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failed to fit a man in other lines I  have got a 36 coat of  Kolbs, for a  man who takes  a  36, and it is 
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NO .  515

POPPINGHAM’S  PERIL.

Napoleon B.  Poppingham  was  an  in­
ventor.  From  his  boyhood  the  major 
portion of his  time  had  been  spent  in 
planning and perfecting  various  contri­
vances for lightening the labors or other­
wise ameliorating  the  condition  of  his 
fellowmen.  Thus  far  his  inventions 
had not brought him the full measure  of 
fame and worldly  prosperity  which  his 
genius undoubtedly merited; but now he 
iiad hit  upon an  idea  which  could  not 
fail, not only to make  him  rich  beyond 
his wildest dreams, but to send his name 
down through the ages along with  those 
of  Gutenburg,  Stephenson,  Morse  and 
Edison.

“Yes, Maria,” he remarked to his wife 
in a high-pitched,  nasal tone,  which  be­
trayed his Yankee origin,  “I’ve struck it 
at last,  an’  it’s  very  simple  when  you 
once get the idea.  Men have been a-try 
iug all these ages to navigate the  atmos­
phere,  but they have failed because they 
either depended on a bag filled with  hot 
air or hydrogen  gas,  or  on  mechanical 
wings.  Now,  a  balloon  is  unwieldly, 
dangerous  an’  mighty  oncertain.  You 
start in a balloon to go to' Jimson’s  Cor­
ners, an’ jest as like as  not  you’ll  fetch 
up  in  Bellbuckle,  Maine,  or  Kingdom 
Come.  You can’t steer one  of  ’em  any 
more thau you can steer  a  cyclone,  and 
when you get ready to come down you’re 
jest as liable to land in the middle of  an 
alder  swamp as on  a  cushion  of  roses. 
As for  wings, there  ain’t  no  man  got 
stiength  to  work  a  pair 
that’s  big 
enough  to  raise  his  weight.  A  bird’s 
lighter’n a man in proportion to his bulk, 
an’  muscled  different.^More’n  half  a 
bird’s muscle is  in  his  breast,  an’  the 
muscles acrost a man’s chest  ain’t  only 
about one seventieth of  the  whole.  Of 
course he can’t work  wings  big  enough 
to h’ist hisself.  Now, my idea is to com­
bine  the  balloon  an’  flyin’  machine. 
Make a small balloon, say, big enough to 
raise the wings an’ one hundred and forty 
pounds  besides.  Now, ’f  the  operator 
weighs one hundred an’ forty-five pounds, 
he’s only got  to  exert  enough  force  on 
the wings to h’ist five pounds.  See?

Mrs. Poppingham saw.
After several weeks  of  arduous  labor 
the  dying  machine  was  completed. 
It 
consisted of a cigar-shaped  silk  bag  in­
flated  with  hydrogen,  beneath  which 
were a pair  of  immense  wings,  with  a 
rudder  attachment  and  an  ingeniously 
contrived  harness by  which  the  adven­
turous navigator was to be held in  place 
during his aerial  voyages.  The labor of 
constructing the machine had  been  car­
ried on in the privacy  of  Mr.  Popping- 
ham’s workshop, a large, barn-like struc­
ture in the rear of his residence, and  no 
one save his wife  had  any  hint  of  the 
mighty addition that had  been  made  to 
the world of  invention.  Mr.  Popping­
ham had guarded  his  great  secret  well 
for two reasons;  first, because he wished 
to avoid  the  ridicule  of  his  neighbors, 
whom he regarded  as  very  obtuse  and 
unappreciative people, and secondly, be­
cause he feared that someone might steal 
his idea before he got it  fully  perfected

and his caveat filed at the  Patent  Office.
But now this wonderful piece of mech­
anism was complete  in  every  part,  his 
application for a  patent  had  been  duly 
made, and he was  ready  for  his  initial 
trip.  With  beating  heart  he  com­
pleted his preparations for  his  first  ex­
cursion through the air,  while  his  wife, 
in a state of  great  excitement,  fluttered 
around the back yard from which the air 
ship was to be launched,  and offered cau­
tionary suggestions until he  was  nearly 
in a condition to fly without  the  aid  of 
wings.

“How high d’ye s’pose you’ll go, Napo­
leon?”  she asked as her  husband buck­
led the straps around him.

“I dunno—two or three mile,  mebbe,” 

he answered carelessly.

“Oh,  Napoleon,  what  if  you  should 

fall?”

“T’would jar my system a good deal, I 
cale’late,”  he  replied,  grimly,  as  he 
loosed the ropes that held down the cigar 
shaped bag.

“Oh, Napoleon!” shrieked his wife be­
tween  her  sobs,  “don’t  go so high!  If 
you love me, promise  me that you won’t 
go up more’n a mile!

The required promise was  given,  and 
a  moment  later  Napoleon  Boneparte 
Poppingham with a great  flapping  rose, 
so to speak,  upon the wings  of  his  own 
genius.  Reaching  a  height  of  six  or 
eight hundred  feet, he sailed  gracefully 
over 
turnip  patch  and  on,  on 
toward the  far off western hills.

the 

As  Napoleon  mounted  upward  and 
gazed upon the  world  beneath  him  his 
heart  swelled  with  triumph  almost  to 
bursting.  At last those who had always 
ridiculed  him  and sneered at his inven­
tions would be compelled to acknowledge 
the power and  value  of  that  wondrous 
inventive faculty with which kind nature 
had so  generously  endowed  him.  How 
easily this  marvelous  air  carriage  was 
propeiled!  A  single stroke of  the broad 
pinions  lifted  him many feet in the air, 
and then sweeping in gradual descent he 
was borne without effort  over  field  and 
forest, hill and vale.  How perfectly the 
steering apparatus seemed under control! 
A  slight  movement  of  his foot, and he 
could change his course and sail  in  ma­
jestic  circles  high  above  the  heads  of 
those poor puny human worms who were 
content to crawl upon  the surface of the 
earth.  How pure the air seemed!  Every 
inhalation  was  like  a  draught of wine. 
His blood coursed through  his  veins  as 
it had never done  before, and a strange, 
wild exhilaration thrilled  him to his fin­
ger tips. 
It seemed that he had but just 
begun to live.

The world was his!
As  he  swept  over  the  brow of a hill 
near  a  beautiful  lake  he  heard  a  loud 
noise,  and,  looking  downward,  saw  a 
venerable  colored  man  kneeling  on  a 
rude  platform  surrounded  by  hundreds 
of  dusky  faces.  He  had  come  upon  a 
negro  camp  meeting  and,  seized  with a 
sudden  fancy  to  hear  the  prayer,  he 
circled  on  noiseless  wings  above  the 
sable throng and  listened.

“Oh,  bressed  angel,  come  down!”

prayed the old man, in wavering accents. 
“Come  now!  Spread  dy  broad pinions 
an’ fly to us!  Tote  along  dy  sickle,  for 
we  am  ripened  grain,  ready for de har­
vest!”

Just then  there  was  a shriek  from  a 
colored sister as the strange object hang­
ing above their  heads  came  within  the 
range of her vision, and a moment  later, 
with discordant yells of fear and wonder, 
the congregation broke for the adjoining 
woods  and  left  the  deaf  old preacher 
with only two visible  auditors,  Mr.  Pop­
pingham and  a  crippled  darky,  whose 
crutches had  been  knocked  out  of  his 
hands  in the scramble, and who now lay 
flat on his  back,  with an  expression  of 
more  than mortal terror on his face.

“Oh,  Mars’  Angel!”  he 

shrieked, 
stretching his hands toward the supposed 
supernatural  visitor,  “don’t min’dat ol’ 
nigger!  Don’t  min’  him,  I  say?  De 
grain  ain’t  ripe.  Dat  ol’  fool  orter 
know hit’s de mos’  backward  season  in 
nigh on fohty year!”

Leaving  the  camping  ground,  Mr. 
Poppingham  skimmed  across  the  lake, 
flying  quite  near the water, and  watch­
ing  his  reflection  on  the  smooth  and 
shining surface.  Just as  he reached the 
further  shore  two  sportsmen  emerged 
from a clump of trees  not far away, and 
one of them with a  quick exclamation of 
fear  and  surprise,  raised  his  gun  and 
fired.  Napoleon  felt  a  sharp,  tingling 
sensation in one of his  legs, and at once 
began  widening  the  distance  between 
himself and the gunners.  A  few mom­
ents of rapid work and  he was well  out 
of range, congratulating himself that, al­
though  he  had  been stung by fine shot, 
the  balloon  attachment  had  not  been 
punctured.

“It’s  dangerous  flying  too  low  until 
these durn fools  with  guns  gits used  to 
seein’ men travel in  this way,” he solilo­
quized.  “I’ll keep up higher after this.”
It was well he did so, for in the course 
of  a  few hours  he  came  across several 
hunters and  nearly every  one  of  them 
shot at him once or twice  for  luck.  He 
kept  out  of  harm’s  reach, however, al­
though two  or  three  times he heard the 
swish of birdshot through the  air.

He had been  traveling for  some hours 
in  a  westerly direction,  and  did not no­
tice the storm cloud which  had gathered 
in the northeast,  until  a  sudden gust of 
wind caught  him  up  like a feather  and 
carried  him  along  at  a  greater  rate  of 
speed than he had before attained.  Some­
what  alarmed he  essayed  to turn about, 
but found  to  his  consternation  that  he 
could  make  no  headway  against  the 
wind.  A  few moments  later  the storm 
burst in all its fury.  He lost entire con­
trol  of  his  airship,  and  was  whirled 
about like a bit of thistledown and borne 
through  the  air  he  knew  not  whither. 
He had once  been  at  sea during a terri­
ble  storm,  but  that  experience,  as  he 
now remembered it,  seemed  like a mere 
bit  of  holiday  diversion  in  comparison 
with the terrors of his  present situation. 
One moment he was hurled  aloft  like  a 
splinter upon the waves of an angry sea, 
and  the  next  he  seemed  to  be  going

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down,  down,  down  into  a  fathomless 
abyss.  An indescribable feeling of  gid­
diness and nausea seized  him.  Soon the 
darkness of night was added to his other 
horrors, and still he  went on his devious 
way through the  trackless  skies,  faint, 
sick,  frozen with  fear, tossed hither and 
yon  by  the  demons  of  the  storm,  the 
shuttlecock of  the elements.  But  amid 
all the dangers and uncertainties of  that 
awful  ride  on the winds, whether borne 
above  the  clouds  or  hurled  downward 
toward his mother earth,  he carried with 
him one thing  that was  as  firm and im­
movable as  the  eternal  hills,  and  that 
was his determination  that, if kind Prov­
idence allowed  him  to  escape  from  his 
present  predicament,  he  would  never, 
never  invent  anything  again—not even 
an excuse.

By and by, during an  unusually heavy 
gust of  wind, he  suddenly  realized that 
the straps  connecting  him  with  his  air 
ship had parted, and that he was falling. 
A second later he  stopped with  a  terri­
ble  jerk,  and  soon  became  dimly con­
scious that  he  was  suspended  between 
the heavens  and  the  earth  by some ob­
ject which had  evidently caught  in  the 
back of his coat. 
lie  felt a sensation of 
thankfulness as he remembered  that the 
garment was  of  unusually strong mate­
rial, and then lost consciousness.

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The  residents  of  the  quiet  village  of 
Possum  Ridge,  Tenn.,  were  somewhat 
surprised  one  morning  to  find  a  man 
hanging by the  coat tails  to the weather 
vane  which  surmounted  the  steeple  of 
their only church,  like a ripe persimmon 
waiting to  be  plucked.  After some dis­
cussion  ladders  were  procured,  and  a 
committee of two went up and harvested 
him.  He remained insensible for a  long 
time, but vigorous  rubbing,  alternating 
with occasional generous potions of new­
ly  distilled  applejack,  finally  restored 
him.  He persistently refused to divulge 
his name or place  of  residence, but very 
plausibly explained  how he  came  to  be 
in the position in which be was found by 
saying  that  he  calc'lated  he “must  ’a’ 
walked in bis sleep.”

A few days  later  a  particularly  limp 
and  dejected  looking  specimen  of  the 
genus  homo was  seen  hobbling  slowly 
and painfully up the walk in front of the 
Poppingham  mansion,  and  a  moment 
later  there  was  a  shriek  of  joy as the 
lady  of  the  house  recognized  her  lord 
and master.

“Where on airth  have you ben,  Napo­
leon?”  asked  Mrs.  Poppingham,  after 
the first  tender  greetings were over.

“Well, Pve been  on  a  little  pleasure 
excnrsion from  Ballyhack  to  breakfast 
and return, my dear,”  replied  the  wan­
derer.  “I have  flirted  with  a  cyclone 
an’ waltzed with a  tornado;  I  have  jos­
tled agin  the tail  of  the  comet,  played 
tag with the Ursa Major, an’  bathed  my 
throbbin’  brow in the Milky Wy, b’gosh! 
It was very interestin’, from a philosoph­
ical point of view, Maria, an’ at times  it 
was excitin’  an’  even  thrillin’,  but  it 
made  me  yearn  for  the  quiet  joys o’ 
home as a country minister yearns for  a 
square meal.  You  can  tell  your  folks, 
Maria,  an’ likewise the neighbors  an’ in­
quirin’ friends,  that  your  husband  has 
discontinood  aerial  navigation,  either 
for pleasure or business,  until he gits  to 
be a seraph with wings manufactured by 
somebody as thoroughly understands the 
trade.  You can further  inform  a  most 
lovin’ an’  anxious public that  your  life

py?”

partner is now a free moril agent,  so  to 
speak,  havin’ sworn off on the  inventin’ 
habit forever an’ eternally,  world  with­
out end.  Amen!”

“What are you goin’ to do  now,  Nap­

“If I pull through this,  my  dear,  I’m 
goin’ to study an’ improve my mind with 
the one idee of tryin’  to  pass  the  civil 
service examination  for  admission  into 
the National Retreat for Busted Balloon- 
atics, Wapple Jawed Imbeciles and Dod­
derin’ idiots.”

ful. 

“You look awful,  Napoleon.”
“Yes, Maria, I s’pose I do. 

I feel aw­
If I do not survive my injoories—”

“Don’t talk like that, Nappy.”
“Don’t you interrupt  me, old  lady. 

I 
say, if I happen  to  elevate  my  toes  as 
the result of my brief,  but  tempestuous 
experience  as  apprentice  in  the  sky 
scrapin’ line, I don’t want  you to let the 
parson go into  the  harrowin’  details  at 
the funeral.  Just notify him that he can 
dish  up  consolation  to  the  bereaved 
friends and relatives for all  he’s  worth, 
but that when  he  has  to  allood  to  the 
late lamented he must stick  to  glitterin’ 
generalities, and stick clus.  An’, Maria, 
you hear me;  when I’m duly planted  ac­
cordin’ to law an’ gospel, don’t  erect  no 
towerin’  monyment,  no  costly  marble 
urn. no-----”

“Oh,  Napoleon!”
“Jest a plain stun slab will do,  Maria, 
with no frills or filigree, an’ bearin’  this 
simple but techin’ inscription:  ‘Sacred to 
the memory of a dumb  fool.’”
Feature  Advertising.

Prom the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.
There are methods and methods in  ad­
vertising as well as in anything else.  A 
number  of  prominent  advertisers  have 
lately  introduced  regularly  into  their 
newspaper  advertisements  extraneous 
features which they thought would cause 
the public to  seek  for  their  announce­
ment upon opening  the  paper.  An  ex­
ample of this is the  course  pursued  for 
some  time  by  one  of  the  largest  dry 
goods houses on State  street,  this  city. 
They have a regular space in  several  of 
the morning papers, and  each  morning, 
beneath  the  name  of  the  firm  which 
headed the advertisement,  but before the 
description  of  goods,  appeared,  under 
the caption.  “What is going  on  to-day,” 
a list of the various society events, asso­
ciation meetings, private  entertainments 
and such occurrences as  are  not  gener­
ally grouped together in  a  daily  paper. 
The idea was a good  one  and  undoubt­
edly  attracted  the  attention  daily  of 
many people who would not  have  taken 
the trouble to look  at the  advertisement 
otherwise.  A prominent soap  manufac­
turing concern is attracting a great  deal 
of attention  by  a  series  of  bright  car­
toons on timely topics, mostly of a  local 
character, in the advertising columns  of 
the daily papers.  The cartoons  are  ac­
companied by  brief  and  witty  descrip­
tions which, of course, make mention  of 
some of the merits of the firm’s  especial 
brands  of soap  before the end.  Both of 
these  methods have  much  to  commend 
them.
Merchants in  small  towns  and  cities 
may find the following plan a  good  one, 
especially  for  use  in  weekly  papers. 
Each week besides your  regular  display 
advertisement compose a  bright  conun­
drum, the answer to which shall refer to 
your business  or  the  goods  which  you 
handle.  Have the editor insert the query 
in his local notes, and state that the  an­
swer will be found in  your  regular  ad­
vertisement in the same issue.  The  an­
swer should appear in small  type  above 
the first  line  of  the  display  “ad.”  If 
this is made a  regular  feature  and  the 
conundrums are  sufficiently  bright  and 
witty, they cannot fail to make your  ad­
vertisement  sought  after.  Of  course, 
the question could be printed in  the  ad­
vertisement of one  issue  and  answered 
in that in the next, but the  former  plan 
would probably prove the best.

T R A D E ’S   D U E L,!

OP  C O U R SE   IT   IS .
He is simply stocked up with 
all kinds  of  uncalled for, un­
known  and  unsaleable  goods 
under  the  delusive  idea  of  a 
greater profit; has recommend­
ed them  to  customers  in place 
of  tried,  reliable  and  staple 
brands.  Result—questionable 
customers  of  doubtful  credit; 
the best trade is  soon dissatis­
fied  with 
the  “Unknown” 
brand of  goods  and  gives its 
patronage  to  reliable dealers. 
You will  find that the

Gail  Borden

“ B A G B B  

Condensed Milk is  the leading one in 
all the principal  and successful stores. 
It will pay you to sell it if you do not.

PREPARED  BY  THE

Now  York  Mmi  Hill  Go.

IT  HAS  NO  EQUAL.

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TH E  M IC H ieA N   T RADESMAN,

8

BUBBLE-BLOWING.

W ritten fo r  Thk Tradesman.

An American who  cannot stretch him­
self to  seventeen  times his true size has 
no right,  title or interest in the great ex­
pression  known  all  over  the  world  as 
American  enterprise.  No  other  nation 
on earth can show such  a  record of reg­
ularly recurring bubble-bursting periods 
as ours.  The reason  for this is obvious. 
We  are  the  most  elastic  people in the 
world,  and,  when  we  begin to stretch, 
we are too enterprising to let up  on  the 
tension until we  do violence to our ana­
tomical  adhesiveness.  Bubble-blowing 
is common the  world  over, but no other 
nation  posseses  wind  enough  to  blow 
up such enormously large ones as we do. 
This is characteristic  of us.  Other peo­
ple, owing to their advancing age, 1 sup­
pose,  are  shorter  winded and less flexi­
ble than we are, and, while  they halt oc­
casionally to “block-up” and “stay-lath,” 
we keep right on blowing and stretching 
just  as  though there was no limit to ex­
pansion.  Statistics  show  that  it  takes 
about  two  decades  to  blow up  our big 
bubbles to the bursting  point.

We are a nation of blowers.  We blow 
everything  beyond  its true proportions. 
Everything is stuffed more  or  less  with 
wind  and  appears  several  sizes  larger 
than  it  really  is.  We  have  drawn  so 
heavily on the ethereal  regions for wind 
that vacuums are  eaused,  producing at­
mospheric  disturbances  which result in 
what is known as an  American  cyclone. 
Blow?  Why,  what  other  country  on 
the face of the globe can  produce such a 
wind that can blow the pin feathers off a 
rooster without dislodging  him from the 
roost,  or  blow  a baby out of the cradle 
and deposit it in a crow’s  nest in the top 
of  a  pine tree  three miles away without 
waking it up?  Canada may boast of her 
big  pile  of  pressed curd at the World’s 
Fair, and Spain of her Infanta, but when 
it  comes  to real  windy wind Uncle Sam 
is the only able-bodied competitor.

What  great,  beautiful bubbles we  do 
blow up!  What a pity it is their stretch­
able  possibilities  are  not  unlimited,  as 
wind  is  so  plentiful and cheap!  It has 
been demonstrated, time and time again, 
that  the  business of the country cannot 
b e enlarged by stuffing it with wind. 
It 
may  be  inflated and take on the  appear­
ance of solid meat, like a bloated, distil­
lery-fed  hog,  but  it will only be an ap­
pearance—the  genuine  article  will  re­
main  the  same.  Real business consists 
in  adequately  supplying  a  healthy  de­
mand  and  is  materially the same in all 
countries. 
If business  in our own coun­
try  assumes  a more pretentious garb,  it 
is because it is wind-bloated.  We create 
sickly and fictitious demands for  streams 
of  supplies 
from  unnatural 
sources  which  are  opened  up  by  hot­
house  processes  of  stimulation.  We 
build  cities  on  paper,  originate  and 
carry on  great  business  enterprises  on 
credit,  and  shout  prosperity  when  we 
don’t know where  the next meal is com­
ing from.  Wind!  Wind!!  Wind!!!

flowing 

It  is  our  natures  to  blow,  but  the 
trouble  is  that  about every so often we 
blow everything  chuck  full.  We reach 
the limit  of  pressure  when  our  largest 
and most inflated bubbles burst, and then 
we all  stop  blowing  and  wonder  what 
the matter is.  Here  we show our short- 
sightednes.  We  fail  to  recognize  the 
fact that the business  of the country has 
reached its limit  of  inflation,  as  it  has 
frequently  done  before, and that for its

own  salvation,  it  is  necessary  to  stop 
and  let  the  wind off.  We can’t get the 
idea out of our heads that  blowing  bub­
bles  is  doing  business, and we imagine 
that the business of  the country is para­
lyzed,  and  every  conceivable thing but 
the right thing is censured  as being  the 
cause  of  it.  Of  course,  the  escape of 
gas naturally depresses the real business 
of the country,  and  while  the  bubbles 
are being pricked and the artificial props 
are  being  knocked  out  from under the 
fictitious  business  concerns,  the people 
are given such a taste  of wormwood and 
gall  of  hard  times which our more con­
servative  neighbors  across  the  border 
have  never  experienced.  But  their 
ways are not our  ways.  They may look 
down  upon  us  with glee at the present 
time,  while  our  beautiful  bubbles  are 
being  pricked,  but  after  the  humili­
ating  ordeal  is  over  with  we  will give 
them another decade  or  two  of  bubble 
blowing which will rob them of the bright­
est and shrewdest sons  they have reared 
in the meantime. 

E.  A.  Ow en.

Five in the Hundred.

Of  all  those  who  enter  trade, that’s 
about the number who end up with a sur­
plus;  the  ninety-five  sink  by  the  way. 
And  the  ninety-five  who  dropped  out 
were pretty sure at  the  start  that  they 
could  work  the oracle, but they had the 
conceit taken  out  of  them  in due time. 
Wonder  if  it  may  be  said that the five 
who  reached  the  goal  with  something 
over  stepped  along  more  tremblingly 
year  by  year,  too  scared  to  take  big 
risks!  That  was  probably  the  case. 
Those who lay off the  harness are a very 
different set of  men  from those who are 
putting it  on.  But  wait  a  bit;  they’ll 
be  like  the old fellows towards the end. 
And this holds true  in  every  branch  of 
business.  The big  crowd  is in  the rear. 
The  few  only at the front.  How comes 
it that he is the best farmer in the county; 
the best doctor  in  the  city;  the  ablest 
man at the bar?  Is it  wholly because of 
merit or foresight?  Was the success due 
to qualities inherited or acquired?  Any­
one  able  to  answer 
these  questions? 
These are times when  man feels humili­
ated  if  he  can’t  answer  any and every 
question connected with  all things,  both 
celestial and terrestrial.  How is it 
that 
more  names  are  not  on  the roll call of 
effecti ve,  successful  men?  Is  there  a 
deterrent  power  hindering  the  ninety- 
five  and  helping  the  five?  That’s  the 
question and thought.  Solomon himself 
owned up that  there  were  some  things 
which  he  could  neither explain nor un­
derstand,  but  then he hadn’t the advan­
tage of the modern  professor in this col­
lege  and  that—fellows  who  say  they 
don’t know the origin  of  life,  but  they 
know  it  isn’t  from  above.  Be  careful 
where  you send your boys.  We  are en­
veloped  in  mysteries.  There  is  a man 
who  didn’t  amount  to shucks at school. 
See him now, a leader  in  human  affairs 
and  a  material  success.  The  brilliant 
school-boy has now to  ask  credit  of  his 
tailor  or  wear  kilts.  There  are things 
inexplicable  in  everything,  and nothing 
more inexplica ble than  this,  that  often 
the  man  who  steers  comes out like the 
man  who  drifts,  at the small end of the 
horn.  Tet no wise man  would be guilty 
of counselling his friends  to drift  rather 
than  steer. 
I  am  unable  to  solve  the 
problem and leave its solution to shrewd­
er  brains  and  sharper  pens  than  my 
own. 

Geo.  R. Scott.

WE  ARE  MAKING

S p e c ia l  L o w   P r ic e s   o n

Write  Us  for  Price 
If  in  Need.

OSTER&TEVENS

18  and  19
Widdicomb  Building.

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

Correspondence
Solicited.

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AMONO THE TRADE.

ABOU ND  T H E   S T A T E .

St. Clair—D. B. McNair  succeeds  Mc­

Nair & Lewis in the ciothing business.

Negaunee—Muck  &  Thomas  succeed 
Thos. Muck & Co.  in  the  meat business.
Bay City—C.  D.  Richardson  succeeds 
Richardson & Nash in  the  grocery busi­
ness.

Adrian—Martin  Palmer  succeeds Cla­
rence Frost in the art  goods and grocery 
business.

Benton Harbor—Rudolph  J.  Baushke 
succeeds  Baushke & Root in the harness 
business.

Paris—Davenport & Co.  are succeeded 
by J.  L.  Davenport  & Co.  iu the grocery 
business.

Ludington—J.  M.  Mastenbrook has re­
moved his drug stock  from Muskegon to 
this place.

Muskegon—W. J.  Partrington has pur­
chased the stock of  the Houck Furniture 
Co. and is disposing of  it by retail in the 
building next to the factory of  the Kelly 
Bros. Manufacturing Co.

Muskegon—E. A.  Worden  is fitting up 
the storeroom at  41 W. Western avenue, 
formerly occupied by Fred  Neumeister’s 
drug  business  and  about  September  1 
will  opeD  a  new  dry goods store.  Mr. 
Worden will leave in a few  days  for the 
East to purchase an entire new stock.

Belding—The  grocery  stock  formerly 
owned by L. W.  Loveland  has been sold 
by M. B.  Divine and the Olney & Judson 
Grocer  Co.  to  Thos.  Welch,  Edward 
Belding, E.  R.  Spencer  and C. C. Eddy, 
who will continue the business under the 
style of the Welch & Belding Grocery Co.
Orange—Henry  Jordan  has  sold  his 
half interest in the  general merchandise 
stock of  Tew &  Jordan  to  Charles  and 
Ed.  Tew.  The  business  will  be  con­
ducted by E.  C., Charles  and  Ed.  Tew, 
under  the  style  of  E.  C.  Tew  &  Sons. 
The combination is a strong one and will, 
undoubtedly,  meet  with  deserved  suc­
cess.

Mattawan—J.  M.  Frost  has uttered  a 
chattel mortgage on  his general stock to 
the Reeder Bros. Shoe Co. and the Hazel- 
tine &  Perkins  Drug  Co,,  whose  claims 
are  §311  and  §227,  respectively;  also  a 
second  mortgage to  B. Desenberg & Co., 
whose  claim  is $147.  He  subsequently 
secured J. F. Halladay for his claim on a 
span  of  horses.  Mr.  Frost  attributes 
his embarrassment to  having  too large a 
stock of  goods,  coupled  with  the  slow­
ness of  collections  since the times began 
to harden.

M A N U F A C T U R IN 6  M ATTERS.

Beaverton—Howard  Seely has  started 
his new sawmill,  and  his hoop and stave 
mill will be ready to start before the end 
of the month.

Cadillac—Two 

locomotives,  which
were supposed to have been about ruined 
by the  burning  of  the  Thayer  Lumber 
Co’s round  house  in  Missaukee  county, 
have been rebuilt here, and are  as  good 
as new.

Saginaw—G.  B.  Wiggins  has  shut 
down  his saw  and  shingle mill at High- 
wood, Gladwin county, having cut 1,000,- 
000 feet of lumber and 2,000,000 shingles. 
He is stocking  the  Cambrey &  Co. saw­
mill here and is operating  a shingle mill 
down the  river.

Bay City—The Michigan Central  Rail­
way has  awarded  the  contract  for  the 
extension  of  its line  from  Midland  to ' 
Hubbard, a  distance  of  ten  miles, and 
the work is to begin  at once.  There are I

two  sawmills  located  at  Hubbard, and 
the road  when  finished  will  receive  a 
I large quantity of lumber freight.

Bay City—Lumbermen here are taking 
the financial depression  philosophically. 
It is affecting  trade  some,  as  people in 
want of  lumber are  only buying  for im­
mediate  necessities  and  what  they can 
see  their way  clear to  pay for. 
In  the 
end  this will  work to  the  advantage of 
all.

Saginaw—A  large  operator  in  pine 
lands states that any  quantity of stump- 
age is being offered.  He  says  there is a 
more  general  disposition  to  sell timber 
than has  been  the  case  in  the  last two 
years, but there is no weakness  as yet to 
the price of stumpage.  The closeness of 
the  money market  has  called  off  pur­
chasers  and  no  transfers  are  reported. 
Fur a man  who has  ready  money to  in­
vest it  is considered an  opportune  time 
to  purchase  pine  timber,  but  the  diffi­
culty is in finding the man with the cash.
West  Bay  City—It  is confidently  ex­
pected that on September 1 the big plant 
of Ross, Bradley &  Co.  will  be in opera­
tion.  This  firm  began  operations  here 
twelve  years  ago.  The  first  year  they 
handled  4,000,000 feet  of  lumber.  The 
members  of  the firm  are  hustlers,  how­
ever, and from this small  beginning  the 
business  was  extended  to  proportions 
that have  seldom  been  attained  by any 
individual  concern.  Last  year  in their 
business  they handled  42,000,000 feet of 
lumber.  The present year, owing to the 
interruption caused  by the  removal  and 
erection of  the new  plant, the  firm  will 
handle only  about 25,000,000  feet.  The 
new site will afford more ample facilities 
for the  conduct  of  the  vast business of 
the firm.  The  new  industry  will cover 
an  area  of  twelve  and  one-half  acres, 
with  a front  on Saginaw  River of  2,500 
feet

Grains  and  Feedstuff's.

Wheat—Dropped  to  51  cents  almost 
without warning, and the end  is not yet. 
All the  indications and predictions point 
to still lower prices.  Here,  as elsewhere, 
the stringency of  money  has  had its ef­
fect.  There  is  almost  no  speculative 
buying,  and only the  mills are ‘‘in it” to 
any  extent.  The  market 
is  chilled 
through, and  no one  appears to  want to 
do any business. 
It is not  expected that 
the  incoming crop will  change  the  con­
dition much, if any.
Flour—U nchanged.
Com—Brings a  good price, and is  un­
usually firm, though  not much  business 
is reported.

Oats—In car lots are a trifle off,  with a 

tendency towards improvement.

Millstuffs — Bran,  middlings,  mixed 
feed  and  corn  meal  are  lower,  and not 
much doing.  Good  pasturage  has inter­
fered to a considerable  extent with busi­
ness, and will for some time to come.
Hay—Dull,  with  prices  on  the  down 
grade,  the  new  crop  having  begnn  to 
move.  The  price  will  undoubtedly  go 
much below to-day’s figures.

The  Wool  Market.

It is the  same  old  story—Dullness, re­
lieved only by small buying on  the  part 
of manufacturers.  The  season is nearly 
at an end,  and  there  is  little  hope  for 
wool growers.  Local buyers are listless, 
taking what is brought to them; but they 
will  not  go  after  it.  Prices  are  un­
changed,  and  have  been for some time, 
which,  perhaps,  indicates  that the bot­
tom has been reached

T H E  AUCTÍIGUAN  TRADESM AN

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

the  Markets.

News  from the  Metropolis—Index  of
Special Correspondence.
N ew   York,  July  29—Not  for  many 
years has  there  been  such  an  army  of 
unemployed men in this city as  at  pres­
ent.  The printers are  talking  of  send­
ing  some  of  their  surplus  workers  to 
other sections,  although it is very doubt­
ful if this plan will  bring relief.  There 
are said to be  over  2,000  of  them  here 
without  work.  This  number  Includes 
the men who will work if they have it to 
do,  and  does  not  embrace the ‘‘tramps 
and  bums”  who  work for whisky only. 
This is only one  trade, and by no means 
the largest one. 
If we  consider the tex­
tile factories of New  England,  we  have 
a veritable army.  Of  course, these peo­
ple  must  eat,  and  for  that  reason the 
grocery trade is not suffering as are some 
other lines.  Probably most of the work­
ers  have  laid  up enough to last a short 
time, and, if confidence is restored with­
in thirty days, the grocery trade will not 
have lost much.  But  if  this stringency 
is  drawn  out  until  the  money  of  the 
workers is entirely exhausted and credit 
begins  to  be asked  for.  then will come 
the blue day for the “food purveyor.”
At the moment there actually seems to | 
be  a  more  confident  feeling  among 
tradesmen  and  bankers,  but the reason 
thereof is rather shadowy and intangible. 
One  report  tells  of  quite  liberal ship­
ments of  gold from  London  hither  and 
probably this is what  inspires  the “con­
fident feeling.”  Then  the  report comes 
of the closing of factories and the throw­
ing out of work of hundreds of workmen, 
and this is where  the  “shadow”  comes 
in.  Many  of  these  shut-downs  are  of 
course  only  temporary,  but they are ail 
noted  and  made  the  most  of  by  those 
rumor  mongers  who  are  working  the 
present for “all it is worth.”
As an instance of the manner in which 
slocks  have  gone down, take one of the 
In 
very best in the  whole  line—sugar. 
February the common stock of the Amer­
ican  Sugar  Refining  Go. sold as high as 
134%.  Next  month  a  reaction  set  in 
which has steadily continued to the pres­
ent.  On July 1, the  quotation was 81%, 
and  Friday  69  was  reached. 
If a man 
has  money  your  correspondent  really 
thinks it would be  better  to  buy  sugar 
stocks at present rates than  to  “put  his 
trust  in  princes.” 
It  certainly  must 
prove  a good investment, even if it goes 
still lower, for the tide is bound to turn, 
and  then—“here  are  yer  nice,  fresh 
profits.”
It  is  rumored  that  the United States 
& Brazil  Steamship Co. is about to be re­
organized  with  C.  P.  Huntington  as 
President.  This company  had  five  fine 
steamers  in  commission  two  or  three 
years  ago;  but  was  obliged to “give up 
the ship” owing to the claims  against  it 
by  a  multitude  of creditors.  The  ves­
sels,  which  cost  §1,500,000,  were  sold 
for §200,000.  The new management will 
begin making trips about October  1, and 
it is sincerely hoped that enough encour­
agement  will be found to  make  the  ex­
periment one that will be profitable.
The  Government  of  Brazil,  if  that 
country  can  be  said  to  have  a  govern­
ment, has stopped  the sending of  cipher 
messages  into  its sacred  precincts, and 
our coffee men have had no end of trouble. 
The charge per word  from  New York to 
Brazil  is $1.66, and, as  the  cipher  word 
ofteu means a complete sentence of some 
length, it  will be  seen  that  the prohibi­
tion thereof  is the  cause  of  a good  deal 
of complaint.  The coffee market, by the 
way, is down another fraction,  and 16%c 
is now the mark for Rio No. 7.
As an  instance  of  the  rapidity  with 
which  goods can  be  converted  from the 
raw  material into  marketable  products, 
a firm  in Havre  de  Grace, Md.,  recently 
received two carloads of  tomatoes at 7 a. 
m., and at 9  the same  morning a carload 
of tin.  They made the cans,  packed the 
tomatoes  in  them,  processed the  goods, 
labelled them, put  them on  the cars and 
started  them  for  this  city  ail  before 
night. 
It is doubtful if  this  record can 
be beaten.
Canned goods are  “marching  on,” but 
the rate of  progress  is slow.  Tomatoes 
aie not as firm as at last quotations, and, 
while quotations  may  be made  at §1.40,

this is “shaky,” as new goods are making 
their  appearance.  Nothing  else  in the 
entire line is  wanted, and  enquires as to 
futures are nil.
No recent  changes  have been made in 
refined  sugars,  and  trading  is of  very 
limited character.  Light stocks are being 
carried by ail hands,  and  there seems no 
disposition to “load up.”  Granulated  is 
quoted at 5 3-16@5%c.
Butter  has  not  been  so  low  in  two 
years as  at  present, and  there seem  no 
reasons for an immediate change  for  the 
better; 20c  is the price for very best, but 
there is no great demand, and the supply 
is  ample.  Dairy  butter,  17@17%c  for 
Western firsts.
Cheese  is  firmer,  as  the  market  is 
pretty  well  cleaned  up.  Nine  cents  is 
the ruling  quotation  for  large  size full 
cream state,  colored, while white  ranges 
8@8%c.
Eggs  are  in  rather  light supply,  and 
strictly  fresh,  near-by  are  worth  17c. 
Western,  14%@15%c.
Potatoes  are  in  light supply, and the 
market rules firm at $2.50@3 per bbl.  for 
Long  Island.  Peas  and  beans  are  also 
well  held and  firm.  Pea  beans  in good 
demand at $2; marrow, $2.50@2.60.
Prime  hay is  worth about  §19 per ton 
and the  market  is  steady,  but  supplies 
are large.  Exports  promise to be large.

J a y .

FOR SALE,  WANTED.  ETC. 

B U S IN E S S   C H A N C E S .

town;  fully  equipped;  also  a  smaller  market; 

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.____________________
F iv e  to  se v en  th o u sa n d  do llars
will purchase a half  interest in one, or the 
entire business of  another clothing and  gentle­
men's  furnishing goods  house,  both well  situ­
ated in Michigan, and doing  excellent business. 
None but  those  seeking  such  an  excellent op­
portunity need  apply  to  William  Connor,  Box 
346, Marshal],  Mich. 
765
F or  sa le—a  f ir s t class  old  e s t a b - 
lished  meat  market;  best  position  in  the 
satisfactory reasons  for  selling.  C.  A  Brown, 
766
Ypsilanti. 
ANTED—A  SALESMAN  FOR  A  GEN- 
eral store, and  one  particularly  adapted 
to clothing.  Want nothing but a first-class man. 
Give age, experience and wages  wanted.  M.  S. 
Keeler, Middlevllle, Mich. 
764
Fo r sa le—c o m pl et e ai m ea t m a r k et
outfit, including  a  fine  10x12  Birkenwald 
Refrigerator.  A bargain for someone.  Address 
763
Lock Box 685. Ludington,  Mich. 
F or  s a l e- t h e stock o f shoes o f t h e
late  A. Foster.  Address  Foster  Brothers, 
Port Huron, Mich. 
760
F or  sa le—c le a n  stock o f g r o c e r ies 
in  well  settled  residence  locality  in  this 
reasonable.  Living  rooms  con­
nected with store If desired  Reason for selling, 
ill  health.  Address  No.  761,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
761
OR  SALE—SQUARE  MARBLE  SODA 
Fountain,  complete. Good  as new.  Cost
$125.  Will sell for $75.  No trade  is  the  reason 
for selling.  Address  P.  M. Cleveland  &  Son,
druggists, Nunica, Mich._______________762
■ ANTED—Partner  to  consolidate  stock  of 
$3,00-1 to $10,000 with  me  in  a  No. 1 loca­
tion.  Large  store,  doing  a  heavy and  strictly 
t ash trade.  The very best  references given and 
expected.  Address  No.  750,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

city  Rent, 

SITUATION  WANTED  BY  A  REGISTERED 
pharmacist of three years’ experience.  Ref­
erences  unquestionable.  Address  No.  751, 
care Michigan  Tradesman._____________751
F OR  SALE—Drug stock  in  business  town of 
1,200 inhabitants in Eastern Michigan, trib­
utary  to  large  farming  trade;  lake  and  rail 
freights;  only  two  drug  stores  in  town;  rent. 
$200 per year;  stock  will  inventory $2,500;  sales 
$20 a day.  Reason  for  selling, owner wishes to 
retire  from  business.  Address  No.  752,  care 
Michigan Tradesman.__________  
752
W ANTED—A  practical  druggist, with  some 
capital, to take charge of a first-class drug 
store.  Address  C.  L.  Brundage,  opera  house 
756
block, Muskegon, Mich. 
PAYING SHOE STOKE FOR SALE—IN BEST 
town in Michigan of 5,<O0 inhabitants, loca­
tion fine, clean stock, invoice $6,500, sales *17,000. 
Best of reasons for selling.  Good bargain.  Ad­
dress Boots and  Shoes,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
B u sin ess  house  a n d  stock  o f  u r o- 
ceries for sale on  Union  street.  Will sell 
at a bargain.  Address  box  634,  Traverse  Citv, 
Mich. 
747*
F OR  SALE—YOST  TYPEWRITER,  USED 
but a few months, and  practically as  good 
as new.  Send  for  sample  of  writing.  Trades­
736
man Company, Grand Rapids. 
F OR RENT—THE  NEWLY  FITTED  STORE 
' at 88 Canal street.  Suitable for a hardware 
stationery or ciothing 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  lt;0 feet deep, high 
ceiling,  etc.  For  terms  apply to  239  Jefferson 
avenue, Grand Rapids. 

For sale  or  rent- store  building
at  Sparta.  Tip-top  place  for  hardware. 
Address No. 726, care Michigan Tradesman.  726

750

731

749

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5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

John  P. Fetterly succeeds  E.  B.  Ste­
vens as  local  representative for Swift & 
Company. •

G. C.  Bunnell, who has been connected 
with the house of Spring & Company for 
the past twelve years, most  of  the  time 
in  the  capacity  of  traveling  salesman, 
has embarked in  the  bakery business at 
307 Jefferson avenue.

The feature of  the  week  in  trade cir­
cles has been  the failure  of  Van  Every 
Co., 
the  Canal  street  grocery  house. 
Chattel  mortgages  were  given  several 
preferred creditors for  alleged borrowed 
money,  whereupon the Lemon & Wheeler 
Company  repleviaed  several  hundred 
dollars worth of  goods in  satisfaction of 
their claim of $900.

A.  J.  TenRaa  &  Co.,  grocers  at  200 
Watson street, recently sold their grocery 
stock to Noah C. Diamond and Mrs. Harm 
Timmer,  who  continue  the  business 
under the  style  of  Diamond  & Timmer. 
TenRaa & Co. owed Hawkins & Company 
several  hundred  dollars  and  that  firm 
has  garnisheed  Diamond & Timmer and 
attached all the real estate owned by  the 
members of  the firm of TenRaa & Co.

Wm. Rowe,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
drug  business  at  Scottville,  Manistee, 
North Muskegon and  Ravenna,  but  for 
the  past  three  months  engaged  in  the 
same  business  at Custer,  died  recently 
as the result  of  paralysis.  The  Hazel- 
tine & Perkins  Drug  Co.,  whose  claim 
against the stock was  secured by a chat­
tel  mortgage  for  $450,  foreclosed  the 
mortgage  and  the  sale  takes place this 
week.

The Cincinnati Merchants'  Sentinel re­
produces the resolutions of thanks to the 
Assistant  City  Attorney  and  police  de­
partment,  adopted by the  Grand Rapids 
Retail Grocers’  Association, accompany­
ing them  by the  following  editorial  ob­
servation:  “We  publish  these  resolu­
tions merely to show  our Cincinnati gro­
cers that there is at least one town in the 
country where the  officials are favorable 
to the interests of legitimate merchants.”

Gripsack Brigade.

The  commercial  traveler  charges  up 
his  washing  bills  under  the  head  of 
“sun-dry” expenses.

Edwin C.  Stone, traveling  representa­
tive for the  Richardson Silk Co., of  Bal­
ding, was in  town  a  couple of  days  last 
week.

J.  Price  Slauson,  who  has  acted  as 
salesman for Gardiner  & Baxter for sev­
eral  years, has  gone on the  road for the 
cigar  department of  the  Thurber-Why- 
land  Co.,  of  New  York.  His  territory 
includes the entire  State.  He  will con­
tinue to reside here.

John M. Moore has  gone  on  the  road 
for Spring  &  Company, taking  the posi­
tion rendered vacant  by the  resignation 
of G. C. Bonnell.  Mr.  Moore  has  been 
in charge  of  the  Cedar  Springs  branch 
of the house for  the  past  nine  months, 
and  would  probably  continue  in  that 
capacity but for the  closing of  the store 
and the removal of the stock to this city.
J.  C.  Watson  surprised  himself  this 
year  by taking  a full  month’s vacation, 
which  is  four  times  as  long  as  he has 
rested  before for a dozen years.  He put 
in one week at the  World’s Fair, in com­
pany with his  son, Harry,  and  spent the 
remainder of the  time  with his wife, vis­
iting  friends  at Bay  City,  Saginaw and

other points.  He  headed  for the Upper 
Peninsula Aug. 1.

Albert C.  Antrim, the  veteran  travel­
ing representative for the Alabastine Co., 
is back  from a five  months’ trip through 
the Pacific  Coast  and  the  South.  The 
death  of  his son,  Fred.,  occurred while 
he was  at  Los  Angeles,  which  will  be 
his home for  some time, as his wife, son 
and daughter  are  all  pleasantly located 
there.  Mr.  Antrim  will  spend  a  week 
with his  parents  at  Whitehall  and  an­
other week fishing near Ludington, when 
he will be in  trim to cross the  continent 
in pursuit of  business.  For  a man who 
has  traveled  almost  continuously  for 
forty years, he is  remarkably preserved, 
both in health and strength.
Purely Personal.

A. W.  Morrison,  formerly  engaged in 
the  drug  business  at  Constatine,  died 
last week.

The  wife  and  daughter  of  Geo.  H. 
Seymour  are at  Frankfort, in  hopes the 
change of air will benefit Mrs.  Seymour, 
who  is  sorely  afflicted  with  bronchial 
asthma.

Warren Y. Barclay and wife have gone 
to Trenton,  where they will be the guests 
of Mrs.  Barclay’s  father, Mark  Jaqueth, 
Esq.  They will take  a trip  around  the 
lakes before returning home.

Theodore  Karmsen,  for  the  last  two 
years  pharmacist  at  the  Michigan Sol­
diers’ Home, has  been engaged  by John 
Avery & Co., of Greenville, to take charge 
of their drug stock  during their absence 
at the World’s Fair.

Frank C. Sampson, whose  shingle mill 
at Boon was destroyed by fire a few days 
ago,  was in  town  Saturday for  the pur­
pose of purchasing  machinery for a new 
plant, which he expects to have in opera­
tion within 30 days.  His  boiler  and en­
gine were not  materially  injuied  by the 
fire.

DeWitt  G.  Ray,  representative of  the 
Boot and Shoe Recorder, of  Boston,  was 
in  town  last  week  and  favored  T h e 
T radesm an with a call.  Mr.  Ray is one 
of those men whose trade  journal  career 
was preceded by a quarter of a century’s 
experience  as  reporter  and  editor  of 
daily newspapers in the  leading cities of 
the country.  This experience  has given 
him an amount of tact and the  ability to 
read men  possessed by  few other  trade 
journal  workers  in  the  country.  Mr. 
Ray  is a  man of  broad  intelligence  and 
keen  discernment,  and  richly  deserves 
the  success  he  is  achieving  in connec­
tion  with  the  Recorder.

The Grocery  Market.

Sugar—Refined grades above No. 6 suf­
fered  a decline of  ^ c on  the 24th and a 
similar decline  two days  later.  The de­
mand is  light and the  market  weak and 
unsettled.

Coffee—McLaughlin  has  put  XXXX 
on the  equality plan, so  far as Michigan 
is concerned.
Teas—New  Japans  are  beginning  to 
arrive.  Some of  the  wholesale  grocers 
at this market have  adopted  a new  plan 
in connection  with  their  tea sales. 
In­
stead of billing the goods at four months, 
they propose to make the time sixty days 
and  increase  the  ten-day  cash  discount 
from 4 per  cent, to  6 per cent.  This ar­
rangement  appears to  be in  the interest 
of  both  wholesaler  and  retailer,  as  it 
curtails tbe credit accounts of the former 
and increases  the  cash  discounts of  the 
latter.

Provisions—Pork in barrels is in brisk

demand, and prices are firm;  lard, ditto; 
smoked  meats are  a  trifle  off, in conse­
quence of increased  receipts of hogs and 
slow sales.

Fresh Meats—Firm, with good business 

reported.

Poultry—Fowls are firm; spring chick­
ens  are  easy  at  good  prices;  other 
“lines” are unchanged and quiet.

Oranges  —  Scarcer,  with  stationery 
prices.  The quality  is retrograding, ex­
cept St. Michaels,  which  are of excellent 
quality and quoted at $5.

Lemons—The  better  grades  are hold­
ing  firm. 
It  pays  to  handle  only  the 
fancy marks, their keeping quality being 
good.  The poorer qualities  are likely to 
spoil on the dealers’ hands.

Bananas —  The  supply  is  variable. 
Last week the market was stripped bare, 
with only the  usual  demand;  this week 
the indications  are that  the supply  will 
be  ample.  The  price  is  according  to 
quality and size of  bunch.

The  Drug  Market.

Gum opium is unsettled, but  the price 

remains the same.

Morphia is unchanged.
Gum arabic is lower.
Senega  root  is  in  better  supply  and 
lower.
The  Lyon  Manufacturing  Co.  has 
raised the  prices  of  its remedies, which 
are now as follows:
Mustang Liniment, small............................ $300
medium........................  4 00
large.............................  8 00

Lyon’s Katharion.............................................  4 00
Hagan’s  Balm.................................................   6 00
Plantation  Bitters...........................................   8 50
Parley's  Heave Powders.................................  2 00

“ 
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“ 
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Merged Into a Corporation.

Alfred  J.  Brown  and  Geo.  S. Brown 
have  merged their  business  into a stock 
company under the style of the Alfred J. 
Brown Co.  The capital stock of the cor­
poration is  $25,000, of  which  $13,000  is 
paid  in,  being  divided  among 
three 
stockholders  in  the  following  amounts: 
A.  J.  Brown,  $8,300;  W.  G.  Osborn, 
$2,700; G. S.  Brown, $2,000.  The officers 
of the corporation are as follows:
President—A. J. Brown.
Vice-President—G. S. Brown.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  G.  Os­

born.

A Heel Remedy.

From  the New  York H erald,
“Please add a  half an inch to the heels 
and  make  me  another  pair of shoes as 
per last measure.”  It was in the store of 
a  well-known  shoe  dealer, and he read 
the  above  sentence  from an  order just 
received  by  mail.  “It  is  strange  how 
things  have  changed  in  the  last  few 
years,” he mused, and continued—“For­
merly  the  women  were  much  shorter 
than  the  men.  and  they  (the  women) 
liked it, and the men  did, too, for a man 
always likes a woman  smaller than him­
self.  But now this  is entirely reversed. 
I do not know whether it is that the men 
have  grown  any  shorter,  to use a para­
doxical  statement,  or  whether 
the 
women  have grown taller, but certain it 
is,  there  are  now  apparently more tall 
women than formerly,  A  man does not 
like to  walk  with  a  woman  who  looks 
down on him.  He wants her  to  look up 
to him and admire  his  superior  height. 
A  half  an  inch on the heel makes a big 
difference  in  the  apparent  height  of a 
person,  and  hence  it 
that  where 
such orders  formerly  came from women 
it  is  now  the  men  who appeal to us to 
add to the majesty  of  their appearance, 
while the women  ask  for  low  heels  on 
their shoes.”

is 

Abuse of a Postal Privilege.

As is well known,  a letter insufficient­
ly stamped  is carried  to its  destination, 
where the balance due  is collected—that 
is, if it is  provided with  a 2-cent stamp, 
its  destination  being  anywhere  in  the 
country.  This is  undoubtedly a  matter

of considerable  importance  in  many in­
stances, as where, through haste or care­
lessness it  does not have sufficient value 
in stamps  affixed.  But  as,  in  the  in­
stance of  many other  concessions, it ap­
pears that this  is  abused  to  such an ex­
tent that there is  some probability of its 
withdrawal, in  which  case  a letter  will 
not be forwarded unless  sufficiently pro­
vided with  stamps.  One  way in  which 
this concession is said to be abused  is in 
sending  heavy  packages  purposely  un­
derstamped  on  tbe  chance  that in  the 
haste at the office  it will not  be  noticed. 
Another is said to be in the small offices, 
where  the  incumbents  are  quite  gener­
ally  country  merchants,  and  receive  a 
good many packages  by mail  with  post­
age purposely underpaid.

Lend a Hand.

There  is no  such  thing  as  a  divided 
financial interest  between  employer  and 
employe;  neither  can  any  man  rise  to 
true  greatness  unless  he  helps  those 
about him to rise with him.  A man may 
get wealth and while getting that wealth 
make a gulf  between  himself  and  those 
on  whom  he  has  relied. 
In  this  case 
wealth  proves  more  of  a  curse  than  a 
blessing, for true  happiness  lies  in  con­
tentment,  without which  we cannot pos 
sess  health,  for  the  mind  controls  the 
body;  hence  an  uneasy,  unhappy  mind 
will produce an  unhealthy body, and  of­
ten an irritable unreasoning condition.
Q u i c k   fellers.

W H J L T ?

THE  NEW  FALL  LINE

M anufactured  by

SNEDICOR  &  HATHAWAY,

DETROIT,  MICH,

All the Novelties in Lasts  and  Patterns.

State  Agents  Woonsocket  and  Lyco­

ming  Rubber  Co.

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Dealers wishing to see the line address 
F.  A.  Cadwell,  41  Lawn  Court,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich.
“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 R e c o r d  

f ^ r e a k e r ,

The  Great  5c  Cigar.

Made on  Honor. 

Sold on Merit

First-Class Dealers  Everywhere.

GEO.  DEBS  &  CO.

M A N U FA CTU RER S,

D E T R O I T .

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Dry Goods Price Current.

DEMINS.

6

The Value of Disinfectants.

Charcoal is of great value  in  keeping 
ice chests, store  rooms and  food  sweet, 
write» Maria Parloa in the Ladies'  Home 
Journal.  Place a  shallow  dish  of  fine 
charcoal in the ice chest.  In milk rooms 
and other rooms where food  is  kept,  set 
dishes of charcoal.  If poultry  or  birds 
are to be hung in a cool room  for  a  few 
days,  remove  the  internal  organs  and 
partially  fill  the  body  with  charcoal. 
Now wrap the birds in  paper  and  hang 
up. 
If  the  outside  of  the  poultry  is 
rubbed with black pepper  before  being 
covered  with the paper  it  will  be  still 
further protected from the  flies.  Small 
birds, livers, kidneys, sweet-breads, etc., 
may be wrapped in  parafine  paper  and 
then be buried in a bed of charcoal.
For keeping large pieces  of  meat  and 
poultry here is a  simple device:  Have a 
large barrel or hogshead half  filled  with 
charcoal.  Put meat hooks in a  strip  of 
joist and place across the top of the  bar­
rel.  Have a netting to spread over  this. 
This barrel may be kept in a  cool  place 
and pieces of meat may be hung  on  the 
hooks.  The charcoal will  keep  the  at­
mosphere dry and sweet,  and the netting 
will  be  a  protection  against  insects. 
Should  there  be  danger  from  rats  or 
mice, use wire netting.
Fresh fish  may  be  rubbed  with  salt, 
wrapped in paper and buried in a bed of 
charcoal.  Of  course,  the  charcoal  in 
boxes and barrels should  be  changed  at 
least once a month. 
It can be  used  for 
lighting  fires  or  for  broiling  meats  or 
fish, 
if,  however, it is difficult to  get  a 
good supply of charcoal, the old  cau  be 
purified by putting it into the stove with 
a few lighted  chips  and  allowing  it  to 
burn until red hot.  At  this  stage  open 
all the windows to let the  gas  pass  off; 
then close the draughts of  the  stove, re­
move  the  covers  and  leave  the  room. 
When the charcoal becomes cold  it  will 
be ready for use again.
If there is any question  as to  the  pu­
rity of the water, none  of  it'  should  be 
used for  drinking  or  cooking  purposes 
unless it is first boiled.  There  are  sev­
eral  methods  of  purifying  water,  but 
boiling is the safest of all.  When water 
is tainted by decaying vegetable  matter, 
several methods are used to purify it.  It 
may be boiled, or filtered  through  char­
coal, or oak chips, or a  little  alum  may 
be added.  The condition  of  the  astrin­
gent wood or the alum  causes  the  albu­
minous matter in the water to  coagulate 
and fall to the  bottom, and  the  purified 
water can be poured off.

American Hay for Europe.

It has been the rule for Europe to pur­
chase annually  large quantities of  grain 
from the United States to make  good the 
deficit in  the supply  compared  with the 
consumption, but  it  has  not been usual 
to look  abroad  for a  supply of  forage. 
This year,  however,  there will  not only 
be a good  demand  for  grain,  but  there 
will also  be a  demand  for hay and  oats. 
In fact, there is already  a heavy  inquiry 
for American  hay, and  large  quantities 
have already gone forward from different 
Atlantic ports  to various destinations in 
England, France and Germany.
The  cause of  the  scarcity  of  hay in 
Europe  is to  be  found in  the almost un­
precedented drought which has prevailed 
this spring, cutting  off  the usual supply 
of  forage.  So  serious an  effect  has the 
drought  exerted  on  the  forage  supply 
that thousands of head of cattle have had 
to be slaughtered in  France owing to the 
lack of food  for them,  while in Germany 
there has been a demand  made in Parlia­
ment that  the usual army  maneuvers be 
abandoned  owing to  the heavy demands 
the  presence  of  large  bodies  of  troops 
would make upon the section selected for 
the camps, for forage.
It is seldom that American farmers are 
afforded  such  a  good  opportunity  to 
work off their surplus hay supply at good 
prices. 
It is  said  that  hay has  sold  in 
Liverpool as  high as  $50 per ton.  Such 
a price naturally afforded a good profit to 
the exporters of American hay,  and, as a 
consequence, a  number  of  cargoes have 
gone  forward from New York  and other 
Atlantic ports, while preparations are in 
progress for further shipments.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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Adriatic.................7
Arrow Brand  5 
Argyle....................  6
World Wide.  6
Atlanta A A............ 6
“  LL............... 4*
Atlantic  A.............   6*
Full Yard Wide...... 614
H.............   6*
“ 
Georgia  A..............  614
Honest Width......... 614
“ 
P ............   5*
D.............   6
“ 
Hartford A  ............ 5
“  LL................   5
Indian Head...........  S44
Amory.....................  63£
King A  A................614
Archery  Bunting...  4 
King E C .................  5
Beaver Dam  A A ..  5&|
Lawrence  L L ........  5
Blackstone O, 32__  5
Madras cheese cloth 644
Black Crow............ 6
Newmarket  G........5V
Black  Rock  ...........  61/,
B  ........5
N....... 614
Boot, AL................  7
Capital  A................51a
DD....  514
Cavanat V..............5HI
X ........ 644
Chapman cheese cl.  35i Nolbe R ...................   5
Clifton C R ............ 514 Our Level  Best......... 6
Comet..................... 6*  Oxford R .................  6
Dwight Star............  64£ Pequot....................  7
Clifton CCC...........  614  Solar......................  6
I Top of the  Heap__ 7
Geo. Washington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold Medal............ 714
Green  Ticket......... 8H
Great Falls.............   614
Hope....................... 7J4
Just  Out........  444® 5
King Phillip...........7*
OP......714
Lonsdale Cambric. .10
Lonsdale...........  @  844
Middlesex........   @5
No Name................   744
Orfk View...............   6
Our Own................   514
Pride of the West.. .12
Rosalind................ 714
Sunlight.................   414
Utica  Mills............ 814
Nonpareil  ..10
Vinyard..................  814
White Horse...........6
Rock______ 814
814

A B C ......................814
Amazon...................8
Amsburg.......  ...... 7
Art  Cambric..........10
Blackstone A A.......744
Beats All.................  iy,
Boston................... 12
Cabot......................   714
Cabot,  X................. 644
Charter  Oak........... 514
Conway W..............714
Cleveland.............. 644
Dwight Anchor...... 814
shorts.  8
Edwards................. 6
Empire....................7
Farwell...................714
Fruit of the Loom.  814
Fitehville  ............  7
First Prize..............7
Fruit of the Loom X.  714
Falrmount..............  «HI
Full Value..............644
Cabot......................   7141Dwight Anchor
Farwell...................8 

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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614

CANTON  FLANNEL.

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Housewife  Q.
R.
S
T.
Ü.
V  .
W.
X.
Y.
Z  .

Unbleached
Housewife  A...
B 
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...5H
....6
C...
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...  6*
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....7
....74.
F ...
•* 
G  ..
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....7X
H...
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“ 
J ...
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“ 
K...
9!4
...10
L.  ..
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“ 
N ....
...11
...21
O ...
“ 
P ....
“ 
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CARPET  WARP.

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CORSETS.

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Peerless, white.......18  I Integrity  colored... 20
colored —  20  White Star..............18
Integrity................. 18141 
“  colored..20
Hamilton
Nameless................ 20
.........25
......... 8714
......... 30
......... 3214
......... 35

.................9
.................1014
GG  Cashmere........20
Nameless  ...............16
................18

DRESS  GOODS.

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PRINTS.

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CORSET  JEANS.

long cloth B.1014 
“  C.  814
century cloth 7
gold seal......1014
green seal TR1014 
yellow seal.. 1014
serge.............1114
Turkey  red..1014 

Coraline................. 19 501Wonderful.............84 50
Schilling’s ..............  9 00 Brighton..................4 75
Davis  Waists......   9 00 Bortree’s ...............  9 00
Grand  Rapids.......   4 501Abdominal............15 00
Armory...................  644|Naumkeagsatteen..  714
Androscoggin.........7J4 Rockport.................. 614
Biddeford.............  6  Conestoga............... 714
Brunswick.........  ..  6441 Walworth...............644
Allen turkey  reds..  6  ¡Berwick fancies__514
robes...........  6  Clyde Robes...........
pink & purple 6  Charter Oak fancies 414
buffs...........  6  DelMarlne cashm’s.  6
mourn’g  6
pink  checks.  6 
staples........6  Eddy stone  fancy...  6
.
shirtings 
■ 
  -
chocolat  6 
6
■  
American  fancy__514
ro b er...  6 
American Indigo...  6 
sateens..  6 
American shirtings.  414 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
staple....  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Manchester fancy..  6 
Arnold 
....  6
new era.  6 
Arnold  Merino......6
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  444 
Repp f urn .  814
Pacific fancy..........6
robes..............614
Portsmouth robes...  614 
Simpson mourning..  6
greys........6
solid black.  6 
Washington Indigo.  614 
“  Turkey robes..  714
“  India robot__ 714
“  plain T”ky X 44  814 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................. 614
Martha Washington
Turkey red 4£........ 714
Martha Washington
Turkey red..........   914
Rlverpolntrobes....  514
Windsor fancy........614
indigo  blue......... 1014
5
Amoskeag AC A....1214 AC  A
........13
Hamilton N ............ 714
Pemberton AAA__16
York.......................1014
D............ 814
Awning.. 11
Swift River............   714
Farmer....................8
Pearl  River............12
First Prize............. 1014
Warren...................1314
Lenox M ills...........18
C 
o g a..............16
Atlanta,  D..............  6S£|Stark  A 
............. 8
Boot........................644 No  Name.............   ..  714
Clifton, K ...............   7  ¡Top of Heap............  9

Ballou solid black..
“  colors.
Bengal bine,  green, 
red and  orange...  6 
Berlin solids...........  514
..  6  "
oil blue..
“  green
.  6
Foulards
..  544
red 44  ...
7
“  X ....... ..  944
. ...10
“  4 4 
“ 
“  3-4XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy.....  6
“  madders...  6
. 6
“  XX twiHs 
solids.  554 ¡Harmony
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TICKINGS.

gold  ticket

c o tto n  d r il l .

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Amoskeag...............1214
9oz.......1314
brown .13
Andover..................1114
Beaver Creek AA... 10 
BB...  9
“ 
CC....
» 
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
“ 
blue  814 
“  d a  twist 1014 
Columbian XXX  br.10 
“ 
XXX  bl.19

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........1214
brown....... 1214
Haymaker blue........ 744
brown...  744
Jeffrey.....................1114
Lancaster................1214
Lawrence, 9 oz........ 1314
«  NO.220....13
“  No. 250.... 1114
“  No. 280.... 1014

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Lancaster,  staple...  614 

Amoskeag................ 614
“  Persian dress 8 
Canton ..  8
“ 
AFC........1014
“ 
Teazle... 1014 
“ 
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Angola.. 1014 
“ 
Persian..  8 
Arlington staple....  6I4
Arasapha  fancy__444
Bates Warwick dres  714 
staples.  614
Centennial..............  10V4
Criterion............... 1014
Cumberland staple.  514
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................414
Elfin.......................   714
Everett classics......814
Exposition............... 714
Glenarle.................  6I4
Glenarven................ 644
Glenwood.................714
Hampton......... . 
614
Johnson Chalon cl 
14 
Indigo blue 9%
zephyrs. ...16

GINGHAMS.
fancies....  7 
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester.............  544
Monogram................614
Normandie............... 714
Persian...................   8
Renfrew Dress........714
Rosemont................. 614
Slatersvllle.............. 6
Somerset.................  7
Tacoma  ...................714
Toll  duNord......... 1014
Wabash.................... 714
seersucker..  714
Warwick...............   7
Whittenden............   8
heather dr.  714 
indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  644
Westbrook..............  8
.................... 10
Wlndermeer........... 5
York......................... 644

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GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag............ .1644IValley City................ 1514
Stark.......................  1944 Georgia  ................ 1944
American............... 15441Pacific....................

THREADS.

KNITTING  COTTON.

Clark’s Mile End__45  IBarbonr’s ................ £6
Coats’, J. & P ......... 45  Marshall’s ............... 81
Holyoke..................22141
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....37
“  16... ...38
39
18... ....39
40
“  20... ....40
41
CAMBRICS.

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

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

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

No.

Slater......................  414
White Star............   414
Kid Glove  .............   414
Newmarket............ 414

Edwards................  414
Lockwood................ 414
Wood’s ..................   414
Brunswick...........   414

RED  FLANNEL.

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

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

MIXED  FLANNEL.

DOMET  FLANNEL.

Red & Blue,  plaid. .40
Union R.................2214
Windsor.................1814
6 oz Western..........20
Union  B ................22H
Nameless...... 8  @ 9141 
...... 814@10  I 

Grey SR W.............1714
Western W  .............1814
D R P ......................1814
Flushing XXX........ 2314
Manitoba................ 2314
9  @1014 
1214
CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
Brown. Black.
1044
944
UH
1044
12
1144
20
1244
8 oz— ....  944 West  Point, 8 oz ...10H
10 oz  ...1214
Raven, lOoz.............1314
Stark 
.............1314
Boston, 10 oz........... 1214

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Brown. Black. Slate
9* 1044
1044 1144
1144 12
1244 20
DUCKS.

Greenwood, 714 oz..  914 
Greenwood, 8 oz— 1114 
Boston, 8 oz............ 1014

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Slate.
914 
1014 
1114 
1214

1044
1144
12
20

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WADDINGS.

SILBBIAS.

White, doz............ 25  IPer bale, 40 dos___ 83 50
Colored, dos...........20  IColored  “ 
..........7 50
Slater, Iron Cross...  8  Pawtucket 
...1014
Dundle...................   9
Bedford...................10H
Valley  City.............1014
K K ........................   1014

“  Red Cross....  9
“  Best.............1014
“  Best AA......1214
L............................. 714
G............................. 814
Cortlcelll, doz.........85  [Cortlcelll  knitting,

SEWING  BILK.

per l4oz  ball........30

twist,doz..40 
50yd,doz..40  I
HOOKS AMD EVES—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k *  Whlte..l0  (No  4 Bl’k & Whlte..l5
..20
..25
No 2-20, M C......... 50  INo 4—15  F  314........ 40

..12 “ 8 
..12  J  “  10 
PINS.

2 
8 

3-18,8 C...........45  I

No  2 White & Bl’k..12  INo  8 White A Bl’k..20 
.28
..26

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COTTON  TAPE.
“  10 
..16 
..18  1“  12 
SAFETY  PINS.
....28  IN0 8 ...
NEEDLES—PER  M.

4 
6 
No 2.

A. James.................1  401 Steamboat...............   «0
Crowely’s................1 35 Gold  Eyed...............1  50
Marshall’s.............. 1 00|American.................1  00
5-4. ...2 25  6—4...3 2515-4.... 1  95  6—4...2 95 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

2 10  “  ...8 10|

COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.....................12
Domestic................1814
Anchor................... 16
Bristol.........   ........13
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL.... ...................1814
Alabama...................63£
Alamance................. 614
Augusta...................714
A r sapha................. 6
Georgia.................... 614
Granite..................   5=4
Haw  River.............  5
Haw  J ....................  5

Nashua................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
3-ply__ 17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7!4 
Powhattan............. 18

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Mount  Pleasant....  614
Oneida....................  5
Prym ont................  554
Randelman............   6
Riverside...............   514
Sibley  A ...........  ...  614
Toledo....................

PLAID  OSNABURGS

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Retail price, 920 each.
Agents wanted in every town in the state.

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Booksellers  and  Stationers,

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

b   j   -

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E. B. Seymour, Sec’y 

J. W. Hannen, Supt.

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FREE  BAGGAGE  TRANSFER  FROM  UNION
DEPOT.

BEACH  i  BOOTH,  Props.

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Is Manufactured 

only  by

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Saginaw,  Mich.

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

washing  purposes.

soap manufactured in the 

Saginaw  Yalley.

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

TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

A re T hey  A narchists?

The labor unions  of  this  and  several 
other  cities  have endorsed the action of 
Governor Algteld, of  Illinois, in pardon­
ing  the  anarchists  who  were convicted 
and  sentenced  to life  imprisonment for 
participation in the Haymarket  riots  in 
Chicago,  several  years  ago,  which  re­
sulted in the  murder  of  several  police­
men  and  the  maiming  for  life  of  as 
many more.  The Central Labor Unions, 
by  adopting  resolutions  commending 
Altgeld’s action,  have  become accessor­
ies  after  the  fact to that wholesale and 
most cold-blooded murder—a murder for 
which the men implicated, and doubtless 
many  more,  had  been  preparing  for 
months.  They  had  preached  the  doc­
trines  of anarchy, declaring their inten­
tion of using  dynamite  in  order  to  de­
stroy the Government. 
It was generally 
known  that  they were making bombs to 
be used “when the proper time came,” and 
although, perhaps,  they  did  not  intend 
them  to  be  used  on the occasion of the 
Haymarket  meeting,  yet  the  intention 
was to use  them,  and,  sooner  or  later, 
bloodshed would have resulted.  Murder 
was  committed,  and  these  men  were 
identified with the  crime by evidence as 
clear and positive as was ever submitted 
to  a  judge  and  jury. 
If  ever men de­
served the extreme  penalty  of  the  law 
they  did.  Declaring  their  intention of 
destroying the lives  of  those  in  lawful 
authority,  they  deliberately  made  and 
placed iu the hands of men  inflamed  by 
passion and liquor  some of the deadliest 
explosives  ever  manufactured.  The 
slaughter of the policemen followed, and 
followed  as  naturally  as  effect follows 
cause.  Perhaps  they  did not throw the 
bombs,  but  they  intended  them  to  be 
thrown;  the  bombs  were  used  for  the 
purpose for which they were made;  and, 
as they destroyed the lives of those men, 
so  they  intended  to destroy the lives of 
all in authority.  There was no muzzling 
of  free  speech.  They  had  held  their 
meetings in the open  air,  in halls,  wher­
ever  they  pleased,  without molestation, 
until  after  that  disastrous  meeting  in 
Haymarket  square.  And  though  the 
authorities  could  hardly  be  blamed  if 
they suppressed such meetings  entirely, 
yet,  as  a  matter  of fact, no anarchistic 
meeting since then  has  been  interfered 
with, except that the carrying of the red 
flag  has  not  been  permitted.  No sur­
prise need be felt  at  Governor Altgeld’s 
action.  He is a  foreigner  himself  who 
belongs to the class  from  which the an­
archistic ranks are  recruited, and,  with­
out dcubt, is in full sympathy with them 
in  all  their  vicious  and  destructive 
doctrines and purposes.  He has utterly 
failed  to grasp  the  true  significance  of 
liberty, which to him and his class means 
unbridled  license.  Such  men  do  not 
know, and  never can  know, that the en­
joyment of  true liberty is  only  possible 
to  him  who  practices  constant  self-re­
straint; and that  liberty for  all  the peo­
ple  depends  upon  the  self-restraint  of 
the individual.  The  labor unions of the 
country,  so  far  as  they  have  endorsed 
Altgeld’s folly,  have declared, as he did, 
that the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States, the most eminent judicial body in 
the world, is  unworthy of  confidence—a 
most  outrageous  assumption.  Altgeld, 
indeed,  assumes to  know  more  of  law 
and  equity, and  to  be  a better  judge of 
evidence, than the  judges of  the highest 
legal  tribunal  in  the  land.  The  labor 
unions,  by their endorsement  of  his ac-

tion, assert  as  much.  Men  known  and 
famous  the world  over as  jurists of  the 
highest  class, declared  these men guilty 
of murder, and their  trial eminently fair 
and impartial;  Altgeld, by  accident  the 
Governor  of  Illinois,  by nothing  known 
beyond the confines of  the city where he 
resides,  says  they  are  not  guilty,  and 
that  their trial  was  a  farce and a trav­
esty  upon  justice.  The  labor  unions 
agree with Altgeld.

Is it true, as has been so often asserted, 
that unionism is  strongly tinctured  with 
anarchism?  It  would  almost  seem  so. 
The unions  are dominated  to-day by  an 
element which  had  its  birth  under  the 
tyrannous  conditions of  the  Old World. 
These  men  were  not  patriots  in  their 
own country, neither  are they reformers 
in  this;  they  are  demagogues  of  the 
most vicious  type, who  influence  a  cer­
tain  class of  workingmen  by appealing 
to their  passions  and prejudices.  Take 
the foreigners  out  of  the  trades  unions 
and there  would  not  be  enough  left  to 
fill  the  offices.  Americans  do  not  take 
kindly to  the kind  of  unionism that ob­
tains  to-day, and  every loyal American, 
who may be a  member  of  a  union, will 
unhesitatingly  and  unreservedly  de­
nounce  Governor  Altgeld’s  action  in 
pardoning  the  anarchists,  and  equally 
with that, the endorsement by the Central 
Labor  Unions of  the  Governor’s  action. 
In the  meantime, until  the unions repu­
diate the action of  their representatives, 
the Central Unions, they must rest uuder 
the  imputation  of  holding  anarchistic 
views and sympathizing with anarchistic 
methods and purposes.

Da n ie l A bbott.

A clerk in one of  the  big  department 
stores of Chicago  went  to  the  superin­
tendent of her department the other day,
and  said:  “Mr.-----,  it’s  3  o’clock. 
I
guess that cloak had better go back  into 
stock.”  “Certainly,  put  it  right  back.
I knew she wouldn’t  come  for  it,”  said 
the man.  Then he added to an inquirer: 
“Lots of women come here and ask'us to 
keep things for them—one day, two days, 
a week. 
If  they  are  buying  anything, 
or look as if they would  buy  something, 
we are  always  willing  to  do  that,  but 
you’d be astonished to see the amount of 
stuff  that  is  piled  up  here  and  never 
called for. 
In this case we  only  agreed 
to keep  that  cloak  for  a  day,  but  we 
don’t let our best customers rough  it  on 
us.  Once a month  we  pull  out  every 
thing that has not been claimed, and  put 
it back into stock.”

We have not yet learned the art of  fly 
ing,  but  money  has.  We  presume  the 
eagle  on  the  dollar  signifies  that  it  is 
hard to catch.

It is a wise  man, indeed,  who so regu 
lates  his  affairs  as  to  judiciously  mix 
business and  recreation to  the prejudice 
of neither.

Hardware Price Current.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages,
dls.
S n ell’s ............................................................................  
1
Cook’s ..........................................................  
‘
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.......................... # 7 00

AXES.

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D.  B. Bronze...............................  is 00
S.B.S. Steel.......................  
  8 00
D. B. steel....................................13 50

barrows. 

BOLTS. 

Railroad.................................................... i® i i  22
Garden.................................................   net  80 00
dls.
Stove.............................................................~$}2
Carriage new list......................................... 75*10
Plow............................................................. 40*10
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70
Well, plain  ................................................. • 3 50
Well, swivel..................................  ............   4 00
d ls .
Cast Loose Pin, figured................................ 70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............604

BUTTS, CAST. 

BUCKETS.

 
dls.

Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60A10
Wrought Table.............................................60*10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60A10
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70*10
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1898..............C0&10

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

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

60
35
60

50
25

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

CAPS.

CARTRIDOBS.

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

CHISELS. 

dlS.

Socket Firmer...............................................70*10
Socket Framing.............................................70*10
Socket Corner................................................ 70*10
Socket Slicks................................................ 70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40
combs. 
.................................... 
40
Curry,  Lawrence’s. 
.................................... 
25
Hotchkiss..............
CHALK.
White Crayons, per  gross..............12©12*4 dls. 10
COPPER.

dls.

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

dls.

DRIPPING FANS.

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

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

07
6)4

ELBOWS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Com. 4  piece, 6 In............................dos. net 
75
40
Corrugated..............................................dls 
Adjustable..............................................dls. 40*10
Clark’s, small, 818;  large, $26...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, *18:  2, *24;  3,*30  ............................ 
25
Disston’s ...................................................... 60*10
New American  ........................................... 60*10
Nicholson’s ..................................................60*10
Heller’s.........................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  .................................. 
50

piles—New List. 

dls.

dls.

GALVANIZED IRON.

28
16 17

dls.
dls.

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

15 

12 

13 
Discount, 60

14 
gauges. 

dls.

dls.

50
55
55
55
55
70

locks—door. 

MOLASSES OATES. 

knobs—New List. 

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...................... 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....................  
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
Door,  porcelsln, trimmings......................... 
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l is t................... 55
Mallory, Wheeler  *  Co.’s............................ 
55
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
Norwalk’s ....................................................  
55
MATTOCKS.
Adze Bye...........................................*16.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye..............................  
*15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s  ..................................... *18.50, dls. 20*10.
dlS.
MAULS. 
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
50
mills. 
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
P. 8. * W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable«.... 
Landers,  Ferry *  Clsrk’s................. 
40
Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, base....................................................1 50
Wire nails, base.....................................1  75@1  80
60.................................................... Base
50 
40 
30 
20 
16 
12 
10
......................................................... 
7 * 6 .................................................  
4 
g!.............................................................. 
......................................................... 
FlneS......................................................  
Case  10............................................. 
“ 
8............................................. 
» 
6............................................. 
Finish 10........................................... 
“ 
8...........................................  
••  6.................................... 
Clinch; 19.......................................... 
8.......................................... 
“ 
6.......................................... 
“ 

bo
75
90
1 60
65
75
90
75
90
1 10
70
80
90

NAILS

PLANES. 

Barren %.................................................  
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   040
Sciota Bench.............................................-  ®50
Sandusky Tool Co.*s, fancy.........................  ©40
Bench, first quality......................................   ©40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood......... 50*10
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.80—10
70
Common,  polished................................ die. 
Don and  Tinned.........................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................   50—10

r iv e t s. 

d ls .

dlS.

 

 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planlBhed, Nos. 34 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 26 to 27...  9 20 

Broken packs go per pound extra

HAMMERS.

dlS.

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

HOLLOW WARE.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

25
May dole  *  Co.’s.................................... dls. 
25
Kip’s.......................................................dls. 
Yerkes * Plumb’s ..................................dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ......... .....................dls.60*10
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 in. 4)4  14  and
3*410
*4........... ............ net
%........... ............net
8*4
X........... ............ net
7*4
%........... ............ net
7*4
...........dls.
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50*10
Champion,  antl-frictlon.............................   60*10
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots................................................................60*10
Kettles...........................................................60*10
Spiders  .........................................................60*10
Gray enameled..............................................40*10
Stamped  TlnWare...............................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33)4*10
Bright...................................................  70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10*10
70*10*10
Hook’B................................ 
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70*10*10
levels. 
cHb.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ............... .
ROPES.
Sisal, *4 Inch and larger.............................  
Manilla............... 
SQUARES.
Steel and Iron..........................
Try and Bevels.........................
M itre........................................
SHEET IRON.

75
...............  
60
................ 
...............  
20
.  Smooth. Com.
*2 95
...14 05
Nos. 10 to  14.....................................*4 05
3 05
...  4 05
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................4 05
3 05
..  4 05
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4 05
...  4 05
3  15
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4 05
...  4 25
3 25
Nos. 25 to 26.......................
...  4 45
3 35
No. 27 ...............................................   4 45
,  over 30 Inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  .....................................dls. 
Sliver Lake, White A..............................list 
Drab A.................................   “ 
“ 
“  White  B................................  ‘ 
“ 
DrabB..................................   “ 
“  White C............................ 
 

All  sheets No. 18  and  Ugh 
SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

wire goods. 

50
50
55
50
55
“  35

9
13
dls.

dls.

• 

 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

“ 

dls.

saws. 

TRAPS. 

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton *25
20

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

Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,______  70
Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot______  50
Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot______  30
Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X

Cuts,  per  foot.

fnnt............................................   30
Steel, Game................................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s _______ 70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion............................... 11.50 per dos
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market............................................   62)4
Coppered  Spring Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  2 80
painted....................................  2 40

wire. 

dlS.

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

wrenches. 

Au  Sable......................................................... dls. 40*10
dls. 06
Putnam.......................................... 
Northwestern................................  
dls. 10*10
dls.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine................  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75*10
dls.
Bird Cages.......................  
 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
75*10
Screws, New List..........................................70*10
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50*10*10
Dampers, American..................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........ 65*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

 

 

 

METALS.
PIG TIN.

ZINC.

6%
7

26c
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2*4c per pound.
680 pound  casks...........................................  
Per pound....................................................  
*40*4 ™ v................................................J®
The  prices  of  the  many other qualities  of
solder In the market Indicated by nrivate  brands
1 20
vary according to composition.
1 60
Cookson........................................per  pound
Hallett’s......................................  
18
TIN—KRLYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................• 7
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

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

Each additional X on this grade, *1.75.

ANTIMONY

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

10x14 IC,  Charcoal............................................*6 7a
1 75
14x20 IC, 
ioxm nr, 
14x20 IX, 
Bach additional X on this grade *1.50.

........................................   6 75
 
 
825
..................... . 
9 25
ROOFING PLATES

“ Worcester....................................   6 50
14x20 IC, 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
“ 
20x28 IC, 
14x20IC, 
“  Allaway  Grade................ 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC,  “ 
20x28 IX, 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
1 4 X 2 8IX.............................................................»14 00
14x31  IX............................................................  15 oo
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I ^  panna....  10 00 
14x60 IX, 

.......................  8  50
.....................   18  50
6 00
7  50
“ 
J2  60
“ 
15 50

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T H E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

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Michigan Tradesman

A WHin.1 JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

Published at

IOO  Louis  St., Grand Rapids,

—  BY  THE  —

TRADESMAN  COMPANY.
One  D ollar  a  Tear,  Payable  in  Advance.

ADVERTISING  RATES  ON  APPLICATION.

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ness men.
Correspondents must give their full  name and 
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a guarantee of good faith.
Subscribers may have  the  mailing  address of 

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Sample copies sent free to any address.
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JSfW hen  writing to  any of  our  advertisers, 
please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement in 
T h e  M ic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n .

E.  A. STOWE, Editor.

W E D N E S D A Y ,  A U G U S T   2,  1 8 9 3 ,

NOT  SO  BAD  AS  IT  APPEARS.
It must not be supposed from the large 
number of  failures  among  the banks of 
the  West  that  the  financial institutions 
of that section  have been  less  carefully 
managed than elsewhere. 
It is true that 
there  have  been  instances  of  reckless 
management,  but by far the greater num­
ber of the institutions which  failed were 
not  only  conservatively  managed,  but 
were actually in  a prosperous condition, 
showing  assets  several  times  greater 
than their liabilities.  The  undermining 
of confidence has been so rapid  and com­
plete in  the West  that  the  banks  have 
had no leisure to  dispose of  their collat­
eral,  so as  to provide  the  cash to  meet 
the drain upon their deposits, hence they 
have found  themselves  unable to  go on, 
although  possessing  in  their  vaults  an 
abundance of  what  are  considered  gilt- 
edged collateral.

the 

time  as 

depositors.  As 

As a matter of fact,  by far the greater 
number  of  the  bank  casualties  are not 
absolute  failures,  but  mere  suspen­
such 
sions  until 
in­
stitutions  can 
realize  sufficient  upon 
their  resources  to  meet  the  demands 
of 
as  confi­
dence  is restored, and the  securities the 
banks  hold  can  be  disposed  of  in  the 
market  without  sacrifice,  depositors, 
nine times in ten, receive the full amount 
of their  claims,  and  the  banks are able 
to resume business as  strong as ever and 
possibly benefited by the experience they 
have passed  through.

soon 

In the  great  majority of  instances the 
troubles of  the  banks  have  been caused 
by the  senseless  and  entirely  unjustifi­
able course of depositors themselves.  In 
many places in the West these depositors 
have  become  crazed  by  the  prevailing 
money  pressure  and  have  withdrawn I 
their money  and  hidden it  away.  This I 
coarse was  entirely  unwarranted,  as  in 
nearly  every  instance 
the  published 
bank statements  showed  that  the banks 
werenot only thoroughly solvent, but  in 
a  flourishing condition,  and a  most  sub­
stantial  proof of this is found in the fact 
that many of  them, after a brief suspen- 
sion, have so arranged  their affairs as to 
be able  to  resume.  When  it  is remem- ! 
bered  that the  depositors  have the  first 
claim on the  assets, the  ridiculous char­
acter  of  the  panic  that  has  prevailed !

among them  in  the West  will  be appre­
ciated.

The  reports  to  the  Controller  of  the 
Currency recently made  by the National 
Banks  of  the  country  prove  that  the 
financial  institutions  of  the  principal 
cities are in splendid  condition, and it is 
especially worthy of  note that  Michigan 
banks  occupy a  particularly  prominent 
place in the matter of  resources.

EXPORTING  CORN  TO  MEXICO.
It  is  not  generally  known  that  the 
neighboring republic  of  Mexico imports 
from the United  States  a very consider­
able quantity of Indian corn.

Mexico  possesses  every variety of cli­
mate,  from  tropical  to  temperate,  and 
the soil in the  numerous  valleys  is  ex­
tremely  fertile.  Mexico  in  general  is 
able  to  produce  every desirable  article 
for  human  food,  and  its  prolific  soil 
would  feed  its  simple rural population, 
as well as the  people  of  the cities,  with 
the  greatest  profusion  and  abundance 
were it not for the  frequent  and serious 
droughts with which  the  country is  af­
flicted.  Close  along  its  Gulf  coast  ex­
tends a range of  lofty  mountains,  some 
of the peaks being covered  with  perpet­
ual snow.  This  mountain wall, with its 
cold,  overlying  atmosphere,  is  able  to 
condense upon the eastern slope  most of 
the  vapor  of  water  which  is driven in 
from the warm Gulf sea,  and, as a conse­
quence,  the moisture which  should have 
been  transported  into  the  interior  is 
stopped on  the way, and  drought in  the 
internal  valleys  results.  Occasionally, 
the  Gulf  vapors  are  able  to  cross  the 
mountains  in  unusual  quantities,  and 
then occur  the  disastrous  floods  which 
are now and then  reported  from  the  in­
terior States.

For several years past, for lack of rain, 
there has been a scarcity of food in some 
of the States  of  Mexico, and  it  became 
necessary  to  import  from  the  United 
States a food supply, the chief of  which 
is corn.  The report  of  the  Statistician 
of the Department of Agriculture of  the 
United States gives  some interesting in­
formation on the subject.  The Mexicans 
of  the  rural  districts  are  a  people  of 
primitive and frugal  habits.  The  total 
population, according  to  the  returns of 
the Mexican National Bureau  of  Statis­
tics for June, 1892, was  11,642,720 souls. 
Their chief food  is  Indian corn, indige­
nous to  America  and  found  by the first 
white settlers to be in use by the natives 
from the capes of Virginia  to  the  table 
lands of Peru. 
It is  commonly  eaten in 
the form of tortillas, or “hoe cakes.”

The  process  for making  tortillas  is, 
briefly, as follows:  The shelled  corn  is 
soaked in  weak  lime  water  until  it  is 
softened nearly to the consistency of un­
ripe corn. 
It is then rinsed and  ground 
into a paste upon a  stone  or  hard-wood 
instrument, called a metate,  upon which 
a stone roller is  operated  by  hand,  the 
operation and position  being  something 
like those usual  in  the  use  of  a  wash­
board, supposing the lower  end  of  the 
board to rest upon  the  ground  and  the 
operator  upon  her  knees.  The  paste, 
when evenly  reduced,  is  worked  with 
water into a large, round,  thin cake, and 
baked  on  both  sides,  without  being 
browned,  upon  a  smooth,  hot  iron  or 
earthenware  surface  or  griddle,  and 
served hot or cold.

The corn crops of  many  of  the  Mexi­
in  1891  and  1892 
drought.  The

can  States 
by 

reason  of 

failed 

the 

this  necessary  rose  from 
prices  of 
to  $1.40  per  bushel,  exor­
61.15 
bitant  figures where  the  masses  of  the 
people are poor.  The difficulties  of the 
situation were aggravated by the difficulty 
of  transporting  supplies  through  the 
mountains on the backs of pack animals. 
The  railways  from  the  United  States 
proved  to  be  great  blessings  in  this 
emergency.  The  Mexican  Government 
suspended the tariff on  foreign  corn  of 
6.4 cents per bushel of 56 pounds, and in 
1892 nearly 6,000,000 bushels  of  Ameri­
can corn were carried into the sister  Re­
public by rail.  Mexico  is  fortunate  in 
having so ready a  source  of  supply  for 
the staff of  life.

W EIGH  YOUR  LARD.

About  three  years  ago  T h e  T ra d es­
man  advised  the  grocery  trade  ot  the 
State to count their pickles.  The result 
was somewhat  surprising. 
It  was  dis­
covered that, in  almost  every  instance, 
the pickles in wood  ran several hundred 
short.  This  “defect”  was  remedied by 
the  agitation,  and  honest count has,  in 
all probability,  been given since.

Now  the  watchword  is,  “Weigh your 
lard.”  If  this  is  done,  it will be found 
that full weight is  rarely, if ever, given. 
The net weight of  a fifty pound package 
of lard will be found to be nearly always 
from forty-seven  to  forty-eight pounds. 
There  is no reason why retailers should 
put up  with such an  imposition, and the 
remedy  is  in  their own hands.  Weigh 
your lard and report  result to this office, 
giving  in  every  case  the  name  of  the 
packer, and, also, the name of the jobber 
from  whom  purchased.  Agitation  of 
this  question  will  have the same result 
as with short-weight pickles.

The action of the Central Labor Union 
of this city, in adopting resolutions com­
mending  the  pardoning  of  the  Chicago 
anarchists  by  the  Governor  of  Illinois, 
places  the  seal  of  anarchy  on  every 
union  man  whose  organization  is affili­
ated  with  the  central  body--and  every 
union of importance in the city is said to 
be so connected.  T h e  T radesm an does 
not believe that any considerable number 
of  men in  any  union  are  anarchists at 
heart,  but  the action  of  the representa­
tive bodies of unionism in this and other 
cities  commits  unionism  squarely  and 
unequivocally  to  the  principles  of  an­
archy,  and  union men who are not anar­
chists  have  now  no  alternative  but  to 
abandon  their  organizations. 
If  they 
continue  to  maintain  union  relations, 
they must candidly  admit that  unionism 
and anarchy  are  one  and  inseparable— 
that the test of loyalty to unionism is  an 
enthusiastic  belief in  and  adherence  to 
the principles of  anarchy.

If  everyone would work and act  as  if 
he  expected  good  times  to  come,  the 
good  times  would  come.  The  way  to 
create confidence is to  be confident.

Go to the devil in your private life and 

your business will follow you.

The worst  trust at  the present lime  is 

distrust.  ____________

B rains  W a n te d .
Everything  has  not  been 

From th e M anufacturers’ G azette.
invented. 
There was never, since the days of chaos, 
such a demand  for  brains and  genius  as 
there is to-day.  All  the  so-called  great 
inventions and  discoveries  of  the world 
are incomplete, and  everywhere  there is 
a crying need for someone to finish them. 
There is  only  one  Edison, but  there  is 
room for a thousand.

J ackson,  July  29—At 

Meeting: o f th e  Ja c k so n  Grocers* U nion.
the  regular 
meeting of the Jackson  Grocers’  Union, 
the  minutes  of  the  previous  regular 
meeting,  and  those  of  the  several com­
mittee meetings were read and approved.
The committee sent to Hillsdale in the 
interest of  the second  annual excursion 
and picnic, to be  held  Aug.  10, reported 
that they  found  the  grounds  and build­
ings  in  good  shape  and  that  they  had 
called upon all  the grocers  of  Hillsdale 
and  invited  them  to  join  with  us  and 
enjoy the pleasures of the day.
The  Committee  on  Badges  reported 
that they  had ordered  them  and  would 
have them on  hand.  They were ordered 
to procure official, committee and  ladies’ 
badges.
The  following  resolution  was  unani­
mously adopted:
Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of 
this 
Union be  tendered  to  E.  A.  Stowe and 
T h e  Mic h ig a n  T ra desm a n,  for  their 
kindness  in  printing  the  report  of  our 
Committee  on Trade  Interests, and  fur­
nishing us  with  extra  copies  for distri­
bution  to  non-subscribers; that we most 
highly appreciate  the  kindness and  will 
endeavor to repay the  courtesy when op­
portunity shall  occur.
A letter was  received  from the  Secre­
tary  of  Grand  Rapids’  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association, inviting  the  Jackson Union 
to attend their picnic on Aug. 17.
On motion, the invitation  was received 
and as many as can do so were requested 
to attend.
A letter  was also  received  from E. A. 
Stowe,  of  Grand  Rapids,  in  regard  to 
their  success  with  peddlers.  The good 
results  reported  by  Mr.  Stowe  were re­
ceived with a cheer by  the members.
Communications  were  received  from 
the Secretary of the World’s  Fair  Retail 
Grocers’ Convention, inviting the grocers 
of  Jackson to  the  convention  Aug. 30. 
Received and placed on  file.
Letters  in  relation  to  the  excursion 
from the  Standard Oil  Co.. H. J.  Heinz 
Co. and  others  were  received  and  the 
Secretary was instructed to answer.
The Committee on  Trade  Interests  re­
ported in  regard  to the  petition  regard­
ing  peddlers.  On  motion,  the  matter 
was laid on the table.
The  Committee  on  Tickets  reported 
that they had them  ready  for  distribut­
ing. and on motion, they were ordered to 
put them on sale.

W.  H.  P orter,  Sec’y.

P oisonous  C heese.

No T yrotoxicon F o u n d   in th e  M ansfield 
Ma n sfie l d ,  Ohio,  July 29.—Your  es­
teemed favor of July 25 at hand, together 
with copy of  the Mich ig a n  T radesm an 
containing  the  report  I  made  you,  for 
which I am very  much  obliged. 
I  also 
appreciate the courtesy you have extend­
ed  me  in  the  editorial  column  of  the 
I have this day 
Mich ig a n T radesm an. 
mailed you a  copy of  my last  year’s  re­
port of the Board of Health, in which you 
will find marked an article on “Slaughter 
Shops”  which may possibly interest you, 
indirectly, at least.  1 will  consider  it  a 
very great compliment to have my friend, 
Prof. Yaughan, make a reply to my arti­
cle, as 1 consider him the highest author­
ity on subjects  of  this  character in this 
or any other  country. 
I  would  be very 
glad  to  have  him  analyze  some  of  this 
chee«e which has  been causing sickness, 
and compare it with  the  analysis  made 
by the chemist in our State.  I  was very 
much  surprised  when  they  (our  state 
board of health) informed  me they could 
not  find  tyrotoxicon  in  the  samples  I 
sent them, for there  is  no  question  but 
what  the  eating of this cheese produced 
sickness,  although,  as  I  have  already 
said, so far  in  my personal experience I 
have never known a  case of death to oc­
cur  from  eating  so-called  poisonous 
cheese.
I  will  be  very  much  pleased to read 
Dr.  Vaughan’s reply,  should  he  decide 
to make one, and, when the report of the 
Ohio State Dairy and Food Commissioner 
is  made,  I  will  be  glad to furnish you 
with  the result of the  chemical analysis 
of the same.

R. Harvt Re e d ,  Health Officer.

Suspect and watch the man  who never 

makes a mistake.

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9
If  you  are ever  troubled  with  Piles in  any form, itching, 
protruding or bleeding, do not forget that the safest and surest, 
as well as the quickest and cheapest remedy is the

THE SLOW  RETURN OP CONFIDENCE.
The stock market,  as well as financial 
and  business  affairs generally, seems to 
be in the condition  of the sick man who, 
in answer to an inquiry  about  the  state 
of his health, could say only:  “My dear 
fellow,  I  am  dying of  a hundred excel­
lent symptoms.”  His physician decl  red 
that he was going on well and that every­
thing in his case  betokened a speedy re­
covery,  while  he  himself  felt  that  he 
was growing worse. 
In  the  same  way, 
prices of many stocks have  fallen  heav­
ily  in  the face ot the encouragements of 
a  better  supply of money, of an increase 
of gold in the Treasury, of imports of the 
same metal from  Europe,  of  larger  ex­
ports of  cereals,  and  of  an  improving 
prospect  of  the  repeal  of  the Sherman 
act.  The list of failures of corporations 
and  private  firms  receives,  too,  every 
day  fresh  accessions;  factories  at  the 
East are shutting down,  and west of the 
Missouri bankruptcy  is the rule and not 
the exception.

All this is decidedly unpleasant, but it 
is  not  unnatural  nor  unprecedented. 
The  destruction  of  credit,  which  has 
been  effected  within  the  past  two  or 
three months,  cannot  be repaired in the 
same short space of time.  This is in ac­
cordance  with  a  universal  law  from 
which there are no exceptions.  A man’s 
leg  may  be  broken  in  a  second,  but 
week’s must elapse  before the bone will 
knit  together  again.  The  woodsman 
with  his  axe  can  in  an hour fell a tree 
which  it  will  take years to replace, and 
Sir Isaac Newton’s dog, Diamond, merely 
by upsetting a lamp,  destroyed the fruit 
of  lifelong  labors.  So,  when  this  im­
mense  fabric  of interlacing and interde­
pendent  credit  which  constitutes  the 
framework of the  country’s  business re­
ceives  a  snock  like that to which it has 
recently  been  subjected,  we  have  no 
right to expect it to  recover  from its in­
juries as speedily as  they were inflicted.
To many people,  especially those who 
are  not  old  enough  to  remember  the 
earlier  financial  catastrophes  through 
which  the  country  has passed, this one 
which we  are  now  experiencing  seems 
the  worst  that  ever  happened. 
It  is, 
perhaps,  more  severe  than that of 1884, 
and even that of 1890, but  it  is  nothing 
as  compared  with  that of 1873, or even 
with those of 1857 and  1860.  As  to  the 
distressing  period  which  began in 1837 
and continued with more or less severity 
until 1848, so few of the  men  who  were 
in  business  then  are  still  alive, that it 
belongs rather to history and to tradition 
than to the chronicle  of  current  events. 
Besides,  it is a peculiarity of human  na­
ture that  contemporary  occurrences  oc­
cupy a much larger  space  in  the  mind 
than those of bygone times;  just  as  in a 
landscape  objects  near the eye fill a lar­
ger  space  than those  which are remote, 
and often completely hide them.

Conceding, however, that the catastro­
phes of 1884  and  of  1890  were  of  less 
magnitude than  that  of  this  year,  and 
were more speedily followed by a  recov­
ery than this one is likely to  be, no  one 
acquainted with the facts will deny  that 
the crash  of  1873  was  far  more  wide­
spread and destructive, and  that  its  ef­
fects endured for a  much  longer  period 
than we  have  any  reason  to  expect  at 
present.  Thus  far,  at  least,  compara­
tively  few  large  banking  houses  have 
suspended payment, the exports  of  pro­
duce have not  been  suspended,  nor  has 
the collection of debts  been  impossible.

The collapse of 1873 was  followed,  too, 
by  a  prostration  of  enterprise,  from 
which  a  recovery  did  not  begin  until 
1877, and which  did  not  wholly  disap­
pear  until  1879.  That we are  going  to 
drag on in the same  way now there is no 
ground  for  supposing.

Nor are we suffering now,  as  we  were 
in 1873, from the  exhaustion  of  a  four 
years’  costly  war  which  impoverished 
the  Northern  two-thirds  of  the  nation 
and  ruined  the  Southern  third.  The 
enormous destruction  of property which 
took place in both sections was  repaired 
by borrowings in Europe,  and  by  a  fe­
verish activity  in  every  department  of I 
industry, and it thus escaped general ob­
servation.  The  flood  of  paper  money 
which was poured out to meet the neces­
sities of the government had  also stimu­
lated speculation and carried  the  prices 
of labor and of all kinds of  commodities 
to an extraordinary height.  For  a  year 
or two after the war ended  the  impetus 
it had given to  business  still  continued 
and only gradually died away.  When  it 
was finally spent, and when we  set  our­
selves seriously to  the  work  of  paying 
the national debt, of preparing tor a  re­
sumption of specie payments, and of  go­
ing back to the occupations of peace,  we 
discovered how much our  resources  had 
really been depleted,  and  how  much  it 
would cost to repair them.  As  the  pre­
mium on gold fell, the prices of commod­
ities, railroad stock and  real  estate  fell 
with it, and the panic of 1873 was the re­
sult.

The panic of 1884 was entirely local to 
New York City,  and was produced by the 
illegitimate  speculations  of  Grant  & 
Ward, George I.  Seney,  John  C.  Eno, 
and other men like them, which involved 
in ruin the Marine Bank and the  Metro­
politan  Bank,  and  robbed  the  Second 
National of millions.  The panic of  1890 
was only a  distant  echo  of  the  Baring 
collapse in London,  and  its  evil  conse­
quences soon passed off. 
It may,  there­
fore, safely be said that we have enjoyed 
substantially  uninterrupted  prosperity 
since  we  resumed  specie  payments  in 
1879, and that the present troubles  indi­
cate no profound  and  extensive  rotten­
ness, but  are  a  passing  epidemic,  like 
the grip and the cholera, from which  we 
are  destined  to  emerge  with  compara­
tively little loss.

This  being  so, it  will  naturally  be 
asked:  Why  does  not  confidence  return 
more speedily, and why,  in spite  of  all 
the  favorable  indications  which  have 
manifested  themselves  during  the  past 
month, do the prices of stocks and secur­
ities continue  to  fall  and  failures  con­
tinue to multiply?  Tne question has al­
ready been partly answered  by  a  refer­
ence to the slowness with  which  in  the 
course of nature all injuries are repaired, 
but it may also be said,  by  way  of  fur­
ther explanation,  that the  return of gen­
eral  confidence,  indispensable  to  a  re­
turn of  general  business  prosperity,  is 
also purposely hindered  by  the  acts  of 
men who find their profit  in  prolonging 
and intensifying the public alarm.
to 
denounce the wickedness  of  the  attacks 
upon  the  credit  of  corporations  and 
individuals  which  have  caused 
of 
the  declines 
and  bonds 
and the many failures of the past month. 
As  to  the wild talk of the Colorado  sil­
ver miners and their allies in other states, 
the  object  of which is to defeat legisla­
tion  unfavorable  to their interests,  that

It  would  be  a  waste  of  time 

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remedy known  for the cure  of  these annoying and oftentimes 
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Your  druggist will  tell you  it  gives complete  satisfaction 
and immediate relief on the first application  and accomplishes 
a complete  cure  without  pain or  inconvenience,  and in  most 
cases in a remarkably short time.
It is perfectly harmless, being composed entirely of vegetable 
ingredients, and contains not a particle of mineral  poisons.
Last, but not least, it is  so cheap as to  be  within  the reach 
of every sufferer,  and  enables  anyone to give  it  a  trial  at  a 
trilling cost.

All druggists sell it.

HPHE  SILVER  BILL  as  the enactment of  the  Sherman  law  of  1888, is causing 
L  much  complaint,  but  the  PURITY,  SUPERIOR  WASHING  QUALITIES,
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also may be  left  to  public  reprobation 
for  its  punishment.  Nevertheless,  it 
cannot be denied that these causes count 
for a great deal in  creating the alarm in 
the  minds  of  a large number of people, 
and, until their hollowness is exoosed so 
that  the  world  perceives  it,  they  will 
not,  as  we  see, fail of producing an in­
jurious effect. 
It is a  contemptible way 
of making money,  both  for gold “bears” 
and silver conspirators, and it is wonder­
ful that decent men should resort to it.

There is also a  well  grounded  appre- 
heusion that for political reasons the ac­
tion  of  Congress  in repealing the Sher­
man act will neither  be so speedy nor so 
emphatically decisive  in favor  of  main-' 
taining the gold standard  as it  ought  to 
be  to  produce a reassuring effect.  The 
silver  miners  and  the  debtors  who ex­
pect  to  profit  by  the  reduction  in  the 
value  of  the  dollar, constitute indeed a 
minority of  the  voters  of  the  country, 
but they are numerous  enough  to  com­
mand  consideration from  both Senators 
and Representatives who are more desir­
ous of retaining  their  places than of de­
serving them.  Already alarming rumors 
come  from  Washington of  a  probable 
compromise which  will  either  leave the 
silver  question  open  for  future settle­
ment,  or  provide  fox an inflation of  the 
currency  which  will  be as mischievous 
as free coinage.  At best it is still a week 
before  Congress  assembles.  The  first 
business of the House of Representatives 
will  be  to  elect  a  Speaker,  and  the 
Speaker will have to appoint  the  stand­
ing committees.  This may  all  be  done 
the  first  week of the session, but it may 
not  be  done  for  several  weeks.  Then 
will come the introduction of  the  neces­
sary  bill  and  the  debates  upon it, and 
bow much time will  be consumed in get-1 
ting  to  a  decisive  vote no one can pre­
dict.  After the pasing of the bill by the 
House  the  Senate  will  take  it up, and- 
here the silvermen boast that if they can­
not defeat  any  measure  to  which  they 
are hostile, they can at least delay action 
upon it indifinitely.

In view of  all  these  considerations it 
is not surprising that the return  of  con­
fidence  is  as  slow  as  it  is.  The  only 
thing to be done is  to  exercise  patience 
and wait for events to  take their course. 
It is immensely to the credit of the bank­
ers  of  the  leading  cities of the country 
that  they  have  in  every  way, by their 
example  and  by  their  moral  power, 
sought to quiet alarm and  to  promote  a 
better feeling. 
If the  public will co-op­
erate with them,  and  discourage  efforts 
to create and increase  anxiety,  they will 
do much to Dring  about the result which 
they  desire. 

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

C om m ercial A xiom s.

The  matter  of  economy  is  not  to be 
determined  by  the  costs  but  by  the re­
sults.
If  you  would  establish  credit,  first 
create a  confidence  in your  honesty and 
ability with your creditor.
It is a common fallacy for  everyone to 
consider  his  neighbor’s  business  more 
congenial and profitable than his own.

The business man  without enthusiasm 
is like a stove  without fuel; he lacks the 
warmth of purpose necessary for success.
It is not how much a man  sells nor the 
per cent, of profit he  makes which deter­
mines his  gains,  but  the  relation which 
the expenses bear to the receipts.
It is not  the man  who himself  accom­
plishes the most  work, but the  one who 
possesses the  faculty  to  use the  ability 
of  others who  attains  the  broadest  suc­
cess.

A re  W e  a   P a trio tic   People?

Are  the  American  people  patriotic? 
Questions are  never  asked  when  there 
are no doubts  or  suspicions  concerning 
the matter inquired into. Since the ques­
tion has been asked, it is well  worth  an 
answer.

Patriotism  does  not  consist  in  loud 
professions nor in the noisy and sulphur­
ous  detonations  of  fireworks  on 
the 
Fourth of  July.  Many  people  love  to 
brag.  They  will  boast  of  their  dogs, 
their country, or  of  anything  that  will 
make talk, while few are too old to  take 
a hand at firing rockets  or  popcrackers. 
The only test  of  patriotism  is  willing­
ness and readiness to  serve  one’s  coun­
try.  The only personal service a citizen 
I can render to his country is to pay taxes, 
perform jury duty, respect and obey  the 
laws, and,  when required,  fight  for  the 
public defense.

There is no war, and for nearly  half a 
century there has been  none,  with  any 
foreign power, so there has been  no  op­
portunity  to  test  our  people’s  love  of 
country,  but if we are to judge from  the 
evasions and mental  reservations  when 
citizens are tackled by the tax  assessors, 
or are called on  to  perform  jury  duty, 
the average  American  can  scarcely  be 
cansidered to be running  over  with  pa­
triotism.  As for the civil war, that  can 
not be considered, because  all the  patri­
otism exhibited then was devotion to  in­
dividual  states,  or  to  aggregations  of 
States, and  not  to  a  country  that  had 
long been  existing  under  an  organized 
government.

Patriotism,  like  religious  zeal,  does 
not flourish  under  unbroken  conditions 
of prosperity.  The stress of foreign war 
is as necessary to develop love  of  coun­
try as are persecutions to create the con­
ditions which  make  martyrs.  Probably 
of the peoples of the modern  world,  the 
most magnificent spectacles of  patriotic 
heroism  have  been  presented  by  the 
Swiss  and  the  Hollanders.  History  is 
full of their achievments  in  defense  of 
their liberties and independence.

But it makes little  difference  whether 
men fight in wars of defense or  of  inva­
sion and conquest.  Patriotism, like her­
oism,  is  only  developed  under  heavy 
blows  and  a  white  heat.  The  British 
Isles  have  not  been  invaded  since  the 
time of William the  Conqueror  in  1066, 
but there  has  scarcely  been  a   decade 
in all  the history  of  the  island  empire 
when its people were  not  engaged  in  a 
war somewhere, and however  they  may 
brawl and quarrel among  themselves  in 
time of  peace,  the  first blast of  foreign 
war brings them together,  and  English, 
Irish  or  Scot,  it  is  impossible  to  say 
which is the more devoted patriot or  the 
more faithful to the call of  duty.  They 
are all born fighters,  and have proved  it 
in their  wars  in  every  quarter  of  the 
globe and with every race of  men under 
the son.

The Americans, doubtless, would prove 
devotedly patriotic if  they  were  placed 
under  conditions  required  to  develop 
that most desirable virtue,  but  at  pres­
ent little can  be  said  for  them.  They 
are a brave people; there are none braver 
in the world;  but they  have  done  little 
fighting  outside  of  their  own  country, 
and but  for  the  fighting  among  them­
selves they would have had no  opportu­
nity to keep their “hands  in.”  No,  the 
patriotism of the American people  must 
be taken on  trust.  They  have  had  no 
opportunity since the country became so 
great and powerful of giving any  proofs 
on the subject. 

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SPECIAL  DISCOUNTS.

A rg u m en t A g ain st Their  A llow ance by 

a  P ra c tic a l M erchant.

term 

influence 

consciously 

J . E. Miller in P ry  Goods  Economist.
No discounts  should  be  given  to any 
retail customer,  or  class  of  customers, 
which  are  not  given to all others.  We 
assume, in entering upon this discussion, 
that  only  one-price  establishments  are 
considered;  for  where  business  is done 
upon the  “get-what-you-can”  principle, 
a discouut means nothing,  the  customer 
who drives his own  bargain faring, as a 
rule,  better than the one who is innocent 
enough to think he is getting a discount.
Taking conditions as we find them, we 
would  not  hold all merchants under all 
circumstances,  to  the  high  standard 
given above.  “One price to all”  is  un­
doubtedly  the  true  principle;  but  the 
merchant who departs  from it in dealing 
with  particular  persons,  or  classes  of 
persons,  is,  perhaps,  doing  no  moral 
wrong, providing he  uses  no  deception 
either to the persons  favored or to those 
not  favored.  The  tender  conscience, 
however,  will  find this delicate work.
The merchant pays  just  as  much  for 
merchandise which he  sells  the  clergy­
man,  the  clerk,  or the dressmaker,  and 
just as much for handling  the  same,  as 
for  that  which  he sells the farmer, me­
chanic,  or  the  day  laborer.  The  dis­
count,  then,  of  five  or  ten per cent, or 
whatever  amount  it  may  be,  mnst, of 
necessity,  be regarded  as a donation or a 
bribe.  Some  one  may  say,  not  bribe, 
but advertisement.  Let such a one care­
fully weigh the  meaning  of  the  words. 
If the clergyman, in consideration of the 
discount  given  him  will  acknowledge 
that he is the paid agent of the merchant, 
he is as justifiable perhaps,  in using  his 
influence for him as any  other  employe 
would be;  but the clergyman,  or anyone 
else  not  an  acknowledged  agent,  who 
for  a  merchant 
uses  his 
because  of  a  discount  given  him, 
is 
or 
unconsciously 
bribed, 
so 
and 
no  other 
well  describes 
the  transaction.  Let 
the merchant  who  would  be  honorable 
be  no  party  to such a scheme for secur­
ing business.  Clergymen should receive 
fair salaries, like other men,  and not be 
subjected to the humiliation of receiving 
donations  from  people  of  all sorts and 
conditions, whether they  happen  to  be 
or not to be in sympathy with the clergy­
man  and  his work. 
In the country and 
country towns, and often in small cities, 
one of the  chief  reasons  why  ministers 
of  the  gospel  are  so  poorly paid is be­
cause of the understanding  among those 
who should support  them, that the mer­
chants  from  whom  the  minister makes 
his  purchases  will contribute by means 
of  a  discount,  to his living.  When the 
clergyman  receives  a  fair  salary,  he 
should  certainly  be  above  accepting 
donations;  and  when  he  does  not,  the 
merchant  should  not  be  taxed to make 
it up.
How  can  the conscientious  merchant 
say to the wife of  the  laboring man who 
earns one dollar a day:  “1 am selling you 
this  at  the  lowest  possible price,” and 
then to  his next  customer, who happens 
to  be  the  wife  of  a  clergyman, whose 
salary  is  perhaps  three  to ten times as 
much,  give a discount of 10 per cent, on 
the  same  article?  Why  should  he  lie, 
why give a donation, why offer a bribe?
Aside  from  the  principle  involved— 
which should be sufficient to  decide  the 
matter  with  fair-minded  men—we  are 
certain  that  in  very  few instances will 
a merchant lose by  taking  a  firm  stand 
upon the question of discounts to clergy­
men. 
In certain sections of the country, 
and  among  some denominations,  where 
men without education or refinement are 
still commissioned  to preach, and some­
times  among  those  who  should  know 
better;  clergymen  are  found  who  will 
turn their backs upon the merchant who 
has  the  courage  to  treat  them as men; 
but the average clergyman  is an educat­
ed  Christian  gentleman,  who,  while he 
may not have thought of it  before,  will 
appreciate the position  taken by an hon­
orable merchant.
The question  of  what  shall  be  done 
for  the  dressmaker  presents on its face 
far more difficulties, but the same gener­
al principles  are  involved.  When,  as

to 

is now a general  custom,  a  dressmaker 
carries  a stock of dress furnishings, she 
is in that line a wholesale  customer, and 
the retailer who buys that class of goods 
as he should  will  compete  successfully 
with the class of  jobbing houses so anx­
ious to supply such  trade.  But when it 
comes  to  retail  sales, if the dressmaker 
is  entitled  to a commission it is due her 
from the customer for whom  she  makes 
the purchase and not from the merchant. 
We think in no  way  is the average mer­
chant  so  imposed upon, and in no other 
way  does he  throw away so large a por­
tion  of  his legitimate profits as through 
the  medium  of  discounts  to  dressmak­
ers.  Clergymen  are  comparativly  few 
in  number 
in  any  community,  but 
the  regular,  occasional  and  semi-occa­
sional  makers  of  dresses  swarm  every­
where. 
If  a  discount  is  given  to  one, 
why  not  to  another,  and  where  will 
you  draw  the  line?  Give  it  to  the 
woman  who  runs  a  regular  shop,  em­
ploying twenty or thirty  girls,  and  who 
is  a  wholesale  customer  on  goods  she 
carries  in  stock,  and  how  can  it  be 
consistently  denied 
the  woman 
who  employs  an  equal,  number  of  as­
sistants, and  who  because  of  the  very 
fact  that  she  does  not carry a stock of 
linings, etc., is a better retail  customer? 
Grant the discount  to  the  woman  who 
has twenty employes and why not to  the 
.woman who has ten, five,  or less,  or the 
one  who  has  no help  and possibly does 
not work very regulary herself?
The fact is, that unless all are  treated 
alike, you offend all who are refused  the 
discount, and as many customers are lost 
as gained.  The  custom  in  some  estab­
lishments of  giving  discounts  only  for 
purchases for personal use,  and  in  oth­
ers only on goods purchased for  custom­
ers is open to the same criticisms and  to 
the additional objection that it is  an  in­
centive to the dressmaker to impose  up­
on  the  merchant.  We  do  not  wish  to 
cast any reflection upon  dressmakers  as 
a class;  a harder-working, more  deserv­
ing body of women cannot be found; but 
among  them is  the  average  number  of 
unreasonable and unscrupulous persons, 
who,  in various ways,  impose  upon  the 
merchant who is trying to do them  a  fa­
vor or to use them in advancing his  own 
interests.  We have known a dress goods 
salesman to show dressgoods for  half an 
hour, please his customer, give a sample 
so  that  the  dressmaker  might  be  con­
sulted in regard to quantity of  material, 
trimmings, etc., and then in a day or two 
have the dressmaker come  in, order  the 
goods and demand a discount.  As a  re­
sult,  the salesman has done all  the  real 
work, and the dressmaker,  who has done 
nothing, at least for the  merchant,  gets 
all  the  net  profit.  Anyone  acquainted 
with the  business  where  discounts  are 
given, knows that this is by no means an 
imaginary or even  an  exceptional  case, 
but one that occurs almost daily  in  any 
moderately large dressgoods department.
We can see no more reason in giving a 
discount to clerks  than  to  dressmakers 
or clergymen, and think there is  an  ad­
ditional argument why  they  should  not 
receive  it.  The  majority  of  the  em­
ployes of  a  large  establishment  are  of 
necessity uninformed in regard to  either 
the gross or net  profits  of  the  firm  for 
which they work,  and  their  confidence 
in the varne  of  the  goods  offered,  and 
therefore  their  success  in  selling  the 
same depends largely  upon  general  im­
pressions.  Every merchant  knows  that 
after the customary 10 per cent, has been 
given, the average net profit totally  dis­
appears;  and the  most  forcible  way  to 
impress that fact upon the  mind  of  the 
salesman is by denying him  the  conces­
sion.  Better advance salaries enough to 
compensate for the customary  discount, 
and the result will be  no  loss  to  either 
the conscientious  clerk  or  to  the  mer­
chant.  The only one to lose  by  such  a 
change  is  the  salesman,  who,  under 
cover of his own requirements, has  sup­
plied  all  his  family  and  friends  with 
their merchandise at a  discount.
Religious, charitable and social organ­
izations,  when they buy goods in  whole­
sale quantities, so that the  expense  can 
be figured on a wholesale basis, are enti­
tled, of course, to corresponding  prices. 
But when they buy at retail, it costs just 
as much to sell to them as  to  individual

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rassment  on  account  of  unjustifiable 
runs  which,  after  they were over,  were 
found  to  have  have been started in the 
first place by the  smaller  depositors  on 
the most vague and general rumors.

R esp ect  Y our  S ig n atu re .

How often  the  merchant  or  business j 
man is asked to sign his name to  a  peti­
tion or give his endorsement to an enter-1 
| prise of which he has  little  knowledge,  | 
or give a  recommendation  to  some  one | 
i whose check he would not cash or whose  I 
I bond be would uot sign, 
it is  remarks- 1 
ble how careless most business  men  are 
in such matters.  Letters of introduction 
command little  attention  or  respect  in j 
! this country, for they are so easy to pro­
cure. 
In Europe a letter of introduction 
opens a man’s home to a stranger and of­
ten his  purse.  But  Europeans  are  far 
more careful than we are in the giving of 
I such letters.
Who has not signed a document or  pe­
tition simply because he was asked todo 
so?  A favor  lightly  asked  and  lightly 
granted.  Who does  not  know  of  some 
instance  where  a  responsible  business 
man had to spend a week or more in try­
ing to undo what he had thus done  in  a 
thoughtless moment?  The Chicago Trib­
une, in a recent editorial says:
“There is altogether too much signing 
of  petitions,  recommendations  and  in­
dorsements.  If a  man’s  name  has  any 
value, he should be careful how he  puts 
it on paper. 
If he thinks  his  signature 
carries any weight, he  should  refuse  to 
sign if he does not feel inclined to do so, 
even if his refusal does displease the ap­
plicant. 
It is better to say ‘no’  than  to 
say ‘yes,’ and then try to back out of it.”
|  Respect your  signature;  don’t  give  it 
to every Tom.  Dick  and  Harry  for  no 
other reason than because he requests it.
I Know what you  are  signing;  and  when 
I you do indorse  a  friend,  recommend  a 
j trusted employe or give a letter of intro- 
| duction to someone  in  whom  you  have 
| confidence, expect to  be  recognized  aud 
respected.  Don’t cheapen your name by 
a  careless  use  of  it,  and  demand  the 
I same recognition of  it  that  you  would 
! ask for yourself.

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customers, aud there is  no  good  reason 
why they  should  not pay the same  pri­
ces.
As we  said before,  there  are  circum- I 
stances under which we think it  excusa- 
ble for  a  merchant  to  conform  to  the | 
custom of his  competitors  in  the  same 
city.  For  instance, 
it  is  the  custom 
among  retailers  in  some  cities  to give | 
discounts on sales  made  to each  other, 
and in such a case,  a house not  particn- 
larly prominent would find it unpleasant 
not to conform to the  rule.  Of  course, | 
when a discount  is  given  a  competing j 
house, it cannot well be denied the same 
establishment’s employes, aud it follows 
that what is  done  for  the  employes  of 
others must be done for your own.
In conclusion, the whole discount  sys- I 
tern is contrary to sound  business  prin-1 
ciples, and totally inconsistent with  the 
highest  code of  business  morals.  That 
it should be abolished,  none,  we  think, j 
can deny;  and it is. therefore,  the  duty 
of all true merchants to give their  influ-1 
ence in that direction. We are persuaded j 
that nine merchants  out  of  ten  regard 
the  discount  custom  as  an  imposition, | 
and only continue  the  practice  because 
their neighbors do,  but will  hail with de­
light any plan which the  Economist,  in 
its laudable  crusade  against  abuses  in 
business practices, will devise  for  their , 
relief.
Such a  reform,  to  be  universal  and | 
abiding, must originate where it  will re­
ceive the influence of the leading houses j 
in the trade.  For  instance,  let  half  a 
dozen of the great houses  of  New  York 
city  agree  to  discontinue  the  discount 
system, and  the  merchants  throughout 
the land, who naturally look to  them  as 
leaders,  will  enthusiastically 
follow 
their example.

Our  traveler  arrives 

Is  th e   Traveling:  M an  a   “ S ucker?”
Ceesar in Sam ple Case.
To this  question  I  answer,  in  many 
cases he is.  There is no man, or  set  of 
men,  who  are  up  to  the  ways  of  the 
world as  the  commercial  traveler.  He 
visits more towns, sees more people, and 
more kinds of people in  a  year,  than  a 
person  in  the  ordinary  walks  of  life 
wonld visit or see in  a life time.
There is not  a class,  from  the  lowest 
thug or  bum to  dukes,  princes  and  the 
highest types of  American manhood and 
womanhood that he  does  not  meet  and 
mingle with in hotels and on trains.
His  business  brings  him  in  contact 
with the shrewdest men aud closest  cal­
culators of our land.  He  figures  prices 
aud  discounts,  often  getting  down  to 
sixteenths  and 
twentieths  before  he 
closes a bargain;  yet when he  comes  to 
spending his own money he spends it re­
gardless of price.  Let me  give  you  an 
illustration or two:
in  Hightown 
(5,000  inhabitants)  and  handing  his 
checks to a drayman,  wends bis way to a 
hotel.  He cannot open up  all  his  sam­
ples in the stores of  his customers, aud, 
therefore, asks the hotel clerk for a sam­
ple  room.  Ordinarily,  the  room  sup­
plied is  an  unoccupied  bed  room,  fur­
nished  with  a  pair  of  trestles  and  a 
rough board top.  Perhaps  the  weather 
may be a little cool, so he orders  a  little 
fire built to take the chill off.  He opens 
up bis goods and arranges them  as  well 
as  the  limited  space  will  allow,  then 
rushes into the hotel  barber  shop  for a 
shave  and  a  shine  before  dinner.  He 
then works his trade and is off next  day, 
having been a guest of the hotel for  one 
day only, for  which  he  has  to  pay  $2, 
while the town  fellows  who  sat  beside 
him at the same table pay  but  25  cents 
a meal.  Then he pays 25 to 50 cents for 
a bucket of coal, or four or five sticks of 
wood, and oftentimes,  as some landlords 
have bristles on their  necks,  he  has  to 
pay for the use  of  the  unoccupied,  un­
furnished bed-room,  which is known  on 
many a hotel card as “a  large  and  com­
modious sample room.”
He pays 10 cents for a $30  per  M.  ci­
gar, or 5 cents for a  $16  one,  and—says 
nothing.  He pays 15 cents for his shave, 
while the  “town  folks”  get  it  for  10. 
The drayman  charges him  50  cents  for 
his  baggage,  whereas  he  gets  but  25 
cents for hauling a  whole  dray  load  of 
freight from the same depot.
All this, and many more things he puts

up with  without  a  murmur.  There  is.' 
or seems to be, but one  price to the com- 1 
mercial traveler—the outside one.  Those ' 
who  establish  themselves  in  businessj 
solely for transient  trade usually have a 
scale  of  prices to  justify them for wait- j 
ing for such trade  to call, and the  scale 
is 50 to  100 per  cent,  higher  than  that 
charged  where they have  regular  trade. I
But is the traveler a transient?  In one 
sense he is.  He  may call  once in thirty ] 
days, or once  in six months,  but  there is j 
enough  of  him to  make  a steady trade, 
and  there  is  no  good  reason  why  he j 
should be required to pay the same prices 
a  tourist  pays  and  double  what  home 
transient trade pays.
If  he has the  nerve to make a bargain | 
beforehand he  can do as well as any, and 
the  sooner that  is  adopted  as a rule the 
sooner  he will  be relieved of  that trem­
bling sensation which sometimes  attacks 
him  when he  hands  in  his  expense ac­
count.
We are considered legitimate prey by a 
lot of  hotel, baggage  and  other  cormo­
rants, and the writer has often been told, 
when  demurring 
to  an  overcharge, 
“What  difference  does  it  make  to  you, 
your  house  pays  it, you  don’t.”  This 
idea had its birth  with a class of  travel­
ers  who,  to make themselves appear im­
portant,  blow  in their  money  carelessly 
and follow the blow with the remark that 
they don’t care a d—n, the house pays it. 
Such men don’t last long, and are getting 
scarcer  daily. 
I  say we  are  “suckers”
! for submitting quietly to any overcharge, 
however  small,  when  we know it,  and it 
shows either poor business qualifications 
or  a woeful lack of  nerve to do it.
The  writer  once  asked his  employer 
how much of  a  raise of  salary be  would 
give him.  The  answer  was,  “Two dol­
lars for every one  you cut  your expense 
account  down.”
The  merchant  knows  just  what  per 
cent,  be can afford to pay for  having his 
goods sold, and what it costs is the man’s 
salary added to his expense account, and 
there are  a great many men  who  do not 
know that a  dollar saved in  the expense 
account is  a dollar  added  to  their sala­
ries,  but such is the fact nevertheless.
Deal out  your  employer’s money with 
a  lavish  hand  and  your  salary  will  be 
small enough.  Spend your money profit­
ably  to  yourself  and  your  house  and 
your employer will soon see it, and some 
day  you may be  a partner  in the house.
Governor  Flower  on  Buns  on  Banks.
While a disastrous run  was in progress 
on one of the  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  banks 
a couple of weeks ago,  and  promised  to 
spread  to  the  other banks of the place. 
Governor Flower,  who happened to be in 
the  city  at  the  time,  stepped  into the 
midst of the excited depositors and made 
them  a  little  address  as  sensible  as  it 
was  pointed.  Among  other  things  he 
said:  “I would advise you not  to  with- | 
draw one dollar unless you actually need 
it. 
In  panicky  times  like  these,  when 
the people all want their  money, you by j 
your  actions  force  the  banks to keep a j 
larger amount  on  hand than usual.  To 
get this money the bank officials  have to 
refuse to loan  money  on mortgages, and 
also  refuse  to  loan  it  on  commercial j 
paper,  and  therefore  you restrict trade 
and thereby throw labor out  of  employ­
ment.  To  illustrate  what  this bank is, 
picture that each of  you have $20.  You 
place  it  in  a bank.  With it the banker 
buys good bonds, or discounts a  note for 
some  merchant,  or takes  a mortgage on 
some farm.  Afterward you demand your 
money  from 
the  bank.  By  your  ac­
tion you force the bank  to  foreclose  on 
the mortgages held by it.  The merchant 
is compelled to pay his note  or  suspend 
business,  and  the bank  is compelled to 
dispose of  its  bonds.  Thus by your ac­
tion in this instance in demanding money 
which you do  not want you  are  forcing 
the foreclosure of mortgages and driving 
men from  their  homes  and  causing the 
suspension  of  business  interests gener­
ally.”
Governor  Flower’s  words  should  re­
ceive  the  thoughtful  consideration  of 
merchants and everyone  who has money 
in  bank,  no  matter  how small the sum 
may be.  During  the  last  month  or  so 
very many  perfectly  sound  institutions 
have  narrowly  escaped  serious  embar-

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MANUFACTURERS  OF

CAUSES OP  BUSINESS DEPRESSION.
What  is  the cause of the business de­
pression?  Is it  the  tariff,  or  is  it  the 
silver question?

These  are  questions  that  are  being 
constantly  asked and cannot be properly 
answered if any categorical  reply  be at­
tempted.  The serious financial situation 
was  not  directly  caused by any one oc­
currence  or fact,  but by a combination. 
Some causes helped to  precipitate it and 
others to  increase  and  aggravate it,  but 
it  grew  out  of  a  succession of circum­
stances.

Some  two years ago,  when the failure 
of  the  bread  crops  in  several  of  the 
countries  of  Europe  was  announced,  a 
remarkable  activity  in  the  grain  mar­
kets of the United States was the result. 
Business of all sorts was  stimulated and 
speculation soon became  rife.  The  ex­
citement  was  greatly  increased  by the 
enormous  preparations  that were being 
made  in  Chicago for the Columbian Ex­
position,  upon  which  alone  quite $20,- 
000,000 has been  expended.  This spirit 
of speculation and the resulting inflation 
were  felt  throughout  the  West,  while 
the  money  markets  of  the  East  were 
busy lending money  to the West for the 
forwarding  of  all  sorts  of  expensive 
schemes.

There was a  fair  show  of  prosperity 
in  some  parts  of the country, neverthe­
less the great labor strikes  and business 
depression in England  had  reduced  the 
price  of  American  coiton to an amount 
which scarcely paid the cost  of  produc­
tion,  while  silver  dollars  bearing  the 
stamp of the United  States  were  worth 
in  gold  less  than 70 cents.  Despite the 
activity  in  the  grain  markets  of  the 
Northwest,  it  is  a remarkable fact that 
the price of  wheat  never did rise above, 
even if it ever touched,  the price of $1 a 
bushel.  Here,  then,  notwithstanding 
the activity in speculative business, there 
were  few  signs  of  actual  healthful 
prosperity.

Prosperity means a condition in which 
labor is  fully  and  actively  engaged  in 
useful  occupations  at fair wages, while 
commerce  is  selling  the products of the 
country  freely  and at prices which give 
a reasonable  profit  to all concerned, but 
it  is  necessary  that this condition shall 
be general. 
It was not general through­
out the years  1891  and  1892,  for  there 
were  many  labor  disturbances  during 
that  period,  while  American  manufac­
turers held generally  excessive stocks of 
their products and  Southern  cotton was 
still  low,  and  Northwestern  grain  did 
not  enrich  the  farmers  as had been ex­
pected.  But  everybody  was hoping for 
better things, while  speculation kept up 
its  feverish  activity  and  the  inflation 
bubble constantly grew  bigger and more 
transparent.

The  people  of  the  West,  where  the 
greatest amount  of  the inflation existed, 
had  in the meantime become profoundly 
dissatisfied. 
Instead  of  growing  rich, 
they were getting deeper in debt.  There 
never had been so much money in  circu­
lation, for Congress  was paying it out at 
the rate of $500,000,000  a  year,  or a bil­
lion dollars  to each  two sessions.  Nev­
ertheless it was not in the  hands  of  the 
farmers  and  working  people,  because 
agricultural products  were scarcely pay­
ing  for  the  cost  of  growing them, and 
there was no general and steady employ­
ment of labor.  Stocks  of  most  sorts of 
manufactured articles  were in  excess of 
the  demand  for  them,  and,  as a conse-

quence, prices  were  very low, but what 
are low prices to  the  people  who  have 
no money?

It is necessary to understand the situa­
tion which  existed  just  previous to  the 
breaking out  of  the  financial  storm.  A 
bubble requires only a  very  slight shock 
to burst it.  The shock  came  from Asia. 
In April, 1893, came a tremendous finan­
cial crash  in  Australia.  The  people of 
that country had  been  booming their re­
sources.  This  boom  commenced  after 
1880.  In that year the Australian banks 
were able to carry on the business of the 
colony with  their own  united resources. 
After the boom  commenced the  number 
of  banks  increased  and  they  borrowed 
largely from  London. 
In  1892 the Aus­
tralian banks owed England in borrowed 
money  $215,000,000,  while  the  business 
of the banks which in 1880 was $280,000,- 
000 had increased in 1892 to $700,000,000, 
while  the  business of  the  colonies with 
other countries  had  only increased from 
$153,000,750  to  $220,000,000.  Thus  it 
will be  seen  that  the  financial  inflation 
in  Australia  had  grown  vastly  greater 
than the  real  solid  business  could  war­
rant.  The  crash  came  and  it  was  felt 
around the world.

A  financial  thrill  at  London makes  a 
corresponding thrill at New York.  When 
London  tightens  the  purse  strings  and 
raises  the  rate  of  interest  on  money, 
New York  responds  with  a  like  action. 
The bursting of  the bubble in  Australia 
caused the collapse of the bubble  on  the 
opposite side  of  our globe, in  the West­
ern States of the American Union.  Lon­
don is  the  world’s  money  center. 
It is 
the  world’s 
the  chief  depository  of 
wealth. 
It  is  for  this  reason  that  the 
silver question  comes  in  as  a factor  in 
the  situation.  London  commonly  has 
large investments in  United  States  rail­
way and  manufacturing  stocks, many of 
these enterprises being backed chiefly by 
foreign capital.  When  money  is  scarce 
or is  locked up in  London, it is  custom­
ary to  send  Lome American stocks, and, 
forcing  them  on  the  market,  carry  the 
proceeds of  the sale  out  of  the country. 
The  foreign  creditors  will  not  accept 
silver money, but only gold, and thus we 
realize that  our  silver  money is under  a 
ban. 
If  we  had  no  foreign  trade  and 
no  foreign  creditors  it  would  make 
no  difference  what  sort  of  money  we 
have.  The  Gieek  Spartans,  who  had 
no  foreign  commerce  of  any 
sort, 
used  iron  money.  But  when  we have 
foreign creditors  to  pay, then  the ques­
tion of the worth of our money is not de­
termined  by any stamp  our Government 
may put on it,  but by the value the cred­
itors place on it.

From the  observations  made  above it 
is plain  that neither  the  tariff,  nor  the 
silver question, nor any single cause has 
produced the  present financial situation. 
It  is  the  result  of  a  combination  of 
causes, and a  general loss of  confidence 
in  all  financial  business  has  been  the 
consequence.  To  restore  confidence  is 
the great problem which is to devolve on 
Congress at the  session  which  convenes 
next week. 

F kank Sto w ell.

If you want to know what your friends 
really think  of  you,  get  into  a  quarrel 
with them.
The clerk who attempts to live beyond 
his means  will  soon  be  obliged  to  live 
beyond the reach of his friends.
Wishing to become rich without worthy 
effort is  wishing that  others  may be im­
poverished without an equivalent.

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more quickly and easily than he  can  move bis stock, 
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Sea  Sickness
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State  Board  of Pharm acy.

One  Year—Jam es  Vernor, D etroit.
Two  Years—O ttm ar E berbach, Ann  Arbor
T hree  Years—G eorge Gun drum, Ionia.
Four Y ears—C. A. B ugbee. C heboygan.
F ive Years—8. E. P arkill, Owosso.
President—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor.
S ecretary—S tanley E. P ark ill, Owosso.
T reasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

N ext  M eeting—M arquette,  Aug. 29,9 a. m.__________
M ichigan State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 
President—A. B. Steveng, Ann Arbor.
V ice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit.
T reasurer—W. Dupont,  D etroit.
Secretary—S. A. Thom pson, Detroit.
G rand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 
President, John D. Muir;  Sec’y , Frank H. E seott.

C holera  a n d   M odern  R em edies.

When it is considered that  a  year ago 
cholera was  raging  in  many seaports of 
western Europe,  and  had  been imported 
into New York harbor,  where  a  number 
of ships  bringing  immigrants  lay swel­
tering in the  sun  and  having  on  board 
numerous patients afflicted with cholera, 
it is truly astonishing  that  this  disease, 
so fatal and  so  dreaded,  has  not  again 
been brought to our shores.

It must be admitted that the strict reg­
ulations  recently  put  in  force  with re­
gard to the introduction  of steerage pas­
sengers into our ports have been produc­
tive of good.  It is also true that cholera 
is not so prevalent in European  ports  as 
it was last  year,  a  fact  possibly due  to 
better  sanitary  measures  which  have 
been adopted  since the visitation of  last 
year.  Nevertheless,  while  there  is  no 
occasion for  any  special  alarm, there is 
every reason to  maintain  an  attitude of 
the strictest  vigilance  and  readiness  to 
treat  vigorously  an  appearance  of  the 
disease.

In this connection  it  may be  interest­
ing to know something of the latest theo­
ries and the methods  of  treatment most 
in favor as they were brought out by ex­
perience  with  cholera  last  summer  in 
Europe.  Probably there was  no locality 
where  the  disease  was  more  carefully 
studied than  at  Hamburg.  There  were 
tried  the  methods  of  inoculation  with 
the cholera germ as taught by Ferran, of 
Spain, and  Haffkine, a  disciple  of  Pas­
teur, of Paris.  There  were  tried  many 
new and old drugs.

Among the new medicines  given inter­
nally was  salol,  an  antiseptic,  or  pre­
servative  against  decay,  uniting  the 
properties of salicin, the active principle 
of the  willow, and phenol, one of the al­
most innumerable products of petroleum, 
and both well  known  before their capa­
bilities  were  combined.  Common  salt 
dissolved in distilled water to  the extent 
of one-half of  1 per cent, and warmed to 
blood heat,  was  injected  into the veins. 
Salt, of coarse,  is  a preservative against 
decay.  All these methods  of  treatment 
found more  or  less  favor  and were de­
clared to have  attained  success as cura­
tive agents.

A medicine for internal administration 
which has been much vaunted is peroxide 
of hydrogen.  Water is the oxide  of  hy­
drogen,  its  composition being one  atom 
of  oxygen united to one atom  of  hydro­
gen and represented in chemical formula 
by the letters  H. O.  Peroxide  of  hydro­
gen is composed of two atoms  of oxygen 
united  to  two  atoms  of  hydrogen and 
represented  by  the  symbol  H2  02,  and 
said  to  be  a  powerful  antiseptic  and 
germ-killer. 
It is given mixed to the ex­
tent of  2 per  cent,  in  water  in  cupful 
doses every  two  hours,  and  appears  to 
have many advocates and admirers.

Another treatment  which may be used 
in conjunction with  that  last mentioned

is that of  irrigating  the  intestines  with 
copious  injections  of  hot  water,  well 
soaped.  Dr.  Elmer  Lee,  an  American, 
who visited Hamburg last year when the 
cholera was raging  there, is a  warm ad­
vocate  of  this  method.  He  holds  that 
cholera  is  a  disease  of  the  alimentary 
canal.  This  is do  new opinion, but one 
generally  received. 
Its  incited cause is 
believed  to  be  a  germ  taken  into  that 
canal  through  the  medium  of  food  and 
drink.
According to  Dr. Lee’s views, the first 
symptom  produced  by foreign  invasion 
in  the intestines  is diarrhea,  which may 
precede  vomiting  from  one  to three  or 
even four days.  If this be true, the bow­
els must be the seat of  disorder, and  the 
most direct method of  reaching  them by 
medication  must  be  the  best. 
If  the 
stomach  conld be  emptied  of  the  foul 
material  before  the  poison  has  passed 
further  there  might  be  speedy  relief. 
After  it has  passed  into  the  intestines, 
medicine administered through the stom­
ach may be  slow in  reaching the seat  of 
the disease, and even  then can only min­
gle with the poison, holding out the hope 
that the  one  will  be  neutralized  by the 
other.  This  hope,  in  truth, is  seldom 
realized.  But  if  the  poison  can  be  re­
moved  from  below,  the  course  is  left 
clear for nature to recuperate itself.  The 
diarrhea is  an evidence of  the  great ex­
ertion put  forth  by the  organism  to  rid 
itself of  the  death-dealing  agency,  and 
probably  it  would  be  effectual  in  the 
great majority of  cases  were  it  not  that 
the nervous forces of  the system  are ex­
hausted by the terrible strain before  the 
required evacuation of the bowels is com­
pleted.  These  conditions  seem  to indi­
cate  the  necessity  for  the  irrigation or 
washing-out  treatment, which,  it  is  de­
clared, has not  only been  attended with 
remarkable  success,  but  is  not  exhaus­
tive of the patient’s strength and energy. 
Cleanse the  bowels,  wash  the  stomach, 
feed  the  sick, keep  them  warm  if cold, 
and  reduce  excessive  heat  by  the  cool 
bath  rather  than  reliance  upon  drugs, 
using  anything in  an  emergency that is 
the easiest  and  most  accessible  to  pro­
cure, is the injunction.

It  is  gratifying  to  see,  from  what  is 
given above, that the tendency in cholera 
practice is to  abolish  complicated meth­
ods  and  excessive  drugging,  and  resort 
to more simple  remedies  and  processes. 
Doubtless the  new  treatment  is  as effi­
cient as the old, and more reasonable.

B eau ty   P hysicians.

It is truly remarkable  in an age  when 
sanitary science boasts its  triumphs that 
so little  attention has been  paid by con­
scientious and  capable  medical  men  to 
the preservation of human beauty and to 
the cure or removal of manageable blem­
ishes.
The  demand for  such medical skill  is 
certainly  very great, as  is evidenced  by 
the enormous sale of lotions, complexion 
powders  and  other  such  preparations, 
the  furnishing  of  which  is  commonly 
left in the hands of  persons who, if they 
be not  unscrupulous,  are  commonly ig­
norant of  the  operations  of  the bodily 
functions  to  which  they  undertake  to 
prescribe.  It  is also  too  commonly the 
case that  the beauty medicines  are com­
posed of  poisonous  substances, as is the 
case with many hair  dyes, hair bleaches, 
face  lotions  and  complexion  tablets,  in 
which salts of  lead,  preparations of bis­
muth and white  arsenic most frequently 
figure.

TH E  MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.
A beautiful  complexion  requires  that 
there  shall  be, first,  a  beautiful  skin, 
which  is  itself  peculiarly a  badge  of 
health.  The  skin  has  extensive  and 
most  important  functions  in  absorbing 
from  the  exterior,  and  in  eliminating 
from  the interior, of the body matters of 
which  it  is  necessary to  be  rid.  The 
skin cannot be considered apart from the 
body  itself. 
It  has  intimate  relations 
with the digestive system and respiratory 
organs, besides  its special  faculty of re­
moving  moisture  and  other  fluid  and 
vaporized  matters.

makes little difference  how much  notice 
your  advertisement  attracts  if  people 
look at  it,  laugh,  and  don’t  buy  your 
goods.
It  is  pretty safe to say that all adver­
tisements  are  read;  they  are  seen  by 
everybody.  The  only  fault to be found 
with them usually is  that  they  are  not 
good salesmen.  They  omit  the  selling 
point.  They may have a halftone repro­
duction  of  the  handsomest  woman  in 
England,  and  the  little portrait will be 
cut  out  and  the  advertisement  thrown 
away.  They  may  have  half  a  dozen 
funny  points  in  them,  a  lot  of  puns, 
original  turns  of language, or they may 
contain  your  own  portrait  in  a  very 
prominent position, but unless they con­
tain  reasons,  selling  points  which will 
induce  the  reader  to buy,  the  art, the 
funny  things, your portrait, and the ad­
vertisement  itself,  are  entirly  wasted. 
What  you  want  is  to sell goods, and if 
your  advertisement  does  not  do  that 
work for you, you had  better  keep your 
money  in  your  pocket  and  the  copy 
in your desk.

W. E.  P a r tr id g e.

P h arm aceu tical  E q u iv alen ts.

The following table, compiled by  John 
DeBoe, chemist for the  Hazeltine & Per­
kins Drug Co., will be found of sufficient 
interest to the retail druggist to give it a 
prominent place in his scrap book:
Multiply by
To convert— 
minims into grains  .............................  
0.9493
fl. oz. into avoir, o z ...............................  1.0417
fl. oz. into Troy oz................................   0 9493
grains into minims........................ ...  
l.< 55
avoir, oz. into fl. oz...............................  0.981
Troy oz. Into fl. oz..................................  1 055
avoir, oz. into  Troy oz..........................   0.9115
Troy oz. into avoir, oz..........................   1.097
imperial minims into  grains 
..............  0.911
imperial fl. oz. into wine fl. oz  .............  0.981
grains into minims................................   1.099
wine fl. oz. into imp. fl.  oz...................   1.041
wine pints into  imp. pints....................   0 833
cubic centimeters into minims.............  16.23
cubic centimeters into  fl. oz.................  0.0338
liters into pints.......................................  2.113
cubic centimeters to imp  fl. oz............   0.0352
liters into imp. pints..............................  1.7617
grains into grammes..............................  0.0648
avoir, oz. into grammes............  
  28.3495
Troy oz. into  grammes............................ 31.1035
fl. oz. into cubic centimeters.................   29.572
pints into liters  ....................................  0.4731
imp. fl. oz. into cubic centimeters........  28.397
imp  pints into liters.............................   0.5679
grammes into grains.............................   15 432
grammes into avoir, oz.  ..  ...................  0.0352
grammes into Troy oz  ..........................   0.0321

 

T oots  F rom   R am ’s  H orn.

The  devil  would  have  to  go  out  of 
business if he couldn’t use whitewash.
The devil  sees  to  it  that  a  scolding 
woman never gets hoarse.
When a man  is  hungry he never com­
plains that his wife is a poor cook.
If there were no men to cook for, some 
women would almost  starve  themselves 
to death.

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Kent  County Sayings M,

GRAND  RAPIDS  ,MICH.

J n o .  A.  Co v o d e ,  Pres.

H e n r y   I d e m a , Vlce-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  V e b d i e b ,  Cashier.

K .  V a n   H o p ,  A s s ’t C’s’r. 

Transacts a General Banking  Business. 

Interest  Allowed  on  Time  and  Savings 

Deposits.

DIRECTORS:

Jno. A. Covode, D. A.  Blodgett,  E. Crofton Fox, 
T. J. O’Brien,  A. J. Bonne,  Henry Idema, 
Jno.W. Blodgett,J. A. McKee 
J. A. S. Verdier.
Deposits  Exceed  One  Million  Dollars.

RETAIL  DRUGGISTS!

PLEASE  BEAR  IN  MIND  that we  mean just 
what we say when  giving  you  the  privilege  of 
returning all of  our goods  you  find  unsaleable 
after four months from date of shipment.  Peck- 
ham's Croup Remedy SELLS and GIVES SATIS­
FACTION  is  the reason why  we  can  afford  to 
make this offer.  WE take all the  risk and shall 
protect your interests by REFUSING  in  the fu­
ture, as  in the past,  ALL  ORDERS  from  CUT­
TERS,  DRY  GOODS  and  BAZAAR  STORES. 
You need not wait until cold weather to send in 
an order;  Peckham’s  Croup  Remedy sells sum 
mer and winter.
SPKCI \  L—We give one dozen COURT PLAS 
TER TABLETS  and  one  ream  9x12  WHITE 
WRAPPING  PAPER (cut  from  40  lb.  book)  in 
tablet form with each  dozen  Peckham’s Croup 
Remedy ordered  on  this  blank and  GUARAN­
TEE  ITS SALE!  Your address, street and num­
ber neatly printed on tablets ana all advertising. 
We  will  send a supply of advertising with your 
card printed thereon free on application.
PECKHAM  REMEDY  CO.,  Freeport, Mich.

No practitioner  is  properly  prepared 
to treat  the  skin  unless he  is  fully in­
structed in  the relations  of  the  human 
exterior envelope to all the rest of the or­
gans it encloses.  The same statement is 
true  as  to  the  hair. 
It  will,  theu,  be 
readily seen how  dangerous it is to trust 
to the medicaments of those persons who 
do not know the physiology or functional 
operations of  the human  body, and who 
only attempt an  external treatment with 
agents whose qualities and character they 
as little understand.

Considering how  important  a concern 
is  physical  beauty, and what a potential 
factor it is in  human  affairs, one cannot 
help wondering that it has not been made 
the special  study of  scientific  physiolo­
gists and medical practitioners as well as 
of  artists.  There  is  po  question  that 
much may be done in the way of improv­
ing the skin  and  complexion,  and  it is 
not out of the reach of  possibility to dis­
cover  nature’s  secrets  concerning  the 
hair.  Beauty means health, and the pres­
ervation of  health is the  highest duty of 
the  physician.  Why,  then,  should  not 
the  capable  and  conscientious  medical 
man undertake a branch of his profession 
so plainly in  the line  of  his duty and so 
worthy  of  the  highest  consideration? 
Some  advertiser  making  known 
the 
claims of  a face  lotion  has  declared,  in 
parody of  the celebrated  line of  Keats: 
"A  skin  of  beauty  is  a  joy  forever.” 
Certainly  it  is  a  joy  to  those  who  pos­
sess  it and  to  those  who  look  upon it. 
The subject  is, then,  commended to the 
care of  the honest medical men  who de­
sire to extend the  domain of  the healing 
art  into a region  which  is  largely occu­
pied by charlatans and ignorant persons.

Salesm an.

A  Good  A d v ertisem en t  a n d   a   Good 
A friend of mine some  time ago on go­
ing into a business office  where  he  was 
acquainted found the  proprietor in most 
earnest  conversation  with  a  stranger. 
It  was  necessary  to wait some time be­
fore  the  proprietor dismissed his friend 
and was  ready  to sit down for a conver­
sation.  Then something  like  this  took 
place:  “Did you see  that man who just 
went out?”  1 answered  “yes.”  “He is 
one of the most  interesting men I know, 
I  always  listen  to  everything  he  says 
with the deepest interest  and with great 
respect.” 
1  asked,  “Who  is  he  and 
what is  he?”  “He  is  one  of  the  best 
salesmen that I know, thoroughly posted 
in  every  branch of his business, includ­
ing  all  the  details  of  manufacturing.” 
“Did  he  sell  you  anything?”  1  asked. 
“No,  not  this  time.”  “Well,”  I  said, 
“your opinion of the man and that of the 
home  office  are likely to differ consider­
ably.”  “Oh, you mean  he  should  have 
sold me a bill of goods.”  “Yes,” said I, 
“that  was  his  business,  and  while  he 
may be interesting  and  attractive he did 
not accomplish his work unless he was a 
good salesman.”
Now there are a great many advertise­
ments  which  are in precisely the condi­
tion  of  this  salesman.  They  are inter­
esting.  They are attractive.  They show 
artistic things.  They  are everything in 
the  world  except  good  salesmen. 
It

TH E  MTCHIG^JSr  TRADESM AN,

1 5

Wholesale P rice  Current•

Declined—Gum Arabic.

Senega Rt.

a c id u m .

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

Acetleum.....................   8® 10
Benzoicnm  German..  65®  75
Boraclc 
SO
Carbollcum .  ..............  25® 35
Citrlcum.....................   52® 55
Hvdrochlor................  3®  5
Nltrocum 
...................  10® 12
Oxalicum.....................  10®  12
20
Phosphorlum dll........ 
Sallcylicum.................1  30@1 70
Sulpnurlcum.........  
1X®  5
Tannleum....................1  40@1 60
Tartarlcum................  30®  33

AMMONIA.

n 

Aqua, 16  deg..............  314®  5
20  deg................5%®  7
Carbones  ................... 
i2®  14
Chloridum.................   12®  14

ANILINE.

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

BACCAE.

Cubeae (po  40)........  3:@  40
Junlperua..................   8®  10
Xanthoxylum............   25®  30

BAL8AMUM.

Copaiba......................  42®  45
Peru............................  @1  80
Terabln, Canada  ....  45®  50
Tolutan......................  35®  50

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Caaalae  ...............................  11
Cinchona Plava  .................   18
Enonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrica Cerifera, po.............  20
Primus Vlrglnl....................  12
Quillala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

BXTRACTTJM.

Glycyrrhiza  Glabra...  24®  25
« 
po...........  33®  35
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12
“ 
la...............   13®  14
“  Ha..............  14®  15
••  %s..............  16®  17

EERRIJ

Carbonate Preclp........  ®  15
Citrate and Qulnla —   ®3  50
Citrate  Soluble...........  ®  80
Ferrocyanldum Sol —   ®  50
Solut  Chloride...........  ®  15
Sulphate,  com’l .............. 9®  2
pure............   @  1

“ 

Arnica.......................  18®  20
Anthemis..................   so®  35
Matricaria 
.....  50®  65

FLORA.

FOJ.1A.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin

...................  18®  50
nlyelly....................   25®  28
“  Alx.  35®  50
and  He....................   15®  25
...................  8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
UraUral 

“ 

su m m i.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
" 

Acacia,  lBt  picked.... 

®  60
2d 
....  @  40
3d 
....  @  30
sifted aorta...  @  20
po.................  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  @  12
Socotrl, (po.  60).  ®  50
Catechu, la, (Ha, 14 Xb>
16)............................  ®  1
Ammoniac.................  55®  60
Aasaf CBtlda, (po. 35)..  30®  35
Benzolnum.................  50®  55
Camphors...................  55®  58
Eupnorbium  po  ........  35®  10
Galbanum...................  ®2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70®  7b
Guaiacum, (po  35)....  ®  30
Kino,  (po  1  10).........   @1  15
Maatlo  ... 
................  @  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  ®  40
Opll  (po  3 75)................2 60@2 65
Shellac  .....................   45®  42
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth................  40® 1 00

“ 
hbbba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.....................  
  25
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia................................   25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................   23
•'  V li.........................  25
Rue......................................   Si
Tanacetnm, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25

MASNESIA.

OLBTTM.

Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennlng5..  35®  36
Absinthium.................... 3 50®4 00
Amygdalae, DulC........  45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarae__8 00®8 25
A nlsl............................... 1 70@1 80
Aurantl  Cortex..........2 30®2 40
Bergamil  ...................3 25@3 50
Cajlputl.................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll................  75®  80
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodll................  ®1  60
Clnnamonll...............   90@1 00
Cltronella...................  ®  45
Conlum  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba  ....................   80®  90

Cubebae......................  ® 3 00
Exechthltos..............  2 50®2 75
Erlgeron.........................2 00®2 10
Gaultherla......................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......  ®  75
Gosslpll, Sem.  gal....  70®  75
Hedeoma  ...................2 10@2 20
Junlperl......................  50®2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonls...........................2 40@2 60
Mentha Piper...................2 75@3 50
Mentha Verld................. 2 20®2 30
Morrhuae, gal..................1  00@1 10
Myrcla, ounce............   ®  50
Olive..........................  85@2 75
Plcls Liquids, (gal. .35)  10®  12
R ld n l............ -.........  1  22® 1  28
Rosmarlnl............  
75®l 00
Rosae, ounce...................6 50@8 50
Succlnl........  ............   40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
Santal  ........................3 50®7 00
Sassafras....................   50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  ®  65
TIglll..........................   @  90
Thyme.......................   40®  50
o p t.................  ®  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

“ 

RADIX.

POTASSIUM.
Bl Carb....................... 
is®  18
Bichromate................  13®  14
Bromide....................  38®  42
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate  (po  23®25)..  24®  26
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..............................2 90@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @  15
Potass Nltras, opt...... 
8®  10
Potass Nltras..............  7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18
Aconltum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentians  (po. 12)......  
8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)...................  @  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po....................... 2 20®2 30
Iris plox (po. 35®38) ..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  40®  45
Maranta,  >*b..............  ®  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhel............................  75@1  00
“  Cut......................  @1  75
“  pv.......................  75@1  35
Splgeila......................  35®  38
Sangulnarla, (po  25)..  @  20
Serpentarla.................  30®  32
3enega.......................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  ®  40 
M  ®  25
Sclllae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpua,  Fostl-
  ®  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a ................. 
18®  20
Zingiber  j ...............  
18®  20
SEMBN.

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

“ 

“ 

AnlBum,  (po. 20)........  ®  15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  IF®  18
Bird, Is....................... 
4®  6
Carui, (po. 18)............   10®  12
Cardamon........................l  00®1 25
Corlandrom...............   10®  12
Cannabis Satlva.........   4® 
5
Cydonlum...................  75®1  00
Cnenopodlum  ...........  10®  12
Dlpterlx Odorate........ 2 25®2 50
Foenlculum...............   ®  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
U n i............................4  @4)4
Uni, grd,  (bbl. 8)4)...  4  @4)4
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Pharlarla Canarian__ 
4®  5
R apa..........................   6®  7
Slnapls  Albu............ 11  ®13
Nigra...........  11®  12
8FIBITU8.
Frumentl, W..D.  Co.. 2 00®2 50
D. F. R.......1  75®2 00
 
1  25@1  50
Junlperls  Co. O. T __1  65@2 00
“ 
.............1  75®3 50
Saacharum  N.  E ........ 1  75®2 00
Spt.  Vlnl  Gain........... 1  75®6 50
Vlnl Oporto.................... 1  25@2 00
Vlnl  Alba....................... 1 25®2 00

“ 
“ 
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SPONSB8.

Florida  aheepa’  wool
carriage........................2 50®2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage' ................. 
Velvet  extra  aheepa’
wool  carriage.........  
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage................... 
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage .......................  
Haro for  slate  use—  
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se..........................  

2 00
1  10
85
65
75
1  40

SYRUPS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferrl Iod.......................   ...  50
Aurantl  Cortes....................   50
Rhel  Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega.................................  50
Sclllae..................................   50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunua  rlrg.........................  50

“ 

“ 

TINCTURES.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Aconltum Napellia R.........   60
F ..........  50
Aloes...................................   60
and myrrh.................  60
A rnica................................   so
Asafoetlda............................  o
A trope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................   oo
“  Co..........................   50
Sangulnarla.........................  SO
Barosma.............................   so
Cantharldes.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
Co.........................  75
Castor.......................................1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona............................  so
Co.........................  60
Columba.............................   so
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba.................................  50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot....................................  50
Gentian...............................  50
“  Co............................  60
Gualca.................................  50
“ 
ammon....................  60
Zingiber.............................   50
HyoscyamUB.......................   50
Iodine..................................   75
“  Colorless...................  75
Ferrl  Chloridum.................  35
K ino....................................  50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................   50
Nux  Vomica.......................   50
..........................   85
‘  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor............................. 2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany  .............................   50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentarla .........................   50
Stromonlum.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVerlde.................  50

“ 

“ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

‘ 
“ 

ASther, Spts  Mlt, 3 F..  28®  30 
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alumen....................... 2)4® 3

T‘ 
ground,  (po.

!*  prep.

German 8 

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antlmonl, po..............  4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrin...................  @1 40
Antlrebrln..................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  ©  55
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 20®2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (54s
12;  Mb,  14)..............
®  11
Cantharldes  Russian,
po............................
®1  00 
Capslcl  Fructus, af...
®  26 
@  28 
po.
®  20
Caryophyllua, (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera Alba, S. & F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................  ©  40
CaBSla Fructus...........  ©  25
Centrarla....................  ©  10
Cetaceum..................   ©  40
Chloroform...............   60©  63
aqulbba ..  ©1  25
Chloral Hyd Crat........1  35©1  60
Chondrua...................  20©  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  A  W  15©  20
12
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  .......................
60 
Creasotum.................
®  35 
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........
®  2 
5®  5
9®  11 
©  8
Crocus......................  40®  50
Cudbear......................  ®  24
Cuprl Sulph...............   5 ®   6
D extrine...'...............  10®  12
Ether Sulph................  70®  75
Emery,  an  numbers..  ©
po...................  ©  6
^   •>75..........  to®  75
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................   ©  23
Gambler......................7  ® 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ©  70
French...........  40©  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 & 10. 
Less than box 66 %
Glue,  Brown..............  9©  15
“  White...............   18®  25
Glycerlna...................14)4®  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  ©  22
Humulus....................  25©  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ®  85 
“  C or....  ®  80
Ox Rubrum  ®  90 
Ammonlatl..  @1 00
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   ®  64
Ichthyobolla, Am..  ..1  25®1 50
Indigo.........................  75®1 00
iodine, Resubl...........3 80®3 90
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulln......................  ®2 25
Lycopodium..............  65®  70
M ads.........................  70®  75
Uquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararglod.................  ®  27
Uquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,£,8.F..............  60®  63

IX )............................2)4© 4

" 

“ 

S.  N. Y. Q.  &

Morphia,  W P. & W.  2 20@2 45 
C.  Co....................  2 10@2 35
Moschus Canton........  ®  40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Ob.  Sepia....................   20®  22
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls Uq, N.»C., % gal
doz  .........................  ®2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts......   @1  00
pints.........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__   @  3
Plx  Burgun................  @  7
Plumb! A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opll.. 1  10®1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H 
& P. D.  Co., doz......   @1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae....................   8®  10
Qulnla, S. P. & W......   29®  34
S.  German....  20®  30
Rubla  Tlnctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
20®  22
Salacln.......................1  75®1  80
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
,T  M.........................  10® 12
“  G.......................   @115

“ 

Seldlitz  Mixture........  @  20
Slnapls........................  @  18
“  opt...................  @  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................   @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  1)4®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   @  5
Soda,  Ash..................   3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......   @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
•*  Vlnl  Rect  bbl.
....7 ........................ 2 19@2 29
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal......1 4<j@l  45
Sulphur, Subl............ 2M@ 3
AUU......
...  Ä 
Tamarinds............
...  8® 10
Terebenth Venice.....  28® 30
Theobromae......... ...45  @ 48
Vanilla.................. . .9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph........... ...  7® 8

OILS.

Whale, winter........ ..  70
Lard,  extra............ ..1  10 
Lard, No.  1............ ..  65
Linseed, pure raw.. ..  51

Bbl.  Gal
70
i1 15
70
54

“ 

paints. 

Llndseed,  boiled__   54 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   80 
SplritsTurpentlne....  34 

57
85
38
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian..............IX  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__IX  2@4
“ 
Ber........IX  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2X 2)4@3
“  strictly  pure......2)4 2X®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ................. 
  13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
65@70
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red....................  6X@7
“  w hite................6X@7
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @90
1  0 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
1 40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
Paints.....................1 00@1 20

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

 

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................ 160@1  70
Coach  Body...............2 75®3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn........1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55®1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70®7 5
Turp..........................  

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT  MEDICINES

DEALERS  IN

Paints, Oils  % Varnishes.

Sole Agemto for the Celebrated

SWISS  HILLS  PREPARED  MINTS.
lie   of  Staple  Druggists’  S ite s

M  

We are Sole Proprietors of

Weatlerly's  Michigan  Catarri  Remedy.

We Have m  Stock and Offer a P a ll Line of

W H ISK IE S , 

B R A N D IE S
GINS,  WINES,  RUMS*

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

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TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

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

Sap Sago....................  ©22
Schweitzer, Imported.  ©24
domestic  ....  ©14

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

“ 

Triumph Brand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles.........  2 75
Pint 
...........  4 SO
Quart 1 doz bottles 
3  50
Half pint, per  doz.............1  35
Pint, 25 bottles................... 4 50
Quart, per  doz  .................. 3 75
5 gross boxes.................40©45
35 lb  bags..............  .....  ©3
Less quantity...............   @334
Pound  packages.......... 034 ©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 Guatamala.
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.

Roasted.

•

“ 

... 

P  AC kp 

Extract.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 34c. per lb. for roast 
Ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
M cLaughlin’s  X X X I ..  23 45
Bunola.............................  £2 f5
Lion. 60 or 100 lb.  case —   23 45 
Valley City 34 gross..........  
76
l  15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross.......   1  50
2 50
5
7

Bulk...................
Red 
.
Cotton.  40 ft...... . .per doz. 1  25
1  40
1  to
1  75
1  90
90
1  60

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Jute 
“ 
CONBENSED  MILK. 

50ft..  ..
“
60 f t----
**
70 f t ........ . . 
“
80 ft...... .. 
eo f t ........ . .  M
72ft’....
4 doz. In case.

......... . 
CLOTHES LINES.

tin
CHICORY.

AXLE GREASE.
doz
Aurora......... .........   55
60
Castor Oil — ...... 
Diamond...... .........   50
Frazer’s........ ........ 
75
Mica  ........... .........   65
..  ..........   55
Paragon 

gross
6 00
7 CO
5 50
8 00
7 50
6 00

BAKING  POWDER. 
Acme.
u  lb. cans, 3 doz...............  
45
2  “  ................  85
H lb.  “ 
l  "  .................i eo
i lb.  « 
Bulk...................................   10
Arctic.
K ft cans 6 doz  case......... 
55
........  *  *“
34 ft  “  4 doz  “ 
1  10 
i  lb  “  2 doz  “ 
.......
2 00 
9 00
5  ®  “  1 do*  “ 
.......
Fosfon.
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case 
“
16  » 
Red Star, la ft cans.......
........
“ 
34 ft  “ 
.........
“ 
1ft  “ 
Teller’s,  34 lb. cans, doz 
“
341b. 
“ 
“ 
1 lb.  “ 
“ 
“
% 
“ 
1 lb cans ...  .  1  50
“ 
Dr. Price’s.

Our Leader, 34 lb cans...... 
lb  cans........ 

2 00 
40 
75 
1  40 
45 
85 
1  50
45
75

>*  2  “ 

n'PRICE’S
tuns
§AKlNg
BOOTES

Dime cans 
4-oz 
6-oz 
8-oz 
12oz 
16-oz 
2M-lb 
1-lb 
Vlb 
10-lb

per doz
■Kl 
.1  40 
2 CO 
.2 60 
.3 90 
.5 00 
12 00 
18 25 
22 75 
41  80

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen in case.

“ 

11 
“ 

8oz 

No. 3, 
No. 5, 

BLUING.

English.......................... . ..  90
Bristol............................. ...  SO
...  70
Domestic.......................
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals........... ..  3 69
........... ..  7 00
“ 
“  pints,  round  ...... ..  9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box. ..  2 75
...  4 00
...  8 00
“  1 oz ball  .................  4 50
Mexican Liquid, 4 oz........  3 60
8 oz......... 6 80
“ 
“ 
BROOMS,
,40.2 Hurl..........................  1  75
.........................  2 00
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet.......................  2 25
.......................2 50
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem........................ 2 75
Common Whisk................. 
90
Fancy 
.................1  15
Warehouse.........................3 25
Stove, No.  1.......................   125
“  10..-....................  1  50
“  15
Rice Root Scrub. 2  row—   85
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row  ..  1  25
Palmetto, goose...........—   1  5C

“ 
BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

BUTTER  PLATES. 

Oval—250 in crate.

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

CANDLES.

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

“ 

CANNED  GOODS. 

Fruits.
Apples.

85 
3 00

Gages.

Peaches.

Cherries.

lb. standard............
York State, gallons.... 
Hamburgh.  *•
Apricots.
Live oak.....................
1  75 
Santa Cruz.................
1  75 
Lusk’s.........................
1  75 
Overland..................
1  75
Blackberries.
B. A  W....................... 
95
Red............................  1  10@1 20
1 75
Pitted Hamburgh  . . . .  
W hite......................... 
1  50
Brie............................ 
1  20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Erie............................
1  10 
California..................
1  70
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common....................
1  25
Pie...........
Maxwell  .. 
1  65
Shepard’s  . 
California. 
2 20 
1  65
Monitor 
Oxford__
Domestic. 
1  20 
Riverside.
2  10
Common..................... 1 00@1  30
50 
Johnson's  sliced
2 75 
grated........
Booth’s sliced............
©2 50 
grated........  .
@2 75
Quinces.
Common....................
1  10
Raspberries.
Red.............................
1 30 
1 50 
Black Hamburg.........
Brie, black 
..............
1  30
Strawberries.
Lawrence...................
1 25 1
Hamburgh.................
Erie............................
1  25 
Terrapin.......................
1  10
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............
1  00
Corned  beef  Libby’s...
...11  75
Roast beef  Armour’s...
Potted  ham, 34 lb............... 1  40
“  14 lb.................  85
tongue, 34 lb............ 1 35
34 lb..
chicken, 14 lb... 
Vegetables.

Pineapples.

Meats.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  string! ass..  _____
.1  25
French style.......2 25
Limas................. 1  35
Lima, green........................1 40
soaked......................  75
Lewis Boston Baked..........1
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 49
Morning Glory
Soaked............................... 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat.............1 35
early June
Champion Eng. .1  50
petit  pois.............1 75
fancy  sifted____1 90
Soaked.................................  75
Harris standard
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  10
early June.......1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  35
French..................................... 2 15
French..............................17@22
Erie.....................................   95
Hubbard...................................1 25
Hamburg...................................1 40
Soaked.................................  85
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 50
E rie.
.1  ®
Hancock.........................
Excelsior ........................
Eclipse............................
Hamburg........................
.......................
Gallon  . 
CHOCOLATE.
Baker’s.
German Sweet................
Premium.........................

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Flab.
Clams.
Little Neck,  l i b ................ l  20
2 lb................1  90
Standard, 81b....................  2 25
Standard,  1 lb....................1  00
21b.....................1®
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb........................... 2 50
“  2  lb........................... 8 50
Picnic,1 lb..........................2 00
21b.......................... 2 90
“ 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb.....................1 25
2  lb. 
.2  10 
Mnstard,  21b.
.2 25
Tomato Sance,  21b............ 2 25
Soused. 2 lb............
.  ...1  90 Breakfast  Cocoa........
43
Colombia River, flat -.
CHEESE.
...... 1  45 Amboy.......................
Alaska, Red...............
@1034
. . .   1  25 Acme.......................... @10
pink................
©10
......1  95 Lenawee....................
Kinney’s,  flats...........
Riverside..................
10
Sardines.
© 5 Gold  Medal...............
© 934
American  34s ............
.634© 7 Skim..........................
6© 7
A * ............
Imported  34 s.............. ....10@U Brick..........................
11
...15@16 Edam  ........................
1  00
34S..............
Mustard 34s............... ....  @8 Leiden.......................
23
21 Llmburger  ...............
Boneless..................
@10
©25
Pineapple...................
Roquefort...................
Brook, 8 lb................. ........3 50
©35

tails.. ........1 75

“ 
•* 

Trout.

“ 
“ 

“ 

N. Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gail Borden Eagle.............. 7  40
Crown................................   6 25
Daisy..................................  5 75
Champion..........................  4  50
Magnolia  ..........................  4 S'
Dime....................................3 35

COUPON  BOOKS.

8  1, per hundred........
......
“ 
$ 2,  “
“ 
........
8 8.  “
8 5,  “
........
“ 
810,  “
*• 
......
820,  “
“Superior.”
8  1. per hundred........
......
* 2,  “
8 8,  “
8 5,  “
$10,  “
$20,  “

....  2 00
....  2 50
....  3 00
...  8 OP
...  4 00
....  5 00
....  2 50
....  3 00
........... ....  3 50
....  4 00
......... ....  5 00
........
....  6 00

“ 
“
“ 
“ 

“Universal.”

No. 2, 614.......................... 

IM

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

8  1, per hundred..............13 00
*2, 
............... 3 50
8 3, 
...............   4 00
8 5, 
...............   5 00
810, 
................ 6 00
820. 
.............7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over............ 5  per  cent.
.  ........10 
500  “ 
1000  “ 
.......... 20 
COUPON  PASS BOOKS. 
ICan  be  made to represent’any 
denomination  from 810  down. | 
20 books........................ 81  00
50
!  00 
3 00 
100
6 25 
250
500
10 00 
17 50
1000

“
“

CREDIT  CHECKS.

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

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX..................  6
Seymour XXX, cartoon......654
Family  XXX.....................   6
Family XXX,  cartoon........  634
Salted XXX.........................6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ..........634
...........................  714
Kenosha 
Boston..................................  8
Batter  biscuit... 
.............   614
Soda.

Soda, XXX.........................  6
Soda, City.............................  714
Soda,  Duchess....................  814
Crystal Wafer...................... 10
Long  Island Wafers 
........ 11
S. Oyster XXX....................  6
City Oyster. XXX.................6
Farina  Oyster....................   6

Oyster.

CREAM  TARTAR.
Strictly  pure...................... 
30
Telfers  Absolute................   3
Grocers’............................ 15@2f>

DRIED  FRUITS. 

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 b ag s......
California In bags-----
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes..................
...................
25 “ 
Prunelles.
30 lb.  boxes..................
Raspberries.
In barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
25 lb.  “ 
......................
Raisins.

Pears.

“ 

“ 

Loose Muscatels In Boxes.

2 crown.............................   1  45
3 
.............................   1 65
2  crown......................  
514
3 

“ 
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
“ 
...............................6

Foreign.
Currants.

“ 
“ 

Peel.

Patras,  In barrels............  
4
In  34-bbls..............  434
“ 
I  “ 
In less quantity.... 
414
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  20 
Lemon 
10
Orange 
11
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes..  © 8
Sultana,20 
..  814© 9
“ 
Valencia, 30  “
California,  100-120..............10

“ 
“ 
Raisins.

25  “ 
25  “ 

Prunes.
90x100 25 lb. bxs. 1114
80x90 
70x80
60x70 

.14
7

“ 
Turkey......................... 
Sliver..........................
Sultana...............................
French,  60-70...................... 13
70-80...................... 12
80-90....................... 11
90-10'......................10
ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

 

....................  
Coin.

 
Manilla, white.

 
XX  wood, white.

No. 1,6  ...  ......................  1  65
No. 2, 6..............  
1  50
No. 1, 614..........................  1  35
No. 2, 614  ........  
  1  25
614  ...................................   1 00
95
Mill  No. 4.........................  100
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
100 lb. kegs................... 
334
Barrels.................................300
Grits.....................................3 50
Dried............................ 
414

Farina.
Hominy.

Lima  Beans.

Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 

Domestic, 12 lb. box.... 
56
Imported.....................1014©-  14

Oatmeal.

75

Barrels 200 .......................  4 60
Half barrels 100 ...............   2  40

Pearl Barley.

Kegs..................................  2*

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bu.........................  2 00
Split  per l b ................234@3
Barrels  180.................  ©4  60
Half  bbls 90..............  @2 40
German.............................   414
East India..........................   5
Cracked.............................. 

Wheat.

Sago.

5

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

GUNPOWDER.
Kegs................................
Half  kegs.......................
Quarter  kegs.................
1 lb  cans.........................
34 lb  cans.......................
Kegs................................
Half  kegs.......................
Quarter kegs...................
1 lb cans....   ..............
Kegs 
..........................
Half  kegs 
....................
Quarter kegs...................
1 lb  cans.........................
Sage................................. ...15
...15
Hops..............................

..3 50
. .2 00
..1  15
..  30
..  18
.  4 50
..2 50
.  1  40
..  34
.1100
.  5 75
.  3 00
60

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

©  50
©  75

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

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

“ 

MATCHES.

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

MINCE  MEAT.

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth.........................
Pollock..........................  
Whole, Grand  Bank...... 
Boneless,  bricks............ 7©9
Boneless,  strips..............  7©9

314
514

“ 

Halibut.
Herring.
“ 
“ 

Smoked.................   .. 1014©11
Holland, white hoops keg 
t 
bbl
Norwegian.......................
Round, H bbl 100 lbs.......   2 85
........  1  45
Scaled............................... 
1

“  M  “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

No. 1,  100 lbs...........................12 CO
No. 1, 40 lbs......................... 5 01
No. 1.  10 lbs............................  1 35
Family, 90 lbs...........................8 25

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

95
Russian,  kegs....................  65

“ 

Sardines.
Trout.

No. 1, 34 bbls., lOOlbs........... 6 00
No. 134 bbl, 40  lbs.............. 2  71
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   80
No. 1,81b kits....................  68

Whltefish.

No. 1

Family 
34 bbls, 100 lbs.......... $7 CO 82 75
34  “  40  “ 
......3  10  140
101b.  kits..................  
90  48
8 lb.  “ 
75
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS, 

 

Souder»’.

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

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

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

doz
2 oz  __ 81  2.
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
120
2 oz folding box...  75 
4 oz 
...1  40 
2 00
6 oz 
...2 00 
3 00
3 oz taper............ 1  35 
|4 o ztap er............1.50 

“ 
“ 

2 00
2 50

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  ..........................   81  75
Half  gallon..............  —   1  40
Q nait........  ....................  
70
P int................... 
45
........... 
Half  p in t...........\..........  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon............................  7 00
Half gallon......................  4 75
Q uart...............................  3 75
Pint..................................   2 25

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

16

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

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

New Orleans.

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

PICKLES.
Medium.

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

Small.

Barrels, 2.400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 

PIPES.

20
30

18
22
27
32
40

@5 00
@3 00

6 00

3 50

Clay, No.  216............................ 1 75
Cob, No.  3................................. 1 25

“  T. D. full count...........  75

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

RICE.
Domestic.

“ 
“ 

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

Carolina head........................5
No. 1........................434
No. 2.....................   4
3
Imported.
Japan, No. 1............ 
Java....................................  5
Patna.................................   5

514
•*  No. 2.......................... 534

 

 

TH E  MICHIGAISr  TRADESM AN.

Smoking.

Catlin’s  Brands.

Klin  dried...............
....... 17
........19
Golden  Shower........
Huntress  ...............  .........26
........29
Meerschaum............
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
........40
Myrtle Navy............
Stork  ........................ . .30@32
........15
German....................
F rog.......................... ...... 33
..  ..  32
Java, 14s foil............
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner....................... ........16
Banner Cavendish__ ...... 38
Gold Cut  ................... ........28

Scotten’s Brands.

Brands.

Warpath.................... ........15
Honey  Dew............... ........30
Gold  Block................ ........26
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s
Peerless................... ........26
Old  Tom.................... ........18
........22
Standard...................
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade.................
Rob  Roy.................... ........26
Uncle  Sam................. ..28@32
Red Clover................. ........32
Tom and Jerry........... ........25
Traveler  Cavendish.. ........38
........30
Buck Horn...............
. -30@32
Plow  Boy.................
Corn  Cake................. ........16

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

OILS.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes
as  follows,  in barrels,  f. o.  b.
Grand Rapids:
8*
Eocene.......................
XXX  W.  W.  Mich
Headlight...............
'</4
Naptha....................... @ 6)4
Stove Gasoline........... @  7V»
Cylinder.................... 27  @36
13  (Ë&21
E ngine..................
Black, 15 cold  test 
.. @ s%

HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol-

lows:
HIDES.
Green.................... . - -..  2@3
@  3Ü
Part Cured...............
................. @ 3)4
Full 
Dry............................. 5  @  5
Kips, green  ............... 2  @ 3
© 4
Calfskins,  green........ 4  @  5
cured...... 4  @ 5)4
Deacon skins............ 10  @25

“  cured.................

“ 

“ 

No. 2 hides X off.
FELTS.

Shearlings................. 10  @  20
.................... IE  @  25
Lambs 

WOOL.

Washed.................... 12  @18
Unwashed................ 8  @14

MISCELLANEOUS,

Tallow...................... 3  ©  4
Grease  butter  .........
1  @ 2
Switches................... 1H@ 2
Ginseng.................... 2 00@2 50

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8

WHEAT.

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

tl
51

MEAL.

Bolted.....................
Granulated...............
FLOUR.

....  1  40
.  1  65

“ 

....  3 60
Straight, in  sacks  ...
“  barrels... ......  3 85
“ 
“  sacks__ ....  4 60
Patent 
“  barrels... ......  4 80
“ 
...  1  70
Graham  “  sacks...
....  1  90
” 
Rye 
...
MILLSTUFF8.

Bran..............113 00
Screenings__  13 00
Middlings......  14 00
Mixed Feed...  17 no
Coarse meal  .  18 0)

Less
Car lots quantity
*13 00
13 00
14 00
17  00
18 00

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

........44
........43

CORN.

OATS.

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

........34
........38

HAT.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots — 12  00
ton lots ......14 00
No. 1 

“ 

Root  Beer  Extract.
“ 

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

SPICE8.

Whole Sifted.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.

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
Allspice..............................15
Cassia,  Batavia..................18
and  Saigon.25
“ 
Saigon.................. 35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna.............. 22
Zanzibar................18
** 
Ginger, African..................16
K  Cochin..................20
Jamaica................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia.................... 71
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste. .22
“  Trieste....... ............25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ..................75
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 16
“  white.......24
” 
“ 
Cayenne................20
Sage....................................20
•‘Absolute” in Packages.

“ 

SAL  SODA.

Me  Ms
Allspice......................  84  155
Cinnamon..................   84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  1  55
Ginger,  Jam aica......   84  1 55
“  African...........  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Pepper.......................   84  155
Sage............................  84
Kegs...................................  1)4
Granulated,  boxes..............  lit
A nise............................  @12)4
Canary, Smyrna......... 
6
Caraway......................... 
10
90
Cardamon, Malabar... 
4)4
Hemp,  Russian.........  
Mixed  Bird  .............. 
5)4
Mustard,  white  ............. 
10
Poppy......................... 
9
Rape.......................... 
6
Cuttle  bone....................  
STARCH.

SEEDS.

30

 

 

“ 

“ 
“ 

SNUFF.

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

20-lb  boxes..........................  6
40-lb 
5X
1-lb packages  ......................  5)4
3-lb 
5)4
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes...............*4%
Barrels................................   5)4
Scotch, In  bladders.............37
Maccaboy, In jars................35
French Rappee, In Jars.......43
Boxes....................................Sfe
Kegs, English....................... 4£
100 3-lb. sacks......................12 25
60 5-lb.  “ 
2 00
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

SALT.
 
 

SODA,

 
 

Com.

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

“  •• 

“ 

56 )b. dairy In linen  sacks 

75 

Higgins.

Soiar Rock.

56 It,,  sacks.......................   27

Common Fine.

Saginaw..........................  W
Manistee.........................  
70

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s ...........................  5V4
Demand’s ............................  5Jt
Dwight’s ............................... 5)4
Taylor’s ...............................  ®

SOAP.
Laundry.

“ 

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Dingman Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

Old Country,  80  1-lb...........3  4)
Good Cheer, 601 lb............. 3 81
White Borax, 100  3£-lb........3 95
Concord.............................3 45
Ivory, 10  oz.......................6 75
6  oz.........................4 00
Lenox...............................  3 65
Mottled  German............... 3  15
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..$4 00 
plain...  S  94
N. K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  4 00
Brown, 60 bars.................. 2 40
“ 
80  b a rs.................3 25
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.
Acme.................................  4  00
Cotton Oil.......................... 6 00
Marseilles..........................  3 95
............................. * 35
Matter 

“ 

“ 

Thompson & Chute Brands.

Silver.................................. 3  65
Mono.................................. 3 35
Savon Improved................. 2  50
Sunflower...........................3 05
Golden  ............................... 3 25
Economical  ......................  2 25
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 50
hand, 3 doz......... 2 50

“ 

SUGAR.

The  following  prices  repre­
sent the actual selling prices in 
Grand Rapids, based on the act­
ual cost in New  York,  with  36 
cents per 100 pounds added  for 
freight.  The  same  quotations 
will not apply to any 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........................... $5 17
Powdered............................5 98
Granulated.........................5 54
Extra Fine Granulated__  5 67
Cubes................................   5 98
XXXX  Powdered..............  6 30
Confec. Standard  A........... 5 48
No. 1  Columbia A............   5 42
No. 5 Empire  A ................. 5 36
No.  6  .................................. 530
No.  7....................................5  23
No.  8....................................5  17
No.  9............   ...................5  11
No.  10................................   5 05
No.  11.................................. 4 98
No.  12...............................  4 92
No.  13.................................. 4  73
No 14................................   4 36

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.

8
8
9
8v4
8)4

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

tl for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per gal  ................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75 
Magic,.......................................1 00
Warner’s  ......  
100
Yeast Foam  ........................1  00
Diamond.............................   75
Royal..................................  90

YEAST.

 

TEAS.

j a p a n —Regular.

StJN CURED.

BASKET  PI RE I).

F air...............................  ©17
Good.............................   @20
Choice...........................24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust.............................10  @12
F air...............................   @17
Good..............................  @20
Choice.......................... 24  @26
Choicest....................... 32  @34
Dust............................. 10  @12
F air............................. 18  @20
Choice............................  @25
Choicest........................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40 
Common to  fait...........25  ©35
Extra fine to finest— 50  @65
Choi cest fancy............ 75  @85
@26
Common to fair...........23  @30
Common to  fair...........23  @26
Superior to fine............30  @35
Common to fair...........18  @26
Superior to  fine...........30  @40
F air............................. 18  @22
Choice..........................24  @28
Best.............................40  @50

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

YOUNO HYSON.

GUNFOWLiCR.

IMPERIAL.

o o l o n g. 

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

Pails unless otherwise noted
Bazoo.........................  @30
Can Can......................  @27
Nellie  Bly................... 27  @24
Uncle ben...............— 21  @22
60
Hiawatha  ................. 
Sweet Cuba................ 
34
McGinty....................  
27
“  % bbls.......... 
25
29
Dandy Jim.................  
24
Torpedo..................... 
23
in drums.... 
28
Yum Yum  ................ 
1892............................  
23
“  drums................. 
22

“ 

Plug.

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

41
29
41
26
38
34
4G
32

FRESH  MEATS.

“

Beef, carcass........... 5  @ 7)4
“  hindquarters.. 7  @  8*
fore 
“ 
3)4@  5)4
loins,  No.  3.. 9*@11
“ 
7)4® 9
“ 
ribs...............
rounds........... 6A@  7)4
@ 6
Bologna....................
@10)4
Fork loins...............

w  1  .

-  

-

7 *

'Y

i   -

-

 

- 4   -

»  * ¿»  #

“ 

“ 
“ 

shoulders........... © 8
Sausage, blood or head @  7
liv e r............ @ 7
Frankfort  — @  8

Mutton  ......................6
a   7)4
Veal............................. 6 @ 7)4

FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as

follows :

FRESH  FISH
Whlteflsh 
................. @  8
T ro u t...........  ........... @ 8
Brook  Trout  ............   25@35
Black Bass.................
8@10
Halibut....................... @15
Ciscoes or Herring__ @ 5
Blueflsh...................... @10
20
Fresh lobster, per lb..
Cod.............................
11
No. 1 Pickerel............ @  8
Pike............................ @ 8
Smoked  White........... @  8
Red  Snappers  ..............
12
20
Columbia River  Salmon
Mackerel.... ..................
25
oysters—Cans.
Falrhaven  Counts__ @40
F .J . D.  Selects......... @40
Oysters, per  100........l 50@1  75
Clams. 
.........1  25@1  50

SHELL GOODS.

Scallops. 
2 CO 
Shrimps
1  50
PA PER & WOODEN WAKE 

PAPER.

Straw 
................................. 1M
Rockford............................. 2
Rag sugar  ............................ 2)4
......................... 2%
Hardware. 
Bakers.................................. 2%
Dry  Goods.................. 5  @6
Jute Manilla................  @6)4
Red  Express  No. 1.............. 554
No. 2.............. 4%

“ 

TWINES.

“ 

48 Cotton..............................SO
Cotton, No. 1.......................17
“  2.......................13
Sea  Island, assorted......... 30
No. 5 Hemp........................ 15
No. 6  “ ................................15

WOODBNW ARE.

Tubs, No. 1.........................   7 00
“  No. 2.......................... 6  00
“  No. 3...........................5 00
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
1  35
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  1  60
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes__ 
40
Bowls, 11 inch....................  SO
13  “  ....................   1  00

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

1 7
...................... 1
15  “ 
17  “  ...................... 2
19  “ 
 
2
21  “ 
.................. 3
Baskets, market.................
1
..  1
5
“  No.2 6
“  No.3 7
“  No.l 3
“  No.2 4
“  No.3 4
Pails.........................   3
Tubs.  No.  1........................13
Tubs, No. 2.........................12
Tubs, No. 3.........................10 50

“ shipping bushel.. 
“ 
full noop  “ 
“ willow cl’ths, No.l 
“ 
* 
“ 
“ 
“ 

INDURATED WARE.

splint 

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as follows:

LIVE.

DRESSED.
Fowl..........................
Turkeys......................
Ducks  .......................
Live broilers l$£lbs. to 2 lbs.
Live broilers less than  1-1 % 
Spring Chickens......... Is  @14
Fowls............................ 9  @10
Turkeys......................  @10
Spring Ducks..............10  @11

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

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

 

 

Mess............... 
17 00
Short c u t.................................................. 
17 50
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  20 09
Extra clear, heavy......................................
Clear, fat back............................................   18  25
Boston clear, short cut................................  18 50
Clear back, short cut...................................   19 00
Standard clear, short cut. beBt.....  .........  
19 00

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

LARD.

Pork Sausage...................................................
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage..............................................   9
Frankfort Sausage 
.......................................  8)4
Blood Sausage.................................................  7
Bologna, straight............................................   6
Bologna,  thick................................................  6
Head Cheese.................................................... 7
Kettle  Rendered............................................ 11
Granger...........................................................Iu3£
Family............................................................   8
Compound......................................................  7)4
50 lb. Tins, %c advance.
201b. pails, He 
10 lb. 
“  Me 
51b. 
“  %c 
31b.  **  1  c 
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs......................8 GO
Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... 
7 75
Boneless, rump butts.....................................13 50

BEEP  IN  BARRELS.

“
“
“
“

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Hams, average 20 lbs.......................................12M
16 lbs...................................... 1 ?A
12 to 14 lbs.............................. 12 V4
picnic................................................... 10
best boneless......................................   14
Shoulders.............................................. 
  9)4
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..............................14
Dried beef, ham prices....................................10)4
Long Clears, heavy.........................................
Briskets,  medium..........................................

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

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

STICK  CANDY.
Cases

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

8)4
. ..  8)4
MIXED CANDT.

Bbls.

Standard...................................... 6
Leader............ ............................. 6
Royal............................................6V4
Nobby.......................................... 7
English  Rock.............................. 7
Conserves.................................... 7
Broken Taffy....................baskets
Peanut Squares................. 
“  8
French Creams.............................
Valley  Creams.............................
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.........................
Modern, 30 lb. 
..........................

“ 
fancy—In bulk

Bbls. Palls.
6)4
7)4
7)4
6*
7)4
6)4
8)4

Palls.

8

“ 

f a n c y—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Pails.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  10
printed.........................................   11
Chocolate Drops............................................   1114
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  13
Gum Drops....................................................   5)4
Moss Drops....................................................   8
Sour Drops....................................................   .814
Imperials.......................................................   1»
Per Box
Lemon Drops.............................................       55
Sour Drops...................................................... 55
Peppermint Drops............................................60
Chocolate Drops...............................................65
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................90
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops..............................................1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops.......................................80
Lozenges, plain................................................60
printed........................................... 65
Imperials..........................................................60
Mottoes............................................................ 70
Cream Bar........................................................55
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams.................................. 85©95

“ 

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

“ 
“ 
“ 

3 
2 
3 

 
 

BANANAS.

Small....................................................... J  50@1 75
Medium................................................. 2  00@2 50
Large  ....................................................

ORANGES.

LEMONS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

California Riverside Seedlings............. 3 00@3 50
St  Michaels...........................................   @5 00
Messina, choice  360 ............................. 
4  50
fancy, 360.............................  5  25@5 50
’5@5 00 
choice 300.............................  4
fancy 300  .............................
5 50
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, fancy layers, 6®.......................
@1214 
“  101b......................
“ 
@1214 
extra  “  14®.......................
@14 
“ 
“  20®......................
@15 
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box.....................
@ 714 
......................
“  50-lb.  “ 
@ 6H
Persian, 50-lb.  box......................  4A@  5)4
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.............................
@19 
Ivaca......................................
@18 
California..............................
@1814 
Brazils, new...........................................
®  814 
Filberts.................................................
@1114 
Walnuts, Grenoble................................
@1314 
“  Marbot...................................
@ @13 
“ 
Table  Nuts,  fancy................................
@1314 
choice..............................
@12 @14 
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  .......................... 12
@4 00
Cocoanuts, full sacks............................
Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................   @8
“  Roasted....................   @  9)4
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............................  @8
“  Roasted...................   @  914
Choice, H. P., Extras............................  @  6*4
“  Roasted.................  @ 8

“ 
“ 
“ 
CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

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

PEANUTS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

FRUIT JARS.

6 doz. lu box.

P ints............................................................* 6 00
Quarts..........................................................   6 50
Half Gallons................................................  8 50
Caps.............................................................   2 75
Rubbers....................................................... 
45
No. 0 Sun.........................................................  45
No. 1  “  .........................................................  50
No.2  “  .........................................................  75
Tubular...........................................................  75

LAMP BURNERS.

LAMP CHIMNEYS.  Per bOX.

 

 
 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“   
“   

Pearl top.

“ 
“ ........ 

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No. 0 Sun......................................................... 1
No. 1  “  ......................................................... 1  90
No.2  “  ................................................... ....2  90
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top......................................2  25
No. 1  “ 
2 40
No.2  “ 
-.........................3 40
No. 0 Sun, crimp top......................................2  60
2 80
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled................... 8  70
No. 2  •* 
4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
4 88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.......................1  25
No. 2  “ 
....................... 1 50
No. 1 crimp, per'doz.......................................1  35
No. 2  “ 
........................................1  60
No. 0, per  gross..............................................   23
................................................  88
No.l, 
No. 2, 
................................................  38
................................................  75
No. 3, 
Mammoth, per doz.........................................   75
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................   06
“ 
14 gal. per doz......................  60
Jugs, 14 gal., per doz...................................   70
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal................................   07
Milk Pans, A gal., por doz..........................   60
•• 
.........................  72
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal..........................  07
Milk Pans, 14 gal..........................................  65
.............................   ........  78

l  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.

LAMP WICKS.

1  “ 

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18

TH E  M ICHIGAN  TBADESM AN.

interests. 

wondering curiosity  by  generations  yet 
unborn.  Independence  has  been  tried 
in the balances and found  wanting; it  is 
an  enemy to  our  peace  and  happiness, 
and  best 
Interdependence 
will  unify  and  solidify  the  people;  it 
will bring  peace and  good-will  between 
man and  man  and  promote  harmony in 
all  relations  of  life. 
Interdependence 
shall be our watchword and talisman.
Da n ie l A bbott.

F o rty   D ollars S av ed  th e  B ank.

From the K&bsas City Journal.
Old-timers tell  the story of  how  T. J. 
Kelley, a contractor of this city, by a very 
clever ruse, stopped a run on a bank and 
prevented its going to the wall way back 
in 1871.  At  that  time  the  Kansas City 
Savings  Association,  now  the  National 
Bank of  Commerce, was  located  at  the 
southwest  corner  of  Fourth  and  Dela­
ware streets.  Mr. Kelley was then secre­
tary and  cashier  of  the  Corrigan Street 
Railway Co., and  the company’s account 
was kept at this bank.
The  much  despised  penny  was  not 
then in  general  use  here  as  now.  Peo­
ple were  ashamed  to pay for any article 
with  pennies,  except,  perhaps,  postage 
stamps, and the old-fashioned “fare-box” 
in  the  cars  became  a dumping  ground

for  them.  From  $3  to  $5  in  pennies 
would  be  found  in  the  boxes  by  Mr. 
Kelley every  day.  He  usually  dumped 
them in  sacks and  stored  them  away in 
the company’s vault.
During the crisis of ’71 the  people  be­
came  very much excited  and  flocked  to 
the banks in droves to withdraw their de­
posits.  Runs were  made  on  nearly  all 
the banks in  the  city  and  several were 
forced to suspend.  One  day a  run  was 
made  upon 
the  Kansas  City  Savings 
Bank, and the people were lined up wait­
ing their turns  to  reach the tellers, who 
were paying out money by the basketful, 
when a happy thought struck Mr. Kelley. 
He went  to  the  police  station,  secured 
three  policemen  to  guard  his  treasure, 
loaded  eight  sacks  of  coppers  upon  a 
wheelbarrow and  took them down to the 
bank.  The  sacks  had  originally  con­
tained gold and were  labeled on the out­
side “$5,000” in great  big  black letters.
Arriving at the bank, one  old  colored 
woman, who had  come  to withdraw  her 
small savings, called out:  “Why, Mistah 
Kelley,  wha’ fo’  yo’  put  all that money 
in here  when we’se a-drawin’ our money 
out?”
Kelley  replied:  “That’s  all  right. 
This bank isn’t going to bust. 
I can put 
more money in here in  one  day than all 
you people can draw out in  six months,” 
as he trudged into the bank with the last 
sack.

Nf

This display of  confidence on the part 
of  the  street  railway  company  had  a 
quieting effect upon the crowd  and  they 
rapidly dwindled away.
The  sacks  contained  just  $40,  but  it 
saved the bank.

A  S uccessful  P lan .

“When  I went  into  the  grocery busi­
ness,”  said a  retailer  to  the  Canadian 
Grocer,  recently,  “I had not  much capi­
tal,  and  I  determined  to  save  my cash 
discounts every time, even If by so doing 
I was  only  able  to  do a small  business. 
That rule I  have carried  out, and what I 
get from my discounts just about pays my 
rent.  Another thing I decided upon was 
to refuse to give long terms of credit, and 
j  this, too, I  have carried out.  Of course, 
a  fellow sometimes  hardly knows  what 
to do.  By  refusing  to  give  a  customer 
any more  credit  until  he  has  paid  up 
may mean the last of  the whole account, 
as well as the customer, and a fellow has 
to use a little  tact now and then,  but,  as 
a rule, 1  stand  firm  and  I  find  it  pays. 
The  fact of  the  matter  is, if  I  didn’t I
wouldn’t  be  in  business  very  long,  for 
not having  a  big  bank  account, I could 
not stand  many  losses.  As it  is  now, I 
am doing a comfortable business and  am 
making a decent living.”

A shiftless man loves to talk about his 

bad luck.

W ritten  fo r Th e  Tradbsmax.

In d ep en d en ce  vs. In terd ep e n d en ce. 
Independence  is what  our  forefathers 
fought to secure; having  secured it, they 
bequeathed it as a  heritage  to their chil­
dren  and  children’s  children.  Like 
some other legacies, it has increased and 
expanded, until  to-day the amount of in­
dependence  in the  country  is  out of all 
proportion  to  the  needs  of  the  people. 
We have  so much of  it that it  is a  posi­
tive injury to us.  Our forefathers fought 
for political  and national  independence, 
but their children contend for it in every 
walk  of  life  to  such an  extent that  we 
can see  nothing  but  our own individual 
importance,  as  though  the  world could 
hardly continue should we withdraw our 
countenance  and  support.  The man on 
the farm  is independent  of  the  man  in 
the  town,  looking  upon  him  almost  in 
the light of an enemy, instead of  regard­
ing  him  as, what  he  really is,  his  best 
friend.  The  mechanic  denounces  the 
capitalist  as an  oppressor  and  a robber, 
for no other reason than that the capital­
ist has  proved himself to  be a somewhat 
better  manager  of  his  personal  affairs 
than the mechanic.  The mechanic is in­
dependent of  the  capitalist, or,  at least, 
has never recognized  the fact  that he is, 
to a certain extent, dependent upon him. 
On the  other  hand,  the  man  in  the city 
fails to  recognize  his  dependence  upon 
the man  on the  farm,  forgetting  that, if 
the city  is the  farmer’s best  customer, it 
is  equally  true  that  the  farmer  is  the 
city’s  best  customer.  The  capitalist 
looks  upon  the  mechanic  somewhat  in 
the light of a necessary evil, who  cannot 
be  cured,  and,  therefore,  must  be  en­
dured.  Possibly  he  forgets  that  the 
brains of  the mechanic  are  equally nec­
essary  with  his  own  to  the  success  of 
the enterprise  in which  they are  mutu­
ally engaged.

These  are  but 

illustrations,  which 
could be  multiplied  almost  indefinitely, 
of  the  foolish  notion  which  possesses 
the  people  concerning  their  individual 
independence. 
It is  individualism gone 
to seed.  There is no such thing as inde­
pendence,  much  as  we  boast  of  it. 
If 
there were, it  would be  the death  of all 
enterprise, of all social and political and 
religious communities, of  civilization it­
self.  Whether  we  recognize  it,  or  are 
willing to  acknowledge  it, it is none the 
less true, that the fact that we each have 
needs which the other—indeed, all others 
—must supply,  has been the chief factor 
in building  up the  much-vaunted civili­
zation  of  the  nineteenth  century.  Our 
needs  have  welded  us  together  in  this 
country  as  a  nation  and  given  us  the 
government of  which we  boast so much; 
they have built our  railroads  and steam­
boats,  and  given  us  the  telegraph  and 
telephone;  commercial  and 
industrial 
enterprises of  whatever  nature live  and 
thrive  upon  our  individual  necessities. 
In some way  we are each catering to the 
wants  of  the  other.  What  nonsense, 
then,  to  talk  of  our  independence,  as 
though  we  each  lived  of  himself  and 
for  himself.  We  are  interdependent. 
Each  needs  the  other,  and  each  is,  to 
some extent, supplying the other’s needs. 
When  the  truth  is  fully  recognized, 
then trades’ unions, and  manufacturers’ 
associations,  and business men’s  organi­
zations—all  organizations  which  now 
keep alive and  nourish  the intense indi­
vidualism and  antagonism of  the people 
—will be  relegated  to the  dust and cob­
webs of  history, to be  conned  over with

§ r  m iteni
jof tl)c  Unititi  States  of America,

To

H E N R Y   K O C H ,   your  o l e r l c s ,   attorneys,  ager..;, 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

Greeting :

Utl) creas it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of

New  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “ SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap.

U o n jj th e r e fo r e .  we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
under^h^^jm n^jtnd^jM m al^s^vhkl^na^JfalM jgonjoi^ind^ead^ofvou  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain   from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  th e re to   in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,
By  word  of  m outh  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

“ SAPOLIO,”  or  when  “ SAPOLIO”  is  asked  for,

that  which  is  not  C o m p lain an t’s  said  manufacture,  and  from  in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO”  in  any 
false  or  misleading  manner.

The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton,  in  said  District  of  New 
Jersey,  this  i6 th   day  of  December,  in 
the  year  of  o u r  Lord,  one  thousand, 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

S.  D.  OL1PI1ANT,

Clerk,

[seal] 

[signed]

ROWLAND  COX.

Complainant'i  Solicitor.

■I'HU!  M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN,

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

vision  S tre e t  G rocer.

H enry  J.  V lnkem ulder,  th e   S o u th   Di­
Henry J. Yinkemulder was born April 
4, 1866, at Grandville, Kent county, Mich. 
His  father,  who  is  a  wagon-maker  by 
trade, came to this city from Holland  in 
1856, going to  Grandville  the  following 
year.  Henry attended school  in  Grand­
ville until he was 17 years of  age,  when 
he came to  Grand  Rapids  and  went  to 
work for Phil.  Graham,  the  South  Divi­
sion street grocer, for $3 a week.  Having 
only such education as a country  school 
affords, he set himself diligently to work 
and in a short time had mastered the sci­
ence of book-keeping and was  placed  in 
charge of the  books.  Every  spare  mo-

In d ifferent to   Civic D uty.

Right Honorable James  Bryce, a mem­
ber  of  the British Parliament and occu­
pying a subordinate position in the Brit­
ish  Cabinet,  has  written,  in  the  July 
number  of .the  Forum, a  paper  on  the 
teaching  of  civic duty, that is, the duty 
of citizens.  He finds the  people  of  the 
United  States  more  than any others in­
different to the duties of citizenship.

is  apt 

This  indifference  is  the  worst foe of 
American liberty.  The  average  citizen 
does  not  wish  to  be  troubled  with the 
cares of government and political matters 
except for a salary or  for personal gain. 
He wants to have  public  affairs  carried 
on by those appointed to attend to  them, 
so that he can have all his time to devote 
to  the  private  concerns  of ¿business or 
pleasure.  Says  Mr.  Bryce: 
“Indiffer-
euce  to  public  affairs  shows  itself not 
merely in neglect to study  them  and  fit 
one’s self to give a judicious vote, but in 
the apathy which does not care to give a 
vote when the time arrives. 
It is a seri­
ous  evil  already  in some countries, seri­
ous in London, very serious  in Italy, seri­
ous enough in the  United  States,  not in­
deed at Presidential, but at city  and other 
local  elections,  for  some  reformer  to 
haveproposed to punish with  a  fine  the 
citizen  who  neglects to vote, as in some 
old Greek city the law proclaimed penal­
ties against the citizen who  in a sedition 
stood  aloof,  taking neither one side nor 
the  other.  For,  unhappily,  it  is  the 
respectable,  well-meaning,  easy  going 
citizen, as well  as  the  merely  ignorant 
citizen,  who 
to  be  listless. 
Those  who  have  their  private  ends  to 
serve, their axes to grind and logs to roll, 
are not indolent.  Private interest  spurs 
them on;  and if  the  so-called good citi­
zen,  who  has  no  desire  or  aim except 
that  good  government  which  benefits 
him  no  more  than  every  one else, does 
not bestir himself,  the public funds may 
become the plunder, and  the^ public  in­
terests the sport of  unscrupulous adven­
turers.”
Everybody recognizes the  existence of 
this  great evil.  The  question of  prime 
importance  is  how  to  remedy  it.  Mr. 
Bryce  thinks  that  it  must  be  met  by 
teaching patriotism and civic duty to the 
boys  in  schools.  Something  is  to  be 
hoped for by training their youthful and 
ardent enthusiasm in the direction of  an 
interest  in the  duties of  citizenship and 
a desire to  take  part in the  direction of 
public  affairs.-  But  the  difficulty,  the 
main  difficulty,  lies  in  the  vastness  of 
the population.  There never was before 
a republic with 60,000,000 of inhabitants. 
Before many  decades  it  will  have 100,- 
000,000.  But while the  population is in­
creasing  so rapidly  the  people  are get­
ting all the time further from the govern­
ment.  Leaving out of sight the fact that 
the public  offices  are  not  increasing  in 
number in  proportion  to  the  growth  of 
population,  each  individual, in  respect 
to his  influence in  public  affairs, is con­
stantly  growing  smaller.  He  is  apt  to 
feel that  whether  he  votes  at  the  pri­
maries or attends mass meetings or casts 
his  ballot  in  the  general  election will 
make no difference in the grand result.
Thus,  the greater  the  population,  the 
greater  the  indifference  of  citizens  to 
public affairs, and the more certain those 
public  affairs  are  to  be  left  to  party 
managers  and  self-seekers.  When  the 
Roman republic reached a point of great­
est  population  and  the  largest  individ­
ual indifference to civic  duty, then it be­
came  a  despotism  in  which  the  people 
gave  up all  civic  functions. 
Is  this  to 
be the fate of all republics?  A. S. M.

ment was utilized in the  acquirement  of 
knowledge which would be useful to him 
in his chosen calling, and  so  useful  did 
he make himself to his employer that  in 
the five years he was  with  Mr.  Graham 
he rose rapidly  from $3  per  week  until 
he had reached the handsome  salary  of 
$20 per week,  and  finally,  when  he  had 
determined to start in business for  him­
self, he was offered  $1,200  a  year.  Be­
lieving that he  would  conduct  business 
for himself as successfully as  for  some­
one else,  the firm of  Vinkemulder &Bor- 
rendamme opened a grocery at 447 South 
Division street  in  1888.  This  partner­
ship lasted but  five  months,  when  Mr. 
Vinkemulder bought his  partner’s inter­
est in the business, and took his brother, 
Derk, in with him. 
In six  months  time 
the business had grown  to  such  an  ex­
tent that  it  became  necessary  to  move 
the  business  into  445  South  Division, 
which gave them much more  room  than 
they had at the former number.  A meat 
market was opened at  the  former  loca­
tion, which was  subsequently  sold. 
In 
March, 1890,  the firm opened  a  store  in 
Grandville, which has been equally  suc­
cessful with the  store  in  this  city. 
In 
addition  to  the  grocery  business,  Mr. 
Vinkemulder  does  quite  au  extensive 
business in wholesale produce and fruit, 
the premises at 418 and 420  South  Divi­
sion  being  devoted  to  that  purpose. 
About a  year  ago  the  firm  bought  the 
property in which their business  is  car­
ried on, and also the dwelling  house  in 
the rear.  Extensive alterations  will  be 
made to meet  the  growing  demands  of 
the business,  which  now  requires  from 
ten  to  fifteen  clerks  to  handle.  Mr 
Vinkemulder’s strong  point  is  the  fac­
ulty he possesses for  securing  only  effi­
cient clerks.  He  is  not  afraid,  either

to  pay  all  that  a  man  is  worth, good 
wages being the rule and not  the  excep­
tion.

During the years when Mr. Yinkemul­
der was “only a clerk,” and while  other 
young men  in  the  same  business  were 
wasting their time and energies in the pur­
suit of questionable pleasures, he devoted 
the time not  required  by  his  duties  in 
the  store  to  the  improvement  of  his 
mind and to the acquirement of a knowl­
edge of the details of the business.  The 
consequence  is  that  now  he  is  at  the 
head of a successful and rapidly expand 
ing business,  while  most  of  his  former 
associates are  still  holding  subordinate 
positions.  There is much in his life that 
should stimulate other young men,  who, 
as yet, are at the bottom  of  the  ladder, 
to do their best, and shun, as Mr. Vinke-
mulder did, the  evil  courses  which  al­
ways  end  in  disappointment  and  fre­
quently in disaster.  Success is  sure  to 
him who strives for it in the  right  way, 
and the short, but highly  successful  ca­
reer of Henry J. Vinkemulder is a strik­
ing exemplification of that assertion.

Mis-spent time is a greater  misfortune 
than  mis-spent  money,  because  money 
may be  regained,  but  a day lost  is lost 
forever.

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.
CHICAGO

JUNE  25,  1893
AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’ï .
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

VIA  ST.  JOSEPH  AND  STEAMER.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv.G’d  Rapids.  7:25am 8:50am 1:25pm *11 :.-0pm 
Ar. Chicago  ...12:20pm 3:55pm  6:50pm  *6:30am 
Lv. Chicago. ...8:25am  9:00»m  5:45pm *11:35pm 
Ar.G’d Rapids.1:20pm 3:55pm  10:55pm  *6:10am
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
TRAVERSE CITY CHARLEVOIX  AND  PETOSKEY.
Lv. G  R......5:45pm  *7:30am  1:40pm  11:15pm
Ar.Manistee.lO:44pm  12:10pm  6:10pm  4:50am
Ar.Trav.C’y. 11 • 10pm *12:40pm  fi :00pm  ............
Ar. Charlevoix........  *3:15pm  8:20pm  7:20am
Ar.  Petoskey.........  3:45pm  8:50pm  7:50am
Ar.  Bay View.........  *3:55pm  8:55pm  8:0C'am
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, 1 v. G. R..  *7:25am  1:25pm  *11:30pm 
To Petoskey lv.G. It..  *7:30am  1:40pm  11:15pm 
To G. It..lv. Chicago.  8:25am *o: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 e t r o it ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   &  Mi l ­
Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Av3.

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

FAKLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.

w a u k e e   Railway.

OTTAWA  BEACH.

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

EASTWARD.

tNo.  16ltNo.  18
1020am  3 25pm
11 25am  4 27pm
12 17pm  5 20pm 
1 20pm  ò 05pm
3 45pm  8 00pm
4 35pm  8 37pm 
3 45pm  705pm
5 50pm  8 50pm
3 05pm  8 25pm
4 05pm I  9 25pm

tNo.  14
6 45am
7 40am
8 25am
9 00am
10 50am
11 32am
10 05am 
1205pm
10 53am
11 50am
WESTWARD.

tNo.  85
7 40pm
8 45am
9 42am 
10 25am

19

G rand  R apids  & In d ian a.
Schedule  In  effect June 25, 1893

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive from   Leave g o in g  

South. 
For M’kinaw.Trav. City and Sag. 6:50 a m 
For Traverse C ity A  Mackinaw  1 :10 p m 
For Cadillac and S aginaw ..............................  
For  P etoskey & M ackinaw..........8:10 p m 
From K alam azoo............................. 9:10 a m
From Chicago and K alam azoo..  9:40 p m 
daily.  O thers trains d aily excep t Sunday.
does n ot run to Traverse City on Sundays.

Trains arrivin g  from  south a t  6:50 a  m  and  9:10 a  m 
Also  train   leavin g  north  a t  7:20  a.  m.  This  train  

North.
7 -.20 a m
1:20 p m
115 p m
10:30  p m

TRAIN8  GOING  SOUTH.

For  C incinnati..............................
For K alam azoo and  C h icago..
For F ort W ayne and the  E ast.
For  C incinnati..............................
For K alam azoo  &  C h ica g o ....
From S aginaw ................................
From S aginaw ..........................
d ally;  all  other  trains  daily excep t Sunday.

North.
6:30 a m
11:50 a m
5:15 p m
10:40 p m  
11:50 a m  
10:40 p m

Arrive from   Leave g o in g
South.
7:00  a  m
8:00  a m
8:00  p m
6:00  p m
11:20 p m

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

SLEEPING  &  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE.

7 :20 a m train has P arlor  Car  to   Mackinaw 
City.
1 :2 0   p   m   t r a i n   has  parlor  cars  Grand 
Rapids to P etoskey and Mackinaw.
1 0 :3 0   p   m   t r a i n . —S leeping  cars  Grand 
Rapids  to  P etoskey and Mackinaw.

S O U T H —7 : 0 0  a m  t r a i n . —P arlor chair oar Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
8:00 a m  train.—Runs  solid w ith W ag­
ner  Parlor  Car Grand  Rapids to  Chicago. 
2:00 p m train.—Parlor car Grand Rap 
ids to Fort W ayne.
6:00  p m   train .—W agner Sleeping Car 
Grand  Rapids to C incinnati.
1 1 : 2 0   p  in  t r a i n . —Through  Coach  and 
W agner sleep in g  Car  Grand  Rapids to Chi­
cago.

C hicago v ia G.  R.  & I. R. R.

8:00 a  m 
1:26 p m  

2:00 p m  
9:10 p m  

Lv Grand  Rapids 
11 -.20 p m
Arr C hicago 
6:50 a m
8:00 a  m train  runs  solid w ith  through W agner  Par­
lor  Car.
'll:2 0  p m   train  daily,  through  Coach  and  W agner 
Sleeping Car.
Lv  Chicago 
9:50 p m
Arr Grand Rapids 
6:60  a  m
4:16  p m   solid  train  w ith  th rou gh   W agner  P arlor 
Car.  9:50 p  m  train  daily,  through  Coach  and W ag­
ner  S leeping Car. 
___________

4:16 p m  
9:40 p m  

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Maskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
10:15 a  m
6:65  a  m  
11:25  a m  
4:40  p m
6:45  p m  
9:10 p m

From Muskegon—Arrive

Sunday train   leaves  for  Muskegon  a t  7 :45 a   m, a r­
rivin g a t  9:15  a   m .  R eturning,  train   leaves  Muske­
gon  a t  4:30 p m, arrivin g a t Grand  Rapids a t  5:50 p m .
Tnrough tickets and full  information  can  be 
had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at 
Union  Station,  Telephone  606,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.

Oeneral P assenger and T icket A gent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

Mich ig a n C entral

"

 The Niagara Falls Route.”

(Taking effect Sunday, May 28, 1893.) 

»Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20p m .......... Detroit  Express........... 6 55pm
10 00 a m .......... Day E xpress...............120pm
6 00 a m ___»Atlantic ana  Pacific.......10 45 pm
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 .  A l m q u ist, Ticket Agent,

Union Passenger Station.

DETROIT,

MAY 28,1893

L A N S I N G   &   N O R T H E R N   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.  LOUIS. 

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

TO  LOWELL VIA LOWELL &  HASTINGS R.  R.

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.

♦Everyday.  Other trains  week days only.
GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t
(» TOLEDO
;NN!ÄßiÖ

tNo. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13. tNo. 15 fmmHV liti

4 55pm 
6 00pm 
6 20am 
6 00am

1020pm 
11 20pm 
6 30am

1 00pm
2 10pm

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

7 25am
8 30am
4 00 pm
tDally except Sunday
Sunday  only train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  at 8 
a. m.  for Spring Lake and Grand Haven;  and at 
7 p. m. to connect with  Sunday night steamer at 
Grand Haven for Chicago.
Trains arrive from the east, 7:20 a.m., 12:50 p.m., 
4:45 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arrive  from  the  west, 6:40 a. m.,  10:10 
a. m., 3:15 p.m. and 9:35 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlcr  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.
Westward—No.  1  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Parlor Car.  No. 16 Wagner Parlor Buffet car.
J a b. Ca m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent 
23 Monroe Street

NORTH  MICHIGAN 

RAILW AY.

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.  A  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 a t ............   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.  Bennett, General Pass. Agent, 
Toledo, Ohio,

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t h e :  h ich xg just  t r a d e s m a n .

THE  LAST  A PPEAL.

MEN  OF  MARK.

R ap id s  B ru sh   Co.

Jo h n   S h irts,  M an ag er  of  th e   G ran d  
John  D.  M.  Shirts,  Manager  of  the 
Grand Rapids  Brush  Co.,  was  born  in 
Bryan, Williams  county,  Ohio,  Decem­
ber 20, 1854.  His father, who was a con­
tractor on the L.  S.  &  M.  S.  Railway, 
moved  to  Lansing  when  John  was  10 
years old.  He attended  school  in  Lan­
sing for six years, and at  the  age  of  16 
I entered the grocery store of  J. Esselstyn 
& Son, where he remained about a  year. 
His father then opened a grocery  in  the 
same city and John  entered  his  employ 
as a clerk.  This business was moved  to
Shelby, Oceana county, in 1872, and  was

225  persons.  This  remarkable  record 
has  been  achieved  in  three  years  by 
means of  patient  and  persistent  effort, 
without 
the  adoption  of  bandwagon 
methods or the bluff  and  bluster  which 
too often accompany business  success.

In 1881, John D. M. and W.  H.  Shirts 
opened a grocery and  crockery  store  at 
Shelby, under the firm  name  of  Shirts 
Bros.  This business still continues  and 
is  highly  successful.  Mr.  Shirts  is  a 
member of the Masonic  order,  and  also 
of  the  Northwestern  Traveling  Men’s 
Association.  He is President of  the  Y. 
P. A. of Park Congregational Church, of 
which he is a member.  He was  married 
Dec. 20,  1874,  to  Miss  Celia  Austin, of 
Edgerton, Ohio, and has  a  son, 17 years 
old, who is so large for his age that he is 
talking of  having  his trousers cut down 
for his father.

Personally,  Mr. Shirts  is  one  of  the 
most companionable of men.  His  quiet 
ways and lack of ostentation and display 
naturally enable him to attract and  hold 
the friendship of careful, thinking  men, 
many of whom enjoy his  companionship 
and confidence.  He  is  not  mucn  of  a 
society  man,  preferring 
the  family 
hearthstone  to  the  glitter  of  the  ball­
room or the stilted life of the clubhouse.

T urn.

P a u p e r  P e d d le rs  R o u ted   a t  E v ery  
The  applications  of  the  pauper  ped­
dlers for permits to  peddle  without a li­
cense, referred to the Committee on Poor, 
were investigated  and  considered by the 
Committee,  and  at the regular  meeting 
of  the  Common  Council  on  July 24 the 
Committee recommended that no permits 
be granted and that no licenses be issued | 
for a  less term than  one  year.  The  re­
port  of  the  Committee  was  adopted. 
This ought to put a quietus to the grant­
ing of permits, and should teach the beg­
ging gang  that  the  Council  meant busi-
ness  when  it  passed  the  peddling ordi­
nance and  fixed  the  schedule  of  fees. 
Three of the men have evidently come to 
the conclusion that  whining about  their 
poverty  counts  for  nothing  with  the 
present  Council,  having  taking  out li­
censes through the  assistance of friends.
called  at  T he 
T radesm an  office  last  week  and  gra­
ciously announced  that  he couceded the 
grounds  taken  by  T he  T radesm an  of 
last week,  in objecting to the granting of 
free permits.  He  said  he  had  helped 
many  of  the  Russians,  personally,  and 
would  probably continue  to do  so.  He 
could find no  fault  with  the  grocers for 
their  activity in protecting their own in­
terests.

Joseph  Houseman 

In speaking of the matter,  Mr. Tyroler 
said:  “The only party  named  by  T h e 
T radesm an  whom  1  recommended  is 
Wiess.  This  man  Cohen  was  recom­
mended  by  Alderman  Damsky,  Mr. 
Houseman and myself having nothing to 
do  with  him.  1  do  not blame the Gro­
cers’  Association  for looking after their 
own interests.  These  Russian fugitives 
are, certainly,  a  very  undesirable  class 
of citizens,  but tbeysare here and we are 
trying to make  the  best of them we can. 
Wiess  has  been  reduced  to his present 
condition  by  a  long  siege  of sickness. 
His  horse  is  of  the  seventeen  shilling 
class and his wagon  is bought on the in­
stallment plan.”

CARD  FROM  MR.  OWEN.

Gra nd Ra pid s, July 28—In last week’s 
T radesm an  under  the  head  “No  per­
mits must be  issued,”  a  statement  was 
given  of  the  appeal  made  by  Joseph 
Houseman  and Max Tyroler to the Com­
mittee  on Poor of the  Common Council, 
in behalf  of  certain  would-be peddjers, 
who,  it  was  alleged,  were  too  poor to 
pay the required license.  The character 
of these applicants, as  published in that 
statement, shows  that  they  are  utterly 
unworthy  of  the  privileges  asked  for. 
As  a  justification  for  championing the 
cause of such  uuwortby  clients,  it  was 
stated  that  Mr.  Houseman  is  a  large- 
hearted,  charitable  gentleman, and that 
he will, probably,  withdraw his support 
from  these  alleged  imposters  when  he 
learns the actual facts  of the case.  The 
article  in  question  is,  no  doubt,  true, 
and, in  addition  thereto,  I wish to state 
that  Max  Tyroler is also a large-heated, 
charitable gentlemen  of noble impulses, 
whose  band  is  always  extended  in the 
good work of aiding the  unfortunate  re­
gardless of faith,  nationality, or kindred, 
so  far  as  his  means  will  permit;  and 
whose sense of justice would  never  lead 
him into championing the  cause  of  any 
man whom he considered unworthy.

E.  A.  Ow en.
fertilizer  of 
Worry  is 
It produces them and it makes 
troubles. 
them grow.
It is a great mistake in addition to add 
to your income without giving  an honest 
equivalent for it.

the  great 

Smoke a cigarette and there is a double 
combustion—the  cigarette  itself and the 
brain of the smoker.

A   C ontem ptible  F a tu ity .

Some one  has  called  it  the  Ananias 
policy of  keeping back the half.  Some­
one else has  said that  the trait is natur­
ally in  the bone  and  practice of  every 
citizen, rich  and  poor, learned  and  un­
learned,  far-sighted  and  short-sighted. 
We  are  all  tarred  with  the  same black 
stick of not only clutching and hiding in 
a napkin  all of  our  own, but holding on 
to  that  which  belongs  to  others  and 
which should  be out  and  in use.  There 
never was a  period  in  our  history when 
there  was  as  much  money in  existence 
among  us  as  now.  There  never  was  a 
time  when  money  was  harder  to  get. 
What an  indictment  is  this  against our 
intelligence and our human nature!  We 
are, indeed, a  poor  lot, seemingly  inca­
pable  of  doing  the  right  thing  at  the 
right time.  And what is the right thing? 
This and nothing  else:  Buy and invest, 
invest and  buy,  all  you  can  right away, 
as  individuals,  banks,  insurance  com­
panies  and  trust  associations.  Don’t 
keep  back  a  dollar.  Pour  out  all your 
dollars quickly at full interest  on collat­
erals whose  cheapness  at  present  is  be­
yond question.  A little while ago bank­
ers  and others  were  loaning  out  their 
cash  on  securities  20  per  cent,  higher 
than they are  to-day.  No  one runs  any 
risk  now in  placing  loanable  funds  on 
good,  low-priced bonds and stocks at the 
usual margin of  25  per cent.  That man 
isn’t a banker,  whatever else he may  be, 
who  now  refuses  to  loan  at  7  per cent, 
for  the  next  six  or  eight  months.  He 
will wake up some fihe morning  to know 
that he has missed his opportunity.  The 
savings  banks  are  excellent institutions 
for utilizing the driblets of the poor, but 
as some of  them  have  been  run  the last 
thirty days  as  much can’t be  said.  The 
managers  of  some  of  these  banks,  by 
getting scared, have added to the ruin of 
tens of  thousands  of  people  engaged in 
trade,  their  hoarding  process  making 
money so  scarce that people in excellent 
credit,  couldn’t get their usual accommo­
dation.  This  unwise  holding  back and 
hoarding  is  stupid  and  culpable,  every 
way one  looks  at it.  It is  a  breeder of 
panics, and the same is true of  too many

the  first  store  started  in  that  village. 
Three years later the business  was  sold 
out, Mr. Shirts remaining with  the  new 
proprietor  as  manager  for  two  years. 
He then went to Montague as head  clerk 
for S.  H.  Lasley  &  Co.,  general  mer­
chants,  where  be  remained  four  years. 
Soon  after  resigning  that  position,  he 
came to Grand Rapids  and  took  charge 
of the  books  in  the  cigar  and  tobacco 
jobbing house of  Eaton  &  Christenson, 
later going to Lincoln, Neb.,  and  open­
ing a branch  house  for  the  same  firm. 
Eaton & Christenson  failed in the fall of 
1887, and Mr. Shirts  returned  to  Grand 
"Rapids and accepted a position with  the 
Brown  Milling Co. as  book-keeper  and 
cashier, remaining until the Brown Mill­
ing Co. was merged  into the Valley City 
Milling Co.  At the  annual  meeting  of 
the  Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  held  in 
1890,  Mr. Shirts  was  elected  manager, 
and at the next annual meeting  the  du­
ties of Treasurer were added to those  of 
Manager,  which positions  he still holds. 
He is also  a  Director  of  the  company. 
Mr.  Shirts  modestly  declined  to  make 
any statement concerning  the  condition 
of the company under  his  management, 
but a stockholder of the  compan y  who, 
three years ago,  was  inclined  to  doubt 
the wisdom of the directors in placing so 
large a business In the hands  of  a  man 
without previous experience in the man­
ufacture of brushes, assures T h e T r a d es­
man  that  Mr. Shirts  has  developed  a 
wonderful amount of executive  capacity 
and demonstrated his ability to  increase 
the volume  of  business  nearly  50  per 
cent.,  with a  corresponding  increase  in 
the profits. 
In addition to the  payment 
of three annual dividends of 8, 10  and  8
per cent, respectively, he  has  increased 
the surplus account from $7,000  to  $38,- 
000 and augmented the working force  to

other banks and institutions where money 
lodges to  be  distributed  and loaned out. 
Spurzheim  once  asked if  all  the  fools 
would  ever  die,  and  answered  his  own 
question by saying:  “No, there will be a 
bountiful  crop of  them in  every genera­
tion, to the end of time.”  Yes, and they 
are here, some of them at the head of our 
banks.  These are times when every dol­
lar should be on the wing, oiling the busi­
ness machinery—near and remote.  Once 
upon a time  a panic  was  under  way  in 
New York.  A  stranger  stepped  into  a 
large  Broadway  concern  and  asked  for 
the head of the house.  This was  his lit­
tle talk:  “I was  once  a  scholar in your 
Sunday-school class.  When 1 was going 
West you put your  hand on my head and 
gave  me your  blessing. 
I  have  been 
prosperous, and  here  is  $50,000  which 
you can perhaps use in this emergency.” 
It  saved  the  house  from  going  down. 
Thus let your oil drip on rusty places, of 
which,  at  present,  there  are  too  many. 
Be neither Annaniasnor Sapphira, hoard­
ing nor holding back.  Help just a little 
and be quick about it.

Geo.  R.  Scott.

The  F irst  P a te n t.

The first  patron of  our patent  system 
was Thomas Jefferson, who, during three 
years,  gave  his  personal  attention  to 
every application  for a patent.  He used 
to call the  Secretary of  War and the At­
torney-General to examine and scrutinize 
with him, and  they did it  so thoroughly 
that in one year—the  first—they  granted 
only three patents.  The very first patent 
of  all  was given  to Samuel  Hopkins, in 
1790,  for  pearl  ashes.  Mr.  Jefferson 
held that the  patent  system was not one 
for creating  revenue, but  for  encourag­
ing production  of  that which is  to be of 
benefit to the  whole people. 
In the first 
twelve  years  a single  clerk  in the State 
Department and a few pigeon holes were 
all  that  the  business  of  the  office  re­
quired.  Then  a  Dr.  Thornton  took 
charge of  it and devoted  himself  to it as 
a hobby.

PRODUCE  m a r k e t .

Apples—Home grown Astricans  are beginning 
to come in, commanding 75c per  bu.  The quali­
ty is poor  and  the  size  Inferior.  Duchess  will 
begin to come the latter part  of  the week, prob­
ably bringing $1  per bu.

Beans—Handlers pay $1.75  for country-picked 
and hold at $2.  City hand-picked are quoted  at 
10@25e above these figures.

Beets—50c per bu.
Blueberries—Receipts  are  gradually  increas 
ing, the price  ranging  from  $2.5002.75  per bu., 
according to quality.

Blackberries—Lawtons  command  8010c  per 
qt., but will probably go lower before the end of 
the week.  The crop is large  in  size and fine in 
quality.  Next  week  will  be  the  flush  of  the 
crop.

Butter—The market is higher, with indications 
of still higher prices in the near future.  Dealers 
now  pay  16018c  for choice  dairy,  holding  at 
18©2Cc.  Creamery  is  in fair demand at 22c.

ance, commanding 18c per bunch.

Cabbage—Home grown, $3 per 100.
Carrots—20c per doz.
Celery—Home  grown  has  put  in  an  appear­
Corn—(jreen, 6c per doz.
Cucumbers—50c per bu.
Eggs—Firm  and  strong.  Dealers  pay  13%c, 

holding at  li%c.

Green Onions—10012c  per doz. bunches.
Green Peas—30c per bu. for marrofat.
Honey—White  clover  commands  15c  per  lb. 

dark buckwheat brings 12%c.

Onions—Dry stock  commands  $1.25  per bu. or 
$3.50 per bbl.  Both red  and  yellow danvers are 
in market.

Plums—California command $1.50 per 4 basket 
crate.
Potatoes—Home grown  are beginning to come 
in  quite  freely,  in  consequence  of  which  the 
price was dropped to 50055c.  The quality is not 
very good  yet,  owing  to  the  greenness  of the 
crop.

Squash—3c per lb.
Tomatoes—4c per lb.
Turnips—Home grown, 50c per bu.
Watermelons—The  Georgia crop  is  coming in 
freely,  commanding  15020c apiece.

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W a n ted   W eek ly,

DETROIT  AND  CHICAGO  MARKET  PRICES  GUARANTEED.

117  MONROE  STREET, 

Grader  Chests. 

F. J. 
- 

D E T T E N T H  

-  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Glass  Covers  for  Biscuits.

Spring   A-  Company,

IMPORTERS  A AT)  H HO J.ESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s , 

D r e s s   G o o d s ,  S h a w ls ,  C lo a k s , 
N o t io n s , 
H o s ie r y , 
G lo v e s ,  U n d e r w e a r ,  W o o l e n s , 
F la n n e ls ,  B la n k e t s ,  G in g h a m s , 
P r in t s   a n d   D o m e s tic   C o tto n s .

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

assorted stock at lowest  market  prices.

Spring &  Com pany,

MILTON  It B HNS’

HI  Puritano  Cigar,

T H E F I N E S T

1 G6Dt Cigar ollEartn

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

Bay City.

Grand  Rapids.

D e t r o it   T obacco  C o.,

East Saginaw.

Detroit, Mich.

i i n

nPHESE  chests  will 
soon 
■*"  pay for themselves  in  the 
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  good*  from  flies,  dirt  and  prying  fingers in a short  time to pay 
for themselves.  Try them and be  convinced.  Price, 50 cents each.

BUR new glass covers  are by far the 

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

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

I

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..

W H O L E S A L E

Dry  Goods, Carpets and Cloaks

We  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

M a c k in a w   S h ir t s   a n d   L u m b e r m e n ’s  S o c k s  

OVERALLS  OF  OUR  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Ull  Herplstieier & Go

4 8 ,  8 0 ,  8 2   O t t a w a   S t.

G r a n d   R a p id s

SE E   Q U O TA TIO N S.

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

U n it 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 ic h .

O riginators  o f  the  C elebrated  C ake,  “ M U SK E G O N   B R A N C H .”

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

Mail orders a specialty. 

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

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

THE  YOST  MF G.  CO.,

TOLEDO.  OHIO.

^ L A R K   ^ I G A R   ^OMPANY

Corner  Ottawa  and  Lyon  Streets,

GRAND  RADIUS,  MICHIGAN.

STATE  AGENTS  FOR  THE  CELEBRATED

WE CARRY  ALL  SIZES AND  SHAPES.

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

A G N E S   BOOTH  C IG A R S .
DO /.NOT.-. D E L A Y

apart for smokers.  No advance over regular retail prices.

IF   Y O U   W A N T   A

Harvard  Leather  Bag

WE  ARE  GIVING  THEM  TO OUR  FRIENDS.

W R I T E   F O R   P A R T I C U L A R S

P E R K I N S   <&  H E S S
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS IK

NOS.  122  and  i2 4   LOUIS STREET. ORAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN.

WK CARR?  A 8TOCK  OF  CARS TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USR

Send  Us  Your  Order
MASON
FRUIT  JARS

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B—4 the prices  advance,  which  they are 
sure to do a little later in the season.  We 
will hold  the  following quotations  open 
until the next issue of T h e T r a desm a n:
One pint Mason cans, packed, 6 doz. in a case..................................................  $6  00
One quart Mason cans, packed. 8 doz  in a case................................................  6  50
One-half gal.  Mason cans, packed. 6 doz. in a case.................................  .......  8  50
One.pint Mason cans,  packed,  1 doz. in a case..................................................  7  75
One quart Mason cans, packed, 1 doz.  in a case..............................................  
8  25
One-half gal. Mason cans, packed, 1 doz.  in a case..........................................   10  25

Don’t delay but send your order at once to

II.  Leonard  &  Sons

QUALITY  WINS!

And  you  can  depend on  th e b est qual­

ity  when  you  buy this  Brand•

