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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  11,  1893.

NO.  525

THE  CLERK’S  STORY.

Five or six men had gathered in Harvey 
Greer’s rooms at the  Benedict  one rainy 
| Sunday  afternoon  smoking  and  telling 
yarns.

Everybody  bad  told  some  wonderful 
story of his exploits  except  the  athletic 
Jack Wilmer,  who  sat big  and calm and 
imperturbable, puffing away  at his corn­
cob  pipe.

•‘Look  here,  Wilmer,”  said  Greer, 
“this  won’t  do.  Any  fellow that’s led 
the tough  life you have  must  have  lots 
of.things  to  tell.  Come,  brace  up  and 
give us a story.  We want to be amused.” 
“Never had but one  extraordinary ad­
venture,”  said  Wilmer,  “and  that  was 
chiefly remarkable for  the way it ended. 
You won’t like it.”

“Come,  give it to us.”
Wilmer took his pipe from  his  mouth 
and stretched out his frame in the  chair.
“Well,  you see,” he said,  “it was when 
1 first went to New  York. 
I was having 
a pretty hard time of it,  without money, 
friends or any education- to speak of like 
you fellows that  have  been  to  college. 
There wasn’t  much  that I didn’t try my 
hand at from porter in a hotel to clerk in 
a big clothing store on Sixth avenue;  but 
I  gave  that  up  pretty  soon—couldn’t 
stand fitting clothes on pert  little  dudes 
that I could have carried  with one hand. 
Good thing that I got  out  of  it, too,  be­
cause  if  it  had  lasted  much  longer  1 
should  have  knocked 
some  of  them 
down.

“But while I  was  clerk  I  had a room 
in a cheap lodging house on the east side 
near  Third  avenue—Eighth  street,  1 
think it was. 
It  was  on  the  first floor, 
the back room,  as stutfy  and  hot a little 
hole as you ever saw and  I was there all 
summer. 
It had one  big  window in the 
back and there 1 used  to  spend  most of 
my time when I  was in the house,  trying 
to get a breath of fresh  air  and  looking 
at  the  dingy  courtyard  that  belonged 
also to the house back of us  on  Seventh 
street. 
It was like  a  well,  paved  with 
stones,  the children  used  to  play  in  it 
and the women hung out their clothes.

One awfully hot day  in  July  about  5 
o’clock  in  the  afternoon  I  was  sitting 
there  in  my  shirt  sleeves,  drowsy  and 
sleepy with the heat.  Not  having  any­
thing else to do,  I had  a  sheet  of paper 
before me on  which I idly  scribbled over 
and over again my  name,  John Wilmer, 
in  my  own  peculiar scrawl—that looks 
like  the  trail  of  a  fly 
that  has  just 
crawled out of an inkstand.

I  was  very  drowsy  and  mad as hops 
with a yellow-haired woman at a window 
who was calling out  as she lifted the lid 
of a box that had  been  hung  out of the 
window to serve as a refrigerator: 

“Maggie, do you want me to bring  the 
too?  Maggie,  Maggie,  why 

potatoes, 
don’t you answer?”

On the fire escape of another house two 
children were  having  a  fight.  My eyes 
closed for a  moment  when  suddenly  in 
the quiet  came a gust of wind. 
I looked 
up in time to  see  the  paper  before  me 
blown out of the window across the court­

yard  to  the  window  in  the  basement 
where  a  man  was  sitting.  The  man 
picked  up  the  paper,  looked at it care­
fully for several  minutes and then taking 
a piece of  paper  from  a book seemed to 
compare the two,  looking from one to the 
other  with  satisfaction.  He  then  put 
them'both back in the book and sat down 
again,  looking over  at  me  from  time to 
time.  He was a big  red-haired and red- 
bearded fellow  whom  I  had  often seen 
before  at  that  window  but  I  was  very 
curious to know what was his  interest in 
my handwriting.

Well,  a few  evenings  after that I was 
taking my dinner at a cheap eating house 
on the Bowery. 
It was  as hot as blazes; 
the  doors  and  windows  were  all  open, 
the  flies  coming  in  and sticking in the 
butter and to the  pink  and  bine  tissue 
paper  hanging  on  the  walls. 
I  don’t 
know what they  have  those  things  for, 
unless it is to keep the  flies from feeling 
homeless.  But there was something that 
made me feel  uncomfortable  aside from 
this and 1 didn’t know  what it was until 
I  turned  around  and  saw sitting at an­
other  table,  the  same  red-headed  man 
who  had  been  at  the  window  and  who 
had been so much  interested in  my writ­
ing.  He  was  staring  at  me  enough to 
bore  two  gimlet  holes  through my back 
and that is what  made  me so uncomfor­
table. 
I thought  maybe  he was a detec­
tive who was after me for something,  al­
though I didn’t  know  what  I  had done, 
so I got up and went  out.  The sun was 
down and the gas  was  lighted.  People 
and children were swarming outside just 
like the flies. 
I knew  the  man  was fol­
lowing me and after one  block  I simply 
turned  around  and  waited  for  him  to 
come up.

“Look  here,”  I  said,  “ what  do  you 

“You  are  a  pretty  fellow,”  he  said, 
“running away so fast,  when I’ve  got  a 
big  piece  of  business  to  offer  you. 
Is 
your name John Wilmer?”

“ Yes.”
“Do you want to make $50 in a half an 

hour, John Wilmer?”

I had exactly $i in my  pocketbook and 

my week’s rent due.

“Yes,  1  do,”  I said,  “but what’s up? 

What have I got to do?”

“Never  mind  about  that  here.  Just 

come with me.”

We  went  on for several squares,  then 
turned  into  Baxter  street.  The  man 
seemed a mum sort of a fellow and didn’t 
say  anything.  From  Baxter  street  we 
made several turns to the right to a street 
totally unfamiliar  to  me.  There didn’t 
seem to be any  hurry and as  we  walked 
along I  smoked a  cigar  which  my mys­
terious employer handed me.
□ At a little  baker’s  shop  we turned off 
into  a  narrow  alley  dimly  lighted.  1 
suppose it was swarming with people be­
cause I could hear them bustling around 
and talking.  When  we came to a house 
that looked empty the  man unlocked the 
door, carefully locked  it again and went

want with me?”

chase after me.

He  was  all  out  of  breath  with  the 

up a flight  of  stairs  into a back room, I 
following.

All  this  time  we  had  been  groping 
around in the dark but the  man struck  a 
match and lighted a candle.  Then I saw 
that the room  was  perfectly  bare except 
for a  common wooden chair and table on 
which  stood  the  candle  and  a  leather 
valise.

“Now,”  said  the  man,  “sit  down 
there.”  He took some papers out of  the 
valise  and  handed  me  a  fountain  pen. 
“What I  want you  to do  is  very  simple 
and  won’t take you a moment. 
It is just 
to write your name.”

He began  searching  in  the  valise  for 
something and I had time to notice him— 
a  well  dressed  gentlemanly  man  who 
looked as if he might  be  a  swell  fallen 
on hard times.

“Here,”  he  said,  “are  some  papers. 
There is a man in  this  city named John 
Wilson.  You have heard  of  him;  has a 
big wholesale liquor house.  Well, it is a 
curious thing.  You both write obscurely 
but  you  couldn’t  tell  your  signatures 
apart.  See!”

He held out a letter to me  with what I 
could  have  sworn  was  my  own  name 
written on it.  The  “John Wil” was plain 
enough,  and  the  three  last letters ended 
off in an illegible dash as  mine did.

“Now,”  said  the man,  “this paper is a 
transfer of  property  by John  Wilson  to 
some parties  who have a law suit against 
him. 
If you will sign your name to it  it 
will pass as his—and here are your $50.”
He opened his  pocketbook and showed 

me a roll  of  bills.

“Why,”  I  gasped,  as the  meaning  of 
the affair  burst  upon  me,  “this  is  for­
gery !”

“What  if  it  is?”  He  was eyeing me 

coolly.

“1 won’t do it.”
Before  I  knew it  I  was  sitting in the 
chair  and  he  was  standing  before  me 
with a pistol aimed at my head.

“Yes,  you  will,”  he  said.  “I’ll give 
you three minutes to decide, or you die.”
1 was helpless, without a weapon, star­
ing into the man’s cool,  determined face, 
knowing that  at  the slightest movement 
he  would  undoubtedly  shoot  me.  The 
worst of it was that  my strength seemed 
to be gone. 
I  felt  a  sudden drowsiness 
and could only stare into that man’s eyes. 
I remember that he  had  a cast  in one  of 
them,  and  thinking  that  he  would  be 
quite  good  looking  if  his  beard  was 
trimmed  in  a  point.  All this  time  the 
man was raging and swearing and threat­
ening  my  life.  Suddenly 
there  was  a 
sound down stairs  as  if  something  had 
been thrown against the front door.  My 
adversary turned.  As  he  did so I made 
a quick movement and pinioned him.  He 
was a powerful fellow but I got him  un­
derneath. 
the  struggle  the  pistol 
went off,  the bullet striking  the  ceiling. 
I knocked the  man  down,  gave  him  a 
blow on the head,  enough to have settled 
an ox,  then,  picking up his key,  I rushed 
down stairs,  unlocked  the  door but  for­
got the key and left it in  the  lock.  The 
street was full  of  people  but  I  did not

In 

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dare to  ask  for  assistance  from  any of 
them.  My  hat  was  gone,  my  clothes 
torn in the struggle,  but  I  went  on sev­
eral  squares  looking  for  a  policeman. 
Not one came in sight until  I found my­
self on the  Bowery.

“Come with me,”  1 said to the first one 

I met.

“Where to?”  he inquired.
“Come, come,”  I said  breathlessly.  He 
looked  at  my  wild  condition  and  evi­
dently thought that 1 was either crazy or 
drunk,  but he came,  while  1  told him as 
best  I  could,  about  my  adventure,  he 
seeming very skeptical.

After  making  several  turns  I  found 
myself  hopelessly lost.  1  couldn’t  find 
the place.  The policeman  was  about to 
take me in charge as a dangerous lunatic 
when I caught sight of  the little bakers’ 
shop.  We  turned 
into  the  alley  and 
went to the empty  house.  The door was 
locked and the key  was gone.

“The baker will  know  about it,” said 

the policeman.

We went  to  the  little shop aud found 

a fat,  honest looking  German.

“Who lives  in  the  empty house?”  1 

asked.

“That  house  belongs  to  me. 

It  is 
empty.  No one lives there now.  A man 
rented it for a week and  he  was  a  good 
man—paid in advance.  He came in just j 
a little while ago and said he didn’t want 
it,  and  brought  back  the  key.  He  was 
a good man and paid  in advance.”

The policeman  told  him the story and 
he  was  horrified.  Taking  the  key  he 
went with  us to  the house. 
It was dark 
and stuffy inside as if  the house had  not 
been  opened  for  weeks.  We  went  up­
stairs to the back room.  1  must confess 
to a tremor  as  we  opened  the  door.  1 
struck  a  match  and  lighted 
the  half 
burned candle on the  table.  The  room 
was just as I had left it.  There was  my 
hat on the table,  the  bullet  hole  in  the 
wall,  but  the valise  and  the  red-haired 
man were gone.

While  the  policeman  was  examining 
the room 1 sat  down  on  the  chair over­
come  by that  strange  sensation  of  ex­
haustion.  Death seemed to  be in the at­
mosphere of the place, and  1  believe that 
it was the effects of  the cigar which had 
been given me, that it had been poisoned.
The policeman  and  the baker  made  a 
thorough search  but  could  discern  no 
clue.  The rest of  the house was vacant, 
and  evidently no  other  room  had  ever 
been occupied. 
It was  the man’s inten- j 
tion  to lure me  to  this  place  merely  to 
get my signature, and, evidently, to make | 
away  with  me afterwards.

The  policeman  roused  me  from  my 
torpor,  took down  the  particulars of  the 
affair,  the  appearance  of  the  man  and 
my address,  but said there  was  no  hope 
of ever  finding him.

I made  my way to  my own room  about 
3  o’clock  in  the  morning  aud,  without 
undressing,  threw myself on the bed like 
a log, to sleep off the effect of the drugged 
cigar.

It was late in the  afternoon of the fol­
lowing day when  I  awoke,  and intensely 
hot.  1 went to the window and sat down 
to think over  the events  of  the evening 
before.  As I did so I remembered  where 
I  had first seen  that man—at  the window 
of the house back.

Looking over I saw sitting at that iden­
tical  basement  window,  writing, 
that 
very same red  bearded  rascal and would- 
be murderer. 
I watched him closely and 
saw how easy it would  be for me to jump

out of my window, run  across the court­
yard and  seize  him.

Looking around  to  see  if  there was  a 
man in sight to come  to my assistance in 
the struggle, a sense of coincidence over­
came me.  Everything was the same as it 
had been that first afternoon when I saw 
him.  The children  were  fighting on the 
fire  escape.  The  yellow-haired  woman 
was lifting up the top  of  the box out  of 
the window and  calling out:

“Maggie,  I’ve  a  great  mind  not  to 
I’ve  been  call­

bring you the pctatoes. 
ing to you for ten minutes.”

1 looked  on  my  lap.  There  was  the 
paper on which I had scribbled my name. 
It had  never blown away—.”

Jack  paused  and  walked  toward  the 
door.  The men  looked  at  him  breath­
lessly.

“Well?  and the house?”
“And the forger?”
“And the  drugged  cigar?”  asked  one 

after another.

“All  a  dream.  Never was  any house 
or  any forger  or  any  cigar,”  said  Jack 
doggedly  with a grin.  “1  told  you  fel­
lows you wouldn’t like  the  end  but  you 
would have it.”

He looked around.  The  hoax  was be­

ginning to turn on  them.

“Good bye,  I must go,” he  said,  escap­
ing through the door just in time to miss 
a paper cutter which  Greer aimed at his 
head. 

Anna Vernon Dorsey.

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

E.  D.  W in ch ester, 

th e   E a st  Bridge 

S tre e t  G rocer.

Edward  D.  Winchester was born in the 
city of Grand Rapids,  near the site of the 
present  City  Hall,  Oct.  4,  1858.  His 
father, S.  A.  Winchester,  came  to  this 
city  from  New  Hampshire,  his  native 
State, 40 years ago,  and  is at present in 
the wood  business  at the corner of Cres­
cent avenue and  Ottawa  street.  “Ed.” 
passed  successfully  through  the  many 
dangers incident  to  childhood,  entering 
school  when  of  proper  age,  where  he 
continued until his  sixteenth year.  For 
five years  previous  to leaving school  he 
“did”  a paper route twice a day, clothing 
himself  with  the  proceeds.  Upon leav­
ing school he went to work for the Grand 
Itapids  Chair  Co., 
remaining  several 
j  years in this situation.  He then went to 
work  for C. C. Comstock,  in the Peoples’ 
Store,  on  Canal  street.  Here  he  re­
mained 
ten  years,  for  eight  years  of 
which he  was manager  of  the  business. 
He left this situation  to  engage in  busi­
ness for himself. 
In  1886,  with the late 
John  J.  Sours,  he  bought  the  grocery 
stock of Wagner & Clark,  corner of  East 
Bridge  and  North  Lafayette  streets. 
The firm  of  Winchester & Sours contin­
ued  until  1889,  when  Mr.  Winchester 
purchased his partner’s interest,  and the 
business  has  ever since been owned and 
conducted  by  Edward  D.  Winchester. 
Mr. Sours went into the real  estate busi­
ness,  dying  in  1892  of  typhoid  fever. 
Mr.  Winchester is a member of the Grand 
Rapids Retail  Grocers’  Association,  and 
is a firm believer  in  the  principles  and 
objects of that organization.

Quiet and  unassuming,  caring nothing 
for  the  “trumpet  blast  of fame,”  he is 
one of  the last  men in the world to wish 
to  see  his  name  in  print.  He enjoys a 
fair share of  “hill”  trade,  which is con- 
[ stantly growing, the result,  not of catch- 
! penny  advertising,  but  due  to  the  fact 
! that Mr.  Winchester has been satisfied to 
I attract  customers  with  good gootis and 
hold  them  by  fair and honorable treat- 
1 ment.

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MANUFACTURERS  OF

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e ts  for Shelving.

This combiuation  renders  the  furniture of  a  store 
portable—not fixtures,  to be  retained  by the  landlord 
and utilized  by the next  tenant.  This  arrangement 
enables  the  merchant  to  move  bis  store  furniture 
more quickly and easily  than he  can  move his stock, 
thus enabling him to resume  business  in a new  loca­
tion  without loss of  valuable time.  Samples of each 
line  on  exhibition  at  office,  315  MICHIGAN 
TRUST  CO.  BUILDING,  if you cannot visit office, 
send for catalogue.
D O E S   I T   P A Y ?

C e r ta in ly   I t   D o e s.
I  take  no  chances.  The qual­
ity  is of the very best.  The NEW 
YORK  CONDENSED  N ILE 
COMPANY  is  a very  responsible 
concern  and  guarantees  the

Condensed Milk  to  its customers. 
Besides  it  is  no  trouble  to  sell.
The  majority  call  for  it  and  wont  take  any  other  brand. 
If I  don’t  keep  it  my  customers  will  get 
it  elsewhere, 
Smaller  profit?  No,  I  gueis  not; 
have tried both ways and found that 
it pays to sell  only the “BEST.”  It 
has  been  demonstrated  to  my  sat­
isfaction that the
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of copper since 1880,  from  25  cents to  9 
to 10 cents  per  pound, which  the  com­
mercial world  is agreed has been  wholly 
due to the  extraordinary productiveness 
of new American mines and new methods 
of mining and smelting,  and  which  de­
cline one of  the  most  influential  syndi­
cates  ever  organized,  with  command  of 
enormous  capital,  was  utterly unable to 
prevent.

Consider next  the  recent  experiences 
of the four great commodities that, either 
directly, or in their manufactured forms, 
constitute the bulk  of  the world’s trade 
and commerce—namely, iron, wheat,  cot­
ton and  wool.  Pig iron  sold for $50 per 
ton in 1873;  for $41 in  1880,  and as good 
a grade can now be  bought for $13.  Ac­
cording  to  a  report  presented  to  the 
British  Iron  and  Steel  Association  in 
June,  the increase of the world’s produc­
tion of  pig iron  from  1877  to  1892 was 
91.6 per cent,  and for the  United  States 
343 per cent.—ratios far greater than any 
concurrent  increase  in the iron-consum­
ing  population;  and  latterly  every year 
has closed  with  large  accumulations  of 
unsold stocks and  a  wonderful  increase 
in  capacity  for  production.  A  decline 
in  the price  of  wheat  has  been almost 
continuous since 1885,  and in July of the 
current year no one of the world’s staple 
commodities was  so  cheap.  Concurrent 
with and antecedent to this decline there 
has been  a  tendency  for  the  stocks  of 
wheat to accumulate in  an extraordinary 
degree  at  all  commercial  centers.  For 
the'year 1891  the  world’s  production  of 
wheat is believed  to  have been  100,000,- 
000 bushels greater than ever before, and 
during the present year (1893)  its visible 
supply has been larger  than  it  has ever 
been in the history of wheat speculation. 
Cotton  was  worth  about  20  cents  per 
pound in the paper currency of 1873, but 
now sells for from 7 to 8)^ cents.

iron  has 
While  the  manufacture  of 
been  greatly  cheapened  by 
improved 
processes, the  fact  is  indisputable  that 
the wheat and  cotton  crops  of  several 
years past have been in excess.  The fact 
must not be forgotten  that the masses of 
the people  have only so  much  money to 
buy  with.  When  the  supply  is  scant 
and the  price  goes  up  the  people  will 
buy  less.  They  will  wear  old  clothes 
and give up  luxuries.  But  when  there 
is a great financial  panic  and  thousands 
are earning nothing,  prices  must  go low 
and the  markets will  be  extremely dull 
and inactive.  Congress  may forbid,  un­
der penalties,  speculation  in  cotton and 
wheat, and the  incendiary  organizations 
in the country may burn  barns and gins, 
but these expedients  cannot  control  the 
markets of the world.  Business does not 
rest on such a basis.

F r a n k  Stow kll.

F allacy   A b o u t  F orcing  th e   M arkets.
The farmers complain of the low prices 
of their products and they charge it upon 
speculators  and  traders.  They  claim 
that there  has been a  conspiracy  to  put 
down the prices of  farm produce, just as 
the silver  miners  charge  that there has 
been a conspiracy to  reduce  the price of 
silver.

Nothing could be  more erroneous than 
such a notion. 
It  is  absolutely impossi­
ble for any combination of  capitalists to 
control the markets of  the world  all  the 
time. 
It  might  be  possible to corner  a 
market on some particular  occasion  and 
under certain  circumstances for  a  very 
short time,  but to carry on such a scheme 
systematically and  without a break for a 
long term  of years  is  simply impossible. 
No  power  on  earth  can  do  it,  and no 
power ever has done it.

Prices of leading articles  of  consump­
tion are governed  entirely  by  the  condi­
tions of supply and demand.  An  exces­
sive supply will  put down the price, be­
cause  people  who  are  forced,  by their 
necessities,  to  sell  will  offer  their mer­
chandise so as to  meet  the requirements 
of  buyers.  A  financial  panic  which 
locks up all  the  money  will  also  force 
lower  prices. 
If  no  combination  can 
systematically keep down  prices,  regard­
less  of  the laws of  supply and demand, 
so also no  combination,  either of capital 
or of  violence, can  force  them  up  and 
keep  them up.

The  fact  that  prices of  most necessa­
ries  have  been  declining  for  the past 
twenty years  is  not  due  to  any power 
wielded  by  capital  and  monopoly. 
It 
must be charged  to  the  introduction  of 
machinery  and  processes  which  have 
constantly cheapened the cost of produc­
tion. 
In  nearly  every article of  neces­
sity the decline in  price has been steady 
for  a  long  time.  The exception occurs 
in  agricultural  products,  because they 
depend  largely  on  weather  conditions. 
When  poor  crops  are  had  prices  are 
higher,  but  several  good  crops  in  suc­
cession will  force down the price.

But if there has been a general decline 
in  farm products it has also been the case 
in regard to most  manufactured  articles 
in common  use.  The  raw material  has 
been cheaper and  the manufacturers can 
turn out their wares cheaper.  Whatever 
may  be  said  against  manufacturing 
trusts, which  are  able  to  tyrannize over 
the trade and drive out competition, they 
have never sought to  put up prices to an 
oppressive figure.  They understand that 
if articles are  put  above  the  ability  of 
the people to  buy,  the  people  will  not 
buy. 
trade  prices 
must  be  put  within  the  reach  of  the 
masses. 
In an article  in  the Forum for 
October, David A. Wells,  one of the most 
distinguished statisticians  in  the  coun­
try,  has presented some striking illustra­
tions of  the influence  of  machinery and 
improved  processes  of  production  to 
cheapen  articles  of  necessity.  Some 
facts and  figures  drawn  from  him will 
prove instructive.

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Probably there  is  no  example  of  the 
more signal  influence  of  ingenuity and 
science in  cheapening  products  than in 
the experience with the metal aluminum. 
In 1856 it sold for $90 per pound;  in 1887 
for $8,  and in  1889  for  $2. 
Its  present 
market price is about  50  cents.  Copper 
tea-kettles,  which sold  in  1860 for $2.50, 
can now be bought for 75 cents;  and this 
homely example  illustrates the great de­
cline which has  taken place in the price

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It  is  reported  that  the  buyiug  and 
shipping  of  peach-stones  has  grown  to 
be quite an  industry  in  North  Carolina 
this season. 
In Newton large quantities 
of  the stones  have  been  bought.  The 
average price paid is 35 cents a bushel.

People who love coffee better than  war 
should call a  halt to  the political squab­
bles in  Brazil.

Little Roger had gone into the country 
for  the  first  time,  and  his  grandfather 
had  taken  him  out  to  see 
the  colt. 
“There,  Roger,”  said  the old gentleman, 
“did you ever see such  a  little  horse  as 
that?”  Roger  never  had,  and  his  eyes 
shone;  but  there  was  one  drawback. 
“What’s the matter with him,  grandpa?” 
he said.  “He hasn’t any rockers.”

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AMONG  THE  TRADE.
AROUND THE  STATE.

Homer—M. J.  Rowley  succeeds  W.  .J. 

Wilcox & Co.  in general trade.

Hessell—D. Stewart has purchased  the 

drug stock of Todd & Bennett.

Tipton—Otis  Whelan  is  succeeded by 

W. ,J.  Hampton in general  trade.

Dundee—J.  H. Jaeger  succeeds  J.  H. 

Jaeger & Co.  in  the grocery business.

Allen—Bishop  &  Rising  have  sold 

their hardware stock to Hamblin  Bros.

Reading—Allen  & Enderby succeed  U. 
C. Allen  in  the flour  and feed  business.

Constantine  —  H. 

Jacobs 

succeeds | 

Heimbach & Jacobs in the drug business.
Elsie—J.  A.  JSc  J.  A.  Rose  succeed 
Allen & Howell in  the grocery business.
Kalamazoo—The stock of  the Bronson 
Paper  Co.  has  been  closed  out  by  the 
sheriff.

Kingston—W.  H.  Roy &  Sons,  drug­
gists,  have  dissolved,  Roy & Colton suc­
ceeding.

Tecumseh—Heck  &  Halbert  succeed 
Wm. C.  Ileck & Son  in  the  flouring  mill 
business.

Fennville—L.  S.  Dickinson  succeeds 
Dickinson & Raymond  in  the  hardware 
business.

Clare—The  stock  of  A.  T.  Stevens, 
grocer  and  baker,  has  been  closed  by 
creditors.

Devil’s  Lake—J.  W.  McGee  is  suc­
ceeded by J.  W.  McGee & Co.  in the gro­
cery  business.

Clinton—The  Clinton  Plow  Co.  suc­
ceeds  F.  L.  Woodward  in  the manufac­
ture of plows.

St.  Ignace—Todd  &  Bennett,  drug 
dists,  have dissolved, C. Y. Bennett, con­
tinuing the business.

Iron Mountain—Banta &  Savard,  meat 
dealers,  have dissolved,  S.  D.  Banta con- 
tinning the business.

Breedsville—O.  Schuyler  &  Son  have 
sold their grocery stock  to T.  Gould and 
retired from  business.

Watervliet — Carmony  Bros. 

have 
opened  a  drug  store,  having purchased 
their stock  in Chicago.

Traverse City—A.  W. Jahraus  has  re­
to this  city  from  AuSable  and 

moved 
opened  a cigar factory here.

Watervliet—A.  G.  Wigent  is  closing 
out his furniture  and  undertaking stock 
and will  retire from  business.

Freeport—H.  M. Hill  has sold his meat 
market to R. Whitford, who will continue 
the business at the same location.

Ishpeming—The general stock  of Mels, 
Majhannu  & Co.  will  be  sold  at public 
auction on the 14th of  this month.

Stanton—W.  J.  Mickel  has  removed 
from  Ionia  to  this  place  and opened  a 
cigar factory,  employing eight men.

Way land—S.  B.  Tibbits  has  opened  a 
grocery store.  The  stock was furnished 
by B.  Desenberg & Co.,  of  Kalamazoo.

South  Lyon—J.  E.  Just & Co.’s loss on 
their elevator  which  recently  burned  is 
§7,000, which is  nearly covered  by an  in­
surance of $6,300.

Rockford—Towne  &  Dockeray  have 
leased the building  just  vacated  by  W.
G.  Tefft,  and embarked  in  the fruit  and 
produce  business.

Kalamazoo—Coe  &  Co.  have opened a 
meat market  in the rear of  Odell & Co.’s 
grocery,  203  North  Burdick  street,  and 
105 Eleanor street.

Breedsville—T.  Gould  has  returned 
from  Lacota,  where  he  purchased  the 
Young  bankrupt stock,  to which  he  has 
added lines of boots and shoes.

Dei ton—Dodds &  Hartman succeed R.
| T.  F.  Dodds & Co.,  Limited, in  the flour- 
| ing mill  business,  A.  J.  Hartman having 
‘ purchased an  interest in  the business.

Allegan—Frohlich & Kapp have opened 
a clothing store in the  building formerly 
] occupied  by F.  R.  Rudd.  The  business 
j will  be  under the  management of R.  H. 
Green.

Plainwell—Frank Smith has purchased 
I a half interest in the  merchant tailoring 
business of J.  H.  Hitchcock.  The  new 
firm  will  be  known  as  Hitchcock  & 
Smith.

Plainwell—Mrs.  Laura  Estes  has  re­
tired  from  the millinery firm of F.  E.  & 
L.  Estes.  The  business wil  be contin­
ued by the remaining  partner  under the 
style of F.  E. Estes.

Saranac—Chas.  E.  Huhn, 

formerly 
clerk  for Frace  & Huhn,  has purchased 
the dry goods and  grocery stock of  E.  P. 
Gifford,  and  will  continue the  business 
at the same  location.  Mr.  Gifford,  hav­
ing purchased a  farm,  will  probably de­
vote  his  entire  attention  hereafter  to 
rural pursuit«.

Saginaw,  W.  S.—The  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association held a largely attended meet­
ing  last  Thursday  evening,  which  was 
devoted to a discussion of  the early clos­
ing question. 
It  will  be  definitely  de­
cided at  a  meeting to be held this  week. 
It is  probable  the grocers in  the central 
portion of the city will close at 6 o’clock, 
and  those in the  outskirts at 7 o’clock.

Muskegon—At a  meeting of the Board 
of  Education,  Friday  evening,  Peter 
Zalsman, 
the  grocer,  presented  a  bill 
against one of the janitors in the employ 
of the  Board,  asking  the  Board to  com­
pel him  to pay  the account.  The matter 
was  discussed  at  some  length,  some  of 
the trustees  objecting to any recognition 
of  the  matter,  on  the  ground  that  the 
Board ought  not to  be  used  as a club to 
hit someone on  the  head or cause him to 
dodge.  The matter was  finally disposed 
of  without action,  the trustees  believing 
that the  publicity  which the  matter has 
received  would cause it to be paid.

Detroit—The  second  trial of  the case 
of  Max  E.  Pollasky  and  his  brother 
against  George  H.  Minchener,  district 
manager  for R.  G.  Dun &  Co.,  was  de­
cided 
in  favor  of  the  defendant  by  a 
Wayne Circuit Court jury Oct. 5.  Pollasky 
Brothers kept  a general  store in  Alma. 
In 1887 R.  G. Dun &  Co. sent  out circu­
lars to  all  their subscribers stating  that 
Pollasky  Brothers  had  given  a  chattel 
mortgage  for  $10,000  on 
their  stock. 
This  statement  had been  sent from  the 
Detroit office, in charge of Mr. Minchener. 
About a week or  ten  days after the pub­
lication of the notice the firm of Pollasky 
Brothers  learned  from  some  of  their 
creditors that they  were reported as hav­
ing  given  a  mortgage  on  their  stock. 
Pollasky Brothers lost no time in notify­
ing  the Agency that  they had  not given 
any  mortgage,  but  that they  were  per­
fectly solvent.  R.  G.  Dun & Co.  at once 
recalled the  previous  notice  as  to  Pol­
lasky  Brothers,  stating  that  they  had 
been misinformed  by their correspondent 
i at  Alma.  The  Pollaskys,  however, 
claimed they had  been  greatly damaged 
! in  their  standing 
in  the  commercial 
j world  and  sued  R.  G.  Dun  &  Co.  and 
George R.  Michener for $35,000 damages. 
The case against Michener was first tried 
! before  Judge  Gartner  four  years  ago.
I After  the  testimony was  all 
in  Judge 
Gartner  took the case  from  the  jury  on 
' the ground  that there  had  been  no evi-

| dence  connecting Michener  with  the re­
sponsibility  for  the  mistake.  Appeal 
was  taken  to  the  Supreme  Court  and, 
after a  review of  the case,  that  tribunal 
ordered the  lower  court  to  try  the case 
on  the  ground  that  there  was sufficient 
testimony  connecting  Minchener  with 
the case to sumit  it to a jury.  The case 
was on trial several days and  was closely 
contested  on  both  sides,  the  jury bring­
ing in a verdict  after  two hours’ consid­
eration of the case.

Purely Personal.

Herman  Liesveld,  the  Cherry  street 
grocer,  has  gone 
to  Gogebic  county 
where  he  will  spend  ten  days  or  two 
weeks on a hunting trip.

J.  M.  Perry,  the  Tustin  druggist,  and 
Frank  Smith,  general  dealer  at  Leroy, 
passed  through  the  city Saturday night 
on their way  to  the  White  City.  They 
were accompanied by their wives.

S.  E. Parkill, the Owosso druggist, has 
returned  from  his European trip,  and on 
Oct.  1 assumed  the duties of Secretary of 
the Michigan  State Board of  Pharmacy, 
to  which  position  he  was  elected  last 
spring.

L.  G.  Ripley,  the  Montague druggist, 
was in town last week and  placed orders 
for his holiday goods  with local dealers. 
Anticipating a large  trade  in  this  line, 
he bought more  largely  thau  he  has in 
previous years.

Frank E.  Leonard,  who  has  been con­
fined  to his  home  several  weeks  by in­
flammation  of  the  lungs,  is  recovering 
his health and  strength, so  that  he  will 
probably  be able to  resume  his  duties at
H.  Leonard & Sons’  in a few weeks.

Herbert  U.  Herrick,  of  the  firm  of 
Herrick  Bros.,  grocers  at  Lansing,  was 
married Sept.  28 to Miss Edith Baldwin, 
or Fowlerville.  Mr. Herrick is a nephew 
of  E.  J.  Herrick,  the  fancy  grocer  of 
Grand Rapids,  but  has not  yet acquired 
the  requisite  experience 
to  drive  the 
close  bargains  for  which  his  uncle  is 
noted.

Miss Ollie Harwood,  only  daughter of 
G.  M.  Harwood,  the  Petoskey druggist, 
died Sept.  27 at the  age  of  16,  after an 
illness  of  nine  weeks.  The  deceased 
was a young lady of  beautiful character 
and  was loved and  respected  by all who 
knew  her,  and  the  parents  have 
the 
sympathy of  a host  of  friends  in  their 
great affliction.

Franx Hadden is confined  to his home, 
357 South  Union  street,  by rheumatism. 
His trade  is  being visited  in  the  mean­
time by Geo.  R. Rose,  who has  been  reg­
ularly engaged to cover  the trade  visited 
so  many years  by  Wm.  B.  Collins,  who 
has  been  promoted  to  the  position  of 
sales  manager for  H.  Leonard &  Sons. 
Mr. Collins  has been  on  the  road  about 
ten years and has rightly earned  his pro­
motion.

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Chas.  E.  Olney  will 

from 
Thompson,  Connecticut,  about  Nov.  1, 
and  remain  long  enough  to  attend the 
annual  meeting of  the  Olney &  Judson 
Grocer Co., returning to the East in  time 
to sail from New  York on  Nov.  16 on the 
Fuerst  Bismarck  for  Southern  France, 
where he and  his family  will  spend the 
winter.  Dr. Chas. S.  Hazeltine will  sail 
on the same  steamer  for Milan,  Italy,  to 
take the  position  of  United  States Con­
sul there.

Window  Glass—The  factories  as  yet 
have not started up  and assortments are 
getting  very  much  broken.  Higher 
prices must come if the mills do not soon 
start.

PRODUCE  M ARKET.

Apples—All  varieties  of  eating  apples  com 
inand $2.5C'@2.75, fancy Wines and  Kings  bring­
ing $3.  The latter  varieties  are  the  only  ones 
which are up to the  average in quality, the gen- 
| eral  run of fruit being  the  poorest ever market­
ed in  this state.

Beans — Dry  stock  is  beginning  to arrive. 
Handlers  pay $'.40 for country cleaned and $1.50 
for country picked.

Butter—Scarce  and 

strong.  Dealers  pay 
23®24c  for  choice  dairy  and  hold  at  25@26c. 
I Factory  creamery is in moderate demand at 30c. 
Grocers  are  beginning  to  take  out  butterine 
licenses, and the sale of butterine will, undoubt 
edly, put an end to  the present stiff demand fo 
the genuine.

Cabbage—Home grown, $2®3 per 100.
Carrots—25c per bushel.
Cauliflower—$1.50 per doz.
Cranberries—Early Blacks from Cape Cod have 
put in an appearance, commanding $2.25  per bu. 
crate  or  (6  per  bbl.  The  quality is fine, being 
large in size  and  richly colored.

Celery—Home  grown  commands  15 @ 18c  per 

doz.

Cucumbers—Pickling stock, 12® 15c per 1P0.
Eggs—The market  has  advanced  lo per doz , 
Handlers  pay 19c, holding at 20c per doz.
Egg Plant—$1.50 per doz.
Grapes—Concords and Wordens command 13® 
15c per 3 lb. basket.  Niagaras bring 16®18c, and 
Delawares 18®20c.

Honey—W hite  clover  commands  15c  per  lb, 

dark buckwheat brings 1214c.

Onions—Bermudas command  $1.50 per crate.
Peaches—Smocks  command  $1,  while  small 

pickling stock can be had at 50®75c per bu.

Pears—A  few Kiefers  are  coming  to  market, 

commanding $I.50@$2  per bu.

Quinces—$1.50 per bu.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys  command  $3.25  and 

Baltimores $2.75 per bbl.
Tomatoes—60c per bu.
Turnips—30c per bu.
The man  who does not  know  a  gun is 
loaded generally wants to try  it on some 
one else  first.

good stock and  business  if  price is reasonable. 

wish to trade.  Want cash or good security.  In­

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

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

793

734

792

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

_ 
X \T  ANTED—an  e x p e r ie n c e d   r e t a il 
» v  grocery salesman used to city trade.  Must 
speak Holland or  German.  Address,  with  city 
references,  stating  amount  of  experience, No. 
792, care Michigan Tradesman. 

store for  sale  in  town  of  2,300.  Do  not 
voice $4,50'.  Do not apply unless you positively 
mean business, for  this  is  a  fine opportunity. 
Reason for selling, failing  health.  Address No. 
93, care Michigan Tradesman. 

■  FINE  CHANCE  DRUG  AND  GROCERY 
■  GENERAL  STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE 
wanted, *3,000 to $5,000.  Will pay cash for 
F. H. Van  Dorsten, Litchfield, Mich._____ 791
F or  sa le—t h e  T h eo d o re  k em in k
drug stock  and fixtures  on  West  Leonard 
street.  Paying  invesiment.  Will  sell  at  half 
real value.  For  particulars,  enquire  of  Henry 
Idema, Kent County Savings  Bank, Grand Rap­
id s - ___________ _________________ 787
ANTED—A  PARTNER, EITHER ACTIVE 
or silent, in  a paying retail shoe business 
on one of the principal streets in Grand Rapids. 
Object, to  increase  capital  commensurate with 
demand of trade.  Address,  784,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
F OR  SALE—Drug stock  in  business  town of 
1,200 inhabitants in Eastern Michigan, trib­
utary  to  large  farming  trade;  lake  and rail 
freights;  only  two  drug  stores  in  town;  rent. 
$200 per year;  stock  will  inventory $2,500;  sales 
$20 a day.  Reason  for  selling, owner wishes to 
retire  from  business.  Address  No.  752,  care
Michigan Tradesman._____  
752
ANTED—A  practical  druggist, with  some 
capital, to take charge of a first-class drug 
store.  Address  C.  L.  Brundage,  opera  house 
block, Muskegon, Mich.______  
USIN'ESS  HOUSE  AND  STOCK  OF  GRO 
ceries for sale on  Union  street.  Will  sell 
at a bargain.  Address  box  634,  Traverse  City, 
Mich. 
_____  SITUATIONS  WANTED.
X \T ANTED—A  POSITION  FOR  ANY  KIND 
” v  of employment by  a  young man of twen­
ty one.  Has  had  three years’ experience in the 
retail grocery trade  and  four  years’ experience 
in  the  machinery  business.  Address  No. 794, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
W A N T E D —POSITION  AS  DRUG  CLERK 
V V  by a young lady,  graduate, registered  in 
Michigan.  Good  references  furnished.  Ad­
dress  Box 46,  Brooklyn,  Green  Co.,  Wiscon­
sin_________________________________799
^  LI ARMAN’.-» Class in Window  Dressing,” 
-I-A  a  monthly  publication,  giving  illus­
trated window displays for dry goods,  clothing, 
furnishings and shoes  and  ideas for store deco­
rating.  Membership fee $3  a  year.  Harry Har- 
j  man,  window  dresser  and  decorator,  1204 
1 Woman’s Temple, Chicago.

794

747

756

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5

MEN  OF  MARK.

A.  E.  B rooks,  th e   V e te ra n   C onfection­

e ry   Jo b b e r.

Abijah Eddy Brooks,  head  of  the firm | 
of A.  E.  Brooks & Co.,  wholesale confec­
tioners,  was  born  in  the  town of Wen­
dell, Mass.,  in the year 1842.  His father, 
Otis Brooks, was for many years a dealer 
in general  merchandise  in  Wendell  and 
aiso  at Orange,  but  passed  the last few 
years  of  his life in  peaceful retirement 
upon a farm.  He was a native of the old 
Bay átate.  The wife of Otis Brooks and 
mother of  A.  E.  Brooks  was  an  Eddy, 
and was a descendant of the sturdy puri­
tan stock of New England.  When  A.  E. 
was eight years of  age the family moved 
back to Orange,  where  they  had resided 
some years previously.  Here  he attend­
ed school  until  his  18th  year,  when he 
left  school  and  went  to  work upon  his 
father’s farm.  The winter  months  were 
devoted to  "teaching the young idea how 
to shoot.”  Thus about  six  years  of  his 
life were spent,  working  on  the farm in 
summer and teaching  in  the winter,  un­
til  when about twenty-four  years of age, 
he  came  to  Grand  Rapids 
to  visit  a 
brother and sister who were residents  of 
this city.  During this visit, which  lasted 
the greater part of a year, he took  a com­
mercial course  in  Swensberg’s Business 
College,  returning  to  Massachusetts  at 
the close of the  term  and again going to 
work on the  farm.  About  a  year  later 
he accepted  a  situation  as book-keeper 
with A.  S.  Hodge  &  Co., chair manufac­
turers,  at  East  Templeton,  Mass.,  but 
was compelled to  relinquish the position 
in a few months and go home on account 
of the  illness  of  his  parents,  both  of 
whom  died  within  five  months.  After 
another year  of  “life  on  the  farm,” he 
sold out and returned  to  Grand  Rapids. 
Mr.  Brooks’  brother,  Henry C.,  of  the 
firm of E.  F.  Ward & Co.,  had purchased 
Joseph  Putnam’s  interest  in  Putnam 
Bros.’ wholesale  coufectionery  business 
on Huron street  for A.  E.,  who,  immedi­
ately on his arrival,  assumed  the  duties 
of  an  active  partner  in 
the  business. 
About a year  after  Mr.  Brooks  entered 
the  firm  they removed  to  Canal  street, 
and the firm name was  changed  to  Put­
nam & Brooks.  The  business was  con­
ducted on Canal street  for  several  years 
until, the premises proving inadequate to 
the  constantly expanding  trade,  and de­
siring better transportation facilities, the 
firm removed to  the  Blodgett  block  on 
South  Ionia street.  The firm of  Putnam 
& Brooks was dissolved three years later, 
H. C.  and A. E. Brooks disposing of their 
interest to the  Putnam  Candy Co.  The 
firm of A.  E.  Brooks &  Co.  was  then  or­
ganized,  and the  business  located in the 
Cody block,  on East Fulton street,  in the 
premises  just  vacated  by  the  Reeder 
Bros.  Shoe Co.,  but  the  accommodations 
proved  insufficient,  and  the  firm moved 
to the Kendall  block,  on  Ottawa street, 
where it has ever since been located.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Wm. N.  Ingalls has  opened a  grocery 
store at Petoskey.  The  Olney & J udson 
Grocer Co.  furnished the stock.

Cole & Chapel,  grocers  at  693 and 694 
Cherry street,  recently  uttered  a  bill  of 
sale on their  stock  to  Hawkins  & Com­
pany,  who took  possession  of  the  goods 
last Monday and removed  them  to  their 
wholesale establishment.

A.  M.  Armstrong  and  J.  W.  Cappy 
have purchased the stove polish  business 
of Andrews,  Brown &  Co.  and  will  con­
tinue the business  under the style of the 
Grand  Rapids  Stove  Polish  Co.  at  the 
corner of Canal and  Newberry streets.

Geo.  Richards,  late  of  Grand  Ledge, 
has  formed  a  copartnership  with  John 
Huff,  of  this  city,  under  the  style  of 
Richards &  Huff,  and  the firm  has  pur­
chased  the  flour  and  feed  business  of 
Lawton  Bros.,  at  528  South  Division 
street.

results, 

The  discussion  of  the  early  closing 
movement  at  the 
last  meeting  of  the 
Retail Grocers’  Association  has already 
produced  tangible 
the  West 
Bridge street and  Cherry  street  grocers 
having  begun 
the  6:30  o’clock  closing 
movement  on  Monday  of this week and 
the grocers “on the hill” having arranged 
to reduce the closiug  hour from 7 to 6:30 
o’clock  beginning next Monday.

grocers  or  the  paper mentioned,  it was 
too silly to speak of.  His duty was to see 
that the citv  ordinancss  were  enforced, 
and to prosecute violations.  He bad done 
so in the cases at issue,  without  instiga­
tion or advice from  anv one. 
In answer 
to the assertion  that  the  agitation  was 
for the purpose  of  driving the Hebrews 
out of  the business,  it was only necessary 
to call  attention  to  the  fact  that  there 
were more Hollanders  and  Italians than 
Hebrews in  the  peddling  business.  At 
the  conclusion  of  the  arguments,  Mr. 
McBride stated that if  the  court  would 
indicate 
the  probable  direction  of  his 
charge to the jury,  it might  make  it un­
necessary to call a  jury.  Judge Burlin­
game stated that there was but one point 
for him to consider and  that  was  as  to 
whether the fee  imposed  by  the  ordin­
ance was or was  not exhorbitant. 
If he 
were speaking to  the jury,  he  would  un­
doubtedly  charge  that  the  fee  was  not 
exorbitant,  for the  reason  that it would 
no more than defray the cost of adminis­
tering  the  ordinance.  This  closed  the 
case,  as it completely  sustained  the find­
ing of the lower court,  and gave the ver­
dict to the city. 
In view of the fact that 
the defendants had paid  the license fees 
and  taken  out 
licenses,  Mr.  Carroll 
moved  that the cases  oe discontinued on 
payment  of  costs.  The  motion  was 
granted  by  Judge  Burlingame  and  the 
cases were dropped.

On July 12 of this year,  in  the  Police 
Court of this  city,  Samuel  Ovant,  Max 
Turner  and  Abraham  Hootkins  were, 
with  a  number  of  others,  convicted by 
Judge  Haggerty  of  peddling  without  a 
license.  The three peddlers named took 
an  appeal  from  that  decision 
to  the 
Superior Court, on the  ground  that  the 
peddling ordinance was unconstitutional 
in that the fee was exorbitant, being pro­
hibitive  rather  than  regulative.  The 
appeals were argued  before  Judge Bur­
lingame, of the Superior Court, Tuesday, 
Oct. 4.  James E.  McBride, attorney  for 
the defense, argued  that  the city had no 
right under the State constitution  to put 
a  prohibitive  tax  on  any  business  and 
that it went beyond the terms of its char* 
ter  and  the  State  constitution  when  it 
fixed the peddlers’ license fee at $50; that 
opposition to the peddlers was instigated 
and fostered by the Grand  Rapids Retail 
Grocers’ Association  and  T h e  Mic h ig a n 
T ra desm an;  and that the Assistant City 
Attorney,  L.  E.  Carroll,  had  been  in­
structed by the  Grocers’  Association  as 
to the amendments necessary to be made 
to the peddling ordinance.  He said, fur­
ther,  that  the  agitation  was  especially 
directed at the Hebrews  and was for the 
purpose of driving  them out of the busi­
ness,  and drew a  pathetic picture of the 
poverty and general  wretc hedness of the 
people who  were  affected  by  the  ordi­
nance.  In reply,  Mr  .Carroll  argued that 
the fee imposed  upon  the peddlers by the 
city was not a tax in  any sense,  but was 
for the purpose of  defraying  the cost of 
the administration  of  the ordinance,  and 
experience had shown  that it was barely 
sufficient for  the  purpose.  So far  from 
its being ultra vires of  the  city  charter, 
express provision  was made in the char­
ter for the licensing of  peddlers and the 
imposition of  fees.  As to  the  claim of 
the defenee that opposition  to  the  ped­
dlers was instigated  by  the retail grocers 
and  T he  Mic h ig a n T ra desm a n,  if the 
defence meant by that  that he (Mr.  Car- 
roll)  had been  influenced  by  either  the

The  H a rd w a re   M arket.

The latter  part of  September  and the 
first  week  of  October have  witnessed a 
very  fair  trade  in  most  lines of staple 
and seasonable goods.  The  general ten­
dency,  however, is to buy cautiously and 
not  take  many  chances.  Few  changes 
in prices have been made,  the  tendency 
not being upward.

Wire  Nails—The  majority  of  mills 
have  resumed  operations  and the price 
at the mill is a  little  lower,  if anything, 
being $1.40@1.45 at  mill and $1.65@1.70 
from  stock.

Barbed Wire—But  little  moving  and 

no change in  price.

Bar  Iron—A  scarcity  in  staple  sizes 
exists,  as none of  the iron mills are run­
ning.  The  price,  however, 
remains 
stationery,  $1.80  rates  being  quoted in 
this market.

Powder—As  the  hunting  season  has 
commenced,  the  demand  for  powder  is 
very great.  Prices at  present remain  as 
in the spring,  with  a  tendency to lower 
figures.  The  manufacturers,  however, 
are  doing  all  they  can  to maintain  the 
present lists.

Shot—There  has  been  an  advance at 
the mill of 5c a bag,  but  jobbers are still 
selling at $1.50 for drop and $1.75 for BB 
and buck.

Loaded Shells—Are  held quite firm at 
40 and 10 to 40, 10 and  5  discount  from 
list.

G rains  an d   F o o dstuffs.

Wheat—The  market  has  weakened 
perceptibly during the past week and the 
price is off 2c.  Stocks  have  piled up at 
an  unprecedented  rate  until  now  the 
amount is in the neighborhood of 63,000,- 
000  bn.,  an 
increase  of  13,000,000  bu. 
over the corresponding  week  last  year. 
As  the  heaviest  deliveries  are  yet  to 
come,  there  will  probably be 80,000,000 
bu.  on  hand  by  Jan.  1.  These  figures 
may not be verified by the event—it is to 
be hoped so, at  least—but  there is little 
prospect  of  a  rally  in the market until 
stocks are cleaned up.

Englander,  and whatever  of  success has 
attended his career as  a  business man— 
and that he has been successful is a mat­
ter of general  knowledge—may be attrib­
uted  to  his  having  been endowed  with 
the virtues  and  peculiar  characteristics 
which  have  made  New  Englanders 
famous  the  world  over.  He  is 
in  no 
sense a public  man,  does  not seek noto­
riety in any form, but is best suited  with 
the quiet,  humdrum  life of  the ordinary 
business man,  and  is  happiest  when  “ in 
the bosom of his family.”

D on’t  S teal  Y our  E m ployer’s  Time.
There  are  a  great  many  people—we 
hope you are not  one  of  them—who,  if 
you give them an  inch will  take  an  ell; 
fellows who,  although  drawing the same 
pay,  allow  you  to  do  the  heft  of  the 
work.  The sleep of  these  toilers  can’t 
be very sweet,  for  they  are  cheats  and 
Form  no  partnership 
light  weights. 
with them. 
If they won’t  mend, oppose 
and  bounce  them.  There  is  a  horse 
with  a  good  steady  pull  bursting  the 
harness  in  his  efforts.  At his side is a 
beast that needs the  lash to keep  him np 
to  his  obligations.  As  with  horses  so 
with men—poor  unprofitable  breed. 
In 
any  gang  of  men  there  are  so  many 
skulkers  absent  from  their  post  more 
than half a dozen times a  day,  ten  min­
utes  each  time  at least,  and an hour of 
seventy  minutes  at  meal-time.  Such 
men  are  thieves,  for  a  man  who  will 
steal  your  time  will  steal  your  money 
with impunity.  Many of them are incur­
ables,  all of them  are  nuisances.  They 
are  jockeys  all  the  time,  trying to get 
ahead by a  trick.  The  way  to  get  on 
and  be  beloved  is  to give full measure 
wherever you are,  and if you have a boss 
who doesn’t reward  this  trait,  move un­
til  you  fall  in  with him.  You will not 
have to move often. 

Geo.  R.  Scott.

The  D rug  M arket.

Gum opium is dull  and  weak.
Morphia is  unchanged.
Quinine is  firm.
Lycopodium has advanced.
Ground flax seed has declined.
Ipecac root is lower.
Balsam  Peru is scarce and higher.
Balsam fir has advanced.
Conti white Castile soap has advanced, 
cholera at Leghorn  having stopped ship­
ments.

Linseed oil  is  very firm, with upward 

tendency.

Charter Oak Prints,  4 cents  per  yard. 

Order  at once, if in need.

P.  Ste k e t e e  & Sons.

BLOOKER'S
DUTBH

Mr. Brooks is a member of the Knights 
of  Honor  and  for  some  years has  been 
Reporter of Samaritan  Lodge.  He  is  also 
a member  of  Grand  River  Council,  Na­
tional Union, was its first President,  and 
is at present its Treasurer.  He was mar­
ried in  1868  to  Miss  Julia  E.  Ward,  of 
Orange, Mass.,  and  has  four  children, 
two  boys  and  two  girls.  He  and his I 
family  occupy  a  comfortable  home  on 
Coit avenue.

To say of a man that he is  a New Eng­
lander is to say,  in effect, that  he is  the j 
soul of  honor.  Mr.  Brooks  is  a  New i

COCOA.
CHOICEST,  PUREST,  BEST. 
Lemon  It  Wheeler  Company,

Agents,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

BUSINESS  W IND.

Dry Goods Price Cnrrent.

DEMINS.

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“ 

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

“ 
«« 
'• 
GINGHAMS.
Lancaster,  staple...  6
fancies__7
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire...........  6
Manchester............   5k
Monogram................6k
Normandie...............7k
Persian...................7
Renfrew Dress.... 7 k
Ro8emont................. 6k
Slatersville............6
Somerset................ 7
Tacoma  ...................7k
Toll  duNord......... 10k
Wabash..................   7k
seersucker..  7k
Warwick...............   7
Whlttenden............  8
heather dr.  7k 
Indigo bine  9 
Wamsutta staples...  6k
Westbrook..............8
.......................10
Wlndermeer........... 5
York  ........................6k

Amoskeag.....................I
9oz............
brown......
Andover..................Ilk
Beaver Creek  A A... 10 
BB...  9
“ 
CC....
“ 
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
“ 
bine  8k
“  d a  twist 10k  
Columbian XXX br.10 
“ 
XXX  bl.19
Amoskeag................ 6k
Persian dress  7 
Canton ..  7
APC........ 10k
Teazle... 10k 
Angola.. 10k 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple—   6k  
Arasapha  fancy—   4k 
Arasapha  fancy....  4k
Bates Warwick dres  7k 
staples.  6
Centennial............   10k
Criterion...............10k
Cumberland staple.  5k
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4k
Elfin.......................  7k
Everett classics......8k
Exposition............... 7k
Glenarie.................  6k
Glenarven................ 6k
Glenwood...............7k
Hampton.................. 6k
Johnson Uhalon cl 
k  
Indigo blue 9k 
zephyrs. ...16
Amoskeag...............14
Stark......................  19
American...............14kl...............................
Clark’s Mile End.... 45  I Barbour's................86
Coats’, J. & P .........45  Marshall’s ................81
Holyoke..................22k I
KNITTING  COTTON.
White.  Colored.
...37
38 No.  14...
...38
“  16...
35
“  18... ...39
40
...40
“  20...
41
CAMBRICS.

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

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

¡Georgia..................14k

GRAIN  BAGB.

THREADS.

No.

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

....  4k[Edwards................  4k
...  4k I Lockwood................ 4k
....  4k Wood’s..................   4k
__4k I Brunswick.............   4k
BBD  FLANNEL.

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

T W .........................S k
P T .......................... 82k
JR P , XXX.............35
Buckeye..................82k

MIXED  FLANNEL.

“ 

“ 

b il k sia b.

WADDINGS.

10k
Ilk
12
20

Brown.  Black. I Slate  Brown.

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
9k
10k
Ilk
12k

Red A Blue,  plaid. .40  (Grey S R W............ 17k
Union R.................22k  Western W  ..............18k
Windsor.................18k  D R P .......................18k
6 oz Western..........20  Flushing XXX.........23k
Union  B................22klManitoba..................23k
DOMKT  FLANNEL.
Nameless......8  @ 9k I 
...... 9  @10k
8k @10
12k
Black.
10k
Ilk
12
20
West  Point, 8 oz__10k
10 oz  ...12k
“ 
Raven, lOoz.............13k
Stark 
.............13k
Boston, 10 oz............12k

Slate.
9k l«k 
9k
10k  Ilk  
10k
Ilk  12 
Ilk
12kl20
12k
DUCKS.
Severen, 8 oz..........
9k
May land, 8 oz.........10k
Greenwood, 7k oz..  9k
Greenwood, 8 oz__Ilk
Boston, 8 oz............10k
White, doz............. 25  IPer bale, 40 doz 
IS 50
Colored,  doz.......... 20  IColored  “ 
..........7 50
Slater, Iron Ctosb. ..  8  [Pawtucket..............10k
Red Cross....  9  Dun die...................  9
Best  ............ 10k Bedford...................10k
Best AA......12k Valley City............... ink
L.............................7k  K K ......................... 10k
G............................ 8k   I
Cortlcelll, doz.........85  (Cortlcelll  knitting,

..12  “ 8 
-.12 J  “  10 

per koz  ball........30

twist, doz.. 40 
50yd,doz..40  I
HOOKS AND BYES—FEB GROSS.
“ 
“ 

No  1 Bl’k A White..10  (No  4 Bl’k A White..15 
“  2 
..20
“ 
..25
8 
No 2—20, X C.........50  IN0 4—15  J  3 k ........ 40
‘  8—18, S C .......... 45 
No  2 White A Bl’k..l2  INo  8 White A Bl'k..20 
.28
“ 
..26
“ 
No 2.
.36

COTTON  TAPE.
..15  “  10 
.18 |  “  12 
SAFETY  PINS.
....28 
|N o3..
MMMDLMS—PER  M.

A. James................ 1  401 Steamboat....
Crowely’s............... 1  85 Gold  Eyed.............. 1 so
Marshall’s ..............1 001 American................ l  00
|5—4....1  65  6—4...2 30
5—4....  1  75  6—4... 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

SEWING  BILK.

FINS.

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COTTONTWINNS.

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

T‘ 

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

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

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R em ark ab le  M ethods  P ecu liar  to   th e  j 

B usiness  M an  o f  T o-day.

E. A. Owen In Shoe and Leather Gazette.
When  I  was  a  boy  on  the  farm my j 
uncle used to trim off a  “ beef-critter” or 
two every fall.  He  was a great believer 
in  domestic  economy  of  the most rigid 
kind,  and  made  quite  a hobby  of  food 
analysis.  He considered it a great waste 
of  resource,  for  instance, to  feed  good, 
marketable  hay  to  the  cattle  when  it 
contained  such  a  small  percentage  of 
life sustaining  and  fat-producing  ele­
ment according  to its  bulk.  He argued 
that 90 per cent,  of  the entire bulk sim­
ply served  as  “packen,”  and that it was 
a foolish bit of  extravagance to use good I 
hay for “packen” in feeding  cattle.  He 
would  use  a  handful  or  two  of  meal 
which analysis  showed contained a suffi­
cient  quantity of  the  necessary  proper­
ties,  and  “pack”  with  turnip and  buck­
wheat straw.  His idea of food bulk  was, 
one-tenth  essentials  and  nine-tenths  of 
“packen.”  Anything possessing no com-1 
mercial value would answer  the purpose I 
if it could be  got inside  of the “critter” 
in sufficient quantities to  produce an ex­
pansion.
If my  uncle  had  been  born a Yankee 
and had  become an  enterprising Ameri­
can  business  man 
instead  of  an  old- 
fashioned, conservative Canadian farmer, 
what a bright and shining light he would | 
have been.  Had  this  been  his  lot,  his | 
“critters” would not have limited his tal­
ents to the capacity of  a bovine paunch; 
and instead  of  using  buck-wheat  straw 
as a  stuffing, he  would  have used wind. 
Wind, so  plentiful  and  so cheap.  How | 
he would  have  made  their  sides  “stick 
out.”
1 wonder if the average American does 
not adopt the  same tactics  in the  devel­
opment  and expansion  of  his  business? 
The  regular,  periodical  analysis  which 
is being taken at  the present time would 
show that such is the case.  This analysis 
is proving  once more  that nine-tenths of 
the business bulk—judging from appear­
ance—is  pure,  unadulterated  wind. 
American  wind  is  different  from  any 
other kind of  wind. 
It contains proper­
ties that have the semblance of  real sub­
stance; and  when we are passing through 
our booming  periods we  are simply tak­
ing  in  wind  and  our  expressions  have 
the appearance,  to the rest of the  world, 
of  real substantial  business.  American 
wind not only  possesses the semblance of 
substance,  but  it  possesses  real  forces 
peculiar  to  itself.  Where  can wind  be 
found  outside  of  this  country  that can 
blow the  pin feathers off a  rooster with­
out necessitating  his  removal  from  the 
roost?  Where in  the wide world, except 
in our  own  beloved land,  can you find a | 
wind  that can  blow  a  pine  board right I 
through a second growth  white oak tree? 
Talk about  wind!  Why, it only requires 
a little American  zephyr to  fan a  great 
city into existence,  with street cars, elec­
tric lights,  and  immense  manufacturing 
plants,  making  it look so  real  that hun­
dreds of thousands of  dollars  will  be in­
vested in real estate before the discovery 
is made that it is nothing but wind.
American  wind  is very seductive in the 
influence it exerts upon foreigners.  They 
mistake it for real,  solid  substance  and 
are attracted  to  our  shores  where they 
soon  learn  that “all  that glitters is not 
gold,” and that we are  not what we pro­
fess to be.  They learn that we are, super­
ficially, 
the  greatest  people  on  earth, 
that we occupy  more  surface  space and 
make more noise,  according  to our size, 
than any other  people  on  earth.  They 
see that our  wonderful  superficiality  is 
the result  of our  elasticity and national 
fondness 
for  display.  We  are  big j 
for  our  age  aud  we  feel  proud  of  it j 
to 
and  want 
the  best 
is  our 
most  prominent  national 
trait,  and, 
as  individuals,  we  exemplify  it  in  our 
manner  of  doing  business  and  in  our 
social  lives.  We  want  everything  in 
sight,  and  so  every possible recourse is 
brought  to  the  surface  for  effect.  We 
are  too  young  and  vain to build staple 
foundations.  This  would  contract  our 
spread-eagleism and detract from appear­
ances—a condition of things which is not 
agreeable  to  our  tastes.  Let  the  older 
countries  do  the deep  digging while we

advantage.  This 

show  ourselves 

to 

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

“  Arrow Brand  4k 
“  World Wide.  6
“  LL............... 4k
Pull Yard Wide...... 6k
Georgia  A..............6k
Honest Width........  6
Hartford A  ............ 5
Indian Head...........  Sk
King A  A................6k
King EC.................  5
Lawrence  L L........  4k
Madras cheese cloth 6k
Newmarket  G........  5k
B........ 5
N........6k
DD.  ..  6k
X .......6k
Nolbe R..................  5
Our Level  Best...... 6

Adriatic
Argyle  ...................  6
Atlanta AA............ 6
Atlantic A................6k
“  H................   6k
“ 
P ............   5
“ 
D........  ...  6
“  LL................5
Amory.....................6k
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  4k
Blackstone O, 32__  5
Black Crow............ 6
Black  Rock  ...........  6
Boot, AL................  7
Capital  A ............... 5k
Cavanat V..............5k
Chapman cheese cl.  3k
Clifton  C R............ 5k
Comet..................... 6k  | Oxford  R
Dwight Star............  6k  Pequot..............
Clifton CCC...........5k; Solar...................
(Top of the Heap
ABC...................8k
Geo.  W ashington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
A m a z o n ........................  8
Amsburg.................6k
Gold Medal............   7k
Art  Cambric.......... 10
Green  Ticket......... 8k
Blackstone A A......  7k
Great Palls.............   6k
Beats All................ 4k
Hope.......................  7k
Boston..................   12
Just  Out......   4k@ 5
King  Phillip...........7k
Cabot......................   7k
Cabot,  X.................  6k
OP......7k
Charter  Oak...........  5k.
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10 
& 8k @  5
Conway W ..............  7k ¡Lonsdale
Cleveland.............  6k  Middlesex
DwlghtAnchor—   8k No Name................  7k
shorts  8  Oak View............... 6
“ 
Edwards.................   6  Our Own.................  5k
E  mp...... 
..  7  Pride of the West.. .12
Farwell...................7k  Rosalind................... 7k
Pruitof the  Loom.  8klSunllght................   4k
Utica  Mills............ 8k
Pltcbville
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Pirst Prize.... .........7
Vlnyard..................  8k
Pruitof the Loom X.  7 k
White Horse...........  6
Pairmount..............  4k
Puli Value..............6k
.  8k  
Cabot...................... 7k! Dwight Anchor..
8k
Farwell...................8  I

Rock.
HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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Unbleached. 

I 

Housewife  A...........5k Housewife

CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached.

-6k
?k
-8k

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..-.sk
...  8k
9k
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...11
...21
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CABPET  WARP.

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Peerless, white....... 18
colored....20
Integrity.................18k
............. 8
Hamilton 
.................9
10k
 
G G  Cashmere........ 20
Nameless  ...............16
............... 18

Integrity  colored...20
¡White Star..............18
colored..20
Nameless............... 20
.................25
 
27k
..............30
.................32k
.................35
Coraline  ............... 89 50|Wonderful.  ..  — $4 50
Schilling’s ...............  9 00 Brighton....................4 75
Davis  Waists  ___   9  00 Bortree’s ..............  9 00
Grand  Rapids.......  4 50|Abdominal................ 15 00
Armory..................   6k  INaumkeag satteen..  7k
Androscoggin......... 7k Rockport....................6k
Biddefora.............   6  Conestoga.................7k
Brunswick..............6kl Walworth ..................6k
Allen tnrkey  reds..  5k¡Berwick fancies—   5k 

CORSET  JEANS.

CORSETS.

PRINTS.

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Ballou solid black..
colors.
Bengal bine,  green, 
Berlin solids 

Elnk a purple  5k Charter Oak fancies 4k

robes..........   5k  Clyde  Robes..........
u ffs..........   5y,  [DelMarlne cashm’s. 5k
moum’g  5k
pink  checks.  5k|_  “ 
......   5
Eddystone fancy...  5k 
staples 
4
shirtings ... 
chocolat  5k
5 
rober 
American  fancy... 
sateens..  5k 
5 
American indigo... 
4
Hamilton fancy.  ...  5k
American shirtings 
staple__5k
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Manchester fancy..  5k 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
new era.  5k 
“  —   6
Arnold 
Merrimack D fancy.  5k 
Arnold  Merino 
...  6 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
long cloth B.  9k 
“ 
“  Repp furn .  8k
“ 
“  C.  7k
¡Pacific fancy  .........5k
“ 
century cloth
robes............  6
“  gold seal......10k
“ 
“  green seal TR 10k 
Portsmouth robes...  6k  
Simpson mourning..  5k
“  yellow seal.. 10k
greys.......5k
“ 
serge.............Ilk
solid black.  5k
“  Tnrkey red.  10k 
Washington Indigo.  6k  
“ 
“  Tnrkey robes..  7k
“  India robes__7k
“  plain Tky X k   8k  
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key r e d ............... 6k
Martha Washington
Turkeyred k ......7k
Martha Washington
Turkeyred..........   9k
Rlverpoint robes__  5k
Windsor fancy........6k
Indigo  bine......... 10k
Harmony.................   4k
................. 13
A C A 
I Amoskeag AC A— i2k
Pemberton AAA— 16
Hamilton N  ...........7k
York....................... 10k
D............ 8k
Swift River............ 7k
Awning.. 11
Pearl  River............12
Parmer....................8
Pirst Prize............. 10k
Warren.....................13k
C B ILLO ga 
............ 16
Lenox M ills.......... 18
.
¡Atlanta,  D..............6k|»taJ*  A 
.............8
i Boot........................ 6k  No  Name..................7k
! Clifton, K  ..............7  ¡Top of Heap.............  9

red and  orange  ..  6 
........  5k
oil bine..
..  6
“ 
“  green 
..  51 
“  Poulards 
red k   • • • 
“ 
7
*•  X......   9
“ 
“ 44  .......10
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Cocheco fancy........  5
“  madders...  5 
“ XX twills..  5
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solids.......5

gold  ticket

COTTON  D 

TICKINGS.

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remain  on  the  surface and stretch,  and 
reach,  and  expand,  and  inflate  with 
wind until we swell  up  and  burst,  and 
then we will commence and do it all over 
again.
Credit is wind,  pure  and simple,  when 
carried beyond a certain  limit.  How of­
ten  have  we  heard  the  question  asked 
during the past few months:  “ How can 
a man do business  when  he  owes  more 
than he is worth?”  The nearest approach 
to  an  answer  of which 1 am capable is: 
No  man,  except an  American,  can con­
duct a business successfully  on a capital 
that is wholly borrowed.  1  say success­
fully,  for  it  is a fact that,  while pretty 
much all of the  business of  the  country 
is done with more  or less borrowed capi­
tal,  a good share of  it is  done on capital 
wholly borrowed. 
It shows a  wonderful 
degree  of  nerve  and  Yankee  pluck,  to 
say nothing of  business  acumen, on  the 
part  of  any  man  who  is  able  to  run  a 
$200,000 business for  a  term of years as 
his own,  and yet not have a single dollar 
of his own  in  it.  This bubble-pricking 
period has brought to  light  many  start­
ling  figures  which  will  advertise to the 
world at  large our miraculous stretching 
powers and the great utility of American 
wind as a business  “packen.”
Doing business in this country consists 
in stretching and  blowing,  and  the  man 
or corporation  who  can stand the great­
est  expansion  without  bursting,  makes 
the  greatest  business showing and wins 
the largest degree of  praise in  the mani­
festation  of  enterprise.  This  is  a  fact 
put in  simple language, and in it may  be 
found the primary  cause of  this present 
stagnation  in  business,  as  well  as  all 
other like periods which  have  preceded 
it.  Secondary  causes,  no  doubt,  have 
contributed  in  intensifying  it  but  the 
fact  remains  that  the  underlying  first 
cause of this and  all  other regularly re­
curring business  collapses  in this coun­
try,  is  caused  by  over-wind  stuffing. 
We  are  such  voracious  consumers  of 
wind that we keep  right  on gorging and 
inflating as though  there was no limit to 
our  stretchability.  when  finally, 
the 
point  of  utmost  tension  is  reached  and 
an explosion occurs.
G ran d   R apids  R etail  G ro cers’  A sso­
At the regular  meeting  of  the Grand 
Rapids Retail Grocers’  Association,  held 
at Protective Brotherhood  Hall, Monday 
evening,  Oct.  2,  President  Smits  pre­
sided.  The minutes of  the last meeting 
were read and approved.
Under the head of new business,  Peter 
Schuit again introduced the subject of  a 
tea testing contest,  whereupon E. J. Her­
rick suggested that the practice of  some 
of  the  Eastern  associations, 
inviting 
local jobbers to  exhibit  samples of can­
ned goods,  be also adopted.
E.  J.  Herrick moved that  a tea testing 
contest be held at  the  next meeting and 
that Peter Schuit be chairman of  a com­
mittee  to  make  arrangements  for  such 
entertainment. 
resolution  was 
adopted,  and  Mr.  Schuit  named  as  his 
assistants on the committee Messrs.  Her­
rick and Lehman.
The subject of  early  closing  was dis­
cussed at  some  length,  E.  White  intro­
ducing  the  subject  by stating that nine 
years ago the West  Side  grocers  closed 
their stores at 10  o’clock,  whereas  now 
their doors  are  locked  at 7 o’clock.  He 
would now like to see  the  stores  closed 
at  6  o’clock,  at  least during the winter 
months,  and suggested  that  some  steps 
be taken in  futherance of such a reform.
J.  Geo.  Lehman said  he  would like to 
see some movement  in  the  direction  of 
closing  the  stores  at  6:30,  and  would 
heartily  join  in  any  action  looking  to 
that end.
E.  J.  Herrick  stated that the Monroe 
street grocers  closed  at 6:30 o’clock, ex­
cept  on  Saturday  night.  He  had  been 
keeping open until 10  o’clock Saturdays, 
on  account  of  the  soda  fountain,  but 
would  close  at  9  o’clock  during  the 
winter.
J.  J.  Wagner  stated  that the grocers 
“on the hill”  close at  7  o’clock,  and he 
thought  they  would  gladly  join  in  a 
movement to close at 6:30.
E.  A.  Stowe  suggested  that  petitions 
be  prepared  and  circulated  in the sev­
is 
eral  localities  where  early  closing 
deemed desirable.

ciation.

The 

To prize winners.....................................   892 82
For printing program.................. 
80 00
 
17 50
For newspaper advertising.....................  
To Ball Barnhart Putman Co., supplies. 
1  35
Expenses of visitors............................... 
12 00
Printing expense.....................................   64

RECAPITULATION.
Total receipts...............................

$268 42
$391 35
268 42
$122 93

49
.  122 93
.  $100 42
There  being  no  further  business  the 

meeting adjourned.

n n m T D   peck h a m ’s  c ro u p  r em ed y
L B iU  U l   is  the  Chll  ren’s Medicine for 
Colds,  Couglis.  W hooping-Cough,  Croup 
Pneum onia,  Hoarseness, 
the  Cough  of 
Measles, and kindred complaints of Childhood 
Try Peckham's Croup Remedy for  the  children 
and be convinced of Its  merits.  Get a bottle to­
day,  you  m a y   need  it  tonight!  Once used  al
K TER TA P,N?8ant’  WHOOPING  COUGH
“My customers are well  pleased with  that  in 
valuable  medicine—Peckham’s  Croup Remedy. 
I recommend it  above  all  others for children.” 
H. Z.  C a r p e n t e r ,  Druggist, Parksville, Mo.

‘‘Peckham’s Croup  Remedy gives the best sat­
isfaction.  Whenever  a  person buys  a  bottle  I 
will  guarantee  that  customer will  come  again 
for more, and  recommend  it  to  others.”  C. H. 
P h il l ip s , Druggist, Girard, Kansas.

Hardware Price Current.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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AXES.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for cash,  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
d ls .
Snell’s ...........................................................
Cook's ........... 
40
 
Jennings’, genuine......................................  
25
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................50&10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze..  ......................* 7 00
D.  B. Bronze..........................  ia 00
s. B. s. Steel..........................   8 00
D. B. Steel.............................   13 50
dlS.
Railroad......................................................® J* 00
Garden.................................................net  80 00
d ls.
Stove..............................................................60410
Carriage new list.......................................... 75*10
Plow.  ...........................................................40*10
Sleigh shoe  .................................................  
70
Well, plain  ................................................. 8 3 50
Well, swivel  ............................................ 
 
dlS.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................704
Wrought Marrow, bright 5aat joint.............. 604.0

BUTTS,  CAST. 

BARROWS. 

BUCKETS.

b o l t s. 

CAPS.

CRADLES.

65
60
35
60

BLOCKS.

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CROW BARS.

CARTRIDGES.

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

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

Cast Steel............................................ per *>  5
Ely’s 1-10............................................ perm 
Hick’s C.  F ........................................  “ 
G. D ....................................................   “ 
Musket................................................ 
“ 

Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60410
Wrought  Table.............................................60410
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60410
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70410
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70410
Blind, Shepard’s
D lln/1  CVwmarfl’e 
70
Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892..............C0410

■rms  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
E.  J.  Herrick  opposed  this  method, 
stating  that  he  did  not believe in  peti­
tions or agreements  but  advocated indi­
vidual  action.  Herrick & Randall closed 
their  doors  at  7  o’clock,  while  others 
kept open until 8  o’clock,  but  inside of 
three mouths all but  one grocer on Mon­
roe street followed suit—and  that grocer 
is  now  “busted”  and  “on  the  street.” 
Herrick &  Randall  also  acted  indepen­
dently when they changed from 7 o’clock 
to 6:30,  and  now  6:30  is  generally  ob­
served  as  the  closing  time  by  all  the 
grocers  on  that  street.
A.  Buys  stated  that  he  had  kept  re­
ducing the  hours of  business until Buys 
& Van  Duinen  now  close  at  6:45,  and 
they propose  to  keep  narrowing  down 
the time until they get to 6;80.
Mr.  Herrick  moved  that  the  whole 
matter be  referred to the members Inter­
ested for individual action  in each local­
ity,  which  was adopted.
Peter  Schuit  suggested  that  the first 
meeting in the month be devoted to busi­
ness hereafter and the second meeting to 
entertainment features.  The suggestion 
appeared to meet with favor, but was not 
put into the form  of  a  resolution  and 
adopted. 
It was  resolved,  however,  to 
hold an entertainment session the second 
meeting in  November,  and  B. S.  Harris, 
Daniel Viergiver and  J.  J.  Wagner were 
appointed  a  committee  to  arrange and 
conduct the entertainment.
It was  reported  that Scofield,  Shurmer 
&  Teagle  were  retailing  oil 
in  small 
quantities  to  consumers,  and  the Com­
mittee on Oil were  instructed to investi­
gate the matter and report thereon at the 
next meeting.
T reasu rer  Lehm an  presented  the  fol­
lowing  report,  which  was  accepted  and 
adopted:
From C. & W. M. Railway.......................  8157 85
From advertisements in  program  .........   333 50
Total  receipts.....................................  391  35

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

Small sizes, ser pound................................  
07
6K
Large sizes, per pound................................  
Com. 4  piece, 6 In............................do*, net 
75
Corrugated.................. 
40
dls 
Adjustable..............................................dls. 40410
Clark’s, small, 8l8;  large, 826...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, 818 :  2, 824 ;  3,830  ............................ 
25
Disston’s ...................................................... 60410
New American  ............................................60410
Nicholson’s ..................................................60410
Heller’s .........................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ..................................  
50

Socket Firmer.............................................  70410
Socket Framing.............................................70416
Socket Corner................................................70410
Socket Slicks................................................70410
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

Currv,  Lawrence’s ......................................  
40
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per  gross— ........12©12K dls. 10

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

CHALK.
COPPER.

files—New List. 

expansive bits. 

RECEIPTS  FROM  PICNIC.

dripping PANS.

 
DRILLS. 

DISBURSEMENTS.

chisels. 

combs. 

ELBOWS.

50
25

dls.

dls.

dls.

dls.

dls.

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GALVANIZED IRON.

7

HAMMERS.

dlS.

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

HOLLOW WARE.

Maydole  4 Co.’s...............................................dls. 25
Kip’s .................................................................dls. 25
Yerkes 4 Plomb’s............................................ dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..................  
. .30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid CaBt  Steel  Hand— 80c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ...............................dls.60410
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4£  14 and
r 1
3*
%........... ............ net
10
X........... ............ net
8*
* ........... ............net
7K
X........... ............ net
7H
50
...........dls.
Bara Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50410
Champion,  anti friction.............................   60410
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots..............................................................  60410
Kettles.........................................................   60410
Spiders  .........................................................60410
Gray enameled..............................................40410
Stamped  TlnWare...............................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware.. ................................. 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 331s 410
Bright...................................................  70410410
Screw  Eyes............................................. 70410410
Hook’s .....................................................70410410
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70410410
dls.7o
Stanley Role and Level  Co.’s .....................
9
Sisal, H Inch and larger.............................  
Manilla.........................................................  13
dls.
Steel and Iron..............................................  
Try and Bevels...................................  
 
M itre............................................................ 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

levels. 
ROPES.

wire goods. 

squares. 

75
6U
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

SHEET IRON.

dls.

 

$2 91
3 05
8 05
3 15
3 25

8 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14...................................... 84 05 
Nos. 15 to 17 .....................................  4  05 
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4  05 
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4  05 
Nos. 25 to 26 ..................................    4  25 
No. 27 ...............................................   4 45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  .....................................dls. 
Silver Lake, White A............................. list 
Drab A.................................  “ 
White  B...............................  1 
DrabB.................................   “ 
White C...........................  
 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
50
55
"  85

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

I 

saws. 

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton 125
20
70
50
30

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

dls.

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

15 

12 

28
17

13 
Discount, 60

14 
GAUGES. 

 

 

 

“ 

dlB.

dlB.

wire. 

traps. 

NAILS

dls.
dls.

MATTOCKS.

WRENCHES. 

HORSE NAILS.

LOCKS—DOOR. 

hauls. 
mills. 

miscellaneous. 

MOLASBBS SATES. 

knobs—New List. 

painted.......................... 

........................................... Base 

30
dls.
Steel, Game...............................................60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...........  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s —  
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per dos
Mouse, delusion............................... 81.50 per doz
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppeqed Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market.........................................  6214
Coppered  Spring  Steel................................ 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..........................  2 80
2 40
Au  Sable........................................... dls.  40410
Putnam.......................................... 
dls.  05
Northwestern................................ 
dls. 10410
dls.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
80
Coe’s  Genuine —  *.....................................  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,....................  75
75410
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................... 
dls.
Bird Cages.......................  
 
50
 
Pumps, Cistern........................................ 
75410
Screws, New List.......................................... 70410
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50410410
Dampers, American.....................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods......65410

50
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................... 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....................  
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..................  
70
55
Russell 4 Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s............................ 
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
Norwalk’s ................................................... 
55
Adze Bye...........................................810.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye...........................................815.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ....................... 
...........818.50, dls. 20410.
dls.
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
50
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
«  p. 8. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables—  
“  Landers,  Ferry 4  Cls rk’s................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
81ebbin’s Pattern..........................................60410
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................66410
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, Dase..............................................1  50
Wire nails, base.....................................1  75@1  80
«0 
Base
Pig  Large....................................................  
..................................................  
K>
Pig Bars....................................................  
40...................................................... 
*5
so...................................................... 
*
Duty:  Sheet, 2tfc per pound.
20.......... 
35
] 660 pound  casks........................................... 
16............
S I  Per pound.................................................... 
12............
............................
10............
60 
8.............
75 
7 4 6 ........
90 
4..............
1  20 
8..............
1  60 
2.............
1  60 
Flne8 ...
65 
Case  10...
75 
8...
90 
6.  .
75 
Finish 10.
90 
8.
1  10 
6.
70 
Clinch: 10
80 
90 
6 .
1  75 
Barren %  ........................................
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   ©40
Sclota Bench............................................. 
050.
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  ©40
Bench, first qnallty......................................   ©40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood........... 50410
Fry,  Acme............................................ d!s.60—10
70
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
Iron and  Tinned.........................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Bars.............................   50—10
4 no
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“ B ”  Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

Extra W iping.................................................   15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by private brandf 
vary according to composition.
antimony
Cookson............ ...........................per  ponnd
Hallett’s......................................  
TIN—MBLYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.............  
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 EX, 

6  5‘.
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
..........................   8  50
.........................  18 50
20x28 IC, 
6 00
14x20 IC, “  AUaway  Grade.....................  
7  50
14x20 IX, 
12  50
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
15 50
14x29 IX.......................................................814  00
14x31  IX....................... 
....................15 00
10 00
S

“ Worcester............................. 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

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

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

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

Each additional X on this grade, 11.75.

Each additional X on this grade 81.50.

 IX  f“r N‘‘' Q Bo“ er*’ \ per pound 

 
BOOTING PLATES

METALS,
PIG TIN.

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

26c
38c

63£
7

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

13
$7

SOLDER.

p l a n b s .

RIVETS. 

ZINC.

PAHS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

dls.

dlS.

 
 
 

“ 

 
 
 

 

Broken packs 

per pound extra.

8

T H E   M IC H IG A li  TRADESM AN.

%HIGANlfiADESMAN

A  WKKKLT  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

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Published at

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tVEKXESIIAT,  OCTOBER  11,  1893,

the 

WAGES  AND  THE  COST  OF  LIVING.
T h e T radesman  has  more  than once 
called attentiou to the  effect  of  modern 
civilization  in  ameliorating the condition 
of 
laboring  classes.  To-day  the 
workman,  for the expenditure of 5 cents, 
has a carriage  (a street car)  to carry him 
to and  from  his  work.  He lives in a bet­
ter house,  which  is  provided  with more 
conveniences, than  was  the residence of 
many  a  rich  man  fifty  years  ago.  He 
lives better,  and  bis  family  are  able to 
dress  in  a  style  and  taste  that  would 
have been impossible  even  in  the period 
just before the American  civil  war.

All these facts are  due  to the extraor­
dinary  improvements  and  cheapening in 
the production of all articlesof consump­
tion, caused by  the  wonderful  progress 
in machinery and  in  the  application  of 
science in the industrial arts.  The steady 
cheapening  of  most  articles  of  prime 
consumption is a fact  well  known.  But 
cheapness counts  for  nothing  to people 
who  have  no  money to buy  with.  The 
entire  problem  of  the  benefit  derived 
from  the cheapening  of  necessaries  de­
pends on the ability of consumers to buy 
what  they  need.  The  question  arises, 
then:  How  have wages  kept  pace  with 
the prices of products?  Have  wages de­
creased,  stood still or  increased.

According  to  statistics  prepared  by 
Colonel Carroll  I>.  Wright.  United State« 
Commissioner in charge of the Bureau of 
Labor,  they  have  increased.  Some fig­
ures furnished  by  him to the Forum are 
worth  attention.  Commissioner Wright 
shows  that  in  1840,  a laborer in  a large 
brewery in the city of New York received 
62.5 cents a day; in  1860, 84 cents a day; 
in  1866, 81.30 a day; in 1891, from81.90 to 
82 a day.  Compositors  who  worked  by 
the day received,  in  1840, 81.50;  in  1860, 
82;  in  1866,  from  82.50  to  83,  and  the 
same in  1891.  These  quotations  are for 
a well-known  establishment  in  the State 
of Connecticut.  A  building firm  in Con­
necticut paid journeymen  carpenters,  in 
1840,  from 81.25  to  81.62 a day; in  1860, 
from 81.25 to 81.75 a  day;  in  1891,  from 
S3 to 83.25 a day.  A firm  of  builders in 
New York paid,  in  1840,  SI.50  a day; in 
I860,  82;  in  1866.  83.50;  in  1891,  83.50. 
the  same.  Similar
Painters  received 

quotations could be  made for carpenters 
and  painters  in  different  parts  of 
the 
Lastern States.  The rates of wages paid 
to wheelwrights  were,  in  1840, 81.25; in 
1866, 82;  in  1891, 82.50.  Cotton weavers 
(women) 
in  Massachusetts  earned,  in 
1840.  on  the  average,  about  62 cents a 
day; in 1860,  54.5 cents;  in  1866,  from 85 
to 90 cents, on the average; in 1891,81-05. 
Women frame  spinners  were paid about 
the  same,  earning  a  little  more  in  the 
later  years.  Wool  spinners,  both  jack 
and  mule,  earned  less  than $1 a day in 
1840,  while  in  1860  they earned  81.05  a 
day;  in  1866,  from 81.80 to  81.90  a  day; 
in 1891.  from 81.38 to 81.75 a day.

So much for wages earned  in  mechan­
ical trades.  According  to  reports made 
by  Hon.  W.  T.  Harris,  United  States 
Commissioner  of  Education,  brain  work 
was paid  as  follows  in  the  salaries  of 
school 
teachers:  Principals  of  boys’ 
high schools  in  Baltimore  received,  per 
annum,  in  1840,  81,500;  in  1860,  81,500; 
in  1866,  82,200;  in  1891, 82,400.  Princi­
pals 
in  primary  schools  for  both  boys 
and girls in  the  same city  received sala­
ries ranging at 8250, 8300, 8700  and 8696 
per  annum.  Assistants  (women)  in  the 
lowest  primary  schools  in 
the  city  of 
Boston  received,  for  the  first  year  of 
service, 8300 in  1860.  8450  in  1866,  and 
8456 in  1891.  The range  for  masters  in 
grammar schools  in  the  same  city  was 
from  81,500  in 
to 
82.880 in the last  year  that  we  are con­
sidering.  Stepping outside of cities, the 
facts are found very complete for the  re­
mote districts  of  Barnstable  county,  in 
the State  of  Massachusetts,  where  men 
received,  in  1840,  820.28  a  month;  in 
1860, 840.73  a  month;  in  1866,  $53.60  a 
month;  in  1890,868.18 a month.  Women 
in  the  same  counties  received  86.14, 
$19.12, 822.53 and $34.88 a month.  Prin­
cipals  (men) of  district  schools  in Cin­
cinnati  received,  for  our  four  periods, 
8540, $1,200, 81.900 and 81,900 a year,  the 
last  two  quotations  being  for  salaries 
after three years’ service.

the  earlier  period 

From the above  it  will  be  seen  that 
wages have not been cut down by the ex­
tensive  introduction  of  machinery  and 
improved  processes  in  production,  and 
for  the reason  that there  is  in every de­
partment of skilled  labor a higher degree 
of  responsibility  resting  on  operatives 
and employes.  When  nearly everything 
was  dependent  on  handwork  the  pro­
cesses  of  manufacture  were  slow,  the 
production was  limited,  and  the  goods 
could not be sold at a price as low as the 
necessities of consumers required.  Prices 
were high, and many  people were  forced 
to  deny  themselves  indulgences  which 
are now common.  Wages  and  expenses 
had to be kept down to the lowest  figure 
in  order  to  meet  the  abilities  of  the 
masses  of  purchasers.  Moreover,  if  an 
unskillful hand-worker should  spoil  his 
job,  the loss  would  be  confined  to  the 
particular article  upon which  be was en­
gaged,  and that  would  not  be  serious.
| To-day an incompetent workman may, in 
a  few  minutes,  destroy  machinery and 
material  worth  a  great deal  of  money. 
As a consequence,  bis  position is one  of 
responsibility and  must be paid for.

Low prices which are  the result of im­
proved  methods  of  production  do  not 
lower  the  standard  of  wages,  but  low 
prices which  come  from  financial  dis­
turbance  and 
industrial  depression do. 
The difference should be fully noted.  In 
order  to  make  the  country prosperous, 
set all the wheels of  industry in motion.

The more  people  earn  the  more  they 
spend,  and everybody gets the benefit  of 
the  situation.

TWO  SORTS  OF  DOLLARS.

Any  solution  of  the  silver  problem 
which will result in flooding  the country 
with silver to an  extent greater than the 
ability of the Government  to maintain  a 
parity between silver and  gold will have 
the effect  of  raising  the  prices of  farm 
products  and  manufactured  articles  in 
the ordinary markets.  That  is what the 
farmers  are  crying  for.  They  want 
higher prices for their cotton,  wheat and 
hogs.

When prices  are  high,  wages are low. 
The  chief  reason  of  it  is,  that  when 
prices  of  necessaries  are  high the con­
sumption will  be  brought  down  to  the 
lowest  possible  limit.  The  world  has 
only so much money to  buy with  and no 
more.  When  flour  is  85  a  barrel and 
sugar is 5 cents a pound,  the workpeople 
can afford to eat cake.  When flour is $10 
a barrel and sugar 10 cents  a  pound the 
people are glad to get bread. 
It  Is  use­
less to put  prices  up  beyond the ability 
of the people to buy.  Should flour go to 
820 a barrel  the  country would be filled 
with  hungry  people  and  bread  riots. 
Whenever  prices  of  necessaries  go  so 
high that  the  people  are  pinched,  the 
producers endeavor to meet the situation 
by reducing the cost  of  production,  and 
that  is  done  by cutting down the wages 
of  the  people engaged in  producing  the 
articles.

Immediately  after  the  civil  war  the 
only money in the country was  a  depre­
ciated currency,  which  was  worth  less 
thau  half as much as gold.  Never  were 
the prices of farm products higher.  But 
the same was the case with manufactured 
articles.  Transportation  to market was 
proportionately  costly. 
If  wheat  sold 
for $3 a bushel and  pork for $30 a barrel 
there was no profit to the  Western farm­
er,  because  the  cost  of  living  was  so 
great and the expense  of  transportation 
so enormous that when  the produce was 
marketed nothing was  left for the farm­
er.  Then arose the grange movement in 
the West to make  war  on  the  railroads 
and  the  middlemen  in  trade.  But  the 
real trouble was  that  the  money  of  the 
country  was  a  depreciated  stuff,  whose 
real value was  less  than  half  that  re­
quired tiy the world’s  standard,  and,  al­
though  prices  seemed  high,  they  were 
measured  by an inflated standard,  a dol­
lar of which was far from being a dollar.
Some wisdom ought to be learned from 
the experience of the past.  Should  this 
country  be  flooded  with  silver  coin  or 
silver  certificates  beyond  the ability of 
the treasury to  guarantee  in gold,  there 
will be again a period  of  apparent high 
prices.  They  will be high by the domes­
tic silver standard,  but not by that of the 
world’s gold measurement.  At the same 
time every article which the  farmer will 
have to buy will correspondingly increase 
in price.  The transportation companies, 
too, will  put up rates to correspond with 
the standard of the depreciated currency. 
Every cost will go  up  save that of labor, 
j  Employers  will  try  to meet the smaller 
demand for their goods consequent  upon 
the  increased  prices  by  keeping  down 
wages.

But while the farmers  and  the  work­
people will  be suffering from the evils of 
inflated  prices,  caused  by  the  use of a 
depreciated currency,  the capitalists and 
bankers  of  the  East  will  be  reaping  a

harvest.  They  will  be fattening on the 
premium  on  gold  and  banking on new 
issues  of  United  States  bonds.  Let it 
be remembered that all the vast fortunes 
in this country were made while a depre­
ciated  paper  currency  was  the  only 
money the people  had.  The income tax 
of 1865-66 revealed the  fact that beyond 
the  Astors,  Vanderbilt  and A. T. Stew­
art,  who built up their fortunes by years 
of successful  trade,  there  were  few rich 
men in New York.  Within a dozen years 
afterwards rose the Jay  Goulds,  the Jim 
Fisks,  and a score of other daring specu­
lators who suddenly  got rich by preying 
upon the  necessities  of  the  people. 
It 
was  the  two  sorts  of  money—a  paper 
dollar for the masses and a 100-cent gold 
dollar  for  the  rich—that  enabled  those 
men to accumulate,  in  an astonishingly 
short time,  fortunes  which  placed them 
among the world’s  rich  men.  They ac­
complished it by  forcing  the  people  to 
accept  the  cheap  dollar  and to pay the 
high-priced one.

Another  such  opporunity  will  be 
offered for the sudden gathering of great 
fortunes  by  flooding  the  country  with 
silver.  A fifty-cent  silver dollar for the 
masses  and  a  100-cent  gold  dollar  for 
the  capitalists  will  do 
the  business. 
There has been a great deal of talk about 
a conspiracy to drive out silver and force 
a gold standard upon  the country.  The 
worst financial conspiracy  would  be that 
which creates in the country two sorts of 
dollars,  with two standards of value.

Judge  Burlingame’s  decision  in 

FINAL  DEFEAT  OF  THE  PEDDLERS.
the 
cases of the three peddlers who appealed 
to the Superior  Court  from  the  verdict 
rendered  against  them  by  Judge  Hag­
gerty in  the Police Court  ends  another, 
and,  it is to  be  hoped,  the final,  chapter 
in the  farce  which  has  been  “on  the 
boards”  before  the courts of the city  for 
several months.  Judge Burlingame’s de­
cision settles the question  (if it ever was 
seriously in question)  as  to  the  exorbi­
tance  of  the  fees.  Judge  Burlingame 
does not  believe  they are exorbitant be­
cause they  will not  more  than meet  the 
cost  of  administering  the  ordinance. 
This fact was known  to  everyone  at  all 
acquainted with the provisions of the or­
dinance and  the  necessary work attend­
ing its enforcement.  Even  the attorney 
for  the  defence  knew  it,  only it  suited 
his purpose to ignore  it  so long as there 
was  a  dollar  to  be  made  out  of  his 
“clients.”  But, as it was clearly a ques­
tion  of  law,  it  is  possible  he  bad no 
knowledge of  its bearing upon  the case. 
Mr.  McBride’s  assertion  that  this jour­
nal was the chief  instigator of the prose­
cution of  the  peddlers  is  unqualifiedly 
false.  His statement that  the  editor  of 
T h e  T radesm an  told  him  that the  ob­
ject of  the agitation  was  to  drive  the 
peddlers out  of  the  business is equally 
false,  the  geutleman  named  having not 
spoken a word,  on  any  subject,  to  Mr. 
McBride for several years.  T h e T r a d es­
man certainly  used  its  influence for the 
protection of  legitimate  trade,  as it was 
bound to do,  but  it  never  presumed  to 
“ instruct”  or  advise  Assistant City At­
torney  Carroll,  who  has  on  more  than 
one occasion proved  himself  to be fully 
equal to the duties of his office.  Neither 
did the retail  grocers  of  the  city  “in­
struct”  or  advise  Mr.  Carroll.  They, 
more than  any one else,  were  interested 
in the enforcement of  the peddlers’ ordi­
nance,  and  were  perfectly  justified  in

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9

using their  influence to have it properly 
enforced.  With 
the  grocers,  T h e 
T radesm an feels  nothing  but  satisfac­
tion at the  outcome  of  the  appeals,  al­
though the result was  almost a foregone 
conclusion. 
It  is  to  be  hoped that  the 
peddling question is settled,  for this sea­
son,  at least._______________

FRUITS  OF THE  PANIC.

In the last issue of Bradstreet's,  one of 
the most  reliable  financial  publications 
in the country,  there appears a statement 
of  the business failures  during the nine 
months of  the year 1893 ending Sept. 30. 
This statement  is  of  special  interest,  as 
it  includes  the  period  of  the  financial 
panic.  When that memorable period  is 
remembered,  it is not surprising  to  find 
that  the  total  number of  failures is by 
far  the  largest  for  nine  months  on re­
cord,  the  total  being  11,174,  or  51  per 
cent,  more than  during a like  period  in 
1892,  when  the  total  was  7,378.  The 
total for the present year was also 26 per 
cent, more than in 1891, the heaviest pre­
vious  nine  months’  total of  failures on 
record.

The  significance  of  this  increase  in 
business  embarrassments  is  made more 
apparent when the record  of  assets and 
liabilities  is  considered.  According  to 
Bradstreet's  statistics,  “the  11,174  em­
barrassments  reported  during  the  past 
nine months carry  liabilities  amounting 
to $324,087,768,  about  four and a quarter 
times the aggregate  indebtedness of  the 
7,378 embarrassed  individuals,  firms and 
corporations in a like period of 1892,  and 
nearly two and one-half times the total  in- 
debtednes^of the 8,866 concerns reported 
as  having  suspended  in nine months of 
1891.  TnS largest  aggregate  indebted­
ness of (mling traders  ever  reported  in 
nine mq^ths in  any  preceding  calendar 
year was in 1884,  a  year of  panic,  also, 
in  whifcji  the  total  number  of  failures 
reported  during  nine  months was 8,302 
and  aggregate  liabilities  $195,951,000, 
only 60 per  cent,  of  the  like  indebted­
ness reported thus far  in 1893,  while the 
total number of failures reported in 1884 
amounted  to  74  per  cent,  of the aggre­
gate thus far this year.”
These  figures  show 

the  stupendous 
character  of  the  contraction which has 
been in progress,  and  conveys some idea 
of  the  liquidation  which will be neces­
sary  to  straighten  out  the financial en­
tanglements  resulting  from  these  fail­
ures. 
the  proportion  of 
assets  to  liabilities  is high,  as much as 
70 per cent.,  but it  must be remembered 
that the assets are assessed at their value 
previous to the  panic,  at least as a rule, 
which bears little actual  resemblance to 
their actual worth at the present time.

Of  course, 

THE  NEW  SECTIONALISM.

The  developement  of  the  West,  phe­
nomenal as it has been,  has  scarcely ex­
cited the attention it deserves.  But that 
attention will now be  drawn to it by the 
loud and emphatic  demand  of  the West 
for control of  the National Government.
In  the  beginning  of  this  Union  the 
South dominated the  Government.  The 
South had a population  and  social  pres­
tige that gave it  the first place.  After a 
time the political scepter was transferred 
to the North,  where  the  greatest aggre­
gations of wealth and population existed. 
The  boundary  line' between  the  North 
and the South  was  Mason  and Dixon’s, 
north  of  the  Potomac.  When the  na­
tional capital was  first  placed it was es­
tablished  at  Philadelphia.  There  the

Declaration of Independence was framed 
and promulgated; there the first Congress 
was assembled.  But the dominent influ­
ence of Southern  men removed the capi­
tal  to  the  South  of Mason und Dixon’s 
line, and there it remains  to-day,  a mon­
ument  to  the  controlling  power  of  the 
population  south  of  Pennsylvania  and 
New York for the first  three-quarters  of 
a century of  the republic.

But,  in the meantime,  the  Mississippi 
valley was being  settled up.  The great­
est development was in  the nothern part 
of it.  All the people north  of  the Ohio 
Biver were bound in  political  sympathy 
with those of  the States north of  Mason 
and  Dixon’s  line,  and  so,  eventually, 
political and financial  power were trans­
ferred to the North.  So long as the peo­
ple of the States north of  the Ohio could 
be  kept  through  the  force  of  political 
sentiment and prejudice,  and  by the in­
strumentality  of  business  connections, 
under tutelage and servitude to the East­
ern States,  the two sections of the North 
and the South,  with the South in a hope­
less  minority,  disputed  for  political 
supremacy.

But  the  end  of  the  old  sectionalism 
has come.  There is actually in progress 
a new adjustment of  political issues and 
a new demarcation of sectional lines. 
It 
is the rise of the West that has done this. 
The political issues  are  no longer based 
on questions of sentiment and sympathy, 
but upon problems of finance and mater­
ial  development.  As 
to  the  political 
frontiers,  they  are  to  be no longer the 
Ohio  River and  the  southern  boundary 
of  Pennsylvania. 
It  is  now  the  West 
against  the  East,  and the frontier is the 
line of  the  Alleghany Mountains. 
It is 
the  vast  Mississippi  valiey  against  the 
Atlantic slope.

It is truly remarkable  that  this  giant 
of  the  West  should  have  consented  to 
remain in leading strings  so  long,  but it 
only needed an occasion  and  an  issue to 
arouse  him  to  action,  and that issue is 
found  in  the  financial  questions  which 
are convulsing the  country from the At­
lantic  to  the  Pacific.  Heretofore  Wall 
street  has  dictated  finance and politics, 
with only  a murmur of  dissent  from the 
West.  Now  the  West  openly  revolts. 
No  matter  what  may  be the immediate 
decision,  the West  has determined  upon 
political  emancipation,  and it will never 
rest until that end shall be gained.

As to the  elements of  political  power 
possessed by the  West, a few words will 
show that they are  enormous.  Marking 
the frontier between the new  sections at 
the  line  of  the  Alleghany  Mountains, 
and counting the country upon the rivers 
that flow  into the  Atlantic  Ocean as the 
East, and those  which  flow into the Gulf 
of  Mexico as the West,  and claiming for 
the West  most  of  the  region  upon  the 
great  Northern 
lakes,  is  will  be  seen 
that the West is inconceivably rich in re­
sources.  Within  its  borders  are  pro­
duced wheat, corn,  cotton,  iron and coal 
in  practically  unlimited  quantities, 
while the lands are the  most fertile trav­
ersed by great navigable  rivers,  with all 
the varieties  of  climate  to  be  found in 
the limits of 20 degrees of latitude.

By  the  census  of  1890  it  was  found 
that of  twenty-eight  cities,  having 100,- 
000 inhabitants or over, twenty are in the 
region west of  the Alleghanies,  and only 
eight east of that range.  Of that twenty, 
two—Buffalo and Rochester—are in New 
York and  may be given  to the  East, al­
though their  lake  trade  identifies  them

with  the  West.  Pittsburg  and  Alle­
ghany are in Pennsylvania, but  they are | 
more  a part of  the  West than  the East; 
but leaving out  such debatable territory, 
the West has all the resources that enter­
prise and  labor can  ask  to  convert  into 
wealth and  material  power,  while,  with 
more than a thousand miles of  coast line 
on the Gulf of Mexico, it has its own cut­
let to  the Atlantic.  As to  access  to fbe 
Pacific Ocean,  it  is  all and  only through - 
the  West.  Of  course,  the  vast  region 
west of the Rocky Mountains is  allied to 
Western sectionalism,  and will  be until 
such  time  as  the  Pacific  Coast  States 
shall be  able to  erect  themselves  into a 
section  with  distinct  interests  and  de­
mands upon the Federal Government.

Chicago, by virtue  of  its enormous en­
terprise  in  creating  the  grandest  inter­
national  exposition the  world  ever saw, 
and the vast  advertising it has  received 
through  such a  potential  instrumental­
ity,  has suddenly come into the condition 
of a metropolis,  disputing for supremacy 
with New  York  itself.  The  possession 
of power  creates a  desire  to  show  and 
use it.  Such a natural desire will not be 
ignored  by the  West. 
It  will  lose  no 
time in consolidating  its power,  and  ne­
glect  no  opportunity to  exhibit it.  Fu­
ture political  struggles will  be between 
the East and the West.

The ease with which the courts of  this 
country can  be prostituted and reputable 
citizens  blackmailed out of  comfortable 
sums  of  money is  strikingly  illustrated 
in the suit for  damages brought  against 
ex-Warden  Davis of  the Jackson  prison 
by M.  P.  Gill,  who was discharged on ac­
count of his  supposed  complicity in  the 
escape of  Latimer,  the  matricide.  The 
case  was  offered  a  reputable  attorney, 
but  was  refused  unless  Gill  would  ad­
vance a retainer fee, when he resorted to 
James E.  McBride,  who  probably  took 
the  case  “on  shares.”  The  matter 
never  came to  trial,  as  Gill was  unable 
to give security for costs, but the defend­
ant was  compelled to make  all prepara­
tions for a trial and  was  thus  subjected 
to an  expense  of  a  couple  of  hundred 
dollars,  which could  just  as  well  have 
been  avoided  were  the  courts  of  this 
country  so  constituted  that  they  could 
not be made  the vehicles of  adventurers 
and blackmailers,

S h ou ld   A void   F ak e  M erchants.

From the JackBon Patriot.
There are two or  three  fake  concerns 
doing  business  in  different  sections  of 
the State and one of  them,  it is asserted, 
is casting longing eyes on this city.  The 
present winter will be one in  which they 
expect to do a  profitable  business.  The 
stringency of  the times  makes  the poor 
man look at his dollar harder than usual. 
He devours with greed the prices quoted 
by merchants in  his anxiety to make the 
aforesaid dollar go as far as possible.  It 
is this condition of the  poor  people that 
has  attracted  the  attention  of  the  skin 
dealer,  but, 
if  the  buyer  will  reason 
with himself, the fakir  will not prosper. 
Just a little reasoning will show that the 
home merchant can and  does give better 
values than the fake concern.  The home 
merchant is honest—must  be  honest,  in 
fact.  He  sells  goods  and  stays  in  the 
city  while  they  are being worn.  Were 
he to treat  bi9  customers  anything  but 
honestly  his  business  would  soon  be 
ruined  by  the  exposure of  his crooked 
methods.  With the  fakir it is different. 
He  sells  at  low  prices,  and  before  the 
fraudulent character  of  his  business  is 
discovered,  he has flown.  His  goods are 
dear  at  any  price  in  ninety-nine  cases 
out of a hundred.
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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
first made, or the moral reasons advanced 
in support of it,  I  claim  from  evidence 
deduced from  the  writings  of  scientlic 
men,  that the  physiological  laws  which 
govern  the  human  system  demand,  at 
regular  intervals,  a  certain  portion  of 
our existence for  absolute rest,  and that 
every seventh day has been demonstrated, 
scientifically,  to  be  the  proper  propor­
tion as well as the proper interval.

C apt.  B elknap  o n   th e   F in an cial  S itu a ­

tion .

A representative of  T h e  T radesm an 
recently had an  interesting conversation 
with  Hon.  Cbas.  E.  Belknap,  in  the 
course of which that gentleman was asked 
for his opinion as  to  the  business pros­
pects of the country.

•■They  ar§  undoubtedly brightening,'* j 
said  Mi-  Belknap. 
•‘Money*  is.  much 
easier, not only in  the  great mqney.ccn,- 
lers,7.but ¿11 •ofer  the  country',.'  Asrycu 
have probably -seen by  the  papers,  mills 
and factories which have been shut down 
for weeks,  and  some of them for months, 
have resumed operations.  As  they were 
forced to close for want  of  money, their 
starting up again must  be taken  to indi­
cate that they have  secured  what money 
they need.”

to  radicalism. 

Asked as to the prospects  for the final 
repeal of  the Sherman  act,  Mr.  Belknap 
said:  “It will  be repealed, there can be 
no doubt of that.  But it will  not be un­
conditional repeal, by  any  means.  The 
House  bill has served its purpose, and it 
is hardly likely to be heard of again.  Its 
prompt passage served  to  allay the pan­
icky feeling,  and,  in a  measure,  restored 
the fast-waning confidence of the people, 
but the Senate  will  not  pass  it.  That 
body is very conservative  in  sentiment, 
and is  not  given 
It  is 
hard to say what  will  be  the  nature  of 
the financial  legislation  of  the  present 
Congress;  but,  without  claiming  to be a 
prophet.  1 think it will be something like 
this:  * First,  the repeal of the purchasing 
clause  of  the  Sherman  act;  then the en­
actment of a law somewhat similar to the 
act in  force  previous  to  1890, or  before 
the passage of  the Sherman act;  or,  pos­
sibly,  the  reenactment  of  the  old  law, 
which  provided  for  the  purchase  of 
•2,500,000  ounces  of  silver,  as  against 
4,500,000 ounces under  the law  of  1890. 
Then I  think the Secretary of  the Treas­
ury will be authorized to coin the “seign­
iorage”  which  remains  in 
the  vaults. 
This will be  a  clear gain to the Govern­
ment of S50.000.000,  as  it  represents the 
profit on  the  Government’s purchases of 
silver.”

In reply to the question  as to  when the 
silver legislation  would  be effected,  Mr. 
Belknap  replied:  “It  is  impossible to 
say,  but I do not think  anything will  be 
done this session.  As  I  said before,  the 
Senate will  hardly pass  the  House bill, 
so that  whatever legislation is passed by 
the Senate must  go to conference.  This 
means  considerable  delay.  Then,  too, 
and  I  am  simply  stating  the fact,  the 
Democrats  have  attacked 
the  federal 
election  law,  a  measure which Repub­
licans believe to be  absolutely essential. 
The Democrats depend  upon  Republican 
votes to help them out  in  the passage of 
financial legislation;  in  fact, they cannot 
get along without  them.  The  agitation 
for the  repeal  of  the  election  law may 
compel the Republicans  in the House,  in 
self defense,  to  withdraw  their  support 
and  leave  the  Administration  to  work 
out its own  salvation.  This  means still 
further delay,  so that final  action on  the 
financial  problem will  hardly  be reached 
this session.”

“I want to  say,” added  Mr.  Belknap, 
“ that,  in my opinion,  the Sherman  act is 
not responsible,  to  anything  like the ex­
tent claimed,  for the panic which has al­
most paralyzed the business of the coun­
try.  One  of  the  planks  in  the Demo­
cratic  platform  upon  which  that  party 
went before the country last  fall  practi­

cally declared  for  the  free  coinage  of 
silver, if it meant anything at all.  They 
were successful upon the declarations of 
that  platform.  Either  the  people  did 
not know what  they  were  voting for,  or 
else they wanted  something  very  much 
like  free  coinage.  The  Sherman  act 
limits the purchase of  silver to 4,500,000 
o'ufices, and  was  introduced  in the first 
place  to  prevent  the  passage of  a  free 
.coinage  measure. 
It  will  hardly  be 
: cljumed  that  the  people  have  changed 
"their" minds  so  completely 
in  a  few 
months as now to desire the entire aboli­
tion of  the coinage of  silver.  The prin­
cipal cause of the depression  (and this is 
not the opinion of  Republicans only,  but 
of many prominent  Democrats and Dem­
ocratic  newspapers  as  well)  is  to  be 
found in the uncertainty as  to what is to 
be the nature  of  the tariff  legislation of 
the present majority  in  Congress.  Will 
it  be  absolute  free 
trade,  or tariff for 
revenue only,  or  what?  Nobody knows. 
And so the great industries  of  the coun­
try,  which  have  been  built  up under  a 
protective tariff,  are  at  a  standstill,  be­
cause of  the uncertainty as to the extent 
to which  they will  be  affected  by  new 
tariff legislation.  1 think the effect  upon 
business would be the same if the change 
to be made were from  free trade  to  pro­
tection,  instead  of  from  protection  to 
free  trade,  while  possibly  not  so  far 
reaching  and  long  continued.  But,  in 
the  one  case,  it  would  necessitate  the 
business of  the  country adjusting itself 
to new conditions with  the prospect of a 
great and  growing  market  right  at  its 
door,  with little or  no  competition  from 
without;  while,  under  a  change  from 
protection to free trade,  it  means just as 
radical a change in conditions, of course, 
but with  practically unlimited  competi­
tion from abroad. 
It  remains to be seen 
which condition will  be  most  beneficial 
to the country at  large.”

Mr.  Belknap is a business man,  a keen 
observer, and well  posted  in  public af­
fairs and on the inner workings  of  Con­
gressional  politics,  and  his  views  and 
opinions on  public questions are worthy 
of close attention.
H ave  B u sin ess  M en  A n y  U se   For  th e 

Sabbath?

W ritte n  fo r Th e  Tradesman.

I do not ask  this question from a pure­
ly moral stand-point.  1 have  rubbed up 
against  all  kiuds  of  people  for  nearly 
half a  century,  and  I  am  aware  of  the 
fact that there are a great many good, con­
scientious, well-meaning people who look 
upon  Sunday  observance  as  a relic  of 
by-gone superstition.  These  good  peo­
ple are very merciful  in their judgments. 
They  attribute  this  desire  to set apart 
one day  in seven  as  a  day  of rest from 
worldly business  activities,  whether on 
the part of the  Hebrew  and Sabbatarian 
Christian who hold  that  Saturday is the 
proper  day  or  the 
regular  orthodox 
Christian who holds that  Sunday, or the 
fi^st day of the week,  is  the  day  to  be 
observed,  to a  superstitious  taint which 
is  becoming  weaker  as  the  generations 
go  by,  and  which will  soon become en­
tirely  extinct.  Now,  as  before  stated, 
this question is not  asked  from a moral 
stand-point.  I  ask every Hebrew, Chris­
tian and Gentile, engaged in  business,  do 
we need a day of  complete  rest from all 
worldly business cares  and  perplexities 
at regularly recurring  intervals? 
If so, 
is every seventh day a  proper  division?
Leaving  out  the  question  as to how, 
and by what authority,  this division was

in  the  days  of  the  dynamo,  while  our 
forefathers  lived 
in  puritanical  days 
when every seventh day was  religiously 
observed  as  a  day  of  rest and total ab­
stinence from all  brain-exciting  and tis­
sue consuming exercises,  whether in the 
nature of labor  or  so-called  recreation. 
This fact,  more than any other,  accounts 
for the great scarcity,  in our day,  of the 
jolly old octogenarian.

The laws  of  health  require  that one- 
third of  every  day of  a  business man’s 
life should be devoted to sleep.  The  re­
maining  portion,  for  six  consecutive 
days,  should be  devoted  one-half  to the 
keen,  uninterrupted  pursuit of business 
and  the  other  half  to  preparation  and 
recreation,  while  two-thirds  of  every 
seventh day should be consecrated to ab­
solute rest and serious  meditation. 
I do 
not  believe  that  a  perfectly  developed 
manhood  is  otherwise  attainable.  The 
seventh day rest is not a time for recrea­
tion,  as the term is generally understood, 
but a day  of  rest,  pure  and  simple;  a 
time  when  the  muscles  are  allowed  to 
relax and the wrought up nerves soothed 
into a condition of perfect  quiet;  a time 
when the tired,  feverish  brain is  unhar­
nessed and turned  out  to roam at pleas­
ure 
region  of  thought 
whence cometh all our noblest aspirations 
and  fondest  anticipations;  a time when 
we lay the galling yoke of  Adam’s curse 
aside  and  listen  to  the  whisperings  of 
Nature—which  is  the  voice  of  God— 
beckoning us on to  nobler  deeds and  in­
spiring us with renewed energies for bat­
tling with the duties of the coming week. 
The business man,  above all others, can­
not  violate  with  impunity the old com­
mand,  “Remember  the  Sabbath  day  to 
keep it holy.” 

E.  A.  Ow en.

that  pure 

in 

enjoy 

longer, 

real 
accomplish  more 

It has been  proved,  beyond possibilty 
of controversion, that the man who turns 
the key on his worldly  avocation  and all 
worries and perplexities  connected with 
it,  at  the  close  of every sixth day,  and 
retires to a day  of  absolute  rest,  quiet 
meditation  and  serious  reflection,  will 
live 
better  health, 
satisfaction  out  of 
get  more 
life 
and 
hard 
work than the man  who  never takes his 
nose off the  grindstone.  The  man  who 
can  never  find  time  to  look  up  at  the 
twinkling  stars,  or  sit  down  in  some 
quiet  nook  and  listen  to  the  voice  of 
nature  in  her  multiplicity of symphon­
ies,  ripples,  murmurs  and  plaintive 
cadences,  burns up his existence without 
realizing that  he  ever had one.  Such a 
man is like a beast  of  burden,  kept tug­
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them  right  in  the  prime  of  life?  The 
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ruddy-cheeked,  white-haired, 
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T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A lH E S M A IS T .

Wholesale Price  Current•

Advanced—Balsam Peru.  Balsam Fir.

Lycopodium.

Declined—Po. Ipecac.  Grd Flax Seed.

TINCTUBES.

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“ 

Aconltum  Napellls R.........   60
J*...........   5Q
Aloes...................................  
  60
and myrrh...................  60
Arnica..................................  50
Asafoetida............................  o
Atrope Bel ladonna................  60
Benzoin.................................  60
“  Co............................  50
Sangulnaria..........................   so
Barosma...............................  50
Cantharides..........................   75
Capsicum.............................   50
Ca damon..............................  75
Co.....................   75
Castor................................... 1 00
Catechu................................  50
Cinchona.............................   50
Co.....................    60
Columba...............................  50
Conlum.................................  50
Cubeba..................................  50
Digitalis  ..  ...........................  50
Ergot.....................................   50
Gentian.................................  50
“  Co..............................  60
Gualca..................................   50
“ 
ammon..................  60
Zingiber...............................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................  50
Iodine....................................  75
Colorless................  75
Ferri  Chlorldum...............  35
K ino.....................................   50
Lobelia..................................  50
Myrrh....................................  50
Nux  Vomica.........................  50
O pll.......................................  85
“  Camphorated.................   50
“  Deodor..........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex......................  50
Quassia.................................  50
Rhatany.......................   ...  50
Rhel.......................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol....................   50
Co................  50
Serpentaria..........................   50
Stramonium..........................   60
Tolutan.................................  60
Valerian..........................  
Veratrum Veride...................  50

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  50

ACIDUM.

t  Acetlcum...................
Benzol cum  German..
j  Boraclc  ..................
■  Carbollcum..............
*  Cltrlcum...................
HydrocMor................
i  NRrocum 
.................
?  Oxalicum...................
Phosphorlum dll........
•  Salley licum...............1
•*f  Sulphuricum..............
Tannlcum..................1
Tartaricum................
a m m o n ia.

8@   10 
65®  75an
25©  35 
52®  55 
3®  5
10®  12 
10®  12 
20
30®1  70 
IX©  5 
40®1  60 
30®  33

« 

[  Aqua, 16  deg............... 3)4®  5
20  deg..............  5)4®  7
i  Carbouas  ..................   12®  14
!  Chlorldum................   12®  14

3*®

ANILINK.

,A  Black..........................2 00@2 26
w  Brown........................   80@1 00
Red.............................   45®  50
Yellow....................2 SO®3 00

BACCAS.

4  Cubeae (po  40).......  35®  40
“ 
Junlperus..................  8®  10
Xantnoxylum.............  25®  30

BALSAMUM.

Copaiba........... 

  42®  45
u   Peru............................  @1  00
♦*  Terabln, Canada  ....  50®  60
?  Tolutan.....................  35®  50

 

COBTEX.

;  Abies,  Canadian..... ..........   18
. a  Casslae  ..............................   11
w  Cinchona Flava  ................   18
Enonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po............   20
.1  Prunus Virgin!...................   12
Qulllaia,  grd.......................  10
Sassafras  ............................  }*
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

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EXTBACTUM. 
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra...
p o ..........
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is..............
)4s...........
)4B............
FEBBU
Carbonate Preclp.......
Citrate and Q uinta...
Citrate  Soluble..........
Ferrocyanldum Sol —
Solut  Chloride...........
Sulphate,  com’l .........
pure............

w 

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

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

FLORA.

Arnica.......................  
Anthemls................... 
Matricaria 

|8®  20
35
......   50®  65

Cnbebae....................  @ 3 00
Exechthltos..............  2 50®2  75
Erigeron.....................2 00®2 10
Gaultherla..................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......   @  75
Gossipll,  Sem. gal......  70®  75
Hedeoma  ...................2 10@2  20
Junlperl......................  50®2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Llmonls...................... 2 40®2 60
Mentha Piper...............2 75®3 50
Mentha Verld............. 2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal..............1  00®1 10
Myrcla, ounce............   ®  50
Olive..........................  85®2 75
Plcls Llqulda, (gal. 35)  10®  12
Rlclnl.......................  1  22@1  28
Rosmarlnl............  
75@l  00
Rosae, ounce...............6 50@8 50
Succlni.......................   40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
Santal  ........................3 50®7 00
Sassafras.  .................   50®  55
Sinapls, ess, ounce__  ®  65
Tlglll..........................   @  90
Thyme.......................  40®  60
o pt.................  @  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

r‘ 

POTASSIUM.

B1 Carb.......................  15®  18
bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide....................  40®  43
Carb.........................  .  12®  15
Chlorate  (po  83@25)..  24®  26
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..........................2 90@3 00
Potassa, Bltart,  pure..  27®  30 
Potassa, Bltart, com...  @ 15
Potass Nltras, opt......  
8®  10
Potass Nltras..............  7®  9
Prussiate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po................  15®  18

RADIX.

Aconltum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................   12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentlana  (po. 12)......  
8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)...................  @  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po....................1 60@1 75
Iris plox (po. 35®38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  40®  45
Maranta,  Us..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhel..............................  75@1 00
“  cut......................  @1  75
“  pv.......................   75@1  35
Splgella......................  35®  38
Sangulnaria, (po  25)..  ®  20
Serpentaria.................  30®  32
Senega.......................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40 
M  @ 25
Sclllae, (po. 35)............   10® 12
Symplocarpus,  Fcetl-
dus.  po............ .......  @ 35
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a .................... 
18® 20
Zingiber  J................... 
18® 20

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nlvelly............... 

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-

...................  18®  50
25®  ~8
Alx.  35®  50
and  54s....................  15®  25
...................  8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  %s
UraUrsl 

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BUMMI.
“ 
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11 

16)....................... 

Acacia, 1st  picked....  ®  60
2d 
....  @ 40
3d 
....  ®  30
sifted sorts...  @  20
p o ......  ..•>■  60©  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  @  12
Soootrl. (po.  60).  @ 50
Catechu, Is, ()4s, 14 )4>.
©  1
Ammoniac.................  55®  60
Assafeetida, (po. 85)..  30®  35
Bensolnnm.................  50®  55
Camphors...................  50®  55
Buphorblum  po  ........  35®  10
Gafbanom...................  @2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70®  7b
Gualacum, (po  35) —   ®  30
Kino,  (po  1  10).........   @1  15
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  ®  40
Opll  (po  3  85)................2 7S@2 85
Shellac  ......................  45®  42
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth...............   40® 1  00

“ 
hebba—In ounce packages.

Abslnthlom.........................  25
Eupatorium.........................  20
,  Lobelia.................................  25
Maiorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
“  V lr.........................  25
Rne.......................................  80
Tanacetnm, V ......................  22
Thymus,  V ...,....................   25
Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M__  20®  25
Carbonate, JennlngS..  35®  38

MAONXSLA.

OLEUM.

Absinthium.................... 3 50®4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc......  45®  75
Amydalae, Araarae__ 8 00®8 25
Anlsl............................... 1 70@1 9>
Aurantl  Cortex..........2 30®2 40
Bergamli  ...................3 25@3 SO
C&jlputl.................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll...............   75®  80
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodll...............   ®1  60
Cinnamonli...............   90@1  00
k&tronella..................   @  45
Conlnm  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba  ............ 
80®  90

 

SEMEN.

Anlsnm,  (po.  2 0 ) ....  @  15
Apinm  (graveleons)..  15®  18
Bird, Is......................... 
4® 6
Carui, (po. 18)..............   10® 12
Cardamon........................1  00@1 25
Corlandrum.................   10® 12
Cannabis Satlva.........   4® 
5
Cydonlum....................  75@1 00
Cnenopodinm  .............  10® 12
Dipterlx Od orate........2 25®2 50
Foenlcnlnm...............  @  15
Foenngreek,  po.........  
6®  8
L ln l............................4  ® 4X
Llnl, grd,  (bbl.8)  ...  3)4®  4
Lobelia.........................  35® 40
Pharlarls Canarian__  3)4® 4)4
Rapa............................. 
6®  7
Sinapls  Alba............ 8  @10
r   Nigra...........  11®  12

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s f ib it u s .
Frumentl, W., D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R.......1  75@2 00
1 25@1  50
 
JnnlperiB  Co. O. T .... 1  65®2 00
“ 
.............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  B........ 1  75@2 00
Spt.  Vlnl  Galll........... 1  75@6 50
Vlnl Oporto................1  25@2 00
Vlnl  Alba....................... 1  25@2 00

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

 

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Aurantl Cortes....................  50
Rhel Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega..................... 
  50
Sdllae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Pranas  vlrg.........................  50

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S.  N. Y. Q.  &

Morphia,'’S.  P. & W.  2 20@2 45 
C.  Co....................  2 10®2 35
Moschus Canton____  @  40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  65®  70
Nnx Vomlca, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  20®  22
PepBin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls Llq, N.‘C., % gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts......  @1  00
pints.........   @  85
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__  @  3
Pix  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opll. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
4 P . D.  Co.,doz......  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae....................  8®  10
Qulnia, S. P. & W......  29®  34
S.  German__  20®  30
Ru bla  Tlnctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactis pv. 
20®  22
Salacln...................... 1  75®1 80
Sanguis  Draconls......  40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
lf  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

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

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   75 
Lard, No.  1...............   42 
Linseed, pure raw  ...  37 

Bbl.  Gal
70
80
45
40

“ 

faints. 

Linseed,  boiled.........  40 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   75 
Spirits Turpentine__  33 

11
43
80
39
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian..............IX  2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__IX  2@4
“ 
Ber........lx   2@3
Putty,  commercial....2X  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure......2)4  2X@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16
ican ............................. 
Vermilion,  English__ 
65@70
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red....................  ex®7
“  w hite............... 6X®7
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.....................1  00@1  20
No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................1G0@1  70
Coach  Body.............. 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.......1  00@1  10
Eutra Turx Damar__1  55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 

VARNISHES.

Turp............................ 

70@75

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

B po.

‘ 
“ 

Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  28®  30 
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alnmen....................... 2)4® 3

T‘ 
ground,  (po.

“ et Potass T.  55®  60

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antimoni, po.............. 
4®  5
Antipyrin..................   @1 40
Antlfebrln..................  @  25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  55
Arsenlcnm................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__ 
38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............ 2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, ()4s
12;  Xs,  14)..............  @  11
Cantharides  Russian,
po.......................
@1  00 
Capslcl  Fructus, af
@  26 
@  28 
@  20
Caryophyllns, (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine, No. 40.........   ®3 75
Cera  Alba, S. <& F ......  50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Cocoas.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  25
Ceutrarla....................  @  10
Cetaceum...................  @  40
Chloroform...............   60®  63
squlbbs ..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  35ffil  60
Chondrus...................  20®  25
Clnohonldlne, F.  A  W  15®  20
German 3  @  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
60
cent  ......................
Creasotum.................
@ 35
Crete, (bbl. 75)...........
@ 2
5® 5
“  prep..................
“  preclp..............
9® 11
“  Rubra...............
© 8
Crocus......................  40®  50
40® 50
Cudbear
@ 24
Cuprl Sulph...............   5®   6
5 a
6
Dextrine....................  10®  12
10® 12
Ether Sulph...............   70®  75
70® 75
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
O
@ 6
Brgota, (po.)  75 .........   70®  75
70® 75
12® 15
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla
® 23
Gambler......................7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
French...........  40®  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 & 10. 
Less than box 66X
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White...............   18®  25
Glycerins...................14)4®  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  ®  22
Humulns....................   25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  85 
“  Cor  ....  @  80
Ox Rubram  @  90
Ammontati.
@1 00
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyram............   @  64
Icnthyobolla, Am..  ..1 25®1 50
Indigo........................   75@1 00
Iodlne,  Resubl...........3 80@3 90
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin......................  @2 25
Lycopodlum..............  70®  75
Macls.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  S .F .............   60®  63

IX)............................2)4® 4

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CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT  MEDICINES

DEALERS  IN

Paints, Oils  % Varnishes.

Sole Agents for the  Celebrated

SWISS  1/ILLI  PREPARED  PUNTS.

M   lie of  Stacie  Dmagists  Sundries

We are Sole P roprietors of

WBatìierlu’8  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

W e Have in Stock and O der a  Full Line of

WHISKIES,  BRANDIES,

GINS,  WINES,  RUMS,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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T H E   MICHIGAN'  TRADESMAN.

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

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

Sap Sago....................
Schweitzer. Imported.
CATSUP.

domestic

“ 

321
324
314

“ 

.  2 75
4 60
3 50
.  1  35
.  4 50
.  3 75

Blue Label Brand.
Half  pint, 25 bottles......
Pint 
......
Quart 1 doz bottles
Triumph Brand.
Half pint, per  doz  ........
Pint, 25 bottles...............
Quart, per  doz  ..............
CLOTHES  PINS.
5 gross boxes.................40345
COCOA  SHELLS
35 lb  bags......................
33
Less quantity  ..............  @3)4
Pound  packages....... 6V3 7

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

..IS
..20
20

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

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

“ 

Package.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 44c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
M cLaughlin's  XXXX  24 45
Bunola  ...........................   23 95
Lion, 60 or 100 lb. case  ..  24  45
Eztr&ct.
75
Valley City 44 gross 
Felix 
’ 15
Hummel’s, foil, gross.........  1 50
2 50
" 
5
7

B ulk.............................  
Red 
...........................  
Cotton.  40ft...
50 ft  .
60 ft  ..
7011  ..
60 ft...
60 ft...
72 i f
4 doz. In case.

“ 
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Jute 
“ 
CONDENSED  MILK. 

CLOTHES  LINES.
“ 
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“ 
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... per dos.  1  25
1  40
1  60
1  75
190
30
1  00

tin 
CHICORY.

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X. Y.Cond’ns’d M.'k Co's brands
Gail Borden Eagle............   7 40
Crown................................   6 25
Daisy..................................5 75
Champion..........................   4 50
Magnolia 
.........................4 25
Dime.................................. 335

COUPON  BOOKS

“ 
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“ 
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I  1, per hundred..............83 00
8 2, 
..............3 50
8 8, 
...............   4 00
............... 5 00
8 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

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COUPON  PASS  BOOKS.
[Can  be  made to represent any 
lenomlnation  from 810  down. | 
20 books.......................8  1 00
2 00
50  “ 
100 
3 00
“ 
250 
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6 25
500  “ 
10 00
17 50
1000  “ 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

CREDIT  CHECKS.

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

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CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX..................... 6
Seymour XXX, cartoon......644
Family  XXX.....................   6
Family XXX,  cartoon........  644
Salted XXX.........................6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........  644
Kenosha 
.........................  744
Boston..................................  8
Butter  biscuit....................644

Soda.

Soda, XXX........................   6
Soda, City...........................   744
Soda,  Dnchess......................844
Crystal Wafer.....................10
Long  Island Wafers 
....... 11
S. Oyster  XXX....................  6
City Oyster. XXX.................   6
Farina  Oyster........  ..........6

Oyster.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure......................  30
Telfer’s Absolute..............  3)
Grocers’............................ 15325

DRIED  FRUITS. 

6
1044

11

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Sundried. sliced In  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags........
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes....  
............
Nectarines.
701b. bags.......................
25 lb. boxes.....................  9
Peeled, in  boxes...........
Cal. evap.  “ 
“ 
Pears.
California In bags 
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes..................
...................
25  “ 
Prnnelles.
30 lb.  boxes..................
Raspberries.
In  barrels......................
50 lb. boxes....................
......................
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

In bags...... 1044
8

“ 

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Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.

2 crown.............................
.............................
3 
“ 
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
2  crown...................... 
....
“ 
3 
...............................

Coin.

no. 1, .............................
No. 1,6.............................  165
......... .  1  50
No  2, 6....  
XX  wood, white.
No. 1,644  ....................... .  1 30
............... .  1  25
No. 2, 644 
Manilla, white.
644  ................................. .  1  00
95
6 ..................................
1  00
Mill  No. 4..........
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
100 lb. kegs..................
3M
Barrels............................ ..  3 00
................. ..  3  50
Grits —  
Lima  Beans.
Dried............................
3*3*
56
Domestic, 12 lb. box.
Imported................... -10440-  44
Oatmeal.
Barrels 200............... ......  4 60
Half barrels 100........ ......   2 40

Maccaronl and Vermicelli.

Farina.
Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

Peas.

Kegs.......................... --  ..  2X
Green,  bu................ ......   1  45
Split  per l b ............ .-2)433
Rolled  Oats.
Barrels  180...............
04  60
Half  bbls 90............
32 40
German.................... ........  444
East India................. ........  5
Cracked.................... ........ 

Wheat.

Sago.

5

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.
Yarmouth...............
Cod.
Pollock..................
Whole, Grand  Bank
Boneless,  bricks..  . ....  638
Boneless, strips..  ..
...  6©8
Halibut.
Smoked.................
Herring.

.1044012

Holland, white hoops keg 

544

70
bbl  9 50

“ 

“ 

Norwegian  ............
Round, 44 bbl 100 lbs ......  2 90
44  “  40  “
150
.... 
Scaled.....................
...... 
18
Mackerel.
No. 1,  100 lbs...........
........11 00
No. 1, 40 lbs............
........  4 70
No. 1,  10 lbs............
........1 30
No. 2,100 lbs...........
........8 50
No. 2, 40 lbs.............
........  3 70
No. 2, 10 lbs............
........  1 05
Family, 90 lbs.........
........6 00
10  lbs ......
........  70
Sardines.
Russian,  kegs.........
........  65
Trout.
No. 1, 44 bbls., lOOlbs ......... 6 00
No. 144 bbl, 40  lbs..
No. 1, kits, io lbs__ .........   80
No.  1, 8 lb  kits.......
.........  68
Whiteflsh.
Family
44 bbls, 100 lbs......... 87 00 82 75
>4  “  40  “  ____ .  3 10  1 40
io lb.  kits.................
90  48
8 lb.  “ 
...............
75  42
FLAVORINO  EXTRACTS. 
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. 
Best In the world for the money.
Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

Sonders’.

No. 1

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

gross 
6  00 
7 CO 
5 50
5 00 
7 fO
6 00

BAKING  POWDER. 

Acme.
45
2  “  ................  85
1  “  .................  1  60
10
Arctic.
55
......... 1  10
4 doz  “ 
“ 
“  2 doz  “ 
........... 2  00
“ 
1 doz  “ 
.........   9 00
Fosfon.
80 
2  00 40 
75 
1  40 
45 
'  85 
1  50

■a lb. cans, 3  doz.............. 
44 lb.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 
Bulk...................................  
44 9> cans 6 doz  case......... 
44 1b 
1  lb 
5  ft 
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case 
“
16  “ 
'*  2  “ 
Red Star, 44 lb cans........
“ 
H I  “ 
.......
“ 
.......
1 ft  “ 
Teller’s,  14 lb. cans, doz 
“ 
54 lb.  “
1 lb.  “ 
“ 
“
Our Leader, 54 lb cans...
“ 
541b cans__
l lb cans.  ...
“ 
Dr. Price’s.

1  50
per doz 
Dime cans..  95
.1  40 
4- oz 
.  2 CO 
6-oz
..2 60 
5- 
oz 
..3 90 
12 oz 
..5 00 
16-oz 
254-lb 
12 00 
18 25 
41b 
22 75 
5-lb 
41  80
10-lb

p'FRICEis
CREAM
b a k i n g
bowdeb
¡Kiaurüt***

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BLUING.

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen in case.
English ...................................
Bristol...........................
Domestic.......................

“  No. 3, 
“  No. 5,
•*  1 os ball  . 
“ 

“
.........
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz. . .

. . .  90
..  SO
. . .   70
Gross
. .   3 69
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals.........
.  .  6  75
Soz 
...........
. .   9 00
pints,  round......
No. 2. sifting box . .   2 75
.  4 00
. .   8 00
. .   4  50
. .   3 60
8 oz...... . .   6 80
. .   1  75
. .   2 00
. .   2 25
. .   2 50
.  2 75
90
. .   1  15
.  .  3 25
. .   1  25
. .   1  50
. .   1  75
S5
. .   1  25
. .   1  50

44 
BROOMS.
¿io. 2 Hurl................................
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet.............................
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem....................
Common Whisk....................
“ 
Fancy 
Warehouse.................  
BRUSHES.
Stove, No.  1..............................
“  10.............................
“  15..............................
Rice Root Scrub. 2  row.
Rice Root  Scrub. 3 row .
Palmetto,  goose  ...............
Oval—250 in crate
No.  1...............................................
No.  2 
No.  3  ............................................
No.  5 ..............................................
CANDLES.
Hotel. 40 lb. boxes............
Star,  40 
Paraffine  ..................................
Wicking  ..................................

BUTTER  PLATES.

. . .   60
70
. . .   80
...1  00

.  10
. .   9
. .   10
. .   24

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..........

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CANNED  GOODS.

Fish.
Clams.

. 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  lib ...............
...1  20
“  2 lb .................
.  1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard. 3 lb .........................
2 25
Cove Oysters.
Standard.  1 lb ...................
. . .   ?5
21b....................
.  1 to
Lobsters.
Star.  1  lb ...........................
.2 50
“  2  lb ...................................
. 8   50
Picnic, 1 lb ................................
. 2   00
“ 
21b..............................
.2 9
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb .........................
...1  25
2  lb ......................
.  2  10
Mustard.  2 lb ......................
.  .2 25
Tomato Sauce.  2 lb ___
.2 25
Soused. 2  lb ......................
.2 25
Salmon.
Columbia River. Sat  .
. .   1  80
tails___ . .   1  65
“ 
Alaska. R e d ...........................
...1  25
pink .............................
  10
Kinney's,  fiats  .................
...1  95
American  Qs...........................
3  5
6443 7
Imported  44s ............ ................. .10311
............................ .15316
Mustard Ms................................
3 7
Boneless
21
Brook. 8  lb ................................
...2 50

Sardines.
Ä»  ...................

Trout

“ 

“ 

”  

. 1

.

.

Fruits.
Apples.

1  00
2 90

Gages.

Cherries.

Apricots.

3 lb. standard........... 
York State, gallons  ... 
Hamburgh.
Live oak.....................  
1  75
Santa  Cruz................. 
1  75
Lusk's......................... 
1  75
Overland..................  
1  75
Blackberries.
B. &  W....................... 
90
Red.......... .................  1  1031 20
1 75
Pitted Hamburgh  . . .  
W hite........................  
1  50
E rie ................................  
1  25
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
1  10
E rie............................ 
California................... 
1  70
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  25
Peaches.
Pie...........................
Maxwell.................
Shepard’s ...............
California...............
............
Monitor 
Oxford....................
Pears.
Domestic.................... 
1  20
Riverside.................... 
2 10
Pineapples.
Common.....................1  00@1  30
Johnson's  sliced........ 
2 50
grated........ 
2 75
Booth’s sliced............  @2 51
grated...........  @2 75
Quinces.
1  10
Common....................  
Raspberries.
1 30
Red  ............................ 
Black  Hamburg.........  
1  50
1  25
Erie,  black 
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................  
1  25
Hamburgh  ...............  
1  2E
1  20
Erie............................ 
Terrapin....................... 
1  10
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............  
1  00
Corned  beef  Libby’s..........1  85
Roast beef  Armour’s ..........1  70
Potted  ham, 14 lb.....................1 to
“  44 lb.................  85
tongue, K lb...............135
“ 
44 lb..........  85
chicken.  £  lb.......... 
95
V ege tables.

Meats.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

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  85
Picnic Baked.............................1 00
Hamburgh  .........................l  40
Livingston  Eden................1  20
Purity  ................................
Honey  Dew..............................1 40
Morning Glory...................
Soaked............................... 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat............1 35
early June........
Champion Eng. .1  50
petit  pois...........1 75
fancy  sifted___ 1 90
Soaked.................................  75
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  io
early June.......1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  35
French..................................... 2 15
French..............................17322
Erie................................ 
  90
Hubbard...................................l 25
Hamburg...................................1 40
Soaked.................................  85
Honey  Dew.............................. l 50
E rie.......................................... 1 35
Tomatoes.
Hancock................................. .1 05
.........................
Excelsior 
Eclipse.................................
Hamburg............................
Gallon 

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

...........................3 75
Baker's.

“ 

CHOCOLATE.
German Sweet............ 
Premium......................... 
Breakfast  Cocoa  ....... 
CHEESE.
Amboy....................... 
Acme.......................... 
Lenawee.................... 
Riverside 
................. 
Gold  Medal  .............. 
Skim.....................  .. 
Brick 
 
Edam  ....................... 
Leiden 
....................  
Llm burger...............  
Pineapple  ................. 
Roquefort.................  

 

23
37
43
312)4
31244
312)4
12
31044
6Q 7
U
1 00
23
310
025
335

F o r e ig n .
Currants.

“ 
“ 

Patras,  In barrels............  
344
in  44-bbls..............  3 4
3v 
In lees quantity  ... 
Peel.
Citron, Leghorn, 25 lb. boxes  20
25
“ 
Lemon 
25  “
“ 
Orange 
Raisins. 
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes 
“
Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 30  “
Prunes.
California,  100-120............
90x100 25 lb. bxs
80x90
70x80
60x70 

3  83£ 
3  8

“ 
“ 
“ 
2 50 I
3 00  Turkey
3 go  Silver..........
Saltana.........
French,  60-70 
70-80
80-90.........  
.......
90-10....................
ENVELOPES.
XX rag. white.

744
8
8449
6k

No. I, 644.....................   81  75
No. 2, 644.......................  1 60

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“

“Tradesman.’ 
8  1, per hundred  —
8 2,  “  “ 
...
8 8 , “ 
....
“ 
8 5 , “ 
“ 
.....
810,  “
820.  “
“Superior.’'
8  1. per hundred......
8  2, 
“

“  

Universal.”

doz
2 oz  ...8   75 
4oz......1  50
Regular 
Vanilla, 

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

Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
120
2 oz regular panel.  75 
4 oz 
...1  50 
2 00
6 oz 
2 on 
s no
No. 3  taper  .........1 35 
2 00
No. 4 taper.......... 1 50 
2 50

“ 
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GUNPOWDER. 
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs.........................................3 50
Half  kegs................................ 2 00
Quarter  kegs...........................1 15
1  lb  cans.............................   30
44 lb  cans............................ 
is
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
Kegs......................................... 4 50
Half  kegs.................................2 5o
Quarter kegs.........  
  1  40
1 lb cans.............................   34
Kegs 
............................. 11  00
Half  kegs 
.......................   5 75
Quarter kegs............................3 00
1  lb  cans............................  60
Sage..................................... 15
Hops.................................... 15

Eagle Duck—Dupont's.

HERBS.

 

INDIGO.

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

55
50

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

3   55
3   80

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.

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

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

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

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

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

New Orleans.
 

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

 

16

20
30

18
22
27
32
40

PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200  count... 
Half bbls, 600  count. 
Barrels, 2.400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 

Small.

35 00
33 00 
6 00
3 50

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216.....................   1  75
75
“  T. D. full count  ... 
Cob. No.  8....................... 
1 26

POTASH.

4 00
3 25

48 cans In case.
................. 
......... 

Babbitt’s .. 
Penna Salt  Co.’s 
RICE
Domestic
Carolina head....................  6
No. 1.....................544
No. 2...................   5
4
Imported.
Japan, No. 1..........................544
No. 2.....................5
Java....................................  6
Patna..................................   544

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

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

18

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Root  lite r  Extract.
“ 

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

( Hires’, 1  doz......................  1  75

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

■■m  Allspice —   .......................10
Cassia, China in mats........  7
Batavia In bund — 15
11 
11 
Saigon In rolls........ 32
jj,  Cloves, Amboyna.................22
“  Zanzibar.................. 12
▼ 
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................75
“  No.  1........................ 70
“  No. 2........................ 60
1  Pepper, Singapore, black — 10
”  
“  white...  .20
<f 
" 
shot........................ 16
Pure Ground In Bulk.
Allspice................................15
Cassia,  Batavia— ............. 18
“ 
and  Saigon.25
Saigon............... 35
C 
[  Cloves, Amboyna................. 22
Zanzibar................ 18
Ginger, African...................16
“  Cochin..................  20
“ 
.22
Batavia............... 70
"   Mace 
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste..22
“ 
Trieste................... 25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
••  “  white...............24
Cayenne.............   20
“ 
Sage......................................20
''Absolute” In Packages.

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

A 
”  

“ 
“ 

“ 

Mb  Mb
Allspice......................  84  155
ii  Cinnamon...................   84  1  55
*?  Cloves.........................   84  155
Ginger,  Jamaica  ......  84  1  55
“  African  .........   84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  155
SAL  SODA.
I  Pepper........................  84  155
Kegs...........................
1)4
a  Sage...................   —   84
Granulated,  boxes......
....  15k
SEEDS.
A nise............... ......... @12»
6
Canary, Smyrna.........
10
Caraway....................
90
Cardamon, Malabar...
Hemp,  Russian.........
4)4
Mixed  Bird  ..............
5)4
10
Mustard,  white  ........
9
Poppy .........................
6
Rape..........................
30
Cuttle  bone...............
STARCH.
Corn
20-lb  boxes..................
40-lb 
.................
Gloss.
l-lb packages  ..............
3-lb 
...............
6-lb 
...............
40 and 50 lb. boxes......
Barrels.........................
Scotch, In  bladders............37
Maccabov, In jars...............%
French Rappee, in Jars......43
Boxes....................................5)»
Kegs, English....................... 43k
100 3-lb. sacks.................. .12 25
“ 
60 5-lb 
¡M 10-lb. sacks...................  1  85
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases......................  1  50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
32
drill  “  16  18
28 lb.  “ 
31
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags.. 
28 lb.  “ 
. 
18
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..  75

...  5=k
...  5)4
....  5)4
....  554
....  53k
....  33k
...  33k

SNUFF.

Warsaw.

Ashton.

SODA.

SALT.

“ 
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56 )*>. dairy in linen  sacks 

Higgins.
Soiar Rock.

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

Common Fine.

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

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

“ 

Church’s ...........................   5)4
DeLand’s ............................  5M
Dwight’s ................................5M
Taylor’s 

..............................5
SOAP.
Laundry.

Proctor A Gamble.

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.
Old Country,  80  l-lb.......... 3 2
Good Cheer,601 lb ..............3 90
White Borax, 100  3k U>........3 65
Concord.............................  3 45
Ivory, 10  oz......................... 6
6  oz...........................4 00
Lenox 
............................  3 65
Mottled German................. 3  li
Town Talk.................. 
3 2
Dingman Brands.
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...  2 94
N.  K.  Falrbank & Co.’s Brands,
Santa Claus.......................  4  00
Brown, 60 bars.....................2 40
80  b a rs....................3 25
Acme.................................  4 Oo
Cotton Oil..........................  6  00 |
Marseilles. 
Mafter 

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands,

“ 

“ 

.

Thompson & Chute Brands.

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

“ 

SUGAR.

The  following  prices  repre­
sent the actual selling prices in 
Grand Rapids, based on the act­
ual cost In New  York,  with  38 
cents per 100 pounds added  for 
freight.  The  same  quotations 
will not apply to any townwhere 
the freight rate from New York 
is  not  36  cents,  but  the  local 
quotations will, perhaps, afford 
a better criterion of the  market 
than to quote New York  prices 
exclusively.
Cut  Loaf........................... 86 30
Powdered.......................... 623
Granulated.......................5  98
Extra Fine Granulated...  6  11
Cubes................................ 6 23
XXXX  Powdered............. 6 42
Confec. Standard  A......... 5 73
No. 1  Columbia A............   5 67
No. 5 Empire  A.................554
No.  6  .................................5  48
No.  7.................................. 5  30
No.  8..................................  5 23
No.  9..................................5  17
No.  10................................5  11
No.  11................................ 5  05
No.  12..............................   4 98
No.  13................................   4 86
No 14................................  4 36

Smoking.

Catlin’s  Brands.
Kiln  dried...................  
  17
Golden  Shower..................19
Huntress  ........................... 26
Meerschaum....................... 29
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy....................... 40
Stork  ............................3G@32
German...............................15
Frosr  . 
33
Java, Hs foil.........   ...........32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish..............38
Gold Cut  ............................ 28

 

 

 

Scotten’s Brands.

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

Brands.

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Rob  Roy......................  
26
Uncle  Sam.....................28@32
Red Clover...........................32

Spaulding & Merrick.

Tom and Jerry.....................25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Buck Horn.......................... 30
Plow  Bov...................... 30@32
Corn  Cake...........................16

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels...............................  22
Half bbls............................ 2»
F air.....................................  19
Good...................................   *
Choice................................   30

Pure Cane.

SWEET  GOODS

8

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

40 gr............................... 7
@ 8
50 gr...............................8  w»

81 for barrel.

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

YEAST.

 

HIDES.

HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

lows:
Green...........................   2@2)4
Part Cured...............   @3
Full 
.................  @ 33k
Dry..............................   4 @5
Kips, green  ...............   2  @3
“  cured.................  @4
Calfskins,  green.........  3 @4
cured...........4 @5
Deacon skins................10 @25

“ 

“ 

No. 2 hides % off.
PELTS.

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

Washed .. 
Unwashed  ..

@18
@14

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow.......................3  @ 4M
Grease  butter  ...........  1  @2
Switches....................  1V4@ 2
Ginseng......................1  75@2 50

TEAS.

j a p a n — Regular.

SUN GUBSD.

b a s k e t   f ir e d .

F air...............................   @17
Good.............................   @20
Choice...........................24 @26
Choicest........................32 @34
D ust............................. 10 @12
F a ir.............................   @17
2 00
Good....................... . -  @20
Choice...........................24 @26
2 25
Choicest....................... 32 @34
Dust........... 
............. 10  @12
F air..............................18 @20
Choice............................  @25
Choicest........................  @®
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to  fail...........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
F air................ 
I®  @22
Choice..........................24  @28
Best.............................40  @50

OOLONG. 
IMPERIAL.

ENSLISH BREAKFAST.

YOUNO HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

 

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

Pails unless otherwise noted
Bazoo —   .................  @30
Can Can......................._   @27
Nellie  Bly................... 27  @24
Uncle ben.................... 21  @22
60
Hiawatha  ...............  
Sweet  Cuba...............  
34
McGinty....................  
27
“  % bbls.........  
25
Dandy Jim .................  
29
¿4
Torpedo..................... 
23
in  drumB—  
Yum  Yum  ...............  
28
1892 ............................  
23
“  
.............  
2Z

d r  lir a s ......  

« 

Plug.

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead................. 
Joker......................... 
Nobby Twist................. 
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo............................ 
Hiawatha...................  
Valley City................ 
Finzer’s Brands.
3 95 ' old  Honesty.............. 
4 35 ¡Jolly Tar....................  

41
"¡9
41
26
4b
34
4<>
32

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

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

Bolted...............................  1  40
1  65
Granulated.

Straight, In  sacks  ...........  3 50
“  barrels...........  3 75

“ 

sacks
barrels...........  4

Graham
Rye

MILLBTUFF8.

Bran............... 813 50
Screenings —   13 00
Middlings......14  50
Mixed Feed...  18 oo 
Coarse meal  ..  18 0)

Less
Car lots  quantity
814 00 
13 00 
15 00
18  50
19 00

CORN.

Car  lots............................... 45
Less than  car  lots..............48

OATS.

Car  lo ts ..............................34
Less than car lots................33

No. 1 Timothy, car lots 
No. 1 

HAY.
ton lots

“ 

.11  «0 
.13 00

WOODEN WARE.

Tubs, No. 1........................   6 00
“  No. 2...........................5  50
No. 3 ..:...................... 4  50
1  30 
1  50

Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop
Bowls, 11 Inch...............
“ 
«■ 
“ 

...................... 90
........  1  25
.....................  1 8l>
 

13  “ 
17  “ 
19  “ 
21 
“  
...............................
Baskets, market..........  35
shipping bushel.. 
“ 
full  hoop  “ 
“ 
“ willow cl’ths, No.l  5 
“ 
“ 
“ 
<* 

1 15
..  1 25
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

INDURATED WARE.

“ 
“ 
* 
“ 

splint 

51
28

5 00
4 00
5 00

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess,.................................................
Short c u t..........................................
Extra clear pig, short cut.................
Extra clear, heavy............................
21  0C
Clear, fat  back..................................
Boston clear, short cut................................
Clear back, short cut................................... 21  00
Standard clear, short cut. best................. 
21  00

19 50

sausaoe—Fresh and Smoked.

“
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“
“

LARD.

Pork Sausage...................................................
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage........................................ 
 
Frankfort Sausage 
.......................................8)4
Blood Sausage.................................................  7
Bologna, straight............................................   6
Bologna,  thick..................................................6
Headcheese...................................................... 7
Kettle  Rendered.............................................11
Granger...........................................................1654
Family.................................................................8 »4
Compound......................................................  854
50 lb. Tins, Me advance.
20 lb. pails,  Me 
101b.  “  Mo 
'•  %c 
51b. 
31b. 
l c  
" 
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs............................8 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing..........................  7 50
Boneless, rump butts.......................................... U 50
Hams, average 20 lbs....................................... H

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

16 lbs...................................... 11M
12 to 14 lbs................................11A
picnic...................................................  8M
best boneless.......................................  HM
Shoulders......................................................  
jjM
Breakfast Bacon  boneless..............................15
Dried beef, ham prices...............................  ...10)4
Long Clears, heavy.........................................
Briskets,  medium.  .........................................      ,
light..............................................   11M
Butts................................................................  9
D. S. Bellies...................................................  12)4
Fat* Backs.......................................................   19
8 OO 
Barrels...............................................
1  90
Kegs..................................................
Kits, honeycomb  ..........................................  65
Kits, premium..............................................   00
Barrels................................................................22 00
Half barrels........................................................ U 00
Perpound............ 

PICKEED  PIGS’  FEET.

BEEF  TONGUES.

“ 
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TRIPE.

“ 
“ 

U

„ 

 

 

MIXED  CANDY.

Pails.
Bbls.
7
..6
7
..6
7)4
..6)4
8
Nobby...............................
8
English  Rock..................
.  .7
7
8
Conserves  ...  .................
8
Broken Taffy....................
!tS
9
8
Peanut Squares.................
iu
French Creams.............. 
13
Valley  Creams.............................  
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.....................................  8
8
Modern, 80 lb. 

 

 

 

 

“ 
fancy—In bulk

 

“ 

“ 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  10
9
printed.........................................   11
Chocolate Drops.............................................  11)4
Chocolate Mouumentals...............................  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
Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams............................................. 1 00
String  Rock.....................................................65
Burnt Almonds..................................................1 00
Wlntergreen  Berries.......................................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes...............  
  34
No. 1, 
 
 
No. 2, 
 
 
No. 3, 
.........................
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes...................................
Small................................... ..................1  50@1  75
Medium................................................2 0G@2 50
Large....................................................
Messina, choice  360............................

“ 
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BANANAS.

CARAMELS.

LEMONS.

“ 
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“ 

3 
2 
3 

 

“ 
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“ 

fancy, 360.................................... 
choice 300................................... 
fancy 390  ...................................  

FRESH  BEEF.

Carcass...................................................  5i4@ 6
Fore quarters...................................  @4)4
Hind quarters..........................................6V4@ 7
Loins No. 3............................................

 

 

MUTTON.

FRESH  PORK.
 

Chucks...................................................   4  @ 4)4
Plates....................................................   @ 4
Dressed............  
8
Loins  .........................  
41M
 
Shoulders  ............................................. 
8
I°i4
Leaf Lard..............................................  
Carcass................................................. §  @ 
jj
Lambs......................................................5%® 6
Carcass................................................... 5!4@ 7)4
Pork, links.............................................
Bologna........................................... 
Liver............................... 
 
Tongue.......................-........................  
Blood.....................................................
Head cheese.......................................... 
Summer..................  
Frankfurts...........................................
FISH  AND  OYSTERS.

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1
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SAUSAGE.

VEAL.

 

 

 

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as  follows:

FRESH  FISK

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

@  9 
Whitefish 
@  9 
Trout 
12)4
Black Bass.
Halibut..................................................   @4?
<©  a 
Ciscoes or Herring............................
@12)4
Blueflsh.....................
20
Fresh lobster, per lb.........................
10
@9
Wa  1 Plrilropol 
...........
@8
Smoked White......... ........................
12
15
Columbia River  Salmon...................
...  20@25
Mackerel...........................................

oysters—Cans.

@4()
@33
@23
@ 20
@18

J   j) 

F. J. D.  Selects................................
.............................................
Standards.........................................
OYSTERS—Bulk.
Extra Selects. 
.....................................
Selects...................................................
standards..............................................
Counts................................................... 
Scallops  ................................................
Shrimps  ................................................
2 40
SHELL  HOODS.
Oysters, per  100  ....................................1  25@1  59
Clams. 
....................................  @1  »»

•’ 

;

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

STICK  CANDY.
Cases

“ 

Standard,  per  lb............
H.H.
Twist  ..............
Boston Cream.................  8)4
Cut  Loaf.........................
Extra H.  H.....................   8)4

Bbls.
6*
6)4
6)4

Palls.
7)4

8)4

“ 
“ 

extra 

“ 
“ 
“  50-lb.  “ 

@12)4
@12)4
@14
® 7)4 
@ 6)4 
4M@  5)4
@16)4 
@15)4 @17 
@10)4 
@11)4 
@13)4 
®

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, fancy  layers, 61b.......................
«  101b  ......................
“  141b.......................
“  201b.......................
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box.......................
.......................
Persian, 50-lb.  box..................
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona..........................
Ivaca........................... .......
California...........................
Brazils, new........................................
Filberts..............................................
Walnuts, Grenoble.............................
M ar h o t .............................................
Calif.......................................11  @13
Table  Nuts,  fancy................................  @13
choice.............................   @12
Pecans, Texas, H.  P .,..........................  @13
Cocoanuts, full sacks...........................   @4 50
Fancy, H.  P„ Suns...............................  @6
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............................  @6
Choice, H. P.,  Extras............................  @5

“ 
“ 
“ 
CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

“ Roasted  ...................  @  7)4
“ Roasted....................   @7)4
“  Roasted.................  @6)4

“ 
“ 
“ 

PEANUTS.

“  
“ 

“ 

FRUIT  JARS.

Pints............................................................» 5 50
Quarts.......................................  
Half Gallons.................................................   8 
Caps...............................................................   2 
Rubbers.......................................................  
45
No. 0 Sun.........................................................  45
No. 1  “  .........................................................  50
No.2  “  .........................................................  75
Tubular  ...............................  .......................   75

LAMP  BURNERS.

 

lamp chimneys.  Per box.

6 doz. In box.

“ 

“ 

Pearl top.

La Bastle.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No. 0 Sun.......................................................   1 75
No. 1  “  .........................................................1 88
No.2  “  .........................................................2 70
top.....................................2  10
No. 0 Sun, crimp 
No. 1  “ 
“ 
....................................2 25
Ho  2  “ 
“ ......................................3 25
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.....................................2 60
“ ...................................... 2 80
No. 1  “ 
No.2  “ 
“  .....................................3 88
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
No. 2  “ 
....................... J
No. 1 crimp, per doz....................................... 1
No. 2 
........................................1
” 
No. 0, per  gross..............................................
...........  ..................................
No. l, 
No  2, 
................................................  _
................................................
No. 3, 
Mammoth, per doz..........................................  75
STONEWARE— AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal  ...... .....................  06
“ 
)4 gal. per doz......................  60
Jugs, )4 gal., per doz  .................................  70
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal................................   07
Milk Pans, H gal., per d o t..........................   60
“ 
.........................  7»
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal..........................  07
Milk Pans, )4 gal..........................   ............. 
j®
.  78

1  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.
i  “ 
............. ............ 

LAMP  WICKS.

i.  ■* 

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14

KLEPTOMANIA.

T H E   MICHIGAJSr  TRADESM AN

A  D ifficulty  in  D eterm ining-  th e  M ania 

from Actual Stealing.

From the Dry Goods Chronicle.

theft-madness. 

Every merchant  has  heard  of  klepto­
mania,  even if he has  not  had  personal 
experience with those said  to be afflicted 
with that  strange disease,  when a person 
of previously respectable character,  who 
is possessed of means sufficient to enable 
him to pay for what  he wants, is detected 
in the act of  stealing,  he,  his  relatives 
and his friends  are  sure  to  say  be is a 
victim of kleptomania.  Webster  defines 
the word  as meaning a morbid impulse or 
desire to steal;  a propensity  to thievish­
ness.  It is synonymous with klopemauia, 
both words being derived from the Greek; 
the former  meaning  thief-madness,  and 
the  latter 
Somehow, 
klopemania has never become popular in 
this country. 
It seems strange that none 
of the  accused  has thought to offer it as 
an excuse,  on  the theory that being new 
it  might  have  more  efficacy  than  the 
others, even though it had no other mean­
ing.  There  was  a  time  when  klepto­
mania  was  rarely  heard  of,  and  being 
mysterious,  was more or  less  believed in 
by the public.  Of  late  years,  however, 
it has been suggested as  an  explanation 
of theft so frequently  that very few con­
sider  it  seriously. 
In  the popular esti­
mation it is only  another  form of excus­
ing in the rieh what is condemned in  the 
poor.  Ask  the  average  clerk  about  it, 
and he is sure to say,  with a contemptu­
ous sniff:
it 
thieving;  but  if  the  man is rich, or has 
rich  friends,  they  call  it  kleptomania. 
It’s nothing but a fake.”

“If  a  poor  man  steals,  they  call 

Nevertheless,  the  other  day  I  came 
across  a  very  intelligent  and  thorough 
business man  who  expressed his firm be­
lief  in the existence of  the disease,  klep­
tomania.  This  gentleman  is one of the 
chief  authorities  at  James  McCreery  & 
Co.’s.
“1 am convinced  of the genuineness of 
the disease,” he said to me, “from a case 
in  my  own  family.  1  have  a  young 
nephew  who  was  always stealing when 
he was five years old.  He  never  accom­
panied  his  mother  on  a  shopping  trip 
without  stealing  something  from 
the 
counters  of  the  stores  they  visited. 
If 
the things he had taken had  been of any 
value  to  him  or  anybody  else,  1 might 
have thought he was  possessed of thiev­
ish propensities;  but,  as a matter of fact, 
he never took anything  that  could be of 
interest,  even  to  a child.  Bits of cloth 
and fringe,  price tags and  similar things 
were all he took.  Neither did he attempt 
to conceal them  when he  arrived home, 
but  he  would  show  them to his mother 
with  perfect indifference.  He could not 
explain why he had  taken them,  or what 
he  wanted of them.  His  mother  finally 
cured  him  in  this  way:  She  watched 
him closely while in a store one day until 
she caught him taking something.  Then 
she  marched  him  up  to  the superinten­
dent  and  said  to  him: 
‘Mr.  -----,  this
little  boy  has  been  stealing  from  your 
store. 
I  wish  you  would  have him ar­
rested  and  properly  punished.’  The 
superintendent took him  to his office and 
locked him up,  while  the  mother  went 
away.  The yongster was frightened out 
of his wits,  and when  he  was  let  go  at 
the end of  an  hour  or  so,  he  was  com­
pletely cured of all desire to steal.”

The narrator was firmly convinced that 
the circumstances in this case warranted 
a  belief  in  kleptomania,  and he said he 
always acted  on the  theory  that disease 
and not evil  disposition  was responsible 
where he detected a  person in theft who 
was beyond all necessity  for stealing and 
could abundantly provide for himself all 
things that he might desire.
I must confess that I  was  not  greatly 
impressed by the force of his illustration, 
and am inclined to  believe that the aver­
age man of experience  would agree with 
me in  believing that  the  boy in question 
had simply a mischievous desire to steal. 
To boys of five years of  age even  bits of 
cloth and fringe are attractive,  and  chil­
dren do not always reason with such care 
as to understand that  the  possession  of 
stolen  articles  will  arouse  suspicion  in 
those that see them. The very fact that the 
child was cured  by  fright  would  prove

that he knew he was  guilty  of a wrong­
ful act.  The same theory  of retribution 
inspires all the laws  ever framed for the 
prevention of crime.
At the same time the existence of klep­
tomania  is  not decided by a single case. 
The  mysteries  of  this world  are many, 
and,  as Hamlet says:
---- ‘-There are more things in Heaven and earth,
H oratio,
Than thou hast dreampt of in  thy philosophy 1”
It is hard to believe  that a person  pos­
sessed of the means  with  which to  pur­
chase would steal,  yet,  there  are  many 
instances  on  record  and  new  ones  are 
constantly  happening  where  this  very 
thing has beyond  doubt occurred.  Nine 
times out of ten the offender is a woman. 
The first impulse  would  be to say that a 
intelli­
woman  of  any  refinement  and 
gence would not,  in fact could not,  steal. 
Yet  it  has  been  proved 
that  lovely 
woman  would  succumb  to  temptation 
when  she  saw  pretty  things spread be­
fore  her,  and  apparently  no  danger in 
taking them,  even when  her  purse  was 
well filled.  Sometime  ago I had a pecu­
liar  personal  experience  with a woman 
of this sort.  She was  caught with some 
articles  in  her  possession that belonged 
to  Simpson,  Crawford  &  Simpson,  and 
the  detective  arrested  her.  She  was 
bailed out immediately,  and  ordered  to 
appear  at  the  Jefferson  Market  Police 
Court the next morning for examination. 
That uight 1 went to her residence to see 
her.  She  lived  in  a  handsome  brown- 
stone  front  in  Fifty-fifth  street.  The 
servant who  answered  the  bell ushered 
me 
into  a  richly-furnished  parlor  and 
took  my  card  upstairs. 
In  a  few  min­
utes a very  dignified  woman, tall, gray­
haired and  self-possessed,  came into the 
room.  She wore a costly lace dress,  and 
her  fingers  were  heavy  with  rings  set 
with  gems.  Did I  wish  to see her?  she 
asked  in  a  low, agreeable voice. 
I ex­
plained,  as  well  as  I could,  my embar­
rassing  errand.  Of  course,  I  assured 
her  there  had  been  some  lamentable 
mistake,  but  would  she  explain  to  me 
how she came to  have in  her possession 
the  various  articles  from  the  different 
counters  of the firm?  She listened with 
perfect  calmness,  but I,  who was study­
ing her closely,  could  see  that  she  had 
nerved  herself  to  a  point  where  she 
could  hear  unmoved  even  the  sentence 
of  death.  Her  supreme  coolness  was 
shown  by her asking  me to step into the 
adjoining room,  which  proved  to be the 
dining-room,  and  by  her carefully draw­
ing  the  portieres.  She  made  only  one 
mistake.  She  took  a  seat  under  the 
light,  where  her  features  were  in  bold 
relief,  and where every change of expres­
sion  was  noticeable. 
I more wisely sat 
in the shadow.
“Now,  I  will answer you,” she said,  in 
a voice that was  unnaturally sweet.  “I 
had certain  articles in my  possession be­
cause they were  mine.  They  had  once 
been the property of  Simpson, Crawford 
& Simpson, but I had purchased and paid 
for them.”
“Will  you  kindly  explain,”  said  I, 
“how  you  came  to  have  them  in  your 
pockets loose and  unwrapped?”
“1 had  purchased them in the morning, 
on a previous visit  to the store,  and had 
thrown  away  the  wrappings,  so  that  I 
might carry them easier in my pockets,” 
said she.
“ But the clerks have no records of any 
such sales, and the detective said he saw 
you  take  several  of  the  articles.  He 
states that he followed  you for some time 
from counter to counter and saw you take 
the  articles,  and  that when he arrested 
you, you had one in your hand.”

“ Its  a  lie. 

I  have been outrageously 
treated,  and 1 will  know  how  to  secure 
my revenge.  This  firm  will pay dearly 
for the way I have been insulted.”
It is  well known  to  expert  detectives 
that  an  innocent  person  is always very 
nervous  and  excited  when  accused, 
whereas  the  guilty  one  is  likely  to  be 
calm and undemonstrative.  This woman 
was  as  cool  as  though  we  were  old 
friends, and  had  been talking about the 
weather.  Only once  in  a  while could  I 
detect an  expression  of fear and agony.
I  went away convinced  of her guilt,  and 
also that she was  suffering  intensely be­
cause  she  feared  she  would  be  proved 
guilty.

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Why she had  taken  the articles—they 
were mere trifles,  all told not worth more 
than five dollars—I could not understand, 
nor have I been able  to find any satisfac­
tory explanation  to  this  day.  She was 
wealthy,  and  the  son  with  whom  she 
lived was  a  prosperous  merchant.  She 
had many influential  friends who rallied 
to her assistance  when they heard of her 
plight.  Among  them  was  a  prominent 
lawyer—who had once  been a judge of a 
high court—a man well  acquainted with 
the  vagaries  of  human  nature.  He  ar­
ranged the affair so  that the prosecution 
was dropped.  He  said to  me  before he 
had  looked into the facts:
“Why,  this  is  a  terrible  mistake.  A 
great inj ustice has been done this woman. 
Why,  man alive,  she  has a large income 
of  her  own,  and  can  have anything in 
reason  without  cramping  herself  in the 
slightest degree.  It is folly  to talk of her 
stealing.  Besides,  I have known her for 
forty years,  and a finer or more cultivated 
lady 1 never met.”

Later on he said to me sadiy:
“ It’s terrible. 

It’s a clear case of klep­
tomania.  She took the things, of course, 
but the Lord knows why;  1 don’t.
As I was acting in  a confidential capa­
city,  it would  not  be  proper  for  me  to 
mention names.  Besides,  the woman  is 
still alive,  and all  her  friends  and fam­
ily  except  the  lawyer  still  believe  her 
innocent.  Far be it for  me  to  disabuse 
them  or  cause  her  another pang,  for 1, 
too,  believe that if ever  there was a case 
of kleptomania,  that was one.
Coming  down  to the merchant’s prac­
tical side of the question,  it is a problem 
well  worth  studying.  The  New  York 
dry goods  firms  are  pretty  well  agreed 
on one point. 
If a  woman has many in­
fluential friends, they won’t prosecute her 
unless circumstances  force  them to. 
If 
the  woman  insists  that she is innocent, 
and threatens damages, of course the firm 
that accuses her must prosecute if  it lias 
the evidence.  The prosecution  is pretty 
sure to make the woman  realize that she 
has made a mistake in making threats,  if, 
however, the woman  admits  having tak­
ing the article,  but lays it to an “irresist- 
able and  uncontrollable impulse,” to “an 
act of unconsciousness,” to kleptomania, 
or  any  kindred  mysterious  agency,  the 
firm will almost invariably  be content to 
drop the affair and  say  uothing.  There 
is  nothing  to  be  gained  by  any  other 
course.  A  prosecution  in  spite  of  the 
allegation  of  irresponsiblity would only 
look like persecution,  and would be sure 
to react upon the firm.  All  the relatives 
and  friends  would  become  its  enemies, 
and even a disinterested public would  be 
more apt to sympathize with the accused 
under  the  circumstances  than  with  the 
stern and relentless  prosecutor.  Realiz­
ing that,  the  big  firms  won’t  prosecute 
such  offenders  if  they can avoid it. 
In 
another respect they show good seuse  by 
such leniency.  The offender of this kind 
will never  make  another  attempt  after 
being caught  once.  Therefore,  there is 
no further danger from  her, and  no rea­
son for pursuing her. 
It is not with her 
as  with  the  professionals who return to 
their  evil  ways  as  soon as they are  re­
leased.
If the big firms of  the  metropolis find 
it politic to show that they have  “ bowels 
of compassion”  in  such cases, how much 
more important that merchants in smaller 
towns should do the same! 
It frequently 
happens  that  the  merchant  in  a  small 
place will take the  initiative  in a prose­
cution  of  one  whom  he  detects,  on  the 
theory that it will redound to  his  credit 
to appear in the  role  of  one who is con­
scious  of  his  duty  to the  public in up­
holding the law and punishing the trans­
gressor.  But such  advertising  will cer­
tainly be expensive in  the end.  The in­
fluence of all  the  friends  and  relatives 
of  a  person  of  any  standing  is  usually 
mighty  in  a  small  town. 
If  it  should 
prove powerful enough to arouse ever so 
slight a public sympathy for the accused, 
it may result in the  ruin of  the too zeal­
ous prosecutor.

“May they always  live  in  peace  and 
harmony,”  was  the  way a marriage no­
tice should have wound up; but the com­
positor,  who  couldn’t  read  manuscript 
very well,  put it in type and horrified the 
happy couple by  making  it  read,  “May 
they always live on  pease and  hominy.”

C hicago 

4  00 p m  
9:40 p m  

10  00 p m
0:50  a  m

A rr G ran d  R apids 
4:00  p  m   th ro u g h   W a g n e r  P a rlo r  C ar.  10:00  p  m 
tr a in   d aily ,  th ro u g h   C oach  a n d   W a g n e r  S leeping 
C ar.

or Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana, 
From Muskegon— Arrive
9:10 am
7:00 am 
4.40 pm
11:86 am 
6:85 pm
5:40 pm 
S unday tra in   leaves  fo r  M uskegon  a t   7:45 a   m , a r- 
I v in g a t  9:15  a   m .  R e tu rn in g ,  tr a in   leaves  M uske 
g on a t  4:30 p m , a rriv in g  a t  G ran d   R apids a t   5:50 p m .

G en eral P assen g e r an d  T ick e t A gent.

C. L. LOCKWOOD.

CHICAGO

SEPT.  24,  1893
AND  WKSr  MICHIGAN  K’Y.
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

G’d Rapids.............. 7:30am 1:25pm
Ar. Chicago...................1:55pm 6:50pm

ll:F0pm 
*6:30am

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

 
 
 
 
 

TO  AND PROM  MCTSKEGON.

TRAVERSE CITY  CHARLEVOIX AND  PETOSKEY.

7:30am 
12:10pm 
12:40pm 
3:15pm 
3:45pm 
3:55pm 

VIA  ST.  JOSEPH  AND  STEAMER.
... 1:25pm 

Lv.  Chicago.................7:45am  4:55pm  *11:35pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............ 2 30pm  10:20pm  *6:10am
Lv. Grand  Rapids............. 
tG:30pm
Ar. Chicago.............................. 8:3npm  2:00am
Lv. Chicago 9:30am... Ar. Grand Rapids 5:25 pm
5:45pm
Lv. Grand Rapids........  7:30am  1:25pm
5:25pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........  9:20am  2:30pm
2:45pm
 
Lv. Grand  Rapids .
.........   7:35pm
Ar.  Manistee...........
 
S’Oöpm
Ar. Traverse City__
 
10:45pm
Ar. Charlevoix.......
 
11:15pm
Ar.  Petoskey
 
11:25pm
Ar.  Bay View  ........
View,  etc.,  1:00  p.  m.  and
Arrive  from  Bay 
10:00 p. m.
Local train to White Cloud  leaves Grand Rap­
ids 5:45 p. m., connects  for  Big Rapids and Fre 
mont.  Returning  arrives  Grand  Rapids  11:20 
a. m.
PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.
To Chicago, lv. G. R..  7:3’am  1:25pm  *11:3Cpm
To Petoskey ,lv.G. R..  7:30am  2:45pm 
...........
To G.  R. .lv. Chicago.  7:45am  4:5)pm *11:35pm
ToG. R..lv. Petoskey  5:00am  1:30pm 
...........
♦Every day. 
tExeept Saturday.  Other trains 
week days only.
DETKOIT,

JULY 30, 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 PROM  SAGINAW,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS.

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

TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL A  HASTINGS R.  R.

Lv. Grand Rapids...........7:00am  1:45pm  5:40pm
Ar. from Lowell.............12:15pm 5:40pm  ...........

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Parlor  Carson all trains  between  Grand Rap- 
Ids and Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on morn- 
ing train.

•Everyday.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeIIAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

Michigan(Tentral

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’*

(Taking effect  Sunday, May 28, 1893.) 

•Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20 d  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 a m ;  re­
turning,  leave  Detroit  5 p m, arriving  at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A .  A l m q u is t , Ticket Agent,

U nion Passenger Station.
D e t r o i t ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   &  Mi l ­
Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Avs.

w a u k e e   Railway.

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave

Ionia...........Ar|
St.  Johns  ... Ar
O w o s s d ...........A r I
E. Saginaw.
Bay City —  
Flint  —  ...
Pt.  Huron..
Pontiac----
Detroit.......

tNo.  14 tNo.  16|tNo.  18)
10 20am I  3 25pm I
6 45am
11 25am  4 27pm
7 40am
12 17pm  5 20pm 
8 25am
1 20pm  ò 05pm
9 00am
3 45pm  8 00pm
10 50am
4 35pm  8 37pm 
11 32am
3 45pm  705pm
10 05am 
5 50pm  8 50pm
1205pm 
3 05pm  S 25pm
10 53am 
4 05pm |  9 25pm
111 50am

1 45am
2 40am
6 40am
7 15am 
5 4' am 
7 30am 
5 37am 
7 00am

WESTWARD

tNo. 13.1+No. 15
4 55pm 10 20pm 
6 00pm 11 2Cpm 
6 20am  6 30am 
6 00am I  .........

Trains Leave  l*No. 81 jtNo. 11
7 00am ;  1 00pm
G’d Rapids,  Lv 
8 20am  2  10pm
G’d Haven,  Ar 
Milw’kee Str  “ 
4 00pm I
Chicago Str.  “
tDaily except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35  a.m.,  12:50 
Trains  arrive  from  the  west, 6:40 a. m.,  10:10 
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet
Westward— No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner 

p.m.. 4:45 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
a. m , 3:16 p.m. and 9:15 a. m. 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car. 
Parlor Buffet car.

»Dally.

„
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J a b.  Ca m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

A  P u zzle in  W hite an d  B lack.

The origin of the  various races of men 
is a problem which  has  occupied  the at­
tention  of  modern  scholars  to  a  very 
great  extent,  yet  it  presents  so  many 
difficulties  that  it  can  by  no  means  be 
declared to  have  been  solved.  We find 
peoples  of  the  various  races  scattered 
about the world with  no traces by which 
to connect them  with  a common starting 
point or a common parentage.

The trouble is that  all  the earlier rec­
ords,  save  the  Hebrew  and  Egyptian, 
are lost,  and  they  treat  chietly  of their 
own people  and only  incidentally of  the 
races  with whom they  came  in  contact. 
The similarity or connection in languages 
has  furnished  the  chief  source  from 
which the origin  and relations  has been 
sought,  but  the  facts  elicited are more 
than  ever  confusing.  Peoples  widely 
separated  are  found possessing kindred 
languages,  while the intervening nations 
use  speech  which  belongs  to  a  totally 
different school.

law 

The  effort  to  derive  all 

the  various 
races from a common  origin,  or  from  a 
single  pair,  is,  perhaps,  the  beginning 
of  the  trouble.  The  fixed 
that 
every  seed  and  creature  must  propa­
gate  after  its  kind  seems to cut off the 
common  origin,  leaving  the vagaries of 
evolution  out  of  the  question.  There 
seems  to  be  just  as  good  reason to be­
lieve  that  the  primary  races  of  man 
came  from  distinct  and  separate  types 
as  that  the  various  species  of  animal 
life are separate and peculiar.

The two greatest puzzles  in ethnology 
are  the  negro  at  one  extreme  and  the 
blonde white race at  the other.  The at 
tempt to derive the negro from  Ham,  the 
son of Noah,  is no  longer accepted by a 
great number  of  Christians and Semitic 
ethnologists.  Rev.  Prof.  Grau,  of Koeu 
igsberg  University,  Germany, in a recent 
article  on  the  Noachian  race,  declare 
that  neither  the  Chinese,  the  African 
negroes,  nor  the  American Indians are 
included  among 
the  descendants  of 
Noah.

rabs, 

the  Phoenicians, 

in the heart of  Africa.  They have  from 
the first  ages  been  savages,  possessing 
no civilization,  save  what  they learned 
from  contact  with  other 
races  and, 
chiefly,  in  slavery.  The  Egyptians,  the 
the  Persians, 
the Greeks and Romans  all  enslaved the 
negro in early times, just as the English, 
the Spaniards, Turks  and  other modern 
ations did  in  latter.  All  the  progress 
in civilization and  religion  made by the 
negroes  was  gained  from  their  captors 
and enslavers.  This  has been  their his­
tory  for  thousands  of  years,  and if this 
progress is to be considered  a blessing it 
is all due to slavery.

The  other  great  puzzle  in  ethnology 
the  blonde  white  race  of  Northern 
urope.  Called  dolicocephalous,  or 
long-headed,  the  people  who represent 
this  race  were  first  found  where  they 
now  are.  There  is  no  history  to  show 
that  they  originated  in  Asia  and  emi­
grated 
to  the  west.  From  the  very 
first  records  and traditions  which men­
tion them these  long-headed  white  peo­
ple inhabited the  northernmost parts of 
Europe. 
In Norway  and  Sweden,  Den­
mark,  Iceland and  all  the region on  the 
Baltic  Sea  and  in  the  great  forests  of 
North Germany they  were  found.  They 
were  called  Teutons,  Scandinavians, 
ermans,  Goths and  Anglo-Saxons, and, 
although barbarous,  they were a power- 
ul  people,  fighting with the Romans and 
never  subdued  by  them.  Blonde  as  to 
the beard and hair,  blue-eyed and white 
of skin,  they  formed a strong contrast to 
the  dark-haired  races  of  the  south  of 
Europe.  Long-headed—that is,  wise and 
prudent—as  well  as  powerful  in  war 
these  northern  races  have  been  able  to 
hold their own in civilization, in religion 
and  all  the  factors  of  progress,  on  at 
quality with the best of the other races 
and  as  conservators  of  human  liberty 
and  free  institutions  they  have  been 
first.
That  races  in  close  proximity,  hold 
ing constant intercourse together, should 
mingle  their  blood  is  natural,  but  the 
blonde  races  of  the  north  of  Europe 
and  the  negro  races  of  the  heart  of 
Africa  have  preserved  all  their  peculi 
arities intact,  as  have the  yellow  races 
of Asia.  They represent the extremes of 
the human puzzle. 

A.  S.  M.

Ham,  he  says,  means  hot  or  black 
Egypt itself is  called Chemi;  perhaps on 
account of the contrast of its black earth 
with 
the  yellow  sand  of  the  desert 
But the Uamites, or the sous of Ham, ar 
not  to be taken  for  the  Ethiopians—that 
is,  the blacks.  They  receive their name 
from  the  worship  of  the  sun.  The 
ancients  liked  to  call  themselves  afte 
their  deities,  and  thus,  as  the  Hamite 
served 
the  natural  God,  they  receivei 
their name from  him in the same manne 
as  the  Jews  were  called  the  people  of 
lahwes—i.  e.  Jehovah.  The main char 
acteristic  of  the  Uamites  is  that  they 
divide the Godhead  into  sexes,  the god 
always finding  goddesses.  They  serve 
the Deity as  much  by  sexual  functions 
as  by  sacrifice  of  limb  and life  (in  the 
service of  Moloch).  This  religion  was 
the center of a highly developed materi 
and  spiritual  civilization 
in  Mesopo 
tamia,  Egypt,  and  among  the  Phmni- 
cians.  The latter,  however,  were more 
the  disseminators  than  the  creators  of 
this civilization and culture.

The Egyptians were  long  at  the  head 
of the nations  in  science  and  learning. 
They  were  the  crown  of  the  Uamitic 
races,  but their mummies,  preserved for 
thousands  of  years,  seem  to have been 
especially designed  to testify in the last 
ages of our era that the  Egyptians  were 
white,  not  negroes.  The  negroes have 
always covered a  vast extent of  country

lu  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  A 
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.  K’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 at..............  1:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m.

VIA !>., 9 .  H.  &  M.  R’Y.

Return connections equally as good.

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

Grand  R apids  St Indian a.
S chedule  In  effect A ug. 27,1898 

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

S o u th . 

A rriv e  fro m   L eave g o in g  
N orth.
7 :20 a  m
4:15 p m
10:60  p m

F o r M 'kinaw .T rav. C ity  a n d  Sag. 6 :50 a  m  
F o r C ad illac an d  S a g in a w ..........  2:15 p m  
F o r  P eto sk ey  & M ac k in a w ..........8:10 p  m  
F rom   K alam azoo 
F rom  C hicago a n d  K a la m a z o o ..  9:40 p m  
d aily .  O th ers tra in s  d a ily  e x c ep t Sunday.
does n o t ru n  to  T ra v erse C ity on Sundays.

T ra in s a r riv in g   fro m  s o u th  a t   6:50 a  m   a n d   9:10 a  m 
T ra in   le a v in g   n o rth   a t   7 :20 a. m . d aily .  T his  tra in  

.......................... 9:10 a m

TRAINS GOING  SOUTH.

N o rth . 

A rriv e fro m   L ea v eg o in g  
S outh.
7:00  a m
10:06  a m
2:00  p  m
11:20  p  m

F o r  C in c in n a ti................................  6:80 a m  
F o r K alam azo o  an d   C h ic a g o ... 
F o r F o rt W a y n e a n d  th e   E a s t..  11:60 a m  
F o r  C in c in n a ti................................  5:15 p m  
F o r K alam azoo  &  C h ic ag o ........10:40 p m  
F ro m  S ag in aw ..................................  11:50 a  m
F ro m  S ag in aw .................................   10:40 p m
T ra in s le a v in g  s o u th  a t 6:00 p m  a n d   11:20 p.  m . ru n s 
d aily :  a ll  o th e r  tra in s   d ally  ex c ep t Sunday.__________

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

L v G ran d   R ap id s 
A rr C hicago 

10:05 a m  
4 :1 0 p m  

2:00 p m  
9 :1 0 p m  

78)5 a m
10:05  a m  tr a in   th ro u g h   coach  a n d   W a g n e r  P a rlo r
11:20  p m   tr a in   d aily ,  th ro u g h   co a ch   a n d   W a g n e r 

11*0 p

S leeping C ar.

6:00 p m

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  T HAHESM A   N

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

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

th e  M arkets.

Special Correspondence.
N e w   Y o k e :,  Oct.  7—“Trade is as good 
as  we want  it  to be  under  the  circum­
stances.”  said  a  leading grocery jobber 
to  your  correspondent.  The  trouble  is 
with 
the  “circumstances,”  and,  until 
they  are  changed,  nothing  but  a  dull 
market will  be  presented.  Wholesalers 
are chafing  under the  delay of  the Sen­
ate,  taxes are due,  and  cold weather  not 
far off. 
it is  bound to be  a hard winter 
and  much  suffering  will  prevail.  Of 
course,  people  must  eat,  but  they will 
not  indulge  much  in  luxuries  or goods 
that pay  big profits.  The  retail trade  is 
satisfactory  in  some  parts  of  the  city, 
but not so  in  others.  The  army  of the 
unemployed is about as large as ever,  and 
although  50,000  people  could  afford  to 
pay  from S3 to  $5  each to  see the yacht 
race,  it signifies  nothing,  and charitable 
institutions  are crowded.  We  yearn for 
the good old  days  “befo’ de wab,” when 
New York was  the  trading  place of  the 
continent and  such great  competitors as 
Chicago  and  St.  Paul  and  Denver  had 
hardly an  existence.
The yacht  race  actually  made  a  dull 
market  on  the  days  appointed, and  for 
the time  everything  else  was  forgotten. 
It was  to New  York  what  the  circus is 
to  smaller  places,  although  compara­
tively  few could  go.  The  rest crowded 
in front of the bulletin boards.

The matter  of  deliveries  of  sugar re­
mains as  annoying as  it has been during 
the  past  month,  and  goodness  knows 
when the demand will  be supplied.  The 
refineries are running unceasingly nights 
and  Sundays,  but  they are  still  far  be­
hind.  No  advance  has  taken  place  in 
price.
Coffee is  very  firmly  held  and  sellers 
are confident of  obtaining higher prices. 
Rio No. 7 is worth  18Mc  and is about 3c 
higher than a  year  ago.  There are only 
about  70,000  bags held in  this city,  and 
the stock of  the country  to-day is about 
320,000  bags,  against  570,000  bags, 
a  year  ago—figures  which show that the 
high  value  now  placed  upon  cof­
fee is a legitimate  value,  and one  bound 
to appreciate.

Canned  goods  attract  more  and more 
attention and  tomatoes  are  worth  $1.10 
for  extra  standards,  New  Jersey  pack, 
and $1  tor Maryland; Delaware command 
$1.05.  Peaches and other  fruits,  as well 
as  corn—the  latter  in  particular—are 
meeting  with  more  and  more  inquiry, 
while salmon  is dull, owing to  the  huge 
pack.
Dried  fruits are  slow of  sale  and low 
in  price.  Still  if  apricots  can  be  dried 
and  put on  the cars for  2c a pound,  as it 
is  claimed  they  can  be,  Californians 
ought to  feel satisfied  with  prices rang­
ing from 9@12c here.
The  provision  market  is  firm,  and 
while  fluctuations  are frequent they are 
small in amount.  Pork is  worth  $18.75 
@$20  per  barrel.  Beef,  §12@14  for 
family mess.
Dairy  products  are  firm, although no 
very 
large  transactions  are  reported, 
buyers  being  seemingly  content  to  let 
matters  drift.  The  best  Western  and 
fetching  29@30c 
State  creamery  are 
readily; 
imitation  creamey,  24@26c; 
Western  dairy,  17@21c. 
Full  cream 
fancy State colored cheese  is worth 11@ 
llK c  and 
is  well  held;  white,  10% 
@10%c.
Eggs — Northern  Indiana,  Northern 
Ohio,  and Michigan,  23c;  nearby  fresh, 
26c.  Market firm,  and supplies not very 
ample.
Poultry  is  beginning  to  meet  with 
ready sale, dressed turkeys being quoted 
at 12@16c, and 10@12c alive.  Chickens, 
dressed, 12@18c; alive 10@12c.
Beans are selling at $1.95 for new pea; 
and $2 for medium.  Receipts  not  large 
and the market is rather quiet.
Potatoes are in abundant  supply, over 
100  earloads  being  on  the  D.  L., & W. 
tracks  in  Hoboken.  They  are  worth 
about $2 per barrel, and in bulk, $1.75.
Apples  are  in  good  demand,  and  re­
ceipts are fair.  Greenings,  $2@2.50 per 
bbl.; king, $2.25@3.25.
The  market  is  hardening for foreign 
green fruits,  and  lemons,  in particular,

are  in  request.  Oranges,  bananas and 
pineapples  are  all  selling  pretty  well, 
and holders are  not  as  anxious  to  part 
with their holdings as  they  were a fort­
night ago.  Dates,  figs, prunes and nuts 
are all  meeting with better  request. 
In 
domestic  nuts,  hickorynuts  are  worth 
$2.50.  Chestnuts  are  still out of reach, 
being quotable as  high as $6 per bushel.
White Clover honey  is held at I4@15c 
for 1  #>.  boxes, and  6@7c  for extracted.
Another  new  sugar  refinery  is  to be 
erected.  This  time  it  is  said  to be in 
Boston.  The annual  output of all refin­
eries  outside  the  Trust  will  amount  to 
nearly 350,000 tons,  and it is to be hoped 
the  good  work  will continue,  although, 
as yet,  we have learned of no “independ­
ent” refinery  that  has  been  “independ­
ent” enough to  sell their  product  below 
the  Trust’s  price.  Why should they, if 
they can get the same as the Trust?  The 
latter  is  not  at  all troubled by the new 
enterprises, and claims to welcome them.
Politics will attract  a  good deal of at­
tention from now on,  though  luckily the 
campaign is to  be  short. 
If  Tammany 
is victorious, as it invariably is, it will be 
called  a  “glorious  victory,” just as if it 
wasn’t a regular thing.  To  nominate is 
to elect so far as Tammany is concerned.

J a y .

G ripsack B rigad e.

Hub Baker has  returned  from his five 
weeks’  vacation and  resumed his regular 
trips to his  trade.

Frank  Stone,  buyer  for H.  Leonard & 
Sons, is confined to  his house  by illness 
in the shape of fever.

Wm.  D. Weaver,  city salesman for the

I.  M.  Clark  Grocery Co.,  is spending ten 
days in  Chicago  taking  in  the World’s 
Fair.

Wm. Connor was in Grand Rapids  last 
Thursday and  Friday,  and  will make an­
other stand  here  Thursday  and  Friday, 
Oct. 26 and 27.

Dr.  Josiah  B.  Evans,  traveling sales­
man for  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co., 
is taking in the World’s Fair  this  week. 
He is accompanied by his wife,

Jas. A.  Morrison  left  Friday  for  his 
old home in Pennsylvania, where he  will 
spend a  week  or  ten  days  among  the 
scenes and  friends of  his  boyhood days.
Ed.  L.  Forsyth,  State  agent  for  Col­
burn,  Birks & Co., of  Peoria,  111,  was in 
town a couple  of  days last  week in  the 
interest of  the liquor department of that 
house.  Mr.  Forsyth was formerly on the 
road  for  Williams, Davis,  Brooks  & Co. 
and  the Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co. 
He will continue to reside at Kalamazoo.
Sam.  B.  Morrison,  formerly  on  the 
road for  the Olney & Judson Grocer Co., 
but more  recently with  the  Wells-Stone 
Mercantile  Co.,  of  Duluth,  with  head­
quarters  at Grand  Forks,  North Dakota, 
has  gone  to  Colorado  Springs,  Colo., 
where  he  is  employed  by  the  Shields- 
Morley  Grocery  Co.  as  traveling  sales­
man.

B.  F.  Emery,  formerly of this city,  but 
for  the  past 
two  years  at  Colorado 
Springs, Colo.,  is now at the Lincoln Park 
Sanitarium,  at  Chicago,  undergoing  a 
delicate surgical  operation. 
In case the 
operation is successful,  he will return to 
Grand  Rapids  with  his  family  and  re­
enter the  employ of  the  Chicago  Pack­
ing  Co.

Jas. G. Cloyes, city salesman for the I. 
M. Clark Grocery Co., broke  his left col­
lar bone in alighting from  a  Lyon street 
electric car Oct  2.  He will  be  confined 
to his house for  a  month  or  six weeks, 
and in  the  meantime  his  trade will  be 
visited  by  Fred  Morley,  who  formerly 
covered the  Upper  Peninsula  trade  for 
that house.

Louis 

Immegart,  who  covered 

the I

Michigan  territory  three  years  for  the 
Catlin Tobacco Co.,  subsequently travel­
ing a year  for the  Olney &  Judson Gro­
cer Co,,  after which  he  conducted a gro­
cery business at Traverse City for a year 
and  has  been  representing  the  Catlin 
people in  Indiana for  the past year,  has 
had  Michigan  and  Kentucky  added  to 
his  territory,  and  will  make  quarterly 
visits to  the trade of  this territory here­
after.  He  was  in  town  last week, call­
ing on old friends and acquaintances.
T akes  Issu e   w ith   Dr.  K ello g g .

T h e  T radesman  last week  published 
a letter  from  Dr.  Kellogg,  denouncing 
cheese as  unwholesome,  unless  cooked, 
owing to its being a product of putrefac­
tion.  His  letter  happened  to reach the 
eye  of  Edward  Atkinson,  the  Boston 
economist,  who writes  T h e  T radesm an 
in the following emphatic manner:
Boston,  Mass.,  Oct.  5— Dr.  Kellogg is 
probably  a  crank. 
It is absurd to  con­
demn  cheese.  Rotten  cheese  may  do 
mischief.  You  will find  a  complete re­
ply  in  the  “Chemistry  of  Cooking” by 
Dr.  Mattieu  Williams,  published,  1  be­
lieve,  by D.  Appleton  &  Co.  You  will 
also  find  the  subject  dealt  with  in  my 
“Science  of  Nutrition” at  second-hand, 
published  by  Damrell  &  Upbam,  Old 
Corner Book Store,  Boston.
The  waste  of  skimmed  milk  in  this 
country is something frightful.  Bear  in 
mind that the cream is almost wholly fat, 
a secondary product from the atmosphere. 
The  solids  which  are  withdrawn  from 
the  soil  in  the  production  of  milk  are 
all  left  in 
the  skimmed  milk.  That 
is mainly  fed  to hogs,  and  thereby con­
verted into fat, of which  we have already 
an excess. 
It  should  all  be  made  into 
cheese  after  the  Italian  fashion, to  be 
cooked.  Raw  cheese made  of  skimmed 
milk 
indigestible.  Cooked 
skim milk  cheese is  very  digestible and 
extremely  nutritious,  especially  in  the

very 

is 

element  of  nitrogen—the scarcest,  most 
important and most costly element in the 
nutrition of man.
You will observe that  wherever meats 
are dear,  from which  we derive  most of 
our  nitrogen,  cheese  takes  the place— 
witness  England,  France,  Switzerland 
and Italy—together with peas and beans, 
also nitrogenous.
I  would  suggest  you  to  take up  the 
subject of making  and cooking  skimmed 
milk cheese as one of the most important 
elements in  food  economy that  remains 
to be dealt  with.  You  will find  a basis 
in Dr.  Williams’  book.

Yours truly,

Edw ard Atk inson.

H id es an d   P elts.

Hides—The day has gone by when any 
great amount of activity  has been mani­
fested  in  this  market.  Cattle  are  not 
killed in this State to  anything  like the 
extent they were  in  past years,  and the 
quantity is getting less every year.  The 
great packing houses  are  doing the kill­
ing and shipping the  dressed meat to all 
parts of the country.  As a conseqnence, 
the supply of hides is on the  decrease in 
this locality and  throughout  the  State. 
The  tanneries  draw their  main  supply 
from the meat  packers,  so that the mar­
ket has been  affected at  both ends.  The 
leather  market  is  fiat,  and  stocks  are 
held  for  higher  prices.  The  prospect 
for a rise is  extremely poor.

Pelts—Are  largely governed  in  price 
by the  condition  of  the  wool  market, 
which in all  its  history  has  never  been 
so bad.  Then the low price of hides has 
had  its  effect,  so  that,  altogether,  the 
pelt market is in  poor shape.  The price 
is off fully  50 per  cent,  from  last year’s 
figures.  There  is  almost  no  sale  for 
them at any price,  but the figures quoted 
in the market report are probably bottom 
figures.

JOBBERS  OF

STAPLE  m   FANCY

G R A N D   R A P I D S .

OUR  MOTTO:

Good Goods, Right PriGes, Godrteods Treatment.

A SA FE   IN V E ST M E N T

An  order placed  with  us  for  goods  of  our  own  manufacture.  Our  fac­
tory  is  one of  the  largest  in  the  State,  and  its  products  are  trade  winners 
wherever sold.

OUR  SPECIALTY

SIDE  ISSUES:

O ran ges,  Lem on s,  N uts 

an d   O ysters.

T h e 

P U T N A M  C A N D Y  CO.

Tour  Bank Account Solicited.

GRAND  RAPIDS  ,MICH.

Jso.  A.  C o v o d e ,  Pres.

I I e n b t   I d e m a , Vice-Pres.

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

K. V a n   I I o p , Ass’tC’s'r. 

Transacts a General Banking:  Business. 

Interest  Allowed  on  Time  and  Sayings 

Deposits.

DIRECTORS:

Jno. A. Covode, D. A  Blodgett,  E. Crofton Pox. 
T. J. O’Brien.  A. J.  Bowne,  Henry Idema,
J. A. S. Verdier.
J no. W. Blodgett, J. A. McKee. 

Deposits  Exceed  One  Million  Dollars.

ARE  THE  TIMES  HURD?

THEN  MAKE  THEM  EASY 
BY  ADOPTING  THE  COU­
PON  BOOK  SYSTEM  PUR 
NISHED  BY  THE

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Glass  Covers  for  Biscaits.

GENUINE  :  VICI  :  SHOE,
Plain toe in opera and  opera  toe and 0. S. heel. 
D and E and E E widths, at $1.50.  Patent leather 
tip,  $1.55.  Try them,  they are  beauties.  Stock 
soft and fine, flexible and elegant  fitters.  Send 
for sample dozen.

REEDER  BROS.  SHOE  CO ,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cracker  Chests. 

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

MUSKEGON  BAK ERY

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

CRACKERS,  BISCUITS,  CAKES.

O rigin ators  o f  th e  C elebrated  C ake,  “ M U SK E G O N   B R A N C H .”

HARRY  FOX,  Manager,

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

Spring &  Company,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

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

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

assorted stock at lowest  market  prices.

MILTON  KERNS’

Spring &  Company.
HI  Puritano  Cigar.
10 Cent Cipr oi Eartli

I  THE  FINEST

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

Bay City.

Grand  Rapids.

East Saginaw.

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

Detroit, Mich.

CO.,
VOIGT,  HBßFOLSHEIMGR 
Dry  Goods,  Garpets and Cloaks

W H O L E S A L E

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

M ackinaw  Shirts  and  Lumbermen's  Socks. 

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigt, Harjolsbeiier & Go.

48, 80,  82  Ottawa  St.,

G r a n d   R a p id s .

'T ’HESE  chests  will 

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

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

o

NEW   NOVELTIES.

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

CREAM  CRISP. 

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

the best selling cakes we ever made.

THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 
P E R K I N S   <&
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

D E A L E R S IN

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NOS.  18 8   an d   18 4   LO UIS  ST R E E T .  G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H IG A N .

WE CARRY  A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

BRAND  RAPIDS, 
BRUSH  GOMP'Y.
EES OF B R U S H E S GKAND  RAPIDS, 

MANVFAOTUIÎ 

MICH.

O u r   G o o d s  a r e   s o ld   b y   a l l   M ic h ig a n   J o b b in g   H o u se« .

The Following

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

IP  YOU  WANT  THE  BEST 

THESE  ARE  THE  COFFEES  FOR  YOU  TO  BUY.

The  beautiful  display of  holiday  goods  at 
H.  Leonard & Sons’ mammoth  wholesale store 
is attracting  a  great deal of  attention just  at 
present.  Their fall importations are now all in. 
and they have given up a greater part of their 
large sample room, which has been rearranged 
to better accommodate and  show to advantage 
their varied assortment of Christmas and holi­
day  goods.
They are also  showing  a  beautiful  line  of 
Lamps for the fall and winter trade;  their line 
of Decorated Vase Lamps comprise all the new 
and richest  decorations,  while  the  quality  of 
the goods and  prices speak for themselves.
And to  look  over  their  fine  assortment  of 
Banquet  Lamps  will  give  you  the  right  im­
pression  that  they are  headquarters  for  this 
line of goods. 
If  the  lamp question interests 
you at all don’t fail  to see  their line when you 
are in  the  city.  Their  New  Lamp Catalogue 
has just been mailed,  and  if  you  have not  re­
ceived it just drop them a postal and they will 
mail you one if you are in  business.

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS.

J e w e ll's  A r a b ia n   M och a,
J e w e ll’s  O ld  G o v e rn m e n t  J a v a , 
J e w e ll’s  Old  G o v e rn m e n t  J a v a   an d  

M o ch a ,

W e lls ’  P e r fe ctio n   Java,
W a lls ’  J a v a   a n 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 io ,
C o m p o u n d   C ru sh ed   Ja v a .

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

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If You  Want  Good,  Light,  Sweet  Bread  aid  Biscuits,
FERMENTUM
COMPRESSED YEAST

THE  ONLY  RELIABLE

SOLD  BY  ALL  FIRST-CLASS  GROCERS.

MANUFACTURED  BY

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MAIN  OFFICE:

CHICAGO,  270  KINZIE  STREET.

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J%.nd  y o u   c a n   d e p e n d   o n   "the  b e s t   q u a i-j

ity when  you  buy this  Brand. 

I Address  all  communications  to  T H E   FERM ENTU M   CO.

