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N O .  531

CAUGHT  IN  HIS  O W N  TRAP.
Coldstream!  Coldstream!  cried  the 
brakeman,  and  flung  open 
the  door. 
Washington Anderson was  not  sorry  to 
hear the cry.  He jumped up  with  more 
alacrity than the hot summer day seemed 
to encourage,  and almost  ran to the door 
and  down  the  steps.  There  was  Mar­
garet  waiting  for  him!  He greeted his 
sister warmly,  rushed off and fetched his 
trunk,  and  in  five  minutes  they  were 
rattling  over the stones,  with the breeze 
from  the  lake  in  their  faces,  and Bess 
trotting as only Bess could trot when she 
knew she was going home.

“Eleanor Franklin is here,”  said Mar­

“Well,  whose  heart  has  she  broken 

garet.

this  time?’,

“How did you  know?  Jim  Enderby’s 
been  making  a  perfect  fool  of  himself 
over  her—and  she  doesn’t  care  a snap 
for him.  She just keeps him along—you 
know how.”

“I’ve never seen  her,”  said  Washing­
ton.  “I’m glad  I’m  going  to  meet that 
girl. 
I’ve  heard  she never knew a man 
but she broke his heart.”

“And you want to  play the Ulysses to 
this Circe?”  Margaret  asked,  laughing. 
Then she said more seriously:  “I really 
wish  you  would,  Washington. 
I don’t 
believe she or anybody else  could  break 
your heart. 
I never cared about her con­
quests till  she  reached  Jim—but  that’s 
too  bad.”

“ It is too bad.  Jim’s probably  worth 
twenty  of  her,  but, of  course,  he can’t 
know that.  By Jove, the lake is glorious, 
isn’t it?”

“Yes.  That’s  Rabbit  Island,  there, 
with all the trees.  And aren’t the moun­
tains  grand  across  the  water?  Those 
cloud shadows  spreading over them,  and 
then giving place to the sunlight, remind 
one of temptations coming into the  mind 
and then going away again,  don’t  they?
“I don’t  know—unless,  perhaps,  you 
mean a temptation to  make a girl fall in 
love with you just for fun—or revenge.”
It 
will serve her right,  if you mean Eleanor 
Franklin,  it  might  do  her  good  in  the 
end.”

“I  don’t  call  that  a  temptation. 

“Noble girl!” cried Washington.  “How 
far-sighted  of  you  to  choose the  course 
which will prove to her  ultimate benefit! 
But  how  do  you reconcile yourself?  It 
will  serve  her  right—and  it will be for 
her good.  But, then,  don’t they say you 
women have nothing to do  with  reason? 
Your virtues are above it; and your other 
qualities—absolutely without it.”

“That’s  right.  Pitch  into  us.  We 
have no friends.  The soldiers in our own 
army  desert  us  and  run  down  other 
women, so as to make capital  for  them­
selves with men. 
I own  that women are 
without  reason  in  one important point; 
they fall in love  with  men for no reason 
at all—with  Washington  Anderson,  for 
instance.”
“ Stop!” 

“You 
know you would be in love with him this 
minute if he wasn’t your brother.  Turn 
in here,  you  say?  What  splendid  hem­

cried  Washington. 

locks!  Who are the people on the piazza? 
Which is the  fair  Eleanor?  That  must 
be she at the corner.  Now for my sweet­
est smile. 
Is this right, Margaret?”  He 
made a hideous  grimance.

The  carriage  drew  up  at  the  piazza 
steps.  Mrs  Weavington  greeted  Wash­
ington  warmly,  and  so did  all the rest, 
except  Eleanor  Franklin,  who  stood 
apart, 
looking  on  with  an  interested 
smile.

cried 

“ Why!” 

good-hearted  Mrs, 
Weavington,  “you  dear  children, don’t 
you  know  each  other?  Miss  Franklin, 
allow  me  to  present  my  friend,  Wash­
ington Anderson.”

“I  am  very  glad  to  meet  you,  Mr. 
Anderson,” said Eleanor,  her  dark  eyes 
looking  him  full  in  the  face  as 
they 
shook hands.

There were a good many young people 
staying at Mrs.  Weavington’s house,  and 
she  was  always  getting  up  expeditions 
and  amusements  that  they  might  pass 
their  time  pleasantly.  The  day  after 
Washington arrived,  they all set out on a 
walk to  Sunset  Hill.  Washington  and 
Eleanor were not together,  but when the 
party reached the hill, Washington,  with 
the  savoir  fairs  of  which,  it  is  to  be 
feared,  he was rather proud,  managed so 
that he and Miss  Franklin  sat  together 
in the shade  of  the  same  rock  at  some 
little  distance  from  the  rest.  Perhaps 
he would not have been so  successful  if 
Eleanor had not easily  fallen  in with his 
arrangements.

“Do  you  see  that  island?”  inquired 
Washington.  That is  Rabbit Island. 
I 
have determined to cut  away  a clearing 
in the center, and live there like Thoreau, 
communing with nature.”

“Oh,  Mr.  Anderson! 

I’m sorry,  but I 
I  have  a  previous 
cannot  allow  that. 
claim. 
I determined last year—last year, 
remember,  before you were born,  as  far 
as Coldstream is  concerned—to establish 
a convent for nuns in that island. 
1 am 
to  be  Lady  Superior;  and no one is al­
lowed to become a nun  whose  heart has 
not been  broken by one of your heartless 
sex.”

“I concede your claim since  you  were 
ahead.  But  I  must  claim  the  right  to 
build  my  cottage  near  the  monastery 
walls,  like the  old  German  knight,  and 
gaze up at some of the windows,  and see 
the heart broken  creatures. 
It’s  rather 
good fun looking  in  at  the  windows  of 
such institutions.  1 have been fascinated 
by staring at the maniacs in tbe windows 
of the Brattleboro Lunatic Asylum.” 

“Now, that’s an  apt  simile,”  said Miss 
Franklin.  “How a woman can be heart­
broken I don’t see.  They  really deserve 
to go to Brattleboro.  Yet I am going to 
take them in and cure them.”

“How are you going to do it?”
“Oh,  I am  going  to  have  them  study 
the portions of literature which treat  of 
the perversity and  wickedness  of  man, 
until I make them all woman-haters.” 

“And old  maids!  But  do  you  really 

hate men yourself?”

“Well,  what  am  1  to  say?  Yes, ex­
cept Mr.  Washington  Anderson!  1 can­

not  go  so  far as that. 
I admire George 
Washington,  and  Oliver  Cromwell,  and 
Mr.  Weavington,  and—how beautiful the 
lake is!  From here it looks  as  if  there 
wasn’t a ripple.  That’s  the  way  when 
you  see  the  doings  of  a  family  as  a 
stranger—you think they  never quarrel. 
I guess the fishes in  the  lake could  point 
out a ripple  or  two.  1  do  so  love  that 
blue of the lake—and then the  green  of 
the  trees  and  mountains,  and then the 
different  blue  of  the  sky!” —and  she 
sighed admirably.

“Yes,  it’s  lovely,”  said  Washington. 
“You are fond of nature, aren’t you?  So 
am I.”

“I’m fonder of  it than anything else— 
even than my  favorite  men,”  she  said; 
“except, of  course,  my family.”

“I am fond of nature,  too,” said Wash­
ington.  “But  I’m  fonder  of  people— 
fonder than you,  I imagine.”

“There,  they  are  going  away.  No, 
thank you,  Mr.  Anderson,  I  can  get  up 
quite well enough  alone.  I must get into 
good  practice,  you  know. 
In  the nun­
nery there will be no one to help me.”

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That evening after supper Washington 
and his sister walked out  to see the sun­
set.  There was a mass of  clouds to  the 
westward,  the edge of the mass lit up by 
the  sinking  sun.  Margaret  said  some­
thing about every cloud having  a  silver 
lining.

“Nonsense!” 

rejoined  her  brother. 
“There are a lot of  clouds  that are pre­
vented from having a  golden  lining  be­
cause another cloud is between them and 
the sun.  Just  like troubles,  you know; 
there might be a good side to a vexatious 
thing,  only  some  other  trouble gets in 
between.”

“How  do  yon  get on  with your sun?” 
asked Margaret,  mischievously,” and he 
knew what she meant.

“Why,  to tell  the  truth,  I  can’t  find 
out  whether  she  likes  me or not. 
I’m 
eager  enough  to  make her like me,  but 
she is so energetic in making me like her 
that she never stops to  like me at all,  so 
far as I can see.  We get on  well enough. 
Isn’t  she  a  beauty,  though?  And  she 
carries herself so well!”

“Have  a  care.  You  must not fall in 
love with the enchantress you were meant 
to discomfit.  Oat with your  sword  and 
grasp her by  the  hair  of  her  head—the 
hair you were raving over this morning— 
I don’t think it’s half so pretty as my own 
—and,  swish!  Jnst  think  of  how  she 
treated Jim.”

“It was shameful;  she ought not to go 
on so.  And he isn’t the  first  one,  by  a 
good many.”

“Nor the last,” said Margaret,  “if that 

hair continues to exert such a charm!”

“Will you  be quiet?” cried her brother, 
threatening  her,  mockingly. 
“Why,  I 
only admired her  hair as  a poet  admires 
things;  just as I might admire sea-weed, 
you know.”

“And  her  eyes  you  admire  as  you 

would a beautiful cat’s,  I suppose?”

“Exactly. 

I’m  quite  as hard-hearted 
I  do  wish  I  could  get  her  to

as  you. 

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
“You shall see  for  yourself when we  I 

A  Displeased  Customer

like me.  I can’t think of any way except 
being as nice as I can. 
It’s ali nonsense,
1 believe,  this laying schemes  to  fascin­
ate  people. 
If  you  want  them  to  like 
yon, just be as nice to them as you can— 
and when they are  sure  you  like  them, 
they’ll begin to like back.”

‘‘There’s no better authority than you. 
How many photographs have you on your 
bureau now—fifteen?”

“There’re  not  on my  bureau; there’re 
in my trunk.  And  there are only twelve 
of them.”
“A  week,  then,  before  there are thir­
teen! 
It  will  take about three days  for 
Eleanor to send  home,  and  three  more 
for  the  precious  package 
to  be  sent 
here.”
*

“Margaret,  you are incorrigible!” 
Washington stayed out  his  week,  and 
said  something  about  going  home; but 
Mrs. Weavington would  hear nothing of 
it.  He must go with them on  the  drive 
to  Coggswell’s  Peak.  The  young  man 
made but a feeble  resistance to this good- 
natured compulsion,  and it was arrauged 
that he should stay a  week longer.

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On the day of  the  drive,  the party  as­
sembled  on  the  front  piazza,  with the 
three carriages of the Weavington family 
before 
them.  First  was  the  beach- 
wagon,  with two  rather  dangerous look­
ing horses;  then the carryall, with steady 
old  Roy;  and 
lastly,  the  buggy.  Mrs. 
Weavington stepped  to  the front and  is­
sued her orders.  When she had disposed 
of enough young people to  fill the buggy 
and the carry-all. she turned to Wash ing- 
ton.
the 
beach-wagon,  because  then  we  needn’t 
take Thomas  away  from  his  work;  and 
you are the  only other  person  that 1 can 
trust not to  tip  me  over.  Eleanor, you 
sit with  him  on  the  front  seat;  but be 
sure not to  say  a  word  all  the  fifteen 
miles,  for if  you do, he will  surely grow 
careless and  the  horses will  run  away. 
How  many times  have  they  run  away, 
Thomas?  Five?”

“ Washington,  you  must  drive 

“Six,  ma’am;  they ran  away again the 

day before yesterday.”

“You see,  Eleanor,  we  all  depend  on 
you not to talk.  Jim, you  come into the 
back seat with me.”

Washington  helped  Eleanor  into  th e ! 
front  seat,  and  then  mounted  himself, 
while  Thomas  held  the  horses.  “Can 
you 
trust  them  to  me,  Thomas?”  he 
asked,  laughing,  as  he gathered  up  the 
reins.
The avenue led from  the house direct­
ly down  a  steep  hill.  The  two  horses 
began to prance as soon  as  they started; 
and when they leached  the steepest part j 
of the incline, they bounded and  humped 
themselves as  spirited  horses will  when | 
they have not  been  out  the  day  before. 
Jim was anxious.  Eleanor was agitated.  | 
Mrs.  Weavington  alone  kept  up  her j 
light and  airy talk.  She  was  perfectly ! 
accustomed to Washington’s driving, and j 
felt as much  at  her  ease  as  in her own 
parlor.  Eleanor  watched  Washington 
closely.  He  really  did  know  how  to 
manage  horses.  His  nervous  hands 
grasped the reins  strongly;  in  his  right 
hand  he  held  the  whip,  ready  for  an 
emergency.  Now  and 
then,  he  spoke 
softly and  kindly  to  the  horses.  They 
finally reached the foot  of  the  long  hill 
safely.

“Aren’t  they  beauties?”  Washington 

said to Eleanor.

“1 don’t know anything  about  horses. 

They seem rather—can they go fast?”

reach the stretch.”

Eleanor  rather wished  she  had  not 
asked.  But she gained confidence in the 
driver,  and was soon as much at home as 
Mrs.  Weavington,  if she did  keep rather 
silent.

“ You  don’t  ride,  then?” asked Wash­
ington,  taking the opportunity of  a long 
hill  for a little conversation.  “I suppose 
you go out a great deal?”

“ Balls and parties,  you mean?  Yes,  I 
I’m tired  to  death 

go out  a great deal. 
of it.”

I beg your pardon.” 

“Then why—? 
“ Why do you beg my pardon?” 
“Because if you had wanted  to tell me 
why you went, I suppose you would  have 
done it.”

“ I’d just as lief  tell  you.  My mother 
wants me to.  She’s a  dear  mother,  but 
she’s foolishly proud  of  me,  and wants 
me to get a little admiration, if 1 can.” 

“How do you succeed?”
“Oh, there are plenty of  fools  in  the 
world,” Eleanor  laughed,  “and 1 think  1 
am quite a favorite with some  of  them.
1 can  say that without  fishing  for a com­
pliment,  you  know,  for you  never  give 
them. ”

“Oh,  yes,  I do—I’m  thinking  up  one 

for you now.”

“ Well,  if it’s taken  you  a week and a 
half to think  up one  little  compliment, 
and you  haven't thought up that one yet, 
don’t rack your brain  any further, I  beg 
of you.”

“ i  won’t.  1 have thought  of  two  al­
ready.  Your hat is very pretty,  and you 
sat perfectly still  and  didn’t  say  ‘Oh!’ 
when Bayard shied  just now.”

“Really,  that is too much.  My beauty 
is  furnished me  by  Madame Celeste,  and 
my silence by agonies of fear which par­
alyze my  powers of utterance.” 

Washington  became more  earnest. 
“ Well,  then,  your—”
“No, no,” she  broke  in,  seeing that a 
real  compliment was  coming  this  time; 
“you must think another week and a half 
before 1 let you give me another. 
It will 
probably be that these boots are pretty— 
and 1 will tell you  then that  they  belong 
to your sister Margaret.”

The carriage was half way  up  a  steep 
hill when an unfortunate  recuntre  took 
place.  Two men  and a performing bear 
appeared at the brow of  the  hill  before 
the eyes of the  horses,  who  bad  had  no 
real excitement since running  away  two 
days before,  and  who  were  aching to be 
frightened at something.  They began to 
jump and snort, and just as the bear was 
apparently safely  past, Bayard,  the nigh 
horse,  kicked  up his heels  and  got  one 
leg over the traces.  Washington quieted 
| the two rampant  animals  as  well  as  he 
could.  Eleanor wondered what he would 
I do.  All  of a sudden she felt him  thrust 
j  the  reins  into  her  hands,  aud  in au in- 
I slant he  was out of the  carriage  aud  at 
the horses’  heads.

“ Eleanor, get a stone and chock  up the 

i wheel!  Jim,  fix  the trace!”

Jim got out of the carriage as  quickly 
j  as possible,  but Eleanor was  before him.
] She blocked  the  wheel,  aud  fiudiug Jim 
I hesitating at the trace because  Bayard’s 
i leg  was by no means still,  she  pushed in 
I before  him,  unfastened  the  trace  from 
! the whiffle-tree,  pulled it  out  from  be­
tween the horse’s legs and fixed it where 
it belonged.

Washington apologized for calling Miss 
Franklin Eleanor.  “I had to  economize 
my words,  you  know,”  said  he.  “Miss

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There were some high cliffs  overhang­
ing the  lake,  and  it was 
to  this  point 
that  Washington  and  Eleanor  turned 
their steps.  The  great  red  moon  had 
risen,  and  was  growing  smaller  and 
paler.  The two young  people who  had 
once  been  so  desirous  to  please each 
other,  seemed to have lost all  their  anx­
iety to do that.  They sat without speak­
ing  for  some  time;  and when Eleanor 
broke the silence,  her  remark was not a 
very agreeable one.

HENRY  PASSÖLT, 

Is Manufactured 

Saginaw,  Mich.

only  by

Franklin was two, and I couldn’t call you 
‘Franklin’ or  ‘Miss.’  To  tell  you 
the 
truth,” he added presently, “I called you 
Eleanor because I always think of you as 
that.”  He was delighted at  the  energy 
and efficiency which she had  shown.

“It  seemed  very  natural,”  she  said. 
“I  hardly  noticed  it.”  This  was  not 
true,  for even in  the  excitement  of  the 
moment she had  blushed 
to  hear  him 
call her Eleanor.

“ Here’s the stretch,”  said Washington; 
“but I think  I won’t  speed  them  just 
now—we are too far ahead of the others.” 
“May I  try driving  a  little?”  Eleanor 

asked.

“I’m sorry,  but 1 shall  have  to say no 
to that,”  answered Washington.  “I  did 
give a girl the reins once in  my life,  and 
it turned out badly.”

“That was  Miss Atkinson,  wasn’t it?” 
She remembered having heard  the  story 
at Newport.

“Yes,”  said  Washington. 

“Experi­
ence is queer;  it makes one too  cautious 
about  some  things,  and 
too  reckless 
about others.”

“Too cautious—yes;  but not too reck­

less, does it?”

“Yes,  ' too  reckless.  What  do  you 
think  of 
the  brakeman  who gets on to 
the car while it is moving  ten  thousand 
times,  and the  next  time  is  once  too 
many?”

Eleanor was silent for  a while.  Then 
she  said,  “ How  did  you  know exactly 
the right thing to do  just now?”
*

“I don’t know.”
*

*

*

*

Jim  Enderby and  Margaret  were  out 
It was  dusk.  There was 
the west,  but  no  clouds. 

in the canoe. 
a red glow in 
It was a peaceful sunset.

“ Washington and Miss  Franklin seem 
I think 

to be pretty intimate nowadays. 
he must have fallen in love with her.”

“I don’t  think  be  has.  He  is  only 
flirting with her,  the way he likes to flirt 
with girls.”

“No, he  isn’t.  He  means  business. 

But she doesn’t care a pin  for him.”

“I disagree with you,”  said  Margaret. 
“I  think  she  is  tremendously pleased 
with him.”

“She doesn’t look it.”
“That’s why I  think  so.  Ever  since 
that drive,  she’s  hardly said  a word  to 
him.  He doesn’t know what to  make of 
It;  but I do.”

Jim groaned.  “Well, 1 wish  him  joy 

of her,” he said.

“Fiddlesticks, Jim, you don’t; besides 
he’ll  never  propose 
to  her.  All  you 
young men like to pass  away your  time 
with girls;  but  he  has never gone very 
far with her.  He let  me  know so much 
himself,  though for the last  few days he 
has been  very mean and hasn’t  told  me 
anything.”

The evening before  the  day on  which 
Washington was to  leave Coldstream,  he 
met Eleanor Franklin in  the  dark  hall 
just before  supper.  He  spoke  to  her 
hurriedly.

“We haven’t seen each other much for
the last few days.  Won’t  you  come out
for a little walk  after  supper?”  Then 
seeing her hesitate,  he  added,  “It’s  my 
last evening.”

“Then  1  should  think  it  would  be 
better  for  you  to  spend  it  with  the 
crowd.”

“No, 1 want to spend it with you.”
She gave a quick  assent,  and  passed 

into the dining room.

“How very chilly it is here!”
“Are  you  cold?”  He  put  another 
hawl over  her  shoulders.  Then,  after 
i moment’s silence,  he said:  “Why have 
rou been so different  the  last  few days? 
Any one would think 1  had  done  some­
thing dreadful!  What  is  it 
that  you 
have heard against me?”

When a cat is  attacked,  it  runs  up  a 
tree.  A  young  woman  under  similar 
circumstances  takes  refuge  in  a ques­
tion.

“Have 1 been different?”
I should  think  you  had. 
“Different? 
Will you go out on the  lake with  me?’ 
No,  1 have a little headache.’ 
‘Let’s go 
‘No, I want  to talk 
down to the shore.’ 
‘Let’s go 
to Margaret about something.’ 
out  and watch 
the  sunset.’ 
‘Oh, don’t 
ou think  it is  better  fun  staying with 
the crowd?’  That’s the kind of conversa­
tion you and 1  have  been  carrying  on 
these last days.”

“Really?  What  an 

interesting  time 

we’ve been having!”

After a pause Washington asked again 
Have you  heard  anything  bad  about 
me?”

She smiled.  “No end of things.” 
“What sort of things?”
“1 don’t know as I’ve heard of anything 
worse than your  having  broken  half  s 
dozen  girls’  hearts.  That,  of  course 
doesn’t amount to anything.”

“Are  you  serious,  Miss  Franklin? 
What do you  mean?  I   break  people’s 
hearts?  What do you  do, I  should  like 
to know?”

that—though 

“What do you  mean,  Mr. Anderson?’ 
I  haven’l 
“I  meant 
broken any hearts that I  know of—that 
even if 1 have, I’m not the  only one who 
has done it.”

“Do you mean to say I have been mak 

ing that my  business?”

“I mean that 1 have heard of  at  least 
It  doesn’ 

six  young men—  Nonsense! 
matter what I’ve heard.”

“And I’ve heard of at least six  young 
It  doesn’t  matter 

women—  Nonsense! 
what  I’ve  heard.”

They both laughed  nervously.
“I don’t mean  to  say,”  said Washing 
ton,  at last,  “ that 1 haven’t flirted at all 
1 have,  sometimes.”

“So have I.  But I have never gone so 

far—I mean—”

“I don’t believe you  ever went  so  far 
as  to  do  any  harm  knowingly,  Miss 
Franklin.  But  you  girls  don’t  know 
what agony a man feels,  when he loves 
girl who won’t love him.”

“Naturally,  we  don’t,  Mr.  Anderson 
When a man comes to one  of us,  who we 
know has asked three  girls  before, and 
who,  we afterwards  find,  has  asked two 
more, I must confess we  do  not  have 
truly dreadful sense of his agony.” 

“Well,  look at it  on  the  other  side. 
We  see  you  girls flirting as hard as you 
can,  and our old friends  making fools of 
themselves over you.  And we think that 
two can play at that game—and we  flirt

(Continued on page 7.)

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•THE  MIOHIGAlSr  TRADESMAN,

AMONG THE  TRADE.
ABOUND THE  STATE.

Lexington — Peter  Janette,  produce 

dealer,  is dead.

Faigrove—F.  6.  Bos worth  has sold his 

drug stock  to Amos Bond.

Negaunee—Oscar Field  succeeds  Cor- 

bit & Field in general  trade.

Saginaw—Geo. Stingel succeeds  Frank 

Stingel  in  the meat business.

Kalkaska—W.  F.  Stewart  succeeds 

Harry Scott in the drug business.

Nessen  City —  Win.  Hogg  succeeds 

Hogg & McEiroy  in general trade.

Hart—Geo.  A Iverson  has retired  from 

the hardware hrm of Cahill  & Co.

Jasper—Delano  &  Co.  succeed  Chas. 

H.  Delano in the creamery  business.

Sparta—Lowell  A.  Uiumau  succeeds 

Hinman & Miller in the drug business.

Crystal  Falls—A.  Lustlield will remove 

bis general stock to New Lisbon, Ohio.

Saginaw—E.  H.  Wells is  succeeded  by 
the  grocery  busi­

Mrs.  F.  M.  Arnold in 
ness.

Hanover—F. J.  Bates has  removed  his 
grocery  stock  from  Litchfield  to  this 
place.

Jonesville—L.  Sttauss  has  removed 
his clothing stock  from  Sturgis  to  this 
place.

Jasper—Ira Millet  has  sold  his  meat 
and confectionery business  to  Smith  & 
Robb.

West  Bay  City—J.  C.  Poultney  suc­
ceeds H. G.  Porter & Co.  in  the  grocery 
business.

Fowlerville—Robert Vaustone  has  re­
moved his jewelry stock  from  Detroit to 
this place.

Harrisville—Mrs.  Etta P.  Reed  has re­
moved her millinery  stock  from  Brigh­
ton to this  place.

Harrison—Wilson,  Stone & Wilson are 
succeeded  by  W.  U.  Wilson & Sou  in the 
sawmill  business.

Grayling—L.  Fournier is succeeded by 
Loranger  &  Fournier,  incorporated,  in 
the drug business.

Saginaw—Loranger & Fournier,  incor­
porated, succeed Lorauger’s Pharmacy  in 
the drug business.

Fenton—Thompson  &  Roe succeed J. 
S.  Thompson in the  boot  and  shoe  and 
restaurant business.

Vassar—Buck  &  Lawrence,  grocery 
and notion dealers,  have dissolved,  Buck 
& Barker succeeding.

Muskegon—Snell,  Wurtz  &  Co.,  mer­
chant  tailors,  have  dissolved,  Wurtz  & 
Mathieson succeeding.

Marquette—The  Wetmore  Mercantile 
Co.,  Limited,  succeed  the F.  P.  Wetmore 
estate in general trade.

Muskegon—Veltman  &  Vauderwerp, 
furniture  dealers,  have  dissolved,  Geo. 
D.  Vanderwerp succeeding.

Ann  Arbor—The  stock of Alvin Wil- 
sey, dealer  in  musical  instruments,  has 
been closed on  attachments.

Beilaire—Frank  Bard has sold  his gro­
cery stock to F.  Seward  &  Co.,  who will 
continue the business  at 
the same loca­
tion.

Kingsley—Mrs.  E.  L.  Moses has sold 
her millinery business to  Mrs.  Creiglow, 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same location.

Omena—S.  A.  Keyes  has  purchased  a 
new  grocery  stock  in  Chicago aud  will 
hereafter conduct  the  grocery  business 
in  connection  with  his  hardware  busi­
ness.

Wayland—John  C.  Yeakey  has  pur­
chased  the interest of Mrs.  Pallett in the 
meat firm of  Yeakey &  Pallett  and will

I continue the  business  under  his  own 
name hereafter.

Holland—Notier & VerSchure have dis­
solved  partnership,  the  latter  retiring 
! from  the  business.  The  grocery stock 
has been  purchased  by  Fred  Zalsman, 
who will continue the business.

Muskegon—1.  R.  Crossette,  who,  with 
his father,  Isaac Crossette,  composed the 
lumber yard  firm of Crossette  &  Son, is 
winding up the  business since  the death 
of his father,  and will continue it  alone.
Muskegon—Fred Brundage,  the  drug­
gist, is preparing to  open a branch store 
in the store room on W. Western avenue, 
formerly occupied  by  Fred  Neumeister. 
He is now putting in a  stock  of  books, 
etc.

Otsego—E.  J.  Rose  has  purchased  of 
Joseph  Derbammer  his  interest  in  the 
grocery firm of  Truesdall & Derbammer, 
and Mr. Truesdall has  moved  the  stock 
iBto  the  building  already  occupied  by 
Mr.  Rose as a grocery  store.

Traverse City—Ernst Bros., of Oscoda, 
have  leased  the  new  store  building  of 
Mrs.  Hall,  on  Union  street,  South  Side, 
and  will  open it early next week with a 
stock  of  bazaar goods,  making  a  speci­
ality of  toys aud notions for the holiday 
trade.

Whitehall—Geo.  F.  Sibley  has  con­
cluded  to go out of  the  hardware  busi­
ness and has offered  his  entire  stock to 
Gee & Carr.  An inventory is being taken 
and, if satisfactory terms can be reached, 
Gee & Carr will take the stock and  con­
solidate it with their own.

Sears —  McDougall  &  Holihan,  for­
merly of Meredith, expect to close a deal 
with C. Y.  Priest whereby  they  become 
proprietors of  his  general  store  at  this 
place.  The prospective  proprietors  are 
gentlemen  of  considerable  business  ex­
perience and,  in case the  transfer  takes 
place,  will deal in forest and farm  prod­
ucts,  as  well as general merchandise.

Detroit—About two years ago a brother 
of  Ezra  Craft  purchased  some  rolled 
spiced  bacon from  the  establishment of 
Parker, Webb & Co.  and  took  it  home. 
He had some of it cooked for  his  break­
fast  but  did  not relish it.  Later Ezra 
got up for breakfast and  partook  of  the 
bacon.  He immediately  took  sick  and 
the trouble was laid to 
the  bacon.  He 
has  since  been  under the doctor’s care. 
About a year ago  he  brought  suit  for 
damages  against  Parker,  Webb  &  Co. 
The case was tried  before Judge  Hosmer, 
who directed a verdict  for the defendants 
on the ground  that  no  negligence  had 
been proven. 
It was appealed to the Su­
preme Court, which decided that the case 
ought to have gone  to  the  jury,  and  a 
new trial was ordered.  This was in pro­
gress before Judge  Hosmer  for  several 
days.  The only new testimony was that 
of one witness,  who swore  that  he  had 
purchased diseased meat from  the  firm. 
The jury rendered a verdict of  $500.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Au Sable—H.  L. & G.  F.  Venners  suc­
ceed A.  W. Jahrous  in  the  cigar  manu­
facturing business.

Beaverton—The  receiver  of  the Ton­
kin,  Harris & Co.  sawmill has decided to 
start the mill  again.

Mt.  Pleasant—The  Mt.  Pleasant Lum­
ber Co.  has purchased  a  lot  of  timber 
land between Coldwater  and  Littlefield 
lakes in Isabella county.

Bay  City—In  about  three  weeks  the 
Welch sawmill will shut  down,  when  a 
band saw will be put  in.  The  mill will

start  up  soon after  January  1  for an all 
winter run.

Bay  City—John  G.  Owen  shut down 
his  sawmill  at  Owendale last week. 
It 
has  cut  about  8,500,000  feet,  and  has 
several  million  feet still on hand at the 
mill.  The planing mill  is still in opera­
tion.

Saginaw — The  Michigan  Central, 
Mackinaw division,  and the Flint & Pere 
Marquette will do a  comparatively light 
business in  log hauling this winter.  Last 
year these roads hauled  311,000,000 feet 
of logs.

Ludington—The Pere Marquette Lum­
ber  Co.’s  mill  closed  operations  last 
week.  The salt block  will  run  as long 
as the fuel holds out, and is making more 
salt this season than ever  before  in 
its 
history.

Ludington—Thomas Percy has  leased 
the T.  R.  Lyon  salt block for  one  year. 
He will make  improvements  in 
it,  and 
run the plant in connection with his own, 
and thus greatly add  to  bis  producing 
capacity.

Butternut—Morse Bros., who are oper­
ating the Butternut  cheese  factory, are 
negotiating  for the  rental  of  the  Palo 
butter  and  cheese  factory, and,  if suc­
cessful, intend to begin  the manufacture 
of cheese there in the near  future.

Bay City—It  is  now said that McLean 
& Co.  will erect  a  new  sawmill  on  the 
site of the one recently destroyed by fire. 
The location is a very desirable one,  and 
the firm has guarantees of a stock of logs 
to keep the plant in motion a number  of 
years.

Saginaw—J.  W.  Howry & Son’s logs, 
brought  over  from  Canada,  have  been 
nearly all  manufactured  at  the  mill  of 
Green,  Ring  &  Co.  They  have  started 
camps  in  Canada  and  will  bank about 
20,000,000 feet this winter,  or about  the 
same output as  last winter.

Saginaw—Indications  are  at  present 
that the output of  cedar  this  winter  in 
northern  Michigan  will  be rather light, 
for the same causes that operate in other 
branches  of  business.  The  market for 
cedar is dull and there  is  not  much  in­
ducement for active operations.

West Bay City—A  new wooden steam­
ship  is  to  be  built  at  Davidson’s  yard 
during the winter. 
It  will have a capa­
city for 400,000 feet of lumber.  The cost 
will  approximate $100,000.  Three  other 
wooden  vessels are in course of construc­
tion  at  this  yard,  and 600 men are fur­
nished  with  steady  employment.  The 
value of  such an industry  in  times like 
these cannot be overestimated.

Saginaw—The call  for  men  for 

the 
woods continues limited  and 
labor 
market is overstocked.  Loggers will  be 
able to operate more cheaply than  usual 
this fall and winter as wages range from 
$5 to $8 a month less  than 
last  season, 
and,  with the exception of pork,  supplies 
are cheaper.  A number  of  crews  have 
been  sent  from  the  Saginaw valley to 
Canada and to  Lake  Superior,  although 
in the Upper Peninsula there is reported 
a large oversupply of labor,  and men are 
reported willing to work at  almost  any 
rate of wages that will insure  board and 
clothes.

the 

Manistee—There never has been a time 
in the history of the salt industry of this 
State when a man could get  a  barrel  of 
salt as low as he can  to-day.  All  it  is 
netting the manufacturers is 45 cents for 
280 pounds,  with a package that costs 10 
cents thrown into the bargain.  Of course 
it stands to reason that our  mill men are

not  making  this  salt  at a loss, so that 
one can readily see that they  were  mak­
ing some money  when  they  were  getting 
65 to 70 cents a barrel.  The total amount 
of salt manufactured  in  the State for  the 
past month was 407,336 barrels, of which 
Manistee  contributed  150,804.  Up  to 
date this season  there has been  made  in 
the State 3,124,968 barrels,  being  386,000 
less than for a like time  last year.

Manistee—Lumber 

is  bringing  fair 
prices,  but there is no great snap  to  the 
movement,  and  we do not look  for much 
for the balance of  the season.  Sales  of 
piece stuff are made on  a basis of $10 for 
green,  and most of our stock  is  moving 
as fast as sawed at  that  figure.  A half 
million  feet of  hemlock  piece stuff was 
recently sold to  one  dealer,  and  400,000 
feet to another,  the  price  beiug  $6  on 
dock  for  short.  This  was  cross-piled 
stock,  and to be moved at once.  Shingles 
are moving much faster  than  for  some 
time and the accumulations on docks  are 
about worked off.  One man  that  had  a 
large quantity of cedars on dock a month 
ago has not one left and says  he  cannot 
get them fast enough  to  keep  up with 
his orders.  Of course the prices  offered 
are not exorbitant,  but they are  ones  at 
which a man can  live.

Attention is directed  to  the advertise­
ment of Holmes &  DeGoit,  who  offer  a 
rare bargain in the  shape  of  a  shingle- 
mill.

B A Z A A R ,

41  AND  43  MONROE  ST., 

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Offers to the  trade  special  inducements  for the 

coming  holiday season.

THE  LARGEST  LINE  OF  NEW

Jewelry,  Brie a-brac, 
FANCY 
TOYS, 
everything  suitable CROCKERY, 
DOLLS, 
for  holiday presents. 
MUSIC 
PLUSH 
BOXES,
AND 
A full line of  masks. 
SILVER- 
LEATHER  Be  sure  to  examine 
our goods and get our 
GOODS. 
WARE, 
prices.

ALBERT  N.  AVERY,

MANUFACTURERS’  AGENT  FOR

19  So.  Ionia  St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Special Sale  o f Lace and C henille Curtains.

Merchants visiting  the  Grand  Rapids market 
are invited to call  and  Inspect  my lines, which 
are complete in every respect.  In placing orders 
with  me  you  deal  directly with  the  manufac­
turer.

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GRAND  R A PID S  G O SSIP.

J.  L. Newberry has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Seney.  The Lemon & Wheeler 
Company furnished the stock.

S.  Vander  Schwur  has  opened  a gro­
cery  store  at  214  Alpine avenue.  The 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.  furnished the 
stock.

Adrian I)e Vos,  who has  conducted  a 
grocery  business at  187  Baxter  street  for 
the past six  years,  has  closed  out  his 
stock and retired from trade.

Frank  D.  Forbush,  Secretary  and 
Treasurer of the Stow <& Davis Furniture 
Co.,  has sold his $10,000 stock  in the cor­
poration  to  Edgar  Hunting,  who  will 
succeed  to the position  rendered  vacant 
by  Mr.  Forbush’s retirement.  The lat­
ter will remain  with the  company  until 
after the January sales,  when  he will re­
turn to Springtield,  Vt.,  where  he  was 
born and raised, joining his father in  the 
banking business.

It  is understood that  Hon.  Edwin  F. 
the 
Uhl  will  retain 
the  presidency of 
Grand Rapids National  Bank  until 
the 
annual  election,  in  January,  when  he 
will  be succeeded  by Enos  Putman,  who 
has  been  acting  as President since the 
removal of Mr.  Uhl  to  Washington.  Mr. 
Putman is a gentleman of  sterling busi­
ness qualities,  positive  convictions  and 
excellent judgment and,  under  his  man­
agement,  the bank  will suffer no diminu­
tion of its popularity or the  strong posi­
tion it occupies in  the financial  world.

P u rely  P erson al.

Henry  B.  Stohlman, 

the  South  Arm 
grocer,  died  Nov.  10,  aged  73  years. 
Deceased  had  been  postmaster  of  South 
Arm for nearly sixteen years.

Frank E.  Leonard has  returned  from 
Kentucky,  greatly improved  in  health 
and spirits.  He tells large stories of  his 
ability as a hunter,  but shows  no  troph­
ies of the forest in substantiation of  his 
statements.

E. B. Armstrong,  the pioneer drygoods 
merchant of Saranac,  died Nov.  12,  after 
an illness of but a few days,  at  the  age 
of 79.  He cleared the stumps  from  the 
lots on which he built his store forty-five 
years ago.  He was  burned  out  in  the 
big fire about four years ago, and has not 
since been in  trade.

Harry J.  Connell,  of  the drug  firm  of 
Holmes & Connell,  at  Belding,  was mar­
ried  Nov.  9 
to  Miss  Cora  M.  Devine. 
The ceremony occurred  at  the residence 
of the bride’s brother at Caledonia.  The 
happy couple  will  go  to  housekeeping 
in  a  new  house  Mr.  Connell  has  been 
building during the past summer.

S.  A.  Sears,  Manager of the New York 
Biscuit Co.,  was married Sept. 12 to Miss 
Marian  Davis,  the ceremony occurring at 
the home of the parents of the  bride  at 
Elk Rapids.  Both  parties  to  the  com­
pact are to  be  congratulated  and  T he 
T r a d e sm a n  voices the sentiment of  the 
trade  generally  in  wishing  them 
long 
life and much  happiness.

in  town 

H.  H. Curtis,  junior  member  of  the 
firm of Curtis & Son,  furniture manufac­
turers  at  Charlotte,  was 
last 
week for the purpose of  engaging space 
for  the  January  furniture  exposition. 
His firm has just  completed a model fur­
niture factory,  the maiu  building  being 
of brick,  60x200 feet in  dimensions,  four 
stories,  with  separate  fireproof  brick 
buildings for  the  finishing  department 
and boiler room.  The firm owns  several

hundred acres  of  hardwood  timber  i 
Otsego county and  will thus  be  enabled 
to run several years on its own timber.

Chas.  McCarty,  the  Lowell  grocer,  re­
cently  went to Luther on a  hunting  ex­
pedition,  vowing  he  would  capture  a 
bear before his return  home.  He saw a 
bruin,  but was so frightened at the sight 
that he took to his heels  and  ran several 
miles through the woods,  with  the  bear 
in close pursuit.  On  reaching 
town,  he 
hired a couple of  boys  to  capture  the 
bear for him,  and, as the animal was sick 
and  tired,  it proved  an  easy matter for 
the lads.  Charley bore the carcass home 
in triumph,  and for  the  past week  has 
been  regaling his friends  with  stories of 
bis bravery as  a  bear hunter, exhibiting 
the skin  in  proof of  his  statements,  and 
retailing the carcass at  a  fancy price— 
because he killed it himself, you know.

G ripsack  B rigad e.

S.  K. Felton,  formerly on the  road for 
Davis & Rankin,  is now traveling in  this 
State for Buruap & Burnap, of Toledo.

Jas.  A.  Massie  (I.  M.  Clark  Grocery 
Co.)  is entertaining  his  brother-in-law, 
M.  F.  Marsh, who is engaged in  the hotel 
business at Big Sandy,  Montana.

Jas. G. Cloyes, city  «alesman  for  the 
I.  M.  Clark  Grocery  Co.,  who has been 
laid up  seven  weeks  with  a  dislocated 
shoulder,  is able to be about again.

W. J.  Richards, who covered the Mich­
igan trade three years ago for the Michi­
gan Whip Co., of  Hastings,  has  engaged 
to  cover  the  same  territory for Justin 
Seubert,  the  Syracuse  cigar  manufac­
turer.  Mr.  Richards  will continue to re­
side at Union City.

J.  H.  Gibbons,  the well  known  Char­
lotte salesman,  has engaged to travel  for 
Curtis &  Son,  the  Charlotte  furniture 
manufacturers,  during  1894.  Mr.  Gib­
bons  is  a  worker  from Workville  and 
will,  undoubtedly,  make  an  enviable 
record in his new connection.

Judd  E.  Houghton  is working  up  a 
four  course  lecture  by  George  Francis 
Train, the eccentric traveler,  to be given 
in  Lockerby  Hall  as  soon as the adver­
tising features counected  with the enter­
tainment  can  be arranged.  The adver­
tising  feature  has  beeu  worked  in  the 
Eastern States  with  marked  success and 
will  probably  prove  equally  popular 
here.

The entertainment of Post E, Saturday 
evening,  was one of the  most  enjoyable 
events of the kind ever  given  by Grand 
Rapids traveling  men.  The  committee 
in charge—Messrs.  Van  Leuven,  Dawley 
and  Lawton—proved  to  be  excellent 
managers,  and  Geo.  F.  Owen  distin­
guished himself as doorkeeper  and gen­
eral  utility  man.  Light  refreshments 
were served in the banquet room and the 
thanks of the Post are  extended  to  the 
New York Biscuit Co., C. N.  Rapp & Co>, 
C.  B.  Metzger  and  Bunting & Davis  for 
contributions of cakes and fruit.

On the occasion of a railroad  disaster, 
a salesman of the Joseph Dixon Crucible 
Co., of Jersey City,  N. J.,  was  a  passen­
ger on the train.  His presence of  mind 
saved from  more  than  slight  injury a 
well  known  clergyman.  Subsequently 
the reverend doctor wrote  the  company 
complimenting  the  salesman,  and  ex­
pressed himself as  follows  regarding the 
traveling fraternity:  “Years  ago,  in  a 
lecture,  I remarked 
that  the  good  Sa­
maritan was a commercial tourist  (drum­
mer). 
If a man  ever  wakes  up  about 
midnight with the  bottom of his coach in 
1  the direction of the  stars,  he  will  think

HARRY  HARMAN’S

SGH09L  OF  WINDOW  DRESSING
A  monthly  publication.  Displays  for  every 
line of business.
H O L ID A Y   E D IT IO N   25  CTS. 

A NO  DECORATING.

(No  stamps. 1

1204  W oman’s  Tem ple,  Chicago.

Send ns $5 for an outfit guaranteed  to bring in 
at least its cost, and  results  prove  it  to  be  the 
best ►ystem  in  existence.  Try  it.  The  outlay 
is small.  No  other  charge  for  fees or commis­
sions. and money will  be paid direct to you, not 
through us.  We will  refund  the  $5  it  not  col­
lected to that you will be out nothing for the ex 
perlment
As to our responsibility,  etc.,  refer  to follow 
ing Detroit Banks:  John  1..  Harper & Co.. Mer­
chants and Manufacturers’ National  Bnnk, City 
Savings Bank.  Enclose  stamp  to  insure reply.

lie Orel and Collection Go.,
A B ig  /Jrive 
IN  ALL  SILK  (SAT.  EDGE)  RIBBONS.

DETROIT,  MICH

that I am right.  The  drummer  of  Sa­
maria bad the best of oil and wine.  The 
drummer of Jersey City had  the  kindest 
of hearts.  The iron horse will  dash and 
the electric light  will  soon flash  through 
the land whereChrist and his apostles ouce 
held sweet converse in regard to who was 
really our  neighbor.  Methinks  I  hear 
the  conductor  at  Jerusalem  say,  ‘AH 
aboard for Jericho.  Passengers for Moab 
take seats in the  front  car.’  The  train 
may  be wrecked. 
If so,  I venture to say 
that the ubiquitous drummer will  be the 
to  the 
first and the last  to  administer 
wounded and  the  dying,  while 
the  fat 
priest and bloated Levite will  either  be 
asleep  in 
the  Pullman,  waiting for the 
porter to cail them  up, or whining about 
the loss of  a silk umbrella or  gilt-edged 
prayer book.  The  Jersey City drummer 
will never be known on  earth  as  exten­
sively as the Samaritan, but  l am certain) 
that his name  will  stand as high  and  his 
reward be as great in that land where  all 
men will be rewarded  according  to  the 
deeds  of  mercy which  they perform in 
I know that many of  the commer­
this. 
in  error. 
cial agents have some  habits 
Yet 1 want it distinctly understood 
that 
the sexton of the church where 1 am pas­
tor must always  invite 
the  commercial 
drummer to the front seat.”

J a c k so n   J o ttin gs.

W.  W.  Thomas  has secured  the  stock 
of  groceries  formerly  owned  by L.  J. 
Blashfield  and  has  removed 
to 
North Jackson  street.

Q.  Walker, Jr.,  has  disposed  of  the 
remnauts of his stock  of  groceries to D. 
Shay  for some  real  estate.  Mr.  Walker 
goes to Albion College  to  study for  the 
ministry.

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Having purchased  a  Urge  lot of 
All  Silk  Ribbons  at  the great per-
emptorv sale in New York  for cash,
we are enabled to offer you the fol-
lowing bargains:
No.  5 ............
..................... 40c
No.  7.........
..................... 52c
No.  9.........
..................... 68c
No.  12............
..................... 84c
Or we will  assort  yon a box each 
of Nos. 5, 7, 9 and  12’ at  52>4c  aver­
age, and  you  can  select  your own 
colors.
We make  a  specialty of  Ribbons, 
and you will  find  that we  have the 
largest and  most complete  stock of 
these goods in the State.
inspection  or 
mail orders.

We  solicit  your 

20-22  No  Division  St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MiCH.

Above are a few cuts of Dolls and  Animals sold  by the  yard,  two  to  each yard, 

12J^c per yard,  put up in 20 yard lengths.

Gat,  Pickaninny,  Bow-wow,  Tatters,  IVlonkey,

WE  HAVE  ALSO  THE

A n d   S m a l l   K itte n s.

They are  a  great Christmas  seller.  ORDER  SAMPLES  AT  ONCE.

P.  S teketee  &  Sons,

GRAND ¿RAPIDS.

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Dry Goods Price Current.

D EM IN S.

U N BLEA C H EU   COTTONS.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

“  Arrow Brand  43* 
“  World Wide.  6
“  LL............. 4ü
Pull Yard Wide.......6)4
Georgia  A ...............  6)*
Honest Width.........  6
Hartford A  ..............5
Indian Head............  3)4
King A  A ................... 6)4
King E C ...................  5
Lawrence  L L........   4)4
Madras cheese cloth 63* 
Newmarket  G ... ...  53*
B  ........5
N ......... 6)4
D D ....  5)4
X ........ 63i£

Adriatic
Argyle  ....................   6
Atlanta AA..............6
Atlantic  A ...............  634
H ...............  6*
“ 
P .............   5
“ 
D...............6
“ 
“  LL...............  5
Amory......................   634
Archery  Bunting...  4
Beaver Dam  A A ..  434
Blackstone O, 32__   5
Black Crow..............6
Black  Rock  ............6
Boot, AL.................   7
Capital  A ................... 534
Cavanat V ...............   534
Chapman cheese cl.  334
Nolbe R....................5
Clifton  C R ..............  534
Our Level  Best.......6
Comet.......................   6)..i I Oxford  R .................  6
Dwight Star.............  634 Pequot.......................  7
Clifton CCC............  5?4 Solar..........................  6
¡Top of the  Heap__ 7
A B C ........................834
Geo.  Washington...  8
Amazon.................... 8
Glen Mills...............  7
Amsburg.................. 6)4
Gold Medal.............   7)4
Art  Cambric........... 10
Green  Ticket.......... 834
Blackstone A A.......  734
Great Falls...............  634
Beats A ll..................  434
Hope..........................  734
Boston....................12
Just  Out.......  434® 5
King  Phillip............734
Cabot........................   7)4
Cabot,  * ...................  63*
O P.....  7)4
Charter  Oak............534
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Lonsdale.............  ® 834
Conway W...............  7)4
Cleveland..............   6)4
Middlesex..........  ® 5
Dwight Anchor—   8'4 
No Name..............—  7)4
shorts  8
Oak View.................6
Edwards...................  6
Our Own..................  5)4
Pride of the W est.. .12
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Rosalind...................7)4
1.....................7)4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8)4
Sunlight...................  4)4
Utica  Mills............. 8)4
Pitch ville  .............  7
“  Nonpareil  ..10
First Prize...............7
Vlnyard....................  8)4
Fruit of the Loom %.  ?n
White Horse..........  6
Falrmount...............   4)4
“  Rock..............8)4
Full Value...............  634
Cabot........................   734|Dwlght Anchor.......8)4
Farwell....................   8 

H A L F  BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.

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Bleached.

tlousewife  Q.............634
R ............ 7
S 
......... 7)4
T..........8)4
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D isa d v a n ta g e s  o f  th e   P a ss  B ook  from  

th e   C onsum er’s  Stan d p oin t.

Annie B aily Ormsbee in H arper’s B azaar.
In spite of the expense  and  bother  of | 
doing  business  on  the  credit  system, 
there are but few tradesmen but welcome 
a customer who allows  his  bills  to run, 
well knowing that  the  patronage will be 
larger in that  way than  on a cash basis.  | 
Most people order many  things that they 
do  not  need  when  they  have  credit. 
There is a curious  attractiveness  in not 
paying to-day  what  may  be paid to-mor­
row.  There is au airy,  alluring unreal­
ity  about  the  cost  of  things  bought  on 
credit,  and  an 
illusive  quality  about 
money that  is  to  be  ours  to-morrow,  or 
next  week,  or next month.  One hundred 
dollars to come is apt to  have  an  appar­
ent  power 20  per  cent,  greater  than  a 
hundred  dollars  already possessed;  but, 
alas!  when the  money  materializes  into 
hard  cash 
it  has  but  its  face  value. 
There is no better cure for the impulsive 
habit  of  jumping  at  bargains—buying 
when judgment  and  common  sense  are 
off  guard,  or  yielding  to a taste that is 
more capricious than the purse is deep— 
than the practice of paying “cash down.”
In no set of domestic bills  is  this slip­
ping into  buying  more  and  more,  little 
by little, here 25 ceuts and there 10 cents 
and there $1, so  general  as  in  bills  for 
clothing and for food.  Of  the  two bills 
the grocer’s is  the worst.  When  money 
is not paid down for  table supplies  it al­
most inevitably follows that while adopt­
ing the credit system  you  at  the  same 
time grow into the custom  of  buying by 
orders,  and  the  purse  suffers  a  double 
leak.  Grocers are but  human,  and,  hard 
pressed  by  competition,  they cannot  be 
expected to select  supplies with the sin­
gle eye and  prudent care for the total  of 
the bill  and  the  quality of  the articles 
which the buyer  will exercise.
While a housekeeper, from lack of time 
or strength,  may  keep a  book at the gro­
cer’s  and  butcher’s she should never let 
them run  longer  than  a  week,  for  the 
sake of both her  temper  and her money. 
It is the  easiest  thing  in 
the  world to 
forget  what  has  been  bought, especially 
when  it has been eaten  up.  The first im­
pulse when reading the total  of  a  bill  is 
to declare it “ impossible,” “outrageous.’' 
Then follow a weary jogging of memory, 
a nagging of  the  cook  and au irritating 
dispute,  from  which  the  housekeeper 
comes out  beaten,  and  has  to  acknowl­
edge  under her  breath  that  the butcher 
was right.
Charging and ordering  are  largely  re­
sponsible for the pernicious habit of pay­
ing last mouth’s bills with  this  month’s 
money.  Hardly any  self-denial 
is  too 
great  to  be  practiced to get out of this 
tightening chain  of debt.  Every  worker 
is entitled to enjoy the  fruits of his toil; 
but  when, added to wasteful  purchases, 
poorer goods and annoying disputes over 
items, a person  is harassed over bills too 
big to be paid,  when the  dreary  plan  of 
robbing  Peter  to  pay Paul  begins,  and 
the strain of nil sorts  of  contriving  to 
lighten the load pulls one’s temper,  then 
indeed  are the bitter results of the credit 
system  felt to their fullest.
There are many  legitimate  opportuni­
ties to take advantage of special sales, or 
chances  to  buy articles  in  bulk,  which 
are a help in managing an  income.  But 
if  future  earnings are all mortgaged to 
meet past tills  there  can  be  no  help 
from such sources.  The  man  who  runs 
up a bill should  pay interest on  his  ac­
count  after three months.  Viewed in a 
selfish  light, leaving oat of account those 
people made  to  suffer  innocently from 
the  practice of  paying some other day, 
there is everything to gain  and  nothing 
to lose except a  bit of pride  over denials 
of tastes or  appetites,  by forsaking  the 
pass  book and  adopting the cash system, 
with 
its  twin  companion,  the  coupon 
book,  which  practically puts  all  store 
transactions on a cash basis.

A New Jersey  man  claims  to  be ‘‘the 
chicken king of the universe.”  His  “ec- 
calobeon,” or  artificial  hatching  estab­
lishment,  turns out  250.000  chickens  a 
year.  He keeps 2.000  laying  hens  and 
buys all the fresh and  fecund  eggs  that 
are offered him.

Every  production  of  genius  must  be 

the production of  enthusiasm.

Amoskeag..............
9 oz__
brown

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Andover....................11)4
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
B B...  9
OC....
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7 

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blue  8)4 
"  d a  twist 10)4 
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Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.19

Columbian  brown..12
Everett, blue............12)4
brown........12)4
Haymaker blue.......  734
brown...  734
Jeffrey...................... 11)4
Lancaster  ................12)4
Lawrence, 9 oz.........13)4
No. 220....13 
No. 250.... 11)4 
No. 280... 10)4

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GINGHAM S.
Amoskeag..................6)4 Lancaster,  staple...  6
fancies—   7
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“  Normandie  8
Lancashire..............   6
Manchester..............  534
Monogram...............  6)4
Normandie.............  7)4
Persian.....................7
Renfrew Dress........ 7)4
Rosemont.................  6)4
Slatersville............. 6
Somerset.................. 7
Tacoma  .....................7)4
Toll  duNord.......... 10)4
W abash....................  7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Warwick.................  7
Whittenden.............   8
heather dr.  7)4 
Indigo blue 9
Wamsutta staples.. •  63*
Westbrook.............. .  8
.10
Windermeer........... .  5
York  ...................... ■  63*

Persian dress  7 
Canton ..  7 
AFC........ 10)4
Teazle.. .10)4 
Angola. .10)4 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple—   634 
Arasapha  fancy—   434 
Bates Warwick dres  7)4 
staples.  6
Centennial..............  10)4
Criterion 
.............   10)4
Cumberland  staple.  5)4
Cumberland............  5
Essex.......................... 4)4
Elfin.........................   7)4
Everett classics___8)4
Exposition.................734
Glenarle..................   634
Glenarven..................634
Glenwood.................. 7)4
Hampton.................... 6)4
Johnson Ohalon cl 
)4 
Indigo blue  9)4 
zephyrs — 16

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G RAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag.................14  [Georgia  ................... 14)4
Stark........................  19 
...  .........
American.................14)41 
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Clark’s Mile End... .45
Coats’, J. & P ..........45
Holyoke................... 22)41

T H R E A D S.

Barbour's  ...............16
Marshall’s ...............81

K N ITTIN G   COTTON.

No. 6  ..  ..33 
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8..........34 
10..........35 
12..........36 

White.  Colored.
38
SS
40
41
CAM BRICS.

No.  14..........37 
16..........38 
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18..........39 
“ 
20..........40 

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

Slater........................  4!»
White Star........   ..  43*
Kid Glove  ...............  43*
Newmarket..............  43*

..............  43*
Edwards 
Lockwood..................43*
Wood’s ....................  434
Brunswick............   43*

R E D   FLA N N EL.

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

TW  .........................22)4
F T ...........................323*
J R F , XXX............. 35
Buckeye...................32)4

M IX ED   FL A N N E L .

nO M E T   FLA N N EL.

Red & Blue,  plaid. .40
Union R...................22)4
Windsor...................18)4
6 oz Western........... 20
Union  B
Nameless.......  8  @ 9)41 
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Brown. Black. Slate
93* 10)4
10)4 11)4
11)4 12
12)4 20
DU CK S.

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9) 4
10) 4
11) 4
12) 4
Severen. 8 oz...........   9)4
May land, 8 oz.......... 10)4
Greenwood, 7)4 oz..  9)4 
Greenwood, 8 oz— 11)4 
Boston, 8 oz..............10)4

Grey SR  W ..............17)4
Western W  ..............18)4
D R P ........................18)4
Flashing XXX.........23)4
22)4|Masltoba..................23)4
9  @ 10)4 
12)4
Brown. Black.
10)4
UK
12
20
West  Point, 8 oz 
10)4
10 oz
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Raven, lOoz..............13)4
13)4
 
Stark 
Boston, 10 oz............ 12)4

CANVASS  AND  PA D D IN G .
9)4
10)4
11)4
12)4

10)4
11)4
12
20

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White, do*.............   25  I Per bale, 40 doz  ..  *3 5f>
Colored,  doz............. 20 ¡Colored  “ 
........... 7 50
Pawtucket................10K
Slater, Iron Cross...  8
“ 
Red Cross—  9
Dundle  ....................  9
Bedford.....................ion
Best  .............10)4
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Valley  City.............1(>V4
KK....................   10K
L...................... 7V4
O......................8)4
Cortlcelll, doz..........85  [Corticelll  knitting,

SEW IN G   SIL K .

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

twist,doz..40 
50yd,doz..40  I
HOOKS  AND  E T E S — P E R  GROSS.
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..20
..25
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Crowely’s..................1  85 Gold  Eyed................1 50
MarshaU’B................1 OOlAmerican..................1  00
15—4 —  1  65  6—»...230
5—4 ....  1  75  6—4... 

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Cotton Sail Twine.. 28
Crown.......................12
Domestic..................18)4
A nchor..................... 16
Bristol...................... 13
Cherry  Valley......... 15
I X L .......................... 18)4
Alabama.....................63*
Alamance...................6)4
A ugusta.................... 7)4
At  sapha.................   6
Georgia...................... 6)*
Granite....................  53*
Haw  River..............  5
Haw  J ......................  5

Nashua..................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply___17
3-ply....17
North Star................20
Wool Standard 4 ply 17)4 
Powhattan.............. 18

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Oneida................ 
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Prymont.......  .......  53*
Ran del man.............   6
Riverside.................  53*
Sibley  A ..................  63*
Toledo  ....................

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Jno  A. Seymour,  Ass’t Cashier

C apital,  $ 3 0 0 ,0 0 0 .

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S. M. Lemon. 
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C’orallne................. 19 50|Wonderful...........#4 50
Schilling’s . .............  9 00 Brighton.......................4 75
Davis  Waists  —   9 00 Bortree’s ....................   9 00
Grand  Rapids.......  4  50i Abdominal............. 15 00
Naumkeagsatteen..  7)4
Armory 
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Androscoggin..........734
Rockport.................... 6)4
Conestoga.................. 7)4
Blddeford..............  6
Walworth  ................ 634
Brunswick...............6)4
Allen turkey  reds..  5)41 Berwick fancies—   5)4
robes............  5)4 Clyde Robes............
pink a purple  5)4 Charter Oak fancies  4)4
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buffs 
mourn’g  5)4
pink  checks.  5)4 
staples.......  5
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chocolat  5)4
shirtings 
rober  ...  5)4
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4  ¡Hamilton fancy.  ...  5)4
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4  Manchester  fancy..  5)4 
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6  Merrimack D fancy.  5)4
long cloth B.  9)4 Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
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century cloth  7
Pacific fancy  ..........5)4
gold seal.......10)4
Portsmouth robes...  6)4 
green seal TR10)4 
Simpson mourning..  534
yellow seal.. 10)4
greys.........534
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solid black.  534 
Turk«..- red.. 10)4 
Washington Indigo.  6)4 
Ballo" solid black..
colors.
Turkey robes..  7M
India robes__ 7)4
Bengal blue,  green, 
plain Tky X %  8)4 
red and  orange  ..  6
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Berlin solids...........   5)4
Ottoman  Tor-
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¡Harmony.......  4)4

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American indigo  .. 
American shirtings 
Argentine  Grays.. 
Anchor Shirtings  . 
Arnold 
Arnold  Merino

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AC A ......................13
Pemberton AAA — 16
Hamilton N  ............7)4
York.........................10)4
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Awning.. 11
Swift River.............   7)4
Pearl  River.............12
Farmer  ....................8
W arren.....................18)4
First  Prise  ............. 10)4
C siLLOga.............. 16
Lenox M ills............18
Atlanta,  D ...............  634|(ita  *  A 
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(Concluded from 3d page.)

too.  W ho  blam es  us?  Y ou  can’t,  can 
you?”

“ I  don’t  see  w hy  not. 

I  don’t  live  in 
a  glass  house  any  m ore  than  som e  other 
people.  D on’t you th ink  its  tim e  to  go 
in?”

“ N o.”  He  said 

it  very  perem ptorily. 
He  hesitated  before  he  w ent  on: 
“ W hat 
do  you  think  of  a  fellow   who  made  up 
his  mind  to  m ake  a  beautiful  girl 
like 
him  as  m uch  as  possible,  and  not  care  a 
snap  for  her— and  ended  up  t>y  being  so 
m uch  in  love  w ith  her  that  he  couldn’t 
think  o f anything else,  w hile  she  didn’t 
care  a  snap  for  him?”

“ 1  th ink  he  w as  very  indiscreet.  B ut 

w as  he  sure?”
“ Of  w hat?”
“ T hat she didn’t  care  a  snap  for  h im .” 
“ Eleanor!”
“ N o,  don’t  com e  near  me! 

I  m ust  ask 
you  som ething  first.  W hat do  you  think 
o f  a girl  who,  when  she  hears  a young 
man  is com ing, paints her w ith war paint, 
gets  out  her  tom ahaw k,  and 
intends  to 
subjugate  him,  and  instead  m erely  adds 
another scalp  to  his  belt?”

“ Eleanor!”
“ H ow   bold  you  are  to call  me  Eleanor, 
Mr.  A nderson,  w hen  we  have  known 
each  other only such  a short tim e!  A nd— 
w ell,  I  declare—you  dear old  thing!” 

Ro bert  B e v e r l y   H a l e .

STAND  BY  THE  POLICY, 

Sublime,  Patriotic,  and  National,

OP

America  for  the  Residents

of America.  Do not  abandon  the system which 
gives the country the  best  Opportunities for its 
Farmers,  Mechanics,  and  Young  People,  they 
have ever had!  No  Interference with  the  Pro­
tective Tariff and no Repeal!

Trample Upon

every proposition  for  Unlimited  Free  Coinage 
of Silver Dollars which  are worth  only 72 cents 
on the dollar.  Make  them worth  a  full Dollar.
T he $145,000 000  of  National  Bank  Notes  with­
drawn from circulation since  1881 have been re­
placed by over  $325100 (XO  of  Silver which  has 
been  put  out.  Now  make  the  people's  silver 
money worth its face, for your own benefit!

Reserve  the  Public  Lands 

for actual settlers and  save  them from monopo 
lies  and  speculators!  Protect  and  encourage 
the actual settler!

No  Interference 

with the progiessive policies of  the Republican 
party  (repeatedly enacted  into law) of building 
up  a  New  Navy;  Protecting  the  Sea  Coasts; 
Pensioning  Union veterans;  excluding the Chi­
nese;  Regulating  Inter-State  Commerce;  de­
fending the Common Schools;  Protecting Atrer- 
ican Citizens abroad;  Securing Reciprocity with 
other American  Nations;  demanding  Free  Ex­
pression of  the  Popular Will  in  Elections, and 
an  Honest  Count;  Extending  American  Com- 
me.ce;  Reviving  American  Shipping;  Temper­
ance;  and Rest-aining Trusts.

The  Superb  Market  Reports

of The N. Y. Tribune are now positively the best 
printed  by any newspaper  in  New  York  City. 
Ths Tribune is the only newspaper in New York 
which sends  men  personally into every market 
in the city every day of the business week to ob­
tain actual prices and the state of  trade.  Other 
papers  make  up  quotations  largely from circu­
lars  Commercial  t  avelers  say  unanimously 
that The Tribune’s  Market Reports are the best. 
The Tribune  now  beats  all  rivals in  the accu­
racy and  wouderful  completeness of  its quota 
tions.  To  be  successful,  a  practical and level 
headed  man  must  keep  fully  informed  as  to 
Prices and the State of Trade.  This can be done 
by taking The Tribune.

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892................. tO&lO

 

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

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel.............................. ..................per lb 
Ely’s 1-10................................................. perm 
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G. D .........................................................   “ 
Musket.................................................... 
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CAPS.

5

65
60
35
60

CARTRIDGES.

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

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

 

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25

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CO BIBS. 
Currv,  Lawrence’s .................
Hotchkiss................................
CHALK.
White Crayons, per  gross__
COPPER.
per pound 
Planlehed, 14 ox cut to size...
14x52, 14x56,14x60 ......................... 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................... 
Cold Rolled, 14x48........................................  
Bottoms.........................................................  . 
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks......................................... 
Taper and straight Shank............................ 
Morse’s Taper Shank....................................... 

DRILLS. 

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40
25
.. 12Q12M dls. 10 

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

dis.

Small sixes, ser pound................................... 
Large sixes, per pound...................................  

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DRIPPING PANS.

ELBOWS.

S ta tu s  o f th e   D ean e  F ailu re  a t  W o o d ­

lan d .

clothier, 

P. T. Colgrove,  assign ee of C. C. Deane, 
favors  T he 
list of  the  creditors 

the  W oodland 
T r a d e sm a n  with  a 
and  the  am ount ow ed each,  as  follow s: 
$394 00
Rice, Sayward *  Whitten Bros., Boston 
214 36 
Marsh  Bros. & Pierce,  Boston.."...........
116 00 
Miner & Beal, Boston..............................
White Bros..  Boston...................  ..........
152 10 
24 E0
United Shirt & Collar Co., Chicago.......
Kalamazoo Pant  &  Overall  Co.,  Kala­
6 50 
mazoo......................................................
Desbecher, Weile &  Co., Buffalo..........
324 25 
78 00 
Wile Bros , Buffalo..................................
77  75 
Orr Bros.. Buffalo...................................
Weed, Coburn &  Co., Toledo.................
48 71 
Stein, Block &  Co., Rochester...............
646 64 
Eggeman  &  Duquid, Toledo.................
66 78 
170 30 
K. C  Shaw & Co., Toledo........................
207 00 
M. H. Marker &  Co., Cincinnati............
M. H. Soloman,  Cincinnati  ...................
31  3 
‘Walter Buhl & Co.. Detroit...................
391 42
•Stanton, Morey & Co., Detroit............ 
1,126 6'
•Schloss Bros.  & Co., Detroit...........
252 03 
S. A. James.  Detroit.........................
41  10 
Meier Schucknecht, Detroit.........
742 00 
Weil, Stern & Co ,  Rochester..........
120  13
Levinson & Stern, Rochester..........
William Connor, Marshall...............
92 42
George C. Garlic. Woodland................. 
I. Thibout, Woodland......................
•Prank  F. Hilbert. Woodland...............   1,200 00
•Frank  Deane, Woodland....  ..............  1,500 00
S  Velte. Woodland..................................
50 58 
«tooper, Wells & Co.,  St. Joseph............
137  25
Otsego Manufacturing Co.  Otsego....
Eclipse  Manufacturing  Co.  Sterling,
111..........................  .........
25
Stephen Ballard Rubber Co., New York
City.
112  00 
tDauiel Striker, Agt., Hastings...... ......
Î50 00 
60 00 
Geo. Tinkler. Hastings...........................
781  Otl
*W. S.  Peck & Co ,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.......  2
tReal estate mortgage.
The appraised value  of  the  personal 
property  is  $7.084.60;  actual  cost,  $8.- 
917.77;  real  estate,  $5.58.  The real es­
tate consists of a  brick  olock,  on  which 
there are two mortgages  for  about 
the 
value.

•Secured. 

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Tribune.  This paper has its own corps of artists 
and  photo-engraving  plant.  It  contains  fea­
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«nd book reviews, and many special features.

No  Hatter  Whether 

you agree with The N. Y. Tribune  or  not, In its 
sentiments, can you afford cot to read its Dollar 
Weekly  regularly, while  a  reactionary party is 
in  power and during

These  Times  of  Change?

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THE  TRIBUNE,

NEW  YORK.

B etter T han th e  G enuine.

Some time ago it was  suggested  in the 
papers  that  one  could  profitably  make 
counterfeit dollars out of good coin silver. 
It  appears that  some  sharp  fellow  has 
acted on the suggestion,  and such dollars 
have recently turned  up  in  some  towns 
of West Virginia.  The only trouble about 
them is that  the  counterfeiter has over­
done  the  thing  a  little,  and  the  bad 
dollars are a  little too large.  They  ring 
and  feel all  right,  and  are made of stand­
ard coin silver,  but  they  will  not  pass 
through the  bankers’  guages.  There are 
said  to  be  2,000  of  them  circulated  in 
various parts of  that State,  and ordinary 
people are unable to detect them.

Great  works  are  performed  not  by 

strength,  but by  perseverance.

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T hese  prices  are  for caati  buyers,  w ho 
pay prom ptly  and  buy  in  fu ll  packages.

A UGURS AND  B IT S. 

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Snell’s ................................................................ 
40
Cook’s  ............................................................... 
25
Jennings’, gen u in e............................................. 
Jennings’,  imitation....................................... 50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.............................$ 7 00

A X ES.

D.  B. B ronze................................  i* 00
S.B .S. Steel..................................   8 00
D. B. Steel......................................  13 50

dls.

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bolts. 

........................................ ....$ 1 4  00
Railroad
.........................................  net  80 00
Garden
dls.
..........  
50*10
Stove.
Carriage new list.............................................. 75*10
Plow....................................................................40*10
Sleigh s h o e ...................................................... 
70
Well,  plain  .......................................................$350
Well, swivel...........................................................  4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured  ....................  
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint................60*.0

BUTTS. CA"T. 

B U CK ETS.

dls.
 

Com. 4  piece, 6 in .............................. dos. net 
Corrugated.............................................................dls 40
Adlnstable.............................................................dis. 40*10

75

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dls.

files—New List. 

Clark’s, small, $18;  large, $26........................ 
30
Ives’, 1, $18:  2. $24;  3,$30............................... 
25
Disston’s ........   ................................................60*10
...  ......................................60*10
New American 
Nicholson’s .......................................................60*10
Heller’s 
50
Heller’s Horse R asps.............. 
60

................................................. -........ 

dis.

 

 

GALVANIZED IRON

dls.
dls.

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

12 

15 

28
16 17

13 
Discount, 60

14 
GAUGES. 

dls.

LOCKS—DOOR. 

knobs—New List. 

Stanley  Rule and  Level Co.’s ...................... 
50
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings..................  
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings............... 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings  .........................  
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain.................... 
70
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .......... 
55
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s ..............................  
55
55
Branford’s ........................................................ 
Norwalk’s ........................................................ 
55
Adxe Eye..............................................$16 00, dls. 60
Hunt Eye..............................................$15.00, die. 60
Hunt’s  ........................................118.50, dis. 20*10.
dls.
50
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
40
“  P. 3. *  W. Mfg. Co.’h  Malleab’.es.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cls (k’s ................... 
40
“  Enterprise 
30
Stebbln’s  Pattern..............................................60*10
Stebbin's Genuine............................................ &>*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
25

MOLASSES GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MATTOCKS.

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

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...................................................................................  25
................  
................................................................................... 35

Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire. 
Steel nails, base.................................................. 1  50
5@1  80 
Wire nails, base........................................1
Base 
60......................................................... Base
10
50...........................................................
40...........................................................
25
30...........................................................
16........................................................... 
45
12........................................................... 
45
50
10........................................................... 
8............................................................. 
60
7 * 6 ...................................................... 
75
4 
.........................................................  
90
8............................................................. 
1  20
1  60
2............................................................. 
FlneS............................................................ 
Case  10................................................. 
65
75
8................................................. 
90
6.................................................  
Finish 10..............................................  
75
8...............................................  
90
6............................................. 
1  10
Clinch! 10.............................................  
70
80
8.............................................. 
6.............................................. 
90

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PL A N E S. 

Barrel!  X ..................................................... 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy...................................   040
Sclota Bench.................................................   O50
Sandusky Tool  Co.’i, fancy.........................  
040
Bench, first qnallt;..........................................  040
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 50*10
Fry,  Acme.................................................dis.60—10
Common,  polished....................................dls. 
70
d lB .
Iron and  Tinned.............................................. 
40
Copper Rivets and Bar*.................................. 50—10

R IV E T S. 

PA N S.

d lS .

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PA T E N T   P L A N ISH E D   IRO N .

RAMMERS.

d is.

HANGERS. 

HOLLOW  WARE.

longer............

2:
.di». 
Maydole  *  Co.’s .................................
2?. 
di». 
Kip’s ....................................................
dis. 40*10 
Yerkes & Plumb’s ..............................
soc list 60 
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........
30c 40*10
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand
H IN G ES.
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .........................   . 
dls.60&!
State............................................... per doz.  net, 2 5
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  in. 4>4  14  and 
3*
K ............ ............. net
10
%............ ............. net
8H
net
* ............ ....... 
7H
%............ ..........   net
7H
Strap and T .......
....... 
dis.
5T«
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50*10
Champion,  anti-friction................................  60*10
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
4i
Pots...................................................... 
... 
30*11
K ettles.......................................................  
60*10
 
Spiders  ............................................................  60*10
Gray enameled................................ 
40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware.................................new list 7u
Japanned Tin Ware........................................  
26
Granite Iron W are....................... new list 33)4*10
Blight........................................................  70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.......................  
70*10*10
Hook’s
70*10*10
6*10*10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes.............
d1s.7o
LEVELS.
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s
Sisal,  )4 inch and larger.......................  
Manilla.....................  
...........................  
SQ U A RES. 
Steel and  Iron...............................................
Try and Bevels......................  .
Mitre...........................................................
SHEET  IRON.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

w ire goods. 

9
13
'll« .

ROPE».

dls.

Com.  Smooth  Ooa
82
3
3
4 05  3
3
3
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inch 

Nos. 10 to  14........................................ $4-15 
Nos. 15 to 17 .........................................   4 05 
Nos.  18 to 21.........................................  4 05 
Nos. 22 to 24 ...................................  
Nos. 25 to 26 .........................................   4 25 
No. 27 ....................................................  4  45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’8 6 .....................................  rein.
SASH  CORD.
Silver Lake, White A ............... 
list

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Drab A ................................
White  B ............................
Drab B...........................
White C:.................................. “

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Discount, 10.

SASH  WEIGHTS.

Solid Eyes  ...............................................per tou  !
dis.

saws. 

“ 
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  7.
Cuts,  per  foot........ ......................................

d ig ,
80d

t r a p s . 

“ 

wire. 

Steel, Game......................................  
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............
36
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s  ..
Mouse,  choker.......................................18c per dot
Mouse, delusion.................................11.50 per dox
dls.
Bright Market.................................. ...............  65
Annealed Market............................ .............   .70—10
Coppered Market............................ .............  
60
Tinned Market................................ ......... 
02*%
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................
............... 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized............ ........ ......   2  80
painted.................
----  2 40
40*10
dis.  05
dis. 19*10

Au  Sable  ........................................ —  dis. 
Putnam............................................
Northwestern..................................
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled.............
Coe’s  Genuine...................................
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought. 
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.............
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bird Cages 
Pumps. Cistern................................
Screws. New I 1st
Casters, Bed  a  d  Plate...  ..................
Dampers.  American................................
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.

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

R O S S E   NAILS.

W REN CH ES.

•Ah1

METAL8,
P IG  T IN .

ZINC.

64i
7

26«
28«

BOLDER.

The  prices  of 

Pig  Large......................................................... 
Pig Bars......................................................... 
Duty:  Sheet, 2)4c per pound
680 pound  casks......................—   ............... 
Per  pound......................................................... 
K O H .........................................................................1«
Extra W iping......................................................  If
the many  other  qualities  of
Bolder In the market indicated by private brand» 
vary according to composition.
1 60
Cookson............................................per  pound
Hallett’s .......................................... 
13
T IN — N E L T N  G RADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal..........................................  $7
14x20IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

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

Bach additional X on this grade, 11.75.

ANTIM ONY

7  0
9  26
9  2E

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10x14 IC,  Charcoal..........................................$ 6 75
1 75
.......................................  6 75
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
8  25
14x20 IX, 
9  25

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ROO FIN G  PLA TES

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“  Worcester..............................  6
14x20 IC, 
.............................  8
“ 
14x20 IX, 
” 
20x28 IC, 
...........................   18
“  Allaway Grade..................  
14x20IC, 
6
7
“ 
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14x20 IX, 
“ 
12
“ 
20x28  IC, 
20x28 IX, 
11 
“ 
15
B O IL S B  SIZE T IN  P L A T S .
14x28 IX............................................................. $14
15
10

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“B” Wood’s  pat planished, Nos. 26 to 27.  .  9 20  14x5« IX. for No. 8 BoUers, I 
70*
114x60 IX, 
Broken packs *e per pound extra. 

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRAHEBMAN.

A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

Published at

lOO  Lotii*  St., Grand  Rapids,

— BY  THE —

TRADESMAN  COMPANY.
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ADVERTISING  RATES  ON  APPLICATION.

Communications  invited  from practical  busi­

ness men.

Correspondents must give their full  name and 
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a guarantee of good faith.

Subscribers may have  the  mailing  address  of 

their papers  changed as often as desired.
Sample copies sent free to any address.
Entered at Grand  Rapids post office as second- 

class matter.

J3?“When  writing to  any of  our  advertisers, 
please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement in 
V h e   M i c h i g a n   T r a d e s m a n .

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  22,  189.2.

THE  COUNTRY’S  FIRE  W A STE.
The statistics of losses by fire,  as  pub­
lished  by the New York Journal of Com­
merce,  have  just  been 
issued,  covering 
the totals for the year up to the close  of 
October.  The month of October  showed 
an  increase over  the  preceding  month, 
but  falls below the  same  mouth  in the 
two  preceding  years 
to  the  extent of 
§2,000,000,  in  round  figures.  The  total, 
§11,014,000, even  after allowing  for  the 
more  favorable  comparison  with 
last 
year,  is,  nevertheless,  very  large.  The 
total  for the year to the close of  October 
is still  very  much ahead of last year,  the 
increase being §24,000,000  in  round  fig­
ures.

When  it is remembered that  insurance 
rates  have  been  raised 
to a greater or 
less extent all over the country the  con­
tinued increase in  the fire waste is extra­
ordinary.  While the moral  hazard  has 
undoubtedly something  to  do  with  the 
large 
losses,  the  steady increase in  the 
losses,  in  spite  of  the  precautionary 
measures adopted during the  past  year, 
proves the existence of  some  abnormal 
causes  which  are  primarily responsible 
for the tremendous waste.

The loss in  this  country  by fire is  very 
much  heavier in  proportion  than  in  any 
country.  While it  is true that 
the  loss 
falls primarily on 
the underwriters,  the 
actual  ultimate damage  is  to  the  nation 
as a whole,  and  a loss of  §150,000,000 in 
a year, which is probably what the waste 
will  amount to this year, is a heavy drain 
even to as rich a country as this.

It is a  fortunate  thing  for  the  unse­
cured creditors of  Nelson,  Matter & Co. 
that the United States Court has changed 
the  relation  of  the  Michigan Trust Co. 
from that of assignee to receiver,  as that 
institution  has  established a reputation 
for  successfully  conducting 
insolvent 
estates which  places it in  the front  rank. 
The Trust Co.  assumed control of  the R. 
G.  Peters Salt and  Lumber  Co.  when  it 
was  hopelessly  bankrupt,  but  the  re­
markable  business capacity of President 
Withey  and  his  associates,  fortified  by 
the  financial  strength  of  their  corpora­
tion,  has brought order out of  chaos and 
has  given,  or  will  give,  every  patient

creditor  100  cents on the dollar,  besides 
taming back a magnificent property  into 
the hands of  the original  owners of  the 
company.  While the  Trust  Co.  cannot 
be expected to bring about any  such  re­
sult  for  the creditors of  Nelson,  Matter 
&  Co.,  all  interested  in  the failure are 
now  assured  that  they  will  realize  all 
that  skillful  management  can  possibly 
produce.

A Minnesota merchant,  who was  com­
pelled to go into  bankruptcy,  issues the 
following manly statement  to his credit­
ors:  “ It has been the greatest sorrow of 
my life to know that through my misfor­
tune others have  suffered,  but  I 
trust 
that I may yet be of service in  assisting 
the closing up of matters  to  the  benefit 
of my creditors 
It  is  my purpose to de­
vote the balance of my  life to the task of 
making good the losses of those who have 
suffered through my business  reverses.”
T w o T hings  W hich P u zzle S om e P eop le. 
From the Owosso Times.
Two things relating  to  Owosso  strike 
the Times as peculiar and unexplainable.
First,  why the business men of the city 
sit idly  by and make no protest regarding 
the license charged transient dealers who 
come to Owosso to sell on  oar  streets  a 
lot  of  poor  trash  at  big  prices.  The 
Council ought not to wait to be requested 
to raise the license charged this  class of 
fellows.  As business men,  to whom the 
interests of the city have been entrusted, 
they should see  that  this  class  of  men 
hurt  not  only  the  seller  but  also  the 
buyer,  as most of the goods  sold  are  of 
the  poorest  quality.  The  fee  per  day 
now exacted is §2. 
It  should  be  raised 
to not  less than §5, and,  better  still,  to 
§10.  Owosso from every  point  of  view 
will be better off  if this class of  dealers 
are not allowed  to sell  a  dollar’s  worth 
of  any  class  of  merchandise.  The  few 
paltry dollars paid into the city treasury 
do not in any wise  compensate  the  loss 
to  the  home  dealers  or  to  purchasers. 
We ask the Council to carefully consider 
this  matter  and  take  some  action  to 
remedy the evil  at the next meeting.
The second unexplainable thing is why 
Owosso business  men  patronize  every 
“ fake” advertising  scheme which is pre­
sented  to  them.  From  conversations 
with many of our  dealers we  feel  sure 
that they  know that most of the schemes 
are humbugs of  the worst  kind.  Take, 
for instance,  the  paper  bag  fiend who 
represents  to  advertisers  that  he will 
print 10,000 bags and  then  really prints 
three or  five  thousand, or  the “fakir” 
who gets out a railway directory to  con­
sist  of  5,000  copies,  when,  in  fact,  it 
rarely exceeds  500,  and  then  most  of 
these  are  left  in 
the  office where the 
work is done,  a few being  taken away  to 
make collections  with.  Who ever  stops 
to read an advertisement on a paper bag, 
especially  when 
is  printed  with  a 
dozen others?  Who  sees  a  railway or 
business  directory a  week  after  it  is 
thrown  around?  The  money  given  to 
those traveling “fakirs” is simply thrown 
away.  We have known many of them to 
take away  from §30 to §45 clear  for  two 
days’ work.  We believe in 
the  use  of 
printer’s ink,  but not  in  this way.  The 
same money spent  in  a  legitimate way 
with the printers of  the  city would  do 
the  merchant  many times  the  good  it 
does,  and then he would not  be asked an 
exorbitant price.  Will  some one  tell  us 
why these schemes are patronized?

it 

From  O ut o f T ow n.

Calls  have  been 

received  at  T he 
T r a d e sm a n office during the  past  week 
from  the  following  gentlemen  in  trade: 

J.  F.  Gauweiler, Croton.
E. J.  Manshum,  Fisher.
H.  W.  Worden,  Boon.
J. C.  Neumann  & Co.,  Dorr.
J.  L. Cavey,  Reno.
Frank Smith, Leroy.
Den Herder & Tannis,  Vriesland. 
Brooks & Whitten,  Grattan.
C. A.  Vandenbergh.  Howard City.
E.  Boersma,  Oakdale Park.
Thurston & Co., Central  Lake.

D eath   o f A .  O.  B utler,  th e   F rankfort 

L um berm an.

F r a n k fo r t,  Nov.  14—A.  G.  Butler, 
the leading lumberman of  this  place,  is 
dead.  Mr.  Butler was one of the pioneer 
sawmill men of the town  and  his  mill 
turned out about all  the  pine  that was 
sawed here.  Years ago  Erastus Corning 
owned a large tract of pine on  the Betsie 
River and made  a  contract  with  Hall & 
Lincoln to  cut, drive, saw and  pile  this 
pine  at  Frankfort  for  §7  a thousand, 
which was a big figure,  and  they made a 
lot of money at it.  Hall  &  Lincoln, not 
wishing to be bothered with  a  sawmill, 
contracted with Butler  to  saw and pile 
for  §2  a  thousand,  and  for  years  he 
turned  out  regularly  about  20,000,000 
feet of pine lumber. 
It  need  not be re­
marked that on such  a  contract  Butler 
grew rich.  A  few years  ago  the  pine 
was all cut out and since  that  time  the 
mill  has been sawing hemlock  and bard- 
woods.  This season it has been  cutting 
hemlock  for  Houseman & Munro, of Mus­
kegon,  the cut having been sold  early in 
the spring to the  S.  K.  Martin  Lumber 
Co.,  of Chicago.
N o  M ore  H olid ay  P resen ts  N or  B read 

P ed d lin g.

J ackson,  N ov.  16—An  adjourned
meeting of  the  Retail Grocers’  Associa­
tion was  held  this  evening,  with  ex- 
President C.  G.  Hill in the  chair,  for the 
purpose of considering the  holiday pres­
ent and the bread peddling question.
The  Committee  on  Petition, relative 
to the discontinuance of  giving  holiday 
presents,  reported that they had  secured 
the signatures of nearly all  the  grocers, 
and that  every one  seemed  heartily in 
favor of the movement.
On motion, the report was received and 
the matter was placed in  the  hands of a 
committee to draft a suitable heading for 
printing and have the petition and names 
published  in the  daily papers.
The bread  question was  discussed  at 
length  and  was  amicably settled  by an 
agreement of the wholesalers to  sign  an 
agreement to  stop  peddling  from 
the 
wagon to private houses.

W.  H.  P orter,  Sec’y.

T he  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar—The market is unchanged from 
a week ago.  The demand is not  strong, 
as there  is  a  general  impression  that 
prices will  be further reduced  about the 
time Congress meets in December.  Raw 
sugars have declined 
l-16c  during  the 
week and are weak at the decline.

B u sin e ss  C hange  a t  K en d allville.
Ke n d a l l  v il l e,  Ind.,  Nov. 20—L.  E. 
Kruger has sold an interest  in  his  drug 
the  firm will 
stock to U. A.  Long,  and 
hereafter be known as  Long  &  Kruger. 
Mr.  Long was  formerly of  the  firm  of 
Long & Kennedy,  druggists  at  Bryan, 
Ohio.

A novel  idea for  dealers  carrying  on 
an  umbrella  and cane business is prac­
ticed by a cigar  retailer.  He  suspends 
outside of his shop one of  the  large red 
umbrellas  which  swing  about  in 
the 
breeze,  and  advertise  the fact that um­
brellas are sold  there;  but  from  each 
rib point hangs a hollow tin cigar  about 
eight  inches  long,  suspended  by  the 
head,  and  having  ash  painted  on  the 
bottom  end; 
these  swing  around with 
the  umbrella,  and  occasionally  rattle 
against each other,  and the  more windy 
it is the more  attention  they attract.
Grand  Rapids  R etail  Grocers’ Association. 
President,  J.  A.  Smits;  Secretary,  E. A. Stowe. 

Official  Organ—M ic h ig a n   T r a d e s m a n .

PRODUCE  M ARKET.

Apples—Carefully  selected  Greenings,  Spys 
and Baldwins command $3  per bbl.  No. 2 stock 
is  held  at  $2@3.25 per bbl.

Beans  — Dry  stock 

in  freely. 
Handlers  pay $1.40 for country cleaned and $1.50 
for country picked.

is  coming 

Butter—Weaker and lower, due to the remark­
able Increase in  the  consumption  of  butterine 
and oleo.  Dealers  pay  20@21c for choice dairy, 
bolding at 22@23c.  Creamery Is slow sale at 28c.

Cabbage—Home grown, $2@3 per 100.
Carrots—20c per bushel.
Cranberries—Cape Cod  are  a  little  stronger, I

commanding $2.25 per bu. and $6.25 per bbl.  Jer­
seys are in moderate demand at 25c less.

Celery—Home  grown  commands  15c  per  doz.
Eggs—The  market  is  about  the  same  as  a 
week ago.  Handlers  pay  18c, holding at 20c per 
doz.

Grapes—New York Concords command 20c per 
8-lb. basket.  Catawbas bring 25c, while Malagas 
In 55-lb. kegs bring $4@5.  California Tokays are 
the cheapest  ever  known  at  this  market, com­
manding $1.25 per 4 basket crate.

Honey—White  clover  commands  16c  per  lb, 

dark buckwheat brings 13@14c.

Lettuce—Grand Rapids  forcing, 18c per lb.
Onions—Home  grown  are  weak  and  slow of 
sale, owing to the large amount of stock thrown 
on the market.  Handlers pay 35c, holding at 45c 
per bu.  Spanish  are  In  small  demand  at $1.25 
per crate.

Potatoes—The market Is  a  little more bouyant 
than a week ago,  handlers  paying 45c  here and 
40@42c at outside buying points.
Squash—Hubbard, 114c per lb.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys  command  $3.75  and 

Baltimores $2.75 per bbl.

Turnips—25c per bn.

POULTRY.
Local dealers  pay  as  follows:

DRESSED.

Fowl..............................................................8
Turkeys......................................................12‘/J@13
Ducks  ........................................................ io  @12
Chickens......................................................  7  @ 3

OILS.

BARBELS.

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows:

Eocene................................................... 
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7U
XXX  W.  W. Mich.  Headlight. . . .  i...! 
Naptha........................................................  @ 6*4
Stove Gasoline......................................... 
@ 7%
Cylinder...................................................... 27 @36
E ngine.........................................................13 @21
.............................  @ 8V
Black, 15 cold  test 
FROM  TANK  WAGON.
Eocene 
7
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight.......  
5%

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FOR  SA L E ,  W A N TED ,  ETC.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

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810

IfflOR  SALE—NEARLY  NEW  7%  HORSE 
power Otto gas engine  Discarded because 
we must have  more  power.  W.  T.  Lamoreaux 
816
Co.. 122 West Bridge St., Grand Rapids. 
OR  EXCHANGE—FOR  GRAND  RAPIDS 
real estate, a new stock of clothing and fur 
nishing  goods,  Invoicing  from $5,C00  to  $6 000. 
Address No. 815, care Michigan Tradesman.  815 
OR  SALE—SHINGLE  MILL,  NEARLY 
new, capable of  cutting 50,000  feet  to-mor­
row.  Must be sold  soon.  Big  bargain for cash 
buyer.  For  particulars  address.  Holmes & De- 
Golt  Tustin,  Mich. 

F or  s a l e —a  c l e a n  stock  o f  d r u g s,

groceries  paints, oils,  sundries, soda appa 
ratus,  etc., in  a  live,  growing  manufacturing 
town  of 2,000;  will  invoice  about  $4,000;  only 
two  other  drug  stores;  good  business;  can  be 
increased;  best location;  three years’ lease;  no 
trade.  Reasons  for  selling wish  to  engage  in 
outdoor pursuits.  Address  Lock  Box 5, North- 
ville, Mich. 
T  WANT  TO- PURCHASE  LARGE“GENEKAL 
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stock,  if  cheap.  Address  lock  box  423, 
Stanton. Mich. 
I lOR  SALE—FIRST-CLASS  BOOK  AND sTA 

tionery stock in  one  of  the  best towns  in 
Michigan of 3,540 inhabitants.  Good reasons for 
selling.  Addiess No. 802, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
802
FOR  SALE—c ity  d r u g   st o r e,  good 
location on prominent business street.  In­
voice $1,800.  Good  business.  Investigation  so­
licited.  Address Castoria, care of carrier Wells, 
803
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

I IOR  SALE—$3,500  STOCK  OF  GENERAL 

merchandise and two-story building.  Rail­
road,  500  population.  Established  strictly cash 
business.  Center  of  town.  Best  farming  sec­
tion  of  Michigan.  Baigain.  W.  H.  Pardee, 
Freeport. Mich. 
\I7A N T E D —TO  EXCHANGE  A  VALUABLE 
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farm of 160 acres  for merchandise or per­
sonal  property.  The  farm  is  located  near  a 
thriving town, 45 acres  improved, balance heav­
ily timbered.  Address  No.  805,  care  Michigan 
Trade-man.____________  
ANTED—TO  EXCHANGE,  DESIRABLE 
v v  Kalamazoo real  estate  for  merchandise. 
Ca’vln Forbes, Kalamazoo, Mich.____  

business, clean  stock,  in  one  of  the  best 
cities in  southwestern  Michigan.  Other  inter­
ests to look  after.  Address  808,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

F OR  SALE—FIRST  CLASS  HARDWARE 
I IOR  SALE—THETH EO DO REK EM INK  

drug stock  and fixtures  on  West  Leonard 
street.  Paying  investment.  Will  sell  at  half 
real value.  For  particulars,  enquire  of  Henry 
Idema, Kent County Savings  Bank, Grand Rap­
ids. 

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SITUATION*  WANTED.

ANTED—SITUATION  BY  COMPETENT 
salesman  and  stock-keeper  in  lumber 
company store.  No. 1  references.  Address  un­
til Jan. 1, ’94, Walter  E.  Bigelow,  Keno,  Mich., 
care of H. & H. 

■ ANTED—A  practical  druggist, with  some 

capital, to take charge of a first-class drug 
store.  Address  C.  L.  Brundage,  opera  house 
block, Muskegon,.Mlch. 

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Detroit,  Mich.

E X C L U S IV E L Y ,

W H O L E S A L E ,
D R U G S ,
P a in ts,  Oils,
DRUG6I8T8’  SUNDRIES.
N ew   S to rel  N ew   Goods!  N ew   A ddress!

FRONTAGB,  130  FEET.  DEPTH,  120  FEET.  HEIGHT,  75  FEET.

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NOS.  20,28,30,32,34  36,38  EAST  CONGRESS  STEEET.

Our  Stock  is  Large  and  Varied.

Our  Facilities  Are  Unsurpassed.

We  Pay  Special  Attention  to  Mail  Orders.

We  Guarantee  All  Goods  That  Come  From  Our  House.

Buyers  Visiting  Detroit  Are  Invited  to  Call  Upon  Us.

O U R  R E M O V A L
"W as  a c c o m p l i s h e d   b y   a n  
e le v a te d   b rid g e ,  a s   p e r   c u t 
a n n e x e d .

OUr:  flew:  Building

Is  a l m o s t   in  r e a r   o f  o u r   old 
sto re ,  b u t   a c r o s s  
th e   side 
street.

O R D ER S

R espectfully Solicited

DETROIT.

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Drusfs #  M e d ic in e s .

State  Board  o f Pharm acy. 

One  Year—Jam es  Vernor, D etroit.
Two  Year»—O ttm ar Eberbaeh, Aim  Arbor 
Three  Year»—Georgre Gundrum. Ionia.
Pour  Year»—C. A  Bugbee, Cheboygan.
F ive Years—S. E. Park ill, Owosso.
President—Ottm ar Eberbaeh, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Stanley E.  P a rk  ill, Owosso. 
T reasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Io n ia.

michfsran  State  Pharm aceutical  As»’n. 
President—A. B. S tevens, Ann Arbor 
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, D etroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
Secretary—S. A. Thom pson, Detroit.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 
President, John D. M uir;  See'y ,  Frank H. E scott.

THE  DOLLAR  D ISEA SE.

This is a country of  dollars. 

From th e A ge o f  Steel.
It  is  in 
no such abundance elsewhere.  For speed 
both in coming and going,  it has the red 
ribbon  of  the  planet.  We  have  more 
to spend or  throw  away  than any other 
nation.
It is supreme in  politics,  influential  in 
police courts,  and sovereign  in establish­
ing the difference  between  a  gentleman 
and a mere occupant of trousers.
It 
In business  its  name  is  magical. 
covers  the  sins  of  rogues  and  is a ser­
pent in the apple tree to business men.
It can claim credit  where none is due, 
and boost men into trade and  contingent 
indebtedness where  honesty  and certifi­
cates of good character  would  fail to se­
cure a new hat or a pair of socks.
In this line it has  been eminently suc­
cessful, and what it has done in  building 
business and pulling it  down  is  one  of 
the miracles of modern times.  The fault 
is uot in itself,  but  in  the  men  who use 
it. 
It has, or it ought  to  have,  its own 
intrinsic value. 
It ought  not  to sour or 
get gray,  nor degenerate  by  use  or age, 
but somehow or other it does both.
We have enough of  the  article  either 
in egg or feather  to  buy  food,  pay rent 
and owe nothing to  merchants  or manu­
facturers,  but  on  certain occasions,  and 
at almost regular  intervals,  money,  like 
a housewife's pins on  Sunday mornings, 
is practically out of reach  or  discovery.
It is true that as a rule we are extrava­
gant.  We spend more  than  the  rest of 
the world on  what we  could  do without. 
We live high  with  less  returns  of  flesh 
than of  patent  medicines.  We  dress as 
no other people  dress,  bringing  distinc­
tion to our perigrinating bodies and  mis­
fortune to the tailor.
We pay a higher price to hear a singer 
crack his throat or see a pugilist break  a 
rib than any other devotees  of  music or 
knock-outs..
For horses that can  beat the  record  or 
men that can hit a ball, we are sublimely 
large,  while iu all  things,  from a hero to 
a pug dog,  we are without  limit  in  cash 
or certificates.
This is all true, unfortunately too true, 
but the fact remains that  however freely 
we  spill  the  milk, 
the  cow never runs 
dry.  Our  only  hesitancy  and  plea  of 
poverty  is  in  business  panics.  These, 
like the  seasons  and  the  weather,  have 
their cycles.  No  statesmanship has  yet 
been  able  to  prevent  their  recurrence. 
The science  of  finance,  supposedly  the 
finest drawn of any in  modern  times,  is 
at certain intervals imbecile.
We split decimals and  get  rich on the 
chips,  analyze discounts and  percentage, 
dress statistics to a  nicety, and  can  tell 
the world how much  beef it eats and how 
much  beer  it  drinks,  but with  all  our 
skill on paper we get  into bad tangles in 
practice.  The  oversight  is 
in  leaving 
human  nature out of  our arithmetic.  We 
mistake coin for progress and  figures for 
character. 
In counting our eggs we over­
look  the sick or dead hen in the bam.
It is a fact,  whether we  like  it or not, 
that no system of  finance and no kind of 
dollar,  be it gold or  silver,  aluminum or 
any other metal,  can  change the human 
nature that uses  it.  Men will cheat and 
lie,  be selfish  as  hogs  and voracious  as 
sharks  under  every  monetary  system, 
and though much can  be done and much 
ought to be done to limit their opportuni­
ties,  the cold  fact  remains  that the dis­
ease  of  the dollar in  a  human sense is 
practically incurable.
We are not without  blame  in this mat­
ter.  We have made money in  a national 
sense the chief object  of  life.  The man

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TEADESM AK.
Unlike me Dutch  Process
Do  Alkalies
Other  Chemicals
’p.BiiirKo.'! 
Breakfast  Cocoa,

who has the most  of  it—no  matter how 
he got it—is an American king.
From a constable to a Congressman, on 
a railway train or in  a  barber  shop,  the 
man of dollars is the  man  of  attention. 
In the education of  children  is  it  not a 
fact we  would  rather  produce  a bright 
bookkeeper than  a  self-sacrificing Chris­
tian,  and  when a  biography  is closed  by 
| the undertaker, do  we  not  measure  the 
success of a  life by the  statement left in 
the bank?
In social life and even in the temple of 
I God we develop the same dollar crook in 
our  vertebra?.  This  may  be at variance 
with the democratic nature  of  our insti­
tutions,  by  which,  as is observable to all 
men who know anything of the European 
world,  we  are  escaping  old  servilities. 
It is the one thing,  however,  to  give up 
the worship of  blood  and  rank,  and an­
other to  transfer  our  reverence  from a 
duke to a dollar.
It is time for us to inquire as  to where 
we are drifting. 
In business,  as in other 
matters,  there is  inspiration  in succe
It  would,  however,  be  better  for the 
nation, even in its commercial prosperity. 
If  men  were  as  busy  in  paying  their 
debts as  in  contracting them,  and  busi­
ness  honor  counted  for more  than  a 
stoleu dollar.  Till  we  reach  this  p unt 
we  shall  suffer from  the  disease  of the 
dollar.

which is absolutely pure 

and soluble.

A  d e s c r ip t io n   o f   t h e   c h o c o la te  
p la n t ,  a n d   o f   t h e   v a r io u s   c o c o a  
a n d  c h o c o la t e  p r e p ?  r a t io n s  m a n  
u f a c t u r e d   b y  W a lte r  B a k e r  & Co 
w ill  b e  s e n t f r e e  t o  a n y   d e a le r o r  
a p p lic a t io n .

W. BAKER & GO.,  Dorchester. Mass.

are  used  in  the
preparation of

W ill
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BDY  THE  PENINSULAR

Once and You ate our Customer 

for life.

Stanton  Morey,

DETROIT,  MICH.

Geo. F. Ow en, Salesman  for Western  Michigan, 

Residence  59 N.  Union St.. Grand  Rapids.

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Pay the best profit.  Order from your jobber.

h e a d a c h e
P O W D E R S  

Dust  Poisons  and  Stink  Poisons.
Since the adoption of  the germ theory 
of disease,  medical  investigation  has  at 
last  got  solid  ground 
to  work  upon 
in determining the causation of the phys­
ical  disorders which  attack  the  human 
body.

Small-pox, syphilis and  itch are propa­
gated  by the 
transfer,  through  actual 
contact,  of the microphytes of  those dis­
eases.  Cholera and typhoid fever bacilli 
are received  in  drinking  contaminated 
water,  possibly also in  bathing iu  it. 
In 
every case there must  be a reception  into 
the healthy body of the living and active 
germ of malignant  diseases.

But they are not all acquired  by phys­
ical contact or through  the  drinking  of 
water.  Vast numbers  are  iuhaled with 
the dust  which  floats  in the atmosphere. 
When the  human  nostrils  discover  an 
odor in the atmosphere it  is  because ac­
tual  particles  of  the  substance which 
gives off that odor are suspended  iu  the 
air round about.  Be the odor a pleasing 
and healthful perfume,  or the product of 
a vile and  putrid decay,  there  are  actu­
ally small  fragments  of  the  substance 
floating in the atmosphere,  and  these are 
taken into the mouth,  nose and eyes.

Obviously, then, dust poisons and stink 
poisons are more numerous than any oth­
ers,  and these it is next to impossible  to 
escape.  We  may  filter  and  boil  our 
water,  or refuse to drink  it  altogether, 
but we  must  breathe  the  atmosphere. 
We cannot filter that,  and as  for  disin­
fecting  it,  this  cau  only be done in  in­
closed  spaces,  such  as  apartments  in 
houses and the interior spaces  of  ships. 
As for disinfecting the whole  of  out-of- 
doors,  that is not to  be thought of.

Diphtheria,  malarial  fevers,  scarlet 
fever and  typhus fever are,  in all  proba­
bility, the results of dust  and vapor poi­
sons,  the living  germs  or  microbes  of 
those  diseases  being  received  into the 
human  system along with the  dust  and 
the exhalations  of  various  sorts which 
are inhaled in the atmosphere.
P a ssin g   T h ou gh ts.

Life is a campaign,  not  a  battle,  and 
has its defeats as well as its victories.
The man  who depends on  luck  gener­
ally finds that it has  passed  just  ahead 
of him.
The intelligent have a  right  over  the 
ignorant; namely,  the  right  of  instruct­
ing them.

KÄLÄMÄZOO PÄfiT i OVERALL CO.

221  E. Main  St., Kalam azoo, 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 $42 tier  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 
trade.

BROS 
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A  LADY’S

GENUINE  :  VICI  :  SHOE,

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

REEDER  BROS.  SHOE  CO ,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Q u i c k   S e ^ e r s ‘

W//AT?

THE  NEW  FALL  LINF

M a n u f a c t u r e d   b y

SNEDICOR  &  HATHAWAY,

DETROIT,  MICH,

All the Novelties in  Lasts  and  Patterns.

State  Agents  Woonsocket  and  Lyco­

ming  Rubber  Co.

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Dealers wishing to see the line address 
F.  A.  Cadwell,  41  Lawn  Court,  Grand 
Rapids. Mich.

Tour  Bank Account Solicited.

GRAND  RAPIDS  ,MICH.

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

Henry  Idema, Vlce-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  Vebdier,  Cashier.

K. V a n   H o p , Ass’tCVr. 

Transacts a General Banking  Business. 

Interest  A llow ed  on  Time  and  Savings 

Deposits.

DIRECTORS:

Jno. A. Covode, D. A  Blodgett,  E. Crofton Fox. 
T. J. O'Brien.  A. J.  Bowne,  Henry Idema, 
Jno.W. Blodgett,J. A. McKee, 
J. A. S. Verdier.
D eposits  Exceed  One  M illion  D ollars,

Henil  la i

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Catarrh, 
May Fever, 
Headache,
Nenralp,  Colds  Sore  Throat.

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

Prevents and cures

S e a   Sickness
sensation 

On cars or boat.

The  cool  exhllerating 

follow­
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 mall 60c, from

H.  D.  CUSHMAN.  M anufacturer.

Three  Rivers,  Mich.

{^“Guaranteed satisfactory.

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SEND  US  YOUR

B E A N S ,
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WE  WANT  THEM  ALL,
NO  MATTER  HOW  MANY.

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TH E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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Wholesale Price  Current•

Advanced-

Decllned—Opium.  Morphia. 

Linseed Oil. 

Neatsfoot Oil.

“ 

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Morphia, S. P. & W.  2 
S.  N. Y. Q.  &
C.  Co......................  2
Moschus  Canton........
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..
Os.  Sepia......................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co..............................
Plcls  Llq, N.»C., H gal
doz  ...........................
Plcls Llq., quarts.......
pints..........
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80).. 
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22).. 
Piper Alba,  (po g5) —
Pix  Burgun.................
Plumb! A cet...............
Pulvls Ipecac et opll.. 1 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz.......
Pyrethrum,  pv............
Quasslae......................
Quinta, S. P. & W.......
S.  German__
Rubla  Tlnctorum.......
Saccharum Lactls pv.
Salacln......................... 1
Sanguis  Draconis.......
Sapo,  W........................
“  M.........................
“  G.........................

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10® 2 35
00®2 25 
@  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 
21®  30 
12®  14 
20®  2 2 
75@1  80 
40®  50 
12®  14 
10®  12 
@  15

@

Seldlltz  Mixture........
Slnapis...........................
*r  opt....................
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
®
V oes.........................
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes 
10®
Soda Boras,  (po. 11).  .
27®
Soda  et Potass Tart...
SodaCarb..................   1)4®
Soda,  Bl-Carb..............  @
Soda,  Ash...................... 3)4®
Soda, Sulphas..............  @
Spts. Ether C o............  50®

@2 25 
Myrcia  Dorn. 
@3 00
Myrcla Imp. 
vini  Rect. bbl.
7 ..........................2 25®2 35
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal.......1  40@1  45
Sulphur, Subl............. 2)4®  3
“  Roll...............  2  @ 2H
Tamarinds..................  
8®   10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  30
Theobromae..............45  @  48
Vanilla....................... 9 00@16 00
Zind  Sulph................. 
7®  8

OILS.

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

Bbl.  Gal
70
85
45
40

“ 

p a i n t s . 

Linseed,  boiled..........  40 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained................. 
65 
Spirits Turpentine—   37 
b b l .  

43
70
40
l b .
Red  Venetian.............. IK  2®3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__IK  2@4
“ 
Ber.........IK  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2*4  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure......2)5  2K@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16
ican ............................. 
Vermilion,  English__  
65@70
Green,  Peninsular....... 
70@75
Lead,  red......................  65!£@7
w hite.................6K@7
Whiting, white Span. 
@70 
Whiting,  Gliders’
®9G 
White, Paris  American 
1  0
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
c liff.............................
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints..........  .......... 1 00@1  20

V A R N ISH ES.

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

Tururp.

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils  Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole A gents for the  Celebrated

SWISS  I/ILLR  PREPARED  PRINTS.

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W e are Sole Proprietors o f

Weattierlu’s  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

W e H ave in  Stock and Offer a P u ll L ine of

WHISKIES, 

BRANDIES
GINS,  WINES,  RUMS,

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

iE  & PERKE.........

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

TIN C TU R ES.

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Aloes.......................................  1
and myrrh...................  1
Arnica...................................  
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Asafoetlda..............................
Atrope Belladonna...............  
1
Benzoin..................................  1
“  Co............................. 
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Sangulnarla........................... 
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Barosma................................
Cantharides...........................   1
Capsicum...............................  !
Ca  d amort...............................  1
Co...........................
Castor......................................1 1
Catechu..................................
Cinchona...............................  !
Co...........................   1
Columba................................  !
Conlum..................................  :
Cubeba....................................
Digitalis  ................................
Ergot.......................................
Gentian..................................
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Gualca...................................
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ammon......................
Zingiber................................
Hyoscyamus.........................
iodine.....................................
Colorless....................
Ferrl  Chlorldum..................
K ino.......................................
Lobelia...................................
Myrrh.....................................
Nux  Vomica.........................
O pll........................................
“  Camphorated.................
“  Deodor...........................2
Aurantl Cortex......................
Quassia..................................
Khatanv  ................................
Rhei........................................
Cassia  Acutlfol....................
Co...............
Serpentaria...........................
Stramonium...........................
Tolutan..................................
Valerian................................
Veratrum Verlde..................

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M ISCELLANEOUS.

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44 

5® 

28®  30 
32®  34

« 
ground, 

Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F. 
“  4 P .
. 
Alumen..........................2)4® 3
. “ 
(po.
f)  ..............................  
4
3® 
Annatto..........................  55® 60
Antlmonl, po............... 
4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrln....................  @1  40
Antlfebrln...................   @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  52
Arsenicum..................  
7
Balm Gilead Bud....  3S@  40
Bismuth S.  N...........2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, 04s
12;  Ks,  14)...............
11
Cantharides  Russian,
@ 1  00 
PO...............................
CapslcI  Fructus,af...
@  26 
@  28 
4 po.
@  20 
laryophyllus, (po.  15)
10®   12 
Carmine,  No. 40..........
®3 75 
50®  55
Cera  Alba, S. A F .......
Cera Flava...................  38®
Coccus 
........................  @
Cassia Fructus. . . . __   @
Centrarla......................  @
Detacenm....................   @  40
Chloroform.................  60®  68
sqnlbbs..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........ 1  35®1  60
Chondrus....................   20®
Cluchonldlne, F.  A W  15®
German 3  ® 
Corks,  list,  diff.  per
cent  ........................
Creasotnm........
Creta, (bbl. 75)..
“  prep..........
>redp.......
precip. 
Rubra.
Crocus  ...............
Cudbear............
CuprI Sulph.............
Dextrine......................  10®
Ether Sulph.................  70®  75
Emery,  all  numbers..  ®
po....................   ® 
6
Ergota. (po.)  75 ..........  70®  75
Flake  White...............   12®  15
Galla.............................  @  23
Gambler........................7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper..........   @  70
French............  40®  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 A 10. 
Less.than box  66K
Gine,  Brown...............  
9®  15
44  White.................  IS®  25
Glycerlna.....................14)4®  20
Grana Faradisl............  @  22
Hnmnlus......................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  85
“  Cor___   @  80
Ox Rubrum  @  90
Ammonlati..  @1  00 
IJngaentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum..............  @  64
.1  25@1 50
Icnthyobolla, Am. 
Indigo...........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resnbl............3 S0@3 90
®4 70 
Iodoform 
@2 25 
Lnpulln
D  
Lycopodium...............  70®  7I
5
M acis...........................  70®  7!
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod..................   @  27
Llqnor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Snlph  (bbl
Mannla,  S .F .............  

IK ).............................2>4@o4

60@Q68

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44 

acro un.

8®  10
Aceticum..................... 
Benzolcum  German..  65®  75
Boraclc 
......................  
80
Carbollcum...............  
35®  35
Cltrlcum....................  
58®  55
HydrocUlor................. 
3®  5
Nltrocum 
...................  10®  13
Oxalicum.....................  10®  12
Phosphorium dll......... 
20
Salicylicum...................1 
Sulpnuricum...............  IK®  5
Tannlcum......................1 
Tartarlcum................. 
30®  33
AMMONIA.

Aqua, 16  deg................. 314®  5
20  deg..................514®  7
Carbonai  .....................  18®  14
Chlorldum . .................   12®  14

“ 

30@1 70
40@1 60

A N IL IN E .

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

00@2 25

50@3 00

BACCAX.

Cnbeae (po  36)......... 
2i®  30
8®   10
Junlperus.................... 
Xantnoxylum..............  25®  30

BALSAM UM .

Copaiba........................  45®  50
Peru..............................   @1 90
Terabln, Canada  .... 
60®  65
Tolutan........................  35®  50

Abies,  Canadian...................  18
Casslae  ..................................  11
Cinchona F la v a ...................  18
Euonymus  atropurp............  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po..............  20
Prunus Virgin!......................  12
Qulllala,  grd.........................   10
Sassafras  ..............................   1*
Ulmus Po (Ground  15).........  15

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34®
33®
11®
13®
14®
16®

EXTRA CTUM.
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra.
p o ......
Haematox, 15 lb. box
Is............
>4s...........
548...........
T E R B U
Carbonate Precip........   @
Citrate and Quinta 
Citrate  Soluble —  
Ferrocyanldum Sol 
Solut  Chloride —
Sulphate,  com’l —
pure...

®

“ 

15 
®3 50 
@  80

Arnica..........................  18®
Anthemls....................   38®
Matricaria 
50®

 

 
FOJ.1A.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-

....................   18®  50
nlvelly......................  25®  28
Alx.  35®  50
_   _
and  V4s......................  15®  25
8®  10

Salvia  officinalis, 
TJra Ural 

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

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OUMMX.

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41 

Acacia,  1st  picked—   @  80
2d 
...  @ 4 0
3d 
a   30
... 
sifted sorts...  @
po ...................  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
Socotrl. (po.  60).  @ 50
Catechu, Is, 04s, 1414s,
®  1
16)............................. 
Ammon! a e ..................   55®  60
Assaf CBtlda, (po. 35).. 
33®  36
Bensolnnm..................   50®
Camphorse....................   50®  55
Euphorblnm  po  ........   35®  10
GaTbanum..............  @2 
50
Gamboge,  po...............  70®  7b
Gualacum, (po  36) ....  @  30
Kino,  (po  1  10)....  @1 
15
M astic.........................   @ 8 0
Myrrh, (po. 45)............  @  40
Opll  (po  3  75)............2 65@2 70
Shellac  ........................  35®  42
33®  35
Tragacanth..........   40@1 
00

“ 
herba—In ounce packages.

bleached....... 

Absinthium...........................   25
Eupatorium...........................   20
Lobelia....................................  25
Majorum................................   28
Mentha  Piperita...................  23
“  V lr...........................   25
Hue..........................................   80
Tanacetum, V ........................  22
Thymus,  V .............................  25

M AONBSIA.

Calcined, Pat.........  55® 
60
Carbonate,  Pat.....   20® 
22
Carbonate, K. *   M —   20®  25
Carbonate, JennlngS..  35®  36

o l e u m .

Cubebae........................  @ 300
Exechthltos...............  2  50@2 75
Erigeron....................... 2  00®2 10
Gaultherla....................2  00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce....... 
®  75
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal.......  70®  15
Hedeoma  .....................1  25®1 40
Jumperl........................  50@2 00
Lavendula..................   90®2 00
Llmonls.........................2  40@2 60
Mentha Piper................ 2 75@3 50
Mentha  Verid...............2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal............... 1  00@1 10
Myrcla, ounce..............  ®  50
O live............................  85@2 75
Plcls Liquida, (gal. 35)  10®  12
R lclni.........................   1  22@1 28
Rosmarlni.............. 
75®1  00
Rosae,  ounce................6 50®8 50
Succlnl.........................   40®  45
Sabina.........................   90@1  00
Santal  ..........................3  50@7 00
Sassafras.  ...................  50®  55
Slnapis, ess, ounce__  
®  65
TIglll.............................  @  90
Thym e.........................   40®  50
opt  .................  ®   60
Theobromas.................  15®  20

“ 

POTA SSIU M .

BICarb.........................  15®  18
bichromate.................  13®  14
Bromide...................... 
40®  43
Garb..............................   12®  15
Chlorate  (po  33@25)..  24®  26
Cyanide........................  50®  55
Iodide............................2  90@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com ...  @  15
Potass  Nltras, opt....... 
S@  10
Potass Nltras............... 
9
7® 
Prusslate......................  28®  30
Sulphate  po.................   15®  18

R A D IX .

•  — 
(PO. 35)

Aconitum....................  20®  25
Althae...........................  22®  25
Anchusa......................  12®  15
Arum,  po......................  @  25
Calamus........................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)....... 
8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
~   30
15®  20
Hellebore,  Ala,  po.
Inula,  po......................  15®
Ipecac,  po....................1  60@i
Iris  plox (po. 35®38) ..  35®
Jalapa,  pr....................  40®
Maranta,  34s ...............  @
Podophyllum, po........   15®
Rhei..............................   75@1  00
cut........................  @1 75
pv.............   .........  75@1  35
Splgelia........................  35®  38
Sanguinaria,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentaria...................  30®  32
3enega.........................   55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 4 0  
M  @ 2 5
Scillae, (po. 35)............  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Fcetl-
dus,  po.............   —   @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a ..................  
18®  20
18®  20
Zingiber  j ................. 
SEM BN.
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
Apium  (graveleons)..  15®  18
Bird, is .......................  
4®  6
Carol, (po. 18).............   10®  12
Cardamon....................1  00@1  25
Corlandrum.................  10®  12
Cannabis Sativa..........  4® 
5
75® !  00 
Cydcnlum 
Chenopodlnm 
10®   12 
2 25@2 50 
Dipteri! Odorate..
@  15 
Foenlculum ........
6@
Foenugreek,  po
4  @ <K 
L in i.................
3)4®  4 
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 3)
35®  40 
L o b e lia ...............
3  @ 4 
Ph arlar Is Canarian
6®  7
Rapa......................
7  @  8
Slnapis  Albu
Nigra............  11®  12

.. @ 15

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S PIR IT U S.
Frumenti, W.. D.  Co 
D. F. R ...

2 00®2 50 
1  75@2 00 
1  25®1  50 
Junlperls  Co. O. T — 1  65®2 00
............1  75®3 50
Saacharum  N.  E ..........1 75®2 00
Spi.  Vini  Galli.............1 75@6 50
Vini Oporto.................. 1 
Vini  Alba......................1 

44 

41 

25@2 00
25®2 00

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage....................2 50©2
Nassan  sheeps’  wool
oarrlage  ..................  
2
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
1  10
wool  carriage..........
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage....................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .........................
Hard for  slate  use—  
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se ............................

1  40

Absinthium...................... 3 50@4 00
.. ..  45®  75
Amygdalae, Dulc 
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 00®8 25
A nlsl...................................1  70@1 80
Aurantl  Cortex...........2 30@2  40
Bergamil  .....................3 25@3 50
Cajlputi................ 
65
60® 
Caryophylli..........   75® 
80
Cedar....................   35® 
65
Chenopodll.................  @1  60
Clnnamonll.......................1  10®1 15
Cltronella.............   @ 
45
Conlum  Mac........   35® 
65
Copaiba  ......................  80®  90

SY R U PS.

A ccad a..................................  50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................   60
Ferri  I od................................  50
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
Rhei  Aram................. 
50
Slmllax  Officinalis...............   60
Co.........  50
Senega...................................   50
Sdllae.....................................   50
“  Co................................   50
Tolntan..................................  50
Prunns  vlrg..........................     50

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It is impossible  to give  quotations  suitable  for all  conditions of  purchase,  and those 
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Sap  Sago............  ....... 
Schweitzer, imported.  ©24
domestic  . . .  
©14

CATSUP.
Half  pint, 25 bottles
Pint
Quart 1 doz bottles
Half pint, per  doz  ..
Pint, 25 bottles..........
Quart, per  doz  ___
5 gross boxes  ............
351b  bags...............
Less quantity 
Pound  packages

Blue Label Brand.
.........2  75
. 
.  4 50
.  3  50
Triumph Brand.
........ 1  35
........ 4 50
.......3 75
.  40@45
@3
@3A
6*@7

CLOTHES  PINS.
COCOA  SHE] ,LS.

COFFEE.

I7
.........18
.........20
........ 20

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

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

P a c k a g e .

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Ac. per lb. for roast 
lng and 15 per cent,  for shrink­
age.
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX.  24 95
B unola............................   24  45
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case  ..  21  95 
75
Valley City A gross............ 
Felix 
1  15
Hummel’s, foil, gross........   1  50
...  2 50
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tin 
CHICORY.

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Bulk......................................  5
R e d ........................................7
Cotton.  40 ft..........per dot.  1  25
140
1  60
1  75
1  90
85
3  00

CLOTHES  LINES.
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Jute 
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CONDENSED  MILK.

50 ft .........  
60 f t ......... 
70 ft........ 
80 ft......... 
60 ft..........  
72 rt 
4 doz. In  case.

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs........ ............................... 3 25
Half  kegs................................1 90
Quarter  kegs......................... 1 10
1  lb  cans................................   30
A  lb  cans...............................  18
Kegs.........................................4 25
Half  kegs................................2 40
Quarter kegs.........................  1 35
1 lb cans................................   34
Kegs 
................................ 11  00
Half  kegs  ...........................  5  75
Quarter kegs........................   3 00
1  lb  cans............... 
60
Sage........................................ 15
Hops........................................15

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

HERBS.

 

INDIGO.

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

55
50

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

©   50
©  70

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

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

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MATCHES.

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

MINCE  MEAT.

3 doz. case.................................2 75
6 doz. case.................... 
  5  5<>
12 doz. case................................11 00
MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

81  75
1  gallon  ................... 
Half  gallon................  ■ • ■ 
1  40
70
Q uait.................................. 
Pint........................... 
45
Half  p in t.......................... 
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon..............................   7  00
Half g a llo n ......................  4  75
Quart..................................  3  75
Pint....................... 
2 25

 

1,6...........................  165
No. 
2, 6...........................  1 50
No. 
XX  wood, white.
No.  1, bA.........................  1 35
No.  2, 6A 
......................   1 25
Manilla, white.
..............................  1 00
6A 
6............. 
95
Coin.
Mil)  No. 4............ 
.  100
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
100 lb. kegs.................... 
3M
Barrels.................................... 3 00
Grits 
..........   .  3 50
Dried..............................   3£® i
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported.......................10A@-1
Barrels  200 .........................  4  60
Half barrels  300..................  2 40

Farina.
Hominy.

Lima  Beans.

Oatmeal.

... 

Pearl Barley.

Kegs.....................................   234

Peas.

Green,  bu...........................   1 45
Split  per lb ................... 234@3
Rolled  Oats.
Barrels  180..................  
®4  60
Half  bbls 90............... 
©2  40
German................................  4A
East India.............................  5
Cracked................................. 

Wheat.

Sago.

5

KISH-Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth...........................
Pollock.............................
Whole, Grand  Bank.....5@5A
Boneless,  bricks................6@8
Boneless,  strips...............  6@8

Halibut.

Herring.
“ 
“ 

Smoked............................11@12A

“ 

70 
9 75

Holland, white hoops keg 
bbl 
Norwegian  ........................
Round, A bbl 100 lbs  .........  2 65
.......... 
t 25
Scaled.............................. 
17

A  “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

“ 

No. 1,  300 lbs............................. 11 00
No. 1,40 lb s..............................   4 70
No. 1,  10 lbs..............................   1 30
No. 2,100 lbs...............................8 50
No. 2, 40 lbs..............................   3 70
No. 2, 10 lbs  .........................  1 05
Family, 90 lbs....................  
6 00
70
10  lb s ................... 
Russian,  kegs...................... 
65

Sardines.

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83 00
8 2
3 50
8 3
4 00 
8 5
.  5 i:0
810 
6  00 
820 
■  00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  per  coni 
500 
1000 

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COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
[Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down. |
20 b ooks........................8100
2 00
 
50 
100  “ 
............................  3 00
250 
 
6 25
500 
 
10 00
1000 
17 50
 
500, any one denom’n .......83 00
.......5 00
1000,  “ 
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2000,  “  “ 
....... 8 00
Steel  punch....................... 
75

CREDIT  CHECKS.

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CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX........................6
Seymour XXX, cartoon.......  6A
Family  XXX........................  3
Family XXX,  cartoon........   GA
Salted XXX...........................  6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  .........6A
Kenosha 
...........................  7A
Boston.....................................  8
Butter  biscuit....................   6A
Soda,  XXX...........................  6
Soda, City.......................   ..  7A
Soda,  Duchess  ....................  8A
Crystal Wafer........................ 10
Long  Island Wafers 
__ 31
S. Oyster  XXX......................  6
City Oyster. XXX..................   6
Farina  Oyster......................6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.
Strictly  pure.................... 
Telfers  Absolute...............  
Grocers’..... 
DRIED  FRUITS. 

 
Domestic- 

 

30
31
15® ¿5

6a
7
11 

Apples.

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Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Sundrled. sliced in  bbls. 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California in  bags........
Evaporated in boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes__
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags.........................
25 lb. boxes.......................10
Peeled, In  boxes..........
Cal. evap.  “ 
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Pears.
California In bags 
Pitted Cherries
Barrels...........................
50 lb. b oxes....................
25  “ 

...  ..........  10
Trundles.
30 lb.  boxes..................
Raspberries.
In  barrels........................
501b. boxes......................
251b.  “ 
........................
Raisins.

.  ..........11
in bags.......  10A

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

gross
6 00
7 CO
5 50
8 00
7 E0
6 00

Acme.

“  2  “ 

BAKING  POWDER. 
45
A lb. cans, 3  doz................. 
A lb.  “  2  “  .............   85
1 lb.  “  1  “  ....................   1  00
10
Bulk....................................... 
Arctic.
A lb cans 6 doz  case.......... 
55
............  1  30
“  4  doz  “ 
14 lb 
1  lb  “ 2 doz  “ 
........... 2 00
5  i> 
“  1  doz  “ 
............  9  00
Fosfon.
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. In case...  80 
16  “ 
...2 00
“ 
Red Star, 14 B>  cans..........  
40
75
............ 
“ 
54 5>  “ 
.............  1  40
“ 
1 ft  “ 
Teller’s,  A lb. cans, doz. 
45
85
“  .. 
“ 
A lb.  “ 
“  ..  1  50
1 lb.  “ 
“ 
Our Leader, A  lb cans.....  
45
14 lb cans......... 
“ 
75
1 lb cans..........1  50
“ 
Dr. Price’s.
' r u u T w E o p e r  doz
95
I Dime cans
----
D«PRIC£’s
“ !!l 40
14-oz 
“ .  2 OP
[ 6-oz 
..2 60
18-oz
CREAM
.3 90
“
i 12 oz 
ÍAKIN6
“ ..5 00
116-oz 
2 A-lb  “
12 00
18 25
1 1-lb
P ow der
22 75
“
15-lb 
10-lb 
41 80
“
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BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen In case.

 

 

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Soz 

BLUING. 

English..................................  90
Bristol.....................................   80
Domestic................................  70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals...............  3 60
“ 
“  pints,  round  ..........9  00
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75
“  No. 3, 
...  4 00
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
“ 
1 oz ball  ...................  4  50
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........   3 60
8 oz..........   6 80
“ 
“ 
BROOMS.
.4o. 2 Hurl............................   1  75
No. 1  “ 
.............................  2 00
No. 2 Carpet....................... 
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem.............................2  75
Common Whisk................... 
80
Fancy 
...................  100
Warehouse...........................3  00
Stove, No.  1.........................   125
1  50 
1  75 
85 
1  25 
1  50

Rice Root Scrub, 2  row__
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row__
Palmetto,  goose..................
BUTTER  PLATES 
Oval—250 in crate.
No.  1.....................................
No.  2....................................
No.  3.....................................
No.  5.....................................

BRUSHES.

1 

 

CANDLES.

“ 

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes.............
Star,  40 
...............
Paraffine  ............................
Wicklng 
............................
CANNED  GOODS.

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“  2  lb......................... ;
“ 
21b...........................

Little Neck,  1 lb..........
“  2  lb.................
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb......................
2 25
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  lib .........
.  85 
21b.................
1  60
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb...................
2 45
3 50
Picnic, 1 lb...................
.2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb.......................1  25
2  lb..................... 2  10
_  “ 
Mustard,  2 lb ............
.2 25 
Tomato Sauce,  21b.
.2 25 
Soused, 2 lb.............
.2 25
Salmon.
Columbia River, flat
1  80
tails............1  65
“ 
1  25
Alaska, Red...................... 
pink...........................1  io
Kinney’s,  flats..................... i  95
Sardines.
American  14a..................   @ 5
As.................. 614® 7
Imported  14s ......................  @10
As.......................15@16
Mustard Ms......................  ©7
Boneless.....................  
21
Brook, 8 lb ............................ 2 so

“ 
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Trout.

“ 
“ 

 

Fruits.
Apples.

1  75

i  00
2 90

Gages.

Peaches.

Apricots.

3 lb. standard............ 
York State, gallons  ... 
Hamburgh,  *•
Live oak.......................  
1  75
Santa  Cruz..................  
1  75
1  75
Lusk’s ........................... 
1  75
Overland.................... 
Blackberries.
B. A  W......................... 
90
Cherries.
Red  ... 
.................  1  io@i 20
1 75
Pitted Hamburgh 
. . .  
White 
1  50
.........................  
Brie..............................  
1  25
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Erie..............................  
1  10
California....................  
1  60
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common...................... 
P ie............................... 
1  CO
M axwell......................
Shepard’s ....................
California....................  
Monitor 
.................
Oxford 
......................
Pears.
Domestic...................... 
1  20
Riverside...................... 
2 10
Pineapples.
Common...................... 1  00®1 30
Johnson’s  sliced........  
2 50
2 75
grated........  
Booth’s sliced.............  @2 51
grated............  @2 75
Quinces.
Common...................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
1  30
Red................................ 
Black  Hamburg.......... 
1 50
1  25
Erie,  black 
Strawberries.
Lawrence....................  
1  25
Hamburgh..................  
1  25
1  20
Erie............................... 
1  10
Terrapin.........................  
Whortleberries.
Blueberries................  
1  00
6 75
Corned  beef  Libby’s .........  1  95
Roast beef  Armour’s .........  1  so
Potted  ham, A lb .......................1 40
¡4 lb..................   85
tongue.  A lb ............... 135
85
.A lb..........  
95
chicken, )4 lb...........  

Meats.

“ 
Vegetables.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

Beans.

Peas.

** 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
2 50
“ 

Hamburgh  stringless...........1  25
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
Corn.
Hamburgh 
........................  1  40
Livingston  Eden..................1  20
...................................
Purity 
Honey  Dew.................................1 40
Morning Glory....................
Soaked.................................. 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat.............1 35
early June  ........
Champion Eng  . 1 50
petit  pois............1 75
fancy  sifted  .1   90
Soaked....................................  75
Harris standard....................   75
VanCamp’s  marrofat...........3  30
early June....... 1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom___1  35
French.......................................2 35
French.................................16®23
Erie.................... 
85
Hubbard......................................1 35
Hamburg......................................3 40
Soaked..............  
§5
Honey  Dew.............................. ” 1 50
Brie  ....................................... 1  35
Hancock........................... 
1  jo
..........................
Excelsior 
Eclipse.............................. .
Hamburg...............................
Gallon......................................... 3 50

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
 
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.

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Baker’s.

CHEESE.

CHOCOLATE.
German Sweet............. 
23
Premium.....  .....................  
37
Breakfast  Cocoa............... 
43
Amboy.........................  @1334
Acme............................   12/4@13
Lenawee......................  @ 12 A
33
Riverside.................... 
Gold  Medal  ...............  
®12H
6@10
Skim............................. 
13
Brick 
 
E d am .......................... 
1 00
Leiden.........................  
¿3
Llmburger  .................  @10
Pineapple  ...................  @25
Roquefort....................  
©35

 

  2 25
 

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

COUPON  BOOK»

Loose  Muscatels in  Boxes.

2 crown................................
3 
................................  1  60
2  crown....................................fU
3 
6Q

“ 
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
“ 

 

Foreign.
Currants.

IfeifflL........

Trout.

No. 1, A bbls., lOOlbs............ 6 00
No. 1 A bbl, 40  lb s ...................2 75
80
No. 1, kits. 10 lbs................. 
No, 1,8 lb  kits......................  68

Whiteflsh.

No.  1

Family 
A bbls, 100 lbs........... 87 00 82 75
A  “  40  “  ........... 3  10  130
10 lb.  kits.................... 
45
8 lb.  “ 
40
..........  
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

90 
75 

Souders*.

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

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

Sugar house........................ 

Ordinary............................. 

Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.
Prime.........................  
Fancy..................................  
New Orleans.

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

14

16

20
30

18
22
27
32
40

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Peel.

© 8
® 9

Prunes.

Patras,  in barrels............. 
in  A-bbls...............  
in less quantity__  
cleaned,  bulk........  
cleaned,  package.. 

3
3A
3A
6
6A 
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  20 
25 “ 
“ 
Lemon 
10
25 “ 
“ 
Orange 
11
Raisins.
Oudura, 29 lb. boxes 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 30  “
California,  100-120...............  !
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  7A
..8
80x90 
70x80 
8A
60x70 
.  9 

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

No. l , 6A .............................  81  75
No. 2, 6A...... .....................   1  60

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

!

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

doz
2 oz  ... .8  75 
...  1  50
4 oz 

Regular 
Vanilla.

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

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

“ 
“ 

PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels. 1,200 count.. 
Half bbls, 800  count.. 

Small.

Barrels, 2.400 count. 
Half bbls. 1,300 count 

PIPES.
Clay, No.  216........ 
“  T. D. full count 
Cob, No.  3..................  
POTASH.

 

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s . . . ......... 
Penna Sait  Co.’s 
RICE
Domestic.

.......... 

@5 00
©3 00

6 00
3 50

1  75
75
1  26

4  00
3 25

 

6
Carolina head 
5A
“  No. 1 
“  No. 2.......  .............   5
........  
4
Imported.

Broken 

Japan, No. 1... 
Java  ................................. 
Patna 

....................5 A
No. 2............................. b
6
..................................   5A

“ 

‘■Tradesman.’ 
f  1 books, per  hundred 
‘ 
1 2  
“ 
13 
“ 
8 5 
810 
*• 
820 
“ 
8  1 books, per Hundred 
“ 
8 2 
“
8 3
8  5
“
810 
“ 
820

«
“ 
“
“
“ 
“
“
“ 
“  “
“
“ 
“ 
“
“ 
“

“Superior.”

BSÏBbib

Universal.

T H E   MICTÎia^LlSr  TH^lüESM^JST.

13

Thompson & Chute Brands.

Sm oking.

PROVISIONS.

Gatlin’s  Brands.

Kiln  dried............................. 17
Golden  Shower.....................19
Huntress 
..............................26
Meerschaum..........................29
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle  Navy..........................40
Stork  ...............................30@32
German.... ... 
15
Frog.......................................33
Java,  V£s foil......................... 32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brauds.
Banner....................................16
Banner Cavendish............... 38
Gold Cut.................................28

 

Scotteu’s Brands.

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

 

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Rob  Roy.................................26
Uncle  Sam.......................2S@32
Red Clover..............................32

Spaulding & Merrick.

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

HIDES.

HIDES  FELTS  and FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay as  fol-

lows:
Green.........................
2®24
Part  Cured........ ........
@  3
Full  “ 
................... @ 34
Dry................................ 4 @ 5
Kips, green  ................. 2 @ 3
“  cured................... @ 4
Calfskins,  green........ 3 @  4
cured..... 5 @  64
Deacon skins............. 10 @25

“ 

No. 2 hides 4  off.
PELTS.

Shearlings..................
Lambs 

5 @  20
...................... 15 @  40

WOOL.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow.......................
Grease  butter  ..........
Switches....................
Ginseng...................... 1 5©2 00

3 @  44
1 @ 2
14@ 2

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

WHEAT.

MEAL.

FLOUR.

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

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

Straight,In  sacks  ...
“  barrels...
“ 
Patent 
“  sacks__
“  barrels...
“ 
Graham  “  sacks...
*' 
Rye 
MILLSTUFFS.

“

53
53

.  1  40
1  65

.  3 30
..  3 55
.  4 30
..  4  55
.  1  70
.  1  70

Bran...............$13 50
Screenings__   13  00
Middlings.......  14  50
Mixed Feed...  17  50
Coarse meal  .  17 00

Less
Car lots quantity
$14 00
13 00
15 00
18 00
17 50

CORN.

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

OATS.

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

No. 1 Timothy, car lots.
No. 1 

HAT.
ton lots

“ 

..43

...32
...»

..10  CO
..13 00

W O O D E N  W A R E .

Tubs, No. 1...........................  6 00
“  No. 2.............................5  50
“  No. 3...........................   4 50
1 30
“  No. 1,  three-hoop—   1  50
“ 

Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
Bowls, 11 Inch.....................
......................

13  “ 

SF1CES.
Whole Sifted

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Allspice............. ....................
Cassia, China In mats........
Batavia In bund__
Saigon In rolls........ :
Cloves,  Amboyna.................
Zanzibar..................
Mace  Batavia........................ !
Nutmegs, fancy.....................’
“  No.  1..........................'
“  No.  2..........................1
Pepper, Singapore, black —  
“ 
white...  .!
shot............................:
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.
Allspice.................................. :
Cassia,  Batavia....................
“ 
and  Saigon.!
“  Saigon...................... !
Cloves, Amboyna.................. :
Zanzibar.................
Ginger, African....................
K  Cochin....................   i
Jamaica..................:
“ 
Mace  Batavia........................ (
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste. .!
“  Trieste.......................:
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................:
Pepper, Singapore, black —
“ 
“  white....... ‘
“  Cayenne...................!
Sage......................................... :
‘‘Absolute” In Packages.Ms
Allspice........................  84 
'
Cinnamon....................   84  1
V/IUYCB...........................
Ginger,  Jam aica.......
African............
Mustard........................
Pepper .........................
Sage.....................

“ 

84  1  55
84  1  55
84  1  55
84  1  55
84

SAL  SODA.

Kegs................................. ...  14
Granulated,  boxes......... ....  14

SEEDS.
A nise...........................
Canary, Smyrna..........
Caraway......................
Cardamon, Malabar...
Hemp,  Russian..........
Mixed  Bird  ...............
Mustard,  white..........
Poppy ...........................
Rape.............................
Cuttle  bone.................
STARCH.

@15
34
6
90
4%,
4@6
10
9
5
30

“ 

Corn
20-lb  boxes...................... ...  54
.................... ....  54
40-lb 
Gloss.
1 -lb packages................... .  ..  54
3-lb 
................... ....  54
................... ....  54
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes........ ....  34
Barrels.............................
...  34

“ 
“ 

SNUFF.

Scotch, In  bladders............. 37
Maccaboy, In jars.................35
French Rappee, In Jars.......43

SODA.

SALT.

B oxes.......................................5W
Kegs, English......................... 4M

100 3-lb. sacks............................12 25
2 00
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks....................   1  85
2 25
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases.............................   1 50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
32
drill  “  16  18
281b.  “ 

 
 

 
 

32
18
75

75 

27

70
70

Warsaw.

56 lb. dairy In drill  bags... 
28 lb.  “ 
.. 
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks.. 

Ashton.

“ 

“ 

56 )b. dairy In linen  sacks 

Higgins.

Soiar Rock.

56 lu   sacks.......................... 

Common Fine.

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

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

Church’s ..............................  54
DeLand’s  ...............................  54
Dwight’s ................................ 54
Taylor’s ..................................  5

SOAP.
L a u n d r y .

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Dingman Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb  ..........3 2o
Good Cheer, 601 lb............... 3 90
White Borax, 100  l£-lb........ 3 65
Proctor & Gamble.
3 45
Concord..............................
Ivory, 10  oz.......................
.  6 75
6  oz.........................
“ 
.  4 00
Lenox 
3 65
..............................
Mottled  German............... .  3  15
Town Talk......................... .  3 25
Single box.................... .  3 %
5 box lots, delivered........ .  3 85
10 box lots, delivered....... .  3 75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands.
American  Family, wrp d. 
.$100
.  3 91
plain..
N. K. Falrbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus........................ .  4 00
Brown, 60 bars..................
.  2  40
80  b ars................. .  3  25

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

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

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

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SUGAR.

The  following  prices  repre­
sent the actual selling prices in 
Grand Rapids, based on the act­
ual cost in New  York,  with  36 
cents per 100 pounds added  for 
freight.  The  same  quotations 
will not apply to any towuwhere 
the freight rate from New York 
is  not  36  cents,  but  the  local 
quotations will, perhaps, afford 
a better criterion of the  market 
than to quote New York  prices 
exclusively.
Cut  Loaf................................85 67
Powdered............................... 5 48
Granulated............................ 5 05
Extra Fine Granulated...  5  17
Cubes......................................5 48
XXXX  Powdered................  5 8"
Confee.  Standard  A ............. 4 98
No. 1  Columbia A..............  4  86
No. 5 Empire  A ..................... 4 73
No.  6........................................4 67
No.  7........................................ 4 61
No.  8........................................ 4 54
No.  9........................................ 4 48
No.  1 0 .................................   4 42
No.  11....................................   4 36
No.  12..................................  4  21
No.  13.....................................  4 11
No 14...................................   3 80

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels..................................  21
Half bbls................................23
Fair.........................................  19
Good.......................................  25
Choice.....................................  30

Pure Cane.

VINEGAR.

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

81 for barrel.

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

YEAST.

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

 

SDN CURED.

BASKET  FIRED.

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

oolong. 
IMPERIAL.

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

YOUNG HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

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

“ 

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P lu g .

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead................... 
Joker.......................... 
Nobby Twist..................  
Scotten's Brands.
Kylo..............................  
Hiawatha.....................  
Valley C ity.................  
Flnzer’s  Brands.
Old  Honesty...............  
i Jolly Tar......................  

39
27
39
26
38
34
4*
32

A ■*

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II

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“ 
• 
“ 
“ 
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Baskets, market...................  35
shipping  bushel..  1  15 
..  1  25
full  noop  “ 
25
“  No.2 6 25
“ 
No.3 7 25
No.l  3 25
“ 
“  No.2 4 00
“ 
No.3 4 75
Pails...................................   3  15
Tubs,  No.  1.
Tubs, No. 2...........................12 00  Cut  Loaf.  .
Tubs, No. 3...........................10 50  Extra H.  H.

INDURATED WARE.

splint 

“ 
“ 
1 
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13 50 I  Boston  Cream

Standard,  per  lb.
“  H.H.......
Twist  .. 
“ 

MIXED  CANDY.

 

 

 

 

 

10

Palls.

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

“ 
fancy—In bulk

Bbls.
7
Standard........................................... 6
..6
7
Leader...............................................6
-.6
Royal...................................
8
Nobby................................................7
..7
8
English  Rock....................
8
Conserves  ....................................... 7
..7
8
its
Broken Taffy......................baskets
8
Peanut Squares..................
9
8
French Creams...............
94
Valley  Creams..................
Midget, 30 lb. baskets........................................   8
Modern, 30 lb. 
s
8?»
Palls.
Lozenges,  plain...................................................  94
printed.............................................   104
84
Chocolate Drops.................................................  12
Chocolate Monumentals..................................  13
Gum Drops...........................................................   54
Moss Drops.........................................................   8
Sour Drops...........................................................   84
Imperials...................... 
10
Per Box
Lemon Drops........................................................55
Sour Drops.......  ..................................................55
Peppermint Drops................................................60
Chocolate Drops...................................................75
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............................................1  00
String  Rock..........................................................65
Burnt Almonds......................  ........................1  00
WIntergreen  Berries...........................................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes...........................  34
“ 
No. 1, 
...........................   51
“ 
No.2, 
...........................   28
ORANGES.
128,138........................................
2  50
150..............................................
3 00 
176, 200, 216..............................
3 V0
BANANAS.
Small.......................................................... )  25@1 50
Large.........................................................1  75@2 00
Messina, extra fancy Maiorias, 360__
fancy 360  ................................. 
fancy 300  ................................. 
choice 360................................ 
choice 300................................
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

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

4 00
3  50
3 50

CARAMELS.

LEMONS.

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2 

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SAUSAGE.

FO R K   IN   B A R R ELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:
I  Mess............................................ 
14  CO
Short c u t....................................................... 
17  50
Extra clear pig, short  cut..............................   19 00
Extra clear,  heavy..........................................
¡•Clear, fat  back...............................................   18 00
Boston clear, short cut...................................  18 00
Clear back, short cut.......................................  18 00
Standard clear, short cut. best..................  
18  50
Pork, links.......................................................  
6
Bologna............................................. . 
. 
7
Liver.......................................................... 
Tongue............................................................  
6
Blood.......................................................... 
7
Head cheese.............................................. 
Summer.......................................... 
Frankfurts................................................. 
8
Liver........................................................... 
7
Kettle  Rendered................................................. 104
Granger................................................................ 19
Family....................................................................7M
Compound....................................................... 
Cottoline...............................................................  8fs
50 lb. Tins, 4 c  advance.
20 lb. pails, Vic 
“  Me 
10 lb. 
51b. 
“  %c
31b. 
‘  1  c

L A R D .

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B E E F   IN   B A R R ELS.

“ 
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“ 
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“ 
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smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs............................   8 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing........................  7  50
Boneless, rump butts.......................................  11  00
HamB, average 20 lbs............................  
10*4
16 lbs..........................................10M
12 to 14 lbs...................................11
picnic...........................................................  8 VS
best boneless..........................................  10
Shoulders..  .......................................................  8M
Breakfast Bacon  boneless.................................14
Dried beef, ham prices.......................................10
Long Clears, heavy.............................................
Briskets,  medium.  .............................................104
ligh t............  ......................................104

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DRY   SALT  M EATS.

T R IP E .

pickked  figs’  feet.

Butts....................................................................  9
D. S. Bellies........................................................  124
Fat Backs...........................................................   10
Barrels........................................................................8 00
K egs.........................................................................  1 90
Kits, honeycomb............................................... 
Kits, premium..................................................  
Barrels......................................................................22 00
Half barrels............................................................. 11 00
Per pound...........................................................   H
Dairy, sold packed............................................  15
Dairy, rolls.........................................  
154
Creamery, solid packed....................................  18
Creamery, rolls.................................................  184

B E E F   TONGUES.

B U T T E B IN E .

65
55

“ 

“ 
“ 

Figs, fancy  layers, 61b............
“ 
“ 
101b........ .
“  extra 
“  141b............
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box...........
“ 
“ 
............
“  Persian, 50-lb.  box........
NUTS.

50-lb.  “ 

Almonds, Tarragona...............
Ivaca........................
California...............
Brazils, new..............................
Filberts.....................................
Walnuts, Grenoble...................
French.......................
Calif...........................
Table  Nuts,  fancy...................
choice.................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ..........
Chestnuts............. ....................
Hickory Nuts per bu...............
Cocoanuts, full sacks.............
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H.  P., Suns..................
“  Roasted....
Fancy, H.  P., Flags.................
“  Roasted...
Choice, H. P.,  Extras..............
“  Roasted..

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

@  8 

@ @13 
@15 
@  7 
@  5

@164
@154
@17
@11
@114
@14
@124
@124
@13
@12
1@13

1  25 
@4 00

@ 6 
©  74 
@  6 
@  74 
@  5 
@ 64

CROCKERY  AN D   GLASSWARE.

LAMP  BURNERS.

6 doz. In box.

No. 0 Sun..............................................................   45
No. 1  “  ..............................................................   50
No.2  “  ...............................................................  75
Tubular................................................................  75

lamp  chimneys.  Per box.

 

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No. 0 Sun.............................................................  1  75
No. 1  “ 
...............................................................1  88
No.2  “  ...............................................................2  70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top........................................... 2 10
“ 
No. 1  “ 
2  25
No.2  » 
“ .............................................3 25
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top........ ................ 
2
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2
No. 1  “ 
No.2  “ 
3
§
<
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled......................3
“ 
No.2  “ 
......................4
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
......................4
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz........................1
No.2  “ 
......................... 1
No. 1 crimp, per doz............................................1
“ 
No. 2 
....................... ................... 1

La Bastle.

Pearl top.

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0
0
0
8

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LAMP WICKS.

No. 0, per  gross..................................................
............  .............................. ......
No. 1, 
No  2, 
38
 
75
No. 3, 
 
M ammoth, per doz.............................................   75

 
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STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal................................  06
“ 
4  gal. per doz...  .................  60
Jugs, 4  gal., per doz......................................   70
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal...................................   07
Milk Pans, 4  gal., per doz........................... 
60
...........................   72
“ 

1  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.

“ 

“ 

Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal.........................• 
Milk Pans, 4  B»1............................................ 
i  “ 

07
65
..........................  78

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

1  “ 

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FRESH  BEEF.

Carcass.......................................  ..............44@  54
Fore  quarters............................................  @ 4
Hind quarters............................................5  @ 54
Loins No. 3 .................................................8  @10
Ribs.............................................................  6  @ 7
Rounds...................................................... 5  @ 6
Chucks........................................................  4  @ 44
Plates..........................................................  @ 4
Dressed...................................................... 
8
Loins........................................................... 
8M
Shoulders  ................................................. 
64
Leaf Lard................................................... 
11
Carcass............  .......................................  4  @ 5
Lambs......................................................... 5  @ 6
Carcass......................................................   5  @ 6

FRESH  FORK.

MUTTON.

VEAL.

f i s h   a n d   o y s t e r s .

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as  follows:

FRESH  FISH.

oysters—Cans.

@ 8 

@  9 
.................................................
Whitefisb 
@ 9 
Trout  .........................................................
12 4  
Black Bass........  
.............................
@15 
Halibut.......................................................
@ 5 
Ciscoes or Herring...................................
Bluefish..................................... ................
@124 
Fresh lobster, per lb................................
20 
Cod..............................................................
10 
@ 9 
No. 1 Pickerel............................................
Pike................................................
@ 8 
Smoked White..........................................
Red  Snappers............................................
12 
124
Columbia River  Salmon.........................
Mackerel....................................................   20@25
@35
Falrhaven  Counts.................................
@30
F. J. D.  Selects.....................................
@25
Selects....................................................
@23
F. J. D......................................................
Anchors...................................................
@20
@18
Standards...............................................
@16
Favorite........................... .......................
Extra Selects..............................per gal
Selects....................................................
Standards...............................................
Counts.....................................................
Scallops...................................................
Shrimps  .................................................
Clams.............................................. 
i  23
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100  .......................................1  25@l  50
Clams. 
.......................................   @1  00

o y s t e r s— Bulk.

....... 

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

STICK  CANDY.
Cases

Bbls. Palls.
74
64
74
64
64
74
84

84
84

T H E   MXCHTGAJSr  TRADESMAN.
The Following

W ritten (or T m  Tu m m u .

THAN  CITY  TRADE.

1 4
COUNTRY  TRADE  MORE  BUOYANT j trade in the city to-day.  No wonder th a t,
orders  come  in  more  freely  from 
the 
country.  No  wonder  that  the  jobbers 
realize  a  falling  off  in  the city trade. 
The  proprietor  of  one  of  the  largest 
suburban stores in the city recently said: ( 
“I am afraid we are  going to experience 
the hardest times this winter we ever ex­
perienced in this country.  Scores of my 
customers who  have  always  had steady 
work and paid  their bills promptly have 
been out of work  so  long that they have 
used  up  what  little resources they pos­
sessed,  and  now,  with winter  approach­
ing, they have  no  prospect of work,  and 
no money with  which  to  buy  food  and 
fuel.  A woman  was in just now who re­
ported that she had not a particle of food 
or fuel in the house.  She has small chil­
dren, and her  husband  has  been out  of 
work  for  some  time.  She  asked  for 
credit, but it is useless  to  furnish  sup­
plies to many of these people and charge 
it up with any expectation  of  ever get­
ting pay for them. 
It is  about  all  they 
can do to keep  out  of  debt  and  make 
both  ends  meet when they have steady 
work.  1 gave the woman a sack of  flour 
and half a bushel  of vegetables and told 
her  to  make  the things go as far as she 
could.  We can’t take care of all of them 
but will divide up around and  extend  all 
the help we are able to.”

Grocery jobbers say  that  country  or­
ders maintain a better  average  than  do 
city orders.  This  condition  would indi­
cate that the grocery trade is more buoy­
ant in the country  than  in the city,  and 
that  country  dealers  are  affected  to  a 
lesser degree by the  business depression 
than  are  city  dealers. 
It  is  not  to  be 
wondered at when the general conditions 
regulating each are  taken into consider­
Indeed,  were the  conditions pre­
ation. 
cisely 
the  same,  country  trade  would 
suffer less for the simple  reason  that  it 
has more eibowroom. 
it is less cramped; 
its base of  operations  is broader and its 
background  is  deeper  and  fraught with 
greater  resources;  in  other  words,  it is 
subject to  a  lesser  competition  thau  is 
the city trade.  The retail  grocery trade 
of  Grand Rapids is  fearfully  overdone, 
and the great  wonder is  that  so  few  of 
the  city  grocers  have  been  forced 
to 
chattel  mortgage  their  stocks  so far in 
this  depression.  They  are  certainly 
passing through a  great  trial,  and those 
who will  succeed  in  beating  back  the 
buffetiugs of this great wave of adversity 
will have learned  many  valuable lessons 
which  will prove of value after the  wave 
shall  have  receded  and 
turbulent 
waters  of  disrupted business conditions 
shall  have settled and there is once more 
peace.

the 

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

'WJ

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   an d  

M och a,

W e lls ’  P e r fe ctio n   Java,
W e lls ’  J a v a   a n d   M och a,
W e a v e r ’s  B len d ,
S a n to r a ,
Id eal  G olden  R io ,
C om p ou n d   C ru sh ed   Ja v a .

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

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D A W S O N ’S 

Pearl  Wheat  Flakes,

T H E   F IN E S T   B R E A K F A S T   D ISH

DAWSON’S

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Free  from  D M   and  Broken  Particles,

Put up in neat Cartons of  2 pounds each,  36 Cartons  per  Case.  Price  $3.50  per 

Case.  Sells at 15 cents per package, two packages for  25 cents.

T ry   It!  B u y   It!  U se  It!

Sold by all jobbers in Ohio,  Indiana and Michigan.

MANUFACTURED  BY

DAWSON  BROTHERS,  Pontiac,  Mich.

Conditions are different in the country. 
Old Mother Earth  never  loses confidence 
in the outcome of her efforts.  The frosts 
of  winter  and  the parching  droughts of 
summer  do  not discourage  her.  Were 
she to lock the doors  of  her great work­
shop and refuse to continue  her  efforts, 
starvation  to  those depending upon  her 
for the sustenance of  life  would  be the 
inevitable result,  and that embraces the 
whole  human  family.  Mother  Earth 
never fails in bringing forth a greater or 
lesser  variety  of  commodities  as  regu­
larly as the  seasons  roll  round.  These 
commodiries  are  not  cash,  to  be  sure, 
but  no  money  stringency  can  diminish 
their bulk or drive  them  beyond  reach. 
They  are  prime  necessities  of  life,  and 
will  always  command  money  at 
their 
market  value.  These  necessities  are 
produced  by  the  country  grocer’s  cus­
tomers,  an  advantage  which enables him 
to make collections and sell  goods  with­
out  the  necessity  of  money.  Barter in 
farm products is an equivalent of  mouey 
and  enables  the  country  grocer  to  do 
business  when  there 
ready currency.

How different  the case of  the city gro- i 
cer.  His trade comes,  principally,  from 
the  factories  and  workshops. 
It  has 
nothing but money to exchange  for  gro­
ceries and  with  which  to  pay  old  bills. 
Cold  cash  is  the  only equivalent of ex­
change  and  its  source  of  supply  is  the 
factory and  workshop, 
it  is not an un­
failing source like  that  relied  upon  by 
the  principal  portion  of  the  country 
dealer’s  customers. 
Its  constancy  de­
pends upon  the  turning of  w heels,  and, 
like  all  human  contrivances,  they  are 
fitful  and  spasmodic.  Sometimes  they 
stop  like  grandfather’s  clock,  never  to 
go again.  When  they  do  stop  turning, 
whether temporarily or permanently, the 
money supply stops also; and  when  the 
money supply stops  the  paying  of  gro­
cers’ bills stops  and  the  buying of  gro­
ceries suddenly diminishes.

This is  the  condition  of  the  grocery

It may look  like  an 

This is the  true  condition  of  things 
among the suburban grocers of this city, 
and,  if  there  be  a class of citizens  who 
deserve the sympathy of the  entire com­
munity,  it  is  these  same suburban gro­
cers.  A few days  ago  much  ado  was 
made  over  the  refusal of  a West Side 
grocer to credit with  a  sack  of  flour a 
customer  whose  family was  destitute. 
An  account  of  the affair was published 
in the morning  papers,  giving  the  im­
pression that  the  grocer’s  refusal  was, 
in view of the distressing circumstances, 
an  inhuman  act.  Knowing  nothing  of 
the  case  outside  of  rumor,  I have no 
apology to make for this  particular gro­
cer.  He may be a cold-blooded  monster 
for ought 1 know;  still,  in  common just­
ice to the knights of the scoop and scales, 
it must be remembered  that  this  grocer 
is not the only one who has  refused,  and 
who  is  refusing, credit to old time cus­
tomers. 
inhuman 
act on the part of  a  grocer to say “No” 
when an old  customer who  has  proved 
himself honest and faithful in  the  past, 
but who, owing to the  present  unfortu­
nate industrial  conditions,  finds  himself 
destitute of the necessities  of  life,  with 
a  stringency  in  j no way 0f  obtaining  them,  and  with  no 
prospect of acquiring more means—I say, 
it may seem like an act of inhumanity  to 
say “No” when such a customer asks for 
bread.  Upon the hypothesis  that a gro­
cer is intrusted  with the  herculean  task 
of  feeding  and  caring for the destitute 
and  unfortunate,  aud  that  a bountiful 
Providence has furnished him, from some 
invisible and omnipotent source,  with an 
unlimited  supply of  the  means for that 
purpose,  such  an  act would  be  inhu­
facts ? 
man. 
Instead 
as­
signed  to  the  distribution  of  charities 
by the Almighty,  and being  endowed by 
Him  with  an  unfailing  supply of  the 
necessary means,  the  grocer  is  simply 
common clay like any other  man,  and is 
subject to the same severe trials 
the 
hand to hand struggle  for  humau exist­
ence. 
In  this  great  struggle,  as in all 
struggles, it is but “the survival  of  the 
fittest,” and 
the  grocer  is  not exempt

But  what 

especially 

being 

are 

the 

of 

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T H E   M I C H I G ^ N T   T R A JD E 93V L A JS

1 5

from  the operation  of  this 
law.  “Self- 
preservation is the first law of  nature,” 
and,  until we are able to  prove  that the 
grocer is entirely outside of the  jurisdic­
tion of Nature,  let us  withhold  our  cen­
sure.  Again,  it was said by one  of  old, 
“Charity begins at  home;”  but,  until  it 
is established,  beyond  any possibility of 
contradiction,  that  the  grocer  has  no 
home, or  is  undeserving  of  one,  let us  . 
upbraid him not for replenishing his own 
flour barrel and coal  bin  first. 
In olden 
times,  long before the Sherman  Bill  was 
beard of,  it was proclaimed on the house 
tops by one high  in  authority,  “He that 
careth  not  for  his  own  household  is 
worse than an infidel:”  and,  until  some 
new revelation  shows  that  the  grocer 
was foreordained,  from 
the  foundation 
of the world,  to occupy a lower  stratum 
than the infidel, I,  for one,  will  not  call 
him hard names  for  manifesting a war­
mer interest in providing  food,  fuel and 
clothing for his own wife and babies than 
in providing these necessaries  for  those 
of his neighbor.

The long and the short of the matter is 
that the grocer’s  philanthropic  tenden­
cies may be boundless,  but  his capital  is 
not.  His  breast may heave with  sympa­
thy for the destitute,  aud his  soul  may 
yearn with a desire to  supply the wants 
of all creation,  but there is  a  force that 
controls his heavings and  his  yearnings 
—it is the force of hard,  stern  necessity. 
The grocer is not a  brute.  Because  he 
does not scatter  his wares  to  the  four 
winds  of  heaven  without  money  and 
without price is no sign that  his milk of 
human  kindness is dried up and  that he 
has  gone  “farrow.”  He  contributes 
more, according to his means, toward the 
maintenance of the  common  herd 
than 
does any other man  in 
the  community; 
and to aver  that  his  contributions  are 
not all voluntary does not  detract in the 
least  from 
the  cost  to  the grocer, or 
lessen the quantity of heart’s  blood  ex­
tracted,  or clear the  tinted  atmosphere. 
There is not a  grocer  in  the  city who 
would not donate ten  times  more  than 
he does, if he  could  find  some  jobber 
that would give him credit for it.

The  country grocer  lives  in  a  land 
where there is plenty to eat,  at any rate. 
If  he  is  not  so  charitable as his city 
brother, it  is.because  the  latter possesses 
larger opportunities  for  exercising  the 
Christian  grace,  and not  on  account  of 
any personal  preference.

E.  A.  Ow en.

“ C u ssin g ’’  in  B u sin ess 

K. F. W. in Business.
As an argument  in favor  of  the  Dar­
winian theory  it has been cited  that  the 
monkey  is  imitative,  and,  as a rule, of 
the more elevating customs  surrounding I 
him;  and further,  as monkeys abound in 
Africa,  it lias been  cited  that  ttie  Afri­
cans  are  direct 
lineal  descendants,  to 
verify  which  their disposition  to  follow 
the customs of  the more  refined  is noted 
in their proneness to plug  hats,  fine rig­
ging, etc.  Now,  right here,  boys, hadn’t 
you better follow the example  of  these 
humble representatives by patterning af­
ter  the  higher  authorities?  Who does 
the most cussing about your place of em­
ployment—the teamster,  the  porter  and 
the cheaper help, or  the  boss?  We will 
admit that the old man,  on  special  occa­
sions, will  say  “Well,  really,”  with  an 
emphasis  and  fervency that  chills  the 
lady steno.  to  the  marrow,  curdles the 
blood of the  faint-hearted  and  spreads 
awe through  the  entire  establishment. 
But  did  you  ever notice him,  after the 
normal temperature and equilibrium had 
been  restored,  how  pis  actions  and 
thoughts  all  tend  to a less excited  and 
extravagant pushing of his business, and

how this quieter force reaches all around 
under  his guidance,  and the  results  ob­
tained by  his mild,  sensible remarks and 
suggestions  keep  everything  moving 
without friction, and you all  brag  about 
“what  we done this week?”
You probably have been  near when he 
was  closing a big  contract in  buying or 
selling,  and have  noticed  an  entire ab­
sence  of  any cussing when clean, clear 
business,  and business for  both  money 
and  reputation,  was  being  transacted, 
clearly showing that cussing is  unneces­
sary, and that to cuss is  to  fill  in 
the 
sentence with  useless,  irrelevant words. 
Now,  what is  accomplished  by the  cuss- 
ers in your place?  They do not hold the 
most of the responsible,  brainy and  best 
paying positions.  They  get  the 
laugh 
for  their  futile  wrath.  They  are  re­
garded as  just  plain,  common,  ignorant 
—for  their  inability to  express  them­
selves forcibly and  intelligently in good 
United States  language.
Cussing is a tacit  admission  on  your 
part that you haven’t  sufficient  force or 
worth of character  to  attract  and hold 
the attention of level-headed  people in  a 
reasonable way,  and  are willing 
to  let 
them  form  an  adverse  opinion if they 
will.  Cussing is a transparent  evidence 
of your lack of  ambition to use your tal­
ents and education in so expressing your­
self as  to  be  understood.  Cussing  by 
most of the cussers  is  regarded as a bad 
habit.  Cussing shows that  your  temper 
is not  under  proper  control,  and 
that 
is  unrelia­
your  whole  self-control 
ble;  and  if  a man cannot control  him­
trusting  him  on a mis­
self,  how about 
sion  where  the  many  and 
insiduous 
temptations,  well  known 
to  the  boss, 
will be tried upon him by a class of busi­
ness  men  whose  shrewdness  is  sharp 
rather  than  safe.  Cussing  don’t  look 
well 
in  print,  and  you  wouldn’t be too 
proud of carrying a paper or  book about 
with you that abounded  in  it.  Cussing 
is seldom  used 
the  conversation of 
just plain, good people—men and women 
—and where  used  “allowance”  is  made 
for  the  “breach.”  Cussing,  it  seems, 
lacks much argum ent  in  its  favor,  and 
that should have  some weight  in  its use 
or  disuse.  Cussing 
is wicked and pro­
fane in the  uncompromising  opinion  of 
the best people you  know;  and  that  it 
causes them  nervous  discomfort,  when 
their presence,  is readily seen. 
used 
That cussing is a sin is the conscientious 
belief  of  those  who  have  given 
it  a 
deeper  and  more interested study than 
ever you did,  and it  is  a  direct  insult 
from  you when  you  continue to use it 
and so give the  lie 
to  their  assertion. 
Boys,  be easy on the old fellows,  as they 
will find it hard to break off, but  if  you 
never commence and  help them  by both 
example and a good-natured, well-chosen 
hint here and there,  a  calamity may fall 
on cussing in business.

in 

in 

One  Man’s  Views on  “Location.” 
“Some merchants  are inclined to lay  a 
little too much stress on the precise loca­
tion of  their stores,”  said a  retailer  the 
other day.  “So long as a man’s business 
is situated in a  business  district  where 
plenty of people pass the door,  I deem it 
of little importance whether he be located 
on a ‘corner’  or not,  providing he makes 
the most of his opportunities.  The  test 
is his ability to induce  the  passers-by to 
come into his store and he can often out­
distance  the  more  pretentious  corner 
merchant  by  making  his  window  dis­
plays so attractive as  to  be  be  regular 
trade compeilers,  and by bright  window 
cards calling attention  to the merits and 
stylishness of the goods and by price and 
descriptive cards on the goods themselves 
‘pull’  in many on the way to other stores 
where  they  have  been  in  the  habit  of 
trading. 
In the same manner a merchant 
located outside of the main  business cen­
ter of a town or city  can  by  aggressive 
advertising,  newspaper,  window  or cir­
cular, succeed in  diverting  much  trade 
into his establishment  that would other­
wise go down town.  Of  course,  I would 
advise  every  merchant  to  get  the  best 
location he can,  but 1  do  not  think  the 
exact location of  a  store  the ‘be all and 
end all’ of mercantile success.”

There  is  always  room  for  a  man  of 

force, and he makes  room for many.

W H O L E S A L E

Dry  Goods,  Carpets  and  Cloaks

We  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

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

i 

OVERALLS  OF  OUR  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Herplsieiif k Co.,48> 0°’«®!  nlizist-
H e y m a n   C o m p a n y ,

Manilfaotilrers 

of  Show  Cases  of  Every  Description.

6 3   an d   6 8   C an al  St.,  G rand  R a p id s,  M ich.

W RITE  FOR  PRICES.

W E   H A V E   FO U N D   IT.
W H A  T  ?

That which  we and the  trade  have  been looking for.

A  FA.NCY  BUTCHBR’S

L A R D .

WESTERN  MICHIGAN  AGENTS  FOR

!  0.  V  HUMID  CD’S  SIIP110E  BOHEME

T H E   M IC H IG L A JSi  T K ^ JD E S M -A JS i.

It will pay merchant«  to  tee our samples  and 
learn our reduced prices  of  the  balance of our 
stock of

READY  HADE  CLOTHING.

Having been  established  for  thirty-six  years 
is.  we  trust  sufficient  proof  of  our  stability. 
MAIL  ORDERS  PROMPTLY  ATTENDED  TO, 
or you  can write  our  Michigan  representative, 
MR.  WILLIAM  CONNOR,  Box  346,  Marshall, 
Mich., to call upon you, aud  buy or not buy, we 
will thank you for the compliment.

MICOiGL  KOLB 

i   SON,

Wholesale  doming  Manuiacmrers.

ROCHESTER,  N.

WILLIAM  CONNOR  will  be at Sweet’s  Hotel, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  on  THURSDAY,  NOV.  30, 
ad  FRIDAY, DEC.  1.  Customers’ oxpenses allowed who meet nim mere.

V egetable  Scoop  F o rk s.

In shoveling potatoes or other vegetables from  wagon  box  or  floor with 
the forks as  they have been made,  either  the  load  on  the  fork  must  be 
forced up hill  sharply, or  the  head  of  the  fork lowered as the push con­
tinues. 
If the head of the fork is  lowered  the  points will  be  raised  and 
run into the potatoes.  The sharp edge of oval-tined forks will bruise pota­
toes and beets, and the ordinary points  will  stick into them.

These difficulties are entirely  overcome  by  our  SCOOP  FORK. 

It  has 
IT WILL LOAD TO THE HEAD WITH­
It also  holds  its  load  and  hangs  easy  to 

round tines and flattened points. 
OUT RAISING THE POINTS. 
work.

The superiority of  our SCOOP FORK over  the wire  scoop is in its much 
It is  all made from one piece of steel 

greater  durability  and  handiness. 
and will last for years.
It will  be found 
excellent for handling coal,  lime,  sawdust,  fine manure and a great variety 
of  uses.

The  utility  of  this  fork  is not limited to vegetables. 

16

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

N ew s  from  the  M etropolis— Index  of 

the  M arkets.

Special Correspondence.
N ew  Y ork,  N ov.  18—To  say that the 
failure of the  great  house  of  Thurber, 
Whyland  Co.  was  totally  unexpected 
would be stating what is not  true.  The 
rating  of  the  firm was  known to have 
been shaky a  good while  ago,  and  the 
truth  is  probably,  that,  even when or­
ganized as a stock  company, 
the  move 
was made to strengthen a concern  badly 
in need of reinforcing.
Many causes have been ascribed as the 
real ones, and first of all Is given  the de­
lay of the Senate,  then  the  general  de­
pression of business, then  strong compe­
tition, then too much  dallying with out­
side matters, then  internal  dissensions. 
All these may be taken for what they are 
worth.
Mr. F.  B. Thurber deserves  and  is re­
ceiving the sympathy of  the  entire com­
munity.  He is one of the most generous 
hearted of men,  and  his  misfortune,  af­
fecting so  many people, directly and in­
directly,  is to be deplored.  He has done 
as much hard work as  any man  in  this 
city,  and it seems too bad to have it come 
to  this.  He  had  just  passed  his 51s 
birthday.
A good many lessons can  be  drawn by 
this failure, the chief  of which 
is  that 
when- a man has a good  enough thing he 
ought  to  stick  to  it.  There is such a 
thing as having too  many irons  in 
the 
fire.  The  old  firm  of  H. K.  &  F.  B. 
Thurber was synonymous with  strength 
and all that goes to make up a represent­
ative  house.  With  increased  capital 
came a desire  to  stretch  out  into other 
fields, and the result was an 
investment 
of  money all  over  the  country which 
should have been kept at home  and  put 
directly into the business.  This was evi­
dent all the more  as  competition  kept 
getting stronger and the  sales  of  other 
firms  grew  larger  at the expense of the 
Thurbers.  Of course,  it  is  not  likely 
that  any one  of the critics of the house 
now could have managed  any better un­
der the same circumstances,  but  certain 
it is that there are many great firms here 
who do a good business in spite  of  their 
surroundings, and it seems  that with all 
the experience of years the  failure could 
have been averted.
It is altogether  likely that  the  house 
will continue under a reorganization, and 
$500,000 of fresh  capital will  suffice  to 
make things hum again,  but the manage­
ment,  it  is  likely,  will  pass  to  other 
hands. 
It is said that Mr.  Whyland will 
be likely to go into another house, though 
just when is still undecided.  He  is  not 
so well 
liked  as  Mr.  Thurber, and, in 
fact,  it is hinted that there  are  quite  a 
number of the employes of the house who 
will not regret his departure.
The affair has had no perceptible effect 
on the grocery trade at large,  and proba­
bly,  if the reorganization 
takes place as 
expected, the matter will  soon  be  only 
remembered as  an “incident.”
In the “good  old  days”  the Thurbers 
sold  about  $15,000,000 
to  $18,000,000 
worth of groceries per year  and was  re­
garded,  rightly, as the  greatest  grocery 
house in the world.
Trade  is  hanging  back.  There  still 
seems to be a lack of confidence,  and the 
future is too uncertain  to “bet” on.  Of 
course,  people  must  eat,  but  they are 
living on staples,  and,  as  for  the  profit 
therein, there is none.  A  talk with job­
bers will convince  one  that they are do­
ing  only  a  hand-to-mouth  business  at 
present,  even  the  holiday  demand  not 
being present as usual.
Coffee and sugar, the great  staples  in 
the grocery  trade,  remain  unchanged  in 
every  respect.  The  demand  is  of  an 
every-day character,  and  prices show not 
a fractional departure from last  week.
The canned goods market is apathetic, 
as well as  other  lines,  and  buyers  are 
conspicuous by their absence.  Tomatoes 
are fluctuating in price,  and  at  the  mo­
ment standard No. 3 brands of  New Jer­
sey and  Delaware  are worth  $1.05@1.10. 
Corn is quiet,  with  prices  ranging  from 
$1  for  New  York  State brands to $1.25 
for Maine.
Lemons  are  in  rather  limited supply 
at  the  moment,  and  prices  are  quite

firmly held, although  the demand is still 
very light.  Jamaica oranges  are worth, 
for  repacked,  about $5.  A good deal of 
the  Florida  stock  arriving  is  not very 
good, prices averaging  about $1.50,  with 
$2  the  top  for fruit that is fancy.  Ap­
ples  are  in  excellent  request,  and  are 
worth $2.75@4.50.  as  to  variety.  Cran­
berries,  fancy  Cape Cod, bring $5@5.50.
The dried fruit market  is  very  quiet, 
fancy evaporated apples  being quoted at 
10@llc,  sun-dried,  5%@6c;  evaporated 
peeled  yellow  peaches,  18c;  apricots, 
11@14C.
Butter is firmer,  and the touch of  cold 
weather has given an  impetus to the de­
mand; 27c is about top for  best  Western 
grades,  and from this,  prices range down 
to 22c for Western thirds.  Cheese is un­
changed,  both as  to  demand  and  price, 
the former continuing in a hand-to-mouth 
manner.  Western  eggs  are  fetching 
24K@25c.
Domestic molasses is in  very  fair  de­
mand,  but the complaints  as  to  quality 
are numerous.  New Orleans,  fair,  33@ 
34c; good, 35@37c; choice, 38@40c.
The cheapest thing in the world to-day 
is the Greek currant.  They  are  selling 
here  as  low  as  l%c,  or  even  less.  Of 
course,  this  means  starvation  for  the 
Greeks,  and  no  greatly  increased  con­
sumption  among  other  nations.  Trade 
papers should urge their readers to make 
special  efforts  to  sell  currants now,  as 
they pay a good  margin  of  profit.  The 
trouble  is  that the generality of  people 
do  not  know  what  to  do  with  them 
Californians  are  urging  an  increase  of 
duty  upon  the  imported  article,  very 
naturally.
Excellent  shopping  weather  prevails 
and the big stores are already  piling  up 
mountains of holiday goods just as though 
they expected the usual rush.  May they 
not be disappointed. 

J a y .

Mr. Voigt's Rejoinder  to  His Critic. 
Gr a n d  Ka p id s, N ov. 18—In your issue 
of the  15th,  1  note  that  Mr.  H.  takes 
some exceptions to some  remarks  made 
by me in an  interview in  regard  to  the 
repeal of  the silver purchasing clause of 
the  Sherman 
law.  Without  going 
iuto details,  I will simply state that,  as 
look at it from my view,  the  silver  pur 
chasing act was condemned by Mr.  Sher 
man himself and was only adopted  a 
compromise,  as  Mr.  H.  probably 
aware. 
It compelled the  United  States 
to purchase  4,500,000  ounces  of  silver 
per month, paying for same in silver cer 
tificates;  but  the silver certificates were 
mostly redeemed in gold  and  the  silver 
bullion was  piled  up  in  the Treasury 
where it lies  dormant.  As  a  business 
proposition,  would Mr.  H.  buy and stock 
up  in  any commodity—be  it  wheat 
leather—and  pay  out  money,  and keep 
on doing so for  years,  and  build  store- 
houses to store it  in,  and  borrow money 
(as the United States would  have had 
do if they kept  on  purchasing  4,500,000 
ounces of  silver  monthly), and keep on 
doing so? 
I am afraid Mr. H. would not. 
The United  States  Treasurer,  however, 
was compelled to do so by law.  We have 
now,  as per report, silver bullion enough 
to keep the government mints  going  for 
nearly  five  years.  Let  us  utilize  that 
first.  The United States is a  rich  gov­
ernment.  This is  probably the  richest 
country in the world,  but that  does  not 
signify  that  it  should  issue  bonds  to 
keep on  buying  silver  to  store  away. 
Silver is a commodity of barter, the same 
as  copper, only more  valuable,  and  as 
such let it be bought  and  sold  upon  its 
merits.  Let the government buy it when 
it needs it, not make  it  compulsory.  1 
have no  doubt  that  Mr.  H.  is versed in 
the 
through  and 
through,  and  has made a  lifelong  study 
of it,  while 1 look at  it  from  the  stand­
point  of  a  busy business  man;  but,  as 
many persons are of my way of  thinking 
on this question,  I am content  to  know 
that my views as expressed were correct.

financial  problem 

Respectfully,

C. G. A. V oigt.

The  Drug  M arket.

Opium is dull and lower.
Morphia has declined 10c  per ounce. 
Quinine is firm and tending higher. 
Linseed oil is lower.
Neatsfoot oil has declined.

Cracker  diesis. 

Glass  Covers  for  Biscuits.

/ ^ U R  new glass covers  are by far the
soon 
r  I  HESE  chests  will 
y   J   handsomest  ever  offered 
to  the
pay for themselves  in  the 
trade.  They  are  made  to  fit  any
I breakage they avoid.  Price S4. 
I 
of  our  boxes  and can  be  changed  from
one box  to  another in a moment  They 
will  save  enough  good*  from  flies,  dirt  and  prying  fingers in a short  time to pay 
for themselves.  Try them and be  convinced.  Price, 50 cents each.

[ 

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

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

the best selling cakes we ever made.

CREAM  CRISP. 

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

--------USE--------

If Yon  Wail  Good,  Lindt,  Sweat  Bread  aid  Biscalts,
FERMENTUM
COMPRESSED  YEAST

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

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Royal  Ratent,  Orescent,  White  Rose,

THE  ABOVE  BRANDS,

Are sold with our personal  guarantee.

If you are not now handling any of our brands, we  solicit  a  trial order, confident that the ex 
cellent quality of our goods and the satisfaction  of  your  customers will  impel  you  to  become  a 
regular customer.

VO IG T  M IL L IN G   CO.

Correspondence  solicited. 

Q U ALITY  W IN S!

SOLD  BY  ALL  FIRST-CLASS  GROCERS.

MANUFACTURED  BY

The PsrmBntiJm Company

MAIN  OFFICE:

CHICAGO,  270  KINZIE  STREET.

MICHIGAN  AGENCY:

GRAND  RAPIDS,  106  KENT  STREET.

And you  can  depend on  the best qual­

ity when  you  buy this  Brand•

Address  all  communications  to  THE  FERMENTUM  CO.

E  LEONARD  &  SO I

134  to  140  E.  F'ulton  St., 

i
G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICH.  (

Santa  Claus  Headquarters,
If  yon  are  A  DEALER  and have not received oi.r Holiday Catalogue 
No.  113. please ask  for it.

•MUSICAL  TOYS.”

See pages 60-67  of  No.  113 Catalogue.

See pages 71-72 of No. 113 Catalogue. 

pay for them until Jan.  1, and the sootier you get  tin m in  the better vonr sales will be.

“ S L E IG H S ."
I)o not delay  in ordering holiday goods, you do not have to 

“ALBUMS”

See pages 38-39 of  No.  113 Catalogue.

H O C K IN G   H O ES ES  A N D   SHOO  F L IE S .

See page 70 of No. 113 Catalogue.

BANQUET  LAMPS.

Over  25  different  styles  from  11.50  to 

each;  our prices greatly reduced.

FIN E   LAMPS.

Our stock  never so complete  or our prices aa 

low as now.

Shown  I11  Catalogue  No.  112.

1893. 

ASSORTED  PACKAGE. 

FANCY  GOODS.

I 

 

.......... 

1 dozen Childs  Asst.  Mottoes Cups and 
Saucers.....................................f  75
“  Chi ids’ Raised Gold Letters, 10c
1 
Cups and Saucers................... 
80
“  Open Decorated, 15c Cups  and
Saucers 
..................................  1  25
“  Open  Decorated, 25c  Cups  and
Vt 
Saucers....................................   1  75
*•  Open  Decorated,  extra  value,
I  Vt 
25c Cup- and  Saucers............  2 00
“  Open Gilt  Decoration. 40c Cups
*4 
and saucers 
3  25
%  
"  Open Gilt,  best,  50c  Cups  and
Saucers....................................  4  15
1-6  “  Open, elegant. $1  Cups and tau
eers............................................  6  25
I  1 
“  ABC  Childs  Plates,  with  pic­
tures ......................................... 
42.
% 
“  ABC Animal Plates................... 
75
"  Assorted  Decorated Plate Sets .  1  60
I  ‘4 
|  H 
6 Colors. Plate  Sets 
2 00
|  '4 
Decorated  Plate Sets..................  3 50
‘‘  Bread and  Milk Sets, decorated  4 00
!  k  
1 1-6  "  Bread and  Milk Sets, decorated  0 00
I  *4 
“  CC Picture Mugs........................ 
85
1  h  
. .. .   2 CO
“  Partition Shaving Mugs 
Fancy Decorated M ugs............   2 00
(4 
I  H 
1  75
Musta« he Decorated Coffees.. 
Extra Large  Decorated Coffees  2 25
!  H 
“  Elegant 50c Cup............................ 4  00
j  H 
I  *4 
“  Another 50c f 'up, new pattern  .  4 00

. 

 

 

“  Cups and  Saucers, new  pattern  5 7 
'  <4 
“  Fruit Plates, assorted................  
751  1 
90 
“  Fruit Plates  fine China.............  2 00 
!  % 
“  Glass Baskets, 6 patterns............  1  65 
80 |  Vi 
"  Glass Baskets,  very fine,...........   4 00 
;  c; 
“  Glass Baskets,  large  ass irted.  2 25 
63  b, 
“  6  inch  Assortment  Decorated
1 
Vases 
87 
75 
............................. 
“  h  inch  Assortment  Decorated
I  % 
V ases.......................................  1  00 
1  00 j 
“  New Design Decorated  Vases..  1  20 
; 
1  63  3 
35 
“  As>or merit China Toy Whistles 
“  Fancy Toothpick Holders.......... 
1 
75 
2 07 |  12  ‘  Smoking Sets..............................   9 00 
j  1-12  “  r muting Sets.................................. 600 
1  01 1  »v 
75 
Decorated Toy Tea Sets............  2 00 
*4 
42  I 6  “  Decorated Toy Tea Sets..............  100 
381  1 
“  Dressed China Babies................. 
40 
“  China Limb Dot's...................... 
80 
1 
80 
1  00 
“  Bisque Dressed  Dolls.................  2 25 
88 ; 64 
“  Washable Dressed Dolls............   1  75 
1  00  >4 
1  00 
42 |  vt 
“  Washable Dressed  Dolls..............  4 O0 
1  00 
1  00 
88 
1  12 
2 00 
1  0j I 

10 per cent, discount...........................  
PACKAGE  AND  CARTAGE  FREE. 

“  Decorated Toy Tea Sets.............. 

14 “ 
's “ 

H “ 

! 
I 

| 

C.

1  44
90
1 00
-2
1 .33
75
75
50
40
1  05
75
75
50
38
50
67
40
80
1 1.3

87
2 00
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42 51
4  25
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38 26

PICTURE  BOOKS.

See pages 30 to 3t of  No.  113 Catalogue.

China Limb  Dolls.  2 00 1 00

Washable Dressed Dolls.  2 25 1 13
Assorted  Perfumes.'8 09 1 01

TOILET  SETS.

See pages 42-43 of  No.  113  Catalogue.

MUSIC  ROLLS. Ì B<>v P»**“ 5° of No.  113 Catalogua.

China  Caps and  Saucers.

See pages 52-53.

Games and Puzzles of Every  Kind, 

of

Doll  Head».

See  page 7.

