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One September morning a strange law­
yer paid  his first visit to  Nantucket,  and 
called at Melinda Robbins’s house.  The 
house was near the center of  the  town, 
on a street running parallel with the bay, 
or,  at  least,  comparatively parallel,  for 
the system of Nantucket streets is  some­
what eccentric  and  slightly difficult  to 
explain.  Warm  breaths  of  salt air  per­
meated  the  absurdly narrow thorough­
fare where tufts  of  grass  peeped fear­
lessly between the huge,  uneven  cobble­
stones.

The door was apple  green,  relieved  by 
a gleaming brass  knocker of  austere de­
sign;  one reached it by ascending  either 
of two little flights of white-railed wood­
en steps  which met in  a brief,  uncovered 
porch.  And  the  few front windows,  be­
neath  a  sheltering  gabled  roof,  looked 
forth  from  their cream-colored  framing, 
almost timidly,  like  children’s  innocent 
eyes.

Melinda  Robbins 

lived  alone.  Few 
strangers visited Nantucket  after  tran­
sient summer guests had  taken their last 
departures,  and very few  “off-islanders” 
ever called upon  Melinda Robbins.  The 
limitations  of  Melinda’s  social  circle 
arose from no  unreasoning  prejudice on 
her  side  of  the 
issue,  for  she  had a 
smaller amount of prejudices than  most 
Nantucketers. 
She  simply  knew  no 
bond of congeniality between herself and 
people  of  the  mainland;  she  had  no 
tastes in  common with them, and she felt 
that they never  could  affiliate with  her 
any more than  oil—to  use  an  appropri­
ately  aquatic  phrase—can  mix  with 
water.  Melinda believed in  the  breadth 
and depth of the vast sea, and in one old- 
fashioned,  isolated  island—beyond  this 
loved  horizon,  physically or  mentally, 
she had never cared to roam; 
it  had en­
circled her for thirty-one years and some­
how satisfied her soul.

But Attorney William Ritter resided in 
the city of New York;  such a distinction 
radiated from every atom  of  his  fault­
lessly-clothed  person,  aud  he  hoped  it 
did.  Next to the honor of disseminating 
Blackstone, young  Mr.  Ritter  cherished 
his  metropolitan  environments.  As  he 
entered  Melinda  Robbins’s  parlor,  he 
trod the primitive floors  benignly with  a 
generous air of palliative condescension. 
He talked glibly and  carried  a  pair  of 
rimless eye glasses on  a  clear-cut,  slen­
der nose.

Melinda sat on the edge of one  of  her 
mahogany chairs and gazed at him.  The 
steadfastness  with which  she  regarded 
the man gave her  calm  face  a  strong- 
minded,  frigid look,  seeming to  accentu­
ate the paleness of its  regular  features. 
Her  hair—a  nut-colored  brown—was 
combed straight backward  from  her fore­
head  without  the  fluffy evasions which 
fashionable  women  use.  She  wore  a 
gray dress,  simply made,  and  her  eyes 
matched  the  gown.  Before the lawyer 
went away she asked a great many ques­
tions briefly,  in  a clear voice.

Three days afterward,  some  news ran 
through  the  quiet  streets  without the

aid of the  town-crier’s  bell:  “Melinda 
Robbins’s had a legacy left her.  A real 
legacy—quite a large one.  Her brother’s 
dead—J’irus, the one that ran away when 
he was a boy.  An’  she  never  knew he 
was dead!”

People stood  in  little groups  in  front 
of the stores on  Main  street,  talking  it 
over,  and  the  more 
intimate  friends 
“dropped in” on Melinda.

“Well,  Melinda,” one  of  them  said, 
smiling in spite of herself,  “you must be 
s’prised. 
I  couldn’t  believe  my  ears 
when  I  heard  Timothy  tellin’  Sallie 
Wright!  It’s terrible—ain’t it?”

it  till  to-day. 

Melinda was ironing handkerchiefs  in 
her  trim  kitchen.  “There was  a paper 
sent me,”  she  answered,  “but  1  didn’t 
receive 
I couldn’t have 
gone to the funeral  if  I’d  a-wanted to.” 
“My!”  was the sympathetic  response; 
“an’  he was the last  of  the  Robbinses, 
too.  Exceptin’  yourself,”  she  added 
quickly.

“No,”  replied  Melinda,  blushing, 
“J’irus has a son livin’;  he’s about twen­
ty-three,  now.”

“You  don’t  say!”  The  speaker was 
blonde and stout aud always talked spas­
modically.  “Just to think of  it!  an’ you 
ain’t never once  seen J’irus—have you?” 
“No,” said Melinda,  her  blush deepen­
ing;  he never came back.  There  was al­
ways a little coolness  between  father an’ 
him.  But they  wrote to each  other once 
or twice.  He was the oldest of the  boys. 
Mother thought it wore on  father a good 
deal—his goin’  the way he  did.”

“Well,  I  guess  he  must  have  pros­

pered if he left a legacy.”

“Yes,  he  prospered,” said  Melinda, 

vaguely.

“Well,  I’m glad J’irus didn’t  do  any­
thing mean in  his will,”  her  companion 
went on.  “We’ve always  thought ’at he 
must have been different from  the  Rob­
binses in more  ways ’n one.”

The red on  Melinda’s  face  had  faded 
slightly,  but two round spots now flamed 
anew. 
It was  an inherent  trait  of  the 
Robbins family  to defend one  another in 
public,  whatever blame might be  hidden 
elsewhere,  and “J’irus” was a sore topic. 
Now that he was dead,  Melinda’s loyalty 
seemed to find  fresh  incentive.  “Then 
you were all mistaken,” she  said  stiffly; 
“J’irus was a thorough  Robbins;  he  al­
ways obeyed his own  conscience.”

After awhile, other women entered the 
kitchen,  and then  they  all  adjourned  to 
the parlor and sat in  a  row  around  the 
room.  Mrs.  Piper, a wrinkled little lady 
wearing gold spectacles,  ventured  at last 
upon  the subject  nearest  the  callers’ 
hearts.  “Adoniram Wright,”  she  began 
feebly,  “is the worst hand to  say insinu­
atin’ things!  He  thinks you won’t  be so 
devoted  to  the 
island,  now you’ve got 
some money;  he says you’ll take on  big 
ideas an’ go cruisin’  off to  the  mainland 
the  way your  brother  did.  Sallie  told 
him  he  ought  to  know you  better;  but 
he’s kind of soured  since  his  cousin  left 
last spring.”

“We don’t set  nothin’  by such 

ideas, 
Melindy,”  said  a  slow  speaker;  “w e!

NO.  532

know money can’t  make  you  over  in  a 
minute.  You ain’t the flimsy  kind,  any­
how;  you’re from good  old  Nantucket 
stock.”

Melinda Robbins listened gravely.  The 
women had no idea that their  every sen­
tence hurt her like a  blow.  Since Will­
iam Ritter’s official call,  the placid  tenor 
of her mind  had  been  suddenly lashed 
into tumult. 
It seemed  as  tossed  and 
perplexed  as  the  ocean  when a storm 
sometimes hurled its waves high on Sias- 
conset  coast;  but  no  friendly  harbor 
offered safe  retreat.

Faint bits of color still  brightened her 
cheeks. 
It bewildered her  to  hear  the 
chief cause  of  her  silent  misery reck­
lessly tossed from these visitors’  smiling 
lips.  She had only dared  to  ponder  it 
stealthily  with bated breath.  She  could 
scarcely bear to hear them speak  of  the 
mainland,  for  relentless  reasons  were 
beckoning her to the unknown  continent 
—secret reasons that must  never  be  re­
vealed.  This had been  hard  to  realize; 
and now she saw that her 
love  for  her 
island home was  to  be  questioned,  chal­
lenged,  jested  about — the  very 
love 
which held her from duty with a mysteri­
ous,  vital strength.

“I told Tim  Bates,” pursued  Mrs.  Pi­
per,  “that I’d  no 
idea  how  many  thou­
sand dollars you’d got,  but  I  didn’t be­
lieve ’s much  as  a  hundred  thousand 
would puff  you  up  above  Nantucket. 
Nobody  but  Adoniram  thinks ’twould. 
So you needn’t mind,  Melinda.”

There  was no  response.  The  blonde 
person,  whose  name  was  Ruth Tupper, 
broke  in  abruptly  upon  an  awkward 
silence.  “Well,  bow much did you  get, 
Melinda,  or don’t you like to say?”

Melinda  spoke  with  a  great  effort. 
’Twas 
thousand,”  she  answered 

“Why,  yes;  1 don’t mind  tellin’. 
a  hundred 
softly.

“G-g-gracious!”
The information swept  the still  apart­
ment  with  the agitation  attendant  upon 
a March squall.  The  women  seemed  to 
be battling  against  it.  “Melinda  Rob­
bins,  be  you  crazy?” Mrs.  Piper  gasped 
breathlessly. 
“What—what  on  earth 
will you do with it?”

Melinda tried to  smile.  Somehow the 
sensation  she had evoked  made  her bur­
den heavier—she felt the money  to  be  a 
burden.

“I’m glad you dropped  in  to-day,”  she 
said  in  the hallway as  her  friends were 
preparing to depart,  “for I’m thinkin’  of 
goin’ away soon,  an’  I mayn’t  find  time 
to see every one  before  I 
leave.”  She 
spoke  the  words  mechanically,  with  a 
dull aching in her  heart.  The  jumbled 
responses broke on  her ears  confusedly, 
devoid  of  meaning;  and  the  blurred 
glimpses  of  astonished  faces 
looking 
backward as she watched  the  four  fig­
ures receding down  the  street,  clung  to 
her memory  long afterward.

She went upstairs presently,  and  took 
a letter from  an  old  East  Indian  tea 
chest. 
It bore a last year’s date, and had 
traveled  from  New  York 
in  Attorney 
Ritter’s  coat  pocket  along with various

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a graceless interloper from  a  busy out­
side  world,  puffed  restlessly. 
It  was 
early  morning.  Some  of  the  fishing 
boats had  not  yet  put  off.  Tremulous 
sails glistened  in  the  sun.  There was 
the  usual  throng  of 
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other documeuts.  She  read  it again for 
the nineteenth time:

My  De a r   S is t e r—Your  belated  ap­
pearance  in  this  world  prevented  the 
possibility  of our acquaintanceship;  nev­
ertheless  I  have not forgotten  that one 
member of the Robbins family still  bides 
in the dear old  nest.  Should  time  per­
mit,  I may yet ask the pleasure  of  view­
ing you and the nest,  but  nothing is cer­
tain here,  and  death  crowds  ruthlessly 
against life’s  sweetest  plans. 
I’ve  re­
cently made  a will  which  bequeaths  to 
you,  unconditionally,  my entire  posses­
sions. 
Injustice  will  be  charged  above 
my grave.  1 ask  you  to  protect  your 
father’s son  from such a calumny; there­
fore,  1  write to  tell  you  that  my only 
child,  once the joy of his dead  mother’s 
heart,  is unworthy  to  become  my  heir. 
What  I  have  borne 
in  patient  sorrow- 
through  many years 
is  known  only  to 
myself—1  wish  it  to  be  buried  with  me. 
But remember that you  are shielding my 
son  Eugene from temptation and dishonor 
by  accepting  my  last  testament.  The 
aforesaid  gentleman,  when not crazed by 
liquor, will  corroborate these statements.

I am  proud  to remain,

Your brother,

J a ir u s  Ro b b in s.

Melinda sighed as  she  finished.  The 
letter always gave  her a sense of  depres­
sion.  She  remembered  what  she  had 
said to Ruth  Tupper about  her  brother’s 
conscience,  and a new truth shot  across 
her mind in  the thought  that  even  con­
science might  err.  She  pitied  Jairus, 
but her heart yearned  over Jairus’s son. 
“If I rob him,” she  said 
to  herself,  “1 
can’t help it;  my  hands are  tied.  But 1 
can  go to him;  and  1—I am—goiu’.”

A  smarting  ingredient  of  Melinda’s 
bitter potion  was  the  discovery  that  her 
friends were losing  confidence 
in  her. 
An  unfailiug characteristic of  Nantuck­
eters is their provincial patriotism.  Only 
second  to  America’s  flag  ranks  their 
small American  island.  When  whiffs  of I 
Melinda’s  westward 
forecasts  were 
scented  by  their  critical  seafaring  nos­
trils,  they  were  drearily  disappointed. 
If she had decided to  sail  seaward—re­
tired  captains  reasoned—or  suggested  j 
foreign  voyages of  discovery—but  west­
ward and  landward—words  of  aversion 
failed!

And  Melinda put her house  in  parting 
order,  grieving  silently.  She  had  re­
solved to  preclude  “J'lrus’s  meanness” 
and "J’irus’squeerness’’from  becoming  a 
subject  of  unjust  debate. 
Indeed,  she 
heard him asking this favor of  her with 
his dying voice.  She  preferred  not  to 
analyze her motives,  so  the  neighbors 
stood aloof and eyed  her doubtfully.

“She’s goin’  to 

in  New  York,” 
flashed  through the town;  and  the 
last 
“native”  member of the  old  Nantucket 
Robbinses stood convicted.

live 

“Money’s turned  her head,  an’  no mis­
take,”  Mrs.  Piper inferred.  “1 wouldn’t 
have believed  it of Melinda!”

“The  house  was trig  enough  for  the 
old  cap’n,”  Adoniram  Wright  returned, 
in  a tone of  mingled  triumph  and  dis­
dain.

There was one 

individual  who  never 
expressed himself upon  the  disturbing 
subject.  Dolf  Btrwick  was  a  man 
of  few  words, 
listened  to  much 
that was said  about Melinda on  the docks 
and in  the  stores,  with  a pained expres­
sion on his bronzed  face,  then  he  would 
take his great 
length  of  person  away 
from  hearing,  and  meditate  alone  upon 
the problem.  A  few old  residents,  over­
come  with chagrin  at  the  approaching 
exodu-.  muiled  significantly  over  the 
m ention  of  bis  name.  "Dolf ’ll  feel sor- 
rier’n  ever ’at  he  couldn't  get  Melinda.” 
was  whispered,  unbiu.-lnugiy.
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The  touching!}-  familiar  scene  pos­
sessed  a dim,  vibratory  unreality for  Me­
linda  Robbins.  People shook  her  hands 
awkwardly,  but no cordial  ring  of  God­
speed.  nor  any  tenderness  of  farewell, 
could  be detected  in  their forced  words. 
Just  before she stepped  upon  the  gang- 
plauk,  a  figure,  pushing  through  the 
crowd,  hurried 
It  was 
Dolf  Berwick.  Melinda reached  out her 
hand  and  he held  it  for a brief  moment. 
A  bell  clanged  waruingly.  There was 
hardly  time to complete  a  sentence,  for 
the  man  had  acted  upon  a sudden  im­
pulse.

towards  her. 

“I  don’t  know  why you’re  goin’,  Me­
linda,”  he  said  desperately.  “I  know 
you’ve got a good  reason  for it.  Perhaps 
you’ll come  back  an’  tell  us  some  time. 
Please God,  I’ll  watch  for you.”

“Oh, 

thank  you,  Dolf!”  she  cried. 

“Thank you!  Good-by.”

“Good-by.”
The  plank  swung  inward.  Shrill blasts 
of the whistle pierced  the  island,  and in 
a very  few minutes the  River Queen was 
ploughing 
the  water  around  Brandt 
Point.

Melinda  stood  on its  upper  deck..  She 
leaned  against the rail  and looked  back­
ward a  long time.

At  a distance the town  portion  of  the 
islaud  seemed to  hold  soft  colors,  and 
sloped  upwaid  from 
the  water,  tier 
above tier.  The gray of ancient shingles 
predominated,  but the  transforming au­
tumnal sunshine somehow  woke  sugges­
tions,  patches of faint rose and  lavender 
and azure;  in  the center loomed  the  old 
North Tower’s shining  brass dome,  from 
whose belfry a certain  Spanish  bell  had 
counted all  Melinda’s hours  in  notes  of 
indescribable metallic sweetness.

A helpless smile crept to  her  mouth, 
for the last few years had  been very safe 
and  content,  and  she  had  carefully 
guarded  against every ripple  that  would 
have disturbed  the surface of their calm.
Far to the left an  irregular  coast line 
bordered 
country  where 
stretched  the  moors—one  undulating 
sweep of greens and  browns.

open 

the 

its  graves 

She  was leaving a little  world.  It held 
all  her  past  with 
its  tender  childhood 
memories,  and 
in  the  Old 
North  Burial  Ground; 
it  held  all  the 
loved  ones—dead  and 
living—that  her 
life had cherished;  and,  alas!  she  real­
ized,  with  a swift pang,  that  it  held  the 
unquestioning  faith of but one  steadfast 
heart.

The bell-buoy  beyond  Martha’s  Vine­
yard  said  “Good-by—good  by—good-by” 
—in  a breathless,  love-laden  voice.  Irre­
pressible  gulls 
swerved  everywhere, 
mocking  her  by  their  buoyancy.  The 
sun  streamed  full  in  her  face  across  a 
wide expanse of water.

Melinda  never  understood  how  she 
finally  reached  Jairus’s  son.  Probably 
Attorney  Ritter helped  her considerably. 
Mr.  Ritter was  very  agreeable;  he  felt 
no objections toward  accompanying  Me­
linda  Robbins,  legatee,  to the  headquar-

A   C a s e :

30  Packages.
36  Pounds.
FULL  WEIGHT.

A l s o   in   R u lic :

25  lb.  Boxes,
50  lb.  Boxes,  and 

300  lb.  Barrels.

O R D E R   F R O M   Y O U R   JO B B E R .

IMPORTED  AND  CLEANED  BY

Grand  Rapids  Frdit  Gleaning  Go.,

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IT  HAS  NO  EQUAL.

And  risk  your  reputation  by  recommending  some other  brand 
as being equal  in quality  to the  Old Peliable

“Gail B o rd en

E agle  B ra n d ”

Condensed  Milk.  Make  no  mistake.  The  “Eagle”  Brand 
has no  equal. 
It  has been  on  the  market for more than thirty 
I years.  You  cannot afford  to  place  in  stock goods that lie  on 
jyour shelves  until  spoiled,  and  that  you  are never safe in  rec­
ommending.  The  New York  Condensed  Milk  Co.  is aiding 
! the sale of  the  ‘‘Eagle”  Brand by  advertising  it  to  consumer» 
| in your section.  That will  help you.

ters  of  her  newly  acquired  estates—a 
narrow  stone  mansion  where  the  only 
male survivor of  many  thrifty  devotees 
to whaling industry was  still  idling  his 
time, cheerfully  waiting some  most  dis­
astrous 
the  probate 
court.

settlements  of 

Eugene  Robbins’  slender  length  cov­
ered  a  white  fur  rug  before a blaze of 
logs  when  the 
lawyer  guided  Melinda 
into the library.  A dreadful  fear stabb­
ed  the tired woman’s  heart,  but  it  was 
instantly  withdrawn  as  her  nephew 
sprang  lightly  to his feet.  “Well,  I do 
declare! how do you do?”  he said,  laugh­
ing.  “Why in  thunder didn’t  the  maid 
announce you?”

He was a very  handsome  young  man. 
“Allow me,” replied  Mr.  Ritter,  with 
proper deference,  “to  introduce  you  to 
your aunt,  Miss  Melinda  Robbins.”  If 
he  had  added,  “legatee,” 
the  word 
would  have  carried  smaller  meaning 
than  the gesture  with  which he indicated 
his quaint companion.

A  stray  gleam  in  the astonished eyes 
bent  on  Melinda  brought  nearer  the 
graves in the Old North  Burial  Ground. 
Her thread-gloved hands happened  to  be 
empty,  so  she  held 
them  both  out. 
“Eugene,” she said,  brokenly,  “my dear 
boy!”

Attorney William Ritter afterward left 
the  house  in a state of exasperating un 
certainty.  He  stopped  at  his  favorite 
restaurant,  and, 
in  a  bewildered  way, 
ordered  a  breaded  cutlet.  Terra  firma 
seemed to be oscillating disagreeably and 
made his head almost  dizzy.  “Anybody 
but a  woman to  deal  with,” he  reflected 
“you can’t depend  on  them.  They’re- 
you  can't depend  on  thfji.”  He  knew 
his  digestion  was  imperiled,  when  he 
recollected  that  Miss  Robbins,  legatee 
and  Mr.  Robbins,  deposee,  were doubt­
less  lunching  together  in  the  tranquil 
precincts of  the family dining-room.

Melinda’s new life really began  a fort 
night later,  but she  never spoke about it 
to any one.  As a  matter  of  fact,  there 
were none  with  whom  to  divide  con6 
dences,  had she cared to  unburden  her 
self.  An aged housekeeper,  and a faith 
ful  colored  man,  whose  office  wavered 
between  valet  and  butler  as  occasions 
demanded,  had acquired  a reticence that 
embraced  both  comprehension  and  sto­
lidity.

Sometimes Melinda Robbins  sat  alone 
in the library and  wept quietly,  thinking 
of  her brother Jairus.  Thoughts of  the 
island home seldom stayed with her now 
she had pushed  them  from her memory; 
but they could not have thrived  long  in 
the  new  atmosphere,  though a sense of 
loss constantly pervaded her intelligence, 
as  fog  pervades  a  crowded  city  street. 
Once,  late  in  the  evening,  she  paused 
before  the  mantel-piece  where  Jairus 
Robbins’s  portrait  hung,  and addressed 
the  insentient  canvas  falteringly,  in  a 
hushed voice:  “I’m takin’  care  of  your 
boy,  J’irus,”  she murmured.  “You paid 
me  too  much  money;  but  it  costs—it 
costs—something else.”

The  pardoning  element  of  Melinda’s 
nature  came  into  frequent  requisition, 
but there  were,  occasionally,  moments 
when it was easy to  be  lenient  towards 
Eugene  Robbins.  He  had  a  grace  of 
manner  infinitely  winning.  His boyish 
gratitude  touched  her.  “ You’d  better 
let  me  hurry  right  along to the devil,” 
he  often  advised,  with  his  fascinating 
smile.  “The governor always  insisted I 
had a predilection that  way,  and  I guess

he  knew. 
I  hate  to  see  you  wasting 
your  time  among  land-lubbers.”  The 
shock which the  words gave to her sensi­
tive nerves  was partly  modified  because 
the  speaker  looked  at  her  through  the 
Robbins’s frank eyes.

But Melinda was obliged  to abandon  a 
cherished plan.  She had intended to  rid 
herself  of  a  wearisome  load  by  giving 
her inheritance  to Jairus’s son,  provided 
she could persuade  herself  that  he  was 
worthy.  The folly of  such  a course in­
truded  itself upon  her at  every  turn,  in 
hideous contours.  Gradually  she became 
aware that Jairus had  not  made  a  mis­
take.  Many times she tucked  his  letter 
under her pillow and  slept  more  peace­
fully for the knowledge that it  was near.
One night  she  saw  a  full-rigged  ship 
entering port,  its sails bright  with  sun.
It was only a dream,  but  the vague com­
fort  of  the little vision occasionally met 
her unexpectedly.

The  seasons,  emphasized  by  a  great 
city’s turbulent confusion,  followed one 
another very slowly,  in  new  guise,  like 
strange  faces,  or  the  faces  of  friends 
masked;  while ahead  of  her  she  beheld 
the unvarying  future  receding  into  un­
bounded  distances  that  resembled  the 
gray infinitude of an ocean.

Four years afterward,  when she knelt, 
for the last time, beside Eugene Robbins’s 
prostrate  form,  Melinda  felt  remorse, 
mindful  that  her  devotion  had 
lacked 
spontaneity,  having  been  evolved  from 
duty.  Troubled  by  new  regrets,  she 
clung  to  him  with  unutterable  tender­
ness until  the  last  moment.  “ ’Gene,” 
she  whispered,  “I  shall  miss  you;  be­
lieve me,  I shall.  You belong to me.”

The  old  sweet  smile  brightened  his 
face 
in  answer,  and  something  like  a 
ray  of  pleasantry  crept  into  his  eyes. 
“You’ve been so kind  I’m  half  inclined 
to  tell  you—a  secret,”  he said,  faintly, 
“I wouldn’t tell any—one  else.  There’s 
another Robbins—a little  kid.  Perhaps 
—you’ll—help her—some,  when  she’s 
grown.”

leaped  on 

Melinda’s heart  trembled  an  instant, 
then 
in  great  throbs.  She 
leaned  eagerly  down.  “An’  its mother? 
Tell  me,  ’Gene.”

“She’s dead,”  came  the weak answer. 
“We—were married—before the  govern­
or  died.  There’s  a—letter  in  my  old 
portfolio.  Don’t—don’t tell  father.”

His mind  had  begun to  wander;  there 
was only  time to summon  it as a witness 
to  the  breathless,  sobbing  promise  of 
restitution  that broke triumphantly from 
Melinda’s  lips. 
“Oh,  ’Gene,  I’ll  giv 
her all!  This house,  the money—every 
thing—everything! 
I’ll  find  her,  I’ll 
protect her.”  And a brooding peace filled 
the  apartment  when  Eugene’s  happiest 
smile signaled back.

The  silence  that  enwrapped  Melinda 
during the next few  days  reminded  her 
of  sunny  Sabbath  mornings 
long  ago 
when,  a little girl,  accompanied  by  her 
Quaker  grandmother,  she  had  trudged 
tnrough Traders’  Lane  to  a  small  drab 
meeting-house  on  Centre 
street,  and 
drowsily watched the shadows of  a  wil 
low tree  waver  across  the  solemn  still 
ness.

She was roused  from  her  lethargy  at 
last by the disquieting reality  which ter 
minated her  search  for  the  latest  addi 
tion  to  the  Robbins  family.  Melinda 
had  not  anticipated  the  odd  sensation 
that thrilled her frame at the touch  of 
baby’s  hand.  As  she  examined  the 

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W E   H A V E   F O U N D   IT.
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W H O L E S A L E

Dry  600(18,  Garpets and  Gloaks

Wq  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

G eese  Feathers.

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T H B   M X C H IG A J S r  T R A D E S M A N .

AMONG  THE  TRADE.
A R OU ND  TH K   S T A T E .

Carson City—Frank  Smith has  opened 

a meat  market.

Scotts—Anson  Pierce  succeeds W.  H. 

Delano in the grocery  business.

Galesburg—A.  H.  Reed succeeds A.  11.  I 

Reed & Co.  in  the meat  business.

Britton—Lee  Bros,  have purchased the 

grocery stock of F.  Brown  A Son.

Hawkhead—Johnston  Bros, 

Marshall  Bugden  in  general  trade.

succeed 

Stanwood—N.  O.  Ward succeeds  Ward 

& Smith  in the hardware  business.

Scotts—Foster  &  Simmons  succeed 

Taylor & Myers in  the meat  business.

Sears—The Sears  Mercantile  Co.  suc­
ceeds E.  J.  Priest & Co.  in general  trade.
Mason—W.  M.  McCrossen  succeeds 
Henry M. Williams in  the drug business.
Muskegon—H.  Mellema  is  succeeded 
by  Wm.  Korfker in  the grocery business.
Ypsilanti—John Taylor,  of  the  hard­
ware firm of Taylor  &  Lefurge,  is dead.
Detroit—The  S.  U.  Davis Co.  succeeds 
S.  H.  Davis  & Co.  in  the wholesale  fish 
business.

Bloomingdale—S.  Peck,  successor  to 
Wiggins & Co.,  has closed  business here 
and  moved  the general  stock to  Barring­
ton,  111.

Central  Lake—It  is  E.  M.  McFarlan— 
not  H.  C.  McFarlan,  as previously  stated 
—who has  purchased  the  grocery stock 
of Wm.  Zeran & Son.

Belding—Welsh,  Cobb  &  Co.  is  the 
style of the new grocery firm  located  in 
the building vacated by Wilson & Friedly, 
composed  of E.  R.  Spencer,  Thos.  Welsh 
and  Willis Cobb.

Kalamazoo—J.  N.  Stearns has  sold  his 
intere.'t in  the  Cold  Storage  Co.  to  the 
other  stockholders.  F.  H.  Ackerson,  of 
Hastings,  has taken  a  position  with  the 
company.

M A N U FA CTU RIN G   M ATTERS,

Ludington—F.  E.  Gary  has  been  ap­
pointed receiver of the  Mendelson  Pants 
Manufacturing Co.

Traverse City—The  Wells,  Higman  & 
Co.  basket  factory  will  shut down  Dec.  1 
and  will not start up  until  April  1.

Shelby—F.  L.  Peck  and J. A.  Harrison 
have formed  a  copartnership,  under the 
style of  Peck  &  Harrison,  to embark  in 
the manufacture of broom  handies.

Delton—The  Delton  Roller  Mill  Co. 
has given  a  trust  deed  to  the  Hastings 
National  Bank  to  secure a  loan of  §9,000 
and  has  also  secured  the Hastings City j 
Bank for a loan of §2,000.

Empire— The  Empire  Lumber  Co.’s 
mills,  which  have  been  shut  down  since 
Sept.  24,  will  resume  operations  next 
Monday.  The  company  has  now  nine 
miles of logging road,  which  will  be  in 
full  blast in a few  weeks.

Greenville  — Will  H.  Bradley  has 
formed  a  copartnership  with C.  F.  Me* 
George,  under  the  style  of Bradley & 
McGeorge,  for the  purpose  of  handling 
butter and  eggs.  A  cold  storage ware­
house, 24x70 feet  in  dimensions,  is now 
in  process of construction.

Traverse  City—The  Oval  Wood  Dish  | 
Co.  has about three weeks’ cut of logs on 
hand,  after which  it  will close  down  for 
a short  time to  make some  necessary  im- I 
Its  stock is low and orders j 
provements. 
are  coming 
in  rapidly,  accordingly the 
shut down  will  not last long.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Time  Register 
Co.  has  filed  articles  of 
incorporation. 
The incorporators are Nelson M. Watson,  j 
who owns nearlv all  the stock;  Benjamin

| F.  Briscoe,  James  T.  Shaw.  William  H.
J  Burtenshaw  and  Thomas  Muir.  The 
I capital  stock  is§50,000, nearly all paid in.
Marquette—The  logs  lying in  a branch 
j of the Escauaba River, which were gotten 
out  by Hart & Misho,  and afterward sold 
j to satisfy labor claims,  have been  bought 
by  Palmer & Hopkins,  of  this  city,  who 
will  load  them on the cars  at Palmer and 
bring them  here to be sawed at the Dead 
River mill.

Lansing—The.Lansing  branch  of  the 
United  States  Baking  Co.  was  totally 
destroyed  by fire Nov. 25.  The company’s 
loss is §10,000;  insurance,  §5,000.  The 
building,  owned  by  Frederick  Thoman, 
was  insured  for §5,500  which  will cover 
the damage.

Detroit—The  Easy  Wagon  Gear  Co. 
has filed  a  second  chattel  mortgage  on 
its  stock  and  business  at 57,  59  and 61 
East  Woodbridge  street.  A.  H.  Wilkin­
son is made trustee.  There  are  ninety- 
eight debts ranging  from §1.25  to §7,000, 
few  of  them  and  no  large  ones  due  to 
Detroit parties.  D.  P.  Johnson is Presi­
dent of  the company and  H.  H.  James is 
Secretary and Treasurer.

Bay City—The old Tittabawassee Boom 
Co.,  organized 
in  1864  under a  thirty 
years’  charter,  has  virtually  ceased  to 
exist as a  booming  corporation,  the out­
fit of the company  having  been  sold,  its 
charter expiring in  February,  1894.  Pre­
vious to 1864  large quantities of logs had 
been  rafted out of  the  River  and  tribu­
taries,  but no  accurate  record  was  kept 
of them, although a close estimate places 
the quantity rafted  between  1851 and the 
date of the organization of the boom com- 
oany  at  1,700,000,000  feet.  During  the 
season of  1893 there  was  rafted  and  de­
livered  to the mills by this boom company 
1,304,363 pieces,  scaling  113,457,850 feet, 
the smallest quantity  handled  in  twenty- 
eight years.

Muskegon — Whether  the  Muskegon 
Booming Co.  is reorganized  or not in the 
spriug  the 
logs  will  come  down  the 
River.  This was decided at a meeting of 
the log  owners,  and  arrangements were 
made with  the  Muskegon  Booming  Co. 
to put  the river in  shape for next  year’s 
drive.  The  company’s  dredge  will  at 
once begin  work  on  the  places 
in  the 
channel over which logs have been driven 
with  difficulty this year, and which would 
have  been  closed  next  year  if nothing 
were  done  this  fall.  The  cost  of the 
work  will  be a charge upon  the logs,  and 
will not  be  borne  by the  company.  The 
log owners  participating in  the  meeting 
were the  McGraft  Lumber  Co.,  Thayer 
Lumber  Co.,  Munroe  &  Briner,  Frank 
Alberts,  Gow  A Campbell,  Hovey A  Mc­
Cracken,  Uackley A  Hume  and  M.  Wil­
son.

B.  M.  A.  N otes.

Kalamazoo Telegraph:  The committee 
having in charge the charity  fund of  the 
Business Men’s Association  unanimously 
decided that the plan  to  distribute  the 
money  through  the  committee  was  im­
practicable,  and  the  committee voted  to 
distribute  the  money,  §207.84,  between 
the following  charitable 
institutions  of 
Kalamazoo,  with  the  amendment  that if 
the Union Aid Society be not in existence 
as  a  charitable  organization  prior  to 
January  1,  1894, 
its  share  shall  be
divided  equally  between  the  other four 
organizations:  Borgess  Hospital,  Chil­
dren’s  Home,  Industrial  School  and 
Betbesda Home.  The action  of the com­
mittee will  be made known  to the officers 
of the various institutions.
Grand Traverse (Traverse City) Herald:
Quite  an 
important  meeting  of  the 
Business  Men’s  Association  was  held 
last evening.  The matter of the location

Tbe  D rug  M ark et.

There are few  changes  of  importance 

to note this week.

Opium is dull and lower.
Morphia is unchanged.
Quinine continues firm,  with  a  higher 

tendency.

Glycerine has declined.

C.  B.  Noble,  formerly  connected  with 
the now defunct grocery store on Water­
loo  street,  near 
the  Wood  Carriage 
Works,  has purchased the John Compton 
furniture stock and removed  it  to New­
berry,  where he has  embarked  in  busi­
ness.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—Carefully  selected  Greenings,  Spys 
and Baldwins command $1  per bbl.  No. 2 stock 
is  held  at $2.50 per bbl.
is  coming  in  freely. 
Beans — Dry  stock 
Handlers  pay $1.50 for country cleaned and $1.60 
for country picked.

Butter—Weaker and lower, due to the remark­
able increase in  the  consumption  of  butterine 
and oleo.  Dealers  pay  18@20c for choice dairy, 
holding at 20®22c.  Creamery is slow sale at 28c.

Cabbage—Home grown, $2@3 per 100.
Carrots—20c per bushel.
Cranberries—Cape Cod  are  a  little  stronger, 
commanding $2.50 per bu. and $6.50 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  hold  fresh  at  22c  and 
pickled at 20c per doz.

Grapes—New York Concords command 2Cc 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, 15c per lb.
Onions—Home  grown  are  weak  and  slow of 
sale, owing to the large amount of stock thrown 
on the market.  Handlers pay 40c, holding at 50c 
per bu.  Spanish  are  in  small  demand  at $1.25 
per crate.

Potatoes—The market is  about  the  same  as  a 
week ago, handlers  paying 45c  here and 40@42c 
at outside buying points.

Squash—Hubbard, l%c per lb.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys  command  $3.75  and 

Baltimores $2.75 per bbl.

Turnips—25c per bu.

of  a  school  seat  factory  here  was  dis- 
I cussed,  the annual meeting with banquet 
was  talked some  and  a  plan  for  winter 
excursions to Traverse  City.  The  meet­
ing was called,  however, more especially 
to consider the possibility of  locating at 
this  point  a  canning  factoiy.  A  large 
concern  would  like to establish at some 
center of  pea raising such a factory,  and 
are  favorably considering Traverse City. 
Great quantities  of  seed peas are raised 
in  this  section  of  the  State,  and  Grand 
Traverse has the name of  producing the 
best  and  cleanest  seed  in  the  country. 
Peas for canning would be  taken  in  the 
pod.  The crop  would  come early in the 
season  and bring the  farmers the money 
just when it is most  needed,  before  the 
general crops of  the year  are  available. 
In order to  insure the establishment here 
of such an enterprise it would  be  neces­
sary  to  contract  for  not  less  than  500 
acres  of  peas  within reasonable hauling 
distance of  Traverse  City.  We  believe 
there is money  in it for our farmers.
Sow   to   th e  W ind  a n d   R eap  th e  W h irl­

w ind.

The Benton  Harbor  grocers  appear to 
have gone crazy on  the subject of cutting 
prices,  if the  following  newspaper  re­
port is any criterion:

Ten grocery  firms have  lately engaged 
in  a war on  prices for  provisions.  They 
are  selling  flour  at  §2.50,  twenty-five 
cents less a barrel than  itcau be replaced 
for in carload  lots.  Granulated  sugar is 
sold  twenty-two  pounds  for  §1.  The 
grocers declare that  they are in  it to  the 
bitter end.  Citizens  are  buying  freely 
for an all  winter supply.

The natural outcome of such a crusade 
is a general demoralization  and  an  un­
settling of values  which  will  be  felt  long 
after  the  cutting  campaign  shall have 
passed into  history.  Such  events  tend 
to confirm the belief entertained by many 
people that the grocery business involves 
enormous  profits  and  that  only during 
periods of fierce strife among the grocers 
do profits approach  the minimum.
O p p o rtu n ity   fo r  E ffort.

The attention  of  the  State Food Com­
mission is called  to  the  "industry” thus 
described  by a local  newspaper:

A  new  industry  will  be  started  at 
Croswell  as  soon  as  the  machinery ar­
rives—that of manufacturing syrup  with 
a  maple  sugar  flavor.  The  new com­
pound is  made  from  white  sugar  and 
given the maple sugar flavor  by a decoc­
tion made from the chips of maple trees, 
it is perfectly  harmless and  makes a de­
licious and  healthful  syrup.

Such  a decoction  is  probably lawful  if 
not unwholesome and if sold  for what it 
really  is—“syrup  with maple flavor,” in­
stead of  “genuine maple syrup.”

B ank  N otes.

Receiver  W.  B.  McKinney,  of 

the 
American  Bank  of  Lawton,  began  last 
Tuesday to  pay a dividend of 53 per cent. 
It is expected that about  75  per cent,  of 
the bank’s indebtedness  will  be realized.
The  creditors  of  the  City  National 
Bank  of  Greenville are greatly dissatis-
fied  with the  receiver,  and  recently held 
a meeting to consider the plan of signing 
an appeal  for  his  removal.  The  room 
was too small to  hold  the people  who at­
tended,  and  another  meeting  will  soon 
be held  at  the call of the chairman.

Tbe  G rocery  M arket.

It 

is  reported 

Sugar—As foreshadowed in last week’s ! 
paper,  sugar took another  tumble  early I 
in  the  week,  and  the market is still weak 
and  unsettled. 
from 
Washington that the Committee on Ways 
and  Means has decided to report in favor 
of  reducing the  duty  on  refined  sugar 
from  Kc to  J^c per pound.
little 
have reduced their prices  %c.

Coffee—Mild  grades  are weaker and a 
Package  manufacturers 

lower. 

DO  YOU WAHT A LAMP ?

We W ant  Money,

And offer Lamps this week at  prices  that break
all previous records.
$1.50 Lamps a t ......................................  
73c
$ i  35
$2 50 Lamps a t ....................................... 
1  43
$2.75 Lamps a t ......................................  
$3.00 Lamps a t .................................. 
1  G3
2  48
$4.50 Lamps a t ......................................  
$5.0 1 Banquet Lamps a t ....................... 
3  98
$6.00 Banquet Lamps  a t ...................... 
, .  75
$25  Banquet  Lamps,  cut  glass  founts 
and onyx stand at.............................  
15  00
Come  and  See  w hat  an  Upset  we  have 

given  Old  Prlcra.

M ay’s Bazaar,
41  and  43  Monroe  St.

B. 

C h anges a t th e  H  & P.  D rug Co.

Barendse—We have  not burned our 

for  quite 
cent,  discount from  list.

Ilaud  Sleighs—Are  also  being  called 
liberally.  We  quote  40  per 

hill side.  Associations and combinations 
have failed  in  their  purpose  and  each 
manufacturer seems to  be  trying  to  see 
how  much  money  he  can  lose and not 
"bust”—7@7%c  for  sisal  and  11c  for 
manila being freely quoted.

Snow Shovels—The early  fail of  snow 
has made a good  demand,  and we  quote 
as follows:
No. 1 L.H..................................
No. ID.  H...................................
No. 2 L .II....................................
No. 2 D.  II...................................

Per Doz.
.....................................*2 00
1  95

TBLfcC  M I C H I G A N   T E A D E 8 M A J N .
Mr.  Brink—Ours amount to  between  2 
and 3 per cent.
Another member stated  that  his  loss 
exceeded  10  per cent.
H.  J.  Vinkemulder—The loss  account 
is  not  the  heaviest  one,  by any means. 
The expense of  bookkeeping  and of col­
lecting and  the  loss on goods not charged 
is more than  the  actual  loss  through  bad 
debts. 
I am ready to go  into  the  cash 
business  whenever  a  majority  of  the 
principal  grocers will agree to join hands 
in the matter.
books and  are doing  some  credit  busi­
ness,  but we make no new  accounts.  We 
note  that  the 
laundries  are  greatly 
pleased  with  the  adoption  of  an exclu­
sively cash system,  and  await  the  time 
when  the grocers will  have  the  nerve to 
adopt the same plan.
Peter Schuit moved  that a  mass  meet­
ing of the grocers of the  city  be  held at 
the  next  meeting  of  the Association  to 
continue the discussion  of  this  subject, 
which  was  adopted.
The Committee on Trade  Interests re­
ported that they  had  been  unable to see 
the city millers for the purpose of ascer­
taining if they would agree to maintain a 
uniform  price on flour.
Peter  Schuit—“Lily  White”  appears 
to  be sold at  all  kinds  of  prices,  both 
wholesale  and  retail,  the  Valley  City 
people appearing to  make  the  cheapest 
prices to those  who  do not pay  for  their 
goods.
Daniel Viergiver—I  suggest  that  the 
Committee  be instructed to ascertain how 
many  prices  the  millers  have,  anyway. 
Investigation 
leads  me  to believe that 
the Valley City  Mills  sell  from  one  to 
two tons  a day  to retail  customers.  For 
my  part,  I  shove  “Lily  White”  one  side 
and only sell  it when  a  customer  won’t 
have anything else.
A member asked  what price  the  mill 
was making on  “Lily  White”  at present. 
Reports  were  received  showing  that  it 
was sold  all  the  way  from $1.50  to  $1.75 
per hundred  weight.
Treasurer Lehman  reported  a  balance 
on hand  of  $327,  and  the  meeting  ad­
journed.

During the  absence  of  the  President, 
H. B.  Fairchild assumes the  position  of 
General  Manager  of  the  business.  Mr. 
Fairchild  has  been 
identified  with  the 
house 
in  various  capacities  for  over 
twenty  years and  is  fully qualified to dis­
charge  the  duties  imposed  upon him  in 
his present  position.

M.  S.  Goodman is  succeeded  as Secre­
tary  and  Treasurer by  M.  B.  Hazeltine, 
son of  the President of  the corporation, 
and as  head  book-keeper  by  Josiah  F. 
Jessup,  who has  been connected  with the 
West  Michigan  Lumber Co.  in  the  same 
capacity  for the past eight years.

Coincident  with  the  departure  of  Dr. 
Chas.  S.  Hazeltine for his  consular  posi­
tion  at  Milan,  a number  of  changes  oc­
curred  in  the official  and  office  force  of 
the  Hazeltine &  Perkins  Drug Co.

Buys  (Buys  &  VanDuinen)—We 

G ran d  R apids  R etail  G ro cers’  A sso cia­

tion.

A. 

At the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Retail  Grocers’ Association,  held 
at  Protective Brotherhood  Hall  on  Mon­
day  evening,  Nov.  20,  President Smits 
stated  that the special order of  business 
was  the  discussion  of  the  cash  system 
and  the curtailment of the present credit 
system.
B. S.  Harris stated  that  he  supposed 
by  this  that  the  grocers  were  to  sell 
goods  for all the cash they could get.
J.  F.  Gaskill  (Gasbill  &  Goss)—My 
firm  has  brought  its  business  down  as 
closely to cash as possible,  without  los­
ing a single customer.
J.  Geo.  Lehman—I  am  frank to admit 
that I  want to adopt the cash system, but 
do not know exactly how to go at it.
have  curtailed  the  credit  business  as 
much  as  possible,  but  have  many  cus­
tomers  who must  have  a limited amount 
of credit.  Men  who are  honest and well- 
intentioned  but temporarily out of  work 
must  not  be  permitted  to  suffer.  Our 
firm  sold  thirty-four  coal  stoves  last 
winter,  but  we  will  do  well if we sell 
one dozen  stoves this  year,  as customers 
are buying their groceries  first and  leav­
ing stoves,  furniture and  carpets  alone. 
In  my  opinion  the  installments  stores 
find it a  very  rocky  time  for  their  busi­
ness.  The  bard  times  are  proving  a 
blessing  to  us  and  our  customers,  by 
teaching  us  to run  close to shore.  Peo­
ple are surprised to find  how little money 
they can get along  with,  biu,  in our case, 
we find  money  more plentiful  than it was 
during the month of September.
President  Smits—I  would  like  to  ask 
Peter Schuit if he considers  this  a  good 
time to introduce the cash  business.

Peter Schuit—Yes.
J.  Geo.  Lehman—My candid opinion  i» 
that this is the year and  now is the time 
of the year to introduce the cash system, 
because  such  a  dealer will get the cus­
tomers of  other dealers  who  have  shut 
them off from obtaining credit.
President Smits—Should  the adoption 
of  the  cash system  make any difference 
in  prices?
Mr.  Lehman—Certainly.  People  are 
watching prices closely  now,  and  those 
who have cash  are  trading  where  they 
can do the  best.  Unquestionably,  now 
is the accepted time,  but I have not sand 
enough to introduce the  innovation.

J.  J.  Wagner—I have given up the idea 
of  running my business  exclusively on  a 
cash basis.  1 have educated my custom­
ers to a thirty day  basis,  and  I  get  out 
my statements promptly  and  insist upon 
payment  just  as  promptly.  Through 
June, July and  August  trade  was  good 
with  me;  it  lagged  through  October,  but 
is now picking up  again.  The majority 
of  my customers are responsible.  Most 
of them are home owners,  but some must 
have credit for a short  period.  1 attrib­
ute my present position  to  active  effort 
in curtailing credits,  in  consequence  of 
which  my  customers  are  buying  light 
and  not getting behind.
Ed.  C.  Judd,  Fred  Fuller  and  H.  D. 
Plum  all announced themselves as satis- 
fiedwith the present condition  of  trade, 
all  things considered.
Herman  Liesveld—1  might as well shut 
up shop as try to do a cash business.
Peter Schuit—It 
is  not impossible  to 
do a cash business.  When  1  worked  in 
Amsterdam  my  employer  adopted  the 
cash  system, and  inside of one year every 
merchant  had  followed  in  his  footsteps, 
so that now the cash  business is the only 
factor in  Amsterdam.
J. W. Brubaker—1 am not now engaged 
in  business,  but,  if 1  were  to  embark  in 
trade to-morrow,  I would pursue the pol­
icy of the A.  & P.  Co.,  so  far  as credits 
are concerned,  and  sell  exclusively  for 
cash.
A.  Brink  (Brink Bros.)—We have care­
fully  considered  the  adoption  of  the 
cash  business  and  have  come  to  the 
conclusion that it would be  all right if a 
majority of the  trade were  to  adopt it, 
but,  where only isolated  dealers  adopt a 
cash  system,  the 
in  trade would 
probably be more than  the  present  loss 
through bad debts.
Mr. Lehman—Did any of  you  ever fig­
ure out the percentage of  losses on credit 
sales?

loss 

It  is  understood  that  Mr.  Goodman’s 
retirement from  the house  is due  to  his 
intention to embark  in  another business 
enterprise of  a  somewhat  similar  char­
acter.
W ill R etire from  th e  B oard of P h arm acy .
James Vernor,  who  was  appointed  to 
the Board of  Pharmacy  when the  Board 
was created  in  1885 and has  served  con­
tinuously ever since,  announces  his  in­
tention  of  permanently  retiring from  the 
Board  when  his present term  expires,  at 
the  end  of  the  present  calendar  year 
and  has, 
informed  his 
friends that he is not  a  candidate  for re­
appointment.

accordingly, 

Mr.  Vernor’s decision  will  be sincerely 
regretted by the drug trade of  the State, 
as he has  been a  courteous,  painstaking 
and broadminded official  who  has  given 
the  Board  faithful  service and served the 
trade  and the people  with equal fidelity. 
During his eight years’tenure of office,  he 
has  had every official  position  within  the 
gift  of  the Board  and  retires  from office 
with  the satisfaction of  knowing that he 
has  served  the State  with distinction and 
won  warm  ecotniuras for himself.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

Andrew J.  Wylie,  of  the firm  of Wylie 
Bros.,  general  dealers  at  Shelby,  was 
married Nov.  15 to  Miss  Hattie  Barnes, 
of  Richland,  the  ceremony occurring at 
the home of the bride.  The Tradesman 
extends congratulations.

State Food Commissioner Storrs was  in 
the  city  last  week  and  favored  T h e 
T r a d e s m a n   with  a  call.  He  has  ap­
pointed a clerk,  in  the person  of  L.  M. 
Miller,  editor of State Affairs, and  is now 
in a position to do something in  the way 
of  enforcing  the  food 
laws.  He  an­
nounces that the first thing  he  proposes 
to  tackle is  the  vinegar  question,  with a 
view to relieving the State  of  the  incu­
bus of impure  and  unwholesome vinegar 
now sold  in  thin  State,  contrary to law 
and in defiance of public  health.

The  H a rd w a re   M arket.

General  Trade—With  the close of  No­
vember  the  volume  of  trade  holds  up 
well.  While not as large as one year ago, 
it is  better than  we 
looked  for  it to  be 
three  months  ago.  All dealers,  however, 
are pursuing a conservative  course,  only 
buying  for  their 
immediate  wants and 
not  for  speculation.  This  condition 
seems to prevail  with the jobber,  as well 
as  the retailer,  and  the  result  is  stocks 
are  very  low in  all  hands.  Conditions of 
trade,  as they  existed one year  ago,  can­
not  be  looked  for  before spring,  if they 
come  then.  The general  tendency  in  all 
lines  of  hardware  is down,  but it does 
seem  as  though  bottom  ought  to  be 
reached pretty soon.

Wire Nails—Demand 

is  good  but the 
price still  goes lower.  The manufactur­
ers all  complain  bitterly,  but,  neverthe­
less,  keep  lowering  their  figures.  For 
carloads  and 
less,  shipped  from  mill, 
$1.25@1.30 is quite regular.  From  stock 
we quote $1.60,  but  this 
figure  can  be 
shaded  for desirable orders.

Barbed  Wire—Although  but  little  is 
moving at this time of the year, many or­
ders are being placed  for spring delivery 
on the basis of $2 for painted and $2.40 for 
galvanized  for  carload  shipments up  to 
February  1.  The price  from  stock  has 
not changed  materially.

Window Glass—With  the open  market 
declared  by  the  National  Glass  Associa­
tion,  prices  have all gone  to  pieces  and 
there does  not  seem  to be any  bottom for 
good-sized orders.  For  shipments  from 
factories  80  and  20  per  cent,  is quite 
regular;  80 to  80 and 10 from stock covers 
the local  market.

Rope—With  the  rest,  is on  the  down-

5

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

820

821

824

GG.MN u ss  OK AJNCK.S.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under  this 
head for two cents a word the first Insertion and 
one  cent a word  for each subsequent  insertion. 
No advertisements  taken for  less  than 25 cents. 
Advance payment.
■   CLEAN  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  FOR 
Sale;  good  trade,  cheap  for  spot  cash; 
the only delivery wagon in  town.  Stock  about 
$2,50.p. 
investigate.  Address  box  15,  Centre- 
ville,  Mich. 
riio  EXCHANGE—FOR  STOCK  OF  CLOTH 
A 
ingor boots and shoes, two  good hard  tim­
ber farms of eighty acres  each.  Thirty-five and 
seventy acres  improved.  Title  clear.  Address 
Thos. Skelton, Big  Rapids. 
T  HAVE  SEVERAL  GOOD 
IVIPROVED 
J 
farms  and  Lansing  citv  property  to  ex­
change  for  merchandise.  Address  F.  C.  Bris-
bin,  Lansing,  Mich. 
823
GOOI)  oLKA>i STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS, 
bo ds, shoes and groceries to exchange for 
Lansing  city property  or  improved farms.  Ad- 
dress F. C  Brisbin, Lansing,  Mich. 
V*T ANTED—WOODEN WARE  FACTORY  OR 
V v  Saw Mill, with good power, to locate here. 
Substantial  aid will  be  given  the  right  party. 
Address S. S.  Burnett, Lake  Ann  Mich. 
819
■1HANCE  OF  A  LIFETIME  TO  SEi  URE~A 
J  business at  a  great bargain—millinery and 
fancy goods.  Write for particulars.  H. T  Cole, 
818
Administrator. Monroe. Mich. 
IjlOK  SAt.E—NEARLY  NEW  vZ  HORSE 
power Otto gas engine  Discarded because 
we must have  more  power. 
\Y.  T.  Lamoreaux 
Co.  122 West Bridge St., Grand  Rapids. 
816
I ff OR  EXCHANGE—KIR  GRAND  RAPIDS 
real estate, a new stock of clothing and fur 
nishiug  goods,  invoicing  from $5.( 00  to  $6 000. 
Address No. 815. care Michigan Tradesman.  815
I ilOR  SALE—SHINGLE  MILL,  NEARLY 
new, capable of  cutting 50.(M0  feet  to-mor­
row.  Must be sold  soon.  Big  bargain for cash 
buyer.  For  particulars  address.  Holmes & De- 
Goit  Tustin.  Mich. 
814
I lOR  SALE-A  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  DRUGS, 
groceties  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;  cau  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. 
811
I flOR  8ALE-CITY  DRUG  STORE.  GOOD 
location on prominent business street.  In­
voice $1,800.  Good  business.  Investigation  so­
licited.  Address Castoria, care of carrier Wells, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
803
JjlOR  SALE—*3,51)0  STOCK  OF  GENERAL 
-  merchandise and two-stoty building.  Rail­
road,  500 population.  Established  strictly cash 
business.  Center  of  town.  Best  farming  sec­
tion  of  Michigan.  Bargain.  W.  II.  Pardee, 
Freeport, Mich. 
TITANTED—'TO  EXCHANGE  A  VALUABLE 
v v 
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. 
TTTANTED—TO  EXCHANGE,  DESIRABLE 
v v  Kalamazoo real  estate  for  merchandise. 
Ca’vin Forbes, Kalamazoo, Mich.______   806

804

805

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

TITAN TED—A  SITUATION  IN  A  MEAT 
i t   market or grocery.  Three  years’ experi­
ence.  References given if  desired.  Address R.
M.  Bascom, Sunfieid,  Mich.__________  
817
TXT ANTED—A  practical  druggist, with  some 
t T 
capital, to take charge of a first-class drug 
store.  Address  C.  L.  Brundage,  opera  house 
block, Muskegon, Mich. 

756

HARRY  HARMAN’S

8GH0BL  OF  WINDOW  DRESSING
A  monthly  publication.  Displays  for  every 
line of business.
HOLIDAY  EDITION  25  CTS. 

AND  DECORATING.

(No stamps. 1

1204  Woman's  Temple,  Chicago.

A  B ig  D riv e  

1« All  SILK  (SAT.  EDGE)

■   No.  9..................................68c

Having purchased  a  large  lot of 
All  Silk  Ribbons  at  the  great per­
emptory sale in  New York for cash, 
we are enabled  to offer you the fol­
lowing bargains:
\ (   /   No.  5..................................40c
No.  7..................................52c
—  
No.  12............................... 84c
Or we will  assort  you a box each 
of Nos. 5, 7, 9 and  12, at  5251 c  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.
We  solicit  your  inspection  or 
mail orders.

Corl,  Knott &  Co.,
GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICH.

20-22  No  Division  St,

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S ta tistic a l P osition o f  th e  P o ta to  C rop.
The Statistical  Division of  the Depart­
ment of Agriculture,  at  Washington,  has 
issued  its monthly  report  on  the  condi­
tion of the potato crop  in  all  parts of the 
United States,  from  which T h e  T r a d e s­
man makes the following summary:

Maine—Rotting badly  in northern  and 

eastern counties.

New  Hampshire—Exceeded  expecta­
tions  in  quantity  and  are  of  excellent 
quality.

Massachusetts — Yielded  better  than 
was expected,  and  the  quality  is  excel­
lent.

Rhode  Island—Are  an  excellent  crop 
and  the finest in  quality  ever  raised  in 
the State.

Connecticut—Are  of  superior  quality 

and  free from  rot.

New  York— Suffered  from  drought 
generally,  and in certain  localities  from 
grubs;  in others from  rot.

New  Jersey—Late planted  white  pota­
toes  and,  to  some  extent,  sweets  also 
gained points  during  the  closing  weeks 
of growth,  and the yield of both varieties 
is better than  anticipated,  though  much 
below  that  of a good year.

Pennsylvania — Irish  potatoes  are  a 
small  crop,  but of  good  quality.  Sweet 
potatoes are a good crop  in  all  respects.

Virginia—Are fairly good.
Alabama—The late crop of  Irish pota­
toes failed in many  places. 
-Sweet pota­
toes  were  injured by  protracted drought.
Arkansas—Irish  potatoes, except  in  a 
few  localities,  are  grown  for  domestic 
use  only.  They  are  planted  early  and 
mature by July  1.  Sweet  potatoes  were 
injured  by  the dry  weather.

Tennessee—Irish  potatoes  are  below 

average in yield.

West  Virginia—Sweet  potatoes  are 
raised  in  very small quantities  and  in  a 
few counties only Irish potatoes—the late 
planted—proved at digging to  be  much 
better than anticipated.

Ohio—Are  little  better  than  half  a 
crop.  The tubers are small  and  few  in 
a hill.  Notably good  yields are confined 
to two or three counties in the  northeast 
part of the State.

Michigan—Are  about  half  a  crop  of 
very  fair quality, especially in  the north­
ern part of the State.  Scab and  dry  rot 
both affected the crop.

Indiana—Owing  to  the  unfavorable 
weather  during  their  growth,  potatoes 
are no*  as good  in quality  as  they appear 
to be.

Illinois—Are a poor yield.
Minnesota—The yield  is small  and the 

quality only medium.

Iowa—The average yield  and  quality 
have been greatly reduced by the drought.
Missouri—Were cut short by reason  of 
the drought which prevailed  during the 
latter part of July and  the first weeks in 
August.  The quality of  both  crops  is 
good.

South Dakota—Are under average size; 
a. considerable  portion  of  the  crop  is 
small  for marketing, but clean and  sound 
and of the best quality.

North Dakota—Are  a 

light  yield,  in 
some  localities nearly a failure, owing to 
drought.
Montana—Is not quite up  to  average.
Colorado—The average  yield  has been 
very good  indeed and  the  quality excel­
lent.
Oregon—Not  many  have  yet  been 
gathered, the ground  being too wet,  but 
• they  will  average  moderately  well  in 
both  yield and quality.
California—The  crop  promises  well, 
the yield  being fully up to that  of  1893, 
with  quality  better.

'I'Hhl  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E SM A N .

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Adriatic.................7
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 ..  454
Blackstone O, 32__  5
Black Crow............ 6
Black  Rock  ...........6
Boot, AL................  7
Capital  A ............... 5*4
Cavanat V..............5*4
Chapman cheese cl.  334
Clifton C R ............ 5*
Comet.....................   6 V.
Dwight Star............  634
Clifton CCC...........  5*

U N BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.Arrow Brand  414 
"  World Wide.  6
“  LL...............   4*4
Pull Yard Wide...... 6*
Georgia  A..............  614
Honest Width........  6
Hartford A  ............ 6
Indian Head...........  5*4
King A  A................6*4
King E C .................5
Lawrence  L L........  414
Madras cheese cloth 614
Newmarket  G........  534
B  ........5
N.........  614
DD  ...  514
X ........ 614
Nolbe R..................  5
Our Level  Best...... 6
Oxford  R ...............   6
Peqnot....................  7
Solar.......................  6
Top of the  Heap__7
Geo. Washington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold  Medal............  7*4
Green  Ticket......... 814
Great Falls.............   614
Hope.......................   714
Just  Out......   434@ 5
King  Phillip..........   714
OP.......   7*4
Lonsdale Cambric. . 10
Lonsdale...........  @  814
Middlesex........   @5
No Name................ 7*4
Oak View..............  6
Our Own................ 514
Pride of the West.. .12
Rosalind................. 7*4
Sunlight.................   4*4
Utica  Mills............ 8*4
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Vlnyard..................  8*4
White Horse.........  6
.  8*4 
8*4

A B C ......................8*4
Amazon.................  8
Arnsburg.................6*4
Art  Cambric...........10
Blackstone A A......  7*4
Beats All........... 
4*4
Boston........... 
12
Cabot......................   7)4
Cabot,  %.................  814
Charter  Oak...........5*4
Conway W..............  7*4
Cleveland.............  6*«
Dwight Anchor—   8H
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shorts  8
Edwards..................  6
E 
................... 7
P 
1...................7*4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8*4
Fltchville  ............  7
First Prize..............7
Fruit of the Loom %.  7s
Falrmount..............4*4
Full Value..............614 
Cabot......................   7*41 Dwight Anchor
Farwell...................  8 

“  Rock.
H A LT  B LEA C H ED   COTTONS.

BLEA CH ED   COTTONS.

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Bleached.
Housewife  Q__
6*4
R......
S  ......... 714
T ...........8*4
vu:::.:::iS*
Y.........1
Z...........1

CANTON  FLA N N EL.

Unbleached

Housewife  A.......... 5*4
B..........5*4
D...
•  6*4
....7
E  ..
F... --- 7*a
G  ..
....7*4
....734
H...
I....
...  8*4
J  ..
K  ..
9J*
L.  ..
...10
...10*4 
...11 
....21 
....14*4
C A R PE T   W A R P.

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PeerlesB, white.......18  ¡Integrity  colored...20
colored— 20  White Star...............18
Integrity................ 18*41 
“  colored..20
Nameless................ 20
Hamilton 
......... 25
......... 87*4
......... 30
......... 32*4
.........35

............. 8
.................9
 
G G  Cashmere........20
Nameless  ...............16
............... 18

D R ESS  GOODS.

10*4

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CORSETS.

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P R IN T S .

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CO RSET  JE A N S .

long cloth B.  9*4 
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c .  7*4l
“ 
century cloth 7
“  gold seal......10*4
“  green seal TR 10*4 
“  yellow  seal.. 10*4
serge.............11*4
“ 
“  Turk«,.’ red.. 10*4 
“ 

Corallne.  .............. 10 50|Wonderful 
84 50
Schilling’s .............   9 00 Brighton......................4 75
Davis  Waists  ___   9  00 Bortree’s ..............  9 00
Grand  Rapids.......  4  501Abdominal................15 00
Armory..................   634|Naumkeagsatteen..  7*4
Androscoggin.........7*4 Rockport.................... 6*4
Blddeford.............   6  Conestoga.................7*4
Brunswick.........  ••  6*4| Walworth.............. 634
Allen turkey  reds..  5*4
Berwick fancies —   5*4
robes............ 5*4
Clyde Robes...........
Charter Oak fancies 4*4 
pink a purple 5*4
DelMarine cashm’s .  5*4 
buffs...........   5*4
mourn’g  5*4 
pink  checks. 5*4
Eddystone  fancy...  5*4 
staples........   5
chocolat  5*4 
shirtings  ..  4
rober—   5*4 
American  fancy....  5 
sateens..  5*4 
American Indigo  ..  5 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  5*4 
American shirtings.  4 
staple....  5*4 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Manchester fancy..  5*4 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
new era.  5*4 
Arnold 
“  —   6
Merrimack D fancy.  5*4 
Arnold  Merino. . . .   6 
Merrtm’ck shirtings.  4 
Repp tu rn .  8*4
Pacific fancy..........5*4
Portsmouth robes...  6*4 
Simpson mourning..  534
greys........  534
solid black.  534 
Washington Indigo.  6*4 
“  Turkey robes ..  7M 
“  India robes—   7*4 
“  plain Tky X 34  8*4 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red  ............ .  6*4
Martha Washington 
Turkey red 34. 
..7*4
Martha Washington
Turkey red..........   9*4
Rlverpolnt robes....  5*4
Windsor fancy........6*4
Indigo blue......... 10*4
Harmony................  4*4
IN 8 8 .AC A.................... 13
Pemberton AAA— 16
York........................10*4
Swift River............   7*4
Pearl  River............ 12
Warren.................... 13*4
C RiLLOga..............16

Ballou solid Dlack..
“  colors.
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange  ..  6
Berlin solids...........   5*4
“  oil blue....... 6
“  green 
“ 
6
“  Foulards 
. .  . 5*
7
red 34 
“ 
“  X ..........   9*
“ 
...... 10
“ 
“ 44 
“ 
“  34XXXX  12
Cocheco fancy........  5
“  madders...  5
“  XX twills..  5
“ 
solids......... 5

D........8*4
Awning.. 11
Fanner..................8
First Prize..............10*4
Lenox M ills...........18
Atlanta,  D..............634¡Sta „   A
Boot........................6* No  »am e................. 7*4
Clifton, K...............   7  ¡Top of Heap...........  9

T IC K
Amoskeag AC A ....12*4
Hamilton N  ...........  7*4

robes............6

gold  ticket

COTTON  D   r a

8

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D E V IN S .

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Amoskeag...................
9os............
brown......
Andover................. 11*4
Beaver Creek AA...10 
B B ...9
CC....
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7 

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blue  8*4 
“  d a  twist 10*4 
Columbian XXX  br.10 
“ 
XXX  bl.19

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12*4
brown....... 12*4
Haymaker blue......  73t
brown...  734
Jaffrey.................... 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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Amoskeag..............6*4  Lancaster,  staple

GINGHAMS.

“ 

staples.  6

“  Persian dress  7 
Canton ..  7
“ 
AFC........10*4
“ 
Teazle... 10*4 
“ 
Angola.. 10*4 
“ 
“ 
Persian..  7 
Arlington staple—   6*4 
Arasapha  fancy—   434 
Bates Warwick dres  7*4 
Centennial..............  10*4
Criterion..............   10*4
Cumberland staple.  5*4
Cumberland...........   5
Essex.............. !—   4*4
Elfin.......................   7*4
Everett classics---- 8*4
Exposition............. 7*4
Glenarie.................   6*4
Glenarven..............634
Glenwood  ............... 7*4
nampton................ 6*4
Johnson Uhalon cl 
*4 
Indigo blue 9*4 
zephyrs__16

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6
fancies —   7 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester............   534
Monogram..............  6*4
Normandie...........   7*4
Persian.....................7
Renfrew Dress........7*4
Rosemont...............   6*4
Slatersvllle.............. 6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  .................  7*4
Toll  du Nord......... 10*4
Wabash..................   7*4
seersucker..  7*4
Warwick...............   7
Whittenden............   8
heather dr.  7*4 
Indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook..............  8
..............10
Wlndermeer........... 5
Y ork........................634

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G RA IN   BAGS.

14*4

... 

No.

TH R E A D S.

...37
...38
...39
...40

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

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

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

Amoskeag................14  ¡Georgia
Stark......................  19 
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American............... 14*41  .............................
Clark’s Mile End....45  ¡Barbour's................16
Coats’, J. & P .........45  Marshall’s ............... 81
Holyoke..................22*4l
K N ITTIN G   COTTON.
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14...
“  16...
38
**  18...
40
“  20...
41
CAM BRICS.
Edwards...............   4*4
Lockwood................ 4*4
Wood’s..................   4*4
Brunswick...........   4*4
R E D   FL A N N E L .
..............22*4
T W ...
F T ..........................32*4
JR F .X X X ............35
Buckeye.................32*4

Slater......................  4*4
White Star............   4*4
Kid Glove  .............   4*4
Newmarket............   4)4
Fireman.................82*4
Creedmore.............27*4
Talbot XXX...........30
Nameless...............27*4
Red & Blue,  plaid. .40  IGrey S R W............ 17*4
Union R .................22*4 Western W  ..............18*4
Windsor.................18*4 P  R P ....................... 18*4
6 os Western..........20  Flushing XXX.........23*4
Union  B ................ 22*4|MaHltoba................. 23*4
@10*4
Nameless...... 8  @ 9*41 
12*4
...... 8*4@10  I 
Black.
10*4
11*4
12
20

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

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Slate.  Brown.  Black. Slate 
9*4 
10*4 
11*4 
12*4 
Severen, 80s ..........   9*4
Mayland, 80s .........10*4
Greenwood, 7*4 os..  9*4 
Greenwood, 8 os — 11*4 
Boston, 8 os............ 10*4

West  Point, 8 os — 10*4 
10 os  ...12)4
“ 
Raven, lOos.............13*4
 
13*4
Stark 
Boston, 10 os............12*4

9*4 10*4
10*411*4
11*412
12*4 20
DU CK S.

Brown.
10*4
11*4
12
20

M IX ED   FL A N N E L .

DOM ET  FLA N N EL.

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S IL E SIA S.

SEW IN G   BILK.

Best AA 

White, dos............ 25  ¡Per bale, 40 dos.... 88 50
Colored,  dos...........20  ¡Colored
Slater, Iron Cross...  8

“ Red Cross....  9
“  Best..............10*4
“ 
12*4
L............................. 7*4
G............................. 8*4
Cortlcelll, dos.........ICortlcelll  knitting,

Pawtucket...............10*4
Dundle....................  9
Bedford...................10*4
Valley  City.............10*4
KK  ......................... 10*4

..12  “ 8 
..12  I  “  10 

per *4os  ball.........30

twist,dos..40 
50yd,dos..40  I 
HOOKS  AND B Y ES—F E B  GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k A White..10  |No  4 Bl’k & Whlte..l5 
“ 
..20
“ 
..25
No 2-20, M C.........50 
|N0 4—15  .F  3*4.........40
*  3-18, S C .......... 45  I
No  2 White & Bl’k..l2 
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|No  8 White A Bl’k.,20 
.28
..26
.36

COTTON  T A P E .
.-15  “  10 
..18  “  12 

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8 

4 
6 

N E E D L E S— P E R   M.

A. James.................1  401 Steamboat...............   <0
Crowely’s................ 1  85 Gold  Eyed............. 1  50
Marshall's...............1 00| American............... 1  00
15—4__ 1  65  6—4...2 30
5—4.... 1 75  6—4... 

T A B L E   O IL   CLOTH.

COTTON TW IN E S.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.....................12
Domestic................18*4
Anchor................... 16
Bristol.................... 13
Cherry  Valley........ 15
I X L........................18*4
Alabama...................634
Alamance................. 6*4
Augusta...................7*4
Ar  sapha................  6
Georgia.....................6*4
G ranite..................   534
Haw  River............   5
Haw  J - -.................   5

T‘ 

Nashua................... 14
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
3-ply....17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7*4 
Powhattan.............16

Monnt  Pleasant..
Oneida.................
Prymont  ............
Randelman.........
Riverside............
Sibley  A..............
Toledo  ...............

-  6*4
.  5
53i
.  6
•  5*4
-  6*4

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FOURTH NATIONAL BAM

G ra n d   R a p id s,  M ich.

D. A. Blodgett, President.

Geo.  W.  Gat, Vice-President.

Wm. H. Anderson, Cashier. 
J no  A. Seymour, Ass’t Cashier

C ap ital,  $ 3 0 0 ,0 0 0 .

DIRECTORS.
D. A. Blodgett.  Geo. W. Gay.
A. J. Bowne.
C. Bertsch. 
Wm. H. Anderson.  Wm. Sears.
N.

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G. K. Johnson. 
A. D. Rathbone 
A. Fletcher.

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THE  LARGEST LINE  OF

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(Concluded from 3d page.) 

child’s  small  fist,  impelled by the curi­
osity  of  womanhood,  her  mind  shaped 
the  wrinkled  palm  into  a kind  of  link 
between Nantucket and the mainland.

A substantial-looking  female  relative 
had  a jealous  conviction  that  Melinda’s 
close  embrace  of  the  11 mnel-enveloped 
human bundle threatened  personal 
loss 
to herself.  The jealous conviction proved 
a real obstacle in  Melinda’s  path.  More­
over this baffling opposition  was  supple­
mented  by  the evident fact of  the child’s 
well-being;  for  the  youthful  Robbins 
was  flourishing with  all  the  ambitious, 
piuk-hued  health  of  carefully-fed 
in­
fancy.  Attorney  William  Ritter  threw 
his fastidious presence  into the  doubtful 
scale  and  truce  was  finally  established 
in  the form of  arrangements  for the dis­
tant future,  when  legally  signed  papers 
would  have  power  to  effect  a  different 
guardianship.

The  last  action  of  Melinda  Robbins, 
before  she  left  the  noisy,  enterprising 
city,  took place in  Mr.  Ritter’s office near 
the top of a tall  building. 
In the pres­
ence  of  this  harassed  gentleman  she 
signed  a  document  which  gave  to  a 
humble slip of humanity,  and  to its heirs 
forever,  all the real  and  personal  prop­
erty 
estates. 
And  the lawyer fastened a great red  seal 
beneath her name.

included  in  the  Robbins 

* 

* 

* 

■* 

*

Mrs.  Nathaniel  Piper of Nantucket  re­
ceived an oblong, slender envelope which 
scattered surmises right and  left  before 
it  was  actually  opened.  Postmarked 
New  York,  and  being  one  of  very  few 
letters  received during the  year,  its  re­
cipient thought of Melinda almost imme­
diately,  and  the  news contained  therein 
traveled  about  the  neighborhood  at  a 
marvelous  speed,  considering  the rheu­
matic afflictions of Mrs.  Nathaniel Piper. 
Every  one  at  all  interested  in  Melinda 
Robbins  beard  that  she  had  lost  her 
property  and  was  turning  her  face  to­
wards  the home of her ancestors.  There 
are  times,  now  and  then,  when  Provi­
dence  seems  to  rule  everything  to  the 
satisfaction of  everybody; and  a delight­
ful cognizance of  unclouded justice  was 
hidden  beneath  the  pleased  satisfaction 
with  which these good  “natives”  waited 
for the  voyager’s  return. 
In spirit they 
ascended to their  “lookoffs”  on  the  old 
roofs,  and  watched  hopefully.

It  was  noon 

Melinda  arrived  at  the pier in  a state 
of  dreamful  stupor. 
in 
July,  and the  harbor  was  blue  with  the 
deep,  wonderful  blue of  a  gentian  blos­
som.  The  wharf was  crowded  with  all 
kinds  of  vehicles.  Fishermen’s 
lusty 
voices were calling to one another.

She  walked to her house almost silent­
ly.  In  the little  gardens that she passed, 
flowers  grew  abundantly,  and  the  fra­
grance of sweet peas drifted over picket- 
fences.  There seemed  to be a shy, subtle 
perfume astir within her heart.

The interior of the cream-colored house 
looked a little  strange  at  first,  and  she 
hardly knew she  was  at  home  till  Dolf 
Berwick  happened in,  on  his  way  to the 
cliff,  and  smilingly jested about her sud­
den  return.  He  looked  very  brown  and 
very glad.

The shutters  were drawn  and Melinda 
sat on a low chair  by  the  window.  Her 
black gown  was joined  at  the  throat  by 
an old-fashioned gold brooch that pierced 
the parlor’s cool  dusk  with  a faint glim- 
mer.  Her eyes  were  bright,  too,  when 
she looked  up at the  man’s  height.  She I

did  not  try  to answ er him ,  but  the  eyes 
said  som ething  th at  gave  Berw ick  a sud- 
der th rill.

He  w ent  sw iftly  to  her  side  and  she 
rose  and  faced  him  w ith  a  gentle  sm ile 
th at  made  him  doubly  sure. 
“ At  last, 
M elinda,”   he  said,  softly;  and  as  he  put 
his  strong arm s  around  her,  she  made no 
resistance,  but  leaned  her  head  against 
his breast  liKe  a  weary  child.

“ Not now ,” she  m urm ured,  “ but  some 
tim e—perhaps—after a—long while—I’ll 
tell  you  about  it.” 

E d ith  E.  Sto w e.

THE  DRUMMER.
Let loftier poets sing of knights,

Of fairies, sylphs and satyrs,

Of sprites and fays of ancient days,

And other outworn matters.

Of kings and ancient heroes brave—

I sing a newer comer—

A man whom fate created late,

Her masterpiece—the drummer.

He never fears the face of man.

Meets all men on a level.

Nor snub nor bruise can make him lose 

His perpendicular bevel.

Brave as those mythic crews who sought 

The Hesperideau apples,

For unafraid with lords of  trade 

And merchant kings he grapples.

He fights with monarchs of the mart,

He meets them in their fastness,

Shows them his sleek expanse of “cheek,” 

And awes them with its vastness.

The merchant king behind his bales 

He cowers and quakes—the drummer takes 

Yields to the bold marauder,
His tbousand-dollar order.

He flies upon the,wings of steam,
Nor times nor tides restrict him,
And from his flights he only lights 

To swoop upon his victim.

He swoops—then comes the tug of tongues— 

Of vibrant voices wrang^ng—

Loud olows arc dealt, then in his belt 

Another scalp is dangling.

A thousand miles is but a step,

The continent a straddle,

When on his steed of wondrous speed 

He buckles on the saddle;

The sunrise and the sunset sea 

To him are near together,

With tropic glow and polar snow 

He sandwiches his weather.
The longitudes and latitudes 
He leaps in tireless motion,

This shuttlecock between New York 

And the Pacific Ocean,

This continent waltzer still will dance, 
Through States and  nations spinning,

And change his climes as many times 

As most men change their linen.

“The soul that hustles not shall die,”

This is the creed he preaches;

And ’twill agree with you and me 

To heed the truth  he teaches.

Life is no languid holiday,
No long and idle summer;

Come, pack your grip  get up and skip 

And hustle, like the drummer.

S a m   W a l t e b  Foss.

Most Christians are  willing to do great 
things for God, while but few are willing 
to suffer.

Hardware Price Current.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

These  »rices are  for cash,  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy  in  full  packages.
60
Snell’s ........................................................... 
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.......................... I 7 00
D.  B. Bronze..........................   is 00
S.  B. S. Steel...............................  8 00
D. B. Steel...................................  13 50

AXES.

dig.

■ 
‘ 

dis.

bolts. 

Railroad  .................................................... 8 14 00
Garden  .  ............  ..................................  net  30 00
Stove.............................................................. 50*10
Carriage new list.......................................... 75*10
Plow.............................................................. 40*10
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70
Well,  plain  ................................................. 8350
Well, swivel.................................................   4 00 1
dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint................66**0 1

BUTTS, CAST. 

BUCKETS.

babbows. 

dis.

r i t t :   M T C H I G x^ N   T K A D H ; ^ m   a . t >

7

Wrought Loose Fin........................................ 60*10 !
Wrought Table...............................................60*10 !
Wrought Inside Blind....................................60*10 i
Wrought Brass..............................................  
75 i
Blind,  Clark's................................................ 70*10 j
Blind,  Parker’s...............................................70*10 !
Blind, Shepard’s 
70 I

....................................... 
BLOCKS.
CRADLES.

Ordinary Tackle, list April  189c................60*10

Grain.................................................... dis. 50*02

CBOW BARS.

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

CAPS.

65 |
60
35
80

CARTRIDGES.

5rt
25

Kim  Fire....................................................  
Central  Fire................................ ..........dis. 

CHISELS. 

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

combs. 
Curry,  Lawrence’s ......................................  
40
Hotchkiss............................. 
25
CHALK.
White Crayons, per  gross..............12©12)4 dis. 10
COPPER.
14-S-R2. 14x5«  14x60 

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

28
-M
23
23
25
Vi
50
so

D BILLS. 

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

<c
6**

ELBOW S.

EXPANSIVE  BITS.

Com. 4  piece, 6 In.........................  do«, net 
75
Corrugated...........................................d!f> 
40
Adjustable......... ................................  dis.  40*10
Clark’s, small, S18;  large, 826...............
30
Ives’, 1, $18 :  2, 824 ;  3.830  ......................
25
dis.
Disston’s ................................................
.60*10
New American  .  ..................................
.60*10
Nicholson’s ...........................................
.60*10
Heller’s 
...............................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................. 
.....
OALVANIZED  IRON

p il e s—New List.

d is .

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

12 

15

13 
Discount, 60

14 
GAUGES.

28
17

7 
6 
dis.

50

dlS.

NAILS

lo c k s— DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

MAULS. 
mills. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

k n o b s—New List.

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s.  .............
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..............
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings...........
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings........
Door,  porcelain, trimmings  .................
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain............
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list
Mallory, Wheeler  *  Co.’s .....................
Branford’s .............................................
Norwalk’s ..............................................
Adse Eye............   .......................... 816.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye.........................................815.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s.......................................818.50, dis. 20*10.
dlS.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled.........  .......... 
50
dis.
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
“  P, S. * W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleable«.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cls rk’s.................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern.......................................... 60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, Dase....................................................1 50
Wire nails, base.....................................1  75@1  80
60.................................................... Base 
Base
50......................................................  
10
40...................................................... 
25
26
30......................................................  
35
20...................................................... 
45
16...................................................... 
45
12...................................................... 
50
10...................................................... 
8.......................................................  
60
7 * 6 ..........................................  ... 
75
4.................................................  
90
3............................. 
120
1  60
2.......................................................  
FlneS....................................................... 
65
Case  10............................................. 
8...................................  .......  
75
Finish 10. . . . . . 7 . 7 7 7 7 7 7 7  
75
3...........................................  
90
6...........................................  
110
Clinch: 10.......................................... 
70
8.........................................  
80
g 
90
 
Barrell % 
..........................................  
dis.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.....................  
©40
Sciota Bench.............................................  ©50
Sandusky Tool Co.’i, fancy.......................  ©40
Bench, first quality......................................   ©40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood.........50*10
Fry,  Acme...........................................  dls.60—10
70
Common,  polished................................dis. 
dis.
Iron and  Tinned.........................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................   50—10

planes. 

bivets. 

“ 
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p a t e n t   p l a n i s h e d   i b o n .

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

Broken packs )4c per pound extra.

H A M M E R S .

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

HINGES.

HANGEBS. 

HOLLOW WABE.

HOUSE  PUBNISHING GOODS.

Maydole  & Co.’s.....................................din. 
¿:
Kip’s ....................................................... dis. 
if
Yerkes & Plumb’s.................................. dis. 40*16
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__30c 4C&10
Gate, Clark’s. 1, 2, 3 .............................. dls.60*l0
State........................................... per doi. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 4)4  14  and
longer.......................................................  
354
Screw Hook and  Eye, H........................net 
10
“ 
%......................... net  8)4
Si.........................net  7)4
X......................... net  7)4
“ 
Strap and T  ...........................................dis. 
50
dlS.
Barn  Door Kidder Mfg. Co.. Wood track__50*10
Champion,  anti friction.............................   60*10
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots..............................................................  60*10
Kettles.........................................................  60*10
Spiders  .........................................................60*10
Gray enameled..............................................40*10
Stamped  TlnWare...............................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33)4*10
Bilght...................................................  70*10410
Screw  Eyes............................................. 70*10*10
Hook’s .....................................................70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70*10*10
dls.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s.....................
Sisal, 54 inch and larger.............................  
Manilla 
Steel and  iron..............................................  
Try and  Bevels............................................. 
Mitre..  .......................... 

9
13
dlS.
7t
6>
2f
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
82 96
3 05
3 05
3 15
8 25
8 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14...................................... 84 05 
Nos. 15 to 17......................................  4 05 
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4 05 
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4 05 
Nos. 25 to 23  ......................... 
..  4 35 
No. 27...............................................   4  45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List aeet. 19. ’86  .....................................dis. 
Sliver Lake, White A..............................list 
Drab A.................................  “ 
White  B...............................  1 
Drab B.................................   “ 
White C .................................. “ 

levels. 
ROPES.
 

wibe goods. 

SHEET IRON.

50
50
55
50
55
35

SQUARES. 

SAND PAPER.

...........  

SASH  CORD.

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Discount, 10.

. .. 

dis.

dis.

s a w s. 

w i s e . 

t r a p s. 

Solid Eyes 

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

“ 
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__ 
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot__ 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  root............................................. 

SASH WEIGHTS.
................................ per ton 825
20
Sliver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__  TO
50
30
30
Steel, Game................................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s __ 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion............................... 81.50 per doz
dis.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppered Market  ........................................  60
Tinned Market............................................   62)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..........................   2 80
painted...............................   a 40
An  Sable  ..........................................dis.  40*10
dis.  05
Putnam.......................................... 
Northwestern................................  
dis. 10*10
dlS.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................  75*ir
ills
.............................................. 
Bird Cages 
51
75*10
Pumps, Cistern....................................... 
Screws, New 1 1st.............................. 
.  70*10
Casters, Bed  a  d Plate................  
50*10*10
Dampers, American.............  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods......  85*10
METALS.
P IG   T IN .

MISCELLANEOUS. 

WRENCHES. 

h o b s e  n a il s .

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654

ZINC.

26«
28«

ANTIMONY

Pig  Large...................................... 
Pig Bars.
Duty:  Sheet, 2)4c per pound.
6H0 pound  casks......................
Per pound...............................
SO LD ER.
)4©)4............................................................ 
1
Extra W iping.................................................  V
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  ot 
solder in the market indicated by wfvate brand* 
vary according to composition.
1 60
Cookson........................................per  pound
Hallett’s......................................  
T IN — K ELY N  G RA D E.
10x14 IC, Charcoal......................................8 7
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

.......................................  
 
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RO O FIN G  PL A T E S 

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN — ALLA W AY  G RA D E.
“ 
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“ 

 
Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
10x14 IC,  Charcoal...................................... 8 6  75
1 75
6  75
14x201C, 
10x14 IX, 
8 as
14x20 IX, 
9 25
!  Each additional X on this grade 11.50.
14x20IC, 
“  Worcester..................  
14X20IX, 
* 
“ 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, “  Allaway  Grade.................... 
 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
 
20x28  IC, 
“ 
20x28 IX, 
 
“ 
B O IL E R  SIZ E  TIM  P L A T E .
1 4 X 2 8IX.................................................
14X31  IX.................................................
14x56 IX, for « 0. 8 Boilers, I 
f 1*®1 P00“0
I 14x60 IX,  “ 

6 5t.
..........................   8 50
......................  .  18  50
6  00
7  50
12 50
15  50
814  00 
15 00 
10  00

7  0
9 25
9 25

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WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER  29, 1893.

BASE  METALS  INTO  GOLD.

It  is stated  that  Edison,  the  master 
electrician,  has  determined  to  devote 
himself to  the  study of  metals,  with  a 
view  to determining whether  electricity 
cannot solve the problem  with  which the 
ablest  chemists  have  unsuccessfully 
grappled  for centuries—the  transforma­
tion of base  metals  into gold.

The  peculiar preciousness of  gold  has 
been  strongly emphasized  by the recent 
great  struggle in  the  National  Congress 
between  the respective advocates of gold 
and silver standards  of  money. 
It  was 
given out  in  the debates  that  because of 
the growing  scarcity of  gold  compared 
with  the  supply of  silver,  the  yellow 
metal  must continue to increase in value, 
and,  unless new  supplies  are  provided, 
it must  one  day  go out of use for many 
practical  purposes,  and  particularly for 
money.

It would appear that the gold mines of 
most civilized countries,  if they have not 
been  pretty  well  worked  out,  are,  at 
least,  in such  a condition that the output 
is decreasing,  and  the likelihood of  new 
mines of importance being  discovered in 
America,  Europe  and  Asia 
is  remote. 
Alaska contains some  gold,  and  Green­
land  has possibilities,  but Africa  is  the 
only  couutiy  that gives  much  promise of 
rich  mines.  Africa seems  to be the last 
hope of the gold  miners.

It is  not strange at this juncture in the 
demand  for  this  precious  metal  that 
speculative minds should  revert  to  the 
ancieut dreams of  the  goldmakers.  The 
most distinguished  feature cf  the Middle 
Ages in  Europe  was  the rise of  alchemy. 
This word,  imported  iuto Europe  by the 
Arabian  practises of magical  and occult 
arts,  signifies  “mingling,” because  all 
the ancient chemistry  consisted  in  min­
gling various  substances so as to discover 
by  their combinations  some  potent  and 
valuable material.  The grand  object of 
these experiments was  to  discover  the 
* “elixir of  life,” a  mixture which  would 
heal  all  diseases,  restore  youth  and 
beauty,  and  practically render a human 
being immortal.  When  this immortality 
should be secured,  it would be necessary 
for the individual so restored  to have an 
abundant  supply of  gold,  and  the next

T H E   M KTETÏOAJNI  T R A -L > J £ S M A J S .

it 

object, 
means of transmuting  base  metals 
the most precious.

therefore,  was  to  discover  a 
into 

Armed  with youth and  beauty of  per­
petual  duration,  and  vested  with  the 
power to create gold at will, a man would 
become a veritable  god,  and 
is  not 
strange that in  an  age of extreme  super­
stition,  general  ignorance  and  wild  ro­
manticism,  men should  earnestly desire, 
and would  apply themselves to the search 
for,  the potential elixir of 
life  and  the 
It  was  not  the 
process of making gold. 
rascally  charlatan  and 
the  desperate 
schemer who were  the  real  alchemists. 
On the contrary,  men of  the  most  bril­
liant intellects and of the most honorable 
station,  and of the highest moral charac­
ter,  devoted themselves to these  studies. 
Realizing that the gifts which they sought 
were of a nature which should not be in­
trusted  to  wicked  men,  the  alchemists 
banded together 
into  brotherhoods,  ad­
mission  to which could  be  secured only 
upon  the practice of  virtues and  by  the 
most  abstemious  lives,  and the taking of 
an  obligation  to  keep  secret all  the ex­
periments and  proceedings  of  the  arts, 
and  the persons admitted  to the  myster­
ies had  to pass  through stages and grades 
of initiation and instruction  before they 
could become adepts.  But the thirst  for 
the possession of magical  powers  was  by 
no means confined  to  learned  and  self- 
denying  anchorites.  There  were  those 
who believed that  there  was  an  easier 
way to  success  than a life of vigils  and 
privations  and  in  communication  with 
good spirits.  They  proposed  to  appeal 
directly to the  devil,  and,  by bargaining 
away their souls,  acquire  an 
indefinite 
period of  unbridled 
licentiousness  and 
profligacy.  The story of Faust and Meph- 
istopheles, 
immortalized  by  Goethe 
and so often presented  on  the  stage,  is 
one of these narratives of the  alchemists 
of the Middle Ages.

To the alchemists  are  due  many dis­
coveries which have  made  possible the 
entire science of modern chemistry.  The 
alchemists  commenced  by mixing  sub­
stances to see  what  would be the  resuit. 
They  called  this  “synthesis.”  To-day 
the chemists are able to separate  a  com­
pound  body into all  its elements, aud this 
they  call  “analysis.” 
is  analysis 
which has made chemistry a science.  Be­
fore that  it was  all guesswork and arbi­
trary experiment.  The  old  monk  who 
discovered  gunpowder  by mixing  sul­
phur,  saltpeter and  charcoal, had no idea 
what be had compounded  until  he acci­
dentally  put fire to  it  and  blew up  his 
monastery.

It 

It  would  be interesting to  tell  of  the 
blind gropings and  important  discover­
ies  made  in  a  blind  way  by  the  alche­
mists,  but  it 
is  certain  that  they never 
found  the  elixir  of  life,  and,  although 
the secret of transmutation  has been pre­
tended to be, there is no reason  to believe 
that 
it was  ever  discovered.  At  any 
rate,  all the gold in  the world  came  out 
of nature’s mines,  and not out of  the al­
chemist’s crucible.  For a long time mod­
ern chemists have held to the  belief that 
transm utation is an  impossibility.  There 
are two sorts of substances.  One species 
embraces bodies  that  are  original,  ho­
mogeneous  and  unmixed.  They  are 
termed  “elements.”  The  other  sort  is 
made up of bodies  compounded  of  the 
elements.  There  are  only some  sixty- 
five to  seventy elements,  and  many mil­
lions of compound  bodies. 
It  has  been 
held that  the  elements,  while  they can

be compounded and mixed  together so as 
to form  vast numbers  of  combinations, 
cannot be changed,  the  one  to  another. 
Gold and  copper  are  elements.  They 
can  be alloyed  together,  but  copper can­
not be changed  into  gold.  So with silver 
and tin.  They are  elements, and may be 
mixed,  but cannot  be  changed  the  one 
into the other.

But since extensive  modern  discover­
ies have been  made in electricity, the op­
eration of that force upon  metals,  gases, 
and  other  such  elemental  bodies,  has 
suggested a belief that  certain  elements 
are compounded and  may  be  still  fur­
ther  taken  apart.  Suppose,  for instance, 
is gold alloyed,  or adulter­
that  copper 
ated with  something else. 
If we can ex­
tract the base substance  and 
leave  the 
pure  gold,  then  the  entire  problem of 
transmutation 
solved.  Moreover, 
copper 
is  so  plentiful that it is  worth, 
perhaps,  15 cents to 18  cents  a  pound, 
while gold  is so scarce that a pound of it 
is worth more than $200.  Some such no­
tion as  this is at the  bottom  of  modern 
alchemy. 
It may not  be  all  a  dream. 
There may be possibilities in it, and elec­
tricity may  lead  to  the  solution. 
It  is 
worth  notice that Edison  has directed his 
attention to such problems.

is 

POSSIBLE  TROUBLE  AHEAD.

According to the declarations  of  Con­
gressman  Bland,  of Missouri—Mr.  Bland 
being the father of the present silver dol­
lar and leader of the silver faction  in the 
House—the silver issue is to be  brought 
to  the  front 
in  the  regular session of 
Congress,  next month.

If this be so,  ajjd the  matter  is  to  be 
allowed to monopolize  the  attention  of 
the regular session,  as it  did that of the 
special session, then, indeed, the country 
will  fall  upon evil times.  The  business 
interests of the country demand  that the 
tariff  policy of  the  administration  be 
definitely settled  without  further  delay, 
but if the major portion of  the  time  of 
Congress is to be taken  ap  in  going  over 
the old grounds,  so  thoroughly gleaned 
during  August,  September  and October, 
then Congress  will be able to dispatch no 
business,  and the vital  interests  of  the 
country  will suffer.

Mr.  Bland, so it is given out, will plead 
that the repeal of the  Sherman 
law  has 
not brought about a revival  of  prosper­
ity,  and,  therefore,  it is not  the  remedy 
for the evils complained of,  as if  even  a 
single  measure  put  through  Congress 
could,  in  a few days,  undo the  evils that 
a long series  of  financial  mistakes  and 
abuses  had  brought  upon  the country. 
If the silver purchase  law had  been  re­
pealed  after  a  debate  of  three weeks 
some good  might have been accomplished 
by this  time;  but when  the  proceeding 
required  three months of wrangling,  and 
when the hoped-for revival of prosperity 
did not immediately follow the  repeal of 
the obnoxious  law,  nobody who  is  sane 
and reasonable can complain at  the situ­
ation.  Prosperity  is  a  plant  of  slow 
growth. 
It takes a long time to  bring it 
to a state of vigor and widespread  benefi­
cence,  but it  may  be  destroyed in  a day.
In a single  day  people  may lose confi­
dence in the  solvency of  the  banks,  in 
the solvency of each other,  and  in an  in­
credibly short  space  of  time the entire 
fabric of commerce and  industries is pre­
cipitated into ruin.  Merchants, being no 
longer  able  to  secure  credit  from  the 
banks,  are  no 
longer willing  to extend 
favors to their  customers.  Manufactur­

ers who have sold their products on time 
cannot discount  their  paper  to  secure 
money for the purchase of  raw material, 
or for the payment of wages to  their op­
eratives,  and  so  they  discharge  their 
hands and close their mills.

Doubtless several  million workpeople 
were thrown  out of  employment  by the 
recent panic,  and the loss of  their wages 
during the three months that  Mr.  Bland 
and his friends  were fighting the remedy 
which the  President  had  proposed for 
the evil makes  up  a  deficiency  in  the 
ready money  supply of  the  country that 
years of work will be required to restore. 
It makes no difference whether it is wiser 
to have the finances of  the country on a 
silver basis or on a gold basis, it is the ex­
treme of folly to have it  on  no  basis  at 
all,  and such was the condition  of affairs 
while  Mr.  Bland  and  his friends were 
fighting every attempt to better affairs.

If the silver issue shall  be used to pre­
vent legislation in the regular session, as 
it was  in  the extra,  the business  men  of 
this country will  do well  to  expect  the 
worst.  The country is  suffering to have 
the tariff issues settled,  and,  if  they are 
to be side-tracked  for any  purpose what­
ever, then  there  can  be  no  revival of 
prosperity hoped for from  the Fifty-third 
It  is  to  be  hoped  that  Mr. 
Congress. 
Bland 
is  only  trying  to  frighten  the 
country  with  his silver  bugbear.

It affords T h e T radesm an much pleas­
ure to be able to  preseut  a  communica­
tion  from  Jacob  Jesson,  of  Muske­
gon,  in this week’s  paper,  criticising the 
recent  action  of the Board  of  Pharmacy 
in increasing the  requirements for regis­
tration  as  pharmacists  and  assistant 
pharmacists.  As one of  the  fathers  of 
the pharmacy law, and a man  who did  as 
much  as  any  druggist  in  the  State  to 
secure its enactment originally,  and  who 
has been prominently  identified with the 
execution  of  the  law  through  his  long 
connection with the Board of  Pharmacy, 
Mr.  Jesson  is  certainly  entitled  to  a 
candid  hearing  and  his  criticism is en­
titled to more weight  than would be the 
case if he  were  speaking  from  observa­
tion rather than  from  actual  experience. 
Mr.  Jesson has,  apparently,  made  out  a 
prima facie  case  of  usurpation  against 
the  members  of  the Board,  there being 
no provision in  the law  authorizing  the 
Board  to  usurp  the prerogatives of  the 
Legislature. 
T h e  T radesm an  hopes 
the subject will  not  be  allowed  to  rest 
here,  and  cheerfully  offers  its  columns 
to any member of the Board or any other 
person  who  wishes  to reply to Mr.  Jes- 
son’s strictures.

The sympathy of  the trade  will go out 
to Edson,  Moore & Co. in  the loss of their 
entire dry goods stock  by  fire;  but  the 
sympathy  is  tinged  with admiration at 
the invincible spirit  manifested  by  the 
firm in the face of an  appalling  calamity 
and the promptness  with  which 
it  an­
nounced its intention  to resume  business 
—even before the firemen had  succeeded 
in extinguishing the conflagration.

P rom  O ut o f Tow n.

Galls  have  been 

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T radesm an office during the  past  week 
from  the  following  gentlemen  in  trade: 

L. Cook,  Bauer.
Adam  Newell,  Burnip’s Corners.
C.  Newton Smith,  Lakeview.
C.  S.  Comstock,  Pierson.
T.  H.  Shepherd & Bro.,  Martin. 
Appleton & Harrison,  Lisbon.
A.  Purchase,  South Blendon.

I  Smallegan & Pikaart,  Forest Grove.
I  B.  S.  Holly,  Woodland.

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CONQUEST  AND  COMMERCE.
Commerce  is  the  ruling  force  of  the ! 
world. 
It  is  so because it is the  agency i 
which employs  the great  energies of the i 
people,  arouses them  to  physical  and  in- 1  
tellectual  activities,  and,  by  developing! 
all  the  resources  of  a  country,  creates j 
conditions of  general  prosperity and,  by 
consequence, 
the  highest  degree  of I 
national  power.

A  nation,  in  order  to  be  prosperous 
and powerful,  must be  rich.  There  are 
only two ways  in  which  national  wealth 
and power have ever  been  accumulated. 
One is by wars of  conquest and  robbery. 
That  was the method  used  in  the  build­
ing  of  the  Roman  Empire.  Rome  had 
few of  the resources  that make a nation 
great in peace.  Her  people  could  only 
become the rulers of  the  world  through 
war.  They  were fighters from the begin­
ning and robbers from  the  foundation of 
their city on the banks of a small Italian 
river.  They  began  their system of  war­
fare  by  raiding  and  robbing  the  tribes 
around them,  and  they  never ceased their 
policy of  plunder  until they  bad  become 
masters  of  all  the  civilized  countries 
from  the Indian Ocean  to  the  Atlantic. 
The Romans made  war in  order  to  rob. 
They  plundered  every  country  and  ac­
cumulated  at their great  city an  amount 
of treasure and conditions of  luxury and 
vice which  had  never  before been known 
in  the  history of the  world.

The possession of  extreme  riches  en­
abled  the  Roman  power  to  maintain 
itself against all opposition  for  live  cen­
turies,  but the  war  policy  finally  failed 
when  the  whole world  armed against the 
aggressors.  When  Napoleon  tried  the 
Roman  plan  of  building  an  empire, 
despite the overpowering military genius 
of the great Emperor,  he  was soon  borne 
down  by  the  opposition  of  a  world  in 
arms.  The only other  way  in  which  a 
nation  can  become truly  powerful is by 
acquiring  great  wealth  through  com­
merce. 
is  the  peaceable  method  of 
conquest,  war  being  resorted  to only to 
extend  and  protect  a  pacific  system  of 
colonization and  trade.  The  most  illus­
trious example of  this  sort of  conquest 
is Great Britain.  The  inhabitants of an 
inconsiderable  island,  which  possessed 
no  other  physical  resources  than  an 
abundant supply of  coal  and  iron,  and 
the  indomitable  energy  of 
its  people, 
have erected  upon the  earth  an  empire 
whose 
limits  far  outstretch  those  of 
Rome in  the height of its power.

It 

A  writer in  the  November issue of the 
Forum, John  R.  Proctor,  discoursing  on 
the measures which England had adopted 
to  protect  her  commercial  supremacy, 
gives a map showing  that British states­
manship  has acquired and  fortified stra­
tegic points  commanding  the  pathways 
of commerce.  Gibraltar,  Malta and Aden 
command the  short  route  between  Eu­
rope,  Asia and  Australasia.  The  forti­
fied  harbor  of  Singapore  guards  the 
Straits  of  Malacca,  and  Port  Kennedy 
the Torres Straits.  Port  Hamilton  con­
trols  the  pass  between  the  Yellow  Sea 
and  the  Sea  of  Japan.  Australia  and 
Tasmania have their  great  coaling  and 
naval  stations  guarded  by  the  heaviest 
guns, and Wellington guards the short sea 
route through Cook’s straits.  Cape Town 
and  Port  Elizabeth  are  fortified  bases 
from which a British fleet may command 
the  passage  around  the  Cape  of  Good 
Hope,  as the naval station  at  the  Falk­
land  Islands  will  give  the command of 
the passage around Cape Horn  in  times

of  war.  Halifax.  St.  John’s and Quebec  I 
command  the  passage  through  the 
lit. 
Lawrence into our great  lakes,  and  the 
impregnable  naval  stations of  Halifax, 
Bermuda,  Kingston, Bridgetown and Cas- | 
tries  command  our  Atlantic  and  Gulf  j 
coasts,  on  which  we  have  not  a  single 
fortification  that  could  withstand  the  ! 
guns  of  a  modern  warship  for  twenty- i 
four  hours;  while  Esquimault  guards! 
Puget  Sound  and  menaces  our  Pacific 
coast.  England’s  sea  power  is  greatly 
strengthened  by  the command of  the  ter­
mini  of  the  principle submarine cables, 
giving  her daily communication  with her j 
important  naval  stations  from  Esqui- 
mauit at  the  west  to far-away  Auckland 
at  the east,  while, in  the  event  of  war, 
the  rest  of  the  world  would  be cut otf 
from  this  telegraphic communication.

There is no possible rival  of  England 
in  commerce  but the United States,  and  | 
it is plain  that a republic like the United 
States  does  not  possess  the  aggressive­
ness necessary to  dispute  for  dominion 
upon  the planet  at  large. 
Impregnable 
in  its power of self-defense,  the  republic 
is safe from  invasion  or  serious  attack, 
but the spirit of  its institutions and  laws 
prohibit any  wars of  conquest or aggres­
sion.  Undei  this  state  of  feeling  the 
United States has acquired  no  interests 
in  any other part  of  the  earth. 
It  has 
not a single colony  and  no  strong  hold 
upon  any country or  people  outside  its 
own  limits.

But  the scepter  of  commercial  power 
is  gradually  but  surely  being 
trans­
ferred  to  the  United  States,  and  not by 
anything  its own  people  are  doing,  but 
by  the  evolution  of  material  progress. 
This country  has more coal and iron than 
can  be reasonably  estimated,  and  suffi­
cient  for  the  world’s uses in ages to come. 
Here  is produced the cotton which clothes 
the civilized  world  and  which  England 
has  heretofore  been  manufacturing. 
Here is the world’s granary,  able to feed 
any  population that  can  assemble  upon 
this continent.  Gradually  this  country 
will  fill  up  with  people  who  can  under­
work  the artisans of  Europe.  Here  will 
be spun  and  woven  all  the  cotton,  and 
here  will  be the chief  supply of coal  and 
iron.  The  great  industries  of  Europe 
will  be  transferred 
to  this  Western 
World  by  forces  of commercial  gravita­
tion.  Here  will  be  concentrated  the 
earth’s riches,  for hither must  come  all 
nations to buy.

This is  in the  future.  The  time  may 
be  long,  but  all  will  come to pass. 
It 
will be realized  whenever the energy and 
resources  of  England  shall not be equal 
to the demand  upon  them.  Wise states­
manship could  hasten  the  day,  but,  in 
ail  probability,  the  consummation  will 
be  left  to the  mere  forces  of  evolution. 
But,  under any  circumstances,  it  is  in­
evitable that the scepter of financial  and 
commercial  power will  be transferred to 
this  country.  When  may  not declared, 
put  it  must  be  and  will  be  one  day  a 
fact.

It has just been judicially decided that 
the  fact  that a certain  merchant  sells 
goods cheaper than other merchants gen­
erally in the same place do,  and  that  he 
is selling  a  particular  article,  whether 
as a leader  or  otherwise,  at  cost or be­
low cost, is not of itself such a suspicious 
circumstance  as,  if  known  to a ncrson, 
for example,  who is  about  to  purchase j 
bis  entire  stock  of  goods,  ought to put 
him  on  inquiry,  and  which,  if  followed j 
up,  would  necessarily or  naturally  lead 
to a knowledge of  the  debtor’s  fraudu­
lent intent.

PrßB  from  Eilst  and  Broken  Particles,

Put  up in neat Cartons of  2  pounds each,  36 Cartons  per  Case.  Price  §8.50  per 

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

T r y   It!  B u y   It!  U se  It,!

Sold  by  all  jobbers  in Ohio.  Indiana and  Michigan.

MANUFACTURED  BY

DAWSON  BROTHERS,  Pontiac,  Mich.

T /ie   Follow ing

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

IF  YOU  WANT  THE  BEST

THESE  ARE  THE  COFFEES  FOR  YOU  TO  BUY.

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

M och a,

W a lls ’  P erfectio n   Java,
W a lls ’  J a v a   an d   M och a,
Weaver’s  Blend,
S a n to r a ,
Ideal  G olden  R io,
C om p ou n d   C ru sh ed   Java.

Above are all  in 5l)-pouud cans.
Ideal Java and  Mocha in one and  two  pound cans.

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RAW  AND  BOILED.

A  substitute  for 
much  less  money.

linseed,  and  sold  for

Purely  Vegetable,

adapted  to all  work  where  a  more  eco­
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Free  From  Sedim ent

has better  body,  dries  nearly  as  quick 
and  with  better gloss  than  Linseed  Oil. 
Especially  adapted to  priming and min­
eral painting.

This  Oil  is  a  Winner!

Try  a sample can  of  five  or  ten  gallons. 
Write for  prices.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
S h o e   D r e s s i n g ' s .

Gilt  Edge,
Raven  Gloss, 
Glycerole,
White’s Egg  Finish, 
Loomer’s Best,
The  400,
Ideal,
Brown's  Fr.  & Satin, 
Topsey,
Bixby’s  Royal,
C  C,
Keystone,
Loomer’s  Pride. 
Imperial,
Eagle,
Boston,
Nubian.

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AFTER  THE  PANIC.

This  spasmodic  terror,  from 

sitied.  by  their  predictions of calamity,  ! 
the alarm  of  the public,  and it  grew and 
spread  until  individuals,  seeing before | 

them  in  their  excitement  only general  j 

The  alenerai  dullness  in  business  is 
disappointing to those who expected that 
the passage of  the  Repeal  bill  would  be 
the signal for renewed  activity  and for a
bankruptcy,  begau  to  draw  from  the
general and sustained  rise in  prices,  but | banks  and  to  hoard  not  only gold,  for
veterans in  business are not  surprised  at 
which  there  was  some  excuse,  but all 
it.  Experience  has  taught  them  that 
the other kinds  of  currency. 
Instances 
both  favorable  and  unfavorable events, 
of  this  are  told which in  the calm state 
as  soon  as  they become reasonably cer­
of mind now  prevailing  seem  incredible. 
tain  to take place,  are  discounted in  ad­
Vaults  and  boxes  in  safe deposit com­
vance.  and  that the  effect  of  their  final
panies  were  hired  all  over the country
happening is either  nothing at  all or the j and stuffed  full of  every  available form i 
reverse  of  what  they  naturally  should : of  money.  Men  of  large  means,  who 
produce.  Hope  and  fear  act  as  a  fog j  ought  to  have  set  a  better  example, 
does.  They magnify  and distort distant 
locked  up  in  this  way  thousands  and 
objects  which  a  nearer  approach  and  even  hundreds of  thousands  of  dollars, 
a clearer view  reduce  to  their true  pro-  Savings bank depositors, hearing of what 
portions.  The  cessation  of  silver  pur-  j  was going on,  began  to call  for their de­
chases  under  the Sherman  act could,  at 
posits,  and the banks,  to be prepared for 
the best,  do no more than  put  a  stop  to 
them,  drew  heavily  upon  the diminished 
the issue of  Treasury  notes  which  last 
stock  of  currency  in  circulation.  The 
spring  led  to  shipments  of  gold,  and 
final result  was  that the officers of  many 
thus to the ensuing  panic.  These  ship­
banks  of  deposit  lost  their  heads  and 
ments.  as we all  know,  ceased  long  be-
virtually stopped  payment,  forcing their 
fore Congress had even met to discuss the  depositors who needed currency  to  meet 
Repeal bill,  and they  were succeeded  by  their  pay  rolls  and  for  other business 
imports  of  the metal,  which,  in  a small  j purposes  to  sell their checks to specula- 
way,  are still going on.  The panic itself  tors at  a discount.
came to an end  from  sheer  exhaustion, 
its  very 
and  not even the defeat of the Repeal bill I intensity,  could not last long,  and recov-
could have revived it.  While  it  lasted,
ery from  it  was assisted by  the  importa­
however, it did  mischief which it will re­
tions of gold  which  it  made  profitable. 
quire a long time to repair,  no matter how 
In  a few weeks the reserves of our banks, 
zealously  the task is undertaken.  A con- 
which  had  been  depleted  below  the  re­
dagration,  an  earthquake,  or  an  explo­
quired 
limit,  rose  above  it,  and 
sion  can  lay  in  ruins  in  one minute a 
since then  they  have  been  more  than 
city  which  a year’s  labor cannot rebuild. 
doubled.  Loanable  funds  have  gone 
So.  the prostration of  credit,  the  bank­
from a condition  of  extreme scarcity  to 
ruptcies of individuals and corporations, 
one of extreme  plenty,  so that  borrowers 
and  the  general  derangement  of  the 
who.  three months ago,  could  not get  ac­
machinery of  trade  which  have  resulted 
commodation  on  any terms,  have  it  now 
from  last summer’s  cataclysm,  could  not 
offered 
them  almost  for  nothing. 
be expected to vanish  at the mere scratch 
Banks which  were forced  to  close  their 
of President Cleveland’s  pen.
doors  temporarily have  reopened  them; 
factories which  had  stopped  work  have
matter  of  emotion | started  up  again;  the  earnings  of  the 
railroads  show  signs  of 
improvements, 
and trade generally has  begun  to revive. 
The change is one,  not  of  material  fact 
and circumstance,  but  purely of  human 
feeling.

their  creation,  i
and  sentiment.  The  sudden  and enor­
mous drafts  made upon  the  reserves  of 
the  New  York  banks  by  their country 
last 
correspondents, 
followed 
directly  upon 
the  announcement  by 
Secretary  Foster that  unless his  stock  of 
Nevertheless,  although  the  panic  has 
gold was speedily replenished the Govern­
passed  away  and  monetary  stringency 
ment  would  have  to  suspend  gold  pay­
has  been  succeeded  by  monetary ease, 
ments,  but it was not  a logical and neces­
taken
and  while on  all  sides  hope  has 
sary consequence of  that  announcement, J the place of despondency,  it  is  still 
too
even  if it had been  justified  by acts. 
If I early to expect that the  business  of
the
the United .states Treasury  had  stopped I country  shall completely  resume  the ac- 
paying  gold  the  hanks  had  plenty  of | tivity  which characterized  it  before the 
their own,  as  well  as  plenty  of  green-  j shock came  from  which  it  is now recov- 
bacbs.  Treasury notes, and silver dollars,  J ering.  “A  burnt child dreads  the  fire,” 
all  of  which are  lawful  money and  fully  j and men  who only a short time  ago  had 
as  available as  gold 
for  meeting  the  hard  work  to  keep  themselves  out  of 
claims of  depositors.  Why,  therefore,  a j bankruptcy  are.  very naturally,  not  yet 
run  by  the  country  hanks  upon  their i disposed to spend  much  money.  Fam- 
New York  correspondents  should  have  ¡lies dependent upon  incomes  of  invest-
followed  Secretary  Foster’s  silly  proc- j 
ments find  those incomes  for the  present 
tarnation  is to be accounted for only upon 
more or less reduced,  wages and  salaries 
the principle 1  have  already  mentioned, 
in many  instances have been  stopped or 
that fear,  like a fog,  distorts distant ob­
materially cut  down,  and,  generally,  a 
jects and obscures the  mental  vision.
spirit of economy  prevails  where  before 
was  liberality and  even  extravagance. 
This  d;min;>hes 
the  consumption  of
luxuries,
and with  a diminished consumption there 
must  be  a  correspondingly diminished 
production,  and,  consequently,  dimin­
ished  profits all  around.

like  Boston,  Philadelphia,  and  j necessaries  as  well  as  that  of 

The  recovery  from  panics,  too,  like

spring, 

to 

The example of the country banks  was 
imitated,  sympathetically,  by  those  of
cities 
Chicago.  They,  too,  began  fortifying 
themselves  against  the  imaginary  dan­
ger  which  fear  had conjured up,  and  to 
do so they bad to  contract  their  accom­
modations 
individual  borrowers. 
These,  in  turn, were compelled  to  defer 
paying those to whom they owed  money, 
and these again had to put off their cred­
itors.  Some  of  the  newspapers,  with a 
misguided  zeal for the stoppage of silver 
purchases under the Sherman  act,  inten-

to 

As in  a panic the failure of one man or 
institution  cripples  many  others  and 
leads in  turn  to  other  failures,  which 
thus spread over a large area,  so  the  re­
trenchment of  the expenditures  of  one 
family creates an  unavoidable  necessity 
of retrenchment on the part of everybody i

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4   M o n r o e   St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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Saginaw’,  Mich.

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J no. A.  Covode,  Pres.

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who has depended  upon  those  expendi­
tures for a 
living.  Every carriage  pflt 
down  throws  out  of work a coachman 
and a groom  besides depriving  the  car­
riage maker and  the  feed dealer of a cus­
tomer.  Every  household  servant  dis­
missed  lessens  by  the  amount  of  his 
wages the  amount  which  that  servant 
has  to  spend.  The  marketman  suffers 
from decreased purchases  of  game  and 
delicacies,  the grocer from those of  wine 
and cigars, and jewelers, especially, from 
the loss of their usual trade in  diamonds 
and gold and silver  ornaments.  Follow­
ing out the chain of cause  and effect,  we 
find a diminished demand  for new cloth­
ing,  new furniture,  and new houses, and, 
of course,  all the workmen who had been 
engaged  in supplying that  demand  have 
in  turn  to retrench their modest expenses. 
With this sort of thing going on all over, 
it is easy to see that the aggregate result 
must be a serious  shrinkage  in  the  vol­
ume of  trade.

Until,  therefore,  the memory of the re­
cent panic has passed out of men’s minds, 
and  they  forget  more  completely than 
they have forgotten,  as yet,  the  dangers 
they have  escaped  and  the losses they 
have experienced,  the  present  dullness 
in trade must  necessarily continue.  So­
ciety is so intimately bound together that 
no one part can  suffer without  affecting 
all the  other  parts,  and  when,  as is the 
case now, the spirit of retrenchment per­
vades  the whole  body politic,  a general 
languor cannot fail to result.  Time will 
cure this as it cures other transient evils, 
and  we can  only wait  for 
it  to  do  its 
work. 

Ma tth ew   Ma r sh a l l.

The  Currant  Situation.
F ro m  th e  New Y o rk  Jo u rn a l o f C om m erce.

is  now  named  by  shippers 

Never in the history of  the currant in­
dustry have prices been so low as during 
the present  season.  Usually the  Greek 
market opens up at a value of 15s. to 17s. 
c.  & f.,  but with the enormous  crop  that 
is promised this year and the  depression 
in  commercial and financial  circles,  the 
market opened last month  at  lls.,  from 
which point it has steadily  receded  until 
7s.  9d., or the  equivalent  of 
l%c.,  laid 
down, 
in 
Greece as an acceptable price for barrels. 
This quotation,  it  may be  said,  is  not 
given out by those who are  usually cred­
ited with  packing  the  best  goods,  but 
originates either with speculative sellers 
or from such sources whence a guarantee 
of quality could not be obtained.  So far 
as  we  are  able  to  learn,  however,  the 
curing of the season’s  crop  was  carried 
on during a period  of  exceptionally fine 
weather,  hence if  the  inferior quality is 
packed  the fruit will come from sections 
where the soil and climate  are not as fa­
vorable for the berry as  in  some  other 
localities.  The  fixtures  of  an  opening 
date  for  the  market by the Greek Gov­
ernment has done much toward improve­
ment in the quality of the  fruit.  Previ­
ous  to  last  year  there was the  annual 
rush  to place the fruit upon  the  market 
early for the one purpose of securing the 
fancy prices  that were  usually obtained 
for first shipments.  Curing was improp­
erly done,  and 
it  frequently happened 
that  stock,  upon  arrival  at its destina­
tion,  was found to be  in  bad  condition 
and  in course of  decay,  this fact leading 
to constant  trouble  between 
importers 
and shippers,  and claims for  allowances 
upon  the  ground that the fruit was not 
of good  merchantable  quality upon  re­
ceipt.  This  question  coming up annu­
ally was a constant menace  to  the  cur­
rant industry, therefore the Government, 
at  the  suggestion  of  many  reputable 
packers, determined to  put a stop to the 
hurried  methods  of  curing,  and a law 
was enacted that fixed  a  date when  the 
fruit should first be offered for  the  con­
sideration  of  the world’s buyers.  The 
law has now been  in force two years, and 
its  beneficial  effects  are  shown in  the 
better quality of  the goods received,  and

the almost entire  disappearance  of  the 
old-time differences.  One would  natur­
ally  suppose  that  at  present prices im­
porters would be  eager  to  cover  their 
probable wants  of  the  future,  but  there 
appears a hesitation  to act.  the  fact  that 
the course of  the  market since the open­
ing of the season has  been steadily down­
ward  has served  to  promote a feeling of 
caution,  and  checked  important  opera­
tions.  American  buyers  have  the credit 
of  being  poor  operators  upon  a falling 
market,  but ready speculators  upon  the 
up-grade.  Currants  are very cheap  to­
day,  and  it 
is  hardly  probable  that  a 
much,  if any,  lower value will  be estab­
lished in the near future.  The European 
demand is likely to open  up  at  any mo­
ment,  and  when the call  for Continental 
requirements  sets 
in  the  market  will 
probably take  a  quick  turn,  and operat­
ors upon  this side of  the water will then 
regret they did not take advantage of the 
opportunity that is now  presented.  The 
requirements  of  America  are  a  mere 
“drop in the bucket”  in  comparison  to 
the  European,  the 
importations of this 
country seldom 
if ever exceeding 15,000 
tons  out  of  annual crops ranging from 
140,000 to 170,000 tons.  The distillers of 
France are the great  consumers  of  the 
article,  and  when values are down  to the 
point  that  rules  to-day a demand from 
that country may be expected to  develop 
at any moment, the result of  which would 
undoubtedly be to give  prices  a  serious 
twist in  an  upward direction.

A n Old G ro cer’s C ounsel.

From the Commercial Tribane.
In conversation  with an old, successful 
grocer the other day,  he  said:  “Yes,  it 
I 
pays  to  be  frank,  manly and  honest. 
don’t think it pays to be in the  least  de­
I want my  customers to 
gree deceitful. 
trust me.  I want every clerk in  the store 
to  do  as  he  would  be  done  by. 
If  a 
patron calls for a certain brand of  goods 
usually  kept  by me,  and  I  happen  to be 
out of  it,  he is told so  frankly. 
I  don’t 
try to sell him something he doesn’t want 
If I chance to have a poor line of canned 
goods in  stock—no matter  what brand— 
1  will  not sell  them at any price; they are 
returned to  the seller  or thrown  aside as 
worthless.  Other goods  are  treated  in 
the same way.  Of two evils,  it is cheap­
est  and  best  to  stand  the  loss  myself, 
rather than run the almost certain risk of 
losing  the  confidence  and  patronage  of 
my customers.  A tricky merchant never 
prospers. 
If my  butter is not up to grade 
I say so,  but if one exercises care in buy­
ing butter,  or anything  else,  it  will  be 
up to the mark and  won’t need apologiz­
ing for.  When  I  order  goods  by  mail 
my  jobber  knows  that  1  want  what  I 
order,  not what he chooses  to  send  me. 
My  one aim  is  to  keep  and  extend  my 
trade.  1 don’t want to lose my  old  cus­
tomers  for  the  sake  of  attracting  new 
ones. 
I try to hold  my  trade,  and 1 find 
that the easiest and  cheapest  way  is  to 
be worthy of it.”
If every young grocer in the land could 
read  this old man’s words and would fol­
low his experienced counsel,  how  much 
smaller the percentage of failures  would 
be.

K eeley  D ism isses  H is  Suit.

Some time ago the London Lancet pub­
lished something about  the  Keeley cure 
for drunkenness,  which  the  doctor  con­
sidered injurious to him,  and he  accord­
ingly  instituted suit  for  damages.  The 
suit  was  begun 
last  year,  while  Dr. 
Keeley  was in London. 
It has just been 
dismissed.  Dr.  Keeley declining to prose­
cute it.  He says that when he begun the 
suit  be  supposed  that he would be al­
lowed to have his deposition taken in this 
country.  The  defendants,  however,  in­
sist that he shall be on  the stand in per­
son  that they may have  the  privilege of 
asking  him  some questions,  and he has 
concluded that he would rather not.  He 
says that he has so much to do  here that 
he cannot afford the time to go  across  to 
the trial.  He does not  seem  to  be  so 
much  injured by the alleged libel  as  he 
thought  be was,  although  the  Lancet 
called  him  a  quack,  or words  to  that 
effect.

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I vapor,  rise over the  mountains and  pour 
down  their rains on the  high table lands 
and  interior  valleys of Mexico, but this is 
not  common.  Generally  these  winds 
| cannot  pass  through  the  dense  atmos- 
| pheric  wall over the  western  mountains,
! a  range  which  extend.»  unbroken  from 
j the polar sea  to  the  uttermost  point  of 
I South  America,  and  they  are  forced 
{ northward.

In  their northward  march,  these  warm 
and  rain-laden  winds  meet  somewhere 
the polar  winds  from  the  frozen  north. 
It is  upon  the waters of  the Gulf,  or  on 
the  broad  and  treeless  plains,  that  are 
formed  the revolving storms that so often 
ravage the country.  Possibly they  would 
continue westward if they could get over 
the mountains,  but the  resistance of  the 
high  air  pressure  along  the  mountain 
wall of the Rockies and  the  Mexican Cor­
dilleras  furnished  a  force, 
the  third 
force,  which sends all  the storms, wheth­
er on  the  sea  or  on  the  land,  finally to 
the  eastward.

A  notion  has  long  obtained  that  all 
American  storms  start  somewhere,  no 
matter  where,  and  march  eastward 
around the  globe.  So  far  there  is  no 
conclusive  evidence  that  the  weather 
conditions  along the Pacific coast of any 
part  of  this  continent  are  ever trans­
ferred to the region  east  of  the  Rocky 
Mountains.  The Coast  range,  the Sierra 
Nevadas in California,  and  the  Cascade 
Mountains  in Oregon, combined  with  the 
Rocky  Mountains,  form  a  triple barrier 
to keep Pacific  weather from  crossing to 
the  eastward.  American  weather,  on 
the contrary,  seems  to  come  from  the 
equatorial  Atlantic  by  way of  the Gulf 
of Mexico,  and from  the north  polar sea, 
whose temperature,  when  the sun  leaves 
it in  September  to  shine  on  the  south 
pole,  so  densities  the  atmosphere as  to 
force it out to  the  southward.  Scarcely 
does the September  equinox  pass before 
the cold waves begin  to move southward 
over the plains,  to  make the  blizzards of 
Dakota  and 
the  northers  of  Mexico. 
When  the  warm  winds of  the equatorial 
Atlantic and the  blizzard  airs  from  the 
north  pole  meet  there  must  ensue  a 
mighty  wrestling of the elements.  Thus, 
it seems,  originates American  weather.
F r a n k   S t o w k l l.

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ORIGIN  OF  AMERICAN  W EATHER.
The American  hemisphere is  in  every 
respect  wholly  unlike its companion on 
the  other  side of  the oceans.  This dis­
similarity is  particularly  obvious  when 
the  conformations  of  North  and  South 
America are compared  with  that  of  Eu­
rope  and  Asia. 
In  the  Americas  the 
great mountain  ranges extend  in  a  gen­
eral direction  from  north  to  south. 
In 
the  Old  World  they  trend  from  east to 
west,  save in  Africa,  where many of  the 
physical  conditions  correspond  to those 
of the New World. 
It is only in north and 
south  mountain ranges  that  the precious 
metals are commonly  found,  and, bat for 
the Ural  ridge which separates European 
from  Asiatic  Russia.  Europe  and  Asia 
would  be  poorly  supplied  with  gold 
mines,  while Africa, with a conformation 
much  like  that  of  the Americas,  is  rich 
in the precious metals.

traversed  by 

However,  it  is  not of gold and silver it 
was intended to speak here,  beyond  the 
mere  mention  of  the  fact  that  it  is  in 
•ountries 
longitudinal 
ridges of  mountains  that  the supplies of 
the precious metals have  chiefly,  if  not 
wholly,  been  found. 
In  an article in the 
Popular Science  Monthly, for November, 
Prof.  J.  Harris Patton  discourses on the 
rainfall  in  the  Mississippi  valley.  He 
holds  that  the  enormous  amount  of 
moisture  which 
the  great 
valley  of  North  America comes by  way 
of the Gulf of  Mexico,  but not  from  the 
Gulf.  This  view  of  the valley  rainfall 
is in harmony  with  the  best  notions  of 
the origin of  American  weather.

waters 

longitude. 

The  Mississippi  valley,  which  em­
braces nearly one-half  of  the entire ter­
ritory  of  the  United  States,  excluding 
Alaska,  is  inclosed on  the east and  west 
by  ranges  of  mountains. 
It  extends 
through twenty degrees  of  latitude  and 
thirty  of 
Its  area  is  esti­
mated at 1,244.000 square  miles,  and the j 
annual average rainfall  on  its surface is 
42 inches—that  is.  if  the  rain  water did 
not penetrate the earth,  run off,  or evap­
orate,  at the end  of  the  year  the  depth 
would be 3 1-2 feet.  That is not  as much 
rain  as this vast territory  ought to have, 
for much of  the region  is dry and  almost 
rainless; but it  is  a  great  deal  at  that. 
The area of  the Gulf is about one-fourth 
that of the country to be watered,  and so 
the  evaporation  from  the  Gulf  would 
have  to be four times  42  inches,  or  168 
inches,  in order to  support  the  rate  of 
rainfall  mentioned.  True,  the Gulf gets 
back,  by  the  M ississippi  River,  all  the 
water it  gives  to  the  valley;  but  Prof. 
Patton’s  view  is that most  of  this  rain­
fall  comes  from  the  great  equatorial 
ocean current  which traverses the Atlan­
tic westwardly  from  the coast  of  Africa 
to  that  of  Brazil,  just  south  of  the 
equator.

This vast  stream is about  4.000  miles 
long and  about  3,000 wide.  Taking  its 
rise in  the Gulf of  Guinea,  it  flows west­
wardly.  but, dividing on Cape St.  Roque, 
the  much  greater  portion  moves  along 
the north  shore  of  South  America until 
it enters the Caribbean  Sea,  and  subse­
quently,  to a certain  extent,  the  Gulf of 
Mexico.  This river  in  the  sea.  flowing 
under a vertical sun, its waters  heated to 
80  degrees  and  more,  enters 
into  the 
gates of  the Gulf,  while  the trade winds 
carry its  enormous  evaporation  far  to 
the westward, until  the high chain of the 
Mexican  Cordilleras,  with 
its  snowy 
peaks,  is  met.  There are occasions when 
laden  with  watery
these  west  winds, 

E n g la n d ’s  D uplicity W ith N ew  Z ealand 

C heese.

For the last two or  three  years  Eng­
land  has relied to a greater or less extent 
upon  the  arrival  of  cheese from  New 
Zealand.  Recently  the  National  Dairy 
Association  of  New  Zealand  has  ex­
pressed the  opinion  that  they  will  be 
obliged  to  discontinue  sending  either 
cheese or  butter to Great  Britain,  unless 
freights can  be reduced or prices  in Eng­
land  raised.  The  English 
importers 
I were anxious to have  this  trade  estab- 
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American  product.  Having  induced the 
makers of New Zealand  to enter into the 
business,  they  began to play one product 
against the other,  and  thus  to  cheapen 
both.  The  New Zealanders  find  them­
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like 
{it.  So there is  a possibility that another 
season  the  Londoners  may find  them­
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Zealand  cheese, and consequently obliged 
to pay a living price for American goods. 
In  other words,  our  competition  with 
New Zealand  may  be nullified  by  the re­
fusal of her dairymen  to  make cheese at 
such prices  as the English  have  hitherto 
1 paid  them,  in  which case  there would  be 
j a larger  demand  for  American  cheese, 
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Special Correspondence.
N ew   York,  N ov.  25—No  announce­
ment has yet been made as to the plan of 
reorganization of  the Thurber,  Whyland 
Co.  The accountants are  still  at  work 
on  the  affairs  of  the  concern  and  it is 
likely  that  within a few days  it  will  be 
known  just  how  matters  stand.  Mr. 
Thurber  appears  hopeful  that  circum­
stances will permit  a  new  lease  of  life 
and it is  to be hoped  that  he  will  again 
be at the helm  with his  old-time energy.
Business is  picking up.  One evidence 
of  this  is  in  the  fact  that  advertising 
agents  report  a  gratifying 
in 
business and this is not wholly on account 
of holiday business,  either.
That  is  what  advertising agents say. 
People 
in  business  do  not  altogether 
agree  with  them.  They  intimate  that 
trade  is  quiet,  and  that what is  passing 
is of an everyday character, easily taken 
care of  by the  help  employed  and  that 
extra men are not needed.
One  favorable  sign  was  the  sale  at 
auction  the  other  day  of  a  lot  of  dry 
goods,  amounting  altogether  to $2,000,- 
000,  at prices only about 5 per  cent,  un­
der regular rates.  Dry  goods  men  feel 
very cheerful over the  result and  take it 
as an omen of  the  “good  time  coming.”
The hardware trade  is said to be excel­
lent in this city,  and  very  favorable  re­
ports  are  also  being  received  from  in­
terior  points.
The retail  grocery trade  here is in good 
condition,  and  probably  are  selling  as 
many goods as at  any  time.  The demand 
is confined  to no one line of goods,  but is 
fairly active in all departments.
The money that  is  accumulating  here 
is an evidence,  on  the  other  hand,  that 
trade at large is not as  active as  usual— 
a matter of regret.
is  selling  at  4)aC, 
and at this price some  fairly  liberal  pur­
chases have been made.  There is a great 
deal of space  being used  in  our  papers 
regarding  the  new  sugar  tariff.  Some 
want an ad  valorem  duty,  others  a  spe­
cific  one,  and,  between  the  two,  it  is 
likely  that no agreement  is  likely  to  be 
reached.  While we  do  not  want  “pau­
per”  sugar,  we  no  more  desire  a price 
made  artificially high  by the Trust. 
It 
is to be hoped that the matter  will  be ad­
justed in  a  manner  satisfactory  to  all. 
But the how is very  perplexing.
Coffee is quiet  and 
light  request. 
Fair Rio may be quoted at about  17>^c.
Nothing  is  doing  in  molasses,  which 
remains dull at  last quotations.
Rice is  steady.  Holders  are  disposed 
to be firm and make no reductions.
Dried fruits  are  selling  at  extremely 
low prices,  and attracting  no  special at­
tention save for  fancy stock  for holiday 
trade.  Some California raisins, bags, are 
sold as low as 2Kc.
Canned goods  have been very quiet all 
the week.  Tomatoes have sold  at  92}£c 
per dozen.
Oranges  and  lemons are  in  am ple  sup­
ply now,  and  prices  are  very  low.  Ap­
ples  and other dom estic  fru its  bring good 
prices  when  of  line  quality.
Butter and cheese are quiet.  Best but­
ter,  27}ijC,  and from  this  the  price runs 
down  to 21c for anything eatable.
Fresh  eggs  are  selling well,  but  they 
are  very  hard  to  find.  Best  western, 
25J^@27c.
Prices of poultry remain at a profitable 
point,  and  dressed  turkeys  bring  from 
ll@14e;  chickens,  10@12c.
Many Scotch  potatoes  are arriving,  and 
though  the  supply is  fairly liberal, prices 
are  firmly  held  and  no decline  is expect­
ed. 

Granulated  sugar 

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in 

F o r  P re sid e n t  a n d   S e c re ta ry   o f 

th e  

K n ig h ts  o f  th e   G rip.

As the time draws near for the  annual 
meeting of the Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip,  the selection of  competent  officers 
for the ensuing  year  naturally suggests 
itself..  T h e T radesm an has looked over 
the  ground  carefully  and  has  calmly 
come to the conclusion that the interests 
of the Association can be  best  served by 
electing Major  R.  W.  Jacklin  President 
and by continuing the present incumbent 
in  the  position  of  Secretary.  Of  the

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E SM A N .

1 3

availability  and  capability  of  Major 
Jacklin  nothing  need  be  said.  A resi­
dent  of  Detroit—which  city  has never 
yet furnished the Association a presiding 
officer—Major Jacklin would  thus  meet 
the  aspirations  and  desires  of a large 
body of the membership.  He also meets 
a requirement which has been frequently 
ignored in the selection of officers for the 
Association—he is  an  actual  traveling 
man and carries a  grip,  being  neither  a 
solicitor without samples  nor one of the 
“has  beens.”  He is in every sense qual­
ified  to fill  the  position  with  grace  and 
dignity to himself and with  honor to the 
Association.  For Secretary, T h e T ra des­
man heartily endorses  the  candidacy of 
L.  M.  Mills.  This  gentleman  took  up 
the work of  the Association  when  it was 
at a low ebb and has  brought  order  out 
of chaos and  restored  the organization to 
the respect and confidence  of  the  mem­
bers.  He has worked with unceasing en­
ergy  to  systematize  the  details  of the 
organization,  and has succeeded  to  that 
extent  that  the  membership  shows  a 
marked  permanent 
iucrease  under his 
administration, largely from the ranks of 
those who  had  become  disgusted  with 
the loose business methods of  his prede­
cessor and  relinquished  their"  member­
ship  on  that  account.  Although  Mr. 
Mills  has  served  the organization one- 
half of the fiscal  year,  his compensation, 
so far,  has been only one-third of the an­
nual compensation,  owing  to  the  fact 
that  the  former  Secretary received the 
Secretary’s  percentage  on  fully  two- 
thirds of the annual dues.  Of  the capa­
bility and accuracy  and  economy of  Mr. 
Mills there  is  no question  whatever.  He 
is a regular  traveling  man,  visiting  his 
customers  with  a  gripsack  in  his hand 
six days  a week;  and  if  ever  an officer 
has earned a re-election at  the  hands of 
an  appreciative  membership,  Mr.  Mills 
is that man.  T h e  T radesm an  hopes to 
see  him  unanimously  re-elected,  and  if 
the  members  could  have  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  the  painstaking  and effi­
cient effort he has given the organization 
such would surely be  the result.

SOCIETIES,
CXiTJBS,
CONVENTIONS,
DELEGATES,
COMMITTEES.

The Largest Assortment of Ribbons 
and Trimmings in the State.

T R A D E S M A N   CO.

Alfred  J.  B row n  C o.,

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR  THE  CELEBRATED 

STETSONS

Hat Brand  Oranges

REGISTERED

:  O R A N G E S

W e   g u a r a n te e   th is  b ra n d   to  be 
a s  fin e  a s  a n y   p a c k   in  th e  m a rk et. 
P r ic e s  G u a ra n teed .  T ry   th e m .

Alfred  J.  Brown  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

G rip sack  B rigade.

Judd  E.  Houghton,  formerly  on  the 
road in this State  for  B.  Leidersdorf  & 
Co., of Milwaukee,  has resumed  his  for­
mer connection with  that house.

M.  J.  Wrisley is  making  a  six weeks’ 
trip  through the  Upper  Peninsula  and 
Northern Wisconsin  and  Minnesota  in 
the interest of  the Tradesman Company.
So long as Richard T.  Scott was  alive, 
he escaped public exposure for  living  a 
dual life,  but the struggle for  his  prop­
erty after death  recalls—what many have 
known for years—that he was  living  in 
conjugal  relations with  two  women—a 
wife in Grand Rapids and another woman 
at Fenton,  by whom he was the father of 
four children.  The  Grand  Rapids wife 
claims to have been  married  to  the  de­
ceased thirty-eight years ago,  and claims 
to be in possession of  her  marriage cer­
tificate. 
It is claimed  by  the  attorneys 
for the  Grand  Rapids  widow  that  the 
Fenton  woman  was  formerly a  domestic 
in  the family of the Grand Rapids house­
hold,  leaving  under  somewhat  unpleas­
ant circumstances  about  a  dozen  years 
ago,  when she  moved  to  Fenton,  where 
she passed as the wife  of  the  deceased, 
and was so recognized  by  the  deceased 
and  the  public.  No  sympathy  is  ex­
pressed for her,  as she must have  known 
that her  relations with  Scott were  of  a 
questionable character,  but the  children 
she brought into the world are  certainly 
entitled  to  the  sympathy  of  everyone. 
Litigation may possibly ensue  over  the 
disposition of the property,  but the legal 
status  of  the  Grand  Rapids  widow ap­
pears to be secure.

Ludwig Winternitz,  general  traveling 
representative  for  the  Fermentum Com­
pany was in  town  over  Sunday,  calling 
on old friends.

Let Your Name 
Be  W ritten 
T here!
W here?
On a Calendar!

Everybody  W ants  O ne! 
Everybody  Expects  O ne! 
They  Are  Always  in  S igh t!

YOU  CAN  OUT  A

OR  A  BIGGER  ONE  FOR  5  CENTS.

nany  Styles  to  Select  From. 
Don’t  Wait  Until  Jan.  ist. 
Samples  on  Application.

TRADESHAN  COiTPANY.

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D r u g s  HI Medicines*

State  Board  of Pharm acy.
O ne  Y e ar—J a m e s V e rn o r, D e tro it.
T w o  Y ears—O ttrn a r E b e rb a c h , A nn  A rbor 
T h re e  Y e ars—G eorge G u n d ru m . Io n ia.
F o u r  Y ears—C. A. B ogbee.  C heboygan.
F iv e Y ears—8. E.  P a r k ill. Owosso.
P resid en t—O ttm a r E b erb ac h , A nn A rbor.
S e c re ta ry —S ta n ley  E. P a rk ili, Owosso.
T re a su re r—Geo. G n n d ram , Io n ia.

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Am ’d. 
P re sid e n t—A. B. S tevens, A nn A rbor.
V ice-P resident—A. F. P a rk e r, D e tro it.
T re a su re r—W . D up o n t,  D e tro it.
S ec re ta ry —S. A. T hom pson. D e tro it.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm acentical  Society. 
P re sid e n t, Jo h n  D. M uir;  Sec’y , F ra n k  H. E sco tt.

VIGOROUS PROTEST

Against the  Arbitrary  Action  of  the 

Board  of  Pharmacy.

W ritte n  f o r  T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

At  the  first  meeting  of  the  Michigan 
Pharmaceutical Association, held at Lan­
sing,  November 14 and  15,  1883,  a  draft 
of a bill to regulate the practice of Phar­
macy in the State of  Michigan  was  pre­
sented for consideration.  This bill, after 
a lengthy discussion,  was referred  to the 
next meeting,  to be held at Detroit, Sept. 
9,  10  and  11,  18S4.  At  this  meeting  a 
great deal of  time was  spent in consider­
ing  the  bill,  section  by  section,  and  it 
was finally referred to  the  special  Com­
mittee on Pharmacy Bill,  with  power to 
make such changes  in  the draft  as  might j 
be deemed  necessary to  make  the same a 
law. 

(See proceeding 1884,  page 88.)

In  the original  draft  of  the  bill,  sec­
tion 3  was  as  follows:  “Licentiates  in 
pharmacy  shall  be  entitled  to  registra­
tion,  and  must  be such persons  as  have 
had  two  years’  practical  experience  in 
drug  stores  where  the  prescriptions  of 
medical  practitioners  are  compounded, 
and  have passed  a  satisfactory examina­
tion before the  Board of  Pharmacy  here­
inafter mentioned.”

This  bill  was changed  in  many  points 
by the Association  and  in  many  others 
by  the  Legislature. 
(See  proceeding 
Michigan State Pharmaceutical  Associa­
tion,  page 29.)  Members of the Associa­
tion held  that section 3  as  quoted above 
discriminated against the graduates of the 
School of Pharmacy  and  hence had to be 
changed in order to make the  bill 'satis­
factory and to prevent  the  incorporation 
into the bill of  a clause allowing  gradu­
ates  of  pharmacy  and  medical  schools 
to  become  registered  without  examina­
tion.

The bill,  which  became  a  law  by  the 
Governor attaching his signature thereto 
on June 2,  1885,  has  the  following  pro­
vision—seetiou 5—in regard to licentiates 
in  pharmacy:  “No  person  other than  a 
licentiate in  pharmacy  shall  be  entitled 
to  registration  as  a  pharmacist,  except 
as provided  in  section  4.  Licentiates  in 
pharmacy shall be such persons,  nut  less 
than 18 years of age, who shall have passed 
o satisfactory examination  touching their 
competency  before  the  Board  of  Phar­
macy.  Every  such  person shall,  before 
an examination  is granted, furnish satis­
factory  evidence  that  he is of temperate 
habits, and shall pay the fee of $3.”

At the meeting of  the Board  of  Phar­
macy,  held at  Lansing,  Nov.  7,  1893,  the 
following resolution was adopted:

Resolved—That,  hereafter,  all  appli­
cants for examination  as registered phar­
macists  must  have  had  at  least  three 
years’  actual  experience  compounding 
drugs  in  a  retail  drug  store  under  the 
supervision of  a  registered  pharmacist; 
and  all  applicants  for  examination  as 
registered  assistant  pharmacists  must 
have had at least two years’ actual experi­
ence compounding  drugs in  a  retail drug 
store under  the  supervision  of  a  regis-

T H E   1 M I C H I G A N   T R A .I lE S M A .lS r

tered  pharmacist;  but  one month’s study 
in  a college of pharmacy will be accepted 
as a substitute for  two  months’  experi­
ence  as  above:  Provided,  That  every 
applicant  must  have  had  at  least four 
months' actual  experience  compounding 
drugs  in  a  retail  drug  store,  under the 
supervision  of  a  registered pharmacist.
No  certificates  of  registration  will  be 
issued by the Board until  the  applicant 
has furnished  affidavits  from  the  party 
or parties with whom he served or studied, 
showing explicitly,  by dates,  the  length 
of time the applicant has  been under the 
instruction of the employer or teacher.

After  carefully  reading  Section  5  of 
the Pharmacy  Law,  these  resolutions re­
mind me of  the recent expression of  the 
German  Emperor  to  his  troops:  “My 
will  is your  will.  My  law  is  your law.” 
According  to  the  above  resolution  the 
Board  expects  that  the  people  of  the 
State are going to submit tamely  to their 
will,  but  1  am  afraid  not.  The  Board 
has,  without  an  act  of  the  Legislature, 
assumed  legislative powers  and  made an 
amendment to the Pharmacy  Law  which 
is in conflict  with  section  5  of  the  law 
quoted above,  which does not  allow  the 
Board to place such  a  construction  upon 
the law as has been  done  by above reso­
lution.

If the Board of Pharmacy desired  such 
a change in  the  law as is set forth in their 
resolution,  the proper  course  to  pursue 
would be to go before  the Legislature at 
the next session and secure an amendment 
to the law.  Such  an  amendment,  how­
ever,  would not pass,  as  it  is  altogether 
too  arbitrary  and  sweeping in  its  provi­
sions. 
The  construction  that  would 
naturally  be placed  upon  the  resolution 
is.  (1)  that  the board desired  to cut down 
the  size  of  the  classes,  making  them 
smaller;  (2)  to  prohibit  the  intelligent 
physicians of the State from engaging in 
the  drug  business,  by  preventing  their 
even coming up  for  examination,  unless 
they  had  spent  three  years  in  a  drug 
store;  (3)  compelling  young  men  who 
desire  to  make  pharmacy  their profes­
sion  to  either enter a college,  which,  in 
many cases,  they cannot do,  or  work  in 
a drug store  for two years at  least,  with­
out compensation  for  services  rendered. 
As a young man caunot secure  wages  for 
his  services  unless  he  has  at  least  a 
registered  assistant’s  certificate,  any 
bright  young  man  ought  to  be  able  to 
secure an assistant’s certificate after  one 
year’s work.

According  to  the  pharmacy  law,  as 
now  in  force,  it  makes  no  difference 
where  a  person  obtained  the required 
knowledge,  whether in  a  country or city 
drug store,  at  home  or 
in  a  school of 
pharmacy,  so  long  as  sufficient  knowl­
edge Is obtained to pass the examination.
The Board of Pharmacy is a part of the 
pharmacy  law and  was  created  for  the 
purpose of  executing  and  enforcing the 
same.  There is not a single item of  law 
covering  the  action  taken  at  Lansing. 
The Board must confine itself to the law, 
and  such  a  construction  as  has  been 
placed  upon  it  in  adopting  the  above 
resolution  cannot  stand,  as  such  con­
struction  is  not  sanctioned  by  it.  The 
Board is not  a  private  corporation,  but 
one of  the  State  Boards,  subject  to the 
law  under  which  it  acts and from which 
it receives its authority.  The Board has 
a plain  duty to  perform—to  examine all 
persons who  apply  for examination  who 
can  make  an  affidavit  that  they are  of 
temperate habits,  have the  required  age, 
and  pay the required  fee.  When  that is 
complied with  the Board must  accept the 
candidate and  allow him  to  try to  pass '

the examination;  and, if successful, issue 
him a certificate as registered pharmacist 
or assistant, according to bis proficiency, 
as shown by  his percentages.

The  last  clause  of  the  resolution  is 
even  more arbitrary  than  the first. 
It is 
required to show  by  affidavits  from  the 
party or parties with whom  the applicant 
served or studied the length of time  em­
ployed,  etc.  This  in  many cases  is  an 
utter impossibility, for good  reasons:  the 
party or parties  with  whom  he served or 
studied  may  be  dead,  or  their  present 
residence may not  be  known to the can­
didate. 
In that case no matter how good 
an examination the candidate might pass, 
he would,  according to  above resolution, 
be  denied  a  certificate  by  the  Board. 
Supposing a druggist from  another State 
with,  say,  twenty-five  years’  experience, 
should engage  in  the  drug  business  in 
Michigan—a man  who  could  easily  pass 
the examination,  but,  owing  to  his  age, 
would not be able to furnish the required 
affidavit.  He  would,  of  course,  be  re­
jected, or the Board  would  have  to  re­
scind  above  resolution.  The  position 
taken  by the Board cannot  be  sustained 
by them in any  court in this State.

The Michigan  Board  of  Pharmacy  has 
always been  regarded as one of  the fair­
est boards  in  the  country,  and  the  law 
has become quite popular for that reason. 
If the action  taken at Lansing is allowed 
to stand,  the Board will  find  a large ma­
jority of  the  druggists  arrayed  against 
its action.  At  every session of the Leg­
islature since 1885  a  bill  has been  intro­
duced to repea) the law,  but,  so far,  the 
effort  has  failed,  because  the  law had 
been  administered  in  such  a  manner  as 
I assure the Board 
to make  it  popular. 
that,  if  repeal  of  the 
is  what  is 
wanted, then the action  taken at Lansing, 
Nov.  7.  is the first  step  that will  lead  to 
that result.  The  law ought not to be re­
pealed  and must not be, neither must the 
Board of  Pharmacy misconstrue the law, 
but must live up  to  the  plain  intent of 
its provisions,  and  enforce 
its  require­
ments in as  liberal  a  manner as the law 
permits. 
Milk—Its  Nature  and Chemical Compo­

J a c o b   J e s s o x .

law 

sition.

W ritten  (o r  T h e  Tr a d e s m a n .

Milk  is the secretion of  the mammary 
glands and constitutes  the  entire  food 
and drink  of the  young  mammal. 
It  is 
an  aqueous solution of  caseine,  milk  su 
gar and  small quantities of  mineral  mat­
ter,  and  holds  in suspension  a  quantity 
of fat in  a state of fine subdivision.

In my analysis  of  cow’s  milk I  found 
in  100 cubic centimeters  of  milk,  given 
by the average country  milk:
Grammes.
Water...........................................................90.09
Fat...............................................................  3.16
Caseine........................................................  4.16
Milk  sugar..................................................   4.76
Ash (mineral matter).................................  0.73
102.90

Town fed Alderney milk,  according  to 
my analysis, is a little richer, and I found 
100 cubic centimeters to contain:
Grammes
Water................... 
89.68
F a t.............................................................  3.31
Caseine......................................................   4.75
Milk  sugar................................................   4.24
Ash...................................................................72
102.90

I  have also made an  analysis of Jersey 
milk.  1  found  in  100  cubic  centimeters 
of such milk:
Grammes.
W ater........  ............................................... 88.43
F a t.............................................................  4.12
Caseine.....................................................   5.16
Milk  sugar............................................... 
4.43
Ash...................................................................76
102.90

 

 

The water which enters  into  the  con­
stitution  of milk  may  be extracted  from 
it by evaporation,  and,  that  having been 
done,  there will remain  behind the  milk 
solids,  which consist of  fat,  caseine,  su­
gar of milk and ash  (or mineral  matter). 
The  fat  exists 
in  milk in the form  of 
minute globules.  It is not a single chem­
ical substance, but a mixture of chemical 
substances. 
It  consists  of  olein,  pal- 
mitin, stearin  and  small  quantities of bu- 
tyrin  and other fats.  All  these different 
fatty substances are ethers of  glycerine, 
and are  capable  of  yielding  glycerine 
when  digested  with  alkalies,  yielding 
at  the same time the corresponding alka­
line salt.  Thus,  when  the fat of  milk  is 
digested  with potash or soda, it produces 
glycerine,  and  at  the  same  time  the 
oleate,  palmitate,  stearate  of  potash  or 
soda.  The fat is  distinguished  from the 
other solid constituents of milk  by being 
soluble in ether.

insoluble. 

Caseine,  a  valuable  constituent  of 
It 
milk, exists under two modifications. 
is either  soluble  or 
In  the 
soluble state it exists in fresh  milk,  and 
is insoluble after the  milk  has  turned. 
In  milk  the  caseine is chemically com­
bined with phosphate of  lime,  and  there 
is no known  method to separate  the two 
without destroying the caseine.  Caseine 
which  has  become  insoluble  in  water is 
redissolved  by  alkalies.

Sugar of  milk may  be  obtained  from 
milk  by coagulating the caseine  and  re­
moving that along with the fat,  and  then 
evaporating the  residual 
liquid to crys- 
talization.  Sugar of  milk  differs  from 
cane sugar in  various  ways. 
In  solubil­
ity in  water there  is  much  difference in 
the two.  Sugar of milk  dissolves in  five 
or six parts of water  (cold),  and two and 
one-half  parts  of  boiling water.  Cane 
sugar is far more soluble;  it  dissolves  in 
one-third of its volume of cold  water and 
in very little  boiling  water.  Sugar  of 
milk is not so heavy as  cane  sugar. 
Its 
specific gravity is 1.53,  while  cane sugar 
has a specific gravity of  1.606.

The  Ash  or  Mineral  Matter—When 
milk is dried up,  and the  dried  residue 
afterward incinerated,  the  ash  remains 
behind.  This consists  mainly of  phos­
phate of lime,  which  forms  about  two- 
thirds of it,  and of  chlorides.  There  is 
hardly any  free  or  carbonated  alkali  in 
the ash of cow's  milk.  The  degree  of 
freedom  of  the  ash from  alkali may  be 
judged from the fact,  ascertained  by my­
self,  that the ash does  not  neutralize as 
much  standard  acid  as  it  would if one- 
hundredth of its weight consisted  of  al­
kaline-carbonate.

Milk  has  a  specific  gravity of about 
1.029 at 59 deg.F., and its physical appear­
ance is very  peculiar. 
It is  not  a  clear 
liquid,  being,  in  point of  fact,  an  emul­
sion.  Left to stand  by itself,  a yellowish 
layer forms on the  top,  well  known  as 
cream.  When fresh it is  nearly neutral 
to test paper,  but is very apt  to  turn sour 
from  very  slight causes.

J.  De Bo e,

Chemist  Hazeltine  & Perkins Drug Co.

Excursions  to  California.

On  account of the San  Francisco Mid­
winter  Fair,  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee & 
St.  Paul Railway Company  will  sell  ex­
cursion tickets to San Francisco, St. Jose, 
Colton,  Los  Angeles and  San  Diego, Cal., 
and  Portland,  Ore.,  at  reduced  rates, 
good  until April 1,  1894.  For  full  par­
ticulars call on  any coupon  ticket  agent 
or address Harry Mercer,  Michigan Pass. 
Agent,  82 Griswold  St.,  Detroit.  Mich.

Lse  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

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

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S.  N. Y. Q.  &

Morphia, S. P. <6 W.  .2  10@2 35 
C.  Co....................  2 00@2 85
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po20)..  ®  10
Os.  Sepia....................  20®  22
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 OO
Picls Liq, N.-C., Vi gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Picls Llq., quarts......   @1  00
pints.........   ®  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__  @  3
Plx  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvls Ipecac et opli. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
&P. D.  Co., doz......  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae....................  8®  10
Quinla, S. P. & W......  29®  34
S.  German__  21®  30
Rubla  Tlnctorum......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
20®  22
Salacln............ .......... 1  75@l  80
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
,T  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture........  @  20
Slnapls.......................   @  18
opt..................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb................. 
ltf®  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash.................... 3Vi@  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  ®3 00
*’  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
__7........................ 2 25@2 35
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal......1 40©1  45
Sulphur, Subl............ 2Vi®  3
“  Roll..............  2  @ 2V4
Tamarinds...................  
8® 10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae.............45  @  48
Vanilla......................9 00@16 00
Zlnd  Sulph.................. 
7®  8

OILS.

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

Bbl.  Gal
70
85
45
40

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paints. 

Linseed,  boiled.........  40 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   65 
Spirits Turpentine__  37 

15
43
70
40
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian..............l£   2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ 1£  2@4
“ 
Ber........1*  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2M  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure......2%  2R®8
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
65@70
Green,  Peninsular......  7o@75
Lead,  red....................  e?,£@7
“  w hite............... 6M@7
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @90
1  0 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
1 40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints............   ...... 1 00@1  20
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 
Turp..........................  

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

V A R N ISH ES.

70®7 5

sa ie   P r ic e   C u rren t•
Glycerine.

Declined—Opium. 

Cubebae......................  @ 300
Exechthitos..............  2 50@2 75
Erigeron......................... 2 on@2 10
Gaultherla...................... 2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......  @  75
Gosfilpll,  Sem. gal......   70@  <5
Hedeoma  ...................1 25@1  40
Jumperl......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Llmonis.......................... 2 40@2 60
Mentha PI per...................2 75@3 50
Mentha Verid................. 2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal..................1  00@1 10
Myrcla, ounce............   @  50
Olive......  .................   8i@2 75
Picls Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
Ricini.......................   1  22@1  28
Rosmarini............  
75@i  00
Rosae, ounce...................6 50®8 50
Succlnl........  .............  40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
San tal  ........................3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tiglil..........................   @  90
Thyme.......................  40®  50
opt  ................  @  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

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POTA SSIU M .

BiCarb.......................   15®  18
bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide.................... 
40®  43
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24®  26
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..............................2 90@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @ 15
Potass Nltras, opt...... 
8®  10
Potass Ultras.............. 
7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

R A D IX .

Aconitum..................   20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......  
8®  10
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)...................  @  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po........................1  60® 1 75
Iris plox (po. 35@38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  40®  45
Maranta,  Ks..............  ®  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei............................  75@1  00
cut......................  @1  75
pv.......................  75@1  35
Splgella......................  35®  38
Sanguinarla,  (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpen tarla.................  30®  32
Senega.......................  55®  60
Slmilax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40
M  @ 25
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
SymplocarpuB,  Fostl-
dus,  po....................  @  35
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
lnglber a ...................  
18® 20
18® 20
Zingiber  j ................... 

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SEM EN.
Anisnm,  (po. 20).. 
..  @ 15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  15®  18
Bird, Is......................... 
4® 6
Carni, (po. 18)..............   10® 12
Cardamon........................1 00@1 25
Ccrlandrum.................   10® 12
Cannabis Satlva.........   4® 
5
Cydonlum....................   75®1 00
Cnenopoditun  ............   10® 12
Dlpterlx Odorate........2 25®2 50
Foenlculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L in i..........................  4  ® 4*
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 8) 
..  3 ft® 4
Lobelia.........................  35® 40
PharlariB Canarian__  3  @ 4
Rapa.............................  6®  7
Slnapls  Albu............   7  @ 8
Nigra.............  11® 12

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S PIR IT U S.
Frumenti, W.. D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R ...... 1  75@2 00
j  25@1  50
Junlperis  Co. Ó. T __1  65®2 00
1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  B........ 1  75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  GalU........... 1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto.................... 1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba........  ........ 1 25®2 00

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SPOHORS.

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

2 00
1  10
85
65
75
140

SY R U PS.

A ccada...............................  50
ZlngibeT  .............................  50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri  Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes................  
  50
50
Rhel  Arom.................... 
Slmilax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Sdllae..................................   50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunus  fü g .........................  50

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TIN C TU R ES.

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“ 

11 

Aconltum NapelUs R .........   60
F ..........  50
Aloes....................................  60
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica.................................  50
Asafoetlda............................  o
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................   60
“  Co..........................   50
Sanguinaria.........................  so
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharides.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................   75
CO.......................   75
Castor...................................1 00
Catechu...............................   50
Cinchona............................  50
Co.......................  60
Columba.............................   50
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba.................................  50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot....................................  50
Gentian...............................  50
“  Co............................  60
Gualca.................................  50
“ 
ammon...................  60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyo8cyamu8.......................   50
Iodine..................................   75
Colorless.................   75
Ferrl  Chlorldum................  35
K ino....................................  50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
O pli.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor..........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Hhatany.............................   50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stromonlum.........................  60
Tolutan.... ..........................  60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVerlde.................  50

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M ISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

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‘ 
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./Ether, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  28®  30 
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alumen......................2)4® 3

“  
ground,  (po.

“ 
cent 

“ et Potass T. 

“  po.... 
“  B po. 

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
4®  5
Antlmoni, po.............. 
55®  60
Antipyrin..................   @1  40
Antirebrln..................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  52
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__ 
38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............ 2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is,  (Hs
12;  14s,  14)..............  @  11
Cantharides  Russian,
p o ............................  @1  00
Capsid  Fructus, af...  @  26
®  28
@  20
CaryophylluB, (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   ®3 75
Cera  Alba, 8. A F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus  .....................   ®  40
Cassia Fruotus...........  @  25
Centrarla....................  ®  10
Cetaceum...................  @  40
Chloroform...............   60®  68
iqulbbs..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst.......1  35@1 60
Chondrus..................   20®  %
Clnchonldlne, P.  A  W  15®  20 
German  3  @  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
60
.................... 
Creasotnm 
@  35
............  
@  2
Creta, (bbl. 75)......  
5®  5
“  prep............  
“  predp.........  
9®  11
“  Rubra........ 
..  @ 8
Crocus......................  40®  50
Cudbear......................  @ 24
Cupri Sulph...............   5 @  6
Dextrine........ 
10®  12
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 66H
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White...............   13®  25
Glycerins...................  14®  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  @  22
Hamulus....................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  85 
“  Cor —  
®  80
Ox Rubrum  ®  90
Ammonlatl.  @100
Cnguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  64
.1  25@1 50
linthyobolla, Am. 
Indigo........................   75@1 00
iodine,  Resubl..........3 80®3 90
iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin......................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  70®  75
M ads.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
iMannla,  S .F ..............  00®  63

H i)............................ 2)4® 4

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10

75an
35
55
5
la
la
20
1  70
&  5
1  60
33

5
7
14
14

a 25
1  00
50
3 00

30
10
30

50
1  90
65
50

18
11
18
30
20
12
10
12
15

25
35
12
14
15
17

15
3 50
80
50
15
2
7

2035
65

50
28
50
25
10

60
40
30
20
80
60
12
50
1
60
36
55
55
102 50
7b
30
1  15
80
40
2 6042
35
,1  00
fi.

25
2025
28
23
25
30
22
25

k  60
k  22
k  25
>  36
l4 00
i  75
i8 25
H  8»
|2 40
£ 50
k  65
>  80
k  65
kl  60
kl  15
)  45
k  66
k  90

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils *  Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole A gests  for the  Celebrated

SWISS  «ILL«  PREPARED  PUNTS.
Line of  Staple  Druggists’  M ies

We are Sole Proprietors of

Weatherly's  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

We Have in  Stock and Offer a  F ull Line of

W H IS K IE S ,  B R A N D IE S ,

G IN S,  W IN ES, 

S.

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

"   & PERKINS

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

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

Sap Sago....................  ©21
Schweitzer, Imported.  ©24 
domestic  ....  ©14

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CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

 

*• 

Triumph'Brand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles................2 75
4 50
Pint 
Quart 1 doz bottles 
...3 50
Half pint, per  doz  .............1  35
Pint, 25 bottles.........................4 50
Quart, per  doz  ...................3 75
5 gross boxes.................40©45
35 lb  bags......................  ©3
@3*4
. 
Less quantity 
..  6M@~ 
Pound  packages 

CLOTHES  PINS.
COCOA  SHELLS.

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

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

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Me. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX.  34  45
B u n o la   ........ 
23  95
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case  ..  24  45 
Valley City  M gross........... 
75
1  15
Felix 
Hnmmel’s, foil, gross........  1  SO
“ 
...  2 50

Package.
 
Extract.

“ 

tin 
CHICORV.

“ 

Bulk..............................  
Red......................................7
Cotton.  40 ft......... per doz.  1  25
140
1  60
1  75
1  90
85
1  00

CLOTHES  LINES.
“ 
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“ 
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“ 
“ 
“ 
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Jute 
“ 
CONDENSED  MILK.

50 f t........  
80 f t......... 
70 ft........  
80 ft........  
60 ft.......... 
7 2 ft'...  . 
4 doz. In case.

5

X.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  BOOKS.

1 75

Gages.

1  00 
2 90

Fruits.
Apples.
3  lb. standard...........
York State, gallons  ... 
Hamburgh.
Apricots.
Live oak...................
Santa  Crus.................
Lusk's.......................
Overland..................
Blackberries.
B. *  W.......................
Cherries.
Red............................  1  io@l 20
1 75
Pitted Hamburgh  . . .  
W hite.............................  
1 50
Erie................................. 
1 a
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
E rie............................
1  10 
California...................
1  60
Gooseberries.
Common....................
1  25 
Peaches.
Pie............................
1 CO
Maxwell....................
Shepard’s ..................
California.......................  
Monitor 
Oxford
Domestic..
Riverside...................
Pineapples.
Common.....................1 00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced__
grated__
Booth’s sliced. . . . . .
grated........
Quinces.
Common  .................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
Red............................. 
1 30
1  50
Black  Hamburg.........  
1  25
Erie,  black 
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................  
1  25
1  25
Hamburgh................. 
Erie............................  
1  20
1  10
Terrapin....................... 
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............  
1  00
Corned  beef  Libby's. 
.1   95
Roast beef  Armour’s..........1  P0
Potted  ham. M lb.....................1 40
“  M lb.................  65
tongue. M lb.............135
“  M lb.........   85
chicken. M lb.........  
95
Vegetables.

Meat©.

Pears.

“ 
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“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless..........1  25
French style...... 2 25
Limas...................1  35
Lima, green.............................. 1 40
soaked......................  65
Lewis Boston Baked........... l  35
Bay State  Baked...................... 1 35
World’s  Fair  Baked.........   1  35
Picnic Baked.............................1 00
Hamburgh......... ................. 1  40
Livingston  Eden.....................1 *30
Purity.................................
Honey  Dew......................... 1 40
Morning Glory...................
Soaked............................... 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat........... 1  35
early June  ..  ..
Champion Eng  . 1  50
petit  pols..........1  75
fancy  sifted__ 1  go
Soaked.................................  75
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  10
early June.......1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  35
French..................................... 2 15
French.............................. 16©21
Brie....................................  85
Hubbard...................................1 15
Hamburg...................................1 40
Soaked............................. 
  85
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 50
Erie  .................................... 1  35
Tomatoes.
Hancock.......................  ...1   10
.........................
Excelsior 
Eclipse.................................
Hamburg............................
Gallon 

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

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AXLE GREASE.
doz
......  55
60
.... 
......  50
75
......   65
......  55

Aurora...........
Castor Oil......
Diamond........
Frazer’s.........
Mica  ............
Paragon 
..  ..

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

 

BAKING  POWDER. 

“  2  “ 

Acme.
K lb. cans. 3 doz.............. 
45
2  “  ................  85
Klb.  “ 
1  “  .................  1 80
1 lb.  “ 
Bulk................................... 
10
Arctic.
K 
cans 6 doz  case......... 
55
 
“  4  doz  “ 
1  10
V4 lb 
“  2  doz  “ 
............. 2 00
1  ST> 
5  lb 
“  1 doz  “ 
...........  9 00
Fosfon.
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case...  SO 
“ 
16  “ 
.  .2 00
Red Star, Ja 3> cans........... 
40
75
.........  
“ 
.........   !  40
“ 
45
Teller’s,  14 lb. cans,  doz. 
“  ..  S5
“ 
“ 
“  ..  1  50
45
“ 
“ 
1  50
per doz 
Dime cans..  95
4- 
oz 
6-oz
5- oz 
12 oz 
16-oz 
2H-lb
4- 
5- 
10-lb

p«pRicrs
CREAM
baking
powdeb

H lb  “ 
1 ft  “ 
M lb.  “ 
l lb.  “ 
M lb  cans
1 lb cans
Dr. Price’s.

Onr Leader, V lb cans...... 

lb
lb 

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BLUING.

“  
“  pints,  ronnd  .......
“  No. 2. sifting box
“  No. 3, 
“  No. 5, 
“  1 oz b a ll...............
“ 

BATH  BRICK. 
! dozen in case.
English...........................
.  90
so
Bristol..............................
Domestic.......................... ..  70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals............ 3 60
............ 6  75
9 00
2 75
4 00
8 00
4  50
Mexican Liquid, 4 oz...... 3 60
8 oz........ 6 80
“ 
BROOMS,
4.40. 2 Hurl........................
1  75
........................
No. 1  “ 
2 00
No. 2 Carpet............. .  .  . 2 25
No. 1 
“ 
2 50
.....................
Parlor Gem.....................
2 75
80
Common W hisk............
Fancy 
...............
1 00
Warehouse................ ......
3 00
Stove, No.  1.....................
1  25
“  10.....................
1  50
"  15.....................
1  75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row  ..
85
Rice Root  Scrub. 3 row  .. 1  25
Palmetto, goose...............
1  50
BUTTER  PLATES 
Oval—250 In crate.
No.  1................................
No.  2 
.............................
No.  3................................
No.  5................................

BRUSHES.

.  60
.  70
.  80
.1  00

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CANDLES.

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

“ 

10
Q
10
24

CANNED  GOODS. 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Fish.
Clams.
Little Neck,  l lb...................... i •»
2  lb...................... 1 »
Standard, 8 lb.......................... 2 25
Standard.  1 lb.............. 

“ 
Clam Chowder.
Core Oysters.

35
21b...................  I  60
Lobsters.

“  2  lb...................... 
“ 

Star,  1  lb.................................2 45
8 50
Picnic.lib.......................   200
21b............................... 2 90
Mackerel.
Standard. 1 lb...........................1 25
2  lb......................... 2 10
Mustard.  21b.......................... 2 25
Tomato Sance.  2 lb ................. 2 25
Soused, 2 lb................... 
.2 25
Colombia River, flat........... 1  80
tails........... le s
Alaska. Red..............................1 35
pin*..............................l 10
Kinney's,  flats......................... 1 95
American  141.................  ©  5
“ .  .  A«.................6tf@ 7
. 
Imported  Ms....................  @10
MS....................15©! 6
Mustard  \ f  
©7
Boneless
21
Brook, 3 lb Trent •

Salmon.
“ 

Sardines.

23
37
43

CHEESE.

...........................3 50
Baker’s.

CHOCOLATE.
German Sweet............ 
Premium..........................  
Breakfast  Cocoa.............. 
Amboy..........................   ©13M
Acme..........................  12M©13
Lenawee...........  ......   ©12 %
Riverside.......................  
18
Gold  Medal  .................   ©12H
6@10
Skim..........................  
Brick............................... 
11
Edam  ........................ 
1 00
Leiden............................ 
23
Llmburger  ...............   ©10
Pineapple...................  ©25
.2 50 I Roquefort...................  ©85

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8  1  books, per hundred
2 00
8 2 
2 50
8 3
3 00
8 5 
3 00
810 
4 0U
820
.  5 on
8  1 books, per hundred  . .  2 SO
8 2
300
8 3 
.  3 50
8  5 
.  4 00
810 
5 00
820 
6 00

“Superior.”
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S3 00 
f  1  books, per hundred 
....  3 50
12 
4 00
$ 3 
....  5 00
t  5 
6 00
S10 
820 
7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  per  cent 
500 
1000 

.10
.20

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Butter.

COUPON  PASS  BOOKS.

 
“ 
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“ 
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“ 
 

1 Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810 down. |
20 books.......................  8  1  00
2 00
50 
3 00
100 
250 
6 25
500 
10 00
1000 
17 50
500, any one denom’n ...... 83 00
...... 5 00
1000,  “ 
2000,  “ 
.......8 00
Steel  punch....................... 
75

CREDIT  CHECKS.

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CRACKERS.

 
 
 
 
 

“ 
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Soda.

Seymour XXX......................6
Seymour XXX. cartoon........6M
Family  XXX.....................   8
Family XXX,  cartoon........  6M
Salted XXX.........................6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........6M
Kenosha 
.........................  7M
Boston..................................  8
Butter  biscuit......................6M
Soda, XXX.........................  6
Soda, City...........................   7M
Soda.  Dnchess....................  8M
Crystal Wafer.....................10
Long  Island Wafers 
........11
S. Oyster  XXX...................  6
City Oyster. XXX.................  6
Farina  Oyster....................   6
CREAM  TARTAR.
Strictly  pure.................... 
30
Teller’s  Absolute..............  31
Grocers’.........................  15©2*

Oyster.

DRIED  FRUITS. 

6v.
7
11 

15

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Sundried. sliced In  bbls. 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags........
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes...................
Nectarines.
TO lb. bags.......................
25 lb. boxes —   ............. 10
Peeled, in  boxes.........
Cal. evap.  “ 
“ 
California In  bags 
Pitted Cherries
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes.................
25  “ 

In  bags....10
1C

...............   10
Prunelles.
301b.  boxes..................
Raspberries.
In  barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
......................
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

Pears.

“ 

“ 

..... 10M

Loose  Muscatels in Boxes

2 crown  ............................  J  20
3 
.........................  1  60
2  crown...............................  4
3 
5

“ 
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
“ 

 

Foreign.
Currants.

“ 
" 

Peel.

“ 
“ 
Raisins.

Patras,  In barrels............  
3
In  M-tftbi.......  3M
In less quantity_ 
3M
cleaned,  bulk........ 
6
cleaned,  package.. 
6M
Citron. Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  20 
25  “ 
Lemon 
“  10
“  11
Orange 
25 “ 
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes. 
©  7%
Sultana, 20 
©  8
“ 
Valencia, 30  “
Prunes.
California,  100-120..............  i
90x100  25 lb. bxs.  7M
..8
80x90 
70x80 
8M
60x70 
.  9

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

No. 1,6M..........................  81  75
No. 2. 6M ............... .......  
1  60

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Coin.

Manilla, white.

XX  wood, white.

No. 1, 6.............................  1  65
No. 2,6.............................   150
No. 1,6M..........................  1  35
No. 2,6M 
.......................  1  25
6M  ...................................  1  00
6........................................ 
95
Mill  No. 4........................   1  00
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
100 lb. kegs................... 
3fc
Barrels.................................300
Grits.............  
3  50
Dried............................  3*@4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported.....................10H@t 1
Barrels 200 .......................  4  60
Half barrels 100....................  2 40

Farina.
Hominy.

Lima  Beans.

Oatmeal.

Pearl Barley.

Kegs..................................  2X

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bu.............................  1 45
Spilt  per l b .................2?»@3
Barrels  180.................  ©4 60
Half  bbls 90..............  @2 40
German.............................  4M
East India..........................   5
Cracked.............................. 

Wheat.

Sago.

5

Peas.

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth..........................
Pollock..........................
Whole, Grand  Bank......  5©5M
Boneless,  bricks.............. 6@S
Boneless, strips..............  6@8
Halibut.
Smoked..................  
Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg 
“ 
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11@12V4
70 
bbl  9 75

Norwegian  ......................
Round, Vi bbl 100 lbs........  2 65
“  M  “  40  “  .........     1 25
Scaled............................... 
17

Mackerel.

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

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Sardines.
Trout.

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

Whlteflsh.

No.  1

Family 
54 bbls, 100 lbs...........87 00 82 75
M  “  40  “  ........... 3  10  130
101b.  kits..................  
45
81b. 
................. 
40
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. 
Best in the world for the money.

Bonders’.

90 
75 

“ 

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

Regular
Vanilla.

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

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Eagle Duck—Dupont's.

Kegs..........................................3 25
Half  kegs................................. 1 90
Quarter  kegs...........................1 10
1  lb  cans.............................   30
M lb  cans............................   18
Kegs..........................................4 £5
Half  kegs.................................2 40
Quarter kegs...........................  1 35
1 lb canB..............................  34
Kegs  ..................................11  00
Half  kegs  .........................  5  75
Quarter kegs............................ 3 00
1  lb cans............................  60
Sage...................................... 15
Hops..................................... 15
Madras,  5 lb. boxes.........  
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 

INDIGO.

HERBS.

55
50

17  lb. palls.................  @  50
30  “ 
@ 70

JELLY .
 
 

“ 
LICORICE.

Pure.....................................   80
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  12

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

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MATCHES.

No. 9  sulphur...........................1 65
Anchor piarlor...........................1 TO
No. 2 home 
Export  parlor...........................4 00

........................1  10

MINCE  MEAT.

2 75
3 doz. case....................
6 doz. case...................... ..  5 56
12 doz. case...................... .1100

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.
1  gallon  ......................... 81  75
1  40
Half  gallon....................
TO
Q uait........  ...................
45
P int................................
40
Half  pint  ......................
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
7 00
1 gallon..........................
4  75
Half gallon....................
3 7?
Q uart.............................
2 25
Pint.................................

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

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

Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

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

New Orleans.

Fair.................................
Good...............................
Extra good......................
Choice............................
Fancy..............................

One-half barrels. 3c extra, 

14

16

20
30

18
22
27
32
40

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

Barrels, 2 400 count. 
Half bbls. 1 AM"count
PIPES.

Clay, No.  216.................
“  T. D. full count 
Cob. No.  8.................
POTASH.

43 cans in case.
Babbitt’s ..............  ......
Penna Salt  Co.’s .........

RICE
Domestic.

©5 00 
©3 00

6 no 
3 50

4 00 
3  25

Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
1 20
2 oz regular panel .7 5  
2 00
4 oz 
...1 50 
6 0Z 
...2 00 
3 00
No. 3 taper............1 36 
2 00
No. 4  taper............1 50 
2 50

“ 
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Carolina head

6
“  No. 1...............
...5M
“  No. 2.....................  5
4

Broken  .....................
Imported.

Japan, No. 1...................
“  No. 2.................... ...5M...  5
Java 
............................. ..  6
5M

*4

1

4 A

4 » A

I«

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t h e   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

V7

S f l C K S .

Whole Sifted

“  white... 
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.

Allspice.............................. 10
Cassia, China In mats........  7
“  Batavia In bund__ 15
Saigon  In rolls......38
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna................as
Zanzibar................!2
“ 
Mace  Batavia.....................go
Nutmegs, fancy.................. 75
“  No.  1...................... 70
“  No.  2...................... 60
Pepper, Singapore, black__10
,2f»
shot.......................16
Allspice..............................15
Cassia,  Batavia..................!8
“ 
“  and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna...............22
Zanzibar................18
Ginger, African..................is
*•  Cochin..................  30
Jam aica.................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia.....................65
Mustard,  Bng. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ..................75
Pepper, Singapore, black__16
“  white...... 24
“  Cayenne................. 20
Sage.....................................20
•‘Absolute” In Packages.
Mb  Mb
Allspice......................  84  1  55
Cinnamon...................  84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  1  55
Ginger,  Jam aica......  84  1  55
“  African...........  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Pepper.......................   84  155
Sage.................... 

84

SAL  SODA.

Kegs...........................   ...  m
Granulated,  boxes..............  13k

SEEDS.

Anise.........................  @15
Canary, Smyrna.........  
3J£
6
Caraway....................  
90
Cardamon, Malabar... 
Hemp,  Russian.........  
A%
Mixed  Bird 
............. 
4@6
Mustard,  white.........  
10
Poppy......................... 
9
Rape.......................... 
5
Cuttle  bone........... 
. 
80
STARCH.
Corn
20-lb  boxes............  
53^
.........................
40-lb 
Gloss.
1-lb packages..................   ..  su
3-lb 
.......................534
6-lb 
bJ
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  3%
Barrels................................   33k

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SNUFF.

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

SODA,

Boxes....................................5M
Kegs, English........................43k

SALT.
 
 

100 3-lb. sacks.............. 
12 25
“ 
60 5-lb 
2 00
28 10-lb. sacks.......................   1 85
2014-lb.  “ 
2 25
24 3-lb  cases..........................  1 50
56 lb. dairy In linen  bags.  32
28 lb.  “ 
drill  “  16  18

 
 

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

“ 

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Higgins.

Soiar Rock.

56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks  75

56 In.  sacks................  27

Common Fine.
Saginaw...................  
Manistee................... 
SALERATUS.

70
70

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Church’s ....................  5M
DeLand’s ............................  534
Dwight’s......... 
...................534
Taylor’s ...............................5

SOAP.
Laundry.

“ 

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Dingman Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

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

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co’s Brands.

“ 

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1 1 1

Acme.................................  4  00
Cotton Oil__ 
6 00
Marseilles.........................  3  95
Matter
4 35 i Jolly Tar.

 

 

Thompson & Chute Brands.

Smoking.

Oatlin’s  Brands.

| Kiln  dri'jd................. ....... 17
j Golden  Shower......... ........19
¡Huntress 
...............  .,........26
Meerschaum.............. ____29
I  American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle  Navy............... ....... 40
Stork 
......................... .30@32
German............................. 15
Froe 
................... 
.----   33
Java, }4s foil.............. ..  ..  32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish.............. 38
Gold Cut..............................28

Scotten’s Brands.

Brands.

Leidersdorfs Brands.

Warpath.............................. 15
Honey  Dew......................... 26
Gold  Block......................... 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Peerless............................... 26
Old  Tom..............................18
Standard........................  
22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade........................ ..41
Rob  Roy.....................  
26
Uncle  Sam.....................28@32
Red Clover...........................32
Tom and Jerry............... 
25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Buck Horn..................... 
30
Plow  Boy...................... 30@32
Corn  Cake...........................16
HIDES  PELTS  and FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay as  fol-

Spaulding & Merrick.

lows:
HIDES.
Green.....................
2@2M
Part  Cured...............
@  3
...............
Full 
@  3M
Dry............................ 4 @ 5
Kips, green  ..............
2 @ 3
“  cured...............
@ 4
Calfskins,  green......
3 @  4
f> @  6
cured......
Deacon skins............ 10 @25

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No. 2 hides M off.
PELTS.

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

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

WOOL.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Washed...................... 12 @18
Unwashed................. 8 @14
Tallow....................... 3 @  4M
Grease  butter  ........... 1 @  2
Switches.................... 1M@ 2
Ginseng — ................ 2 00@2 50

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

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

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

WHEAT.

MEAL.

FLOUR.

Straight, in  sacks  ....
“  barrels__
“ 
Patent 
“  sacks__
“  barrels__
“ 
Graham  “  sacks__
Rye 
“  __
” 
MILL8TUFFB.

55
55

1  40
1  65

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

Bran..............113 50
Screenings__  13 00
Middlings......  15 00
Mixed Feed...  17 01
Coarse meal  .  16 50

Less
Car lots quanti tv
$14 00
13 00
16 00
IS  00
17 00

CORN.

OATS.

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

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

..40
..44

.33
.36

H AY.
So. 1 Timothy, car lots
ton lots
No. 1 

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.11  <X)
.12 50

WOODENWARE.

Tubs,No. 1.........................  600
No. 2.........................5 50
No. 3.........................  4  50
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
1  30 
No. 1,  three-hoop.
1  50
Bowls, 11 inch...............
13  “ 
..............

Baskets, market.................   35
“ 
shipping  bushel..  1  15 
“ 
..  1  25
full  hoop  “ 
”  willow cf’ths, No.l  5 *5

“ 
“ 
splint 
' 
“ 

“  N0.2 
“  N0.3 
“  No.l 3 25
“  N0.2 4 00
“  N0.3 4 75
Pails  ........................ 
3  15
Tubs,  No.  1.......................13 50
Tubs, No.  2.......................12 00
Tubs, No.  3.......................10 50

INDURATED WARE.
 

“ 
“ 
“ 

6 25
7 25

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

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SUGAR.

The  following  prices  repre­
sent the actual selling prices in 
Grand Rapids, based on the act­
ual cost in New  York,  with  36 
cents per 100 pounds added  for 
freight.  The  same  quotations 
will not apply to any townwhere 
the freight rate from New York 
is  not  36  cents,  but  the  local 
quotations will, perhaps, afford 
a better criterion of the  market 
than to quote New York  prices 
exclusively.
Cut  Loaf.................................$5 67
Powdered.... .......................5  23
Granulated............................  4 86
Extra Fine Granulated...  4
Cubes................................   5
XXXX  Powdered...............  5 54
Confec. Standard  A........... 4  96
No. 1  Columbia A............   4 61
No. 5 Empire  A .................448
No.  6...................................4 41
No.  7................................... 4 35
No.  8................................... 4 8
No.  9................................... 4 2!
No.  10................................ 4 |-
NO.  11..................................  4  11
No.  12...............................  3 98
No.  13................................   3 9;
No 14..................................  3 80

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................. 21
Half bbls.............................. 23
F air.................................  
  19
Good....................................  25
Choice..................................  30

Pure Cane. •

VINEGAR.

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

81 for barrel.

30

W E T   M U STAR D .
Bulk, per gal  ................... 
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1 
Magic,..................................1  00
Warner’s ............................1  00
Yeast Foam 
...................... 1  00
Diamond............................
Royal..................................  90

YEAST.

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SDN CURED.

BASKET  P1BBD.

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

oolong. 
IMPERIAL.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

YOUNG HYSON.

eUNPOWLdB.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

Pails unless otherwise noted
@30
Bazoo.
Can  Can......................
@27
Nellie  Bly..................27
@24
Uncle ben.................. 21
@22
Hiawatha  ...............
60
34
Sweet  Cuba...............
McGinty....................
“  M b b ls........
Dandy Jim .................
Torpedo.....................
in  drums__
Yum  Yum  ...............
1892............................
“  drums....  
........

“ 

P lu g .

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

Finzer’s Brands. 

PROVISIONS

SAUSAGE.

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:
Mess..............................................................  14 00
Short c u t..................................................  
16 00
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  18 00
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat  back..........................................[  16 50
Boston clear, short cut........  ......................  17 00
Clear back, short cut...................................   17 00
1700
Standard clear, short cut. best................  
Pork, links............................................. 
83£
Bologna.................................................. 
6
Liver..................................................... 
7
Tongue.............................................................Hu
Blood..................................................... 
6
Head cheese.......................................... 
7
Summer.................................................. 
10
Frankfurts............................................. 
8
Liver......................................................  
7
Kettle  Rendered  ...................................  
iom
Granger.......................................................... 9*i
Family.............................................................. 7^
Compound.....................................................   7
Cottoline......................................................’’  ¿94
50 lb. Tins, 14c advance.
20 lb.  pails, 
10 lb. 
5 lb. 
3 lb. 

“  %c 
“  He 
‘  1  c

LARD.

”
“
“

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

“ 

“ 
” 
“ 
" 

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.....................   8 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing......................  7 50
Boneless, rump butts.....................................11 00
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs................................  

16 lbs.....................................10^
12 
to 14 lbs..............II
best boneless..................................   10

picnic...... .............................................  8M
Shoulders........................................................  8J<
Breakfast Bacon  boneless............................  1394
Dried beef, ham prices...................................10
Long Clears, heavy........................................
Briskets,  medium..........................................  10

light..............................................   10M

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DRY  SALT  MEATS.

TRIPE.

PICKEED  PIGS’  FEET.

Butts..............................................................   9
D. S. Bellies...................................................  12M
Fat Backs......................................................  10
Barrels...........................................................   8 00
Kegs...................................................................  1 go
Kits, honeycomb  ............................................. 
65
Kits, premium.................................................  55
Barrels................................................................22 00
Half barrels........................  
11  00
Per pound........................................................  
11
Dairy, sold packed........................................   1
Dairy, rolls.................................................... 15J£
Creamery, solid packed................................   18
Creamery, rolls.............................................  181

BEEF  TONGUES.

BUTTERINE.

FRESH  BEEF.

Carcass....................................  ............ 4M@
Fore  quarters.
4
Hind quarters........................................ 5
© 5M 
Loins No. 3.............................................8
@10 
Ribs
@ 7 
Rounds....................................
@ 6 
Chucks.....................................
© 4M 
Plates......................................
@  4
FRESH  PORK.
Dressed.................................................  
8
Loins...................................................... 
83
Shoulders  ............................A ............. 
63
Leaf Lard..............................................  
11
Carcass................................................... 4  @5
Lambs...................................................... 5  @ 6
Carcass................................................... 5  @ 6

MUTTON.

VEAL.

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as  follows:

F R E S H   F IS H .

oysters—Cans.

............................................
Whiteflsh 
@  9 
Trout 
................................................
@  9 
Black Bass........ 
..........................
12 M @15 
Halibut...................................................
Ciscoes or Herring................................
@ 5
Blueflsh.................................................
@12 M 
Fresh lobster, per lb.  ..........................
20 
Cod.........................................................
10 
No. 1 Pickerel........................................
@ 9 
Pike.......................................................
© 8 
Smoked White......................................
© 8 
Red  Snappers........................................
12 
Columbia River  Salmon.......................
12M 
Mackerel..............................................
20@25
Falrhaven  Counts...............................
@35
F. J. D.  Selects....................................
@30
Selects.................................................
@25
F. J. D...................................................
@23
A nchors.............................................
@ 20@18
Standards............................. ..............
@16
Favorite................................................
Extra Selects........................... per gal.. 
175
1  50
Selects................................................... 
1  on
Standards..............................................  
2 20
Counts................................................... 
Scallops  ................................................  
2 00
1  25
Shrimps  ................................................  
Clams....................................................  
1  25
Oysters, per  100  ....................................1  25@1  5n
Clams. 
@1  00

SH E L L   GOODS.
 
 

oysters—Bulk.

** 

CANDIES, FRUITS and  NUTS 

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: 

stick  candy.
Cases

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

8H
8M
6M

Bbls. Pails.
6M
7M
6M
7M
6M
7M
8M

MIXED  CANDY.

 

“ 

“ 
..................
fancy—In bulk 

Bbls.
Palls.
Standard..................................... 6
7
..6
Leader........................................."g
7
-.6
Royal................................
..7
8
Nobby...............................
. .7
8
English  Rock...................
. .7
8
Conserves.....................................
. .7
8
Broken Taffy....................baskets
ts
8
Peanut Squares.................
s
9
French Creams.................
9M13
Valley  Creams.................
......  8Ü
Modern, SO lb. 
...... 8 "
1  , 
Pails.
t 
printed............................................10
Chocolate Drops.......................................  
jg
Chocolate Monumentals...........................     13
Gum Drops....................................................   5^4
Moss Drops...................................... ......g
Sour Drops......................................  
 
sm
Imperials..........................................................10
fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 
Per Box
Lemon Drops................................................... 55
Sour Drops................................... ........ 
55
Peppermint Drops........................'I!.’."."...’ "60
Chocolate Drops..............................................!?5
H. M. Chocolate Drops..................... . 
.  . "go@90
Gum Drops................................................40@50
Licorice Drops....................................................1 00
A. B. Licorice Drops.............................   . 
go
Lozenges, plain....................................... 1.!!!! 60
printed................................ .65
Imperials...................................................  ” '50
Mottoes............................................... ’ ” ' 
70
Cream Bar........................................................55
Molasses Bar........................................". ‘' ,” 55
85@95
Hand Made Creams............................ 
Plain Creams.........................................     so@90
10M
Decorated Creams............................................. 1 00
String  Rock................................................ ...65
Burnt Almonds......................................!... i" 00
Wlntergreen  Berries................................ ...!!.. 60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.......................  
No.l, 
No. 2, 
128, 138....................................................  
150............................. 
176,200,216.......................  
Small  ....................................................
Large........................................
Messina, extra fancy Malorias, 360__ 
fancy 360  ..............................
fancy 300  .............................
choice 360............................. 
choice 300.............................
O TH ER   FO R EIG N   FR U IT S .
Figs, fancy  layers, 68»....................... 

34
.........................  51
.........................  28

CARAM ELS.
“ 
“ 
ORANGES.

“ 
“  extra 
“ 
“ 

@12Vt
“  mih 
iS.n
101b
@13 
“  14ft...
@15 
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box... 
@ 8 @  7
...
Persian, 50-lb.  box 
@  4M
N UT
Almonds, Tarragona......
@17
Ivaca...............
@16
California.......
@
Brazils, new....................
@11M 
Filberts
@11M
Walnuts, Grenoble................................  @14
@12M
@12M
Table  Nuts,  fancy...................................   @13
@12
Pecans. Texas, H.  P .,.......................... 
Chestnuts...................................  
Hickory Nuts per bu.................................. 
ocoannts, full sacks............................  @4 00

choice.................................  

“  50-lb.  “ 

French
Calif

2 50
3 fifi
3 00

9@il
 

BANANAS.

LEM ONS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

3 50

4 00

“ 
“ 

3 
2 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

1 25

P E A N U T S.

Fancy, H.  P., Suns...............................  @
Fancy, H.  P„  Flags.............................  @  6
Choice, H. P.,  Extras..........................   4M@  5

“  Roasted....................   @  5V4
“  Roasted...........  ....  
7@ 7M
“  Roasted................  b@ 6M

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE. 

LAMP BURNERS.

6 doz. In box.

No. 0 Sun................................................... 
45
NO.l  “  .........................................................  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  “  ..........................................................    70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top...................................... 2 10
“ 
No. 1  “ 
............................. ....... 2 25
N o j  “ 
” ...................................... 3  25
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.....................................  2 60
“  ...................................... 2 80
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
.....................................3 80
“ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
..................   4 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4  88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz......... ............. 1  25
No. 2  “ 
....................... 1  50
No. 1 crimp, per doz.......................................1  35
No. 2  “ 
........................................1  60

La Bastle.

Pearl top.

“ 
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“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

LAMP WICKS.

 

 

No. 0,  per  gross..............................................   23
28
No. 1, 
No  2, 
38
No. 3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz.........................................   75

 
 
 
STONEWARE—AKRON.

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Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal........  ..................   06
“  M gal. per doz......................  60
Jugs, M gal., per doz.................................. 
70
1 to 4 gal., per gal................................  ¿7
Milk Pans, M gal., per doz........................  
60
.........................  72

1  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.

Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal........................  
07
Milk Pans, M gel.......................... ..............  65
........................................   78

1  “ 

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“ 

” 

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4 00

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Proprietory

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THE  ABOVE  BRANDS,

Royal  Patent,  Crescent,  White  Rose,

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.

VOIGT  M ILLIN G   CO.

Correspondence  solicited.

If  my opponent 

OW EN  V S.  ABBOTT.

The associate editor  of  T h e T ra des­
takes  exceptions  to 
man,  Mr.  Abbott, 
some  of  my statements 
in  the article, 
“Evil Results in  Good.”  Well,  it has al­
ways been my bad fortune  to  encounter 
opposition 
in  all  my  undertakings, 
whether in the direction  of  right-doing 
or in  the opposite direction.  When I  at­
tempt  to  portray  the  gloomy  side  of 
things,  1 am sat  down  upon  as a pessi- 
mistical crank or  a calamity croaker, and 
when I turn  to the  bright  side,  lo! there 
is the same opposition  to  contend  with. 
When  1  wrote the article  in  question  I 
was “under conviction.”  1  had  written 
so much on  the  calamity side that 1 de­
termined to undo some of the evil  1  had 
done,  by showing  that,  after  all,  these 
discouraging trade depressions were  not 
unmixed evils,  and that good  invariably 
came out of them. 
If  my  attempt to ad­
minister consolation at  the present time, 
when the trade  is so much  in  need of it, 
proves a dismal  failure,  Mr.  Abbott  will 
be responsible for it.

the  principle  of  good and the principle 
of  evil—they  are as widely  separated as 
are the meaning  of  my  worded  expres­
sions  and  the  construction  put  upon 
them  by the associate editor.  The differ­
ence between Mr.  Abbott  and  myself  is 
simply  this:  My  observations  of  good 
and evil are taken from  the  concrete  of 
matter  and  fact,  while  he,  being more 
philosophical,  discards  materiality  and, 
like Diognnes of  old,  founds his conclu- 
ions  upon  abstract reasoning.  For in- 
tance,  he  says  “there  is  no  union  of 
good and evil, indissoluble or otherwise.” 
This is true  when  we  consider  them  as 
abstract  principles;  otherwise  we could 
not distinguish  good  from  evil. 
Indeed 
there  would  be  no  good  and  no  evil; 
simply  a  compound elementary mixture 
which  would be neither one nor the other. 
But Mr.  Abbott  is  not  consistent.  He 
tells us that good and evil are as  widely 
separated as heaven  and hades,  and  yet 
he says the act of  cutting a man’s leg off 
is a good  thing and  an  evil  thing at the 
same time. 
If  heaven  and hades are no 
If there be any one thing  more in  har­
more “widely separated” than this would 
mony with my nature than  another,  it is 
indicate,  Mr.  Abbott  will  never  know 
whether he is a sheep  or a goat after his 
an opportunity  to  fight—provided  that 
my opponent be smaller and  more  cow­
final  metamorphosis  shall  have  taken 
ardly  than 1. 
in  this 
place.  The  fact  is,  the amputation act 
case were  only  a  common,  home-made 
an  evil.  Mr.  Abbott would readjust 
contributor like myself I  would not besi 
bis  conclusions  if  he  had  to submit to 
tate to knock the  chip  off  his  shoulder 
the amputation of an  arm or a leg. 
It is 
and  wade in;  but he represents  the  edi­
an evil, but good results from it inasmuch 
torial chair itself,  and 1 have  too  much 
it  is  the means of  saving the life of 
respect for the exalted position he  occu­
the subject.  The act  of  amputation  is 
pies to dispute anything  that  may flow 
an  evil;  but  it  is a good thing to suffer 
from his  editorial  pen.  The  associate 
the evil to be done for  the good that will 
editor  admits  that “The  general 
idea 
result  from  it.  He  says  “it 
is  called 
sought to be conveyed  may be  correct.’
good  because it is the  lesser  evil.”  Ac­
1 sought to convey the general  idea that 
cording to this idea,  any evil,  the  doing 
of which  will avert a greater evil, ceases 
evil results in  good,  and  the  associate 
editor,  after carefully reviewing  the ar 
to be an evil and becomes  a good. 
I am 
afraid  Mr.  Abbott  took  a  “nap” while 
tide and criticising it with  the  intuitive 
bis  pencil  was  at  work  at this point in 
perception of a natural  born  editor,  ad 
his criticism.  He  admits  that the exer­
mits  that 
it  “may be  correct.”  What 
cise  of  greater  vigilance on  the part of 
more can  I  ask?  What  better  editorial 
officials  and  employes,  as  a  result  of 
endorsement could  any contributor  as! 
accident caused  by carelessness,  is good; 
than the one  given  me  by Mr.  Abbott 
but he  thinks there should be  “no  room 
If this were  all.  Mr.  Abbott’s  judgment 
vigilance.” 
for 
as a fair and generous critic would stand 
and 
True;  but  what 
unimpaired;  but he does not  stop  here 
things. 
what 
he sees nothing wrong in the genera! idea 
Mr.  Abbott’s 
unten­
sought to be conveyed,  but  takes  excep 
able.  He assumes that  men  should  be 
tion to certain  propositions which are in 
what  they are  not,  never was,  neither, 
dispensable in  leading up  to  this  “gen 
indeed,  can  be  by nature—namely,  per­
eral idea.”  And  not  only  so,  but  he 
fect;  and  upon  this visionary hypothesis 
bases his criticism on  his  own  construc­
he  builds  his theories.  He  approaches 
tion put upon  language used  by me,  lan 
the concrete and  reluctantly admits that 
guage  which  he  considers  vague  and 
good  and evil may  be found  in  the same 
“susceptible of  several  meanings.” 
If 
is  the acts of the person 
person,  but 
the language used  by  me  in  this  article 
that constitute the good  and  the  evil 
in 
is susceptible of several  meanings,  what 
the person;  and it is  to be inferred,  from 
right has Mr.  Abbott to  assume a mean­
the position  he assumes,  that  these acts 
ing of his own  choosing and then  accuse 
are entirely within  the  control  of  the 
me of stating  an  “untruth?”  The  asso­
ciate editor is simply indulging in a little 
person,  thereby making  it  possible  for 
the  person  to become  entirely good  or 
pugilistic exercise  at  my expense.  He 
entirely  bad.  This inference is strength-
sets up a stuffed effigy and  then,  imagin-
ing it to  be a real adversary,  he proceeds | ened  by the statement that these personal 
to knock  him down.  Mr.  Abbott 
is  de- | acts,  which  are  the  only evidences  of 
If he  cannot  find a I good  and evil in  the  person,  are  “to  be 
cidedly combative. 
real  foe to vanquish,  he  will  set  up and  deplored,  and not  regarded as a consola- 
knock down an imaginary one. 

is  are  quite  different 
is 

increased 

care  and 

should 

be 

position 

it 

tion.”

Mr.  Abbott reasons in the abstract and, 

He would have  the  readers  of  The 
in the main,  his reasoning  is  sound. 
It  T radesm an believe that  my article was 
is  true  that  good  and  evil,  as abstract I an abortive effort to dish up a  little cold 
principles,  are  separate  and  distinct,  consolation  based on the grim and cheer- 
opposite in origin and effect,  and are  “as  less fact of  human  cussedness.  On  the 
distinct one from the other as  light  and | contrary,  I based  my proffered  consola 
darkness  and  as  widely  separated  as ! tion on the fact of human 
imperfection, 
heaven  and  hades.”  Even  this  strong I Evil exists to a greater or  lesser  extent 
comparative figure  of  speech  made  use j  wherever imperfection  is  found,  aud as 
of  by  Mr.  Abbott  fails  to  express  the | no person,  place or thing having a tangi- 
miehty  distance that  intervenes between  ble existence  is  absolutely perfect  (on

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less it l»e the aforesaid  associate editor), 
it holds that,  under the plan of  creation 
as it is,  and not  as  my friend  thinks  it 
ought to be,  good  and  evil,  as  found  in 
the solid concrete of  the  matter-of-fact 
world,  are  co-existent  and  inseparable. 
This has nothing to  do with  the  wanton 
acts of persons,  conceived in  hellish  de­
light and  perpetrated  with  evil 
intent. 
This  would  he hard  food  for consolation, 
indeed.  The real consolation  lies in the 
fact that,  whereas good  and  evil  are in­
separably  connected in  the  make-up  of 
every  human  being,  we  might,  by recon­
ciling ourselves  to  the  fact,  bear each 
other’s weaknesses  and  faults  with bet-
ter  grace, 
thereby  avoiding  many  of 
life’s bitter  disappointments  by prepar­
ing us to face life as it is.

Mr.  Abbott’s doctrine  is  false. 

It  is 
not  the  teaching  of  the  Great Master 
whose words  relating to  the  tree and its 
fruits  my  friend  quotes.  Mr.  Abbott 
would take out an  improvement  on  the 
plan  of  creation.  He  reminds  me  of 
those visionaryjdiseiples whom  the Great 
Teacher rebuked on  a  certain  occasion. 
They saw good  and evil in everything all 
around  them,  and,  conceiving  the 
idea 
that  they were  not 
inseparable,  asked 
permission  to go out and pull  up the evil 
by the roots;  but he who “spake as never 
man  spake”  told  them,  by way of  the 
parable of the wheat and  the  tares,  that 
good  and evil  must  remain  inseparable 
until  the  harvest  time  (which  was  the 
end of present conditions),  and  then  the 
separation  would  take  place.  Acts,  the 
only evidence of good  and  evil 
in  the 
person?  Why,  two  men  may  perform 
the same act precisely  alike,  and  the act 
of the one may he  an evil act and that of
the other may be a  good  act.  Further, 
the evil  act may result in  good  and  the 
good  act  may result 
lt  is not 
the act or the results of the  act  that evi­
dences good or evil  in the  perpetrator— 
it is  the motive that prompts  the act. 
lt 
is quite possible to control  our  acts,  but 
it is  impossible  to eradicate evil from our 
natures,  or  quell  the  conflict  between 
good  and evil  which  rages  within  us,  for 
the simple reason  that they are  so  inse­
parably connected that we cannot utterly 
exterminate  one  without  exterminating 
the other—and  that  means  death.  As. 
stated in my  former article,  we  call  per­
sons and things good or bad  just as  the 
one or the other may predominate.

in evil, 

My  “fling” at the Senate was not flung 
at  the individual  members 
in  their  ca­
pacity  as private, honored and  “prosper­
ous citizens,”  but  at their acts as a legis­
lative body.  Mr. Abbott’s insinuation in 
this part of his criticism  must  pass  un­
heeded. 
Illu stration   o f th e   F o o lish n e ss  o f  C ut­

E.  A.  Ow en.

tin g.

F ro m  th e  H udson G a zette.

Everybody bought flour  Saturday.  A 
lively  war among the  millers  and  mer­
chants put the  price  down  to  a  cent  a 
pound—just  what the farmers  were  get­
ting for their wheat that day.  The mills 
were booming and  the  delivery wagons 
were  flying  about  the  city delivering 
flour.  Some  purchasers  with  an  eye to 
business tried to lay in  a winter’s  sup­
ply,  hut the flour men  limited  the  sales 
to a sack  to each  customer.  Then some 
of the wily  buyers  made  the  rounds of 
the stores and got  a sack at  every place. 
In  the afternoon  the  groceries were  all 
pretty  well cleaned out  of  flour,  and  in­
tending  purchasers were  turued  away 
disappointed.  Monday morning the flour 
men decided that while the cent-a-pound 
flour  was a good  thing for  the  consumer, 
it was  a mighty  poor thing for them, and 
they put the price back to  70  cents  for 
fifty pounds,  where it stays.

M EN  OF  M ARK.

F red  H.  B all,  S e c re ta r y   o f  th e   B all- 

B arn h art-P u tm an   Co.

Fred H.  Ball  was  born  in  the  old  Ball 
homestead,  whith formerly stood  on  the 
corner of East Fulton and Barclay streets, 
Jan.  8,  1865.  He  attended  the  public 
schools of this city,  graduating  from  the 
High  School 
in  1880  on  the  English 
course.  He then entered  the  employ  of 
the National City Bank as clerk,  remain­
ing in  that capacity and  that of collector 
for three years,  when  he entered  the em­

ing last May,  when  he  was unanimously 
re-elected to continue  in  the  same  posi­
tion another  year. 
In  this  capacity he 
has  exhibited  a  degree  of  finesse and 
managerial skill  which  places him  in  the 
front rank of commercial diplomats.  He 
is frequently called  to  various  parts  of 
the State to  adjust  differences  between 
members  of  the  Association  and  is  al­
ways  successful 
in  accomplishing  the 
sought for results quietly and effectively.
Mr.  Ball  is  a  member of  the Masonic 
and  Pythian  bodies, the Peninsular Club, 
Country  Club,  and  Grand  Rapids  Boat

C h icago v ia  G.  R.  & I.  R.  R.

2  0 0 p m  
9:00 p m  

10:40 a m  
4:00  p m  

11:20 p m
L t  G ran d   R ap id s 
7:05 a m
A rr C hicago 
10:40  a  m   tr a in   solid  w ith   W a g n er  B uffet  P a rlo r 
C ar.
11:20  p m   tr a in   d a ily ,  th ro u g h   coach  a n d   W a g n er 
S leeping C ar.
Lt  C hicago 
11:40pm
A rr G ran d  R apids 
7:20  a m
4:15  p  m   th ro u g h   W & gner  B uffet  P a rlo r  C ar  an d  
co a ch e s.  11:10  p  m  tr a in   d a ily ,  th ro u g h   C oach  an d  
W a g n e r S teep in g   C ar.

4 :1 5 p m  
9  5 0 p m  

fi :50 a  m  
2:15 p m  

F o r M uskegon—L eave. 

Muskegon, Grand  Rapid* & Indiana.
9:40 a  m
7:35  a  in 
6:40  p  m  
5:20 p m

From  M uskegon—A rrive

S un d ay  tra in   lea v es  fo r  M uskegon  a t  7:45 a   m , a r ­
riv in g  a t   9:15  a   m .  R etu rn in g ,  tra in   leaves  M uske 
go n  a t   4:30 p m , a r riv in g  a t  G ran d   R apids a t   5:60 p m .

General  Passenger and T icket A (rent.

C. L. LOCKWOOD,

1M°

CHICAGO 

A N D   W E 8 C  M IC H IG A N   R’V.
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids...  ......7:30am  1:25pm  *11 :30pm
Ar. Chicago  ..............  1:45pm  6:50pm  *6:30am

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

TO  AND  PROM   MDSKEGON.

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

Lv.  Chicago.................7:45am  4:55pm  *11:30pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............ 2 30pm  10:20pm  *6:10am
Lv. Grand Rapids  ......  7:30am  1:25pm  5:45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........10:55am  2:30pm 10:20pm
TR A V ER SE  C ITY ,  CH A RLEV O IX   AND  PE TO SK EY .
 
3:15pm
Lv. Grand  Rapids.. 
Ar.  Manistee 
8:15pm
.........   8'45pm
1 Ar. Traverse City 
11:10pm
Ar. Charlevoix  ......... 
il:4upm
Ar.  Petoskey 
Arrive  from  Petoskey,  etc.,  1:00  p.  m.  and 
10:00p. m.
Local train to White Cloud  leaves Grand Rap- 
Ids 5:45 p. m., connects  for  Big Rapids and Fre­
mont  Returning,  arrives  Grand  Rapids  11:20 
a. m.
PA R L O R   AND  S L E E PIN G   CARS.
ToChicago, lv. G. R ..  7:30am  1:25pm *11:30pm
To Petoskey,lv.G.R..  7:30am  3:15pm 
...........
To G. R. .lv. Chicago.  7:45am  4:55pm *11:30pm
ToG. R. .lv. Petoskey  5:00am  1:30pm 
...........

♦Every day.  Other trains week days only.

 
 

 

ploy of the lumber  firm  of  Barnhart  & 
Judson  as book-keeper, with whom he re­
mained two years. 
In  November,  1885, 
he entered  the employ of the  then  house 
of Cody,  Ball &  Co.,  and was  promoted 
the following January  to the position  of 
city salesman,  made vacant  by the  re­
tirement of Algernon E. White.  He con­
tinued  in  this  capacity  three  or  four 
years,  spending about  half of his time in 
the house and the other  half  among the 
trade,  rapidly  acquiring  an  accurate 
knowledge of every detail  of  the  busi­
ness,  so that on the  organization  of  the 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co., in  November, 
1890,  his  energy  and  fidelity were  re­
warded  by his being elected to  the  posi­
tion  of  Secretary  of  the  corporation, 
which  position  he  still  holds.  He has 
sole charge of the sugar  and  cigar  de­
partments of the  house,  and  assists  his 
father in the other  buying  and  in 
the 
general  management of the business, and 
is  rapidly  acquiring  a  reputation  for 
shrewdness  and  farsightedness  which 
many men  have  not  achieved at the end 
of a lifetime.

Mr.  Ball was  married  on Jan.  8,  1891, 
to Miss  Sara  Perkins,  daughter of Capt. 
C.  G.  Perkins,  of Henderson,  Ky.,  and  is 
the  father of  a  bright  and 
interesting 
daughter,  now nearly  a year old.

Mr.  Ball  was  the  fourth  Secretary  of 
the  Grand  Rapids  Wholesale  Grocers’ 
Association,  and took  a  prominent  part 
in  the agitation and effective work which 
resulted in  the inauguration of the Mich­
igan  Wholesale Grocers’  Association.  At 
the initial meeting,  held 
in  this city  in 
November,  1892,  under  the  auspices  of 
the local organization  of  wholesale gro­
cers,  Mr.  Ball  was  unanimously elected 
to act as Secretary until the annual meet-

and Canoe Club,  and  has acquired some­
thing of a reputation  as  an  athlete,  and 
a local reputation as  a judge and  umpire 
of manly sports;  but he is  withal  a home 
lover,  and  very  few  evenings  find  him 
away  from his own  hearthstone.

Personally,  Mr.  Ball is a genial gentle­
man whom  it  is  a  genuine  pleasure  to 
meet.  He has  probably  as many friends 
as any man in  the  grocery trade,  and  it 
is a noteworthy  fact that  the  friends  he 
makes he seldom  loses.  Few men of  his 
years  have  a  better  start  in life,  and 
none possess brighter prospects of achiev­
ing the top  round  of success.

T O L E D O

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N O R TH   MICHIGAN 

R A ILW A Y.

In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven A Milwaukee 
R’ys  offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  be­
tween Grand Rapids and Toledo.
VIA  D .,  L .  &  N.  R*T.

Time Table in effect May 14, 1893.

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

v i a   d .,  a .   h .  &  m .  r ’y .

Return connections equally as good.

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

Toledo. O h i o .

G rand  R apid s  & Indian a.
Schedule  In  effect Not. 19,1893.

South.

N o rth . 
7:40 a m 
4:50 p  in 
10:25  p m

For M’kinaw.Trav. City and Sag. 7:20 a m
For Cadillac and 8aginaw.........  2:15 p m
For  Petoskey A Mackinaw.........8:10 p m
From Kalamazoo...........................9:10 a m
From Chicago and Kalamazoo..  9 50 p m 
daily.  Others trains daily except Sunday.

TRA INS  GOING  SO U TH .

Trains arriving  from south at  7:20 a m  and  9:10 a m 

North. 

Arrive from  Leave going 
South.
am
am
2:00  pm
6:00 p i
11:20 p m

For  Cincinnati................................ 
7:05 
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago...... 
10:40 
For Fort Wayne and the  East..  11:40am 
For  Cincinnati.............................   6:15 p  m 
For Kalamazoo A  Chicago.......10:56 pm  
From Saginaw............................... 11:40 am
From Saginaw............ ..................10:55p m
daily;  all  other trains  daily except Sunday.

Trains leaving south  at 6:00  pm  and  11:20 p.  m. run 

DETROIT, 

!<ov-19' ”■

L A NSING   &  N O R T H E R N   R .  B . 
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids........  7:00am  *1:20pm  5:40pm
Ar. Detroit..  ..............11:40am  *5:25pm  10:25pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

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

TO  AND FROM  SAGINAW,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS.

Lv. G R 7:40am 4:50pm  Ar. G R.ll :40am 10:55pm

TO  LOWELL VIA LOWELL A  HASTINGS R.  K.

Lv. Grand Rapids...........  7:00am  1:20pm 5:40pm
Ar. from Lowell..............12:45pm 5:40pm  ..........

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

♦Every da_,.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DkIIAVEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.
Mic h ig a n  H entral

“ The Niagara Falls Route/*

(Taking effect  Sunday, Nov. 19,1893.) 

•Daily.  AH others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20 n m...........Detroit  Express........... 7 00 am
5 30 a m  ... .»Atlantic and  Pacific......1 j  20 p m
1  30 p m  ......New York Express  ........  5 40 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex­
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  7:0D a m ;  re­
turning, leave Detroit 4:55 pm, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen­
tral Railroad  (Canada Southern Division.)
A.  A l m c j u is t , Ticket Agent,

Union Passenger Station.
■ KTROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  &  MIL­
Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Avs.

WAUKEE  Railway.

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

EASTWARD.

tNo.  14jtNo.  16 tNo.  18 ♦No.  82
6 45am
10 45pm 
7 40am
12 27am
8 25am
1 45am
9 00am
2 40am
10 50am
6 40am 
11 32am
7 15am 
10 05am 
5 4  am
1205pm
7 30am 
10 53am
537am 
11 50am
7 00am
WESTWARD.

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

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
ô 05pm 
8 00pm 
8 37pm
7 05pm
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

Trains Leave

♦No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13.
G’d Rapids............ Lv 7 00am 1  00pm 4 55pm
G’d  Haven............ Ar 8 20am 2  10pm 6 00pm
tDally except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35  a.m.,  12:50 
Trains  arrive from  the  west, 10:10 a. m., 3:15 
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlcr  Buffet 
Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner 

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

»Daily.

J as. C a m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.

"23 Monroe Street.

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

V eg etab le  S coop  F o rk s.

amount of money to spend  for  their liv- : 
ing. 
If  they  must  pay  more  for food, 
then they have less  to  pay for  clothing 
and other things.

The suffering Europeans,  being  forced 
to impoverish themselves  to  buy  bread, 
had no money  left  for  other  purposes, 
and,  in  consequence,  all  other  trades 
suffered severely. 
If bread costs  double 
the ordinary price,  then there is so much 
less money  with  which to buy cotton  and 
other necessaries.  The great bread fam­
ine in Europe  of  1890-91  without  doubt 
was a prominent factor  in  reducing  the 
price of meat and the  great  staple prod­
ucts of  this  country.  The  whole  com­
mercial  world is  bound  together,  and  a 
calamity in  one  part  is  felt  in  every 
other part.  When the masses of the peo­
ple are earning money they are  in  a con- j 
dition to pay for what they need, and this I 
makes prosperity.  Universal  prosperity 
would mean  universal  activity  in  pro­
ducing, manufacturing and selling.  The 
notion that A  must  profit  by  the  dis­
tresses  of  B 
is  not  only wrong in the 
light of Christianity and of justice,  but it 
is wrong upon the  soundest  commercial 
principles.

In the minds of many careful thinkers, 
the present industrial  depression  is due 
more to the  arbitrary and  unreasonable 
demands of the unions than  to  all  other 
causes  combined;  to  the  hundreds  of 
foolish and futile strikes;  to  the unjust 
and unsuccessful boycotts; to the general 
spirit  of  denunciation  of  all  who have 
acquired  any property by years of manu­
facturing.  Such a policy on the  part of 
the labor unions, coupled with the spirit 
of anarchy  fostered  by the trades  unions, 
has disgusted thousands  of men who tire 
of  the  turmoil  incident to the employ­
ment of union  labor 
in  manufacturing 
industries,  and  resulted  in their divert­
ing their capital and  talents  to  occupa­
tions in  which the unions  are  unable  to 
exercise their accustomed tyranny.  Un­
til  the  unions  assume  a different front 
and  practice  different  doctrines  this 
country will never again  experience the 
prosperity of the past.

Coming back  to Mr.  Gompers  and  his 
convention,  it is  to  be  hoped  that  the 
great  questions  to  be discussed will be 
treated  in  a temperate and  statesmanlike 
way.  No  matter  how  much  distress 
there may  be,  it  cannot  be  remedied  or 
mitigated  by  any  measure  that  will  un­
settle society or disturb the public  peace; 
but  whether in the people’s  forum,  or in 
the  halls  of legislation,  the utmost  wis­
dom and  philanthropy should  be invoked 
to the settlement  of  questions  that 
in­
volve the preservation of our institutions 
and  the  highest  good and happiness of 
the whole country. 

A.  S.  M.

20
False Doctrine of the Labor Unions.
In his call for the  annual  convention 
of the American  Federation  of  Labor, 
which  will be held in Chicago the second 
week 
in  December,  President  Samuel 
Gompers declares that  never  in  the his­
tory of the world  has  so  large a number 
of  people  been suffering from enforced 
idleness,  seeking vainly for an  opportu­
nity to earn a livelihood,  and  he  attrib­
utes  this  great  evil  to  the ownership 
and control of wealth, and of the means of 
production by private corporations which 
have no human  sympathy and refuse all 
responsibility for the  sufferings  of  the 
working class.

Mr.  Gompers  is  only partly correct in 
his diagnosis of the vast  industrial  and 
financial  disorders  of  the country.  Of 
course,  it is evident that  commerce  and 
industries are not  generally  prosperous. 
If  they  were,  everybody  would  have 
steady employment and business of every 
sort  would  be  active.  Under  the dis­
tre s sfu l  co n d itio n s  w hich  have  existed 
for  some  time  past,  many banks  and 
mercantile manufacturing establishments 
have been involved  in deep  trouble  and 
been forced  by the  demands  upon  them 
into the closing of  their doors and  bank 
ruptcy.  Thus  both  the  rich  and  the 
poor,  the  employer  and  employe,  have 
been  involved in  one  common  catastro­
phe.

It is true that much needless  pressure 
has  been  put upon business of all sorts 
by the locking up of money last summer, 
but that  was not wholly an arbitrary act. 
It was caused by a loss  of  confidence in 
the solvency of  most  investment securi­
ties in the way of corporation  stocks and 
bonds,  and,  by consequence,  a 
loss  of 
confidence 
in  the  financial  institutions 
which  were  holding  such  securities 
People  became  alarmed  and  drew out 
their money.  The savings banks,  which 
had the money  of  the  working  classes 
and of  other  small  depositors,  suffered 
just as much as did the  banks whose de­
positors were  capitalists  and  heavy op 
erators.

Great trust and monopoly corporations 
often placed  arbitrary and  injurious re­
strictions upon business, but  they  suffer 
just  as  much 
in  bad  times as do any 
other class.  The whole end of commerce 
is  to  sell  merchandise,  and the sellers, 
whether they be producers  of  the  raw 
mateiial  or are the  manufacturers of it, 
must suffer when people are not  able  to 
buy.  The great body of all the merchan­
dise in the world  is consumed by the agri­
cultural and  working classes.  What the 
rich consume is  but a trifle. 
In order to 
make trade in any and every department 
good,  the  masses  of the people must be 
placed in a condition to buy.

The idea that a failure of  the crops or 
that a very short crop is a good thing for 
any country is a great mistake.  Several 
years ago,  for instance,  when  the  grain 
crops of Europe  had  extensively  failed, 
and starvation was ravaging wide regions 
of Russia,  the  notion  obtained  that  it 
would be a mighty  good  thing  for  the 
American  grain  farmers.  For  a short 
time this proved  to be a fact,  and  a very 
considerable amount of  American  grain 
was  shipped  to  Europe at an  increased 
price.  For  the  moment  the American 
farmers made a profit,  but  in  the 
long 
run  they have not  benefited.  The  hun­
gry people of Europe had  to  pay out all 
they had  to  keep  from  starving.  But 
people, the  masses  of  the  people,  the 
indeed,  have  only  a  certain
world, 

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In shoveling potatoes or other vegetables from wagon  box  or  floor witk 
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.

The  utility  of  this  fork  is not limited to vegetables. 

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

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The  Exact  Facts in  the  Matter.

Sattlt St e.  Ma r ie,  N ov. 21—I am con­
tinuously getting mail addressed to Price 
Bros.,  pertaining to  the  drug  business. 
I  wish  you  would  state  in  your  paper 
that the firm of  Price  Bros,  is composed 
of  Geo.  Price  and  Fred  R.  Price,  the 
former being manager  and  the  latter  a 
silent  partner.  The  firm  of  Fred  R. 
Price & Co.  is composed of Fred  R. Price 
alone. 
I am informed  by some one that 
there  was  an  article  in  T h e  T ra des­
man at the time  Price  Bros,  stated that 
they  succeeded  F.  R.  Price & Co.  The 
former deal in confectionery, fruits, soda 
water,  ice  cream,  etc.  By  setting  me 
aright  with  the  trade  you  will do me a 
favor. 

F r ed.  R.  P r ic e.

“All things come to  him  who  waits,” 
except  success,  prosperity,  wealth  and 
such trifles.

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It will pay merchants  to  see our samples  and 
learn our reduced prices  of  the  balance of our 
stock of

READY  MADE  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, and  buy or not buy, we 
will thank you for the compliment.

MICHAEL  KOLB  k  SON,

Wholesale  u m n g   M o c i i m
ROCHESTER,  N.  Y.

WILLIAM  CONNOR  will  be at Sweet’s  Hotel, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  on THURSDAY,  NOV.  30, 

and FRIDAY, DEC.  1.  Customers’ expenses allowed who meet him there.

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

If Yon  Warn  Good,  lib i,  Sweet  Bread  and  Biscuits,
FERMENTUM
COMPRESSED YEAST
The FermantHm Company

SOLD  BY  ALL  FIRST-CLASS  GROCERS.

MANUFACTURED  BY

MAIN  OFFICE:

CHICAGO,  270  KINZIE  STREET.

MICHIGAN  AGENCY:

GRAND  RAPIDS,  106  K-JJT  STREET.

Address  all  communications  to  THE  FERMENTUM  CO.

Cracker  Chests. 

Glass  Covers  for  Biscnils

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Suitable  for  advertising  in  papere,  or  use  on 

stationery.

Half-tone  for  the  finest  printing,  or line  work 

for general  printing.

No  pains  or  expense  should  be 
spared  to  have  finest  engravings, 
as a  poor cut  will  prevent the  success of  a  patent.

We  make  the 

finest  plates  for  the 

money obtainable.

Our  method  of  making 
these  is  a  surprise  for 

its fine results  and  low price.

Furniture,  Machinery,  Carriages,  Agricul­
tural  Implements or Specialties of any  kind 
engraved  and  printed  complete.  The  finest  and 
most elaborate or  the  cheapest  and  most  econom­
ical.  The  best results  in  either case.

/ ^ D R  new glass covers  are by far the
y   J   handsomest  ever  offered  to  the

F * .   S t o i c o  t e e   &  

.

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Tradesman  Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

CHRISTMAS  GOODS

Neckwear. 
Handkerchiefs. 
Jewelry.
Ribbons.
Table  Linens. 
Spreads.
Fancy  Baskets.

Toy  Figures.
Mufflers.
Dolls.
Fancy  Towels. 
Ornamental  Covers. 
Clocks.

soon 
pay for themselves  in  the 

IHPHESE  chests  will 

breakage they avoid.  Price 84. 

trade.  They  are  made  to  fit  any
of  oar  boxes  and can  be  changed  from 
one box  to  another in a moment  They 
will  save  enough  good8  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  filling.  This  is  bound  to  be  one  of 
THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

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134  to  1 40  E.  P u lto n   St.,

G R A N D   RAPIDS,  MICH.

S a n ta   Claus  Headquarters.
If you  are  A  DEALER  and have not received our Holiday Catalogue 
No. 113, please ask for it.

See pages 71-72 of No. 113 Catalogue.  Do not delay in ordering holiday goods, you do not have to 

pay for them until Jan.  1, and the sooner you get them in the better your sales will be.

“SLEIG H S.”

BANQUET  LAMPS.

Over 25  different  styles  from  $1.50  to  $30 

each:  our prices greatly reduced.

FINE  LAMPS.

Our stock uever so complete  or our prices as 

, 

low as now.

Shown  in  Catalogue  No.  112

“MUSICAL  TOYS,”

S ee  p a g e s   66-67  o f   N o .  113 C a ta lo g u e .

“ALBUMS ”

■ pages 38-39 of  No. 113 Catalogue.

PICTURE  BOOKS, 

see pages 30 to 31 of  No.  113 Catalogue.

ROCK IN G   HORSES  A N D   SHOO
ASSORTED  PACKAGE.

See page 70 of No  113 Catalogue.

FANCY  OOODS.

1 8 9 3 .
1 dozen Childs  Asst  Mottoes Cups and
Saucers..................................¥  75
“  Childs’ Raised Gold Letters, 10c
1 
Cups and Saucers................. 
80
“  Open Decorated, 15c Cups  and
yj 
Saucers  ...............................  1  25
*4 
“  Open  Decorated, 25c  Cups  and
Saucers..................................  1  75
'•  Open  Decorated,  extra  value,
H 
25c Cups and Saucers...... .  2 00
“  Open Gilt  Decoration, 40c Caps
V~ 
and  saucers  ......................... 3 25
‘  Open Gilt,  best,  50c  ('ups  and
M 
‘ 
Saucers.................................
4  15 
open, elegant, $1 ( ups and sail
1-6  “ 
cers........................................
6 25 
1 
‘
‘  ABC  Childs  Plates,  with  pic- 
tu res.....................................
42
*4 
‘‘  ABC  Animal Plates.................
Assorted  Decorated Plate Sets . 1  60
2 00
6 Colors. Plate  Sets 
*
Decorated  Plate Sets................ 3 50
Bread and  Milk Sets, decorated  4 00
1«
Bread and  Milk Sets, decorated 6 00
16  •
XA *  4‘  CC Picture Mugs......................
85
H  1‘  Partition Shaving Mugs 
__ 2 00
Faacv Decorated Mugs........... 2 00
M
Mustache Decorated Coffees.. 1  7S
H
‘  Extra Large  Decorated Coffees 2 25
14
Elegaut 50c Cup....................... 4 00
% 
\   **  Another50cCup,new pattern. 4 00

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<4 dozen Cups and  Saucers, new pattern
“  Fruit Plates  assorted..............
l 
“  Fruit Plates  tine China...........
H 
“  Glass Baskets, 6 patterns...... ,.
“  Glass Baskets, very fine...........
‘•J 
“  Glass Baskets,  large  assorted..
Va 
1 
“  6  inch  Assortment  Decorated
..................................
Vases 
•• 
s  inch  Assortment  Decorated
hi 
. 
Vases....................................
“  New Design Decorated Vases.. 
3  “  Assortment ChinaToy Whistles
1 
“  Fancy Toothpick Holders........
112  “  Smoking Sets.................
1-12  “ 
smoking Sets.................
*4  “  Decora ted Toy Tea Sets.
*4 
••  Decorated Toy Tea Sets.
1-6  “  Decorated Toy Tea Sets.
“  Dressed China Babies  .
1 
“  China Limb Dolls..........
1 
“  china Limb  Dolls..........
% 
“  Bisque Dressed  Dolls...
Mi 
“  Washable Dressed Dolls.
% 
*■  Washable Dressed Dolls.
M 
H 
Washable Dressed Dolls 
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“  Assorted Perfumep.......

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

TOILET  SETS.

See pages 42-43 of No. 113 Catalogue.

M XJSIC  BOLLS, r See P a g e  SO of No.  113 C atalo g u e

China Caps and  Saucera.

See pages 52-53.

Games and Puzzles of Every  Kind. i8»o?>m‘c1ataiSgS.0<

Doll  Heads.

See  page 7.

DOLLS  AND  DOLL  BODIES.

AN  ENDLESS  VARIETY.

See pages 1 to 3 of  No. 113 Catalogue.

