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GRAND  R A PID S,  W ED N ESDA Y ,  D ECEM BER  27,  1893.

NO.  53«

FAB  FROM  HOME.

It was a sad day for little  Paul Hamil­
ton when they carried to the cemetery all 
that remained of  the  mother he loved so 
well.  With  a  heart  full  of  woe,  he 
silently watched them  fasten  down  the 
lid  of  her  coffin,  forever  shutting  off  a 
view of those beloved features.  Although 
Paul was only twelve  years old,  he real­
ized  what  death  was  in  all  its  awful 
solemnity,  for  his  mother  had been pre­
paring his youthful mind  for  the  event 
she knew was near at hand.  And it was 
because he so fully understood it all that 
his heart was so heavy with  its newborn 
grief.

After  the  fnneral  was  all  over,  he 
looked  around  the  little  room,  now so 
empty,  and  wondered  what  would  be­
come  of  him,  for  his  mother  had  fully 
impressed  him  with  the  idea  that  he 
could  not  remain  there.  He  and  his 
mother had occupied this  room  so  long; 
It was,  in fact,  the only  home he remem­
bered ever having.  To  be  sure,  one  of 
the neighbors  had  offered  him  another, 
for which  he  was  expected  to work  on 
the farm in  payment,  but  Paul  disliked 
the prospect;  not that he was  afraid  of 
work,  but  the  master was  known  to  be 
a hard one to serve.

While  Paul  was sitting by the window 
thinking this all over,  the stage rumbled 
noisily along on its way to the town  five 
miles distant,  where  its  passengers took 
the railway cars to the city.  Paul’s  one 
desire all  his life had  been  to  go  to  the 
city,  and now he thought, what was there 
to prevent?  Nothing that  he  could  see 
stood in his way to accomplish the  jour­
ney,  and so  he  determined  that early on 
the  following  morning  he  would  be 
among the passengers.

That  night when  Paul went  to bed he 
could not sleep  for  thinking  of  his  pro­
spective journey.  He allowed his youth­
ful imagination full play, and his fancies 
carried him through the  most wonderful 
scenes.  At length he fell into an uneasy 
slumber,  from which  he  aroused with  a 
start as the first gleam of the early dawn 
warned him to make his preparations for 
departure.

Paul  moved  quietly  about  the  room 
while he gathered  together  a  few of  his 
possessions,  fearing to disturb  the  land­
lady from whom  his  mother  had  rented 
their  room,  not  feeling  quite  sure  he 
could get off if she was aware of his pur­
pose.

With the little package of his treasures 
in one  band  and  the  cage  containing  a 
petted white rabbit in the other, he stood 
ready to leave;  first,  however,  his glance 
roved around  the  room,  resting  an  in­
stant lovingly on  each  familiar  object, 
while the tears  welled up  into  his  great 
brown eyes as he bade  them  all  a  mute 
farewell.

Another  moment,  and  he  was  gone. 
Noiselessly he  descended  the  stairs,  un­
bolted the door,  and  as  he  stepped  out, 
he heaved a sigh of relief.

A short brisk walk brought  him to the 
village  inn,  whence  the  stage  started. 
At last, after what seemed to Paul a long

time,  for he was impatient  to  be  off,  the 
driver  cracked  his whip  and  they actu­
ally started.

After a ride of a couple of hours,  Paul 
found himself at the railway station,  and 
with a fast-beating heart  inquired at the 
ticket office the fare to L--------.

“Seventy-five  cents,”  laconically  re­
plied that supercilious official,  the ticket 
agent.

Paul slowly counted his  money—sixty 
cents  was  all  he  could  make  it.  He 
looked up into the man’s face before him 
for some  sign  of  encouragement  to  put 
the  question  hovering  on  his 
lips.  A 
blank stare met Paul’s wistful  eyes,  and 
his question died before it had even been 
framed into speech, and he slowly turned 
away.  As he did so, however, his glance 
rested  on  the  stage  driver,  who  was 
standing  near,  and  who  had  evidently 
been a witness of the  scene  just enacted 
at the window of the ticket office.  Taking 
in the situation at a glance, he walked up 
to Paul, and,  holding out a quarter, said: 
“You can pay me when you come back.”
As Paul had no intention of  returning 
very soon,  his  sense  of  honor would not 
allow him to accept the  proffered  assist­
ance.  Paul  shook  his  head  and,  sum­
moning up all the courage he could com­
mand,  asked,  “Where  will  sixty  cents 
buy a ticket to?” 
(Paul’s grammar was, 
at times,  a little deficient.)

“Let me see—sixty cents, I guess,  will 
take you to  Cedar  Grove,  about  five  or
six miles this side of L--------;  however,
I’ll ask.”

As he turned to  the  ticket  office,  Paul 
thrust all his money into the driver’s hand 
and watched anxiously the result.

Paul’s  face  considerably  brightened 
when he saw the driver receive the ticket.
“There,  now,  you’ll  have  to  hurry. 
Here’s  your  ticket  and  there  was  ten 
cents change.”

Paul thanked him and hurried  on into 
the car,  and it was not until  he was well 
on  his  journey that  it  occurred to him 
that the “ten cents change” was,  in real­
ity, a free gift of the stage driver’s.

“Cedar Grove,” shouted the conductor, 
and Paul,  picking up his bundle  and his 
rabbit,  hurriedly left the  car,  having al­
ready determined to walk the  remaining 
distance—which he remembered  was but
five or  six  miles—to  L--------.  With  a
cheerful heart he bravely set out,  inquir­
ing first his way.

It  was  now  nearly  noon,  and,  after 
walking a couple of  miles,  he  began  to 
feel a little warm and tired.  Besides,  he 
was very  hungry,  and  to  the  pangs  of 
hunger were added those  of  exhaustion, 
for  be  had  not  slept well.  His  spirits 
began to droop and his  footsteps  to  lag, 
and he almost wished himself back again. 
He  doubted  the  wisdom  of  leaving  so 
suddenly, and  rejecting  so  unceremoni­
ously the farmer’s home which had  been 
offered to him—for he concluded  that,  if 
he had gone to  Farmer Jones’,  he would 
never have been so hungry as he was just 
then.

Quite  despondent,  he  slowly trudged 
along.  Hearing voices,  he  stopped  and

looked  around,  and  saw a  few  workmen 
under a tree eating  their  mid-day  meal. 
He stood watching them rather wistfully, 
as each mouthful disappeared.  Finally, 
unable  to  silently endure  this  state  of 
things any  longer,  he asked  for  a  piece 
of  bread.  Each  of  the  three workmen 
contributed to appease his hunger,  two a 
piece of bread and meat,  and one a piece 
of pie.

Thanking them, he hurried on to find a 
secluded spot where he could  eat  it  un­
disturbed and unobserved.

A few steps brought  him  before a low 
stone wall which had partially given way 
from  the  ravages  of  time  and  weather, 
so  that  it  was  with  little  difficulty  he 
stepped over it.

It seemed delightfully cool  and  shady 
here,  for Paul was very  warm  and tired. 
He sat beside the wall and ate his  lunch 
with great relish, regretting  he  had not 
as much more,  for he  gave  a  good  share 
of the bread to the rabbit.

After he had finished he  concluded  to 
sit there a little while and rest before re­
suming his journey to the  city.  For the 
first time he seemed to realize the step he 
had taken;  he  was  dispirited,  and  yet 
felt he could not retrace his  journey—he 
knew he had  gone  too  far  for  that.  A 
feeling of utter desolation crept over him 
as his present situation dawned upon him 
in all its dreariness,  for he began now to 
realize how very far from  home  he  had 
wandered,  and  perhaps  he  never would 
see it again. 
In  his  utter  loneliness he 
cried out,  “O mother,  mother!  why were 
you  taken  from  me!”  And,  throwing 
himself full length upon the  ground,  he 
suffered his grief  to  take  possession  of 
him  and  sobbed  as  though  his  heart 
would  break.  Presently  this  outburst 
subsided  and  he  gradually grew calmer, 
as  he  began  to  think  of what  must  be 
done  next;  but  before  he  had  decided, 
sleep,  Nature’s “sweet  restorer,” closed 
his eyes into forgetfulness of his present 
sorrows.

Alone,  and  far  from  home,  he 

lay 
soundly  sleeping  on  Dame  Nature’s 
couch,  while the green  trees  above  him 
whispered  a  soft  and soothing lullaby, 
and a gentle  breeze  cooled  his  parched 
lips and aching head.

How long he slept he never  knew,  but 
it must have been some hours;  for when 
he awoke,  which was at the barking of a 
dog, the  setting  sun  was  just  shedding 
its  parting  glory over  the  scene  which 
met  his view.  To  his  surprise,  he was 
not alone;  and he almost doubted the ev­
idence  of  his  senses,  for  before  him 
stood  a  beautiful  boy,  nearly  his  own 
age,  dressed  in  dark-green velvet,  while 
upon his head a cap of the same rich ma­
terial  scarcely  concealed  a  wealth  of 
golden hair.  The  boy stood  there with 
his hands in his pockets, earnestly gazing 
down  upon  Paul,  while  his  little white 
dog went sniffing and barking around the 
cage  containing  Paul’s  pet  rabbit. 
In 
the path beside the stranger was a wheel­
barrow,  seated  upon  the  side  of which 
was a little girl who so  much  resembled 
the boy that Paul took them to be brother

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glance;  then springing to his feet, asked
how much further it was to L--------.

“More than two miles  from  here,”  an­

swered the boy.

“Do you live  there?”  asked  the  little 

girl.

Paul mournfully shook his head. 
“ What are you going there  for,  then?” 

asked the boy.

“I have no other  place  to  go,  and—” 
Paul’s lip quivered; brought face to  face 
with such a question somewhat staggered 
him,  for be had no  ready nor reasonable 
answer to make.

The  little  girl,  quick  to  notice  some 
trouble in the heart of the stranger before 
her,  kindly 
took  his  hand  and  said: 
“ Hadn’t you better tell  us who  you  are, 
and what you are going to  do?  Perhaps 
we could help you.”

Paul,  rather glad of the opportunity to 
talk  to someone whose sympathy he felt 
was already assured,  lost no time  in  re­
lieving his  mind  of  his  burden.  Upon 
concluding,  he said:  “Now, you know all 
about me; won’t you tell me who you are, 
and where you live?”

“My name is Harry Russell.”
“And mine is Edith  Russell.”
“ My  name  is  Minnie,”  piped  a  tiny 
voice in a very high treble,  which  came 
from  almost  a  baby  who  had  hitherto 
been  only  “a looker-on in Venice.”

“And  we live there,” said  Harry,  indi­
cating with a nod of his head that “there” 
was the  fine,  large,  old-fashioned  man­
sion,  a glimpse of  which  only  could  be 
seen  between  the trees—in  fact,  so littie 
that it  had entirely escaped Paul’s notice 
until his attention had  been  directed  to­
ward it.

“You must be both tired and  hungry,” 
said  Edith.  “ Had  you  not  better come 
to the house and rest  while  we get some­
thing for you to eat?”

Paul  looked  at  the  lengthening  shad­
ows.  “I must move on, if lget to L-------
before dark.”

“But where are you  going  when  you 
get there, if >ou  have no friends?” ques­
tioned Harry, curiously.

Paul bad a vague idea that all that was 
needful was to arrive in a city,  when  he 
would  have  food,  shelter  and  clothes 
provided  in  some mysterious  way.  Ex­
actly how,  he  knew  not,  but  he  rather 
expected  he would  be obliged to work for 
them.  This  he  was  willing  to  do—he 
had  been  brought  up  to  work,  but  be 
supposed the  work  would  be  provided, 
also.

“Have you any money?” queried Edith, 
who was of a somewhat practical turn of j 
mind.

“A little—not much.”
“How would you like to stay  here  all 
night  and  start for L------- in  the morn­
ing?” asked  Edith,  who  was  hospitable 
as well as practical.

“Perhaps  your  mother would not like 
it,” suggested Paul,  who had never acted 
independently of  his mother’s wishes as 
long as she lived.

“ Oh,  she  won’t  care,”  said  Harry. 

“ Father might, but he’s gone.”

So,  Paul’s objection  being easily over­
come,  he most willingly  accompanied his 
new-found friends up to the house.

Paul had never  before  seen  anything 
so large  and  grand  looking,  such  lofty 
halls and  immense rooms.  He looked  in 
amazement  on  his  surroundings; 
they 
were entirely beyond his wildest  imagin­
ings of luxury and elegance.

stag’s  antlers 
greeted his eyes upon  entering the wide 
hall.  Then such beautiful  pictures and 
statuary met his  view oh  all sides,  as he 
trod upon rich carpet,  so  thick  that  his 
feet  sank  deep  in  the  piling.  He  was 
ushered  into  a  long  low  room  with  a 
beautiful oriel  window at the end, seated 
by  which,  on  a crimson plush divan, was 
a  sweet-faced 
lady,  clad  right 
royally,  Paul  thought,  as  he  surveyed 
the mass of silk and  delicate  lace  upon 
her frail form.  She  looked  up  from  her 
embroidery  as  they  entered  the  room, 
and smiled.

little 

“Whom  have  you  here?”  she  asked, 
in a soft, sweet voice,  looking  earnestly 
at Paul,  who,  though  rather dazed, stood 
the searching glance remarkably  well.

An  explanation  soon  followed,  upon 
the conclusion of  which,  Edith  received 
her mother’s commendation for what she 
had done.

“Now,  children,  run  and dress; dinner 

will  be ready  in a few minutes.”

“Dinner!”  exclaimed  Paul,  in  whose 
mind dinner and high  noon  were  indis- 
sol uably associated.

“Yes, and you  must  be  very  hungry 
by this time,  are you  not?”  asked  Mrs. 
Russell.

“ Yes, ma’am,”  eagerly assented Paul, 
and he gave himself up  to  the  delusion 
that  he  had  fallen  into  a  very  strange 
place indeed,  where people ate their din­
ners at night.

When Paul awoke  the  next  morning, 
he could  not for a long  while  remember 
where he was, or  how  he  got  there—in 
fact,  doubted the evidence of  his senses, 
and thought be  must  be  dreaming,  but 
dreaming  under  very  comfortable  and 
beautiful circumstances.  Presently, how­
ever,  he was wide  awake  and  cognizant 
of  his situation,  arose,  dressed,  and  de­
scended  to the room  into  which  he  had 
been ushered the previous evening.

Paul  found  his friends there,  engaged 
in an  earnest  conversation,  which  sud­
denly ceased as he entered the room.

After the usual greetings of  the morn­
ing,  Mrs.  Russell,  indicating  an  empty 
chair  beside  her  own  for  Paul  to  be 
seated,  said:

“Harry  and  Edith  have  been  asking 
to  stay  here  to-day. 

me  to  allow  you 
Would you  like to do so?”

Paui, only too glad of  such  an oppor­
tunity,  willingly  assented.  The follow­
ing day,  however,  it  rained,  and  so  it 
came about quite naturally  that Paul re­
mained  nearly  a  week  among  his  new 
friends.  During this interval,  Mrs. Rus­
sell,  becoming interested  in  the boy,  se­
cured  him a  situation  with  one  of  her 
friends,  who carried on  a large business 
in  L--------.

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B O R D E N ’S  

The day at last arrived on  which  Paul 
was to leave,  and mutual promises to see 
each other often,  for they had all become 
attached to each other, prevented sorrow- I 
ful countenances.

Harry and  Edith  accompanied  Paul to | 
the  gate,  where  they  were  to  await the 
carriage,  for Mrs.  Russell  was  going  to I 
drive Paul  to L--------herself.

At the final moment of  parting,  Edith 
thrust a little purse of  her own  knitting 
into Paul’s hand  and  bade  him  keep  it 
for her sake.  Paul afterwards discovered  j 
a gold dollar in  it,  and,  believing  it  to 
have  come  there  by  accident,  never I 
dreamed of spending it,  but  determined 
to return  it.

Paul  found his  new  duties  of  an  en -1 
to j

tirely  different  character  from  any 

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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 
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which he had ever been accustomed, but, 
being  both  active  and  observant,  soon 
won his way to his employer’s confidence.
In  the  course  of  time  Paul  rendered 
himself  quite  invaluable,  and,  being 
thoroughly reliable,  by degrees had little 
offices of  trust imposed upon  him,  until, 
finally,  after ten years of active  life,  he 
found  himself  the  trusted  confidential 
clerk of the establishment.

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During  all  this  time  Paul  never  lost 
sight of the friends to whom he  was  in­
debted for his start in life.  He  had fre­
quently  visited  them,  and the acquaint­
ance so accidentally begun  had  ripened 
into a lifelong  friendship.

One morning,  about this time, Paul was 
summoned to the private office of his em­
ployer, who,  with a  troubled  look  upon 
his  face,  had  evidently  just  concluded 
the perusal of a letter which he still held 
open in his  hand.

“I have here,” said Mr.  Reade,  point­
ing to the letter,  ’‘news  which  requires 
immediate attention,  the  personal atten­
tion of  either  my  partner  or  myself  at 
our  branch  office  in  Vienna.  Coming 
now at a time when it  is impossible  for 
either of  us to leave is exceedingly  awk­
ward,  and may result  in  disastrous  and 
heavy losses. 
I have sent, therefore,  for 
you,  to ask you to take  my  place,  to  go 
there and take charge of  the  office until 
recalled. 
I feel satisfied you  can  carry 
out my instructions  to  the  letter,  and, 
should you succeed in  averting  the  im­
pending difficulties  and  the  consequent 
loss  involved,  you  will  be fully repaid 
for your efforts. 
It  will be necessary to 
go  at  once.  A  steamer  sails from New 
York to-morrow,  and  this business will, 
in all probability,  require  your personal 
supervision for at least two years,  possi­
bly longer.  Are  you  equal to this emer­
gency?  Can you,  will you go?”

How could Paul refuse such a position 
of trust as was  offered  to  him? 
It  was 
simply impossible to  do  otherwise  than 
accept this proffered  honor.

“I am both  willing and  ready,  sir,  to 
do as you request,”  promptly responded 
Paul,  grasping  Mr.  Reade’s  hand  fer­
vently.

“Thank  you,  Paul.  You are not only 
doing  me  a  personal  favor,  but  laying 
the foundation of  your own  independent 
fortune.  Such ready acquiescence merits 
my deepest regard and richly deserves to 
be financially rewarded.”

Then  followed  many  hours’  earnest 
conversation while Paul  received his in­
structions.  It was late that night before 
Paul left the office, and he was  to  be off 
very early the following morning.  Much 
as he wished  to  see  bis  friends  to bid 
them good-bye, he was obliged to content 
himself  with  a  written  farewell.  The 
rest of the night was occupied  with mak­
ing his preparations  for  departure.  He 
could not fail to recall just such  another 
occasion, many years  ago,  but under far 
different  circumstances.  He 
thought 
over every  little incident connected with 
his first venture from  home,  and,  taking 
out  a  little  knitted  purse,  looked long 
and  lovingly  at  it.  With  a  sigh  he 
placed  it  carefully away,  first,  however, 
removing the little  gold piece to hi3 vest 
pocket.  When,  years ago,  he discovered 
that it had been placed there intentional­
ly by Edith for his use, he determined to 
keep it  as  a  souvenir  of  the  turning 
point in his existence.  And  so, through 
all  these  years,  he  had  carefully  pre­
served it,  and  was  now  taking  it  with

him  to  that  new  strange  country,  the 
only  pledge  of  the  unspoken  love  be­
tween Edith and himself.
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in 

Three,  four, five  years  had  come and 
gone before  Paul  received his summons 
to return.  In the meantime, Mr. Reade's 
partner had died,  and  Paul had been of­
fered and had accepted  the  partnership 
with Mr.  Reade.  Under Paul’s adminis­
tration the business had increased  profit­
ably;  and now  Mr. Reade, wishing to re­
tire from active  life, desired  Paul  to re­
turn and take charge of  the office.  So it 
was under these favorable circumstances 
that Paul found himself once more in his 
native land.

Paul’s first visit was  to  his  old home, 
to  visit  his  mother’s  grave.  He  found 
everything  much  changed,  and 
the 
thought came  to  him that he would like 
to go over  again 
the  same  way his 
first journey from home.

Accordingly, he  took  the  early stage, 
and smiled when  at  the  depot  he  pur­
chased a ticket for Cedar Grove.  And he 
thought of  his discomfiture the last time 
he stood before that  same  ticket  agent, 
whom, though now quite  gray, Paul rec­
ognized at once.  At  Cedar  Grove  Paul 
alighted and  commenced  his  walk amid 
many and varied sensations.

Toward noon, he knew he must be near 
thai old-fashioned house which had shel­
tered him when a boy,  and his heart beat 
tumultuously  at  the 
thought  of  once 
more meeting those dear friends.

His  footsteps  involuntarily quickened 
as he approached the place, until, finally, 
he  was  within  the  very  grounds.  He 
looked around for  some  familiar face or 
object;  but  it  seemed  so  changed—or 
was the change within himself ?

A ring at the door  brought a stranger, 
who told  him  the Russells had not lived 
there for three years.

“Do you  know  where they are at pres­

ent living?”

“No;  but  somewhere,  I  believe, 

in
L--------.  You see,” continued she, “Mr.
Russell  failed,  and  was  obliged  to  sell 
this place and everything connected with 
it—the  horses,  carriages,  and  even  all 
their silver and  diamonds.  Soon  after­
ward  Mr.  Russell  was  killed  in  some 
railway accident,  and  these two  shocks, 
people said,  killed Mrs.  Russell,  who did 
not long survive her  husband.”

“And what became of  their children?” 

inquired Paul with a sinking heart.

“Oh, 

they  moved  to  L--------,  and,
being young,  1  guess they can  get along. 
Harry ought to be  able  to  take  care  of 
his sister,  although  I  have  heard  that 
Miss Edith is giving music lessons.”

“Thank you,”  said  Paul,  and  turned 
to walk away.  Everything was changed 
now  to  Paul.  The  walk  had  lost  all 
pleasure to him,  and,  seeing  an  empty 
hack  going  by slowly,  he  hailed  it,  and 
was driven to L------- .

Here  he  began  the  search  for Harry 
and Edith,  and finally his efforts were re­
warded.

He  found Edith but  little  changed  in 
appearance,  and cheerful through all her 
misfortunes.  Harry was  at best earning 
but a moderate income, and at times was 
despondent.

One day Paul offered  the Vienna posi­
tion to Harry,  the  one  he  had  vacated 
the year previous.

Harry said he would consult his sister; 
perhaps she would not care  to go so far.
“But,”  said Paul,  “I  don’t expect you 

(Continued on page 7.)

V eg etab le  S coop  F o rk s.

V.

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

These difficulties are entirely  overcome  by  our  SCOOP  FORK. 

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

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

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

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

The  utility  of  this  fork  is not limited to vegetables. 

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AMONO THE TRADE.
ABOUND  T H E   ST A T E .

Ludington—Mrs.  Flora Creighton,  mil­

liner, is dead.

Perry—R.  M.  Stiehler has sold his gro­

cery stock to C.  H.  Shaylor.

Saline—Cornelius  Parsons,  proprietor 

of the Boston Store Co.,  is dead.

Cheboygan—Howard & Horton succeed 
Wheeler & Son in the  grocery  business.
Perry—M oore*  Shaylor,  hardware 
dealers, have dissolved, C.  Moore continu­
ing the business.

Lake City—Balkwell  &  Decker,  drug­
gists,  have  dissolved.  John  W.  Decker 
continuing the business.

Mason—Ctaas.  li.  Henderson  succeeds 
Henderson & Huntington in the clothing 
and men’s furnishing goods business.

Ionia—F.  Banhagel  has sold a half  in­
terest in  his meat market toJohn Henke, 
who has been running  a  market  at  the 
east end.

Lapeer—W.  H. Jennings & Co., dealers 
in general merchandise and  cloak manu­
facturers,  have  uttered realty  mortgages 
amounting to  §21,052.17.

Delton—C.  A.  VanAmburg  has  dis­
posed of a half interest  in  his  stock  of 
general  merchandise to his  brother  and 
moved the same to Caledonia.

Kalamazoo—The  Featherbone  Corset 
Co.,  which moved here  from  Three Oaks 
two years  ago,  has  declared  a  dividend 
of  10 per cent,  and  passed  §7,300  to  the 
surplus fund.

Allegan—D.  U.  Dowd and Will  Howes 
are now proprietors of  the  meat  market 
in the Peck block,  having  purchased the 
stock and rented the tools and fixtures of 
A.  W.  Mosher & Son.

Montague—John  H.  Chapman, 

re­
ceiver for  the  Peck  Mercantile Co.,  has 
been granted an  order  by Judge Dicker- 
man,  of  the  Circuit  Court,  to  receive 
sealed bids for the entire  stock  and  fix­
tures of the Peck store.

Saginaw—The plant  of  the  Highland 
Vinegar  and  Pickle  Co.  has  been  sold 
under foreclosure proceedings  instituted 
by  the  East  Saginaw  National  Bank, 
which  went  out  of  business  last year. 
The  Wells-Stone  Mercantile  Co.  pur­
chased the plant for §15,000.

lumber, 

Moline—J.  D.  Noah has  sold a half in­
terest  in  his  stock  of 
lath, 
shingles  and  builders’ supplies  to J.  6 . 
Heinzman,  and the business will  be con­
tinued under the style of  Noah & Heinz­
man.  Mr. Heinzman formerly conducted 
a  hardwood  mill  at  Toland’s  Siding, 
which be has removed to this  place,  and 
will continue to operate in his own name.
Battle  Creek—A  sensation  has  been 
created by the arrest of J. M.  Jacobs,  for 
many years engaged  in the clothing busi­
ness here,  upon a charge  of  “conspiracy 
to  defraud.”  A  little  while  later  the 
news reached  here  that Jacobs’  brother, 
J.  L a.   Jacobs,  who opened  a  store  at Al­
bion about  three  months  ago,  had  also 
been  arrested  upon 
the  same  charge. 
When  a  portion  of  the  goods  shipped 
away by Morse Rosen from Grand  Ledge 
were found at  the  depot  here,  and  the 
officers  learned  that  Jacobs  and  Rosen 
were  cousins,  they  became  suspicious 
that all  was  not  right,  and  on  Saturday 
secured  proof which  warranted  them  in 
arresting both of  the  men  on  the  above 
charge.
Galesburg—The private bank  of  Olm­
sted & Storms has been  compelled  to go 
into liquidation.  There has beenasteady 
withdrawal  of  deposits 
several 
months but the recent  heavy  pull  began

for 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Dec.  13  and  14.  Several  deals  of  the 
bank  within the  last few years have been 
severely  criticised.  The  sale  of  the 
bank’s half interest in  the  meat  market 
of  A.  H.  Read *  Co.  had some features 
which  caused  unfavorable  comment. 
Blake Bros.,  sheep shippers,  are  said to 
have transferred  their  business to Kala­
mazoo  and  that  report had some effect. 
Last week a rumor became  current  that 
W.  S.  Kirby & Co.  would begin  suits  on 
claims  aggregating  $1,000  or  $2,000. 
These  and  the  other  indefinite  rumors 
are supposed to have been  the  cause  of 
the run,  and the general feeling of panic 
made the influence of these rumors more 
quickly felt.  J.  B.  Smiley,  of the Enter­
prise,  has been careful that the facts and 
rumors were thoroughly  ventilated.  He 
declared war on  Storms  some  time  ago 
and friends of the bank  are  very  bitter 
against him.  Some of the creditors were 
secured,  but no  schedule  of  assets  and 
liabilities has yet  been made public.

Port Huron—The clothing house  of A. 
Siegel & Co.,  with  headquarters  in  New 
York  and  a  branch  store  in  this  city, | 
and also  stores  in  other  cities  in Ohio 
and Pennsylvania,  has  become financial­
ly  embarrassed.  A  few  days  ago, and 
shortly  before  the  collapse, 
the  Port 
Huron  store  was  sold  to  M.  Michaels, 
who came here from the east.  With this 
proceeding a number  of  the creditors of 
the Port Huron  store  seem to have been 
dissatisfied,  and  a  number  of  eastern 
creditors  are now  in  the city levying on 
the stock or so much thereof as had been 
bought from  their firms.  Avery Bros.  & 
Walsh,  representing  an  eastern firm,  at­
tached the stock on  a replevin for $3,000 
worth of  goods.  After  their  claim had 
been  satisfied  the  store  was  reopened, 
but in a  very  short  time  it  was  again 
closed to prevent the serving of a second 
replevin,  gotten out  by Stevens & Merri- 
am, at the instance of Desspeker, Weil & 
Co.  and  Seal,  Batch,  Levy,  Lambert  & 
Co., of Buffalo,  for  $900 and $700 respec­
tively.  Entrance to the store was refused 
the officers,  but  they finally  effected  an 
entrance in the rear  of  the building and 
secured the goods they were after.  Other 
attachments are expected to follow.

PHYSIOGNOMY  OF  A  HOUSE.

One can  never wholly conceal  himself 
at home.  He must always,  to  a  greater 
or less degree,  reveal  himself in his per­
sonal  belongings  and  surrouudings  A 
penknife,  a  cane,  a  watchguard,  are 
keys, 
if  not  to  character,  at  least  to 
taste.  There was  a time when  the artist 
betrayed  himself  by  the  length  of  his 
hair,  the  breadth  of  his  hat brim,  and 
the brilliancy of  his  neckerchief. 
It  is 
true that we  have changed all that,  and 
nowadays  the  painter, especially if he is 
popular,  is  likely  to  be  as well kempt 
! and conventional as  a  successful broker 
| or attorney.  But the  fashionable artist, 
j dressed  a  la  mode, is only the domesti- 
| cated animal. 
In bis wild state he would 
j be inevitably picturesque and vivid.

A brand new bouse  may have much to 
say for itself,  but it will probably tell us 
very  little  of  its  owner  and  his family. 
But,  however 
inexorably  definite  its 
lines,  it is, so to  speak,  plastic material, 
which will  gradually be  wrought into an 
art product by  being  lived  in.  There is 
something beautiful  in  this  conception 
of a house growing into  a  home,  and  be­
coming visibly and permanently informed 
with the life of its inmates.  This is real­
ly the meaning,  or,  perhaps,  we  should

say, one of the  meanings, of the present 
fad for old furniture.  A house furnished 
from top to bottom  with  new  furniture 
is so  commonplace,  so  insignificant,  so 
devoid of historical  perspective,  that  it 
shocks us  with  a  sense  of  its  crudity. 
An old hall clock, an antique lamp, some 
andirons of  the  days  of  Washington,  a 
few ancestral  portraits,  would be an im­
mense relief.  No  depth  of  carpets,  no 
luxury  of  easy  chairs,  no  shimmer  of 
satin,  no  sheen  of  silver,  no  glitter  of 
glass, can atone for the absence  of  such 
things.  But he  who  invites  you to see 
his  “things” —odds  and  ends  gathered 
from the four corners  of  the world  and 
of time—just  to  show  you  what a skill­
ful or fortunate collector  he  has  been, 
has  utterly failed to  understand the true 
value  of  ancient  household  properties. 
It will  be remembered that the parvenue 
in  “The  Pirates  of  Penzance”  claimed 
that the former proprietors  of the estate 
he had bought were his ancestors, because 
he had  bought  the  whole  thing,  grave­
yard  and  all.  He  was  absurd,  but  he 
was thorough,  and,  we may  say,  consis­
tent.  He  had  come  into  possession  of 
an  old  place  complete,  and  he  and  his 
own people were the  only  incongruities 
there.

The genuine  house  picture  is  a  har­
monious composition,  brought  out  by  a 
slow process to  the  fullness  of  its  rich 
effects,  and  was  never  conceived  as  a 
total by any of  its authors.  Generation 
after generation  dwelling  in  one  abode 
have at last made it  the  embodiment  of 
the instincts,  the aspirations,  the genius, 
of  a  race.  There  is  no  need  to  bring 
anything  old  there,  and  there  need  be 
no fear of adding anything new.

that  no 

The  composition  of  a  house  as  dis­
tinguished  from  the  construction  of  a 
house—we  hope  we  need  not  explain 
the difference any further—is  something 
that goes on inside and out.  The cheeriest 
man  in  the  world  may  inherit  a  house 
with an aspect so gruesome,  a  frown  so 
light,  decorative 
forbidding, 
touch can make  it  less  forbidding. 
In 
such  a  case,  he  must  do  what  he  can 
with the internal  appointments  of  such 
an establishment.  He can,  at  least,  let 
in the sunlight and  brighten up his walls 
with glad colors and pleasing faces.  To 
be sure,  if he has  much  of  that  sort  of 
thing  to  do,  he  will  begin  to  consider 
himself a dreadful  innovator, departing 
from  the  traditions  of  an  exceedingly 
venerable,  intensely  respectable  ances­
try.  For  our part,  we would not advise 
rude  changes,  nor  would  we  pay 
too 
much heed  to  sudden  inspirations,  for 
otherwise the whole  idea  of  traditional 
effect would be lost.

When  one  examines  the  homestead 
of  an  ancient  family,  he  is  naturally 
interested  in  its  gallery  of  portraits. 
He  will find  marked  differences  in  the 
features  of  the  successive  heads  of  the 
house.  But,  running through  them  all, 
he  will  probably  discover  some  promi­
nent  note  of  character  which  he  will 
very  probably  not  be  able  to  define 
satisfactorily to himself,  but which  will 
be, nevertheless,  unmistakably present. 
And so the house ought to express a com­
promise of  the differences of its masters 
and  a  complete  representation  of  the 
traits they  have in common.

Does  Age  Improve  Flour?

From  the Practical Baker.
Flour fresh from the mill is in  its best 
state.  Flour left for weeks or months in 
bins or barrels  may take  on  new scents

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and other attributes;  but  these are  not 
improvements.  They are  the  result  of 
partial  decomposition,  of  absorption 
from 
surroundings,  and  of  changes 
that  necessarily  carry  the  flour  away 
from the normal.  Flour  may be  “aged” 
exactly  as cheese is  “aged,” says  an  ex­
change,  but flour that is “ high” from the 
absorption,  from  the  decomposition  of 
starch, from the weakening of its gluten, 
and from the  growth  of  bacteria,  is cer­
tainly  not  improved.  Bakers  say  that 
flour is more  easily handled,  and  makes 
the best and longest-keeping bread, when 
it is newest.  Buckwheat  flour  and  rye 
flour are familiar examples of what takes 
place with  “ageing,” and  iu  wheat  flour 
the deterioration  is  simply  less  marked. 
Much that is called  improvement  is sim­
ply a matter  of  taste  in  the  consumer. 
One likes  fresh  butler  and  new cheese, 
while another prefers  rancid  butter and 
“ high cheese. ’
Just  *he  same  way  age  “ improves” 
flour by changes that introduce  new fea­
tures.  But is it improvement?
C heese  W ill  Be  Eaten  Just  the  Sam e.
From  the New York  Merchants* Review.
J.  H.  Kellogg,  M.  lh,  writes  to  The 
Mich ig a n  T radesm an  at  considerable 
length  on  cheese  as an  article  of  diet, 
lie declares that cheese  is  entirely  unfit 
for human consumption,  but  there  is no 
reason  to suppose that  the  consumption 
of  the  article  will  be  affected  in  the 
slightest degree  because  “J.  H.  Kellogg,
M.  I).,” chooses  to ventilate his peculiar 
notions.

Postal  N otes  To  Go.

It  seems  likely that  the  postal  note 
will soon be a thing of  the  past.  A bill 
has  been  introduced  into Congress  and 
referred to the  joint  commission  of  in­
vestigation  of  the  government  depart­
ments,  which,  among  other  changes  in 
the postoffice,  provides for the discontin­
uance of postal  notes,  and  the  material 
reduction of the fees for postoffice money 
orders.

The Book of the  Fair,  which  cost  the 
Bancroft Company such a  heavy outlay, 
is an  assured success,  subscriptions hav­
ing  already exceeded  100,000,  and  still 
keep coming  in  as  fast  as  ever.  What 
has given  this work such great  popular­
ity  lias been  not  only the  plan  but  the 
execution.  Nothing  could  have  better 
fitted popular requirements than  a work 
which covered  the whole  ground,  histor­
ical and descriptive,  and executed in the 
highest style of  art.

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wishing a  small  stock  of  holiday  goods 
will  find it  to  their  interest  to  call  at 
once  at

May’s Bazaar,
41  and  43  Monroe  St.

Our  stock  is  complete,  and  the  largest 

and finest  in  the city.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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7

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Mrs.  S.  Watson  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Luther.  The I.  M.  Clark  Gro­
cery Co.  furnished the stock.

G.  E.  Carter has embarked in  the gro­
cery business at the  corner  of  Scribner 
and Eighth streets.  The  stock  was fur­
nished by the I.  M. Clark Grocery Co.

Miss  S.  M.  Striogham  has  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  Millbrook.  The  Ball- 
Barn hart-Putman  Co. 
the 
stock.

furnished 

Gripsack Brigade.

H.  S.  Robertson  (Olney &  Judson Gro­
cer Co.)  left last  Monday for Waukesha, 
Wis.,  where  he  will 
remaiu  several 
weeks, in hopes of benefiting bis health.
“ Hub” Baker  has  purchased  a  meat 
market at Lansing  and  will  retire  from 
the road January  1.  He has traveled for 
the  Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company  eight 
years.

It is to be hoj,ed that  the  Grand  Rap­
ids members of  the  Knights of the Grip 
will  redeem  their reputation this year by 
going to the Saginaw convention  in suffi­
cient numbers  to  reflect credit on them­
selves and  their  local  organization. 
It 
has been decided  to  go  via the D.,  L.  <&
N.  Railroad, 
leaving  Union  depot  in 
special  car  attached  to  the  7:40  train 
Tuesday morning.

thoroughly  investigated 

At  a special meeting of  the  Board  of 
Directors of the Michigan  Knights of the 
Grip,  held at the  New Livingston  Hotel 
last  Friday  evening,  all 
the  Directors 
were  present  except A. C.  Northrup,  of 
Jackson,  and  C.  E. Cook,  of  Bay  City. 
F.  M.  Douglass,  chairman  of  the  Hotel 
Committee, reported that  the Committee 
had 
the  com­
plaint of G.  B.  Gregory made against the 
Hastings  House,  at Hastings,  and  found 
same to be groundless, and recommended 
that he be expelled from the Association. 
A Anal disposition was made  of  the Mc­
Cauley matter,  but the Board  instructed 
the  Secretary  to  withhold 
the  action 
from  publication.  A  pleasant feature of 
the meeting was a charming  dinner,  ten­
dered the members of  the  Board  and  a 
few invited guests by J. A.  Gonzalez and 
wife at their home on  Paris avenue.

P. Bangs, Schott & Co., West Waterloo, 
made firearms.  The firm is as old as the 
United  States  of  America.  Business 
methods  have  changed,  however,  faster 
than the firm.  Guns have to  be  sold  by 
different methods to-day  from  those that 
were considered necessary when fifty per 
cent,  of  their  product  went  across  the 
counter.  Dealers no longer send  in  un­
solicited  orders  for  cases  of  firearms. 
Finally, old  Bangs  himself,  and  young 
Bangs,  and  Schott,  and  all  the  rest  of 
the firm, old and young,  woke  up  to the 
fact that they  must  put  a  salesman  on 
the road.  The question was “ Whom shall 
we send out?”  There  was  but  one  an­
swer to that—it must  be Bob Grade.  Bob 
wore a 6% hat and  a  3%  inch  No.  I4>^ 
collar.  Bob  was  in  style;  he  was  in 
style from the sole of his patent leathers 
to the very top of his Knox hat.  He was 
just  out  of  Yelvard  University.  Bob 
was a funny fellow.  Ever since  be  bad 
been  big enough to get  away from apron 
strings he bad spent  his  loafing  time  in 
the  factory telling  stories  and  watching 
the machines.  He knew firearms  of  all 
kinds perfectly,  from  a Quackenbush air 
gun  to  a  hydraulic  rifle.  Bob’s father 
was an eminent  and  wealthy contractor. 
Bob was born  Robert  Delmonico Grady.

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He got rid of the Delmonico,  and he  had 
the spelling of  his last name changed to 
Grade;  but  the “Bob”  stuck.  His  ad­
dress  was  magnificent.  He  could  talk 
like an angel;  he was as interesting as  a 
Summer  girl,  and  he  hadn’t  brains 
enough to make change for  three  cents. 
But he persuaded old Bangs,  and  he per­
suaded young Schott and all  the  rest of 
them,  and  they fitted  him  out,  and  he 
had  photographs,  and  he  had  samples, 
and he had  “actions”  and  things,  and he 
went out with the  blessings  of  all  con­
It  was  an  affecting  time,  and 
cerned. 
old  Bangs  went 
office 
and  used  his  handkerchief.  Bob  went 
West, 
and 
he went  North.  He was witty,  and  he 
knew so many stories that  he had all the 
dealers  spellbound,  from 
the  time  he 
made that straight-line-club-tooth-escape­
ment bow on entrance until he  gave  his 
high-numbered-polished-steel- leaves-ele- 
vated-wrist handshaking on leaving. 
In 
Cincinnati a dealer was so enamored with 
him  that  he  took  him  home to tea anu 
made  him  spend  the  evening with  bis 
daughters in  the parlor,  and they had an 
impromptu  dance,  and  they  made  him 
promise  to  come  again. 
In  Cleveland 
the same thing was repeated;  in Chicago 
they  went out  and  painted  the  town  a 
very  lurid  color.  Bob  wrote  home very 
remarkable letters.  He told  of  his suc­
cesses, and  they often  heard  of  him as 
the most interesting  salesman  that  had 
ever  traveled west  of  the  Pan  Handle. 
Bob’s bills  likewise came home, or what 
was the same  thing,  requests  for  silver 
certificates,  which  were  duly  honored- 
likewise certain drafts.  Rival  salesmen 
sat by the hour and  listened to Bob talk­
ing guns. 
It was as good  as a liberal ed­
ucation,  and  many a man went out of the 
j  office where  Bob was  preaching, saying 
to  himself:  “I wonder  how  a  No.  f>X 
hat could  hold so much  knowledge  in  re­
gard to the  details  of  the  gun 
trade.” 
Bob came home and he  brought  his  or­
ders  with  him.  Evidently  he  did  not 
like to trust them to the mails.  He  had 
been gone three months.  He  sold goods 
to  the  amount  of  $6.50.  He  does  not 
travel  any  more  for  Bangs,  Schott  & 
Co., of West Waterloo.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

Fred  U.  Ball,  Secretary  of  the  Ball- 
Barnbart-Putman  Co., 
is  spending the 
Christmas holidays with his wife’s family 
at Henderson,  Ky.

George  B.  Kellogg,  formerly engaged 
in the clothing business  at  Allegan,  has 
purchased an  interest in the Broas cloth­
ing  store,  at  Jackson,  and  is  about  to 
move  his  family  from  Lansing  to  the 
Prison City.

C.  S.  Scofield,  formerly Eastern Michi­
gan  traveling representative for  Barnes, 
Hengerer  &  Co.,  wholesale  dry  goods 
dealers  at  Buffalo,  who  resigned  two 
years ago to take the management of the 
St.  Johns  Mercantile Co., at  St.  Johns, 
relinquishes that  position January  1  and 
resumes  his former position on the road. 
His successor as manager of the Mercan­
tile Co.  has  not yet been decided  upon.

Alvin  B.  Moseley,  junior  member  of 
the firm of  Moseley  Bros.,  died last Fri­
day at  San  Antonio,  Texas,  whither  he 
had  gone  a  couple  of  months  ago  in 
search of health.  Deceased was 31 years 
of age and was well  known  to the travel­
ing men and  outside  trade,  having trav­
eled on  the road  for the house  about ten 
years prior to  his admittance iu the  firm

as a partner.  Deceased possessed a sunny 
disposition 
and  many  elements  of 
strength,  socially  and  financially.  He 
was  married  less  than  a  year ago to a 
Chicago lady,  who was with  him  at  the 
time  of  death.  The  remains  will  be 
brought here for interment.

Tlie  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  market  is  steady,  with 
prices unchanged and no probability of a 
change soon.

Fish—Whitefish is a little  higher  and 
is stronger at the  advance.  Mackerel is 
dull,  with  small  demand.  Cod  is  easy 
and quiet.

Corn Syrup—Another  decline  has  oc­
curred and the demand is unsatisfactory.

Merry Christmas To  All!

On  account  of  Christmas  falling  on 
Monday,  the  usual  publication  day  of 
T h e T radesm an,  the paper is  issued on 
Saturday this  week.  The same arrange­
ment will be  observed with  the next  is­
sue,  on  account of New Year’s falling on 
our 
T iie 
T radesm an  wishes  all  its  friends  and 
patrons  a  merry  Christmas  and  many 
h appy returns of the day.

publication  day. 

regular 

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: 

Walker & Brooks,  Shelbyville.
G. A.  Ball,  Dighton.
Adam Newell,  Burnip’s Corners.
O.  P.  De Witt,  St. Johns.
J.  D.  Noah, Moline.
W.  M.  Briggs,  Shelbyville.
Frank Hamilton,  Traverse City.
St. Johns Mercantile Co.,  St.  Johns.

the

A v o id  
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BY  USING

C O U P O N

B O O K S .

T H R E E   G R A D E S :

Tradesm an ,
Su perior,
U n ive rsal.

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED,  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.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

FOR  SALE—LAND  SUITABLE  FOR  SUM- 

RUGGIST,  PRACTICAL  MAN,  WANTS 
permanent situation.  Registered, married, 
35 years of age, long experience as manager, and 
a good store man.  What have you got?  Address 
Box 85, Gobleville, Mich. 
840
Fo r  sa le—b a k er y  and  c o n fec tio n-
ery business in  Big  Rapids, Mich., with or 
without  property:  doing  a  first class  paying 
business.  Ill  health  the only cause for selling. 
Address D. F. Emerson, Big Rapids, Alich.  838
For  sa le or e x c h a n g e—sto re b u ild"-
ing and  fixtures  also  dwelling  house,  in 
good location in  Saginaw county.  Address No. 
839
839, care Michigan Tradesman. 
OR  EXCHANGE—FOR CITY OR COUNTRY 
real estate, a new stock of clothing and fur­
nishing  goods,  invoicing  from  *5,90J to *6,1.00. 
Address No. 832, care Michigan Tradesman.  832
mer  resort,  comprising  50 acres, with  210 
rods of water front, on one of  the  inland  lakes 
near Petoskey.  Excellent brook trout;  bass and 
pickerel fishing;  fine  shore  for bathing or boat­
ing.  A  better  investment  for  capital  than  a 
campaign fond.  Address Resort, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
835
■   WIDOW WHO  HAS BEEN LEFT A STOCK 
of general  merchandise  by  the  death  of 
her husband, and who has not tlie necessary ex 
perience to  conduct  the  business  successfully, 
wishes to correspond with a widower  or  gentle­
man  of  middle age, with  a  view to matrimony. 
Correspondent must be experienced  in  mercan­
tile business and able to conduct a general store 
in a country town.  Address,  stating  age,  busi­
ness experience and financial condition, No. 836, 
care Michigan  Tradesman. 
-36
FOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—STOCK  OF 
general  merchandise.  Address  222  Wash­
830
ington ave., North. Lansing, Mich. 
FOR  SALE—ONE  YALE  POST OFFICE 
case, containing one hundred and fifty nine 
call boxes, twenty four lock boxes, and six large 
drawers.  Will  sell  for  one-half  its  cost.  II. 
833
Bird, Jr., postmaster, Douglas, Mich. 
■   CLEAN  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  FOR
Sale;  good  trade,  cheap  for  spot  cash; 
the only delivery wagon in  town.  Stock  about 
*2,500. 
Investigate.  Address  box  15,  Centre- 
viile,  Mich. 
8£o
fTlO  EXCHANGE—FOR  STOCK  OF  CLOTH 
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ingor boots and shoes, two good hard  tim­
ber farms of eighty acres  each.  Thirty-five and 
seventy acres  improved.  Title  clear."  Address 
Thos. Skelton, Big  Rapids. 
TXT ANTED—WOODEN WARE  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. 
TTTANTED—TO  EXCHANGE  A  VALUABLE 
V V 
farm of 160 acres  for merchandise or per­
sonal  property.  The  farm  is  located  near  a 
thriving town, 45 acres  improved, balance heav­
ily timbered.  Address  No.  805,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

____________ 805

819

821

SITUATIONS  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. 
ANTED—POSITION  AS  WINDOW  TRIM- 
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
■ ANTED—A  practical  druggist, with  some 
capital, to take charge of a first-class drug 
store.  Address  C.  L.  Brundage,  opera  house 
756
block, Muskegon, Mich. 

828

Manufactured only by 

T R A D E S M A N   C O M P A N Y ,  

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

.A B ig  D r iv e
IN ALL  SILK  (SAT.  EDGE)  RIBBONS.

See quotations in  Grocery Price Current.

ENGRAVING

PHOTO
WOOD
HALF-TONE
Buildings,  Portraits,  Cards  and  Stationery 

Headings, Maps, Plans  and  Patented 
Articles.
TRADESMAN  CO., 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

No, $2.25 for  1,000  printed 
statements  does  not  buy  very 
good  stock, but  you  can  send 
for a sample and  see  for your­
self what it is.

Tradesman  Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

v  I /

  No. 

■   No. 

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;
5................................ 40c
No.  7.................................52c
9.................................68c
No.  12.................................84c
Or we will  assort  you a box each 
of Nos. 5, 7, 9 and  12, at  52<4c  aver­
age, and  you  can  select  your own 
colors.
We make  a  specialty of Ribbons, 
and you will  find  that we  have the 
largest and  most complete  stock of 
these goods in the State.
We  solicit  your  inspection  or 
mail orders.

20-22  No  Division  St ,

Corl,  Knott &  Co.,
GRAND  RAPIDS,  fllCH.
FUSE TO F. A. M.  A Colored Engraving’ 
of  Chinese Masons a t work, also, 
largo 
Catalogue  of  Masonic books and  goods 
with bottom prices.  New Illustrated His­
tory of Freemasonry for Agents.  Beware 
of the spurious M ’» sonic books. REDDING 
& (JO., Publishers and M anufacturers of 
Masonic Goods, 731 Broadway. New York*

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

THE  LITTLE  OLD  W HITE  GROCERY 

STORE.

That little old white grocery store,
Down by the bridge some rods or more 

From where the roads divided;

One went straight on through Bristol town, 
And one ran zigzag up and down,

As though quite undecided

Which way to go or where to end,
Much like a faulty poet’s pen 

When wisdom most is wanted,

Or like the ghost that memory brings 
On wind that through the casements sings, 

Or sleep with visions haunted.

Here ’twas that country wisdom met. 
Long winter nights, or when too wet 

Outside to mind their  farming;
Here men waxed wroth in warm debate 
On church affairs or thoso of state 
With freedom quite alarming.
The village oracle would come,
Quite glib of speech and  nimble tongue, 

With tattle, tale and gossip;

He’d all the news for miles around,
Some light as chaff and some profound, 

From death to Jones' cosset.

Here, too, on pleasaut days there'd be, 
To barter eggs for hyson tea.
Some maidens antiquated,

Of doleful voice and shadowy  cast. 
Queer relics of a distant past, 
Matchless but vet unmated.
Here Dr. Bolus, wise in saws,
And 'Torney Adee, learned in laws, 

Would social chat together.

Along with brawny Blacksmith Moak, 
Whose ready wit and quip and joke 

Were proof against the weather.

Here, too. would come good Deacon  Smart, 
Of homely speech but kindly heart,
And Farmer Jones, his neighbor;
They’d talk of hosses, caows and shoats, 
And ’bout the price they’d get for oats,

And products of their labor.

And oftentimes here would be seen 
The rotund form of  Elder Green,
With his  high standing collar;

He’d talk of souls to save in town.
Then screw the price of groceries down. 

To save himself a dollar.
Here, too, would come the country squire, 
Whose homely pate was smooth and bare, 

And polished so it glistened :

Whose misconstructions of the law 
Were worse than Blackstone ever saw, 

That made all laugh who listened.

And Browning, too, that ran the store. 
Whose nasal twang was  like a snore, 

Or like an engine's whistle;

With stumpy beard a dingy red,
And deep-set eyes far in his head.

But blue and clear as crystal.
A cheery word he had for each.
And practised what the parsons preach, 

His creed was “Man's a brother;’’
If we would mind this precept they 
Would only tell the good and say 

Less evil of each other.

The store was strangest yet of all— 
From anvils down to bouncing ball. 

From codfish up to laces,

From china crockery ware and tea, 
And powders that would kill a flea, 

To powders for the  faces.

That little old-time country store 
Still stands—alas! but white no more.
On shattered doors and window panes, 
On clap boards loosed by wind and rains. 

The years their records keeping 

And roof decayed and leaking.

And Browning, too, among the pines,
Where zigzag up the cross road winds. 

Among his old-time neighbors,
Beneath a plain and simple stone,
On which the moss has thrived and grown, 

Lies resting from his lators.

J. W il s o n  H in t o n .

Toots  From  Ram’s Horn.

If some  of  our  heads were not so big, 

our hearts would grow faster.

Whenever faith prays it holds out both 

hands to receive the answer.

When people are hired to be good they 

will stop as soon as the pay stops.

The man who has been taken for worse 
and found better is  a  happy disappoint­
ment.

Dry Goods Price Current.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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Adriatic...................7
A rgyle...................  6
Atlanta AA.............. 6

Arrow Brand 4y 
••  World Wide.  6 
“  LL...........  414
Full Yard Wide...... 6H
Georgia  A..............  6M
Honest Width........  6
Hartford A  ............ S
Indian Head...........  814
Amory....................   6Y King A  A................614
Archery  Bunting...  4  ¡KingEC.................5
Beaver Dam  A A..  4%.'Lawrence  L L ........414
Blackstone O, 32__  5  ¡Madras cheese cloth 6M
Black Crow............   6  Newmarket  G........5M
Black  Rock  ...........6 
B........ 5
N........ 614
Boot, AL................  7 
Capital  A................514 
DD___514
Cavanaf Y..............  5)4 
X ....... 64£
Chapman cheese cl.  3M Noibe R....................5
Clifton  C R ............ 514 Our Level  Best........6
Comet..................... 6yJ Oxford  R ....................6
Dwight Star............  64£ Pequot....................   7
Clifton CCC...........  514 Solar.......................   6
[Top of the  Heap__7
A B C ......................814
Geo.  Washington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
A m azo n ......................  8
Amsburg.................614
Gold Medal............   714
Art  Cambric.......... 10
Green  Ticket..........814
Blackstone A A......  714
Great Falls.............   614
Beats All................ 414
Hope.......................   714
Boston.................. 12
Just  Out......   4M® 5
Cabot.....................   714
King Phillip...........7£
Cabot,  X.................  6*
OP......714
Charter  Oak...........514
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Conway W..............  714|Lonsdale...........  @ 8V
Cleveland.............  614 Middlesex........   ® 5
Dwight Anchor—   8s4NoName................   714
shorts  8  Oak View................ 6
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Edwards....................6  Our Own................   5*4
E 
....... 
..7   Pride of the West.. .12
F 
1....  .............  714¡Rosalind................. 714
Fruit of the  Loom.  8l4|Sunlight.................   4)4
FitchvUle  ............  7  I Utica  Mills.............. 814
First Prize............. 7 
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Fruit of the Loom %.  7* Vlnyard..................  814
Falrmount..............414 White Horse...........  6
Full Value..............65£l 
“  Rock.............. 814
Cabot......................  7141 Dwight Anchor...... 814
Farwell...................8  I

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

“ 

CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached. 
Housewife  Q ....
R ......

Unbleached. 

Housewife  A...........514
514
C...........6
"  
D...........614
“ 
E ...........7
“ 
F ...........71*
“ 
G ..........714
“ 
H ...........7*
" 
1........... 814
“ 
J ..........814
“ 
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“ 
L .......... 10
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“  M  .......... 10*4
N .......... 11
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O.......... 21
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P .......... 1414

CABFET  WARP.

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Peerless, white.......18  [Integrity  colored...20
colored...  20  White Star..............18
Integrity.................18141 
“  colored..20
Hamilton
Nameless................20
8 9
......... 25
1014
......... 2714
G G  Cashmere____20
......... 30
Nameless  .............. 16
.........3214
............... 18
......   35

DRESS  GOODS.

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CORSET  JEANS.

Corallne..................... 69 50
Schilling’s ................... 9 00
Davis  Waists  —   9 00 
Grand  Rapids...... 4 50
Armory..................   6M
Androscoggin.........7M
Blddeford..............  6
Brunswick..............814
Allen turkey  reds..  514
robes............ 514
“ 
pink a purple 514
“ 
“  Duffs...........   514
pink checks. 514
“ 
staples........   5
“ 
shirtings ...  4
“ 
American  fancy—   5 
American indigo ...  5 
American shirtings.  4 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Arnold 
....  6
Arnold  Merino. . . .   6 
long cloth B.  914 
“ 
“ 
“  C.  714
“ 
century cloth 7
“  gold seal......1014
“  green seal TR1014 
“  yellow seal.. 1014
“  serge.............1114
“  Turk*»/ red.. 1014 
“ 

Ballon solid black..
colors.
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange...  6 
Berlin solids...........  514

“ 

“ 

“ 

oil blue...
« 
«  green  ..  6
11  Foulards  ...  51 
“ 
red M —  
7
“  ? ...........  91
“ 
“  4 4.......... 10
“ 
“ 
“  3-4XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy........  5
“  madders...  5 
“  XXtwills..  5
solids.........5
“ 

“ 

“ 

64 50

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Wonderful.  .. 
Brighton......................4 75
Bortree’s .................... 9 00
Abdominal............15 00
Naumkeagsatteen..  714
Rockport...................614
Conestoga.................714
Walworth................ 6M
Berwick fancies 
514
Clyde Robes —  
Charter Oak fancies 414 
DelMarlne cashm’s.  514 
mourn’g  514 
Bddystone fancy...  514 
chocolat  514
rober__514
sateens..  514 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  514
staple__ 554
Manchester fancy..  514 
new era.  614 
Merrimack D fancy.  514 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
“  Repp furn .  814
Pacific fancy..........514
“ 
Portsmouth robes...  614 
Simpson mourning..  514
greys........  5Jt
OPTOTS
solid black.  5J4 
Washington Indigo.  614 
“  Turkey robes..  7K
“  India robes___ 714
“  plain T*ky X 44  814 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................. 614
Martha Washington
Tnrkeyred 54........ 714
Martha Washington
Tnrkeyred..........   914
Rlverpolntrobes....  514
Windsor fancy..........814
indigo blue..........1014
414

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

gold  ticket

“ 

“ 

•* 

“ 
“ 

Harmony......
Amoskeag A C A.... 1214
AC A.................... 18
Hamilton N  ...........714
Pemberton AAA__16
D...........814
York.......................10)4
Awning.. 11
Swift River............ 714
Farmer....................8
Pearl  River............12
First Prise............. 1014
Warren...................1314
Lenox M ills.......... 18
C RiLLOga..............16
Atlanta,  D..............  8§4|Stark  A 
........... 8
Boot........................ 644 No  Name................... 714
Clifton, K............... 7  I Top of  Heap.............9

COTTON  _ 

.

Slater......................   4)4
White Star.............  4M
Kid Glove...............  4M
Newmarket............   4M

Edwards................  4M
Lockwood__  ........4M
Wood’s ..................   4M
Brunswick...........   4M

.1

“ 
“ 

Amoskeag.....................|
9 os.............
brown......
Andover..................11)4
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
BB...  9
c c ....
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7 

“ 
*« 
“ 
blue  8)4 
“  d a  twist 1014 
•* 

Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

“ 

Amoskeag................ 614
“  Persian dress  7 
Canton ..  7
“ 
AFC........1014
“ 
“ 
Teazle...10)4 
“ 
Angola.. 10)4 
“ 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple__6M
Arasapha  fancy__4)4
Bates Warwick dres  714 
staples.  6
Centennial.............  1014
Criterion.............. 10)4
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin.......................   714
Everett classics......814
Exposition............... 7)4
Glenarie.................  6)4
Glenarven................ 614
Glen wood.................7)4
Hampton...................6)4
Johnson Chalon cl  %
Indigo blue 914 
zephyrs__16

“ 
“ 

DEVINS.

“ 
“ 

Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12)4
brown....... 12)4
Haymaker blue......   744
brown...  744
Jeffrey.....................11)4
Lancaster  .............. 12)4
Lawrence. 9 os........ 18)4
“  NO.220....13
“  No. 250....11)4
“ 
No. 280.... 10)4
GINGHAMS.
Lancaster,  staple...  6 
fancies ....  7 
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire.............  6
Manchester__  ......   5*
Monogram..............  6)4
Normandie............  714
Persian.....................7
Renfrew Dress........7)4
Rosemont................. 6)4
Slatersvllle.............. 6
Somerset.........   ....  7
Tacoma  ...................7)4
ToU  duNord......... 10)4
Wabash..................   7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Warwick...............   7
Whlttenden............   8
heather dr.  7)4 
indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  614
Westbrook..............  8
.................10
Wlndermeer...........   5
York  ........................6)4

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“  

GRAIN  BASS.
Amoskeag...............14  I Georgia
Stark......................  19 
..............................
American................14V4I  .............................

14)4

THREADS.

Clark's Mile End.... 45  I Barbour's................16
Coats’, J. & P .........45  Marshall’s ................81
Holyoke................. 22141

No.

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

KNITTING  COTTON.

White.  Colored. 

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

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

38
39
40
41
CAMBRICS.

BED  FLANNEL.

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

T W........................22)4
F T ............ ............. 3214
J R F, XXX............35
Buckeye.................82)4

MIXED  FLANNEL.

DOXET  FLANNEL.

Grey SR W.............1714
Western W  .............18)4
D R P ......................1814
Flushing XXX........23)4
Manitoba................ 23)4
@10)4
1214
Black.
WH
1114
12
20

Red A Bine,  plaid..40
Union R................. 22)4
Windsor..................1814
6 oz Western...........20
Union  B .................22)4
“
Nameless...... 8  @ 9141 
“ 
•*
...... 8)4@10  I 
Black
Slate
Slate.
9M
9141014
W)4
1014
1114
1114
11)4
20
1214
1214
DUCKS.
9)4 West  Point, 8 oz..  . 10)4 
Severen,80s ..........   „„
May land, 8 oz......... 1014
10 oz  ...12)4
“ 
Greenwood, 7)4 oz..  9)4 
Raven, lOoz.............13)4
Greenwood, 8 os — 1114 
 
18)4
Stark 
Boston, 8 oz.............10)4
Boston, 10 oz............12)4
WADDINGS.

CANVASS  AND  FADDINS.
Brown.
914
1014
1114
1214

Brown.
1014
H14
12
20

“ 

SILS81AS.

White, dos..............25 
Colored,  doz...........20  IColored
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
“  Red Cross....  9
“  Best............ 10)4
•*  Best AA......1214
L............................. 714
G............................. 8)4
Cordcelll, doz........ 85  (Cortlcelll  knitting,

|Per bale, 40 dos__ 83 50
7 50
Pawtncket...............10)4
D u n d ie .........................   9
Bedford...................1014
Valley  City.............10)4
KK...................... 10)4

SEWING  SILK.

..12  “ 8 
..12  I  “  10 

per Moz  ball.........30

twist,doz..4T 
50yd,doz..40  I
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GBOSS.
“ 
“ 

No  1 Bl’k A White..10  INo  4 Bl’k A White..15
“  2 
..20
“  8 
..26
No 2—20, M C......... 50  INo 4—15  F  8)4........ 40
•  8-18,8 0 .......... 45 
No  2 White A Bl’k.,12  INo  8 White A Bl’k..20 
“ 
.28
“ 
..26
No 2.

COTTON  TAPE.
..16  “ 10 
..18  “ 12 
SAFETY  FINS.
....28  INo8...
NEEDLES—FEB  M.

.86

A. James.................1  401 Steamboat................  40
Crowely’s............... 1 35 Gold  Eyed...............1 50
Marshall's.............. 1 00| American.................1  oo
15—4. ...1  65  6—4. ..2 80
5—4....  1 75  6—4... 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

FINS.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

4 
6 

|

OOTTONTWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.....................12
Domestic................ 1814
Anchor................... 16
Bristol.........   ........ 18
Cherry  Valley........15
I X L ...  ..................1814
Alabama...................6M
Alamance................. 614
Angusta...................7)4
Ar  sapha..................6
Georgia.....................6)4
Granite....................5M
Haw  River.............  5
Haw  J ....................   6

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

71 

. 614
Mount  Pleasant..
Oneida.................
.  5
Prym ont.............. -  5*
Handel man........... .  6
Riverside.............. •
Sibley  A...............
Toledo.................. ■  6M

plaid  osnabuass

*   4 ’

F 

.  W

1 *
F  V 

•

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RATE  REDUCED

FROM  $2  TO  $ 1 .2 5   PER

DAY  AT  THE

K e n t 

Directly  opposite Union Depot, 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

H

Steam  H eat  and  Electric  Bells.  Every­

thing  New  and  Clean.

BEACH  &  BOOTH,  Prop’rs.
FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

D. A. Bl o d g e t t, President.

Geo.  W.  Gay. Vice-President.

Wm. H. Anderson,  Cashier. 
Jno  A. Seymour, Ass’tlCashler

Capital,  $ 3 0 0 ,0 0 0 .
DIRECTORS.
D. A. Blodgett.  Geo. W. Gay.  S. M. Lemon.
A. J. Bowne.  G. K. Johnson.
C. Bertsch. 
Wm. H. Anderson.  Wm  Sears.  A. D. Rathbone 

John Wlddicomb. 

N. A. Fletcher.

B O O T S , 
S H O E S ,   A N D
R U B B E R S .

Tour  Bank Account Solicited.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
Kelt  Gouty Serais Bank,

GRAND  RAPIDS  ,MICH.

Jno.  A.  Covode  Pres.

Henry  Idema, Vice-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  Vebdieb,  Cashier.

K. Van Hof, ABS’tC’s’r. 

Transacts a General B anking  Business. 

Interest  Allowed  on  Tima  and  Sayings 

Deposits.

DIRECTORS:

Jno. A. Covode, D. A  Blodgett,  E. Crofton Fox, 
T. J. O’Brien,  A. J. Bowne,  Henry Idema, 
Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee, 
J. A. 8. Verdier.

Deposits  Exceed  One  M illion  Dollars.

20  &  22  Monroe  St.,

I,  Lyoi  &  Co.,
Goods

OUR FULL  LINE  OF

ioliday 

Now ready, including  a large  assortment of

A L B U M S ,  
TOILET SETS and NOVELTIES.

THE  LARGEST LINE  OF

D O L L S

SHOWN  IN  THE  STATE.

(Concluded from 3d page.) 

to  take  Edith.  She  has  given  me  the 
privilege  of  taking  care  of  her  for the 
rest of her life.  We  shall  be  married  in 
a few  months.”

Harry grasped  Paul’s hand  warmly.
‘‘Well,  I can’t say  I  am  altogether sur­
prised,  old  boy,  and  I’m ever so glad,  for | 
I know none into whose  keeping  1  would | 
so gladly consign  her.”

“I  am  happy  to  hear  you  say  that. 
And, now that that objection is removed, 
how about the Vienna missiou?”

“ 1 am only too glad  to  accept  it,”  re­

plied Harry  feelingly.

So it was arranged that  at  the expira­
tion of  three months,  Harry  was  to  sail 
for Vienna. 
In  the  meanwhile he gave 
up his  position  and  entered  Paul’s office 
to  acquaint himself with  the business.

Three  months  afterward  there was  a 
quiet wedding at  the little church where 
Edith had been  organist  for  two  years. 
Upon  conclusion  of  the  ceremony, and 
after 
congratulations  of 
friends,  these  three (or  rather,  four,  for 
little  Minnie  had  now become  a young 
lady),  stepped into  a  carriage,  and Paul 
gave the order to  the coachman—the one 
word  “home.”

usual 

the 

“1  declare,  Paul,”  exclaimed  Harry, 
“I am  very  anxious to  see  this  home  of 
yours that you  have been  so  mysterious 
about.”

“Well,  your curiosity will  be gratified 
now;”  and  Paul  leaned  back  in the car­
riage and laughed softly  to himself.

Presently  they left  the city and drove 
out past familiar landmarks into the pure 
country  air.  A  slight  shadow  passed 
over  both  Edith’s  face  and  Harry’s  as 
they drove nearer the old  home they  had 
loved so well.

Nearer and nearer,  until  it  was  right 
before  them.  Then  the carriage gave a 
sudden  turn,  and  they  drove  into  the 
very  grounds,  dashing  up  before  the 
wide old entrance  hall. 
Inquiring  eyes 
were directed to Paul,  who was enjoying 
the anticipated surprise  he  was about to 
give.

Harry,  speechless,  grasped  Paul’s 
hand,  and Edith flung  her  arnfs  around 
his neck  and sobbed  aloud,  and  Paul  be­
gan  to have grave doubts  of  the wisdom 
of his little  plan.

“ Look  up,  my darling,  at  our  future 

home.  Does it  not please you?”

Edith looked up into Paul’s face,  smil­
ing  gratefully  through  her  tears,  and 
Paul, clasping her in his arms, whispered 
softly for the first time,  “ My  wife.”

Here we will  leave them—here, where, 
in his first  adventure  in  life,  Paul  had 
found friends;  here  would  he  spend the 
remainder of  his life, where he had found 
shelter when as  a  boy  he  first had wan­
dered “far from home.”

----OK —

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

are  used  in   the 
preparation  o f

which is  absolutely p u re 

and soluble.

A  d e s c r ip tio n   o f  t h e   c h o c o la te  
p la n t,  a n d   o f  th e   v a r io u s   c o c o a  
a n d  c h o c o la te  p r e p a r a tio n s m an  
u fa c tu r e d   b y  W a lter B a k e r  & Cc 
w ill  b e s e n t  fr e e  to  a n y  d e a le r  or. 
a p p lic a tio n .

VII. BAKER & CO., Dorchester. Mass.

A t l a s  S oap

Is  Manufactured 

only  by

HENRY  PASSOLT, 

Saginaw,  Midi.

For general  laundry and  family 

washing  purposes.

Only  brand of first-class laundry 

soap manufactured  in the 

Saginaw  Talley.

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

ARE  THE  TIMES  HARD?

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

G R A N D   R A P ID S .

H.  D.  Mil l e r .

Hardware Price Current.

Creosote  for  Consumption.

In a recent contribution  to  a  medical 
journal Prof.  Graham says  that  the  re­
sults obtained  from  the  use  of  creosote 
for tubercular complaints  in the Eastern 
States do  not  justify  the  great  claims 
made for it.  He says  that  it is unques­
tionably  a valuable medical  agent,  when 
used in connection with hygienic, dietetic 
and  symptomatic treatment,  and  may be 
said to cure a small  percentage  of  first- 
stage cases,  but that commonly  it will  be 
found  useless,  except  in  such  connec­
tion.  He thinks its factitious reputation 
is due to the common tendency to trumpet 
the successful and say nothing of the un­
successful cases.

A preacher who  has a praying  church 
behind him is  a hard  man to discourage.

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

AUGURS AND BITS. 

dig.

go
Snell’s ..................................................................... 
Cook’s ................................................................ 
40
Jennings’, genuine.......................................... 
26
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................... 50410
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze.............................» 7 00
00

D.  B. B ronze........................... 
S.  B. S. Steel..................................  8 00
D.  B. Steel.....................................   18 50

AXES.

“ 
* 
‘ 

BARROWS. 

dls.

dls.

bolts. 

Railroad 
....................................................... *  14 00
Garden  ....................................................   net  80 00
Stove....................................................................50410
Carriage new list.............................................. 75410
Plow....................................................................40410
Sleigh shoe........................................................ 
70
Well,  plain  ..................................................... 13 50
Well, swivel.....................................................  4  00
dlS.
Cast Loose Pin, figured....................................704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5aat joint................604,0

BUTTS, OAST. 

BUCKETS.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T H A Û B 8 M A N
Unlike me Dutch  Process 

ox

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.
 

Wrought Loose Fin.......................................60410
Wrought Table.............................................60410
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60410
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70410
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70410
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1893................fO&lO

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

CAPS.

per lb 

Cast Steel.................. 
5
Ely’s 1-10.............................................per
65 
Hick’s C. F ................................  
»
60 
G. D .....................................................  <>
35 
Musket.............................................  
“
60
Rim  Fire.......... ........................................... 
50
Central  Fire.........................................dls. 
25
Socket Firmer.............................................  79410
Socket Framing.............................................70410
Socket Corner................................................ 70410
Socket Slicks.............................................   70410
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer
40

CARTRIDGES.

c h ise l s. 

dis.

COMBS.
Curry,  Lawrence’s..............
Hotchkiss............................
CHALK.
White Crayons, per gross__
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...
14x52, 14x56, 14x60 .
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60. 
Cold Rolled, 14x48.................
DRILLS.

“ 

.12012* dls. 10

per pound

dls.

dls.

50
50
50

RLBOW8.

Morse’s  Bit  Stocks....................
Taper and straight Shank............
Morse’s Taper Shank...................
DRIPPING PANS.
Small sizes, ser pound.................
07
Large sizes, per  pound.................
6 *
Com. 4  piece, 6 In......................... .  doz. net 
75
Corrugated..................................
........dls
40
Adjustable.........................
....... dla. 40410
EXPANSIVE  BITS.
Clark’s, small, »18;  large, »26......
30
Ives’, 1, *18:  2, »24;  3,»30  ............
25
p il e s —New List.
dis.
Disston’s ................................
60&10
New American................................  
60&in
Nicholson’s ...............................................60410
Heller’s
Heller’s Horse Rasps  .................................. 
50

dis.

GALVANIZED IRON

15 

12 

dls.

dls.

NAILS

Viwnrva

mauls. 
mills. 

molasses sates. 

14 
causes. 

13 
Discount, 60

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27  28
16  17
List 
dls.
dls.

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s__
knobs—New List. 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings__
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings..
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings
Door,  porcelvln, trimmings  ........
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain...
LOCKS—DOOR. 
Russell 4 Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s...........................  
55
Branford's................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s ................................................. , 
55
Adze Eye...............................'.........616.00, dls. 00
Hunt Bye.........................................»15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ...................................... »18.50, dls. 20410.
dls.
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
50
dig.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’b...................................  
40
40
“  P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleabies__ 
“  Landers,  Ferry 4 Cla rk’s................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60410
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 66410
Enterprise, self-measuring........................... 
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, base..............................................1  50
Wire nails, base..........................  
...... 1  7501  80
60...........................................   ...... Base 
Base
50...................................................... 
10
40......................................................  
25
26
*>...................................................... 
20.........   .......................................... 
35
45
16...................................................... 
45
12...................................................... 
50
10...................................................... 
8.......................................................  
60
7 * 6 .................................................  
75
4.......................................................  
90
1  20
..................................... 
8 
1  60
2-...................................................... 
PlneS....................................................... 
65
Case  10............................................. 
8............................................. 
75
go
6............................................. 
Finish 10..........................................  
75
«...........................................  
90
6...................................................  
Clinch; 10.......................................... 
70
80
8.......................................... 
6.......................................... 
go
Barrel! %......... 
 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’a, fancy................................   040
Sclota Bench............................................. 
»50
Sandnsky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  040
Bench, first quality......................................   040
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood........... 60410
Pry,  Acme.............................................dls.60—10
70
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
dls.
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs..........................    60—10

“ 
' 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

PLANES. 

rivets. 

dls.

 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

'A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
‘B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 
Broken packsi * 0 per ponnd extra.

HAMMERS.

 

 

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“ 
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dig

HINSES.

HANSERS. 

HOLLOW WARS.

 
HOUSE PURNISHINS  GOODS.

i Maydole  4  Co.’s ...................................  
25
dls 
Kip’s ....................................................... !  .'dls! 
25
I  Yerkes 4  Plumb’s...................................   dls. 40410
j  Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......................... soc list 60
|  Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__ 80c 40410
I 
| Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .........  ...................... dls.60410
s ta te ........................................... per do*, net, 2 50
I Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4*  14  and
longer.............................................................  314
10
Screw Hook and  Eye, * ..........................net 
...........................net  8*
3£...........................net  7*
36 — .................... net  714
„ 
Strap and T ................................................dls. 
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50410
Champion,  anti friction................................  60410
Kidder, wood track..............................  . . . . . 
40
£ ots-....................................................................60410
60410
Spiders  ... 
Gray enameled............... 
40410
Stamped  Tin Ware..............................   new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware................. 
26
Granite Iron W are........................new list 33*410
D  ,  , . 
WIRE GOODS. 
...................................................  70410410
Screw  Eyes................................................. 70410410
Hook’s
70410410
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Gate Hooks and Eyes.............
70410410 
LEVELS.
dl b.7q
Stanley Rnle and Level  Co.’s
ROPES.
Sisal, *  Inch and larger.......................  
Manilla......................................................13
Steel and  Iron....... 
Try and Bevels................. 
Mitre.............................................;;;;;;;;;;;;;; 
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Com.  Smooth.
Nos. 10 to  14...................................  
|4  05
Nos. 15 to 17......................... 
.........4  (15
Nos.  18 to 21............................ ........... 4 os
Nos. 22 to 24................................ 
I £
Nos. 25 to 26.................................. 
NO. 27........................................ '....I :  4 45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19,’86  ........................................ ..
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Sliver Lake, White A ......................... 
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Drab A ............................  
White  B ..................  
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3 05 
3 05 
3  15 
3 25 
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All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

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SHEET IRON.

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SASH WEIGHTS.

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saws. 

WIRE. 

traps. 

............... dl,.

Cuts,  per  foot.

Solid Eyes................................................ per ton (26

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

dls
Sliver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__  
Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 
Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot... 
Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X

70
50
30
foot.................................... 
30
c. 
60410
Steel, Game.......................................... 
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ... 
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s 
70
Mouse,  choker.................................... ISc perdoz
Mouse, delusion..................................»1.50 per doz
dig
Bright Market........................................  
«6
Annealed Market................................ 
'  '70^.10
Coppered Market....................... .” ..................
60
Tinned Market
62*
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.......... !.!!!!!!!!!  2 80
painted......................!!.'.’.!!  a 40
Au  Sable...............................................dls.  40410
Putnam.............................................. 
dls  05
Northwestern...................................  
dls. 10410
dig
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled............... 
'an
Coe’s  Genuine.......................................... 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,!!! 
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................................'.75410
5()
Bird Cages.......................................... 
Pumps, Cistern......................... !.....................75*10
Screws, New List.........................  
70410
Casters, Bed  a  d Plate.......................... ..50410410
Dampers, American...........................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods .  .! .65*10 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

dig.

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METALS,
PIG TIN.

26c
28c

ZINC.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.........................................................  
Pig Bars............................................................. 
Duty:  Sheet, 2*c per ponnd.
600 pound  casks....................................... 
Per pound............................................. !.!!.'!! 
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7*
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solder in the market Indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
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ANTIMONY
Cookson............................................per  ponnd
Hallett’s .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,  
TIN—MELTS GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................ 
14x2010, 
.........................  
10x 14ix , 
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14x20 IX, 
Each additional X on this grade, 11.75.

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10x14 IC,  Charcoal................................ 
75
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14x2010, 
” *  6  75
10x14IX, 
.........................................I’.  8  25
14x20 ix, 
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Each additional X on this grade »1.50.

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“  Worcester.............................   6  50
14x20 IX, 
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.............................   8  60
20x28 IC, 
............................  18  60
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14x20 IC, 
1  Alla way Grade....................  6 00
14x20 IX, 
...................  7 80
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20x28 IC, 
....................  12 60
20x28 IX,
....................  15 50
}4*28 
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14x31  IX............................................................   15 00
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I 
14x60IX,  “  “  9 
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

A WX»KLT JOURNAL DKTOTRD TO THB

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

Published at

100  Louis  St., Grand Rapids,

—   BY  T H E  —

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WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  27,  1893.

than 

less  adventurous 

LAND-HUNGRY AND BLOODTHIRSTY.
Knowing  the  characteristic land-hun­
ger  of  »lie  Anglo-Saxon  and  Germanic 
races,  surprise has often  been expressed 
that the people of the United States have 
been 
those  of 
other nations,  and that the United States 
does not  possess a colony or  even  a  foot 
of land outside the  limits  of  the  Union.
The reason  for this has  been  found in 
the  fact  that  within  the  limits  of  the 
Union  there has  been  from  the  first  a 
vast domain of  public lands which  were, 
by a wise system  of  laws,  given  out  to 
citizens  as  homesteads.  The result  has 
been that  the Americans  have  been able 
to appease  their  land-hunger almost en­
tirely at home,  and,  beyond  some filibus­
tering  schemes  occasionally attempted, 
they have had  little  cause  to  go  abroad 
to settle lands or to colonize.

Very  much the  same  conditions  have 
obtained  with  regard 
to  wars.  The 
American  people  are  among  the  most 
warlike  in  the  world.  They  have  had 
three foreign wars in  less than acentury, 
but that amount  of  indulgence for their 
belligerent  instincts  and  habits  would 
have  gone  but  a  little  way  to  satisfy 
their bloody demands but for  the  facili­
ties  which existed for  domestic  warfare. 
For a  long  period 
there  was  incessant 
war with the wild Indians who originally 
inhabited  the  entire American  domain. 
Then there was the vast  sectional  strug­
gle that furnished  to  history one  of  the 
most colossal  wars of modern  times.

But it would seem that  the  home  op­
portunities for satisfying  the  race  crav­
ing  for  land  and  blood  are  rapidly be­
coming  exhausted.  The  public 
lands 
are being settled up,  the  territories have 
nearly  all  become  States,  and  the few 
that  are 
left  will  soon  follow.  As to 
war.  the people of  the  once  hostile  sec­
tions  are  becoming  so  much  united  in 
general 
they  can  no 
longer find pleasure  in  internecine war, 
while the  Indians have ail been  subdued 
and forced to reside  upon  fixed  reserva­
tions. 
It cannot be  long  before the  bel­
ligerent  energies  of  the Americans  will 
demand  to  make  war upon  some foreign 
peoples.

interests 

that 

But it is D o t  proposed to speculate fur­

ther in that direction, but  to make some 
observations  upon  the  disposal  of  the 
public  lands. 
It  appears  from  the re­
port of the Commissioner of  the General 
Land Office that during the  year  ending 
June  30,  1893,  1,404,958.82  acres  were 
disposed  of  by cash  sales,  10,396,727.22 
acres by miscellaneous  entries;  also 89,- 
457.95  acres  of  Indian  lands were  dis­
posed of; aggregating 11,891,143.99 acres. 
The  total  cash  receipts  from  various 
sources for the year amounted to 34,479,- 
734.14.  There  yet  remain  to  the  Gen­
eral  G »vernment  more  than  13,000,000 
acres  of  forest  lands  which  should be 
protected  by some  wise  system  of  for­
estry laws,  for when  it  is  known 
that 
there is little or  no  timber  in  the  vast 
country from a line 300 miles west of the 
Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains 
the need for its protection  will  be  obvi­
ous.

The Government has  in  recent  years 
to  deprive  the  Indians  of 
undertaken 
the large and fertile tracts of  lands that 
were given to them for reservations,  and 
this policy  has resulted  in  the  opening 
to general  settlement of  what is now Ok­
lahoma Territory7,  and  of  the  Cherokee 
"Strip,”  and  of  the  Cherokee  “outlet,” 
in 
the  Indian  Territory,  and of White 
Earth  Reservation,  in  Minnesota and Da­
kota.  The  last  of 
these  openings  was 
that of  the  Cherokee "Outlet.”  Booths 
were established  at eight  places  around 
the frontiers  in  which  applications  for 
homesteads could  be  filed.  Vast crowds 
of settlers assembled.  The report of the 
Secretary of  the Interior  shows  that the 
rush  of  applicants  for  certificates  was 
unprecedented, the returns from the sev­
eral booths showing that  they numbered 
over 100,000, greatly in excess of  the ex­
pected  number.  That  hardships  were 
iucurred by applicants was an  unavoida­
ble result,  when  so  large a crowd,  far in 
excess of the  land  to  be  obtained,  was 
preparing  to  rush  madly  upon  it.  No 
care of the  department  could  have  les­
sened the intense heat, or have prevented 
the stilling  dust.  The  scarcity of water 
was due  to  the  fact 
that  an  extended 
drought had dried up  many of  the usual 
sources  of  water  supply,  and  when 
crowds to the extent of  over 20,000 gath­
ered 
the  neighborhood  of  a  single 
booth it  was impossible to place  all  the 
booths at locations suited  for  entry and 
also to find a sufficient water supply.

in 

This mild description of  the  situation 
at  a  land  opening  by  the Government 
shows what  the  American  land-hunger 
is.  When  there are no more public lands 
inside the Union to  satisfy the  demand, 
then the people will  overflow into  other 
countries and either conquer  or  absorb. 
The Anglo-Saxons  will take  lands wher­
ever they are  to  be  found,  and this fact 
will supply new opportunities for war.

THE  HEMISPHERE  OF DISCORD.
If there is  one  distinguishing  charac­
teristic that could be  declared  universal 
concerning the American Hemisphere,  it 
is  that  it  has  been  and  is  the  scene of 
general and perpetual discord.

The  Temple  of  Janus  at  Rome  was 
never shut  except when  the  empire was 
at peace, and  that  never  happened  save 
in  rare  instances.  One  of  these was  at 
the time of the birth of  Christ,  when  the 
Roman  power,  having conquered  all  the 
surrounding  nations,  had  no  object 
invincible 
against  which  to  lead 
its 
legions,  and  so,  perforce, 
there  was 
peace.  But if there had  been  a  Temple I

of Janus  on  the American  Hemisphere, 
to be  closed  only when war  and  discord 
no longer raged upon any part of its vast 
extent, there is reason  to  believe  that it 
would never have been closed.

Philologists  declare  that  upon 

the 
mainland  of  the  New World  there were 
more than 900 distinct  and  separate lan­
guages  spoken  by as  many distinct  and 
separate  tribes  of  people.  The  fact of 
these  900 
tongues,  each  peculiar  and 
characteristic  and  differing  from all the 
others,  proves that the  900  tribes  main­
tained  distinct  and  separate  existence, 
and had little or no friendly intercourse. 
While this can safely be assumed  of  the 
prehistoric age, it is certain that the first 
European explorers not only found these 
conditions  to  be  true,  but  that the nu­
merous  tribes were  all  hostile  to  each 
other.  Cortez, with his handful of Span­
iards,  would never  have  conquered  the 
powerful  nation of the Aztecs  if  he  had 
not secured the aid  of  the Tlascalans,  a 
martial  people  who  were  encountered 
near the coast and  who were perpetually 
at war with the nation that was  founded 
on  the  high  plateau  of  Mexico.  With 
these allies  the  Spaniards were  enabled 
to  do what would  otherwise  have  been 
impossible.

For more than two  centuries  after the 
first colony  from  Europe was  planted in 
America  the  invaders  could  have been 
easily  exterminated  if  only the  natives 
would  have  confederated  for  the  pur­
pose.  But the fact, and a most remarka­
ble fact it is,  stands  forth  that,  however 
serious  the  hositility manifested  by the 
American  natives  to  the  whites,  their 
savage  tribes  were  still  more  bitterly 
hostile 
to  each  other,  and  they  were 
ready at  any time  to  combine with  the 
whites to destroy some other tribe.  But 
long  before 
the  advent  of  Europeans 
upon  this  hemisphere,  and  possibly be­
fore the red men had spread over its vast 
area,  there had  been  nations,  the  ruins 
of whose cities and civilization  still  sur­
vive,  but whose history  is  so  completely 
buried in oblivion that  even  the  causes 
of  their  destruction, quite  as  much  as 
any knowledge of  their  beginnings  and 
progress,  are wholly lost.

Nations  which  once  flourished  here 
have been exterminated, and the red men, 
who succeeded  them,  have  been  driven 
from their  lands  and  many  tribes have 
been extinguished,  while all  of  the oth­
ers in North America have  been  greatly 
thinned  out. 
It  is  not  probable  that 
there  ever  was  any  peace  before  the 
white  men  came,  and  certainly  there 
never has been  any since  they had  con­
trol.  When there were no  more  oppor­
tunities for the  whites to  destroy the In­
dians,  they began the  work of  bloodshed 
upon their own kind,  and from that time 
war and revolution among  the white na­
tions  of  the  continent  have  been  the 
rule.

The Americans seem to have no  appe­
tite for war with the peoples of  the  Old 
World.  They never  send  out  colonies, 
they do not protect their citizens abroad, 
they resent no injuries done on  the high 
seas or upon the lands of the Old  World. 
It is only on their  own  hemisphere  that 
their  angry  passions  are  aroused,  and 
here  they  never  cease  from  fighting. 
This is the  hemisphere  of  war  and  dis­
cord,  and the work  of  destruction  must 
go  on  apparently  until  some  vast  and 
prehistoric curse  shall  be  wiped  out, or 
some  monstrous  and  titanic  crime  of 
earlier  ages  he  expiated  in  oceans  o f'

blood.  To-day war,  revolution  and  dis­
cord reign  upon  the  hemisphere.  Evi­
dently the work of expiation has  not yet 
been accomplished.

INDEPENDENT  OF UNIONISM.
On and after Jan.  1,  1894,  the  compos­
ing room of T h e  Mic h ig a n T radesm an 
will be an open  office,  competency being 
the  only  requirement  for  employment 
therein.  No one will  be  asked whether 
he  is  a  member  of  a  union  or  a  non- 
unionist,  white  or  black,  Catholic  or 
Protestant, native or  foreign  born;  nor 
will any discrimination be made  against 
any man  by reason of his affiliation with, 
or opposition to, any political, mechanical 
or social organization.  This  position  is 
in line with the policy now pursued by a 
majority of the best business institutions 
of  the  country,  in  consequence  of  the 
friction,  interference  and  tyranny  inci­
dent  to  the  exclusive  employment  of 
union  workmen;  and  if  the adoption of 
this  rule  precipitates  the opposition of 
the trades unionists,  the  friends  of  the 
Tradesman Company will have an oppor­
tunity to show  where they stand on  this 
economic question.

It has  transpired  that  the  movement 
on  the  part  of  the  printers’  union,  re­
ferred to last  week,  was especially aimed 
at T h e  T radesman  in retaliation for the 
freedom  with  which it has  always  criti­
cised the acts of trade unionism  thought 
to  be  inimical  to  the  interests of  em­
ployer  and  employe  alike.  While  our 
action  at  this  time  is  a  result of  this 
move on the part of the union, it is in no 
way retaliatory;  but, aside from the con­
viction that the control of all branches of 
T h e  T radesm an’s business should be in 
the  hands  of 
its  management,  T h e 
T radesm an will  not  remain  subject to 
alien  star  chamber  edicts  unknown  to 
ourselves or  employes,  nor will  we  con­
tinue to be subject to the annoyance  and 
loss of  time necessary to meet and settle 
such movements.

THE  HATCH  ANTI-OPTION  BILL.
According  to  the  recent  dispatches 
from Washington,  Mr. Hatch,  of anti-op­
tion fame,  has announced that he would, 
shortly after the holidays,  introduce  his 
new anti-option hill, dealing with trading 
in farm  products  for  future  delivery. 
The bill,  it is understood,  will  be  much 
the same as last year’s measure, with the 
exception that the license fee on  traders 
in futures  will be lowered.

The 

Mr.  Hatch is  reported  to  have  stated 
that he will consider a  reference  of  the 
bill to the Ways and  Means Committee a 
defeat. 
energetic  Congressman 
from  Missouri  will  naturally  seek  to 
have his pet measure referred to the Ag­
ricultural Committee, hut as it is ostensi­
bly a revenue measure  and is introduced 
as such  it  should  rightfully  go  to  the 
Ways  and  Means Committee.

As Congress is likely to  have the most 
of its time taken up with such important 
measures as the  tariff  and  currency re­
forms,  it is not  likely that  it will  see its 
way to devote much  attention  to  a  bill 
like  that  of  Mr.  Hatch,  which,  at  the 
best, could only be  passed  after a sharp 
contest.

FAILURE  OF  THE  UNION  LABEL.
“Open  confession is good for the soul.” 
Even  the organs  of  trade  unionism  re­
luctantly admit that the  attempt to com­
pel union workingmen to buy union made 
goods  is  a  failure,  for  the  reason that 
such  goods  are  usually  inferior  to  the

■ra®  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

products  of  free  workmen  who are not 
bound,  body  and  soul,  to  a 
tyranny 
which destroys every vestige of manhood 
and  independence,  rendering  its  adher­
ents mere tools in  the  hands of  design­
ing  demagogues.  The  Grand  Rapids 
Workman,  the local  organ  of  unionism 
and anarchy,  thus deplores  the  disincli­
nation of  the  average  unionist  to  take 
goods bearing the badge of dishonor:

The consistent trades unionist will  al­
ways buy labeled  goods in preference to 
I heard  a  man wearing 
the other kind. 
a suit  of  non-union clothes,  a non-union 
hat and non-union  shoes,  kick for a blue 
label cigar the other day.  He  was  with 
a crowd of  union printers, railroad men, 
tailors,  molders and cigarmakers.  When 
he isn’t with union  men  he always buys 
a scab cigar. 
If  there weren’t  so  many 
of him,  I’d print his name.

The Chicago Record, which  has always 
been friendly to trade unionism, deplores 
the fact that nine-tenths of the unions of 
Chicago hold  their meetings in  halls over 
saloons  and 
that  the  meetings  are  in 
most cases  bacchanalian  revels,  usually 
ending  in  disorder  and  drunkenness. 
Ih e authority quoted  states  that  many 
young men who join  unions  find  them­
selves drifting into  habits  of  intemper­
ance  through 
influence  thus 
thrown around them.

the  evil 

Business  women  are  so  much  of  a 
rarity that  when  one  is  discovered  the 
reporters  talk  about  her  as though she 
were a bird of a new species,  and extend 
their accounts  even  to  a  description  of 
the 
individual  feathers  composing  the 
plumage.  Women  who  are  business 
assistants are numerous everywhere,  but 
women  who command  success  in  a busi­
ness sense are comparatively few.

Building  Up  a  Business  Afflicted  With 

I  succeeded 

Dry  Rot.
to  a  business  formerly 
owned  by a  German who  allowed  what 
had been at one time a  fairly prosperous 
store to become afflicted with  dry rot. 
I 
sometimes think it would  have  paid  me 
better to have started in an entirely new 
neighborhood. 
I not  only had  to  build 
up my own reputation,  but  1  also had to 
live down  his—a  rather  trying  ordeal  I 
assure you.  Still I  had  made  the  start 
and was determined  to succeed  if  it  was 
at all possible.

I early looked around  for  every possi­
ble means of attracting  custom. 
I  read 
with avidity all the hints  our  trade  pa­
pers conveyed,  and  studied  with interest 
the methods  of  my dry goods neighbors, 
who placed such  reliance  on  the virtues 
of advertising. 
I talked the matter over 
with all the drummers with whom  1 came 
in contact,  and  finally came  to  the  con­
clusion that no one was  suffering for my 
groceries,  and that if I would  effect sales 
I must devise some scheme  to  bring  the 
people to the store.

1  accidentally hit  upon  an  idea  that 
makes me smile when I think how simple 
it is,  and  yet  how  far  reaching 
it  has 
been  in 
its  effects.  Whenever  a  very 
small child came to  the  store,  1  made it 
a point to put a cracker or a bit of candy 
in the hand  of  my diminutive customer. 
When the parents accompanied the child 
I made it two  crackers.  The  result  was 
I  became  at  ouce  a  great 
surprising. 
favorite  with  the  children,  and  I  am 
afraid that  I was  frequently the  recipi­
ent of  orders  that  were  meant  for  my 
more  opulent  neighbor  across  the way. 
In this way my store  became  known  to 
the  parents,  and.  I  frequently heard  it

said that they never would have thought 
it worth while to give me  a  trial  had  it 
not been  for  my kindness to the children.
I early began the observance of special 
days, so to speak.  On Saturdays, though 
usually a busy day,  I announced  in  flar­
ing posters  in  the window that  I would 
throw in a dozen clothes pins with every 
purchase  of  soap  or other articles inci­
dent to wash day.  The profits  on  these 
staple  articles,  particularly  the  ones 
largely advertised,  are  not  calculated  to 
make a  Rockefeller  out  of  the  corner 
grocery  man with  appalling  speediness, 
and I  was in doubt  as  to  the wisdom  of 
the  experiment.  But  the  ultimate  re­
sult  justified  my  temerity. 
I  noticed 
through  the  week 
that  a  great  many 
other articles naturally followed  the de­
mand  for  soap,  and,  on 
the  whole,  I 
count the scheme among  the best I have 
yet devised.

The store windows were  small and al­
most  wholly  obliterated  with  different 
signs,  placed there by enterprising sales­
men, etc. 
I soon decided to put in  large 
front  plate  glass  windows,  arranging 
panels on the bottoms and down the side.
I readily let the spaces  thus  secured  to 
the various firms who desired an outdoor 
display,  and the rental  from  those  signs 
not only paid for the plate  glass eventu­
ally,  but  earned a neat  little  profit  be­
sides. 
I  was  also  enabled  to  make  a 
splendid showing in the window, wherein 
1 was careful to show only such goods as 
were  being  then  largely  advertised  in 
our daily papers.  Thus,  when cottolene 
appeared,  1  had  the  window decorated 
entirely with pails of  the  new goods. 
I 
never  hesitated  to  buy  freely  of  goods 
that were  heavily advertised.  They are 
good sellers, and though  the  demand at 
first is slow,  yet it is all important to an­
ticipate  the  demand,  rather  than  wait 
until you can no longer afford to be with­
out  them. 
I  also  reproduced  the  main 
feature of the advertising thus:  “ Here is 
that new shortening.  Cottolene, you hear 
so much about. 
I 
found that there is always  a  disposition 
to  try new things  at  once,  but,  if  you 
have  to wait  a week  or  so,  people  get 
over their curiosity and  let  it  go for the 
time  being.  Besides,  l was  anxious  to 
get  a  reputation  for  having  everythin« 
first. 
I  had  French  soups  first,  plum 
pudding,  etc.,  etc.,  and 
the  idea  took 
well.  Anything that brought  trade was 
what I wanted.

It  is  worth  trying.” 

About this time I  removed  the  awful 
structure  which  surrounded  my  store, 
which was by courtesy called  an awning 
or shed.  It darkened  my store and cast a 
blight on the whole  place. 
I replaced it 
with a handsome,  stylish awning in  blue 
It  made  a  wonderful  im­
and  white. 
provement. 
I  also  removed 
the  big 
bulky stove that stood  in  the  middle of 
the room and  took  up  more  space  than 
anything else in the store.  Other trifling 
improvements of  a  similar  nature were 
made from time to time,  and did much to 
gratify my customers and  attract  trade.
1 do not think that money  thus  invested 
is  ever  lost. 
If  I  had  more  money  1 
would spend it all on  handsome fixtures.
1 would follow the plan of the bar rooms, 
“Nothing is too good  for  them,” and  it 
evidently  pays.

I have spoken of  the  effect my care of 
the children  produced  on  the  minds  of 
I  have since had repeated 
the  parents. 
opportunities 
to  test  the  value  of  the 
same idea in other directions, and I have 
always found it to work well.  The same

to 

This  brings  me 

9
the  merchant  satisfactorily.  Conse­
quently the latter returned home to await 
the coming of the traveler.
the  subject  of 
confidence  in  traveling  salesmen,  just 
the point I wanted  to  reach.  As a mat­
ter of fact, confidence in  the traveler and 
his  house  is  the  basis  of  the  bulk of 
trade.  The samples carried by travelers 
cut less figure with  their sales  than does 
the traveler himself. 
If he inspires con­
fidence  his  chances  for  doing business 
are infinitely better  than  they would be 
with the  finest  of  samples  and without 
that  confidence-inspiring  quality which 
brings sales.
In short,  merchants can’t tell the qual­
ity of goods  they purchase.  This  is  no 
reflection on  the  merchant’s  knowledge 
of his business, nor is it a  feature of the 
shoe trade merely.  It is true of clothing, 
of crockery,  of drugs—in  fact, of  almost 
every branch  of  trade.  The  perfection 
of adulteration may not as yet have been 
reached, but success in  that direction has 
been so great that experts are  baffled by 
it. 
In the instance of shoes the dealer is 
not the  only person who  must  plead  ig­
norance.  Men  more  skilled  than he in 
the art of making  shoes  are as  much  in 
the dark as himself.

OILS.

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B A R B E L S.

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MANUFACTURERS’  AGENT  FOR

ALBERT  N.  AVERY,
,
C A R P E M   I M S

19  So.  Ionia  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Special Sale of Lace and Chenille Curtains.

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

BUY  THE  PENINSULAR
Pits,  S its,  a i   Overalls

Once and You ate our Customer 

for life.

S ta n to n   &  M o rey,

DETROIT,  MICH.

G e o. F . Ow e n , Salesman for Western  Michigan,

Residence  59 N.  Union St., Grand  RapldB.

thought is what actuates the great manu­
facturer,  when he produces picture cards 
and books,  by the million,  for  the  chil­
dren alone. 
It is evidently one  of  these 
streaks  of  nature  that makes the whole 
world  kin.  So  I  may  be pardoned if I 
repeat my caution  to be liberal  with the 
children.  A cracker or bit of candy  will 
come back  multiplied in  many ways.

than  one. 

the  newcomers 

I soon began to realize  that  my  trade 
was  growing  more  and  more  extended. 
New names were on the order books, and 
I  gradually  found  that  the  customers 
whom I  did  not  know  personally  were 
beginning to outnumber the ones whom I 
did.  This  was  a  healthy  sign,  and  I 
welcomed 
for  more 
reasons 
I  found  it  a  good 
plan  when  I  did  meet  one  of  my  new 
customers to treat them politely  and  at­
tentively,  but  on  no  account to let them 
get so  well  acquainted  with  me  as  the 
families  who  were  close  enough  to  be 
neighbors. 
It is always hard  to  collect 
money from  “neighborly” customers, and 
in  the  end you lose them. 
I was deter­
mined my new trade should  start  right, 
I  found  that  nothing  was 
and  it  did. 
ever  more. rightly  spoken 
that 
than 
“Short credits make long friends.”

As this was a desirable adjunct  to  my 
business, I  was  anxious  to  cultivate  it 
all  I  could.  So  I  sold  out  one  of  the 
meanest  looking  wagons  that  ever  dis­
graced a junk  shop. 
I  kept  the  horse.
I may have  been stingy with my  wagons 
and miserly  with my paint,  but  I  never 
begrudged the horse  its keep. 
It looked 
well,  and many a time some  of  my  cus­
tomers  would call out as  they  went  by: 
“That’s  a  pretty  good  nag  you  have, 
Jim;” and I always said. “She’s tolerable, 
sir,  tolerable,”  though  I  knew  in  my 
heart  she  was  a  perfect  beauty.  Con­
found a grocer,  I or any other,  who can’t 
appreciate good horseflesh.

So I began to spruce up the  stable  ef­
fects.  I made the boys wear clean aprons 
every time they went  out. 
I didn’t care 
if it was three or four trips a day, a clean 
apron  every  time.  And  then  I  bought 
the prettiest wagon you ever saw,  with a 
neat brass name plate,  giving  my  name 
and address neatly,  but  without ostenta­
tion.  There was a good deal of  red and 
black,  with  a  gold  stripe  around  the 
wagon,  which  I  thought  at  first  was 
a little loud,  but I  finally  concluded  to 
let  it  go.  The wagon made quite a stir 
in the neighborhood,  and I had the satis­
faction of knowing that, in every respect, 
it was a good advertisement.

I  cannot  emphasize  too  strongly  the 
importance  of  having the outside acces­
sories  of  the  store look clean and invit­
ing.  Even my little clean apron scheme, 
insignificant  as  it  may  appear,  has  a 
powerful influence for good.

J a y Sm ith.

Confidence  in  the Traveling  Salesm an.
** Shop Talk ” in Shoe and L eather Gazette.
The “house  salesmen”  of  one  of  the 
large  shoe  jobbing  and  manufacturing 
houses in St.  Louis told  me  one  day re­
cently that  one  of  the  traveling  men’s 
customers came  into  the  house  recently 
while the traveling  man in question was 
out on the road.  The  salesman took the 
merchant in hand and did his best to sell 
him a bill  of  goods.  The  salesman is a 
good one in his line,  but he told me  that 
he could do absolutely nothing with  this 
customer after they got out of the staple 
goods.  The  man  didn’t  actually know 
what  he  needed  or what  he  could  sell. 
For  this  information  he  had  depended 
implicitly  on  the  traveling  man.  The 
salesman, not knowing the merchant, his 
town or his stock,  was  unable  to  advise

06860910

3 2 1   E . Main  S t., K a la m a z o o , Mich.

pint i overall co.
Our entire  line  of  Cotton  Worsted  Pants  on 
hand to be sold at  cost  for  cash.  If  interested 
write for samples.
Milwaukee Office:  Room 502 Matthew  Build 
lug.
Our fall line of Pants from #9 to 842 per  dozen 
are  now  ready.  An  immense  line  of  Kersey 
Pants, every pair warranted not  to  rip.  Bound 
swatches of  entire line sent  on  approval to the 
trade.

IO
Drugs  M ed icin es,

State  Board  of Pharm acy. 

One  Tear—Jam es Vernor, Detroit.
Two  Tears—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor 
Three  Tears—Georg© Gundrum, Ionia.
F our Tear*—C. A. Bngbee. Cheboygan.
Five Tears—8. E. Parkill, Owosso.
President—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
S ecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. 
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

Micliisraa State  Pharm aceutical  Ass'n. 
P re sid e n t—A. B. S tevens, A nn A rbor.
Tice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
Secretary—8. A. Thompson, D etroit.

Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society, 
President, W alter K. Schmidt;  Sec’y, Ben. Schrouder.

Grand Rapids  Retail  G rocers’ A ssocia­

tion.

At  the  regular  meeting of  the Retail 
Grocers’ Association,  held  at  Protective 
Brotherhood  Hail  on  Monday  evening, 
Dec.  18,  President Smits presided.
Julius J.  Wagner read  a  paper on the 
advantages of  the  cash system,  which is 
given in  full  in another column.
E.  D.  Winchester—My  experience  is 
the same as that of  Mr.  Wagner.  1 hold 
my customers as closely  to cash  as  pos­
sible.  A  considerable  portion  of  my 
trade  I  never  see.  They  telephone  in 
their  orders  and  mail  me  checks  for 
their bills on  receipt  of  monthly  state­
ments.
Mr.  Wagner — 1  believe  that  forty 
representative grocers  could bring about 
the cash system by joining hands.
J.  H. Goss  (Gaskill  &  Goss)—1  have 
tried cash and find a moderate credit sys­
tem to be more  satisfactory.
President  Smits—Can  we  not  devise 
some new method of  weeding  out dead­
beats by enlisting the sympathy  of  con­
tractors and manufacturers?
J. Geo.  Lehman—A considerable num­
ber of the contractors are not extra good 
pay themselves. 
If  the factories would 
make it  incumbent on an employe to pay 
his debts it  would be  very  much  easier 
to accomplish this end.  1 like the policy 
of the police and lire departments in this 
respect.
Mr.  Smits—1 have two cases  of  delin­
quency among the employes of the Grand 
Rapids  Veneer  Works.  1  called  there 
the  other  day  and  the  Superintendent 
informed me that he  would  insist  upon 
the men paying their debts.
Mr.  Lehman—He  must have reformed 
since 1 knew him.  However, 1 know one 
of  his  employes  who  was getting S‘2.50 
per day and received his discharge as the 
result  of  the importunities of  creditors 
and had to resort to the city poor depart­
ment for support. 
If the manufacturers 
would  hang  up  signs in their factories, 
stating that the men  must pay their gro­
cery  bills, 
it  would  be  a  strong  point 
gained.
Mr.  Goss—Cannot  some  iniluence  be 
brought  to  bear  on postoffice and other 
government  employes? 
I  suggest  that 
the Secretary correspond  with the secre­
taries of  other associations,  with a  view 
to securing the enactment of a law or the 
promulgation  of  a  rule compelling gov­
ernment employes to pay their bills.

Mr.  Smits—It  might  also  be  a  good 
idea for the Secretary to correspond with 
the managers  of  factories  and  mills  of 
the city to ascertain  their  sentiment  on 
the question.

Peter  Scbuit—To  revert  to  the  cash 
question:  1  observe  that  grocers  who 
sell  for  cash  must  have  leaders—stuff 
which  people  use  every  day,  such  as 
flour and  sugar. 
If  the  cash  merchant 
makes  only  10  cents  on  100  pounds  of 
flour,  he  must  recoup  himself  on  other 
goods  not  staples.  For myself 1 like to 
sell goods cheap.

Mr.  Lehman—As  1  look at it it is not 
essential  that  all  the grocers should go 
into the cash busiuess. 
If half  a  dozen 
grocers were to adopt  the cash plan,  the 
new system  would  be established iu that 
neighborhood. 
If  some  of  the  leading 
grocers of the West Side will start in for 
cash I will join the movement,  but 1 will 
not go it alone.
Mr. Schuit—There  is no reason why  a 
merchant  should  lose a  single customer 
if he starts the cash system right.  Where 
two  or  three  join  hands in a neighbor­
hood  there  is no question about the suc­

TUE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

cess of it.  For myself,  a transient trade 
would bold me up on a cash  basis.
Mr.  Goss—Anyone  doing  a  transient 
trade can  adopt  the  cash  system  much 
more  easily  than  those  having  a  local 
trade.
Daniel  Viergiver — I  would  like  to 
adopt the cash system  when the rest do, 
but have not the backbone to go it alone.
Henry Vinkemulder—The cash system 
would enable me to do business with less 
expense and with  less capital.  If I could 
have the money represented on my books 
in stock 1 could sell goods awfully cheap. 
The worst feature of  the credit business 
is the annoyance. 
I  find  it takes three- 
quarters  of  my  time  to  look  after  my 
credit customers.
Mr  Viergiver—I  would  like  to know 
the cause of dead-beats.
Mr. Smits—The exemption laws.
Mr. Viergiver—No, I think grocers are 
to blame themselves  for  dead-beats. 
If 
they would be a little more friendly once 
in a while and post their neighbors there 
would not be half  as many dead-beats as 
there are.
Mr. Goss—I would  like  to  inquire  if 
goods  once  delivered  can  be  recovered 
after being carried into the house?  I had 
a case once where a man  declined to pay 
for  the  goods  until  they  were  in  the 
house.  When he got them  in  the  house 
he  declined  to  pay  for  them at all and 
refused to permit us to remove them.
No one seemed  to  be  aole. to  answer 
this  question  autboritively,  so  a  reply 
thereto  was  postponed  until 
the  next 
meeting.
E.  A. Stowe—On account  of  our  next 
meeting  falling  on  New Year’s, I  move 
that the next regular  meeting be held on 
the  third  Monday  evening  in  January. 
Adopted.
J.  F.  Ferris—The Committee  on Trade 
Interests  will  have  another 
interview 
with the city  millers  this  week,  with  a 
view to  ascertaining whether it is possi­
ble to enter into  a  mutual agreement on 
the retail price of flour.
Mr.  Lehman—Mr.  Rowe,  manager  of 
the Valley City  Milling  Co.,  says  he  is 
considering  a  plan  which  will  enable 
him  when  a  retail  customer wants  100 
weight of flour, either to  turn  the order 
over to some retailer or fill the order and 
give the grocer  credit  for  the profit  in­
volved iu  the  transaction—the difference 
between  the wholesale  and  retail  price.
Mr.  Viergiver—1  thought  the  Valley 
City Milling Co.  did not  retail  flour. 
It 
so stated  in  a  card 
in  The  M i c h i g a n  
T r a d e s m a n .
Mr.  Goss—I think  we  are  asking  too 
much  of  the  millers in endeavoring to 
compel  them  not  to  retail  flour.  We 
formerly  used  outside  flour  altogether, 
but when this organization asked the city 
mills to  discontinue  retailing  flour  and 
they  agreed 
to  do  it,  we  put  in  city 
brands and have sold  them almost whol­
ly ever  since.
There being  no  further  business  the 
meeting adjourned.

The  Cash  System .

We have all heard considerable talk, of 
late,  regarding the adoption  of  the cash 
system among the  retail grocery trade of 
this city. 
I  think  I  can  state with as­
surance that there  is  not  a  dealer who 
would not be  most  happy to  adopt  this 
system  if  circumstances  and  surround­
ings were such that  he  could.  There is 
no  question but that it  is the  best—yes, 
we might almost  say the  only  legitimate 
—way of carrying on a retail business.

The merchant who  does  a  cash  busi­
ness can  conduct  his business more eco­
nomically;  he can  get  along easily with 
one-third less help;  he is not running the 
risk  of  losing  his  goods  by  their  not 
being charged as they go  out;  he has not 
that  worry  over  outstanding  accounts, 
and  I  think  every merchant will agree 
with me that this is the  hardest  load  to 
carry.  The man who has many outstand­
ing accounts  has  a  heavy strain  on  his 
mind;  where he is free  from this, he is a 
happier and more  pleasant dispositioned 
man.  He can meet his customers with a

smile and be pleasant at  all  times, even 
when  his  creditors  present  their bills, 
for he is always  ready for them,  not like 
the man who  is  doing  a  credit business 
and is often obliged to ask for  extension 
on account of disappointments, etc.

It  seems where  a  system has so many 
advantages it certainly should be put into 
universal practice. 
I am of  the opinion 
that if forty of the leading grocers would 
join  hands,  the  system  would  become 
universal  in  a  very  short  time.  But 
those  leading men are not in  a  position 
to make the change,  on  account  of  loca­
tion,  customers who have become used to 
that method of dealing, friends, etc.; con­
sequently, the  question will  have  to  be 
left to the individual merchant  to  settle 
for  himself.  The  merchant who  has  a 
fair paying  class  of  customers may not 
be anxious to change,  but  if  he  be  in  a 
position where he cannot change to cash, 
it would  be policy to  sort his customers 
and drop those who  are  too slow.  This 
would aid materially  in  bringing  about 
the  cash  system. 
I  hope we  may soon 
see the  time when  we  may  do  business 
by this system only.

Having  a  minute more time,  allow  me 
to  point  to  one  curse  in  the  grocery 
business which is almost as bad as credit, 
and that is soliciting.  You  will  find the 
largest  and  worst  accounts  are  made 
through solicitation.  If customers would 
come to  the  store  to  do  their  trading, 
they would  be more apt  to  pay for what 
they get,  and the result  would  be  more 
satisfactory all around.

J u liu s J.  W a g n er.
Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons
NOW  IS  THE  TIME

TO  ORDER  A  SUPPLY  OF

PECKHAM’S  CROUP  REMEDY,

35c  a  Bottle,  $3  a  Dozen, 5  «ff  w ith 

3  Dozen,  lO  off w ith  6  Dozen:

W F   G T V F   One Ream 9x12 White Wrap- 
' ’ 
^   ping Paper in  Tablet  form,
cut from 40 lb. book, for each dozen ordered, also 
a supply of Leaflets containing  Choice Prescrip­
tions. which the  druggist can compound with a 
good  margin  of  profit.  All  advertising  bears 
dealer’s imprint on front side  Advertising mat­
ter sent free on receipt of  label.  Send  order to 
your jobber, who will notify us.  We will do the 
rest.  PECKHAM’S  CROUP  REMEDY  CO., 
Freeport, Mich.

The following appeared in the local column of 
the Salina, Kans., Herald, Oct. 20, 1893:
“Our sales of Peckham's Croup Remedy, “The 
children's cough  cure,” have  increased rapidly 
ever since we began handling It in the year 1888. 
Without an  exception  it  is  the  best  and  m o st 
BXLIABI.B  remedy  of  its  kind  we  ever  sold. 
Parents once knowing  Its  merits will  never  be 
without it In the bouse.  We recommend it above 
all others for children.  We notice  that  In each 
Instance where we have  sold it, that same party 
calls for It again.  This  notice  is  not  one paid 
for by the manufacturers  of  this  medicine, but 
is our own.  prompted  by past  experience with, 
and ever present faith In Peckham’s Croup Rem 
edy.  Get  a  bottle of  it,  yon may need  it  any 
night.”—O.  C.  Tobey  &  Co., the 3d Ward Drug 
tore. Salina, Kans.

BALD
HEADS

NO  C U R E . 
NO  PAY. 

NO  M U S T A C H E .
NO  PAY.

DAN D RUFF  CU RED .

I will take Contracts to grow hair on the head 
or face with  those  who  can  call  at  my office or 
at the office of my agents, provided  the head is 
not  glossy, or the pores of the scalp not closed. 
Where  the  head  is  shiny  or  the  pores  closed, 
there is no cure.  Call and  be examined  free ol 
charge.  If you cannot  call, write to me.  State 
tho exact  condition of the scalp and your occu­
pation. 
Room 1011 Masonic Temple, C hicago.

PROF. G.  BIKKHOLZ,

Notice  of  Receiver’s  Salo.

Notice is hereby given that  I, Hartley E.  Hen­
drick, as Receiver of  the assets and  property of 
the Middlevilie  Manufacturing Company, a cor­
poration under  the  order  and  direction of  the 
Circuit Court for the County of Barry. Michigan, 
in Chancery, made  in  a  cause  pending in said 
Court,  wherein  Samuel  Campbell,  Myron  Jor­
dan, Jane McArthur,  Samuel  G.  Davis, Walter 
J. Robertson, John McQueen,  James  Campbell, 
Andrew I. Stokoe, Benjamin A. Almv, and John 
McQueen  are  complainants,  and  Hartley  E. 
Hendrick, as Assignee of  the Middlevilie Manu­
facturing  Company is  defendant, shall  sell  at 
public auction  to  the  highest  bidder, for cash, 
at the factory of the Middlevilie Manufacturing 
Company,  in the  Village of  Middlevilie, Barry 
County,  Michigan,  on  Tuesday,  the  2d  day of 
January  next  (1894).  at  10  o’clock  in the fore­
noon, the following goods, property and real es­
tate  of  said  Middlevilie  Manufacturing Com­
pany, by classes as follows:
CLASS  NO.  1  (Real  Estate).  So  much  of  the 
following described  land  as  lies west  of  the 
right of way of the Grand River Valley Railroad 
on and across the same, said right of  way being 
thirty feet in width, that is to say, extending fif­
teen feet each way from  the center of  the track 
of said railroad, as  now  laid  out,  constructed, 
and  in  use;  the  entire  of  said  land,  the  said 
west part  of  which  is  hereby  conveyed, being 
bounded and  described  as  follows, towit:  Be­
ginning on  the  east  bank  of  the  Thornapple 
river on the south line of Main street, in the vil­
lage of Middlevilie, in the  township  of  Thorn 
apple, Barry County, Michigan, according to the 
plat of said village, as  recorded  in  the office of 
the Register  of  Deeds  in  and  for said county, 
running thence  northeasterly  along  said south 
line of said Main street  to the northwest corner 
of Block No. 13 of  said village, according to the 
plat  aforesaid, thence  southeasterly  along the 
west line of  said  Block  13  to  the  Thornapple 
river, thence  northerly along  the  bank  of  said 
river to  the  place  of  beginning;  together  with 
the right for the  purpose  of  driving machinery 
and  carrying  on  business  upon  the premises 
hereby conveyed, to the use of  water and water 
power  from  the  Thornapple  river  in  common 
with  Thomas  D.  French  and  Reginauld  T. 
French, their  heirs  and  assigns,  subject to the 
conditions  and  upon  the  terms  declared  in  a 
certain deed of conveyance and recorded in the 
office of the Register of Deeds for Barry County, 
Michigan, on the 10th  day  of  December,  A.  D. 
1890, at 8 o’clock P.  M.,ln Liber  51  of Deeds,  on 
pages 465, 466 and 467.
CLASS NO.  2.  All brass and metal goods, cast­
ings,  scraps,  sheet  metals,  wires,  metal  orna­
ments, furniture, and furnitnre trimmings, dyes, 
screws,  lacquers,  polishing  and  plating  appa­
ratus, tools, supplies  and  chemicals.  Foundry 
supplies, tools and materials and all  stock mate­
rials, tools,  supplies,  machinery,  and  property 
included in  the  Inventory  and  appraisal made 
by the Assignee of  the Middlevilie Manufactur­
ing Company, under said  assignment, under the 
headings of “stock,” “shipping  room,” “polish­
ing room,” and  “Foundry  room.”  And  every­
thing included in  the “Recapitulation” of  sa d 
inventory and appraisal as “stock and supplies.”
CLASS  NO.  3.  All  machinery  and  tools  not 
heretofore included In class No. 2, and being all 
the machinery and tools,  belting,  shafting,  lad­
ders,  hangers,  engines,  lathes,  saws,  pullies, 
drills,  blowers  and  piping,  emery  wheels, 
wrenches, cutters, vices, forges and implements, 
machinery and materials of every kind included 
in said inventory and appraisal under  the head 
ings  “Machinery”  and  “Machinery  Account,” 
and being all the  property included in the “Re­
capitulation,”  attached  to  said  inventory and 
appraisal as “Machinery and tools.”
CLASS  NO.  4.  All  office  furniture,  office sup­
plies and stationery, being  all  the  property  in­
cluded in said  inventory  and  appraisal,  under 
the heading “Office furniture”  and  in  the "Re­
capitulation” attached to said inventory and ap­
praisal as “Office  furniture,” etc.
For further and  more  definite  description  of 
the property  hereby  advertised  for  sale,  refer­
ence is hereby made  to  the  inventory and  ap­
praisal, filed  by the assignee of  the Middlevilie 
Manufacturing Company in  the  matter of  said 
assignment,  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the 
County  of  Barry,  Michigan,  which, inventory 
and appraisal will be upon said sale, open to the 
inspection of intending  bidders.
In making such sale I  shall  first  offer  to  the 
highest bidder for cash, in  one  parcel,  the real 
estate described  in  class  No.  1  above.  I  shall 
next  offer  for  sale  to  the  highest  bidder, for 
cash,  and in one parcel, the property mentioned 
and referred to as embraced in class No. 2 above. 
I shall next offer for sale  to  the  highest bidder 
for cash, and  in  one  parcel, the  property men­
tioned and referred to as embraced  in  class No. 
3 above.  I shall next offer  for sale to the high­
est bidder for cash, and  in one parcel, the prop­
erty mentioned and referred to  as  embraced  in 
class No. 4 above.
After receiving such  bids  upon  said separate 
classes I shall then  offer  the entire of the prop­
erty contained  in  said  four  classes,  as  in  one 
parcel and in gross.  In case the gross  bid so re­
ceived for the entire  property contained in said 
four  classes  shall  exceed  the  aggregate of  the 
highest bids  for  each  of  said  four  respective 
classes separately, I  shall immediately strike off 
and sell said property in gross—the entire as one 
parcel—to the highest  bidder  therefor.  In  case 
Buch gross bid shall not exceed the aggregate of 
said highest  bids  for  said  property  in classes, 
then I  shall  immediately strike off and sell said 
property in said classes respectively to said high­
est bidders for said respective classes.
As  Receiver  of  the  effects  of  the  Middlevilie

H a r t l e y   E .  H e n d r ic k ,

Manufacturing Company.
Dated, Middlevilie, Mich.,December 12,1893.

P Ï 7 P TV" >O   HEADACHE 
-L  J—j V J XV.  O  
P O W D E E 8

Pay the best profit.  Order from your jobber.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

W holesale  P r i c e   Current»
Declined-
3 00

“ 

S.  N. Y. Q.  &

Morphia, S. P. A W.  2 1002 35 
C.  C o ...„ ............  2 0002 %
Moschus Canton........  ®  40
Myrlstica, No  1 ........  66®  70
Nnx Vomica, (po 20)..  ®  10
Os.  S epia.................  20®  22
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................ 
0 2  00
Plcls LIq, N.»C., K gal
doz  .........................  ®a 00
Plcls LIq., q uarts......  @1  00
.  Pints.........   ®  85
HI Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
F,1,?1“. (PO.22)..  ®  1
Piper Alba, (po g5)....  @  3
Hx  Burgun................  @  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvls Ipecac et opil.. l  io@l 20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......   @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae.................... 
8®  10
Quinla, S. P. A W......  32®  37
J5-  German....  25®  31
x> 
Rnbla  Tinctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
20®  22
Salacln. 
.................2 0002  10
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
W......................  12®  14
;  M.......................  10®  12
G............ ..........   ®  15

*' 

50

*0

8eldlltz  Mixture........  @  20
Slnapls........................  ®  is
_  _  opt.....................  
  ® 30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes..........................   @ 35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb................. 
iu ®   2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   ®  5
Soda, Ash.................... 3K®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Rther C o...........  50®  55
Myrcia  Dom......   @2 25
“  Myrcla lmp........  @3 00
Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
t  •7-   
.............. 2 2502 85
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Stiychnla  Crystal......1  4<i@l  45
Sulphur, Subl............   2K@ 3
Roll..............  2  @ 2t4
Tamarinds...................  
8® 10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae............. 45  @  4«
Vanilla......................9 oo@i6 00
Zlncl  Sulph.................. 
7®  8

Bbl.
___ 
whale, winter...........  70
Lard,  extra...............   ¿0
Lard, No.  1................  42
Linseed, pure raw....  46

“ 

paints. 

Linseed,  boiled.........  49 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   65 
Spirits Turpentine....  37 

11
59
70
40
bbl.  lb.
Rod Venetian..............208
Ochre, yellow  Mars. . ! 2 0 4
Ber........ lw  2®3
Putty,  commercial__¿K 2K®8
“  strictly  pure......2K  2V®3
Vermilion Prime Amer-
lean..........................  
136M6
Vermilion,  English!’..’. 
65®70
Green,  Peninsular......  
70075
Lead,  red.....................  ex®7
“  w hite................ 6X0 7
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  GildersTT?...  @%
White, Paris  American 
l  0
Whiting,  Paris  Bng.
c liff.;..................f;. 
140
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20®l  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
Faints..................... 1 00®1  20

VARNISHES.

1 Tnrp  Coach. ...1   lo@l  20
S ^ a T u r p .................,ae@i  70
Coach  Body............... 2 75@8 00
g ° -1 Tnrp Furn........1  00®1  10
Eutra Turk Damar.... 1  55@1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70075
Tnrp......................... 

Cubebae........................   @ 
Bxechthltos..............  2 50@2  75
®rlgeron................... 2  oo@2  10
Gaultherla................2  00@2  10
Geranium,  ounce......   ■  ®  75
Gosslpll, Sem. gal......   70®  75
Hedeoma  .................. 1  25@l  40
Jum perl......................  50@2 00
Lavendula...................  90@2 00
Llmonls......................2 4n@2 60
Mentha Piper.............. 2 85@3 60
Mentha Verld.............2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal.............l  00@1  10
Myrcia, ounce............   @  50
OHye,-;.......................  85@2 75
Plcls Liquida, (gal.35)  10®  12
g1011»! .......................   1  2201  28
Rosmarlnl............  
75@i 00
Rosae, ounce.............. 6 50@8 50
Succlnl.........................  40® 45
fab ln a.........................  90@1 00
Santal  .......................3 so@7 00
Sassafras......................  50® 55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  ®
Tlgltf..........................  @
Thyme.........................  40®
opt  ................  @
Theobromas.................   15^

‘ 

POTASSIUM.

g.1 Garb.........................   15®
blohromate................  
,3®
Bromide...................! 
40®
Carb..............................  12®
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24®
Iodide.. 
.................. 2 90®3
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27® 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @
Potass Nltras, opt...... 
8®
?®
Potass Nltras...  .... .: 
Prussiate......................  28®
Sulphate  po.................  
is®

RADIX.

20®
A coni turn...................  
Althae.........................
Anchusa..................... 
,g@
Arum,  po.......................   ®
Calamus.......................   20®
GenUana  (po. 12) ......... 
8®
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16® 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
n  (R°\.35)...................  @  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po.  ..  15®  20
Inula,  po.................... 
is®
Ipecac, po.................. i  60®1
Iris  plox (po. 35©38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   40®  45
Maranta,,  Ks..............  @  35
is®
Podophyllum, po........ 
—-
Rhei. 
5@1 00 
®1
5®1  35 
SplgeTla......................  35®
“ “   38
Sanguinaria, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  30®   *
Senega.......................   55®
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40 
_  “ 
M  @  25
Sclllae, (po. 35)........... 
io@  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
  @  35
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
lnglber a ................. 
Zingiber  j ...............  

dus,  po. 

18®
is®

....... 

cut

“ 

SEMEN.
..  ©  15
Anlsum,  (po. 20).. 
li®  18
Aplum  (graveleons).. 
e
4® 
Bird, Is...................... 
Carni, (po. 18)..............   10® 12
Cardamon................... 1  0001  25
Corlandrnm.................   10® 12
Cannabis Sativa.........   4© 
5
Cvdonlnm...................  rs@i  00
Chenopodinm  ............   10® 12
Dlpterlx Odorate........2 2S®2 50
Foealcnlnm...............  ®  15
Foenngreek,  po......   . 
6®  8
4  © «X 
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 3)...  _,.w 
3K® 4
Lobelia....................   35®
......  35©  40
Pharlarls Canarian 
  3  ® 4
Rapa............................. 
6®  7
Slnapls  Albu............   7  ©  8
r  Nigra...........  11®  12

i  
.  __ 
‘C 

SPTR1TUS.
Frumentl, W., D.  Co. .2 0002 50
D. F. R....... 1  75®2 00
 
_ 
1  25@1  50
Junlperls  Co. O. T ....1   65@2 00
„ 
“ 
.............1  7503 50
Saacharnm  N.  B........ 1  75©2 00
~pt.  Vlnl  Gain........... l  75©8 50
ini Oporto.................... 1  25@2 00
Vlnl  Alba....................... 1 25@2 00

Aconltum  Napellls R.........   60
F .........  50

“ 

“ 

 

 

* 

“ 

and myrrh.... gn
50

11  Co........... ..........  

A rnica...... 
Asafcetlda............ 0
A trope Belladonna...... .. . "   «0
Benzoin............................_ "  qq
“  Co............... 
50
Sangulnarla....................j 
50
Barosma......................  
Cantharldes............
Capsicum............................... 50
Ca damon............................... 75
75
Castor............. 
1  m
Catechu.................................. 50
Cinchona..................... ****** 
11  Co....................  
so
"  m
Columba......................  
Conlum.................  
 
*n
 
Cubeba............  
w
Digitalis............ ...**........   2{
Brgot............................... 
50
Gentian...............................  50
go
“  Co...................... 
Gualca............................. M
_  “ 
60
Zingiber........................... 
' go
Hyoscyamus............... .......   50
Iodine  ................. 75
Ferri  Chlorldum............  
35
Kino  .............. 
ka
Lobelia................ J.-............   gg
Myrrh..................*.“ *** 
50
Nux  Vomica....................  
50
OptI....................................   gg
“  Camphorated...’..".*.".'.’.'."  50
“  Deodor.......................’2  00
Auranti Cortex................. 
go
Quassia..............................” 50
Rhel.  ...................   ...........  §g
Cassia  Acutifol.............**.’” 50
-   “ 
Co..............’  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Stramonium...............   ......   eo
Tolutan...............................  go
Valerian.................50
VeratrumVerlde_.i.l""" 
go

“  Colorless...... 75

ammon........"  

MISCELLANEOUS.

** 

5® 

‘ 
“ 

ground,  (po.

■dither, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  28®  30 
“  4 F ..  32®  84
Alumen................. 2K® 
3
.*)••••..................  
3® 
4
Annatto  ....................   55®  60
Anfclmoni, po......... 
4g  
5
etPotawT.  55®  60
I ' g
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @ 62
Arsenicum............  
7
Balm Gilead  Bud___   38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 2002 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (vis
,,
12;  Ks,  14).........   @ 
Cantharldes  Russian,
PO............................
@1  00 
Capslcl  Fructns, af..
®  26 
®  26
o . . .  
Ipo.
Caryophyllus, (poTs)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, 8. A F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus  ...................... 
40
Cassia Fructns...........  ®  25
Centraria....................  ® 
,0
Cetaceum...................  ®  40
Chloroform...............   60®  68
0 1  25
Choral Hyd Grst........1 8501  60
Chondrni...................  20®  26
Clnchonldlne, P.  *  w  15®  20 
German 8  ®  12
_ 
. 
Corks,  Hat,  dls.  per
cent  ........................
60 
Creasotnm..........
©  35 
Creta, (bbl. 75)..... ”
®  2 
“  prep............
5®
preclp..............
90  11 
Rubra.................
®  8 
Croons............
45®  50
Cudbear
Cnprl Sulph...............   5 ©  6
Dextrine.................... 
,0® 
,2
Ether Sulph...............   70®  75
Emery,  all  numbers..  ©
po...................  ©  6
IP? )  75.........   TO®  75
Vhlte..............  12®  15

sqnlbbs.. 

“  _  

“ 

Advanced—Quinine.

ACIDUM.

8@ 

Acetlcum................... 
,o
Benzoicum  German..  65®  75
Boraclc 
go
....................  
Carbollcum................  
25® 35
Cltrlcum.....................  
sa® 55
Hydrochior................ 
a® 
5
Nitrocum 
io@ 12
................... 
Ozallcum....................  
jo®  “
Phosphorlum dll........
Salley Ileum...............l  30@1
Sulphurlcum____   .. 
lx®
Tannlcum..................1  40@l  60
Tartari cum................  30®  33

AMMONIA.

Ayia, 16  deg..............3*®  5
Corbonas  ............
. . .   12®  14
Chlorldum...........
. . .   12®  14

ANILINE.

Black....................
Brown...................
Red.......................
Yellow.................
BACO AB.

. .. 2  0 0 0 2   25
...  8001  00
. . .   45®  50
. ..2   500 3   00

Cúbese (po  36)___ .. 
Juniperus.............. ... 
Xanthoxylum... 

25®  30
8®  10
. . . .   25®  30

BAL8AMUM.

Copaiba.................
Peru.......................
Terabln, Canada  ..
Tolutan.................
CORTEX.

..  45®  50
@1  90
. 
60®  65
..  35®  50

Abies,  Canadian...............
Casslae  .............................
Cinchona F lav a................
Euonymus  atropurp.........
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po...........
Ptudus Vlrginl..................
Quill ala,  grd......................
Sassafras  ..........................
Ulmns Po (Ground  15)......

EXTRACTUM.

“ 
“ 
“ 
" 

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24®  25
po...........  33®  35
Haematox, 151b. box..  11®  12
Is...............  13®  14
KB.............   14®  15
Kb.............   16®  It
v er r u
®  15 
@3 50 
®   80 
®  50 
®  15 
.9®
®

Carbonate Preclp... 
Citrate and Quinla.
Citrate  Soluble......
Ferrocyanldnm Sol.
Solut  Chloride......
Sulphate,  com’l __
.
pure... 

“ 

Arnica.......................   18®
Anthémis...................  3T®
Matricaria 

 

 

50®  65

“ 

“ 
** 

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin
“  Alx. 

nlvelly.............  25® 

.....................  18® 50
28
35®  50
25
80 10

and  Kb.............  15® 
.....................  

Salvia  officinalis,  Kb
Ura Ural 
Acacia,  1st  picked__
®  60 
2d 
....
“ 
®  40 ®  30 
3d 
....
“ 
@  20 
sifted sorts...
“ 
60®  80 
.  " 
po..................
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)... 
50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)... 
®  12 
Socotrl, (po.  60). 
®   50
Catechu, Is, (Kb, 14 Kb. 
®_   1
Ammoniac.................  55®  60
Assafcetlda, (po. 35)..  33®  36
Bensolnum.................  50®  55
Camphorae...................  50®  55
Buphorblum  po  ........  35®  10
Galbanum...................  @2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70®  7b
Gualacum, (po  35)  ...  ®  30
Kino,  (po  1  10).........   ®1  15
M astic.......................   ®  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
Opli  (po  3  50)...........2 40@2 50
Shellac  ......................  85®  42
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth................  40® 1  00

“ 
herb a—In ounce packages.

1«)

Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorlnm.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majornm.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
„  “  V lr.........................  25
fine.......................................  30
Tanaoetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25

MAGNESIA.

Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M__  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36

ouruM.

Absinthium................ 3 50@4 00
Amygdalae, Dale........  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae__8 00®8  25
Anlsl............................1  To® 1 so
Auranti  Cortex...........2 30@2 40
Bergamll  ...................3 25®3  50
Cajlputt.................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll................  75®  80
CedM 
........................  85®  65
Chenopodli................  ®1  60
Clnnamonll................. 1  io®i js
Cltronella...................  ®  45
Conlnm  Mao..............  3s®  65
Copaiba  ....................  so®  go

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils  Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole Agesta for the Celebrated

SWISS  HILLS  PREPARED  PAINTS.

Lie  of  Staple  Drnggists’  Sitìes

We are Sole Proprietors of

WBaiherly's  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

SPONGES.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 5002 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ................. 
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
l  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage................... 
85
Grass sheeps’ wool oar
riage.......................  
65
Hard for  slate  nse.... 
75
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
n se..........................  
1  40

STRUTS.

Accacla............................ 
50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Auranti  Cortes....................  56
Rhel Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
D  “ 
Co........  50
Sclllae..................................  50
‘‘ Co.............................   50
Toiatan...............................  50
Prunus  vlrg.........................  50

“ 

“ 

Gambler__ 7  © 8**
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ©  70
French...........  40®  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 & 10 
Less than box 66X
Glne,  Brown.............. 
9®  ,5
“  White...............   18®  26
Glyoerlna................... 
,4®  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  ©  22
Hamulus....................  25®  56
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ©  85 
“ 
“ C or....  ©  80
Ox Rubrum  ©  90 
“  Ammonlatl..  @100
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  64
IchthyoDoUa, Am..  ..1 2601 50
Indigo.........................  75®, 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 80@3 90
Iodoform....................  ©4 70
Lupulin......................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  70®  75
Jiads  .........................  to®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod.................  ®  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  19 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
ISO............................ 2K© 4
Mannla,  S. F ..............  60®  a

W e Have m  Stock and Offer a  F u ll Line of

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

O IN S,  W IN ES,  R U M S ,

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H A M M   & PEBfflS BROS CO,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

G R O C E R Y   P R I C 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  GKKASK.
Aurora....................  55 
Castor Oil..............   60 
Diamond.................  50 
Frazer’s ................. 
75 
Mica  ......................  65 
Paragon 
...............   55 

doz  gross
600
7  CO
5 50
8 00
7 fO
600

BAKING  POWDER.

lb “ 

Acme.
U lb. cans, 3 doz..............
54 lb.  “ 
2  “  ..............
1  “  ................
lib .  “ 
Bulk.............................   ..
Arctic.
M lb cans 6 doz  case........
........
tt ft  “  4 doz  “ 
1  lb  “  2 doz  “ 
........
5 
1 do* “ 
.........
Fosfon.
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case. 
“
16  “ 
“  2  “ 
Red Star, 54 1b cans.........
“ 
.........
H lb  “ 
“ 
.........
l b   “ 
Teller’s, & lb. cans, do*.
“ 
541b.  “
“ 
“  .
lib .  “ 
Our Leader, *4 lb cans__
“ 
541b cans......
1 lb cans 
...
“ 
Dr. Price’s.

75 
1  60 
10
55 
1  10 
2  00 
9 00
.  80 
.2 00 
40

85 
1  50

1  50
per doz
Dime cans .  95
.1  40
“
4-oz 
2 CO
“
6-oz 
.2 «0
“
8-oz 
.3 90
“
12 oz 
.5 00
“
16-oz 
12 00
2)4-lb  “
18 25
4-lb
22 75
“
5-lb 
41  80
10-lb 
“

O'PMCtfS
CREAM
Ba k i n g
b o w d e n

J b f ia H

BLUING. 

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen in case.
English...................... 
....  90
Bristol..................................  80
Domestic............................   70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals..............  3 60
“ 
..............6 75
“  pints,  round  .........  9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
“  No. 3, 
...  4 00
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
“  1 oz ball  .................   4 50
Mexican Liquid, 4 oz........  3 60
“ 
8oz.........   6 SO

80* 

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“ 
BROOMS,

do. 2 Hurl..........................  1  75
So. 1  “ 
..........................2 00
No. 2 Carpet 
....................  2 25
No. 1  “ 
.......................   2 50
Parlor Gem......................  .  2 75
Common Whisk................. 
80
Fancy 
.................  100
Warehouse.........................3 00

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BRUSHES.

“ 
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Stove, No.  1.......................  125
“  10.......................   1  50
“  15.......................   1  75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row__   85
Rice Root  Scrub, S row__  1  25
Palmetto, goose.................  l  50

CANDLES.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes............   10
Star,  40 
..............  9
Paraffine  ......... .................10
Wlcklng  .......................... 24

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CANNED  GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
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Little Neck,  l i b .......................1 20
“  2 lb......................1 90
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Standard, 81b......................2 25
Standard,  1 lb....................  so
21b....................150
Lobsters.

Star,  1  lb.............................. 2 45
2  lb.............................. g 50
Picnic,1 lb............................... 2 00
21b...............................2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb...........................1 10
2  lb......................... 2 10
Mustard,  21b.......................... 2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb.................2 25
Soused, 2 lb................... 
.2 25
Salmon.
Columbia River, fiat............1  80
“  tails............. 1  65
1 25
Alaska, Red.................... 
pink.......................  1  10
Kinney’s,  flats......................... 1 95
American  Ks.................4y,@  5
Imported
Mustard Ms.....................   7@8
Boneless.......................... 
21
Brook, 8 lb ........  ................2 50

Sardines.

Trout

“ 

 

1  75

1  10
3  10

Gages.

Fruits.
Apples.
3 lb. standard...........
York State, gal < nut 
.
Hamburgh
Apricots.
Live oak.....................
1  60
Santa Crus.................
1  60
Lusk’s.........................
1  60
Overland..................
1  60
Blackberries.
B. Jt  W.......................
90
Cherries.
Red  ... 
...............   1  lo@l 20
Pitted Hamburgh......
1  75
W hite.........................
1  50
Erie............................
1  20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green
E rie...........................
1  30
California.  ...............
1  60
Gooseberries.
Common....................
1  25
Peaches.
P ie............................
1 CO
Maxwell....................
Shepard’s ..................
California..................
Monitor 
.................
Oxford  ......................
Pears.
Domestic....................
1  30
Riverside....................
1  80
Pineapples.
Common.....................1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........
2 50
grated.......
2 75
Booth’s sliced............ @2 5)
grated........
@2 75
Quinces.
tommoD..................
1  10
Raspberries.
Red  ...........................
1  10
Black  Hamburg.........
1  SO
Erie,  black
1  20
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................
1  25
Hamburgh.................
1  25
Erie............... •...........
1  20
Terrapin.......................
1  10
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............
1  00
Corned  beef  Libby’s__ .  1  95
Roastbeef  Armour’s....
..1  80
Potted  ham. )4 lb.......... ..1  40
. 
85
J4lb............
tongue, )4 lb........
. .1  35
14 lb-----
.  85
chicken, J* lb......
96

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Vegetables.

Meats.

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“ 
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“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 

•• 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  strlngless...
-.1  25
..2 25
French style..
Limas............
..1  35
Lima, green.
. .1  25
soaked.................
..  65
Lewis Boston Baked......
.1   35
Bay State  Baked............
..1  35
World’s  Fair  Baked......
.1   35
Picnic Baked...................
.1  00
Hamburgh......................
.1  40
Livingston  Eden...........
-.1  20
Purity.............................
Honey  Dew....................
..1  40
Morning Glory...............
Soaked ............................
. 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat......
..1  35
early June__
Champion Eng .1   50
petit  pole__
..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  25
French............................
..2 15
Mushrooms.
French............................. 19321
Pumpkin.
Erie.........................  ...
85
Squash.
Hubbard.........................
Succotash.
Hamburg.......................... -.1 40
Soaked .......................
85
Honey  Dew...................... ..1 50
Erie.................................. ..1  35
Tomatoes.
Hancock..........................
.1  15
Excelsior 
...... ...............
Eclipse.............................
Hamburg..........................
.......................
Gallon  .. 
CHOCOLATE.
Baker's.

-8 50

CHEESE.

German Sweet...........
23
Premium..........................
37
Breakfast  Cocoa..............
43
Amboy................
@13*
Acme..................
....  12)4@13
Lenawee.........
@12)4
Riverside...........
13)4
Gold  Medal  ......
@1224
Skim..................
6@10
Brick..................
.  11
Edam  ................
100
Leiden................
23
Limburger  ........
@10
Pineapple........... __   @25
Roquefort...........
@35

.  .. 
.... 

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Sap Sago....................  Q21
Schweitzer, imported.  @24 
domestic  __  @14

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COUPON  BOOKS.

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

“ 

Half  pint, 25 bottles...........2 75
Pint 
...........4 60
Quart 1 doz bottles 
.  3 50
Half pint, per  doz..............1  35
Pint, 25 bottles  .................. 4 50
Quart, per  doz  .................. 3 75

Triumph Brand.

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes.................41@45

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags......................  @3
Less quantity...............   @314
Pound  packages.......... 644 @7

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

Fair......................................18
Good.................................... 19
Prime...................................21
Golden.................................21
Peaberry.............................23
Fair......................................19
Good....................................20
Prime.................................. 22
Peaberry  .............................23
Mexican and Guatamala.
Fair..................................... 21
Good.................................... 22
Fancy...................................24
Prime.................................. 23
M illed.................................24
Interior................................25
Private Growth...................27
Handehling........................28
Imitation.............................25
Arabian............................... 28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 14c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink-
age.
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX 
24 45
Bunola  .......  
21  95
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__  21  45

Package.
 
Extract.
Valley City V4  gross 
75
! 15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross.........  1 50
“ 
........2 50

“ 

“ 

tin 
CHICORV.

Bulk...................................  5
Red......................................7

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton.  40 ft......... perdos.  1  25
1 40
1  60
175
1  90
85
“  100

“ 
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Jute 
“ 
CONDENSED  MILK.

50ft........... 
60 ft........... 
70ft........... 
80ft........... 
60 ft........... 
72ft'............  

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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

Peerless Evaporated Cream.

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2 oc
$  1 books, per hundred
..  2 50
$2
..  800
$3 
..  8 00
$5 
4 OU
$10 
..  5 00
$20 
$  1 books, per Hundred  ....  2 50
..  3 00
$2 
..  3 50
$8 
..  4 00
$5 
..  5 00
«10 
6 00
$20 

“Superior.”

*• 
11 
•• 

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Universal.”

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$ 1  books, per hundred .  $3 00
...  3 50
$ 2 
...  4 00
$ 3 
...  5 00
S 5 
. .  6 00
$10 
7 00
$20 
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5 per  cent 
“ 
500 
1000  “ 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
'Can  be  made to represent any 
lenominatlon  from $10  down. |
20 books.......................$100
50  “ 
2 00
3 00
100  “ 
6 25
250  “ 
500  “ 
10 00
1000  “ 
17 50

..10 
..20 

 
 
 
 
 

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CREDIT  CHECKS.

500, any one denom’n ......$3 00
1000,...................  
.......  5 00
2000,  “ 
“ 
.......8 00
75
Steel  punch....................... 

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CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX......................6
Seymour XXX, cartoon......  6)4
Family  XXX.....................   6
Family XXX,  cartoon........6)4
Salted XXX......................... 6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........614
Kenosha 
..........................  7)4
Boston................................. 8
Butter  biscuit....................6)4
Soda.
Soda, XXX..............
Soda, City...............
Soda,  Duchess.........
Crystal Wafer..........
Long  Island Wafers 
Oyster.
S. Oyster  XXX.------
City Oyster. XXX----
Farina  Oyster.........

6
7*
8)4
10
11
6
6

CREAM  TARTAR.

8trfctly  pure......................  30
Telfer’s Absolute..............  31)
Grocers’............................ 15@25

DRIED  FRUITS. 

7 
,  7*4
11
14
14)4
8

Domestic.
Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

quartered  “ 

Sundried, sliced In  bbls. 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
Apricots.
California In  bags......  
Evaporated In boxes 
.. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes..........................  
Nectarines.
701b. bags.......................10
251b. boxes.....................10)4
Peeled, In  boxes...........
Cal. evap.  “ 
In bags.......10
“ 
California in bags 
10
Pitted Cherries
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
25 " 

.................   10
Prunelles.
80 lb.  boxes.................  15
Raspberries.
In  barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
......................
25 lb.  “ 
Raisins.
IUUB1UB.

...........10)4

“ 

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Loose  Muscatels in Boxes.

2 crown............  ..............  1  26
.............................   1  60
“ 
3 
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
2  crown...............................  4
«« 
3 
................................ 5

 

Foreign.
Currants.

“ 
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“ 
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@  8

Peel.

“ 
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Patras,  In barrels.........

3
In  )4-bbla........... .. 
3)4
In less quantity. ..  3)4
6
cleaned,  bulk —
cleaned,  package
6)4
Citron, Leghorn, 25 lb. boxes  20
10
Lemon 
Orange 
11
Ondura, 29 lb. boxe«.. @  7%
Sultana, 20 
“
Valencia, 30  “
Prunes.
California,  100-120........ ....  7
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  7)4
..  8
80x90 
70x80 
8)4
.  9
60x70 

“ 
25  “
25  “
“ 
Raisins.

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

334
...  8 00
.  3 50
3K@t
55

No. 1,6)4....................... ..  $1  75
No. 2. 6)4....................... ..  1  60
No. 1,6.......................... ..  1  65
No. 2. fi..........................
.  1  50
XX  wood, white.
No. 1, 6)4....................... ..  1  35
.................... ..  1  25
No. 2, 6)4 
Manilla, white.
6)4  ................................ ..  1 00
6...................................
96
Coin.
.  1  00
Mill  No. 4...........
FARINACEOUS  GOOD8.
Farina.
100 lb. kegs.............—
Hominy.
Barrels  ..  ...................
G rits............................
Lima  Beans.
Dried...........
Macearon! and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__
Imported.................... 10)4®. 1
Barrels  200...................
Half barrels 100...........
Pearl Barley.
Kegs.............................
Green,  bu....................
Split  per l b ................. 924 @3
Rolled  Oats.
Barrels  180................. @4 25
Half  bbls 90.............. @2 25
German.......................
4)4
East India....................
Cracked........................
FISH—Salt.
Yarmouth......................

..  4 25
..  2 25
..  2?£
..  1  25

Oatmeal.

Bloaters.

• 
...  5

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

5

Cod.

Halibut.
Herring.
“ 
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Pollock.......................
Whole, Grand  Bank__ .  5@5)4
Boneless,  bricks........... .  6®8
Boneless,  strips............ .  6@8
Smoked ........................... 11@12)4

Holland, white hoops keg 

70
bW  9 50

“ 

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Norwegian......................
Round, H bbl 100 lbs  ... ..  2  25
1  20
Scaled...........................
17

“  %  “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

Sardines.
Trout.

No. 1,  100 lbs................... ...11  00
No. 1,40 lb s.................. ...  4 70
No. 1,  10 lbs.................
...  1  30
No. 2,100 lbs................... ...  8 50
No. 2, 40 lbs..................... ...  3 70
No. 2,10 lbs  ................. ...  1  05
Family, 90 lbs................. ...  6 00
10  lbs .............. ... 
70
Russian,  kegs................. ... 
55
No. 1, )4 bbls., 1001 bs...
....6 00
No. 1 M bbl, 40  lbs........ . ...2 75
No. 1, ¿Its, 10 lbs............ ----  80
No. 1, 8 lb  kits.............. ....  68
Family
bbls, 100 lbs...........$7 50 «350
M  “  40  “  ...........   3 50  1 65
10 lb.  kits....................
50
8 lb.  “ 
45
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FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Wblteflsh.

No. 1

Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 01 regular panel.  75
1  20
4 os 
...150
2  00
6 Ol 
...2  00
3 00
No. 3  taper........... 1  36
2 00
No. 4  taper............1  50
2 50

90 
75 

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GUNPOWDER. 
Rifle—Dupont's.

Kegs......................................... 3 25
Half  kegs..............................1 90
Quarter  kegs....................... 1 10
1 lb cans..........................  30
)4 lb  cans............................  18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs......................................4 25
Half  kegs............................. 2 40
Quarter kegs......................  135
1 lb cans...........-.................  34

Eagle Duck—Dupont's.

Kegs.....................................11 00
Half kegs  ....................... 5 75
Quarter kegs........................ 3 00
1  lb  cans............................  60

HERBS.

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

INDIGO.

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

55
30

JELLY.
17  lb. palls  ...............   @  50
30  “ 
................  @  79

“ 
LICORICE.

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

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

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MATCHES.

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

MINCE  MEAT.

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.
..  $1  75
1  gallon  ......................
Half  gallon................... ..  1  40
70
Q uait........  ..................
45
P int...............................
40
Half  p in t............... —
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon............................  7 00
Half gallon.................... .  4 75
Q uart............................. .  3 75
Pint...................................  2 25

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house............ .......
Ordinary........................
Prim e.............................
Fancy.............................
Fair................................
Good...............................
Extra good......................
Choice............................
Fancy..............................

New Orleans.

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
PIPES.

@4  75 
@2 88

5 75
3 38

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

POTASH.

48 cans In case.
Babbitt’s ........................
4 00
Penna Salt  Co.’s............ ,.  3 25

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina head.........  .... ___6
“  No. 1.................---- 5)4
«  No. 2................. ...  5
Broken...............................  4

Imported.

Japan, No. 1...................
...... 5)4
K  No. 2...................
___5
Java................................... ..  6
Patna.............................. ...  5)4

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SPICKS.
Whole Sifted

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“  white... 
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.

Allspice...............................  Qu
Cassia, China In mats........  8
Batavia in bund__ 15
Saigon  In rolls......33
Cloves,  Amboyna................ag
Zanzibar.................
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................75
“  No.  1...................... 70
„  “  No.  2....................... 60
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 10
.30
shot.......................16
Allspice............................... 15
Cassia,  Batavia................... 18
“  and  Saigon.35
“ 
“  Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
Zanzibar................18
Ginger, African...................its
11  Cochin..................  20
Jam aica.................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia......................65
Mustard, Bug. and Trieste..22
Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ................... 75
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 16
“  white......24
“  Cayenne.................20
Sage.....................................20
•‘Absolute” In Packages. 
. . . .  
)4s
J£s 
Allspice......................  84  156
Cinnamon...................   84  1  55
Cloves.........................   84  1  55
Ginger,  Jam aica......   84  1  55
“  African...........   84  1  55
Mustard......................   84  155
Pepper........................  84  1  55
Sage.............................  84

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SAX,  SODA.

Kegs.................................  
i >4
Granulated,  boxes..............  154

SEEDS.

A nise.........................  @15
Canary, Smyrna........  
4
Caraway.................... 
8
90
Cardamon, Malabar... 
4v
Hemp,  Russian.  ......  
5@<j
Mixed  Bird  .............. 
Mustard,  white.........  
10
Poppy......................... 
9
Rape..........................  
5
Cuttle  bone................ 
so
STARCH.

Corn.

“

20-lb  boxes. 
5*
40-lb 
5)4
Gloss.
1-lb packages.......................5ju
*-,h 
..............................!.!  5K
6-lb
3*
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  354
Barrels................................   334

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SNUFF.

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

Boxes......... : ..........................
Kegs, English.....................” 434

SODA.

SALT.

Thompson & Chute Brands.

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

g iv e r................................ 3  65
3 35
Mono .... 
Savon Improved 
3  50
Sunflower.........  
o «=
Golden  ............................. 3 ^
Economical  .............." J ”  2 35
Sconring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 50
hand, 3 doz..........2  50

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SUGAR.

The  following  prices  repre­
sent the actual selling prices in 
Grand Rapids, based on the act­
ual cost in New  York,  with  36 
cents per 100 pounds added  for 
freight.  The  same  quotations 
will not apply to any townwhere 
the freight rate from New York 
is  not  36  cents,  but  the  local 
quotations will, perhaps, afford 
a better criterion of the market 
than to quote New York  prices 
exclusively.
Cut  Loaf.  ........................ $5 61
Powdered....................... 
5  17
Granulated.........................4 go
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 92
Cubes................................ ...  17
XXXX  Powdered................5 48
Confec. Standard  A........... 4 67
No. 1  Columbia A............   455
No. 5 Empire  A...................4 42
S°*  6....................................4 36

No.  9............ ....... 
4  17
No.  10...... .................;....... 4  11
no.  n .......................... ::::  405
No.  12.......................  
3 90
No-  13.......................... [I.  3 86
No 14................................   374

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels............................ 
19
Half bbls..................... .'..".21
„  
Pure Cane.
F air.......................  
iq
Good..........................
Choice.......................... ****  30

TABLE  SAUCES.
“ 

Lea & Perrin’s, large........4  75
small........  2  75
Halford, large.........................3 75
small  ...................2 25
Salad Dressing,  large  .....  4 55
1 
small...... 2  65

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■*  #   *

TEAS.

SUN CUKBD.

BASKET  FIRED.

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

oolong. 
IMPERIAL.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

TOUNG BTSON.

GUNPOWDER.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cat.

P. Lori Hard <& Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet................30 @32
Tiger........................... 
31
D. Scotten & Co’s Brands.
Hiawatha..................  
60
Cuba..........................  
34
29
Rocket.......................  
Spaulding & Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling...................... 
30
Private Brands.
Bazoo.........................  @30
Can  Can......................  @27
Nellie  Bly.................... 24 @27
Uncle Ben..................... 21 @22
McGinty.............  .... 
27
25
“  H bbls.......... 
29
Dandy Jim .................  
Torpedo..................... 
24
23
In  drums.... 
Yum Yum  ................ 
28
1892............................  
23
“  drums................. 
22

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Ping.

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

39
27
39
26
38
34
40
32

100 3-lb. sacks.....................82 25
60 5-lb.  » 
2810-lb. sacks...................  1 85
3014-lb.  “ 
34 3-lb  cases...........................  1 50
56 lb. dairy In linen  bags.. 
28 lb.  “ 

32
drill  “  16  18

 
 

 

2 00
2 25

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

“ 

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56 )h. dairy In linen  sacks. 

75 

Higgins.

Soiar Rock.

56 Ik*,  sacks.......................  27

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

Common Fine.
 
SALERATUS.

75
75

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s ...........................  5)4
DeLand’s ............................  5u
D^ 1* 1»*’8....................... •••  5)4
Taylor’s ...............................5

SOAP.
Laandry.

“ 

Dingman Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

............................  3 65

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country,  80  1-lb........... 3
Good Cheer, 601 lb...................3 go
White Borax, 100  j£-lb........ 3 65
Concord....................................3 45
Ivory, 10  oz..............................6 75
6  oz............................... 4 00
Lenox 
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, wrp d ..$4 00 
plain...  3 94 
N.  K.  Falrbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  4  00
Brown, 60 bars.................... 2 40
80  b a rs ...................3 35

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

Acme.................................... 76
Cotton Oil............................ 6 00
Marseilles............................ 4 00
M atter..................................... 4 00

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THE  MICHIGlAJSr  TRADESMAN.

Lorillard's Brands.

J. G. Butler’s Brands.

Climax (8 oz., 41c)__  
39
Green Turtle.............. 
30
27
Three  Black Crows... 
Something Good........ 
38
26
Out of  Sight.............. 
Wilson ax McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope................. 
43
Happy Thought___ ’. 
37
Messmate........ 
32
NoTax......... ; 
31
Let  Go.......................  
27

Smoking.

Catlin’s  Brands.

 

Kiln  dried...........................17
Golden  Shower.................''19
Huntress  ................. 
[26
Meerschaum...................... .29
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy....................   40
Stork  ............................ 30@32
German............................... 15
Frog..............................    33
Java, )bs foil....................... 32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................j6
Banner Cavendish__" .. . .38
Gold Cut 
...........................28

Scotten’s Brands.

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

Brands.

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

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

Spaulding & Merrick.

Tom and Jerry.....................25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Buck Horn...........................30
Plow  Boy......................30@32
Corn  Cake...................... 
10

VINEGAR.

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

Cl for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD,
Bulk, per g a l................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75

0

YEAST.

Magic,................................. 1  00
Warner’s  ............................1 00
Yeast Foam  .......................1  00
Diamond...................... 
75
Royal..................................... 90

HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS

HIDES.

Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

lows:
Green............................  2@2)4
Part Cured...............  
@ 3
FuU 
.................   & 3%
g jy ............................. 4  © 5
Kips,green  ...............   2  @ 3
“  cured.................  @ 4
Calfskins,  green...........3 @  4
cured.........  5 @ 6
Deacon skins................10 @25

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No. 2 hides X off.
FELTS.

Shearlings......................5 @  20
Lambs 
...................... J5  @  40

WOODEN WARE.

Palls, No. 1,  two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop 
Bowls, 11 inch............
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

13
15
17
19
21
shipping  bushel. 
“ 
ful
“  willow cl’ths, No. i

Tubs, No. 1.......................... 6 00
‘  No. 2.........................  5  50
No. 3.........................  4 50
1 30
.  1 50
90
1  25 
1 80
2 40
35 
1  15 
1  25 25
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
No.l 3 75
“ 
11  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 4 75
3  15

11  hoop
“ 
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Baskets, market.

INDURATED  w a r e.

Pails........... 
^obs, no. 1....: 
13 50
Tubs, No. 2............................. 12 00
Tubs, No.3.....................
Butter Plates—Oval.

splint 

.10 50

10  0 
No.  1....................  ~°U0
2  10 
No  2....................  
70
2 45 
No.  3....................   go
80
No. 5.........................  t  00  3 50
Universal........
Peerless Protector...
Saginaw Globe.........
Double.

** * *  ^
....  2 40
....  X  75

W ashboards—single.

Wilson......... 
Good Luck..
Peerless.................

.....

0 Sn
9 n-
...  2 85

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8

WHEAT.

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

53 
53

MEAL.

Bolted........................ ......  1 40
Granulated................  
’  1 65
FLOUR  IN  SACKS.
•Patents............................  2 15
•Standards.......................  
] 65
•Straight.................’ ”  ”  [  1  55
Bakers’..............................  1  35
•Graham..............................1  60
Rye........................   ...... !  1  60
•Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

MILLSTUPPS.

Less

Car lots  quantity
13 00

Bran..............«15 00 
Screenings ....  13 00 
Middlings......  15 00 
Mixed Feed...  17 01 
Coarse meal  .  16 10 

«16 00
16 00
17 50
18 00

CORN.

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

OATS.

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

HAT.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__ 11  no
ton lots  .......12 50
No.l 

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WOOL.

Washed..  ..................12  @18
Unwashed.....................g @14

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow.........................   3 @4)4
Grease butter  ...........l  @ 2
Switches....................  i)4@ 2
Ginseng......................2 oo@2 50

PUBS.

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Badger............................  80@1 00
B ear.......................15 00@25 00
Beaver............................ 3 00@7 00
Cat, wild......................  so® 75
Cat, house................... 
io@ 25
Fisher............................. 3 00@6 00
Fox,  red......................... 1 00@1 40
Fox, cross....................... 3 00@5 00
Fox,  grey....................   50® 70
Lynx............................... 1  00@2 50
Martin, dark...................1  00@3 00
pale & yellow.  75@1 00
Mink, dark..................   30@1 25
Muskrat........................  3@ 13
Oppossum.....................  5@ 15
Otter, dark  .............5 00@10 00
Raccoon......................  30® 75
Skunk  .......................1 ou@i  25
W olf............................... 1 00@2 00
Beaver  castors, lb____   @5 00
Above  prices  are  for  No.  1
furs only.  Other grades at cor­
responding prices.
Thin and green............  
Long gray, dry.............. 
Gray, dry 
................... 
Red and Blue, dry.......  

deerskins—per pound.

10
10
15
25

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

12)4

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whlteflsh 
.................  @ 9
T rout.........................  @ 9
Black Bass................. 
Halibut.......................   @15
Ciscoes or Herring__  @ 5
Bluefish......................  @12)4
Fresh lobster, per lb.. 
20
Cod.............................  
10
No. 1 Pickerel............   @10
P ik e ..........................  @ 8
Smoked White..........   @10
Red  Snappers......... 
12
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ......................... 
12)4
Mackerel.....................  20@25
oybtsrs—Cans.
Fairhaven  Counts__  @35
F -J. D.  Selects.........   @30
Selects.......................   @25
F. J. D.........................  @23
Anchors......................  @20
Standards...................  @18
Favorite......................  @16
oysters—Bulk.
Extra Selects..per gal. 
175
Selects....................... 
1  50
1  00
Standards................... 
Counts.......................  
2 20
Scallops............   ...... 
1  50
Shrimps  .................... 
1  25
Clams......................... 
125
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  50
Clams, 
75@l  00

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PROVISIONS.

SAUSAGE.

The Grand Rapid 

Packing  and Provision Co.

14 00
14 75 
16 50
15 ro
15 50 
15 50
16 00

quotes as follows :
,  
PO R K   IN  B A R R ELS.
Mess,...........................................
Short c u t....................."" _................
Extra clear pig, short cut'
Extra clear,  heavy.................
Clear, fat  back.........................
Boston clear, short cnt......
Clear back, short cut............... ’  '  ’
Standard clear, short cut. best’
_  
Pork, links..................................
Bologna.......................
Liver......................................._
Tongue .......................
Blood................................... . . . . . ..............
Head cheese ................'*” ]
Summer.................  ..............
Frankfurts.................... ...*‘****.” " ‘ ]
„  
L A R D .
Kettle  Rendered.................
9*8%
Granger................................
Family................................................
Compound.................. ...................................k"*
7v
Cottoline........................ 
 
50 lb. Tins, J£c advance.
20 lb. pails,  )4c 
10 lb.  “ 
51b.  “ 
31b. 
" 

“
3£C  “
Tic  “
l c

8)4

10

. 

 

 

B E E P   m   B A R B E L S.

„ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
'* 
“ 
“ 

7 50
7 00

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

Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs................. 
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.............. 
Boneless, ramp butts............................. 10 (10
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 201 bs........ 

olc
16lbs.................22
12 to 14 lbs.............. 
10
picnic................................  
........g
best boneless........................................  9
8
11)4
9)4

Shoulders..  .............................. 
Breakfast Bacon  boneless............
Dried beef, ham prices..........   .....
Long Clears, heavy...................
Briskets,  medium.  ..................
light...........................

................................................  8)4
B B T   SALT  MEATS.

P IC K E E D   P IG S ’  F E E T .

BnttS............................................... 
D. S. Bellies......................................... 
Fat Backs......................................... . 
Barrels...................................................   8 00
Ke«8 ..............................................................  1  90
Kits, honeycomb................................  
05
Kits, premium...................................................55
Barrels.
22  00
Half barrels....................... ................11 00
j |
Per pound........... 
Dairy, sold packed.......................   . 
14
u u
Dairy, rolls........................................... 
Creamery, solid packed...........  . . . . . . . . . . . .  17  3
Creamery, rolls ,
l¡y2

....................................... 
B tTTTERIN E.

B E E P   TONGUES.

q
ilu
10

T R IP E .

 

 

FR E S H   B E E F .
....................  0  @7
w « w w o . . . ----. - .....................................  
Fore quarters........................................4)4@ 5
Hindquarters....
© 6)4 
Loins No. 3............................. 
a
@10 
Ribs........................................... ;;;;;  /   £
@  9 @ 6 
Rounds..........................................        5
Chucks................................
@ 4)4
p»ates....................g i j
Dressed.................................................
Loins....................................... . . . . . . . .
Shoulders...............................
Leaf Lard................................ .
Carcass................................................  5
Lambs................................... ” ‘‘
Carcass....................................

6
0)4
10)4
@ 6 @ 6

F R E S H   PO R K .

MUTTON.

VEAL.

CROCKERY AND  GLASSWARE. 

LAMP  BUBNEB8.

No. 0 Sun...  ...................................  
4.
N0.1  ; ; ..............................................£
No.2  “  ................................................ 
7.
Tubular......................................... 
4«

lamp  chimneys.  Per box.

6 doz. In box.

“ 

“ 

;; 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ ... 

Pearl top.

La Bastle.

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

“ ................................ 2 so

No. 0 Sun......................................
No.l  “  ..........................................’  '
No.2  “  ........................................
First quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top......................... 
“ 
No. 1  “ 
No.2  “ 
“ 
............
XXX Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.................... 
;; 
N0.1 

1 75 
1 88
2 70
2 10
........2 *
...3  25
2 60
.3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled......
.3 70 
“ 
No. 2  “ 
......
4 70 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
......
.4  88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.  __.
.1  25 
....................... ......
No. 2  “ 
1  50
'  J  35
No. 1 crimp, per doz.............................. 
No. 2  “ 
................................:::::i  eo
No. 0,  per  gross............................... 
93
N0. 1, 
.....................................:::::::  «8
38
 
No 
 
No. 3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz............................................. 75
STONEW ARE— A K R O 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

1  “ 
STO N EW A RE- -B LA C K   OLA ZED .

LAM P  W ICKS.

;• 
„ 
“ 

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

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

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14:

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

THE  UNEMPLOYED  POOR.

are, 

Dullness  continues  to  reign  at  the 
stock exchanges,  and  the  totals  of  the 
daily  transactions 
if  anything, 
smaller  than  ever.  General business is 
in the same  condition.  Making  all  due 
allowance  for  exaggeration,  the  news 
that  comes  from  every  quarter  of  the 
falling off in railroad earnings, of  facto­
ries closing or running  on short time, of 
workmen discharged,  and of diminutions 
in wholesale and  retail  trade,  leaves  no 
room for doubt that  production and con­
sumption  are  declining in volume,  and, 
consequently,  that  the demand for labor 
is declining also.  There is  thus  a  par­
tial  loss of the means of support by many 
of our fellow beings,  and  with  others  a 
loss which is,  for  the  time  being, com­
plete.  Without, too, giving  credence to 
all the stories of suffering  from cold and 
hunger which are  published,  we  cannot 
help believing many of them.

The  natural  impulse  of  the  human 
heart, in view  of  this state of  things,  is 
to seek to remedy it,  and  the  means  for 
the purpose which first presents itself is, 
of course, the bestowal  upon  those that 
need them, either of food,  fuel, clothing, 
or of money.  A  little  reflection,  aided 
by  experience,  soon  demonstrates  that 
this mode of procedure,  if  it  is  not per­
nicious,  is, at  least, only partially effec­
tive.  The  greater  number  of  the  in­
tended beneficiaries are  unused to being 
treated as paupers, and their self-respect 
hinders them from presenting themselves 
to  notice  as  such.  Consequently,  the 
gifts  offered  for  their relief principally 
go to maintain in welcome idleness those 
who are  not  in  the  least  deserving  of 
them,  leaving  the  far  more  numerous 
worthy  objects  as  destitute  as  ever. 
Many  of  my  readers  can  doubtless  re­
member the mischief that  was  done  by 
the free soup  houses  established  in  the 
principal cities of the country by benevo­
lent persons, immediately after the panic 
of  1873, for the  purpose  of  mitigating 
the  distress  among 
the  unemployed 
caused  by  that  catastrophe.  They  at­
tracted to the cities hordes  of  vagrants, 
who,  with those  already there,  monopo­
lized the benefaction  offered and swelled 
the mass  of  the  dangerous population. 
Only a few  weeks  ago it was found that 
the free meals provided at a certain loca­
tion  in  Chicago for those who were sup­
posed to be starving  for  want  of  work, 
fed for the  most part persons who could 
well  afford to  pay for  them.  The  com­
paratively recent experience of a district 
of the city of London,  which,  in  conse­
quence of the distress caused by the dull­
ness  of  the  shipping  business, drew to 
itself lavish contributions  from  charita­
ble people all  over  England,  was also of 
the same character.  Lodgings in the dis­
trict  became  crowded  with  newcomers 
who flocked into them  to  get their share 
of  the  bounty  distributed,  so  that, in 
spite of the supposed  poverty of  the in­
habitants,  rents  went  up. 
In  short,  it 
has  come  to  be  a  settled  proposition 
among those who  have  had the most ex­
perience in ministering  to  the poor that 
anything  like  a  regular,  indiscriminate 
giving of alms in any shape does harm.

In order to avoid the  evils  recognized 
to  be  attendant  upon  almsgiving,  how­
ever  carefully  managed,  many  intelli­
gent people advocate the system of relief 
by the furnishing  of  work,  thus making 
the recipient earn what  is  given to him. 
The  obstacle  in 
the  way  of  applying 
the system in  the  present  emergency is

I that  if  work were  to  be had those who 
j are suffering for want of  it would find it 
for themselves,  and  if  it  is  to be made 
for the occasion it can be better made by 
professional  employers  than  by  ama­
teurs.  When  production  stops  it is be­
cause consumption  has  stopped,  and ar­
tificially  stimulated  production  only 
adds to the glut of  the  market.  For ex­
ample, the setting to work  of  tramps  to 
saw  and  split  wood,  which was  lately 
very popular,  was  good  for  the tramps, 
but every stick  of  wood  thus  prepared 
destroyed the  market  for  one  prepared 
by dealers  already engaged  in  the busi­
ness.  A 
less  objectionable  scheme  is 
that  of  public  improvements,  such  as 
laying out and paving streets  and roads, 
building dams and aqueducts, and things 
of that sort;  but these, from their nature, 
benefit  only workmen  specially  trained 
for  the  business,  and  are  useless  to 
others.  A tailor out  of  work cannot be 
helped by offering him  a job at bricklay­
ing,  nor  could  a  seamstress  very  well 
pave or even sweep  streets.  Modern in­
dustry is  too  much specialized and split 
up for its diseases  to  be treated success­
fully in  this  rough  and  ready  fashion. 
If,  again,  tailoring  is  provided  for tail­
ors and sewing for  seamstresses,  it must 
be at the cost of interfering with the em­
ployment  of  those  who  admittedly  are 
doing all of those kinds of  work that the 
public  at  present demands,  and thus  of 
substituting one set  of  unemployed per­
sons for another.

Obviously,  the most  desirable solution 
of the problem is one which will not only 
meet present requirements,  but  prevent 
their recurrence in future.  To its attain­
ment  many  profound  minds  and  more 
shallow  ones  have  earaestly  devoted 
themselves,  but as yet  without  success. 
Socialists  and  labor agitators insist that 
the sure way to obviate seasons  of  stag­
nation in industry is to put it  under  the 
control either of  Government officials or 
of  labor  unions,  who  shall  be  charged 
with the function of  adjusting work and 
wages so that every one shall at all times 
have remunerative employment.  Finan­
cial theorists assert  that,  with  a  proper 
regulation  of  the currency,  there would 
be  no  panics,  and  that,  consequently, 
there would never be an interruption  of 
business  prosperity.  Tariff 
cranks, 
whether  protectionists,  free  traders,  or 
revenue reformers, lay the blame  of  our 
misfortunes  upon  a  disregard  of  their 
pet  economical  principles,  while  some 
moralists attribute the  evil, not  without 
a show of reason,  to  an  excessive  greed 
for riches.  One thing, however,  is  cer­
tain; commercial and financial revulsions 
have been  frequent ever  since commerce 
and finance began to  attain their present 
proportions,  and no  perfectly efficacious 
means  of  preventing  them has yet been j 
discovered.  Men  are  learning to check 
their  violence  and  to  hasten  recovery 
from them,  but that is all.

To  my  mind  these revulsions and all 
the misery that follows in their wake be­
long to the same class of  events as wars, 
pestilences,  famines,  tornadoes,  confla­
grations,  political  revolutions,  and  the 
other extensive  physical  and  moral  ills 
that from time to time  afflict  humanity. 
It  is  true 
from 
natural causes,  and that  those causes,  if 
they could be discovered, might be coun­
teracted  by  the  use  of  proper  means. 
The  trouble  is  that  they  are  so  subtle 
and complicated,  and human  wisdom  is 
so  little  competent  to  deal  with  them,

they  proceed 

that 

Nelson, 

Matter 

&  Co.,
Furniture  .  .  . 
Man ufactu rers,

Grand  Rapids,  flich.,

Will  be  sold  under an order  of  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  for the 

Western  District  of  Michigan,

%

The order of  the  Circuit Court directs that bids  be  received  for the en­
tire plant  and  stock  (with  the  exception  of  one  lumber yard)  as  ONE 
PARCEL,  and  also  for  each  of  FIVE  PARCELS  into  which the prop­
erty is divided, as follows :

PÄRBEL
PARCEL

PARCEL
PARGEL
PARGEL

H M iJ 
Factory and  Warehouse, including real  estate 
Ulm“““  buildings,  photograph  gallery, and  machii 
ery and fixtures in  the buildings.

TW O- Furniture  manufactured  and  in  process  o 

manufacture,  and  materials  in  the  Whole 
sale  Department;  also  store  and  office  furniture  am 
fixtures,  horses, wagons,  sleighs,  tools  and  other  pel 
sonal property not  included  in  the  Retail  Departmenl

as the West Side Lumber Vard.

THREE- Real  Estate,  comprising  what  is  know! 
FOUR- All  of  the  lumber.
™ Real  Estate,  comprising  what  is  known  a 

the old  or Kent  street lumber yard.

Grand  Rapids,  flieh.

2 ™   MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

A / f r e d   J.  Brow n  C o .,

15

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR  THE  CELEBRATED 

STETSDArs

Bat Brand  Oranges

REGISTERED

ORANGES

W e   g u a r a n t e e   this  b ran d   to  be 
as  fine  as  a n y   p a c k   in  th e  m a r k e t  
P r ic es  G u a ra n teed .  T r y   t h e m .

Alfred  J.  Brown  Co.,

_________________ GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
E3 E R K 1I N B   ¿5  H E S B
Hides, Purs, Wool & Tallow.

DEALERS IN

NOS.  188  and  i8 4   LOUIS  STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN.
_____ CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CA.K3  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  rrsw..

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CURES

Catarrh,
Hay Fever,
Headache,
;ia,  Colds,  Sore  Thrsai.

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

Prevents and cures

On cars or boat.

S e a   Sickness
The  cool  exhllerating  sensation 

follow 
ing Its use is a luxury to  travelers.  Convenient 
to carry In the pocket;  no liquid to drop or spill; 
lasts a year, and costs  50c  at  druggists.  Regis­
tered mall 60c, from

H.  D.  CUSHMAN, M anufacturer.

Three  Rivers,  Mich. 

t3T~G uaranteed  satisfactory.

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SEND  US  TOUR

B E A N S ,

WE  WANT  THEM  ALL,
NO  MATTER  HOW  MANY.

Will Always Give Foil Market Value

busy.  We  may  come  to  this  at  some 
future  epoch,  but  at  present,  I  think 
American  citizens  are  not  prepared  to 
submit to it. 

Ma tth ew  Ma r sh a ll.

Had  Not  Seen  His  Sam ples  for a  Long 

Time.
From Shoe and L eather Facts.

Leaving New Orleans he proceeded  to 
Memphis  and  sold  nothing,  to  St.  Loui: 
and met with  the  same  result.  Kansas 
City and  St. Joseph,  Omaha  and  Sioux 
City told the same tale,  until  at  last  he 
found  himself  in  a  customer’s  store in 
Minneapolis  with his sample  case by his 
side.
As he was  engaged  in  loosening  the 
straps preparatory to displaying  his line 
of footwear,  the  buyer  of  the establish­
ment came  forward  and  said  sharply: 
“Don’t  open  those cases here. 
I  don’t 
want to see  your  samples. 
I won’t buy 
It  won’t  do  you  any 
a  case  of  goods. 
good to show them.”
“Well,  who asked you to look at  them 
or buy anything?”  replied  the drummer. 
“Not I.”  As he said this he  opened his 
cases.

“Then why do you open  them?”
“Just because I’m interested  in  these 
samples.  1  haven’t  seen  them  myself 
for ten  days  and  I want  to  find  out  if 
they’re all right.”
His  dejection  struck  the  buyer  so 
amusingly  that  he  relented,  examined 
the samples and finally made a fair-sized 
purchase.

The  W orld’s  Fair  for  Sale.

Look at it!  The Michigan Central has 
arranged with one of the best publishing 
houses in the United  States for a beauti­
fully printed series of World’s  Fair pic­
tures, to be known as the  Michigan Cen­
tral’s  Portfolio  of  Photographs  of  the 
World’s Fair.
The  original  photographs would  cost 
not less  than  a  dollar  apiece,  but  the 
Michigan  Central  enables  you to get 16 
pictures for  10 cents.
It’s the finest. 
It’s the most complete. 
It cannot be beaten.
It’s the best. 
If you saw the World’s Fair,  you want 
it as a perpetual souvenir of a memorable 
visit.
If you didn’t  get  there,  you want this 
to see what you missed,  and to  fill  your 
mind  with  the  beauty and  glory of  the 
White City.
Call on the  nearest  Michigan  Central 
ticket agent and he will furnish you with 
the first part  and tell you more about it.

A  rose  measured  by  its  fragrance 

makes a cabbage head look little.

Use  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

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less  worthy  forces.  So, 

that they are practically  uupreventable. 
While  we  can  modify  their  effects,  we 
have neither the skill not  the  ability  to 
completely  disarm  them.  War,  for ex­
ample, is about as  irrational  a misappli­
cation of human energies as  cau  be  im­
agined,  and the motive for  making it on 
one side or  the  other  is  invariably  the 
desire of doing something unjust  or  un­
reasonable.  The  proof  of  this  is  that 
when nations who have  a dispute  which 
might  lead  to  hostilities  are  sincerely 
desirous of doing justice they do  not  go 
to  war,  but  arbitrate  their  differences. 
Nevertheless,  wars  continue,  and  they 
prove that reason and  justice are domin­
ated  by 
too, 
pestilences undoubtedly  have  their  ori­
gin in violations of  the  laws  of  health, 
and,  as we see in the  case  of  small-pox 
and the cholera,  they  can  be subdued as 
soon as we learn how to  deal  with them. 
The misfortune is that they keep coming 
in new forms, as the  grip did lately,  and 
it takes time to discover remedies against 
them.  As to the other destructive powers 
of nature,  wind,  water and fire, men have 
for centuries been inventing contrivances 
for  dominating  them,  but  have  so  far 
been able  to  do  it  only  partially.  We 
cannot yet foretell storms with certainty 
twenty-four hours in advance,  we cannot 
absolutely  guard  against  freshets  and 
floods,  and  as  for  fire,  every  day  bears 
witness of its untamed ferocity. 
In  like 
manner,  commercial  revulsions proceed 
from  influences  acting  on  men’s  minds 
which are well known,  but which cannot 
be so regulated  and governed as  to  pre­
vent their doing mischief. 
If enterprise 
could always  be  kept  within  the  limits 
of  prudence,  if no debts were ever con­
tracted but those which had a reasonable 
probability  of  being  paid,  and 
if  all 
dealings  between  men  were inspired by 
good will to others and  governed by jus­
tice,  there would be  no  overtrading,  no 
distrust  of  solvency,  and  consequently 
no  panics.  This,  however,  is  not  the 
case,  and, consequently,  the world must 
always be liable to just  such  calamities 
as that from  which we now  suffer.

The  problem  of unemployed  labor is, 
therefore,  one  that  laborers  must  solve 
for themselves.  An  occasional  scarcity 
of  work  is  an  evil  against  which  men 
have to guard by their prudence.  Winter 
invariably  brings  with  it cold  weather, 
but we can fight cold  with  fuel, clothing 
and shelter.  Some  amount  of  sickness 
is unavoidable,  and  we  combat  it  with 
medical  skill.  No  means  has yet been 
found for making conflagrations impossi­
ble,  but  we  can  check  and  extinguish 
them with water.  So  it  is  with seasons 
of  dullness  in trade.  They  are  always 
possible,  and precautions  must be taken 
against them by those  who depend upon 
their labor for a living,  in  the same way 
that they take  precautions  against  cold 
and  sickness,  or  provide  for  strikes, 
namely,  by  laying  up a reserve fund to 
tide  them  over  the  period  of  idleness. 
The doctrine  that  it  is  the  function  of 
society at large to  do this either by Gov­
ernment action or by  voluntary  effort  is 
a socialistic error  which  would  involve 
the exercise of  despotic control  over the 
entire  community.  For,  if  society,  as 
such,  is to see that  every  one  able  and 
willing  to  work  shall be provided  with 
work,  it must have authority  to regulate 
enterprise so that production shall never 
outrun  consumption,  and  that no  more 
workmen  shall engage  in any  branch  of 
industry  than  can  be  kept  constantly

A I / L   S A Y

“ I t ’s  a s   g o o d   a s   S a p o l i o ”  w h e n   t h e y   t r y  
to  sell  y o u  
th e ir   e x p e r i m e n t s .  Y o u r  
o w n   g o o d   se n se   w ill  tell  y o u   t h a t   t h e y  
a r e   o n l y   t r y i n g   to  get  y o u   to  a id   t h e ir  
n e w   article.

W h o   u r g e s   y o u   to  k e e p   S a p o l i o ?  

Is 
it  n o t  th e   p u b l i c ?   T h e   m a n u f a c t u r e r s  
b y   c o n s ta n t   a n d  
ju d ic io u s   a d v e r t is i n g  
b r in g   c u s t o m e r s   to  y o u r   s to re s   w h o s e  
v e r y   p r e s e n c e   c r e a te s   a  d e m a n d  
for 
o t h e r   articles.

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16

THE  JVOCHXGAJSÍ  TRADESMAN,

AN  ERA  OF  LOW  PRICES.

From  the New York Shipping List.

Opinions are  being expressed by polit­
ical economists  and  the  press to the ef­
fect that  prices  of  all  commodities are 
likely to remain on  a  comparatively low 
basis hereafter;  that  the  cost  of  living 
will  be  correspondingly  lessened,  and 
that wages,  as  a  consequence,  will seek 
a lower level.  This belief is entertained 
by not a few public  speakers  and  writ­
ers, and they advise producers to prepare 
for  the  inevitable.  Their  opinions  are 
based on the rapid growth of the country, 
on the progress  being  made  in  the arts 
and sciences,  on the  substitution of  ma­
chinery for hand  labor,  and  on  the in­
creasing  competition  which  confronts 
every manufacturer and merchant.
Similar  theoretical  ideas  have  been 
advanced  before.  They  forge 
to  the 
front at every season of business depres­
sion because they seem to suit the times, 
and are accepted  for  the  time  being  as 
reasonable and  plausible.  The so-called 
era of  low  prices  is  here  now.  Every 
merchant who  has  goods  to  offer, and 
who is not willing to carry his stock over 
until spring,  is compelled  to  make some 
sacrifice in  profits  owing  to the original 
cost of his merchandise, if it is desired to 
find buyers.  Because values  have  been 
comparatively low for some months is no 
reason for expecting  a  still lower range 
in the future,  or  for  believing  that the 
whole commercial  fabric  has undergone 
such a radical change this year as to give 
foundation for the  new-born beliefs.
It is true that the price of corn has not 
been so low in five years;  that  the aver­
age price of wheat is the lowest in twen­
ty-three  years;  that  the farm rates  for 
barley are the poorest on record; that the 
average quotations for oats are below the 
average  price  during  the  past  decade; 
that  the  cotton  market  seeks  a  lower 
level despite the unfavorable  reports  as 
to the yield; that the general  iron market 
has gone through a season of prostration 
and low values, never before experienced 
probably;  that the list of articles suffer­
ing a serious setback  is  quite  large,  but 
the causes which  produced  the  unfortu­
nate condition  of  affairs  are known not 
to be permanent 
Instead  of  a  gradual 
settling of values to a much lower range, 
is it not reasonable to  expect a reaction? 
As  prosperity certainly  follows  depres­
sion,  sooner or later, so will  better prices 
succeed an era  of  low prices;  reactions 
are natural  and  necessary,  and  theoret­
ical writers  cannot  stay  them.  We  do 
not mean temporary or violent reactions, 
but a steady climb to a  higher  plane  of 
values.
There is little faith to be placed in the 
expectation of  a  permanent  era  of  low 
prices,  because the inexorable law of the 
survival  of  the  fittest  will  continue  to 
regulate  production  and  competition 
as it has from the beginning of  commer­
cial affairs.  The manufacturer or dealer 
who cannot compete in quality  or  price 
with his neighbor,  will have to leave  the 
field  to  others,  but  the  nature  of  this 
competition does  not  necessarily  estab­
lish lower values for  merchandise.  The 
price is regulated by the  supply and de­
mand; overproduction  works  in  the  in­
terest  of  the buyer as against the seller; 
seasons  of  prosperity are marked  by an 
equal division—too much of  one  article 
being worse than not enough.

One of the chief  arguments  advanced 
for lower quotations, is  the reduced cost 
of manufacture  by combinations of capi­
tal,  and what proposed  legislation is ex­
pected  to  accomplish  in  that  dirction. 
Our experience has  been  that  combined 
capital is just as anxious to  secure  good 
prices as individual  manufacturers,  and 
top  figures  are  realized  except 
in  in­
stances  where  formidable  competition 
has to be met.  As to actual cost of mak­
ing or handling goods,  the future is very 
uncertain. 
If Congress imposes a taxon 
the  transfers  of  stocks  and  bonds,  on 
transactions in cereals,  provisions,  etc., 
also on the gross sales of all corporations, 
and increases  the  internal  revenue  tax 
as proposed,  in addition  to inaugurating 
tariff  changes,  the  cost  of  conducting 
business would be even  greater  than  at 
present, 
although  more  economical 
methods are put into  practice.  This in­
creased  cost  would  be  reflected  in  the 
price of merchandise.

An  Im portunate  Tailor.

importer  and 

An American  gentleman  who  is  now 
traveling in Japan thus  relates  his  first 
experience with  the  merchants  of  that 
country:
“The first gentleman who  called  upon 
me at the  Grand  Hotel, Yokohama,  was 
tailor.  He 
Ah  Shing, 
made an early call—6:20.  He  remarked 
outside  the  door: 
‘Mister,  me  came 
measure you suit  clothes.  Allee  samee 
hot.’ 
‘Call around  again, please;  1  am 
not up yet.’  He  did.  He  called  again 
at  6:30.  Desiring  to  encourage  enter­
prise in a foreign  country, I  let  him  in. 
•Take measure now?’  he  said. 
‘Go it,’ I 
replied,  because it was  red  hot  and  the 
Japanese sun was shining clear  through 
the panes, shades  and  shutters. 
‘Make 
suit $2.50.’  He had samples with  him in 
a valise.  “Suit  ready  morrow  morning.’ 
And,  true enough,  he had it.  Ah Shing is 
a Chinese merchant who has  done  busi­
ness in Japan for several years.  He em­
ploys  forty-three  tailors, and  can  give 
some of our merchants many pointers on 
prices and promptness.”

CANDIES, FRUITS and  NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDY.
Cases 
Standard,  per lb........................  
“  H.H.............................. 
“  Twist  .......................... 
Boston Cream ...............   8)4
Cut  Loaf......................... 
Extra H.  H......................  8ft
MIXED  CANDY.

Bbls.  Palls.
6)4 7U
6*  7*
6)4 7*4
8)4

 

 

 

 

“

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

“ 
fancy—In bulk

Palls.
Bbls. 
7
Standard.........................................6 
Leader............  
7
6 
g
Royal.............................................. 7 
s
Nobby............................................. 7 
English  Rock.................................7 
8
Conserves.......................................7 
8
Broken Taffy....................baskets 
8
Peanut Squares................. 
8 
9
French Creams.............................. 
9)4
Valley  Creams.................... 
13
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.....................................  8ft
Modern, 50 lb. 
8
Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  9
printed..........................................  10
Chocolate Drops.............................................  12
Chocolate Monuxnentals...............................  13
Oum Drops.....................................................  5$$
Moss Drops....................................................   8
Sour Drops.....................................................  SH
Imperials.......................................................   10
Per Box
Lemon Drops................................................... 55
Sour Drops...... ............................................... 55
Peppermint Drops............................................60
Chocolate Drops...............................................75
H. M. Chocolate Drops................................;0@90
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops..............................................1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops.....................................   80
Lozenges, plain................................................ 60
printed............................................65
Imperials..........................................................60
Mottoes.............................................................70
Cream Bar........................................................ 55
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams.................................. 8SC&95
Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams........................................1  00
String  Rock.....................................................65
Burnt Almonds.... ........................................1  00
Wintergreen  Berries.......................................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb. boxes.........................  34
•.........................   61
No. 1, 
“ 
No. 2, 
 
28
“ 
OBANOEB.
128, 138....................................................  @2 25
1*> --....................................................   @2 50
176,200,216.............................................  @2 76
Small......................................................
Large.....................................................
Messina, extra  fancy..........................
fancy 380  .............................  
choice 360..............................
choice 300..............................
OTHER  FOBEISN  FBUITS.

LEMONS.
“  fancy 360  .................. 
“ 
“ 
“ 

caramels.

BANANAS.

5 00
5C6

3 
2 

“ 
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“ 

Figs, fancy layers, 61b..........................   @13
“  10» ...........................  @13
“  14» ...........................   @15
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................   @ 8
..........................   @ 7

“  50-lb.  “ 

Persian, 50-lb.  box...................... 

“  extra 
“ 
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4@  5)4

NUTS.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Almonds, Tarragona.............................   @17
Ivaca.......................................  @16)4
California.............................   @

Brazils, new...........................................   @1?
Filberts..................................................  @12
Walnuts, Grenoble................................   @14
Er?£ch....................................   @1**
Table Nuts,  fancy................................   @13
choice.............................. 
@12
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ..........................   9@11
Chestnuts...............................................
Hickory Nuts per bu.............................  
Cocoannts, full sacks............................
Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................   @
a
Fancy, H.  F., Flags...............................  5V4@
7@
Choice, H. P., Extras............................  4)4@
6@

“  Roasted....................  
“  Roasted...................  
“  Roasted................. 

PEANUTS.

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Q u i c k   S e ^ e r s *  Our “Oak”  Grain.

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THE  NEW  FALL  LINE

Manufactured  by

SNEDICOR  &  HATHAWAY,

DETROIT,  MICH,

All the Novelties in Lasts  and  Patterns.

State  Agents  Woonsocket  and  Lyco­

ming  Rubber  Co.

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

ÍÜS

GUARANTEED  SOLID  THROUGHOUT.

Heel or Spring, E and EE, 6 to 8, a t..............  65c
Heel or Spring, E and EE, 8)4 to  12, at......... 75c
H IR T H , K R A U SE & CO.,

SEND  FOR  A  SAMPLE  DOZEN.

12  A  14  Lyon  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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GENUINE  :  YICI  :  SHOE,

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

REEDER  BROS. SHOE CO ,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

trademark: 

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Lemon  & Wheeler Company,

Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

JOBBERS  OF

Groceries and Provisions.

Our BUTCHER’S  LARD  is a Pure Leaf Kettle Rendered 
Lard. 
If  you  want  something  cheaj >er  try  our  CHOICE 
PURE,  in  tubs  or  tins,  and  guaranteed  to  give  satisfaction. 

Note  these  prices:

Butcher’s, 80-pound Tubs...................................................  lo
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Butcher’s, Tierces... 
Choice  P u re ..................................................... 
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WESTERN  MICHIGAN  AGENTS  FOR

G.  E  G ilM O n   CO’S  SUPERIOR  BUTTERINE.

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TO  M A K E  

F R E E   TR IP 

DO  YOU  W ANT'lflu Will M ,  Litlt,  S n l  B m l  mil  Biscuits, 
FERMENTUM
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COMPRESSED YEAST
TWermentiJm Company

THE  W O R L D ?
WRITE U8  FOR  PARTIBULflRS

A R O U N D  

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

SOLD  BY  ALL  FIRST-CLASS  GROCERS.

IF  SO,

MANUFACTURED  BY

MAIN  OFFICE:

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CHICAGO,  270  KINZIE  STREET.

MICHIGAN  AGENCY:

GRAND  RAPIDS,  106  KENT  STREET.

C. 

G.  A.VOIGT &  CO.

Cracker  diesis. 

Glass  Covers  fer  Biscuits.

Address  all  communications  to  THE  FERMENTUM  CO.

*  S T A R   R O L L E R   M IL L S
Our Patent Gilt E lu  Star, Calla Lily aafl G oto Stef.

OUR  LEADING  BRANDS  ARE

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WE  GUARANTEE  EVERY  SACK.

0.  a.  A.  VOIGT  &  CO.,

Write for (¿notations.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

S. A. Sears. Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

j' J  ' HESE  chests  will 

soon 
pay for themselves  in  the

breakage they avoid.  Price $4. BUR new glass covers  are by far the 

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

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

We call the attention of the trade to the following new noveL.cs:

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

CREAM  CRISP. 

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

the best selling cakes we ever made.

T H E   NEW   YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

D A W S O N ’S  

H e y m a n   C o m p a n y ,

Pearl  Wheat  Plaices, Mandfactilrers  of  Show  Cases  of  Every  Description.

T H E   F I N E S T   B R E A K F A S T   D IS H

DAWSON’S

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GH'ferKf
TRADE rpAR* /p

BROTHERS^

MILLERS A  MANUFACTURER

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FIRST-CLASS  WORK  ONLY.

6 3   a n d   6 6   Canal  St.,  G rand  R apid s,  Mich.

WHITE  FOR  PRICES-.

W H O L E S A L E

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

Free from Diist and  Broken Particles, 

Put up in neat Cartons of  a pounds each. 36 Cartons  pet  Case.  Price  »3.60  per  We  M ake a  S pecialty O f  B lankets, Q uilts a n d   Live 

C L E A N ,  w h o l e s o m e ,;  q™  g 00(js  garnets and  Bloaks
J r.
T r v   It!  B u v   It!  U se  It1!  M a c k i n a w   S h irts  a n d   L u m b e r m e n ' s   S o c k s .
m   QemolsliBifflor  k Co.,48- f f i J S   S 2 5 S st-
A Happy New Yearj°rder  h r ( ” ”our Jobber.

' 
DAWSON  BROTHERS,  Pontiac,  Mich.

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Sold  by all jobbers in Ohio,  Indiana and Michigan. 

(jr80S©   J? 0 8 ib ll8 rS .

MANUFACTURED  BY

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We will  be  with  you 
Again  in  ’94. 

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Hold  Your  Orders  Until  We  Can  Show  You  Our

New  Lines.

WE  ARE  STATE  AGENTS  FOR  THE  WON­

DERFUL

Which has been greatly improved over last year, 

and we can interest you if you are going 

t o  handle G a s o l i n e   S t o v e s  this year.

A  Case :

36  P a c k a g e s.
36  Pounds.
FULL  WEIGHT.

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Also in Bulle :

25  lb.  Boxes.
50  lb.  Boxes,  and 

300  lb.  Barrels.

p |(gE

I  GrandrApids

cleaning ca 

¿ « and Rapios. mich.

The strength  and flavor  are  retained  by  our  process  and  the  fruit is 

READY  FOR  USE. 

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H. Leonard & Sons,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

IMPORTED  AND  CLEANED  BY 

grand  Rapids  Fnlit  Gleaning  Go., ‘

G ran d   R ap id s,  M ich igan .

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