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WITH  THE SURGEON’S ASSISTANCE.
They  called  him  “Poor  Abe  Dodge,” 
although he wasn’t any poorer than other 
folks—not so poor  as  some.  How could 
he be poor,  work as he did and steady as 
he was?  Worth  a  whole  grist  of  such 
bait as his brother,  Ephe  Dodge, and yet 
they never called  Ephe  poor—whatever 
worse name they might call him.  When 
Ephe was  off  at  a  show in  the village, 
Abe was  following  the  plow,  driving  a 
straight  furrow,  though  you  wouldn’t 
have thought it to  see  the  way his  nose 
pointed. 
In  winter,  when  Ephe  was 
taking  the  girls  to  singing  school  or 
spelling bee or some other  foolishness 
out till after nine  o’clock  at  night,  like 
as not—Abe was hanging  over  the  fire, 
holding a book so the  light would  shine 
first on one page and then on  the  other, 
and be turning his head as he turned the 
book,  and reading first with one eye  and 
then with the other.

There, the murder’s out!  Abe couldn’t 
read  with  both  eyes  at  once. 
If  Abe 
looked  straight  ahead  he  couldn’t  see 
the  furrow—nor  anythin’ else,  for  that 
matter.  His best friend couldn’t say but 
what Abe  Dodge was  the  cross-eyedest 
fellow  that  ever  was.  Why, 
if  you 
wanted to see Abe,  you’d stand  in  front 
of him;  but if  you wanted  Abe  to  see 
you, you’d got to  stand  behind  him,  or 
pretty near  it.  Homely?  Well,  if  you 
mean  downright  “humbly,”  that’s  what 
he was.  When one eye was  in  use  the 
other was  out  of  sight,  all  except  the 
white of it.  Humbly ain’t no  name  for 
it.  The girls used to say he had to wake 
up in the night to rest his face,  it was so 
humbly. 
In school you’d ought to  have 
seen him look down at his copybook.  He 
had to cant his head clear over and  cock 
up his chin until  it  pointed  out  of  the 
winder and down the road.  You’d really 
ought to have seen him,  you’d have died. 
Head t>f the class, too,  right  along;  just 
as near to the head  as  Ephe was  to  the 
foot;  and that’s sayin’ a good  deal.  But 
to see him at his desk!  He looked  for all 
the world like a week-old  chicken,  peek­
in’ at a tumblebug!  And  him  a  grown 
man,  too,  for he stayed  to school winters 
so long as there was  anything  more  the 
teacher could teach him.  You see, there 
wasn’t anything to  draw him  away;  no 
girl wouldn’t  look  at  him—lucky,  too, 
seein’ the way he looked.

Well, one term there was a new teacher 
come—regular high-np  girl, down  from 
Chicago.  As  bad  luck  would  have  it, 
Abe  wasn’t  at  school  the  first  week— 
hadn’t  got  through  his  fall work.  So 
she  got  to  know  all  the  scholars, and 
they was awful  tickled with  her—every­
body always was that knowed  her.  The 
first day she come in and saw Abe  at his 
desk  she  thought  he  was  squintin’ for 
fun, and she  upped  and  laughed  right 
oat.  Some of the scholars  laughed,  too, 
at first;  but most of ’em,  to  do ’em  just­
ice,  was  a  leetle  took  back,  young  as 
they was, and cruel  by nature. 
(Young 
folks is most usually always cruel—don’t 
seem to know no better.)

Well,  right in  the middle of  the  hush,

Abe gathered up  his  books  and  upped 
and walked outdoors, lookin’ right ahead 
of  him,  and  consequently  seeing  the 
handsome  young  teacher  unbeknown  to 
her.

She was the worst cut  up you ever did 
see;  but what could she do  or  say?  Go 
and tell him she thought  he was  makin’ 
up a face for fun?  The girls do say that, 
come  noon-spell,  when  she  found  out 
about  it,  she  cried—just  fairly  cried 
Then she tried to be awful nice  to Abe’s 
ornery  brother  Ephe,  and  Ephe  he  was 
tickled most to death;  but that  didn’t do 
Abe  any  good—Ephe  was  jest  ornery 
enough to take  care  that Abe  shouldn’t 
get any comfort out  of  it.  They do  say 
she  sent  messages 
to  Abe,  and  Ephe 
never delivered them, or else twisted ’em 
so as  to  make  things worse  and worse. 
Mebbe  so, mebbe  not—Ephe  was  ornery 
enough for it.

Course 

the  schoolma’am  she  was 
hoardin’ round,  and  pretty soon  it  come 
time to go  to  ol’  man  Dodge’s,  and  she 
went;  but no Abe  could  she  ever  see. 
He kept away,  and,  as to meals, he never 
set  by,  but  took  a  bite  off  by himself 
when he  could  get  a  chance. 
(Course 
his mother favored him,  being he was so 
unlucky.)  Then when the  folks was all 
to bed, he’d come in and poke up the fire 
and peek into his book,  but first one side 
and then the other, same as ever.

Now what  does  schoolma’am  do  but 
come down one night when  she  thought 
he was abed and  asleep,  and  catch  him 
unawares.  Abe  knowed  it  was  her, 
quick as he heard the rustle of her dress, 
but there wasn’t no help for it, so he just 
tamed his  head  away and  covered  his 
cross-eyes  with  his  hands,  and  she 
pitched in.  What she said I don’t know, 
but Abe he never said a word;  only told 
her he didn’t blame her, not  a  mite;  he 
knew she couldn’t help it—no  more than 
he could.  Then  she  asked him  to come 
back to  school,  and  he  answered  her  to 
please excuse him.  After a bit she asked 
him  if  he  wouldn’t  come to oblige her, 
and he said he calculated he was obligin’ 
her more  by stayin’ away.

Well, come  to  that, she  didn’t  know 
what to say or  do,  so,  woman-like,  she 
upped and  cried;  and  then  she  said he 
hurt her feelings.  And  the  upshot of it 
was he said he’d come,  and  they  shook 
hands on it.

Well,  Abe kept his word and  took  up 
schoolin’  as  if  nothing  had  happened; 
and  such  schoolin’  as  there  was  that 
winter! 
I  don’t  believe  any  regular 
academy had more  learnin’ and  teachin’ 
that winter than what that district school 
did.  Seemed as  if all  the  scholars  had 
turned  over  a  new 
leaf.  Even  wild, 
ornery, no-account Ephe  Dodge couldn’t 
help  but  get  ahead  some—but  then  he 
was  crazy to  get  the  schoolma’am;  and 
she never paid no attention to  him,  just 
went with  Abe.  Abe  was  teachin’  her 
mathematics,  seeing  that  was  the  one 
thing where he  knowed  more  than  she 
did—outside  of  farmin’.  Folks  used to 
say that if Ephe  had Abe’s head,  or  Abe 
had Ephe’s face, the  schoolma’am would

have half of the  Dodge  farm  whenever 
ol’  man Dodge  got  through  with it;  but 
neither of them did have what the  other 
had,  and so there it was, yon see.

Well, you’ve heard of Squire Caton, of 
course;  Judge Caton,  they call him, since 
he got to be Judge of the Supreme  Court 
—and  Chief  Justice  at  that.  Well,  he 
had a farm down there not far from  Fox 
River,  and  when  he  was  there  he  was 
just a plain farmer  like  the  rest  of us, 
though up in Chicago  he  was a  high-up 
lawyer,  leader  of  the  bar.  Now  it  so 
happened  that  a  young  doctor  named 
Brainard—Daniel  Brainard—  had  just 
come to Chicago  and was startin’ in, and 
Squire Caton was helpin’  him,  gave  him 
desk-room  in  his  office  and  made  him 
known to the folks—Einzies, and Butter­
fields,  and Ogdens,  and  Hamiltons,  and 
Arnolds,  and  all  those  folks—about all 
those  days. 
there  was  in  Chicago  in 
Brainard  had  been 
to  Paris—Paris, 
France,  not  Paris,  Illinois,  you  under­
stand—and knew all  the doctorin’  there 
was to  know  then.  Well,  come  spring, 
Squire Caton had Doc Brainard  down  to 
visit him,  and they shot ducks and  geese 
and prairie chickens and  some wild  tur­
keys and deer, too—game was just swarm 
in’ at that time.  All the time Caton  was 
doin’ what law business there was  to do; 
and Brainard  thought  he  ought 
to  be 
doin’ some doctorin’  to keep  his hand in, 
so he asked  Caton  if  there  wasn’t  any 
cases  he  could  take  up—surgery  cases 
especially he  hankered  after,  seein’  he 
had more carving  tools  than  you  could 
shake a stick at.  He asked him  particu­
larly  if there  wasn’t  anybody  he  could 
treat  for  “strabismus.”  The  squire 
hadn’t heard of  anybody  dying  of  that 
complaint;  but  when 
the  doctor  ex­
plained  that strabismus was  French  for 
cross-eyes, he  naturally thought  of poor 
Abe Dodge, and  the  young  doctor  was 
right  up  on  his  ear.  He  smelled  the 
battle  afar  off;  and  ’most  before  you 
could say Jack  Robinson  the squire and 
the doctor were on  horseback  and  down 
to the Dodge farm, tool-chest and all.

Well,  it so happened  that nobody  was 
at home but Abe and Ephe,  and it  didn’t 
take but  a  few  words  before  Abe  was 
ready to set right down,  then and  there, 
and let anybody  do  anything  he  was  a 
mind to with his misfortunate eyes.  No, 
he wouldn’t wait till the old  folks  come 
home;  he didn’t want  to ask  no  advice; 
he wasn’t  afraid  of  pain,  nor  of  what 
anybody could do  to  his  eyes—couldn’t 
be made any worse than they were, what­
ever you did to ’em.  Take ’em  out  and 
boil ’em and put ’em  back  if  you  had  a 
mind to, only go  to  work.  He knew  he 
was of age and he guessed he was master 
of his own eyes—such as they were.

Well,  there wasn’t nothing  else  to  do 
but go ahead.  The doctor opened up his 
killing tools and tried to  keep Abe  from 
seeing  them;  but Abe he just come right 
over and  peeked  at  ’em,  handled  ’em, 
and called ’em  “splendid” —and so  they 
were,  barrin’  having them  used on  your 
own flesh and blood and  bones.

Then they got some cloths and a basin,

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and one thing and another, and  set  Abe 
right  down in  a  chair. 
(No such  thing 
as chloroform  in  those  days,  you’ll  re­
member.)  And Squire Caton was to hold 
an  instrument  that  spread 
the  eyelid 
wide open,  while Ephe was to hold Abe’s 
head steady.  First  touch  of the  lancet, 
and first spurt of blood, and what do you 
think?  That  ornery  Ephe  wilted  and 
fell flat on the floor behind the chair!

“Squire,”  said Brainard,  “step around 

and hold his head.”

“I can hold my own head,”  says  Abe, 
as  steady  as  you  please.  But  Squire 
Caton,  he straddled over  Ephe  and held 
his head between his  arms, and  the two 
handles  of  the  eye-spreader  with  his 
hands.

It was all  over  in  half  a minute,  and 
then Abe he leaned forward,  and  shook 
the blood  off his  eyelashes,  and  looked 
straight out of that eye for the first  time 
since he was born.  And the  first  words 
he said were:

“Thank the Lord!  She’s mine!”
About that time Ephe he crawled  out­
doors,  sick as a  dog;  and  Abe spoke  up, 
says he:

“Now for the other eye,  doctor.”
“Oh,”  says  the  doctor,  “ we’d  better 

take another day  for that.”

“ All right,”  says  Abe;  “ if your hands 
are tired of euttin’.  you can make another 
job of it.  My  face  ain’t  tired  of  bein’ 
cut,  I can tell  you.”

the  squire  holding 

“ Well,  if you’re game,  I am.”
So, if you’il believe me, they just set to 
work  and  operated  on  the  other  eye, 
Abe holding his own  head,  as he  said  he 
would,  and 
the 
spreader.  And when it was all done,  the 
doctor was for putting  a  bandage on  to 
keep  things  quiet  till  the  wounds  all 
healed up,  but  Abe just  begged for  one 
sight  of  himself,  and  he  stood  up  and 
walked over to the  clock and  looked  in 
the glass, and says  he:
“So  that’s  the  way 

it? 
Shouldn’t have  known  my  own  face— 
never  saw it  before.  How long  must  I 
keep the bandage on,  doctor?”

I  look, 

“Oh,  if  the  eyes  ain’t very  sore  when 
you  wake  up  in  the  morning,  you can 
take it off,  if you’ll  l>e careful.”

is 

“ Wake up!  Do you  s’pose I can sleep 
when such  a  blessing  has  fallen on me? 
I’ll lay still,  but if 1 forget it, or you, for 
one minute this night, I’ll be so ashamed 
of myself that it’ll  wake me right up!” 

Then the doctor b mnd up  his eyes and 
the poor boy said  “Thank  God!”  two  or 
three times,  and  they could see the tears 
running down  bis cheeks from under the 
cloth.  Lord! 
It was just as pitiful  as a 
broken-winged bird!

How about the girl?  Well;  it  was  all 
right for Abe—and  all wrong for Ephe— 
all  wrong for Ephe!  But that’s  all  past 
and gone—past  and  gone.  Folks  come 
for miles and miles to see cross-eyed Abe 
with his eyes as straight as  a  loon’s leg. 
Doctor Brainard was a great man forever 
after  in  those  parts—everywhere  else, 
too,  by what I heard.

When the doctor and  the  squire come 
to go, Abe  spoke  up,  blindfolded  as  he 
was, and says he:

“Doc, how much do you charge a feller 
for savin’  bis  life—making  a man out of 
a  poor  wreck—doin’  what  he  never 
thought could be done  but  by dyin’  and 
goin’ to kingdom come?”

“Oh,”  says  Doc  Brainard,  says  he, 
“that  ain’t what  we look at as pay prac­
tice.  You didn’t call  me  in;  I  come  of 
myself,  as  though  it was what we call a

clinic. 
If  all goes well, and if you hap­
pen to have a barrel  of  apples to spare, 
you just send  them  up  to Squire Caton’s 
house in Chicago,  and  I’ll  call  over and 
help eat ’em.”

What did Abe say  to  that?  Why, sir, 
he never said  a  word;  but  they  do  say 
the tears started out again, out  from un­
der the bandage  and  down  his  cheeks.
| But then Abe he had  a  five-year-old pet 
mare he’d raised from  a colt—pretty as a 
picture,  kind as a kitten, and fast as split 
lightning;  and next time Doc come down 
Abe he just slipped out  to  the barn  and 
brought the mare round  and hitched her 
to the gate-post,  and  when  Doc come to 
be going,  says Abe:

“Don’t  forget  your  nag, doctor;  she’s 

hitched at the gate.”

Well,  sir, even then  Abe had the hard­
est kind of a time  to get Doc Brainard to 
take that mare;  and when he did ride off, 
leadin’ her,  it wasn’t half an hour before 
back she  came,  lickety-split.  Doc  said 
she broke  away from  him  and  put  for 
home, but  I  always  suspected he didn’t 
have no use  for  a  hoss  he  couldn’t sell 
nor hire out,  and  couldn’t  afford to keep 
in  the village—that  was  what  Chicago 
was then.  But  come  along  toward fall 
Abe he took her  right  up  to  town,  and 
then  the doctor’s  practice had growed so 
much  that  he  was  pretty glad  to have 
her;  and Abe was glad to have him  have 
her,  seeing  all 
that  had  come  to him 
through  havin’  eyes  like  other  folks— 
that’s the  schoolma’am,  1 mean.
the  schoolma’am 

take  it? 
Well,  it was this  way.  After the euttin’ 
Abe didn’t show up  for  a  few days, till 
the inflammation  got  down and  he’d had 
some practice  handlin’  his  eyes,  so  to 
speak.  He just kept  himself to himself, 
enjoying himself.  He’d  go around doin’ 
the chores,  singing so you could  hear him 
a mile  He was always great on singin’, 
Abe was,  though ashamed to  go to  sing- 
in’-school  with ’he rest.  Then,  when the 
poor boy began to feel  like  other  folks, 
he went right over to where  schoolma’am 
happened 
to  be  boardin’  round,  and 
walked  right up to her and  took  her  by 
both  hands, and  looked  her  straight  in 
the face, and said:

How  did 

“Do you know me?”
Well,  she kind of  smiled  and blushed, 
and then the corners of her mouth pulled 
down,  and  she  pulled  one  hand  away, 
and—if  you  believe  me—that  was  the 
j third time that girl  cried  that season,  to 
| my  certain  knowledge—and  all 
for
nothin’ either time!
What did she say?  Why, she just said 
she’d  have  to  begin all over again to get 
acquainted with Abe.  But  Ephe’s  nose 
I was out of  joint,  and  Ephe knowed  it as 
well as anybody,  Ephe did. 
It was Abe’s 
eyes to Ephe’s nose.
Married?  Oh, yes, of course;  and lived 
on the farm  as 
long  as  the  old  folks 
lived,  and afterwards,  too;  Ephe  staying 
right along,  like  the  fool he always had 
been.  That  feller  never  did  have  as 
much sense as a last year’s bird’s nest.
Alive  yet?  Abe?  Well,  no.  Might 
have been if  it  hadn’t  been  for  Shiloh. 
When  the  war  broke  out  Abe  thought 
he’d ought  to  go,  old  as  he was, so he 
went into the Sixth.  Maybe you’ve seen 
a book written about the captain of Com­
pany E of  the Sixth. 
It  was  Company 
E he went into—him and  Ephe.  And  he 
was  killed at Shiloh—just  as  it  always 
seems to happen.  He got killed, and  his 
worthless  brother  come  home.  Folks 
thought Ephe would have liked  to marry 
the widow,  but,  Lord!  she  never had no 
such  an idea!  Such  bait as he was com­
pared to his brother!  She never  chirked 
up,  to speak of,  and  now she’s dead,  too, 
and Ephe  he  just  toddles round, taking 
care of the children—kind  of  a  he  dry- 
nurse;  that’s about all  he ever was good 
for.  anyhow.
My name?  Oh, my name’s  Ephraim— 
Ephe  they  call  me,  for  short—Ephe 
Dodge.  Abe was my brother.

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One of the  most  important  questions 
for a retail dry goods  merchant  to  con­
sider is the  expediency of  allowing  his 
salespeople to know the cost of the goods 
they offer for sale.  There are two  sides 
to  the  question  and  both  have  very 
strong points in their favor. 
It is rather 
an advantage to a retail  salesman  who is 
in all respects judicious and who has the 
interest of  his  employer wholly in  view 
to know the cost of the goods he is  offer­
ing,  that  is,  if  he  is  to  always  remain 
with the same merchant or  firm.  But if 
he is ever to leave  and  find  employment 
with  a  competitor,  or  if  he  should  be­
come a  competitor  himself, the  less  he 
knows about the  secrets  of  his  present 
employer’s  business  the  better  for  the 
latter’s interest. 
It is said that “A little 
knowledge  is  a  dangerous  thing,”  and 
the knowledge of the  cost  of  the  goods 
without a knowledge of the  average  ex­
pense of doing  business,  and  other  mat­
ters that  only an  employer  can  intelli­
gently understand, is a dangerous weapon 
in the  hands  of  the  average  clerk  of 
either sex.
A  merchant  may have  ever  so  intri­
cate a cost mark on his  goods  and  think 
that  it  will  not  be  deciphered,  but  1 
know by experience that  a  bright  clerk 
will soon make out any cost  mark  if  he 
sets about unraveling  it. 
I  have  never 
yet seen one that  1  could  not  decipher 
in  a  few hours,  provided  1  had  goods 
enough marked with it;  so cost marks are 
no hindrance to a salesman who wants to 
know how much profit an article  that he 
is  offering  pays  his  employer.  Some 
goods can  be turned over in  a very short 
time and are always salable, so, of course, 
can be sold at a less percentage  of  profit 
than others that have only a  limited sale 
or that are likely  to soon go out of style. 
Some  goods  that  pay  only  twenty  per 
cent,  profit  make  more  money for  the 
dealer than others that he might sell at a 
hundred per cent., because of limited de­
mand  or  short-lived  popularity.  There 
are so few clerks who  have  sufficient in­
telligence to comprehend  all  the  condi­
tions and  requirements  of  a  successful 
business  that  1  claim  it  is  better  for 
an employer to keep the  cost  to  himself 
except as it  may be  necessary for  some 
one to be possessed of  the  secret in case 
of his absence.
We hear a great deal about some  mer­
chants making little more than machines 
of their clerks,  but  we hear  but  little of 
the abuse that clerks make of  confidence 
reposed  in  them  by  their  employers. 
Many a merchant  has  had  a clerk  with 
whom he held confidential relations, and 
who, for a trifling advance in pay, has gone 
to a competitor and given away to custom­
ers  and  others  facts  and  figures  that 
were  not  only  very  misleading,  but 
calculated  to  unjustly  influence  trade 
away  from the  man  who  had  educated 
him in  business  and  confided  to  him 
matters  that  he  never  would  have  di­
vulged  but  for  the  belief  that  such 
confidence  would  never  be  betrayed. 
There are  many  occasions  where  trade 
can be effected  by  judicious  concession 
in  the  price  of  an  article,  and  if  the 
salesman knows  what the  goods cost, he 
can  make  a  sale  satisfactory  to  both 
employer and customer, and I  make  due 
allowance  for  that  fact.  Still  I  am 
assured that,  taking  it  altogether,  it  is 
best for a merchant to  keep  the  cost  of 
goods away from  his  salesman.  Clerks 
who mean to be  loyal to their employers 
often talk about  the  cost  of  goods  and 
the profits made on certain articles,  very 
often  to  the  disadvantage  of  the  mer­
chant.  Farmers are very poor judges on 
all  points  relating  to  merchandising, 
and they think that if a profit of 20 or 25 
per cent is  made on a sale, the  merchant 
is  getting  rich  and  making  exorbitant 
profits;  whereas,  facts  known  to  every 
merchant  show  that  it  takes  that  per­
centage  on  the  sales  to  pay  the  store 
expenses of  an  average  retail  business, 
without anything being left for the living 
and  family  expenses  of  the  merchant 
himself.
I know of a merchant who  has made  a 
great success during the last  five  years, 
and I attribute much of it  to his  system 
of marking goods as well as  to  judicious 
I will give  his  system  as  near
buying. 

stock-taking.  The 

as I can  understand  it.  He  enters  all 
his purchases at the time they  are made, 
in a book that he  always  carries  in  his 
pocket.  When  goods  are  opened  he 
makes it a point  for none but himself or 
his  partner to  see  the  invoices  as  the 
goods are being checked off for quantity, 
etc.  After a bill  of  goods  is  examined 
and found correct in all points,  the  sell­
ing price  is  marked  on  the  goods  and 
also on the bill,  but no cost mark  is ever 
put on a piece of  goods. 
Instead,  there 
is a stock number in  red ink  marked on 
every  ticket  or  every  piece  of  goods 
somewhere.  That stock number is taken 
from a stock book, which  is  the  key  to 
the whole situation. 
It is a large pocket 
memorandum  book,  closely  ruled  both 
ways, about three-quarters of an  inch in 
thickness. 
It  is  indexed  on  the  edges 
with  the  titles  of  the  different  depart­
ments,  and  is  numbered  consecutively 
for each department, except  in  domestic 
cottons, prints and  ginghams,  where the 
brand takes the  place of  the  stock num­
ber.  When  a  new  invoice  of  goods  is 
received,  he enters at the  stock  number 
the cost, terms,  date  and  initial  letters 
of the firm that  the  goods  were  bought 
from.  He  takes  stock  once a year  and 
has a new stock book  made out  immedi­
ately  after 
stock 
numbers of old  goods  are  retained, and 
the stock  numbers  of  new  goods  com­
mence  with  the  latest  number  on  old 
goods invoiced.  He thus has at hand all 
information  that  he  can  possibly  need 
without the necessity of hunting up bills 
or looking  over  an  invoice  book,  as  1 
have known  to be  the  case  many  times 
when simply cost marks were put on  the 
goods. 
I have been  in  his  store  when 
the clerks would  have a chance to sell at 
a lower  price than the  one  marked,  and 
I  have  noticed  that  it  took  only  a 
few seconds  for  him  to  obtain  all  in­
formation about  the  article,  and  so  an 
answer  was  given  without  even  going 
back to the  office.
In  these  days  a  business  needs  to  be 
closely watched and kept  well  in  hand, 
and if a clerk knows that the stock num­
ber which  he  has  to  enter  on  his  sales 
ticket  gives  all  information  about  the 
article sold he will be very careful about 
not breaking prices or making  out  false 
tickets  to  the  advantage  of  customer 
friends  or  for  fraudulently  taking  ad­
vantage of  his employer.  When a clerk 
knows the cost of  an article it is natural 
for him to form an opinion as to its being 
cheap  and  desirable. 
If  it  has  been 
bought  below  the  regular  price,  and  a 
profit  marked  in  accordance  with  what 
the goods usually cost;  he considers that 
it is marked too  high  and  fails  to  have 
the confidence in the article that a sales­
man needs to have in order to be enthusi­
astic and at his best  when selling goods. 
If,  however,  the goods  are marked  with­
out his  knowing,  or  ability  to  find  out 
what  they  cost,  his  opinion  is  not  in­
fluenced except  by his judgment  of  val­
ues and style.
It is surprising how faulty in the judg­
ment of goods are those whose only busi­
I  have  known 
ness  it  is  to  sell  them. 
opinions as to cost to vary fully fifty per 
cent,  from the actual  value,  when I have 
been offering goods in a customer’s store, 
and  clerks  gave  their  views  as  to  the 
value of  the goods I was showing. 
It is 
much better for a salesman  who  has  no 
discretion in making prices,  not to  know 
the cost of the goods. 
If,  however,  the 
salesman can sell goods at his own price, 
it may be necessary for  him to know the 
cost as a guide to the  profit necessary to 
be made on the sale, and some stores keep 
a record of the profits made by each sales­
man in the establishment.  I give it as my 
settled opinion,  based upon results .where 
the cost mark has been  replaced  by  the 
cost  number  and  stock  book,  that  the 
latter system has been  very  much  more 
satisfactory  and  profitable. 
If  a  mer­
chant buys an  article that  his  judgment 
indicates will  bear a very large  and  un­
usual profit,  he can  then have an oppor­
tunity to try it,  without prejudice on the 
part of bis clerks, and can have  a  large 
leeway for reduction if  he  is  mistaken, 
without  his  salespeople  knowing  any­
thing about it.

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'J H E   M IC H IG A N   TRAJDESM AJST.

AMONO THE TRADE.

AROU ND  T H E   ST A T E .

Shaftsburg—F.  L.  Deal  has purchased 

the general stock of D.  Marsh.

Athens—Milton  Standiford  succeeds 

Geo. Greenfield in the grocery business.

Lansing—C. E. Stabler succeeds Wood­
ard & Stabler in the wood  and  feed busi­
ness.

Cedar  Springs—D.  G.  Carpenter  has 
purchased the hardware stock  of  H.  M. 
Holmes.

Sbelbyville—W.  M.  Briggs & Son  suc­
the  elevator 

ceed  W.  M.  Briggs 
business.

in 

Tecumseh—James  M.  Jones 

is  suc­
ceeded  by Jones  &  Rogers  in the tailor­
ing business.

Benton  Harbor—J.  J.  Baker  has  re­
tired  from the  hardware  firm  of  Went­
worth &  Baker.

Lawton—McKeyes  &  Smith,  general 
dealers, have dissolved. T.  R. Smith  con­
tinuing the business.

Benton  Harbor—Brown  &  Winslow, 
grocers,  have dissolved,  C. J.  Brown con­
tinuing the business.

Schoolcraft—Neeley  &  North,  cloth­
iers,  have  dissolved,  Neeley  &  Dewey 
continuing the business.

Harrietta—S.  J.  Doty has  discharged 
the  chattel  mortgage  on  his  hardware 
stock held by B.  H.  Rose.

Iron Mountain—Rusky  & Sackim,  dry 
goods, clothing  and  boot and  shoe  deal­
ers,  succeed Samuel  Rusky.

Hanover—Kennedy  &  Culbert,  hard­
ware and agricultural implement dealers, 
have dissolved,  T. J. Kennedy continuing 
the business.

Manistee—J.  Lucas has sold  his furni­
ture and  undertaking  stock  to Will  P. 
Switzer and  Geo.  Merkel,  who will  con­
tinue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
Switzer & Merkel.

Kalamazoo—F.  A.  Andrews has retired 
from  the  paint  and  wall  paper  firm  of 
Andrews & Park.  The business will  be 
continued  by 
remaining  partner 
under the style of David Park.

Woodland—The  Deane  clothing  and 
furnishing goods stock was purchased  by 
the  Hastings  clothing 
R.  K.  Grant, 
dealer,  who  proposes 
to  continue  the 
business here under  the  management of 
Frank  Horton.

Muskegon—The grocery firm of Broner 
& Aldrich,  which  has been  in  existence 
here for the past five years, has been dis­
solved.  J. ().  Broner will  retire  and the 
business will  be  conducted  hereafter by
F.  B. Aldrich.

the 

Plainwell—The grocery firm of Powers 
& Heath has been dissolved.  F.  P.  Heath 
disposing of his  interest  to  his  partner, 
W.  E.  Powers. 
It is  Mr.  Powers’  inten­
tion  to  conduct  the  business  with  the 
help of his brother-in-law. Will  Leslie.

Detroit—Articles  of  association  of 
the Thomas  W.  Hill Co.  have  been  tiled. 
The capital stock of the  concern  is  810,- 
000, of which $5,000 is paid.  The object 
of the company is to buy and  sell  malt, 
barley  and  all  kinds  of  grains.  The 
stockholders are Thomas W.  Hill,  Julius
G.  Dickerson,  Edmund  J.  Owen  and 
Thomas Hill.

M AN UFA CTU RING  M ATTERS.

Ewen—The Ewen  Planing Mill Co. has j 
effected arrangements  with  the  Ontona- 
gon River Lumber Co. for the erection of i 
a new mill.  Johnston .V  Burt’s old plant 
will  be removed to the  new site  and  ad- 1 
ditions made thereto,  including  a  larger

engine  and  boiler  and  a  new dynamo. 
The entire lighting plant of  the Ontona­
gon  River Lumber Co. will be transferred 
to the new mill,  and thence electric light 
will  be supplied to  the  town  and  busi­
ness places which want the service.

Detroit—Albert  Stearns, of  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y., representing  Church  &  Co.,  the 
saleratus  manufacturers,  is  now in  De­
troit with plans for  the  proposed  $350,- 
000 soda ash  works near Trenton.  He is 
to have entire charge of the construction 
and is getting  bids  from  Detroit manu­
facturers for the machinery.

Detroit—The Mascotte Lumber Co. has 
filed  articles  of  association  with  the 
county clerk.  The  company is  capital­
ized  at  $35,000,  all  of which  has  been 
paid in.  The stockholders and  their re­
spective  shares  are:  Sarah Y.  Bishop, 
500;  Susan Sage, 500; Carrie F. Schooner, 
1,000;  John  C.  Hartz, 500.

Grayling—Sailing,  Hanson  &  Co.  cut 
the largest tree last week  which has ever 
been cut in  this  section  of  the  country. 
It was cork  pine,  measured  160  feet  in 
length,  was 54 inches in diameter  at  the 
butt,  and the small  end  of  the  top  log 
was six inches  in  diameter,  making  six 
16-foot, three 13-foot and one 14-foot log, 
besides two pieces seven feet long broken 
in falling.  Total  scale  of  the  tree was 
about 7,000 feet.

Saginaw—Jacob  Seligman is 

consid­
erably  better  off by reason of  a  recent 
decision  of the  Chippewa Circuit  Court. 
In 1881  he obtained title to valuable pine 
lands  in Chippewa  and  Luce  counties, 
known  as the Shelldrake lands, from Don 
C. Buckland, of Pontiac.  After the death 
of  Mr.  Buckland,  Marcus  T.  Ripley, 
formerly of  Pontiac,  claimed that  by an 
agreement made  with Mr. Buckland prior 
to the transfer to Mr. Seligman,  he  (Rip­
ley)  obtained  the  title  to  a  one-fourth 
interest in  the  land.  The  matter  went 
into the courts.  Mr. Seligman’s  defense 
was that he  was an  innocent  purchaser. 
Finally  a  decision  was  reached  in  the 
Chippewa courts  in favor of Mr. Ripley’s 
claim.  Then the  case  was  taken  to  the 
Supreme Court.  Here the finding  of the 
lower  court  was  sustained,  with 
the 
modification  that  Ripley should  pay Se­
ligman one-quarter of  the  taxes,  which 
Seligman had  paid  subsequent  to  1881. 
This amounted  to  $1,800,  which  Ripley 
paid Seligman.  Thinking  over  his  old 
profit and  loss  accounts,  Mr.  Seligman 
recalled a judgment against Ripley which 
was  nearly  outlawed.  He  looked  the 
document  up. 
Its  nominal  value,  with 
interest,  was between  $7,000 and  $8,000. 
He levied on the quarter interest to which 
Mr.  Ripley  now  had  title  in  the  Shell- 
drake  lands.  The  lands  were  sold  and 
bid  in  by  Mr.  Seligman  for  his  claim. 
Mr.  Ripley then went before the Saginaw 
Circuit Court with  a  motion to  have  the 
judgment set aside on the ground  that it 
was  obtained  by 
fraud 
alleged was  claimed to  have been perpe­
trated  by Mr.  Seligman’s attorneys,  Wis- 
ner & Draper,  both  of  whom  were dead. 
Buckland was also dead.  The motion to 
set the j udgment aside was denied.  Then 
Ripley  went  before  the  Chippewa Court 
in  chancery  to  have  the sale  of  land to 
Seligman set  aside, on  the  ground  that 
it was made to satisfy a judgment  which 
was obtained by fraud.  The  defense  to 
this  was that the question of fraud having 
been  dismissed  by the Saginaw Court,  it 
could not be reviewed by  the  Chippewa 
Court without establishing the Chippewa 
Court as an  appelate  court.  This  posi­

fraud.  The 

tion  was sustained  by  Judge  Steve  and 
the bill  to  set  aside  dismissed.  Mean­
while,  the time  in  which  Ripley  might 
have  redeemed  the  lands  expired  and 
Seligman’s title  became  absolute.  The 
lands are  said  to  be  worth  $60,000 at a 
low  estimate.

Genealogy of the Grocers’ Association.
Permit  a  few  words  regarding  the 
genesis  of  Grocers’  Associations.  The 
modern development called trade  associ­
ation and  trades  unions  traces  its  gen­
ealogy through many  centuries.  So  far 
as  can  be  seen,  it  arose  in  the  Middle 
Ages and formed an integral part  of  the 
social  systems  of  the  times,  by  which 
skilled laborers of all kinds  sought  pro­
tection  from  the  feudal  lords  and  the 
maintenance of special  privileges.

In England the formation of  guilds or 
companies of tradesmen is ascribed to as 
early a date as the twelfth  century.  So 
you see our associations do not lackances- 
tral pedigree.

the  administration  of 

The  political  position  of  guilds  has 
been one of great strength and vast influ­
ence,  attributable  principally  to  their 
large wealth and the  pronounced ability 
their  own 
in 
governmental and municipal  aifairs. 
In 
the thirteenth century we find them over­
turning established  governments,  and at 
a later date,  as the bankers  of  England, 
making possible the wars of  the English 
kings.

First among the guilds in  wealth  and 
importance we find the grocers. 
In fact, 
only two guilds take precedence in point 
of antiquity, namely,  the goldsmiths and 
skinners,  they being established in  1337, 
the grocers in  1345. 
In point  of  wealth 
and  influence,  they were second  only  to 
the goldsmiths. 
In London alone, at one 
time,  they  numbered  over  100  but  at 
present some seventy-six  only are in ex­
istence.

To  give  a  comprehensive  idea  of  the 
enormous wealth of  these  corporations,
I  will simply say that their rentals alone 
from  real  estate  approximate  about 
It is  a  sad  commen­
$5,000,000 yearly. 
tary  on  ourselves  that 
these 
guilds  were  sometimes  called  Friendly 
Societies,  as  part  of  their  mission  was 
the  alleviation  of  suffering  and  want, 
while  the  modern  institution  has  been 
labeled  Trusts,  Grocers’  Associations, 
etc.  The Trade Union alone wears  this 
ancient mantle of charity.

in  1600 

In  the  infancy  of  national  existence, 
to 
trades  guilds  or  combinations  seem 
have been necessary for the life and suc­
cess  of  the  business  they  represented, 
and to have been a natural and necessary 
offshoot of  man’s gregarious nature,  and 
we here, to-night,  are  simply  a  modern 
exposition  of  this  ancient idea,  a bond­
ing together of a certain trade for mutual 
support  and  protection.  We  are  a  re­
sultant of the inalienabl3  right  of  self- 
preservation,  and  if  we  do  not misuse 
our privileges,  or take undue  advantage 
of our position,  we  will  have  the  com­
mendation only of our fellowcitizens.

The history of old guilds should teach, 
to every member of  the  modern  institu­
tion,  fealty to the organization;  to  treat 
in honor all  pledges,  whether  promised 
or  implied;  to  recognize  and  obey  the 
laws of the  association  and  the  rulings 
of  its  officers,  and  not,  through  negli­
gence, distrust and doubtful competition, 
render their services abortive.

To have been disloyal or  weak  in  his 
support of the old guild and its regulated

prices and trade laws was  to  bring  one 
into contempt and,  eventually,  to  com­
mercial ruin—for even  then  there  were 
some whom no law of  association  could 
restrain,  nor interviews  influence.  The 
man or firm who establishes the principle 
of  being  a  law  unto  himself  is  sailing 
pretty close to the shoals of  misfortune.
The  spirit  of  a  grocers’  association 
stands for mutual enjoyment and for the 
attainment  of  a  common  purpose—the 
rectifying of trade abuses and  misuses— 
for  which  the  support  of  members  is 
accessary. 
It is pennies and  pounds  in 
the pocket of every man  of  you,  and  it 
passes belief that any lack  of  cohesion, 
lukewarmness  or 
insincerity  could  be 
possible.

It is your duty to work in harmony and 
to give both of  your mental  and  physic­
al strength  to  promote  the  continuance 
and  success  of  your  organization. 
Its 
merits  and  benefits  go  without  saying, 
and your business acumen  must  see  the 
necessity  of  individual  action.  You 
should not be influenced  by  what  some 
may style free and untrammeled  compe­
tition,  as  low  prices  stand for  neither 
business  ability  nor  financial  success. 
If they do,  the commercial  history of the 
world is false.  As surely  as every  busi­
ness success is based  on good goods  and 
a fair profit, so almost all  business  fail­
ures are attributable to  inadequate prof­
its and inferior merchandise.

H.  S.  Gk iggs.

Jackson,  Feb.  1,  1894.

A special meeting of  the  stockholders 
of the  Home National  Bank of  East Sag­
inaw will be held on Feb.  13  to  consider 
the  advisability of  reducing  its  capital 
stock,  which is now $400,000, to $300,000, 
leaving the surplus  at  $140,000,  as  it  is 
at present.

A flyer in  Maricaibo  coffee  this week 
among  Tolman’s  leaders.  Phone  J.  P. 
Visner at Bridge Street House.

PRODUCE  M ARKET,

Apples—Baldwins are  the only variety now In 
the market, and they are aB 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  cleaned  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—65@75c per doz.
Cranberries—Jerseys  are slow sale, command­

ing  $2  per  bu.  and $5.75 per bbl.
doz.

Celery—Home  grown  commands  lo@18c  per 

Eggs—Dealers  pay 12Ji@13c  for strictly fresh, 
holding at 13H@14c, although  some  sales  have 
been made at 15c.  The  supply is  unexpectedly 
large,  and  there  is  no  stability to  the market. 
Holders of  cold storage and  pickled  goods  are 
hastening  to  get  rid  of  their  stocks,  offering 
them at from  9c upwards.
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 14@15c per lb., 
dark  buckwheat  brings  12c.  Both  grades  are 
very scarce and hard to get.

Hickory nuts, $1.10 per bu.

Lettuce—Grand Rapids  forcing, 12c per lb.
Maple Sugar—10 per lb.
Nuts—Walnuts  and  butternuts,  75c  per  bu. 
Onions—Handlers  pay  45c,  holding  at  55 
per bu.  Spanish  are  in  small  demand  at $1.2 
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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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Thos.  Gray  has  sold  his  creamery  at 
178 East Fulton street to W.  R. Compton.
John Van Tuinen  has  opened  a  gro­
cery store at  Lamont.  The Olney & Jud- 
son Grocer Co.  furnished the stock.

J.  A.  Morrell,  formerly engaged in  the 
grocery business  at  Traverse  City,  has 
opened a grocery store at Rome, Ga.  The 
Telfer Spice Co.  furnished the  teas  and 
spices.

The Telfer Spice Co. has obtained judg­
ment  in  the  Charlevoix  Circuit  Court 
against Wm.  Mears,  formerly engaged in 
general trade  at  Boyne  Falls,  for  $170 
and costs.  The judgment  is  secured  by 
an attachment on hay,  grain and agricul­
tural implements,  levied  at  the  time  of 
Mears’ failure, several  months ago.

Wm.  B.  Tyler,  formerly  engaged  in 
general 
trade  at  Richland,  but  more 
recently identified with the iron business 
in this city,  has embarked  in  the grocery 
business at Columbus, Ohio, where he  is 
located  at  the  corner  of  Hunter  street 
and Fifth avenue.  Mr. Tyler is a stirring 
gentleman  and  will  give  his  competitors 
a lively hustle.

Peter Doran is somewhat elated over a 
recent  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court, 
sustaining a point  he has long contended 
for in connection  with  the  M.  V.  Wilson 
failure,  which  occurred  at  Sand  Lake 
two or three years ago.  Wilson  uttered 
to  EL 
a  mortgage  on  his  drug  stock 
the 
Rosenthal  &  Sons,  of  Cincinnati, 
consideration  being  $1,500, 
although 
he only owed the firm at that  time  $420. 
Grand  Rapids  creditors  thereupon  at­
tached the stock and closed  it  out.  when 
Rosenthal  &  Sons  sued  the  sheriff  for 
the value of  the  stock.  The  Kent  Cir­
cuit Court gave  the  plaintiffs’  judgment 
for the  amount of  their  claim,  but  the 
Supreme  Court  set  aside  the  verdict, 
knocking out a  prop  which  will,  proba­
bly,  preclude a retrial  of the matter.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  market  was  very  strong 
the latter part of  last week, culminating 
Monday in a general  advance  of  a  six­
pence all along the line.

Oranges — “Demoralized.”  That 

is 
what our  local fruit dealers answer when 
asked as to the condition  of  the  market. 
Grand  Rapids seems to be considered,  by 
Florida  grove  owners  and  shippers,  a 
good distributing point, if one may judge 
from the manner in  which  they  send car 
after car. 
It is true that  no  city of  the 
same size can  boast of more pushing,  en­
terprising fruit and  commission  dealers, 
but  there  is  a  limit  to  their  ability to 
place  goods,  and,  with  surrounding 
towns  filled  full  of  oranges,  strong in­
ducements in  the closeness of prices have 
been  and  are  being  made  to  keep the 
fruit moving,  and it is a fact that Chicago 
and Detroit do not begin  to  make  prices 
with  our  own  city.  The  fruit  being 
largely  in  consignments,  the  resulting 
loss  falls  on  the  grower,  and when  re­
turns are made it will  have a tendency to 
check the stream of arrivals,  from  which 
it may be deduced  that better prices will 
be asked in the near  future.

Lemons—Indications,  as  noted 

last 
week,  have  been  verified  and 
fancy 
grades are quoted  at  a  low figure.  Our 
local  wholesale  dealers  report  an  in­
creased  demand.  There  are  several 
large cargoes  due  to  sell  this week  at 
both  Boston  and  New  York,  and  it  is

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more than probable that buyers will  bear 
the market  strongly and  “get  back  at” 
the  importers,  who  have  been  making 
such a nice thing out of  all  transactions 
made during  the  past  sixty days.  The j 
break has been  complete,  and  from  now 
until dealers throughout  the West begin 
to  lay  in  stock  for  the  warm weather, 
prices will remain at the  point  most  fa­
vorable to the  consumer.

Bananas—The  local  market 

is  ade­
quately supplied  with  a  good  grade  of 
fruit  this  week  and  reasonable  prices 
will rule.  The indications  now are that 
more of this  fruit will  be  handled  here 
during  the  coming  season  than  in  any 
previous year. 
It is to be hoped that ar­
rivals will  be more  regular  than  in  the 
past,  for heretofore it  has  been  either  a 
bear or  a  glutted  market,  which  condi­
tion 
is  disappointing  to  the  general 
dealer during the scarcity and financially 
disastrous  to  the wholesaler when  bur­
dened with overripe stock.

Foreign Nuts—Nearly all varieties are 
held  easy and  quotations,  as  made,  will 
be shaded as an  inducement to liberal or­
ders.  No decline to  speak  of  is  proba­
ble, as  asking  prices  are  close  to  first 
cost,  and,  with  an  increased volume  of 
business,  advances will be noticed.

Dates—New crop is large  and  of  fine 

quality.

Coffee—The manufacturers of package 
brands have reduced their quotations J^c.

The  Hardware  Market.

General trade is but  fair.  .  Dealers are 
still pursuing a conservative policy as to 
buying,  which  necessarily  restricts 
the 
movement of any large  volume of goods. 
There is one thing,  however,  that  is  in 
our favor,  and  that is,  all  prices seem  to 
have reached bottom,  and those  who  are 
able to take advantage of  prices  that are 
being quoted  for  future  shipments  can 
rest reasonably certain that the prospects 
are more in favor of  higher  than  lower 
figures.

Wire  Nails—Remain  stationary 

in 
price,  as  quoted  in  January.  A  great 
many orders have been placed for March 
shipment from the mill  on  the  basis  of 
$1.15,  and,  while  this  price  might  be 
shaded for a large order,  it is still a good 
purchase,  as spring  trade  will  undoubt­
edly result in  a small  advance.

Rope — Still  remains 

low,  notwith­
standing  the  reorganization  of  the  Na­
tional Cordage Co.; but dealers can  make 
up their  minds that  just as soon  as they 
get  things where they  want them,  prices 
will  be greatly advanced.  Rope bought 
now is good  value for the money.

Shot— The season is  over.  Prices  are 
ruling lower.  We quote $1.45  for  drop.

The  Drug: Market.

Opium is firm at  the  recent  advance. 
The  prospective  duty of  $1  per  pound 
and reported damage to growing crop  by 
frost  tend  to  higher  prices  and a firm 
feeling among holders.

Morphia has advanced  15c  per  ounce 
in consequence of the advance of opium.
Quinine  has  been  advanced  by  both 
foreign and home manufacturers  on  ac­
count of higher prices for  bark  and  re­
duced  stocks.

Muriate cocaine has been  advanced by 

all manufacturers 25c per ounce.

Chloral  hydrate is 15c per pound higher 
on account of increased  cost  of  material 
for manufacture.

Wood alcohol  has again  been  reduced 

by the pool 10c per gallon.

Turpentine is higher.

NO  TRADE  EXCURSIONS.

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

tation.

Emphatic Quietus on an Annoying1 Agi­

Gra nd  Ra pid s, Feb. 5—I  am  informed 
that the merchants of Rockford, Allegan, 
Newaygo,  Fremont  and  other  surround­
ing towns are somewhat  stirred  up  over 
a rumor that the merchants of  this  city, 
under the  auspices  and  by the  help  of 
the Board of  Trade,  intend  to  have  run 
here a number of  trade  excursions  from 
neighboring  towns  on  the  various  rail­
roads  leading to this city.
This is  merely a  rumor without  foun­
dation,  and my opinion is  that  such  an 
undertaking  cannot,  and  will  not.  con­
sistently have the  support  of  the  Board 
of Trade.  Of course,  certain  merchants 
of  this  city  engaged 
in  retailing  dry 
goods,  clothing,  boots  and  shoes  and 
millinery, whether members of the Board 
of Trade or not,  believing that  such  ex­
cursions would  be profitable to them (for 
they are the only ones  to  be  thus  bene­
fited),  have the  privilege  of  making,  if 
possible,  such  arrangements  with 
the 
different railroad companies  as will  best 
suit their convenience and  purpose.
But excursions at this time of the year 
would be out of  place,  unseasonable and 
unnatural,  and  the  railroads  and  mer­
chants  here  will  hesitate 
long  before 
spending a lot of money these hard times 
in  an  undertaking  of  this  sort,  which 
could  only  prove  unprofitable. 
In  my 
opinion—and  I  believe I  kuow whereof  I 
speak—there will  be  no  excursions  just 
now, and country merchants need  borrow 
no trouble on that score.
Pleasure excursions given  during  the 
summertime  are,  perhaps,  a  very  good 
thing,  as they afford the  merchants  and 
farmers,  and  all  parties,  both  old  and 
young,  who  can  afford to spend the time 
and money,  an opportunity  to  visit  our 
beautiful city, and,  while here,  to  enjoy 
the points of interest; an opportunity  to 
renew old acquaintances, old friendships, 
and an opportunity for a reunion of “Old 
Vets;”  an opportunity,  also,  to see  what 
airs we city  folks  put  on.  Such  excur­
sions  would be  all  right  at  the  proper 
time,  but  I am unequivocally opposed  to 
these so-called  “trade excursions”—I  am 
opposed to them on  principle. 
It  would 
be neither j ust nor right to encourage such 
excursions; 
it  would  not  be  showing 
justice or fair treatment to the merchants 
of  Western  Michigan  who,  for  years, 
have shown a strong preference to Grand 
Rapids by making the bulk of  their pur­
chases in this  market.  These good peo­
ple  in  this  way  have  borne their part, 
and have  helped very  materially  in  the 
building  up  of  the  city’s  larger  indus­
tries,  and  are  ever  watching,  with 
friendly and patriotic pride,  the  growth 
and prosperity of the Western Metropolis, 
the Valley City.
Let us be mindful of  the Golden Rule.

Yours very truly,

S.  M.  L emon.

Hides,  Pelts  and Furs.

Elides—Are  steady  without  change, 
though a slight flurry struck the  market 
a few days ago; but business soon settled 
down again with prices back  to  the  old 
figure, where they will  remain until busi­
ness in general  shows  improvement.

Pelts—No  demand,  consequently  no 
business to speak of.  There  is  no  scar­
city  of  skins  in  the  country  but  the 
trouble is no one wants them.

Furs—Are  coming  in  slowly, the  de­
cline  in  prices  since  the  London  sale 
making hunting unprofitable.  The price 
is practically the buyer’s,  with  the pros­
pect of a further drop,  as  exporters  are 
bound  to  make  up  some  of  the heavy 
losses sustained at the  above  mentioned 
sale;  another thing, furs are not as  good 
at this time of year as they are earlier in 
the year.

A bank will be started at  Marlette  by 
A.  E.  Sleeper and A.  W.  Merrill  of  Lex­
ington. 
It will be  known  as  the  Com­
mercial Bank of  Marlette,  with a capital 
of $10,000.

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 35 cents. 
Advance payment.

B U S IN E S S   C H A N C E S .

553

554

ITO R  EXCHANGE—FARM  AND CITY PROP- 
erty for stocks of merchandise.  Correspond­
ence  strictly  confidential.  Address  232  N. 
Washington ave., Lansing. Mich. 
555
I 30R  SALE—DRUGGIST’S  FIXTURES SUCH 
as bottles, drawers,  prescription  case, etc., 
very  cheap.  Address,  Drawer  75,  Bangor, 
Mich. 
556
m o   RENT—A  22*80  ROOM 
IN  BRICK 
JL  block;  fine  location  for  clothing  store; 
good country trade.  Rent reasonable.  Address, 
H. D. Harvey, Bangor. Mich. 
557
I HAVE  *4,000 WORTH  OF DRY GOODS AND 
notions which  I wish to exchange for stock 
of shoes, groceries, or  good  farm.  Can  reduce 
stock  or  trade  part of  it,  if  necessary.  O.  F. 
Conklin, 26 Madison ave., Grand  Rapids. 
558 
CLEAN  STOCK  OF  HARDWARE  DOING 
a paying  cash  business  for  sale.  Inven 
tories $3,100, will Bell for S3,00',) spot cash  balance 
on  time.  Don't  write  unless  you  have  the 
money and mean business.  Address Cash Hard­
ware, care of Michigan Tradesman. 
TXTANTED—STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  OR 
i t  
boots and shoes  in  exchange  for  Grand 
Rapids  real  estate.  State  size  of  stock  and 
where located.  Address  No. 551 care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
/"NASH  FOR  STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE.
Must  be  cheap.  Address  No.  849,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
849
W H O   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
IÏ3ÜR TRADE—FARM OF 100 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
TJTOR SALE-A  NEW  STOCK  OF  CLOTHING 
J? 
ami  gents  furnishing  goods.  Or  will  ex­
change for cheap pine or hardwood lumber.  Ad­
dress Box 708. Owosso, Mich. 
TTT’ANTED—A  MAN  WHO  HAS  *2,500  OF 
I t   General  Merchandise,  or  would  like  to 
help increase a stock where they will  be sure of 
camp trade of fifty men, amLa  general trade  of 
$10 000 to $15,ooo.  Ready pay.  This will bear day­
light.  Lock box 31, Farwell, Mich. 
m i)   RENT—AFTER  FEBRUARY  1,  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. 
844
TJARTNER  WANTED—I  WISH  TO  ADD  A 
1 
$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
■   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- 
ville,  Mich. 
820
T7CT ANTED—WOODEN WARE  FACTORY  OR 
I I   Saw Mill, with good power, to locate here. 
Substantial  aid will  be  given  the  right  party 
Address S. S.  Burnett, Lake  Ann. Mich. 
819

84S

552

S IT U A T IO N S   W A N T E D .

AXTANTED—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

A  B ig  Drive
IK ALL  SILK  (SAT.  EDGE)  RIBBONS.

■   No. 

Having purchased  a  large  lot of 
All  Silk  Ribbons  at  the  great per­
emptory sale in  New York for cash, 
we are enabled  to offer you the fol­
lowing bargains;
\ !   ✓   No. 
5 .....................................40c
No. 
7...................................52c
9................................ 68c
No.  12...................................84c
Or we will  assort  you a box each 
of Nos. 5,7, 9 and  12, at  52^c  aver­
age, and  you  can  select  your own 
colors.
We make  a  specialty of Ribbons, 
and you will  find  that we  have the 
largest and  most complete  stock of 
these goods in the State.
We  solicit  your  inspection  or 
mall orders.

Corl,  Knott &  Co.,

20-22  No.  Division  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICH.

CHEAP  SAP  BUCKETS.

IX Tin, 10 qt....................................$10.50 per 100
IX Tin, 12 qt.....................................  12.00 per 100

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

GRANO  RAPIDS.

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A GRAIN  OF  WHEAT.

Dry Goods Price Current.

DEMINS.

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Amoskeag.............. 12
9os...... 14
brown .14
Andover................. 11)4
Beaver Creek A A... 10 
BB...  9
cc..».
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 

Columbian brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12)4
brown....... 12)4
Haymaker blue......   73t
brown...  734
Jeffrey.................... 11)4
Lancaster  .............. 12)4
Lawrence. 9 oz........18)4
No. 220....13
No. 250.... 11)4
No. 280.... 10)4

Lancaster,  staple...  5)4 

“ 
11 
“ 
blue  8)4 
“  d a  twist 10)4 
Columbian XXX br.10 
“ 
XXX  bl.19
Amoskeag...............6)4
“  Persian dress 6)«
Canton ..  7
“ 
AFC........8)4
“ 
Teazle...10)4 
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Angola..10)4 
“ 
Persian..  7 
Arlington staple—   6)4 
Arasapha  fanev—   434 
Bates Warwick dres  7)4 
Centennial.............   10)4
Criterion  ................10)4
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Cumberland............. 5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin.......................   7)4
Everett classics......8)4
Exposition............... 7)4
Glenarie.................  6)4
Glenarven................ 634
Glenwood.................7)4
Hampton...................5
Johnson Chalon cl 
)4 
Indigo blue 9)4 
zephyrs— 16

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OINSHAES.
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fancies —   7 
“  Normandie  7
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester............   534
Monogram................6)4
N orm andie........  7
Persian...................7
Renfrew Dress....... 7)4
Rosemont................. 6)4
Slatersvllle............ 6
Somerset.................7
Tacoma  ...................7)4
Toil  duNord......... 8)4
Wabash.................... 7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Warwick...............   6
Whlttenden............   8
heather dr.  7)4 
indigo bine 9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook..............8
.................10
Wlndermeer........... 5
York....................... 634

staples.  6

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GRAIN  BASS.

Amoskeag................14  ¡Georgia...  ............14
Stark......................  19 
American................14 

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TH R EA D S.

No.

Clark’s Mile End....45 
¡Barbour's..............96
Coats’, J. & P ......... 45  Marshall’s..............90
Holyoke.................. 22)4l
K N ITTIN G   COTTON.
White.  Colored.
...37
38 No.  14...
...38
“  16...
39
“  18... ...39
40
“  20... ....40
41
Edwards................  4
Lockwood................ 4
Wood’s..................   4
Brunswick...........   4

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

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

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

Slater......................   4
White Star............   4
Kid Glove...............  4
Newmarket............   4
Fireman..................32)4
Creedmore..............27)4
Talbot XXX............30
Nameless................27)4

BED  FLANNEL.
T W ....
• 82)4 
.82)4
FT
J B F, XXX 
Bnckeye................. 82)4

MIXED  FLANNEL.

“ 

10)4
11)4
12
20

DO MET  FLANNEL.
8  @ 9)41 
8)4@10  I 

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

Red & Blue,  plaid. .40  Grey S R W ............ 17)4
Western W .............18)4
Union R .................22)4
D R P ............ .........18)4
Windsor................. 18)4
Flushing XXX........23)4
6 oz Western.......... 20
Manitoba................ 23)4
Union  B ................ 22)4
...... 9  @10)4
Nameless .
......  
12)4
Brown. Black.
10)4
11H
12
20

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Brown. Black. Slate
9)4 WH
10)4 UH
11)4 12
12)4 20
DUCKS.
9)4 West  Point, 8 oz— 10)4 
“ 
10 01  ...12)4
Raven, lOoz.............13)4
Stark 
.............18)4
Boston, 10 oz........... 12)4

Slate.
9) 4
10) 4 
11# 
12)4
Severen. 8 oz..........
May land, 8 oz.........10)4
Greenwood, 7)4 os..  9)4 
Greenwood, 8 os — 11)4 
Boston, 8 oz........... 10)4
White, dos..............25  ¡Perbale,40dos....8S 50
Colored, dos...........20  ¡Colored  “ 
..........7 50
Pawtucket...............10)4
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Dnndle...................   9
“  Red Cross....  9
Bedford...................10)4
“  Best.............10)4
Valley  City........... 10)4
Best AA......12)4
“ 
KK......................10)4
L............................. 7)4
G............................. 8)4
Corticelli, doz........ 85  (Cordcell!  knitting,

SEWING  SILK.

WADDINGS.

SILESIAS.

per Hos ball.........30

-.12  “ 8 
..12  I  “  10 

twist,doz..40 
50 yd, doz..40  I 
HOOKS AND EYES— PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k A White..10  ¡No  4 Bl’k A White..15 
« 
..20
« 
..25
PINS.
NO 2-80, M  C.........50 
|No4—15 F 8)4...........40
•  8-18, S C ..........46  I
No  2 White A Bl’k.,12  ¡No  8 White A Bl’k..20 
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NO 2.

COTTON  TAPE.
-15  “  10 
-.18  I  “  12 
SAFETY  FINS.
....28  IN0 8 ...
NEEDLES—FEE  M.

A. James.................1 40] Steamboat...............   40
Crowely'a...............1  85 Gold  Eyed...............1 50
Marshall’s..............1 00| American................ 1 00
j5—4....1  65  6-4. ..2 80
5—4.... 1 75  6—4... 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

2 
8 

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4 
6 

.86

COTTON TWINES.

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

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Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............18)4
Anchor..................16
Bristol...................13
Cherry  Valley........15  I
I XL...................... 18)4
¡ Alabama.................  631
'■ Alamance.................6)4
j  Angusta.................. 7)4
j Ar sapha..
I Geoma—  
i Granite  ....
: Haw  River 
■Haw  J ......

PLAID  OSEAR URSS

Mount  Pleasant__ 6)4
Oneida....................5
Prymont...............   534
6  Randelman............ 6
6)4 Riverside................  5M
534 Sibley  A.................  6)4
5  i Otis checks.............. 734

RATE  R ED U C ED

FROM  $2  TO  $ 1 .2 5   PER 

DAY  AT  THE

K e n t 

Directly  opposite Union Depot, 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

H

Steam  H eat  and  Electric  Bella.
tiling New and  Clean.

Every-

BEACH  &  BOOTH,  Prop’rs.

Catarrh, 
H ay F e v e r , 
H eadache,
Neuralgia,  C ol,  Sore  Threat.

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

Prevents and cures

On cars or boat.

S e a   S ick n ess
The  cool  exhllerating  sensation 

follow­
ing its use Is a luxury to  travelers.  Convenient 
to carry in the pocket;  no liquid to drop or spill; 
lasts a year, ana costs  50c  at  druggists.  Regis­
tered mail 60c, from

H. D.  CUSHMAN,  M anufacturer.

Three Rivers, Mlcb.

{ ^ “Guaranteed  satisfactory.

Tradesman  Company,

GRAND   R APID S.

EATON,  LYON & C0„

NEW  STYLES  OF

20  &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

BOOTS, 
SHOES,  A N D
R U B B E R S .

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

How  It  Loses  Its  Identity  In  a  Great 

Flour  Mill.

One who has never been in  a  flouring 
mill  of  the  largest  size  caunot  realize 
what a  peculiar lot of  noises  are  made 
by the machinery.  As soon as the wheat 
enters the machine from the  long  spout 
which  brings  it  down  from  the  upper 
floors,  it falls between two rollers of iron, 
—“chilled”  iron they  call  it,  and  very 
hard it  is, 
too.  One  of  these  rollers 
revolves rapidly,  the other more  slowly, 
in order that the  separation of  the coat, 
or bran from  the  kernel  may  be  more 
easily  accomplished.  The  wheat  first 
passes  between  rollers  separated  just 
enough to allow the  coat  to be crushed. 
It is then carried away  up  to the  top  of 
the  mill again,  to a  room  where the sun 
vainly tries to shine in through the flour- 
coated  windows  far  above 
the  city’s 
roofs. 
It next passes  over  a  wire  sieve 
which separates the  bran from  the  ker­
nel  proper.
This bran,  which contains much of the 
flour material,  again passes down  and is 
ground  once  more,  this  process  being 
repeated  four  times,  making  five grind­
ings,  each one finer than the  one preced­
ing it.  Each  time  the  fibrous  or  bran 
portions are more completely  separated,  j 
and at last the  bran  comes  out  a clear, i 
brownish  husk  with  every  particle  of 
flour removed.
The inside part of the kernel has mean­
while been going through a very interest­
ing process.  After the  first  grinding or 
breaking,  it  passes  to  a  big  six  sided 
revolving reel covered  with a  fine  wire 
netting or sieve.  Through  this  reel the 
finer portions of the kernel  pass,  coming 
out  in  what  is  called  “middlings,”  a 
granulated mass which goes  back  to the 
roller  for  another  crushing.  This  pro­
cess is  repeated  through  five  reels,  all 
but the first being of silk.  The  last  one 
has 1-20 threads  to the  lineal inch.  The 
flour which  comes  out  of  the  fifth reel, 
while white  in  hue,  is  yet  not  of  the 
finest or “patent” grade, but is classed as 
“ baker’s” or second grade flour.
The middlings  above  referred  to  are 
purified by an  interesting process.  They 
are passed over a fine wire sieve, through 
the upper part of which a strong current 
of air is passed.  This holds in suspense 
the tiny portions of fibrous matter which 
may have been  in  the  flour,  and,  at last, 
after this process of  middlings  purifying 
has  been very carefully carried  out,  the 
flour appears a spotless snowy white—the 
“ patent” flour,  as  it  is  called. 
In  the 
process of  grinding  in  this  gradual  and 
repeated way,  the  germ  of  the wheat,  a 
tiny particle about the size of  a mustard 
seed,  is separated  from  the white  flour. 
It is what one might call the  life-part of 
the  wheat.  If it were ground up it would 
not leave  the  patent  flour  so white  and 
powdery,  so it is separated in one of  the 
sievings and  passes  into  the  darker  or 
lower grade flour. 
It contains, however, 
the best  and most nutritious  part  of  the 
wheat.
The last thing that happens to the pul­
verized  kernel,  before  it  is  ready  for 
market,  is the filling of  barrels or sacks. 
Down  many  stories  through  a  smooth 
tube  comes  the white  or “ patent” flour. 
Under the tube is the barrel or the sack, 
as the case  may be, and.  as  it  begins  to 
fill,  a steel  augur, just  the  size  of  the 
barrel, bores down into the flour, packing 
it  carefully  and  solidly  beneath  the 
broad  blades.

The Chicago  Inter  Ocean,  that  great 
Republican newspaper,  has  not  suffered 
by the recent era of financial depression, 
but has gone  right  along  adding  to  its 
foundation stones—a large  and  substan­
tial circulation—with a stride that under 
the  circumstances  is  truly  wonderful. 
At one time additions to the subscription 
list  were coming at the rate of S00 to 1,100 
per day for the  daily issue,  and  as  high 
as  1,500  per  day  for  the  weekly Inter 
Ocean.  The result of this  is  to  place  it 
easily at the head of the list of great Chi­
cago newspapers. 
It is certainly a good, 
clean,  family  newspaper  of  the  highest 
order.

____ ___ _  

T here  is  no  harm   in  talking about your j 

neighbor  if  you  find  only  good  things  to j Boot  ...^................ 634¡No  Name.............  
say.

Clifton. X

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UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.Arrow Brand 4<g 
Adriatic.................7
World Wide.  6
Argyle....................  534
LL................. 4)4
Atlanta AA............ 6
Full Yard Wide...... 6)4
Atlantic  A................6%
Georgia  A..............  6)4
“ 
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Honest Width........  6
“ 
P .............  5
Hartford A ............ 5
“ 
D..............  6
Indian Head...........  6)4
“  LL................4)4
King A A................. 6)4
Amory.................... 614
KingEC.................  6
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Lawrence  L L........  4)4
Beaver Dam  A A ..  414
Madras cheese cloth 614
Blackstone O, 32__5
Newmarket  G........514
Black Crow............ 6
B.........5
Black Rock  .............514
N ........ 6)4
Boot, AL................  7
DD....  5)4
Capital  A................  5)4
X .......614
Cavanat V..............5)4
Chapman cheese cl.  314
Nolbe R..................  5
Our Level  Best...... 6
Clifton  C R .............. 5)4
Oxford  R...............   6
Comet..................... 6
Dwight Star............  634 Peqnot.................... 7
Clifton CCC...........514 Solar.........................6
iTopofthe Heap....  7
ABC...................8)4
Geo. Washington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
Amazon...................8
Gold Medal.............. 7)4
Amsburg.................6
Green  Ticket......... 8)4
Art  Cambric...........10
Great Falls.............   6)4
Blackstone A A...... 7)4
Hope......................... 7)4
Beats All................ 4
Just  Out........4140 5
Boston....................12
King Phillip...........714
Cabot......................   6*
OP......7)4
Cabot,  %.................614
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Charter  Oak...........5)4
Lonsdale...........  O 814
Conway W..............  7)4
Middlesex........   0  5
Cleveland.............  6
Dwight Anchor—   8 
¡No Name................ 7)4
¡Oak View............... 6
shorts  8
“ 
Our Own.................5)4
Edwards.
Empire...................  7  Pride of the West... 12
Farwell....................7)4 Rosalind.....................7)4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8  ¡Sunlight.................  4)4
Fitchville  ............  7  Utica  Mills.............. 8)4
First Prize..............6 
“  Nonpareil  .10
Fruit of the Loom X.  7)4 VInyard.................   814
Fairmount..............4)4 White Horse............ 6
Full Value..............6141 
“  Rock.............. 8)4
Cabot......................   614|DwIghtAnchor...... 8
Farwell...................7*41

HALT  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached.
| 
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Housewife  Q—
6*
R ...........7
........ 734
S 
T ........... 8)4
U ......... 9)4
V ........... 10
W..........1034
X..........11)4
Y..........12)4
Z  ..........13)4

Unbleached. 
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Housewife  A— ....5)4
B.  .. ....5)4
c.... ....6
D .... ...6)4
E .... __7
F .... ---7)i
G  ... ....7)4
H ...
I . . . ....8)4
ÿ__ ...  8)4
K ....
914
L ..........10
M  ......... 10)4
N ..........11
O............21
P ..........14)4

CARPET  W ASP.

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Peerless, white...... 17  ¡Integrity  colored... 18
colored__19  ¡White Star................17
Integrity................ 18)41 
“  colored..19
(Nameless................ 20
Hamilton................   8
...........25
.................9
...........27)4
 
...........30
G G  Cashmere........20
...........32)4
Nameless  ...............16
...........35
................18

DBBSS  SOODS.

10)4

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FEINTS.

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COSSET  JEANS.

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M r1 
“  gold seal........ 10)4!
“  green seal TR 10)4 
“  yellow seal. .10)4
“  serge..............11)4
“  T urks/red.. 10)4
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Coralino................. <9 50IWonderful.  .. 
...84 50
Schilling's.............   9 00 Brighton..................4 75
Davis  Waists  ....  9  00 Bortree’s ..............  9 00
Grand  Rapids......4  50i Abdominal............ 15 00
Armory..................   634|Naumkeag satteen..  7)4
Androscoggin.........7)4 Rockport.................... 6)4
Blddeford.............  6  ¡Conestoga.................7)4
Brunswick............. 6)4i Walworth.................. 634
Allen turkey  reds..  5)4¡Berwick fancies—   5)4
robes...........5)4 Clyde Robes.............
pink * purple 5)4(Charter Oak fancies 4)4
buffs...........  6)4 DelMarine cashing.  5)4
mourn’g  5)4
pink  checks.  5)4 
staples........  5  Eddy stone fancy...  5)4
chocolat 5)4
shirtings ...  334 
American  fancy—   5*4 
rober—  5)4
sateens.. 5)4
American indigo...  5)*| 
American shirtings.  3¿   Hamilton fancy. 
~  
 
 
5)4
stap
staple 
Argentine  Grays...  6  I 
5)4
Manchester fancy..  5)4
Anchor Shirtings . . .  4 
new era.  5)4 
Arnold 
“  —   6
Merrimack D fancy.  5)4 
Arnold  Merino
long cloth B.  9)41 Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
Repp fu rn .  8)4
century doth  7  Pacific fancy.........  5)4
Portsmouth robes...  6)4 
Simpson mourning..  534
greys........534
■olid black.  534 
Washington Indigo.  6)4 
Ballon solid black..
Turkey robes..  7M 
“  colors.
India robes—   7)4 
Bengal blue,  green, 
plain Tky X 34  8)4 
red and  orange...  6
“  X...10
Berlin solids...........  5)4
Ottoman  Tur­
**  oil blue............6
key red................ 6)4
“  green
“ 
6
5)4 Martha Washington 
“  Foulards 
7 
“ 
red 3t  - - - 
9)4 Martha Washington
"  X
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Cocheco fancy........  5
“  madders...  5 
*•  XX twills..  5 
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Turkey red.......... 9)4
¡Riverpointrobes....  5)4 
Windsor fancy........6)4
10)4
4H
Amoskeag ACA....12H AC A  ■■■  ........... 12)4
Hamilton N  ............  7  Pemberton AAA  ... 16
D..............8  ¡York........................10)4
Awning.. 11  ¡Swift River.............  7)4
Farmer.....................8  ¡Pearl  River............ 12
First  Prize  .............10)4 Warren  ..................1*)4
. Lenox M ills...........18  IConostoga.............. 16
............8
.  7)4
7  (Top of Heap...........  9

solids..........5  (Harmony

D........^ ^ ¡ s t i r k ^ A  

j  Turkey red 34.

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

gold  ticket 

Indigo  nine

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TBCE   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .

Grand  Rapids  A Indiana.
Schedule  In  effect Deo. 24,1893.

TRAINS  O O m e  NORTH.

Arrive from   Leave going 
North.
7:40 a m
4:50 p m
10:26  p m

South. 
For M’kinaw.Tr&v. City and Sag. 7:20 a m 
For Cadillac and Saginaw.........  2:15 p m  
For  Petoskey A  M ackinaw......... 8:10 p m 
From  Kalamazoo............................. 9:10 a  m
From Chicago and K alam azoo..  9 50 p m 
dally.  Others train s daily except Sunday.

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

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

Arrive from   Leave going 
South.
6:60  a m
10:40 a m
2:00 p m
6:00  p m
11:20 p m

North. 
For  C incinnati................................................ 
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago...................... 
For F ort W ayne and the  E a st..  11:40 a  m 
For  C incinnati.............................   6:15 p m 
For Kalamazoo  A  Chicago.......10:56 p m  
From  Saginaw............................... 11:40 a m
From Saginaw................................. 10:65pm
daily,  all  o th er train s  daily except Sunday.
C hicago v ia G.  R.  A I. R. R.

Trains leaving south  a t 6:00 p m  and  11 *20 p.  m. run 

10:40 a  m  2 00 p m  
4:00 p m   9:00 p m  

11:20 p m
Lv Grand  Rapids 
7:06 a m
A rr Chicago 
10:40  a  m  tra in   solid  with  W agner  Buffet  P arlor 
Oar.
11:20  p m   tra in   dally,  through  coach  and  W agner 
Sleeping Car.
11:40 p m
Lv  Chicago 
7:20  a  m
A rr Grand Rapids 
4:15  p  m solid w ith  W agner  Buffet  P arlor  Car  and 
Dining Car.  11:40 p m  train  dAily, through Coach and 
W agner Sleeping  Car.

6:50 a m   4:15 p m  
2:15 p m   9  50pm  

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
9:40 a ra
7:36  a m 
6:40 p m  
6:20p m

From Muskegon—Arrive

Sunday train   leaves  for  Muskegon  a t  7:45 a  m, a r­
riving a t  9:16  a  m.  Returning,  tra in   leaves  Muske 
gon a t 4:30 p m, arriving a t Grand  Rapids a t  5:50 p m.

General  Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

4
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CHICAGO

NOV.  19,  1893
AND  WKSl'  MICHIGAN  R’Y.
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids............ 7:30am  1:25pm *11 :-a0pm
Ar. Chicago.................  1:45pm 6:50pm  *6:30am

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

TO  m o   PROM  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
T R A V ER SE  C IT T ,  C H A RLEV O IX   AND  PETO SK EY .
Lv. Grand  Rapids..
7:30am .........   3:15pm
Ar.  Manistee........... 12:10pm .........   8:15pm
Ar. Traverse City__ 12:40pm .........   8'45pm
3:15pm .........   11:10pm
Ar. Charlevoix.......
3:45pm .........   11:40pm
Ar.  Petoskey
Arrive  from  Petoskey,  etc., 1:00  p.  ra.  and
10:00 p. m.
Local train to White Cloud  leaves Grand Rap­
ids 5:45 p. m., connects  for  Big Rapids and Fre­
mont.  Returning,  arrives  Grand  Rapids  11:20 
a. m.
PA R LO R   AND  S L E E PIN G   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
...........
ToG. R..lv.Petoskey  5:00am  1:30pm 

•Every day.  Other trains week days only.

DETR O IT,

NOV.  19,  1893
LANSING &  NORTHERN  R.  R.

GOING TO  DETROIT.

TO  AND  PROM   SA G IN A W ,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LO U IS.

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.ll :40am 10:55pm
Lv. Grand Rapids  ......... 7:00am  1:20pm 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 
in g train.

THROUGH  CAR SERVICE.

TO  LO W ELL  VIA   LO W ELL  A  H A STINGS  R .  K.

•Every day.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. PasB’r Ag’t.
D ETROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  &  MIL­
Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Av j.

W AUKEE  Railway.

Trains Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St.  Johns  ...Ar
Owos83........Ar
E. Saginaw..Ar
Bay City......Ar
F lin t...........Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit......... Ar

EA STW A RD .

tNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 •No.  82
10 45pm 
6 45am
7 40am
12 27am
1 45am
8 25am 
2 40am
900am
6 40am 
10 50am
7 15am 
11 32am 
54  am 
10 05am 
730am 
1205pm
537am
10 53am
11 50am
7 00am
W ESTW A RD .

10 20am
11 25am 
1217pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 06pm

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm
6 05pm 
800pm 
8 37pm
7 05pm
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

Trains Leave

•No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13.
G’d Rapids............ Lv 7 00am 1  00pm 4 55pm
G’d  Haven............ Ar 8 20am 2  10pm 6 00pm

*Daily.

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  Parltr  Buffet 
Westward— No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 16 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.

J as. Campbell, City T'cket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

Mic h ig a n (T en tr al

“  The Niagara Falls R oute’*

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

•Dally.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20d m...........Detroit  Express........... 7 00am
5 30am  __»Atlantic and  Pacific.......1’  20 pm
1  30 p m  ......New York Express  ........  5 40 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific ex 
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  7:00 a m;  re­
turning, leave Detroit 4:55 pm, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit with 
all through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.!
A .  A l m q u i s t , Ticket Agent,

Union Passenger Station.

P  1 7  C'* T Z  ’ C l 
L  C j U I V   O  

HEADACHE 
P O W D E R S

Pay thejbest profit.  Order from your jobber.

b a l d
HEADS

DANDRUFF CURED.

NO  MUSTACHE.
NO  PAY.

NO  CURE, 
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 n o  cure.  Call a n d   be examined  free of 
charge.  If you cannot  call, write to me.  State 
tho exact  condition of  the scalp  a n d   your occu­
pation. 
R o o m   1011  Masonic T-  r a p ie .  C h ic a g o

PROF.  G.  ItIK K H iil Z,

Of  Interest 
to  Book= 
keepers.

I will teach my system of In­
f a 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 chauge 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.

Hardware Price Current.

These  prices are  for cash,  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
60
Snell’s ........................................................... 
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’, Im itation....................................50410
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.......................... C 7 00

AUGURS AND BITS. 

AXES.

dig .

,T 
‘ 
• 

D. B. Bronze................................  in 00
8. B. S. Steel................................  8 00
D. B. Steel...................................  13 50

BARROWS. 

d ig .

d is .

b o l t s . 

Railroad......................................................• 14 00
Garden.................................................   net  80 00
Stove.  ........................................................... 50410
Carriage new list.......................................... 75410
Plow.............................................................. 40410
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70
WeU,  plain  ................................................. I 8 SO
Well, swivel.................................................   4 00
d lS .
Cast Loose Pin, figured...................  ...........704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 604,0

BUTTS, OAST. 

BUCKETS.

Wrought Loose Pin...................................... 60A101
Wrought Table.............................................60&10  \
Wrought Inside Blind..................................co&io
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75 I
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70416
Blind,  Parker’s .............................................70410
Blind, Shepard’s 
70 I
Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892..............C0410

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

c r a d l e s.

CROW BARS.

Grain......................................................dis. 50402

Cast Steel............................................per 8>  5
Ely’s 1-10............................................perm 
Hick’s C. F ..........................................  “ 
G. D ....................................................   “ 
Musket................................................ 
“ 

65
60
35
60

CARTRIDGES.

c h is e l s. 

Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire...........................................dis. 

56
25

Socket Firmer.............................................  70410
Socket Framing............................................70416
Socket Corner............................................... 70410
Socket Slicks............................................... 70410
Butchers’Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

c o m bs. 

Currv,  Lawrence’s......................................  
40
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per gross..............12©12H dis. 10

c h a l k .

dis.

dis.

c o p p e r .

 

“ 

DRILLS. 

D R IP P IN G   PA H S.

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

Planished, 14 os cut to size........per pound 
14x52, 14x56,14x60 ....................... 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48........................................ 
Bottoms.......................................... 
 
dis.
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks.......................
........... 
Taper and straight Shank............
............. 
Morse’s Taper Shank.................... .............. 
Small sizes, ser pound................. .............. 
07
Large sizes, per pound................. .............. 
6H
Com. 4  piece, 6 in.........................
.doz. net 
75
Corrugated................................... ........dlS 
40
Adjustable...................................
......dis. 40&10
EX PA N SIV E   B IT S.
Clark's, small, 818;  large, 826......
............  
30
Ives’, 1, «8:  2, 824; 3,830  ............ .............. 
25
F IL E S—New List.
Disston’s ...................................................... 60410
New American  ............................................60410
Nicholson’s ..................................................60410
Heller’s ......................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ..................................  
50

ELBO W S.

dis.

dis.

GALVANIZED IRON.

28

15 

12 

dli.

dlS.

LOCKS—DOOR. 

NAILS
base.................................... 1 50

hauls. 
bulls. 

MOLAS8B8 GATES. 

14 
GAUGES. 

knobs—New List. 

13 
Discount, 60

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

50
Stanley Rale and  Level Co.’s...................... 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....................  
55
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings.................  
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcetoln, trimmings......................... 
70
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
56
55
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s............................ 
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
Norwalk’s ................................................... 
55
Adze Eye......................................... «6.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye......................................... «5.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s ...................................... «8.50, dis. 20410.
dis.
50
Speiry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled.....................' 
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s...................................  
40
40
“  P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable!.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry 4  Cls rk’s.................  
40
“  Enterprise 
...................................... 
30
Stebbln’s Pattern.......................................... 60410
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................66410
25
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
Advance over  base,  on  botn  Steel and Wire.
Steel nails, 
Wire nails, base.....................................1  75©1  80
60.................................................... Base 
Base
50......................................................  
10
40......................................................  
25
26
30......................................................  
85
20.........  
 
45
16......................................................  
12......................................................  
45
50
10...................................................... 
8.......................................................  
60
75
7 4 6 .................................................  
4.......................................................  
90
8.......................................................  
1  20
2.......................................................  
1  60
160
FlneS............................................... 
Case 10............................................. 
65
75
8............................................. 
Finish ib\\7.V.7.\\7.7.7".‘.V '.7'. 77. 
75
8...........................................  
90
6........................................... 
1  10
Clinch! 10.......................................... 
70
8.......................................... 
80
Barren x 7 7  7 7 7  7 7 7 .7 .7 7 7   7 
l  ra
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   ©40
Sclota Bench.............................................  ©50
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  040
Bench, first quality.......................................  040
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood........... 50410
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
70
Common, polished................................ die. 
dis.
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................   50—10

PLANKS. 

rivets. 

PANS.

“ 
“ 
« 

dlS.

«• 

 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

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

Broken packs Ho per pound extra.

HAMMERS.

dis.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

BINGES.

hangers. 

wire goods. 

HOLLOW WARE.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

25
Maydole  4  Co.’s.....................................dis. 
25
Kip’s....................................................... dis. 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s........................   ...... dis. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................ 80c list GO
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__30c 40410
Gate, Clark's, 1, 2 ,3 .............................. dls.60410
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
8crew Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 4H  14  and
longer.......................................................  
3S4
Screw Hook and  Eye, H ........................net 
10
“ 
%.........................net 
8H
?H
M.........................net 
“ 
“ 
* .........................net 
7H
Strap and T ............................................dis. 
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50410
Champion,  anti-friction.............................   60410
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots.............................................................   60410
Kettles.........................................................  60410
Spiders  .........................................................60410
Gray enameled.......................................  
  40410
Stamped  TlnWare...............................new list 7u
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new llst33H410
Blight...................................................  70410410
Screw  Eyes.............................................70410410
Hook’B.....................................................70410410
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70410410
<Hs.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...........
Sisal, H Inch and larger.............................
Manilla  .......................................................
Steel and  Iron..............................................
Try and Bevels.........................................
M itre............................................................
Com.  Smooth.
Com. 
Nos. 10 to  14.....................................84 05
82 95 
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................4 05
3 05 
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4 05
8 I» 
Nos. 22 to 24.....................................  4 05
3  15 
Nos. 25 to 26 .......................... 
..  4  25
8 25 
No. 27............................................... 4 4 5 ____
8 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  .....................................dlz. 
Sliver Lake, White A............................. list 
Drab A.................................  “ 
White  B..............................   > 
Drab B.................................  “ 
White C................................ “ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

LEVELS.
ROPES.

SHEET IRON.

50
50
55
sc
55
35

SQ UARES.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

dis.

Discount, 10.

BASH WEIGHTS.

dis.

saws. 

traps. 

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

Silver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot,______  70

“ 
“  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
50
30
30
Steel, Game................................................... 60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s _______ 70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion............................... 81.50 per doz
dis.
Bright Market..............................................   05
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market............................................   $2%
Coppered  Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  2 80
painted....................................  2 40

wire. 

dis.

“ 

WRENCHES. 

An  Sable  .......................................... dis.  40410
Pntnam.......................................... 
dis. 05
N or th west era................................  
dis. 10410
dis.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75410
dis.
Birdcages................................................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
75410
Screws, New List.......................................... 70410
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50410410
Dampers, American..................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods....... 65410

miscellaneous. 

HORSE NAILS.

METALS,
PIG TIN.

6M
7

ZINC.

26c
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2Hc per ponnd.
680 pound  casks........................................... 
Per pound....................................................  
H©H.................................................................. 16
Extra W iping.................................................   15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson............   .........................per  ponnd
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MBLYM GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal....................................... 8 7
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

Each additional X on this grade, «.75.

7  0
9  25
9 25

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

 
 
 

 
 
 

TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.

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

Each additional X on this grade «.50.

 
 
 
ROOFING PLATES

“ 
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“ 

 
 
 

75
6 75
8  25
9  25

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

............................  8  50
“ 
...........................  18  60
" 
“  Allaway Grade................   6 00
7 50
“ 
“ 
12 50
“ 
15 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC,  “  Worcester................................   6 50
14x20 IX, 
20X28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
14x28 IX............................................................. «4 00
14x81  IX............................................................  15 00
1&00 S ’. 

|  P<”  Ponnd  . 

10 00

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E.  A. STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  FEliKUARV  7,  1894.

CORPORATIONS  IN  POLITICS.

The Chicago Railway Review, discours­
ing upon the objections  that  have  been 
so widely  urged  against  the  influencing 
of State and Congressional legislation by 
railways,  asks:  “ Why  should  not  rail­
ways engage in politics?  or,  put  into an­
other and more correct form, why should 
not railways attempt  to influence legisla­
tion in their behalf?”

It then proceeds,  to  its  own  satisfac­
tion,  to  answer  the  question  by urging 
that a very  large proportion of  the  peo­
ple of the country are interested, directly 
or  indirectly,  in  the  prosperity of  the 
railways.  The  investors who  have  put 
money into  railways,  the  men  who  are 
engaged  in  the  operation  of  railways, 
and  the manufacturers who are employed 
in  supplying  the  needed  material  for 
railways,  all  have  a  vital 
interest  in 
their prosperity,  and the number of  per­
sons  thus 
interested  represent  a  very 
considerable portion of  our  population, 
possibly greater than  any other  interest 
in  the United  States.  So  that,  if  it  is 
conceded  that legislation  is  properly the 
subject of influence,  there is  not only no 
reason  why railways should  not,  but ev­
ery  reason  why they  should,  engage  in 
politics.

true.  Undoubtedly 

Certainly this is all  correct  enough in 
a general  way,  but it  is  far  from  being 
specifically 
the 
masses  of  the  people  of  the  United 
States are interested in the  prosperity of 
every  worthy  enterprise  and  industry, 
but  they are  quite  as  much  interested 
that a  particular  industry or  enterprise, 
or corporate  interest,  shall  not  flourish 
by trampling down and crushing  others. 
Prosperity for all is when all great inter­
ests  march  abreast,  mutually dependent 
and mutually beneficial.

When a  corporate  interest  sets  up  a 
lobby in a  State  Legislature, or  in  the 
National Congress,  it is not  for  the  pur­
pose of securing benefits  for  the  people 
at large,  but for itself alone.  As for the 
railroads,  they are not even interested in 
working together.  They are,  to  a  large 
extent,  rivals in  business, and are oppos­
ing each other in many  ways.  Moreover, 
none of them consulted  the  good  of  the 
people along their lines  when they could

control and force the traffic of those peo- 
1 pie;  but they regarded alone the ultimate 
I benefit of their  own  corporate  interests. 
It was to correct  the  evils  growing  out 
of this very natural  selfishness  that  the 
interstate commerce law was enacted.

The  country can  no  more  get  along 
without  railways  than  it  can  without 
banks or factories.  They are  all  indis­
pensable agencies of commerce  and  civ­
ilization,  but  it would  be very unfortu­
nate for the country if the States and the 
National Government were dominated or 
operated for the benefit either  of  banks 
or factories,  and  precisely the  same rule 
applies to all  other  corporate  interests. 
They should  have  every protection  and 
every encouragement that wise  and  just 
laws can give,  but they must  not  be  al­
lowed to boss the country.

MIGRATION  IN 1893.

A report upon the foreign  immigrants 
arriving at New  York for  the  year 1893 
has been  made.  As the great bulk of all 
the foreign ingress is  at  New  York,  the 
information  derived  from  that  report is 
of large instructive value.

The total  number  of  immigrants  was 
332,885, of whom 229,921  were males and 
122,964  females.  According  to  nation­
ality, of Bohemians and  Moravians there 
were 4,134, of Galicians  and  Bukowians 
1,442,  other Austrians 28,872,  and  Hun­
garians  22,701;  of  Belgians  2,008,  of 
Danes  7,019, of French,  including Corsi­
cans,  3,644; of Germans 55,981, of Greeks 
1,371, of Italians  69,074,  of Dutch 5,273, 
of  Norwegians  12,862,  of  Portuguese 
3,398, of  Roumanians  492,  of  Russians 
(proper) 37,100,  of Finns 5,745,  of Poles 
5,281,  of Spaniards 80, of  Swedes 28,965, 
of Swiss 4,018, of  European  Turks  625, 
of  Englishmen  14,609,  of  Irish  30,236, 
and  of  Scotch  4,484.  The  total  immi­
gration from Europe  was  351,897,  1,633 
not  being 
specified.  From  Central 
America there came only 3,  from British 
North American possessions 14,  from the 
West Indies  5,  from  South  America  5, 
from Turkey  in Asia 529,  from China  2, 
from Asia  (not  specified) 26,  and  from 
Africa  4.  Those  who  were  under  15 
years old numbered  60,160.  From  15 to 
40 years old there came 254,860,  while of 
40 years and over  were  37,865. 
It  was 
found necessary to treat 1852  in  the hos­
pital.  Two idiots came  and  six  insane 
persons.

The number of these  people who were 
either entirely or  partially illiterate was 
surprisingly  large,  for  those who  could 
not write numbered 52,777, and those un­
able to read 52,919, the number who could 
neither read nor write being 54,576.  This 
illiteracy  was distributed among the sev­
eral  nationalities  as  follows:  Bohemia 
498, Galicia  278,  Austria 4,182,  Hungary 
4,680,  Belgium 
127,  Denmark  176, 
France  130,  Germany 1,239, Greece 285, 
Italy  29,611,  Netherlands  153,  Norway 
309,  Portugal 1,088,  Roumania 74, Russia 
4,393,  Finland 456,  Poland 2,710, Spain 8, 
Sweden  530,  Switzerland  155,  Turkey in 
Europe  103,  England  604, Ireland 1,994, 
Scotland  159,  Wales  82,  Turkey in  Asia 
229.  Forty-four  per  cent, of  the  large 
Italian immigration  could  neither  read 
nor write, in contrast  to  the  1,239  Ger­
mans equally ignorant among  the  56,000 
who arrived.  Russia makes a far  better 
showing than Italy,  only 4,393 of  its 37,- 
000 immigrants being unable  to  read  or 
write.
Stat istics respecting the financial stand­
ing of the immigrants have been  kept in 
detail  only  since  July  1  of  last  year.

Since then $2,099,578 was  brought  in by 
immigrants.  Less than $30 was brought 
in by 57,291,  and $30  or  over  by  17,542. 
Since 1861 more than  12,000,000  of  for­
eigners have come into the United States, 
adding very largely to  the  criminal  and 
dangerous classes.

The New York report gives  the  occu­
pations or callings of  the immigrants for 
last year:  Only 1,242 had  a  profession. 
Of  these  13  were  actors, 20  artists, 74 
clergymen,  1  editor,  31  engravers,  16 
lawyers,  1  being  a  woman;  670  musi­
cians,  669 being men;  25 physicians,  4 of 
whom were women;  70 sculptors, and 154 
teachers,  53 of these being women.  The 
total of those  skilled in labor  was 49,932 
males  and  2,037  females.  This  latter 
number  is  divided  among  602  “dress­
makers.”  752  “seamstresses,”  and  229 
tailors.  Of  agents  there  arrived  52, 
banker 1, cooks, 406  males  and  966  fe­
males;  farmers 35,177, grocers  126, hotel- 
keepers 87,  laborers  103,874,  merchants 
2,450, servants, 203 males  and  11,749 fe­
males, and  shepherds  13.  The  number 
who had no occupation, including women 
and children,  was 140,447.

These are interesting  statistics,  and it 
is to be regretted that  such  detailed  in­
formation  concerning  these  foreign ac­
cessions to the  population have not been 
kept until  within  a  very recent period. 
Before that the comers were  all received 
with open arms,  whether they were good 
or bad. 

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The action of  Mr.  D.  B.  West,  Deputy 
Inspector  of  the  Michigan  (insurance) 
Inspection  Bureau,  in  raising  rates  in 
this  city  fully  50  per  cent., is meeting 
with tremendous  opposition  from  policy 
holders.  The  reasons  given  for  the 
raise—that  last  year was  a  most disas­
trous one  for  the  companies,  the  losses 
in many  cases  seriously impairing  their 
surplus,  and 
that  premiums  were  too 
low,  anyway,  considering  the  extra- 
hazardous character of many of the risks 
carried—are not  deemed sufficient to ac­
count for the extreme action of Mr. West. 
A  moderate  raise  of  from  5  to 10 per 
cent,  would  have  been  accepted  with 
hardly  a  protest, as it is considered but 
just to the  companies  to  permit them to 
recoup themselves for  last  year’s losses, 
but to spring a raise of 50 per cent,  with­
out warning on  policy holders is an out­
rage  which  can  result  only in  reduced 
business for the insurance companies.

T h e T radesm an gives place this week 
to a communication from Mr.  Samuel  M. 
Lemon,  very  clearly  and  emphatically 
putting an end to the agitation in certain 
circles relative to the running  of  excur­
sions to this city from surrounding towns. 
Mr.  Lemon modestly refrains  from  men­
tioning the fact  that  he  is  a  member  of 
the Board of Trade  and  chairman  of  its 
Transportation Committee, but  this  fact 
gives weight to his statements and places 
the jobbing trade of this market in a cor­
rect light  before  the  retail  dealers who 
look to this city for their supplies.

G ripsack B rigade.

J. A. Gonzalez (Owl Cigar Co.)  is  put­
ting in  a  fortnight  among the  trade  of 
Indiana  with good  results.

G. C.  Burnham,  the rotund representa­
tive of the Star Cigar Co., of Detroit, was 
in town a couple of days last week.

Grayling A.valameh:  A.  W.  Peck,  of 
Petoskey,  representing the  Hazeltine  & 
Perkins  Drug  Co.,  of  Grand  Rapids,  is 
the prince of good fellows and, we think,

the prince of  true (?) story  tellers.  At 
Fournier’s a few  days  ago,  he  was  de­
scribing  a  snow  storm  at  Wolverine 
and described the snow flakes as large as 
a  man’s  hat,  with occasionally  one the 
size of a wash tub,  and he  certainly  ap­
peared to be sober.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

Frank Idema,  Treasurer of  the  Telfer 
Spice Co.,  was at Boyne  City  last  Tues­
day  and Wednesday,  on  business  with 
the Charlevoix Circuit  Court.

W. A. D. Rose,  formerly engaged in the 
lumber business at Benton  Harbor under 
the style  of the Globe  Lumber  Co.,  was 
in town a couple  of  days  last week,  in­
terviewing  his  former  partner,  Wm.  E. 
Barrett.  Mr.  Rose  may  return 
to  Big 
Rapids to  reside,  but  has  not  fully de­
cided as to his  future  movements.  The 
leasehold  and  buildings  of  the  Globe 
Lumber  Co.  have  been  purchased  by 
John  E.  Brookings,  formerly connected 
with the defunct Brookings Lumber Co., 
of this city.

Thos.  Heffernan,  the Baldwin druggist 
and  grocer,  recently missed  a valuable 
Jersey cow and  about  2  o’clock  in  the 
afternoon sauntered out  in  the woods to 
locate her.  Failing  to  return  home  in 
the  evening,  his  neighbors  organized  a 
search party and  went in  pursuit of both 
man and cow, discovering  the  former in 
an exhausted condition about 9 o’clock in 
the evening.  The docile bovine was dis­
covered  later  in  the  night,  apparently 
displeased with the prospect of spending 
a  night  in  the woods  in  a snow storm. 
Mr.  Heffernan says that  he was  so  near 
the perishing  line when  found  that  he 
would have succumbed to  the  inevitable 
in a short  time.

The  W ool  M arket.

A slight increase in sales in  the  East, 
due to actual requirements,  had no effect 
on the  local  market  and  did  not  raise 
prices  even  at  the  front.  Prices  are 
down to a  free  trade  basis  and will  re­
main there until woolen goods  manufac­
turers  know  what  competition  they will 
have to meet under the  tariff  as  finally 
passed. 
In  other words,  if  competition 
from  abroad  is  to  be  absolutely  free, 
they must  prepare  to  meet  it  on  that 
basis,  and be  prepared,  also,  for  a  large 
curtailment  of  business.  The  woolen 
goods men,  perhaps more  than  any oth­
ers,  do  business  in  “futures,” and,  as 
there is no inspired prophet  to tell them 
what Congress will do—he would need to 
be  inspired  to  know—they  are  waiting 
with what  patience  they can  the  news 
from Washington.

M arch  M eeting  o f  th e   B oard  o f  P h a r­

m acy .

Owosso,  Feb.  1—A  meeting  of  the 
Michigan  Board  of  Pharmacy,  for  the 
purpose of examining candidates for reg­
istration,  will be held  at  Grand  Rapids 
Tuesday and  Wednesday,  March 6 and 7, 
1894.
The  examination  of  both  registered 
pharmacists  and  assistants  will  com­
mence on Tuesday at 9  o’clock  a.  m.,  at 
which hour all candidates will  please re­
port at the lecture room  below  Lockerby 
Hall.  The examination will occupy two 
days.
Examinations will be  held  at  Detroit 
(Star Island), June 25 and 26;  Houghton, 
about Sept.  1;  Lansing, Nov.  6 and 7.
Sta n ley E.  P a r k il l,  Sec’y.

According to Bradstr eeV*, lack of cap­
ital, direct effects of  the financial crisis, 
incompetence and fraudulent disposition 
of property account  for  80  per  cent,  of 
the business failures last year.

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CASH  OR  CREDIT.

A  Question  Which  is  Puzzling  Many 

Merchants  at  Present.

T h e  T radesm an  recently  received 
the  following  letter  of  enquiry from  a 
firm conducting a general store  business 
in a country town:

We want your advice,  knowing  you to 
be a  man  of  experience  in  commercial 
matters.  We are doing a credit business 
in the  country,  and,  of  course, our  cus­
tomers are  farmers.  We  carry about  a 
$6,000 stock  in the dry goods, grocery and 
crockery line,  and want to  get  down  or 
up to  cash,  but  hardly know how to  go 
at it;  in fact,  hesitate some  about trying 
It at all.  Business has always been done 
here on the credit plan  and  our  custom­
ers  are  pretty thoroughly in  the  credit 
rut.  We want  to  ask  you  if,  in  your 
judgment,  it would be safe  to  make the 
attempt,  and,  if we  do,  what  plan  you 
would suggest?  Are we asking too much 
of you to give us your ideas and any sug­
gestions on the subject which  you  think 
would help us out?

Realizing that an intelligent answer to 
the  enquiry  required  a  clearer  under­
standing of the  situation,  T h e  T r a d es­
man asked for further particulars  as  to 
location  and  competition,  receiving  the 
following detailed reply:

1.  We are the only merchants here,  it 
being only a  country crossroads,  with  a 
blacksmith  and  wagon  shop.  We  have 
been in business  here  for  seven  years, 
and during that time several small stores 
have  been  started  here, staying  only a 
short time, going  either  to  the wall  or 
leaving the place.  Our  trade  has  been 
from $10,000 to $15,000 a year.
2.  We are six  miles  from --------,  ten
miles from--------, nine miles from--------
and  about  eleven  miles  from---------- .
There  are  two  small  stores  five  miles 
south of us in the country, situated about 
the same  as  we  are.  Nearly all  of  the 
stores in the towns above  mentioned are 
giving credit,  aud,  with the  exception of 
Ionia,  are generally given to cutting.
3.  Your third question  is  more  diffi­
cult to answer.  We think there are some 
merchants in the surrounding towns who 
are, financially,  in  good  shape.  We are 
able to  handle  our  business, so  far  as 
finances go,  without  any embarrassment 
and have the confidence  of  our  custom­
ers,  and think that our trade  has  shown 
improvement  generally,  as we  have  al­
ways aimed  to  deal  strictly honest  aud 
to  be  worthy  of  confidence.  We  have 
given this subject—the cash way of doing 
business,  we  mean—a  good  deal  of 
thought.  As we stated in  our  previous 
letter,  we carry about a $6,000  stock and 
about $2,000 on  our  books, on  an  aver­
age,  and this $2,000 gives  us  no  end  of 
trouble,  as it keeps one mau  busy a large 
part  of  the  time  collecting,  and  then 
there is  generally a  disposition  on  the 
part of customers  to  consider  their  ac­
counts  too  large  and,  sometimes,  they 
try to scale them down.  Our idea of the 
matter  is  about  like  this: 
It  may  be 
faulty,  but,  if it could be  made  to work, 
it would be much pleasanter to  give  our 
customers a plain statement of our views 
on the cash question  through the medium 
of a circular well distributed, aud putting 
our goods on a  cash  price.  We  do  not 
mean to cut the  life  out  of  everything, 
but to show them that  a  dollar  in  cash 
will buy more than a dollar in credit, and 
that the end of  the year would find them 
free  from  their  store  debts.  This,  of 
course,  would  have  to  be  followed  by 
persistent advertising and talk.
Now,  we want to  ask  your  advice  on 
another  matter  which  you  can  answer 
more  easily:  How  would  a  suburban 
grocery store,  and,  perhaps, a  meat mar­
ket in connection, succeed in Grand Rap­
ids on the cash  plan—say in  the  south­
east part of the city?  Parties there have 
suggested  a  trade with  us,  but we are  a 
little fearful of so large a place, knowing 
that there  is  a vast  difference  between 
country and city methods.  Your opinion 
on these points will be appreciated,  real­
izing that your  observation  and  experi­
ence  in  commercial  matters will  cover 
the ground  pretty thoroughly.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

his pencil  to  display  his knowledge—or
ignorance—of the subiect,  the  office was 
invaded  by  Oscar  F.  Conklin,  senior 
member of the firm of O. F. & W. P. Conk­
lin,  who  have  successfully  conducted  a 
general  store  at  Ravenna  for  about  a 
quarter of a century.  Realizing that Mr. 
Conklin was in a better position to answer 
the  enquiries,  from the  standpoint  of 
experience,  than anyone  whose  knowl­
edge is based largely  on  observation,  he 
was requested to  give  us  views  on  the 
subject,  which he kindly consented to do 
in the following words:

In answer to your enquiries,  it  would 
be hard to advise  you  in  regard  to  the 
propriety  of changing  your  system. 
If 
you  have good  judgment  in  regard  to 
the  financial  standing  of  your  patrons 
and can  always  say  “no” just  as  easily 
as  “yes”  when  your  judgment  directs 
you,  we think a very limited  crec it  sys­
tem  would be  better,  crediting  no  man 
who would not  be good  for  that  much 
money;  forming your  judgment  before­
hand of the character,  responsibility and 
general  rating  of  your  customers,  and 
then acting  strictly  upon that judgment. 
This  will  necessitate  your  keeping  a 
strict watch of their accounts every  day. 
A man that  may  be  worthy of  $5  credit 
when he has  that $5  should not  be  con­
sidered as always being worthy of credit.
I cannot  conceive  of  any  good  coming 
from the slipshod way of giving credit to 
customers,  yourclerks or yourself telling 
them all the time how much they already 
owe you.  With  the  credit  business,  in I 
order  to  be  successful,  a  man  has  a I 
picket  warfare  all  the  time  and  should 
always be  on  guard  and  know  exactly 
what his customers owe him and whether 
they owe you as much  as  you  desire  to 
have them,  and then draw the line  right 
there. 
If  any  of  your  customers  are 
perfectly  responsible  and  good  and 
prompt,  and  will  not  abuse  your  confi­
dence,  1 can  see  no  reason  why  credit 
should not be given them if they ask for it; 
but giving credit so that you  will have to 
run after your customers, employing one 
man’s time to  collect,  is  entirely  repre­
hensible. 
If  you  can  gauge  credits  in 
the above manner, deciding for  yourself 
who is not worthy and  how  large a  line 
can  be given,  and  always  acting  up  to 
that,  we  can  see  no  reason  why  you 
should want to change  to  strictly  cash. 
If you cannot  say  “no”  to  parties  and 
cannot say it kindly and  pleasantly  and 
cannot act  upon  your  judgment  in  this 
matter, or if  your  judgment is  at  fault, 
then we  would say  change  to  the  cash 
and exchange basis immediately,  and the 
manner in which you secure it  does  not 
make  much difference.  Horace  Greeley 
said that  “The way to resume was to  re­
sume.”  Doubtless it would be  well  for 
you to issue a little circular—not  telling 
them of  your loss  or  that  credit  cannot 
still be  given  them  or  what  great  bar­
gains  they  can  make  with  you—but  a 
little  circular  stating  that  you  have 
changed your system and  that on  such a 
date you will sell entirely  for  cash  and 
that  you  hope  to  save  them  money  by 
so doing,  as  thereby  you  can  have  the 
ready money at all times  to take  advan- 
age  of the markets and  to discount your 
bills,  and that you  hope  they  will  give 
you their cordial support in  making this 
change,  as  you  have  thoroughly  deter­
mined to make it.  Refusing  credit  sel­
dom offends people if done  in  a  gentle­
manly  manner.  You  should  say  “no” 
just as  pleasautly  as  “yes,”  and  make 
tnem feel that you are  their  friend  and 
they yours, and  that  you  and  they  are 
running  business  together  and  in  this 
way you will be mutually benefited.  We 
have put in stores in different places and 
run them for cash and exchange and done 
it offhand and through  others,  given  no 
credit,  and been successful  in  every  in­
stance.  We offended  nobody  and  most 
of our customers fell right  in  with  our 
ways  of  doing.  We  have  run  a  store 
twenty-five years in  one  locality  where 
we have given credit,  the  only  question 
being—is he good?  is he  worthy?  is  he 
honest?  We  have 
largely  succeeded 
there,  but we  have  been  as  careful  in 
giving lines of credit as a bank would be 
in loaning money.  Either of  these  two

systems  will  and  must  be  successful  if 
worked out nicely.

So far as the removal  to Grand  Rapids 
is concerned,  that is a matter which T h e 
T radesm an  feels 
incompetent  to  pass 
upon without a full  understanding of the 
character, 
temperament  and  habits  of 
the  individual.  Generally  speaking,  it 
requires a different kind of a man to con­
duct a business  in  the  city  than  in  the 
country.  Transactions 
in  staples  are 
done on closer margins  and  city  dealers 
are subjected  to  many petty annoyances 
to which the country dealer  is  an entire 
stranger;  on the other hand, a dealer who 
caters to  a fancy city trade is able to ob­
tain  margins  on  fancy brands of  goods 
which would  astonish  the  country mer­
chant.  Considering  the  cutting  on sta­
ples  and  seconds  which 
is  now  being 
done by  the  Morse department store and 
3ome regular dealers  located in different 
parts of  the  city, T h e  T radesm an does 
not  think  the  present time a propitious 
one for  a  new dealer,  unaccustomed  to 
city methods  and  unacquainted  with  a 
neighborhood  trade,  to  embark  in  busi­
ness.  The same rule applies to the meat 
business,  which  is  very  much  demoral­
ized  at  this  time,  as  only those  dealers 
who  have  a  long  established trade are 
probably making  any money at  present.
Bakers’ Bread vs. the Homemade Stuff.
W ritten for T h e Tradesmans
In the issue  of  T h e  T radesm an  for 
Dec. 6 is to be found an  article, over the 
signature of E. A. Owen,  headed, “Is the 
Profit on Bread Too  Large?”  Mr.  Owen 
argues at some length to show that  bak­
ers are making a profit of 326  per  cent., 
basing  his  argument  on  the  statement 
made by a “home” baker that  she  made 
twenty-two  loaves  of  bread  out  of  a 
twenty-five pound sack of flour,  at a cost 
of sixty cents for  the  batch.  The  flour 
for this batch of  twenty-two  loaves cost 
50  cents. 
There  is  nothing  strange 
about that;  that  quantity of  good  flour 
would cost  anyone  50  cents.  But what 
is strange is that  the  labor  expended on 
the bread,  the fuel  required  to  bake it, 
the rent of the building  in  which  it was 
made,  and  the various  ingredients  (ex­
cept the  flour)  which went  into  it  cost 
but 10 cents.  Surely Mr.  Owen does not 
mean us to infer that the lady’s time was 
worth  nothing,  and  that  the  materials 
for  her  bread,  except  the  flour,  cost 
nothing.  Or,  are we to  understand that 
the  “home”  baker  referred  to  actually 
made a cheap article,  and then asked the 
same price that first-class  bread  brings? 
The latter supposition  would  seem to be 
the correct one, as all  there is  in  the  so- 
called  domestic  bread  is  flour,  water, 
yeast and salt—which  makes  the  cheap­
est  kind  of  bread.  The  net profit,  ac­
cording  to  Mr.  Owen, on  the  aforemen­
tioned  twenty-two  loaves  of  bread  is 
$1.16; 
it  cost  nothing, evidently,  to de­
liver the bread either to the retail grocer 
or to the  consumer,  for which  the  lady 
who made the  bread  ought to be  thank­
ful,  as  ordinarily bakers  are  compelled 
to keep a horse and pay a man to deliver 
their  product.  Mr.  Owen  evidently 
thinks  that  a  woman’s 
is  worth 
nothing,  but,  even if that were true, it is 
hardly fair to assume that,  therefore, the 
time of the men  who  make  bread  for  a 
living  is  worth  nothing.  He  would 
change his mind,  if such be his  opinion, 
if he had  their wages  to  pay. 
It  costs 
anywhere from $15 to $18  a week  to  se­
cure the  services  of  a  good  all-around 
baker,  though  there  are  cheaper  men.

time 

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The wage bill  of  an  ordinary bakery is 
seldom  less than $50 per week,  and many 
times  it  is  double  that  amount.  The 
average cost to the baker  of  making and 
selling a loaf of bread is about two cents, 
to  which  must  be  added  the  cost  of  “a 
pinch of this and  a pinch of that,” which 
will  increase  the  expense  of  making  to 
about three  cents.  Milk  and  lard  enter 
largely 
the 
cheapest  kind  of  bakers’ bread.  There 
is not a particle of  either  in  the  home­
made article.  Rent,  heat  and  light  are 
additional  expenses  which  Mr.  Owen 
seems  to  have  overlooked.  Then,  Mr. 
Owen ought to know,  if he does not, that 
bakers do not get  eight  cents  for  their 
bread.  Except for the fancy kinds, seven 
cents is the  price generally.  The larger 
bakeries  dispose  of  the  bulk  of  their 
product to  retail  grocers  at  six  cents  a 
loaf,  and  then  are  compelled  to  take 
back  what is not sold—a bad  leakage,  as 
all bakers know.

Perhaps a few figures might  not be out 
of place  right  here,  not  particularly  for 
Mr.  Owen’s  benefit,  though  he  is,  per­
haps, the only man in the city who thinks 
it costs nothing, or, at most, a mere “ bag­
atelle,”  to bake bread.  At  the  time Mr. 
Owen wrote his article a barrel  of  flour 
cost $4.50, or thereabouts.  That amount 
of flour will  make  150  loaves  of  bread. 
The average  price which  the  baker  re­
ceived was six cents a loaf,  or  $9 for the 
150 loaves.  Every loaf  of  the  150  cost 
him,  at the very lowest calculation, three 
cents to make and  sell, or  $4.50  for  the 
lot.  Then,  when he  pays  $4.50  for  the 
barrel  of  flour,  he  has  simply come  out 
even on the flour,  leaving other expenses 
still to be  provided  for.  That  was  the 
actual  condition  of  things  when  Mr. 
Owen  wrote his article.  There  is  not a 
baker  of  any consequence  in  this  city 
who was making any money on his bread 
at that time. 
If Mr. Owen did not  know 
this,  he alone is to blame;  the facts  were 
available if he  had wished  to  get  them. 
There is a little more in  bread at present, 
however,  as  flour  is  lower  now  than  it 
was then,  being $3 now, the difference in 
the price of flour representing the baker’s 
gross profit on  his bread.  As to the bread 
itself  little  need be said.  The  claim of 
the homemade article to  a  place  in  the 
market rests solely on  the  fact  that it is 
alleged to be  a  little  heavier  than  the 
product of the bakery, a statement which 
lacks  confirmation.  Much  of  it 
is  no 
heavier, and some of it even  lighter, than 
It  is  bought  largely 
the bakers’ goods. 
is 
scarce and  many a woman has been com­
pelled this winter to  take  her  place  as 
the breadwinner of the family.  She can­
not leave her family and go out  to work, 
she  does  not  know how to  sew,  and  so 
she  tries  her  hand  at  baking.  The 
simplest formula known is  the  one  she 
follows—flour,  water,  yeast,  potatoes— 
sometimes,  not  always—and  salt,  quan­
tum suff. of each,  and that is  all there is 
to it, except that her  husband,  being out 
of work,  can sell the bread and  help her 
make, say,  $1.50  a  day.  No  one  finds 
any fault with  them  for  this, and  it  is 
very much better  than  charity for  self- 
respecting people;  but  to  compare  this 
cheaply-made  and  cheap  bread with the 
product of  the  bakeries  is  certainly  un­
fair.  A fair comparison in the  premises 
is impossible. 

a  matter  of  sentiment.  Work 

D a n i e l  A b b o t t .

Don’t  strew  flowers  on  the  coffin  of 
those on whose pathway during  life  you 
strewed thorns.

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D rugs &  M edidnos*

Stete  Board  of Pharm acy. 

One  T ear—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Two  Tears—George Oundrom . Ionia.
Three  Tears—C. A- Bogbee.  Cheboygan.
Foot T ears—S. ¥.. ParkUl, Owosso.
Five T ears—F. W. R  Perry, D etro it 
President—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Stanley E. ParklU, Owosso. 
tre a su re r -Geo  Gnndm m , Ionia.
Next Meeting—Grand Bapida. March *  and 7. 
Subsequent  Meetings—Star  Island,  June  23 

Houghton, Sept. 1. Lansing, S ot. 8 and 7.

M ic h i g a n   8täte  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   Ass’n. 
President—A. B. Bierens. Ann Arbor. 
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, D etroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
Secretary—S. A. Thompson, Detroit.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 
President, W alter K. Schmidt;  Sec’y, Ben. Schronder.

In 

R adical  C ure  for  th e  C u t-R ate Evil.
The  “cut-rate  problem”  has  been  so 
thoroughly  ventilated  in  the  pharma­
ceutical  press  and  discussed  in  all  its 
phases by the  trade  in  general  that  all 
retail druggists probably understand and 
deplore  its  baneful  influence  and  de­
moralizing  effects, though  not  all  have 
personally  experienced  them. 
the 
present paper  the writer  will  therefore 
confine himself  to the consideration of a 
plan which he has originated for the effi­
cient and radical solution of the problem, 
assuming that cutting is an  “evil” which 
ought to be exterminated.
The  plan  which  the  writer  proposes 
has for its chief merit extreme simplicity 
combined,  of course,  with  efficisncy.  In 
fact, so simple is it that at  first  sight  it 
would appear  almost  worthless;  but  on 
further examination, the writer  is  confi 
dent,  its merits will  be  apparent  to the 
unbiased readers.  Most of the plans thu 
far conceived  have  been  either  useless 
from depending on the good  faith  of  all 
parties concerned—proprietors,  jobbers 
and retailers—or else have been too com 
plicated  and  unwieldy,  requiring  the 
maintenance of  a  central clearing house 
or  bureau,  with  numerous  clerks,  etc. 
and  because of being both costly and  in 
tricate have been, as  a  consequence, im 
practicable. 
In  addition,  when  any ex 
pense has been connected with tbeexecu 
tion  of  these  plans,  the  retail druggist 
generally  was expected to bear the brunt 
of it,  which in itself is an injustice.
In the plan given  below the trifling ex 
pense of working it is placed where it be 
longs—on the proprietor, 
it is  based on 
the assumption that there are proprietors 
who  honestly desire  to  protect  the  re­
tailer to the extent of  refusing to sell to 
dealers  (whether  wholesale  or  retail) 
who, it has been proven,  supply  cutters 
directly or indirectly.
This  is  the  plan:  The  proprietor, 
commencing on  any given  date,  to  num­
ber  consecutively  each  package  of  any 
one remedy.  A record to be kept of  the 
numbers supplied to the various  dealers.
Let  us  now give  an  example  of  the 
plan as it would work in actual practice. 
Suppose Hood & Co.,  beginning  January 
1,  1894, number  consecutively  each  bot­
tle  of  their  sarsaparilla.  They receive 
an  order  from  John  Jobber  & Co., of 
Blanktown,  for  ten  gross,  the  numbers 
of  which  run  from  10,000  to  11,440. 
Shortly after this it  is  discovered  that a 
“cutter”  in St.  Louis continues to “cut” 
on  Hood’s  Sarsaparilla.  Any 
retail 
druggist in St. Louis who may feel an in­
terest in the matter buys a  bottle  of  the 
“cutter.”  On  examining  the  label  he 
finds it  numbered  11,400.  He writes  to 
Hood  &  Co.,  either 
individually  or 
through his local association,  stating the 
facts  and  requesting  the  name  of  the 
dealer to whom bottle number 11,400 was 
sold.  On referring to their record, Hood 
& Co.  find that John Jobber  A  Co.  must 
have  received  11,400, and  thus, directly 
or  indirectly,  must  have  supplied  the 
cutter.  They  so  inform  the  St.  Louis 
druggist,  who, if he  chooses  to  publish 
the  fact,  may seriously injure  the  trade 
of John Jobber  A  Co.  among  reputable 
druggists.  Then, if Hood  A Co.  are sin­
cere in  their  desire  to  protect  the  re­
tailer, they will  in  future  refuse  to  sell 
John Jobber A  Co.  This  process would 
be repeated in other  cases,  until  one  by 
one the props which sustain the cutter in 
his arrogant position would  be  knocked 
from  under  him,  and  left without  sup­
port of any kind (otherwise his source of

THE  ZVITCTTIGA^N'  TRADESMAN.

in 

From 

n u e   D ru g g ist.

tepfatber  engaged 

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

A ndrew   J .  D ayton,  th e   W e alth y   A ve­

apply)  he would soon fall to the ground 
or be forced to cease cutting.
What might, on a first  examination of 
the plan,  be  considered  an  objection  is 
A. J.  Dayton  was born  in  Springfield, 
the  fact  that  if,  for  instance.  Hood 
adopted the plan  and  Ayer  did  not  the 
Oakland  county,  Mich., thirty-six  years 
former would apparently be placed  at  a 
ago.  His father died when  the  boy was 
disadvantage  with  regard  to  the  con- 
two years old.  Upon his  mother marry- 
nmer,  who  would  have  to  pay  81  for
Hood’s Sarsaparilla,  while  he could bay j ing again,  the  family moved  to  Genesee 
dyer's for  75  cents.  This^ objection^ is | COimty, near the city of Flint,  where the
met  by  the  fact  that,  if  Hood  adopted 
farming,  and
the plan and Ayer refused to do so, Ayer I
would be certain to incur the  enmity  of | where,  until he was 13  years  of  age,  A.
the  entire  retail  trade  of  the  country, 
J.  attended  school. 
the  little 
and this is something  which no proprie­
country school he went to the Flint High 
tor coaid afford to do, or,  indeed,  would 
School, taking the French-English course, 
dare to do.  Another thing,  all  consum­
which  he  pursued  until  within  a  few 
ers are not influenced  by  considerations 
of price alone,  and  many  would  prefer 
weeks  of  graduation.  Upon 
leaving 
to pay 81  for Hood’s rather than buy any 
school he began life by “choring around,” 
other sarsaparilla at a lower rate.
doing odd jobs  as  they presented  them­
The numbers might run for any period 
selves.  The winters were spent in hunt­
from one to five or even  ten years before 
beginning again with number 1; and then 
ing and trapping.  For six years  he  fol­
letters  might  be  used  to  designate  the 
lowed this desultory course of life, never 
various  series.  For  instance,  suppose 
long “out of  a  job,” but  never  long  at 
the sale of a preparation averaged 1,000,- 
any one pursuit.  He  saved  his  money, 
000 bottles per annum  and a stamp were 
used numbering up to  10,000.000.  From 
however,  some of which he  invested in a 
the year 1894 to the year  1904  the  num­
timber farm in  Gratiot  county.  He sub­
bers would be No.  1  to  No.  10,000.000; 
sequently traded this farm  for a half in­
from 1904 to 1914 the numbers would  be 
terest in a  drug  stock  in  Petoskey,  the 
No. A1 to A10,000,000; from 1914  to  1924 
the  numbers  would  be  No.  Bl  to  No. 
style of the firm  being  Higgins  &  Day- 
B10.000,000,  and  so  on 
indefinitely. 
ton.  Later he  purchased  his  partner’s 
Stamps  are  now  made  and  may  be  ob­
interest and conducted the business alone 
tained  at  no  great  expense  which  will 
for eighteen months. 
In 1888 he sold out 
number consecutively  up to 1.000,000 or 
even  10,000,000  or  100,000.000,  and  the 
in Petoskey and came to  Grand  Rapids, 
cost  of  numbering  the  labels  (which 
locating  in  his  present  premises at 674 
should  be  done  before  pasting  on  the 
Wealthy avenue.  While in Petoskey Mr. 
bottles)  would  be 
trifling,  especially 
Dayton invested in  some  land  near  that 
when the important and beneficial effects 
on the retail trade are taken into consid­
city,  which he still owns.  Since  coming 
eration.
to this city he has succeeded in  building 
It will be seen that this  plan  does  not 
up a good  business,  which  has  not  yet 
depend  for its success upon any  compli­
reached the limit of its growth.  Honesty 
cated system of  rebates, discounts,  vari­
ously  colored 
stickers,  etc.,  or  ne­
and courtesy have marked  all  his  inter­
cessitate 
formation  of  a  vast 
the 
course with his customers,  who  speak of 
league 
union  having 
national 
or 
him in the highest terms, both as a drug­
central  branch  offices 
to  be  main­
gist and a gentleman.  He is not a society 
tained  at  an  enormous  expense—to  the 
retail druggist.  Paraphrase the familiar 
man,  not being  a  member  of  any organ­
kodak  ad.,  “the  proprietor  presses  the 
ization,  preferring to  spend  his  leisure 
button—and the druggist does the rest.” 
hours with his family.  He was  married 
And it costs him  practically  nothing  to 
in  1886 to Miss Arvilla  Sberk, of Caledo­
do the rest.  Furthermore,  no proprietor 
or manufacturer (and it should be  borne 
nia,  and is the father  of  three  children, 
in mind that the writer  is speaking from 
two boys and a girl.
the standpoint of  the manufacturer) can 
refuse to adopt  so  simple  and  inexpen­
sive a plan of combating the cut-rate evil 
without good grounds  for suspicion  that 
he is hypocritical  in his alleged desire to 
protect the legtimate retail dealer against 
the ruinous competition of  the  “cutter.” 

Dr.  H azeltine’s R eception a t  Milan.
The Tradesman  is  in  receipt  of  the 
January 7 issue  of  L’Italia  Termale,  t 
newspaper  published  at  Milan,  Italy, 
containing the  following  pleasant  refer 
ence to  U.  S.  Consul  Hazeltine,  trans­
lated into English by a  member  of  The 
Tradesman’s staff:

The  D e p a rtm e n t  S to re.

W.  I .  L.  S t e a r n s .

From the W estern Druggist.

A fact which the department stores ap­
pear to have overlooked is the  quiet  but 
very  effective  boycotting  work  being 
done by the  druggists.  There  is  hardly 
a city in which the department  store has 
become a factor that more  or  less  influ­
ence  is  not  being  used  by druggists to 
direct  trade  away  from  the  establish­
ment.  This  is  principally  done  by  a 
simple  request  from  the  druggist  to 
some  of  his  particular  friends.  The 
profits on the aggregate amount  of  busi­
ness  thus  diverted, in  most  cases,  will 
amount in one month to  as  much  as  the 
department  stores  will  make  on  their 
drug  department  in  half  a  year.  Bat 
even when this  fact  is  fully realized  by 
the stores there is no prospect  of  its im­
proving the  situation.  The  department 
store is  conducted with  an  eye  solely to 
the net total results;  it  is  expected  that 
there will be  losses  here  and  there,  but 
they will increase the  prospects  of  gain 
for  the  establishment, and  the  drag  de­
partment  may  be  considered  a  perma 
nent  feature  so  long  as  the public pa­
tronizes it and the law sanctions it.  The 
only remedy the druggist has  is  through 
the  creation  of  a  popular  sentiment 
against permitting drugs and medicines to 
be handled by others than those whom the 
law has specifically designated  as  custo­
dians of  this public service.

Lse  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

The new U. S.  Consul, C. S. Hazeltine 
is an educated man and a staunch adher­
ent of Jeffersonian principles.
He  has  wide  business  experience  ac 
quired as  President  of  large  industrial 
companies,  which he directs with intelli­
gence,  prudence and integrity.
Representative in our city of a free and 
prosperous nation,  he comes to Italy with 
great  and  elevated 
ideas  of  progress 
and with the intention of  giving  greater 
breadth to the  commercial  relations  bo 
tween Italy and the United  States.
He  was  hardly  in  possession  of  his 
office before he put himself in correspond 
ence with the local  authorities.  He  has 
had an important  conference  with  the 
President of the Chamber  of  Commerce 
concerning the  American  tariff  reform 
of which he is  a  warm  supporter.  The 
conversation  was  held  in  English,  in 
which language the honorable  President 
Pisa expressed himself with  facility and 
elegance.
So much for the official  work  proposed 
by Dr.  Hazeltine.
It remains  to  consider  his  social  and 
gentlemanly qualifications.  He was born 
in  the  State  of  New  York,  where  his 
father  practiced  medicine  with  great 
honor  and  success.  He  is  about  fifty 
years of  age,  has  traveled  exteasively, 
and is much sought  for  his  wide  social 
acquirements  and  his  pleasant,  genial 
manner.

His  palatial  residence,  (palazzo,)  in 
Grand Rapids, is one of the  most artistic 
in  which  people  of  dis­
and  elegant, 
tinction are gathered  and enjoy a cordial 
and splendid hospitality.
The receptions  are  presided  over  by 
Mrs.  Hazeltine and do honor to the grace 
and elegance of the  hostess.
Mrs.  Hazeltine  accompanies  her  hus­
band to Milan,  with  two beautiful young 
children,  and  we are sure  that  the  bril­
liant  and  cultivated  Milanese  society 
will  welcome  with  pleasure,  in  their 
splendid drawing  rooms, 
the  elegant 
American lady  who Is  as  gentle  as  she 
s spirited.

The  W ise  D ru g g ist.

from the Indiana  I’harmaoUI.
Will be a  worker.
Will always  smile.
Will be systematic.
Will  always be neat.
Will do his level best.
Will always be on  time.
Will advertise judiciously.
Will have his store insured.
Will make his own patents.
Will not recommend  patents.
Will not use spirits frumenti.
Will have the best  text-books.
Will always have his stock full.
Will always buy the  best  drugs.
Will do all his work conscientiously.
Will buy for cash and get the discount.
Will do very little or nocredit business.
Will be a meniber of his  local  associa­
tion.
□Will  own  and  use  the  new  Pharma­
copoeia.
Will  look  carefully  after  his  own 
interests.
Will always dispense  hastily  what  is 
ordered.
to be treated himself.
the courage to do right.
should be done  today.
and respectable citizen.
A LBE R T  N.  AV ERY,

Will treat his clerks  as he  would  like 
Will be a  brave  man,  always  having 
Will never put off till to-morrow  what 
Will so live that he will be a respected 

MANUFACTURERS’  AGENT  FOR

19  So.  Ionia  St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Special Sale of Lace and Chenille Curtains.

Merchants visiting  the  Grand  Rapids market 
are invited to call  and  Inspect  my lines, which 
are complete in every respect.  In placing orders 
with  me  you  deal  directly with  the  manufac­
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Once and You aie our Customer 

for life.

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DETROIT,  MICH.

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

Residence  59 N.  Union St., Grand  Rapids.

Your  Bank Account Solicited.

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Transacts a  General Banking  Business. 

Interest  Allowed  on  Time  and  Sayings 

Deposits.

DIRECTORS:

Jno. A. Covode, D. A.  Blodgett,  E. Crofton Fox, 
T. J. O’Brien,  A. J. Bowne,  Henry Idema, 
Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee, 
J. A. S. Verdier.
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W holesale  P r ic e   C u rren t•

Advanced—Morphine.  Quinine.  Chloral Hydrate.  Cocaine.  Turpentine. 
Declined—

ACIDUM.

Acetlcum..................  
8®  10
Benzolcum  German..  65®  75
Boraclc 
....................  
30
Carbolicum................   20® 30
Cltrlcum.....................  52® 55
Hydrochlor................  3®  5
mtrocum 
...................  10® 12
Oxallcum....................   10® 12
Phoaphorlum dll........ 
20
Salley Ileum............... 1  30®1  70
Sulphurlcum..............  13£@  5
Tannlcum...................1  40@1  60
Tartarlcum..................  30® 33

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Aqua, 16  deg................3M@
20  deg..............  54®
Carbonas  ...................  12®
Chlorldum.................   12®

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ANILINE.

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

 

BACOAS.

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

BAI.8AMUM.

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

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Casslae  ...............................  11
Cinchona F lav a...............      18
Buonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po.............  20
Prunua Ylrglnl....................  12
Qulllala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
TJlmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

RXTRACTUK. 

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24®  25
po...........  33®  35
« 
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12
“ 
1b...............   13®  14
¡4s..............  14®  15
" 
••  Ms..............  16®  17

VKRRU

Carbonate Precip........  ®  15
Citrate and Qulnla —   @3 50
Citrate  Soluble...........  ®  80
Ferrocyanldum Sol —   ®  50
Solut  Chloride...........  ®  15
Sulphate,  com’l .............. 9®  2
pure............   ®  7

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

FOJ.1A.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-

...................  18®  50
nlvelly....................  25®  28
“  A ll.  35®  50
and  4 b....................   15®  25
...................  8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Mb
UraUral 

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2d 
3d 
siftedBorts... 
po.........  60® 

Acacia, 1st  picked—   ®  60
....  @  40
....  ®  30
®  20
80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
Socotrl, (po.  60).  ®  50
Catechu, Is, (Mb, 14 Mb,
@  1
'  16).........................
.  55®  60
Ammoniac.... .........
40®  45
Assafoetlda, (po. 35).
.  50®  55
Beusolnum..............
Camphor®............... ..  50®  55
Euphorbium  po  — .  35®  10 
@2 50
.  70®  75
Gamboge,  po...........
@  30
Guaiacum, (po  35)  .
Kino,  (po  1  10)......
@1  15 
@  80 
M astic............ . —
@  40
Myrrh, (po. 45)........
.2 90@3 00
Opll  (po  3 70)........
.  45®  42
Shellac  ...................
bleached__
33®  35
Tragacanth......... .. .  40® 1 00

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h e r b a — In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................   23
«  Y lr.........................  25
Rue.......................................  80
Tanacetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25

MAGNESIA.
Calcined, Pat..............
Carbonate,  Pat...........
Carbonate, K. A  M__
Carbonate, Jennings..

OLBUM.

56®
20®
20®
35®

Absinthium................ 3 50®4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc____  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae___8 oo@8 25
A nlsl........................... 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.................1  10®1 15
Cltronella...................  ®  45
Conlnm  Mao..............  36®  65
Copaiba  ....................  80®  90

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Cubebae......................  @300
Exechthltos...............  2 50@2 75
Erlgeron................... 2 00@2  10
Gaultherla................ 2 00@2 10
Geranium, ounce.........  ®  75
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal.......   70®  75
Hedeoma  .................. l 25@l  40
Jumperl.......................   50©2 00
Lavendula...................  90@2 00
Llmonls.....................2 40®2 60
Mentha Piper............. 2 85@3 60
Mentha Verid............2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal............l 00@1  10
Myrcia, ounce............   @  50
Olive............................  90@3 00
Plcis Liquida, (gal. .35)  10®  12
Ricini........................   1 22@1 28
Rosmarini..... 
00
Rosae, ounce............. 6 50@8 50
Succlnl........  ..............   40® 45
Sabina.........................  go@l 00
San tal  .......................3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tlglll..........................  @  90
Thyme.......................  40®  60
o p t................   ®  60
1 heobromas...............   15®  20
B1 Carb.......................   15®
Bichromate................  13®
Bromide....................  
40®
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate  (po 23@25)..  24®  26
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide......................... 2 90@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27®  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @  15
Potass Nltras, opt...... 
8®  10
Potass Nltras........ 
9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

p o ta ssix tx.

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8® 

Aconltum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentlana  (po. 12). 
10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)...................  @  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po  ...  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po................... 1 60® 1  75
Iris plox (po. 35@38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  40®  45
Maranta,  Ms..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po..  15® 
18
Rhel............................  75@1  00
''  out  ....................  @175
pv......................   75@1  35
Splgella......................  35®  38
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentarla...........   30® 
32
Senega.......................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H @ 40
M  @  25
Sdllae, (po. 86)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
  @  35
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a ............ 
20
Zingiber  j ..........  
20
BBMBN.

dus.  po............. 

18® 
18® 

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o   15
Anlsum,  (po.  20)..  ... 
if®  18
Aplum  (graveleons).. 
Bird, Is................. 
6
4® 
Carni, (po. 18).......  10® 
12
Cardamon....................1  00®1 25
Corlandrum..........  10® 
12
Cannabis Satlva.........   4® 
5
Cvdonlum..................   75®1  00
Chenopodlum  ...........  10®  12
Dlptenx Odorate........ 2 2S®2 50
Foenlculum..........  ® 
15
Foenugreek,  po......... 
6®  8
L ini............................4  ® 4M
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 84) ■ - ■  3M®  4
Lobelia..................  35® 
40
Pharlaris Canarian 
3  @4
R apa.....................  6® 
7
Slnapls  Albu............ 7  @8
Nigra......  11® 
12

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BPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W..D.  Co..2 00®2 50
D. F. R....... 1  75@2 00
................. 1  25®1  50
Junlperls  Co. O. T. ...1  66®2 00
“ 
...........1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  B.........1 75®2 00
Spt  Vini  Galli............1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto.................1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba....................1  25®2 00

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BPOHOBB.

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  use__ 
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................
1  40

STRUTS.

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

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Aconltum Napellls R.........   60
..  “ 
* .........   50
Aloes...................................   60
“ 
and myrrh.................  60
A rnica............... 
go
Asafaetlda.................................0
A trope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  go
„  “  .  Co..........................   50
Sangulnarla.........................  50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharides.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
„   “ 
Co.....................  75
Catechu...............................  go
Cinchona..........................   go
.  CO.......................  60
_  .** 
Columba.............................   50
Conlum......... ........  
go
Cubeba................... 
go
Digitalis......................... ”   50
...................................   50
“  Co.......................... .'  60
Gualca................................   go
“ ammon....................  
60
Zingiber.............................   go
go
Hyoscyamus...................... 
Iodine..................................... 75
“  Colorless............  
."  75
Ferrl Chlorldum.........  
35
K ino...................................   go
Lobelia.......................  
'  go
Myrrh............................ ...!  50
Nux  Vomica................. 
go
O R ll................................!  85
“  Deoaor.........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex...................  go
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany...................... 
go
Rhel................................ 
  So
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
_  '* 
Co..............  50
Serpentarla.....................  
50
Stromonlum.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
ValerlaD.............................   50
Veratrum Verlde............. . '  50

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M ISCELLANEOUS.

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

  2M® 3

ground,  (po.

* 
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“ et Potass T.  55®  60

7)->.........................  3®  4
Annatto.....................   55®  go
4®  5
Antlmonl, po.............. 
Antlpyrln..................   @1 40
Antlfebrin..................  @  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;  Mb,  14)..............  @  U
Cantharides  Russian, 
po............................
@100 
Capsid  Fructus, af...
a   26 
@  28 
®  20
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   ®8 75
Cera Alba, 8. A F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  ®  25
Centrarla....................  @  10
Cetaoeum...................  ®  40
Chloroform...............   60®  68
squlbbs ..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  50®1  80
Chondrus..................   20®  25
Clnchonldlne, F.  A  W  15®  20 
German 8  ®  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
go
cent  ...................... 
CreaBOtnm...........
a   35 
Crete, (bbl.75)....
@  2 
prep............
5®  5 
precip.........
9®  n  
Rubra.........
®  8 
Crocus............
50®  65 
Cudbear........... 
_
®  24
Cuprl Sulph...............   5®   6
Dextrine........ 
........  10®  12
Ether Sulph...............   70®  75
Emery,  all  numbers..  ®
po...................  @  6
„^O tajPo.)  75.........   70®  75
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................   ®  23
Gambler......................  7  ® 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ®  70
French...........  40®  80
Glassware  flint, by box 70 A 10. 
Less than box 66M
Glne,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White................  18®  25
Glyoerlna...................  14®  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  ®  22
Humulus....................   25®  56
Hydraag Chlor Mite..  ®  85
“  Cor__   @ 80
Ox Rubrum  @  90
Ammonlatl..  @1  00
Unguentum.  45®  56
Hydrargyrum............   @  64
Ichthyobolla, Am..  ..1 25@1  50
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 80@3 90
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin......................  @2 25
Lycopodium.....  ......   70®  ''S
M ade.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararglod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  S .F ..............  60®  63

1M)............................ 24® 4

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Morphia, S. P/A W.  2 25@2 50 
C.  Co....................  2  15@2 40
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
Plcis Liq, N.*C., M gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcis Liq., quarts......   @1  00
pints..........  @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po «5)__   @  3
Pix  Burgun...............   ®  7
Plumb! A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opil.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
A P. D.  Co., doz......   @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae ....................   8®  10
Quinta, 8.P .A W .......34V4@39M
S.  German__  27®  37
Rubla  Tlnctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
20®  22
Salacln........................2 00@2 10
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
“  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  15

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Seldllts  Mixture........  @  20
Slnapls...........................  ® 18
“  opt......................  ® 30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. ll) .  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  14®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash..................   34®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   ©  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......   @2 25
“  Myrcia Imp........  @3 00
*'  vlnl  Reel.  bbl.
...  7........................2 25@2 85
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal..... 1 40®1  45
Sulphur, Subl............  2M® 3
v  Roll............  2  @ 24
Terebenth Venice.....  28® 30
Theobromae......... ...45  @ 48
Vanilla.................. ..9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph........... . . .  
8

7 ®

OILS.

Whale, winter........ ..  70
Lard,  extra............ ..  SO
Lard, No.  1............ ..  42
Linseed, pure raw.. ..  50

Bbl.  Gal
70
85
45
53

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Linseed,  boiled.........  53 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
Spirits Turpentine__  39 

11
56
strained..................  65  70
40
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian.............. im  2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ 1M  2@4
“ 
Ber........ 1M  3@3
Putty,  commercial  ...2M  24®3
“  strictly  pure......24  2M®3
Vermilion Prune Amer­
ican .................  ......  
13@16
Vermilion,  English.... 
65®70
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red.....................  6  @64
“  w hite................. 6  @64
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  GIlder8\7T...  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20©1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.....................1  00@1  20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach....1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................ 160@1  70
Coach  Body............... 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn........1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar.... 1 56®1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70®76
Turp......................... 

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils % Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole Ageata  for the  Celebrateli

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  PREPARED  PEINTS.

SWISS  m
Line  of  Staple  Drofgists’  Sundries

We are Sole P roprietors of

Weatherly's  Michigan  Oatarrh  Remedy,

W e Have in Stoch and Offer a  Full U n e  of

W H IS K IE S ,  BR JLN D IES,

G IN S,  W IN ES,  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.

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THE  MICHIGA3ST  TRADESMAN,

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

The prices quoted in this list are  for the  trade only, in soch 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 OREASE.
doz
Aurora........... ........  55
Castor Oil...... ......  60
Diamond........ ........  50
Frazer’s......... ...... 
75
Mica  ......................  65
..  .. ........  55
Paragon 

gross
6 00
7 00
5 50
9 00
7 50
6 00

BAKING  POWDER. 

“  2  “ 

Acme.
V lb. cans, 3 doz...............  
45
J ib .  “ 
2  “  ................  75
1 lb.  “ 
1  “  .................  1 SO
10
Bulk.................................... 
Arctic.
M lb cans 6 doz  case.........  
55
1  10 
“  “
......  
14 lb  “  4 doz  “ 
1  lb  “  2 doz  “ 
.......
2 00 
9 00
5  ft  “  1 do*  “ 
......
Fosfon.
.  80 
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case 
“
16 “ 
.2  00 40 
Red Star, & ft cans........
75 
H ft  “ 
“ 
......
1ft  “ 
“ 
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1  40 
45 
Teller’s,  *4 lb. cans, dot 
85 
H lb.  “
“ 
1 50 
“ 
1 lb.  “ 
45
“  Hit*  cans....
1  50
“ 
TV. Price’s.
per doz 
Dime cans..  95
..1  40
“  
4-OZ
.  2 00
“  
Ö-OZ
.. 2   60
“  
^-oz
..3 90
12-oz
“  
..5 00
16-oz
“  
“   12 00
-’H -lb
18 a
“  
l i b
22 75
“  
5-lb
“   41  80
10-lb

p«HUCE$
CREAM
Baking
powder

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Our Leader, H lb cans...
1 lb cans  ...

BATH  BRICK.
dozen In case.
2 
 

BLUING. 

English....................... 
90
Bristol:................................  80
Domestic.............................   TO
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals...............   3 60
“ 
..............6 75
“  pints,  round............9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 
“  No. 3, 
... 4 00
“  No. 5, 
... 8 00
“  1 oz ball  ..................4  50
Mexican Liquid, 4 oz........  3 60
“ 
8 oz..........  6 80

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BROOMS.

do. 2 Hurl...........................   1  75
.......................... 2 00
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet........................ 2 25
No. 1 
“ 
.......................   2 50
Parlor Gem..........................2 75
Common Whisk.................  80
Fancy 
.................   100
Warehouse..........................8 00

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BBUSHE8.
Stove, No.  1.......................  125
10.....................  1  50
15.....................  1  75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row—   85
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row__  1  25
Palmetto, goose..................   1  SO

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CANDLES.

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

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Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

F is h .
Clams.
Little Neck,  1 lb.................l 20
2 lb.................l  90
Standard, 8 lb..................... 2 25
Standard,  1 lb....................   75
21b....................145
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb............................2 45
“  2  lb............................3 50
Picnic, 1 lb.......................... 2 00
“ 
21b.......................... 2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, lib ......................1 10
2  lb....................2 10
Mustard,  2 lb..................... 2 25
Tomato Sauce,  21b............ 2 25
Soused, 2 lb........................ 2 25
Columbia River, flat...........1  80
tails.......... 1 65
Alaska, Red........................ l  25
pink.........................l  io
Kinney’s,  flats....................1  95
Sardines.
American  Ms................4H© 6
H i................8H@ .7
Imported  Ml....................  @¡¡0
Hi  ................... 15©16
Muitard M>......................  7©8
Boneless  ..........  
21
Trout.
Brook, 3 l b ........................ 2 50

Salmon.
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Fruits.
Apples.

1  10
3 25

Gages.

Peaches.

Cherries.

Apricots.

lb. standard....... 
3 
York State.gallons  ... 
Hamburgh.  “
1  40
Live oak...................... 
Santa Crus................. 
1  40
1  50
Lusk’s ......................... 
1  10
Overland................... 
Blackberries.
F. A  W....................... 
90
Red............................  1  10®1 25
Pitted Hamburgh......  
1  75
W hite......................... 
1  50
Erie............................ 
1  30
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
E rie............................ 
1  20
1  40
California................... 
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  25
Pie............................  
90
Maxwell....................  
1 25
Shepard’s ...................
California..................   160@1  75
Monitor 
................
Oxford.......................
1  25
Domestic....................  
Riverside.................... 
1  75
Pineapples.
Common.....................1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
2 50
2 75
grated........ 
Booth’6 sliced............  ©•’ 5)
grated..........  @2 75
Quinces.
Common  .................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
110
Red  ............................ 
Black  Hamburg.........  
1  50
1  20
Erie,  black 
Strawberries.
1  25
Lawrence................... 
Hamburgh................. 
1  26
1  20
Erie....................... . 
1  05
Terrapin....................... 
Whortleberries.
Blaeberries...............  
85
Corned  beef  Libby’s...........1 95
Roast beef  Armonr’s ...........1 80
Potted  ham, H lb...... ......... 1  40
“  HU*.................  85
tongue. H lb..............185
75
H D>..........  85
chicken, M lb....... 
96

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Peas.

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Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless.........1  25
French style......2 25
Limas................ 1  35
Lima, green......................... 1 25
soaked.......................   66
Lewis Boston Baked............1 85
Bay State  Baked.................. 1 35
World’s  Fair  Baked............1 35
Picnic Baked........................ l 00
Hamburgh.......................   .1  40
Livingston  E den.................1 20
Purity..................................
Honey  Dew......................... 1 40
Morning Glory...................
Soaked...............................  75
Hamburgh  marrofat............ 1 85
early June..........
Champion Eng.. 1  50
petit  pole.............1 75
fancy  sifted____ 1 90
Soaked.................................  75
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat...........1 io
early -June........1 30
Archer’s  Early Blossom___1 25
French................................. 2  15
French.............................19@21
Brie.................................... 
85
Hubbard...............................1 15
Hamburg...............................l 40
Soaked................................  85
Honey  Dew.......................... 1 50
Erie...................................... l 35
Hancock...............................1 15
Excelsior  .  ..—...................
Eclipse.................................
Hamburg............................
Gallon..................................8 50

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoea.

Baker’s.

CHEESE.

CHOCOLATE.
German Sweet................  
23
37
Premium..........................  
Breakfast Cocoa.............. 
43
Amboy.......................   @13K
Acme..........................  12H©13
Lenawee....................   ©12H
Riverside................... 
18H
Gold  Medal  ..............  ©11H
6@10
Skim..........................  
ll
Brick..........................  
Edam  ........................  
1  00
23
Leiden.......................  
Llmburger.................   ©10
Pineapple...................  ©25
Roquefort— .............  @35

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

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CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

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Half  pint, 25 bottles...........2 75
Pint 
...........4 60
Quart 1 doz bottles 
..  8 50
Half pint, per  doz..............1  35
Pint, 25 bottles....................4 50
Quart, per  d o z ...................3 75

Triumph Brand.

CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

35 lb  bags.....................   @3
Less quantity 
Pound  packages........... 6M@7

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COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

Fair.....................................18
Good................................... 19
Prime..................................21
Golden................................21
Peaberry............................ 23
Fair.....................................19
Good................................... 20
Prime................................. 22
Peaberry  ............................23
Mexican and Guatemala.
Pair.....................................121
Good................................... 22
Fancy..................................24
Prime..................................23
M illed................................24
Interior.............................. 25
Private Growth.................. 27
Mandehltng.......................28
Imitation............................25
Arabian.............................. 28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add He. per lb. for roast 
lng and 15 per  cent,  for shrink' 
age.
Package.
M cLaughlin's  XXXX  .  23 95
Bunola 
..........................  23  45
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case —   23 95 

Extract.
Valley City H gross 
75
1  15
Felix 
Hnmmel’s, foil, gross........1  50
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CHICORY.

Bulk.
Red

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton,  40 ft..........perdoi.  1 25
140
160
175
1 90
85
100

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5 0 ft......... 
60 ft.......... 
70ft.......... 
80ft.......... 
60 ft.......... 
72 ft-........  

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

Peerless Evaporated Cream.

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8  1  books, per hundred 
....  3 50
12 
....  4 00
S3 
8 5 
__  5 00
.  6 00 
810 
820 
7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  per  cent 
500 
1000 

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COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
ICan  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down. |
20 books.........................8 1  00
2 00
50 
100 
3 00
6 25
250 
500 
10 00
1000 
17 50

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CREDIT CHECKS.

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

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CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX......................5H
Seymour XXX, cartoon.......  6
Family  XXX......................  5H
Family XXX,  cartoon........  6
Salted XXX...........................5H
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........6
Kenosha 
..........................   7H
Boston..................................7
Butter  biscuit....................   6
Soda, XXX........................    5H
Soda, City...........................   7H
Soda, Duchess......................8H
Crystal Wafer......................10H
Long  Island Wafers  ......... 11
S. Oyster  XXX...................  5H
City Oyster. XXX...................5H
Farina  Oyster....................  6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.
Strictly  pure...................... 
30
Telfers  Absolute..............  30
Grocers’............................ 15@2*

DRIED  FRUITS. 

7
7Q
11
14
14H
8

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

quartered  “ 

Sundrled. sliced In bbls. 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
Apricots.
California In  bags........ 
Evaporated In boxes 
.. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes...................... 
Nectarines.
701b. bags.......................10
251b. boxes.....................10 H
Peeled, In  boxes...........
Cal. evap.  “ 
“ 
In bags.......10
California In bags  —   10 
Pitted Cherries
Barrels..........................
501b. boxes ...................
25  “ 

...................10
Prunelles.
801b.  boxes.................  15
Raspberries.
In barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
...... ..............
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

...........10H

“ 

“ 

Loose Muscatels In Boxes.

2 crown.............................   1  20
“ 
8 
............................. 1  60
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
2  crown...  1.......................  4
“ 
8 
........... ............... 6

Foreign.
Currants.

Patras,  In barrels............  2

In  H-bbls..............  2M
2H
In less quantity — 
cleaned,  bulk........  5
cleaned,  package.. 
5H 

Peel.

Citron, Leghorn, a lb . boxes  12 
Lemon 
8
Orange 
10

25  “ 
25 “ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
Raisins.

..8

Ondura, 29 lb. boxes..  ©  7H
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 30  “

@8

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Prunes.
California,  100-120 ..............  6M
90x100 a  lb. bxs.  6J£
80x90 
70x80 
8H
.  9
60x70 

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

No. 1, 6H 
.....................   81  75
No. 2.6V4 
1  60
No. 1,6...'  .....................  1  65
No. 2,6.............................  1  50

XX  wood, white.
 

No. 1,6H  ........................   1  85
No. 2,6H 
1  a

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

“ 
“ 

10

 

Manilla, white.

6H  ...................................  1  00
6...................................... 
95

Coin.

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

Farina.
Hominy.

 

Oatmeal.

100 lb. kegs................... 
3M
..............................275
Barrels 
Grits.................................... 3 00
Lima  Beans.
Dried..... 
  3@1M
 
Maccaroni and Vermicelli. 
Domestic, 121b. box.... 
56
Imported.................... toy,®-1
Barrels 200 .......................  4  a
Half barrels 100................  2 a
Kegs..................................  2H
Green,  bu.........................  1 a
Split  per l b ................. 
3
Barrels  180.................  @4  25
Half  bbls 90..............  ©2 a
German.............................   4H
East India..........................  5
Cracked..............................  3M

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

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

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Pollock..........................
Whole, Grand  Bank......  5@5H
Boneless,  bricks.............. 6@8
Boneless, strips..............  6@8
Smoked......................... 11@12H
70 
Holland, white hoops keg 
bbl  9 50

Halibut.
Herring.
“ 
“ 

“ 

Norwegian  .....................
Round, H bbl 100 lbs.......   2 40
“  M  “  40  “  ......   1  a
Scaled............................... 
20

Mackerel.

No. 1,  100 lbs.......................11 00
No. 1,40 lbs..........................4 70
No. 1,  10 lbs........................  1 30
No. 2,100 lbs........................7 75
No. 2,40 lbs........................  3 50
No. 2,10 lbs....................... 
92
Family, 90 lbs.....................  6 00
10  lb s.................   70

“ 

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

Sardines.

Trout.

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

Wbltefish.

No. 1

 

FLAVORING  KXTRACT8. 
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. 
Best In the world for the money.

Sonders’.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.doz
2 oz  __ 8  75
4oz......1  50
Regular 
Vanilla.

doz
2 OZ'----81  2d
4  oz....2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz.......81  50
1 oz......   3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz.......81  75
4 oz........ 3 50

Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
120
2 oz regular panel.  75 
2 00
4 OZ 
...1 50 
3 00
6 oz 
...2 00 
No. 3 taper...........1  35 
2 00
No. 4  taper...........150 
250

“ 
“ 

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs  . . . ............................. 3 a
.........................1  90
Half  kegs 
Quarter  kegs.....................1  10
1  lb cans.............................   30
H 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
Sage....................................15
Hops................................... 15

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

HERBS.

INDIGO.

55
Madras,  5 lb. boxes  ........ 
S. F„ 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
50
JELLY .
17  lb. palls.................  @  40
30  “ 
................  @  70
Pure.....................................   80
Calabria...............................   25
Sicily....................................  12

“ 
LICORICE.

LYE.
Condensed, 2 doz..............1 a
4 doz.............. 2 a
No. 9  sulphur.................... 1  65
Anchor parlor....................1  70
No. 2 borne..........................1  10
Bxport  parlor....................4 00

MATCHES.

“ 

MINCE  MEAT.

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.
.................  
 

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

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rloo.

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

New Orleans.

... 

. 

14
M
20
8°
13
«2
27
32
40

THE  MICHIGAN  T~R AT>TnHA1  A 7ST_

F1CKLEB.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 coant... 
Half bbls, 800  connt..  ©a 75
Barrels, 2,400 connt. 
Half bbls, 1,200 connt 

Small.

3 25

©4 so

5 50

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216.............................1 70
Cob, No.  3................................. 1 20

“  T. D. fall count...........  70

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s ........................  
Penna Salt  Co.’s..................   3 00

3 75

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina head  ......................6
“  No. 1........................5V4
“  No. 2......................  5
4

Broken..............  

 

 

Imported.

“ 

Japan, No. 1........................   5)4
Java............................. 
Patna.................  

. No. 2...........................5
6
5)4

 

 

 

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

Allspice...............................   9v4
Cassia, China In mats........  s
“  Batavia in bund__ 15
32
“ 
Saigon in rolls 
Cloves,  Amboyna............... 22
Zanzibar..................;i)4
“ 
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,  Eng. and Trieste. .22
“  Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black__16
“  white......24
“  Cayenne.................20
Sage..................................... 20
•‘Absolute” In Packages.

Allspice......................  84  155
CInnamoft...................  84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  1  55
Ginger,  Jamaica  ......  84  1  55
“  African...........  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1 55
Pepper....................... ’  84  1  55
Sage........................... 
SAL  SODA.

Kegs.................................   m
Granulated,  boxes..............

84

Ms

SEEDS.

Anise.........................  @15
Canary, Smyrna.........  
4
Caraway.................... 
8
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
Hemp,  Russian.........  
4%
Mixed  Bird  .............. 
5@6
10
Mustard,  white.........  
Poppy......................... 
9
Rape.......................... 
5
Cuttle  bone...............  
ao
STARCH.

Corn.

 

 

“ 

20-lb  boxes..........................  5X
40-lb 
5%
1-lb packages.......................5M
3-lb 
5M
8-lb 
53S£
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  334
Barrels................................   33$

Gloss.
 
 

“ 
“ 

 
 

8NUFF.

Scotch, In  bladdera............37
Maccaboy, In Jars...............35
French Rappee, In Jars..... 43

SODA.

Boxes................................... 5^,
Kegs, English.......................4^

SALT.
 
 

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

 
 

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

.. 

“ 

» 

56 lb, dairy In linen  sacks. 

75 

Higgins.

Soiar Rock.

56 lb.  sacks.......................   27

Common Fine,

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

75
75

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s ...........................  5 ;4
DeLand’s ............................  5*4
Dwight’s .......................   ...5)4
Taylor’s ...............................5

« 

v

r  -

.   « *  

.

V  ♦  >

SOAP.
Laundry.

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

Old Country,  80  1-lb................3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb...................3 90
White Borax. 100  3£ lb........ 3 65
Concord...............................3 45
Ivory, 10  oz...........  ........... 6  75
6  oz...........................4 00
Lenox 
............................  3 65
Mottled  German................. 3  15
Town Talk.......................... 3 25

“ 

Dingman Brands.

“ 

Single box...........................3  95
5 box lots, delivered..........3 85
10 box lots, delivered........  3 75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 

American  Family, wrp d.. 14 00 
plain...  3 94 
N.  K.  Falrbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Clans.......................  4 00
Brjwn, 60 bars...................2 40
“ 
80  b a rs................. 3 25
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.
Acme.................................3 75
Cotton Oil.......................... 6 00
Marseilles....................... 
4 00
Mafter  ................................ 4 00

Thompson & Chute Brands.

SILVER 
SOAP J

-  - 

— -  ■ 

-W

Silver.................................. 3 65
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 on the act­
ual cost in New  York,  with  30 
cents per 100 pounds added  for 
fre ght.  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............................|5 55
Powdered............................4 99
Granulated 
.....................   4 61
Extra Fine Granulated...  4  ?4
Cubes.................................. 4 99
XXXX  Powdered................5 36
Confec. Standard  A. . . . . .   4 48
No. 1  ColumbiaA............   4 42
No. 5 Empire  A...................4 30
No.  6.........................  
No.  7.................................... 4  J7
No. 8....................................4 05
No.  9.............................  
No.  10.................................. 3 92
No.  11.................................. 3 86
No.  12.................................  3 80
No.  13.................................. 3 74
No 14..................................   3 83

 

 

8 YRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................. 17
Half bbls.............................. 19
F air.....................................   19
G ood...:..............................  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,  large  ...... 4 56
*' 
sm all........ 2 65

“ 

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

BA SK ET  F IR E D .

sun CURED.

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

oolong. 
IM PE R IA L .

EN G LISH   B R E A K FA ST .

YOUNG  HYSON.

GUN PO W D ER.

4 24

3 99

32

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet............. 30  @32
31
Tiger........................... 
D. Scotten & Co’s Brands.
60
Hiawatha................... 
Cuba........................... 
34
Rocket.......................  
30
Spaulding & Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling...................... 
30
Private Brands.
Bazoo.........................  @30
Can Can......................  @27
Nellie  Bly................. 24  @25
Uncle Ben............ ......24  @25
McOlnty.........................  
25
Dandy Jim ...................... 
Torpedo.......................... 
Yum  Yum  ....................  
1892...:............................ 
“  drums...................... 

“  V4 bbls.......... 

In  drums__ 

23

"  

27
29
24
28
23
22

Ping.

Sorg’s Brands.

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

39
27
40
26
38
34
40

30

26
43
32
31
27

Smoking.

Catlin’s  Brands.

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

Kiln  dried........................17@18
Golden  Shower................... 19
Huntress 
26
Meerschaum  ................... 2P@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle  Navy........................40
Stork 
...........................30@32
German............................... 15
Frog  ................................   33
Java, Msfoil..................    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.....................28@32
Red Clover...........................32

Spaulding & Merrick.

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

VINEGAR.

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

Cl for barrel.

YEAST.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per g a l................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75 
Magic,.................................1 00
Warner’s  ............................1  00
Yeast Foam  .......................1 00
Diamond.............................   75
Royal..................................   90
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green............................  2@2)4
Part Cured.................  @ 3
.................   @ 3*
Pull  “ 
..  4 
(¡0  O
Kips, green  ............
..  2  @ 3
“  cured..............
@ 4
Calfskins,  green__ ..  4  @ 5
cured__ ..  5W@ 7
Deacon skins........... ..10  @25

HIDES.

“ 

No. 2 hides X off.
PELTS.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Shearlings............... ..  5  @  20
Lambs 
.................. ..25  @  60
WOOL.
Washed .. 
............ ..12  @16
Unwashed.............. ..  8  @12
Tallow.................... ..  4  @ 5
Grease  butter  ...........  1  @  2
Switches....................  1H@ 2
Ginseng.................... .2 00@2 50
Badger.......................  80@1  00
B ear.......................15 00@25 00
Beaver............................3 00@7 00
Cat, wild......................  50@ 75
Cat, house.................  10@  25
Fisher.......................  8 00@6 00
Fox,  red.........................1 00@1 40

FURS.

“ 

Fox, cross...............-. .3 00@5 00
Fox,  grey...................  50®  70
Lvnx..........................1 00@2  50
Martin, dark..............1 00@3  00
pale & yellow.  75@l  00
Mink, dark.................  25@1 00
Muskrat......................  3@  18
Oppossum...................  5@  15
Otter, dark............... 5 00@10 00
Raccoon....................  30@  75
Skunk  ...................... 1 00@1  85
W olf.......................... 1 00@2  00
Beaver  castors, lb....  @5 00
Above  prices  are  for  No.  1 
furs only.  Other grades at cor­
responding prices.
Thin and  green............  
Long gray, dry.............. 
Gray, dry 
 
Red and Blue, dry  ......  
WOODENWARE.

deerskins—per pound.

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

10
10
15
25

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

Tubs, No. 1.........................600
“  No. 2.........................5 50
“  No. 3.........................  4 50
1  30
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  1  50
“ 
13  “  ....................   90
15  “  ........ 
“ 
1  25
17  “  .....................   1  90
“ 
“ 
19  “  •......................2 40
21  “ 
Baskets, market.................   35
shipping  bushel..  1  15 
..  1  25
full  hoop  “ 
5 25
“  No.2 
“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l 3 75
“  No.2 
“  No.3 

“ 
“ 
“ willow ci’ths, No.l 
“ 
“ 
11 
“ 

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

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

splint 

 

6 25

4 25
4 75

INDURATED WARE.

Pails..................................  3 15
Tubs,  No.  1........................ 13 50
Tubs, No. 2......................... 12 00
Tubs, No. 3......................... 10 50
250  10:0

Butter Plates—Oval.

Washboards—single.

No.  1...........................  
2 10
00 
No  2...........................   70  2 45
No. 3...........................   80 
2 80
No.  5.........................  1 00  3 50
Universal.............................2 25
No. Queen........................... 2 50
Peerless Protector................2 40
Saginaw Globe...................   1 75
Water Witch........................ 2 25
Wilson................................. 2 50
Good Luck........................... 2 75
Peerless..............................   2 85
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS 

Double.

WHEAT.

MEAL.

FLOUR  IN  SACKS.

54
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 
54
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

615 00
13 00
16 00
16 50
16 50

Car lots  quantity

CORN.

Bran...............C14 00 
Screenings....  12 50 
Middlings......  15 00 
Mixed Feed...  16 00 
Coarse meal  ..  15 50 
Car  lots.............................. 38)4
Less than  car  lots.............42
Car  lots.............................. 32^4
Less than car lots............... 35
HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__ 11  «0
No.l 
ton lots........12 50

OATS.

“ 

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as

follows :
FRESH  FISH.
Whltefisb 
................. @  9
Trout  ......................... @ 9
Black Bass.................
12)4
Halibut....................... @15
Ciscoes or Herring— @  5
Bluefish...................... @15
Fresh lobster, per lb.
20
Cod.............................
10
No. 1 Pickerel............ @10
Pike...........................
@ 8
Smoked White..........
@10
Red  Snappers............
12
Columbia  River  Sal-
m on.........................
12)4
Mackerel.................... 20@25
oysters—Cans.
Falrhaven  Counts— @35
F .J . D.  Selects.........
@30
Selects....................... @23
F. J. D......................... @23
Anchors.................  .. @20
Standards..................
@18
Favorite...................... @16
OYSTERS-—Bulk.
1  75
Extra Selects..per gal.
Selects.......................
1  40
1  00
Standards..................
Counts.......................
2 20
Scallops............   ......
1  50
Shrimps  ....................
1  25
1  25
Clams.........................
SHELL HOODS.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  50
......... T5@l  00
Clams, 

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FRO VISIONS.

SAUSAGE.

FO R K   IN   B A R R ELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:
Mess,....................................... .............  
13 75
Short c u t.................................... .  7 7 7  
14 25
Extra clear pig, short cut............... 7 7 7 .  16 00
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat back..........................  ...7 7 7 7   14  75
Boston clear, short cut...............7 7 7 7 7   15 00
Clear back, short cut.................... 
15 00
Standard clear, short cut, best....  7 7 7 7   16 00
Pork, links......................................... 
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Bologna.................................. 7 " " ....... 
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Liver..............................................
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Tongue...............................  
 
Blood.............................................. ; ; ; ; ;  
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Headcheese............................. ********* 
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Summer.................................. *J7......... 
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7«
Frankfurts......................................... 
L A R D .
Kettle  Rendered............................ 
sv
Granger............................... 
„2
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Family  
Cottollue.........................................  
7v
50 lb. Tins, Me advance.
20 lb. palls, Me 
101b.  “  mc
51b.  “  %c 
3 lb.  " 
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Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs......................7 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................... 
7 00
Boneless, rump butts................................ .7  10 00
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain
Hams, average 20 lbs...............  
gv

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16 lbs.......................................jo
12 to 14 lbs..................... 
“ 
" 1 0
“  Picnic................................................. ;  s*
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best boneless............................ 
9
Shoulders........................................... ..........  g
.7  11
Breakfast Bacon  boneless.... 
Dried beef, ham prices............................... 
Long Clears, heavy..........................7 7
Briskets,  medium................................ 

light............................ 7 7 7 7 7 7 7   sk

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P IC K E E D   F IG S ’  F E E T .

D R Y   SALT  MEATS.
Butts.............................................  
D. S. Bellies..........................          
ioiz
Fat Backs..................................... 777 7777  10  *
Barrels.............................................................    00
Kegs...............................................................  1 go
Kits, honeycomb.........................................  
<55
Kits,.premium..........................i... 
55
Barrels...  .................................................... 22 00
Half barrels.................................... 
n   tm
Per pound............  ....................... 7 7 7 7 7  
11
Dairy, sold packed.........................................   14
Dairy, rolls................................................77.  14V4
Creamery, solid packed....................... 77."  18*
Creamery, rolls................................ . 
7  19

B E E F   TONGUES.

B U T T E R IN E .

F R E S H   B E E F .

Carcass...................................   ............   5  @ 7
Fore quarters........................................4%@ 5
Hind quarters........................................ ...  @ 6Mi
Loins No. 3.........................................   .  8  @10
Ribs.
7  @  9
Bounds ............................................5  @ 6
Chucks................................................ 
(¡h a\l
Plates..........................................  
  @ 4*
 
Dressed............ ....................................
Loins...........................................  
Shoulders  ........................................77 
Leaf Lard........................................  
Carcass...........  ....................................g
Lambs.................................................
Carcass...................................

@   6 *  
@ 6

F R E S H   PO R K .

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MUTTON.

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CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

LAMP  BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun.........................................................  45
No. 1  “  .........................................................  50
No.2  “  ................................................ 
....  75
Tubular...........................................................  75

lam p  chim neys.  Per b ox.

6 doz. In box.

Pearl top.

First quality.
“ 
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XXX Flint.
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No. 0 Sun....................................................... 1  75
No. 1  “  .........................................................1  88
No.2  “  .........................................................2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top...................................... 2 10
No. 1  “ 
“  ...................................... 2 25
No. 2  “ 
“  .......................................8 25
No. 0 Sun, crimp top...................................... 2 60
“  .......................................2 80
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
“  ...................................... 3 80
No. 1 Snn, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
...................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4  88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.......................l  25
No. 2  “ 
....................... 1  50
No. 1 crimp, per doz........................................1  35
No.2 
“ 
........................................1  60
No. 0, per  gross..............................................   23
28
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
38
No.3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz................  .......................   75

La Bastie.

LAMP WICKS.

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STONEWARE—AKRON.
54 gal. per doz 

Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................   06
“ 
................  60-
Jugs, % gal., per doz...................................   70
*r  1 to 4 gal., per gal................................  07
Milk PanB, >4 gal., per doz..........................  60
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.........................  72

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STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.

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

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1 4

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

SUCCESSFUL  WOMEN  DRUMMERS.
Many  Branches  of  Trade  Invaded  by 

C lear-h ead ed   Salesw om en.

“The  woman  drummer  has  come  to 
stay,  and we men  won’t  be  ‘in  it’  in a 
short time!”

The above is from the lament of  a cer­
tain  traveling  salesman,  who  confided 
some facts about  his  business  to  a  re­
porter the other day.  He is mournful, it 
is true,  as who  would  not  be  when  he 
saw his vocation slipping away from him? 
But he seems to feel that open confession 
is good  for  the  soul,  and,  accordingly, 
describes  with  exactness,  harrowing  to 
the souls of  other commercial  travelers, 
the  full  extent  of  the  success  of  his 
feminine  rivals in trade.

“There is a young woman by the name 
of Lincoln,”  he says with dogged resign­
ation.  “She sells imported  hats.  So do 
1—when 1 get a chance.  But  if  I  expect 
to do anything .on my route 1 am  obliged 
to keep ahead of her, for when she strikes 
a town she carries  away  every  order  in 
it. 
I  must  confess  that  these  women 
‘knights  of the grip,’ as  you  newspaper 
folks call us,  do  much  better  than  the 
men in the same lines.  They are strong, 
clear-sighted,  and  clear-headed  women, 
some of them  very pretty, and all of them 
perfect ladies.  Some  of them do exactly 
as men do,  visit  a  merchant  in  person 
and solicit his orders.  Others  engage  a 
sample room in the hotel, and after notify­
ing the merchants,  wait and receive them 
there.  There is another class of feminine 
travelers,  who are very  swell  and  cater 
to individual custom.  1 know of several 
from New York who pursue this  method 
entirely.
Probably  the  best  known  woman  on 
the read is Miss Virginia  Poole,  of New 
York,  who  sells  nothing  but  perfume. 
She stays  in  a  town  sometimes  two  or 
three weeks,  and she does a big business. 
There is  Miss  Arline  Carson,  who  sells 
millinery in all  the  large  cities  east  of 
the Mississippi and  north  of  the  Ohio. 
She sells over $100,000 worth of  goods  a 
year and gets a big  salary.  Mrs.  E.  B. 
Henry is a well known woman drummer. 
Her  husband  formerly  traveled  for  an 
underwear house of New York.  He died 
and  left  her  with  several  children  to 
support.  She  went  to 
the  firm  and 
asked  for  his  route.  They  had  never 
sent a woman out,  but  they  gave  it  to 
her and she made  such  a  success  of  it 
that  she is  now a  member  of  the firm. 
She goes  out  on  the  road  occasionally, 
and I heard a good  story  about  her  not 
long ago.  She was at the Weddell House 
in Cleveland, and had just seven minutes 
in which to catch her train.  She went to 
her  room,  put  on  her  traveling  dress, 
paid her bill, ordered her baggage  down, 
called a carriage,  was driven to the depot 
five blocks away,  and  caught  her  train. 
There  are  mighty  few  men  who  could 
have done that!”  and  the  drummer  sub­
sided into sorrowful  reflections.

“One of the women  travelers  who  de­
pend on  individual customers  is Miss M. 
A. Wilkins who travels for a Philadelphia 
that  deals  in  children’s  wear. 
house 
She  carries  eight 
large  trunks.  She 
mails a letter to each of her patrons,  say­
ing  that 
she  will  occupy  a  certain 
suite  in  a  certain  hotel  on  a  certain 
day.  When 
comes  her 
customers  drive  up  in  their  carriages, 
and are shown to her room,  where,  I can 
tell you,  they leave a lot of orders.  Her 
trade  is  worth  §75,000  a  year  to  her 
I know of one  woman who sells
house. 

time 

the 

chewing  gum,  another  laces,  another 
buttons,  another  furs. 
I  have  even 
heard of a woman who sells  coffins. 
I’ll 
bet  she  sells  so  many  that  the  under­
takers have  to  make  kindling  wood  of 
them to get their stock reduced!”

B ound to  K eep H is C ustom ers.

It was  in  a  country  store where they 
keep everything for sale  from  poke bon­
nets to poker chips.

A  country  bumpkin  with  very  large 
“understandings”  came  to  purchase  a 
pair of boots.  The  proprietor got  out  a 
pair of the biggest size  he  happened  to 
have in stock,  but  it  was  obvious  at a 
glance that they could  never be  made  to 
fit his customer. 
In vain  he  tugged and 
strained at one of them  trying  to  get his 
right foot inside of  it.

Seized with what  seemed  to be  an in­
spiration,  the proprietor  picked  up  the 
boot and exclaimed:

“Bless my soul,  how  foolish of me! 

I 
ought to have told  you  of  it  before  and 
saved  you  all  this  trouble.  These  are 
double  elastic  guaranteed  glove-fitting 
stretchers—the latest  and  best thing out 
in the boot line.  All you’ve  got to do to 
make ’em fit is to rub some oil into ’em—
I won’t charge you nothin’ for the oil, let 
’em soak it np for a couple  of  days  an’ 
then  their  stretcbin’  qualities’ll  get  to 
work an’ they’ll go on as slick as a glove, 
an’ they’ll  be  the  best  fittin’  boots  you 
ever had in  all your born  days.”

When the dull-witted  countryman had 
departed with the  boots I  ventured, on a 
slight  acquaintance  with  the proprietor, 
to reproach him for resorting to such dis­
honest trickery to make a sale.

“Why, there  ain’t  any  cheatin’  about 
that,”  he  replied,  resentfully.  “I  ain’t 
done that fellow  any  harm.  He doesn’t 
need the boots, anyhow, until ’long about 
Christmas  time.  He’ll  go  and  do  what 
I’ve  told  him,  and he’ll  wrestle with the 
boots  until  be  finds  out  that  he  might 
just as  well try to get a  horse an’  buggy 
inside of ’em.  Then  when  be  comes  to 
town again he’ll  bring ’em back  an’  tell 
me that he couldn’t  make ’em fit nohow. 
By  that  time  I’ll  have  some  boots  in 
th a t’ll fit  him.  Now,  if I  hadn’t  made 
him  take  those  boots  along  he’d  have 
gone somewhere else—to  Deacon Flint’s, 
probably—an’  I’d  have  lost  his  trade. 
You  can’t  call  it  cheatin’  when  1  gives 
him some  oil  for  nothing  and  run  the 
risk of getting a pair of boots split.  No, 
sir, 1 don’t  pretend to  run my  store like 
a Sunday school, but I never cheat.”

Such  reasoning  was  unanswerable, 
and I couldn’t  help  thinking  that  if  his 
lot  had  been  cast  in  Wall  street  he 
might have developed into  a  full-fledged 
“Napoleon of Finance.” 

A.  S.  M.

Silver R uins  a   H orse.

A silver quarter dollar  rarely  does  so 
much damage as in the case of  a  street­
car horse in  Reading.  Penn.,  which  has 
been utterly  ruined by  this  little  piece 
of money.  For the past four  years there 
ha« been a horse in  the Birdstreet stables 
of the City Passenger Railway  Company 
that became lame for  a  few  days  every 
month,  and on each occasion a hard lump 
formed  on the right shoulder, but  never 
twice  at the  same place.  The  attention 
of Superintendent Rigg was called to the 
horse,  and be  had  the  shoulder  lanced. 
The Superintendent stood aghast when a 
quarter dollar was taken froifl the  lump. 
A scar  on  the  horse’s  chest  leads  Mr. 
Rigg  to  believe  that  the  horse  was 
injured  some  years  ago  and 
that  the 
quarter was placed in  the wound to keep 
it open for the removal of  pus  and  then 
forgotten.

Post’s 
Eureka 
Sap Spouts.

OVER  20,000,000  SOLD.

'These S pou ts w ill not I^ealc

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

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 flow 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.

5s t e r 5 t e v e n s

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* ° s NTR ° e

ÄYLA8  S oap

m a n u fa c tu r ed  only  by

HENRY  PÄ880LY,

SAGINAW,  MICH.

This  brand  has  now  been  on  the 
market three  years,  and  has  come  to be 
regarded  as  a  leader  wherever 
intro­
duced.  See quotations in Price Current.

Our “Oak”  Grain.

GUARANTEED  SOLID  THROUGHOUT.

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

SEND  FOR  A  SAMPLE  DOZEN.

12  &  14  Lyon  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

1 5

MEN  OF  MARE.

C hristian  B ertsch,  th e   V e te ra n   Shoe 

Jo b b e r.

Christian Bertsch first saw the light of 
day  in  Crawford  county,  Ohio,  in  the 
year 1837.  His father was a native of the 
Province of Baden, Germany,  emigrating 
to  America  over  sixty  years  ago  and 
settling  in  the  Buckeye State.  As has 
been,  and  is  now,  and  always  will  be, 
the  case  with  country  boys,  Christian, 
when old enough,  was sent to  the  usual 
country school, his spare time  and  most 
of the summer months being  devoted  to 
work on the farm.  He was  not  in  love 
with  farming,  however,  although always 
doing faithfully and  well  the  work  as­
signed  him,  so,  upon  attaining  his 
majority,  he  turned  his  back  upon  his 
native  State,  and  came  to  Michigan  in 
1858.  Holland  City  was  his  objective 
point,  and  here  he  laid  the  foundation 
for  the  business  success  which  he  has 
since achieved,  if,  indeed,  the  elements 
were not already imbedded in the nature 
which  he  inherited  from  his  German 
ancestry.  He  had  already  determined 
on his life work,  and,  shortly  after  his 
arrival in Holland,  apprenticed  himself 
to  the  shoemaking  trade,  his  employer 
being E. Herold, father of Alonzo Herold, 
of  the  Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.  Two 
years later he began  his career as a busi­
ness man,  being taken  into  partnership 
by  his  employer.  The  firm  was in ex­
istence only a few months,  however,  Mr. 
Bertsch selling out to his partner in 1861. 
Holland  did  not  afford  him  the  oppor­
tunity he wanted and  he  determined  to 
go  elsewhere.  Naturally, 
the  rising 
city of Grand Rapids, only  a  few  miles 
away,  attracted his attention,  for he saw 
—what others bad seen  before  him—that, 
with  her  natural  advantages  improved 
upon and  amplified  by  the  enterprising 
ingenuity  of  her citizens,  Grand Rapids 
would take no meau place  in  the  ranks 
of the great manufacturing  and commer­
cial centers of  the  country.  For  three 
years after coming to  the  city  he  filled 
the  position  of  foreman  for  Cappon  & 
Bertsch  (later  the  Cappon  &  Bertsch 
Leather Co.),  but,  having for some years 
had a desire to see  the  “Golden  West,” 
in  1864 he resigned his position with that 
firm  and  set  out  for  California.  The 
West  might  be  golden  to  some,  but  it 
was not to Mr. Bertsch,  for  he  returned 
to Grand Rapids in a few  months,  fully 
convinced that,  for him,  there was  more 
gold  in  Michigan  than 
in  California. 
Shortly after his return he formed  a  co­
partnership  with  F.  Krekel,  under  the 
style of Krekel & Bertsch,  embarking  in 
the  shoe  business  in  the  building  on 
Monroe street now occupied by H.  Leon­
ard & Sons.  This firm did business suc­
cessfully for six years,  when the firms of 
L. J.  Rindge & Co.,  and,  a  little  later, 
Rindge,  Bertsch & Co., came  into  exist­
ence,  the former doing a  retail  and  the 
latter a wholesale business.  Eight years 
later  the  two  firms  were  merged  into 
Rindge,  Bertsch  &  Co.,  under  which 
style  it  continued  for  fourteen  years. 
In 1892 Mr.  Bertsch severed  his  connec­
tion with that firm,  Rindge,  Kalmbach  & 
Co.  purchasing his  interest,  and  subse­
quently he organized the  Herold-Bertsch 
Shoe Co.,  with Christian Bertsch as Pres­
ident  and  General  Manager;  Alonzo 
Herold,  Vice-President;  George  Medes, 
Secretary,  and Albert Wetzel, Treasurer. 
In addition to his regular  business,  Mr. 
Bertsch  is  a  stockholder  in  the  New 
England Furniture Co., the  Grand  Rap­

A 

ids Felt Boot Co.  and the Fourth Nation­
al Bank, and a director of all three.

active 
in 
the 

interest  of 
continuous 
shoe  busi­
thirty-six  years 
ness  has  given  Mr.  Bertsch 
a
knowledge  of  details  possessed  by  few, 
which enables him  to “grasp  the  situa­
tion” and to know,  as if by intuition, the 
needs of the trade and  give  to  bis  cus­
tomers such goods as are  “sellers.”  His 
probity  and  integrity  are  well  known 
characteristics and he possesses  the con­
fidence of the trade to  a  remarkable de­
gree.  His  success  is  due  to  his  keen 
business  sagacity and  unswerving  hon­
esty.  A  customer  once  made  is a cus­
tomer always.  From his intimate knowl­
edge of the  business, gained  from  long 
experience,  many facts of  an interesting 
nature were gleaned.  Mr.  Bertsch  shall 
give some of them in his own words:

which had  been  disturbed  by the  scar­
city of kangaroos, tanners began to make 
kangaroo leather from  goat  and  sheep­
skins.  Take  cordovan  as  another  in­
stance.  This particular kind  of  leather 
was  originally  made  exclusively  from 
horsehides.  But horsehides are compar­
atively scarce,  and so  recourse was  had 
to  cowhides,  and  now  a  good  quality 
of cordovan is made from those hides and 
only an  expert  can  tell  the  difference. 
Satin calf and glove  calf  are  now, also, 
made from  cowhide.  The  facility with 
which any kind of leather can  be  coun­
terfeited is  due,  almost  entirely, to  the 
introduction of machinery,  which  makes 
it possible to split and  resplit  the  hide 
and to put on any kind of finish required. 
Probably  machinery  has  worked  a 
greater revolution in the shoe trade than 
in  any  other  of  the  industrial  trades,

“Thirty  years  ago,”  said  he,  “ kip, 
calfskin and cowhide were the names ap­
plied to the  different  grades  of  leather 
used in the making of  boots  and  shoes. 
There were a few other kinds, but  these 
were  the  great 
leather  staples.  Now 
their name  is  legion, every tanner  hav­
ing a name for each grade of his product, 
and  no  two  tanners  using  the  same 
names.  Given the name  of  the  leather, 
the  identity  of  the  maker 
is  at  once 
known.  Thirty years ago  there were no 
counterfeits,  everything  was  called  by 
its right name.  Now they are  almost as 
numerous as the kinds of leather.  There 
is this to say about  counterfeiting leath­
er,  however,  it  is  merely  applying  a 
name to a piece of  goods  to which it has 
no right.  The  counterfeit  is, generally, 
as good an article in point  of  quality as 
the  genuine.  The  reason  for  counter­
feiting  is  usually that  it  is  difficult to 
secure the hides or skins from which the 
genuine  leather  is  made.  For instance, 
about  fifteen years  ago kangaroo leather 
wasall the rage and  so  great was the de­
mand that the big skipper was almost ex­
terminated.  As a result, and to restore the 
equilibrium between supply and demand,

having brought the price down fully one- 
half in the last  thirty years  and  almost 
entirely done away with  the  making  of 
shoes by hand.  Nearly everybody wears 
“store shoes”  now, although a few years 
ago the man  who wore  ready made shoes 
was an object of pity and was thought to 
be very poor.  At  the  time  I  speak  of 
buyers considered the  question  of  com­
fort,  while  now style governs,  and a No. 
6  foot  is  pushed  into  a No. 3 shoe,  re­
gardless of  consequences.  The  growth 
of the  rubber  trade  is  another  notable 
It forms now fully 20 per cent, 
feature. 
of  our  entire  business,  while 
thirty 
years  ago 
it  was  not  5  per  cent., 
and  it  is  constantly and  rapidly on the 
increase. 
Felt  boots  and  socks  are 
another comparatively new  thing in  the 
shoe  business, 
farmers, 
teamsters  and  others  being  the  users. 
One result  of  the  introduction  of  these 
substitutes  for  leather  in  footwear  has 
been  to  bring  down  the  price  of  boots 
and  shoes,  until now it is not  more than 
half what it was thirty years ago.  Every 
year  for  ten  years  past,  we  have  con­
gratulated  ourselves 
that  prices  had 
about reached bottom,  but  each year has

lumbermen, 

witnessed a still  further  decline.  How­
ever,  machinery  has  cheapened  produc­
tion and we have not felt the  decline  as 
much  as  we  otherwise  would.  Another 
thing which takes  the edge off is the low 
price of hides,  which are lower now than 
ever before in the  history  of the  leather 
industry.  The great packing  houses are 
the  chief  sources  of  supply for  the tan­
neries and all the packers  care  about  is 
to  make  a  trifle over  the  cost  of taking 
off the hides.  The shoe business  is  not 
what  it  was  some  years  ago.  There  is 
not the money in  it  there  was formerly, 
while more capital is required and double 
the amount  of  business  must  be  done. 
Still, some of  us  are  foolish  enough  to 
remain in the busines.”

Mr. Bertsch did not  look  much  like a 
man  who  is  dissatisfied  with  his  busi­
ness, as he uttered the words last quoted, 
and,  if current report tells  the story cor­
rectly,  he  has  little  reason  to  be.  Be­
ginning his business life  with  a  capital 
of $25, he has slowly climbed  the  ladder 
of success until to-day he is worth  some­
where from $150,000 to $250,000.  He has 
certainly  been  successful,  and,  what  is 
better,  he has deserved his success.

Mr. Bertsch is a member of the Masonic 
order,  a Knight  Templar  and  Treasurer 
of Valley City  (blue)  Lodge No.  86.  He 
was  married  in  1861  to  Miss  Caroline 
Walter,  of  Crawford  county,  Ohio, and 
resides in a beautiful home at  the corner 
of North Lafayette  street  and  Crescent 
avenue.

Personally,  Mr.  Bertsch is  one  of  the 
most unassuming men in the ci ty.  What­
ever he is and  whatever he  has acquired 
are  due  altogether  to  quiet persistence 
and patient industry, coupled  with  ster­
ling integrity and oneness of purpose.  He 
has never made any short cuts to position 
or fortune and no one ever heard  of him 
boast of his success or  use his  influence 
to oppress those less fortunate than him­
self.  Although his benefactions are never 
chronicled by the public  prints,  he  is  a 
liberal contributor to church and charity 
work in several lines and many less fortu­
nate than himself have received substan­
tial assurances of the  bigness and broad­
ness of his heart.  Gentle  as  a  woman, 
unassuming  as  a child, the  daily life  of 
Christian Bertsch affords  ample  text for 
a sermon  which he who runs  may read.

Now is  the  Time.

that  when 

From  th e K ing's  Jester.
What intelligent farmer would  refrain 
from making  an  effort  to  raise  a  crop 
even though times are hard,  at the season 
when  he  should  plant  his  seed,  and 
especially if  he  had every  reason  to be­
lieve 
the  usual  time  for 
disposing  of  his  produce  should  roll 
around there would be a good market for 
what  he  had  to sell ? 
It  is  universally 
admitted that the fall and winter months 
constitute  the best seasons  for  securing 
good  returns  to advertising,  and  it  is 
generally  admitted  that  by  the  time 
looked forward  to  in  other  years  busi­
ness will  again be  running in  its  usual 
channel  and with  as  strong  a tide as  in 
former  years. 
If,  however,  the  adver­
tising that should have been done in  the 
early part of the season  is  put  off  until 
harvest  time, 
that 
those  who  neglected  the  opportunities 
offered  by  properly  advertising  in  ad­
vance will find that  their  share  of busi­
ness  is  being  absorbed  by  others  who 
possess more foresight and greater nerve. 
It is in such times as  are  now  upon  us 
that  business 
revolutionized,  and 
those who,  through  luck,  or  other acci­
dental circumstances,  have drifted to the 
front will be relegated to the rear,  while 
their  places  will  be  occupied  by  men 
better 
prominent 
positions in trade.

it  is  quite  certain 

to  occupy 

fitted 

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADEBMAN

CANDIES, FRUITS  and  NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows :

Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

Lemon  & Wheeler Company,
Before  You  Buy

SEE THE  SPRING  LINE  OF  FINE 
GOODS  MANUFACTURED  BY

A  FEW  OF  OUR  NEW  SPECIAL 
TIES  IN  OXFORDS  ARE:

The  Juliet  Bootee,  Three  Large 

Button  Newport,  Southern 

Tie and  Prince Alberts.

--------0--------

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

A  LADY’S

GENUINE  :  VICI  :  SHOE,
Plain toe In opera and  opera  toe and O. S. heel. 
D and E and E E widths, at $1.50.  Patent leather 
tip,  $1.55.  Try them,  they are  beauties.  Stock 
soft and fine, flexible ana elegant  fitters.  Send 
for sample dozen.

REED ER  BROS.  SHOE  CO ,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

1  75
2  00
.. 2 00 
..  2 25 
.  2 50
1  50
2 50
..  4 00 
..  4 00 
.  4 50 
..  4 50
@13 
@13 
@15 
@ 7 
@   5 *  @  5
@16
@15@
@ 10*
@11@13
@10
@12
@12
@11 
@ 7*
1  25 
4  25
@ 5 

@ 6H @ 5 @ 6* 
@  4 
@ 5*

XXX  W. W.  ifleii * Headlight!............. 

5

LIV E .

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

DRAWN.

8 @ 8*
V @ 8
6 @ 6*
8 @  9
8 @  9
10 @11
10 @11
9 @10
10 @11
10 @12
9 @  9*
7*@ 8
6*@ 7
8 (ä 9
8 @  9

SEND  US  YOUR

B E A N S ,
WillAlways Give Full MartetValae

WE  WANT  THEM  ALL,
NO  MATTER  HOW  MANY.

6 
6 
6 

Bbls.  Pails.
7
7
7
8*

Palls.
6*
6*
7*
8
8
8
8
8*
9
13
.........  8*
.........   8
Palls.
........  8*
........  9*
........12
........  12*
........  5
........  7*
........  8*
........  10
Per Box
......... 50
......... 50
......... 60
......... 75
......... 80
.........40
...... 1  00
......... 80
......... 60
......... 65
...........60
......... 70
......... 55
...........55
...85@95
......... 80
......... 90
......... 60
........1 00
...........60
......  34
.......  61
......  28

STICK  CANDY.
Cases

“ 
“ 

Standard,  per  lb...........
6 .H .................
Twist  ............
Boston Cream............... . 
Cut  Loaf.......................
Extra H.  H..................

8*
.  8*
MIXED CANDY.

Bbls.
.5*
.5*
.6*
.7
.7
.7
.. baskets
.. 

Standard........................
Leader..........................
Royal............................
Nobby..........................
English  Rock...............
Conserves....................
Broken Taffy...............
Peanut Squares............
French Creams..............
Valley  Creams..............
Midget, 30 lb. baskets..
“  __
Modern, 30 lb. 
FANCY— in bulk

“

“ 

“ 

3 
2 

« 
“ 

“
“
O RANGES.

f a n c y — In 5 lb. boxes.

Lozenges, plain...........
printed........
Chocolate Drops...........
Chocolate Monumentale............
Gum Drops...................
Moss Drops...................
Sour Drops....................
Imperials.................  .
Lemon Drops...............
Sour Drops......   ..........
Peppermint Drops........
Chocolate Drops...........
H. M. Chocolate Drops.
Gum Drops..................
Licorice Drops..............
A. B. Licorice Drops...
Lozenges, plain............
printed........
Imperials......................
Mottoes.........................
Cream Bar....................
Molasses Bar...............
Hand Made Creams__
Plain Creams...............
Decorated Creams........
String  Rock.................
Burnt Almonds............
Wlntergreen  Berries...
CARAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes......
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
Russets,  96........................................ .
Russets,  126....................... ................
Russets,  150-176-200..........................
Brights,  126........................................
Brights,  138...................................... .
Brights,  176-200-216..........................
Small  ................................................
Large................................................
Extra choice 300...............................
Extra choice 360................................
Extra fancy 300..................................
Extra fancy 360.................................
O TH ER   FO R B IS N   FR U IT S.
Figs, fancy  layers, 69>.......................
“ 
10t>......................
143>.......................
“ 
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box......................
......................
Persian, 50-lb.  box.................

“ 
“  extra 
“ 
“ 
Almonds, Tarragona.............................
Ivaca......................................
California..............................
Brazils, new..........................................
Filberts.................................................
Walnuts, Grenoble................................
French....................................
Calif........................................
Table Nuts,  fancy................................
choice.............................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ..........................
Chestnuts..............................................
Hickory Nuts per bu.............................
Cocoanuts, full sacks............................
Fancy, H.  P.,Suns................................
“  Roasted....................
Fancy, H.  P„ Flags...............................
“  Roasted...................
Choice, H. P.,  Extras............................
“  Roasted.................

“  50-lb.  “ 

PEANUTS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

BANANAS.

LEM ONS.

NUTS.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

OILS.

BABBELS.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes as  follows:
8*
Eocene................................................... 
XXX  W.  W. Mich.  Headlight.............. 
7
Naptha...................................................  @ 6*
Stove Gasoline.......................................  @ 7k
Cylinder............................................... 27  @36
E ngine..............   ................................ 13  @21
Black, 15 cold  test................................   @ 8*

FROM   TA N K   WAGON.

Weekly  Report of  Secretary  Mills, 
Grand Rapids, Feb. 5—The following 
members have been  admitted  since  last 
report:

j 

3428  W.  S. Bratt,  Grand Rapids.
3430  L.  Winternitz, Chicago.
3431  Geo. H.  Dawson,  Wyandotte.
3432  E.  Kuyers,  Grand Rapids.
3433  J.  M.  Bostwicb,  Detroit.
3434  J.  M.  McConnell, Cadiz,  Ohio.
3435  H.  S.  Matthewman, Dayton, Ohio.
3436  W.  L.  Sweet,  Flushing.
3437  Horace Fairfield. Paulding,  Ohio.
3438  W. L.  Nason,  Englewood,  111.
3439  V.  A.  Johnston, Grand  Rapids.
3440  E.  D.  Wright, Grand Rapids.
3441  J. E.  Blackail,  Grand  Rapids.
3442  W.  J.  Ferris,  Port Huron.
3443  W.  H.  Hurley,  Flint.
3444  W.  T.  Forster,  Boston,  Mass.
3445  J. A.  Munger,  Saginaw.
3446  J.  R.  Preston, Detroit.
3447  Frank L.  Tirrell, St. Johns.
3448  R.  L.  H ickm an,  Kansas City,  Mo.
3449  J.  H.  M arshall,  Grand  Rapids.
3450  Martin Smoll, Jonesville.
3451  G.  P.  McMahon, Grand  Rapids.
3452  Chas.  Wood, Detroit.
3453  W.  R.  Roach, Syracuse,  N. Y.
3454  W.  M.  Lacy, Saginaw.
3455  Oakes  L. Heath,  New Baltimore.
3456  Henry R. Chope, Saginaw.
3457  W. H.  Lewis,  Saginaw.
3458  Arthur S.  Button, Saginaw.
3459  H.  E.  Richards,  Detroit.
3460  Oscar McKay, Grand  Rapids.
3461  F. C.  Feckenscher,  Detroit.
3462  Chas.  A.  Reekie,  Detroit.
3463  S.  F.  Lenhart, Chicago.
3464  Chas.  M.  Miller, Chicago.
3465  W.  H.  Lindsley,  Kalamazoo.
3466  Thos.  A.  Parish, Grand Haven.
3467  Harry A.  Letts,  Washington,  la.
3468  Chas. L. Love, Grand Rapids.
3469  Geo.  Farwell,  Albion.
3470  Cal.  Rhine, Reed City.
3471  C.  W.  Stoddard,  Reed City.
3472  Corson Elliott.  London,  Ont.
3474  John Smyth,  Grand Rapids.
3475  Jos. C.  Whitliff,  Port  Huron.
3476  Geo.  G.  Watson,  Detroit.
3477  Chas. P. Nash,  Detroit
3478  Jacob B.  Simon,  Lansing.
3479  A.  W.  Peck,  Petoskey.
3480  Wm.  N.  Reynolds,  Detroit.
3481  Chas.  E. 'Wallin, Fort Wayne, Ind.
3482  J. Sebastian, Lansing.
3484  C. A.  Luster, Saginaw.
3485  John M.  Marz, Saginaw.
3486  John A. Gibson, Saginaw.
3488  Geo.  Frank, Detroit.
3490  John L. Root, Yassar.
3491  C.  E.  Leroy,  Saginaw.
3492  Edward 1.  Peck,  Saginaw.
3493  Frank Coon, Saginaw.
3494  J. T.  Phillips,  Saginaw.
3495  C. M.  Tucker,  Jamestown,  N.  Y.
3496  J.  A.  Frise,  Flint.
3498  Robert Massie, Grand Rapids.
3499  J.  P.  Hemmeter, Saginaw.
3500  John F. Quigley, Grand Rapids.
3501  E.  B.  Thatcher,  Marine  City.
3502  Isaac  Marks,  D etroit.
3503  H.  A.  Marks,  Detroit.
3505  Geo. Vaughan,  Union City.
3506  William J.  Richards, Union City.
3507  Fred  H.  Maeomber,  Jackson.
3508  Frank A. Oliver, Chicago.
3511  Mrs. A.  E.  Tennant, Adrian.
3514  Edwin W.  Weston, Grand Rapids. 
3528  Chas.  S. Scofield,  St.  Johns.
Notice of death  assessment  No.  1  for 
1894 was mailed to each  member Jan.  10 
and  the  time  for  paying  same  expires 
March 10.  As no deaths have  been  re­
ported this month, no further assessments 
are probable for sixty days.  The present 
address  of  the following members is de­
sired,  as letters addressed  to them as be­
low have  been  returned to  this  office  as 
uncalled for:
J.  R.  Rogers,  Columbus,  Ohio;  8.  F. 
1.  Snell, Schoolcraft,  Mich.;  M.  J.  Wel­
don,  Detroit; A.  S.  Anable, Chicago,  111.; 
H.  H.  Decker, Concord;  H.  W.  Reeves, 
Bay City; F.  N.  Beach, Chicago,  111.;  E. 
C.  Hausner,  Detroit; Frank  N.  Kramer, 
Detroit;  H.  S.  Beldew,  Fairfield, Ohio; 
C.  J.  Morehouse,  East Liverpool, Ohio; 
O.  B. Patterson,  Saginaw;  C.  F.  Thomp­
son,  Detroit;  A.  C.  Webster,  Detroit; 
Sanford J.  Lander, Jonesville;  Chas.  F. 
Reinke,  Beuna Vista,  Mich.; A.  M.  Wat­
son,  Detroit;  L.  O.  Bagley,  Detroit;  E. 
Bingham,  Detroit: H. W. Reeves and Otto 
Zeigler.
. Very many  members neglect  to  remit

their  annual  dues  for  1894  when  for­
warding death assessment No.  1.  A  no­
tice of these  dues  was  mailed  to  every 
member  with  the  invitation to the con­
vention at Saginaw.
The  outlook  for  the  coming  year  is 
most promising,  and in  keeping with the 
constitution,  as amended  at  the  annual 
convention  at  Saginaw.  A much  more 
careful scrutiny of  all  applications  for 
membership is being  made,  which must, 
of  necessity,  increase  the standing and 
usefulness of our order and  also  reduce 
the  death  rate. 
In  this  connection,  I 
would  urge  each  member  to read care­
fully 
the  letter  from  our  President 
which was recently mailed each member.
I would ask that any members knowing 
of any situations being open for commer­
cial  travelers  report  the  fact,  with  all 
particulars obtainable,  to W.  V. Gawley, 
Vendome  Hotel,  Detroit,  Chairman  of 
Employment and Relief Committee.
The following hotels  have been  added 
to our list:
Wolcott  House,  Nashville;  Goodwin 
House,  Cassopolis;  The  Cadillac,  St. 
Clair; The Oakland, Oxford.
Remember  that  all  applications  for 
membership must be made upon the new 
blanks,  which  will  be  promptly  for­
warded to any member upon request.
L.  M.  Mil ls,  Sec’y.

A ssociation.

together  with 

Social Session  of  th e   Ja c k so n   G rocers’ 
J ackson,  Feb.  1—The  regular  busi­
ness session of the  Association was some­
what  interfered  with,  but  in  a  very 
agreeable  manner.  The  social  mutiny, 
which was to have been held Jan. 18,  was 
postponed until this evening.  The Com­
mittee, 
the  ladies,  had 
made  arrangements  for  entertaining  a 
large number of guests  and  had  invited 
all  the wholesale dealers and their wives, 
all  the  retail  grocers  and  their  wives, 
and the  retail  grocery  clerks  and  their 
wives.  The invited ones  to  the  number 
of 250 came early.  Among the wholesale 
dealers  present  were  Messrs.  Bowen, 
Douglass,  Griggs,  and  Baker,  of  the 
Jackson  Grocery  Co.;  M.  Aver ill,  of 
Averill  Bros.;  Geo.  McQuellan,  of  Mc- 
Quellan & Son;  M. J. Cummings,  of  the 
Central City  Soap Co.; M.  F. Cottrell, of 
the U.  S.  Baking Co.;  M.  S.  Redfield  & 
Son, of  the  Central  Mills,  and  several 
others.  The tables  were  spread in  Old 
Guard Hall  and  were  beautifully  filled 
with  good  things.  After  the  refresh­
ments, the party  adjourned to  A.  O.  U. 
W.  hall  and  listened  to  the  following 
very pleasing program:

Quartet.

Selection by Sernita Mandolin  Club.
Piano Solo by Mrs.  Conklin.
Two  selections  by  Willard  Ladies’ 
Remarks by Geo.  W.  Baker.
Remarks  by M. F. Cottrell.
Remarks by M.  J. Cummings.
Vocal  solo  by  M.  Armstrong,  which 
was encored so heartily  that  he  had  to 
give a second one.
Able address by  H. C.  Griggs,  of  the 
Jackson Grocery Co., on  the  subject  of 
“Guilds and  Grocers’  Associations,”  in 
which he traced  the rise and  progress of 
similar associations to those we  have  to­
day,  from  the twelfth  century.  The ad­
dress was ably composed,  well  delivered 
and earnestly listened to,  and the speaker 
was  heartily encored  for his able  effort.
C. G.  Hill offered a  resolution  extend­
ing  a  vote  of  thanks  to  the  ladies  for 
their able and  efficient  work in  making 
this reception so much of a success.  The 
resolution was adopted by a  rising vote.
Selection,  very finely rendered,  by the 
Mandolin  Club.
Music had  been provided for those who 
desired to dance,  and with the  exception 
of the  members  of  the  association,  all 
adjourned  again 
to  the  banquet  hall, 
which had been cleared for the use of the 
dancers.
The Association was called to order by 
the President,  and, owing to the lateness 
of the hour,  the rules of order were  sus­
pended.  The  Auditing  Committee  re­
ported on all outstanding bills  and  war­
rants were ordered for their  payment.
The Secretary offered an amendment to 
the by-laws, changing the nights of meet­
ing from the first and  third to the second 
and fourth Thursdays  of each month,  in 
order to  get  a  better  hall  for  the  meet- 
*  ings.  Adopted.  W.  H.  P o bteb,  Sec’y.

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S O L D   O N L Y   B Y

Cleanest. Healthiest. Best.

WILL  SELL  AND  SATISFY.

A  Case :

36  Pack aires.
36  Pounds.
FILL  WEIGHT.

Also  i n   H u l k :

25  H>.  Boxes,
50 lb.  Boxes, ami 

300  lb.  Barrels.

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These  currants  are  not  washed,  but  are  cleaned  by  our  process,  by 

which strength and flavor  arc  retained.

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

IMPORTED  AND  CLEANED  BY

Grand  Rapids  Frdit  Gleaning  Gn„

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

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

THEB B S T »  M   Will  GIOII,  LU I  Siili  Brill
FERMENTUM
COMPRESSED YEAST
The FermentiJm Company

SOLD  BY  ALL  FIRST-CLASS  GROCERS.

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MANUFACTURED  BY

MAIN  OFFICE:

CHICAGO,  270  KINZIE  STREET.

MICHIGAN  AGENCY:

GRAND  RAPIDS,  106  KENT  STREET.

Address  all  communications  to  THE  FERMENTUM  CO.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

New York Biscuit Co.,
Grackers  ani  Fine  Sweet  Goods.

\VTAf.  vS f i A R S   &  Ç Q.’S

WE constantly have the  interests of the 

trade  in  view  by  introducing  new 
novelties and  using the  btst  of  material 
in  the manufacture of a  superior line of 
troods.  This  is  our  Best  T estim o n ia l.

The  Continued  Patronage  of  the  Oldest  Established  Grocery 

Houses  in  the  State  is  Solicited.

OUR  GOODS  ARE  ALWAYS  IN  DEMAND,  AND  NO  WELL  APPOINTED 

GROCERY  STOCK  IS  COMPLETE  WITHOUT  A  FULL  LINE.

SEND  IN  A  TRIAL  ORDER  AND  BE  CONVINCED.

We  also  take  Orders  for  the  Celebrated  KENNEDY  BISCUIT, 

made  at  onr  Chicago  Factory.

S.  A.  SBARS,  M a n a g e r ,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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MEDAL  and  THREE  DIPLOMAS  have  been  given  to  the  New  York  Condensed 
Milk  Company  for  the  excellence  and  superiority  ot  its  celebrated

Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk, 

Borden’s  Extract  of Coffee «■>

Unsweetened  Condensed  Milk,

in  competition  at  the  World’s  Columbian  Exposition,
exhibited 
Chicago.  The  unimpeachable  record  of the  N ew   York  Condensed 
M ilk  Com pany,  covering  a  period  of  more  than  thirty  years,  has 
been  possible  only  by  rigid  adherence  to  thoroughly conscientious 
principles  of  doing  business,  constant  attention  to  details,  strict 
training of its  dairymen  and  employees,  careful study  of  the  people’s 
wants  and  how  to  meet  them.  Do  you  consider the great value  of 
such application ?  Our goods are sold  everywhere.
f ¥ ~   F o r   Q u o t a t i o n s   s e e   P r i c e   C o l u m n s .

It has no equal.

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS’

After  Inventory  Talk.

TEA  SETS.

TOILET SETS.

DINNER  WAKE

We  have  over  500  sets  in  OPEN  STOCK  which  we  offer  at  greatly  REDUCED  PRICES.  Ask  ns  for  complete  INVENTORY 

LIST  AND  PRICES,  or  call  and  inspect  our  stock.  IT  WILL  INTEREST  YOU.

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  Grand 

, 

.

If  so,  and  you  are  endeavoring  to  get  along  without  using  our  improved  Coupon  Book  system,  you  are  making  a 
most  serious  mistake.  We  were  the  originators of the  coupon  book  plan  and  are  the largest manufacturers of these 
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