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GRAND  R A PID S,  W ED N ESDA Y ,  AUGUST  23,  1893. 

NO.  518

THE  CASHIER’S  STORY.

At 22 years of age I was the cashier  of 
the large retail dry goods house of Burke 
Bros.  & Co.  Plenty of  people  wondered 
why a  young man of  that  age had been 
given  such  a responsible  position,  and 1 
may  explain  that  1  had  been  with the 
house for six  years.  Mr.  Walter Burke, 
the  manager,  was  pleased 
to  say that 
they had  found me  honest, diligent  and 
ambitions, and  that  there was no doubt 
of  my giving  continued  satisfaction. 
I 
gave  no  bond. 
It  wasn’t  the  rule  in 
those  days,  and I  could  not  have given 
one  had it  been  exacted.  The  position 
of cashier is not a hard one for an honest 
man. 
I handled  a great deal of  money, 
but  I  can  truthfully  say  I  was  never 
tempted in the  slightest. 
I  don’t claim 
to be  peculiar in  my ideas,  but  I do say 
that I have  always  been  a bit  of  a phi­
losopher on the  subject of  honesty.  To 
carry a burden of  guilt;  to be suspected; 
to leave home,  friends and country; to be 
obliged  to  admit  to  yourself  that  you 
are a thief; to be tracked  and published, 
even  if  not  arrested  and  imprisoned— 
why, I  could  never  figure  out value re­
ceived,  no matter how large the sum.

Mr. Burke  could  enter  the  office  any 
hour of  the  day  and  count  my cash  or 
run  over  my accounts  without  causing 
me to change color.  Every three months 
an expert  looked  over  the  books,  and 1 
could leave him in the office and go home 
whistling.  On  one  occasion  he  kicked 
np  quite  an  excitement  by  finding  a 
shortage of $2,100. 
I didn’t tremble and 
turn pale. 
I  neither  bolted  nor  broke 
down and confessed that I had embezzled 
the money to speculate  in stocks or play 
the races. 
I  just pulled off my coat and 
went  over  the  figures,  and  within  an 
hour  we  found  the  error.  Expert that 
he  was  he had  made  a  mistake in  his 
footings.

I  had  held  the  place  for  two  years 
when a young man  named Henry Devon, 
who was a cousin of the Burkes,  came to 
take a place in the store as manager of  a 
department.  He did not create a favora­
ble impression  on me,  though he seemed 
to make  an effort  in that  direction.  He 
was what they call a “goody goody” man. 
He wore a sanctimonions look, pretended 
to be possessed  of  all the virtues,  and  a 
great many people were deceived in him. 
In a couple of  months  after  his  arrival 
he was a  steady churchgoer,  had a caller 
or two every day from  the congregation, 
and  was always taking up a collection in 
his department  for  something  or other. 
He discharged two salesgirls who refused 
to  contribute 
to  buy  Sunday  school 
books,  and he  promptly bounced  an ele­
vator  boy  who  “durued  the  heathen” 
when asked to chip in 25 cents.  Being a 
relative, Devon  was not  looked upon as 
he otherwise  would have been,  although 
the only  advantage he seemed to take  of 
the  circumstance was to  hang  about the 
cashier’s  office  rather  more  than  was 
proper,  and  to  force  his  friendship  on 
me. 
I treated him civilly, of course,  but 
I  never  liked  him.  One  day—when 
Devon had  been  in the  store  a  year or 
more—my assistant was taken ill at noon,

and had  to go  home. 
It was not only a 
busy afternoon,  but  Mr.  Burke gave me 
two or three extra things to do, and when 
it came time  to make  our bank deposit I 
had half a  dozen  irons in  the  fire.  My 
assistant  had  always  gone'to  the bank, 
but on this occasion 1 must make the  de­
posit  myself.  Trade  had  been  rushing 
and sales heavy,  and it so happened that 
everything  was  cash. 
I  think  the sum 
was $5,800,  and  I  had  just  counted  it 
when  Devon came  into  the  office to ask 
about a check which had been  mailed to 
us by a country customer  and had never 
turned up. 
I  was in a  hurry to get  out 
the  items  of  a  statement  of  account 
wanted by Mr.  Burke, and as  Devon had 
his hat  and  coat on  and  was  evidently 
going  out I asked  him to take the money 
and our  book and  make  the  deposit for 
me. 
I did not see him when he returned. 
I found the book in  my desk,  and placed 
it in the safe without opening it. 
It was 
not till  10 o’clock  next  forenoon  that I 
made  the  discovery that  no  deposit  had 
been  credited  to  us  the  day before. 
I 
went  upstairs to  see Devon and ask  for 
an  explanation.

“Why,  what  do you  mean?” he  asked 

in reply,  seemingly much surprised.

“I sent $5,800 by  you  yesterday to de­
posit.  The bank has given us no credit.”
“Sent  $5,800  by  me!  Why,  my  dear 
boy,  you  must  have  dreamed  it!  You 
never gave me a dollar to deposit.  Had 
you asked me to do such a thing I should 
have  promptly  refused, as  you  are em­
ployed  to see to those  matters.”

Well, to  be  brief,  he  stood  right up 
and denied everything.  He even proved 
that he  did not go  out  on the street. 
It 
so  happened that no one had seen him in 
the office,  and  so  it  was a  question  of 
veracity.  My  accounts  showed  the re­
ceipt of the money, but as to its disposal 
—well,  that  was  different. 
I  had seven 
or eight years of  faithful,  honest service 
to my  credit.  Devon  was  a  relative, a 
church  member,  and  considered beyond 
reproach.  He was too sharp to even hint 
that  I  had  embezzled  the  sum.  He 
merely contended that I had made a mis­
take in some way.  He denied asking me 
about the check,  or of being in the office, 
and he lied so gracefully and  easily that 
everybody  was  deceived.  The 
idea 
he  carried  was  that  1  had  given  the 
money to  some  other  employe,  or,  per­
haps,  to a stranger,  and he  had only soft 
words  and  sorrowful  glances  when  1 
continued to affirm that he was the guilty 
man. 
I  had 
every reason  to  believe that  Mr.  Walter 
Burke  believed  my  statement,  but  his 
two  brothers  and the  “Co.”  were doubt­
ful,  even if  not  suspicious.  The upshot 
of  the matter was that I was asked to re­
sign.  The  story got  out,  and  although 
there was  not the  slightest  proof  that I 
took  the  money,  and I  asked  that they 
investigate in  any manner  they  elected, 
the public remarked that another trusted 
employe had  gone wrong,  and 1 was dis­
graced.

It  was  a  great  mystery. 

My  first  thought  was  of  leaving  the 
I  was  an  orphan,  with  no 
I  was, however, en­

conntry. 
home or  relatives. 

gaged to be married,  and  that  made  my 
disgrace  all 
the  harder  to  bear.  The 
story had no sooner got  about than I re­
ceived  a curt  note from  the girl’s father 
forbidding  me  the  house. 
I  couldn’t 
blame him,  as no man is anxious to have 
a thief for a son-in-law, and I should not 
have blamed Katie,  either,  had she added 
a postscript to his note. 
Instead of that, 
and  knowing that  I couldn’t  call at her 
father’s  house,  she  came  to  see  me  at 
my boarding place.  She didn’t fling her­
self  upon  my  breast  and  declare  she 
would  believe  me  innocent  against  the 
whole  world,  and  she  didn’t  offer 
to 
go  to  the  nearest  clergymen’s  and  be 
married.  She was,  as I am proud to tell 
you,  a sensible,  level-headed  girl,  with 
little or no romance  in her  composition. 
She didn’t waste any  time about coming 
to the point after reaching the house, but 
sat down and said:

“The  story  is  that  you  embezzled  a 
large sum of money  from Burke Bros.  & 
Co.  1 have heard three  or four versions 
of it. 

I now want to hear yours.”

I  gave  her  the  full  particulars,  as  I 
have given them to  you,  and she did not 
interrupt me once while speaking.  When 
I had concluded,  she said:

"Your story  is both  plausible  and im­
probable.  After  I  have  seen  Devon  I 
will tell you whether  I believe or  disbe­
lieve.”

The next day she went to the store and 
sized the man up.  She  came directly to 
my boarding house and said:

“I believe your story.  Devon is a first- 
class hypocrite.  Now,  the trouble is  to 
make other folks believe  it.  What time 
in  the  afternoon  did  you  give  him  the 
money?”

think.”

“It  was  about  10  minutes  to  3,  I 
“And only you two were in the office?” 
“Only  us  two. 
If  there  had  been  a 
third  person  Devon  would  not  have 
dared to play the game.”

“He must have  come in  again to leave 
the book.  Some one must have seen him 
either first or  last,  as  your office is very 
public. 
Is  there  a  mail  delivery  at  3 
o’clock?”
“No.”
“Did you receive any messages or tele­

grams that afternoon?”
“Not at that hoar.”
“You  have a  telephone  in your office. 
Can you remember  anyone using  it that 
afternoon?”

“No.  Hold  on  a  minute!  Yes,  I  do 
remember!  Harry  Johnson  was  in  and 
telephoned  to  somebody  about  a  horse. 
I’m  certain  he  was  there  when  I  gave 
Devon the money.”

“Then lose no time in finding him.” 
When I started to look him up I found 
that  he  was  in  a  city  250  miles  away. 
Next day I walked in on him.  He hadn’t 
heard  of  my  troubles,  and I hadn’t fin­
ished  telling  my  story  when  he  inter­
rupted me with:

“No  use  going  any  further,  my  boy! 
While  I  stood  with  the  trumpet  to  my 
ear I saw you  hand  Devon  the book and 
the money,  and I heard  you say  he had 
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him  out  of  the  office,  and  he  went  up­
stairs instead of out doors. 
I didn’t give 
the  matter  a  thought  then,  being  busy 
with a horse trade.”

Mr.  Johnson’s  statement  was  put  in 
the form of an  affidavit, and I  returned 
home  rejoicing  that  my  disgrace  had 
been removed.
“This  is  not  enough—really of no  ac­
count,”  remarked the level-headed Katie, 
as  she  finished  reading  the  document. 
“It satisfies  me but it  won’t satisfy  the 
firm.  Mr. Johnson is a  friend of  yours, 
and they would argue that he was trying 
to help you out.”

“But what more can we do?”
“ Trap  the  thief.  Even  if  he  has  a 
bank account he would  not dare deposit 
the stolen funds as soon  as this. 
I have 
ascertained that he has rooms in a board­
ing house on Vine Street. 
I believe that 
a search of his rooms would discover  the 
money.  Can you  remember the  denom­
ination of any of the bills?”

“There was a good deal of small money, 
but there  was  a  $500  bill. 
It  did  not 
come from  a customer, but  I  changed it 
for Slater, the  druggist 
It was a brand 
new  Treasury note,  and he said he got it 
from Williams,  the real estate man.” 

While  I  set  out  to  trace  the  bill the 
girl  started  in  to  further  investigate 
Devon.  By a visit to his boarding house 
she  located,  his  room  and  ascertained 
that  his door  was  never  locked  during 
the day.  Her  idea  was  to  hire  a  room 
near  it,  but  there  was  none  to  be had. 
Slater remembered  bringing in  the bill, 
and Williams  not only remembered  pay­
ing it to Slater,  but bad the number of it. 
When I  met Katie  again she told  me of 
her failure, and asked:

“Has Devon got a mother or sister?” 
“There was a young woman to see him 
a few months ago who was said to be his 
sister.”

“That will do.  He has  no doubt men­
tioned  her  to his  landlady.  He goes to 
dinner at 12 and returns at 1. 
I shall be 
here at 3  o’clock sharp  to-morrow after­
noon.  Ask  no  questions,  but  let  me 
work this out may own way.”

At  a quarter  past  1 o’clock  the  next 
afternoon  she drove  up to  the boarding 
house in  a hack,  and was  provided with 
a  traveling  bag,  wore  a  traveling suit, 
and  appeared to  have  just come off  the 
train.  She  was  Miss  Devon,  and  was 
disappointed to  thing that  she had  just 
missed Brother Henry.  She would get  a 
bite to  eat, rest for  an  hour,  and  then 
run down  to the store. 
It was perfectly 
natural  that  she  should  want  to  see 
Henry’s room and  perfectly natural that 
she 
tidy 
things  up  a  bit.  Even 
the  sharpest 
detective  would have  gone  poking into 
trunks  and  the  wardrobe  and  looking 
into corners.  She found  that  money in­
side  of  five  minutes. 
It  was  between 
the leaves of  an elegant big Bible osten­
tatiously displayed on a center table.  At 
3 o’clock she was on hand to say:

should  be 

in  it 

left 

“Now,  you  go  to  Walter  Burke  and 
show him the  affidavit.  Then  get  out a 
search warrant and  have it  served. 
In­
side of  two  hours  Mr.  Devon  will  be  a 
very tired man.”

Mr.  Burke  was  a bit  surprised  at my 
call.  He was a great deal  more surprised 
when I handed him the affidavit and told 
him  about the $500  bill,  and  added that 
I  should apply for a search warrant.  He 
did not  discourage  me,  though  he  said 
It took the  officer 
nothing encouraging. 
an hour and a half to  find the money. 
I

to 

met  him  at  the  store,  and  there  was a 
very  solemn meeting  in  the  manager’s 
room.  Devon was called down stairs and 
informed of  the result of  the search and 
the  affidavit  was  shown  to  him. 
I ex­
pected he would face the charge as boldly 
as he  had faced  me, but the  thing came 
so suddenly that he had  no time to work 
up his  nerve.  He  did,  indeed,  start  in 
to  deny  everything,  but  his  demeanor 
betrayed his guilt,  and he  finally wilted. 
He  deserved ten  years  in  state  prison, 
but  he  was  not  prosecuted. 
It  didn’t 
look  just right to give a cousin up  to the 
law,  you know,  nor would any of  us like 
to  have the  world  know  that we  had a 
blood  relative who  ought  to be playing 
checkers  with  his  nose.  Mr.  Devon 
stepped out very  softly and quietly, and 
I stepped back into my old place,  and to­
day there are people who can’t make  out 
how 
it  all  happened.  Katie’s  father 
changed his mind long ago. 
I think he’s 
quite  satisfied with me for  a son-in-law.

GLOVES  AND  SHOES.

in 

the 

factors 

A  woman  who 

W hat  is  N ew   In  Hand  and  F ootw ear.
From the New York Mail and Express.
There  is  a  great  deal  in  the papers 
about  dresses  and  millinery,  but  very 
little about gloves and shoes that  are  to 
go  with  them,  and yet these are impor­
tant 
costuming  of 
woman.  A  woman  who  is  not  well 
gloved and  shoed  is never well dressed, 
no matter how  expensive the rest of her 
costume may be, and yet  it  is  astonish­
ing how few  women  know this,  or at any 
rate, appreciate the  fact.  Sometimes in 
a  street  car  a  pretty  face  will  attract 
your  notice  and  (if  you be a man)  you 
turn  to  get a second  look  and your eyes 
travel over a graceful, well-dressed figure, 
when suddenly a foot is pushed out from 
beneath the dainty petticoat, and behold, 
there is a shoe looking gray  and  out  of 
shape, with two or three buttons missing; 
you  say  to  yourself,  “Sloven,” and im­
mediately cease to be interested.
to  have 
is  careful 
her  hands  and  feet  always 
looking 
trim and neat is  generally a good house­
wife.  Nearly all  men  know  this,  and 
they  are  the  first  thing  a man looks at 
after  the  face. 
In walking  down Fifth 
avenue  the  other  day with a gentlemen 
we passed an  unusually  pretty girl, and 
I  remarked  to  my  companion:  “Oh, 
what a pretty girl;  did you see her?”
‘•Yes.”  he replied,  “and she had three 
buttons  off  her  left shoe.”  You see he 
noticed  it,  though  I  did not. 
It is the 
same  with  gloves.  How  can  a woman 
think she looks well when her gloves are 
soiled  or  have  the fingers worn through 
or  buttons  off?  You  may  argue  that 
one cannot always  get  new  ones  when 
needed,  but  that  is  no excuse for those 
defects.
There is always a needle and  thread  in 
the house,  and  it only  costs ten cents to 
get  gloves  cleaned.  There  are  two or 
three new designs in  gloves.  One  is an 
imported  Suede  glove  of  a pinkish tan 
in  color  (called  Oeuf in French),  and is 
to be  worn  outside the sleeve of an em­
pire dress.
The  wrist  and  top  of  the  glove are 
trimmed  with  galloon 
trimming  with 
colored  jewels  called carbuchon,  giving 
the  effect  of  two  bracelets.  Someone 
has  also  had  a happy  thought  for silk 
gloves, to  prevent  the  finger  nails  cut­
ting  to  tip  them with kid through,  and 
that  is  of  the  same  color.  The kid is 
placed on the inside of the glove.
In  shoes  the white canvas and darker 
shade of tan  are  going  out.  and in their 
place the light tan and  a navy  blue can­
vas trimmed in  black  patent leather are 
offered.  There is also a  navy  blue trim­
med  in  white,  but they are very  “loud” 
and not considered good taste.
A  comfortable  low  shoe  named  the 
“Duse” recommends itself at once to the 
shopper, but many ladies still  prefer the 
high  French  heel,  thinking it makes the 
foot  look shorter and more graceful  and 
are  willing  that  a little comfort should 
be  sacrificed.  Shoes  this  year are very 
pretty and much cheaper than they have 
ever been before. 

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killed  and 
harmed.

three  without  escaped  un­

There were  cases reported where  per­
sons struck  by lightning had  small holes 
bored in  the  skull,  but  otherwise  they 
were  not  marked. 
In  other  instances 
victims have  been shockingly burned, or 
even  dismembered  or  disemboweled. 
There have been cases where  a stroke of 
lightning  has  cut  off  a  man’s  ear  or 
shaved his hair and  beard clean and not 
hurt him in any other  way.  The  mark­
ings are often curious.  Blue is the com­
mon color,  but they have been red, green 
and  black,  and  occasionally  the  whole 
body turns black.  Several times negroes 
who have been struck  by  lightning have 
had their skins bleached  in  spots to ab­
solute whiteness.  The most  notable in­
stance of thi3  sort  occurred  in  Mobile, 
Ala., June  23,  of  last  year.  A  negro, 
struck by lightning,  found,  after  he had 
recovered consciousness,  that he had one 
completely white arm.  The  rest  of  his 
body was as black as usual.

touching 

Blindness, deafness and  total  or  par­
tial paralysis are  frequent consequences 
of 
lightning  strokes.  Sometimes  the 
lightning  selects  a  single  object  on  a 
man’s person and assails that without ap­
parently 
the  man  himself. 
Goins have been  melted until they stuck 
together in a man’s pocket, while he suf­
fered no ill consequences.  Keys, watches 
and watch chains,  metal  cartridges  and 
eye-glass frames have  been  more or less 
damaged,  while  the  persons  who  wore 
them were almost uninjured.  There have 
been many cases where clothing has been 
almost demolished  without  injury to its 
wearer, 
iron tacks have been pulled out 
of shoes and rubber  boots  have been de­
stroyed  frequently.  The  brass  eyelets 
were torn out of  a Georgia  man’s shoes, 
but he felt  only  a  slight  and  harmless 
shock.

Houses and ships are  often struck and 
set  on  fire.  Powder  magazines, petro­
leum  tanks  and  deposits  of  nitro-glyc- 
erine  have  been  exploded  by  lightning 
and innumerable trees shattered.  A hol­
low tree in which  a  hen was  sitting  on 
eggs  was  struck  and  shivered to splin­
ters, but the hen,  although  much scared, 
was unhurt and the eggs were unbroken. 
There  is  no  record  of  a  balloon  ever 
having been struck in  mid-air. 
In New 
York  an  electric  ball  skipped  into  the 
corridor of the Southern Hotel one after­
noon, a few years ago,  and rolled around 
the  floor,  chasing  guests,  until,  appar­
ently  tired  of  the  sport,  it  went  out 
again  and  disappeared.  Nobody  was 
hurt.

Strange as it  may seem, there is much 
disputing as to  the  efficacy of  lightning 
rods as a protection  from  lightning. 
It 
is plain that, despite the vast progress ©f 
the past few years in electric science, we 
are still ignorant  of  many things,  and it 
is,  therefore, necessary to  gather a great 
number of facts so as to secure some rea­
sonable basis for  further generalizations 
as to the nature  of  the  force  known as 
electricity.

the 

LIGHTNING AND  ELECTRICITY.
It is  somewhat remarkable  in an  age 
when  electricity  has been utilized as an 
agency for almost all purposes of power, 
as well as lighting  and the transmission 
of intelligance,  so  little is  known of its 
real nature and its wonderful properties. 
Nothing  whatever is  known of the rela­
tions  between 
force 
which we denominate lightning  and  the 
electricity which  we  harness to machin­
ery  to  do  our  work and carry our mes­
sages.

tremendous 

It  pervades 

Is there  more than one sort of electri­
city?  What is the relation of electricity 
to magnetism?  What is electricity,  any­
way?  According  to  the  ordinary  the­
ories,  electricity  is  lying  around  loose 
everywhere. 
the  atmos­
phere,  the  earth,  water  and all  matter. 
When it is in a state of equilibrium noth­
ing is seen or heard of  it;  but when it is 
out  of  balance,  when  there  is  more  in 
one object than  in  another in the  neigh­
borhood, the  force  where it is in excess 
will, 
if  no  impassable  obstacles  inter­
vene,  at once  pass to the object or place 
where  there  is  a  deficiency,  and so re­
establish an  equilibrium.

Knowledge of these  conditions has en­
abled man to gather up  and confine elec­
tricity  until  it  is  wanted  for  use,  and 
then to send it on its way to establish its 
balance.  Electricity  may  be  kept 
in 
confinement by surrounding  it with sub­
stances  through  which  it  cannot  pass, 
such as  dry air,  glass,  india-rubber and 
some  others;  but  when  it 
is  to  be  dis­
patched on its mission  it is  permitted to 
traverse metallic  wires which are known 
as conductors.  The transmission of elec­
tricity  through  good  conductors  is  at­
tended  by  no  disturbance  of  any  sort; 
but when a bad conductor intervenes  the 
transmission  is  interrupted  and  the  in­
terruption  is  made  known  by  demon­
strations of heat,  light  or  noise,  or  all. 
These and other facts in connection with 
the electric force  enable their possessors 
to  apply  it  to  manifold  economic  uses. 
Nevertheless,  we  are  entirely  ignorant 
of the actual nature of electricity and of 
the place it occupies,  and  the relations it 
holds  in  the  constitution  and  arrange­
ment  of  the  material  world  in  which 
we live.

The  only  hope  of  gaining any infor­
mation upon  these  mysterious  subjects 
is  from  gathering  and  studying  facts. 
Finally  enough  may  be  secured  not 
merely  to  prop  up  ingenious  theories, 
but  to  bridge  over  all  the  chasms  and 
substitute science for guesses.  A writer 
in the New  York  Press has  gathered  a 
number  of alleged  facts  which,  if their 
authenticity can  be established,  are  not 
only  interesting,  but  important. 
It has 
been  often remarked  that  lightning  se­
lects  its  victims,  apparently  with  no 
good  reason,  but  doubtless  for  a  most 
potential one if  understood.  The  thun­
derbolt has spared the mother and killed 
the  infant  in  her  lap. 
It  has killed a 
boy mounted on a  horse,  while his sister, 
sitting  behind  him  and  with  her  arms 
around his neck, escaped  unhurt,  as did 
the  animal.  The 
two  end  men  on  a 
bench  holding  four  have  been  killed, 
while the men in the middle suffered not 
at all.  The  driver of  a  wagon contain­
ing ten men was, last  summer,  the  only 
one  of  a  party  injured  by  a  bolt  that 
struck  the vehicle;  and  in one instance, 
in  Indiana,  when  seven  laborers when 
returning from  the hay  field,  four with 
pitchforks  over  their  shoulders  were

is
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to  be 
the 
best.

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Old  lady  (to druggist)—I  want  a  box 
of canine pills.
Druggist—What is the matter with the 
dog?
Old lady  (indignantly)—1 want  you to 
know,  sir,  that  my husband  is  a gentle­
man.
Druggist put  up some quinine pills  in 
profound silence.

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

AMONG THE  TRADE.

ABOUND THE  STATE.

Standish—J. M.  Grout is  succeeded by 
J.  A.  Rankin & Co.  in the  grocery busi­
ness.

Nashville—F.  G.  Baker  succeeds  J. 
Scott in  the  bakery  and  confectionery 
business.

Maple  Rapids — Crawford  &  Bullis 
succeed J. A.  Crawford  in the  boot and 
shoe business.

Sullivan—Hiram Munger  is succeeded 
by V.  A.  Martin  in  the  dry  goods  and 
grocery  business.

Plainwell—The  Michigan  Paper  Co. 
offers to  compromise  with  its  creditors 
at 50 cents on the dollar.

Hilliards—Frank  Gwizdala  succeeds 
Rutkowski  &  Gwizdala  in  the  grocery 
and dry goods business.

Traverse City—H. Seabrook has erected 
a store building and  put in  lines of gro­
ceries and boots and  shoes.

Owosso—Louis  F. Burck  and  Simeon 
M. Hodgins will soon open a cigar factory 
under the firm name of Burck & Hodgins.
Northville—Teichner  & Co.  have  sold 
their  stock  of  general  merchandise  to 
Charles R. Smith,  of Cadillac,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at the same loca­
tion.

Coopersville—Deli  Squires  has  sold 
his interest  in  the  meat  market  firm of 
Plant & Squires to his  partner,  who will 
continue the  business under  the style of 
Francis Plant.

Plainwell—D.  E.  Kurtz,  formerly  of 
the firm of Kurtz & McKibbin, has formed 
a copartnership  with  Bert  Sampson and 
opened a meat market under the style of 
Kurtz & Sampson.

Plainwell—D.  E.  Kurtz  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  meat  market  firm  of 
Kurtz  &  McKibbin  to  B.  G.  Foreman, 
and  the  business  will  hereafter  be con­
ducted  under  the  style  of  McKibbin & 
Foreman.

Shelby—Rankin  &  Dewey  have  sold 
their general stock to J.  R. Wylie & Bro., 
of  Richland,  who will remove their stock 
from there  to this  place,  continuing the 
business at  the former  location of  Ran­
kin & Dewey.

Otsego—A drug  firm here  has the lat­
est in the way of an advertising  scheme. 
One  day  last  week  the  junior  partner 
put out several  baskets of  hard peaches 
and invited the omnipresent small boy to 
help himself.  As a result,  the store sold 
forty-seven bottles of  colic  medicine be­
fore 9 o’clock that night.

Otsego—Mr.  Gordon  has  exchanged 
his interest  in  the  grocery firm  of  Mit­
chell & Gordan forChas.  Vaughn’s inter­
est in  the  livery business  of  Vaugb  & 
Wiley.  The grocery  business will  here­
after  be  conducted  under  the  style  of 
Mitchell  &  Vaughn,  while  the  livery 
business will  be known  as Wiley & Gor­
don.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Manistee—The old  Reitz circular saw­
mill at this point is  being torn down and 
converted into  fuel  for  the  salt  block. 
This was one of  the first mills erected at 
Manistee.

Bay City—S.  McLean &  Co.  have  am­
ple dock room and have closed a contract 
to saw 8,000,000  feet  more logs this sea­
son.  These  logs  will  begin  to  arrive 
about September 1.

Beaverton—Hood  &  Co.  are  running 
their  sawmill,  but  have  shut  down the 
hoop mill.  The  hoop  market  is  suffer-

j ing from  the same  paralysis  that affects 
lumber,  and  only those  mills  that  have 
season contracts are in operation.

Midland—The  Cleveland Woodenware 
Co.’s mill  has  shut  down  for  a  month. 
The  company found  it  necessary to  re­
duce wages and some of the men declined 
to accept the  terms,  hence  the company 
found it advisable to quit for the present.
Roscommon—It  is  expected  that  the 
Hodgman Manufacturing Co.’s plant will 
resume  operations  shortly.  The  com­
pany’s assets  are largely in  excess of its 
liabilities  and  if  granted  an  extension 
will  be able  to  meet all obligations  and 
resume.

Cheboygan—Cheboygan  banks  have 
been cramped for money to  furnish  mill 
men.  One  bank  sent  to  Detroit  for 
$15,000  to  accommodate  mill  men  and 
could only secure  $2,000.  Some  of  the 
Cheboygan  mills will  soon  be  forced  to 
shut down as  the  docks  are  nearly full 
and piling room  is about exhausted.

Manistee—S.  Rothschild, of the North­
ern  Cedar  Shingle  Co.,  with  mills  at 
Gulliver,  has  returned  to  the  city  and 
says the  mill  has  closed  for  the present 
and  will  not  reopen  until  the  market 
brightens,  and  not  then  unless  some 
changes in  the personnel of the company 
are made,  as he is  not satisfied  with the 
way the affairs have been managed.

Manistee—Hardwood  business  seems 
to be picking up somewhat and one party 
who  was  here  last  week  bought  about 
500,000 feet of that class of stock at good 
figures.  One lot  of  oak sold  for $20 on 
dock  here  for  log  run.  People  would 
have us believe  that lumber will have to 
be scaled  down  in price,  but that is just 
the figure this  same  class  of  stock sold 
for early in the spring when things were 
supposed to be booming.

Manistee—The  Manistee  &  North 
Eastern Railroad  has had to take  off one 
of its logging trains this week, as the Can- 
field  &  Wheeler  Co.,  for  whom  it  was 
hauling,  was unable to take  care  of  the 
logs owing  to  limited  storage capacity. 
At the mill boom they only carry enough 
logs for two or three days sawing,  as the 
mill being on the river  it  is  not safe  to 
hold 
too  many  at  once,  and  storage 
ground is at a premium in the little lake.
Bay  City—There  is  very  little  talk 
about  logging  operations  this  fall  and 
winter,  and  unless  the  money  market 
eases up  less will  be done than in many 
years,  for the reason  that  it will  not  be 
possible to get the money to operate,  and 
without  a  marked  improvement  in  the 
demand for lumber  there will  be  no in­
ducement to put in  large stocks of  logs. 
A number of firms that usually establish 
camps  early 
in  September  will  wait 
awhile.

Muskegon—The directors  of  the Mus­
kegon Booming  Co.  have  decided  to  in- 
creas&the prices for  rafting,  towing and 
delivering  logs on and  after  Aug.  26 by 
20 per cent.  The scale  has been posted, 
giving  a  little  more  than  the  required 
ten days’ notice.  The company is going 
to make in  this way an  effort to get back 
some of  the  money that  it  has lost this 
season on the expensive drive.  The loss 
is estimated at $25,000,  and the increased 
charges  will  reduce  this  by  probably 
$5,000.

lumber 

Bay  City—The 

industry  is 
standing up under the strain  pretty well, 
the mills generally keeping busy.  Some 
manufacturers  have  been  put  to  their 
trumps to  get  money to  meet their  pay 
rolls.  Hon.  John  Welch  took  $7,000

worth  of  gilt  edge  paper  to  the  bank 
with  which he  does business,  but could 
not  get  a  cent  on 
it.  He  finally  suc­
ceeded in  raising  enough money to meet 
one-half his pay roll and calling his men 
together  stated  the  case  plainly,  and 
every man decided to continue work.  A 
number  of  other  firms  are  in  the  same 
boat,  but their help  realize the situation 
and accept it philosophically.

Why is this true? 

F leecing  the  Angel  o f  Commerce. 
From the Shoe and  Leather Gazette.
A traveling  man  complains that  com­
mercial travelers,  while being the widest 
traveled and most  cosmopolitan  class of 
men in the world,  are yet the most easily 
fleeced,  and  builds  a  good  argument 
whereby  to  prove  his claims. 
It would 
appear that he is right.  The commercial 
tourist  mingles  with  every  kind  and 
class of people.  He  knows all the latest 
tricks  of  the confidence man.  He pities 
the  ignorance  of  the  greenhorn  who, 
never  having seen  a gas  fixture  before, 
extinguishes the light at a hotel with his 
breath.  He  laughs  at  the  antics  of  a 
“farmer”  who comes  to town and makes 
himself  ridiculous.  Then  this  same 
traveling man  goes out into the country, 
and every “greenhorn” of whom he buys 
anything “takes him in and does him” in 
the  most  approved  style,  year  in,  year 
out. 
It  is  said  that  no  man  can  be 
fleeced twice  by the same  game,  but the 
drummer is.
The  country landlord  charges  him  a 
half dollar for  a meal,  while  the  native 
sitting  next  to him  and  eating twice as 
much  pays  but  a  quarter.  The  dray­
man  charges  a half  dollar  for bringing 
his trunk from the depot, while the coun­
try merchant  only pays  a quarter  for  a 
big load of  newly received goods.  Talk 
about  a  “Drummer’s  tax!”  He  is  the 
legitimate prey of everybody.
If the countryman’s 
big dinner  is only worth a quarter,  why 
is the  drummer’s  worth  twice as much? 
Why should the  drayman rob  him?  Be­
cause  he’s a  transient?  That’s the rea­
son given,  but it  is not strictly true. 
If 
Bill Sykes  eats at the  hotel  once a  year 
he  only pays  a quarter  for his meal.  A 
traveling man  may come twelve times in 
that  period,  but  he is  dHbbed  a  “tran­
sient” and a 50-cent piece is buncoed out 
of him. 
In  the  city the  angel  of  com­
merce  does  not  allow  himself  to  be 
fleeced, and it is an unexplained mystery 
why he will do so in the country.
It is this  double charge  that  runs the 
traveler’s  expense  account up to  its of­
tentimes  astonishing  total.  This  fact 
alone should  impress it  upon  the drum­
mers  that  these  exorbitant  charges im­
pair  their  salaries,  and  cause  them  to 
contract  with  landlords,  draymen  and 
others with  whom  they have business on 
their trips to give them the advantageous 
rates  their  number  and  the  extent  of 
their  patronage  deserves. 
In  England 
special  hotel  and 
railroad  rates  are 
granted  to  “ bagmen,” as drummers  are 
called  there,  and  In  the  United  States 
the travelers’ organizations  have secured 
1,000-mile tickets  which  enable  them  to 
travel  at  less  than  local  rates,  and  ef­
forts  are being  put  forth to make  these 
tickets interchangeable.  Why not direct 
attention  to  hotel  and  drayage  rates? 
They are  exorbitant  and  need  remodel­
ing.

U nconstitutional  Ordinances.

The City of Macon, in Georgia,  a short 
time ago passed an  ordinance subjecting 
to a license tax of $500 per annum butch­
ers  and  others  having  no  stall  in  the 
market  and selling  meat  from shops or 
wagons, other than non-residents  selling 
meats of their own raising.  Judge Speer, 
sitting in  the United States Circuit Court 
at Macon, has rendered a  decision  hold­
ing  the  ordinance  unconstitutional  and 
void,  as being  in  violation  of the inter­
state commerce law,  saying:  “It is true 
the  tax  ordinance  excepts from its ver- 
I bal operation ‘non-residents selling meats 
of their own  raising,’ but  since it is evi­
dent  that  only  persons  who  can  avail 
themselves of this privilege are non-resi­
dents who live in  the  immediate vicinity 
of  Macon,  it  effectually  excludes  meat 
i producers  from  all  the other states. 
It

follows,  therefore, that the wholesale tax 
for  the  business  of  meat selling within 
the  city of Macon is  void,  the  evidence 
showing that  this  business  depends en­
tirely  upon  the  sale  of  western  meats, 
there  being  no  pretense  of  imposing  a 
tax  on  home-made  meats  sold  in  bulk. 
For the foregoing reasons the defendants 
must  be  enjoined  from  collecting  these 
taxes.  Because  their  regulations  are 
also unconstitutional as imposing an un­
lawful  restriction  upon  commerce  be­
tween  the states,  they must be restrained 
from enforcing or endeavoring to enforce 
the penalties provided  in  the ordinances 
for selling or offering for sale their meats 
at  their  regular  places  of  business,  or 
elsewhere in the city of Macon, otherwise 
than at the market house,  and from sell­
ing their  meats at any time  during mar­
ket  hours,  as  prohibited  in  said  ordin­
ances,  and  from collecting or attempting 
to collect from  complainants the license 
fee fixed by  such  ordinances for the sale 
of  meats  elsewhere  than  in  the  market 
honse,  and  must  be  further  enjoined 
from  preventing  the  complainants  who 
have  rented  stalls  at  the  market  house 
from selling at the market house as much 
of their meats as  they may  have the op­
portunity to sell  to any  and all  persons 
who may there desire to buy.”

“I  expect  to  have  a  busy  time  this 
trip,” remarked a  traveling man,  “and I 
have, therefore,  written  out my expense 
account in advance.”

FOB  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

773

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

■ OR  SALE—General stock  of  dry goods, gro­

ceries  and  boots  and  shoes.  Inventory, 
$2,000.  New stave  mill  to  be erected  and  only 
store in town.  Cause for selling, to settle up an 
estate.  Inquire of Thomas Bromley, Jr., admin­
istrator, Alvin Shaver  estate,  St.  Johns,  Michi­
gan_____________________   _________ 776

FOR  EXCHANGE—A1 farm for stock  of  gro- 

cerles or  hardware.  Address, with  partic­
ulars, No. 777, care Michigan Tradesman.  777 
PAYING  MILLINERY  BUSINESS  FOR 
sale at Ypsilanti, Mich.  C. A  Hendrick, 
232 Congress at., Ypsilantl, Mich  _______ 771
Mil l in e r y   stock  fo r  sa le  in   tow n
of  2,500;  county  seat,  two  other  shops; 
steam heat, electric  lights;  invoice  about $500; 
stock  new,  good  reasons  for  selling.  B,  lock 
box 39, Caro, Mich. 
772
Mil l in e r y   stock  for  s a l e ;  a  fr e sh
and complete stock  for sale, including fix 
tures,  with  lease  of  brick  store;  possession 
given immediately.  Address  box 1491, Ann Ar­
bor, Mich. 
OR  SALE—THE  THEODORE  KEMINK 
drug stock and  fixtures  on  West Leonard 
street.  Paying investment.  W. H. Van Leeuwen, 
Room 33, Porter Block, Grand Rapids. 
OR  SALE—SMALL CLEAN  DRUG  STOCK 
for sale or will  exchange  for  stock of gro­
ceries.  Located on South Division street. Grand 
Rapids.  AddresB No. 775, care Michigan Trades- 
man._____________________ __________ 775
GJ.OOD  160  ACRE  FARM,  20  ACRES  IN  AP- 
<  pie orchard, in Van Buren County, for sale 
or exchange for stock of merchandise.  Address 
769
Box 510, Gobleville, Mich. 
OR  SALK—PHYSICIAN’»  PROPERTY  IN 
town of  1.500 in  central  Michigan;  house 
and lots,  horses,  carriages  and  office  fixtures; 
city  water  in  house  and barn;  price  *2,500. 
$1,800 cash, balance time.  Address No. 770, care 
of  Michigan Tradesman. 
WISH  TO  EXCHANGE  FARM  OR  TOWN 
property for  a  stock  of  goods.  Write  me 
what you have.  Address No. 768  care Michigan 
Tradesman_____________ 

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, Marshall,  Mich. 

IilOR  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.____________  

765

770

774

768

752

store.  Address  C.  L.  Brundage,  opera  house 

capital, to take charge of a first-class drug 

block, Muskegon, Mich.________________ 756

ceries for sale  on  Union  street.  Will  sell 
at a bargain.  Address  box  634,  Traverse  City, 
Mich. 

K ANTED—A  practical  druggist, with  some 
Bu sin ess  house  a n d  stock  o f  gro
F o r  sa le—yost  t y p e w r it e r ,  u sed
FOR SALE  OR  RENT—STORE  BUILDING 
Address No. 726, care Michigan Tradesman.  726

but a few months, and  practically as  good 
as new.  Send  for  sample  of  writing.  Trades- 
man Company, Grand Rapids.___________ 736

at  Sparta.  Tip-top  place  for  hardware. 

747

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Mrs.  Anna  Irish  succeeds  Irish  & 
Steele  in  the  millinery  business  at  11 
South Division  street.

Wm.  A.  Starkweather  has  opened  a 
confectionery and  tobacco store at Dush- 
ville.  The  Telfer  Spice  Co.  furnished 
the stock.

Mrs. D.  B.  Miller  has sold her grocery 
stock at 300 West Fulton  street to Homer 
Klap,  who will continue  the business at 
the same location.

The  Grand  Rapids  Glass  Co.  has re­
moved  from  184  No.  Front  street  to 70 
No.  Front  street,  where  business  has 
been resumed on an enlarged scale.

W.  T.  Lamoreaux  has  invented  and 
applied  for  a  patent  on  an  ingenious 
bean scale,  by means  of which the waste 
in a bushel of  beans can  be quickly  and 
accurately determined.

The Rogers Chemical Co.  informs  T h e 
T radesm an  that  it has  not  abandoned 
the  business  of  manufacturing  bluing, 
soap  chips,  etc.,  as  erroneously  stated 
last week.  T h e T ra desm an  published 
the ioformation on  authority deemed  re­
liable,  and  regrets  that  a  false  report 
should  have  gained  currency  through 
the medium of  this paper.

The Lemon &  Wheeler  Company took 
possession of the  Hull  Freeman grocery 
stock,  at  Mancelona,  Aug.  12,  on  a chat­
tel  mortgage  for  $5,619.  Twenty  min­
ute after taking  possession  the attorney 
for the L.  & W.  Company was ejected by 
a deputy  sheriff  by  virtue of  an attach­
ment issued at the instance of the Antrim 
County State  Savings  Bank,  the ground 
for ejectment  being  that  the  mortgage 
was not on  record  at the  time of the at­
tachment.  The Bank of  Mancelona sub­
sequently placed a second  attachment on 
the stock for $3,000, and Monday evening 
Attorney  Bundy  went  to  Mancelona  to 
replevin 
the  stock  for  the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler Company.  Edson,  Moore & Co. 
are interested  in the failure to the amount 
of  $3,300,  and  Adam  &  Ford,  of  Cleve­
land,  to the tune of $500.  The liabilities 
aggregate about $15,000,  while the assets 
amount  to  only  about  $4.000. 
In  all 
probability  the  failure  will  involve ex­
pensive  and  extended  litigation,  as  the 
Lemon & Wheeler  Company proposes to 
maintain  the  validity of  its  security to 
the uttermost extent.

The seventh annual picnic of the Grand 
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, which 
was held at Ottawa Beach last Thursday, 
was the most successful  outing ever held 
under  the auspices  of  the  organization. 
For six years  previously  the  annual pic­
nics have been  held  at Reed’s Lake,  and 
of 
late  years  have  developed  into un- 
wieldly crowds,  the  last  picnic  having 
been attended by over  17,000 people,  not 
5 per  cent,  of  whom were  interested  in 
any way in  the  grocery business.  The 
Association has derived  no  benefit  from 
these picnics  heretofore,  and  has grown 
tired  of  entertaining  several  thousand 
people  whose  sole  object  in  attending 
the picnics appeared  to  be  to indulge in 
the hilarious drunkenness for  which  the 
many saloon  resorts  around  Reed’s Lake 
are famous.  This  was the  main  reason 
for changing the  location  of  this event, 
and, as a result,  the picnic  this year was 
marked  by  quietness,  sobriety and  good 
order,  there being no drunkenness  among 
those  comprising  the  picnic  party  and J

nothing  whatever to mar the pleasure of 
the day.  Four trains conveyed the party 
to the  resort,  and  the  same  number  of 
trains brought the party  back during the 
afternoon and  evening.  The games and 
sports were carried out as announced  by 
the daily papers, and a brief address was 
made in the casino  by Frank  N.  Barrett, 
editor  of  the  American  Grocer.  The 
committees  in  charge  of  the  event did 
their work well and faithfully, contribut­
ing largely to  the  pleasure  of  the occa­
sion,  which is universally conceded to be 
a long  ways  ahead of  auy  previous  un­
dertaking on the part of the Association.

Gripsack Brigade.

Charles R.  Smith,  formerly on the road 
for a Chicago grocery  house,  bul  for the 
past two years landlord of the McKinnon 
House,  at Cadillac,  has purchased a stock 
of  general  merchandise  at  Northviile 
and embarked in  business at that place. 
Mr.  Smith's  many  friends  among  the 
boys  will  wish  him  well 
in  his  new 
location.

E.  E.  Hewitt, 

the  Rockford  grocer, 
writes  T h e  T radesm an  as 
follows: 
“Fred Blake,  the  urbane  traveling  rep­
resentative  for  Hawkins  &  Company, 
was in town  last  Thursday with a friend 
insisted  on  going 
from  Chicago,  and 
trout fishing. 
I conveyed the gentlemen 
in my carriage  to Stegman  Creek,  about 
eight miles  from  Rockford,  where they 
spent  the afternoon,  whipping the creek 
to no purpose.  About  supper time they 
returned 
to  the  carriage,  very  much 
crestfallen over their poor success,  when 
I told  them they could  probably catch a 
few  fish  by  following  the  creek  three 
miles further on,  and  that I would drive 
around  by  the main  road and meet them 
at the  conjunction of  the  creek  and the 
road. 
I did as agreed,  obtained a hearty 
supper from  a  farmer friend and  waited 
until  about  9  o’clock 
to  no  purpose. 
Thinking the  gentlemen had  missed me 
in some manner and grown tired of wait­
ing,  1 returned to Rockford,  and,  greatly 
to my  surprise,  learned  that the gentle­
men  had  not yet  put in  an  appearance. 
I thereupon had my clerk, Mr. Baker,  re­
turn with  the carriage in hopes of  meet­
ing the fugitives.  About  four miles out 
he met a couple of trampish looking men 
carrying  a  fish  pole  and  covered with 
dust,  who  faintly  enquired  how  far  it 
was to  Rockford.  Mr.  Baker  had hard 
work to  identify  the  individuals  as the 
trim looking gentlemen  who  had left the 
store a few hours before,  aud on the way 
heme they related a piteous story of how 
they became  lost in the tangle  and wan­
dered around  fifteen or  twenty miles  in 
search  of  food  or  directions. 
I needed 
no goods  .whatever,  but  was  so  touched 
by Blake’s appearance  that I gave him a 
good-sized order to cheer him up. 
In all 
probability Mr.  Blake will  take a guide 
with  him  the  next  time  he  goes  trout 
fishing from Rockford.”

Purely  Personal.

Miss Maggie  Huyge,  who has been con­
nected with  the office  department of  P. 
Steketee & Sons  for the past eight years, 
has returned  to her desk after a vacation 
of three months.  She  will  hereafter oc­
cupy the position of book-keeper.

Ed.  P.  Chamberlain, formerly manager 
of the Grand  Rapids Bending Works, but 
for the past two years  manager of a sim­
ilar  institution  at  Hillsborough,  Ohio, 
has  returned  to  Grand  Rapids  and has 
taken the office  management of  the Buss 
Machine Works.

Shelby  Herald:  W.  H.  Hoops,  who 
years ago  traveled this  territory for W. 
J.  Quan  &  Co.,  the  Chicago  wholesale 
grocers,  and  was  known  as  a  hustler 
among the  business  men  and a crank by 
the liverymen, whom he was compelled to 
employ  freely,  has  recently  come  into 
possession  of  the  Hotel  Mecca,  in  Chi­
cago,  one of the finest of the great hotels 
of that city,  and is  now running it.  He 
has  grown  rich  through  the  qualities 
noted above.

Frank N.  Barrett, editor of the Ameri­
can  Grocer,  was  in  Grand  Rapids  last 
Friday  as the  joint guest of  the  Retail 
Grocers’  Association and  the  editor  of 
T h e  T ra desm an.  Mr.  Barrett  has 
edited the  publication named  for seven­
teen  years,  during  which  time  it  has 
taken front rank  as the  ablest exponent 
of the  grocery trade of  this country,  be­
ing  universally conceded  to be  the best 
authority on trade topics of  any  journal 
in the world.  Much of this reputation is 
due to the  painstaking  care  and patient 
industry of  Mr.  Barrett,  who  ought  to 
feel  amply repaid for  devoting the  best 
years of  his life to  the development and 
maintenance  of a  journal  whose weekly 
visits  are welcomed  as  indispensable by 
the  cream  of  the  grocery trade  every­
where.  Mr.  Barrett was accompanied by 
his  wife,  and  both were  pleased  at the 
material development  of  Grand  Rapids, 
which they had never visited  before.

Grains  and  Feedstuff's.

Wheat—Moving  slowly,  farmers wait­
ing for better prices.  No one  can blame 
them  for  this,  as wheat has  been  ridicu­
lously  low for months past and the whole 
in  consequence. 
country  has  suffered 
Six  million  bushels  were  exported 
to 
Europe  last  week,  with  millions  more 
wanted.  This,  with a shorter crop  than 
last year, ought to  stimulate  the market 
to better prices.  But the estimate of the 
invisible  supply was so  far off  last year 
that  many will  be  inclined  to await de­
velopments as to the amount of the cereal 
in the  country.  The  yield  in Michigan 
is reported  to be  above the  average,  and 
this may be found to be true of the coun­
try generally.  But  with all Europe  cry­
ing for bread,  and even  portions of  Asia 
in want,  we should  be able to get  rid  of 
our surplus wheat at  much better prices 
than  have  ruled  for  many months.  At 
least,  this much may be said with perfect 
confidence,  the  outlook  is  brightening, 
and  if  the  money  market  continues  to 
improve,  the future is big  with hope  for 
both  producer  and consumer.  Prices in 
the local market are  unchanged.

Flour—In  somewhat  better  demand, 
with no change in price.  Rye is down 10c.
Bran—The market is ravenous,  taking 
all that the mills can give it.  Prices are 
$1 better than last week, $14 for car- lots, 
and $15  for less  quantity being  present 
figures.

Middlings—The  market  is  sharp,  the 
demand being active and the supply only 
medium.  Fifteen  dollars  for  car  lots 
and $16  for  less  quantity are  the  latest 
quotations.

ering the lateness of  the  season.  Rodis 
arrive in  good order,  and  are heavy and 
of good color.  Prices about as last week.
Lemons—All the  fruit  now coming in 
is new and hard, and much of it is knotty 
and worse. 
It is sold low, as it is almost 
worthless.  Prices unchanged.

Bananas—Are  in  fairly good demand, 
with prices practically unchanged.  The 
supply of really good fruit  is almost nil, 
the  general  run  being  small  and  very 
green.

From Out of Town.

Calls  have  been 

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

Bates & Troutman, Moline.
D. Aldershof,  Zeeland.
J. G. Gray, Caledonia.
Chas.  F.  Sears,  Rockford.
G.  H.  Walbrink, Allendale.

The  Drug  M arket.

There are no changes to note this week.
Opium  is higher  in  Smyrna,  but  un­

changed here.

Quinine is firnf.
Linseed oil is weak at  the decline.

ftflFE  INVESTMENTS.

funds 

To  those  having  MONEY 
STOWED  AWAY  in  the 
locked  up  in 
house  or 
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS 
we would  say that we can 
invest  your 
in 
Choice  L oans,  secured 
by  real  estate  in  Grand 
Rapids.  Mortgages can be 
furnished  in  any amount, 
small  or  large,  at  good 
rates  of  interest,  or  we 
can  furnish  short 
time 
high  grade 
local  paper 
two, 
three,  four  or  six 
months.  Why  not  have 
your  funds earning  inter­
est?  More  choice  invest­
ments are  offered us daily 
than we can purchase.

lips  Trnst  Company.

“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

¡R e c o r d   f f r e n k e r ,

The  Great  5c  Cigar.

Made on  Honor. 

Sold on  Merit

First-Class Dealers  Everywhere.

The  Grocery  Market.

Beans—The W.  T.  Lamoreaux Co.  has 
issued a circular to  the trade,  predicting 
that the increased acreage will more than 
offset the damage to the crop by drought, 
thus ensuring  an average yield.  On ac­
count of  the drought, the crop will prob­
ably be marketed earlier than usual.

Oranges—St. Michaels  are still  in the 
market and are of  good  quality, consid­

MANUFACTURERS,

D E T R O I T .

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THE  MIOEnGAN  TRADESMAN.
Dry Goods Price Current.

DEMINS.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

“  Arrow Brand  5 
“  World Wide.  6 
“  LL...........  4 Vj
Full Yard Wide......6)4
Georgia  A..............6 V
Honest Width........  6
Hartford A  ............ 6
Indian Head...........  SH
King A  A................6)4
King E C .................  5
6141 Lawrence  L L........  4 \
Madras cheese cloth ¿34
Black Crow.............6
Newmarket  G........6V
Black Rock  ...........6
B........5
Boot, AL................  7
N........6)4
Capital  A ................5)4
DD....  6)4 
Cavanat V ..............5)4 
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X ......6*
Chapman cheese cl.  334lNolbe R .......... 5
Clifton  C R ............   5)4 Our Level  Best.......6
Comet....................... 6)» Oxford  R..................6
Dwight Star............  634 Peqnot.....................  7
CliftonCCC...........6)4  Solar........................  6
|Topof the  Heap__7
A B C ...................... 8%
Geo. Washington...  8
Amazon....  ...........8
Glen Mills.............   7
Amsburg................. 614
Gold Medal.............. 7)4
Art  Cambric........... 10
Green  Ticket..........8)4
Blackstone A A.__ 714
Great Falls..............  6)4
Beats All................. 414
Hope........................7)4
Boston.....................12
Just  Ont........  4V@ 5
Cabot.......................   714
King Phillip...........  7%
Cabot,  %..................  634
OP...... 7)4
Charter  Oak............614
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Conway W...............  7 \
Lonsdale...........  @  8)4
Cleveland.............  614
Middlesex........   @5
Dwight Anchor__   814
No Name................   7)4
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shorts  8
Oak View...............   6
Edwards.................. 6
Our Own.................. 5)4
....................7
Pride of the West.. .12
Rosalind.................   7)4
Farwell....................714
Sunlight..................4)4
Fruit of the  Loom.  814
Utica  Mills.............. 8)4
Fitchvllle  ............  7
“  Nonpareil  ..10
First Prize...............7
Vinyard..................  8)4
Fruit of the Loom 
7H
White Horse...........  6
Falrmount............... 414
Rock..............8)4
Full Value...............6%
Cabot...................... 7)4| Dwight Anchor........ 8)4
Farwell...................8 

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS

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CARPET  WARP.

Cash  or  Coupon  Books  After  Aug  15.
From the Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin.

... 

grocery 

The  retail  grocers  of  Minneapolis j
.-------,  ArtrtaHn
voted to  practically adopt  the cash  sys-  Argyle 
. 
6
tem in trade, at  a meeting  held Monday j  Atlanta A A . 6
evening.  There was  a large  attendance i 
A.......—  634
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and the  question of  adopting  a  strictly 
P.
cash  system  was  discussed  at  length.
D.
LL.
There was  a difference  of  opinion  as to | 
the best policy to  pursue,  some  holding  Arched Bunting 
that a  strictly cash  system  would  work  Beaver Dam  A A 
injury to a great many grocers,  and they  Blackstone o, 32 
favored some  concessions  where  it  was 
known that the customers were good pay 
and  needed  a little  time.  But  the  ma­
jority  favored the  cash  idea,  admitting 
that there  would  probably be  some loss 
of  trade to  begin  with,  but  that  a  few 
weeks  would  strengthen  this  and  put 
the various grocers  in proper relation  to 
each  other  as  to  the  volume  of  trade; 
but  in  consideration  of  those  who  up­
held this policy it  was  voted to  adopt  a 
cash and coupon system.  Coupon  books 
will be provided  and cash  payment  will 
be  asked  for  when  the hooks  are  used 
up.  This  will obviate any objections  as 
to  the want  of  cash  or  the  making  of 
change on the delivery of the goods.
The  step is  quite  an  important  one, 
and it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  grocers 
will make an  entire  success of  it.  But 
there is  a possibility that  they  will  find 
it  difficult to enforce  the system  as they 
have  outlined,  because  there  are  likely 
to be a  few gracers  who,  if  they  see an 
opportunity to  secure  advantage by giv­
ing credit,  will be apt to do it,  and other 
groceis  who  wish  to  enforce  the  cash 
system  policy will  have  this to contend 
with. 
In some localities  where  there is 
a  mutual  agreemeent  between  the  gro­
cers in that locality the cash system  will 
probably  be  satisfactory,  after  a  few 
weeks.  So  far  as  customers  are  con­
cerned  it  is  a  much  better  policy  for 
them,  as  experience  shows  that  it  is 
easier to pay bills  promptly than it is to 
pay a larger bill after it has run for some 
time, and  the  reason  that  there are  so 
many  large  bills  unpaid 
in  grocers’ 
hands  is due to the  fact  that  customers 
find  themselves  unable  to  pay  a larger 
amount at once,  not having  provided for 
it each  week,  when  they could  pay the 
weekly bill  easily if  they  were  held  at 
that system,  and the  payment of bills on 
purchase  would be  even  easier than the 
weekly payment.
The trouble  with  people  in  regard to 
their finances is  that if  a  bill is not im­
mediately paid  when due  they will take 
the money in their  possession and spend 
it for other things, so that when the time 
of  payment comes for regular bills there 
is no  money on  hand  to meet  them.  A 
good house financier will  make a weekly 
provision for all bills, laying aside a cer­
tain amount for  groceries,  and  for other 
household  expenses,  so  that  when  the 
time of payment  comes, there  is  money 
on hand to meet the bills.  Then,  if there 
is  a  surplus  weekly,  the  housekeeper 
will  understand  that she  can  use it  for 
whatever she  pleases,  or  deposit  it for 
accumulation.
People  generally  will  be  better  off  if 
they will pay  their  bills more promptly, 
and  so far  as  the dealers  are concerned 
it goes without  saying that  they will be 
decidedly better off, as, for many of them, 
the discounting of a bill would  be a nov­
elty, and no  business can  be  said  to be 
upon  a perfectly successful basis until it 
is able to  discount  bills.  The cash sys­
tem will  help the grocers to do this.

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...............9
 
G G  Cashmere........20
Nameless  ...............16
............... 18

B
C.
D.
E.
F. 
G
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I. 
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K. 
L. 
M  .
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Housewife  A...........614

Unbleached. 

10)4

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CORSETS.

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Peerless, white..— 18  ¡Integrity  colored...20
colored__20  White Star.............. 18
Integrity................. 18)41 
“  colored..20
Nameless................20
Hamilton 
.................25
.................27)4
..............30
.................32)4
.................36

DRESS  GOODS.
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CORSET  JEANS.

Elnk a purple 6

long cloth B. 10)4 
“ 
“ 
“  C.  8)4
“ 
century cloth 7
“  gold seed......10)4
"  green seal TR 10)4 
“  yeUow seal.. 10)4
serge.............11)4
“ 
“  Turkey red.. 10)4 
“ 

Corallne  ............... 19 50|Wonderful..........   84 60
Schilling's.............  9  00 Brighton................ 4 76
Davis  Waists  ....  9  00 Bortree’s ..............  9 00
Grand  Rapids......  4 50|Abdominal.............15 00
Armory..................   634
Naumkeag satteen.. 7)4
Rock port............6)4
Androscoggin  ....... 7)4
Conestoga.......... 7)4
Blddeford...............  6
Walworth ...............634
Brunswick..............6)4
res.
Allen turkey  reds..  6 
Berwick fancies__  5)4
robes...........  6
Clyde Robes...........
Charter Oak fancies 4)4 
uff8 ...........  6
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
pink  checks.  6
mourn’g  6
staples........  6
Eddystone fancy... 6
shirtings ...  6 
chocolat  6
American fancy....  5)4 
rober  ...  6
American indigo...  6 
sateens..  6 
American shirtings.  4)4 
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 
Merrtm’ck shirtings.  434 
“  Repp fu rn .  8)4
Pacific fancy.......... 6
robes............6)4
“ 
Portsmouth robes...  6)4 
Simpson mourning..  6
greys........6
solid black.  6 
Washington Indigo.  6)4 
Turkey robes..  7)4
India robes__ 7%
plain Tky X 34  8)4 
“  X..10
Ottoman  Tur­
.  6
“ 
key red................   6)4
“  Foulards  ...  5:
Martha Washington
Turkey red X...... 7)4
7
“  red X 
“  X..........  9
“ 
Martha  Washington
Turkey red..........   9)4
“ 
“  4 4...........10
“ 
**  3 4XXXX 12
Rlverpolnt robes....  5)4
Windsor fancy........6)4
Cocheco fancy........  6
“  madders...  6
indigo blue.........10)4
“  XXtwills.. 6
Harmony...............   5
“ 
solids........ 5)4
Amoskeag AC A ....12)4
AC A....................13
HamUton N  ...........7)4
Pemberton AAA__16
York........................10)4
D..........8)4
Awning..11
Swift River............   7)4
Farmer....................8
Pearl River.............12
First Prize.............10)4
Warren.................... 18)4
Lenox M ills...........18
C 
o ga..............16
cotton  d Rell.
Atlanta,  D.............634 ¡Stark  A 
..............  8
Boot........................ 634 No  Name.................. 7)4
Clifton, K............... 7  ¡Top of Heap..............  9

Ballou solid black..
“  colors.
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange  ..  6 
Berlin solids...........  5)4

oil blue 
“  green 

gold  ticket

tick ings.

“ 
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“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Amoske&g............12)4
9 oz...... 13)4
brown .13
Andover.................11)4
Beaver Creek AA... 10 
BB...  9
“ 
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Q Q
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
“ 
blue  8)4
“  d a twist 10)4 
Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.19
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¡Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12)4
brown....... 12)4
Haymaker blue......   7)4
brown...  7%
Jeffrey.....................11)4
Lancaster................12)4
Lawrence, 9 oz........18)4
No. 220.. ..13
No. 260. ...11)4
No. 280.... 10)4

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Amoskeag.............. 6)4¡Lancaster,  staple...  6)4
fancies__ 7
I 
“ 
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“  Normandie  8
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester............   534
Monogram..............  6)4
Normandie...............7)4
Persian...................   8
Renfrew Dress........7)4
Rosemont................. 6)4
Slatersvllle.............. 6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  ...................7)4
Toll  duNord......... 10)4
Wabash.................... 7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Warwick...............   7
Whittenden............   8
heather dr.  7)4 
Indigo blue 9 
Wamsuttastaples...  634
Westbrook..............8
..............10
Wlndermeer........... 5
York  ........................634

“  Persian dress 8 
Canton ..  8 
AFC........10)4
“ 
Teazle...10)4 
“ 
“ 
Angola..10)4 
“ 
Persian..  8
Arlington staple__6)4
Arasapha  fancy__4M
Bates Warwick dres 7)4 
staples.  6)4
Centennial............   10)4
Criterion  ................10)4
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin.......................   7)4
Everett classics......8)4
Exposition............... 7)4
Glenarie.................  6)4
Glenarven................634
Glenwood.................7K
Hampton.................. 6)4
Johnson Chalon cl  %
indigo blue 9)4 
zephyrs....16

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Amoskeag.............. 15)4|Georgla..........
................................
Stark......................  19 
American...............15J4I  ..............................

15

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End....45  ¡Barbour's...............86
Coats’, J. & P.........45  Marshall’s ................81
Holyoke................. 22)41

No.

KNITTING  COTTON.

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

White. Colored
42
43
44
45

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

Slater........................4£
White Star............   4)4
Kid Glove  .............   4)4
Newmarket............   4)4

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

RED  FLANNEL.

Fireman.................32)4
Creedmore............. 27)4
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless............... 27)4

TW ........................ 22)4
F T ............ ............. 32)4
J R F , XXX............35
Buckeye................. 32)4

NIXED  FLANNEL.

Brown.
10)4
1U4
12
20

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
Brown.
9)4
10) 4
11) 4
12) 4

Grey SR W.............17)4
Western W .............18)4
D R P ............. 
18)4
Flushing XXX........23)4
....28)4
9  @10)4 
12)4
Black.
10) 4
11) 4 
12 
20

Red & Blue,  plaid..40
Union R.................22)4
Windsor.................18)4
6 oz Western.......... 2 0 ______ _
Union  B.................22)4! Manitoba
DOXET  FLANNEL.
Nameless...... 8  @  9)41 
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Slate.
Black.
Slate
9) 4
10) 4
9)4
10) 4
10) 4
11) 4 
11) 4
11) 4
12 
20
12) 4
12) 4
BTTrRa
Severen, 8oz..........   9)4'
West  Point, 8 oz__ 10)4
May land, 8 oz......... 10)4
10 oz  ...12)4
Greenwood, 7)4 os..  9)4
Raven, lOoz.............13)4
Greenwood, 8 os__11)4
 
Stark 
13)4
Boston, 8 oz............ 10)4
Boston, 10 oz........... 12)4
WADDINGS.
White, dos............ 25  ¡Per bale. 40 doz...  63 so
Colored,  doz.......... 20  ¡Colored  “ 
..........7 50
Slater, Iron Ctoss. ..  8 
Pawtucket...............i0)4
Red Cross....  9
Dundle...................   9
Best  ............10)4
Bedford...................10)4
Best AA......12)4
Valley  City.............10)4
L............................. 7)4
KK  ......................... 10)4
G............................. 8)4
Cortlcelll, doz........ 85  [Corticelll  knitting,

SEWING  SILK.

SILE8IA8.

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

twist,doz..4P 
50yd,doz..40  |
HOOKS AND STBS—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k & White..10  ¡No  4 Bl’k & White  15
..20
..25
|No4—15  F  8)4........ 40

No2—20, M C........50 

..12 
“ 8 
..12 J  “  10 

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2 
3 

“ 

3-18, S C .......... 45  I
No  2 White A Bi’k.,12 
..15 
..18 

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6 
No 2.

COTTON  TAPE.
“ 10 
“ 12 
SAFETY  PINS.
....28  |N o3..
NEEDLES—PER  X.

|No  8 White A Bl’k. 20
.28
26

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A. James.................1  401 Steamboat............. 
«0
Crowely’s...............1  35 Gold  Eyed...............1 50
Marshall’s ..............1 00| American.................1 00
15—4....1  65  0—4...2 30
5—4....  1  75  6—4... 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

COTTONT WINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.....................12
Domestic................18)4
Anchor................... 16
Bristol.........   ........ 13
Cherry  VaUey........15
’ XL........................18)4
Alabama...................634
Alamance.................6)4
Augusta...................7)4
At' sapha..................6
Georgia.....................6\
G ranite..................  534
Haw  River............   5
Haw  J ....................  5

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

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Mount  Pleasant__ 6)4
Oneida....................5
Prymont................  5^
Randelman.............6
Riverside...............   534
Sibley  A.................  6Ï
Toledo....................

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Having  new  and  largely  in­
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Retail  price, 9 9 0  each.
Agents wanted in every town in the state.

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Rem arkable  Hen  Fruit.

The Baltimore Sun  says that a gentle­
man of  that city  has a  hen  which  does 
such  artistic  work  that  the  product of 
her labors deserves to be exhibited at the 
World’s  Fair  under  the  head  of  sculp­
tures. 
It says that this hen laid an egg a 
few days  ago,  upon  the shell  of  which, 
in bas relief,  was an arm and band.  The 
creases in the coat  sleeve  were natural, 
and  the  whole  piece  was  well  propor­
tioned and looked as if carved.  The day 
before,  the  hen  produced  an egg with a 
good representation of a man’s face,  and 
her owner  is looking  for  further devel­
opments,  being  not  certain that  this in­
tellectual  bird  will  not  bring  forth  a 
few statues and  monuments  with a con­
tinuation of her studies in modeling.

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

The  V alue  o f  Judgm ent.

It  has been  said  that  the distinction 
between the essential  and the incidental 
in  any given  situation  is a  sure  test of 
mental  power.  The  military genius dis­
covers the key of a position,  and concen­
trates  the  attack  precisely there.  The 
great  strategist  directs  a  whole  cam­
paign  in  accordance  with  a  plan  based 
upon  some  one  fundamental  principle. 
Grant,  for  instance,  understood  that  he 
could  afford  to lose  two  men to  his op­
ponent’s  one,  and, 
therefore,  that  he 
would  certainly win  at  last  if  he could 
only force continual  fighting.  This idea 
was  extremely simple. 
It  involved  no 
brilliant  maneuvering,  but  it  excluded 
every  element  of  uncertainty.  Grant’s 
wisdom  was  shown  in  his  dependence 
upon his  one indubitable  and  sufficient 
advantage,  his  numerical  superiority. 
The great  Bonaparte  had gone  further. 
He,  too,  depended upon  numerical supe­
riority,  but  he  saw 
that  even  with 
smaller  armies it  was  still  possible  to 
overpower  the  enemy by rapid  concen­
tration upon  his  objective  point—or,  as 
Bedford Forest afterwards  expressed  it, 
“by  getting  there  first  with  the  most 
men.”

In all the professions there is the same 
demand  for that insight which discovers 
the  essential in  the  midst of  confusing 
and  misleading  matters.  The scientific 
doctor looks  for the  seat and the source 
of  the  disease with  which he  deals,  and 
in  the majority of  cases the correct diag­
nosis  is  at  least  half  the  battle.  His 
practice is by necessity largely empirical; 
but he  loses no  more  time  than  he  can 
avoid  in  beating  about  the  bush.  He 
knows that,  however  obscure  it may be, 
there is always  some specific cause to be 
destroyed or  counteracted before his pa­
tient can be relieved. 
It may be that the 
case in hand presents a variety of  symp­
toms,  some  indicating  one  course  of 
treatment and some another; but it is his 
first effort to discover  which of  them ex­
press the  primary cause  of  the trouble. 
In  the practice  of  law there is  just the 
same trouble of mistaking the key of the 
position.  The sound legal mind is never 
diverted from  the paramount question at 
issue. 
It is often  easy enough  to estab­
lish irrelevant  points  and  to  prove im­
pertinent facts;  but the  scientific  jurist 
will never wander beyond the record and 
the law  that  applies  to  the issue if  his 
case  is  good.  Sharp  practitioners  may 
attempt to confuse the  witness,  sophists 
may endeavor  to  becloud  the  mind  of 
the court; but the strength of the master 
mind  in  law,  as in  every other science,  is 
displayed  in  the  sureness  of  its grasp 
upon essential truth.

learning  and 

In  the  practical  conduct  of  life,  in 
every  department,  the  most  valuable 
faculty is what  is commonly called judg­
technical 
ment.  Mere 
skill  are  of  secondary  importance. 
It 
has been  demonstrated  that  a man  may 
graduate  with  a  high  grade  at  West 
Point,  that  he  may  be  a  very accom­
plished  engineer,  that  he  may have all 
the manuals  of  strategy  and  the  whole 
literature of  war  at his  finger ends, and 
that  he  may  still  prove  an  inefficient 
commander in actual service.  There are 
doctors  profoundly  versed  in  anatomy, 
physiology,  chemistry,  and  pathological 
theory,  who  cannot  be  trusted  at  the 
bedside.  There  are 
lawyers  familiar 
with all the  authorities  from  Justinian 
down  who  are at sea  in  the  courtroom. 
the
The  power  to  apply  knowledge, 

prompt recognition of  a case in point, is 
lacking in such  men.  We  must not un­
derrate  learning.  Knowledge  is  not 
power,  but is a  means of power,  and the 
ignorant are only too apt to congratulate 
themselves that they make up in common 
sense  what  they lack in  learning.  But 
judgment is clear intellectual vision, and 
its function  is  absolutely indispensable. 
Beyond the  realm of  the  exact sciences 
and the  plain  teachings  of  experience, 
the mind  is  wholly dependent  upon  it. 
It comes  into  service  constantly in  the 
management  of  the  world’s  everyday 
business,  and at critical junctures its im­
portance is supreme. 
Its exercise would 
not be so rare  were it  not  for  the com­
mon  weakness of  temperament and  the 
blindness  of  prejudice.  The  intellect 
has not  only to deal  with the difficulties 
of  the  situation before  it,  but  with ob­
stinate perversities  of  will,  with sophis­
tries of inclination,  and  with hindrances 
of habit.  He is  great who has  kept his 
mind  open  to  the  vision  of  the whole 
truth,  however  unwelcome  that  truth 
may be.

This country is now occupied  with the 
spectacle of  a Congress  convened in ex­
tra session to deal  with a question of the 
utmost  consequence  to  all  the  people. 
The existence of a deep-seated malady in 
the  body  politic  is  manifest.  There is 
every  symptom  of  general  unrest  and 
suffering.  What is  the diagnosis of  our 
chosen doctors?  There is no agreement; 
but  every one  has a  theory,  and  every 
theory is suspected of  having originated 
in some  bias  or  selfish  interest.  There 
will be a great deal of debate  and all the 
essential facts  will  be  brought  to light; 
but there is  scant ground  to hope that a 
majority  vote  will  be  reached  at 
last 
upon the sole ground of candid judgment 
as  to the merits of  the  controversy. 
In 
such emergencies  results  are sometimes 
determined  by compromises,  and  in this 
instance we can look  for nothing better. 
The  professional  economist  is  he  who 
knows  what ought  to  be  done;  but the 
greatest statesman is he who can arrange 
the  least  harmful  compromise.  Some 
one  has  said  that  all  government  is  a 
compromise  with  destiny,  and  the  dic­
tum is  to be  accepted  if  it  means that 
the  judgment of the wisest can never  be 
completely  expressed 
legislation. 
But the logic of  events  is as  irresistible 
as  it  is  passionless,  and  experience  at 
last compels  the  hearing  which  was de­
nied to wisdom. 

F kank Sto w ell.

in 

Prompt  settlements  for  goods  pur­
chased is an advertisement,  if goods are 
bought on thirty days’  time  with  a  dis­
count for  cash,  take the discount  if  you 
can,  but  under  no  circumstance  take 
more than the alioted time.

Hardware Price Current.

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AXES.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for cash,  buyern,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dlS.
60
Snell’s ........................................................... 
40
Cook’s . . . . ..................................................... 
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’! Im itation.......................
...........50410
First Quality, S. B. Bronze..............

D.  B. Bronze............. ................. *  7   00
i z   00
.................. 
S. B. S. Steel.............. .................. 
8 0 0
D. B. Steel................. ...........  13 50
dls.
Railroad  ......................................... ......... * 14 00
Garden...........................................  net  80 00
dis.
Stove.......................................  
50410
Carriage new list.  ....................................... 75&10
Plow.............................................................. 40&10
Sleigh shoe...................................  
70
Well,  plain  ..................................................»850
Well, swivel...............................................   4 00
dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast Joint.............. 604.0

BUTTS, OAST. 

BARROWS.

BUCKETS.

BOLTS. 

 

 

Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60410
Wrought Table.............................................60410
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60410
Wrought Brass............................................. 
re
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70410
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70410
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892..............  60410

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

CRADLES.

CROW BABS.

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

CABTBIDOBS.

Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire...........................................dis. 

65
60
36
60

50
25

ohiskls. 

dis.

dis.

Socket Firmer.............................................  70410
Socket Framing............................................70410
Socket Comer...............................................70410
Socket Slicks...............................................70410
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
Hotchkiss..................................................... 
25
White Crayons, per  gross..............12©12K dis. 10

combs. 

chalk.
COPPER.

dis.
dis.

 

“ 

dis.

 
DRILLS. 

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

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....................
............  
DRIPPING PANS.
Small sizes, ser pound................. .............. 
07
Large sizes, per pound................. .............. 
6*
Com. 4  piece, 6 In.........................
.doz. net 
75
Corrugated................................... ........dls 
40
Adjustable...................................
......dla. 40410
EXPANSIVE BITS.
Clark’s, small, $18;  large, »26......
............. 
30
Ives’, 1,118:  2, *24;  3,830  ............
25
............  
f il e s—New List.
Disston’s .......................................................60410
.........................................60410
New American 
Nicholson’s ..................................................60410
Heller’s .........................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  .................................. 
60
Nos.  16  to  20;  22 and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
28
List 
16

GALVANIZED IRON.

ELBOWS.

dls.

dls.

12 

15

13
Discount, 60

14
GAUGES.

dis.

NAII<8

M a TTnrtrfl

LOCKS—DOOR.

MAULS. 
mills. 

MOLASSES SATES. 

knobs—New List.

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s.........
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings__
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..
Door,  porcelain, trimmings............
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain......
Russell 4 Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list
Mallory, Wheeler 4   Co.’s................
Branford’s .......................................
Norwalk’s ........................................
Adze Bye...............................’. ........»16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Bye......................................... »15.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s ...................................... *18.50, dis. 20410.
dlS.
50
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s...................................  
40
40
“  P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
"  Landers,  Ferry 4  Cls rk’s.................  
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
80
dlS.
Stebbln’s Pattern...................................  
. .60410
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 60410
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 
Base
50......................................................  
10
25
40......................................................  
30......................................................  
25
35
20.....................................................* 
16......................................................  
45
45
12...................................................... 
50
10...................................................... 
8.......................................................  
60
7 4 6 .................................................. 
75
4.......................................................  
90
8.......................................................  
1  20
1  60
2.......................................................  
Fine 3....................................................... 
Case  10............................................. 
65
75
8............................................. 
6............................................. 
90
FInIshIO..........................................  
75
8............ 
90
6...........................................  
1  10
70
Clinch! 10.......................................... 
80
8.......................................... 
6.......................................... 
90
Banell %.......................................... 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’B, fancy................................   ©40
Sclota Bench..............................................   ©50
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  ©40
Bench, first quality......................................   ©40
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s  wood.........  50410
Fry,  Acme.............................................dls.60—10
70
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
dls.
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................   50—10

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

flaxes. 

rivets. 

FANS.

dls.

 

 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

Broken packs Mo per pound extra

HAMMERS.

dlS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

HINOBS.

HANGERS. 

HOLLOW WARE.

25
May dole  4 Co.’s.....................................dls. 
Kip’S.......................................................dls. 
25
Terkes 4  Plumb’s..................................dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................ 30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__30c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 .............................. dls.60410
State...................!...................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4ft  14 and
longer........................................................ 
314
Screw Hook and  Bye, %........................net 
10
X........................ net 
“ 
8K
7J4
%........................ net 
“ 
“ 
%........................ net 
7K
Strap and T ............................................dig. 
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50410
Champion,  antl-frlctlon.............................   60410
Kidder, wood track...................................... 
40
Pots............................................................... 60410
Kettles...........................................................60410
Spiders  .........................................................60410
Gray enameled..............................................40410
Stamped  Tin Ware...............................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are......................new list 33X410
dl8.
Blight...................................................  70410410
Screw  Eyes.............................................70410410
Hook’s .....................................................70410410
Gate Hooks and Eyes.....................  
70410410
levels. 
<Ha.7n
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s......................
ROPES.
Sisal, X Inch and 
larger...................... 
9
Manilla.........................................................  13
dis.
Steel and Iron.............................................. 
Try and Bevels............................................. 
M itre............................................................ 

HOUSE FURNISHING  GOODS.

WIRE GOODS. 

SQUARES. 

75
66
sc
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

g 25
8 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14...................................... 14 05 
Nos. 15 to 17........................................4 05 
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4 05 
Nos. 22 to 24........................................4 05 
Nos. % to 26........................................4 35 
No. 27................................................  4 45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  .....................................dls. 
Silver Lake, White A..............................list 
Drab A.................................  “ 
White  B...............................  • 
Drab B.................................   “ 
White C............................ 
 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
50
55
••  85

SHEET IRON.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

»2 95
3 05
8 05
8 15

BASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

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

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

Solid Byes............................................ per ton »25
20
70
50
30
30
Steel, Game................................................... 60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s __ 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion............................... »1.50 per doz
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppeaed Market..........................................  60
Tinned Market.............................................  62X
Coppered  Spring  8teel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  2 80
painted....................................  3 40

wire. 

dls.

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

Au  Sable............................................dls.  40410
Putnam.......................................... 
dls. 05
dls. 10410
Northwestern................................  
dlS.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
so
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........... 
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable........................  .. .75410
dls.
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Bird Cages...................................  
 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
7G410
Screws, New List.......................................... 70410
Casters, Bed a  .d Plate...........................50410410
Dampers, American..................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods....... 65410

METALS,
PIG TIN.
Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.............................. 
ZINC.
Duty:  Sheet, 2J4c per pouDd.
680 pound  casks...........................................  
Per pound...................................................  

 

 

26c
38c

6£
7

SOLDER.

..............................................................16
Extra W iping.................................................   15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder fn the market Indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
1 60
Cookson........................................ per  pound
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MELYM GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................ $7
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

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

Bach additional X on this grade, »1.75.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.

“ 
“ 
“ 

10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................»6 75
..........................................  6 75
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
..........................................   8 25
..........................................   9 25
14x20 IX, 
ROOFING PLATES

Bach additional X on this grade »1.50.

“ Worcester................................   6 5 .
14x20 IC, 
“ 
..........................   8 50
14x20 IX, 
.........................  18 50
“ 
20x28 IC, 
“  Allaway  Grade................  6 00
14x2010, 
7 50
“ 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
" 
12  50
“ 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
“ 
“ 
15 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
14x28 IX.........................................................»14 00
14x31  IX........................................................  15 00
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I
f Per pound....  1000
14x60 ix,  “ 

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

Michigan Tradesman

A  WKKKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

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E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  23,  1893.

THE  FINANCIAL  DERANGEMENT.
The idea seems  to  obtain that a finan­
cial stringency exists  in  all  commercial 
countries.  This is not true.  There  is a 
great deal of commercial  and  industrial 
depression in  many countries,  but, save 
in a few instances,  it  has  not  deranged 
the financial situation.  In a word, it has 
not destroyed  confidence  and caused the 
bankruptcy  or  suspension  of  financial 
institutions.

Australia and  the Argentine Republic 
are the  only countries  besides ours that 
are suffering from  a disturbed  condition 
of the finances.  Australia is  in our con­
dition as the result of the great  specula­
tion,  boom aud strikes  that  prevailed  in 
that country several  years  ago,  and Ar­
gentina suffers  from  speculation,  exces­
sive paper money and civil war;  but this 
about  exhausts  the 
list  of  important 
countries which  are  in  a  condition like 
ours.  There is no such  general  want of 
confidence,  breaking of banks and failing 
of  firms  as  we  have  in  any  country of 
Europe or Asia.  Times are  not particu­
larly  brisk in any part of  the world just 
now, except,  perhaps,  South Africa,  but 
nowhere in the  Old World  is there such 
a state of things as we  now have  in  the 
United States.  Canada and  Mexico  are 
comparatively  free  from  our  peculiar 
malady,  though  in  the  latter  country 
there has been some suffering from  scant 
crops, 
it  does  not  exist  in  England, 
France,  Germany,  Austria,  Spain, India, 
China or Japan.  These countries are not 
suffering  from  financial stringency, gen­
eral  want of confidence or business paral­
ysis. 
Italy,  Portugal  and  Greece  are 
having difficulty in  meeting  interest  on 
their  public  debt  and  ordinary govern­
ment  expenses  by  reason  of  excessive 
military expenditure  in  past  years,  but 
there is not even in  these  countries such 
a  condition  of  stringency  as  we  have 
here, or anything like it.

There has been  no  time like this since 
1873,  and  before  that,  leaving  out  the 
enormous  derangement  caused  by  the 
civil  war,  none  since  1857.  There have 
been, of  course,  many  periods  of  reac­
tion  from  previous  prosperity  and  the 
extravagance and  speculation caused  by 
the good times,  but  these reactions have 
not disturbed the  entire  financial condi­
tion of  the country as was  done  at  the

times mentioned and such  as now exists. 
There  are  hard 
times  undoubtedly— 
times of  liquidation  and  diminished ac­
tivity—in nearly all parts  of  the world, 
but  it  is preposterous  to  say that  any­
thing worse than ordinary hard times ex­
ists  at  present  in  Western  Europe,  in 
Africa or in Asia. 
It  is  significant that 
in Canada, on one side of ns, and Mexico, 
on the other, such distress  as ours is not 
found.

The trouble to-day is  restricted to  the 
area  within  which  the  Sherman  act  is 
operative. 
It  is  due,  primarily,  to  the 
fear  that  the  United  States  Treasury, 
with  a  reserve  of  but  $100,000,000  of 
gold,  will not  be able  to keep our silver 
certificates, silver bullion treasury notes, 
silver  dollars, greenbacks  and  national 
bank notes  at  par with  gold—keep our 
business engagements on  the gold basis, 
where they have been since 1879.

lous, 
thoroughly  organized,  perfectly 
drilled in  all the  methods  in  use  to in­
timidate honest voters, get in  the ballots 
of  fraudulent  suffragans, stuff  or  steal 
from  the  boxes  and  otherwise  control 
the results  of primary  and  general elec­
tions.  They  are  under  the  control  of 
leaders  whom  they  implicitly  obey,  re­
ceiving  their  reward  in the  offices and 
the public plunder.

Thus it is  in our cities that a minority 
has control, and  it is  through  the indif­
ference of the  people. 
It  is  said  to  be 
so, too,  in  France.  Not so  in  England. 
There every man demands his  full polit­
ical  rights  and  will  take  no  refusal. 
Political  outrages  to  which  Americans 
tamely  submit  would  produce  bloody 
revolution  in  England. 
Indifference to 
political rights and duties is the curse of 
our cities.  There is little hope of change 
unless  the  people  themselves  change.

MUNICIPAL  CORRUPTION. 

About a year ago, in the  Forum, in an 
article on municipal government, Joseph 
Chamberlain,  the English  statesman,  de­
clared that the Americans  pay for a less 
efficient service in their cities  nearly five 
times as much as is paid in the  case of a 
well-managed  English  municipality,  or 
words to that effect.

He illustrated  his  proposition  by con­
trasting the public administration of  the 
English  city of  Birmingham,  a  town  of 
some  430,000  population,  with  that  of 
Boston,  a  town of  about 450,000  people. 
The registered  voters  in Birmingham in 
In Boston there were, 
1891 were 88,000. 
in  1892,  87,000.  Premising 
that  these 
two cities were  in much the same condi­
tion,  Mr.  Chamberlain  showed  that the 
city government of  the former was satis­
factorily conducted at  a cost  vastly less 
than was  the government of  the  latter, 
which was  declared  not  to  be  satisfac­
tory.

If  these  facts  be truly stated, and  if 
they be fair  types of  the municipal con­
ditions  existing  in  other  English  and 
American cities,  they  bring a  powerful 
indictment against the American people. 
It is a  just  verdict,  too.  American city 
government is,  for  the most part  every­
where in the Union,  a system of  unmiti­
gated  jobbery.  The  money  raised  by 
taxing the  people  is  disposed of  to the 
interest  and  advantage,  not  of  the tax­
payers,  but of  the governing politicians, 
their henchmen and favorite contractors. 
The people have nothing to do with pub­
lic affairs except to pay the taxes.  What 
is the  worst of  all,  people  do  not  care. 
Here and  there  a  voice  may  be  raised 
against  the  prevailing  corruption,  but 
the masses of the people are silent.  They 
are indifferent.

The  American  people  are  conspicu­
ously  indifferent to  their  public duties. 
They are  careless  of  voting  at  the pri­
maries, and  at  general elections.  They 
evade  jury  duty  and  the  payment  of 
taxes.  Having  paid  unwillingly, 
they 
expect the  money to be mismanaged and 
misappropriated. 
It  too  commonly  is 
the  case 
in  municipal  governments. 
When they vote they are not surprised if 
their  votes  are  counted  out,  or  if  their 
effect is neutralized by the stuffing of the 
ballot boxes.  Once in  a  lifetime people 
will  rise  and  vindicate  their  political 
rights  with  gun 
in  hand,  but  all  the 
other years they will  submit to be domi­
nated by a minority.

This  minority  is  composed  of  politi­
cians  wholly  selfish,  utterly  unscrupu­

THE  FINANCIAL  OUTLOOK. 

While  it would  be untrue  to say  that 
the  financial  crisis  has  passed  to  a  de­
gree  that  would  warrant  its  leading 
phases being  considered  merely matters 
of history,  nevertheless there are indica­
tions that the acute stage is passing,  and 
that an improvement—gradual,  it is true, 
but still an improvement—is in progress. 
It  is  worthy  of  remark  that  the  bank 
failures  which  were  reported  by  the 
dozen a month ago  have almost  entirely 
ceased,  and fewer  important commercial 
failures  are  recorded  from  day  to  day. 
This  would  seem  to  indicate  that  the 
pressure  has  in  some  degree  been  di­
minished.

It is also apparant  that the full extent 
of the evils of the  existing  situation  are 
now known,  and with the removal of the 
uncertainty,  much  of  the  apprehension 
previously felt has been allayed.  Every­
body  now  appreciates  fully  that  the 
panic  is  not  due  to  unfavorable  trade 
conditions  or poor  crops,  but is  simply 
and  solely a monetary  disturbance  due 
to the general hoarding of money because 
of shaken confidence  resulting from un­
wise legislation.  Up  to  the time of the 
panic  trade conditions  were good,  and, 
with a  favorable crop  outlook and pros­
pects  that  the  foreign  demand  for  our 
products would be large,  there was every 
reason  to  look  forward  to  liberal  busi­
ness expansion.

There  is  actually  more  money  in  ex­
istence  in  the  hands  of  the  people  per 
capita than  ever before,  and it is  a fact 
worth recording that this per capita pos­
session  of currency  has increased  since 
the commencement of the panic.  Never­
theless,  currency is  scarcer  in  business 
channels  than  ever  known,  some of the 
leading  New  York  banks  having  had 
their holdings of currency reduced to fig­
ures never before  reached.  This  shows 
that the amount  of  money  hoarded and 
withdrawn  from  circulation 
is  some­
thing enormous.

The  very  fact  that  the  worst  is now 
known  will have a  tendency to allay the 
excitement and quiet  popular apprehen­
sion.  As  soon  as  popular  fears  have 
been appeased, the people who have been 
hoarding  money will look  about  for the 
best  way  of  investing  it.  As  soon as 
this movement,  which  is  inevitable, sets 
in,  the  steady rise  in  securities  of  all 
kinds will  bring out the hidden money in 
floods.

The most  urgent demand of  the exist­
ing situation  is  the  immediate increase 
of  the  currency held  by the  banks  and

circulating  in  the  ordinary  channels  of 
trade.  The  recent  importations of  gold 
have  added  $30,000,000  to  the  money 
supply,  and further additions of $10,000,- 
000  to  $15,000,000  can  be  counted  on. 
The new  circulation  applied for  by the 
National banks will amount to fully $15,- 
000,000,  and  should  Congress  agree  to 
permit the National  banks to issue notes 
to the  par value of the  bonds deposited, 
their  circulation  will  be still  be further 
increased by $20,000,000.

The  available  money  supply,  both 
present  and  prospective, 
is,  therefore, 
rapidly  improving.  The  paying  of  a 
premium  for  currency by industrial  es­
tablishments is helping  to draw out con­
siderable of  the  hoarded  money though 
the desire  to secure  a moderate immedi­
ate  gain,  which  is  apparently stronger 
than  the  apprehensions  of  the  people 
who have hidden  their money.

All  indications,  therefore,  point to  a 
gradual  improvement  in  the  financial 
situation,  and,  as this fact becomes more 
generally known,  the  process  of  restor­
ing confidence will be  accelerated.

Unless T h e  T ra desm a n  mistakes the 
sentiment of the  retail grocery  trade of 
this city,  it will be a  cold day  when  the 
saloonkeepers  of  Reed’s  Lake  ever  get 
another  opportunity  to  cater to a legiti­
mate grocers’ picnic.  From 1887 to 1892, 
inclusive,  the  Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
tion  held  its  annual  outing  at  Reed’s 
Lake, attracting crowds which increased 
each  year,  until  last  season 
the  high 
water mark of 17,000 people was reached. 
So large had the crowds  become that the 
grocer as a potential  factor in the  event 
had about  disappeared,  with the excep­
tion  of  the  name  accorded  the  picnic. 
This  year  the  Association  decided  to 
hold  a  grocers’  picnic  which  would  be 
such in reality  as well  as name,  and Ot­
tawa Beach was selected as the location, 
necessitating  a  full  holiday  instead  of 
half day,  as heretofore.  As  soon as the 
change of base was announced, the liquor 
dealers  at  Reed’s  Lake  decided  to  hold 
an  opposition  picnic  on  the  same  day, 
using  the  name  grocer  as  far  as  they 
dared  to  for  the  purpose  of  attracting 
the same  disorderly  element which  has 
disgraced  the  grocers’  picnics  in  the 
past.  The  expedient  was  a  desperate 
one and unfair and disreputable methods 
were adopted to accomplish  the  desired 
end.  The  result  was  that  the  Ottawa 
Beach picnic was all  that  its  name  im­
plied,  while  the  Reed’s  Lake  sideshow 
was ignored by every representative gro­
cer in the city,  which happily illustrates 
the  loyalty with  which the  grocers  will 
support their Association in any stand it 
may take in opposition to its enemies.

CauBe o f Low Price o f  W heat.

From  the Toledo Market  Report.

Markets have  improved  a little,  but it 
is almost a  wonder  that  they have  done 
so,  considering  the  almost insurmount­
able difficulties in sending grain forward 
and converting  it into  money again. 
It 
is about impossible to do It.  We believe 
this week  will  bring  some  relief,  but it 
will be a slower  process than many sup­
pose. 
So  widespread  and  radical  a 
change in finance is not cured in a day or 
month.  Where  has 
the  money  gone? 
The  government  reports  show  an  in­
crease in  paper issues in the month,  and 
the National  banks have increased  their 
circulation.  The  per capita  circulation 
is increased. 
It  is  all in  hiding places, 
and it will reappear when merchants and 
banks regain  confidence that compliance 
with contracts is probable as well as pos­
sible.

BARNACLES  OF  MONEY  PANICS.
Financial panics, if in many cases ruin­
ous both to bonest  men and rogues,  are 
the  opportunities  of  fraud  or  deception 
on the part of many  who, under ordinary 
circumstances,  are reputably sound both 
in  their  consciences  and  their  pockets. 
There is no disguising this fact, however 
strong  our faith may  be in the  honesty 
of the average  man. 
It  is  very  nice  to 
think  otherwise,  but  it is none the less 
disappointing when we find that the eggs 
in  a  nest  are  of  more  importance  than 
the feathers of the hen.

Society has  always had its  mutual ad­
miration  societies  in  which  you  tickle 
me and  I’ll tickle  you is a cardinal doc­
trine  and  a  popular  practice.  When 
everything is  prosperous the  tickling is 
comparatively harmless. 
It  is  a  luxury 
to be told we are noble  fellows when we 
know we are  not, and  that if turned  in­
side  out we  should be  a surprise to our 
friends and an emetic  to ourselves.  We 
have been freely dosed  with this kind of 
social  taffy,  and  the painted sparrow  is 
accepted  as  a  canary  and  an  ordinary 
rogue as a distinguished citizen.

To  men  in  business  the  jackdaw  in 
peacock’s  feathers  is  by  no  means  as 
scarce an article  as he ought to  be.  We 
question  whether  preachers  or  philoso­
phers  know  as  much  of  what  human 
nature  really is as  the man  who has  to 
sell goods and collect bills.  We have old 
Adam  in 
the  nude  when  we  get  him 
down  to  business,  and  it  must  be  con­
fessed  that  the  business  kodak  shows 
him  in  a  sorry  plight  when  out  of  his 
Sunday  clothes. 
It is in  periods  of  fi­
nancial depression that  we  get the orig­
inal  Adam  as  he  was  without  a  tailor. 
It is his opportunity.

Good men and true, of whose integrity 
there  has  never  been  a  question,  and 
who  in  the  sterling  virtues  of  honesty 
and truthfulness  are  strictly of the  un­
impeachable  type,  are  passengers  down 
the throat of the  whale  with  others who 
ought  to  have  been  there  years  ago. 
Panic becomes epidemic. 
It spreads like 
a grease spot or a spark  in  tinder, and it 
is  no  surprise  to  men  who  know  how 
much  of  the  bad  egg  there  is  in  th'e 
human shell,  that  men are  by no means 
so scarce as hen’s teeth who make use of 
a public panic to serve personal ends.

From the American  Grocer.

These gentlemen who secure their oys­
ters  at low tide  are,  unfortunately,  nu­
merous,  and  though,  individually,  they 
may  be but  a  modest  barnacle  on  the 
bottom of a  ship,  in  numbers  and bulk 
they  counteract  a  triple-compound  en­
gine and  hinder the return of a nation to 
prosperity.  Their influence is not named 
in the newspapers,  nor does their cupid­
ity come within  the range of  legislation 
or  reform.  They  do  not  steal  their 
neighbor’s salad,  but like the caterpillar, 
they simply  nibble what  they could  not 
carry away.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
We know of  men  who,  with  these fa­
Opportunities in the Rice Industry.
cilities in hand,  loan  money at  an inter­
People  who are  looking  for places to 
est  that  would  have  choked  even the 
invest  money may be  interested in some 
Shylock  of  Shakespeare.  Others  with 
suggestions  offered  by the  Agricultural 
ample  means and  in  receipt  of  steady 
Department in  regard  to the cultivation 
of  rice in the United States and the pos­
and generous  salaries hang out the  sign 
sibilities of  great  results.  There are in 
of hard times,  and are not above turning 
the  South,  more  particularly  in  South­
the screw on  the wages  of the hired girl 
west  Louisiana,  hundreds  of  thousands 
and the  pittance  of  a  poor  devil  who 
of acres  of  land  lying idle  which  offer 
great financial  advantages to  those will­
saws their firewood.
ing to invest in  them for the  cultivation 
of rice.  The land  is  equally adapted^) 
many  products,  but  rice is  emphasized, 
as it is safe and more profitable than any 
other grain.
In this  connection  some  general facts 
about rice,  which  are  also  given  in the 
same  report,  are  interesting.  Rice,  ac­
cording to  this  statement,  stands first in 
importance  among  cereals  and  grains, 
both in regard to the number  of  persons 
who  consume  it,  the  amount produced 
and the  area  devoted to  its  cultivation 
the world  over.  Rice  forms the princi­
pal,  and  in some  cases almost the  only, 
food,  according  to  this  statement,  of 
from one-third to  one-half  of  the whole 
human  race.  The  rice-consuming  na­
tions,  including  Chinese,  Japanese,  the 
people of  India and  portions of  Africa, 
make  up a total  of  800,000,000,  or  over 
54  per  cent,  of  the  total  population  of 
the world.
Since we are in the centennial mood, it 
is  worth  while  mentioning  that  this  is 
just about  the  two  hundredth  anniver­
sary of  the introduction of  rice-growing 
as an industry in the United States.
It  was  in  1694  that  an  English  ship 
bound  from  Madagascar  was  driven  to 
seek shelter in the  harbor of Charleston, 
and its captain gave to Governor Thomas 
Smith a small  bag  of  rice seed from the 
ship’s  stores.  This  was  planted,  and 
was,  it is said,  the origin of rice-growing 
in South Carolina.
According to  this report, rice contains 
a  slightly  larger  amount  of  nutritive 
matter than wheat or  rye, or cora or  po­
tatoes or beef.  One  pound  of  rice,  ac­
cording  to  the  report  in  question,  is 
equivalent to one pound  of  wheat flour, 
over four pounds of potatoes,  and nearly 
two pounds of  beef. 
In  the  matter  of 
digestibility,  which  is extremely import­
ant to a  large  class  of  people with  im­
paired digestion,  the rice  is shown to  be 
fully as digestible as wheat  flour  or  In­
dian  meal,  and  more  digestible  than 
bread or potatoes.

The  consequence  is obvious.  Men  in 
need  of  their  wages  go  home  without 
them.  These  have of  necessity to post­
pone the  payment of  their  debts.  The 
grocer and the  shoemaker  have  to wait; 
the  storekeeper has  to extend  credit or 
refuse  trade,  and  when  we  multiply 
these  instances by  the hundred  the evil 
done  to business is of  great importance.
It is in the aggregate of  worm  holes in 
a  plank,  its  commercial  value  is  de­
stroyed,  and  it  can  be  truthfully  said 
that if we  had less of  little rogues there 
would  be a  sensible  reduction  in  large 
failures ana  the life of  financial panics. 
There are other  causes, of  course,  some 
of which are avoidable and some are not, 
but among those  which  are contributory 
and  incidental  to the  situation, not  the 
smallest of  the  little  foxes  who  eat the 
grapes are the  men who,  with money  in 
their pockets,  excuse the non-payment of 
their debts on the plea of  hard times.
F red  W oodrow.

To secure a census of these individuals 
you must  consult  a  bill  collector.  We 
know of men,  such as carpenters,  plumb­
ers,  painters,  etc.,  whose  bills,  by  no 
means of  a  hair-raising  nature,  are  pi­
ously rejected on the plea of  hard times, 
when the cash  wherewith to pay them is 
in  the  pockets  of  those  who  refuse  to 
do so.

A  L aw   o f  Labels.

A new law has  gone into  operation in 
Massachusetts  by which  persons,  asso­
ciation  and unions  of  the  state are se­
cured in  their  labels,  trade  marks  and 
forms of  advertising.  According to  the 
terms of  the  act it is ordered that when­
ever any person or association of persons,

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as the case  may be, has  adopted or shall 
hereafter adopt  for  his  or its protection 
any label,  trade  mark or  form of  adver­
tising not  previously adopted  or  owned 
by other  persons,  it  shall  be  unlawful 
for any person or corporation to counter­
feit or imitate  such  label, trade mark or 
form of advertising.  A violation of  this 
order  imposes  a  fine  of  not  exceeding 
35100  or  by imprisonment  not exceeding 
six months, or  both.  Every person who 
shall, with  knowledge,  use any counter­
feit  or  imitation,  shall  be  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and shall be punished by a 
fine not exceeding  8200  or  by  imprison­
ment not exceeding six months or by both.

No  Reason  W hy  He  Shouldn’t  Be Fat. 
From the Sample  Case.
A fat and jolly traveling man tells the 
following on himself.  Meeting a teutonic 
friend he said:
“How is it,  Hans,  that I am so fat and 
you so lean?”
“Yell,  I  tells  you.  Do  you  eat  so 
much?”
“Yes, my appetite is always good.”
“Do you sleep well?”
“Yes.”
“Do you worry much?”
“No,  why  should  I  worry,  I  have 
“Yell,  den,  vy in  h—11 shouldn’t  you 

nothing to worry me?”

be fat?”

PRODUCE  MARKET,

Apples—Duchess ana Golden  Sweet command 

75c per bu.  Astracans are held at 50c.

Beans—Dry stock  is  so  scarce as to be practi 
Blackberries—Lawtons  command  8@9e.  The 

cally unquotable.
crop is about at an end.

Butter—The market is higher, with indications 
of still higher prices in the near future.  Dealers 
now  pay  21c  for  choice  dairy,  holding  at 23c. 
Creamery  is  in fair demand at 25c.
Cabbage—Home grown, 13 per 100.
Carrots—10c per doz.
Celery—Home  grown  commands  lie  per  doz.
Corn—Green, 5c per doz.
Cucumbers—50c per bu.
Eggs—Weaker  and  lower.  Dealers  pay  12c, 

holding at  13c.

dark buckwheat brings 10c.

Green Onions—8@10c per doz. bunches.
Honey—White  clover  commands I2ytc per  lb 
Melons—Cantelopes,  60c per  doz.;  Osage,  75c 
per doz.;  Water, from Missouri, $15@20  per  100.
Peaches—Early  Rivers  command  $1  per  bu. 
Hale's Early bring $1.25@150.
Pears—Bell, $1.75 per Du.
Plums—Canada Egg, $2.25 per bu.
Potatoes—Rose  and  Hebron  are  the  favorite 
varieties  at  this  market.  The  price  is  about 
the same as a week ago, choice stock command­
ing 50@60c per bu.

Squash—2c per lb.
Tomatoes—50@75c per bu.
Turnips—Home grown, 30c per bu.

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best grades of wheat, milled by the most approved methods, will  produce.  How well  we  have  succeeded  the wide  reputation and steadily increasing demand for these  brands

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State  Board  of Pharm acy.
One  Tear—James Vemor, Detroit.
Two  Tears—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor 
Three  Tears—George Gnndrnm, Ionia.
Four Tears—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Five Tears—8. E. Park ill, Owosso.
President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Geo. Gandrmn, Ionia.

Next  Meeting—Marquette,  Aug. 29,9 a. m.
Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass'n. 
President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor- 
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
Secretary—S. A. Thompson, Detroit.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 
President, John D. Muir;  Sec’y, Frank H. Eecott.

The  Wholesaler’s  Position.

From the Canadian Grocer.
Evolution  is  steadily and persistently 
going  on in the  mercantile  as well as in 
the  natural  world.  Business  men  of 
twenty-five  years  ago  would  scarcely 
know  “ where  they  were  at”  were they 
again  to step  into  the  arena  of  active 
commercial life.  Competition is keener, 
margin of profits smaller,  methods  more 
systematic and scientific.  But one thing 
that doubtless would  attract their atten­
tion is the conglomerate character of the 
average wholesale grocer’s stock.
This peculiarity is  the outcome of cer­
tain  exigencies.  Originally,  the  manu­
facturer of  such  commodities as starch, 
soap,  woodenware,  biscuits,  flour,  can­
dies,  and numerous  other lines,  dealt di­
rectly with  the  retailer without  the aid 
of  any intermediary.  Now the opposite 
obtains.  Not  only  does  the  wholesale 
grocer carry all  the lines coming strictly 
under the  head  of  groceries,  but  to be 
found  in  his  stock is  nearly everything 
that the  general  storekeeper  in the  re­
motest part of the country needs.  There 
are hams and bacon, brushes and brooms, 
lard and  lardine,  dried  and  evaporated 
apples, tubs  and  pails, washboards  and 
mops,  beans  and  peas,  flour  and feed, 
root-beer,  etc.  And the  list is  ever in­
creasing.  Where  it will end  is a query; 
and he who would undertake to prognos­
ticate would be rash.
It is evident that the old motto,  “Keep 
to your  trade,”  has  been  turned  to the 
wall, and  that henceforth  the idea  is  to 
be  that  every  merchant  shall  handle ] 
whatever be can get an honest penny out 
of,  whether  it come  strictly  within his j 
particular  line  or  not.  Whatever  may 
be one’s opinion in regard to the  wisdom 
of such  tendency, one  thing is  evident: 
It diminishes the cost of  doing business, 
and that,  in  view of  the gradually  nar­
rowing of the profit margin,  is the desid­
eratum sought.  Not only  in the grocery 
trade,  but in  all trades, there is the same 
increasing  tendency to  make the  whole­
saler the medium for  the distribution of 
manufactured  goods generally.  By this 
means one  traveler  is  made  to do  duty 
for two,  thus not only enabling the man­
ufacturer  to  make  more  money  than  he 
otherwise  would,  but  the  consumer  is 
benefited  by getting cheaper goods.

W hen  A ccounts  Are  Due.

From the Merchants’ Review.
The  prompt  settlement  of  indebted­
ness will,  in times like  the  present,  do 
much to  prevent disasters and check fur­
ther  depression  of trade.  When money 
is hard to borrow  except  at  exorbitant 
rates of interest, even on the best of col­
lateral,  neglect  to  settle  accounts may 
inflict  injuries  that  are so wide-spread­
ing in their effects  that  not  only  every 
branch of trade must  suffer but the con­
sumer—the  wage-earner—eventually  be 
reached,  through the  shutting  down  of 
factories,  the restriction  of building and 
mining operations,  etc. 
It therefore be­
hooves  the  consumer,  the  retailer and 
the jobber to  meet  their  obligations  as 
promptly as possible,  not  only  for  the 
general  good  but  to  prevent  injury to 
themselves from the boomerang tendency 
of such evils.  When  accounts  are  due 
it is poor policy to let them run on if one 
has the requisite funds  in  bank,  and es­
pecially 
is  this  true  of  times  like  the 
present  when  banks  are  closing  their 
doors all over the country.  A dry goods 
jobber of  this  city  recently  received  a 
letter  from  a  delinquent customer stat­
ing  that  he  wanted  more  time to meet 
his obligations,  as a local bank had burst, 
locking  up  for  the time being,  possibly

wiping  out,  his deposit of $1,500,  all the 
cash  he  had  had  at his disposal.  The 
retailer’s indebtedness to the  jobber,  by 
a  strange  coincidence,  amounted to ex­
actly  the  sum  locked  up  in the closed 
bank,  and  he  had  been dunned repeat­
edly.  Some men hate  to  let  money  go 
when once they get a grip on it,  and this 
retailer evidently  belonged to this class. 
In reply to his request he  received a lit­
tle lecture from his  creditor  on the folly 
of  holding  back 
remittances  need­
ed  by 
the  creditor,  when  he  was 
well  able  to  settle  the  account,  and 
his attention  was  drawn to the fact that 
if  he  had  met  his obligations promptly 
the failure of the  bank  could  not  have 
hurt  him,  while  his  credit would have 
been  much  better.  This  dealer  has 
learned a  lesson  which he probably will 
not forget  in  a hurry. 
In future,  when 
accounts are due,  he will hardly procras­
tinate  if  his  bank  balance  admits  of 
prompt remittances to the creditors.

Summ ary  o f the  Situation.

From the Providence  Journal.

When we  get  down  to  the  bottom of 
things,  no panic,  no depression of  a par­
alyzing  character,  can  be  found.  And 
this  is  usually 
the  case.  People  eat 
about as much, clothe about as well,  live 
in about  the  usual  style, in one year as 
another.  The  farmer  at the base of  in­
dustry  works as  hard  and  produces  as 
much,  and  those  that  manufacture  for 
him  and  others,  and  those  ranged  be­
tween him and the manufacturer, engaged 
in distribution and professional services, 
must  also be  kept  right  on  at  work in 
their  several  places.  Sometimes  a  pe­
riod  of  extravagance  intervenes,  when 
people  get  to  buying  more  than  their 
labor  justifies  them  in  consuming,  and 
then  dealers  lay  in  a  large  stock and 
manufacturers gauge production  to a de­
mand  that cannot last.
Such a time we  have  just passed,  and 
now comes a reaction.  But  there can be 
no loss to  the  material  welfare  of  any 
considerable  fraction  of  the  working 
body or of  the  country.  People may be 
led to the  other  extreme of undue  econ­
omy  and  then  business  becomes  re­
stricted,  but  the  purchasing  power of 
the  people as  a whole  has  not  been di­
minished. 
Its exercise  may be deferred 
to in some degree,  but it will not be lost, 
and hence it is that  every period of reac­
tion  and  comparative  depression carries 
with it  the  certainty of  extremely  good 
times to follow.  And so it is of the pres­
ent case.

A Little Too High.

There  is  a  certain  young  woman  in 
Washington  to  whom  nature’s  parsi­
mony in the matter of height has been for 
years  a  subject  of  the  keenest regret. 
The fact  that some  day she  may have a 
lover  who  will  rejoice  that  she  is  “so 
high as his heart”  does  not  take  away 
the poignancy of her present grief.  Not 
long since, having accepted an invitation 
to be bridesmaid for  a friend,  she resol­
ved  upon  a  plan  which  she  imagined 
would  tend  to  equalize  the  matter  of 
height between her and the other attend­
ants.  This  was  to have her white satin 
slippers constructed  with heels three in­
ches high.
The order  was  given,  and at  the day 
appointed she went to the  store  to have 
the slippers tried on.  They were cut on 
the most artistic principles possible,  and 
the young woman surveyed her foot with 
pride.  She  started  to  rise,  in  order  to 
test their comfort,  and then came the tug 
of  war. 
It  was  found  impossible  to 
stand  without  the  aid  of  the  amused 
clerk,  who  with  both  hands  extended, 
succeeded in  landing  her  firmly  on her 
feet.  The instant  he  withdrew his sup­
port  the  unusual  height  of  the  heels 
caused ner to  lose her  balance  and  top­
ple forward, like a figure of Mrs. Jarley’s 
wax-work exhibit.

mands to a successful issue.  The  mem­
bers of  the  Senate and  House  act as  if 
they were afraid of their shadows and as 
if  Congress  was  a  debating  school  in 
which to  display  their  elocutionary tal­
ents and air their petty grievances.
Business is  paralyzed  everywhere and 
the country  is  appealing  for prompt ac­
tion on the part of Congress,  but there is 
no one  in that body, apparently, who can 
rise  to  the  occasion  and  drive  in  the 
wedge  that will  solve the problem.  We 
may cry out  for relief,  but  the  Congres­
sional ear hearkens  not. 
In  due season 
we  are promised something in  the finan­
cial line,  but  what  will  become  in  the 
meantime of  the  firms and  business  en­
terprises  now held  by a single thread of 
hope  from  bankruptcy?  The  situation 
justifies  evening  sessions  of  Congress, 
and  a  limitation  of  debate,  so  that the 
conclusions may be reached in the short­
est time  possible.  Delay  is  dangerous. 
Hope  long  deferred  maketh  the  heart 
sick.

A  Big  Contract.

The  contract  for  making  thfe  postal 
cards of  the United  States was awarded 
the other day to  a paper  mill  at Castle- 
ton,  V t  The  contract  runs  for  four 
years,  and is a  big  one,  as  it  calls  for 
11,000 tons, or  600,000,000  postal  cards. 
The cards are to be manufactured in two 
sizes,  3.2x5.2  inches,  and  the  double 
postal  card,  5.2x7  inches.  The  paper 
used  for  the  cards  is  made  into  long 
sheets of  a  given  width,  which  are run 
on reels.  From  these  reels  the  paper 
is run through  machinery which  prints, 
cuts,  packs  and  bands  the  cards,  and 
drops them out ready for  delivery to the 
postoifice  authorities  to  be  sold  to  the 
people.  Government  officers  are  de­
tailed to  look after the  cards at the mill 
and  see that  they  are  shipped  to their 
proper destination.  The machine counts 
automatically  every  card,  and  the Gov­
ernment  officers  and  contractors  are 
bound  by this  count,  and  must  render 
account accordingly.  With the  delivery 
of  the  cards to the  postoffice officials  at 
the mills the  responsibility  of  the  con­
tractor ends.

M ushrooms  for  Meat.

• 
In Russia mushrooms are  largely used 
as a substitnte for meat by the poor,  and 
a familiar  sight in  their  cottages  is the 
strings of the small, shriveled delicacies, 
looking  like so  many  bits  of  brownish 
leather, suspended with strings of onions 
from  the  rafters.  There  are,  in  that 
country,  at least a dozen edible varieties, 
some  of  them  very  choice.  They  are 
pickled,  dried,  and  preserved  in  many

ways.  The  oil  of  green  hemp  seeds, 
eaten with  a  radish  nearly as  biting  as 
our horse  radish,  is  a popular  relish  in 
the same  country.  Rape seed  and  sun­
flower  seed  oil are  often  used as a  sub­
stitute  for  olive  oil  or  butter,  in  both 
cooking  and  pastry  making.  Almonds, 
made into a paste and mixed with water, 
are used in  making  desserts  as a substi­
tute for  milk,  and  the  same  mixture is 
used to flavor tea and coffee.  A  traveler 
who knows this  beverage  well says that 
it is delicious in the extreme.

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for those that may come,  he  is overlook­
ing those that have come.  To wait for a 
special opportunity is to  be  unfit  for  it 
when it comes.

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Advanced—

Decllned-

TINCTURES.

“ 

“ 

A coni turn Napellls R.........   60
P .........   50
and myrrh.................  60
A rnica................................   50
Asafcetlda............................ 
0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................   go
_  “  .  Co..........................   50
Sanguinarla.........................  50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharldes.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca demon............................  75
_  “ 
Co.....................« ..  75
Castor.................................. 1 00
Catechu...............................   50
Cinchona.......................  
50
_ 
.  Co.........................  60
Columba.............................   50
Conlum...... ;......................    50
Cubeba...............................  ’  50
Digitalis.............................. .'  50
Brgot...................................   50
Gentian...............................  50
Co............................  60
„  
ammon....................  60
Zingiber...............................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................  50
Iodine....................................  75
“  Colorless....................   75
Ferri  Chlorldum.................. 
35
K ino.....................................   50
Lobelia............................... 
50
Myrrh...................................    50
Nux  Vomica.........................  50
OpM  ................................. 
 
“  Camphorated.................   50
Deodor.........................2 00
Auranti Cortex......................  50
Quassia.................................  50
h atan y...............................   50
Rhel.......................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol....................   50
„  “ 
Co..............  50
Serpentario.........................  50
Stramonium..........................   60
Tolutan.................................  60
Valerian...............................  50
VeratrumVerlde............... !  50

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85

ACIDUM.

8®  10
Acetlcum................... 
Benzolcam  German..  65®  75
Boracicv....................  
an
Carbollcum .  ...........  25®  35
Cltrlcum...................  52®  55
Hydrochlor................  3@
.................  10®  12
Nltrocum 
Oxallcum...................  10®  12
Phosphorium dll........ 
20
Salley Ileum............... 1  30@1
Sulph urlcum 
...  ..  1M@
Tannlcom.................. 1  40@1  60
Tartarlcum...............   30®  33

Aqua, 16  deg................314®
20  deg..............  5M@
Carbonai  ....................   12® 14
Chlorldum...................  12® 14

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

BAOCAK.
Cubeae (po  40)......
Juniperus...............
Xanthoxylum......... .
BALSAMUSt.

35®
25®  30

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

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Casslae  ...............................  11
Cinchona F lav a.................   18
Enonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po.............  20
Prunus Vlrgini....................  12
Qulllaia,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

KXTBACTUM.

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24®  25
po...........  33®  35
Haematox, 151b. box..  11®  12
Is..............  13®  14
Hs............  14®  15
Ms............  16®  17
FBRRU

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

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

" 

Arnica.......................  18®  20
Anthemls..................   30®  35
Matricaria 
50®  65

 

 
FOMA.

“ 

“ 
“ 

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tln-

...................  18®  50
nlvelly....................  25®  28
“  Alx.  35®  50
and  Ms....................   15®  25
...................  8®  10
amati.

Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
TJraUrsl 

Acacia, 1st  picked—   ®  60
2d 
“ 
....  @ 40
“  3d 
....  ®  30
sifted sorts.  .  @  20
“ 
po.................  60®  80
“ 
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
Socotrl. (po.  60).  @ 50
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 M*>
16)..........................   @  1
Ammonlae.................  55®  60
Assafcetlda, (po. 35)..  30®  35
Bensolnum.................  50®  55
Camphors..................   55®  58
Buphorbium  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum..................   @2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70®  7b
Gualacum, (po  35) —   @  3n
Kino,  (po  1  10)........  @1  15
M astic............ ..........  ®  80
Myrrh, (po  45)...........  @  40
Opll  (po  3 75)............2 60®2 65
Shellac  .....................   45®  42
33®  35
Tragacanth...............   40® 1  00

11 
hsbba—In ounce packages.

bleached...... 

Absinthium.....................—   25
Sanatorium.........................  20
Lobelia................................   25
Malorum.............................  28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
«  V lr.........................  25
Rue......................................   30
Tanacetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................  25
Calcined, Pat.............   55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M —   20®  25
Carbonate, Jenning5..  35®  36

XAONS8IA.

OLEUM.

Absinthium................ 3 50@4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc___  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarao— 8  00@8 25
A nisi........................... 1  ?0@1 80
Auranti  Cortex.......... 2 30@2 40
Bergamll  ...................3  25@3 50
Calinoti....................  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......................  @300
Exechthltos..............  2 50@2 75
Erlgeron................... 2 00®2 10
Gaultherla................ 2 00®2  10
Geranium,  ounce......   @  75
GoBslpll,  Sem. gal......   70®
Hedeoma  .................. 2 10@2 20
Juniperl......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonls....................2 40©2 60
Mentha Piper............ 2 75@3 50
Mentha Verid...........2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal...........1 00®1  10
Myrcia, ounce............   @  50
Olive..........................   85@2
Plcis Liquida, (gal. .35)  10®  12
Riclni.......................  1  22@1 28
Rosmarlnl............  
75@1  00
Rosae, ounce..............6 50@8 50
Succlni........  .............  40®  45
Sabina.......................   90®1 00
Santal  ........  ............ 3 50@7 00
Sassafras.  .................   50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tiglfi..........................   @  90
Thyme.......................   40®  50
_  
^  opt  ................  @  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

POTASSIUM.
is®  18
B1 Carb....................... 
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide.................... 
38®  42
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate  (po  23®25)..  24®  26
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide........................ 2 96@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27®  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @  15
Potass Nitres, opt......   8®  10
Potass Nltras..............  7®  9
Prussiate....................   28®  30
Sulphate  po................  15®  18

RADIX.

Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................   12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
CalamuB......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......  
8®  10
GlychrThlza, (pv. 15)..  16® 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
„  (PO- 35)...................  @
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®
Inula,  po.................... 
is®  __
Ipecac,  po.................. 2 20@2 30
Iris plox (po. 35@38) ..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  40®  45
Maranta,  Ms..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po.......   15®  18
Rhel............................  75®1  00
"  cut......................  @1  75
pv.......................   75@1  35
Splgella.....................   35®  38
. ..........  35®
_  _ 
Sanguinaria, (po  25)..  @
20 
Serpentaria.................   30®
32 
Senega.......................  55®
60 
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  ® 
40 
25 
M  @
Sclllae, (po. 35)...........  10®
12
Symplocarpus,  Fceti-
  @
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  @
German...  15®
lnglbera................. 
18®
18®
Zingiber  j ...............  

dns,  po.............  

“ 

“ 

..  @ 15
Anlsnm,  (po. 20).. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  15®  18
Bird, Is.;................... 
4®  6
Carol, (po. 18)..............   10® 12
Cardamon.................. 1  no@i  25
Corlandrum.................   10® 12
Cannabis Sadva.........  4® 
5
~  donium....................   75@1 00
lenopodlum  .............  10® 12
Dlpterlx Odorate....... 2 25®2 so
Foeniculnm..............  ®  15
6®  8
Foenugreek,  po.........  
U n i..........................   4  @ 4M
4 @ 4M
Uni, grd,  (bbl. 3M) 
Lobelia.........................  35® 40
Pharlarls Canarian__ 
4®  5
R apa.............................  6®  7
Slnapls  Albu.............. 11 @13
Nigra...........  11®  12

" 

Frumenti, W., D.  Co.
D. F. R  ...

2 00@2 50 
.1  75®2 00 
1  25®1  50
Junlperls  Co. O. T ___1 65@2 00
1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  B.........1  75®2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............1  75®6 50
Vini Oporto................ 1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba........  ........ 1  25@2 00

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

1  40

SYRUPS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferrl Iod.............................   50
Auranti  Cortes....................   50
Rhel Aram..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega.................................  50
Sclllae..................................   50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunns  virg.........................  50

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S.  N. Y. Q.  &

Morphia,  5» 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
Os.  Sepia....................  20®  22
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcis Llq, N.tC., M gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcis Llq., quarts......   @1  00
pints.........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..  @  l
Piper Alba, (pog5) __   @  3
Pix  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvls Ipecac et opll.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
□<& F. D.  Co., doz......   @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae.................... 
8®  10
Qulnla, S. P. & W......  29®  34
S.  German__  20®  30
Rubia  Tlnctorum......   12®  14
20®  22
SaccharumLactlspv. 
Salacln.......................1  7S@1  80
Sanguis  Draconl8......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @ fl5

“ 

Seldllts  Mixture........  @  20
Slnapls........................  @  18
opt..................   @  80
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................   @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  1M@  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash.................... 3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  56
“  Myrcia  Dom......  @2 25
"  Myrcia Imp........  @3 00
*'  Vlni  Rect.  bbl.
--..7........................ 2  19@2  29
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Stiychnla  Crystal......1 4d@l  45
Sulphur, Subl............   2M@ 3
“  RoU..............  2  @  2M
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae..............45  @  48
Vanilla.....................9 00@18 00
Zlncl  Sulph...............   7®  8

OILS.

Bbl.  Gal
Whale, winter...........  70 
70
Lard,  extra...............1  10  1  15
Lard, No.  1...............   65 
70
Linseed, pure raw__  46 
49

11

Linseed,  boUed.........  49
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
Btralned...............   80
Spirits Turpentine....  34

“ 

bbl. 

pa in t s. 

lb .
Red Venetian.............im 
2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__IX  2@4
Ber.......1M  2@8
Putty,  commercial....2M  2M®3
“  strictly  pure.....2M  2X®3
Vermilion Prune Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English.... 
65®70
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red....................6M@7
“  w hite................6v@7
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’. ......   @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0 
Whiting.,  Paris  Eng.
Cliff..........................  
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.................... l 00@1  20
VARNISHES.
No. lT urp  Coach....1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................160@1  70
Coach  Body...............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turn Fum .......1  00@l  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1 55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1
v rp ......................... 
70@75

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

MISCELLANEOUS.

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10®

T‘ 
ground,  (po.

.■Ether, Spts  Hit, 3 F..  28®  30 
' 
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alumen....................... 2M® 3
“ 
................................  3® 4
Annetto......................  55®  60
Antimoni, po................  
4® 5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antlpyrln......................  @1 40
Antlfebrln.....................  @ 25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  55
Arsenicum...................  
5® 7
Balm Gilead  Bud....  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 20@2 26
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
12;  Ms,  14).................  @ 11
Cantharldes  Russian,
PO....................................
@1  00 
Capslcl  Fructus,af...
®  26 
@  28 
(po.
@  20 
Caryophyllns, (po.  15)
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera Alba, S. A F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus  .....................   @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  25
Centrarla....................  @  10
Cetaceum..................   @  40
Chloroform...............   60®  63
squlbbs..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  35®1  60
Chondrns..................   20®  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  A  w  is® 
German  8  e  
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  ......................
Creasotum...............   @
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  @
prep...................  5®
9®
preclp.............. 
Rubra...............   @  g
Crocus......................  40®  50
Cudbear......................  @  24
Cuprl Sulph...............   5 ®  6
Dextrine....................  
io@  12
Ether Sulph...............   70®  75
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po...................  @  6
3g  S
Galla......... ................  @  23
Gambler......................7  @ 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
French...........  40®  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 <& 10. 
Less than box 66X
Glne,  Brown..............  9®
is®
Glyoerlna..................14 M@
Grana Paradlsl...........  @
Humulus....................   25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @
“  Cor__   @
Ox Rubrum  @
Ammonlatl..  @100
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  64
Ichthyobolla, Am..  ..1 25@1 50
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 80®3 90
Iodoform....................  @4 70
LupuUn......................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  65®  70
Macls.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
arg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannia.gS. F ............   60®  68

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

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greatest possible  use to dealers.

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

doz  gross
600
7 00
5 50
8 00
600

BAKING  POWDER.

'*  2  “ 

Acme.
X lb. cans, 3  doz..............
45
85
X lb.  “ 
2  “  ..............
1  “  ...............
lib .  “ 
1  Of
Bulk..................................
1(
Arctic.
X 1b cans 6 doz  case........
55
........ 1  It
X ®>  “  4 doz  “ 
1  fi>  “  2 doz  “ 
........ 2 Of
5  lb  “  1 doz  “ 
........ 9 Of
Fosfon.
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case. .  8C
16  “ 
«
.2 0C
Red Star, X ® cans.........
40
75
“ 
.........
“ 
.........
1  40
Teller’s,  X lb. cans, doz
45
“ 
85
“  . 1  50
“ 
45
“ 
75
“ 
1  50
per doz 
Dime cans..  95 
4-oz
.1  102 eo
(i oz
S-oz
.2  B0 
12 oz
.3 90 
16-oz
.5 00 
i%-Va
12 00 
1-lb
18 25 
Vlb
22 75 
10-lb
41  80

X B>  “ 
IB)  “ 
X lb.  “
lib .  “ 
Our Leader, X lb cans.... 
X lb cans......
lib  cans 
...
Dr. Price’s.

pBRRiCE’s
CREAM
Baking
Bowden
■**>surau<*H

“ 

“
“

8oz 

BLUING.

Mexican Liquid, 4  oz......
8oz........

BATH  BRICK. 
2 dozen In case.
English.....................  
.. ..  90
Bristol.............................. ..  SC
Domestic.......................... ..  70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals............ .  3 60
............ .  7 0C
“ 
“  pints,  round.........
.  9 OC
.  2 75
“  No. 2, sifting box.. 
“  No. 3, 
.  4  00
“  No. 5, 
.  8 00
“  1 os ball  ............... .  4  50
.  3 60
“ 
“ 
6  80
BROOMS.
1.40. 2 Hurl....................  .. .  1  75
......................... 2 00
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet......................
.  2 25
No. 1 
“ 
......................
.  2 50
Parlor Gem....................... .  2 75
Common Whisk...............
90
Fancy 
...............
.  1  15
Warehouse.......................
3 25
Stove, No.  1.....................
1  25
“  10...................... 1  50
“  15.....................
1  75
Rice Root Scrnb, 2  row...
85
Rice Root  Scrnb, 3 row... 1  25
Palmetto, goose...............
1  50
BUTTER  PLATES.
Oval—250 In crate.
No.  1................................
.  60
No.  2................................ ..  70
No.  3................................
-  80
No.  5................................
.1 00
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes........... 10
Star,  40 
9
Paraffine  ......................... 10
Wicklng  ......................... 24

“ 
BRUSHES.

CANDLES.

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

“ 
“ 

“ 

CANNED  GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  1 lb..............
.1  20
“  2  lb..............
.1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 81b...................
.2 25
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb..............
.1  00
21b................
1  85
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb.................
.2 50
“  2  lb.......................... .3 50
Picnic, 1 lb.......................
.2 00
“ 
21b......................... .2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb....................
2  lb................... .1 25
.2  10
Mustard,  2 lb ..................
.2 25
Tomato Sauce,  21b........... .2 25
Soused, 2  lb.............. 
..
.2 25
Colombia River, flat........... 1  80
tails............1 65
Alaska, Red..............................i 45
Pink..............................1 25
Kinney’s,  fiats......................... 1 95
American  14s .................  @ 5
T 
-  .X«.................6)4® 7
Imported  fcs.....................10@11
„   *?  _  *■.....................I5®ie
Mustard Ms......................  @7
Boneless.......................... 
21
Brook, 8 ib...............................2 50

Salmon.
“ 

Sardines.

“ 
" 

Trout.

" 

F r u i t » .
Apples.

85 
8 00

Gages.

3 lb. standard............
York State, gallons__
Hamburgh,
Apricots.
Live oak................
Santa Crus.................
Lusk’s.........................
Overland..................
Blackberries.
B. A  W.......................
Cherries.
Red............................  1  io@i 20
l  75
Pitted Hamburgh___ 
W hite......................... 
1  50
E rie............................ 
1  20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
1  10
E rie............................ 
California................... 
1
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  25
Peaches.
P ie............................  
1  25
Maxwell..................
1  65
Shepard’s ................... 
California................... 
2 20
................. 
Monitor 
1  65
Oxford  .....................
Pears.
Domestic....................  
1  20
Riverside.................... 
2 10
Pineapples.
Common..................... 1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
2 50
2 75
grated........ 
Booth’s sliced............  @2 50
grated...........  @2 75
Quinces.
1  10
Common.................... 
Raspberries.
Red............................. 
1 ao
1  50
Black Hamburg.........  
1  30
Erie,  black 
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................  
1  25
1  25
Hamburgh................. 
Erie............................  
1  25
Terrapin....................... 
1  10
Whortleberries,
Blneberries...............  
1  00
Corned  beef  Libby’s..........1  75
Roast beef  Armour’s ..........1  71
Potted  bam, )4 lb................1  40
“  X lb.................  85
tongue, )4 lb............. 1  35
K lb-------   85
chicken. X lb..........  
95

“ 
Vegetables.

Meats.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Beans.

‘ 
1 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless..........1  25
French style...... 2 25
Limas................. 1  35
Lima, green......................... 1  40
soaked......................  75
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 35
Bay State  Baked................. 1  35
World’s  Fair  Baked........... 1  35
Picnic Baked........................1  00
Hamburgh.......................   .1  40
Livingston  Eden.....................1 90
Purity................................ .
Honey  Dew..............................1 40
Morning Glory..................
Soaked............................... 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat........... 1  35
early June
Champion Eng.. 1  50
petit  pols...........1  75
fancy  sifted__ 1  90
Soaked.................................  75
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........l  10
early June.......1 30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  35
French..................................... 2 15
French.............................. 17022
Erie................................ 
  95
Hubbard...................................1 25
Hamburg.................................. j 40
Soaked................................  85
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 50
Erie.......................................... 1 85
Hancock.............................
Excelsior  .  .........................
Eclipse.................................
Hamburg.............................
Gallon .. 

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.

CHOCOLATE.

...........................8 75
Baker’s.

“ 

CHEESE.

German Sweet.................. 
23
Premium..........................  
37
Breakfast  Cocoa.............. 
43
Amboy.......................   @11)4
Acme..........................  @11)4
  @11
Lenawee.............  
Riverside................... 
11
Gold  Medal...............   @10)4
Skim..........................  
6@ 7
Brick..........................  
11
1 00
Edam  ........................ 
23
Leiden.......................  
Llmbnrger  ................  @10
Pineapple...................  @25
Roquefort.................   @35

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

“ 

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

“ 

TriumphJBrand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles...........2 75
Pint 
...........  4 50
Quart 1 doz bottles  ........... 3 50
Half pint, per  doz...................1 35
Pint, 25 bottles.........................4 50
Quart, per  doz  ...................3 75
5 gross boxes.................40@45
35 lb  bags..................
@3
Less quantity............
@3X
Pound  packages........
6X@7
COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

CLOTHES  PINS.
COCOA  SHELLS.

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

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

28

P a c k a g e .

Extract.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add )4c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX..  22 95
Bnnola  ............................  22  95
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__  22 95
Valley City X gross.. 
75
Felix 
1 15
Hummel’s, foil, gross..........1  50
tin
2 50
CHICORV.
Bulk..........................
Red................................ 
CLOTHES  LINES.
Cotton,  40 ft......... per dot.
“

... 

“ 

“ 

.

«
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50ft.............. 
60ft.........  
70 ft.........  
80 ft.........
60 ft.........
72ft-...
4 doz. In case.

CONDENSED  MILK. 

Jute

N. Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brandB
Gall Borden Eagle............   7 40
Crown.................................. 6 25
Daisy....................................5  __
Champion..........................  4 50
Magnolia  ............................ 4 25
Dime....................................3 35

C O U P O N   B O O K S .

_ 6, 
*10, 
*20, 

“Tradesman.’

“ 
“ 
“  “ 
“  “ 
“  “ 

1, per hundred...............  2 on
2,  “ 
.............   2 so
................8 00
3,  “ 
...............   8 op
............... 4 00
..............5 00
1, per hundred...............   2 50
..............  3 00
2» 
3 50
4 00
5 00
6 00

“Superior."

“  “ 

*20,

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs......................................... 3 50
Half  kegs.................................2 00
Quarter  kegs........................... 1 15
1 lb  cans.............................   so
)4 lb  cans............................ 
is
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
Kegs..........................................4 50
Half kegs.................................2 50
Quarter kegs.............................1 40
1 lb cans.............................  34
Kegs  ..................................11  00
Half  kegs  ..........................  5 75
Quarter kegs............................ 3 00
1  lb  cans............................   60
Sage..................................... 16
Hops......................................

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

HERBS.

INDIGO.

Madras,  51b. boxes........  
S. F„ 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 

JELLY .
17  lb. palls.................  ©  59
30  “ 
................  @'.75

55
50

“ 
LICORICE.

Pure.....................................   so
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.

“ 
“ 
.  “ 
« 
“ 

$ 1, per hundred..............  83 00
8 2, 
............... 3 50
* 3, 
................4 00
................5 00
»5, 
810, 
................6 00
820. 
..............7 00
Above prices on coupon books
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over.............   5 per  cent
500  “ 
1000 
“  

 
10 
..................20 

“
“

COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
ICan  be  made to represent'any 
denomination  from 810  down 
20 books........................ 8 1 00
50
2  00 
3 00 
100
250
6 25 
500
10 00 
17 50
1000

CREDIT  CHECKS.

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

« 
“ 

“ 
“ 

CRACKERS.

Butter.

Soda.

Seymour XXX....................... 6
Seymour XXX, cartoon......6)4
Family  XXX......................  8
Family XXX,  cartoon........  6)4
Salted XXX...........................6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ..........6)4
Kenosha 
.........................  7^4
Boston....................................8
Butter  blscnlt...................... 6)4

Soda, XXX........................   6
Soda, City...........................   7*4
Soda,  Dncbess......................8)4
Crystal Wafer......................10
Long  Island Wafers 
........ 11
S. Oyster  XX X...................  6
City Oyster. XXX.................  6
Farina  Oyster...................... 6

Oyster.

CREAM  TARTAR.
Strictly  pure...................... 
so
Telfers Absolute.............. 
31
Grocers’.....................   ... 15@25
DRIED  FRUITS. 

XX  wood, white.

Noil, 6.............................   1  65
No. 2, 6.............................   1  50
No. 1,6)4..........................  1  35
No. 2,6)4  ........................   1  25
6)4  ...................................   1 00
6............... 
95
Mill  No. 4.........................  100
FARINACEOUS GOODS. 

Manilla, white.

Coin.

 

Farina.
Hominy.

1001b. kegs................... 
3M
Barrels.................................800
Grits........................................ 3 50
Dried............................ 

Lima  Beans.

4)4

Maccaronl and Vermicelli.

Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported.....................10X@-i  )4
Barrels 200............................  4 60
Half barrels 100....................  2 40

Oatmeal.

Pearl Barley.

Kegs..................................   2|£

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bu.............................  2 00
Split  per l b .................2M@3
Barrels  180.................  @4  60
Half  bbls'90..............  @2  40
German.............................   4U
Bast India..........................  5
Cracked..............................

Wheat.

Sago.

FI8H—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth..........................
Pollock..........................  
Whole. Grand  Bank...... 
Boneless,  bricks............ 6@8
Boneless, strips................e@8

3«
544

Smoked.....................10)4@n

Halibut.
Herring.
“ 
“ 

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Snndrled, sliced In  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags........
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes.......... ...........
Nectarines.
701b. bags.......................
251b. boxes...................iox
Peeled, in boxes...........
Cal. evap.  “ 
“ 
California In bags  .. 
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels..........................
60 lb. boxes..................
...................
26 “ 
Prnnelles.
301b.  boxes..................
Raspberries.
In  barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
......................
25 lb.  “ 
Raisins.

.........   10
In bags........  9X
10)4

Pears.

« 

“ 

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.
2 crown.............................   1 45
3 
............................ 1 65
2  crown......................  
544
3 

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

Foreign.
Currants.

“ 

“ 
“ 

@ 0

Peel.

Prunes.

“ 
25 “ 
25 “ 
“ 
Raisins.

Patras,  In barrels............  
In  X-bbls.............. 
in less quantity__ 

344
4
41;
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  20 
Lemon 
“ 10
Orange 
n
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes.  @7)4
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 30  “
California,  100-120..............  9
90x10025 lb. bxs.  9)4
80x90 
..10
70x80 
10)4
60x70 
.11

“ 
“ 
“ 
Silver.......................... 
Sultana...............................
French,  60-70.................
70-80......................
80-90....................
90-101....................
ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1, 6)4..........................  81  75
No. 2,6)4..........................  1  60

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

*

65 

“ 

Holland, white hoops keg 
bbf
Norwegian.......................
Round, )4 bbl 100 lbs........  2 85
_  “  M  “  40  “  ........  1  45
Scaled............................... 
17

Mackerel.

No. 1,  100 lbs............................ g 50
No. 1, 40 lbs...................... 
3 70
No. 1,  10 lbs............................  1 05
Family, 90 lbs...........................6 00

10 lbs .................

“ 

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

Sardines.
Trout.

No. 1, )4 bbls., 1001bs................6 00
No. 1 X bbl, 40  lbs.... ......... 2  70
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   80
No. 1,8 lb  kits....................  68

Whitefl8h.

No.  1

Family 
% bbls, 100 lbs........... 87 00 82 75
H “  40  “  •••........3  10  140
10 lb.  kits...................  go 
48
8 R>-  “ 
75  42
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. 
Best In the world for the money.

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

Sonden’.

3 doz. case........................  2 75
6 doz. case........................  5 50
12 doz. case.........................11 00

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon........................    81  75
Half  gallon......................  1  40
Q nait...............................  
70
Pint..................................  
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

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.

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

Porto Rico.

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

New Orleans.

£*£.•................................. 
Extra good........................ 
Choice.............................. 
Fancy................................ 
One-half barrels, 3c extra.

10

20
30

18
27
32
40

PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count...
Half bbls, 600  count..
Small.
Barrels, 2,400 count.
Half bbls, 1,200 count
PIPES.

@5 00 
@3 00

6  00 
3 50

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

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

RICE 
Domestic.

Regular
Grade
L em o n .doz
2oz  ... .8  75 
4 oz......  1  50

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz-----81  2o
4 oz........2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz.......81  50
io z ......   3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz.......81  75
4 oz........ 3 50

01 folding box.

Carolina head...................... 5
No. 1...................... 4K
No. 2.......................  4
Broken..............   ..............   3

Jennings’ D   C.
Lemon. Vanilla 
...7 6  
1  20
...1  40
2 00 Japan, No. 1..................
--- 5X
. .. 2  00
3 00
R  No. 2...................
—  8X
...1  35
..  5
2 00 Java...............................
2 50 1Patna.............................. ...  5
...1  50

Imported.

,

1

.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A H E 8 M A  TST,

-   •)  -
J
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MS  **-  ft*.
- 1  "

Boot Beer Extract.
“ 

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

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

Jam aica............ 

“ 
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................... ¡8
“ 
and  Saigon.26
“  Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“  Zanzibar..................18
Ginger, African...................16
r’  Cochin..................   20
“ 
.22
Mace  Batavia...................... 70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ..................175
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 16
“ 
“  white...... 24
“  Cayenne..................20
Sage.....................................20
‘‘Absolute” In Packages.
. „ 
fts
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..............  lft
Anise............................  @12)4
Canary, Smyrna......... 
6
Caraway......................... 
10
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
4ft
Hemp,  Russian.........  
Mixed  Bird  .................... 
Mustard,  w h ite........ 
10
Poppy..............................  
Rape................................ 
Cuttle  bone....................  

SAL SODA.

SEEDS.

fts 

, 

STARCH.

Corn.

 

 

“ 
“ 

“   

SNUFF.

20-lb  boxes..........................  6
40-lb 
5ft
Gloss.
1-lb packages.......................  5ft
3-lb 
 
 
5*
6-lb 
.......................  6
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  4*4
Barrels................................   554
Scotch, In  bladders.............37
Maccaboy, In Jars................35
French Rappee, in Jars.......43
Boxes....................................5ft
Kegs, English....................... 4ft
100 3-lb. sacks......................... 32 25
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb. sacks.......................   1 85
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases..........................   1 50
56 lb. dairy In linen  bags.. 
28 lb.  “ 

2 00
2 25
32
drill  “  16  18

SALT.
 
 

SODA,

Warsaw.

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

“ 

“ 

Ashton.
Higgins.

56 lb. dairy in linen  sacks. 

75 

Soiar Rock.

56 lb.  sacks..........................  27
Saginaw  . 
Manistee .

Common Fine.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

SALERATUS. 
Church’s .....................
DeLand’s ....................
Dwight’s......................
Taylor’s.......................

...  5ft F air...
. . .   5ft Choice.
....  5ft Best...
....  5

s o a p .
Laundry.

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Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Dingman Brands.

Proctor A Gamble.

Old Country,  80  1-lb................3 2'
Good Cheer, 60 1 lb...................3 90
White Borax, 100  ft-lb........3 65
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. .84 00 
plain...  3 94
N. K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.........................4 00
Brown, 60 bars.................... 2 40
80  b a rs...................3 25

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Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

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

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

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SUGAR.

The  following  prices  repre­
sent the actual selling prices in 
Grand Rapids, based on the act­
ual cost In New  York,  with  36 
cents per 100 pounds added  for 
freight.  The  same  quotations 
will not apply to any town where 
the freight rate from New York 
is  not  36  cents,  but  the  local 
quotations will, perhaps, afford 
a better criterion of the  market 
than to quote .New York  prices 
exclusively.
Cut  Loaf............................ 85 30
Powdered..............................   6 23
Granulated............................. 5 61
Extra Fine Granulated__5 73
Cubes........  .......................  6 23
XXXX  Powdered..................   6 42
Confec. Standard  A........... 5 54
No. 1  Columbia A............   5 48
No. 5 Empire  A...................5 42
No.  6  .................................. 5 36
No.  7.................................... 5  30
No.  8....................................5 23
No.  9....................................5  17
 
No.  10.......................... 
5 05
No.  11.............. ............ 
No.  12.................................  4 98
No.  13...................... 
 
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...... 
554
VINEGAR.
9
6
80

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

SI for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.

30

YEAST.

Bulk, per gal  ...................... 
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75
Magic,................................. 1  00
Warner’s  .................... 
Yeast Foam  ........................1  00
Diamond...............................   75
Royal..........................   ....  90

TEAS.

japxn—Regular.

SUN C0K3D.

BASKET  FIRED.

F air...............................   @17
Good..............................  @20
Choice.......................... 24 @26
Choicest....................... 32 @34
D ust.............................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 fall........... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest___ 50 @65
Choicest fancy.............75 @85
@26
Common to fair........... 23 @30
Common to fair........... 23 @26
Superior to fine.............30 @35
Common to fair............18 @26
Superior to  fine........... 30 @40
......................18 @22
..................... 24 @28
......................40 @50
TOBACCOS.

oolong. 
IMPERIAL.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

TOONS HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

Fine Cut.

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

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Plug.

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

41
29
41
26
38
34

40
32

Smoking.

Catlin’s  Brands.

Kiln  dried.........................17
Golden  Shower.................. 19
Huntress  ...........................26
Meerschaum......................29
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy......................40
Stork  ...........................30@32
German............................. 15
F ro e.................................. 33
Java, 14sfoil..................  32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner............................... 16
Banner Cavendish.............38
Gold Cut  ............................28
Warpath.............................15
Honey  Dew........................30
Gold  Block........................26
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Peerless.............................. 26
Old  Tom............................ 18
Standard...........................  22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade..........................41

Scotten’s Brands.

Brands.

Leidersdorfs Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

Rob  Roy.................... ........26
Uncle  Sam................. ..2S@32
Red Clover................. ........32
Tom and Jerry........... ........25
5
Traveler  Cavendish.. ........38
Buck Horn................. ........30
Plow  Bov................... ..30@32
Corn  Cake................. ........16

4 86

OILS.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes 
as  follows,  In barrels,  f. o.  b. 
Grand Rapids:
Eocene......................... 
8ft
XXX  W.  W.  Mich.
Headlight................ 
7ft
Naptha.......................  @ 6*4
Stove Gasoline......  
@734
Cylinder................... 27  @36
E ngine.....................13  @21
Black, 15 cold  test  ...  @ 814

8
8

9
814
854

HIDES.

HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

lows:
Green............................  2@254
Part Cured................  @  3 -4
@354
Full 
Dry..............................   4 @ 5
1 00
Kips, green  ................   2 @3
“  cured.................  @4
Calfskins,  green.........  4 @ 5
cured...........4 @  554
Deacon skins................10 @25

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No. 2 hides ft off.
PELTS.

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

WOOL.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow........................   3 @  3ft
Grease  butter  ............  1  @2
Switches....................  1)4@ 2
Ginseng......................l  75@2 00

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8

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

meal.

Bolted............................... 

l  40

Straight, In  sacks............   3 30
barrels..........   3 56
sacks
Patent
barrels...........  4  55
Graham
sacks...........  1  70
Rye
1  70

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MILLSTUPPB.
Car lots 
Bran...........
.. *14 00
Screenings. ..  13 00
..  15 00
Middlings..
Mixed Feed ..  is no
Coarse meal .  17 50

quantity 
315 00
13 00
16 00
18 50
18 00

CORN.

Car  lots__
........44
Less than  car  lots__ ........48

OATS.

Car lots__
........32
Less than car lots...... ........35

HAY—Old.

No. 1 Timothy, car lots__12  00
No. 1 
ton lots  — 14 00
New hay on the market.. .8® 10

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FRESH  MEATS.

“ 

Beef, carcass..............  5  @7

hindquarters...  7  @  8)4 
fore 
...  4  @  5)(
loins,  No.  3...  9  @11
ribs...............  7)4@ 9
rounds...........  6)4@ 7)4
Bologna......................  @6
Pork loins............ 
@10

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5 

00@5 OO

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Sausage, blood or head  @

shoulders...........  @ 7)4
@ 7 
@  8 @ 6)4 
@7

liv e r............
Frankfort  __
Mutton  ......................6
Lamb...........................6
Veal............................. 6)4@
FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follows:

FRESH  FISH
Whltefish 
.................  @50
T ro u t.........................  @10
Brook  T ro u t.............  2o@35
Black Bass........ 
12)4
Halibut.......................   @15
Ciscoes or Herring__  @ 5
Bluefish......................  @12)4
20
Fresh lobster, per lb. 
Cod....................  
 
10
No. 1 Pickerel............   @10
Pike............................  @8
Smoked White..........   @8
Red  Snappers............... 
13
Columbia River  Salmon 
20
Mackerel........................20@25
oysters—Cans.
Fairhaven  Counts__  @40
F .J . D.  Selects.........   @40
Oysters, per  lo o ........1  50@1  75
Clams. 
......... 1  25@l  50

SHELL  SOODS.

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Scallops......................... 
2 00
Shrimps  .......................  
1  50
PA PER & WOODEN WARE

PAPER.

Straw 
................................. iv
Rockford............................. 2
Rag su g a r............................ 2ft
Hardware. 
.........................2%
Bakers...................................234
Dry  Goods...................5  @6
Jute Maullla................  @6)4
Red  Express  No. 1.............. 5)4
No. 2.............. 4)4

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TWINES.

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

WOODENWARE.

Tubs,No. 1.........................  700
“  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....................  80
13  “  ....................   1  00

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1  60
15  “  ......  
.....................   2  25
17 “ 
2 75
19  “ 
21  “ 
3 00
Baskets, market.................   35
shipping  bushel..  1  25 
..  1  35
full  hoop  “ 
5 25
“  No.2  6 25
“ 
No.3 7 25
“ 
No.l 3 25
“  No.2  4 00
“  No.3  4 75
Palls...................  
3  15
Tubs,  No.  1........................ 13 50
Tubs, No. 2......................... 12 00
Tubs, No. 3......................... 10 50

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INDURATED WARE.

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POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as  follows:

LIVE.

DRESSED.
Fowl..........................
Turkeys.....................
Ducks  .......................
Live broilers lftlbs. to 2 lbs.
Live broilers less than  1-1)4 
Spring Chickens........  9  @10
Fowls........................  7  @8
Spring turkeys............10  @12)4
Spring Ducks.............  9  @10

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

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess............................................................   1500
Short c u t..................................................... 
16 00
Extra clear pig, short cut..............................17 50
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat back.............................................   17 50
Boston clear, short cut........  .......................  17 00
Clear back, short cut.....................................  17 50
Standard clear, short cut. best................  
17 50

SAU8ASE—Fresh and Smoked.

Pork Sausage...................................................
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage..............................................   9
Frankfort Sausage  ..........................................8)4
Blood Sausage.................................................   7
Bologna, straight............................................   6
Bologna,  thick................................ 
Head Cheese...................................................... 7
Kettle  Rendered.............................................10)4
Granger............................................................ 9)4
Family............................................................   7ft
Compound......................................................  7)4
50 lb. Tins,  ftc advance.
20 lb. pails,  )4c 
10 lb.  “ 
ftc 
74 c 
5 lb.  “ 
31b. 
" 
l c  

LARD.

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BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

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smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs............................ 7 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................   7 50
Boneless, ramp butts..........................................12 50
Hams, average 20 lbs......   ............................. 11ft
16 lbs...................................... lift
12 to 14 lbs.............................. 1144
picnic.....................................................9ft
best boneless......................................   13
Shoulders......................................................   8ft
Breakfast Bacon  boneless..............................14
Dried beef, ham prices....................................10ft
Long Clears, heavy..........................................
Briskets,  medium..........................................

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

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

STICK  CANDY.
Cases 
Standard,  per lb........................ 
“  H.H.............................  
“  Twist  .......................... 
8)4
...  6)4
Mixed  candy.

Boston Cream  .......... 
Cut  Loaf......................
Extra H .H ...........  . 

Bbls.  Pi
6ft
6ft
6ft

8)4

Bbls. 

Palls.

 

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fancy—In bulk

Standard...................................... 6 
7
7
Leader..........................................6 
Royal........................................... 6ft 
7)4
8
Nobby.......................................... 7 
English Rock..............................7 
8
8
Conserves....................................7 
Broken Taffy.................... baskets 
8
Peanut Squares................. 
9
8 
“
10
French Creams.............................  
13
Valley  Creams......................... 
. 
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.......................................8
8
Modern, 30 lb. 
Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  10
printed.........................................   11
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 11)4
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  13
Gum Drops....................................................   5)4
Moss Drops....................................................   8
Sour Drops....................................................   8)4
Imperials.......................................................   10
Per Box
Lemon Drops.............. 
55
Sour Drops...................................................... 55
Peppermint Drops............................................60
Chocolate Drops...............................................65
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................90
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops.............................................. 1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops.......................................80
Lozenges, plain......................... 
60
printed........................................... 65
Imperials..........................................................60
Mottoes.............................................................70
Cream Bar........................................................55
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams.................................. 85@95

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

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3 
2 
3 

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ORANSES.

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BANANAS.

Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams.........................................1 00
String  Rock................................... ...) ___...65
Burnt Almonds....................  ............ .........j "00
Wlntergreen  Berries......................................60
CARAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
 
No. 1, 
51
No. 2, 
 
28
No.3. 
.........................
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes...................................
Small.......................................................)  50@1  75
Medium.................................................2 00©2 50
Large.....................................................
California Riverside Seedlings............
St  Michaels............................................4 f0@5 00
Kodis.................................  
LEMONS.
Messina,choice  360............................. 

 
400
fancy,  360..............................   5 00@5 00
choice  300..............................   4 50@4 50
fancy 300.............................  
500
Figs, fancy layers, 61b............................  @12ft
101b..........................  @i2ft
141b..........................  @14
201b..........................  @15
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................  @7)4
..........................  @6)4
4ft@  5ft
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.............................  @18)4
Ivaca.......................................   @17)4
California.............................   @18ft
Brazils, new...........................................  @  8V4
Filberts.................................................   © lift
Walnuts, Grenoble................................   @13)4

“ 
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“  50-lb.  “ 
Persian, 50-lb.  box........... 

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

“ 
extra  “ 
“ 

“  Marbot....................................   @
“ 

Calif.........................................11  @13
Table Nats,  fancy................................   @13
choice.............................   @12
Pecans, Texas, H.  P..............................   @14
Cocoanuts, full sacks............................  @4 00
Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................   @  7
“  Roasted.................  ©  ¿ft
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............................  @ s
“  Roasted.................  @ 9ft
Choice, H. P.,  Extras............................  @ 5ft
“  Roasted.................  @ 7

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PEANUTS.

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FRUIT JARS.

âuarts..........................................................

P ints.........................................................J
alf Gallons...............................................
Caps..............................................................
Rubbers.......................................................
No. 0 Sun........................................................
No. 1  “  ........................................................
No.2  “  .................................................   ....
Tubular..........................................................

LAMP  BURNERS.

lamp chimneys.  Per box.

6 doz. in box.

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Pearl top.

La Bastle.

First quality.
“ 
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XXX Flint.
“ 
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No.OSnn................................................. .
No. 1  “  .........................................................
No.2  “  .........................................................
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top......................................
2 25
“ 
No. 1  “ 
.....................................
2 40
No.2  “ 
“  ......................................
3 40
No. 0 Sun, crimp top......................................
2 60 
“  ......................................
No. 1  “ 
2 80 
No.2  “ 
“  ......................................
3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................
3 70
“ 
No.2  “ 
....................
4 70 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................
4 88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.......................
1  25 
No.2  “ 
.......................
1  50 
No. 1 crimp, per doz........................................
1  35 
No. a 
“ 
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1  60
No. 0, per  gross..............................................   2
 
2
No. 1, 
 
No  2, 
3
 
No.3, 
7
Mammoth, per doz...............   ........................  7
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................   06
ft gal. per doz......................  60
“ 
Jugs, ft gal., per doz...................................   70
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal................................   07
MUk Pans, ft gal., per doz..........................   60
“ 
.........................  78
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal..........................  07
Milk Pans, ft gal.........................................   65
........................................   78

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LAMP WICKS.

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14:

THE  POLITICAL  CRISIS.

The  silver  issue  promises  to  be  the 
most  serious  and  dangerous  political 
question,  with  the  single  exception  of 
the struggle  over  slavery, that has ever 
agitated the people  of  this great Union. 
It is peculiarly threatening,  because the 
interest  in  dispute  is  largely sectional. 
It is still more perilous to  the welfare of 
the country,  because it  is arousing  class 
hostilities.

The  issue  is  now  clearly defined  by 
partisans on both sides  of  the question. 
Mr.  Raynor,  of  Maryland,  speaking for 
the  anti-silver  men, demands the uncon­
ditional repeal of the Sherman law,  with 
no promises or  pledges of  future  favors 
to  the  silver  interests.  Mr.  Bland,  of 
Missouri,  for the silver  men,  presents as 
the ultimatum of the silver supporters  a 
demand for free  coinage  for  the  white 
metal.  This  of  itself  would supersede 
and virtually repeal the Sherman law.

The expressions on both sides are from 
those  who  hold  extreme  views.  No 
patriot  has  leaped  into  the  gulf  thus 
formed to close it.  Nobody has proposed 
any measures of compromise.  Doubtless 
all feel that it would  be useless,  and the 
members of  the  popular  house  of  Con­
gress sit silent and stolid while  the lead­
ers on both sides declare the terms of the 
battle,  for battle it is  to  be, unless some 
unexpected but potential  spirit  of  com­
promise  shall  descend  upon  the  men 
who,  having  uttered  their  defiance,  are 
now taking position for the combat.

At such a spectacle  the  memory  goes 
back to the events  of  1860-61,  when the 
extremists of the North and of the South 
gave expression to  their opinions on the 
slavery issue and  threatened  the fateful 
and fatal events that filled the history of 
the republic for the'four years following. 
The speech  of  Mr. Bland, leader  of  the 
silverites, has much the ring of  the Con­
gressional rhetoric  of  1860. 
It  was  de­
livered in  a most Impassioned style,  and 
it was hailed with acclamations  both  on 
the floor  of  the  House  and  in  the  gal­
leries.

Mr. Bland has  been  in  Congress  con­
tinuously for  more  than  twenty  years. 
He is no blatherskite  or  wind  bag.  He 
is no tyro seeking to make an impression. 
He has heretofore shown none of the pli­
ability and unscrupulousness of the dem­
agogue.  On the contrary,  he is  an  able 
man,  a  veteran  legislator,  one  who  has 
commanded the confidence of his fellows 
and  possesses  many of  the  qualities  of 
leadership.  When he threatens  the dis­
solution of the Democratic party and the 
outbreak of  a  great popular revolution, 
his utterances cannot be treated with the 
contempt  and  ridicule  that  greeted the 
raw-bead and  bloody-bones vaporings of 
Governor Waite of Colorado.  Mr. Bland 
is honest,  and  he believes that his words 
express the sentiments of  a vast body of 
the people of the West.

The  writer  does  not  accord 

the 
slightest credit to any Western threats of 
secession.  The Western States are in no 
condition for  any such step.  The West 
ern  people have no idea of  going to  war 
to force the national mints  to coin silver 
dollars, and Mr. Bland probably does not 
dream of such a thing.  What  he  thinks 
of and what he has  threatened is a polit­
ical movement which will unite the silver 
men,  the  Populists,  the  Farmers’ Alli­
ance and the  Greenbackers  of  the West 
and South with  the  labor  organizations 
of the East, and  with  all  the dissatisfied 
elements  of  every  part  of  the country.

‘The people  against  the  money kings” 
is a far more dangerous cry than  is  that 
of “labor against  capital.” 
It  is  vastly 
more  far-reaching,  it  unites  numerous 
classes and organizations upon  a  money 
issue that interests every class and every 
individual, and it  gathers  a  vast aggre­
gation of people upon what  is commonly 
supposed  to  be  in  the  interest  of  the 
masses—the platform of  cheap money.

It is useless to  reason  with men when 
their passions are aroused, when they be­
lieve  their  substantial  interests  are  at 
stake. 
It is easy in a time of great finan­
cial derangement which exercises a dam­
aging  effect  upon  all  the  agricultural, 
manufacturing, mining and all other pro­
ductive interests of the country, to create 
a prejudice and arouse a hostility against 
the “gold  bugs,”  the  money  kings  and 
the  wealthy  classes  generally.  Such  a 
movement,  carried out to  its logical con­
clusion,  means a vast popular revolution 
—a  revolution  possibly  violent  and 
bloody,  a revolution at least at the polls. 
What is going to be done about it?  What 
are the real  patriots  and  the  statesmen 
of the country going to  do?  Everything 
rests on  them.  They must  prepare  for 
any emergency and  throw themselves  in 
the  breach  which 
to  bring 
calamity upon the country and bankrupt­
cy and beggary to the people.

threatens 

A. S. M.

H ealth   in  Com petition.

From the American Grocer.

A  dread  of  rivalry  is  natural  to  all 
human kind,  and dislike for our competi­
tors seems inherent to  our  very  nature. 
For a long time perhaps we have enjoyed 
a  monopoly  of the entire trade in a  cer­
tain line, or in a  particular  district, and 
in an hour when we least expected it,  al­
though  the  very  hour  when  we  should 
have looked for it,  some one steps in and 
becomes  our direct  rival. 
If  his prep­
arations are well made  and his  finances 
are as good  as our own,  we feel sure  he 
will  do us no  little harm.  We begin  to 
appreciate  the  opportunités  which  we 
possessed in the past,  and we are discon­
solate with regard  ti  the  future.  Time 
passes,  and  if  we  do  not  realize  our 
gloomy  forebodings  we  attribute it en­
tirely to our wisdom,  without  consider­
ing that we  have been direct  gainers by 
the competition which at first alarmed us 
so much.  The experience of merchants in 
growing localities has  proved that when 
competition sets in  then  their  business 
begins  to  improve  rapidly.  While  a 
town is too  small to  support two stores, 
it affords but little  attraction to the sur­
rounding  country;  other 
towns  have 
their  single  store  also;  but  as  soon  as 
two  or  three  are  opened at one place it 
becomes of more importance and draws a 
largely  increased  trade,  of  which  the 
original store generally  gets the  largest 
share.
Monopolies  are  never  healthy.  The 
absolute control  of everything soon leads 
men into over-confident carelessness,  and 
there are more failures among those who 
claim  to  control  a  market  than  among 
any other class.  Politeness to customers; 
care in keeping everything  in such  niee 
order as to attract the  buyer;  a constant 
attention  to  the  demands  of  one’s  pat­
rons,  all these are essential to successful 
storekeeping,  and  they  are  directly  en­
couraged  by  competition,  which  makes 
them  absolutely  necessary.  Without 
competition  they  are  more  easily  neg­
lected,  and  when the dealer  thinks that 
he  is  most  secure,  be  is  rapidly  losing 
his  hold  on  his  customers  and  opening 
the  way  for  a  competitor  who  will  be 
really formidable  only because  he  him­
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But if he has not gone too far to alter his 
habits,  the  competition  will  soon  work 
his perfect cure,  and he will stand in the 
community as an obliging  and enterpris­
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THE  WORLD’S  WHEAT.

Spring wheat  at  60  cents a  bnshel  in 
Chicago is the lowest price  known  since 
1862.  Within the past few days the price 
has fluctuated a fraction of a cent lower, 
but 60 cents in round numbers will  do to 
figure on.

In 1867 wheat reached the highest point 
ever  registered  at  Chicago  since  this 
cereal  became an important factor in the 
foreign commerce of the country.  No. 2 
spring wheat sold for $1.43 in gold.  De­
spite many fluctuations,  its progress has 
been generally downward until the price 
has got to  60  cents.  Apparently this  is 
bed rock.  Nevertheless, under the stim­
ulation of  the famine of  1891-92 in  Eu­
rope,  when American wheat  was export­
ed in enormous quantities,  the  price did 
not more than  touch $1.

The production of wheat in  the prairie 
region of the Northwest has  been vastly 
cheapened by the use of machinery.  The 
ground is  broken and prepared  for seed­
ing by steam plows.  The  seed  is  sown 
and harrowed  in  by proper  appliances. 
Machinery  which  reaps  and  binds  the 
crop  in  bundles,  with  approved appara­
tus  for  threshing  and  separating  the 
grain,  with  increased  economy in  trans­
portation,  handling  and  housing,  have 
brought the cost  of  production  down to 
a rate so low that nothing but  a  general 
failure  of  the  yield  can raise  it  up to 
anything like the old  figures.

grand function  has  been  transferred  to 
America.  The temperate zone of  South 
America will prove to be  a  great  wheat 
country when it shall  be sufficiently set­
tled. 

F ra nk  Stow ell.

The  Mansfield  Cheese Contained  Tyro- 

toxicon.

leave 

to  say 

that,  since 

Ma n sfie l d ,  Ohio,  Aug.  14—Replying 
to the communication  of  Prof.  Vaughan 
in  T h e  T radesm an  of  August  9, 
I  beg 
the 
first report  was made in reference to the 
Mansfield cheese  poisoning cases, I have 
received a  report of  an analysis of  said 
cheese,  which  is as follows,  and which I 
think will  be  entirely satisfactory to my 
friend Dr.  Vaughan  and which certainly 
corroborates what  I said  in  my first re­
port. 
I should  state that  the specimens 
of  this cheese  have  been  submitted for 
analysis  to three  different chemists  and 
that the  following  is  a  copy of  the re­
port of one of the chemists  only:
Water...............................30.116 per cent.
Fat..................................................34.986  “
Caseine and Milk  Sugar..............30.614  “
Ash.................................................  4.284  “

Fat to total solids, 50 per cent, pure butter fat.
No metallic poison found.
Etherial  washings  from  aqueous  ex­
tract gave positive  reactions for tyrotox- 
icon.  Five minims  of  a solution of  the 
etherial washings placed upon the tongue 
of  a kitten  immediately caused frothing 
at the mouth and in  a  few moments dry­
ness of  the  throat,  rapid breathing  and 
retching;  after  about  an  hour,  violent 
purging.

Cheese contains tyrotoxicon.

Geo.  B.  Ka u ffm a n,  Chemist.

 

 

Bushels.

Importing countries— 

This  is  most fortunate for the human 
race. 
It  is  also  a  matter  for  general 
thankfulness that  nearly  every country 
is able to feed its  own  people,  or is able 
to draw from its neighbors.  The United 
States  Department  of  Agriculture  has 
classified the principal nations of Europe 
which do  not  produce  enough wheat  to 
feed their  people  as  importing nations, 
and  has  grouped  the  countries  of  the 
world which produce an  excess of wheat 
as exporting nations.  They are given as 
follows:
Net Imports.
Belgium.......................................   19,170,059
France..........................................  37,426,407
Germany.......................................   18,767,319
Greece...................................  
Italy..............................................  19,931,234
1,909,362
Norway and  Sweden...................... 
8,591,639
Netherlands.................................. 
Portugal.......................................  
3,663,852
Spain............................................  
6.111,449
Switzerland...................................  10,867,766
United Kingdom............................   105,527,648
240,942,525
Net exports.
Bushels.
Exporting countries— 
Austria-Hungary.............................  
5,846 800
Bulgaria  .....................................  
5,690,996
Roumania......................................  19,200,979
Russia..........................................  83,170,011
Servia.................... '...................... 
2,236,912
India.............................................  30,916,842
United States  ...............................  83,343,864
Argentine Republic........................  
3,747,733
2,416,821
Canada.......................................... 
Chili.............................................. 
3,924,346
Australasia...................................  
8,178,889
248,704,190
It will  be seen that  the  United  King­
dom of  Great Britain and  Ireland is  the 
largest taker of  foreign  wheat.  France 
comes next,  Italy third,  Belgium  fourth, 
Germany  fifth.  Russia  is  the  chief  of 
the wheat  supply  countries 
in  Europe. 
Roumania  is  second,  and  Austria-Hun­
gary and  Bulgaria  come  in  next.  The 
United  States,  however,  is  the  world’s 
granary,  and  India is,  also,  an  important 
source of wheat supply. 
It  has come to 
be so that Europe cannot feed  its people 
and must depend  on  America,  Asia and 
Australia. 
In  the  days  of  the  Roman 
Empire,  Egypt was  a  prominent  source 
of  wheat  supply,  and 
the  corn  ships 
from  Africa were most important factors 
in  feeding  the  European  people  of  the 
mighty empire.  To-day Egypt no longer 
figures  as  the  world’s  granary.  That

The  fact that  the investigation of Mr. 
Maybee’s  factory by the  Food  Commis­
sioner,  accompanied by an  expert cheese 
manufacturer,  has shown  that tainted or 
spoiled milk had been used  in the manu­
facture of  the cheese and,  in addition to 
this, 
that  two  sick  cows  were  found 
among the neighbors who furnished milk 
for the  factory,  goes to show one of  two 
things—either  that  tyrotoxicon  was the 
result of  fermentation  or  the  result  of 
using milk  from  sick cows.  While  the 
milk  of  the  latter  may not  have  been 
good,  yet at the same time we do  not be­
lieve that that was  the cause of tyrotox­
icon,  which we are inclined to  think was 
the result  of  either  spoiled  milk  in the 
first instance or  overfermentation  in  the 
preparation of  the  curd  in  the  second 
place,  which is the custom of the cheese- 
makers  to allow to stand  until a certain 
amount of  “acid,”  as they term it,  is al­
8,975 790
lowed to arise,  and, when present, makes 
cheese  very light and spongy but which, 
in fact,  is  only  the  result of  fermenta­
tion. producing gases which penetrate the 
cheese  during  the  process  of  pressing, 
thus making  it  light and  porous  and at 
the  same  time  is,  undoubtedly,  when 
carried  too far,  the  cause  of  fermenta­
tion,  resulting in  tyrotoxicon,  or  possi­
bly,  in  certain  cases,  other  poisonous 
compounds of a similar  character, which 
we have already referred to in our former 
article,  which  Dr. Vaughan  says  he has 
found and  isolated,  the result of  which, 
as  those who  have  been  studying  this 
matter,  well know  have been published. 
At the same  time it is  not always  prac­
tical to depend  upon  chemists’ analyses 
alone  in these  cases unless  you  should 
find  tyrotoxicon  or  some  of  the  other 
poisonous  proteids  aud  clearly  dem­
onstrate their  existence by  giving  them 
to a kitten or some  animal  which  is eas­
ily affected with such poisonous substan­
ces.  When this cannot be done satisfac­
torily,  a  bacteriiogical  examination  and 
the  nature  and  character  of  the  germs 
determined, it is well  to make a bacteri­
iogical  examination,  even  where  tyro­
toxicon is present,  for  as  Dr.  Vaughan 
well says,  “The  exact nature of the poi­
son present will depend upon the kind of 
germs producing it.”
1  am  very  glad  that  Prof.  Kauffman 
has  been  able  to  obtain tyrotoxicon  in 
this case, as 1 have every reason to believe 
that it does  exist, in  a  large  number  of 
these cases of cheese poisoning, although 
in some instances the toxic  effect may be 
due to other  poisonous proteids.
The lesson we have learned from these 
cases  seems  to  be clearly demonstrated, 
not only by the report of the expert who 
examined the  factory but  by the chemi­

cal  analysis  which  has  followed  that 
over  fermentation  or  decomposition  of 
milk  has  been  the  prime  cause  of  the 
whole  trouble, and  the  sooner  that  our 
state boards of  health  or,  if  necessary, 
the law makers of our  various  common­
wealths,  pass  rules or enact laws  which 
will prohibit  cheesemakers from  allow­
ing their cheese to become overfermented 
or to use spoiled milk  for  its  manufac­
ture,  the sooner we  will find these  cases 
of cheese poisoning diminishing.  There 
is  no  more  reason  why  a  manufacturer 
of  cheese  should  be  allowed  to  let  his 
cheese become  fermented to such an ex­
tent as to produce poisonous compounds, 
in  order  to  make  it  light  and  porous, 
than it is for a  baker  to  be  allowed  to 
medicate  his  bread  or  allow  it  to  raise 
until it is sour, in order to make it white, 
light and spongy.

R.  H a r v ey Re e d , Health Officer.

The  Clerks  W ere  Lively.

“You  have a  lively set of  clerks,” he 
said to  the  proprietor  of  the  establish­
ment.  “It must be  pleasant and  profit­
able to have  employes  so full  of  energy 
and  enthusiasm.”
“Yes,” responded the  proprietor; “ we 
close early to-day,  and  they are  getting 
ready to go home.”

There are men  who have a creed  a rod 
long who do  business with  a  short yard 
stick.

Grand  Rapids  & Indiana. 
Sohedale  tn  effect Jane 86,1893.

TRA INS  GOING  N O RTH .
Booth.
For M’kinaw.Trav. City and Sag. 6:50 a m 
For Traverse City <fc Mackinaw  1:10 p m
For Cadillac and Saginaw............................
For  Pet08key A  Mackinaw.........8:10 p m
From Kalamazoo...........................9:10 a m
From Chicago and Kalamazoo..  9 40p m  
daily.  Others trains daily except Sunday.
does not ran to Traverse City on Sundays.

Trains arriving from south at  6:50 a m  and  9:10 a m 
Train  leaving  north  at  7:20 a. m. daily.  This  train 

Arrive from  Leave going
North. 
7:80 am  
1:20 pm  
4:15 p m 
10:30  pm

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

For Kalamazoo and  Chicago...

Arrive from  Leave going
South.
7:00 a m
8:00 am
8:00 pm
6:00  p m
11:80 p m

North.
6:80 am
11:60 a m
6:15 p m
10:40 p m
11:60 a m
10:40 p m

NORTH

Trains leaving south at 6:00 p m and  11:80 p.  m. runs 
___

dally:  all  other  trains  daily except Sunday. 

SLEEPING  A   PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

7:80am train has Parlor  Car  to  Mackinaw 
City.1:20 p  m  train   has  parlor  cars  Grand 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
10:30 p m tram .—Sleeping  cars  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw.
SOUTH—7:00 am  train« -Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
8:00 a m   train«—Runs  solid with Wag­
ner  Parlor  Car  Grand  Rapids  to  Chicago. 
8:00 p m  train .—Parlor car Grand Rap 
ids to Fort Wayne.
6:00  p m train .—Wagner Sleeping  Car 
Grand Rapids to Cincinnati.
11:20 p m train .—Through  Coach  and 
Wagner Sleeping Car  Grand  Rapids to Chi­
cago.

Chicago via G. R.  & 1. R.  R.

8:00 am  
1:25 p m 

8:00 p m 
9:10 p m 

11:80 p m
6:50 a m
8:00 a m train runs  solid with  through Wagner  Par­
11:80 p m   train  daily,  through  Coach  and  Wagner 

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 
lor Oar.
Sleeping Car.
9:60 p m
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
6:50  a m
4:15  p m   solid  train  with  through  Wagner  Parlor 
Car.  9:50 p  m  train  daily,  through  Coach  and Wag­
ner  Sleeping Car.

4:16 p m 
9:40 p m 

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
10:16 am
0:55 a m  
11:85 a m 
4:40 p m
5:45  p m 
9:10 p m

From Muskegon—Arrive

Sunday train  leaves  for  Muskegon  at  7:45 a  m, ar­
riving at  9:16  a  m.  Returning,  train  leaves  Muske 
gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand  Rapids at 5:50 p m.
Tnrough tickets ana full  information  can  be 
had by calling upon A. Almqulst, ticket agent at 
Union  Station,  Telephone  606,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

^NORTH MICHIGAN 

RAILWAY.

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.  B 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 a t......6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t..............  1:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m.

VIA D., S. B.  A M.  B’Y.

Return connections equally as good.

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

15
AUG.  17,  1893
AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’ï .

CHICAGO

GOING TO  CHICAGO.

Lv.G’d  Rapids.  7:25am 8:50am  1:25pm *11:30pm 
Ar. Chicago —  12:20pm 3:55pm  6:50pm  *6:30am 

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

 

7:30am  

TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

VIA  ST.  JOSEPH  AND  STEAMER.

TRAVERSE  CITY CHARLEVOIX  AND  PETOSKEY.

Lv. Chicago —  8:25am  9:00am  5:45pm  *11:35pm 
Ar. G’d Rapids. 1:20pm  3:55pm  10:55pm  *6:10am 
Lv. Grand  Rapids....................1:25pm  +6:30pm
Ar. Chicago............................. 8:3npm  2:00am
Lv. Chicago 9:30am...Ar. Grand Rapids5:25 pm
Lv. Grand Rapids.......   8:50am  1:25pm  5:45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids....... 10:45am  3:55pm  5:25pm
Lv. G  R......5:45pm 
11:15pm
...........  4:50am
Ar.Manistee.l0:44pm  12:10pm 
.........................
Ar.Trav.C’y.ll'lOpm  12:40pm 
7:20am
 
Ar. Charlevoix........ 
3:15pm 
Ar.  Petoskey 
7:50am
3:45pm  
Ar.  Bay View.........   3:55pm 
 
S:0Cam
Trains  stop  at  Traverse  City for  dinner  and 
supper.
Arrive from Bay View, etc., 6:00 a. m., 11:40 a. 
m., 10:00 p. m.
Lv. Grand Rapids...  8:50am  5:45pm 
Lv. Ottawa Beach...  7:00am  3:50pm 
leaves Ottawa Beaeh 6:30 p. m.
To Chicago, lv. G. R ..  7:25am  1:25pm  *11:30pm
To Petoskey .lv.G.R..  7:30am 
.........   11:15pm
To G. R. .lv. Chicago.  8:25am  *5:45pm *11:35pm
ToG. R..lv. Petoskey 
.........   1:30pm  t8:20pm
tExcept Saturday.  Other trains 

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

Free Chair Cars for Manistee 5:45 p m.
»Every day. 

PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.

OTTAWA  BEACH.

 
 
 

week days only.
DETROIT, 

JULY30’ 1893
LANSING  &  NORTHERN  R.  R. 
GOING TO DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids........  7:00am  *1:45pm  5:40pm
Ar. Detroit.................. 11:40am *5:50pm 10:25pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

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

TO  AND  FROM  SAGINAW,  ALMA  AND ST.  LOUIS.

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

TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL  &  HASTINGS  R.  B.

Lv. Grand Rapids...........7:00am  1:45pm 5:40pm
Ar. from Lowell............. 12:45pm 5:40pm  ..........

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

•Every day.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’L

M i c h i g a n (T e n t r a l

“  The Niagara Falls Route.”

(Taking effect  Sunday, May 28, 1893.) 

♦Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

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

Union Passenger Station.

■ ETROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  &  MIL­

WAUKEE  Railway.

Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Avs.

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

EASTWARD.

itNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18
325pm
6 45am
7 40am
4 27pm
5 20pm 
8 25am
5 05pm 
9 00am
10 50am
8 00pm 
11 32am 
8 37pm 
705pm 
10 05am
12 05pm
8 50pm
8 25pm
10 53am
9 25pm
11 50am
WESTWARD.

10 20am
11 25am
12 17pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

7 40pm 
S 45am
9 42am
10 25am

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

tNo. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13.1
7 25am
1 00pm
4 55pm 
8 30am
6 00pm 
2  10pm
6 20am 
6 00am
4 00pm Í..........

tDaily 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  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor  Car.
Westward—No.  1  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car.
J a b.  C a m p b e l l , City T*cket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

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T H E   M TCHIGkAN  T B A D E 8M A JS ,
tion,  and also  the steps necessary to per­
fect  it.  W.  W.  Hodgkins  then  moved 
that those present  proceed  to organize a 
grocers’ association.  A  rising  vote was 
taken,  and every man  present rose to his 
feet.  Then the  temporary officers  were 
made permanent,  and the meeting settled 
down to business.  The  election of  offic­
ers resulted as follows:

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Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association. 
President,  J.  A.  Smits;  Secretary,  E. A. Stowe. 

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

ciation.

W est  Side  (Saginaw)  Retail  Grocers’ Asso­
President, C. P. Alderton; Secretary, John Doerr.
Ray County Retail Grocers’ Association. 
President, Thos. Walsh; Secretary, S. W. WaterB.

Jackson  Grocers’  Union.

President,  D. S. Fleming;  Sec’y, W. n. Porter.
Grand  Haven  Retail  Grocers’  Association. 
President, John Boer; Secretary, Peter VerDuin.
Muskegon  R etail  Grocers’  Association. 
President, D. Christie;  Secretary, F.  B. Aldrich.

BAY  CITY  OBOCERS.

Second  Annual  Picnic— They Organize 

an A ssociation.

Two trains of  ten cars  each, conveyed 
over  1,000  Bay  Cityans,  went  to  Bay 
Port, the beautiful summer resort on the 
shore of Saginaw Bay, on the occasion of 
the second annual outing of the Bay City 
Retail  Grocers 
last  Thursday.  The 
weather was  all that  could  be  desired, 
the rain of the previous  day having  laid 
the dust  and rendered  the  air cool  and 
pleasant.  The  weather  was  somewhat 
threatening  in  the  morning,  which,  no 
doubt,  influenced  many  to stay at  home 
who would  otherwise  have  gone to Bay 
Port.  After  lunch,  which was partaken 
of in the shade of  the trees  on the shore 
of the Bay,  the grocers  and their friends 
assembled  in  the  pavilion.  The  meet­
ing  was  called  to  order  by  President 
Hodgkins, who introduced W. I. Brother- 
ton, the Bay City wholesale grocer, whose 
address to the retail grocers and business 
men generally was  well  worth  hearing, 
and was  listened  to  with  attention  and 
heartily  applauded  at 
its  close.  Mr. 
Brotherton  was followed  by Daniel Ab­
bott,  of  T h e  T radesm an,  who spoke to 
the  grocers  about the  grievances which 
afflict  them  as a  class  and the burdens 
under which they labor,  and pointed out 
the  means  of  redress.  The  applause 
which greeted  the  speaker several times 
during  the course of  his address showed 
that he  had struck  the  right chord,  and 
what  is  of  more  consequence,  showed 
that the  grocers  are  alive  to  their best 
interests and  ready to  do what is  neces­
sary to protect themselves.

After  the  speaking  the  meeting  ad­
journed  to  the  open  ground  near  the 
hotel,  to witness the sports.  These con­
sisted of the usual  races—jumping, base 
ball  match,  etc.,—and  were  not  only 
hotly  contested,  and  evoked  intense in­
terest,  but created no end of fun as well. 
Dancing in the  pavilion—boating on the 
Bay—enjoyment  everywhere—until  the 
shrill  whistle  of  the 
locomotive  an­
nounced that the hour  for departure had 
come.  Bay  City  was  reached  about  9 
o’clock  and  the  happy, 
tired  crowd 
wended their way homeward,  voting the 
picnic one  of the  best ever  held at Bay 
Port.

*  *  *

It had  been  announced  at  the picnic 
that a meeting of the grocers of East and 
West Bay City  and  Essexvilie  would be 
held  at  Ellsworth  &  Son’s  commission 
house, on the following (Friday) evening. 
When the hour  named in  the announce­
ment,  8  o’clock,  arrived,  about  fifty 
grocers  had  assembled.  The  meeting 
was  called  to  order  by Mr.  Abbott,  of 
T h e  T radesm an,  and  T.  Walsh  was 
elected  temporary  president  and  Sam. 
W.  Waters  temporary  secretary.  Mr. 
Abbott was called  upon,  and briefly out­
lined the purpose of  a grocers’ organiza­

wood.

President—Thos.  Walsh.
First Vice-President—W.W. Hodgkins.
Second  Vice-President—R.  M.  Sher­
Secretary—Sam W.  Waters.
Treasurer—C. Baumgarten.
The admission  fee  was fixed at $1 and 
the  annual dues  at  $4,  the  dues  to be 
payable quarterly in advance.  A solicit­
ing committee  was  appointed consisting 
of M.  Reigel, R. Potter, R. M. Sherwood, 
H.  Koch, Jr., F.  G.  Oatman,  P. Gilkey, 
G.  S.  Osborne,  W.  W.  Hodgkins,  Geo. 
Cornwell,  Homer  Buck,  Horace  Becker, 
P.  Van  Paris,  A.  Perkins,  Chas. Ells­
worth,  John  Carrol.  H.  Koch, Jr.,  W. 
A.  Chatfield and Martin DeBats were ap­
pointed a  Municipal  Committee,  and R. 
J.  Ferris, Chas.  Babo  and Wm. Langrill 
a  Committee  on  Trade  Interests.  C. 
Baumgarten,  A.  L.  Laing,  Sam  W. 
Waters,  Geo.  Thatcher  and  Geo.  Corn- 
well  were  appointed  a  committee 
to 
choose  a  location in  which  to  hold the 
meetings  of  the  Association.  After  a 
vote of  thanks to Mr.  Abbott for his as­
sistance in  organizing  the  Association, 
and  to  Ellsworth  &  Co.  for  the use of 
their  building,  the  meeting  adjourned, 
to  meet next  Thursday  evening  at  the 
same place, to  receive  the report of  the 
Committee on  Location.

This Association, which will be known 
as  the Bay County Retail Grocers’ Associ­
ation, is the seventh organized to date.  It 
starts out under  splendid  auspices. 
Its 
staff of officers  is  probably the best that 
could  have  been selected.  The commit­
tees  were  carefully chosen,  keeping  in 
view  the especial fitness of  the  individ­
uals for the  work each  committee has to 
do.  The  members  of  the  Association 
are  enthusiastic  and  determined,  and 
each man is prepared to  work as though 
success depended  upon his individual ef­
forts.  Bay  City will  be  heard  from in 
the  not  distant  future,  and  it  will  be 
with no uncertain sound.
The  Saginaw ,  W . S.,  Grocers  N ow  Or­

ganized.

The  retail  grocers  of  West  Saginaw 
met last Tuesday evening and  organized 
the West  Side  Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
tion, electing  the  following  officers  to 
serve for the ensuing year:

President—C.  F.  Alderton.
Vice-Presidents—C. Christenson,James 
Duffy,  William  Sparrow,  J.  J.  Kebo, 
John Dice.

Secretary—John Doerr.
Treasurer—H.  J.  P.  Graebner.
Executive  Committee — Frank  Keho, 
John  McBratine,  George  Holcomb, J.  H. 
Frederick, J.  M. Brechtelsbauer.
Committee  on  Trade  Interests—Wil­
liam Grossman, A. L. Bennett and Henry 
Paulson.

An Im proved  W hite  Lead.

The  highly  deleterious  properties  of 
the carbonate of lead, the ordinary white 
lead used  by the painters, on  the health 
of  the  operatives  engaged in  its manu­
facture and those  employing it  for trade 
purposes has long been recognized.  The 
presence of the  danger has  led to  many 
attemts  to  minimize  it.  The  London 
Lancet says that the most promising sub­
stitute for the poisonous carbonate is the 
sulphate as  produced  by a new  process. 
The method of manufacturing this white 
sulphate  of  lead does  away with all the 
handling  now  required before  the  car­

bonate  is  sent  to the  market,  while the 
product itself is so far  insoluble as to be 
handled  by painters  with almost if  not 
quite complete immunity.
Compared with a very well made speci­
men of white lead,  as it is used  at pres­
ent, the new  compound  is,  as  might  be 
expected,  not  so  exquisitely  fine,  al­
though  it is  certainly much  finer,  when 
viewed  under  the  microscope,  than  ex­
pected.  As the covering power of a pig­
ment depends  on the  degree  of  fineness 
of the material, it  may be supposed that 
the new  preparation  is  in  this respect, 
therefore,  somewhat inferior to the finest 
white carbonate of lead;  but doubtless it 
is  equal  and  even  superior  to  many 
kinds of white  lead frequently met with 
in shops.  Sulphate  of  lead prepared by 
ordinary  methods, 
though  beautifully 
white,  is crystalline,  and it  is this prop­
erty  that militates  against  its  use  as a 
pigment.  This difficulty has to some ex­
tent  been overcome  by the new  process 
adopted for its manufacture.
The new product is cheaper than ordi­
nary white  lead,  and  it  resists  the de­
structive  action of  sulphureted  hydro­
gen  and  sea water completely.  The de­
terioration of ordinary lead paint through 
the  presence  of  sulphur  compounds in 
the air  is a  matter of  common  observa­
tion in large  manufacturing  towns; and 
in the  neighborhood  of  gas  works  the 
damage from this cause is often  serious. 
In such cases  the new material could be 
substituted  with considerable advantage.

Comfort  in  Shoes.

From the  New York Oommerci&I Advertiser.
A retired shoe dealer, whom mercenary 
considerations no  longer  deter from giv­
ing advice as to the proper care of shoes, 
says:  A  pair  of  shoes  made  of  good 
leather will last much longer if  properly 
cared  for than  when  neglected.  When 
shoes  are only  blacked  the leather  soon 
becomes  hard  and  dry,  the  best  fitting 
pair will be  uncomfortable and here and 
there  little  cracks  will  appear,  which 
will soon  become  chasms.  Every week 
or two the  blacking  should  be wiped off 
with a  damp  cloth,  the  shoe  should  be 
allowed to dry  and then  be rubbed with 
the best harness oil.
Every  part including  the sole  and the 
seams,  should be  oiled  and the oil given 
toughest 
a  chance  to  soak 
leather can be  made soft in this way and 
good  leather  will,  after  this treatment, 
feel like kid.  The  shoe  will wear three 
times as long and be much more comfort­
able.

in.  The 

The  G reatest  Gold  Find.

It  is reported that a discovery of  gold 
has  been made  at  Cripple  Creek, Colo., 
which surpasses  anything on record. 
It 
is one of the mines of the Pueblo Consol­
idated  Gold  Mining  Company.  The lead 
has been struck at  the depth of ten feet, 
and very careful, conservative tests,  It is 
said, make it run at $22,500 to the ten  of 
It  is  remarkable  to  note  the  ex­
ore. 
traordinary number  of  rich gold discov­
eries just  now. 
If  they continue it will 
not be  long till  gold  is  a  greater  drug 
than  silver.  And  it  is  even  more  re­
markable  that the most of  these discov­
eries occur in  a  territory where hitherto 
silver has been supreme.

Many a retailer spends a lot  of  money 
to get out a circular, and then hires a lot 
of boys to distribute them;  fifty circulars 
mailed  to  families 
is  better  than  five 
thousand  scattered  around  promiscu­
ously.

BDY  THE  PENINSULAR
Pants,  Shirts,  ant  Omalls

Once and You aie our Customer 

for life.

Stanton  &   IMovoy,

DETROIT,  MICH.

Geo. F. Owra, Salesman for Western  Michigan, 

Residence  59 N.  Union St., Grand Rapids.

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Unlike the Dutch Process
Ho  Alkalies
Other  Chemicals
l. Baker & Go.’s
Breakfast  Cocoa,

IglVe  «re  u sed  in   the 
f l  i ti 
p re p a ra tio n  o f

w hich  is   absolu tely p u r e  

a n d   soluble.

A  d escrip tio n   of  th e   ch o co la te 
p la n t,  and  of  th e  va rio u s  cocoa 
and ch o co la te prep aration s m an 
u factured by W alter B aker & Co. 
w ill be se n t free to an y  d ea ler or.> 
a p p lication .

W. BAKER & GO., Dorchester. Mass.

Established  1868.

H.  S.  REYNOLDS  &  SON,

W HOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Building  Papers,

Carpet  Linings,

Asbestos  Sheathing 

Asphalt  Beady  Roofing,

Asphalt Roof Paints,

Resin,  Coal  Tar, 

Roofing and Paring Pitch,

Tarred Felt, Mineral Wool 
Elastic Roofing Cement, 
Car,  Bridge  and Roof Paints, 

and Oils.

Id Fell, Composition and Gravel,

Cor.  LOUIS and  CAMPAU  Sts..

Grand  Rapids, 

Mich.

Z i A 'pENNYEAKNfP! 

3 P y iK ffo s ta l ?Efe£>- 
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MICHIGAN

Fire & Marine Insurance Go.

O rganised  1881.

DETROIT,  M ICHIGAN

S E E   Q U O T A T IO N S .

M U S K E G O N   B A K E R Y

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

CKACKERS,  BISCUITS,  CAKES.

O rigin ato rs  of  the  Celebrated  C ake,  “ M U S K E G O N   B R A N C H .’

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

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

Sp rin g* &  Company,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

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

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

assorted stock at lowest  market  prices.

Spring &

M IL T O N   K E R N S ’

E l  Puritano  Cigar.
I  T H E   F IN E S T
10 Gent Cigar on Mi

Bay City.

TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY
BATEMAN  &  FOX,
B.  J.  REYNOLDS,
R  OPPENHEIMER,
D e t r o i t   T o b a c c o   Co.,

Grand  Rapids.

East Saginaw.

Detroit,  Mich.

W H O L E S A L E

Dry  Goods, Carpets and Cloaks

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

G eese  Feathers.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

v o tl E in a islin  t  Co., *8- M

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W a n te d   W e e k ly .

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117  MONROE  STREET, 

DETROIT  AND  CHICAGO  MARKET  PRICES  GUARANTEED.
D E T T E N T H A
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
Fall  Onersliirts  and  Underwear.
THE  INSPECTION  OF  TUB  TRADE  IS  SOLICITED.
P. STEKETEE l SONS

W H O L E S A L E

D R Y  G O O D S?N O TIO N S
Class  Covers  for  Biscuits.

Cracker  desia. 

soon 
pay for themselves  in  the 

IHPHESE  chests  will 

breakage they avoid.  Price $4. 

trade.  They  are  made  to  fit  any
of our  boxes  and can  be  changed  from 
—
one box  to  another in a moment.  They 
will  nave  enough  good0  from  dies*  dirt  and  prying  fingers in a short  time to pay 
for themselves.  Try them and be  convinced.  Price,  50 cents each.

N E W   N O V E L T IE S

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

CREAM  CRISP. 

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

the best selling cakes we ever made.

THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

S. A. Sears, Mgr.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

/'“X UR new glass covers  are by far the
y   J   handsomest  ever  offered 
to  the

S E E D S !

Everything  in Seeds is kept by us—Clover, Timothy,  Hungarian,  Millet,  Red 

Top,  Blue  Grass,  Seed Corn,  Rye,  Barley,  Peas, Beans,  Etc.

If you have Beans to sell,  send us samples, stating quantity,  and we will try to 
trade with you.
We will sell Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers.  No.  1 Egg Case,  complete(in lots 
of 10), 35c each. 
No. 2 Fillers, 15 
sets in a No 1 Case, $1.50.
W. T. LJMQREiUX CO., 128,180 and 182 W. Bridge 8t„ Brand Rapids, Mich.

No.  1 Fillers,  10 sets in a No.  1 Case, $1.25. 

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^ L A R K   ^ I G A R   ^ O M P A N Y

Corner  Ottawa  and  Lyon  Streets,

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

STATE  AGENTS  FOR  THE  CELEBRATED

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MASON
FUT  JABS

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 ra desm a n:
One pint Mason cans,  packed,  6 doz.  in a case....................................................   $6  00
One quart Mason can»,  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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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A G N E S   H O O TH   C I G A R S .

WE  CARRY  ALL  SIZES  AND  SHAPES.

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MICH.

This w orld-fam ous brand Is for sale  on  the  W orld’s  F air  G rounds  In  the  only buildings  set 

ap art for sm okers.  No advance over regular retail prices. 

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T h e   Follow ing

Is the best line of Coffees in the State.  All roasted by CHASE 
&  SANBORN.

IF  YOU  WANT  THE  BEST 

THESE  ARE  THE  COFFEES  FOR  YOU  TO  BUY.

J e w e ll’s  A ra b ia n   M och a,
J e w e ll’s  O ld  G o v e rn m e n t  Ja v a , 
J e w e ll’s  O ld  G o v e rn m e n t  J a v a   a n d  

M o ch a ,

W e lls ’  P erfectio n   Ja v a ,
W a lls ’  J a v a   an d   M och a,
W e a v e r ’s  B len d ,
S a n to r a ,
Id eal  G olden  R   o,
C o m p o u n d   C ru sh ed   Java.

Above are all in 50-pound cans.
Ideal Java and Mocha in one and  two pound cans.

Q U A L IT Y   W INS!

A n d   y o u   ca n   d e p e n d   on  t h e   b e s t   q u a l­

ity   w h e n   y o u   b u y   th is   B r a n d .

GRAND  RAPIDS,

BRDSH  GOMPT

BRUSHES GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

O ur  Goods  are  sold  by  all  Michigan  Jobbing  Houses.

