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READS LIKE  A ROMANCE.

After twenty years of hard  labor  and 
rigid economy, my Uncle Dan, who was a 
farmer  in  Story county, la., found  him­
self about to be sold out  on  a  mortgage. 
It’s that way with some men, you  know. 
They may work as hard as they will, but 
things grow worse  instead  of  better. 
I 
was  there  on  a visit  one  October  day 
when the holder of  the  mortgage  called 
to say:

“I  am  sorry for  you, Dan Curtis, but 
I’ve given you the  best  show I could. 
I 
know  how  hard  you’ve  worked,  and  1 
know how hard it’ll come  for  you  to  be 
turned off, but 1 can’t  afford  to  lose  my 
.money.  You owe  me, principal  and  in­
terest, $800. 
I could have foreclosed six 
months  ago,  but  I was  in  hope  some­
thing would turn up. 
I’m going  to give 
you another  month. 
If  you  can’t  raise 
the money, I’ll have to take  the  farm.”
Two or three days later it was  decided 
to  make  an  appeal  to  a  cousin  living 
about twenty miles away,  and  my Uncle 
Dan and Aunt Martha  set  out in the old 
quill-wheel  buggy, drawn  by the  family 
Dobbin, to make  the  journey.  As  they 
were  ready to  start Uncle  Dan  cast  his 
eyes around and  said:

“It won’t be no use, Martha—I  feel  it 

in my bones that it won’t.”

“Daniel, hev you got done  trustin’ the 
Lord?” asked  my aunt,  who was  a  very 
religious woman.

“No.”
“Then  drive  on, and  remember  that 

He works in mysterious ways.”

My  cousin  Will  and  I  were  left  in 
charge.  Neither of us was  yet  15  years 
old, and my uncle did not keep any hired 
help.  We put in the day at cutting corn, 
and  were  doing  up  the “chores”  after 
supper  when  Mr.  Roberts,  the  county 
Sheriff, came along and  called  us  out  to 
the highway  fence.  He asked  if  we  had
seen  any  strangers  passing  along  the 
road or skulking  through  the  fields, and 
went  on  to  relate  the  particulars  of  a 
crime  which  had  occurred  in  Hardin 
county, to the north of  us, two  days  be­
fore.  A farmer had not only been robbed 
of about $7,000 in bonds and cash,  which 
he was  foolish  enough  to  keep  in  the 
house, but in  resisting  the  robbers  had 
been almost killed.  There were two men 
engaged in the crime, and they were sup­
posed to be tramps.  The alarm had been 
sounded so  quickly and  the  pursuit  had 
been  so  vigorous  that  the  fellows were 
supposed  to  have  been  driven  to  hide 
themselves  in  the  fields.  The  Sheriff 
cautioned us to keep  our  eyes  open  and 
told us where  to  give  the  alarm  in  case 
we made a  discovery, and  he  rode  away 
leaving us  in  a very unpleasant  state of 
mind.  The idea  of  sleeping  in  a  house 
which  might  be visited  by the  despera­
does  daring  the  night  was  not  to  be 
thought of.  The barn was  full  of  fresh 
hay, and before dark we carried out some 
quilts and made  our  bed  on  the  mow. 
There wasn’t a door  in  the  house which 
could  be  locked  from  the  outside, and 
not  a window had  a  catch  on  it, and if 
the fellows came they could walk right in.

My  uncle  being  a  poor  man,  there 
wasn’t  much  in  the  shape  of  plunder 
around  his  house,  but, as Aunt  Martha 
was a good housewife, she had the cellar 
pretty well stocked with  jellies and pre­
serves.  We reasoned that if the men got 
into the house it would be to satisfy their 
hunger,  and  they would  not  leave  the 
cellar  unvisited.  Hanging  up  in  the 
corn-crib  was  an  old  bear  trap  which 
Uncle Dan had become possessed of years 
before, and we got that  down  and  set it 
at the bottom of the stairs. 
It was a stiff 
old  trap,  red with  rust,  and  we  had  to 
use  a  stout  lever  to  spring the hinges 
down.  Uncle Dan  and  the  Sheriff  and 
others referred to  the  trap  as “boy non­
sense,” and  I  don’t  think we  had  much 
faith in it  ourselves. 
It was  just  fairly 
dark as we left  the  house  for  the  barn, 
and after we  got  to  bed  on  the  hay we 
talked for an hour or two before  looking 
out of a crevice  to  see  if  the  house was 
ail right.  We looked out on  the kitchen 
part, and while saying to each other that 
the  murderers  were  probably fifty miles 
away,  a  light  suddenly appeared  in  the 
kitchen.  The curtains were up, and the 
barn was  not  so  far  away but  that we 
could  make  out  the  figures of  two men 
passing  to  and  fro.  We  must  go  two 
miles to  get word  to  the  Sheriff, and we 
got down from the mow and out of doors, 
intending  to  start  right  off.  We  were 
making  across  the  barnyard,  when Will 
suggested that  we  ought  first  to  get  a 
closer look at whoever was in the house. 
It might be the  fugitives, or  it  might be 
neighbors who  had  some  word  for  us. 
After  a  bit we  began  approaching  the 
house,  and  when  we  had  crawled  up 
among the cabbages  in  the  rear  of  the 
kitchen we  had  a  pretty  good  view  of 
what was going on inside.  We had made 
a supper  of  bread  and  butter  and  cold 
meat,  with a  pitcher  of  milk  to  drink. 
There was  plenty  left,  and  we  had  not 
cleared away the dishes.  There were two 
men in  the  room, and  they shoved  back 
from the table just as we looked in.

From the  first  glimpse  of  the  men we 
knew them to  be  the  criminals,  but, in­
stead of hurrying away, we waited to see 
what  they would  do.  They  must  have 
been sure that there was no one at home, 
for  they  took  things  very  coolly.  As 
they shoved back  from  the  table  one  of 
them rose up and  took  down  the  family 
shears,  which hung  on  a  nail  under  the 
clock  shelf,  and  he  put  in the next ten 
minutes clipping off his companion’s hair 
and beard.  Both had long hair and more 
or less beard, and were as  tough-looking 
fellows  as  you would  find  in a month’s 
travel. 
It was turn about with  the clip­
ping process, and when they had finished 
we could hardly believe  them  to  be  the 
same two men.  Only candles were  used 
in the house,  and  they had  lighted  only 
one up to  this  time.  A second  dip was 
now brought out of  the  pantry,  and  one 
of  the  pair  used  it to go upstairs.  He 
was gone about ten minutes, and when he 
returned he had a  hat,  a  cap, two  coats, 
and  other  things  belonging  to  Uncle 
Dan’s wardrobe.  They made use  of  the

clothes  as  far  as  they would  go  to  re­
habilitate themselves, while they made a 
bundle of what they cast  off  and  placed 
it on a  chair  to  take  away.  Will  and  I 
dared not approach nearer than  teu  feet 
to  the window,  and,  therefore,  caught 
only a word  now  and  then  of  conversa­
tion, and  that was  pretty sure  to  be  an 
oath.  They must have argued  that they 
were  pretty safe  from  pursuit,  as  they 
took  their  time  about  everything  and 
seemed  entirely  at  home.  When  they 
had made the change of clothes, I thought 
they would  be  off,  and  wanted  Will  to 
come along  and give  the  alarm, but  he 
whispered in my ear:

"I  don’t  believe  they’ll  go  without 
something more to eat, and I want to see 
how our bear trap works.”

I don’t know whether the fellows hun­
gered for more supper or wanted  food to 
take away with them,  but three  minutes 
after Will had  spoken  one  of  them was 
rummaging in the  pantry and  the  other 
was on his way down cellar.  He  halted 
in the door and snuffed and  sniffed  as  if 
he  smelled  the  preserves,  and,  as  he 
started  to  descend  the  stairs,  he  said 
something  to  his  companion  which we 
could not  catch,  though we  saw his  lips 
moving  and  a  grin  on  his  face.  That 
grin couldn’t have iasted over fifteen sec­
onds. 
I  expect  the  fellow  must  have 
held his candle in such  a way as  to  cast 
a shadow on  the  bear  trap waiting  for 
him, for  he  stepped  fairly into it as  he 
reached  the  bottom  of  the stairs.  We 
were  holding  our  breaths  when  we  got 
the signal, and the signal was a series of 
yells  which  made  the  hair  curl.  The 
fellow upstairs had just come out  of  the 
pantry with the tea canister in his hand, 
and the yells almost lifted him out of bis 
old shoes. 
Instead of going to the assist­
ance of his companion, he dashed for the 
door,  and  as  he  came  out  and  rushed 
away in the  darkness  he  passed within 
five feet of us.

There was a creek  running  across  my 
uncle’s  farm, aud  at  a  certain  spot  it 
widened out  aud  flowed  over  a  bed  of 
quicksand.  This spot was fenced  off  to 
keep  the  stock  away.  When  the  man 
came running out  we thought  he was af­
ter us, and while  he  took  one  direction 
we flew in another,  and had  gone  half  a 
mile before we  realized  that  be was  not 
pursuing us.  We were skulking back to 
the  house  when  we  heard  shouts  and 
yells from the direction of the creek, and 
when we had crept  up  to  the  fence we 
made out a man struggling in  the quick­
sand.  The  fear  that  he would  get  out 
prevented  us  from  revealing  our pres­
ence, and,  as  we  neared  the  house,  we 
expected to find that  the  other  one  had 
released  himself  from  the  trap.  He 
hadn’t accomplished  the  feat, however. 
He  had  been  caught  by the  right  leg, 
with the jaws of  the  trap  gripping  him 
just  below  the  knee,  and  the  first  we 
heard of him as we crept up to  the  open 
door he was trying to  get  up  the  cellar 
stairs.  He  was  fifteen  minutes  in  ac­
complishing  this,  and  the  way  he  did 
curse and take on was something  awful.

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There was a  light  on  the  kitchen  table, 
and  we  could  see  him  plainly.  He 
backed  up  the  stairs, drawing the trap 
after him, but  on  reaching  the  kitchen 
the pain took all  the  pluck  out  of  him, 
and he  lay down  and  cried  like  a  boy 
taking  a  switching.  When we  saw that 
he was pretty safely captured, we started 
off  to  arouse  the  Sheriff, and  an  hour 
later were back with that officer and two 
of his deputies.  The fellow down at the 
creek was  uttering  a  yell  occasionally, 
while the victim  of  the  bear  trap  had 
managed to get out doors aud  was trying 
to pry the jaws open with  the ax. 
If he 
had whimpered  under  the  pain an hour 
before he made up for it  now by defying 
the  officers.  They didn’t  want  to  shoot 
him, and he  kept  them  at  bay with  the 
ax, crippled as  he was, until  the  Sheriff 
finally knocked  him  over  with  a  club.
It took a good half hour to open the trap, 
and the fellow’s  tongue  kept  going  all 
the time.

When  we  got  the  lantern  and  went 
down to see  the  situation  of  the  other 
prisoner we found that he  had sunk into 
the  quicksand  up  to  his  armpits  and 
then rested, probably because of his feet 
striking a  log  or  stone.  He wasn’t  suf­
fering any bodily pain,  though  bis teeth 
were chattering with eold,  but he was as 
safely caught as if  he had a bear trap on 
each foot, 
instead  of  being  defiant  he 
was inclined to joke.  When  he  learned 
that his  comrade  had  been  caught in a 
trap he laughed heartily and added:

“The old snoozer who  owns  this  farm 
must keep a regular  assortment  of  b’ar 
traps and quicksands and boys aud Sher­
iffs around here. 
It has all  come  about 
on  account  of  Bill’s  stomach.  He  ate 
’nuff fur  any two  men  and  then wanted 
more. 
I told him not to go  down cellar,
but he said he  smelled  something  good 
and was bound to git it.  He  got  it, and 
now 1 hope he feels a heap better.  May­
be he blames  me  fur  not  stoppin’  to see | 
what was  the  matter,  but  from  the way 
he yelled I thought he’d been grabbed by 
forty ghosts.”

If you have an idea that the man ought 
to  have  worked  himself  clear  of  the 
sands, let  me  tell  you  that we  had  to 
make a platform  of  rails  and then get a 
stout rope under his arms  and  haul  him 
out an inch  at a time. 
It was  over  two 
hours before we landed him, and  he was 
then so used up that we had to carry him 
to  the  house.  Aunt  Martha’s  kitchen | 
presented  a  beautiful  spectacle  when 
daylight came.  The fellow caught in the 
trap had lost considerable blood, and the 
other  one was  covered  with  slime  and 
mud, and,  with the  rest  of  us  tracking 
around and sloshing  about, it  seemed as 
if  hog-killing  time  had  arrived.  The 
Sheriff readily-identified the  two  men as 
the perpetrators of  the  crime  in  Hardin 
county.  The  one  called  Bill denied the 
accusation,  but the  quicksand victim re­
proved him for lying,  and added:

“William, old  boy, don't  be  so vulgar 
as to be a common liar.  We didn’t know 
that the man had any bonds until we saw 
him  handling  them,  and  we  shouldn’t 
have hurt him in the  least  if  he  hadn’t 
been  so  pigheaded.  Luck  is  agin  us, 
William.  We shall go over the  road fur 
this,  but let us go as gentlemen.”

The fellows had been removed  to  jail 
and Will and 1 had finished  mopping the 
kitchen and setting things to  right when 
uncle  and  aunt  drove  up.  They  had 
failed to raise a dollar,  and Aunt Martha 
burst into tears as she got out  of  the old

huggy at the gate.  The story of  our ad­
venture put a  different  look  to  matters, 
as you may believe.  There was a reward 
for those robbers, and if Will  and  1  had 
not earned it who had?  We were willing 
to  give  the  Sheriff  something, but  the 
bulk of  it  certainly belonged  to  us. 
It 
took the old folks about an hour to get it 
through  their  heads,  but,  when  it  had 
finally  been  made  plain.  Aunt  Martha 
burst into tears again and sobbed:

“Boys,  do  you  know  what  ailed  me 
when we  drove  up  the  gate?  For  just 
about a  minute  1  lost  my faith  in  the 
Lord, and  yet  this  surprise was waiting 
for me  and  our  troubles  had  all  been 
cleared away.”

There was a reward  of  $1,000  for  the 
criminals,  who  received  lo D g   terms  in 
prison, and of this Uncle Dan  got  $700. 
Later on the  man who  had  been  robbed
presented him with  $300.  But  this was 
not  ail  the  good  luck.  Down  cellar, 
three or four weeks after  the  capture of 
the men, my aunt found a bundle of legal 
papers  which  the  trapped  robber  had 
thrown  away.  They  were  deeds  and 
contracts and notes  of  hand which  had 
been stolen from a man  in  Des  Moines, 
and be insisted on Uncle  Dan  accepting 
$200 as a present for  their  return.  The 
mortgage was  not  only  cleared  off  the 
farm in  due  time,  but Aunt  Martha  got 
money enough to buy a new bonnet—her 
first in fifteen years.  Uncle  Dan  felt so 
rich that he wanted to invest in  a  silver 
watch,  but  when  he  timidly  broached 
the subject to  his wife  she  rose  up  and 
replied:

“Dan’l Curtis, don’t you  think of such 
a thing!  After  all  that  Providence  has 
done for us, you want to walk  around as 
meek and humble as a cat, and be mighty 
thankful that  we’ve even  got  a  kitchen
clock to tell the time o’ day by.”
O utput  o f  C anned  T o m atoes  for  1893.
The  fourteenth  annual  report  of  the 
American  Grocer  makes  the  output  of 
canned  tomatoes  in  the  United  States 
and Canada, for the year  1893,  4,395,543 
cases,  an  excess  over  1892  of  1,028,814 
cases.  The total output  is equivalent to 
105,493.032 tins, a  quantity  sufficient  to 
give  each  family  of  five  persons  eight 
tins  per  annum.  The  total  is  a  larger 
quantity  than  ever  before 
reported. 
Had  it  not  been  for  the  long  summer 
drouth,  which cut off the  yield  of  toma- 
I toes in New York, Ohio  and other West­
ern States, the pack would have reached 
14.500,000  to  5,000,000  cases,  or  fully 
1,000,000  cases  beyond  the  annual  re­
quirements  of  the  United  States  and 
I Canada.  The year  was  a  good  one  for 
the packers, as the  sales  for  future  de­
livery during the first half of  1893  were 
unusually heavy.  High prices for canned 
tomatoes during May, June and July last 
stimulated the industry, and  led  to  the 
planting  of  a  largely  increased  area. 
Fortunately the crop was short  in  some 
sections,  and  thus  an overstocked mar­
ket  was  prevented.  The  market at the 
beginning of  ’94 was firm at $1@1.10 for 
No.  3 standard tins.  The highest  price, 
in 1893,  was $1.45 in July; the lowest  95 
cents in September.

M ath em atics an d  M oney.

Husband—According to your  own  fig­
ures,  you  spent over  $100  this  year  in 
I cheap fripperies which had to be thrown 
away  after  once  wearing.  That  $100 
would have bought a  piece  of  lace  that 
[ would  have  lasted  a  lifetime—in  fact, 
could  be  used  by  your  descendants for 
generations.
Wife—Well, give me $100,  and  I  will 
buy the lace for next year.
Husband—Um—never mind; I—1 don’t 
think lace is very becoming to your style 
of beauty.  Here’s 10 cents  for  another 
ruffle.

Use Tradesman, or Superior Coupons.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

C.  G. A.  VOIGT &  CO.

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OUR  LEADING  BRANDS  ARE

WE  GUARANTEE  EVERY  SACK.

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C.  G.  A.  VOIGT  &  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

MANUFACTURERS’  AGENT  FOR

ALBERT  N.  AVERY,
CARPETS and  DRAPERIES,

19  So.  Ionia  8t.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

8p ecla l S ale  o f   L a c .

 and C h e n ille C urtains.

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

BDY  THE  PENINSULAR
Pants,  Shirts,  and  O ralis

Once and  You aie our Customer  i—i 
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Stanton  Moreyl

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DETROIT,  MICH.

Gao. F. O w e n , Salesman  for Western  Michigan, 

Residence  59 N.  Union St.. Grand  Rapids.

Alfred  J.  Brown  Co^

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REGISTERED

ORANGES

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

Alfred  J.  Brown  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Written (or Tax Tradesman.

THE  VALUE  OP MEDITATION. 
One  great  redeeming  feature  of  the 
times is that we have  plenty of  time  for 
meditation.  Meditation  aids  mental di­
gestion;  it  is  as  necessary  to  mental 
health  as  thorough  mastication  is  to 
physical  health.  The American  people 
are  chronic  dyspeptics,  both  mentally 
and  physically.  They do  not  take  the 
time to read and eat which  the  laws  of 
their being demand, and the  result is in­
digestion in either  case.  . The American 
mind is always in action, being kept con­
tinuously under the relentless spurs of a 
spirit  that  knows  no  rest.  No time to 
read understandingly;  no  time  to  digest 
what is carelessly and  hurriedly read by 
applying a little concentrated thought or 
meditation—no wonder that we are a na­
tion of mental dyspeptics.  But the laws 
which govern  our  mental  and  material 
growth  cannot  be violated with  impuni­
ty. 
If we will not take the time to  read 
understandingly and  aid  our  mental  di­
gestion with intelligent thought, we can­
not  hope  to  escape  the  penalty.  The 
American spirit of enterprise is a nymph 
of  the  New  World. 
It  has  rescued  a 
wild, unbroken continent  from innumer­
able tribes of savages and peopled it with 
the best  blood  of  the  Old World,  lifting 
it from a state of  crude  barbarism  to  a 
higher  plane  of  civilization  than  that 
ever attained by any of the nations of the 
earth. 
It has spirited away forests, cob- 
webed the land with  railroads, and  dot­
ted  it  with  prosperous  cities.  By the 
touch of its magic wand workshops_have 
sprung  up  everywhere, giving ^employ- 
ment to  the world’s  surplus  of workers, 
bv whose labor it has accumulated wealth 
in such vast proportions  as  to  cause all 
the rest of the world to stand aghast with 
amazement.  Our  growth  and  develop­
ment have been so  phenomenal  in  their 
nature that this spirit  of  enterprise was 
supposed  to  be  omnipotent.  We  had 
cause to believe that all we had  to  do in 
order to keep right  on  growing, expand­
ing  and  accumulating  wealth,  was  to 
blindly  follow  wherever  this  feverish, 
restless spirit of enterprise pointed in its 
ceaseless flight. 
I t . had; led  the way to 
speedy success  in  the  past,  and  nothing 
could stay its progress in the  future. 
It 
was  thought  to  be  equal  to any emer- 
gency. Jits blind  and  devoted ^followers 
depended upon it to overcome all changes 
in conditions and the laws which  govern 
supply and demand.  All that was necessa­
ry in  order to  keep  the  great industrial 
ball rolling was to push, pull, stretch and 
hustle, regardless of cause and effect, the 
law of supply and demand, the certainty 
of  limitation  or  the  rules  of  common 
sense.  When the blind leads  the  blind, 
sooner or  later  both will  fall  into  the 
ditch.  That  time  has  arrived  in  this 
country.  The  spirit  of  enterprise  and 
the country’s industries are laying in the 
ditch.  The laws which  govern  our  ma­
terial welfare  have  been  flagrantly vio­
lated and we  are  suffering  the  penalty 
therefor.  We had no time or inclination 
to devote a little  thought  to  cause  and 
effect, and now we are made to suffer the 
evil effects of  causes which  might  have 
been averted if we had  been  more  cau­
tious and not so  recklessly greedy.  Our 
workingmen  received  good  wages,  and 
they were led to believe that such would 
continue to be the  case  as  long  as  the 
product  of  foreign  pauper  labor  was 
kept  out  of  the  country  by  a  sys­
taxation.  The  work­
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satisfied,  and  employ­
ingman  was 
ers continued to  pile  up  wealth.  Both 
were  too  busy  to  stop  and  do  a  little 
thinking.  If they had done so they would 
have realized the fact that our free lands 
were  rapidly  diminishing;  and, 
that, 
although  the  fruits  of  foreign  pauper 
labor were not allowed to come into com­
petition  with  the  fruits  of  American 
labor,  the  foreign  paupers  themselves 
were pouring into the  country  by  hun­
dreds  of  thousands.  They  would  have 
seen that the time was rapidly approach­
ing when the last acre of our  free  lands 
would have  passed  away  forever,  when 
this  mighty  influx  of  foreign  pauper 
labor  would  flood  this  country  and  de­
moralize and completely undermine  and 
ruin the American  workingman. 
I say, I 
if they had  done  a  little  thinking  they 
would  have  seen a limit to these things, 
and prudence and  common  sense  would 
have dictated remedial  measures.  That 
limit has been reached.  Every desirable 
acre of  Uncle Sam’s free lands has been 
taken up and we have a surplus of  labor 
of such vast proportions that  it  has  be­
come a standing menace to  the  peace  of 
the  country.  Wages,  relative  to  other 
values,  will  never  be  as  high  in  this 
country  as  they  have  been—in  the  ab­
sence  of  war  or  some  other  unforseen 
national calamity.

Continued on page 6.

This  is  a  time  for  meditation. 

Idle­
ness is a terrible thing. 
It is said  to  be 
the “root of all  evil.”  It  is  no  less  an 
evil  when  voluntary  and  well  fed;  but 
when it is forced and  accompanied  with 
destitution and want, it is simply appall- 
iug.  This  is  the  condition  of  millions 
of  American citizens to-day.  This great 
army  of  idle,  unemployed  men  and 
women  certainly  have 
time  to  read, 
think, and meditate on life and  the  con­
ditions which are best  calculated  to  in­
crease  the  sum  of  human  happiness. 
Let  us  hope  that  they  are  improving 
their  opportunity,  and  that  the  higher 
degree of  intelligence thus acquired will 
be  made  use  of  by  them  in  bettering 
their condition and in  guarding  against 
like calamities in the future.

How  is  it  with  the  retail  merchant? 
Does he find time during these  alms-giv­
ing times to do a  little  thinking?  Does 
he not at times,  while  sitting  on  a  nail 
keg waiting for  the  cash  customer  that 
never comes, fall into a meditative mood 
and  try  to  think  out  the  causes  which 
have  brought  about  the  present  condi­
tion of  things?  The merchant who says 
he has had no time to “give it a thought,” 
when  asked  for  an  opinion  as  to  the 
effect  of  legislation  on  the  business  of 
the country, passed away with  the  close 
of  prosperity.  The  man  behind  the 
counter  to-day  has  given  it  a  thought. 
The  paralysis  of  the  times  has  caused 
a  shrinkage  in  the  volume  of  trade 
varying, in the different branches, all the 
way from  twenty-five  to  fifty per  cent. 
Upon the hypothesis  that  the  retailer’s 
time was  wholly  occupied  in  his  busi­
ness previous to the  present  depression, 
he is at present spending from one-fourth 
to one-half of his time  in  enforced  idle­
ness, or else he has cut down his working 
force correspondingly. 
It is  only in the 
larger  establishments,  however,  where 
the  merchant  is  thus  enabled  to  keep 
himself busy by curtailing  his  help, and 
the fact remains that the  great  majority 
of retailers find an abundance of  time to 
read  and  digest.  Meditate?  Why,  we 
can’t  help  it.  Trade  is  demoralized;

How  it 
Has Grown

Summarized  History:

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1883 
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Business  Established 
1885  - 
-  Special  Machinery  Introduced
1888 
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-  Removal  to  harper  Quarters 
Largest GoUpon Book Plant in the World
1894 

In  which  we  produce  more  Coupon  Books  than  all 
the  other  manufacturers  in  the  country  combined. 
These  facts  speak  louder than  words  and  prove  that 
our  books  must  have  been  the  best  in  the  market 
for  the  past  ten  years  in  order  to  secure  this  de= 
mand.

Tradesman Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  IHCH.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.
AROUKD  THE  STATE.

South 11aveu—W. J.  Viall has  opened 

a new retail grocery store.

Clio—J. K.  Frost  has  purchased  the 

drug business of Iluyck & Conlee.

Lawton—T.  R.  Smith  &  Co.  succeed 

McKeyes & Smith in general trade.

Ypsilanti—Jos.  King succeeds Francis 

King in the boot aud shoe business.

Marquette—Manthei & Gibson succeed 

Mack & Gibson in the meat business.

Hesperia—G. S.  Seymour has  sold  his 

harness business to Charles Crawford.

Zeeland—D.  Aldershof  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  E. Prakken,  of  Grand 
Rapids.

Bay City—E. O’Connor is succeeded by
G.  Washington  &  Co.  in  the  grocery 
business.

West  Bay  City—Birchard  &  Talbot, 
dealers  in  paints, etc., are  succeeded  by 
R. A. Talbot.

Kalamazoo—John R.  Hunter  succeeds 
Cobb & Hunter in the crockery and glass­
ware business.

Parma—Hodges  &  Warner,  druggists 
and grocers,  have  dissolved,  Hodges  & 
Dean succeeding.

Alpena—W. H. Davison &  Co.,  cloth­
iers,  have dissolved,  W.  U.  Davison con­
tinuing the business.

Midland—W.  D.  Marsh  has  retired 
from the firm of Anderson  Bros., dealers 
in drugs and shingles.
Tekonsha—A.  M. 

Johnson  suceeds 
Powers & Johnson  in  the  clothing  and 
boot and shoe business.

Yale—Waring  <fc  Wells,  grocers  aud 
druggists,  have dissolved, G.  W.  Waring 
continuing the business.

Gobleville—Churchill  &  Parker  suc­
ceed C. A.  Lamberson & Co. in the  agri­
cultural implement business.

Saginaw—W. F. Tweivetrees  succeeds 
W. F. Tweivetrees  &  Co. in  the  station­
ery and fancy goods business.

Big  Rapids—Wm.  Hangstorfer & Co., 
meat  dealers,  have  dissolved,  Wm.  C. 
Hangstorfer continuing the business.

Coieman—1. Saperston & Bro., dealers 
in clothing and boots and shoes, have dis­
solved, I. Saperston continuing the busi­
ness
Detroit—Loomer & Hawley, dealers in 
lumber,  lath  and  shingles,  have  dis­
solved,  G.  W.  Loomer  continuing  the 
business.

South  Haven—Geo.  B.  Pomeroy  has 
merged  his  business  into  a  stock  com­
pany  under the style of theG. B. Pomeroy 
Implement Co.

Nashville—R.  J.  Wade  has  sold  his 
drug stock to F.  Feighner,  who will  con­
tinue the business,  removing the stock to 
the Yates block.

Detroit—Parke,  Davis &  Co.  have  in­
creased their capital stock  from  SI,000,- i 
000 to §2,000,000, and of  the  latter  sum 
SI,200,000 has been paid up.

West  Bay  City—Staudacher  &  Mc- 
Guinness  succeed  Lambert,  Staudacher 
&  McGuinnes  in the hardware business.
Petoskey—C.  C.  Hamill  has  admitted
O.  S.  Hayden to a partnership in his gro­
cery  business,  which  will  hereafter  be 
conducted under the style of C. C. Hamill 
& Co.

Perrinton—F. E.  Durfee, proprietor of 
the  Perrinton  Mercantile  Co., has  sold 
the general stock  to  Chas.  W. Christler, 
of Lansing, who will continue  the  busi­
ness at the same location.

Galesburg—Carson  &  Hawley,  book 
and  stationery dealers,  have  dissolved.

F in an cial  M atters.

the  stock 

Some months ago the  creditors  of  the 
Widdicomb Furniture  Co. endeavored to 
effect  an  arrangement  by  which  John 
Widdicomb would exchange his  stock in 
the  Furniture  Co.  for 
in 
the  Widdicomb  Mantel  Co.  held  by
C.  H.  Hackley  and  John  Bonnell. 
This deal fell through, owing  to  the  re­
fusal of those who held Mr. Widdicomb’s 
stock  as  collateral  to  agree  to  the  ex­
change. 
It  is  now reported  that  John 
Widdicomb has succeeded  in  getting his 
creditors to  sanction  his  exchanging his 
stock  in  the  Mantel  Co. for  Harry Wid­
dicomb’s  stock  in  the  Furniture  Co., 
which will give him  sole  control  of  the 
Widdicomb  Furniture  Co.  and  enable 
Harry Widdicomb  to  assume  the  man­
agement of the Widdicomb Mantel Co.

S.  E.  Young,  the  Lakeview  druggist, 
is offering  to  settle with  his  unsecured 
creditors on the basis of  40 cents  on  the 
dollar.

Andrew  Gerber  and  Fred  Reynolds 
have purchased interests in  the  banking 
firm of J. T.  Reynolds & Co., at Fremont, 
the firm name remaining  the same as be­
fore.  J. R.  Odell retires  from  the  posi­
tion of cashier,  which  he  has  filled  for 
the past eight years,  but  is  compelled to 
relinquish on account of failing eyesight, 
being succeeded  in  that  capacity by Mr. 
Gerber.

From  O ut o f T ow n.
received 

Calls  have  been 

at  T h e 
T radesm an office during  the  past  week 
from  the  follow ing  gentlem en  in  trade:

Frank P.  Merrell,  Ithaca.
J. Weaver & Co.,  Kalamazoo.
Wm. Black, Cedar Spriugs.
Walbrink & Sons,  Allendale.
L. J.  Reddy, Grant Station.
Chas. McCarty, Lowell.
E.  H. Foster, Aldeu.
J.  M.  Flanagan,  Mancelona.
Hiram Munger, Sullivan.
He pays too high a  price  for  anything 

that he gets by dishonesty.

PRODUCE  m a r k et.

Apples—Baldwins are  the only variety now In 
the market, and they are as scarce as hen’s teeth, 
commanding <4.50 per bbl.

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

Butter—Dealers  pay 16@18c for choice  dairy, 
holding at 18@20c.  Creamery  is  dull and  slow 
sale at 24c.

Cabbage—Home grown, $5@6 per 100.
Carrots—20c per bushel.
Cranberries—Cape Cod  are weaker, command­
ing  $2  per  bu.  and $5.75 per bbl.  Jerseys  are in 
moderate demand at <5.50.
Celery—Home  grown  commands  15@18c  per 
doz.
Eggs—The  market  is  demoralized,  handlers 
paying 14@15c, and selling at 16@17c per doz. for 
strictly fresh.  Cold  storage  and  pickled  stock 
is unsalable at  any  price.  Buyers  are  picking 
up supplies as rapidly as possible, and the strife 
for goods may cause an  upward tendency in the 
price before the end of the week.

Grapes—Malaga  are  in  moderate  demand  at 
$4.50 per keg of 55  lbs.  net.  California  Tokays 
are  in  fair  demand at $3 per crate of 4 5-lb. bas­
kets.

Honey—White  clover  commands  16c  per  lb.‘ 
dark  buckwheat  brings  13c.  Both  grades  are 
very scarce and hard to get.

Lettuce—Grand Rapids  forcing, 12c per lb.
Maple Sugar—10 per lb.
Nuts—Walnuts  and  butternuts,  75c  per  bu. 

Hickory nuts, $1.10 per bu.

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

Potatoes—Red  Rose  are 

in  active  request, 
owing to brisk demand for this variety from the 
South, principally from  Texas.  White varieties 
are weak, buyers paying 40@45c  and  holding at 
50c.

Squash—Hubbard, about out of market.
Turnips—25c per bu.

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Mr. Carson  will  continue  the  business 
and E. A.  Hawley  has  bought  the  gro­
cery stock of O.  L.  Evans.

THE  AIICrEUGL^JNr  TRADESMAN.
Joppa—Those who subscribed stock to 
the proposed creamery to be erected here 
by Burnap  &  Burnap,  of  Toledo,  at  a 
cost  of  $4,000,  have  since  ascertained 
that another  firm will  erect  one  of  the 
same  capacity for  $2,600.  About  $2,100 
of the $4,000 was pledged, and at a meet­
ing of those interested it was  decided  to 
contract with the firm who made  the lat­
ter offer.

Nashville—Harry  G.  Hale,  who  has 
been engaged in the drug  business  here 
for the past seventeen years, has sold his 
stock to Dr. John Bali,  who will continue 
the business at the same location.

Tustin—G.  Rasmusson,  of  Cadillac, 
has made the largest potato purchase  of 
the season, having  acquired  10,000 bush­
els in a single lot at 40 cents  per  bushel 
for  white  stock  and  42  cents  for  red 
Rose.

Cadillac—L. L. Freeman has about 17,- 
000 bushels of potatoes at  Boon, Hobart, 
Gilbert  and  in  this  city  now ready for 
shipment.  Up to this date Mr.  Freeman 
has shipped this season about seven hun­
dred carloads.

Wayland—E.  W.  Pickett  has  sold  his 
store building and stock of  general mer­
chandise to  his  brother,  Frank  E. Pick­
ett,  who  will  take  possession  April  1. 
The  former  will  continue  his  banking 
business at the same place.

Manton—The Elevier stock of  general 
merchandise was bid  in  last  Monday by 
Burnham, Stoepel & Co., of  Detroit, and 
afterward sold to Mrs. W. Elevier^After 
an inventory of  stock  the  store was  re­
opened with Mr.  Elevier in charge.

Cadillac—The  Fred  C.  Lentz  grocery 
stock  was  sold  at  foreclosure  sale  last 
Monday,  being bid in by Will  C.  Lentz, 
subject to the first mortgage held by Mrs. 
John  Lentz.  The  purchaser  will  con­
tinue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
Will Lentz’ Cash Store.

Lisbon—T.  H. Condra and  F.  J. Pome­
roy, merchants at  this  place,  have made 
an exchange of merchandise,  Mr. Condra 
taking Mr. Pomeroy’s stock of groceries, 
and  Mr. Pomeroy  taking  Mr.  Condra’s 
stock of hardware. 
It  is  reported  that 
Mr.  Pomeroy has  also  purchased  the R.
B.  Gooding & Son  hardware stock.

Eaton  Rapids—W.  D.  Brainerd  has 
withdrawn from  the  drug  and  grocery 
firm of Brainerd &  Co. and  the  business 
will  hereafter  be  conducted  by W.  E. 
Hale and F. J.  Brainerd,  under the  same 
firm  name  as  formerly.  Mr.  Brainerd 
began his mercantile  career  here  thirty- 
eight years ago and  has  been  connected 
with  business  affairs  in  our  city since 
that  time,  twenty-five  years  of  which 
he has been in business for himself.

Detroit—William  R.  Roper  was  for­
merly agent here for the  wholesale meat 
house of  Nelson  Morris  <fe  Co.,  of Chi­
cago. 
In August,  1892, he was  arrested 
at the instance of the  firm  charged  with 
embezzlement.  The case was never tried, 
although  Roper  insists 
that  be  was 
always ready.  After dragging  for  over 
a year,  Roper has  finally  become desper­
ate and  recently  began  suit  by attach­
ment against  the  firm  with damages  at 
85,000.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS,

Pinckney—The  creamery  building  at 
Pinckney was sold again Friday morning 
to Richard Clinton, a hardware merchant 
of this  village.  This  property has been 
a losing game ever since it was built. 
It 
is believed the losing is at an end.

Saginaw—There  seems  a  little  better 
feeling in  lumber  circles, due  to  a few 
transactions in the wholesale market and 
some increase in  yard  orders.  The  im­
provement  is  slight,  however,  with  no 
immediate  prospect  of  anything  like 
old-time activity.

informed 

Manistee—There  begins 

to be  some 
inquiry for lumber  and  shingles;  a good 
many  want  to  know  what  prices  are 
going to be for  spring  shipments,  so as 
to get a  basis  on  which  to  build  their 
next  season’s  business.  One  inquirer 
for about  1,500,000  feet  of  hemlock  of 
different  grades  was 
that 
prices would not open any different from 
those  at  which  the  market  closed  last 
fall, and  might  be even a  little  higher. 
This,  of course,  will  depend somewhat 
on the winter. 
If we  do  not  have much 
good logging weather from this on, there 
will be a shortage  of  hemlock as well as 
other  forest  products,  and  those  who 
have them on hand will be pretty stiff in 
the bit;  but should good logging weather 
prevail  for  a  month  or  more,  things 
will  be  different.  There  will  not  be 
nearly as much hardwood got  out in this 
region as has  been  the case for  the  past 
two  winters,  and  this  ought  to  be  of 
great  benefit  to  the  trade  in  general. 
The  associations  decided to  voluntarily 
curtail the cut this fall, and  the  state  of 
the  weather  has  done  more 
that 
respect  than  all  the  associations  could 
possibly do.  Hardwood logging is differ­
ent from pine, as most  of  the  logging is 
done  in  winter  on  sleighs,  very  little 
of it being done by  rail.

in 

Alpena—Our people  are  pushing  the 
project of accepting  the  proposition  of 
Alger, Smith & Go. to remove their busi­
ness from Black River  to  Alpena.  Last 
week  Gen.  Alger  and  others  interested 
visited  Alpena  and  conferred with  our 
business men on the  subject.  The  situ­
ation at  present  is  that Alger, Smith & 
Co. have  a  temporary contract with  the 
Detroit  &  Alpena  Railroad  for  hauling 
their  timber  to  Black  River,  and  this 
contract will be  continued  if  no  better 
advantages can  be  secured  by transfer­
ring  their  business  to  Alpena.  There 
will be no trouble in securing the  bonus 
of  $5,000,  but  those  owning  property 
along the proposed right cf way must do­
nate it. 
If the deal goes through, Alger, 
Smith & Co.  will  build  a  600-foot  dock 
and build a track from  the  present  ter­
minus  to  the  banking  ground  above 
Avery’s mill.  This work will  require  a 
force of 200 men for two or three months, 
when the rafting  plant would  be  ready. 
They would also have enough  short logs 
to keep one  or  two  mills  in  operation. 
They employ  100  men  in  their  rafting 
operations and have  sufficient  timber  in 
Presque Isle county to last  from  five  to 
seven years.

T he  Q u otation  W as  C orrect.

From the Grand Traverse Herald.

An up country merchant was buying a 
bill of goods at the store of  the Elk Rap­
ids Iron Co. the other day, and  when  he 
came to the matter of  spices—cinnamon, 
cloves, nutmeg, and  such— he  protested 
against the price charged, saying that he 
had seen in T h e  Mich ig a n T radesm an, 
only the week before, that all spice  was 
quoted at only  10  cents  a  pound.  The 
U. C.  M. had evidently forgotten how his 
mother used to flavor her dried apple and 
pumpkin pies with  just  plain,  common 
every day allspice.  The march of civili­
zation is truly something wonderful.

GRAND  R A PID S  GOSSIP.

A   FOOD  EXPOSITION.

TEDE  MTCTIIG^LlSr  T E A D E B M A N ,

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James  L.  Purchase  has  opened  a 
grocery store  at  Allendale.  The  I.  M. 
Clark Grocery Co.  furnished the stock.

Geritsen & Werner  have opened a gro­
cery store at  the  corner  of  Turner and 
West  Leonard  streets.  The  Lemon  & 
Wheeler Company furnished the stock.

The Michigan Vapor  Stove  Co.  is run­
ning  13  hours  a  day four  days a week 
and 10 hours a  day the  other  two  days. 
Thirty-five men are  regularly employed.
L. J. Wheeler has decided to  continue 
the  grocery  business  at  704  Wealthy 
avenue,  the  former  location  of  H.  W. 
Reid.  TheBall-Barnhart-PutmanCo. fur­
nished the stock.

J. P. Visner  has  sold  his  bakery and 
restaurant at 139 Canal  street  to  L.  N. 
Lakin,  who sold  a  half  interest  to  Mr. 
Ward, and the firm name  will  hereafter 
be known as Lakin & Ward.

H.  H.  Hayes,  who  has  been employed 

as a turner by the Bissell Carpet Sweeper 
Co.  for  the  past  fourteen  years,  will 
shortly open a  meat market at 611 North 
Coit avenue, near Quimby street.

John  F.  and  Jos.  K. Failing, compos­
ing the hardware firm of  J. F. Failing & 
Co., at 503 and 505 South Division street, 
have  dissolved.  The  business will  be 
continued  by Jos. K.  Failing  under  his 
own name.

The Atlantic and Pacific  Tea  Co.  has 
made a change in the management  of its 
local  store,  having  retired  L.  Eilerson 
and replaced him  with  Robert  Graham, 
of Springfield, Ohio, who  has  been  con­
nected with the company for nine  years.
Frank  Englewood  has  purchased  the 
interest  of  J.  A.  Smits  in  the  firm  of 
Smits & Englewood, grocers  at  503  and 
505 Ottawa street.  He has taken his son 
Aire into partnership with him  and  the 
new firm will be known as  Englewood & 
Son.

S.  F.  Bowser  and  Allen  A.  Bowser, 
composing  the  firm  of  S.  F.  Bowser & 
Co., manufacturers of oil  tanks  at  Fort 
Wayne,  Ind.,  were  in  town  last  week. 
While here they purchased the plant and 
patents of the Universal Tool Co., trans­
ferring the business to Fort Wayne.

P u rely   P erson al.

W.  A.  Austin,  formerly  engaged  in 
general trade at  Montague,  has  removed 
to Ashley,  lnd., where  he  recently pur­
chased a grocery stock.

C.  M.  Wilkinson,  formerly  prescrip­
tion clerk  with W.  R.  Hall, of  Manistee, 
has taken a similar  position with  Thum 
Bros.  & Schmidt, of this city.

Geo. R. May hew, who  has  been taking 
treatment  for  rheumatism  at  Indiana 
Mineral  Springs  for  several weeks, has 
gone on to Hot Springs, Ark., in hopes the 
waters of that famous resort will  have  a 
beneficial  effect  in  his  tussle with  Old 
Rheum.

Dr.  C.  P.  Brown,  President  of  the 
Mozart Leaf Turner  Manufacturing Co., 
of Spring  Lake,  was  in  town  Monday. 
His leaf  turner is  having  a  remarkable 
sale, and the genial  Doctor  is  overjoyed 
over the prospect of the golden dividends 
which will shortly follow.
E. Buys, the  East  Fulton  street  gen­
eral dealer, has invented and  applied for 
a  patent  on  a  combination  truck  for 
handling  molasses,  vinegar  and  kero­
sene barrels.  The truck can be manipu­
lated  by  one  man and  will  easily  con­
vey 700 pounds at a time.

g a rd   th e   P roject.

H ow   th e W h o le sa le   G rocery T rade R e­
The project of a food exposition,  to be 
held in this city by the manufacturers of 
food  products,  has  been  discussed  at 
some length  at  recent  meetings  of  the 
Retail  Grocers’ Association, the  general 
opinion being favorable to such a project. 
There can be no doubt  that  much  good 
results from the holding of  such  exposi­
tions, as they bring the manufacturer and 
consumer together, giving  the former an 
opportunity  of  explaining,  not  merely 
the merits of his own goods, but the ben­
efit to be derived from  the  use  of  such 
goods  in  general.  They, also, give  the 
manufacturer and retailer an opportunity 
to get acquainted.  The retailer presum­
ably knows the needs of his constituency 
and the grade of goods which are most in 
demand  by his  customers.  The  retailer 
will, also,  be enabled  to  get  acquainted 
with the various “points” in favor of the 
use of such food products as he  handles, 
and so be in a position to  advise his cus­
tomers.  But, perhaps, the strongest fea­
ture  in  favor  of  the  food exposition is 
that it is calculated to educate the people 
in the direction of  the  use  of  a  better 
quality of prepared or  preserved  foods. 
The dearest article of  food  is  often one 
that  is  poor  in  quality  and  cheap  in 
price. 
It is dear  because it is a poor ar­
ticle, and would be dear even if  given as 
a  present. 
If,  at  these  expositions,  a 
thorough explanation is given of the dif­
ference between the  good  and  the  poor 
food products, incalculable  good will be 
the result.  Still another good feature of 
f the food exposition is that the  consumer 
is made  aware  of  the variety of ways in 
which these  canned  goods  may be  pre­
pared for the  table.  With  these  points 
in mind, one fails to see how such an ex­
position can fail  to be beneficial. 
If  the 
manufacturers can  be  induced  to  come 
here and display their wares it should be 
done.  As a rule, they defray their  own 
expenses;  but, even if  it require a large 
expenditure, it is hoped that the  exposi­
tion will  be  held.  Apportioned  among 
the  many who  might  reasonably be  ex­
pected to  contribute  to  such  an  enter­
prise, the cost to  each would  be  trilling. 
To ascertain the feeling  of  the  grocery 
jobbers towards a food exposition, a rep­
resentative of T h e T radesm an called at 
the wholesale houses,  with the following 
result:

Samuel L.  Lemon ( Lemon  <&  Wheeler 
Company):  “ I  don’t  see,  if  the  manu­
facturers  can  stand  the  expense  these 
dull  times,  why  such  an  exposition 
should not be productive of  good. 
It  is 
a deplorable fact that the  great majority 
of merchants in country  and city are not 
as  intelligent  as  they  ought  to  be  in 
regard  to the merits and the  many  uses 
that the different kind of products can be 
put to.  Nor are  they able to explain  to 
a customer  how  they  ought  to  be  pre­
pared;  hence  the  necessity  of 
this 
means  of  instructing  the  public in the 
use of such  goods.”

Amos  S.  Musselman 

(Musselman 
Grocer  Co.):  “I  know  so  little  about 
what such an exposition is like  that  my 
opinion would not be  worth  much;  but, 
if it  is  intended  to  disseminate  knowl­
edge relating  to  cooking  and  the  prep­
aration of  food, you  may  count  me  in, 
for I must confess that  such  knowledge 
is sadly  needed.  Whether  the  expense 
of  the  undertaking  should  be  borne 
■' entirely  by  the  manufacturers  whose

products are  on  exhibition,  or  whether 
the wholesale  and  retail  grocers should 
shoulder  the  expense, 
I  am  not  pre­
pared  to  say.  Perhaps  both  parties 
should ‘chip in.’ 
I will do all  I  can  to 
help  forward  the  project,  on  general 
principles, of  course, for, as I said,  1 am 
ignorant of what a food exposition would 
be like.”

W.  L. Freeman (Hawkins & Company.): 
“What do you expect to gain  by  holding 
a food  exposition?  It  won’t  bring  any 
people into the town, and those  who are 
here won’t  attend  to  any  great extent. 
What  we  want  is  something that  will 
bring  strangers  to 
the  city,  who  will 
spend their money here  and  do the town 
some  good.  Then,  too,  times  are  too 
hard for the grocers  to spend  money for 
such  a  purpose;  but,  if  the  manufac­
turers are willing to put up  for  it, there 
can be little  objection  to it.  As for  the 
cooking  school,  well,  excuse  me;  I 
don’t want  any in mine.  Home cooking 
is good enough for me.”

Heman  G.  Barlow  (Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.):  “Certainly;  have  a  food 
exposition  by  all  means.  Anything 
which will have a tendency to  show  the 
people the difference  between  cheap and 
good  goods,  and  educate  them  to  the 
point of using the  better  article,  should 
be welcomed with open arms. 
I am  not 
quite certain  that  I  know  what  a  food 
exposition is;  but, if it is what I think  it
is,  it ought to result  in great  good to all 
parties  concerned—manufacturers,  job­
bers,  retailers  and  consumers. 
I  am 
heartily in favor of it.”

Fred  H.  Ball  (Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co.):  “I  believe  the  idea  of  holding 
a food exposition in  this  city  to  be  an 
admirable  one. 
It  will  give  manufac­
turers of food  products  an  opportunity 
of placing their goods  before consumers, 
the very class of  people  they  desire  to 
reach, in the most  favorable  light,  and 
at the same time awaken the  interest  of 
the  retail  grocers,  through  which  the 
goods must finally be disposed  of.  Such 
an exposition ought not to cost the retail 
grocers  a penny,  as  without doubt,  the 
manufacturers would  be  glad to  defray 
all expenses.  Anything  that  our house 
can do to  help  on  the  project  we  will 
gladly do.  Count us in.”

Frank  Jewell  (I.  M.  Clark  Grocery 
Co.):  “I  would like to know more about 
a food  exposition  before  expressing  an 
opinion pro or con;  but, if it is calculated 
to help trade, I will most certainly favor
it.  ”

G ripsack B rigade.

H. S.  Robertson has  returned  to Wau­
kesha, Wis.,  where  he  proposes  to  re­
main until  he is  completely recovered.

B.  F.  Emery, 

formerly  engaged  in 
business  here,  but  for  the  past  three 
years  employed  as  traveling  salesman 
and  broker at  Colorado  Springs,  Colo., 
was in town  last  week.  He  is  recover­
ing from  the  effects  of a  surgical opera­
tion at  Chicago,  and expects  to  remove 
to  Colorado  Springs 
the  middle  of 
February.

John H.  Payne,  formerly  with  Haw­
kins & Company,  but  more  recently em­
ployed by the Drummond Tobacco Co.  in 
Colorado, has taken the agency for the J. 
G. Butler Tobacco Co.  in Southern  Cali­
fornia, with headquarters at Los Angeles. 
He has nearly  recovered  his  health and 
is feeling very much better  than he  has 
for several years, which will be welcome 
news to his many Michigan friends.

The second  monthly “good  time  and 
dance” of  Post  E will  be  held  at Elk’s 
hall Saturday evening, Feb.  10.  Dancing 
will begiu  at  8  o’clock, continuing until 
10:30,  when a light lunch will be  served. 
Rev. John  Snyder,  the  celebrated  Uni­
tarian divine  of  St.  Louis, Mo.,  will  be 
present and tell some  of  the  stories for 
which he is famous.  He has  a  national 
reputation as a story teller,  although his 
tales are a little different from those usu­
ally told  by traveling  men.  All  travel­
ing men are invited,  as usual,

The National Cordage Company, which 
went under  in  the  financial  panic,  has 
been resurrected,  it  is  presumed,  under 
the  name  of  United  States  Cordage 
Company.  The capital  stock of the new 
corporation is ¡534,000,000.

The settling  up  of  the  bakery  sale 
has  detained  my  Tolman’s  first  visit. 
Look for  leaders—I  am  coming.  J.  P. 
Visner, Office, Bridge Street  house.

Three Rivers—W.  D.  Tyler  has  pur­
the  grocery  stock  of  J.  E. 

chased 
Hummell.

FOR  SA L E ,  W A N TE D ,  ETC.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

553

I  TOR  EXCHANGE—FARM  AND CITY PROP- 
erty for stocks of merchandise.  Correspond­
ence  strictly  confidential.  Address  222  N. 
555
Washington ave., Lansing. Mich. 
F OR  SALK—DRUGGIST’S  FIXTURES  SUCH 
as bottles, drawers,  prescription  case, etc., 
very  cheap.  Address,  Drawer  75,  Bangor, 
556
Mich. 
m o   RENT—A  22x80  ROOM 
IN  BRICK 
-L  block;  fine  location  for  clothing  store; 
good country trade.  Rent reasonable.  Address, 
H. D.  Harvey, Bangor. Mich. 
557
CLEAN  STOCK  OF  HARDWARE  DOING 
a paying  cash  business  for  sale.  Inven 
tories *3,COO, will sell for $2,000 spot cash  balance 
on  time.  Don’t  write  unless  you  have  the 
money and mean business.  Address Cash Hard­
ware, care of Michigan Tradesman. 
ANTED—STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  OR 
boots and shoes  in  exchange  for  Grand 
Rapids  real  estate.  State  size  of  stock  and 
where located.  Address  No. 554  care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
554
CASE  FOR  STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE.
Must  be  cheap.  Address  No.  849,  care 
849
Michigan Tradesman. 
TXTHO  WANTS  A  COMPETENT  MARRIED 
IT   man  for  farm  work  who  can  take full 
charge of same?  City  references.  Address,  N. 
Rice, 49 Dudley Place, Grand Rapids,  Mich.  850 
OR TRADE—FARM OF KJO ACRES, HEAVY 
loam soil, new buildings insured for $2,200, 
to exchange for  half  long  time  and  balance  a 
stock of goods, or Grand Rapids real estate.  Ad­
dress “Farmer,” care Michigan Tradesman.  551 
OR  SALE—A  NEW  STOCK  OF  CLOTHING 
and  gents  furnishing  goods.  Or  will  ex­
change for cheap pine or hardwood lumber.  Ad­
dress Box 708. Owos'O, Mich. 
TTITANTED—A  MAN  WHO  HAS  $2,500  OF 
tv  General  Merchandise,  or  would  like  to 
help increase a stock where they will  be sure of 
camp trade of fifty men, and  a  general trade  of 
$10 000 to $15,000.  Ready pay.  This will bear day­
light.  Lock box si, Farwell. Mich. 
848
F OR  SALE—sm all  STOCK OF wROCERIES 
and fixtures in a good location  For panic 
ulars  address  P.  O.  box  1000,  Traverse  City
Mich.______________________________ 847
m o  RENT—AFTER  FEBRUARY 
I,  1894,
JL  storeroom  21x100  feet;  brick;  best  store 
and location in  town;  good  opening  for  drugs 
and wall  paper,  hardware  or  dry  goods.  Ad­
dress R. S. Tracy,  Sturgis, Mich. 
I PARTNER  WANTED—I  WISH  TO  ADD  A 
$2,000 shoe stock and my time to  a  general 
stock In good town.  Must be reliable party.  Or 
will exchange  $1,200  shoe stock  for  dry goods. 
Address No. 843, care Michigan Tradesman.  843
For  ex c h a n g e—fo r c it y  ok co u n try
real estate, a new stock of clothing and fur­
nishing  goods,  invoicing  from  $5,000 to $6 («00. 
Address No. 832, care Michigan Tradesman.  832
a   CLEAN  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  FOR 
Sale;  good  trade,  cheap  for  spot  cash; 
the only delivery wagon in  town.  Stock  about 
$2,500. 
Investigate.  Address  box  15,  Centre- 
•  820
ville,  Mich. 
■ ANTED—WOODENWARE FACTORY  OR 
Saw Mill, with good power, to locate here. 
Substantial  aid will  be  given  the  right  party 
Address S. S. Burnett, Lake  Ann. Mich. 
819 
S I T U A T I O N S   W A N T  K i t . 

TKTANTED—POSITION  AS  WINDOW  TRIM- 
VV  mer, book-keeper or  salesman,  by young 
man of five years’  experience  in  general  store. 
References  if  desired.  Address  No.  829,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

829

552

844

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business is paralyzed; industry is hypno­
tized;  hopes  are  pulverized,  and  the 
whole thing is  so  thoroughly advertised 
that we can’t think or  talk  of  anything 
else.  The atmosphere is so impregnated 
with it that we can’t draw a breath with­
out  being  reminded  of  it  The papers 
are full of it  On the  street  corners,  in 
the hotel  lobbies, on  the  railway trains, 
in the  business  offices—everywhere,  we 
hear nothing but depression, depression, 
depression.  On  every side  is  heard the 
cry of want and destitution.  Turn which 
ever way we  may,  we  are  met with  the 
appeals of sweet charity for  help in car­
ing for the unemployed.

1 say this deplorable  industrial  condi­
tion of our country stares us  in  the  face 
at every turn.  We would run away from 
it  and  talk,  think,  and  write  of  more 
pleasant themes if we could,  but we can­
not, and it is well that we  cannot. 
It  is 
a just penalty for sins  of  the  past,  both 
individual  and  national,  and  we  must 
suffer it whether we will  or not.

Meditate?  Why,  we  can’t  help  but 
meditate.  There are two thoughts which 
are uppermost in the mind of every busi­
ness man in this country to-day, thoughts 
which are so firmly seated that  they will 
not take second place  for  any other, re­
ligious,  political  or  civil.  They  are 
these: 
‘*What are the causes which con­
tributed in bringing about this industrial 
collapse?”  and,  "When  and  by  what 
means  will  resuscitation  be  effected?” 
The solution of these  questions  requires 
much  careful  reading  and  some  solid 
thinking.  The  retailer  who, 
through 
press of business, could never  find  time 
to  read  his  trade  paper  or  devote  a 
thought to the effect  of  national  legisla­
tion on  business  conditions, or  the  laws 
which  govern  supply  and  demand,  is 
made to realize, as he  never  did  before, 
the importance  of  keeping  an “eye  on 
the indicator.”  The  business  man who 
is  found  at  the  “old  stand”  after  the 
clouds roll by will be a wiser  man and a 
better  citizen  than  he  was  before  his 
baptism of gloom and doubt.

E.  A.  Ow e s.

S ta te   th e   P rice.

“ 
“ 

A fact will outrace a  theory any time, 
therefore 1 will state a  couple  of  facts:
A while ago l wanted a library appliance, 
and at about the  time  the want was  cre­
ated a page ad. of the article appeared in 
a  magazine.  Now, there was  a  chance 
I  wanted  the arti­
for cohesion at once. 
cle, and  the  man  in  New York wanted 
me to have it—provided I paid  for it. 
I 
eagerly read  what  little  was  said  about 
it, and was disgusted  because  the  price 
was not stated. 
I  did  not  feel  disposed 
to write to  New York  and  await a reply 
to 
the  manufacturer, 
learn  what 
I 
thought,  ought  to have  told  me  in  his 
ad.  Had the price  been  stated, and had 
it been a  reasonable  one,  a  check would 
undoubtedly have gone off  by first  mail; 
as it was, a half hour’s  hunt  in  the  fur­
niture stores on Wabash  avenue  made it 
possible to buy at home.
Another  case:  A furrier  in  this  city 
not long ago broke out in an  advertising 
fit and filled  pages  of  the  daily papers.
He ran illustrations of his garments, and 
under every article  asked  the  reader  to 
“write for  prices.”  The  attention  of  a 
friend whose wife was so  fortunate as to 
have presented to her a  seal  sacque,  lat­
est  Columbian  style,  with  sleeves  as 
large as a big ham,  was called to this ad.
He laid the paper down with  the remark 
that he had no use for a house  that  dare 
not state in an ad. the price of the article 
it advertised;  that  a  wide-awake,  up-to 
the-times  house  would  not  hesitate  to
face the  music  of  competitors  by giving  At, 
its prices in print.  As a consequence he  Boot 
bought elsewhere. 

Me t L.  Sa l e y . 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Pry Goods Price Current.

unbleached cottons.

Adriatic........... 
7
Argyle....................  5*
Atlanta AA...............6
Atlantic A..............  g*

Arrow Brand  4V 
Worldwide.  6
Pull Yard Wide.......g2
Georgia  A..............  gu
«
Honest Width........  g
D..............  6
“ 
Hartford A ............   g
.  “ 
1*1*..............  4H
Indian Head...........  gu
Amory.................... 634
King A  A................gu
Archery  Bunting...  4 
King E C .................  5
Beaver Dam  A A ..  4V
Lawrence  L L........  4%
Blackstone O, 32__  5
Madras cheese cloth 634
Black Crow............ g
Newmarket  G........sv
Black  Rock  ...........  gv
B........5
Boot, AL................  7
N........6)4
Capital  A..................su
DD....  5)4 
Cavanat V..............5*4
X .....6*
Chapman cheese cl.  334 Nolbe R............ 
5
Clifton  C R ............   5)4 Onr Level  Best....!  6
Comet.  .................  g  Oxford  R ...............   g
Dwight Star............  6*  Pequot....................   7
Clifton CCC...........  5% Solar.......................   g
¡Top of the  Heap.! ! !  7
A B C ...................... 8)4
Geo.  Washington...  8
Amazon...................g
Glen Mills..............  7
Amsburg.................g
Gold Medal............   7)4
Art  Cambrlc.......... 10
Green  Ticket......... 8)4
Blackstone AA...... 7%
Great Falls.............   gv
Beats Ail.................  4
Hope.......................   7v
Boston....................12
Just  Out...... .  4V<a 5
Cabot......................   g v
King Phillip...........  7v
Cabot,  %.................  834
OP...... 72
Charter  Oak...........  5)4
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Conway W..............  7)4 ¡Lonsdale...........  a   8V
Cleveland.............  6  Middlesex.........  § 5
Dwight Anchor....  8 No Name.......... 
714
Edwards................. 6  Our Own.................... 534
Empire...................  7  ¡Pride of the West.. .12
Harwell....................7)4 ¡Rosalind.....................7*
Fruit of the  Loom.  8 ¡Sunlight. 
43
Fltchvllle  ............  7
Utica  Mills..."...;."  8)4
First Prise..............   g
Nonpareil ..10
Fruit of the Loomit.  7)4
Vlnyard............ 
8)4
Falrmount..............4)4
White Horse...........g
Full Value..............  ¿¡4
Cabot..................... 634 (Dwight Anchor
F a r  w e l l .......................... 714]

Rock.
HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

shorts  8  Oak View...........6

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

8)4

“ 

“ 

CANTON  FLANNEL.

“ 
“ 

Amoskeag.............  12
9os 
  14
brown. 14
Andover................. 11)4
Beaver Creek A A... 10 
“ 
BB...  9
“ 
QQ
Boston Mfg Co.  br!!  7 
blue  8)4 
“ 
“  d a twist 10)4 
*' 
XXX  bl.19  1

“ 
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Columbian brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12)4
brown....... 12)4
Haymaker blue........ 734
brown...  734
Jaffrey.................... 11)4
Lancaster................12)4
Lawrence, 9 01........ 13)4
No. 250 — 11)4
No. 280.... 10)4

Lancaster,  staple...  5)4

Columbian XXX  br.10 

“  N0. 220....13
“ 
“ 
GINGHAMS.
“ 
fancies__7
“  Normandie  7
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester............   534
Monogram..............  6)4
Normandie............  7
Persian................... 7
Renfrew Dress........7)4
Rosemont............... 6)4
Slatersvllle............   6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  ...................7)4
Toll  du Nord......... 8)4
Wabash..................   7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Warwick...............   6
Whlttenden............   8
heather dr.  7)4 
Indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook..............8
............... 10
Wlndermeer........... 6
Y ork...................... 634

Amoskeag...............8)4
Persian dress  6)*
Canton ..  7
AFC........8)4
Teazle.. .10)4 
Angola.. 10)4
Arlington Btaple__ 6)4
Arasapha  fancy__434
Bates Warwick dres  7)4 
staples.  6
Centennial............   10)4
Criterion................10)4
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin.......................   7)4
Everett classics......8)4
Exposition............... 7)4
Glenarie.................  514
Glenarven................ 634
Glen wood.................7%
Hampton.................5
Johnson Ohalon cl 
)4 
Indigo blue 9)4 
zephyrs.... 16
Amoskeag............... 14
Stark......................  19
American............... 14  ¡  .;...I.!!" !." !" " !

Georgia.................. 14

GRAIN  BAGS.

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End....45  ¡Barbour's...............95
Coats’, J. A P......... 46  Marshall’s ..............90
Holyoke..................22)41

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

KNITTING  COTTON.
Colored.
38 No.  14
39
40
41

White. 
.......37
“  16 .......38
"  18 .......89
“  20. .......40

Bleached. 
Housewife  Q ....
S ......... 71
“ 
T ........... 8'
•• 
U.......... .fli
“ 
V............10
“ 
“  W..........10)
X..........11)
“ 
“ 
Y..........12)
“ 
z..........

Unbleached. 

Housewife  A........... 5)4
5)4
• ••6 
...6)4 
-.7  
—7k 
—7)4 
-•754 
— 8k  
:: ¡5 
..10
•  10)4 
-.11 
..21
P ...........14)4

“ 

CARPET  WARP.

“ 

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colored....19  WhlteStar........ 

Peerless, white...... 17  ¡Integrity  colored.  18
17
“  colored” l9
Integrity.................1S)4| 
Hamilton................ 8
Nameless................20
.............. 9
......... 25
.............................10)4
......... 27)4
G G  Cashmere........20
......... 30
Nameless..............16
......... 32)4
................18
......... 35

DRESS  GOODS.

“ 

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“  

CORSETS.

“ 

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PRINTS.

CORSET  JEANS.

American fancy... 
American Indigo... 
American shirtings 
Argentine  Grays.. 
Anchor Shirtings.. 
....  6
Arnold 
Arnold  Merino...... 6

Coralino................. 19 50|Wonderful..........   64 90
Schilling’s .............  9  00 Brighton.................... 4 75
Davis  Waists......  9  00 Bortree’s ..................  9 00
Grand  Rapids.......  4 50|Abdominal...........15 00
Armory..................   e%
Naumkeagsatteen..  7)4
Androscoggin......... 7U
Rock port...................6*4
BlddefordT.............  6
Conestoga.................7)4
Brunswick..............6)4
Walworth................ gv
Allen turkey  reds.. 5)4¡Berwick fancies....  6)4
robes...........5)4 Clyde  Robes.............
pink a purple 5% Charter Oak fancies  4)4
buffs  . . . . . . .  5)4 DelMarine cashm’s.  5)4
pink  checks.  5)4 
mourn’g  5«
staples.........5  Eddy stone  fancy. 
5)4
shirtings
chocolat  5)4
shirtings ...  3341 
rober. 
sateens.
834 Hamilton fancy......  5)4
staple 
5)4
Manchester fancy..  5)4
new era.  5)4
„  
Merrimack D fancy.  5)4 
Merrtm’ck shirtings.  4 
„  “  Reppfurn.  8)4
Pacific fancy..........5)4
Portsmouth robes...  6)4 
Simpson mourning..  534
greys........534
„  
solid black. 534 
Washington Indigo.  6)4
“  Turkey robes..  7 it
“  India robes__ 7)4
“  plain Tky X 34  8)4 
!! 
“  X...10

Ballon «olid black..
colors
Bengal bine,  green 
red and  orange.. 6
Berlin solids.........
5)4
“  oil bine...... 6
Ottoman  Tur-
“  green__
11 
6
„  key red.................  ex
“  Foulards  ..
5)4
5)4 Martha Washington
“ 
red 34....
Turkey red 34......   734
” 
7
“ 
“ X  ......... 9*
artha Washington
“  4 4 ......... 10
“ 
Turkey red..........   9)4
“ 
“  3-4XXXX 12
Rlverpolnt robes__5)4
Cocheco fancy........
Windsor fancy........6)4
“  madders..
XX twills.
“ 
solids..........5

long cloth B.  9)4 
“ 
.. 
c   7ii
century cloth  7
“  gold seal...... 10)4
“  green seal TR 10)4 
“  yellow seal.. 10)4
“ 
serge.............11)4
“  Turkt.’ red.. 10)4 

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

gold  ticket 

Indigo  bine

5  h

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Amoskeag A C A... .18)4
Hamilton N  ...........  7
D............8
Awning.. 11
Fanner..................... 8
First Prise..............10)4
Lenox M ills........... 18

¡Harmony.
AC A ......................X2)i
Pemberton AAA.... 16
York....................... 10)4
Swift River............   7)4
Pearl  River............12
Warren................... 12)4
Conostoga..............16
.......... 2,
I Clifton, K............... 7 
1 “  — -   - ............... - * 1- 0  Name................. T

............cSIn^ n,.™« 

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COTTON  DRILL.

|Top of  Heap!

_ 

Slater......................  4  Edwards.................  4
Whit© Star............   4  Lockwood................. 4
Kid Glove  ............. 4  Wood’s...................   4
Newmarket............   4   Brunswick................4

22«

DOMET  FLANNEL.

MIXED  FLANNEL.

RED  FLANNEL.
Fireman.................32)4[T W. 
Creedmore............. 27)4 FT  ... 
....... xiu
Talbot XXX...........30  J  R F, XXX.."..’........35
Nameless............... 27)4|Buckeye..................[32)4
Red A Blue,  plaid..40
Union R.................22)4
Windsor.................18)4
6 oz Western..........20
Union  B................ 22)4
Nameless...... 8  & 9)41 
11 
...... 8)4@10  I 
“ 
“ 
Slate.
Black.
Slate
9) 4
10) 4
9) 410) 4
10) 4
11) 4 
11) 4
11) 4
12 
12) 4
12) 4
20
Severen. 8 os...........  9)4 '
West  Point,80s __ 10)4
May land, 8 oz..........10)4
“ 
_ 
lOos  ...12)4
Greenwood, 7)4 01..  9)4 :
Raven, lOos............1314
Greenwood, 8 os___11)4 I
Stark 
.............is*
Boston, 8 os.............10)4
Boston, 10 os.......... 12)4
WADDINGS.

Grey SR W.............17)4
Western W  ............ is«
D R  P ..........................18)2
Flushing XXX........23)4
Manitoba................ 28)4
@10)4
12)4
Black.
10) 4
11) 4 
12 
20

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
Brown.
9) 4
10) 4
11) 4
12) 4

Brown.
10)4
1D412
20

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8ILN8IAS.

..............25  ¡Per bale, 40 dos  ...83 50
Colored,  dos...........20  ¡Colored  “ 
........   7 50
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 Pawtucket......  ioti
Dnndle...................   g
Bedford.................lo ti
Valley  City............ilo#
K K ............................10)4

Red Cross....  9
Best..............10)4
Best  AA.......12)4
7) 4
8) 41

SEWING  SILK.

“ 
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Corriceli!, dos..........85  [Corriceli!  knitting

per )40S  b a ll....7.80 

..12 I  “ 
8 
.12 I “  10 
FINS.

tw ist,dos..40 
50yd,dos..40  I
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
No  1 Bl’k & Whlte..l0  INo 4 Bl’k A White..15
„  ? 
“ 
“  8 
“ 
„  
No 2-20, M C..........60  |N0 4—15  J  8)4 
*'  8-18,8  C..........45  I 
COTTON TAPE.
 
_  
No  2 White A Bl’k..l2 
|No  8 White & Bl’k  20 
Í 
“  10 
-16 
"28
“  « 
..is I  ••  12 
„   _ 
SAFETY FINS.
No 2......................... 28  |N o3.....................................

"20
25
40

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NEEDLES—PER  X.

A. Jam es.................. 1  40¡Steamboat.........  
40
Í^oweíy’s.................1  85 Gold  Eyed............. a   so
Marshall’s...............1 ooj American............... 1  00
6—4...2 80

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH. 

¡5—4....1  65

6—4... 

COTTONTWENIS.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.....................12
Domestic................18)4
Anchor................... 16
Bristol.................... 13
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL.......................18)4
. .   . 
Alabama......................634 ~
Alamance................. 6)4
A u gu sta......................7)4
Angapha................6
Georgia...................6*4
G ranite..................   534
Haw  River............   5
Haw  J .................  s

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

Mount  Pleasant__ 6)4
Oneida..................   5
Prymont............ 5*
Randelman.............  6
Riverside..................&u
Otis checks__734

PLAID  OSNABURG8

GRAND  RAPIDS,  M ICH.

RATE  REDUCED

FROM  $ 2   TO  $ 1 . 2 5   PER 

DAY  AT  THE

Kent Hotel,

Directly  opposite  Union Depot, 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Steam  H eat  and  Electric  Bells.
thing  New  and  Clean.

Every-

BEACH  &  BOOTH,  Prop’rs.

lenii Maler

mm

C a t a r r h ,  
Hay Fever, 
Headache,
Neuralgia,  Colds,  Sore  Throat.

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

Prevents and cures

On cars or boat.

Sea  Sickness
The  cool  exhllerating  sensation 

follow­
ing its use Is a luxury to  travelers.  Convenient 
to carry in the pocket;  no liquid to drop or spill: 
a ye-?^,an^  eosts  500  at  druggists!  Regis­
tered mall 60c, from
. 

H.  D.  CUSHMAN,  M anufacturer.

Three  Rivers,  Mich.

E^Guaranteed  satisfactory.

. 

In  large  or 
small quan­
tities. Guar­
anteed right 
in  every re­
spect.

Tradesman  Company, 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

EATON, LION 4 CO.,

NEW  STYLES  OF

'i

II

l i

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

'4

20  &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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VUE  M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN!

7

Grand  Rapids  A Indiana.
8ohednle  In effeet Dec. 24,1823.

TRAIN 8  GOING  N ORTH.

For M'kinaw.Trav. City and 8ag. 7:20 a m
For Cadillac and Saginaw........  2:15 pm
For Petoabey ft Mackinaw........8:10 p m
From Kalamazoo........................ 9:10 a m
From Chicago and Kalamazoo..  9 SO p m 
daily.  Others trains dally except Sunday.

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

7:40 A m 
4.60 p m 
10:26 p m

TRA INS  GOING  SO U TH .

Arrive from  Leave going
South.
6:50am
10:40 am
2:00 pm
6:00  pm
11:80 p m

_  _ 
North. 
For  Cincinnati........................................... 
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago.................... 
For Fort Wayne and the  East..  11:40 am  
For  Cincinnati...........................  6:15pm 
For Kalamazoo ft Chicago...... 10:66 p m 
From Saginaw............................ 11:40 am
From Saginaw............................ 10:55 p m
dally;  all other trains dally except Sunday.
C h icago v ia  G.  R.  & I.  R.  R.

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

2-00 pm 
9:00pm 

10:40 am  
4:00pm 

11:20 pm 
Lv Grand  Rapids 
7:05am
Arr Chicago 
10:40  a  m  train  solid  with  Wagner  Buffet  Parlor 
Oar.
11:20 pm  train  daily,  through  coach  and  Wagner 
Sleeping Car.
U:40pm
Lv  Chicago 
7:20  am
Arr Grand Rapids 
4:15  p  m solid with  Wagner Buffet  Parlor  Car  and 
Dining Car.  11:40 pm  train daily, through Coach and 
Wagner Sleeping  Car.
For Muskegon—Leave. 

M uskegon, G rand R apids & In d ia n a .
9:40am
7:85 am  
5:40 p m 
6:20 p m

From Muskegon—Arrive

4:15pm 
9:60 pm 

6:50am 
2:15 pm 

Sunday train  leaves  for  Muskegon  at  7:45 a  m, ar­
riving at  9:15 a m.  Returning,  train  leaves  Muske 
gon at 4:80 p m, arriving at Grand  Rapids at 6:50 p m.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

CHICAGO 

*ov-  1893

AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’Y.
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Lv. G'd Rapids............ 7:30am  1:25pm *11:20pm
Ar. Chicago.................  1:45pm 6:50pm  *6:30am

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

TO  AND FROM   M USKEGON.

Lv.  Chicago.................7:45am  4:55pm  *11:30pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............ 2 30pm  10:20pm  *6:10am
Lv. Grand Rapids........  7:30am  1:25pm  5:45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........0:55am  2:30pm  10:20pm
TRAVERSE CITY, CHARLEVOIX AND  PETOSKET.
 
Lv. Grand  Rapids .. 
3:15pm
7:30am 
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:10pm 
8:15pm
 
Ar. Traverse City__  12:40pm 
.........   8'45pm
Ar. Charlevoix........  3:15pm 
 
11:10pm
Ar.  Petoskey 
3:45pm 
 
11:40pm
Arrive  from  Petoskey,  etc.,  1:00  p.  m.  and 
10:00p. in.
Local train to White Cloud  leaves Grand Rap­
ids 5:45 p. m., connects  for  Big Rapids and Fre­
mont.  Returning,  arrives  Grand  Rapids  11:20 
a. m.
FARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.
To Chicago, lv. G. R..  7:30am  1:25pm  *11:30pm
To Petoskey .lv.G.R..  7:30am  3:15pm 
...........
To G. R. .lv. Chicago.  7:45am  4:55pm *11:30pm
To G. R..lv. Petoskey  5:00am  1:30pm 
...........

•Every day.  Other trains week days only.

 
 
 
 

DETROIT, 

!,ov- "■ ■*"

LANSING7*   NORTHERN  R.  h ,

GOING  TO  DETROIT.

TO  AND  FROM  SAGINAW,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS. 

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids........  7:00am  *1:20pm  5:40pm
Ar. Detroit.................. 11:40am  *5:25pm  10:25pm
Lv.  Detroit...................  7:45am  *1:45pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........12:45pm  *5:40pm  10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:40am 4:50pm  Ar. G R  11:40am 10:55pm 
Lv. Grand Rapids...........7:00am  1:2 0 p m   5:40pm
Ar. from Lowell.............12:45pm 5:40pm  ...........
Parlor  Cars on all trains  between  Grand Rap 
ids and Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

TO  LOWELL VIA  LOWELL  A  BASTINGS  R .  K.

•Every day.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.
D e t r o i t ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   *   Mi l ­
Depot corner Leonard  St and Plainfield Avi.

w a u k e e   Railway.

EASTWARD.

325pm 
427pm 
520pm 
6 05pm 
800pm 
8 37pm 
705pm 
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

Trains Leave  1+N0.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 •No. 82
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
1020am 
10 45pm 
Ionia...........Ar
11 25am 
12 27am
St.  Johns  ...Ar
1217pm 
1 45am
OwOBsa........Ar
1 20pm
2 40am
E. Saginaw..Ar
3 45pm
6 40am 
Bay City......Ar
4 35pm 
7 15am 
F lin t...........Ar
345pm
5 4  am 
Pt.  Huron...Ar
5 50pm 
730am 
Pontiac....... Ar
305pm 
537am
Detroit......... Ar
4 06pm
7 00am
♦No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13.
7 00am
4 55pm 
8 20am
6 00pm

6 45am
7 40am
8 25am
9 00am
10 50am
11 32am 
10 05am 
1205pm
10 53am
11 50am
WESTWARD.

G’d Rapids............   Lv
G’d  Haven............   Ar
tDaily except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35 a.m.,  12:60 
Trains  arrive from  the  west, 10:10 a. m., 3:16 
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlcr  Buffet 
Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner 

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

Trains Leave

1 00pm
2  10pm

»Dally.

J as. Campbell, City T'cket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

Michigan (Tentfal

“ The Niagara Falls Route.”

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

•Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20 d m...........Detroit  Express........... 7 00am
5 30am  — «Atlantic and  Pacific.....I<  20 pm
1  30p m  ......New York Express  ........  5 40 p m
Sleeping cars run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex 
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  care  leave  for  Detroit at  7:00 am ;  re­
turning, leave Detroit 4:55 p m, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit with 
all through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division, i 
A. Almquist, Ticket Agent,

Union Passenger Station.

Of  Interest 
to  Book= 
keepers.

I will teach my system  of In­
fa l l ib l e  P roof,  whereby  an 
error in  posting or in  trial  bal­
ance can  be  located  in  the  ac-
count in which it has occurred. 
No  book keeper  should  be 
without this system, as it saves 
weeks of  labor each year.  No 
new  books  or  slips required. 
It can be taken up at any time 
without change of books.
Also my system  of  keeping 
Accounts P a y a b l e A ccount, 
which  saves  opening  an  ac­
count  on  the  ledger  of  those 
from whom  goods  are bought.
Price  for  both  system s

$5.00.

WM.  H.  ALLEN,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

■ p  ET" 
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P O W D E R S

Pay the best profit.  Order from your jobber.

D A N D RU FF  C U R ED .

NO  M U STA C H E.
NO  PAY.

NO  C U R E . 
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, provided  the head is 
not  glossy, or the pores of the scalp not closed. 
Where  the  head  is  shiny  or  the  pores  closed, 
there is no cure.  Call and  be examined  free ot 
charge.  If you cannot  call  write to me.  State 
tho exact  condition of the scalp and your occu­
pation. 
B ' ,o m   1011  Masonic T   m p le ,  C h ic a g o

PROF.  Cw.  HIKKHol.Z,

Hardware Price Current.

dis.

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AXES.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay prom ptly  and  bny  in  fa ll  packages.
AUGURS AND BITS.
Snell's..............................................
60
.........  
.........  
Cook’s ..............................................
40
Jennings’, genuine..........................
25
.........  
Jennings’, Imitation.......................
......... 50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze..............
......... 8 7 00
D.  B. Bronze..............
.........   ix 00
S.B.S. Steel..............
.........   8 00
D. B. Steel.................
.........   13 50
Railroad...........................................
........8 14 00
Garden..............................................
..  net  30 00 
dis.
Stove.................................................
......... mam
Carriage new list.............................
......... 75*10
Plow..................................................
........40A10
Sleigh shoe......................................
.......... 
70
Well, plain  .....................................
. . . . . . . 8  8 50
Well, swivel........................................           4 00
dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ait Joint..........664.0

BUTTS,  CAST. 

BARROWS.

BUCKETS.

BOLTS.

dis.

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

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892 ..............  60*10

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

Grain......................................................dis. 50*02
Cast Steel............................................ per  lb 
Ely’s 1-10............................................ per  m 
Hick’s C. F .........................................  
“ 
G. D ....................................................   ■« 
Musket...............................................  
“ 
Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire......... ................................. dis. 

CARTRIDGES.

5
65
60
35
60

50
25

chisels. 

dis.

Socket Firmer...............................................70*10
Socket Framing............................................70*10
Socket Corner...............................................70*10
Socket Slicks...............................................70*10
Butchere’Tanged Firmer............................ 
40
Curry,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
40
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per  gross..............12® 12)4 dis. 10

combs. 

CHALK.

dis.

COPPER.

“ 

Planished, 14 01 cut to size........per pound 
14x52,14x56. 14x60 .......................  
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60........................ 
Cold Rolled, 14x48........................................  
Bottoms.............. 
Morse’s Bit  Stocks.................................. 
Taper and straight Shank........................ 
Morse’s Taper Shank...............................  

 
DRILLS. 

 

dis.
50
50
50

28
26
23
23
25

DRIPPING PANS.

Small alies, ser pound............................  
07
Large sises, per pound............................   6)6

ELBOWS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Com. 4  piece, 6 In............................doc. net 
75
Corrugated........................................... dis 
40
Adjustable............................................dis. 40*10
dis.
Clark’s, small, 818;  large, 826.................. 
30
Ives’, 1, 818:  2, 824;  3,830  ............................  
25
dis.
Dlsston’s ......................*..............................60*10
New American.........................................60*10
Nicholson’s ............................................. 60*10
Heller’s  ........................................................ 
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ..................................  

files—New List. 

50
go

GALVANIZED IRON.

28
16  17
dis.
50
dis.

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

15 

13 
Discount, 60

12 

14 
gauges. 

55

dlS.

55
55
55
55

NAILS

WAWArira

locks—door. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

knobs—New List. 

Stanley Rale and  Level Co.’s.................. 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....................  
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings.................  
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
Door,  porcelein, trimmings  .......................  
Drawer  and  Shatter, porcelain............... 
70
dis.
Russell * Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s........................ 
55
Branford’s ............................................... 
55
Norwalk’s ................................................ 
55
Adse Eye........................................ 816.00, dis. 60
Hunt Bye........................................J15.00, die. 60
Hunt’s ...................................... 818.50, dis. 20*10.
dlS.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
go
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s...................................  
40
40
”  P. S. A W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable«.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cls rk’s.................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
...................................... 
30
Stebbln’g Pattern.......................................... 60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................60*10
Enterprise, self -measuring..........................  
25
Advance over  base,  on  botn  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, base.............................................. 1  50
Wire nails, base.....................................1  75@1  80
60.................................. ................. Base 
Base
50......................................................  
10
25
40......................................................  
25
80......................................................  
20.......... 
35
16......................................................  
45
12......  
46
50
10...................................................... 
60
8........................................................ 
7 * 6 .................................................. 
75
4........................................................ 
90
8........................................................ 
1  20
1  60
2........................................................ 
Flne8....................................................... 
Case  10............................................. 
66
75
8............................................. 
90
6.......  
Finish 10........................................... 
75
8...........................................  
go
6...........................................  
1  10
Clinch; 10.......................................... 
70
80
8.......................................... 
6.......................................... 
90
Barren %.......................................... 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’e, fancy................................   ®40
Sel ota Bench..............................................   S 50
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  040
Bench, first quality.......................................  040
Stanley Rale and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 50*10
Fry,  Acme.............................................dls.80—10
70
Common,  polished.................................dis. 
dis.
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Bora.............................   50—10

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planes. 

rivets. 

pahs.

die.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 28 to 27...  9 20 

Broken paoks He per ponnd extra.

RAMMERS.

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“ 

HINSES.

RANGERS. 

May dole  A Co.’s...............................................dis. 25
Kip’s................................................................. dis. 25
Yerkes *  Plumb’s........................... 
dis. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel......................... goc list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand  ...80c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ...............................dis.60*10
State........................................... per do*, net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  in. 4H  14  and
longer........................................................ 
3)4
Screw Hook and  Eye, H .................................. net 10
96........................ net  8)4
V.................................. net 7)4
* ........................net  7)4
Strap and T ...................................................... dis. 50
diS.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50*10
Champion,  antl-frlctlon.............................  60*10
Kidder, wood track................................  
40
Pots-............................................................   60*16
Kettles.........................................................   60*10
Spiders  ......................................................... 60*10
Gray enameled..............................................40*10
Stamped  TlnWare............................... new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware................................. 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33)4*10
Bilght..................................................  70410410
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10*10
...................................70*10410
Hook’s . . . . . . .  
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70*10*10
<Hs.7n
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s......................
Sisal, )4 Inch and larger............................ 
9
Manilla.............................................................13
' ’ dis.
Steel and  Iron.......................................  
 
 
Try and Bevels..........................  
M itre............................................................. ;;;;;; £o

HOUSE FURNISHING  SOODB.

levels. 
HOPES.

HOLLOW WARE.

wire soods. 

squares. 

  75
gn

dis.

 

SHEET IRON.

Discount, 10.

Com.  Smooth.  Com.
82 95
3 05
8  05
8  15
325
8  85
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14.....................................84 05 
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................4 05 
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   405 
No«. ¡g to 24.....................................  405 
Nos. 25 to 26.....................................425 
NO. 37................................................  4 45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
_ 
List acct. 19, ’86  .....................................50
Silver Lake, White A....................... 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

list 
grab A................................'  “ 
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“  White  B..............................  * 
“ 
Drab B.................................   » 
“  White C.............................  “ 

50
55
50
55
35

SASH WEIGHTS.

dis.

saws. 

TRAPS. 

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

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton 825
20
70
50
30
30
_ 
Steel, Game................................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ... . . . . 3
 
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s 
70
Mouse,  choker.................................... 18c per dox
Mouse, delusion............................... 81.50 per dos
Bright Market..............................................
Annealed Market........................................ '70_10
Coppered Market.............................................60
Tinned Market................................. 
62X
Coppered  Spring  Steel....................................... 50
Barbed  Fence, galvanised......................... [  2 80

..............dis.
5

wire. 

dis

 

“ 

painted......................240

HORSE NAILS.

dlS

WRENCHES. 

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

Au  Sable............................................dis.  40*10
^ 5 “ “ -
Northwestern................................  
dis. 10410
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled................ 
30
Coe’s  Genuine.................  
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,.!. 
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75*10
Bird Cages................................................ 
50
Pumps, Cistern..............................  ....75*10
Screws, New List.......................................... 70*10
Casters, Bed a  .d Plate...........................50*10*10
Dampers, American.....................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods......... 65*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

........dis.

gq

M ETALS,
PIG TIN.

ZINC.

28c
28c

SOLDER.

Large....................................................  
Pig Bars........................................................ 
Duty:  Sheet, 2Hc per pound.
680 pound  casks........................................  
gy
Per pound.................................................... 
7
H©X.................................................................. .
Extra W iping.................................................   15
The  prices  of  the  many  other qualities  of
solder In the market Indicated by private brand* 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
1 60
Cookson............ ...........................per  ponnd
Halletts......................................  
•• 
13
TIN—MKLYN GRADR.
10xl4IC, Charcoal.................................... 
17
14x2010, 
.....................................  
7  n
10X14 EX, 
..................................... 925
........................................  9 a?
14x20 IX, 

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TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
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Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
10x14 IC,  Charcoal................................  
14x20 IC, 
10x14 nr, 
14x20 IX, 

75
........................................   6 75
a 25
..................................... 
..................................... 
9 25

Bach additional X on this grade 81.50.

ROOFING PLATES

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“  Worcester..................   ... 
“ 
" 
“  Allaway Grade................ 
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“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20IC, 
6 5o
............................  8  50
14x20 IX, 
...........................  18  50
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
6 00
7  50
14x20 IX , 
12  60
20X28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
15  50
14x28 IX....................................................... 814  00
14x31  IX.......................................................   15 00
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I
f per pound....  10 00
14x60IX,  “  “  9 

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W EDNESDAY, JANUARY  31,  1894.

W HO  PA Y S  THE  TAXES?

It has long been a favorite notion with 
persons who are wholly  ignorant  of  the 
ordinary principles of political economy, 
and with demagogues who have no regard 
for  principles  of  any  sort,  that  taxes 
can  be  laid  entirely  on  the  wealthy 
classes, and the masses  of  the people be 
enabled to escape from any  payment  to­
wards the expenses of  the  Government.
There  never  was  a  more  mistaken 
notion in politics, and it is  worth  while 
to  present,  for  the  information  of  the 
masses, a few  observations  on  the  sub­
ject.  The matter comes into prominence 
in connection with the  proposed  tax  on 
incomes.  The notion is  commonly  held 
that  if  a  tax  be  laid  on  persons  with 
large incomes,  they  alone  will  feel  the 
burden,  while the masses  of  the  people 
will  be  entirely  relieved  of  it.  One 
proposition  is  that  an  assessment  of  2 
per cent, be made upon  all incomes over
54.000.  Another  is  that  there  shall be | 
laid  upon  incomes  a  graduated  tax  as! 
follows:  On incomes from 82,500 to 810,- 
000,  a tax of  1  per cent.; from 810,000 to
830.000, 2 per cent.; from 830.000 to $60,- 
000, 3 per cent.; from 860,000 to8100,000,
4 per cent.; from 8100,000 upwards, 5 per 
cent. 
In  each case  the  intention  is  to 
tax only people with  incomes.

It is generally conceded that  the  men 
with incomes, and particularly large  in­
comes, own ail the factories, all the great 
commercial establishments, all  the  rail­
roads, ships and  steamboats.  They own 
all the houses and lands, and conduct all 
the  business  enterprises.  Whenever  a 
tax  or  other  financial burden is laid on 
them  they  immediately  proceed  to  get 
the  money  back  out  of  those  who  do 
business with them.  The result is that the 
prices of goods, of  transportation,  rents 
and other charges made  upon  the  great 
masses of the people are higher, or wages 
are lower, or higher costs and lower wages 
come together.  The  result  is  that  the 
masses pay all the taxes.  They pay them 
in the increased costs of rents and living, 
or  in  their  decreased  earnings,  or  in 
both.

Is not this plain enough?  It has  been 
estimated that if  the income tax shall  be 
laid  upon  persons  who  have  a  larger

yearly  revenue  than  84,000  it  will  fall 
only upon 87,000 of  the 65,000,000 of the 
American  people.  But  does  any  sane 
person  suppose  these  87,000  payers  of 
income tax intend to carry on  their  own 
shoulders the  $20,000,000  or  $25,000,000 
that would be required of  them?  Not  a 
bit of  it.  They  will  simply  unload  all 
upon  the  balance  of  the  population  by 
raising  prices  of  rents  and  necessaries 
upon the great masses of  the consumers, 
and what will the  consumers do?  Why, 
nothing  at  all  but  submit.  They  have 
nothing to sell but  their labor, and,  in a 
time when there  are  hundreds  of  thou­
sands of  unemployed people begging for 
work, those who  are  so  fortunate  as  to 
have employment will  take  no  chances 
of  losing it by demanding higher wages. 
They  will  shoulder  the  load  of  higher 
costs of living and struggle  along  under 
it as best they may.
I  HATCH A N D   H IS  ANTI-OPTION  BILL.
In the interest  and  excitement attach­
ing to the tariff agitation, and the various 
financial measures which  have  come be­
fore the present Congress, the anti-option 
bill has been  forgotten. 
It  must not  be 
argued from that, however, that the busi­
ness interests  of  the  country are  to  be 
spared that additional cause of irritation. 
Mr, Hatch, the  promoter  of  anti-option 
legislation, has announced that,  immedi­
ately after the ending  of  the tariff  bill, 
he  will  introduce  a  new  anti-option 
measure.

The cause assigned for not introducing 
the bill at the  present  time  is  the  fear 
that  it would  be  referred  to  the  Ways 
and Means Committee, a  body known  to 
be unfriendly  to  the  measure.  During 
the continuance  of  the  tariff  debate  it 
would be impossible to move the suspen­
sion of the rules for the reference of  the 
bill  to  the  Committee  on  Agriculture, 
Mr.  Hatch’s  own  committee.  When the 
tariff is out of  the  way. however, an ef­
fort will be made to  have the  bill so re­
ferred by motion, and  the  vote  on  this 
will  enable  Mr.  Hatch  to  show  the 
strength that an anti-option measure can 
count upon*in the House  of  Representa­
tives.
The author of  the bill  states  that  the 
new measure  will  differ  radically  from 
the  bills  introduced  last  Congress  and 
the Congress before  the  last.  Both the 
former  bills  were  prohibitive,  the  tax 
provided for being a mere pretext to give 
the bills the appearanceof revenue meas­
ures, so that they might  thus escape the 
danger  of  being  declared  unconstitu­
tional.  The new is to be so drawn up as 
to shut out  the  small  bucket  shops,  at 
least so says Mr. Hatch, but to enable the 
larger dealers to transact business by the 
payment of  a  liberal,  but  by no means 
prohibitive, tax. 
In  this way it  is  pro­
posed to regulate speculation, and at the 
same time  provide  revenue  to the Gov­
ernment

Mr. Hatch announces that  he  does not 
propose that his new bill should  be con­
sidered an  agricultural  measure,  but  a 
revenue bill, pure and simple.  He hopes 
in this  way to  overcome  the  opposition 
of  many  thoughtful  men  in  Congress 
whose opposition last  year  defeated the 
measure, and also to meet  the objections 
that President Cleveland  might  have  to 
approving the bill.

Until Mr.  Hatch  announces  the  char­
acter of the tax that  is  to  be  levied  on 
transactions  in  futures 
it  cannot  be 
stated whether  or  not  the  measure can 
be considered  a  revenue bill.  That on

its merits it  is  not  calculated to recom­
mend itself  as  a  revenue producer pure 
and simple is  shown  by  the  unwilling­
ness of its promoter  to  trust  it  to  the 
Ways  and  Means  Committee.  To  that 
committee properly belongs  the  consid­
eration of all matters intended to produce 
revenue, and  Mr.  Hatch’s  solicitude  to 
keep  his bill for the consideration of the 
Agricultural Committee indicates that he 
has no confidence in its  merits as a reve­
nue producer.

Fortunately for the  business  interests 
of the  country, Congress  is  likely to  be 
kept so engaged  with  pressing  matters, 
such as the tariff, internal  revenue laws, 
financial  and  currency  reforms and the 
like, that little time will  be  left for  the 
handling  of  so  highly  a  controversial 
measure as an anti-option bill.

THE  GERMAN  SOCIALISTS.

The  existing  industrial  and  agricul­
tural depression in Germany  has greatly 
aided  the  socialist  propaganda  in  that 
country,  and  the  socialist  organs  are 
becoming  more  aggressive.  While  the 
Government still  pursues  the  policy  of 
non-interference  with  meetings,  there 
are evidences of  more jealous espionage 
of  the  movements  of  leading  socialist 
agitators, and  there  are  also  signs  that 
fears  are  entertained  of  possible  dis­
turbances.

An  incident  recently  occurred which 
indicated both the  unusual  vigilance  of 
the German police officials and the eager­
ness of the socialists  to  take  advantage 
of every point in their favor. 
It appears 
that a meeting of  unemployed  working­
men was scheduled to  take place in Ber­
lin under  socialistic  auspices.  The  po­
lice refused to allow  the  meeting  to  be 
held owing to  the  absence  of  a  permit, 
and proceeded to eject  the  people  from 
the place of  meeting.  This  proceeding 
resulted  in  a  riot,  which  assumed  im­
portant proportions,  a number of  people 
being  more  or less injured.  The police 
are accused of having been unnecessarily 
brutal,  it  being  claimed  that  sufficient 
time  had  not  been  given  the  crowd  to 
disperse  and  that  the  police  not  only 
charged  but  used their clubs freely. 
It 
is also claimed that a permit had actually 
been obtained, but that the Government, 
fearing the possible results of  the  meet­
ing,  had  the  bearer  of  the  permit  ar­
rested, and thus, through the  absence  of 
the document, was able  to find a pretext 
for  breaking up the meeting.

It is reported in  the  cable  dispatches 
that  the  socialists  will  call  up  the  in­
cident in the Reichstag,  and in that way 
the  entire  socialistic  problem,  as  now 
affecting Germany, will be given promin­
ence. 

_______________

The threatened strike of  union  print­
ers  has  evidently  been  averted  by  a 
humiliating surrender on the part of  the 
typographical union, which now permits 
its  members  to  work  beside  non-union 
men  in  offices  in  which  cards  are  con­
spicuously posted  announcing  that  the 
offices  are  “open”—which  means  that 
employment therein  is open to any com­
petent printer, white or  black,  Catholic 
or Protestant, union or non-union.  This 
is the basis on  which  T h e  T r a d e sm a n 
has been conducted since Jan.  1 and will 
be  conducted  so  long  as  it  continues 
under its present  management.  As  the 
policy  of  the  local  typographical union 
of late years has been founded on decep­
tion, bad faith and treachery, the readers 
of T h e  T r a d e sm a n need not be alarmed '

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if the paper is a day late sometime in the 
future, due to the fact  that  the  unscru­
pulous strike committee  of the organiza­
tion may seize upon a critical opportunity 
to  order  its  members  to  cease  work. 
T h e  T r a d e sm a n’s  union  employes are 
not in sympathy with the  policy  of  the 
union, but some of them are so thorough­
ly terrorized by their oath-bound organi­
zation  that  they  would  probably  walk 
out of the office in the event of  their be­
ing  ordered  to  do  so  by the union. 
It 
has been clearly  demonstrated  that  the 
severing  of  all  relations  between  the 
local union and  the  employing  printers 
has  been  caused  by lazy, unscrupulous 
agitators—of which,  unfortunately,  the 
local union has  an  undae  proportion— 
who  are working (the only way they are 
willing to work) for a strike, hoping thus 
to  be  placed  on  the  strike  roll,  where 
they will receive enough from the  union 
to support them in idleness.

A few weeks  ago  some  of  the  retail 
merchants of the city started an agitation 
in favor of cheap excursions  from towns 
contiguous  to  Grand  Rapids.  Some  of 
the newspapers of  the  city  took  up  the 
matter,  commenting  favorably  upon it, 
and asserting that it meant  large  acces­
sions to  the  business  of the city, as the 
excursionists  would  undoubtedly  leave 
considerable money behind them.  Some 
of  the  places  from  which  excursions 
would come  have  become  alarmed  lest, 
by this  means,  trade  be  diverted  from 
their  merchants  to  this  city,  and  the 
business men of one  town, at  least,  have 
gone  so  far  as to  declare that they  will 
boycott Grand  Rapids’  wholesale  houses 
if  the  agitation  is  persisted  in.  The 
threat to boycott the jobbers  of this city 
for something in which  they  have abso­
lutely no part is  unfair in  the  extreme. 
They are not in favor of these excursions 
and would much rather that none  might 
be given, as they send  traveling  men  to 
every hamlet, and anything  which tends 
to  take  the  merchant  away  from  his 
regular  place  of  business,  so  that  the 
traveling man fails to see him, is a source 
of loss and  annoyance.  The  little trad­
ing done by excursionists is, as a general 
thing, in lines which are  not  bought  at 
wholesale in this city.  But little trading 
is done, however, by excursionists.  That 
is not the  purpose  for  which  they come 
to the city.  They  come  for  a  holiday, 
and to visit the many points  of  interest 
in and about the city.  Reed’s  Lake, the 
Soldiers’  Home,  North  Park and  other 
summer resorts, together with  the  great 
factories and  industrial  establishments, 
of  which  the  city  has  so  many,  are 
attractions sufficient for excursionists and 
leave little time for  anything but  sight­
seeing.  The trading they  do  is  merely 
incidental.  Restaurant  and  hotel  men 
and  street 
railway  companies  make 
money, of course,  but  they  are the only 
people who do.

D eclin e  o f  K in g  C redit.

From t bo M & n eelo n a Herald.
The credit system of  selling  goods  at 
retail is rapidly growing in  disfavor  all 
over the country.  Merchants offer many 
reasons for doing away with  it:  namely, 
tardy payments;  the small reliance to be 
placed upon promises;  extra  capital  re­
quired, and the  annoyance and injustice 
of the practice of those who, having been 
favored with credit at one store, do their 
cash trading elsewhere.

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R E A D Y   FOR  USE.

ABOUT  BA NK   CHECKS.

L aw s  an d   L im itations R egard in g Their 

U se   an d   A b u se.

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so 

Checks should be dated. 

fail  due 
they  are  payable  on 
Checks 

From the Financial News.
Bank checks possess man)' advantages 
in conducting business,  and are  used  to 
a  proportionately  great  extent.  They 
are in nature but orders for the payment 
of money, and are payable  in  the  order 
in  which they are presented,  not accord­
ing to that in which they are drawn.  As 
given in  the  usual  course  or"  business, 
they do not constitute payment of the in­
debtedness for which  they are given un­
til  paid.  Nor  will  the  concurrent  re­
ceipting  of  the debts for which they are 
given change this. 
If  they are not paid 
on  proper  presentation,  resort  may  be 
had to the original claims.  The  rule is, 
however, different in this  respect  as  to 
certified checks.  So the having of checks 
certified  constitutes  payment  as  to the 
pevsons drawing them.
If  not dated 
at all, and they do not contain any state­
ment as to  when  they  are  to  be  paid, 
they are  never  payable.  They  may  be 
ante or post-dated  as  well  as  dated  on 
the  day  of  delivery.  By  being  ante­
dated they may be made  to  cover  prior 
transactions,  and  in  a  measure  deter­
mine the relative rights of  the parties to 
them provided that no fraud  is intended 
or done.  Post-dating in the main  deter­
mines  date  of  payment.  When  post­
dated 
on 
to 
Sunday, 
the 
following  Monday. 
post­
dated  or  maturing  on  legal  holidays 
should be presented  the  day  following. 
When post-dated checks are paid  before 
the dates mentioned the  money  paid  on 
them  can  be  recovered. 
If  blanks  are 
left for the dates, the holders  of  checks 
are thereby authorized to  insert the true 
dates  of  delivery,  but  no  other  dates, 
and  if  they  insert  any  other  dates  it 
makes  the  checks  void.  Changing  the 
date  of  checks  without  consent  of the 
drawers will do the same.
The  presumption  is.  that  when  the 
chesks are drawn funds will be provided 
at the banks on which they are drawn to 
meet them; but presentation for payment 
must be made within a reasonable  time. 
If not so presented  the  holders  will  be 
charged  with  any  consequent 
loss. 
Where 
checks 
receiving 
and 
on  which 
they 
are drawn  are  in  the  same  place, they 
should be presented the same day, or, at 
the  latest,  the  day  after  they  are  re­
ceived.  Where  they  are  in  different 
places  the  checks  must  be  mailed  to 
some bank or persons at the place where i 
payable befors the  close  of  the  day fol­
lowing the  receipt,  and  the  latter  must | 
present them before the close of banking 
hours  on  the  day following  the  receipt 
there.  No extra  time will  be  gained by 
holders  depositing  checks  in  their own 
banks for collection.
After duly presenting  checks it is also 
the  duty of  the  holders, if  they are  not 
paid,  to  notify  the  drawers  before  the 
close  of  the  next  secular  day  following 
the  presentation  and dishonor.  No par­
ticular  form  of  notice  is  required. 
It 
may  be  written  or  verbal.  The  princi­
pal  cases  in  which  losses  occur  from 
failure  to  use  due  diligence  in  the  col­
lection  of  checks  are  where  the  banks 
on  which  they  are  drawn  fail  in  the 
meantime. 
If  the  banks continue solv­
ent the drawers will remain liable to pay 
their  checks  for  months,  at  least, after 
they are  drawn.  Presentation  and  no­
tice of  dishonor will  also  be  dispensed 
with  where  there  are  no  funds  to  pay 
checks,  and  where  the  banks  on which 
they are drawn suspend  payment  before 
they can be presented, using proper dili­
gence.  After receiving checks they must 
be  presented  for  payment,  unless  such 
presentation would be useless,  before the 
original  claims  can  be  sued  on, for, by 
accepting  checks,  there  is  an  implied 
agreement to use that method of  procur­
ing the money for which they are drawn.
Where checks are negotiable  and  pass 
by endorsement or delivery, the same de­
gree of diligence will be required of each 
person to whom they are  indorsed  in or­
der to  hold  those  indorsing  them,  as  is 
required of original payees to  hold  orig­
inal drawers of checks.  But, by putting

persons 
the  banks 

checks in circulation,  the liability of the 
drawers  cannot  be  prolonged.  They 
must be presented within the  same  time 
by indorsees as  by payees.  Still,  where 
checks  are  passed  from  hand  to  hand, 
one or more of the latter indorsers might 
be held where  earlier  indorsers  and  the 
drawers would be released, as  by failure | 
of the bank drawn upon.
Signatures  to  checks  may  be written ! 
with pen  and  ink, or  pencil;  they  may | 
also be printed  or  stamped.  Banks  are ] 
only required to  see  that  the  names  of j 
the  drawers  of  checks  correspond  pre- | 
cisely with those of the persons to whose ! 
credit  the  deposits  have  been  made,  j 
Who should sign the  checks  of  corpora-! 
tions will  be  determined  by  the  State | 
laws,  by the  charters,  by-laws, or by the j 
usage  of  the  particular  corporations. 
Every partner  has  the  right  to  sign  his j 
firm’s name to checks,  unless  prohibited j 
by its article of copartnership.  So, also, 
can  agents  sign  them,  when  given  ex-! 
press or implied  authority.
As. usually drawn, payable  to  certain 
persons named  or  order, checks  are  ne- j 
gotiable.  A  valuable  consideration  for 
them  will  be  presumed.  They  may  be | 
transferred  by  indorsement,  or,  if  pay­
able  to  bearer,  by  mere  delivery.  De­
fenses to them existing between first par­
ties cannot be raised against  subsequent 
holders.

D on’t  F u ss.

From the American Storekeeper.
There  are  a  good  many  storekeepers 
who borrow trouble.  These are the men 
of  variable  temper.  To-day  they are in 
a state of  fussy  good  humor;  to-morrow 
they are  unreasonable, morose, snappish 
and  disagreeable.  Such  men  never  be­
come great  in any  walk of  life, for such 
variation of temper betokens a weakness 
of  mind.  Employes never find  pleasure 
in working  for  a  man  of  this April-day 
temperature.  Such  a man is never  well 
served,  for  his  fussiness  to-day  creates 
confusion,  of  which  mistakes  are  a 
natural  consequence;  his  irritability  to­
morrow  makes people  around kirn  nerv­
ous and  impatient. 
In  the  store  owned 
by  such  a  man  there  is  none  of  that 
smoothness  which  is  an  essential  to  a 
proper performance of duty.
The character of  the employer  is  gen­
erally reflected in his clerks. 
If  a store­
keeper is of  a  smooth  and even  temper, 
there is a certain  ease  in the  manner  of 
conducting  his  business.  He  good  nat- 
uredly  corrects  the  errors  of  the  inex­
perienced. 
If, on the other band,  he be­
comes childishly passionate over matters 
which may, perhaps, be insignificant, his 
irritability  is  extended  to  his  help,  for 
such irritability is wofully contagious.
This  courting  of  worry  should  be 
avoided  by  people  in  all  walks  of  life. 
The man with responsibilities, which are 
part  of  any  commercial  undertaking, 
should in  all cases  preserve  a  calm  and 
even temper.  That is nerve.
H elp  Y ourself.

Fight  your  own  battles.  Hoe  your 
own row.  Ask no favors of anyone, and 
you’ll succeed  a  thousand  times  better 
than one who is always  beseeching some 
one’s influence  and  patronage.  No  one 
will ever help you as you  help  yourself, 
because no one will be  so  heartily inter­
ested in your affairs.  The first step will 
be such a long one, perhaps; but carving 
your  own  way  up  the  mountain  you 
make each one lead to another, and stand 
firm while  you  chop  out  still  another. 
Men  who  have  made  fortunes  are  not 
those who have had $5,000 given them to | 
start  with,  but  boys  who  have  started 
fair with a well-earned dollar or two.
Men who acquire fame have never been j 
thrust into popularity by puffs begged or j 
paid  for,  or  given  in  friendly  spirit. 
They have outstretched their own  hands 
and touched the public heart.  Men who 
win  love  do  their  own  wooing,  and  I 
never knew a man to  fail  so  signally as 
one who induced  his  affectionate  grand-1 
mother  to  speak  a  good word  for him. I 
Whether you work for fame, for love, for 
money, or  for  anything  else, work with 
your hands and heart and brain.  Say “I 
will,” and  some  day  you will  conquer. 
Never let  any man  have  it  to  say:  “I 
have  dragged  you  up.”  Too  many 
friends sometimes hurt a man more than 
none at  all.

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A  Case :

36  Packages.
36  Poumls.
FULL  WEIGHT.

Also in Bulk:

25  lb.  Boxes,
50 lb.  Boxes, and 

300  lb.  Barrels.

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save time!  It isn’t a question  whether you 
can afford  to  lay out the money for such 
a convenience and  luxury in  storekeeping; 
it’s  a  question  whether you can  afford  to 
continue the  waste!

Find  this out by  trying.  An outfit will 
be sent  you  for  TRIAL  30  days.  You 
can  ship it back  if  not  found  convenient, 
clean  and  a  means  of  saving  its  cost. 
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CANADA’S  VICTORY.

X’JHLJW  MlCirUO^JS  T HADH^MAN

Y'HE  DIFFERENCE  BETWEEN  THE  -  -  =

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th e   Tradesman  Company 
F r o m  
a n d  
f r o m   o t h e r   h o u s e s  
in  " W e ste rn   M i c h i g a n   is  in  th e  
fact  t h a t   t h e y   g iv e   th e   best  p o s ­
sib le  r e s u l t s   f r o m  
th e   p h o t o ­
g r a p h   o r   o t h e r   c o p y   every  time, 
i n s t e a d   of  o n c e   in  t w o   o r   t h r e e  
tim e s . 
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G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICH.

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S U R E   TO  S E L L .

PLACE  ORDER«  EARLY  WITH—

FLETCHER  HARDWARE  CO,  ss  FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO.,

DETBOIT,  MICH., 

OBAND  BAPIDS,  MICH.,

PRICE  $12  PER  DOZEN. 

Lib e r a l  Discounts  to  Dea l e r s.

W h y  D om inion  C h eese 

th e   P rod u ct  o f th is  C ountry.

is  S u p erior  to  
At  tbe  great  Columbian  Exposition 
held  at  Chicago  the  past  season,  onr 
brethren  across  the  Lakes  “got  away 
with us” in great shape  in the matter of 
cheese.  For  instance,  in  the June  ex­
hibit,  out  of  138  awards.  Canada took 
129, leaving the great American  Republic 
a beggarly nine. 
In  tbe October exhibit 
the  total  awards  for  Cheddar  factory 
cheese  made  in  1893  were  414, and  of 
these Canada took 369, leaving the proud 
republic forty-five.  Out of  275  exhibits 
of  cheese  made  in  Ontario, 200 awards j 
were  secured,  and  of  these  five  lots 1 
scored 99% points out of  a  possible 100, 
while in the United States  not  a  single 
cheese  scored  99%  points. 
In  making 
this statement let it  be remembered that 
the exhibits of  June  and  October  were 
the only occasions during the Exhibition 
when  Canadian  and  American  cheese 
came into competition.

These are facts, it  seems to me,  which 
ought to bring the blush of  shame to the 
cheeks  of  American  cheesemakers, and 
to arouse American  pluck and American 
genius to immediate  and  determined ac­
tivity.  Our  steel  cruisers, our  locomo­
tives, our watches and thousands of  oth­
ers  of  our  manufactured  products  are 
the  best  in  the  world—why  not  our 
cheese?  Our climate, our  pastures  and 
our  waters  are as sweet and wholesome, 
and our  makers  as  intelligent, as those | 
of our Canadian  neighbors,  but,  for  all 
that, when brought into competition with 
them,  it seems that we are “not in it.”

Iu the light of the developments at the 
World’s Fair, perhaps a  page  or  two  of 
the  history  of  Canadian  cheesemaking, 
disclosing the means by which this grand 
result has  been accomplished, may be of 
interest to  the  readers of  T h e  T rades­
man.

Thirty-three years  ago Canada export­
ed only 813,075 worth of  cheese:  in  1880 
she  seut  out  89,372,212,  while  for  the 
year closing March  1,  1893. she shipped 
813,687,851.  Canada  now  sells  in  the 
markets  of  Great  Britain  more  cheese 
than  any  other  country  in  the  world. 
She ieads  the  United  States  by several 
long laps and  seems  likely,  in  the  near 
future,  to  distance  us  in  the  race. 
In 
1880. this was not the case.

During the ten years commencing with 
1870,  in  which the Canadian export made 
a leap of  over $6,000,000,  1  think  I  am 
safe  in  saying that  not  more  than  two 
factories in  Eastern  Ontario made Ched­
dar cheese, and  that  75  per cent, of the 
cheese then and  there  manufactured,  if 
offered  in  the markets  of  to-day, could 
scarce be sold at any price. 
In  Western 
Ontario the case was somewhat different, 
but even  there  an  investigation  of  the 
facts would disclose that  much  of  their 
improvement was made in the years 1878 
and  1879.  Tbe  position  which  Canada 
holds in the  cheese world  is  due almost 
wholly  to  a  well-directed  organized ef­
fort on the part of  its  people to the pro­
motion of this industry, and to a unity of 
thought and action  for  tbe  accomplish­
ment  of  a  definite  purpose,  unalloyed 
with politics or avarice.

Let us go back  to  the  year  1868. 

In 
that  year  it  chanced  that  I visited the 
factory  of  Thos.  Ballantyne,  M.  P. P., 
for the purpose of purchasing his cheese. 
At his suggestion we visited  two  factor­
ies in  that  county seventeen  miles  dis- 
tant.  The ride gave me an  opportunity

I to gain an impression of the character of 
| the country, and  I said to  him  then that 
| the county of  Perth  held  in  itself vast 
possibilities  for  cheesemaking.  The 
suggestion seemed  to  strike  him  forci­
bly, and, as he has many times  since de­
clared, awoke iu him a resolve which has 
since materialized iuto a very substantial 
and important fact.  From that time un­
til the year 1879,  I was  there  nearly ev­
ery season, and  together we  rode  thou­
sands of  miles, visiting  many factories, 
he  as  a  cheese  buyer, 1 as a vendor  of 
factory supplies.  During these trips*we 
| did  what  we  called  missionary  work.
| preaching  what  we  considered  the  es- 
j sence of the whole gospel of  cheesemak­
ing,  and,  whenever 
the  opportunity 
offered, taking off  our  coats and demon­
strating by example  the  faith  that was 
in us.  At that time there were  but  few 
j factories where now there are many, and 
I those were doing business after a fashion 
that  would  provoke  the  laugh  of  the 
modern maker.  Mr.  Ballantyne was, for 
that time, an excellent judge  of  cheese, 
and we were both of the  opinion  that  a 
radical change was necessary in the hap-' 
hazard  methods  and  slovenly  practices 
there  in  vogue,  but  exactly  what  this 
change was to be we bad no definite idea. !
In  the  year  1879, Prof.  L.  B. Arnold, 
under a call from  the  Dairy Association i 
of Western Ontario,  visited  that  part of 
the province,  for the  purpose  of  giving 
instruction  in  cheesemaking.  He  was | 
college  bred, a good  chemist  and a cor­
respondent for several  agricultural  and j 
dairy papers,  but,  at  the  time,  as  the 1 
facts proved, did not know how to  make { 
cheese.  He visited Western Ontario and j 
began his work,  but his products did not ] 
give satisfaction,  and,  after  a  stay of  a 
month,  he returned home.  Shortly after, 
and in the  same  season, Mr.  Ballantyne, j 
having great confidence (which confidence i 
was not misplaced) in  Professor Arnold, j 
recalled him and at his owu  expense set ! 
him to work.  At  the  Black Creek  fac­
tory, in the  county of  Perth,  he  experi- j 
mented for  several  days  and  there  his j 
genius triumphed.  We do  not  mean to j 
insinuate that he made a great discovery 
in cheesemaking at  this  time,  but  that, | 
by  repeated  trials,  he  so  adjusted  his ! 
methods as to produce the  exact  quality 
of cheese demanded by the  market.  On 
leaving the Black Creek factory, the pro- j 
fessor commenced a tour  of  instruction, 
early in which  1  joined  him,  remaining j 
with him during the balance of  the  sea- j 
son.  Although  I  had  been  a  cheese-' 
maker  for  many years,  it  was  on  this | 
trip and under his  instruction  that 1 re- I 
ceived my first ideas of  scientific cheese- ( 
making. 
It  was  on  this  trip  that  I 
learned how vast a store of knowledge in 
the domain of milk  and  milk  manufac­
ture the professor had acquired, and that 
I learned to rank him in the  dairy world 
as the Grand Old Man is ranked in states­
manship.

Tbe benefits accruing  to Western  On­
tario from the work of Arnold  becoming 
immediately  apparent,  the  people  of 
Eastern Ontario were aroused to decisive 
action, and, accordingly, in the month of 
April following (1880), their  convention 
resolved to  employ an  instructor, and  I j 
had the good fortune to meet  tbe  choice 
of the directors. 
I accepted the call and 
on May 3,  1880, began my labors.
And now, as the pronoun I will appear 
quite frequently  in  the  balance  of  this 
paper, 1 hope that  the reader will notice 
that  it  is practically unavoidable and is 
not here through  egotism.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

li

It  would  require  more  space  than  1 1 
have at command in which to clearly  de­
scribe the peculiarities of  the conditions 
under which I commenced work.  There 
was,  however,  one  circumstance  in  my 
favor,  and  that was,  wherever I went, I 
was  received  as  one  having  a  right  to 
come and not as an interloper.  This feel­
ing  prevailed  more  through  a  general 
recognition of the fact that improvement 
was a crying necessity, and  that  the  ef­
fort put  forth  was  well  intended,  than 
from any belief in  its  ultimate  success, 
or any particular faith  in  me as the man 
for  the  place. 
I  have  said  that  Cana­
dian  improvement  has  been  wrought 
through  unity  of  thought  and  action; 
this,  however,  did  not exist when I be­
gan, but their want of faith in me I  was 
at length enabled to overcome.

For a great number  of  my  pupils  the 
system I taught had at least  one  serious 
objection, namely, whereas,  before,  the 
curd was in the hoops by 1 o’clock, p. m., 
now  we  did not go to press untill 4 or 5 
p.  m.  This,  of  course,  was  asking  a 
great deal, especially as the benefits were 
not at first so very apparent.  But under 
Professor Arnold 1  had lain down as the 
basis of my philosophy  a  few  very  im­
portant facts,  without which  no  cheese- 
maker can succeed, and  to  which  I  had 
resolved to cling under all circumstances, 
and  one  of  these  was  that  a  batch  of 
milk  must  not  be  spoiled  through  nig­
gardly  use  of  time.  Then,  too,  1  en­
countered  no  little opposition to the in­
troduction  of  what  many  regarded  as 
newfangled notions, a reluctance  to  lay 
aside  time-honored  practices,  and  in 
many instances it was  with  much  diffi­
culty that I was able to  induce a trial of 
my system.  For instance,  at  that  time 
most of the factories obtained  their  ren­
net by soaking the skins in whey, a prac­
tice  against  which  I  arrayed  myself  in 
determined opposition. 
In the  light  of 
our present knowledge of  cheesemaking 
it  seems  almost  incredible  that  there 
could  ever  have  been  any  considerable 
number of intelligent cheesemakers  who 
would persist in corrupting 5,000 pounds 
of wholesome  sweet  milk  with  six  gal­
lons of a putrifying compound consisting 
of sour whey and the disintegrated walls 
of a calf’s stomach; but it  was  the  fact 
that I found  any  number  of  such,  and 
they clung to the practice as  to a religi­
ous creed, and fought over it, and finally 
relinquished it with  sorrow  and  regret. 
Wherever 1 went I was  confronted  with 
this  difficulty.  1  could  devote  but one 
or two days to each factory, and this was 
the  material  1  always  found  on  hand. 
Extracts  were  not  then  in  use  in  that 
part of the country, and, as I  was  advo­
cating the use of pure water in obtaining 
rennet, 1 had no time to prepare  a  suit­
able extract,  and  so,  many  times,  was 
compelled to hold my nose  and  dash  in 
the  filth.  The  benefit  of  an  olfactory 
demonstration of  the difference between 
the use of sweet rennet and carrion was, 
therefore, wanting,  and in that season’s 
work I succeeded  in  accomplishing  but 
little in this sadly needed branch  of  re­
form.

With regard to  the  quality of  milk, 1 
was in the condition of  the  mariner  on 
the  deep  without  compass  or  helm.  1 
had no instruments for  testing  its qual­
ity, and so, in a sense, abandoned myself 
to  the  winds,  with  the  hope  and  the 
prayer  that  I  might  finally  drift  into 
port.

I very soon became what  is  known in

our slang as  a “kicker,”  When I found j 
an old  rookery of  a  factory,  with a hog i 
pen under  the  floor  and  only one worn 
out pail with which to manufacture 9,000 j 
pounds of milk,  I would kick;  and when j 
1 found the floors wet and  slimy and the j 
winds whistling  through  the walls  and 
dirt and  filth  everywhere, I  kicked;  in 
fact,  I  believe  it was  by kicking vigor- | 
ousiy and often that a  great  reform was | 
brought about in the matter of buildings ! 
and tools and  that  now Eastern Ontario ; 
has as well made and well  equipped fac- I 
tories as can be found anywhere.

It is unfortunate  for  me. as  a  chron­
icler, that I am the proprietor of  a  curd 
mill, otherwise I might  have  something 
to relate of interest upon the  subject  of 
mills and their introduction into Eastern 
Ontario.  As  it  is,  I  shall  dismiss  the j 
subject by saying  that when I began my | 
labors there were - not  more  than a half 
dozen mills in use, whereas  how  there is 
not a factory without one.

With regard to the methods of  making 
cheese and the gradual  revolution  from 
the old go-as-you-please  to  the  new sci­
entific standard process, we have not the 
space to go into  details,  but will  say, in 
general, that  from the commencement of 
the season  the work went  on  by partial 
reformation, many factories adopting me 
only in  part,  while  some  embraced  the 
new doctrine  complete;  but  I  had  the 
satisfaction  afterwards  of  hearing  the 
buyers  say that  the  dates  of  my visits 
were  plainly  indicated  on  the  factory 
shelves  by a  marked  improvement,  be­
ginning  with 
that  day  and  running 
through the balance of the season.

Within a period of about seventy-eight 
days I visited as many factories,  in fifty- 
three  of which,  by actually manufactur­
ing  the  cheese  under  the  eye  of  the 
maker,  1  proved  by demonstration  the 
superiority  of  my  system. 
In  many 
cases  it  was  at 
resisted  and 
denied, and in many cases I have  reason 
to believe it would have been  totally re­
jected had not a final and more  convinc­
ing argument—the verdict of the buyer— 
settled the question.

first 

At the convention which met at Brock- 
ville  in  February following I read a cir­
cumstantial 
report  of  my  work  and 
listened to the discussion which followed. 
With one envious exception  entire satis­
faction wa« expressed, one of  the direct­
ors declaring  that  the  money expended 
upon me had  been  returned  a  hundred 
fold, and  the  result was  that  1 was en­
gaged for another season.

I began this season’s work (1881) under 
auspices  very  much  improved.  Begin­
ning at Belleville, I went over  a  circuit 
embracing  100  factories,  and  including 
my  old  territory, without  encountering 
any of  the  old  opposition;  indeed, the 
old  makers  watched  my  approach  and 
welcomed me with undisguised  satisfac­
tion. 
I  hailed  this  circumstance  with 
delight  and  recognized  in  it  the  har­
binger of victory.  While  not  flattering 
myself that  I  had  reached  the  highest 
point of excellence in  my product, I saw 
that the result would be a  uniformity of 
quality—a point  not  to  be  despised  in 
the cheese  industry. 
I  also  recognized 
in the spirit  manifested  by the  makers 
an  irresistible  force  which  must  ulti­
mately overcome  every  obstacle,  and  1 
saw at once that my mission was  simply 
to  give  this  power  direction and point 
out, as it were, the breach and watch the 
assaulting  column  go  through.  More­
over, the buyers came upon the field and

Michael  Kolb  &  Son,

Wholesale-:-ßlothier8,

R O C H E S T E R ,  N .  Y.,

Full line of spring goods now ready;  also a  few lines  of  ulsters  and  overcoats, 
which we are closing out at a considerable  reduction.  MAIL  ORDERS  PROMPT­
LY  ATTENDED  TO  and  samples sent on  approval, or  our  Michigan representa­
tive will be pleased to wait on you if you will address him as follows:

WM.  CONNOR,

MARSHALL,  MICH.

Post’s 
Eureka 
Sap Spouts.

OVER  20,000,000  SOLD.

T / i e s e  Spouts will not Ideale

H ighest  Aw ard  of  Merit  from  the 
W orld’s  Industrial  Exposition.

-----o-

Spout  No.  1,  actual  size,  with  Heavy  Wire  Hanger,  that  does  not 

break like hangers cast on the spout.

P a t e n t  I m pr o v e d — Sugar makers acknowledge  a very  large  increase 
in  the How  of Sap by  the  use of the Self-Sealing Air Trap in the Improved 
Eurekas,  as claimed  for them.

GET  YOUR  ORDERS  IN  AT  ONCE  so  as  not  to  get  left. 

Write for prices.ÖSTER&TEVENS

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early and examine each batch of  milk as 
it  was  delivered. 
I  have  often  driven 
ten miles by starlight  for the purpose of 
making  my  inspection. 
I  have  every 
reason to believe that my work  was  the 
first of the kind on this continent.

In  my  report  to  the  Association  for 
that season  (1883)  will be  found  an  ac­
count  of  my  work  in  this  particular 
more in detail than I can here  give,  but 
I  took  occasion  then  to  recommend  a 
system of  milk inspection and suggested 
that the instructor be  clothed  with  this 
authority  and  be  supported  with  the 
dignity of the  law.  This  suggestion,  I 
believe, was subsequently adopted.

The  dignity  and  importance  which 
Canadian  cheese  suddenly  assumed  in 
the  English  market  did  not  escape  the 
notice of  the  Scotch  dairymen  and  in­
quires  were  made  as  to  the  cause. 
This  led  to  correspondence  which  re­
sulted in my accepting  a call from Scot­
land, where I remained  during  the  sea­
sons  of  1884  and  1885. 
In  my  absence 
the Provincial Associations  employed  a 
corps of home instructors and inspectors, 
the  majority  of  whom  discharged  the

there. 

duties of the office  with marked success.
Tiie  seasons  of  1887  and  1890  (six in 
all) terminated my labors in the Province, 
as it must also this statement of  what  1 
know  about  the  rise  and  progress  of 
cheesemaking 
I  have  briefly 
stated the leading  facts  within  my  per­
sonal  knowledge  to  show  how  an  or­
ganized aud persistent effort has resulted 
in the case of our neighbors  beyond  the 
Lakes.  Their  efforts  have  been  met 
with a large and  substantial  reward and 
they are pushing forward with  an  ener­
getic  and  united  action  which  cannot 
fail to accomplish yet much  more in the 
great work.

From henceforth the road to perfection 
is a comparatively broad  and  even  one. 
The  pioneer  work  has  been  done;  the 
forests  have  been  swept  down; 
the 
stumps have been drawn and the swamps 
drained, and it remains  for them to con­
vert the fields into gardens and  the  gar­
dens  into  beds  of  flowers.  The  old 
prejudices have gone; the  old  tools  are 
gone: and in their places have  come  in­
tellects that reach out  for new ideas and 
tools the best that modern  ingenuity has

produced  including  the Babcock tester. 
Let  the  good  work  go  on  and  may  the 
American makers settle down to  a  good 
square  trot  and  come  under  the  wire 
abreast with them, at least.

Antwerp,  N.  Y., Jan.  10,  1894.

J.  B.  Ha r r is.

A   P o e tica l  G rocer.

Geo.  H.  Balsley,  grocer  at  Buckhan- 
non,  W. Va.,  issued a  New Year’s greet­
ing to his customers,  bearing  the follow­
ing poetical  inscription:

OUB  POLICY  FOB  1894.

We’re bound to please,
Just take your ease

On that score.

We'll make to all 
Both great and small

The same price.

We’ll treat you well,
So you will tell.

Your neighbor.

We’ll aim  to keep,
At top of  the heap

In our line.

Our goods will be 
The best you’ll see

Anywhere.

Are you with us?

Gbo. H. Bai.sley,

The City Grocer. -

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their triumphant and encouraging voices 
lent an influence which gave impetuosity 
to  the  charge, and  so  the  siege  began 
with vigor and went bravely on  through 
the whole  season.

As  nothing  of  particular  interest  to 
the reader occurred  during  this  season, 
we will pass on, pausing  only to remark | 
that  at  the  Provincial  Fair,  held  at j 
Guelph  that  fall, in which  the  Eastern j 
and  Western  Dairy  Associations  came 
into competition, the East carried off the 
gold medal and a  majority of  the  lesser 
prizes—and these with cheese of the new 
system  by  my pupils. 
It  so  happened I 
that the next spring  (1882), at  the  time { 
for employing an instructor for the com- j 
ing season.  I was in  the  State  of  Iowa, | 
engaged in the  promotion  of  some  pri­
vate  creamery  enterprises,  when  some 
one,  through  selfish  motives,  deceived 
the directors with  the  gratuitous  state­
ment that 1 was not available, whereupon 
Prof.  Arnold  was  invited  to  take  my 
place, and he accepted the invitation.  A I 
life devoted to  experiment  and  investi­
gation had so  fashioned  the  professor’s | 
character that it was next  to  impossible 
for him to adopt one set of  methods and 
stick to them.  Experiment  had become 
a second nature and he  could  not  resist 
the temptation to reduce  to  practice ev­
ery new theory suggested by his  invent­
ive  genius.  The  professor  bad  some 
new ideas, and he  embraced  the  oppor­
tunity to put them in  practice.  The re­
sult was failure.  The professor believed 
that he could dispense with  the mill and 
that by dipping the  curd  into  the  sink 
and adding  one-half  the  requisite  salt, 
stirring  until  ready  for  the  press  and 
then adding the balance  of  the  salt, he 
could  secure  the  requisite  maturity—a 
result which he always  failed  to  reach, 
and  so  his  product  had  a  soft, mushy 
texture. 
In the month  of  July he went 
home and for the remainder of the season 
his  duties  were  successfully performed 
by a home  maker,  Marden  Bird, a pupil 
of mine.

It very soon  became  known  that  the 
report which  had  been  circulated  with 
regard to me was untrue, and  I was  en­
gaged, at private  expense,  to  renew my 
labors  in  the  Province. 
I began in the 
month  of  May and  visited  about  forty 
factories,  some  of  which  were  in  the 
Province of  Quebec. 
In  the  month  of 
July,  my  contract  having  been  com­
pleted,  I was engaged  in  buying  cheese 
in Western Ontario.  While  engaged  in 
this I continued to  give  instructions  in 
making,  a  circumstance  which  lead  to 
my being employed by the Association of 
Western Ontario for the next season.

While engaged in  buying and instruct­
ing,  as 1 have said,  I discovered what  is 
known as the Rennet Test, and from that 
time forward exhibited and advocated its 
use wherever I went. From the East a good 
report bad gone before  me into the West 
and my coming was everywhere  greeted 
with very flattering signs of approbation 
and hospitality and my  work  was  made 
pleasant  by  the willingness with which 
my scholars applied  themselves. 
I took 
with me a German, Pioskop, and at  once 
and at my own volition began testing the 
milk.  At  the  second factory 1 visited I 
discovered 
that  had  been 
skimmed and watered, a discovery which 
led 
immediately  to  the  punishment  of 
the culprit.  Thus  encouraged, I consti­
tuted  myself  a  sort  of  official milk in­
spector  and  from  that  time  made  it  a 
part  of  my  duty  to  reach  the  factory

a  batch 

iof  tl)c  U n iteti  S ta te s   o f  A m e ric a ,

To

HEiNRY  KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  ager

s a le sm e n  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

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

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

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

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

ttoni, (therefore, we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

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

9  *

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

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

that  which 
false  or  misleading  manner.

is  not  Complainant s  said  manufacture,  and  from 

in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO* 

in  any

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

in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one 

i6th  day  of  December, 

[signed]

[seal

ROWLAND  COX.

Complainant'-  Solicitor

S.  D.  OLIPHANT.

Clerk.

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13

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The market  was  steady  until 
Monday  morning,  when  the Trust  re­
duced  the  price  of  refined  from  1-16@ 
3-16c.

Canned Goods—Tomatoes are  in  good 
demand at slightly reduced figures.  Corn 
is in a little  better  demand,  without any 
change  in  price.  California  goods  are 
offered at prices never before heard of.

Rolled Oats—The American Cereal Co. 
has issued a letter  advancing  its  prices 
10 cents  per  barrel, on  account  of  the 
scarcity of milling  oats.  The  company 
says  that  any  attempt  to  predict  the 
course  of  the  market would  be  purely 
speculation,  expressing  the  belief  that 
prices will not go lower and  that  buyers 
will do well to get in their orders  before 
any ad vance occurs.

Bananas—By using the latest patent of 
heater cars, bananas  have been arriving 
at this market in  extra  good  condition. 
Demand is rather limited,  owing  to  risk 
in  handling  during  cold  weather,  but 
prices  are  not  high when the increased 
cost of transportation is taken  into  con­
sideration.

Lemons—The market is  much  easier, 
as  the  arrivals  of  the  past  two weeks 
have  been  quite  heavy  and  the  trade 
throughout the country has  become well 
supplied, and,  as no one will  care to put 
in  more  than  sufficient  to  cover  their 
wants for a couple  of weeks  at  a  time, 
there is likely to be  an  accumulation at 
Eastern  ports  and  prices  will  be  still 
lower in the near future.

Oranges—Floridas are  in  their  prime 
and the consumers in Michigan  are  get­
ting their  share  of  fruit  as  cheaply as 
anyone in the country.  The smaller and 
more  desirable  sizes  were  marketed 
early,  and now the  tendency is  to  large 
sizes, and,  as they go slowly, prices have 
been cut down  to  a  point which will  be 
sure  to  move  them.  One  of  the  main 
factors in causing a  reduction is the fact 
that Californias will soon be  coming for­
ward  in  large  quantities,  and  Florida 
growers realize  that  it  is  necessary for 
them to get their groves well  cleaned up 
as speedily as possible.  Added to this is 
the fact that fruit has not been  carrying 
well, owing to  the  rainy weather  preva­
lent in Florida,  which  causes  oranges to 
decay rapidly.  For the  next  six weeks, 
however, and  as  long  as  Florida  fruit 
can  be  obtained  they  will  take  prece­
dence over  Californias, as  first  arrivals 
of the latter are usually rather sour.  The 
local  market  has  been  so  abundantly 
supplied  with  Florida  fruit  that  very 
few Messinas have found  their way here 
this season.  With the  increased  yearly 
yield of Florida and  California  oranges, 
Messinas will  gradually  be  crowded  out 
of Western markets.

dron.

In a u gu ral  A d d ress  o f  P resid en t  W a l­
President Waldron has  issued  the  fol­
lowing address  to  the  members  of  the 
Michigan Knights of the Grip:
St.  J ohns,  Jan.  15—In  pursuance  of 
the duties you  have  imposed  upon  me, 
by electing  me  your  executive  head,  1 
take  this  occasion, early in  the  year, to 
impress upon the  members  of  our Asso­
ciation  the  fact  that  each and all of us 
have important duties to perform.
Our Association, I am pleased to state, 
has  taken  a  position  second  to  none 
among  similar  organizations.  Our  ob­
jects are most worthy and we are fast ap­
proaching  the  point  where  all  of  our 
worthy associates  will  appreciate  their 
efforts  in  advancing  the  interests  and 
conditions of traveling men and anxious­

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ly join  us  in  our laudable undertaking.
We have no  apologies  to  offer  or  ex­
cuses to make in offering  applications of 
worthy traveling men.  None will appre­
ciate more the record and good  name we 
are making for ourselves.
We have carefully drawn up a new ap­
plication  blank,  which  I  trust  will  re­
sult in great good to our Association.
It is a well  established  fact  that  the 
intrinsic value of all things is based upon 
the quality and  kind  of  material  used, 
and  our Association  is  no  exception  to 
this  rule.  With  this  essential  fact  in 
view I hope that  all will  be  most  active 
in  securing  the  best  material, and  only 
such as can truly call themselves  travel­
ing men.  We have many safeguards that 
prevent our Association from being com­
posed of anything  but  the very best  ma­
terial.
We are  employed  by business  houses 
who know by long experience  the  abso­
lute  necessity  of  being  represented  on 
the  road  by  bright,  sober,  industrious 
and  intelligent  men.  We  accept  them 
only after they have had one  year’s trial 
by such business houses.
Our members, from the nature  of  our 
work, average  young  in  age,  therefore 
they are vigorous and healthy.  Further, 
we limit the age  to  fifty-five  years, and 
expect  that, ere  long, the  limit will  be 
made to fifty years.
We were compelled  to  return  several 
applications at our  last  meeting, held at 
Lansing  January 6,  owing  to  the  fact 
that they did  not  come within  the  pro­
vince of  our  constitution,  as interpreted 
by those who pass upon  the  same.  The 
two members who  sign  the  application 
cannot be too careful in drawing the line 
as between those who are  desirable  and 
entitled  to  become  our  brothers  and 
those who are not.
Should  you  have  any  complaints  or 
grievances  to  make, or  any  suggestions 
to offer for the good  of  our  Association, 
do so at once  through  the  proper  com­
mittee which has that  part  of  our work 
in charge.
There  seems  to be a most enthusiastic 
and  harmonious  feeling  prevailing  all 
over the State at  this  time.  All  dissen­
sions and  strifes  have  been  buried  be­
yond the possibility of  resurrection  and 
I feel and trust that harmony and  active 
conscientious work  for  the  good of our 
Association will be  the  topmost  aim  of 
each and every one  of  our  members  for 
the year 1894.
I am yours for the good of our Associa­
tion, 

E.  P.  Waldron,  Pres.

P ro fita b ly  F o llo w .

From the Grand Traverse Herald.
E.  V. Davis,  the  Neal  merchant  and 
postmaster, has  struck  a  novel  scheme 
and one that will prove popular.  He has 
purchased  a  library  of  150  volumes, 
which he has opeued at his place of busi­
ness for the free  use  of  his  patrons and 
friends.  His  place  of  business  is  too 
small  for  many idlers  to  hang around, 
but he keeps everybody good  natured by 
letting them take a book  home  to  read. 
Mr.  Davis thus becomes  a  public  bene­
factor, at the  same  time  advancing  his 
business  interests  by  thus  providing  a 
strong attraction at his store  for all who 
love good reading. 
It  is  a  good  scheme 
and should meet with great success.

able.

T he  D ru g  M ark et.

Opium is excited and higher.  The re­
port  of  the injury to  the  growing  crop 
by frost  has  been  confirmed  and much 
higher prices are predicted.

Quinine is firm and an advance is prob­

Olive oil, Malaga, has advanced.
Linseed oil has  advanced  again  lc on 

account of the high price of seed.

An  advance  in  morphia  is  expected 

hourly as we go to press.

T he  S h op p er’s  W e a k n e ss.

Lady Shopper—What?  You  ask  $3  a 
yard for this cloth?  Why, I can get it at 
Dreighgoods’ for $3.
Clerk—Yes, madame.  But we’re offer­
ing this on our bargain counter.
Lady Shopper (taking out her purse)— 
Oh!  Let me have ten yards, please.

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Note  these  prices:

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Transacts a General Banking  Business. 

Interest  Allowed  on  Time  and  Savings 

Deposits.

DIRECTORS:

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

S tate  B oard   o f  P h a rm a c y .

O ne  T e a r—O ttm a r E b e rb a c h , A nn  A rbor.
Two Tears—George Oondram. Ionia.
Three Tears—C. A. Bug-bee. Cheboygan.
Four Tears—8. E. Parkill. Owosso.
Five Tears—F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Secretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Geo. Gun drum. Ionia.
Next Meeting—Grand Rapids. March 6  and 7. 
Subsequent  Meetings—Star  Island,  June  25  and  26; 

Houghton, Sept. I; Lansing, Nov. • and 7.

M ichigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 
President—A. B. Stevens. Ann Arbor. 
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.
Secretary—8. A. Thompson, Detroit.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 
President, Walter K.Schmidt;  Sec'y, Ben. Schrouder.

THE  DETROIT  PLAN.

Trade.

It Is Generally Endorsed  by the  Retail 
Some  of  T h e  T ra desm a n’s  readers 
having  failed  to  comprehend  the  full 
scope and intent of the so-called “Detroit 
Plan,” adopted  by  the  National Whole­
sale  Druggists’  Association  to  prevent 
the sale of patents to cutters,  it has been 
deemed desirable  to  reproduce  the  de­
tails of the plan  and  present  interviews 
with all classes of drug dealers interested 
in  the  movement  to  take  proprietary 
remedies out of the realm of  cutterdom.

THE  PLAN.

W h er ea s,  All  plans  to  prevent  the 
cutters  from  obtaining  their  supplies 
have thus far been unsuccessful;  and
W h er ea s,  In  our  opinion  ail  such 
plats  will  be  unsuccessful  as  long  as 
there  are  retailers  who  can  buy direc* 
from  the  manufacturer,  and who  mav 
supply the cutter;  and
W h er ea s,  It is  manifestly to  the  re­
tailer’s interest to be placed on precisely 
the same footing in his  purchases  as the 
cutter, and  this  can  only be  secured bv 
insisting upon uniform cost to all classes 
of retailers;  therefore
Resolved*  That we recommend the fol­
lowing  plan  to  the  manufacturer  and 
urge its adoption;  The manufacturer to 
sell at a discount  only to  those  doing  a 
strictly jobbing  trade;  the  said jobbers 
to be defined  by a  committee  appointed 
by  the  different  local  organizations  of 
wholesale  druggists,  who  will  furnish 
lists of  those who  may properly be  con­
sidered jobbers  in  their  territory to  the | 
Proprietary Committee  of  the  National 
Wholesale  Druggists’  Association,  who 
shall  furnish  a  complete  list  for  the 
United  States  to  the  proprietors  and 
wholesale  dealers.  We  recommend  an 
intermediate  quantity  for  the  retailers, 
not  exceeding  S25. to  be  sold  at a dis­
count not larger  than  3  per  cent.;  the 
jobbers not to sell to anyone  not  in  the 
list of jobbers at better  than 3 per  cent. 
To anyone in the list of  jobbers any job­
ber may sell at the manufacturers’ inter­
mediate quantity price.
Such was the scheme  presented  at the 
last meeting  of  the  National Wholesale 
Druggists’ Association by the Committee 
on  Proprietary  Goods  and  dnbbed  the 
“Detroit  Plan”  because  the  committee 
that  formulated 
in  Detroit. 
Not only did the plan meet the  approval 
of the jobbers’  association, but  the Joint 
Committee of that organization  and  the 
Association of Manufacturers and Whole­
sale Dealers in  Proprietary Articles  en­
dorsed the plan in the following terms:
1.  That the contract plan is  the  only 
practical method for the  maintenance of 
fair and legitimate schedules  for  prices 
of proprietary articles.
2.  That  in  order  to  strengthen  and 
render this plan more  effective, it  is  re­
spectfully recommended that proprietors 
accept orders for foil quantities, with re­
bate discount  only from  regular  houses, 
recognized  as  belonging  to  the  number 
who  will  faithfully observe  the  prices 
and conditions established  by the manu­
facturers.
3.  That in  the  opinion  of  the  joint 
committee the forms for price  lists here­

it  met 

with  submitted  embody,  in  the  main, 
features which would  tend  to  give  sta­
bility  to  the  plan,  and  they  are  recom­
mended to the favorable consideration of 
proprietors.  The  committee  consider it 
desirable that, as far as practicable,  pro­
prietors generally adopt uniform or simi­
lar forms of price lists.
requested to furnish to  the  chairman of 
the Committee on Proprietary Articles of 
the National Wholesale  Druggists’ Asso­
ciation and  the Committee  on Trade  In­
terests  of  the Association  of  Manufac­
turers and Wholesale Dealers in Proprie­
tary Articles full lists of their customers, 
with  the  understanding  that  in  cases 
where it is  proven  that  contracts  have 
been violated they shall  be  refused fur­
ther supplies.  Also that in  case  of  re­
ceiving orders from  others  their  names 
shall  be  submitted  to  the  chairman of 
same committees for approval before fill­
ing them.
When  the  retailers’  interests came to 
be considered, the plan  met  the  cordial 
approval  of  the  representative  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association— 
Mr. Redsecker—who addressed  the  con­
vention as follows:
As a retailer,  I  want  to  say  that  this 
action is a long  step  in  the  direction of 
protection  to  the  retailer. 
If  there  is 
not something of this kind adopted, when 
you  bury  the  retail  druggist  you  will 
have to put on  his  grave  the  following 
epitaph:

Owen Moore has gone away
Owin' more than he could pay.

In  our  State  last  winter  a  bill  was 
introduced  which  would  wipe  out  the 
sale of  all  your  proprietary  medicines. 
A  similar  bill  was  also  introduced  in 
Illinois. I think.  We are all parts of one 
body, and I will apply what  was uttered 
eighteen  hundred  years  ago:  “The eye 
cannot  say to the hand,  I  bave no  need 
of thee,  nor  the foot  say to  the  head,  I 
have no need of thee.”  And  so  it  is the 
wholesaler cannot  say to  the retailer,  “1 
have no need of  you,”  and  the  retailer 
cannot say  to the wholesaler,  “I can  get 
along  without  you;”  but 
the  manu­
facturer  can  say  to either,  “I  can  get 
along without you:”  but our interests are 
common and we must  protect  each other 
in  common.  The  retailer  must  protect 
the  wholesaler and  the  wholesaler must 
protect the retailer,  and our Interests are 
all bound up together, and if  we  do  not 
help  each  other,  we  can  be  sure  the 
whole  fabric  is  going  to  pieces.  The 
action taken here this  morning  is  going 
to help all of  us. 
I  believe  the  rebate 
system  should  be  maintained—as  a  re­
tailer,  I believe  it—because  you  cannot 
afford to  do  business  for  fun  or  glory. 
There must some money be made because 
yon have  got to  maintain your establish­
ment;  you have got to live and  you  can­
not live on  air.  While  there  have  been 
many inventions, there has nothing been 
invented yet by which we  can  maintain 
life without supplying food to the  body, 
and you have  got  to  pay  cash  for that; 
and in  order  to do that, you  must  make 
something  out  of  your business.  Now, 
that is what I want  to  reiterate,  that the 
very  adoption  of  these  resolutions,  as 
presented  by  your  joint committee, is a 
step forward in the  right  direction.  By 
the adoption of them, you will strengthen 
the  backbone  of  the  retail  trade—you 
will unite them  and you  will have them 
come to  your  support, as  they have not 
been doing  for  a  number  of  years,  be­
cause  they  have  not  had  any  natural 
interest in common.  What is  the use  of 
selling proprietary goods at cost and pay­
ing  clerk  hire?  But,  gentleman,  I  am 
trespassing upon your time. 
I am much 
obliged to you for the  courtesy you have 
extended me.

how  it  is  reg a rded  locally.

The Detroit Plan appears to meet with 
very general favor among local druggists, 
at  least  so  far  as  they  are  acquainted 
with  its  provisions.  The  only  dealers 
actually opposed to the Plan are the pro­
prietors of  department stores,  who have 
baen  accustomed  to  making  patents  a 
leader, and those dealers  who do a little 
jobbing  trade  in  connection  with  their

Walter  G.  Schmidt  (Thum  Bros.  & 
Schmidt):  “We  are  in  favor  of  the 
main features of the plan. 3 Beyond  this 
we  are  not  prepared 
to  express  an 
opinion.”

Mr Schmidt is President of  the  Grand 

Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

Wm.  E.  White  (White  &  White): 
“There is no other plan. 
If  department 
stores and  cutters  are  to  be  prevented 
from getting bold of patents  and  selling 
them at cut rate  prices,  then  you  must 
put an end to retailers buying in jobbing 
quantities,  although  it  may  seem  like 
injustice  not  to  permit  a  man  to  buy 
when  he  has  the  money  to  pay  with. 
But the 33% per  cent,  on  the  increased 
business  which would come to the  trade 
by the  inability of department  stores  to 
secure the  goods  would.be  worth  more 
than the  10  per  cent.,  or  jobbers’  dis­
count, on  laige quantities. 
I  think  the 
plan  will be a  big  thing  for  the  retail 
trade.”

F. A. Aldworth (Scribner & Aldworth): 
“So far  as  the  plan  relates  to  the  de­
struction of the  department  store  trade 
in patents and  the  abolition  of the cut­
ting evil,  I am in  favor  of  it.  There is 
one feature of it,  however,  which  I am 
not in favor of,  and that  is that  part  of 
the plan which forbids the  retailer  from 
doing  any  jobbing.  One  man  has  as 
much right to do  a  jobbing  business  as 
another,  and, if a retailer has worked up 
a wholesale trade of any proportions, the 
so-called 
legitimate  jobbers  have  no 
right  to  interfere  with  it.  The  main 
feature of the plan, however, meets with 
my hearty approbation.”

John E.  Peck (Peck Bros): “The Weeks 
& Potter Company, of Boston, Mass., has 
issued the following  circular,  which is a 
modification of  the Detroit Plan. 
In my 
opinion it is what will be finally adopted:
Referring  to  the  circular  recently  is­
sued by us concerning the  so-called  De­
troit  Plan,  we  are  glad  to  state  that  a 
modification  of  the  first  idea  will  be 
tried  by  a  number  of  manufacturers. 
Tbis change was suggested by  a  special 
committee  appointed  to confer with the 
committee  of  the  N.  W.  D.  A.,  and  in 
such  form  was  submitted  to the N.  W.
D.  A.  at  the  Detroit  meeting,  and  was 
very favorably received.
Instead of  allowing the manufacturers 
to sell only  to  recognized  jobbers,  it  is 
recommended  that proprietors fill orders 
for full quantities with  rebate  discount 
from every regular bouse  recognized  as 
belonging to the number  who will faith­
fully observe the  prices  and  conditions 
established by the manufacturers.  This 
grants  to  the  retailer  the  same  rights 
which are granted to the  jobber, and the 
retailer may buy direct from  the  manu­
facturer in quantity lots and at  the  best 
discounts, provided he agrees to maintain 
strictly the  conditions  set  forth  in  the 
contracts submitted. 
It forbids the divi­
sion of such quantity lots. 
It  gives  the 
jobber no rights beyond those granted to 
any man who has  the  necessary  capital 
and who shows a willingness  to  comply 
with the terms of his contract.
It is, we may say, simply an extension 
of the rebate system,  and,  although  we 
are opposed to this system  on  principle, 
we, nevertheless, must admit  the  neces­
sity of  living up to all contracts, and we 
hope that the retailers will see the neces­

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
regular business and  who would be pre­
vented, by the Detroit Plan, from buying 
in wholesale quantities and dividing with 
other  retailers.  The  adoption  of  the 
Plan  would  compel 
such  dealers  to 
abandon either one branch of  their busi- 
nessor the other—they "could not pursue 
both.  Local'opinions as  to  the  justice 
and efficacy of the measure are somewhat 
divided, as will be noted by the subjoined 
interviews:

4.  We recommend that proprietors be 

sity of strictly living up to and enforcing 
the terms of such agreements.  Every re­
tail druggist should consider  it his  duty 
to report immediately, either to the man­
ufacturer  or  his  jobber,  any  neglect  of 
these contracts on the part of any dealer.
The manifest injustice of  the  original 
plan toward the larger retailers, who buy 
in  quantities,  and  who  observe  all  the 
conditions  governing  such purchases, is 
fully  eliminated  in 
this  proposition. 
The original plan was devised ostensibly 
to prevent cutting,  but in reality to con­
centrate  the  business.  The  plan  is  so 
narrow and selfish that it could not other­
wise than meet with the condemnation of 
the more intelligent manufacturers.  The 
most offensive feature in its conditions is 
the appointment of acommitteof its own 
members to declare who are and who are 
not jobbers. 
It  strikes  me  that  manu­
facturers cannot accede to  such  unbusi­
nesslike  methods, and I  have  sufficient 
faith in their sense of justice  to  believe 
that they will not.  The Weeks & Potter 
circular embodies all that any  large  re­
tailer can desire, and it practically solves 
the problem.  The time is  not  yet  ripe 
when a few individuals  can successfully 
tie up for their  own  selfish  interests  so 
large  an  industry  as  the  proprietary 
medicine business.  Let the  retail  deal­
ers who purchase in  quantity  lots  com­
municate their views to  the manufactur­
ers.  Thus far all the evidence regarding 
the  adoption  of  the  Detroit  Plan  is  ex 
parte\ it is, therefore, about time that the 
other side of  the case be heard.”

John Muir:  “I would be in favor of the 
plan  if  it  were practicable,  which  it  is 
not.  There will  always be some jobbers 
who are ready to sell to any one who has 
the money to buy, for jobbers  are  not  a 
bit more honest than the  average  of  re­
tailers.  Personally,  I have  no  interest 
in the question, one way or  the  other, it 
wouldn’t benefit me  a  particle,  and so I 
don’t trouble  myself  about  it.  No, the 
plan 
is  impracticable;  unless  you  can 
change human  nature,  which  is  always 
selfish—always influenced  by self  inter­
est.  We  are  ail  after  the  big  dollars 
these days.”

Geo. M. Morse, Manager of  the  Morse 
Dry  Goods  Co.’s  Department store,  was 
seen, but as he  had  not  seen  the  Plan 
and did not know it s provisions,  he  did 
not care to express an opinion.  He might 
have  something  to  say  for  publication 
later.

C oncern ing S om e  F ru its.

Farmers who are not hampered  by  too 
many acres and who desire to swell  their 
annual dividends, should  engage  in  the 
culture of a  few  of  the  scarcer  fruits. 
The crab-apple,  as  an  instance, one  of 
the  most  delicious  of  delicacies  when 
properly  preserved,  pays  very  hand­
somely.  This  is  because  the  demand 
largely  exceeds  the  supply,  and  the 
demand for  this  superb  fruit  increases 
yearly.
Two varieties  of  currants  are  always 
scarce in our markets,  the “cherry” and 
the  “fay.”  These  varieties  are  very 
large, wholesome, and when preserved,  a 
fair  substitute  for  the  cranberry  as  a 
meat sauce or dressing.
Rare, also,  is  the  “white  grape” cur­
rant, so desirable for the tea-table during 
the heated  term. 
It  has  no  rival,  and 
everybody wants it, though b ut  few  are 
so  fortunate  as  to  get  a  supply.  The 
common white currant is in  no  sense its 
substitute, and everybody  having  learn­
ed this its cultivation should engage  the 
attention of both the  young  farmer and 
gardener.
As  the  sum  required  to  start  this 
enterprise is not worth  mentioning,  and 
risk being  out  of  the  question,  it  can 
have but one result,  namely,  profit—all 
profit. 
It  requires  no  “long  heaa”  to 
comprehend this statement.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

îe

Wholesale Price  Current•

Advanced—Opium.  Malaga Olive Oil.  Linseed Oil. 

Decllned-

“ 

S.  N. Y. Q.  A

Morphia, S.  P. A 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....................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls Llq, N.«C., M gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts......  @1  00
. “ 
pints.........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra,  (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__  @  3
Plx  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvl8 Ipecac et opll. .1  10@1  20 
Pyre thrum,  boxes  H
A P. D.  Co., doz......   @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae.................... 
8®  10
Qulnla, S. P. A W......  32®  37
S.  German__  25®  31
Rubla  Tine to rum......  12®  14
Saecharum Lactls pv. 
20®  22
Salacln............ .......... 2 00@2 10
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  ®  15

" 

Sddllts  Mixture........  @  20
Slnapis........................  ®  18
“  opt...................  ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................   @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb................. 
im®  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   ®  5
Soda,  Ash..................   3M®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Bther C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
*•  vinl  Rect.  bbl.
.  ..7........................2 25®2 35
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal......1  4(®1  45
Sulphur, Subl............   2M@  3
„   *   Roll..............  2  @  2M
Tamarinds.................  8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae.............45  @  48
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph...............   7®  8

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   80 
Lard, No.  1...............   42 
Linseed, pure raw__  50 

Bbl.  Gal
70
85
45
53

“ 

b b l .  

p a i n t s . 

Linseed,  boiled.........  53 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
Spirits Turpentine__  36 

56
strained..................  65  70
40
l b .
Red  Venetian........................im 2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars...  im  2@4
“ 
Ber........ IM  2®8
Putty,  commercial....2M  2M®3
“  strictly  pure..... 2M  2M®3
Vermilion Prime Amer
„ le a n ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English.  .. 
65@70
Green,  Peninsular...... 
70@75
Lead,  red...............................  6 @6M
“  w hite............................6 @6M
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’........  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0 
Whiting;  Paris  Bng.
1 40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@l  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
Paints.....................1 00®l  20

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

v a b n i s h x s .

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
Butra Turk Damar.... 1  55@1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp......................... 
70@75

Im porters  and  Jobbers  of

m is c e l l a n e o u s .

“ 

“ 

‘ 
“ 

ffiither, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  28®  30 
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alumen.....................2M@ 8

u 
ground,  (po.

squlbbs.. 

“ et Potass T.  55®  60

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antlmonl, po.............. 
4®  5
Antlpyrin...................  ®1  40
Antlfebrln..................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  51
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud....  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N.......... 2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
12;  Me,  14)..............  @  11
Cantharldes  Russian,
PO............................  @1  00
Capsid  Fructus,af...  ®  26
go....  @  28
po. 
®  20 
CaryophylluB, (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. A F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus  .....................   @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  ®  25
Centra,-)*....................  ®  10
Cetaceum...................  @  40
Chloroform................  60®  63
ffli  25
Chloral Hyd Crst...... 1  35@1  60
Chondrus..................   20®  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  A  W  15®  20 
German 3  ®  12 
Corks,  list,  dig.  per
cent  ...................... 
60
Creaaotum.............. 
@  35
@  2
Creta, (bbl. 75)......  
prep............  
5®  5
9®  11
preelp.............. 
Rubra...............   @ 8
Crocus......................  50®  65
Cudbear......................  @  24
Cuprl Sulph................  5 ®  6
Dextrine.................... 
io@  12
Bther Sulph...............   70®  75
Bmery,  all  numbers..  @
po..................   @  6
-  “ilP0-)  75........  TO®  TO
Flake  white..............  12®  15
Galla..........................   @  23
Gambler.....................   7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
French...........  40®  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 A 10. 
Less than box  66M
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White................  18®  25
Glycerins...................  14®  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  ®  22
Humnlus....................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  85 
“  C or....  @  80
Ox Rubram  ®  90 
Ammonlatl..  ®1  00 
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®  75
M ads.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnl tls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8. F ..............  60®  68

1 * )............................2M® 4

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CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils ^  Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole A geats for the  Celebrated

SWISS  i'ILLÄ  PREPARED  PRINTS.

f i   Line of  Staple  Drnggisis’  S ites

We are Sole Proprietors of

Weatherly’s  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy,

We Have in Stock and Offer a  F u ll Line of

WHISKIES,  BRANDIES,

G IN S ,  W IN E S ,  R U M S ,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

3 00

TINOTUBBS.

Aconltum Napellis R.........   6(

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and myrrh.................  6(
A rnica................................   a
Asafoatlda............................ 
(
A trope Belladonna..............  6(
Benzoin...............................   $
_  “  Co...........................  5<
Sangulnarla.........................  «
Barosma.............................   ¡¡<
Cantharldes.........................  7;
Capsicum............................  ¿(
Ca damon............................  7t
_  “ 
Co.........................  71
Castor...................................1 ot
Catechu...............................   5c
Cinchona............................  5(
Co.........................  et
Columba.............................   ec
Conlum...............................   56
Cubeba................................   56
Digitalis.............................   5fl
Ergot....................................  50
Gentian............................ 
55
Co............................  60
_ 
Gualca.................................  50
ammon....................   60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Iodine..................................   75
Colorless...............  75
Ferrl  Chlorldum.................  35
K ino................................  
so
Lobelia..........................  
50
Myrrh................................ '.  50
Nux  Vomica.......................   50
CPU.....................................  85
“  Camphorated................  50
“  Deoaor..............................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................   50
Quassia...............................  50
Khatany.............................   50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
„  “ 
“  Co..............  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Stromonlum.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVeride.................  50

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ACIDTJM.

s@  10
Acetlcum................... 
Benzoicum  German..  65®  75
ao
Boraclc 
....................  
Carbollcum..............  20®  30
Cltrlcum...................  52®  55
Hvdrochlor................  3®
Nltrocum 
.................   10®  12
Oxallcum...................  10®  12
Phosphorlum dll........ 
20
Salleyllcnm.................l  3o@l 70
Sulphnrlcum..............  1M@
Tannicum....................l  40®l 60
Tartari cum................  30®  33

AMMONIA.

Aqua, 16  deg..............  3M@
20  deg................5M@
Carbonas  ...................  12®  14
Chlorldum.................  12®  14

ANILINS.

Black........................... 2  00®2 25
Brown.........................  80@1 00
Red.............................   45®  50
Yellow........................ 2  50@3 00

BACCAB.

Cubeae (po  36)........  25®  30
Junlperus..................   8®  10
Zantnoxylum............   25®  30

BALSAMÜM.

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

CORTKX.

Abies,  Canadian...................  18
Casslae  ...............................  11
Cinchona F la v a .................   18
Bnonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca  Cerifera, po.............  20
Prunus Virglnl....................  12
Quillala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhlsa  Glabra...
" 
po...........
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is..............
“ 
“  Ms............
54«.............
" 
F E R R U
Carbonate Preelp........
Citrate and Qulnla—
Citrate  Soluble...........
Ferrocy anidum Sol —
Solut  Chloride...........
Sulphate,  com’l ..........
pure............

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24®  25 
33®  35 
11®
13®  14 
14®  15 
16®  17
®  15 
®3 50 
®  80 
®  50 
®  15 
.9®  2
®  7

Arnica.......................   18®  20
Anthemls...................  30®  35
Matricaria 
......   50®  65

roi.iA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-

...................  18®  50
nlvelly........  .........   25®  28
Alx.  35®  50
and  Ms....................   15®  S>
...................  8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
UraUrsl 

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SOMMI.

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11 

Acacia, 1st  picked—   ®  60
2d 
....  @ 40
3d 
....  ®  30
sifted sorts...  ®  20
po.................  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
Socotrl, (po.  60).  @  50
Catechu, la, (Ms, 14 Ms,
16)............................  ®  1
Ammoniac.................  55®  60
Assafcetlda, (po. 35)..  40®  45
Bensolnum.................  50®  55
Campitone...................  50®  55
Buphorblum  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum...................  @2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70®  7b
Gualacum, (po  35) —   @  30
Kino,  (po  1  10).........   @1  15
M astic.......................   @  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  ®  40
Opll  (po  3 70)............2 90®3 00
Shellac  ......................  45®  42
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth................  40@1  00

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hbbba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia*................................   25
Majorom.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................   23
“  V lr.........................  25
Rne.......................................  80
Tanaoetnm, V......................  22
Thymus,  V ..........................  25

MASNBSIA.

Calcined, Pat..............   55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M__  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennlng5..  35®  36

OXiBUM.

Absinthium................ 3  50®4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarao___8 00®8 25
Anlsl............................1  70®1 80
Aurantl  Cortex...........2  30@2 40
Bergamll  ...................3  2S®3 50
Cajlputl.................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll...............   75®  80
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodll................  @1  60
Clnnamonll.................l  io@l 15
Cltronella...................  ®  45
Conlnm  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba  ....................   80®  90

f   w

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*  4

75@1 00

Cubebae........................   ® 
Bxechthltos..............  2 50@2  75
Brlgeron.........................2 00@2 10
Ganltherla......................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......   @  7T
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal......  70®  71
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............. 1  00®1  10
Myrcla, ounce............   ®  50
Olive............................  90@3 00
Plcls Liquida, (gal. .35)  10®  12
Ricini.......................   1  22®1  28
Rosmarini.................  
Rosae, ounce............   6 50®8 50
Sucdnl........  .............  40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
San tal  .......................3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
Slnapis, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tiglfi..........................   ®  90
Thyme.......................   40®  60
opt  ...  .........   ®  60
Iheobromas...............   15®  20
POTASSIUM.
is®  18
BiCarb...  .................  
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide.................... 
40®  43
Carb............................ 
ia®  15
Chlorate  (po  23®25)..  24®  26
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide......................... 2 90®3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27®  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @  15
Potass Nltras, opt......   8®  10
7®  9
Potass Ultras.............. 
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po................ 
is®  18

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RADIX.

Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................   12®  15
Arum,  po....................  ®  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......  
8®  10
Glychrrhlsa, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
( p o . 8 5 ) . ...........   @  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po....  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po................... 1  60® 1  75
Iris  plox (po. 35®38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   40®  45
Maranta,  Me..............  ®  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhel............................  75@1  00
“  out......................  @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. 85)............   10® 12
Symplocarpus,  Fcetl-
  ®  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a .................... 
18® 20
Zingiber  j ................... 
18® 20

dus,  po............... 

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SBMBN.

Anlaum,  (po.  20)..  ...  ®  15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  15®  18
Bird, Is.......................... 
4®  6
Carni, (po. 18)..............   10® 12
Cardamon....................1 
oo@l 25
Corlandrum.................   10® 12
Cannabis Satlva.........   4® 
5
Cy doni um....................   7501 00
Chenopodio»  .............  10® 12
Dlpterix Odorate.........2 25®2 50
Foenlcnlum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........  
6®  8
L ini................. 
...  4  @ 4M
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 8M) ■..  3M®  4
Lobelia.........................  35® 40
Pharlarls Canarian__  3  @4
R apa.............................  6®  7
Slnapis  Albu............   7  ® 8
r  Migra...........  11®  12

SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W.,D.  Co. .2 00@2 50
D. F. R...... 1  75@2 00
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T ___1 65@2 00
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Saacharum  N.  B .........1 75®2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............1 75®6 50
Vini Oporto.................1 
Vini  Alba................... 1 

1 
1 

25@1 50
75®3 50

25@2 00
25@2 00

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Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 50®2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ................. 
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage................... 
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage .......................  
65
75
Hard for  slate  u b b__ 
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se.......................... 
l  40

STBUPS.

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferrl Iod......................... 
  50
Aurantl  Cortes....................   50
Rhel  Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega.................................  50
Sdllae..................................   50
“  Co.............................   50
Toiatan...............................  50
Pranas  vlrg.........................  50

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THE  MICHIGAN"  TRADESMAN,

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT.

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

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

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

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

BAKING  POWDER. 

2 doz  “   
1 doz  “   
Posfon.

Acme.
4  lb. cane, 3 doz...............  
45
2  “  ................  75
4  lb.  “ 
1  “  .................  1 00
11b.  “ 
Bulk...................................   10
Arctic.
55
4  ft cans 6 doz  case.........  
4 f t "   4 doz “ 
............  1  10
i  B>  “ 
2 00
5  lb  “ 
9 00
5 os. cans, 4 doz. in case...  80 
16 “
.2 00 
40 
Red Star, 14 ft cans.........
“  H ft  “ 
........
75 
1 ft  “  ........
“ 
1  40 
45 
Teller’s,  4  lb. cans, dos. 
85
4  lb.  “
“ 
l  no
lib .  “
“ 
45
4 lb4  lb  cans. 
1  50
1 lb cans 
T>r. Price’s.
per doz 
Dime cans..  95 
.1 40 
4-oz 
6-oz
2 00 
.2 60 
3- oz 
.3 90 
12-oz 
.5 00 
16-oz 
24-lb
12 00 
18 25 
lb
4- 
22 75 
lb  
5- 
41  80
10-lb

o*mces
CREAM
Baking
nowden
•fcsw.ru a«*

Our Leader. M lb cans.... 

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen In case.

BLUING. 

English...............................  90
Bristol..................................  SO
Domestic.............................   TO
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 ban  ..................   4 50
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........  3 60
“ 
8 oz..........6 80

8 os 

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BROOMS,

............................2 00

<40. 2 Hurl...............................  1 75
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet...........................   2 25
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem.......................... 2 75
Common Whisk  ...............  
80
Fancy 
.................  100
Warehouse.......................... 3 00

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BRU8HES.

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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..................  l 50

CANDLES.

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

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CANNED  GOODS.

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Fish.
Clams.
Little Neck,  1 lb...................... i 20
2 lb......................l 90
Standard, 3 lb.......................... 2 25
Standard,  1 lb....................   75
21b.................... 145
Lobsters.

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Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Star,  1  lb.................................2 45
“  2  lb................................. 8 50
Picnic, 1 lb............................... 2 00
“ 
21b................................2 90

Salmon.
“ 

Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb..................... 1  10
2  lb ....................2  10
Mustard.  2 lb ..................... 2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb .................2 25
Soused, 2  lb.........................2 25
Columbia River, 
flat........1  80
tails.......... 1 65
Alaska, Red..............................1 25
pink..............................1 10
Kinney’s,  flats......................... 1 95
Sardines.
American  Ms.....................44® s
4 s .................... 64® 7
“ 
Imported  14s ....................   @10
„   “ 
4 s ........................15® 16
Mustard  Ml......................  7©8
Boneless  ......................... 
21
Brook, 8 lb...........................2 50 j

Trout.

Fruite.
Apples.

Gages.

l  10 
3  10

Peaches.

Cherries.

3 lb. standard......
York State, gallons  ... 
Hamburgh.
Apricots.
Live oak.....................
1  40 
Santa Crus.................
1  40
1 so
Lusk’s ........................
1  10
Overland..................
Blackberries.
F. A  W....................... 
90
Red.............................1  10@1 25
1  75
Pitted Hamburgh...... 
W hite......................... 
1  50
Erie............................ 
1  30
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
E rie............................ 
1  20
1  40
California................... 
Gooseberries.
Commo n .................... 
1  25
P ie............................  
90
Maxwell.................... 
1 25
Shepard’s ...................
California..................   160®1  75
.................
Monitor 
Oxford.......................
Pears.
Domestic....................  
1  25
Riverside.................... 
1  75
Pineapples.
Common..................... 1 00@1 30
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
2 50
2 75
grated........ 
Booth’s sliced............  @2 5)
grated..........  @2 75
Quinces.
Commo n .................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
Red............................. 
110
Black  Hamburg.........  
1 50
Erie,  black 
1  ¿0
.......  
Strawberries.
1  25
Lawrence................... 
Hamburgh................. 
1  25
Erie............................  
1  20
1  05
Terrapin....................... 
Whortleberries.
85
Blueberries...............  
Corned  beef  Libby’s.........1  95
Roast beef  Armour’s.........180
Potted  ham, 4  lb...............l  40
6 75
“  14 lb.................  85
“ 
tongue, 4  lb..................1 35
“ 
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41 b ..........   85
“ 
chicken, 4  lb..........   95

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Vegetables.

Meats.

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Beans.

“ 

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“ 
“ 

2 50

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Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless.........1  25
French style....... 2 25
Limas..................1  35
Lima, green........................ l  25
soaked.....................   65
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 36
Bay State  Baked......................1 35
World’s  Fair  Baked........... 1  86
Picnic Baked.............................1 00
Hamburgh..........................1 40
Livingston  Eden............... 1 20
Purity..................................
Honey  Dew........................ 1 40
Morning Glory...................
Soaked...............................  
75
Hamburgh  marrofat........... 1  35
early June........
Champion Eng.. 1 50
petit  pois..........1  75
fancy  sifted.... 1  90
Soaked.................................  75
9
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  io
early June.......1 30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__1  25
French................................ 2  15
French..............................19®21
Erie.................................... 
85
Hubbard..............................1  15
Hambnrg.............................. 1 40
Soaked................................  85
Honey  Dew..........................1  50
Erie......................................1  35
Hancock.............................. 1  15
Excelsior . ...........................
Eclipse.................................
Hamburg............................
Gallon.................... 
Baker’s.

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

CHOCOLATE.
German Sweet............ 
23
. 
Premium..........................  
37
Breakfast Cocoa.............. 
43
Amboy.......................   @13 jf
Acme..........................  124©13
Lenawee....................   © 124
Riverside................... 
134
Gold  Medal...............   ©114
6©10
Skim........................... 
Brick..........................  
11
100
Edam  ........................  
Leiden.......................  
23
Llmbnrger  ................  ©10
f it
Pineapple................... 
Roquefort.................  ©85

CHEESE.

Tomatoes.

3 50

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

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CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

“ 

Half  pint, 25 bottles...........2 75
Pint 
............ 4 50
Quart 1 doz bottles 
.. .8 50 
Half pint, per  doz.............1  35
Pint, 25 bottles................... 4 50
Quart, per  doz  ...................3 75

Triumph Brand.

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes.................44@45

COCOA  SHELLS.

35 lb  bags......................  ©3
Less quantity...............   6 3 4
Pound  packages.......... 64©7

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

Pair.....................................18
Good...................................19
Prime................................. 21
Golden................................21
Peaberry............................23
Fair.................................... 19
Good...................................20
Prim e.................................22
Peaberry  ............................ 23
Mexican and Guaiaraala.
F air.................................... 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 4c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent,  for shrink­
age.
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX  24 45
Bnnola  ......... 
23  95
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case....  24 45 

Package.
 

Extract.

Valley City 4  gross..........  
75
... 
Felix 
1  15
Hummel's, foil, gross........  1  50
“ 
........  2 50

“ 

“ 

tin 
CHICORY.

CLOTHES  LINES.

CONDENSED  MILK. 

4 dot. In case.

Bulk...
Red

“ 

Cotton.  40 ft 
50 ft
60 ft 
70 ft 
80 ft 
60 ft 
72 ft

Jute

per dos.  1  25

“ 
“ 
“ 
•• 
“ 

“ 

140
1 60
1 75
1 90
85

1  00

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.

COUPON  BOOKS.

‘•Tradesman.’

‘
‘
‘

6«
66
66
66

8  1  books, per hundred  ...  2 00
8 2
...  2 50
8 8
. . .   8 00
....  8 00
8 6 
....  4 «
810 
820 
....  5 00
9  1 books, per hundred  ...  2 50
8 2
...  3 00
8 3
....  3 50
8 5 
....  4 00
810
....  5 00
820 
...  6 00

6» 
I« 
6» 
•« 
"Superior.”
66 
II 
Il 
66 
• 1 

(1
66
II
II
••

‘
‘

Universal ”

*•
“
•«
“
“

8  1  books, per hundred...  83 00
8 2
....  8 50
8 3
....  4 00
8 5
....  5 00
810
.  6 00
820
....  7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5 per cent 
500 
“ 
1000  “ 

..10 
.20 

“ 
“ 

“
“

COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
ICan  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810_ down. |
20 books.........................8 1  00
 
“ 
2 00
50 
100  “ 
..........................  8 00
6 25
 
“ 
250 
500 
“ 
 
10 00
1000 
“ 
 
17 50

 
 
 
 

CREDIT  CHECKS.

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

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

CRACKERS.

Batter.

Seymour XXX........................54
Seymonr XXX, cartoon........ 6
Family  XXX......................  54
Family XXX,  cartoon........6
Salted XXX...........................54
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........6
Kenosha 
..........................   74
Boston....................................7
Butter  blscnlt....................  6
Soda, XXX.........................  54
Soda, City............................  74
Soda,  Duchess....................  84
Crystal Wafer...................... 104
Long  Island Wafers........... 11
S. Oyster  XX X...................  54
City Oyster. XXX...................54
Farina  Oyster....................   6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure......................  30
Teller’s Absolute..............  30
Grocers’............................ 15©26

DRIED  FRUITS. 

7
7*%
11
14
144
8

Domestic.
Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

Apricots.

Sundried, sliced In bbls. 
quartered  “ 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags........ 
Evaporated in boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes...................... 
Nectarines.
TO lb. bags...................... 10
251b. boxes.................... 104
Peeled, In  boxes..........
 
Cal. evap.  “ 
“ 
Pears.
California In bags 
Pitted Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
25 “ 

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

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

104

“ 

“ 

 

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.

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

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

Bonders’.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
2oz  __8  75
4o*......   1  50

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz......81  20
4 oz......2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz......81  50
4 oz......  3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2oz......81  75
4 oz...... 3 50

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

“ 
“ 

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

 

INDIGO.

Madras,  5 lb. boxes  ........ 
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
17  lb. palls.................  ©
30  “ 

JELLY .
................  ©  7

55
50

“ 
LICORICE.

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

LYE.
Condensed,  2 dos...............l  25
4 doz............... 2 25
No. 9  sulphur..................... 1  65
Anchor parlor.....................1  TO
No. 2 home..........................1  io
Export  parlor.....................4 00

MATCHES.

“ 

MINCE  MEAT.

Foreign.
Currants.

Peel.

“ 
11 

Patras,  In barrels.......... 
24
2^
in  4 -bbls............... 
3
In less quantity__  
cleaned,  bulk........  5
cleaned,  package.. 
54 

Citron, Leghorn. 251b. boxes  20 
Lemon 
io
Orange 
li

25  “ 
25  “ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
Raisins.

Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes..  © 74
“ 
Sultana, 20 
© 8
Valencia, 30  “

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Prunes.
California,  100-120 ...............  64
90x100 25 lb.  bxs. 64
80x90 
.. 8
70x80 
84
. 9
60x70 

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

No.  1,64........................   81  76
No.  2, 6 4 ........................   1  60
1, 6........................   1  65
No. 
No. 
2, 6........................   1  50
XX  wood, white.

No. 1,6 4 ..........................   135
No. 2 ,6 4 ..........................  1  25

“ 
“ 

Manilla, white.

64  ...................................   1 00
6........................................  
95

Oatmeal.

Lima  Beans.

Farina.
Hominy.

Mill No. 4.........................  100
FARINACEOU8 GOODS. 
100 lb. kegs................... 
34
Barrels........................ 8 00
Grits.................................. 8 50
Dried............................   34@4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported....................TO4©. 1
Barrels 200........................  4 25
Half barrels 100................  2 25
Kegs..................................   24
Green,  bu.........................   1 25
Split  per l b ................ 24@3
Barrels  180.................  ©4  25
Half  bbls 90..............  @2 25
German.............................   4%
Bast India..........................   5
Cracked.............................. 

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

6

Coin.

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

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Pollock..........................
Whole, Grand  Bank......  5®54
Boneless,  bricks.............. 6@8
Boneless,  strips................6@8
Smoked......................... 11@124

H alibut.
Herring.
“ 
“ 

Holland, white hoops keg 

70
bbf  9 so

;; 

 

 

Norwegian........................
Round, 4  bbl 100 lbs.......   2 40
4   “  40  “ 
..........    1 25
Scaled...................... 
20
Mackerel.

“ 

No. 1,  100 lbs...........................u  00
No. 1,40 lbs..............................4 to
No. 1,  10 lbs............................  1 SO
No. 2,100 lbs............................ 7 75
No. 2,40 lbs..............................3 50
No. 2,10 lbs....................... 
Family, 90 lbs.........................  6 00

92
10  lb s..................  70

“ 

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case.  2 75 
Pie  preparation,  3 doz.  in 
case............................... .  300

MEASURES.  '
Tin, per dosen.

1  gallon  ..........................   81  75
Half  gallon......................  1  40
Q uart...............................  
TO
Pint..................................  
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 25

 

Sardines.

Trout.

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

55

Wblteflsb.

No. 1, 4  bbls., lOOlbs............6 01
No. 1 4  bbl, 40  lbs...................2 75
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs..................  80
No.  1,8 lb  kits....................  68
Family 
4  bbls, 100 lbs..........87 50 83 50
4   “  40  “  ..........  3 50  1 65
101b.  kits...................  90  50
..........  75  45
81b. 

No. 1

“ 

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba 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
30
18
22
27
32
40

PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count... 
Half bbls, 600  count.. 
Barrels, 2,400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 

Small.

©4 50
0 2  76
S 50
3 25

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216.........................1 70
“  T. D. full count...........  70
Cob, No. 8. . . . ....................... 1 20

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

“ 
“ 

Babbitt’s ...........................  8 75
PennaSalt  Co.’s...............  3 00

RICE.
Domestic.
Carolina head........................6
No. 1..................... 5K
No. 2....................   5
Broken...............................   4
Imported.
Japan, No. 1..........................5ft
No. 2..................... 5
Java............................... 
6
Patna..................................   5M

ft 

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 

Allspice...............................  9m
Cassia, China in mats........  8
“  Batavia in bund___ 15
Saigon in rolls.........32
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“  Zanzibar...................!1M
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................... 18
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon.................... 35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“ 
Zanzibar................ 18
Ginger, African................... 16
”•  Cochin.................... 20
Jam aica................22
" 
Mace  Batavia...................... 65
Mustard, Bng. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste.................... 25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
“  white...... 24
Cayenne................20
Sage......................................20

‘‘ 
“ 
"Absolute” In Packages.

Ms  Ms
Allspice......................  84  1  56
Cinnamon..................   84  155
Cloves.........................  84  155
Ginger,  Jamaica.......   84  1  55
“  African...........   84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  155
Pepper.......................   84  156
Sage.............................  84

SAL  SODA.

Kegs...................................  1M
Granulated,  boxes..............  1M

SEEDS.

Anise......................... 
Canary, Smyrna......... 
Caraway....................  
Cardamon, Malabar... 
Hemp,  Russian.........  
Mixed  Bird 
............. 
Mustard,  white.........  
Poppy......................... 
Cuttle  bone...............
STARCH.

015
4
8
90
4%
506
10
9
30

“ 

Corn.
20-lb  boxes......................... 5*
......................... ■  5M
40-lb 
Gloss.
1-lb packages......................
...................... •  »M
8-lb 
•  &M
6-lb 
...................... •  6*
40 and 50 lb. boxes............ SM
Barrels............................... -  3M

« 
“ 

SNUFF.

Scotch, In  bladders........... .87
Maccabov, In jars.............. .35
French Rappee, In Jars__ .43

SODA,

Boxes................................ ..6M
Kegs, English.................... • •4M

SALT.
100 3-lb. sacks.................... 62 25
60 5-lb.  “ 
.................... 2 00
28 10-lb. sacks................... 1  85
2014-lb.  “ 
.................... 2 25
24 3-lb  cases...................... 1  50
56 lb. dairy In linen  bags.. 
32
28 lb.  “ 
drill  “  16
18
32
18
75

56 lb. dairy in drill  bags... 
281b.  “ 
..
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..

Warsaw.

“ 

ft 

Ashton.
Higgins.

56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks.

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

Soiar Rock.
Common Fine.

Saginaw..........................
Manistee.........................
SALERATUS.

75

27

75
75

Packed 60 lbs. In box.
Church’s ...........................
5M
DeLand’s .......................... .  5M
Dwight’s ......... 
............... •  6M
Taylor’s ............................. .  5

1  A

v.

A

4   |  ¥

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V  ^

f   m

Y'  W

9  «

K

n 

.w 

¥

V

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¥

k  *  *

“ 

“ 

Single box.........................  3 95
5 box lots, delivered......... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered........  3 75
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.’s Brands. 
American  Family, wrp’d. .$4 00 
plain...  8 94
N.  E.  Fairbank A 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  .................................400

Thompson A Chute Brands.

SILVER, 
SOAP  j

Silver.................................. 3 ti5
Mono.................................. 3 35
Savon Improved................   2 50
Sunflower...........................3 05
Golden  ............................... 3 25
Economical  .......................  2 25

Sapolio,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 ou the act­
ual cost in New  York,  with  30 
cents per 100 pounds added  for 
freight.  The  same  quotations 
will not apply to any townwhere 
the freight rate from New York 
Is  not  30  cents,  but  the  local 
quotations will, perhaps, afford 
a better criterion of the  market 
than to quote New York  prices 
exclusively.
Cut  Loaf............................ 85 48
Powdered.................................4 92
Granulated 
.....................   4 55
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 6f
Cubes  .................................4  92
XXXX  Powdered..................   5 30
Confec. Standard  A____   4 42
No. 1  Columbia A..............   4 36
No. 5 Empire  A...................4 30
No.  6....................................4 24
No.  7.................................... 4  17
No.  8...................................  4 05
No.  9.............................. 
No.  10.................................   3 92
No.  11.................................   3 86
No.  12.................................  3 80
No.  13.................................. 3 87
No 14..................................   3 55

 

3 99

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................. 17
Half bbls.............................. 19
F air.....................................   19
Good....................................  25
Choice..................................  30

Pure Cane.

TABLE  SAUCES.

“ 

Lea & Perrin’s, large___  4 75
small........  2 75
Halford, large.........................3 75
small.....................2 25
Salad Dressing, la rg e........ 4 55
*' 
small........ 2 65

*• 
“ 

TEAS.

SU N  C U BED .

BASKXT  F IR E D .

jaf an—Regular.
F air...............................   ©17
Good.............................. 
020
Choice..........................24  026
Choicest...................... 32  034
Dust............................10  012
F air...............................   ©17
Good.............................  
020
Choice..........................24  ©26
Choicest.......................32  034
Dust.............................10  ©12
F air.............................18  020
Choice............................  ©25
Choicest......................... 
085
Extra choice, wire leaf 
040
G U N PO W D ER.
Common to fair.......... 25  035
Extra fine to finest___50  065
Choicest fancy............75  085
©26
Common to fair.......... 23  030
Common to fair.......... 23  026
Superior to fine............30  035
Common to fair...........18  026
Superior to  fine.......... 30  040
F air.............................18  ©22
Choice......................... 24  028
Best.............................40  060

oolong. 
IM PE R IA L .

young HYSON.

EN G LISH   B R E A K FA ST .

Plug.

Sorg’s Brands.

Spearhead......................  
Joker.............................. 
Nobby Twist....................  
Scotten’s Brands.
Kvlo................................. 
Hiawatha........................  
Valley City..................... 
Flnzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty...................  
Jolly Tar 
....................  
Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8 oz., 41c)_____ 
Green Turtle................... 
27
Three Black Crows... 
J. G. Butler’s Brands.
Something Good........ 
38
Out of  Sight................... 
Wilson A McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope...................... 
Happy Thought.  ...........  
Messmate........................ 
No Tax............................  
Let  Go............................  

39
27
40
26
38
34
40
32
39
30

26
43
37
32
31
27

Smoking.

Gatlin’s  Brands.

Kiln  dried........................17018
Golden  Shower................... 19
Huntress  ........................... 26
Meerschaum  ..................   29030
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy........................40
Stork  ............................ 30032
German............................... 15
F ro g ....................................33
Java, Mb foil..................    32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish.............. 38
Gold Cut 
...........................28

Scotten’s Brands.

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

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle  Sam.....................28032
Red Clover...........................32

Spaulding A Merrick.

Tom and Jerry.....................25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Buck Horn...........................30
Plow  Boy...................... 30032
Corn  Cake...........................16

VINEGAR.

40 gr..............................7  ©8
50 gr............................8  ©9

61 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  A  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green............................  202M
0   3 0  3*
Part Cured 
Full
Dry.............................   4  0  5
Kips, green  ...............   2  0  3
0  4
Calfskins,  green........  3  0  4
cured........  5M0 7
Deacon skins........... ..10 025

“  cured................. 

H ID E S .

No. 2 hides M off.
FX L T 8.

W OOL.

M I S C E L L A N E O U S .

Shearlings............... ..  5 0   20
.................. ..15 @  50
Lambs 
Washed................... ..12 @16
Unwashed........— ..  8 @12
Tallow.................... ..  4 0   5
Grease butter  ........ ..  1 0  2
Switches................. -•  1H© a
Ginseng.................. . .2 0002 50
Badger.......................  800100
B ear.......................15 00025 00
Beaver.......................3  0o@7 00
Cat, wild....................  500  75
Cat. house.................  100  25
Fisher.......................  3 0006 00
Fox,  red................... 1  0001 40

F U R S .

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb........... 3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb.............. 3 90
White Borax, 100  M-lb........3 65

Proctor A Gamble.

“ 

Concord............................. 3 45
Ivory, 10  oz.......................6 75
6  oz......................... 4 00
Lenox 
............................   3 65
Mottled  German............... 3  15
Town Talk.........................3 25

F lu e  Cut.

TOBACCOS.

TETE  MICHIGAN  TTLAJDESM^JST.
Fox, cross..................3  0005 00
SOAP.
Fox,  grey.............  500 
70
la u n d r y .
Lynx......................... 1  0002 50
Martin, dark.............1  0003 00
pale A yellow.  7501  00
00
Mink, dark...........  2501 
Muskrat................  30 
13
Oppossum.............  50 
15
Otter, dark  ..............5 00010 00
Raccoon..............   300 
75
Skunk  ......................1  0001  25
W olf......................... 1  0002 00
Beaver  castors, lb__  @5 00
Above  prices  are  for  No.  1 
furs only.  Other grades at cor­
responding prices.
Thin and  green............  
Long gray, dry.............. 
................... 
Gray, dry 
Red and Blue, dry 
... 
WOODENWARE.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet..............30  032
Tiger..........................  
31
D. Scotten & Co’s Brands.
60
Hiawatha................... 
Cuba........................... 
34
Rocket.......................  
80
Spaulding A Merrick's  Brands. 
Sterling
~ 
30
Private Brands.
Bazoo.........................
©30
Can  Can......................
027
Nellie  Bly..................24  @25
Uncle Ben............ ......24  @25
McGlnty.........................  
25
Dandy Jim ......................  
Torpedo.......................... 
Yum  Yum  ....................  
1892 .................................. 
“  drum s............... 

deerskins—per pound.

“  M bbls.........  

in  drums.... 

27
29
24
28
23

10
10
15
25

23

22

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Dlngman Brands.

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SAUSAGE.

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:
Mess,............  
14  00
Short c u t..................................................  
14  25
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  16 00
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat back...........................................   15 00
Boston clear, short cut................................  15  50
Clear back, short cut...................................   15 50
Standard clear, short cut. best................. 
16 00
7X
Pork, links............................................. 
5M
Bologna.................................................. 
L iv e r................................................ 
6
SM
Tongue.................................................. 
6
Blood..................................................... 
Head cheese.......................................... 
6
Summer.................................................. 
10
Frankfurts............................................. 
7M
Kettle  Rendered................. ..........................   9M
Granger............................................................83C
Family..............................................................6K
Compound......................................................  6M
Cottoline...................... .................................. 7k
50 lb. Tins, Me advance.
20 lb. pails, Me 
101b. 
“  3£c
“  Me 
5 lb. 
31b. 
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l c  

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BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

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Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs........................ 7 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing........................  7 00
Boneless, rump butts....................................  10 00
Hams, average 20 lbs.......................................  9M

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

16 lbs.........................................10
12 to 14 lbs................................10
picnic...................................................  8M
best boueless......................................   9
Shoulders......................................................   8
Breakfast Bacon  boneless.............................  11
Dried beef, ham prices..................................  10
Long Clears, heavy..........................................
Briskets,  medium................................ ..........   8

light................................................  8M

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DRY  SALT  MEATS.

TRIPE.

PICKEED  PIGS’  FEET.

Butts..............................................................   9
D. S. Bellies...................................................  12M
Fat Backs......................................................   10
Barrels............................................................  8 00
Kegs...............................................................  1 90
Kits, honeycomb...........................................   65
Kits, premium........................ 
55
BEEF  TONGUES.
Barrels............................................................22 00
Half barrels.................................................... 11 00
Per pound........... 
11
Dairy, sold packed.........................................   14
Dairy, rolls....................................................   14M
Creamery, solid packed.................................   18 m
Creamery, rolls........................................... 
  19

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FR E SH   B E E F .

C arcass...........................................................   5  @ 7
Fore  q u arters...............................................4M 0  5
H ind quarters...............................................6  @  6M
Loins No. 3.............................................8  @10
R ibs.................................................................7  0   9
R o u n d s .........................................................   5  @ 6
Chucks............................................................ 
0  4M
P la te s .............................................................  
0  4m
D ressed ................ 
6M06M
L oins.......   .........................................  
8
Shoulders  ..................................................... 
63£
Leaf L ard ......................................................  
Ium
C a rc a ss..........................................................  6  0   6M
Lam bs.............................................................  
Carcass  ..........................................................  

F R E S H   PO R K .
 

0  6
0  7

MUTTON.

VEAL.

 

CROCKERY AND  GLASSWARE. 

LA M P  B U R N E R S.

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

lamp chimneys.  Per box.

6 doz. in box.

First quality.
“ 
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XXX Flint.
“ 
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No. 0 Sun......................................................... 1  75
No.l  “  ..........................................................1  88
No. 2  “  ......................................................... 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.......................................2  10
“  ........................................ 2 25
No. 1  “ 
No.2  “ 
.................................8 25
" . . .  
No. 0 Sun, crimp top............................................2 60
No. 1  “ 
No.2  “ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled.........................8 70
“ 
No.2  “ 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.............................1 25
No.2  “ 
....................... 150
No. 1 crimp, per doz....................................... 1  35
No.2 
“ 
........................................1  60

“  ........................................ 2 80
“  ........................................ 3 80

Pearl top.

4 70
4  88

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No. 0, per  grosB..............................................   23
28
No. 1, 
No  2, 
38
No. 3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz..........................................  75
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................   06
“ 
“  M gal. per doz......................  60
Jugs, M gal., per doz...................................   70
"  1 to 4 gal., per gal................................   07
Milk Pans, M gal., per doz..........................  60
“ 
.........................  72

STONEW ARE— A K RO N .

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STONEW ARE— BLACK  GLA ZED .

Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal.........................  07
Milk Pans, M gal..........................................  96
........................................   78

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

Tubs,  No. 1.......................   6 00
“  No. 2....................... 5 50
“  No. 3.......................   4  50
1  30
“  No. 1,  three-hoop_  1  50
“  13  “ 
....................   90
“  15  “ 
.................... 1  25
....................   1  80
“  17  “ 
“ 
19  “ 
...................2 40
21  “ 
...................
shipping  bushel.,  l  15
..  1  25
full hoop  “ 
No.2 6 25

“ 
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“ willow cl’ths, No.l 5 25
“ 
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“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3 75
“ 
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Baskets, market............  35

No.2 4 25
No.3 4 75

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splint 

INDURATED WARE.

Palls..................................  3  15
Tubs,  No.  1............................ 13 50
Tubs, No. 2............................. 12 00
Tubs, No. 3............................. 10 50

Butter Plates—Oval.

Washboards—single.

250  10«
No.  1......................... 
60  2  10
No  2.........................  TO  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 FEEDSTUFF8

Double.

WHEAT.

HEAL.

FLOUR IN  SACKS.

53 
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 
53
Bolted...............................  1  40
^Granulated.......................  1  65
♦Patents............................  2  15
♦Standards.......................   1  65
♦Straight..........................   1  55
Bakers’..............................  1  35
♦Graham..  ......................  1 60
Rye....................................  1  60
♦Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

MILLSTUFFS.

Less

Car lots  quantity
Bran.............  614  00 
615 00
Screenings_  13  00 
12 50
16 00
Middlings.....  15  00 
16 50
Mixed Feed...  16 00 
Coarse meal 
.. 15 50 
16 50
CORN.
Car  lots..............................38M
Less than  car  lots............42
Car  lots.............................. 32M
Less than car lots.............. 35

HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__11  f>0
No.l 
ton lots..... 12 50

OATS.

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12M

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whltefish 
0   9
................. 
T ro u t........................   @  9
Black Bass................. 
Halibut.......................   @15
Ciscoes or Herring__ 
0   5
Bluefish......................  @15
Fresh lobster, per lb .. 
20
Cod.............................  
10
No. 1 Pickerel............   @10
Pike.  .........................  @8
Smoked  White...........  @10
12
Red  Snappers............. 
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ......................... 
12M
Mackerel....................   20025
oysters—Cans. 
Falrhaven  Counts —  
035
F. J. D.  Selects.........   @30
Selects.......................   @23
F. J. D...........t ...........   @23
Anchors...................... 
020
Standards...................  @18
Favorite.....................  @16
oysters—Bulk.
Extra Selects..per gal. 
Selects.......................  
1  40
Standards..................  
1  00
Counts....................... 
2 20
1  50
Scallops............. 
 
Shrimps  .................... 
1  25
Clams......................... 
1  25
SHELL Goons.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  2501  50
7501  00
Clams, 

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18

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

THE GOVERNMENT BOND  OFFER.
The  promiuent  event  in  the financial 
world has been  Secretary  Carlisle’s offer 
to the public of §50,000,000  ten-year five 
per cent,  bonds to  be  issued  under  the 
Resumption  act  of  Jan.  14,  1875. 
In 
order to  reduce  the  rate of  interest  on 
the bonds to three per cent, or less, their 
price is limited to a minimum of 117.223, 
and they are to be paid for  in  gold  coin. 
The  bids  for  them  will  be  received up 
to  Feb.  1  at  noon.  Although  the  act 
referred  to  by  the  Secretary  authorizes 
the bonds to be sold only  for  coin  with 
which to redeem the  old legal tenders, it 
is  commonly  understood  that  the  pro­
ceeds of  this issue  are  to be  devoted to 
meeting  the  deficiency 
in  the  public 
revenues for the current fiscal year.

That  the  whole  $50,000,000  of  bonds 
offered  will  be  taken  at  er  above  the 
price asked for  them is highly  probable, 
but how much  more  will  be  subscribed 
for, and by whom  and  at  what  rate,  is 
still a  matter  of conjecture.  Not many 
of them  are  likely  to  be  wanted  by the 
army of small  investors  who  during the 
war and until  the  resumption  of  specie 
payments were liberal subscribers at par 
for  the  various  issues  of  Government 
obligations. 
If they take the bonds now 
offered at the premium  put  upon  them, 
they will have to  keep a sort of  sinking 
fund account with them, crediting, every 
time they receive interest, a  part of it to 
the reimbursement of  their  capital  and 
only  the  remainder  to  income.  Thus, 
supposing  a man  to  pay the  Secretary’s 
upset  price,  $1,172.23  for  one  of  his 
$1,000 bonds,  he  will get $50 per year in 
interest,  but  at  the  end  of  ten  years, 
when the bond is paid off  at  par,  he will 
lose  172.23.  He  must,  therefore,  allow 
himself  as income out  of  the  $50  only 
three  per  cent,  on  $1,172.23, or $35.17, 
and lay by the other  $14.83  to  make  up 
the $172.23 at the end of ten years.  Even 
*  then  he  will  have,  unless  he  reinvests 
the  $14.83  year  by  year,  which  in  the 
case  of  so  small  an  amount  is  very 
troublesome if not impossible, only $148.- 
30 to offset the $172.23 premium invested 
at first, and will be out of  pocket $23.93. 
For this reason,  and because  of  the  dis­
like which most people  have to  keeping 
accounts of the kind  required,  the bonds 
will not be favorites with  the  public  at 
large.

Whether the national  banks will  sub­
scribe for many of the bonds  in  order to 
use them as security for circulating notes 
is doubtful.  As the law now stands only 
$900 in notes can be  issued  against  each 
81,000  bond  deposited,  leaving,  in  the 
case  of  these  new bonds,  $272.23  as  a 
margin.  Possibly some banks  may take 
them for the sake  of  getting  interest on 
their present unemployed stock of money, 
but against this must be  set  off  the  risk 
of loss when the  bonds  have  to  be  sold. 
Savings banks just  now have  not  much 
idle money to invest and  are  getting for 
what they have 4% per cent. On loans on 
bonds and mortgages.  The same may be 
said of insurance  and  trust  companies. 
A demand for the bonds  in  Europe  can­
not be  counted  on, since  money can  be 
invested  there  at  nearly 3 per  cent, as 
well  as  here.  Thus,  even  British  2% 
per cent, consols are a  shade  under  par, 
and  the  French Government  is  offering 
to  extend  for  eight  years,  at  3%  per 
cent., its  past  due  4>£  per  cents.  All 
kinds of municipal corporation  bonds in 
Great  Britain  are  also  selling  on  very 
nearly a  3  per  cent, basis,  and, besides,

owing  to  the  bad  business  of  recent, 
years, there is not at this monent in that 
country any great surplus of  uninvested j 
capital.  Then, again, the  bonds  offered j 
are  payable,  principal  and  interest, in j 
silver as well as  in  gold  coin, and  are, 
therefore, liable to be depreciated by fu­
ture legislation favorable to silver.  This 
is a point which European investors will 
not fail to consider.

The purchasers of the new bonds will, 
therefore,  be  mostly dealers  and  specu­
lators,  who remember that five years ago 
the Government 4s were  selling on a 2H 
per  cent,  basis,  and  that,  therefore,  a 
considerable profit is  in  sight  on  bonds 
bought on a  3  per  cent,  basis.  Against 
this must be  reckoned  the  possibility of 
further  issues  by  Secretary  Carlisle, 
which may possibly not find a ready sale, 
lie  needs  to-day  $30,000,000  with which 
to make up his $100,000,000 gold reserve, 
$5,000,000 and  more  for  sugar  bounties, 
and he has estimated the average monthly 
deficiency  in  the  national  revenues  to 
meet  ordinary  expenses  at  $7,000,000. 
The proceeds  of  his  present  issue will, 
therefore, carry him  on  only for  a  few 
months, and  then  he will  require  more 
money.

The amount of gold coin wanted to pay 
for the bonds when they are allotted will 
be  upward  of  $58,000,000,  the  greater 
part,  if  not  the  whole,  of  which  will 
probably  have  to  be  furnished  by our 
New York  banks;  but, as  they had  on 
Saturday  $123,630,100  in  coin,  mostly 
gold, and  $114,700,000  in  legal  tenders 
convertible  on  demand  into  gold,  and 
needed only $135,576,550  for  the  reserve 
required  by law  against  deposits,  it  is 
evident that they could spare a great deal 
more than $58,000,000, without having to 
call  in  any  part  of  their  loans.  The 
transaction ought not, therefore, to have 
a depressing effect upon  the  stock  mar­
ket,  but why it  should  cause  a  rise  in 
prices is not clear.

The remarkable  fact  attending  Secre­
tary  Carlisle’s  announced  intention  of 
using the proceeds of the bonds  for  cur­
rent  expenses  is  the  complacency and 
even  approbation,  notwithstanding  its 
palpable  illegality,  with  which  it  is 
viewed  in  this  section  of  the  country. 
Nobody can  have  the  audacity  to  main­
tain that the resumption act of  1875 was 
passed with the intention of enabling the 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury  to  obtain 
money for  any  other  purpose  than  the 
redemption of the old legal tender notes, 
and the perversion of it into  a  means  of 
providing for a  deficiency in  the  public 
revenue can  be  j ustified  only by an im­
perious necessity like that which, during 
the war, justified the  suspension  of  the 
writ of  habeas  corpus. 
In  aiding  and 
abetting the Secretary in this high-handed 
assumption of unlawful power, our Wall 
street financial  magnates  are  striking  a 
blow at the  respect  for  law which is the 
great safeguard of property.

The first  step  toward  this  latest  per­
version of the Resumption act was taken 
by Secretary Sherman in 1878,  when  he 
accumulated in the Treasury $100,000,000 
and more in gold, not  for the purpose of 
redeeming the legal tenders,  but for that 
of preventing  their  redemption  by  pre­
venting  their  presentation.  He  rea­
soned, sagaciously, that when people saw 
that he was prepared to redeem the notes 
as fast as they offered them  they  would 
not want them redeemed, but would hold 
I them with confidence in their value.  The 
' next step was  taken  by  Secretary  Man-

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ning  in  1885,  when  he  converted  Sec­
retary  Sherman’s  personal device into a 
Treasury regulation which  soon came to 
be regarded and has ever since  been  re­
garded by most people as an act  of  Con­
gress, fixing the amount of  the  gold  re­
serve fund at $100,000,000.  Now  comes 
Secretary  Carlisle  and  asserts  his  right 
both  to  maintain  the  $100,000,000  gold 
reserve by the sale of bonds, and  to  de­
plete it at pleasure when he needs money 
for pensions, salaries,  river  and  harbor 
improvements, or any  other Government 
expenditures.  That  he  should  be  sus­
tained in this course by  partisan  politi­
cians is not so very surprising,  but  that 
he should be sustained by  solid  and  re­
spectable citizens is a symptom of  a cor­
rupted public conscience.

The  Senators,  who  by  their  factious 
opposition to the legislation  which  Sec­
retary  Carlisle  asked  for  in  December, 
and again a week  ago, to  enable  him  to 
pay  the  nation’s  expenses,  have  given 
him  the  excuse  for  his  present  threat­
ened violation of law, also  deserve  con­
demnation,  and  it  is  much  to  be  re­
gretted  that the Chairman of  the Senate 
Committee on Finance, to whom the Sec­
retary  last  appealed,  did  not  introduce 
the bill he suggested and let the country 
see who was really to blame for the  fail­
ure of the  Treasury  to  meet  its  obliga­
tions.  This, however,  does  not  justify 
Secretary Carlisle in what he proposes to 
do.  He is bound to obey the laws as  he 
finds them, and if  obedience to them  re­
sults in temporary  national  insolvency, 
he must submit to it. 
If  he  carries  out 
the  purpose  with  which  he  is  now 
credited,  and diverts  the  gold  he  is  at­
tempting  to  procure  to  any  other  use 
than that for which alone the  law  gives 
him even the color  of  authority  to  pro­
cure it, he should be treated  as  a  crim­
inal by all right-minded citizens. 
It has 
been suggested  that  he  can  accomplish 
the diversion without violating the letter 
of the law by the  device  of  a  collusive 
redemption with gold of  legal tenders to 
any amount he desires, and then  paying 
out the legal tenders in place of the gold. 
The  futility of  a trick like this to shield 
him from the charge of disregarding  the 
law is apparent.  What cannot  lawfully 
be done directly  cannot  be done by indi­
rection.  Nor  could  the  trick  be  prac­
tised on a scale large enough to  make  it 
practically serviceable.  Getting together 
the amount of legal tenders which would 
be necessary for the  purpose  would  de­
range all the business of the country and 
would speedily be stopped  by those who 
have the power to stop  it.

Ma t t h e w  Ma r sh a ll.

J a c k so n   Jo ttin g s.

James  Greenwood  has  reopened  the 
Junction Store with a line  of  groceries, 
which he will try to sell on  the  C. O. D. 
plan.
H. M. Smith has  purchased  the  stock 
and fixtures from  Mr. Seward, corner of 
Oakhill street and  Stewart  avenue,  and 
will try his luck in the grocery business.
Grant L. Dunlap has  leased  the  store 
lately occupied  by Q. Walker, corner  of 
East  Main  and Van  Dorn  streets,  and 
will open a full line  of  groceries, which 
were  purchased  from  Phelps,  Brace & 
Co. and other houses in Detroit.

Touching a man’s  conscience does not 
amount to much.  When  you  touch  his 
pocketbook there is business to attend to.
When people have only a little religion 
they are apt to be ashamed of it.

MEN  OF  M ARK.

O.  G.  A .  V oigt,  th e   M iller  W h o  T urns 

G rain  in to  G old.

C. G. A. Voigt was  born  in  the Prov­
ince of Saxony, Prussia, in the year 1833. 
In 1847 the family emigrated to America, 
settling In Michigan City, Ind.  The boy 
had little liking for  his  father’s calling, 
which was  farming, so  he  soon  quit  it 
and went into a grocery store as “boy  of 
all work.”  As  a  boy he  gave little evi­
dence of  the remarkable business sagac­
ity which hus since made him so success­
ful in business.  As illustrating this Mr. 
Voigt  tells  this  story  on  himself:  On 
one occasion while in  the  grocery store, 
his employer,  Colonel Taylor, gave  him 
25 cents and sent him out  to  buy  a  fish 
for  the  family dinner.  He  soon  came 
across a fish peddler, and asked the price 
of a fish of rather large size and was told

before the firm began  looking about  for 
a new  and  larger  field.  Grand  Rapids 
was finally decided upon  as  the  new lo­
cation,  and  so,  in  1870,  Mr.  Herpol- 
sheimer came here and started a dry goods 
store.  This  establishment  has  since 
grown  to  magnificent  proportions, and 
has  for  some  years  transacted  both  a 
wholesale and retail business.  Mr. Voigt 
remained  in  Michigan  City  until  1875, 
when the firm, having  purchased  an  in­
terest  in  the  Star  Flouring  Mills,  the 
business  in  Indiana was closed out, and 
Mr. Voigt came to  Grand Rapids to take 
the active management of the mills.  The 
mill  firm  was  known  as  Mangold,  Kus- 
terer & Co.  until  1877,  when  the  name 
was  changed  to  Voigt,  Kusterer  &  Co. 
Mr.  Kusterer was a passenger on the  ill- 
fated steamer Alpena,  which  foundered 
in a gale on Lake Michigan in the fall of

it was a quarter  of  a  dollar.  The ped­
dler showed him another kind  for which 
he  only asked  25  cents  a  dozen.  This 
was  a  bargain  not  to  be  despised.  A 
dozen fish for the price of  one!  He took 
the dozen.  Hastening back  to the store, 
he triumphantly displayed  his purchase. 
The Colonel looked  at  them, then at the 
boy, and uttered the one word “suckers,” 
and  the  lad  was  sent  back,  somewhat 
crestfallen,  to  buy a  fish that “a gentle­
man could eat,” and was told  not  to  at­
tempt any more  bargain  making  in  the 
fish line.  He  remained  in  the  grocery 
store about two years,  when  he  conclud­
ed that dry goods was more to his liking. 
He  soon  secured  a  situation  in  a  dry 
goods  store,  where  the  first  article  he 
sold was a grindstone. 
It was  while  in 
this situation that he made the acquaint­
ance  of  Wm.  G.  Herpolsheimer,  with 
whom he  has been for  so many years as­
sociated in business.  Mr. Voigt remained 
in  that  establishment  for 
as  a  clerk 
twelve  years. 
In  1865,  with  Mr.  Her­
polsheimer as a partner,  he  embarked in 
the dry goods business in  Michigan City 
on his own  account.  The venture  pros­
pered from the start, and it was not long

1880.  All on board  were  lost.  Shortly 
after  this  terrible  event  the  firm  of 
Voigt, Kusterer & Co.  became  C.  G.  A. 
Voigt & Co. and this has been  the  style 
of  the firm ever since.  When Mr. Voigt 
assumed charge of  the Star Mills, it was 
a  “stone”  mill,  having  seven  run  of 
burrs and a daily capacity of 150 barrels. 
It is now one of  the best equipped roller 
mills  in  the  State  and  has  an  average 
daily  capacity  of  350  barrels,  and  its 
various brands  are  known  all  over  the 
country.  To  be  first  a  successful  dry 
goods  merchant  and  then  a  successful 
miller is the record which  Mr.  Voigt has 
made for himself, and it  is  to  his  busi­
ness  foresight,  enterprise  and  energy 
that the success of  the  milling  interests 
of  the  firm  are  due.  In  1882  the  firm 
purchased the Crescent Mills,  the  aver­
age capacity of which is 350  barrels  per 
day.  This  mill  has,  also,  prospered 
since becoming the property of the Voigt 
Milling  Co.

Mr. Voigt is  a  member  of  the  Michi­
gan State  Millers’ Association  and Vice- 
President  of  the  Michigan  Millers’  In­
surance Company.  He is a member  and 
vestryman  of  St.  Mark’s  Episcopal

1 9
Church.  He was married in 1860 to Miss 
Elizabeth  Wurster,  of  Michigan  City, 
Ind.  Of the children  born  to  them  six 
are  now  living,  the  oldest  of  whom, 
Frank A., has been for five  years  mana­
ger of the Crescent Mills.

Personally,  Mr.  Voigt  is  one  of  the 
most peculiar men in the city.  Gruff  in 
manner and severe in statement,  he  im­
presses a stranger as being  the  incarna­
tion of discourtesy,  but a slight acquaint­
ance mellows the  gruffness  into  gentle­
ness, and those who are well  acquainted 
with him forget the  reception he invari­
ably accords the  stranger.  He is a man 
of  marvelous discernment and intuition, 
reading  men  at  a  glance  as  easily  as 
many  people  read  a  book  and  forming 
conclusions of men  and  methods  which 
invariably prove to be correct.  Whether 
his advice is asked on matters pertaining 
to the dry goods or the  milling business, 
politics or religion,  his  reply  is  always 
pertinent and his conclusion so sweeping 
as  to  admit  of  no  argument.  He  is  a 
strong friend and will go to any  extrem­
ity  to  serve  one  who  has  done  him  a 
favor.  On the other hand, he is  a  good 
hater, and has never been  known  to  go 
out of his way when there  is  an  enemy 
to punish.  Taken as a whole, Mr. Voigt 
possesses an individuality that is unique 
in  the  extreme,  and  his  life  presents 
many  features  which  can  be  taken  as 
patterns by the young men of  the day.

The man goes to  bed tired who spends 

the day in looking for  an easy place.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

N e w s  from   th e   M etrop olis— In d ex  o f 

th e   M ark ets.

Special Correspondence.
N ew  Yokk.  Jan.  27—New  York  job­
bers have no cause for complaint  in  the 
trade that has come to  this  market  dur­
ing the past week.  While it is true  that 
there has been  no  particular  rush,  still 
trade has  been very good, and what  im­
provement has transpired is of  a charac­
ter that has great possibilities of lasting, 
because it is based upon  an  increase  in 
demand.  An encouraging feature of the 
week was supplied in a further  increase 
in both the volume and heaviness of out­
side orders,  which bespeaks more  active 
business.  The  distribution  of  grocery 
staples for the week compares  favorably 
with  the  corresponding  period  of  last 
year,  which  is  rendered  still  more  en­
couraging when  it  is  remembered  that 
trade was remarkably good at  that  time.
Deliveries of coffee and sugar are some­
what lighter,  but  they do  not  show any 
marked  shrinkage, while  both  raw and ! 
refined have advanced.  Tea is rather in­
active, but  canned  goods,  especially to­
matoes, are doit.g a fair trade for  future 
delivery.  One  cause  for  the  improve­
ment of the week is supplied in  the  fact 
that  the  stock  of  groceries throughout 
the  country is  extremely low,  and  that 
many of  the  orders  have come from sec­
tions where buyers have  heretofore held 
back  purchases  until  the  last  possible 
moment, awaiting a  more  favorable out­
look. 
In reality, this  holding  back was 
unprofitable, for  throughout  the grocery 
trade the effects of the “hard  times” has 
been more sympathetic  than  actual  and 
has not been as pronounced as  generally 
pictured;  but  this  feeling of sympathy 
has  been  strong  enough  to withhold or­
ders,  until  the  stocks  throughout  the 
country have  gradually dwindled  down 
to  almost  nothing;  lower, in  fact, than 
have ever been known.
The  general  condition  of  business 
throughout this section has now changed, 
however, and the  people  in  general  are 
talking less about hard times, dull trade, 
etc., and are getting right down  to  their 
old-time  business  hustle.  Retail  mer­
chants  are  having  a  much better  trade 
than during the last few months  and are 
experiencing  less  difficulty in  getting in 
collections.  One  feature  of  the  week 
was  the presence of more buyers  in  the 
market than at any time  since  the  reign 
of the panic, and the cheerful tone of the 
market was pronounced.
that, 
coupled to these conditions, the influx of 
a considerable  number  of  good  buying 
orders should have  had a stimulating ef­
fect upon the market. 
It was of  the na­
ture of a revival of demand after a period 
of  inactivity  and  depression,  and,  as  a 
large portion of  the  business was  from 
out-of-town buyers, it bespeaks a general 
brightening  up  all  along  the  line. 
In 
the opinion  of  the  leading  houses  here 
the policy of buying from hand to mouth, 
which has been  so  extensively practiced 
by jobbers since last, July is rapidly ter­
minating, and will soon cease altogether, 
as  buyers  are  now  awakening  to  the 
fact  that,  unless  they are  prepared  to 
carry stocks, they have but  little chance 
in  participating  in  the advantages  of  a 
rise in prices which  is  almost  certain to 
come with the increased activity.  Owing 
to this and  the  low prices  at which  the 
majority of  staples  are  selling,  dealers 
are beginning to stock up  again, and the 
depleted stocks throughout many sections 
of the country are thus being replenished.
In the matter of prices, much the same 
conditions exist, and no important change 
has transpired in the quotation of any of 
the  principal  staples  during  the  week. 
The  prominent  houses  of  this  market 
report a few prices slightly  above  those 
of  a  year ago; but, in the main, general 
prices are lower than  the  ruling  quota­
tions of last  year  or  the  previous  one. 
In  the  majority  of  instances,  however, 
prices  are  hardening  and  the  strength 
displayed  indicates  a  general  advance 
attendant  with a revival of activity.
Collections, as a rule,  are reported fair 
in the wholesale line and are  improving. 
Good pay buyers are making settlements 
promptly,  but  those  who are naturally 
slow  are holding off payments, evidently 
for the purpose of  accumulating  funds.

is,  therefore,  not  strange 

It 

 

 
 

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6 
6 

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STICK   CANDY.

fancy—In bulk

Palls.
654
654
754
8

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Cases  Bbis.  Palls.
7
7
7
854

854
18
.......................................8

Standard,  per lb............. 
“  H.H................... 
T w ist..............  
“ 
Boston Cream................. 
8 ¡4
Cut  Loaf......................... 
Extra H.  H......................  854

M IX ED   CA N D T. Bbls. 
Standard.......................................554 
Leader...........................................554 
Royal.......................................,...654 
Nobby........................................... 7 
English  Rock...............................7
Conserves.... -............................. 7
Broken Taffy....................baskets
PeanutSquares.................  
French Creams.............................
Valley  Creams.............................  
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.....................................  854
Modern, 30 lb.  “ 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Business  in  refined  sugar  was  fairly 
CANDIES, FRUITS and  NUTS.
good during the week  and  reports  were 
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
generally of a cheerful nature,  with indi­
cations of larger orders on the way.  The 
market for raw  was  quiet,  but  holders 
were firm and prices  closed strong, with 
a possibility of hardening.
It is reported that  a new influence has 
sprung into the market which may prove 
as powerful as  the  Trust. 
It  is  to  the 
effect  that  Cuban  planters  were  much 
pressed for money with which to  handle 
the enormous crop and  that  the  Roths­
childs took up the  entire  loan  and  now 
practically control the whole Cuban crop.
It  is  also  rumored  that  Spreckels  has 
contracted  to  ship  raw  sugar  around 
Cape Horn to  New  York,  to  be  refined 
here  and  returned  West  by  rail,  this 
arrangement being  calculated  to  prove 
more  profitable  than  refining  at  San 
Francisco.  Should this plan  be  carried 
out,  it is probable  that  the  loss  to  con­
cerns on the  Pacific  coast  will  be  enor­
mous.
Coffee  has  been  dull,  with  demand 
light, and jobbers are unable  to  dispose 
of  the  stocks  on  hand.  Roasters  have 
ceased to purchase  packages  until  they 
actually  come  upon  the market.  No. 7 
Rio spot has suffered  fractional  decline. 
The  visible  supply  is  only 60,000 bags 
below  that  of  last  year,  although  the 
difference  was  more  than  twice  this 
amount  three  weeks  ago.  Compared 
with a year ago,  however, the  month  of 
January has so far been a very  dull  one 
| in this line.  The stock of  Brazil  coffee 
in New York is 206,804  bags, and in the 
United States 247,958 bags,  making  the 
American  visible  supply  529,958  bags, 
against  514,710  bags  at  the  same  time 
last year.
Business in the tea line has  been  only 
fair during the week, with  a  slow move- 
! ment  predominant. 
Jobbers  do  not 
report any  quickening  of goods  moving 
into  consumption;  hence  do  not  seem 
disposed to  invest  heavily  in  invoices. 
The general condition of trade is quiet.
A fair demand prevails  in  all lines  of 
domestic rice, but transactions are  limit­
ed  to  immediate 
requirements.  The 
spirit of conservatism is  not  only due to 
that  general  disposition  which has pre­
vailed for months past, but also to a lack 
of confidence in regard to  the  future  of 
the  market.  Anyone  with  a  short 
memory  can  recall  the  sharp  advances 
made within the last six months and this, 
together with the knowledge that foreign 
of  better  grade  is  obtainable  at  equal 
prices in  domestic,  makes  buyers  inde­
pendent and  free of  apprehension in the 
matter of forward supply.  Present high 
prices  are  said  to  be  due  to  manipu­
lation and the  moment  that  the  parties 
thereto are full  or weaken, more or  less 
recession is likely to occur.  As a matter 
of fact Rio is grown about  as  cheaply as 
wheat and as the yield  is  three  or  four 
times greater, it can be  seen at a glance, 
even the  prices  of  last  summer  could 
not have been  unremunerative, 
foreign 
moving  freely,  dividing  honors  about 
equally with the domestic.
in  spices,  the  market is  quiet,  with 
prices generally steady.
In canned goods, very  little  is  doing, 
with  the  exception  of  a  moderately 
tomatoes  for  future 
active  trade  in 
delivery.  Prices,however, have remained 
steady,  and  there  appear 
indications 
of a  better  demand  coming;  hence  the 
outlook bids fair to advancing prices, 
j  Taking the week  as a  whole,  business 
may  be  described  as  fair,  with  prices 
generally firm,  and a feeling of cheerful­
ness prédominent. 

Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  854
printed..........................................  954
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 12
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  1254
Gum Drops.....................................................  5
Moss Drops.....................................................  754
Sour Drops.....................................................  854
Imperials.................  
••••10
Per Box
Lemon Drops................................................... SO
Sour Drops................................................— 50
Peppermint Drops............................................60
Chocolate Drops...............................................75
H. M. Chocolate  Drops....................................b0
Gum Drops...................................................... 40
Licorice Drops...............................................loo
A. B. Licorice Drops.......................................80
Lozenges, plain................................................60
printed............................................65
Imperials..........................................................60
Mottoes.............................................................70
Cream Bar........................................................55
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams.................................. 85@95
Plain Creams................................................... 80
Decorated Creams............................................90
String  Rock.....................................................60
Burnt Almonds.............................................1 00
Wlntergreen  Berries.......................................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
No. 1, 
51
No. 2, 
28
Russets,  96..........................................................  1 75
Russets,  126...................................................  200
Russets,  150-176-200.......................................
Brights,  126........................................................  2 25
Brights,  138...................................................
Brights,  176-200-216 ........................................  2 75
Small  ..................................................... 
150
Large.........................................................  
Extra choice 300 ............................................   4 50
Extra choice 360 ...........................................   4 50
Extra fancy 300 .............................................   5 00
Extra fancy 360 ..............................................  5 00
Figs, fancy  layers, 61b..............................  @13
10B>............................   @13
149>............................   @15
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................  @ 754

“ 
“  extra 
“ 
“ 
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona............
Ivaca.....................
California.............
Brazils, new..........................
Filberts.................................
Walnuts, Grenoble................
French.................. .
Calif......................
Table Nuts,  fancy...............
choice..............
Pecans. Texas, H.  P .,..........
Chestnuts............................
Hickory Nuts per bu.............
Oocoanuts, full sacks............
P E A N U T S.
Fancy, H.  P., Suns............... .
“  Roasted....
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..............
“  Roasted...
Choice, H. P.,  Extras...........
“  Roasted.

..........................   @ 6
Persian, 50-lb.  box......................  @  5
@16
@15
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@11 
@1354 @lo 
@12 
@12 
@11 
@  754
1  25 
4  50
@ 5<a 654
@ 5 
«5 654 @  4 
@ 554

B A R B ELS.
Eocene....................................
XXX  W.  W. Mich.  Headlight
Naptha....................................
Stove Gasoline.......................
Cylinder...............................................27
E ngine.................................................13
Black, 15 cold  te s t.......................
FROM  TANK  WAGON.
Eocene.................................................  
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight.............. 

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows:

854
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O T H E R   F O R E IG N   F R U IT S .

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LEM ONS.

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Wheat—The cereal  touched the lowest
point in the history of the crop last week, 
going to 58%c in Detroit and  52c  in  the 
local market.  Buying  for the week was 
mostly speculative, and the amount small. 
Holders were shy and offerings small.  A 
firmer tone  prevails  this week  and  the 
price in the local market is back  to  53c.
H.  R. Savage has engaged to travel for 
the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.,  taking
the Lake Shore towns, including Traverse  chfekensi
City,  M anistee,  Ludington,  F ra n k fo rt,  Fowls  ...
Pent w ater and  Muskegon. 

i Ducks
' Geese

POULTRY. 
Local dealers pay as follows:
Turkeys.....................................
Chickens...................................
Fowls.........................................
Ducks........................................
Geese........................................
Turkeys.....................................
Chickens..... 
...........................
Fowl..........................................
Ducks........................................
Geese........................................
UNDRAWN.

DRAWN.

LIVE.

SEND  US  YOUR

B E A N S ,
WillAlways Give Fnll MarSetValne

WE  WANT  THEM  ALL,
NO  MATTER  HOW  MANY.

Lemon  &  Wheeler Company,

Agents,  Grand  Bapids.

2 50

Before  You  Buy

SEE  THE  SPRING  LINE  OF  FINE 
GOODS  MANUFACTURED  BY

DETROIT,  MICH.

A  FEW  OF  OUR  NEW  SPECIAL­
TIES  IN  OXFORDS  ARE:

The  Juliet  Bootee,  Three  Large 

Button  Newport,  Southern 

Tie  and  Prince  Alberts.

Dealers wishing to see the line address 
F.  A.  CADWELL,  67  Terrace  Ave., 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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7 @ 8
6 @ 654
8 @  9
8 @ 9
10 @11
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A  LADY’S

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

B E E D E B   BR O S.  SH O E   CO ,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

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MILLERS & MANUFACTURERS

CEE A. N,  WHOLESOME,  

Free  from  l list  and  Broken  Particles,

Put 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  It!
DAWSON  BROTHERS,  Pontiac,  Mich. 

Sold  by  all  jobbers in  Ohio,  Indiana and  Michigan. 

MANUFACTURED  BY

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soon 
pay for themselves  in  the
breakage they avoid.  Price $4.

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

0 UR new glass covers  are by far the 

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

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

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

the best selling cakes we ever made.

CREAM  CRISP. 

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

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HANUFACTURERS  AGENTS  FOR

The  Original  Evaporating  Vapor  Stove.

A   S T O V E That  lights  like  Gas.

That  Makes  no  Sm oke  or  Smell.
Calling  for  no  Skill  to  Operate  It.
That  Never  gets  out  of  Order.  That  is  Safe  for  a  Child  to  Use. 
T h at  Pleases  the  User,  Satisfies  the  Dealer,  and  ST A Y S   SOLD.

We Give

The agency of the New Process  stove to 
but one  dealer  in  a  place. 
If  there  is 
No  Agency  in  your  town  and  you will 
give us your  order  for  a  sample  stove 
and  place  an  order  for  three  or  more 
stoves after receiving the sample, we will 
give you the exclusive  sale  of  the  New 
Process Stove in your town.

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BH1S  IS  THE  FIFTH  YEAR  for  the 

New  Process  Stove.  Over  3,000 
sold in  Michigan  last  year,  and  where 
they are once sold they never come back.

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STYLE  OF  THE  NO.  3  NEW  PROCESS  STOVE  FOR  '94.

BEAR  JN  MIND

That  the  Standard  Lighting  Co.  New 
Process  Stove  is  the  Original  “ New 
Process”   Stove,  and  all other manufac­
turers pay a royalty  to ‘this  firm.  So in 
handling the  New Process Stove from us 
you not only  have the  original  but THE 
BEST  New  Process stove on the market 
to offer your customers.

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rvON’T  BE  IMPOSED  UPON  bv buy- 
ing  other  makes  of  New  Process 
Stoves,  whose agents tell you  theirs  are 
just as  good  as  the  Standard  Lighting 
Co.,  when  we  offer  you  the  Original 
New Process at the same price you would 
pay for an  imitation.  Our  price to you 
is ABSOLUTELY  GUARANTEED,  and 
this  article  is  one  of  the few things  on 
which a dealer  is sure of  a fair profit as 
no one can buy them cheaper.

HE  CORRECT  PRINCIPLE  is  used  in  the  New  Proces 

Stoves,  they EVAP- i  A 

ORATE the gasoline, do not  GENERATE,  and  are  absolutely without anj

GREAT  inPROVEMENT  has been made this  year  in  the  OVENS,  they  are 
now made of P la n ish ed St e e l,  A sbestos  L in ed,  on  the  patent  “Reflex” 
the complicated and annoying devices used on all  vapor stoves before  its  introduc-  principle, arranged in semi-cabinet form, and are guaranteed to be a perfect roaster 
tion, and by actual test during the past four years it has been proven that they con-1 and baker, 
sume less Gasoline for the amount  of  heat  given  than  any other  style  or  kind  of 
vapor stove.

Our Cabinet Ranges have the largest oven ever used on this style  of  a  stove.

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GIVEN  A W A Y

With every oue of our New Process Stoves this year we  send  a  300-page copyrighted Cook 
Book,  handsomely bound in White Oil Cloth,  full  of  valuable receipts and information for 
the housekeeper.  This book retails  at  any book store for $1.50, and  is  a  strong argument 
for a dealer to use in selling the New Process Stove.

Be  up  w ith  the  Tim es  and  W rite  us  a t  Once  for  the  Agency  of  this

Wonderful  Stove.

STYLE  OF  THE  NO  4  NEW  PROCESS 

STOVE  FOR  '94.

DON’T  MAKE  A  MISTAKE  IN  BUYING  UNTRIED  EXPERIMENTS  BUT  SECURE 

THE  AGENCY  FOR  THE  “NEW  PROCESS.”

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

Grand. 

STYLE  OF  TH E  NO.  8  NEW   PROCESS 

CABINET  STOVE  FOR  '94.

R, Mich

