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ONLY  A   COUNTRY  GIRL.

Richard  Wyndham  will  never  forget 
his summer  at  Hillsboro’.  Society  was 
sorry  to  lose  him  from  Newport  that 
season,  but  Society  did  not  know  how 
small was the fortune  left by  Mr.  Sewell 
Wyndham.

Richard was decidedly out  of  temper. 
He could have borne it all so much more 
cheerfully  had  his  bank  account  per­
mitted  Bethlehem  and  the  Maplewood. 
But that was not to be thought  of;  so he 
chose  an  eminently  respectable  New 
England town,  proportionately above the 
sea  level—this  latter  as  a  precaution 
against a return of  the hay fever.  This 
was  his  physician’s  advice,  and  made 
such  an  excellent  excuse  to  give  the 
friends who urged him into  a  whirlpool 
of gaiety.

He  walked  back  and  forth  upon  the 
broad  hotel  piazza  and  looked  at  the 
town,  which he had  not been able to see 
in the darkness on his arrivni  the  night 
before.  The  hills  were  all  about,  and 
broad intervales stretched away on either 
side. 
It  was  a  beautiful  view,  and 
Richard  was  not  wholly  unresponsive. 
He  threw  away  his  cigar  and  walked 
down  the  street.  He  noticed  with  ad­
miration  the  large  yellow  and  white, 
square,  strongly built, pleasant old man­
sions,  surrounded by acres of green grass 
and well-kept  lawns.  He could see that 
the village never had been desecrated by 
capitalists;  its  very  air  proclaimed  its 
scorn of manufactures and the populace. 
It was a  New  England  town,  pure  and 
simple,  with its very  shops  in  the  side 
streets.

It was impossible for Richard  to  clas­
sify  the  people  who  lived in such sub­
stantial  old  houses,  so  suggestive  of 
mahogany and old silver.

He had met only one country girl,  and 
he  could  hardly  consider  her a type of 
the  country  girl,  for  she  had  spent  so 
much time in town and in foreign tfavel. 
He  had  read  a  few  stories  of  country 
people,  but the provincialism  and rustic 
dialect offended his good taste.

As he  sauntered  along,  one  house  In 
particular  attracted  his  attention. 
It 
was a delightfully picturesque old home­
stead,  with  its  wide  piazzas  supported 
by heavy columns. 
It was far back from 
the  elm-shaded  street,  with  trees  and 
vines and flowers all  about  it.  Like  all 
the lawns this was  green,  velvety,  and 
well kept.

Powdered  wigs,  silver  buckles,  knee 
breeches,  brocades,  courtesies,  and min­
uets were everywhere suggested.

Richard wondered what sort of  people 
were left to  keep  up  the  old-time  aris­
tocracy. 
to 
imagine them rustic, yet—

It  would  be  iconoclastic 

Ah! that  might  be  a  Dorothy  coming 
out  the  door.  She  paused  to  gather  a 
few of the  climbing  roses,  then  moved 
on  among  the  other  flowers.  She  was 
dressed very simply  in a  quaint gown of 
white, yet it was all in  the fashion of the 
present day.  He could not see  her  full 
in the face,  but  the  oval  and  bloom  of 
the  light  curls  about  her
her  cheek, 

forehead, 
the  low  coll  of  hair  on  her 
neck,  the modeling of the upraised arms, 
the outline of her figure, emphasized  his 
first  impression  that  she  was beautiful 
and suggested that she might grace other 
than a country  house.

Richard walked on through the village 
until he came to a  road  that  led  to  the 
grove  beyond.  There,  warm and tired, 
he threw himself  down  under  a  tree  to 
rest in the shade.

For a little while  all  was  quiet;  then 
the  sound  of  hoofs,  the  barking  and 
bounding  of  dogs,  and  a  horse  and  its 
rider  passed  by  him.  He  had  recog­
nized something familar in  the figure of 
the woman in the saddle.

By and by,  as he  turned  his  steps  to 
the  village,  he  came to the bend in the 
road,  and saw,  standing there,  the young 
girl who had ridden past him,  trying  to 
tighted the saddle girth.  Richard walked 
a little faster,  lifted his hat  and asked if 
he  could  be  of  service.  He  had  soon 
straightened  the  saddle,  buckled 
the 
strap, and was left  walking, toward  the 
hotel.

“A truly rural  incident,”  he  laughed 
to  himself.  “Those  straps  are  always 
breaking in the country—that is,  if I can 
trust to the story writers who are always 
constructing plots about  them—but they 
are a little hackneyed at present, thongh.”
He wished that Guy  Stuydevant  were 
with him,  though  he  would  not  in  the 
slightest be interested in a country  girl. 
Richard bad a  clear  mental  photograph 
of the girl whom Guy would marry.  She 
would be tall,  and dark,  and proud.  She 
need not have money,  but she must have 
irreproachable 
connections.  Richard 
sometimes  wondered  about  the  girl  he 
himself would marry.  Not that  he  had 
ever been in love, or  was in haste to wed. 
His  batchelor  apartments  at 
the  club 
were as comfortable as  they were expen­
sive—and he knew that three  thousand a 
year  was  a  beggarly  income  for  one, 
much less for  two. 
In  his  boyhood  he 
had decided that beauty  would  win  the 
day; a little latter he  had thought that a 
fortune—with  or  without  beauty,  if  it 
must be so—would go  a long way in her 
favor.  He  needed  no  one  to help  him 
establish a social position—that was done 
for him years before he was born.  And, 
besides ancestry and a coat  of  arms,  he 
had height and breadth, and a sufficiently 
attractive  face  and  manner  to insure a 
ready smile from all women.

A  week  had  passed  since  Richard 
tightened the saddle girth, and the pretty 
figure on horseback  was quite familar to 
him. 
In fact there seemed nothing to do 
in  Hillsboro’  but  ride or walk.  There 
were  a  few  people  at  the  hotel,  but 
Richard  did  not  find their society espe­
cially enlivening,  so he was thrown upon 
his own resources for amusement.  In the 
morning  he  walked  in one direction,  in 
the evening,  in  the opposite. 
It was be­
coming  unbearably  stupid.  The season 
at Newport was  an  unusually  brilliant 
one,  bis friends wrote.  That very night 
Mrs.  Wheeler was to  give  a  great  ball. 
He  thought  of  Harriet  Wheeler.  She

was undeniably plain,  but  would  inherit 
such a fortune—and  she  had  long been 
sighing  her  heart  away  for  Richard. 
W ell-

Just then  Richard  glanced up to see a 
young  woman  sauntering  along  before 
him,  in the pleasant twilight.  Two dogs 
were leaping  and  running  through  the 
bushes  on  either  side.  Then  the trees 
hid  the  girl from Richard’s sight.  The 
next time he glanced  up,  he saw a rough 
looking  man  stopping  her,  evidently 
begging or demanding money.  She tried 
to pass,  but the  tramp seized  her  wrist.
Richard’s college sports  and record as 
a swift runner stood him in good service. 
The  tramp  saw  Richard  bearing  down 
upon him; he hesitated a moment as tak­
ing  a  mental  inventory  of  the  young 
man’s  strength,  then  made  a  dash  for 
the  woods.

Richard’s offered  escort  to  her  home 
was eagerly  accepted.  Her half-breath­
less, 
tremulous  manner,  her  cheeks 
flushing and paling,  made  him feel  very 
chivalrous towards  the defenseless crea­
ture by his side.  She even started nerv­
ously  when  the  dogs came crashing out 
the thicket.  “I am sorry,” she faltered; 
“I never  dreamed  of  danger— I  always 
walk or ride at sunset—and nothing ever 
happened  before. 
I  am  so  grateful  to 
you—what should I have done” —

Her voice was low  and  pleasant,  and 
she  had  none  of  the disagreeable'man- 
nerisms  that  Richard  had  read  about. 
She  was  almost  childlike  in  her  sim­
plicity—another  phase  of  country life, 
Richard  thought.  And  it  was  not un­
pleasant  after  the  laissez  filler  of  the 
New York bred girl.

They found her  mother  sitting on the 
piazza,  while the  daughter,  not  yet self- 
possessed,  told,  in  a  breathless  way,  a 
tale that horrified  her  mother  and gave 
the impression that Richard had behaved 
like  a  hero,  dispersing  an  army of so­
cialists.

After  being  warmly  thanked  for  his 
gallant behavior,  Richard  left  his  card, 
and called the  next  morning—after  the 
conventional  precedent  in  books—to in­
quire for the health of the young woman 
In  the  brightness  of 
he  had  rescued. 
the  morning  light  and the 
less excited 
state of her daughter,  Mrs. Alger was in­
clined to look upon the  young  rescuer’s 
part with less enthusiasm  than  the even­
ing  before.  However,  she  was  suffi­
ciently grateful, after finding that he was 
to  be  in  Hillsboro’  several  weeks,  to in­
vite him in a way that  might  or  might 
not be accepted,  to call  again.  This was 
a courtesy not  usually  given  to  people 
who came to the  Hillsboro’ House.

II.

Richard found it very pleasant to go to 
the Algers’.  He used  to  wonder, as  he 
and Ethel talked,  if  she  would  not open 
her innocent blue  eyes  at the world—at 
his  world.  Not  that  the  Algers were 
even  provincial,  nor that  the  women  of 
his set were  better  bred,  or  more  gra­
cious,  and surely  few had  the  sunshine 
and charm.  Yet  there  seemed  a  wide 
gulf  separating  the  simple  people  of

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Hillsboro’  from  the  fashionable  life  of 
New York.

He used to feel  that  perhaps he ought 
not go to see her quite so often.  It would 
be such a natural thing  for Ethel  to fall 
in love with him—more experienced ones 
than  she had been  so  indiscreet,  and  he 
would  be  sorry  to  wound  her  gentle 
heart.  After  all,  it  was  not  so  often 
that  he  went  there.  Sometimes  as  he 
walked by the  house  he would  see Mrs. 
Alger and  Ethel  sitting  on  the  piazza, 
and  he  would  join  them  for an hour. 
Then tea would  be  served on  the piazza, 
and both mother and daughter made him 
welcome.

When  his  conscience  demanded self- 
sacrifice,  it  never  spoke very loudly nor 
long.  And it really was a great pleasure 
to  sit  with  the  Algers  on  their  great 
shaded piazza.

Richard decided he would  not  commit 
any indiscretions, as so many young men 
often did,  in  the country;  and surely  his 
attentions were  not  sufficiently  marked 
to  give  Ethel  reason  to  think he  was 
either serious  or  amusing  himself  with 
her,  though  he  acknowledged 
to  him­
self that, where he used  to go once to see 
her,  it was now twice,  and thrice.

It  was  now September.  Richard  was 
surprised that  he  could  so  contentedly 
stay  in  a  place  he  had mentally con­
demned  before  coming  there.  He  ac­
knowledged,  in a faint-hearted  way, that 
he had reached the  point  where he must 
either  run  away,  or  stay  forever.  He 
thought  less and  less about  how the girl 
would feel,  but more  and  more  how  he 
was going  to bear  it  himself.  His  own 
state of mind  was quite absorbing.

He  had  decided  to say good-bye.  As 
he made his way  up  the walk,  he missed 
the familiar figures  he  usually found on 
the piazza,  but  as  he  drew  nearer  the 
house he heard some one singing.

He  had  not  known  that Ethel sang. 
There was  something  delightfully sym­
pathetic  about her voice, and cultivated, 
too.  That  might  be  accounted  for  at 
boarding school,  though  usually the re­
sult of those lessons was not so pleasant.
The  outer  hall  door  was  open  and 
Richard  went  in.  He  drew  aside  the 
drapery and  softly  rapped.  Ethel  came 
forward.

He thought he had never seen  any one 
half  so  beautiful.  Her  cheeks  were  a 
little  flushed, her  eyes  a  little dewy,  a 
sentimental grace all about her—perhaps 
from  the  song—perhaps  from  his pres­
ence.

the faded rugs and  tapestries that spoke 
of other days and other lands;  the inlaid 
desk  and  tables,  the  quaint  chairs  and 
sofas.  Yet  the  room did not lack color. 
There were a few  jars and rare curios,  a 
Japanese screen,  old  lace  draperies be­
hind the wooden  shutters,  which swayed 
in  the  light  breeze;  clusters  of  roses, 
whose  perfume  filled  the room,  were in 
Sevres vases.  There  were  many  books 
about;  indeed,  the  large carved  table in 
the center of the room  was  a  confusion 
of 
and  magazines—English,
French,  and  German.  Could  it  be  that 
Ethel  had taught in some seminary!  His 
heart sank  within him.

books 

The walls  were  bung with  many pic­
tures, pictures  he  was  surprised  to see 
in  Hillsboro’—etchings and  photographs; 
copies from  the  old  masters,  and unfin­
ished  sketches.  Now  he  remembered 
that Mr.  Alger was an artist,  and,  as  he 
thought of that, everything seemed to be 
clearly revealed to  him.  The artist had 
evidently married some  country  gentle­
man’s  daughter,  to  whom  the old  man­
sion was  left.

Now he thought it  strange that in  see­
ing the Algers so much  he knew so little 
about them.  He did not know what they 
had all  talked  about  those  long summer 
days—he faucied  he  had  done  most  of 
the talking.  This  afternoon,  however, 
he was quite distrait  and silent. 
It was 
Miss Alger who talked, and if he had not 
been so preQecupied,  he  would have  no­
ticed that she talked  very  well.

As  it  was,  he  noticed  only that  the 
afternoon  had  gone,  that  the  shadows 
were long and slanting, and that the time 
had come when  he must say good-bye to 
Ethel.  He felt himself a villiau—yet his 
heart cried for sympathy.  And  Ethel— 
he was sorry for her.

It was so difficult  to  understand  girls I 
when they were  so  frank—yet  being  a |
country girl,  and inexperienced-----

Still, in his  selfish  sorrow he began to 
think he would feel  a  cruel satisfaction 
in seeing her  long  lashes droop and  her 
color  fade when  he  should  tell  her  he 
was to leave Hillsboro’.

When at last  he rose to tell her, he felt 
the  same  thrill,  that  something  which 
made her presence  unspeakably heaven­
ly,  then  his  heart  grew  like  lead,  and 
when he  found  voice  to  speak of  going 
away,  he  could  not  meet  her eyes,  but 
looked out  over  the  lawn  to  the  spot 
where the dogs  were  lazily  stretched out 
in  the shade.

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of uniform richness and reliable keeping 
properties,  put  up  in  sealed  cans, it is 
now  prepared  to  supply  the trade  with

B O R D E N ’S  

B E E R E E S S   B R A N D  

E V A  B O R  A T  E D   C R E A M ,
Unsweetene I;  guaranteed  to  keep  under  all  conditions  of  temperature. 
The process  used  is far  in  advance of any  other  method.  Our  new plant 
is constructed  especially  for this branch of  business, and  is  unequalled  in 
equipment  for the various processes employed.  Having thoroughly tested 
all  the important points  in  connection  with  the  milk  referred  to,  we are 
now prepared to offer the trade through the  jobbing  houses,  BORDEN’S 
PEERLESS  BRAND  EVAPORATED  CREAM,  unsweetened,  with
entire  confidence  that  it  will  prove,  like  our  celebrated  G a il  B o r d e n  
K a o i.e  B r a n d  C o n d e n s e d   M il k ,  to  have  no  equal. 
It  is  thoroughly 
guarantied  in  every  respect,  and  this  guarantee  is  substantial,  as  every 
one  knows.  We will  tell  you  more  about  this  unsweetened milk in  the 
next is  ue.

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His  heart  leaped  wildly.  He  felt  a 
longing,  a  delicious  thrill  that

He did not dare look Ethel in the face. 
He knew  her sweet  lids  must quiver;  if 
he should behold her  pain  he  would be 
gentle 
made his lips tremble  and his heart melt J utterly lost.  He would  take  her  in  his 
within him.  But he  was  determined  to  arms—her lips were temptingly curved—
even as it  was, he might  kiss  her  good- 
do  nothing  he would regret when  Hills­
by.  But there are girls and girls.  Some­
boro’  was  left  behind  and  he was again 
way  Richard did not  kiss  this  one.  He 
among  old  associations.  He  tried 
to 
did  not  know  whether  it  was  because 
steady himself by wondering if he would 
of his virtue, or whether he did not dare.
notice the difference  between  Ethel  and 
The next morning, while Richard stood
other young women  in a New York draw-
ingroom.  W h e th e r  he would quite dare  on the platform  at  the  station,  waiting
to present  her  to  his  friends;  how  she I for the train, the desolate feeling  in  his 
would adapt  herself to the artificiality of I heart  did  not  give  place  to  anything 
the  smart  set.  He  would  not like the | lighter.  He was sure that he  had  done 
club men  to  inquire  for  his  Hillsboro’ | right,  and  he hoped in the round  of  the 
Phyllis.  He wished  Guy  were  there  to ! winter’s  gaiety  he  would  forget 
the 
see her.  Guy always  gathered  together I whole  matter.  Then,  too,  he  had  de- 
all the  shortcomings  with  a  word  that  cided,  after all,  to  marry  Harriet Wheel- 
expressed toe whole.  Ah,  Ethel! 
love  with
Richard  begged  for  a  song,  then  an- I him,  and her fortune was  large  enough
to  insure  a  comfortable  life for them 
both.

other,  and  sat  like  one  dreaming.  He 
admired the wonderful colonial harmony | 
He  stepped  on  board  the  parlor car
of the furnishings  of  the  room;  the old 
mahogany,  the bare  and  polished floors, I and tried to look  happy  and  expectant.

er.  She  was  deplorably  in 

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He failed in this,  and  began  going  over 
the  same  mental  ground  he  had been 
traveling the last twenty-four hours.  He 
had made no mistake—there  could be no 
complications.

He  thought  of  his 

income.  Three 
thousand  dollars!  It  would  take  that 
sum  to  dress  a wife  properly—dinner 
gowns,  evening, walking,  driving,  recep­
tion  and  ball  costumes;  jewels,  laces, 
bonnets,  wraps,  shoes,  gloxes,  parasols! 
Ethel  seemed  to  have  simple  enough 
tastes now,  but in the whirlpool of  fash­
ion she might lose her head.

He had often pictured  to  himself  the 
sort of establishment  he  would 
like  to 
own.  There  must  also  be. a  country 
house,  a yacht;  then  the  dinners,  the 
flowers, the horses, the wines.  He^must 
give up all  these  ideas  of  matrimouial 
bliss if he were  to  marry Ethel.  Stocks 
had  so  depreciated  that  the income on 
his father’s property amounted to scarce­
ly three thousand  dollars. 
It was  mad­
ness  for  a  man in  his social  position to 
think  of  marrying  a girl without a for­
tune.

Yet he could not bear  to  think  of  her 
marriage.  It would  be a country  lawyer, 
probably.

He wondered  how Ethel  would  carry 
off  the  responsibilities  of hostess,  how 
she would look in  an  opera  box.  After 
all,  his club apartments were delightful. 
What if Ethel should not  regard the cus­
toms  of the Wyndhams?  She  seemed to 
take guidance from a sort of  revolution­
ary spirit, probably the same that led her 
mother to ignore tradition  and marry an 
artist.

Ethel  used,  with a sweep of her pretty 
hand and a turn  of  her  stately neck,  to 
renounce  some  of  the very things  that 
were  indispensable  to  the  people  he 
knew.  Sometimes he used  to  fancy she 
was not a novice in social  matters.  Yet 
they had never talked of  the fashionable 
world,  for he had  not wished  to  embar­
rass her about that which she had  never 
seen.

He could imagine  how she would open 
her pretty blue  eyes  at  the  merry-go- 
round of society.  At such  times he felt 
he  could  forego  everything,  and  take 
Ethel by the hand and live in an Arcadian 
spot.  But he was afraid that  piping  to 
sheep  might  become  monotonous after 
the  first flush of springtide was over.

As the weeks went on  Richard loathed 
the city.  He longed to go back to  Hills­
boro’ where he could  once  more  sit  on 
the  old  piazza  and  look  into  the face 
that  haunted  his  dreams. 
It  was  on 
these keen autumn  mornings,  when  the 
sun shone brightly and cleared away the 
mists,  that walking  or  riding would  be 
so delightful.  Ethel would call her dogs 
—he could see her now,  erect  in the sad­
dle, galloping over the  country, Don and 
Duke bounding on before.

The impulse was strong upon him.  He 
would fling up everything and go back to 
the dear voice that was calling him.

But everything seemed to  conspire  to 
keep  him 
in  New York.  The autumn 
was growing  late.  Familiar  faces were 
again upon  the streets, and  houses were 
once more  inhabited.  The  Stuydevants 
were at home, and Richard was  about to 
look up Guy,  when he  received  cards to 
a ball,  and a note from  Guy telling  him 
it  was  to  be  given  in honor of his be­
trothed.
□ So  Guy  was  engaged!  Richard  was 
quite unprepared for that  news—he was 
not so anxious to see Guy after  all.  He

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felt a cold despair creep  over  him,  with 
the conviction  that  after  seeing  Guy’s 
fiancee  he would  postpone  his  visit  to 
Hillsboro’.

Guy  was  engaged.  And  unhappy 
Richard did not try to find  him 
to  con­
gratulate  him  and wish him happiness. 
He was very unresponsive to his friend’s 
happiness.  He heard his aunts speaking 
about the size of  the  girl’s  fortune,  her 
beauty, her honorable and ancient family 
name,  her distinguished connections.

Richard  listened  with  a  sigh.  Guy 

was a lucky dog—

Ah, Ethel!
Richard paced up and down  his  room 
some time atter the  hour  appointed  by 
the  Stuydevants  to receive their guests. 
He regarded his reflection in the  mirror, 
face to face,  and felt a  certain  satisfac­
tion that would not be put down.

As he drew near  the  Stuydevants’,  he 
saw carriage  after  carriage  roll up and 
away,  its occupants  passing  under  the 
canvas  canopy  that  extended  from  the 
curbing to the door that was  continually 
opening  and  ' closing.  The  house was 
brilliantly lighted,  the vestibule set with 
plants  and  palms.  Strains  of  music 
floated out upon the night  air,  yet  Rich­
ard dismissed  his coachman,  and decided 
to walk a little.before  going  in  to  see 
Guy’s betrothed.

An hour later he entered the  swinging 
door,  and  caught  glimpses  of  shining 
jewels,  white  shoulders,  a  mingling of 
black coats with  rich  silks  and  dainty 
laces.  He  breathed  the  perfume  of 
flowers, and heard the  seductive  refrain 
of “A Thousand and One Nights”  waltz.
When he came down stairs  the  rooms 
were a little less crowded, for the dancers 
had sought the  ball  room,  and  Richard 
more easily made  his  way  to  Mrs.  and 
Miss  Stuydevant.  They  murmured 
something  about  his  meeting  Guy’s 
fiancee.  He  was  listening  in  only  a 
dreamy sort of way,  for he saw the  dark 
tall creature standing  near Guy—but his 
gaze was  riveted  upon  a beautiful girl 
near Miss Stuydevant.

The  blood  mounted  to  his  face, he 
looked at her with his soul  in  his  eyes. 
She  stood  calm  and  smiling  and well 
dressed,  but with the same  simplicity as 
last summer at Hillsboro’.  Now he  saw 
it  was  that  very simplicity which  gave 
her distinction, and she seemed to belong 
as much to this  scene  as 
to  the  great 
house in the country.

How came she here!  What if  she had 
not a queenly fortune—he loved her!  He 
cared not for poverty.  He would follow 
the guidance of his heart and will.

What if the woman by Guy’s side were 
radiant in glitter  and  jewels—his  dear 
one carried only flowers.  The other was 
tall and dark and  proud—his  dear  one 
was fair and sweet and gentle.

With her any spot were  paradise.
How had he  lived  these  few  months 
away  from  her?  Bah!  Society!  What 
did he care for that?  It was  selfish  and 
hollow.  He  went  swiftly toward  Ethel 
while she smilingly advanced a few steps. 
Her manner was as sweet  and  gracious 
and frank as ever.

She looked at him with her  face  radi­
ant,  and her eyes shining  with  a  softly 
illuminated brightness.

Richard  ceased  wondering  how  she 
happened  there—such  was  his  joy  to 
greet her.

“ Ah,  Miss A lger!” he cried in  an 

im­
“ I t is  such  a delight  to 

passioned tone. 

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WHAT?

That  which  we and  the  trade  have  lx-en  looking for.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADK1RM A IST

AMONG  THE  TRADE.
AROUND THE  STATE.

Rockford—Chas.  H.  Krantz has opened 

a meat market.

Ionia—A.  E.  Shelley has sold his cigar 

business to G. A. Sherwood.

Negaunee—Oscar Field  succeeds  Cor- 

bit & Field in general trade.

Sheridan—M.  Gray,  grocer, 
ceeded by the Cash Grocery Co.

is  suc­

Decatur—H.  S.  Crane  succeeds C.  H. 

Crane in the grocery  business.

Marquette—Mack & Gibson  succeed J. 

F.  Mack  & Son in  the meat  business.

Amble—G. C.  Ward  has opened a gro­

cery stock in the  postoflice building.

Woodland—Scbautz & Co. are succeed­

ed by Schantz Bros,  in general trade.

Hartford—Riegel  Bros,  succeed L.  W. 
Riegel  in  the  grocery and  bazaar busi­
ness.

Detroit—J.  T.  Hurt  succeeds  J.  T. 
Hurt & Co.  in  the  boot  and  shoe  busi­
ness.

Jonesville—Louis Strauss has removed 
his  clothing  stock  from  Sturgis  to  this 
place.

Maple  Rapids—Otto  Bullis  succeeds 
Crawford & Bullis iu  the boot  and  shoe 
business.

Grayling—Hansen  &  Braden, general 
dealers, have dissolved, Braden & Forbes 
succeeding.

Owosso—Daniel  L.  Murphy  has  been 
appointed receiver  for  the  grocery Arm 
of Hogan  & Carmody.

Stanton—C. E.  Howell will  be admitted 
in  the  general 

to  partnership  Jan.  1 
store of J.  N. Crusoe.

Belding—F.  A.  Palmer  has  opened  a 
grocery  store  in  the  building  recently 
vacated  by  Lamb Bros.

Dunn Mine—Max Berlowitz & Co., gen­
eral dealers,  have  dissolved,  A.  L.  Bach 
continuing the business.

Marquette—U.  H.  Stafford  &  Co.  suc­
the 

ceed H.  H.  Stafford,  Son  &  Co.  iu 
wholesale and retail drug  business.

Ludington—Louis  Secor  has been ad­
mitted to partnership with J.  M.  Markle, 
dealer in groceries and confectionery.

Lawrence—Kelly &  Bowen,  hardware, 
stove  and  agricultural  implement deal­
ers,  are succeeded  by  Kelly &  Rowland.
Hastings—Ed.  Schuman has purchased 
the  meat  market  of  F.  L.  Tobias,  Jr., 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same location.

Beaverton—M.  Blumenthal has sold  a 
part of his stock of  general  merchandise 
to Jos.  Gettelson  and  removed  the  bal­
ance to Stand isb.

Jackson—Riggs  & Winslow  have  de­
cided to sell groceries for cash only here­
after,  having  formally  abandoned 
the 
long credit system  Dec.  1.

Middleviile—M.  M.  Hodge  has  sold  a 
half interest in his  grocery stock  to  his 
son-in-law,  Frank  Lee.  The  new firm 
will  be  known as Hodge & Lee.

Richland—J.  R.  Hogg  &  Co.  have 
doubled their capacity  for  business, hav­
ing put a stock  of  general  merchandise 
into the new I.  O.  O.  F.  store building.

Marengo—H.  M.  Evans has  purchased 
a stock of goods and again  embarked  in 
business  at  the  old  stand that previous 
to  1883  he  occupied  for  twenty-four 
years.

Allegan—H.  H.  Cook  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  bis  partner,  John  W. 
Stegemau,  in  the  1 uruiture  and  under­
taking  firm  of  Cook  &  ¡stegetuan,  and I 
will continue the  business  at  the  same i 
location.

j  Stanton—The Alice McFarland  miliin- 
j ery stock  was bid  in  at  foreclosure  sale 
j by Macauley  &  Co.,  wholesale  millinery 
i dealers of Detroit,  who will continue the 
business under  the  management  of  the 
former owner.

Mattawan—The drug and grocery stock 
of J.  M.  Frost was sold  at  chattel  mort­
gage sale by  B.  Desen berg & Co., of Kal­
amazoo,  being  bid  in  by Moshier Bros., 
late of Paw Paw,  who will  continue  the 
business at the same location.

Traverse City—Owen  Schoolcraft,  for 
many years engaged in  general  trade at 
Bellaire,  has  formed  a  copartnership 
with John  Kurts  and Walter Truax  and 
embarked  in the grocery business  under 
the style of Schoolcraft & Co.

in 

Ishpeming—A.  J.  Austin, 

Hart—E.  S.  Houghtaling,  who  has 
earned the title of  ‘‘Beechnut  king”  by 
reason  of  the  large  business  he  has 
worked  up 
that  line,  handled  only 
forty-seven  bushels this year.  The crop 
was choice, but not so plentiful as usual.
the  meat 
dealer,  is a philanthropist in his way.  In­
stead  of  throwing his waste meat away, 
he puts it into a big  cauldron,  adds cab­
bage, rice and other vegetables,  pours in 
water,  and  thus  produces  an  excellent 
soup.  Mr.  Austin has  kept a number of 
families from starvation in  this  way  at 
an expense of about $1  per day.

Stetson—A. J.  Felter,  who  has  been 
engaged in general  trade here for several 
years,  has formed  a  copartnership with 
John DeVore under the style of De Yore 
& Co.  for the purpose  of  handling  lines 
of crockery,  glassware,  notions,  wall  pa­
per and stationery in a  new store  build­
ing,  20x40 feet in  dimensions,  adjoining 
Mr.  Stetson’s  establishment.  Mr.  De 
Vore has clerked for  Mr.  Felter  several 
years and  will probably reap the  reward 
of  faithfulness in  his  new  undertaking.
Saginaw—E.  St.  John  has  given 
Charles IL Green a mortgage on his book 
and  stationery  stock  and  real estate as 
trustee for creditors whom  he  is  owing 
$45,608.37.  Those  who  have  endorsed 
his  paper  are made preferred creditors. 
All of his private property,  with  the ex­
ception of his homestead,  is  turned over 
to his creditors, including several  houses 
and lots,  which are the  private  property 
of his wife, who insisted  on  paying every 
dollar  so  far  as  their  joint  property 
would do it.

Montague—Wm.  Peck closed the  store 
of  the  Peck  Mercantile Co.  and  filed a 
bill  in the Circuit  Court  to  foreclose  a 
chattel  mortgage given  by the  company 
to himself.  The amount  of  the  chattel 
mortgage  is  $2,526.28,  which  Mr.  Peck 
claims  was  given 
to  him  to cover five 
notes given at different  times.  He  also 
asked  for a receiver and  John  H. Chap­
man was appointed, with bonds of $8,000, 
with  E.  M.  Ruggles  and  J. C.  Lewis  as 
sureties.  Mr. Chapman  is  now in  pos­
session of the  stock  and is taking an  in­
ventory.  The  liabilities  are  given  as 
$4,600.  The assets are  $5,000  in  goods 
and $2,300 in accounts.  The  closing  of 
the  store  by  Mr. Peck  was  done to pro­
tect his own interests in the  stock  from 
existing  judgments  against  against the 
Peck  Mercantile Co.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Marquette—Palmer &  Hopkins are cut­
ting road and  will  shortly  begin  hauling 
the  logs  recently  purchased by them  in 
the Eseanaba River.  The logs are to  be 
loaded on cars at Palmer for shipment to 
this city.

Saginaw —  Wylie  Bros,  wiil  change 
their shingle mill  into  a  bandsaw  mill, 
and are reported  to  have  closed  a  deal 
for 100,000,000 feet of  timber in Canada, 
and enough logs  will  be  cut  thereon  to 
stock their mill next season.

Sidnaw—An  extension  of  the  Nester 
estate  logging  road  from  this  place  to 
Baraga  is  contemplated,  and surveyors 
will  begin work  there shortly.  The dis­
tance  is  about twenty-five miles, almost 
entirely 
timbered 
country.

through  a  heavily 

Manistee—The  Canfield  &  Wheeler 
Co.  has a man  along  the  river  buying 
logs  and 
is  picking  up  quite  a lot of 
hemlock and  a  few  lots  of  pine.  Al­
ready 3,000,000  or  4,000,000  feet  have 
been secured,  to be  put  in  on  sleighs. 
The balance of the company’s  cut comes 
in by rail over  the  Manistee  &  North­
eastern.

Menominee—The two sawmills  of  the 
Ludington,  Wells & Van Schaick Co. cut
45.000.  000  feet  of  lumber,  besides  the 
usual  large amount of  other  mill  prod­
ucts.  About 6,000,000 feetof the lumber 
cut is piled in  the  yard.  The  company 
now has twelve camps  in  operation and 
will  bank about  30,000,000  feet  of  logs 
this winter.

Menominee—The  Bay  Shore  Lumber 
Co.’s sawmill has cut  31,000,000  feet  of 
lumber for the season.  Of  this  amount
12.000.  000 feet is piled on the  docks  and 
in  the  yard.  This  lumber is owned by 
Holland,  Graves & Montgomery,  of  Buf­
falo.  The  company  is  operating  three 
camps  on  Sturgeon  River,  about  nine 
miles from  Norway,  giving  employment 
to 125 men and sixty teams,  and  already 
has 8,000,000 feet of logs skidded.

Muskegon—In  accordance  with 

the 
agreement entered into by the Muskegon 
log owners with the  Muskegon  Booming 
Company,  a dredge is  now on  its  way  up 
the river. 
It is  experiencing  unlimited 
difficulty  in  endeavoring  to  get  to  the 
places in the river where its  work  must 
be done.  The probabilities  are that the 
work  will  be quite expensive,  and  as  it 
enters into the cost of  next year’s drive, 
log owners, of course,  are interested.

Menominee—TheKirby-Carpenter Co.’s 
two sawmills,  which are the  largest pro­
ducers  on 
the  river,  close the season’s 
operations with 96,288,284  feet  of  lum­
ber,  23,147,000  shingles  and  16,848,650 
It is estimated that 48,000,000 feet 
lath. 
of lumber remains in  the  yard  at 
this 
writing.  This  company  now has  twen­
ty-one logging camps  in  operation  and 
expects to  bank  upward  of  75.000,000 
feet during the winter.  The late  fall of 
snow  has  greatly  improved  the  roads, 
and  10,000,000  feet  of  logs are now on 
the skids.

Manistee—The sawmills are  gradually 
shutting down.  The Buckley & Douglas 
and the Peters mills  will  run  for  some 
time—the Peters concern as long as they 
can get logs and the  Buckley &  Douglas 
all  winter.  The latter will saw  hemlock 
and  hardwoods,  as  usual,  expecting  to 
put up about 4,000,000 feet of hardwoods 
before spring.  They want about a month 
for  repairs  and  are undecided  whether 
they  will take it in December  or  March. 
The Manistee  Lumber  Co.  closed  down 
last  week,  leaving  only  Louis  Sands, 
Filer  &  Sons  and the Canfield mills be­
sides those above mentioned.

Manistee—There  has  been a very free 
movement in salt,  and the blocks are d  > 
ing  their  best  to  get  all  packed  and 
shipped  before  navigation  closes,  as

after that time they either have  to  hold 
their product or ship out by rail, and the 
latter they do not take to  very  kindly,  as 
their  blocks  are  not  arranged  for  rail 
shipment.  Filer & Sons  have about 16,- 
000 barrels iu  bulk  in  their  bins.  The 
State Lumber Co.  is  tearing out some of 
its grainers and putting in new ones.  A 
few years ago nothing but the best white 
pine was thought  good  enough  for  this 
purpose,  but now hemlock plank is used 
entirely,  and to  obviate  the  splintering 
and wear under the shovels  used for lift­
ing the salt,  the grainers are  lined  with 
maple  culls,  one  inch  thick,  of  which 
there is always a  surplus.

The  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar—The market is  still  weak,  the 
decline  of  a  week  ago  having failed to 
induce any rallying movement.  Jobbers 
are  buying  only  for  immediate  wants, 
being still sore  from  their  recent  expe­
rience iu  attempting  to  anticipate  the 
wants of the trade.  Retail dealers would 
do well to buy  sparingly,  as  the  present 
indications are that the staple will go Xc 
lower  before  many  months  shall  have 
elapsed.

A shoemaker down in  Maine  has  just 
the  payments  for a piece of 
completed 
land which  he bought over a dozen years 
ago, and for which the  seller  agreed 
to 
take  his  pay  iu  work.  The deed says 
that  consideration  for 
land  was 
“cobbling.”

the 

POUUTKÏ. 
Local dealers pay as  follows:

D R ESSED .

Fowl.................................................
Turkeys.......................................
Ducks  .................- .............................
Chickens...........................................

OILS.

B A R R EL S.

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes  as
Eocene..............................................
XXX  W.  W. Mich.  Headlight..........
Naptha..............................................
Stove Oasollne..................................
Cylinder...............................................
Engine............................................
Black, 15 cold  test 
........................
FROM   TA N K   W AGON.
Eocene 
.........................................
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight........

7  @7*4 
12*4@13 
10  @12 
7  @ a
follows :
^  J*@ 6*4 @ 7% 

8*4

.27  @36 
.13  @21 
@  8 li

• 

5*4

DO  TOD WANT A LAMP ?

We Want Money,

And offer Lamps this week at  prices  that break
all previous records.
73c
$1.50 Lamps a t ....................................... 
$2 50 Lamps a t .................... $1  35
1  4 «
$2.75 Lamps a t .......................... .  ........ 
1 6 3
$3.00 Lamps a t ............................. '.'.'.'.Y. 
$4.50 Lamps a t .......................... . . .  . . . 
2  48
$5.0o Banquet Latrps at  .!__ . . . "  
2  98
$6.00 Banquet Lamps  a t ...................... 
:t 75
$25  Banquet  Lamps,  cut  glass  founts 
and onyx stand at.............................  
15  00
4 oine  and  See  w hat  an  Upset  we  have 

given  Old  Prices.

May’s Bazaar,
41  and  43  Monroe  St.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

5

Gripsack Brigade.

W.  Ralph Wagers, of  Fremont,  is now 
on the road for the Darling  Milling  Co., 
of the same place.

Geo.  F.  Schumm  (Hawkins  &  Com­
pany)  submitted  to  a  third operation on 
his left  arm  Sunday,  which  will  keep 
him at home several  days.

Geo.  H.  McWilliams  (OIney  &  Judson 
Grocer Co.)  now makes  his  drives  from 
this city with his  own  team—a  pair  of 
spanking  bay  colts  which  whisk  him 
around at a 2:40 gait.

John H. Payne, formerly on the road for 
Hawkins &  Co.,  but  more  recently en­
gaged with the  Drummond Tobacco Co., 
of St.  Louis,  in  Colorado  and 
the  Far 
West, is now ill  at a hotel at Los Angeles, 
Cal.

Frank E. Chase  has  signed with A.  C. 
McGraw & Co.  for another year.  On  his 
return  home  from  the Elk’s banquet,  a 
few evenings ago,  he was unable  to  tell 
whether he had been with his  house  fif­
teen or sixteen years.

Geo. Gane,  who traveled  several  years 
for  the  flour  and  feed  department of 
Hannah,  Lay &  Co.,  at  Traverse  City, 
but  who  has  lately  embarked  in 
the 
bakery  business  at  Traverse City,  pro­
poses to resume the  profession  of  com­
mercial  traveler  in  case  he can  form a 
desirable connection.

Geo.  W.  Stowitts will on January 1 en­
ter upon his fourth  year witli  the West­
ern  Suspender  and  Neckwear  Co.,  of 
Mansfield,  Ohio.  He  will 
leave  about 
Dec.  10  for  the  factory  to  get  spring 
samples, combining business  and  pleas­
ure on this  trip.  Mrs.  Stowitts will  ac­
company  him  and  spend  the  holidays 
with  her brother,  returning  home Janu­
ary 20.

The regular monthly  meeting  of  Post 
E,  Michigau Knights of  the Grip, will  be 
held  at  Elk’s  Hall  Saturday  evening, 
when  every  member  is  expected  to  be 
present,  as  arrangements  will  then  be 
made to attend the annual meeting of  the 
organization in  Saginaw.  All  traveling 
men  who expect to attend  the convention 
are invited to be present  at the  meeting, 
whether members of  the Post or not. 
It 
is hoped that the number who  go to Sag­
inaw will  be large enough  to make ample 
amends for past lapses in  this respect.

The  members  of  Post  C,  Knights of 
the Grip,  held a meeting  at  the Cadillac 
Hotel,  Detroit,  Saturday  evening, 
to 
learn as far as possible  how many mem­
bers would attend the annual meeting  of 
the  Association 
in  Saginaw  Dec.  27. 
There  are  335  members in  Post C,  and, 
from  the number who  signified  their in­
tention of going to Saginaw, it  is thought 
that an excursion  party of  200  members 
can  be  formed. 
If  a  party suitable in 
size can  be  organized  an  excursion rate 
lower than  the half fare rate  already ac­
corded will be granted  by the railroad.

The  Hardware  Market.

General trade has been  very  good  the 
past week in  all lines of hardware.  The 
snow storm  seemed  to  have  been  quite 
general in  Western  Michigan  and to have 
had  a  good  effect  on  trade.  Very  few 
lines  of  goods,  however,  show  any  im­
provement  in  prices  and  the  tendency 
seems to be lower.

Wire Nails—At the  low  prices  which 
are  being  named  on  carload  shipments 
from  mill  for  future,  many  orders  are 
being  placed.  We  quote  Si.20  at  mill 
for  January  and  February,  which  does 
not  indicate  any  prospect  of  higher

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prices;  $1.60  for  stock  is  the  average 
market.

Sleigh  Bells—The  demand,  owing  to 
the  snow,  has  started  up  with  a  good 
deal  of  briskness.  As  a  result,  stocks 
are  soon  broken,  as  jobbers  purchased 
sparingly,  fearing  an o;.en winter.  We 
quote string bells at 90c@$2 a string.

Snow Shovels—The demand being large 
and stocks  very  low,  all  the  manufac­
turers are sold out,  and  cannot  promise 
to  fill  orders  for  at  least  fifteen  days; 
and,  as no one can tell  what the weather 
will  be 
in  that  time,  jobbers  hesitate 
about placing an order.

Hand Sleighs—In sympathy with bells 
and snow  shovels,  the demand for sleighs 
has not been  so good in  many years; and, 
as  we  have  had three  bad  winters,  all 
manufacturers  have  been  pursuing  a 
conservative course  and are caught  with 
very light stocks; and  as  jobbers do not 
stock  up  ahead  as  they  did  years  ago, 
somebody  will have to go without.

Crosscut  Saws—Are  moving  nicely. 
The  Atkins,  Simonds and Lumberman’s 
Pride seem to take the  lead.  Should  we 
have  a  good,  old-fashioned  winter,  we 
may look for a good  demand.  We quote 
Atkins  at  30c  per  foot;  Lumberman’s 
Pride,  30c;  Simonds  6-foot,  $4.80;  6}4- 
foot,-$5.50—all less 25  per cent.

Window Glass—Still  in a demoralized 
condition, and prices seem to  be  moving 
downward,  80 and  10 by the box seeming 
to be regular.
Card  from  the  Valley  City  Milling'  Co.
Gr a n d  Ra p id s,  Dec.  4—In  the  pub­
lished  proceedings of your meeting,  held 
Nov.  20,  you quote  Mr.  Peter  Schuit  as 
saying,  "Lily White appears  to  be  sold 
at  all  kinds  of  prices,”  and Mr.  Daniel 
Viergiver  as  saying,  "That  the Valley 
City  Mills retail from one to  two  tons  a 
day.”  Both these statements  are  incor­
rect and do us great injustice.  The facts 
are we have only one  price  (discount,  if 
any),  based upon terms and  quantity,  as 
in every other line of  business.  As  for 
our asking all the way from $1.50 to $1.75 
per  100,  we  can  say that  since  Nov.  13 
we have  asked  no  more 
than  $1.65  in 
small  lots,  on  usual  terms,  and  no less 
than $1.55 in  large quantities  on  a  cash 
basis.  Mr.  Viergiver  has not favored  us 
with  his orders,  nor  have  we  had  any 
dealings whatever  with  him.  and  he  is 
not, therefore, in a position  to talk about 
how we do business.  We desire to state, 
distinctly and  once  for  all,  that we  do 
not do a retail  business,  but, on  the con­
trary,  have referred scores  of  people  to 
their  nearest  retail  grocer.  Since  the 
hard times  began  we have made  free de­
livery  of  flour  to  the  poor and  needy 
when asked to do  so  by  some  generous 
citizen desiring to relieve distress, and to 
our  own  employes  who  help make the 
flour  and  do  our  business  we  always 
have  furnished  and always expect to fur­
nish  flour  at wholesale  price.
Referring again  to  prices,  no  retailer 
can say we have sold him, or even offered 
him,  "Lily  White”  flour  for  less  than 
$1.55 per 100,  and if there is one who can 
say we have,  we invite  him to do so.  We 
have  been decidedly misrepresented, and, 
no doubt,  unintentionally, by  the gentle­
men referred  to,  and  would  suggest that 
members of your Association  investigate 
grievances  of  all  kiuds  very carefully 
before making public  statements  harm­
ful either to a jobber  or a manufacturer.
Sincerely yours.
V a l l e y  Cit y  Mil lin g Co. 

W.  N.  Row e,  Mgr.

From Out of Town.

Calls  have  been 

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

A. J.  Felter,  Stetson.
O.  I).  Blanchard  & Son, Casnovia.
B.  S.  Reed.  Hart.
Parkhurst Bros.,  Nunica.
C.  F.  Sears,  Rockford.
De Vore & Co.,  Stetsou.
A.  Purchase, South Bleudon.

P u rely  P erson al.

A.  W.  Niblock, who opened a tailoring 
establishment at  Saginaw about  a  year 
ago, but was taken ill shortly afterwards, 
recently  died  at  the  Pontiac 
insaue 
asylum.

Dr. C.  P.  Parkill,  senior  member  of 
the  drug  firm  of  Parkill  &  Son,  at 
Owosso, died  last  week  from  the  effects 
of a kidney trouble.  Deceased  was born 
in  Lewiston,  N.  Y.,  in  1820,  and  had 
been  engaged 
in  the  drug  business at 
Owosso since 1865.  He left a  large  cir­
cle of friends and  the  legacy of  a  well- 
spent life.

E. E,  Bisbee  and  G.  W.  Bisbee  have 
formed a copartnership  under  the style 
of  Bisbee  Bros,  and  opened  a  general 
store at Paris.  The  I.  M. Clark Grocery 
Co.  supplied the groceries  aud Swartout 
& Downs the furnishing goods.

The Committee  on  Trade  Interests of 
the Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­
ciation  has  promulgated  the  following 
schedule  of  prices on granulated  sugar: 
5 cents per pound;  5 pounds for 25 cents; 
10 pounds for 50 cents;  20  pounds for $1.
Every sensible man you  meet will ad­

mit that he was a foot  last week.

Some  men  who  start  out  to  set the 
world on  fire give up at the first thunder­
clap.

doz.

PRODUCE  M ARKET.

Apples—The market is almost  entirely bare of 
stock, ordinary Russets  commanding $1 per bu., 
while  selected  Greenings,  Spys  aud  Baldwins 
bring $4 per bbl.
Beans—Lower  and  dull.  Handlers  pay $1.25 
for country cleaned and $1.35 for country picked.
Butter—About the same as  a week ago.  Deal­
ers  pay  18@20c for choice  dairy, holding at 20Si 
22c.  Creamery is slow sale at 28c.

Cabbage—Home grown, $5 per 100.
Carrots—20c per bushel.
Cranberries—Cape  Cod  are  a  little  weaker, 
commanding  $3.25  per bu.  aud  $0  per  bbl.  Jer­
seys are in moderate demand at $5.75.

Celery—Home  grown  commands  15@18c  per 

Eggs—The  market  is  about  the  same  as  a 
week  ago.  Handlers  hold  fresh  at  21c  and 
pickled at 20c per doz.

Grapes—New York Concords command 15c 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 $2.50 per 8-basket crate.

Honey—White  clover  commands  15c] per  lb., 

dark buckwheat brings 13@14c.

Lettuce—Grand Rapids  forcing, 12*4c per lb.
Nuts—Walnuts  and  butternuts,  75c  per  bu. 

Hickory nuts, $1.10 per bu.

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—Kiln dried  Jerseys  command 
$3.5C@4  per bbl.  Baltlmores -’re out  of  market.

Turnips—25c per bu.

FOR  SA LE,  W A N TED ,  ETC.

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

B U K IN  K!«!*  C H A N C E S .

business.  A 

A  GOOD  OPPORTUNITY TO GO  IN A GOOD 
xY 
first-class  c ockery  and 
bazaar stock for sale.  Can  get  your money out 
In month of December what the whole stock will 
sell for.  Address Box 730, Lansing, Mich.  825
"POSITION  WANTED-BY  REGISTERED 
JL  assistant pharmacist of  five  years’  experi­
ence.  Best of references.  Address No. 526, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
IF  YOU  HAVE  A  GROCERY  OR  GENERAL 

stock of merchandise, doing a good business 
in a country town, which  you wish to exchange 
for one of  the finest residences  containing nine 
acres of choice land with  all  kinds of  fruit,  in 
the  flourishing  village  of  Middleville,  address 
W. Watson. Middleville  Mich. 

■ OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE-STOCK  OF 

general  merchandise.  Address  222  Wash­

ington ave., North, Lansing, Mich. 

830

826

827

row.  Must be sold  soon.  Big  bargain for cash 

fancy goods.  Write for particulars.  H. T  Cole, 

we must have  more  power.  W.  T.  Lamoreaux 

S21

$23

819

■ CLEAN  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  ___

TAT ANTED—A  CASH  BUYER  FOR  THE 
Vv 
best  drug  chance  in  Michigan;  invoice 
$3,000.  Address 701  Main  st., Menominee.
831
FOR
Sale;  good  trade,  cheap  for  spot  cash, 
the only delivery wagon in  town.  Stock  about 
$2,50o. 
investigate.  Address  box  15,  Centre- 
ville,  Mich. 
820
rn o   3EXt'HANGE—FOR  STOCK  OF  CLOTH 
A 
ing or boots and shoes, two  good hard  tim­
ber farms of eighty acres  each.  Thirty-live and 
seventy acres  improved.  Title  clear.  Address 
Thos. Skelton, Big  Rapids. 
IMPROVED 
farms  and  Lansing  city  property  to  ex­
change  for  merchandise.  Address  F.  C.  Bris- 
bin,  Lan-ing,  Mich. 
TT7ANTED-WOODENWARE  FACTORY  OR 
TV  Saw Mill, with good power, to locate here. 
Substantial  aid will  be  given  the  right  party. 
Address S. S. Burnett. Lake  Ann  Mich. 

I  HAVE  SEVERAL  GOOD 

Co.  122 West Bridge St., Grand Rapids. 

business at  a  great bargain—millinery and 

Administrator, Monroe, Mich.__________ 818

BHANCE  OF  a  LIFETIME  TO  SEcURE~A 
FOR  SALE—NEARLY  NEW  7‘i  HORSE 
power Otto gas engine  Discarded because 
816
F OR  EXCHANGE—FOR  GRAND  RAPIDS 
real estate, a new stock of clothing and fur 
nishing  goods,  invoicing  from $5,i 00  to  $6 000. 
Address No. 815. care Michigan Tradesman.  815
F OR  SALE—SHINGLE  MILL,  NEARLY 
new. capable of  cutting 50 0U)  feet  to-mor­
buyer.  For  particulars  address.  Holmes & De- 
Goit  Tustln,  Mich. 

F or s a l e- a  clean  stock  o f  d r u g s,

groceries  paints, oils,  sundries, soda appa 
ratus,  etc., in  a  live,  growing  manufacturing 
town  of 2,000;  will  invoice  about  $4 000;  only 
two  other  drug  stores;  good  business;  can  be 
Increased;  best location;  three  years’ lease;  no 
trade.  Reasons  for  selling wish  to  engage  In 
ontdoor pursuits.  Address  Lock  Box 5, North- 
ville, Mich. 

F OR  SALE—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. 
TOR  SALE—$3,5(10  STOCK  OF  GENERAL 
merchandise and two-story building.  Rail­
road,  500  population.  Established  strictly cash 
business.  Center  of  town.  Best  farming  sec­
tion  of  Michigan.  Bargain.  W.  H.  Pardee, 
Freeport. Mich. 
GOOD CLEAN  STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS. 
bo'Us, shoes and groceries to ext hange for 
Lansing  city property  or  improved farms.  Ad­
dress F. C  Brisbin, Lansing, Mich. 
TXT ANTED—TO  EXCHANGE  A  VALUABLE 
v T 
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.  S05,  care  Michigan 
Trade  man. 
TTTANTED—TO  EXCHANGE,  DESIRABLE 
TV  Kalamazoo real  estate  for  merchandise. 
Ca’vin Forbes, Kalamazoo, Mich 

814

803

824

804

805

806

8ii

SITUATION»  WANTED.

TTTANTED—SITUATION  IN A FIRST CLASS 
tv 
drug  store,  with  view  of  purchasing  a 
half or whole  of  business  after  six  or  eight 
months.  Address No  828, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
YTTANTED—POSITION'  AS  WINDOW  TRUST 
TV  mer,  book-keeper or  salesman,  by young 
man of five years’  experience  in  general  store. 
References  if  desired.  Address  No.  829,  care
Michigan Tradesman.__________________829
TTTANTED—A  practical  druggist, with  some 
tv 
capital, to take charge of a first-class drug 
store.  Address  C.  L.  Brundage,  opera  house 
block, Muskegon, Mich. 

828

756

HARRY  HARMAN’S

SCHOOL  OF  WINDOW  DRESSING
A  monthly  publication.  Displays  for  every 

AND  TIECORATING.

line of busiuess.
H O L I D A Y

E D I T I O N  
(No stamps.)

CTS.

1204  W oman’s  Temple,  Chicago.

A   B i g  D r i v e

III AIL  SILK  (SAT.  E D I)

\ ! /

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.  9.............. ................68c
No.  12..............
................84c
Or we will  assort  you a box each
of Nos. 5, 7, 9 and 12, at  52 >4e  aver-
age, and  you  can select  yòur 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  RAPID5,  fllCH.

20-22  No  Division  8 t,

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Dry Goods Price Current.

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THE  MICHIGAN  CRANBERRY.

In the early days of  Michigan  history 
it was very common  to hear the  remark, 
‘•The marshes are red with cranberries,” 
and among the  early  settlers  the  cran­
berry  became  a  very  staple  article  of 
winter supply,  purchased  of  the  Indian 
at the established price  of  25  cents  per 
bushel.

From  numerous  sources  of  informa­
tion,  I am  led  to  believe  there  were  as 
many or more wild  cranberries in  Michi­
gan in the early  days  as  in  Wisconsin, 
but so neglectful  have the  later  settlers 
of our State been of  this gift  of  nature 
that I doubt if the value of the Michigan 
crop has ever been as much as $50,000  in 
one year,  while many crops of Wisconsin 
have  probably  been sold for as much as 
$500,000.  A  great  share  of  the  lands 
that were by nature cranberry lands have 
been turned to less profitable  uses, some 
of them possibly to better purposes, such 
as  the  celery  lands  of  Kalamazoo  and 
other points.  There are yet many pieces of 
waste land in our S ate that can  be made 
valuable  for  this fruit,  but care and ex­
perience  are  needed to select the places 
having the right conditions.

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U N BLEA CH ED   COTTONS.

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Adriatic.............. 
7
Argyle  ....................  6
Atlanta AA................6
Atlantic  A 
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P ..............  5
D..............  6  I Hartford A  ...__ s
LL....... —   5 

Arrow Brand  4M 
World Wide.  6
LL....................454
6X Full Yard Wide.......654
654 Georgia  A  ..............  65*
*  Honest Width.........  6

Indian Head............  554
. 
........  62* King A  A ............... 6*4
Archery  Bunting...  4  King EC.................  5
Beaver Dana  A A..  4Xi Lawrence  L L........  4*4
Blackstone O. 32—   5  ¡Madras cheese cloth 6M
5 , i f  
............ 6  Newmarket  G..........  sv
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Black  Rock  ...........6 
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Boot, AL................  7 
Capital  A 
DD'.:::  5M
5« 
Cavanat V..............  5yd 
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6M
Chapman cheese cl.  3% Nolbe R..................  5
Clifton  C R ............   5>* Our Level  Best.... .  6
Comet..................... 65* I Oxford  R..................  e
Dwight Star............  6X  Pequot.................... 7
Clifton CCC...........  SMiSolar...... ................   g
¡Top of the  Heap...!  7 
A B C ......................85*|Geo. Washington...  8
Amazon.................  8  Glen Mills..............  7
Amsburg.................6*4 Gold Medal................ 7*
Art  Cambric...........10  Green  Ticket..........8U
Blackstone A A......  TVS Great Palls.............   «5
Beats A ll..................   454
Hope
Boston....................   12
Just  Out........   4M®  5"*
Cabot.........................  7u
King  Phillip............7*
Cabot,  X ...................  «5
OP.....  7*4
Charter  Oak............  5*4
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Conway W ...............  714
Lonsdale............  <a  8V
Cleveland..............   64
Middlesex.........   ® 5*
Dwight Anchor__   84
No Name..................   7%
shorts  8
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Edwards................... 6
Our Own..................   514
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Pride of the West... 12
F 
1.....................  754
Rosalind................... 7,4
Fruit of the  Loom.  854
Sunlight..................  4*4
Fitch ville  .............  ?
Utica  Mills..............8*4
First Prize...............7
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Fruit of the Loom X.  7v,
Vinyard....................  854
Fairmount............... 4M
White  Horse..........  6
Full Value...............  6%
854
Cabot........................   75*|DwlghtAnchor.
854
Farwell.....................8 

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H A L F   BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.

b l e a c h e d   c o t t o n s .

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Cranberry  growing,  without  expert 
experience, 
is  something  like  the  In­
dian’s terse description of the white man, 
“ heap uusartin,”  and  unless soil,  water 
supply  and  freedom  from  frost  condi­
tions  are  all favorable,  the  business  is 
risky and uncertain.

There  are  some plantations about the 
Traverse  Bay  region  that  are very suc­
cessful,  and  others  scattered  about  the 
State. 
I  do  not  know  of  any  having 
more  perfect  frost  protection  than  the 
“Grand  Mere”  farm  near  St.  Joseph, 
where we have lost but one crop in four­
teen  years  from  frost.  This  land  i* 
practically  a  “ bayou”  alongside 
the 
great  lak«-,  with  just  elevation enough 
for drainage.

The  average  Michigan  native berries 
are not as dark colored as are those from 
Cape  Cod,  and  the  superstition has be­
come  well  established  in  many  minds 
that  the  dark  colored  cranberries  are 
superior  to  light  colored ones,  but this 
has  been  proven  fallacious,  over  and 
over again,  and the superior  fine  fruity 
fiavor  of  the  Michigan  berry  acknowl­
edged after most careful  tests  by  disin­
terested  parties,  and  already some  buy­
ers seek  for  the  “ Michigan  Bugles”  to 
satisfy their customers.

The  selection  of  the  best  varieties 
among  the  seedlings,  which  are  found 
on  all  marshes  where  the berry grows, 
has not yet had the attention  it deserves, 
but offers an interesting  field  for  study 
and experiment.
The prices of  the cranberry have  been 
quite  materially  reduced  by  the  large 
product,  but they are yet too high  to  be 
as staple as they should be for  economi­
cal  buyers.  A lower price will no doubt 
largely increase the demand,  and foreign 
markets take them  when  they  are  com­
paratively as cheap as apples.

S.  H.  Co m ings.

F ood   o f   th e  A n cien ts.

The ancients had  strangely  accommo­
dating stomachs; a sauce of  honey could 
induce  them  to  eat  cuttle-fish.  Garlic 
and  cheese  made the  sword-fish  a  deli­
cacy; 
the  rhombus  floated  into  Greek 
stomachs  on  a sauce of  wine and brine; 
the ladies of Borne  ate  onions  with  the 
muzil,  and  pine-nnts with the pilchard. 
The more  refined  Greeks,  on  the  other 
hand,  would not touch the pilchard;  and 
the same difference of  taste existed  with 
regard to the  loach;  while,  again,  both 
Rome and  Greece  uuited  in  admiration 
of the gudgeon.

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Integrity............
Hamilton 
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Integrity colored..
colored ....2 0 White Star.............
colored.

CARPE1 WARP.
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...  9
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COBBET  JE A N S.

Corallne...................99 50|Wonderful 
Schilling’s ...............  9 00 Brighton....................4 75
Davis  Waists  —   9 00 Bortree’s ..................9 00
Grand  Rapids.......  4 50|Abdomlnal..............15 00
Armory....................  OXINaumkeagsatteen..  754
Androscoggin..........7*4 Rockport......................654
Blddeford........ .—  6  [Conestoga  ...  . 
754
Brunswick..........  ..  6541 Walworth............ 6X
Allen turkey  reds..  5541 Berwick fan cies...  554
robes........  554 Clyde Robes.........
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pink 4 purple 554 Charter Oak fancies 454
huffs 
..........   554  DelMarine cashm’s.  554
monrn’g  554
pink  checks.  654 
staples  ........   5 
| Eddy stone  fancy...  554
shirtings 
chocolat  554 
American  fancy... 
rober  ...  554
Americanindlgo... 
sateens..  554
American shirtings 
¡Hamilton fancy.  ...  554
Argentine  Grays.. 
staple__ 554
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Anchor Shirtings..
Manchester fancy..  554
npw prft  Riz
Arnold 
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Arnold  Merino......
Merrimack D fancy.  5J4 
long cloth B.
954 Merrim’ck shirtings.  4
“  C.
Repp furn .  854
century cloth 
Pacific  fancy  ......... 554
gold seal.......1054
robes.............  6
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green seal TR1054 Portsmouth robes...  654 
yellow  seal. .1054 Simpson monmlng..  5V
■erg»
1154
BBrsrn........ . ..iita l 
greys.........  544
Turkey red 
-1054
■olid black.  544 
Ballon solid black 
Washington Indigo.  654 
colors.
“  Turkey robes  .  7M 
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  India robes....  754 
“  plain T*ky X 44  854 
Berlin solids............  554
“ 
oil blue........  6  !
“  Ottoman  Tur­
“  green  —   6  I
key red....................654
554 Martha Washington
Turkeyred 44.........754
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. . .10 
Turkeyred...........   954
“ 
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Rlverpolntrobes  ...  554
Cocheco fancy........   5
Windsor fancy...........654
“  madders...  5
“  XX twills..  5
Indigo blue...........1054
“ 
solids..........5
Harmony.................  454

red and  orange...  6
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“  red X

X  ..........  954 [Martha
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j  Hamilton N  ............  754 Pemberton AAA.  .. 16
D .... .. .. .   8)4 York.......................... 1054
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Awning. . 11  Swift River...............  754
| Farmer  ....................8  Pearl  River................12
| First  Prize...............1054 Warren............ .........1854
|C auxoga  .............. 16
Lenox Kills 
I Atlanta,  D ...............  6Si|8ta „   A 
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1 Boot..........................   6«  No  Name................... 754
Clifton, K ...............7  Top of  Heap..............  9

COTTON  D  ta.  .

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9oz..............
brown......
Andover  ..................1154
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
BB  . .  9
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“  d * twist  1054 
Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.IB
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Everett, blue............1254
brown........1254
Haymaker blue.......  7X
brown...  7X
Jeffrey...................... 1154
Lancaster  ................1254
Lawrence, 9 oz........ 1354
No. 220.... 13
No. 250 — 1154
No. 280... 1054

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Lancaster,  staple...  6
fancies__   7
Normandie  8
Lancashire..............   6
Manchester.............   5X
Monogram__   ... 
654
Normandie.............  754
Persian.....................7 
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Renfrew Dress.........754
arwlck dres  754lRosemont................   654
Slatersvllle
6
Somerset.................. 7
Tacoma  .....................754
Toll  duNord..........1054
Wabash....................  754
seersucker..  754
Warwick  ...............   7
Whittenden.............   8
heather dr.  754 
Indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  6X
Westbrook............... 8
10
Windermeer............ 5
York  ........................6X

Amoskeag  ................ 654
“  Persian dress  7 
Canton  ..  7
“ 
AFC........1054
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Teazle.. .1054
“ 
Angola.. IO54
“ 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple__ 6*4
Arasapha  fancy__   4X
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staples.  6
Centennial.  ..........   1054
Criterion...............  1054
Cumberland staple.  554
Cumberland............ 5
Essex..........................454
Elfin.........................   754
Everett classics...... 854
Exposition.................754
Glenarie..................   654
Glenarven................  6X
Glenwood.................. 754
Hampton.................... 654
Johnson Chalón cl 
54 
Indigo blue  954 
zephyrs__ 16
Amoskeag.................14
Stark........................  19
American..................1454|

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Clark’s Mile End....45
Coats’, J. & P.......... 45
Holyoke....................2254

Barbour's................£6
Marshall’s ...............81

K N ITTIN G   COTTON.

No.

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...34
...35
.36

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

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“  18...
“  20...

White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ...37
38
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40
...39
41
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CAM BRICS.

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45
45*
Slater........................   45%[Edwards
White Star.............   45*|Lockwood................45*
Kid Glove................  45* (Wood’s ....................  454
45*
Newmarket.............   45*IBrunswlck
T W..........................2254
F T ............................825*
J R F , XXX.............35
Bnckeye..................8254

Fireman...................3254
Creedmore............... 2754
Talbot XXX.............30
Nameless................. 2754

R E D   FL A N N EL.

M IX ED   FL A N N E L .

Red & Blue,  plaid..40
Union R ...................2254
Windsor...................I854
6 oz Western........... 20
Union  B .................. 2254
DOM ET  FLA N N EL.
Nameless.......8  @  9541 
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Grey SR  W..............1754
Western W  ..............I854
D R P ........................1854
Flushing XXX.........2854
Manitoba..................2354
9  01054 
1254
Black.
1054
1154
12
20

Brown.
1054
1154
12
20

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1054
1154
12
20

Black
95*
1054
1154
1254

CANVASS  AND  PA D D IN G .
Brown.
954
1054
1154
1254

Slate.
954
1054
1154
1254
Severen, 8 oz...........   954 |West  Point, 8 oz. . .  1054
May land, 8 oz..........1054 
10 oz  ...1254
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Greenwood, 754 01..  954 Raven, lOoz............. 1354
............. 1354
Greenwood,8 oz.  ..1154 Stark 
Boston, 8 oz............. 1054lBoston, 10 oz.............1254

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8ILBBIA8,

White, doz.............   25 
|Per bale, 40 doz. . .  83  50
Colored,  doz............20  IColored  “ 
...........7 50
Slater, Iron Cross...  8  ¡Pawtucket............1054
Red Cross....  9  Dundle...........  
9
Best.............. 1054  Bedford.............”!.'! 1054
Best  AA......1254 Valley  City...............1054
.......................  754 K K ...........................1054
........................  8541

SEWING  SILK.

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[CortlceUi  knitting, 
per 540Z  ball........ 30

CortlceUi, doz.........85
twist, doz. .4P 
50 yd, doz. .40
HOOKS  AND  E T E S — F E B  GROSS.
No  1 Bl’k A White..10
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No 2-20, M C
50 
8—18, S C ............45

No  4 Bl’k 4  Whlte..l5
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|No 4—15  y  354........40
No  2 White 4  Bl’k.. 12 INo  8 White 4  Bl’k..20 
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NEEDLES—PEE  M.

A. James...................1  401 Steamboat........... 
40
Crowely’B................ 1  35 Gold  Eyed..........  *"i  so
Marshall’s ............... 1 OOiAmerican...................l  00
j5—4....1  65  6—4...2 30
5—4 ....  1  75  6—4... 

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COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.......................12
Domestic..................1854
Anchor..................... 16
Bristol...................... 13
Cherry  Valley.........15
I X L .............  ......... 1854
Alabama.....................6£
[ Alamance...................654
Augusta.................... 754
Ar  sapba................... 6
Georgia.....................65*
Granite....................  5*
j Haw  River..............  5
1  Haw  J ......................  6

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Nashua................... 14
Rising Star 4-ply__17
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3-ply.... 17
North  Star..............20
Wool Standard 4 ply 1754 
Powhattan............ 16

Mount  Pleasant__ 654
Oneida......................  5
Prymont.................   5%
Randelman..............6
Riverside.................  su

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lected to that you will be out nothing for the ex­
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C apital,  $ 3 0 0 ,0 0 0 .

DIRECTORS.
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(Concluded from 3d page.) 
I have thought of you so often 
see you. 
since those enchanted days. 
I  have  so 
much to ask you—let us go to some more 
quiet spot—”

She  smiled  brightly and  placed  her 
hand on his arm.  He felt a joyous thrill.
“ Why,  Dick!” said a voice behind him. 
“Where are you  going  with  my  pretty 
maid?  1 wanted to bring you to her my­
self.  Didn’t we have  a  delightful  sur­
prise for you?’’

An idea came painfully into  Richard’s 
mind.  He stood  like  one  dazed.  Miss 
Alger flashed one of her  brilliant  smiles 
at  him.

“Don’t  you  remember  how  little  we 
talked of New York,  and  how completely 
we  welcomed  you  after  we found you 
were  Mr.  Richard  Wyndham—I  knew 
you were Guy’s friend.”

Richard remembered it all,  but  he  had 
never thought of  it  in 
that  light.  He 
was far too nervous to carry off  the situ­
ation with grace. 
In his pain and disap­
pointment  he  could  only  wonder  how 
conscious  Ethel  was  of  his  suffering. 
She stood before him smiling and fanning 
herself so easily.

“Ethel wrote  me  you  were  in  Hills­
boro’—and,  well—as we  were  not  ready 
to  annouuce  the  engagement—we kept 
this as a grand surprise,” explained Guy.
They had  succeeded  admirably  in  sur­
thought,  but  lie 
prising  him,  Riciiard 
could  find no voice to auswer.  He heard 
Guy’s happy laugh,and saw Ethel smiling. 
They were waiting for him to  wish them 
happiness.  There  was  a pathetic accent 
in his voice  when  he murmured  his con­
gratulations.

He made a  mighty  effort.  His  heart 
it  all, yet  it  told  him he had 

resented 
been a coward.

He 

recovered  himself  wonderfully. 
Ethel should  not know that he  loved  her 
then nor now.  His pride was  quick  and 
responded  to the call.

*

*

*

*

*

As Richard  walked  up  and  down  his 
room  in the early  hours that  morning he 
would  have  given  anything  to  kuow 
whether or not  Ethel  understood  the sit­
uation;  whether  or not  it was  because 
of her kind heart that  she  bad  so 
ten­
derly and thoughtfully regarded  his  se­
cret,  and made it as easy  as  possible for 
him to bear, as they stood there together.
Would  Guy suspect!  The  thought  of 
their  talking  it  over  goaded  him.  He 
could not bear their  pity—he would  not 
bear  Guy’s  concealed  amusement  and 
scorn of  his  behavior.  Yet  how  were 
they to know  his  past point of view?

He would  throw  up  his  position  and 
go abroad—but that  would  be  obviously 
running  away. 
There  was  Harriet 
Wheeler.  She had  looked  at  him  that 
night with love in  her eyes.  Kind,  rich, 
homely  Harriet Wheeler! 
In  the  midst 
of his woe  his  vanity cried.  He  longed 
to  be  soothed.  He  wanted  sympathy. 
She  would  always  worship  hitn.  She 
would never know—and  Guy and  Ethel
would never know-----

Ma r g a r e t  Liv in g st o n.

A n d rew   C arnegie  on   M illionaires.
“What concerns  us  most is  the  condi­
tion  of  to-day,  and  it  is this condition 
that produces millionaires.  For instance, 
Bell invented  the telephone,  and  he  to­
is  a  millionaire.  Cimarci  built  a 
day 
steamship,  and  he  to-day is worth mil­
lions. 
In Chicago there  was a merchant 
who  began  to sell  dry goods.  His busi­
ness,  owing  to  bis  skill  of  direction, 
steadily increased,  and  he to-day  is  one 
of the great millionaires of the  West,  A

rtUB,  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

stupid,  stolid  Dutchman—I  beg  to  say 
that  I  have  no reference,  in  using  the 
stupid  and  stolid,  to those gentlemen I 
see before me  who  resemble  Dutchmen 
in  feature—but  I say again that a stolid, 
unambitious,  plodding, 
intensely  re­
ligious  Dutchman  held  onto his farm on 
Manhattan  Island,  and now twenty mil­
lionaires are the consequence of  his ten­
acity of purpose.  This  sort  of  produc­
tion  is  not  only  right,  it  is  healthful. 
The presence of the millionaire is a bene­
fit to the community.
“Look at the countries that  are  with­
out  millionaires.  Take  India,  where 
there  are  no  millionaires except the In­
dian  princes, and  there  is no country in 
the  East  where  the  mass of  the people 
are in such  poor  condition. 
In  Russia, 
where there  are  no  millionaires  except 
those  that  have  been  made  so  by  the 
inheritance  of  royal  wealth,  the condi- 
tion  of  the  people has excited the criti­
cism  of  the world. 
In Germany,  where 
there were two  millionaires,  but  where 
there  is  now  but  one,  and  in  France, 
where you can count  the millionaires on 
your  hands,  the  condition  of  the  great 
mass  of  inhabitants  is  an  unfavorable 
contrast to  that  of  England.  England, 
which  has great  millionaires, produces a 
race of  working people whose conditions 
and surroundings are immensely superior 
to those of any other  country  in Europe, 
and  whose  political  rights  are  clearly 
defined,  more thoroughly  respected. 
In 
this country the condition  of  the  work­
ingmen  is so far better than  in any other 
civilized  country 
the  American 
workingman  is  able  really  to  waste,  1 
say  waste,  what  would serve  to  ‘keep’ a 
workingman  in Germany or France.
“The millionaire is really  a product of 
the prosperity of  the masses.  He is the 
legitimate  outgrowth  of  their  material 
advancement.  We  have  millionaires 
here because the masses  are prosperous. 
They  know  something  of  luxury. 
If 
anyone  is agitated about what he fancies 
is  an  undue  number of  millionaires  in 
this country.  1  will  ask  such  a  one  to 
stop  and  think  what  the  millionaire 
gets.  1 make the statement as a fact that, 
be a millionaire  ever so miserly and  sel­
fish,  it is not possible for  him  to  divert 
his wealth from enterprises that contrib­
ute to the prosperity of the country.  His 
very  passion  to  multiply  his  riches of 
necessity enhances the prosperity of  the 
nation. 
It is a fact  undenied  that  that 
man  who recently died,  and  who  at  his 
death  ranked  as  the richest man of the 
country,  had every cent of his  vast  for­
tune, except that which was necessary to 
support himself and  his family,  invested 
and  at  work  night  and  day  in  the  de­
velopment of the  vast  railroad  systems 
of this country. 
It is  true  that  a  mil­
lionaire  may  live  in  a finer house than 
some of his neighbors,  he may  wear finer 
clothes,  he  may  eat  a  finer  quality  of 
food,  he  may  adorn  his  dwelling  with 
paintings and a few trifles of  art fancies 
—after  all,  what  does  be  really  get? 
And frequently  he toils  like  a  slave  at 
his business.  Why,  the community sim­
ply gives him his board  and lodging. 
It 
is certain  that he can’t  carry  away  any 
of the fortune that  he is accumulating.”

that 

There are men  who go to  a  gynasium 
for exercise while their wives are sawing 
the wood.

Hardware Price Current.

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AXXS.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for cash,  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dig.
Snell’s ................................................................  
60
Cook’s ................................................................  
40
Jennings’, genuine..........................................  
25
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................... 50*10
First Quality, S. 8. Bronze.............................» 7 00
D.  B. Bronze..............................  m, 00
S.  B. S. Steel...............................  8 00
D.  B. Steel..................................  13 50
Railroad 
........................................................*  14 00
Garden  ....................................................  net  30 00
die.
bolts. 
Stove.................................................................... 50*10
75*10
Carriage new list...............  
Plow.................................................................... 40*10
Sleigh shoe  .  ................................................... 
70
Well,  plain  ......................................................8 3 50
Well, swivel...........................................................  4 00
dlS.
Cast Loose Pin, figured....................   ............70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint................604.0

BUTT*. CAST. 

BABBOWB. 

BUCKETS.

dig.

 

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

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1893 ...............   60*10

Grain............................. 

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

CRA D LES.

CROW BA R S.

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

CA PS.

5
85
60
35
60

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

se
25

CABTRTD0KS,

C H I8E L 8. 

dls.

Socket Firmer...................................................70*10
Socket Framing................................................70*18
Socket Corner................................................... 70*10
Socket Slicks................................................... 70*10
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer..............................  
40

dls.

40
25
12©12)4 dls. 10

combs. 

Curry,  Lawrence’s ..........................................  
Hotchkiss.........................................................  
CHALK.
White Crayons, per  gross__
C O PPE R .
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...
14x52, 14x56, 14x60 .
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.
Cold Rolled, 14x48....................
Bottoms............................
DRILLS. 
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks.......... .
Taper and straight Shank 
Morse’s Taper Shank........

per pound

“ 

dlS.

D R IPPIN G   PA N S.

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

07
8)4

ELBOW S.

EX PA N SIV E   B IT S. 

• ’on*. 4  piece, 6 In.............................. dos. net 
75
40
■omigated  ..............................................dls 
Adinstable................................................dls.  40*10
Clark’s, small, liR;  large, $26...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, $18:  2, $34;  3.$30  ............................ 
35
Disston’s ...................................................... 60*10
New American  ............................................60*10
Nicholson’s ..................................................60*10
Heller’s
Heller's Horse Rasps  ..................................... 

files—New List. 

dls.

d l s .

|

GALVANIZED IRON

13 

15 

12 

dil.

dls.

NAILS

If ITTOPK9

Discount, 60

locks—door. 

mauls. 
mills. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

i
16  1
dls.
dls.

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  36;  27 
List 

14 
GAUGES. 
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s
knobs—New List. 
Door, mineral, ]ap. 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 ............................................
Adze Bye..................................‘ .........$16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Bye............................................. $15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ..........................................»18.50, dls. 20*10.
dls.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
50
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
40
“  P. 8. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable*.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Cls rk’s ................... 
40
“  Enterprise 
......................................... 
80
Stebbin’s  Pattern...........................................    60*10
Stebbln's Genuine............................................ 66*10
Bnterprlse, self-measuring............................. 
25
Advance over  base,  on  botn  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, Dase...............................................  
1 50
Wire nails, base..............................   .....1   75@1  80
60...............................................   .......Base
Base 
50..............
10 
40.............
25 
30.............
25 
35 
20.............
45 
16.............
45 
12.............
50 
10.............
8...........
60 
75 
7 * 6 ........
90 
4...............
3  .............
1  20 
2...........
1  60 
F ln e S ...
1  60 
Case  10...
65 
8...
75 
6...
90 
Finish 10.
75 
90 
6.
1  10 
Clinch; 10..............................................
70 
8....................................
80 
6....................................
90 
Barren %.............................................
1  75 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy...................................   ©40
Sciota Bench.................................................  
©50
Sandnsky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................   040
Bench, first quality..........................................   ©40
Stanley Rnle and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 50S10
Fry,  Acme.................................................dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................... dls. 
70
Iron and  Tinned.............................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Bars................................  50—10

r iv e t s. 

PLANES.

dls.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

d ls.

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

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

Broken packs tfc per pound extra.

HAMMERS.

“ 

“ 
“ 

dls.

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

Maydole  *  Co.’s ..................................
Sip’s ....................................................
Yerkes *  Plumb’s ..............................
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ____  _______ _________
State  .............................................per doz. net, 2
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 4)4  14  and
longer............................................................. 
Screw Hook and  Eye, H .............................net 
“ 

25 
dls. 
25 
dls. 
dis. 40*10 
80c list 60 
80c 40*10
dls.6u&lo 
50
3)4
10
H ...........................net  8)4
3£........................... net  7)4
%............................ net  7)4
Strap and T .................................................. dls. 
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50*10
Champion,  antl-frlctlon................................  60*10
40
Kidder, wood track.............................
60*10
Pots.........................................................
60*10
Kettles............. .•...................................
60*10
Spiders  ...........................................  ....
40*10
Gray enameled...................................
HOUSE FURNISHING  GOODS.
Stamped  Tin Ware..................................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware...........  ................. 
■&
Granite Iron Ware 
....................  new list 33*410
B light.....................................................   70*10*10
70*10*10
Screw  Eyes
70*10*10
Hook's...................................
70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes..........
LEVELS.
dis.7,1
Stanley Rnle and Level  Co.’s ..................
RO PES.
Sisal, )4 Inch and larger.................
Manilla  ......................................................
Steel and  Iron...............................................
Try and Bevels..........................................
Mitre....................................................

HOLLOW WARE.

WIRE GOODS. 

SQUARES.

dls.

SHEET IRON.

50
list so
55
50
55
35

Com.  Smooth
Nos. 10 to  14..................................... |4 05
Nos. 15 to 17........................................   4 05
Nos.  18 to 31.......................................  4 05
Nos. 22 to 24........................................   4 05
Nos. 25 to 26............................. 
4  35
No. 27.................................................'..4  45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  ........................... 
Silver Lake, White  A ..........................  

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

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

.......dis. 

 

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“ 

Drab A ....................................  ** 
White  B ..................................  1 
Drab B....................................  " 
White C....................................“ 

saws. 

Discount, 10.

Solid Byes........................................... 

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

per ton »25
30
70
50
30

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

TRAPS. 

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

30
„ 
dig.
Steel, Game....................................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................. 
35
70
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s 
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c per dos
Mouse, delusion.................................. 11.50 per doz
dlS.
Bright Market...................................................  65
Annealed Market.......................................... . .70—10
Coppered Market........................................... '  60
Tinned Market...................................... 
62)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel...................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.............................  2 80
painted..................................  340

WIRE. 

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HORSE NAILS.

dis.
ft
20
Com.$3 95 
3 05 3 05 3 15 3 35 

WRENCHES. 

An  Sable...............................................................dls. 40*10
dls.  06
Putnam.............................................. 
Northwestern...................................  
dls. 10*10
dls.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled.....................  
30
Coe’s  Genuine 
.............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wronght,......................  75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................................. 75410
dls.
B irdcages.....................................................  
©1
Pumps. Cistern...................................... 
75*10
Screws, New lis t ............................................  70*10
Casters, Bed  a  d  Plate....................... 50*10*10
Dampers, American......................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.......  65*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

METALS.

PIG TIN.

 

7

 
 
 

“ 

26c
28c

ZINC.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.........................................................  
Pig Bars...............................................  
 
Duty:  Sheet, 2)4c per pouDd.
660 pound  casks...............................................
Per pound......................................................... 
H©)4.........................................................................16
Extra W iping...................................................... 
t5
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
Bolder In the market indicated by uHvate brand«
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONT
Cookson............................................per  pound
Hallett’s .......................................... 
is
TIN—MBLTN GRADS.
10x14 IC, Charcoal..........................................  »7
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

 
Bach additional X on this grade, >1.75.

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN— ALLAWAY GRADS.
“ 
“ 
“ 

10x14 IC,  Charcoal......................... 
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

 

75
6  75
8  25
9  25

Bach additional X on this gride »1.50.

7  0
9  25
9  25

ROOFING PLATES 
Worcester

Allaway  Grade.

6 5 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
8  50
20x28 IC, 
IS  58 
14x20 IC, 
6  00
14x20 IX, 
7 50 
20x28  IC, 
12  50 
20x28 IX,
15 50
14x29 IX............................................................»14  00
14x31  IX.................................  
.  ....  15 00
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I ___ 
f P®r  pound —   10 00
14x60 IX,  “  “  9 

BOILRR SIZE TIN PLATE.

1n

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WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  6,  1893.

THE  SCIENCE  OF  BLIZZARDS.

The  cause  of  the  weather  is  one  of 
nature’s  most  profound  secrets.  Not 
only are the causes of  the storms  wholly 
unknown,  but nobody is able  to  explain 
intelligently,  for  nobody  understands, 
the reasons  for the  changes  of  tempera­
ture.  The phenomena of weather changes 
are being carefullyobserved and  reported, 
but nobody  has been able  to  get  at  the 
bottom of the mystery to know the reason 
why.

As  an  example,  the  changes  of  the 
weather,  as shown on the  weather  maps 
issued  by  the  Government  Bureau,  for 
the last few days  present  some  curious 
facts.  For instance,  on  Friday,  Nov.  24, 
there  appeared  a  cold  wave advancing 
into  the  United  States  from  British 
America.  At St.  Vincent,  in  Minnesota, 
the temperature at 8 o’clock  in  the morn­
ing,  shown  by the  thermometer,  was  12 
degrees below zero,  while  the  zero  line 
swung  southward  in  a  curve  down  to 
Dubuque,  Iowa. 
In  twenty-four  hours, 
at 8 o’clock on the morning  of  the 25th, 
the  cold had  sensibly  moderated  at  St. 
Vincent,  the  temperature  having  risen 
to 6 degrees above zero,  while  the  zero 
line had  retreated  northward  into  Brit­
ish  America.  Now,  if  the  heat  which 
warms the earth  is derived from  the sun, 
why should these  sudden  changes  have 
been experienced at that particular place 
within  so  short  a time, when there was ! 
no change in the  nearness of the  sun  to | 
that  locality,  nor  any  variation  in 
the I 
angle  at  which  the  sun’s  rays  fell  on 
that place?”

that, 

If  we  only  knew 

their progress,  whether to the  southward 
or  the  eastward,  is  fully  observed  and 
even  predicted.  But the causes of  these 
cold  waves—what they are remain wholly 
unknown. 
it 
might be possible to predict their coming.
What we do know about  the  blizzards 
is that they start  somewhere  in  the  far 
North,  and  move  southward  with  great 
velocity. 
If  they meet anywhere on the 
Western plains strong south  winds,  then 
the north and  south  currents,  aided  by 
the dense bank  of  atmosphere that com­
monly  lies  along  the  great  mountain 
chains  of  the  West,  form  a  whirling 
storm which moves to the eastward.  But 
if no south  wind be met  by the northern 
blast,  then it forces  its way even  to  the 
Gulf of  Mexico,  and far down into Mex­
ico and Central  America.  Whenever,  in 
the winter,  there  is  a  low  atmospheric 
pressure over the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  it  is 
certain  that  the northern blizzards will 
be felt this far  south.  But a high south 
wind  on  the  Gulf  keeps  back  the  bliz­
zards and  forces them  in  another  direc­
tion, which is always to the eastward.

In all probability the  storms would  all 
go westward but for the great  north and 
south mountain chains of onr hemisphere. 
With their snow-covered peaks they fur­
nish a wall  of  dense  atmosphere which 
resists a movement to the westward, and, 
the only outlet being to the  eastward, it 
is found in that direction,  and  hence  all 
storms  on 
the  land  originating on the 
Western  plains  move  eastward,  while 
invariably  move west­
those on the  sea 
ward  until 
they  meet  a  high pressure, 
which turns them back to the  northeast. 
The  ocean  cyclones  either originate in 
the Atlantic east of the West  Indian Ar­
chipelago,  or  in  the  Caribbean  Sea, or 
even  in the Gulf of Guinea off  the  coast 
of Africa;  but  in  every case they move 
westward to the vicinity of Cuba, or even 
as far west as the  coast  of  Mexico. 
In 
all  probability they would continue west­
ward  but  for  meeting  a  dense atmos­
phere which causes  them to sheer  off  to 
the northeastward.

But this does  not  give  any reason  for 
the causes of storms,  either  cold  or hot. 
It only refers to the movement  of  these 
great meteors. 
In the meantime, experi­
ments  made recently in  the  possibilities 
of producing cold have opened new fields 
of speculation about the  causes  of  the 
weather.  Prof.  Dewar,  of  London,  has 
succeeded in  producing such extremes of 
| cold  that at  340  degrees  Fahrenheit  be­
low  zero he solidified air into a transpar­
ent  body  like glass.  At 346 degrees be­
low zero he solidified nitrogen gas  into a 
white crystalline wax.  He reduced oxy­
gen gas to a bluish oil  at 154 degrees be­
low  zero.  All  these  temperatures were 
measured  with a hydrogen  thermometer, 
which does not show a greater  degree of 
cold than 400 below zero.

speculation, and in it may be found some 
of the secrets of the weather.

THE  N E W   SEARCH  FOR  GOLD.
The placing of the finances  of  most of 
the commercial nations of  the earth on a 
gold  basis,  for  in  every  case  a parity 
must  be  preserved  between  silver  and 
gold,  has set the gold-seekers  at work to 
find new supplies,  while the  miners  are 
doing all  in their power to increase their 
production.

To this end,  gold  mines  which  have 
long  been  discarded  are  being worked 
over,  and much attention  is  being  paid 
to the gold region  along the eastern slope 
of the Blue Ridge Mountains, from Mary­
land to the foothills  of  Alabama.  Con­
siderable good ore is obtainable in places, 
and much low-grade ore which  has here­
tofore been  rejected can be  made  avail­
able by the use  of  improved  processes 
and machinery for  reduction. 
It is esti­
mated  that with  modern  chemistry and 
appliances  very  low-grade  ore  can  be 
profitably worked,  and  sulphurets which 
were long considered  entirely refractory 
can be and are being successfully reduced 
by the improved methods.

Thus  will  be  opened,  not  only large 
sources of supply in  the  mining  regions 
of  the West,  but the Atlantic slope mines 
can  be made productive to a  degree  not 
dreamed of. 
In the meantime it is given 
out  that  already  increased  supplies  of 
gold  will be found to appear  in  the  re­
port to be made up on the 1st of January, 
and it is claimed that the  aggregate pro­
duction of all countries  will reach  about 
$145,000,000.  This  is  $6,000,000  more 
than the  production  of  1892,  as  it will 
appear in the forthcoming annual  report 
of the Mint Bureau, and $14,000,000 more 
than the amount was stated in  the annual 
report on  production  which  was  trans­
mitted to  Congress  in  February.  The 
figures of 1892  have  been  raised  by Di­
rector Preston by  adding  $6,000,000  for 
the production  of  China,  increasing the 
figures  for  Africa  from  $22,069,578  to 
$23,706,000,  and  slightly  changing  the 
figures for Russia, Japan and one  or two 
other  countries.  The  new  figures  are 
based  upon the latest reports from United 
States diplomatic  officers  and  estimates 
by  leading  economists.  The  chief  in­
crease for the present year  has  been  in

South Africa,  where  the Witwatersrandt 
region has proved  exceptionally produc­
tive.  The production  for  the  first  six 
months  was  far  in  excess  of the same 
months in  1892,  and  the  total  for  the 
present year is likely to  reach  1,400,000 
ounces,  or nearly $30,000,000,  against  a 
production  in  1892  of 1,212,921 ounces, 
and in 1891 of 728,613 ounces.

It appears  that  the  gold  product  of 
the United States for 1892 was estimated 
at $33,000,000 in  the last  report  on  pro­
duction,  and  will  not  be  essentially 
changed in the coming  annual  report of 
Director  Preston.  The  figures  for  the 
present  year  will  probably  range  be­
tween $35,000,000  and  $36,000,000 in the 
value of the gold  product.  Statistics of 
the silver product are not yet sufficiently 
definite to permit an intelligent estimate, 
but the shutting down  of  some  of  the 
mines since the suspension  of  free coin­
age in India is believed to  have  had the 
effect of considerably reducing  the  pro­
duction of the present year.

The pressure  for  gold 

is  certain  to 
grow with the urgent  and  increased  de­
mand,  and there will be  a  great  revival 
of  prospecting  in  all  the gold-bearing 
States.  Borings will  be  made with  the 
diamond drill, an apparatus not available 
twenty years ago.  By its  use  strata  of 
rock 
to  considerable  depths  may  be 
pierced and the material  brought  up  at 
a trifling expense compared  with  that of 
sinking shafts,  which was long the  only 
method of search  in  use.  The  earth  is 
going  to  be  ransacked  for gold,  and a 
grand rally will be made  in  every coun­
try to get it.

Traverse City is paying the penalty for 
having a reputation as  a  booming town. 
The business places are multiplying rap­
idly,  the increase in  this  respect  being 
mainly small  stores opened  by men who 
have been attracted  to  Traverse City  by 
reason of the wonderful  forward strides 
she has taken during the past two years.

The  Drug-  M arket.

Opium  is dull and lower.
Morphia is unchanged.
Quinine is firm and an advance is prob­

able.

Cocaine has declined.
Salacine has advanced.
Linseed  oil has advanced.

Bill  (Dahl well's
'  H A T S   A N D  

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But  the  facts  cited  at  one  place  are 
true of every other place,  so  far  as  the 
sudden chauges  of  temperature are con- J 
cerned,  and  there is no possible  way  of  | 
accounting  for  such a state of  things if ! 
the old doctrine that the sun is a  fire,  is 
to be retained,  with  the necessary quali- I 
fication  that the  closer  one  gets  to  the i 
fire the greater the heat,  and  the farther j 
off the colder it is.  Moreover,  no theory  j 
of  referring  to  the  sun  as  a  source  of  ; 
heat will explain  the origin  and advance 
of  cold  waves  rushing  down  from 
the  I 
North.  The  Weather  Bureau  discovers 
them as soon as they reach the  limits  of 
the United States in the  Northwest,  and

Since these  discoveries were  made  in 
solidifying and  liquifying  the  constitu­
ents  of 
the  atmosphere,  and  with  the 
further belief,  which  is  current, of  the 
intense cold  which reigns  in  the regions 
of space above the atmosphere,  it  is pos­
sible that the  intense cold,  instead of be­
ing  brought  from  the poles,  falls down 
upon  the earth from  the  upper  regions. 
The sun does not heat the  upper regions 
of the atmosphere, as  is  seen  from  the I 
perpetual snow on  high  mountains.  Far 
above  those  peaks  reigns  the extreme 
cold  which solidifies the gases of the air. 
When  this  cold  falls on  us there is,  in- j 
deed,  a blizzard.  Here is a vast field for I

GIVE  ALL  AN  EQUAL  CHANCE.
Men  are by no meaus equal  in  any  re­
spect,  whether  physically,  intellectually 
or morally.  Any attempt to  force them 
into a condition  which  implies  equality 
is  false,  unjust  and contrary to nature. 
All that a democratic republican state of 
society can confer on  the  human race is 
to declare and assure the rights  of every 
individual according  to  his 
individual 
capacity and characteristics.

Men have an equal,  original  right 

to 
life,  liberty and  the 
the  enjoyment  of 
pursuit of happiness, and the 
law guar­
antees this right in an abstract  way;  but 
every man must work out his destiny ac­
cording to  his  several  ability,  and,  as a 
consequence  of  the vast  difference and 
inequality in physical,  moral  and  intel­
lectual  qualities,  men  will 
take vastly 
different places in life.  Since nature did 
not make all  human  beings  equal,  it  is 
plain 
that  no  human device can  repair 
the result of the  failure.  What a demo­
cratic republican system  does,  and  what 
it was designed to do,  is to give  to  each 
individual an opportunity to  do his best 
under the  circumstances 
in  which he is 
placed.  Every individual  is  entitled  to 
become as rich,  as  learned,  as beautiful, 
as good, or in  any other way  as  eminent 
and distinguished,  as his or her capabili­
ties used amid  environments  of various 
sorts  will  permit.  But  no  success  is 
promised,  much  less  guaranteed.  Life, 
under  conditions  of  competition,  is  a 
struggle in which  the strongest relatively 
to the conditions of the struggle will win 
the highest place,  and  all the  others will 
fall into the places  to which  they gravi­
tate.

In  consequence  of  the  operation of 
forces  which create conditions  of  social 
life,  some rise to high  places,  while  oth­
ers fall into the  lower.  Some  are  rich 
and others are poor;  some  are 
learned 
and others are  illiterate. 
If  the  poor, 
the lowly,  the illiterate,  are  enraged  at 
their humble stations,  and are aroused to 
hostility to those who  are  above 
them, 
they are  complaining  of  conditions for 
which  they  are  themselves 
largely re­
sponsible.  Wealth,  wisdom  and  social 
distinction  are not to be got  save  by the 
use of intellectual  forces  and  physical 
exertions,  and  commonly  persons  must 
be specially endowed in order  to  obtain 
particular  supremacy.  The 
the 
profligate, the ignorant,  who  are  embit­
tered because they  themselves  have not 
reached positions of wealth  and  distinc­
tion,  and are enraged  against  those who 
have,  are  socialists  of  an  aggravated 
type.  When  they go  to  the  extent  of 
seeking to  destroy those who  are  above 
them in the  social  scale,  then 
they be­
come nihilists  and  anarchists,  who  are 
socialists of the worst type.

idle, 

But the large bodies of  socialists  are a 
good  sort  of  people,  who,  brooding  on 
the inequalities  of  social  condition,  de­
sire to even  up or level  down society,  so 
that all may be  equal in wealth and con­
dition,  a situation utterly impossible un- 
tilfall human  beings  are  made intellec­
tually,  morally  and  physically  equal. 
The  differences  of 
individuals  have 
brought about existing conditions  of  so­
ciety,  and  these  will  remain  until  the 
end of  the world,  and  after  it,  if  such 
contingencies may be figured on.

In  an  autocratic  country,  where  the 
law declares  that  some  are  better than 
others,  and are entitled  by the  mere ac­
cident of  birth to rule over others,  there 
is some excuse for  the  popular  dissatis-

i   J c ijß   M l L j d ì ^ A i N

I faction at  the  differences  of  condition; 
j but  in  a  republic,  where  every road to 
I honor  and power lies open  to all,  nobody 
has a right to complain  if he falls behind 
in  the race.  The tortoise  is uot as swift 
of foot as the hare,  and  so,  if  the former 
would  win,  he must oppose  strategy  and 
I cunning to  the latter’s speed.

Unquestionably  there  is  a  great deal 
j of  dishonesty and violence  employed in 
securing supremacy,  but  these  and other 
imperfections  are 
inseparable  from all 
human affairs. 
If  bad  men  get control 
of public office,  it is commonly  the fault 
of those who  are  considered  the  better 
sort of  people,  but  who neglect  their po- 
I iitical duties.  Many people  who are sub­
servient to unscrupulous  men and assist 
them to get their  dishonest  wealth  have 
no right to complain if  the man  who has 
risen  through  their  aid  shall  refuse  to 
recognize the obligation  to them.

If  it were  possible  to  bring  all  men 
down  to the  same  level  of  life,  where 
there was  no  competition  and no oppor­
tunity for the exercise of  special  talents 
and abilities,  man  would  soon  relapse 
into a state of barbarism. 
It is the com­
petition of  life that makes men strive to 
be  higher,  wiser,  nobler,  better.  The 
men  who are always  seeking to work  up 
to a high standard,  and to conform to as­
pirations after honor,  distinction, wealth 
and  power, are actuated by the force that 
creates  modern  civilization  and  moves 
forward  the  whole  of  human  society. 
Socialism,  in any form  in  which it is pre­
sented,  means not leveling up,  but level­
ing  down.  The  right  rnle  is  to  give 
every man  a chance to rise to the highest 
life  to  which  his  capabilities 
point in 
can  carry him. 
If  every  man  would do 
his best,  there would  be  no  complaint 
about inequality.

PUBLIC  HONESTY  IN  OLD  TIMES.
The  statement  has  often  been  made 
that public men of  a generation ago were 
vastly more honest than  they are to-day, 
and  that 
the  corruptions  which  are 
chanted  on  popular representatives and 
public  officials  in  this  age  would  have 
been  impossible fifty years ago.

It must be  remembered that fifty years 
ago this  great  nation  had  nothing like 
the  population,  the  aggregated  wealth 
and the representatives  in  State and na­
tional legislatures that exist  to-day. 
In 
1840 there were  only twenty-eight States 
with a population of less than 18,000,000. 
There were fifty-eight Senators and some 
135 Representatives in Congress.  To-day 
forty-four  States  with  a  population  of 
more  than  65,000,000, 
represented  by 
eighty-eight  Senators and more than 300 
Representatives,  not  to  speak  of  State 
and  city  governments, 
furnish  vast 
hordes of officials who  handle thousands 
of millions  of  public  funds,  and  neces­
sarily,  in the  same  proportion, the more 
officials  there  are,  the  more  dishonest 
men there are among them.  But it is ex­
tremely doubtful  if  men to-day are,  as a 
rule, any less honest than they  were half 
a century ago.

True,  since  the  civil  war,  a  point  in 
American history from which an entirely 
new  era  of  American  politics  must  be 
dat6d,  there  have  been  many examples 
of public corruption, not only in Federal, 
but in State  and  municipal  public  life. 
Nevertheless,  it cannot  be held that ear­
lier  generations were  entirely guiltless. 
A very striking picture of  public life  in 
an earlier day is  seen  in  the  annals  of 
the  political  situation  at  the  time  of

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Jho.  A.  Covode,  Pres.

Hbnky Idema,  Vice-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  Vebdier,  Cashier.

K. Van Hop, Ass’tCVr, 
Transacts a General Banking  Business. 

Interest.  Allowed  on  Time  and  Savings 

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DIRECTORS:

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IO

President  Jackson’s  war  upon 
the  old 
United  States  Bank.  The  bank,  after | 
having  dissolved,  was  re-chartered,  and I 
it has been  shown that  it had  secured  its 
lease  of  life  by making  large  loans  to 
Congressmen. 
It was given out, and  the 
charge is doubtless true,  that  this  loan 
business figured  up as  follows:
In 1880, to fifty-two  members........
In 1831, to fifty-nine  members.......
In Ie32, to forty four members.......
In  1833, to fifty-eight members  ...
In 1834, to fifty-two  members........

$192,161
323,199
478,069
374.766
238,536
$1,605,781
At the dates mentioned the  bank,  with ! 
its  $35,000,000  of  capital,  took  direct j 
measures to secure the favor  of a major­
ity of Congress and  to  retain that favor. 
Suppose these  amounts charged as loans j 
were genuine loans to  Congressmen,  and 
it is  very doubtful  if  they  were,  the en-1 
tire transaction  must  be  looked  upon  as I 
corrupt,  and  the result of it was that the 
United  States  Bank, 
then  a  gigantic 
money  monopoly,  did  actually  control 
the  votes of a majority of Congress  until I 
President Jackson,  by an  aggressive war j 
upon  it, drove  that  great  moneyed  mo­
nopoly out of existence.  That happened 
rather more than half a  century  ago,  in 1 
an  age which is often  now referred to as 
one of  Roman  justice and Spartan  sim­
plicity,  but  all 
the  same,  public  men j 
were tainted  with bribery and corruption 
much  as  they  are  to-day.  There  have J 
always  been  good  and  bad  men,  there j 
have always  been  honest  and  dishonest 
public officials, and there always will  be.
CHEESE  A S  AN   ARTICLE  OF  FOOD.
Every now and  then a new outbreak of 
cheese poisoning  gives  rise to a discus­
sion  of  the  dietetic  properties of this 
much  used article  of  food.  Since Prof. 
Vaughan’s discovery of  tyrotoxicon,  the 
poisonous  substance  to  which  cheese 
poisoning is in  most cases due,  the  mys­
tery  of  these  frequent  outbreaks  has 
been  solved.  The  studies  of  modern 
bacteriologists have developed 
the  fact 
that  not  only tyrotoxicon,  but  also  the 
peculiar tiavors characteristic of  cheese, 
are  the  products  of decomposition and 
fermentation.  These facts are gradually 
becoming known  to the public,  and  have 
doubtless given  rise to  a  falling  off  in 
the consumption of  cheese.  The writer 
is acquainted  with  hundreds  of  persons 
who have forever renounced  the  use  of 
cheese as a food, on becoming acquainted 
with the effects above referred to.  Prof, j 
Vaughan  has shown that all cheese  con­
tains more or less tyrotoxicon.  and  tyro­
toxicon  can  be  produced  in  poisonous! 
quantities at any time  by simply mixing 
a quantity of  cheese with  milk and  put­
ting  it  away for  some time in a closed 
vessel.  An acquaintance with  this  and 
other facts relating to cheese very natur­
ally  leads  many  people  to  question  the 
propriety of using it as an article of diet, 
when  nature  has  supplied  us with so 
large a variety of wholesome and  wholly 
innocuous foods.

lest 

The cheesemakers  seem  to  have  be­
come  somewhat  anxious 
cheese I 
should fall  into  such  disrepute  as  seri­
ously to  interfere with 
their  business. 
They cannot dispute the fact that cheese 
is produced  by  a process of fermentation 
and putrefaction,  the evidence  of which 
is to be found not  only in 
the  accurate 
flavors produced in  the  cheese,  but  by 
the presence of “skippers” and  “mites,” 
and larvae of flies,  which  are  led  by in­
stinct to deposit their eggs in  masses of 
decomposing matter.

Prof.  Henry,  of Wisconsin,  has  re-

! cently come to the rescue of  the  cheese- 
makers  with 
the  following  argument: 
“In regard  to cheese being a fermentative 
product,  I have  no  defense whatever  to 
offer.  Digestion 
is  a  fermentative pro­
cess to a considerable  degree,  and  I  do 
not know why it should be essential that 
no fermentation should start  previous to 
the food  entering  the  stomach.”  With 
all due respect to  Prof.  Henry as  a  sci­
entist,  we find  it  necessary to  disagree 
with  him  in  his view of  the  digestive 
I process. 
It is true he finds  some  small 
j foundation  for  his  theory in 
the views 
which have been advanced  by some mod­
ern  bacteriologists,  but a careful  study 
of the digestive  process  under  normal 
conditions shows it to be, not a fermenta­
tive or putrefactive process,  but  a  cata­
lytic  change 
induced  by organic  sub­
stances improperly called ferments, since 
they agree in  no  respect whatever  with 
the living organisms  which give  rise  to 
the processes  commonly  known  as  fer­
mentation and  putrefaction.  Digestion 
is sometimes called a  fermentative  pro­
cess,  but it  is 
in  an  entirely different 
sense from that  by  which  cider  is  con­
verted into vinegar  or  grape  juice  into 
wine.

The digestive  process 

is  a change by 
which organic matter is  changed  from a 
solid to a liquid state by a process of hy­
dration.  and  without  any  destructive 
change, and without decomposition prod­
ucts.  The  fermentation  which 
takes 
place in cheese is a process in which poi­
sonous  products are formed and destruc­
tive processes  take place. 
It is impossi­
ble  to  believe  that any such  process is 
essential  to the digestive  process.  Fer- j 
mentation,  properly so-called,  is 
the re­
sult of the action of  germs. 
It is possi­
ble to conceive of a person’s being  born 
under  circumstances 
in  which  germs 
| might be  entirely absent.  Would  Prof. 
Henry  undertake to assert that  an  indi­
vidual  born  under  such  happy circum­
stances would  be made  better  by intro­
ducing germs  into  his  stomach, or that 
he would  be likely  to die  of  indigestion 
because his food  was  entirely free  from 
germs?  On 
the  contrary,  every physi­
cian knows that the freer the  stomach is 
from foreign microbes the  better, and the 
more perfect  is the digestive process.

The writer has made a  careful  chemi­
cal  study  of  over  2,500  stomach fluids 
furnished by nearly  2,000  different  per­
sons,  and  has  found  a  constant associa­
tion between  a multiplicity  of  microbes 
in the stomach  and a  deteriorated  diges­
tive  product. 
In  the  treatment of  dis­
ordered digestion,  it has many times been 
found  necessary  to  suppress altogether 
foods  containing  microbes, 
including 
yeast  bread,  unless  the  latter has been 
previously sterilized by  conversion  into 
zwieback.  It is possible to prepare light, 
wholesome,  and  toothsome  bread  with­
out either baking powder or yeast, a fact 
of  which  Prof.  Henry  seems  not  to  be 
aware, as he gives us  no  alternative ex- 
| cept to eat yeast  bread,  or  bread  made 
from baking  powder,  or  sodden  bread. 
Although  eschewing  each  of  the  three 
kinds  of  bread  mentioned,  the  writer 
finds  himself  largely  supplied  with an 
abundance of most palatable bread  made 
without yeast or baking powder,  and yet 
as light and toothsome as  the  most  fas­
tidious palate could require.

While  anticipating  no  sympathy  for 
our views on the  part  of  cheesemakers, 
we do not hesitate to  express  our  most 
decided opinion  that cheese  as an article

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of  food  is  wholly  unfit for human con­
sumption.  Here  is  a  little experiment 
which ought to be sufficient  to  convince 
anybody of the questionable character of 
cheese:
Take a boiled  potato,  cut  it  in  two, 
taking  pains  to  use  a  knife which  has 
been previously  well boiled; avoid expos­
ing  the  cut  surface  of  the  potato 
to 
contamination  with  dust  from  the air, 
boiling the potato with  the  cut  surface 
downward;  place  the  potato  on a deep 
plate,  with 
the  cut  surface  up,  and 
cover quickly with  a  bell-glass—a glass 
butter-dish  will do.  Now cut off a bit of 
cheese,  and quickly and  carefully  place 
it in the center of the cut surface of  the 
potato.  Replace  the  glass  cover,  and 
pour into the plate a sufficient amount of 
boiled  water  to  cover  the  edges. 
In a 
few  days  a  luxuriant  growth  of  mold 
will  appear  upon  the  cheese,  showing 
that  it  contains  a great quantity of mi­
crobes,  and  on  moving  the bell-glass, a 
most  repulsive  odor will  be observed,  a 
pungent advertisement of  the  fact  that 
cheese is filled with the agents of  putre­
faction and decay.

It is a matter  of  astonishment  to  the 
writer,  that  persons  who  are,  in  many 
respects,  fastidious  in  their  manner  of 
eating, who would not think of  touching 
a morsel of food with their fingers before 
placing  it  in  their  mouths  unless  the 
hands  had  been  washed  scrupulously 
clean,  and who find  it impossible  to  eat 
with  complacency  a  dinner  served 
in 
soiled dishes and with  unwashed  eating 
utensils,  will,  at the same time,  with the 
utmost composure,  after eating the most 
wholesomely prepared meal,  well  steril­
ized  by cooking and daintily  served,  pro­
ceed  at  once  to  inoculate  it  with  the 
agents  of  putrefaction  and  decay, 
to­
gether with the  products  of  decomposi­
tion,  by swallowing,  as a dessert,  a  por­
tion  of  “good”  (?)  old  cheese!  The 
writer is very fond of  cheese,  having ac­
quired an abnormal  liking  for  this  un­
wholesome  article  when  a  boy,  but, 
nevertheless,  he  has,  from  principle, ab­
stained from its use for  many years,  and 
cannot  be  induced  either  to  eat  it  or 
to recommend it to others  as  an  article 
of food fit for human consumption  under 
any other circumstances than  threatened 
starvation  or  the  absence  of  anything 
else less unwholesome.

J.  H. Kellogg,  M.  I).

A   N e w   M ineral.

An American chemist has recently dis­
covered a new mineral  which,  in  hard­
ness and beauty,  is  only  second  to  the 
diamond.  The discovery was made quite 
accidentally.  He was  experimenting iu 
the  manufacture  of  diamonds,  and was 
using the aluminum  smelting  apparatus 
of a Lock port,  N.  Y.,  firm,  where  elec­
tricity  is  employed  and  an  enormously 
high  temperature  produced.  By  mere 
chance he put into the  crucible  together 
a  lump  of  clay and a piece of graphite, 
and the result was some  small  wine-col­
ored crystals of rhomboidal  form,  which 
proved  to  be  harder  than  sapphire. 
Chemical analysis proved that  the  crys­
tals were composed of carbon and silicon 
in  a  combination  hitherto  unheard  of. 
It does not occur in nature.  The process 
above  described,  repeated  again  and 
again,  produced the  wine-colored  rhom­
boids every time.  A company  has  been 
formed to manufacture  them for polish­
ing all sorts  of  things,  even  diamonds. 
They are crushed  to  powder  like emery 
and made into wheels with  a  cementing 
compound.  The demand  for them is al­
ready greater than the supply.  The new 
mineral  has been named carborundum.

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A  reported  decision 

F rom   B ehring1  S e a   to   L ak e  M ichigan.
the  United 
States Supreme Court,  to the  effect  that 
the great Northern  lakes  are  high  seas 
! and are  subject  to  the  same  provisions 
of law as are applied to the ocean,  seems 
j to have  a  signification  vastly  more  far-1 
A
| reaching than  was probably intended.
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i diction  over  a  case where  a  crime  had 
I been  committed  on  a  steamer  lying  in 
j the  Detroit  River.  A  State  court  of 
| Michigan took cognizance of  the  matter 
! and proceeded against the criminal, who,
I however,  appealed  to the United States 
j Court,  holding  that  the  act  was  com­
mitted on the high seas,  and,  therefore, 
a State court could  not have  jurisdiction 
over it.

This claim was  sustained  by the high­
est  court,  which  decided that the lakes 
are high seas and subject to all the regu­
lations  as  to  all  acts  done  upon  their 
waters  just  as  if  such  acts  were  done 
upon  the  ocean.  Of  course,  nobody  is 
going to call in question  the  sufficiency 
of  this decision,  but  it  is  not  amiss  to 
inquire as  to  what  may  possibly  result 
from it in an  international  controversy.
It has always been  held that,  so far as 
the  lakes  are  boundaries  between  the 
United ¡States and the British dominions, 
international  demarcation 
the 
was  drawn  through  the  middle  of 
the 
the  connecting 
great  bodies  and  of 
streams  of  such waters, on its own side 
of the dividing line.  But if these waters 
are high seas,  they are not  to be divided 
or allotted to any power, but any country 
has jurisdiction only over the accustomed 
maritime league from shore,  and inside a 
line  from  headland  to headland,  at  the 
mouths of rivers,  inlets and  bays.

line  of 

If it is to be held from  such a decision 
that  the  United  States  does  not  claim 
control beyond  the  maritime  league  on 
the  lakes,  but  that 
those  waters  are 
the same as the ocean, free to every  ship 
and  every  power  that  sends  its  ships 
upon the ocean,  it may  prove  a  serious 
matter.  But  does  the  British  Govern­
ment  make  a  like  surrender  as  to  the 
waters  on  its  side  of  the  line? 
It  is 
not  likely.  A  power  which  excludes 
American fishing vessels from the mouth 
of  the  St.  Lawrence,  and  from  all  the 
bays and inlets from the  Bay  of  Fundy 
to  beyond  Labrador,  is  not  likely 
to 
give up voluntarily control  over an  inch 
of the land or sea which it  holds.

But an interesting question  comes  up 
in  the  case  of  Lake Michigan.  Every 
foot  of  its coast is in the United States, 
and where it joins Lake Huron  the  line 
two 
from  headland  to  headland  units 
shores of the State of Michigan. 
Is Lake 
Michigan  also  a  part of this free fresh­
water ocean? 
Is Chicago only separated 
by a league of  water from  the open sea, 
where the warships of  every nation may 
cruise  at  pleasure?  The United States, 
not  many  years  ago,  set  up  the  high 
claim that Behring Sea,  an integral part 
of the Pacific Ocean,  was  an  American 
lake.  This  has,  however,  been long ago 
abandoned,  and now it  appears  that  an 
American 
lake,  a  fresh-water  lake  at 
that,  wholly  inclosed  in  United  States 
territory,  is  a  high  sea. 
If  this be the 
effect of  the great court’s decision,  then 
there  is  an  immense  descent  from  the 
arrogant claim upon Behring Sea  to  the 
voluntary  surrender  of  ownership  of  a 
fresh-water inland lake.

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Is the Profit  on  Bread  Too  Large ? 

W r itte n   f o r  TH * T b a d e s h a s .

Fire thousand destitute  people  in  the 
city and one  pound  and  four  ounces  of 
bread cost eight cents!  What  will  these 
destitute people  do  for  bread  this win­
ter? 
It would seem as  though cruel cir­
cumstances would compel them  to forego 
this great luxury and  confine  their  diet 
to  cheaper  food,  such  as  pies,  cakes, 
tarts,  roast pig.  stuffed  turkey  and cran­
berry  sauce.  Eight-cent  bread  was  all 
right in war  times when everything was 
dear,  work  plentiful  and  wages  high; 
but now,  when  wheat is  a  drug  in  the 
market at 54 cents  per bushel,  and labor 
so overwhelmingly abundant  that it will 
not  command  any  price,  such  extrava­
gance would be almost criminal.

Somebody said that bread was the staff 
of life,  but he  didn’t  mean  the  kind of 
bread  that  sells  at  six  and 
two-fifths 
cents a pound, when wheat is  worth only 
nine-tenths of one cent a pound.  Oh,  no; 
it would be an insult  to  the  memory of 
the author of this familiar saying to  call 
eight-cent bread  made  from  tifty-four- 
cent wheat the  “staff of life.”  A  “ staff” 
of 
life  is  something  that  life  may rely 
upon for a sure support when everything 
else passes  beyond  reach;  but  a  pound 
and a quarter of bread  at  eight cents  is 
not even among the possibilities for those 
who are fairly able  to  help  themselves, 
and  as 
to  those  who are entirely help­
less,  it  is  simply preposterous  to  think 
of i t

The bakers say they  feel  the effects  of 
the bard times.  No  one  disputes them 
Indeed, if this were not the case it would 
be impossible  to  make  any  sane person 
believe that the times  are  hard. 
If  the 
quantity of  eight-cent bread sold did not 
show  signs  of  diminution  it would cer 
tainly  be an  indication that the times are 
good and  people  had  more  money than 
they know  what to  do  with.  By way of 
justifying  themselves  before the public 
and ot  pacifying their  own  troubled  con 
sciences,  the bakers claim  that,  owing to 
the great falling  off  in  the demand  for 
their  goods,  they  are  not  making  any 
more  money  than  they  are  entitled to 
But what has  caused  this  great  falling 
off in demand?  Other  trades  also suffer 
a diminished  demand  for  their  goods 
such  as  the confectioner,  the  fancy gro­
cer,  the jeweler, the  merchant tailor and 
scores of  others;  but  in  their  cases the 
falling off  in  trade is  the result of  a di­
minished  consumption  made imperative 
by  the  stringency of  the times. 
In  the 
baker’s case it is not  so.  The  direct ef­
fect of this stringency is  to  increase the 
consumption of  bread  which  is the staff 
of life,  and decrease the  consumption of 
luxuries and even  many of  the so-called 
necessaries  not 
the 
maintenance of life.  The  cause  of  the 
falling off of  the baker’s  trade is a less­
ened demand  for  the  eight-cent  article 
which  is  a  luxury of  the  luxuries,  and 
one that  is  altogether dispensible in  the 
question of domestic economy.

indispensible 

in 

The  bakers  have  made  an  egregious 
blunder in this matter. 
In  their greedy 
persistency in  maintaining  the  present 
extortionate  price  of  bread,  in defiance 
of the stringency of  the times and in ut­
ter disregard of  the principles of justice 
and common  sense,  they have  invited  a 
large  number  of  domestic  (home-made) 
bread makers  all  over  the  city to enter 
the field and compete with  them in gath­
ering in the golden  harvest.  They have 
lost a good share  of  their trade  and  in

t h e   MICmGAJS  TRADESMAN.

vited a new class  of  competition to step 
in and secure a share of the  portion  that 
still remains—and,  during all  this  time, 
the consumption of  bread  has been stead­
ily increasing.  Surely the  bakers  have 
made an egregious  blunder.

This domestic  bread is peddled all over 
the city,  and  is found  on the counters of 
every grocery store by the side of  baker’s 
is 
loaves.  The  price 
the  same.  You 
pay eight cents  and 
take  your  choice; 
but when you  take the domestic  loaf you 
get—according  to  a  test  recently  wit­
nessed in  a down  town  grocery  store— 
six  ounces  more  bread  for  your  eight 
cents. 
If  weight be a proper basis upon 
which  to  estimate  relative values,  then 
the baker’s loaf  ought  not  to  cost  more 
than six and two-thirteenths  cents  to be 
on  a  parity  with 
the  domestic  loaf  at 
eight  cents.  On  the  basis  of  weight, 
therefore,  the  baker’s  loaf  is  thirty per 
cent,  dearer  than  the  domestic  loaf,  a 
respectable margin of profit of itself:  but 
let us see what the profit is on the domes­
tic loaf.  One of these domestic or home­
made  bread  makers,  whose  bread  occu­
pies a prominent  place in  the bread case

the  aforementioned  down  town gro­
of 
twenty-two 
cery.  says  that  she  makes 
loaves  from  a 
twenty-five  (or  twenty- 
four,  rather)  pound  sack  of  flour.  She 
pays the grocer  fifty cents  for the flour, 
| puts it through a little chemical  process,
I adding  a  “pinch” of  this  or  a “ pinch” 
of that,  at a cost which  is  a  mere baga­
telle when, presto!  twenty-two delicious, 
“home-made” loaves of  the staff  of  life 
| arc taken  from the oven, weighing thirty- 
five pounds twelve  ounces  in  the aggre­
gate,  or  one  pound 
ten  ounces  each. 
Fifty cents  for  the  flour  and  ten cents 
for the  “bagatelle” represent  the cost— 
twenty-two  loaves,  or 
sixty  cents  for 
| about  two  and 
two-thirds  cents  each. 
The  baker’s  appliances  for  baking  are 
much better.  He  buys his flour at  whole­
sale prices  and  possesses  other  impor­
tant  advantages which will  warrant  the 
statement 
that  his  bread  costs  less,
J pound  for  pound,  than  domestic bread; 
but  we will let all that pass and  base  the 
j percentages on the cost  of  the domestic 
| article. 
It will  be seen from the figures 
given,  that  the domestic  loaf, selling  at 
eight cents,  represents a  nice  little mar-

gin  of  profit  exceeding  294  per  cent. 
Adding to this  the 30 per cent, advantage 
already pointed out,  it  gives the baker a 
profit of  326  per  cent.  Remember,  the 
above calculations  are  based on the  gro­
cer’s retail price  of  flour,  and represent 
the baker’s  part 
in  accounting  for  the 
wonderful discrepancy  existing between 
eight-cent  bread 
and  fifty-four  cent 
wheat. 

E.  A.  Owen.

the world,  with 

The Potato  Crop  of  the  World.
The potato crop of the world  amounts 
to  the  enormous  sum  of 2,850,000,000 
bushels,  by far the largest  proportion of 
which is grown in  Europe.  Germany is 
the largest  potato  producing  and  con­
suming country  in 
the 
average production of  nearly 900,000,000 
bushels per annum,  and  in years  of  the 
largest production  exceeding  1,000,000,- 
000 bushels.  Russia comes  next with  a 
crop of  464,000,000  bushels, closely fol­
lowed  by Austria-Hungary and  France. 
The crop of the United States is small in 
comparison  with  that  of  Europe,  aver­
aging  only  about  170,000,000  bushels, 
that of 
which  is considerably less  than 
the  United  Kingdom.  This  crop  does 
not largely enter into the  foreign 
trade 
of any country,  the  supply being mainly 
for home use.

m u t e n t
of  tl)c  Uniteti  States  of America,

To

your  o le * * !« :« *   attorneys,  ager 

s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

Utljercas, it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  ot

Ne..  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant, 
to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “ SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap.

Korn, (therefore, re  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

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KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  vou 
under  the  pains  and  penalties  which  may  fall  upon  you  and  each  of  you  i„  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  woref  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  m  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with 
the  manufacture  or  sale  of  anv  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

“SAPOLIO,”  or  when  “ SAPOLIO”  is  asked  for,

that  which  is  not  Complainant's  said  manufacture,  and  from 
false  or  misleading  manner. 

in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO”  in  anv 
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ROWLAND  COX.

Complainant'.

The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
in  said  District  of  New 
Jersey, 
thousand, 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

the  year  of  our  Lord,  one 

l6th  day  of  December, 

this 

in 

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5.  D.  OLIPHANT,

Clerk,

l'U E  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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MICHIGAN  KNIGHTS  OF  THE  GRIP.

O F F IC E R S :

President—N. B. Jones, Lansing.
Secretary—L. M.  Mills, Grand  Rapids. 
Treasurer—Geo. A. Reynolds, Saginaw.
Weekly Report of  Secretary  Mills. 
L a n s i n g ,  Dec.  4— Certificates  have 
been issued  to  the  following  members 
since my last report:

3340  M.  B.  Price,  St.  Joseph.
3342  E.  H.  Povah.  Detroit.
3347  Geo.  W.  Corson,  Detroit.
3348  W. J.  Deppen, Grand  Rapids.
3350  B.  W.  Schrarn,  Milwaukee,  Wis.
3351  Stephen E.  Kirk,  Muskegon.
3352  A. J. Elliott, Grand Rapids.
3370  J.  F.  Umphrey,  Yale.
3371  G. T.  Lindermann,  Saginaw.
3372  E.  H. Voorhees,  Detroit.
3373  E.  S.  Davis,  Detroit.
3374  W.  I.  Biles, Saginaw.
3375  D.  S. Menasco,  Milwaukee.
3376  J.  B.  Mclnnes, Grand  Rapids.
3377  W.  H.  Pipp, Chicago.
3378  W.  J.  Jones, Grand Rapids.
3379  A.  B.  Gibson, Grand  Rapids.
3380  Geo.  F. Schumm,  Grand  Rapids.
3381  Frank E.  Novak, Chicago.
3382  John Glass, Cadillac.
3383  H. C.  Piper,  Detroit.
3384  L.  B.  Davis,  Mt.  Clemens.
3385  D.  W. Dugan,  Chicago.
3386  J. P.  Patton,  Detroit.
3387  Wm.  Reid,  Allegheny,  Pa.
3388  R.  G. Diliey,  Saginaw.
3389  E.  A.  Blankman,  Dayton, Ohio.
3390  C.  A. Stebbins,  Creston,  O.
3391  Elmer E. Stanton, Grand  Rapids.
3392  Wilbur F. Warner, Grand Rapids.
3393  Frank A. Cameron,  Detroit.
3394  J.  H.  Rogers,  Columbus.
3395  M. L.  Horning, Albion.
3397  M.  S.  McKee, Thorp,  Wis.
3398  C.  L.  Weaver,  Toledo.
3399  H.  E.  Flach, Saginaw.
3400  J.  H.  Laing,  Saginaw.
3401  E.  D.  Henderson,  Saginaw.
3402  O. J.  Hutton, Grand Rapids.
3403  W.  H.  Rouse, Grand  Rapids.
3404  Ed.  L.  Hughes,  Grand Rapids.
3405  J.  B. Josselyn, Grand Rapids.
3406  C.  A.  Ricord.  Saginaw.
3407  P.  Z. Smith,  Almont.
3408  C.  F.  Reinke,  Buena Vista.
3409  J.  B.  Lull,  South  Haven.
3410  Sam K.  Beecher, Grand  Rapids.
3411  H.  R.  Putnam,  Grand Rapids.
3412  W.  T.  McXauil,  Berwyn,  111.
3413  W. B.  Haight, Cleveland.
3414  T.  C.  Hammill,  Detroit.
3415  C.  E. Brown,  Detroit.
3416  W.  Henderson,  Detroit.
3417  P.  McDuff,  Detroit.
3418  G.  A. Clifford,  Detroit.
3419  A.  R. Thayer,  Saginaw.
3420  R. P.  Stericker, Saginaw.
3421  L. C.  Stage,  Shelby.
3422  E. P.  Andrew,  Grand Rapids.
3423  D.  E. Tillotson,  Muskegon.
3424  F.  B.  Potter, Detroit.
3425  Sam Wile,  LaPorte,  Ind.

3426  F. S.  Brewer,  Detroit.
3427  W.  W.  McKean, Grand  Rapids.
3428  S. C. Smith, Jackson.
The following honorary members:
H38  G. S.  Farrar,  Cass City.
H39  W.  B.  Kinyon,  Caro,  Mich.
The third regular meeting of the Board 
of Directors was held in Lansing, Dec. 2, 
with  a  full  attendance, except Director 
Northrup,  who is quite ill at home.
The  Secretary  was  instructed  to  en­
close in the notice  to  members,  of  the 
convention,  a certificate  of  membership 
as  required  by  the  railroads,  entitling 
them  to half fare rate for themselves and 
families to the  convention  at  Saginaw, 
Dec. 26 and 27.
Proofs of the  death  of  Brothers  Geo. 
H.  Boehnlein, J.  W.  Button  and  R.  T. 
Scott were presented and orders were or­
dered drawn for the first  two.  The Sec­
retary was instructed  to  defer  payment 
of the latter claim until the proofs of the 
Probate Court are submitted.
The  Secretary’s  report  showed  bal­
ances  in  the  general  fund,  Nov.  30, of 
$344.57,  and  in the death  fund, $972.
Orders were drawn  for  the  following 
amounts:
Mileage of Directors to present meeting..  $28 63 
D.  Forbes,  1,1X0  grip  tags  and  rubber
stamps.....................................................  76  75
M. S. Goodman, expert work on books__  34 75
Tradesman  Company,  printing  and  sta
tionery.....................................................  42 58
Post F, Saginaw, postage on  invitations..  50 00
Swinton & Reynolds, one mimeograph__  18 00
Postage  for officers.................... 
84 00
L. M. Mills, salary account........................   150 00
An  adjourned  meeting  of  the  Board 
will  be held at  the  New Livingston Ho­
tel,  Grand  Rapids, Friday evening,  Dec. 
22, at which time it  is  expected  that  a 
final report of the accounts of the former 
Secretary  will  be made.

 

Fraternally  yours,

L.  M.  Mil l s,  Sec’y.

G one  b u t  N ot  F o rg o tten .

Gra nd  L ed g e,  N ov.  28—M.  Rosen, 
clothier  and  gents’  furnishings  goods, 
mysteriously  vanished  from  this  city 
sometime  between  Saturday  night  and 
Monday  morning.  Recent developments 
show  that  his  stock is also gone.  Dili­
gent search and  inquiry reveal  nothing, 
only that for a  week  past  someone  has 
come to the alley back of the store about 
8  o’clock  each  night  with  a  chestnut 
horse and express wagon, - and  about  11 
o’clock would leave  with a load of  boxes 
and  trunks.  Which  way  or  where  he 
went  no  one  knows.  To-day  there are 
creditors  on  the  ground  representing 
$3,000 to $4,000.  Notice was left on  the 
door saying:  “ Will  be back in two days.” 
The  boxes  are  all  left  on  the  shelves, 
making it look as if the goods were there, 
and the store was  already  to  open,  and 
not until the door  was  forced  open  and 
the  boxes  examined  was  it  found  that 
the goods were all gone.

A gentleman who  just  returned  from 
Gray’s  Harbor  City,  Wash.,  states that 
there are upward of  one  hundred build­
ings there,  but they are  all deserted.  A 
few  fishermen  dwell  near  the  shore  in 
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The  B ank  o f  E n glan d   in  1696.

The compliment paid to President Tap- 
pen,  of  the  Gallatin  National  Bank,  of 
New  York,  by his associates in the  Loan 
Committee  of  the  Clearing  House,  was 
as graceful  and appropriate as it was de- | 
served.  The  identical  silver  tankard 
which,  nearly two  centuries  ago,  had 
been given  to Sir John  Honblon, the first 
Governor of the Bank of  England,  by its 
directors,  “in token of his great  ability, 
industry and  strict uprightness at a time 
of  extreme  difficulty,”  has  now  been 
again employed as a  mark  of  appreci 
tion of similar qualities  in  a bank  pres 
dent, exhibited in  similar circumstance 
The  precautions  taken  by the Clearin 
House  Association  early  last  snmme 
under  Mr.  Tappen’s  lead,  undoubted 1 
did  much to mitigate the severity  of  th 
financial  panic  which  subsequently  pre­
vailed,  and if all the bank presidents bad 
managed  their  institutions  as  wisely a 
he did  his.  and bad fulfilled  their obligi 
tions to  their  depositors  as  honorabh 
we  would have been spared the  disgrac 
of seeing,  day after day,  certified  check 
upon  many of our banks sold  to  broke 
at a discount,  because payment  of  them 
was refused  by the banks  on  which they 
were drawn.

The crisis in  England  in  1696, durin 
which  Sir  John  Houblon  so conducted 
himself as to win from  his  directors  th 
grateful  recognition of his  merits,  which 
was repeated to  Mr.  Tappen  by his  fel 
low committeemen,  was in more respect 
than  I  think is generally known  like our 
of last summer.  Both  were  brought  on 
by depreciation  in the value  of  the cur 
rency.  both  were  marked  by a genera] 
prostration of credit,  both  were  accom 
panied  by an  urgent  pressure  for  a  de 
basement of the standard  of  value;  and 
as the London crisis ended, in the cours 
of  a  few  months,  with  a  restoration of 
confidence and a  revival  of  prosperity 
so,  let us hope,  may that  from  which wi 
are now emerging.

When the Bank of  England  was estab 
lished,  in  1694,  there was  no  dispute  in 
Great Britain,  as there  is with  us  now, 
about the relative values of gold  and sil­
ver,  nor was there  any fear  of  an  over 
Issue of paper money,  because  no  paper 
was in circulation  and  the  currency con­
sisted almost  exclusively of  silver  coin. 
Nor  were  there  any  banks,  properly 
speaking,  the only  custodians  of  other 
people’s money being  the  London  gold­
smiths,  who,  in  a  crude,  primitive  fash­
ion, did all  the  banking  business  that 
was  done.  What  the  nation  suffered 
from  was the clipping of  its  silver  coin 
by  dishonest  hands  and  its consequent 
depreciation.  As  fast  as  the  Govern­
ment could turn out from  the  mint  new 
half crowns, shillings  and  sixpences  of 
full  weight, 
they  were  either  melted 
down or hoarded,  thus leaving  the  field 
entirely  to  the  light  weight,  clipped 
coins, which every day were made lighter

and  lighter.  Finally,  when  the  weight 
of  the  coins  had  been so reduced that 
twenty shillings contained no more silver 
than eleven  or less ought to  contain,  the i 
evil aroused the  Government  into  seek-1 
ing a remedy for it.  At first  it was pro­
posed to issue  without  notiee a  prolama- j 
tion that the clipped coins should at once 
be accepted in  payment of  taxes  at  the 
Government offices  not  by count,  but by j 
weight  only.  This  project  was  aban- j 
doned because of the impossibility of ob- I 
taining for it  the sanction of Parliament  ! 
without so much  delay and  publicity as 
to give some holders of  ihe  depreciated | 
coin an advantage over others.  Finally, 
in January.  1696,  an act  was  passed  fix-1 
ing the 4th of May following as the latest 
date up to which  clipped  money should 
be payable to the Government  by count.
In order to provide for  the filling with 
good crowns and shillings of the vacuum 
to be created by  the  withdrawal  of  the 
bad,  the mint  was at  once set to work at 
its utmost capacity.  But  its  machinery 
was antiquated, and its  management  in­
efficient,  and  when the fatal 4th  of  May 
came and a flood of  the old coins poured 
into  the  Exchequer  to be melted down, 
there  was  a scarcity of the uew coinage 
intended to take its  place.  The distress 
that  ensued  and the expedients adopted 
to  relieve  it  were  notably  like  those 
which  marked  our 
recent  currency 
famine.  Employers could  only  with ex­
their  workmen. 
treme  difficulty  pay 
Wealthy  men  discharged 
their  debts 
with  promissory  notes,  which  passed 
from hand to hand as money among those 
who knew them.  The new Bank of Eng­
land  and  the  money  changers  of  Lom­
bard  street  issued  their  notes  and  put 
them  into circulation.  The Government, 
also, fortunately possessed authority, and 
made use  of  it  to  emit  interest-bearing 
notes  of  five  pounds  and  upward. 
In 
order  to  hasten  the  production  of  the 
new  coins  Sir  Isaac  Newton  was  ap­
pointed  Warden  of the Mint,  and,  by the 
introduction of improved machinery and 
the  establishment  of  branch  mints,  he 
immensely increased its coining capacity.
These measures and the use of so much 
of the old coins as had escaped the shears 
of  the clippers tided over the emergency, 
and  by August signs of  improvement  in 
the condition of things were manifest.

Nevertheless,  a  complete relaxation of 
the  monetary  stringency  was  hindered 
by  an  agitation  for  a  reduction  of  the 
weight of  the new crowns and  shillings, 
so  as  to make them of  no greater value 
than the old clipped coin,  and very much 
the same arguments were  used  in  favor 
of the proposition  as those now advanced 
on behalf of  the silver standard.  Pend­
ing the settlement of the controversy the 
new money was hoarded,  because no one 
who could help doing so would  pay it out 
at a valuation  which  might  be ultimately 
increased  by  its  recoinage  into  smaller 
coins.  The House of Commons,  however, 
stood  firm,  and,  late in October,  1696, de­
clared  without a division  that the stand­
ard  of  British  money  should  not  be 
altered in fineness,  weight or denomina­
tion.  This turned the tide,  the  hoarded 
coins came out into circulation,  the  for­
eign  exchanges 
the  public 
credit revived,  and by March,  1697,  the 
crisis was completely passed.

improved, 

Precisely what Sir  John  Houblon did, 
during this crisis, to earn the  praise  be­
stowed  upon him.  I  have been  unable to 
learn.  Lord  Macaulay,  whose  “ History 
England” gives a long account  of  the '

matter,  mentions  only  that  when 
the 
Government,  being at  war  with  France 
j and in dire need of  what  was  then  the 
I enormous sum of two hundred  thousand 
| pounds,  not in notes  but  in  hard  coin,
| applied  to the bank  of  England  for  the 
loan  of  it,  Sir John called  a meeting of 
I his shareholders and made them a speech 
I soliciting them for authority to grant the 
I Government’s  application.  There  was 
I at first a little murmuring,  but the ques- 
j tion  being finally put  to the vote,  it  was 
unanimously decided in favor of  lending 
the money. 
It  may  also  be  presumed, 
from the inscription  on the tankard  pre 
sented  to  Mr.  Tappen,  that  during the 
“ time of extreme difficulty”  to  which the 
| directors of the  Bank  therein  refer.  Sir 
! John  was the master spirit  and the guid- 
| ing hand of the institution.  Thus, when 
the great rivals arid enemies of the bank, 
the Lombard street goldsmiths, seized the 
opportunity afforded by the reform of the 
currency to gather together,  on  the  4th 
of May,  1696,  all of the bank’s notes that 
they  could  lay  their  hands  on  and  de­
mand  their 
in 
coin,  hoping thereby to break  the  insti­
tution,  it must have been at  his  instiga 
tion that the directors defied them, while 
paying  other  creditors  who  asked  for 
their money in good  faith.  For this  lat 
ter purpose they called upon the proprie­
tors for a 20 per cent,  contribution,  and 
gave  every  creditor  applying  for  pay­
ment 15 per cent.,  in new money,  of  the 
am ount  due  to  him.  Still,  the notes of 
the bank,  as  well  as its shares,  fell  to  a 
large discount, and one can  well imagine 
how  severely,  for  the  period  of  ten 
months  during  which  the  crisis  lasted, 
Sir John’s ability  and patience must have 
been tried. 

immediate  redemption 

Matthew  Maes hall.

N ew   T reatm en t  for  D iphtheria.

A  French medical journal announces a 
uew and successtul treatment  for  diph­
theria, discovered  by a  country doctor, 
M.  Frederic  Flahaut,  who  lives  near 
Rouen.  La-t year a malignant diphtheria 
broke out in  his village,  and  he  treated 
it in the usual way, losing, to his disgust, 
a considerable number of patients.  Know­
ing the antiseptic qualities of petroleum, 
he determined to try it on  some  of  his 
cases as an  experiment.  The  first  one 
on  which  he  experimented  was  a  little 
girl  whose  recovery  he  despaired  of. 
He proposed to her parents  to  make the 
experiment  as  a  last  resort,  and they 
consented.  The petroleum was  applied 
to her  throat with  a  swab, and,  to  the 
physician’s surprise, a marked  improve­
ment  was noticeable after the first appli­
cation.  The  treatment  was  continued 
and  the  child  recovered.  He  at  once 
used  the  treatment with  his  other pa­
tients,  with the result  of  saving  every 
one.  The  present  year  he has treated 
forty cases,  and every one has recovered. 
In order to be sure that  the  disease was 
really  malignant diphtheria,  he  had the 
expectorated matter analyzed  by the ex­
pert of the Rouen College  of  Medicine, 
who  pronounced 
it  indubitable  diph­
theria. 
It is said that the treatment pre­
sents little difficulty and no danger.  The 
swabbing is done every hour or  two, ac­
cording to  the virulence  of  the  attack, 
care being taken to shake the swab, after 
dipping into the  petroleum,  to  prevent 
any drops falling  into  the  respiratory 
channels.  The  patients  experience im­
mediate relief.  The  disagreeable  taste 
of the petroleum lingers  in 
the  mouth 
but a few minutes.

T oots  From   R am ’s H orn.

the world is growing  better.

God  has  promised 
happy.

it is hard to convince a dyspeptic  that 
the  Bible where 
There is no place in 
to  make  a  loafer 
Unless a Christian’s walk  corresponds 
with  his talk,  the less be  has  to say the 
better.

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Arnica...................................   so
Asafoetlda........................... 
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Atrope Belladonna...............   60
Benzoin..................................  60
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Barosma................................   go
Cantharides...........................   75
Capsicum...............................  so
Ca damon...............................  75
Co...........................   75
Castor..................................... 1 00
Catechu..................................  ¡0
Cinchona..............................   50
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Conlum..................................  50
Cubeba.................................. 
50
Digitalis............................. ..  50
Ergot.......................................  50
Gentian.....................  
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ammon................... .  60
Zingiber................................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................   50
Iodine.....................................   75
“  Colorless....................   75
Ferrl  Chlorldum..................   35
K ino.......................................  50
Lobelia...................................   50
Myrrh.....................................   50
Nux  Vomica........................ 
50
O pil........................................   85
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“  Deodor...........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex......................  50
Quassia..................................  50
Rhatany................................  50
Rhel.........................................  so
Cassia  Acutifol....................   50
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Stromonlum...........................   60
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Balm Gilead  Bad__  
38©  40
Bismuth  8.  N ..............2 20®2 25
© 11
Calcium Chlor, Is,  (Ms
12;  »48,  14)...............
Cantharides  Russian,
@1  00 
P O .............................................
Capsid  Fructus, af.
©  26 
o..
©   28 
Ipo.
©  20 
Caryophyllns,  (po.  15) 
_
10©  1:
Carmine,  N o.40..........   ©are
Cera  Alba, 8. & F .......  50©  55
Cera Flava...................  38©  40
Cocoas 
........................  ©  40
Cassia Fructus............  @  25
Centrarla......................  ©  10
Cetaceum....................   ©   40
Chloroform.................   60©  68
sqolbbs..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst.........1  35@l  80
20© 25
15© 20
8  © 12
60
© 35
© 2
5© 5
9© 11© 8
40© 50
© 24
5 © 6
10© 12
70© 75
©© 6
70© 75
12© 15
© 28
7  © 8
Gelatin,  Cooper..........   ©  70
French............  40©  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 & 10. 
Less than box 66)4
Glue,  Brown...............  
9©  15
“  White.................  18©  25
Glycerlna....................   14©  20
Grana Paradlsl............  @  22
Hamulus......................  25©  55
©   85
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite.. 
©  80
“  Cor .... 
Ox Rubrum 
©   90
Ammonlatl. 
@1 00 
Unguentum.  45©  55
Hydrargyrum..............  @  64
IcnthyoboUa, Am..  . .1  25@1  50
Indigo...........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resnbl............3 80@3 90
Iodoform...................... 
©4 70
Lnpnlln........................  ©2 25
Lycopodium...............  70©  re
M ads...........................  70©  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararg lod...................  ©  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10©  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Manilla.  S. F .............  

Corks,  list,  dis.
cent  .................
Creasotnm..........
Creta, (bbl. 75)...
prep............
Rnbra..........   ...
Croons  ........................
Cudbear........................
Capri Sulph.................
Dextrine......................
Ether Snlph.................
Emery,  all  numbers..
po................

144).......  ................. 2)4©  4

60©  68

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

8®  10

Aceticjim................... 
Benzoicum  German... 65©
Boracic 
....................
Carbolicum .  ...........  
25©
Citrlcum...................  52©
Hydroohior................  3©
Nftrocum 
.................   10©
Oxallcnm...................  10©
Phosphorlum dll........
Salley licum......................... 1 30@1
Sulphurlcum__   ..  ..  144©
Tannlcum........................1  40@1 60
Tartaricnm................  30©  33

AMMONIA.

“ 

Aqua, 16  deg...............  31*®
30  deg................5H@
Carbonas  ...................  12@
Chlorldum.................   12©

A N IL I N E .

Black............................... 2 00@2 25
BroWH.........................  80@1  00
Red.............................   45©  50
Yellow............................2 50@3 00

Cubebae....................   .  © 3 00
Bxechthltos...............   2 50©2 75
Erigeron..................... 2 00©2 10
Gaultherla..................2 00©2  10
Geranium,  ounce....... 
©  75
Gosslpil,  Sem. gal.......  70©  75
Hedeoma  ....................l 25@1  40
Jumperl.........................   50@2 00
Lavendula....................   90@2 00
Limonis......................2 40@2 60
MenthaPlper..............2 75@3 50
Mentha Verid............2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal............ 1  00@1  10
Myrcia, ounce..............  ©   50
O live..............................   85©2 75
Plcis Liquida, (gal. 35)  10©  12
R lcini.........................   i  2201  28
Rosmarinl................... 
Rosae,  ounce...............6 50@8 50
Succinl...........................   40© 45
Sabina...........................   90@1 00
Santal  ......................... 3 50@7 00
Sassafras......................  50©
Sinapi8, ess, ounce....  ©   65
Tiglli............................. 
©  90
Thyme.........................   40©  50
opt  .................  ©   60
Theobromas.................  15©  20

75@l 00

BACCAB. 

'

Cubeae (po  36)........  2i©  30
Junlperas..................   8®  10
Xanthoxylum.............  25©  30

BA L8AM UM .

Copaiba......................  45©  50
Peru............................  @1  9*
Terabln,Canada  .... 
60©  65
Tolutan.......................   35© 50

Abies,  Canadian..................   18
CasBlae  ..................................  11
Cinchona Flava  ...................  18
Euonymus  atropurp............  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po..............  20
Prunus Virglnl......................  12
Qulllata,  grd..........................  10
Sassafras  ..............................   12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15).........  15

EXTRACTTJM.

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24©  25
po............  33©  35
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11©  12
Is.................  13©  14
* 8 ...............  14©  15
<48...............   16©  17
T E B B U

“ 
“ 
“ 
" 

©   15
Carbonate Preclp........  
Citrate and Quinta__ 
©3  50
©  80
Citrate  Soluble............ 
Ferrocyanidum Sol —  
©  50
©  15
Solut  Chloride............ 
Sulphate,  com’l ................9©  2
pure..............  ©  7

“ 

Arnica.........................   18©  20
Anthemls....................   3( ©  35
Matricaria 
50©  65

 

FLO R A .

 
FOJ.1A.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin

.....................  18©  50
nlvelly......................  25©  28
Alx.  35©  50
and  Ms......................  15©  25
8©  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Ks
UraUrsl 
..................... 

“ 

“ 

«  A

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Acacia, 1st  picked 

  ©  60
©  40
2d 
.... 
©  30
3d 
.... 
©  20
sifted sorts... 
p o.........   60© 
80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50©  60
©  12
“  Cape. (po.  20)... 
©   50
Socotri. (po.  60). 
Catechu, Is, (fts, 14 Ms,
16)..............................  
©  1
AinminiiiM............... .
33® 36
Assafetida, (po. 85)..
Benzolnnm................. .  50© 55
Camphor®................... .  50© 55
.  35© 10
; f ** Euphorbium  po  .......
©2 50
Galbanum..................
Gamboge,  po.............. .  70© 7b
-4.
@ 30
Gualacum,  (po  35)  ..
Kino,  (po  1  10).........
@1 15
M astic........................
© SO
© 40
Myrrh, (po  45)..........
Opil  (po  3  50).......... .2 3502 40
Shellac  ...................... .  35© 42
33© 35
Tragaeanth  ............... .  4001 00

“ 
HEBBA—In ounce packages.

bleached.......

1  *
•   r* -r

Absinthium...............
Eupatorlnm...............
-mÉ
Lobelia........................
m Majornm....................
Mentha  Piperita.......
m
“  V lr...............
Rue..............................
Tanacetum, V ............
Thymus,  V .................
MAGNESIA,

.  4

25
20
25
28
23
25
30
22
25

POTA SSIU M .

BICarb.........................   15©
Bichromate.................  13©
Bromide...................... 
40©
Carb..............................   12©
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24©  26
Cyanide........................  50©  55
Iodide...........................2 90@3 00
Potassa, Bit art,  pure..  27©  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com ...  ©   15
Potass Nitras, opt....... 
8©   10
Potass Nitras............... 
7©  9
Prusslate......................  28©  30
Snlphate  po.................  15©  18

K A D IX .

Aconitum....................   20©  25
Althae...........................  22©  25
Anchusa......................  12©  15
Arum,  po......................  ©  25
Calamus........................  20©  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)....... 
8©   10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16©  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(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,  %a............... 
©  35
Podophyllum, po........   15©  18
Rhel..............................   75@1  00
“  Cut........................  ©1 75
pv.........................   75@1  35
Splgelia........................  35©  38
Sanguinaria,  (po  25)..  ©  20
Serpentaria...................  30©  32
Senega.........................   55©  60
Slmll&x, Officinalis,  H  ©  40 
M 
©  25
Scillae, (po. 85)............  10©  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetl
dus,  po.................. 
  ©  35
Talerlana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15©  20
ingiber a ..................  
18©  20
18©  20
Zingiber  j ................. 

“ 

“ 

BBMBN.

Anlium,  (po.  20)..  ...  ©  15
Aplnm  (graveleons)..  15©  18
Bird, Is.........................  
4©  6
Carol, (po. 18)..............  10©  12
Cardamon................... l  00®1  25
Coriandrum.................  10©  12
Cannabis Sativa..........   4© 
5
Cydonlum....................   76©1  00
Chenopodium  ............  10©  12
Dlpterix Odorate........2 25©2 50
Foeniculnm.................  ©   15
Foenngreek,  po..........  
8
L in l.............................. 4  © 4M
Llnl, grd,  (bbl. 8) .........3)4©  4
Lobelia.........................   35©  40
Pharlarls Canarian__   3  © 4
Rapa............................. 
6©   7
Slnapls  Albn..............7  © 8
Nigra............  11®  12

6© 

SFIB ITU B .
Frumenti, W., D.  Co. .2 00®2 50
D. F. R ....... 1  75®2 00
...................1  25©1  50
Junlperls  Co. O. T ___1  65®2 00
............ 1  75®3 50
Saacharam  N.  E .........1  75©2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............ 1  7S©6 50
Vini Oporto.......................1  25©2 00
Vini  Alba..........................1  25©2 00

SFONSEB.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage..........................2  50©2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ...................
2 00 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage..........
110
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage....................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .........................
Hard for  slate  use__
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se .............................

1  40

Calcined, Pat............. .  55© 60
Carbonate,  Pat.......... .  20© 22
Carbonate, K. &  M... .  20© 25
Carbonate, Jenn'ngS. .  35© 36

Absinthium.................3 50©4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc........   45©  75
Amya&lae,Amarae....8  00©8 25
A nisl........................... 1  70@1  80
Aurantl  Cortex......... 2  30©2 40
Bergamll  .................... 3 25®3 50
Cajipnti...................... 
60®  65
Caryophylli.................  75©  80
Cedar...........................  35©  65
Chenopodi!.................  @1  60
Cinnamonil................1  10® t  15
Cltronella....................   ©  45
Conlum  Mac...............  35©  65
Copaiba  ......................  gn©  90

STR U TS.

A ccada..................................  50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................   60
Ferrl lod................................  50
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom.............................  50
SlmUax  Officinalis...............   60
Co.........  50
Senega...................................   50
Sdllae......................................  50
“  Co................................   50
Tolntan..................................  50
Pranas  vlrg..........................    GO

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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

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

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

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

“ 
“ 
“ 

BAKING  POWDER. 
Acme.
% lb. cans, 3 doz............... 
IS
2  “ 
H lb.  “ 
85
................. 
1  “  ..................   1 60
1 lb.  “ 
Bulk................................  ... 
10
Arctic.
55
M lb cans 6 doz  case......... 
..........   1 10
4 doz  “ 
*4  ft 
2 doz “ 
......... 2  00
1  ft 
5  1b 
1 do*  “ 
.........   9 00
Fosfon.
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. In case...  80 
16  “ 
.. .2 00
“ 
Red Star, & lb cans..........  
40
75
........... 
“ 
...........   1  40
“ 
45
Teller’s,  K lb. cans, doz. 
“ “ 
“ 
“ “ 
“ 
45
“ 
75
“ 
1  50
per doz 
Dime cans..  95 
“ 
..1  40
4-oz 

*4 lb. 
1 lb. 
Our Leader, U lb cans... 
lb  cans......... 

1 lb cans
Dr. Price’s.

H ft  “ 
1ft  “ 

“  2  “ 

0'PRICEtt
cream!
Ma k in g
"OWDEBi
Stinariu*’,

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen in case.

 

“ 

“ 
“ 

8oz 

BLUING. 

English..................................  90
Bristol.....................................  80
Domestic................................  70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals...............  3 60
“ 
**  pints, round  ............  9 00
'•  No. 2. sifting box...  2 75 
“  No. 3, 
...  4 00
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
lo t  ball  ....................  4 50
“ 
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........   3 60
“ 
8 oz..........   6  80
“ 
BROOMS,
1.40. 2 Hurl...........................  1  75
No.  1  “ 
............................   2 00
No. 2 Carpet..........................   2 25
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem............................  2 75
Common Whisk................... 
80
Fancy 
...................  1 00
Warehouse....... ...................8 00
Stove, No.  1.........................   125

BRUSHES.

* 

 

Rice Root Scrub, 2  row__
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row__   1  :
Palmetto, goose............  ...  1

Oval—250 in crate.

BUTTER  PLATES 
i
No.  1....................................... 
No.  2......................................   1
No.  3....................................... 
|
No.  5.......................................l  (

CANDLES.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes..............  10
Star,  40 
9
Paraffine  ................... 
io
...............................24
Wicking 

“ 

 

 

 

CANNED  GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  l lb...............  

i  ao
"  2 1b..................190
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 8 lb........................2 25
Cove Oysters.
85
Standard,  1 lb.............. 
21b......................1  60
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb.............................2 45
“  2  lb............................. 8 50
Picnic, 1 lb........................... 2 00
“ 
21b.............................2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb ...................... 1 25
2  lb .................... 2  10
Mustard,  21b....................   2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb ............  2 25
Soused, 2  lb..........................2 25
Columbia River, flat...........1  80
falls........... 1  65
Alaska, Red..........................1  25
pin t..........................1  10
Kinney's,  flats.....................1  95
Sardines.
American  Ks..................  ©  5
r 
,* ■ ..................6J4© 7
imported  14s ......................  @10
. .   *‘  _  Hs......................15@16
........................  @8
Mustard 
Boneless............................  
¿1
Trout
Brook, 8 lb ............................2 50 |

Salmon.
“ 

‘L 

 

-

1  75

Gages.

1  00 
2  90

Cherries.

.. 85
..  1  50

Fruits.
Apples.
3 lb. standard..........
York State, gallons  .
Hamburgh, 
Apricots.
1  75
Live oak........................ 
Santa  Crus.................. 
1  75
Lusk’s ........................... 
1  75
1  75
Overland.................... 
Blackberries.
B. A  W ......................... 
90
Red..............................   1  io@i 20
1  75
Pitted Hamburgh  ___ 
W hite........................... 
1  50
Brie..............................  
1  25
Damsons, Bgg Plums and Green 
Erie..............................  
1  10
California....................  
1  60
Gooseberries.
Common..................
1  25 
Peaches.
P ie.............................
1 CO
M axwell..................
Shepard’s .................
California..................
Monitor
Oxford
Domestic. 
1 20
......... 
Riverside.
........  
210
Pineapples.
Common....................... 1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........  
2 50
2 75
grated......... 
Booth’s sliced......... 
@2 5)
grated............  @2 75
Quinces.
Common...................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
1  ao
Red  ..............................  
Black  Hamburg.......... 
1  50
i s
Erie,  black 
Strawberries.
Lawrence....................  
i s
Hamburgh..................  
i s
Erie............................... 
1  20
Terrapin.........................  
1  10
Whortleberries.
Blueberries......................  
6 75
Corned beef  Libby’s ...........1  95
Roast beef  Armour’s  ......... 1  80
Potted  ham,  ¡4 lb ..................1  40
“  14 lb...................  85
“ 
“  tongue, 
lb .............   ..135
“ 
“ 
54 lb----------  85
95
Vegetables.

chicken, 14 lb..........  

Meats.

“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

“ 
“ 
2 50
“ 

Hamburgh  strlngless...........1  s
French style....... 2 25
Limas...................1  35
Lima, green.................................1 40
soaked........................  65
Lewis Boston Baked.............1  35
Bay State  Baked................... 1  35
World’s  Fair  Baked.............1  85
Picnic Baked..........................1  00
Hamburgh..................................j 4'
Livingston  E den.............   1  20
..  ..............................
Purity 
Honey  Dew.................................1 40
Morning Glory....................
Soaked.................................. 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat............ 1  85
early June........
Champion Eng 
l 50
petit  pols............. 1 75
fancy  sifted____1 90
Soaked....................................  75
Harris standard...................[  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat...........1  10
early June....... 1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  36
French.........................................2 15
French.................................164821
Erie.........................................  85
Hubbard......................................1 15
Hamburg......................................1 40
Soaked....................................  85
Honey  Dew.........................’’i  50
Erie.............................................. 1 35
Hancock.................................1  10
Excelsior  .  ...........................
Eclipse........................'.'.'.I'.'.'.
Hamburg................................
Gallon......................................... g so

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.

“ 

1 00

CHOCOLATE.
. 

Baker’s.

CHEESE.

German Sweet........... 
23
Premium............................  
37
Breakfast  Cocoa............  . 
43
Amboy.........................   @13*
Acme.............................  1254013
£?naw.e„e ...................... 
© 12%
Riverside....................  
1354
Gold  Medal  ...............   @12&
Skim............................. 
Brick............................. 
Edam  ..........................  
Leiden.........................  
Llmburger  ................. 
Pineapple. 
Roquefort.

6@10
11
1  00
23
oiO
035

Sap  Sago.......................... 
Schweitzer, Imported. 
domestic  __  

“ 

021

024
©14

CATSUP.

“ 

Blue Label Brand.
 
Triumph Brand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles............ 2  75
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
.....  @3
35 lb  bags........... 
Less auantltv  ...............  D3U
Pound  packages........
6*@7~
COFFEE.

CLOTHES  PINS.
COCOA  SHELLS.

Green.
Rio.

Santos.

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

Maracaibo.

Mocha. 

Java.

Roasted.

Package.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add  54c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent,  for shrink­
age.
M cLaughlin's  XXXX.  2145
Bunola  ............................  21 95
Lion. 60 or 100 lb.  case_  21  45
Valley City 54 gross........... 
75
Felix 
1  15
Hummel’s, foil,  gross........  1  50
“ 
.......   2 50

Extract.

“ 

tin 
CHICORY.

“ 

5
.  7

Bulk..............................  
Red................................ 
CLOTHES  LINES,
Cotton.  40 ft.......... per doz.  l  25
“ 
1 40
1  60
“ 
“ 
1  75
1  90
“ 
" 
1  00

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Jute 
“ 
CONDENSED MILK.

50ft..........
60ft..........
TO ft..........
80 ft..........
60 ft..........
72 ft 
.
4 doz. In case.

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

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

COUPON  BOOKS.
DCSi

W ik.s

I m REy
LPifeó

“

“ 

“ 

“Tradesman.’
I  1  books, per hundred 
8 2 
8  3 
8 5
810 
820 
8  1 books, per hundred. 
8 2 

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

“Superior.”

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3 00
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4 00
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8  1  books, per hundred
<3 00
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$ 3 
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I  5 
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<10 
6 00 
820
7 00
4 50
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts 
200 books or over..  5  per  cent 
500 
1000 

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No.  1, 6..................................  1 65
No. 2, 6..................................  1 50

XX  wood, white.
No. 1,654..............................   1 35
No. 2, 654  ........................ 
Manilla, white.
654  ........................................   1 00
6............................................ 
95
Mill  No. 4  .  ......................   1  00
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 

Coin.

 

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COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
(Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from <10  down. |
20 books  .. 
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50  “ 
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100  “ 
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..................   3 00
250  “ 
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...................  6 25
500  “ 
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...................10 00
1000  “ 
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..................   17 50
500, any one denom’n .......83 00
1000,  “  “ 
.......5 00
2000,  “  “ 
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Steel  punch.........................

CREDIT  CHECKS.

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CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX....................... 6
Seymour XXX. cartoon.......6
Family  XXX.......................   6
Family XXX,  cartoon........   6
Salted XXX........................... 6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  .........654
Kenosha 
.............................  754
Boston.....................................  ~
Butter  biscuit........................654
Soda,  XXX...........................  6
Soda, City...............................   754
Soda,  Duchess.......................  854
Crystal Wafer........................10
Long  Island Wafers 
...... 11
S. Oyster  XXX......................  6
City Oyster. XXX..................   6
Farina  Oyster......................6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure..........................  
Telfer’s  Absolute.................. 
Grocers’.................... 
  1502?
Dom estic.

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Apples.

“ 

.. 

quartered  “ 

Sundrled. sliced in  bbls. 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
Apricots.
California In  bags.........
Evaporated In boxes. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes....................
Nectarines.
TO lb. bags.........................
251b. boxes.......................10
Peeled, In  boxes..........
Cal. evap. 
“ 
California 
Pitted  Cherries
Barrels  ..........................
50 lb. boxes....................
26  “ 

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In bags.....10
Pears.
In bags 
10

.............  10

Peaches.

.........1054

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Prunelles.
301b.  boxes....................
Raspberries.
In barrels........................
50 lb. boxes......................
........................
251b. “ 
Raisins.

Loose  Muscatels in Boxes.

2 crown................................  }  29
3 
“ 
..............................   1  60
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
2  crown.................................   4
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3 
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Foreign.
Currants.

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Peel.

Patras,  In barrels.............  
In  54-bbls................. 
In less quantity___ 
cleaned,  bulk........  
cleaned,  package.. 

3
854
354
6
654 
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  20 
25 “ 
“ 
Lemon 
“ 
10
25 “ 
“ 
Orange 
« 
11
Raisins.
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes 
©  754
“ 
Sultana, 20 
©  s
Valencia, 80  “
Prunes.
California,  100-120...............  7
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  754
. 8
80x90 
TOx80 
854
60x70 
.  9

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Turkey...........................
SHver............................
Sultana..................................
French,  60-70........................
70-80........................
80-90........................
90-10*......................
ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1, 654............................   81  75
No. 2. 654............................   1  00

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Farina.
Hominy.

3%
................................ 3 00
Lima  Beans.

100 lb. kegs................... 
Barrels 
Grits............................................3 50
Dried..............................   3K©4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported.......................1054©i 1
Barrels  200.........  
Half barrels  100......................  2 50

Oatmeal.

4  75

 

Pearl Barley.

Kegs..................................... 

23£

Peas.

Green,  bu................................  1 45
Split  per lb ..................25403
Rolled  Oats.
Barrels  180..................   @4  75
Half  bbls 90............... 
©2  50
German................................  454
East India.............................  5
Cracked................................. 

Wheat.

Sago.

5

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth.............................

31
3

Pollock.............................
Whole, Grand  Bank.......  5©554
Boneless,  bricks................608
Boneless,  strips..................6©8

Halibut.

Smoked............................1101254

Herring.
“ 
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Holland, white hoops keg
bbl 
Norwegian  .......................
Round, 54 bbl 100 lbs........
.......
Scaled..................................

54  “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

“ 

9 50

6 v,
7
11

15

No. 1,  100 lbs..............................11 00
No. 1, 40 lbs...............................  4 70
No. 1,  10 lb s.............................  1 go
No. 2,100  lbs...............................8 50
No. 2, 40 lbs................................ 3 70
No. 2, 10 lbs..............................   1 05
Family, 90 lbs............................. 6 00

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10  lb s ................... 
Russian,  kegs..................... 

70
65

Sardines.
Trout.

No. 1,  54 bbls., lOOlbs............ 6 00
No.  1 54 bbl, 40  lbs.................... 2 75
No. 1, kits. 10 lbs...................  ¿0
No. 1, 8 lb  kits......................  68

Wblteflsh.

No.  1

Family 
54 bbls, 100 lbs...........87 00  82 75
M  “  40  “  -------- 3  10  1 30
10 lb.  kits.................... 
45
81b.  “ 
....................  
40
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

90 
75 

Jennings.

1 20

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Lemon. Vanilla 
2 oz regular panel . 7 5  
2 00
4 oz 
.1   50 
3 00
6 oz 
...2  00 
No. 3 taper  ...........1 35 
2 00
No. 4  taper............. 1  50 
2  50
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs........ ............................... 3 25
Half  kegs.................................... 1 go
Quarter  kegs..............................1 10
lb  cans................................  30
54  lb  cans...............................  18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs............................................. 4 25
Half  kegs....................................2 40
Quarter kegs.............................  1 35
" lb cans......................... 

 
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs............................................11 00
Half  kegs  ...........................  5  75
quarter kegs...............................3 00
60 I

lb cans..............................  

34

Sage  ...................................... 15
Hops.......................................15

HERBS.

INDIGO.

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

5;
50

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

©  50
©  79

Pure.........................................  30
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 parlor.........................1 70
No. 2 home  ............................1  10
Export  parlor.........................4 00

MINCE  MEAT.

3 doz. case*..........................  275
6 doz. case.................... 
  5  50
12 doz. case................................11 00

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon 
...........................  81  75
Half  gallon...............   —   1  40
TO
Quart.................................. 
Pint.....................  
45
Half  p in t.......................... 
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon..............................   7 00
Half gallon........................  4  73
Quart..................................  3 75
Pint......................................  2  25

 

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap
Sugar house.............. 

Cuba Baking.

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

 

 

Porto Rico.

Prime..................................  
Fancy..................................  

New Orleans.

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

14

16

20
30

18
22
27
32
40

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

Small.

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

©5 00 
©3 00

6 no
3 50

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

T. D. full count 

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POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s ........................... 
4 00
PennaSalt  Co.’s ...............   3 26

RICE 
Domestic.

Carolina h e a d ......................6
No. 1........................554
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Broken..................................   4

Imported.

Japan, No. 1...........................554
No. 2 ........................... *
Java.......................................  6
Patna.....................................   554

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SPICKS.
Whole Sifted

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Allspice...................................10
Cassia, China In mats........   7
Batavia In bund___15
Saigon In rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna..................22
Zanzibar....................12
Mace  Batavia........................ 80
Nutmegs, fancy.....................75
“  No.  1..........................70
“  No.  2......................... 60
Pepper, Singapore, black — 10 
“ 
w hite...  .20
shot........................... 16
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Allspice.................................. 15
Cassia,  Batavia..............  
  18
and  Saigon.25
Saigon......................35
Cloves,  Amboyna..................22
Zanzibar..................18
Ginger, African.....................16
“  Cochin....................  20
Jamaica.................. 22
“ 
Mace  Batavia........................ 65
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste......................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
“ 
white.......24
“  Cayenne...................20
Sage.  ......................................20
''Absolute” in Packages.

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Allspice........................  84  156
uuutuuuu....................
84 1  55
Cloves...........................
84 1  55
Ginger,  Jam aica.......
84 1  55
African  ..........
84 1  55
Mustard........................
Pepper .......................... 84 1  55
84
Sage...............................
SAL  SODA.
Kegs..............................
Granulated,  boxes__
SEEDS.
A nise...........................
Canary, Smyrna..........
Caraway.................... .
Cardamon, Malabar...
Hemp,  Russian..........
Mixed  Bird  ...............
Mustard,  white..........
Poppy...........................
Rape.............................
Cuttle  bone.................
STARCH.
Corn.
20-lb  boxes..................
...................
40-lb 
Gloss.
1-lb packages...............
3-lb 
...............
6-lb 
.................
40 and 50 lb. boxes.......
Barrels...........................

@15
35Í
6
90
4SI
4@6
10
9
5
30

5*
54
54
5*
54
3*
3*

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SNUFF.

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

32
18
75

75 

27

SODA.

Boxes....................................... 54
Kegs, English..........................4*

SALT.
 
 

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

 
 

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

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56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks. 

Higgins.

Soiar Rock.

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

Common Fine.

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

70
70

SALKRATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s ..............................  5*4
DeLand’s ..............................   54
Dwight’s ................................ 54
Taylor’s ..................................  5

SOAP.
Laundry.

“ 

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Dlngman Brands. 

Old Country,  80  1-lb............3  20
Good Cheer, 601 lb...............3 90
White Borax, 100  3£-lb........ 3  05
Proctor & Gamble.
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, w rpd..*4 00 
plain...  3 94
N. K. Fairbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  4 00
Brown, 60 bars....................2 40
80  b a rs...................325
“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.
Acme.................................. 4 00
Cotton Oil.......................6 00
Marseilles............................3 95
Matter  ...............................4 35

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Thompson & Chute Brands.

Smoking.

r

Catlln’s  Brands.

Kiln  dried............................. 17
Golden  Shower.....................19
Huntress 
..............................26
Meerschaum..........................29
American  Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle  Navy..........................40
Stork  ...............................30@32
German..................................15
Froe 
..................................... 33
Java, 4 s  foil.........................32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner....................................16
Banner Cavendish................38
Gold Cut................................ 28

Scotten’s Brands.

Silver 
.  3 b5 
Mono 
.  3 35 
Savon Improved
2 50
Sunflower.......................... 3 ¿5
Golden  ............................'  3 25
Economical  ....................... 2 25
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 50
hand, 3 doz...........2  50

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Brands.

SUGAR.

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

W arpath.................................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

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 
fre'gbt.  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 98
Cubes..........................
XXXX  Powdered........
.  5 54 
Confec. Standard  A..
.  4  96
4  61
.  4 48 H ID E S   P E L T S a n d   F U R S
.  4 42
.  4 34
Perkins  &  Hess pay  as  fol-
.4  8* lows:
.  4 23
HIDES.
.  4  17 Green..................
.  4  11 Part Cured........  .
3 98 Full  « 
...........
Dry.......................
3 80 Kips, green  .........

Tom and Jerry.......................25
Traveler  Cavendish............ 38
Buck Horn.............................3u
Plow  Bov............
...... 30@32
Corn  Cake...........
............16

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

......  2@24
@3
@ 3*
4  @ 5
. 
...  2  @3
@ 4
Calfskins,  green........  3  @  4
cured........   5  @ 6
Deacon skins...............10  @25

Spaulding & Merrick.

cured.
“ 

No.  7.. 
No.  8..

SYRUPS.

Corn.

No. 2 hides *  off.

Barrels...................................20
Half bbls............................... 22
Fair........................................   19
Good.......................................  25
Choice.....................................  30

Pure Cane.

VINEGAR.

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

11 for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per g a l....................  
30
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75 
Magic,................................... 1  00
Warner’s  ......... 
............... 1  00
Yeast Foam  .........................1  00
Diamond................................  75
Royal.............................. 
90

YEAST.

 

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SUN CURED.

BASKET FIBED.

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

OOLONG. 
IMPERIAL.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

YOUNG HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

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

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Plug.

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

33
27
39
26
38
34
40
32

Shearlings...................  5 @  20
Lambs 
......................15  @  40

WOOL.

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

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow........................  3 © 44
Grease  batter  ............  1 @2
Switches....................  1 4@ 2
Ginseng..................... 2 00@2 50

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

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

Bolted........
Granulated.

1  40 
1  65

FLO U R .

Straight, in sacks  ............  3 30
“ barrels............  3 55
“ 
Patent 
“ sacks..............  4 30
barrels...........  4  55
sacks...........  1  70
Graham
Rye

M ILL 8T U F F 8.

Less
Car lots  quantity 
. *13 50
Bran...........
*14 00 
Screenings. ..  13 00
13 OO 
Middlings..
16 00 
..  15 00
Mixed Feed ..  17 0)
18 00 
17 00
Coarse meal .  16 50

CORK.

Car  lots............................... 40
Less than  car  lots..............44

OATS.

Car  lots  ..............................33
Less than car lots................36

No. 1 Timothy, car lots. 
ton lots  ..
No. 1 

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.12 50

WOODENWARE.

13  “ 

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

Tubs, No. 1...........................  6 00
“  No. 2............................. 5  50
“  No. 3...........................  4  50
1 30
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__   1  50
“ 
90
15  “ 
“ 
........................ 1  25
17  “ 
“ 
......................  1  90
19  “ 
2 40
“ 
 
21 
“  
.................................
Baskets, market........... 
35
shipping bushel..  1 15
full  hoop  “ 
..  1 25
25
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3 25
“  No.2 4 00
“  No.3 4 75
Pails.....................................  3  15
Tubs,  No.  1...........................13 50
Tubs, No. 2............................12 00
Tubs, N o.3............................10 50

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PROVISIONS

SAUSAGE.

PO R K   IN   B A R R E L S.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provlslou Co. 

quotes as follows:
Mess..................................................................  14 ro
Short c u t....................................................... 
15 55
Extra clear pig, short  cut..............................   17 00
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat  back...............................................   16 00
Boston clear, short cut...................................   16  50
Clear back, short cut.......................................  16  50
16 50
Standard clear, short cut. best.....  .......... 
Pork, links................................................ 
84
Bologna...................................................... 
6
Liver............  .................... ...................... 
7
Tongue...................................................... 
8)4
Blood.......................................................... 
6
Head cheese.............................................. 
7
Summer......................................................  
10
Fra 11k flirts................................................. 
8
Liver........................................................... 
7
Kettle  Rendered.................................................  94
Granger................................................................ 94
Family  ........................................................ 
 
74
Compound.................................................  .......
Cottoline...............................................................   84
50 lb. Tins, 4 c  advance.
20 lb.  pails, 4 c 
10 lb.  “  %c
5 lb. 
“  4c 
3 lb. 
’•  1  c 

LA R D .

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smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs.......................   8 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing........................  7 5U
Boneless, rump butts........................................ 11  00
Hams, average 20 lbs..........................................10
16 lbs.......................................... 104
12 to 14 lbs...................................104
picnic.......................................................   84
best boneless..........................................  10
Shoulders...........................................................   84
Breakfast Bacon  boneless..............................   134
Dried beef, ham prices.....................................10
Long Clears, heavy............................................
Briskets,  medium............................................   10
ligh t...................................................  104

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DRY   SALT  MEATS.

T R IP E .

P IC K E E D   F IG S ’  FE E T .

Butts....................................................................  9
D. S.  Bellies........................................................  124
Fat Backs...........................................................  10
Barrels................................................................   8 OO
K egs......................-...........................................   1  90
Kits, honeycomb............................................... 
65
Kits, premium................................................... 
55
Barrels................................................................22 00
Half barrels.......................................................11 00
Per pound........................................................... 
11
Dairy, sold packed............................................  15
Dairy, rolls...........................................................154
Creamery, solid packed...................................   18
Creamery, rolls.................................................  184

B E E F   TONGUES.

B U T T E B IN E .

FR E S H   B E E F .
CarcasB....................   ..... ..........................  5  @
Fore  quarters..............................
•  54®  6
Hind quarters.............................................. 54@ 6
.  7 @10
Loins No. 3.................................................7
.  6 @ 7
Ribs...............................................
,.  5 @ 6
Rounds.........................................
..  4 @ 44
Chucks........................................................  4
@ 4
Plates ............................................
F R E S H   FO R K .
6
Dressed.........................................
8
Loins.............................................
Shoulders  .........  .................
64
10
Leaf Lard.....................................
4 © 5
Carcass............  .......................................  4
..  0 ©  6
Lambs............................................
.  5 @  6
Carcass......................................................  5

MUTTON.

VEAL.

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as  follows:

F R E S H   F IS H .

 

 

 

oysters—Cans.

.................................................  @  9
Whltefisb 
Trout  .........................................................   @ 9
Black Bass........  
12 4
Halibut.......................................................   @15
Ciscoes or Herring....................................  @ 5
Blueflsh......................................................  @124
Fresh lobster, per lb.  ............................. 
20
Cod.............................................................. 
10
No. 1 Pickerel............................................  @ 9
Pike.............................................................  @ 8
Smoked  White..........................................  @10
12
Red  Snappers............................................ 
Columbia River  Salmon.........................  
124
Mackerel........................ 
20@25
Falrhayen  Counts....................................  @35
F. J. D.  Selects.........................................  @30
Selects........................................................  @25
F. J. D.........................................................   @23
Anchors..................................................  
@20
Standards..................................................   @18
Favorite.....................................................   @16
Extra Selects..............................per gal.. 
175
Selects........................................................ 
1  50
1  on
standards................................................... 
2 20
Counts........................................................ 
Scallops...................................................... 
2 GO
Shrimps  ..................................................... 
1  25
Clams.............................................. 
125
Oysters, per  100  .......................................1  25@1  59
Clams, 
@1  00

SH E L L   GOODS.
 
 

oysters—Bulk.

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M IX ED   CANDY.

Bbls.
Standard.......................................6
..6
Leader.......................................... g
-.6
Royal................................
..7
Nobby...............................
. .7
English  Rock..................
Conserves  .......................
. .7
Broken Taffy....................baskets
ts
Peanut Squares................. 
“
8
French Creams..............  .........
Valley  Creams........................
Midget, 30 lb. baskets...............
“ 
Modern, £0 lb. 
..............  .
f a n c y —In b u lk

1 7

Pails.
7
7
8
8
8
8
8
9
9413
......  84

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fancy—In 5 lb.  boxes. 

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

Lozenges,  plain.................................................  9
  10
Chocolate Drops................................................   12
Chocolate Monumental»..................................  13
Gum Drops.........................................................   54
Moss Drops.........................................................   g
Sour Drops.........................................................    34
Imperials.............................................................  10
Per Box
Lemon Drops......................................................55
Sour Drops........................................................ "55
Peppermint Drops............................................ .60
Chocolate Drops................................................. 75
H. M. Chocolate  Drops...................................."£¿@90
Gum  Drops.....................................................40@50
Licorice Drops........................................................ 1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops................................80
Lozenges, plain.....................................................go
printed.............................................’’gs
Imperials............................................................. go
Mottoes............................................................11! 170
Cream Bar........................................................... [55
Molasses  Bar........................................ 55
Hand Made  Creams.......  ........ 
85@95
Plain Creams................................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams..................................................1 00
String  Rock........................................................65
Burnt Almonds...................................................... i no
Wlntergreen  Berries.........................................go
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes...........................  34
No. 1, 
...........................  51
No. 2, 
...........................  28
128,138........................................................  
2 50
3 CO
159................................................................  
176, 200, 216................................................. 
3 go
Small...........................................................i  oo@i  25
Large......................................................... 1  60@2 00
Messina, extra  fancy............................
fancy £60................................. 
fancy 300  ................................. 
choice 360................................  
choice 300................................. 

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ORANGES.

4  co
4  50
3 50
4  00

CARAM ELS.

BANANAS.

LEM ONS.

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O TH ER   FO R EIG N   F R U IT S .

“ 

Figs, fancy layers, 69>..............................   @124
“  10ft.............................  @13
“  14ft.............................   @15
Dates, Fard,  10-lb. box.............................  @ 8
.............................  @ 7
Persian. 50-lb.  box.......................   44@  54

“ 
“  extra 
“ 
“ 
“ 

50-lb.  “ 

NUTS.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Almonds, Tarragona.
@18
Ivaca.........
@17
California.
@
Brazils, new..............
@12
Filberts....................
@12@14
Walnuts, Grenoble.  . 
French......
@ 12*
Calif.......................................  11@13
Table Nuts,  fancy...................................   @13
choice.................................   @12
9@n
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ............................. 
Chestnuts..............................................
1  i
Hickory Nuts per bu............................. 
Cocoanuts, full sacks......................
@4 00
Fancy, H.  P.,Suns..........................
@@  54
_
“  Roasted...............  
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..............................   54@  6
~@  74
“  Roasted..  ....... 
 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras............................  44@  5
“  Roasted................. 
g@ 64

PEANUTS.

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CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

LAM P  B U R N E R S.

6 doz. in box.

No. 0 Sun..............................................................  45
No. 1  “  ....................................................  
  50
No.2  “  ...............................................................  75
Tnbular................................................................  76

 

lamp  chimneys.  Per box,

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No. 0 Sun.......................................  ...................  1  75
No. 1  “  ............................................................. 1  83
No. 2  “  ............................................................. 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.........................................2  10
........................................ 2 25
“ 
No. 1  “ 
No.2  " 
“  ..........................................8 25
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.........................................2  60
“  ..........................................2 80
No. 1  “ 
No.2  “ 
“  ..........................................3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled......................3 70
“ 
No. 3  “ 
.................... 4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
......................4  88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz......................... 1  25
No.2  “ 
......................... 150
No. 1 crimp, per doz...........................................1  35
........................................... 1  60
“ 
No. 2 

La Bastle.

Pearl top.

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LA M P W ICK S.

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

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CANDIES. FRUITS and  NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: 

s t i c k   c a n d y .
Cases 
Standard,  per lb........................ 
“  H.H.............................  
Twist  .........................  
“ 
84
...  84

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

Bbls.  Palls.
64 74
64 74
64 74
84

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STONEW ARE— A K RO N .
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal................................  06
4  gal. per doz........................  60
Jugs, 4  gal., per doz......................................   70
1 to 4 gal., per gal...................................  07
Milk Pans, 4  gal., per doz............................   60
...........................  72

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STONEW ARE— BLACK  GLAZED.

Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal........................... 
07
Milk Pans, 4  gal..............................................  65
.  78

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

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1 8

N E W   PH A SE   OP  THE  SU G A R   Q U E S­

TION.

All that I know is that the facts I state
Are true as truth has ever been of late.
There is a bright side even to the work 

—Byron.

of a storekeeper.

There was once a customer who bought 
a big bill of goods,  allowed  the  clerk to 
make the selections,  asked  no  questions 
as to cost or quality,  paid spot  cash  for 
everything and took the goods away from 
the store  himself.

But that is another story,* and the man 
is now dead.  Let us hope that  he  rests 
easily in  his grave,  and that  the  flowers 
of spring bloom  unceasingly and  spread 
perpetual  fragrance  above  his  tomb. 
Requiescat in pace.

It is often a pleasure  to  supply infor­
mation 
to  those  who  seek  knowledge 
and  who go about obtaining  it  in  a  be­
coming manner.  The writer is acquaint­
ed  with one such,  and  the  penstock  to 
the fount of wisdom  ever  responds read­
ily to her magic touch.

“Mr. Thurston,  have you  any  sugar?” 
“We have.”
“What kinds do you  keep?”
“Well,  several.  What kind would you 

like?”

“I hardly know.  The last light brown 
sugar I got tasted smoky—I didn’t  get it 
here—and  I  don’t  like  that kind very 
well.  Does yours taste smoky?”

“1 think not.  Never heard that it did. 
However,  here it is,  and  you  can  taste 
for yourself.”

that 
tastes  as 
“No,  I  don’t  think 
smoky as the other did. 
It  seems  quite 
nice;  but that was so smoky 1  think per­
haps I had better  take  some other  kind. 
Is this all you  have?”

“O)  no.  Would  you 

like  granu­

lated?”

“I don’t  know  about  that,  either. 

I 
got some  granulated  at  Charlevoix this 
summer  that  wasn’t  sweet  at  all. 
Is 
yours sweet?”

“O,  yes,  ma'am;  ours  is  sweet,  I’m 
sure.  At  least  I  never  heard  anyone 
complain of it.”

“Are you sure it’s  sweet?”
“Yes,  ma’am;  very sure.”
“1 think I had better  look  at  it,  any­
way. 
I saw some granulated  sugar that 
a neighbor had that was so coarse that it 
wouldn’t hardly dissolve,  and, of course, 
sugar that  won’t dissolve  isn’t  just  the 
thing for coffee.  That looks  quite good. 
Yes,  it tastes sweet at first. 
Is this sug­
ar pure?”

“I suppose it is.”
“Ain’t you sure,  then?”
“ Why, yes;  I am pretty sure.  We buy 
only the best we  can get.”
“Don’t you think the  brown  sugar  is j 
“No,  ma’am;  I don’t.”
“Well,  I am sure it is.  You just taste 
of  brown  sugar  and  see  how  much 
sweeter it is than the granulated.”

more pure than the granulated?”

“I know that,  but it  is  because  there 
is a certain amount of water in  the  dark 
sugars,  and 
they  dissolve  much  more 
quickly than the hard grains  of  the dry 
white sugar.  As the pure sugar crystals 
are themselves white,  it stands to reason 
that  dark  sugar  cannot be pure, and to 
purify or refine  brown  sugar  the  dark 
particles of coloring  matter  must be re­
moved.  That  is  my idea,  though I may 
be  wrong.”

“Well, that doesn’t  sound very unrea­
sonable.  What is the price of  the gran­
ulated?”

Kipling.

Torch  Lake!”

“Don’t they?”
“Nor at Eastport!”
“Indeed!”
“Nor at Atwood!”
“Ah!”
“Nor Charlevoix!”
“M-m-m-----”
“Nor Petoskey!”

“Nor at Cheboygan!  And I  can  send 
right  to  Montgomery Ward  &  Co.  and 
get it for even less!”

“My,  it must  be cheap,  indeed,  in Chi­

cago!”

in town?”

Is that the best you  can  do?” 

“It is. 
“ Yes’m.”
“Don’t they give more  anywhere  else 

“I don’t know.  Just  sit  down a min­

ute and I’ll go and see.”

“No, never mind;  I’ll see for myself.” 
(I may add here that she had been see­

ing;  but that, also,  is another story.)

“Would you do any better  if  I’d  take 

two dollars’ worth?”

“ No’m,  that is our best price.”
“Now,  Mr.  Thurston,  I  want  you  to 
give  me  your  very  best  prices. 
I do a 
deal of trading in  a  year,  and  I  always 
go where I can do the best. 
I had rather 
come here,  for it’s handy; and I like your 
stoie,  for I can get  most  anything  here 
that I want.  Now,  if you want our trade, 
you will have to do as well by us as they 
do at other places.  And I know lots that 
I  could  get  to  trade  here,  too.  Now, 
don’t  you  think  you  ought  to  do  your 
best by me?”

“I  certainly  do,  Mrs.  Reinhart.  We 
should  like,  above  all 
things,  to  have 
you buy a large bill of  goods of  us,  and 
we should be glad,  indeed,  to  have  you 
send your friends here to trade.  But we 
are  here  to  make  a  living.  We  are 
charging  you  but  a  small fraction of a 
cent profit on a pound of  sugar,  perhaps 
not  enough  to  cover  the  loss  by  down 
weight,  and the expense of  paper  sacks 
and twine,  to say nothing  of  the  waste 
in  handling and  our  time  in  selling  it, 
which  is quite  important  You come to 
us for the bare item  of  sugar  and  want 
to  buy  it  below  cost.  We  cannot,  in 
justice  to  our  business,  accede to your 
request.  Give us a chance on something 
on  which we can make a fair living profit, 
and buy in large quantities,  and  we  can 
make it worth your while  to  trade  with 
I us.  There are ten people in your family. 
Give us an order  for  ten  pairs  of  boots 
and shoes,  and we will  guarantee to sell 
them cheaper than you could buy them,  a 
pair at a time,  at  the  cheapest  store  in 
J Michigan.”
“Well,  I  don’t  want  any  shoes.  We 
are not ready to buy  shoes  yet,  and,  be­
sides,  I think they sell shoes  cheaper  at 
Montgomery Ward’s.”

“That  is  because you only buy a pair 
If 
or  two  as you happen to need them. 
you  would  look  ahead a  little  when  it

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
“Fifteen pounds for a dollar.”
“Did you say fifteen?”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“My!  that’s awful high!”
“Yes’m.”
“That’s more’n it was last spring!” 
“ Yes’m.”
“Or  last winter!”
“Yes’m.”
“Or last fall!”
“Yes’m, considerable more.”
“Well,  but it’s  terrible dear.”
“I know it.”
“They don’t charge so much  as that at 

Put. July 5 ¿Oct. 4. ’92 

KITTENS, 

Put. July n d;  Oct. 4, '92.
Iteg'd, Eng., Aug. 23, '03. 

PICKANINNIES.  BOW-WOWS.

Patented July 5 and  Oct. 4,1892.

DOLLS  AND  MONKEYS,

Two to the yard,  12>£c per yard.  A fast retailer  at  10c.  Any  child  can  put then 
together. 

(Twenty yards to the piece.)  ORDER  AT  ONCE.

P*  S tek etee  &  S o n s.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Alfred  J,  Brow n  Co.,

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR  THE  CELEBRATED 

ST E T SO N

Ha t B r a n d   O r a n g e s

REGISTERED

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a s   fin e   a s   a n y   p a c k   in   th e   m a r k e t. 
P r ic e s   G u a r a n te e d .  T r y   th e m .

Alfred  J.  Brown  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

Wby Not Use Hie Best?
“ S u n l i g h t ” 
FANCY  PATENT  FLOUR

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Is  unsurpassed 
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by selling this  unrivaled  brand.  Write  us  for 
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Tie  Walsh-Moo  Million  Co,

HOLLAND,  MICH.

For

SOCIETIES,
CLUBS,
CONVENTIONS,
DELEGATES,
COMMITTEES.

The Largest Assortment of Ribbons 
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gets toward fall,  aud  buy at once of oue 
dealer  all  the  shoes  you  will need for, 
say, six months,  he will sell them to you 
for  less  money  than  any  Montgomery 
Ward  &  Co.  dare  name  in  their  cata­
logues.”

“I  don’t  see  why  you  can’t  sell  one 
pair at a time just as  cheap as a dozen.’’ 
“It is because it often  takes as long to 
sell one pair as it  does to sell six.  Mer­
chants are like farmers  in one respect— 
they  like  to  see  money  coming  in  in 
large sums.  Supposing 1  make  a  profit 
of  25  cents  on  a  pair  of  shoes  that  it 
takes me fifteen  minutes to sell—”

“I think  that  is  an  outlandish  profit 

to make on a pair of shoes!”

“ Well,  but  I mean by way of illustra­
tion.  Now,  if  in  half  an hour 1 could 
sell  five  pairs  more  to  the  same  per­
son,  making  six  pairs 
there 
would  be a profit of  a dollar and a half. 
Well,  then,  why  couldn’t  1  throw  off 
enough on the lot to make it an object to 
the  customer?”

in  all, 

“Oh, I suppose  you  could.  You mer­
chants make big  enough  profits anyway. 
I’ve heard that you don’t  get less  than  a 
hundred  per  cent,  on  anything,  and 
from  that  up. 
that 
used to be a clerk  in  a store,  and  he says 
they  always  made  just  half  profit  on 
sugar,  and I think you ought to  sell  me 
sugar cheaper.  Can’t you?”

I  know  a  man 

“No,  ma’am,  we can’t.  Sugars are up 
and we are giving you  the  best  possible 
price.”

“What made sugar raise?”
“The war in  Maracaibo.”
“My! 
there?”

Is that so?  What is  the  matter 

“Why,  the king’s gardener planted red 
lima  beans  in  the  queen’s  oyster  bed. 
Then  the  queen  sowed  a  few  rows  of 
field  corn  in  the  same  place,  with  the 
hope of blending the two and raising suc­
cotash.  This, of course,  didn’t  work,  for 
the oysters climbed the bean  poles,  and 
they were cooked whole for string beans, 
the king eating so many of  them,  shells 
and all,  that it made him  dreadful  sick. 
The queen  was mad because the king ate 
her  oysters,  and  so  they  have  gone  to 
war.  There  are  lots  of  mountains  so 
steep  in  that  country  that wagons can­
not be used on them,  and,  now  that  the 
war  is  on, 
they  cover  the  hills  with 
sugar  and 
sleighs. 
everybody  uses 
Funny,  isn’t it?”

“No,  I  don’t  see as  it’s  very  funny. 
It’s just queer.  But I’ve heard that they 
do strange things in those foreign  places. 
Then  most  likely  there  won’t  be  any 
sugar at all after a little.”

“Not if the war keeps on.”
“Do tell!  And how  much  would  you 

charge for a barrel of  granulated?” 
“Couldn’t  make any  better price.” 
“How many pounds of the light brown 

for a dollar?”
“Sixteen.”
“ How much  by the barrel?”
“Same price.”
“Do  you  think  that  the  sweet  taste 

will evaporate after a while?”

“No, ma'am,  I don’t think it will—that 

is,  not for years and years at  least.” 

“Then it would  evaporate sometime?” 
“I don’t know—it might,  but  I  never 

heard of such a thing.”

“Well,  if  you’re  not  sure,  I’ll  try 
twenty-five cents’ worth of it to-day; and 
please  put  two  papers  around  it  so  it 
won’t break open on the road,  and I wish 
you’d hurry,  for I promised  to  be  home 
in time to get supper for  the threshers.” 

Geo.  L. T h u r sto n.

P oin ts  for  C lerks.

Of all  the allurements  which  beguile 
the steps of youth,  probably not one is so 
powerful and so fatal as false friendship. 
And it is  “false”  in  every  sense.  The 
“honor among  thieves”  is  only  in 
the 
name.  The bond between them is one of 
fear and hate, rather than confidence and 
love.  However fair  and  flattering  the 
promises of those who  tempt  others  to 
do evil,  they are at heart hollow.  When 
a “tool” has  served  his  purpose  he  is 
cast  off  with  taunts  and jeers or silent 
contempt.
A certain Frenchman named Dentzhad 
betrayed  a  party  who  was  considered 
dangerous to the government  for  50,000 
francs.  The information he had  to give 
was  gladly  received,  and 
the  arrest 
promptly made, and a  secretary commis­
sioned  to  pay  over  the  money to  the 
traitor.
As the hour approached,  the  secretary 
sent a messenger for his  son.  When  he 
came he said;  “Look well  now at what 
passes,  and  never  forget  it.  You will 
see what a traitor is and  the  method  of 
paying him.”
Dentz entered the  apartment  and  ap­
proached the desk behind which his pay­
master was standing.  A sign  was  made 
for him to stop.  On  the  desk 
lay  two 
packages of 25,000 francs  each.  With  a 
pair of tongs each package was picked up 
aud dropped into  the  outstretched hand 
of the other, and  then he  was  pointed  to 
the door.  A dog would  have been treated 
with  more  respect  and  consideration. 
One rather wonders what were  the  feel­
ings of the man as  he  retired  with such 
gains  in  his  possession.  The  love  of 
money  must  have  been  very strong to 
have given much  pleasure without  that 
which  gives  money its  chief value,  the 
respect of his fellows.
When one has made money at  the  ex­
pense  of  his  reputation,  he  has  lost 
ground he  will hardly be able to recover. 
But 
the 
moral standpoint is far greater  than any 
disadvantages  that may arise  because of 
“ what people may say about him.” What 
you are is far more  important than  what 
folks  think  you  are.  Said  Macaulay: 
“One foolish  line of a  man  can  do  him 
more  harm  than 
the  ablest pamphlets 
against him  by other  people;”  and  the 
same is  true  of  one  evil  act.  Just  a 
forged signature to a paper  can  blacken 
a man’s whole  prospects  for  life,  and 
bring disgrace and ruin on all associated 
with him.
There have never been  better cautions 
and  directions  given  than those which 
Solomon wrote down, though his observa­
tions of life were made  from  the  stand­
point  of  a  palace, and  one would  sup­
pose he had seen  life mainly on its pleas­
ing  side.  Yet  the  old  world  goes on 
much in  the  same  pace.  Evil  workers 
say now as then to those they would lead 
astray:  “Cast in thy lot  among  us;  let 
us all have one purse.  We shall  find all 
precious  substance;  we  shall  fill  our 
homes with  spoil.”  Well  does  he  add 
the caution:  “Walk not thou with them; 
refrain thy foot from their paths.”
There is not a  crooked way of  getting 
money that does not bring “a wound and 
dishonor;”  and the wound  to  the  spirit 
of the  too  trusting,  deceived  youth  is 
often the hardest of all to bear.

to  himself  from 

loss 

the 

“ T o-M orrow ”  N ev er  C om es.

Longfellow has said  that “Our  unfin­
ished  tasks  wait  like mendicants at our 
gate.”  The shiftless  man expects to ac­
complish to-morrow the work  of  yester­
day,  and wastes  to-day in vague  plans 
for the future.  The satisfaction  of  be­
ing abreast of  his work  he  has  never 
felt.  His  office 
table  is always buried 
under an avalanche of  unanswered  let­
ters,  unchecked  accounts,  and  unsorted 
documents  of  every  kind.  A place for 
everything and nothing in its place is his 
idea  of  order.  Correspondents have to 
write twice or more  before  he  replies, 
and then he never answers their commu­
nications fully.  As to  paying  accounts 
on the date due, that is an act he is never 
guilty of.  He intends to be  honest,  but 
he  delays  the  doing of it until it is too 
late.  The man who,  through mere habit, 
has fallen into shiftless methods and dil­
atory ways seems to himself to  be  over­
whelmed  with  business.  He  has,  he

complains,  “no time  to  do  anything.” 
He  is  always  a few minutes too late to 
catch the train, or just misses an import­
ant appointment.
His position is like that  of  a  person 
who would  attempt  to  climb  a  ladder 
with  both  hands  full  of  packages.  A 
step forward means the loss  of  balance, 
and the shiftless man spends  all  his en­
ergy in recovering his  own  possessions.
What he did yesterday slips  from  his 
grasp as  he  reflects  on 
to-morrow,  be­
cause his plans do not  provide  for  the 
necessities  of  to-day.  He  resolves  at 
night to accomplish the  unfinished  task 
to-morrow,  but when 
the  sun  rises  he 
discovers  that  it is simply another  "to­
day,”  and delays the purpose  for a more 
leisurely occasion.
The prospector digs among  the  rocks 
and washes the  sand  in  search of gold, 
and,  when the day is over and nothing of 
value has rewarded his efforts,  buoys his 
courage with dreams  of 
the  glittering 
nuggets which  the shovel  of  to-morrow 
will bring to  the  surface.  The miner’s 
to-morrow may serve  some  useful  pur­
pose  and  cheer  his heart,  but the busi­
ness man who puts off  the  present duty 
will never  find a to-morrow to which  he 
can  intrust the demands of to-day.
Lse  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

Unlike me Dutch  Process 

— OH —

No  Alkalies
Other  Chemicals
. Baker &Co.’s
Breakfast  Cocoa,

a re  u sed  in   the 
p re p a ra tio n  o f

tvhich is   absolu tely p u r e  

a n d  soluble.

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

W. BAKER & GO., Dorchester. Mass.

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

Time Table in effect May 14, 1893.

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

VIA  D .,  G .  H.  A  M.  B ’Y.

Return connections equally as good.

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

G rand  R apids  & In d ian a.
Schedule  tn  effect Nov. 19.1893.

T RA INS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive from  Leave going 

South. 
For M’kinaw.Trav. City and Sag. 7:20 a in 
For Cadillac and Saginaw.........  2:16 p m 
For  Petoskey & Mackinaw.........8.10 pm  
From Kalamazoo...........................9:10 a m
From Chicago and Kalamazoo..  9 50 p m 
daily.  Others trains daily except Sunday.

TRAIN8  GOING  80UTH.

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

North.
7 ;40 a m
4:50 p m
10 .25  p m

North. 
For  Cincinnati................................................ 
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago...................... 
For Fort Wayne and the  East..  11:40 am  
For  Cincinnati.............................  6:15 p m 
For Kalamazoo  &  Chicago.......10:55 pm  
From Saginaw............................... 11:40 am
From Saginaw............................... 10:65p m
daily;  all  other trains  daily except Sunday.

Arrive from  Leave going 
8outh.
7:05  am
10:40  am
2:00 pm
6:00  p ro
11:20  p m

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

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

2 00 p m 
9 00 p m  

11:20 p m
7:05 am

10:40 a m 
4:00 pm  

Ly Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 
10:40  a  m  train  solid  with  Wagner  Buffet  Parlor 
Car.
11:20  pm   train  daily,  through  coach  and  W agner 
Sleeping Car.
11:40pm
Ly  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
7:20  am
4:15  p  m  through  Wagner  Buffet  Parlor  Car  and 
coaches.  11:40  p  m  train  daily,  through  Coach  and 
Wagner Sleeping  Car.

4:15pm  
9 50 pm  

6:50am 
2:15 p m  

For M u sk e g o n —L e a v e . 

M u sk e g o n , G ra n d   R a p id *  &  In d ia n a .
9:40 a m
7:35  a m 
5:40  pm  
5:20 pm

From M u sk e g o n — A r r iv e

Sunday train  leaves  for  Muskegon  at  7:45 &  m, ar­
riving at  9.-15  a  m.  Returning,  train  leaves  Muske 
gon at  4:80 p m, arriving at Grand  Rapids at 5:50 p ra.

General  Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

CHICAGO 

1893

AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’V.
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids............ 7:30am  1:25pm *ll:?0pm
Ar. Chicago  ............... 1:45pm  6:50pm  *6:30am

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

TO AMD FROM   M USKEGON.

TR A V ER SE  C ITY ,  CHARLEV O IX   AND  PE TO SK EY .
3:15pm
8:15pm
11:10pm
ll:4opm

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
Lv. Grand  Rapids .. 
7:30am  
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:10pm  
Ar.TraverseCity....  12:40pm 
3:15pm  
Ar. Charlevoix.......  
Ar.  Petoskey 
3:45pm  
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., conueets  for  Big Rapids and  Fre­
mont.  Returning,  arrives  Grand  Rapids  11:20 
a. m.
PA R LO R   AND  S L E E PIN G   CARS.
ToChicago, lv  G. R..  7:3llam  l :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 
...........

 
 
.........   8 45pm
 
 

♦Every day.  Other trains week days only.
D E T R O IT , 

sov' m ™
LANSING  &  NORTHERN  R.  ft.
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   SA GINAW ,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LO U IS.

Lv. G R 7:40am 4:50pm  Ar. G R.ll :40am 10:55pm
Lv. Grand Rapids...........  7:00am  1:20pm 5:40pm
Ar. from Lowell..............12:45pm 5:40pm  ..........

TO  LOW ELL  VIA  LO W ELL  &  B A STIN G S  R .  R.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

♦Everyday.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeIIAVEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.

M ic h  io a n  (T e n t f a l

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’"

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

♦Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20 d  m...........Detroit  Express........... 7 00am
5 30 am  __«Atlantic and  Pacific.......11  20 pm
I  30p m ........New York Express.........  5 40pm
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific ex­
press trains to aud from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  7:04 am ;  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. Almquist, Ticket Agent,

Union Passenger Station.

De t r o it ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   &  Mi l ­

w a u k e e   Railway.

Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Avs.

EASTW ARD.

. Ar 7 40am 11 25am 4 27pm

Trains Leave
tNo.  14 tNo.  16ltNo.  18 •No.  82
G’d  Rapids, Lv 6 45am 10 20am  325pm 10 45pm 
Ionia ........
12 27am
St. Johns  .. . Ar 8 25am 12 17pm 5 20pm 1 45am
Owossd--- .A t 9 00am 1 20pm  ò 05pm 2 40am
E. Saginaw A t 10 50am 3 45pm 8 00pm 6 40am
Bav City  ... A t 11 32am 4 35pm 8 37pm 7 15am
F lin t........ A t 10 05am 345pm 705pm 54  am
.Ar 1205pm 5 50pm 8 50pm 7 30am
Pt.  Huron.
Pontiac__ .Ar 10 53am 305pm 8 25pm 5 37am
Detroit___ . Ar 11 50am 4 05pm]  9 25pm 7 00am

W ESTW A RD .

Trains Leave

G’d Rapids.
G’d  Haven.

•No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13.
...  Lv 7 00am 1  00pm 4 55pm
...  Ar 8 20am 2  10pm 6 00pm
tDaily except  Sunday 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35  a.m.,  12:60 
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 a s .  C a m p b e l l , City T’cket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

the  Markets.

News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  of 
Special Correspondence.
N ew   T o r e,  Dec.  2—We  are  entering 
tbe last month of a year the departure of 
It 
which no  business  man  will  regret. 
has  been  full  of  disappointments  and, 
although a revival of confidence has been 
predicted for  so  long,  the  fact  remains 
that  tbe  present  volume  of  trade  does 
not justify the assertions made  a  month 
ago or more.  The charitable associations 
are crowded  with  applicants  for  relief, 
and mendicants are more numerous  than 
ever.
These are rather  gloomy  views,  to  be 
sure; but,  when tbe situation of business 
during the past summer  is  remembered, 
it will  be seen that it is very bard to find 
a ray of cheerfulness.  The strike on the 
Lehigh  road  came  at  an  unfortunate 
time,  and  the  strikers,  who  seemed  to 
have justice on their  side,  seem  now  to 
be  forfeiting  the  good  opinion  of  the 
people  by  resorting  to  violence.  This 
strike,  and the stopping of  hat  factories 
at Danbury, are two disquieting elements. 
They affect many consumers and, in turn, 
the retailers, jobbers and manufacturers.
The sugar market remains  steady  and 
prices  are  unchanged.  With  prospects 
of  an oversupply in Europe,  there seems 
no reasonable chance of  any advance; in 
fact,  it  is  predicted  that  the  consumer 
will  buy  granulated  sugar  before  next 
summer for 4 cents a  pound. 
Indeed,  it 
is  now  retailing  here  at the  rate  of  16 
cents for 3%  pounds.
Coffee excites no attention and the buy­
ing is of a moderate,  everyday character. 
For Rio No. 7,  17 Me  prevails.  For mild 
coffees—Mochas, Javas,  Mexicans, etc.— 
the inquiry is about of  an average  char­
acter.  Affairs in Brazil are watched with 
eagerness,  but  tbe  supply  of  coffee  in 
Europe is so large that  no  great  change 
is looked for,  whichever side wins.
Dullest of all things are canned goods. 
The  big  dry  goods  stores  which  have 
grocery annexes are  advertising  special 
bargains  in  “tinned”  goods,  and  they 
offer well-known  brands  at  almost  job­
bing prices. 
In the whole line  there  is 
nothing which brokers  handle which at­
tracts more than passing  notice.  Toma­
toes  are  said  to  be  doing  very  well  in 
Baltimore,  and  no  fears  are  felt  about 
the supply being insufficient.  California 
canned  goods  are  meeting  with  some 
favor for holiday goods.
Lemons  are  in  ample supply, but are 
selling  indifferently.  They  are  worth 
$3.25@4.50  per  box,  with  some  fancy 
Serrentos  selling  as  high  as  §6@7  per 
box  of  300.  Florida  oranges  have  the 
call,  and  have  driven  the  foreign  out. 
Bananas  are  moving  slowly  at  from 
§1@1.25 per bunch.
the  30c  mark 
and the finest Western is selling at about 
26c.  Cheese is moderately active at 10@ 
12c, as  to  size  and  quality.  Eggs  are 
selling well,  fresh arrivals bringing 25@ 
27c.  “A  dozen  of  eggs  for a pound of 
butter” now is the rule.
Rice,  molasses and syrups  are all sell­
ing  at  a  slow rate.  New  Orleans  mo­
lasses,  33@40c;  Porto  Rico,  23@30c; 
sugar syrups,  good to choice,  17@22c.
The  meeting  of  Congress  is  awaited 
with a good deal  of  interest and discus­
sions over the tariff wax hot  and  heavy.
Government reports of  the wheat sup­
ply are being severely criticised and it is 
felt that they are about as  inaccurate as 
can  be;  in  fact,  worse than none.
Returns  made  to  raisers  of  poultry 
must show about the most unsatisfactory 
returns imaginable.  Good  turkeys have 
retailed at  12%c  a  pound.  Where  tbe 
profit is at such prices  no  one  can  tell. 
The supply  was tremendous, and  buyers 
had it all their own  way.
The number of pilgrims going home to 
Thanksgiving  was  remarkably  small. 
is  felt  all 
The 
around,  although  45,000  people went to 
see the football  game  and  the  theaters 
are well patronized.
No  statement  of  the  affairs  of  the 
Thurber,  Whyland  Co.  has  yet  been 
made,  although it is  promised  within  a 
few days. 
It  is  said  that  Mr. Thurber 
feels greatly encouraged  over  the  pre­
liminary figures,  and  everybody  hopes 
he may soon be  “on top” again.  J ay.

Butter does not  reach 

stringency 

financial 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
The  Saginaw Fishing  Season 

Saginaw, Dec.  1—The  fishing  season 
is about finished  in  Saginaw Bay.  The 
catch has proved exceptionally large and 
is considered  more  profitable  than the 
season of 1892.  There  is  plenty of  fish 
in the market,  and since  Sept.  15, 30,000 
packages of 100 pounds each  of  herring 
have been salted down and shipped from 
the valley.  The  floating  ice  which  is 
driven by the wind cuts  the  nets, other­
wise the fishing  season  would  continue 
longer.  As soon as the bay freezes over, 
the ice as far  as Tawas City will  be dot­
ted over with about 300 fishing  shanties, 
each with two  occupants,  and  the work 
of catching the finny tribe  through holes 
in the crystal surface will continue until 
the ice breaks up in the spring.

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  &  SON,

R eduction  in  th e   P rice  o f  B read.
Detroit,  Nov. 29—The Master Bakers’ 
Association held a meeting  last  night at 
the Russell House,  at which the  price of 
bread was discussed.  At the  conclusion 
of the discussion, it was decided,  in view 
of the low price of flour  and  other  arti­
cles used in the  manufacture  of  bread, 
to reduce the price as follows:  For two- 
pound loaves,  heretofore  sold  at  eight 
cents retail,  now seven  cents;  for  one- 
pound 
loaves,  heretofore  sold  at  five 
cents, at four cents;  Vienna bread  to re­
main the same, at five  cents  per  pound 
loaf.  This action was taken as  a  result 
of thorough understanding among  those 
comprising the Association.

O Tempting a child  to  do wrong  is  as 
much a sin as  shooting at a man with  a 
gun.

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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.

Vegetable  Scoop  Forks.

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  bangs  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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A R O  M A L T

C.  G.  A.  VOIGT  &  CO.,

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the best selling cakes we ever made.

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

S. A. S ears, M gr. 

G R A N D   R A PID S.

If Yon  Want  Good,  Light,  Sweet  Bread  and  Biscuits,

T H E   O N L Y   R E L I A B L E

SOLD  BY  ALL  FIRST CLASS  GROCERS.

MANUFACTURED  BY

The Fermentüm Company

MAIN  OFFICE:

CHICAGO,  270  KINZIE  STREET.

MICHIGAN  AGENCY:

GRAND  RAPIDS,  106  KENT  STREET.

Address  all  communications  to  THE  FERMENTUM  CO.

headquarters  for  Crockery  and  Holiday  Goods.

NO.  2223—
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Havlland  French  China  98 piece  Dinner
Vf H   A Q n n  
l" v /i  £±O U U----- Set  For  composition  of  pieces  and dis
count see page 33, Catalogue 111.
List price............................................................................  $80 00

NO. F 124—f°l”S'n
L ist................................................$10 00
For composition and discount see page 
30 in No. lit Catalogue.

\ \ T E   E X T E N D TO ALL D E A L E R S

A  most  cordia1  invitation  to visit  our salesroom
where  we are showing  the argest  and most  com-
píete  line of HOLIDAY 
(JOODS  ever  offered
by  any  house in  the  West, and  we  kn >w  it  will
pay you  to giv e  us  a call  no matter  howf  much  or
how  little you may want.

If  you  have not  a ¡ready  ordered  don’t delay  any
see  us or  send  a mail  order

longer,  but come  ant
at  once.

i ¡ A d ria n  

NO. 1178— »

Porce
lain  100-piece  Dinner  Set.  Pencil 
color
List price................................  $17 (¡0
We also keep  this  pattern  in open 
stock  or  in  assorted  crates  For 
prices and  discount  see  page  10  in 
our So. Ill  Catalogue

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XTfl 
English  Porcelain, 
JNU.  O f  / « “ “ “ 97-piece  Dinner Set, 
in Gray, Blue, Pink or  Brown.  For com 
position and discount  see  page 33 in our 
No. Ill Catalogue.
List price

$34  00

FLORENCE  PATTERN  K r ilS
gold stippled decoration,  jars are pail shape.
List price.................................................................  $12  so

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Chrysanthemum Pattern,  Carlsbad 
i i l f i   c iUvJ /  
China,  100  piece  Dinner  Set. 
Write us for composition and discount, or  look on page 
33 In our No, 111 Catalogue.
List price............   ..................................................  $43 00

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1 7 9 f t  
I8 Piece Toilet Sets.  Has  stippled 
JL / tiO““ “  gold  decoration.  All  pieces  are 
extra large with handled slop jar.
List price.........................................................   $15  50

H.  L E O N A R D   &  SO N S,

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

A B S O L U T E   T E A .

T h e   A c k n o w le d g e d   L e a d e r .

T E L F E R   S P IC E   CO.,

SOLD  ONLY  BY

GRAND  RAPIDS,  NIGH.

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PRONOUNCED:

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ANDREWS,  BROWN  &  CO., 

CHEAPEST  BECAUSE  IT  IS  MOST  DURABLE.  AGENTS  WANTED 

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