VOL.  11.

ORANO  RAPIDS,  OCTOBER  18,  1893.

NO.  526

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Miss  Betty  Perkins  took  a  long  but 
ratber  unsatisfactory  look  out  between 
the immovable slats of her kitchen blinds.
“Dear me!”  she exclaimed, after a vain 
attempt to extend  her  field of  vision,  “1 
should 
think  anybody  with  a  mite  of 
sense  would  know  better  than to  make 
blinds this way.  You might as well try to 
see  through  the  side  of 
the  house!” — 
which was a  exaggeration,  but  some al­
lowance must  be  made  for Miss  Betty’s 
mental state.

She had  by  nature  an enquiring mind, 
and took, at ail times, a kind and  friendly 
interest in her  neighbors’  doings;  but on 
this  particvlar  morning  her  opposite 
neighbor,  Mrs.  Blake, had her parlor win­
dows open at a very early  hour,  and  had 
been plainly  visible  shaking  rugs  in the 
back yard  before breakfast!  When  Miss 
Betty  shook the  crumbs  from her  table­
cloth  she had  seen  a  black  silk  duster 
waving vigorously from one of  the same 
parlor windows,  and  now,  in  the middle 
of a warm July morning, smoke was com­
ing from Mrs.  Blake’s  kitchen  chimney. 
Truly,  Miss  Betty  might  say  with  the 
Mikado,  “ Here’s a state of things!”

“ You needn’t tell me,” said Miss Betty, 
apostrophizing her  sitting-room  lamp as 
she  examined  its  wick,  “ that  Melissy 
Blake’s dishes  ain’t washed  at  this time 
of day and  that’s what the fire’s for.  No, 
it’s comp’ny,  that’s what  it is; I  wonder 
who they  be. 
I  was  in  there  yesterday 
afternoon and she never breathed a word 
about  it;  but  then  Melissy  allers  was 
close-mouthed. 
If ’tisn’t own  folks, and 
I  believe her’s all  live up Worcester way, 
it’s  pretty funny  I  wasn’t  asked,  near 
neighbor as  I  be.  Well,  folks  is queer.”
Her first plan  was  to  go  over  to Mrs. 
Blake’s  and  find  out  what  she  could 
about the expected guests.  She could at 
least  see  what  preparations  were 
in 
progress  for  their entertainment,  which 
would be something. 
“ I’m ’most out  of 
yeast  and could  borrow  a  cupful,”  she 
thought,  searching  her  mind  for  an er­
rand.  But  on  reflection 
this  course 
hardly  seemed advisable,  for Mrs. Blake 
was  noted  for  her  skill  in  keeping  her 
affairs 
I 
shouldn’t know a bit  more when  I come 
home than  I do now,”  was Miss  Perkins’ 
second thought.  “No,  I  won’t  go. 
I’ll 
have an  early dinner and see who comes.”
Accordingly,  at  half  past  eleven,  she 
brought  out her  tiny  teapot and  sliced 
her potatoes  for  frying,  and  two hours 
later,  dressed  in  her  second-best  black 
dress,  and  with  her  knitting  ready,  she 
seated herself  at  her  sitting-room  win­
dow.  The sun  had traveled  away  from 
that side of the house now,  so Miss Betty 
was  screened  from  the  public  gaze  by 
one  half  blind,  while the other was com­
fortably  fastened  back  out  of  the  way. 
Gapt.  Blake  on  his  return  from  one of 
his  long foreign  voyages had  found time 
to plant a row of young maples across the 
front of  his  place,  and  they  were  now 
vigorous  young  trees;  but  Miss  Betty’s 
window  was so far in the  angle that she

to  herself.  “ Likely’s 

not 

could see the  front  walk  and  door  and 
one of the parlor windows.

Dalton  hours  were  early,  and  before 
3 o’clock  the  first  guest  came  in  sight. 
“Miss  Cap’n  Swain,”  announced  Miss 
Betty,  half  aloud.  “Straight  as  a  ram­
rod,  as  usual.  ^ believe  she’s  grown an 
inch or two taller since  Cap’n Swain  left 
off whaling and  begun to  go  foreign  voy­
ages;  but,  law!  what  have we  poor,  per­
ishing creatures  to be proud of? 
I  won­
der if that’s a new dress, now.”  She un­
consciously  leaned  so far forward  in the 
attempt 
to  settle  the  important  point 
that  Mrs.  Swain  saw  her  and  bowed, 
which caused  Miss  Perkins  to  retire  in 
great  confusion;  but  she  came  to  the 
front again  in  time to scrutinize the next 
arrivals.

“Dr.  Kennedy’s  wife,”  said  she,  and 
smiling,  of  course. 
I  never  saw  her 
sober,  even  at a funeral.  For my part,  I 
think  it  makes  folks  look  simple to be 
always  a-laughing.  Who’s 
that  with 
her? 
I never  saw  her  before.  Now,  I 
shouldn’t  wonder  if  it  was  Mis’  Ken­
nedy’s sister,  the  missionary  woman. 
I 
heard  she  was  coming.  How  sing’ler 
’tis 
to  go  gadding 
about in that way.”

that  women  want 

There was such  a long  interval  before 
any other guest appeared that Miss Betty 
had just made up her mind  that the party 
numbered  three,  when  Mrs.  Randall,  the 
minister’s  wife,  hurried in  at  the oppo­
site gate.  Miss  Betty’s  hard  face soft­
ened a little at  the  sight of  her,  and  for 
once she had no sharp or unkind  word to 
say.  Little  Mrs.  Randall  was  hardly 
ever quite in  time;  she was  apt to  come 
in flushed  and  breathless,  but  so  sorry 
for her  tardiness,  and so  sweet  and  lov­
able  withal,  that  every  one  made  ex­
cuses for her.

Mrs.  Blake’s parlor  was  full of  pleas­
ant talk  that  bright  summer afternoon. 
“I  saw  Miss Perkins at her  window,  as I 
came in,” said  Mrs. Swain.

“I don’t doubt  it,”  answered her host­
ess.  “Poor  soul! 
It  seems  hard not to 
ask her,  too; but I thought you  might not 
care to tell how  much  your  dresses cost, 
how much Dr.  Kennedy’s  fees amounted 
to last  month,  and  what  the  minister is 
going to  preach  to  us  about  next  Sun­
day.”

The ladies  laughed,  and  the conversa­
tion turned on Miss Plummer’s  work  and 
adventures.  She  had  been 
in  Mexico 
and in the  Northwest,  and  had so much 
to  tell  that  when  the  great  hall  clock 
struck 5 Mrs.  Blake was quite surprised, 
and she went out in  a hurry to  begin  her 
preparations for supper.  The house  was 
an old-fashioned  one,  with  the side door 
opening  directly  into  the  kitchen,  and 
the only means of access to  the cellar by 
a trap-door  in  the  kitchen floor,  and  the 
steepest possible stairs.

Mrs.  Blake  started  a  crackling  wood 
fire,  opened  the  outer door for coolness, 
and swung  back  the  door  of  the  trap, 
which  was of  such generous proportions 
that the  corner of  the  tea-table  was on 
the verge,  and the doorway in close prox­
imity; but  Mrs.  Blake  was  used  to  ber

house,  and  she  made  her  biscuits  and 
ran  up  and down  the  break-neck stairs, 
without even  a sigh  for modern conven­
iences.

She was justly proud of her table when 
it  was  ready. 
The  cloth  had  been 
brought  by  her  husband from  what  the 
neighbors called  “ foreign  parts,” and  the 
china had  been  her  mother’s.  The egg­
shell cups and  delicate  plates  were very 
pretty,  and  how  nice  the  thin  slices of 
ham  looked,  and  the  great  dish  of  red 
and  white currants!  The  fruit cake  was 
as dark and rich  and indigestible as need 
be,  and 
the  pound-cake!—nobody  but 
Mrs.  Blake knew the secret of that.  She 
went back  into the  parlor  for five min­
utes  while  the  biscuits  got  their  last 
touch  of  brown  and  the  tea  one  more 
simmer,  leaving  the  trap-door  open  to 
remind her that  the cream  and  the but­
ter  were yet  in  the  cool  depths  of  the 
cellar.

Meanwhile it had been a long afternoon 
to Miss Betty.  She could catch the sound 
of  voices from  across  the  way occasion­
ally,  and  the  desire  to  know  what they 
were so merry  over grew  stronger every 
minute, till at last  a  brilliant  idea came 
into her head.  There was that yeast  that 
she,—yes,  really  needed;  she  would  go 
now  and  borrow it.  She would  go  in at 
the  side-door,  and 
if  Mrs.  Blake  had 
company,  how should  she know  it  when 
she was not invited?

So she  put  on  her  bonnet  snd mitts, 
took her green  silk parasol,  for  the  sun 
was  still  high, and  carrying a cup for the 
yeast,  crossed  the street valiantly.  Mrs. 
Randall  had  left  the  gate  open,  so  she 
entered  without  any click  of  announce­
ment,  and,  as it happened,  all  the ladies 
were  looking  at  some  pictures and did 
not see Miss  Betty at all.

She glanced  in at  the  open  side-door, 
hut  the kitchen  was dark,  and  looking in 
from  the outside she could  see  nothing. 
She stepped  on  the  door-sill  and strug­
gled  with her parasol,  which  declined  to 
shut.  Setting her cup  down  she pushed 
harder,  but still 
it  did  not  yield.  To 
bring her  muscles  into  better  play she 
stepped  back  a  pace  or  two,—and went 
In  falling  she 
down 
clutched  wildly  at 
the  nearest  object, 
which  happened to  be  the corner of  the 
tablecloth.  There was not much staying 
power about  the  damask,  and  it  went 
down with  her,—with  all its load.

the  open 

trap! 

Mrs.  Blake  was  just  expressing polite 
regrets about the absent husbands,  when 
a sudden  and  awful  crash drowned  her 
voice and  drew  them  all  to  the kitchen. 
What a sight  was there,  my countrymen! 
The table,  which  had  been  such  a thing 
of beauty  a  few  minutes  before,  now 
stood  bare and desolate;  the cloth draped 
the cellar stairs,  currants  had  rolled  to 
the  farthest  corners,  and  bits  of  cake 
were still  hopping  from  stair  to  stair, 
and  in  the center of  the cellar floor was 
Miss  Betty  Perkins,  with  her  parasol 
still  spread  over  her  head,  standing 
erect in a tub  of  soft  soap,  unhurt,  but 
considerably crestfallen,  and  a  prey  to

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T H E   M I C H I G A N   T B A D E 8 M A J N

such varied emotions that  her  face  was 
void of expression  as a  blank  wall.

The amazed  spectators  looked  at  this 
scene and at  each  other,  and then  broke 
into a laugh  in  which  even  Mrs.  Blake 
joined,  although  her  supper  and  her 
cherished china  lay  in  a  common ruin, 
and  the air was full of the aroma of burn­
ing biscuits  and  boiling tea.  Miss Betty 
looked up and smiled feebly.

“ How—how  do  you  do?”  she  stam­
“ I  came  to  borrow a cupful of 
I’d  no  idee you  had  any yeast, 

mered. 
comp’ny. 
or I’d  have coma to-morrer.”

joined 

At  this  added  touch  of  absurdity  the 
laughter  was  so  prolonged 
that  Miss 
Betty  looked  up at last,  in  some indigna­
tion.  But  whom did  she  see  among the 
laughers!  The  minister  himself,  who, 
having  knocked  unheard,  had  admitted 
himself  and 
the  group  in  the 
kitchen,  and  was now  laughing with  the 
rest.  This was the proverbial  last straw, 
and  Miss  Perkins  sank  under  it.  One 
wild  struggle  to  free  herself  from  the 
clinging  soap,  a  consequent 
loss  of 
equilibrium,  and she sat down  in  the tub 
and  was  completely extinguished  by  her 
green  umbrella.

“Now,  Mrs.  Randall,”  said  Mrs.  Ken­
nedy,  as  soon  as  speech  was  possible, 
“ you  and  Mr.  Randall  and  Mrs.  Swain 
just go into the parlor  for a  little  while, 
and Anna and  1  will  help clear up  here; 
but,  Melissa,”  she  added,  “do  ask  the 
town next  time,  and  not  leave  anybody 
to come borrowing company.”

A n n ie  I.  H andy.

MYRON  HESTER.

interest  to  his  partner  and  established 
himself on  the opposite side of the street, 
where he is at  present located.

Mr.  Hester is the  pioneer in  the wood
pulley  business  in  Western  Michigan, 
and is  probably  the  heaviest  dealer  in 
that class  of  goods.  The  stringency  in 
the  money market has  affected  his  busi­
ness 
to  a  considerable  extent,  but  he 
thinks that times  “are looking up.”  The 
starting  up  of  many  factories,  which 
have  been  closed  for  some  weeks,  has 
stimulated  business in  his  lines,  and he 
is  looking  forward  hopefully  to  com­
plete resumption  on  the part of  the fac­
tories  when  his  business  will  assume  its 
old  time  proportions.  Mr.  Hester  is  a 
member of  the  Masonic'order,  and  was 
for twelve  years a  trustee  of  the South 
Congregational  Church.  He  was  mar­
ried 28 years  when his wife died,  twenty- 
nine months ago.  He has  three children, 
two daughters and  a son.  The daughters 
keep  house for  their father and  the son, 
Carl S.,  is  associated  with  him  in  busi­
ness,  having charge of  the  financial  part 
of the concern.  Mr. Hester has been twice 
requested  to contest  his  ward, the Tenth,  j 
for a  seat  in  the  Common  Council,  but 
has so far steadily refused.  He is not in 
politics  and  has  no  desire  to  be,  al­
though there is little doubt as to his elec­
tion  if  he  would  allow  himself  to  be 
nominated.  He is one  of  the  most com­
panionable  of  men,  though  somewhat 
quiet  and  reserved  in  manner,  of  un­
questioned 
integrity,  a  man  of  strong 
likes and dislikes,  one of  the  men  whom 
it  pays  to  tie  to,  whose  friendship  is 
something to  be treasured.

O U R   E X H IB IT

Located  in  Section  G,  Agricultural 
Building,  World’s  Columbian  Exposi­
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great many visitors most of whom are 
acquainted  with the merits of the cel­
ebrated “Gail Borden Bagle 
Brand Condensed Mills:.99 
The pavilion is one  of  the most  beau­
tiful on the grounds,  and you will feel 
amply repaid for the  time occupied  in 
seeing  it,  Of course, if you have .not 
already  been,  you  are  going  to  the  World’s  Fair.  Don’t 
miss  the  grandest  exhibition  that  was  ever  presented  to 
the people  on  earth.  You  will  always 
regret it if you do.  Like the

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Machinery  Dealer.

through 

the  storms 

Myron  Hester,  head of the  Hester  Ma­
chinery  Co.,  45  South  Division  street, 
Grand  Rapids,  was  born 
in  Huron 
county, Ohio,  Jan.  30,  1842.  His father, 
Samuel Hester,  was  a  farmer,  and  also 
kept  a  general  store.  After  safely 
weathering 
incident  to  in­
fancy and  early  childhood,  Myron  took 
his place in  the  “deestrick  skule,” pass­
ing 
the  various  grades  and 
emerging at the age of  16  with  the usual 
amount  of  credit  given 
the  average 
schoolboy.  One  turn  at Oberlin College, 
Oberlin,  Ohio,  completed  his schooling. 
He  then  took  his  piace  behind  the coun­
ter of  his  father’s  store  where  he  re­
mained  until  he  was  21  years  of  age. 
The  next  two  years  of  his  life  were 
passed  in  a  general  store  in  Waterloo, 
Ind.  On  leaving  Waterloo  he  went  to 
Nashville,  Barry county,  Mich.,  with  a 
small  stock of  goods,  which  he soon dis­
posed of,  and  then  turned  his  attention 
to carpentering,  with which trade he  was 
somewhat  familiar.  Mr.  Hester  came 
to  Grand  Rapids  in  1872,  working  for 
some two or  three years at  carpentering. 
The next ten  years were  spent  in  the em­
ploy  of  W.  C.  Denison,  selling  imple­
ments  and  machinery.  Nine  years  of 
this time  were passed  “on  the  road,”  re­
sulting 
in  an  extensive  acquaintance 
with  the users of  mill  and other machin­
ery  in  all  parts  of  the  State.  To the I 
personal  friendships thus  formed  is due, 
in  a  measure,  the  success  which  has at­
tended  Mr.  Hester  since  engaging  in  | 
business  for  himself.  Closing  his  en­
gagement  with  Mr.  Denison,  he  began 
the  sale  of  machinery  on  bis  own  ac- j 
count,  continuing  for  about  a  year, 
when the  firm of  Hester &  Fox  was or­
ganized.  This  firm  did  business  fur  I 
seven  years,  when  Mr.  Hester  sold  his 1

Interesting Meeting of the  Jackson Re­

tail  G rocers’  Association.

the 

to—At 

J ackson,  Oct. 

regular 
meeting of  the Jackson  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association,  O.  C.  Leach  was  re-elected 
to membership.
The Auditing Committee  reported  sev­
eral  bills  correct,  and  warrants were or­
dered drawn.
The  Committee  on  Petitions,  relating 
to  hucksters and peddlers, reported prog­
ress  and were granted  further time.
The  Committee  on  Constitution  and 
By-Laws  reported that they  had done the 
duty assigned  them  and submitted  a new 
draft for  approval.  The  Secretary  read 
the copy  and, on  motion, it  was  laid  over 
for two weeks to  be  adopted  at the next 
meeting.
The delegate  to the  World’s  Fair con­
vention of  grocers  submitted  his  report 
of  the  transactions  at  the  convention. 
On  motion,  a vote of thanks was tendered 
to the delegate for  his able report,  given 
by  a  rising  and  unanimous  vote,  for 
which  the delegate returned  thanks.
Letters  were received  from O.  L.  Deal­
ing,  of  the  Chicago  Oruccr,O.  F.  Over­
beck of the St.  Louis  Retail Grocers’  As­
sociation,  G.  H.  Schurer,  of  the  Retail 
Grocers’  Association  at  Peoria,  and 
others,  which  were  ordered  answered  by 
the Secretary.
The question  of  peddling  bread  by the 
bakers  who supply  the  grocers  was dis­
cussed  and  laid over  until  the next  meet- j 
ing.
The President  appointed C.  G.  Hill  ou I 
the  Committee  on  Trade  Interests,  in I 
piace of  R.  A.  Hobart,  who  has retired !

Re-opening of a B ankrupt  Factory. 
I 
H ome«,  Mich., Oct.  1.—E.  Isley  and  E.  I 
H.  Dowling,  who  have  rented  the  butter 
and cheese factory,  have issued  cards  to 
the  farmers 
in  which  they  state  that 
they  are  now  in  shape  to  start.  They 
have  removed  their  families  here  from I 
Blissfieid,  and are  now  putting  in  a new | 
boiler  and  getting  everything  in  order 
for business.  They  have  had experience 
and are confident of making a success.

There  are  more  false  tongues 

than ! 

false teeth  in the  world.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

AND  MANUFACTURERS  AGENT FOR

Koch Adjustable Brack­

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portable—not fixtures,  to be  retained  by the  landlord 
and  utilized  by  the next  tenant.  This  arrangement 
enables  the  merchant  to  move  his  store  furniture 
more quickly and easily  than he  can  move his stock 
thus enabling him  to resume  business  in  a new loca­
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Sabbatb  Observance  by Business Men.
Written for Thb Tradesman.

headed, 

Mr. E.  A.  Owen,  in an  article  in last 
week’s  T r a d e sm a n , 
“Have 
Business  Men Any Use  for the Sabbath?” 
seems  to be  impressed  with the idea that 
the large number  of  deaths  among busi­
ness men  is due  to the  fact  that they do 
not  observe  the  Sabbath as  strictly  as 
they ought,  and,  on  that  ground,  pleads 
for a general suspension of work on Sun­
day  by  business  men.

Man certainly does need  regular inter­
vals of rest,  and,  possibly,  of  recreation. 
The  hours  of  night  supply 
the  first, 
while it  is utterly impossible  for one day 
in seven,  even  if  it  could  be  devoted to 
“ absolute  rest,”  to  supply  the 
latter. 
Not  many  business  men  can  utterly 
withdraw their  minds  from  the cares of 
business on Sunday;  indeed,  it is unnec­
essary for any purpose for which  the Sab­
bath  was  instituted.  But that  is beside 
the  question.  Absolute  rest,  with  the 
mind in a normal condition, is impossible. 
The mind of the average business man  is 
kept at  a high  tension  all  the  week,  and 
to suddenly drop all thought of businesss, 
putting it completely out of mind,  would 
be injurious  rather  than  beneficial,  un­
less something is given  the mind  to  do in 
harmony  with  its  usual  habits. 
If  it is 
given  anything  to  do, 
the  mind  cer­
tainly cannot be  in  a state of  rest,  abso­
lute or partial.  The mind does not abso­
lutely  rest,  even  in  sleep,  the  time,  if 
ever,  when mental  energy  is  to be  recu­
perated.  The trouble  with  men  of  sed­
entary  pursuits  is  that  they  pay  little 
or no  attention  to  even  the  commonest 
rules of diet.  As a rule,  they eat “ when­
ever 
from 
other duties.  The  food  they  eat  is not 
very conducive to  either mental or phys­
ical  digestion,  and  is  usually  eaten  in 
the shortest  possible time.

they can  snatch 

the  time” 

ripples,  murmurs, 

“ The  man  who can  never  find time to 
look  up  at  the  twinkling  stars,  or  sit 
down  in some  quite  nook  and  listen  to 
the  voice of nature in  her m ultiplicity  of 
symphonies, 
and 
plaintive cadences”—all of which  is  very 
fine  reading,  but—where 
is  the  man? 
How many  business  men  are  there  who 
do not take a  more  or  less extended va­
cation  at  least  once  a year?  W hether 
they  look  up  at  the  twinkling  stars  or 
listen  to  the voice  of  nature,  does  not 
seem to have  much bearing  on the case.
If it  is true  that  more  business  men 
“die with  their boots  on”  now  than  for­
merly,  it  can  hardly be  charged to their 
non-observance of  the Sabbath. 
It may 
be  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that from 
the hour  when  the  business  man  of  to­
day  takes  his  place  at  his  desk  in the 
morning until he leaves it in the evening 
every energy of  mind and body  works at 
high  pressure.  There is no other way to 
succeed  in  these  days.  Competition  is 
so keen  and there  is no much of  it  that 
the man  who does not give  himself heart 
and soul  to  his  business  will  soon find 
himself  on a back  street or  in  the poor 
house. 
the  constant 
nervous strain  under which he  labors for 
six  days  in  the  week  could  hardly  be 
counteracted  by  one  day’s  rest,  and  if 
heart disease or apoplexy  be the  result— 
it is the  price  he must  pay for  his suc­
cess as a business man.  But this is taking 
it for granted that there are more sudden 
deaths among  business men  to-day  than 
there  were  years  ago,  which  assertion 
lacks confirmation.  There are more sud­
den deaths,  certainly,  but there are more

The  effects  of 

business men,  and  physicians  say  there 
are more sudden deaths among all classes. 
Why?  This is the age of steam  and elec­
tricity; of fast trains and electric cars;  of 
labor saving  machinery  in every depart­
ment of  industry.  So much  more can  be 
accomplished  to-day  than  was  the  case 
when  our fathers did business that a man 
does not need  to  live so many years.

There  are 

is  coming 

just  as  many,  probably 
more,  octogenarians-in  the  world  to-day 
as there ever  were,  and  they  are  just as 
jolly  and  ruddy  cheeked,  and  frolic just 
as  hilariously  with  their  grandchildren 
as in  “ the  days  of 
the  fathers.”   Mr. 
Owen  must  be  color  blind  or  he  would 
surely  have  noted  the large  number  of 
white heads  which  adorn 
the  ranks  of 
business men.  They  are  found in every 
profession  and 
in  every  calling,  and 
their  name  is  legion.  One  fact  should 
lost  sight  of,  however.  The 
not  be 
young  man 
the  front. 
Many  of  the  largest and  most important 
business  concerns  of 
the  country  are 
managed  by  young  men,  and  managed 
just as efficiently and just as successfully 
as in  the  days  when  “ the head  of  the 
house” was  adorned  with  “ the crown  of 
silver.”  Maturity  comes  earlier  and 
mental development  is  much more  rapid 
now than  was  the case  some  years ago, 
so that,  though the end may come earlier, 
life in  reality  is just as  long.  But it has 
not been  demonstrated,  beyond  question, 
that the average length of  life  is shorter 
than in  the past.  The scriptural  “ three 
score  years  and  ten”  prevails to just as 
great an extent as it ever did.

to 

The only  reason for  the observance of 
Sunday  as  a day  of  rest  that  has  any 
weight whatever is  a  moral one.  Little 
importance can  be  attached  to the utter 
ances  of science  on  such  a question,  as 
there  are  hardly 
two  scientists  who 
agree  on  any subjeet.  The  attempt to 
show that the  life of  the  business man is 
shortened  by  his non-observance of  Sun­
day as  a day of  rest  is a  failure  for two 
reasons: 
It  has not  been shown  that he 
does not observe the Sabbath  as much as 
he ever  did  and  it  has  not  been shown 
that the  average  length  of  life of  busi­
ness men is any shorter than it ever  was.

D a n ie l  A bb o tt.

Toots from Ram’s Horn.

Good  looks,  to  be permanent,  must  be­

gin on  the  inside.

Fishing  for  compliments  is  not  a  bit 
better than  fishing on  Sunday.
The  devil  gets  lame  as  soon  as  he 
comes in sight of a good man’s  house.
If the  devil  ever  takes off  his  hat  to 
any man on earth  it  is to  the  hypocrite.
The  man  who  expects  to  outrun  a lie 
had  better not start with  lame feet.
When  the devil  goes  to  church  he gen­
erally walks  there  with  a  church mem­
ber.
The devil has no quarrel  with the  man 
who never has any controversy with him­
self.
An archangel would break down under 
what  some  people  expect  of  a  pastor’s 
wife.
There is  often as  much  venom  in  the 
point of  a pen  as there  is in  the  big end 
of a club.

Minneapolis Northwest  Trade:  Mr.  E.
A.  Stowe,  the  general  manager  of  T h e 
in 
Mic h ig a n  T r a d e sm a n,  is  rejoicing 
having  carried  his  enterprise  not  only 
through 
successfully  but  prosperously 
its tenth year,  the  anniversary  of  which 
was  fittingly  commemorated 
in  T h e 
T r a d e sm a n office the  13th of September. 
T h e  T r a d e sm a n  is one of  our best con­
sidered exchanges,  and has  achieved  sig­
nal  success  in  a  field  that  at  first must 
have appeared  limited,  but has proved a 
wide and  fertile one to Mr.  Stowe.

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Coleman—The  Michigan  Head  Lining  all  the  men  at  work  occasionally  and j ^ to m e r s  trad^ngbfthe stores when  the 
&  Hoop Co.’s  mill  has  been  shutdow n  most of  them  a few days each week.  lhe cIos|nt,  bour comes must necessarily  be
for some  time  owing  to  the  hard times,  week  has  been  a very stormy  one  on the I wajj-e(j  upon,  but it is a nuisance,  and an
Shipments of the  products  have  been  re-  | lakes  and  a good  many vessels got caught, injustice  upon  your brother merchant  to 
sumed,  however,  and  it  is expected that j in  the  different  gales,  but  our  Manistee j 
M inutes after the bell
the  mill  will  soon  start up. 
Vaughn  Station—W.  L.  Hawkens  is j lumber  or  salt.  Piece stuff 

in  that  we  lo>  DO J rjU^s>  Try and be more punctual.

| fleet  was  fortunate 

building a  new  sawmill  here,  which will  most  active 
have  a  capacity  of  about  25,000  feet a 
day.  There is a deal on  whereby,  if  it is 
consummated,  Selig  Solomon  will  have
3.000. 

000 feet  of  lumber cut at this mill. 

the  project  was  abandoned. 

West  Branch—Last spring  the  French
Lumber Co.  decided  to  build  a  shingle 
mill  at Rose  City,  but  the  panic coming 
on 
It is 
now  understood  that the  work of  build­
ing  the  mill will  begin  next  month,  and 
it  is the  intention of  the company  to run 
the mill during the  winter.

Rondo—Kudner  &  McCarty,  of  La­
peer,  have  leased  M.  S.  Osgood’s  saw­
mill  here,  and  have  a  crew at  work cut­
ting hardwood  logs  with  which to stock 
the mill.  They  expect  to  put  in  about
5.000. 
of  next  February  and  run 
the  year 
round.  They  also have a lumber yard  at 
Lapeer.

St.  Helen—The  big  sawmill of  Henry 
Stevens  & Co.  shut  down last  week,  the 
stock  tributary to it  being exhausted.  It 
s said  the  mill  will  go  out of  commis- 
ion and  be either sold or removed.  The 
old mill  was  sold  to  Sailing,  Hanson  & 
Co.  last  spring  and  removed to Grayling, 
and  it  is about  ready  to  begin  sawing. 
Stevens  &  Co.  have  operated  their  mills 
at St.  Helen  about fifteen  years.

000 feet,  will start up  about the 1st 

in the  category. 

is  still  the
It  is  a
rather  poor  schedule  now that will  not 
sell  for  $10  and 
the  division  line  is 
strongly  drawn  between  short  and long. 
One man  here  recently  with  an  inquiry 
for all  long  was  rather  surprised  to be 
asked $12 for it.  Hemlock is feeling the 
impetus  also,  and  according  as pine ad­
vances in  price  it  is  being  more called 
for.  Hemlock piece stuff  is now quoted 
at $7.50  delivered,  with  a small  percent­
age of long in  it at that figure.  Freights 
till  hold at  $1.37K,  but  if  the  weather 
keeps as  bad  as  it has been the rate will 
probably go  to  $1.50  anyway.  Hemlock 
lath  have  been  pretty  well  cleared out 
from  here of  late and  a good  many  pine 
lath  have changed hands during the past 
week. 

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^ 

Delivering  a  Telegram.

it  is 

There is no business  man  who has not 
at one time or  another  had  reason  to be 
disgusted  with  the  poor  service  of  the 
telegraph  companies.  Sometimes  it 
is 
one thing and sometimes another.  Very 
tardiness  of  delivery, 
frequently 
and yet occasionally,  as  revealed  by  the 
following story,  it is the reverse. 
In any 
event the cheap  machinery  with  which 
a big corporation  feels bound  to  attempt 
to  serve  the  public,  and  with  the  cast 
ron rules necessary  for regulating  such 
employes  as  they  gather,  causes  some 
ludicrous  blunders.  The  story 
is  as 
follows:
A man went  with  a telegram to the of­
fice. 
the 
paper to the fellow  in the cage,  he  said:
I want that  delivered at 8 o’clock  to­
morrow morning.”

It  was  midnight.  Handing 

A  Little  Too  Previous.

Manistee,  Oct.  14—An  item  which 
appeared  in  one  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
daily  newspapers  recently regarding  the 
affairs of the R.  G.  Peters Salt & Lumber 
Co.  is hardly correct. 
It goes.on  to state 
that  the concern  is  all  out  of  debt and 
that Peters  is  handling  it himself  now. 
Had 
the season  been  a  good  one  this 
much  wished  for  consummation  would 
doubtless have  been  reached  before this 
time.  As it  is,  the  hard  times and  low 
prices  have  delayed  the  m atter  some­
what,  but  only for a short  time,  and be­
fore very  long the  institution  will  be en­
tirely free from debt.”

An amusing  incident  occurred  at  the 
counter of a well-known bakery.  A  man 
whose sons  bear quite  a  resemblance  to 
their father,  sent  one  of  the  aforesaid 
sons to the  bakery to  buy  two  loaves of 
»read.  While  the  son  was  waiting  for 
the  bread,  the father stepped  in  and  told 
the son to go on  another errand,  and  that 
he  would  take 
the  bread.  When  the 
girl at  the  counter  turned  again  to  de- 
iver the  bread,  behold  there was a gray- 
bearded  man  holding  out  the self-same 
read-check  and reaching  for those two 
loaves.  The girl  said:  “ A  boy  bought 
his  bread.”  “1  know  it.”  replied  the 
gentleman,  seriously, “ I  was  a  boy  when 
1  bought  it,  but  1 had  to  wait so  long for 
the bread  that  1 grew  into  a grey-haired 
man.”  That girl’s face  was  a  picture.— 
The  Helper.

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AMONG  THE  TRADE.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Ovid—J. E.  Hill  is succeeded  by  P.  W. 

Bane in the harness business.

New  Lathrop—McKay  &  Mott succeed 

Arthur McKay  in  general trade.

Ubly—Samuel Vyse  has purchased  the 

harness business of  J. B.  Miller.

Calumet—O.  L.  Sturtz,  photographer, 

is succeeded  by  Herman  & Kopp.

Charlotte—Emery  & McClintic succeed 

J.  H.  Emery  in  the drug business.

Saginaw—R.  Luster  succeeds  H.  C. 

Weil  & Co. in the grocery  business.

Coldwater—Geo.  Hayes  has  sold  his 

meat market to Moses E.  Olmstead.

Reading—Allen  & Euderbv  succeed H.

C. Allen  in  the flour and  feed business.

Saranac—M.  T.  Hubbell  has  pur­
chased  the  meat  market  of  1.  O.  Steb- 
bins.

Quincy  — Bishop  &  Rising  succeed 
Stevenson  Beecher in the  hardware busi­
ness.

Lyons—David  Kelly succeeds  Kelly  & 
Son  in  the  drug,  grocery  and crockery- 
business.

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

Ludington—Cargill  & Shackelton  suc­
ceed Cargill  & Chase  in  the grocery and 
meat business.

Fenton  — McLeod  &  Halladay,  wall 
paper dealers,  have  dissolved,  Halladay 
& Co.  succeeding.

J a c k s o n — Frank  M.  Yerrick 

is  suc­
ceeded  by W.  B.  &  E.  T.  Webb in  the 
jewelry business.

Constantine—C. W.  Ward has removed 
his notion and  tinware  stocks  from  Cen­
terville to this place.

Harrisville—U.  F.  Colwell  & Co.,  have 
sold their confectionery  and  notion busi­
ness to John  McGregor.

Charlevoix —  The  Charlevoix  Roller 
Mills succeed the  Rifenburg  Milling Co. 
in  the manufacture of flour.

Chippewa  Lake—Parker  &  Williams 
succeed  Moore &  Parker,  manufacturers 
of  hardwood,  and  dealers  in  hemlock 
lumber.

Kalamazoo—Zander  & Walter,  dealers 

in  wall  paper,  paints,  etc.,  have  d 
solved,  Ed.  P.  W alter  continuing  the 
business.

Nashville—C.  E.  Goodwin  has  sold  hi 
drug stock  to  Ed.  Liebhauser,  who  will 
coutinue  the business  at  the  same loca­
tion.  Mr.  Goodwin  will  probably  re 
move to Marshall,  where  he  will  resume 
the drug business.

Sparta—J.  R.  Harrison  &  Co.  have 
traded 
their  store  building  for  R.  E 
Misner & Co.’s store building at Gooding 
Harrison  & Co.  will  remove their general 
stock to  Gooding,  and  Misner & Co.  will 
move their goods  into the  building  ju 
vacated  at Sparta.

After  a  great  deal  of  cogitation, 

The fellow  in  the  cage said,  “We can 

Saginaw—The  manufacturing  season 
of  1893  is  drawing  to  a close  and  is not 
ending as  brilliantly as  it opened.  The 
mills of  Bliss  & VanAuken,  Green,  Ring 
& Co.,  A.  W.  Wright  Lumber  Co.  and 
those  of  Col.  Bliss  will  doubtless  run 
late,  but  the  others  now  running  will 
soon shut down.  Should  present  condi­
tions prevail,  a lower scale of  wages  will 
go  into effect next  spring in the mills,  as 
is the case  already  in  wages for  men for 
the  woods.  The  indications all  point  to 
a hard  winter for  those  industrious toil­
ers,  and  many  of  them  who  have  had 
plenty of  work during the winter months 
for the  last quarter of a century  will find 
it a  bard shift  to  find  enough  to do the 
coming  winter to keep the wolf  from  the 
door.

deliver it  within  an  hour.”
1  don’t  want  my friend aroused  at  1 
o’clock  in  the  morning.  Send  it  away 
from  here  at  7,  so  that  he  will  get  it 
at  8.”
The  fellow  in  the  cage was puzzled 
“We don’t  do  business  that  way,”  he 
declared.  “ I wouldn’t  know  how to fix 
it se as not to be delivered at once.”
bright idea struck  him.  “ If you pay the 
tolls  on  the  words,  ‘Don’t  deliver till 8 
o’clock,’ '*  he  said,  “ that  will  do it al 
right.”
And  so  the  customer  paid  the  extri 
toll.  But  did  the  scheme  work?  Not 
much.
Within  an  hour  a  messenger boy  ar­
rived  with the  dispatch  at  the house of 
the sender’s  friend.  He  rang  the  bell 
for  ten  minutes.  Then  there  came a  po­
liceman  who asked  what the matter  was. 
The messenger boy said  he guessed  some 
one’s  wife  must  be  dead,  as  he  had  an 
important message that  had  got to  be de­
livered at once.  So  the policeman  ham­
mered at  the  side of  the  house with  his 
night stick  and  awoke every one in it— 
about thirty  all told.
the  midst  of  the  uproar  the  dis­
patch  was  delivered  to  the  person  for 
whom  it  was  intended.  Trembling  at 
the  fear  of  a  great  bereavement,  he 
opened  it and  read as follows:
Will expect  you  to  dinner Tuesday.
The messenger  boy  went  back  proud 
of  having  done  his  duty,  and  the  fool 
telegraph  company  increased  its  capital 
by $3,000,000 on  the  following day.

Bay City—The end of  the  uiauufactur 
ing and  water shipping is at hand,  and  it 
has  been  an  unsatisfactory  one  in some 
respects.  The  early  months  were  si 
prosperous and  active that  when  the col 
lapse came  it struck  everyone in  a heap 
and  they  have  hardly  as yet  discovered 
where  they  are  at.  The  lumber output 
will  be somewhat  smaller  than last year 
as some of  the mills have  been  idle ow­
ing to the  lack of  logs,  and  the  start in 
the  spring  was  late.  Pretty  large stocks 
of lumber  will  be  on  hand  at  the close. 
If  trade  should  pick  up  later  on  there
will  be an  ample supply to  meet it and it  Don’t deliver till  8 o’clock.,’  J im.
will make  the car trade  lively  in moving 
it.  But  will  trade pick up? is a question 
that there  is much  hesitancy  in  auswer- 
ide  from  Canadian  operations 
been  made  toward 
From the Man ton Tribune.
logging  operations,  and  hun­
starting 
i  Complaint  has  been  made  to  us  that 
dreds of  men  will  be seeking  work with 
| two of our merchants are  in  the habit of 
poor  prospects  of  obtaining 
it.  One
keeping their  stores  open  some time af-
firm has had as many  as  200 applications I ter the bell  rings  at 8  o'clock.  We have 
visited several of  the  business houses in
in one day. 
„  
the village at the closing hour,  simply  to
Manistee  The  movement  of  lumber , gee  how  the  scbeme  was working,  and
The 1 for the past  week  has  been  so brisk that  bave found  the scheme  of  F.  A.  Jenison
i it has begun  to look  like old  times  with  —locking  his  doors  at  the  first  tap of

W ith the  Ringing of the Curfew.

.  3‘  T, 

In 

, 

, 

. 

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

795

797

792

IilOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—2,350 LB.  FIRE 
proof safe with burglar  proof  chest.  Will 
sell  cheap  for  cash  or  exchange  for fire proof 
safe.  A.  E.  Putnam,  Milan, Mich. 
R A N T E D
TO  BUY  A  STOCK  OF  DRY 
goods.  Address  lock  box  254,  Lansing, 
117 ANTED—AN  EXPERIENCED  RETAIL 
Tv 
grocery salesman used to city trade.  Must 
speak Holland or  German.  Address,  with  city 
references,  stating  amount  of  experience. No. 
792, care Michigan Tradesman. 
FINE  CHANCE  DKLG  AND  GROCERY 
store for  sale  in  town  of  2,300.  Do  not 
wish to trade.  Want cash or good security.  In­
voice $4,50 ■.  Do not apply uniess you positively 
mean business, for  this  is  a  tine  opportunity. 
Reason for selling, failing  health.  Address No. 
93, care  Michigan Tradesman. 

IilOR  SALE—THE  THEODORE  KEMINK 

drug stock  and fixtures  on  West  Leonard 
street,  raying  investment.  Will  sell  at  half 
real value.  For  particulars,  enquire  of  Henry 
Idema, Kent County Savings  Bank, Grand Rap­
ids. 
\ \ T ANTED—A  PARTNER, EITHER At TIVE 
I I   or silent, in  a paving 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. 

784

793

787

utary  to  large  farming  trade;  lake  and  rail 

f loR  r-ALE—Drug r lock  in  business  town of 

1,200 inhabitants in Eastern Michigan, trib­
freights;  only  two drug  stores  in  town;  rent, 
1200 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. 
AITANTED—A  practical  druggist, with  some 
i t  
capital, to take charge of a first-class drug 
store.  Address  C.  L.  Brundage,  opera  house 
block, Muskegon, Mich. 

Business  house  a n d  stock  o f  gro

ceries for sale  on  Union  street.  Will  sell 
at a bargain.  Address  box  634,  Traverse  City, 
Mich._______________________________ 747

756

752

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

796

TENANTED— SITUATION  AS  REGISTERED 
i t  
pharmacist by a young man of good expe­
rience.  First-class  reference,  address  No.  796 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
VATANTED—A  POSITION  FOR  ANY  KIND 
i i  
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. 

■ 7ANTED— POSITION  AS  DRUG  CLERK 

by a young lady,  graduate, registered  in 
Michigan.  Good  referencts  furnished.  Ad­
dress  Box 46,  Brooklyn,  Green  Co.,  Wiscon­
sin. 

794

790

Hastings—The  Banner  says:  The  co­
operative plan  for  delivering  groceries 
each  merchant  paying his  share to hav 
his goods delivered,  has been  abandoned 
The scheme  is certainly  a  good  one and
if  fully  carried out we can  see no reason 
why  it  shouldn’t  effect  a  saving  to  all I ing.  A 
merchants and  give  good  satisfaction  as | hardly  a  move  has 
well.

M ANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Lake George—Riley & Sons have 1,000,- 
000  feet  of  hemlock  logs  on  the  skids 
here,  and  expect  to  put  2,000,000  feet 
more on  skids  before  snow comes 
logs go into the Muskegon.

TTÌK  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

H.  N.  Pettit has  removed  his grocery 
stock  from  235  to  335  South  Division 
street.

Klass  Dykhuis  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  a  Fillmore  Center.  The  Olney & 
Judson Grocer Co.  furnished the stock.

Jas.  A.  Harris  has  opened  a grocery 
store at  205 South  Division  street.  The 
I.  M.  Clark  Grocery  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

O.  Clyde Tucker and  L.  L.  Wood  have 
formed  a copartnership  under the  style 
of O.  Clyde  Tucker &  Co.  and  opened a 
produce and commission  store at 8 South 
Ionia street.

The Champion  Cash Register  Co.  will 
shortly  be  incorporated  with  a  capital 
stock  of  810,000  by  T.  Stewart  White, 
Tbos.  Friant,  D.  E.  Corbett  and  H.  M. 
Geiger.  The company  will  manufacture 
five  styles  of  cash  registers  on  patents 
based on  Mr.  Geiger’s inventions.

James Marsh,  of the restaurant  firm  of 
Smith & Co., at 30 North  Ionia street,  re­
cently uttered  a  mortgage  on  the stock 
for 8843 and  evaporated,  leaving  behind 
debts amounting  to  8559.42.  The  mort­
gage  has  been  foreclosed  and  the stock 
and  fixtures will be  knocked down by the 
sheriff.

The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co., 
which  foreclosed  its  mortgage  on the  E. 
P.  Thomas drug  stock,  at Scottville,  bid 
in  the stock at  sheriff sale,  and  immedi­
ately  sold the  goods  to C.  T.  Caldwell, 
who  will  continue 
the  business  at  the 
same  location.  Mr.  Caldwell  was form­
erly on  the  road  for  the  Hartzell Medi­
cine Co.

A young  man  who has  been  acting as 
collector  for  a  local  electric  light com­
pany turns  out  to be  a  defaulter to  the 
amount of  several  hundred  dollars,  but 
the youth  was saved  from serving a term 
in the State Prison  through  the interces­
sion  of friends,  who  raised  the  amount 
of  the defalcation  by voluntary  subscrip­
tion.

The  Heaton-Peninsular  Button  Fast­
ener  Co.  won  an  empty  honor  in  the 
United States  Court  last  week  by secur­
ing an  injunction against the Elliott But­
ton  Fastener  Co.,  restraining  it  from 
manufacturing any  mo:e of  the original 
machines  turned  out  by  that  company. 
As  the  Elliott  Company  abandoned  the 
manufacture of  that  machine  about two 
years ago,  the value of the injunction  is 
not readily  apparent.

Arthur  Rood  went  to  Baldwin  last  Fri­
day  and  replevined  a quantity of  goods 
from  the stook of  Goehrend  Bros,  at  the 
instance  of  the  Mussel man  Grocer Co., 
Rindge,  Kalmhaeh  & Co.  and  Burnham, 
Stoepel  & Co.  The firm  recently  uttered 
a chattel  mortgage  for  81,800  on 
their 
stock  to the  First  National  Bank of  Reed 
City to secure  alleged  borrowed  money, 
at which  time the  father of  the partners 
was also given  security  to the  amount of 
8400.  The claims of  the  three creditors 
above mentioned  aggregated  81.000  and 
they  propose  to  enforce  payment  by the 
most  approved  processes  known  to the 
law.

Purely  Personal.

Amos  S.  Musselman  went  to Chicago 
Sunday night  and  is  putting in  a couple 
of days at the White  City.

M.  S. Goodman, Secretary of the Hazel-

tine & Perkins  Drug  Co.,  is  «pending a 
week  at the  World’s  Fair,  with  head­
quarters at the Unity  building.

Fred  A.  Matthews,  who  has been con­
nected  with  the  wholesale department of 
Foster,  Stevens &  Co.  for  the  past six­
teen  years,  has  concluded to  take up  his 
residence 
left  last 
week  with  his  wife  and  son  for  Los 
Angeles.

in  California,  and 

It is claimed  by those  who  assume  to 
know  that the candidate  slated  for post­
master for  Grand  Rapids  by  the  coterie 
of men  who have  thus  far  dictated  ap­
pointments  in  Western  Michigan,  will 
have  to  give  way  to  a  dark  horse and 
that L.  E.  Hawkins,  the  wholesale  gro­
cer,  is more  than  likely  to be  selected  by 
them as the  most available candidate for 
the  position.

Wm.  Mears,  the  Boyne  Falls  general 
dealer,  owns a fast  horse.  A few  weeks 
ago Mr.  Mears  started  off  with  his horse 
to participate in  a  race or  two.  He  left 
word  that he  would  be  back  in  a  week, 
but after a month  had elapsed,  and noth­
ing  had  been  heard  from  him,  some of 
his creditors  attached  his  stock.  Then 
he  returned,  and  explanations  and  re­
plevin  suits are  in  order.

Gripsack Brigade.

Fred  Blake still  tarries  at the  World’s 
Fair.  His  trade  is  being  covered  this 
week  by  Randall  Hawkins.

A.  S.  Doak  has  gone  to  Chicago,  ac­
companied  by  his  wife,  and  will  spend  a 
week  at  the World’s  Fair.

John Cummins  was  presented  with  an 
11-pound  boy on  Oct.  10,  and  is celebrat­
ing the event this  week  by  taking in  the 
World’s  Fair.

“ Hub” Baker’s  “ vacation” turns out  to 
have  been  a circuit  of  country  horse 
trots  with  his  gelding,  Little  Charley. 
During his absence  the horse was  started 
in seven  races and  won  money in  six of 
them.  “ Hub”  was  so  elated  over  his 
success that  he will  pace  the  horse next 
year,  confidently  expecting  to  bring  his 
record down  to 2:24.

A rthur C.  Fowle,  city  salesman  for the 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.,  was  married 
Oct.  11  to Miss Cora Steiner.  The  happy 
couple  are  spending  about  ten  days  at 
the World’s  Fair,  and,  on  their  return, 
will  be  “ at home”  to their  friends  at  80 
State street.  Fred  Ball  is  covering the 
city  trade  in  the  absence of  Mr.  Fowle, 
apparently enjoying  the  work  as  much 
as in  the days of yore.

The  H ardw are  M arket.

Trade continues to improve  and  every 
indication  points to  a fair fall  business.
Wire  Nails—The  demand  is  good  and 
some difficulty  is experienced  in  keeping 
up with  orders.  The price,  however,  is 
not firm.  Lower  figures are  looked  for, 
although,  as  yet,  no  change  has  been 
made.  We quote ®1.65@1.70  rates.

Bar  Iron—As  but  few  mills  are  run­
ning,  great difficulty  is  found  in  keeping 
up  assortments.  The  price,  however, 
still  remains  low, 81-S0@1.90 rates  being 
quoted  in  this  market.

Barbed  Wire—Consolidations,  cheaper 
raw  material  and  reduced  wages ail  indi­
cate that  lower prices  will  prevail.  The 
present  market is  82.30  for  painted  and 
82.70  for  galvanized.  The  demand 
is 
good for this time  of the  year.

Plain Wire—As  a  great deal  of  hay  is 
being  baled  for  shipmeut,  the  demand 
for  No.  14  and  15  baling  wire  is  very 
large.  We quote as  follows:
No.  14............................................................$2  35
No  15........................................................... 2 45

Rope—No  higher  prices  are  being 
made and  the  Eastern  market  continues 
to grow  weaker.  We  quote  8c for sisal I 
and 12c for manilla.

Traps—Game  traps  of  all  kinds  are | 
| now  being called  for largely.  We quote 
as follows:
No. 0 H. & N. Traps  
No. 1 

“ 
Less TO per cent.
Victor  traps,  same  list,  but  70  and  10  dis­

..................$4 25 per doz

........................  5 00 

“ 

“

count

Powder—Within  the  past  two  weeks 
there has been  a  very  uneven  market in 
powder and  some  very low  prices have 
been  named;  but,  at  last,  the  manufac­
turers have gotten  together and adopted 
the  following  list of  prices,  which,  it  is 
claimed,  will  be firmly  held:
Rifle, 25-lb. kegs............................................ Ï3 25
...........................................   1  90
.  • - -....................................  1 10
4  25
................................ 2 40
..................................  135

Choke Bore, ¿5-lb.  kegs...........  

“  125<-lb.  “ 
“  654-lb.  “ 

1254-lb.  “ 
GM-lb.  “ 

“ 
“ 

All other grades and sizes as before.
The  Grocery  Market.

Oranges—Nothing 

in  market  yet  of 
any consequence.  There is some  Louisi­
ana stock,  packed  in Florida style,  badly 
streaked  with  green  and  unsatisfactory 
in  other  respects.  Florida  fruit will be­
gin to move  about  the  first  week  in  No­
vember.

Lemons—The  new crop  has  turned  out 
to be much better than was expected.  The 
market  is active for this time of the year. 
Prices range  from 83@G.

Bananas—Are  slow,  on  account  of  a 
plentiful  supply  of  domestic 
fruits. 
Stocks  went begging, even from peddlers, 
last week and  a good many bunches went 
to waste in the  basements.  Supply  will 
be light this  week,  but  fully  up  to  the 
demand;  at  fair  prices  considering the 
quality of the fruit,  which  is poor.

Sugar—The  falling  off  in the demand 
has enabled the refiners  to  catch  up on 
their orders,  and stocks in jobbers’ hands 
and on the  road are sufficient  to  warrant 
be
the  statement 
ship­
no 
ment 
ten­
dency  as to prices is,  of  course, a matter 
of mere «peculation,  but  it  is difficult to 
see wherein higher prices can be obtained, 
in  view  of  the present  price of  raw.

there  will 
in 
sugar.  The 

the 
future 

that 
delay 

further 

of 

From Out of Town.

Calls  have  been 

received  at  T he 
T radesman office during the  past  week 
from  the  following  gentlemen  in  trade:

Bates & Troutman,  Moline.
Thurston  & Co.,  Central  Lake.
Frank  Hamilton,  Traverse City.
B.  Fisher,  Cressey.
Jas.  L.  Felton,  Burnip’s Corners.
C.  Pfeifle,  Diamond  Lake.
L.  R.  Lansing,  Wayland.
Nelson  F.  Miller,  Lisbon.
J.  W.  Milliken.  Traverse City.
Eli Lyons,  Altona.
Dr.  H.  C.  Peckham,  Freeport.
Henry  Sissons,  Central  Lake.
J.  L.  Handy,  Boyne City.
J.  R.  Harrison,  Sparta.
Gale Lumber Co.,  Bundy.
John Yarger,  Freeport.
Jas.  Gleason, Volney.
G.  A.  Blackman,  Prairieville.
Frank Smith,  Leroy.
Geo.  Schichtel,  North  Dorr.
Fred Croninger,  Whitneyville.
John  M.  Perry,  Tustin.

G rains  a n d   F eedstuffs.

Wheat—Down 3c from  last week’s quo­
tations.  Stocks are  piling  up at  an un­
precedented  rate  and  the  “flow”  is ex­
pected  to continue  indefinitely.

Flour—No  change.  All 

local 
mills  are  running to their  full capacity, 
with  a ready m arket for the output.

the 

Millstuffs—Remain unchanged  with an 

active demand,  which  is fully met.

Corn—Has  dropped  3c.  Market  fair.
Oats—Are down 2c,  are moving briskly 

even on  a falling market.

Jackson  Jottings.

O.  C.  Leach & Co.  have  purchased  the 
stock  of groceries  at  115  South Jackson 
street  from R.  A.  Hobart  and  will  con­
tinue the  business in that location.

J.  Adams has  secured the stock  of gro­
ceries on North Jackson  street,  formerly 
owned by M.  W.  Coykendall,  and will try 
to  dispose  of 
them  to  some  one  who 
wants  to be a blooming grocer.

J.  A.  Daller  has  exchanged  his resi­
dence  with Wm.  Glass  for a stock of gro­
ceries  at  the  corner of  Main  street and 
East avenue.

Cadillac  News:  The  wide-spread  be­
lief existing throughtout  the  State  that 
J.  W.  Milliken,  of  Traverse City,  has  re­
cently  been  born  again  was  not caused 
by  any  recent  evidence of  spiritual re­
generation  on  the  part  of  Mr.  Milliken, 
but originated through  the  printing of a 
cut  of 
the  famous  merchant  in  T h e 
Mic h ig a n T radesm an,  in  which  he ap­
pears without a  single  hair on  his head. 
The innocent,  child-like  expression  pic- 
ured on  Mr.  Milliken’s  countenance may 
also  have  had  much  to do with the  un­
founded  rumor.

Farmer  Bego  was  nailing  a picket to 
his  fence when  the  huckster  drove up. 
The  conversation  drifted  from  personal 
to national topics. 
“ What kind  of a cur­
rency  basis  do  you  favor?” asked 
the 
huckster.  “W-a-a-1,”  said  Mr.  Bego,  “ I 
s’pose  I’m no  different  from  a  hull  lot  of 
better-known  people  in  favorin’  whut  I 
kin  reach out an’ git  the most of  with  the 
least 
trouble.”  “ Yer  fur  silver  then, 
ain’t  ye?”  “ Nope. 
I 
did expect  ter be  fur  hay,  but  my 'taters 
has  knocked  my  hay  clean  silly.”

I’m  fur  ’taters. 

The world  is  full  of  people  who  can 

pick out winners  after the race is over.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Beans — Dry  stock 

Apples—Carefully  selected  Greenings,  Spys 
and Baldwins command 11 per bbl., while Snows 
bring $3.50.  No. 2 stock is  held  at  $1.75©$2 per 
bbl.
is  coming  In  freely. 
Handlers  pay $'.40 for country cleaned and $1.50 
for country picked.
Butter—Not  quite  so  strong  as  a  week  ago, 
probably due to  the  large  amount of  butterine 
thrown on the market by the retail grocers, who 
have  been  taking  out  licenses  very  generally 
during the past month, owing  to  their inability 
to secure sufficient  supplies  of  the  genuine  to 
meet their requirements.

Cabbage—Home grown, $2@3 per ICO.
Carrots—20c per bushel.
Cauliflower—$1 per doz.
Cranberries—Early Blacks from Cape Cod have 
put  in  an  appearance,  commanding $2  per bu. 
crate  or $5.5:) per bbl.  The quality is fine, being 
large in size  and  richly colored.

Celery—Home  grown  commands  15c  per  doz.
Cucumbers—Pickling stock, 12@15c per 100.
Eggs—The  market  is  a  little  weaker  than  a 
week ago.  Handlers  pay  18c, holding at 20c pe r 
doz.
Grapes—Concords and Wordens command 13® 
15c per 8 lb. basket.  Niagaras bring 10®18c, and 
Delawares lS@20c.

Honey—White  clover  commands  14c  per  lb, 

dark buckwheat brings 12c.

Onions—Bermudas command  $1.50 per crate.
Peaches—A  few  bushels  of  poor  stock  are 
coming in daily.  They  are  fit  for pickling pur­
poses only, and bring about 5'ic per bu.

Potatoes—The  price  has  slumped  off,  local 
handlers now paying 45c  and  holding at 50c per 
bu.  Late reports  from  Minnesota  and Wiscon­
sin indicate that the crop In those  States will be 
larger than was expected earlier  In  the season, 
in consequence  of  which  Michigan  stock  will 
not have the walk-away in  the  Chicago  market 
which  was  confidently  predicted  a  few weeks 
ago.

Quinces—$1 per bu.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys  command  $3.25  and 
Baltlmores $2.75 per bbl.
Tomatoes—50c per bu.
Turnips—25c per.bu.

’l ’H   h!  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
Dry Goods Price Current.

DEMINS.

6

It 

Unbleached. 

Housewife  A.

CANTON  pla n nn l.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

..554¡Housewife  Q

ha lt  blxachkd  cottons.

is  a  well-known  fact 

Adriatic.................7 
|  “  Arrow Brand  4X
Argyle  ..................   6 
“  World Wide.  6
Atlanta AA............ 6 
“  LL.................  454
Atlantic  A.............63£ Pull Yard Wide........ 654
H.............654 Georgia  A................  654
“ 
“ 
P ............  5  Honest Width........  6
D............   6  (HartfordA.............5
“ 
“  LL................   5  ¡Indian Head...........  5*
654
Amory....................   6X  King A  A
King EC.................  5
Archery  Bunting 
4Xl Lawrence  L L ........  454
Bearer Dam  A A 
Madras cheese cloth 63£ 
Blackstone O. 32 —   o
Newmarket  G........  EX
Black Crow............ 6
B  ... ..  5
Black  Hock  ...........  6
N  ... ..  65*
Boot, AL................  7
DD.. ..  55*
Capital  A ........... 
554
X  ...
Cavanat V..............554
6X..  5
Chapman cheese cl.  3X
Best... ..  6
Clifton  C R ............   554 Our Level  Best...... 6
..  6
Comet.....................   65- Oxford
Dwight Star............  6X Pequot.
..............  6
Clifton CCC...........5X Solar

j Top of the  Heap.
BLEACHED  COTTONS.
A B C ......................§>4 Geo.  Washington.
8  Glen Mills
Amazon.
654 |Gold Medal............  754
Arnsburg.
.10  ¡Green  Ticket......... 854
Art  Cambric.
Blackstone A A......754 ¡Great Falls...............   654
Beats All................   454¡Hope................. ....  754
_ 
----
Just  Out......  4X@  5
Boston.................. 15
Cabot......................   75* King  Phillip
OP......754
Cabot,  X ...............   65£
Charter  Oak 
554 ' Lonsdale Cambric .10 
75* Lonsdale.........  @ 854
Conway W
Cleveland  ...........   65* Middlesex........   @ 5
Dwight Anchor 
8-vNo Name................   754
8  ¡Oak View...............   6
“ 
shorts
“ 
6  Our Own................   554
Edwards..................
7  Pride of the West.. .12
E 
...................
Harwell..................
754 Rosalind...................754
854 Sunlight.................   454
Fruit of the  Loom.
7 
iCtiea  Mills.............. 854
Fitchville  ............
“  Nonpareil  ..10
7 
First Prize..............
__ ________  
75* Vlnvard..................  854
Fruit of the Loom %.
Fairmount..............  4541White  Horse.........   6
Full Value..............  6541 
“  Rock............ 854
Cabot......................   754¡DwightAnchor...  •  654
Farwell...................  8  !
I 
B .... —  554
C.... ....6   j
D ... ■ • •  SHI
7  I
E  ...
71*-
H  ... ....7x1
I.... ...>**!
J  ... ...  8*,
K  ...
9*
“ 
L .......... 10
“  M  .......... 1054
N .......... 11
“ 
“ 
O..........21
“ 
P.......... 14541

Prof.  H enry’s  Opinion  of  Cheese.
One of  the ablest  agricultural  educa­
tors  in the country is Prof.  W. A.  Henry, j 
Dean  of 
the  Wisconsin  University  at 
Prof.  Henry’s  opinion  of 
Madison. 
cheese as  an  article  of diet  is,  therefore,  j 
It  is  as  fol- j 
entitled to  great  respect. 
lows:
Madison,  W is.,Oct. 10.—In discussing ; 
the  question  of 
the  wholesomeness  of \ 
cheese,  it seems  to  me  there is no other | 
way  of  settling  the  question  than  by I 
studying the  effects  of 
this  food  upon ] 
man. 
th a t! 
cheese  is  very  unsatisfactory  food  with  i 
some  persons.  To  such,  cheese  is  cer-  j 
tainly not  a  good food.  We  have paral- J 
lels  in many other  food  articles.  There 
are persons who cannot eat strawberries, 
others cannot  eat  bananas,  or  even ap-1 
pies without suffering  thereby.  A curi- J 
ous instance in  this  line  came  to my  no­
tice  while a  student  at  Cornell  Univer­
sity.  A graduate  student,  with  geology j 
as a specialty,  told  me  that  bis  ambition j 
was  to join a  government  survey  and  go j 
to the  Far  West.  He had about conclud-1 
ed to give  up  the attempt,  however,  be- ] 
cause  on  such  expeditions  meat  was a j 
necessity,  and often  the men  had  but  lit-1 
tie else for  food;  that  from  a  child  he 
had been  unabie  to  eat  meat,  even  the 
smallest  particle,  without suffering great 
distress.  For 
this  peculiarity  be  was 
laughed  at  by  his  parents and the other 
members of  the  family,  all  considering 
it a  mere whim.  At one  time,  in  order 
to test him,  a mere fragment of meat was 
hidden  in  a warm  biscuit at tea time, and 
the  family,  without 
letting  him  know 
what  was happening,  watched  him  as  he 
ate the biscuit,  and  all  were  delighted 
when it was found that he had  swallowed 
the small  piece of  meat.  A  few  miuutes 
later,  when  he excused  himself  from  the 
table saying that  he  was  sick,  they  saw 
that there had  been a  mistake made,  and 
that it  was not a  mere whim.  From  that 
time on  meat eating  was no longer  urged 
upon him.
To me  cheese is  a  most  healthful  ar­
ticle of food  and  it has been on  my  table 
almost  every  meal  for  some  years past. 
Tears  ago  I suffered  considerably  from 
indigestion.  Now  that  trouble  has  al­
most  passed  away. 
I  do  not  believe 
cheese  has had  much to do with the cure, 
but surely  it has  not  hurt  me.  Person­
............... 8
 
ally,  from  my own experience.  I  regard 
the  most  palatable  and 
it  as  one  of 
G G  Cashmere........20
• 
..16 
healthful  foods on my table.
Nameless
..18  1 
its  being  a  fermentive 
CORSETS.
product,  I  have no defense to offer what­
...84 50
19 501 Wonderful .  ..
.  9 00 Brighton...............  4  75
ever.  Digestion  is  a fermentive process, 
Schilling’s ..
9 OOiBortree's........ ....  9 00
Davis  Waists 
to a  considerable  degree,  and  I  do  not 
.  4  50|Abdominal — .... 15 00
Grand  Rapid
know why  it  should  be essential that no 
CORSET  JEANS.
Armory..................   «XiNaumkeagsatteen.  754
fermentation  should  start  previous 
to 
Androscoggin.........75* Rockport..................  654
the  food  entering  the  -stomach. 
I  can 
Blddeford.............  6  ¡Conestoga.................754
imagine a  food  to  be digested  partially 
Brunswick.............   6541 Walworth  ............... 6X
even  before  it  is  swallowed,  and  yet 
cak e” of I Allen turkey  reds..  554¡Berwick fancies  ...  554 
prove  excellent  nutriment.  A 
robeg...........  554[Clyde  Robes...........
caxe  oi  i 
compressed yeast represents  the spore of 
pink a purple 55* Charter Oak fancies 454
buffs 
.........  55* DelMarlne cashm’s
5-14
a plant,  in  numbers  beyond  conception. 
monrn’g  054 
pink  checks.  554
These  spores  or  germs are  mixed  with 
Eddy stone  fancy...  5>*
staples  ........  5
the  wet flour and  the  whole mass placed 
chocolat  554
4  ! 
shirtings ...  4 
5  i 
..  554
rober 
American  fancy  ...  5 
where  it  is  warm  so  that  the  ferm enta­
sateens..  544
: 
5 
American indigo  ..  5 
tion  may go on  just  as rapidly as  possi­
4  Hamilton fancy.  ...  554
American shirtings.  4 
ble.  Every  pore in  a  loaf of  bread  is an 
6 
| 
staple —   554
Argentine  Grays...  6 
4  Manchester fancy..  554 
advertisement of  the  fermentation  that 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
6 
new era.  5*4
[ 
“  —   6
Arnold 
has  gone  on  there.  Would  our  friend 
6  Merrimack D fancy.  554 
Arnold  Merino.  ..
advise us to forego yeast bread  and resort 
954 Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
long cloth B
“ 
«  c
•• 
■. 
754| 
Reppfurn .  854
to that made  light  by  baking  powder,  or 
Pacific fancy  .........554
“ 
century cloth
would  he eat sodden  bread?
gold seal......10541 
robes............   6
“ There is no accounting  for tastes”  is 
“  green seal TR 1054lPortsmonth robes...  654 
yellow seal. .1054¡Simpson mourning..  5J£
an old saying,  and  who  ever studies  the 
“ 
serge............ 1154 
greys ......  5*
subject of  foods  long  will  appreciate its 
solid black.  5X
“  Turkey red .1054 
application. 
If  Dr.  Kellogg  does  not 
Ballou solid black..  Washington Indigo.  b54 
“  Turkey robes..  7»*
“  colors. 
“ 
like  cheese  because  it  disagrees  with 
Bengal blue,  green, 
754
“ 
him,  or  has patients  who  have the same 
“  plain T"ky X  X  854
red and  orange  ..  6 
difficulty,  by  all  means  let them  eschew 
Berlin solids 
“  X...10
“ 
........  554  “ 
“  oil bine.......6 
“  Ottoman  Tur-
it,  but for  me and  my  house,  we  will eat 
.................654
key red 
“ 
.. 6 
“  green 
this  product  of  the  dairy so  long  as  it 
<«  Foulards  ...  5>4 Martha Washington 
continues  to  please  our  appetites  and 
7  TnikeyredX-  -  754
“ 
redX  
“ X .........  954 Martha Washington
“ 
gives eminent satisfaction as it now does.
Turkey red...........  954
“ 
“  4 4 
“ 
“  3 4XXXX12  Rlverpolnt robes—   554
Cocheco fancy.......5  ¡Windsorfancy..........   654
“  madders...  5  I 
“  XX twills..  5 
« 

Nameless................20
25 
9
2754 
1054
30
; 
......
......... ......3254
“ 
.. ......35
“ 
.. 

Peerless, white.......18 
Integrity................. 1854! 
Hamilton 

Very respectfully,
Dean Wisconsin University

Bleached.
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“ 
V ...
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V 
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X...
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Integrity  colored..
colored__20  White Star.............
colored.

solids........5  [Harmony.................   454

gold  ticket
i  Indigo blue....1054

--654
-’•V* ! 
••854 
-  »% 
.10 l/i
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In  regard to 

W.  A.  Hen ry,

“ 
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India robes 

CARPET  WART.

DRESS  GOODS.

.......10 

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PRINTS.

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A  Good  Crop.

The  hop  crop  of  Washington  is esti­
mated at  150,000  bales,  which will sell at 
a high  price,  as  the  European  crop  is 
very  short.  Seventeen  or  18  cents  a 
pound is the smallest  that  the Washing­
ton  growers will  consider.  The  cost of 
growing  and  picking the crop  is  stated 
at 6 or 7 cents a pound,  so that the profit 
is nearly 200 per cent

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Amoskeag AC A . ..¡254: AC  A....................13
Hamilton N  ...........  754 Pemberton AAA— 16

D............   854| York........................ 1054
Awning..11  Swift River............   754
Farmer...................... 8  Pearl  River............. 12
First Prize............. 1054 Warren........... ........ 1354
Lenox M ills............18  |C RiLLOga..............16
Atlanta,  D..............  6X|Star*  A 
............   8
Boot........................  6X No  Name............... 754
Clifton, K...............   7  [Top of  Heap...........  9

COTTON  D 

.

“ 
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blue  854 
“  d a  twist 1054 
! Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

I Amoskeag...................   [Columbian  brown.. 12
9 oz............ Everett, blue............1254
brown.......1254
brown...... 
Andover................. 1154 Haymaker blue.......  7*
brown...  7*
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
BB...  9  (Jeffrey....................1154
Lancaster  ..............1254
CC__ 
j Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7  Lawrence, 901........1854
No. 220— 13
No. 250...1154
No.280  ... 1054

“ 
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GINGHAMS.
! Amoskeag..............   654|Lancaster,  staple...  6
“  Persian dress  7 
“ 
fancies ....  7
Canton..  7 
“ 
“  Normandie  8
AFC........1054 Lancashire..............6
“ 
Teazle... 1054  Manchester............   55S£
“ 
Angola..IO54  Monogram...............654
“ 
“ 
Persian..  7  Normandie...............754

| Arlington staple 
! Arasapha  fancy 
Bates Warwick dres  754
staples.  6 
|Slatersville............ 6 
. Centennial............   10541Somerset.................7
Criterion..............  1054 Tacoma   
......... 754
Cumberland  staple.  554 Toll  duNord......... 1054
Cumberland.............  5 ¡Wabash...  .............   ¿54
¡Essex.........................4V4l  “ 
seersucker.. 754
!  Elfin........................  754 Warwick...............   7
| Everett classics......  854, Whitten den. 
g
heather dr.  <54
Exposition................75*1 
Glenarie...............   65*1 
indigo blue  9
Glenarven.6XI Wamsutta staples... 
6X
Glenwood................  754 Westbrook................8
Hampton..................  654 
*2
Johnson Ohalon cl  % Windermeer.............J
Indigo blue 954 York  ...................... 6X
zephyrs...  16  I

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GRAIN  BASS.

Amoskeag................. 14 [Georgia  .................. 1454
..............................
Stark......................   19 I 
¡American.................14541 .............................

THREADS.

Barbour's  ..............86
Marshall’s ..............81

Clark’s Mile End— 45
Coats’, J. 4 P ........ 45
Holyoke................. 22541
White.  Colored. I 

KNITTING  COTTON.

I No.

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

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45
4X
Slater......................  4*j
4x|Lockwood.............. 4*4
White Star 
454 ¡Wood’s ..................  454
Kid Glove
Newmarket............   4!*¡Brunswick...........   454

38  No.
39 
“
40 
'•
41  1  “
CAMBRICS.

14... ...37
16  .. ....38
18... ....39
20... ....40

RED  FLANNEL.

Fireman.................3254 IT W..........................S54
Creedmore............. 2754 F T ..........................3254
Talbot XXX...........30 
|J R F, XXX..............35
Nameless............... 2754 ¡Buckeye...................3254

MIXED  FLANNEL.

“ 

Red *  Blue,  plaid. 40 
|G reySRW .............1754
Union R .................2254 Western W  ..............1854
Windsor..................1854 D R P  .......— ..........1854
¡Flushing XXX....... 2354
i 6 oz Western...........20
.2254'Manitoba............... 2354
I Union  B.
DO NET  FLANNEL.
......   8  @1054
Nameless......8  &  9541 
1254
S54@10
Black.
1054
115412
20

Brown.  Black.[Slate  Brown.
1054 
1154
12
20

Slate.
954
1054
1154
1254
Severen, 8 oz..........   954 [West  Point, 8 oz
Maylana, 8oz......... 1054 
“ 
10 oz
Greenwood. 754 os..  954[Raven, 10oz 
Greenwood. 8 o* — 1154 Stark 
Boston, 8 oz............ 1054;Boston, 10 oz
WADDINGS.

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
954 
1054 
1154 
1254 

9Xttr-54 
1054 1154 
1154 12 
1254120 
DUCKS.

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SEWING  SILK.

White, d ot............25  I Per bale. 40 dos
Colored,  dos..........20  ¡Colored
Slater, Iron Cross...  8  ¡Pawtucket............. 1054
Red Cross....  9  Dandle...................  9
“ 
“  Best  ............1054[Bedford...................1054
Best AA......1254|Valley  City..............1054
“ 
L.............................  754|KK..............  .....  1054
G ............................. 8541
Cortlcelli. dos........ 85  [Cortlcelli knitting,

.1 2  “ 8 
-.12 
PINS.

per 54os  ball.........30

twist,dos..40 
50yd,dos..40  I 
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k & White.. 10  |No  4 Bl’fc & Whlte..l5
“  2 
..20
«•  3 
..25
No 2—20, M C......... 50  (No 4—15  J   354........40
‘  3-18,8 C..........45  I
COTTON  t a pe.
No  2 White A Bl’k.. 12  [No  8 White 4 Bl’k..20 
..15 
“ 10 
“  4 
.28
..26
I “ 12 
..18 
“  6 
SAFETY  PINS.
No 2....................... 28  [No8..
.36

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NEEDLES—PER  M.

A. James.................1 4u] Steamboat...............   40
Crowely’s................1  35 Gold  Eyed..............1  50
Marshall’s .............. 1 00* American................1  00
15—4....1  65  6—4...2 30
5—4.  ..  1  75  6—4... 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

COTTOFTWINBS.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............1854
Anchor.... ..............16
Bristol...................13
Cherry  Valley........15
I X L...................... 1854
Alabama...................6X
Alamance................. 654
Augusta...................754
Ar  sapha................  6
Georgia.....................6*4
G ranite..................  5X
Haw  River..............  5
Haw  J ....................   5

Nashua................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
3-ply....17
North Star.... ......... 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl~54 
Powhattan.............18

Mount  Pleasant....  654
Oneida....................5
Prymont__  ..........  5*
Randelman............ 6
Riverside...............
Sibley  A.................Cfc
Sibley  2 
Toledo.

PLAID  09NABUR6S

RTLA8  SOAP

Is Manufactured 

only  by

HENRY  PASS0LT, 

Sagiuaw,  Mich.

  654¡Persian
754!R§semeOTtDre8B:::::.' 1% j For general laundry and  family
Only brand of first-class laundry 

w a s h i n g   p u r p o s e » .

soap manufactured in the 

Saginaw  Yalley.

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

Eaton. Lyon & Co.,
SCHOOL  BOOK. 
SCHOOL  SOPPLIES, 4=*

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‘Chicago” Linen Hinge and

Mullins Patent Flat Opening Books. 

SPECIAL  BOOK  BINDING. 

Telephone 1243.  89 Pearl street,  Old  Houseman 

Block, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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7

MEN  OF  MARK.

Frank  J.  D ettentbaler, 

the  Monroe 

S treet Fish M erchant.

Frank J.  Dettenthaler,  fish,  game,  oys­
ter  and  poultry  jobber  at  117  and  119 
Monroe street,  was  born  in  Munich,  Ba­
varia,  in  1854.  His  father, George Detten­
thaler,  was in the  livery  business  in  that 
city  for  many  years.  Frank’s recollec­
tion  of  his  father’s  business 
is  very 
vague,  but  he  says the principal differ­
ence  between  the  liven-  business in  Eu­
rope and this country  is  that  people hir­
ing  horses  do  not  do their own  driving, 
the driver being  considered  a part of the 
outfit.  Saddle  horses  are  more  in  de­
mand  there than  here.  Frank  attended

school  in  his  native  city  until about the 
age of 14,  when  he  went  to  work  in  his 
father’s barns, continuing there  until  his 
emigration to  this  country.  On  his ar­
rival  in the United States  he  proceeded 
to Baltimore,  Md.,  where he  had  friends 
residing.  From  Baltimore  he  went 
to 
Chicago,  and 
thence  to  Racine,  Wis., 
returning 
in  a  short  time  to  Chicago, 
when  he engaged as cook  in a restaurant. 
This  situation  he  held  for  about  five 
years. 
His  knowledge  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  tongue  and  of  American  customs 
and  business methods  was  very  limited, 
hampering him to such  an extent that he 
determined  to study  in  order  to fit him­
self to compete  with  those  who were  “ to 
the manor born,” and  who  had  had the 
immense advantage  of  a  liberal  educa­
tion  in  American  public  schools and  a 
life-long  iutimacy  with  America customs 
and  institutions,  which  is  of  itself an 
education of  the  most  liberal  and  effec­
tive  kind.  He  attended  night  school, 
subsequently  taking  a  course  in  a  busi­
ness  college,  while  working  as  cook. 
From  Chicago Mr.  Dettenthaler  went  to 
Grand  Haven  and  engaged  as steward  of 
the Cutler House.  From  there  he  went 
to  Burlington,  Iowa,  and  started a res­
taurant on  his  own  account,  which  only 
lived  about  a  year.  He  once  more  re­
turned  to Chicago,  this  time  to  engage 
in  the manufacture of  what  are  known 
as  Moravian  pretzels. 
It  is not known 
whether the  pretzels  were to the  taste of 
his customers or  not;  the  business  was 
not  to  Frank’s  taste,  however,  and  in 
less than  a  year  he quit  it.  The season 
of  1878  saw  him  again  in  the  Cutler 
House  at  Grand  Haven as steward.  At 
the close of the season  he came to Grand 
Rapids and took  charge  of  the  cooking 
in Sweet’s Hotel,  where he remained  five 
years. 
In 1883  he purchased  the fish and 
oyster  business  of  H.  M.  Bliven,  at  117

Monroe street. 
It  is  in connection with 
this  business  that  Mr.  Dettenthaler has 
proved  himself  to  be  a man  of  affairs, 
capable,  aggresive,  energetic.  He  has 
thoroughly  mastered  every  detail  of  a 
business which  requires a man to be con­
stantly  in communication with every part 
of the country.  His correspondents com­
prise  men  in  almost every  walk of life, 
from the keen,  shrewd  man  of  business 
in  the metropolis,  to the unlettered back­
woodsman  and  fisherman,  and  the  fact 
that  he is every  day  receiving communi­
cations  from  “ men  in  the  woods”  who 
are  seeking  to  do business  with  him,  is 
an evidence of  the  widely  known  char­
acter of his  business and  shows the con­
fidence reposed in  him by men who them­
selves are not capable  of  doing  business 
except in the crudest manner.  The mag­
nificent  increase  of  the  business  in  the 
last ten years also proves  his  ability as  a 
business man.  The first  year’s business 
amounted  to $18,000; last year’s  business 
amounted to  about  $70,000,  which next 
year  he  expects  to  reach  $100,000.  A 
constantly  increasing trade has made the 
old  location altogether  too small,  and  so 
Mr.  Dettenthaler secured the lease of the 
premises  next  door.  The  partition  be­
tween the two stores  was torn  away  and 
extensive alterations made in other direc­
tions,  so that now he has one of the most 
commodious stores  in  the  city, if  not in 
the State.  Cash  and  parcel carriers run 
to every part of the store; everything  has 
been arranged  with  a view  to  the  econ­
omy of  both time and  labor,  and  is most 
admirably  adapted  to  the  purpose 
in­
tended.

Mr.  Dettenthaler  is  a member of  the 
Masonic order,  the  K-P.,  the  Patriarchal 
Arch,  Royal  Arcanum  and the K.  O.  T. 
M.  He is  also a member of the Fountain 
Street Baptist Church  and  a liberal con­
tributor to its  various benevolences.  He 
was  married 
to  Miss  Louise 
Scholl.  Mrs.  Dettenthaler  died  in  1889, 
leaving him  with one  child,  who is  now 
a charming young lady of 16 years.  She 
is  attending  Kalamazoo  College,  where 
she is  winning laurals as a student.

in  1876 

If there is one  virtue,  more  than  an­
other,  which  marks  Mr.  Dettenthaler’s 
career,  it  is  his pertinacity.  Whatever 
he  undertakes  is  done  in  a spirit which 
precludes  defeat.  Although  he  met 
many discouraging  circumstances  at the 
inception of his career as  a merchant,  he 
rose  superior 
to  the  occasion  and  his 
career since  that  time  has  been full of 
the  honors  and  emoluments  which  ac­
crue  to the successful  man of  business.

A note signed  with a  friend  sometimes 

becomes a note of regret.

Hardware Price Current.

• 
1 

dls.

AXES.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for cash,  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
60
Snell’s ........................................................... 
Cook’s  .........................................................  
40
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’,  imitation....................................50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.......................... 8 7 00
D.  B. Bronze..........................   x* 00
S. B. S. Steel...........................  8 00
D. B. Steel..............................   13 50
dlS.
Railroad  .................................................... 8 14 00
Garden................................................. net  30 00
dls.
Stove.............................................................. 50*10
Carriage new list.......................................... 75*10
Plow.............................................................. 40*10
Sleigh shoe  .................................................  
70
Well,  plain  .......  
8350
Well, swivel......................................................  4 00
dls.
Cast Loose Pin. figured.................................70*
W rought N arrow , bright 5ast jo in t...................604.0

BUTTS, CAST. 

BABBOWS. 

BUCKETS.

BOLTS. 

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

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

 

drain......................................................dls. 50*02

c b a m .e s.

CROW BABS.

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

CAPS.

“

CARTRIDGES.
Rim  Fire.....................................
Central  Fire...............................

chisels. 

.dls.

dls.

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

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

COMBS.
Curry,  Lawrence’s...............
Hotchkiss.............................
CHALK.
White Crayons, per  gross__ ......12©12H dls. 10

dls.

“ 

COPPER.
P lan ish ed , 14 oz cu t to s iz e ..
14x52,  14x56,  14x60
Cold R olled ,  14x56 and 14x60
Cold R olled , 14x48....................
B o tto m s........................................
DRILLS. 
Morse's  B it  S tock s..................
Taper and straight S h a n k ...
Morse’s Taper S h an k ..............

..  per pound

dis.

Sm all sizes, ser p o u n d .......................................... 
Large sizes, per  p o u n d ..............................  ......... 

07
6H

DRIPPING PANS.

ELBOWS.

Com. 4  piece, 6 i n ....................................dos. net 
75
40
C orrugated.........................................................d ls 
A d ju stab le..........................................................d is.  40*10

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dls.

p il e s—N ew  List. 

Clark’s,  sm all, $ 18;  large, 826............................  
30
Ives’,  1, 818:  2, 824;  3.830  ....................................  
25
D isston’s .....................................................................60*10
N ew   A m erican  .........................................................60*10
N ich olson ’s ...............................................................60*10
H eller’s 
......................................................................  
50
H eller’s H orse R asps  ............................................  
50

dis.

GALVANIZED IRON.

28
11 

50

dls.
dls.

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

12 

13 

15

D iscount, 60

14 
GAUGES.

Stanley  R ule and  L evel Co.’s .......... ..

diS.

LOCKS—DOOB. 

kn obs—N ew  L ist. 
Door, m ineral, jap. trim m in g s___
Door,  porcelain, jap.  trim m in gs..
Door, porcelain, plated trim m ings
Door,  porcelain,  trim m ings............
Drawer  and  Shutter, p orcelain ___
R u ssell *  Irw in  M fg. Co.’s n ew  list
M allory, W heeler  &  Co.’s ....................
B ranford’s ..................................................
N orw alk’s ....................................................
A dze E y e ..................................................... 816.00, dls. 60
H unt E y e .....................................................815.00, dls. 60
H unt’s ..................................................818.50, dls. 20*10.
diS.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  h a n d led ............................ 
50
dls.
40
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s .............................................. 
40
P.  S.  & W .  M fg. Co.’s  M a llea b les.... 
“ 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cls ik’s ......................  
40
“  E nterprise 
30
................................................  
..60*10
Stebbln’s  P attern.............................................. 
Stebblu’s G en u in e.................................................... 60*10
Enterprise, self-m easu rin g..................................  
25

MAULS. 
m ills. 

molasses gates. 

MATTOCKS.

dls.

N A IL S

A d van ce over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
........ 1  75@1  80
Base
10
25
25
35
45
45
50
60
75
90
1  60
1 6 0
65
75
90
75
90
1  10
70
80
90

Steel n ails,  Dase...................................................................1 50
W ire n ails, b a se .................................. 
60....................................................................B ase 
50......................................................................  
40......................................................................  
30.................................................................................. 
20...................................................................... 
16......................................................................  
12......................................................................  
10...................................................................... 
8........................................................................ 
7 * 6 ................................................................ 
4 ........................................................................ 
3 .................................................................................. 
2 ........................................................................ 
F in e  8 ............................................................. 
Case  10..........................................................  
8.......................................................... 
6..........................................................  
F in ish  10....................................................... 
8........................................................  
6 ........................................................ 
C linch; 10...................................................... 
8.............. 
....................................  
 
6 ...........................  

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“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

diS.

PLANES. 

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

Barren 36 
O hio Tool Co.’s, f a n c y ..........................................  ©40
Seiota  B en ch ..........................................................  
©50
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fa n c y ........................ 
  ©40
B ench, first q u a lity ..................................................  ©40
Stanley R u le and  L evel Co.’s  w o o d ...............50*10
Fry,  A cm e..........................................................dls.60—10
70
Common,  p o lish ed ..........................................d ls. 
Iron and  T in n ed ...................................................... 
40
Copper R ivets and B a r s.........................................50—10

b iv b t s. 

PANS.

dis.

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

“ A ” W ood's patent planished. N os. 24 to 27  10  20 
“B ” W ood’s  pat. planished, N os. 25 to 2 7 ...  9  20 

Broken packs H o per poun d extra

HAMMERS.

dlS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

HOLLOW WARE.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

May dole  *  Co.’s ................................................dls. 
25
K ip’s ....................................................................... dls. 
25
Y erkes *  P lum b’s ............................................ dls. 40*10
M ason's Solid Cast S teel................................30c list 60
B lacksm ith’s Solid Cast  Steel  H a n d ___30c 40*10
G ate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .........................................d ls.60*10
S tate........................................................per doz.  net, 2  50
Screw  H ook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 4H  14  and
3H
lo n g e r ........................................................................ 
Screw  H ook and  E ye,  H ...............................n et 
10
“ 
% ............................... n et 
8H
M................................net 
7H
“ 
7H
36................................net 
“ 
Strap and T .........................................................dls. 
50
Barn Door K idder M fg.  Co.,  W ood tra ck ___50*10
Champion,  a n ti-friction .......................................   60*10
K idder, w ood t r a c k ................................................  
40
P o ts.................................................................................. 60*10
K ettles...........................................................................   60*10
25 ]  Spiders  ..........................................................................60*10
'  Gray en a m eled ........................................................... 40*10
Stam ped  T in W are........................................n ew  list 70
Japanned T in W are................................................  
25
G ranite Iron W a r e ............................n ew  list 33)6*10
B lig h t..................................................................  70*10*10
Screw  E y e s...........................................................70*10*10
H ook’s .....................................................................70*10*10
G ate H ooks and E y e s............................ 
70*10*10
dls.7o
Stanley  R u le and L evel  Co.’s ............................
9
Sisal,  H in ch  and la r g e r ...................................... 
M an illa.........................................................................   13
dls.
Steel and Iron.............................................. 
Try and Bevels............................................. 
Mitre............................................................ 

75
6£
2C
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
82 95
3 05
8 05
3 15
8 25
3 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 
Drab B.................................   “ 
White C................................ “ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

lev els. 
ropes.

SHEET IRON.

50
50
55
50
55
35

w ir e goods. 

SQUARES. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

dls.

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

“ 

dls.

saws. 

TRAPS. 

Cuts,  per  foot.

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

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton 826
20
70
50
30
30
Steel, Game................................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s  ... 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion...............................81.50 per doz
dis.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market............................................   62H
Coppered  Spring Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  2 80
painted...................................   2 40

wire. 

dls.

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

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

MISCELLANEOUS. 

METALS.
PIG TIN.

“ 

636
7

ZINC.

26c
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars....................................................   . 
Duty:  Sheet, 2Hc per pound.
680 pound  casks......................................  
 
Per pound.................................................... 
H©H...................................................................16
Extra W iping.................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market indicated by private brands 
1 20
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................per  pound
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MBLYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal....................................... 8 7
14x2010, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

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

“ 
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“ 
TIN—ALLA WAT GRADE.

Each additional X on this grade, 11.75.

10x1410, Charcoal......................................8 6  75
1 
6  75
14x2010, 
10x14 IX , 
8 25
14x20 IX, 
9  25

 
 
 
Each additional X on this grade 11.50.
ROOFING PLATES
Worcester..................

6 5e 
14x20 IC, 
8 50
14x20 IX, 
13  50 
20x28 IC, 
6 00
14x20 IC, 
7  50 
14x20 IX, 
12 SO 
20x28 IC, 
15 50
20x28 IX,
14x28 IX.......................................................814  00
14x81  IX......................................................  15 00
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 1 _«,T m nn.  
m
14x60 IX.  »  »  9 
Per Panna 
1000

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

Allaway  Grade.

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S.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  18,  1893.

A  WORKINGMAN’S  DOLLAR.

It  had 

The notion  obtaius  that the only thing 
necessary  to  create  money is to put the 
Government  stamp  on  the metal,  paper 
or some other substance,  and  pass a law 
making  it  legal  tender,  and  then  it  is 
money.  Never was a notion more absurd.
The  American  people  have all  read of 
the continental  money  in  the time of the 
war  of  the  revolution.  Millions  of  it 
were  issued. 
the  Government 
stamp on  it,  but.  in  spite of  that it  be­
came  utterly  worthless.  A  government 
may  put  its stamp on  something and call 
it  money,  but  those facts do not  neces­
sarily  give  this  money  any  value.  A 
governmeut  is  like  an  individual.  He 
has credit according to his ability  to pay.  | 
A  man  who has  no  business aud no  prop­
erty gets no credit.  His promises to pay 
are  worthless. 
It  is  the same  way  with 
a government.  The  value  of  its  prom­
ises to pay depends on  its  ability  to pay. 
To-day  there are bankrupt  governments 
whose  bonds  are  practically  worthless, I 
and  whose  paper  money  is  like that  is­
sued  by  the  Southern States during the 
civil  war.  When  those  governments go I 
into  the  markets  for  any  purpose they 
can  buy  nothing except  for hard cash.
The  United  States  is  considered 

the 
the  world,  and  its 
richest  country 
credit  is  at  the  highest  notch  because 
there is  large confi ience  in  its  ability  to 
pay.  But  where  is  the  Government  to 
get the  money to pay  its obligations? 
it 
has  not  a  dollar,  save  what came by tax­
ing  the  people. 
It  cannot  get  a  dollar 
unless  it takes that  dollar  from  the peo­
ple  by  levying  taxes.  The  Government 
can  only  collect  these  taxes  by  the con­
sent  of  the  people. 
If  the people in a 
mass  were  to  refuse  to  pay  taxes,  the 
Government  would  be helpless and peni- 
less.  More  than  a  hundred  years  ago, 
when  the American  people  were the sub­
jects of the King of  England,  the British 
Government levied  a tax  on  all  the  tea 
brought  into  this country.  The  people 
refused to pay  this tax,  and,  in order to 
prevent  payment,  would  not  allow  any 
tea  to  be  imported.  When  a cargo did 
arrive,  the  people,  to  prevent  its  being 
landed,  took  possession of  the ship  and 
the
threw 

tea  overboard.  When 

the 

in 

British Government  attempted  to collect 
some other taxes  from the American col­
onists the people resisted  and  won  their 
national  independence.  Thus it will  be 
seen  that  no  government  can  get  any 
money,  save  by  taxing the people,  and, 
if  the  people  in  a  mass  refuse to pay 
taxes,  then  the  government is powerless 
to get a dollar to pay  its debts or to guar­
antee its  paper money.

The notion ought to be abandoned  that 
the Government  stamp can  give  any in­
trinsic value  to anything.  Unless  there 
is  an  ability to make good every note and 
promise  to pay  bearing the  Government 
stamp,  that stamp is  worthless.  An  act 
of Congress which  creates a legal tender 
note or coin  cannot  force  anybody  to ac­
cept it.  To-day  any  creditor may refuse 
to take pay  for his debt in  silver dollars. 
He cannot  force gold,  but be is not  bound 
to  accept  silver.  A  merchant  may  re­
fuse to  sell  his  goods  for  anything  but 
gold.  No  power  can  force  him  to  do 
otherwise.  Up  to  the  present  time the 
Government  has,  with  the  greatest diffi­
culty,  preserved  the  parity  of  gold  and 
silver;  but suppose,  by  the  passage of  a 
law authorizing the free coinage of silver, 
the power  to  preserve  that  parity  were 
lost.  Then,  although  silver 
dollars 
would  be legal  tender, they would not  be 
equal in  value to gold dollars.  The  time 
would  soon  come  when  a  silver  dollar 
would  be held  at its real  value compared 
with  gold,  and,  although  it  would still 
be  legal  tender,  in  would  only  pass  at 
the  reduced  rating,  just  as  legal tender 
greenbacks did  when $2.80  were required 
to equal $1 in gold.

One thing  is certain,  and  this  is  that 
no  class  of  the  population  is  so  much 
concerned  in  having  sound  money  kept 
up  to the highest  staudard  of  value as is 
the  vast  mass  of  people  who  live  on 
wages.  These  constitute  a great major­
ity of  the  American  voting  population. 
These  people  should  do all in their power 
to prevent  the payment  of  their  wages 
in  57-cent  dollars.  Whenever 
the  bi­
metalists,  as  they  call  themselves,  shall 
succeed  in  destroying  the  gold standard 
of  United  States  money,  so  that  there 
will  be a  cheap  silver  dollar  which is 
legal  tender,  and  a  high-priced gold dol­
lar,  which  is also legal  tender,  the wage­
workers may  rely on  being paid for their 
labor in cheap  dollars. 
In  that case the 
only relief  possible  would  be  to drive all 
the  gold  out  of  the  country  and  bring 
everything to a silver basis.  Any double 
standard of  money  would  be  ruinous to 
the  wage-earners.  They  make  up  a ma­
jority of  the  American  people,  and  they 
ought to  speak.  Every  man  who  works 
for  wages,  whether  by  the  day,  week, 
month or  year,  is intensely  interested in 
getting bis  pay  in  the  best  dollar  to  be 
bad,  and  that is  a dollar,  no matter what 
material  it is  made of,  that can  be  fully 
maintained  up  to  the gold  standard. 
If 
every  workingman  would  see the situa­
tion  as it really  is,  he  would not cease to 
demand  at the  polls,  and  in  public meet­
ings,  the best dollar that the country  can 
afford. 
CHINESE  TRADE  AND  THE  GEARY 

_________________

LAW.

In  view  of  the  fact  that  the United 
j States Government has determined to en­
force  the Geary  law,  which  requires  the 
deportation  to China of  all Chinese  per­
sons  who failed at  a  certain  date,  which 
has passed,  to  register  their  names and 
furnish  photographic portraits  for verifi- 
I cation or  their claims  to  remain in  this

country,  fear is  generally  felt  that  the 
Chinese Government will retaliate by ex­
pelling  Americans,  and  particularly  the 
Christian  missionaries,  from China.

This opinion  is combated  by Mr. Sheri­
dan P.  Read,  who  writes,  with  a  good 
deal of  knowledge  of  the  conditions of 
the case,  in  the  New  York  Journal  of 
American  Politics.  Mr.  Read  argues 
that,  while 
the  Chinese  Government 
might desire to  retaliate  on  the Ameri­
cans,  it  will  not dare  to do so,  because it 
cannot afford to  lose the extensive Amer­
ican  consumption  of  Chinese  products. 
It appears that  the  United  States  con­
sumes four-fifths of  the entire output  of 
straw matting coming  from  Canton,  and 
from  the Lintin  and Tong Koon districts, 
near  Canton,  and 
these  districts  are 
largely  dependent  for  their  daily  sup­
port upon  the  manufacture  of  this com­
modity,  and  that 
the  silk  and  tea dis­
tricts would  also  suffer  immeasurably  if 
an  attempt to keep these products  out of 
this country were successfully instituted. 
It is,  therefore,  claimed  that  an effort  to 
retaliate  in  this  way  could  scarcely  be 
effective,  as 
this  case  tea  and  silk 
would  reach  this  country  via  England 
and  Lyons respectively. 
It  is  also held 
that American  cotton  goods  and  petro­
leum  are  not  only  largely  consumed  in 
China,  but  that  they  cannot  be  got  as 
cheaply 
in  any  other  country.  The 
writer referred  to above holds that China 
is so largely dependent  upon  this  coun­
try  for her commercial  welfare  as an ex­
porter,  and  for  the  satisfaction  of  her 
needs as  an  importer,  that  a serious  pro­
ject on  her  part 
to  retaliate  would  be 
practically  out  of the question.

in 

This is  all  very  well,  but  commercial 
considerations  will  not  prevent  the en­
raged Chinese  from  visiting many cruel­
ties  upon  the American  missionaries  in 
the interior of that great empire,  nor can 
the  Chinese  Government  itself  prevent 
such  action  any  more  than 
the  Federal 
Government  can  prevent  the  perpetra­
tion of cruelties  upon  Chinese in Ameri­
ca.  A good  deal  of  trouble is to be ex­
pected  from 
the 
Geary  law. 
It is a  most  unwise piece of 
legislation,  and  it will  cost a great many 
millions of dollars  to  have  it  enforced. 
If some of  that  money had  been  used  to 
keep out the  Chinese  who are  constantly 
being smuggled  into the country it would 
be much better on all  accounts.

the  enforcement  of 

THE  ERA  OF  HOME  RULE.

During the thirty  years  beginning with 
1860  the  manifest  tendency of  the world 
was  towards  the  formation of great em­
pires and  powerful  centralized  govern­
ments.  This  was confined to no one  sec­
tion  of the civilized  world,  but was uni­
versal.  The  more  powerful  nations ab­
sorbed  their  less  powerful  neighbors, 
while  federated  governments  sought to 
obliterate as much  as  possible  the rights 
and privileges of  the several states com­
posing such governments.

With  the gradual  process  of  obliterat­
ing  States’  rights  in  this  country  our 
readers are fully  familar. 
It  will be re­
membered that,  in  the  case of Germany, 
Bismarck,  in his efforts  to  establish  the 
great  German  Empire,  destroyed 
the 
autonomy of a number  of  petty  States, 
the most conspicuous  example being  the 
absorption of Hanover  by  Prussia,  and 
finally came the formation of  the empire 
in  1870. 
In Austria the same  process of 
centralization  was  put  in  practice,  but 
never  with  the  same  success  that  at-

tended the  efforts  of  Bismarck  in  Ger­
many. 
Italy also  underwent  a  process 
of consolidation,  which  resulted in mak­
ing  Rome  the  capital  of  the Kingdom; 
while  Great  Britain,  by  conquest  and 
colonial extension,  more thoroughly con­
solidated an  already vast empire.

in 

In 

the  other  direction. 

During  the  past  few  years  there has 
been a very marked  and  noticeable ten­
dency 
the 
United  States,  for  instance,  there  has 
been an  increasing show of  resistance to 
the  centralizing  tendency  and  a  pro­
nounced drift towards  a  wider interpre­
tation of State’s rights on something like 
the  ante-bellum 
tendency 
was made plainly  manifest in the violent 
opposition to the force bill, two years ago, 
and to the steadily growing resistance to 
all  measures  brought  up 
in  Congress 
which  gave the  Federal  Government  an 
increased  influence in State affairs.  The 
latest exhibition  of  this has  been the pas­
sage through the  House  of  Representa­
tives  of  the  bill  to  repeal  the  federal 
election  laws.

lines.  This 

there 

Another conspicuous  example  of  this 
reactionary tendency from the centraliza­
tion idea is the home  rule agitation, which 
has shown so  much  strength of  late  in 
Great Britain.  Aside from the Irish agi­
tation, 
the  demand  for  local 
government as embodied  in the proposed 
county councils  measure.  There is also 
the drift in the  direction  of  home  rule 
for  Scotland  and  Wales,  and the mani­
fest tendency on  the  part of  the British 
colonies to demand greater freedom from 
interference on  the  part of  the Imperial 
Government.

is 

Although  all  demonstrations  in favor 
of the smaller States  of  Germany  exer­
cising a greater share  in  the  control  of 
German affairs are carefully  suppressed, 
it is a well-known  fact that  most of  the 
smaller divisions of  the German Empire 
are  growing  more  and  more restless of 
the supremacy exercised  by Prussia,  and 
these State jealousies  are but poorly con­
cealed. 
In  the Austrain  Empire the agi­
tation  in  favor  of  autonomous govern­
ment by the various divisions  has become 
quite violent. 
Italy  is also being threat­
ened  with  a  demand  for  home rule by 
Sicily,  and the same tendency  is  observ­
able in many other  parts  of  the  world, 
thus showing clearly the  existence  of  a 
powerful  influence  antagonistic  to  cen­
tralization.

CHEESE  IN  THE  BIBLE.

The beginning of  the cheese  industry 
is  buried  in  the  oblivion  of 
the  past. 
That  it is  very ancient  is  beyond  ques­
tion.  The  first  mention  of  it,  historic­
ally,  is found  in the  book of  Job,  chap­
ter 10, verse 10:  “ Hast thou not  *  *  * 
*  curdled me like cheese?”  The original 
Hebrew  word  here  used 
is  gebinah, 
which means  curdled  milk,  the  earliest 
known form of  cheese.  The  next  men­
tion of cheese in  the  Bible is found  in  I 
Samuel,  17:18:  “ Carry these  ten  cheeses 
unto 
the  captain;”  the  commission  of 
Jesse to his son  David,  with reference to 
his  three  brothers,  who  were  with  the 
army  under Saul.  The  Hebrew  here has 
charitse hech,  which  means  the cuttings 
and slicings of cheese.  This  shows that 
cheese  was being  made  in  solid  form, 
and  was not  merely curdled  milk.  The 
third and  last  mention of  cheese in  the 
Bible 
in  II  Samuel,  17:29: 
“and  sheep  and  cheese  of  kine  for 
David.’’  The  insurrection  of  Absalom 
had driven  David  from  Jerusalem,  and 
I he and  those faithful to  bis  cause  were

is  found 

in  danger  of  starvation.  Among 
the 
food  supply sent  to the  camp of  David 
was  cheese.  The  word  here  used  is 
shaphah—cheese  of  kine, 
or  cheese 
made  from  cow’s  milk.  The  use  of 
this distinctive  term is  an  evidence that 
cheese  was  made from  the milk  of  ani­
mals other  than  cows,  or  it  would  not 
have been necessary to so  distinguish it. 
It was an article of food, and,  most  prob­
ably,  in  the days  of  Saul,  a  luxury,  as 
David  was told to  carry it to the captain 
—no doubt  of  the  “hundred”  to  which 
his  biethren  belonged.  The reference in 
II Samuel  would  indicate  that it  was a 
luxury  enjoyed  only  by  the rich,  as  the 
cheese mentioned was for David.  What­
ever may  have  been  the character of  the 
cheese  mentioned  in  these  three refer­
ences,  they certainly  put  beyond  ques­
tion  the  great  antiquity of  cheese as an 
article of diet.  The book of Job was writ­
ten  1520  years  before  the  beginning  of 
the Christian  era—over  3,000  years ago. 
That cheese  was  not  considered delete­
rious to  health  is  evident  from  the fact 
that it  was not  prohibited  by the law of 
Moses,  as  was  everything  which  was 
likely to be injurious.

THE  SENATE  IN  DISREPUTE.

The  country  is  now  experiencing  a 
portion  of  the  price  to  be paid  for the 
luxury  of  possessing  a  second 
legisla­
tive  chamber  with  revisionary  power 
over the  work  of  the  popular  or  repre­
sentative  house.  There  can  be no ques­
tion  but  that  the  vast  majority  of  the 
people of the country  favor the repeal  of 
the Sherman  law,  and  this popular pres­
sure  was shown in  the  great majority  by 
which the  bill was  passed  in  the  House 
of  Representatives.  The  Senate,  how­
ever,  shows  no  sign  of  yielding  to  the 
popular  will,  and  is  wasting  its  time 
with  the avowed  intention  of talking the 
repeal bill to death.

It  is rather  a singular coincidence that 
in Great  Britain the  Upper  House is  be­
ing held  up  to popular condemnation  for 
doing pretty much  what our own  Senate 
is now  doing,  namely,  resisting the pop­
ular will  in  the m atter of  the passage of 
the  Irish  home  rule  bill.  The  opposi­
tion  of  the British  Lords to the  passage 
of  home rule  is  really  not as bold  a de­
fiance  of 
the 
course of our  Senate,  as  there is no such 
overwhelming  majority  for  Mr.  Glad­
stone in Great Britain  as  there is  for the 
repeal  bill  in  this  country,  nor is a mere 
minority  responsible  for  the  course  of 
the  Lords.

the  popular  will  as  is 

There can  be  no  denying that  it is one 
of the rights and  privileges of the United 
States Senate to  prevent  the  passage  of 
intemperate  and  ill-advised  legislation, 
even  when  demanded  by  a popular  ma­
jority,  or what  is  much, the same  thing, 
by a majority of  the  lower  house,  but it 
is  certainly  poor  policy  to  carry 
that 
right to the  extent  of  persistently  baf­
fling  the  popular  demands  when  they 
have  been  so loudly  and vehemently  an­
nounced  as  in the present case. 
It  is not 
even a majority of the Senate  that stands 
between  the  country  and  the repeal of 
the Sherman  law,  but  a determined  min­
ority.

This  course  of  the  Senate,  together 
with  the  further  fact  that a number of 
petty States,  by possessing as many Sen­
ators  as  the  populous  commouwealths, 
are enabled to successfully resist  popular 
pressure,  and  are creating  a  strong feel­
ing against the Senate among the people.

j There is not the faintest probability that 
J this  present  unpopularity  will go to the 
length of demanding the abolition of the 
Senate,  but it  certainly  will  lead to de­
mands for reforms  In  the methods of  the 
upper house,  and  possibly in  the way of 
choosing  Senators.

SUSPICIOUS  WEALTH.

In  an article on  the  rapid  acquisition 
of  wealth  by  men holding political posi­
tions to which are attached, legitimately, 
little or  no  pecuniary income,  Harper’s 
Weekly  makes  some  severe  animadver­
sions.  After referring at some length to 
the enormous political robberies  and job­
beries perpetrated under the Boss Tweed 
regime,  later times  and events are taken 
up.  The pictures  painted  will find dup­
licates in  all  the chief cities  of  the coun­
try.  After disposing  of  the leaders the 
subordinates  are  treated.  The  bosses 
soon  become  millionaires;  the  subordi­
nates come  to  be  capitalists  of  a  lower 
grade.  We  extract: 
the 
leaders, but the captains of hundreds and 
their lieutenants  live  on  a  scale  far  be­
yond  their  official  incomes.  Men  who 
rise above the ranks  in  the  police force, 
and receive  a  salary  equivalent 
to  the 
pay  of a captain in the army, own houses 
iu  New  York  which  a  captain  in 
the 
army could not  afford  to rent.  The signs 
of  luxury  spread  into  the  neighboring 
country districts.”

“Not  only 

race 

to  be 

track,  where 

There are all  sorts of politicians,  some 
with small  salaries,  some with none, who 
show  every  outward  sign  of  wealth. 
“ They can  live  in  better  houses,  drive 
better  horses,  smoke  more  and  better 
cigars and drink  richer wines than  busi­
ness  men  can  afford  whose  known  in­
come is  five times as  much  as their sala­
seen  wher­
ries.  They  are 
to  be,  and  not­
ever  it  is  expensive 
ably  on  the 
they 
frequent  the  betting  ring.  There  are 
politicians  whose  yearly  incomes  from 
the offices they hold  average  from $500 to 
$1,500  who  annually lose  ten or a dozen 
times  their  salaries  on  the  race  track. 
But how is the wealth that  supports this 
magnificence and  recklessness  obtained? 
The public does  not  know. 
If a private 
citizen  grows  rich  he  has  many  friends 
who know  his  occupations  and can  give 
an  account  of  his  successes. 
If  his 
wealth is  great  enough  to give  him dis­
tinction  the  whole  city  knows,  through 
the newspapers,  the  means  whereby his 
riches have grown. 
It is not so  with  the 
politicians.  They  grow  rich  secretly, 
and  there  are  only  rumors  as  to  their 
methods.  These  rumors  are  of  bad, 
even  criminal,  practices. 
It  is the fact 
that every  man  in this  city whose  prop­
erty or business comes  within  the power 
of a city official  is fined  for  that official’s 
benefit;  that men  and  women  pay  largess 
for the  privilege  of  breaking  the  law; 
that  candidates  for  office  are 
taxed  to 
swell  the private coffers of bosses.”

These  portraits  may  almost  be  de­
clared to  be  familiar.  This  is  the won­
der and the scandal of  the age.  Politics 
is  the  surest  and  most  rapid  road  to 
wealth.  How some of  the most success­
ful  keep  out  of  the  State’s  prison  is 
equally a  wonder,  but  then political in­
fluence extends a long  distance.  Never­
theless,  some of  them finally  land  there, 
as did Boss Tweed,  for  instance.

Dr.  Kellogg ought to  know  what he is 
talking  about  when  he  discourses on the 
alleged  unwholesomeness of  what  he is 
pleased to  term  “ raw”  cheese,  but  it  is

possible  he has found  colleagues  in Ed­
ward  Atkinson,  Prof.  Henry  and Prof. 
Hurd,  who  will  see the  question  fought 
to a finish. 
It is  not unlikely,  also,  that 
other able authorities on the subject may 
be impelled  to  take  part  in  the  discus­
sion  which  was  begun  in  the  last issue 
and  will  probably  be  continued  in  sev­
eral  subsequent  issues  of  this  journal, 
with a  view to  determining,  once for all, 
the exact position  cheese  should  occupy 
in the food  economy of  the  human  race.

Push  for  Success.

is 

It 

the 

truly  great, 

do  not  believe 

determination  of 

There  is  no  virtue  in  sitting  idly  in 
the  store  and  moping over the dullness 
in  business. 
is  your  plain  duty 
to  search  out  the  remedy  which  will 
counteract 
this  state  of  affairs.  Will 
power  has  often  been  known  to  keep 
very  sick  people  alive and enable them 
to  “ pull  through” to health and strength; 
likewise  in  mercantile  life, push  is the 
word  which  so  crisply  explains  why 
recognize  a  dull 
some  dealers  never 
season.  Push 
the  word  which  so 
briefly  but  fully  explains 
the  prim­
ary  cause  of  every  successful  career. 
We 
that  prosperity 
comes  unguided  to  any  man’s  door;  it 
is very largely  influenced  by the persist­
ent 
recipient 
throughout  his  career  to make  to-day’s 
business better than yesterday’s,  and his 
energetic effort to make  every  spare dol­
lar earn a profit. 
Few successful store­
keepers,  however,  get the credit among 
their  competitors  for  what  they  have 
accomplished;  their  success  is  usually 
attributed  to the peculiar advantages of 
their  surroundings,  the  opportune  mo­
ment when  they  began their career,  etc. 
In short,  the successful man is generally 
regarded as a  “ man  of  destiny.”  “ If  1 
only had the chance some  men  have  had, 
I’d  soon show what I  could  accomplish” 
is too often  the plea  of the  unsuccessful 
trader.  We  all  know 
that  none  es­
cape  entirely 
the  troubles  and  strug­
gles  of 
success­
life. 
truly 
The 
ful  man 
un­
is  also 
conquerable  determination  and  pluck, 
not his surroundings,  have  placed  him 
in  the front rank.  Could  we trace back 
his  business career to  its commencement 
we  would  find  in  the majority of cases 
innumerable  difficulties  which  he  en­
countered  and  met  with courage,  over­
coming  obstacles  when  possible,  ac­
knowledging  defeats  where  necessary, 
but  always  pushing  on  with  renewed 
energy.  Yet  the possibility of  his hav­
ing  had  anything  but  a smooth  road is 
seldom or never considered. 
It is stated, 
with  what truth  we cannot say, that  “ not 
more than 1  per cent,  of  the best class of 
merchants  succeed  without  first  failing 
in  Philadelphia.  Not  more  than  2  per 
cent,  of the  merchants of New York  ulti­
mately  retire  on an independence,  after 
having submitted  to  the usual ordeal  of 
failure.  Not  more 
three  out  of 
every  100  merchants  in  Boston  acquire 
an  independence.”  An old,  experienced 
authority  gives  the  following  piece  of 
advice:  “Keep your  troubles  and your 
to  yourself; 
failures 
the  world  cares 
nothing for them.  Let  your  success be 
known. 
’Twill  help  to  advertise  you, 
for people worship prosperity.  No great 
prize  is  won  without a severe struggle, 
no matter  how  strong  appearances  may 
be to the contrary.  With every  business 
‘knock-out’ pick yourself up with determ­
ination to have one more ‘round.’  That’s 
the  kind  of  push  that  will  win single- 
handed,  or  where  other  qualities  are 
wanting.  Do  not  be content  with  that 
self-satisfied  feeling  that you are about 
‘as  smart  as  they  make ’em.’  Examine 
yourself and see if you  are really making 
as  sturdy  an  effort  for business as you 
ought.

than 

Wool,  Hides and  Pelts.

Wool—The week has been dull even  to 
stagnation.  Prices  are  now  down  to a 
free trade  basis,  where  they  must  re­
main  until  something is decided.  Trans­
actions so far  this  year  are over 80,000,- 
000 pounds  less than for the same period 
last  year.  This  amount  must  be  sup­
plied  somehow  before  next  year’s busi- j

o d œ  

j s o c m a ^ j s r  

t r a

d

e

s m

a

n

.

9
ness  begins,  but  it  is  rather  early  to 
j  prophesy  as to  its  effect  upon  the wool 
j market next  year.  The  supply at pres- 
| ent is fully equal to the demand.

Hides—The  market  is  at 

the  lowest 
I possible  ebb.  The  supply  just  about 
| meets the  demand,  which  is saying very 
little.  Prices are low.

Pelts—Shade  lower if  anything.  The 
skins will  not  bring enough  to  pay  for 
pulling.  There  will  be  no change until 
leather  improves,  which  would make the 
tanning of skins an object.

Use  Tradesman  Coupon  Bonks.

POULTRY.
Local dealers pay as  follows:

D R E SSE D .

Fowl........................................................8
Turkeys.................................................12*i@i3
Ducks  ................................................... io  @12
Chickens.................................................  s @9
Live broilers 1% lbs. to 2  lbs.  each, per
d o z.....................................................
Live broilers  less than  1-1 >4 lbs.  each,
per doz  ..............................................
Spring Chickens....................................  6 @7
Fowls.....................................................5*4® 6%
Spring turkeys........................................10 @12*4
Spring Ducks...........................................8 @9

L I V E .

OILS.

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

h w m  s i t

W holesale

Boots  a Siioes,
5  and  7  Pearl  St., 

GRAND RAPIDS,

MICH.

Agents  for  Wales-Goodyear  Rubber  Co. 
Orders  by mail  given  prompt attention.

Unlike the Dutch  Process 
No Alkalies
Other  Chemicals

----OH —

are  used  in   the 
p re p a r a tio n  o f

. Baker  &  Go.’o

Breakfast  Cocoa,

w hich is   absolutely p u r e  

a n d   soluble.

A  d e s c rip tio n   of  th e   c h o c o la te  
p la n t,  a n d   of  th e  v a rio u s   co co a 
a n d  c h o c o la te  p re p e  ra tio n s  m an  
u fa c tu re d   by W a lte r B a k e r & Co 
w ill  b e s e n tf r e e  to  a n y  d e a le r  or. 
a p p lic a tio n .

W. BAKER & GO., Dorchester. Mass.

IO

THE  ^riCTTIGA^T  TRADESMAN.

State  Board  of Pharm acy. 

One  Year—James Vemor, Detroit.
Two  Years—Cttmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor 
Three  Years—George Gondrum. Ionia.
Four Years—C. A  Bagbee. Cheboygan.
Five Years—S. E. Parti 11. Owosso.
President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Stanley E  Parkill, Owosso. 
Treasurer—Geo. Gondrnm, Ionia.

M ichigan State  Pharm aceutical  Ass'n. 
President—A  B. Stevens, Ann Arbor.
Vice-President—A. F. Parter, Detroit. 
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit. 
Secretary—S. A. Thompson, Detroit.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society 
President, John D. Muir;  Sec’y. Frank H. Eecott.

THE  HEALTHY  DRUMMER.

He Had  No  Use  W hatever 
nary  Precautions.

"How'm  1  feeling?”  echoed  the drum­
mer as  he hung up  his overcoat,  changed ! 
his hat for a skull-cap and  sat down  with 
his traps occupying the other half  of the 
seat.  “ Happy  to  state  that  1  haven’t 
felt so well  for  three  months. 
I’m just 
picking  up  fat  at 
the  rate  of  three j 
pounds per  week.  Excuse me  a minute, 
please.  Ten drops  in a little water three 
times a day.”

“ Is it  medicine?”
“ Well,  hardly.  Something the  doctor 
fixed  up  to  guard  against  rheumatism.  | 
you  know.  Some  of  the  boys  carry  a j 
regular drug  store  around  with ’em and 
dose from  morning till night, but  I’m  not | 
built that  way.  Trouble  with me  is I'm 
too  well.  Beg your pardon,  gents,  but  1 
came  near forgetting  my capsules.  One 
after each  meal  and  another  on  going to 
bed.”

juice  and  aids  digestion. 

“ Medicine?”  was asked  again.
“Oh.no!  No!  Just  a little something 
to  prevent  flatulency,  as  I  believe  the 
doctors call  it.  Keeps  up  the  supply  of 
gastric 
I’ve 
known  men  in  my  line  who  commenced 
dosing and  doping right  after  breakfast 
and  kept  it  up til!  bed  time,  and  most of 
their complaints were  imaginary at that.
I never did  believe in  making a dumping 
ground of  my  stomach.  Let’s  see!  Did 
1 leave that  box  behind?  Ah!  Here  it is! 
Hold one in  the mouth and let  it dissolve 
gradually.”

saloon  bar  in  St.  Paul  one  night,  and  first; but  he put on  a bold  front and said: 
half an hour  later  he  was  in  his  room  “Oh,  that’s all right; the boys were  going ! my money
the
writing a farewell letter  to  his  wife  in 
Philadelphia.  He was  dead sure he had 
spinal meningitis and  couldn’t  live  the 
night oat.  Ha! ha!  ha! 
It’s  enough  to 
make a horse laugh to know what strange 
fancies  get  hold  of  men.  What!  By 
George,  but  what a fool  lam !  No—here 
it is.  Don’t let me interrupt you, gentle­
men. 
I simply happened  to  notice ihat 
it was 10 o’clock.  Let’s see?  From seven 
to ten drops in  a little water twice a day, 
and  on  going  to  bed  if  thought neces­
sary.”

away  on  a  ‘tear,’  and 
money to pay expenses.”
“ But how  did they  get  into the safe?” 
asked the old man.
“Oh.  I  let them  in,” said  Creeping.  “ I 
knew the combination, you  know.”
“ But  don’t  you  know  that  that 
is 
stealing?” said the old  man,  beginning to 
get  hot  under  the  collar;  “don’t  you 
know that you  are all thieves?”

they took 

“ Thieves!”  said Greep'ng  indignantly. 
‘‘Don’t  you  call  me  a  thief.  We didn’t 
steal your money.  We took it.  And be­
fore  the  boys took  a  cent  they  got to­
gether and signed a written agreement to 
take it.  Stealing, indeed!”

it’s all  right  now. 

“You  are not taking  medicine?”
“Bless you,  no!  When  anything  ails 
me I’ll  go to a doctor and  be treated in  a 
reeular  rational  way.  Our  old  family 
“ But  I  don’t  see,”  persisted  the  old 
for  Ordi-1 physician  who has made Bright’s disease 
man,  “ how  that  makes  any  difference. 
|  a  speciality,  insisted on my  bringing this 
It  was  my  money,  and  you fellows  took 
I  am  taking  it simply  to oblige 
along. 
it without  asking me.  You  went to  my 
him.  Don’t suppose any of you ever ran 
strong box.  and gobbled  it just  as a thief 
across  a fellow in  the negligee  shirt line 
j would. 
I  don’t see  how your getting to- 
we call Drug Store  Jim?  He travels  for 
i gether and  agreeing to do it makes  it  any 
a New  York  house,  and of  all  the infer­
less stealing.”
nal  cranks  you  ever  saw  he  caps  the 
“ Well,  I do,” said  Greeping,  “ and  be­
climax. 
I rode  with  him  from  Detroit 
sides  we spent a  part  of  the  money  for 
to Chicago one day last summer, and dur­
I your benefit.  The  bookkeeper  got  some 
ing the trip  he took  thirty-eight doses of I 
new  wrinkles in keeping books, which he 
medicine,  each  one  for  a  different  ail­
is  going  to use  hereafter  on  yours,  and 
ment.  A doctor told  him  he  w as----- .
he  thinks  it  will  save  you  money in  the 
Gentlemen,  please excuse  me.  My  liver 
too,  learned
future.  The  other  boys, 
pad  has slipped down against my electric Ic in g s  that  are  going  to  help  them  do 
I 
belt and sort of  grounded  the  wire  so to  VQUr  business  t0  better  advantage. 
^   don’t think you  have  any right  to kick.”
speak,  There 
Have you any  faith  in those things?
s' 
Old  Populus  was  silenced  for  a mo­
“ Not a  particle,  but  as they  were pre-1 
ment.  but  he soon  found  his  voice again, 
sented  to me  by  warm  personal  friends 
and  asked  if  he could see an  itemized ac­
in the trade,  I feel  obliged  to wear ’em. 
count of  the money which had been  spent 
As  I  was  saying,  a  doctor  told  Jim  he 
for  his  benefit.
was dosing himself to death,  but the cuss 
“Oh.  yes,”  said  Greeping.  “ It  is  all 
wouldn’t  be advised,  and  was found dead 
put down  in  black  and  white; and  I  have 
in  the  sleeper between  Chicago and  Mil­
a copy  in  my  pocket,”  he added,  pulling 
waukee.  When they  came  to  post  mor­
it out.
tem on  him they found  his blood  turned 
The old  man  glanced  at  the paper  and 
to  water,  his  muscles  ail  gone and his 
then his  wrath  broke out afresh.  “What 
bones  as  soft  as  dough.  He  had  doc­
is this?”  he  cried;  “ whisky,  cigars, din­
tored  himself to death. 
It’s ail nonsense 
ners at the Palmer  House,  miscellaneous 
this dosing  and  doping.  When  a man's
expenses? 
I  don’t  see  any money  spent 
perfectly  healthy----- .  Excuse  me,  but
for me at all.”
I  was  trying  to  rub the wrinkles out of 
“Oh,  but.” said  Greeping,  insinuating­
that  porous  plaster  on  the  small of my 
ly,  “ we  had to treat the boys,  you  know, 
back.  When  a  man’s  perfectly  healthy 
and  pass  around  the  whisky and  cigars 
he  wants to let  himself alone.  Beg par­
so as to get  the information.  The book­
don.  gentlemen,  but this  headache  wafer 
keeper  that  put  yours  up  to  the  new 
was  handed  me  this  morning by  the in­
wrinkle  wouldn’t  have  done  it  if  he 
ventor.  who  wanted  me  to try it  and re­
hadn’t  been  treated.”
port. 
I  haven’t  had  a  headache in  five 
“ But  how  about  this?”  the  old  man 
years,  but  I  always  like  to  oblige  my 
proceeded.  “ These  expenses  seem 
to 
friends.  While I’m about  it  1  might as 
have been incurred  by  a big gang.  There 
well  take  one  of  those  powders for in­
are nearly twice as many  in the crowd  as 
somnia. 
like  a  brick,  and  it 
I  have clerks.  Why  should I pay for  all 
tabes  two  men  to  wake  me  up  in  the 
these?  Did the rest of them get some in­
morning,  but the  doctor is  a good  friend 
formation that  is  going to be valuable to 
If 
of  mine,  and I’ll  try  it to oblige him. 
me?  Did  any  of 
them  get  any  new
ome of you 
I’ve
got  to take  a little something for catarrh 
at that dour.  Haven’t  got  the  faintest 
sign  of  catarrh,  you  know,  but  as  we 
shall  be  crossing 
line  and 
changing climates at  about that hour it’s 
well enough  to be on the  safe  side.”

the  State 

I  sleep 

wrinkles, except eating and drinking with
Oh,  that’s  all  right,”  said  Greeping. 
“ We  took  ’em  along  so  that  the  boys 
would not be lonesome.  You  cannot ex­
pect your clerks to go at the work of get­
ting information  with  any  heart  unless 
they  are kept  cheerful.  We  took  these 
fellows  along  to keep  the boys  in good 
humor.”
The old man  pondered on the situation, 
and  the  more  he pondered  the  more he 
was unable to see the  transaction  in any 
other  light  than  that  of  a  theft.  He 
called  in  his  lawyer  and  submitted the 
case to  him,  but  Greeping  had  seen  the 
lawyer first and  coached him,  so that  in­
stead  of  answering  the  old  man  fairly 
and  frankly,  he  defended  the  thieves. 
But  he  was  still  unconvinced.  He  re­
called the fact  that the  boys  had  asked 
him  at  the  beginning  of 
the  year  for 
money  to spend  in  the  way  the stolen 
funds  had gone, and  that'he had  refused 
it;  and he reasoned that  the  boys  had  no 
right  to steal  his  money,  even  for  his 
benefit,  after he had expressly  told  them 
that  he did  not  want  to be  benefited  in 
that  way.  So  he  decided  to  prosecute 
the  boys, 
the  head  clerk, 
Greeping,  and  took the  m atter into  the 
courts.
The  defense  was  managed  by  the old 
man’s own  lawyer, and  all the arguments 
put forth  by Greeping were rehashed  for 
the obfuscation  of 
the  court  and  jury. 
But the  latter were  just as  dense as the 
old man.  They  could  not  see,  in  spite 
the  plausibility of  Greeping  and the elo­
quent  sophistry  of  the  lawyer,  that  the 
case  was  anything  else  than  a  plain 
steal;  and  so  they  convicted  the  accused 
one and  all.  What the  punishment  will 
be has not  yet been  decided,  but  it  will 
probably  be severe. 
It  came out on  the 
trial  that  some of  the  accused  were old 
offenders,  and  that  the items  of  the ac­
count they  rendered of  their peculations 
did  not  cover more  than  a  tenth  of  the 
amount they  had  actually taken  in  one 
way and another.  The  court  will  prob­
ably  take  this  into  account  in  passing 
sentence.

including 

A  Nashville  collection  agency  uses  a 
black  covered  wagon  on 
the  sides  of 
which are  painted  pictures of  the devil 
in red  and gold.  When  the  rig stands  in 
front of  a man’s  house or  place of busi­
ness,  every one knows the inmate  has se­
cured  a  high  place  on 
the  agency’s 
“ black book.”

A sure way of  getting a debt outlawed 

A  short  bank  account  makes  a  long 

is to pay it.

face.

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The  StraitsviUe  Robbery.

“No medicine  there?”
“ Not  an  iota.  Simply  soda-mints  to 
take the wind off  the  stomach. 
I didn’t 
want  to  brine ’em  along,  but the  doctor 
insisted.  Had to  laugh over the case  of 
that Boston  drummer  who  got smashed 
up on  this  line  the  other  day.  He had 
enough  bottles and  boxes about  him  to 
start  a  country drug  store.  That’s  the 
way  with  four-fifths of the crowd.  They 
four-fifths of the crowd.  They 
a“ Q  “   “ I
are  not  on 
>n  the  road  over a year  before  1 happe“  l°  d!
«i„e  themselves  victim,  of  a  «> " « £ ■ , »
they 
dozen  different  disorders  and  begin  to 
doctor  accordingly. 
instance,  1 
know a feller  in  the  hosiery  line  who— 
excuse me one minute,  gentlemen.  Eight 
drops  twice  a  day on  a lump  of  sugar, 
and  1 don’t want to miss  it.”
“ Remedy  for  anything  in  particular?” 
“ Hardly. 
It’s  a  little  something  the 
doctor fixed  up for the  liver.  Not that I
That  was an  interesting  case that  hap­
need  it  at all,  but  the  liver  is  an  organ 
pened  at  StraitsviUe  recently.  And  in­
which is apt to get  away  with you  if not j struetive,  too. 
looked  after  now  and  then.  As  l was 
The biggest store  in  the  city  was  that 
saying.  I  know  a  feller  in  the  hosiery 
of Populus  & Co.  There  was  really  no 
line  who  starts out of  New  York  with  a 
“Co.,” old  Populus himself being the sole 
regular medicine  chest.  Cost him 832  to 
proprietor;  but  it  went  under  the  firm 
outfit  it.  and  has  to  refill  every 
two 
name.  The  “old  man,”  as  he  was  com­
weeks.  Last  time  I  saw  him  be  had  a 
monly  called,  was  an  easy-going fellow,
list of  thirty-two  ailments and  expected
| and  left his  business pretty  much  to  his
I  don’t I clerks, of  whom  he  had  a  small  army, 
two  or  three  more  next  day. 
want to  misjudge a  fellow man,  but  I’d  Once a year  he  went  over  his  books and 
be  willing to  bet  ten  to  one that  a doctor  accounts,  and  provided  the  money  for 
would  pronounce 
a  perfectly  the next year’s  business;  but the rest of 
healthy  man.  And  I  know  a chap in  the |  the time  he  merely  looked on,  growling
hardware  line  who  is  still  more  of  a j 
occasionally  when  things did  not go just j 
crank.  He 
is—.  Beg  pardon,  gentle­
to please him, but ordinarily taking little 
men.  Any of  you  wish  a nibble?”
notice.
One day,  however, just after his clerks 
had  returned  from  a  vacation— they 
were in  the habit of  taking  vacations  as 
often  as  they  wanted to—he  discovered 
by  the  merest  accident  that  somebody 
had been  robbing  his safe.  He  knew so 
little  about  the  details  of  the business 
that he conld not tell just how much  had 
been stolen; but he knew it  amounted to j 
several  thousand  dollors.  So  he  called 
on  his  head  clerk,  Mr.  Greeping,  and 
asked him if he  knew  anything  about it.
Mr.  Greeping was a bit embarrassed at

“ It looks  like  a  root.  Doctor  recom-! 
mend  it?”
“ It  is a root—golden  seal,  they call it. j 
No,  the doctor didn’t exactly  recommend i 
it,  because I  had  no ailment to be cared, i 
It’s a great stomach tonic,  you know, and 
it’s  a good thing  to  enrich the  blood. 
I 
chew  a bit  about  six  times a day,  but I 
really don’t need  it, of course.  As 1  was 
saying about this  hardware chap,  be is  a 
perfect  picture  of  health,  bat he  imag­
ines  he’s  a  perfect  physical  wreck. 
I 
saw him throw a  200-pound  man  over a

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Acetlcum.................
8®  10
Benzoicum  German. .  65®  75
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Boracic 
...................
Carbollcum..............
25©  35
Cltrlcum..................
52®  55
Hydroehlor..............
3®  5
Nitrocum 
...............
.  10®  12
Oxallcum.................
10®  12
20
Phosphorlum dll......
Salleylieum.............. 1  30@1  70
Sulphuricum............
1%@  5
Tannlcum................. 1 40@1  60
Tartarlcum................
30®  33
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg............
20  deg............
Carbonas  .................
Chlorldum...............
ANILINE.
Black........................ 2 00@2 25
80@1  00
Brows.......................
45®  50
Red............................
Yellow...................... 2 50®3 00

3%@  5
5)4®  7
12®  14
12®  14

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BACCAS.
Cubeae (po  40)........
Junlpenis.................
Xanthoxylum...........
BAL8AMUM.

3*@  40
8®  10
25®  30

Copaiba...................... 42®  45
Peru............................ @1  9J
50®  60
Terabin, Canada---
Tolutan...................... 35®  50

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian__  .........  18
.................... ........  11
Casslae 
Cinchona F lav a........ ........  18
Euonymus  atropurp.. ........  30
Myrica  Cerifera, po... ........  20
Primus Vlrglnl........... ........  12
Qulllala,  grd.............. ........  10
Sassafras  ................... ........  12
........  15
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)
EXTRACTUM.

P Glycyrrhlza  Glabra... 24®  25
PO........... 33®  35
Haematox, 15 lb. box.. 11®  12
13®  14
I s ..................
14®  15
)4S............
16®  IT
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Carbonate Precip........  @  15
Citrate and Quinta__  @3 50
Citrate  Soluble........... 
(3k  80
FerrocyanldumSol—   @  50
Solul  Chloride........... 
(3k  15
Sulphate,  com’l...............9@  2
pure............  
(3k  7

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Arnica.......................   1868
Anthemls...................  Al
Matricaria

50®  65

70J.1A.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-

nlvelly.............  25® 

...................  18®  50
28
35®  50
25
.....................   8® 10

“  Alx. 

Salvia  officinalis,  54s
UraUrsi 

and  )4s.............  15® 

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SUKKI.

picked__
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Acacia, 1st 
®
2d 
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“  3d 
&
sifted sorts...
“ 
®
20 
80 
60®
“ 
po..................
50®
60 
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...
“  Cape, (po.  20)...
®®
12 
50
Socotri. (po.  60).
Catechu, Is, Ofs, 14 548,
1
16)............................
®
60 
Ammonias...................  55®
35 
ABsafcetida, (po. 85)..  30®
55 
Bensoinum...................  50®
55 
Camphor»..................   50®
Buphorblum  po  ........  35®
10 @2 50 
■ Gal banum............
Gamboge,  po........
0®  7b 
®  3.1 
Gualacum, (po  35)
®1  15 
Kino,  (po  1  10)...
@  80 
M astic.................
Myrrh, (po. 45)....
®  40
Opil  (po  3  85)............2 7f@2 85
Shellac  ......................  35®  42
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth...............   40@l 00

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Absinthium.........................  25
Eupatorium.... ..................   20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
“  V ir.........................  25
fine.......................................  30
Tanacetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25
XA6NE8L&.
Calcined, Pat...........
55®  60 
Carbonate,  Pat........
20®   22 
20®  25 
Carbonate, K. &  M..
35®  36
Carbonate, Jennlng5
OLEUR.
Absinthium................ 3 50®4 00
Amygdalae, Dole........  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae___8 00®8 25
A nisl........................... 1  ?u@l 8«
Auranti  Cortex...........2 30®2 40
Bergamll  ...................3  25®3 50
Cajlputi.................... 
60®  65
Caryophylli...............   75®  80
C edar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodll...............   ®1  60
Clnnamonll...............   90®i CO
Cltronella..................   ®  45
Conlum  Mao..............  35®  65
Copaiba  ....................  80®  90

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Cubebae........................   @ 
Exechthltos..................   2 50@2 75
Erlgeron.........................2 00@2 10
Gaultherla...................... 2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......  ®  75
Gossipii,  Sem. gal......  70®  75
Hedeoma  ...................2 ic@2 20
Junlperi.......................   50®2 00
Lavendula...................  go@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
Picis Liquida, (gal.,35)  10®  12
Rlclnl ......... 
1  22@1  28
Rosmarlnl................. 
75@1 00
Rosae, ounce...................6 50@8 50
Succlnl.......................   40®  45
Sabina.........................   90@1 00
Santal  ....................... 3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................   50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  ®  65
TiglU..........................   @  90
Thyme.......................  40®  50
^  o pt.................  ®  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20
B1 Carb.......................   15®
bichromate................  13®
Bromide.................... 
40®
Carb............................  12®
Chlorate  (po  23®25)..  24®

POTASSIUM.

 

 

Potassa, Bltart, com...
Potass  Nitras, opt......
Potass Nitras..............
Sulphate  po...............   15®

Gentiana  (po. 12)......
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)...................
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__

Iris  pi ox (po. 35@38). 
Jalapa,  pr.................

Sanguinaria, (po  25)..

Símil ax, Officinalis,  H 
M
lae, (po. 35)...........
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
dus,  po....................
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) 
German...

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Zingiber  j.

Anlsum,  (po.  20)........  ®  15
Aplum  (graveleons).. 
If®  18
Bird, la...................... 
4®  6
Carni, (po. 18)..............   10® 12
Cardamon........................1 uo®l 25
Corlandrum.................   10® 12
Cannabis Sativa.........   4® 
5
Cvdonium....................   75®1 00
Chenopodlum  ............   10® 12
Dlpterix Odorate........ 2 25@2 50
Foeniculum..............  ®  15
Foenngreek,  po.........  
6®  8
L in i..........................   4  ® 4M
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 8)....  3)4®  4
Lobelia.........................  aS® 40
Pharlarls Canarian__  3)4®  4)4
Rapa............................. 
e®  7
Slnapls  Albu............ 8  @10
Nigra...........  11®  12
gPIRlTUB.
Frumenti, W..D.  Co.. 2 00®2 50
D. F. R .......1 75@2 00
 
1 25@1  50
Juniperis  Co. O. T....1  65@2 00
“ 
.............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  B........ 1  75®2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli........... 1  75®6 50
Vini Oporto.....................1  25®2 00
Vini  Alba....................... 1 25@2 00

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

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SYRUPS.

Accacia...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferrl  Iod.............................   50
Auranti  Cortes....................   50
Rhel Arom..........................   50
Simllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Scillae..................................   50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunac  vtrg.........................  50

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tinctures.

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Aconltum Napellls R .........   60
F .........   50
.  “ 
Aloes...................................   go
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica................................   50
Asafoetida.................................0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
„  “  ,  Co..........................   50
Barosma..............................  50
Cantharides.................  "  ’  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
„   “ 
Co.........................  75
Catechu...............................   50
Cinchona............................... 50
Co........................  60
Columba.............................   50
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba.................................... 50
Digitalis.................... 
50
Ergot....................................  50
Gentian............................ 
50
Co............................  60
_ 
ammon.................!!.  60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..................................   75
“  Colorless..................    75
Ferrl  Chlorldum................ 
35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrb..................................... 50
Nux  Vomica....................  
50
OpH.....................................  gs
“  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor.........................2 00
Auranti Cortex....................   50
Quassia...............................  50
Khatany....................... 
'  50
Rhel......................................;  50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
„ 
Co..............  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Stromonlum.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian..............................[  50
Veratrum Veride.................  50

“ 

“ 

‘ 

“ 

“ 

MISCELLANEOUS.
1. 

German 8  ® 

Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F.
>•  4j>.

•  28® 30
32® 34
-  2 * 0 3
3® 4
Aunatto....................
•  % 60
Antimoni, po............
5
“ 
et Potass T
55® 60
tlpyrln.................
@1 40
Antlfebrln................ |
@ 25
Argenti  Nitras, ounce
3  @ 55
Arsenicum................. 
5®
5® 7
Balm Gilead  Bud
38® 40
Bismuth  S.  N .. . . ___
.2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, ()(b
@  11
12;  ms,  14)..............
Cantharides  Russian
PO.......................... ;
@1  00 
Capale!  Fructus, af...
@  26 
@  28 
Ipo.
@  20 
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)
10®   12 
Carmine,  No. 40.........
@3 75 
Cera Alba, S. & F ......
50®  55 
Cera Flava.................  sä®
40 
Coccus  .....................   “‘J
40 
Cassia Fructus...........  Q
25 
Centrarla....................  @
10 
Cetaceum...................  ®
40 
Chloroform................  60S
63
squlbb* ..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Cast........1  35@1  60
Chondrus...................  20®  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  &  W  15®  20
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  ......................
Creasotum__
®
Greta, (bbl. 75)
prep......
5®
preelp..............
9®
Rubra................  ®
Crocus......................  40®
Cudbear......................  @
Cuprl Sulph...............   5 @
Dextrine....................  
io@
Ether Sulph................  7f ~
Emery,  all  numbers
_   “ 
Po...............
Brgota, (po.)  75......
Flake  white...........
Galla.......................I
Gambler......................7  _
Gelatin,  Cooper..........  @  70
French...........   40®  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 & 10.
Less thau box 66%
Glue,  Brown..............  9®
“  White................  13®
Glycerins...................14)4®
Grana Paradisl....................  @
Humulus....................   25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite
@
“  C or___
@
Ox Rubrum
@  90 
Ammonisti.. 
@1  00 
Unguentum.
45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  64
Jchthyobolla, Am..  ..1 25@1 50
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine, Resubl...........3 80@3 90
Iodoform....................   @4 70
Lupulln......................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  70®  75
Macls.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
drarg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Manilla,  S. F ............   60®  63

1%)............................ 2)4® 4

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

@ 8

“ 

“ 

Ä 

C.  Co............... . 

Morphia,* S. P. & W.  2 
S.  N. Y. Q.  &
2
Moschus Canton........
Myrlstica, No  1 ........
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..
Os.  Sepia....................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co...  ......................
Picis  Llq, N..C., )4 gal
doz  .........................
Picis Liq., quarts......
pints.........
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80).. 
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..
Piper Alba, (po g5)__
Pix  Burmin...............
Plumb! A cet..............
Pulvis Ipecac et opil.. 1 
Pyre thrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......
Pyrethrum,  pv...........
Quasslae....................
Qulnla, 8. P. & W......
S.  German__
Rubla  Tinctorum......
Saccharum Lactls pv.
Salacln.......................1
Sanguis  Draconis......
Sapo,  W......................
,r  M.......................
“  G.......................

20®2 45
10®2 35 
@  40 
65®  70 
@  10 
20®   22
® 2  00
@2  00 
®1  00 
@  85 
@  50 
@  1 
®  3 
@  7
14®  15 
10@1  20
®1  25 
20®  30 
8®   10 
29®  34 
20®  30 
12®  14 
20®   22 
75@1  80 
40®  50 
12®  14 
10®   12 
@  15

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture........  ®  20
Slnapls...».................  @  18
“  opt..................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  ®  S5 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  1)4®  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............  @  5
Soda,  Ash..................   3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   ®  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
*'  Vlni  Rect.  bbl.
.  ..7........................2 23@2 33
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal......1 4fl@l 45
Sulphur, Subl............   2)j@ 3
“  Roll..............  2  @ 2)4
Tamarinds.................  8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae..............45  @  48
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph...............   7®  8

OILS.

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

Bbl.  Gal
70
SO
45
40

“ 

paints. 

Linseed,  boiled.........  40 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............  
75 
SplrltsTurpentlne__  33 
bbl. 

11
43
80
39
lb.
Red  Venetian..............154 2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars... 
2®4
“ 
Ber........1M  2@3
Putty,  commercial__ 234 2)4®3
“  strictly  pure......2)4  2%@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
65®70
70@75
Green,  Peninsular...... 
Lead,  red....................  e?i®7
“  w hite...............   6M®7
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff.....................   .. 
140
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
Paints......................1 00@1  20

VARNISHES.

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

Importers and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils  Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole A goats for the  Celebrated

SWISS  HILLS  PREPARED  PUNTS.

N lie of He DriHsIs’ Sito

We are Sole Proprietors of

Weatherly's  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

We Have m  Stock and Offer a  F u ll laine of

WHISKIES,  BRANDIES,

GINS,WINES, 

.

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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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

G R O C E R Y   P R IC E   C U R R E N 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.

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

gross 
6 00
7 (10

5 508 00 

7  E0
6 00

BAKING  POWDER. 

Acme.
K lb. cans, 3 doz...............
2  lb.  “ 
2  “  ..............
1  “  ...............
lib .  “ 
Bulk.................................
Arctic.
J4 lb cans 6 doz  case.......
........
V4 lb  “  4 doz  “ 
1  lb  “  2 doz  “ 
........
5  lb  “  1 doz  “ 
........
Fosfon.
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case 
16  “ 
Red Star, la 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“
cans —
h lb  “ 
........
l   ft 
..........
“  
Teller’s,  54 lb. cans, doz 
14 lb.  “
1 lb.  “
Our Leader, K lb cans.
14 lb cans —
...
1 lb cans 
Or. Price’s.

“  2  “ 

p'MC&S
CREAM
Sakimg
Powder
WliBBrBCS®

Dime cans
4- 
0 oz 
8-oz 
12 oz 
16-OZ 
214-lb 
41b
5- 
10-lb

45 
85 
1  00 
10

1  10 
2  00 
9 00
.  80 
.2 00 
40 
75 
1  40 
45 
85 
1 50 
45 
75 
1  50
per doz
95 
oz 
.1  40 
2 00 
.3  90 
.5  00 
12 00 
18  25
lb 
41  80

.2  «0 

1  00 
2 90

F ru it« .
Apples.
3 lb. standard......
York State, gallons 
Hamburgh.
Apricots.
Live oak.....................  
1  75
1  75
Santa Cruz................. 
Lusk’s ........................  
1  75
1  75
Overland..................  
Blackberries.
B. A  W....................... 
90
Cherries.
Red.......... .................  1  1031 20
1 75
Pitted Hamburgh 
. . .  
W hite......................... 
1  50
Erie............................ 
1  25
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
1  10
Erie............................ 
California..................  
1  70
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common....................
Peaches.
Pie............................
Maxwell....................
Shepard’s ..................
California..................
Monitor 
...............
Oxford  ......................
1 20
... 
Domestic. 
2 10
...  
Riverside.
Pineapples.
Common..................... 1  00@1 30
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
2  50
2 75
grated........ 
Booth’s sliced............  @2
grated...........  @2

Gages.

Quinces.
Common.................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
1 30
Red  ...........................  
Black  Hamburg.........  
1 50
1  25
Erie, black 
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................  
1  25
Hamburgh................. 
12
1  2
Erie............................ 
Terrapin....................... 
1  10
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............  
1  00
Corned  beef  Libby’s..........1  85
Roast beef  Armour’s..........1
Potted  ham, *4 lb.....................1 40
tongue, *4 lb..................1 35
chicken. K lb.........

“  *4 lb.................  85
“  K lb...........  85
Vegetables.

Meats

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

Peas.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Corn.

Hamburgh  strlngless..........1

French style.......2 25
Limas  ................1  35
Lima, green..............................1 40
soaked......................   65
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1  35
Bay State  Baked................. 1  35
World’s  Fair  Baked........... 1  35
Picnic Baked........................1  00
Hamburgh  ......................  . 1  40
Livingston  Eden.....................1 20
Purity 
................................
Honey  Dew.........................1  40
Morning Glory...................
Soaked............................... 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat............ 1 35
early J u n e .......
Champion Eng.. 1  50
petit  pols............1 75
fancy  sifted___ 1 90
Soaked................................   75
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp's  marrofat......... 1  10
early -June...... 1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  35
French................................ 2  15
French............................ 17@22
Brie...............................   ...  90
Hnbbard............................. 1  25
Hamburg.............................1  40
Soaked................................   85
Honey  Dew.........................1  50
E rie................ 
1  35
Tomatoes.
Hancock...................................1 05
Excelsior 
.........................
Eclipse................................
Hamburg.............................
Gallon 

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

3 75

“ 

.................. 
CHOCOLATE.
Baker’s.
...... 

CHEESE.

23
German Sweet.. 
37
Premium— .................. 
Breakfast Cocoa......... 
43
Amboy.......................  @12*4
Acme..........................  @12*4
Lenawee....................  @12*4
Riverside...... 
........ 
Gold  Medal  ..............  @10*4
Skim...................  .  .. 
Brick.
Edam  .......
Leiden-----
Limburger 
Pineapple.. 
Roquefort..

12
6® ‘
11
1  00 
23
@10
@25
@35

“ 

,r
“

BLUING. 

Soz 
“ 
“  pints,  round......
No. 2, sifting box 
“  No. 3, 
“  No. 5, 
“  1 os ball  .............
“ 

BATH  BRICK 
2 dozen In case.
90
English......................
Bristol..................................  90
Domestic.............................   70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals..............  3 60
..............6 75
9 00 
2 75 
4 00 
8 00 
4 50
Mexican Liquid, 4 oz........  3 60
8 oz......... 6 80
“ 
BROOMS,
do. 2 Hurl............................1  75
No. 1  “ 
.......................... 2 00
No. 2 Carpet.......................  2 25
No. 1 
“ 
.......................  2 50
Parlor Gem.......................... 2 75
Common Whisk................. 
90
Fancy 
.................1  15
Warehouse........................ 3 25
Stove, No.  1.......................  125
1  50 
1
85 
1  25 
1  SO

Rice Root Scrub, 2  row... 
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row...
Palmetto,  goose...............
BUTTER  PLATES 
Oval—250 in crate.
No.  1.......................
No.  2 
......................
No.  8 .......................
No.  6........................
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes............   10
Star,  40 
9
Paraffine  ..........................   10
Wlcking  ............................ 24

“ 
BRUSHES.

.  60 
.  70 
.  80 
.1  00

CANDLES.

“ 

 

 

CANNED  GOODS.

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  1 lb.................1 20

“  2 lb...................... 1 90
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Standard, 8 lb......................2 25
Standard,  1 lb....................   85
21b.................... 161
Lobsters.

Star,  1  lb.................................2 50
“  2  lb.................................8 50
Picnic, 1 lb................................2 00
“ 
21b................................2 90

Salmon.
“ 

Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb..................... 1 25
2  lb................... 2 10
Mustard.  2 lb ....................2 25
Tomato Sance,  2 lb................. 2 25
Soused, 2 lb..............................2 25
Columbia River, flat........... 1 80
taHB................ 1 65
Alaska, Red..............................1 25
pink.............................. 1 10
Kinney’s,  flats......................... 1 95
Sardines.
American  Kb................   @ 5
As................ 6*4® 7
Imported  Kb.....................10@11
*4«.....................15@16
Mustard Ms......................  @7
Boneless..........................  
21
Brook, 8 lb............................... 2 50

“ 
•• 

Trout

“ 
“ 

*• 

3 2 1
@24
@14

domestic 

Bine Label Brand.
......
Triumph Brand.

Sap Sago.........
Schweitzer, Imported 
CATSUP.
2 75 
Half  pint, 25 bottles
4 50
Pint 
Quart 1 doz bottles
3 50
Half pint, per  doz  ............1  35
Pint, 25 bottles...................4 50
Quart, per  doz  ..................3 75
5 gross boxes  ............... 40@45
351b  bags........  ... 
@3
Less quantity 
Pound  packages.........6*£@7

CLOTHES  PINS.
COCOA  SHELLS.

............   @3*4

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

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

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

“

24 If
23 9f
24  4Í

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add lie. per ib. for roast 
lng and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.
Package.
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX
Bunola  .................... 
.
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case 
Extract.
Valley City *4  gross 
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross...
“ 
tin 
CHICORV.
B ulk.............................
Red
Cotton.  40 f t.. 
50 ft 
 
60 « .  ___ 
70 ft......  
80 ft....... 
60 ft......... 
72 ft 
4 doz. In case.

• 
* 
‘ 
• 
e 
CONDENSED  MILK.

per doz.  1  25
“ 1  40
1  60
175
190
90
1  0U

CLOTHES  LTNES.

 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

1  50
2 50

“

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

COUPON  BOOK».

“Tradesman.1
*  1, per hundred.......
-------
“ “ 
* 2, 
t 3,  “ 
“ 
.  ...
“  “ 
• 5, 
........
*10,  “
““Superior.”
*20. 
“ 
*  1, per hundred.......
* 2 , 
.............
* 3 ,  “ 
............
8 5, 
*10,  “
*20. 

“ “ 
“ 
“  “
“  
“

Universal.'

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs.....................................3 25
Half  kegs  ...........................1  90
Quarter  kegs....................... 1 10
1 lb  cans.............................   30
*4 lb  cans............................  18
Kegs......................................4 25
Half  kegs.............................2 40
Quarter kegs.......................  1 35
' lb cans..............................  34
Kegs 
............................. 11  00
..  ...................5  75
Half  kegs 
Quarter kegs........................3 00
60
lb  cans. HERBS.
Sage..
Hops.

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

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

lb. palls.

30

@  55 
@  80

LICORICE.

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

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

“ 

MATCHES.

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

..........  

MINCE  MEAT.

3 doz. case......
6 doz. case......
12 doz. case

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  ................. 
•  •  *1  75
Half  gallon...............   • • 
1  40
76
Q uait.................... 
P int.................................. 
45
Half  p in t.......................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon............................  7 00
Half gallon......................  4  75
Q uart...............................  3 75
Pint..................................   2 25

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

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

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

New Orleans.

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

14
16

20
30

18
22
27
32
40

PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200  connt.. 
@5 00
Half bbls, 600  conut..  @3 00

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

6 00
3 50

Small.

No. 1,6...........................
No. 2, 6........
3 50
4 00
XX  wood, white.
  5 00
No. 1, 6*4........................
No. 2, 6*4
Manilla, white.
6*4  ....... ..........................

1  65 
1  50
1  35 
1  25
1  00 95
Coin.
Mill  No. 4......... 
100
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
100 lb. kegs..................  
3*4
Barrels.................................300
G rits..... 
350
Lima  Beans.
Dried........... 
3*@*
 
Domestic, 12 lb. box —  
55
Imported....................10*4@-  *4
Barrels 200 .......................  4 60
Half barrels 100 ...............   2  40

Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 

Farina.
Hominy.

Oatmeal.

 

 

Pearl Barley.

Kegs..................................  2*4

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bu.............................  1 45
Split  per l b ...............   2*4@3
Barrels  180.................  @4  60
Half  bbls 90..............  @2 40
German.............................   4*4
East India..........................   5
Cracked.............................. 

Wheat.

Sago.

5

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

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

5*4

Smoked...................... 10*4@12

Halibut.

Herring.
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

70 

Holland, white hoops keg 
bbl
..  ..............

Norwegian 
Round, *4 bbl 100 lbs.......   2 65
*4  “  40  “  ......   1  25
Scaled............................... 
17
No. 1,  100 lbs...........................11 00
No. 1,40 lbs.......................   4 7i
No. 1,  10 lbs............................  1 30
No. 2,100 lbs............................8 50
No. 2, 40 lbs......................... 3 71
No. 2, 10 lbs............................  1 05
Family, 90 lbs.........................  6 00

Mackerel.

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

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

“ 

Sardines.
Trout.

No. 1, *4 bbls., lOOlbs...........6 00
No. 1 *4 bbl, 40  lbs  ............
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   80
No. 1,81b  kits....................  68

Whltefish.

Family 

No. 1

*4 bbls, 100 lbs.......... *7 00 *2
*4  “  40  “ .......... 3  10  1 40
10 lb.  kits..................  90  48
81b.  “ 
............... 7  75  41
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

Bonders’.

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

Regular
Grade
Lemon.
doz
2 oz  ...  S 
4oz......  1  50

 

 

 

 
 
 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

1 1, per hundred..............#3 00
*2, 
$ 3, 
 
S 5, 
*10, 
...................  6  00
*20. 
7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over........................5  per cem.
Sou  “ 
1000 
“  

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

1«

 

COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
[Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from *10  down. |
20 books......................  *100
2 00
3 00 
100250
6 25 
500
10 00 
17 50
1000

CREDIT  CHECKS.

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

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

CRACKERS.

Butter.

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

Soda.

Soda,  XXX.....................
Soda, City............................  7*4
Soda,  Duchess....................  8*4
Crystal Wafer....................  10
Long  Island Wafers 
........ 11
8. Oyster  XXX....................  6
City Oyster. XXX.................  6
Farina  Oyster....................6

Oyster.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure....................  &
Telfer's  Absolute................   3
Grocers’............................ 15@2

6
10*4

11

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.

“ 

Peaches.

Apples.
quartered 
Apricots.

Snndrled. sliced In  bbls.
“ 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags........
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes......................
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags.......................
251b. boxes.....................  9
Peeled, In  boxes.........
Cal. evap.  “ 
 
“ 
Pears.
California In  bags 
Pitted Cherries.
Barrels—   ...................
50 lb. boxes...................
25  “ 
...................
Prunelles.
30 lb.  boxes..................
Raspberries.
In  barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
......................
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

In  bags.....  10*4

“ 

“ 

8

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.

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

“ 
“ 

Peel.

25  “ 
25  “ 

“ 
“ 
Raisins.

3*4
In  *4-bbls.....  3 \
In less quantity —  

Foreign.
Currants.
Patras,  In barrels...  
“ 
|  “ 
4
Citron. Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  20
Lemon 
10
Orsnge 
11
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes.  @  9 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
@9
Valencia, 30  “ 
8
Prunes.
California,  100-120................ 7
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  7|
80x90 
.. 8
7(x80 
8*4
60x70 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“
Turkey..................—
Silver 
........................
Sultana...............................
..................
French,  60-70 
70-80....................
80-90__ 
___
90-10  ....................
ENVELOPES.
XX rag. white.

No. 1, 6*4 
No. 2, 6*4  ........................   1  60

...............   1

“ 
“ 

Regular 
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz  ....81  20
4 oz.........2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz........81 50
4 oz.........3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
I 2 oz....... *1 75
14 oz.........3 50

Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
1  20
2 oz regular panel .7 5  
...1  50 
2 00
4   OZ 
«oz 
...2 00 
3 00
No. 3 taper..........1  35 
2 00
No. 4 taper..........1  50 
2 50

“ 
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PIPES.

“  T. D. full connt  .. 

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

4 00
3 25

48 cans In case.
Babbitt’s ........................  
Penna Salt  Co.’s 
. . . .  
RICE
Domestic.
Carolina bead  ..................   6
No. 1.....................5*4
No. 2....................  5
Broken  .............................   4

“ 
“ 

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

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THE  MICHIGAN  TT? A  T V F H R T V r   A   1 S T .

18

Thompson & Chute Brands.

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

“ 

2 25

SUGAR.

The  following  prices  repre­
sent the actual selling prices in 
Grand Rapids, based on the act­
ual cost in New  York,  with  36 
cents per 100 pounds added  for 
freight.  The  same  quotations 
will not apply to any townwhere 
the freight rate from New York 
is  not  36  cents,  but  the  local 
quotations will, perhaps, afford 
a better criterion of the  market 
than to quote New York  prices 
exclusively.
Cut  Loaf............................ $6 30
Powdered........................... 6  23
Granulated.........................5  98
Extra Fine Granulated...  611
Cubes ..................................6 23
XXX X  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.............................  
No 14..................................  4 36

 

  4 86

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels...............................  22
Half bbls.............................24
F air.....................................  19
Good....................................  25
Choice..................................  30

Pure Cane.

SWEET  GOODS

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

40 gr.. 
50 gr.

VINEGAR.

81 for barrel.

@8
@9

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

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SUN CURED.

BASKET  FIRED.

F air...............................  @17
Good.............................   @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust............................ 10  @12
F air...............................   @17
Good..............................  @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust.............................10  @12
F air............................. 18  @20
Choice............................  @25
Choicest........................   @35
Extra choice, wire leal  @40
Common to  fall...........25  @35
Extra fine to finest___50  @65
Choicest fancy............ 75  @85
@26
Common to fair.......... 23  @30
Common to  fair.......... 23  @26
Superior to fine............30  @35
Common to fair...........18  @26
Superior to  fine...........30  @40
F air............................. 18  @22
Choice..........................24  @28
Best.............................40  @50

OOLONG. 
IMPERIAL.

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

YOUNG HYSON.

GUNPOWl/KR.

TOBACCOS.

Flue Cut.
Pails unless otherwise
Bazoo.........................
Can Can.....................
Nellie  Bly.................. 27
Uncle ben...................21
Hiawatha  .................
Sweet Cuba...............
McGlnty....................
“  % bbls..........
Dandy Jim.................
Torpedo.....................
In drums__
Yum  Yum  ...............
1892............................
“  drums................. 

“ 

noted
@30
@27
@24
@2260
34
27 
25 
29 
24 
23
28 
23
22

Root  Beer  Extract.
“ 

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

SPICKS.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Allspice—   ........................10
Cassia, China in mats  ......   7
Batavia In bund__ 15
Saigon In rolls........33
Cloves,  Amboyna................32
Zanzibar..................12
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................75
“  No.  1........................70
“  No. 2....................... 60
Pepper, Singapore, black__10
“ 
white...  .20
shot......................... 16
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Allspice............................... 15
Cassia,  Batavia..................18
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
•* 
Zanzibar................18
Ginger, African...................16
K  Cochin..................  20
Jam aica................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia......................7i
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 16
“  white.......24
“ 
“ 
Cayenne................20
Sage.................................... 20
•‘Absolute” in Packages.

“ 

 
SAL  SODA.

%s  %s
Allspice......................  84  155
Cinnamon...................  84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  155
Ginger,  Jam aica......   84  1 55
“  African...........  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Pepper.......................   84  155
84
Sage..................... 
Kegs.................................  
1%
Granulated,  boxes..............  1%
A nise.........................  @12%
Canary, Smyrna.........  
Caraway.................... 
Cardamon, Malabar... 
Hemp,  Russian.........  
Mixed  Bird  .............. 
Mustard,  white  ........ 
Poppy......................... 
Rape.......................... 
Cuttle  bone...............  
STARCH.

6
10
90
4%
5%
10
9
6
30

SEEDS.

Corn

 

“ 

“ 
“ 

SNUFF.

 
Gloss.
 
 

20-lb  boxes.........................  5%
40-lb 
5%
1-lb packages.....................5%
3-lb 
5%
5%
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  3%
Barrels............................ 
  3%
Scotch, in  bladders............ 37
Maccaboy, in jars...............35
French Rappee, In Jars......43
Boxes....................................5%
Kegs, English....................... 4%
100 3-lb. sacks......................... 12 25
60 5-lb.  “ 
2 00
28 10-lb. sacks........................  1 85
2014-lb.  “ 
2 25
24 31b  cases.....................   1  50
56 lb. dairy In linen  bags. 
32
28 lb.  “ 
drill  “  16  18

SALT.
 
 

SODA.

 
 

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

“ 

“ 

56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks 

75 

Higgins.

Soiar Rock.

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

Common Fine.

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

70
70

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s ...........................  5%
DeLand’s ............................  5%
Dwight’s ........................—   5%
Taylor’s...............................5

SOAP.
Laundry.

 

“ 

Allen B. Wrlsley's Brands.

Dingman Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

Old Country,  80  1-lb...........3 2'
Good Cheer, 601 lb...................3 90
White Borax, 100  % lb........ 3 65
Concord.............................  3 45
Ivory, 10  oz........... 
  6  75
6  oz...........................4 00
Lenox 
............................  3 65
Mottled  German................. 3  15
Town Talk.......................... 3 25
Single box...........................3  95
5 box lots, delivered.........   3 85
10 box lots, delivered........3 75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands 
American  Family, wrpd..$4 00 
plain...  3 94
N.  K.  Fairbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  4  00
Brown, 60 bars.................... 2 40
80  b a rs...................3 25

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

Acme.................................  4 Oo
Cotton Oil............................ 6 00
Marseilles.........   ..............  3  95
Mafter   ........................   .  4 35

“ 

“ 

Plug.

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

 

“ 

splint 

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ willow cl’ths, No.l  5 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

shipping  bushel..  1  15
full  noop 
.. 1  25
25
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3 25
(JO
“ 
No.2 4
75 Standard,  per  lb......
“  No.3 4
“  H.H............
Twist  ........
15
“ 
Pails..................................  3
50 Boston Cream.........
Tubs,  No.  1........................ 13  „„ .
Tubs, No. 2......................... 12 001
Tubs, No. 3......................... 10 50

Cut  Loaf.  . 
Extra H.  H

INDURATED WARE.

33
27
39
26
38
34
40
32

STICK  CANDY.
Cases

... 

8%
8%

Bbls
6%
6%
6%

7%
7%
7%
8%

Smoking.

Catlln’s  Brands.

Kiln  dried...........................17
Golden  Shower................... 19
Huntress  ........................... 26
Meerschaum....................... 29
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy........................40
Stork  ............................3Q@32
German............................... 15
Frog 
.............................   33
Java, %s foil.......................32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................18
Banner Cavendish..............38
Gold Cut  ............................ 28

Scotten’s Brands.
 

Warpath................  
15
Honey  Dew......................... 26
Gold  Block................. 
  30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Peerless........  .....................26
Old  Tom..............................18
Standard........................  
22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade...........................41

Brands.

Leidersdorfs Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle  Sam.....................28@32
Red Clover...........................32
Tom and Jerry............... 
25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Buck Horn..................... 
30
Plow  Bov...................... 30@32
Corn  Cake...........................16
HIDES  FELTS  and FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay as  fol-

lows:
HIDB8.
Green.......................
232%
Part Cured...............
@ 3
Full 
...............
@ 3%
Dry...........................
4 @ 5
Kips, green  .............. 2 @ 3
“  cured...............
@ 4
Calfskins,  green......
3 @  4
cured  __ 4 @ 6
Deacon skins............ 10 @25

" 

“ 

No. 2 hides % off.
PELTS.

Shearlings................. 10 @  20
Lambs 
.................... 15 @  %

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow....................... 3 © 4%
Grease  butter  .........
Switches....................
Ginseng.................... 1 5@2 50

1 @ 2
i%@ 2

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

WHEAT.

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

MEAL.

Bolted.......................
Granulated...............
FLOUB.

Straight, in  sacks  ...
“  barrels...
“ 
Patent 
“  sacks....
“  barrels...
“ 
Graham  “  sacks...
“ 
Rye 
...
MILL8TUFF8.

“ 

54
54

1  40
1  65

.  3 50
..  3 75
.  4 50
.  1  70
.  1  70

Bran..............113 50
Screenings__  13 00
Middlings......  14  50
Mixed Feed...  18  no
Coarse meal  .  18 09

Less
Car lots quantity
#14 00
13 00
15 00
18  50
19 00

CORN.

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

OATS.

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

...43
.. .45

...32
. . . »

No. 1 Timothy, car lots. ..11  «0
No. 1 
.13 00

“ 

HAT.
ton lots

WOODENWARE.
Tubs,No. 1..................  600

“  No. 2........................  5  50
“  No. 3........................  4  50
1 30
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop—  1  50
Bowls, 11 Inch...................
....................  
“ 
90
13  “ 
1  25
“  15  “  ......  
“  17  “ 
....................   1  80
“ 
2 40
19  “ 
 

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

Baskets, market..........  35

21 

“ 

 

PROVISIONS.

 

LARD.

19 00

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

quotes as follows:
Mess.............................................................
Short c u t..................................................  
Extra clear pig, short cut............................
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat  back........................................   .  20 0C
Boston clear, short cut...............................
Clear back, short cut....................................21  00
Standard clear, short cut. best....   .........  
21  oo
Pork Sausage.... ..............................................9
Ham Sausage..................................................  9
Tongue Sausage...............................................   9
Frankfort Sausage 
.......................................   8
Blood Sausage.................................................   6
Bologna, straight............................................   6
Bologna,  thick................................................  6
Headcheese...................................................... 7
Kettle  Rendered............................... 
 
Granger...........................................................16%
Family................................................... 
8a
Compound......................................................  8
50 lb. Tins, %c advance.
20 lb. pails, %c 
10 lb.  “  %c 
5 lb.  “  %c 
31b. 
"  1 c  
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs....................... 8 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................   7 50
Boneless, rump butts.................................... 13  50
Hams, average 20 lbs....................................... 11
16 lbs...................................... 11%
12 to 14 lbs...............................11A
picnic...................................................  8%
best boneless...............  
1U6
Shoulders......................................................   8%
Breakfast Bacon  boneless..............................15
Dried beef, ham prices....................................10%
Long Clears, heavy..........................................
Briskets,  medium.  ........................................

smoked  heats—Canvassed or Plain.

light..............................................   11%
Butts................................................................  9
D. S. Bellies...................................................  12%
Fat Backs........ 
...........................................  10
Barrels............................................................. 8 00
Kegs..............................................................   1 90
Kits, honeycomb  ..........................................  65
Kits, premium..............................................   55
Barrels............................................................22 00
Half barrels........................  
11 GO
Per pound............ 
11
 

PICKEED  PIGS’  FEET.

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

BEEF  TONGUES.

TRIPE.

“ 
'• 
“ 
“ 

“
“
“

“ 
“ 

„ 

 

 

 

FRESH  BEEF.

FRESH  PORK.

Carcass...................................................5  @ 6
Fore quarters........................................  @4%
Hind quarters........................................ 6%@ 7
Loins No. 3 ...........................................8!4@U
Ribs..................... 
7%@i0
Rounds................................................. 5%@ 6
Chucks...................................................  4  @4%
Plates....................................................   @4
Dressed.................................................  
8
L oins....................................................  
11%
8
Shoulders  ....................... ..................... 
Leaf Lard..............................................  
11
Carcass...........  ....................................5  @6
Lambs.................................................... 5%@ 6
Carcass..................................................5%@ 7%
8%
Pork, links............................................. 
Bologna................................................  
6
Liver....................................................
8%
Tongue ................................................
Blood...................................................
Head cheese........................................
Summer................. ..................... ........
Frankfurts...........................................
FISH  AND  OYSTKR8.

SAUSAGE.

MUTTON.

VEAL.

12

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as  follows 

FRESH  FISH

@ 8 

oysters—Cans.

@  9 
@  9 
12% 
@15 
@  5 
@ 12%  
20 
10 
@ 9 
@ 8 
12 
15
2G@25
@35
@30
@25
@23
@20
@18
@16

.............................................
Whlteflsb 
Trout 
.................................................
Black Bass........ 
..........................
Halibut...................................................
Ciscoes or Herring................................
Bluefish.................................................
Fresh lobster, per lb..............................
Cod.........................................................
No. 1 Pickerel........................................
Pike.......................................................
Smoked White......................................
Red  Snappers........................................
Columbia River  Salmon.......................
Mackerel................................................
Falrhaven  Counts................................
F. J. D.  Selects.....................................
Selects...................................................
F. J. D.  ..................................................
Anchors................................................
Standards..............................................
Favorite.........................  ......................
1  75
Extra Selects........................... per gal..
1  50 
Selects...................................................
1  00
Standards............................................
Counts...................................................
2 20 
Scallops..................................................
2 00 
1  25 
Shrimps  ................................................
1 25
Clams...........................................  .......
Oysters, per  100  ................. ..................1  25@1  59
Clams, 
@1 00

shell goods.
.............................

oysters—Bulk.

“ 

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

MIXED  CANDY.

 

 

8

“ 

11

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

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

Bbls.
..6
-.6
..6%
. .7
. .7
its

Royal..............
Nobby............
English  Rock. 
Conserves__
Peanut Squares................. 
“
French Creams..........................
Valley  Creams.........................
Midget, 30 lb. baskets...............
“ 
Modern, :-0 lb. 
.................
fancy—In bulk

Palls.
7
7
7%
8
8
S
8
9
10
13
__   s
..................  8
Palis.
Lozenges, plain..............................
10
printed.........................................   li
Chocolate Drops............................................   11%
Chocolate Mouumentals...............................  13
Gum Drops......................................................   5%
Moss Drops....................................................   S
Sour Drops......................................................   8%
Imperials.......................................................   10
Per Box
Lemon Drops.............. 
55
Sour Drops..............•.......................................55
Peppermint Drops............................................60
Chocolate Drops...............................................65
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................90
Gum Drops....................................  
40@50
Licorice Drops..............................................1  00
A. B. Licorice Drops.......................................80
Lozenges, plain................................................60
65
Imperials......................................................... 60
Mottoes..................................... 
70
Cream Bar........................................................55
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams.................................. 85@95
Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams........................................l 00
String Rock.....................................................65
Burnt Almonds.... ........................................1 00
Wintergreen  Berries.......................................60
CARAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
 
No. 1, 
51
 
No. 2, 
28
No. 3, 
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Stand up, 5 1b. boxes...................................
Small................................... ..................J  50@1  75
Medium................................................2 0t©2 50
Large....................................................
Messina, extra fancy 360. 

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BANANAS.

“ 
“  extra 
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“ 
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“ 
“ 
“  50-lb.  “ 

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“  Maiorias, 360..
“ 
fancy 360  ..........................
fancy 3wo  ..........................
choice 360...........................
choice 300..........................
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, fancy layers, 61b.......................
“  10ft......................
“  14ft.....................
“  20ft......................
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box......................
.....................
NUTS.

5 00
6 00 
4 00 
4 00 
3 50 
3 50
@ 12%
@ 12%
@14
@ 7% 
Persian. 50-lb.  box.....................   4%@ 5%
@16% 
@15% 
@17 
@10% 
@11% 
@13% 
@ @13 
@13 
@12 @13 
@4 50
@ 6 
©  7% 
@ 7% 
@  5 
@  6%

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

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CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

@ 6%

@  6 

PEANUTS.

LEMONS.

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3 
2 
3 

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FRUIT JARS.

6 doz. In box.

Pints............................................................3 5 50
Quarts..........................................................   6 00
Half Gallons................................................  8 oo
Caps.............................................................   2 50
Rubbers.....................................  ................ 
45
No. 0 Sun.........................................................  45
No. 1  “  .........................................................  50
No.2  “  .........................................................  75
Tubular..........................................................   75

LAMP BURNERS.

LAMP CHIMNEYS.  Per bOX.

“ 
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“ 
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La Bastie.

“ 
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Pearl top.

First quality.
“ 
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XXX Flint.
“ 
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No. 0 Sun......................................................... 1 75
No. 1  “  ......................................................... 1  88
No.2  “  ......................................................... 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.......................................2 10
“ 
No. 1 
.....................................2 25
“  ...................................... 3 25
No. 2 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.................................. ...2 60
No. 1 
“  .......................................2 80
No. 2 
“  .......................................3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled....................8 70
No.2  “ 
....................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4 88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.......................1 25
No. 2  “ 
....................... 1  50
No. 1 crimp, per doz.......................................l  35
No.2  “ 
........................................1  60
No. 0, per  gross..............................................  23
................................................  28
No. 1, 
No  2, 
................................................  38
................................................  75
No. 3, 
Mammoth, per doz.........................................   75
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................   06
“ 
“  % gal. per doz......................  60
Jugs, % gal., per doz....................................  70
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal................................   07
Milk Pans, % gal., per doz..........................   60
“ 
.........................  72
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal..........................   07
Milk Pans, % gal..........................................  65
........................................   78

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STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.

LAMP WICKS.

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

I 

it 

free 

in  his 

One  of 

the  success 

w m . h . Maher in  Trade. 

it;  he  had 
the 

line  he 
the 
price; 

thought  I  understood 

The W ell-Informed Clerk. 

Trade
j being  a  well-informed  clerk. 
journals are one medium  through which
A firm  in an enterprising  town  in  New  he  can  inform  himself,  and they  ought 
York  lately advertised for a clerk to take | to  induce  him  to  try  further  fields  of 
charge  of  its  grocery  department,  and i reading.
among the  qualifications  necessary  was I  One of  the best  salesmen  that  I ever 
this: 
!  met was one who always  carried an edu-
“One  who  has  taste  for  reading  the  cational  book  in  his  gripsack;  when  he 
trade journals with a view to  being  well  had to wait for a delayed train  or had an
hour to  spare at  the  hotel,  he  had  his 
informed.’
book  in his hand.
It  would  seem  as  if  every  merchant 
1  found  him a pleasant  companion and I 
and every clerk  would  be  only  to glad to 
so did his customers.  He was  respected 
avail  himself  of  every help  in  the way 
and liked  by  all  who  knew him  and de­
of  education,  and  particularly  so  in  the 
served 
that  came  to  him 
direct  line  of  his  business  or  employ­
later.  He  was  a well-informed man;  in­
ment.
terested  in  everything  worth  a  man’s 
One source of information  is the trade 
thought,  with  no time  to waste  over bil­
journal,  wherein  are  gathered  items  re­
liards or bar-rooms or worse things.
garding the goods  handled  in  the  special 
that 
the  high  salaried  men 
branch of  trade to  which  the  journal  is 
called  on  me  from  New  York  had  the 
devoted,  discussions  upon  trade matters, 
faculty of picking up the latest story and 
suggestions  as  to  trade  points,  drawn 
repeating 
to  perfection.  He  was 
from  the  experience of  others,  and  gos­
equal  to many  men  on the stage.  But if 
sip as to the world of  business.
I  asked  for specific information  about an 
It matters  not  how  thoroughly one  is 
not 
could 
article 
posted as  to his own  trade  and locality, 
and 
give 
samples 
there is never an issue of his  trade  jour­
he 
there  was 
could 
nal that  will  not  contain  that  which  he 
tell  a  good  story  and  was 
in 
can  read  with  interest  as  well  as  profit.
paying  for  refreshments,  if  you  would 
If this  is  true of the merchant how  much 
have them,  but  beyond this  he had  noth­
more generally it  will  apply  to clerks!
ing.
I  was not  surprised  when  his employer 
told me that  he  would  be  allowed  to re­
¡Said  he: 
sign  at the  end  of  the  year. 
“ He  sells 
less  each  trip.  Everybody 
likes him  and  speaks  well  of  him,  but 
each time they see  him they buy less  of 
him.”
the  reason. 
Stories are good  in  their way;  cigars  and 
wine  influence some,  but,  after  all,  men 
think,  "business  is  busines,”  and  they 
want  to  buy of  a man  who  understands 
his goods from A to Z.
It  is  for  this  reason  that  merchants 
are  looking  around  either  for  well-in 
formed  clerks,  or for those of such frame 
of  mind  that 
inform  them­
selves as  they grow in  the  business. 
If 
the desire is there the  rest will  follow.
Twenty-five  years  ago  a  young  man 
worked  in  a stove store next door to  me. 
He  worked hard,  too,  for he  had to run 
stoves out and in,  black  stoves,  set them 
up,  and  do  anything  and  everything 
needed to be done.  Shops in those  day 
kept open till 8 o’clock every evening, and 
were opened  very early in  the  morning. 
But this young man  found time to study 
up on everything  connected  with  stoves 
and  tin.  By  and  by,  with  a  very  few 
hundred  dollars  and  some  credit,  he 
opened a shop  to make  tin  cans,  and to- 
day he is at  the head of the  largest  fac 
tory of  this kind  in  all the world.
He read  and  studied  “ with  a  view to 
being  well  informed,”  just  as  the New 
York  advertisement  wants  a young man 
to do,  and  his  information  became  valu 
able capital.
The young  man of  to-day  should take 
courage and press on  in  the same direc­
tion.  Well-informed  men  are  needed 
always will  be  needed,  and  will  always 
get to the top.

It is  the  one  encouraging  feature  to 
the  ambitious  young  poor  man  of  the 
present that  his competitors  in  the ranks 
are so superficial,  so anxious  to shine to­
day,  and  so  antagonistic  to  hard  work.
A  large  number,  a  large  proportion,  are 
“ graduates”  of  a  school  system  that 
teaches a smattering of everything,  from 
drawing  to  Greek,  and  teaches  nothing 
thoroughly.  The  “ graduate”  has a fine 
sense of  his  own ability  and importance 
and  rests upon  this.  His place in  “ soci­
ety”  is  of  much  greater  importance  to 
him  than  bis  position  in  the  store,  and 
so much  of his time is  taken  up  with  his 
social  duties  he  has  no  hours  to spare 
for  reading either trade journals or any­
thing else.
There is usually,  in  the  same store,  a 
young  man  who  is  too  insignificant  to 
have a place  in  “society.”  His mind is 
too  warped  to  enjoy  the  small  gossip 
that occupies the mouths  of bis more ex­
pansive companions,  and his  business oc­
cupies his  thoughts  during  all  his wak­
ing hours. 
lie is the one clerk  who  sees 
the  weekly 
trade  journal;  not  infre­
quently  he  digests  its  contents  better 
than  does  his employer;  he  thinks over 
the things  he reads and  assimilates them 
—makes  them his own.  and in due course 
of time is referred  to  by all  around  him, 
for this or that  bit of  information.

As a salesman  he is  able to explain  in 
an 
intelligent  manner  why  things  are 
thus and  so.  Buyers  see that  he  knows 
his business and they  like  to  trade  with 
him.
When goods  are called  for  that are not 
in  stock,  or  may  never have  been kept in 
stock,  be  knows  about  them,  can  show 
where they  are weak or  strong,  and  can 
advise with  his  employer  as  to whether 
it  would  be  wise  to  add  them 
the 
stock or not.
His  greater  knowledge  of  everything 
about  the goods  helps him  to remember 
Owosso,  Oct.  10.—A  meeting  of  the 
prices better,  and is  hourly  consulted  by 
| Michigan Board of  Pharmacy for the pur 
his associates  about  points  in which they 
pose of examining candidates  for  regis
are  uncertain.  W hatever  changes  are 
made in  the force,  he  is sure of  his place I  tration  will  be  held at  Lansing,  Tuesday 
until the day  comes  when  he has  a store  i  and  Wednesday,  November 7 and 8,1895
The examination  of  both  Registered 
of his own, or  is given  an  interest  in  the 
Pharmacists  and  Assistants  will  com 
firm.
mence on  Tuesday at  9 o’clock  a.  m.,  at 
It is not  the brilliant  fellow  that suc­
which  hour all  candidates will  please  re 
ceeds.  When  he does it is the exception.
port at  Representatives’  Hall.  The  ex 
It is the plodding man,  who is  thorough, 
careful,  intelligent.
amination will occupy two days.
When  I was  a  salesman  on  the  road 
Owing to the action  of the Legislature 
and,  upon  entering  the  store,  saw the 
which caused the  Railway Association  of 
trade  journal  unopened,  circulars  and 
Michigan to change  its  rules  relative to 
reduced rates for assemblies, special  rail­
price lists unread. 1  always knew  1  might 
ask  good  prices  with  safety.  On  the 
road rates for this  meeting could  not  be 
contrary,  where I  saw  the  trade  paper 
secured.
open  at  the desk 1  felt  my  way carefully 
to discover what  prices I  might get.

Notice  of  the  Lansing  Meeting. 

Stanley  E.  Pabkjll,  Sec’y.

they  will 

to 

To-day  the  trade  journal  has a much 
Philadelphia Cash Grocer:  The tenth
more distinctive field  than  it  had  twenty I anniversary of that excellent paper,  T iie
Michigan  Tradesman,  finds it a lusty, 
years ago;  it is less a mere price list and 
vigorous  youth,  giving  promise  of  an 
more  an 
intelligent  friend.  No  mer­
equally vigorous manhood.  The Trades­
chant can afford to  discard  its  help,  and 
man 
is  admirably  conducted  and  de­
no clerk should  miss the  opportunity of 
serves the  prosperity  it  is evidently en­
going to the  school that it  conducts  for 
joying,  and more,  too.
his benefit.  But this  article  is not  writ­
ten to  increase  the  circulation  of  trade 
journals;  it  is  to emphasize the benefit of

Use Tradesman Coupon  Books.

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The first inhalations  stop  sneezing,  snuffing 
coughing  and  headache.  This  relief  is  worth 
the  price  of  an  Iuhaler.  Continued  use  will 
complete the cure.

Prevents and cures

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Sea  Siclcness
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The  cool  exhilerating  sensation 
ing its use is a luxury to  travelers.  Convenient 
to carry in the pocket;  no liquid to drop or spill; 
lasts a year, and costs  50c  at  druggists.  Regis­
tered mail 60c, from

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Three  Rivers,  Mich.

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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adapted to all  work  where  a  more  eco 
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221  E. Main  St., Kalamazoo, Mich.

Our entire  line  of  Cotton  Worsted  Pants  on 
hand to be sold at  cost  for  cash.  If  interested 
write for samples.
Milwaukee Office:  Room  502  Matthew  Build 
Ing.
Our fall line of Pants from $9 to 142 per  dozen 
are  now  ready.  An  immense  line  of  Kersey 
Pants, every pair warranted not  to  rip.  Bound 
swatches of  entire line sent  on  approval to the 
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

1 5

Progression  in  Milling  Processes. 

W ritten  fo r T h b T radesman.

When I  was a boy on the  farm  one  of 
the most  important  duties  was  “goin’  to 
mill.”  This duty  devolved  upon  pater 
familias  whenever 
the  bottom  of  the 
“flour chist” became  visible,  and, like all 
domestic duties—such  as  going  for  the 
doctor—had to be attended to at once,  re­
gardless of circumstances.  The  weather, 
condition of  the roads,  or  press of  other 
matters,  cut  no  figure—when  the  com­
mand  was  given  it  had  to  be  obeyed. 
About two and one-half bushels of wheat, 
with  the  usual  accompaniment of cockle, 
drips and rodent  deposits,  was the regu­
lation  “grist.”  To  forget 
the  “ bran 
bag”  was  to necessitate a  violation  of or­
ders to  keep 
the  “ middlin’s”  separate. 
The “ grist mill”  might  be  only  a  mile 
distant,  or it  might  be  ten  miles away; 
if there  was no  grist  ahead,  it  was con­
sidered  a stroke of  good  luck—that  is,  if 
the  water  was  not 
too  low,  the  water 
wheel out of  repair,  the  stones  passing 
through  a  “ pecking”  operation,  or  the 
miller on  a  “spree.”  Whenever  two  or 
three grists  were ahead,  it meant  an  in­
crease of  the  lie-swopping  and plug-to- 
bacco-chewing crowd in  the store over on 
the corner.  The  reason  the grists were 
not larger, thereby reducing the time lost 
in  going to mill,  was the  fear on  the part 
of the maternal  head  of  the  house that 
the flour  might  become  stale  before  it 
could  be used up.  The wheat was taken 
from the same bin  each time,  with about 
the same  mixture of  foreign  matter—ex­
cept the portion contributed by the afore­
said  rodent,  which  naturally  increased 
as  the  bin  became  lower  and  another 
harvest  approached—yet  no  two  grists 
gave 
the  same  degree  of  satisfaction. 
When  the  bread  “raised”  all  right and 
was light  and  spongy,  the  extra quality 
of  the  wood  used  in  baking  was given 
credit for it;  but  when  the mass was un- 
risable and  depressed—like the business 
of the country  at  the  present  time—and 
the bread  was sour  as swill and  black  as 
the ace of  spades,  the  miller  was cursed 
for  it.  This  made  the  millers of  forty 
years  ago  reckless,  and 
the  only  way 
they could get even  was to steal  half  the 
grist and  get on  a  “spree”  occasionally. 
It was in  those  days  that  the old  philos­
opher lived  who said “ that bread was the 
staff of  life,  but  whisky  was the staffer.” 
In  those  times  whisky  was  required  to 
counteract  the  injurious  effects  of  the 
vile impurities  which, unavoidably,  were 
incorporated  in  the  “ staff of  life.”  My 
father was a miller of  the olden time, and 
a good one,  too.  He could  dress  a stone 
as neatly  and  as  quickly as any  miller of 
his  time,  and  he  could  make  as  good 
flour,  after  he  bought  his  “ smut”  ma­
chine, as  that made in  any  country  mill 
at that time.  One  day.  while  at dinner, 
a grist arrived at the  mill.  His partner, 
who had  joined  him  a short  time previ­
ously,  and  who  knew nothing  whatever 
of  milling,  undertook  the  job.  He  let 
the  water on  and  dumped  the  wheat in 
the hopper.  When  the  last of  it disap­
peared  from sight,  he  “raised  the  lever” 
and proceeded  to  capture  the grist.  But 
it wasn’t in  the  usual  place,  much  to his 
surprise,  and,  after  searching  in  vain, 
he started off  for father,  who was a mile 
away,  to  come  and  tiud  that grist.  The 
disgusted  farmer  was  left  in  charge  of 
the mill.  The grist was found  in a dirty 
bin  in  a  dark corner in  the  basement  of 
the mill  where  it had  been  deposited  by 
some  dis-arrangement  of  the  old-fash­
ioned conducting spouts or carriers.

What  a  wonderful  change  has  come 
about in  the milling  processes since that 
time! 
Indeed,  milling,  as a science,  was 
unknown  forty  years  ago.  Up  to  that 
time the  principle  involved  in  the pro­
cess  of  grinding  grain  remained 
the 
same from  the  time  that Sarah  used her 
mill  when  told  by  her  lord 
to  do  the 
thing handsomely and in  a huiry  for the 
strangers—that  is,  by  the  use  of 
two 
stones,  the  lower one  stationary and the 
upper one in motion. 
I say the principle 
remained the same—the mode of applica­
tion  marked the  only  changes made dur­
ing thousands of  years.  At first the  up­
per stone  was  kept in  motion  by  seizing 
it  with  both hands as Sarah  did,  and  pre­
cisely as the  natives of South  Africa did 
when  Dr.  Livingston  visited  them.  The 
next  step in  advance  in  the  application 
of the  old  principle,  was  the  quern, or 
handmill,  still  in  use  in  the  Shetland 
Isles and  other  places.  The  old  quern 
scarcely differs  from  a pair of  the more 
modern mill  stones,  except  in  the stones 
being small enough  to allow of the upper 
one being turned  by  hand,  instead of  by 
wind,  water  or steam  power.  The  rock 
from  which  the  mill  stones of  our  fath­
ers’ time were made,  was a form of silica 
like flint in  hardness,  but  not so  brittle. 
This rock  is found  in  abundance  only  in 
the  mineral  basin of  Paris  and  adjoining 
districts,  and  belongs  to  the  Tertiary 
formation.  The  highest  degree  of  im­
provement  reached  by  the  old  principle 
of  milling  was 
the  patent  process  of 
dressing the stones  by means of  a pecul­
iar kind of diamond;  the application of a 
current  of  cold  air  for  the  purpose  of 
keeping  down  the  temperature  of  the 
millstones,  and 
introduction  of  a 
patent disintegrator which ground  wheat 
by  means  of 
iron  discs 
made to revolve in opposite directions so 
as 
to  grind  the  wheat  by  percussion. 
The  “ sm utter”  and  crude  fanning-mill 
then in  use prepared  the  wheat  for  the 
hopper,  but the result, whatever the con­
dition or quality of  the  wheat,  was sim­
ply  flour of one grade,  containing  impur­
ities the extent  and  nature  of  which no 
one ever dreamed of at that time.

two  vertical 

the 

To-day,  milling  has become  a science. 
Wheat  is  not now  thrown  into a hopper, 
“ dirt  an’  all,”  like  apples  are  thrown 
into  a  cider  mill,  and  then  passed  be­
tween  a couple  of  stones,  run  through a 
bolt and called  flour.  Scientific investi­
gation  has discovered  the  fact  that  the 
proper  way  to convert wheat into flour is 
by  a process of gradual  reduction.  Mod­
ern  mechanical  ingenuity is equal  to  the 
most adqanced thought,  and  scientific de­
ductions  are  no  sooner  made than  ma­
chines  are  brought into existance  to give 
them practical  exemplification.  Hence, 
we find  all of  our merchant  mills equip­
ped  with  a full set of  patent rolls.  This 
modern  roller  system of  gradual  reduc­
tion,  with its  scalping,  grading,  purify­
ing,  sifting and  separating processes  re­
move  all  impurities  and  gives  us  sev­
eral grades of  flour at the same time and 
from the same  grain.  The  complicated 
machinery in  use  in  modern  milling pro­
cesses requires the most  skillful manipu­
lation,  and  herein  lie  the chances for the 
modern m iller’s success.

Most people  now  understand that there 
is a  vast  difference  between  grades  of 
flour, not only in purity and  color,  but  in 
actual bread-producing  properties. 
It is 
not only  more conducive  to good  health, 
but it is actually more economical on the 
part of the consumer,  to  buy  the higher

grades of flour.  For instance,  a grade of 
flour costing $4 or $5 a barrel  is cheaper, 
from an  economic  point  of  view,  as  a 
rule,  than  a grade  costing  from SI  to S3 
less.  The higher  grades  not  only  con­
tain more gluten, consequently absorbing 
more  water  and  making  much  more 
bread  to the barrel,  but  the  bread  itself 
is sweeter,  richer and  much more  whole­
some.  Bread  is  the  cheapest article of 
diet,  and  if ;it  be  made of the  very  best 
material,  a  larger  bulk  is  not only ob­
tained,  but the consumption is increased, 
thereby decreasing the cost of living and 
adding to the comforts of  life.  This is a 
fact  which  has  been, demonstrated,  over 
and over again,  and one which should  be 
thoroughly  understood  by  the  masses of 
the  people,  especially  at  the present time 
when  the cost of  living  is  a  question of 
vital  importance  and  when  the price of 
wheat is so unusually low.

There is  a wonderful  discrepancy  be­
tween  wheat at 59  cents  per  bushel and 
bread at S cents per loaf! 
It  strikes  me 
that  this inconsistency is  so glaring that 
it  may  safely be called  an unreasonable 
inposition on  the part of  those  responsi­
ble for it. 
In a future article I will have 
something to say on  this  matter.

E.  A.  Ow en.

Any  half-educated,  badly-raised  yonng 
man  can play the  hoodlum;  but  it  takes 
a  certain  amount  of  culture,  breeding 
and talent  to  play the gentleman. 
It is 
always  pitiful  when  the  weeds of a boy’s 
character  are  allowed  to  crop over the 
precious grain  that is in  him.

n t j n n p   PECKHAM’S  CROUP  REMEDY 
v I U / U r   is  the  Chit iren’s Medicine for 
Colds,  Conglis.  Whooping-Cough,  Croup, 
Pneum onia,  Hoarseness, 
the  Cough  of 
Measles, and kindred complaints of Childhood. 
Try Peckham’s Croup Remedy for  the  children 
ana be convinced of its  merits.  Get a bottle to­
day,  you  mav  need  it  tonight!  Once  used  al-
WHOOPING  GOUGH
“My customers are well  pleased with  that  in­
valuable  medicine—Peckham’s  Croup Remedy. 
I recommend it  above  all  others for children.” 
H. Z. Ca 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. II. 
P h il l ip s , Druggist, Girard, Kansas.

In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee 
R'ys  offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  be­
tween Grand Rapids and Toledo.
v i a   n . ,   l .  &   n .  b ’y .

Time Table in effect May 14, 1893. 

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

VIA D., 8.  H. & M.  R’Y.

Return connections equally as good.

W.  H.  Be n n ett, General Pass. Agent, 
Toledo, Ohio.

Orand  Rapids  & Indiana.
Schedule  in  effect Aug. 27, 1893.

T RA IN S  GOING  N ORTH.

Arrive from  Leave going 
North.
7.20 a m
4:15 p m
10:50  p m

South. 
For M’kinaw.Tr&v. City and Sag. 6:50 am  
For Cadillac and Saginaw.........  2:15 p m  
For Petoskey &  Mackinaw.........8:10 p m 
From Kalamazoo...........................9:10 a m
From Chicago and Kalamazoo..  9 40 pm  
daily.  Others trains daily except Sunday.
does not run to Traverse City on Sundays.

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

TRA INS  GOING  SO U TH .

Arrive from  Leave going 

North. 
I  For  Cincinnati.............................   6:30am 
For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 
For Fort Wayne and the  East..  11:50 am  
For  Cincinnati.............................   5:15 pm  
For Kalamazoo  &   Chicago.......10 .40 p m 
From Saginaw...............................  11.50 a m
From Saginaw...............................  10:40 p m
Trains leaving south at 6:00 p m and  11:20 p.  m. runs 
daily;  all  other trains  dally except Sunday._________

South.
10:05 am
2:00 pm
6:00  pm
11:20 p m

Chicago via 6 . R.  & I. R. R.

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

11:20 p m
7:05 am
10:05  a m train  through  coach  and  Wagner  Parlor
11:20 pm   train  daily,  through  coach  and  Wagner 

10:05 a m 
4:10 p m  

2:00 pm  
9:10 pm  

Sleeping Car.

7:00 am

10:00 p m
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
6:50  am
4:00  p  m  through  Wagner  Parlor  Car.  10 00  p  m 
train  daily,  through  Coach  and  Wagner  Sleeping 
Car.

4:00 p m 
9:40 p m 

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
7:00 am  
11:25 a m 
5:40  pm  

From Muskegon—Arrive
9:40 am
5:25 pm
Sunday train  leaves  for  Muskegon  at  7:45 a  m, ar­
riving at  9:15  a  m.  Returning,  train  leaves  Muske 
gon at  4:30 p m, arriving at Grand  Rapids at 5:50 p m.

4.40 p m

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

C. L. LOCKWOOD,

CHICAGO 

— — g4! 1893
A N D   W E S T   M IC H IG A N   R ’Y .
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids...........  7:30am  1:25pm *11 :?0pm
Ar. Chicago................   1:55pm 6:50pm  *6:30am

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

TO AND PROM MUSKEGON.

VIA  ST.  JOSEPH  AND  STEAMER.

TRAVERSE CITY CHARLEVOIX  AND  PETOSKEY.

Lv.  Chicago.................7:45am  4:55pm  *11:35pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............ 2,30pm  10:20pm  *6:10am
Lv. Grand  Rapids....................1:25pm  +6:30pm
Ar. Chicago  ............................. 8:3>>pm  2:00am
Lv. Chicago 9:30am... Ar. Grand Rapids 5:25 pm
Lv. Grand Rapids.......   7:30am  1:25pm  5:45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........  9:20am  2:30pm  5:25pm
 
Lv. Grand  Rapids ..  7:30am 
2:45pm
 
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:10pm 
7 .“-Spin
.........  
Ar. Traverse City__  12:40pm 
.........   8-05pm
Ar. Charlevoix.......  
3:15pm 
 
10:45pm
11:15pm
Ar.  Petoskey 
 
3:45pm 
Ar.  Bay View  ..........   3:55pm   
ll:2>pm
Arrive  from  Bay  View,  etc.,  1:00  p.  m.  and 
10:00 p. m.
Local train to White Cloud  leaves Grand Rap­
ids 5:45 p. m., connects  for  Big Rapids »nd Fre 
mont.  Returning  arrives  Grand  Rapids  11:20 
a. m.
PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.
ToChicago.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  5:0oam  1:30pm 
...........
tExcept Saturday.  Other trains 
week days only.

♦Every day. 

 
 
 

DETROIT, 

JULY 30’ 1893
L A N S IN G 7 &   N O R T H E R N   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
Lv. GR 7:20am 4:15pm  Ar. G R.ll :50am 10:40pm 

TO AND FROM  SAGINAW, ALMA  AND ST. LOUIS.

TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL &  HASTINGS R.  K.

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

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

•Everyday.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DbHAVEN, Geu.  Pass’r Ag’t.
Michigan (Tenthal

“  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  55 p m
6 (10 a m  ..  .*Atlantie 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 pm, arriving  at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen 
trai Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A. A l m q u ist, Ticket Agent,

Union Passenger Station.

■ E T R O IT ,  G R A N D   H A V E N   &  M IL ­

Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Avi.

W A U K E E   R a ilw a y .

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

EASTWARD.

tNo.  14 tNo.  16|tNo.  18|*No.  82
6 45am
10 45pm 
7 40am 
12 27am
S 25am 
1 45am
900am
2 40am
10 50am
6 40am
11 32am 
7 15am 
10 05am
5 4  am 
12 05pm
7 30am 
10 53am
5 37am 
11 50am
7 00am
WESTWARD.

10 20am  3 25pm
11 25am  4 27pm
12 17pm  5 20pm 
1 20pm  d 05pm
3 45pm  8 00pm
4 35pm  8 37pm
3 45pm  7 05pm
5 50pm  S 50pm 
305pm  8 25pm
4 05pm 1  9 25pm

1  00pm
2  10pm

Trains Leave  l*No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13. tNo. 15
4 55pm 10 20pm 
G’d Rapids,  Lv 
6 00pm 11 2Gpm 
G’d Haven,  Ar 
6 20am  6 30am 
Milw’kee Str  “ 
6 00am 1...........
Chicago Str.  “

7 00am
8 20am
4 00pm
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  Parlcr  Buffet 
Westward— No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner 

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

»Daily.

J as. Ca m pb e ll, City T’cket Agent.

23 Monroe Street-

BLOOKER’8
DUTCH
COCOA.
CHOICEST,  PUREST,  BEST. 
Lemon  X  Wheeler  Company,

A g e n ts,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

The  D rug  M arket.

L .  M.  M i l l s ,  Sec’y.

its  deliveries,  and 

ment to the inter-state  commerce bill,  to 
allow  railroads  to  grant  concessions of 
mileage and baggage to members of such 
organizations.  The  railroads  are  will­
ing to do this so soon  as they can  legally 
is  on  record  at 
and  our  Association 
Washington 
as  having  accomplished 
most  effectual  work  in 
this  direction, 
during the  past four  years of  our exist­
ence,  through  the  successful  campaign 
planned  by ex-President Peake,  who,  by 
the  way,  has  never  carried  a  pound of 
excess  baggage  in  his  life,  but  did the 
work in  fraternal  regard  for  his  more 
unfortunate fellow  travelers and our As­
sociation. 

THE  MICHIGAJN  TRADESMAN
very dull,  and,  even with  small receipts, 
presents no signs  of  immediate  revival. 
Other grades range  24@28c.
Cheese is quite firm  and prices at home 
are so high that exporters are not buying 
to  any  extent.  For  fancy  fully cream 
State  ll% c is obtained,  and  for  colored, 
10Î4C.  These  prices  are  even  below 
those said to be obtained at  the factories.
Michigan  eggs are  w orth  23c  and  this 
is  also  the  price  of  other  good  W estern 
stock.
Canned  goods  in  demand.  Tomatoes 
are on  their  way  up  again,  and  bid fair 
to reach,  if  they  do not  pass,  last year’s 
prices.  They  are  quotable  at$1.02%@ 
1.10  per dozen for New Jersey  and  Mary­
land pack.
Sugar  is  now  only  about  a  week  be­
hind  in 
the  great 
American public  is to  be congratulated. 
Price unchanged.
The meeting of the Wholesale  Grocer’s 
Association  was  held  on  Oct.  4.  Presi­
dent  G.  Waldo  Smith,  in  his  annual  ad­
dress,  speaking of  the  limited  price sys­
tem,  said  that  wholesalers  must  main­
tain it or they  must  fail,  or,  at least,  sell 
goods at unremunerative figures.  While 
much  has been  accomplished  in this di­
rection.  there still  remain  such goods as 
Royal Baking Powder and Baker’s Cocoa, 
the  manufacturers  of  which  refuse  to 
grant  a  limited  price  and  rebate,  and 
they  must  be  labored  with.  He  sug­
gested that the members of  the Associa­
tion have  uniform terms  and  have them 
printed on  their  bills, offering discounts 
for prompt payments and charging inter­
est on  payments  deferred.  There ought 
to  be  more  sociability',  he 
thought, 
among the members  in  the  way of stated 
dinners,  where  all  could  become better 
acquainted.  Complaint  was made  at the 
meeting that some  retailers  were in  the 
habit of  clubbing  together  and  buying 
sugar in  100-barrel lots,  which  they then 
divided among  themselves  at prices less 
than  the  limited  prices  established  by 
the refiners. 
It  was agreed to secure the 
services of a man  to look the  matter up. 
Mr.  Smith  was  re-elected  President  of 
the  Association for the ensuing year.

The  only change of  note  this  week  is 
the advance of  4c per gallon  in  alcohol.
The Petoskey  City Bank  will soon  be 
merged  into the  First  National  Bank of 
Petoskey, with $100,000 capital.  Messrs. 
Curtis  and  Wylie  will  hold  the  larger 
part of  the stock.

Thursday  and  Friday,  October 26 and 27.

16

N ew s  from  the  M etropolis— Index  o f 

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

Special Correspondence.

the  M arkets.

N ew   Y oke,  Oct.  14—Contrary  to the 
usual custom very  little  money is  being 
taken  from  this  city  by  the  South and 
West to move the cotton and wheat crops, 
and,  on  the  other  hand, vast  quantities 
are coming here  from those sections. 
It 
is  needless  to  say  that  the  recent  per­
formance of the  Senate  has not increased 
the  respect  for 
that  honorable  body 
among  business  men  here  and one can 
hear  something  that  sounds  very much 
like curses not  loud  but  deep  on  every 
hand.  “ vVe  are  marching  straight  to 
national bankruptcy”  said  one,  and the 
sentiment seems to  prevail  pretty  gener­
ally.  Trade  has  received  a setback  ap­
parently,  and  many  are in the  “dumps.” 
Travel to  Chicago  is simply immense, 
and surely no one would think a  national 
stringency was prevailing.  Sleeping car 
tickets  are  sold  on  nearly  all  lines for 
two  weeks ahead  and  everybody is bound 
to see Chicago or die.

The deciding  race  between the yachts 
was  as  full  of  interest  as  were the  re­
ports from Congress.  A boat  was chart­
ered  by a lot of  Produce Exchange  mem­
bers,  at §3 each,  and the interesting  part 
of 
this  was  that  though  the  members 
waited,  the  boat  did not come and they 
are now  wondering  whether  it  was  the 
famous  Flying  Dutchman  they  paid  for.
Your  correspondent  has  seen  the  fa­
mous Aladdin oven,  invented by  Edward 
Atkinson,  and  has  sampled 
the  food 
cooked therein  by  the  heat  of  an ordin­
ary lamp.  There  was  a  piece  of  roast 
beef  weighing twelve  or  fifteen pounds, 
fish,  sausages,  puddings,  bread,  etc. 
Every article,  including  the  huge  piece 
of meat was done  to  a turn,  and nothing 
could excel  the toothsomeness  of  each. 
The sausages and  bread  were perfect; in 
fact,  they must have  been  revelations to 
most of those present,  and it seems won­
derful 
to  think  that  all  this  could  be 
done with about a quart  of  oil,  costing 
three cents.  The old  range  has  got  to 
go.  When we stop  to consider the enor­
mous waste of heat  there  must be in  the 
burning  of  coal,  we  wonder  it  has  not 
been more carefully  studied  before.  The 
latest style of oven is a home-made affair, 
and can be made  by anybody.  A person 
of ordinary  intelligence  can  get  *up  an 
excellent meal,  whether  he  (or she)  has 
had  any  previous  experience  or  not. 
This  has  been  proven  over  and  over, 
hard  as it seems to believe it.
The  country  around  New  York  for 
many  miles  is  being  riddled  by trolley 
car tracks,  and New Jersey,  in  particu­
lar,  is  having them  placed  in every direc­
tion.  This is bound to exert quite an influ­
ence on the trade of  many  country mer­
chants,  and,  as  freight cars  will  follow 
in  time,  it is certain  that many will come 
to  the  city  to  trade  who have hitherto 
patronized  “ home  talent”  exclusively. 
At  the same time it will take out of  the 
city many of the inhabitants of the  over­
crowded parts,  and so  the exchange may 
be about even,  if not in favor of the coun­
try dealer.
Michigan  celery  begins  to  be seen in 
the  big  markets, 
and,  although  not 
strictly  prime  as  yet,  it  is a  portent of 
what we may expect  in  the near  future. 
The best celery  from the Wolverine State 
is worth about 60 cents  per  dozen  roots.
Cranberries  are  becoming  plentiful, 
and  are  worth  84.75@6  per  bbl.  The 
crop promises to  be of  ample dimensions 
this season.
Potatoes are in  good  supply  at §1.75@ 
2.50 per  bbl.,  and  this  seems  to  be  the 
outside  price.  Many  that  are  coming 
will  not grade as first-class.
The apple  crop  will  be short,  but just 
now this town  is full of  ’em.  They  are 
quotable  at  82.75  for  Kings;  $2.25  for 
Greenings,  and  about  $2@2.25 for Bald­
wins.
Dried fruits are  very dull of  sale,  with 
the exception of  apples,  which  are held 
at 10@10% cents for fancy; peaches,  15@ 
18c;  cherries,  S@10e;  raspberries,  17@ 
18%;  California  apricots,  firm,  and  at 
present prices are payings good profit to 
growers.
Butter remains at 30c for  best Western 
and New  York  ¡State,  but  the market  is

y Q   CLOTHING  MERCHANTS.

We  have decided  not to carry over any of our fall stock. 

It will  pay you  well  to 
see our line of ready-made clothing of every description;  none better, few as cheap; 
and these reduced prices place us lowest of all, as every vesture must be closed out. 
Write our Michigan representative,

WILLIAM  CONNOR,

Box 346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  and he will soon  be with you.

M IC H A E L   K O L B   &   S O N ,

WHOLESALE  CLOTHIERS,

ROCHESTER,  N.  Y.

N otice—William  Connor will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  on 

J a y.

CUSTOMERS’  EXPENSES  ALLOWED.

W eekly  Report  o f  Secretary  M ills.
Gr a n d  Ra p id s,  Oct.  16—Membership 
certificates  have been  issued  to  the fol­
lowing new  members:

3327  Wm.  G.  Yolkman, Chicago.
3323  A.  E.  Dore,  Chicago.
3329  H.  C.  Collins,  Jackson.
3330  Boyd Clarke,  South Bend,  Ind.
3331  John Schultz,  Bay City.
3332  Henry  Rosenberg,  Saginaw.
3333  Geo.  E.  Blake,  Lexington.
3334  W.  B.  Burris,  Greenville.
3335  Geo.  D.  Lunn,  Edmore.
3336  John C. Detweiler,  Allegheny,Pa.
1 do most earnestly request every mem­
ber to make  a  special  effort to secure  at 
least one new  member between  now and 
the annual  convention  to be held in  Sag­
inaw Dec. 26  and 27,  as a little  effort on 
the  part of  each  member will bring  our 
membership up to  the 2,000  mark; and  a 
special  inducement  to  new  members  to 
join  at this  time  is that  the $1  member­
ship  fee  paid  during  November  or  De­
cember pays the annual dues for 1894.
In this  connection,  I  would  voice the 
sentiment expressed  by our  Presid& t in 
his circular letter of  July 23, as  follows: 
“ Use care in  taking  applications.  Rec­
ommend  only  such  as  are  worthy,  and 
who are justly entitled to  be called trav­
eling  men,  and look  well  to  their condi­
tion  of  health  and  general  good  stand­
ing.”
An  application  blank  was  mailed  to 
each  member with notices of assessments 
3  and 4,  and  will  be promptly forwarded 
to  any  member  upon  request.  A  new 
supply  of  nickel-plated  grip-tags  have 
been  secured  and  will  be  sent  to any 
member upon request.
For  the  convenience  of  our members 
who may wish to pay any dues or assess­
ments when in this city,  1  have arranged 
with M.  S.  Goodman,  Secretary  of 
the 
Uazeltine &  Perkins  Drug  Go.,  corner 
Ottawa  and  Louis  streets  (two  blocks 
from  Morton House),  to  receive  and re­
ceipt for the same.
A united effort is to be made by  all or­
ganizations  of  commercial  travelers  in 
the United States  before  the coming ses­
sion  of  Congress,  to  obtain  an  amend-

JOBBERS  OF

STAPLE  m   FANCY

G R O C E R I E S ,

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

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OUR  MOTTO:

Good Goods. Right Prices, Goilrteoilc Treatment.

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IM PORTERS  A N D   W H O LESALE  D E A LE R S  IN

R ib b o n s, 

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

W e  invite  the  attention  of the  trade  to  our  complete  and  well 

assorted  stock  at lowest  market  prices.

Spring &  Company.
THE FINEST
E l  Furitano  Cigar.

MILTON  KERNS’

Bay City.

TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY
BATEMAN  &  FOX,
B.  J.  REYNOLDS,
R  OPPENHEIMER,
D e t r o it  T obacco  Co.,

Grand  Rapids.

East Saginaw.

Detroit,  Mich.

W H O L E S A L E

Dry  Qoods,  Carpets and Cloaks

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigt, Homolslieier & Co.,48> i°’J ! 

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HPHKSE  chests  will 
soon 
A  pay for themselves  in  the 
[ breakage they avoid.  Price 84.

o k UR new glass covers  are by  far the 

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

NEW  NOVELTIES.

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

the best selling cakes we ever made.

CREAM  CRISP. 

MOSS  HONEY  JUMBLES.
NEWTON,  a rich  linger with  fig  filling.  This  is  bound  to  be  one  of 
THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS.

DEALERS IN

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WE  CARRY A  STOCK  OF  CAKE TALLOW   FOR  MILL  TSK

NOS.  182  and  134  LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

P.  I  B.  OYSTERS

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¡If Yob  Wait  Good,  Lilli,  Sweet  Bread  and  Biscaits,

T H E   O N L Y   R E L IA B L E

COMPRESSED YEAST
The FermentUm Company

SOLD  BY  ALL  FIRST-CLASS  GROCERS.

MANUFACTURED  BY

MAIN  OFFICE:

CHICAGO,  270  KINZIE  STREET.

MICHIGAN  AGENCY:

GRAND  RAPIDS,  106  KENT  STREET.

Address  all  communications  to  TIIE  FERMENTUM  C'O.

The Following__  —

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

IF  YOU  WANT  THE  BEST 

THESE  ARE  THE  COFFEES  FOR  YOU  TO  BUY,

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  O ld  G o v e rn m e n t  J a v a   a n d  

M o ch a ,

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

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The  beautiful  display of  holiday  goods  at 
I  H.  Leonard & Sons’ mammoth  wholesale store 
is attracting  a  great deal of  attention just  at 
j 
|  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 
i 
to better accommodate and  show  to advantage 
I 
| 
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 
I  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.

QUALITY  WINS!

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And you  can depend on  the best qual­

ity when  you  buy this Brand•

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

BRAND  RAPIDS,

BRUSH  GOMP’Y,
KRS OF 

MANUFACTCR  I—£ I—^ T  J W X—T Li ’ W  GRAND  RAPIDS,
JDJLl. LJ O J T l J _ jO   M1CH

Our  Goods  are  sold  by  all  Michigan  Jobbing  H o u ses.

