; 
for visiting,  while  one  waits some job to 
be  completed,  and,  while  compelled  to 
wait,  no other place seems so comforting 
and restful to all the  senses as this quiet 
haven,  where  work  and  talk  can  go on 
with the slightest  interruption  from ex­
ternal  causes.  Besides,  there  is  some­
thing in  the deft  manipulation  of  tools 
j and  material  required  in  the  details  of 
i making and repairing all  kinds  of  foot­
gear  that  fixes  the  attention  of  every 
spectator,  either  old  or  young.  Each 
step of  the  process,  though it may  have 
been repeated scores of times before one’s 
eyes,  never  loses  the  charm  of  novel;y 
I by repetition.  This  is  one  reason why 
I even  a cobbler has  an  audience ever re- 
I sponsive in  interest  to  the merry sound 
of his  hammer on  the  lapstone,  and im- 
| patient to see the changes going on under 
l his  skillful  hand.  This, 
too,  explains 
j why,  when  one  gets  a  comfortable seat 
i in the village shoeshop, and is attending,
| by proxy,  to the  details  of  manufactur- 
I ing a  “thing of beauty”  like  a  woman’s 
| gaiter,  nothing less than a fight or a run- 
j away can distract  attention from  the im- 
\ portant  matter in  hand.

As,  in  a  sewing  circle,  talk  becomes 
| animated in  proportion as  the hands are 
busy  with  “seam,  gusset  and band,” or 
the  intricacies  of  quilting,  so  in  the 
village shoeshop,  all  work  harmoniously 
| on the  same  job—one  actually and  the 
; rest by proxy,  each  taking a personal  iu- 
| terest  therein,  and  all  being  not  only 
doers,  but hearers  aud speakers as  well.
I Thus,  gossip  runs  away,  or  themes  of 
importance are  discussed  until they are 
worn  threadbare.  Many  cases  in  law 
that have  puzzled  the  brainiest  men of 
! the Supreme Court  have been argued ex- 
1 haustively  within  the  humble  walls of 
the village shoeshop long before they be- 
! came  tangled in  a  knot of  absurdity to 
be unraveled  by  minds  of  the  highest 
culture. 
It strikes me, too, that much of 
the logic displayed in  that moot court  of 
I original and independent  jurisdiction is, 
i when judged by  the strict rules of meta­
physics, equal  to what is often echoed in 
prouder halls,  into  more  learned ears in 
appellate 
conclusions 
reached  among  the  scents  of  calfskin 
and  sole  leather,  without  a  chance  to 
consult  precedents,  emphasized  by  the 
comments of  him  who  occupies  a  cob­
bler’s bench,  are quite as  likely to be in 
harmony with the  first principles of  jus­
tice as those that are adjudged to be gov­
erning law in  the higher courts,  through 
citations from reports bound in like calf­
skin  and  musty with  the  odor  of  anti­
quity.  Some  worthy  heroes  of  lowly

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Beautiful Rooms, with  Bath,  Single,  $1  to  $1.50 per Day; 

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life have  even  pounded their  way from 
iapstone  to  Blackstone,  and  without  a 
bench  warrant  have  been  called  to ex­
pound the constitution  and laws of  their 
several  States not  only  to the  wigs and i 
gowns of the  judiciary thereof, but  also 
to those of the highest National tribunal.
The relations of the village shoemaker 
to the  public  in  a  commercial  way are 
generally  of  small 
importance.  His 
work is  always done  to order,  at  the re­
quest of customers,  by measure  and con­
tract,  if  new; if  the  work  is  repairing, 
then  by  mutual  understanding,  or  ac­
cording to the needs of the case.  Should 
he desire to  go further,  and,  coming into 
possession of  larger  capital  conclude to 
enlarge his  building  and  put in  a stock 
of  ready-made goods, the romance of his 
calling  ceases.  Like  Samson,  shorn of 
his locks,  he  becomes at  once  like other 
men.  With his apron off  and dressed in 
attire  befitting  his  new  occupation,  he { 
steps down  and out of  the  position cus­
tom and  tradition  have  made peculiarly 
his  own  and  descends  at  once  to sheer 
commonplace.  Nor can the employe  who 
becomes  his  substitute,  in a  little stuffy 
closet at the rear of a genteelly furnished 
store,  take up or continue the reputation 
of his  illustrious  predecessor—that  has 
gone  with  all 
its  pleasant  memories. 
The  substitute is,  at  best,  only a  hired 
cobbler  who is  unsocial  and  often given 
to  dissipation  that,  in  times of  gloomy 
reaction,  causes  him  to  growl  at every 
job brought in,  and  he is as chary of  his 
gossip over village happenings as though 
he  sat  on a bench in a  State  prison,  and 
an overseer  kept watch  and  ward  to see 
that he  did not  transgress  the  rule  en­
forcing  silence.

The  village  shoemaker  of  the  olden 
time is fast  disappearing  as towns  grow 
to the  dignity of  cities;  and  villages de­
velop  unquiet  yearnings for  something 
yet to be gained in advanced civilization. 
Good hand-made work is  growing less in 
demand,  while  much  ready-made  stock 
is never worth the cost of mending.  So, 
since there is no  call for boots and shoes 
made  to  order,  the  village  shoemaker 
scorns  the  idea  of  remaining  where he 
can  expect  only  transient  jobs  of  cob­
bling  that  are  likely  to  be  grudgingly 
thrown  at  him in  charity.  And,  unless 
some  fortunate  circumstance  makes 
it 
possible for  him to  become a  merchant, 
lie quietly  shoulders  his  kit  and  goes, 
cither to  some frontier  town or  to some 
mining camp in need of  his peculiar ser­
vices,  or with a sigh accepts the disagree­
able alternative of  a seat  in  some  large 
city factory.

What matters it if  the  sentiment that 
k eep s  alive old memories fades with the 
lapse of  time?  As  the  old  people  who 
once sustained  institutions  of  the  past 
are no longer with us to appreciate them, 
the institutions  themselves  may as  well 
disappear.  Yet,  while  we bid good  bye 
to the genial  village shoemaker, memory 
recalls his  virtues,  and,  for  old  friend­
ship’s sake,  the  virtue  would commend 
him to  the  favorable  judgment  of  pos­
terity.  He it  was who gave  us the  cir­
cular disk of  sole leather  which,  affixed 
to a string  in the  center,  and saturated 
with water, taught an  elementary lesson 
in  philosophy.  How  often we attached 
the little  disk to a  smooth  pebble,  with 
naked  feet  pressed on  its  surface, and, 
with the pride of  a  Hermann,  showed to 
wondering  comrades 
the  mysterious 
power  of  suction!  And,  when,  after 
reading  of  the  sling  with  which David

that 

slew Goliath,  we sought  his help  to pro- 
c ure the means of verifying the power of 
trajection,  he  it  was  who  gave  us the 
piece  of  leather 
illustrated  the 
theme,  and  we who went forth accoutered 
as  David  was will  ever  remember  the 
kindly band that armed us for  an imagi­
nary  fray  and  gently  cautioned 
us 
against injuring the song  birds or break­
ing windows.

Dear,  kindly heart!  The  prosaic tem­
per of the present  forbids lingering over 
a sentimental past.  That must give  way 
to the  practical details of  to-day—every 
man  for  himself—no  consideration  for 
others—an  all-pervading  determination 
to get  to the  front  in  the  shortest pos­
sible  time.  The  village  shoemaker,  no 
longer  serving a  useful purpose for this 
generation,  must retire with  other  worn- 
out relics  of  the  past,  to  live  hereafter 
only in legend and tradition.

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

the 

One  W ay  to  Secure  a  Lower  Berth.
"A short while ago i  got  on the night 
train at Chicago, on  my  way  to  Detroit, 
and purchased a ticket  for a lower berth 
in the sleeper,” remarked a traveler.  “I 
was reading a  paper,  when,  happening 
to look over to my right,  I  saw  a  frail, 
delicate-looking woman,  whose  hacking 
cough made me  think  her  in 
last 
stages  of  consumption,  and  1  at  once 
felt a warm sympathy and pity  for  her. 
A  few minutes later  the  porter  came  to 
me and asked me if I would exchange my 
lower berth for an upper  one to accomo­
date the poor  woman,  who,  getting  on 
the train also at Chicago,  was  to  late  to 
secure a lower berth. 
I  assented  cheer­
fully,  and  soon  afterward  climded up 
into my roost and  went  to  sleep.  Just 
before reaching Detroit  next  morning I 
got  up  and  hurriedly  dressed,  and as I 
was on  my  way back  from  the  dressing- 
room  what was my  surprise  to see a big, 
stout  fellow  getting  out  of  the  birth 
which I had given  up.  1  was  angry  at 
first,  but on thinking it over I concluded 
he was her husband,  whom I had not no­
ticed the night before,  and  who  wished 
to be near her so as to hear her calls dur­
ing the night, but very  soon  I  saw  her 
come out from another  lower  birth  fur­
ther down the car. 
I noticed  he did not 
go near to her or speak to her,  and when 
we reached Detroit  was  on  the  lookout 
and saw that he  and  she  took  different 
vehicles. 
I at once suspected something 
and called  to  the  porter.  He  tried  to 
dodge me but it was not to be done,  aud, 
grabbing him  until  his  ivories  rattled, 
demanded an instant explanation.
The now  frightened negro said; "Well, 
boss,  I’ll  tell  you  the  truth.  The  big 
gentleman,  who got on  at Chicago, could 
only get an upper berth,  and he gave me 
a quarter to tell you that the poor woman 
had no lower one,  and I  done as he axed 
me.”
I was surprised,  and asked  him  if  he 
had ever done  this  trick  before.  "Oh, 
yes,  boss.  Dare’s  several  old  traveling 
men who works dis trick.”

It  T akes  Time.

F r o m  t h e   K in g s to n  F re e m a n .
There are  many  merchants  who  over- 
look  the  importance  of  persistency  in 
It  is  not too  much  to say 
advertising. 
that  this  quality  is  far  more  valuable 
than  unlimited  genius  in  writing  an­
nouncements.  We  have  observed 
that 
in the  case of  our  weekly edition when 
we  advertise  a  new  clubbing  offer,  no 
matter how  attractive,  it is often  two or 
three months before we get any responses 
at  all,  and  that the number  of  such re­
sponses is almost always directly propor­
tionate to  the lenght of  time  the  notice 
has  been  running,  We  were  recently 
informed by one of  the  leading firms  in 
this  city  of  the  curious  fact  that they 
had advertised a special sale of a certain 
article  for  one  week,  withdrawing  the 
offer  at  the end  of  that  time, and  that 
they did not secure  one customer  during 
the week, although  there were many ap­
plications when  it was  too  late. 
It was 
evident to  this firm that a  week’s adver­
tising  is  necessary  before  any  results 
can be expected.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

“Dead Men  Tell No Tales.”

Very often,  in tbe examination of mur­
der cases,  where the  testimony is wholly 
circumstantial, it  is of  the  greatest  im­
portance to discover what  information is 
to be got from the body of  the murdered 
person.  Where poison  has been  used to 
consummate the  crime,  an  investigation 
of the  stomach  and  other  vital  organs 
may give  developments  which may lead 
to  the  perpetrator. 
It  should  be  pre­
mised,  however,  in  the case of  poisons, 
that much depends on  the nature of  the 
substance  used.  Mineral  poisons,  such 
as preparations of arsenic,  mercury,  cop­
per  and iron  cyanides,  leave substantial 
traces which may be secured and verified 
at long periods after the death of tbe vic­
tim; but  when death  is caused  by vege­
table  or  animal  preparations,  the  body 
must be  examined very soon after death 
in order to afford any useful information.
Sometimes  a  person  murdered  under 
circumstances of violent assault and des­
perate  struggle  will  tear  off  from  the 
assailant  portions  of  clothing  and  of 
hair,  and  these may  be  still  retained in 
the stiffened  grasp of the dead,  but  this 
is  most  seldom.  Soon  after  death the 
human body  gives up  every gesture and 
expression  of  form  and  feature  which 
characterized  the  last  struggle  for life, 
and no trace of  the passions, of  tbe hor­
ror,  desperation  or  other feeliug  which 
attended 
remains. 
There was nothing  in the gesture  or ex­
pression of the  murdered  Bordens,  hus­
band and  wife, that revealed the mystery 
of  their  death,  save  that  the  wounds 
themselves  suggested  a  hatchet,  which 
was never found.

the  death  agony 

Many years ago a theory was presented

that  there  remains  photographed  upon i 
the human  eye  a picture of  the  last ob­
ject  upon  which  its  gaze  was directed, 
thus the perpetrator of  many mysterious 
murders could be discovered;  but beyond 
figuring in one or  two evanescent  works 
of  fiction, 
this  wholly  gratuitous  and 
false  supposition  about  the  human eye 
dropped from  notice.  More lately there 
has been  advanced  a  theory  about peo­
ple who were killed under circumstances 
of  great excitement still occupying posi­
tions and  maintaining the attitudes after 
death  the  same  as  those  before  death. 
In  this  connection,  George  L.  Kilmer, 
writing in  the June number of the Popu­
lar Science  Monthly,  presents  a number 
of  cases  which  he  claims  occurred  in 
some of the battles of the American civil 
war.

The writer referred to quotes  from the 
observations of  Dr. J.  H.  Brinton, a sur 
geon in  the  United States army,  who, it 
appears,  has  written  on  the  subject. 
After  the  battle  of gAntietam,  in the 
corn field near  a  sunken road, where the 
fighting  was  very  hot,  Dr.  Brinton re­
ports  having  seen  the corpse  of a Con­
federate soldier  semi-erect,  one  foot  on 
the  ground,  one knee against a bank  of 
earth,  and one  arm stretched forward on 
a  low  breastwork.  His  musket,  with 
rammer  in.  lay  on  tbe ground,  and the 
appearances  indicated  that he had been 
killed  while  rising to load and fire.  He 
was shot through  the center of the fore­
head. 
In  the  field  adjoining the doctor 
counted nearly forty  dead Confederates, 
some with their  arms  rigidly in the air, 
some  with  legs  drawn  and  fixed,  and 
many with trunks drawn and fixed.  The 
positions were  “!not  those of the relaxa­
tion  of  death,”  but  were  due to “final

muscular  action  at  the  last moment of 
life,  in  the spasm of which the muscles 
set  and  remained  rigid.”  The wounds 
were  chiefly  in  the  chest, though some 
were in  the head  and abdomen.  His ob­
servations  were  made  thirty-six  hours 
after death.  There  was also a corpse of 
a Union soldier with his right arm raised 
above his head and rigidly fixed,his hand 
still  bolding  the cap with which he had 
been  cheering on his comrades.

The first cases  that came to the eye of 
Dr.  Brinton were  at Belmont,  Mo., Nov. 
7,  1861.  One was a  Union soldier kneel­
ing  by  a  tree,  in  the act of firing, and 
shot  obliquely  through  the  head,  front 
to back.  His warm  body rested on right 
knee and leg,  left  leg bent,  with foot on 
ground;  the  left  hand  firmly  clinched 
the  barrel  of  his  musket,  which rested 
with  the  butt  on  the ground.  The sol­
dier’s  head  drooped  to  the  chest  and 
rested against the  tree.  Attitude gener­
ally forward, jaw  fixed, rigidity perfect. 
The doctor supposed him to be alive,and 
could scarcely  believe  that death rested 
upon a statue  so  lifelike.  Another Un­
ion soldier,  shot near the heart,  mounted 
a straying mule and rode beside the doc­
tor  some  distance.  Soon 
tbe  glazed 
eyeballs gave unequivocal signs of death, 
but  the  body  rode on upright.  After a 
time the mule was  needed for a live vic­
tim,  and  the  body  of  the other was so 
firm  and  rigid  that  it required force to 
loosen  the  knee-grip  on  the  animal’s 
shoulders.
Some such cases  are reported of Euro­
pean wars,  showing  that it is not impos­
sible  that  a  corpse  should  retain  atti­
tudes  assumed  before  death,  but  such 
rare  cases  do  not offer  any rule for use 
in  examinations  in  the field of medical

jurisprudence.  What  is  most needed  is 
information to be secured from’the corpse 
itself that will assist  in the discovery of 
the criminal.J£ Every  case must be stud­
ied by itself.  Most  commonly  so  little 
is gained  from  the corpse itself that tbe 
fact confirms  the  stereotyped«maxim of 
the murderers: “Dead men tell no tales.” 

F r a n k  Stow erl.

Didn’t Bring It Home.

After the return of  the  drummer from 
his  travels, his young wife  explored bis 
grip with an  expectant face.  Failing to 
find that of  which she  was apparently in 
search, she turned to him and said: 

“Where is the jag?”
“The  what?”  he  asked  in  astonish­
ment.
“The jag.  Mrs.  Laces  says  her  hus­
band  saw you  in  Chicago  with  a lovely 
jag on.  Whatever  it  is,  you  are  not 
wearing it, and it isn’t in your grip.” 
I left  it at the 
office.  By  the  way,  I  saw  a  handsome 
If 
hat in a  milliner’s  shop down town. 
you care  we will go  down town and yon 
can look at it,  and if you like it you  can 
have it.”

“Oh, that’s  all  right, 

UnBuited  for the Grocery Business. 
Grocer—“What have you  been  doing 
in the cellar so long?”
Grocer’s  Apprentice—“I  have  been 
cleaning out  the  molasses  measure; 
it 
was so  clogged  up  that  it  didn’t  hold 
mor’n half a quart.”
Grocer—“O, that’s  what  you’ve  been 
doing!  Well, you take your  hat  and  go 
home and  tell your father  to send you to 
the theological school.  You  ain’t  fitted 
for the grocery business.”

Economy  All  One  Way.

Mr.  Billus  (looking  over  the  grocer’s 
bill)—“Four dollars worth  of  strawber­
ries in one week!  Suffering Job,  Maria, 
do you think I’m  made of money?”
Mrs.  Billus—“Don’t  agitate  yourself, 
John.  You’ll  shake 
that  $25  meer­
schaum out of your pocket.”

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prevents all loss and  annoyance 
to the dealer.

Each  box  of  Tanglefoot  will 
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and two  packages  each  consist­
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The C ritical P eriod o f a  Boy’s  Life.
It takes  a  lifetime  to make a man;  it 
takes,  however, but a fraction of time to 
spoil  him.  The  spoiling  time is not at 
the  end,  but  at  the  earlier stages.  A 
bent  sapling  means  a  crooked  tree;  it 
may  be  oak  or it may be basswood,  but 
the  timber  makes  no  difference  in the 
crook; 
in both cases  a straight plank is 
impossible.  In proof of this we find that 
education  or  genius,  while  making  a 
difference  in  the  material,  make  none 
in  the  culls  that go into hog lots or the 
wood  pile.  No  science  on  earth  can 
make  anything  out  of  a  tadpole  but a 
frog, but with  human  nature  it is  pos­
sible to cut a marble angel out of a chalk 
block.  There  is  so much in a man that 
is  latent  and  undeveloped,  that every­
day life  is  full of remarkable  instances 
that  was  unsuspected of greatness,  and 
goodness has been hidden in  a  speckled 
egg  as an embryonic eagle.  The fact is 
that  most  of our bad and  worthless men 
are but spoiled  samples  of what,  under 
other circumstances, would have been the 
peers of the best. 
It is  spoiled material 
we dump into jails,  and  men  who might 
have been something better that we lock 
up  for  getting  drunk,  picking locks or 
pockets, or making holes in their  neigh­
bors’  safes  and  anatomy.  Some  are 
spoiled  in  their childhood,  others after­
wards.  Child-spoiling  is  simply a rudi­
mentary  form of man-murder. 
It is not 
necessary to cut a throat to kill a life, or 
to administer arsenic to close a biography 
with  a  tragedy.  A  parent may damn a 
child  long  before he  goes  to the devil, 
and  if  we mistake  not  there are lots of 
dead souls perambulating  in pantaloons 
and  boots  to-day  that  were  choked by 
those who loved them  best.  This is sad, 
but  it  is  true. 
It  is  not,  perhaps,  so 
frequent  as  we  might  suppose,  when 
making  a  census of the population  who 
are parents  as well  as fools,  who really 
suppose that a spoiled child can make an 
all-around good man,  as a dairyman  who 
expects  sweet  butter  in  a  churn  from 
what was sour  milk in a crock.

There  is,  however,  a  period  of  self­
redemption 
in  every  life,  when  what 
cracked in  the egg shell may not perma­
nently  damage the  fowl,  and  what was 
bruised in  the  acorn  may  not  prohibit 
the  maturing  of  an  oak.  The  gravest 
danger so  far  as  our  observation  goes, 
lies in the  transitory  period intervening 
between  the  schoolboy  and 
the  man. 
We know of no period of human life that 
comes  closer  to  human  sympathy  and 
solicitude  than  that when  an unspoiled 
boy leaves the kindly safeguards of home 
to face  the world as  it  is and  make his 
own  way  up or  down  the  ladder. 
In 
nine  cases  out  of  ten  his  destiny  is 
shaped in  this transition  stage,  the  end 
of  which  may  be  a  tear  on  a  mother’s 
cheek  or  a  glow  of  pride,  which, 
if 
rightly  read,  has  no  like  glory  on  a 
painter’s canvas or  the face of  an angel 
or a midnight  star. 
It is the crucial pe­
riod in a  young man’s life, out of  which 
evolves  a  character  either 
the  better 
or  the  worse  for  the  process.  The 
mind is plastic,  the  character unformed; 
impressions are  easily made,  and habits, 
good,  bad  or  indifferent,  slowly  shape 
themselves out of  the relaxed and yield­
ing  material.  The  stone  on  which the 
sculptor  works is soft.  What  is known 
as  moral  backbone  is  but  a  string  of 
spinal  jelly  in  the  raw  youth  who,  In 
crossing the plank from boyhood to man­
hood, needs  more  than  ever  a  guiding 
hand and a warning voice.

C osts  m o re  to  p ro d u ce,  is w o r th   m o re 
a n d   m a k e s  y o u   m o re  m o n e y   th a n   a n y  
oth er.  D o n ’t co n fo u n d   th is  old   r elia b le  
b ra n d   th a t h a s  ste a d ily   g r o w n   in  fa v o r 
for  2 5   y e a r s  w ith   th e  n u m b e r le ss  so - 
c a lle d   fu ll  c r e a m s  th a t  flood   th e  m a r ­
k et  e v e r y   sea so n .  T h e re   is  n o  c o m p a r ­

iso nNEY  1  JUD80N
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GROCER  CO.

S O L E   A G E N T S .
MILTON  KERNS’

B1  Puritano  Cigar.
10 Gent Cigar os Eartl

T H E   F IN E S T

TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY
BATEMAN  &  FOX,
B.  J.  REYNOLDS,
R.  OPPENHEIMER,

Bay City.

Grand  Rapids.

East Saginaw.

REEDER  BROS.  SHOE  00,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Boots  and  Shoes,

Felt Boots and Alaska Socks-

State Agents for

D e t r o i t   T o b a c c o   C o .,

Detroit, Mich.

Your  Bank Account Solicited.

’ Kent  County Safins Gail,

GRAND  R APIDS  ,MICH.

J no.  A.  Covode,  Pres.

Henry Idema, Ylce-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  Verdiek,  Cashier.

K. Van Hop, Ass’t C’s’r. 

Transacts a General Banking  Business. 

Interest  A llow ed  on  Time  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. S. Verdiet.
D eposits  Exceed  One  M illion  D ollars.

MICHIGAN

Fire & Marine Insurance Go.

Organized  1881.

F red W oodrow.

P R O D U C K   M A R K E T  i

Beans—Handlers pay 31.75  for country-picked 
and hold at S3.  City hand-picked arelquoted  at 
10@25c above these figures.

Beets—25c per doz.
Butter—Dealers now  pay  12%@14c  for choice 
dairy, holding at  14@16e.  Creamery  is  in  fair 
demand at 19c.

Cabbage—Cairo and Louisiana  stock  is  about 
exhausted.  Kentucky and  home  grown  are In 
fair demand at 75c per doz.

Carrots—20c per doz.
Cherries—The  market  is  fairly  well supplied 
with  both  sweet  and  sour  fruit.  The  crop  is 
large and the price may drop to 31 per bu. before 
the end of the week.

Eggs—A little lower and  weaker,  dealers  pay­

ing 12J4@13c and holding at 14c.

Green Beans—31.25 per b u .;  wax, 82 per bu.
Green Onions—103112c  per doz. bunches.
Green Peas—50c per bu. for marrofat.
Honey—White  clover  commands  15c  per  lb. 

dark buckwheat brings 12%c.

Lettuce—About out of market.
Onions—Tennessee  stock  commands  31.50® 

1.75 per bu.

size and quality.

per 24 qt. case.

Pieplant—lc per lb.
Pineapples—81.25331.50 per  doz., according  to 

Plums—Tennessee  Wild  Goose  command  32 

Potatoes—Old  stock  has  entirely disappeared 
from  the  market.  New  Rose  from  the  South 
command 32.50@3  per  bbl.  Some  of  the  finest 
stock which  has  come  to  this  market is  from 
California.

Radishes—5c per doz. bunches.
Raspberries—Home  grown  are  beginning  to 
come in, red commanding 10c  per  qt.  The crop 
Is large, and  the  price  will  probably  rule  low 
after the first flush of arrivals.

Squash—4c per lb.
Strawberries—The  home  crop  is  about  at  an 
end, but consignments  from Northern Michigan 
will  probably  continue  for  a  couple  of  weeks 
yet.

Tomatoes—31.50 per 4 basket crate.
Turnips—Home grown, 25c per dozen bunches.
Watermelons—The Georgia crop is  beginning 
to arrive, commanding 18@25c  apiece.  It  is  re­
ported that  the  crop  is  exceptionally  fine  this 
season.

F rom  O ut o f Tow n.

Galls  have  been 

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

Sands & Maxwell, Pentwater.
Bates & Troutman,  Moline.
M. Minderhout,  Hanley.
T.  H.  Pittenger, Ferry.
C.  E.  Mills, Slocum’s Grove.
E. E.  Hewitt, Rockford.
Thos.  Kinney, Grove.
W. R.  Lawton, Berlin.
R.  D.  McNaughton, Coopersville.
T. H. Atkins,  West Carlisle.

AMBOY

1 3

CHEESE

T H E   M IC H iaA IS r  T R A D E S M A N
It is,  however,  a  fact that at  this crit­
ical time  the less  protection is  afforded 
to the  youth who  may make a man or  a 
fool of  himself—a  bright  mark  on  the 
page of life ora dismal blot on the paper. 
It is to be confessed that  in the world of 
work men  are  none  too  many who  care 
for the moral  outcome  of  a  boy’s train­
In how few instances  can any man 
ing. 
of  experience  recall 
the  time  or  the 
friend who took  an interest in his moral 
training.  On the  other hand,  is it not a 
cold fact  in  nine  cases  out of  ten, that 
an unspoiled  youth who reddened in the 
face at hearing an obscene joke, who kept 
his  tongue  from  blasphemy,  his  feet 
from  forbidden  paths and  kept the love 
of home and parents with the dew of  life 
on its  undried  leaves,  is  ridiculed, ban­
tered and practically ostracised  from his 
fellows?  This  is  true, from  a  medical 
college to a  coal pit,  and from a  univer­
sity to a stone quarry.  Society is dipped 
from head  to  foot  in the  same vat,  and 
hence the  danger  of  youth.  We hold it 
to  be  a  sacred  duty  both  of  employers 
and  parents to  keep  a  watchful  eye on 
the boys being  made  into  men  or  fools.

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

1S8 A  160 F ulton St., Grand  Rapids.

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
Henrietta;  H.  Dedenbach,  Detroit;  H. 
W.  Evans,  Grayling; W.  H.  Evans,  Ada,
O.  ;  J.  M.  Freeman,  St.  Charles;  O.  H. 
Freeland, Mason; E. G.  Fueling,  Detroit;
B.  L.  Green,  Mason;  G.  N.  Gaukel, Bay 
City;  F.  W.  Hamilton,  St.  Charles; M. 
Hebenthal, Paulding, O.; B. Heffelbower, 
Detroit;  R.  Hill,  Norwich,  Ont.;  M.  J. 
Hills, Grand  Rapids; E.  R.  Huber, New 
Hampshire,  O.;  E.  T.  Jones,  Chatham, 
Ont.; W. J. M.  Jackman,  Detroit;  A.  E. 
Johnson, Detroit; W.  A. Jones,  Luding- 
ton; G.  S.  Kirby,  Detroit;  S.  E.  Knapp, 
Bay City;  W.  B.  Knapp,  Grand Rapids; 
N.  G.  McBean, Detroit; C.  L.  McIntyre, 
St.  Mary’s,  O.;  H.  A.  McKenna,  Yale;
C. A.  Machen, Detroit; E.  L. Moore,  Mel­
vin;  J.  J.  Morrish,  Detroit;  L.  M.  Mor­
rison, Williamston;  A.  J.  Newman, De­
troit; F.  Nesbitt, Flint; G. C. Park, Chat­
ham,  Out.; E. G. Payne, Roscommon; W.
P.  Robinson,  Detroit: F.  E. Schall, Three 
Rivers; A. A. Schram,  Yale; C. E. Smith. 
Grand  Blanc;  Y.  Thomas,  Fowlerville; 
A. W.  Thompson,  Sanilac  Center; G. J. 
Wain,  Detroit; H.  B.  Ward,  Detroit;  F. 
W. Wilhelm, Bay City.
The  Board  elected as  officers  for the 
ensuing  year:
President — Ottmar  Eberbacb,  Ann 
Arbor.
Secretary—Stanley E.  Parkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—George Gundrum,  Ionia.
The next meeting of  the Board will be 
held in Marquette at 9 a. m. Aug. 29.

stander, who  was  sipping a  strawberry 
and cream.  “That’s  pretty  good, but  I 
know something  better  than that.  Tou
“But I  haven’t got  dyspepsia,”  he re­
plied  as he  took a  sip  of  the  colorless 
fluid.
“Perhaps you  have  just a  slight feel­
ing  of  indigestion,”  remarked  another 
man.  “A  sort  of  goneness,  as  it were. 
Well,  1 am  sorry  for  you,  for  1  know 
what  that is  myself. 
I  have  a remedy 
that I have used  for years, and-----”
“But I  haven’t  got  any indigestion,” 
he interrupted.  “It’s-----”
“I bet,I know what’s the  trouble,” re­
marked a third  man.  “Neuralgia of the 
stomach.  Well,  hot  water  is  a  pretty 
good thing  for that. 
I  know  what it is 
for  I have had  it  for years.  But if you 
will allow me  to  suggest I  have a  little 
preparation  that’s  done  me  more  good 
than-----”
“Pardon me,”  he said  gently,  a  mild 
look of  expostulation  creeping over  his 
face,  “but, gentlemen, you are all wrong. 
There is nothing  the matter with me. 
I 
am a well  man.  Fifty  years  old yester­
day and never had a  sick day in my life. 
And now,  gentlemen,  would  you like to 
know why I ordered hot water?”
“We would,” they replied in a chorus, 
a general air of disappointment creeping 
over their faces.
“Then I will tell you,”  he replied.  “I 
have  been  buying  soda  water  in  this 
place for six years.  My face is as famil­
iar  here  as  Patti’s  autograph.  Choco­
late,  vanilla  and  other  flavors  have di- 
urnally  passed  down  my  throat.  And 
to-day  I came in here and ordered a sim­
ple  cup  of  hot water,  because,  gentle­
men,”  he  continued,  as  he  picked  up a 
10-cent  check  from 
the  counter,  “I 
wanted to see if they would be so infern­
ally dog  gasted  mean  as  to  charge me 
for it.” 

The P e rsiste n t M an.

D. T. M allett in  Business.

T om Masson.

1 4
D ru g s  M e d ic in e s#

State  Board  of Pharm acy. 

One  Year—Jam es Veraor, Detroit.
Two Years—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor 
Three  Y ears—George Oundrum , Ionia.
F our Years—C. A. Bogbee, Cheboygan.
Five Years—8. E. P arkill, Owosso. 
President—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Stanley E. Parkill.
Treasurer—Geo. Oundrum, Ionia.__________

M ic h i g a n   S t a te   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A s s ’ll. 

President—Stanley E. P arkill, Owoeso. 
Vice-Presidents—I.  H.  L.  Dodd,  Buchanan;  F.  W.  R.
P erry, D etroit;  W. H. Hicks. Morley.
Treasurer—Wm. H. Dupont,  Detroit.
Secretary—C. W. Parsons, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H.  G.  Coleman,  Kalamazoo; 
Jacob Jesson, Muskegon :  F.  J.  W urzburg  and  John 
E. Peck, Grand Rapids;  A rthur Bassett,  Detroit. 
Local Secretary—J  ames Yernor.
Next  place  of  m eeting—Some  resort  on  8t.  Clair 
River;  tim e to be designated by Executive Committee.
Brand  Rapids Pharm aceutical Society. 
President, John D. M uir;  Sec’y, Frank H. Escott.

Som e  P ecu liar  R em edies.

to  check 

and  powdering. 

From  Science Siftings.
Cockroaches,  dried and  powdered,  are 
recognized  nowadays  as  a  remedy  for 
dropsy.  The  dust  contains  an  active 
principle  termed  antihydropin,  which 
stimulates  the  kidneys  and  checks  the 
complaint.  Everybody knows  that  pul­
verized Spanish  flies are  commonly util­
ized  for  blisters, 
inflaming  the  skin 
through  the  operation  of  a  substance 
called cantharidin.  But very few people 
are  aware  that  ordinary  potato grubs, 
dried  and  powdered,  possess  an  equal 
virtue of  the same description.  Ever so 
many  other  insects  supply cantharidin. 
Cochineal  insects,  so  valuable  as a dye, 
are administered in  small doses for neu­
ralgia  and 
the  spasms  of 
whooping  cough.  The  “lac” 
insects, 
from which  shell-lac is  made,  are excel­
lent for  dysentery.  The remedial value 
of extracts madefrom the galls which are 
formed on plants  by gall-flies is familiar 
enough.  Such  galls,  which  contain  70 
per cent,  of tannin,  are  largely gathered 
in Asia Minor, mostly from oak trees.
Crab’s eyes are commonly employed as 
a  remedy for  acid  stomach.  They  are 
not real  crab’s  eyes,  but  small  concre­
tions  of  lime  found  in  the  stomachs  of 
crawfish at the time when they are about 
to cast  their shells and  make new  ones. 
Lime in this form,  which is doubtless in­
tended  to  supply  material  for  the  new 
shells,  is  particularly  pure. 
It  is  pre­
pared  simply  by  pulverizing.  Oyster 
shells are used in  the same  way  and for 
the  same  purpose,  being  prepared  by 
washing 
Isinglass, 
which  is a valuable constituent of many 
preparations  useful to  invalids,  is made 
from  the  swimming  bladder  of  fishes. 
These  bladders,  by  the  expansion  and 
contraction of  which  the finny creatures 
change their  specific  gravity and  rise or 
sink at will,  are  merely split  and  dried, 
to form the product as it is sold.
Considering  these  things, it  does  not 
appear  that  the  medicines  included  in 
the  Chinese  pharmacopoeia  are  so  sur­
passingly absurd.  They  use  dried toads 
as a tonic,  salted scorpions for smallpox, 
clam shells as a cathartic, fossil  crabs as 
an antidote to  poisons,  the  excrement of 
bats for blindness,  ink as  a diuretic,  and 
gunpowder as a  vermifuge. 
In their be­
lief  a  kind  of  fungus  resembling  the 
truffle  destroys  worms  and  casts  out 
devils; verdigris from old copper coins is 
good for skin  trouble; the fossil teeth  of 
the extinct mastodon are a  cure for liver 
complaint; ashes of  papers are useful as 
an astringent; rain  on particular days of 
the year has  a medicinal  value,  and the 
fungus which grows out of a certain kind 
of caterpillar  as a  disease, transforming 
it into a plant,  is a  specific for jaundice. 
Gold leaf is  much employed  by the Chi­
nese for  suicidal purposes.  They  swal­
low it,  and the  irritation produced by  it 
is fatal.  Some of the  medicines at pres­
ent in  use  by  European  physicians  are 
enormously  expensive.  A  preparation 
of  the  Calabar  bean,  administered  for 
lockjaw,  called  “physostigmine  salicy­
late,”  is worth £100 an ounce.  A prepa­
ration  of  henbane, employed as  an  hyp­
notic,  and  called  “hyoscine  hydrobro- 
mate,” costs £300 an ounce.

H e  W a s  Satisfied.

He  walked  into  the  drug  store and 
mentioned  to  the  clerk  that  he  would 
like a cup of boiling hot water.
remarked  a  by­

“Dyspepsia,  eh?” 

that is a  bee line from where  you stand. 
Steer  straight  and  you  will  reach  the 
goal.
It takes  more  persistence  to-day than 
it did twenty  years ago,  for  the avenues 
of trade are  more closely  populated. 
It 
was  possible  once  for a  bright  man to 
make a fortune out of  a single idea with 
comparatively little  personal  effort,  but 
there is to-day a surplus of schemes, and 
too few persistent  workers.  Every mer­
chant knows  a score  of  “short  cuts” in 
trade,  but it is only  occasionally that we 
find one who has the patience to patiently 
work out his ideas.

THE  PRESENT  STANDARD.

H ow   th e   S ta n d a rd   Oil  Co.  M eets  th e  

N ew   L aw .

Grand Rapids,  Mich., July  1,  1893. 
To Dealers in  Illuminating Oils:
The Michigan Legislature,  at  its  last 
session,  passed  a  law  changing the test 
of illuminating oil from 125 °  fire test to 
120°  flash  test,  taking  effect  July  1, 
1893.
To  comply with  the  new  law,  which 
requires  a  much  higher  test  than  has 
been  legal  for  the  past  two  years,  we 
have  been  carefully  preparing  for  this 
change, and are now ready to supply the 
trade with  a  brand  of  oil  stencilled as 
below:

We guarantee this brand to  be  an  ex­
tra Water  White Refined  Oil,  manufac­
tured  from  selected  crude  and  by  the 
best known processes, and do not hesitate 
to  recommend  it  as  giving  a  uniform 
light and  a  free burning oil.  From this 
date we will fill all old or new orders for 
“ Water White” or  “Headlight” with  the 
above brand,  and continue to market our 
trade mark paper label brand of  E ocene 
Oil. 

Sta n d a r d  Oil  Co.

J. C.  Bonnell, Manager.

British pharmacists have disputed con­
siderably among themselves as to whether 
to  use the  white or  the yellow  vaseline 
when  vaseline  is  prescribed  in making 
ointments,  the other ingredients of which 
are white  or  colorless. 
It  has been the 
custom to  use  the  white, thus  altering 
the color of  the product as  little as pos­
sible.  The  members  of  the  Glasgow 
Pharmaceutical Conference recently in a 
meeting voted,  after  some  discussion, to 
employ the yellow vaseline in such cases, 
using the  white  only  when  directed by 
the  prescriben  This  establishes  some­
what  of  a  precedent,  the  outcome  of 
which  will not be long in forthcoming.

As  the  law  dissolves  all  contracts 
without  a  valuable  consideration,  so a 
valuable  consideration  often  dissolves 
the law.

1’lcasant-Safe-'

Peckham’s'a

ECK HAM’S 
ip  Remedy 
he  Children's 
Cough  Cure.  IMeasant-Safe-Certain.  G< t a 
bottle  today:  y s  
you may need it
tonight.  One ■  C  A  f 1  fA dose  will prove 
its value. Save 
I  v  14 J J  the  Children! 
WHOOPING-COUGH,  CROUP  COLDS,  COUGHS, 
quickly yield to  its  use.
Keep it at hand.  Large 
bottles 35c. All druggists

C r o u p
---------------,T7p“C(Remedy

PRICK TO TH1 TRADE:

$2 a dozen; 5 per cent, with  3 doz.  order, 1(1 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 
ing dealers card  neatly printed thereon.
Order PECKHAM ’S  CROUP  REMEDY of 
your jobber, and send your  label  to  Peckham  
Rem edy  Co.,  Freeport, Mich.

Money and brains,  a rare combination, 
often fails to unlock the door of success. 
Money  can  buy  the  goods  which  the 
brain  selected,  but  it  takes  something 
more than either  to  build  up a business 
and gain a reliable foothold in the world. 
Often  the  most  brilliant  minds are an­
chored to an important, to an  impatient, 
disposition which  cannot brook delay  or 
await  development.  The  bright 
intel­
lect  may  evolve  a  good  scheme  to  in­
crease trade, but if the body is unwilling 
to bestow the  tedious labor necessary to 
carry  out  the project, nothing is accom­
plished.  Ten  men  out  of  a  dozen can 
readily and clearly define what course to 
pursue to achieve success,but hardly one 
will  have  the  persistence  to faithfully 
take up in turn the various details which 
are essential to the result.
The streets  of  New York and Chicago 
are lined  with smart  men who are going 
down hill.  They  are  men who have in­
tellects above the  average,  and are well 
posted  in  matters  of  general  interest. 
Many of them have at some time handled 
round sums of money,  and been in busi­
ness  with 
flattering  prospects.  They 
lived to see what  they style “slow men” 
pass  them  on  the  road  to wealth, and 
this  in  spite  of  their  bright  ideas and 
once  ready  cash.  The  simple  reason 
why  so  few  men succeed in business is 
not  because  they  are  not brilliant,  but 
because they are not  patient for results.
Building up a business may be likened 
to  a  brick wall.  Each  individual brick 
must be  carefully and faithfully placed, 
and net  until  this  simple operation  has 
been  repeated  thousands  of  times will 
the wall commence to assume importance. 
It  does  not 
take  any  extraordinary 
amount  of brains to  plan out in a single 
hour  sufficient  business  plans  to  con­
sume a year’s  exertion,  but  it  requires 
a  high degree  of  persistence  to follow 
out  the details  six  days  in  the  week, 
and fifty-two weeks in the year.
The opportunities which we often hear 
about are  at  our  feet and  not  over our 
neighbor’s  fence,  as  too many  imagine. 
I know a  successful  business man, past 
middle age,  who  has  worked his way up 
from  a  small  beginning.  Speaking  of 
his life,  he  remarked  that  the  greatest 
enemy he had  to conquer  was a  natural 
disposition  to  try  a new  field of  labor. 
There  had  not  been  a  year  since  he 
started business but he had been tempted 
to experiment in some other line of trade 
which  promised  more  profit.  That  he 
had not  yielded to this  inherent  feeling 
he  attributed  his  success.  For,  as  he 
stated,  only two  of  all  the  young men 
who  were  his  competitors  at the  start 
were  now  independent,  although  they 
had in the meantime  tried a  dozen occu­
pations.
There is  only one road to success,  and

One H u n d red  an d  E ig h teen  O ut  o f  152.
One hundred  and fifty-two  applicants 
for certificates appeared before the Mich­
igan  Board  of  Pharmacy  in  session  at 
the Star Island  House, and of  that num­
ber sixty-five were granted certificates as 
registered  pharmacists  and  fifty-three 
certificates as registered assistants.  The 
following are the successful ones:
Registered  pharmacists—J.  C.  Ander­
son,  Detroit; H.  U.  Austin,  Marlette; W. 
Barber,  Menden,  O.;  C.  M.  Baskerville, 
Chatham,  Ont.; G. H. Beal, Detroit; A.  S. 
Blakey,  Ada, O.;  O.  L.  Boice,  Yale;  E. 
R.  Borley,  Detroit;  T.  J.  Boroff,  Van 
West, O.;  B.  F.  Brown,  New  Philadel­
phia,  O.; C.  J.  Brunskill, Sharon Center, 
O.; C.  F.  Buchhoitz, Grove  City,  O.; T. 
Callan,  Detroit;  C.  Cary,  Bay  City;  A. 
Carrier, Detroit; S. Coleman,  Kalamazoo; 
W.  H.  Cooley.  Detroit;  F.  A.  Cooper, 
Venetia,  Pa.; J.  A.  Cooper, Fowlerville;
G.  S. Crannell,  Detroit;  F.  J. Crittenden, 
Detroit;  M.  J.  Cruikshank,  Lexington; 
A.  J.  Dennen,  Detroit; J.  V.  Eitel, Co­
lumbus,  O.;  R.  E.  Elrick,  Harrisville, 
Pa.;  F.  Faber,  Detroit;  H.  L. Ford,  Port 
Huron;  C.  G.  Foster,  Yale;  H.  R.  Gil­
more,  Harrisville;  W.  F.  Harper,  St. 
Mary’s,  O.;  H.  G.  Hawn,  Sterling,  O.; 
T.  F.  Heavenrich,  Detroit;  C.  O.  Hill, 
Ann Arbor; E.  A.  Iveson;  Detroit; E.  B. 
Kolb,  Detroit;  W.  Lennon,  Yale;  S. R. 
Light,  Ada,  O., S.  W.  McCleary, Kirby, 
O.;  E.  S.  McColl,  Detroit;  N.  Menerey, 
Yale;  A.  Millerd,  Detroit;  G.  Morris, 
Ann Arbor;  W. B.  Newton,  Ann Arbor; 
W.  F. Park,  Chatham, Ont.; F.  R. Perry, 
Bay  City;  D.  Pettit,  Otterville,  Ont.; 
A. T. Platts,  Port  Sanilac;  T.  H.  Pohl- 
man,  New  Bremen,  O.;  H. L. Rees,  Mt. 
Vernon,  O.;  R.  H.  Reycraft, Detroit; W. 
J.  Rockefeller; Detroit; W. Scherer,  Ann 
Arbor; D.  S. Schweitzer, Petoskey; C.  C. 
Shearer,  Cold water;  M.  Spiro,  Detroit;
L.  L.  Swartz,  Ada,  O.; E.  W.  Tonkin, 
Detroit;  L. Van  Vliet,  Detroit;  G.  Wag­
ner, Ann  Arbor;  G. Wever,  Marlette; J. 
C.  Wilson,  Detroit;  R.  Wilson,  Morenci;
H.  Woolford,  Heno,  O.; U. G.  Wriston, 
Ada, O.; H. G.  Young, Detroit.
Registered  assistants—N.  F.  Alvord, 
Leipsic,  O.; T. T. Barnes, Toronto, Ont.;
M.  R.  Blair,  Birmingham;  A.  Bower, 
Fort  Recovery,  O.;  W.  P.  Brown, Jr., 
Lexington; F.  Burch,  Adair; H.  W. Cad- 
well,  Detroit; G.  M. Coon, Detroit; F.  W. 
Christopher,  Ada,  O.;  E.  F.  Churchill, 
Detroit; J.  D. Collins,  Hart;  C. Cowing,

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ACIDUM.

Acetlcum.......................  
8®
Benzoicum  German..  6S@
Boracic 
......................
Carbolicum  .  ............... 
26®
Citricum.......................  
50®
H y U ro c h lo r........................ 
3®
Nitrocum 
.....................  10®
Ozallcum.....................  10®
Phosphorlum  d ll.........  
20
Sallcylicum...............1  3o@l  70
Sulpnuricum................  144®
Tannlcum..................1  40@l  60
Tartarlcum.................   30®  33

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Aqua, 16  deg.......j___314®
30  deg...............   5)4®
Carbonea  .....................  12®
Chloridum ...................  12®

ANILINE.

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

BACCAK.
Cubeae (po  40)........
Junlperas..................
Xanthoxy lum .............
BAL8AM UM .

3:® 40
8 ® 10
25® 30

Copaiba...................... 42® 45
Peru............................ @1  80
Terabin, Canada  — 50® 60
Tolutan...................... 35® 50

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CORTEX.

—  \ —

T Quill ala,  grd...............

18
11
18
30
20
12
10
12
15

Abies,  Canadian.........
Casslae  .......................
Cinchona F lav a........
* Buonymus  atropurp...
Myrica  Cerifera, po—
Pranus Virgini............
Sassafras  ....................
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)
EXTRACTUM.
24® 25
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra... 
33® 35
po...........
Haematox, 15 lb. box.. 11® 12
13® 14
Is..............
14® 15
)4S............
Iti® 17
M s.............
Carbonate Predp......... 
®  15
Citrate and Quinta....  @3  50
Citrate  Soluble............  @  80
Ferrocv&nldomSol....  ®  GO
Solut  Chloride.........   &  15
Sulphate,  com’l .................9®  2
pure..............  ®  7

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emmi.

2d 
3d 
sifted sorts... 
po .........   00® 

Arnica.......................  18®  20
Anthernhs...................  30®  35
Matricaria 
........  50®  65
...................  18®  50
Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-
nlvelly........  .........   35®  28
“  A lx.  35®  50
Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
sind  Hs....................   15®  25
TJraTJru 
...................  8®  10
Acacia, 1st  picked—   ®  75
....  @  45
....  ®  30
®  25
80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
Soootrl, (po. 60).  ®  50
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Ms,
16)............................  ®  1
Ammoniac...............    55®  60
Assafcetlda, (po. 85).. 
30®  35
Bensolnum.................  50®  55
Camphors...................  55®  58
Eupnorbium  p o ........  Si®  lo
Galbanum...................  @2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70®  7b
Gualacum, (po  35) —   @  30
Kino,  (po  1  10).........   @1  15
Mastic  ... 
................  @  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
Opll  (po  i  00)................2 75®2 80
Shellac......................  35®  42
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth................  40® 1 00

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hbbba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................   28
“  V lr.........................  25
Rue.......................................  80
Tanacetum, V......................  22
Thymus, V..........................   25
Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  30®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M ....  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36

HASBBSIA.

OLE TJX.

Absinthium.................... 3 50®4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae__8 00®8 25
Anlsl................................1  ?0®1 80
Aurantl  Cortez..........2 30@2 40
Bergamll  ...................3 25®3  50
Cajlputl....................  
60®  65
Caryophylll................  80®  85
Cedar.........................  85®  65
Chenopodll................  ©l  60
Cinnamon I I ................  90@1  00
Cltronella...................  @  45
Conlum  Mao..............  Si®  65
Copaiba......................  80®  90

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TINCTURES.

1 00

Cubebae......................  @ 3 00
Exechthltos..............  2 50@2 75
Aconltum Napellis R .........   60
Brigeron......................... 2 oo@2 10
..  “ 
F .........   50
Gaultherla......................2 00@2 10
Aloes...................................   go
Geranium,  ounce......   @  75
and myrrh.................  60
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal......   70®  75
A rnica................................   50
Hedeoma  ...................2 10@2 20
Asafoetlda...........................    0
Juniperl......................  50@2 00
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Benzoin...............................   go
Llmonls...........................2 40©2 60
„  “  Co..........................   50
Mentha Piper...................2 75@3 50
Sanguinaria.........................  50
Mentha Verid.............2 20@2 30
Barosma..............................  50
Morrhuae, gal.............l  00@1
Cantharldes.........................  75
Myrcla, ounce.............  ©
Capsicum............................  50
Olive..........................   90@2
Ca damon............................  75
Plcis Liquida, (gal..3s)  10®  12
Ricini.......................  1  22@1  28
„ 
Co.........................   75
Rosmarini............  
75@l  00
Catechu..............................’  50
Rosae, ounce...................6 50®8 50
Cinchona............................  so
Succlnl......................•  40®  45
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Co.........................   60
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
Columba.............................   60
San tal  ........................3 50@7 00
Conlum...............................  so
Sassafras....................   50®  55
Cubeba.................................... 50
Slnapls, ess, ounce....  @  65
Digitalis  ...........................     50
Tigln.........................   @  90
S-KOt....................................  50
Thyme.......................   40®  50
Gentian...............................  50
^  o p t.................  @  60
Co.......................... .  60
_ 
Theobromas...............   15®
ammon.................."   60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................  so
Iodine..................................   75
“  Colorless................     75
Ferri  Chlorldum................ 
35
K ino........................................;; 50
Lobelia..........................  
50
Myrrh.................................     50
Nuz  Vomica.......................   50
O pll......................... 
85
“  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor........................ 2 00
Aurantl Cortez....................   50
Quassia...............................  50
K hatany.............................   50
Rhel.....................................   50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
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Co..............  50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan................................'  60
Valerian.............................    50
Vera tram Veride.................  50

Bi Carb.......................   15®
Bichromate................  13®
Bromide....................  
38®
Carb............................  
ia®
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24®  26
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..........................2 9G®3 00
Potassa, Bltart,  pure..  27®  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  ®
Potass Nltras, opt......  
8®
Potass Nltras..............  7®
Prusslate....................   28®
Sulphate  po................  15®

POTASSIUM .

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Aconltum...................  20®
Althae........................  22®
Anchusa....................   12®
Arum,  po....................  @
Calamus......................  20®
Gentlana  (po. 12)...... 
8®  1Ò
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  ploz (po. 35®38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  40®  45
Maranta,  Qs..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Bhei............................  75@1  00
CUt......................  @1  75
PV.......................   75®1  35
Spighila......................  35®  38
Sanguinaria, (po  25)..  ®  30
Serpentario.................  so®  32
Senega.......................  65®  70
Slmllaz, Officinalis,  H  @ 40
M  @  25
Sclllae, (po. 85).............  10® 12
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
dus,  po....................   @  35
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.30)  @  25
15® 20
German... 
lnglber a .................... 
18® 20
Zingiber  j ................... 
18® 20
Anlsum,  (po. 20)........  ®  15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  15®
Bud, la....................... 
4®  6
Carni, (po. 18)..............   10® 12
Cardamon........................1  00@1 25
Corlandrum.................   10® 12
Cannabis 8atlva.........   3)404
Cvdonlum....................   75®l 00
Cnenopodium  .............  10® 12
Dlpteriz Odorate........ 2 25®2 50
Foenlculum...............   ®  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L ini..............................4  Q 4M
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 314)...  4  ® 4<4
Lobelia.........................  85® 40
Pharlarls Canarian__4M® 
5
Rapa.............................  6®  7
Slnapls  Albu..............11  ©18
,r  Nigra...........  11®  12
SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W..D.  Co..2 00®2 50
D. F. R.......1  75@2 00
 
1  25®1  50
Junlperis  Co. 0. T....1  65®2 00
“ 
............. 1  7503 50
Saacharum  N.  B........ 1 7502 00
Spi.  Vini  Galli........... 1  75®6 50
Vini Oporto.....................1  25®2 00
Vini  Alba....................... 1  25®2 00

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SEMEN.

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

STRUTS.

A ccacla.............................a .  50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................   60
Ferri  Iod................................  50
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom.............................  50
Slmllaz  Officinalis...............   60
Co.........  50
Senega....................................  50
Sclllae..................................  50
  50
Tolutan...............................  50
Pranas  vlrg.........................  50

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M ISCELLANEOUS.

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ground,  (po.

Esther, Spts  Nit, 3  F..  28®  30
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alumen....................... 2)4®  3
.*)••••.......................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  go
Antimonl, po.............. 
4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrin......................  @1 40
Antlfebrln..................  ®  35
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  60
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud.... 
38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 20®2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, 04s
12;  54s,  14)..............  @  n
Cantharldes  Russian,
PO............................
0 1   00 
Capsici  Fractus, af...
0   26 
0   28 ®  20 
I po.
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)
10®   12 
Carmine, No. 40..........
@3 75
Cera  Alba, 8. A F .......  so®  55
Cera Flava..................   88®  40
Coccus.........................   @  40
Cassia Fractus............  @  26
Centrarla......................  @  10
0   40
Cetacenm....................  
Chloroform.................  500  68
„  
sqnlbbs.. 
01  26
Chloral Hyd Chit.........1  3501  60
Chondras....................   20®  25
Clnchonidlne, P.  A  W  150  20
German 8  0   12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
60 
cent  .........................
Creasotum ....
0   35 
0   2 
Crete, (bbl. 75)
5 0   5
9 0   11 
0   8
Crocus.................   40® 
50
24
Cudbear................   @ 
Cuprl Sulph...............   5®   6
Dextrine...............  10® 
12
Bther Sulph..........   70® 
75
Emery,  ail  numbers..  ©
po...................  @  6
75
»te. (po.)  75....   70® 
Flake  White.........  12® 
15
Galla.....................  @ 
28
Gambler......................7  ® 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ©  70
60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 A 10. 
Less than box  66 %
Glue,  Brown.............. 
9®  15
“  White................  18®  25
20
Glyoerlna..............14)4© 
Grana Paradisi...........  ©  22
55
Hnmnlus...............   26® 
©  86
Hydraag Chlor  Mite.. 
“  Cor__
®   80 
Ox Rubrum 
1 
®   90 
Ammontati..
* 
® 1  00 
Unguentum.
‘ 
45®  66
l^drargyrum.
@  64
thyobolla,  Am..  ..1 26®1 60
Indigo...........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl............3 80®3 90
Iodoform......................  @4 70
Lnpulln........................  @2 25
Lycopodium...............   65®  70
M acis...........................   70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
drarg Iod...................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arginiti»  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
144).........................2)4® 4
Mannla^S. F ...............  60®  68

French......  40® 

preclp.
Rubra.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

W h olesa le  P r ic e   C u r r e n t•
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Advanced—Bromide Ammonia, Bromide  Potash, ¡sodium. 
Declined—Carbolic acid.  Balsam Capaiba.  Balsam Peru.  Gum Opium.  Gum Opium Po 

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Cloves.  Oil Cubeb.  Oil Brigeron.  Cloves.  Saffron. 

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S.  N. Y. Q.  A

Morphia,  »  P. A W.  2 20@2 45 
C.  Co....................  2 10@2 35
Moschus Canton........  ®  40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  65®  70
Nuz Vomica, (po 20)..  ®  10
Os.  Sepia....................   20®  22
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcis Llq, N.»C., % gal
doz  .........................  @2100
Plcis Llq., quarts.......  @1 00
pints.........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra,  (po.22)..  ©  l
Piper Alba, (po¿5)....  ®  8
Pix Burgun................  ®  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvls Ipecac et opll..l  io@i  20 
Pyrethrum,  bozes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......   ®1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae....................   8®  10
Qulnla, 8 .P .4 W ......   29®  34
S.  German__   20©  30
Rubla  Tinctorum......   12®  14
SaccharumLactlspv.  20®  22
Salacln.......................1  75®1  80
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................   @  15

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Seidllts  Mixture........  ®  20
Slnapls........................  ®  18
,r  opt...................  ®  so
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. ll) .  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  m@  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
■’  Vini  Reel  bbl.
....7 .........................2 19@2 29
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal.......1 4001 45
Sulphur, Subl............ 2W@ 3
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B°R..............  2  @2)4
Tamarinds...................   8® 10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  80
Theobromae .;........... 45  @  48
Vanilla.....................9 00@16 00
Zlnd  Sulph..................  7©  8

OILS.

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

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faints. 

Llndseed,  boiled  ....  54 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   80 
Spirits Turpentine....  35 

16
57
86
40
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian..............114  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ 144  2@4
“ 
Ber........144  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2k  2)408
“  strictly  pure......2)4  24(08
Vermilion Prune Amer­
ican ..........................   13®16
Vermilion,  English_ 
66070
Green,  Peninsular....  
70076
Lead,  red....................64407
“  w hite................6440 7
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Glldersr~ . ..  @gc
White, Paris  American 
1  0
Whiting,  Paris  Bng.
cliff......................... 
140
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20®1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.....................1 00®1 20
No. 1 Turp  Coach....1  10@1  20
Extra Turp......... .......16001  70
Coach  Body...............2 7508 00
No. 1 Turp Fum ....... 1 0001  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1 5601 60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70075
Turp......................... 

VARNISHES.

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils w Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

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We Have in Stock and Offer a F ull U n e  of

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It is impossible  to give  quotations  suitable  for all conditions of  purchase, and those 
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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 ot  tne 
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AXLE GREASE.
doz
Aurora........... ........  55
Castor Oil...... ........  75
Diamond........ ........  50
Frazer’s......... ........  89
M ica.............. ........  75
Paragon 

..  ..

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

 

'*  2  “ 

Arctic.
“  4 doz  “ 
“  3 doz  “ 
“  1 doz  “ 
Fosfon.

BAKING POWDER.
Acme.
*4 lb. cans, 3 doz...............  
45
u  lb.  “ 
2  “  ................  85
1  “  .................  1 »
1]lb.  “ 
Bulk...................................   W
u  ]b cane 6 doz  case......... 
55
V< lb 
 
1  10
1  lb 
2 00
 
5  fl> 
............. 9 00
5 ox. cans, 4 doz. in case...  90
---2 00
“ 
16 “ 
cans..........  
Red Star, >4 
40
75
“ 
........... 
*4 a>  “ 
«» 
1 lb  “ 
...........  1  40
Teller’s,  *4 lb. cans,  doz. 
45 
“ 
85
“  - ■ 
*4 lb.  “ 
“  ..  1  50
“ 
1 lb.  “ 
Our Leader, *4 lb cans...... 
45
y.lb   cans........  75
“ 
1 lb cans......... 1  50
“ 
Dr. Price’s.
per doz 
Dime cans..  95 
.. 1 40 
“ 
4-oz 
“ 
.  2 to 
2  60 
“  
“ 
..3 90 
z 
“ 
i 
..5 00 
lb  “  12 00
“  18  25
“  22 75
“  41  80

b 

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen in case.

 

 

“ 

80s 

~  
“ 

BLUING. 

“ 
BROOMS,

English...............................  90
Bristol..................................  80
Dom^tic......................."•••  To
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals..............  3 63
“ 
“  pints,  round  ..........   9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
“  No. 3, 
...4  00
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
1 ox ball  ................  4 50
“ 
Mexican Liquid, 4 oz........3 60
“ 
8 oz.........   6  80
do. 2 Hurl..........................  1  75
No. 1  “  .........................  2 00
No. 2 Carpet...........................   2 25
No. 1 
Parlor Gem...............................2 75
Common Whisk................. 
90
Fancy 
.................1  15
Warehouse.......................... 3 25
Stove, No.  1.......................  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.

« 
“ 

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BUTTER  PLATES. 

Oval—250 in crate.

No.  1...................................   60
No.  2 ..................................  70
No.  8...................................   80
No.  5........................................ 1 00

CANDLES.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes............   10
Star,  40 
9
Paraffine  ............................ 10
Wicklng  ............................ 24

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CANNED  GOODS.

Fish,
Clams.

“ 

“ 

•* 

Little Neck,  1 lb...................... 1 20
“  2 lb...................... 1 90
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Standard, 3 lb..................... 2 25
Standard,  11b....................100
21b....................185
Lobsters.
8tar,  1  lb........................... 2 50
“  2  lb............................8 50
Picnic,lib..........................2 00
21b.........................2 90
“ 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb.....................1 25
2  lb................... 2  ¡0
Mustard,  21b.....................2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb............2 25
Soused, 2 lb........................2 25
Salmon.
Columbia River, flat..........1  90
“  «alls..........1 75
Alaska, Red........................1  45
pink........................1  25
Kinney’s, flats...............— 1  95
Sardines.
American  Us.................  © 5
As................6A® 7
Imported  *41.....................10@ll
*4«.....................15@16
Mustard  Ms......................  @8
Boneless..........................  
21
Brook, 8 lb......................... 2 50

“ 
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Trout.

“ 
“ 

« 

i  >

XX  wood, white.

j.1 ,6 .............................   165
No. 2,6.............................   1  50
No. 1,6*4..........................   135
No. 2,6*4....... ..................  1  25
•*
Mill No. 4.........................  100
FARINACEOUS GOODS. 

Manilla, white.

Coin.

Farina.
Hominy.

100 lb. kegs................... 
3M
Barrels.................................300
Grits....................................3 50
Lima  Beans.
Dried............................
Domestic, 12 lb. box.... 
55
Imported.....................10*4@i  A

Maccaroni and Vermicelli. 

Oatmeal.

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

Pearl Barley.

Kegs..................................  2X

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bn........................   2 00
Spilt  per l b ..................2&®3
Barrels  180....................   @4 50
Half  bbls 90.................   @2 40
German.............................  4*4
East India......
Cracked..............................

Wheat.

Sago.

GUNPOWDER. 
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

HERBS.

INDIGO.

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

JELLY.
17  lb. palls.................
................
30  “ 
“ 
LICORICE.

55
50

©  55
@  85

Pure................................. ...  30
Calabria.......................... ...  25
Sicily............................... ...  12

LYE.
Condensed, 2 doz...........
4 doz, .........

“ 

...1  25
...2 25

MATCHES.

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

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth..........................
Pollock..........................  
3!
Whole, Grand  Bank......  
5!
Boneless,  bricks.............. 7@9
Boneless, strips................7@9

Smoked...................... 10*4@11

Halibut.

Herring.
“  

65 

Holland, white hoops keg 
b b l
Norwegian.......................
Round, *4 bbl 100 lbs.......  2 85
•4  “  40  “  .........   1 45
Scaled........................ 
18

 

Mackerel.

No. 1,  100 lbs...........................12 00
No. 1, 40 lbs......................... 5  05
No. 1,  10 lbs.......................  1  35
Family, 90 lbs....................   8 25
95
Russian,  kegs....................   65

10  lb s.................  

Sardines.
Trout.

No. 1, *4 bbls., lOOlbs............6 75
No. 1 *4 bbl, 40  lbs...............3 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   85
No. 1,81b  kits....................  70

Whlteflsh.

No. 1

Family 
)4 bbls, 100 lbs...........87 50 *3 75
*4  “  40  “  ..........   3 25  1 75
58
10 lb.  kits..................   90 
8 lb.  “ 
50
...................  75 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

Sonders’.

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

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
2oz  __8  75
4oz...... 1  50
Regular
Vanilla.

MINCE  MEAT.

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

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

40

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

Sugar house........................  14

Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Ordinary.................................. 
Prime.............................. 
Fancy...................................... 

New Orleans.

Fair.........................................  
Good.......................................  
Extra good.............................  
Choice.................................... 
Fancy......................................  
One-half barrels, 8c extra.

16
20
30

18
22
27
32
40

PICKLES.
Medium.

Small.

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

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

6 00
3 50

“ ..12*4
“ 13*4
.14
7*4

doz
2 oz___81 2u
4 oz......2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz.......81  50
4 oz......   3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz.......81  75
____________   4 oz........ 3 50

Jennings’ D  C.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding box...  75 
120
4 oz 
...1  40 
6 oz 
.. .2 00 
3 oz taper........... 1  35 
4 oz taper........... 1  50 

“ 
“ 

Clay, No.  216...................... 1  75
“  T. D. full count...........  75
Cob, No. 8...........................1  25

POTASH,

48 cans In case.

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

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina head......................5
“  No. 1.......................... 4*4
“  No. 2........................   4
Broken.............. ................   3

Imported.

2 00
3 00
2 00
2 50

Japan, No. 1...........................6*4
“  No. 2........................... 6*4
Java....................................  5
Patna......................................  5

Fruits.
Apples.

85
3 00

Cherries.

Apricots.

3 lb. standard............  
York State, gallons —  
Hamburgh,  *•
Live oak.....................  
1  75
Santa Crux................. 
1  75
1  75
Lusk's......................... 
Overland..................  
1  75
Blackberries.
B. A W ....................... 
95
R ed .........................   1  10@1 20
1  75
Pitted Hamburgh...... 
W hite......................... 
1 50
Brie............................ 
1  20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Erie............................ 
1  10
1  70
California................... 
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  25
P ie............................ 
1  25
Maxwell....................
1  65
Shepard’s ..................  
California..................  
2 20
Monitor 
1  66
................... 
Oxford.......................

Peaches.

Gages.

Pears.

“ 
“ 

1  20
2 10

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

Quinces.
Common....................
Raspberries.
Red........................
Black Hamburg.........
Brie,  b lack ...............
Strawberries.
Lawrence...................
Hamburgh.................
E rie...........................
Terrapin.......................
7 00
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............
1  00
1  90
Corned  beef  Libby’s...
Roast beef  Armour’s ...
Potted  ham, *4 lb............... 1  30
“  *4 lb.................  80
tongue. A lb..............135
“ 
*4  lb_____  85
95
Vegetables.

lb.......... 

1  30 
1  50 
1  30

Meats.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“  chicken, *4 
2 50
“ 
“ 

Corn.

soaked..........

Hamburgh  stringless...........1 25
French style...... 2 25
Limas................. 1  35
Lima, green..........................1 40
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 85
Bay State  Baked................. 1  35
World’s Fair  Baked........... 1 35
Picnic Baked........................1  00
Hamburgh.......................  1  40
Livingston  Eden................1  20
Purity....................
Honey  Dew..........................1 50
Momlng Glory...... .
Soaked ...................
Peas.
Hamburgh marrofat........... 1 35
early June
Champion Eng. .1  50
petit  pois...........1  75
fancy  Blfted___1  90

“ 
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“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 

Gold  Medal  ..............  © 9M
6© 7
Skim.....................   • • 
Brick  .........  ...............  
11
Edam  ........................ 
1 00
Leiden....................... 
23
Llmburger  ...............   @10
Pineapple...................  ©25
Roquefort...................  @35
Sap Sago...............  
@22
Schweitzer, imported.  ©24
domestic  ....  @14

“ 

CATSUP.

Bine Label Brand.

“ 

Triumph Brand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles  .........2 75
•Pint 
...........  4 60
Quart 1 dox bottles 
..  3 50
Half pint, per  doz..............1  35
Pint, 25  bottles.................... 4 50
Quart, per  doz  .................. 3 7*
gross boxes................. 40@45
351b. bags.....................   @3
Less quantity...............   @3*4
Pound  packages........... G*£@7

CLOTHES  PINS.
COCOA  SHELLS.

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

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

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

8  1, per hundred..............  83 00
3 50
8  2, 8 3, 
4 00
5 00
8 5, 
810, 
6  00 
7 00
820.
Above prices on conpon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over............   5  per  cent.
500  “ 
iOOO  “ 
COUPON  PASS BOOKS. 
ICan  be  made to represent’any 
denomination  from 810  down. | 
20 books.... ....................8 1 00
50
2  00 
3 00 
100
6 25 
250
500
10  00 
17 50
1000

10 
20 

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CREDIT CHECKS.

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

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CRACKERS.

Butter.

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

Soda.

Soda, XXX.........................  6
Soda, City............................  714
Soda,  Duchess....................  8*4
Crystal Wafer.....................10
Long  Island Wafers 
........11
S. Oyster  XXX....................   6
City Oyster. XXX.................   6
Farina  Oyster.....................  6

Oyster.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure......................  30
Tellers  Absolute..............   31
Grocers’............................ 15@2?

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Vic. per lb. for roast 
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX.  23 45
Bunola  ...........................   22 95
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case....  23 45 

Package. 

Extract.

Valley City *4 gross...........  75
1  15
FeUx 
Hnmmel’s, foil, gross........1  50
1 
........2 50

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tin 
CHICORV.

CLOTHES  LINES.

Bnlk. 
Red  .

Cotton, 40 ft...
50ft..  .
60 ft...
70 f t ....
80 f t . . . .
60 f t . . . .
72 t f . . .

••
••
»
»
Jute
“

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 doz. In case.

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

Domestic.
Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Sundried. sliced in  bbls.
Evaporated, 50*lb. boxes 
California In  bags........
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes......................
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags.......................
25 lb. boxes.....................
Peeled, In  boxes...........
Cal. evap.  “ 
...........
“ 
in bags........
California In bags......
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
25 “ 
...................
Prunelles.
301b.  boxes...................
Raspberries.
In  barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
..............*......
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

Pears.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Soaked.......................
Harris standard............
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  10
early -Tune.......1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom— 1  35
French.................................2
French............................. 17@22
Erie.....................................
Hubbard..............................1
Hamburg.................................. 1 40
Soaked................................   85
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 50
E rie.......................................... 1 35

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.

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

CHOCOLATE.

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

Amboy__
Acme.......
Lenawee.. 
Riverside

“Tradesman.’

 

 
 

8  1, per hundred...............   2 00
« 
- * 
2 50
• 
 
8  2,
“ 
3 00
 
 
" 
8 8 , "  
........
“ 
3 00
 
“ 
8 5,  “ 
........
“ 
4 00
 
810, 
“  
“  
.........
“ 
5 00
 
“ 
820,  “ 
......
“Superior.”
2 50
8  l, per hundred........
.......
“ 
8 2,  “ 
3 00
3 50
8 8,  “ 
.........
“ 
4 00
8 5 , “ 
“ 
........
5 00
810,  “  
“ 
..........
$20,  "
6 00

@9«
@9*49
@9Q

“Universal.”

Loose Muscatels in Boxes.
2 crown............................  1
3 
“ 
.............................   1
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
2  crown.................................5V4
“ 
3 
............................... 6

Foreign.
Currants.

Peel.

Patras,  In barrels............   4

in  H-bbls............  4*4
In less quantity —  
4*4

“ 
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“
“

“ 
“ 

25  “ 
25 “ 
Raisins.

Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes 
Lemon 
Orange 
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes  @
“ 
Sultana, 20 
.  8*4@
Valencia, 30  “
California,  100-120............. 10

Prunes.
90x100 25 lb. bxe .ll A

60x70 

80x90 
70x90 
“ 
Turkey......................... 
SUver..........................
Sultana...............................
French,  60-70.....................13
70-90..................... 12
80-90...................... 11
90-10 •.....................10
ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

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No. 1,6*4..........................  »1  75
No. 2, 6*4..........................  160

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

47

Thompson & Chute Brands.

Smoking.

“ 

shoulders 

........  @  8*4

“ 
“ 

Sausage, blood or head  @ 7
liv er............   @ 7
Frankfort  ....  @8*4
Mutton  ...................... 8  © 9
Veal............................ 7  @8
FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follows:

FRESH  FISH.
Whlteflsb 
.................  @8
T ro u t............ ............  @8
Halibut.......................  @15
Ciscoes or Herring__  @5
Bluefish......................  @lo
Fresh lobster, per  lb_ 
20
Cod.............................  
11
No. 1 Pickerel............   @8
Pike............................  @8
Smoked White...........  @8
Red  Snappers...............  
12
Columbia River  Salmon 
20 
Mackerel...................... 
25
oysters—Cans. 

Falrhaven  Counts —   ©40
F. J. D.  Selects..........  @40

SHELL  GOODS.

Oysters, per  100........1  5C@1  75
......... 1  00@1  25
Clams, 

“ 

Scallops. 
2 00 
Shrimps
1  50
P A P E R  A W O O D E N  W A R E  

PAPER.

Straw 
................................
Rockford............................. a
Rag sugar  ............................2*4
......................2%
Hardware. 
Bakers.................................. 2%
Dry  Goods.................. 5  @6’
Jute Manilla...............   @6*4
Red  Express  No. 1.............5*4
No. 2.............4*4

“ 

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

WOODBNWABE.

Tubs,No. 1.........................  700
“ 
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
13  “  ............   1  00

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“ 

2
19  “ 
21  “ 
3
Baskets, market.................
shipping bushel..  1
..1
full hoop  “ 
No.2 7
“ 
No.3 8
“ 
“  No.l  3
No.2 4
“ 
“ 
.No.3 5

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

“ 
“ 
1 
“ 

splint 

IN D U R A TED   W A RE.

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

P O U L T R Y .

Local dealers pay as follows:

L IV E .

D R E SSE D .
Fowl..........................
Turkeys.....................
Ducks  ....................
Live broilers l*4lbs. to 2 lbs.
Live broilers less than  1-1*4 
Spring  Chickens.........15  @16
F o w ls ....................................7  @ 8
Turkeys........................8  @9
Spring Ducks............. 12  @14

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

Root  Beer  Extract.
“ 

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

SPICKS.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

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“ 
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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
n  Cochin....................20
Jam aica.................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia...................... 7b
Mustard,  Bng. and Trieste..22
Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 16
“ 
white...... 24
“  Cayenne.................20
Sage..................................... 20
‘‘Absolute” in Packages.
5*8  Hs
Allspice......................  84  155
Cinnamon...................  84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  1  55
Ginger,  Jamaica........  84  1 55
“  African...........  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  155
Pepper.......................   84  155
Sage.............................  84
Kegs...................................   1*4
Granulated,  boxes..............  lit
A nise............................   &l~/4
6
Canary, Smyrna.........  
Caraway.........................  
10
00
Cardamon, Malabar... 
Hemp,  Russian.........  
4*4
5*4
Mixed  Bird  ..............  
Mustard,  white.........  
10
Poppy......................... 
9
Rape................................ 
Cuttle  bone....................  

SAI,  SODA.

SEEDS.

6
30

STARCH.

Corn.

 

 

 

“ 

“ 
“ 

SNUFF.

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

20-lb  boxes..........................   6
40-lb 
5X
1-lb packages.......................   5*4
3-lb 
5*
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  4%
Barrels................................   5*4
Scotch, In  bladders.............37
Maccaboy, In jars................35
French Rappee, In J u s ......43
Boxes....................................5*»
Kegs, English....................... 4%
100 3-lb. sacks......................... 12 25
2 00
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks.......................   1 85
2014-lb.  “ 
2 25
24 3-lb  cases..........................   1 50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags..  32
28 lb.  “ 
drill  “  16  18

SODA,

 
 

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

.. 

“ 

“ 

Higgins.

Solar Rock.

56 Jb. dairy In linen  sacks.  75 

56 lb.  sacks.......................   27

Common Fine.

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

70
70

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbB. In box.

Church’s .............................  5*4
DeL&nd’s ..............................5$*
Dwight’s ................................5*4
Taylor’s...............................  5

SOAP.
Laundry.

“ 

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Dingman Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

Old Country,  80  1-lb...........3 40
Good Cheer, 601 lb...................3 90
White Borax, 100  M-lb........3 95
Concord.............................   3 45
Ivory, 10  oz.........................6 75
6  oz............................... 4 00
Lenox...............................  3 90
Mottled  German......................3 60
Town Talk...............................3 25
Single box...........................3  95
5 box lots, delivered........... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered..........3 75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. 
American  Family, wrp d. .14 00 
plain...  3 94
N. K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................   4  75
Brown, 60 bars.........................2 85
80  b a rs........................3 50
Acme........................................4 00
Cotton Oil.................................6 00
Marseilles...............................  3 95
Matter  .................................4 35

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

“ 

“ 

Sunflower.. 
Golden  ......

Sapollo, kitchen, 3  doz.

Sconring.
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 townwhere 
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............................ 36 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............ . .  5 48
No.  6  ................................ 5 42
No.  7....................................5 30
No.  8..................................  5 23
No.  9....................................5  11
No.  10................................   5 05
No.  11.................................. 4 48
No.  12...............................  4  48
No.  13.................................  4 73
No 14................................   4 42

SYRUPS.

Corn.

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

Pure Cane.

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

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

31 for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.

8
8

9
8*4
8*4

30

YEAST.

Bulk, per gal  ...................... 
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75
Magic,..................................1  00
Warner’s  ...................  
Yeast Foam  ....................... 1  00
Diamond...............................  75
Royal................................  
 

TEAS.

japah—Regular.

F air............................
Good..........................
Choice......................... 24
Choicest......................32
D ust........................... 10
SU N  C U BED .
Fair..............................
Good.............................
Choice............................24
Choicest........................ 32
Dust...............................10
B A SK ET  T IR E D .
Fair...............................18
Choice...........................
Choicest........................
Extra choice, wire leaf
G U N PO W D ER.
Common to  fall...........25
Extra fine to finest— 50 
Choicest fancy............ 75
Common to  fair...........23
Common to  fair...........23
Superior to fine............ 30
Common to  fair...........18
Superior to  fine...........30
BN G LISH   BREA KFAST,
Fair...............................18
Choice............................24
Best...............................40
TOBACCOS. 

YOUNG  HYSON.

IM PE R IA L .

OOLONG.

©20
©26
@34
@12
@17
@20
@2£
@34
@12
@20@25
@35
@40

@65
@85
@26

@26
@35
@26
@40
@22
@28
©50

Fine Cut.
Pails unless otherwise
Bazoo...........................
Can  Can........................
Nellie  Bly....................27
Uncle ben.................... 21
Hiawatha....................
Sweet Cuba.................
McGinty......................
*4 bbls...........
Dandy Jim...................
Torpedo .......................
in drums....
Yum  Yum  .................
1892...............................
“  drums..................

“ 

“ 

noted
@30
@27
@24
@22
60
34
27 
25 
29 
24 
23
28 
23 
22

Plug.

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

41
29
41
26
38
34
40
32

Catlin’s  Brands.
Kiln  dried..................
...1 7
Golden  Shower............
...19
Huntress  ...................
..  .26
Meerschaum...............
.  ..29
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy................. ...40
Stork............................. 30@32
German.......................
Frog............................. ...3 3
Java, Ms foil.................
...32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.......................... ....16
Banner Cavendish........ ....38
Gold Cut  ...................... ....28
W arpath....................... ....15
Honey  Dew................... ....30
Gold  Block................... ....36
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s
Peerless......................... ....26
Old  Tom............ .......... ....18
...22
Standard.......................
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade....................

Scotten’s Brands.

Brands.

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

Rob  Roy....................... ....26
Uncle  Sam..........  ........ 28@32
Red Clover.................... ....32
...25
Tom and Jerry..............
Traveler  Cavendish__ ...3 8
Buck Horn.................... ....30
Plow  Boy...................... 30@32
Corn  Cake....................
...16

OILS.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes
f. 0.  b.
8*4
© 7*4

as  follows,  in barrels.
Grand Rapids:
Eocene.........................
Water White, old test.
XXX  W.  W.  Mich.
7
Headlight...............
Naptha....................... @ 6*4
Stove Gasoline........... @ 7*b
Cylinder....................27 @36
Engine  ..................... 13 @21
Black, 15 cold  test__ @ 8*4

HIDES.

HIDES  PELTS  and FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay as  fol-

lows:
Green............................ 2@3
Part  Cured................  3 @  3*4
Full 
................. @ 4
Dry.............................   5 @  5
1 00
Kips, green  ...............   3 @ 4
“  cured...... .......... @ 5
Calfskins,  green........  4 @  5
90
cured........  5 @ 6
Deacon skins..............10 @25

“ 

“ 

No. 2 hides M off.
PELT8.

Shearlings.................. 10 ©  20
Lambs 
......................15 @  25

WOOL.

Washed......................12 @18
Unwashed.................g @14

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow.......................  3 @  3%
Grease  batter  ...........  1 @2
Switches....................  l*4@ 2
Ginseng......................2 00@2 50

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

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

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

WHEAT.

MEAL.

FLOUR.

“ 

Straight, In  sacks.........
.  360
“  barrels........ ..  3 85
“ 
Patent 
“  sacks.........
.  4 60
“  barrels........ ..  4 80
“ 
Graham  “  sacks........
.  1  70
Rye 
“ 
.  1  90
........
M I L L 8 T U F F 8 .

Bran..............»13 50
Screenings__  13 00
Middlings......14 50
Mixed Feed...  i8 60
Coarse meal  ..  17 50

Less
Car lots  quantity
»13 50
13 00
14 50
18 50
18 00

CORN.

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

OATS.

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

HAT.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots.
No. 1 
ton lots  ..

“ 

...44
...43

...35
...38*4

..13 00
..14 00

FRESH  MEATS.

Beef, carcass..............  6  @7*4
“  hindquarters...  7*4©  8*4
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

fore 
loins,  No.  3... 10  @11
ribs....................  8  @ 9
rounds...............  7  @7*4

“ ...4*4© 5*4

Bologna.............   @6
Pork loins.......   @10*4

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

 

FO R K   IN   B A R R ELS.

 

 

Mess,............  
20 00
Short c u t..................................................  
20 SO
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  22 00
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat back.............................................  21  00
Boston clear, short cut........  ......................  21  50
Clear back, short cut...................................   21  50
Standard clear, short cut. best................. 
22 00

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

Pork Sausage...................................................
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage........................................ 
 
Frankfort Sausage  ..........................................8*4
Blood Sausage.................................................   7
Bologna, straight............................................   6
Bologna,  thick................................ 
HeadCheese.  ................................................... 7
Kettle  Rendered.................. 
11
Granger...........................................................103£
Family.............................................................. 8
Compound......................................................  7*4
50 lb. Tins, Me advance.
“
20 lb. pails,  *4c 
34c  “
10 lb.  “ 
5 lb.  “  %e 
“
31b.  " 
l c  
“

LA R D .

 

 

B E E F   IN   B A R R E L S.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.....................   8 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................  8 50
Boneless, romp butts.....................................14 00

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

“ 
“ 

“ 
« 
“ 
“ 

Hams, average 20 lbs....................................... 13
16 lbs...................................... 13M
12 to 14 lbs...............................13*4
picnic....................................................II
best boneless......................................   13*4
Shoulders........................................................ 10*4
Breakfast Baoon, boneless..............................13*4
Dried beef, ham prices....................................10*4
Long Clears, heavy.........................................
Briskets,  medium..........................................

light.................................................11

„ 

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

STICK  CANDY.
Cases

60
60

.  1  40
■  1  65

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

8*4
. ..  8*4
MIXED CANDY.

Bbls. Falls.
7*4
6*4
6*4
7*4
7*4
6*4
8*4

Bbls.

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

“ 
fancy—In bulk

Palls.
7
7
7*4
8 
8 
8 
8 
9
10 
13 
.  8 
.  8

” 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  10
printed.........................................   11
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 11*4
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  13
Gum Drops....................................................   5*4
Moss Drops....................................................   8
Sour Drops....................................................   8*4
Imperials.......................................................   10
Per Box
Lemon Drops................................................... 55
Sour Drops...................................................... 55
Peppermint Drops........................................... 60
Chocolate Drops...............................................65
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................90
Gum Drops..........................................— 40@50
Licorice Drops.............................................. 1  00
A. B. Licorice Drops.......................................80
Lozenges, plain................................................ 60
65
Imperials..........................................................60
Mottoes............................................................ 70
Cream Bar........................................................55
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams... ..............................85@95

printed................... 

“ 

 

Plain Creams.............................
Decorated Creams.....................
String  Rock...............................
Burnt Almonds..........................
Wfntergreen  Berries.................
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb. boxes.......
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
......
No.3, 
......
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes..............
BANANAS.

CARAMELS.

Small..........................................
Medium....................................
Large........................................
9
California Riverside Seedlings.

ORANGES.

“
“ 
“ 

3 
2 
3 

“ 
“ 
“ 

LEM ONS.

6

“ 
“ 
“ 

Messina, choice  360..........................
fancy, 360................ ..........
choice 300...........................
fancy 300  ..........................
O TH ER   FO R EIG N   FR U IT S .
Figs, fancy  layers, Gib......................
“  101b.....................
149).....................
“ 
“  209).....................
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box......................
......................
Persian, 50-lb.  box.................
NU TS.

“ 
“ 
“  50-lb.  “ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

extra 

.80@90 
...1   00
...... 65
...1  00 
......60

50@1  75 
! 0C@2 50

@3 50

5 00 
50@6 00
@5 00
6  00
@12*4 
@12*4 
@14 
@15 
@ 7*4 
@ 6*4 
4M©  5*4

“ 

“ 
“ 

Almonds, Tarragona.............................
Ivaca.......................................
California.............................
Brazils, new...........................................
Filberts.................................................
Walnuts, Grenoble................................
“  Marbot....................................
Calif.......................................1
“ 
Table Nuts,  fancy................................
choice.............................
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  ..........................1
Cocoanuts, full sacks............................
Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................
“  Roasted....................
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............................
“  Roasted...................
Choice, H. P.,  Extras............................
“  Roasted.................

“ 
“ 
“ 
CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

@19
@18
@18*4
@ 9
@11*4
@13*4
O
1  @13 
@13*4 
@12 
@14 
@4 25
©  8 
@  9*4 
O 8O 9*4
@   6*4 @ 8

P E A N U T S.

“ 
“ 
“ 

F R U IT   JA R S .

P ints............................................................I 6 50
Quarts.................................................
7 00 
Half Gallons.....................................
9 00 
Caps....................................................
3 CO 
Rubbers..............................................
50
No. 0 Sun.........................................................  45
No.l  “  .........................................................  50
No.2  “  .........................................................  75
Tubular...........................................................  75

LA M P  B U R N E R S.

lamp chimneys.  Per box.

6 dcz. In box.

 
 

“ 

 
 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Pearl top.

La Bastle.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No. 0 Sun......................................................... 1 80
No. 1  “  ......................................................... 1 90
No.2  “  ......................................................... 2 90
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.......................................2 25
No. 1  “ 
No.2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top....... ...............................2 60
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled....................3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
....................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4  88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.......................1  25
No.2  “ 
....................... 150
No. 1 crimp, per doz........................................1 35
..................... ................160
No.2 
“ 
No. 0,  per  gross..............................................  23
................................................  28
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
................................................  38
No.3, 
................................................  75
Mammoth, per doz.........................................   75
STONEW ARE— AK RO N .
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................   06
“ 
*4 gal. per doz.... .................  60
Jugs, *4 gal., per doz...................................   70
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal................................   07
Milk Pans, *4 gal., per doz..........................  60
“ 
.........................  72
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal..........................  07
Milk Pans, *4 gal..........................................  65
........................................   78

1  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.

LAM P W ICK S.

1  “ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

« 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

" 

“ 

2 
8 

2 
3 

40
40

80
80

18
COMINO  DOWN  TO  SOLID  GROUND.
The  curtailment  of  credits  goes  on 
with unabated severity,  and the number 
of debtors forced by  it  into  liquidation 
has  considerably  increased  during  the 
week.  The most  conspicuous  instances 
have  been  those  of  unsound  Western 
banks,  the failures of private mercantile 
firms having been  as  yet  comparatively 
few,  though,  as omens of more possibly 
to come,  they add largely to the  general 
disquietude. 
It is  now  plain  that  the 
process of sifting and  weeding out must 
continue until every weak  spot has been 
exposed  and  business  is  re-established 
upon solid  ground.  Fortunately,  noth­
ing like an unreasoning  panic  prevails. 
Creditors and money lenders are,  indeed, 
more than  usually cautious and exacting, 
but, thus far,  no  debtor  who  could  de­
monstrate  his  substantial  solvency  to 
the satisfaction of his  creditors has been 
obliged  to  suspend  payment  Those to 
whom an  extension  of  credit  has  been 
refused  have,  in  most  cases,  proved to 
have been undeserving,  for  a long time, 
of any  credit  at  all,  and  the  present 
stringency has merely precipitated catas­
trophes that were in the nature of  things 
inevitable.  The  longer  they  were  de­
layed  the  more 
complete  would  the 
wrecks have become, and little as will be 
saved from them,  it is  more  than would 
have been saved by and by.

In the face  of these  demonstrations of 
the  real  origin  of the trouble,  it speaks 
badly for the intelligence  of  our people 
that so many of them  are deluded by the 
false explanations  of  ill-informed  theo­
rists.  In  the  Eastern  section  of  the 
country the Sherman  act has been set up 
for  a  scapegoat,  and  its  repeal  is  de­
manded as a sacrifice which  will at once 
restore  confidence  and  prevent  further 
bankruptcies.  To the act are attributed 
the  exports  of  gold  which  have  so 
alarmed our banks, and from its repeal is 
expected a return flow of the metal, which 
will at once tranquilize  the public  mind 
and enable  every  debtor  to  borrow  all 
the money needed to  carry  him along in 
his business. 
It is  not  considered  that 
the act has added to the  stock  of money 
in the country an  amount  of paper equal 
to the  gold  which  has  been  exported 
since it took effect,  and  that,  although it 
is still in full operation,  the  exports  of 
gold have stopped,  and  small  quantities 
of it are even  coming  this  way  again. 
Certainly nobody  will  pretend  that  the 
numerous defalcations  and losses by bad 
speculations  which  the  present  strin­
gency is bringing  to  light  were  caused 
by the act,  nor that it  is  responsible for 
the  unwise  management  of  the  banks 
which have failed through having locked 
up their funds in loans upon land, in  ad­
railroad  and 
vances  to  unsuccessful 
manufacturing 
in 
other illegitimate  ways  which  made  it 
Impossible for them to pay  their deposit­
ors.  Unless  the  repeal  of  the act can 
undo  all 
this  kind 
which has been done,  it  will  help  very 
little to mend matters.

the  mischief  of 

corporations, 

and 

At  the  West  and  the  Southwest  the 
Sherman  act is viewed as  extremely ben­
eficial so far as it  goes,  but as  not going 
far  enough.  There the  country  is said 
to be suffering,  not from exports of gold, 
but from a  curtailment  of the supply of 
the same  silver,  which  at  the East is re­
garded  as the chief menace to our  finan­
cial safety,  while the maintenance of the 
gold  standard  for  which  the  East  has 
praised President  Cleveland so highly  Is

there charged with being the cause of the 
financial stringency.  Curiously enough, 
this doctrine is espoused  by a number of 
British  politicians,  particularly  those 
who are  land owners,  and  who,  like our 
own agriculturists,  are losers  by the low 
prices  of  the  products  of  the  soil. 
It 
looks, indeed,  very much as if the Tories, 
in their  eagerness  to  defeat  Mr.  Glad­
stone,  who has committed himself to gold 
monometallism, might  take  up with  bi­
metallism as a  good cry  against him,  es­
pecially  as  the  Roman  Catholic  Arch­
bishop of  Ireland  has  declared  against 
the gold  standard as  oppressive to Irish 
tenants.

Besides  these  two  opposing  theories 
another has  been put  forth by the ultra 
Republican  protectionists,  who,  al­
though the McKinley tariff is still in full 
force, ascribe  to its  prospective  repeal, 
which  is supposed to  have been assured 
at  the  last  Presidential  election,  the 
present  collapse  of  mercantile  credit. 
It  is true  that  coming events  cast their 
shadows before,  but  business men do not 
usually change  their  methods until they 
have good reasons for doing  it.  Nobody 
is going to  import goods  from  Europe a 
year in advance of a possible demand for 
them,  nor to  cease  manufacturing them 
in this country because a  year from now 
imported  articles  may  undersell 
the 
home product.  Besides, it is quite uncer­
tain  whether a  tariff  for  revenue only, 
which the Democratic platform demands, 
will  ever  be  passed  by Congress,  much 
more one  framed on  absolute  free trade 
lines.

It is,  indeed,  true  that  the  Sherman 
act,  by the volume of paper money which 
it has been  pouring and  which it  is still 
pouring into our  circulation,  has greatly 
facilitated  gold  exports,  but  its  effect 
would have  been  small  in  this  respect 
but for the unexpected  and  unusual de­
mand for the  metal by  Austria-Hungary 
for the  purpose of  establishing her cur­
rency upon  a gold  basis.  Nearly every 
dollar  of  the  gold  shipped  from  this 
country  during the  past  twelve  months 
has found its way directly and indirectly 
to  Vienna  and  Buda-Pesth,  and  more 
will have to go  to those  cities before tbe 
drain upon  our stock  ceases. 
It  is also 
true that  during  the  past  few  years, 
under the reign of the gold standard,  the 
prices  of  agricultural  products  have 
fallen,  but  this  has  been  accompanied 
by an  increase,  in this  country at  least, 
of  the  quantity produced,  and  by a rise 
in wages which  makes  the  low  price of 
food and  clothing a  benefit  to  working­
It  is,  further,  possible  that some 
men. 
branches  of  manufacturing 
industry 
have  been  unfavorably  affected  by 
the  uncertainty 
country’s 
future  tariff  policy,  but 
this  cannot 
seriously  be set  up  as  causing  all over 
the  country  such  an 
extraordinary 
demand  for  currency  and  the  failure 
of so many banks and of railroad corpor­
ations.  All  these  three  agencies  com 
bined  are inadequate  to  account  for the 
phenomenon we  are  witnessing,  and we 
must  therefore  conclude  that  it  results 
from  something else.

the 

of 

Since  the beginning of our history the 
dominant financial heresy of this country 
has  been  the  belief 
in  the  efficacy of 
an abundant  currency  to create  wealth 
and business prosperity.  Observing that 
rich countries have more  circulating me 
dium than  poor  ones,  it  was lllogically 
inferred  that  all  that  was  needed  to 
make a country rich was to give it plenty

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

MICHIGAN BABK  AND  LUMBER  CO.

18  and  19
Widdicomb  Building.

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

m fify

Correspondence 
Solicited.

S  JUSTICE 

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

Actuated  by  the  feeling,  we 
1 1
m m   take our pen in  hand to tell you 
how  justly deserving  of  all  the 
praise  bestowed  upon  them  are 
the

JEWETT  WATER  COOLERS.

t  >

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.

OSTER&EVENS

( t f O N R o ^  

S  T.

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of money,  no matter of  what kind.  This 
was like  inferring that because the  mer­
cury In  the  thermometer  rises in  warm 
weather,  a  rise  in  the  mercury  pro­
duced by warming it over a fire will raise 
the  general  temperature.  Before  the 
Revolution the thirteen original colonies 
went through various  phases of this  de­
lusion  and  emitted  such  quantities  of 
paper  money  that  the  shilling  sterling 
at the close of the war had fallen to one- 
sixth of a dollar.  As for the money of the 
Confederation  it ended  by going  out of 
sight  altogether.  Since  then  the coun­
try has  had to  endure  numerous  finan­
cial collapses,  all  preceded  by an exces­
sive  use  of  paper  currency.  Coupled 
with this  delusion has  been a mania for 
borrowing money  and doing  business on 
credit,  which,  while it  has undoubtedly 
facilitated 
the  efforts  of  enterprising 
poor  men  to  develop  our  natural  re­
sources,  has also  afforded an equal facil­
ity for reckless  speculations, to the fail­
ure  of  which,  more  than  to any  other 
cause,  the  revulsions which we have ex­
perienced before,  and  that which  we are 
experiencing now, are to be attributed.

000,  have only  about  $135,000,000 

At  present the  currency of  the coun­
try,  which  is declared  by so many  to be 
insufficient for our wants  and as needing 
a further  increase,  comprises  $346,000,- 
000 in  legal tenders,  $135,000,000 Treas­
ury  notes,  $175,000,000  National  bank 
notes,  and about  $400,000,000  of  silver 
certificates  and  dollars,  which, 
like 
paper dollars,  are  kept at  par with gold 
only  because they  are  practically inter­
convertible  with gold.  This  makes $1,-
056.000.  000 of credit money for 60,000,000 
people,  and  all the gold available for its 
redemption,  when  redemption  is called 
for,  is  the  $93,000,000  in  the  Treasury 
and the  $175,000,000,  or  thereabouts,  in 
the  National  banks,  making  altogether 
$268,000,000.  Contrast with this England 
and Wales,  which,  with a  population of
29.000. 
of paper money in circulation, nearly the 
whole of  which is issued by the Bank of 
England,  and  is secured  by $135,000,000 
of gold; France,  which with a population 
of 38,000,000,  has  $700,000,000 of  paper 
money secured  by $340,000,000 gold,  and 
Germany,  with  a  population  of  50,000,- 
000,  having  $235,000,000  paper  secured 
by  $220,000,000 in  coin  and  bullion, of 
which  a  small  portion  only  is  silver. 
talk  about 
In  view  of 
currency 
the 
for  the  wants  of  business  is 
justi­
fied  only by a condition like  the present 
one,  when  general  distrust  of  the sol­
vency of debtors is creating a demand for 
the payment of  their  obligations  in the 
obligations of  the  Nation. 
In  ordinary 
times its volume is not only ample for all 
needful  purposes,  but  its  abundance, 
like  the easy  giving of  credit  to specu­
lators, has a pernicious effect.

these  figures 
insufficiency  of  our 

The crisis through which we  are pass­
ing,  much  as it is to be  deplored for the 
suffering it  inflicts on a  few individuals, 
is  a  legitimate  result  of  the  abuse  of 
credit,  and,  as I began by saying, is  a se­
vere but wholesome  process of  re-estab­
lishing a healthy  state of affairs. 
If,  in 
the  course  of  it,  inflated  values  are re­
duced, 
if  chimerical  enterprises  have 
to be  abandoned,  if  firms  whose liabili­
ties exceed  their assets  and whose  part­
ners have been for  years living upon the 
property of their creditors are compelled 
to acknowledge  themselves insolvent,  if 
so-called banks,  which have proved to be 
mere devices  for  locking up  the money

of their depositors in  unavailable assets, 
are forced out of  business,  and if  gigan­
tic  corporations,  the  resources of  which 
have been used by unprincipled schemers 
for  their  own benefit,  are  brought back 
to  their  legitimate  fields  of  operation, 
surely the  public at large has  no reason 
for lamentation.  A good  work has been 
begun and must be completed,  no matter 
what  efforts  may  be  made  to  stay  its 
course. 

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

The  Locom otive  Fireman.

the 

It is doubtful if there is  a  man on the 
railroad  train  who  is  less  appreciated 
than  the fireman, and this little article is 
devoted  to  showing  that  he  is  a  hard 
worked  and  unappreciated  individual. 
The public shakes  hands with  the  con­
ductor  who  has  charge  of  the  train, 
thanks  the  brakeman  for  many  little 
courtesies,  bows  to  the  baggage master 
who looks after  its  baggage  in  transit, 
trusts  its  valuables  with  the  express 
messenger,  and  talks  long  and  loud of 
the “brave engineer.”  But  the  fireman 
—he who  bends  to  his work  and  feeds 
the fire that  makes  the  steam—is never 
mentioned.  Sometimes a purse  is  made 
up for the engineer.  No one  ever heard 
of a fireman getting a purse,  but the rec­
ords  show  that  he  has  performed  as 
many  deeds  of  valor  as  the  engineer. 
Again,  if  the  train  leaves  the  track or 
goes into another  train,  the  fireman has 
fewer chances  to  escape  than  any man 
on  the  train,  except  perhaps  the  mail 
clerk, shut up like a rat in a cage.  When 
the fireman is at work,  and that is nearly 
all  the time when the wheels are turning, 
he stands, stooped over,  shoveling in the 
fuel, or raking the  coals  in  the firebox; 
his view ahead is obstructed, and he can­
not see the danger  that  may be  dashing 
upon him.  *The  rattle  and  roar  of  the 
machinery  may  drown  the  engineer’s 
warning  call—a  crash—the  tender pins 
him to  the boiler-head  and  he  is  dead. 
Standing in  the  narrow gangway,  peer­
ing  ahead,  a  sudden  lurch  around  a 
Instances 
curve  may  throw  him  off. 
have  been 
the  coup­
known  when 
ling  between 
the 
tank  parted,  and  the  fireman  dropped 
between 
to 
pieces.  The  records  show  that  more 
fireman than engineres are  killed in rail­
road wrecks.  About  the  only  time the 
fireman has a little  leisure  is  when  the 
train is running down grade.  Then  “she 
is shut off,”  steam  is  saved,  and  the 
knight of the shovel climbs up to a cush­
ioned seat and  takes  a  breathing  spell. 
Even then one eye is  ahead,  his hand on 
the bell  cord,  and the other eye fastened 
on the steam  gauge,  whose  little  black 
hands,  fluctuating back and forth,  gauge 
his labor as well  as  the  steam.  There 
is a science in  “feeding”  an engine that 
is not understood by  one not in the bus­
iness.  There is a way  to  throw  in  the 
coal,  and  to  empty the shovel and close 
the furnace door,  at the same time it  re­
quires  nice  calculation  that  tells  how 
many  “scoop-loads”  are  needed  to send 
the hands  on  the  gauge  to  the  proper 
figure,  deft  handling  to  keep  the deck 
of the cabin clean, and  a  hundred other 
little things that go  to  make  a  skillful 
fireman—one  that  saves  money for the 
company  by  husbanding  the  coal. 
In 
the old days the fireman  on  the  "wood- 
burners” had a hard time  of it,  and  cer­
tainly earned  the  small  money  he  re­
ceived for his services;  but he had a sin­
ecure compared  with  the  man 
in  blue 
overalls  and  jumper  who  “stokes  up” 
one of the huge  “moguls” of the present 
day.  These  epgines  haul  freight  and 
eat up coal as if it  were  greased  paper. 
The  fireman  is  at  work  continuously, 
and about the  only time  he  has  to  rest 
is when his  train  “ takes  a  siding” 
to 
let a  more  aristocratic  passenger  train 
pass.

engine  and 
ground 

to  be 

them 

The Law  a s to Cancelled Orders.
So much has been  written and said on 
the concellation of orders and the return 
of goods  once purchased that  the rights 
of  both seller and  buyer  are  becoming 
more clearly defined under the law.  Both 
parties have certain rights,  and the suits 
that are  occasionally growing out of  the 
infringement of these rights are having a

good  effect,  at  least in the way of  defin­
ing  precisely what one can or  cannot do 
under the law.
Many  retail  merchants  have  an  idea 
that  they can refuse  to accept  goods  at 
any time after ordered.  Such would not 
seem to be the case under the decision of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Georgia,  in  the 
case  of  McCord vs.  Laidley,  wherein  a 
firm  bought  a  carload  of  goods  to  be 
shipped  and  paid  for on  delivery.  The 
seller  shipped  the car and  forwarded a 
draft.  The  draft  was  presented  before 
the  car  arrived,  and  payment  refused, 
and the  buying  firm  notified  the  seller 
that he had  violated the  contract by de­
manding payment  before the delivery of 
the goods,  and  that  they would  not  ac­
cept the goods when they arrived.  When 
the  car  arrived  it  was  tendered  to  the 
buyers and they  refused it. 
It was then 
sold for what  it would bring,  which was 
much  less than  the  contract price.  The 
buyers were held by thecourt to be liable 
for the deficit.
The decision is not only  good law,  but 
sound  common-sense,  and  would  un­
doubtedly be  cited as  a precedent in  all 
similar cases.

K new   W hat He  W anted.

Farmer  Oatbin  (to  shoe  clerk):  “I 
wan’t  to  look  at,  good  solid  calf  shoe 
that’ll  wear,  young man.”
Intelligent Shoe  Clerk  (up in the tech­
nical names):  “ Yes,  sir.  Do  you  want 
a veal calf?”
Farmer Oatbin  (with emphasis):  “ Wy, 
you  gosh-blamed  idiot,  you don’t s’pose 
I’d ask ye for a lamb calf  or a pig calf or 
a mutton  calf,  do  ye?  I  may be  green 
young  feller,  but  ye  can’t  fool  me  on 
calves.”
CHICAGO 

JUNE »•1883
AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’Y. 
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Lv.G’d  Rapids.  7:25am 8:50am  1:25pm  *ll:.c0pm 
Ar.Chicago  ...12:20pm 3:55pm  6:50pm  *6:30am 

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

TO  AND  FROM   M USKEGON.

Lv. Chicago... .8:25am  9:00am  5:45pm  *11:35pm 
Ar.G’d Rapids. 1  20pm 3:55pm  10:55pm  *6:10am
V IA   ST.  JO S E P H   AND  STEA M ER.
Lv. Grand  Rapids............  
...1:25pm  t6:30pm
Ar. Chicago  ............................. 8:30pm 
2:00am
Lv. Chicago 9:30am... Ar. Grand Rapids 5:25 pm 
Lv. Grand Rapids.......   8:50am  1:25pm  5:45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........10:45am  3:55pm  5:25pm
TR A V ER SE  CITY  CHARLEV O IX   AND  PETO SK EY .
Lv. G  R......5:45pm  *7:30am  1:40pm  11:15pm
Ar.Manistee.10:44pm  12:10pm  6:10pm  4:50am
Ar.Trav.C’y. 11 • 10pm *12:40pm  6:00pm............
Ar. Charlevoix.......   *3:15pm  8:20pm  7:20am
Ar.  Petoskey 
3:45pm  8:50pm.  7:50am
Ar.  Bay V iew ........  *3:55pm  8:55pm  8:0iam
Trains  stop  at  Traverse  City for dinner  and 
supper.
Arrive from Bay View, etc , 6:00 a. m„ 11:40 a. 
m., 1.05 p. m.,*10:00 p. m.
Lv. Grand Rapids...  8:50am  5:45pm 
Lv. Ottawa Beach...  7:00am  3:50pm 
leaves Ottawa Beaeh 6:30 p. m.
To Chicago, lv. G. R..  *7:25am  1:25pm *11:30pm 
To Petoskey ,lv.G. R ..  *7:30am  1:40pm  11:15pm 
To G. R..lv. Chicago.  8:25am  *5:45pm *11:35pm 
ToG. R..lv.Petoskey  6:05am *1:30pm  t8:20pm 
Free Chair Cars for Manistee 5:45 p m.
♦Every day. 
tExcept Saturday.  Other trains 
week days only.
D etroit,  grand  haven  &  Mil ­
Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Av2.

............
9:40pm
Sunday train  leaves  Grand  Rapids 9:30 a. m., 

w aukee Railway.

P A R L O R   AND  S L E E PIN G   CARS.

OTTAW A  BEA CH .

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

EA STW A RD .

itNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 ♦No. 82
6 45am
11 OOrir
7 40am
12 42  m 
8 25am 
200am 
900am
3 15am
10 50am
6 40am 
11 32am 
7 15am 
10 05am
5 40am
12 05pin
7 30am 
10 53am
5 37am 
11 50am
7 00am
W ESTW A RD .

1020am 
11 25am 
1217pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm
6 05pm 
8 00pm 
8 37pm
7 05pm
8 50pm 
8 25pm 
925pm

Trains Leave 
G’d Rapids,  Lv 
G’d Haven,  Ar 
Mllw’keeStr  “ 
Chicago Str.  “

|•No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13. tNo  15
7 00am
10 20pm 
8 25am
1120pm 
6 30am

1 00pm
2  10pm

4 45pm 
6 00pm 
6 20am 
6 00am

♦Dally.  tDaily except Sunday

Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:50 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  Parle r  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.
J ab. Campbell, City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street

THE  MTCHTCOATSr  TRADESMAN.

19

Grand  Rapids  3s Indiana.
Sohedale  In  effect June 25,1893 

TRA INS  GOING  NORTH.

£ °r M’kinaw .Trav. C ity and S a g .« ’sOa'in 
F or Trayere© C ity &  Mackinaw 
1:10 a m 
For C adillac and Saginaw 
i^ r   Petoskey &  M ackinaw..'.'.'. . ' i S p i
From K alam azoo..........................   9  10 n  m
and ¿ a la m a zo o ..  9  40 p m

A rrive from  Leave going
N o r th . 
7:20 a m 
1:20 p m 
4:15 p m 
10:30  p m

/rom  south a t  6:50 a m  and  9  10 a m 
i  
9  10 a m 
Ateo  tra in   leavin g  north  a t  7:20  a.  m  This  train 

pthei-H tram s d aily except Sunday. 
does not ran to Traverse C ity on Sundays.

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

Arrive from  Leave going

For  C in cin n ati. 
South.
For K alam azoo and  C h ica go ..' 
F or F o rt W ayne and the E a s t..  1 1 :50 a  m 
For  Cincinnati................  
For K alam azoo  & Chicago '.'.IP  io  Jo n in 
From Saginaw ................ 
11 -m  £ ™ 
From Saginaw ....... 

................. in z n S ™

Trains leavin g south a t 6:00 p m and* 11-20 n  m 

d a lly;  all  other  trains  d aily except Sunday?'

J:®*a m
I  m  
“
*  ®Jpm
m m  £ m
1 1 :20  p m

„  
north

SLEEPING  &  PARLOR  OAR  SERVICE

LW  a m  train has Parlor  C ar  to  M ackinaw
P   *3?  t r a i n   has  parlor  cam   Grand 
° r a " d
srand

Kapids to Petoskey and M acktoa“  

S O C T H - ^

1“

r ^
- ^ r c . r O r in d
ne? Pfu*inr 
? u.n8  8olid with Wag-
2<nAn  m   * 
-Gran?>  KapWs to  Chicago, 
ids to iPor?Wtiyan,en - Parl° r * "  0rand ^ P ' 
fran°d 
Sleep1“« Car
P,m  tra in .-T h ro u g h   Coach  and 
cago?*1'° leeP,n* Car Grand  Kapids to Ohi-

2:00 p m  

8:00am  
1:25 d  m 

®rand  Kapids 

T  c  pjteaero via G. R.  & I.  r .  r .
II  go Dm
A rr Chicago 
i  
p m
lor C!ar.m traI“  rUDS  8oUd with  «»rough Wagner®Par-
SlelpmgCa1™1“  dallr'  throngh  Coach  ttnJ  Wagner
A rr Grand Rapids 
o  l o S S   A n * P “
through  W agner  PaxlorcSr  «2» ? ™ 
train  daily, through Coach  and W agner  Sleeping Car.

4:15  p  m 

F”  ? “5|kaei 0n_LeaTe' 

GrHnd Raplda *  Indiana.

From Muskegon—Arrive

S u n d a y  t r a i n   le a v e s   f o r   M u s k e g o n   a t   7:45 a   m   a v - 
u o n ’. t V 's n i , 1L a   »“ -,  R e tu r n in g ,  t r a i n   le a v e s   Mu’sk e - 
g o n  a t   4.30 p  m , a r r i v i n g  a t  G r a n d   R a p id s  a t   5:50 d  m
T,oHnh°u“ rr ^^ets and full  information  can  be" 
had by calling upon A. Almqulst, ticket agent at 
M?chn  StaUOn’  TelePhone  <>06,  Grand  Rapids,

0:10p m

“¿SSSP 

_ 
O. L. LOCKWOOD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

Michigan C entral

“ The Niagara Fails Route."  ~
(Taking effect Sunday, May 28, 1893.) 

»Daily.  All others dally, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Denart
JO 30 p m..........Detroit  Express............6 55pm
10 00 a m..............Day Express  ...........   1 20 d m
f oo a m ......»Atlantic and  Pacific.......10 « p m
1  00 p m ......New York Express.........  5 40 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex­
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  6:55 am :  re­
turning,  leave  Detroit  5 p m, 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. Almquist, Ticket Agent, 

_____________  Union Passenger Station.
DETROIT,

MAY 28,1893
LANSING & NORTHERN R. R.
GOING  TO  DETROIT.
Lv. Grand Rapids........  7:10am *1:45pm  5:40pm
Ar. Detroit 
..............11:35am *5:50pm  10:25pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv.  Detroit..................   7:45am  *1:45pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids....... 12:55pm *5:40pm 10:30pm

TO  AND  FROM   SAGINAW ,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LO U IS.

Lv. G R 7:20am 4:15pm  Ar. G R.ll:50am 10:40pm

TO  LOW ELL  VIA   LO W ELL  A  H A STINGS  B .  K.

Lv. Grand Rapids..........  7:10am  1:45pm  5:40pm
Ar. from Lowell............. 12:55pm  5:40pm   
...

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

•Every day.  Other trains  week days only

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

T O L E D O

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.
VIA  D., L.  *   N.  R’Y.

Time Table in effect May 14,1893.

Lv. Grand Rapids a t..... 7:10 a. m. and 1:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo at ’. ...........  1:15 p.m. and 10:45 p. m.
Lv. Grand Rapids at......6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t..............  1:15 p.m. and 10:45 p. m.

VIA D ., G.  H.  a   m .  r ’y .

Return connections equally as good.

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

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WEIGHTS  AND  MEASURES.

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

found 

Some Peculiarities of the  City  Sealer.
Enquiry  among city  grocers  concern­
ing the manner in  which the  inspection 
of weights  and measures  is done  by the 
officer  appointed by  the  city to  do  the 
work develops an  astonishing  condition 
of  things.  Scales  were 
“ap­
proved”  which  would  not  balance  the 
day  after  they  were  inspected;  others 
balanced,  but the weights  were light; in 
other cases both scales and weights were 
wrong. 
In one  instance  the sealer “ap­
proved”  a Howe platform counter scales, 
notwithstanding  he was told  by the pro­
prietor of  the store  that they were unfit 
for  use.  Not  a  store  was  visited  in 
which  “dry” measure was used  for  any­
thing  under  half  a  peck,  the  “wine” 
measure being used for pints, quarts and 
and half  gallons.  With  the  single  ex­
ception of Gaskell & Goss,  however,  who 
appear to have fallen under the displeas­
ure of the official sealer, no one has been 
complained  of. 
Is  it possible that these 
short measures escaped  the vigilance  (?) 
of the  sealer?  Does he  not know  (what 
he should  have  known  long  ago,  if  he 
does not)  that not  one grocer in  fifty in 
the city knows that  wine  measure is not 
to be used except  for measuring liquids? 
There  is nothing  in  the  city ordinance 
about it,  and one  must look  in the State 
statutes  to  find  it.  The  sealer appears 
to  know  which  measure  should  be 
used  for  “dry”  and  which  for  “wet* 
goods, but it seems  not to have  occurred 
to him to  mention It.  Perhaps  the mul 
tiplicity of his duties  may have been the 
cause of his not saying anything about it 
or, perhaps, it is not his duty to give  in 
formation  on  this  or  any  other  matter 
connected  with 
that  the 
would  seem  to  be  necessary 
grocers  should  know  what  is  the legal 
measure,  if  they  are to  conform  to the 
law,  and some  people will be inclined to 
imagine that the sealer is the one to give 
them the information.  Some have  been 
mean enough to  insinuate that he has no 
information  to give,  and  others even go 
so far as to say that he knows very little, 
if anything, about the duties of his office 
T h e  T radesm an is  not  prepared to dis 
pnte this, but if the sealing of scales and 
measures be  a part of  the  sealer’s duty 
then  it unhesitatingly  asserts  that, as 
sealer,  he  is a conspicuous  success.  He 
may not  know  how to  properly inspect 
or  be  able  to  say  when  the  scales  are 
what  the  Scriptures  say  they  ought  to 
be; but, when it  comes to sealing, no one 
will be so mendacious  as to  say that the 
sealer neglects this function of his office, 
Everything  is  sealed  that  bears 
the 
slightest  resemblance  to  a  scales 
measure,  and  always  with  the  “ap 
proved”  slip,  too,  until  one  wonders 
there are such  things  as incorrect scales 
or measures.  The  dealers who are find 
ing  fault with the  sealer of weights and 
measures, and  charging him  with ineffi 
ciency,  appear to  have  forgotten,  what 
everybody ought  to know,  that  a public 
officer is never  expected  to  perform  the 
duties of  his office with the same assidu 
ity and efficiency, or  to use the  same de­
gree of  intelligence, as  he  would if  the 
office  were  a  private  one. 
borne  in  mind,  it  may,  perhaps,  suffi 
ciently account for the manner in which 
it  is  alleged,  the  sealer of  weights  and
measures in this city performs his duties 

his  office;  but 

If  this 

*  *  *

T h e  T radesm an  has  no  desire 

criticise  harshly  or  nnjnstly 

the

If 

work  being  done  by  the  city  sealer 
so 
of  weights  and  measures, 
but 
many  complaints  have  reached 
this 
office  about  the  manner  in  which  the 
work was  being done  that to investigate 
the  matter  seemed  the  only  course  to 
pursue.  The  results  of  the  investiga­
tion,  so  far  as  it  has  gone,  are  given 
above. 
the  facts  so  gathered  be 
deemed a criticism of  the  sealer’s work, 
certainly this journal is not to be blamed, 
and  if  it  is claimed that  they  are  one­
sided,  then Mr. Bush is himself to blame, 
for a representative of  T h e  T radesm an 
offered to  accompany  him  for  the  pur­
pose  of  seeing  how  he  performed  his 
work, note the results and  the reception 
accorded him  by the dealers.  This offer 
refused, 
was  most  emphatically 
the 
officer  asserting  that  all 
the  journal 
wanted was to find evidence against him. 
The  real purpose was to get at the  exact 
facts of the case and publish them, with­
out any concern as  to who  might  be in­
jured  or  benefited  by  the  publication. 
If  the  desire was  merely to  secure evi­
dence  against  the  sealer,  then  he  has 
himself furnished the most damaging,  as 
his  refusal  of  T h e  T radesm an’s  very 
natural  and  proper  request  may  easily 
be  construed  into  fear  of  the  conse­
quences.  His refusal has not put an end 
to the investigation; he  has only made it 
little  harder to  attain  the  end sought, 
which  will  be  attained,  no  matter  at 
what cost of time and  labor.  The sealer 
seems  to have  the idea  that the  “fight” 
is against him, personally—and it will be 
if it is found that he is not doing his work 
as it ought to be done.  At present, how­
ever, it is simply an investigation to find 
out  whether  it  is  “inspection  that  in­
spects,” or not.
To  Compel the Consumption o f Cheese.
One of  the most  foolish and  clannish 
enactments ever  effected  in this country 
was a bill  which was passed  by the last 
New  York  Legislature,  prescribing  for 
the  forced  consumption  of  cheese,  as 
follows:
The people of the State of  New York, 
represented in  Senate and  Assembly,  do 
enact as follows:
Section 1.  The  agents and  wardens of 
the  various  State  prisons  within  this 
State  and  the  officers  in  charge  of  all 
other  penal  institutions  therein,  shall 
cause to  be  furnished  to each  inmate of 
said  institutions daily,  American cheese 
as a part of their food rations.
Sec. 2.  The  Adjutant-General  of  this 
State shall cause to be furnished daily to 
each  member  of  the  National  Guard, 
while on duty at the State camp at Peeks- 
kill,  American  cheese  as a  part  of  the 
rations furnished by the State.
Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect imme­
diately.
Governor Flower very promptly vetoed 
the bill, accompanying  the veto with the 
following  pertinent  reasons  for such ac 
tion:
□ This is an act to promote the consump­
tion  of  cheese. 
It  compels  the  agents 
and wardens of the various State prisons 
and  the  officers  in  charge  of  all  other 
penal  institutions to  furnish  to each in 
mate of  these institutions  dally  rations 
of American cheese. 
It also compels the 
Adjutant-General of  the State to furnish 
daily  to  each  member  of  the  National 
Guard,  while on  duty at the  State camp 
at  Peekskill,  American  cheese  as  part 
of the rations supplied by the State.  No 
other reason  has  been advanced  for  my 
approval  of  the  bill than  that  it wonld 
increase the market for American cheese. 
If  I should give it  my approval, I could 
not  well  refuse  to  sign  a  similar  bill 
next year for the  producers of honey,  or 
another for the benefit of  potato  raisers, 
or  another  for  the  advantage  of  bean 
growers,  and  so  on.  Such  legislation,

enacted in the interest  of  any particular 
class of workers and to  increase the con­
sumption of  any State product  by artifi­
cial  means,  is a  gross  reflection  on the 
manliness of  the workers in  that indus­
try.  Our natural  resources  and  the in­
telligence of our farmers have placed the 
Empire  State  in  the  lead  of  all other 
States  in  the  production  of  butter  and 
cheese,  and  I have  too  much respect for 
our  dairy  farmers  to  think  that  they 
would  approve  of  any  such  ridiculous 
measure as this, which, if enacted,  would 
justify almost  any kind of  similar legis­
lation in the Interest of particular indus­
tries or occupations.

W om an  and  Business.

the 

That business is the part of  life  work 
man  should  perform  is  generally  con­
ceded,  but  that  woman  should  be  dis­
couraged  from  attempting  to  take part 
in,  from  lack of  capacity, is  an ancient 
notion unworthy of any but such  men as 
would suffer  from a  comparison of their 
efforts. 
Interesting to our readers is the 
influence which brought  success of some 
women in business in lines in which they 
are interested.  The husband was a hard 
worker, and yet when the daughter grew 
up it was  necessary that she should sup 
port  herself.  The mother  being  an in­
telligent  woman, had  taught  her  thrift 
as  well  as to  be  gentle  and  womanly 
Employment  was  secured  in a  large es 
tablishment manufacturing “rag wheels” 
for  polishing  purposes.  She  learned 
about  all  parts  of  the  manufacturing 
cost of  materials, the  amount  of  labor 
and the selling price. 
In talks  with her 
mother, she  convinced  her’ that she and 
her father,  with  her  brothers  conld do 
the work,  with  some  machinery.  With 
the aid of a friend, who was a machinist 
improved  machine  was  originated 
and by hard saving, money was  accumu 
lated to secure the  machines.  After the 
machines  were  ready,  the  mother  ap 
plied to a large  dry goods  house for the 
material,  and on  her  statement  the nec­
essaries  were  secured  and 
first 
wheels made.  These  wheels sold by the 
mother  taking them  with  her  to places 
where such goods were  used.  She stood 
by the quality,  and  held out for price in 
a  true,  business  manner, so  that to-day 
the  little  establishment  is  fixed  and 
growing.  The 
the 
mother with  the dry  goods merchant led 
her to ask  for a line of  credit on a stock 
of  haberdashery,  as  the other materials 
were purchased  for cash.  That she was 
successful in her request is foreseen,  and 
to-day she has as  well equipped a notion 
store,  in  the  cheaper  and  more  useful 
line  of  goods, as can  be  found,  and the 
outstanding bills against it are small and 
could  be  paid if  necessary  by cramping 
for a time.  Here  are  two separate busi 
ness enterprises  whose starting and suc­
cess are  entirely due  to  women,  though 
men do  a large part  of  the work to-day 
The number of women who have taken 
a hand  in the  matters of  business  that 
barely  make ends  meet  is better known 
to traveling  salesmen than  to any other 
class of  business  men.  That  mechanic 
who was always  behind in his promises 
his  work  and  his  bills,  who  is  to-day 
abreast  of  the  world  and  progressive 
owes a balance that would swamp him 
a mother,  wife or  sister.  Sweeter, more 
womanly  women  you  will  never  meet 
than  these  same  business  helpers,  and 
they possess  all  the  winning  airs  and 
graces  of  their  sisters  who  never  had 
business  experience.  Give  woman  the 
credit  due  her  and  don’t  magnify  her 
peculiarities.  You  will find after an in

acquaintance  of 

ventory and trial  balance comparison of 
hers”  and  “hims,” 
the  value 
that 
placed on woman is too low.

A few  words  to  young  men might be 
said here with propriety.  When you come 
contact  with  young  women  in  busi­
ness, be very careful to be manly.  Don’t 
belittle yourself by attempting to patron­
ize, or exact  more  than  is  fair, or  take 
advantage  by  technical  talk,  and  still 
worse,  attract  attention  by a  gallantry 
which is  at  once  an  insult.  They  are 
entitled to the same  honest,  businesslike 
consideration  and  treatment  as  men, 
aside from  what might  be  suggested by 
good breeding.  Any act that is distaste­
ful to them, or  brings them  into unnec­
essary  prominence,  is  discreditable  to 
you,  and  you  can’t  afford  it.  Women 
have benefited business, though as a rule 
its details are not pleasing to their tastes 
and nature,  consequently their sacrifices 
and  worth  should  secure  them  respect 
and honor. 

W. A n d erso n.

W ork  a  Horse  W ill  Do.

A horse will travel 400  yards  in  four 
and  one-half  minutes  at  a  walk;  400 
„ ards in two minutes at a trot;  400 yards 
in one minute  at  a  gallop.  The  usual 
work of a horse is taken at 22,500 pounds 
raised  one  foot  per  minute  for  eight 
hours per day.  A  horse will  carry  250 
pounds  twenty-five  miles  per  day  of 
eight hours.  An average  draught horse 
will  draw  1,600  pounds 
twenty-three 
miles per day on a  level road,  weight  of 
wagon included.  The average weight of 
a horse is 1,000 pounds,  and  his strength 
is equivalent to that  of  five  men.  The 
greatest  amount  a  horse  can  pull  in  a 
horizontal line is 900  pounds, but he can 
only do this  momentarily;  in  continued 
exertion  probably  half  of  this  is  the 
limit.  He  attains  his  growth  in  five 
years,  will 
twenty-five,  average 
sixteen years.  A horse will live twenty- 
five days on  water  without  food,  seven­
teen  days  without  eating  or  drinking; 
but only five days on  solid  food without 
drinking.

live 

The object of education is not external 
show and  splendor,  but inward  develop­
ment.

A man’s accusations of himself are  al­

ways believed,  his praises never.

JA V A

RAW  AND  BOILED.

A  substitute  for  linseed,  and  sold  for 
much less money.

Pilrely  Vegetable,
Free  From Sediment,

adapted to all work  where  a  more  eco­
nomical oil than Linseed is desired.

has better  body,  dries  nearly  as  quick 
and with better gloss  than  Linseed  Oil. 
Especially  adapted to  priming and min­
eral painting.

This  Oil  is  a  Winner!

Try a sample can of  five  or  ten gallons. 
Write for prices.

H.M. REYNOLDS & SON

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,

Cracker  Chests. 

Glass  Covers  for  Biscuits.

'.SEE  QUOTATIONS.

M u s k e g o n   B r a n c h

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

M u s k e g o n ,   M ich .

'T ’HESE  chests  will 

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

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 aDd be  convinced.  Price, 50 cents each.

B UR new glass covers  are by far the 

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. 

ORANGE  BAR.

CREAM  CRISP. 

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

the best selling cakes we ever made.

THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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

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.

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

Mail orders a specialty. 

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

W e 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   Fruit.

P u t n a m   C a n d y   C o .
P E R K I N S   &   H E S S
H i d e s ,  F u r s ,  W o o l   &   T a l l o w ,

D E A L E R S  IN

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

WE CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE TA LLOW  FOR MILL  USE.

VOIGT, HEBFQLSHGIMER & CO.,
Dry  Goods, Garpets and Gloaks

W H O L E S A L E

We  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUR  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Tiilt, o in ittiir t  C i, * 8 ’ S . H   S S S K “

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F.  J.  D B TTB N TH A .LF H ,

WHOLESALE  OYSTERS.  FISH  and  SAME.

LIVE  AND  DRESSED  POULTRY.

Consignments solicited.  Chicago and Detroit market prices guaranteed.

117  Monroe  St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Have  had  such  flattering  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.

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PI RE  a  few  weeks  ago  destroyed  the 

factory  of  the  Lightning  Freezer 
Company, so we  art  unable  to  get  any 
more of their make this  season.  But  we 
have already secured  the  sale  and have 
in stock  now THE FAMOUS PEERLESS 
FREEZER  on  which  we  will  be  pleased 
to quote you  prices.

Sizes we will have in stock  for the bal­

ance of this season:
3 Quart Peerless.............................  84  50
4 Quart Peerless...........................,  5  50
6 Quart Peerless.............................  7  00
8 Quart Peerless.............................  9  00

Write  for  Discount.

Glass  Lemon  Reamer  or  Snneezer.

The best article ever offered to extract juice from a lemon. 
It fits over a glass as shown,  and  the lemon is placed on the 
top and turned back and  forth,  thus extracting all  the juice 
and pulp  which runs through  the  openings  made  for  that 
purpose into the glass below.
Packed,  X  doz.  in neat cardboard box,  per doz......... 81  50

CLASS  B  SUBJECT  TO  A  DISCOUNT.

FLORAL  OR  GARDEN  TOOLS.

No. 55 is a wrought steel set, new this season,  and  the best one  ever  offered
to make a run on  for 25c.  List per d<>z.................................................$4  00
No. 60 is made of wrought steel  with  polished  blades  and  varnished  handles.
A nice set for children  or for ladies to use around dower beds.  List
per d o z........................................................................................ .............. 
No.  70 is made of wrought steel and is intended  for ladies to use.  The blades 
are polished and the handles are extra long and varnished.  List per 
_______doz.............................................................................................................   17  00

HOW  IS TODS  STOGI  OF  lEIKM   M M E S ?

s  00

Lowest prices for same quality ever offered*.

Length  of  body.  Length  over all.

Kind. 

No. 
1250----Gray  Hemp..............6  ft....................13 ft.
255----White Sisal..............6  ft....................12 ft.  6 in.
250— .Colored  Hemp........6 ft. 
........... 13 ft.
1255... .Colored  Sisal..........6 ft. 
........... 12  ft. 6 in.
88----Colored  Hemp.........7 ft. 
........... 14  ft.
260... .White Sisal.............6  ft. 6 in ......... 14  ft.
260----Colored  Sisal..........6  ft. 6 in............14 ft.
265----Colored  Sisal...........7  ft....................14 ft.
270----Colored  Sisal...........6  ft. 6 in..........14  ft.

CLASS  B  SUBJECT  TO  A  DISCOUNT.

Price per Doz. 
812  00 
13  00
13  50
14  50
17  00
18  50
19  00 
23  00 
29  50

CLASS  B  DEALERS  DISCOUNT.

Note  the  Change  In  Price  from  Last  Year.

No. 
No.  10. Six 
“ 
“ 
No.  x5. Four 
No.  A. Eight  “ 
No. xA.  Eight  “ 
6. Four 
No. 
“ 
1. Eight  “ 
No. 
No. 
3. Eight  “ 
No. 
8. Four 
“ 

Per Set
5. Four B alls...................................................................................................81 12
......................................................................................  1  40
1  60
....................... 
......................................................................................  1  60
......................................................................................   2  20
(professional  set)......................................................................2 40
... 
2  50
.....................................................................................    4  00
(professional set)  ...  ...............................................................4  50

 

 

Patent  Ice  Cream  Disher.

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Don’t fail to  sell  an  ICE  CREAM 
DISHER with  every freezer. 
If  you 
haven’t them in  stock,  and sell  freez­
ers,  be sure and  have  a  sample line, 
if  no  more,  shipped  with  your  next 
order.

To make 10 dishes  to the quart,  list per doz................................... 
To make 
To make 
To make 

$7  75
8 dishes to the quart,  list per doz........................................................  9  25
5 dishes to the quart,  list per doz........................................................  11  25
4 dishes to the quart,  list per doz........................................................ 12  00

CLASS  B  SUBJECT  TO  A  DISCOUNT.

STONE’S  PATENT  PAPER  JÜLIP  STRAWS.

These  straws  are  made  of 
paraffiue  wax  of  1400  M.  P. 
taste or odor, and  are  not  af- 
drink.  The size  has  recently 
now much larger than  natural 
three or four straws with each 
ami the drink can  be imbibed with as 
Paper straws are never “musty,” and 
makes a saving of over half.
500 in Package

Manilla paper  and  hard  white 
They  are  entirely  free  from 
fected  by anything  used  as  a 
been  increased,  and  they  are 
straws.  Instead of furnishing 
drink,  one will  always suffice, 
much ease as  if taken directly from the glass, 
every one is  sweet,  clean and perfect,  which
Per M. 
...  81  50

CLASS  B  SUBJECT  TO  DEALERS’  DISCOUNT.

LEMONADE  AND  SODA  GLASSES.

C ap acity .

.. ..1 1
.. . .11

o z .. .
oz  ..
. .12U (w . ..

No.
301 
650 
1123
300K  • •
307 
308 
960 

.. . .11
. . . 1 1
.. ..1 3

Size. 

L ist  p e r doz.
. .3J£x2  5-16x4% in ...................... ..  81  40
..2 > ix 2 x 4 %   in .,  th in   b lo w n .
1  50
1  40
. .3)^x2%  x5  i n .............................. .. 
1  40
. .3  7 -l6 x 2 !(x 4 l(  i n ....................
1  5ft
. .3J£x2x5  i n ................................. ..  1  70
. .3% x5J£x5%   i n .........................
1  50

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918 
918 
918 
918 
918 
918 

.. ..  3
. .2 % x lK x 3 J i..............................
.. ..  5
. .2 K x l% x 3 X .........................
.. ..  7
. .2 % x 2 x 3 % ....................................
.. ..  9 o z __ . .3x2% 'x 4 .......................... ...
.. ..10 o z . . .
..3 % x 2 % x 4 % ...............................
.. ..1 3
o z ...
. .3 % x 2 % x 5 .................................... . .  1  90

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80
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1  10

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CLASS  B  SUBJECT  TO  A  DISCOUNT.

M .  L E O N A R D   &  S O N S ,  G r a n d   R a p i d s ,   M ic h ig a n .

