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THE  PROFESSOR.

Karl Rudenbach, Professor of  Chemis­
try and German at  the University,  sat at 
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tise on oxygen.

He was what  most  persons would  call 
a plain man,  as only his  deep  gray eyes 
were really beautiful;  yet  his  face was 
singularly attractive,  and  one forgot the 
plainness  of  his  features  in the sweet­
ness of his smile.

Although he lived with his sister, Mrs. 
Kemper,  and  had  many friends,  the Pro­
fessor was the most solitary man  in Lin­
coln.  He was very quiet and retiring by 
nature,  and  his  studious  habits  had 
strongly intensified this bent.  He walked 
along the  streets with  bowed  head,  lost 
in profoundest thought—seeing  no  one. 
He lived in a  dream, only thoroughly at 
home among his books and chemicals.

But  somehow  everybody  loved  him. 
The students at the University would go 
through fire and water  any day for their 
dreamy,  shy  Professor.  His 
sister 
thought him the most wonderful of men, 
and took care of  him as she would  of  a 
child.  When he was ill,  it  seemed  as if 
every one in the  town  came  to  inquire 
after him,  and offer  their  services.  No 
one knew how  it  was;  no  one  tried  to 
find  out.  They  only  knew  that  they 
loved him.

The Professor  knew it,  and was  glad. 
But he  never  showed  it.  He was pain­
fully shy;  and if he were noticed, or  in 
any  way  brought  into  prominence,  his 
face would flush,  and his embarrassment 
become  so  apparent,  that  in  pity  his 
friends tacitly agreed  to let him live his 
life in his own  way.

He  loved  children, and was  perfectly 
at  ease with  them.  He  told  them  the 
most wonderful  stories  of  gnomes  and 
fairies,  and,of mythology.

Children of six and eight were familiar 
with the stories of Penelope, and Psyche, 
and Diana, and Venus.  They knew why 
the sunflower always turned  its  face  to 
the sun.  They knew why the  reeds  al­
ways whispered and sighed  by the river; 
and from  the  story of  Phsethon how the 
deserts  and  islands  were  formed.  He 
made them so fascinating  that  the  chil­
dren  were delighted,  and begged him for 
stories  wherever  they  found  him.  But 
if any other listener approached, his lips 
were sealed.

Across the way,  in plain view from his 
study window, stood a little brown house. 
It  was  only  a  small  square  building, 
two  stories  high,  with  a  wide  porch 
across the front.

It had stood vacant many months;  but 
the Professor  suddenly wakened  to  the 
fact that it was inhabited.  He frequent­
ly saw the  two  beautiful  children.  At 
least,  that was what he called  them.
* One was about six;  and the most beau­
tiful little fairy that ever  illumined this 
dark  earth,  with  large  deep  blue  eyes 
and golden curls; lips like scarlet berries 
and cheeks of rose pink.

The  other was  apparently about  six­
teen;  below  medium  height,  slim,  yet 
with a  figure  exquisitely rounded, Huffy

brown  hair  and wide  hazel  eyes.  Her 
eyes drooped at the corners, as if a ques­
tion always lingered in their depths;  her 
little straight nose had an inquiring look. 
Even her mouth took  a  downward  ten­
dency at  the  corners,  making  her  face 
one  piquant  little  interrogation  point. 
She had a pleasant  briskness  about her, 
a certain  graceful  quickness  of  move­
ment, strongly suggestive of  a saucy lit­
tle  wren.

Mrs.  Kemper was  amazed one evening 
to hear her brother ask  a  question  con­
cerning them.  What could it mean?  He 
had never been known to do such a thing 
before.  He  merely  asked  who  they 
were.

“The  girls  are  orphans,  Karl;  Cara 
and Kittie  Haven,  and  their  aunt,  Mrs. 
Turner,  is a widow.  They used  to  live 
over  on  the  other  side  of  the town in 
Judge Lee’s  house,  but  they wanted  to 
be nearer the church,  so they came here. 
Of course you don’t  know that  Kittie is 
the  contralto  singer 
in  Dr.  Morris’s 
church?”

“No,” said  Karl.
Mrs.  Kemper waited.  Would  he  ask 
more?  He opened his lips once, as  if to 
speak,  then closed them again,  and went 
up to his rooms.

He  was 

intensely  disappointed.  He 
had  watched  Kittie  playing  with  Cara 
day after day,  and  had  never  imagined 
that she could be more than a child.  But 
the owner of that sweet, rich voice which 
he heard every Sunday must be a woman. 
He was very dejected.  The only woman 
he ever talked to was his  sister;  he  did 
not know how to  talk  to  any  one  else. 
He could know Cara,  but not  Kittie.

He looked across  at  the  little  brown 
house,  and  saw  Cara  running  np  the 
walk,  her golden curls streaming  in  the 
wind.  She dropped down on the  porch, 
and presently Kittie  came  out,  sat down 
by the child and talked to her,  while she 
twined  Cara’s  curls  over  her  finger. 
Then they entered the  house together.

The  Professor  sighed  as  they  disap­
peared.  He  wished they had stayed,  for 
he could look  at  them,  if  he  could  not 
talk to them.

It was late in the  spring,  and  the  fiat 
roof of the porch had  been  converted in­
to a blooming  flower  garden  by  Kittie. 
Plants with  sweet,  old-fashioned  names 
stood around the railing,  making  the air 
heavy  with their perfume.  There  was a 
glass door leading from Kittie’s room out 
into  this  hanging  garden,  where  she 
spent hours  daily,  sometimes  caring for 
her flowers,  sometimes with a book.

The Professor  fell  into  the  habit  of 
watching the inmates of the little brown 
house.  He  knew  just when  Kittie  wa­
tered her  flowers,  before he  started  for 
the University;  and when Cara played in 
the yard,  and  when she would  be  called 
to her lessons.  There seemed to be great 
regularity in ail their proceedings.

Cara soon  joined  the  throng  of  chil­
dren to whom he told stories.  Her quaint 
wording and  preternaturally grave  say­
ings  amazed  him.  She  was wonderful, 
he  thought.  Vet  there  seemed  to  be

something elfish in  her play—something 
almost uncanny in her wise,  serious  way 
of questioning his remarks.

One day, as he was coming  home from 
the University,  lost in thought,  as usual, 
he met the sisters.  Cara ran  to  him  at 
once.

“Here  is  my  Professor!”  she  cried, 

catching his band and  dancing along. 

“Cara!”  said  Kittie,  reprovingly. 
“Professor,  this  is  my  sister  Kathe­

rine,  Miss Haven,” said  Cara,  gravely.

Kittie  laughed  outright,  and  the  poor 
Professor  blushed violently,  and  longed 
for the earth  to  open  and  swallow him 
up.  Yet  there  was  a  certain  painful 
fascination to stand and look at her, even 
if she did laugh.

“You  are  Professor  Rudenbach,  I 
know,”  said  Kittie  graciously.  “I  am 
Kittie Haven.”

The  Professor  bowed,  but  said noth­

ing.

“Your sister has called  on  us,  and we 
were  delighted with  her,” pursued  Kit­
tie,  bent on setting him at ease.

involuntarily; 

“And  she  was  delighted  with  Kittle, 
too,  because  I asked  her,”  put  in  Cara.
“She could not help  it,” said  the  Pro­
fessor, 
then,  overcome 
with amazement at his temerity,  and pit­
ifully embarrassed,  he bowed  again  and 
walked  on  rapidly.  He  had  actually 
spoken to her.  More  than  that,  he  had 
complimented  her!  He,  Karl  Kuden- 
bach. Professor of Chemistry at  the Uni­
versity,  had  complimented  a  woman; 
and  that woman  Kittie  Haven!  He was 
lost in wonder  at  himself, yet was  a  lit­
tle  exultant  over  his  achievement. 
It 
was not so bad,  after all.

He went up to his  room  and  stationed 
himself near the window.  He  sighed as 
he looked at his  table.  His  treatise  on 
oxygen  was  not  progressing  as  rapidly 
as  he  could  wish.  However,  it  did  not 
matter.

He  looked  out.  How bright  the  sun­
shine was,  and  how pretty Kittie’s  flow­
ers were looking.  The  Professor  loved 
flowers.  He thought she was like a flower 
herself,  with her cheeks like the heart of 
a wild rose.

Presently he  saw  Cara  come  running 
along,  and  soon Kittie slowly followed, 
with  a  young  man  at  her  side.  Cara 
opened  the  gate  for  them  to  pass  in. 
The young man turned and  looked down 
into Kittie’s  face,  in  an  admiring  way 
that gave the Professor  a vague sense of 
discomfort.  He felt  a  strange  pang  at 
the sight.  The  young  man  was  one  of 
his students;  a clever fellow,  very hand­
some, and rather a favorite of his.  Now 
Karl Rudenbach  discovered a sudden re­
vulsion of feeling toward him.

He  looked  across  the  street.  How 
glaring Kittie’s flowers looked!  And  the 
sun  made his eyes  ache.  He turned im­
patiently to his  littered table,  and began 
to look over his work.  But  somehow  it 
did not possess its  usual  fascination for 
him.  When  he tried  to  fix his thoughts 
on the subject,  they wandered to the lit­
tle brown house across the street.

He heard the gate  slam,  and  went  to

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tlie window.  Of  course  it was that pre­
sumptuous young  Carroll  leaving.  But 
to his chagrin, it was another young man 
entering.  He closed  the blinds sharply, 
and pulled down  the curtains. 
If young 
men  were going  there  all  day,  he could 
not  have  his  mind  distracted from  his 
work by the slamming of that gate.  Then 
he went at  his  writing with  such  ardor 
that it left no  time  for thought of aught 
else.

Late that night he  paced  the floor rest­
lessly;  his  usual  placid  mind  was 
strangely disturbed.  Something  seemed 
to oppress  him.  He  thought  of  Kitty; 
how lovely she was!  He was  startled  to 
find how warm and  tender his heart grew 
toward her.

What could it  mean,  this all-absorbing 
thought of her?  Then—his love revealed 
itself in one blinding flash, and he bowed 
his face  in  his  hands  and  wept  great 
honest manly tears  in  the  mingled  joy 
and  sorrow  of  solving  this  wonderful 
mystery.

If the Professor could have written out 
his thoughts  as  they came  to  him  that 
night, they would have made an exquisite 
poem.  His  vivid 
imagination  clothed 
Kittie with  every conceivable  grace and 
virtue.  First,  she  was  Galatea.  She 
was the beautiful  ivory virgin, endowed 
with  life  by the  goddess  of  Love  and 
Beauty  herself.

Then  she  was  Psyche,  striving to ac­
complish the hard tasks set her by Venus, 
before she could hope to be made immor­
tal.  He did not imagine  her  as Juno or 
Minerva.  He  knew 
that  her  piquant 
loveliness  could never adorn those state­
ly ideals.  He thought  of  her  rather as 
Atalanta, or Pomona, or lo;  as  a  mortal 
so  beautiful  that  even 
the  goddesses 
might deign to envy her.

He knew that  he  could  never hope to 
win her;  he did not dream  of  that.  He 
was  happy  in  the  knowledge  that  he 
could  love  any  one  as  be  loved  little 
Kittie Haven.  And  yet he would never, 
never dare even tell her of his love!

He went to the  window,  just  to  look 
at the dear little brown  house  that shel­
tered her.

The young  moon  shone  bright  in the 
heavens,  and shed  its pale radiance soft­
ly on all things. 
It seemed to  Karl that 
it  was  brighter  and  softer  over  Kittie 
than anywhere else.  Her flowers looked 
strange in  the  silver  light,  but  all  was 
lovely.  The  night  wind  whispered 
among 
the  branches,  and  brought  the 
perfume of Kittie’s flowers across to him. 
Never had it seemed so sweet  or so deli­
cate;  only  a faint  breath  of  heliotrope, 
pink,  and  rose.  Long  he  mused  there, 
while Kittie,  the  lovely but unconscious 
object of it all,  calmly slept.

Kittie had completely  won  Mrs.  Kem­
per’s heart,  and,  much to the Professor’s 
silent  pleasure, flitted back and forth  be­
tween  the  houses,  sometimes  with  her 
work,  sometimes with  a new song.

Kittie’s  music  was  a  never-failing 
source  of  pleasure  to  Karl.  When  he 
heard her  rich  voice  ring  out  he  care­
fully  set  his  door  ajar  and  listened 
breathlessly.  He knew every tone of her 
clear contralto, and sang her songs softly 
to himself when he worked  in bis labora­
tory.  Bnt  he  never  spoke to her.  She 
thought be did  not  even  remember  her 
existence.  But, notwithstanding his ap­
parent indifference  to her,  she liked him 
cordially.  She  saw him  frequently,  and 
grew to like his quiet, gentle ways.  With 
Cara,  Kittie thought  he  was perfect.  He

had the greatest influence with  the way- i 
ward  little beauty,  and  with  him  Cara ! 
was more  than  good.  He  never  knew j 
aught  of  her  but her best, and had any 
one hinted to  him  of  her  misdoings  be 
would have been incredulous.

One afternoon  Kittie and Cara were at 
Mrs.  Kemper’s.  The  hottest  summer 
days had come,  and  doors  and  windows 
stood wide open.  Kittie and her hostess 
were sitting by the front  windows, which 
opened onto  the  porch,  talking and try­
ing to discover even a faint breath of air, ! 
when the Professor came  down from his ! 
room,  and,  all unconscious of their prox­
imity, drew a chair  and  sat  down quite 
close to Kittie’s window.

Mrs.  Kemper  was  called  away just as 
Cara came running  up the walk,  hot and 
breathless,  and threw herself in the Pro­
fessor’s lap.

“My Cara,”  he  said,  “ why are  you so 
warm?  You must  not  run so, now that 
summer has come.  Promise me.”

“ My Professor,  1  would  do  anything 
I  will not  run.  Tell 

for you or  Kittie. 
me the story of the ivory  virgin.”

“ No;  my  heart  is  too  sad  to-day for 
It  is 

I will  tell  you  of  another. 

that. 
of a maiden called Daphne.”

Kittie  settled  herself  to  listen.  His 
tone  was 
inexpressibly  sad,  and  she 
thought she  knew why he could not  tell 
the  story  of  Galatea,  and  Pygmalion’s 
successful  love.

“ He has had  some  unhappy love story 
in  his life,”  she  thought.  But  he  was 
telling Cara of the beautiful Daphne, and 
Kittie bad lost some of it.  She knew the 
story  well,  but never  had 
it  seemed  so 
unspeakably  sad  as  it  did  told  in  the 
Professor’s  quiet  voice  and  beautiful 
wording.  He did  not  seem to be telling 
it  to  Cara.  His  deep  gray  eyes  were 
looking into the distance, and he pictured 
the intensity of Apollo’s love with a fer­
vor and  vividness beyond Cara’s compre­
hension.  But  she was  lying  quietly in 
his arms, and  he  went on.

Kittie almost hated Daphne for fleeing 
from Apollo  and  leaving his  love unre­
quited.  And  at  the  last, when the  un­
happy lover lost her forever, the Profess­
or put such pathos into  words and  voice 
that Kittie’s cheeks  were wet with tears.
Then there was  a  silence;  and  Kittie 
saw that her sister was asleep.  The Pro­
fessor brought her in and laid her gently 
down,  and as  he  passed  the door Kittie 
saw  him  stoop  and  kiss  the  sleeping | 
child.  He carried  her  so  tenderly,  and | 
she  looked  so  lovely  with  her  cheeks 
flushed,  and  her  golden  hair  streaming 
over  his arm!

He did not  come  out  again,  but went 

up to his  room.

Soon, however, he came hurrying down, 
and,  ignoring Kittie,  asked  his  sister  if 
any one were at home  at  Mrs. Turner’s; 
Kittie said  “No.”

“The house is  on  fire,  then,” said the 

Professor excitedly, and off  he rushed.

Smoke  was 

indeed  pouring  from the 
lower  front  window  in  clouds.  Kittie 
saw Karl  enter  where  it  was  thickest, I 
and with a little cry she fainted.

Notwithstanding  all  that  neighborly 
hands could do,  the little  house soon lay 
| a  heap  of  smoking  embers 
the I 
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The fright and the heat were too much J 
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j  very ill.  Good Mrs.  Kemper  ceased  not 
to  rejoice 
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The  next  day after the fire, Cara said, 

gravely:

“I should  not wonder  if  my little fire 

made the large one.”

“What  do  you  mean,  Cara?”  asked 

Mrs.  Turner,  severely.

Karl 

looked  at  her  surprised.  How 
could she use that tone to the little angel!
“Nothing  much,”  cried  Cara,  coolly, 
“only  yesterday,  when  you  were  away, 
and Kittie was  here,  1  went  home  and 
built a fire in the parlor grate.  1  love  a 
fire!  But it became so warm  that  I  cov­
ered it with the large rug, and came over 
here.”

They were all  horrified,  and Mrs.  Tur­

ner burst into tears.

“That 

is  just  the  way it  goes,”  she 
said;  “everything  I  have burned  up  by 
the mischief of that child.  1  sometimes 
think she is possessed  of  an  evil  spirit. 
She ruins all my things and even Kittie’s. 
She tried to set  the  table  one day  when 
I was expecting company,  and  the castor 
was too heavy  for her to move,  so she cut 
a big hole  in  my damask  table-cloth  to 
slip over the castor.  And  another  time 
I went to put on a silk  dress,  and all the 
buttons had  been  cut  off,  leaving great 
holes.  Cara  had 
them  on  her  button 
string.  Another time  she took a beauti­
ful  lace  handkerchief  of  Kittie’s,  and 
made it into a wedding-dress for her doll. 
And she knows  it  is wrong  just as well 
as you and  I.  Now  she  has  finished it 
up by burning  the  house  down, and al­
most killing Kittie!”

Mrs.  Kemper was  dumb with surprise. 
“It is true,”  said  Cara,  coolly.
“Oh,  Cara!”  said  the  Professor,  re­
threw  herself 

proachfully.  The  child 
in his arms, crying pitifully.

“Why,  I never saw her do such a thing 
before  in  my  life,”  said  Mrs.  Turner, 
surprised  out  of  her  tears,  “except  to 
Kittie.  Kittie  can  subdue  her  worst 
passion.”

“My brother  is  wonderful  with  chil­
dren,” said Mrs. Kemper,  proudly.  The 
Professor’s  face  was  crimson  at  these 
remarks.  He  rose  and  took  Cara  into 
the garden.

“Oh,  my  little  Cara,”  he said,  “is it 
true that  you do such dreadful things?” 
“Yes,”  said  Cara,  folding  her  small 
hands in her lap,  “my aunt is truthful.” 
The Professor  hastened  confusedly to 
assure the small lady  that he did not in­
tend it that way.

“She did not tell you half,”  Cara went 
on. 
“ 1 have annoyed  her  many  times.
I feel something here,”  laying  her hand 
on  her  heart,  “ which 
tells  me  to  vex 
them.”

She  was uncanny,  sitting there.  Such 
a wee maid, yet with such an old expres­
sion  on  her  beautiful  face.  And  the 
Professor began to wish  she  were  more 
of a child. 
If she  would  only  use  bad 
grammar even!  But Cara’s rhetoric  was 
perfect.

“But do you like to do it,  Cara?”
“No,  1  am 

repentant  afterwards, 
especially when  I  ruin  Kittie’s  things. 
Kittie is a pure  white  angel!”  she  said 
softly,  looking  up  into  the  Professor’s 
face with her large deep  eyes.  He took 
her in his arms and kissed her.

“I  am  very  sorry  I  burned  up 

the 
house,” said Cara,  dreamily,  “but  I  am 
glad we are here with you.  May we stay 
here always,  Kittie and I?”

“Always,  if you  will,”  said  the  Pro­

fessor fervently,  thinking of  Kittie.

“Good.  Now tell me the«story of  the 
ivory virgin.”  And so he told her again I

the beautiful story  of  Pygmalion’s love.
Kittie  was  ill  for  several  days,  and 
the Professor was in  misery all  the time. 
First he would long for  her  to  be  well 
enough  to  come  to  the 
then 
tremble at the thought  of  sitting  oppo­
site her,  and having her great  eyes fixed 
on him.  He had not seen her  since  the 
fire,  until one day,  Bettie said:

table; 

“Karl, our guest is  sitting  up  to-day, 

and wishes to see you.”

“Bettie!” he said,  amazed,  “Bettie!” 
“Yes,  yes,  Karl;  I  know  it is hard for 

you,  but she wishes it.”

Still he hesitated.
“I cannot,” he said.  But  Bettie  took 
him by the hand,  and pushed him gently 
to the door of her pretty sitting-room.

“Enter, Karl,” she said,  and left  him. 
The door was open,  and Kittie saw him.
"Professor,”  she  said  earnestly,  “do 

come in. 

I want to see you.”

“ 1 shall come,” he said.
“ You must let me tell  you  how thank­
ful,  how grateful  I am to you. 
If  it had 
not  been  for  you,  we  would  have  lost 
everything.  But you risked  your  life!” 
and she sobbed.

“Kittie,  my child,” said the Professor. 
Then he stopped.  What a dreadful  mis­
take!

“That  is  right,”  said  Kitty,  gently, 
seeing his confusion;  “ 1 love to be called 
a child.”  There was a pause,  then  she 
went on:  “ And  how  good  you  are  to 
Cara,  too.  She  loves  you  dearly,  and 
she so seldom tak es a fancy to  any  one. 
She says that she  loves you  as  much  as 
she  does  me,  which is  a  great  compli­
ment!”  and Kitty laughed a little through 
her tears.

“I take it so,”  he said simply.
The  next  day  he  was  more  reserved 
than  ever.  He  did  not  come  in to see 
her,  but he talked to Cara about her, and 
sent her some flowers.
Mrs.  Kemper’s  hospitable  soul  would 
not admit of their leaving,  even  though 
Kittie was well and insisted upon  going. 
At length,  however, they were persuaded 
to remain  until another home was ready; 
and thus began weeks of pure happiness 
for the little  household.
The Professor  took  long  walks  with 
Cara, and explained  something  wonder­
ful  to  the  child  about  everything they 
saw.  When she grew  tired,  he  carried 
her.
Kittie  regarded  him  curiously.  He 
was a mystery to her,  but Bettie and her 
husband saw  Karl’s  love  with  mingled 
feelings  of  surprise,  delight,  and pain. 
They were  delighted  at  the  change  in 
him,  but dared not  hope  either  that  he 
would gain courage to ask her  hand,  or 
that she would accept him.  She  had so 
much  younger  and  handsomer  suitors. 
Still they  waited.
Cara had a faculty  of  making  it  very 
embarrassing for Kittie and the  Profess­
or,  especially  at  the  table.  Once  she 
said:
“Professor,  why  do  you  look  at  my 
sister so much?  Is it that you think she 
is  beautiful?”
“Oh,  Cara  Haven!” 
laughed  Kittie 
gayly.
“It is, indeed,  Cara.” said the Profess­
or,  and after that Kittie  developed  great 
adroitness in warding  off  and  parrying 
her sister’s remarks.  Once she failed.
“ Kittie,”  said  Cara,  one  evening  at 
tea,  “last night I heard Mr.  Carroll  ask 
you to marry him. 
I am  very  glad  you 
did not. 
I  want you to  marry  the  Pro­
fessor.”
This  was  too  much.  Kittie  blushed 
crimson  with 
shame,  and  everyone 
The  Professor 
listened  breathlessly. 
leaned  forward with eagerness, his whole 
face white with  excitement.
“And  I  also  want  you  to  marry the 
Professor.  Will  you,  my  Kittie?” 
There was a deep  hush.  What  wooing!
Kittie raised her large eyes, and looked 
at  him.
“Yes,  K arl,”  she  said,  sim ply.  And 
w hat  w inning! 

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AMONG  THE TRACE.

ABOUSD THE  STATE.

Otsego—Derhammer &  Sperry succeed 

House Bros,  in  the grocery  business.

Jackson—Homer Wilson  has  sold  his 
coal and lime business to  Lake  &  Low- 
rey.

Shephard—Wood  Bros,  are  succeeded 
by Martha J.  Bayles in  the grocery busi­
ness.
Harrietta—Stanley & Lennaut succeed 
J. J.  Stanley in the flour and  feed  busi­
ness.

Homer—J. A.  Clark  &  Son  are  suc­
ceeded  by  J.  A.  Clark  in  the  grocery 
business.

Traverse  City — A.  W.  Jahrans  has 
bought the retail cigar business of  G. J. 
Phillips.

Harrietta—C.  L.  DeLeon  &  Co.  have 
removed their drug  stock  from  Boon  to 
this place.

Lawrence—Kelly & Rowland  are  suc­
ceeded by Kelly &  Boweu  in  the  hard­
ware business.

Alba—P.  T.  Baldwin  &  Sons  succeed 
Peter  Baldwin  in  the wagon  manufac­
turing business.

Sutton’s  Bay—W.  S.  Johnson  <&  Co., 
general  dealers,  are  succeeded  by  the 
Johnson-Litney Co.

McBain—H. L.  McCurdy & Co., general 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  H.  L.  McCurdy 
continuing the business.

Manton—W.  Elevier has  assigned  his 
general stock to M.  F.  White,  who holds 
a SI,000 mortgage on  the stock.

Traverse  City—Ed.  Gilbert  has  pur­
chased an interest in  the  cigar  business 
of C.  S.  Cavis,  and the new firm  will  be 
known as C.  S. Cavis & Co.

Ithaca—Frank  P.  Merrill  has  pur­
chased  the  furniture  and  undertaking 
stock  of Win. Pullen  and  will  continue 
the business at the same location.

Manistee—A Zimmer’s  drug stoie  was 
closed last Friday night uuder  a  chattel 
mortgage by A.  H.  Lyman.  Other mort­
gages  were filed to Mrs.  Zimmer and  Mr. 
Schreiner.

Perrinton—B.  F.  Owen  has  retired 
from the firm of  Owen  &  Pinkney,  gen­
eral dealers.  The  business will  be  con­
tinued by the  remaining  partner  under 
his own name.

Stanton—C.  L.  Grace,  who  is a practi­
cal tinsmith  and  an  experienced  hard­
ware man,  has rented the Paine building 
and will  put in a stock of hardware, with 
tin shop  in connection.

Harrietta—H.  A.  Holmes  has  retired 
from the firm of Razek  &  Holmes, deal­
ers in  general  merchandise.  The  busi­
ness will  be continued by  the  remaining 
partner under the style of  U.  Razek.

Cross  Village—Sburtieff  Bros,  have 
dissolved  partnership,  both  continuing 
in  the  general  merchandising  business. 
O.  H.  will remain at  the  old  stand  and 
Will  M. will open  up in the Bovee block.
Forest Grove—Mr.  Koopman  has  sold 
his  interest  in 
the  firm  of  Tenhoor & 
Koopman,  dealers  in  general  merchan­
dise,  to H.  Van de Bunte.  The new firm 
will  be  known  as  Tenhoor  & Van  de J 
Bunte.

Ithaca—Geo.  Richardson  has  sold  his 
drug stock to Chas. E. Goodwin, formerly j 
engaged in the  drug  business  at  Nash-j 
ville,  who will continue the  business  at I 
the  same  location.  The  consideration \ 
was $3,200.

East Jordan—J. E. Chew has purchased j 
the  interest  of  Geo.  Bates  in  the East I 
Jordan  Feed Store.  Mr.  Chew  will  now

run the business on his  own  hook.  Mr. 
Chew has been in charge of  the business 
here for two years.

Benton  Harbor—W.  E.  Root  &  Co. 
have sold their  drug  stock  to  Harry  L. 
Bird,  who will continue the  business  at 
the  same  location.  Mr.  Bird  has  been 
employed  until  lately  as  prescription 
clerk for Walker & Co., of Detroit.

Cadillac—The carpenters and  painters 
have nearly  completed  the  work  of  re­
modeling the  J.  W.  Cummer  hardware 
store into a well arranged  establishment 
for dry goods. 
It  will  be supplied with 
a stock of goods in that  line  during  the 
present month by C.  R.  Smith.

Boon—The  merchandise, chattels and 
building  of  Joseph  Matevia  have  been 
sold at sheriff’s  sale.  The  merchandise 
was  purchased  by Monroe Cornwell and 
the charcoal  wood was  bought  by A.  W. 
Newark,  of  Cadillac.  Something 
less 
than $5,000 was realized from  the  prop­
erty sold.

St.  Johns—Q.  G.  Wickes  &  Son,  gro­
cers,  have  failed.  The  firm  has  about 
$3,500  in  accounts,  on  which  probably 
not  more  than  $1,000  can  be  realized. 
The store has  been  taken  possession  of 
by A.  Hall,  to whom a  chattel  mortgage 
was given  to secure him  for  money  ad­
vanced. 
It is doubtful if  the unsecured 
creditors  will  realize  more than 25 cents 
on the dollar at the most.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Burt—McDonogh  &  Miller are  build­

ing a small sawmill at this place.

Mt.  Pleasant—The  Mt.  Pleasant Lum­
ber Co.  is making repairs  to  its  mill  to 
the extent of $1,000,  and is putting  in  a 
stock  of 
to  Chippewa 
River.

logs  tributary 

Saginaw — Notwithstanding  the  close 
times and general  business  depression  a 
large quantity of cedar will  be put in on 
the lines of the roads north and west of the 
Saginaw valley.  This will give  employ­
ment to a large number of men.

the  machinery  of 

Clare—W.  E.  Currie  last  week  pur­
chased  of  A.  J.  Doherty,  of  Clare,  for 
$800, 
the  Tonkin- 
Harris miil at Tonkin,  and has removed 
it  to  West  Vernon,  where  he  will set it 
up and  manufacture a  quantity  of  tim­
ber.

West Branch—Stewart & Co.’s shingle 
mill was burned  two weeks ago.  The site 
has been leased  by  Bartholomew  Bros., 
who will  build a  mill  and  manufacture 
shingles and heading  for the Stewart Co. 
on contract.  Bartholomew Bros,  own  a 
complete  shingle  mill  outfit  at  Welch 
Station,  which  will be  shipped  to  West 
Branch.  The  Stewart  Co.  has  been 
recognized  under the firm  name of F.  W. 
Freeman & Co.

Rochester—Edward E.  Davis  and Fos­
ter Macgurn  have  purchased  the  woolen 
mill at Stony Creek,  near  this place,  and 
merged the business  into  a  stock  com­
pany under the style of  the Stony Creek 
Woolen Co.,  with a capital  stock of $10,- 
000.  The new company  will continue to 
manufacture the lines  of  cassimeres for 
which the mill  is  somewhat  celebrated, 
and in addition thereto will  manufacture 
pantaloons from its own cloth.
Manistee — The  salt  trade 
is  rather 
quiet.  The  boats  are  still 
taking  out 
some from the blocks  at  the  lower  end 
of the lake,  but  the  lake  is  now  frozen 
and boats cannot get  up any further than 
the  Eureka  Lumber  Co.  dock.  Tom 
Percy,  of  Ludington,  has taken the con­
to  put  down
tract  from  Louis  Sands 

another salt well,  and  has begun opera­
tions.  One  of  Sands’  wells  gave  out 
over  a  year  ago,  and  they  have  now 
determined to abandon  it and  put  down 
a new one.

Saginaw—The lumbering  business has 
laid off until after the holidays.  Beyond 
closing up the accounts of  the  year and 
attending  to  logging  by  those  engaged 
therein,  there is  nothing  doing.  There 
seems to be an impression, however, that 
business will slowly  get on its feet after 
the new year has  arrived.  The  planing 
mills and factories,  with few exceptions, 
are  running  short  hoars  and  short- 
handed.  E.  Germain 
is  filling  some 
large  foreign  contracts,  which  enables 
him  to  keep  quite  a  large  force  busy, 
but he says  domestic  business  is  light. 
Others report orders  light  and  business 
rather spasmodic.  Mill and factory men 
are  keeping  as  many  as  possible  em­
ployed at least a portion of the time, and 
thus far the  Saginaw  valley  is  happily 
exempt to a considerable extent from the 
destitution and distress  incident to idle­
ness that prevails  to  such  an  alarming 
extent in  other  manufacturing  centers.
Manistee—Filer  &  Sons  are  running 
the usual number  of  camps this  winter, 
and are also buying logs  along the main 
river.  They  are  also  running  a  camp 
near Baldwin and will haul  the  logs  in 
during  the  summer by  rail.  The State 
Lumber  Co.  is  running  a  camp  on  the 
Manistee  & Northeastern Railroad,  and 
also one on the Manistee & Grand Rapids. 
The Canfield & Wheeler Co.  is  not  run­
ning  camps,  but  has  contracted  about 
four  or  five  milliou  feet  from  jobbers 
along the river,  and  will run  a  camp  in 
pine on the Manistee &  Northeastern  as 
soon as navigation  opens.  The Canfield 
Salt & Lumber Co.  is running  one  camp 
on  the  Manistee  &  Grand  Rapids  Rail­
road.  The  Union  Lumber  Co.  is doing 
most of its logging at Freesoil  this  win­
ter, and is hauling in logs  by  rail  daily 
from that point.  The  Babcock  Lumber 
Co.  is only running  one  camp  on  cedar 
this winter,  as quite a stock of  logs  was 
left over.

O ysters  a s  F ood .

A large number of persons continue to 
use  oysters  for  food  during  the entire 
year without  regard  to  the  months  in 
which the  letter “r” occurs.  There  are 
also a considerably laige number who be­
lieve  that  the  luscious  bivalve is more 
palatable, more nutritious  and  more di­
gestible during the mouths from Septem­
ber  1  to the following  May.  And  there 
are some reasons  for  such  belief.  The 
oyster,  like other members of the animal 
world,  finds  within  its  reach  a  larger 
amouut of  its  special  food  during  the 
warmer season of the  year,  aud  thereby 
acquires  more  rapidly and  in  a  larger 
measure  the  admirable  qualities  which 
so commend  it  to  the  human stomach. 
Speaking roughly, a quart of oysters con­
tains, on  the  average,  about  the  same 
quantity of actual nutritive substance as 
a quart of milk, or  a pound  of very lean 
beef, or a pound and a half of  fresh cod­
fish, or two-thirds of a  pound  of  bread. 
But while the weight of actual nutriment 
in  the  different quantities  of  food  ma­
terial named is very nearly the same, the 
quality is widely different.  That of  the 
very lean meat or codfish consists mostly 
of  what are called, in chemical language, 
protein compounds, or  “flesh formers”— 
the substances which  make  blood, mus­
cle, tendon, bone, brain, and other nitrog­
enous  tissues.  That  of  the  bread con­
tains  but  little  of  these,  and  consists 
chiefly of  starch,  with  a  little  fat  and 
other  compounds which  serve  the body 
as  fuel  and  supply  it  with  heat  and 
muscular  power.  The  nutritive  sub­
stance of  oysters  contains  considerable 
of both the flesh-forming  and  the  more

7»  t

especially heat  and  force-giving ingredi­
ents.  Oysters come nearer to  milk than 
almost  any  other  common  food;  their 
values for supplying the  body with  ma­
terial  to  build  up  its  parts,  repair  its 
wastes and  furnish it  with heat  and  en­
ergy  would  be pretty nearly the same.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—Home-grown stock  is  almost entirely 
exhausted, so that dealers are compelled to go to 
New York and West Virginia for  their supplies. 
The New  England  crop  has  been  pretty  well 
picked up, and  the  crop  of  the Empire State is 
believed  to  be  nearly  exhausted.  Baldwins, 
Greenings,  Ben  Davis  and Wine  Sap  varieties 
command $l@4.25  per bbl.

Beans—Pea and medium are active and strong, 
with  increasing  demand.  Handlers  pay  $1.25 
for  country  cleaned  and  $1.40 
for  country 
picked, holding  city  cleaned  at  $1.55 in carlots 
and $1.65 in  less quantity.

Butter—Lower  and  duller  than  a week  ago. 
Dealers  pay 17@18c for choice  dairy, holding at 
19@20c.  Creamery  is  dull  and  slow  sale  at 
22®24c.

Cabbage—Home grown, $5@6 per 100.
Carrots—20c per bushel.
Cranberries—Cape  Cod  are  a little  stronger, 
commanding $2.25 per tu. and $6.25 per bbl.  Jer­
seys are in moderate demand at (6.

Celery—Home  grown  commands  15@18c  per 

doz.

Eggs—The  market  is  a  little  stronger than a 
week  ago.  Handlers  hold  fresh  at  22c  and 
pickled at 20c per doz.

Grapes—Malaga  are  in  moderate  demand  at 
$4.50 per keg of 55  lbs.  net.  California  Tokays 
are  in  fair  demand  at  $2.50&2.75  per crate of 4 
5-lb. baskets.

Honey—White  clover  commands  17c  per  lb.‘ 
dark  buckwheat  brings  14c.  Both  grades  are 
very scarce and hard to get.

Lettuce—Grand Rapids  forcing, 1214c per lb.
Nats—Walnuts  and  butternuts,  75c  per  bn. 

Hickory nuts, $1.10 per bu.

Onions—Handlers  pay  40c,  bolding  at  50c 
per bu.  Spanish  are  in  small  demand  at $1.25 
per 40 lb. crate.

Potatoes—There is no  change in the condition 
of the market  from  a  week  ago.  Dealers  con­
tinue to pay 40c here and  35c  at  outside buying 
points, the jobbiug price to the retail trade being 
50c.  Considerable  quantities  of  Red  Rose  are 
being stored away for the seeding demand when 
it starts up in the South a  little  later.  There is 
no indication of higher prices in the near future.

Squash—Hubbard, H4c per lb.
Sweet  Potatoes—Kiln dried  Jerseys  command 

$4  per bbl.

Turnips—25c per bu.

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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  i»  complete,  and  the  largest 

and finest  in  the city.

THE  MICHTGA-N  TOADESMAN

5

G ripsack B rigade.

M.  M.  Mallory takes  the  position  at 
Hawkins &  Company’s  made vacant  by 
the retirement of W.  F.  Blake.

M. M.  Manley, who has covered North­
ern Indiana for some  time  past  for  the 
Reeder Bros. Shoe  Co., is  succeeded  by 
F.  L.  Palmer.

J. P- Yisner left yesterday for Chicago 
and will spend a week or ten days in the 
house of John A.  Tolman Co., posting up 
and getting out his samples.

Joe F.  Reed,  with  H.  Leonard & Sons, 
has been  called  to  Sioux City,  Iowa,  on 
account  of  the  death  of  his  mother, 
which occurred Christmas morning.
B.  F.  Parmenter.  formerly  with 

the 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.,  has signed  to 
cover about  the  same  territory  for  the 
Lemon & Wheeler Company during 1894.
C. C.  Bunting (Bunting & Davis)  spent 
Christmas  and  New  Years  with  his 
mother and brother  at Hamburgh,  N.  Y. 
Ilis brother is president of the Hamburgh 
Canning Co.

Edward E.  Davis,  who has covered  the 
trade of Eastern  Michigan for  Stanton & 
Morey,  of  Detroit,  for  fourteen  years, 
has resigned to  take  the  management of 
a woolen  mill at Stony Creek.

E.  R.  Wills,  who  has  covered  Central 
Michigan  for some  time for the Lemon & 
Wheeler Company,  is succeeded by  F.  M. 
Scott,  who  formerly  covered  the  saun 
territory for the same house.

Clarence  F.  Waters  has  signed  with 
the Rogers Shoe Co., of Toledo,  to  cover 
the  retail  trade  of  Southern Ohio.  He 
will  continue  to  reside  in  this city for 
the  present,  but  will  eventually return 
to the Maumee City.

W.  F.  Blake,  whose  retirement  from 
the  road  force of  Hawkins  <&  Company 
was  noted  a  couple  of  weeks  ago,  has 
associated himself  with  the  Musselman 
Grocer  Co.,  covering  practically 
the 
same territory  as he has in  the past.

R.  B.  Hanna,  who  has  been  covering 
Western  Michigan  and  Northern Indiana 
for the Star Cigar Co., of Detroit, has en­
gaged to  travel  for  the American Cigar 
Co.,  of  Westfield,  Mass.  His  territory 
comprises Michigan,  Wisconsin  and Chi­
cago.

E.  B.  Stanley,  the  Sherman  general 
dealer,  spent New Year’s  in  the city,  ac­
companied  by  his  wife, 
the  guest  of 
Frank E.  Chase and wife, at their charm­
ing home at 51 Charles street.  Mr. Stan­
ley improved  the  opportunity  to  select 
his spring line  of  shoes  from  the  sam­
ples of Mr.  Chase.

President Waldron  has instructed Sec­
retary  Mills to call  a  special  meeting of 
the Board of Directors  of  the  Michigan 
Knights of  the Grip,  to  be  held  at  the 
Hudson  House,  Lansing,  Saturday,  Jan. 
6, at 10 o’clock in  the forenoon,  at which 
time the standing committees for the en­
suing year will  be announced.

Some  Manton  wag.  anticipating  Hub. 
Baker’s embarking in  the  meat  business 
at Lansing,  posted the  following  notice 
around town  a couple of days in advance 
of his  final  visit to that place  last  week: 
“Dogs Wanted—A  fair price will  be paid 
for a few  fat dogs,  delivered at the Com­
mercial  Hotel,  Dec.  28.  None  wanted 
but  those  suitable  for  good  sausage. 
Hub.  Baker.”

“Hub” Baker,  who  has  purchased  the 
meat market of C.  J.  Harris, at  Lansing, 
made his farewell trip  last week,  accom­
panied  by his  successor,  John  Shields, 
who will  cover the trade of that territory 
every two weeks,  spending  every alter­

nate  Sunday  at  Petoskey  or  Traverse 
City.  Mr.  Baker  has  traveled  for  the 
Lemon & Wheeler  Company about  nine 
years  and  leaves  many  friends  among 
the trade who  regret  to  part with their 
old friend.  T h e T radesm an joins with 
the trade in  bidding the veteran  traveler 
farewell  and in expressing the hope that 
his future may be  marked  by happiness 
and success.
H.  S.  Robertson,  who  has  covered  a 
portion of the territory of  Southwestern 
Michigan for the Olney &  Judson Grocer 
Co.  since the organization of  the  house, 
has been ordered  to Waukesha,  Wis.,  by 
his physician,  and on his  return  will de­
vote his attention  to  inside  duties  con­
nected  with 
the  house.  His  territory 
will  be  covered  by  John  Cumins,  who 
has made for himself  an  enviable  repu­
tation as  the  Northern  Michigan  sales­
man for the house,  while  the  trade  for­
merly covered  by Mr.  Cumins will  be vis­
ited  by David S.  Haugh, who has covered 
this  route  for  the  past fourteen years. 
The change in  routes  and  men  involves 
the removal of  Mr.  Cumins  to  this  city 
from  Traverse  City,  where  he  has  re­
sided  for the past two years.
P u rely  P erson al.

James  E.  Granger,  Secretary  of 

the 
Stone-Ordean  Co.,  wholesale  grocers  of 
Duluth,  was in  town  through  the  holi­
days,  visiting his relatives and  renewing 
his acquaintance with old  friends.

Daniel  Abbott  and  E.  A.  Owen,  both 
of  whom  have  been  seriously  ill  with 
typhoid fever for nearly two months, are
on the rapid road  to  recovery  and  will 
probably  be able to  resume their former 
connection  with  T h e  T radesm an  with 
the next issue.

The office and  traveling  force  of  the 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  presented 
Win.  Judson  with  a  handsome  ebony 
gold  headed  cane Christmas  day.  The 
recipient was  so  overcome  by  the  gift 
and  the  spirit which  inspired it that he 
was unable to respond.

Mr.  Vernor’s  Successor. 

Governor Rich  has  appointed Fred W. 
R.  Perry,  of  Detroit,  a  member of the 
State Board  of  Pharmacy for five years, 
to  succeed  James  Vernor,  whose  term 
had expired and who  did not desire a re­
appointment.

It  is  probable  that  this  appointment 
was dictated  by Mr.  Vernor, as his prom­
inence as a politician of  the  Republican 
persuasion enabled  him to secure the ap­
pointment of  S.  E.  Parkill  a  year  ago, 
and also placed  him  in  a  position  to se­
lect his own  successor.  Mr.  Perry  is  a 
representative retail  druggist of  Detroit 
and  will  probably make a good record on 
the Board. 
If he does half as well as his 
predecessor,  the drug trade  of  the State 
will never have occasion to regret his ap­
pointment.

How  She  Signed.

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
An old  woman of undeniably Celtic or­
igin entered a down-town  savings  bank 
ti e other day and walked up to the desk.
“ Do  you want  to  draw  or  deposit?” 
asked the gentlemanly clerk.
“Naw,  Oi  doan’t.  Oi  wants 
ter  put 
some in,” said she.
The clerk  pushed  up  the book for her 
signature, and, indicating the place, said: 
“Sign on this line,  please.”

“Above it or below it?”
“Just above it.”
“Me whole name?”
“Yes.
“Before Oi was married?”
“No, just as it is now.”
“Oi can’t wroite.”

S tea d y   E n croach m en t  o f  th e   D ep a rt­

From the New  York Sun.

m e n t  S to res.

in 

The big dry goods bazaars  are  becom­
ing more and more a menace and a terror 
to New York business houses and manu­
facturers.  There is something decidedly 
startling in the ease with  which  the  big 
bazaars  produce  consternation  and dis­
may in the breasts of the most  conserva-
tive  manufacturers 
town.  Wine 
agents  who  have  been  established  for 
half a century,  and who are  stiff-necked 
and  autocratic 
in  their  dealings  with 
customers,  have  been  put  into  a flurry 
that threatens to brush the cobwebs from 
their Burgundy bottles this  year  by the 
sudden incursion into their  field  of  the 
dry goods  houses,  which  now  sell  wine 
by the bottle at the exact wholesale price 
by the case.  An even more  pronounced 
stir  was  occasioned 
last  week  by  the 
latest move  of  these  innovators.  They 
offered  for  the  Christmas  holidays  the 
wares of the great silversmiths  and jew­
elers at prices far below the retail figures 
of the  manufacturers  themselves.  The 
goods are genuine in  every  way,  and  are 
the  makers’  names,  but 
stamped  with 
the  dry  goods  houses, 
their 
agents,  have  purchased  them 
in  great 
quantities and are now disposing of them 
by  the  piece  at  wholesale  prices.  A 
shopper who went to one  of  the  largest 
jewelry stores in New York decided upon 
purchasing  a  manicure  set  of  conven­
tional  pattern,  the retail  price  of  which 
was $11.50.  An hour  later  she  saw pre­
cisely the same style of set,  made  by the 
same  maker,  at  a  dry  goods establish­
ment,  for $8.92. 
It would  be  difficult to 
say  in  which  direction 
the  dry  goods 
houses  will  make  their  next  advance. 
There seems to be a unanimity of  move­
ment among them.

through 

T he S u g a r S itu ation .

Refined sugars declined l-16@3-16c iast 
Tuesday and  %c Saturday.  Early  Tues­
day  morning  the  refiners  reduced  their 
quotations au  even  J£c,  placing  granu­
lated on  the basis of 4c in New  York and 
$4.30 per 100 pounds in this market.  This 
is the lowest price ever touched  by  gran­
ulated  in  this  country, except from  Oct. 
27 to  Dec.  13, 1891,  and  fiom  Jan.  12  to 
March  7,  1892,  when  it  sold  for  even 
money  in  New  York.

The decline of %c inside of  eight days 
is  probably due  to  a variety of  causes, 
not the least of which is an open  rupture 
between the Mollenhauer Sugar Refining 
Co.  and the Trust.  Of  course,  the effect 
a reduction in  price will  have  on  tariff 
legislation is a feature  of  no  small  im­
portance,  while the  speculative  tenden­
cies of the Havermeyer crowd  is  not far 
in the background.

F rom  O ut o f T ow n.

Calls  have  been 

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

Thos.  Curry, Hudsonville.
C.  W. Williams,  Clarksville.
J. L.  Barker, Big Rapids.
W. R.  McMurray,  Ada.
Bert Wilson, Petoskey.
E.  B. Stanley, Sherman.

C.  N.  Rapp  &  Co.  have  leased  the 
ground  floor  of Wm. Alden Smith’s new 
block,  on the corner  of  South Ionia and 
Island streets,  and  will occupy  the  same 
as soon as the  additional  stores  can  be 
erected and the roof completed.

Join  the  Commercial Credit Company 
and consult their 1894  book  and  reports 
before opening or carrying  over  any ac­
counts.

J. O’Connor has opened a grocery store 
at  Carleton  Center.  The  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company  furnished  the  stock. |

To  W hom   It  M ay  C oncern.

On and  after Jan.  1, 1894,  the compos­
ing  room of  T h e  Mic h ig a n  T radesm an 
will  be open  to  any  competent  printer, 
and  no rules  or  regulations  other  than 
those  made  by  this  company will  have 
force therein.

T ra desm an  Company,

E.  A. Stowe,  President.

FOR  SALE.  W ANTED,  ETC.

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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._______
YITANTED—TO CORRESPOND WITH  GOOD 
y “ 
physician who wants good  country prac­
tice.  Must come  well  recommended.  Address
G. T., care Michigan Tradesman._______  841
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, Goblevllle, Mich. 
OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—SMALL  SAW- 
mill in Florida, and stock  of  merchandise 
in Michigan, for good farm.  W.  J.  Richards & 
Co , Mo-cow, Wien. 
PARTNER  WANTED—I  WISH  TO  ADD  A 
|  -l 
12.000 shoe stock and my time to  a  general 
I stock in good town.  Must be reliable party.  Or 
I will exchange  $1,200  shoe stock  for  dry good». 
I Address No  843, care Michigan Tradesman.  843
or  sa le—bakery  and  co nk ectio n-
ery business in  Big  Rapids, Mich., with or 
I without  property:  doing  a  first class  paying 
ill  health  the only cause for selling, 
i business, 
j Address D. F. Emerson, dig Rapids, Mich.  838
P GR  SALE OREXCHANGE—STORE BUILD- 
ing and  fixtures  also  dwelling  house,  in 
I Rood location in  Saginaw county.  Address No.
| 839, care Michigan Tradesman,__________ 839
F or  e x c h a n g e—fo r c ity ok co untry
real estate, a new stock of clothing and fur­
nishing  goods,  invoicing  from  $5,001 to $6 too. 
Address No. 832, care Michigan Tradesman.  832 
OR  SALE—LAND  SUITABLE  FOR  SUM- 
mer  resort,  comprising  50  acres, with  210 
rods of water front, on one of  the  inland  lakes 
near Petoskey.  Excelleut brook trout;  bass and 
pickerel fishing;  fine  shore  for bathing or boat­
ing.  A  better  investment  for  capital  than  a 
campaign fund.  Address Resort, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
835
F or  sa le  or  ex c h a n g e- stock  o f
general  merchandise.  Address  222  Wash-
ington ave„ North, Lansing. Mich._____   830
CLEAN  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  FOR 
Sale;  good  trade,  cheap  for  spot  cash; 
the only delivery wagon in  town.  Stock  about 
$2,50(i. 
investigate.  Address  box  15,  Centre-
ville,  Mich._________  
820
r p o   EXCHANGE—FOR  STOCK  OF  CLOTH' 
J- 
ing or boots and shoes, two good hard  tim­
ber farms of eighty acres  each.  Thirty-five and 
seventy acres  improved.  Title  clear.  Address 
Thos. Skelton, Big  Rapids. 
\ \ T  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. 
\ \ T ANTED—TO  EXCHANGE  A  VALUABLE 
V T 
farm of 160 acres  for merchandise or per­
sonal  property.  The  farm  is  located  near  a 
thriving town, 45 acres  improved, balance heav­
ily timbered.  Address  No.  805,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman._____________________ 
SITUATIONS  WANTED. 

819

805

821

YI7ANTED—SITUATION  IN A FIRST-CLASS 
v T  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, 
YVrANTED—A  practical  druggist, with  some 
v t 
capital, to take charge of a first-class drug 
store.  Address  C.  L.  Brundage,  opera  house 
block, Muskegon, Mich. 

756

829

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A  B ig  D r iv e
INALI  SILK  (SAL  EDGE)  RIBBONS.

Having purchased  a  large  lot of 
All  Silk  Ribbons  at  the great per­
emptory sale in  New York for cash, 
we are enabled  to offer you the fol­
lowing bargains:
No. 
5...............................40c
No. 
7............................... 52c
9............................... 6 8 c
No. 
No.  12...............................84c
Or we will  assort  you a box each 
of Nos. 5, 7, 9 and  12, at  5254c  aver­
age, and  you  can  select  your own 
colors.
We make  a  specialty of  Ribbons, 
and yon will  find  that we  have the 
largest and  most complete  stock of 
these goods in the State.
We  solicit  your  inspection  or 
mail orders.

Cori,  Knott &  Co.,
GRAND  RAPIDS,  fUCH.

20-22  No.  Division  St.,

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MICHIGAN  CHEESE.

S tro n g   C on d em n ation   o f  th e  P ro d u ct 

P ecu lia r  to   th is  S ta te.

I  am  glad  that  Michigan  cheese  got 
such a black eye at the World’s  Fair.  It 
is the best thing  that  ever  happened to 
our  Michigan  dairymen. 
It  will  wake 
them  up  to  a  knowledge  of where they 
are drifting.  Some time  ago I prepared 
a paper on  “Export Cheese” and  read  it 
at the meeting  of  the  Michigan  Dairy­
men’s  Association  at  Lansing.  Manu­
facturing cheese  for  the  European  mar­
ket  at  that  time  did  not seem  to dawn 
upon  the  cheesemakers,  and  very little 
interest was taken in the  subject 
1  im­
agined I could  picture  the  future  pros­
pects of the cheese industry of this State, 
and I have not been mistaken.

The present system  of  manufacturing 
cheese throughout Michigan  will,  if  con­
tinued,  be  preparing  the  way  for  the 
cheesemakers’  own  funeral.  Something 
must be done.  Merely  reading papers or 
discussions at a dairymen’s  meeting will 
never strike the fatal  spot.  My opinion 
is that the only  way to reach what we are 
after is to go from  factory  to factory and 
teach the operators  how  and  what  to do. 
Hire  some  one  who  has  a 
thorough 
knowledge  of  the  way  export  cheese 
should be made,  have him  go  from  fac­
tory  to  factory  aud  manufacture  the 
cheese  in  the  cheesemakers’  presence. 
You may talk and  talk,  lecture  and  lec­
ture, but it will not have the same effect. 
How much quicker  we  all  catch  on  an 
idea or a fact by seeing it  demonstrated! 
Reading  about  cheesemaking  is  some­
thing like  reading  the  Bible—every one 
forms his own  opinion  and,  perhaps,  no 
two alike.

We must have  a  uniform  method  and 
a uniform cheese.  It must  be firm, close, 
meaty  and  perfect 
in  flavor.  A  soft, 
mushy, porous cheese is not fit for either 
home consumption or foreign market.

in  Canada. 

Cheese such as are mostly made in  this 
State to-day  are soon  ripe  and,  likewise, 
soon rotten. 
I have been in  the  cheese 
business  now  for  about  twenty  years. 
Fourteen years  of  this  time  I  spent  in 
making  cheese 
I  think  1 
ought to know what export cheese should 
be. 
I have  bought  and  shipped a great 
many  boxes  of  cheese for the  European 
market,  and  know  too  well  what  the 
trouble  is with  Michigan  cheese. 
I  do 
not pretend to sell a box of cheese in this 
country.  We  (in  this  country)  should 
consume three times  as  much  cheese as 
we do.  What is the  reason  we  do  not? 
Simply  because 
rotten,  porous, 
mushy,  stinking  stuff  we  call  cheese  is 
not fit to eat.

the 

Phelps,  Brace  &  Co.,  of  Detroit,  have 
ten  of  my cheese  in their cellar,  at  De­
troit,  which were made  on  the  first  day 
of  last  July. 
I would  like  to have any 
cheesemaker sample those cheese. Phelps, 
Brace & Co.  intend to keep these  cheese 
until spring, as  an  experiment.  Now I 
will wager  a  new hat  (although  I  have 
not seen them  since  they were shipped) 
that  they are  perfect  in  flavor  and will 
be next May.  These  cheese are not now 
nor have they ever been in cold  storage, 
but are stored in an ordinary cellar.  Mr. 
Mclaren, one of the judges at the World’s 
Fair,  bought most of  my cheese this sea­
son and paid me 10 cents per  pound, f. o. 
b.,  here.  Others  sold  their  product  at 
from 8 to 8K  cents.  What  better  proof 
is  needed  of  the  superiority  of  well- 
made, well-cured cheese over the inferior 
product of most Michigan makers?

J-  H.  Mu r d a u g h. 

Croswell, Mich.,  Dec., 1893.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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| Adriatic.................7
Arrow Brand  4 3k 
I Argyle  ..................   6
World Wide.  6
! Atlanta A A.............6
“  LL.................  4H
!  Atlantic A..............  ev
Full Yard Wide......   6H
H..............  6H
“ 
! 
Georgia  A..............  6J4
P ............   5
“ 
Honest Width........  6
D......... 
“ 
Hartford A  ............   5
6
“  LL..............  5
Indian Head...........  514
I Amory  ...................  6%
King A  A................. 614
i  Archery  Bunting... 4
KingE C.................5
| Beaver Dam  A A ..  4%
Lawrence  L L........  414
j  Blackstone O, 32__  5
Madras cheese cloth 63k
Black Crow.............6
Newmarket  G........  53k
Black  Rock  ...........  6
B  .......  5
Boot, AL................  7
N........   614
Capital  A ................. 5*4
DD....  5*4
Cavanat V..............  5)4
X ....... 63k
i Chapman cheese cl. 3%
Nolbe R..................  5
Clifton  C R.............. 514
Our Level  Best......6
I Comet....................... 61,-. | Oxford  R...............   6
Dwight Star............  63£ Pequot....................   7
Clifton CCC...........  53£ Solar.......................  6
¡Top of the  Heap__  7
8
A B C ......................814
Geo. Washington
Amazon.................  8
Glen Mills.............   7
Amsburg.................614
Gold Medal............   714
Art  Cambric...........10
Green  Ticket......... 814
Blackstone A A......   714
Great Falls..............  6>4
Beats All.................414
Hope........................7J4
| Boston..................   12
Just  Out...... .  43k @ 5
Cabot.......................  7*4
King  Phillip...........  734
Cabot,  %.................  6?k
OP......  714
Charter  Oak...........514
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Conway W..............  714
Lonsdale...........  @ 834
Cleveland.............  614
Middlesex........  @5
Dwight Anchor__   814
No Name................   714
“ 
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shorts  8
Oak View...............   6
Edwards..................6
Our Own................   514
E 
...................7
Pride of the West... 12
| P 
1...................714
Rosalind.................  714
Fruit of the  Loom.  814
Sunlight.................   414
Fitchville  ............  7
Utica  Mills............ 814
First Prize..............7
Nonpareil  ..10 
Frultof the Loom %.  7v
Vlnyard
I  Falrmount..............  4*4! White  Horse
“  Rock 
j Full Value..............6%I 
.814
HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS
j Cabot.....................  7J4| Dwight Anchor...... 814
Farwell..................   8 

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached.

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

...1014 
...11 
....21 
....1414
CARPET  WARP.

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1014

84  50

PRINTS.

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CORSETS.

DRESS  SOODS.

CORSET  JEANS.

Peerless, white..  ..  18  I Integrity  colored. ..20
colored— 20  White Star..............18
Integrity................. 18141 
“  colored..20
Hamilton 
Nameless................20
...........25
...........2714
...........30
...........32*4
.........35
.. 

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

American fancy —  
American indigo  .. 
American shirtings. 
Argentine  Grays... 
Anchor Shirtings... 
Arnold 
“  —
Arnold  Merino.

Corallne................. 89 501Wonderful 
Schilling's.............   9 
00 Brighton.................4 75
Davis  Waists  ....  9 00 Bortree’s ...................  9 00
Grand  Rapids......4  5G|Abdominal..............15 00
Armory..................   634{Naumkeagsatteen..  714
Androscoggin.........7*4 Rockport.................... 614
Blddeford.............   6  Conestoga.................714
Brunswick..............614] Walworth.................. 634
Allen turkey  reds..  5341 Berwick fancies
514
robes...........  514 Clyde  Robes__
pink a purple  534 Charter Oak fancies 414
buffs  .........   5H  DelMarlne cashm’s.  514
mourn’g  514
pink  checks.  5141 
staples........  5 
j Eddystone fancy...  534
shirtings
chocolat  514 
rober  ...  514 
sateens..  514 
¡Hamilton fancy.  ...  514 
staple....  514 
Manchester fancy..  514
! Merrimack D fancy.  514
long cloth B.  914 Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
“  C.  7)4 
Reppfurn.  8 V,
“ 
century cloth 7  Pacific fancy..........514
“  gold seal...... 10)4 
robes............  6
“  green seal TR1034¡Portsmouth robes...  614 
“  yellow seal..10)4 8impsonmourning..  53k
“  Berg«............ 11)4 
greys........  5M
“  Turk«,/ red. .10)4 
solid black.  5*
“ 
Ballou solid Dlack..  Washington Indigo.  614 
**  ev,,«o. m >im  vu
**  colors. 
•• 
Turkey robes..  7 X
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  India robes___ 7)4
red and  orange  ..  6
“  plain T’ky X 44  8)4 
Berlin solids  .........   5)4
“ 
“  X...10
“  oil blue..—   6 
“  Ottoman  Tur­
“  green  ..  6
“ 
key red  .................614
“  Foulards  ...  5)4 
Martha Washington
“ 
red %
1 
|  Turkeyred 5£.......7)4
“ X 
“ 
...  9)41 Martha Washlngton
“ 44
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j  Turkeyred.........  9)4
...10 
“ 3-4XXXX 12
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Rlverpolnt robes___514
Cocheco fancy........5
Windsor fancy..........6)4
“  madders...  5 
“  XX twills..  5 
Indigo blue..........10)4
“ 
Harmony................  414
Amoskeag A C A.... 12)4
AC A.................... 13
Hamilton N  ...........7)4
Pemberton AAA__16
D............814
York.......................10)4
Awning.. 11
Swift River............   7)4
Farmer....................8
Pearl  River............12
P int Prize............. 10)4
Warren...................13)4
Lenox M ills.......... 18
C mLLOga............. 16
Atlanta,  D..............63k|Star*  A
8
Boot........................ 644  No Name.................. 7)4
Clifton, K...............   7 ¡Top of Heap.............   9

solids........5

gold  ticket

COTTON  _

TICKINOS.

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12)4
brown....... 12)4
Haymaker blue........ 73k
brown...  73k
Jeffrey.....................11)4
Lancaster  .............. 12)4
Lawrence, 9 oz........ 13)4

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Amoskeag...................
9oz............
brown......
Andover................. 11)4
Beavercreek  AA...10 
“ 
BB...  9
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QQ__
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
blue  8)4 
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“  d a  twist 1014 
Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.19
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No. 220— 13
No. 280.... 1014

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GINGHAMS.
6
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staples.  6

Amoskeag............... 6)4 Lancaster,  staple
fancies

Lancashire..........   6
Manchester............   53k
Monogram..............  6)4
Normandie...........   714
Persian...................7
Renfrew Dress........7)4
Rosemont................. 6)4
Slatersville............6
Somerset................7
Tacoma  ...................714
Toil  duNord......... 10)4
Wabash — ............   714
seersucker..  714
Warwick...............   7
Whlttendeu..........  8

“  Penlan dress  7 
Canton ..  7
“ 
AFC........10)4
“ 
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Teazle.. .10)4 
“ 
Angola.. 10)4 
“ 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple__  6)4
Arasapha  fancy__
Bates Warwick dres  7)4 
Centennial................   1014
Criterion..............  1014
Cumberland  staple.  5)4
Cumberland..............5
Essex..........................414
Elfin..........................   714
Everett classics..........814
heather dr.  714 
Exposition..................7)4
Glenarie....................   6)4
indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  63k
Glenarven.................. 65k
Westbrook............  8
Glenwood...................714
Hampton.....................634
..............10
Johnson Chalon cl 
Wlndermeer........... 5
)4
indigo blue 9)4
York.........................63k
zephyrs___16 I

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Amoskeag.................14 I Georgia....................14)4
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Stark......................  19 
American..............................14141  ...............
Clark’s Mile End....45  |Barbour's............... £6
Coats’, J. & P ...........45 Marshall’s .................81
Holyoke......................22Hl

THREADS.

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
38
40
41
CAMBRICS.

Slater......................  4*4 [Edwards...............   43$
White Star............   4)* Lockwood.................4)4
Kid Glove...............  4*4 Wood’s ..................   4*4
Newmarket............   434lBrunswick...........   4*4

BED  FLANNEL.

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

T W .................... 
22)4
FT  ........................ 32)4
J R F , XXX............35
Buckeye.................3234

MIXED  FLANNEL.

DOMET  FLANNEL.

Red & Blue,  plaid..40
Union  R.................22)4
Windsor.................1814
6 oz Western..........20
Union  B................ 22)4
Nameless......  8  @ 9)41 
...  8)4@10  I 
CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
914
10)4
1114
12)4
8 oz..
L, 8 oz...

Grey SR W.............17)4
Western W  .............18)4
D R P ......................18)4
Flushing XXX........2314
Manitoba................ 2314
@1014
1214
Brown. Black.
10H
HH
12
20
...  914 West Point, 8 oz ■  10H
...1014
10 oz -  12H
Greenwood, 714 oz..  9)4 
Raven, lOoz.............13)4
Greenwood, 8 oz — 11)4 
 
13)4
Stark 
Boston, 8 oz............ 10)4
Boston, 10 oz........... 12)4
WADDINGS.

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Brown. Black. Slate
934 10)4
1014 1114
1114 12
12*120
D U C K S .

Slate.
914 
1014 
11)4 
1214

1014
u h
12
20

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SILESIA S.

SEWING  SILK.

|Per bale, 40 doz
...

White, doz..............25 
83 50 
Colored,  doz...........20  ¡Colored  “ 
7 50
Slater, Iron Cross...  8  iPawtucket..............10)4
“ 
Red Cross....  9  Dnndle...................  9
10)4
“  Best.............. 10)4 Bedford.............. 
“  Best  AA.......12)4 Valley City............... 10)4
L...............................7)4 K K ..........................1014
G..............................8)41
Corti celli, doz.........85
twist, doz. .40 
50 yd, doz. .40
HOOKS AND EVES—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k A White.,10  [No  4 Bl’k A White..15
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“ 
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No 2—20, M C......... 50 
|No 4—15  J  3)4........40
*  3-18, S C ...........45  I
No  2 White A Bl’k..l2 
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|No  8 White A Bl’k..20 
.28
.¡26

(Cortlcelll  knitting, 
per )4oz  ball........30

COTTON  TAPE.
..15  “ 10 
..18  “  12 
SAFBTT  FINS.
....28 
|NoS.
NEEDLES—PNB  M.

..12  “ 8 
..12  I  “  10 

A. James.................1  401 Steamboat...............   40
Crowelv’s............... 1  85 Gold  Eyed...............1  50
Marshall’s ..............1 00| American.................1  OO
1  65  6—4. ..2 80
5—4....  1  75  6—4... 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

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PINS.

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COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine..28
Crown.....................12
Domestic................18)4
Anchor................... 16
Bristol.................... 18
Cherry  Valley........ 15
I X L........................1814
Alabama...................63k
Alamance.................6)4
Augusta...................7)4
Ar  sapha..................6
Georgia.....................6)4
Granite....................53k
Haw  River............   5
Haw  J ....................  5

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

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Mount  Pleasant__ 6)4
Oneida....................  5
Prymont...............   53k
Randelman............   6
Riverside................  5)4
Sibley  A.................  6M
Toledo..................

PLAID  OSNABUB0S

J/fcLK  MICHlGAISi  TKADEBMAN.
Dry Goods Price Current.

DEMINS.

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A  *

D. A. Blodgett, President.

No. 250_1114

Geo.  W.  Ga t, Vice-President.

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

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

DIRECTORS.
D. A. Blodgett.  Geo. W. Gay. 
A. J.  Bowne.  G. K. Johnson. 
C. Bertsch. 
Wm. H. Anderson.  Wm  Sears.  A. D. Rathbone 

S. M. Lemon.

John WIddicomb. 

N. A. Fletcher.

B O O T S, 
S H O E S ,  AND 
R U B B E R S .

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Your  Bank Account Solicited.

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GRAND  RAPIDS  ,MICH.

Jno.  A.  Covode  Pres.

Henry  Idema, Vlce-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  Verdieb,  Cashier.

K. Van Hof, Ass’tC’s’r. 
Interest  Allowed  on  Time  and  Savings 

Transacts a General Banking  Business. 

Deposits.

DIRECTORS:

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

Deposits  Exceed  One  M illion  Dollars.

Eaton,  Lyon  &  Co.,
lolay  Goods

20  &  22  Monroe  St.r

OUR FULL.LINE  OF

Now ready, including  a  large  assortment of

A .B B U M S ,

TOILET SETS and NOVELTIES.

THE  LARGEST LINE  OF

D O B B S

SHOWN  IN  THE  STATE.

R A T E   R E D U C E D

FROM  $2  TO  $ 1 .2 5   PER 

DAY  AT  THE

K e n t  H o tel,

Directly  opposite  Union Depot, 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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-THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

7

to  secure  a  breakfast. 

CATCHING  THE  BU SIN E SS  WORM.
The  early bird,  according  to  the  old 
adage,  is  one  that  has  not  to wait  till 
noon 
In  these 
days of depression and stagnation,  when 
trade  is  dull  and  bill  collectors  come 
back to roost with more perspiration than 
cash,  it is not to be wondered at that  the 
face of business grows long as  its  purse 
gets short.

To  any  man  whose  soul  is  not  alto­
gether  mummified,  or  his  humanity 
changed into the stuff  of which we make 
nine-penny  nails,  it  is  not  pleasant  to 
discharge faithful  hands,  or consider the 
idleness  and  perhaps  want  that  come 
from necessity and not  from choice.

No man likes to be compelled to reduce 
wages or close his factory door; he would 
rather  have  it  otherwise  if  he  could. 
During  the  last  few months  there  has 
been not a little of  this  bitter  medicine 
going  down  the  public  throat. 
It  has 
had to be swallowed,  however wry a face 
it made.

To this,  however,  as to all  like  condi­
tions,  there has to be an  end.  The  end 
in  this  instance  is  seemingly in  sight. 
Business  is  neither  dead  nor  buried. 
There is sap in the tree  in  spite  of  the 
frost,  and buds  grow  where  dead  leaves 
fell.

Depression  has  had  its  lessons and  its 
purpose. 
It has revealed once again  the 
folly of  blind  and wild speculation. 
It 
has  put  a  pin  in  balloons  after which 
money and  men  have  gone  in  a  crazy 
procession.  The  hurry to  get  rich  has 
been bridled and  recalled  to  sober  meth­
ods and  the old  time  table  of  economy 
and industry.

Foolish and  reckless  credits have been 
peeled to  the  bone,  and  business  as  a 
whole  has  gone  through a much-needed
house  cleaning.

It is not,  of course,  to be expected that 
every fool  will  repent of his folly, or that 
every rogue will reform  his ways.  That 
will  never be.  The crop never dies.  No 
experience  can  change  some  men;  they 
will continue as they  are  till dumped in 
the big scrap  pile of business wrecks.

On  the other hand  every hat  does  not 
cover an empty head,  nor  every  pair  of 
trousers hold  the  leg  of  a  rogue.  The 
business world may not be a church,  but 
it  is  certainly  a  school. 
It  would  be 
better  if  it  were more of both,  but it is 
certainly a great deal of the latter.

One of  the lessons taught by  previous 
experience  of  trade  depression  is  that 
those who are  alert,  as  the  early  bird, 
when  business  revives  are  those  who 
secure the worm.  This is more strongly 
marked  in  the case of  advertising.  On 
this  point  it  is  unfortunate  that  some 
men  are  stupid.  They  take  down  the 
signboard  in dull  times and expect  when 
trade revives that business,  like  Noah’s 
dove,  will come again to the old roost.

Perhaps  there  is no time when an  ad­
vertisement makes  a  deeper  impression 
on the business mind  than in  dull times, 
and certainly none than when trade wakes 
up from a mesmerized slumber.

It is to be noted that our most success­
ful houses are the most persistent adver­
tisers.

Of  course,  there are cases where dull 
times  and  a  failing  trade  necessitates 
economy in  printers’  ink as in other mat­
ters of  expense.  Such  cases,  however, 
ought  not  to  be behind the times  when 
renewed life and reviving trade  is  look­
ing  around  with  anxious  eyes  to  see 
where  it  can  secure what it wants.  As

we  are  once  again  on  the threshold of 
better  times,  that  business  man  is  the 
wisest  who,  with  the  early  bird,  is in 
quest of the worm just out of  his  hotel.

T he  T onic  W a s  Inflam m able.

Henry Hallenstein, of Chicago, learned 
the other day that the hair tonic used  by 
barbers is a very inflammable thing.  The 
barber was rubbing it  into  his  hair, and 
Henry thought that  he would  utilize the 
time by taking a smoke.  He accordingly 
took out a cigar  and  struck  a  match  to 
light it.  As he held the flame to the end 
of the cigar it communicated to the alco­
hol fumes that arose from the  tonic,  and 
in a moment his head was in flames.  The 
barber managed  to  extinguish them,  but 
not until the young man’s  face, ears and 
neck  were  severely  blistered,  and  his 
beautiful  mustache,  eyebrows  and  most 
of his hair were singed  off.  The  barber 
also had his hands severely burned.  Mr. 
Hallenstein will not undertake to  smoke 
in the barber’s "hair again.

BALD
HEADS

DANDRUFF  •  URED.

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

NO  C U RE. 
NO  PAY. 
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, piovided  the head is 
not  glossy, or the pores of the scalp not closed. 
Where  the  head  is  shit y  or  th«  pores  closed, 
there is no cure.  Call and  be examined  free of 
charge.  If you cannot  call  write to me.  State 
tho exact  condition of the scalp and your occu~ 
pation. 
^oom 1011 Masonic T  rnple, Chicago

PR«»*'.  O.  HIK K H nl.Z,

NOW  IS  THE  TIME

TO  ORDER  A  SUPPLY  OF

PECKHAM’S  CRODP  REMEDY,

25c a  Bottle,  $3  a  Cozen,  5  « ff  w ith 

3  Cozen,  10  off w ith  6  Dozen.

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

The fo'lowing appeared in the local column of 
the Salina. Kans.. Herald, Oct. 20,  893:
‘ Our sales of Peckham’s Croup Remedy, “The 
children’s cough  cure,” have  increased rapidly 
ever since we began handliugit in the year 1888. 
Without au  exception  it  is  the  best  and  m o s t  
reliable  remedy  of  its  kind  we  ever  sold. 
Parents once knowing  its  merits will  never  be 
without it in the house.  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,  you may need  it  any 
night.”—O.  C.  Tobey  &  Co., the 3d Ward Drug 
store. Salina, Kans.

Hardware Price Current.

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▲UGUB8 AND BITS.

These  prices are  for cash,  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dls.
Snell’s ........................................
Cook’s ..............................................
Jennings’, genuine..........................
Jennings’,  imitation.......................
AXES.
First Quality, S. B. Bronze...............
D.  B. Bronze.. 
.........
S. B. 8. Steel...............
D. B. Steel.................
Railroad 
......................................
Garden  ........................................
Stove.......................................
Carriage new list.............................
Plow..............................................
Sleigh shoe...................................
Well, plain  .......................................
Well, sw ivel................................
Cast Loose Pin, figured...................
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint...

.........  
25
......... 50*10
..........t  7 00
.........   1* 00
..........  8 00
is sn
...... 
dls. 
a  1 4  no
dis.KMin
......... 75*10
4flsfein
.........  
70
......... • 3 50
........ 
4 00
dls.
......... 704
......... 604.0

BUTTS,  CAST.

BARROWS.

BUCKETS.

BOLTS.

Wrought Loose Pin.....................................  60&10
Wrought Table..........................................  60*10
Wrought Inside Blind................................ ] 60*10
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s..................................... 
.  70*16
Blind,  Parker’s..........................................  70*10
..................................        70
Blind, Shepard’s 
BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892 ..............  60*10
Grain......................................................dig. 50*02  Screw Hook and  Eye, %
^

CROWBARS. 

CRADLES.

HAMMERS.

HINOSS.

longer 

Maydole *  Co.’s..................................... .. 
25
Xlp’s ....................................................   .dig. 
25
Yerkes *  Plumb’s................................. dig. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................aoc list 60
Blacksmith's Solid Cast  Steel  Hand... ,80c 40*10
I  Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ............................. dls.60&10
I ^Mte• —•••:— .  ......................per dot. net, 2 60
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4M  14 and 
3^
.....................................  
8tt
net
.........................net
7*
1%50
Strap and T ............... .. . 
.V.".".*.*.".V.".di?
dis.50*10
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track..
Champion,  a n ti  f r ic t io n .................................  "
bo aio
Kidder, wood track............................................49
£“£.•••........................................................... 60*10

hollow w are.

HANGERS.

Gray enameled..............................................40*10
house  pubnishing  goods.
Stamped  Tin Ware.............................   new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware............................ 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 38)4*10
n   i„r. 

WIRB OOODS. 

dls.

. 
. 

.  — 

.  13 
dls.

Hook 8 .....................................................70*10*10
70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
LEVELS. 
_ 
d ll 7n
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s .....................  
‘  u
ROPES.
Sisal, % inch and larger__
Manilla...........................
o . ,  
SQUARES.
Steel and  Iron.......................
Try and Bevels............................................. 
Mitre.....................................  ” ■''■ 
.. 
NOS. 10 tO  14...................................... #4 05 
Nos. 15 tO 17................. 
4 m 
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   .4 05 
Nos. 25 to 26
4 25 
No. 27.......................
4  45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
, . 
List acct. 19, ’86  ..........................
Silver Lake, White A  .

<5.
g,
Corn.  Sinonth  Com.
02 9!
,  ,,
3 05
8 2f 
8 3? 
over 30  inche-

AU  sheets No. 18  and  lighter 

SAND PAPER.
BASH CORD.

SH E E T   IKON.

. . .  

_ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Drab A...........
White  B........
DrabB................. 
White C .........

SASH WRIGHTS.

Discount, 10.

„  
Solid Eyes...............

......  dls. 
......... list 
1 
.. 
** 

.v.
50
RT
«
1JK

“ 

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

Silver Steel  Dla. X Cute, per foot!
Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot 
Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot!  ! 
Champion  and Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot...........................................

 

,  _ 

„  „  

WIRE. 

TRAPS. 

dls
7n_ \0

dls
Steel, Game................................  
60*10
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s................. 
35
.. 70
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s 
Mouse,  choker.................................... 18c per do*
Mouse, delusion................................#1.50 per doz
Bright Market.................................. 
Annealed Market................... 
 
Coppered Market................................... 
Tinned Market............................ 
........
so
Coppered  Spring  Steel............ . . . . . . . . . . . 
Barbed  Fence, galvanised............!!!!!!!!!!  2 80
painted.............. !..!!!!!!!!!  3 40
.................................... dI*‘  *°&10
Putnam.......................................... 
di*  05
dls. 10* 1C
N orthwestern.................................  
dls
_ 
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled........... 
’so
Coe’s  Genuine............................... 
55
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,!!! 
76
Coe’s  Patent, malleable......................... 
75&10
dis.
5,,
Bird Cages 
Pumps, Cistern...................... * ’..............  7tAio
Screws, New lis t.....................  
70*10
Casters, Bed a  d Plate....................50*10*10
Dampers, American............................40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods...!.  6.*A10 

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

miscellaneous. 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

........ 

„  

METALS.
PIG TIN.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2%c per pound.
680 pound  casks................................  
Per pound........................................ !!'.!!!! 

ZINC.

agf
28c

gv
i

SOLDER.

ANTIMONY

Extra W iping...................................!!!!!!!!.} >
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  o* 
solder in the market Indicated by nriyate brand»
vary according to composition.
1 60
Gookson............   .........................per  pound
Hallett s......................................  
13
TIN—MSLYN GRADR.
10x14 IC, Charcoal......................................   37
14x20 IC,
10x14 IX, 
1 10
14x20 ix, 

...................................
............................. ;;;■
Bach additional X on this grade, IL75.

“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADR.
7»
“ 
.......................... i 
" "   6 75
8  28
“ 
........................ 
..............................; ; .......  g If
« 

10x14 IC,  Charcoal...................... 
14x2010, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20ix, 

Bach additional X on this grade #1.50.

7  0 
9 26 
9 25

« 

BOOPING PLATES

 

“ 
,  “ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“  Worcester......................... 
" 
......................... 
* 
 
‘  Allaway  Grade.............. 
“ 

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX,
14x2? IX............................ 
 
14x31  IX................................................. 
l«x5t IX, for No. 8 Boilers,
• per ponnd.
14x60 IX.  ’•  «  9 

6  5
I I )
18 50
6 On
................  7 50
................   12 60
..................  15 50
 
(I«  on
  15 00
10 00

BOILER SIZE TIM PLATE.

“ 
" 
“ 

“

Cast Steel............................................per ft
Bly’s 1-10.............................................pen
«■
Hick’s C. F ............................... 
g. d .........................................................«
Musket........................................  
*•

CARTRIDGES.

Central  Fire...............

CHISELS.

.............. 
....... dls. 

56
25
dls.
7HA10
..............70*16

Socket Firmer...............
Socket Framing..............
Socket Corner..............
Socket Slicks.....................
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ ..............  
40
Carry,  Lawrence’s...................................  
40
Hotchkiss................................................. ” 
25
White Crayons, per  gross..............12©12*t dls. 10

CHALK.

COPPER.

“ 

Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
14x52,14x56, 14x60 .................... 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 ana 14x60.................. 
’old Rolled, 14x48..........................  
' 
Bottoms 
..................................... 
4or*e’s  Bit  stocks
raper and straight Shank 
Morse’s '’’aper “hank  ......
juall sizes, ser pound.............   .........
Large sties, per  pound....................

d r ip p in g   p a n s

D R IL L S. 

28
26
23
23
25

d ig .

EXPANSIVE BITS.

ELBOW S.
...  ooa. net
■oia. 4  piece, 6 In  . . . . . . . . .  
'arrogated 
.......... ............................  dir
I 
«¿Instable.......................................... '.'die.
Clark’s, small, 818;  large, *26....................  
Ives’, 1, *18:  2, #24;  3,#30.......................  
Dlsston’s ..........................  
New American  ..................................!."!!! 60* 10
Nicholson’s .............................................60*10
Heller’s 
......................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ............ ..... l ... . . . . . . 
50

75 
40 
40*10 
dls.
an
25
dls.

piles—New List. 

60*10

GALVANIZED IRON

28
16  17
dls
60
dls.

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

12 

15 

13 
Discount, 60

14 
GAUGES. 

' dls.

55
55
55
55

NAILS

If ATTACK B

LOCKS—DOOB. 

mauls. 
HELLS. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

knobs—New List. 

70
dlS.
55
55
55

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s.................  
Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings.................... 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain.............. 
„  
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new lis t........ 
Mallory, Wheeler *  Co.’s......................  
Branford’s .............................................  
Norwalk’s ......................................55
Adze Bye  ............................. ' ........#16.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye......................................... #15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ......................................#18.50, dls. 20410.
dls.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled.....................  
50
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.'s........................ 
 
40
40
1  P. 8. * W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables__ 
Landers,  Ferry A Cls rk’s ................. 
40
Enterprise 
.....................................  
go
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 66*10
Enterprise, selfmeasuring..........................  
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, Dase...............................................1  50
Wire nails, base.....................................1  75@i  so
60.................................................... Base 
Base
50......................................................  
10
JO......................................................  
25
30......... -........................................... 
25
35
» ...................................................... 
45
15......................................................  
45
1 2 ..................................................... 
50
10...................................................... 
........................................................ 
60
* 6 .................................................  
75
.............................................................................  90
1  20
.......................................................  
160
........................................................ 
F in es....................................................... 
65
Case  10............................................. 
8............................................. 
75
90
6............................................. 
Finish 10..........................................  
75
*...........................................  
90
6...................................................  
Clinch; 10.......................................... 
70
go
8.......................................... 
6.......................................... 
90
Barren %.......................................... 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   (Mil
Sclota Bench............................................. 
«50
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.......................  Q40
Bench, first quality......................................   Q40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood......... 50*10
Fry.  Acme..............................................dIs.60-10
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
70
dis.
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Bars.............................   50—10

planes. 

rivets. 

dls.

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 2u 
B” Wood’s pat planished, Nos. 26 to 27...  9 20 
Broken packs 

per pound extra.

«

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WEDKE  DAY, JANUARY  3,  1894.

NEGLECT  OP  PUBLIC  DUTY.

The general  unwillingness  of  citizens 
to serve on juries has  been repeatedly re­
marked on  in this paper.  The  difficulty 
of getting a jury for the trial of Prender- 
gast,  the assassin of  Mayor  Carter  Har­
rison,  in Chicago,  has attracted much  at­
tention.

The  Chicago  Tribune  attributes  the 
unwillingness of  men  to  serve  to  their 
dread of being engaged  in  Jong trials.  It 
is held that the man  who  might  be will­
ing to give up a  week of his time  is  not 
willing to surrender  a  month.  He  has 
seen how time is  wasted  by lawyers and 
he does not  want to  be  a victim  of  un­
necessarily protracted cross-examination 
and  unending  arguments.  There  is  no 
immediate  prospect  of  a  reform,  how­
ever,  and the difficulty of  getting a jury 
in  an  important  criminal  case  will  in­
crease.

This  is  not  a  good  reason.  Duty is 
sometimes a very disagreeable  business, 
but citizens ought to be willing to under­
go any  hardships that the State  requires 
of them,  provided that the  exactions are 
necessary and  unavoidable.  A jury in  a 
very  important criminal case must expect 
to be locked  up  for  days  at  a  time,  but 
its members ought not to be confined in a 
foul  and  loathsome  dungeon.  Jurymen 
are  not  criminals,  and  there  is no law 
which  can  authorize their punishment by 
means of excessive inflictions  and priva­
tions  while they  are under  necessary de­
tention.  On  the  contrary,  every  effort 
should  be made to ameliorate  the  condi- 
tiou of juries when  experiencing  deten­
tion  in  criminal  cases.

There are several dodges  made  use of 
by talesmen when  endeavoring  to evade 
jury duty.  One  of  these is a pretended 
unwillingness to  inflict  capital  punish­
ment.  The  Tribune  records a case of a 
talesman called  in that city and examined 
for jury  service in the  Prendergast case, 
in emphasizing his horror of capital pun­
ishment,  when asked by the  prosecuting 
attorney,  “Supposing  a  stranger should 
enter your home, and, without the slight­
est provocation,  butcher  your  wife  and 
child,  would you  be in favor  of  hanging 
him?”  made  the  reply:  “ I would not.” 
Thus it comes out that no one can form

I any Idea how much  tenderness  and  ab- 
; horrence  of  bloodshed  there  is  in  any 
I community  until  he  reads  the examina- 
| tions  of  jurors  in  a  murder  case,  and 
finds man after man  stating that he is op- 
j posed to hanging,  no  matter  how  atro­
cious the  crime  may be.  Yet  these are 
the sort of  people who do not hesitate to 
join a lynching party, and when  they are 
discussing crimes outside of a courtroom 
they are quite as  willing  to  hang a man 
who has committed  a  particular murder 
as is the warmest friend  of  capital pun­
ishment.  The  number  of  persons who 
| are really conscientiously opposed to the 
I taking of  human  life  by the  State,  and 
who cau  give a  reason  for  their  convic­
tions,  is  very  small.  There  are  such 
people,  and their scruples are eutitied 
respect,  but not many of  them  are to 
found among the talesmen who  are com 
moniy  summoned  to  serve  on  criminal 
juries.  The  unwillingness of  citizens 
serve on  juries is of a species with their 
distaste  and  dislike  for  other  public 
duties.

The man  who  pays  taxes  thinks  that 
should  be all  that is required of him,  and 
so general  has neglect of  public duty be 
come  that  great  numbers  of  what  are 
commonly  considered  the  best  citizens 
are utterly indifferent  to  the  public  af 
fairs of  the  country.  They seldom vote 
and do not care who  holds office or what 
is done by officials  under  the  cover  of 
their official  position.  They abandou the 
State  and  the  municipality  to  the  pro­
fessional  politicians,  to  the  self-seekers 
and jobbers,  to  the  hoodlums  and  heel 
ers,  and  then  languidly  complain  that 
politics are too corrupt for honest men to 
take part in.  Neglect of public duties i 
at the bottom of all the trouble.

to  have 

THE  PROPOSED  BOND  ISSU E.
The recommendation  of  Secretary  of 
the Treasury  Carlisle  that  the  Govern 
ment  issue  bonds  to  the  extent  of  not 
more  than  8200,000,000,  bearing  3  per 
cent,  interest,  is  calculated 
very important bearing  upon the finances 
of the world.  Although Congress has to 
act  upon  the  recommendation before it 
can  become an  immediate  factor  in  the 
world’s finances,  still the  treasury  situ 
ation 
is  such  that  it 
seems  almost  impossible  to  straighten 
out  matters  without  the  bond 
issue, 
hence  it  is  not  assuming  too  much 
to 
hold 
issue  is  probable, 
although the amount  may  not  prove  as 
large as 8200.000,000.

that  such  an 

this  country 

in 

Should 

the  great  money  centers  of 
Europe,  where most of the national loans 
are floated,  become  convinced  that  the 
United States is soon to be  in  the  mar­
ket  for  a  loan,  the effect npon all nego­
tiation  for loans  by other  powers  would 
at  once be marked.  The unrivaled credit 
of  the  United  States  would  naturally 
make its  bonds  the  most  desirable  in­
vestments offering,  and  the  demand  for 
them would  be  immense.  The  hope  of 
I securing some of  these gilt-edged securi­
ties  would  make  all  other  impending 
loans less desirable,  so  that the diffculty 
experienced  by  the  bankrupt  countries 
of  Europe  in  floating  bonds would  be 
greatly increased.

The  influence  of  a  prospective  new 
loan  by  the  United  States  would  also 
have an  important influence on the value 
of  other Government securities in Euro­
pean markets.  A desire  to invest in the 
absolutely  safe  bonds  of 
this  country 
would create a disposition  to  freely  un­

TJEöS  M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

load the discredited paper of most of the 
South American republics,  as  well as the 
poorer  class  of  European  bonds,  with 
the  view  of  re-investing  the  money  in 
United States bonds.

It  will, 

therefore,  be  seen 

that  the 
prospect of a new issue of bonds  by  the 
United States  must  have  an  important 
influence on the finances of  a  good  por 
tion of the world,  and in  many instances 
the  influence  would  be  anything  but 
agreeable  to  the  countries  interested 
Although  Europe  has  been  so  badly 
used in its investments of  money in for 
eign  securities,  its  surplus  of  unem 
ployed  funds  is  so  great  that  there  is 
always  a  demand 
investments. 
What the demand would  be for so sound 
a bond as is likely  to  be  issued  by  the 
United States can,  therefore,  be  readily 
imagined.

for 

THE  SPR EA D   OP  ANARCHISM .
It was once supposed that the dreadful 
desperation which is  manifested  in  the 
wild and apparently, purposeless ferocity 
of the Nihilists and other anarchists was 
caused  by the  unspeakable  oppressions 
of  despotism,  and  could  only  exist  in 
countries under the dominion of absolute 
monarchs.

The idea obtained large  currency that 
the  common  people,  reduced to a condi­
tion of serfdom  and  slavery, despairing 
of ever securing any hearing or consider­
ation for their grievances from the ruling 
classes,  had  been  driven  insane,  and,  in 
their hopelessness of  any redress  or  re­
lief,  meditated  only  revenge  and  pro­
posed  to destroy,  to annihilate.

This idea, however,  is  not  the correct 
one.  Nihilism and anarchy are  no more 
rife in  Russia, where the most aggravated 
type of despotism prevails, than in Spain, 
where  a  constitutional  monarchy  is 
stripped  of  all  absolute  power;  or  in 
France,  which is a  republic.  Moreover, 
the deadly outbreaks of  the  dynamiters 
have been frequent in England,  which i 
the  asylum  for  all  victims  of  political 
proscription,  without regard to national 
ity,  race or political creed,  and  the dem 
onstrations  of  these  desperadoes are far 
too  common  in  this  freest of  all coun 
tries,  the great republic of  the West.

Here  there  is  no  absolutism  on  the 
part  of  rulers.  Those 
in  temporary 
power—for  all  power  is temporary and 
for  short  periods  in  this  country—are 
elected  by  the  people.  There  are  no 
privileged classes,  and those who occupy 
place are,  under  the  theory upon which 
our Government is  based,  the  choice  of 
the people;  yet it has become  a  fact  of 
almost common occurrence  that  officials 
high place are murdered to  please  the 
whim of some anarchist or  other.  More 
than this,  the use  of  dynamite  has  be­
come alarmingly frequent upon both pub­
lic and private  buildings,  and  nobody is 
rash enough to predict where  this  spirit 
destruction and disorganization  Is go­

ing to end in this country.

It is plain that  the  desperation which 
prompts those nihilistic  outbreaks is not 
the result of  despotism  and  oppression, 
but is the result of discontent.  Men who 
have  nothing  envy  those  who  possess 
property,  and too often this envy leads to 
the worst sorts of ferocity and crime.  A 
desire for plunder  actuates  some,  while 
others  seem  animated with a  thirst  for 
revenge  upon  those who  are  better  off 
than themselves.  Under the influence of 
these fierce passions  the  most  shocking 
crimes  are  committed  for  the  sake  of

plunder,  and  public  officials  are  mur­
dered,  public and private  buildings  are 
blown up with dynamite, and  the multi­
millionaires are beset by assassins.  This 
is  truly a remarkable picture  of  life  in 
the freest country on  the  planet,  but is, 
unfortunately, too  true.

It is, also,  unfortunately  true that the 
enmity of  the proletariat has been given 
too much reason for its  existence. 
It  is 
notorious that great numbers of  the men 
who are chosen to public office are merely 
self-seekers and use their  trusts  as  pri­
vate perquisites for  their  own  personal 
benefit. 
It is too true  that the  lawmak­
ing  power,  whether  national,  State  or 
municipal,  has been  much  used in creat- 
ng monopolies and benefits  for  favored 
classes,  and the  laws  have  so  operated 
as to make those favored  classes rich  at 
the expense of the  masses of the people.
The result of  all this is that a wealthy 
class has been created  which  is  able  to 
control,  to a large extent, legislative and 
too  often  judicial  action,  and  while, 
theoretically, 
their 
officials,  the final control  rests  with  the 
wealthy  classes.  To  the  credit  of  the 
American  people,  it  is  to  be  remarked 
that  the  greatest  wealth  is  not  always 
able to purchase the most humble official, 
or to corrupt the most  lowly private citi­
zen,  all  of  which  shows 
the  magnifi­
cent vitality of  a  brave  and  free  spirit 
in the people of this country.

the  people  elect 

The right remedy for  anarchy  in  this 
republic  would  be  to  make  every  man 
who  is  not  a  tramp  and  a  profligate  a 
landholder.  Attach him  to  the  soil  by 
ownership,  and  you  give  him  a  feeling 
that not only  arouses  all  the  independ­
ence and interest in  public affairs  which 
right of  property  induces,  but  a  senti­
ment  of  patriotism  is  increased,  if  not 
actually  created.  Love  of  country  is 
primarily love of home,  devotion  to  the 
spot where all the  family  affections  are 
|centered.

But a very startling fact comes  to  the 
front in the revelation made by the  Cen­
sus Bureau,  that only a  minority  of  the 
American  people  are-landholders.  Re­
turns from twenty-two  States have been 
made, embracing many of the most popu­
lous  commonwealths,  and  it  is  shown 
that 32 per cent,  of the farm families are 
tenants,  while 68 per  cent,  are  owners; 
while in cities 63 percent, of the families 
are tenants and 37  per cent,  are  owners. 
Here is a vast number of people who own 
no lands or houses, and who have no hold 
upon the soil of  their  country. 
It  is  a 
great  misfortune,  and  Congress  and 
American statesmanship  should  remedy 
this.  Every  man  who  owns  his  home 
should be a patriot by reason  of  his  in­
terest in the soil.  Only tramps and con­
firmed criminals could  be  dynamiters  if 
all proper men were land owners.

LARGEST  TELESCOPE  IN  THE 

W ORLD.

The  fact  that  the  largest  refracting 
telescope  in  the  world,  with  an  object 
lens  forty inches  in  diameter,  is  being 
constructed  for  the University of Chica­
go, encourages a hope that extraordinary 
discoveries of phenomena in the heavenly 
bodies  are  in  store  for  the  scientific 
world.

While,  theoretically,  there  is  no  limit 
to the power of telescopes,  there are sev­
eral difficulties  that  militate  against the 
attainment  of  too  extravagant  hopes. 
The principal of  these  is  that  no  per­
transparent  material  has  been
fectly 

found  of  which  to  make  a  lens.  The 
roost available substance is  glass,  which 
is made of  the  purest  sand, or  of  frag­
ments of  rock crystal,  and,  although ex­
cellent  results  are  attained  in  casting 
plates free from  bubbles  and  other  im­
perfections,  it must  be  understood  that 
the  best  glass  made  intercepts,  or  ab­
sorbs,  or  extinguishes,  a very considera­
ble amount of  the  light which  is sought 
to pass through it.  The bigger the lens, 
the greater  its  magnifying  power;  but 
this bigness necessitates a corresponding 
thickness, and  it  is  the  thickness which 
intercepts  the  light.  The  thicker  the 
glass the more light it will extinguish.

This disability of large lenses seems to 
be emphasized in the fact that,  since the 
introduction  of  the  great  modern  tele­
scopes,  very  few  important  discoveries 
among  the  heavenly  bodies  have  been 
made.  With the exception of  the moon 
of Mars,  which were discovered  with the 
26-inch  glass  of  the  National Observa 
tory,  almost  every  other  grand  revela 
tion  of  the  telescope  was  made  with 
small  glasses  of  from  10 
inches  to  12 
inches in diameter.

When the 36-inch  glass,  the  largest  so 
far in the world,  was set  up  in  the  Lick 
Observatory, in California, great expecta­
tions were  cherished  by astronomers  of 
the  so-called  celestial  mysteries  that 
were to be unfolded;  but, up to the pres­
ent, disappointment has chiefly resulted.
If it were possible  to  secure  a  telescope 
with a large object glass  made  of  a  dia­
mond,  or  material  with  like  refracting 
power,  there would be some  offset to the 
loss of light in passing through glass, for 
the  diamond  possesses 
twice  the  re­
fracting power, or,  in common language, 
twice the  transparence  or  light-passing 
capacity, of the best glass made; but,  un 
til some such  result can be accomplished 
there is not likely to be any abridgement 
of the difficulties in the way of  the  star­
gazers.

There are  two  general classes  of  tele 
scopes—the reflectors,  in  which the mag 
nifying  is  done  with  concave  mirrors 
and the refractors,  in  which  magnifying 
glasses are used.  The former  are  going 
out of repute,  while the  latter  are  more 
in favor.  The making of  great lenses  i: 
a  modern  enterprise.  When,  in  1846 
lenses 15 inches in  diameter were  made 
most  astronomers  thought  the  limit  of 
size had been reached.  But in  1870 Mr 
Newhall,  Gateshead,  England,  built  the 
25-inch telescope now at Cambridge. 
In 
1873 26-inch glasses  were  made  for  the 
telescopes at  the  University of Virginia 
and  at 
the  National  Observatory  at 
Washington.  The  30-inch  glass  ground 
in  1880 for the Russia  Imperial Observa­
tory at  Pulkowa was succeeded  in about 
1887  by the  36-inch  Lick  telescope  for 
California.  These glasses  were made by 
Alvan  Clark,  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and 
he is now engaged on a 40-inch  glass for 
the  University of  Chicago.  The  grind­
ing and  polishing  of  a  telescope  object 
glass  is  a work  of  extreme  nicety  and 
delicacy.  Everything  depends  on 
the 
transparence of the glass and on the per­
fection of its shape.

A N   INTERESTING  CONVENTION.
It affords T h e T ra desm a n much pleas­
ure to be the first journal to present a full 
and authentic report of  the  proceedings 
of the fifth annual convention of the Mich­
igan Knights of the Grip,  which was held 
at Saginaw last week.  The report can be 
depended upon as authentic, as it is based

It  was  just  after 

supporting these  men  in  idleness,  they 
should be put to work  and  made to earn 
their own support. 
In this connection it 
would  be well  to  learn  a  lesson  from 
what was  done  in  San  Francisco,  some 
years  ago,  when  that  city was  overrun 
with idle  men. 
the 
Kearney riots  and  the  sand  lot  excite­
ment.  The winter was approaching and 
idle  labor  began  to  flock  into  the city 
from the whole  State. 
In  a  few  weeks 
there was  an  army of  unemployed,  and 
the cry for food went up in no uncertain 
way. 
It was not an  army of  tramps  at 
first,  but was composed for the most part 
of men willing to work if they could find
it.  San Francisco charity began  just 
Chicago’s  charity has  begun,  with  free 
lodgings,  soup  kitchens  and  other  free 
distribution of food.  The result of  this 
was just what the result of Chicago’s ex 
periment is turning out to be  to-day—an 
influx of idle and dissolute  people  from 
every quarter  of  California within  easy 
access.

At that juncture David Bush,  a prom 

nent  merchant  of  San  Francisco,  made 
an  important  suggestion.  His  idea was 
to put the deserving  to work  and  driv 
out of town all other able-bodied  fellows 
who  refused work.  He  also  suggested 
that the soup distribution be  closed,  ex 
cept to the destitute,  sick  and  those un 
able to do labor.

At that time the city  was building the 
Golden  Gate  Park,  and  Mr.  Bush  pro 
posed that all the men who  would  work 
should be given  employment in  work on 
the park.  He started a subscription  iis 
with $500,  and it was soon  filled up with 
large  amount,  to  be  used  in  paying 
wages to the men who would  work.  The 
men were each given $1  a  day,  and  the 
work was carried on under  the direction 
of  the  Park Commissioners.  Whenever 
an able-bodied man  applied to the Relief 
and Aid Committee  he  was  given  a  big 
meal and then sent out  to the  park. 
If 
he did  not go,  all further charity was re­
fused.  The construction of  a boulevard 
and speed track  took  about  sixty  days, 
and during the time  of  its  construction 
probably  10,000  men  were  employed 
upon it for various  periods.  The  work 
when  finished  had  cost  something  like 
$100,000,  and  every  dollar  of  it  was 
raised by  public  subscription. 
It  gave 
employment to the  willing and saved the 
sting of  charity,  and it cleared  the  city 
of tramps and drones,  for  the municipal 
authorities saw to it  that those applying 
for lodging and soup,  and  yet  refusing 
an opportunity to earn  it,  were  quickly 
hustled out of town.

That  is  the  right  sort  of  charity  for 
able-bodied men,  a charity that winnows 
out the good from the  bad, the real work­
ingmen from the loafers and tramps, and 
one that could be employed in any  large 
city,  where  there  are  always  works  of 
public  improvement  to  be  constructed, 
provided money can  be  got  with  which 
to carry them on. 
It is a thousand times 
better than to give food and  lodgings  to 
men  who  will  not work as long as they 
can  live free on the bounty of others.

on the original reports and resolutions in 
the hands  of the Secretary, supplemented 
by the notes taken on the spot  by a  spe­
cial reporter.

With a few minor exceptions,  the  con­
vention passed off  pleasantly and harmo­
niously and made somewhat marked prog­
ress in perfecting the work of the organi­
zation.  Too little time was given to con­
vention work  proper,  c a u s i n g   too  great 
haste in passing on important matters  at 
the  final  session  and  necessitating  the 
omission altogether of some matters which 
should have come before the meeting  for 
consideration and action.  This should  be 
remedied at the Grand  Rapids meeting by 
the  omission  or  curtailment  of  the  pro­
cession feature and the holding  of  three 
sessions,  instead of two,  as  has been  the 
custom heretofore.

them,  proves 

The adoption of  resolutions  exonerat 
ing Mr.  McCauley from  intentional  dis­
honesty and approving the action  of  the 
Board of Directors in  removing him from 
the office of  Secretary was  a  species  of 
boy play unworthy  of  the  organization 
So  far  as T h e  T radesm an’s  knowledge 
goes,  no one ever charged  Mr.  McCauley 
with  “intentional  dishonesty.”  He was 
removed  from 
the  office  on  the unani 
mous  vote of the  Board  of  Directors on 
the sole ground of incompetency, and,  so 
far  as  T h e  T radesm an  can  learn,  has 
never made any denial of this charge;  in 
fact,  the  muddled condition of  his books 
and  reports and his utter inability to sat­
isfactorily  explain 
the 
truth of the charge  beyond  the  possibil­
ity  of  contradiction.  To  exonerate  a 
man of a charge never  made,  and ignore 
a charge actually made,  is  as  ridiculous 
as it  would  be  for  a  jury charged  with 
trying a man  for arson to bring in  a ver­
dict  of  not  guilty of mayhem  and keep 
silent  on  the  crime  actually  charged. 
The action of the organization in this re­
spect may safely be laid  at  the  feet  of 
the Board of Directors,  who  should have 
furnished  the  members,  promptly  and 
frankly,  their  reason  for  removing  the 
Secretary  and noted in  the  trade  papers 
or otherwise the progress made in the in 
Instead  of  doing  so,  the 
vestigation. 
Board  declined  to  converse  with 
the 
members on this subject  and  sought  to 
stifle enquiry by  the adoption  of  a  reso­
lution-introduced by the  present Presi­
dent  of 
the  organization—prohibiting 
the publication of the proceedings of the 
Board.  Star chamber methods are never 
popular and the action of the Association 
in the McCauley matter should serve as a 
warning to the present and future Boards 
of Directors that  the  members  must  be 
taken into the confidence of  those in au­
thority or trouble will ensue.

The  re-election  of  Secretary Mills,  in 
face  of  the  active  opposition  of  three 
other candidates,  is a merited  tribute  to 
his ability to discharge the  trying duties 
of the position  and  bespeaks  in  no  un­
certain sound the high  esteem  in  which
he is held by the rank and file of the fra­
ternity.

MAKE  MEN  HELP  THEM SELVES. 
The Chicago  papers  have  been  filled 
lately  with  statements  concerning  the 
large numbers of  unemployed persons in 
that city,  and of  the  effort made to give 
them charity.  Soup  kitchens  have been 
opened,  and  large  warehouses,  steam- 
heated,  provided for  free  lodgings.  As 
consequence  unemployed  men  have 
flocked  to  Chicago  from  every quarter, 
until the city is overrun with  them.

It has been suggested that,  instead  of

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I T radesm an.  The  writer,  in  selecting 
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and no thought seems to have been given 
to what the terms mean, only  that  they 
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much at random as the names he applies, 
which  would  put  a  less  contemptible 
traducer behind the bars. 
It  may  com­
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meet  T h e  Tra desm a n’s  simple  state­
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have its rules and regulations formulated 
by a body of men employing  such  puer­
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The original  photographs  would  cost 
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THE  MICTTTGAN'  TRADESMAN

THE FIFTH CONVENTION
Annual  Meeting  of 
tbe  Michigan 

Knights  of  the  Grip.

The  fifth  annual  convention  of  the 
Michigan Knights of the  Grip  convened 
in  the  City  Hall  at  Saginaw,  Tuesday, 
Dec. 26, at 2 o’clock p.  m.  The meeting 
was called to order  by  President  Jones, 
when Chaplain Fitch invoked  the divine 
blessing.  On account of tbe  absence  of 
Sargeant-at-Arms Fairbrother,  Wm. Bur- 
rill,  of  Jackson,  was  appointed  by  the 
President to serve in his stead.  Wm.  H. 
Baier  favored the meeting with a couple 
of topical songs,  when  President  Jones 
announced 
the  following  special  com­
mittees:
On  Amendments  to  Constitution—E. 
S. Smith,  St. Johns; A.  F.  Peake,  Jack- 
son; R. W. Jacklin, Detroit.
On Nominations for  Boards of  Direct­
ors  and  Vice-Presidents—J.  W.  Califf, 
Bay City; Chas.  H. Smith. Saginaw; Geo. 
F. Owen, Grand Rapids; J.  L.  McCauley, 
Detroit; A.  W.  Stitt, Jackson.
President Jones then read  his  annual 

address, as  follows:

We have convened  to-day  to  transact 
the business of the  fifth  annual  gather­
ing of our organization.  We meet at the 
city  of  Saginaw in compliance with  the 
provision  of  our  constitution  vesting 
the power of fixing the place  of  the  an­
nual meeting in the Board  of  Directors. 
The Board were urged to  accept an invi­
tation  from  Post E, of Grand  Rapids,  to 
meet in that city,  and it  was  a  difficult 
test to decide between that invitation and 
the one extended by Post F, of  Saginaw. 
The latter won the honor of securing the 
annual gathering this year,  but  our  sis­
ter city of Grand  Rapids  is  a  long  way 
in the lead in securing  the  next  annual 
meeting if the generous invitation of this 
year is repeated by that city.
Since  we  met  together, one year ago, 
there  has  taken  place  an  unparalleled 
depression in the  commercial  affairs  of 
our country.  What  has  brought  about 
that condition is not  our  province  here 
to discuss,  but its effects have been keen­
ly felt by the members of  this  organiza­
tion.  Many of  our  number  have  been 
either temporarily taken off  the road,  or 
discharged altogether to await the advent 
of  a  more  auspicious financial outlook. 
Many  factories  of  various  kinds  have 
suspended  operations  throughout 
the 
country, including our own State, throw­
ing thousands of  honest workmen out of 
employment. 
In  this  State  the  iron 
mines  have  nearly  all  ceased  work, 
which  has brought disaster  to ail classes 
of trade in the  Upper Peninsula,  a hith­
erto fruitful field for many a commercial 
traveler. 
In  that  section  of  the  State, 
where a  few  months  ago  peace,  happi­
ness and  plenty  reigned,  human  beings 
are  now  crying  for  bread,  and  we  are 
asked  to extend a helping  hand  to  save 
citizens of  our own commonwealth from 
starvation.  As  we  gather  around  our 
banquet  table  to-night,  and  partake  of 
the fill of the good tilings of earth, I pro­
pose to suggest at its  conclusion that we 
add  a  contribution  from  the  Michigan 
Knights of the Grip to the fund now  be­
ing raised for the relief of these suffering 
citizens. 
I believe  you  will  be  glad  to 
do  this. 
Our  purses  are  not  as 
plethoric  as  some,  but  there  are  no 
warmer  or  more  sympathetic  hearts 
than 
the 
bosoms  of  traveling  men.  We  deplore 
the disturbed and  uncertain  condition of 
the  commercial  affairs  of  our  country, 
and hope for  the  good  of  all,  and more 
especially that of  our  own membership, 
that the dawn  of  better times  may soon 
be upon  us.
During  the  past  year  fifteen of  our 
members  have  been  removed  by death. 
All these were in  good standing but one, 
and entitled to the death benefit  of  $500 
pledged by our organization.  One of this 
number had failed to  pay an  assessment 
and was,  therefore,  barred  from  receiv­
ing the benefit.  Twelve  have been  paid 
the benefits provided  by our constitution 
of $500 each,  amounting  to  $6,000.  We 
have also paid,  in  addition, one-half the 
benefit of  Brother  A.  C.  Milne—$250—

throb 

those 

that 

in 

in 

the other half  having been paid  in 1892. 
This makes a grand total  of  $6,250 paid 
for death benefits  to  deceased  members 
during  the  year  1893.  There  is  still 
pending the  case of  Brother  Richard T. 
Scott, of Fenton.  The  Board of  Direct­
ors are holding this claim,  awaiting  the 
furnishing  of  certain  legal proofs as  to 
the  beneficiary 
the  case,  and  have 
been notified  by legal counsel of  parties 
in  interest  not  to  pay  the  claim  until 
matters  are  settled  in  the  courts.  We 
have also been advised  of  the  death  of 
Angus M.  Sutherland, of  Detroit, and  an 
assessment of $1  has been ordered to-day 
to pay the  same. 
In  several  cases  the 
benefit  paid  has  done  an 
incalculable 
amount of good,  furnishing means to the 
bereaved family of  the deceased, of tem­
porarily providing  for  loved ones shorn 
of a father’s care,  when no  other  means 
were at  hand.  The  "God  Bless  You” 
has been extended to our organization in 
these cases,  causing  our  better  feelings 
to well  up  as  we  received 
these  kind 
words.  The members  of  our  organiza­
tion may be  able to realize  from  this  in 
some  measure  the  truthfulness  of  the 
saying,  “It  is  more blessed to give than 
to receive.”  The death losses of the past 
year  have  been  heavy.  Several  cases 
have been brought  about  as  one  of  the 
latent or secondary effects of the lagrippe 
and  the  unavoidable  exposure incident 
to the calling of the traveling man.  Two 
cases  have  been  from  suicide  and two 
from  accident.  This  large  death  rate 
should  warn us  to  exercise greater care 
in soliciting applications for membership 
in our organization,  to  enquire  as to the 
state of health of the applicant.  1 think 
the form of our applications should be so 
amended as to put  the  following or sim­
ilar questions to the applicant:
Are you  now  in  good health and  free 
from  all bodily ailments ?
Are you  afflicted with any chronic dis­
eases  to  your  personal  knowledge that 
might tend to shorten your life?
Have you  ever  been  rejected  by  any 
life insurance  company or  benefit  asso­
ciation requiring a medical examinati in? 
If so,  give name of  such company  or as­
sociation and the cause of your rejection.
To what extent do you use intoxicating 
liquors as a beverage?
How long have  you  been  actively em­
ployed as a traveling man?
Are you now so employed?  By  whom 
and in  what capacity?

I  think 

hold their annual  gathering at  the  same 
time and place as this organization.  This 
might  prove  a  pleasant  feature,  and 
could  be  organized  here  this  year  if 
deemed  expedient. 
it  would 
prove  a  drawing  card  at  our  annual 
gatherings. 
If  you  think  well  of  this 
suggestion the matter could  be  referred 
to  a  committee  for  carrying  out  the 
plan.
We  have  made  commendable  prog­
ress this year in carrying  out  a  sugges­
tion of our  Hotel Committee, in  procur­
ing the written agreement of  the  hotels 
to entertain  the wives  of  our  members 
once during the year for a period  of  not 
over two days.  This is done  to  prevent 
such cases of  misunderstanding  as  have 
occurred in some instances over the mat­
ter in the past.  No hotel should be pub­
lished  in  our  list  hereafter which  bas 
not  assented,  in  writing,  to  this  provi­
sion.  In this connection  1 would suggest 
to our members that  they report  to  the 
Hotel Committee any abuse  of this priv­
ilege.  and if such violation is  proven  to 
be flagrant, the perpetrator  be  expelled 
from our organization.  We want no un­
principled men among us  and cannot af­
ford to have.  One of  the  cardinal  prin­
ciples  of  our  organization  is to elevate 
the social and moral character of  travel­
ing men.  To do this we must stamp out 
hotel dead  beats and keep  such  unprin­
cipled characters out of our organization. 
Thus shall  we  prove  to  the  hotel  pro­
prietors  that  this  privilege which  they 
accord  to us is  repaid  many times over. 
We are among  the  best  patrons  of  the 
hotels.  Let us prove  to  them  that  we 
are their best  friends, and  thus shall  we 
do much to secure from  them  accommo­
dations  commensurate  with 
the  price 
paid.
Our present constitution  provides that 
the salary of the  Secretary shall  be  one- 
fourth of the amount  received  for  dues 
of members,  and 5 per cent, of  all  death 
assessments  collected. 
I  am  satisfied 
that  our  Secretary should have a stated 
annual salary, payable quarterly, of such 
an amount as  may be  deemed wise  and 
prudent,  and  would  suggest  such  an 
amendment  to  our  constitution.  The 
salary might be fixed at $150 for each 500 
members iu good standing, or the moiety 
thereof.  The 5 per cent, of death assess­
ments it would  be well to  maintain  and 
continue  in  addition,  to  stimulate  tbe 
collection thereof.

the  answers 

should  make 

I  would also suggest that the applicant 
be required to state his  age,  and that no 
member be received hereafter who is over 
50 or 55  years  of  age;  nor  no  one  who 
shall not have been  actively employed as 
a legitimate  traveling  man  for  at  least 
six  months  immediately  preceding  the 
date  of  application.  This  would,  at 
least,  be something of a safeguard  in  an 
organization  like ours,  where no medical 
examination  is  required.  The  applica­
tions 
truthful­
the 
ness  of 
the  ques­
to 
tions  asked  a  warranty  and 
thus  bar 
securing the death  benefit in case a false 
statement is made. 
I  would suggest that 
a new form  of  application  be  prepared 
at once, embracing the foregoing sugges­
tions and any others that may  be deemed 
wise and judicious and a quantity printed 
for distribution among our members  for 
future use,  and that all old forms  be  de­
stroyed and that hereafter no applications 
on any of the old forms be received.  The 
names  of  the  officers  should  also  be 
omitted  from  the  form  of  application 
blanks,  in order that the blanks  may  be 
used from year to year  until  fully  used 
up.  The  large  number  of  deaths  the 
past year has demonstrated  the fact that 
a  death  benefit  of  $500  is  fully  large 
enough.  Had 
it  been  made  $1,000,  as 
was urged by some, one year ago, it would 
have ruined our organization.
In  this  connection  it  has  been  sug­
gested that a  benefit  of  $100 in  case  of 
the death of the wife of a member might 
be a good thing and  some have urged its 
adoption.  This  might  be accomplished 
in a manner that would  be  beneficial  to 
our order by organizing  an  independent 
co-ordinate branch of  the Knights of the 
Grip for the  wives and daughters of  our 
members,  with a constitution and by-laws 
of  their  own.  They could provide for a 
small  benefit  and  such  other  feasible 
things as might seem good  to  them  and

A good deal has been said about the in­
corporation of  this organizatio#.  There 
is much to be  said  for  and  against  the 
proposition.  1 have  understood  a  move 
was to be made in that direction  at  this 
meeting. 
I am not clear in my own mind 
as to  the  advisability of  doing  this,  but 
you in  your wisdom may be able to satis­
factorily solve the problem.
I have been asked the  question a num­
ber of times during  the  past  year  if  a 
person  must be a member of  a local post 
in order to be a member of  the  State or­
ganization.  Certainly  not.  This  ques­
tion  has been brought up because of some 
expensive  indulgences  by  local  posts. 
Theseshould be carefully guarded against 
in the  by-laws  of  every such  organiza­
tion.  1 believe local  posts are a good in­
stitution and could  prove  of  great  help 
to the members  thereof, as well  as  ma­
terially assist the State organization.  So 
I would  say,  organize  local  posts,  but 
limit  your  annual  dues  and  make  no 
forced assessments upon  members.
There have been  admitted  to member­
ship in  the organization  during  the past 
year  over  750  persons.  Our  present 
membership in  good  standing  is  about 
1,600. 
It has been suggested  that  some 
have  been admitted to  membership who 
were not eligible and that  sufficient care 
has not been exercised  by the  Board  of 
Directors in this matter.  The  Board  is 
obliged to  rely largely upon  the  recom­
mendation of the members  who  take and 
sign the application.  Great  care should 
be  exercised  to  recommend none  whom 
they do not know  to  be worthy and  well 
qualified,  and  who  are  in  full  accord 
with the requirements of our constitution 
and  the  principles which  underlie  our 
organization, 
if  any member  can  sug­
gest  a  method  which will  aid  your  in­
coming Board of Directors in this matter, 
he should most certainly  make it  known 
to them.

law, 

to  permit  the 

A  bill  has  recently  been 

introduced 
into each  branch  of  Congress,  providing 
for an amendment to the  interstate com­
merce 
issuance 
of joint  interchangeable  mileage  books, 
with special privileges  as  to the amount 
of  baggage  that  may be  carried. 
I  am 
pleased  to  say that  the  author  of  this 
bill is  a  Michigan  man,  Senator  Stock- 
bridge.  Like the old  maid  who  is about 
to be married,  we  can  say,  “This  is  the 
way I long have  sought.” 
I would  sug­
gest that a  Committee  be  appointed  at 
this meeting to draft resolutions express­
ive  of  our desire for the passage of  this 
measure and have the same forwarded  to 
our  Senators  and  Representatives  iu 
Congress at once,  by our Secretary.  Let 
us ask the good Lord to  open the ears of 
the members  of  Congress  at  this time to 
the  cry of  the  people  for  help,  for  if 
there ever was a time that  cry should  be 
heeded it is now.
The  Board  of  Directors,  at  a  meeting 
on  the  3rd  of  June last,  removed  from 
the  office  of  Secretary  Mr.  McCauley, 
who,  by  your choice,  was  elected to that 
high and responsible position  at the last 
annual  meeting  of 
this  organization. 
The removal was  made  for  the  alleged 
grievance of inability to  understand  his 
statement  of  account  presented  to  the 
Board  and  seemingly  apparent  discrep­
ancies  therein.  The  removal  was  ac­
complished by a resolution by the Board, 
declaring  the  office  vacant.  After  the 
removal,  it  w'as  deemed  necessary  and 
proper that an examination of  the books 
of the Secretary should  be  made  and  an 
expert  accountant  was  employed  by the 
Board of Directors to do the work.  Owing 
to  the very crude  manner  in  which  the 
books had  been  kept  it  was  difficult  to 
determine definite results from the books 
for one not familiar with the lack of meth­
od in keeping the same.  Mr. and Mrs. Mc­
Cauley met  the  accountant  in  August, 
previous to the September meeting of the 
Board,  when the accountant  reported an 
apparent shortage in the  accounts of  the 
Secretary of $545.81.  A  further examina­
tion was asked of  the accountant  by the 
Board,  and at a meeting held on the first 
Saturday in December,  of  this amount it 
was  found  Mr.  McCauley  had  reported 
$120.20 as  in  his  hands June 3. 
It was 
also found that a  list  of  100  new mem­
bers had not  been  assessed  for  Assess­
ments Nos.  1 and 2 of 1893,  which  would 
aggregate $200  more,  thus  reducing  the 
alleged  shortage  to  $225.61.  Of  this 
amount $219 depended upon  whether 219 
members had paid Assessment  No.  2  of 
$1  on  each  member,  made  iu  Decem­
ber,  1892,  and  $6.61  was  an  unac­
to 
countable  discrepancy,  necessary 
make  up  the  balance. 
It  was  thought 
by 
best  way 
that 
the 
to determine the question as  to  whether 
the  219  members  had  paid  this  assess­
ment  was to address a circular  letter  to 
each one and ask,  if they held  a  receipt 
for this, to send the same to the account­
ant,  who  had  been  entrusted  with  the 
matter.  About  115  answers  were  re­
ceived  of  various  kinds;  sixty-one  ad­
mitted they bad not paid,  and only eight 
sent receipts showing they had  paid  the 
assessment.  On  a  further  examination 
of the books, nearly all the eight holding 
receipts  were  found  credited 
therefor," 
and had  been overlooked  by  the  expert 
accountant in making up  his  statement. 
As  no  evidence  could  be  had  that  any 
more of the 219 had  paid the assessment, 
at this  unsatisfactory  disclosure  in  the 
work of the expert accountant, the Board 
by  common  consent  concluded  to  drop 
the  whole  matter.  At  the  time  of  the 
removal of Mr.  McCauley,  I  advised  the 
Board of Directors that  I  did  not  think 
it was in  their power to  remove  an elec­
tive  officer  without  charges  being  pre­
ferred  in  writing  and  a  full  hearing 
given  tbe accused in  his own defence.  1 
still  adhere  to  that  opinion  and  would 
advise the adoption of  an amendment  to 
our constitution to plainly meet  such an 
emergency  in  the future,  should  it ever 
become  necessary,  which  I 
trust  may 
never be the case.
After  the  removal  of  Mr.  McCauley 
from  the office of Secretary, the Board of 
Directors at once elected L.  M.  Mills,  of 
Grand Rapids,  as his  successor.  He has 
performed the duties of  the office for the 

the  Board 

(Continued on page 14.)

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ACIDUM .
Acetlcum................
Benzol cum  German
Boraclc 
.................
Carbollcum..............  25©  35
Cltricúm...................  52©  55
Hydrochlor................  3©
Nltrocum 
.................   10©  12
Oxalicum...................  10©
Phosphorium dll........
Sallcylicum.............. 1  30©1
Sulpnurlcum..............  13í@
Tannlcum..................1  40@1  60
Tartarlcum................  30®  33

AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg............
20  deg............ •  3)4©  5
-  5 Vi®  7
Carbonas  ................. .  12©  14
Chlorldum................ .  12©  14

“ 

BAC'CAE.
Cubeae (po  36)........
Juníperas.................
Xan tnoxylum.  . 
...
BALSAM UM .
Copaiba....................
Peru..........................
Terabin, Canada__
Tolutan....................
CORTEX .

2î®  30
8®  10
.  25©  30

45®  50
@1  90
60®  65
35®  50

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Casslae 
.............................   11
Cinchona Flava  .................   18
Euonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po............   30
Prunus Vlrglnl....................  12
Qulllala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

EX TRA CT UM.

Glycyrrhiza  Glabra...  24©
po...........  33©  35
“ 
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11©  12
“ 
Is...............   13©  14
“  Mis..............  14©  15
“  Vis..............  16©  17

p e p .r u

Carbonate Preclp__
Citrate and Qulnla..
Citrate  Soluble........
Ferrocyanldum Sol..
Solut  Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l ..............9©
pure.............  ®

“ 

©  15 
@3 50 
©  80 
®  50 
©  15

FLO R A .

Arnica.......................  18©
Anthemls...................  Sc©
Matricaria

20 
35 
50©  65

“ 

“ 

“
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Barosma 
CasBla  Acuti fol,  Tin

...................  18©  50

2d 
3d 
sifted sort»...
po .................  60©  80

Salvia  officinalis,  üs 
lira Ursl
Acacia, 1st  picked.
.

nlvelly....................  35©
Alx.  35©
and  Vis....................   15©
8©
©
©
©
©
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50© 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ©
Socotrl. (po.  60).  ©
Catechu, Is, (Vis, 14 Xb>
1
18)..........................
©
60 
Ammonias  .  ..............
55©
33©
36 
Assafcetlda, (po. 35)..
55 
Benzoin um.................  50©
55 
Camphor»...................  50©
Euphorbium  po  ........  35©
10 @2 50 
Galbanum
0©  7b 
Gamboge,  po.......
@  30 
Gualacum, (po  35)
@1  15 
Kino,  (po  1  10)...
©  80 
M astic.................
©  40
Myrrh, (po. 45) —
Opii  (po  3  50)..........2 40@2 5T
Shellac  ......................  35©  42
bleached......  33©  35
Tragacanth...............   40© 1  00

“ 
hebba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Eupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
“  V lr.........................  25
Rue......................................   30
Tanacetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25

MAGNESIA.

Calcined, Pat...  ........  55©  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20©  22
Carbonate, K. A  M__  20©  25
Carbonate, Jennings..  35©  36

OLEUM.

Absinthium...............3 50@4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45©  75
Amydalae, Amarae__ 8  00@8 25
A nisl...........................1  70@1 80
Aurantl  Cortex.......... 2  30@2 40
Bergamli  ...................3  25@3 50
Cajiputl.................... 
60©  65
Caryophylli................  75©  80
Cedar  .........................  35©  65
Chenopodii...............   @1  60
Clnnamonll.................1  10® l 15
Cltronella...................  ®  45
Conium  Mac..............  35©  65
Copaiba  ....................  so©  90

Cubebae........................   © 
Exechthltos..................   2 50@3 75
Erigeron.........................2 oo@2 10
Gaultherla......................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......   @  75
Gosslpll, Sem. gal......   70©  75
Hedeoma  ...................1  25@1  40
Juniperl.......................   50@2 00
Lavendula...................  90@2 00
Llmonls...................... 2 40@2 60
Mentha Piper.............. 2 85@3 60
Mentha Verld.............2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal.............l  00@1  10
Myrcla, ounce............   @  50
Olive............................  85@2 75
Plds Liquida, (gal. 35)  10©  12
Rlcinl.......................  l  22@1 28
Rosmarlnl.................  
75@1 00
Rosae, ounce...................6 50@8 50
Succln!.......................   40©  45
Sabina.........................  90@1 00
Santal  ....................... 3 50@7 00
Sassafras.  .................   50©  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  ©  65
Tlglll..........................   ©  90
Thyme.......................  40©  50
_  
^  opt  ................  ©  60
Theobromas...............   15©  20
POTASSIUM.
BlCarb.......................  
is©
Biahromate................  13©
Bromide.................... 
40©
Carb............................ 
ja©
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24©  26
Cyanide......................  50©  55
Iodide..............................2 90@3 00
Potassa, Bltart,  pure..  27©  30
Potassa, Bltart.com...  ©  15
Potass  Nltras, opt......  
8©  10
Potass Nltras.............. 
7©  9
Prusslate....................  28©  30
Sulphate  po...... .........  15©  18

60©i 75

“ 

Aconitum...................  20©
Althae.........................  22©
Auchusa....................   12©
Arum,  po....................  ©  25
Calamus......................  20©  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)...... 
8©  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16©  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
©  30
(po. 35)................... 
Hellebore,  Ala,  po.  ..  15©  20
Inula,  po....................  15©  20
Ipecac,  po.................... 1 
Iris  plox (po. 35®38)..  35©  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   40©  45
Maranta,  Ms..............  ©  35
Podophyllum, po........  15©  18
Rhel............................  75@1  00
“  cut.....................   @1  75
PV.......................   75@1  35
Splgella......................  35©  38
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentarla.................  30©  32
Senega.......................  55©  60
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  ©  40 
M  ©  25
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10©  12
Symplocarpus,  Fcsti-
dus,  po....................  ©  35
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  ©  25
German...  15©  20
is®  20
Ingiber a ................. 
Zingiber  j ...............  
18©  20
SEMEN.
..  ©  15
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
'  plum  (graveleons).. 
if©  18
rd, Is...................... 
4©  6
Carul, (po. 18)............   10©  12
Cardamon..................1  00©1  25
Corlandrum................  10©  12
Cannabis Satlva.........   4© 
5
ft donium..................   75©l 00
lenopodlum  ...........  10©  12
Dlpterix Odorate....... 2 2S©2 50
Foenlculum...............   ©  15
Foenugreek,  po.........  
6©  8
L in l................. 
  4  © 4M
Llnl, grd,  (bbl. 3) 
..  3)4©  4
Lobelia.......................  35©  40
Pharlarls Canarian__  3  © 4
Rapa..........................  6©  7
Slnapls  Albu............   7  © 8
Nigra...........  11©  12

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SPIRITUS.

Frumenti, W..D.  Co..2 00©2 50
F. R...... 1  75@2 00
...............1 
Juniperls  Co. O. T....1  65@2 00
1 
Saacharum  N.  E ......... 1 75©2 00
Spt.  Vlnl  Galll............ 1 75@6 50
Vlnl Oporto.................1 
Vlnl  Alba....................1 

25@1 50
75@3 50

25@2 00
25@2 00

“ 

 

SPONGES.

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

2 00 
1  10

1  40

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac.
60
Ferrlerrl  Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................   50
Rhel Aram..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Scillae..................................  50
"  Co.............................   50
Toratan...............................  50
Pranas  vlrg.........................  50

“ 

“ 

“ 

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S.  N. Y. Q.  &

Morphia, S. P. & W.  2 10@2 35 
C.  Co....................  2 00@2 25
Moschus Canton____  ©  40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  65©  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  ©  10
Os.  Sepia....................  20©  22
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plds Liq, N.»C., Vi gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Piéis Liq., quarts......  @1  00
pints.........   ©  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  ©  50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  ©  1
Piper Alba, (po g5)....  ©  3
Pta  Burgun...............   ©  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14©  15
Pulvls Ipecac et opil.. l  lo@l  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......  @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20©  30
Quasslae....................  8©  10
Qulnla, S. P. & W......  32©  37
S.  German__  25©  31
Rubia  TInctorum......  12©  14
20©  22
SaccharumLactlspv. 
Salacln.......................2 00@2  10
Sanguis  Draconls......  40©  50
Sapo,  W......................  12©  14
‘  M.......................   10©  ■*“©

“ 

“ 

bbl. 

Voes

paints. 

“   opt...................  ©  30  ■■¡■¡fi

Seldlitz  Mixture........  ©  201 Linseed,  boiled.........  49
Slnapls........................  ©  18  Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   65
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De 
SplrltsTurpentlne__  37
„   35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  ©  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10©  11 
Soda etPotassTart...  27©  30
Soda Carb.................  1)4©  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash.................   3 Vi©  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50©  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
‘‘  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
--- 7.........................2 25@2 35
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal......1 40©1  45
Sulphur, Subl..............2M@ 3
_   “  ,  Roll..............  2  © 2V4
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28©  30
Theobromae............. 45  ©  48
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
Zinc!  Sulph..  ........... 
7©  8

lb .
Red Venetian..............im  2@8
Ochre,yellow  Mars...  l£   2@4
Ber........im  2©8
“ 
Putty,  commercial_214  2V4@3
tt“  s.^cUXJ)ure....2K 2X@S
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican .......................... 
13@16
Vermilion,  English.... 
66©70
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red....................  ex@7
“  w hite................6M@7
Whiting, white Span... 
©70
Whiting,  Gilders’..  . ..  @90
1  0
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
Paints.....................1 00@1  20
varnishes.
No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  10©1  20
Extra Turp................160@1  70
Coach Body...............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.......1  00©1  10
EutraTurkD am ar....l  55@1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp......................... 
70®76

Bbl.
Whale, winter...........  70
Lard,  extra...............   SO
Lard, No.  1...............   42
Linseed, pure raw__  46

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

TIN C TU R ES.

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Aconitum Napellls R .........   60
F .........   50
and myrrh...................  60
A rnica..................................   50
Asafcetida.........................”  
0
Atrope Belladonna................  60
Benzoin.................................  60
“  Co............................  50
Sanguinarla..........................   50
Barosma...............................   50
Cantharides...........................  75
Capsicum..............................  50
Ca damon..............................  75
Co.........................  75
Castor..................................1 ¿0
Catechu................................     50
Cinchona............................... 50
Co.........................  60
Columba...............................   50
Conium.................................  so
Cubeba............................. 1  50
Digitalis..................................Ü so
g rS°‘...................................   50
Gentian...............................  50
-   ",  Co................................!! 60

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ammon......................60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Iodine..................................   75
Colorless..................      75
Ferrl  Chlorldum................. 
35
K ino...................................   5Ö
Lobelia..........................  
so
Myrrh................................ 
50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
CjjM  ■••••••..........................   86
“  Deodor.........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................   50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany..........................  
50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol................. 
50
_  “ 
Co..............  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
ValerlaD.............................  50
Veratrum VerWe...............  !  50

MISCELLANEOUS.

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ground,  (po.

Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  28©  30
“  4 F ..  32©  34
Alumen....................... 254© 3

‘ 
“ 
....................................... 3© 4
Annatto......................  55©  60
Antimonl, po.............. 
4©  5
et Potass T.  55©  60
Antlpyrln......................  @1 
Antlfebrln..................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce @ •  52
Arsenicum................. 
5©  7
Balm Gilead  Bud.... 
38©  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Vis
12;  Ms.  14)..............  ©  11
Cantharides  Russian, 
po  ...........................
@1 00 
Capsid  Fructus, af.
©  26 
o..
©  28 ©  20 
I po.
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  ___  _
10©  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   ©8 75
Cera  Alba, 8. A F ......   50©  55
Cera Flava.................  38©
40 
Coccus  ......................  ~  @
40 
Cassia Fructus...........  ©
25 
Centrarla....................  ©
10 
Cetaceum...................  ©
40 
Chloroform................  60©
68 
squlbbs..
_  
©1  25 
Chloral Hyd li s t ........1
1  60 
Chondrus ...................   20©
25 
Clnchonldlne, P.  *  w  is©
20 
German 8  © 
12
Corks,  Ust,  dls.  per
cent  ......................
60
Creasotum..........
35
Creta.  (bbl. 75)....
©5©
25
“  prep............
preclp.........
9©
11
Rubra........
8 
© 
Crocus .......
45©  50 
Cudbear.....
©  24 
Cuprl Sulph. 
5 ©  6
Dextrine.
10©   12
Ether Sulph...............   70©
Emery,  all  numbers 
~
©

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po.

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11 

Flake  White.7?."!!.".!  12©  15
Galla..........................  ©  28
Gambler......................  7  @ 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ©  70
French...........  40©  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 <& 10. 
Less than box 66X
Glue,  Brown.............. 
9©  15
“  White................  18©  25
Glycerine...................  14©  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  ©  22
Humulus....................  25©  56
Hydraag Chi or  Mite..  ©  85
“  Cor__   ©  80
Ox Rubrum  ©  90 
©100 
Ammonlatl. 
Unguentum.  45©  55
Hydrargyrum............   ©  64
Ichthyobolla, Am.. 
.1 25©1 50
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 80@3 90
Iodoform....................  ©4 70
Lupulln......................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  70©  TO
M arts.........................  70©  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
drarg Iod.................  ©  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10©  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8. F ..............  60©36S

IX )...................... 2Vi®  4

CHEMICALS  AND

40

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils % Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole Agents for the  Celebrated

SWISS  ÌTLLI  PREPARED  PÎINTS.

F i  Line of  Staple  Druggists'  Sullies

We are Sole Proprietors of

Weatherin'«  Michigan  Catarrh  Remeda.

We Have in Stock and Offer a  F ull Line of

WHISKIES,  BRANDIES,

GINS,  WINES,  RUMS,

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

HAMM A PERKIHS DIG 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.

Sap Sago....................  @21
Schweitzer, imported.  @24 
domestic  __  @14

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COUPON  BOOKS.

AXLE  GREASE.
Aurora....................  55 
Castor Oil..............  60 
Diamond.................  50 
Frazer’s ................. 
*5 
Mica  ......................  65 
Paragon 
...............   55 

doz  gross
600
7 fO
5 50
8 00
7 E0
600

BAKING  POWDER. 

“  2  “ 

Vi »>  “ 
1 tt>  “ 
Vi lb.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 

Arctic.
“ 4 doz  “ 
“ 2 doz  “ 
“  1 doz  “ 
Fosfon.

Acme.
Vi lb. cans. 3 doz...............  
45
2  “  ................  75
Vi lb-  “ 
1 lb. 
“ 1  “  ..................  1 00
Bulk.............................   ...  10
55
V4 lb cans 6 doz  case.........  
Vi lb 
..........   1  10
1  lb 
.......... 2 00
5  #> 
.........   9 00
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case...  80 
...2 00
“ 
16  “ 
cans........... 
Red Star, la 
40
“ 
75
........... 
...........  1  40
“ 
45
Teller’s,  J* lb. cans, doz. 
“  ..  85
“ 
“ 
“  ..  1  50
Our Leader, V lb cans...... 
45
** 
75
Vilb cans........ 
1 lb cans......... 1  50
“ 
Dr. Price’s.
per doz
Dime cans..  95
“ I I
IBAKIN6 »   f  »1 
fOWBEf«  "K 
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IjKrT* J 101b  “  4180

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

S oz 

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BROOMS,

,40. 2 Hurl..........................   1  75
No. 1  “ 
.......................... 2 00
No. 2 Carpet.......................  2 25
.......................  2 50
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem.......................... 2 75
Common Whisk................. 
80
Fancy 
.................  1 00
Warehouse..........................8  00

1 

BRUSHES.

Stove, No.  1.......................  125
“  10.......................   1 50
“ 
*  “ 
“  15.......................   1 75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row__ 
85
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row. . .   1  25
Palmetto,  goose.................  1  50

CANDLES.

Hotel. 40 lb. boxes............   io
Star,  40 
9
Paraffine  .................  
io
............................ 24
Wicklng 

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CANNED  GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

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Little Neck,  lib ..................i  ao

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

Standard. 3 lb......................2 25
Standard,  lib ....................   go
21b.....................150
Lobsters.

Star,  1  lb................................. 2 45
“  2  lb.................................3 50
Picnic,! lb............................... 2 00
“ 
21b............................... 2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, l i b ........................... 1 io
2  lb......................... 2 10
Mustard,  21b.......................... 2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb.............2 25
Soused, 2 lb.............. 
.2 25
Columbia River, flat........... 1  80
tails........... 1 65
Alaska, R e d ............................ 1 25
pink............ .............1  10
Kinney’s,  flats......................... 1 95
American  Vis...............   4Vi@  5
.  ,*■ .................6 Vi® 7
. 
imported  Vis....................  @10
“  _  ViS.....................15@16
......................  7@8
Mustard 
Boneless.......................... 
21
Trout
2 60 I
Brook, 8 lb  ...... 

Salmon.
“ 

Sardines.

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1  75

Gages.

Cherries.

F r u its.
Apples.
3 lb. standard.........
1  103  10
York State  gallons 
Hamburgh.
Apricots.
I Live oak......................
1  60 
Santa  Crus.................
1  60 
I Lusk’s .........................
1  60 
Overland  .................
1 60
Blackberries.
B. &  W....................... 
90
Red............................  1  10@1 20
1 75
Pitted Hamburgh  . . .  
W hite......................... 
1  50
E rie............................ 
1  20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Erie............................ 
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
Common..................... 1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced
2 50 
grated........
2 75 
Booth’s sliced............
@2 51 
grated...........
@  “
Quinces.
Common....................
1  10
Raspberries.
Red  ............................
1  10 
Black  Hamburg.........
1  5f 
Brie, 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 
Roast beef  Armour's.
1  80 
Potted  ham, Vi lb......
1  40 
6 75
85 
“ 
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1  35 
85 
96

“  *  lb...........
tongue, Vi lb......
Vi lb —
“ 
chicken, Vi lb__
Vegetables.

Pineapples.

Meats.

“ 
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Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
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“ 
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Peas.

Corn.

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

Hamburgh  stringless...

-1  25
French style........2 25
Limas........................1 35
Lima, green..............................1 25
soaked......................  65
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 85
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
Soaked............................... 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat........... 1  35
early June....
Champion Eng
.1  50 
petit  pois......
.1  75 
fancy  sifted..
.1  90 
Soaked.............................
.  75 
Harris standard................
.  75 
VanCamp’s  marrofat......
.1  10 
early June... 
.1  30 
Archer’s  Eariy Blossom..
1  25 
French.............................
.2  15
French..............................19@21
Erie...............................  
85
Hubbard...................................1 15
Hamburg...................................1 40
Soaked.................................  85
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 50
E rie.......................................... 1 35
Hancock...................................1 15
Excelsior  .  .........................
Eclipse................................
Hamburg.............................
Gallon.......................... .
CHOCOLATE. 

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.

.3 50

“ 

Baker's.

CHEESE.

23
German Sweet............ 
Premium..........................  
37
Breakfast Cocoa.............. 
43
Amboy.......................   @13%
Acme..........................  12Vi@13
Lenawee....................  @12 Vi
Riverside................... 
i3Vi
Gold Medal  ..............  @12M
Skim..........................  
6@10
U
Brick..........................  
E dam ........................  
1  00
28
Leiden.......................  
Limburger  ...............   @10
Plneapule...................  @25
Roquefort...................  @35

CATSUP.

•• 

Blue Label Brand.
. . . .  
Triumph Brand.

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

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes..................4i@45

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags......................  @3
Less quantity...............   @3Vi
Pound  packages.........  65i@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 Guatemala.
Fair.................................... 21
Good...................................22
Fancy................................. 24
Prime.................................23
M illed................................24
Interior..............................25
Private Growth..................27
Mandehling...................... 28
Imitation........................... 25
Arabian..............................28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Vic. 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—   24  45 

Package.

Extract.
Valley Citv Vi  gross  . 
75
1  15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross........1  50
“ 
....... 2 50

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CHICORY.

Bulk.
Red

CLOTHES  LINES.

40 ft. 
50 ft. 
60 ft 
70 ft.
sort.
60 ft. 
72 i f

.per dos.  1  25
1 40
1 60
1 76
1 W
85
1 uu

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CONDEN8ED  MILK. 

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. 

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

Bonders’.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

Regular
Vanilla.

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

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Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
120
2 oz regular panel.  75 
2 00
4 0« 
. ..1  50 
3 00
6 0S 
...2 00 
No. 3 taper...........1  35 
2 00
No. 4 taper............ 150 
250
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

HERBS.

INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb. boxes  ........ 
55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
50
JELLY.
17  lb. palls  ...............   @  50
30  “ 
................  @  70

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

LYE.
Condensed, 2 doz...............1 25
4 doz............... 2 25
No. 9  sulphur..................... 1  65
Anchor parlor.....................1  70
No. 2 home..........................1  10
Export  parlor  ....................4 00

MATCHES.

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MINCE  MEAT.

Foreign.
Currants.

“ 
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Patras,  in barrels............ 

3
in  Vi bbls..............  3M
3V4
in less quantity 
cleaned,  bulk........ 
6
cleaned,  package.. 
6Vi 

Peel.

Citron, Leghorn. 251b. boxes  20 
Lemon 
10
Orange 
11

25  “ 
25  “ 

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Raisins.

Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes.  @ 7%
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 30  “

@ 8

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Prunes.
California,  100-120..............  654
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  8M
80x90 
.. 8
8 Vi
70x80 
60x70 
. 9

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Turkey  .......................
Silver..........................
Sultana...............................
..................
French,  60-70 
70-80.....................
80-99....................
90-10  ....................
ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1, 6Vi  .......................  81  75
No. 2. 6 Vi 
1  60
No. 1, 6 
........................  1  65
No. 2, 6............................  1  50

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XX  wood, white.

No. 1, 6 Vi  ........................   1  35
No. 8, «Vi 
.................  1  25

Manilla, white.

6 Vi  ...................................   1 00
6.....................................  . 
95

Coin.

Mill  No. 4.........................  100
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 

Farina.
Hominy.

Oatmeal.

100 lb. kegs................... 
35s
Barrels  ................................3 00
3  50
Grits  . -....................... 
Lima  Beans.
Dried........... 
...  3M@*
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported.....................10Vi@. 1
Barrels 200 .......................  4 25
Half barrels 100....................  2 25
Kegs.............................   ..  2M
Green,  bn.............................  1 25
Split  per l b ..................2jj@3
Barrels  180.................  @4  25
Half  bbls 90..............  @2 25
German................................  4 Vi
East India..........................   5
Cracked.............................. 

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

5

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

FISH—Salt.
Bloaters.

Cod.

Pollock..........................
Whole, Grand  Bank....  5@5Vi
Boneless,  bricks.............. 6@8
Boneless, strips................6@8
Smoked......................... ll@12Vi

Halibut.
Herring.
“ 
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Holland, white hoops keg 

70 
bbl  9 50

Norwegian  .....................
Round, Vi bbl 100 lbs........  2 25
“  Vi  “  40  “  ..........  1 20
Scaled............................... 
n

Mackerel.

No. 1,  100 lbs...........................11 00
No. 1,40 lbs..............................4 70
No. 1,  10 lb s.............................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  lb s.................   70

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Mince meat, 3 doz. in case.  2 75 
Pie  preparation  3 doz.  in
case...............................   3 00

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen

...........................81  75
1  gallon 
Half  gallon.....................  1  40
70
Q nait...............................  
P int.................... 
45
Half  p in t.......................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon..........................  
7 00
Half gallon  ....................   4  75
Q uart...............................  3 75
Pint...................................  2 26

 

Sardines.

Trout.

Russian,  kegs....................  55

No. 1, Vi bbls., lOOlbs........... 6 00
No. 1 Vi bbl, 40  lbs...................2 75
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   80
No. 1,81b  kits....................  68
Family 
Vi bbls, 100 lbs..........87 50 83 50
M  “  40  “  ..........  3 50  1 65
90  50
10 lb.  kits..................  
8 lb.  “ 
45

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Whlteflsh.

No. 1

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cnba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house...................... 
Ordinary......................... 
Prim e...............................  
Fancy...............................  
F air..................................  
Good................................. 
Extra good........................ 
Choice.............................. 
Fancy................................ 
One-half barrels. 3c extra.

New Orleans.

14
16
20
80
18
22
27
32
40

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2 50
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8 OP
4 on
5 00
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4 00
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t  1  books, per hundred 
....  3 50
*2 
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8 3 
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8 5 
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810 
820 
7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5 per  cent 
500 
1000 
COUPON  PASS BOOKS.
1 Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down. |
20 books......................$100
2 00
50  “ 
3 00
100  “ 
6  25
250  “ 
500  “ 
10 00
1000,  “ 
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CREDIT  CHECKS.

500, any one denom’n ......83 00
1000,  “ 
...... 5 00
2000,  “ 
.......8 00
75
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CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX......................6
Seymour XXX, cartoon......  6Vi
Family XXX......................  8
Family XXX,  cartoon........  6Vi
Salted XXX.........................6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........  6Vi
Kenosha 
.........................  7Vi
Boston..................................  8
Bntter  biscuit....................  6Vi
Soda, XXX.........................  6
Soda, City............................  7Vi
Soda,  Dnchess......................8Vi
Crystal Wafer...................... 10
Long  Island Wafers  ..........11
S. Oyster  XXX....................  6
City Oyster. XXX.................  6
Farina  Oyster.................... 6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure......................  30
Telfer’s Absolute..............  31
Grocers’...................... 
.  15@25
Domestic.

DRIED  FRUITS. 

7
7vi
11 
14
14Vi 
8

Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

quartered  “ 

Snndried. sliced In  bbls. 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
Apricots.
California in  bags........ 
Evaporated in boxes 
. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes...................... 
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags.......................10
251b. boxes.....................10Vi
Peeled, in  boxes.........
 
Cal. evap.  “ 
“ 
Pears.
California in bags 
Pitted  Cherries
Barrels..........................
60 lb. boxes...................
25 “ 

in bags......  10
10

.................   10
Prunelles.
801b.  boxes.................  15
Raspberries.
In  barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
......................
25 lb.  “ 
Raisins.

10Vi

“ 

“ 

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.

2 crown.............................   1  29
3 
“ 
............................. 1  60
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
2  crown..............................   4
3
............................... 5

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

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

3 38

Clay, No.  216.............. ........1  75
“  T. D. full count.. ........  75
Cob, No.  8................... ........1 25

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s ........................  
4 oo
PennaSalt  Co.’s..............  325

KICK.
Domestic.

Carolina head.......... ............ 6
“  No. 1...................... 5k
“  No. 2......................   5
Broken  .............................  4

Imported.

Japan, No. 1.........................  sit
No. 2..........................5
Java....................................  6
Patna.................................

SPICKS.
Whole Sifted

“  and Saigon.&

Allspice................................ 9 k
Cassia, China in mats........  8
“  Batavia In bund__15
“ 
Saigon in rolls......... 32
Cloves,  Amboyna...............22
“ 
Zanzibar.................ilk
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy................... 75
“  No.  1...................... 70
“  No.  2...................... 60
Pepper, Singapore, black.... 10 
“ 
“  white...  .20
shot.......................16
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.
Allspice................................15
Cassia,  Batavia.................. 28
“ 
“ 
Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna............... 22
“  Zanzibar.................18
Ginger, African................... ie
Cochin.................  20
Jam aica.................22
Mace  Batavia......................65
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ................... 75
Pepper, Singapore, black__16
“  white......24
“  Cayenne.................30
Sage......................................20
•‘Absolute” in Packages.
Allspice...................... Ks
ks
,  84 1  55
Cinnamon..................
84 1  55
Cloves......................... 84 1  55
Ginger,  Jamaica  ......
84 1  55
“  African...........
84 1  55
Mustard...................... 84 1  55
Pepper .......................
84 1  55
Sage...................
84

“ 

SAL  SODA.
Kegs...........................
Granulated,  boxes__
SEEDS.

lk
•  191

A nise.........................  @15
Canary, Smyrna........  
4
Caraway.................... 
g
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
Hemp,  Russian 
......  
4v
5@6
Mixed  Bird 
............. 
Mustard,  w h ite........ 
10
Poppy......................... 
9
Rape.......................... 
5
Cuttle  bone...............  
so
STARCH.

Corn.

 

 

“ 

20-lb  boxes  .......................  sv
40-lb 
5$
1-lb packages.......................  5k
3-lb 
5k
6-lb 
5k
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  3k
Barrels................................   3k

Gloss.
 
 

“ 
“ 

 
 

SN CPF.

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

SODA,

Boxes................................... .
Kegs, English........................4k

SALT.
 
 

 
 

100 3-lb. sacks......................12 25
2 00
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb. sacks...................  1  85
2 25
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases.......................  1 50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
32
28 lb.  “ 
drill  “  16  18
56 lb. dairy in drill  bags... 
32
281b.  “ 
is
.. 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks..  75 

Warsaw.

Ashton.

“ 

“ 

Higgins.

56 ib. dairy in linen  sacks. 

Soiar Rock.

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

Common Fine.

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

75 

27

75
75

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

SOAP.
Laundry.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb........... 3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb...................3 go
White Borax. 100  k  lb........ 3 65

Proctor & Gamble.

“ 

Concord....................................3 45
Ivory, 10  oz........................  6 75.
6  OZ......................... 4 00
Lenox 
............................  3 65
Mottled  German................3  15
Town Talk......................... 3 %

Dingman Brands.

“ 

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. 

Single box..........................3 95
5 box lots, delivered...........  3 85
10 box lots, delivered........  3 75
American  Family, wrp'd..*4 00 
plain.  .  3 94 
N.  K.  Fairbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  4 00
Brown, 60 bars....................2 40
80  b a rs.................. 3 25

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.
Acme.................................. 3 75
Cotton Oil.......................... 6 00
Marseilles..........................4 00
Mafter  ...............................   4 00

Thompson & Chute Brands.
~ —  
.  . ~ ~ x

Silver..........................  
a . k
Mono 
........................::::  s »
2 50
Savon Improved........... 
Supflower.................. 
  3 05
Golden  ..........................   ‘  3 ¿5
Economical  ............... .‘‘  2 25

Sapollo, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 50
hand, 3 doz..........2  50

“ 

Scouring.

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 town where 
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...........................15 23
Powdered.........................  4 67
Granulated..................... ’  4 30
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 42
Cubes.................................4 67
XXXX  Powdered......... . 
4 99
Confec. Standard  A.........4 23
No. 1  ColumbiaA............   405
No. 5 Empire  A ............... 392
No.  6..................................3 86
No.  7.................................. 3 74
No.  8..................................3 67
No.  9............   ...................3 61
No.  10..............................  3 55
No.  11................................   3 49
No.  12...............................  3 42
No.  13.........   ....................   3 30
No 14................................   3  17

SYRUPS.

Corn.

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

Pure Cane.

TAltLK  SAUCES.

“ 

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

“ 

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SU N  C U R B S.

B A S E S T   F IR E S .

F air............................  @17
Good..........................   @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust.............................10  @12
F air............................  @17
Good..  ......................  @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
DuBt............................. 10  @12
F air............................. 18  @20
Choice.........................  @25
Choicest....................  
@35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
GUN PO W D ER.
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. 
IM PE R IA L .

EN G LISH   B R E A K FA ST .

YOUNG HYSON.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet.............30  @32
Tiger..........................  
31
D. Scotten & Co’s Brands.
60
Hiawatha................... 
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
McGlnty......................... 
25
Dandy Jim ...................... 
Torpedo.......................... 
Yum  Yum  ....................  
1892 .................................. 
“  drams...................... 

k  bbls.........  

In drums__ 

23

“ 

“ 

27
29
24
28
23
22

Plug.

39
27
39
26
38
34

Sorg’s Brands.

Lorillard’s Brands.

Spearhead...................... 
Joker.............................. 
Nobby Twist.................... 
Scotten’s Brands.
Kvlo................................  
Hiawatha........................  
Valley City....................  
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty.............. 
41,
Jolly Tar.................... 
32
Climax (8 oz., 41c)__  
39
Green Turtle.............. 
30
27
Three  Black Crows... 
Something Good........ 
38
26
Out of  Sight.............. 
Wilson <& McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope................. 
43
Happy Thought.........  
37
Messmate................... 
32
No Tax............... .
3i
27
Let  Go.......................  

J. G. Butler’s Brands.

Smoking.

Gatlin's  Brands.

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

Scotten’s Brands.

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

Brands.

Leldersdorf’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  Bov.................30@32
Corn  Cake...........................16

VINEGAR.

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

SI for barrel.

YEAST.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per g a l................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75 
Magic,.................................1  00
Warner’s  ............................1  00
Yeast Foam  .......................1  00
Diamond.............................   75
Royal..................................  90
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green............................  2@2k
Part Cured.................  @ 3
.................   @ 3k
Full 
Dry.............................   4  @ 5
Kips,green  ...............   2  @3
“  cured.................  @ 4
Calfskins,  green.........  3 @ 4
cured...........5 @ 6
Deacon skins................10 @25

HIDES.

“ 

“ 

No. 2 hides k  off.
FELTS.

WOOL.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Shearlings....................  5 @  20
Lambs 
...................... 15  @  40
Washed........................12 @18
Unwashed.....................g @14
Tallow...........................3 @  4k
Grease  butter  ............  1  @2
Switches.....................  ik@ 2
Ginseng..................... 2 00@2 50
Badger.........................  80@1 00
B ear.......................15 00@25 00
Beaver....................... 3 00@7 00
Cat, wild......................  S0@ 75
Cat, house................... 
lo@ 25
Fisher........................  3  00@6 00
Fox,  red.................... 1 oo@i  40

P U B S .

“ 

deerskins—per pound.

Fox, cross.................. 3 00@5 OO
Fox,  grey....................  50© 70
Lynx............................... 1  00@2 50
Martin, dark...................1 oo@3 00
pale & yellow.  75@1  00
Mink, dark.................  300125
Muskrat...................... 
3@  13
Oppossum..................  
5@  15
Otter, dark  ..............5 00@10 00
Raccoon......................  30® 75
.......................1 00@1  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............  
10
Long gray, dry.............. 
10
Gray, dry 
................  . 
15
Red and Blue, dry.......  
25
WOODENWARE.
Tubs, No. 1........................  6 00
“  No. 2......................... 5 50
„ “  No. 3.........................  4 50
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
1  30 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop  ...  1  50
Bowls. 11 Inch...............
“ 
90
....................  1  25
„ 
. 
....................  1  80
...................  2 40
..................
Baskets, market.........   35

13  “  ...................: 
15  “ 
17  “ 
19  “ 
21  “ 
shipping  bushel..  1  15
full  hoop 
.. 1  25
25
“  No.2  6 55
“  No.3  7 25
“  No.l  3 75 
“  No.2  4 25
“  No.3  4 75
Palls.....................................   3 
Tubs,  No.  1.................  . . .13 50
Tubs, No. 2............................12 
Tubs, No. 3............................10 
250  10:0
„  
60  2  10
No.  1......................... 
No  2......................... 
70  2 45
No.  3 ......................... 
80  2 80
No.  5.........................  1  00  3 50
Universal.............................. 2 25
No. Queen............................. 2 50
Peerless Protector..................2 40
Saginaw Globe......................  1 75
Water Witch.........................   2 25
Wilson................................... 2 50
Good Luck............................. 2 75
Peerless.................................  2 85
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFg

“ 
“ 
“ willow cl’ths, No.l  5 

Washboards—single.

Butter Plates—Oval.

INDURATED WARE.

Double.

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

splint 

“ 

“ 

1 60

WHEAT.

MEAL.

FLOUR  IN  BACKS.

54 
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 
54
Bolted...............................  1  40
Granulated.......................  1  ¿5
•Patents.............................   2 15
•Standards.........................   1 65
•Straight............................    1 55
Bakers’...............................   1 35
•Graham..  ........................  1 60
Rye.........  .................... 
•Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

 

 

*16 00
16 00
17 50

MiLLSTUFFB.

Less

Car lots  quantity
13 00

Bran............... *15  OO 
Screenings ....  13  OO 
Middlings......  15  00 
Mixed Feed...  17  01 
18 00
Coarse meal  ..  16  uO 
Car  lots.................................40
Less than  car  lots................44
Car  lots  ..............................33
Less than car lots................. 36

CORN.

OATS.

HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__11  «0
No. 1 
ton lots  .......12 50

“ 

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

mon .............................  

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whlteflsh 
.................  @ 9
Trout  ........................   @ 9
Black Bass...................... 
Halibut.......................   @15
Ciscoes or Herring__  @ 5
Bluefish......................  @15
Fresh lobster, per lb .. 
20
Cod.............................  
10
No. 1 Pickerel............   @10
Pike.  .........................  @8
Smoked White..........   @10
Red  Snappers............  
12
Columbia  River  Sal­
Mackerel....................  20@25
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. 
Selects.......................  
1  50
1  on
Standards..................  
Counts....................... 
2 20
1  50
Scallops.............  
 
Shrimps  .................... 
1  25
1  25
Clams......................... 
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100.........1  25@1  50
Clams, 
75@l  00

oysters—Cans.

“ 

 

 

12k

12k

1 75

13

PROVISIONS.

SAUSAGE.

PO R K   IN  B A R R ELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

quotes as follows:
__ 
Mess,.  . .....................................................   14 C0
Short c u t.................................................. 
34  25
Extra clear pig, short  cut................  
)6 50
Extra clear,  heavy.........................
Clear, fat  back.............................. 
15 00
Boston clear, short cut.................15  50
...........  15 so
Clear back, short cut.................... 
Standard clear, short cut. best.... 
15 50
_  
Pork, links....................................... 
Bologna...................... 
Liver...............................   ........... ; 
Blood....................................... 
Summer.................................. ...............
Frankfurts.........................
„  
LA R D .
Kettle  Rendered............  
gv
Granger................................ .........................   8*
Fam ily...............................................  
Compound......................................  
6
Cottoline........................ ............ ............714
50 lb. Tins, k c advance.
201b.  pails,  k c 
“  k c
101b. 
51b. 
“  k c 
3 lb. 
'• 
1  e

.................  
’ 

a
«
£
g *

*  *

“
“

B E E F   IN   B A R B ELS.

Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs.....................   7  50
Extra Mess, Chicago  packing................. 
7  no
Boneless, rump butts..................................!  10 OO

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain

Hams, average 20 lbs........... 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

i6lbs...................55
12 to 14 lbs...............  
picnic.....................................
best boneless............... ..........
15
Shoulders................................ 7 k
Breakfast Bacon  boneless.............. 
00
Dried beef, ham prices............ 
50
Long Clears, heavy..................
Briskets,  medium..................  

»> 

U«bt.......................... 8k
dry  salt  meats.
Butts........................................  
D. S. Bellies........................... . . 
Fat Backs..................................... [ ’ '' 
pickeed  pigs’  feet.
Barrels...............................................
K egs...................................... ..'..iy.
Kits, honeycomb...............................
Kits, premium......................
Barrels..............................................
Half barrels..........................
Per pound........... 
Dairy, sold packed............................
Dairy, rolls.....................................
Creamery, solid packed......
Creamery, rolls.......................

.......................
B U T T E R IN E .

B E E F   TONGUES.

T R IP E .

014
;o

9i

........  ij

 

 

914

..............  a

n
..........  331/
jg

8  OO 
1  90
65

.22 00 
.11  00

F R E S H   B E E F .

Carcass...................................................  5  @ 7
Fore quarters........................................4k@  5
Hind quarters.... 
.........................  © 6k
.... ........... 8  @10
Loins No. 3
Ribs.........
@  9 
Rounds
©  6
gLucks...................................................  © 4k
Plates
P'“*“  
©4k
Dressed ...
Loins......
Shoulders 
Leaf Lard.
Carcass  ... 
Lambs......

F R E S H   PO R K .

© 6 © 6

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE. 

LA M P  B U R N E R S.

No. 0 Sun................................................ 
N0.1 
Tubular............................. .......................'' 

45
; ; .................................................... ;;;  50
75

XXX Flint.

6 doz. In box.

First quality.
“ 
“ 

lamp  chimneys.  Per box.
No. 0 Sun............................................. 
1  75
no. i  ; ; ..........................................................188
No. 2 
.................................................... 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top...................................   2 10
No. 1  “ 
2 25
No. 2  “ 
g 25
No. 0 Snn, crimp top...................................... 2 60
N o.l  “ 
.2  80
No.2  “ 
...................................... 3 8o
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
....................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4 88
No. 1 Sun, plain bnlb,  per doz......................  1  25
....................... 1  50
No. 2  “ 
No. 1 crimp, per doz.......................................1  35
“ 
No.2 
....................................... 1  60

La Bastle.

Pearl top.

“  
“  

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“  

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

LAM P  W ICK S.

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

“ 
“ 
“ 

 
 
 

 
 
 

“ 

STONEW ARE— A K RO N .
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................  06
“ 
k  gal. per doz......................  60
Jugs, k  gal., per doz...................................  70
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal................................  07
Milk PanB. k  gal., per doz......................... 
60
“ 
........................   72
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal........................  
07
Milk Pans, k  gal..........................................  65
.  78

1  “ 
STONEW ARE— B LA CK   GLAZED.

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

1  “ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

14

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

(Continued from  page 10.)

past  seven  months  in  an  exceedingly 
capable  and  satisfactory  manner.  He 
has inaugurated systematic and  business 
like  methods  in  keeping  accounts  with 
members of the Association and in giving 
receipts. 
If  the  systematic methods  in­
augurated  by  him  are  continued,  I  be­
lieve there will  be  no  cause  for  appre­
hension in tracing  the  monetary  aifairs 
of the Association in  the future.

This  Association  has  grown  to  great 
importance and is as yet upon the thresh­
old  of 
its  usefulness  to  the  traveling 
man and his employer.  We stand pledged 
to  do  all  in  our  power  to  elevate  the 
efficiency and moral standing of our mem­
bership and thus not  only  benefit  those 
associated with us,  but secure better and 
more commendable  service  for  our  em­
ployers. 
It is  a  worthy  purpose  and  I 
bespeak  for the Association a greater de­
gree of usefulness in the future  than  in 
the past,  and take great  pleasure  in  re­
commending the Association  to the kind 
regard and generous support of  all  true 
traveling  men  and  those  who  employ 
them. 
In less  than  five  years  between 
three  and  four  thousand  persons  have 
been admitted to membership in  the  or­
ganization,  but  the  changes incident to 
the pursuit of the traveling man, coupled 
with the fact of carelessness in the  pay­
ment of benefit assessments, have reduced 
the number of members in good standing 
from 20 to 40 percent,  annually.  Thus, 
while we augment our  membership con­
tinually  by new recruits and the restora­
tion of lapsed members,  still  the  actual 
growth  of  the  organization  is  not  so 
great from year to  year  as  it  seemingly 
should be.  We simply share the fate  of 
all benefit organizations,  which is a drop­
ping out when assessments are to be paid. 
We have assessed  but $5 on each member 
for death benefits during the year, which 
has  secured  to  each  of  our  families  a 
guarantee of §500  in  case  of  death  and 
has  enabled  us  to  pay  the  families  of 
thirteen  of  our  number  removed  by 
death during the year, §6,250, and leave a 
handsome balance in the  treasury to the 
credit of the death benefit fund.  Surely 
this is good  work  and  very  economical 
insurance.
The report  of  the  Secretary  will dis­
close  the  progress  of  the  Association 
during the past  year,  as well as its pres­
ent  standing.  He will, doubtless, detail 
to you the  number of  assessments made 
during the year and  the amount received 
therefrom,  and  what  has been done with 
the money.

The report  of  the  Treasurer will  re­
veal to  you  the  condition of the several 
funds of the Association at this time and 
show you the amounts which  have  been 
received and paid out  by him during the 
year.

To each  of  these reports your earnest 
attention  is  invited.  They  have  been 
passed upon  by your Board of  Directors 
and found correct.
While the year  past  has  been one re­
quiring  more  than  ordinary care,  labor 
and discretion at the hands of your Pres­
ident,  the arduous duties  have been per­
formed cheerfully, and to  the best of my 
ability,  which I promised  to  do  when  I 
assumed  the duties  of  this  position.  1 
take pleasure in saying that I believe the 
Association is on a better  footing and in 
better condition to-day in every way than 
at any time in its  history. 
I  shall  pass 
the trust you  committed  to  me last De­
cember  over  to  my  successor  in  office 
with  some  degree  of  satisfaction  and 
with the hope that  he may do much bet­
ter work than  I  have  been able to  do in 
the year soon to  be  brought  to  a close. 
In  your election  of  officers for the ensu­
ing year use great  care and discretion  in 
electing  only such  as  are well qualified 
and who  possess  the  stamina  to  stand 
for and do the right.
I recommend care  in  the  dispatch  of 
the business before  you  at  this  annual 
meeting,  and  I  invoke  your kind aid  in 
the  discharge  of  the  duties  which will 
devolve upon  the  chair  during  the ses­
sion before us.

The address was listened to with much 
interest and referred to a special commit­
tee composed  of  J.  W.  Califf, Bay City; 
J.  M.  Fitch, Durand;  F.  N.  Mosher,  Port

Huron;  J.  B.  Heydlauf,  Jackson;  John 
| McLean, Detroit.

The report  of  Secretary Mills  showed 
that the membership  had increased  from 
920 on Dec. 25,  1892,  to  1,527,  a net gain 
of  607.  Five  death  assessments  have 
been issued during the  year,  from which 
have been realized $6,679.  The total dis­
bursements for death  benefits  have been 
§6,250.  The total receipts of the general 
fund have been 81,573, and  the expenses 
§1,799. 
Included in  the  report was  the 
following personal statement:

As you are  aware,  I  am  holding  the 
position  of  Secretary  by  appointment 
from the  Board  of  Directors.  The  ap­
pointment  came  to  me  unsolicited  and 
unexpected  and l accepted it under pro­
test  only because 1 believed the Associa­
tion to  be in  a critical  condition,  requir­
ing  careful  management  to  restore  the 
confidence  of  the  members. 
In  order 
that I might evoke order  out  of  chaos, 1 
was under  the  necessity of  abandoning 
the system, or lack of system,  of the for­
mer  Secretary,  and  much  of  my  time 
since  last  June  has  been  devoted  to 
evolving a new system  of  stubs, checks 
and counter checks,  which  has  resulted 
in placing  the  Secretary’s  affairs  on  a 
business  basis.  Some  mistakes  have, 
undoubtedly,  occurred  while  I was  get­
ting this system into operation, but 1 can 
safely congratulate  the  organization  on 
its present method,  as it is so simple any 
member can  ascertain  the  condition  of 
our financial affairs in a very short time.
The report of  the Treasurer  showed a 
balance of §600.25 in  the death fund, and 
§59.28 in the general  fund.

Geo.  E.  Bardeen read  the report of the 

Board of Directors,  as follows:
We come  together  for  the  fifth  time 
during the life of our Association to meet 
in annual convention,  to exchange greet­
ings,  to  become  better  acquainted,  to 
hear  the  reports  of  the  officers for the 
present year,  and learn of what has hap­
pened during this year, to  seek  and  ad­
vise what in our minds will  most  add to 
the development  and  prosperity of  our 
order, and to elect officers for the coming 
year.
The annual  meetings  of  this Associa­
tion  have  been,  without  exception,  ex­
amples  of  fraternal  good will.  Not one 
of 
them  has  been  marred  by  disa­
greements  or  quarrels,  and  when  the 
meetings closed each year  the  members 
have  been  better  friends  than  when 
called to order,  and the Board of  Direct­
ors  feel  confident that  this  year’s  con­
vention will not be an  exception  to  the 
rule.
One year ago at the Detroit convention 
you  elected  the  present  Board,  placed 
into its hands the management of the af­
fairs of the convention,  and  entrusted to 
it  the  care  of  its  precious  life.  That 
Board comes to you to-day to  render  an 
account of  the  trust  you  placed  in  its 
hands a year ago,  feeling that it has con­
scientiously, honestly and faithfully dis­
charged every duty imposed  upon  it  to 
the best of its ability. 
It has endeavored 
to place,  and  has  succeeded  in  placing, 
the affairs of  the Association on a sound 
basis  and  conducted  them  on  strictly 
business principles. 
It has  carried  out 
the mandates of the constitution,  obeyed 
it,  and  seen  that  it  was  respected  and 
obeyed by all and violated by none.  The 
Board  has  worked  most  harmoniously, 
and in all matters  of  importance its de­
cisions have been unanimous.

As the reports of the President,  Secre­
tary and Treasurer  have  been  very  ex­
haustive, covering all matters of interest, 
the report of the Board must  necessarily 
be brief,  but it  is  ready to  answer  any 
questions and explain any matters at the 
request of the members.

* 

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* 

*

During the  present  year  our  Associa­
tion has lost fourteen members by death. 
All  death  benefits  have  been  paid,  ex­
cept the one of  Richard  T.  Scott,  there 
being  two  claimants  for  this,  and 
the 
matter is not yet settled.
The Board has ordered five assessments 
of §1 each during the year.
The complaint of G. B. Gregory against

the proprietor of the Hastings House was 
presented  to  the Board,  and,  after hear­
ing 
the  statements  of  both  parties 
and that  of  the  chairman  of  the  Hotel 
Committee,  it  was  decided  to  refer  it 
back to that Committee.
At the second regular meeting,  held at 
Grand  Rapids,  June  3,  the  Board  was 
convinced that a change of  the  office  of 
Secretary  was vitally necessary  and  de­
clared  by  unanimous  vote  that  office 
vacant  and  elected  L.  M.  Mills, 
the 
present incumbent,  to  fill  the  vacancy. 
The Board  is confident the  members will 
approve its action.
To-day  our  Association  is  in  a  most 
prosperous condition and its future looks 
very bright.

E. P. Waldron, chairman of the Finance 
Committee  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
presented the following report:

We are prepared to say  that we found 
the  Secretary’s  books, 
turned  over  by 
Mr.  McCauley, to be in  such  a condition 
that it was impossible for  the  expert  to 
make  any  tangible  report.  We  found 
that  J.  L.  McCauley has §120  at  present 
in  his possession  belonging  to this Asso­
ciation and we hold a warrant for §188.48, 
due Mr.  McCauley for services, which we 
have  withheld  until  his  matters  have 
been cleared up.  Therefore we find that 
we are owing J.  L.  McCauley  a  balance 
of §68.28.
J.  W.  Lindsey—I would like to inquire 
if the Board of Directors of  last year ap­
proved  the  annual  report  of  Secretary 
McCauley?  He was informed  that  such 
was a fact, although the  report  was  in­
complete and unintelligible in  many  re­
spects,  when Frank Tyler moved that the 
meeting  exonerate  Mr.  McCauley  from 
intentional  dishonesty  in  his  dealings 
with the  Association.  The  motion  was 
discussed  at some length  and  with  con­
siderable warmth and was adopted, when 
the  following  resolution,  presented  by 
John M.  Fitch,  was also adopted:
Resolved—That  the  vote  of  exonera­
tion of J.  L.  McCauley shall  in no  sense 
be construed as a censure of the Board of 
Directors  for  their  action  in  removing 
him from office, as no charge of  defalca­
tion  was imputed to him.
Mr.  McCauley, on being called upon for 
a speech, challenged any man to produce 
a better record than he  had made as Sec­
retary of the Association.  He was pleased 
with  the  action  of  the  members,  as  it 
cleared his  wife  from  any  suspicion  of 
wrongdoing.  She  had  a  book-keeping 
system of her own and was  always  able 
to explain  it when called upon to  do  so.
Reports  of Vice-Presidents were  then 
received,  after which  L.  S.  Rogers  pre­
sented the  report  of  the  Railway Com­
mittee.  One complaint in  regard to the 
transfer  of  baggage  had  been  investi­
gated and rectified and half-fare rates se­
cured for  the  Saginaw convention.  Ac­
cepted.

J.  W.  Califf  presented  the  report  of 
the  Committee  on  Bus  and  Baggage, 
stating that all  complaints  made  to  the 
Committee  had  been  quickly and  satis­
factorily adjusted.  Accepted.

W.  V.  Gauley  presented  the  report of 
the  Committee  on  Relief  and  Employ­
ment, as follows:

During my year’s  incumbency of office 
1 received about  100 letters or  communi­
cations from  members  of  our  Associa­
tion,  all  of which  I  replied  to,  giving 
the  best  information  at  my  command. 
About  fifty  of  my correspondents were 
in search  of  employment.  The  number 
of  positions  within  the  reach  of  my 
knowledge were,  I am sorry to  say,  very 
limited,  but,  such as  they were,  I gladly I 
referred  our  members  seeking employ­
ment to them.  1  am not able to say  how 
many  members  were  benefited  by  my 
efforts,  as  1  referred several  members  to 
each source of  employment which  came I 
within my knowledge and seldom learned 
their success or otherwise  from the mem­
bers so  informed;  but  I  am  rather  in­
clined  to  believe  that  the  results were 
not very favorable for the  applicants,  as I 
the opportunities were mostly side  lines |

I on commission and members out  of  em­
ployment could not  accept  them  under 
the circumstances.
With regard to relief of  members, sick 
or in distress,  I  am pleased to be  able to 
state there were only two instances which 
came to my  knowledge during  the  year. 
In the first case 1  gave  temporary relief 
from  my  own  pocket,  which  was  paid 
back  to me in due  time;  and  in the sec­
ond  place,  I started a subscription  paper 
among  our  members  aud  within  thirty 
days  collected  §53.  1  presented  §50 in
cash  to  the  sick  member  and  §3  in  re­
ceipts for dues and assessments past due, 
which placed the member  in good stand­
ing;  and,  as he never recovered from his 
sickness,  it  placed  the widow in  a posi­
tion entitling her to a claim on our Asso­
ciation  for  8500,  which  was  duly  paid 
and which I had  the pleasure of present­
ing to her and her family later on.  This 
was  the  case  of Walter  J.  Russell,  for­
merly a member of Post C.
1 am sorry that  my efforts were not fa­
vored  with  more  success  with  regard  to 
employment,  but,  as it  was an  unfavora­
ble year in all  branches  of  business,  the 
Committee  was  sadiy  hampered  in  its 
work—providing employment  tor the un­
employed  and  help  for  the  needy  and 
distressed.

The report was accepted.
There being  no  further  business,  the 
meeting adjourned until the  next  after­
noon.

SECOND  DAY’S  SESSION.

At the convening of  the afternoon ses­
sion,  Wednesday,  the  Chaplain  invoked 
the divine blessing,  when J.  A.  Gonzalez 
and  A.  C.  Northrup  presented 
their 
resignations as members of  the  Board of 
Directors,  which  were  accepted.

F.  M.  Douglas,  chairman  of  the  Hotel 
Committee,  reported  that  150  Michigan 
hotels  had  signed  the  agreement to en­
tertain wives of members without charge. 
It recommended  the  expulsion  of  G.  B. 
Gregory for conduct  unbecoming  a  gen­
tleman and a commercial  traveler at the 
Hastings House at Hastings.  The report 
was  accepted,  and,  after  a  somewhat 
lengthy  discussion,  during  which 
the 
affidavits of the accuser and accused were 
read  by  the  Secretary,  the  report was 
adopted  and  the  vote  of  expulsion was 
made  unanimous.

The following telegram was read  by J. 
N.  Bradford, chairman of the Grand Rap­
ids Post:

Gkand  Ra pid s,  Dec. 27.—The  Second 
City cordially invites the next meeting of 
traveling men to be held here.  One hun­
dred thousand voices say come.

Wm. J.  Stu a k t,  Mayor.

The telegram  was  g reets with hearty 
cheers,  aud  a  motion  was  unanimously 
adopted recommending that  he Board of 
Directors designate Grand  Rapids  as the 
next place of  meeting.

Wm.  R.  Foster  stated  that Grand Rap­
ids would  endeavor to do as well as Sag­
inaw had  done in entertaining the Asso­
ciation.

The special committee  to  whom  were 
referred the recommendations  contained 
in the President’s address presented sev­
eral recommendations in  regard thereto, 
which  were referred to the Committee on 
Revision of  the Constitution.  The  sug­
gestion  that a co-ordinate organization of 
the wives of members be created was dis­
approved  by the committee,  and  its rec­
ommendation was adopted.

John M.  Fitch moved that a Committee 
on  Resolutions  be appointed,  which  was 
adopted,  and the  chairman  appointed  as 
such  committee John  M.  Fitch,  M.  H.  N. 
Raymond aud  Roswell Mott.

The Committee  on Amending the Con­
stitution  recommended  that  the  age  of 
applicants be restricted to fifty-five years, 
and  that  one  year’s  experience  on  the

U ’E O E   M I C H I G A î r   T R A D E S M A N

road  be 
Adopted.

an 

essential  qualification. 

Two  members  of  the  committee  pre­
sented  a  majority  report,  making  the 
office  of  Secretary  a  salaried  position 
and providing that  he  devote  his entire 
attention 
thereto.  Major  Jacklin  pre 
sented a  minority report,  recommending 
that no change be made  in  the constitu 
tioa  in  this respect.  The animus of  the 
majority report was  so manifest that the 
convention adopted  the  minority report 
with hardly a dissenting voice.

The Committee  recommended  that any 
member neglecting  to  pay  his  death as­
sessments within  sixty days from  notice 
of same forfeit  his  membership,  subject 
to  reinstatement  within  a  year  by  the 
payment in full  of  all  dues  and  assess­
ments.  Adopted.

The section  relative  to  the  Board  of 
Directors was amended, making the Pres­
ident  and  Secretary  members  of 
the 
Board,  and the  President  the  executive 
officer thereof.

most  heartily tender  to  the  wives  and 
families of the deceased  members of  our 
organization  who  have  died  during  the 
year 1893 our heartfelt  sympathy for the 
great loss they have sustained and that a 
copy of  this  resolution  be  sent  to  the 
family of each deceased brother.
Resolved,  That the  Michigan  Knight 
of the Grip extend to Post F, of Saginaw, 
their  deep  sense  of  gratitude  for  the 
grand  and hospitable manner with which 
they  have  received  and  entertained  the 
members of this organization during thi: 
fifth annual convention.
Resolved,  That a vote of thanks be ex 
tended  to our President,  N.  B.  Jones, for 
the  impartial  manner  in  which  he ha; 
presided over  the  deliberations  of  thi: 
body during our fifth annual convention 
also for his  faithful  discharge  of  dutic 
during his term of office.

The newly-elected  President  and  Sec 
retary were called  upon for remarks  and 
both made  graceful  responses,  announc 
ing their intention  of  serving the organ 
ization to the best of their ability.

There being  no  further  business,  the 

convention adjourned.

President Jones appointed as the Com 
mittee on Incorporation,  to report  at the 
next  meeting,  Geo.  F.  Owen  of  Grand 
Rapids,  J.  F.  Hammell  of  Lansing,  and 
A.  G.  Ellis of Saginaw.

Election of  President being then  in or­
der,  Wm.  H.  Baier  nominated  Major 
Jacklin in a very graceful  speech.  The 
nomination  was seconded  by W.  R.  Fos­
ter of Grand  Rapids,  when  E.  P.  Wal­
dron was nominated  by  H.  E.  Buck  of 
Bay City,  and seconded  by Roswell Mott 
of Lansing.  Geo.  F.  Owen  and  Geo.  A. 
Reynolds were appointed tellers, and the 
ballot resulted  in  106 votes  for  Mr.  Wal­
dron and 84  for  Mr.  Jacklin,  when  Mr. 
Waldron  was  declared  unanimously 
elected.

Nominations  for  Secretary then  being 
in order, Frank Tyler presented the name 
of L.  S.  Rogers,  F.  R.  Streat  the name  of 
H.  F.  Moeller,  and  John  McLean 
the 
name of L.  M.  Mills.  John  M.  Fitch,  of 
Corunna,  was  also nominated.  The  bal­
lot resulted as follows:
L. M. Mills 
m
H. F. Moeller..................................................... 37
John M. F itch ..........................................” '  03
L. 8. Rogers........................................................ 3
Mr.  Mills,  having  a  majority over all, 
was declared to  be unanimously elected.
Geo.  A.  Reynolds was  re-elected Treas­

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

 

urer by acclamation.

Election  of  the Board of Directors re­
sulted in the selection  of  Major Jacklin 
and  A.  F.  Peake,  for two years, and Geo. 
F. Owen  and  Frank  R.  Streat  for  one
year. 

j

Election of Vice-Presidents resulted  as 

follows:

dale.
mazoo.
Grand Rapids.

First District—Frank Tyler, Detroit.
Second District—M. J. Moore, Jackson.
Third District—W. F. Thompson, Hills­
Fourth  District—A.  E.  Bartlett,  Kala­
Fifth  District—James  N.  Bradford, 
Sixth  District—D.  C.  Slaght,  Flint.
Seventh  District—Frank  Mosher,  Port 
Eighth  District—J.  E.  Dederich,  Sagi­
Ninth  District—D.  G.  Crotty,  Muske- 
Tenth  District—R.  S.  Richards,  Bay 
Eleventh  District—C.  M.  Beers,  Trav­
Twelfth  District—T.  J.  Furlong,  St. 

H uron.
naw.
gon.
City.
erse City.
Ignace.

John M.  Fitch,  chairman  of  the Com­
mittee on  Resolutions,  presented  the fol­
lowing  report,  which  was  unanimously 
adopted:

Resolved,  That  the  Michigan Knights 
of  the  Grip,  in  convention  assembled,

CONVENTION  NOTES.

The  entertainment  features  provided 
by the Saginaw Post  were  complete  and 
elaborate.  Visiting  delegations  were 
met at the depots  by  reception  commit­
tees and  bands and  escorted  to  their  re­
spective hotels,  where the wives of mem­
bers were  entertained  without  expense. 
Badges furnished  by the local committee 
were  a  passport  on the street  cars  and 
other public conveyances.  Tuesday even­
ing a banquet was  tendered the members 
and invited guests, concluding  with  the 
usual  toasts and responses,  and followed 
by a charming ball at  the Masonic  Tem­
ple.  The following  evening  those  vis­
itors who could remain  over were enter­
tained at the opera  house.  Taken  alto­
gether the entertainment  features  were 
admirably  arranged  and  excellently 
handled  and  reflect  great  credit on  the 
hospitality of the Saginaw  Valley.

The  vote  of  confidence  in  Mr.  Mc­
inten­
Cauley,  exonerating  him  from 
tional  dishonesty  toward 
the  Associa­
tion, and  the  subsequent  vote  of  confi­
dence in the Board of Directors,  approv­
ing their  action  in  removing  McCauley 
from  the  Secretaryship,  clearly  estab­
lishes the admission on the  part  of  Mr. 
McCauley  and  his  friends  that  he  was 
incompetent to hold  the position of Sec­
retary and that  he  was  guilty  of  gross 
carelessness in  handling  the  funds  and 
records of  the  Association.  While  Mr. 
McCauley and his friends are  willing  to 
assume this much,  they  do  not  propose 
that he shall  remain  under  the  imputa­
tion  of  intentional  dishonesty,  even 
though  such  a  charge  had  never  been 
made by an officer of  the organization.

At the Detroit meeting of  the Associa­
tion a  new  office  not  mentioned  in  the 
constitution and by-laws  was  created— 
that of  the official organ—and a designa­
tion  was  made  for  one  year.  As  no 
action  was  taken  in  this  matter  at  the 
Sagiuaw convention,  both office  and  ap­
pointment expire by  limitation.

The wife of  Capt.  Bradford, chairman 
of the Grand  Rapids Post,  got in a pecul­
iar predicament on her  way  home.  De­
siring to regale her husband  and friends 
in  the smoking car with choice Havannas, 
she selected a box  from a line of samples 
which she supposed  were her husband’s, 
but found—to her dismay,  after  the  en­
tire  party  had  helped  themselve»—that 
the cigars belonged to the  train  butcher 
and that she would  be  compelled to pay 
therefor.  Luckily,  By  Gee  Cripe  Jen­

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The defeat of Major Jacklin  was a dis­
appointment  to  his  friends,  but  it  wa 
plain to be seen early in  the  convention 
that the Major, with his limited acquaint 
ance outside of Detroit,  would  not  be 
match  for  the  personal  popularity  and 
wide acquaintance of  Mr.  Waldron in the 
Sagiuaw Valley.

The free bus connected with the Steele 
House, at St. Johns, came in  for the same 
unfavorable criticism it has  received  for 
the  past  dozen  years.  One member re 
ported that the  roof was  now nearly all 
rotted off,  and  another  complained that 
the right side was likely to  fall off at any 
time and injure someone.  Wm. H. Baier 
stated that he was riding to  the  hotel  in 
this  antiquated  ark  a  few  weeks  ago 
when the bottom dropped out,  unnoticed 
by the deaf and  dumb  driver,  so  that he 
was  compelled  to  run  like  the d—1 to 
keep up  with the vehicle  and  save  him 
self from being run over.  Another mem 
ber  asserted  he was  prepared  to  stake 
$100 that he could beat  the  horses  usu 
ally attached to the bus in a race for two 
blocks or a mile.  As  the  newly-elected 
President lives at St. Johns and is closely 
related to the owner of  the vehicle,  that 
ramshackle institution will probably soon 
be relegated to obscurity.

Preparations  for  the  entertainment of 
the  next  convention  are  already  being 
discussed  by  the  Grand  Rapids  boys 
Lockerby  Hall will  probably be  secured 
for the ball, while the banquet will prob­
ably be held on one of the  floors  of  the 
Shepard  block,  adjoining  Lockerby Hall 
on  the west.  The  hotels  have  already 
agreed to meet the rates  of  the  Saginaw 
hotels and go  them  one  better—put  all 
their rooms from $2.50 to $4 per day on a 
flat $2.50 basis.  The Grand  Rapids boys 
are fully convinced  that  the  convention 
and  all the entertainment features should 
be arranged  solely with a view to accom­
modating  traveling  men  and  afford  as 
little  latitude  as  possible  to  ambitious 
politicians and post  prandial orators.

T alkin g  T oo  M uch.

Junior Partner—Our  traveler ought to 
be discharged.  He told one of  our  cus­
tomers that I  am an ignorant fool.
Senior Partner—I shall  speak  to  him 
and  insist  that no more office secrets be 
divulged.

Unlike the Dutch Process 

if!

—  OR —

No  Alkalies
Other  Chemicals
j-  a re   U8ed   in   the 
p re p a ra tio n  o f
|  h  
J W .  Baler W s
Breakfast  Cocoa,

w hich is   absolu tely p u re  

a n d  soluble.

A  d e sc 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  t h e   v a r io u s  c o c o a  
a n d  c h o c o la te  p rep ?  r a tio n s m an  
u fa c tu r e d   b y W a lter B a k e r  & Co 
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 .
W. BAKER & GO., Dorchester. Mass.

SEND  US  TOUR

B E A N S ,

WE  WANT  THEM  ALL.
NO  MATTER  HOW  MANY.

WillAlways Give Fall MarkstValne

991  E. Main  St,, Kalamazoo, Mich.

KALAMAZOO PANT % 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 
ing.
Our fall line of Pants from $9 to $42 per  dozen 
are  now  ready.  An  immense  line  of  Kersey 
Pants, every pair warranted not  to  rip.  Bound 
swatches or  entire line sent  on  approval to the 
trade.

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ODDITIES  OP  CREDIT.

Seem ing: P ara d o x les W h ere D eb t B en e­

fits  th e   D eb tor.

Credit  is  a  good  thing  to have under 
all circumstances.  The merchant doesn’t 
appreciate credit as being as good as cash 
when his customer applies fer it,  but the 
latter is aware of the importance thereof. 
Some customers shrewdly buy  on  credit 
when they can  pay cash as easily, merely 
for the purpose of establishing  a  credit 
which  will  enable  them  when  out  of 
money  to  secure  goods  without  that 
wherewithal. 
If  the  consumer  always 
pays cash and  suddenly  asks  for  credit 
his responsibility is questioned, and if he 
secures credit it is charily given  and the 
asker is viewed askance. 
If, on the con­
trary,  the  customer  has  always  bought 
on credit he is given  credit  at  all  times 
without  suspicion. 
There  are  times 
when money is scarce  that  credit  is  an 
essential  and  at  such  times  the  credit 
customer  has  the  advantage  over  the 
cash  trader,  inasmuch  as  it  is  nothing 
out  of  the ordinary for him to be on the 
books,  but the cash customer who  never 
asks for credit ordinarily  is  the  subject 
of suspicion  when  circumstances  force 
him to request that  his purchases be  put 
on the book.
A  banker  recently  said  that  a  great 
many houses prominent in  trade are con­
tinually borrowing money  when they do 
not need it,  merely  for  the  purpose  of 
keeping their name in the  “street”  and 
their credit up.  Seeming inconsistencies 
of this kind are not infrequent.
“Funny, isn’t it,”  said  a  commercial 
traveler who touches  the  business  men 
of the State at all points,  “that  a  man’s 
debts will often keep him from  ‘failing,’ 
as the phrase is. 
It sounds paradoxical, 
but there are plenty of  such cases to  be 
found  if  one  looks  through  the  State. 
How  it  can  be  done  is  very  easily  ex­
plained.  A man has plenty of  property 
to do  business with but mortgages it for 
all it is worth  to  creditors  who  are  his 
friends and  want  to  keep  him  moving. 
He pays their interest promptly and that 
is  all  they  want.  By allowing him the 
they  make  other 
use  of  this  capital 
creditors,  if  he has ever so many,  stand 
off  and  await his pleasure. 
It is no use 
to attach  and  have  the  property  taken 
from the officer by  the  mortgagees,  and 
it is no use  to  put  the  debtor  in  insol­
vency,  for  the  mortgage  carries  every­
thing  along  securely  in spite of it.  So 
they  run  along, 
lots  of  them,  ‘doing 
business at the old stand,’ as contentedly 
as  kittens  purring  in  the  sun,  when 
without the protection of  the  mortgage, 
officers would take possession within  an 
hour.”

The V a lu e  o f a   G ood  N am e.

From Boots and Shoes Weekly.

Next to ample capital,  and, indeed, su­
perior to it in some  essentials,  is a repu­
tation  for  integrity and  reliability,  and 
it is equally invaluable  to  the  merchant 
whether  he  be  just  embarking  in  busi­
ness or well established.  By the  aid  of 
such  a  reputation  credit  can  be  more 
readily  obtained  with  a  small  capital 
than  when  the  amount  of  cash  behind 
the enterprise  is  larger  ami  the  reputa­
tion not so good.
Especially is  a  good  name valuable in 
times  of  crises,  when  strong  concerns 
are liable to totter, for at such a time the 
merchant’s reputation is often  the  chief 
factor  in  determining whether  he  sur­
vives the ordeal.
The merchant who  has a character for 
selling good goods and  giving  fair value 
generally, and who does not  seek  in any 
way to take advantage of  his  customers, 
will find far less difficulty in building up 
a profitable business than he who is con­
trary minded.
At this season of  the  making  of  good 
resolutions every business man  and every 
clerk  should  make  at  least  one to build 
up a reputation  for  integrity—and,  hav­
ing made it,  stick to it.

A  Correct Description.

been  talkin’  to you so long?

Little Boy—Who was  that  man who’s 
Country Merchant—He’s  a  drummer. 
“ What  sort  of  drums  does  he  drum 
“Ear drums.”

on?”

THE  MICHIGAN  TBAJDESMAJN.

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

STICK  CANDT.
Cases

Standard,  per lb__

“  H.H...................
T w ist..............
“ 
Boston Cream.................  834
Cut  Loaf......................... 
s>4
Extra H.  H...................... 
MIXED  CANDT.

Bbls.  Palis. 
734
634 
734
634 
634 
734
gu

 

“

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“ 
fancy—In bulk

Palls.
Bbls. 
Standard.........................................6 
7
Leader............................................ 6 
7
s
Royal.............................................. 7 
Nobby............................................. 7 
g
English  Sock.................................7 
8
Conserves....,............................... 7 
s
Broken Taffy......................baskets 
8
Peanut Squares................. 
8 
9
French Creams.............................. 
914
Valley  Creams.............................  
13
Midget, 301b. baskets.....................................   834
Modern, SO lb. 
8
,  
Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  9
printed..........................................  10
Chocolate Drops.............................................  12
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  13
Gum Drops.....................................................  $yt
Moss Drops.....................................................  8
Sour Drops.....................................................  834
Imperials....................  
10
Per Box
Lemon Drops................................................... 85
Sour Drops....................................................” 55
Peppermint Drops..................................... !."! !e0
Chocolate Drops...............................................75
H. M. Chocolate Drops................................S0@90
Gum Drops..........................................  ...40@50
Licorice Drops..............................................1  00
A. B. Licorice  Drops.......................................80
Lozenges, plain................................................60
printed............................................65
Imperials............... 
60
Mottoes.......................................................;..;7o
Cream Bar...................................................".’” 55
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams.................................. ¿¿¿¿95
Plain Creams .............................................80@90
Decorated Creams....................................... j  ¿0
String  Rock.....................................................65
Burnt Almonds............................................i  qO
Wlntergreen Berries.......................................60

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

“ 

 

 

 

CARAMELS.

 

3 
2 

“ 
•• 

“
“
ORA N G ES.

No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.
......................  34
No. 1, 
......................  51
No. 2, 
......................  28
128, 138.................................................... 2 25@2 50
150...........................................................  @3 00
176,200,216............................ 
  @3 00
BANANAS.
Small......................................................
Large  .....................................................
Messina, extra  fancy..........................
fancy 360  ..............................  
fancy 300............................... 
choice 360.............................
choice 300.............................
O TH ER   FO R E IG N   F R U IT S .
Figs, fancy layers, 6ft.........................
10f t..........................
“ 
“  14ft..........................
.........................
Persian. 50-lb.  box.....................
NUTS.

Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box......................

“ 
“  extra 
“ 
“ 

“  50-lb.  “ 

5  eo
5  50

LEM ONS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Almonds, Tarragona..
Ivaca............
California..
Brazils, new...............
Filberts.....................
Walnuts, Grenoble.
Frehch.........
Calif...........
Table  Nuts,  fancy__
choice... 
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,
Chestnuts..................
Hickory Nuts per bu.. 
Cocoanuts, full sacks.

“ 
“ 

“ 

Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................
“  Roasted...................  @
Fancy, H.  P., Flags.............................   534®
7@
“  Roasted.................. 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras..........................   434®
“  Roasted................. 
e@

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

OILS.

BARRELS.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows:

Eocene........................................  
au
XXX  W.  W.  Mich. Headlight...  I . " "  
72
Naptha...................................................  @ 634
Stove Gasoline.......................................  @ 73k
Cylinder...............................................27  @36
Bugine.................................................13  ©21
Black, 15 cold  test  ...............................  @ 8M
Eocene 
.................................... 
7
XXX  W. W.  Mich. Headlight.............. 
5)4

FROM  TANK  WAGON.

POULTRY. 
Local dealers pay as follows :

LIVE.

JOBBERS OF

Groceries and Provisions,

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

Note  these  prices:

Butcher’s,  80-pound  Tubs........................................................  10
Butcher’s, Tierces.......................................................................   lo
Choice  P u re...............................................................................  
8f

WESTERN  MICHIGAN  AGENTS  FOR

G.  H.
Not  what  a  Man  Earns,  blit  what  he  Saves,

M A K E S   H IM   RICH.

Many a grocer’s hard-earned dollars get away 
from him  through  some  sort  of  waste—some 
leak out of  the  oil  barrel—some  drop  out  of 
sight  by damage  to  stock,  if  his  oil  leaks— 
keeping him poor!
When  he  begins  to “stop  the  leaks”  he be­
gins to get rich!

SELF-MEASURING  OIL  TARKS

Stop waste  of  oil,  time and goods.

Let us send you a little book telling about it.

WM.  N E IL  &  CO.,  C hicago.

11  AND  13  DEARBORN  STREET.

Turkeys........
Chickens......
Fowls............
Ducks...........
Geese...........
Turkeys........
Chickens  ...
Fowl............
Ducks...........
Geese...........
Turkeys.......
Chickens......
Fowls............
Ducks............
Geese............

DBAWK.

UND RA W N .

...... 7  @ 8
......   5  @  534
......   7  @ 8

...... 9*4@10
•  ■■■  8   © 834 
....  7  @734
......  9  @10
-  9  @10
......»  @ 9*
R
... 
7

.......8  @9

A  LADY’S

GENUINE  :  VICI  :  SHOE,
Plain toe In opera and  opera  toe and C. S. heel 
D and E and E E widths, at 81.50.  Patent leather 
tip,  81.55.  Try them,  they are  beauties.  Stock 
soft and fine, flexible and elegant  fitters.  Send 
for sample dozen.

RJSKDEK  BROS. SHOE CO

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Lemon  & Wheeler Company,

Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

C.  G. A.  VOIGT  &  CO.

Cracker  Ctiesls. 

Glass  Covers  for  Biscolts

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soon  j 
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pay for themselves  m  the 
breakage they avoid.  Price 84. 
liT T iT T ffaM T ii. 
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m

f V L K  new glass covers  are by far the
^   J   handsomest  ever  offered 
to  the
trade.  They  are  made  to  lit  any
of  our  boxes  andean  he  changed  trom
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.

.

S T A R   R O L L E R   M IL L S
Oar Patent, Gilt Edge, star, Calla Lily and Go-flea Staf.

OUR  LEADING  BRANDS  ARE

WE  GUARANTEE  EVERY  SACK.

W rite  for  Quotations.

C.  6.  A.  VOIGT  &  CO.,

GRAND  RA PID S.  MICH.

D O   Y O U   W A N T  

T O   M A K E

F R E E   T R I P  

A R O U N D  

T H E   W O R L D ?
WRITE U8  FOR  PARTICULARS

I F   SO ,

X  *

% 

•*

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

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

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.

THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

-USE-

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

If You  Waif  Good,  Lilil,  Swell  Bread  aid  Biscaits,
FERMENTUM
COMPRESSED YEAST
The Fgrmenlilm Company

SOLD  BY  ALL  FIRST-CLASS  GROCERS.

MANUFACTURED  BY

MAIN  OFFICE:

CHICAGO,  270  KINZIE  STREET.

MICHIGAN  AGENCY:

GRAND  RAPIDS,  106  KENT  STREET.

Address  all  commuuications  to  THE  FERMENTUM  CO.

L E O N A R D S .

THE  WONDERFUL

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FOR  1894

Has the following improvements:  New  Planished Steel Oven, 
asbestos lined;  the Pipes and Drums  are all Brass;  the Needle 
Points are Brass in place of  Steel, and will not rust.  In  addi­
tion to our regular style  of  stoves,  we  are  showing  a  “ New 
Process  Cabinet’’ which we will  be  pleased  to send you illus­
trations of.  If you want a good thing secure the agency of the 
“New Process Stove for ’94.”

WRITE  US  FOR  THE  AGENCY  OF

GENDRON

,?

J

WEJSELL TO  BUT  ONE  DEALER 
IN  A  PLACE  AND  REFER  ALL 
ORDERS  TO  YOU  IF  YOU  ARE 
SELLING  OUR  LINE  OF  CAR­
RIAGES.

fill  Goods 

SEE  OUR  LINE  OF  THE  FAMOUS

Shipped  Prum  Factory.
Leonard  - Cleanable  =  Refrigerators
H.  LEONARD  X  SONS,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

For 1894  before  placing  your orders  for the coming season.  Write us for illus­
trations and discounts, or wait for our agents to call on you.

D A W S O N ’S 

Pearl  Wheat  Flakes,

T H E   F I N E S T   B R E A K F A S T   DISH.

R;jjggg D A W S O N S
lllllyp
il w E lf S r   prepared  by 

'wW^DAWSON BROTHERS^

milK s *  M^UFACTU^RS OF

m m m   ch'L h'p

C L E A N ,   W H O L E S O M E ,  

Free  from  Diist  and  Broken  Particles,

Pnt up in neat Cartons of  2 pounds each,  36 Cartons  per  Case.  Price  83.50  per 

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

T r y   It!  B u y   It!  U se  It1!

Sold by all jobbers in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.

MANUFACTURED  BY

DAWSON  BROTHERS,  Pontiac,  Mich.

&

W H O L E S A L E

Dry  Goods, Carpets and Cloaks

We  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUR  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

M gt, H om oloiier 
H 

You Want  the Best,

k Go..48> 8C°’J!  s

Cleanest, 
H e a lth ie s t, 
C h e a p e s t   and 
U n a d u lte r a te d ,

f , D  ,  .  

CLEANED by
RAPlDS 

P»n. 
^ClEAMlNCCa 
2 * " 0R» » S .« ich

O R D E R   F R O M   Y O U R   J O B B E R

, 

a v s T by “ r p'“e" “ ■

Grand  Rapids  Fnlit  Cleaning  Go.,

G rand  R a p id s,  M ich ig a n .

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

ManilfaGtilrers  of  Show  Gases  of  Euery  Description.

FIRST-CLASS  WORK  ONLY.

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

WRITE  FOR  PRICES.

